StartUp (2016) s03e10 Episode Script
Trading Up
1 MARA: I'll do what I can with Saginaw.
You need to tell me everything you know about the shop, and who's unhappy.
I've been hearing a lot of awful stories coming out of that world lately.
You have no idea.
ELON: Her real name's Jane Mills.
She got recruited by some black ops division of the CIA.
If you cross this woman, she won't hesitate.
You said you think she was trying to cover her tracks.
STELLA: There's a virus that's just ripping through the entire network right now.
It was doing great.
But Izzy, she stepped in.
Look, I'm sorry.
- AGENT STROUD: I'm sorry.
- (GUNSHOT) - We can't trust you anymore.
- You supposed to have my back.
NICK: He threatened to kill me, so let's not act like he's the victim.
MARA: He's your friend.
No, I don't have any friends.
I have you, I have ArakNet.
Well, now, you just have ArakNet.
GABE: We gotta give 'em something in return, bro.
My boys? MR.
MORALES: Izzy, you see the news? REPORTER: Again, if you're just joining us , there has been some sort of chemical weapon that has been detonated in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, right near Pershing Square.
STROUD: He did fine.
If Isabelle hadn't grown a conscience, we'd all be in the clear by now.
She doesn't have any proof, as far as I know.
But she is definitely compromised.
I understand.
She'll be dealt with then.
I'll let you know when it's done.
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING) Neither the president, nor any spokespeople from the intelligence community, have given any official statement - Still can't sleep? - Uh-uh.
You sure you don't wanna swap? Yeah, no, I like being on the couch.
Reminds me of being sick.
Well, I made the bed, if if you want to.
toxic fumes, which is now being confirmed as BX gas This is stupid, okay? I'm not gonna make any excuses.
I've said things and I've done things that I am not proud of.
I've had tunnel vision.
And I've lost sight of what is important, but I don't want to do this without you.
Without what we are.
I love you.
And I know we don't say it enough.
And I know I don't talk about it enough.
But, I mean, for the last year, I've just pictured that this is gonna be my life, forever, you and me.
I thought we would get married and have children.
I don't know how it go to be like this with you sleeping on the couch, and looking for other places, but it's not okay.
I love you, I'm crazy about you.
I don't want to be without you.
Is this because Ronald's coming back to the office tomorrow? Because you're worried that my dad is gonna have that vote, and and you need me on your side.
Is that really what you think of me? - I'm just asking a question.
- Wow okay.
I'm gonna take a shower, and go in early to take care of some stuff, but think about what I said, 'cause I really meant it.
I will.
TUCKER: Here's the thing, we gotta look further down the road than I.
O.
T.
, but what does that mean? Any ideas? Also, I feel like we missed the boat on some A.
R.
opportunities, I do not want that to happen again.
- Uh, hey, Tuck? - What? - Uh, yeah, maybe we should end the meeting.
- What're you talking about? Let's, uh we should end the meeting for a little bit.
The hell you talkin' about? Uh, hey, guys.
Let's take a quick break, 'kay? Maybe we'll come back, um, reconvene after lunch? - Can we squash it? - It's The Herald.
Okay, yeah but it's not live yet, right? - Right? - It's The Herald! You can't squash it, we gotta come out in front of this thing.
- How? - How? I don't know you couldn't keep your dick in your pants, you idiot! - My dick? - Yeah.
You're blaming this on my dick? Yeah, your name is all over this thing.
You're groping assistants? You're offering them drugs?! You You've been pullin' that shit before I ever even started pullin' that shit.
- Bullshit, bro.
Bullshit.
- No! It's not bullshit, you know what's bullshit? Is that no one ever comes down on you because you have five angelic children, and beautiful skin, you piece of shit! I'm sorry, man, we gotta stick together.
We gotta work on this together.
- Such an idiot.
- You're not a piece of shit.
(ELEVATOR DINGS) (DOOR BEEPS) (DIALING, PHONE LINE RINGING) - STELLA: Hey.
- Hey, can you gather your team around the bullpen in 10? - Yeah, okay.
- Thanks.
Uh, hey everyone.
Can I have your attention real fast? Just, uh just wanted to say a few words and then I'll let you get back to it.
Um so, it's been a a a weird couple couple days.
We had the virus that almost wiped us out.
And um (CLEARS THROAT) on a lesser note, there's been a fair amount of fighting internally.
I'm sure some of you most of you have probably noticed.
And, um I don't even know if I'll be here next week.
Uh, but then something like Pershing Square happens, and, um, you know, it really puts things in perspective.
I mean, we're here.
We're trying to build a more stable future, more more just future.
And what we've created uh, it you know, it might feel like a product sometimes because y'know, we're takin' home paychecks, and we're at our desks all day, but I mean, you know, you know, you wouldn't be here if you didn't know it's more than that.
It's about more than that, it's, um it's bigger than us, and anyway, just keep up the good work.
Okay (FOOTSTEPS) (INDISTINCT WHISPERING) MARA: Hey.
NICK: So, we're basically murderers, right? I mean, that's it? (TRUCK BEEPING IN DISTANCE) Well, what if I told you that through all this mess, losing half our users and being quietly responsible for the deaths of 1,400 innocent people, that there's still a major financier who's interested in granting us our next round.
Big story on the boy's club culture at Saginaw just broke a couple hours ago the lawsuits are coming, and the clients are dropping left and right.
They need fresh blood.
Tucker finally called me back and he wants to meet tomorrow.
That story was that something that did you? Holy shit! Oh, my God, thank you! I'm I'm sorry.
I don't I'm just proud of you.
I'm just proud, uh - Tomorrow? - Tomorrow.
- Um, what does your dad know? - Uh, no.
No, like I said, they need fresh blood.
- Okay, I, uh, I should get on writing a new pitch.
- Okay.
Okay, um okay, okay.
(STAMMERING) "It's more than an app, it's more than a network " (MUTTERING TO HIMSELF) "It's more than an app, it's more than a network, it's more than a tech company.
You know what you're investing in?" Nope.
Um (MUTTERING SPEECH TO HIMSELF) "What you're investing in is the future of planet Earth.
" Mm-mm.
Don't do that.
"People are gonna talk about this in 10 years.
In 20 years, your kids are gonna learn about it in school.
" " the same way we tell our kids now " (CONTINUES MUTTERING SPEECH) " in 20 years in 20 years, it's gonna be " - (MUTTERING) - (THUD) (NICK GROANS) RONALD: Take your time, South Beach.
I'll wait.
(NICK GRUNTING AND GROANING) Okay, come here, I got you.
- (THUD) - (NICK GROANS) (NICK BREATHING HEAVILY) - (THUD) - (NICK GRUNTS) - (THUD) - Oh! Stop.
You good.
I'm finished.
You welcome to call the unis on me again.
I got nobody else left to roll on, so they prolly put me away, legit this time.
But, if ArakNet off the table for me, I might as well tell everybody about Broken Egg.
That was some clever-ass shit you pulled.
I wish you woulda told me when you did, I'da given you mad props.
One million accounts hacked.
Damn, that's, like, one million felonies right there.
This what you call "mutually assured destruction.
" Ain't that some shit? (GRUNTS AND GROANS) (LAWNMOWER SPUTTERS) (CAR APPROACHING, MUFFLED HIP-HOP PLAYING) Ha, ha.
Problems with the lawnmower, bruh? What dey do, fam? - Oh, what dey do? What dey do? - Ahh.
- How the kids, bro? - They ain't straight, but they good, they good.
I swear you got this yard lookin' right.
I like that.
- You know, trying, bro.
- I hear that, dog, I hear that.
I hear that.
Look here, man.
Tell Tam and Elsie I say "what's up?" (CAR ENGINE STARTS) REPORTER: Meanwhile, Los Angeles hospitals are still overflowing with those stricken ill by the toxic gas.
Thousands of people still suffering sympto ms relating to the exposure even days after the initial blast.
Symptoms include difficulty breathing, burns on the skin, even seizures not only for the people of Los Angeles, but for our entire nation.
(RINGTONE) Oh, my God.
- What happened? - My friend, Ronald, came by.
- (FRIDGE OPENS) - (SCOOPS ICE) Nick, we have Saginaw in a couple hours.
- And you can't go looking like that.
- It's okay.
Ronald goes to meetings like this all the time.
Seriously, Nick, there's just no way.
We'll just have to push, okay? They'll understand.
- They need this as much as we do.
- No, we can't push.
You can't go without me, I'm CEO, so.
We have two CEOs.
(SIGHS) Are you serious? Ronald?! You're gonna go with this fucking maniac?! - I don't have a choice.
- No! No! I no, you can't make that decision without me, I forbid it.
- I forbid it! - Keep icing your face.
You look like shit.
I'm going to that meeting.
Okay, you can come if you want to blow it.
(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES) - Eat a little faster, baby, 'cause we gotta go soon.
- Mm-hm.
(SIGHS) Wish me luck.
For what? Just wish me luck! Good luck.
You wanna run it a couple times? Just, hear it out loud.
Nah, I don't work like that.
Shit's gotta come from the heart.
Okay, right (CLEARS THROAT) What, you don't trust me? What? No, of course I do.
- I do.
- Okay then.
You know what I think is funny? Couple days ago, you were in jail.
And now, you're pitching to secure a massive Series B.
America, right? Fuckin' America.
(ELEVATOR DINGS) - Oh, wow.
You all right? - Mm-hm.
(SIGHS) (TIRES SQUEAL) All right, look sharp, here we go.
(CLEARS THROAT) - MARTIN: Oh shit.
Hi, hi, hi.
How you doin'? - MARA: Hi.
- Nice to see you.
- Nice to see you.
- How you doin', man? Have a seat.
- TUCKER: Good to see you.
- Great, thanks for comin'.
- Where's, uh, where's Mike? - Nick? - That's right, yes.
Where's Nick? Where's that guy? Nick, uh, Nick, Nick, Nick.
(CLEARS THROAT) I had to whoop his ass.
He ain't gonna make it.
We had a little disagreement.
Lip busted up, eye swole shut.
- Oh - He ain't really presentable right now.
(LAUGHTER) - It's, uh (LAUGHS) - Nice, nice open.
You know, Nick and I, we share a brain, so it's basically like having his ass here, except except blacker, smarter, cuter.
- (LAUGHTER) - TUCKER: You're right.
That's a good opener.
MARTIN: (LAUGHING) You crazy, man.
I like this guy.
- Thanks for making this happen so quickly.
- Absolutely.
Yeah, no, we've been psyched about this for a while.
We just, uh had a couple of timing issues, ya know? - Of course.
- It's all about timing, right? MARTIN: Amen, brother.
Okay.
So what've you got? Now, each and every one of you at this table, y'all are looking for an image change, ain't no frontin' about that.
But image is fleeting, ain't that right? (CONTINUES, INDISTINCT) (HIGH-PITCHED RINGING INTENSIFIES AND STOPS) You know about this Saginaw meeting? - Yeah.
- You weren't gonna tell me about it? These two clowns are over there right now.
They're right there.
- (MARA CLEARS HER THROAT) - Well, will you look at you two.
What, you bullshit your way through this one? Nah, I was straight with 'em.
- Cards on the table.
- Tell them about the 40 million user drop-off? Mm-hm.
Virus, missteps, all of it.
Even told 'em how I whooped Nick's ass.
WES: Great.
How'd that go for you? - (GRUNTS) - It went pretty well, actually.
Ronald laid everything out, about the virus, about how fast our recovery rate has been.
And they're pretty desperate for an image change.
So they're down.
Down? Down how? $320 million down.
- That's fantastic! - MARA: Yeah, it is.
RONALD: But they got a couple conditions, though.
- Ain't that right? - That's right, they're a little concerned with our corporate structure.
The whole co-CEO thing.
But, that shouldn't be a big problem.
Well, it was it was kind of a big deal, though.
- MARA: It is to them, yeah.
- But, look, ya'll.
What I realized, though, titles don't really mean shit.
You know what I'm sayin'? I just want to be a part of something that's bigger than myself.
Something that's bigger than all of us.
You know, something I could raise a family on at the end of the day.
- That's very admirable of you.
- Why, thank you, Nick.
That's why I don't mind lettin' Mara take the reins here.
Hm? RONALD: Yeah.
That was they terms.
That Mara is sole CEO.
And, I said "Aight.
" "Aight"? You just you just said "aight"? You don't have the decision power to say "aight.
" Oh no, you got that right.
We don't have that decision power.
But, 320 million, that's your decision power.
Aight? (DOOR SLIDES OPEN) (CAR DOOR CLOSES) (CHILDREN YELLING AND PLAYING, INDISTINCT) (NEIGHBORS' VOICES, INDISTINCT) Lower it to the ground.
Slowly.
Hands in the air.
Who else is with you? Everyone knows who you are.
- I told them.
- You don't know who I am Jane Mills.
CIA black ops.
You lived in - Ah! - (SNEAKERS SQUEAKING) Who else knows?! You think I care what you do to me? You know what I've been through? - I can make this hurt, Isabelle.
- Do it.
- I can drag this out in the worst ways.
- Good! Good, I deserve it.
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES) Kill me! Do it, bitch! Go! (TIMER GOES OFF) - (GRUNTING) - (GUNSHOTS) - (THUD) - Ah! (STRUGGLING TO BREATHE) (GROANS) (IZZY BREATHING HEAVILY, GRUNTS) Okay, just settle down (IZZY COUGHS, TRYING TO CATCH HER BREATH) Give me your phone.
- I don't have one.
- Give me your phone! Slide it.
- You really messed the bed - Shut up! - No, you did, Isabelle.
- Shut You think I'm the only one here - trying to clean this up.
- Shut up.
Stop talking.
(RINGTONE) Yeah, Izzy? (KNOCKING) (CLEARS THROAT) Come in.
- I didn't know you guys were in trouble.
- You never asked.
That's right.
I didn't.
So, you're really gonna do this? It's still your decision.
We get all the money you take all the control.
You know you know we can do this together, right? Forget the kid, forget everybody.
You and me against the whole world.
We already tried that once.
And it didn't work out so great for me.
I'm real proud of you, Mara.
You know that? Thank you.
Sorry sorry I wasn't better.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC) She didn't say nothin' else? Just that the future of ArakNet depends on it, so probably nothing.
- Look, man - Hey, don't say nothin', South Beach.
You wanna apologize? Don't bother, 'cause I know it ain't real.
You and me we ain't nothin' no more.
Now you gonna say yes to that Saginaw guap 'cause that's the only chance that we got.
We on our last leg, and you know that shit.
That's the good news.
But you and me, we ain't shit but co-workers.
Moving forward, that's all we is.
That's all we ever gonna be.
(KNOCKING) - Hey, Iz.
- IZZY: In here! - You all right? - IZZY: Just come in here.
No.
IZZY: Wait! Ronnie! Guys! Guys! - I ain't steppin' in her bullshit no more, dog, - Listen, listen.
That woman, whoever she is, she has our number.
You don't think leaving Izzy in charge of this situation is a bad idea? - IZZY: Guys, please! - Come on, she already saw you.
She saw you.
Trouble just finds you, huh? She came after me.
She broke in, tried to kill me.
She woulda killed my dad if he was here.
- STROUD: No, just you, actually.
- Let's talk this out.
Huh? - She's not who she says she is.
- Yeah, we got that part.
She's CIA.
Black ops.
Pershing Square was her fuck up, and now she's trying to erase it.
All of it.
Meaning me, meaning us, meaning ArakNet.
STROUD: Why don't you tell them how you know all that? Meaning, you've been working for me at ArakNet.
Meaning, I saved her ass in Cuba.
And she wanted to be my mole.
I think they're much more interested in you than me.
(SCOFFS) - Isabelle Morales.
- She threatened my family.
RONALD: I vouched for you.
You did.
I didn't have a choice.
She didn't leave me a choice.
- You always got a choice.
- You don't always have a choice.
- NICK: Hey, shut up! - This was different.
- We have to fix this now.
- I vouched for you.
- I'm sorry.
- We will talk about that later.
Right now, we have to fix this.
Here's what we need to do.
You should let me go.
You should let me walk right out of here.
- What? - Yeah, 'cause y'all have blood on your hands.
Or did you think I didn't know? That you could've stopped what happened at Pershing Square.
But you didn't.
But people are gonna find out.
And once they do this beautiful agnosticism of yours was just a little too cozy between ArakNet and the terrorists now, isn't it? IZZY: She's bluffing.
STROUD: I am not.
I swear on my mother's grave.
IZZY: She can't be trusted.
We can't trust this woman.
STROUD: I'm sorry, who's the woman in the room we can't trust? Goddamnit! We gotta out her.
Folks like her, is like a lizard's tail.
You cut it off, another one grow in its place.
Only way we gon' be safe now, Izzy, is to shine a big ole' bright light on it.
You got a landline? - We gotta call the unis - Are you fucking high?! - No.
- You're gonna call the cops on a on a federal black op whatever the fuck? - The cops don't have anything on that.
- Don't matter, Nick! The police come, the media come, we put we put Mara on it.
The more people that know, the safer that we are.
Ronald, it will expose ArakNet.
Fuck ArakNet! People, Nick! This ain't about no company, this about me and mine.
About you and yours.
Izzy? You and your old man and your old girl.
This bitch done fucked us all up.
Are you scared of this bitch right here? - Ronald fucking Dacey? - Izzy, you don't want to mess with all this.
She the kinda people that scary people are afraid of.
She the kinda people that bad people say, "God damn, we need to do somethin' extra bad.
So bad, we gotta send somebody else to do that shit.
" And then, they send her.
And she ain't the only one! - How else do you think we're gonna get up out of here? - (GUNSHOTS) (DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE) IZZY: Jesus Christ Let go just gimme that.
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING, GETTING LOUDER) RONALD: (DISTORTED) Do you have any idea what you just did? We need to go.
We need to go.
We gotta clean this up.
What you doin', Iz? You're just makin' it worse.
Stop the blood from goin' everywhere.
All right, you got a tarp or some garbage bags? Yeah, I have the tarp from my car.
Okay, grab that.
(DISTORTED) And get some duct tape.
Some twine, somethin' like that.
- (NORMAL) Bring my car around.
- (KEYS HIT THE FLOOR) - Bring my damn car around.
- Okay.
All right? Park it as close as you can park.
No handicapped spot, nothin' like that.
That ain't gonna work, Iz.
You got twine? Rope? Twine.
Yeah, that'll work.
Grab her arms.
Grab her arms, Izzy.
- Is this what we're doing? - Yes, this is what we doin'.
Unless you want to go to jail.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC) (DISTORTED CHATTER) RONALD: All right, come on, Nick, help me, bro.
(JON AND ROY, "WHEN YOU'RE GONE") Right in front me are your eyes But the light is gone Have this glowing candle white But that'll go out soon I'm all right, when you're gone I can't call, by your phone Oh the night, it is long When I'm all here alone How many times before Broken up the day Forty-one habits formed But I want you to stay I'm all right, when you're gone I can't call, by your phone Oh the night, it is long When I'm all here alone Oh, no are you going alone? Oh, no are you going alone? Oh, no are you going alone?
You need to tell me everything you know about the shop, and who's unhappy.
I've been hearing a lot of awful stories coming out of that world lately.
You have no idea.
ELON: Her real name's Jane Mills.
She got recruited by some black ops division of the CIA.
If you cross this woman, she won't hesitate.
You said you think she was trying to cover her tracks.
STELLA: There's a virus that's just ripping through the entire network right now.
It was doing great.
But Izzy, she stepped in.
Look, I'm sorry.
- AGENT STROUD: I'm sorry.
- (GUNSHOT) - We can't trust you anymore.
- You supposed to have my back.
NICK: He threatened to kill me, so let's not act like he's the victim.
MARA: He's your friend.
No, I don't have any friends.
I have you, I have ArakNet.
Well, now, you just have ArakNet.
GABE: We gotta give 'em something in return, bro.
My boys? MR.
MORALES: Izzy, you see the news? REPORTER: Again, if you're just joining us , there has been some sort of chemical weapon that has been detonated in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, right near Pershing Square.
STROUD: He did fine.
If Isabelle hadn't grown a conscience, we'd all be in the clear by now.
She doesn't have any proof, as far as I know.
But she is definitely compromised.
I understand.
She'll be dealt with then.
I'll let you know when it's done.
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING) Neither the president, nor any spokespeople from the intelligence community, have given any official statement - Still can't sleep? - Uh-uh.
You sure you don't wanna swap? Yeah, no, I like being on the couch.
Reminds me of being sick.
Well, I made the bed, if if you want to.
toxic fumes, which is now being confirmed as BX gas This is stupid, okay? I'm not gonna make any excuses.
I've said things and I've done things that I am not proud of.
I've had tunnel vision.
And I've lost sight of what is important, but I don't want to do this without you.
Without what we are.
I love you.
And I know we don't say it enough.
And I know I don't talk about it enough.
But, I mean, for the last year, I've just pictured that this is gonna be my life, forever, you and me.
I thought we would get married and have children.
I don't know how it go to be like this with you sleeping on the couch, and looking for other places, but it's not okay.
I love you, I'm crazy about you.
I don't want to be without you.
Is this because Ronald's coming back to the office tomorrow? Because you're worried that my dad is gonna have that vote, and and you need me on your side.
Is that really what you think of me? - I'm just asking a question.
- Wow okay.
I'm gonna take a shower, and go in early to take care of some stuff, but think about what I said, 'cause I really meant it.
I will.
TUCKER: Here's the thing, we gotta look further down the road than I.
O.
T.
, but what does that mean? Any ideas? Also, I feel like we missed the boat on some A.
R.
opportunities, I do not want that to happen again.
- Uh, hey, Tuck? - What? - Uh, yeah, maybe we should end the meeting.
- What're you talking about? Let's, uh we should end the meeting for a little bit.
The hell you talkin' about? Uh, hey, guys.
Let's take a quick break, 'kay? Maybe we'll come back, um, reconvene after lunch? - Can we squash it? - It's The Herald.
Okay, yeah but it's not live yet, right? - Right? - It's The Herald! You can't squash it, we gotta come out in front of this thing.
- How? - How? I don't know you couldn't keep your dick in your pants, you idiot! - My dick? - Yeah.
You're blaming this on my dick? Yeah, your name is all over this thing.
You're groping assistants? You're offering them drugs?! You You've been pullin' that shit before I ever even started pullin' that shit.
- Bullshit, bro.
Bullshit.
- No! It's not bullshit, you know what's bullshit? Is that no one ever comes down on you because you have five angelic children, and beautiful skin, you piece of shit! I'm sorry, man, we gotta stick together.
We gotta work on this together.
- Such an idiot.
- You're not a piece of shit.
(ELEVATOR DINGS) (DOOR BEEPS) (DIALING, PHONE LINE RINGING) - STELLA: Hey.
- Hey, can you gather your team around the bullpen in 10? - Yeah, okay.
- Thanks.
Uh, hey everyone.
Can I have your attention real fast? Just, uh just wanted to say a few words and then I'll let you get back to it.
Um so, it's been a a a weird couple couple days.
We had the virus that almost wiped us out.
And um (CLEARS THROAT) on a lesser note, there's been a fair amount of fighting internally.
I'm sure some of you most of you have probably noticed.
And, um I don't even know if I'll be here next week.
Uh, but then something like Pershing Square happens, and, um, you know, it really puts things in perspective.
I mean, we're here.
We're trying to build a more stable future, more more just future.
And what we've created uh, it you know, it might feel like a product sometimes because y'know, we're takin' home paychecks, and we're at our desks all day, but I mean, you know, you know, you wouldn't be here if you didn't know it's more than that.
It's about more than that, it's, um it's bigger than us, and anyway, just keep up the good work.
Okay (FOOTSTEPS) (INDISTINCT WHISPERING) MARA: Hey.
NICK: So, we're basically murderers, right? I mean, that's it? (TRUCK BEEPING IN DISTANCE) Well, what if I told you that through all this mess, losing half our users and being quietly responsible for the deaths of 1,400 innocent people, that there's still a major financier who's interested in granting us our next round.
Big story on the boy's club culture at Saginaw just broke a couple hours ago the lawsuits are coming, and the clients are dropping left and right.
They need fresh blood.
Tucker finally called me back and he wants to meet tomorrow.
That story was that something that did you? Holy shit! Oh, my God, thank you! I'm I'm sorry.
I don't I'm just proud of you.
I'm just proud, uh - Tomorrow? - Tomorrow.
- Um, what does your dad know? - Uh, no.
No, like I said, they need fresh blood.
- Okay, I, uh, I should get on writing a new pitch.
- Okay.
Okay, um okay, okay.
(STAMMERING) "It's more than an app, it's more than a network " (MUTTERING TO HIMSELF) "It's more than an app, it's more than a network, it's more than a tech company.
You know what you're investing in?" Nope.
Um (MUTTERING SPEECH TO HIMSELF) "What you're investing in is the future of planet Earth.
" Mm-mm.
Don't do that.
"People are gonna talk about this in 10 years.
In 20 years, your kids are gonna learn about it in school.
" " the same way we tell our kids now " (CONTINUES MUTTERING SPEECH) " in 20 years in 20 years, it's gonna be " - (MUTTERING) - (THUD) (NICK GROANS) RONALD: Take your time, South Beach.
I'll wait.
(NICK GRUNTING AND GROANING) Okay, come here, I got you.
- (THUD) - (NICK GROANS) (NICK BREATHING HEAVILY) - (THUD) - (NICK GRUNTS) - (THUD) - Oh! Stop.
You good.
I'm finished.
You welcome to call the unis on me again.
I got nobody else left to roll on, so they prolly put me away, legit this time.
But, if ArakNet off the table for me, I might as well tell everybody about Broken Egg.
That was some clever-ass shit you pulled.
I wish you woulda told me when you did, I'da given you mad props.
One million accounts hacked.
Damn, that's, like, one million felonies right there.
This what you call "mutually assured destruction.
" Ain't that some shit? (GRUNTS AND GROANS) (LAWNMOWER SPUTTERS) (CAR APPROACHING, MUFFLED HIP-HOP PLAYING) Ha, ha.
Problems with the lawnmower, bruh? What dey do, fam? - Oh, what dey do? What dey do? - Ahh.
- How the kids, bro? - They ain't straight, but they good, they good.
I swear you got this yard lookin' right.
I like that.
- You know, trying, bro.
- I hear that, dog, I hear that.
I hear that.
Look here, man.
Tell Tam and Elsie I say "what's up?" (CAR ENGINE STARTS) REPORTER: Meanwhile, Los Angeles hospitals are still overflowing with those stricken ill by the toxic gas.
Thousands of people still suffering sympto ms relating to the exposure even days after the initial blast.
Symptoms include difficulty breathing, burns on the skin, even seizures not only for the people of Los Angeles, but for our entire nation.
(RINGTONE) Oh, my God.
- What happened? - My friend, Ronald, came by.
- (FRIDGE OPENS) - (SCOOPS ICE) Nick, we have Saginaw in a couple hours.
- And you can't go looking like that.
- It's okay.
Ronald goes to meetings like this all the time.
Seriously, Nick, there's just no way.
We'll just have to push, okay? They'll understand.
- They need this as much as we do.
- No, we can't push.
You can't go without me, I'm CEO, so.
We have two CEOs.
(SIGHS) Are you serious? Ronald?! You're gonna go with this fucking maniac?! - I don't have a choice.
- No! No! I no, you can't make that decision without me, I forbid it.
- I forbid it! - Keep icing your face.
You look like shit.
I'm going to that meeting.
Okay, you can come if you want to blow it.
(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES) - Eat a little faster, baby, 'cause we gotta go soon.
- Mm-hm.
(SIGHS) Wish me luck.
For what? Just wish me luck! Good luck.
You wanna run it a couple times? Just, hear it out loud.
Nah, I don't work like that.
Shit's gotta come from the heart.
Okay, right (CLEARS THROAT) What, you don't trust me? What? No, of course I do.
- I do.
- Okay then.
You know what I think is funny? Couple days ago, you were in jail.
And now, you're pitching to secure a massive Series B.
America, right? Fuckin' America.
(ELEVATOR DINGS) - Oh, wow.
You all right? - Mm-hm.
(SIGHS) (TIRES SQUEAL) All right, look sharp, here we go.
(CLEARS THROAT) - MARTIN: Oh shit.
Hi, hi, hi.
How you doin'? - MARA: Hi.
- Nice to see you.
- Nice to see you.
- How you doin', man? Have a seat.
- TUCKER: Good to see you.
- Great, thanks for comin'.
- Where's, uh, where's Mike? - Nick? - That's right, yes.
Where's Nick? Where's that guy? Nick, uh, Nick, Nick, Nick.
(CLEARS THROAT) I had to whoop his ass.
He ain't gonna make it.
We had a little disagreement.
Lip busted up, eye swole shut.
- Oh - He ain't really presentable right now.
(LAUGHTER) - It's, uh (LAUGHS) - Nice, nice open.
You know, Nick and I, we share a brain, so it's basically like having his ass here, except except blacker, smarter, cuter.
- (LAUGHTER) - TUCKER: You're right.
That's a good opener.
MARTIN: (LAUGHING) You crazy, man.
I like this guy.
- Thanks for making this happen so quickly.
- Absolutely.
Yeah, no, we've been psyched about this for a while.
We just, uh had a couple of timing issues, ya know? - Of course.
- It's all about timing, right? MARTIN: Amen, brother.
Okay.
So what've you got? Now, each and every one of you at this table, y'all are looking for an image change, ain't no frontin' about that.
But image is fleeting, ain't that right? (CONTINUES, INDISTINCT) (HIGH-PITCHED RINGING INTENSIFIES AND STOPS) You know about this Saginaw meeting? - Yeah.
- You weren't gonna tell me about it? These two clowns are over there right now.
They're right there.
- (MARA CLEARS HER THROAT) - Well, will you look at you two.
What, you bullshit your way through this one? Nah, I was straight with 'em.
- Cards on the table.
- Tell them about the 40 million user drop-off? Mm-hm.
Virus, missteps, all of it.
Even told 'em how I whooped Nick's ass.
WES: Great.
How'd that go for you? - (GRUNTS) - It went pretty well, actually.
Ronald laid everything out, about the virus, about how fast our recovery rate has been.
And they're pretty desperate for an image change.
So they're down.
Down? Down how? $320 million down.
- That's fantastic! - MARA: Yeah, it is.
RONALD: But they got a couple conditions, though.
- Ain't that right? - That's right, they're a little concerned with our corporate structure.
The whole co-CEO thing.
But, that shouldn't be a big problem.
Well, it was it was kind of a big deal, though.
- MARA: It is to them, yeah.
- But, look, ya'll.
What I realized, though, titles don't really mean shit.
You know what I'm sayin'? I just want to be a part of something that's bigger than myself.
Something that's bigger than all of us.
You know, something I could raise a family on at the end of the day.
- That's very admirable of you.
- Why, thank you, Nick.
That's why I don't mind lettin' Mara take the reins here.
Hm? RONALD: Yeah.
That was they terms.
That Mara is sole CEO.
And, I said "Aight.
" "Aight"? You just you just said "aight"? You don't have the decision power to say "aight.
" Oh no, you got that right.
We don't have that decision power.
But, 320 million, that's your decision power.
Aight? (DOOR SLIDES OPEN) (CAR DOOR CLOSES) (CHILDREN YELLING AND PLAYING, INDISTINCT) (NEIGHBORS' VOICES, INDISTINCT) Lower it to the ground.
Slowly.
Hands in the air.
Who else is with you? Everyone knows who you are.
- I told them.
- You don't know who I am Jane Mills.
CIA black ops.
You lived in - Ah! - (SNEAKERS SQUEAKING) Who else knows?! You think I care what you do to me? You know what I've been through? - I can make this hurt, Isabelle.
- Do it.
- I can drag this out in the worst ways.
- Good! Good, I deserve it.
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES) Kill me! Do it, bitch! Go! (TIMER GOES OFF) - (GRUNTING) - (GUNSHOTS) - (THUD) - Ah! (STRUGGLING TO BREATHE) (GROANS) (IZZY BREATHING HEAVILY, GRUNTS) Okay, just settle down (IZZY COUGHS, TRYING TO CATCH HER BREATH) Give me your phone.
- I don't have one.
- Give me your phone! Slide it.
- You really messed the bed - Shut up! - No, you did, Isabelle.
- Shut You think I'm the only one here - trying to clean this up.
- Shut up.
Stop talking.
(RINGTONE) Yeah, Izzy? (KNOCKING) (CLEARS THROAT) Come in.
- I didn't know you guys were in trouble.
- You never asked.
That's right.
I didn't.
So, you're really gonna do this? It's still your decision.
We get all the money you take all the control.
You know you know we can do this together, right? Forget the kid, forget everybody.
You and me against the whole world.
We already tried that once.
And it didn't work out so great for me.
I'm real proud of you, Mara.
You know that? Thank you.
Sorry sorry I wasn't better.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC) She didn't say nothin' else? Just that the future of ArakNet depends on it, so probably nothing.
- Look, man - Hey, don't say nothin', South Beach.
You wanna apologize? Don't bother, 'cause I know it ain't real.
You and me we ain't nothin' no more.
Now you gonna say yes to that Saginaw guap 'cause that's the only chance that we got.
We on our last leg, and you know that shit.
That's the good news.
But you and me, we ain't shit but co-workers.
Moving forward, that's all we is.
That's all we ever gonna be.
(KNOCKING) - Hey, Iz.
- IZZY: In here! - You all right? - IZZY: Just come in here.
No.
IZZY: Wait! Ronnie! Guys! Guys! - I ain't steppin' in her bullshit no more, dog, - Listen, listen.
That woman, whoever she is, she has our number.
You don't think leaving Izzy in charge of this situation is a bad idea? - IZZY: Guys, please! - Come on, she already saw you.
She saw you.
Trouble just finds you, huh? She came after me.
She broke in, tried to kill me.
She woulda killed my dad if he was here.
- STROUD: No, just you, actually.
- Let's talk this out.
Huh? - She's not who she says she is.
- Yeah, we got that part.
She's CIA.
Black ops.
Pershing Square was her fuck up, and now she's trying to erase it.
All of it.
Meaning me, meaning us, meaning ArakNet.
STROUD: Why don't you tell them how you know all that? Meaning, you've been working for me at ArakNet.
Meaning, I saved her ass in Cuba.
And she wanted to be my mole.
I think they're much more interested in you than me.
(SCOFFS) - Isabelle Morales.
- She threatened my family.
RONALD: I vouched for you.
You did.
I didn't have a choice.
She didn't leave me a choice.
- You always got a choice.
- You don't always have a choice.
- NICK: Hey, shut up! - This was different.
- We have to fix this now.
- I vouched for you.
- I'm sorry.
- We will talk about that later.
Right now, we have to fix this.
Here's what we need to do.
You should let me go.
You should let me walk right out of here.
- What? - Yeah, 'cause y'all have blood on your hands.
Or did you think I didn't know? That you could've stopped what happened at Pershing Square.
But you didn't.
But people are gonna find out.
And once they do this beautiful agnosticism of yours was just a little too cozy between ArakNet and the terrorists now, isn't it? IZZY: She's bluffing.
STROUD: I am not.
I swear on my mother's grave.
IZZY: She can't be trusted.
We can't trust this woman.
STROUD: I'm sorry, who's the woman in the room we can't trust? Goddamnit! We gotta out her.
Folks like her, is like a lizard's tail.
You cut it off, another one grow in its place.
Only way we gon' be safe now, Izzy, is to shine a big ole' bright light on it.
You got a landline? - We gotta call the unis - Are you fucking high?! - No.
- You're gonna call the cops on a on a federal black op whatever the fuck? - The cops don't have anything on that.
- Don't matter, Nick! The police come, the media come, we put we put Mara on it.
The more people that know, the safer that we are.
Ronald, it will expose ArakNet.
Fuck ArakNet! People, Nick! This ain't about no company, this about me and mine.
About you and yours.
Izzy? You and your old man and your old girl.
This bitch done fucked us all up.
Are you scared of this bitch right here? - Ronald fucking Dacey? - Izzy, you don't want to mess with all this.
She the kinda people that scary people are afraid of.
She the kinda people that bad people say, "God damn, we need to do somethin' extra bad.
So bad, we gotta send somebody else to do that shit.
" And then, they send her.
And she ain't the only one! - How else do you think we're gonna get up out of here? - (GUNSHOTS) (DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE) IZZY: Jesus Christ Let go just gimme that.
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING, GETTING LOUDER) RONALD: (DISTORTED) Do you have any idea what you just did? We need to go.
We need to go.
We gotta clean this up.
What you doin', Iz? You're just makin' it worse.
Stop the blood from goin' everywhere.
All right, you got a tarp or some garbage bags? Yeah, I have the tarp from my car.
Okay, grab that.
(DISTORTED) And get some duct tape.
Some twine, somethin' like that.
- (NORMAL) Bring my car around.
- (KEYS HIT THE FLOOR) - Bring my damn car around.
- Okay.
All right? Park it as close as you can park.
No handicapped spot, nothin' like that.
That ain't gonna work, Iz.
You got twine? Rope? Twine.
Yeah, that'll work.
Grab her arms.
Grab her arms, Izzy.
- Is this what we're doing? - Yes, this is what we doin'.
Unless you want to go to jail.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC) (DISTORTED CHATTER) RONALD: All right, come on, Nick, help me, bro.
(JON AND ROY, "WHEN YOU'RE GONE") Right in front me are your eyes But the light is gone Have this glowing candle white But that'll go out soon I'm all right, when you're gone I can't call, by your phone Oh the night, it is long When I'm all here alone How many times before Broken up the day Forty-one habits formed But I want you to stay I'm all right, when you're gone I can't call, by your phone Oh the night, it is long When I'm all here alone Oh, no are you going alone? Oh, no are you going alone? Oh, no are you going alone?