0:00:02 > 0:00:09This programme contains very strong language.
0:00:11 > 0:00:14(KEYS RATTLE)
0:00:14 > 0:00:17(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)
0:00:17 > 0:00:20(MAN) 'Michael. Dear Michael.'
0:00:20 > 0:00:23'Of course it's you. Who else could they send?'
0:00:23 > 0:00:26'I know it's a long way and you're ready to go to work,
0:00:26 > 0:00:29all I'm saying is wait, just please hear me out.'
0:00:29 > 0:00:33'This is not an episode, relapse, fuck up.'
0:00:33 > 0:00:35'I'm begging you, Michael, I'm begging you!'
0:00:35 > 0:00:39'Try to make believe this is not just madness,
0:00:39 > 0:00:41because this IS NOT just madness.'
0:00:41 > 0:00:44'Two weeks ago, I came out of the building, OK?'
0:00:44 > 0:00:46'I'm running, there's a car waiting.'
0:00:46 > 0:00:50'I got 38 minutes to get to airport, and I'm dictating.'
0:00:50 > 0:00:53'There's this panicked associate sprinting beside me,
0:00:53 > 0:00:55and suddenly she starts screaming.'
0:00:55 > 0:00:58'And I realise we're in the middle of the street,
0:00:58 > 0:01:02the light's changed and there's traffic speeding towards us.'
0:01:02 > 0:01:04'And I freeze. I can't move.'
0:01:04 > 0:01:08'I'm consumed with the sensation that I'm covered with some film.'
0:01:08 > 0:01:13'And it's in my hair, in my face, like a glaze, like a coating.'
0:01:13 > 0:01:16'And... At first I thought, "My God, I know what this is."'
0:01:16 > 0:01:19'"This is some sort of amniotic fluid."'
0:01:19 > 0:01:22'"I'm drenched in afterbirth. I've been reborn."'
0:01:22 > 0:01:27'But then the traffic, the stampede, the cars, the horns, the screaming,
0:01:27 > 0:01:31and I'm thinking, "No, reset. This is not rebirth."'
0:01:31 > 0:01:34'"This is some kind of giddy illusion of renewal
0:01:34 > 0:01:36in the final moment before death."'
0:01:36 > 0:01:40'And then, I realise, "No, no, no, this is completely wrong",
0:01:40 > 0:01:42because I looked back at the building
0:01:42 > 0:01:45and I had the most stunning moment of clarity.'
0:01:45 > 0:01:49'I-I-I realised, Michael, that I had emerged,
0:01:49 > 0:01:52not through the doors of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen,
0:01:52 > 0:01:55not through the portals of our vast and powerful law firm,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58but from the asshole of an organism
0:01:58 > 0:02:01whose sole function is to excrete
0:02:01 > 0:02:04the poison, the ammo, the defoliant,
0:02:04 > 0:02:07necessary for larger, more powerful organisms
0:02:07 > 0:02:10to destroy the miracle of humanity.'
0:02:10 > 0:02:13'And that I had been coated in this
0:02:13 > 0:02:16patina of shit for the best part of my life.'
0:02:16 > 0:02:20'The stench and stain of it would take the rest of my life to undo.'
0:02:20 > 0:02:24'Know what I did? I took a deep breath and set that notion aside.'
0:02:24 > 0:02:27'I said to myself, "As clear as this may be,
0:02:27 > 0:02:31as potent a feeling as this is, as true a thing as I believe
0:02:31 > 0:02:33that I have witnessed today, it must wait."'
0:02:33 > 0:02:36'"It must stand the test of time."'
0:02:36 > 0:02:39'And, Michael, the time is now.'
0:02:39 > 0:02:42(CHATTERING)
0:02:42 > 0:02:44I'm not sure what else I can tell you.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47"Tell me about U/North, Barry, they're your clients,
0:02:47 > 0:02:51tell me why you're settling a six-year case on a fly at midnight,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54cos I'm writing this story whether you like it or not."
0:02:54 > 0:02:57- What does that exactly mean? - "Give me something I can print!"
0:03:04 > 0:03:06We found 97.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16I've got that cunt from The Wall Street Journal on my cell.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18She will not go away.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24- Marty Bach. How can I help you? - "Hi, it's Bridget Klein."
0:03:24 > 0:03:27"We're doing a story about a settlement in the U/North case."
0:03:27 > 0:03:29"You want to comment?"
0:03:29 > 0:03:32That case is now, as it has been for the past six years,
0:03:32 > 0:03:34pending and unresolved.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37Till such time as our client has their day in court,
0:03:37 > 0:03:41or the plaintiffs drop the suit, I'll have nothing to tell you.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45"You're closing the U/North case. You're settling. I know that."
0:03:45 > 0:03:48"I know you're up there jamming this thing through."
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Your deadline was 20 minutes ago.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54You're fishing for a story, or trying not to write a retraction.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56In either case, best of luck.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59Where the fuck is Karen Crowder?
0:04:03 > 0:04:06(SIGHS)
0:04:07 > 0:04:10(BREATHES HEAVILY)
0:04:19 > 0:04:22(DOOR CLOSES)
0:04:30 > 0:04:34(ASIAN RADIO STATION PLAYS)
0:04:46 > 0:04:48I'll see the turn.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Check.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59- Check. - Check.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03- Half the pot. 200. - (DEALER) 200 to go.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18You don't remember me, huh? We played together a couple of times.
0:05:18 > 0:05:23That lamp place on Bowery. That showroom? All the lamps and shit?
0:05:23 > 0:05:26- The Galaxy. - That's it.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29You had a restaurant you were opening, right?
0:05:29 > 0:05:33My old partner bid that job, the plumbing.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35- You don't remember me? - I remember you.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38I lost a lot of weight since then.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41You bought some hair, too.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43With your money.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48So, what happened with the bar? You just had to be a rock star, huh?
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Shit, man. I want to listen to Larry King,
0:05:51 > 0:05:54- I go home and put the fucking TV on. - That was a good location.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58Yeah, that's what my partner kept telling me.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02- (PHONE RINGS) - Action's on you. I bet the pot.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Good to see you again.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37(PHONE RINGS)
0:06:38 > 0:06:39- Hello? - "Michael."
0:06:39 > 0:06:42- Walter. - "Michael, thank God, there you are."
0:06:42 > 0:06:44"I got a situation, a big problem."
0:06:44 > 0:06:47"A client of mine just called. He hit a guy with his car."
0:06:47 > 0:06:50- "He thinks he hit him." - Just now?
0:06:50 > 0:06:54"Yeah, just now. 10, 15 minutes ago. He's driving home."
0:06:54 > 0:06:56- "He's home now. He's there waiting."- Where?
0:06:56 > 0:07:01- "Westchester. I'm down in Bermuda. He just got me up."- Is he drunk?
0:07:01 > 0:07:04"No. It's the first thing I asked him. He's sober."
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Tell him to stay off the phone.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09"But you're on it, you can get up there?"
0:07:09 > 0:07:12"This guy is a huge client. This guy is half my book."
0:07:12 > 0:07:14I'm walking to the car right now.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17"Let me call him back and I'll get the address."
0:07:17 > 0:07:21"Let me know you're on the way, I'll get back to you with the details."
0:07:21 > 0:07:23All right. I'll be in the car.
0:08:14 > 0:08:19What they did, they changed the grade. They widened the street.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22I'm sure somebody told them that was an improvement.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26But now, when it rains and there's fog, and with this new angle...
0:08:26 > 0:08:30And they've got these new, uh, these, these...
0:08:30 > 0:08:34sodium lamps, it's blinding, that corner is just blinding.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38- They'll have to work that out.- It's not tonight. I said this for years.
0:08:38 > 0:08:43How many times have we talked about that corner? Dell?
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Mr Greer, we don't have much time.
0:08:45 > 0:08:50So, the circumstances, the road conditions hold no interest for you?
0:08:50 > 0:08:54What interests me is finding a strong criminal attorney
0:08:54 > 0:08:58- that can be here in 15 minutes. - Well... that sounds ominous.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01We've some good relationships in Westchester.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04So, what are you? What are you? You're not a lawyer?
0:09:04 > 0:09:06- Not the kind you need. - What is that?
0:09:06 > 0:09:10A trial lawyer who can see this all the way. That's not what I do.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13OK. I think we're going to have to pull Walter back in on this.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16I want to get Walter back on the phone and into the mix.
0:09:16 > 0:09:20Because, I'll be frank with you, I don't like the way this is going.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23We don't have time for him. Your options are going to get smaller.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26What options? I'm not hearing any!
0:09:26 > 0:09:30I'm suggesting you go local. There are people here that I like for this.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33That's it? That's what you got for me? Hey, you believe this?
0:09:33 > 0:09:37I've been a client for 12 years! D'you think I've paid that retainer
0:09:37 > 0:09:40to get a place at the back of the line?
0:09:40 > 0:09:43Mr Greer, you left the scene of an accident on a slow week night,
0:09:43 > 0:09:46six miles from the State Police barracks.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48If there's a line, you're right up front.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51I can get a lawyer any time. I don't need you for that!
0:09:51 > 0:09:55We're not sitting for 45 minutes waiting for a goddamn referral!
0:09:55 > 0:09:58- I don't know what Walter promised you, but -- A miracle worker.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02That's Walter on the phone, 20 minutes ago. Direct quote, OK?
0:10:02 > 0:10:05- "I'm sending you a miracle worker." - He misspoke.- About what?
0:10:05 > 0:10:08That you're the firm's fixer? Or that you're good?
0:10:08 > 0:10:10- Elliot. - Shh!
0:10:10 > 0:10:13The guy was running! In the street!
0:10:13 > 0:10:17You take that, you add the fog, you add the-the lamps, the angle.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22What is he doing running in the middle of the street at midnight?
0:10:22 > 0:10:25- You answer me that! - (GLASS SMASHES)
0:10:37 > 0:10:40What if someone had stolen the car?
0:10:41 > 0:10:44Huh? Happens all the time.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47Cops like hit-and-runs, they work 'em hard, clear 'em fast.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51Right now there's a BCI unit pulling paint chips off a guard rail.
0:10:51 > 0:10:57Tomorrow they'll look for the owner of a custom-painted Jaguar XJ-12.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59And the guy you hit?
0:10:59 > 0:11:02If he got a look at the plates, it won't even take that long.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05(PHONE RINGS)
0:11:05 > 0:11:07There's no play here.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10There's no angle. No champagne room. (RINGING CONTINUES)
0:11:10 > 0:11:14I'm not a miracle worker, I'm a janitor. The math on this is simple.
0:11:14 > 0:11:18The smaller the mess, the easier it is for me to clean up.
0:11:18 > 0:11:23- (RINGING CONTINUES) - That's the... police, isn't it?
0:11:23 > 0:11:25No.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27They don't call.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Hello.
0:11:33 > 0:11:38Jerry, it's Michael Clayton. Yeah, look, I'm sorry to wake you up.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41No. I'm in the neighbourhood.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43You got a pen?
0:13:52 > 0:13:55(HORSES WHINNY)
0:14:37 > 0:14:39(HORSES BRAY)
0:15:16 > 0:15:19Mom, where's my cards?
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Where's my cards?
0:15:39 > 0:15:42- Is my other deck in here? - Did you eat?
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Dad's down there waiting already.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47- Cards are in our bathroom. - Yes, I had a waffle.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51- Since we're out of waffles, how's that possible?- It's a miracle.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57- Gloves? - (DOOR SLAMS)
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Henry!
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Come on.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Get in.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16You got it?
0:16:22 > 0:16:27No-one's even sure where they are cos there's no borders or landmarks.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30And the town? It's not even a town really.
0:16:30 > 0:16:34It's this camp where all these people have gathered to hide.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38- Right.- All these deserters and guys that got cut off from their armies.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42They're hiding in the woods and trying to stay alive.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44This is where they all came.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47There's Thieves, Gray Mages, Unbidden Warriors, Dark Avians,
0:16:47 > 0:16:51Riverwynders and Sappers, like 15 different characters, OK?
0:16:51 > 0:16:54- OK. - And nobody has any alliances.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57You can't even say who you are cos you don't know,
0:16:57 > 0:17:02maybe the person you're talking to is your mortal enemy in the wars.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06- So it's just completely everybody for themselves.- Sounds familiar.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09It's really good. I'm serious. You should read it.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12But by the time I finish it, you'll be on to something else.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15- How much you want to bet? - How much you got?
0:17:15 > 0:17:18- Got your bus pass? - It's in my locker.
0:17:18 > 0:17:23- You're not even going to look at it, are you?- The book?- Yes.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26- Bring it on Saturday.- I did already. I left it in your kitchen.
0:17:26 > 0:17:31- It's got a red cover. - OK. Well, here we go.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34Go! Teach these people something, would you?
0:17:34 > 0:17:37(CHILDREN CHATTER)
0:17:37 > 0:17:40- See you later, Dad. - Yeah, kiddo.
0:17:42 > 0:17:43Thanks.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53Lot number 52, assorted mixing bowls, assorted sizes.
0:17:53 > 0:17:5630 to start. 30 I have now.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59I got 40. And 50 now. I have 60 back there.
0:17:59 > 0:18:0160. 70? I got 70 here.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05- 70, I have now.- Here. - 80, this gentleman here.
0:18:05 > 0:18:0980, I have now. 90. Give me 100. 100 I have now.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12100 I have now. 100.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Sold. 100 to number eight.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16(AUCTIONEER CONTINUES)
0:18:20 > 0:18:23He says you're still going to be short.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30- How short? - 60. Plus the point 75,000.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33- That's liquor and everything? - What'd you think it was going to be?
0:18:33 > 0:18:36I don't know. Less. 30, 20.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39He took 1,500 on a refrigerator I paid four grand for.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Make a bid.
0:18:42 > 0:18:48- Are you telling me you don't have the 75,000?- Just lying around, no.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53- We both know I should be talking to your brother.- Forget that.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57Michael, look. If you want to front this, that's up to you.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01But Timmy's name stays in the book till we're clear.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05If I know where he is, I don't have to keep asking.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09He's upstate. His wife took him back. I don't know where he is.
0:19:09 > 0:19:13- He's got to have something. - He's got the two kids with her.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16He's got Jennifer, the coke-dealing waitress that he knocked up.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20He's got four Michelin Radials that he stole from my sister's garage.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Make an offer.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30I had a wife who was a drunk. A beautiful girl, a young girl.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35Live like that? Even if they do a programme. She did once, two years.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39And then they slip, forget it. It's like you're strapped to a bomb.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43- What's my time frame here? - (SIGHS)
0:19:43 > 0:19:46I don't know. I didn't think it'd be a problem.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50I'll ask.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18- Hey, Michael. - Morning, Carl.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Look, Del, I don't know how hard you want me to press here.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31How brave does he want to be?
0:20:31 > 0:20:36"I'm not sure. We got a hearing scheduled for end of the month."
0:20:36 > 0:20:39- Does she know that? - "It was in the paper. Who knows?"
0:20:39 > 0:20:42"Maybe she got someone to read it to her."
0:20:42 > 0:20:46"She called his wife yesterday. This is a nightmare."
0:20:46 > 0:20:49- She'll want to hang onto the condo. - "That's insane."
0:20:49 > 0:20:52What can I tell you? Don't piss off a motivated stripper.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54"She's unbelievable."
0:20:54 > 0:20:58Find out his pain threshold and get back to me. Tell him to call me.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02- "All right, let me get into it." - All right. OK. Thanks.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06- Hey, where are we with Marty? - We left word.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10- Hold on. Go back. How old is the kid? - "He's not a kid. He's 22."
0:21:10 > 0:21:12- This is Miami? - "No. Key Biscayne."
0:21:12 > 0:21:17- And they charged him. - "Reckless endangerment."
0:21:17 > 0:21:22"I think what they want, they want a reality check on the attorney."
0:21:22 > 0:21:25- Yeah.- "Wayne said you had some connections."
0:21:25 > 0:21:28- Yeah, let me get a pen. - "Thank you."
0:21:29 > 0:21:31If she calls the INS, she'll get nowhere.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35- "Even with the appointment?" - It's like the DMV over there.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39Unless they get a call from a district supervisor, nobody moves.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41- "Your guy can do that?" - He's a former Commissioner.
0:21:41 > 0:21:46- "None of this comes back to me?" - No, I'm going to be the one asking.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49- "Can you hang on a minute?" - Yeah, sure.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55Are we merging? Marty Bach's in London.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57They said he was in Atlanta,
0:21:57 > 0:22:00then Lara said he was in the building, so I called.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Now she tells me the truth. He's really in London.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05- (PHONE RINGS) - So, are we merging?
0:22:05 > 0:22:10- Everybody's saying, all these Brits, it's for real.- Like I would know.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12I don't know.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15But if we are, if they merged, it wouldn't affect us, right?
0:22:15 > 0:22:18(RINGING CONTINUES) Your phone's ringing.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Evan?
0:22:20 > 0:22:26Hey, OK, I'll call him and set up a meeting for next week.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29I'll walk her in, make the introduction...
0:22:29 > 0:22:33'At the moment, U/North currently has 70,000 employees
0:22:33 > 0:22:35in 62 countries around the world...'
0:22:36 > 0:22:38'..around the planet.'
0:22:39 > 0:22:43'Operating in 62 countries around the planet.'
0:22:44 > 0:22:49At work in... more than 60 countries around the globe.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54We have... We have right now... We have...
0:22:54 > 0:22:57At U/North right now, we've got 75,000 employees
0:22:57 > 0:23:00in over 60 countries around the planet.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03We're a successful and highly diversified company
0:23:03 > 0:23:06so you can imagine the volume and variety
0:23:06 > 0:23:09of legal issues we deal with is...
0:23:09 > 0:23:11Overwhelming.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13It's just enormous.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17So you can imagine the volume of legal issues.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20It's quite substantial.
0:23:20 > 0:23:25And as General Counsel, what I do, what our in-house department does,
0:23:25 > 0:23:31is to analyse the dimension of the problem or the opportunity
0:23:31 > 0:23:34to determine the jurisdiction and to outsource our business
0:23:34 > 0:23:39to those firms and talents that we think can help us the most.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42'So with that pressure and workload,
0:23:42 > 0:23:45how do you keep a balance between work and life?'
0:23:45 > 0:23:49- Balance? - (BOTH LAUGH)
0:23:49 > 0:23:51I think that's...
0:23:51 > 0:23:56that's something you search for your whole life, isn't it? Um...
0:23:56 > 0:23:59It's a shifting balance, really.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02It's, er,... you know, you try to...
0:24:02 > 0:24:07When you really are enjoying what you do, who needs balance?
0:24:07 > 0:24:10There's your balance.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14When you're really enjoying what it is you do, there is your balance.
0:24:14 > 0:24:19When Don asked me to take... When... Don Jeffries...
0:24:19 > 0:24:22Don Jeffries brought me in here 12 years ago,
0:24:22 > 0:24:28trusted me, mentored me, welcomed me into the U/North family.
0:24:29 > 0:24:33When he moved up to the boardroom, I never really dreamt
0:24:33 > 0:24:36that I would have the opportunity to move into his position.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40But is it challenging? Yes.
0:24:40 > 0:24:45I think it's possible that the first few months were a little shaky.
0:24:45 > 0:24:50Then you realise you've been taught to be ready and you take the helm.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54Because if you're not comfortable with that level of responsibility,
0:24:54 > 0:24:57you're in the wrong place. It's your department,
0:24:57 > 0:25:00your capacity to make tough decisions in real time...
0:25:02 > 0:25:05- We're in the middle of an interview. - They said it was urgent.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11Jesus! Oh, for Christ's sake.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15You're saying he did this in...?
0:25:15 > 0:25:19- Oh, my God. - Barry.- Hang on.
0:25:19 > 0:25:24Arthur Edens just stripped naked in a deposition room in Milwaukee.
0:25:26 > 0:25:31'Michael, I took a deep breath and set that notion aside.'
0:25:31 > 0:25:34'I said to myself, "As clear as this may be,
0:25:34 > 0:25:37as potent a feeling as this is, as true a thing as I believe
0:25:37 > 0:25:40that I have witnessed today, it must wait."'
0:25:40 > 0:25:42'"It must stand the test of time."'
0:25:42 > 0:25:45'And, Michael, the time is now.'
0:25:45 > 0:25:49'This moment, today, here, this room, this air,
0:25:49 > 0:25:53and this, especially this, Michael, that you're here.'
0:25:53 > 0:25:57'There's a reason. A reason it's you, Michael.'
0:25:57 > 0:26:02'Surely, you have sense that, how it pulls together, how it gathers.'
0:26:02 > 0:26:05'Nurse Michael, the secret hero, the keeper of the hidden sins.'
0:26:05 > 0:26:07'Tell me you can see that, Michael.'
0:26:07 > 0:26:10But, I... Yeah, yes, yes!
0:26:10 > 0:26:15The nudity, the parking lot, I admit it. It-It-It was a mistake.
0:26:15 > 0:26:19It was wrong, lame. It was obvious. And therapeutically, it was useless.
0:26:19 > 0:26:23Because I swear I could stand here and tear off my fucking skin,
0:26:23 > 0:26:27and I could not get down to where this thing is living!
0:26:27 > 0:26:31Six years, Michael. Six years I've absorbed this poison.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35400 depositions, 100 motions, five changes of venue,
0:26:35 > 0:26:3785,000 documents in discovery.
0:26:37 > 0:26:41Six years of scheming and stalling and screaming, and what have I got?
0:26:41 > 0:26:46I've spent 12% of my life defending a deadly weed killer!
0:26:46 > 0:26:49- We had an agreement, Arthur. - One night, right?
0:26:49 > 0:26:52I look up and see Marty in my office. He's got some champagne.
0:26:52 > 0:26:57Says we hit 30,000 billable hours on U/North, he wants to celebrate.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00An hour later, I find myself in a whorehouse in Chelsea
0:27:00 > 0:27:04with two Lithuanian redheads taking turns sucking my dick.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07And I-I'm laying there and I'm trying not to come,
0:27:07 > 0:27:10and I want to make it last, so I start doing the math.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13I think, "30,000 hours, what is that? That's 24 times 30."
0:27:13 > 0:27:18"That's 720 hours in a month, 8,760 hours in a year."
0:27:18 > 0:27:20- Arthur! - No, wait! Wait!
0:27:20 > 0:27:24Because it's years! It's lives!
0:27:24 > 0:27:28The numbers are making me dizzy and now instead of trying not to come,
0:27:28 > 0:27:32I'm trying not to think, and I can't stop. I mean, is this me?
0:27:32 > 0:27:36Am I this freak organism that's been sent here to sleep and eat
0:27:36 > 0:27:40and defend this one horrific chain of carcinogenic molecules?
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Is that my destiny? Is that my fate?
0:27:43 > 0:27:45- You promised me. - Is that it, Michael?
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Is that my grail? Two Lithuanian mouths on my cock?
0:27:48 > 0:27:51The answer to the multiple choice of me?
0:27:51 > 0:27:54You want to go off your medication, you call me first.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56- That was our agreement! - Sue me!
0:27:56 > 0:28:01- We OK in there? - We're fine. We're fine.
0:28:04 > 0:28:09They killed them, Michael. Those small farms, the family farms.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13- Did you... Did you... Did you meet Anna?- No.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16You gotta see her, talk to her. She's a miracle, Michael.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18She's God's perfect little creature.
0:28:18 > 0:28:22And for 50 million in fees I've spent 12% of my life
0:28:22 > 0:28:25destroying perfect Anna, her dead parents and her dying brother.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28- When did you last take one? - I'm not losing this.
0:28:28 > 0:28:33Everything's significant. Beautiful. I'm not trading that for this.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36- If it's real, the pill won't kill it. - I have blood on my hands.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40You're the senior partner of one of the largest law firms in the world.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42- You are a legend. - I'm an accomplice!
0:28:42 > 0:28:47- You're a manic-depressive. - I am Shiva, the god of death.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50Let's get out of Milwaukee, we'll talk about it.
0:28:51 > 0:28:56"We came back from the hospital and everybody was crying,
0:28:56 > 0:29:00and we were in shock, but we still had to milk."
0:29:00 > 0:29:04- "The cows won't wait, will they?" - "No."
0:29:04 > 0:29:07"And when you went to the barn?"
0:29:07 > 0:29:10"We found the note. My sister found it."
0:29:10 > 0:29:12- "From your mother?" - "Yes."
0:29:12 > 0:29:14"Could you read it for us?"
0:29:14 > 0:29:19"Just read the third paragraph, just the highlighted section there."
0:29:19 > 0:29:23- "Don't blame Ned Hardy or any..." - "Anna."
0:29:23 > 0:29:27- "Anna..." - "It's all right, Anna, go on."
0:29:27 > 0:29:29- "I'm just -" - "Excuse me."
0:29:29 > 0:29:34- "(CHATTERS)"- "What's he doing? No! This is testimony."
0:29:34 > 0:29:38- "Excuse me, I have an objection!" - "You can be a witness here."
0:29:38 > 0:29:42- "I am not a witness to this!" - "Anna, I love you!"
0:29:42 > 0:29:45"And I... I'm sitting here..."
0:29:45 > 0:29:49- "I'm listening to you and I swear -" - "He's undressing!"
0:29:49 > 0:29:53"I love you more than anything in the world. This is my moment."
0:29:53 > 0:29:56"This strange conference table moment."
0:29:56 > 0:29:59- "This... This... is my offering!" - "(SHOUTING)"
0:29:59 > 0:30:03- "I want this on the record!" - "How do you turn it off?"
0:30:03 > 0:30:06"My clothes are my offering. This is my shame."
0:30:06 > 0:30:10- "My credentials!" - "(SHOUTING)"
0:30:10 > 0:30:14"And I love you and I swear to God..."
0:30:20 > 0:30:22I guess that's it.
0:30:23 > 0:30:25(CLEARS THROAT)
0:30:29 > 0:30:33- When do we get Don?- She said to try back in half an hour.
0:30:33 > 0:30:37And how about the flights? What's the story at O'Hare?
0:30:37 > 0:30:40- Closed four minutes ago. - Shit!
0:30:41 > 0:30:44There is a foot of snow in Detroit already.
0:30:44 > 0:30:46Todd, could I get that coffee now?
0:30:48 > 0:30:53Who is this guy they sent from New York? Clayton. I never heard of him.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55Michael Raymond Clayton.
0:30:55 > 0:31:00'Born September 9, 1959, Saint Joseph's Hospital, Bronx, New York.
0:31:00 > 0:31:04'Father is NYPD patrolman, Raymond Xavier Clayton.
0:31:04 > 0:31:06'Mother, Alice Mary Clayton.
0:31:06 > 0:31:11'Graduates Washingtonville High School, Orange County, NY in 1977.
0:31:11 > 0:31:16'Graduates Saint John's University, 1980. Fordham Law, '82.
0:31:16 > 0:31:21''82 through '86, he's ADA with the Queens District Attorney's office.
0:31:21 > 0:31:26'1986, he's with the Manhattan- Queens Organised Crime Task Force.'
0:31:26 > 0:31:29And then in 1990, he starts at Kenner, Bach & Ledeen.
0:31:29 > 0:31:33- So he's a partner? - No. He's listed as Special Counsel.
0:31:33 > 0:31:36Says he specialises in wills and trusts.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40'He goes from criminal prosecution to wills and trusts?'
0:31:40 > 0:31:43'He's been there 17 years, he's not a partner?
0:31:43 > 0:31:45'This is the guy they send? Who is this guy?'
0:31:55 > 0:31:58(KNOCK ON DOOR)
0:31:58 > 0:32:01- Hi. - Close the door.
0:32:01 > 0:32:06All right. So, nobody, none of you had any idea he was coming?
0:32:06 > 0:32:08To Milwaukee? For a deposition?
0:32:08 > 0:32:11We thought there was some settlement. There's been rumours.
0:32:11 > 0:32:16OK. Look, it's very simple. Arthur has a chemical imbalance.
0:32:16 > 0:32:19He's fallen behind on his medication.
0:32:19 > 0:32:22He's back on the mend. He's going to be fine in four days.
0:32:22 > 0:32:24Now, I want to make this crystal clear.
0:32:24 > 0:32:28What happened stays in this room. This is not a piece of information
0:32:28 > 0:32:30that you want to be out in front of.
0:32:30 > 0:32:33Anybody has a problem with that, I need to know right now.
0:32:34 > 0:32:37All right. We're stuck here overnight.
0:32:37 > 0:32:40I'll take him home tomorrow if I can.
0:32:40 > 0:32:43- Who's in charge of the deposition schedule?- I am.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46- Where do we stand?- It's on hold. We didn't know what to do.
0:32:46 > 0:32:51Keep doing what you were planning. The other side can call New York.
0:32:51 > 0:32:54- I need his briefcase. - Arthur's? I... I didn't see it.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56He said it was in the room.
0:32:56 > 0:32:59- It might be the stuff Jody grabbed. - Find it.
0:33:04 > 0:33:09So, all these people, they all start having these dreams, OK?
0:33:09 > 0:33:13You know what a vision quest is? For like Navajos and stuff?
0:33:13 > 0:33:19'Yeah. I think so. Like a... like a special dream.'
0:33:19 > 0:33:23Except this is like a whole bunch of people having the same dream.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26They're dreaming that they should go to this one place.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28They don't know why or anything.
0:33:28 > 0:33:31They have this feeling that they have to go there.
0:33:31 > 0:33:36- 'That they've been summoned.' - That's the chapter.
0:33:36 > 0:33:39Seriously. That's what it's called, Summons To Conquest.
0:33:39 > 0:33:45Yeah, but do they know? Do they know they're all having the same dream?
0:33:45 > 0:33:50No. That's what's so cool. They all think it's just them.
0:33:50 > 0:33:54That maybe they're going crazy so they don't want to admit it.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56But they're not crazy, are they?
0:33:56 > 0:33:59"No. It's real. It's really happening."
0:33:59 > 0:34:03Yeah, it is happening, isn't it?
0:34:04 > 0:34:07It's something larger than themselves,
0:34:07 > 0:34:11and they're not ready, are they, to hear it?
0:34:11 > 0:34:15Yeah. But later they will. If you're going to read it, I won't spoil it.
0:34:15 > 0:34:16(DOOR OPENS)
0:34:16 > 0:34:19Who are you talking to?
0:34:19 > 0:34:22'I called my dad. It's his friend.'
0:34:22 > 0:34:24- 'Who? - Mr Edens. You don't know him.'
0:34:24 > 0:34:26- Hello? - 'Henry, it's after 11:00.'
0:34:26 > 0:34:30- 'I gotta get off now.' - No. Wait, wait, er,...
0:34:30 > 0:34:33The book. I need the book. The title.
0:34:33 > 0:34:36The book is Realm And Conquest.
0:34:36 > 0:34:39- 'Realm And Conquest.' - It's Book One with the red cover.
0:34:39 > 0:34:43- Henry, give me the phone. - I gotta go. Tell my dad I called.
0:34:43 > 0:34:48Yeah... yeah. Thank-Thank-Thank you, Henry. Thank you.
0:34:51 > 0:34:55Realm And Conquest. (Thank you.)
0:34:56 > 0:35:00(TV NOISE)
0:35:17 > 0:35:21- Karen? Hi, I'm Michael Clayton. - You're late.
0:35:21 > 0:35:24I know. Sorry, it was more complicated than we thought.
0:35:24 > 0:35:28- Where is he? We've been here since 5:30.- He's asleep.- Wake him up.
0:35:28 > 0:35:30Not going to happen. We got him sedated.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33Once he gets back on his regular medication,
0:35:33 > 0:35:36it's just a matter of time.
0:35:36 > 0:35:38- Have you seen the video? The tape? - I heard about it.
0:35:38 > 0:35:41What happened after is worse.
0:35:41 > 0:35:44This is in a parking lot. People running for their cars.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47He's there in his socks, nothing else.
0:35:47 > 0:35:51"I'm so sorry. I will not sit with this sickness any longer."
0:35:51 > 0:35:55"I cannot aid this sickness any longer." What does this mean?
0:35:55 > 0:36:00- I'm not sure.- You've been with him the whole evening. What's he saying?
0:36:00 > 0:36:04- He wasn't really making much sense. - This is totally unacceptable.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06This is a 3 billion class action lawsuit.
0:36:06 > 0:36:08In the morning, I have to call my board.
0:36:08 > 0:36:12I have to tell them that the architect of our defence
0:36:12 > 0:36:15has been arrested for running naked in a snowstorm
0:36:15 > 0:36:19- chasing the plaintiffs through a parking lot.- I understand.
0:36:19 > 0:36:22What sickness is he talking about?
0:36:22 > 0:36:25- I don't know. It could be anything. - Give me one.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28- Frostbite. - Do you think this is funny?
0:36:28 > 0:36:31His wife was sick and she died last year.
0:36:31 > 0:36:35His daughter doesn't talk to him. He's alone. All he does is your case.
0:36:35 > 0:36:38He skipped his pills, had a bad day. That's it.
0:36:38 > 0:36:40And you're the authority on this?
0:36:40 > 0:36:44His last episode was eight years ago. I was there.
0:36:44 > 0:36:48I helped bring him home, I watched him get better. That's it.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50You didn't hire him for his low-key regularity.
0:36:50 > 0:36:54You hired him because he's a killer, he's brilliant and crazy enough
0:36:54 > 0:36:57to grind away on this case for six years non-stop.
0:36:57 > 0:37:01- We pay for his time. - I thought you wanted an explanation.
0:37:01 > 0:37:05In the morning, I'm calling Marty Bach. But then you know that.
0:37:05 > 0:37:07Thank you, Michael.
0:37:11 > 0:37:13Ah, he was mostly just quiet.
0:37:13 > 0:37:17I heard him moving around, I gave him a pill 15 minutes ago.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20- He took it? - A deal's a deal, right?
0:37:20 > 0:37:23Super job, Elston. You get to New York, you need tickets
0:37:23 > 0:37:27- to the game or anything, let me know. - I'll do that for sure.
0:37:46 > 0:37:49- Did you see her? - Who?
0:37:49 > 0:37:52- Anna. - No.
0:37:53 > 0:37:57No, I didn't see her. She probably went back to the farm.
0:37:57 > 0:37:59Well, we need her.
0:38:01 > 0:38:05Marty, even then, and the rest of them, they won't understand.
0:38:06 > 0:38:10Well, if anybody can explain it to them, it's you, Arthur.
0:38:12 > 0:38:15No, they're lost. They have what they want.
0:38:15 > 0:38:19- Let it go, man. - This what you wanted?
0:38:20 > 0:38:25To be a janitor? Live like this? All this?
0:38:25 > 0:38:28Do what you do?
0:38:28 > 0:38:30It can't be...
0:38:30 > 0:38:35It's... It's a burden, that's what I'm trying to tell you.
0:38:35 > 0:38:38That's... That's how it feels.
0:38:38 > 0:38:44Well, I know that... that we've been summoned.
0:38:45 > 0:38:47Get some sleep.
0:38:51 > 0:38:53(PHONE RINGS)
0:39:03 > 0:39:07- 'Hello.' - Yes. Hi, I'm looking for Verne?
0:39:07 > 0:39:09'You have a number?'
0:39:09 > 0:39:13Don Jeffries gave me the number. He said I could call at any time.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16- 'No. The account number.' - The code?
0:39:16 > 0:39:19I do. I have it right here. One moment.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23Excuse me one moment.
0:39:23 > 0:39:26It's right here. 12-BKR-6.
0:39:26 > 0:39:2912-BKR-6.
0:39:30 > 0:39:32Am I speaking with Verne?
0:39:33 > 0:39:37- 'It's Mr Verne.' - Mr Verne. I'm sorry it's so late.
0:39:37 > 0:39:39Don said that I could, er...
0:39:41 > 0:39:44I'm not exactly sure how this works.
0:39:44 > 0:39:46- 'Do you have e-mail at your location?'- I do.
0:39:46 > 0:39:49- 'Are you alone?' - I am.
0:39:49 > 0:39:52'OK, I'm going to upload you a little encryption package
0:39:52 > 0:39:54'we like to use.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57- 'It's pretty self-explanatory.' - OK.
0:39:57 > 0:40:02- 'Give me a minute to get to my desk. OK? Hold on.'- OK. Thank you.
0:40:25 > 0:40:27What I was wondering is,
0:40:27 > 0:40:30I have an option on the lease for six more years,
0:40:30 > 0:40:34I was wondering if there's any way that I could lay that off.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36Is the lease worth anything?
0:40:39 > 0:40:44What? 8,900 a month. It's... The fixtures are gone, but there's...
0:40:44 > 0:40:49But there's the bar, there's a kitchen, there's a great space.
0:40:51 > 0:40:53But there's a...
0:40:56 > 0:40:59Yeah, I understand. No, I understand.
0:41:01 > 0:41:03OK, yeah, I will.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05All right. Thanks.
0:41:07 > 0:41:10(WATER SPLASHES) >
0:41:15 > 0:41:17Come on, Arthur!
0:41:19 > 0:41:21Arthur!
0:41:21 > 0:41:23Arthur, open the door.
0:41:26 > 0:41:28(KNOCKS) Arthur, open the door!
0:41:31 > 0:41:33Arthur, open the goddamn door!
0:41:35 > 0:41:38Arthur! Open the fucking door!
0:41:44 > 0:41:45Arthur!
0:41:47 > 0:41:50Goddamn it, Arthur! Open the fucking...
0:41:59 > 0:42:01Arthur!
0:42:11 > 0:42:13- Mr Verne, hey! - Hey, Danny.
0:42:13 > 0:42:17- I was just pulling the other bags. - Well, you can put 'em back.
0:42:17 > 0:42:20- There's been a change of plan, sorry.- You ready?- Yep.
0:42:23 > 0:42:26Oh, for Christ's sake.
0:42:26 > 0:42:31- Don Jeffries signed this? That's really his signature?- Mm-hmm.
0:42:31 > 0:42:33Where's the original?
0:42:33 > 0:42:38We had a warehouse fire five years ago. We lost a number of documents.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42(TAPS PEN ANXIOUSLY)
0:42:44 > 0:42:47What the hell is this doing in Arthur's bag?
0:42:47 > 0:42:49Well, I don't know, Marty.
0:42:49 > 0:42:53That's something I was hoping you might be able to tell me.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59What are we looking for?
0:42:59 > 0:43:03If it says U/North, pull it aside. Anything that says U/North.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06What a mess this is.
0:43:10 > 0:43:16I want all this, everything here, packed up and sent up to the house.
0:43:17 > 0:43:19Any luck, Michael?
0:43:19 > 0:43:22He booked a limo from Newark Airport at 3:00,
0:43:22 > 0:43:26got out at West 4th Street, tipped the driver 100 and walked away.
0:43:26 > 0:43:29- Try his apartment?- He moved. - I know.- It's a loft. No doorman.
0:43:29 > 0:43:33Nobody answered. I called, I got the machine.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36- So he could be anywhere. - Arthur downtown is not a good idea.
0:43:36 > 0:43:39- Where's his daughter? - I dunno. Spain, India.
0:43:39 > 0:43:42Mars! She's crazier than he'll ever be.
0:43:42 > 0:43:46Barry's taking over on U/North. We got a lot of grovelling to do.
0:43:46 > 0:43:50- You didn't charm Karen Crowder. - I was punting.
0:43:50 > 0:43:52You gotta saddle up and get things under control.
0:43:52 > 0:43:57- Saddle up?- He needs to be under a doctor's care and be admitted.
0:43:57 > 0:44:01- Uh-huh(?) Where? - Does that really matter?
0:44:01 > 0:44:05U/North needs to know he's under control. They need to be reassured.
0:44:05 > 0:44:08- It's not that easy. - Why the hell not?
0:44:08 > 0:44:12Because the laws in New York are tough on involuntary commitment.
0:44:12 > 0:44:16- Did you see this tape?- I'm not arguing, I'm telling you how it is.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19You know what? We got 600 lawyers in this place.
0:44:19 > 0:44:23Find who knows the most about psychiatric commitment statutes.
0:44:23 > 0:44:25I can tell you that right now. It's Arthur.
0:44:25 > 0:44:29(CHATTERING)
0:44:36 > 0:44:38'I'm at the door, good to go.'
0:44:38 > 0:44:43Yeah, roger that. Let's keep a radio check every five, OK?
0:44:43 > 0:44:45Every five minutes, copy that.
0:45:11 > 0:45:13(PHONE RINGS)
0:45:16 > 0:45:19(PHONE RINGS)
0:45:19 > 0:45:22'You've reached Arthur's machine.
0:45:22 > 0:45:26'If you wish to leave a message, please do so after the tone.'
0:45:26 > 0:45:29'Arthur, pick up the phone.
0:45:29 > 0:45:33'Arthur, pick up the phone and talk to me.
0:45:33 > 0:45:37'No? Not going to do it, huh?'
0:45:38 > 0:45:41What happened yesterday morning, forget it. It doesn't matter.
0:45:41 > 0:45:45Someday you and I are going to laugh about it. But you gotta call me back.
0:45:45 > 0:45:48You gotta call me back soon, Arthur.
0:45:48 > 0:45:51'I'll tell you what... you said it yourself,
0:45:51 > 0:45:55'part of this is definitely madness, and there's a chemical part to this.
0:45:55 > 0:45:57'But if you're willing to start with that,
0:45:57 > 0:46:01'I'm willing to meet you halfway and say that,'
0:46:01 > 0:46:04yes, this situation, this case sucks, U/North sucks.
0:46:04 > 0:46:08We can start with that. You hear me? You're right about what we are.
0:46:08 > 0:46:12'I'm saying that you're crazy and your behaviour is out of control.'
0:46:12 > 0:46:15But I'm telling you, you're right. You called it.
0:46:15 > 0:46:18We're janitors, I get it.
0:46:19 > 0:46:21But we came to this, Arthur.
0:46:21 > 0:46:25'We made decisions. This didn't happen over night.'
0:46:25 > 0:46:29You can't stop and say, "That's it, game over. I'm into miracles."
0:46:29 > 0:46:32'Arthur. Come on.'
0:46:32 > 0:46:37Goddamn it, pick up the phone, because whatever else is important,
0:46:37 > 0:46:40let me help you with this because I'm telling you straight up,
0:46:40 > 0:46:45janitor to janitor, I don't see anybody with a broom on the horizon.
0:46:45 > 0:46:47It's me, buddy. I'm the... (PHONE BEEPS)
0:46:47 > 0:46:51'Mailbox is full. Your message cannot be recorded.'
0:47:38 > 0:47:42(PHONE RINGS)
0:47:49 > 0:47:54- Hello?- 'Hello is, er, Anna there?' - Hang on.
0:47:56 > 0:47:58'Anna!'
0:48:00 > 0:48:02'Where is she? Anna!
0:48:02 > 0:48:06'Anna!
0:48:06 > 0:48:09'Anna, you've got a phone call!'
0:48:11 > 0:48:14'Where is she? Anna!'
0:48:18 > 0:48:22(BABY CRIES)
0:48:25 > 0:48:28- Hello? - Anna, hi. It's Arthur.
0:48:28 > 0:48:31- 'Hey.' - Did you get some sleep?
0:48:31 > 0:48:34- 'I guess.' - Did you think about what we said?
0:48:34 > 0:48:38- Yeah. - 'You didn't tell anybody, did you?'
0:48:38 > 0:48:42No. My sister's spying on me, but that's normal.
0:48:42 > 0:48:45Yeah. Because I meant what I said.
0:48:45 > 0:48:47'I know. I know. It's just...'
0:48:48 > 0:48:52..there's, like, 450 people in this lawsuit.
0:48:53 > 0:48:56Why are you choosing me?
0:48:56 > 0:48:58I don't know. I'm crazy, right?
0:48:58 > 0:49:02- 'That's for sure. (LAUGHS)' - I mean, does it really matter?
0:49:02 > 0:49:06'Isn't it what we wait for? To meet someone?'
0:49:06 > 0:49:10They're like a lens and suddenly you're looking through them
0:49:10 > 0:49:13and everything changes and nothing can ever be the same again.
0:49:13 > 0:49:18- Who are you talking to? - It's for me, OK? I get calls, too.
0:49:18 > 0:49:22- That guy? - (BABY SCREAMS)
0:49:22 > 0:49:25- Same guy. The same guy. - Sorry.
0:49:25 > 0:49:30Oh, no. That's... That's OK. My mother used to listen to my calls.
0:49:30 > 0:49:34- 'She can't believe I can do anything on my own.'- Well, that will change.
0:49:34 > 0:49:37'I guess.
0:49:37 > 0:49:42'That's something we can show her. That you can do something.
0:49:42 > 0:49:45'That we could do that together if you want.
0:49:45 > 0:49:48'I mean that I can help you do that.'
0:49:48 > 0:49:51I can get you 12 by Monday.
0:49:51 > 0:49:55- 12's weak. 12 looks bad. - How d'you figure that?
0:49:55 > 0:49:58They look at 75 and you, and wonder what the problem is.
0:49:58 > 0:50:01You say 12, that makes people nervous.
0:50:01 > 0:50:04This was the day before yesterday. Give me some time.
0:50:04 > 0:50:08- What's the car worth? - It's a lease. It's the firm's.
0:50:08 > 0:50:12So? You go to the bank, you got the apartment, you refinance.
0:50:12 > 0:50:16- I can't. I did that three months ago.- Are you back at the tables?
0:50:16 > 0:50:20Like I need that kind of action, I don't have enough going on.
0:50:22 > 0:50:24I hope you're kidding.
0:50:24 > 0:50:28If he finds out you're playing cards with his money,
0:50:28 > 0:50:32there's no dialogue after that. Do everyone a favour.
0:50:32 > 0:50:36Get out the treasure map... and start digging.
0:50:36 > 0:50:39You got a week.
0:50:40 > 0:50:42- Hi, Michael. - Hi, Cindy.
0:50:42 > 0:50:44He's been on the phone all morning.
0:50:44 > 0:50:47I'm trying to get him out of here in 15 minutes.
0:50:47 > 0:50:50- Is he upstairs? - He's upstairs...
0:50:50 > 0:50:52What are you guys doing?!
0:50:52 > 0:50:57Soroyo, keep an eye on these kids, make sure they're downstairs.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08Crap.
0:51:09 > 0:51:12- (SIGHS) - Marty?
0:51:15 > 0:51:18You know what he's doing? He's backing their case.
0:51:18 > 0:51:23- I'm going through his files. He's building a case- against- U/North.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26- They won't let him. - Let him? Who's going to stop him?
0:51:26 > 0:51:30Know what I just heard? He's calling these plaintiffs.
0:51:30 > 0:51:33This woman from the deposition, he's calling these people.
0:51:33 > 0:51:37He's got these discovery documents. It's a fucking nightmare.
0:51:37 > 0:51:40I've been trying him all morning. His machine's jammed up.
0:51:40 > 0:51:43- Is that his briefcase? - Yeah. Why?
0:51:43 > 0:51:45We've been looking for it, that's why.
0:51:45 > 0:51:49It came up here with all the other stuff from his office.
0:51:49 > 0:51:52You can't believe the crap he's got in here.
0:51:52 > 0:51:54Listen, Marty...
0:51:56 > 0:51:58..I'm in a bind here.
0:51:59 > 0:52:02I need a loan. I need 80 grand.
0:52:02 > 0:52:05I thought you were done with all that.
0:52:05 > 0:52:08It's not the cards. It's the restaurant.
0:52:08 > 0:52:11- 80,000? - I'm sorry to jump you like this.
0:52:11 > 0:52:15I've been trying to meet you alone for the last two weeks.
0:52:15 > 0:52:21- (SIGHS)- And I know about the merger. - Oh? Nothing's final on the merger.
0:52:21 > 0:52:24That's why I'm asking you now. You're my meal ticket.
0:52:24 > 0:52:27Soon it'll be me and Barry with a roomful of strangers
0:52:27 > 0:52:31- with me explaining what I do. - Everyone knows how valuable you are.
0:52:31 > 0:52:35I'm 45 and I'm broke. I've been riding shotgun for 12 years,
0:52:35 > 0:52:38I got no equity. I don't feel reassured.
0:52:38 > 0:52:42- Nobody said get a bar business. - I opened it so I'd have a way out.
0:52:42 > 0:52:46- I had no idea you were so unhappy. - How many times did I ask you
0:52:46 > 0:52:50- to put me back on a litigation team? - Anybody can go to court. Why that?
0:52:50 > 0:52:53- I was good at it! - So are a lot of people.
0:52:53 > 0:52:57At this, what you do, you're great.
0:52:57 > 0:53:00For Christ's sakes, you got something everybody wants.
0:53:00 > 0:53:04You have a niche. You made a place. You made a niche for yourself.
0:53:04 > 0:53:08If it's nostalgia, "You should've seen me as a DA in Queens",
0:53:08 > 0:53:11let me give you a serious piece of advice... leave it there!
0:53:11 > 0:53:16God forbid you're not as good as you remember, cos I've seen that happen.
0:53:16 > 0:53:19But I didn't come here for advice, did I?
0:53:19 > 0:53:22So I give you the loan or you don't help out with Arthur?
0:53:22 > 0:53:25- I never said that! - No? Maybe you should have.
0:53:25 > 0:53:29I don't know how you're going to take care of this,
0:53:29 > 0:53:31- but- this- is cancer.
0:53:31 > 0:53:35If we don't get it cleaned up soon, everything's vulnerable. Everything!
0:53:36 > 0:53:39- What are you telling me? - That I'm counting on you.
0:53:39 > 0:53:44I'm telling you that this time next week, Arthur will be under control
0:53:44 > 0:53:47and everybody will have been reminded of your infinite value.
0:53:47 > 0:53:50- Jesus, Marty! - Hey...
0:53:50 > 0:53:55When did you get so fucking delicate? I'm late.
0:54:03 > 0:54:06(INTERCOM BUZZES)
0:54:33 > 0:54:36Why don't you call Uncle Gene and get the cops to help you?
0:54:36 > 0:54:38It's not that kind of a problem.
0:54:39 > 0:54:42- How long do we do this? - I don't know.
0:54:53 > 0:54:57If he comes back to get his car, call that number and let me know.
0:54:57 > 0:55:00- Thank you. I appreciate it. - OK. You're welcome.
0:55:06 > 0:55:10If we're not going to the movie, why don't you just say so?
0:55:10 > 0:55:13- What? - I want to go home.
0:55:13 > 0:55:15Come on, Henry.
0:55:18 > 0:55:19Hold up!
0:55:22 > 0:55:24Stay in the car. Lock the door.
0:55:25 > 0:55:29- Arthur! Arthur!- Oh! - Wait up!
0:55:30 > 0:55:33Michael. Jeez, you scared me.
0:55:35 > 0:55:38- Making a delivery? - No, no, no.
0:55:38 > 0:55:41That'd be very funny. No, nothing like that.
0:55:41 > 0:55:46Take one, please. It's still warm. It's the best bread I ever tasted.
0:55:50 > 0:55:52So welcome home.
0:55:52 > 0:55:56Oh, I know, the, erm, the hotel. I'm sorry.
0:55:56 > 0:55:58I was beginning to feel overwhelmed.
0:55:58 > 0:56:01- You're feeling better now? - Oh, yes, much better.
0:56:01 > 0:56:05- Just not enough to call me back. - Well, I... I was, erm...
0:56:05 > 0:56:10gathering my thoughts before I called you. That's what I was doing.
0:56:10 > 0:56:14- And how's that going? - Yes, it's good, very good. I just...
0:56:14 > 0:56:18Well, I just need to make my thoughts a little bit more precise.
0:56:18 > 0:56:21That's... That's my goal.
0:56:21 > 0:56:25As good as this feels, you know where it goes.
0:56:25 > 0:56:29You're wrong. What makes this good is that I don't know where it goes.
0:56:29 > 0:56:33How do I talk to you, Arthur? So you hear me?
0:56:33 > 0:56:37Like a child? Like a nut? Like everything's fine?
0:56:37 > 0:56:41What's the secret? Because I need you to hear me.
0:56:41 > 0:56:44- Well, I-I-I hear everything. - Then hear this.
0:56:44 > 0:56:48You need help. Before this goes too far, you need help.
0:56:48 > 0:56:52You got great cards. Keep your clothes on, you can do what you want.
0:56:52 > 0:56:56You want out, you're out. You want to bake bread, go with God.
0:56:56 > 0:56:58There's only one wrong answer
0:56:58 > 0:57:01and you've got your arms wrapped around it.
0:57:01 > 0:57:04- I-I-I said I was sorry. - The hotel was overwhelming?
0:57:04 > 0:57:07You'd better stop pissing on this case.
0:57:07 > 0:57:10- I don't know what you're talking about.- I'm covering for you!
0:57:10 > 0:57:14Telling them everything's fine, everybody's cool.
0:57:14 > 0:57:17I'm running this story to anybody who'll listen,
0:57:17 > 0:57:20and then you're calling this girl from Wisconsin,
0:57:20 > 0:57:23messing with documents and God knows what else.
0:57:23 > 0:57:26- How can you know that? - They'll take everything from you.
0:57:26 > 0:57:29- They'll pull your license. - How do you know I called her?!
0:57:29 > 0:57:35- Marty told me.- How does he know? - I don't know! I don't give a shit!
0:57:39 > 0:57:43- You're tapping my phone.- Oh, Jesus! - Then tell me how Marty knows!
0:57:43 > 0:57:47You're chasing a girl in a parking lot with your dick hanging out.
0:57:47 > 0:57:51She got off the phone with you and called her attorney.
0:57:51 > 0:57:52- She wouldn't do that! - Really?
0:57:52 > 0:57:56You think that your judgment is state of the art right now?
0:57:56 > 0:57:59They're putting everything on the table.
0:57:59 > 0:58:03You need to think this through. I'll help you think this through.
0:58:03 > 0:58:07- I'll- find- somebody to help you think this through. Don't do this.
0:58:07 > 0:58:09You're making it easy for them.
0:58:11 > 0:58:14Michael, I have great affection for you.
0:58:14 > 0:58:18You lead an interesting life, but you're a bagman, not an attorney.
0:58:18 > 0:58:22If you wanted to have me committed, you should've kept me in Wisconsin
0:58:22 > 0:58:26where the arrest report, and eyewitness accounts of my behaviour
0:58:26 > 0:58:29would've had jurisdictional relevance.
0:58:29 > 0:58:32I have no criminal record in New York.
0:58:32 > 0:58:37And the determining criterion for involuntary incarceration is danger.
0:58:37 > 0:58:40Is the defendant a danger to himself or others?
0:58:40 > 0:58:43You think you got the horses for that?
0:58:43 > 0:58:46Well, good luck and God bless. But I tell you this...
0:58:47 > 0:58:51The last place you want to see me is in court.
0:58:51 > 0:58:56- I'm not the enemy. - Then who are you?
0:59:06 > 0:59:10(EASY LISTENING MUSIC) 'We find the seed.'
0:59:14 > 0:59:16'We shape the soil.'
0:59:19 > 0:59:21'We speed the harvest.'
0:59:23 > 0:59:25'We feed the planet...'
0:59:26 > 0:59:30(TAPE REWINDS)
0:59:30 > 0:59:34(VIDEO RESTARTS)
0:59:34 > 0:59:38(EASY LISTENING MUSIC) 'We find the seed.'
0:59:41 > 0:59:43'We shape the soil.'
0:59:46 > 0:59:49'We speed the harvest.'
0:59:50 > 0:59:52'We feed the planet.'
0:59:55 > 0:59:58(MUSIC RESTARTS)
1:00:03 > 1:00:05(MUSIC RESTARTS)
1:00:08 > 1:00:12What the hell is he doing?
1:00:21 > 1:00:25(MUSIC BLARES)
1:00:27 > 1:00:30(RINGING TONE)
1:00:30 > 1:00:34'You've reached the office voicemail of Arthur Edens.
1:00:34 > 1:00:36'Leave your message after the tone.'
1:00:36 > 1:00:42Yes! Here we are, all together. Is everyone listening?
1:00:42 > 1:00:46This is the moment you've been waiting for.
1:00:46 > 1:00:49So let's have a big, paranoid, malignant round of applause
1:00:49 > 1:00:55for United Northfield Culcitate Internal Research Memorandum 229,
1:00:55 > 1:00:58June 19th, 1991.
1:00:58 > 1:01:02"Conclusion. The unanticipated market growth for Culcitate
1:01:02 > 1:01:04"by small farms in colder climates
1:01:04 > 1:01:08"demands immediate cost-benefit analysis."
1:01:08 > 1:01:11Would you guys like a little bit of legal advice?
1:01:11 > 1:01:14Never let a scientist use the words "unanticipated"
1:01:14 > 1:01:20- and "immediate" in the same sentence, OK? OK.- (MUSIC BLARES)
1:01:20 > 1:01:24"In-house field studies indicated that small short-season farms
1:01:24 > 1:01:27"dependent on well water for human consumption
1:01:27 > 1:01:31"are at risk for toxic particulate concentrations at levels
1:01:31 > 1:01:35"significant enough to cause serious human tissue damage."
1:01:35 > 1:01:39This is a long way of saying that you don't have to leave your house
1:01:39 > 1:01:42to be killed by our product, we'll pipe it into your kitchen sink.
1:01:42 > 1:01:46- "Culcitate's market advantage..." - Gimme the phone
1:01:46 > 1:01:49"..tasteless, colourless and does not precipitate,
1:01:49 > 1:01:54"has the potential to intensify these potentially lethal exposures."
1:01:54 > 1:01:56Now, I love this.
1:01:56 > 1:02:02Not only is this a great product, it is a superb cancer delivery system.
1:02:02 > 1:02:04"Chemical modifications of Culcitate,
1:02:04 > 1:02:08"the addition of a detector molecule such as an odorant or colorant,
1:02:08 > 1:02:13"would require a top-down redesign of the manufacturing process.
1:02:13 > 1:02:18"These costs, assumed significant, were not summarised here."
1:02:18 > 1:02:22Which, loosely translated, means, "It'll cost a fortune
1:02:22 > 1:02:25"to go back on this and I'm just an asshole in a lab,
1:02:25 > 1:02:28"so could someone else please make the decision?"
1:02:28 > 1:02:31"Clearly, the release of these internal research documents
1:02:31 > 1:02:34"would compromise the marketing of Culcitate
1:02:34 > 1:02:37"and must be kept within the protective confines
1:02:37 > 1:02:41"of United Northfield's trade secret language."
1:02:42 > 1:02:45'You don't need me
1:02:45 > 1:02:48'to tell you what that means. Goodbye.'
1:02:51 > 1:02:54- It seemed to warrant my coming... - Yes.
1:02:55 > 1:02:57You... You have to contain this.
1:02:57 > 1:03:01- Contain?- Right.
1:03:01 > 1:03:06Well, that's my question. What are the...?
1:03:06 > 1:03:10What's the option that we're looking at? Along those lines.
1:03:10 > 1:03:13You're talking about the paper, the data...?
1:03:14 > 1:03:18Well, I'm wondering if there is some other option.
1:03:18 > 1:03:23- I mean, something I'm not thinking of?- We deal in absolutes.
1:03:23 > 1:03:26OK. I understand that. I do.
1:03:26 > 1:03:31The material, the papers... I'm not a lawyer, we try, we do what we can.
1:03:31 > 1:03:34Well, the other way?
1:03:35 > 1:03:37Is the other way.
1:03:41 > 1:03:44- You should bring Don in on this. - This is nothing to do with Don.
1:03:44 > 1:03:47He's busy. This is nothing to do with Don.
1:03:53 > 1:03:55D'you think it's doable?
1:03:56 > 1:04:00Yeah. We have some good ideas. You say move, we move.
1:04:00 > 1:04:04- If the ideas don't look good, we back off, reassess...- OK.
1:04:08 > 1:04:12Is that, "OK, you understand," or "OK, proceed"?
1:04:15 > 1:04:18- (APPLAUSE)- Are you one? Are you two? Are you three?
1:04:18 > 1:04:21Are you four? Are you five? Are you six?
1:04:21 > 1:04:23Are you seven? Are you eight? Are you nine?
1:04:23 > 1:04:26Come on. Come on, I said!
1:04:26 > 1:04:30- Hey, come on. - Go on, Dad, make a wish.
1:04:30 > 1:04:33- If I get what I wish for, it'll kill me.- (ALL LAUGH)
1:04:33 > 1:04:35You're a maniac. Unbelievable!
1:04:35 > 1:04:39- Gimme a hand, Eddie. - (ALL CLAP AND CHEER)
1:04:42 > 1:04:47- Now, I did not make this myself so no complaints...- Happy birthday.
1:04:47 > 1:04:51- D'you have time for cake?- Er,... yeah, yeah. I'll take one to go.
1:04:51 > 1:04:55- You going in? - Mmm. I'm late already.
1:04:55 > 1:04:59- Shit.- You're not both running out? - I got a situation.
1:04:59 > 1:05:03- You can't hang?- You're going in. - Yeah? I got a shift.- So do I.
1:05:03 > 1:05:07Oh, come on. You haven't been up here in months.
1:05:07 > 1:05:10- If you go back now, Mickey, Henry's staying here.- Good.
1:05:10 > 1:05:13- You can drive him home. - Just stay for an hour.
1:05:13 > 1:05:18The girls did all this stuff. He'll be asleep by then.
1:05:22 > 1:05:24Timmy's been calling me.
1:05:27 > 1:05:30- He's afraid to talk to you. - He should be.
1:05:30 > 1:05:33- It closed out bad, right? - Is that what he told you?
1:05:33 > 1:05:37The kids are freaking out. His in-laws are freaking out.
1:05:37 > 1:05:41Pammy can't stop crying long enough to start freaking out.
1:05:41 > 1:05:44- Hey, she took him back. - So what? Fuck her and the kids?
1:05:44 > 1:05:47No, fuck Timmy. And nothing's closed, OK?
1:05:47 > 1:05:51I sold everything, we're short. Don't talk to me about Pammy and kids.
1:05:51 > 1:05:55I've got my hands full. If it was you, he'd be in traction.
1:05:56 > 1:05:59Yeah, he's sick, all right?
1:06:00 > 1:06:03- He's sick. It's a sickness. - There's a fresh perspective.
1:06:03 > 1:06:08Lots of people falling off the wagon lately. It's going around.
1:06:08 > 1:06:10Is that pointed at me?
1:06:12 > 1:06:15When do I see you? How do I know what you're up to?
1:06:15 > 1:06:17I haven't bet in over a year.
1:06:17 > 1:06:20- I haven't been in a card room in ten months.- OK.
1:06:20 > 1:06:23I gambled on the bar. I bet on Timmy, he wiped me out.
1:06:23 > 1:06:25That was my big play.
1:06:25 > 1:06:28I put up my walk-away money, it's gone and I'm scrambling.
1:06:28 > 1:06:31OK. OK.
1:06:31 > 1:06:34Cool down. I hear you.
1:06:37 > 1:06:40I'd be pissed off, too.
1:06:45 > 1:06:48(SIGHS) Just hang for an hour.
1:06:49 > 1:06:51- OK? - Yeah.
1:07:23 > 1:07:26Ready? And lift.
1:07:26 > 1:07:28Ready and go.
1:07:48 > 1:07:51(PILLS RATTLE)
1:07:51 > 1:07:52Wipe.
1:08:01 > 1:08:03You better hit it.
1:08:34 > 1:08:37We're good.
1:08:42 > 1:08:45(WATER RUNS)
1:08:51 > 1:08:53(PILLS CLATTER)
1:09:05 > 1:09:10"(MATCH COMMENTARY)"
1:09:10 > 1:09:15I found it. That's his number. Dr Mullien. See if you have any luck.
1:09:15 > 1:09:18- If I get a chance.- It's Medicaid. They're running us in circles.
1:09:18 > 1:09:21- I can pull the file... - Let him go. He's got a date.
1:09:21 > 1:09:24With a maniac attorney.
1:09:24 > 1:09:27- Take a night off, Mickey. - You look tired.
1:09:27 > 1:09:29- I'm OK. See you soon. - Be good.
1:09:29 > 1:09:31- All right. Bye. - Bye, Hen.
1:09:31 > 1:09:33- Bye, Pop. - Bye.
1:09:40 > 1:09:41(UNLOCKS CAR)
1:09:42 > 1:09:46- Uncle Timmy, hey!- How you doing, Henry?- Henry, get in the car.
1:09:49 > 1:09:51Good to see you, Hen.
1:09:51 > 1:09:55- What do you want? - I've been sober eight days now.
1:09:55 > 1:09:59Been back at the meetings. I wanted you to know.
1:09:59 > 1:10:04- In front of the kid?- Mickey, please. I know how bad I did, I swear.
1:10:05 > 1:10:08I don't know how to make it right again. It's all I think about.
1:10:08 > 1:10:14- What do I do? I don't know what to do.- Get Stephanie her tyres back.
1:10:20 > 1:10:22- Is he crying? - I don't know.
1:10:22 > 1:10:26- Because of drugs, right? - That and everything else.
1:10:57 > 1:10:58What?
1:11:00 > 1:11:02Your uncle Timmy,
1:11:02 > 1:11:07and I mean this, on his best day, was never as tough as you.
1:11:08 > 1:11:11I'm not talking about crying or the drugs or anything.
1:11:11 > 1:11:15I'm talking about in his heart. You understand me?
1:11:15 > 1:11:19All his charming bullshit, this Big Tim, Uncle, Boss bullshit...
1:11:19 > 1:11:22I know you love him and I know why.
1:11:22 > 1:11:25But when you see him like that, don't worry.
1:11:25 > 1:11:29That's not how it will be for you, you won't be like these people
1:11:29 > 1:11:33who go through life wondering why shit keeps falling out of the sky
1:11:33 > 1:11:37around 'em. I know that. I know it. OK?
1:11:40 > 1:11:44I see it every time I look at you. I see it right now.
1:11:47 > 1:11:50I don't know where you got it from, but you got it.
1:11:51 > 1:11:53OK?
1:11:56 > 1:11:59(PHONE RINGS) Hold on.
1:12:05 > 1:12:07Hello?
1:12:15 > 1:12:20The neighbours came by. They're renovating the loft downstairs.
1:12:20 > 1:12:24They had water flooding from his bathroom down to their place.
1:12:24 > 1:12:30His front door, fire escape, he had everything locked up pretty good.
1:12:30 > 1:12:34It took our guys ten minutes. They had to knock the thing down.
1:12:35 > 1:12:37There's pills all over the place.
1:12:38 > 1:12:43Just the scene alone is pretty definitive for suicide.
1:12:44 > 1:12:46I spoke to some of your partners
1:12:46 > 1:12:50who ran down these problems he'd been having lately, so...
1:12:52 > 1:12:55- Is there a note? - No. They looked.
1:12:55 > 1:12:57It could be an accident
1:12:57 > 1:13:00or he was going to write a note and just messed up.
1:13:00 > 1:13:05- Can I get in there? - His place? Not now. It's sealed.
1:13:05 > 1:13:08Once the seal goes up, it's frozen.
1:13:08 > 1:13:10We're going to try and reach his daughter.
1:13:10 > 1:13:13I guess she's off in Europe, but she's got to come in.
1:13:13 > 1:13:17The ME's got to come back with a toxicology report.
1:13:17 > 1:13:21That's a couple of weeks at least that it's got to stay like that.
1:13:21 > 1:13:23Sorry.
1:13:24 > 1:13:26Sure.
1:13:31 > 1:13:33OK.
1:13:36 > 1:13:41I know your brother a little. My wife works the 190 out in Queens.
1:13:42 > 1:13:46- I'll tell him hello.- If something comes in, I'll get back to you.
1:13:46 > 1:13:50- Yeah. I appreciate it. - I'm sorry for your loss.
1:14:05 > 1:14:08(LOW MURMUR OF CHATTER)
1:14:08 > 1:14:10- Ah, Michael. - Jeff.
1:14:10 > 1:14:13- This is tough. - Yeah... He in here?
1:14:24 > 1:14:28Dumb son of a bitch. What a thing.
1:14:28 > 1:14:31- Hold on... - I didn't even know.
1:14:31 > 1:14:32- I'm so sorry. - Yeah. All right.
1:14:32 > 1:14:36I didn't even get a chance to talk to him.
1:14:36 > 1:14:39That crazy goddamn bastard.
1:14:39 > 1:14:42What a waste. What the hell was he thinking?
1:14:43 > 1:14:47- Marty? I got to set this up. - Go.
1:14:47 > 1:14:51- You OK? - Yeah, I'm fine.
1:14:52 > 1:14:54Come on, let's get you a drink.
1:14:56 > 1:15:01I just keep replaying all this back. Like, did I push him too hard?
1:15:01 > 1:15:04- Not a chance. - I couldn't get through to him...
1:15:04 > 1:15:07You scared him to death? Come on. The man was a bull.
1:15:07 > 1:15:11- Never happened. - Why does he fold, then? Why...?
1:15:11 > 1:15:13Why did...? (SIGHS)
1:15:13 > 1:15:16It's got to be an accident. Arthur without a note?
1:15:16 > 1:15:20He couldn't piss without leaving a memo. It was an accident.
1:15:20 > 1:15:22I don't understand that either.
1:15:22 > 1:15:24One minute he's going to take on the world,
1:15:24 > 1:15:27and 12 hours later he's sucking down pills. Why?
1:15:27 > 1:15:33Why? (LAUGHS) Because people are fucking incomprehensible. Why?
1:15:37 > 1:15:4030 years I know Arthur.
1:15:40 > 1:15:42Good years.
1:15:44 > 1:15:47And what I feel right now, if I'm honest?
1:15:50 > 1:15:53I can't even say, it's so awful.
1:15:53 > 1:15:56You can say it.
1:15:58 > 1:16:00We caught a lucky break.
1:16:03 > 1:16:06We did, didn't we?
1:16:10 > 1:16:13Marty? We need to get up to the office.
1:16:13 > 1:16:15- They accepted? - In principle.
1:16:15 > 1:16:18Don Jeffries wants us on the phone in half an hour.
1:16:18 > 1:16:23- I explained about Arthur, but at this point -- U/North is settling?
1:16:23 > 1:16:26They see a window. They want to try. What are we going to do?
1:16:28 > 1:16:31You did what you could, Michael. We all did.
1:16:33 > 1:16:35It's... It's what we got.
1:16:36 > 1:16:39- You need a ride? - No. Thanks, I'm fine.
1:16:55 > 1:16:59(PHONE RINGS)
1:17:11 > 1:17:14- Hello. - Hi. I'm looking for Anna Kysersun.
1:17:14 > 1:17:17- 'Who is this?' - Michael Clayton.
1:17:17 > 1:17:19I'm an attorney. I got your number from Arthur -
1:17:19 > 1:17:22- 'You have got some nerve.' - Excuse me?
1:17:22 > 1:17:26You get her out to New York City and then leave her at the airport?
1:17:26 > 1:17:30'This is not a complicated person. She's never been farther from home
1:17:30 > 1:17:33- 'than Milwaukee.' - Now, wait -- 'No, you wait.'
1:17:33 > 1:17:37She's coming home tomorrow. If you call again, I'm warning you...
1:17:37 > 1:17:42- Wait, she's in New York right now? - 'This is a young girl, d'you hear?'
1:17:42 > 1:17:45- She's in the city right now? - 'What kind of people are you?'
1:17:45 > 1:17:49'All right, listen. You just stay on the phone one second.'
1:18:20 > 1:18:22(KNOCK ON DOOR) 'Anna?'
1:18:23 > 1:18:25Anna?
1:18:25 > 1:18:28My name's Michael Clayton. I'm a friend of Arthur's.
1:18:28 > 1:18:31Your sister told me you were here.
1:18:33 > 1:18:35Please open the door, Anna.
1:18:38 > 1:18:40(LOCK SLIDES)
1:18:46 > 1:18:48- What are you thinking? - I don't know.
1:18:48 > 1:18:53I'll watch the door. You check his car. Let's get some details.
1:18:56 > 1:18:59He didn't want to say exactly what it was.
1:19:01 > 1:19:05Just that when I got here, he would pick me up
1:19:05 > 1:19:07and show me and I would see
1:19:07 > 1:19:11that it was something that would win the whole case.
1:19:13 > 1:19:17Even this morning, I mean, I thought...
1:19:19 > 1:19:24"OK, if I get to the airport and the ticket's not there, then I'll know."
1:19:24 > 1:19:28"OK. You're stupid, and you can go home now."
1:19:30 > 1:19:33But it was there and he paid...
1:19:34 > 1:19:38(..like 800 for a first-class ticket.)
1:19:38 > 1:19:40And I just...
1:19:43 > 1:19:45I got on the plane.
1:19:48 > 1:19:50I believed him.
1:19:53 > 1:19:58You think maybe he was... in some way disappointed?
1:19:59 > 1:20:03Let's say that he knew that you told somebody else about all of this,
1:20:03 > 1:20:07and in some crazy way he was disappointed by that?
1:20:08 > 1:20:12- But I didn't. - You must've told somebody else.- No.
1:20:13 > 1:20:16He made me promise.
1:20:16 > 1:20:21- You didn't tell- anybody- else about this? Not one other person?
1:20:22 > 1:20:24No.
1:20:28 > 1:20:31He really was crazy, wasn't he?
1:20:43 > 1:20:46- You talking about this? - Let me see.
1:20:47 > 1:20:49- You know what that is? - Yeah.
1:20:50 > 1:20:53You said a favour. That's more than a favour.
1:20:53 > 1:20:55Nobody'll know where it came from.
1:20:56 > 1:20:59- Are you that jammed up? - What?
1:20:59 > 1:21:01Who asked for this? It's the restaurant, right?
1:21:01 > 1:21:04One of these guys you owe? "Get me a seal."
1:21:04 > 1:21:07You really want to know?
1:22:19 > 1:22:22This just gets better and better.
1:22:23 > 1:22:25What are we doing?
1:24:22 > 1:24:26Freeze! Right there, asshole! Don't move!
1:24:26 > 1:24:28It's all right, I'm a friend!
1:24:28 > 1:24:31Get your hands up now! Now! What's in your hand?
1:24:31 > 1:24:35- It's a book. - Drop it! Drop it, now! Drop it!
1:24:35 > 1:24:39- Turn around. Slowly. - All right. OK.
1:24:39 > 1:24:41- Who else is here? - Nobody.
1:24:41 > 1:24:43- I said, who else is here? - Nobody's here!
1:24:43 > 1:24:45Check in there.
1:24:45 > 1:24:48You move, I'll take your head off.
1:24:52 > 1:24:56(KEYS JANGLE)
1:25:17 > 1:25:22Now I owe this scumbag and his wife, who's a piece of shit in my unit,
1:25:22 > 1:25:26- now I owe them my balls for this. - Sorry.- "Nobody will know it's me."
1:25:26 > 1:25:28You know what happens if they don't bury this?
1:25:28 > 1:25:32- It's bad.- I'm 18 months away from my 20. You put my pension in jeopardy.
1:25:32 > 1:25:35- You made your point. - It's not a point!
1:25:35 > 1:25:38- Who called 911?- What?
1:25:38 > 1:25:41The building was empty. I was quiet. I wasn't there long.
1:25:41 > 1:25:45- Does it make sense to you? - This never happened!
1:25:46 > 1:25:50The cops think you're a lawyer and the lawyers think you're a cop.
1:25:50 > 1:25:54You got everybody fooled, don't you? Everybody but you.
1:25:55 > 1:25:57You know exactly what you are.
1:26:10 > 1:26:14We tried calling you like six times. Your machine must be busted.
1:26:15 > 1:26:18We gave it our best shot. We ran out of red covers.
1:26:18 > 1:26:22We only have 2,000 in stock, so we did the other 1,000 in blue.
1:26:22 > 1:26:26(CHATTERS)
1:26:43 > 1:26:46- Is everything all right? - It's fine, yeah.
1:26:46 > 1:26:49D'you have a van? Cos I have 25 boxes back there and -
1:26:49 > 1:26:52Do me a favour. Hang on to 'em.
1:26:52 > 1:26:57- I'll pick everything up next week. - Seriously? Thanks, man.
1:27:05 > 1:27:08(CHATTERING)
1:27:16 > 1:27:18Hello?
1:27:22 > 1:27:25Don! You go ahead. I'll catch up to you.
1:27:26 > 1:27:28What?
1:27:35 > 1:27:37Do you know Michael Clayton?
1:27:37 > 1:27:40- Yeah, why? - We have a situation.
1:27:54 > 1:27:58(CHATTERING)
1:27:59 > 1:28:04- Hey, did they find you?- Who?- Marty. I don't think they've gone in yet.
1:28:12 > 1:28:13Marty.
1:28:13 > 1:28:16There's too much going on for your phone to be off.
1:28:16 > 1:28:18- I need a minute. - We're late.
1:28:18 > 1:28:20We never got to finish last night.
1:28:20 > 1:28:23Did you close the place? You look like hell.
1:28:23 > 1:28:25- No, I left right after you left. - If you say so.
1:28:25 > 1:28:28We've been here all night, made an announcement.
1:28:28 > 1:28:31Jean! I need the thing, the envelope.
1:28:31 > 1:28:35I wanted your input. I couldn't get you. I pulled the trigger.
1:28:35 > 1:28:37I put Bob Nast and Kim, probably a mistake,
1:28:37 > 1:28:40they're pulling together a memorial service.
1:28:40 > 1:28:44I told them to call you if they need any help, OK?
1:28:44 > 1:28:46No, no. The other one.
1:28:46 > 1:28:49So we cut you a cheque this morning.
1:28:49 > 1:28:53There's some strings attached. And Barry...
1:28:53 > 1:28:56There's no way around this. Barry's going to have to be involved.
1:29:00 > 1:29:04- What if Arthur was on to something? - What do you mean? On to what?
1:29:04 > 1:29:08- U/North. What if he wasn't crazy? What if he was right?- About what?
1:29:08 > 1:29:12- That we're on the wrong side? - Wrong side, wrong way, everything.
1:29:12 > 1:29:15This is news? This case reeked from day one.
1:29:15 > 1:29:17I gotta tell you how we pay rent?
1:29:17 > 1:29:20What would they do if he went public?
1:29:20 > 1:29:23What would they do? Are you fucking soft? They're doing it.
1:29:23 > 1:29:28If we don't sort this settlement, they'll withhold 9 million in fees,
1:29:28 > 1:29:33show Arthur's flash dance and sue us for legal malpractice.
1:29:33 > 1:29:37But they'll win nothing because the merger with London will be dead
1:29:37 > 1:29:40and we'll be selling off the goddamn furniture.
1:29:40 > 1:29:43That's 80. We're calling it a bonus.
1:29:44 > 1:29:47You got a three-year contract at your current numbers
1:29:47 > 1:29:49- if this works out. - You're doing this now?
1:29:51 > 1:29:54Look, I agreed to this, OK? But there's rules now.
1:29:54 > 1:29:57You're signing a confidentiality agreement.
1:29:57 > 1:29:59It's going to be bullet-proof and retroactive.
1:29:59 > 1:30:04Marty's too nice to say it, but with all you know about the clients here,
1:30:04 > 1:30:08it's a little weird when you come in and ask for 80 grand.
1:30:08 > 1:30:10If I were to shake anybody down, I'd come to you
1:30:10 > 1:30:13and it wouldn't be for 80 grand. Is this him or you?
1:30:13 > 1:30:16- Hey.- If I'm wrong, I apologise. - You're way-the-fuck wrong.
1:30:16 > 1:30:19- So there you go. - Enough. OK? Everybody.
1:30:19 > 1:30:22He's an asshole, but he knows it.
1:30:22 > 1:30:26And you're on the record. OK? Everybody happy?
1:30:26 > 1:30:28- Don Jeffries is here. - We're on the way.
1:30:29 > 1:30:33Call Bob Nast. Just see if they need help with this thing.
1:30:36 > 1:30:38You're welcome.
1:31:28 > 1:31:31You said 12. This is 75.
1:31:31 > 1:31:35- Don't get too excited. Want a drink?- No. I'm working.
1:31:37 > 1:31:41So we're square, then. No bad blood.
1:31:42 > 1:31:44- Just doing your job. - That's right.
1:31:45 > 1:31:47Take it easy, Gabe.
1:31:48 > 1:31:50Michael.
1:31:58 > 1:32:01(ASIAN RADIO STATION FADES IN)
1:32:01 > 1:32:05- 'Check.' - 'Check.'
1:32:05 > 1:32:08- Check. - Half the pot. 200.
1:32:08 > 1:32:09200 to go.
1:32:34 > 1:32:39(BREATHES HEAVILY)
1:32:45 > 1:32:49So what happened with the bar? You just had to be a rock star, huh?
1:32:56 > 1:32:59(PHONE RINGS)
1:33:10 > 1:33:13What are you doing? You just got here.
1:33:13 > 1:33:17Guy plays nine hands, walks away. Did I scare you away?
1:33:17 > 1:33:19What did I do? Did I scare you away?
1:33:48 > 1:33:51(PHONE RINGS)
1:33:54 > 1:33:55Get out.
1:33:56 > 1:33:58"Get out of the car now."
1:34:00 > 1:34:03- Walter? - "Michael. Thank God you're there."
1:34:07 > 1:34:09"You have eight..."
1:34:09 > 1:34:13"..six...five..."
1:34:13 > 1:34:15"..four...three..."
1:34:15 > 1:34:17Get out of the car.
1:34:20 > 1:34:23- Tell him to stay off the phone. - 'But you're on it?'
1:34:23 > 1:34:26- Am I clean? - Just keep walking.
1:34:26 > 1:34:32- You copy. Am I clean?- Keep moving. He's walking to the car.
1:34:32 > 1:34:35'Just to let him know you're on the way.
1:34:35 > 1:34:38- 'Give me two minutes.' - All right. I'll be in the car.
1:34:41 > 1:34:44"I didn't finish. It's in, but I don't know."
1:35:11 > 1:35:15It's loose. I got a pulse. He's up there somewhere, but...
1:35:15 > 1:35:19Let's find a way to boost the signal.
1:35:26 > 1:35:29'I don't know what Walter promised.'
1:35:29 > 1:35:32A miracle worker! On the phone, 20 minutes ago. Direct quote, OK?
1:35:32 > 1:35:35- "I'm sending you a miracle worker." - He misspoke.
1:35:35 > 1:35:40About how you're the firm's fixer? Or that you're any good at it?
1:35:44 > 1:35:47- (KNOCKING) - We're up. Just got a signal.
1:36:09 > 1:36:12There's nothing back this way. What's he doing?
1:36:12 > 1:36:15Maybe he's lost. Wait a minute. That's him.
1:36:18 > 1:36:21- He was alone, right? - Yeah, I think so.
1:36:21 > 1:36:23Call it, yes or no?
1:36:25 > 1:36:27We gotta turn around.
1:36:55 > 1:36:58- Talk to me. - It's strobing.
1:36:59 > 1:37:01No, we're good. Keep going.
1:37:16 > 1:37:19- He turned. Somehow he turned. - Where?
1:37:19 > 1:37:22- He took a left. - I don't have a left.
1:37:31 > 1:37:34- East. He's southeast. - So we missed it?
1:37:34 > 1:37:36- Or the grid is wrong. - Hang on.
1:37:46 > 1:37:49- We gotta go back to one. - Where's our one?
1:37:49 > 1:37:52Half a mile straight ahead. Keep driving. Just go.
1:37:58 > 1:38:02- We're closing, but that's west. - Is it the signal or the grid?
1:38:02 > 1:38:05- Both. It keeps dropping out. - Damn it.
1:38:54 > 1:38:56Give me the cell.
1:38:58 > 1:39:02- Our signal's good. - (KEYPAD TONES)
1:39:03 > 1:39:05(EXPLOSION)
1:39:05 > 1:39:07(HORSES NEIGH)
1:40:33 > 1:40:35What?
1:40:37 > 1:40:40- Thanks, Mickey. - Just get me out of here.
1:40:47 > 1:40:51I want a meeting scheduled on this, soon as we can.
1:40:51 > 1:40:55- Thursday at the latest. Have someone from equity there -- Jeff?
1:40:55 > 1:40:57- Yeah? - Did you hear?
1:40:57 > 1:40:59- Yeah, they closed U/North. - No. Michael Clayton.
1:40:59 > 1:41:03- What? - Car bomb. Upstate. This morning.
1:41:03 > 1:41:06- He was killed. - What?
1:41:07 > 1:41:09Holy shit.
1:41:17 > 1:41:19(SIGHS HEAVILY)
1:41:23 > 1:41:27'It has been and it remains the U/North position
1:41:27 > 1:41:32'that this lawsuit is baseless and without merit.'
1:41:32 > 1:41:35Our reluctance to negotiate was anchored by this belief
1:41:35 > 1:41:41and reinforced by the plaintiffs' demand for settlement
1:41:41 > 1:41:43in excess of 3 billion.
1:41:43 > 1:41:47The reason that we are all here today
1:41:47 > 1:41:51is that several key elements in the case have changed.
1:41:51 > 1:41:56'You all have a tentative proposal packet
1:41:56 > 1:42:00'which outlines the details, but the bottom line is this...'
1:42:00 > 1:42:03Over the past several months we had gotten word
1:42:03 > 1:42:06that the plaintiffs were growing impatient
1:42:06 > 1:42:10and were in the process of revising their settlement numbers.
1:42:10 > 1:42:15We learned that the plaintiffs' attorneys' fees
1:42:15 > 1:42:18were capped at 32 percent up to 400 million,
1:42:18 > 1:42:23above which, their fees dropped to 24 percent.
1:42:23 > 1:42:29We knew there'd be a motivational dead zone for them in the middle.
1:42:29 > 1:42:34Finally, our finance team informed us that they had run the numbers
1:42:34 > 1:42:39and that the tax benefit, provided we bring the settlement in
1:42:39 > 1:42:43under 600 million and within this fiscal year,
1:42:43 > 1:42:49that the write-off on the settlement would essentially pay for itself.
1:42:49 > 1:42:53'The package that you have before you represents, in my judgment,
1:42:53 > 1:42:58'the strongest position for our company under the circumstances.'
1:42:58 > 1:43:00And, as Chief Counsel,
1:43:00 > 1:43:04it is my recommendation that this proposal be confirmed.
1:43:04 > 1:43:08Thank you, Karen. If you just give us a few minutes to talk about it.
1:43:08 > 1:43:11Certainly. I'll be right outside.
1:43:12 > 1:43:14Well...
1:43:36 > 1:43:38How'd it go in there?
1:43:40 > 1:43:43Pretty freaky, huh?
1:43:43 > 1:43:46Did you see Arthur? He's wandering around somewhere.
1:43:48 > 1:43:50I'm kidding. Lighten up.
1:43:51 > 1:43:56You got one of these? It's a great memo. It's an oldie but a goodie.
1:43:59 > 1:44:03- I got your heart racing. - What do you think you're doing?
1:44:03 > 1:44:07- What do you think I'm doing? - The suit's over. We have a deal.
1:44:07 > 1:44:10Whatever that is, it's meaningless at this point.
1:44:10 > 1:44:12I thought you had a tentative proposal,
1:44:12 > 1:44:15didn't realise you'd signed the cheques.
1:44:15 > 1:44:18I got 1,000 of these things. What am I going to do with 'em?
1:44:18 > 1:44:22- I'm calling Marty.- Good. Do it. It's a great place to start.
1:44:22 > 1:44:27Find out who told him Arthur was calling Anna, who tapped the phones.
1:44:27 > 1:44:31This memorandum, even if it's authentic, which I highly doubt...
1:44:31 > 1:44:35- I know what you did to Arthur.- It's protected. It belongs to U/North.
1:44:35 > 1:44:37- I know you killed him. - It's a case of attorney -
1:44:37 > 1:44:40See, that's just not the way to go here, Karen.
1:44:40 > 1:44:42For such a smart person, you really are lost.
1:44:42 > 1:44:45This conversation's over.
1:44:45 > 1:44:48I'm not the guy that you kill, I'm the guy that you buy.
1:44:48 > 1:44:51Are you so fucking blind you don't see what I am?
1:44:51 > 1:44:54I'm the easiest part of your problem and you're going to kill me?
1:44:54 > 1:44:58Don't you know who I am? I'm a fixer. I'm a bagman.
1:44:58 > 1:45:01I do everything from shoplifting housewives to bent congressmen
1:45:01 > 1:45:03and you're going to kill me?!
1:45:03 > 1:45:07What do you need, Karen? Lay it on me.
1:45:07 > 1:45:10You want a carry permit? A heads-up on an insider trading subpoena?
1:45:10 > 1:45:14I sold out Arthur for 80 grand and a three-year contract
1:45:14 > 1:45:16and you're going to kill me?
1:45:16 > 1:45:20- What do you want? - What do I want? I want more.
1:45:20 > 1:45:25I want out. And with this, I want everything.
1:45:26 > 1:45:29- Is there a number? - Ten is a number.
1:45:29 > 1:45:32Ten? Ten what?
1:45:34 > 1:45:38Ten million? (LAUGHS) Where d'you think I'm going to get 10 million?
1:45:38 > 1:45:40You know what's great about this?
1:45:41 > 1:45:44At the end, did you see who signed it?
1:45:44 > 1:45:48Let's go ask Don Jeffries if he wants to pass the hat for a worthy cause.
1:45:50 > 1:45:53This would have to be a longer conversation
1:45:53 > 1:45:57- and take place somewhere else. - Where? My car?
1:45:58 > 1:46:01All right. I'm going to make it easy.
1:46:01 > 1:46:05Let's make it five. Five, and I'll forget about Arthur.
1:46:07 > 1:46:12Five is easier. Yeah, five is something that we could talk about.
1:46:12 > 1:46:15Good. And then the other five is to forget about the 468 people
1:46:15 > 1:46:18that you knocked off with your weed killer.
1:46:18 > 1:46:23- Let me finish up. I'll talk to Don - - Do I look like I'm negotiating?
1:46:23 > 1:46:25Karen?
1:46:25 > 1:46:27- One second. - Everything OK?
1:46:28 > 1:46:29Yes.
1:46:29 > 1:46:35- 10 million. Bank of my choosing. Offshore. Immediately.- Yes.- Say it!
1:46:35 > 1:46:3910 million, your account, the moment this meeting is through.
1:46:39 > 1:46:41- Karen! Everyone's waiting. - I'm coming.
1:46:42 > 1:46:45- You have a deal. - You're so fucked.
1:46:45 > 1:46:49- What? - You're fucked.
1:46:49 > 1:46:51- What do you mean? - Take a wild guess.
1:46:51 > 1:46:54- There a problem?- I don't understand. - Let me get a picture.
1:46:54 > 1:46:57- You don't want the money? - No. You'll need it.
1:46:57 > 1:47:00- Is this fellow bothering you? - Am I bothering you?
1:47:00 > 1:47:04Karen, I've got a board waiting in there. What's going on? Who are you?
1:47:04 > 1:47:06I'm Shiva, the god of death!
1:47:06 > 1:47:10Ron! Ronny, I need security out here immediately!
1:47:10 > 1:47:15All right. Here we go. That guy right there, stop him. Grab that guy.
1:47:17 > 1:47:19- What are you doing? - We're with the NYPD.
1:47:19 > 1:47:22Come with us and we'll explain everything.
1:47:22 > 1:47:26Check on her. See if she needs any medical attention.
1:47:26 > 1:47:29Nobody leaves. Cover every exit in the back.
1:47:29 > 1:47:32Will you please explain to me what's going on here?
1:47:32 > 1:47:36- Did you get all that? - Yeah. Got it.
1:47:39 > 1:47:42- You OK? - Yeah. Just got to get some air.
1:47:42 > 1:47:44Sure. Just...
1:47:46 > 1:47:48- ..stay close, OK? - OK.
1:48:56 > 1:48:58So, what are we doin'?
1:49:04 > 1:49:06Give me 50 worth.
1:49:08 > 1:49:10Just drive.