Whisky? No...Champagne
liquid MDMA?
Tehran is the world capital!
How is the kid?
He is fine.
He is fine...
Harsh, when do you want to do this?
After prayers.
You said they were both for you? What do you care?
- Mr. Whiting. -Bennett Holiday.
A very big company Connex, our client...
loses a huge natural gas contract in the Persian Gulf
to the Chinese, at the same time, smaller company Killen...
somehow gets the rights to Kazakhstan...
one of the largest untapped oil fields in the world.
The big company, our client
merges with Killen, justice wants to know how Killen got those rights.
you have been scrutinizing exactly these types of deals
So if there is something to find
I expect you to get it before they do
and come straight to me.
Bennet
At my firm, I have a flock of sheep
who think they are lions.
Maybe you are a lion who everyone thinks as a sheep...
No, I want to talk about the Gulf, and the goddamn Emir...
And what is an Emir, anyway?
- It is a King. -A King.
Well, How some podo King tossed you out on your ass?
Every company in the world wanted in the Kazakhstan.
And into the Tengiz
But Killen got it.
And then, Connex wanted Killen...
And here we are.
I made investments.
Investments that will bear fruit for this company.
Hell Tommy! we all got the foreign corrupt practices act committed to memory.
I got a little copy of it taped to the wall of my head,
right here.
Thank you Jimmy, you know how much we all appreciate hearing your point of view.
However, a US Attorney is looking into your relationships in Kazakhstan,
And the US Govt is holding off on the approval of our merger.
Mr. Janus and I have brought Connex's Washington counsel Sydney Hewitt down here
To talk about our strategy for the next 30 days.
In a way I feel like Switzerland...
And I will like to remind everybody in this room
that they have signed confidentiality agreements.
Allow me to introduce my associate Bennett Holliday.
Who would be...How shall I put it? building consensus day to day
You have just visited what someday soon could be the most profitable corporation in America.
Provided that the government approves the merger.
Provided we all start running automobiles on water
and provided there is still chaos in Middle East
now the job is find the problem
and fix the problem.
And if you do not find a problem, then there is no problem.
And when the government approves this merger
Its going to buy a lot of houses out in the vineyard
May be even yours.
Still Cheerios.
Max.
Lets not read at the table, ok?
Mummy, I want bacon.
You have bacon.
I want real bacon.
You have real bacon, only that it is made from Soya beans.
- I want pig bacon. -I want pig bacon too.
- Don't say it. -Here, I will try it if you try it.
- How am I going to bite it. -It's crunchy.
How do you do that?
- It's kind of hard. -It is pretty bad. - Keep quiet
A merger between two US oil companies
is taking place in Houston.
The new company, Connex-Killen Corp
will become the 5th largest
gas and oil company in the world.
The move affects 37 000 workers
in 160 countries. And with revenues larger than the GDPS of Pakistan or Denmark,
will create the world's 23rd largest economy.
Mr. Leland Janus, chairman of Connex
spoke today of synergy and a desire to pass on savings to the consumer.
The merged operations will create economies of scale to deliver best quality
products to the consumer at the lowest possible prices.
This is a merger of necessity for Connex, Rebecca
who wants Killen's oil fields in Kazakhstan
after the gas blocks they were pursuing in the Gulf were awarded to a Chinese consortium.
Producer nations continue to look towards developing markets in Asia
Which is having a powerful affect on crude prices
Our position is that there is at least $10 - 12 instability premium in the market.
You have,
protests in Iran, the threat of more strikes in Venezuela.
and the Turks still making noise about the Russian crude thru Bosporus.
Thanks for having me, Rebecca.
I am playing, that's my job, playing.
ya, well that's a very very good job for you to have.
- Tell daddy you love him -I love you daddy.
Hello?
The Emir summer party in Marbella, this week end. Any interest?
Well I can't, I have got something...
It would be very good for the company.
It is Max's birthday on Saturday...
Brian I need your help on this.
The Emir's party! I will take that.
Through much finagling we have an audience with the Emir
He wrote the strategy and he is not slick.
No, I didn’t even say I could go
Take the children with you.
Beach, summer, Marbella... Max will love it.
- Can I do that? - Oh! Sure you can.
Besides, they love children.
John D. Rockefeller, founded the university of Chicago.
That's fine, you are a good sound leader Mr. Rockefeller
Bob's freaking out about this other missile.
Where is the missile, Who has the missile? He wrote a memo.
I just finished convincing the French and Brits intell that we have nothing to do with the Amiri job.
Now what do we say: remember that thing we had had nothing to do with, well, there is something missing
He is got to stop this.
He has to stop with the memos.
Ok here is something...you put him up for promotion.
- He is due, he is a good man, he saved our as in Beirut in 1985. -Ya, that great, Terry likes him.
- We will get him auditioned downtown. -You get him an audition downtown.
They are going crazy about Iran right now and Bob's an expert.
He speaks Farsi for Christ's sake.
Bob has never had a desk job, he has never done 9 to 5, never been on a committee.
He has got to show up to work every day He has got to stay on message.
Absolutely...
... I will prep him.
In fact we just pulled on of our officers out and...
I took the initiative to ask him to come down here.
He infiltrated Hezbollah in Beirut in 80's and won himself some nice medals.
We are thinking about giving him a station
Beirut in the 80's? Is that a resume builder?
Don't chomp down on any baits We are fine, Iran's fine..fine.
And our analysis seem to be on the mark, we are getting good satellite coverage...
We are reprogramming resources into Iran...
Thank you for coming over Mr. Barnes.
Welcome back, if I wade right in but forgetting for a second
your bureaucratic checklist...
I am trying to get undigested information
Will to the best of our ability...
India is now our ally, Russia is now our ally.
Even China will be an ally.
Everybody between Morocco and Pakistan, is the problem.
Failed states and failed economies...
but Iran is a natural cultural ally of the US.
Persians do not want to roll back the clock to the 8th century.
I see students marching in the streets,
I hear Khatami making the right sounds.
what I would like to know is:
if we keep embargoing them on energy,
then someday soon then someday soon are we going to get a nice secular, pro-Western, pro-business government?
- It is possible, it is complicated. -Off course it is, Mr. Barnes.
Thank you for your time.
They let young people march in the street,
and next day they shutdown 50 newspapers
Put a few satellite dishes up on roofs, let 'em have My Two Dads,
that does not mean that the Ayatollahs are surrendering one iota of control over that nation.
Mr. Barnes the reform movement in Iran is one of the President's great hopes for the region
And crucial to the petroleum security of the Unites States.
These gentlemen are with C.L.I.
The Committee for the Liberation of Iran, Mr. Barnes.
Maybe you will get made an ambassador to somewhere cool.
like France, Italy or Ghana.
It is not beyond the realm of possibility, is it?
How's your mom?
Great, she is great.
So I know it still a year away...
but I will have to have a car,
decent car, nothing to fancy, but it has to run so that I can get to do Boston-New York.
They have a great crew.
So they told me, I said a crew of what? They said rowing.
So if I want to row...
Thank you.
Listen, I live in Maryland...
which means that you have residency
in Maryland and the University of Maryland.
I am sorry can I steal this from you?
Thank you, so much.
I just want a normal senior year dad.
I want a normal house, cinemax
I want cinemax and prom.
You know what prom is like in Pakistan? Prom sucks in...
Pakistan - It is complicated...
Now...we really screwed up at work.
How?
I was supposed to keep my mouth shut and I didn't.
What does mum do again?
that we have to live in Islamabad?
She is a secretary.
Both of my two parents are professional liars. -Hey!
My father welcomes the Chinese to our country.
Of course.
Please right there.
Thank you.
The Arabs are very family oriented as a people.
- Is that racist? - Sure.
A little, I guess what you are saying is positive.
No...
Let him work it out on his own, it is important for his autonomy.
All Right!
- You are here to see the Emir? - Yes.
Me too.
What do you do?
I am a partner in a derivative trading company in Geneva.
- Energy? - Ya!
- Bryan Woodman? - Yes.
Good evening.
We regret that His Highness will be unable to see you.
However we are authorized to hear your proposition on his behalf.
Ah, ok.
What, here? now?
Ok, I will...
Our position is that the real worry for you guys is
a another year of record pricing. There are no more elephant fields, not even in natural gas.
As structural alternatives become more fully realized
... you need new strategies to...
maximize every penny of your existing resources
particularly in a climate of falling prices. And that’s what our firm is prepared to... problem solve this.
foreseeable and unforeseeable problems
Are you not talking?
Common sweet heart, just a little bit ok.
You are the shark and you try to tag us as we swim across.
You jump in, count 1.2.3 then we all try to get to the other side.
- Jump in. -Come on.
Max.
Max, oh my God!
Max.
Let me go!
Someone get a doctor! A doctor!
He is not breathing.
Get a doctor! - Anybody is a doctor here?
... I heard phrases going around like: " the corrupting influence of money",
or " the evil influence of the Dollar in politics",
when more money is spent, on the syndication rights
to the Seinfeld television program
than on the whole of the last presidential election.
I didn't make this coffee for you.
Making it for me.
You,
making oatmeal.
And then you sleep.
You look like shit.
Are you working?
I had a little trouble at the work.
There's some beer in the fridge for when you wake up, so you don't die on my floor of the DT's. Please don’t smoke in my house.
And why is it some dirty little secret that it is in America's interest to do business overseas.
Mummy
Come here... Come here... you OK?
I want to look out of the window.
You want to look out the window, come on.
Listen to the bird.
If on Monday Iran refuses the IAEA inspectors
you could look to the crude prices to spike yet again.
Well it is not exactly a secret that Iran will refuse snap inspections.
ok Rebecca, thank you.
Go home.
It was a stupid fucking question, Henry.
The Prince's men called again.
I am just telling him.
Hey, how bad is it?
Ouch, when a Volvo dealer says that.
Ok, you are honorable decent guys
My wife and our narrow driveway
- How the hell are you? - Well, you know...can't complain.
That's nor good, kiddo. That's suffering quietly?
married? kids?
There is no way a company like Killen pulled of a deal like this
without paying somebody off.
Why don't you tell me what you have? So that I can respond.
I used to think there was something wrong here .
Now I know there is something wrong here.
Either you don't find anything because you don't know how to look...
or you do and they carve you out and light you on fire.
That’s got to be the play here, right?
Bennett Holliday.
Sydney Hewitt's new boy. How many of those have I seen? 6 or 7...
They are all gone.
He is still Sydney fucking Hewitt.
14 - 11, match point.
I think that they have got someone inside the deal,
someone they can squeeze.
- Like an informant? - Yes sir.
This is just my opinion based on their over confidence.
Match point.
Thank you.
If people in oil deals talked to U.S. Attorney's, there'd be no oil business.
Dean.......Bennet Holiday, You know Dean Whiting...
Founding partner of our firm. -Off course, Good to see you sir.
We have been discussing the Connex and Killen merger situation.
Will they get the approval.
Hell of a large company, if they do.
I mean client.
The Tengiz field, Killen largest asset is being looked into pretty closely by the Attorney's office
Well Bennett, as they say in the Bible:
There are many many ways to light Europe.
There's an arrow in the ceiling pointing towards Mecca.
The Bin Laden group air-conditioned Mecca a huge project made billions and billions.
All the women are dressed in black head to toe.
Walking 5 feet behind the man.
Its 125°, literally a 125° and humid.
When I walked out of the airport it was like a wall fell on me.
Men are all wearing white sheets
they wear papa's whitesheets. I don't really understand that.
And they kind of say: " it is hot and I don't have to work? "
I can't understand how you could anything in those sheets I would love to see these guys play baseball.
You ok?
This was a birthday present and a graduation present,
couple of years ago.
what happened was I just about to graduate from Oxford,
and my mother had a horse...
in the Royal Ascot race
The horse won...
that same day that I was graduating
And my trust fund matured.
So that tops any birthday present any of you have brought for me tonight.
Capitalism cannot exist without waste.
We should write thank you notes to Mr. Whiting and the USA
for producing 1/4 of the world's garbage,
and 1/4 of the demand.
You are certainly welcome.
Our pleasure, really.
Prince,
Is there anything we can do for you?
Americans are always happy to drill holes in other peoples countries.
I have heard of you Mr. Whiting, the cat's paw of the Saudi Princes.
I know your brother, the Foreign Minister, very bright.
I know your father too.
He threw the second creepiest party I have ever been to in Washington.
And as far as I can see, you could probably use a bit of cat's paw yourself.
Second born son, so beaten down by his family
he can't even tell me what he wants when he is asked straight out.
A grown up baby who is afraid of his brother?
And may be he wants to be king?
Maybe?
Well Prince,
are you a king?
Can you say tell me what you want?
All right what's next?
The lethal finding on the Nasir came through.
That was quick. You have the timetable?
It will be in Beirut next week.
We could do it there.
That's good. Anybody around?
Actually yes, I made contact with Mussawi
He said he would be happy to work with who ever we send
I was thinking it would be good for Bob.
All right.
I will let you have him without going through Terry
but everything better go exactly right
And tell him, easy on the memos.
This is the prototype
of an oil rich Arab monarchy.
since prevailing in the tribal conflicts of the 1920s,
the Al-Subaai family
have ruled their kingdom effectively
And by most accounts benignly.
However they face enormous challenges in the future.
The fact of the matter is at current levels of production
Welcome Bob, how are you?
Good news. I think we have got something for you, something you will like.
That utilizes your specific skill set.
You know this guy?
Prince Nassir Al-Subaai.
His money is in a lot of dark corners, paying for weapons
that could be used against USA.
Paperwork on polygraphs.
Wire transfers to Al Qaida fronts.
Letters instructing his water ministry to employ
Mohammed Sheik Agiza.
The guy who has your missile.
He is traveling to Beirut, You have experience in Beirut, don't you Bob?
It is a great city.
This is a bad guy.
And who knows maybe you will find your blue eyed Egyptian.
Sorry I got to get going a little early, My daughter has got a soccer game.
Did you see my report on the missile? Because I reset the guidance to blow ten feet off the ground...
Bob, you just don't get it!
Nobody wants to hear about a missing missile. Not right now!
This is top of the director's list.
Hit a walk-off home run
and get any desk you want.
Sheik Hamad has not yet made any decision about who will succeed him,
In our view prince Nasir
is likely the more ambitious of the two brothers.
This however does not mean,
that he will prevail
in any succession struggle.
My father has ordered the Marbella estate to be razed.
They will be a park.
We are so sorry for your loss.
6 more north field blocks are being developed.
We like to offer your firm the rights.
6 blocks?
Which phase?
3rd phase.
We will be in the stream for...
ten one hundredth of a cent, so...
75 million dollars.
Great! It's great!
How much for my other kid?
If I were your economic adviser, I would tell you that's
not the stupidest thing financially speaking, you've ever done, but
probably the dumbest thing you will do today.
Probably.
But why would you need an economic adviser.
20 years ago you had the highest GNP in the world,
today you are tied with Albania.
So good work....
Your second biggest export is second hand goods.
Followed closely by dates. For which you lose 5 cents a pound.
You want to know what the business world thinks of you?
We think a 100 years ago you were living out here in tents
in the desert, chopping each others heads off.
And that's exactly where you are gonna be in another hundred.
So yes, on behalf of my firm I accept your money. Thank you.
Fine. I will have the funds transferred to your firm immediately.
Great.
And I will give you another 100 million for the other kid.
So now you are my economic adviser,
why don't you tell me something that I don't already know?
All right, you want an idea? Here is an idea..
There is the Eurasian triangle.
Your kingdom is here. Iran is there.
Now for years you have been selling your oil, sticking it on ships, and watching
as it sails away around Africa to there.
Ok, now pretend for a second this is excess Iranian pipeline capacity.
That's your route! Right there. Overland through Iran
You hook up with these pipes here you commoditize it, you control it
and you take it right to the door step of every home in Europe.
I just doubled your profit.
I think that's a pretty good idea.
My grand-daddy was a wildcatter. Same with my daddy.
That's how I got my start.
Luck and hard work.
Nobody handed me shit.
Now, I got libraries and parks named after me.
And probably ruined my grand kids.
You wearing a wire, Bennet?
No.
Mr. Janus
Chairman of Connex and Dean Whiting, founding partner of your firm
are proud members
of the Committee to Liberate Iran Danny D. here is too.
D is for Dalton.
I was on the other side of the Tengiz deal.
The other side. -President Nazerbaev is his best pal in the whole world.
It is a beautiful field: the Tengiz.
Goddamit is she a beautiful field.
what is it? Irish...
The Irish pray on their knees and the Scots prey on their neighbors.
How is Margaret?
You guys divorced yet?
We are not getting divorced.
I don't think in our line of work
two people with security clearances have made their marriage work.
I am telling you Bobby, my boy
- Number 3, its a charm -it's a number
I like consulting. No, I love it.
love it and I will say this for it
private business is efficient.
There I have said...a fucking cliché, and the C.I.A is like
what a 30 billion a year business.
So anybody wants to sell anything, a pencil a computer
they got to interface through a security clearance...
don't give me that shit. I got two kids in college...
and we are doing our kitchen.
Stan, I got a chance to go back to Beirut.
I want to go back.
Is it safe for me?
Are we talking about with your wife or with the whackos?
Clear it with Hezbollah.
Rumors of Bob, but never Bob.
It is Bob, right?
What is it that you tell people you do these days, Bob?
Between State department and Defense.
It's just me buddy.
As requested.
Let me get some information, Jimmy.
My name is Mussawi. - Ok Jimmy.
He's traveling to Beirut.
It is dangerous to travel, He will disappear.
I want you to him from his hotel,
drug him, put him in front of the car, and run truck into it at 50 miles an hour...
It is good to have you back in town, Bob.
Beirut...
No, he invited me to come with him.
I think he thinks that he is some kind of a reformer or something.
Anyway he has got a nice private plane.
Hold on...
Beirut it is great, it is like the...
... Paris of the Middle East.
Its like winning the NIT...
Come in.
American?
Canadian.
Don't see many occidentals these days.
It is too bad.
This is November, 1994.
Excellent, Excellent.
Did you find the others?
I couldn't find it. Joe's in charge. He will bring it out when he does
Where is he?
He is back there looking for it. He said he will bring them out when he finds them.
Thank you, Susan.
Hello.
Yes.
Who is this?
How are you sir?
Somebody called me.
If you find me, call my son Bennett junior to this number.
What do you know about the torture methods used by the Chinese on Falun Gong?
Method # 1... What's your guess?
Water dungeon.
Did you guess water dungeon?