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​Stream BOSS (Season 1), the gripping, hard-hitting 2011 Hollywood political drama series that won Kelsey Grammer a Golden Globe for his powerhouse performance.
​Plot Summary:
Mayor Tom Kane (Kelsey Grammer) sits like a spider at the center of Chicago’s web of power. Effective, ruthless, and feared, he knows exactly how backroom politics are played and isn't afraid to use any means necessary to get things done. But Kane is hiding a crushing secret: he has just been diagnosed with a degenerative brain disorder (Lewy Body Dementia) that is slowly ripping away his memory, mind, and control.

​Originally released in 2011, this premium series follows Kane as he conceals his fatal condition from his estranged wife Meredith (Connie Nielsen), his staff, and his political allies. As the upcoming election intensifies, Kane must navigate cutthroat media storms, betrayal, and his own failing mind to protect his empire.

​If you love raw, gritty political thrillers like House of Cards or Succession, this 2011 masterpiece is a must-watch!
​✨ Cast & Crew:
​Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Connie Nielsen, Kathleen Robertson, Hannah Ware, Jeff Hephner

​Directed by: Gus Van Sant (Pilot)
* Genre: Political Drama, Crime, Suspense, Psychological Thriller

​Original Release Year: 2011
​Original Network: Starz
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00:03My friend, Governor Mac Cullen, is going back to Springfield again!
00:08You know what I see when I look at you, Mac?
00:10A piece of shit.
00:11A man whose moral turpitude taints the office he has sworn to uphold.
00:15The mayor has decided to double down on the state treasurer for governor.
00:18I don't think it's a good idea.
00:20Me neither.
00:23Your guys at O'Hare sitting on their asses all day?
00:26What's going on that we're not supposed to see?
00:28It's this guy from the Chicago Sentinel, Miller.
00:31His questions are getting more pertinent.
00:33I've got the results for that water sample you sent over.
00:36Your husband's told me great things about you.
00:38Sorry, Mrs. King, but I really can't discuss anything about your husband.
00:42I'm here to discuss your relocation.
00:45Dr. Harris no longer works at this hospital.
00:48Lewy body. There's no cure. I have it.
00:51I'm sorry, Dad. It's too late.
01:05Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:10Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:15I heard the voice of Jesus cry.
01:21Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:26Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:27Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:32Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:34Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:38Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:39Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:41Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:44Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:44Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:44Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:45Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:46Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:46Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:48Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:53Satan, your kingdom must come down.
02:01you know I think I'm gonna vote get registered and just do it vote it's silly
02:10it's just a primary and I know things never change just he speaks to me you
02:16know the other girls at the park you know what they call him they Jack
02:23crackerjack did you hear him in Springfield yesterday what he said about
02:28the blame game no winners only losers he's not scared he's decent and he's not
02:36scared I'm thinking yellow don't need to rip into the old man's drawers suit is
02:45one thing can't wear the same tie two days in a row it's bad luck I have a stash
02:51at the office definitely yellow it's your color mr. mayor
03:09I can make you an omelet no thanks I'm running late as it is anyway
03:26what's this something from his files he likes it when I read him things from his days in office I
03:34heard on a talk show that reinforced memory of minutia is good for the brain and seeing that
03:39those were the happiest days of his life I don't know I think he likes it see you tonight I
03:50think it's
03:50better if you don't ask me that okay
04:42I'm listening he made the splash we were hoping for in Springfield played the state treasurer card to thrash Cullen
04:48on fiscal sobriety
04:49yep he's headed to farm country photo op at a diner in Danville and it could be
04:55hostile territory it's government corporate nexus farming issues he's really not up on it there's
05:02no telling some locals won't try to turn the photo op into a one-way food fight
05:09admin failure Java select fucking people who make this shit I've scheduled a conference call for you at
05:18three to review this group with him you know get the desk jockey out there to call the guys at
05:26the in
05:28the the computer guys to help me set this thing up yes Zajac here's a better idea you meet him
05:38in
05:38Danville handle things there better on the ground on the phone especially if he does get thrown to the
05:44dogs sorry I think with everything we're reading to cover things out there thank you kitty the blame game
05:55in politics has no winners only losers is that yours or his mine it's good
06:09what is it
06:16Cullen I think we made our point he overstepped on O'Hare we embarrassed him in his run had he
06:22not
06:23understood his error I'd be advising you to run the kid all the way but I think the governor came
06:29to us
06:29and made a case he's on his knees I'd be remiss if I didn't tell you I think he's right
06:34Zajac isn't
06:37going anywhere we groom him save him play him much further down the line are you afraid of Walsh no
06:45this
06:46is about making the right play what if it's about fucking Cullen could be read wrong over hitting
06:56disproportionate emotional by whom anyone who wants to do business with the city I want disproportion
07:11yes that's the end of it on this one yes today 10 a.m. meeting with in Kohler 37th Ward
07:22science
07:23should just underbid him on the contract to deliver student lunches to the public schools in his ward he
07:28went apeshit on the phone with me and then begged for a sit-down before the contract takes effect
07:34tomorrow I know this is a sensitive one Tom with Scientia and all that but my guys and my trucks
07:42have been making good on delivering school meals longer than I've ran things in the 37th and
07:49can I speak freely fuck some Berkeley-based Johnny-come-lately who think they can roll into town
07:57and run guys like you and me out or this time tomorrow I'm gonna have some very upset drivers on
08:05my hand what do I tell a mayor Kane said he's gonna chop his wife up into little pieces and
08:14feed her to
08:15the cocksuckers at Scientia I've been a failure at Java so like huh
08:38give me a moment sure it's out
08:57what's done is done Frank
09:02I gave this one to Meredith
09:08thank you mr. mayor
09:30I'll tell her I'm busy I can't
09:43I know I've shut you out I've wondered many times if part of you could understand why part of me
09:53why are you here mom your father
09:59yeah please Emma I know he's been to see you why does he want to speak to you I'm sorry
10:06I can't help
10:06you he's been to a neurologist there's certain things I need to know I feel I have a right to
10:15know you're right you do have a right but not with me we pretty much forfeited all of those didn't
10:23we this
10:23is serious everything is serious I'm sorry if you want to know these things why don't you ask him
10:31think it's true think how things will be if you allow our difficulties to get in the way forget who
10:39I am just look at me I'm asking you to look at me as just a person can you do
10:50that
10:55here's what I know I'm not involved I need this to be clear I need it to be established I
11:03am not involved
11:05please Emma I'm sorry no
11:17when did Cody first show signs of illness he was born a little ox but then at around six he
11:23started complaining about this and that I just thought I was just trying to get out of school you know
11:28how kids are but then it kicked in headache nausea blood in his pee long story short he was sick
11:34all right
11:34uh CT scan showed abnormal protein deposits and atypical stromal cells in the damaged areas blood test and biopsy found
11:41high red cell count almost seven million per microliter and traces of TCE in his liver and kidneys
11:46TCE that's um that's trichloroquine yeah I don't know where the exposure came from whether it was ingested or inhaled
11:53anyway after battling with my insurance they went in removed the tumors ran the test and came back with renal
11:59cell carcinoma
12:02kidney cancer
12:03kidney cancer
12:06well you know what you're talking about
12:09I'm his mother
12:11of course
12:13you look more like a doctor yourself than a journalist come to think of it
12:16my mother would love to hear that
12:20always room to count blessings though
12:21a few operations around a chemo
12:23now my kid's making a comeback
12:26family down the street
12:27their kid was born the way he is
12:29at least Cody's got a fighting chance of a normal life even if he's only got one kidney now
12:33uh family down the street
12:35the Hales
12:37number 64
12:40Cody Newell
12:4111 kidney cancer as well as extensive damage to the liver possible source and trichloroethylene
12:48sorry
12:50sorry
12:51why
12:53um
12:57i
12:59i
12:59and i
13:00i
13:00an
13:00i
13:15it
13:20oh
13:21monitoring reports for any identified plumes of toxic ground water,
13:25cross-referencing incidences of illness with home filtration units,
13:29or more likely the lack thereof,
13:31run the data for cancer clusters in Bensonville and DuPage County.
13:35Where the fuck is Bentley? Why hasn't he gotten back to me?
13:38He's stuck on a call.
13:39The people of Chicago, myself included, have had their fill of news,
13:42good or bad, about the O'Hare expansion site.
13:45You might want to come see this.
13:47Though I'm low to admit it,
13:49sometimes it falls on the shoulders of those in office.
13:51No, you gotta be fucking kidding me.
13:54To admit the errors,
13:56or worse,
13:59of those long out of office.
14:02But recent findings have shown
14:03that though buried well below ground and at appropriate depths,
14:08the area in question was used by the previous administration
14:11for the disposal of toxic waste.
14:13Turn it off?
14:15Please?
14:16Now is the time to assure the people of the greater and great Chicago area
14:21that my administration has diligently been working for weeks
14:25to ensure the safe removal and relocation of the waste
14:28well outside of Illinois.
14:30I'm sure that Mayor Rutledge would like to express his regrets
14:34if he had the capacity to do so.
14:37But rather than look to our recent past,
14:39let us look all the way back
14:41to the founding motto of this great city.
14:45Herbs in Horto.
14:47City in a garden.
14:49Green it began.
14:51Green it remains with over 570 city parks
14:54and 33 miles of pristine beaches
14:56and green it will continue to be in the future.
15:00What was that?
15:01Who the fuck is Bentley?
15:05Uh, let me call you back.
15:07Tell me you had nothing to do with that.
15:09What?
15:09That!
15:10Just calm down, alright?
15:14How does that slithering piece of shit beat me to the punch, Jack?
15:18He just stole tomorrow's headline out from under us.
15:21Just like that?
15:22Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.
15:24How many times did you extend your deadline already?
15:26I told you how deep the muck is on this.
15:28I'm not writing a fucking book review.
15:29Sometimes I wish you would.
15:31My fucking bad.
15:33For thinking that you might be the one
15:35to break an honored tradition around here
15:37of jerking off the mayor's office from its back fucking pocket.
15:40You were found trespassing on the site.
15:42Don't lay this all on me.
15:43Doing my job.
15:46What? What do you want me to say?
15:50What, did you call him or did he call you?
15:54Yeah.
15:55What's the difference?
15:58For excellence in journalism.
16:01It's heavy.
16:14Give me a second, fellas.
16:17Hi.
16:18Wasn't sure I'd ever see you again after last week.
16:20Okay.
16:26How long do you have?
16:28I don't know.
16:30A while.
16:31I hope a long while.
16:35Are you in pain?
16:36No.
16:37Not yet.
16:40Well, I came to say that if you really want to make this work,
16:45we should try.
16:48I do.
16:51There have to be some ground rules.
16:54Yes.
16:55No unannounced visits.
16:57Okay.
16:59So what would you call this then?
17:02Listen.
17:04You come by unannounced whenever you want.
17:07Okay.
17:09Cell phone only.
17:10I don't really want you calling today.
17:13We could try email.
17:17I have a Blackberry.
17:19And a laptop.
17:23Somebody's got to protect us come cyber war with China.
17:30No.
17:31Mom came to see me.
17:32She knows something's up.
17:33Did you?
17:34No.
17:35Don't worry.
17:38Listen, I'm...
17:40I'm sorry if I put you in between us like that.
17:46Well...
17:47Once upon a time, that was all I was after.
17:57I have to go.
17:59Can I give you a ride?
18:01No.
18:02Thanks, Seth.
18:03Bye.
18:05Bye.
18:13Ezra Stone.
18:16Ezra Stone?
18:17Ezra Stone.
18:19Hey.
18:19Enough with the fucking Ezra Stone.
18:22How about you're a stone?
18:25As in good is dead and gem pop if you don't start talking.
18:28You've been busted, shithead.
18:30Game over.
18:31We got you.
18:34Ezra Stone.
18:38Fucking douchebag has me Googling Ezra Stone.
18:52Hey.
18:54Welcome.
18:55I didn't think you'd make it out of here on such short notice.
18:58Neither did I.
19:00We can use the hotel conference room if you'd like.
19:03No, this is good.
19:09Number six, genetically modified seeds and the impact on family farming.
19:15No, don't get me started.
19:16You don't want to touch this subject with a 10-foot pole.
19:19Among other subjects?
19:20Number seven, subsidies problem.
19:23Typically, the wealthiest 10% of recipients in the program receive upwards of 75% of all farm subsidies.
19:29With an average total payment of roughly $450,000 per recipient over the last 15 years.
19:34The bottom 80%, roughly nine grand per recipient.
19:37Hence the plight of the family farm in places like Danville.
19:40Hence a photo op instead of a speech.
19:42I know the script.
19:43Push come to shuffle.
19:46Number eight.
19:47You know, I've run for state office before.
19:50We're on a different scale here.
19:53What is with you?
19:56You aren't in this race, but for the grace of the mayor.
20:00Treasurer's one thing, governor's another.
20:02So if he's concerned about how you fare in hostile territory on subjects that aren't your strong suit,
20:06you will oblige him, do the work, and prove his concerns unfounded.
20:11Sure.
20:12Let's work at answering without answering, shall we?
20:17Number nine.
20:20This is our contract, Mr. Kohler.
20:23Scienches.
20:23It wasn't a challenge to see who could get here first.
20:26And frankly, the fact that I've had to come down here in person to remind you how the free market
20:30works is a bit ridiculous.
20:32We want it. Period.
20:34Shove it up your ass.
20:35All that contract's worth is shit.
20:38With the mayor's promise that the delivery route is mine!
20:41Has been for a year!
20:43Do it!
20:45Are you scared?
20:47Take him out!
20:48Take him out!
20:51The mayor is not involved in matters pertaining to Sciencia.
20:54He's involved in everything pertaining to everything.
20:59Let's call him right now.
21:01No thanks, asshole.
21:04That has to be a misunderstanding.
21:05I recall a pretty strong talking to you gave me not so long ago about your concern with appearances.
21:12What do you think this scene looks like right about now?
21:14Listen to me.
21:16You keep things calm over there, I'll have this straightened out immediately.
21:20I certainly hope so.
21:23Interdependence, Mrs. Kane.
21:24Yes?
21:25The usual cronyism cannot interfere with our mutual goals.
21:30Keep your phone closed.
21:31It always is.
21:34I can't remember the last time Governor Cullen came through Danville.
21:38Well, that just isn't right, is it?
21:40It's his loss, though.
21:42Now or in November?
21:44Both.
21:45Yeah.
21:46More coffee?
21:49Uh, just Jack Loretta.
21:51Please, let me.
21:53No, let us.
21:55We've been buying empty promises from suits like you and Cullen for years.
21:59Why stop now?
22:03Let us buy your breakfast.
22:06After all, most of us in here have the food stamps to pay for it.
22:08Thank you all for coming out, but Candidate Zajac is...
22:12Goes by Ben.
22:13What's your name?
22:16Joe the plumber.
22:21Food stamps in a bread basket.
22:24That isn't right, is it?
22:25Just isn't right, is it?
22:27You got that line on reverb or something?
22:30No.
22:31Then stop sounding like a robot and say something real.
22:35I'm two weeks away from foreclosure on land that's been in my family for five generations.
22:40Because like everyone else, I bought into the whole genetically modified wonder seed scam from the same corporations that have
22:47been trying to buy me out of business for years.
22:51What do you got to say to that?
22:52What do you mean, wonder seed scam?
22:54We were promised a better way of doing things.
22:57Instead, we've all bellied up buying their patented seeds.
23:00The seeds they engineered so they wouldn't reproduce.
23:04Suicide seeds.
23:05They've got us all hogtied so we can't grow anything without buying all new ones every year from them.
23:11It's run most of us right into the ground.
23:14You know, maybe it would help if I could see what you were talking about.
23:17Would you take me out to your farm?
23:19After you tell me your name, of course.
23:27Riley Gans.
23:31It's really nice to meet you, Riley.
23:34Shall we?
23:37Folks, it was a pleasure.
23:39I'll see you again.
23:42It's not the script. Do you know the fucking script?
23:44Yeah, I do. This ain't it.
23:48When?
23:50This morning.
23:52DEA picked him up, Olive Park. Routine sweep.
23:55Did he mention my name?
23:57Not yet. Just mine.
23:59Mine soon enough.
24:02How do you want to handle this?
24:06Is he indispensable?
24:08I need to speak to you.
24:20You said this domain is mine. And mine alone.
24:24What domain?
24:25You have a thousand other ways to pay your backdoor favors in this office.
24:28But screwing my client and making me look like a fucking amateur in the process is not one of them.
24:34What are you talking about?
24:35Frank Kohler. You overriding the contract with Scientia.
24:39Override it?
24:40Don't lie to me, Tom.
24:42I told him there was nothing I could do.
24:44Then why is the supposedly loyal ward boss taking matters into his own hands telling Bozovich he got direct orders
24:50to do so from you?
24:51What?
25:02Please fix it.
25:05And next time you hang my father's legacy out to dry, I'd like a little warning beforehand.
25:09Next time.
25:11Nice tie.
25:43Can I speak freely?
25:46Fuck some Berkeley-based Johnny-come-lately who thinks they can roll in and run guys like you and me
25:52out of town.
25:58I've been a failure at John.
26:02Huh?
26:05Give me a, give me a moment.
26:07Sure, Tom.
26:20The job's yours, Frank.
26:23Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
26:37How long ago, me and my boys were pulling in bushels by the hundreds.
26:41The kind of corn meant for humans.
26:43Not gas tanks.
26:45These days, it's just as likely the kind you eat back at the diner came from halfway around the world.
26:56Here's the thing, Riley.
26:58You're a guy who grew up in a world where self-sufficiency and making a living were two sides of
27:02the same coin.
27:08No cameras.
27:09We'll just put them down.
27:12Hey, Mike.
27:14Down.
27:17Thanks.
27:21Even 40 years ago, you were a rare breed.
27:24These days, you're a dying one.
27:27It's not how it's supposed to be in this country.
27:29This is not how our experiment is supposed to turn out.
27:32The powers that be abusing the ideals that have always been.
27:35From day one.
27:36That's why farmers like yourself took up the cause of liberty and justice for all.
27:40Couldn't have said it better myself.
27:43Well, that's my job.
27:44Now, I can't promise that I can get yours back for you.
27:47I can't.
27:48Because there are too many forces at work that even as governor, I can't control.
27:52And too many folks have come through here promising you all kinds of things that they can't deliver.
27:56But here's what I am going to promise you.
27:58Alright?
27:59I will always tell you the truth.
28:01Because you're strong enough.
28:03You're resilient enough.
28:04And you're hard working enough to take good whack at it and make it on your own.
28:08All you want from the likes of me is something that lets you have an honest appraisal of your prospect
28:12in life.
28:13Something that doesn't change.
28:15Something that tells you exactly where you are.
28:18Hell, that's one thing.
28:19And that's the truth.
28:22I can promise you that.
28:50You can get transferred to CPD then released on a technicality if your luck keeps up.
28:57Well, well. Ezra Stone after all.
29:00No.
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29:21I don't know.
29:52These guys know how to keep a secret, don't they?
30:30Emma.
30:34I know that to some, not necessarily seated here, my work with the Board of Education might seem like a
30:40pet project, but I assure you that I'm not just interested in better public schools.
30:45It's a better city that I want, as good as the one is that we have going at the moment.
30:50And the more that private funding for free education can help reapportion city revenues in other areas of need, be
30:58it redevelopment of the ports, or bandwidth structuring plans, or corporate settlement packages,
31:05the more we can achieve for our students, our teachers, and ourselves.
31:13Compelling, as usual.
31:17Speaking of common interest, mind if we gently turn the tables?
31:22By all means.
31:23This problem at O'Hare, the mayor's announcement about the waste, should we be concerned?
31:29I believe it's all as it seems.
31:31Yes.
31:33We'd be lying if we said it hadn't raised certain alarms.
31:36Its potential to damage the status quo is that as, well, talking.
31:41For instance, there's environmental legislation on the table in the council.
31:45It'd be a shame for it to gain any bite.
31:47I hate even saying it, but I have cell towers going up in Winnetka.
31:51Babe has new pollution standards at the port.
31:54Eugene, though, is enjoying it all thoroughly, licking his lips at the prospect of us in court for the foreseeable
31:59future.
32:00That won't be necessary.
32:03Tom's focus is where it's always been.
32:04It's all under control.
32:05Good to hear.
32:07How is Tom?
32:10He's fine.
32:11Why?
32:12Oh, I don't know.
32:14I've always admired the administrators among us.
32:16It takes a certain taste for self-immolation to keep at it for so long.
32:21He tends to weather the storms.
32:24He does, but the climate is different these days.
32:29There's no doubting that.
32:31Different or not, it's always advisable to be looking ahead, thinking of the future.
32:36You're here.
32:37As you and the mayor, no doubt, have been doing with this young Zajac fellow.
32:43That'd be Tom's doing.
32:45Kudos to him.
32:46The kid's a goddamn comet.
32:48That's the thing that office needs.
32:50Change on the outside, continuity on the inside, right?
32:54I wouldn't know.
32:55I haven't met him yet.
32:56Well, we'll all have that chance tomorrow night at the field.
33:00Where you no doubt, we'll give those Egyptian queens a run for their money.
33:04Where you no doubt, we'll give those pharmacists.
33:06Come on.
33:08Come on.
33:09Where you no doubt, please?
33:10Come on in.
33:10I won't know.
33:11I won't need you.
33:12Come on, we'll be able to read them.
33:13There, there.
33:14Hyelen.
33:36What?
33:42The cameras.
33:45What?
33:49Why didn't you want the cameras on today?
33:53Aren't you the one who couldn't wait to get out of there?
33:56Oh, the diner.
34:00But the way you turned it around at the farm, I mean, that's the kind of moment that comes
34:05once in a campaign, if it comes at all, and you fucking pray the cameras are rolling.
34:10Well, maybe you forgot to debrief me beforehand.
34:13I'm serious.
34:15Cain, Cullen, anyone else would have shown a bright light on that moment.
34:20Why did you go black?
34:26I don't know.
34:28If I like the right thing to do.
34:32The name of the game is publicity and how you spin it.
34:38Those few minutes with that guy who's losing his farm.
34:44You seem like a way bigger deal than any of this.
35:03We should go.
35:06We're working.
35:08We're working.
35:08No, we're not.
35:09We're getting dressed.
35:18Back to Chicago?
35:19First thing in the morning.
35:22Remind me when you're back next.
35:27Not soon enough.
35:38Are you gonna get that?
35:43Nope.
35:47Do you mind?
35:52You have to hook the little top thing first.
35:54Oh.
35:55Okay.
35:56Is this how you do it?
35:57Yeah.
35:58Like that?
36:00What?
36:02Like this?
36:03Yeah.
36:03Like that.
36:04Like that.
36:06Like that.
36:16This fucking belt.
36:44Thanks.
36:46I'm impressed.
36:50With everything.
36:52What you're doing here, how you're doing it.
36:55Thanks.
36:56I mean it.
36:57I know.
37:01Listen, these are expensive.
37:04Sure it isn't a problem.
37:06It isn't for me if it isn't for you.
37:08And no one...
37:09No, don't worry.
37:12Oh, look, there's more here than we talked about.
37:15Just put the rest of it toward the clinic.
37:18You don't have to.
37:19Yeah, just think of it as an advance on a grant from City Hall.
37:24One I'm gonna arrange for shortly, whether you like it or not.
37:30Okay.
37:32Hey.
37:36Lighten up, kid.
37:39It is what it is.
37:47What do you mean you won't drive me home?
37:49It's like six more blocks.
37:50Dog, I told you I'm picking someone up, man.
37:52Fine by me.
37:54Pick her up.
37:54Drop me off.
37:56Then do what you gotta do.
37:57Will you get out and get some exercise, you lazy fuck?
38:00Aight, aight.
38:01Chill.
38:02Man, man.
38:04I'm on for the road, though.
38:06Man, not here.
38:08Man, what the fuck is up with you?
38:10Who you trying to be for this girl?
38:12When my boy buys a 40 and a blowjob on Valentine's Day,
38:15calls it a date, and then tells me how to roll?
38:19Man, you're tripping, man.
38:20You can't beat two people at once, D.
38:21Don't try to beat someone you ain't.
38:25You'll end up hating her more than you ever loved her.
38:38Go.
38:40Aight, man.
39:01Mission accomplished?
39:03Yeah.
39:04Thanks for getting that.
39:06Yeah, my guy says some pretty powerful shit.
39:11Who's it for?
39:12Um, a friend.
39:16A friend I need to know about?
39:19No, relax.
39:20There's nothing to worry about.
39:21I'm just saying.
39:23I am who I am, and I do what I do.
39:27You know?
39:29What are you talking about?
39:30I don't know.
39:31I know.
39:45I don't know.
39:47I know.
39:48I know.
39:49You know, I know.
40:14Not sure how much Eldon has left, pitch count getting up to about 9 to 250 for that last pitch.
40:21Two and two of the count stands in.
40:24One man almost over.
40:38There's a wrong hit to the right side, up the line.
40:41What, Mike?
40:42What, you want my car keys for a tip?
40:51Really?
40:52This is cause for a workday bender?
40:57Yellow-bellied editors.
40:59Drunken journalists.
41:00It seems as though neither of us can escape the Chicago cliches at the moment.
41:05Seltzer and Lime?
41:06So, let me get this straight.
41:09You convinced me that this story is far bigger than some unknown toxic waste dump.
41:13That it's sick kids in Bensonville and DuPage County being poisoned by groundwater.
41:19You extend your deadline not once, not twice, but three times.
41:22Then Kane beats you to the punch, announcing the dumps.
41:25So you walk away from the bigger story about the kids licking your wounded ego?
41:29Is that it?
41:32You do know how to edit a story, Jack. I'll give you that much.
41:35Oh, please.
41:36If the give and take between Chicago news and politics is such a problem for you, why not go cover
41:42the scene up in Skokie?
41:43Why don't I write a story about you and your shit-ass ways, you fuck?
41:50You can't beat the system, Sam, if you waste all your energy hating it.
41:56Royco.
41:57Think he, uh, stayed a thorn in Daley's side by quitting the paper?
42:02No.
42:03He wrote it out for the day when better tools would come his way for a bigger, better fight.
42:09But keep drinking.
42:24Hello.
42:27Yeah.
42:32Okay.
42:49Governor.
42:52Please, sit. Have a seat.
42:59Something tells me you take yours neat.
43:04Neat's good.
43:11Relax, son. We're not doing anything wrong here.
43:16What are we doing?
43:19I have to ask you a question, and my guess is nobody in Kane's camp has thought to ask it.
43:24I'm not sure what you mean.
43:26What happens if you lose?
43:29Have you considered the consequences?
43:32Professional, emotional, otherwise, if you actually lose in the end?
43:35Not to me, not in the primaries.
43:38This rate will probably hand me my ass something bad come election day.
43:41But after that, it'll be you against Walsh and the generals and all bets are off.
43:46What if, in the end, you lose?
43:49To a woman I've beaten three times.
43:53Always a possibility.
43:56Not one you've properly considered, it seems.
43:59I mean, caught up as you are in the heat of the moment, naturally.
44:03But lose to Walsh, who cut her teeth as a page in the 68 convention while you were still in
44:09diapers.
44:10Then what?
44:12You fade from public memory like a photogenic flash in the pan who bit off more than he can chew.
44:19Yeah.
44:21I beat her next time.
44:24Losing to you didn't stop her from running again and again, did it?
44:27The difference is, she's her own candidate with her own agenda.
44:32You know, Tom Kane's puppet.
44:35Semantics don't interest me.
44:37My point is, I was his guy too, once.
44:41And look where that has gotten me today.
44:44You think Kane is going to treat you any better?
44:46Not if, but when the weather turn.
44:49What then?
44:50When he won't even take your calls and the entire Cook County machine is out to erase whatever future you
44:57had.
44:58It would be a shame to see someone of your caliber disappear before he even turns 40.
45:05Why are you telling me all this?
45:08Why not let me fall flat on my face and get my comeuppance?
45:12Because?
45:16There's a different view of the world from the one you have at the moment.
45:22If you want to see it, there's a certain group of people in Chicago I'd like you to meet.
45:28Now bottoms up before your staff begins to wonder where you are.
45:42Thank you for the bourbon.
45:48What the fuck if I'm the one who has to answer for all that waste on Judgment Day?
45:53Makes you wonder what the bigger waste is though.
45:55Food?
45:56Or the capital spent on keeping Kane happy?
45:58The thing that gets me?
46:00He's always true to his word.
46:01You might not have liked his word, but at least you can count on the fact that he would carry
46:05it out. Opposition be damned.
46:08Now though?
46:09It was the time, Frank.
46:11The what?
46:12Change.
46:13That's what you're saying, right?
46:15The Kane has changed.
46:17Well...
46:18What?
46:19Unless hold them to it if change is in the air.
46:22If we don't act now, we may lose the opportunity of both our political lifetimes.
46:29Talking you and me leading the charge?
46:32I'm talking you simply joining a groundswell already in motion.
46:44Nothing like extinct species and bygone kingdoms to put our own affairs in proper perspective.
46:51Though our counterparts of Ancient Egypt were not above certain burial rites to ensure them immortality, which in some cases
46:59money could buy.
47:02Being interred with such goods for the journey as jewelry, food, combs, ladies take note.
47:08These corpses were often given funerary texts with instructions to help them navigate the afterlife.
47:16If only such instructions were given to us upon entering this one.
47:20For it is this life and this life alone with which we are concerned this evening.
47:26Thanks to the Chicago Children's Cancer Fund and your generous support.
47:32As this T-Rex can attest, nothing lives forever.
47:37All these brave young souls ask us is that we help them live longer and better.
47:55Well, that's over with.
48:09I'm surprised the governor would show up in even the same zip code as you.
48:12Who knows?
48:13Maybe he's looking for a psychopatist.
48:16Yes, of course.
48:18I'm very glad to hear that.
48:24Hey, what's this we hear about you?
48:27Oh, Meredith.
48:28Gentlemen.
48:29This is Anna.
48:31Mr. Zajac.
48:33Pleasure.
48:34Half as much as mine.
48:37I was just saying the word has been here just knocked the socks off some belligerent farm folk on the
48:42trail this week.
48:44And what was that about?
48:46Just trying to put the heart back in the heart, man.
48:49Now, how terrible the slogan is that?
48:51Yeah.
48:52Blue form's better than terrible.
48:54Excuse me.
48:56I'll work on it.
48:58Please.
48:58Pretty much.
49:01The mayor's out front in 10 minutes, Frank.
49:03You should have gassed up beforehand.
49:05You're not out there, you're fucking fired.
49:08Oh.
49:09Mrs. King.
49:17You know, when the Pharaoh died, his handmaidens were buried with him.
49:22The end of his life was the end of theirs.
49:28Imagine.
49:31I guess that's one way to ensure allegiances, even past the grave.
49:37Does the maid have plans to serve or even woo the next leader?
49:48God knows they probably tried, though.
49:52Then again, we've come a long way, haven't we?
50:00Yes, we have.
50:32We don't throw parties like this in Springfield, you know.
50:34Then one of us should do something about that.
50:37Are they here?
50:39The people that you want me to meet?
50:42Is this your way of saying yes?
50:44They are.
50:45All of their eyes are on you.
50:48They are coming up.
50:49Who's this way?
50:49They are over this way.
50:50Backers.
50:50The other one right here, please.
50:51Go right here.
50:54Great, thank you.
51:13Congrats on that.
51:15Send it up in the mailroom somehow.
51:18The hell is Rosebud?
51:20Citizen Kane?
51:21Haven't seen it.
51:23Great. Generation Y.
51:25As in, why bother?
51:26I'm going to pretend that you didn't just say that.
51:49You all right?
51:50You know what the problem is these days?
51:52When the internet and cable news have turned every clown out there
51:55with a leak into Deep Throat,
51:57you don't know whether something's the lead of a lifetime
52:00or just pure chumpy.
52:02So what is that?
52:20Mrs. Kane, I thought you would have called.
52:25Why?
52:25This is a bad time for you?
52:27Weren't that upset his stomach?
52:30It's for your husband, ma'am.
52:33He's been coming over lately.
52:36Sometimes late.
52:38For dinner.
52:41So I gather.
52:44Looks like you're low on milk.
52:46Why don't you ride?
52:47Get some.
52:48I'm really not supposed to leave your father alone, ma'am.
52:52We'll be fine.
53:12He made the announcement yesterday.
53:13In case you heard it on the news.
53:17Dragged your name through shit.
53:22Don't blame him for it.
53:23It was the right play to make.
53:27It's just...
53:28the way he did it.
53:32It's the one thing you could never reproach him for.
53:35His commitment.
53:37His steadiness.
53:41He seems to be...
53:45I don't know.
53:49I don't know what's happening to him.
53:52I don't know.
53:55I don't know.
53:58I don't know.
54:09I don't know what's happening to him.
54:36You didn't deserve it.
54:39Everything we've done, I'm so sorry.
54:45I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.
55:23I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.
55:37I'm so sorry.
56:19I'm so sorry.
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