"Previously on "Billions"..." "You've been with him longer than you've been with me." "You and Axe... that's deep, and I fucking hate it." "I've got a source, a janitor." "That's as high as I can nail down so far, but he's already coming through." "I'm gonna get you back from Eastern and make you happy." " I'd like to be happy." " Got this made 'cause I was so fucking proud of Chuck for pushing back." "You know I didn't drive all the way up here to Westport to give out "attaboys."" "Had to bring the kick ass... with love." "Bad day." "Something happened." " But I'll fix it." " Wendy?" " You can't trust her." " I need an adjustment." "You're finally ready for a real session." "I take care of my people... same as when Mick Danzig gets tackled on his lawn with a machine gun in his fucking hands." "I'm the one who pays off the cops to make the problem go away." "That's what I do here." "Took me apart, put me together again." "Mm." "Red!" "You didn't get permission from Wendy?" "She's intractable." "I woke your assistant and made her tell me where you were." "I need to have her fired." "That's what I'd do, but you're nicer than me." "That I am." "Our comp meeting will happen as scheduled." "Your bonus will reflect your overall contribution to the firm, as always." "But I needed to do something else for you after what you did for me the other night." "Something special." " That's for you." " Axe." "This is un-fucking-believable." "Thank you." "Okay." "I gotta go." "I'm on my way to meet Wags." "Starting a capital raise." "After our session," "I had the sudden clarity that we were ready, that I was ready." "I see it looking at you, that you're ready." "But they may not be." "At least..." "not yet." "Good to see you, man." " Ah." " Welcome back, Lonnie." " Can't thank you enough." " Mm-hmm." " Please." " Excellent." "Uh..." "Don't even unpack." "I've got an assignment that has to happen now." "I'm listening." "There's a tip that I need you to bird dog for me." "Well, I'm birdy as a springer spaniel." "What is it?" "Criminal behavior perpetrated by Bobby Axelrod." "I thought the office got that case pulled." "Well, this case would be different." "It's not white collar." "Uh, federal firearms." "Bribery." "That's a monster." "Yeah." "It can't be tied to me." " Ah." " Yeah." "Start in Greenwich." "Mick Danzig." "D-a-n-z-i-g." "Now you loop Connerty and his team in when the time is right, but again leave me out of it, Lonnie." "Yeah." "I'll jump right in, keep your involvement entre nous." "Very good." "Why do I have to carry this shit?" "I'm not gonna carry it." "You know the drill." "Principal comes in unburdened, free but for his brilliant ideas." "And the COO... he lugs the books like a schoolboy with a crush." "There's no reason to even have these books." "This info can fit on the flash drive." "Do you know why we wear ties?" "To signify seriousness of purpose." "Ours is not to question why, ...but to do, if like the schoolboy, we want our kiss." "Roller coasters are great at an amusement park." "I love 'em." "The ups and downs are what make it worth riding." "Not so much in an investment vehicle." "Unlike a roller coaster, our returns only go up." "But your life, Axe..." "The fund's profile." "You went from managing 10 billion in outside money to half that." " All of it yours." " That's true." "A year like that makes you question everything." "Makes you find new answers, too." "What'd you figure out?" "That it's all about my why." "I don't get to think about business in such an esoteric manner." "I have to evaluate risk, reward, return." "That's it." "And to that end... my people have a few questions." "Your Sharpe Ratio's very low." "How does an idea turn into an investment at your shop?" "What's your mosaic theory at Axe Capital?" "Fees from funds like ours used to pay your overhead." "How are you dealing with floating it all yourself?" "I can't allow myself to care about that." "What I do care about is making decisions to benefit a greater number of people." "Now when I'm only working for myself or my staff," "I'm sharp enough." "But when I'm making decisions for you as well as me, that's when I'm twice as careful, twice as focused, because I cannot live with losing somebody else's money." "That's my why." "Have you had your Carter Staley meeting yet?" "Is he allocating to you?" "He's a lemming." "soon as you net one major allocator, he'll be in." "He was supposed to be the major allocator that would make the others comfortable." "We just one need domino." "Yeah." "Greenwich PD." "Thank you for bringing that in, Robin." "My pleasure, sir." "Duty rosters for the last several months, along with vacations times and radio call log." "If your subpoenas are in order, would you mind telling me what you're looking for?" "Yes." "Yes, I mind telling you." "So you are that confident you can get back to the numbers you were at." "No doubt." "I have meetings lined up all week." "Terrific." " Is Staley aboard yet?" " Not yet." "Doesn't matter." "I'd be thrilled to be first money in." "Wunderbar." " Another whiff." " Yep." "If it's that's easy, you know they're not coming in." "Nope." "Just there for the story." ""Axe pitched me." "How the mighty have fallen."" "We gotta close Carter Staley." "Officer Salter responded to a disturbance call at the Danzig residence but found no reason to pursue matters with Mr. Danzig." "My client has nothing further to say." "We're going to be interviewing the rest of the shift that was on that night." "I'm gonna make it very clear to them." "Cooperation results in candy canes." "Obfuscation will get you coal." "Now let's talk about this vacation your client took to Vanuatu in early September." " What was the purpose..." " Recreation." "If you want to lodge formal charges, let's rock and roll." "Otherwise, you..." "Don't you worry." "We're about to rock like Cameo in '86." "You're smashing back every one of their questions ...when they fucking ask them." "Like Agassi in his prime." "The dam is gonna break soon." "I don't need the Coach K bullshit right now." "Well, what do you need?" "Not sure." "Something." "Throw those books aside." "No, take those books, go back to the office, and I'll see you after." "Here's how simple it is." "I've outperformed the SP by 38.7% over the past 15 years." "But that's not at issue here." "The issue is the turmoil, the aspersions cast on my fund and me." "I'm talking about 9/11, arrests, whether I run a clean shop." "And I understand that." "In your shoes," "I'd factor it in, too." "But I'd also factor in the true cost of missed opportunity." "In the span of... say, what?" "A year?" "Nobody's gonna give a shit about any of that." "But the growth that you will have missed out on?" "That's gonna eat you from the inside." "In a year's time, I'd be happy to revisit." "In a year's time, you're not gonna be able to get me on the phone." "When I walk out that door today, we are friends for life, or you don't exist to me ever again." "I'm about to go on the run of a lifetime." "I am aligned." "I feel it." "And I know you can see it." "I'm here, but in ten seconds, the bullet train leaves." "And if you wanna make money, climb the fuck aboard." "Yes!" " Whoo!" " Yeah!" "I shouted out when you called me." "Holy fuck, we're back!" "Great, boss." "Come on." "Come on!" "Can't imagine how the bonus comp sessions would've gone if it went the other way." " Welcome back." " Good to see you." "Good to see you, man." "So... wanted to hit the ground running, but wanted you guys looped in on what I'm working..." "Axelrod." "Mandate to find extracurricular crimes." "You found one?" "Bribery of police officials." "Yeah, I got a pair of, uh, Greenwich cops with links to an Axelrod PM taking a vacation to Vanuatu a little while back." "Yeah, you know who vacations there?" "No one." "Oh, that place is a haven for offshore banking." "Wait, you think these cops went to visit their payoff money?" "Set up their accounts?" "Yeah, I had 'em turn their heads and cough, and they didn't give anything up, but... once the money's been tracked, they won't have a choice." "I'll e-mail you guys what I have." " This could really be something." " Yeah." " How'd you step into it?" " On a hunch." "I reviewed arrest records of all Axe Capital..." "There were no arrests." "We checked." "Right." "So then I looked into the suspicious activity reports in the Greenwich PD's dispatch log." "Found a few that raised a red flag that hadn't gone all the way through the system." "Huh." "That's some fucking hunch." "Don't hand me that card." "I gave you that card." "Raul." "Okay, you went this far, get right to it." "You have a problem." "You greased some fellows in my union." "If you say I did." "I do." "And it worked." "Word is the US Attorney's office knows something about an... automatic weapon, paid off cops, and one of your guys." "You wouldn't know anything about it, would you?" "I think I had a dream about it once." "Further word says they're rolling through people, rolling over them to get to the truth of the story." "How'd it get to you?" "I make it my business to still know what's going on." "I have three sons and six nephews in various branches, and we don't miss much." "That's for sure." "I'll say a more complete thank you at a later date, but... thank you for being a friend." "Always." "And slow down on these goddamn winding roads," "Or next time it won't be the US Attorney that gets you." "If one of the officers flips, confesses, or if they find the money or gun and can trace it..." "They cannot trace the funds back to us." "Yet." "They were securely handled, intermediaries, overseas banks." "But eventually, everything has a trail." "The laws regarding this type of thing... bribery of public officials, automatic weapons possession, discharge, are not open to interpretation." "No judge's personal bent is going to help us here." "If Rhoades knows about it, then one of the cops is already talking, because Danzig doesn't know how we did what we did." "And they haven't picked him up anyway." "Orrin... you should leave for this part." "Thanks for your counsel, as always." "Invaluable." "I serve at your pleasure." "How?" "Wendy Rhoades." "I had a session." "Careless, I know." "You needed connection." "Few of us don't." "Should I prepare the materials for her?" "Yes." "It would be best if you continue on with her as is, so we can monitor her." "You're right." "Hey." "Kids ate." "I waited for you." "Come here." "You were right about Wendy Rhoades." "I told her something compromising, and it's coming back on me." "Fucking knew it." "I told you." "I knew it." "She needs to be shut down." "Tight." "Right fucking now." "Yeah, when the time is right." "But for now... remember the contingency plan we discussed?" "It's time to put it in motion." "Fuck." "It's really happening." "Yes." "How are you gonna play it?" "Like nothing's wrong." "So when we tie Axelrod to bribery of law enforcement officers and obstruction of justice..." "We are sitting pretty in Schaefer City." "This is Axelrod in jail." "Real jail time, too." "This is criminal behavior that, if proven, takes away any middle ground between right and wrong and marks him wrong forever." "It does." "I am frankly astonished." "This is excellent work." "I never should've detailed you over to Eastern." "How did we let him go, Bryan?" "I-I don't actually know." "How the hell did it happen, Chuck?" "This kind of go-get-em attitude and competence..." "We've missed that around here." "Haven't we, Bryan?" "I guess so." "Very good, gentlemen." "What are our next steps?" "Good morning." "It is." " So?" " "So"?" "That's what you have to say to me?" "Wait." "I feel like I walked in halfway through the play." "I decided I wasn't gonna say anything, but now, looking at you, sitting there, smiling in my face, fuck it." "You sold me out." "What?" "I tell you something compromising, and the next thing I know, the fucking feds, your husband, is up my ass again." "Hmm?" "Just so you know, and..." "I wanna be clear as daybreak on this..." "If I go..." "You go with me." "I have your web traffic on our server here, and from your laptop." "You got quite a dark side, don't you?" "I would imagine this would make" "Dr. Wendy Rhoades look very unprofessional." "And, of course, the whole world, including the office of the US Attorney for the Southern District, and the Attorney General, would see it, too." "It's funny." "I never instructed my man to take these when he set up the baths, but..." "I suppose on, uh, on some deep level, I knew he would." "And you, being such a master of the subconscious... or is that mistress?" "I suppose you would've known, too." "I didn't sell you out." "Polygraph me, motherfucker." "I tell you about my issues with Danzig, and then in, ooh, the space of, what, 48 hours, there's a fucking investigation underway!" "Twelve-thousand square feet of living space and, of course, complete privacy." "It's lovely." "For people in our... situation, which would you recommend?" "Well, you can pick a school based on the villa or vice versa." "I have a packet of all those options for you." "And the timing can work as we've planned?" "Yes." "These particular schools are used to business people's children coming and going for a variety of reasons." "Will you be enrolling them under their real names?" "What?" "Some don't." "The stigma." "They want their kids to have a clean run at their new lives." "We can provide fresh passports for all of you." "No." "Yes, their real names." "If I may," "I knew I might be doing this for your husband one day, but his choices aren't always yours." "You and the children, you don't have to go." "But are you sure you wanna go through with this?" "Because you know you can't come back." "We're all going together." "Let's talk about travel." "Yes." "Mmm." " Oh, hey." " Hey." "I've been thinking about this burger at least twice a week." "Exiled and then returned." "Damned and saved." "I'm just saying I miss the burger, Bryan." "It's what you're not saying that has my attention." "What the fuck?" "Dude." "Are you okay?" "Uh, I'm kind of... fucked up, honestly." "That makes sense." "Here's what makes sense." "You didn't..." "stumble upon this Danzig-Axelrod thing." "Someone fed it to you." "I've developed sources." "One came through." "Yes." "One just happened to come through the minute you walk back in the door?" "At exactly the right time for you to pull that out for Chuck and the rest of the squad, huh?" "Look..." "I understand how you're feeling with everything you've put into this." "But we can work together." "We can share the win." "Chuck's the one who gave it to you." "He got it somehow, and he's using you as his shill." "All right, check yourself, right now, before you come at me with some bullshit that wouldn't work on a street corner drug dealer." "You are gonna get hurt here in ways you can't see, and I'm trying to stop it from happening, for all of our sakes, but you gotta give me the real." "Beneficent as hell, but I'll pass." "Look, I know you bootstrapped your way to where you are." "But I want you to take one look into my eyes and tell me if you really think that I had it any easier." "If you have an issue with Chuck, take it up with him." "Otherwise, don't piss on my integrity." "Excuse me." "I'm gonna go back to eating my burger." "Breaching a country's Air Defense Identification Zone in Europe today, very tough." "Dangerous for everyone involved." "Which is why I'll pay you double." "Come on, guys, are we solving this, or am I gonna find someone else who can?" "All right, then." "Hi." "Where are the kids?" "I sent them to Nancy's so we could do this." ""This"?" "I know what you did." "I don't believe this." "Everything I've done, no matter what, is for us." "I don't believe that, not anymore." "Not after you broke into my computer, opened my files, and read my session notes." "You stole the evidence you needed." "I had no choice." "We all have choices." "That's right." "That's right, and I'd do it again." "Because even if you can't put together what he's done to us, I can." "And that gives you the right to break into my computer?" "If you give someone your password, is it really" " ...breaking in?" " Yes, it is." "Do not come at me with another word of lawyer bullshit." "You can talk yourself into any kind of justification." "Sure." "Yeah." "But, you know, it's no worse than you and your," ""I'm there for my patients" bullshit, because these patients that you see are criminals." "That's the point." "And all the proof I could ever need is in that computer." "In my own house." "I know this much about the law..." "You can't use what you found there." "It's privileged and inadmissible." "And if you do and you're caught," "I won't lie on the witness stand." "Don't worry." "A wife can't be compelled to testify against her husband." "Oh, I won't have to be compelled." "I will volunteer." "Jesus Christ, you really are one of them now, aren't you?" "Holy shit." "Are you really turning this on me?" "You betrayed my trust." "After you were out all night." "And don't give me this crap about how it was all business either, because I saw the two of you out there." "Cozy as a couple of teenagers sharing a cigarette after a backseat fuck." "Wow." "You spied on me, too?" "No." "I wasn't there to spy." "Uh, it was to talk to you." "'Cause I'm desperate, Wendy." "I wasn't up there because of the case." "It was personal." "This man, this motherfucker, is destroying our lives." "He's driving us apart, and he's doing it deliberately." "No." "You are." "He is an outside factor." "This problem is here." "You could've walked away from this a million times." " You told me you had." " I can't." "It's not that simple." "Even this, uh, the reason we're here right now having this conversation, he knew that I was acting on the bribery before anyone could've known it." "He will not let me just walk away." "He will not stop until he ruins me." "Now you sound like a crazy person." "He had me followed, all right?" "'Cause he's trying to trip me up, he's trying to trap me." "So I had to play dirty right back at him." "Followed?" "Where?" "Trapped you how?" "Uh..." "After I saw you and Axe together," "I got very worked up, past the point of, uh..." "I went to see Troy." "And like I said, he had someone on me and, uh... well, if I didn't get lucky, there would be pictures on the front page of today's Post." "You went to see her without fucking tell me." "Nothing happened." "And I couldn't go through with anything anyway because, uh..." "Because you weren't there." "How touching." "I'm cut off." "I'm cut off from you, from us." "And you sit there and you try to claim moral high ground." "Oh, oh, oh, oh." "I claim it?" "While you go on working at a criminal organization, and you can't even fucking admit it to yourself, Wendy." "And you prop it up and you suck in all that it gives you... status, money, control." "You know what?" "It gives me a hell of a lot more than you do, including honesty!" "Really?" "What?" "Like this?" "How'd you earn that new hunk of metal that's parked outside?" "What's that worth?" "A quarter mil?" "I don't know." "I didn't have it appraised." "You know, what you should be appraising is your conscience." "'Cause you can lie to me about how it makes you feel, but you can't lie to yourself." "And if you're right there in the middle of it with a bunch of criminals, what do you think that makes you?" "You don't get to ask me that question anymore." "I am going to take a walk." "Pack your shit." "When I get back, be gone." "Good news, boss." "Uh, banking authorities in Vanuatu have revealed that our cops have significant holdings there." "It's gonna take some time... these fuckers are not cooperative... before we find that source of the funds, but we know what we're going to find." "Case is terminated." "What the fuck is going on?" "Looked like a winner, but it's not." "'Cause there is no gun." "Uh, there will never be a gun." "That's good legwork, Lonnie." "Thank you." "But I don't want you burning out your legs chasing another ghost." "Bryan..." "Okay." "It's Chinatown, Jake." "Been here a while?" "Yes." "I didn't expect you back so soon after how you left." "I don't believe that, not anymore, not after you broke into my computer, opened my files," " ...read my session notes..." " Jesus." "You stole the evidence you needed." "I had no choice." "'Cause you can lie to me about how it makes you feel, but you can't lie to yourself." "And if you're right there in the middle of it, with a bunch of criminals, what do you think that makes you?" "That's a hell of a question to have to answer." "I know." "I am so sorry to have doubted you." "This is the part where you tell me you're gonna destroy everything you showed me, right?" "I will destroy all copies of it, whether you believe me or not." "What else are you prepared to do?" "Your bonus." "I was planning to give you two million." "It just went up to five." "How do I know you mean it, that I won't walk down to my office and find it's one million and another four you're keeping invested here for me?" "I'll wire it to you now, to your own account." "Wags, five sticks wired now to Wendy Rhoades' personal account." "Whoa!" "Powerball winner." "Check your e-mail in two minutes." "I will." "I'll triple it for that recording you played me just now." "It's worth that much to you?" "Consider that my opening offer." "He's still the father of my kids." "I had to try." "I quit, Bobby." "Chuck was right about one thing." "I can't be in denial about what this place is, what you are, any longer." "Not after what you showed me." "I know you trade on inside information and by other illegal means." "Or you let it be done for you." "You encourage it." "Are you taping me now?" "No." "I just need to hear myself say it." "Look, I can explain..." "Good luck with that... and with everything." "Goodbye." "Yeah?" "Where's Connerty?" "I don't know." "He left." "I know you're pissed." "I get it." "But let's channel that, shall we?" "How did you know that Tara Mohr was leaking information?" "She just felt wrong." "She was always just around, hovering." "Why?" "She can't be the only one." "We're gonna need personnel files for this floor, and banking records." "I wanna know who else is wrong." "Yeah, you got it." "Hey." "Everything's set." "All we have to do is..." "get it to the plane with us." "You're amazing." "Thank you." "But we don't have to go." "No?" "The leak was Wendy, but not how we thought." "She didn't sell me out." "Still, case is done." "Rhoades can't act on what he has." "Oh, fuck." "We really don't have to go." "No." "Oh." "Ohh." "I am so goddamn glad we don't have to turn our boys into fondue eaters." "And Wendy?" "Gone." "For good, I think." "Well, it's for the best, you know." "She outlived her utility as a weather vane of what her husband was gonna do." "She's more than that, Lar." "You know, I don't really want to talk about her anymore." "Look at this." "There was a time when this was more than we ever could've imagined having, you know?" "We'd always talk about doing without, living simple." "Hard to think about going back." "Yeah." "Really is." "Well, I'll return it all to the bank tomorrow." "You know what?" "Don't." "Leave it here." "You never know." "That's him." "African-American gentlemen, Jefferies, Clement." "Age 62." "Okay." "Let's see if we can Tinker Tailor his ass." " Dale." " Sir?" "The team needs the latest on our Axe Capital wire." "I need the latest on the wire myself bec..." "Don't answer me back." "Conveying the intel is your job." "The FBI can't put those wires up and then not share on the comeback." "Sir, all due respect, I'm awfully confused." "Don't worry, don't worry." "We'll straighten it all out." "I'll book a meeting with you and Terri." "What are you eating?" "Nothing." "Not here." "Too good to pass up." "Bruno, what's hot?" "I got a fresh nonna pie and a hot pepperoni." "Nonna pie." "Hey." "Enjoy, eh?" "And lock up when youse are done." "Good night, Bruno." "Jesus." "Okay." "Now what?" "I don't wanna ruin your appetite just as you started digging in, but..." "I need to tell you that your boss got that bogus information on Axe and the cops by accessing his wife's private notes." "Fuck!" "Right." "I'm sure by now he's dropped it." "He has." "Then my part is done for now." "Oh, what the fuck?" "Come on." "Hang for a minute, Bryan." "Listen to what Bobby has to say." "I can't sit with you." "Sure, you can." "You want to." "Same way you want to stare at the lions at the zoo." "Bach walks around thinking he's better and smarter than everyone." " And you know why?" " 'Cause he is." "That's right, only he says you're just as smart." "Even more focused, younger, hungrier." "Dangerous." "I don't know about any of that." "I know hard work." "Yeah, you work hard." "But it's much more than that." "You're driven the way only someone brought up from nothing, the way we were, can be." "Chuck Rhoades, for all his ambition, he can never need it the way we do." "But the guy's had a safety net all his life." "You and me?" "We never had a fucking net." "That's why it can never work, in the long-term, you under him..." "Because he can't understand what matters to you the way I can." "Hmm." "I spend every minute of my day going after guys like you." "That attitude, that focus, that ability... it's not being fostered where you're at, is it?" "It's being thwarted, in fact." "And eventually... what you're feeling will turn to disgust and self-hatred, and in the end, apathy, if it hasn't already." "Oh, that's your diagnosis?" "What's your cure?" "You know what it is." "Come work for Bach's firm on my account." "It's a different kind of integrity where at least you know you're never lying to yourself." "I'm offering challenging work." "You'll be allowed to win... expected to, on your own terms." "And, of course, you'll be rewarded." "Seven figures, starting." "And an ability to help your family, really help them." "Your mom... she won't have to work so hard, not at all, unless she wants to." "Time to take your seat at the grown-ups' table." "That's not who I am." "I can't picture it." "Oh, I think you can picture it now." "The Bryan Connerty at the settlement conference... he would've stormed out of here the moment I walked in." "But you stayed, and you listened." "Hmm." "And like you said..." "I stare at the lions at the zoo, too." "Doesn't mean I wanna be one." "Sure, it does." "Everyone wants to be a lion." "Most people just never get the chance." "I'm offering you one now." "Thanks for the pizza." "I didn't hear "no."" "Yeah?" "Source says Rhoades has listening devices in place at Axe Cap." "Fuck." "Fuck!" "Okay, get a sweep going now." "Already in progress." "Welcome to the club, sir." "Chuck Rhoades." "We spoke earlier." "As I said, I'm sorry, we don't have any suites available on short notice." "I'll let you know as soon as one opens up." "Thank you." "You've reached Wendy Rhoades." "Please leave a message." "All clear again, just like the last two times." "Are you sure you and your guys were thorough?" "You watched." "We hit every inch of the place." "So what do we do now?" "There's nothing more we candoon thislevel." "We can only go deeper." "Then go deeper." "All the way down." "Fuck!" "Fuck!" "There's nowhere left to check." "We've gone down to the rivets." "I say there's nothing here." "Are you sure?" "You can never be sure." "I thought your kind could only come in when invited." "Look at what you did to this fucking place." "I wonder what would've made you feel you needed to do this." "But you do know we were never able to get a warrant to bug it." "Oh, not having a warrant wouldn't stop you." "Or maybe there is one buried in the ceiling somewhere." "I can't..." "I can't really remember." "What the fuck are you even doing here?" "I come bearing gifts." "Open it." "I want you to have that." " As a reminder." " I don't need a reminder." "The memory of shoving that up your ass makes me laugh at least once a day." "Yeah, I bet it does." "But I'm not laughing." "Oh, you should." "The studies say that laughter does more to contribute to a general sense of well-being than almost anything else." "Oh, yeah." "No, of course." "I love to laugh." "I'm not laughing now is what I should've said." "Oh, why is that?" "Because my wife kicked me out." "Good for her!" "But she's not here either, if you're trying to find her." "We've both lost her." "Oh." "Well, then maybe you have a sliver of my pain, because you stripped away everything that matters to me." "You came at me!" "Because you're a criminal, Bob." "And it's my job to shut 'em down and put 'em in jail." "Well, if that's true, you're not very good at it." "You're also full of shit." "What have I done wrong?" "Really?" "Except make money, succeed." "All these rules and regulations..." "arbitrary, chalked up by politicians for their own ends." "And these fines you're always going after..." "Where do they go?" "Who gets them?" "The poor?" "No." "The Treasury, the government." "It's taxation by other means." "Save the civics lesson and the Ayn Rand bullshit." "The fines are the minimum of what you should have to pay." "Oh, you decide what cases to take, and you only take the cases you won't lose." "But you got it wrong with me, ...because this country was built on industry and competition." "So they will always have a place for me." "Oh." "And maybe a few generations from now, they'll tell stories about you, ...like they do Jesse James .or Billy the Kid." "Oh, the myth is so fuckin' romantic." "The rugged individual who won't back down to the unimaginative, do-gooder authorities." "Only in reality, those guys stole and hurt and destroyed lives." "Now you say you don't think you've harmed anyone." "I say that the effect is the same, worse even, because you infect the entire world." "You throw the whole system off balance, leaving chaos and poverty in your wake." "I make the system run." "I have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes and philanthropy." "I am employ hundreds of people directly, thousands indirectly." "What do you do?" "Nothing... besides suck from the municipality, feed off of it." "And in exchange, you what?" "Keep order?" "You're a traffic cop hiding in federal robes." "I'm moved." "I am... that is gonna play huge to the other guys ...on your cell block." "Oh, you're sure to become President of the, uh," "Libertarian Club of Danbury Federal Prison." "'Cause no matter what you say, that's where you're ending up." "Keep that as a memento." "And every time you look at it, know that deal is as good as it is ever gonna get for you." "And one day, you are gonna wish like fucking hell that it was still on the table." "Then you should've kept half of that for yourself, too." "Because when I pull a deal off the table," "I leave Nagasaki behind." "You know the only enemy more dangerous than a man with unlimited resources is one with nothing to lose." "And that is what you are looking at right here."