- [BIRDS CHIRPING] - [CELLPHONE VIBRATING]
♪ [OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[CELLPHONE BEEPING]
[DIAL TONE RINGING]
ANSWERING MACHINE: You have one new message.
DANIEL VAN DEVENTER: Eric, hi. Me again. Uh, it's DVD.
Hey, I-- I hope you enjoyed your two weeks' vacation. I--
I-- I haven't been able to get a hold of you but I--
I just wanted to let you know that I've spoken to Bill,
he's all good with me handling
annual compensation conversations
tomorrow in your stead.
And I'll-- I'll make sure we get you paid
when you're back on Monday. Okay?
Okay, uh, cheers. Oh, by the way,
the bonus pool is down on the year,
but we can get into that when you're back.
Okay, cheers.
- ♪ [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] - [CELL PHONE BEEPS]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[TONGS CLACKING]
[GRUNTS]
- What are you doing? - ERIC TAO: Gardening.
CANDICE ALLBRIGHT: You've burnt the meat.
- [DOORBELL RINGING] - Shit!
- ERIC: Hey. - You all right?
- Thank you. - Okay.
- [CROCKERY CLATTERING] - [WATER RUNNING]
When are you going back to work?
Why? Don't you like having me around?
It's fine.
- "It's fine"? - It's good.
It's good.
DVD: Because you're a third year it's mandatory
to cap you at 225 total comp.
The desk is down overall, but you're up
almost 100 percent year on year.
Since Jesse joined, I've printed 25 million for the firm.
You know, take it from me,
as someone who's been paid at the top of the band
every year since I was an analyst like you,
the band always felt like a brick wall.
Pay me like the superstar I am, bitch.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Look, there really is a cap.
- So promote me. - [CHUCKLES]
All right. Shall we put a dent in the paycheck
- with some overpriced pints? - [CHUCKLES]
O-- or we could hit up All Bar One?
And it really pops off in there.
Uh, I've-- I've got dinner with Jesse tonight.
- ♪ [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] - Oh.
And my Black at Wharton group chat
don't believe we're covering him.
I'd get a real kick out of telling them
I watched him eat a steak up close.
He's a pretty private person.
Well, it's good, we keep it intimate then.
[CHUCKLES]
Come on.
Let me meet the man who doesn't take meetings.
- Sure. - DVD: Yeah?
- As long as I lead. - [EXHALES SHARPLY]
Why are you so territorial?
[CHUCKLES]
This feels strange though, not coming from Eric.
Sidelining me is one thing.
Paying my guys down when they've gotten
through this hell year so well, that...
that's unacceptable to me.
Are you sure you don't wanna sit this one out?
I pay my team.
Not some fucking kid who owes me his career.
You don't just get to hand out the checks,
that's a privilege that you earn.
[CANDICE SPITTING]
Is Danny that handsome Black kid from Connecticut?
He was a sweetie.
Would we call him handsome?
It's not like we need anything else.
These are formative years for our girls.
They need you at home.
Do not insinuate what I think you're insinuating.
I'm as motivated and fresh as I've ever been.
I have to do this face to face.
♪ [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
So...
obviously in preparation
for moving my family's funds over to Pierpoint,
our team here need access to historical accounts.
Electronic is fine. Preferable actually.
- Your team? You moved over then? - No, not officially,
but I kinda feel like
this is some sort of practical interview.
SPEAKER: You're gonna have to get a cab now, okay?
I don't think this is the right time.
Honestly. The last thing your father needs
is any kind of instability or lack of visibility
about where his money is.
Okay. With respect...
I think, I'm in more of a position to decide
what's best for my family's money.
I don't need to tell you how naive that is.
It's a planet-sized conflict of interest.
A key tenet of smart investing
is that it should be emotionless.
Forgive me for getting personal...
but we both know your father's in the midst of a divorce.
And as someone that's actually, deeply across this stuff,
now is the time for him to stay as liquid as possible.
- ♪ [TENSE MUSIC PLAYING] - Is there a liquidity issue?
Can you just trust me?
[CHUCKLES]
[POLICE SIREN WAILING]
AURORE ADEKUNLE: Thanks for doing all my thankless admin.
I-- I know you've got that preliminary anti-trust meet
for the Health Select Committee.
- Hmm. - I created some talking points
on OneMedical, Rican, FastAide, Lantum.
Uh, great initiative,
but I don't need you doing that for now.
Oh, maybe I could sit in on one of the sessions?
JAMIE HENSON: Where's that woman, eh?
Fuck, not this nutter again. Just hold the fort here.
I know this doesn't seem like the most glamorous work,
but we like our constituents to know
that they have the ear of their MP.
RECEPTIONIST: I'm afraid you'll have to wait.
JAMIE: I need to see her now.
RECEPTIONIST: I'm afraid you'll have to come back tomorrow, sir.
Some pricks learn to love having the Tory boot
on their throat after so many years, yeah.
They grow accustomed to it.
Me, ah, do I look like a bootlicker, eh?
No. No, you don't. Not at all.
Someone's been leaving shit outside my house as a threat.
I come here and nothing gets done.
Your boss is never here.
I'm a fucking constituent.
This is the constituency office. Isn't it?
I want the elected official, not mini-me.
I would ask someone to look into it,
but it's like pissing up a wall, isn't it?
Hey. So, here you are.
Enjoy that, you Maggie loving cunt!
- ♪ [MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING] - [DOOR OPENING]
RECEPTIONIST: Do you think he votes Labour?
[DOOR CLOSING]
[RETCHES]
I love the design of vintage Hanani classics.
With the fuchsia spines. I used to love those.
I really don't like the look of the new stuff.
You know, they've done that high fashion thing
of making everything sans serif. [CHUCKLES]
I don't think my dad's across those kind of decisions
- anymore. - No. Of course, not.
I guess when they sold it cheap to KKR,
they relinquished all creative control?
I'm actually having a bit of trouble, um,
wrangling Maxim for the due diligence.
Let me guess.
You stopped sleeping with him and now he's pouting?
- Fragile male ego. - [BOTH CHUCKLE]
It was good of your father to invite me.
I invited you. [CHUCKLES]
♪ ["SUPERFICIAL" BY TOMMY DOWN PLAYING] ♪
♪ I don't like this club But I'm here to game ♪
♪ I don't like these jeans But they're Cheap Monday... ♪
- ♪ [SONG CONTINUES OVER SPEAKERS] ♪ - [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- MAXIM ALONSO: Hey. - Hi.
- Ca va? - CELESTE PACQUET: Oui, ça va. Et toi?
- MAXIM: Bien. - Uh, where's my father?
Papa got tickets to Rigoletto last minute, invited him.
I'm gonna let you two catch up.
- Rigoletto. [CHUCKLES] - Rigoletto.
- [CHUCKLES] - Just double checking.
We don't have an issue...
- do we? - Why would we have an issue?
Okay. So...
why are you being so obtuse with me
when it comes to my family?
Did you know we have nothing to do with this anymore?
Of course, I did.
Why does nobody fucking communicate with me?
People want to protect you, Yasmin.
I don't need that paternalistic fucking bullshit.
Oh, God. I thought you were mature enough
to let us fucking go. We fucked twice.
You hold it over my head
like I fucking owe you something.
Are you fucking high?
I just wanna know where my family's money is.
You want a list?
It's a mishmash of diversification,
gaudy condos in Miami,
some two-bit fucking hotel chain in Helsinki,
a rapeseed oil renewable energy start-up in Gdansk.
The Hanani name? Well, you have nothing to do
with the publishing house anymore.
[IN SPANISH]
Just speak to your father.
[SNIFFS]
[CELESTE SIGHING]
I saw you speaking to Maxim?
Did he acquiesce?
Yeah, it's all sorted. [CHUCKLES]
[IN FRENCH]
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
[IN FRENCH]
[LIGHTER CLATTERS ON FLOOR]
[IN ENGLISH] Pick it up.
[CHUCKLES]
Pick the lighter up.
♪ [WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
Merci.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
FastAide is the traditional brick
and mortar physical pharmacy, right?
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER] - Oh yeah, sure, like, uh, Walgreens,
an eyesore on every corner.
DVD: And we know behemoths like Amazon and Apple
are looking to consolidate in the healthcare space,
and part of that is via circling these slow death,
high street retail spaces with nosebleed short bases.
Now, the biggest issue facing telemedicine
is the last mile of care. The pipeline of people
needing annual booster shots is endless,
and you can't get a shot online.
Not yet. Until iPhone gets that retractable syringe.
- [CHUCKLES] - Only so many times
you can upgrade a fucking camera, right?
Uh, but for now, you need a physical location.
Yeah.
- What's your take on this? - It's compelling.
Uh, but slightly reductive,
in the sense that the bull case is what, that it's...
an acquisition target?
I still think Rican is the telemedicine play
and you could not be better positioned for it now.
But, as you say, Jesse already owns that.
It's compelling and I gotta concede
you're oddly watchable. [CHUCKLING]
I feel like I'm talking to a young congressman.
[JESSE BLOOM CHUCKLING]
Well, thank you, guys.
It's been a long time since I've been
- in a real city boy pub. - Try the steak and kidney pie.
- Mm. [CHUCKLES] Yeah. - [CHUCKLES]
I got dinner actually.
- Oh, I thought this was dinner. - Well, Leo had a window
on short notice. So... [INHALES SHARPLY]
- Let's... - JESSE: Anyways,
- good to see you guys. - DVD: Yeah, let's do this again.
JESSE: Hmm.
[INHALES SHARPLY]
- Thanks. - All right. Thanks man.
You got it.
- All right, see ya. - Bye.
I hope that gets you your clout for your group chat.
- Hundred percent. - [BOTH CHUCKLE]
♪ [TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [DISTANT CAR HORNS BLARING] - [DISTANT POLICE SIRENS WAILING]
No. Stop, stop, stop. Stop.
[INHALES DEEPLY] This is a lot. [CHUCKLES]
I don't usually let people in here.
- ROBERT SPEARING: Where? - [BREATHES DEEPLY]
NICOLE CRAIG: [CHUCKLES] Definitely not there.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
NICOLE: No. Don't, don't, don't.
You don't wanna see this old bag of spanners.
[SCOFFS]
ROBERT: Actually, yeah, you're right.
- Ah! You bastard. [LAUGHING] - [CHUCKLES]
[SIGHS]
[NICOLE MOANS]
[INHALES DEEPLY]
[MOANS] Ah, softer.
[CHUCKLES, MOANS] Yeah.
Yeah, like that.
[MOANS]
I bet your other girls actually let you fuck them.
- ROBERT: What other girls? - [NICOLE CHUCKLES]
[BOTH MOAN]
By the way...
our best idea this morning was long FastAide.
[NICOLE GRUNTS, MOANS]
FastAide Chemist Group.
- We like it as a buy. - ♪ [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
- [CHUCKLES] What? - [CHUCKLES]
Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God. - [CHUCKLES]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER] - What's next? [CHUCKLES]
I'm going home.
My wife has me on a midnight curfew, mid-week.
♪ [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[INAUDIBLE] Yeah.
♪ [UPBEAT MUSIC SWELLS]
- Excrement, yeah. - ♪ [UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES OVER SPEAKERS] ♪
- Dog shit. - [CHUCKLES]
- Whose dog shit? - [BOTH CHUCKLE]
Maybe I should call in a favor with Phil Boon?
Send it off for forensics.
- Isn't he a gynecologist? - Retrained as a vet.
I just, like, don't understand how someone
as well educated as you is, like, satisfied doing that?
- What, helping people? - [ROBERT SCOFFING]
Because that's why you got into it. Helping people. Mm.
Do your parents know what you're doing?
I can't imagine them co-signing this?
[CHUCKLES] My parents still think I'm at Pierpoint.
Mr. Sackey. I'm ready to be evaluated.
Are you still here?
LEO BLOOM: I left briefly for FaceTime
with Jesse and to get supplies.
- I weirdly love that kid. - [CHUCKLES]
HARPER STERN: Okay. I'm just gonna say this,
and I'm not trying to tell you like, what to do with your body,
but please bear in mind who introduced you to that kid,
- and... - [ROBERT CHUCKLING]
...how your actions might reflect back on me.
Would we refer to him as a child?
- Yes. - Look, mate, if he's legal...
- go with God. - [SNAPS FINGERS] I'm with God.
- I go. I'm going. I'm going now. - [BOTH CHUCKLE]
Oh, my gosh.
So what did you make of all that?
The dick wants what the dick wants. Sadly.
- Amen. - [BOTH CHUCKLE]
- Fucking hell. - [DOOR KNOCKING]
HARPER: That's all you, babe.
Your neighbor that looks like Jonah Hill let me in.
- Can I get a glass? - Yeah.
Two secs, I need to piss like a fucking racehorse.
- Hey, I'm gonna kick. - Please don't, please don't.
Can you just stay for a like a sec?
- This is fucking awkward. - [CHUCKLES]
Mate, she's got needs that I can't meet.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
- ROBERT: Good celebration, yeah? - Hmm.
I thought they paid me well, but then I forgot
- who my competition was. - HARPER: They paid you well?
- ROBERT: Why is that a surprise? - [CHUCKLES]
HARPER: I just heard the desk is down overall,
but it's good that you're doing well.
Yeah, Nicole really is
- one of one. - HARPER: Hmm.
The other day, she gave me a director's commentary
of every punter in Hakkasan. [CHUCKLES] She's a funny fucker.
Well, I'm glad she's keeping it professional.
What do you mean?
Oh, no, no. I-- it's nothing. It's nothing really.
She just, um... [SMACKS LIPS]
...we had like a moment. Um...
What kind of moment? Like-- like a moment with you?
No, it's not a big deal. She just got a little...
[HARPER SCOFFS]
She gets what she wants. [CHUCKLES]
She's Nicole, right? She's fine.
♪ [UPBEAT MUSIC FADING]
- [DOOR OPENS] - [TOILET FLUSHING]
Okay, uh, night.
♪ [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
Sorry, sorry. [CHUCKLES]
I'm unduly stressed about something
that shouldn't be causing me stress.
LEO: You mean that nutcase?
Why the fuck?
[SIGHS] Because it's my fucking job?
I don't wanna just pay lip service to it.
I haven't worked in a year.
LEO: Well, fine then. Shall we...
go back into the office?
[SMACKS LIPS] Do a taste test?
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Mm. How do you even know it's a dog, hmm?
South London, innit?
Might be a fox.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Speaking of lip service.
Do you mind?
I hate doing it in the loo.
We are celebrating.
- Are we? - We got paid?
Yes. Yes.
Of course, we did. [SNIFFS]
Pocket money, right?
Barely touches the sides. [EXHALES]
I'm kidding.
Yeah.
- I'm weirdly not. [CHUCKLES] - [SNIFFS]
I didn't think about money once during the year out. Not once.
Okay, if you thought that I was gonna
absolve you of whatever
rich white-passing guilt you may have--
No. I'm not doing that. [CHUCKLES]
I don't feel guilty. [CHUCKLES]
Not anymore than I usually do when I... [CHUCKLES] ...wake up.
I spent COVID
going from enormous kitchen to enormous kitchen,
seshing and not once did I think about money...
and then I became obsessed
with finding the perfect white pajamas, right?
So on one tab, there'd be these fucking pajamas,
and the other tab,
it would be these images of piles of bodies in New York.
You know, the economy, all that shit,
all through a fucking screen. So I'd cycle through them,
you know. [CHUCKLES]
I was too fucked to sleep and then--
and then I'd buy these pajamas in four or five sizes,
and the returns would be all marked up
for my convenience. I still have every single pair.
The ones that fit made me feel really fucking good for a bit.
And the worst part is,
I think it was the best fucking summer of my life.
All I had to worry about was pajamas.
[CHUCKLES]
Why did you come here, Yas?
If you wanted to talk at someone you could have gone to a bar.
- Or... - God, you're so fucking cynical.
Do you ever wonder where you'd be without money?
I know exactly where I'd be without money.
I'm gonna get you some water. Please drink it.
♪ ["THE ORDER OF DEATH" BY PUBLIC IMAGE LTD PLAYING] ♪
♪ This is what you want This is what you get ♪
♪ This is what you want
- ♪ This is what you get... - [SCOFFS]
♪ This is what you want This is what you get ♪
♪ This is what you want This is what you get... ♪
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER] - [POLICE SIRENS WAILING]
♪ This is what you want This is what you get ♪
♪ This is what you want This is what you get... ♪
- [CHUCKLES] - [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Eric, I heard you were in the building
before you stepped through the door.
Glad to hear my name still precedes me.
The Terminator! [CHUCKLES] Notorious.
How's, uh, how's Candice?
- It's relentless. - [CHUCKLES]
- [ERIC CHUCKLES] - Listen, uh,
I've got a mini emergency. James Gorman wants a powwow
with the street-wide heads of FICC.
- A meeting of the five families. - The food'll be worse.
Morgan Stanley calling the shots.
A cold day in hell. Slaves to the Japanese.
We bomb them, they buy our banks.
- The world turns. - Bill, I came all the way here.
I'd make time for you at the drop of a hat
and knowing you, I can't envisage
what I need to say taking longer than 20 minutes.
Listen, I can clear a full day for you tomorrow.
Chris can set you up in an office.
- After you. - BILL ADLER: Actually...
I got a surprise for you. Oh, you're gonna love this.
Come on!
[JOURNALIST SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER TV]
♪ [SONG CONCLUDES]
So, I, uh, thought you'd get a kick
out of working out of your mentor's old office.
Ah, Newman.
Poor bastard worked right up until the end
and we haven't had a reason to move anyone in.
All right. Enjoy. You're home. Let's pick this up tomorrow.
[FOOTSTEPS RECEDING]
♪ [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCOFFS]
- [TELEPHONE RINGING] - [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Hello? - ERIC: I thought, I'd do you the courtesy
of acknowledging your voicemail.
Yeah, you didn't get back to me and people needed to get paid.
You kids can't take a hint.
[CHUCKLES] All right.
How was your mandatory? You get away?
A holiday was far from my mind,
Daniel. In truth...
I've been struggling
to sleep.
Why's that?
You tell me.
Um, dealer board says you're in the Broadway office.
ERIC: Mm.
DVD: Um, Eric. You, uh, you still there?
Yeah, you?
[CHUCKLES] Excuse me? Yeah, I'm still here.
ERIC: No. No, you're not...
because I'm now talking to an empty seat.
- [LINE DISCONNECTS] - Fuck.
♪ [MUSIC FADES]
HARPER: All good?
Uh, yeah.
I just need to get off the desk and make a quick call.
You're gonna leave me here alone?
No. [CHUCKLES]
Um... [SMACKS LIPS]
Look, I wanna trust you, um,
and if we're being transparent with each other,
I know what lights Bloom up.
That's, like, the point of being close to a client
is like you know what animates them.
- DVD: Hmm. - I wanna do that by myself.
I understand
Bloom needs to make room in his fund for FastAide,
but it's a screaming buy at such depressed levels--
Yeah I'm-- I'm not saying that it's not a good thesis.
Okay, well, I dunno, then just think about taking it to him.
I will think about it.
Territorial, right? [CHUCKLES]
- I was raised by wolves. - Sure. [CHUCKLES]
Who are your parents?
- If you don't mind me asking. - No, it's not that. [CHUCKLES]
It's totally fine. Um...
well, my dad slept
with one of his students, my mom.
- Wow. [CHUCKLES] - DVD: Yeah. [CHUCKLES]
One week in Greenwich. One in Brooklyn.
Dislocated. I get that.
Part of me always feels like I deserve the world.
And part of me feels kinda...
Less than?
That's the word. [CHUCKLES]
Um...
yeah, it's the, uh...
it's the thing Eric smells on people like blood.
He gets validated by the idea of creating people in his image.
Until they become him...
but younger. And...
you know, he can't fucking live with it.
Well, if he can't pull his own weight,
then he should move aside.
You sound just like him.
You love it.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
- What about you? - HARPER: Uh,
my mom moved to the US when she was 17.
- DVD: Okay. - I think that's probably why
she married my dad.
- DVD: All right. - She fled communist Hungary
to try and become a ruthless American capitalist.
[CHUCKLES]
She didn't really let us see our dad.
Is your dad still in the picture?
He seduced her then married her. So... [CHUCKLES]
What about yours?
HARPER: Just me, my mom
- and my brother. - Hmm.
That sounds tight.
Actually, my mom was a fucking reptile growing up,
so... [CHUCKLES] ...um, it kinda became me
and brother against her.
She put a lot of pressure on him and he, uh...
he kind of ran away.
DVD: Your buddy's in Berlin, right?
HARPER: How do you remember that?
[CHUCKLES] What do you mean?
♪ [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
Are you for real?
You seem...
so well adjusted.
How have you survived this long?
This is all that I am.
Face value.
Where's our fucking Sushi Sambas?
- I ordered an hour ago. - [CHUCKLES]
- HARPER: Um...
there is a great Chinese place, by me.
Oh. Okay.
Um, lemme just make that call first.
- Okay. [CHUCKLES] - DVD: All right. I'll be back.
JIMMY: I did not believe them when they said it! [CHUCKLES]
[SPEAKING CANTONESE]
Do my eyes deceive me or is this Horny Jimmy?
- Yeah! - [BOTH CHUCKLE]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER] - [JIMMY SIGHS]
- You, I have seen more recently. - [CHUCKLES]
JIMMY: She actually still comes here.
- ERIC: Uh. - JIMMY: How you been?
Good, good.
I was scared I'd come here and find it all boarded up.
Yeah, it's been tough, but we weathered it. [CHUCKLES]
- Bit of trouble here and there. - What? What kind of trouble?
JIMMY: You know...
The worst people in this country feel a lot braver.
I'll send someone right over.
Hey, sorry again about your husband.
- Newman was one of a kind. - Thanks.
You know that Chris Rock joke?
Being a minority in America
is like the uncle who paid your way through college,
but molested you.
Come on. You know, Newman had his way with words.
He'd call me panface, slope,
his little rice-eater.
All laced with affection, of course.
[CHUCKLES]
HOLLY NEWMAN: In 28 years of marriage,
I never heard him speak like that.
I'm sorry.
I'm sure you know that's not who he was.
No, it-- it wasn't all that he was.
But it was him.
Doesn't mean I didn't love him.
He got the best out of me.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING IN CANTONESE]
You remember coming here at lunch during the grad class?
Yeah. [CHUCKLES] We'd inhale five of these.
Was there ever any...
overlap?
What, between us fucking and me fucking our boss?
Oh, to be young again.
- [LOCK CLICKS] - [HARPER SHUSHES]
Okay.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
- [SHUSHES, CHUCKLES] - Sorry. [CHUCKLES]
[KEYS RATTLING]
♪ ["UNDER THE MOON" BY 070 SHAKE PLAYING] ♪
[MOANS]
♪ How they got inside Oh, really, I don't know... ♪
[BREATHES DEEPLY] Are you clean?
- I can double bag it. - [BOTH CHUCKLE]
♪ Drink too much to know You drink too much to know ♪
♪ Spirits in your blood
♪ Is seeping Through your soul... ♪
[CHUCKLES] Sorry if this tastes like chow mein.
Burp in my face then, I'm a fan.
- Oh, my God. - [CHUCKLES]
- I'm just fucking with you. - [CHUCKLES]
I do like to eat ass, though.
It's just, like, my predilection.
No problem on this end.
- Oh, all right. [CHUCKLES] - [SCREAMS, CHUCKLES]
♪ Not far, baby, Even when you leave ♪
♪ What happened under the moon
♪ It stays under the moon...
[MOANS]
♪ It stays under the moon
♪ I wanna get high, high
♪ I wanna get high
♪ I wanna get high, high...
- [PANTS] I'm gonna come. - [PANTS] Okay.
- I want you to come on me. - Okay. [PANTS]
[GRUNTS]
♪ Me, I'm gonna have less Than a little bit ♪
♪ Or I might just take The rest and a little bit ♪
♪ We all know how it ends When you're giving in... ♪
[DVD PANTS]
♪ Under the same sky When you're missing it... ♪
- [PANTS, CHUCKLES] - [CHUCKLES]
- [INHALES SHARPLY] - How about that predilection?
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
DVD: I don't like to discriminate between the ass and the pussy.
♪ Get on, get even...
DVD: Yeah, that tastes fucking excellent.
[HARPER MOANS]
♪ [SONG CONCLUDES]
So what is it you want now?
I want the check... [CHUCKLES] ...and some sleep.
[CHUCKLES]
You know I love that focus.
A man passing through on a contract.
- Who's gonna get got? - "Reasonable people,
doing reasonable things.
- Where does that get us?" - "Unreasonable people,
doing unreasonable things. That's how we begin to matter."
- [CHUCKLES] - Oh, my God.
He really fucked us up. [CHUCKLES]
♪ [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
"All I want is to enter my house justified."
I earned a right
to be there. I earned my place.
- Big man in the big house. - [ERIC SNICKERING]
I don't know.
Sometimes, I think...
you're born 1,000 men, you die as just one.
- Hmm. - ERIC: And I, maybe, helped...
some people...
find their feet.
You know what? I-- I think, you did all of it just for you.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
The lonely cowboy.
- Hey, I'm not lonely. - The lonely cowboy in a suit,
his face plastered all over town.
Oh.
I'm wanted, am I?
[CHUCKLES]
[CLEARS THROAT] Check and some sleep.
- ♪ [SOFT MUSIC FADING] - [DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE]
JESSE: [OVER PHONE] I'm watching the Western Bulldogs
versus Port Adelaide. Aussie rules football.
- Are you into that? - JESSE: Oh, no.
But it's live and, uh, I'm sure someone will make me a market.
- Do you bet? - Only roulette.
- For fun. Sometimes. - JESSE: What's your strategy?
- Uh... - [WATER RUNNING]
Martingale. Double down. All on black.
You know, uh, in Monaco in 1913,
- red came up 26 times in a row? - [HARPER CHUCKLING]
I hope that guy was liquid.
[CHUCKLES] Why are you calling me at this hour?
I was thinking
about how, maybe, my colleague outshined me
a little bit.
It's been bothering me.
Oh, he's a smart kid, but I was puzzled
as to why he was pitching me a long in an identical market.
It's repetitive and boring and institutionalized.
- Are you any of those things? - Just think maybe he wants
someone to buy FastAide because he already has someone
who wants to get rid of it.
Maybe it's a screaming short.
I don't know, Harper. He seems pretty convinced by it.
Um, do you not trust him?
He's a sales guy.
It's his job to be convincing.
- [DOOR CLOSES] - It's unclear
if they will get regulatory approval
to implement their entire business plan.
The SPAC market is already languishing,
which could be a leading indicator for things to come.
Valuations are sky high
and no other sector's been this overbid.
FastAide is just a blockbuster flogging meds instead of VHS.
[CHUCKLES] I knew you thought that.
I hardly think your camp will be impressed
when I ask for a bid in the deal they're selling.
[INHALES SHARPLY] So don't call me.
Sell through Goldman or anyone else on the street.
I'm sure they'd love to help.
[CHUCKLES] So,
you're pitching me against the house view
and you're sending my flow to a competitor?
The best idea wins.
And what's the best idea?
Mine, Jesse.
The one that thrills you.
- [JESSE SIGHING] Okay. - ♪ [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
JESSE: I, uh, will call Goldman in the morning.
You are a restless soul, Harper.
I don't know how to be anything else.
- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING] - [CHARLES HANANI CHUCKLING]
- What's this all for? - [CHUCKLES]
CHARLES: You're making me feel tremendously loved.
- ♪ [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] - [GRUNTS]
So, obviously, I've been trying
to get Maxim to give me access to your accounts,
just so Pierpoint can kick off the due diligence.
- He's being a brick wall. - He can be a bit Balearic.
Hot-tempered. Affairs of the heart?
He says you told him not to speak to me.
If we want to have a relationship,
professional, personal, whatever,
you need to be honest with me.
I can handle it. I can handle bad news.
Just tell me.
There are some women.
♪ ["REQUIEM" BY MOZART PLAYING] ♪
- What do you mean, "women"? - Women that had designs on me.
- "Designs" on you? - CHARLES: Women I saw.
Heartbroken women that felt hurt by me
and then subsequently tried to ruin me...
ruin us,
- ruin our family. - How many women?
CHARLES: I don't have to tell you I had affairs.
Bitterly regret that... [INHALES DEEPLY]
...and whatever damage it did to this.
I was young, all ego.
- All id, actually. - Sorry... [CHUCKLES]
What does this have to do with our family's money?
Finickity agreements. Legal red tape.
Annual outgoings. You know, agreements.
Non-disclosure agreements?
CHARLES: I've got nothing to hide.
That's just how these things are wrangled legally.
What I gave them...
was a better life.
[CHUCKLES]
Surely you knew I'd find out about this,
as soon as you brought your finances to Pierpoint.
I don't know.
Maybe it was my stupid,
tortured, backward way of letting you find out
so that I could no longer ignore it.
Right.
I'm a coward, Mina.
As I get older,
I fear that may be my essence...
fear.
Okay.
But...
as far as our money is concerned,
do we still have any?
Well, what do you mean?
Do we have money? Are you wealthy?
Well, of course.
Of course. Generational. Many lifetimes over.
[CHUCKLES]
♪ [MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING]
DVD: Too finance, bro! I don't know.
- [PHONE RINGING] - DVD: Bummer because apparently
they do some really wild shit on stage there.
RISHI RAMDANI: [CHUCKLING] What?
Like a couple of Black & Decker bolts
out the asshole?
DVD: Dude, this is a place of work.
[PHONE RINGING CONTINUES]
Dude, pick up the phone.
Uh, she'll call back.
- [KEYBOARD CLACKING] - [MOUSE CLICKING]
DVD: I got a res at Zuma tonight.
No, bro.
Me and someone special.
JAMIE: Knobheads! You fucking knobheads!
RECEPTIONIST: I'm afraid she's busy!
- JAMIE: Come on, mate. - [DOOR CLOSING]
They know I'm important,
so they're out to get me.
I know, I-- I do-- I know it.
I know, they're listening in on me.
James, it's James right?
- Jay. Yeah. - Jay. [CHUCKLES]
Take a seat.
This is gonna surprise you.
You know, as a...
dyed-in-the wool identikit Tory. [CHUCKLES]
But I looked into your request. My mate's a failed doctor.
I sent him a picture of your...
- sample. - It's not mine.
GUS SACKEY: I'm not saying it is.
It's not a dog's either.
I understand why someone in your situation
might make a cry for help,
especially, if no one's listening.
I hope you don't mind, I-- I did some noodling around.
I understand you've been between jobs for a while.
I have, yeah.
I mean...
do you wanna-- do you wanna talk about it?
♪ [MILD TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING]
[JAMIE SNIFFLING]
CELESTE: We are very excited to have you here at Pierpoint.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN ARABIC]
I have something I need to discuss with you.
Um, I've done the work
on the Hanani financial situation
and um...
I found some--
God. [CHUCKLES] Not really sure how to phrase it.
- Um... - Yes?
You know what?
The more I think about it, the more I think
I'm just fixating on unnecessary details.
- [CHUCKLES] - That's a habit of mine too.
Do you think, we'll have fun together?
I mean, working together.
- Yeah. - CELESTE: Good.
I was counting on it.
♪ ["THE ORDER OF DEATH BY PUBLIC IMAGE LTD PLAYING] ♪
[CHUCKLES]
♪ This is what you want This is what you get ♪
♪ This is what you want This is what you get... ♪
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER] - [CAR HORNS BLARING]
♪ This is what you want This is what you get ♪
♪ This is what you want What you want... ♪
ELEVATOR VOICE ANNOUNCER: Floor seven. Doors opening.
♪ This is what you want What you want ♪
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER] - ♪ [SONG CONCLUDES]
ELEVATOR VOICE ANNOUNCER: Doors closing.
Revenue across the floor is only up ten percent,
and CPS London is up over 30.
Every member of my team is up year on year.
So why are you paying us less?
All roads lead back to Daniel.
He moves
as if he has the confidence of your blessing.
I believe, you've conspired to pay us down...
make us look expendable
and then conflate us with New York.
I want Daniel gone.
He's an ED. He's expensive.
Harper and I are nimbler without him.
Or are you forcing me and my team
to look for bids away?
Because let me tell you there are plenty of shops
that'll take us in a heartbeat
and pay us what we're worth.
Shall we look at the data?
Uh, figures cut through hot air because...
they can't lie.
Yeah, so, uh, average comp is up over 30 percent
on your team, but the...
overall desk pool is down because...
you're down.
And your production has dropped from 75 million to 40.
Your quartile ranking dropped two places.
I had to rub my eyes. What the hell happened to you?
[SCOFFS]
I mean, truth is paying you down only 40 percent leaves us space
for further reductions now that Felim is gone.
Your comp to production ratio is still the highest.
♪ [TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
You're paying me down 40 percent?
You're a weight on your team.
What, for the last four fucking quarters?
- Out of what, 100? - Mm-hmm.
But they're the only four quarters that matter.
I assembled that team.
Their achievements are mine.
BILL: And I bet they're grateful.
But you and I are bigger than team-talk
and 360-review, lukewarm water.
If you stop producing, you're simply a cost.
[CHUCKLES]
Have the grace to look me in the eye
when you do it, then.
I looked you in the eye...
when I fucking hired you.
You know nobody owes anybody a tomorrow here.
Ple--
Please...
don't let me go.
I'd never just let you go.
So, um... [CLEARS THROAT] ...we've been talking and, uh...
we've got some good news.
DVD: We're moving you up.
BILL: So, Danny here mentioned you, uh, had a chat yesterday
and he got straight on the phone
to figure out the next best step for someone as loyal as you.
DVD: We want you to run the Client Relationship effort
across Europe.
You both know what CRMS is.
DVD: Shorter hours. Less stress. Increased interactions.
Socialize...
away from the melee of the floor.
- It's a retirement home. - More time for your family.
You deserve this.
For what it's worth,
I think, you look better in a tie.
♪ [MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[CAR HORNS BLARING]
[DOOR CLOSING]
♪ [MELANCHOLIC MUSIC FADES]
Thank you.
- [DOOR KNOCKING] - [LOCKS CLICKING]
♪ ["THE BLACK ANGEL'S DEATH SONG" BY THE VELVET UNDERGROUND PLAYING] ♪
- ERIC: Hey. - HOLLY: Hey
♪ The myriad choices Of his fate ♪
♪ Set themselves Out upon a plate ♪
♪ For him to choose
♪ What had he to lose?
♪ Not a ghost bloodied country All covered with sleep ♪
♪ Where the black angel Did weep ♪
♪ Not an old city street In the east ♪
♪ Gone to choose
♪ And wandering's brother Walked on through the night ♪
♪ With his hair in his face
♪ On a long-splintered cut From the knife ♪
♪ Of GT
♪ The rally man's patter Ran on through the dawn ♪
♪ Until we said so long To his skull ♪
♪ Shrill yell
♪ Shining brightly red-rimmed And red-lined with the time ♪
♪ Infused with the choice Of the mind ♪
♪ On ice skates Scraping chunks ♪
♪ From the bells
♪ Cut mouth bleeding razors Forgetting the pain ♪
♪ Antiseptic remains Cool goodbye ♪
♪ So you fly
♪ To the cozy brown snow Of the east ♪
♪ Gone to choose, choose again
♪ Sacrificials remains Make it hard to forget ♪
♪ Where you come from The stools of your eyes ♪
♪ Serve to realize fame
♪ Choose again
♪ And Rovermans' refrain Of the sacrilege recluse ♪
♪ For the loss of a horse
♪ With the bowels And a tail of a rat ♪
♪ Come again, choose to go
♪ [SONG CONCLUDES]