Leverage

Can I get you boys any refills?

No, thank you, Cora.

No.

Can I get that back on the way out?

If you're good, Mr. Cabella. Rules are rules.

Listen, honey. Our condolences.

Your father was a kind host.

It's hard to see his empty chair there.

He was the best of us.

Yes.

To John Mcrory!

John Mcrory! John Mcrory! John Mcrory!

Is that Mistress Cora Mcrory?

I don't believe we've met, Mister -

Mark Doyle.

This is Liam.

This is Liam's brother.

My sympathies, by the by.

Aye.

Forgive me for conducting such dirty business

On your day of mourning,

But himself owed me a debt, and I've come by to collect.

My father owed you money?

He took out a loan 12 months ago -

$5,000.

With interest, it's $15,000 and come due today.

$15,000?

I don't have that - unlike yankee banks,

I don't give unsecured loans.

Your dad put up his pub as collateral.

The bar is all he had.

In this life,

Some are given to need, some provision.

My boys tell me you're the sole heiress.

So... $15,000.

Pay up.

Or, if it's easier for you, I'll take the pub.

Ugh!

Thank you, Liam.

Go on, love.

Collect yourself.

Check your assets.

We'll wait for exactly two hours.

So, this is paying respects, hmm?

Oh, absolutely, yeah.

I mean, it's an Irish wake.

You know there's a poker game going on in the back room?

Yeah, hey, at one time or another,

Every man in this neighborhood

Played in John Mcrory's Friday-Night game.

It's an honor.

I mean, hell, my - my father played in it for 10 years before -

Then this was your father's local?

Oh, hey, this - this was my father's office, right here.

And he held court

Right there on that stool.

And he would just...

I mean, I grew up in this place.

That must have been an interesting education.

Man: We can work something out.

Now, what have we learned, Nathan?

Don't gamble with another man's money.

Good lad.

Yeah, better than prep school.

What kind of crook was your dad?

Parker, you just -

He ran numbers.

Let me get this straight -

So you stop stealing, you stop drinking,

And you moved upstairs from a thief bar?

He did. I-I get that. You don't get that?

Why does nobody else get that?

No, the thing about it is, I mean,

Now it's just a neighborhood bar.

I mean, back in the day,

You know, you never knew who you were drinking next to.

You had the mob on one side, the law on the other.

Times have changed.

Yeah, you know, not that much, but, uh...

Cora here - I remember the day she was born.

She grew up here, too,

And she turned out all right.

Huh, Cora?

Ooh.

Redheads burn the hottest, don't they?

Easy.

She's like my niece.

She's not like your daughter, though.

Yeah, no, like my niece.

So I don't want you to like my niece

'cause she's like my niece. I don't like your niece.

No, but you know what I mean.

There.

That's all we have.

Let's see, now.

$210.

Noted.

Well...

That's only $14,790 to go.

The rich and powerful, they take what they want.

We steal it back for you.

And sometimes, bad guys make the best good guys.

We provide...

His name is Mark Doyle.

He's Irish.

You know, he says dad took out a loan from him a year ago.

I didn't believe him at first.

Thank you.

But I realize...

That it was just before the cancer took mom.

You know, I tried to help him with the bills.

He swore he had it under control.

I could have stopped this!

Well, no, no, listen.

This guy Doyle - he's a - he's a loan shark.

I don't think you could have helped.

But maybe we can.

No, he wants $15,000 in the next two hours,

Nate, or he's taking the bar.

I mean, I can't get that kind of money.

In two hours?

Why don't you do this, okay?

Why don't you go back downstairs

And tend to the guests and everything?

And we'll try to figure out something here.

Okay?

Okay. Thank you.

Why don't we just send her to the police?

I mean, I don't use them, but this is what they're for, right?

No, if Cora says to the police that she owes Doyle money,

Doyle denies it.

Six months later, he comes and burns down the bar.

And that's assuming

That he doesn't have a couple of local police on the arm.

Hardison: That's what sucks about the credit crunch.

Honest people can't get loans, sharks move in.

12 points on the interest every month -

There's no way to get out from under that.

I don't care. You don't collect debts at a wake.

You just don't do it.

Want me to go downstairs, break this guy's knees?

No, we need some reconnaissance,

Like, you know, why is this Irish loan shark here?

And what is this 2-hour timetable?

Why don't you call Tara? Tell her we got a job.

What's the game?

20 questions.

I'll do it in 10.

That one?

Right there.

Ooh.

I'm trish, and I'm lonely.

Shot of Jamie, rocks.

That's only a bit of Irish.

How'd you like a whole lot of Irish?

And what do you do?

Typical.

Only Americans ask for your occupation before your name.

I'm a bank, sweetheart.

You're a bit short for a bank.

Very clever.

It's a family business, mine - based back in Belfast.

I'm the V.P. in charge of overseas expansion.

Slow down. I love it. I love it.

Nothing but cash and an I.D.

I'm running it, but we got next to nothing on this guy.

No bank accounts, no credit cards.

H- he's totally off the grid.

Mark Doyle, loan shark.

If I were ashamed, I couldn't do my job, could I?

I provide a service for people with no recourse,

Help those with nowhere else to turn.

Society needs me.

Right.

But isn't it, um... Illegal?

As me da says, we pick up where the law leaves off.

Got something on dear old da - Tim Doyle.

He not only runs the family loan-sharking business

But used to kill people with nail bombs for the IRA.

You see, I convinced me da

To let me open a branch over here in Boston.

Grow the business, as it were.

For 200 years, America took Ireland's best and brightest.

I'm just here to collect the interest.

You are so smart.

So, um...

Why is it that everyone else is broke and you're not?

Cash only, love.

That's the secret.

Numbers on a screen can be manipulated,

But a cash business endures.

It was good enough for my da and his da before him.

It's good enough for me.

I got plane tickets.

Doyle's headed for Belfast in a couple of hours.

Okay, well, that explains the deadline.

But why take the bag of cash?

Tara, I need you to ask something.

How long are you in town?

Leaving tonight.