[inhales sharply] But why
are you feeling this way?
Is it just about Sandicot?
No.
There are other things that I see.
And I remember being a kid
and our reverend saying,
- "He who looks"
- Yeah, we need to stop here.
[notebook rustles]
I'm not sure having an
overgrown conscience
is gonna help you get that
investor relations job,
you know?
- [Deb] Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
[door clacks]
[door closes]
- You know what I hate?
- Fish, fowl, or mammal?
Learning something about myself.
When is that bullshit just gonna stop?
- Dollar Bill?
- What he said,
he's kind of right.
I've become a pussy.
No.
We just made a choice to
stop living on the edge is all.
Is it?
- [door opens]
- What'd she say?
- [door closes]
- She told me to suck it up.
Then she said an overgrown
conscience isn't gonna help me.
She said that? Okay.
She saw through it.
- [file thuds]
- Axe, I was thinking about
my position here, and I think
I would make an excellent
It was a script, Deb.
Don't internalize.
[footsteps, door opens]
Look who's making a racket in Sandicot.
[door closes]
He's coming again, isn't he?
He never wasn't.
[tablet cover thuds]
tense music
Tell Dollar Bill no on Klaxon.
[footsteps depart]
[door opens]
[door closes]
What do you get a billionaire?
God, I wish I had the stones to skip it.
I hate these things.
You love parties.
Well, I recently took the
Myers-Briggs personality test,
and it turns out I'm an introvert.
I'm not sure that test is rock-solid.
I thought I like parties, but I don't.
On a deeper level,
it disturbs my equilibrium.
Is that why you woke up the
day after the Christmas party
in a yellow snow drift
behind the strip joint?
Exactly.
[typing on keyboard]
[knocks on door]
- [door clatters]
- Bearing of a Roman Centurion?
- [door closes]
- Or slices through rough seas
- like a Man-O-War?
- What?
Birthday speech.
You got skills?
Not for all that.
But the party, I have a conflict.
I want to gauge the
importance of attending.
Axe doesn't take attendance,
but he knows who's in the room.
- I'll leave it at that.
- Fuck.
[exhales]
Did you just say "fuck"?
I did.
You're one of us now.
[door handle clacks]
[door clatters]
dramatic music
What was the nature of
your job at Axe Capital
as you understood it?
I was to be next to Axe
in every meeting,
to be the firewall
against illicit dealings.
I was a witness and to make sure
things were being done above board.
Tell me about Axe.
He was unreadable.
At three o'clock, he was writing checks
to aid earthquake
victims in the Caribbean.
At 3:45, he was cornering the market
on Churchill first editions
just to stick it to an enemy.
And then one day,
he just fragged my ass.
I never really saw it coming.
Did he give an explanation?
No.
I guess he just didn't
want a witness anymore.
Referred to himself as a Terminator.
What does that mean?
A cybernetic organism,
programmed to kill.
Living tissue over
robotic endoskeleton
I've seen the movie.
I just meant
He has some sort of programmed mission,
and I was standing in the way.
The day before he fired me,
Bill Stearn approached
with a play that was
clearly over the line,
citing a source named Victor.
Did he say the
They didn't talk about it
because I was in the room.
[exhales] But without me,
one or both of them
would have circled back,
no doubt about it.
Or else Axe would've filled my position.
No.
He wanted no impediments
to illegal activity,
and that's what he has now.
Dollar Bill's tough.
We have a history.
Anyone else?
Try Taylor Mason.
They have become something
of a prodigy, a go-to.
Anything big Axe is wading into,
Taylor's there with a snorkel mask.
tense music
[crickets chirping]
I believe it's time,
nay, long past time,
to transform your charitable arm
and engender a permanent foundation.
Properly stewarded,
it will write the name
of your benevolence on the ages,
alongside Carnegie, Vanderbilt.
A creation of consequence.
Because otherwise, what's it all for?
Is that right?
I don't pretend to answer
that which lies in the
realm of the theologians.
Yet you just happened to pitch
me legacy on my birthday?
I won't claim happenstance.
This is the time when a man like you
allows reflection to dictate action.
He thinks I need him to steward
this whole legacy thing.
You don't need me,
but I would be qualified
for such a position.
What do you make at your current gig?
I prefer not to really get into that.
It's public record, Sean.
Have some dignity and spare us the time.
Two-hundred twenty-five thousand.
Okay.
And a, uh, "true steward"
of a multi-billion dollar
charitable foundation,
what would that put me back, Wags?
In the range of $350,000
to $500,000 a year,
I think it was.
Yeah.
See, I have looked
into this before.
And you are not the first one in here
looking to double his salary.
[clicks teeth] But
today is your lucky day,
because I do want to set up
a permanent foundation
with you as its steward.
I accept.
- [palms slap]
- With one urgent recommendation.
Cancel your party.
That's direct.
You just offered me enough,
so I have to be.
You cannot throw a lavish party
at the very moment when you're
draining the meager resources
of what amounts to a village
of apple-cheeked orphans.
That party was organized long
before Sandicot got grounded.
A change of course?
That's reactionary.
Weak.
I am not hiring you
to serve me weak tea.
You're really hiring him? Why?
Hired.
We shook.
[chair clatters]
I'm setting a course that
needs to be acknowledged
in all future stories
about wherever we go next.
Ayles may be what he is,
but he speaks the nasal language
of culture and credibility.
And you just bought that.
It's what all the great
philanthropists did,
wrote their names on the ages
and laundered their
reputations in the process.
I'm keen to get started.
- [doorknob rattles]
- Hey.
I gotta go relieve Wendy.
- What was so important?
- [door closes]
[briefcase thuds]
Ice Juice.
It's a natural beverage company.
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