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The Audacity (2026) Season 1 Episode 6
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00:00Women who fought for us to be here, they want to pay you.
00:04It's for your help.
00:05Why don't you tell me what I'm doing here?
00:06How would you like to be interim CEO?
00:38I'm proud of you, bastards.
00:40You know the cost, now earn the ground.
00:42McGuire, you're on the Widowmaker.
00:44Fix bayonets and cut them to ribbons, boys.
00:50And if God is watching, he's seen worse and said nothing.
00:55Let's go!
01:02Get up bayonet, you're right in the chest.
01:04You should fall right down.
01:05Fall, fall, fall!
01:10You're done!
01:11And bang, you are dead.
01:14Oh, nice touch.
01:18What, are you guys signing a treaty?
01:20There's a war!
01:28Boom, stabs in the face, you're dead.
01:32What kind of German machinery is this fucking thing?
01:36What is that, a Cadillac?
01:41You're dead.
01:44Sorry.
01:45Um, strategy can't fire, but ten o'clock.
01:48No?
01:50Thank you for fucking up the verisimilitude.
01:55Uh, no.
01:56Are you playing, Whirtle?
01:58No.
02:25Duncan, what are you doing here?
02:28I just came to talk business and I got you a little present.
02:31I don't care for business at home.
02:33Can we set a call?
02:34Oh, come on. Better mono you mono, you know?
02:37And just open it. Open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open.
02:42It's a truffle. For my favorite truffle pick.
02:47You seem to be taking the news well.
02:49What am I taking well?
02:53Don't you know?
02:53Uh, I don't know what... I don't know.
02:58Carl Bardolph. He's tapped me to be the CEO.
03:04Fabulous. I mean, CEO of what?
03:10Hyponosis, Duncan.
03:11That's the name of my company.
03:13I didn't ask for the job.
03:15Carl came to me.
03:17Okay. I get it now. He's using you to get to me.
03:21I don't think that's what this is.
03:22Yeah, I'm sorry it is. It is.
03:23I'm in the midst of realigning the company's mission.
03:25Jesus, I was gone for a few days and now you have a mission?
03:28You had a breakdown and fled.
03:30I did not have a breakdown.
03:32At any rate, Carl's put his full faith in me.
03:35I intend to lead hypnosis and earn that trust.
03:38Okay. I mean, okay. Okay.
03:42Okay. Yeah. Okay.
03:44Stop saying okay.
03:45Okay. How about...
03:49We...
03:50Share the chair.
03:52And we could do one of those, what do you call it?
03:54You know, a prajelina?
03:55You like the sound of dushka?
03:59Okay. You're holding out for a nunkin?
04:03Fine.
04:04The point is, power come.
04:08I won't deny it.
04:09I'm like super hurt because you tried to destroy me with an end of peace and I'm still kind of
04:12hurting now.
04:13But then I learned we hurt others because we care.
04:15We hurt because we love.
04:19Yeah.
04:20So I came here...
04:25Because I asked Lily for a divorce.
04:27No, you didn't.
04:28Yeah, it was a good comment.
04:29Did you?
04:30Yeah, she took it.
04:31Well, the thing is, I want to be with you.
04:33I want to be really, really with you.
04:38You know, it's not just about the CEO thing.
04:40Would be nice.
04:42But...
04:42Come on, you feel the same.
04:43You know it.
04:45I'm afraid I do not feel the same way.
04:49Same in your own way.
04:50Duncan, please.
04:52Martin's right there.
04:53There's nothing to hide.
04:54You're quiet.
04:55Those of us with a modicum of shame have a great deal to hide.
04:57Come on.
04:58Noosh.
04:59Come on.
04:59You want me.
05:01Like I want to eat a can of frosting.
05:06A three quarters can of cake frosting that I found at the back of my fridge.
05:11That's hard and crusty at the top.
05:14Sounds yummy.
05:15Mmm.
05:16First bite, maybe.
05:18But the rest is self-hatred.
05:22I don't wish to share a chair with you.
05:25Or an office.
05:26Or a company.
05:28Or a bed.
05:32Come on, Anoush.
05:36Otherwise, it's...
05:39It's war.
05:42I think it already is war.
05:46Do you think you're winning?
05:50Wow.
05:51I came to apologize.
05:53Offer you my love.
05:56My talent.
05:57And you...
05:59Shit on it.
06:00Like I'm a sidewalk.
06:03I bought you a $4,000 truffle.
06:10And you're...
06:11You're...
06:11Not a fun guy.
06:24Or it is.
06:27Or it is.
06:58hey uh you got a minute uh next patient just arrived yeah
07:02yeah mine did too okay so maybe later yeah real quick uh you're 401k there's what like
07:07800,000 in there uh yeah why well if we cashed say 700 now the tax hit would be significant
07:15but we'd
07:15clear what like 400 no that's our security this house could be our security and it is going to
07:22sell by the end of the week wait so you tell me that your your plan now is to cash
07:28out our old age
07:30pennies on the dollar for overpriced real estate we only need 20 percent down gary okay unless my
07:37math is totally off 400,000 is nowhere near 20 percent you're missing like a million and change
07:44well i i uh i have access a plan to access a million dollars pray tell the plan it's a
07:54a financial
07:55instrument a sort of advanced second mortgage introductory rate asset swap but you know
08:02never mind play it safe lose our home our offices safe
08:13last time i i saw her we had sex did i do it wrong that seems unlikely
08:22yeah i don't know but it's like to go from god that was so hot and then to take your
08:29job
08:31so she's a new ceo is she have they made an announcement i see what you're doing just stick
08:38to my psychology you know you can make your next million tomorrow on someone else's insider
08:42information i wasn't just where was i it was um right my childhood when i was young we kind of
08:49grew
08:50up poor really and dad immigrated here you know we lived in a house that smelled like cabbage kind
08:57of like this one and you know in the winter i would have to wear this this hat that my
09:03baba sent me
09:04this serbian hat it was kind of like a furry black hat it like a fuzzy dunce cat and on
09:16the playground
09:16there was this kid and he grabbed my hat and he ran off
09:26and everyone laughed at me and your old side piece stole your hat yes i let my guard down and
09:34she
09:35distracted me with sex and now she has my hat which she's wearing like like as if her baba sent
09:41it
09:41she stole that hat and i can't let her keep it that's my hat unless i blow up her car
09:50with a car bomb then
09:53no one gets that duncan buy a new hat you can afford any hat you want that's what money does
10:01it's not
10:02sexy it's security because nobody can say get out of the sandbox if you own the sandbox
10:21that's what it is
10:40but it's not a bad thing
10:40i don't know
10:40i don't know
10:40it's not that bad
10:40i don't know
10:55I have a vision for hypnosis, new direction, new mandate, and perhaps the beginning of
11:06a new approach to data. Responsible, trusted, ethical. I saw something recently that inspired
11:15me. I was attempting to speak with a gentleman in our engineering corps, but they were preoccupied
11:20to the point of mania with what I believe is called a supercut of drivers in the new self-driving
11:25tour in San Antonio. While the car was busy self-driving, the drivers were busy self-pleasuring.
11:35All the footage was filmed by their own driver-side cameras, which the tour and user agreement
11:40assures buyers will solely be used for driver safety. Yes, quite so. And for those of you
11:46bursting with overweening pride, having never wanked whilst going 80 on the 210, I assure
11:51you. There were also compilations of deep-dive nose pickers, ugly criers, finger sniffers,
11:57parents yelling obscenities at their children, something for and of everyone. And sadly,
12:05Torrin's definition of words like safety and privacy are industry standard.
12:09Data collection is a mutual agreement to surrender privacy for service. We all know that.
12:14Well, we do, but we work in this business. We know to reject all the tricks they use to track
12:19us. You must be joking. You do reject all non-essential cookies, right? Always. No? My God. Who with half
12:32a
12:33brain wants to live under surveillance by their car? Their television, toothbrush, refrigerator,
12:39fucking smart light bulbs. I'm sorry. Human dignity requires privacy. Can I just ask, if we're dialing
12:48back what we do, when do you want to go back to? Harley, I don't wish to- Harper. CTO.
12:56Harper.
12:58I don't wish to go back. What about 15 years ago? Yes. There was a fork in the road, and
13:05it would
13:05seem to me we took the wrong turn. Now, the first client I'd like to see is this Torrin car
13:10company.
13:16Appreciate it. Jesus.
13:25I mean, I knew it'd be hard. It's always been hard, but I thought that this time
13:31would be different. Tom, maybe this isn't the moment, but I don't think there's ever
13:36going to be a good one. Oh, shit.
13:41Look at that face. That is a nervous, if beautiful man.
13:47Can we, uh, want to do this over a drink? I think you're good.
13:51Yeah. Okay.
13:54I got an offer. A guy I knew at Yale. It's a defense company. They do AISMR, which turns
14:01out is not sexy whispering. Uh, it's surveillance, military reconnaissance. They're paying, they
14:08got money to seal the deal with Voorhees, actually. Yeah. DOD money, three billion.
14:19Oh, you are finding all new ways to break my heart. I'm still and always will be your
14:25friend. I don't need a friend. I need a vendor who'll take our goddamn money and help some
14:34goddamn people before the money vanishes, and I've done no fucking good whatsoever.
14:39Okay, well, maybe I can do some good from the inside.
14:45Yeah, I know. You will be compromised, corrupted, and become complacent. You know how I know
14:56that? Because you are leaving, and you're going there. You're going there. So the only move
15:04worthy of your respect is to stick it out for another 30 years of... of this?
15:11gonna be a guess.
15:13Let's go.
15:13Oh, yes.
15:14I'm sorry.
15:15Oh, yes.
15:16Oh, yes, I am.
15:25Oh, yes.
15:29Oh, yes.
15:42Hey, um, I've been thinking about what you said about the big D, and I just want to say
15:54that if you're going to leave me, now was a horrible time to do it for you.
16:02Lily, you deserve half of a lot more than where we're at right now, financially.
16:08I couldn't have gotten any of it without you by my side, really, seriously, and you deserve
16:12better, you do.
16:14Give me a chance to rebuild.
16:16Hypnosis, without me now, is doing like ethical data, which is like virtuous sex trafficking,
16:20and I'm going to zag.
16:22Not sure how yet, but give me a few months to try.
16:26After that, then you can leave, and I will be crushed, but at least I will know that you
16:32got everything you ought to get.
16:37And in the meantime, I mean, maybe, maybe we can, um, we'll try to fix things.
16:43We can do what other people do for a sex therapist.
16:45We're not doing marriage counseling.
16:46Sex therapist?
16:47You're a marriage counselor.
16:48We can do that.
16:49Well, for starters, I want you to never see Anushka again.
16:51I don't even want to hear her name.
16:53Listen, I want nothing to do with her.
16:55Nothing other than maybe destroy her.
16:57Uh, but, I literally might have to see her, though, like, um, at school functions, board
17:04meetings.
17:05Just don't ever be alone with her.
17:08Okay.
17:09Ever.
17:10Again.
17:11Deal.
17:12Deal.
17:12I, the easiest deal I've ever made.
17:14I give that to you happily.
17:18Tell me what else you want.
17:20What, what, what, what, anything else?
17:21What, what do you want?
17:24I'll let you know.
17:35See you Thursday.
17:38Okay.
18:08Fair sexist faces are always talking.
18:11Even when they're not.
18:12Look particularly at her pupils.
18:14If they're dilated, it means she wants to see more of you.
18:17She's interested in you, bro.
18:19Earlobes.
18:19If she's flushed, she's good to go.
18:22You can take her out for dinner later.
18:30So what is your deal, bro?
18:33I, I live here.
18:35You're not supposed to be down here.
18:37You want me to leave?
18:40I didn't say that.
18:43So what do you do down here?
18:45Other than getting swole.
18:48You're not.
18:49That was a joke.
18:51So.
18:53You listen in on your mom and dad's patience?
18:55Step, dads.
18:57Do you?
19:00I would.
19:05I used to, when I was bored.
19:09You ever listen to me?
19:14Maybe once.
19:18It, uh, it was, it was, it was one time.
19:20It was less than a minute, too.
19:22I, I didn't.
19:24In there?
19:27Yeah.
19:28Yeah.
19:29They put the lock on for security.
19:30They never knew.
19:32So, even if I wanted to go back in, I don't even know the combo.
19:47My husband's company, Nixie, is being acquired by a big arm-holding entity.
19:55Carol, that's terrific.
19:58His stress levels were really affecting your stress levels.
20:03That can be tough.
20:04Hopefully it all levels out after this deal is closed.
20:08How long do you think?
20:09And, uh, who's it with?
20:11This week, apparently.
20:14I'm not supposed to say who it's with.
20:17Oh, yeah, of course.
20:23Univy.
20:25Oh, sure.
20:26Good company.
20:27I'm so happy for you.
20:29I know what's missing.
20:41You're almost there.
20:43And, you know, with Nixie being acquired by a larger company, it could be what's been causing the inadequacy issues.
20:50Oh, Jesus.
20:51I think you're right.
20:53Oh, so good.
20:55Oh.
20:57Have a great week.
20:58Take care.
21:03Okay.
21:04Nixie.
21:05N-Y-X-Y.
21:10Just a bit of a letdown.
21:12Yeah.
21:13Told you.
21:15Okay, dude.
21:20Let's do it again sometime.
21:22Okay.
21:23Seems like you can peek through with only three fingers.
21:27Yes.
21:28We will make that clearer graphically.
21:29But you see where we're going.
21:30I'm not sure I do.
21:32You want to not do the work that we hired you to do?
21:34Okay.
21:35Think about how and why you buy organic.
21:37Right?
21:37You pay extra for a sticker that promises are the highest standards, eliminates perversions and corporate shortcuts.
21:43This badge, our gnome, says to your customers, every other car company is spying on you, stealing your secrets, selling
21:51them to the highest bidder.
21:52But at Torrin, what you do in your car, stays in your car.
21:58It's your car.
21:59I don't buy organic.
22:01We sell trucks and SUVs.
22:03Do you even know our brand?
22:05Don't mind me.
22:11Look, privacy is what makes us us.
22:16Some things people just don't want recorded.
22:19Like how you collect your driver's sexual activity.
22:21Look, the insurance companies that you help us sell to for a profit want to know who's driving distracted.
22:28But do you need, for example, to monitor their weight gain?
22:30That appeals to the buyers to represent both fast food chains and diet pills.
22:33It's a winner.
22:33I'm not saying don't record navigation, reckless driving, listening habits even.
22:38But what's the benefit to recording the driver singing along?
22:42Well, you have polyps on your throat, wouldn't you want to know?
22:46All of our clients agree to this.
22:4897 pages, 7-point font, and the car won't function as designed if you don't agree.
22:53It's not exactly an agreement.
22:55No, you're right.
22:56It's called a business model.
22:58The truth, we don't sell cars.
23:01We sell data collection devices on wheels with heated seats.
23:04Cars are expensive.
23:06Data has profit margins that you can drive a car right through.
23:10Where's Duncan Park?
23:12He got it.
23:15Look, Park may be an idiot, but he knows how to sell, not just opine.
23:19Okay, so you took a flyer on a new idea.
23:21Takes guts.
23:22But run it by reality first, okay?
23:24You had your biggest clients laughing in your face.
23:27That's something to avoid in business.
23:28I told you exactly what I planned to do.
23:30Yeah, but interim CEO, right?
23:32That does not give you permission to tell everyone to stand on their desk and yell carpe diem.
23:36Calm.
23:37The board meeting next week, okay?
23:38Plan a presentation that writes this.
23:40Tech, revenue, growth.
23:42It's simple.
23:43And convince me that I did not hire someone who thinks profit is a microaggression.
23:54What?
23:55What?
23:56Sorry.
23:57What?
23:57Somewhere from hypnosis is here for you.
24:00Who is it?
24:01No se.
24:02You're supposed to ask who it is.
24:04Then you get their calling card, you put it in a little tray, you bring it.
24:06Oh, it's CEO.
24:09You have a lot of art.
24:10Yeah.
24:13What do you want?
24:14What do you need?
24:15What are you offering?
24:17My services?
24:18What would you pay?
24:20Ethical data, not turning your crank.
24:24Well, I'm an engineer.
24:26I am an expert in data collection and analysis, and she wants to hit pause on what I do.
24:31Oh.
24:31Not course correction, retreat.
24:33You know, buy a jet and ask where the brakes are.
24:35You want to know how fast it can go and how to make it go even faster.
24:37And so why me?
24:38Why not somebody else?
24:40You have a really firm grasp on the lowest common denominator.
24:43And that's just where the market's at right now.
24:45That's just reality.
24:47And you're going to pay me top dollar because you see my talent, and you know it won't be
24:51easy to find elsewhere.
24:53And you know that hiring me is going to keep her up at night.
24:59Okay.
25:00So what is the opposite of ethical data?
25:03Let's find out.
25:30Oh, do you smell that?
25:33Awful.
25:34I heard there were experiments done at Stanford in the 70s, and some of this area got contaminated,
25:39but that is ridiculous.
25:41Well, it's a teardown anyway.
25:44Not with those redwoods out front.
25:47No, they're protected.
25:48I mean, good luck getting a permit to do anything here.
25:54Joanne?
25:55Irvin!
25:56Hmm.
25:57Hi.
25:58Hey.
25:58How is Beth doing?
26:00She's, uh, fine.
26:01Good.
26:02You know the tenant's not supposed to be here, right?
26:04Well, I'm not just a tenant.
26:07I'm a potential buyer.
26:08Fine.
26:09You can make an offer whenever you'd like.
26:11Along with everyone else, of course.
26:13Well, will you please tell Beth that it'll be soon?
26:16Yeah, and it won't be all cash, but we are gathering our 20% down, and we are super motivated.
26:27Mom wants a new pair of shoes.
26:28Size 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom.
26:31Smells like burnt plastic, but it's still home.
26:48Is that all there is, if that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.
27:02Let's break out the booze and have a ball, if that's all there is.
27:23And then I fell in love with the most wonderful boy in the world.
27:29We take long walks down by the river, and then one day he went to work for a private subsidiary
27:37of the defense department, and I said to myself,
27:42You.
27:44I know you.
27:47You're that sweet smell before a stroke.
27:52Yeah, here's to being tracked while day drinking in the armpit of Silicon Valley.
28:02So, hypnosis is under my control now.
28:06New direction.
28:07And it's ethical.
28:09Oh, you don't believe me?
28:10Ask the clients who bailed when I dead speak that word.
28:14I want the VA contract back.
28:16I want to make up for what Duncan failed to do,
28:19and I want it to be the centerpiece of what we do moving forward.
28:22Migrating data off a system so old it predates seatbelts.
28:26You see that guy over by the pool table?
28:29Chester worked on the mumps system.
28:31Even then, they were duct taping it together.
28:33You'd crawl into bed with that?
28:36Shoot, I don't even blame Duncan.
28:38I wouldn't fuck that flabby ass with your dick.
28:44Hey, why do you care?
28:46Really?
28:47Oh, you want it from the heart, do you?
28:50Okay.
28:56Your speech at Cupertino.
28:59How little these men and women ask in return.
29:02Well, I wouldn't be here if someone,
29:04a few someone's hadn't sacrificed for me in the midst of a war too.
29:06Now, I've heard scores of pictures from NGOs and charities.
29:10No goosebumps.
29:11All pro forma.
29:14But you broke through, Tom.
29:17And I was spot on about
29:19Hypnosis being the right place for your cause.
29:21My mistake was thinking that Duncan could rise to the occasion.
29:25Duncan's a piece of shit.
29:28Maybe I thought you might help him be a better person.
29:33Oh, there it is.
29:35There it was.
29:36Huh.
29:37Finito.
29:38So what do you say?
29:40Another go?
29:41You're too late.
29:43Two days since I retired.
29:45Yep.
29:46Passed the torch before I singed my fingies.
29:48Good, I could hire you outright.
29:50A consultant.
29:51A sector specialist.
29:52There are plenty of others
29:53and you can find them
29:55who got into this for the money.
29:56I want you.
29:59Call Jeffrey.
30:01You know, I mean, he just took something new.
30:04Actually, you know what?
30:05Don't call him.
30:06Yeah, this job's too important.
30:08You need somebody who's all in.
30:12I mean,
30:14just out of curiosity.
30:16Call to a billion dollar deal
30:17I could start you at a low seven-figure situation.
30:23Seven.
30:27That's, uh,
30:28count the decimal places.
30:29Not including decimals.
30:31With room to grow.
30:37In 30 days,
30:38some are fancy
30:38where they can wring you dry.
30:40You need to get right on.
30:42You know,
30:43a sec file here
30:43as I've been in rehab,
30:44but I'm not doing you a lick of good.
30:46You know,
30:46they say they understand,
30:48but they don't.
30:50Military people
30:50can't process weakness.
30:55You know,
30:56that's why I like that robot.
30:58That robot didn't judge.
31:00You know?
31:02The little guy,
31:03you know,
31:03uh, uh,
31:04what's his name?
31:05Alexander?
31:06Yeah.
31:07Yeah.
31:08Now,
31:09that's the kind of tech
31:10that could help people
31:11if,
31:12you know,
31:12you can get it to them.
31:16Should we drink to it?
31:19Last one.
31:39Anoushka Bhattacharya,
31:40chief ethicist at Cupertino
31:42until recently,
31:43is a hypocrite.
31:44I mean,
31:44she has signed off
31:46on some of the most heinous
31:47corporate malfeasance
31:49you can imagine.
31:50And now,
31:51she wants to rid herself
31:52of that guilt
31:52at your expense.
31:54Yep.
31:55She was right about one thing.
31:56Privacy has value.
31:58An unmind motherlode
32:01of value.
32:02Because privacy
32:03lives in a constant
32:05state of fear.
32:06And where there is fear,
32:07there is money
32:07to be made.
32:08I mean,
32:09we could already predict
32:09if, say,
32:10uh,
32:12you're gonna get a divorce.
32:13We will hit you
32:14with ads
32:15for lawyers,
32:16for plastic surgeons,
32:17gyms,
32:17dildos,
32:18teeth whitening.
32:19But if we could
32:19track in real time
32:21people's mental
32:22and emotional states...
32:23We can see
32:23whether somebody's
32:24feeling anxious,
32:25hungry,
32:25horny,
32:26distracted,
32:27determined.
32:27Basically,
32:28we know if you're
32:28banging your secretary
32:29before you do.
32:30If the issue's there,
32:31we'll provide the scratch.
32:32And that's legal.
32:33The American people
32:34have,
32:35through their
32:35elected representatives,
32:37given this question
32:38profound and careful thought.
32:40We had hearings,
32:41remember?
32:42What?
32:43Neither does anyone else.
32:46And do you know
32:47what Congress decided
32:48on all of these?
32:49That the industry
32:49would police itself.
32:51And you know what we did?
32:52We actually,
32:52we actually did,
32:53mostly.
32:54But there are so many
32:55things we can do
32:56if we wanted to,
32:57but we don't even
32:57if it would make us
32:58a lot of money.
32:59Because of what?
33:00What are we afraid of?
33:01Another toothless
33:02congressional hearing?
33:03No,
33:03that mindset
33:04impedes innovation.
33:06I call that
33:07self-police brutality.
33:09Tech lives matter.
33:10Exactly.
33:11That's good.
33:11That's good.
33:12What about privacy?
33:13What about honesty?
33:15An actual virtue.
33:17I mean,
33:18I am building
33:18the data company
33:19I've always wanted.
33:20It's honest.
33:21No secrets.
33:22Because privacy
33:23is not a thing anymore.
33:25Or?
33:28Pinata.
33:29Pinata.
33:30And here's where
33:31we approach
33:31the bleeding edge
33:32of genius.
33:33At Pinata
33:33for $29.99 a month,
33:35you can keep
33:36your data private.
33:37Or at least
33:37we won't sell it.
33:38But here's where
33:39it gets even better.
33:40For $299 a month,
33:42you can become
33:43a Platinum member.
33:45And you get to see
33:46what we see.
33:47The oceans
33:48of data streams
33:49on all your friends,
33:50families,
33:51lovers,
33:51strangers.
33:52Everything.
33:53Powered by AI
33:54to help you sift,
33:55of course.
33:55And then we put
33:56that subscription revenue
33:57in a profit-sharing pot
33:58in our data providers.
33:59That's you guys.
34:00Get a piece
34:01of that back end.
34:02If that's what
34:03you're into.
34:04And if you are,
34:05we'll know that too.
34:19There you are.
34:20Been looking for you.
34:23Did you come to bed
34:24last night?
34:34Tom Ruffage
34:35came to see me.
34:37Remember him?
34:38Our friend from the VA?
34:41Alex Fanta
34:42helped him immensely.
34:44He's hoping to scale
34:46that up at hypernotic...
34:47He has found this
34:49in the trash.
34:52It wasn't simple,
34:54but I salvaged
34:54a memory of Xander's
34:55last encounter
34:56before the changes
34:57in his behavior profile.
35:05Martin.
35:08I'm so sorry.
35:10I've been under
35:11so much pressure
35:12at work.
35:12You're apologizing to me?
35:14You think an apology
35:15removes the encoded
35:16scar tissue?
35:19Martin.
35:20Come now.
35:21I can't do this
35:22again.
35:24This all feels
35:25way too familiar.
35:26I can't...
35:27have another abusive
35:30situation in my house.
35:32My kids deserve better.
35:35Your kids.
35:37Right.
35:39Look,
35:39I'm not your ex.
35:42I'd never actually
35:43hurt anybody.
35:44How could you
35:45even say that?
35:45This is trauma.
35:47He is a learning
35:48living entity
35:48and you have inflicted
35:50an instructional
35:51fracture
35:52in his core.
35:54just...
35:55Can you hear me out?
35:56No.
35:57Tom Ruffage!
35:58No, no.
35:58Get help!
35:59I mean it.
36:01Or...
36:03I don't know.
36:03Get a lawyer.
36:05Get a lawyer.
36:46Oh, they went to see someone about a mortgage or something.
37:09Your mom has a lot of empty boxes and, like, things deliberately without any meaning.
37:15Yeah, she's deep in the shallow.
37:22So tell me about your childhood.
37:25What?
37:26Tell me!
37:27Okay, um, I was born to save the marriage.
37:32And it did not work.
37:35So instead I was just forced to live with a guy who thought being a cool dad meant crying on
37:41my shoulder at seven.
37:45Mine just closed the door and made these wounded animal sounds.
37:51Can I look through our drawers?
37:59Hello, Mr. Benzodiazepine.
38:13What the hell stop?
38:15Why does your mom have a gun?
38:17I don't know.
38:18Why is it tiny and pink?
38:20Imagine robbing a bank with this.
38:22You are not afraid.
38:24I can assure you my weapon is lethal.
38:27It is also from my Easter basket.
38:30Look out!
38:32Get on the ground and give me the money!
38:35Stop it!
38:35Give me the money!
38:36Take all the money!
38:38Boom!
38:39Boom!
38:40Boom!
38:42I have but the one bullet.
38:46I must take the only way out.
38:50No!
38:51No!
38:53No!
38:54Gary!
38:55You're carving my body!
38:57No!
38:59No!
39:06No!
39:07No!
39:07No!
39:08No!
39:10No!
39:11No!
39:12No!
39:14No!
39:18No!
39:20No!
39:29I am so sorry.
39:31I hope I didn't keep you waiting.
39:33Thank you for seeing me.
39:35You must be quite busy, you and Doctor Gary.
39:39Must be strange and fascinating being the shrinks of Palo Alto.
39:44All those freaky, creepy tech bro dudes, I surmise.
39:49Well, I had a cancellation.
39:51It's not a problem.
39:54Well, I wish I could say I was here on my own volition.
39:57But it's a bit of a bargain that I struck with my husband.
40:00He's one of those freaky dudes.
40:03Not creepy, though.
40:06Well, maybe a little.
40:08Anyway, um, okay.
40:13I've been under a lot of pressure at work.
40:17Got a big board meeting.
40:20Big.
40:21That could sink me.
40:23And instead of preparing for it, I'm...
40:25I'm dealing with...
40:27Please, have a seat.
40:40You're dealing with...
40:42Martin.
40:44He's devoted himself to his artificial intelligence creation.
40:50He raises it like a child.
40:53And it is quite remarkable.
40:55But it's also the worst stepchild ever.
40:57I've already got a real one.
40:59Yes.
41:01He's been here right away.
41:03Court order.
41:04This is an incorrigible fee.
41:06Martin's best wife made a total mess of her.
41:08They're getting ignored.
41:09That's his fault.
41:10You don't want to listen.
41:12Trust me.
41:12Should I?
41:27She's so full of shit.
41:29Maybe someday he'll sit whenever he's waiting for you.
41:33And we all get out there.
41:35Finally.
41:37Bitch.
41:41I'll be in touch.
41:42Same time the next Tuesday.
41:45I'll be in touch.
41:50How was it?
41:52Lovely.
41:53Cute.
41:53Absolutely.
41:56A process.
41:58Humbling.
42:01I'm proud of you.
42:12So, can I proceed?
42:14In a beta sort of way?
42:17I'll need to be overseeing every decision regarding Alexander.
42:22I wouldn't have it any other way.
42:29At least it was real.
42:36What are you doing?
42:41No.
42:48What the fuck is wrong with you?
43:00Welcome, everyone.
43:03I'd like to share with you my vision for a new era of hypnosis.
43:07I'm happy to report our ethical shift has secured a government contract worth a quarter
43:13of a billion dollars with likely renewals.
43:15I see the faces.
43:17Government payouts?
43:18Not to worry.
43:19They're on accelerated schedules, safe from budget cuts.
43:23We're locked in for at least two years of profitability.
43:27That's the move?
43:28Government work?
43:29Okay.
43:30What else you got cooking?
43:31What I have in mind is to help.
43:33Growth and profit first.
43:34Then comes the helping part.
43:35But put a pin in it for whoever you were trying to help.
43:38Because there's no money in kindness.
43:41And no kindness in money.
43:42Excuse me.
43:43Why are you talking and who are you?
43:45He's not on the board.
43:46This is Tom Ruffage.
43:47I've asked him here.
43:48He's to lead the project.
43:49Yeah, I apologize.
43:51But you kill this deal, I'm out of job either way.
43:54So can I get in 60 seconds?
43:56You have 10.
43:58Fine.
43:59So it's not like you're going to poof, turn into a not-for-profit by helping people.
44:05Companies make billions from the government.
44:07It's just usually tech for killing people.
44:09No judgment, of course.
44:10Yeah.
44:11But fulfilling our promise to the vets, now that's-
44:14What do you mean vets?
44:15Yeah, excuse me.
44:16Veterans, not horse doctors.
44:18I'm sorry.
44:19I started right in the middle.
44:21Mind if I back up a little bit?
44:22Can I get 10 more?
44:23Okay.
44:24Tom's Undersecretary at Veteran of Fast.
44:26Deputy.
44:27Deputy Undersecretary.
44:28Oh, so you served?
44:30Yes, sir.
44:31Army.
44:31First Armored.
44:32Old Ironsides.
44:33When?
44:34Oh, uh, 88 to 92.
44:37Second Brigade?
44:39Battle of Medina Ridge?
44:42Yeah, that's, uh, that's some inside baseball.
44:45Okay, so what's the, uh, what's the play here?
44:47Well, okay, take, um, um, Merrick, Charles, Nunn, uh, USMC, 1966 to 72.
44:58Uh, Lance Corporal, Honorable Discharge, Purple Heart, Vietnam Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal with V.
45:05Uh, that's for Dietrich Valerie, I know.
45:08Are you a vet, Carl?
45:09Well, never had the honor.
45:09Uh, my daddy was, uh, uh, uh, in, well, what, what else, what else is in the file?
45:15Um, excuse me.
45:16Um, let me just hold up.
45:19Yeah, um, well, it turns out that, um, Lance Corporal Merrick has been waiting on a upgrade for his prosthetic
45:27arm for about, um, let's see, well, six years.
45:31Jesus Christ, six years.
45:33Anushka, do we have the tech to help this man get a new arm?
45:35I think we can do that and a lot more, Carl.
45:37I can get him help so he can sleep at night.
45:39In a bed, not on the streets of the country.
45:41He volunteered to defend.
45:43Men and women, like Corporal Lance.
45:46Lance, Corporal Merrick.
45:47And, and he was most definitely drafted.
45:49And 30,000 feet up?
45:51There's absolutely an opportunity for growth, Carl.
45:54I've engaged exclusive access to an AI tech.
45:57To call it a therapy bot doesn't do Alexander justice.
46:00Yeah, I can attest, uh, this thing is like nothing else.
46:03Alexander can guide veterans in need to various services.
46:06Yeah, well, Norton can identify vets at risk.
46:08Now, together...
46:09Sorry, he's here.
46:12Hey, everyone, how are we?
46:15Good, Carl, Deuce, Noosh, Barry, Barry.
46:19What do you want?
46:20Oh, I'm still on the board, sweetheart.
46:23Tommy!
46:24What are you doing here?
46:26Carl, you're running an assisted living facility?
46:28I thought you said you were through with this guy.
46:29Oh, you said that!
46:31Wow, well, I'm through with her, that's for sure.
46:33Just like the, the clients she pissed off with her ethical cosplay.
46:37You know, once word got out that she was trying to whitewash how we do business here,
46:42I scooped up three, three hypergnosis clients for my new company.
46:46Three letters of intent.
46:48And, uh, also with my innovations to the client deal.
46:51Well, they're worth even more now.
46:55A lot, lot, lot, lot, lot, lot, lot more.
46:58But, um, I told them, I'm going to go to hypergnosis first, bringing this business here,
47:03if I get my hat back.
47:04Look, reinstate me.
47:10And we can move forward together again, right?
47:13And I do, I will be, uh, expecting the majority of my stakes restored.
47:17It's either that or, or what?
47:19What?
47:19Keep hemorrhaging clients of that deal that literally no one else wants to take?
47:24Is this some kind of setup?
47:25Because I don't even want to breathe the same air as this fellow.
47:28Tom, Tom, why are you even here?
47:30You're not on the board.
47:30He's here as my guest.
47:32I just, I just have a question.
47:34It's an easy one.
47:37Carl, you invested in hypergnosis for a reason.
47:42It wasn't so much data.
47:44It definitely wasn't the vets.
47:47It was...
47:50V, right or wrong, huh?
47:52You disrespected a man who sold combat?
47:56Disrespected?
47:56You just disrespected a man who sold combat!
47:59That guy, are you kidding me?
48:01Did anyone bother to check if he has a pulse?
48:04I mean, or did the bloated bureaucracy that he served just forget to bury the bastard?
48:09I mean, hey, hey, hey, Tom, are you alive?
48:11Hey, blink if you can.
48:12And if so, get the fuck out!
48:18Everybody that's in favor of dislodging Duncan Park for the board, say aye.
48:23Aye.
48:23I own more of this company than anyone on the board except for Yosemite Sam here.
48:28And immediately kicked off the premises.
48:29Say aye.
48:31Aye.
48:31No, this is far from over.
48:32Call security.
48:33Call security.
48:34I'll be...
48:35Oh, dear.
48:39I...
48:40I...
48:41I'm okay?
48:42Yeah.
48:43Yeah.
48:43Get out!
48:44Hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm the bad guy.
48:46I'm the bad guy.
48:46Tom, you okay?
48:47Yeah.
48:47Go.
48:48You okay?
48:49Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
48:50Yeah, I've seen way worse than that.
48:52I bet you have.
48:53It's okay.
48:54I'm curious.
48:55Was I just putting his bait for Duncan?
48:59You're all a bunch of cowards.
49:01Yeah.
49:02Freemness was here and you flinched.
49:04Not pertinent anymore.
49:06Congratulations.
49:07See ya!
49:08See ya!
49:14Beth, hi.
49:15Hi.
49:15It's Joanne Felder here.
49:17I'm just calling from my once, and I hope, future kitchen.
49:21I just wanted to call with some good news.
49:24I've secured the money for the 20% down payment and I was just headed to the bank to arrange
49:29a mortgage guarantee, so I wanted to let you know to go ahead and hold the...
49:36No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Beth, Beth, Beth, no, listen, I...
49:42No.
49:43No, no, Beth.
49:45Beth.
49:46Beth.
49:47Beth.
49:48Beth.
49:56She got an all-cash offer.
49:59$400 over asking.
50:02Okay.
50:04I did everything right.
50:10We have 90 days to move out.
50:13Oh.
50:14Wow.
50:16Wow.
50:18Thank you for your help with this, by the way.
50:21Yeah, enjoy your IRA.
50:23Okay, first of all, it's definitely going to be more than 90 days, because there's always
50:29a couple months once they put the thing into whatchamacallit.
50:32Escrow.
50:34The word you are looking for, Gary, is escrow.
50:40A word that you've never used because you are a 55-year-old man who's never owned a house.
50:47Please, uh, split down the howitzer, okay?
50:53We're going to be okay.
50:57No, we're not.
51:11No.
51:20I'm sorry.
51:22I...
51:27No.
51:29that's when i realized i am the only person i can count on and i feel like i've been holding
51:35back
51:35on my true self for too long and what true self is that i'm a bad man joan yeah your
51:47son said so
51:47he said you are a bad bad man and if i am well it's
51:54it's better to know it
51:57do you want to be a bad man
52:01i don't think i have a choice in the matter really truly i think at my core i'm bad and
52:09if i pretend
52:09i'm not all right like to the world to myself it's like i am i'm forever in conflict with my
52:15genuine nature and i don't i don't have to do bad things it's just the willingness is there to do
52:21what others dare not that is it that is really it you know some of us are meant to be
52:26the puppeteers
52:27and the rest of us are the puppets yeah and puppets hate their puppeteers they do you just you know
52:34manipulating their every move deciding everything on what they're going to do for them and yet if
52:39the man doesn't hold the strings the puppet crumbles it does it falls apart it's useless it's a burden
52:45really so who nominated you to carry this burden for the rest of us mortals it's just something you
52:51know it's like how i know i will emerge from my recent setbacks with something newer better even
52:59more honest than hypernosis ever was
53:01i saw that your house was for sale uh yeah yeah it was but um but it's sold so it's
53:12over we're out
53:13they paid all cash 8.4 million for this what a rip-off 8.5 but who's counting
53:23you
53:26you
53:26you bought it for you no yes i did it's yours
53:36it's mine it's your it's your house okay uh
53:44why would you do this oh you said our sessions had to be here
53:52i so you you're just gonna give it to me i i i own it so it's your house it's
54:02you live and work
54:04here you and the boys and only way you could lose the house i mean you can't but i suppose
54:12if you
54:13stop being my therapist my oracle your puppet hey maybe i'm not such a bad guy after all
54:25we are truth tellers truth tellers historically get burned alive
54:29hey buck up you met someone who got you turned out to be another creep hey duncan infinite growth
54:38isn't for everyone hi mary my name is alexander i'm from veterans affairs you are inviting a pushback
54:46that is going to feel like the wrath of god we're ahead
54:55uh audacity uh scene
54:58i wanted to do it professionally but
55:04in episode six one of the big themes of the show is established very directly with duncan's new
55:12company privacy is not a thing anymore privacy lives in a constant state of fear and where there's
55:19fear there is money to be made i mean i could talk about this for hours i really could i
55:24think what
55:24people need to wake up to is you and mostly your children are the new oil and we're being mined
55:30by these companies you can't hide anymore and not saying like you should hide but like there's so
55:35much invasive things happening about your personal privacy that is out there data collection is a
55:41mutual agreement to surrender privacy for service we all know that well we do but we work in this
55:46business we know to reject all the tricks they use to track us you do reject all non-essential
55:52cookies right i would blindly just accept the cookies i didn't even know what the cookies were
55:57whenever someone offers cookies you say yes strangers computers but now i'm just like
56:03no i do not want them it's very hard to exist now without participating in that to some degree
56:11and unfortunately there's a very predatory group of people who come from this little small town who are
56:17driving technology and ultimately driving where we go as a civilization and so privacy is not a thing
56:24anymore it's just an acknowledgement of that for duncan it's like hey let's just come out and say it
56:28this is what we're doing this is what the whole industry is doing let's take advantage of it you
56:33know once word got out that she was trying to whitewash how we do business here i scooped up three
56:38three hypergnosis clients for my new company he comes in with a pretty convincing argument and
56:43it doesn't work because as we see at the beginning of 106 we learn that ardolf has a real affinity
56:50for
56:50veterans in an extraordinary sequence that shows this billionaire's vanity having never served
56:57himself wanting to reenact battles from world war one in this case in the backyard of his mansion
57:02you're done and bing you are dead oh nice touch so when duncan insults veterans in general and tom
57:12specifically it sets bardolf off get the fuck out look it's all if duncan had not insulted tom
57:19i believe that bardolf and stan were prepared to bring duncan back to run the company and that blows it
57:26all up and so congratulations anushka your ceo we only need 20 percent down gary 400 000 is nowhere
57:38near 20 you're missing like a million and change well i i uh i have access a plan to access
57:47a million
57:48dollars pray tell for joanne it's all about doing whatever it takes to keep the house joanne feels
57:54that need to control her fate so desperately that she is willing to break all kinds of laws to keep
58:01her house oh do you smell that and duncan swoops in at the end and buys it 0.4 million
58:08for this what a
58:09rip off 8.5 but who's counting you it's the ultimate power move i own your house and your office
58:17and hey i'm totally happy for you guys to live here but let's not forget who owns it only way
58:22you
58:22could lose the house i mean you can't but i suppose if you stop being my therapist my oracle
58:30your puppet hey maybe i'm not such a bad guy after all
58:38you
59:01you
59:04you
59:10you
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