"VULTURE" "Your snowplough needs a revamp, let me write you a cheque." "I'll soon have a Bentley." "I'll get the best trader of the year award, Henry." "Your reign is over." "You drink and you smoke too much, you look ill." "This job is not for you, Georges." "You got away with pretence, but it's over." "Like the perfect pitch, understanding the market is a gift." "You never had any flair." "You smell of mothballs, you're scared." "The market has moved on and left you behind." "You don't belong here, and you never will." "Your loser's DNA will always prevail." "Everyone knows you're out." "You're as creative as a jellyfish in the Gulf Stream." "You're out of puff!" "Your balls are as shrivelled as Tutankhamun's." "I'd trust you more with my kids in a nudist camp than with my savings." "This month's target, George..." " 25%, Penia got to 26." " Thanks to Henry." "I'll be the best trader, I'll do better than Henry." "You should start thinking about my bonus." "I've already had interesting offers." "Very jumpy market, down 50 basis points." "Debenhams's losing 7%, we must be quick." "What's the market like?" "Just a little tip." "Beckell and Greenfield's rating is too low." "The dividend rate is 9%." " 9%, Beckell and Greenfield." " I told you." "I heard the opposite, is your info objective?" "It would go against my own interest." "And the 9%?" "Golden rule, tell people what they want to hear." "What's plausible is what they wants." "In position!" "Everyone will follow them." "Bargain on Beckell and Greenfield, we'll gain ten points by lunch, make a packet." "Though traders get the tiniest bonus the mean Poros brothers will give." "Two points on Beck, already!" "I knew it!" "Kid stuff, too easy." "We move along like a sailboat downwind, no opposition, it's pathetic." "We must find something, hard stuff." "Lower oil prices, the volatile commodities market." "Henry will pull no punches to keep his throne." "We must pull off masterstrokes." "We'll cut his head off with an axe." "Grab your phone." "Pay Euston Electricity to stop delivering." "Buy some gas, it will cause the shares to skyrocket." "Call our regulars to let them know." "The award for City best trader is mine." " Household bills will go up." " Let them rebel!" "I like the rich." "The richer I get, the more I like myself." "My friends, there are no friends." "Capitalism rests on selfishness." "Communism is more generous, but it can't work." "Why?" "Because man is not kind, sweetheart." "And all the evil within him has to be channelled and directed towards competition, to make goods which will allow you to live more comfortably." "A car, a better mobile phone..." "Nothing is more shrewd than capitalism." "Biscuits?" "Thank you, dad." "Thank you." "Thank you, dad." "Thank you." "I thank heaven for making us who we are." "The weather's always good at your house, dad." "Here comes the hero of the hour." "Cherubin!" "Let's see the photo of Cambridge." "I'll take you in two minutes." "Your misery will soon be over." "If you live a life of degradation" "And uphold your reputation" " If you mix with evil" " Without being hurt" " If you remain dignified" " Amongst the nouveau riche" " If you retain your virtue" " While making villains civilised" "Then, you'll become a man, my nephew." "You won't be meeting brilliant minds, here, as you would in Cambridge." "Don't forget that with capitalism, private evils are public virtues." "Remember that you can't turn a newly-rich commoner into a gentleman." "Washing your pig is a waste of both your time and your soap." "Sorry, chronic sinusitis." "I put all my hopes in Cherubin, my nephew." "He'll be my successor, so I'm training him." "Excellent timing, Mr Fall." "Wanted to congratulate me on contributing to make London a rival to Wall Street?" "My bust in the lobby, maybe?" "The commission monitors the legality of trade and the transparency of information." "You're a disreputable trader, Mr Fall." ""Blame doesn't make you guilty," ""slander's always aimed at the best."" "Sonnet 70, Stratford Nouveau Riche." "I saw the stir you caused on gas and electricity." "The stock exchange purpose is to finance the economy." "Using it for one's own profit is perverse." "Do you know anyone who'd go to the supermarket to buy the worst and most expensive products to stop a business going bankrupt?" "You belong to the Poros bank." "As an institutional investor, there are rules you just can't ignore." "You're a liberal, Lord Norman." "If freedom is not boundless, it's not freedom." "When you deceive someone, they're not free any more." "The market must be honest, to inspire confidence to the investors." "Excuse me." "Hold on." "Yes." "No, no." "Do as I say." "Review the merger and acquisition situation." "Mr Fall?" "Consider this conversation your last chance." "One step out of line, and the surveillance committee will be ruthless." "Good luck with the big-game fishing." "He's a disgrace to the City." "Depravity and obscenity personified." "Look, Cherubin." "A gold button, with a crest designed for me, hand-made." "This beauty is not the result of chaos, but of the combination of what is right and what is good." "They reward virtue." "Virtue generates wealth." "Wealth allows society to work for the general interest." "It's the divine order, the genius of capitalism." "Keep it safely in your pocket." "And when you need strength to bring the dragon down, hold it tight in your hand." "At the pub, tonight, in the flesh." "Henry constantly gets good results." "We have to hit harder, make a cunning strike." "Looking after these morons is the worst side of the job." "But I have to, to get their votes." "I want to show you real freedom." "Wild freedom." "You won't experience it with your uncle." "This Oxfordised wuss with morals and righteousness printed on each one of his buttocks." "George?" "Shall we go?" "They're as happy as rats at the rubbish tip." "What do you want?" "A yacht with a helicopter pad?" "The reflection of your pool and the Pacific ocean in the eyes of a dream girl?" "You can have them." "At the expense of the bank's shareholders." "But above all, you'll be in control of your life." "You'll experience the exhilaration of creation." "I can turn an idea into one million pounds in an instant." "Where are we going?" "I wish you a good weekend in the Azores." "The weather is superb." "Tell me, what did you learn in Cambridge?" " A great many things." " That's too many." " Pick one out." " I can't do that." "I'll teach you about the four Cs." "Forget love and join my team, you'll have all the girls you want." "What are the four Cs?" "What's in your uncle's notebook?" "He writes down all the ongoing transactions." "Champagne, caviar, coke and cunts." "Come on!" "I saw my dad in his coffin." "I thought I didn't want to die like he did." "I wanted to reach my dream." "But my dream is misshapen." "I only ever see philistines, simpletons, arseholes." "Whores." "That's the positive side." "Stop it, you're hurting me." "I'm all gentle." "Nothing's more painful than gentleness." "Namaste, Baba." "So that's it, it's over?" "Life goes on, Richard, and you're always angry." "Why would I be angry, Janis?" "My mum's been waiting for her op for six months, but I'm not angry." "My brother got a warm welcome in prison, but I'm not angry." "My best mate's just died of asbestos exposure, but..." "Look, one of the bastards who made me lose my job." "You've got the wrong person, my friend." "You work at the City." "I never went beyond the desk in any bank." "Here." "You can sell it, use the money to gamble, invest what you make." "Or you can put the lighter on your chimney, to bring you luck." "Believe me, your life's going to change." "The new lords?" "Champagne at 2,000 euros, 15,000 for your glasses..." "You deny it?" "You made me lose my job." "Be more grateful, I gave you a lighter." "Bestowing gifts with the money he made by crushing us!" "You're a swine, a perv." "I wouldn't piss on you even if you were on fire." "I wish you could." "I'm not what you think, and to prove it, I'll write you a cheque." "Call me tomorrow, I'll tell you where to invest it." "If you're not a millionaire by the end of this year, you can piss a can of petrol over me." "I promise you, it will be a great opportunity to use your lighter." "Could you put me up for the night?" "The bloke with the lighter, it was my flat." "You'd rather not?" "Forget it." "No, not at all." "Let's go." " Do you need to get some things?" " This is everything I own." "You rub the bag and three removal vans come out?" "You've got nothing at this guy's?" "Or elsewhere, a rear base?" "No, I have nothing." "I borrow, wherever I go." "You look like you'd cross the Pacific ocean to demonstrate at the next WTO summit." "Or a bass guitarist, in a vegan band from Berlin." "No, a deconstructivist designer, on a spying mission in London." " You always talk so much?" " Yes." "The bathroom is over there." "Towels, bathrobes..." "Remote controls, TV, blind, light..." "Bar, coffee maker..." "Sorry, you can see all this, I just can't help myself." "Want a drink?" "Whisky, gin, vodka?" " I'm a bit nervous." " Why?" "My mum rode a bike when she was pregnant," "I had to hold on." " I like your place." " Me too, it's not bad." "It's soulless." "So?" "What do you do?" "I'm lucky," "I'm a sales assistant in a bird shop." "But what's your dream?" "It's important to have one." "Don't you like diamonds, dresses, clothes?" "What kind of woman do you see?" " And so, you..." " I like to live at other people's." "Read books I borrow, go to the museum, go for walks..." "What do you do?" "I make money, lots of money." "Will you lend me a t-shirt to sleep in?" "Plants of the lower north shore of Canada?" "Are you interested?" "Yes, of course." "The riches of nature, all these wonderful, extraordinary shapes..." "Crowberries and laurels, irises and cranberries, cloudberries and dogwoods..." "I like to gaze at things." "But it can also be painful." "In five seconds, I will have forgotten you." "One, two, three..." "Procom's director's left, the share's gone down 6%." " EOK's crushing them." " I'm coming." "Henry's still the favourite for the best trader award." "I'll die, if he beats me." "I'd much sooner the queen spanked my bare bottom in public." "We must pull off a masterstroke." "I didn't pull out in time, I lost an awful lot." "Maybe if I had invested heavily..." "Rule number one, never catch a knife that's falling." "But we lost a lot, while others gained a lot." "Rule number two, always keep your cool." "You've made a mistake, face up to it, accept it." "You can make more, by taking risks now." "The market is here, let's wait." "How did Uncle take it?" "I said I had to know the traders' world to legislate about them." "I'll never be a trader, I don't have your flair." "I want to ban this word, "flair"." "I can't stand this word!" "It's not about having flair for the market, it's about leading it." "Rule number three..." "There is no market science." "Quantitative analysis, fuzzy logic, the theory of waves and smoke rings, it's all the same thing, the market follows the rumours we spread." "The only way is imagination, a talent for telling a story that's sexier." "The market is nothing more than a herd." "Buyers, vendors..." "I make the sheep run from one side to the other by stirring greed and fear." "And I shear them every time they go past." "It's flat, completely flat." "Shake your arse, big lazy slob!" "Old slut, vomited by democracy." "Senile eunuch, with an arsehole bigger than the Eurotunnel, scratch your balls and get on with it!" "Find the shop this bird comes from, the sales person's called Janis." "It's moving, something's going on." "A large American group is buying shares." "Discreetly, but continuously, by various means." "Someone's pressing on the market." "The share value's just gone up three points." "Why?" "Someone knows something." "Some bastard is taking the piss out of us all." "Who?" "Find out everything you can about the group." "What they own, their turnover, their level of debt, their latest acquisitions..." "What message does the market have for me?" "Is it the same person?" "Within two minutes, the acquisitions, the same amounts." "I found a speech by the American director." "The increase started with tinned soup, now it's steel, cosmetics, explosives, etc." "He got his staff to buy shares for their retirement." "Swearing it would be the outpost for paradise." "This guy's and his friends' stock options go up!" "The annual report must be sent to Wall Street in three days." "Time to make a packet." "The director has to invest heavily as he's made a big profit." " The share price will be soaring." " Or the opposite." "How could we have some info?" "It's spectacular!" "Others have noticed the movement, the price is going up." "Find me the guy!" "I could reinforce the upward trend, but I want to know the truth." "What are you talking about?" "Who are you?" "Get out of here!" "Security!" "Security!" "Not until I have my info." "We take more staff on." "No one else implements social plans in reverse." "And our results are exceptional." "Hummingbird." "Hummingbird." "Hummingbird." " What's with the outfit?" " Back from the land of losers?" "I was in a factory, in an FBS sister company." "The fucker at the head of the group is planning redundancies, the activity is down." "This bastard knows the figures are bad, but he wants to sell before the bad news comes out." "I don't trust Lord Norman and his cops, we'll work from here." "Order to buy!" "Buy with a big 15 leverage!" "Call everyone, fuel the rumours!" "It's the least I can do for you." "Don't thank me, start networking." "Sell it all at my signal, we have to act within a second." "It's stagnating, they say it's going to go down." " We should pull out quickly." " Plug your ears." "Rule number four, learn when you should plug your ears." "The stock exchange is about to close, keep buying!" "Move it, find some cash." "Take options, up to the last second." "Get the trend at his highest for closing time." "We just have to wait for Wall Street to open." "We're camping here." "What if the FBS directors sell before we do?" "They'll wait." "It will keep going up in Hong Kong and Tokyo." "Their greed will stop only when the results are published in the first edition of the Wall Street paper." "I'm going to screw these wankers." "Is it a kidnap?" "I fancied a drink with you." "Are we going to yours?" "Maybe it's best to stay here, you look busy." "No." "No, no." "Shall we go?" "Under no circumstances should you sell before I come back!" "Did you think about me?" "I'd like to go out in a rowing boat, shall we?" "Wait for my order." "I've been waiting for this moment for years." "Today's going to be a very tricky day." "My day." "We'll go out in a rowing boat tomorrow, it will be wonderful." "I may not want to, tomorrow." "Listen, Janis, if I pull it off," "I'm guaranteed to earn a one million bonus." "One million pounds, plus 500,000 in salary." "We'll go out in silver rowing boats, encrusted with diamonds." "Can't you wait one day?" "It's no big deal, do what you have to do." "It's now or never." "I'll drop everything, for you." "Let's go, I'm not kidding." "I don't care." "I'm ready, I don't care." "Let's go!" "I'm going for a piss and we're off." "George Fall." "Remember me?" "You wanted to screw everyone." "I don't blame you, but however clever we think we are, one day, we meet someone we can't shaft." "Yesterday, it was me!" ""FBS scandal."" ""Sharp fall in stock prices," ""the shareholders are ruined, the staff have lost their savings."" "Some of them must have lost their life-long measly savings." "You girls didn't invest with FBS, no, you speculate only on weapons." "Explosives, shells..." " Remember my button." " Yes, Uncle." "I may have a lead, but I can't speak, now." "Champagne and caviar, all paid for by the FBS shareholders." "Let's powder our noses." "Give me that button back!" " In 295,200 seconds..." " Give it back!" "I'll get the best trader award." "Give it back!" "And it will only be the start of my era." "I'll invent fantasies for the sheep to dream about, create toxic securities, mix receivables and assets, start rumours non-stop, to confuse everyone!" "To think that everything that my father, who died young because he was honest and docile, worked hard for all his short life, can be made in two minutes." "But then, what for?" "I can buy everything, except what I can't buy." "A pure heart." "I'm going to be a real banker." "Build an empire." "Have a wife, found a tycoon's dynasty." "Your time has come." "Spare a thought for the generations of losers before you, whom you're betraying." "Here you are." "So, you've come to witness your humiliation." "Champagne for me, tonight." "I'd be grateful if you spared us your presence at the ceremony." "Why?" "Starting false rumours, front running..." "Your childishness was your downfall." "The phone call you made to the FBS director, who's just been arrested." "I have evidence that you manoeuvred to hamper the functioning of the market." "This is how your family's been living in manors for centuries, while 90% of the population survive on hard labour." "Although market manipulation is an offence, you won't be prosecuted, to avoid media coverage which would harm the stock exchange as a whole." "I've lost everything, my friends, could I borrow from someone?" "There are no friends." "That's right, George, I've taken over from you." "It was the deal with the Poros brothers." "My uncle wants to keep tabs on the bank, I had no choice." "Poor little mite." "He'll be Uncle Fetid's flunkey for the rest of his life." "They'll be begging me to come back." "I'll be the greatest, the richest!" "The best trader!" "I nearly turned into an insensitive moron, like the Poros." "I'm glad I've joined the ranks of the underprivileged." "Will you marry me?" "You're just a snotty little kid." "My love, there is no love." "Why did I not run after her in the stairs?" "Because you're rubbish." "Clean your shit!" "There is no love, my friends." "The pleb's after his tip." "Finished being hateful?" "He wants to have a feel too, grope wads of banknotes and a few buttocks?" "I'll give you your cheque back." "I don't want to be angry, any more." "If I can do it with you, who took my job and my girl from me, I'm winning." "Are you for real?" "The world is ugly, it's a handicap." "Get rich for me." "Will there be more scandals, is the economy at risk?" "Of course, not, we have a sound system." "My role is to get rid of all the black sheep." "You can trust me." "Thank you." "I'm finished." "I so wish I was like you, Chandra." "I don't know why I've been here for 20 years." "All I think about is my country." "I'm sad, when I look at the sky, the same sky as over there." "The birds in the sky, even the crumbs the birds eat." "Don't talk to me about birds, please." "Here." "My Porsche." "Sell it and leave this country, it's full of shits like me." "Here, my friend, the key to my van." "I can't find my skirt." "Here." "Have you seen my shoes?" "Er, yes." "I dream of a simple job." "Like yours." "Do the same thing, every day, a modest, material job." "An ex-colleague of mine became a locksmith." "He polishes keys by hand, it's wonderful." "God, give me a key to polish!" "What you have in mind isn't really a symbol of freedom." "2,000 pounds, that's all I've got left." "I'm going to make it grow." "Not like I used to, I'll be careful." " I'm off." " See you tomorrow." "Not sure about tomorrow." " When?" " We'll see." "Isn't this wonderful?" "You're free, but you keep me prisoner in your present time jail." " I'd rather forget you." " Bye!" ""Stable markets are gloomy, investors are getting nowhere."" ""Is it still possible to make money?"" "Easily." "What a load of sheep!" ""Steelbox veers off."" "Can't find any public loos in this city." "Politics is truly dead and buried." "What do you do with your time, now, Mr Fall?" "Not feeling nostalgic, I hope." "I leave the past to men of the past such as yourself." "Next time we see each other," "I'll be able to make an offer for Buckingham Palace, likely to cause friction in the royal family." "Good luck, Mr Fall." "Since the commission stands in my way, I'll get round it." "I'll set up my own company, taking small steps, innovative and risky." "The market is stagnant." "I want to give it a chance to make profits by doing things institutional funds can't." "I'm going to found a hedge fund." "We're in the liquid assets age, everything is liquid assets." "Everything moves and changes, before we can grasp it." "No more piggy banks, safes, borders..." "Freedom." "You're obsolete." "A hindrance to creation and inventiveness." "I hate every single law enforcement official." "The regulators, legislators, economists, politicians, all those who claim to bring morals to economy, and to make it equitable." "Morals?" "What morals?" "There are no morals." "Soon, all the false values of solidarity and all the rules will collapse." "Disappear." "You're nothing but a greedy crook." "Yes, I am greedy." "What about you, Lord Norman?" "What's your vice?" "I don't have any." "You can't trust someone who has no vice, they're not human." "Never a step out of line, a pretty little black sheep?" "Lord Norman's guilty secret is to still lust after Lady Norman." "The sin of sins." "The works." "A hedge fund can sell short and speculate down." "Even if the market slides down and everyone loses, we still win." "A hedge fund is much faster than the institutional fund." "I make money in a micro-second." "One minute is long-term, I do short and jumpy." "With me you take high risks, but you make a massive profit." "I'd think more clearly with more girls, and some Dom Pérignon." "Fuck off!" "That's all I had, it has to work." "One last chance..." "Lend me your watch with the diamonds." "I've got an idea, but no cash, I'll die if I can't do it." "Help me." "Not my watch, but I have something for you." "Fell out of Cherubin's pocket." "He'd do anything to get it back." ""Nemo nos valet."" ""None equal to ourselves."" "If you want it back, let me in." "I didn't help you move forward." "You have to take a gamble on this, say nothing to your boss." "Only 3% of the share value, not much." "No one will know, and we'll pocket all the profits." " Give me my button back." " "Uncle, he took my button!"" "I'm talking to you about big money, and you think of a button?" "Remember when I made your company shares go up." "Today your group is a success, and I'm asking for your attention." "I started a rumour and you won." "Remember how much?" "I won too." "We had quite a celebration." "All the times I informed you before buying." "You found it useful to come and see me at the bank." "Have you forgotten?" "I have a bit of cash, now," "I just need your help with logistics." "You know people at Steelbox." "Heard anything about the management change?" "On my birthday," "I want as many girls in my bed as the number of candles I blew." "I promise you they'll be there." "I have this obsessive fear of being alone on my birthday too." "Do you know how much the best trader earned, last year?" "4.5 billion." "4.5 billion." "Money had never been made so fast." "I'm a metal-worker." "The last of the metal-workers?" "I thought I'd try Steelbox, are they recruiting?" "I hear they have an excellent works council." "We've been dealing with Steelbox for six months, but not in recruitment, the company's collapsing." "And the new management won't put it back on track." "You're lucky." "A childhood dream I'll never fulfil." "I've come to ask you a favour, Henry." "I'd like to borrow some Steelbox shares." "I can pay for the 3% option." "I'm allowed to live, and it's nothing, to you." "Why should you turn me down, given you think I'm pathetic?" "Stay where you belong." "Delivering curries is your best bet." "I wouldn't last there either." "I think the Steelbox shares are going to go up." "It will give me a chance to dabble on the stock market." "Just to get enough to build a shed in the forest." "But if you try to screw me, I'll have you, Chandrashekhar." "I thank you profusely." "It's too risky, I don't want to." "All I want is a bit of help, and you'll have your birthday." "You know there are positions on these shares." "I want all the relevant clients to unwind their Steelbox at opening time." "We must tell them the company's in a bad way." " Now, at this time?" " To rattle them." "By speculating up, you limit your risks." "If the share goes down, it can't go below zero." "If you speculate down, you win if it goes down." "If it goes up, you've had it." "The share can increase twofold, tenfold..." "You can become indebted and end up in jail." "Winnings are just as limitless, matey." "But you don't have to get involved." "If it goes wrong, only my hedge fund will go." "At worst, your clients will have lost a bit of money." "But it will also bring commissions to the bank, straight in the Poros's pocket." "But if you trust me..." "Instead of living like a mere employee, you can become a real billionaire." "Now, tomorrow." "I'm offering you a great opportunity." "You could lose a considerable amount, but if you win, you hit the jackpot." "Ready to take the plunge?" "It's history in the making." "We'll corner these fuckers." "Is it accurate?" "Accurate, do you understand?" "This is Great Britain, not Calcutta." "Punctuality matters, here, show respect to your customers." "Less noise, please, and sit down." "Shush, the opening." "Sell all my Steelbox options!" "Sell them all!" "Yes, they're going down, they keep going down." "They've gone down enough, time to buy them back." "No, we can make more." "If it picks up because of you..." "I trust my sources fully." "I'm behind this unexpected increase, dear George." "I knew you'd speculate on a decrease and I couldn't resist the pleasure of dropping you in the shit." "No one will ever see you again." "I'll make Steelbox reach the stars." "I borrowed at 20." "If it goes up to 40, I'll lose 4 million pounds." "Sell." "Sell everything." "If you have any Steelbox, unwind, unwind the lot." "Champagne." "I couldn't wait for the opening on my own." "Who knows whether I'm going to live or to die?" "I was born in a little village in Serbia." "I arrived here when I was 16." "I didn't want to marry a Serb, men are too macho, over there." "But there are also wide open spaces." "Snow in the winter, and 45 degrees in the summer." "All my friends have five kids." " Are they happy?" " Yeah." "What do you want?" "Not to be groped, any more." "Be a model, and the photographer to show me he's excited only by taking photos." "If I win, I'll bring down the chain of shops where Janis works." "The wonderful power of money..." "From the moment I first saw her, my chest's been on fire." "Delusion, like everything else." "Happiness is impossible for you and me, Sharima." "It will work out for you two." "Steelbox..." "Steelbox, nine..." "I've won over 2 million pounds." "If things don't pick up," "I'll always be there to give you some advice." "Sad thing, bankruptcy." "Grim job, for someone who likes birds." "I quite like it." "Matisse." "A real one." "I love it." "Thank you." "I can't live without you." "But I love your freedom." "If I took your freedom, I would no longer love you." "I've just bought a delightful flat." "A dream, for billions of people." "You see Kate Moss's knickers drying on one side," "Mick Jagger's boxer shorts on the other..." "Isn't the fact it's not yours the height of pleasure?" "All you'll have to do is go for walks, stare, dream..." "We'll see each other when we feel like it." "No obligation." "What do you say?" "You can't refuse again, pretend you don't want anything." "At this moment, the soles of my feet innocently facing the sky..." "I swear I will respect your freedom." "Let's have a look at this flat, before Mick Jagger's boxer shorts are dry." "It's called selling short." "I'm good at spotting a company in difficulty." "I borrow lots of shares from that company," "I start the rumour it's on the blink," "I sell them massively, to make the rate drop," "I buy them back when they are at their lowest," "I give them back to the lender, and I pocket the profit." "Marvellous." "An incredible invention." "How can a fall create wealth?" "It's a topsy-turvy world, it scares me." "Give me an example." "The oil barrels start dropping." "Four phone calls, it's magic." "Mac?" "It's George." "I'm selling you 12,000 barrels." "Hi, John." "Lend me 12,000 barrels." "You see?" "Phil, I'm buying 12,000 barrels from you." "It's me." "I'm giving you your barrels back, John." "These four phone calls made me 300,000 pounds." "You can do anything, maybe it's a gift." "Better than a formula, better than the philosopher's stone." "Your cheek is your only wealth." "If you ever tire of it, you'll tire of yourself." "Shit!" "The prices have moved, 6,000 pounds down the drain." "I can try again if I'm quick." "You always give yourself a hard time, you don't need that." "Try not to do anything for a minute." "Not to want anything, just be here." "There are people." "A dog..." "Dogs are strange." "I live in a world where we have no respect for anything." "I feel fine, that's crystal clear." "You tried to help me." "Cure me, make an impact on my life." "You're changing too, you care for me." "We've made one step towards each other." "We must keep making progress." "I want to teach you something too." "I want to to experience the joy of owning things." "All this is yours." "It comes from the greatest fashion designers." "You have to try them on." "Do it for me." "It's yours, you can destroy it all." "Advise that the rates are rising and that we reckon on eight." "So, Jimmy, woke up feeling like making money, today?" "I'm expecting an 80% profit on my fund, this month." "And if you make a mistake?" "I can't make mistakes." "I reckon on the others losing, and reckoning brings loss." "This is only the start of my reign." "Someone for you downstairs, he wants to talk to you." "Rolled between the thighs of one of Castro's girls." "Tell me when you're in Wimbledon, I want to be tipped first." "My uncle has issued threats if we speculate with you." "Morals won't help you take the market by storm." "Might as well go hunting for wild beasts with a nougat dildo." "I'll hit him so hard he'll fly through his own arsehole." "As soon as I saw you, I knew you weren't the sort to bother with rules to get what you want." "There's just one more little formality left." "I want your uncle's notebook." "I hadn't expected he'd do so well." "It's faster and more powerful than anything we'd seen so far." "Fall's on-board a rocket." "I hope it's not the end of an era." "In 1943, London was bombed." "In 1666, set on fire." "And the Great Plague!" "What are you thinking about?" "All our ancestors had a vice." "I need one to bring Fall down." "Shall we do it again?" "Or don't you want to?" "Here comes Mr Fall." "The stock exchange crook, the capitalism villain, who makes share prices go up and down for his sole profit." "Publicly, I'm being criticised, but in secret, everything I do is copied." "Mr Fall's hedge funds..." "Mr Fall's hedge funds are directly linked to the collapse of these companies." "Herman, Viax, GHP, Highwood, Palmer," "Ecoxx, Clark and Kumber, all in the red." "The cream of the crop." "So what?" "There's never been so much money, so many ongoing transactions." "This is the new economy." "The press is denouncing the city boys' use." "They are outraged by the increasing inequalities." "It's time to stop the damage, Mr Minister!" "We need a financial security act, like in the United States." "The London market exploded thanks to this act." "If we have one too, our investors will go elsewhere." "The government must punish actions aimed to have an artificial impact on the market." "There are two kinds." "Good actions make you make money, bad actions make you lose it." "The system rests on being able to trust the figures." "A disaster will strike, if we don't start regulating." "Crises are part of the rules of the economy, they are its very essence." "Life is a succession of expansions and disasters." "We're not eternal." "Some values are eternal, Mr Fall." "Indeed." "Thank you, sirs, I'll mention it to my cabinet." "It's Ophélie, who..." "Who stole the notebook, one night." "Poor Ophélie." "You still have to forget compassion." "There's nothing more sickening than compassion." "It's the ugliest way of making yourself look big." "You're going to be the four C's world champion." "What's the fifth, "cell"?" "Insider trading is not a murder." "Just a little perk of the job, it's quite normal." "Everything moves around, people, infos..." "We'll be very careful, you won't come to my office any more." "We'll open an anonymous account in an offshore bank, with tax-free gains." "It's full of deals your uncle will arbitrate." "There's going to be a merger of two big groups." "Moxylon is buying Tuxcito, a 3 billion transaction." "The share exchange ratio is four, it could double in just a few days." "I missed you." "I'm going to eat you up." "I wouldn't, do you really think I'm edible?" "This is so good, I'm scared routine will set in." "We'll have dates in the dustbin shed." "All right, all right, beat it!" "I feel like I'm offering my balls to a family of hungry lynx." "Bye, ladies." "Our bank is greatly honoured, Mr Fall." "I'll open an account under the name of Gold." "I'm sorry, this is most unfortunate, but this name is already taken." "Diamond and Platinum too." "Even Silver." "Let's go for Mr Shit, then." "This one's available." "Beach or brothel, first?" "A promise is a promise." "I'd say brothel." "I'll stop the merger by saying that Tuxcito is on the blink." "Moxylon will pull out, and Tuxcito will crash." "We've made millions as the share was rising, and now, we're going to double our money." "We'll have so many liquid assets..." "The problem is where to invest them." " We must stop all this." " Are you mad?" "!" "Our toys will get bigger and bigger." "An investment, my kingdom for an investment!" "From a social point of view, it's AAA." ""Happy home" is a small company where each employee has an interest." "Thanks to you, I'm a happy man." "I only have one friend, it's you." "I want more for you." "I can help you make your company bigger." "Make your car bigger, make your happiness bigger." "Thank you, I don't want too much." "I'm happy with a new small car every year." "What matters to me is not to worry." "That's what money's for, get rid of problems." "The only problem with money is when you have no problems spending it." "I'm counting on you to rid me of this ultimate bother." "You're my only friend, help me." "I owe you everything, but I don't want to gamble." "I'll never be this lucky again." "Listen to me." "It's for the wider good." "I want to launch property loans, with you, as a developer." "We'll set up a programme to allow lots of poor people to own one of your houses." "Achieve the dream of their life, have a positive image of themselves." "Think of the countless knock-on effects on their descendants." "Why will poor people be able to buy one of your houses, Richard?" "Because the interest rates are very low, and in a year's time, their property value will have doubled." "We can offer them 150% financing to cover not just the house, but also the furniture, and even, why not, a family holiday in the sunshine." "Isn't it wonderful?" "Instead of offering happiness to one or two families, you'll offer it to one thousand." "It's a nice idea." "How can we tell our shareholders..." "That we're jumping ship?" "Tell them it's about to explode." "The market is completely overvalued." "You, the bankers, you announce huge profits." "The media pick up on what you say." "Even my driver goes through red lights, consumed by the lure of profit." "Dear Lord Norman, you needn't worry." "The growth is boundless." "We can't speculate on continued expansion." "You've gone completely mad!" "Your demise is imminent, if you don't apply the healthy principle of prudence." " A two-digit profit." " Two." "From now on, I forbid you to give priority to George Fall's hedge fund over traditional funds." "I forbid you to lend to him, with this kind of leverage." "St John, come here." "St John!" "Ophélie!" "Ophélie, no!" "Don't do this!" "The City barbarian, the finance anarchist," "London's vampire..." "The best tailor in London." "You'll experience unimaginable pleasure." "Soft fabric flapping on your leg, a furtive and voluptuous caress..." "The estate agent!" "It's going down." "The property market is down, it could collapse." "If people can't pay their mortgages, their houses won't be worth what we said." "Real estate securitisation, Richard!" "Bankers love nouvelle cuisine." "We have to get rid of these debts by mixing them with telecom staff, a pinch of luxury goods, served on a coulis of public services." "You're talking about bankers, and I, about people." "Please, forget your problems." "Can you feel it, Richard?" "I want you to feel it." "Success, Richard, success." "George!" "The market's moving in all directions, it's madness." "This panic is excellent." "I have enough to blow the bank, but I need an idea." "Shake yourselves up!" "There's a synapse in your brains, every 20 minutes." "We have to find a bomb!" "Think of something, rack your brains, you're asleep." "Give me a bomb, a missile, an explosive device!" "Is it you?" "Is it really you?" "I thought I was croaking it." "I'm leaving, George." "No." "No, let's escape." "Isn't this a dream place for a tax haven?" "Joke." "This part of my life is over." "Let's have a child, Janis." "We'll teach him how to swim, in the lagoon." "We'll come back from the beach with a nice fish, a bunch of naked children will run up to us, calling "dad, mum!"" " What?" " Nothing." "You don't believe me?" "I swear, I'll never play around with the stock exchange." "And if I ever invest money again," "I'll do it as a family man, taking out life insurance." "Of course!" "Life insurance." "This is my bomb." "I've found my infernal machine." "The King George Insurance Corp." "I hadn't even thought of it." "The kingdom's biggest and oldest insurance company." "It will be an institution just as untouchable as the queen." "A national symbol." "Banks don't want to lend, any more," "I'll mobilise all my funds to bring the King George down." "I'll start the rumour that the venerable old lady got corrupted with toxic securities." "I must go back to the heat of the action, Janis." "You were always right." "I was wrong." "Never again will we experience the amazing feelings of the van." "Those were our best days." "We're living an ordinary story of two lovers who escaped from civilisation." "What happened to your freedom?" "I don't want to be free, George, that's what you thought." "I want to stay alive." "But I'm a drug addict, I'll never come off it." "Only to hang myself from a Tower Bridge arch." "I give you the island." "It won't fit inside my bag." "Never!" "Never, in a million years!" "Not the King George!" "Drink this." "The press is watching my every move." "That's nothing, England has been through worse things." "Everything I predicted is happening." "Even the King George, the backbone of the system." "Every bank has connections with the biggest and the oldest English insurance company." "A symbol!" "If it collapses, we must expect major events." "It's too late to make laws." "We need an intervention from the government." "You must get the parliament to approve a bailout plan urgently." "Lord Norman, the words you are using..." "Put your ideology to one side!" "You must nationalise." "Consider this the ultimate sin, for a liberal." "If we let our large banks collapse, the United Kingdom will sink." "Some people will stand against a government intervention." "We, women, will face up to this!" "My mother's." "Just as well I kept it, ready to be used again." "Already, I can hear the planes and I feel the soil of England shaking under the bombs." "Do as I say." "You'll see, your poll rating will go up." "Do what Lord Norman says, and everything will be all right." "He's always right." "I..." "Thank you." "Bye, Lady Norman." "You can always join my team again." "I don't want to work, any more." "I want to sleep." "I foolishly bought this apartment block in Chelsea." "An apartment block?" "The noise is deafening." "I want to sleep here, in peace." "Where did you get the money from?" "The latest big deals all have something in common." "They were all in my notebook!" "I can't even buy the houses back, make it up to them." "These poor people trusted me and it ruined them." "You're out of your mind." "These poor people were led by the same greedy instinct as us." "They thought they'd get a house for nothing, con everyone." "They got what they deserved." "Everything's not lost, on the contrary." "We'll organise a trip to look at the repossessed houses." "Lots of people abroad dream of buying something cheap in England." "We'll take a cut on the sales, the banks will agree to anything to get rid of this housing estate." " Is it moral?" " Of course!" "These poor people will finally get the chance to move to England." "The local residents saw your cars, expect a reaction." "Protect us!" "We have to get out of here." "Over there." "How long have you been in England?" "20 years." "Had you already been a property owner?" "No, but I've just bought my third house within a day, for the price of just one, where I come from." "Any other plans in England, or in India, maybe?" "God willing." "I won't leave you in the hands of Uncle Fetid." "If you spilled the beans, he could well send you to prison for years." "And I wouldn't bring you any sweets." "My button's here." " Button!" " What button?" "Give me my button." "Leave my nephew alone." "He's a free individual, like the market." "In fact, you're a liberal who abhors freedom." "Things are always worse than they seemed." "Too late, Fall, my nephew's going to testify against you." "You'll pay for what you did to all these people you ruined, and to my family." "Because of you, my nephew is a cocaine addict and my daughter's gone mad." "It's the..." "It's the result of the education you're so proud of." "One more contradiction." "You're a loathsome character." "But you won't be stirring much longer." "Get out!" "You think you stand for good, and I, for evil?" "It's the other way round, Lord Norman." "I come from evil, I can only become good." "But you, starting from good, inevitably, you're on your way to evil." "By curbing its excesses, you want to maintain a system which has exploited and stripped the weak for generations." "But by pushing it to its limits, I want to shatter it." "To wipe this evil out." "Unquestionably, I'm the better person." "You think you're an anarchist, a nihilist." "The romanticism of your character blinds you." "But you're nothing if not pathetic." "A poor megalomaniac who's out of his mind." "Not at all." "Already, and thanks to me, out of your most virtuous adepts of saving and financing, only greedy profiteers are left." "And it's only a start." "I'm going to cause irreversible damage." "You're facing 30 years in prison." "No." "You'll never dare do anything against me." "I'll be too big to sink without dragging the whole country with me, and the entire world." "You'll never go as far as me." "And sitting on the edge of your four-poster bed, you're going to see your world collapse before your eyes." "Teach this young man how to fight with his bare hands and slaughter rats with his teeth." "The poor will descend on those who enslave them and set fire to their temples." "Recessions will follow on from ecological crises." "Disasters, migrations, war, anarchy, death of civilisation and the end of humankind!" "They opened the safe." "They've confiscated all the documents." "We don't care!" "I'll be as untouchable as the queen." "The King George is dropping." "Let the prices fall, we'll buy back first thing tomorrow." "We borrowed three million in shares, we'll make a profit of several billions." "The government's nationalised the King George!" "The shares are soaring!" "What do you think of the nationalisation?" "I'm very pleased that the government decided to act." "The dance of the lunatics is over." "George Fall, for the BEC." " Do you feel guilty, at least?" " Of course." "I accept that I caused some harm." "I plead guilty unreservedly." "And I want to make amends." "I'll beg for the clemency of the court and found The Repentant Traders Organisation." "Together, we'll collect funds for all the victims of the recession." "We'll do a tour of Europe by bike, to be closer to people." "I want to suffer to pay my penance and beg for forgiveness." "I give you my promise." "Come on." "Ruined, Georges Fall will certainly be given a jail sentence unless the court is lenient, following his public repentance." "ONE YEAR LATER" "The market is humiliated, bonuses are taxed." "You make your profit on bonuses." "I've travelled a bit." "I went to Greece, to Portugal, to Ireland, all over the place." "I came back with an idea." "I know a way of making billions." "An unlimited growth." "The Promised Land." "A totally deregulated market." "A bottomless dollar pit." "You'll multiply your profit ad infinitum." "Ad infinitum." "Do you have two millions to lend me?" "What have you brought, Mr Shit?" "Everything I own." "And two little words." "Sovereign debt." "The governments got indebted to save the banks from ruin." "And made weaker by this rescue, they are now being attacked by the banks." "Banks make an awful lot of money by speculating on public borrowing, and by betting on the weakening of national economies." "It started with Greece, but it could happen to us." "Have you lost, then, dad?" "Come on, children." "It's time for your lesson." "And so, to face up to the blows of the market, the governments have no choice but..." "Reduce their spending." "Set out austerity plans, call on everyone to help, postpone the age of..." "Retirement." "Cut down..." "On civil servants, on their..." "Their salaries, and all unnecessary expenses." "That way, there will be less waste and more work." "Isn't our capitalist system wonderfully clever?" "It turns what should have killed it into an advantage." "A true judoka, like me." "SUBTITLES:" "RED BEE MEDIA FRANCE"