2. Dead Cat Bounce (第2季)【完整台词】

She's gonna fire me.

Shit.

Dake.

Oh, it's a lot of things over years.

But the stain of this investigation has hobbled me politically.

I got no back channel out of this.

You gotta prove your loyalty, then, show her you're a soldier.

Yeah.

I thought about that.

A new case the administration smiles on.

Let the General take the credit, sure, but there's just no fucking time.

The A.

G.

's got a lot of enemies, Chuck.

Take out an enemy a big, hard-to-kill one.

It's tough to fire you then.

Finding the right target might be enough.

One so gaudy, so outlandishly difficult to bring down that my replacement would certainly fail.

[] How much time do you have? Three days.

[groans] [chuckles softly] [telephone rings in distance] Do you know what this is about? Starting immediately, you have a new mandate.

Find me a case that's screaming for justice.

One that no one else would have the courage to take on even if no, especially if it seems impossible to win.

Where do we begin? I want to kick into the C-suites those Teflon corporations that defraud the American people on a grand scale.

No one was ever prosecuted for the financial crisis, no.

When we went after Wall Street, we got what we could get rogue traders, chip shots.

That ends today.

Anything else you can say that would narrow the target? You want us to get back up on Axe Capital? - Um, we know that they're - No, no.

Steer wide around Axe Capital for now.

That's not gonna help.

Help what? [] Be creative.

I look forward to your ideas, and I want them in 24 hours.

Why's he want an impossible case? It's hinky.

I'm gonna steer wide around all of it.

[Mafee] Hey, Axe, you know what today is? It's fuck Todd Krakow in the ear day.

Why do you think I'd want to do that? That panel was Godzilla versus Mothra.

Do you have a plan? Or are we just gonna jump him and break his kneecaps when he gets out of his McLaren? Okay, so Krakow's been running his mouth about China, right? I You can tell the way he talks.

- The way he talks? - Yeah.

Last year, he said, "watching factories grow.

" It made me wonder, "How's he seeing this?" Really, Mafee? You expect me to believe you suddenly swapped Ali G reruns for videos of Todd Krakow's speeches on China? Okay.

My analyst caught it.

Yeah.

Then get him in here.

[] [indistinct office murmuring] [door closes] Hello.

I'm Taylor.

My pronouns are they, theirs, and them.

Okay.

You have two minutes.

After your dispute with Krakow, I presumed roiling antipathy, so I catalogued all of his public statements going back two years.

In January 2016, Krakow's tone on China changed more bullish, omniscient, which led me to think satellite images.

[Bobby] So what? All the big funds are using satellite images.

How many cars are in the parking lot at Walmart indicates how big a quarter they're gonna have.

But this, let me see.

You found out which satellite company Krakow uses.

[Taylor] AR Metrics.

Assuming Krakow would be the biggest user [Bobby] Their most-viewed images, and you deduced that's what he's been looking at.

A microchip factory in the Pearl River Delta.

[Bobby] And now you know what he knows.

Since you're in my office, you think you know what he doesn't.

China's not just cooking the books, they're going full Iron Chef with that shit.

Everyone knows that, Mafee.

Then why is Krakow long? Come on, time's almost up.

What happened in January 2016? The Chinese factory went from totally dormant to bustling with trucking activity.

Which meant foreign investment followed.

But tell me what really happened.

An article came out on satellite-detected discrepancies between Chinese sites and what had been reported by government statistics.

[Bobby] And after that, they knew they were being watched, so the trucks started moving a show for the satellites.

Factory's a fake.

It's a shell to milk investors.

And what is the next move? - Short the - I asked Taylor.

Short the Chinese parent company Krakow's invested in.

It's not good enough.

As Chanos says, China's a pig on LSD you never know which way it's gonna run.

So who is this fake factory supposed to be supplying? What does this ripple out into? You find that, you find Krakow's real investment.

[] How long you been here? Three months.

I'm leaving in two weeks for grad school.

I'm an intern.

[door opens, closes] [door closes] How did everything go? Salutations, my dear.

Oh.

Um I think Chuck's working tonight.

I wanted to talk to you.

Pas devant.

We'll see you tomorrow.

[babysitter] I know what pas devant means.

[door opens, closes] I was looking for some cufflinks I lent my son, but I couldn't find them in the bedroom.

You were in my bedroom? And most of Chuck's suits seem to be gone from the closet.

You didn't come out to Brooklyn for cufflinks.

Is Chuck living at the Yale Club? Some gal in accounting messed up, sent me a charge for a breakfast on a day that I was not there.

So I asked for the chits, and it was Chuck's signature on the line at 6:30 a.

m.

Yes, we've separated for now.

And you've kept it from me.

I asked Chuck directly, but he denied it.

He lies better than I do.

This is idiocy.

[sighs] And to think we didn't come running to you with the news.

Because I would tell you the truth.

This is selfish, destructive to your children.

We're not uprooting the kids.

They're staying in the house.

Chuck spends three nights a week with them.