Billions

You're in need of correction, aren't you?

Yeah.

I might leave marks.

Not a great idea.

That's not a no.

- -

That's got to burn.

Let me fix it.

Ahh.

J' hip-hop music j'

j'j'j'

See, what you have to understand, Michael,

is that this is a fuck up-free zone.

Guys who sit in Chuck's chair become mayor,

governor.

We have to be beyond reproach.

So no tinder at the goddamn office, okay?

It feels like yesterday I was telling you all this.

- Mm, 18 months ago. - Huh.

Added some stuff of my own in there.

Yeah, tinder. I heard.

Come on. He's waiting.

Well, off the record, the, uh, Attorney General's

always happy to take my recommendations

of who to appoint to the federal bench.

Uh-huh.

Very good.

Thank you.

Sir.

Okay, guys. What do we got on deck?

Progress report on two of the open investigations.

Ari spyros from the sec...

Call back.

...Is here.

I'm sorry, sir. He—he wouldn't...

It's fine, Kim. It's okay. Thank you.

Well, spyros.

What's the occasion?

We're not interviewing right now.

Funny. Here.

This got your panties all sticky?

Drenched.

Suspect trading pattern on pepsum pharmaceuticals.

Uh-huh.

One of my grunts riding the mid as

spotted a days-long buy spike.

Get me spyros.

Take a look.

You can all study the charts,

or I can give you the answers to the test.

Please.

Lenny bosco, old oaks investments.

Peter Decker, quaker Ridge financial.

Dan margolis, century capital.

These three small firms

all knew exactly when to buy and when to sell the stock.

They had inside information.

You must get pings like that every day.

We do.

So? Get them talking and fine them.

It's bigger than that.

All three firms have links

to Bobby axelrod.

J' dramatic music j'

Bobby fucking axe/rod. Man of the people.

You only have that exact look on your face when you're here.

The pizza's just really fucking good.

Take a bite.

Mmm. It's good.

Good? That is a thing of beauty.

That's why we lived in here when we were kids.

Hey.

I don't usually open for breakfast, guys.

You want another?

I do.

We want 'em all.

All?

I want to come in with you,

partner up.

What the fuck did you tell him, kid?

I don't want no charity.

Look, all I told him was the truth, Bruno, okay?

That I got a call from a guy

who said he was coming in here with a falafel shop

and would I contract the rebuild.

And when I asked you about it,

you said that you were getting squeezed by a new landlord.

And when I got that call,

I made a couple calls of my own.

Falafel shop goes in the mall.

We lock you in on a 20-year lease,

and I cover the overage.

I-I-I don't know, Bobby.

Come on, what is there to know?

You let me slide for weeks without paying

when I was coming in here every day after school.

That was just 'cause you were a good customer.

Which I want to keep being.

Nothing changes.

Thank you. Thank you.

I'd love to tell you I knew you'd grow up

to become what you did,

but to be honest,

I had no idea.

That makes two of us.

Come here.

Thanks.

J' dramatic hip-hop music j'

j'j'j'

Bobby, we are ready to roll

on something sweet.

I think you'll want to piggyback.

What do you got?

Lumetherm power getting bought by electric sun.

Price is $41. Stock's trading at $35.

We're looking at a 17% bump

in two weeks when the deal closes.

Annualized, that's $442...

I'd love to size up.

Maybe you buy two million shares from the main fund.

- Sounds about right. - Great.

Scott kazawitz's name is being floated

as the new chairman.

Kazawitz.

That's a new piece of information.

Well, that's what you pay me for.

Who said this deal is gonna close?

Ben said it would this morning.

Me? Everyone's saying it.

Who is this?

My new analyst.

Well, if we hired you, you must be a genius.

Yale?

Stanford, then wharton.

Okay, Stanford-wharton.

Electric sun is controlled by kazawitz.

He also owns 19.3% of lumetherm

backdoored through his stake in southern wind.

You see that block trade last Thursday

come out of merrill?

Yeah, that was fortress

cashing out their shorts before the merger.

Wasn't it?

Trade was at 12:52, when everyone was at lunch,

which tells me they wanted it to be missed.

You guys caught it, which is something, I guess.

But you're looking at it backward.

Electric sun's offer was just a ploy

to temporarily prop up lumetherm.

Typical kazawitz play to bail on a loser.

He's an animal.

The block trade was kazawitz getting out of southern wind,

getting out of lumetherm.

He rode the story, now he's out,

which means you need to be out.

In fact, short.

It'll slide to $32 and change after word breaks.

Wow.

That's a good catch, axe.

My cholesterol's high enough.

Don't butter my ass, danzig. Just get smarter.

Your read was good with the information you had.

You're new. You'll figure it out.

Or you'll be gone.

Jesus Christ.

Yeah. And he went to hofstra.

This is big. It's criminal.

And I want to be a part of treeing Bobby axelrod.

Hey, I want to be an astronaut,

but, uh, you know, I get airsick in choppy weather.

Your burden of proof is lower.

They'll talk to you because they're happy

to pay a fine and move on.

I'm at the coalface.

And I really don't appreciate you strolling in here

and telling me how to deploy my resources

because you can't build your own fucking case.

I get it. You guys are rock stars.

Yeah, we get it. You want to be one too.

None of that matters.

Uh, spyros, if you've locked on to some trail of bread crumbs

that leads to Bobby axelrod,

that could be a win for everyone.

So leave your stuff, we'll take a look,

and we'll let you know if it rises to the level

that we can prosecute,

one that won't be reversed on appeal.

You know, I understand the source of your reluctance.

- Uh-huh. - I have a wife too.

But it's your job...

Hey, you got your answer.

We're done.

J' dramatic music j'

J'j'j'

I loved and remember

each and every one of your fathers,

so I'm proud of all of you

who are ready to head off to school in the fall.

Twenty-six of ours put through college

by the memorial foundation so far.