"Okay." "Money Laundering 101." "Say you come across a suitcase with five million bucks in it." "What would you buy?" "A yacht?" "A mansion?" "A sports car?" "Sorry." "The IRS won't let you buy anything of value with it." "So you better get that money into the banking system." "But here's the problem." "That dirty money is too clean." "Looks like it just came out of a bank vault." "You gotta age it up." "Crumple it." "Drag it through the dirt." "Run it over with your car." "Anything to make it look like it's been around the block." "you need a cash business." "Something pleasant and joyful... with books that are easily manipulated." "etcetera." "You mix the five million with the cash from the joyful business." "That mixture goes from an American bank... to a bank from any country that doesn't have to listen to the IRS." "It then goes into a standard checking account... and voilà." "because your work is done." "Your money's clean." "It's as legitimate as anybody else's." "Hi." "What?" "You don't recognize me without my tits in your face?" "Raven?" "my name's Margaret." " You got that pay stub?" " Yeah." "Great." "Are they all like this?" "With no company name?" "Just a number?" "Mm-hmm." " What about the safe?" " It's in the office." " You sure?" " Yeah." "made of steel." "like on my high school locker." "There you go." "where to?" "right?" "no." "Mm-mm." "we're good." "please?" "It closed." "Forty over asking." "Jonah was born in that house." "too." "you can kiss profits goodbye." "I've been thinking about this a lot." "And I..." "I know that we're not in the best... zenith." "Wendy. given that the feds have been to our house..." "Are you saying you wanna put the assets in your name?" " Seems like the smart thing to do." " That's never gonna happen." "they can freeze everything." "either." "uh..." "What if we..." "did something with the money?" "Maybe real estate?" " Real estate." " As an investment. not help your new career." "Does it hurt?" "What?" "Dying." "Life hurts." "a 12-year-old kid from my school died." "He had cancer." "Well..." "We're born astride the grave." " You know what that means?" " No." "Sit down." "It means... that we're... all dying the minute we're born." "Goes fast." "Don't waste it." "Don't waste it." "Would you die without that oxygen?" "I don't know." "Am I dead yet?" "Hmm?" "Yeah." "Wanna try?" "It's cold." "♪ I had a house up on a hill With a little garden... ♪" "Eduardo..." "Excuse me." "listen." "I hear you." "Whoo!" "Yeah." "sí." " Not bad." "Not bad." "sí." "uh..." "Could you represent me in a deal?" "Um..." "Would that constitute a conflict of interest?" "No?" "amigo." "Okay." "any chance you can throw on a windbreaker or something? why don't you put some Shakespeare on your ass?" "Dad." "It's not okay to slut-shame." "Jonah's shorts." "Unbelievable." "What's that about you needing a lawyer?" "Don't know what you're talking about." "I didn't know you spoke Spanish." "three years in high school." "Sounded pretty fluent to me." "Mr. Azria was a real ballbuster." "proudly." "or just since it got fashionable?" "Uh... in South Bend and... like..." "God and football." " Mm." " And football." "I was raised to hate the Cubs." " And I was raised to hate the Cardinals." "Fifty bucks says Cards beats the Cubs in this weekend's series." "you're on." "asshole!" "Shut down." "sit down." "Over there." "babe." "♪ I walked on the dark side Of everyone's everyday floor ♪" " Langmore." " ♪ And wondrous fairies ♪" "♪ They walk through the crack In the door ♪" "Who were you just texting?" "Why's that any of your business?" "'Cause that's what this place is." "It's... it's my business. stereo equipment?" "No? um... okay?" "They want clean silverware." "They want unlimited refills on their coffee." "when they are done eating all their shit is still gonna be there." "She's a fucking thief." "Hello?" "Marty?" "it's good." "it's better than expected." "It's starting to move." "I haven't even seen a million yet. it's..." "Check is in the mail?" "500 small in 48 hours." "okay?" "This is feeling like a slow trickle." "Fourth of July." "So..." "American Independence Day." "That's right." "You know what else comes in July?" "no." " My birthday." "You wanna know what I want for my birthday?" " No." " I want a good night's sleep... a good shit... and several million clean from you." "I can help with the last." "Marty." "You're fucked." "and be done with all this madness." "I'm not sure what I'm supposed to say to that." "This is your clinical trial." "I don't like experiments." "They constipate me." "Just trust me." "I used to trust you." "Now I don't know." "Hello?" "can I talk to you?" "Let's go to my office." " Want to rent the boat tomorrow?" " Yeah!" "Sounds like fun!" "Nice." "Like a..." "like a serial killer's lair." " I have a job for you." " I thought I already had a job." "There's a safe in Bobby Dean's office." "I need what's inside." "You're asking me to rob a strip club?" "I am." "Why?" "the better." "And what's in it for me? that you're gonna want to avoid." "Fuck you." "Is that businesslike enough?" "I don't like to give extraneous details." "There's a safe." "And I need the contents." "Anything else would be extraneous or counterproductive." "I..." "I will admit that it is relevant to tell you that I'm offering you ten percent of what's inside." "And what's on the inside?" "That's where we get into the extraneous again." "It's at my risk." "I want 80%." "Jesus Christ." "I hope I'm not gonna have to negotiate every single time I ask you to do something." " Fifty." " How about I ask somebody else to do it?" "I'm gonna give you 25%." "And that's it." "How about a nod?" "Great." "Thank you." "you probably should've come dressed a little more provocative." "You ever dance before?" "A little bit." "Bullshit." "You're how old?" "Nineteen." " What year were you born?" " 1998." "but it might not be for every girl." "Read me?" "Turn around." "Pull your pants up." "up your ass." "Okay." "Might be something to work with." "Turn back around." "So there are two types of dances." "Stage dance and a lap dance." "merely an advertisement for a lap dance." "might be interested." "But his dick ain't necessarily hard." "A lap dance..." "now that's dancing around a hard dick." "And a hard dick presents opportunities." "You understand what I mean by that?" "What do I mean by that?" "I know what opportunities are." "Okay." "right?" "Ain't necessarily a bad thing." "you know how to tease a man." "Do you?" "I don't know." "You tell me." "What do you think I'm thinking about?" "Right now." "All right." "Move on to the audition part of the interview." "Go on." "Close the door." "sweetheart." "What the fuck?" "I guess you're right." "Stripping isn't for everyone." "Fuck!" " Hello?" " I need two grand." "What?" "Two grand?" "No chance." " I got expenses." " What kind of expenses?" "an alarm system." "I'm gonna have to go during business hours." "You care to tell me exactly how you plan on doing that?" "the better." "you there?" "Marty?" "it's fine." "Wendy." "it's stalled and it's for sale." "I know..." "Um..." "Let me talk." "I should never have said that we should put the assets in my name." "this is about Jonah." "It could just be a phase." "I remember 13-year-old boys." "It's all raging hormones" " and unparalleled cluelessness." " Come on." "Please." "Did you or any other 13-year-olds you know go through a disemboweling-animals phase?" " That's ridiculous." " I just think he needs to find a friend." " Someone to hang out with." " He didn't have friends in Chicago." "he just hasn't found his crowd yet." " You're being soft." " I'm not being soft. and you're rationalizing." "That's what you accuse me of doing." "I'm giving Jonah the benefit of the doubt." " And what am I doing?" " Maybe you could do the same." "I'm concerned." "Why should I feel guilty about that?" "I'm concerned!" " It doesn't sound like it." " He's messing with dead animals." " That's all we know." " That doesn't sound like you're concerned." "I think that's a pretty big deal." "too?" "that would be..." "That would be very different." "Wendy." "A thing we'd potentially have to deal with the rest of our lives." "all right?" " Why not?" " Not yet." "gentle little boy." "please." "Quiet." " He makes his mother Mother's Day cards out of construction paper." "but he's a... can he not?" "right?" "Every once in a while?" "my God." "What?" "What?" " The Langmores." " What about them?" "I thought they were the ones with the dead animals." "So I went over there and I threw a possum on their roof." "They're gonna think I'm fucking insane." "Marty." "it's this place." "It's this place!" "any kid." "Especially if..." "If what?" "What if it's genetic?" "you know my brother's history." "there's no way it's that." "This is a... a normal kid that is having some sort of adolescent death fixation." "That's... that's normal." "but what if he's that... beautiful kid who... one day goes and shoots up a high school?" "What then?" "uh..." "I grew up coming here with my dad." "though." " Uh-huh." "You got boats?" " Mm." "not anymore." "I'm more of a fly fisherman now." " You know any anglers around here?" " There's a few." "Not many. so..." "How much you talking?" "Uh... hundred bucks?" "Robert Powell." "Russ Langmore." "the pleasure's mine." "Am I in trouble?" "sweetie." "you're not in trouble." "Not at all." "Um..." "'Cause I didn't mean to do anything wrong or anything." "you know." "There's a lot... there's a lot going on." "uh... things can..." "It can be..." " Strange." " Yep." "especially when you go to a town where you don't know anybody except your own family." "It can be lonely." "So... um... did you kill those animals?" "What?" "Are you kidding?" "more like it." " I love animals." "I know." "That's why it seemed so strange." "Did you know that turkey vultures have a wingspan of over six feet?" "They feed on dead animals." "The carcasses give off a chemical that the vultures can smell over a mile away." "are you saying... that you're dragging dead animals here to the house so you can study vultures?" "if you cut their bellies a little bit... 35 miles an hour." "I was really careful to wash my hands afterwards." "good." "I was trying to tell you before about that... that great big house on Sunrise Beach on Mile 18?" "It's not the time to talk about this. - but can't you move money..." " It's not the time to talk about this." "come on!" " I've had a long day" " and I'm late for something." " It's a good idea!" "I know it." "You know it." "what's it for?" "Martin." "Extraneous shit." "All right." "What the fuck are you doing?" "You're clear what we talked about?" " Don't worry." "We got this." " Smoking stunts your growth." "I'll take a dull fucking blade and cut y'all." "ahh ♪" "I suffer long ♪" "♪ Through ill and woe ♪" "♪ Done so many wrong ♪" "♪ I don't even know ♪" "♪ 'Cause I can't change... ♪" "Report of shots fired at LicketySplitz Night Club." "All units proceed with caution." "Turn the music off!" "get off the stage!" "Shots fired?" "What the fuck?" "Who the hell said shots fired?" "There were no goddamn shots fired." "I wanna see a fucking warrant." "Where the fuck are you going?" "What?" "What is this?" "up." "Back." "Shut the fuck up." "son?" "let's see some IDs." "I want my fucking lawyer." "Somebody call my lawyer right fucking now." "what happened?" "Are you crazy?" "but I can't get it open." "Why not?" "You really wanna know the ins and outs of a fucking Trako 5700 floor safe?" "I don't." "I want you to break into the safe and get me what's inside." "I can't." "I just..." "I gotta get out." "Wait a second." "wait." " How big is that safe?" " I don't know." "Like the size of a microwave?" "Go around to the back door and meet me there in five minutes." "I can't." "I..." " Just go." "Five minutes." "Wait for me." "I'll be right there." "did you even have a fucking plan?" "A stethoscope or a bobby pin at least?" "Jesus Christ." "What the fuck did you trick me into?" "25% of some worthless shit?" "please?" "I'll be sent away for years." "For what?" " Did you hear me?" " Just shine the fucking light." " Give me the light." " Stupid ass." "hang on." "This is good." "This is..." "This is good." "What is it?" "This is good." "That's very good." "So I get to this beautiful running stream." "smooth bottom." "right?" " Uh-huh." "So I open my fly box." "It's not my fly box." "And it's empty." "What'd you do?" "it's early June." "I improvised." "I lean down." "right?" "Black socks with a red stripe." "So I start pulling on these socks." "little bit of the red and then I start wrapping it around the hook." "it looks like..." "It looks like a bloody fucking spider that somebody stomped on or something." "What the fuck." "And? in less than two hours." "Shit you not." "no such luck today." "no worries." "you know." "St. Louis?" "Chicago." " Uh-huh." " Mm-hmm." "What do you do in Chicago?" "Retired Marine." "I got my pension before I got shot." "Hallelujah." "but he was too much of a pussy." "He ended up Navy." "Always complaining." "Took it out on us." "He fucking hated the service." "so did I." "you know?" "It's suffocating." "And I just got out of a relationship with a freaking lunatic." "shit." " Yeah." "not catching any fish is fucking paradise." " Yeah?" " Yeah." "your ex..." "She hot at least?" "Not she." "He." "Don't worry." "I only fuck guys that wanna get fucked." "There you go." "Good morning." "How did everybody sleep?" "thanks." "Mm-hmm." "huh?" "very well." "Look at this." "thank you." "you all right?" "don't you?" "What does that mean? - a couple weeks ago..." " We're not criminals." " To ask about the shit that went down." " What are you talking about?" "And you threw a dead animal at somebody's house?" "that was supposed to be a private conversation. right?" "But are either of you honest?" "Ever? - pretending everything's fine..." " That's enough." "last night you said you think Jonah might shoot up a school?" " We were very concerned." " Very worried." " Jonah had an explanation..." " Did you say it or not?" " Just tell the truth." " You think I'd shoot up a school?" "sweetheart." "It's just..." "Something you said." "Right." "Who said it?" "You or dad?" "don't you?" "I don't." "Why should I believe anything you say when you've been lying to me my entire life?" "no driver's license." "okay?" " No." "Actually... you're right." "Wendy!" "Wendy!" "it's really small." "It reminds me of my hometown." "There is a complete lack of decent pizza." "get this..." "It's at the Piggly Wiggly." "it is hot." "it is hot." "It's not even July yet." "And it's... it's really quiet." "Which... can either be very calming or it can drive you batshit crazy." "Anyway..." "I..." "I..." "I know this is insane... but I just don't know who else to talk to." "I just wanted to hear your voice." "Bye." "Thank you." "The fuck are you doing here?" "I've come to buy your strip club." "Your titty bar." "why?" "Because I offered to post your bail. but five times." "Um... 000." "And you think you can steal my fucking club by getting me tossed in jail?" "I'm not stealing." "I'm buying." "I ain't selling." "Guard!" "I'm done here. and you noticed that your accounts were offline... did you stop to wonder why?" "Never mind." "but a few weeks ago I was in your club and I was talking to a few people that you employ and I found out that you like to vacation in Panama." "Why Panama?" "Why not Mexico or Belize?" "Unless it had something to do with the fact that Panama is a hub for money laundering." "I want my fucking lawyer!" "You want the Panamanian lawyer?" "The one that sets up the shell companies for you to launder your money through your club?" "what are the odds that we've both done considerable time in Panama?" "at least." "What are the odds that we both recognize the value of the legal community in that country?" "I'll bet you." "But what are the odds that we would both be drawn to the work of the contracts lawyers at the law firm of Machado Philipo?" "Those odds are very long." "Yeah?" " I ain't fucking talking to you." " It's okay." "You can just listen." "'Cause I'm just..." "I'm thinking out loud about... that makes it possible to move money around without countries being able to track it." "I'm just..." "I'm fascinated by it." "What has me thoroughly taken is how a man can own and operate a company... is perfectly undetectable." "Think about that." "How's that possible? do you ever even own the company?" "isn't it? of that company's bearer shares." "Yeah?" "The piece of paper?" "The deed to his empire?" "wouldn't it?" "And if he was in possession of that piece of paper... where do you think he'd keep it?" "You think he'd put it in a safe?" "In a manila envelope... in the false bottom of that safe?" "I don't go to church and I don't consider myself a Christian." "but I do like to think that I follow a certain code." "even though I now am in possession of that little piece of paper..." "I'm not gonna take your club." "I'm gonna buy it." "And as I said..." "I'm able to make you a very fair offer." "So..." "One seventy-five?" "and... and I appreciate your patience." "I..." "I won't take much of your time." "I just wanted to simply introduce myself." "I'm the proud owner of this gentlemen's club." "I'm not gonna stand up here and disparage your former boss." "You all know that this club was breaking laws." "the one thing that I... you all have rights." "You have the right to self-esteem." " That's right." " The right to self-respect. myself included." " Yeah." " Yeah?" "I'm just... things are changing around here." "All for the better." "in short... none of you are... are ever gonna have to give another blowjob again." "How the hell do you expect us to make a living then?" "Mm-hmm." "no." "I can pull up your driveway." "I've got plenty of gas." "how about tomorrow?" "I'm busy tomorrow." "how about the day after that?" " I gotta check." "Thanks." " Mm-hmm." "Whoa." "What in the hell is that?" "Bobcats." "Uh..." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Hey." "I'm Robert." "don't you work at the Blue Cat?" "man." "think about the day after tomorrow." "I can pay you more." "I..." "I gotta check." "Okay." "See you." "Check what?" "Turning down money ain't like you." "Why you turning down money?" "Money for what?" "Boyd." "He's a fucking fag." "Okay." "Here's your seven grand." "That's 25% of last night's take at the club." "huh?" " Don't act like this is a fucking gift." "Thank you"?" "Those words?" "In your life?" "I fucking earned this." "I'll take that as a no." "Thank you." " I see a man who could use a beer." " Ugh." "You see correctly." "I've got some good news and some bad news." "Um... start with the good news. so I'm gonna be out of your hair for a little bit." "uh... in a little bit after which you'll likely be 50 bucks lighter." "I will be elsewhere." "A little local tradition. she's getting her fuck of the week." "Sunday nights I go down to the Rusty Hull and drink some tequila." "Minnie Riperton comes on that jukebox." "Some young local thing gets me to slow dance." "he's gonna slip his hand down the back of my jeans." "And if he is cute..." "I'll let him." "hey." " Hey." " What'll you have?" "okay." "go!" "go!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "three... go!" " Yep." "Told ya..." "Ha!" "Gotcha!" "go!" "it's Gary Silverberg." "Please leave a detailed message after the beep." "I've been trying to tell you since yesterday about that half-built house on Sunrise Beach." "Mm-hmm." "What about it?" "I used the money from the Chicago house and I bought it." "but I'm pretty sure you can inflate construction costs and launder money through it." "I don't give a shit if you like it or not." "'Cause I feel pretty good about it." "and I did it for our family." "What'd you do today... for our family?" "Bought a strip club." " Name." " Bobby Dean for Jacob." "Darlene?" "please?" "Some lemonade?" "Thank you." "Hello?" "Wendy" on my father's phone." "I think you knew him." "I..." "I'm sure you did." "and I was wondering if you maybe had any information." "How'd they treat you down there?" "you know..." "You speak to Sheriff Nix?" " My lawyer did." " What'd he say?" "I guess." "This Marty Byrde..." " I don't know what to tell you about him." " Financial planner." "Comes from Chicago." "Appears in Lake Ozark." "Sounds like something from a newspaper headline." "I'll work it out." "What else do you know about him?" "Besides he washes money?" "How'd he come to know that's what you were doing?" " That's just it." "I..." " Sprung a leak?" "but... who?" "That's what I'm asking." "Darlene!" "please. talking about the Garden of Eden." "drinking whiskey as he walks... believes that Adam and Eve had every right to take that apple... if God were kind... why would he forbid them from partaking in that delicious fruit?" "The hillbilly listens and nods." "Then the redneck finishes the bottle and throws it onto the path." "When the hillbilly frowns... lest ye be judged. you sin twice." "Whereupon God smites the redneck dead." "Hillbilly... forever silent and diligent... digs the redneck's grave... and walks on." "That eve... he witnesses the most beautiful sunset ever 'fore made." "Ah." " Oh!" "Oh!" " Oh." "I am sorry." "Fucking redneck." " What are you doing?" " You're supposed to be in bed." "Is this how you do it?" "It's part of it." "Could you explain all of it?" "Okay." "Money Laundering 101." "Let's start with this." "Let's say you come across a suitcase with five million bucks in it." "What would you buy?" "A sports car?" "A yacht?" "A mansion?" "the IRS won't let you buy anything of value... you got satin shoes ♪" "you got plastic boots ♪" "♪ Y'all got cocaine eyes ♪" "now ♪" "♪ Can't you hear me knockin' On your window ♪" "♪ Can't you hear me knockin' On your door ♪" "♪ Can't you hear me knockin' Down your dirty street ♪" "♪ Yeah ♪ baby ♪" "♪ Ain't no stranger ♪ baby ♪" "♪ Ain't no stranger ♪ baby ♪" "♪ Ain't no stranger ♪" "♪ Can't you hear me knockin' ♪" "♪ Are you safe asleep?" "♪" "♪ Can't you hear me knockin' ♪ now ♪" "♪ Can't you hear me knockin' ♪ throw me down the keys ♪ now ♪" "♪ Hear me ringing Big bell tolls ♪" "♪ Hear me singing soft and low ♪" "♪ I've been begging on my knees ♪ please ♪" "♪ Hear me prowling' ♪" "♪ I'm gonna take you down ♪" "♪ Hear me growling' ♪ now ♪" " ♪ Hear me howlin' ♪ - ♪ And all ♪" "♪ I'm all around your street now ♪" " ♪ Hear me knockin' ♪ - ♪ And all ♪" "♪ I'm all around your town ♪"