"Whisky?" "No..." "Champagne" "liquid MDMA?" "Tehran is the world capital!" "How is the kid?" "He is fine." "Harsh, when do you want to do this?" "After prayers." "You said they were both for you?" "What do you care?" " Mr. Whiting." "Bennett Holiday." "A very big company Connex, our client... loses a huge natural gas contract in the Persian Gulf to the Chinese, at the same time, smaller company Killen... somehow gets the rights to Kazakhstan... one of the largest untapped oil fields in the world." "The big company, our client merges with Killen, justice wants to know how Killen got those rights." "you have been scrutinizing exactly these types of deals" "So if there is something to find" "I expect you to get it before they do and come straight to me." "Bennet" "At my firm, I have a flock of sheep who think they are lions." "Maybe you are a lion who everyone thinks as a sheep..." "No, I want to talk about the Gulf, and the goddamn Emir..." "And what is an Emir, anyway?" " It is a King." "A King." "Well, How some podo King tossed you out on your ass?" "Every company in the world wanted in the Kazakhstan." "And into the Tengiz" "But Killen got it." "And then, Connex wanted Killen..." "And here we are." "I made investments." "Investments that will bear fruit for this company." "Hell Tommy!" "we all got the foreign corrupt practices act committed to memory." "I got a little copy of it taped to the wall of my head, right here." "Thank you Jimmy, you know how much we all appreciate hearing your point of view." "However, a US Attorney is looking into your relationships in Kazakhstan," "And the US Govt is holding off on the approval of our merger." "Mr. Janus and I have brought Connex's Washington counsel Sydney Hewitt down here" "To talk about our strategy for the next 30 days." "In a way I feel like Switzerland..." "And I will like to remind everybody in this room that they have signed confidentiality agreements." "Allow me to introduce my associate Bennett Holliday." "Who would be..." "How shall I put it?" "building consensus day to day" "You have just visited what someday soon could be the most profitable corporation in America." "Provided that the government approves the merger." "Provided we all start running automobiles on water and provided there is still chaos in Middle East now the job is find the problem and fix the problem." "And if you do not find a problem, then there is no problem." "And when the government approves this merger" "Its going to buy a lot of houses out in the vineyard" "May be even yours." "Still Cheerios." "Max." "Lets not read at the table, ok?" "Mummy, I want bacon." "You have bacon." "I want real bacon." "You have real bacon, only that it is made from Soya beans." " I want pig bacon." "I want pig bacon too." " Don't say it." "Here, I will try it if you try it." " How am I going to bite it." "It's crunchy." "How do you do that?" " It's kind of hard." "It is pretty bad." " Keep quiet" "A merger between two US oil companies is taking place in Houston." "The new company, Connex-Killen Corp will become the 5th largest gas and oil company in the world." "The move affects 37 000 workers in 160 countries." "And with revenues larger than the GDPS of Pakistan or Denmark, will create the world's 23rd largest economy." "Mr. Leland Janus, chairman of Connex spoke today of synergy and a desire to pass on savings to the consumer." "The merged operations will create economies of scale to deliver best quality products to the consumer at the lowest possible prices." "This is a merger of necessity for Connex, Rebecca who wants Killen's oil fields in Kazakhstan after the gas blocks they were pursuing in the Gulf were awarded to a Chinese consortium." "Producer nations continue to look towards developing markets in Asia" "Which is having a powerful affect on crude prices" "Our position is that there is at least $10 - 12 instability premium in the market." "You have, protests in Iran, the threat of more strikes in Venezuela." "and the Turks still making noise about the Russian crude thru Bosporus." "Thanks for having me, Rebecca." "I am playing, that's my job, playing." "ya, well that's a very very good job for you to have." " Tell daddy you love him" "I love you daddy." "Hello?" "The Emir summer party in Marbella, this week end." "Any interest?" "Well I can't, I have got something..." "It would be very good for the company." "It is Max's birthday on Saturday..." "Brian I need your help on this." "The Emir's party!" "I will take that." "Through much finagling we have an audience with the Emir" "He wrote the strategy and he is not slick." "No, I didn't even say I could go" "Take the children with you." "Beach, summer, Marbella..." "Max will love it." " Can I do that?" " Oh!" "Sure you can." "Besides, they love children." "John D. Rockefeller, founded the university of Chicago." "That's fine, you are a good sound leader Mr. Rockefeller" "Bob's freaking out about this other missile." "Where is the missile, Who has the missile?" "He wrote a memo." "I just finished convincing the French and Brits intell that we have nothing to do with the Amiri job." "Now what do we say: remember that thing we had had nothing to do with, well, there is something missing" "He is got to stop this." "He has to stop with the memos." "Ok here is something...you put him up for promotion." " He is due, he is a good man, he saved our as in Beirut in 1985." "Ya, that great, Terry likes him." " We will get him auditioned downtown." "You get him an audition downtown." "They are going crazy about Iran right now and Bob's an expert." "He speaks Farsi for Christ's sake." "Bob has never had a desk job, he has never done 9 to 5, never been on a committee." "He has got to show up to work every day He has got to stay on message." "Absolutely  I will prep him." "In fact we just pulled on of our officers out and..." "I took the initiative to ask him to come down here." "He infiltrated Hezbollah in Beirut in 80's and won himself some nice medals." "We are thinking about giving him a station" "Beirut in the 80's?" "Is that a resume builder?" "Don't chomp down on any baits We are fine, Iran's fine..fine." "And our analysis seem to be on the mark, we are getting good satellite coverage..." "We are reprogramming resources into Iran..." "Thank you for coming over Mr. Barnes." "Welcome back, if I wade right in but forgetting for a second your bureaucratic checklist..." "I am trying to get undigested information" "Will to the best of our ability..." "India is now our ally, Russia is now our ally." "Even China will be an ally." "Everybody between Morocco and Pakistan, is the problem." "Failed states and failed economies... but Iran is a natural cultural ally of the US." "Persians do not want to roll back the clock to the 8th century." "I see students marching in the streets," "I hear Khatami making the right sounds." "what I would like to know is:" "if we keep embargoing them on energy, then someday soon then someday soon are we going to get a nice secular, pro-Western, pro-business government?" " It is possible, it is complicated." "Off course it is, Mr. Barnes." "Thank you for your time." "They let young people march in the street, and next day they shutdown 50 newspapers" "Put a few satellite dishes up on roofs, let 'em have My Two Dads, that does not mean that the Ayatollahs are surrendering one iota of control over that nation." "Mr. Barnes the reform movement in Iran is one of the President's great hopes for the region" "And crucial to the petroleum security of the Unites States." "These gentlemen are with C.L.I." "The Committee for the Liberation of Iran, Mr. Barnes." "Maybe you will get made an ambassador to somewhere cool." "like France, Italy or Ghana." "It is not beyond the realm of possibility, is it?" "How's your mom?" "Great, she is great." "So I know it still a year away... but I will have to have a car, decent car, nothing to fancy, but it has to run so that I can get to do Boston-New York." "They have a great crew." "So they told me, I said a crew of what?" "They said rowing." "So if I want to row..." "Thank you." "Listen, I live in Maryland... which means that you have residency in Maryland and the University of Maryland." "I am sorry can I steal this from you?" "Thank you, so much." "I just want a normal senior year dad." "I want a normal house, cinemax" "I want cinemax and prom." "You know what prom is like in Pakistan?" "Prom sucks in..." "Pakistan" " It is complicated..." "Now...we really screwed up at work." "How?" "I was supposed to keep my mouth shut and I didn't." "What does mum do again?" "that we have to live in Islamabad?" "She is a secretary." "Both of my two parents are professional liars." "Hey!" "My father welcomes the Chinese to our country." "Of course." "Please right there." "Thank you." "The Arabs are very family oriented as a people." " Is that racist?" " Sure." "A little, I guess what you are saying is positive." "No..." "Let him work it out on his own, it is important for his autonomy." "All Right!" " You are here to see the Emir?" " Yes." "Me too." "What do you do?" "I am a partner in a derivative trading company in Geneva." " Energy?" " Ya!" " Bryan Woodman?" " Yes." "Good evening." "We regret that His Highness will be unable to see you." "However we are authorized to hear your proposition on his behalf." "Ah, ok." "What, here?" "now?" "Ok, I will..." "Our position is that the real worry for you guys is a another year of record pricing." "There are no more elephant fields, not even in natural gas." "As structural alternatives become more fully realized ... you need new strategies to... maximize every penny of your existing resources particularly in a climate of falling prices." "And that's what our firm is prepared to..." "problem solve this." "foreseeable and unforeseeable problems" "Are you not talking?" "Common sweet heart, just a little bit ok." "You are the shark and you try to tag us as we swim across." "You jump in, count 1.2.3 then we all try to get to the other side." " Jump in." "Come on." "Max." "Max, oh my God!" "Max." "Let me go!" "Someone get a doctor!" "A doctor!" "He is not breathing." "Get a doctor!" " Anybody is a doctor here?" "... I heard phrases going around like:" "" the corrupting influence of money", or " the evil influence of the Dollar in politics", when more money is spent, on the syndication rights to the Seinfeld television program than on the whole of the last presidential election." "I didn't make this coffee for you." "Making it for me." "You, making oatmeal." "And then you sleep." "You look like shit." "Are you working?" "I had a little trouble at the work." "There's some beer in the fridge for when you wake up, so you don't die on my floor of the DT's." "Please don't smoke in my house." "And why is it some dirty little secret that it is in America's interest to do business overseas." "Mummy" "Mummy" "Come here..." "Come here... you OK?" "I want to look out of the window." "You want to look out the window, come on." "Listen to the bird." "If on Monday Iran refuses the IAEA inspectors you could look to the crude prices to spike yet again." "Well it is not exactly a secret that Iran will refuse snap inspections." "ok Rebecca, thank you." "Go home." "It was a stupid fucking question, Henry." "The Prince's men called again." "I am just telling him." "Hey, how bad is it?" "Ouch, when a Volvo dealer says that." "Ok, you are honorable decent guys" "My wife and our narrow driveway" " How the hell are you?" " Well, you know...can't complain." "That's nor good, kiddo." "That's suffering quietly?" "married?" "kids?" "There is no way a company like Killen pulled of a deal like this without paying somebody off." "Why don't you tell me what you have?" "So that I can respond." "I used to think there was something wrong here ." "Now I know there is something wrong here." "Either you don't find anything because you don't know how to look... or you do and they carve you out and light you on fire." "That's got to be the play here, right?" "Bennett Holliday." "Sydney Hewitt's new boy." "How many of those have I seen?" "6 or 7..." "They are all gone." "He is still Sydney fucking Hewitt." "14 - 11, match point." "I think that they have got someone inside the deal, someone they can squeeze." " Like an informant?" " Yes sir." "This is just my opinion based on their over confidence." "Match point." "Thank you." "If people in oil deals talked to U.S. Attorney's, there'd be no oil business." "Dean......." "Bennet Holiday, You know Dean Whiting..." "Founding partner of our firm." "Off course, Good to see you sir." "We have been discussing the Connex and Killen merger situation." "Will they get the approval." "Hell of a large company, if they do." "I mean client." "The Tengiz field, Killen largest asset is being looked into pretty closely by the Attorney's office" "Well Bennett, as they say in the Bible:" "There are many many ways to light Europe." "There's an arrow in the ceiling pointing towards Mecca." "The Bin Laden group air-conditioned Mecca a huge project made billions and billions." "All the women are dressed in black head to toe." "Walking 5 feet behind the man." "Its 125°, literally a 125° and humid." "When I walked out of the airport it was like a wall fell on me." "Men are all wearing white sheets they wear papa's whitesheets." "I don't really understand that." "And they kind of say: " it is hot and I don't have to work? "" "I can't understand how you could anything in those sheets I would love to see these guys play baseball." "You ok?" "This was a birthday present and a graduation present, couple of years ago." "what happened was I just about to graduate from Oxford, and my mother had a horse... in the Royal Ascot race" "The horse won... that same day that I was graduating" "And my trust fund matured." "So that tops any birthday present any of you have brought for me tonight." "Capitalism cannot exist without waste." "We should write thank you notes to Mr. Whiting and the USA for producing 1/4 of the world's garbage, and 1/4 of the demand." "You are certainly welcome." "Our pleasure, really." "Prince," "Is there anything we can do for you?" "Americans are always happy to drill holes in other peoples countries." "I have heard of you Mr. Whiting, the cat's paw of the Saudi Princes." "I know your brother, the Foreign Minister, very bright." "I know your father too." "He threw the second creepiest party I have ever been to in Washington." "And as far as I can see, you could probably use a bit of cat's paw yourself." "Second born son, so beaten down by his family he can't even tell me what he wants when he is asked straight out." "A grown up baby who is afraid of his brother?" "And may be he wants to be king?" "Maybe?" "Well Prince, are you a king?" "Can you say tell me what you want?" "All right what's next?" "The lethal finding on the Nasir came through." "That was quick." "You have the timetable?" "It will be in Beirut next week." "We could do it there." "That's good." "Anybody around?" "Actually yes, I made contact with Mussawi" "He said he would be happy to work with who ever we send" "I was thinking it would be good for Bob." "All right." "I will let you have him without going through Terry but everything better go exactly right" "And tell him, easy on the memos." "This is the prototype of an oil rich Arab monarchy." "since prevailing in the tribal conflicts of the 1920s, the Al-Subaai family have ruled their kingdom effectively" "And by most accounts benignly." "However they face enormous challenges in the future." "The fact of the matter is at current levels of production" "Welcome Bob, how are you?" "Good news." "I think we have got something for you, something you will like." "That utilizes your specific skill set." "You know this guy?" "Prince Nassir Al-Subaai." "His money is in a lot of dark corners, paying for weapons that could be used against USA." "Paperwork on polygraphs." "Wire transfers to Al Qaida fronts." "Letters instructing his water ministry to employ" "Mohammed Sheik Agiza." "The guy who has your missile." "He is traveling to Beirut, You have experience in Beirut, don't you Bob?" "It is a great city." "This is a bad guy." "And who knows maybe you will find your blue eyed Egyptian." "Sorry I got to get going a little early, My daughter has got a soccer game." "Did you see my report on the missile?" "Because I reset the guidance to blow ten feet off the ground..." "Bob, you just don't get it!" "Nobody wants to hear about a missing missile." "Not right now!" "This is top of the director's list." "Hit a walk-off home run and get any desk you want." "Sheik Hamad has not yet made any decision about who will succeed him," "In our view prince Nasir is likely the more ambitious of the two brothers." "This however does not mean, that he will prevail in any succession struggle." "My father has ordered the Marbella estate to be razed." "They will be a park." "We are so sorry for your loss." "6 more north field blocks are being developed." "We like to offer your firm the rights." "6 blocks?" "Which phase?" "3rd phase." "We will be in the stream for... ten one hundredth of a cent, so... 75 million dollars." "Great!" "It's great!" "How much for my other kid?" "If I were your economic adviser, I would tell you that's not the stupidest thing financially speaking, you've ever done, but probably the dumbest thing you will do today." "Probably." "But why would you need an economic adviser." "20 years ago you had the highest GNP in the world, today you are tied with Albania." "So good work...." "Your second biggest export is second hand goods." "Followed closely by dates." "For which you lose 5 cents a pound." "You want to know what the business world thinks of you?" "We think a 100 years ago you were living out here in tents in the desert, chopping each others heads off." "And that's exactly where you are gonna be in another hundred." "So yes, on behalf of my firm I accept your money." "Thank you." "Fine." "I will have the funds transferred to your firm immediately." "Great." "And I will give you another 100 million for the other kid." "So now you are my economic adviser, why don't you tell me something that I don't already know?" "All right, you want an idea?" "Here is an idea.." "There is the Eurasian triangle." "Your kingdom is here." "Iran is there." "Now for years you have been selling your oil, sticking it on ships, and watching as it sails away around Africa to there." "Ok, now pretend for a second this is excess Iranian pipeline capacity." "That's your route!" "Right there." "Overland through Iran" "You hook up with these pipes here you commoditize it, you control it and you take it right to the door step of every home in Europe." "I just doubled your profit." "I think that's a pretty good idea." "My grand-daddy was a wildcatter." "Same with my daddy." "That's how I got my start." "Luck and hard work." "Nobody handed me shit." "Now, I got libraries and parks named after me." "And probably ruined my grand kids." "You wearing a wire, Bennet?" "No." "Mr. Janus" "Chairman of Connex and Dean Whiting, founding partner of your firm are proud members of the Committee to Liberate Iran Danny D. here is too." "D is for Dalton." "I was on the other side of the Tengiz deal." "The other side." "President Nazerbaev is his best pal in the whole world." "It is a beautiful field: the Tengiz." "Goddamit is she a beautiful field." "what is it?" "Irish..." "The Irish pray on their knees and the Scots prey on their neighbors." "How is Margaret?" "You guys divorced yet?" "We are not getting divorced." "I don't think in our line of work two people with security clearances have made their marriage work." "I am telling you Bobby, my boy" " Number 3, its a charm -it's a number" "I like consulting." "No, I love it." "love it and I will say this for it private business is efficient." "There I have said...a fucking cliché, and the C.I.A is like what a 30 billion a year business." "So anybody wants to sell anything, a pencil a computer they got to interface through a security clearance... don't give me that shit." "I got two kids in college... and we are doing our kitchen." "Stan, I got a chance to go back to Beirut." "I want to go back." "Is it safe for me?" "Are we talking about with your wife or with the whackos?" "Clear it with Hezbollah." "Rumors of Bob, but never Bob." "It is Bob, right?" "What is it that you tell people you do these days, Bob?" "Between State department and Defense." "It's just me buddy." "As requested." "Let me get some information, Jimmy." "My name is Mussawi." " Ok Jimmy." "He's traveling to Beirut." "It is dangerous to travel, He will disappear." "I want you to him from his hotel, drug him, put him in front of the car, and run truck into it at 50 miles an hour..." "It is good to have you back in town, Bob." "Beirut..." "No, he invited me to come with him." "I think he thinks that he is some kind of a reformer or something." "Anyway he has got a nice private plane." "Hold on..." "Beirut it is great, it is like the  Paris of the Middle East." "Its like winning the NIT..." "Come in." "American?" "Canadian." "Don't see many occidentals these days." "It is too bad." "This is November, 1994." "Excellent, Excellent." "Did you find the others?" "I couldn't find it." "Joe's in charge." "He will bring it out when he does" "Where is he?" "He is back there looking for it." "He said he will bring them out when he finds them." "Thank you, Susan." "Hello." "Yes." "Who is this?" "How are you sir?" "Somebody called me." "If you find me, call my son Bennett junior to this number." "What do you know about the torture methods used by the Chinese on Falun Gong?" "Method # 1..." "What's your guess?" "Water dungeon." "Did you guess water dungeon?" "# 2 method." "#2, twisting arms and putting face in feces." "Not interested in #2?" "Number 3... # 3 is called: pulling nails from fingers" "What do you think Bob?" "#3, sound good to you?" "Purpose is to get monks to recant their beliefs." "What if I had to get you to recant?" "It will be pretty difficult, right?" "Because if you have no beliefs to recant then what." "You are fucked is what... you are going to give me the names of every person who has taken money from you." "Oh!" "that is disgusting..." " Come on Jimmy, you are not one of those Quran thumpers" "My name is Mussawi." "You fucking fuck, fucking fuck, stupid fuck." "What the fuck?" "This is a war!" "Fuck!" "You are a POfuckingW." "Give me the fucking names." "I am going to cut your head off, Bob." "Consider a donation on your way out of Beirut" "We just received a dispatch from Damascus, just 8 minutes old." "Mussawi is shopping a story that we sent Bob to Beirut to assassinate prince Nasir." "Batter go and talk to Terry." "Can we get this guy?" "I mean now, real time now?" " Mussawi?" " I'll call you back, yes, Mussawi." "The practical answer is no." "not before he goes into another mosque or a newspaper and this story gains traction..." " Does he have Bob's name?" " Not his real name, but Mussawi... has been shopping photographs of them doing the deal long lens photos of Bob being held." "I mean we are lucky that he is alive." "The whole contact was a setup, Mussawi now apparently works with Iran." "First he tortures our guys and then he peddles the CIA connection." "Put some space between us and Bob." "Bob has a long history of entrepreneurial operations.... we haven't really had a handle on Bob for years After 9/11 some people got a lot of leeway and let their emotions get the best of them" "these are complex times" "There is already an active investigation into Bob's activities." "Help me out here!" "Teheran, the Amiri brothers job we are trying to find out who might have hired Bob for the Amiri brothers job." "Could the same people be behind the Nasir job?" "A lot of people probably want this Nasir dead and" "Bob knows lots of people." "Fill in the rest." "Is there anything?" "You first established contact with the Amiri brothers in 1998?" "Yes..." " You met them at a party in the South of France." " Yes." " A party given by Riza Reyhani?" "Reza, yes." "Were you aware that they were involved in illegal arms trade?" "Of course I was aware, that's why I went." "Were you aware that these two men were Iranian Intelligence officers?" "What do you think?" "This is a diplomatic incident." "Two men have been murdered, we have been tasked with damage assessment." "We will need you to turn your passport over to us." "Passports..." "Eh, I found this....a wire transfer" "Russian?" "I don't speak Russian." "Get it translated." "Do you speak Russian?" "These are dead ends" "Oh!" "Thanks" "What are these?" "Uhm...orphans...things that don't make any sense." "That one is pretty interesting" "A Lily school." "It is a boarding school in Switzerland." "Paid for by wire transfer." "Transfer of these funds authorized by Daniel Dalton Jr on behalf of Vidak." "Ltd." "The meeting has already started, you are not on the list." "This is not an open function." "You are not wearing a badge, you don't have a wrist band..." " This is a private gathering." " Take this to Sydney Hewitt." "Please?" "Iranian resources are abundant." "And given the chance, there is no limit to what the Iranian people can achieve." "Their hopes are the same as all people in every land." "To live lives with dignity, in a nation at peace." "And America will help them." "Killen Oil through Daniel Dalton and Petroika Energy consultants created asset-less shell companies owned by the heirs of Nurzen Detiev, Minister of domestic resources for the Republic of Kazakhstan." "This was discussed at the upstream division meeting held in January, 2003." "I was at the meeting, but I don't focus on those kind of details." "Wherein it was described that Killen bore all the financial risk but, minister Detiev's children, while attending the Lily school in" "Switzerland, were entitled to all of the profits." "70 million dollars." "I attended the meeting, but as I said I don't focus on those kind of details." "Further Daniel Dalton Jr and Petroika Energy consultants colluded..." "A firm retained by Killen prior to Connex's involvement." "Oh for Christ's sake Tommy, we both got letters from the grand Juries, not your own private little pitty party." "A good faith purchaser is in good faith only if they new nothing of the problems at the time of the purchase." "This is oil business, we are talking about right?" "The lowliest shareholder knows that we deal with on of the most stank places on earth." "And it is illegal to offer gifts, money, the promise of money or anything of value to influence foreign officials." "Is it?" "I have personally seen a bill from your law firm to the government of Saudi Arabia for 36 million dollars." "A one line bill: "For services rendered"" "The business of Whiting and Sloan is not under discussion at this time." "Well, it ought to be." "Danny is a good man." "And he is a friend of mine." "A mareva injunction?" "Some people... cousins of mine actually, sued my father in the Commonwealth, alleging that he broke an agreement to repay funds transferred from the State." "Aggrieved Royals." "Aggrieved about what...." "That he tried to cut their allowances from $100 000 a month to $80 000?" "My cousins aren't bright enough to be anything but finger puppets." "And my brother has faith only in his own cunning." "What do you suppose they are up to?" "My brother and these American lawyers?" "Tell me, what are they thinking?" "What are they thinking?" "What are they thinking?" "They are thinking that it is running out." "It is running out." "And 90% of what's left is in the Middle East." "Look at progression..." "Versailles, Suez, 1973, Gulf war I, Gulf war II..." "This is a fight to the death." "And so what are they thinking?" "Great!" "They are thinking, keep playing, keep buying yourself new toys, keep spending $50 000 a night on your hotel room... but don't invest on your infrastructure, don't build a real economy... so that when you finally wake up, they would have sucked you dry." "And you would have squandered the greatest natural resource in history." "Come with me please." "I studied at Oxford, I have a PhD from Georgetown." "I want to create a Parliament." "I want to give women the right to vote." "I want an independent judiciary." "I want to start a petroleum exchange in the Middle East." "Cut the speculators out of the business." "Why are the major oil exchanges in in London and New York anyway?" "I will put up all our energy for competitive bidding." "Our own pipe to Europe though Iran as you proposed." "I will ship to China." "Anything that achieves efficiency and maximizes profits" "Profit which I will then use to rebuild my country." " Great, that is exactly what you should do." "Exactly..." "Except that your President rings up my father and says that I have got unemployment in Texas, in Kansas, in Washington state... one phone call later we are stealing out of our social programs, in order to buy over priced aero planes." "We owed the Americans but we have repaid that debt." "I accepted a Chinese bid, the highest bid, And suddenly I am a terrorist..." "I am godless communist." "Dean Whiting, who represents not only these aggrieved royals and my brother, but also Connex Oil." "They have been pressuring my father to invalidate the Chinese contract." "But they underestimate him." "This is about his legacy to his people." "Sure, I know it seems like people are just sitting in their hotel rooms.." "I mean that's what they do..." "that's how they do their business" "But I mean we are talking world's historical stage here..." "With delivery deals we can make in Europe, transport through Iran," "I mean this guy might be able to revolutionize not just his country but the whole region." "As soon as his father keels over this guy can be like Mossadegh." "In 1952 in Iran, a real democracy rising up organically," "I mean if we could just be a part of any of these countries getting a Parliament?" "Helping them find efficiency, showing them how real..." "Stop it, stop it..." "Julie, the little company that I started working for, is now the chief economic advisor to prince Nasir." "Do you understand what that means?" "That's like somebody put a giant ATM on our front lawn." "Here's a question..." "How do you think it looks to profit off the death your six year old?" "Fuck you, Fuck you..." "I changed the diapers, I put cream on rashes..." "I took him to his checkups... cared about every fucking percentile." "I did everything right, I did everything right." " We are going back to the states" " Good..." "Riley..." "Sweetie, sweetie be careful..." "Wanna say goodbye to your dad?" "We will see him later..." "Some trust fund prosecutor got off-message at Yale, thinks he is gonna run this up the flag pole?" "Make a name for himself?" "Maybe get elected some two-bit congressman from no where?" "with the result that China, Russia, can suddenly start having at our expanse all the advantages we enjoy here?" "No, I tell you, no sir." "Corruption charges..." "Corruption?" "!" "Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations." "That's Milton Friedman!" "He got a goddamn Nobel prize ." "We have laws against it, precisely so we can get away with it." "Corruption is our protection." "Corruption keeps us safe and warm." "Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here, instead of fighting over scraps of meat out on the street." "Corruption is why we win." " How did it go?" " He has got kids, wife......" "He broke the law." "Mr. Janus himself wanted me to extend you an invitation to the " Oil man of the year"..." "He is being honored, so it should be a nice weekend." "Relax, get yourself a massage." "Congratulations." " Is Jane in?" " She is in a meeting." " And where's Fred?" " He is in a meeting." "Eh Bennett, come on..." "take a ride with me." " Do I have a choice?" " Of course, you do." "this is just a courtesy call." "Bennett I know you know about the crime fraud exception to attorney client privilege." "I do Don, very well." "And you also know your client is into some shady stuff and it's starting to look like, you could be involved in hiding the true nature of the transactions." "It's quiet a statement Don." "One word." "Dalton." "Danny Dalton?" "Defrauded the government of Kazakhstan, of funds to which it was entitled to defrauded the people of right to the honest services of Kazakhstan of their elected and appointed officials." "7 years, does 3 maybe 2.5." "on your recommendation." "And let me guess." "This was a solo act without the knowledge of Connex, or Killen Oil, Mr. Lee, Mr. Janus or Jimmy Pope." "Dalton is a bit of a rouge, it's true." "And he will have a nice little trust fund waiting when he gets out." "Not so little I would imagine..." "Look Don, we can spend the next 5 years in the court, to get back to the very same place that we are at right now" "And they will fight tough." "They will fight dirty." "They will pressure your boss." "They will pressure the people who appointed you boss." "They will pressure the wives of the people who appointed your boss." "You will never hit them any harder than this." "And you know it." "I am sorry Bennett, I don't think Dalton is enough for me." " What are you looking at man?" " I didn't say anything..." "Because you have nothing to say..." "Hey Fred!" "Fred!" "Hey Bob!" "Kitty take this." "Eh, Jack!" "your sister..." "Take the kids inside." "I will be right here, ok?" " What's going on Fred?" " It's ok, be back in a second!" "FBI has got it Bob." "It is pretty clear." "Nothing I can do about it." "You know it." "It is a criminal investigation." "Two men were killed." "I was almost killed." "Now they ask me questions about the Amiri brothers." "Asking me questions about Tehran." "You gotto understand this wrecks careers." "We shouldn't even be talking." "I punch in price Nasir Al-Subaai and my computer gets seized." "Now where did that job come from?" "Where did the Nasir job come from?" "I am advising you to drop it." "Why am I being investigated?" "Why am I being investigated?" "Fred!" "Goodbye, Bob." "the fallout, do you want to talk about it." "But they already have an investigation on you." " What about Mussawi?" " He is a soldier..." "Just like you." "Why are they doing damage assessment on the Amiri brothers and on me?" "For doing my job." "This is about our interests in the region." "If tomorrow Prince Nasir won't allow our military bases in his country." "than his little brother will." "probably they will have to do something about that." "Who's worried about the Nasir job?" "Who is worried of me talking?" "Stan..." "Who is quiet?" " Hello?" " Hello, is this Mr. Whiting?" " This is HomeSeal Security." " Yes, this is Mr. Whiting." "Hi, we are showing a motion sensor failure in your down stairs study." "Ah yes?" "Like I said, we are getting a failure message." "Do you want me to.." "stay on the phone while you walk around or send a car?" "I will take a look around..." "Everything seems fine..." " How are we doing Mr. Whiting?" " Everything's fine." " The door is unlocked." " Did you leave it unlocked?" "Send a car, you imbecile." "You were in Beirut in 1984." "I lost friends and as I am sure you do." "I got a peek at your file." "You are a good man, one whose experience is narrow and deep." "Your entire career, you have been used." "And probably never even known what for." "I didn't used to need to know." "In this town you are innocent until you are investigated." "Innocent until investigated?" "Nice." "It's got a nice ring to it." "I bet you've worn some miles on little sayings like that." "Gives the listener a sense that law is being written as it is spoken." "If anything happens to me or my family, an accident, an accusation, anything...." "Then first, your son will disappear." "His body will never be found." "Then your wife, her body will never be found either." "Now this is guaranteed." "Then whatever is the most dangerous thing that you do in your life." "Might be flying in a small plane, or maybe walking to the bank, you will be killed." "Do you understand, what I am saying?" "I want you to acknowledge that you do understand so that we are clear and there won't be any mistakes." "Beirut laws, Mr. Barnes." "I want my passports back." " Dalton is not enough for them." " I would be real careful." "If you dig a 6 foot hole you will find 3 bodies." "You dig 12 foot and maybe you will find 40." "Christ!" "China's economy isn't growing as fast as it could." "Because they can't get all the oil they need." "And I am damn proud of that fact." "We need another body, Mr. Pope." "What if it involves somebody at your firm?" "Someone way the hell above you?" "We would have to have an understanding." "If he is as big as you say and when he goes down the merger will be approved." "Like that?" "We're looking for the illusion of due-diligence, Mr. Pope." "Two criminals acts successfully prosecuted gives us that illusion." "Call me Jimmy." "He is a visionary, he is like Faysal or Ataturk, the people love him." "And the country is going to be his by Monday..." "Look it is not like you guys have backed the wrong horse here" "No, look he has got 9 of 11 generals." "We are on our way to the palace right now." "This is really happening." "Silver Range-Rover, with a sun roof" "Silver Range-Rover, sun roof, fourth from the lead." " Guys, help me out here?" " Its coming up..." "His wife will be there, Pat." "This is good..." "You done good." "Lee, your guests." " Sid." " Lealand." "Bennett Holiday, Lee Janus." " How are you doing?" "Well." "Those number crunchers can get a little over zealous, can't they?" "but Christ, when we write the GAAP rules like some sort of abstract painting... you stare the liability hard enough, and before long it will turn into an asset." " You don't drink?" " No." "It is really beautiful out here." " What is that?" " What?" "In front of them..." "The Bedouins always have the right of way." "The lawyers are saying, "Hey, we cannot trust a big 5 accounting firm"." "The accountants are saying: "Hey, we are not lawyers"." "Legal didn't understand;" "Accounting didn't understand." "Nobody understood anything" "The regulatory bodies had to scratch their heads for a minute that nobody at Connex or Killen was at fault." "But this merger is so balance-positive for American consumers, that ultimately Justice wants it." "Federal Courts want it, everybody wants it." "Our real client after all is us, the American people." "And we are increasing American access to oil in Kazakhstan." "So all they ask is that we give them a little something meaningful which we did and they got out of the way." " Somebody besides Dalton?" " Unfortunately, yes." "And the best option seemed to be... a secret deal for excess Iranian pipeline capacity that I uncovered during the diligence." "A little side deal benefiting the lead lawyer involved in the Connex-Killen merger approval process." "What do you think, you are doing?" "Of course, it is illegal for an American to control these rights." "Stop right now!" "Is there something that you want to tell me, Sid?" "Good afternoon... wanna thank our hosts for a wonderful spread." "The strawberry juice is delicious." "Let me just say on behalf of Connex-Killen, how pleased we are to be back in the Gulf." "Your Highness, why don't you ride together?" "Oh!" "Thank you, Bryan." "Ladies and Gentlemen, this years " Oil man of the year "." "Mr. Lealand Janus of Connex-Killen" "who the hell is that?" "Excuse me, are you seeing that?" "Can you tell, Who that is?" " Take the target out." " Roger." "4 miles... 2 miles..." "You are the Canadian." "Destroyed target." "23:44 ETT." "I'd like to accept this award on behalf of the employees of Connex-Killen." "Our people, the finest in the World." "Guys, could I get you to stand up for a moment?" "Please, stand up." "And I also like to thank our strategic friends from around the globe who are here tonight." "Most specially, Emir Meshal Al-Subaai" "Emir!" "Thank you so much." "Come on now" "Leave the beer." "Subtitles by RAYHAAN"