01x05 - Episode 5

[bunniefuu]

They say that Lucifer,
the most shining of all the angels,

was God's favorite.

And God loved him
more than all the other angels.

Yet when he found out that
Lucifer had broken his rules...

I am on my own! Kiss
my a*s! No no no...

He was pitiless

The United States military has begun to strikes

Against Al-Qaida t*rror1st training camps

and military installations of the
Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

[kids singing a kids song]

Mom, why isn't daddy coming?

John, you know that daddy has to
work. But we'll have fun all the same!

Are you sure there will be sun?

Of course! Because it's your birthday!
And that's a very special day.

Are you OK, Aunt Nina?

Yes. And you?

That was the way to the pool!
We passed it.

Today no in the pool.

'Cause it's a special day and I'm
taking you to a special place.

Sir?

What is so urgent that brings you here on a Sunday?

I need you to see something.
About Massimo and his team.

He managed to hack the
system to alter the VAR.

You sure Massimo knew about this?

No, but if his team did it on their own
that just means he can no longer control them.

In either case, I don't feel
you can trust him anymore

If you like I can run it by legal
About sacking him

Mrs. Stuart called.

Her children were supposed to be at the
pool this morning with your wife, but they never showed.

Mrs. Morgan isn't picking up het phone

I believe the changes
will be significant.

In our country there
is a certain continuity...

Did you make coffee?

Come in.

So why did you come?
I was worried that they had arrested you.

Why?

I heard the investigation is about to be closed.
What happened?

Dominic pulled some strings?
Or is it a rule -

you, high finance types,
are untouchable? Hm?

Yes? I need the time to take a shower and I'll be
there. I have to go, I'm sorry.

Yes. Big Daddy calls, you run.

This is something personal

This is because your
wife died because of him.

You loved Carrie, didn't you?

Glad to meet you!

Hey. Hey.

I thought it was a dinner with a few friends...

Just do not get cross. We are
celebrating! My new exhibition!

They called me today from the
Kensington Gallery!

They want to do a one-woman show

Didn't you tell me they were snobby tots?

Yes, they are still snobbydobs.

But they love my art,
so I love them

I love you.

Hey!

What aboput the new one? The German girl?

Eleanor Yes! Didn't you tell her to come?

No.

f*cking chauvinists.

Hey what's her name?

If I were you,
I would forget about her.

Because I just got
married? Because she's a man.

I'll forget about it.
What if you like it?

You have to get a tattoo
like mine! No no no no.

Yes, she is very sweet. Beautiful,
is not it?

You have to do the same! But a great idea!
- No...

Tat-too Tat-too Tat-too Tat-too,
No! Never! No way!

Tattoo! Tattoo! Tattoo!
Tattoo! Come on!

No! I said no! Come on! Tattoo!

You know, I've got one like you too.
What do you call it?

Wht, a husband? No dear

That's the last thing I need
I too met a guy who invests my money.

Mmmm. Only mine sucks big time.

- Why? - "Buy a house somewhere!

Property is a solid investment.
Yeah.

"Gays never go bankrupt"
And now they've repossessed it

No! The mortgage,
what was your guarantee to get it?

The salary? Some other property?

Only my work. I'm a freelance,
darling.

I went to the bank and
signed a shitload of papers.

Hell of a lot easier than giving a blowjob.

OK. You're all done

What do think? Great, great.

Yes. Yes Yes Yes...

Hey honey. Yes.

Are you coming? What is it?

I’m looking at how many MBS
my bank is carrying

It is very interesting!

MBS stands for mortgage-backed securities.

They are bonds guaranteed by
mortgages on properties.

They package them together and sell them
to other banks as an investment.

Yes. Like when you sign a check over
to somebody else.

Exactly. So what's the problem?

The problem is knowing

if the mortgage forming the MBS is going to pay out

Like the one your friend took out,
that he can't make the payments on

I have been watching this sh*t for a while

I'm going to have another dance

Sorry.

Hey!

Good morning sweetheart

We have a problem. Gotta go.

You were right.

The subprimes haven't been
covered since 2005.

American banks have been handing out
mortgages to everybody and everybody

with no collateral at all

Foreclosure Index sh**ting full of stars

It's a f*cking property bubble.
All of which risk turning toxic

Unless...

No! You've lost your mind!

The property mortgage sector
is the most solid there is!

Low interest, low risk. It's is the
first thing they teach at university

You stick to the trading, let me do the banking.

Yes, boring stuff. I am the one

that takes care of guaranteed income for this bank.
Mortgages to be precise!

They were guaranteed?! Now they are
turning into junk.

We need to sell all the MBS we are
carrying and I mean now,

before it all blows to hell.

If sell now we lose a billion pounds.
If we wait - we’ll lose ten.

Dominic, this is madness.

The Board is about to name the new CEO.

You seriously want to risk everything

on the intuition of someone who has
only worked here a few years?

We sell.

Good.

The subprime mortgage mess has left millions
of Americans struggling the

worst one day point drop since 9/11.

If it weren’t for you,
we would have gone down with the subprimes

and Dominic would not have brrn named CEO

You did well.
Or perhaps you just got lucky.

Very interesting. Never mind.

Don't let him get to you. He's just being Brit,
he still thinks he is part of the colonial empire.

American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation
filed for bankruptcy yesterday.

BNP Paribas froze three funds,

and Nothern Rock is requesting
special financing from the Bank of England.

I know. A tsunami is coming,
and we need to be ready.

What would you like me to do?

Come to my home this evening.
I want to introduce you to my wife.

I think you two will get along.

He delivered a speech
where he continued to say...

Hey, this is Carrie,
I'm out having fun. Leave...

Guys! Dominic invited me to his house!

f*ck off, f*ck off! No way!
Come on!

To the house? Yes.

He has never invited anyone. Well,
none of us anyway.

I think it's for you. Hello.

No, I'm afraid he stepped away from his desk.

Greg? Hey.

Come here. What is it?

Carrie. She is in the hospital.
An overdose.

Hey. Hey.

How do you feel?

They've pumped my stomach.

I tried calling you a million times.

I know, I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry

What happened?

I'm just a loser.

They've closed my show

I just can’t... Hush,
hush, listen to me.

We don't care about them.

You'r really talented.

You are the talented one.

You and I love each other like
communicating vessels:

When you get fuller

I empty out.

Shouldn't you be in the
hospital with your wife?

Whew! I check upon people I like

When you're head of the trading,
you'll learn to do that too.

The position is available. I'm
going to recommend your name to the Board.

Do you fully understand, Massimo,
what it is that we're selling here at the bank?

Stocks, bonds, financial services...

It's our reputation.

People give us money because they can trust us.

Are you referring to Carrie?

Just consider what’s right for her.

Mr. Morgan is busy.
Isn't it Sunday morning.

And he is the one who told me to come here.

Well. You'll have to wait.

Yes. Legal confirms there
won't be a problem.

The bank can sack him
without fear of reprisal.

Now I get it,

how someone like Massimo Ruggero got to be the
bank's youngest head of trading.

By cheating.

Italians have it in their blood, don't they?

You know nothing about Massimo.

Get out.

But we can't... I said get out.

The unemployment rate is getting lower.

But there are still people
in the countryside...

Chris came for Nina too?
Bank business.

On a Sunday?

Nina is nowhere to be found.

She was supposed to take Ed's
kids to the pool, but she's vanished.

She's not answering her phone. Hm.

Do you know what today is?

John's birthday. Yes.

Please help me find her.

Oh! Thank you. So friendly. Hey.

f*ck! some house your boss has!

Fudge. I meant fudge.

I know this crowd doesn't approve of me

What counts is that they like you.

I like... when you're happy.

Nice...

I wanted to surprise you, but...

I stopped taking the pill.

How about we make a baby?

Massimo! Oh!

At last. Happy to see you.

And you must be Carrie.
Nice to meet you.

Delighted to meet you dear. Please.

Why, even when I dress seriously,
the rest is more serious than me?

My husband, Dominic.
Hi John. How are you?

Good. You bounce back just fine!

Massimo told me about your terrible appendicitis.

And our son, John. Hi.

Hi. - Nice to meet. Nice to meet you.

Oh no thank you. No thanks.

Would you like one? - Yes. Fine.

Have you got something non-alcoholic?
Yes of course.

So when do you leave for Bagram?
In a few days.

John enlisted in the Marines
he is going to Afghanistan.

Really? Operation Enduring Freedom.

It's kind of a rhetorical name, isn't it?

Despite the name, I’m sure
when taken on we will deal with it fast.

They go in, get bin Laden and come back.

For me it's enough for him to come back.

Come dear, let's get you a non-alcoholic drink.

Wow! You have such a beautiful home.
Thank you.

When I married Massimo, we went to
live in a studio. You are lucky.

This house was my family's. We bought it,

after they fled from the
Stalinist regime in Poland.

Oh really? But you know

my father was an aristocrat,
but just terrible with money.

Dominic bought it back for me
as a wedding gift.

Wow. Marriages are like c*ck

select the right ingredients
and you get a masterpiece.

But choose the wrong ones
and you’ll just get drunk.

There are the girls,
let me introduce you.

This is Claire Stewart.

Hi, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.

I'm pleased to see your wife is better.

Yes.

She's been clean for months.

I want you to meet some special friends.

I've spoken to the Board,

the head of trading positionis yours

Thank you. I can't tell you how grateful I am

I give it my all.

What about Carrie?

Will she help you give it your all?

This Massimo?
I heard he's Dominic's new protegé?

What does Edward say? Who!

Trading? Edward does not
talk about work at home.

Did you see the wife? Oh,
don't be mean. She is an artist.

A failerd one. I saw her
exhibition in Kensington.

They closed it for lack of a buyer.

The person who owns the gallery, she's a
friend of mine, and she told me

that the only reason why they
accepted her because they hoped that

that Massimo’s friends
would actually buy something.

Massimo is only staying with her
because she looks good on his arm.

Actually, he stays with me

'cause I give him first class blowjobs.

Would you ladies like a lesson?

Stupid b*tches!

Carrie?

Please excuse Claire.
It's a special situation.

It can't just be the pregnancy
that's made her such a b*tch.

I don't mean her pregnancy,
it's her husband.

He's such a deadly bore.

Do not worry, it will be our little secret.

A failed one! I saw her
exhibition in Kensington.

They closed it

That's is James Sherman of the Treasury Department.

The woman, Margaret Cunningham, a lobbyist.

She and the Fed chairman
mix it up at least once a month.

And then the other two...
Our competition.

Fitzsimmons - is CEO
of RJ Investment Bank.

And the other one is Jean Duplessis,
who runs a ten billion dollar hedge fund.

Yes, Jean was CIA, but
he wanted to make a bit more money in finances.

Would you care for a drink? No thank you.
- Please, thank you.

Now come on, let me introduce you.

The British government has said that it will guarantee
all Northern Rock deposits.

Here in England we have nothing to
be concerned about.

For now. Good to see you.

Massimo Ruggero, our new head of trading.

Hello.

Dominic talked a great deal about you.
He trusts your talents considerably.

Thank you so much. And you, John?

What are your plans after Afghanistan?
After your studies come work for me.

The adrenaline rush of the floor
won't be the same as the w*r, but...

No. Finance isn't for me,
I’d better stay in the military.

There are many ways
to defend one's country.

John has made a decisdion to do it in person,

And I am extremely proud of him.

To John! To John! To John!

A courageous young man,
like his father, a true...

k*ller...

Enduring freedom.

None of you gives a sh*t about freedom or democracy.
Carrie, stop it. Carrie, stop it!

With you it's oil and money,
anything but democracy!

You're all f*cking imperialists!
Enough, you're drunk. - Let go of me!

You are drunk. I beg you...

You think you can rule the world?

Well the thing is you are all f*cked up.

So the world will be f*cked up too.

OK, let's go huh. Come on I'll make you
a nice cup of coffee.

I do'nt feel well.

Forgive me. I'm so sorry.

Your lady friends got straight up my nose

from the moment I got here.

They're all giving me dirty looks

Not you.

You're nice.

I f*cked up, didn't I?

Do you love Massimo?

Then you want him to be happy

Yes.

But I just do everything wrong.

So maybe the time has come

to do the only right thing?

First you want us to have a baby

and then you make a scene in front of some of
the most important people in my career!

What the f*ck is wrong with you?
Did I make you look bad

in front of your little friends? Afraid you
won’t get any more promotions?

You're such an as*h*le.
No, you're the as*h*le!

You and your friends.

I don't like the way they think

The way they talk, the way they
dress, the way they live.

You know, I always believed that
you were not like them.

That you were better.

But today I finally got it.

Their world is your world.

And you are happy in it.

I'm not. So?

Hey, look at me!

So I'm leaving you.

You're totally toxic and off your head. No.

I don't want it... No!

I am leaving you.

You can keep your shitty world.
OK then, f*ck you!

You... I'm better off without you.

Let's talk about

the speed at which markets are deteriorating

Bear Sterns Bank has been forced to seek
the help of JP Morgan and the Fed

with a twenty-eight day loan.

After seven minutes of trading this morning

it was down 683 points.

The Dow Jones just lost forty percent.

Stop! - We're red everywhere.

Stop trading! Listen to me,
damn algorithm!

Your mother.

The stock market is
now down twenty-one percent...

So we're now down forty-three percent!

What in the world is happening on Wall Street?

Bear Sterns Bank has existed
for nearly a century

Up until a few months ago,
it was worth well over 350 billion dollars!

Can't look at it after you buy.
Just so horrible!

Everything collapsed...

No, honey. It's just starting.

Hey. Are you the new guy. Good luck.

Hey. The crisis will expand.

Fortunately, we dumped our
toxic papers so we are relatively in the clear.

What about lines of credit at other banks?

If those banks fail,
they will drag us down with them.

We'll get out of them.

Cut every line of credit with any other institution.

Even if it means sinking

Without mercy. A crisis can be a fantastic
opportunity to make money.

Meaning? We attack the weakest of the lot.

America.

We live in the last days of
this country surviving.

From the financial capital of the world
the bell is going to ring in five seconds

will announce the opening of the
exchange, but we would not want this.

At the present time the US is as secure

as Pearl Harbor was the morning
of December seventh 1941.

I have no doubt that Uncle Sam will come along
and nationalize it all.

You've all just been greedy! You've been
inflating this bubble for years.

In full few of the fed, who sat on their hands.

And now you go whining to the government to
bail you out? Pathetic.

If the scope of the disaster is what we seem to be seeing,

We will have to nationalize so many banks,

that the national debt will reach the stratosphere.

There are fewer and fewer buyers, and we are
printing dollars at a feverish pace!

If the market calls our bluff

they'll switch to other safe havens:

Raw materials, gold, even the euro.

If the Chinese start investing in the euro,

and the rating agencies downgrade us

then we are done for.

I appreciate the heads-up

How do you remain so calm? I am not calm.

I am looking for a solution.

What are you thinking?

We need to divert the
attention away from the problem.

To do that we should feed something to the markets

Yeah.

Who do you intend to sacrifice?

Europe.

The president and my boss won't buy it.
They intend to help Europe.

The President should
make America his first priority.

If you want to distract the markets

you ought to start by distracting your own people.
Don't you think?

They were warning me.

From your own trading sector,
someone is shorting the US Treasury.

One of your own people has already smelled blood.

So, this is for you. When Tokyo opens,
more shorts against the Treasury.

Yeah. - Final push!

It's done! OK. Very good.

Very well. Yeah.

I Sometimes forget that you
are Italian. Do you mind?

Of course not.

Your father must be proud of you.
All your achievements.

We haven’t spoken in ten years,
so, I don’t know.

I have been told you've been shorting
the US debt.

I didn’t know that you were checking on me.

That's not what I told you to do

I merely did what you taught me to do:

Follow the smell of blood, attack the
weakest to make money.

And at the moment the weakest beast of all is the US.

Just go back and block the shorts.

What's this? Keeping US debt on our post is
some kind of patriotism or...

The Federal Reserve will start printing.
The US debt will be financed. End of the story.

It's precisely because they are
going to start printing.

The dollar won't hold, and not only that,
the US national debt will be downgraded

We are not talking about just any currency.

The US dollar will go back to
being a "safe haven."

It's untouchable.
I don't buy dogma.

And I don't buy that you don't
know your place.

Yes? Yes It is.

Yes.

Hm. Thank you for calling me personally.

Are you OK?

Afghanistan.

John's platoon has been ambushed.

He is dead?

Alex checked, Nina didn't come here.

Oh yes, she did.

Forget-me-nots.

Nina's favourite

She brings them every year.

I have another idea. What is it?

Your cottage.

Yeah. We haven't been
there in years.

I took Nina there once. Let's try.

Aunty Nina, why are we here?

Nina?

Come downstairs.

We can have breakfast, go for a walk.

John would not want you to...
Don't even try it.

You never cared what John wanted.

Do you know why he enlisted?

Because of September eleventh.
Because he wanted to do something for his country,

just like every other kid his age.

You ever heard of any sons of people like us

k*lled in an ambush?

Have you?

That only makes me prouder of John's decision

He went there because he felt
he didn't think he was good enough

John saw how you are
with people you really admire and love.

The way you are with Massimo.

I'm going to work.

Massimo This is Nina.
Could you come and pick me up please?

I need to go somewhere,
I can’t face it alone.

Nothing is visible from here,
we have to rise higher

to see the cliffs. Come on!

There! See them?

The mothers come to give
birth here to keep the pups safe

They travel very far,
risking their lives.

Beacuse that's what mothers do.

I always brought John
here for his birthday.

Each every time he was afraid
that the pups wouldn't be here anymore.

But then the little head would pop up and
he would be so happy!

When I close my eyes,
I can still hear him laughing.

OK, let's go.

Welcome back. You look better.

You were right, as always.

I think I just needed to go out.
In ran into Massimo in town.

Oh? Where did you go?

In Chelsea, to that restaurant I love.
And then we went for a stroll.

Such a terrible time for us.

Thank you.
Don't worry, see you tomorrow.

Seals are amazing! Yeah.

Uncle Dominic, look what we found!

And we saw seals too!

I found you know.

When John decided to volunteer for Afghanistan,

I called the Secretary of Defense
to get him assigned to a safe post.

I'm not the purist, Nina imagines I am.

But then John found out,
blocked me from doing anything.

Why didn't you tell her?

She thought you had done nothing to save him.
I know.

But she needed someone to blame.

Everybody does.

Try this one. Let's throw it
together? Three two one! Yes!

Why didn’t you answer up the phone?
Claire was on the verge of calling the police.

Sorry. I guess I just neded to
hear the children laughr again.

And did you?

Yes.

But it was different.

I finally accepted...

that I won't hear John's ever again.

When John was little,
we were so happy here.

Yes, we were.

Thank you. She fell asleep right away.

Without a sleeping pill for the first time in ages.

No. You should join me.

Do you know what Nina used to criticize me for?

Being prouder of you than I was of John.

It's true.

I would have preferred if John had been more like you.

Even after you f*cked my wife

Did you really think I didn't know?

My relationship with Nina is
is deeper than sex.

She needed you. We needed you.

Ironically, you saved our marriage.

And you destroyed mine.

Why didn't you tell me you
knew Carrie was in America?

In prison.
You hired a lawyer... Hmm.

Used him to keep tabs on her.
Why?

I hired Trevor so I could protect you
you from that madman...

I didn't need your protection. Come on,
Massimo. You knew,

that Carrie would ruin your career,
otherwise you would not have let her go.

I remember your face at the party.

You didn’t just want to be the new
head of trading,

you wanted to be one of us,
whatever the cost.

Such ambition is nothing to be ashamed of.
That's why I chose you.

But betrayal? No.

That's is not OK.
I know about the VAR Massimo.

I have proof your team tampered with it.

So, what? Are you sacking me?

You're gonna suffer the consequences.

They say that Lucifer,
the most shining of all the angels,

was God's favorite.

That God loved him
more than all the other angels.

Yet, when he found out that
Lucifer had violated his rules,

He was pitiless.

With his entire host of demons

he cast Lucifer into hell.