"Bobby, where have you been?" "Whiskey, whiskey." "You want some whiskey?" "No, champagne." "Champagne?" "Yeah." "Bob." "My brother wants to know have you ever tried liquid MDMA?" "Liquid MDMA?" "No." "Tehran is the world capital." "Oh, yeah?" "Oh, yeah." "You've got a...friend there." "How's the kid?" "He's fine." "He's...." "He's fine." "Arash, when you wanna do this?" "After prayer." "Okay." "You said they were both for you." "What do you care?" "Not a move!" "Okay." "Okay." "I was looking for the bathroom." "Not a word." "Shut up!" "Okay." "You don't speak Farsi, do you, you son of a goat?" "Georgetown Washington, DC" "Mr. Whiting, I'm 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 a 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've been scrutinizing exactly these types of deals so if there's something to find I expect you to get it before they do." "And come straight to me." "Bennett." "Sir?" "At my firm, I have a flock of sheep who think they're lions." "Maybe you're a lion everyone thinks is a sheep." "No, I wanna talk about the Gulf, and how a goddamn emir" "Connex Oil Houston, Texas" "What is an emir anyway?" "King, it's a king." "A king." "Well, how some Podunk king tossed you out on your ass." "Every company in the world wanted into Kazakhstan into the Tengiz, but Killen got it." "And then Connex wanted Killen, and here we are." "I made investments." "Investments that'll bear fruit for this company." "Hell, Tommy, we've all got the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act..." "I got a little copy of it taped to the wall of my head." "Right here." "Thanks, Jimmy." "We appreciate hearing your point of view." "However, a U.S. Attorney is looking into your relationships in Kazakhstan and the U.S. government is holding off on approval of our merger." "So Mr. Janus and I have brought Connex's Washington counsel, Sydney Hewitt down here to talk about our strategy for the next 30 days." "Sydney?" "In a way, I feel like Switzerland." "I'd like to remind everybody in this room they've signed confidentiality agreements." "Allow me to introduce my associate, Bennett Holiday who will be" " How shall I put it?" "building consensus day-to-day." "Good morning." "You've just visited what someday soon could be the most profitable corporation in America." "Provided the government approves the merger." "Provided we don't start running automobiles on water." "And provided there's still chaos in the Middle East." "Now the job is, find the problem, fix the problem." "And if you do not find a problem, then there is no problem." "And when the government approves this merger it's gonna buy a lot of houses in the Vineyard." "Maybe even yours." "Geneva, Switzerland" "Cheerios again?" "Max!" "Max!" "Hey, man." "Let's not read at the table, okay?" "Put this hand here." "Block me." "Sweetie, sweetie." "Mommy?" "I want bacon." "Yeah?" "You have bacon." "l want real bacon." "You have real bacon, only it's made from soy beans." "I want pig bacon." "I want pig bacon too." "Don't say it." "l'll try it if you try it." "l don't know if I can bite this." "lt's crunchy." "How'd you do that?" "lt's kind of hard to cut." "lt's pretty bad." "You be quiet." "A merger between two U.S. oil companies is taking place in Houston." "The new company, Connex-Killen Corporation will become the fifth largest oil and gas company in the world." "The move affects 37,000 workers in 1 60 countries and, with revenues larger than the gross domestic product 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 the best products to the consumer at the lowest possible prices." "LELAND JANUS CEO, CONNEX oil" "It's a merger of necessity for Connex, Rebecca who wants Killen's fields in Kazakhstan, after gas blocks they pursued in the Gulf were awarded to a Chinese consortium." "Producer nations continue to look toward developing markets in Asia which is having a powerful effect on crude prices." "There's at least 1 0 to 1 2 dollars of instability premium." "You have protests in Iran, the threat of more strikes in Venezuela and the Turks still making noise about Russian crude through the Bosphorus." "All right, thanks for having me, Rebecca." "I'm playing." "That's my job, playing." "Yeah, well, that's a very, very good job for you to have." "Tell Daddy you love him." "I love you, Daddy." "Hey." "The emir's summer party, Marbella, this weekend." "Any interest?" "Well, I can't. I got, you know...." "Guy could be huge for the company, Bryan." "It's Maxie's birthday this weekend, so-- So we have Saturday" "Hey, Bryan, I just need your help on this-- The emir's party. I'll take that." "Through finagling, we have an audience with the emir." "He wrote the strategy, and he's not slick." "I'll bet you a thousand he can't sell it." "I didn't say I could go." "Dollars or Swiss francs?" "Dollars." "Fine." "Come on." "Take the children with you." "The beach, summer, Marbella." "Max'll love it." "Can I do that?" "Sure you can." "Besides, they love children." "John D. Rockefeller." "Founded the University of Chicago." "Come on." "That's fine." "You're a good song leader, Mr. Rockefeller." "The Persian Gulf" "The Connex/ Al-Salwa facility is under new ownership and your services are no longer needed." "What did he say?" "I can't hear." "He's telling us to scram." ""Scram"?" "What do you mean, "scram"?" "Your immigration permit through this company is no longer valid." "You must report to the Department of lmmigration within two weeks or you may be deported." "The Chinese are smart people, but such bad drivers." "They should not be allowed even to wash cars." "When I was your age, in Pakistan, there was always in the distance...." "Snow-covered mountains." "Yes, I know, Papa." "That's right." "Three hours away, but right there across the entire sky like you could reach out and touch them." "Snow-covered mountains." "As soon as we can we'll get a house and bring your mother here." "I promise." "Bob's freaking out about this other missile." ""Where's the missile?" "Who has it?" He wrote a memo." "Central Intelligence Agency Langley, Virginia l just finished convincing Brit and French intel we had nothing to do with the Amiri job." "What do we say to them now?" ""Well, something's missing."" "He's gotta stop this." "He's gotta stop with the memos." "Okay." "Here's something." "You put him up for promotion." "He's due." "He's a good man." "He saved our ass in Beirut in '85." "That's great." "Terry likes him." "We'll get him an audition downtown." "You get him an audition downtown." "They're going crazy about Iran now." "Bob's an expert." "Speaks Farsi, for chrissake." "Bob has never had a desk job." "He's never done 9 to 5, never been on committee." "He's gotta show up to work every day." "He's gotta stay on message." "Absolutely." "I'll prep him." "In fact, we just pulled one of our officers out." "I took the initiative to ask him to come down here." "He infiltrated Hezbollah in Beirut in the '80s, won himself some nice medals." "We're thinking about giving him a station." "Beirut in the '80s, is that a résumé-builder?" "Don't chomp down on any bait." "We're fine." "Iran is fine." "Fine." "And our analysis seems to be on the mark." "We're getting good satellite coverage." "We're reprogramming resources into lran" "Thank you for coming." "Welcome back and forgive me if I wade in but forgetting for a second your bureaucratic checklist I'm trying to get undigested information." "Well, to the best of our ability-- -India is now our ally." "Russia is 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 U.S." "Persians do not want to roll back the clock to the eighth century." "I see students marching in the streets." "I hear Khatami making the right sounds." "And what I'd like to know is, if we keep embargoing them on energy then someday soon, are we gonna have a nice, secular pro-Western, pro-business government?" "It's possible. lt's complicated." "Of course it is." "Thank you for your time." "They let young people march in the street." "Next day, they shut down 50 newspapers." "Put a few satellite dishes up on the roofs, let them have My Two Dads." "That doesn't mean 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 United States." "These gentlemen are with the cli." "The Committee for the Liberation of Iran, Mr. Barnes." "Princeton, New Jersey" "Maybe you'll get made ambassador to somewhere cool." "Like France or Italy or Ghana." "It's not beyond the realm of possibility, is it?" "How's your mom?" "Great." "She's great." "So I know it's still a year away but I'll have to have a car, a decent car." "Nothing too fancy, but it has to run so that I can get into Boston and New York." "They have a great crew." "That's what they told me." "I said, "Crew of what?" And they said, "Rowing."" "So if I wanna row, it'd be kind of fun." "Thank you." "Robby, listen." "I live in Maryland which means that you have residency in Maryland." "For the University of Maryland." "I'm sorry, can I steal this from you?" "Thank you so much." "I just want a normal senior year, Dad." "I want a normal house." "I want Cinemax and prom." "You know what prom is like in Pakistan?" "Prom sucks in Pakistan." "It's complicated, you know." "I may have really screwed up at work." "How?" "I was supposed to keep my mouth shut and I didn't." "What does Mom do, again, that we have to live in Islamabad?" "She's a secretary." "Secretary." "Robby." "Both of my parents are professional liars." "Hey." "Did you guys just get a party?" "I do too." "This is a party not for you." "Marbella, Spain" "It is my pleasure to personally welcome each of you..." "All right, guys." "...to the Casa de las Palmas our oasis of palms in the south of Spain." "Does somebody live here?" "Yeah, in the summertime." "I hope everyone is having a wonderful day and taking time from your hectic lives to relax with friends and family whether it is enjoying the flowers in our bountiful gardens or sampling the myriad delicacies prepared by chefs from our prosperous home." "Please eat and socialize and enjoy your time with us." "I am happy to welcome the Chinese to my country." "My father welcomes the Chinese to our country." "Of course." "Please." "Right there." "Thank you." "Arabs are very family-oriented, as a people." "is that racist?" "Sure." "lt is?" "A little." "Well, no. I mean, I guess if what you're saying is positive." "You have to go in." "Don't." "Let him work it out on his own." "It's important for his autonomy." "All right!" "An announcement." "If man is made in God's image then God is deeply messed up." "You afraid?" "Afraid of the buzz?" "I'm afraid of your breath." "Hakim hasn't had any." "And he wears jewelry." "He thinks that little bracelet's gonna get him girls." "Hakim!" "Hakim!" "Hakim!" "Hakim!" "I want to talk to your uncle about work." "There isn't any work." "Farooq!" "You said you'd introduce me." "Don't be such a pest." "Hakim!" "Hakim!" "Are you here to see the emir?" "Yeah." "Me too." "What do you do?" "I'm a partner in a derivatives-trading company in Geneva." "Energy?" "Yeah." "Right." "Bryan Woodman?" "Yes." "Good evening." "Hi." "Hi, Bryan Woodman." "We regret that His Highness will be unable to see you." "However, we are authorized to hear your proposition on his behalf." "Oh, okay." "What, here?" "Now?" "Okay." "Well...." "Okay." "Our position is that the real worry for you guys is another year of record pricing." "There are no more elephant fields, not even in natural gas and as structural alternatives become more fully realized you'll need new strategies to maximize every penny of your existing resources particularly in a climate of falling prices." "And that's what, you know, our firm is prepared to help problem-solve with you the, you know, foreseeable and unforeseeable problems you encounter." "This house is a Genius-Home." "One of my sons had it wired by experts from the United States." "Watch." "Your Highness, that is incredible." "Prince Nasir, isn't that amazing?" "Fascinating." "The Chinese take the trouble to learn Arabic." "Look, it's getting dark." "Better turn on the pool lights." "Send a fool on a fool's errand." "Moussa, come fix this remote control!" "Are you not talking?" "Come on, sweetheart." "Just a little bit, okay?" "You're the shark, and you try to tag us as we swim across." "All right?" "You jump in, count "one, two, three"  then we try to get to the other side." "All right?" "Okay." "Okay." "Come on." "Come on, go." "Go." "Yeah." "Okay." "Come on, jump in." "Come on." "Come on." "Jump in!" "Sissy!" "Just jump, come on!" "Max?" "Max!" "Oh, my God!" "Cut the power!" "Cut the power!" "Max!" "Max!" "Let go!" "Somebody cut the power!" "Max!" "Come on." "Come on." "That's my son!" "Oh, my God." "Get out of my way!" "Okay." "Oh, my God!" "Take him!" "Take him!" "Take him out." "Take him this way." "Take him out." "Put him down." "Down, down." "Sweetie?" "Someone get a doctor, doctor, doctor!" "He's not breathing." "He's not breathing." "Get a doctor!" "ls anybody a doctor?" "Do something!" "Help us!" "I hear phrases thrown around like "the corrupting influence of money"..." "Washington, DC ...or "the evil influence of dollars in politics " when more money was spent on the syndication rights to the Seinfeld television program than on the whole of the last presidential election." "Last election cycle, I spent $300,000." "I have pictures of myself with the president that I use all over the world." "I didn't make this coffee for you." "People don't know Danny Dalton, but they know the president of the United States and they see that I know the president of the United States." "In a free society..." "Making it for me." "...the one written into law..." "You..." "...it's the people, individually..." "..." "I'm making oatmeal." "...and organized into committees..." "Then you sleep." "...not the U.S. government, who decide the issues...." "You look like shit." "...of a political campaign." "In our country, we don't stuff dollars into ballot boxes." "What we do..." "You working?" "...is turn money into votes." "l had trouble at work." "The ability of a candidate...." "There's beer in my fridge, so you don't die of the DTs." "Please don't smoke in my house." "meaning, not so loosely translated, that money is speech." "And, last time I heard, speech in the United States of America is protected." "You can't limit my advocacy just because it works." "I have a sovereign, inalienable right to petition my government." "And why is it some dirty little secret that it's in America's interest to do business overseas?" "Two of my wife's kids were deported from this country." "You know why?" "Because they didn't have work." "You don't have to pay me." "Give me something to do." "Then decide." "I'm sorry. I already have a long list for that job too." "And if you want to work in this country learn the language." "Learn Arabic!" "Foreign workers' compound The Persian Gulf" "Why are they running?" "Maybe the small one..." "They gave us french fries at the Islamic school." "Close the door, Papa." "His sister has a thing for you." "His sister has a big ass." "Of course, at the Islamic school you don't have to worry about that." "And lamb." "We got skewers of lamb." "I like lamb." "Have your identification card ready." "No talking in line." "Have your identification card ready." "No talking in line." "I can't remember it this hot." "Old man, you don't want to talk here." "Stop talking." "Tough guy." "What's your name?" "What's your name?" "!" "Johnny." "Mommy!" "Mommy!" "Hey, hey, hey." "Mommy." "Come here, bear." "Come here." "You okay?" "I wanna look out the window." "You wanna look out the window?" "Come on." "I spy a bird." "Well, if on Monday, Iran refuses the IAEA inspectors you can look to crude prices to spike yet again." "Right." "Well, it's not exactly a secret that Iran will refuse snap inspections." "Okay, Rebecca." "Thank you." "Go home." "It was a stupid fucking question, Henry." "The prince's man called again." "I'm just telling him." "U.S. Department of Justice Washington, DC" "Hey, how bad is it?" "When a Volvo dealer says that...." "Okay." "You're honorable, decent guys." "Right." "My wife and our narrow driveway...." "How the hell are you?" "Well, you know, can't complain." "That's not good, kiddo." "That's suffering quietly." "Married?" "Kids?" "There is no way a company like Killen pulled off a deal like this without paying somebody off." "Why don't you tell me what you have so I can respond." "I used to think there was something wrong here." "Now I know there's 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 gotta be the play here, right?" "Bennett Holiday." "Sydney Hewitt's new boy." "How many of those have I seen?" "Six?" "Seven?" "They're all gone." "He's still Sydney-fucking-Hewitt." "Fourteen-1 1 ." "Match point." "I think they've got someone inside the deal." "Someone they can squeeze." "You mean like an informant?" "Yes, sir, like an informant." "Just my opinion, based on their overconfidence." "Match point." "Thank you." "You know, if people in oil deals talked to U.S. Attorneys, there'd be no oil business." "Dean." "Bennett Holiday, you know Dean Whiting, founding partner of our firm." "Good to see you, sir." "How are you?" "We've been discussing the Connex-Killen merger situation." "Will they get approval?" "Hell of a large company if they do." "I mean, client." "Well, the Tengiz field, Killen's largest asset is being looked into pretty heavily by the U.S. Attorney's office." "Well, Bennett, as they say in the Bible:" ""There are many, many ways to light Europe."" "Yeah, well, there's an arrow on the ceiling pointing towards Mecca." "The Binladin Group air-conditioned Mecca." "It was a huge project." "They made billions and billions." "All the women are dressed in black from head to toe walking 5 feet behind the men." "It's 1 25." "Literally, 1 25 and humid." "When I walked out of the airport, it was like a wall fell on me." "The men are all wearing white sheets." "And they're spotless white sheets." "I don't really understand that." "They kind of say:" ""It's hot and I don't have to work. "" "I don't understand how you could do anything in that." "I'd like to see these guys play baseball." "Are you okay?" "You sound strange." "No, I'm fine." "They will try to disguise the difference to make Muslims who speak about religion appear to be fanatics or backward people." "They will tell us the dispute is over economic resources or military domination." "If we believe that, we play right into their hands with only ourselves to blame." "It is not possible to bridge the divide between human nature and modern life through free trade." "lmpossible." "The divine and the worldly are but a single concept." "The Koran." "No separation of religion and state." "The Koran." "Instead of kings legislating and slaves obeying the Koran." "The pain of modern life cannot be cured by deregulation privatization economic reform or lower taxes." "The pain of living in the modern world will never be solved by a liberal society." "Liberal societies have failed." "Christian theology has failed." "The West has failed." "This was a birthday and graduation present a couple years ago." "Cap d'Antibes, France" "What happened was, I was about to graduate from Oxford and my mother had a horse in the Royal Ascot race, right?" "The horse won that same day that I was graduating." "And my trust fund matured." "So that tops any birthday present that any of you have bought for me tonight." "Capitalism cannot exist without waste." "We should write thank-you notes to Mr. Whiting and the U.S.A for producing one-quarter of the world's garbage and one-quarter of the demand." "You're certainly welcome." "Our pleasure, really." "Prince is there anything that we can do for you?" "Americans are always happy to drill holes in other people's countries." "I've heard of you, Mr. Whiting." "The cat's-paw of the Saudi princes." "I know your brother, the foreign minister." "He's very bright." "I know your father too." "He threw the second creepiest party I've ever been to in Washington." "And as far as I can see you could probably use a bit of the cat's-paw yourself." "Second-born son, so beaten down by his family he can't even tell me what he wants when he's asked straight-out." "A grown-up baby who's afraid of his brother and maybe wants to be king?" "Maybe?" "Well, prince are you a king?" "Can you tell me what you want?" "All right, what's next?" "The lethal finding on Nasir came through." "That was quick." "You have a timetable?" "He'll be in Beirut next week." "We could do it there." "That's good." "Anybody around?" "Actually, yes." "I made contact with Mussawi." "He'd be happy to work with whoever we send." "I was thinking it would be good for Bob." "I'll 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 1 920s 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 that at current levels of production...." "Welcome, Bob." "Hi." "Good news. I think we've got something for you, something you'll like that utilizes your specific skill set." "You know this guy?" "Prince Nasir Al-Subaai." "His money's in a lot of dark corners paying for weapons that could be used against the U.S.A." "Paperwork on polygraphs." "Wire transfers to Qaeda fronts." "Letters instructing his water ministry to employ Mohammed Sheik Agiza the guy who has your missile." "He's traveling to Beirut." "You have experience in Beirut." "It's a great city." "This is a bad guy." "And, who knows, maybe you'll find your blue-eyed Egyptian." "l sent you a report on" "Sorry, I gotta get going." "My daughter's got a soccer game." "Big one." "Did you see my missile report?" "I reset the guidance to blow 1 0 feet" "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 you get any desk you want." "Sheik Hamad has not yet made a 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." "Your generosity is bigger than a mountain that shades us from the burning sun." "My house has grown too small for my family." "If we had more land then my son could build his own house." "My father has ordered the Marbella estate to be razed." "There'll be a park." "We're so sorry for your loss." "Six more North Field blocks are being developed." "We'd like to offer your firm the rights." "Six blocks?" "Which phase?" "Third phase." "Okay, so we'd be in the stream for 1 0 one-hundredths of a cent." "So $ 75 million." "Seventy" " Great." "That's great." "How much for my other kid?" "You know, if I were your economic adviser, I'd tell you that that's not the stupidest thing, financially, you've done but probably just the dumbest thing you'll do today." "Probably." "But why would you need an economic adviser?" "Years ago, you had the highest GNP in the world." "Today, you're tied with Albania." "So good work." "Your second biggest export is secondhand goods followed closely by dates, for which you lose 5 cents a pound." "You know what the business world thinks of you?" "We think 1 00 years ago, you were living in tents, chopping each other's heads off and that's exactly where you'll be in another 1 00." "So, yes, on behalf of my firm, I accept your money." "Thank you." "Fine. I'll have the funds transferred to your firm immediately." "Great." "And I'll give you 1 00 million for the other kid." "So now you're my economic adviser why don't you tell me something I don't already know." "All right." "You want an idea?" "Here's an idea." "There's the Eurasian triangle." "Your kingdom is here. Iran is there." "You've been selling your oil sticking it on ships and watching as it sails away around Africa to there." "Pretend for a second that this is excess Iranian pipeline capacity." "That's your route." "Right there." "Overland, through Iran." "Hook up with these pipes." "Commoditize it, control it take it to the doorstep of every home in Europe." "I just doubled your profit." "I think that's a pretty good idea." "777 Ranch Hondo, Texas" "My granddaddy 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 I'll probably ruin my grandkids." "You wearing a wire, Bennett?" "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."" "l was on the other side of the Tengiz deal." ""The other side"?" "El Presidente Nazarbayev's best pal in the whole world." "She's a beautiful field, the Tengiz." "Goddamn, is she a beautiful field." "What is it? "Irish...."" "Rockville, Maryland" ""The Irish pray on their knees, the Scots prey on their neighbors."" "How's Margaret?" "You guys divorced yet?" "We're not getting divorced." "l don't think, in our line of work there's two people with your security clearances who have made a marriage work." "I'm telling you, Bobby, my boy number three." "That's the charm." "That's the number, huh?" "Yeah." "I like consulting." "No, I love it." "Love it." "And I'll say this for it:" "Private business is efficient." "There, I've said it." "Fucking cliché." "And the ClA is, like, what, a 30-billion-a-year business so anybody who wants to sell anything, a pencil, a computer they gotta interface through a security clearance." "Don't give me shit." "I got two kids in college, and we're doing our kitchen." "Stan, I got a chance to go back to Beirut." "I wanna go back." "is it safe for me?" "Are we talking about with your wife or with the wackos?" "Clear it with Hezbollah." "Hezbollah-controlled suburb Beirut, Lebanon" "Said Hashimi." "Said Hashimi." "Said Hashimi." "I'm Canadian. lt's okay." "Canadian." "Said Hashimi." "It's okay. lt's okay. lt's okay." "It's okay." "I have a good feeling about American people, Bob." "A good people." "There are 1 0 million Muslims in the U.S." "Thank you for this audience." "I have a business proposal for Mussawi, one that benefits everyone." "Mussawi is an energetic young man." "Your Arabic is very good." "I thought it would be prudent to say that I have no interest in Hezbollah." "This is business and it doesn't concern Hezbollah." "If what you say is true consider yourself welcome in Lebanon." "They can lift 1 0 times their weight, and jump 20 times their height." "But I still don't understand...." "The spider is a symbol of the sin of man." "He bites the finger of Peter Parker who is now half dark and half light." "A real spider captures, stings and immobilizes then watches as the prey takes days to die." "They'd never show that." "Are we in trouble?" "Peace be upon you, boys." "No, it's not a problem." "Look around you at your brothers united by faith in God and submission to his law." "We're all brothers." "We're one family." "Wasim is still a virgin." "That is good." "Fornication is a serious crime." "I'm a virgin too." "That is good as well." ""Abstain from sex out of wedlock." "It is an attack on honor and shows contempt for sanctity."" "God has spoken the truth." "Let us pray together." "Rumors of Bob, but never Bob." "It is "Bob," right?" "What is it you tell people you do these days, Bob?" "Between State Department and Defense." "It's just me, buddy." "As requested." "I'm gonna get some information out, Jimmy." "My name is Mussawi." "Okay, Jimmy." "He's traveling in Beirut." "It's dangerous to travel." "He'll disappear." "Take him from his hotel, drug him, put him in the front of a car and run a truck into him at 50 miles an hour." "It's good to have you back in town, Bob." "We begin the process of empowering a new generation of Arabs...." "Beirut." "No, no." "He invited me to come with him." "I think he thinks he's some kind of reformer or something." "Anyway, he's got a nice private plane." "Hold on, Vincent." "Hey." "Beirut?" "It's great. lt's like the.... lt's like the Paris of the Middle East." "Yeah, it's like-- lt's like winning the nit." "however, unlike Washington's Greater Middle East Initiative... lt's a bad" " Just never mind, never mind." "...we respect each country's right to move at its own pace." "Make room." "American?" "Canadian." "Don't see many Occidentals these days." "It's too bad." "Go, go, go." "This is November, '94." "Yeah." "Excellent, excellent." "Did you find the others?" "l couldn't." "Joe's looking for it." "He'll bring it out when he does." "Where is he?" "He's back there looking." "He'll bring them out." "Okay." "Thank you, Susan." "Hello?" "Yeah." "Who's this?" "Yeah." "Okay." "How you doing, sir?" "Somebody called me." "Bob." "What do you know about torture methods used by the Chinese on the Falun Gong?" "Method number one." "What's your guess?" "Water dungeon." "Did you guess water dungeon?" "Number two method?" "Number two, twisting arm and putting face in feces." "Not interested in two." "Number three." "Number three is called "pulling nails from fingers."" "What do you think, Bob?" "Number three sound good to you?" "The purpose is to get the monks or whatever to recant their beliefs." "What if I had to get you to recant?" "That'd be pretty difficult, right?" "Because if you have no beliefs to recant, then what?" "Well, then, you're fucked is what." "Bob." "You're gonna give me the names of every person that's taken money from you." "Oh, that is disgusting." "Come on, Jimmy, you're not a Koran-thumper." "My name is Mussawi." "You fucking fuck, fucking fuck, stupid fuck!" "What the fuck?" "This is a war." "Fuck!" "You're a PO-fucking-W!" "Give me the fucking names!" "Fuck it." "I'm cutting his fucking head off." "I'm gonna cut your head off, Bob." "Said Hashimi is very angry with you, Mussawi." "Said Hashimi keeps his word." "You're a guest of Hezbollah too, Mussawi." "I'm going to show you something really cool." "American-made." "Good quality but nearly impossible to hit anything." "By shaping the charge this will send a blast of molten copper through 30 inches of steel." "Careful!" "It's very dangerous." "Jane." "We've just received a dispatch from Damascus, eight minutes old." "Mussawi's shopping a story that we sent Bob to Beirut to assassinate Prince Nasir." "We better go talk to Terry." "Can we get this guy?" "I mean now, real-time now." "Mussawi?" "l'll call you back." "The practical answer is no." "Not before he goes into another mosque or a newspaper and the story gains traction." "No." "He have Bob's name?" "Not his real name." "Mussawi's shopping photos of them doing the deal, long lens." "Photos of Bob being held." "We're lucky this guy is alive." "The whole contact was a setup." "Mussawi now apparently works with Iran." "First he tortures our guy, then he peddles the ClA 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 9/1 1 , some people got leeway, let their emotions get the best of them." "These are complex times." "There's already an active investigation into Bob's activities in" " Help me out here." "Tehran, the Amiri brothers job." "We're finding out who 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." "Send me everything." "Walter Reed Hospital Washington, DC" "You first established contact with the Amiri brothers in 1 998?" "Yeah." "You met them at a party in France?" "Yes." "A party given by Reza Reyhani?" "Reza, yes." "Were you aware they were in illegal arms trade?" "Of course I was aware." "That's why I went." "Were you aware these two men were Iranian intelligence officers?" "What do you think?" "This is a diplomatic incident." "Two men have been murdered." "We've been tasked with the damage assessment." "We'll need you to turn your passport over to us." "Passports." "Hey." "Hey, I found this." "Wire transfer." "In Russian. I don't speak Russian." "Get it translated." "Do you speak Russian?" "These are dead." "Oh, thanks." "What are these?" "Orphans." "You know, things that don't make any sense." "That one's pretty interesting." "The Lily School." "It's a boarding school in Switzerland." "Paid for by wire transfer." "The meeting's already started." "You're not on the list." "This is not an open function." "You're not wearing a badge." "You don't have a wristband." "This is a private gathering." "Take this to Sydney Hewitt." "They are pushing for the segregation of universities." "Please." "And the banning of the wearing of colorful clothing." "But two-thirds of Iran's population is under 30." "How you doing?" "More than 60 percent of university students are women." "And those restrictions are like a small pebble in front of a massive tidal wave of reform." "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 of dignity in a nation at peace." "And America will help them." "Killen Oil, through Daniel Dalton and Petroika Energy Consultants created assetless shell companies owned by the heirs of Nurzan Detayev Republic of Kazakhstan's minister of Domestic Resources." "This was discussed at the Upstream Division meeting in January, 2003 in Sun Valley, Idaho." "I was at the meeting, but I don't focus on those details." "Wherein it was described that Killen bore all financial risk but Minister Detayev's children, while attending The Lily School in Switzerland were entitled to all of the profits." "Seventy 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 chrissake, Tommy." "We both got letters from the grand jury." "lt's not your own private pity party." "A good faith purchaser is in good faith only if they didn't know of the problems at the time of the purchase." "This is the oil business we're talking about?" "Lowliest little shareholder knows we deal with 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." "A one-line bill for "services rendered."" "The business of Whiting Sloan is not under discussion at this time." "Well, it ought to be." "Danny's a good man." "And he's a friend of mine." "A Mareva injunction?" "Some people, cousins of mine, actually, sued my father in the Commonwealth..." "Geneva, Switzerland ...alleging he broke an agreement to repay funds from the state." "It calls them "aggrieved royals." Aggrieved about what?" "That he tried to cut their allowances from 1 00,000 a month to 80?" "I want to see my father." "I'm sorry, Your Highness." "Your father is not feeling well." "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're up to, my brother and these American lawyers?" "Tell me what are they thinking?" "What are they thinking?" "What are they thinking?" "They're thinking that it's running out." "It's running out." "And 90 percent of what's left is in the Middle East." "Look at the progression." "Versailles, Suez, 1 973, Gulf War One, Gulf War Two." "This is a fight to the death." "So, what are they thinking? "Great."" "They're thinking, "Keep playing, keep buying yourself new toys." "Keep spending $50,000 a night on your hotel room." "But don't invest in your infrastructure." "Don't build a real economy."" "So that when you finally wake up, they will have sucked you dry and you will have squandered the greatest natural resource in history." "Come with me, please." "I studied at Oxford." "I have a Ph.D. 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 London and New York anyway?" "I'll put all of our energy up for competitive bidding." "I'll run pipe through Iran to Europe, like you proposed." "I'll ship to China." "Anything that achieves efficiency and maximizes profit." "Profit which I will then use to rebuild my country." "Great, that's exactly what you should do." "Exactly." "Except your president rings my father and says:" ""l've got unemployment in Texas, Kansas, Washington state."" "A phone call later, we're stealing out of our social programs in order to buy overpriced airplanes." "We owed the Americans, but we've repaid that debt." "I accepted a Chinese bid, the highest bid and suddenly I'm a terrorist." "I'm a godless communist." "Dean Whiting who represents not only these aggrieved royals and my brother but also Connex Oil they've been pressuring my father to invalidate the Chinese contract." "But they underestimate him." "This is about his legacy to his people." "I know it seems like people sitting in hotel rooms." "That's how they do business." "But we're-- We're talking world historical stage here." "I mean, with the" " With the delivery deals we could make in Europe transport through Iran." "This guy might be able to revolutionize not just his country, but the whole region." "As soon as his father keels over, this guy could be like Mossadegh in '52 in Iran." "The real democracy rising up organically." "If we can be a part of any of these countries getting a parliament, helping them find efficiency, showing" "You know, showing them how" "Stop it." "Stop it." "Julie, the little company that I started working for is now chief economic adviser to Prince Nasir." "Do you understand what that means?" "It'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 of your 6-year-old?" "Fuck you." "Fuck you." "I changed the diapers." "I put cream on rashes." "I took him to his checkups." "I cared about every fucking percentile." "I did everything right." "I did everything right." "We're going back to the States." "Good." "Riley?" "Sweetie, sweetie, be careful." "We're gonna go now, okay?" "You wanna say goodbye to your dad?" "You can see him later, okay?" "When I die I want the people who inherit my possessions to do the following." "One the people who prepare my body should be good Muslims so this will remind me of God and his forgiveness." "Two I don't want anyone to rip their clothes or slap their faces because this is an ignorant thing to do." "Three I don't want a pregnant woman to come and say goodbye to me because I don't approve it." "Four...." "Some trust-fund prosecutor got off message at Yale thinks he's gonna run this up the flagpole?" "Make a name for himself?" "Maybe get elected some two-bit congressman from nowhere with the result that China or Russia can suddenly start having, at our expense 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 regulation." "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 in the street." "Corruption is why we win." "How'd it go?" "Well, he's got kids, a wife." "He broke the law." "Mr. Janus himself wanted me to extend you an invitation to Oilman of the Year." "He's being honored so it should be a nice weekend." "Relax." "Catch yourself a massage." "Congratulations." "ls Jane in?" "She's in a meeting." "How about Fred?" "He's in a meeting." "Bennett, hey." "Come on, take a ride with me." "Do I have a choice, Don?" "Of course you do." "This is just a courtesy call." "I know you know about the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege." "I do, Don." "Very well." "Then 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." "That's quite a statement, Don." "One word:" "Dalton." "Danny Dalton?" "Defrauded the government of Kazakhstan of funds to which it was entitled." "Defrauded the people of Kazakhstan of the right to the honest services of their elected and appointed officials." "Seven years." "Does three, maybe two and a half..." "...on your recommendation." "Now, let me guess." "This was a solo act, without the knowledge of Connex or Killen Oil and Mr. Lee Janus or Jimmy Pope." "Dalton's a bit of a rogue, it's true." "And he'll have a nice little trust fund when he gets out." "Not so little, I imagine." "Look, Don, we can spend the next five years in court to get back to the very place that we're at right now." "And they will fight tough." "They'll fight dirty." "They'll pressure your boss the people who appointed your boss the wives of the people who appointed your boss." "And you will never hit them any harder than this, and you know it." "I'm sorry, Bennett." "I don't think Dalton's enough." "What are you looking at, man?" "l didn't say anything." "That's because you have nothing to say." "You fucking asshole." "There we go." "Okay, pal." "Come on." "Yeah, I know." "I know, I know, I know." "Hey, Fred!" "You've been such a good boy." "Fred." "Hey, Bob." "There you go, pal." "I tell you what, Katie, take that in." "Hey, Jack." "Your sister." "You first." "Take the kids inside." "I'll be right in, okay?" "What's going on, Fred?" "It's okay." "Be in in a sec." "fbi's got it, Bob." "That's pretty clear." "Nothing I can do, you know it." "It's a criminal investigation." "Two men were killed." "l was almost killed." "Now they're asking me questions about the Amiri brothers, about Tehran." "Understand, this wrecks careers." "I shouldn't even be talking to you." "I punched in "Prince Nasir Al-Subaai," and my computer gets seized." "Where'd that job come from?" "Where did the Nasir job come from?" "I'm advising you to drop it." "Why am I being investigated?" "Why am I being investigated, Fred?" "Goodbye, Bob." "It's okay." "Hey, hey." "What's up?" "If I truly lack faith then I am not the right person." "The questioning means that you have faith and makes it stronger." "That's a lot of shit, I think." "We'll be able to intervene in the affairs of family members." "We'll be able to help them with whatever they need." "You'll be able to get your mother here." "Please." "I am tired." "Father who will be emir?" "Your brother." "Praise be to God." "I would ask you to remain as foreign minister." "You cannot do this." "He is barely qualified to run a brothel, much less a country." "I like Europe." "I will be happy to stay here." "My decision is final and I ask you to support your brother." "I cannot do that." "For centuries Arabs have been ruled by people with no respect for law monopolies handed out for the things that people want..." "Anyone who criticizes is thrown in jail or put to death." "And women are treated as second-class citizens." "The coronation is tomorrow, and your brother has the support of the Americans." "And 1 0,000 of their troops are stationed in our country." "True." "My father is ill and weak, and unwilling to oppose the Americans." "But others are willing." "When a country has 5 percent of the world's population but does 50 percent of its military spending then the persuasive powers of that country are on the decline." "They're worried." "About fallout." "They're worried you might wanna talk about it." "But if you're already under investigation...." "What about Mussawi?" "He's a soldier." "He's just like you." "Why are they doing a damage assessment on the Amiris and on me for doing my job?" "This is about our interests in the region." "So if Prince Nasir won't allow our military bases in his country and his little brother will well, we'll probably have to do something about that." "Who's worried about the Nasir job?" "Who's worried about me talking?" "Stan." "Who's worried?" "Hello?" "Hello, is this Mr. Whitting?" "This is Homeseal Security." "Yes, this is Mr. Whiting." "Hi, we're showing a motion-sensor failure in your downstairs study." "Yes?" "Like I said, we're getting a failure message." "Want me to stay on the phone while you walk around, or send a car?" "I'll walk around." "Everything seems fine." "How are we doing, Mr. Whiting?" "Everything's fine." "The door's unlocked." "Did you leave it unlocked?" "Send a car, you imbecile." "You were in Beirut in '84." "I lost friends there as I'm sure you did." "I got a peek at your file." "You're a good man." "One whose experience is narrow and deep." "Your entire career you've been used." "And probably never even known what for." "I didn't use to need to know." "In this town, you're innocent until you're investigated." "Innocent until investigated?" "That's nice." "It's got a nice ring to it." "I bet you've worn some miles on little sayings like that." "Thank you." "Thank you." "No." "Gives the listener the sense of the law being written as it's 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 it might be flying in a small plane might be walking to the bank you'll be killed." "Do you understand what I'm saying?" "I want you to acknowledge that you do understand so that we're clear and there won't be any mistakes." "Beirut rules, Mr. Barnes?" "I want my passports back." "We are a small group the ones who carry convictions and ambitions." "And within this group there is another, smaller group who flee from the worldly life in order to spread the true faith." "You're ready." "Connex-Killen Oil announces the gift of a new children's hospital to be built in honor of the new emir." "I wanted to be on a bobsled in the Olympics." "What's a bobsled?" "Wasim knows what a bobsled is." "Papa, I need to ask you...." "Tell him about the bobsled!" "Tell him what a bobsled is." "It's a little car." "A little car that goes down a track of ice and snow." "Papa, may I borrow some money for the bus?" "Oh, how the snow sparkles, the crunch of it under your feet...." "Dalton's not enough." "I would be real careful." "You dig a 6-foot hole, you'll find three bodies." "But you dig 1 2, and maybe you'll find 40." "China's economy ain't growing as fast as it could because they can't get all the oil they need." "Now, I'm damn proud of that fact." "We need another body, Mr. Pope." "What if--?" "What if it involved somebody at your firm?" "Someone way the hell above you." "We'd have to have an understanding." "Well if.... lf he's as big as you say then when he goes down, the merger will be approved." "Just like that?" "We're looking for the illusion of due diligence, Mr. Pope." "Two criminal acts successfully prosecuted it gives us that illusion." "Call me Jimmy." "He's a visionary." "He's like Faisal or Atatürk." "The people love him." "And he's" "The country's gonna be his by Monday." "It's not like you guys have backed the wrong horse here." "No, no." "No, look, he's got nine of 1 1 generals." "We're on our way to the palace right now." "This is really happening." "Silver Range Rover." "With a sunroof." "Silver Range Rover, sunroof, fourth from lead." "Guys, help me out here." "lt's coming now." "His wife will be there." "Pat." "This is good." "You done good." "Lee, you have guests." "Syd." "Leland." "Bennett Holiday." "How are you, sir?" "Lee Janus." "How are we doing?" "Well." "Those number crunchers can get a little overzealous, can't they?" "Christ, when we write the GAAP rules like some sort of abstract painting you stare at that liability hard enough and before long, it'll turn into an asset." "No, thank you." "You don't drink?" "No." "It is really beautiful out here." "What is that?" "What?" "In front of them." "The Bedouin always have right of way." "Lawyers say, "lf you can't trust a Big Five accounting firm...."" "The accountants say, "We're not lawyers."" "Legal didn't understand." "Accounting didn't understand." "Nobody understood anything." "Regulatory bodies scratched their heads 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 our way." "Something 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're doing?" "It's illegal for an American to control these rights." "Stop right now." "is there something that you wanna tell me, Syd?" "Connex/ Al-Salwa LNG loading facility The Persian Gulf" "Good afternoon." "I wanna thank our host 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 year's Oilman of the Year:" "Mr. Leland Janus of Connex-Killen." "Who the hell is that?" "Excuse me." "Hey, are you seeing that?" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Could you tell who that is?" "Hey!" "Hey!" "No, no, no!" "No!" "Take the target out." "Roger." "Four miles." "Two miles." "You're the Canadian." "Target destroyed." "23:44 EDT." "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." "Connex-Killen." "And I'd also like to thank our strategic friends from around the globe who are here tonight." "Most especially Emir Meshal Al-Subaai." "Emir." "Thank you so much." "During the funeral I want everyone to be quiet and I should be lying on my right side." "You should throw dust on my body three times while saying:" ""From the dust we are created and to dust we return." "From the dust a new person will be created. "" "Everyone should mention that I died pure of heart and that the next world is the true life." "The next world is the true life." "Come on, man." "Leave the beer."