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?
# 2 method.
#2, twisting arms and putting face in feces.
Not interested in #2?
Number 3...
# 3 is called: pulling nails from fingers
What do you think Bob? #3, sound good to you?
Purpose is to get monks to recant their beliefs.
What if I had to get you to recant?
It will be pretty difficult, right?
Because if you have no beliefs to recant
then what.
You are fucked is what...
you are going to give me the names
of every person who has taken money from you.
Oh! that is disgusting...
- Come on Jimmy, you are not one of those Quran thumpers
My name is Mussawi.
You fucking fuck, fucking fuck, stupid fuck.
What the fuck?
This is a war! Fuck!
You are a POfuckingW.
Give me the fucking names.
I am going to cut your head off, Bob.
Consider a donation on your way out of Beirut
We just received a dispatch from Damascus, just 8 minutes old.
Mussawi is shopping a story that we sent Bob to Beirut to assassinate prince Nasir.
Batter go and talk to Terry.
Can we get this guy? I mean now, real time now?
- Mussawi? - I'll call you back, yes, Mussawi.
The practical answer is no.
not before he goes into another mosque or a newspaper and this story gains traction...
- Does he have Bob's name? - Not his real name, but Mussawi...
has been shopping photographs of them doing the deal long lens
photos of Bob being held. I mean we are lucky that he is alive.
The whole contact was a setup, Mussawi now apparently works with Iran.
First he tortures our guys and then he peddles the CIA connection.
Put some space between us and Bob.
Bob has a long history of entrepreneurial operations....
we haven't really had a handle on Bob for years After 9/11 some
people got a lot of leeway and let their emotions get the best of them
these are complex times
There is already an active investigation into Bob's activities. Help me out here!
Teheran, the Amiri brothers job
we are trying to find out who might have hired Bob
for the Amiri brothers job. Could the same people be behind the Nasir job?
A lot of people probably want this Nasir dead and
Bob knows lots of people. Fill in the rest. Is there anything?
You first established contact with the Amiri brothers in 1998?
Yes...
- You met them at a party in the South of France. - Yes.
- A party given by Riza Reyhani? -Reza, yes.
Were you aware that they were involved in illegal arms trade?
Of course I was aware, that's why I went.
Were you aware that these two men were Iranian Intelligence officers?
What do you think?
This is a diplomatic incident. Two men have been murdered, we have been tasked with damage assessment.
We will need you to turn your passport over to us.
Passports...
Eh, I found this....a wire transfer
Russian? I don't speak Russian. Get it translated.
Do you speak Russian?
These are dead ends -Oh! Thanks
What are these?
Uhm...orphans...things that don't make any sense.
That one is pretty interesting
A Lily school. It is a boarding school in Switzerland.
Paid for by wire transfer.
Transfer of these funds authorized by Daniel Dalton Jr on behalf of Vidak. Ltd.
The meeting has already started, you are not on the list. This is not an open function.
You are not wearing a badge, you don't have a wrist band...
- This is a private gathering. - Take this to Sydney Hewitt.
Please?
Iranian resources are abundant.
And given the chance, there is no limit to what the Iranian people can achieve.
Their hopes are the same as all people in every land.
To live lives with dignity, in a nation at peace.
And America will help them.
Killen Oil through Daniel Dalton and Petroika Energy consultants created asset-less shell companies
owned by the heirs of Nurzen Detiev, Minister of domestic resources for the Republic of Kazakhstan.
This was discussed at the upstream division meeting held in January, 2003.
I was at the meeting, but I don't focus on those kind of details.
Wherein it was described that Killen bore all the financial risk but,
minister Detiev's children, while attending the Lily school in
Switzerland, were entitled to all of the profits.
70 million dollars.
I attended the meeting, but as I said I don't focus on those kind of details.
Further Daniel Dalton Jr and Petroika Energy consultants colluded...
A firm retained by Killen prior to Connex's involvement.
Oh for Christ's sake Tommy, we both got letters from the grand Juries,
not your own private little pitty party.
A good faith purchaser is in good faith only if they new nothing of the problems at the time of the purchase.
This is oil business, we are talking about right?
The lowliest shareholder knows that we deal with on of the most stank places on earth.
And it is illegal to offer gifts, money, the promise of money or anything of value
to influence foreign officials.
Is it?
I have personally seen a bill from your law firm
to the government of Saudi Arabia for 36 million dollars.
A one line bill: "For services rendered"
The business of Whiting and Sloan is not under discussion at this time.
Well, it ought to be.
Danny is a good man.
And he is a friend of mine.
A mareva injunction?
Some people...
cousins of mine actually, sued my father in the Commonwealth,
alleging that he broke an agreement to repay funds transferred from the State.
Aggrieved Royals. Aggrieved about what....
That he tried to cut their allowances from $100 000 a month to $80 000?
My cousins aren't bright enough to be anything but finger puppets.
And my brother has faith only in his own cunning.
What do you suppose they are up to? My brother and these American lawyers?
Tell me, what are they thinking?
What are they thinking?
They are thinking that it is running out.
It is running out.
And 90% of what's left is in the Middle East.
Look at progression...
Versailles, Suez, 1973, Gulf war I, Gulf war II...
This is a fight to the death. And so what are they thinking?
Great!
They are thinking, keep playing, keep buying yourself new toys,
keep spending $50 000 a night on your hotel room...
but don't invest on your infrastructure, don't build a real economy...
so that when you finally wake up, they would have sucked you dry.
And you would have squandered the greatest natural resource in history.
Come with me please.
I studied at Oxford, I have a PhD from Georgetown.
I want to create a Parliament.
I want to give women the right to vote.
I want an independent judiciary.
I want to start a petroleum exchange in the Middle East.
Cut the speculators out of the business.
Why are the major oil exchanges in in London and New York anyway?
I will put up all our energy for competitive bidding.
Our own pipe to Europe though Iran as you proposed.
I will ship to China.
Anything that achieves efficiency and maximizes profits
Profit which I will then use to rebuild my country.
- Great, that is exactly what you should do. -Exactly...
Except that your President rings up my father and
says that I have got unemployment in Texas,
in Kansas, in Washington state...
one phone call later we are stealing out of our social programs,
in order to buy over priced aero planes.
We owed the Americans but we have repaid that debt.
I accepted a Chinese bid, the highest bid, And suddenly I am a terrorist...
I am godless communist.
Dean Whiting,
who represents not only these aggrieved royals
and my brother, but also Connex Oil.
They have been pressuring my father to invalidate the Chinese contract.
But they underestimate him.
This is about his legacy to his people.
Sure, I know it seems like people are just sitting in their hotel rooms..
I mean that's what they do... that's how they do their business
But I mean we are talking world's historical stage here...
With delivery deals we can make in Europe, transport through Iran,
I mean this guy might be able to revolutionize not just his country but the whole region.
As soon as his father keels over this guy can be like Mossadegh.
In 1952 in Iran, a real democracy rising up organically,
I mean if we could just be a part of any of these countries getting a Parliament?
Helping them find efficiency, showing them how real...
Stop it, stop it...
Julie, the little company that I started working for,
is now the chief economic advisor to prince Nasir.
Do you understand what that means?
That's like somebody put a giant ATM on our front lawn.
Here's a question...
How do you think it looks to profit off the death your six year old?
Fuck you, Fuck you...
I changed the diapers, I put cream on rashes...
I took him to his checkups...
cared about every fucking percentile.
I did everything right, I did everything right.
- We are going back to the states - Good...
Riley...
Sweetie, sweetie be careful...
Wanna say goodbye to your dad?
We will see him later...
Some trust fund prosecutor got off-message at Yale, thinks he is gonna run this up the flag pole?
Make a name for himself?
Maybe get elected some two-bit congressman from no where?
with the result that China, Russia, can suddenly start having at our expanse all the
advantages we enjoy here?
No, I tell you, no sir.
Corruption charges...
Corruption?!
Corruption is government intrusion into market
efficiencies in the form of regulations.
That's Milton Friedman! He got a goddamn Nobel prize .
We have laws against it, precisely so we can get away with it.
Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm.
Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here, instead of fighting over scraps of meat out on the street.
Corruption is why we win.
- How did it go? - He has got kids, wife......
He broke the law.
Mr. Janus himself wanted me to extend you an invitation
to the " Oil man of the year"...
He is being honored, so it should be a nice weekend.
Relax, get yourself a massage.
Congratulations.
- Is Jane in? - She is in a meeting.
- And where's Fred? - He is in a meeting.
Eh Bennett, come on... take a ride with me.
- Do I have a choice? - Of course, you do.
this is just a courtesy call.
Bennett I know you know about the crime fraud exception to attorney client privilege.
I do Don, very well.
And you also know your client is into some shady stuff and it's starting to look like,
you could be involved in hiding the true nature of the transactions.
It's quiet a statement Don.
One word.
Dalton.
Danny Dalton?
Defrauded the government of Kazakhstan, of funds to which it was entitled to
defrauded the people of right to the honest services of Kazakhstan of their elected and appointed officials.
7 years, does 3 maybe 2.5. on your recommendation.
And let me guess.
This was a solo act without the knowledge of Connex,
or Killen Oil, Mr. Lee, Mr. Janus or Jimmy Pope.
Dalton is a bit of a rouge, it's true.
And he will have a nice little trust fund waiting when he gets out.
Not so little I would imagine...
Look Don, we can spend the next 5 years in the court,
to get back to the very same place that we are at right now
And they will fight tough. They will fight dirty.
They will pressure your boss. They will pressure the people who appointed you boss.
They will pressure the wives of the people who appointed your boss.
You will never hit them any harder than this. And you know it.
I am sorry Bennett, I don't think Dalton is enough for me.
- What are you looking at man? - I didn't say anything...
Because you have nothing to say...
Hey Fred!
Fred!
Hey Bob!
Kitty take this. Eh, Jack! your sister...
Take the kids inside. I will be right here, ok?
- What's going on Fred? - It's ok, be back in a second!
FBI has got it Bob. It is pretty clear. Nothing I can do about it.
You know it. It is a criminal investigation. Two men were killed.
I was almost killed.
Now they ask me questions about the Amiri brothers.
Asking me questions about Tehran.
You gotto understand this wrecks careers. We shouldn't even be talking.
I punch in price Nasir Al-Subaai and my computer gets seized.
Now where did that job come from? Where did the Nasir job come from?
I am advising you to drop it.
Why am I being investigated?
Fred!
Goodbye, Bob.
the fallout,
do you want to talk about it.
But they already have an investigation on you.
- What about Mussawi? - He is a soldier...
Just like you.
Why are they doing damage assessment on the Amiri brothers and on me?
For doing my job.
This is about our interests in the region.
If tomorrow Prince Nasir won't allow our military bases in his country.
than his little brother will.
probably they will have to do something about that.
Who's worried about the Nasir job?
Who is worried of me talking?
Stan...
Who is quiet?
- Hello? - Hello, is this Mr. Whiting?
- This is HomeSeal Security. - Yes, this is Mr. Whiting.
Hi, we are showing a motion sensor failure in your down stairs study.
Ah yes?
Like I said, we are getting a failure message. Do you want me to..
stay on the phone while you walk around or send a car?
I will take a look around...
Everything seems fine...
- How are we doing Mr. Whiting? - Everything's fine.
- The door is unlocked. - Did you leave it unlocked?
Send a car, you imbecile.
You were in Beirut in 1984.
I lost friends and as I am sure you do.
I got a peek at your file. You are a good man,
one whose experience is narrow and deep.
Your entire career, you have been used.
And probably never even known what for.
I didn't used to need to know.
In this town you are innocent until you are investigated.
Innocent until investigated? Nice. It's got a nice ring to it.
I bet you've worn some miles on little sayings like that.
Gives the listener a sense that law is being written as it is spoken.
If anything happens to me or my family, an accident, an accusation, anything....
Then first, your son will disappear. His body will never be found.
Then your wife, her body will never be found either.
Now this is guaranteed.
Then whatever is the most dangerous thing that you do in your life. Might be flying in a small plane,
or maybe walking to the bank, you will be killed.
Do you understand, what I am saying?
I want you to acknowledge that you do understand so that we are clear and there won't be any mistakes.
Beirut laws, Mr. Barnes.
I want my passports back.
- Dalton is not enough for them. - I would be real careful.
If you dig a 6 foot hole you will find 3 bodies.
You dig 12 foot and maybe you will find 40.
Christ! China’s economy isn't growing as fast as it could. Because they can't get all the oil they need.
And I am damn proud of that fact.
We need another body, Mr. Pope.
What if it involves somebody at your firm?
Someone way the hell above you?
We would have to have an understanding.
If he is as big as you say and when he goes down the merger will be approved.
Like that?
We're looking for the illusion of due-diligence, Mr. Pope.
Two criminals acts successfully prosecuted gives us that illusion.
Call me Jimmy.
He is a visionary, he is like Faysal or Ataturk, the people love him.
And the country is going to be his by Monday...
Look it is not like you guys have backed the wrong horse here
No, look he has got 9 of 11 generals. We are on our way to the palace right now.
This is really happening.
Silver Range-Rover, with a sun roof
Silver Range-Rover, sun roof, fourth from the lead.
- Guys, help me out here? - Its coming up...
His wife will be there, Pat.
This is good...
You done good.
Lee, your guests.
- Sid. - Lealand.
Bennett Holiday, Lee Janus. - How are you doing?
Well.
Those number crunchers can get a little over zealous, can't they?
but Christ, when we write the GAAP rules like some sort of abstract painting...
you stare the liability hard enough,
and before long it will turn into an asset.
- You don't drink? - No.
It is really beautiful out here.
- What is that? - What?
In front of them...
The Bedouins always have the right of way.
The lawyers are saying, "Hey, we cannot trust a big 5 accounting firm".
The accountants are saying: "Hey, we are not lawyers".
Legal didn’t understand; Accounting didn't understand.
Nobody understood anything
The regulatory bodies had to scratch their heads for a minute that nobody at Connex or Killen was at fault.
But this merger is so balance-positive for American consumers,
that ultimately Justice wants it.
Federal Courts want it, everybody wants it.
Our real client after all is us, the American people.
And we are increasing American access to oil in Kazakhstan.
So all they ask is that we give them a little something meaningful
which we did and they got out of the way.
- Somebody besides Dalton? - Unfortunately, yes.
And the best option seemed to be...
a secret deal for excess Iranian pipeline capacity that I uncovered during the diligence.
A little side deal benefiting the lead lawyer involved in the Connex-Killen merger approval process.
What do you think, you are doing?
Of course, it is illegal for an American to control these rights.
Stop right now!
Is there something that you want to tell me, Sid?
Good afternoon...
wanna thank our hosts for a wonderful spread.
The strawberry juice is delicious.
Let me just say on behalf of Connex-Killen, how pleased we are to be back in the Gulf.
Your Highness, why don't you ride together?
Oh! Thank you, Bryan.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this years " Oil man of the year ".
Mr. Lealand Janus of Connex-Killen
who the hell is that?
Excuse me, are you seeing that?
Can you tell, Who that is?
- Take the target out. - Roger.
4 miles...
2 miles...
You are the Canadian.
Destroyed target.
23:44 ETT.
I'd like to accept this award on behalf of the employees
of Connex-Killen. Our people, the finest in the World.
Guys, could I get you to stand up for a moment?
Please, stand up.
And I also like to thank our strategic friends from around the globe who are here tonight.
Most specially, Emir Meshal Al-Subaai
Emir! Thank you so much.
Come on now
Leave the beer.
Base on subtitles by RAYHAAN, adjusted by spaniel