StartUp (2016) s03e04 Episode Script

Don't take that tone with me after you lost all my money! I didn't lose your money, Wes! You lost your money! Aah! This company is all I got left.
All my chips are the middle! I'm just curious.
What is that app? Why is everyone so into it? It's all in one place.
It's the only app he has on his phone.
The entire suite of services everybody's working on rolled into one app, and that app is called "Self.
" Google, Facebook, Amazon.
And none of them can crack it.
Because none of their customers are gonna entrust a single corporation to integrate their entire lives.
- Too scary.
- You trying to rush it without me.
- I'm not trying to run anything - Yes, you are, Nick.
You wouldn't even hear my policing idea.
I heard it.
It's just a bad one.
You want front row seat to the network, unfreeze my money, I'll let you get access.
I will unfreeze your money once you turn one of them.
But which one is it gonna be? Because they all hate you.
Are you sure about this? Got to.
The whole company going down.
Okay.
Araknet done gone cold.
- Dead cold.
- Damn.
Frantz talking about selling wholesale back on the streets.
The streets is dried up.
You talking about Little Haiti.
We talkin' 'bout stretching our legs.
How bad has it been here? I've never been in a Cuban prison, but you hear things.
Special Agent Rebecca Stroud, National Security Agency.
I'm here to negotiate the terms of your release.
They thing is, they've only got you on suspicion of conspiracy.
Now, of course, they want me to corroborate that suspicion, and give you up for political bait.
You'd spend the rest of your life here or you could give me Araknet.
See, you built it.
You can break in.
I can't just break in.
It's not that simple.
No.
It's not, is it? No.
I mean it's grown without me.
It's I'd have to be there.
In Miami.
At Araknet.
Well, that sounds like a plan.
Your payroll, it's shot.
Nick has sunk the rest of your development funds into that "Self" bullshit.
- That's a major fail.
- Correct.
And Vincent's a dog with a bone on that injunction.
Judge won't even take my call.
You got any actual ideas or are you just gonna keep cheering me up like this? Yeah.
I think you got to go to Barcelona.
No, I can't go to Barcelona.
- You don't want to go to Barcelona - I can't go to Barcelona.
- but you might have to go to Barcelona, Wes! - Kelly, come on.
Come on, Kel.
Look, even if I go to Barcelona and come back with the money, the Feds are still putting a button on it, anyway.
Okay, so you put it in crypto.
Right? Listen to me.
You gave Charlotte that money to hang on to for situations like this.
For situations that are exactly like this.
I don't mean to be a dick, but fuck your feelings.
It is time to put the past in the past.
I am so sick of hearing about this woman.
So just go see her, get your money, and then shut it down.
Fucking Barcelona.
Fucking Barcelona, man.
I've never had my identity stolen before.
Like, ever.
Usually, when I buy something from somewhere unusual, my credit card company just emails me.
So Yeah.
Amazon, Apple, pretty much everywhere guarantees us security.
- So - Exactly.
Interviewer.
Yes, but do you trust them? Sure.
Okay.
What about, um emails, your chats, text? I I mean, who's reading those? You know? Like, am I supposed to worry about the dick pic that one of my boyfriends sent me last weekend? - One of her boyfriends.
- Okay, sure, but corporations, they spy on you to sell you stuff.
Yeah, but I like when they send me ads.
Oh, my god.
again, I really don't care.
Wow.
Net neutrality dead, data mining on the rise - and still they - They're sheep.
They're comfortable.
Devil they know, I mean.
Remember Cambridge Analytica? People stuck with Facebook because it was familiar.
It's human nature, I guess.
You can't change that.
Yes, yes, we can.
Babe maybe we just source Self to market.
Because it is good.
Stella did a good job.
You did a good job.
But maybe we misread our audience.
- We did not misread them.
- Maybe that's on me.
They just They don't know what to think.
Okay, well, my budget's tapped out on this.
I don't think it's about marketing either.
I think it's about changing the actual paradigm.
Changing their minds about today's internet so they can see Araknet as tomorrow's.
Some good copyright there.
You see what I'm saying though, right? I do.
I do.
But I don't know.
Unless, like, every major tech company in the world came out and admitted that they use the internet to manipulate us in the way that we live our lives, then I don't know.
Just gonna sit there? What happened to your arm? Just an accident.
I I know that, uh, from our preliminary chat that you wasn't really down with this, but I think it's something that we need to take another stab at.
Now Stella's been hard at work on the software update.
We're calling it the Police Program.
Yeah, so, it's like your credit card company.
They have measures that identify strange, you know, transactions or purchases that are outside of your normal geographical pattern, right? Although Araknet, obviously, doesn't have essential ledger, there is a way for Araknet software to send intel back the other way, only to us.
And, um, it will only be based on, you know, anomalies or, uh, potential dangers.
Things that, you know, raise a red flag.
Yeah.
Is it that you thought I wouldn't make a big deal of it in front of everyone? You all knew what our purpose was when you came aboard.
You knew what this company stood for.
We standin' for the same thing, bruh.
Not like this! We do not get to a 100 million by shattering our credibility.
It's about sustainability.
We are a neutral network! We are We fucking sell ourselves on that neutrality.
Why is that so hard to understand? Sometimes companies have to evolve, Nick.
Look, I know I was it was hard to consider it when Ronald first pitched it to us, but right now, it's the only way I can see appeasing intelligence agencies without giving them an office here.
Okay.
I'm the co-CEO.
I do not endorse this.
I don't.
And if any of you gave a shit about what we're trying to do here, you wouldn't either.
Hey.
Just 'cause homeboy threw a tantrum in there, that do not mean I'm giving up.
- We're clear? - Yeah.
Is that what you told her, dawg? Tell him I said that shit.
- What up? - Yo.
Frantz.
Frantz.
What it do? What up, fam? What did he say? - What who say? - Big Keef.
He gonna loosen up the belt a little? Oh, no, man.
He don't know shit.
He square with us.
So what we supposed to do? Thinking about it.
Man, we can't sit on this product no longer, dawg.
I said I'm thinking, Zoe.
Big Keef and them boys ain't even up by the river no more.
Ever since they got on this Araknet shit, blocked my signal wide open.
For sure.
For sure.
I took a drive yesterday too.
- Where? - North Beach.
- Hallandale.
- Yeah.
- They all sitting empty.
- Hallandale? That's Declan turf.
It don't matter if he on Araknet or not.
We can't get down with that, bruh.
Man, Declan ain't shit.
Oh, man.
Grab a couple young jays and run 'em off them corners, ain't shit.
Real talk, dawg.
Real talk.
I don't know about that, bruh.
What you worried about? Jesus.
How long have you had that coffee? Just a minute, maybe.
- Excuse me.
Excuse me? - Yeah.
Uh, I'm still waiting on my drink.
- What'd you have? - I had a latte.
It's just the same same as hers.
Okay, let me check.
Um it's just a regular latte? Yeah.
Just a regular latte on the same - Same order.
It was two - Okay.
- Just one? - Yeah.
Just one.
Yeah.
We came.
We ordered together, but I'm just waiting on Okay.
I'll make it for you right after I finish the other.
Wait, wait.
Why don't we just make it instead and then put that order on hold.
We'll do that order after since I'm sure - I cannot - You definitely can.
- You have the authority.
- Nick, she made a mistake.
Sorry, we're just very busy.
I'm gonna finish this order, and then I'll be right with you.
Aah, there's the problem.
Clearly, you skipped over me, you forgot me.
Okay.
But that's why what we do to correct the situation is make the latte now.
- You want a refund? - I don't want a refund.
It's too late for a re I would have loved a refund if I would love a trip back in time so I could not come here anymore.
But it's too late for that, so I just want the latte.
I'll be right with you when I finish the order.
See, you shouldn't have to finish an order.
You should be right with me now.
That's the whole problem.
- Nick, stop.
- You know what? Okay, I'm sorry if this is insulting to you, I but this is why you work here.
- Nick! - If you were curious.
If you had other dreams, this is why.
- Nick.
- Okay? Was that rude? Okay, look, I know that you're stressed out right now Why did you go behind my back? - What? - I told you both it was a terrible idea, and you told him to go through with it, didn't you? No.
No, I didn't.
I don't know what you're talking about.
All of you guys.
Stella, too.
- All you're all - All of us what, Nick? You think that we're all conspiring against you.
Is that really what you think? No.
No, honey.
We're just trying to figure this thing out, okay? Yeah, yeah, by going behind my back.
I am the CEO, Mara.
Why do you keep saying that? Because I keep having to! Am I just a joke to you? Is that it? Am I Am I just a fucking joke? Well So how's it feel to be back? It's nice.
Land of the free, you know.
Who would you say is your closest ally back there right now? They're not gonna give me my job back.
Not after everything I did.
It's it's a little past 12:00, and I could I could have you back on the plane to Cuba by 3:00, if that's what you prefer.
So, who's it gonna be, Isabel? Who is your very best shot at getting back in? Yeah.
Put your seatbelts Hey, um, it's me.
I'm here in Barcelona.
I had to, um I had to come by and check out that shipping venture I mentioned to you a while back.
It was getting a little uncomfortable, you know? So, um anyway I'd love to see you you know, if you've got some time, so give me a ring.
Hey.
Wes.
Nice to see you.
You too, V.
Why don't you come in? We were just about to have dinner.
Really? Well, it's, uh, very neat.
See, that's what I admire about you, Wes.
Never been afraid of taking risks.
Well, you're taking some risks, Vagner.
All those galleries you've opened, right? Well, I don't know about that.
And what about the shipping venture? You had to fly all the way to Barcelona to check in? No.
Well I should do the dishes.
Thanks, Wes.
I have a joint.
Easy to see why you stayed here.
How is she? Mara? Well, she's everything.
You know, she's really taken to this Araknet venture.
The whole thing would be shit without her.
- So she's good.
- Oh, she's great.
She's great.
Her and one of the creators they have a little little thing going.
What's he like? Nice kid.
Little jittery, but I think there's a backbone in there somewhere.
I miss you.
That's nice of you to say, Charlotte.
Ah, but you don't believe it, I'm sure.
Does it matter whether I believe it or not? I guess you don't have much reason to.
You know I'm just getting too old to worry about it anymore.
Ah, you're still young.
We're all still young till the day we die.
Tell you the truth I miss the way people used to look at me, like I was somebody in the trenches with them, just another poor schmuck trying to work his way up like everybody else.
Get a little money in your pocket, people look at you differently.
They they can't even fathom that there was ever any struggle to begin with, you know.
Like it was always this way.
Easy street from A to B.
You're here for the money.
Yeah.
I'm here for the money.
I mean, if I didn't need it Then you wouldn't be here, I'm sure.
- That's not what I meant.
- What did you mean then, Wes? Hmm? That you hopped on a plane without calling first just to see me? No, you you needed money for whatever, so you're here.
- You know, this Araknet thing - I don't care, Wes.
Doesn't matter.
It's your money.
It's always been your money.
You know, it's a two-way street, Charlotte.
You say you miss me.
I'm just a phone call away.
You wonder about Mara.
Why won't you hop on a fucking plane and see for yourself? You've never been a phone call away.
And let's be honest, Wes you're happier with her when I'm away.
You told about how people used to look at you like you were one of them.
Imagine how I used to look at you.
Like someone who wanted something more than just a woman to bear his child.
Shame on you.
Shame on you.
I'm just saying.
I wonder where we'd be.
Well You should come back tomorrow.
We'll sort out the paperwork.
You know your way out.
Hey, sorry to interrupt.
Question for you.
I never go into Brewed, okay? I go in one time with Mara and then look, ads, - coupons.
- Yeah, that's a thing.
- Targeted marketing.
- Targeted marketing.
Yes, I know.
But how? Who's responsible? Do big social media companies have their own divisions - or who does it? - I don't I mean, there's a couple major companies.
- Uh-huh.
- They're data miners.
Big corporations can hire them to gather intel Here's my question for you.
Who is the biggest data miner? Who is like the Google of data mining? Broken Egg.
- Broken Egg? - Broken Egg, yeah.
Broken Egg.
And if I'm Broken Egg, companies hire me, and then I, what? Just break into your phone? Yeah, you break into their microphones, their cameras and just everything that you say, everything you type, they gather it all, you know.
Yeah, so yeah, Broken Egg.
Do you need, like, what? That's it.
I'm good.
Thank you.
Carry on.
That's it? Sorry to interrupt.
- Okay.
- Um I'll get it.
- Isabel.
- Hmm? You have a visitor.
What are you doing here? Who are these people? They're the heads of some of the most dangerous criminal networks in the world.
All of them lost a fortune when GenCoin crashed, and all of them are mighty curious to know who is behind its demise.
You can run away from me, Isabel.
You can resist all you want, but let's be clear about something, okay? I am the only thing standing between hell, and all the people you care about.
Now, I'm wondering why you're not out there trying to make inroads.
Cute.
I need to show you something.
- All right, let's go right quick.
- Okay.
So, I ran a test.
It's only to a small region, and it allows, uh, the data to be sent back to us.
Then, this algorithm, it sweeps the data for keywords.
What happened? It's it's all right here.
Check it out.
Yeah.
Ron, what'd you see? Is that for real? That this stuff happens, you know? Hired a hitman to kill his wife.
Yeah, he's paying him in Bitcoin.
He might even get away with it.
The address is on there.
- We could get a phone number - Ronald we could get a name, at least warn her, right? Ronald.
We got to warn her.
Damn! This is what I was worried about.
I mean Look.
Really, we could sit here, and we could go over all this.
and we can drive ourselves crazy.
And technically, we have a legal liability now that we've read that, anything we see on there So Look, I hate to say it, but Nick was right.
We can't do this.
We can't.
Hey, you getting the hang of that? Yeah, I think so.
You know, I was wondering, um are any of your friends looking for work? I I thought we were in a hiring freeze.
Yeah, no, no, no.
Uh, not really payroll.
more more contract work, 1099, even cash if they wanted, actually.
Um, ideally, it would be someone with lots of, um hacking experience, I guess? Never mind.
You know what? Never mind.
- Never mind, it's fine.
- I mean, I can No, no, no.
That's okay.
That's okay.
Thank you.
Back to coffee.
Okay.
Man, get back to your post.
Look over there.
You see that? That Mustang.
That's Declan's crew.
Shit, man, it ain't their turf.
I think it is, dawg.
No, Zoe, this our turf now.
No, call Frantz.
I don't like this shit.
What, you think they gonna roll by? What they hell they sittin' over there then for? Shit.
All right, hold up.
- Hey, what they do? - It's them, man.
Couple Declan's boys have been sitting on us for a minute now, dawg.
Go on, let them sit, D.
Ain't no one's turf but the Zoe.
Yeah, but, I mean, shouldn't we, um You strapped? I mean, yeah, but Ain't no one's turf but the Zoe.
You feel me? Yeah, I, feel you.
I feel you.
So what did he say? Shit handled.
Go back over there.
- Go, man.
Come on.
- Fuck.
Once you sign, you're good to go.
Wes, you came here to do this.
Just let's finish this.
Marry me.
I want it back.
I want everything back.
You want what back, Wes? It's not a You want to fix our past? Marry me.
Wes.
You blamed me.
You blame me for everything.
Just like you blame everything on everyone else.
Well I say we try to fix it.
Wow.
You know, Wes it's been really great seeing you, but your delusions are concerning.
You just force your way through life.
You damage everyone around you and when they resent you for it, somehow it seems wrong to you, and you're too blind to see that your tyrannical bullshit has consequences.
There's nothing left to fix.
I love you but We need to sign this, and you need to move on, because I already have.
Wes.
Wes.
It's all in Bitcoin.
Three months with that.
Unless it were tapped.
Nobody else to beg from.
What about Saginaw? Where they at? What about your 100 million users? Where they at?