2002, 2003, nothing.
It's as if he doesn't exist. No taxes, no bank records, nothing.
Then, two years ago, he walks into a bank in Atlanta
and produces a $500,000 letter of credit and a business card from Formavale.
Now, we've been working hard, we've been working fast
and yet we can't find anything about Formavale.
We don't have a vendor, we don't have an insurance company,
we don't have anybody down there
who knows anything about what the hell Formavale does.
We're working these New York travel records.
Howard Tully bouncing down to Dunwoody like a busboy.
DUKE: Yeah, and two days after Ronald Partiz sells Formavale Labs to B&R,
three armored trucks pull up outside the building.
Not only that, B&R sends a security detail down there
to guard the load out, which takes place at night.
And consider that B&R has yet to disclose their financial statements
showing the acquisition.
And then add the fact that Ronnie Partiz has been living for the last six months
in a $10,000-a-day penthouse suite at the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas.
And the coup de grāce, toss in the fact that he is playing baccarat
whenever he's sober enough to make his way down to the tables
to the tune of $300,000 a week.
Duke, God damn it, you gotta stop waltzing around,
and you have got to get on this guy.
You can forget his room.
It's like Fort Knox up there. It'd be a major operation.
- I told you. - So what do you wanna do?
Have a drink.
Turn-down service.
This is a waste of time. You wanna just sit here all night?
Look at him, he's paralyzed. He couldn't leave if he wanted to.
Why don't you give me the credit card, let me get in the game.
It's a $5,000 table.
That's okay. I'll share my winnings.
Forget it.
Look, maybe you're right.
Maybe tonight he goes nowhere.
What we do?
Tonight we watch like this, and tomorrow...
Tomorrow, we'll find somebody who works upstairs in those rooms, okay?
How's it going, fellows?
- Yeah, we're good, thanks. Very good. Glad to hear it.
I'm hoping you could help me out.
I need to take a look at your room keys.
Well, this is interesting.
Yeah, it is interesting.
A maid just found a whole bunch of crazy stuff in a couple of rooms upstairs.
So here's what we're going to do.
The drinks are comped.
We're gonna have to take a walk.
And I mean now.
Hey, hey, hey. Get him! Get off of me.
This is so heavy.
Who do you think he is?
It's gotta be this thing. This new thing, right?
Makes sense.
What else could it be?
- Hey, I was getting worried. - I got off the plane,
- I thought for a minute I was being tailed. - By who?
I don't know. I was probably just being paranoid.
Well, that's crazy. Nobody knows we're here.
I know. I know, but I didn't know what else to do. I had to run it out.
I've been driving in circles for two hours. I just... I didn't know what else to do.
I wanted to call, and I just thought, " My God, we've got everything on the line here."
I didn't want to start off sloppy.
- God, you smell good. - Please, I smell like a rental car.
Wow. This is amazing.
- I upgraded. - This is more than an upgrade.
We're celebrating. I've got some good news. Well, actually, it's more than good news.
- I nailed it. - Nailed what?
We're in. I got it. The answer. The key. The master plan. I nailed it!
You're kidding.
- Come here. Sit down. Just sit down. - Okay.
How much money do you think was spent on frozen pizza last year?
- What? - Frozen pizza. How big is the market?
$1 billion. One billion. That's just the pizza.
I'm not talking enchiladas, blintzes, macaroni and cheese.
Just pizza. Master plan, right?
Objective one, huge market. Got it.
Objective two, conflict, right?
Find a market where the competitors hate each other so much,
they'll do anything to win.
We get involved, we lead the charge. When the price is right, we ditch.
All we gotta do is find an angle.
Maybe we flip sides, maybe we shop the intel,
buy stock, sell it, whatever. There's a hundred ways to go.
There's this company called Butter Mills, okay.
Now, about two months ago,
the CEO, Mr. Butter Mills, sitting at home, watching TV with his granddaughter.
There's this ad comes on in the morning cartoons
for something called Double Crust Pizza.
This guy's been working on double-crust pizza for five years,
got $50 million invested, major new product for him.
Trouble is, he hasn't rolled it out yet.
The ad he's watching is for Flakey Fresh Double Crust.
They stole his concept, his formula, his packaging and his ad campaign.
So Mr. Butter Mills is out for blood.
They're taking off the gloves. They're bringing out the check book.
Here's the best part...
Guess who they like for Director of Intel Operations?
I took a job yesterday.
- What? - That's why I was paranoid.
What do you mean, you took a job?
It's not like I could call and tell you.
I don't believe this.
What happened to doing it together?
- Well, it was just too good... - No, we had a plan.
You know, we agreed. We said we'd go over everything.
We go over it. We do it together. We said nobody moves alone.
- Ray, please. - Well, can you get out of it?
Well, of course you can. You haven't even started yet. Claire...
Claire, look, I know that we said that we're gonna go out there,
get two jobs and see which one comes up best,
but with this, the pizza,
I mean, we can push up the whole timetable. It's perfect.
And we can be together.
Look, I take the job, you start working out the exit strategy.
You know, you build up our ID, you set up the banks, offshore trading accounts.
Whatever we need, you get it up and running and then I bring you in, see.
I'm gonna need to staff up. You'll apply, we'll meet.
We'll like each other, hate each other, whatever works best.
Who'd you take the job with?
Equikrom.
- Local? - New York.
It's two jobs actually.
Equikrom wants to hire me under the table,
and then get me a job on the counterintelligence desk
for Burkett & Randle.
They want you to be a mole?
Equikrom?
In New York?
Where's the pizza thing?
Cleveland.
You said they offered you the job.
Of course they did. They love me.
- You took it on the spot. - What, like you?
Nothing was formalized.
Look, seriously, I don't have to take it.
Oh, yeah, that makes sense.
How are we ever gonna see each other?
Very, very carefully.
This is what we wanted, right?
I think so.
Come here.
Ms. Stenwick?
Someone made fire.
Someone was first.
I don't mean the idiot who found a burning stick and kept it going.
I mean the fellow who could make fire.
And until that knowledge was stolen,
that fellow was the most powerful person on the planet.
And it means something to be first.
To be most.
It means a great deal.
It means you have an opportunity to reproduce with the highest frequency
and with the most desirable partners.
It means your offspring have the greatest chance of survival
and a better opportunity to make their own fire.
I personally believe that human evolution has run its course.
We live in a world where the people who can make fire
have a tendency to wear condoms,
sit in casinos and drink themselves into a stupor.
I believe that individual evolution has been replaced by something else.
By a shared evolution.
A communal contest, if you will.
I believe, Ms. Stenwick, in corporate evolution.
I believe that the corporation that is first, that is the most,
has an opportunity to manufacture with the highest frequency
and in the most desirable markets,
and that its shareholders, by extension,
have the greatest chance of survival and reinvestment.
I don't imagine you're quite aware of the service
you and Mr. Bauer provided this corporation last night.
We were just doing our job, sir.
Mr. Partiz may appear a fool,
but he is anything but.
He has given Burkett & Randle a gift that will change our business,
our lives, forever.
So the question, Ms. Stenwick,
is whether you can continue to do the job we so desperately need you to do
without knowing the stakes involved.
Can you really do your job without knowing what it is that you're protecting?
What I need to know is,
can I share my fire with you?
Little trouble out there in the field, Ray?
What do you mean?
Well, I just got a back channel message from Claire,
she wants to meet Garsik.
That's a terrible idea.
Yeah, that's what I told him. But now he wants direct contact.
Forget it.
- It's his dime. - Yeah, and she's my agent.
I told you when I came on board. Once she's mine, I run her my way.
Yeah, well the question's been raised, Ray, is it just her you're running?
You'd better explain that to me.
RAY O VER PHONE: American Consulate, Dubai, you and me, Fourth of July, 2003.
CLAIRE O VER PHONE: Find someone else to bother.
RAY: Red, white and blue margaritas. CLAIRE: Stay away from me.
RAY: I had a knee brace, you had toe rings. First toe ring I ever saw, by the way.
Well, I'll give her this. She is one cold, nasty piece of work.
- When did she send this to you? - She didn't tape it. You did.
We had a bug in your phone. We had the whole thing wired.
Hey, we had to. New guy on the team? This late in the game?
What can I tell you? The bitch put me through the wringer.
Look, if I'd have known it was her, I would never have taken the job.
- No, no. You didn't tell us the truth, Ray. - Are you firing me, Duke?
Why didn't you do it then? Why not fire me that day?
- Why keep me around? Why?
Because you're the biggest swinging dick I've ever seen.
Come on! We thought we were losing her.
We thought we'd had her out there too long and she'd gone off the rails.
And that's why we brought you in.
But this? This is more than we ever expected.
When you drop the hammer on her, when you take her to the bar...
CLAIRE O VER PHONE: You've 10 seconds to get your hand off me.
RAY O VER PHONE: Or what? You won't be my friend anymore?
No, no, no, no, no. Do the other one. Do the other one.
- Okay. Here. - Right.
RAY: Now, maybe you're so used to having your legs in the air you don't realize it,
but you're upside down, sister.
I own you.
Damn! Man, I wish I had video on this!
"I own you."
- Who else knows about this? - Just me, just me and Dale.
So you were just kidding about the meet with Garsik, right?
No, no. That's for real. But don't worry about her.
I mean, obviously, she doesn't need to know that we know what's going on,
so you just keep... You know, just play it straight.
Of course.
RAY: I don't know. I mean, I'm not great on names. I should be. I try.
Faces, I'm definitely better. Faces, I'm like a B, B minus.
Where I'm good, where I really excel, people I've slept with.
- "I own you." - "I own you."
"I own you."
You should have called.
I could have been home hours ago.
- Where's your bag? - I'm on the red-eye.
- No. - I'm supposed to be in Houston.
I had to blow my connection. It was the only way I'd steal a couple of hours.
You should have paged me.
I've been sitting in the office doing field reports, for Christ's sake.
I couldn't risk it.
- From a pay phone? - Not from anywhere.
Why? What's going on?
- Nigel Bingham. - Nigel Bingham?
- You were together in Athens. - He was my station chief.
- You still on good terms? - Great. Why?
Equikrom, the special unit, they're hiring.
Duke needs a field agent. I figured out a way to get you in.
It's happening, Ray. It's war.
- What do you mean, war? - I mean like a total corporate death match.
We're on. B&R is about to make a move.
- What kind of move? - Some new product. Something big.
What do you mean, "big"?
Big, big like we've had four top-down tech sweeps in the last two weeks.
Big like three days ago we started auditing passwords hourly.
This morning I got a message from Duke.
He wants me to go active. I'm gonna get word to him tomorrow
that unless he gets me a great field officer to work with he can forget it.
You're gonna get that job.
Without knowing what the product is?
Well, that's the point. Nobody knows.
All we have to do is get there first.
You on one side, me on the other. It's perfect.
What does all this have to do with Nigel Bingham?
He's Duke's drinking buddy. They play cards twice a week.
You call Nigel.
You're just checking in, you're stuck in Cleveland,
you're going crazy, you're calling everybody.
Tell him you're desperate to get to New York.
Aren't you desperate to get to New York?
- Well, yeah, of course I am, but it's just... - Just what?
Well, the pizza thing's really heating up.
We're launching Frozen Hawaiian next month, pineapple and ham.
First time anyone's ever done that.
Congratulations.
Well, it's not the first first time
'cause those weasels at Flakey Fresh stole the idea from Butter Mills,
and then, you'll love this,
we find out that the Vice President of Marketing has this 22-year-old assistant
who's $60,000 in debt to a TV shopping network. Bingo.
Really.
Are these hers?
What is that?
It's a thong. It was in your closet.
That's not possible.
Well, whose are they?
- Nobody's because it's impossible. - Impossible what?
That someone would leave them, or you'd forget or that I'd find them?
Impossible because I've been faithful. Which closet?
- Which closet? - This is insane.
- You're denying this? - Absolutely.
The only woman who's been in this place since I moved in is the landlady
and she couldn't wear that as a wristband.
So where did they come from?
Look, I swear to you.
Claire, I swear, I swear on all things good and true,
I have no idea who they belong to. And the fact that you don't believe me,
the fact that we've been through everything that we've been through
and that you still don't trust me on this, is, quite frankly, disturbing.
Well, in that case, I'll put them back on.
They're yours?
You passed.
You're gaming me?
I just needed to hear you say it.
- You're that upset? - Yeah, I think so.
But kind of turned on, too, right?
The drag is I've only got 55 minutes to make it up to you.
Forget it.
I never liked this game.
Any sport that puts a limit on your score is a complete waste of time.
Three hundred, that's it?
What, are you gonna bust your nut to do something 9 million other jokers might do?
Stupidest damn thing I ever heard of.
Okay, so don't turn around, but she just came in.
- We're cool though, right? She see us? - Oh, yeah.
- I look natural, right? - Super natural.
Who picked this place?
- You have a problem? - It's a little bright.
- So this gentleman here is... - I know who he is.
You do? Even with the hat?
She's a trained professional.
Yeah, yeah, I can see that.
I can definitely...
Would you... You know what, we got beers here.
- Would you care for something? - She's fine.
- I'm starving. - Well, hell, then we should feed you.
I'd love some pizza. Do you think they have pizza?
I'll just bet that they do, yeah.
- Or even frozen pizza. - Okay.
- I don't think so. - Why don't you go take a look-see?
You'd smell it if they did.
I don't give a damn if you have to go to Sicily, get the lady some pizza!
Any particular topping you'd like?
Surprise me.
Pepperoni.
Super Cheese-a-peno.
Mushroom.
Mushroom and onion.
Plain.
- Hawaiian. - Plain.
- Do you like it hot or... - Yeah, hot. Very hot.
Extremely hot.
You want something to drink?
Yeah, sure, whatever.
What's going on? What just happened?
You...
You gotta get Duke. You gotta get Duke.
And you've gotta tell him to get me a secure line
because he's gotta call me right away.
- What did she say? - Secure line.
Do you understand me? And only if he is sure.
I gotta get on the plane, and he's gotta call me,
but it has gotta be safe.
Yeah, it's me. I need Duke. Now.
Yeah. Well, tell him to hurry up.
What are you doing?
Me?
- How did you get here so fast? - Not fast enough though, right?
- You're leaving? - I didn't think you were coming.
I left the signal, didn't I?
You also took your passports and the travel money.
Half the money. My half.
We took a vow. No one touches the mayday pouch until it's time to bail.
I trusted you.
Which explains why you were in there checking it.
- When did you do this? - When?
About five or six hours after I got done with Barbara Bofferd from B&R Travel.
You're kidding.
- That's what this is about? - That?
We're in play, for Christ's sake. We don't have time for this.
Why? Is it a long explanation?
Walk.
What the hell did you just tell Garsik?
- You're unbelievable. - What's the secret?
- You screwed her! - Yeah. For us. For the project.
- I can't believe you screwed her! - It was an assignment. It was nothing.
Well, you should see the pictures.
Well, you're the last person I need to explain this to.
The only difference between this and our first date
is that no one was drugged into a coma and left for dead.
Left for dead? You were asleep in bed with a smile on your face!
- Yeah, for 18 bloody hours! - See, there it is.
- You can't get past Dubai, can you? - What's the product, Claire?
- You say that you can, but you can't. - What is the product?
All right, you know what, I did come back here to clear out my stuff.
All right, I was gone. I was ready to bail.
I got the pouch out, I'm halfway there, and I suddenly realize,
"Oh, my God! What are you doing? This is good. This could work. It's payback.
"We take Dubai, the travel tramp, call it even, move on, never mention it again."
So, there I am, I'm loading it all back in,
I'm putting everything away, like it never happened,
and I suddenly realize there's something missing.
- Where's Ray's Canadian passport? - Okay, slow down.
Which I know for a fact is supposed to be in there
because I'm the one who taped the whole thing together!
Yes, okay? Yes, I took the Canadian passport.
One passport. Why? Because I was paranoid.
All this probing and testing and not trusting me, it gets to you.
I thought, what's the harm in having one little parachute
in case the plane goes down?
I wanted a hole card. That's it. That's all it was.
And the travel lady, did I have to go that far? Maybe not. But it worked.
And you know what, that's my cover. That's always been my cover.
I'm a mess. I'm a horndog. I'm a slob. But that's my edge.
I mean, we're here trying to run a triple game
on some very smart and very motivated players.
What do you want me to do, play with one hand behind my back?
It wasn't your hand I was talking about.
You know what? Get over it.
You know what? I'm there.
So what are you saying?
Same split, new rules. You keep your parachute. I'll keep mine.
- You're that jealous? - No, I'm that focused.
I've got two years invested in this,
and the last thing I'm gonna do is let some stupid, immature personal baggage
compromise an otherwise successful operation.
- So we're strictly business now. - Deal with it.
Well, it might help if I knew what kind of business we were in.
Hair. They can grow hair.
Where it belongs.
You mean what? Like...
Like, from now on, Ronnie Partiz will be the patron saint to all bald men.
- Except there won't be any bald men. - A cure for baldness?
Burkett & Randle Wash and Grow Shampoo, enriched with activated Partizonol.
- Hair? That's like... - It's huge.
Huge? It's beyond huge. It makes huge look bloody microscopic.
Do you have any idea what this is worth? I mean, hair.
To grow hair, to own that, that's the all-time Holy Grail.
No wonder they've been so crazy.
I mean, we're sitting here on a cure for baldness
and you're getting worked up about some meaningless incident.
- We don't have it. - We don't? But it's a formula though, right?
It has to be. It has to be a formula with a patent application.
- So who's got it? Where is it? - I don't know.
If you did, you'd be sharing that, though, right?
If I were holding out on you, what would I be doing here now?
How about pretending to be pissed off and jealous
just to keep me from thinking what was really going on.
That's sick, even for you.
Yeah, and that's not the answer I was looking for.
Quiet.
Hello.
Claire? It's Ned.
I need you back at the office. Now. Like immediately.
I'll be downstairs in 10 minutes.
I have to go. That was Guston. I have to get back to the office.
We don't have any partners I don't know about, do we?
Yeah, that's what I want. More partners.
It would be so stupid to burn me now.
I have to go.
- We're not gonna talk about this? - You said it. We're in play.
- We don't have time. - Claire...
We had a motion detector go off on 31, near Mr. Tully's office.
There's some document rooms up there.
We found one of the security cages wide open,
and we started turning on the lights.
We heard some scurrying around, had a little foot race.
It took a couple minutes, but we found him down here
- hiding under the desk. - Jesus.
We get to running his ID... - Ned!
...he starts trying to tell us the whole thing was some kind of security test.
Hey, Ned, get these things off me!
We said, " Hey, that's great, but we still gotta call your boss."
That's when he started sweating.
- Where's the thing? Yeah, he had this.
- "Partizonol 6.1." Ned, I can explain this!
Shut up, Jeff. Did you open this? No.
- Did anybody else touch this? - No, sir, just us and the suspect.
Suspect? Well, that's no suspect. You're not a suspect, are you, Jeff?
You're a backstabbing little weasel, and you're gonna burn, asshole.
Okay. Okay, I want a lawyer!
Forget the lawyer, weasel. What you need is a net
'cause I'm gonna throw your backstabbing ass out the window!
Is the area upstairs secure now?
Yeah, are you sure there's no one else upstairs?
It's gotta be cleared out before it's re-armed.
- How long does that take? - All three floors? 20 minutes.
Go. Go now. Do it.
- What about him? - He's not going anywhere. Go!
Okay. Back here, 20 minutes.
Hey, where are you going? Hey, get back here!
Don't leave me here with him! You heard what he said!
Hey, I mean it! Ned, come on. Claire!
Okay, you stay here with Jeff.
I'm gonna run downstairs and toss his office.
- You don't wanna call it in? - No.
All right, we gotta take the lead so no one else gets involved.
What about that?
Leave it. Don't move it. Don't touch it. Just leave it. All right?
And relax, okay. I'm gonna call it in.
Let's just figure out what we're into. Just hold the fort, all right?
DUKE: Hair is power.
What this does is it returns to man his original state, his virility.
- Don't laugh. Excuse me. - Duke, I think you really...
Excuse me. Don't laugh.
Seriously, I think you need to relax.
- Hey, what's up, dude? - Hey, Ray, so where the hell you been?
I thought I picked up a tail leaving the bowling alley.
Hey, I've been trying to call you, man. Where's that cell phone?
- My battery kicked it. - D'you want to get some pizza.
- Don't you want anything? - No, I'm good.
- All right. - Cool.
So what is it, guys?
- What's the secret? - The secret?
Hair.
All right, listen to me, Claire. Forget Ned. Okay? Forget Tully.
Do you have any idea what this is worth? They can grow hair!
Okay? They can restore hair.
Do you have any idea what we could sell this for?
What Garsik would pay for this?
They haven't delivered the patent yet, Claire. It's an open technology.
Now, there it is. I can see it. It's a fortune. It's just... All right.
Claire! All right, just wait. Wait. Claire, listen. Listen to me.
There's always been a spark between us. You know that!
Now that night on the plane... Claire, come on!
God, Claire!
We're up.
CLAIRE: I got it.
- Where's Dinesh? - He's right behind you.
Dinesh! Dinesh! She's got it. Come on, let's go. She's got it.
- Got what? - She's got the formula.
She's on the 24th floor of the B&R building.
She can't walk it out. She's gotta send it.
All those copiers you hacked, where is the closest one?
Just give me one second, Ray!
- Just give me something close. - One second.
Twenty-two, 23, I know there's something in there.
Guys, come on, we don't have a lot of time here.
- Human Resources, 22. - Twenty-first floor.
There's a machine on the 21st floor. I marked it. It's here.
- Where am I going? - Hang on. Just... Just hang on.
Where am I sending her?
Tell me there's a system here. Give me a second. I'm gonna find it.
21st floor, Human Resources. Get that open, give me the machine number.
- Are you all right? Yeah.
Guys?
Not a lot of time here, Ray.
Guys, you're gonna blow it. Tell me where to send her!
- Twenty-one, Ray! - Twenty-one.
Can you get down to the 21st floor?
Just look for red. Anything red. I flagged the hits in red.
It's red. It's circled. - Just one?
There's a couple with more than just one.
No, there's just one. That's all I see. It's a number. They're all just numbers.
One minute. She needs a room, name, something. Where am I sending her?
Look for the numbers I circled. I gotta get the book.
- What are you doing? MR...
No! Hang on! I need the book!
She's on the way, guys. We're leaving her hanging here.
I'm gonna find it!
- It's an MR number, right? Yeah, MR-6432.
- So it'll be in the front. - What do you mean in the front?
- In the book! Look in the book. - I am looking in the book,
- but this thing is a mess! - Right here. Hang on.
See, right here in the front. First page.
Is it gonna work? If it's not gonna work, tell me now.
All I see is a list of names!
Beside the name. Match the name to the numbers.
- Is it going to work? - Get the phone out of here, Ray!
Are you crazy? It'll kill the phone!
Okay. Where? Where am I going?
What? Shit!
Ray. - Come on. Come on.
- Hey, Ray, are the bars moving? - What?
The scan trace on the Ghost. The bars, are they moving?
- I've lost her! Well, just tell me if it's working.
Yeah, but it's not gonna make much...
Claire?
What the hell is going on over there? Can you guys handle this or what?
Yeah, no, no, no, we're good. We're getting it. Just hang on in there.
Yes, the bars, they're moving.
Clenteen, Edgar. Human Resources, 21. C-L-E-N...
Claire!
There are no names.
No, I'm not seeing any names.
We're good! We're in! I'm in!
That's great, but there's no names on the offices. Where is she going?
I don't... I don't map it that way, Ray. I don't know.
Hang on! Hang on!
What is that? What've you got?
Clenteen, Edgar. H.R., 21st floor.
- Where? - I don't see it. They don't list offices.
- They give his number? - What?
Call him. Call the guy's phone. Now.
All right, I'm here. I'm ready.
She's in. She's found it.
How many pages? - How many pages is it?
One. There's just one page.
One.
Ray, really, we've gotta do this now. I can't keep waiting.
- She's ready. What are we doing? - Almost. Almost there.
Go over there, grab some maps, find another machine.
- Why? - In case we need a backup.
Almost there.
- Go! I'm in! All she's gotta do is scan it! - Go. Do it.
There's nothing on it.
RAY: It's coming through, but there's nothing on it.
Guys, what the hell is going on?
It's blank!
Shit! It should be working!
Try it again. Do we have a backup?
- We got it. - Yes!
We did it.
Claire?
- Having fun? - Where'd you go?
- I've just been watching you. - Bullshit. Bullshit! You've...
- What the hell happened here? - He got a little frisky.
She's lying. She did something. She left. Where's the formula?
Ned, I swear she wasn't here. She's up to something.
All right. The guys upstairs must have called it in.
Opsec has people on the way already. We're fried.
They're gonna go over every inch of it.
You're missing it, Ned! She wasn't here! She's playing you! She's lying!
God damn it, Ned, that's exactly what she wants! Ned!
Yeah. No. I got it right here. I got it... It's in my hand.
Yes, yes, I am looking at it.
No, it's just... It's just a party.
We're having a little party and blowing off some steam.
I... I mean, I have no idea what it says, but then, I didn't take chemistry.
Where are you now? Where are you right now?
You're not near a window or anything, are you? All right. Good. Go, go!
Listen to me, Duke. I am counting on you. I am counting on you big time.
Nobody sees this thing. You hear me? Nobody.
Now you keep that formula wrapped in Kryptonite until I get back tomorrow night.
Yep. Got it. Okay. Yep.
Yep!
Here's the money! Welcome back.
Fantastic! Time to celebrate.
- You okay? - No. I'm burned.
- You burned me. You let him burn me. - What are you talking about? We got it.
I left a trail back there a mile wide. I'm lucky I made it out of the building.
I can't go back to work, I can't go back home. I'm totally burned.
- Whoa! Wait a minute. - Don't you dare!
- So what do you need, Claire? - What do I need? How about a new identity?
- Duke... - Stow it, Ray!
I'm gonna go underground. I will tell you where you can send my pay and my bonus,
which better be more than I expected because this was a nightmare.
- What is your problem? - A copy machine?
He had me running all over that goddamn building
looking for a copy machine.
- It worked, didn't it? - Why didn't I just fax it?
Why? Because...
Tell her. We had these machines all over the place.
Who the hell faxes anything anymore?
I am running around thinking, " What the hell does this guy have me doing?"
- We had to get it out of there. - There were 50 easier ways to do it!
- Did it work or not? - For who? For you?
Was anybody with him when he got the formula?
Has he ever been alone with it?
Could he have possibly made a copy of it?
- What the hell are you doing? - I guess that's a no.
You're sick. She's sick.
Look, I know this guy, okay?
I should've told you that before, but I couldn't
because he threatened the entire project.
He knows. He knows the whole thing.
No. He's right, Claire. I do. I mean, I know that you two...
Do you know he was on a CIA observation watch list?
That is total bullshit.
How'd he get on this project, anyway?
We're here for what, a year and a half?
How does he show up three weeks before the payday?
- I just brought this home. - What kind of watch list?
- You know what? No, forget it. - No.
- I'm done here. - Come on. Claire, wait!
You got what you wanted, Duke.
You just better make sure you're the only one
who got what you wanted.
I don't believe that. That's unbelievable.
Well, you said it yourself. You left her out there too long.
Pam?
Dinesh?
- It's possible. - Guys, this is insane.
You bring me in to land the big fish, I deliver, and this is the thanks I get.
This is the victory lap. What are you doing?
- You're gonna search me? - Yeah. It takes five minutes.
- Because of that? Because of her? - Does it matter?
Duke.
Ain't that a bitch.
- Mr. Garsik, welcome to San Diego. - Yeah. It's great to be here.
Remember me?
- I guess Duke bought it. - Oh, yeah.
- I waited. - I see that.
The Swiss buyers are waiting. I got them to $35 million.
$17.5 split? Works for me.
- So tell me you have the formula. - I thought you had it.
- I asked you first. - You asked me first?
If I told you I loved you, would it make any difference?
If you told me or if I believed you?
I love you.
I really do.
I don't know why you would believe me.
I don't know why we'd believe anything anymore.
I just keep having this fantasy that we suddenly snap out of it,
that we come out of this and be like people are supposed to be,
like, trusting and honest.
- We're not like other people. - I know that. Don't you think I know that?
Do you have any idea how frustrating it is
to know that you are the only man who could ever possibly understand me?
Look, I know who you are.
And I love you anyway.
If I find out this is because you don't have the formula
and you think maybe I do, I'm gonna be seriously disappointed.
Okay.
Okay, look. What about this?
On the count of three, whatever we've got, formula, no formula,
let's just put it on the table,
- one time, last time... - I have it.
I said on the count of three.
I have it. Why wait? What's the point? I love you.
I think about you all the time.
I think about you even when you're with me.
I look at you, I can't stop looking at you.
I look at you and I think, " That woman...
"That woman knows who I am and loves me anyway."
I have it, too.
RICHARD: It's a big room.
You get a big room, you don't fill it, it's gonna look like shit.
- Hey? That was a question. - Sorry.
- What's going on in there? - The room?
- Yeah. - It's full. They were lined up an hour ago.
These satellite people better know what the hell they're doing.
- They know what they're doing, right? - The uplink? It's all set.
'Cause I'm not stalling for them while they get their act together.
- We're right on schedule. - Will you stop?
I'm beautiful, okay? Enough. Thank you.
What the hell is so important in there? What are you looking at?
Howard Tully.
He's calling an emergency press conference for 8:00 tomorrow morning in New York.
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, shareholders,
let's have a warm Equikrom welcome
to the man whose personal vision and will to win
has turned this company into the market leader it is today.
Join me in welcoming our Chief Executive Officer, Dick Garsik!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Whoa, whoa, thank you, thank you.
Oh, my goodness gracious, thank you so much.
God, you people are out of your minds.
$35 million.
These are the escrow certificates of deposit.
These are the corresponding wire transfer codes.
These are the account numbers and an authorized schedule of payment.
RICHARD: Now, you know, everybody here who knows me
can tell you that there are three things that I really don't like.
I don't like any kind of controversy.
I can't stand being the center of attention.
But, you know, most of all,
I think you all know how much I hate rushing into things.
RICHARD: Now, folks, for the past few years,
we have had a highly secret, special research unit
that has been working on something that we like to call Project Samson.
But you know what these scientists are like, right?
They're all over me. They're like, "Please, Dick,
"slow down, be patient, be careful.
"Dick! Dick, please, we haven't published our results yet. Dick!"
I say to hell with that!
No. I say... I say to hell with hiding our light under a basket.
I say, "You know what, guys?
"I'm meeting with my shareholders and these people have got a right to know
"the incredible future that we have got planned for this company!"
RICHARD: Yeah!
Come on!
Now, folks, I'm here today to announce that we are in the final testing stages
of a safe, over-the-counter, home-use shampoo product,
a product that can restore life to formerly dead hair follicles.
Ladies and gentlemen, shareholders, yes!
Equikrom is in the home stretch on a cure for baldness!
We got it.
RICHARD: That's right, we got it!
You!
You're gonna need it, pal! Look at you!
Dick! Dick! Dick! Dick! - Dick! Dick! Dick! Dick!
Is there a problem?
- Are you testing us? - Excuse me?
- Or perhaps you think this is a joke. - I don't understand.
Yes, apparently not.
This formula is nothing but a common skin cream.
Sorry, a lotion.
I'm so sorry. I just... Just what?
I'm drawing a blank. Nice try.
A little professional courtesy would make this a lot less awkward.
How do I know you? How do you know me?
Wow, that's a strong play.
Believe me, I've spent a lot of time thinking what this would be like,
where we'd be, what I'd say, what you'd say.
But I never...
You can cut me off there any time you like.
- Sorry. I spaced out. - Okay. So?
- You wanna start over? - No, no. Just go from there.
- Can I have a sip of that? - Go.
You clearly have me confused with someone else.
I don't know. I mean, I'm not great on names. I should be. I try.
Faces, I'm definitely better. Faces, I'm like a B, B minus.
Where I'm good, people I've screwed. That's a real area of strength for me.
Wrong.
- That was perfect. - It's "people I've slept with."
- And I like "traditional." - What do you mean?
"That's been a traditional area of strength for me."
People I've slept with. That's been a traditional area of strength for me.
That's nicer.
Look, seriously, I don't know who you think I am, but...
- You're gonna enunciate, right? - What?
You've gotta really speak up.
So you're, like, directing me now?
You wanna go out there tomorrow and have them not hear it?
You are directing me.
No, I'm just filling a gap in the chain of command.
Well, come back here and say that.
Claire, come on. We're doing this for real in less than 12 hours.
I know. It's just this whole thing makes me think about Rome,
and when I think about Rome, I think about you and...
Let's just do it one more time.
when I think about you, I can barely enunciate.
- One more time without the robe. I don't work naked.
You know I know it. So show me.
You show me.
Look, let's just do it all the way through.
RAY O VER SPEAKER: From the top, one more time, and then I'll take off the robe.
CLAIRE: If you love me, you'll do it without the robe, now.
RAY: Okay. From the top. No robe.
RAY: Remember me?
CLAIRE: Sure. Of course. We... RAY: Long time, huh?
CLAIRE: Yes. I'm... RAY: Gotcha.
CLAIRE: Look, I'm sorry. Really, I just... RAY: Sorry. Sorry.
CLAIRE: I'm just drawing a blank here.
RAY: You're drawing what?
CLAIRE: Excuse me?
Perfect. They're perfect!
Does that mean we're a go, sir?
Or we could spend another year looking for ways to bait this trap,
and we wouldn't come up with anything even close.
They're perfect. What a way to walk this in.
I'm only asking. We made sure she found the speech.
JEFF: The rough draft. We let her find it this afternoon.
But we could still stall a little bit if we need to tighten things up.
Once it's activated, Howard, we're in.
It's gonna be impossible to call back the troops.
No. No, no, no, no. We're not stalling anymore.
- So is this everything? - Yes, sir.
So the speech... Here is your final copy.
HOWARD: the details, the very existence of this project
must be so carefully protected.
The rough draft that we prepped with you last week is in play.
DALE: This is starting to look pretty good.
DUKE: I can't even tell them apart. Which one is the new one?
For the travel records, the Dunwoody material,
we've logged about 200 false-flag travel orders.
Formavale? Damned if I know. Some kind of biotech.
Cars, planes, hotels, everything. Then we buried them in the actual files.
- And when they start digging? - They find Ronnie.
Yes. And there's a plane waiting to take me back to the Bahamas
once we're done here tonight.
This is my high school yearbook.
And the transcripts.
RICHARD: You gotta stop waltzing around,
and you have got to get on this guy.
So we take Ronnie's reality until two years ago
and we lay in our story on top.
PHYSEC 1: We started turning on the lights.
We heard some scurrying around, we had a little foot race.
It took a couple of minutes, but we found him down here
hiding under the desk.
The trips to Dunwoody,
the background on the Formavale acquisitions,
the midnight load-outs, it's all in place and ready to go.
Great work. Inspiring. Incredible.
This is more fun than if we really had it.
Ten days, that's the deadline.
Garsik has his shareholder meeting in 10 days.
Light the fuse. Put it in play.
Don't. Don't what?
Don't say it. Say what?
I know what you're thinking.
You're wondering if I gave you a bogus formula.
You're thinking maybe I've got the real one stashed someplace else.
That's sick, even for you.
But it crossed your mind.
- That's why I get the big bucks. - Because I would never do that.
- Because you love me. - Exactly.
Mr. Koval and Miss Stenwick?
Read it.
"Compliments of Howard Tully."
- We got totally played, didn't we? - Yep.
Must go pretty far back.
- Like... - Way back.
I guess on a strictly professional level, it's...
Impressive.
- I mean... - Yeah.
At least we have each other.
- It really is that bad, isn't it? - Kind of, yeah.
- I didn't mean... - I know.
- I can't breathe. - You'll be okay.
- When? - After we wake up in Rome.
I might have to wake up in Rome for a long time.
Sounds like a plan.
- CROWD: Dick! Dick! Dick! Dick! - Dick! Dick! Dick! Dick!
- Dick! Dick! Dick! Dick!
I won't begin to understand
How I just found the perfect man
Where have you been hiding out?
You're deadly
You turn me on You spun me out
You know just what I'm all about
I've got my eyes all over you You're tricky
Now I see
How life could be A scent so sweet
You've got me falling
Being bad never felt so good
Being bad never felt so good, my dear
I never lie or never cheat
Unless I think it will make you see
Precisely what it is I need from you, babe
A perfect match A naughty game
Please, I never want to be the same
A perfect sin you've got me in your web's maze
Now I see how life could be
You are so sweet
You've got me falling
Being bad never felt so good
Being bad never felt so good, my dear
Being bad never felt so good
Being bad never felt so good, my dear
Oh! Being bad
I love being bad
Being bad never felt so good
Never felt so good