Industry (2020) s03e05 Episode Script

1
("BOY" BY BOOK OF LOVE PLAYING)
NEWS REPORTER: (OVER TV)
It's just gone 6 a.m.
The public inquiry into the government's
three-month long bailout
of green energy startup Lumi
is being held today in Westminster.
Taxpayers are outraged
by the two billion-pound bailout.
It seems fingers are being pointed
at the Lumi CEO, Henry Muck,
at the government for
bailing out a sinking ship,
and at investment bank Pierpoint,
for overvaluing Lumi's
initial public offer.
(WATER DRIPPING)
HENRY MUCK: How's Rob feeling
about the select committee?
I can't believe they're
sending someone so junior.
It's total dereliction of
duty on Pierpoint's part.
Yes, borderline abusive at this point.
I don't know why he's doing it.
Yeah, well, it doesn't sit well with me.
I'm gonna make it right.
(YASMIN KARA-HANANI GIGGLES)
Oh
Can you do something for me?
Can you be vulnerable with
me if I'm vulnerable with you?
Okay.
Can you relieve yourself on me?
What?
What the fuck are you talking about?
I'm not a pervert.
It's like an intimacy thing, okay?
Yeah, I feel like
we've reached the stage
where I can ask you to do
this for me and not be shamed.
("CHARMED" BY REDINHO
AND STELLA PLAYING)
YASMIN: Okay.
I mean, I'm not sure
that I can relax, but
Just piss and think of England.
You really want me to do this?
I'm not a pervert.
I'm practical.
This is the one situation
where I get to control my helplessness.
And now you're gone ♪
Far away, far away ♪
Okay.
- If you could
- Let me relax.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Would you stay? ♪
Would you stay with me? ♪
Shoop, shoop ♪
Shoop, shoop ♪
(URINE TRICKLING)
Tell me, my love ♪
Do you feel right? ♪
(SIGHS)
(YASMIN CHUCKLES)
HENRY: Thank you for trusting me.
And now you're gone ♪
Far away, far away ♪
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
RISHI RAMDANI: (OVER PA) Big up!
Children's Investment Trust Charity Day.
This is your annual
chance to save your souls.
Remember, donations are tax-deductible,
so it's a fucking win-win in my opinion.
- Booyakasha!
- (STATIC FEEDBACK)
NAOMI: People respond emotionally
before they respond intellectually,
so we're gonna go with the blue.
Tory blue.
NAOMI: It's more of a royal blue.
It's a sympathetic color.
And we'd like you to wear these glasses.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
- I don't wear glasses.
- They're non-prescription.
DANIEL BURROWS: It's
very much in your interest
that you stick to this statement.
If they ask you any awkward questions,
just say, "I refer to my statement."
Are you Pierpoint's lawyer or mine?
BURROWS: I'm instructed by Pierpoint.
You can be rest assured
that to the extent that your interests
and Pierpoint's interests coincide,
I shall be looking after
your interests today.
With respect, that's
not very encouraging.
Sorry, what if I flat-out
refuse to do this?
Rob, a company man would do this.
You're a company man.
It's just an information
gathering exercise.
NAOMI: The government spent
billions bailing out Lumi,
and the opposition is pointing fingers.
ERIC TAO: But that's not on
you. You're not on trial here.
Any questions come up
about Henry's integrity
or, indeed, Lumi's highly
risky business strategy,
we don't advise that you implicate Lumi,
but your silence on these
matters would be useful
in allowing people to
draw their own conclusions.
Against Lumi in favor of Pierpoint.
Henry and Lumi will take
any opportunity they can
to throw you under the bus.
(INHALES DEEPLY) So
(MUSIC BUILDS)
- Lisa Dearn's on that committee.
- (MUSIC FADES)
The Shadow Energy Secretary.
She's an up-and-comer.
And a fucking Rottweiler.
Means eyeballs and good
political capital for her,
but she's gonna grandstand,
play to the gallery.
What's the narrative gonna be?
Dearn's gonna paint this as a big bank
over-inflating a startup
into a national utility,
which she believes should
be publicly owned anyway,
only for the taxpayer to foot
the bill when it went tits up.
Off the record,
what do Adler and the
higher-ups make of all this?
ERIC: They're disowning it,
pretending it's a
local, UK-centric issue
that'll be swallowed
by the next news cycle.
But the more we can do
to lay blame at Lumi's feet, the better.
Why didn't we send a tank in?
Why didn't you go in
and rip Henry's head off?
Because after COP, I'm the very public,
internal face of Lumi's failure.
I want a new one.
And so we're not at cross purposes here,
Robert's expendable?
ERIC: He's a young man
early in his career.
He'll recover.
NAOMI: The randomizer of the universe
is laughing at us as it
spits out our bingo card.
A select committee
and the Children's Investment
Trust event on the same day.
I've already spoken to the photographer
about avoiding Yasmin
Hanani, but can you
sensitively adios her?
I don't think that the charity want
the Charles Hanani association
on their Twitter feed.
It's endearing you try so hard.
- Nice calves.
- RISHI: Rishi in the porno.
It's for the kids.
- RISHI: Rishi in the punani.
- (NAOMI CHUCKLES)
RISHI: Rishi in the punani. Bop!
(CLEARS THROAT)
(IN ITALIAN ACCENT) Hey, it's-a
me, generic Italian plumber.
SWEETPEA GOLIGHTLY: Okay. (CHUCKLES)
Rish, can I have a word, please?
Sweetpea, you do look very
fetching in your outfit.
All I wanna know is,
does the carpet match the drapes?
That's pathetic.
- I'm not sure it is.
- So, thanks for that.
Thanks for making such an effort.
You are welcome.
(CHUCKLES)
Ooh, this is nice.
What is it exactly
you're doing on my desk?
I don't know.
Call your boss, he'll tell you.
Yo, what time you on the box, Bob?
You look like you're due in court
for a racially motivated murder.
YASMIN: I spoke to Henry, you know,
he says this has got
nothing to do with you.
He wouldn't lie to me, so
you're gonna be fine, okay?
Yeah.
That's the exact opposite
of what Eric just told me.
Yas, can I speak to you
about my rotation project?
Sorry, I, um I have to firm
up a meeting with LeviathanAlpha.
Please, um Please.
You could just listen
to me, like, for once.
I'm bringing this to you
because I do not want you
to look fucking stupid
as my line manager.
I'm making a call, Sweetpea.
- (SWEETPEA CLEARS THROAT)
- RISHI: Is it 'cause I is Black?
- Um, Eric, can I talk to you?
- In a little bit.
Uh, I was working late last night
on this indicator model.
Well, it's turned into more
of a risk assessment now.
Sweetpea, Robert's my
focus this morning, okay?
SWEETPEA: Okay, yeah.
No, I get that, um
And I'm sorry, I don't I
don't wanna be too forthright
but I actually think this is
really important right now.
So I'm gonna, I'm gonna wait
in a meeting room over there
until you come and talk to me.
- RISHI: (OVER PA) All right, in third place
- SWEETPEA: Okay?
- Paul and Ben, who've come as Jimmy Savile
- Okay.
- and his mother's corpse.
- (CLEARS THROAT)
RISHI: In second place, Bilal,
who's come as Bobby Sands,
complete with very inventive
dirty protest make-up.
But the winner this year,
Leanne and Julie
I'm gonna call you back.
I'll just see you at 4:00.
- Okay.
- ERIC: Uh, quick one.
It might be a good idea for
you to take a personal day.
What do you mean? Like a day off?
Well you want your privacy.
Yeah, when a fucking pap is
camping out on my cistern,
not when I'm doing my job.
Eric, the last thing I
want is for any of this shit
to affect my life in here.
Can you not throw your
toys out of the pram?
Don't patronize me, okay?
I'm not one of your daughters.
I'm just trying to offer
you a little protection
from the glare of the
spotlight in a tough time.
That's all.
I appreciate that.
But, you know, I've just gotten
off a call with LeviathanAlpha,
who, let's be honest,
left us a pretty
shitty quarterly review.
ERIC: What a surprise.
Harper's power to give us a
bad review must really light up
the pleasure centers in her brain.
I've just set up a 4 p.m.
between Harper and
Daisy, the CIT's new PM.
She's just moved over from Crux.
I have been speaking to her for weeks.
She thinks that Petra and
Harper are cutting-edge.
You know, I can make this connection.
ERIC: You know, we give the
Children's Investment Trust
five percent of our PNL
on Charity Day as gesture,
which they then end up
reinvesting through us
anyway.
It's a waste of my time.
Well, okay, it's not a waste of mine.
We have no idea where Daisy's
gonna end up in a few years,
and I'm looking for
longevity in this business,
so I'm going to
introduce Harper and Petra
to the Children's Investment
Trust at 4 p.m. today.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
ERIC: By the way, just so we're clear,
I certainly don't see
you as my daughter.
Okay?
(CLEARS THROAT)
Apologies, I know this select committee
is like a it's a big deal, so
I've just I've been
I'm a little freaked out
and no one here is listening to me.
- (SCOFFS)
- So, I don't know.
I could, I could be adding two
and two and be getting five,
but I also could be adding two
and two and be getting four.
And four would be like really bad.
So, like, five minutes? Ten minutes?
- Okay. Let's start with five.
- SWEETPEA: Okay. Okay, cool.
So, obviously, there's a
trend of IPOs being pulled,
and ESG is experiencing a downturn.
Thank you for highlighting that for me.
So, um, I was speaking
to my friend, Amir,
in Fixed Income, and he
said that Pierpoint issued,
like, a fuck ton of senior
secured debt around five years ago,
and it's about to reach maturity,
and there's literally
no bid for it anywhere.
So this, this capital-raising strategy
coincidentally but also
perhaps dangerously lines up
with the timing of our own ESG pivot.
So what are you saying?
Look, I could, I could probably get
in a lot of trouble for this.
You know, with, like, the
Chinese walls and everything.
But, um, my friend,
Magdelena in Banking,
said that every IPO
roadshow that they've done
over the past three
months has gone badly.
No company coming to market
will want Pierpoint
to be its bookrunner.
And pretty much all of the IPOs
that Pierpoint have
underwritten are in limbo
between postponement
and pulling completely.
And the equity within
these prospective companies
is close to zero by now.
No one wants them.
The valuations have
completely collapsed.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
Go on.
So, um this is the kicker.
My friend, Keval, in Asset Management
said that Pierpoint took equity stakes
to facilitate these deals.
Is it possible that these prop
bets are all going to zero?
So (CHUCKLES)
what you are saying is
two plus two equals fucked?
(ERIC CHUCKLING)
Well, yeah. (CHUCKLES)
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
- Sweetpea
- SWEETPEA: Mm-hmm.
this is what we're
gonna do about this.
The way you gleaned this information
is potentially a regulatory issue,
a confidentiality issue,
and a disciplinary issue.
I think it's best for
you and whoever you
concocted this little conspiracy with
that you all go back to your desks
and do your fucking jobs.
ERIC: Understood?
Yeah. (CLEARS THROAT)
Yeah, sorry.
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(LINE RINGING)
ERIC: Hey, are you still in the UK?
BILL ADLER: (OVER PHONE) At City
Airport. Just landed from Switzerland.
ERIC: Can you Can
you come to the office?
I need to speak to you.
ADLER: Haven't you got both
eyes on the select committee?
Is this Is this more urgent?
I'll lay it out, and you can tell me.
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
You read the statement,
make it clear and concise,
but don't make it interesting.
The more boring, the better.
- Understood?
- Yeah, all right.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONCLUDES)
ROBERT SPEARING: Our role is to provide
fledgling businesses with capital,
and we remind you
that throughout bringing Lumi to market,
we made good on Pierpoint's
foundational tenet
doing business with integrity.
Thank you.
Why are you here?
Actually, let me rephrase that.
Why are we here?
Sorry, I I'm not following.
Um
Why are we here?
I was asked to be.
We're here because your employer
overvalued Lumi,
which provided an essential service,
fanned its untenable growth trajectory
to the point where it had to be placed
under emergency government control
and bailed out by the taxpayer
to the tune of two billion pounds.
Do you agree that's why we're here?
I'd like to refer back to my statement,
um, in that
LISA DEARN: I spent my weekend reading
testimony from customers
that Lumi failed.
And I'd share them aloud here,
but we'd be here till next week.
I'd implore you to
avail yourself of these.
But I fear the human cost
will always be something
of an abstraction for
people in your line of work.
STEPHEN CRIBBENS: I didn't
think I heard a question
in the Shadow Energy
Secretary's statement.
Rather an ad hominem attack.
LISA: One statement from a Lumi employee
called you Sir Henry's "whipping boy."
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
Is that a fair characterization?
I'd say you're more
Pierpoint's whipping boy,
given that they've
sent someone so junior
and youthful to face the music for them.
I do find myself feeling sorry for you.
I work in Equity Capital Markets.
That requires a certain level of time
- spent with management.
- (FINGERS TAPPING)
Sorry, I, um I
refer to my statement
LISA: "Time spent with management"
seems underpowered for
what you really mean.
According to statements from
an anonymous Lumi employee,
your relationship with Mark was,
and I quote here, "intimate."
I don't understand how this
is relevant to the inquiry.
I think a level of incestuousness
between Pierpoint and Lumi might be
at the crux of the valuation problem.
I'd refer again to your
use of the word "integrity."
I wonder if you might
actually make good on that
platitude.
Would you say that we've established
that you spent enough time
in Muck's orbit to make a
character assessment of him?
I don't know.
Probably.
Then how would you
characterize his relationship
with the young women he worked with?
- ROBERT: I
- LISA: Because I have a a source
at Lumi who it is
incumbent on me to protect
who's made it very clear
that Muck ran a predatory environment.
She was indeed a victim
of Muck's predation.
ADAM: Again, how is this germane
to our purpose here today?
LISA: This is the second
and now largest bailout
since the introduction of the
sweeping energy bailout bill.
The British taxpayer has been forced
to bail out a company created
by a force of personality.
They deserve to know
what kind of personality
they're footing the bill for.
Uh, sorry, Chair, um, I need to, um
Sorry, uh, can I go
to the toilet, please?
Let's reconvene in 20 minutes.
Keep it together.
(TENSE MUSIC CONCLUDES)
Who's the Arab kid on
my desk, by the way?
ADLER: That's Ali.
His family are high up in
the Egyptian government.
They have ties with the Al-Mi'raj
Holding Company out of the Gulf.
Big investors in our
asset management division.
They wanted to give him a job, you know?
The usual "client's son" nepo thing.
How bad is our balance sheet?
Let's forget the Chinese
wall for a moment.
Give it to me undiluted.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
Where have you been?
John Lindsay's stepping down.
We're getting a new CEO?
Captain for a storm.
Who is it?
I wouldn't wanna preempt
the final decision.
I, uh
I want you to come see
me at my place tonight
for a more intimate confab.
Tell me, honestly.
Is there a storm coming, Bill?
It's already here.
Look, can you tell me what's happening?
- (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC FADES)
- Like, what are they actually asking me?
None of this stuff
about Henry's character
was in any of the briefings.
Well, did you know about any of this?
No, I don't know what
she's talking about.
Like, I really don't know.
They're giving you an
open goal to hurt him.
These allegations could
shift the attention
from Pierpoint to Henry.
So
go for it. Hurt him.
- NAOMI: He's here.
- (CAR DOOR OPENING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
NEWS REPORTER 1: Are
you a predator, Mr. Muck?
Henry, you said you'd be here.
NEWS REPORTER 2: How much
did you make, Mr. Muck?
NEWS REPORTER 1: Do you
feel guilty, Mr. Muck?
ROBERT: What happened with Caedi?
It is not relevant.
Then why are they pinning me to the wall
for the fact that you
fuck your employees?
Mate, lower your voice.
You don't know what
you're talking about.
None of it is pertinent
to why we are here.
No, it's pertinent
because you use your power
to get your dick wet
and somehow my job now
is to answer for it.
- Listen to me. Look at me.
- (FINGERS SNAPPING)
You have to believe me.
All right?
This isn't anything.
It's a whole load of nothing.
It's not going to go anywhere
because there's nothing there.
(CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
Mr. Spearing, a former Lumi employee
that I've had close contact with,
attests that she was,
quote, "relentlessly and romantically
pursued by Henry Muck."
He bought her clothes
and then offered her a position of power
in exchange for inappropriate relations.
The employee was then flown out
to the UN climate conference,
which you attended with Mr. Muck.
And this employee was
then, quote, "frozen out."
Mr. Spearing, do you
believe this statement?
Do you believe this woman?
Spearing
I'd like to speak to my
barrister privately, please.
Mr. Spearing, are you
aware that Henry is now
in a relationship with
a Pierpoint employee?
I'm sure that would be of great interest
to the regulators.
I refer to my statement.
Oh, fuck.
We can dress this up as an
information gathering exercise,
but ultimately, we're
here to assign blame.
I wanna be honest.
Uh, I have to face up to
my own culpability, and
this is the most humble day of my life.
I think the most important thing
is to be vulnerable in
front of you right now.
I, uh, like you, believed I
was engaged in a public service.
Our mission was to disrupt
a stagnant and monopolistic industry,
and the little guy failed.
Yeah, we we overshot.
I assure you, the animating spirit
that caused us to overshoot
is the same one that made us feel
that we were doing good for the country.
And your failure to model
for a correction in natural gas prices?
Your unsustainably low
introductory price point?
Less than five percent of
your so-called "green power"
was from renewable energy sources.
You've "greenwashed" your credentials.
The only thing I'm
guilty of is optimism.
Now, I am happy to answer any
questions about my business,
and I will swiftly and judiciously
respond to any contentions
about my private life,
privately, out of respect
for those who raise them.
(AUDIENCE MURMURS)
(DOOR OPENS)
I won't let this story
be just another bailout
consigned to the dustbin of history
by the relentless pursuit of capital.
What about the 145
million pounds in stock
you sold before Lumi went into
emergency government control?
How much of that have you paid
in restitution to your victims?
This should have been a criminal
investigation from the outset.
You should serve prison
time for what you've done.
You are a mercenary.
Well, unlike you, I don't take pleasure
in the suffering of others.
(HESITATES, EXHALES)
(HESITATES)
Yeah, and in terms of the, um,
the valuation and the,
uh, the overheated, uh
excitement around the the IPO,
well, that would lay at
the feet of our bankers.
Now, you keep using the word predatory.
If there is a predatory
side to capitalism,
they are on it, we are not.
BURROWS: (WHISPERS)
What a slippery shit.
(INDISTINCT MURMURING)
- (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC FADES)
- I hope this is worth it?
Just to see your old office?
(CHUCKLES)
I genuinely think that
it could be useful.
- Hmm.
- AUTOMATED VOICE: Door opening.
I'm just gonna pee, but
I'll catch up with you.
Okay, I'll see you in the meeting room.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Door closing.
(EXHALES)
- (DOOR CREAKS OPEN)
- (SNIFFLES)
(CLEARS THROAT)
(SWEETPEA SNIFFLES)
- What's going on?
- I just
I think I really fucked it up with Eric.
YASMIN: Oh, don't worry about him.
Why don't you sit in on this meeting
with Harper and Petra?
- Eric's allergic to Harper.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)
YASMIN: Trust me, your
tears are wasted in here.
(SIGHS)
What happened?
(CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
Um
Well, that's kind of sensitive.
SWEETPEA: And I I
don't I don't really know
if there's anything to it.
Okay, well, don't say anything
that's gonna get us into trouble.
There was this Euro
Swaps kid who once spoke
about the fact that he spent
his entire signing-on bonus
on Pornhub Premium and
Oliver Peoples glasses
- in a lift with an MD.
- All right.
He got sacked.
You never know who's listening.
SWEETPEA: Okay, so, um
I outlined this hypothesis.
Eric shot it down pretty
viciously, but I think
Pierpoint Asset Management might have
taken an outsize prop bet
as part of our ESG pivot,
funded by debt that is
about to reach maturity.
It's a balance sheet motherload.
- Okay.
- Hmm.
Um
- Honestly
- Mm-hmm (SNIFFLES)
I think this is way above
our pay grades. (CHUCKLES)
Look, I have a lot going on today, okay?
But just don't let the
geezers get you down.
Right?
I'm gonna go for a piss now, okay?
But you're good.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)
(DOOR CLOSES)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC FADES)
It was a stroke of genius.
I think you did brilliantly.
Look, I'm getting a
lot of heat about Henry
and the possibility of
criminal proceedings.
We can't be associated with that.
What, I can, can I?
You need a fucking scapegoat.
Why fuck me?
Why did you choose to fuck me?
Because you're fuckable,
Robert, all right?
I'm sorry. From a company
level, you're fuckable.
Don't Don't look at me.
Eric said you were expendable.
(CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
- (LINE RINGING)
- (BREATHING HEAVILY)
Hey. Hey, Rob, Rob, breathe, breathe.
It's Eric.
It's fucking It's Pierpoint.
They've hung me out to dry, Yas.
They're gonna fire me.
Maybe don't question the jailer
when he hands you the keys, you know?
Getting away from all these people,
is that such a bad thing?
(CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY)
(CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC CONCLUDES)
LISA: And from the very first instance,
I would contend that Lumi was far too
closely enmeshed with government.
We believed Lumi could be a beacon
for what the British tech and
energy sectors were capable of.
You were very quick to ratify a bailout.
Was that because you wanted to
soften the landing for a Lumi CEO?
AURORE ADEKUNLE: I don't believe
in bailouts philosophically,
but it was a moral issue.
Homes were going cold.
In all my dealings with Henry Muck,
I never questioned his integrity.
LISA: You're defending a man
whose misconduct allegations
seem to be growing exponentially.
I don't think that's what
we're here to talk about.
Pierpoint ended up as
Lumi's lead underwriter.
Did that have anything
to do with the fact
that you started your career there?
Does the fact that
you started your career
at the energy regulator Ofgem,
have anything to do with the lack
of supervision over Lumi's finances?
I don't follow. What's that
got to do with anything?
My point exactly.
It's a coincidence.
Okay, so it's not Lumi's fault,
and I assume you're here to ensure
that it's not the
government's fault, so
Secretary of State, whose fault is it?
My department dropped the ball
and therefore the responsibility
is mine and mine only.
(AUDIENCE MURMURING)
AURORE: The goalposts over
what's acceptable in public life
have shifted over the last half-decade
due in part to my party's leadership.
Scandal has become such
an iterative process for us
that it has ceased to become scandal.
But I am here to prove
to you and the public,
that I still believe in
accountability in politics.
Which is why I've come from Number Ten,
where I tendered my resignation
to the Prime Minister.
(COMMITTEE MEMBERS CHATTERING)
You have no idea how lucky we just got.
She just made the government the story.
What are you talking
about how lucky "we" got?
You mean me.
AURORE: And on the subject
of a criminal investigation,
this government welcomes the opportunity
to engage the Attorney General
and the Serious Fraud Office
to mete out justice where appropriate.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(REPORTERS CLAMORING)
REPORTER: How did the Prime Minister
take your resignation
as Secretary of State?
BODYGUARD: Now, back off.
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
HENRY: If I knew they were gonna use
Caedi like that, or she felt like this,
I would have reached out
to her. It was traumatic.
- (TENSE MUSIC FADES)
- (RAIN PATTERING)
And I didn't buy her
any clothes, by the way.
I let her use my
Net-A-Porter discount once.
Are you not worried
about the
the criminal implications
that Dearn raised.
You sat through that shit show.
Wouldn't you say blame is complicated?
It lies with me, my board, my bankers
and the government.
But people want a single
reductive certainty.
Let me buy you an early dinner.
There's some friends of
ours I want you to meet.
All's fair in love and war, right?
(SERENE MUSIC PLAYING)
BYSTANDER: Give us
our money back, wanker!
Some pre-prandial martinis
to lube up the conversation.
Two? Three? Oh, and a glass of Ruinart
for our absent guest.
Wait, is someone else joining us?
ALEXANDER NORTON: Just a Perrier for me.
- Oh.
- I thought Dearn was a little unsophisticated
how she went for the jugular in there.
I had a similar
grilling from our current
Foreign Secretary during
the Leveson inquiry.
He's in your pocket
now, isn't he, Nortie?
You did hack Hugh Grant's phone, no?
- I'm not rising to that.
- (OTTO MOSTYN CHUCKLES)
(CHUCKLES)
It takes a certain person to
not wilt under those lights.
(SERENE MUSIC CONTINUES)
You did well.
OTTO: Yeah, your friend Harper realized
the sell-side is where the
fertile minds go to die.
She's doing rather well with my money.
It's time for you to have
the same realization, Rob.
Well, if it isn't our
future Prime Minister.
(HENRY CLAPS)
Fuck me! Muah!
- Muah!
- (AURORE CHUCKLES)
Well done in there.
AURORE: This is purportedly
the worst day of my career.
I've just had to let my
entire private office go.
Where's Blanc de Blancs?
- OTTO: Oh, as if by magic.
- (CHUCKLES)
NORTON: Just giving a nod to James
and the news team on
tomorrow's headline.
Aurore, do you prefer "Third Way"
or "New Hope" for the sub?
You know best, Alexander.
NORTON: After that disastrous budget,
they had to put a
centrist in as Chancellor,
but we'll have him out by the election.
- AURORE: Oh.
- NORTON: The job's yours to lose.
What about the, um Well,
the criminal proceedings?
Oh, I had a word with
the Attorney General.
It's in his in-tray.
He'll look at it,
then it'll be in someone else's in-tray.
OTTO: Oh, and if the
press come knocking,
ask something that'll use up oxygen,
like, um, can a woman have a penis?
- AURORE: Oh, dear.
- (NORTON CHUCKLES)
(CHUCKLES)
Well, looks like my
uncle made some promises.
Good to have him in your favor.
Mm.
HENRY: I am surprised you
are such a bad bullshitter.
Isn't that what the
Oxford tutorial system
is meant to teach us?
OTTO: Um
We should have a toast, shouldn't we?
Um, to England?
No, uh, to, uh Well, to friends.
Old and, uh, new.
- To friends, old and new.
- Friends
To friends, old and new.
- Cheers.
- (SERENE MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(HENRY SNIFFS VIGOROUSLY, EXHALES)
(UPBEAT JAZZ MUSIC
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS)
It's a shame that the, uh
the heart palpitations
you get off shit gear
- don't count as cardio.
- (ROBERT SNIFFS)
(EXHALES)
Did you, uh
did you ever, you know, get with Yasmin?
(LIVELY CHATTER)
No.
Although she did once
make me eat my own
ejaculate off a mirror.
(CHUCKLES)
I've invited her to join us later.
And while I'm not a I'm
not a sexually jealous man,
I just don't want it
to be awkward, you know.
We're just friends.
She's a very good friend.
I think she might be it.
The bullet to take me
out of the Great War.
What?
Oh, for fuck's sake. I
think I'm in love with her.
Well, you shouldn't tell her that.
She's not in the emotional headspace
to hear things like that.
Oh.
So, you do love her.
(HENRY SNIFFS DEEPLY)
ERIC: That now ex-cabinet minister
really took the heat
for us in there today.
ADLER: Sorry I left you high and dry.
Senior management help yourself
have had their eye
on who's gonna sail us
through this squall.
Is it premature to toast your ascension
to the top job?
They're making you CEO, right?
(SCOFFS)
Please.
I'm honored you think they'd
even finger me for that.
No, I have it on semi-good authority
it's gonna be Tom Wolsey.
You're fucking kidding me.
The ex-Bain turnaround guy?
He's He's a kid.
I think if he's announced,
it tells us the story.
- He's gonna gut us?
- Is that a question?
Between us
I think Wilhelmina was
part of the soft pressure
behind Lindsay's retirement.
She's gonna do everything
she can to pass the buck
about the ESG disaster
in front of Wolsey.
The grad was right.
ADLER: Not even a forensic accountant
could read our balance sheet.
It's too unwieldy.
What I can tell you is we're not safe
from a plummeting share price.
We're not safe from panic.
HENRY: Epstein's island
was a naff Mustique.
- (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
- (CHUCKLES)
- Stop!
- HENRY: You won't find the Muck name
- on the flight manifesto.
- XANDER LINDT: (LAUGHS) Don't.
HENRY: Yeah, I heard
he was Mossad agent
- I need talk to you.
- HENRY: Oh, in a bit,
in a bit, in a bit.
YASMIN: Henry, we need
to talk about this girl.
Oh, it was nothing, Yas.
It was fucking nothing.
You're high, Henry.
Why do you get yourself into
these fucking situations?
- Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
- YASMIN: No! No!
It's an abuse of power, Henry.
Fuck, everything's an abuse of power
with me in relationships,
Yas. I can only fuck down.
(CHUCKLES) Who can I
fuck that's higher status?
Uh, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris?
Not my tempo, babe.
- XANDER: I love a café au lait.
- (HENRY CHUCKLING)
Obviously
Obviously, I'm joking, I'm joking.
For fuck's sake, Yas.
You know, I'm with you now.
I'm with you.
Yeah? You're everything.
You're fucking everything.
- Stop.
- No, no, listen to me.
I love how vulnerable you make me feel.
Yeah?
- I loved this morning.
- Okay.
You know, that was a holy moment.
When we were that
vulnerable with each other
- Okay, I
- when you pissed on me.
XANDER: (CHUCKLING) You got
another girl to piss on you?
(CROWD EXCLAIMS)
YASMIN: Lick it up
off the fucking floor.
- ROBERT: Hey, Yas.
- YASMIN: No, not right now.
Oh, I always liked her.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, hey, come on.
Let's give it a good fucking nudge.
YASMIN: Did you know
anything about this Lumi girl?
- No.
- YASMIN: Like, what am I doing
involving myself with someone like him?
Like, what is actually wrong with me?
There's nothing wrong with you.
YASMIN: So many fucked
up fucking issues.
I surround myself with these men.
Like And I want them to want me.
Why? I don't
I even wanted my dad to like me.
Yeah, but you know,
there's nothing wrong with
wanting your dad to like you.
God, I spent years trying
to get my mom's approval.
PASSERBY 1: Have you
tried Bacchanalia yet?
I mean, you know, presentationally.
PASSERBY 1: Got some god-awful
Damien Hirst in there.
Can't you just fall in love with me?
("NOBODY KNOWS (LADAS ROAD)" BY
LOYLE CARNER PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS)
It would make everything so much easier.
- (PHONE BUZZING)
- PASSERBY 2: Where we going tonight?
PASSERBY 3: Thinkin'
around Maison Estelle,
- Koko
- YASMIN: Hello?
DENISE OLDROYD: Yas, it's Denise.
Uh, are you somewhere private?
YASMIN: Is everything okay?
DENISE: Are you somewhere private?
What's wrong?
DENISE: Okay, um, I'd rather
not do this over the phone,
but I thought speed was quite important,
given how quickly it might get out.
Um, they found a body.
It's, uh, it's most likely your father.
Uh, um
DENISE: Yes, do you do
you need me to come to you?
- I'm gonna
- DENISE: Yas
I'll I'll I'll call you later.
PASSERBY 4: Have you
seen those fucking mugs
queueing outside Greek Street?
It's like a fucking labor exchange?
YASMIN: Sorry, I can't, I can't.
HENRY: Come on, fucking hell
Fucking get in there.
I've got a surprise for later.
(SNIFFLES)
XANDER: Whoa, easy, easy, easy, easy.
HENRY: I'm taking you somewhere special.
XANDER: This is dark web
coke. None of your speed shit.
HENRY: Shit got real.
Right. (SNIFFS)
ADLER: So
I wanted to bring you
here to tell you privately.
I've been living with a medulloblastoma
in my left temporal lobe.
Rare in adults and inoperable.
Can you believe it?
I was repeating myself a
lot, so I got it checked out.
What's the prognosis?
Oh, years, no doubt. Modern medicine.
Years.
Why are you looking at me like that?
You think I'm in denial?
No, not at all. I'm just
thinking about how I
always admired your hair.
It ain't budged.
Yeah, I decided chemo wasn't practical.
What a life, eh?
You bet death against your vanity
and your vanity still wins.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
Yeah, I didn't want people
in the office thinking
I was in any way incapacitated.
So, I, uh, flew to this
clinic in Switzerland.
They're trialing a DCVax treatment
where they expose nude
mice to the tumor cells
to create a bespoke vaccine.
Cancer's like our business. It's, uh
It's a country with its own language.
How are your daughters?
I'm fighting for custody.
But Candace is a merciless bitch.
(ADLER CHUCKLES)
That's why I loved her.
You want the weekends, or the week?
I used to see what my daughters
could become and achieve
in every successful
young woman I came across.
But now
Now you wanna come across
every successful young woman?
Mr. Tao, HR are on the line.
I don't know what I feel.
Ooh, disgrace is coming.
Don't expedite it.
Luckily, cancer really
does a number on desire.
(SLURPING)
(SOBS INTENSELY)
ADLER: Hey, hey.
Who are you crying for?
- I hope it's not for me.
- ERIC: Sorry, sorry.
(SNIFFLES)
Remember
we grew up in this bank.
We're lifers.
And I'm happy we made that trade,
but only if we act like we know its soul
and we're prepared to fight for it.
Because the next few
weeks are gonna be a fight.
(HENRY GRUNTING SOFTLY)
How long was I out for?
I've been thinking about my intentions.
One must think clearly
about what one will ask the medicine.
You can't wear that. You
look like a T.M. Lewin wanker.
GUEST 1: Expensive way
to get off your tits.
ROBERT: Where the fuck
have you dragged me?
GUEST 2: Cheap way to meet God though.
- Just sit on the blue blanket for me.
- All right.
Just sit on that blanket for me.
GUEST 3: I haven't paid 800 quid
to sit in some woods in Kent.
(GUESTS CHATTERING)
GUEST 3: I better fucking
figure some shit out.
PIERRE: Hey, dude.
Pierre.
Is this your first journey?
This is my third set of cups.
I don't think I'm in the
right headspace for this.
Well, you look like
you've sobered up a bit.
I told Henry to abstain,
but he never listens.
PIERRE: He doesn't respect the medicine.
And remember, the plant
finds you when you're ready.
(SHAMAN CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
You're here now.
Do you really have a choice?
(SHAMAN CONTINUES CHANTING)
(RETCHING)
GUEST: Diego!
Help me, Diego!
(SHAMAN CONTINUES CHANTING)
(HENRY LAUGHING)
(CHANTING ECHOING)
(HENRY CONTINUES LAUGHING)
SHAMAN: Guíanos
Ayahuasca.
Ayahuasca.
- (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
- (HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)
- (WATER DRIPPING)
- (LIGHTS BUZZING FAINTLY)
- (RHYTHMIC RUSTLING)
- (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(EERIE MUSIC BUILDS)
(DISTORTED CHATTER ECHOING)
Shoeshine, shoeshine, shoeshine.
Shoeshine, shoeshine, shoeshine.
(DISTORTED) Shoeshine,
shoeshine, shoeshine.
(LOUD BUZZING)
- (MUSIC STOPS)
- (ABRUPT SILENCE)
(REPEATING DEEP SNIFFS)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(ECHOING VOICES CHATTERING)
(ELECTRIC BUZZING)
ERIC: (ECHOING) You're a company
You're a company
You're a company man.
(WATER DRIPPING)
(CHILDREN LAUGHING, ECHOING)
NICOLE CRAIG: (ECHOING)
Go on, Mommy's not looking.
(EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(LAUGHS)
(HENRY LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY)
(LAUGHING DISTORTS)
(HENRY CONTINUES LAUGHING)
(BABY CRYING)
- (MUSIC STOPS)
- (BABIES CRYING)
ROBERT: (ECHOING)
She was a tyrant, you know?
You're just like my mother.
She was an unfillable void of need too.
She was very
present.
BOB SENIOR: (ECHOING) She was restless.
Just like you, always in your ear.
(WORDS ECHO)
BOB SENIOR: She loved you.
(OVERLAPPING ECHOING WORDS)
(ECHOING WHOOSH)
(HENRY LAUGHING)
- (ABRUPT SILENCE)
- (PANTS)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(HENRY LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY)
(CONTINUES LAUGHING)
(GASPING)
(SHAMAN CHANTING SOFTLY)
We have to find a way to monetize this.
(LAUGHS)
(BIRDS CALLING)
HENRY: Christ, I'm coming down hard.
I had a very nasty experience
in the loo just now.
I saw a monster.
Whatever you do
don't look in the mirror.
("CMON" BY FRED AGAIN
(AND BRIAN ENO PLAYING)
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
(DOOR CLOSES)
(YASMIN SIGHING)
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Can I get in with you?
ROBERT: What time is it?
I don't know.
Where have you been?
YASMIN: I ended up
in some member's club.
Sat at the bar for a
bit, getting fucked up.
Got some guys to buy
me about eight Negronis.
And then when they left,
they realized that I wasn't
a paying member anymore.
So they asked me to leave.
And I came home.
Sorry I left you with them.
I think I'm gonna sell the house.
How did you afford this place
in the first place? (CHUCKLES)
Clement
He left me half a
million quid in his will.
I guess it doesn't really matter
where the money comes from.
I think it does.
I think I'm finally
beginning to see that.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
What am I gonna do if I lose my job?
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
Henry will look after you.
- But he's a cunt.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)
Yeah, he's your type.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
I guess he is.
My fate is predetermined.
Yeah.
(SONG CONCLUDES)
You're destined to marry your dad.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
(ROBERT CHUCKLES)
(LAUGHS WHEEZINGLY)
That would be impossible
'cause I killed him.
(GIGGLES)
("BOY" BY BOOK OF LOVE PLAYING)
(GIGGLES)
(ROBERT CHUCKLES)
- Boy ♪
- Uh-huh ♪
I want to be where the boys are ♪
But I'm not allowed ♪
I wait outside of the boy's bar ♪
I wait for them to all come out ♪
I'm not a ♪
Boy ♪
I'm not a ♪
Boy ♪
It's not my fault ♪
That I'm not a boy ♪
It's not my fault ♪
I don't have those toys ♪
I'm not a ♪
Boy ♪
- Uh-huh ♪
- I'm not a ♪
- Boy ♪
- Uh-huh ♪
Boy ♪
(SONG CONCLUDES)