Sean.
Hi.
This is the call you've been waiting for.
I wanted to talk to you
about making a donation.
I figured you would.
And about naming rights.
And so the names on these buildings
become more than just identifiers.
They become signifiers of a grander age,
when titans of industry understood
that the purpose of their wealth
was to support the performative arts
to improve the quality of life
for all those who live
in and visit this city.
Now give me the Gettysburg Address.
I'm sorry.
That sounded rehearsed.
I'm vamping.
I'm in a difficult spot.
No, yeah, I know.
Because what you need to tell
me is that the Eads family
owns the naming rights to
this building in perpetuity.
But I'm here offering you $100 million,
which you need to extract somehow
without giving me what I want.
I'm in a difficult spot.
No, yeah, I know.
Also, "performative" does
not mean "performance.
"
Most donors like an air of
I don't.
There are other naming
opportunities on the ground
that would give you the status
and sense of permanence
that you need.
Why is this building so important to you?
Here's why it's important to you.
It's the only way you are getting
even a dollar out of me.
Now, I happen to have discovered
that the remaining members
of the Eads family
are in a financial pinch.
They need to raise cash.
And they will have a hard time
getting ahold of the kind of loan they need
to pay off their other loans.
So, I want you to tell them
that I will pay them $25 million
to allow me to replace their
family name with mine.
Then I will donate the 100,
and you can begin your renovations.
Oh.
There is one condition I'll
need you to sign off on.
Don't scream.
Look there.
What the fuck?
Get out.
I'm calling the police.
You don't want to do that, Tara.
Who the fuck are you?
Your newest and bestest.
You should stay and listen to me.
Or else this goes viral.
You're making me weak.
"You're making me weak.
"
We have we have training against this.
You think you're gonna
fucking blackmail me?
So what? I fuck girls, guys.
Who cares?
Everyone fucks.
That thing has no chance to compromise me.
I hope it at least gets you off, man.
What gets me off
would disturb you at such
a deep level, honey,
you'd be best-served never
to think about it again.
Folks in your line care about
that kind of thing, though.
And this
Your hair
Which will test positive for cocaine,
can be in Chuck Rhoades'
hands within an hour.
You're gonna watch, listen, and report,
and everything's gonna be fine.
It's a lot to take in.
We've already gone through
all of this crap.
I heard back from my sources.
There's a war room set up at Birch's.
Lawyers, accountants the whole thing.
Guys at his shop are
prepping their résumés.
Well, if it was just smoke,
they'd issue a denial
Keep working.
Yeah.
They're treating this
article like it's a warrant.
Somebody wanted to hurt Birch,
and they wanted us on the ass end.
So they leaked it.
And I do not like it.
We need the reins back in our hands.
Understood.
You want me to stay on
this Axe/Decker thing?
No.
Set that aside.
Until we know at least as much
as this fucking reporter knows,
let's keep the brights on Steven Birch.
All right.
Get me every article
Randy Kornbluth wrote in the past year.
All of Mike Dimonda's articles, too.
We'll start there.
Mike.
Good parlor trick, knowing my address.
That'll look like a fun intimidation tactic
when I write this up.
Oh.
You're not writing this up.
Because that would be a small win,
and you're not in it for small wins.
No, you've come too far.
Too young an age for that.
I'm in it because people
deserve to know the truth
- about power and money and
- Whoa.
Wait a minute.
What are you, Glenn
Greenwald all of a sudden?
Come on.
You know, I've, uh, I've been reading
Randy Kornbluth lately.
He usually covers state politics.
He hasn't had a hard
business story in 18 months,
but all of a sudden,
he hooks into a full-blown crime story
On Steven Birch.
His article quotes
former federal prosecutor James Robbins,
who says that the connection
between hedge funds and company officials
must be probed.
You know who else likes
quoting James Robbins?
You.
Seven times in the past six months.
He's a widely respected
source with connections
He's a fucking rent-a-quote.
I know you really wrote the Birch story,
and I think I know why you
chose to hide that fact.
If I am such a careerist,
why would I ever hide something that good?
'Cause you thought it would
endear you to someone.
What you should have done,
if you were really playing
an elevated game,
was come to me with what you had.
See, if I had something better to give you
in exchange for you holding on to it
You have never been willing to
play any kind of game with me.
I didn't know you were ready
to play in the bigs, man.
Now I do.
So, these are the rules.
You
tell me who fed you that
No.
I'm gonna head inside.
Because this conversation has peaked,
and you don't get to tell me the rules.
You're correct.
I'm not gonna write up this ambush.
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