Patriot (2015) s01e08 Episode Script
L'Affaire Contre John Lakeman
1 [crowd chanting.]
Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! - - Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! [engine starts.]
- Hey.
- Yeah.
Pop? Yeah? Why the long face? What does that mean? What? Why the long face? When are you going to be British? You've been here 25 years.
What does it mean, long face? Why so blue? I have a task.
I have some work this year.
So, what? It involves your brother.
I'll need your help, Kkyman.
I'm going to ask a good deal from you.
It seems.
This year, Kkyman.
Thanks for having a cold one with me, man.
Sorry I'm a bring down right now.
But, I'm blue, man.
Yeah? I'm fucked up.
My brother, man.
He was messed up.
Little messed up from stuff.
I came here to help him.
But now he's gone.
He's missing.
It's fucked up.
You have a brother? Or a sister or something? A brother, yeah.
It's fucked up.
Yeah.
Yeah, that would be fucked up.
Blue.
It doesn't readily appear in nature.
Blueberries, maybe.
Bluebirds.
But not much else really.
You know, the ocean's not really blue.
Nor is the sky.
Nor me.
Ever, really.
Till now.
I feel so weird.
Let me put some of those up, on my way back to the hotel.
You gonna be okay? Hey, man.
Just knowing you cared just knowing you cared enough to stop and have a cold one? That's something.
Be cool.
I can't not be.
I can't not be either.
[chuckles.]
How can you say? For certain.
I can say.
For certain.
I need you to finish his work.
What was it? Tell me.
There was a bag Traveling north Traveling north to find you Train wheels beating the wind in my eyes Don't even know what I'll say When I find you Call out your name love, don't be surprised It's so many miles and so long since I've met you And I don't even know what I'll find When I get to you But suddenly now I know where I belong It's many hundred miles and it won't Be long [gun shot.]
It won't be long It won't be long It won't be long Luxembourg is the money-laundering capital of the world.
We allow business to be transacted among countries and parties who are banned from doing business together elsewhere.
Every 9th businessman in Luxembourg conducts business under an assumed name.
Every 9th bag trafficked through the airport holds cash.
A guest at the King Gerald wrote down the address of the murder victim on this paper the evening of the murder on baggage handling time cards where the foreman was assaulted.
It's clear that someone well-to-do, someone staying at the expensive King Gerald, intersected with private baggage at the Luxembourg City airport.
The brother of our murder victim works handling bags.
I surmise Edgar Barros discovered a sum of money in a passenger's checked luggage.
This passenger, flying under an assumed name, sought him out that evening, fought for the bag at the Barros apartment, at 77 de Champlain, to the extent of which a man died.
I have interviewed each guest of the King Gerald that evening, but one: John Lakeman.
He abruptly left our scheduled interview session.
His whereabouts at the time of the murder are undetermined.
His colleague stipulated that he missed an essential meeting because his airline misplaced his bag.
John Lakeman is at the center of an unusual circle of violence on an unusually violent night in Luxembourg.
Additionally, John Lakeman phoned, upon a time during which every other member of his professional traveling party phoned their wives, a woman named Alice Taylor, who is married to a man who is working as a quote unquote "consultant" to an intelligence gathering department of the United States government.
I respectfully submit my request to interview John Lakeman, in the third party country of the United States, on the date of May 22nd, tomorrow, 2012.
Concerning the appeal of Luxembourg City, of the country of Luxembourg, the court provides its approval to interrogate.
[speaking French.]
[phone vibrates.]
Hey.
Tom: She's coming.
Approved.
Just now.
She's probably on her way.
My guess, she shows up tomorrow.
They show up at work.
It's safer.
I found the book.
Structural Dynamics of Flow.
Where? The guy with the girl's name.
- No shit? - No.
Yeah.
Get it to Edward, John.
I may want you out of there.
I may pull you out of there.
Today.
Before she comes.
Cool.
I'm gathering some information.
I'll reach back out to you today.
Okay.
She's good.
She was cited this week for two instances of child neglect for leaving her daughter alone in her apartment.
Her kid's seeing things.
The neighbors narced.
So she's really cramming in the hours on your case.
She's not a bad mom, I'm guessing; I'm guessing she's just a good cop.
What does she have on you? I don't know.
Her daughter drew a picture of me.
It's pretty good.
I pull you out of there today, she shows up, John Lakeman's a ghost.
Okay.
Midnight.
Hey, maybe it's time to come home.
Okay.
How we doing with that paperwork, John? Not as yet.
Clock's ticking.
For sure.
John? I'd like to share my demands with you.
Yeah? John, what do you know about non-sexual, same-sex cuddling? Nothing.
Well, that's what I want to do.
Yeah? Yeah, I demand it.
Okay, more soon.
- See ya.
- See ya.
Hey, John.
How we doing? Pretty good.
Hey, thanks for killing those birds.
Yeah.
Hey, so I'm making the rounds, letting McMillan know we're bankrupt pretty much and I've turned essentially all my authority over to Leslie.
Okay.
Big announcement tomorrow.
Then we're all going to pitch in, right the ship and secure that Denon deal.
Right? Then the future's so bright we'll have to wear shades.
Cool.
Sir? Yeah? Stephen remembers you being in the vicinity of his accident.
Can you help shed some light on his final moments? Not really.
You seem to have, um, an indifferent attitude towards Stephen's recovery.
Can I share with you why it's so important that he have full recollection, including his accident? Humor requires your entire whole full being.
Stephen is incomplete, he'll never regain his sense of humor.
If he doesn't regain his sense of humor, he'll never laugh.
And no one will ever love him.
That's pretty heavy.
Yeah.
It is.
So get with it.
For sure.
You sound "not all in.
" FYI, I'm a fighter.
And I am fighting for these memories.
So, are you on my team? Count me in.
Hey, just wanted to give you an update about my life.
You ever stay in the kind of a shitty hotel that has the TV and it's chained to the wall? Well, that's where I live now.
And I look at it, and I think even if I could get the TV off the chain, I couldn't steal it, because I have nowhere to take it because I have no home now.
Hey, John.
We got an e-mail.
It was for you.
It was from a foreign policewoman.
She's gonna interview you tomorrow.
Take care.
[phone vibrates.]
Hey.
Tom: Stay there.
No matter what happens.
I pull you out of there today, - - she shows up, John Lakeman's a ghost.
Okay.
Hey, maybe it's time to come home.
Okay.
Anything, Tim? Yeah.
We picked up a phone call It's a conversation between an unknown male and the wife of your Egyptian physicist Mohamed El-Mashad.
She was told to remain in Luxembourg until the 27th, and then take a bag from them at 3:00 PM at the Bettborn Station.
They said they'd have the bag? - Then? - Yeah.
And the Japanese girl? Well, she's 23.
She's a student at the Luxembourg School for the Arts.
That's all.
That's all she is.
She got arrested for stealing a dog leash.
Somebody's dog? Just the leash.
That's weird.
Yeah, I don't know.
She's being released from the Luxembourg Police Station at the same date and time they mentioned to the woman.
To El-Mashed.
Just an hour earlier.
She got a five day sentence.
Sounds about right for a dog leash, I guess.
Anyway, she'll be let go.
She'll get her belongings back and be let go at the date and time they mentioned they can get the bag to the physicist's wife.
Right? They're going to take the bag from that little girl.
So, get there first.
Here's your chance to ravel it back in, Tom.
I like your odds.
All your man has to do is get the bag back from a 23-year-old Japanese puppeteer.
A puppeteer? What? Puppetry.
She's a puppeteer.
Student.
Straight A's.
Yeah.
That's all he has to do.
Jesus Christ.
Could it really be that simple? Mmm.
Thanks, Tim.
You can have a heart attack now.
Fuck you, buddy.
Hey? Stay there.
No matter what happens.
Stay and fend off whatever comes at you this week.
We're going to get it all back on the 27th, John.
Can't we just do it the cafeteria, Brent? - - I think doing Fellowship in the cafeteria makes some people uncomfortable.
It's a government building.
It sucks in here.
You know what doesn't suck, Andy? - What? - The Constitution.
Okay, hi.
Now let us join hands and walk like Christ in grace and love.
[computer beeping.]
Can I just say very clever to orient this exercise around Stephen's favorite movie.
It keeps it personal, and yet adds an important touch of fun.
I think we're in a good place with this.
It's really come along, Ally.
You've really come a long way, son.
Thanks Leslie, to you.
You kept me regularly focused on my recovery.
Well, you did all the heavy lifting, kid.
Well, as the Wolf says in my favorite movie, "Pulp Fiction", let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet.
- Wow.
- Wow.
Show us what you got.
[playing "Heart and Soul".]
[playing "Chopsticks".]
[chuckles.]
You got what you wanted, man.
Why am I here? We're not done yet.
I did my part.
What were you gonna do to me with your stupid tree branch? Brutalize you.
Break all the bones in your face to signal to you what I'm willing to do to continue the job I'm doing.
John, how dark are you? If I blow the whistle, the job you're on it's over.
Well, you can keep doing the job you're doing, if you do one last thing for me.
Do what? Tomorrow, some time during the day, at work Kill me.
[announcements in French.]
[P.
A.
beeps.]
People think I'm stupid.
Maybe it's my face.
Name doesn't help, I guess.
You know? Do I look stupid? I've never really looked at you.
Well, people think I'm stupid.
I had a period when I was a policeman, I'd try to show off, I'm embarrassed to say, by using a large and unnecessary vocabulary.
I had the habit of drinking, too.
One morning, I was in my car.
4:30 in the morning.
I'm drunk.
I'm playing Scrabble.
Call comes, Latino purse snatcher on my street.
Latino blurs by my window.
Bag on his shoulder.
I get out.
I draw.
I yell "halt.
" He reaches into his bag, I shoot.
I come up on him.
Paperboy.
Retard.
Not 9, like people say, but, 14.
Just 14.
I couldn't just yell "stop" like anyone else, you know? My friends, cops, came and swept my car.
They swapped my blood.
What did I put in the box? Drunk blood.
Mine.
I wasn't trying to be found innocent, John.
I was trying to be found guilty.
Wrongful death convictions, the civil settlements are 400 percent greater.
I wanted that family to have something.
[honking.]
Then this judge lets me off.
Thought he was helping me out.
Yeah.
In the last 20 years, 17 police officers have been charged for killings for incidents that happened on the job in the U.
S.
None convicted.
The system's bent, I guess.
Anyway, my insurance expires tomorrow.
Yeah.
So kill me at work.
'cause that's another 75,000 for getting killed on the job.
It's in my stupid security guard contract, because it never happens.
Kill you how? Just whack me in my stupid fucking head.
Do your tree branch thing.
Just go a little darker, John.
[P.
A.
beeps.]
Pilot: Ladies and gentlemen, due to mechanical difficulties we'll have to return to the gate.
Thank you for your patience and we'll do out best to get you to Milwaukee.
23A? 23B? Hey.
Hello.
Hey, are you okay? Oh, yes.
I'm Actually, I've never done this before.
Uh, rented a car in America.
Or driven a car in America.
Where are you driving? - Milwaukee.
- Oh, it's short.
It's just a It's a straight line.
You'll be fine.
Where are you driving? Same.
It's just, um, it's an hour-and-a-half.
Next.
I would like to rent a car please.
Are you returning the vehicle to its point of origin? What is this point? Of origin.
Its return.
Oh, um, she just wants to know if you'll be returning the car here.
After your trip.
Ah.
Yes.
Thank you.
In-state travel? In-state? No.
Milwaukee.
Ah, yes, I am bound for Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Can I see your drivers license please? Where's this from? Is this a country? Yes.
I've never heard of it.
Well, it is one.
- One what? - One country.
Hi, um - Hey.
- Hey.
What are you doing? Working on my bearings.
What are you doing in Milwaukee? Traveling.
For work.
Do you want a ride? Why are you going to Milwaukee? I'm visiting someone.
Why are you? I'm interviewing someone.
Ah, for what? For a job? No That's not cool.
Yeah.
Just a little wave.
That's all it takes.
Yeah, I invented an app that you aim at them and it tells you if they're going to thank you.
Why didn't you use it? Well, cause I didn't actually invent it because I don't know anything about that kind of stuff.
I just invented it in my mind.
Well, anyway, if you ever actually invent one, I'll buy one.
Thanks.
I invent stuff that I don't really invent, too.
Like what? Hmm.
What? Nothing.
What? I just didn't expect you to throw it like that.
In that way.
I'm just a little surprised.
Well, I'm throwing with my left hand.
Why? Because I have to be left handed today.
Why? Because someone's coming to interview me today.
Fuck.
So you summoned me here just to practice being left-handed? Yeah.
Why do you have to do it all day? Because I think she's just going to appear in the office.
Like last time.
And if she appears and I'm like, in that moment, pouring coffee with my right hand, I'm fucked.
Oh.
Fuck.
Should be an interesting day.
Fuck.
Fat Face? Yeah.
Fat Face.
So it's an image of your face? Yes, it's an image of your face on the refrigerator.
And then when you select items from your fridge like ice cream, your face on the fridge gets fatter so it will show you what you would look like, if you ate that amount of ice cream for a year.
- That's great.
- Thanks.
That's a great non-invention.
Yeah.
Fat Face.
It doesn't exist.
What's the name of your app that doesn't exist? I've been calling it Cool Guy or Douche I guess.
Yeah, that's good.
Yeah? [chuckles.]
One, two, three Kramer.
Thanks.
Oh, come on.
You have been so gracious.
You're a guest here.
No way.
- I insist.
- So do I.
- Seriously.
- I'm serious, too.
Rochambeau? Yeah, okay.
You're pretty good.
I work with kids.
We sort things out like this a lot.
- Oh, you are a teacher? - Yeah.
Well, you're right.
People think this is a game of chance.
But it's a game of skill.
If someone has experience regarding people, reading people, like a job like yours, they can excel at it.
Very good.
You've made it further than anyone I think I've ever played.
Now I can take the bill.
- [guitar music plays.]
- I'm going to resonate One day, I'll resonate I'm going to resonate One day, I'll resonate It is good.
Yeah.
I feel like I've heard it before, it's I don't know One day I'll resonate with Here's my e-mail.
Send me yours and I'll give you the name of that album.
Cool, I'll write you later.
I'm kind of excited.
To go.
Oh, where are you meeting your friend? At his work.
Do you need a ride? Oh, no.
Thank you.
I'll take a cab.
You've been so helpful already.
I don't want to take more of your time.
Hey, Chicago.
Sorry? This is the executive parking section.
For executives.
F.
Y.
I.
, Chicago.
Oh, I'm sorry.
No big deal, Chicago.
- Dennis? - Yeah? I need your help.
Okay.
- He's right inside.
- I can't go inside.
I'm not even supposed to be here.
Will you just tell him? Yeah, sure.
How did you even, like, find me or know about me? He wrote a song about you.
I mean it wasn't about you, it was about how he wants to kill himself.
But in it he said that there was one cool thing about where he was and that was he made friends with a guy at work named Dennis.
And I looked you up on the company website.
Thank you for joining us this morning.
This new morning.
An exciting new morning of changes and the introduction of a new shared leadership.
I'd like to announce, as of this morning, Divisional head Leslie Claret will now be sharing leadership with me in every capacity, across every department, side-by-side.
Let's welcome Leslie Claret on this new morning.
Leslie.
Thank you, Lawrence.
Folks, what do we do, essentially, here at McMillan? We design complex delivery systems for Wrong.
Sit down.
No, seriously.
We're sending mixed signals.
Sit down.
We make circles.
Circles don't exist in nature, folks.
The sun? No.
Planets? Not quite.
Circles are perfect.
And nothing perfect exists in nature.
Flaws in all.
Slightly oblong, our planets, the sun.
Like us.
[chuckling.]
But here, at McMillan, we make them.
And we place them in the world.
The perfect form across the world.
We make circles.
And all you have to care about, the only thing that you have to care about, is this one little thing: perfection.
[chuckling.]
Aw, come on, now.
It's just a goal.
It's not a demand.
No one is perfect.
But what I need to know, what I need to see in you is capacity for perfection, the desire to be perfect.
Stephen.
John.
Come up here.
Show me how you can conjure perfection.
Show me your attachment to the form we place so lovingly, under our shared world.
Stephen.
Lakeman.
How about it? Draw your most perfect circle.
Draw it out of you, and then draw it on the screen here.
Show me your attachment to the perfect form, to perfection.
[elevator dings.]
Can't you hear that Rooster crowing So how are we doing, John, on this new morning? Pretty good.
You know, John, I spent some time last night just Well, pondering how I was going to respond to you this morning.
On this new morning.
Cool.
Yeah, it was cool.
I thought Do I just fire him, first thing? Say, hey, not a good fit.
Because I give two shits about this place and you don't, so not a good fit.
So adios.
And then I thought, hey, we all deserve a second chance.
I know that.
Hell.
You know? Yeah.
So I thought, I'll just give the kid something simple to do.
We'll start with that.
We'll, uh We'll build from there.
I'll ask the kid to just draw a little circle.
And maybe, in the simple act of trying his best, maybe he'll win me over with a simple circle.
[sighs.]
Here's the impression your little circle made on me, John.
It lacked focus, ambition, clarity, precision, dedication, passion and honesty.
And well, it reminded me of you.
So it seems you'll be staying on for this weekend's duck hunt.
And then it seems you'll have a new morning of your own at some new endeavor.
New morning On this new morning I wish you well.
So happy just to be alive Underneath this sky of blue On this new morning New morning On this new morning With you New morning New morning New morning New morning New morning New morning An accounting discrepancy concerning a file under your office.
I'd like to arrange a visit at your convenience to help me make some sense of it.
Again, Brent Paddocks.
General Accounting Office.
Extension 775.
[phone vibrates.]
Hey.
How's it going? Pretty good.
John, I just learned of a complication.
This interview, this policewoman? Yeah? Ace that.
We can't get derailed.
Tom, hey, you asked us to pay some attention to an Alice Taylor.
She didn't show up for work today.
She didn't call in sick.
Just a no show.
Okay, so you remember being in the company of your colleague moments before your accident.
Let's orient there.
What were you doing in those moments? He told me that his interview went poorly.
John.
And I told him that I crushed mine.
Then I tried to fucking cheer him up.
Locker room talk.
Got it.
Pull it back.
Yeah.
Okay.
So then? What happened next on that day? Then we just stood here.
Then I felt a feeling [train whistle blows.]
John.
John, you're wife's here.
Hey, Dennis.
Hey, John.
John, come here.
Are you okay? I'm sorry, man.
I made things hard for you.
I shouldn't have even ever tried to help, man.
Help me, Dennis.
Right now.
Fuck yeah.
Take this baton.
What? I'm holding a baton.
Take the baton.
Why are you holding a baton? Just take the baton.
Keep hugging me and take the baton.
Okay, I have the baton.
Conceal the baton.
Okay, I concealed the baton.
Walk away with it.
The detective's coming.
I'm walking away with the baton.
John Lakeman? Yeah.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Detective Agathe Albans.
I'm in the Office of Homicide, in the police department of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
I have formal authority to ask you a series of questions concerning a homicide that took place on the evening of May 11th.
The murder of Hector Barros.
Can we do this today? I've got a lot going on today.
My expectation is this will take an hour of your time.
You caught us in a transition today I'm trying to make up some ground today.
Today would be best.
For me.
Today would be bad.
For me.
Tomorrow would be good.
For me.
Tomorrow would be bad.
For me.
Rochambeau? What's the nature of your work? Circles.
In what sense? In the sense that pipes are circles.
And I just deal with pipes.
You're very good at this.
Thanks.
You, too.
You're remarkably good at this.
Thanks.
You, too.
Darn.
Yeah.
So you'll field my questions today, Sir? Well, we had a deal, so Yes, we had a deal, sir.
Probably going to be on the later side, is that okay? Please find time at your earliest convenience.
Yeah, of course.
[guitar music plays.]
Hey I Love you I hope you're double great I hope your weird job's double great And your old man is double great, too But I wanted To share something with you Hey I Love you But I'm not double great Notice that I don't say that In the morning anymore Because I guess I know I can't get there from here So remember to let the light in No matter how dark it turned out for me Remember we made a beautiful EP And I wanted to say thanks But I just hurt And I love you Goodbye, John It's become late.
Now is the last possible minute we can begin my series of questions and have you fulfill your agreement to interview today.
Be right in.
Is there anything you would like to say as we begin? Yes.
Proceed.
I'm not really an industrial engineer.
Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! - - Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! Jaywick Sands! [engine starts.]
- Hey.
- Yeah.
Pop? Yeah? Why the long face? What does that mean? What? Why the long face? When are you going to be British? You've been here 25 years.
What does it mean, long face? Why so blue? I have a task.
I have some work this year.
So, what? It involves your brother.
I'll need your help, Kkyman.
I'm going to ask a good deal from you.
It seems.
This year, Kkyman.
Thanks for having a cold one with me, man.
Sorry I'm a bring down right now.
But, I'm blue, man.
Yeah? I'm fucked up.
My brother, man.
He was messed up.
Little messed up from stuff.
I came here to help him.
But now he's gone.
He's missing.
It's fucked up.
You have a brother? Or a sister or something? A brother, yeah.
It's fucked up.
Yeah.
Yeah, that would be fucked up.
Blue.
It doesn't readily appear in nature.
Blueberries, maybe.
Bluebirds.
But not much else really.
You know, the ocean's not really blue.
Nor is the sky.
Nor me.
Ever, really.
Till now.
I feel so weird.
Let me put some of those up, on my way back to the hotel.
You gonna be okay? Hey, man.
Just knowing you cared just knowing you cared enough to stop and have a cold one? That's something.
Be cool.
I can't not be.
I can't not be either.
[chuckles.]
How can you say? For certain.
I can say.
For certain.
I need you to finish his work.
What was it? Tell me.
There was a bag Traveling north Traveling north to find you Train wheels beating the wind in my eyes Don't even know what I'll say When I find you Call out your name love, don't be surprised It's so many miles and so long since I've met you And I don't even know what I'll find When I get to you But suddenly now I know where I belong It's many hundred miles and it won't Be long [gun shot.]
It won't be long It won't be long It won't be long Luxembourg is the money-laundering capital of the world.
We allow business to be transacted among countries and parties who are banned from doing business together elsewhere.
Every 9th businessman in Luxembourg conducts business under an assumed name.
Every 9th bag trafficked through the airport holds cash.
A guest at the King Gerald wrote down the address of the murder victim on this paper the evening of the murder on baggage handling time cards where the foreman was assaulted.
It's clear that someone well-to-do, someone staying at the expensive King Gerald, intersected with private baggage at the Luxembourg City airport.
The brother of our murder victim works handling bags.
I surmise Edgar Barros discovered a sum of money in a passenger's checked luggage.
This passenger, flying under an assumed name, sought him out that evening, fought for the bag at the Barros apartment, at 77 de Champlain, to the extent of which a man died.
I have interviewed each guest of the King Gerald that evening, but one: John Lakeman.
He abruptly left our scheduled interview session.
His whereabouts at the time of the murder are undetermined.
His colleague stipulated that he missed an essential meeting because his airline misplaced his bag.
John Lakeman is at the center of an unusual circle of violence on an unusually violent night in Luxembourg.
Additionally, John Lakeman phoned, upon a time during which every other member of his professional traveling party phoned their wives, a woman named Alice Taylor, who is married to a man who is working as a quote unquote "consultant" to an intelligence gathering department of the United States government.
I respectfully submit my request to interview John Lakeman, in the third party country of the United States, on the date of May 22nd, tomorrow, 2012.
Concerning the appeal of Luxembourg City, of the country of Luxembourg, the court provides its approval to interrogate.
[speaking French.]
[phone vibrates.]
Hey.
Tom: She's coming.
Approved.
Just now.
She's probably on her way.
My guess, she shows up tomorrow.
They show up at work.
It's safer.
I found the book.
Structural Dynamics of Flow.
Where? The guy with the girl's name.
- No shit? - No.
Yeah.
Get it to Edward, John.
I may want you out of there.
I may pull you out of there.
Today.
Before she comes.
Cool.
I'm gathering some information.
I'll reach back out to you today.
Okay.
She's good.
She was cited this week for two instances of child neglect for leaving her daughter alone in her apartment.
Her kid's seeing things.
The neighbors narced.
So she's really cramming in the hours on your case.
She's not a bad mom, I'm guessing; I'm guessing she's just a good cop.
What does she have on you? I don't know.
Her daughter drew a picture of me.
It's pretty good.
I pull you out of there today, she shows up, John Lakeman's a ghost.
Okay.
Midnight.
Hey, maybe it's time to come home.
Okay.
How we doing with that paperwork, John? Not as yet.
Clock's ticking.
For sure.
John? I'd like to share my demands with you.
Yeah? John, what do you know about non-sexual, same-sex cuddling? Nothing.
Well, that's what I want to do.
Yeah? Yeah, I demand it.
Okay, more soon.
- See ya.
- See ya.
Hey, John.
How we doing? Pretty good.
Hey, thanks for killing those birds.
Yeah.
Hey, so I'm making the rounds, letting McMillan know we're bankrupt pretty much and I've turned essentially all my authority over to Leslie.
Okay.
Big announcement tomorrow.
Then we're all going to pitch in, right the ship and secure that Denon deal.
Right? Then the future's so bright we'll have to wear shades.
Cool.
Sir? Yeah? Stephen remembers you being in the vicinity of his accident.
Can you help shed some light on his final moments? Not really.
You seem to have, um, an indifferent attitude towards Stephen's recovery.
Can I share with you why it's so important that he have full recollection, including his accident? Humor requires your entire whole full being.
Stephen is incomplete, he'll never regain his sense of humor.
If he doesn't regain his sense of humor, he'll never laugh.
And no one will ever love him.
That's pretty heavy.
Yeah.
It is.
So get with it.
For sure.
You sound "not all in.
" FYI, I'm a fighter.
And I am fighting for these memories.
So, are you on my team? Count me in.
Hey, just wanted to give you an update about my life.
You ever stay in the kind of a shitty hotel that has the TV and it's chained to the wall? Well, that's where I live now.
And I look at it, and I think even if I could get the TV off the chain, I couldn't steal it, because I have nowhere to take it because I have no home now.
Hey, John.
We got an e-mail.
It was for you.
It was from a foreign policewoman.
She's gonna interview you tomorrow.
Take care.
[phone vibrates.]
Hey.
Tom: Stay there.
No matter what happens.
I pull you out of there today, - - she shows up, John Lakeman's a ghost.
Okay.
Hey, maybe it's time to come home.
Okay.
Anything, Tim? Yeah.
We picked up a phone call It's a conversation between an unknown male and the wife of your Egyptian physicist Mohamed El-Mashad.
She was told to remain in Luxembourg until the 27th, and then take a bag from them at 3:00 PM at the Bettborn Station.
They said they'd have the bag? - Then? - Yeah.
And the Japanese girl? Well, she's 23.
She's a student at the Luxembourg School for the Arts.
That's all.
That's all she is.
She got arrested for stealing a dog leash.
Somebody's dog? Just the leash.
That's weird.
Yeah, I don't know.
She's being released from the Luxembourg Police Station at the same date and time they mentioned to the woman.
To El-Mashed.
Just an hour earlier.
She got a five day sentence.
Sounds about right for a dog leash, I guess.
Anyway, she'll be let go.
She'll get her belongings back and be let go at the date and time they mentioned they can get the bag to the physicist's wife.
Right? They're going to take the bag from that little girl.
So, get there first.
Here's your chance to ravel it back in, Tom.
I like your odds.
All your man has to do is get the bag back from a 23-year-old Japanese puppeteer.
A puppeteer? What? Puppetry.
She's a puppeteer.
Student.
Straight A's.
Yeah.
That's all he has to do.
Jesus Christ.
Could it really be that simple? Mmm.
Thanks, Tim.
You can have a heart attack now.
Fuck you, buddy.
Hey? Stay there.
No matter what happens.
Stay and fend off whatever comes at you this week.
We're going to get it all back on the 27th, John.
Can't we just do it the cafeteria, Brent? - - I think doing Fellowship in the cafeteria makes some people uncomfortable.
It's a government building.
It sucks in here.
You know what doesn't suck, Andy? - What? - The Constitution.
Okay, hi.
Now let us join hands and walk like Christ in grace and love.
[computer beeping.]
Can I just say very clever to orient this exercise around Stephen's favorite movie.
It keeps it personal, and yet adds an important touch of fun.
I think we're in a good place with this.
It's really come along, Ally.
You've really come a long way, son.
Thanks Leslie, to you.
You kept me regularly focused on my recovery.
Well, you did all the heavy lifting, kid.
Well, as the Wolf says in my favorite movie, "Pulp Fiction", let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet.
- Wow.
- Wow.
Show us what you got.
[playing "Heart and Soul".]
[playing "Chopsticks".]
[chuckles.]
You got what you wanted, man.
Why am I here? We're not done yet.
I did my part.
What were you gonna do to me with your stupid tree branch? Brutalize you.
Break all the bones in your face to signal to you what I'm willing to do to continue the job I'm doing.
John, how dark are you? If I blow the whistle, the job you're on it's over.
Well, you can keep doing the job you're doing, if you do one last thing for me.
Do what? Tomorrow, some time during the day, at work Kill me.
[announcements in French.]
[P.
A.
beeps.]
People think I'm stupid.
Maybe it's my face.
Name doesn't help, I guess.
You know? Do I look stupid? I've never really looked at you.
Well, people think I'm stupid.
I had a period when I was a policeman, I'd try to show off, I'm embarrassed to say, by using a large and unnecessary vocabulary.
I had the habit of drinking, too.
One morning, I was in my car.
4:30 in the morning.
I'm drunk.
I'm playing Scrabble.
Call comes, Latino purse snatcher on my street.
Latino blurs by my window.
Bag on his shoulder.
I get out.
I draw.
I yell "halt.
" He reaches into his bag, I shoot.
I come up on him.
Paperboy.
Retard.
Not 9, like people say, but, 14.
Just 14.
I couldn't just yell "stop" like anyone else, you know? My friends, cops, came and swept my car.
They swapped my blood.
What did I put in the box? Drunk blood.
Mine.
I wasn't trying to be found innocent, John.
I was trying to be found guilty.
Wrongful death convictions, the civil settlements are 400 percent greater.
I wanted that family to have something.
[honking.]
Then this judge lets me off.
Thought he was helping me out.
Yeah.
In the last 20 years, 17 police officers have been charged for killings for incidents that happened on the job in the U.
S.
None convicted.
The system's bent, I guess.
Anyway, my insurance expires tomorrow.
Yeah.
So kill me at work.
'cause that's another 75,000 for getting killed on the job.
It's in my stupid security guard contract, because it never happens.
Kill you how? Just whack me in my stupid fucking head.
Do your tree branch thing.
Just go a little darker, John.
[P.
A.
beeps.]
Pilot: Ladies and gentlemen, due to mechanical difficulties we'll have to return to the gate.
Thank you for your patience and we'll do out best to get you to Milwaukee.
23A? 23B? Hey.
Hello.
Hey, are you okay? Oh, yes.
I'm Actually, I've never done this before.
Uh, rented a car in America.
Or driven a car in America.
Where are you driving? - Milwaukee.
- Oh, it's short.
It's just a It's a straight line.
You'll be fine.
Where are you driving? Same.
It's just, um, it's an hour-and-a-half.
Next.
I would like to rent a car please.
Are you returning the vehicle to its point of origin? What is this point? Of origin.
Its return.
Oh, um, she just wants to know if you'll be returning the car here.
After your trip.
Ah.
Yes.
Thank you.
In-state travel? In-state? No.
Milwaukee.
Ah, yes, I am bound for Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Can I see your drivers license please? Where's this from? Is this a country? Yes.
I've never heard of it.
Well, it is one.
- One what? - One country.
Hi, um - Hey.
- Hey.
What are you doing? Working on my bearings.
What are you doing in Milwaukee? Traveling.
For work.
Do you want a ride? Why are you going to Milwaukee? I'm visiting someone.
Why are you? I'm interviewing someone.
Ah, for what? For a job? No That's not cool.
Yeah.
Just a little wave.
That's all it takes.
Yeah, I invented an app that you aim at them and it tells you if they're going to thank you.
Why didn't you use it? Well, cause I didn't actually invent it because I don't know anything about that kind of stuff.
I just invented it in my mind.
Well, anyway, if you ever actually invent one, I'll buy one.
Thanks.
I invent stuff that I don't really invent, too.
Like what? Hmm.
What? Nothing.
What? I just didn't expect you to throw it like that.
In that way.
I'm just a little surprised.
Well, I'm throwing with my left hand.
Why? Because I have to be left handed today.
Why? Because someone's coming to interview me today.
Fuck.
So you summoned me here just to practice being left-handed? Yeah.
Why do you have to do it all day? Because I think she's just going to appear in the office.
Like last time.
And if she appears and I'm like, in that moment, pouring coffee with my right hand, I'm fucked.
Oh.
Fuck.
Should be an interesting day.
Fuck.
Fat Face? Yeah.
Fat Face.
So it's an image of your face? Yes, it's an image of your face on the refrigerator.
And then when you select items from your fridge like ice cream, your face on the fridge gets fatter so it will show you what you would look like, if you ate that amount of ice cream for a year.
- That's great.
- Thanks.
That's a great non-invention.
Yeah.
Fat Face.
It doesn't exist.
What's the name of your app that doesn't exist? I've been calling it Cool Guy or Douche I guess.
Yeah, that's good.
Yeah? [chuckles.]
One, two, three Kramer.
Thanks.
Oh, come on.
You have been so gracious.
You're a guest here.
No way.
- I insist.
- So do I.
- Seriously.
- I'm serious, too.
Rochambeau? Yeah, okay.
You're pretty good.
I work with kids.
We sort things out like this a lot.
- Oh, you are a teacher? - Yeah.
Well, you're right.
People think this is a game of chance.
But it's a game of skill.
If someone has experience regarding people, reading people, like a job like yours, they can excel at it.
Very good.
You've made it further than anyone I think I've ever played.
Now I can take the bill.
- [guitar music plays.]
- I'm going to resonate One day, I'll resonate I'm going to resonate One day, I'll resonate It is good.
Yeah.
I feel like I've heard it before, it's I don't know One day I'll resonate with Here's my e-mail.
Send me yours and I'll give you the name of that album.
Cool, I'll write you later.
I'm kind of excited.
To go.
Oh, where are you meeting your friend? At his work.
Do you need a ride? Oh, no.
Thank you.
I'll take a cab.
You've been so helpful already.
I don't want to take more of your time.
Hey, Chicago.
Sorry? This is the executive parking section.
For executives.
F.
Y.
I.
, Chicago.
Oh, I'm sorry.
No big deal, Chicago.
- Dennis? - Yeah? I need your help.
Okay.
- He's right inside.
- I can't go inside.
I'm not even supposed to be here.
Will you just tell him? Yeah, sure.
How did you even, like, find me or know about me? He wrote a song about you.
I mean it wasn't about you, it was about how he wants to kill himself.
But in it he said that there was one cool thing about where he was and that was he made friends with a guy at work named Dennis.
And I looked you up on the company website.
Thank you for joining us this morning.
This new morning.
An exciting new morning of changes and the introduction of a new shared leadership.
I'd like to announce, as of this morning, Divisional head Leslie Claret will now be sharing leadership with me in every capacity, across every department, side-by-side.
Let's welcome Leslie Claret on this new morning.
Leslie.
Thank you, Lawrence.
Folks, what do we do, essentially, here at McMillan? We design complex delivery systems for Wrong.
Sit down.
No, seriously.
We're sending mixed signals.
Sit down.
We make circles.
Circles don't exist in nature, folks.
The sun? No.
Planets? Not quite.
Circles are perfect.
And nothing perfect exists in nature.
Flaws in all.
Slightly oblong, our planets, the sun.
Like us.
[chuckling.]
But here, at McMillan, we make them.
And we place them in the world.
The perfect form across the world.
We make circles.
And all you have to care about, the only thing that you have to care about, is this one little thing: perfection.
[chuckling.]
Aw, come on, now.
It's just a goal.
It's not a demand.
No one is perfect.
But what I need to know, what I need to see in you is capacity for perfection, the desire to be perfect.
Stephen.
John.
Come up here.
Show me how you can conjure perfection.
Show me your attachment to the form we place so lovingly, under our shared world.
Stephen.
Lakeman.
How about it? Draw your most perfect circle.
Draw it out of you, and then draw it on the screen here.
Show me your attachment to the perfect form, to perfection.
[elevator dings.]
Can't you hear that Rooster crowing So how are we doing, John, on this new morning? Pretty good.
You know, John, I spent some time last night just Well, pondering how I was going to respond to you this morning.
On this new morning.
Cool.
Yeah, it was cool.
I thought Do I just fire him, first thing? Say, hey, not a good fit.
Because I give two shits about this place and you don't, so not a good fit.
So adios.
And then I thought, hey, we all deserve a second chance.
I know that.
Hell.
You know? Yeah.
So I thought, I'll just give the kid something simple to do.
We'll start with that.
We'll, uh We'll build from there.
I'll ask the kid to just draw a little circle.
And maybe, in the simple act of trying his best, maybe he'll win me over with a simple circle.
[sighs.]
Here's the impression your little circle made on me, John.
It lacked focus, ambition, clarity, precision, dedication, passion and honesty.
And well, it reminded me of you.
So it seems you'll be staying on for this weekend's duck hunt.
And then it seems you'll have a new morning of your own at some new endeavor.
New morning On this new morning I wish you well.
So happy just to be alive Underneath this sky of blue On this new morning New morning On this new morning With you New morning New morning New morning New morning New morning New morning An accounting discrepancy concerning a file under your office.
I'd like to arrange a visit at your convenience to help me make some sense of it.
Again, Brent Paddocks.
General Accounting Office.
Extension 775.
[phone vibrates.]
Hey.
How's it going? Pretty good.
John, I just learned of a complication.
This interview, this policewoman? Yeah? Ace that.
We can't get derailed.
Tom, hey, you asked us to pay some attention to an Alice Taylor.
She didn't show up for work today.
She didn't call in sick.
Just a no show.
Okay, so you remember being in the company of your colleague moments before your accident.
Let's orient there.
What were you doing in those moments? He told me that his interview went poorly.
John.
And I told him that I crushed mine.
Then I tried to fucking cheer him up.
Locker room talk.
Got it.
Pull it back.
Yeah.
Okay.
So then? What happened next on that day? Then we just stood here.
Then I felt a feeling [train whistle blows.]
John.
John, you're wife's here.
Hey, Dennis.
Hey, John.
John, come here.
Are you okay? I'm sorry, man.
I made things hard for you.
I shouldn't have even ever tried to help, man.
Help me, Dennis.
Right now.
Fuck yeah.
Take this baton.
What? I'm holding a baton.
Take the baton.
Why are you holding a baton? Just take the baton.
Keep hugging me and take the baton.
Okay, I have the baton.
Conceal the baton.
Okay, I concealed the baton.
Walk away with it.
The detective's coming.
I'm walking away with the baton.
John Lakeman? Yeah.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Detective Agathe Albans.
I'm in the Office of Homicide, in the police department of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
I have formal authority to ask you a series of questions concerning a homicide that took place on the evening of May 11th.
The murder of Hector Barros.
Can we do this today? I've got a lot going on today.
My expectation is this will take an hour of your time.
You caught us in a transition today I'm trying to make up some ground today.
Today would be best.
For me.
Today would be bad.
For me.
Tomorrow would be good.
For me.
Tomorrow would be bad.
For me.
Rochambeau? What's the nature of your work? Circles.
In what sense? In the sense that pipes are circles.
And I just deal with pipes.
You're very good at this.
Thanks.
You, too.
You're remarkably good at this.
Thanks.
You, too.
Darn.
Yeah.
So you'll field my questions today, Sir? Well, we had a deal, so Yes, we had a deal, sir.
Probably going to be on the later side, is that okay? Please find time at your earliest convenience.
Yeah, of course.
[guitar music plays.]
Hey I Love you I hope you're double great I hope your weird job's double great And your old man is double great, too But I wanted To share something with you Hey I Love you But I'm not double great Notice that I don't say that In the morning anymore Because I guess I know I can't get there from here So remember to let the light in No matter how dark it turned out for me Remember we made a beautiful EP And I wanted to say thanks But I just hurt And I love you Goodbye, John It's become late.
Now is the last possible minute we can begin my series of questions and have you fulfill your agreement to interview today.
Be right in.
Is there anything you would like to say as we begin? Yes.
Proceed.
I'm not really an industrial engineer.