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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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00:03I had a meeting with some people and they think I should quit and run for mayor against
00:09are you out of your fucking mind? Cain's talking about stepping down. This is gonna hurt. Send a
00:14set of each to Mrs. Zajac and Alden Ross. If you're lucky he may just let you still run for
00:20governor. Am I still in the race? I want names. Who did you tell?
00:30Time has come for some fresh blood at the helm. As long as I killed the story on Cain.
00:34Did you find her yet? The nurse? Not yet. We will though. Soon. I can't afford to wait. Not now.
00:42Was it you who advised the mayor to play hardball like this? What deal? They offered a 12 hour window
00:47to settle the suit out of court. To whom? Kitty. If you have anything it's now or never. My own
00:55daughter was found on the wrong side of the law. Our soul is in tatters.
01:09Satan, your kingdom must come down. Satan, your kingdom must come down. I heard the voice of Jesus
01:24cry. Satan, your kingdom must come down.
01:31him.
01:32Are he?
01:35oh
01:38Woo
01:41Woo
01:42Woo
01:44Woo
01:45Woo
01:46Woo
01:46Woo
02:08You tell me, what would you have done?
02:14Kitty, Zajac, the council.
02:16Colin, I've got no place else to go.
02:19Neither do you.
02:21Everyone knew Zajac was coming after you but you.
02:24I had to find out who else was involved since...
02:26Since what?
02:28You were blind.
02:29You lost all control.
02:30Keep talking.
02:31You let things get way out of hand.
02:33If you knew, if you were aware of it all,
02:36why didn't you stop it before it became anything?
02:39The file.
02:40Answer me.
02:40The original leaks.
02:42The dump order.
02:43I've already told you.
02:44They all came from your father's stash.
02:47I had nothing to do with it.
03:02The keys to the kingdom.
03:04I kept them in your hands.
03:08For what?
03:11Love, sex, respect.
03:18For your loyalty.
03:21We had a bond, remember?
03:23A pact.
03:24And you broke it.
03:25You betrayed me.
03:27The truth?
03:30You've never, not once ever, come close to speaking it to me.
03:35Now's the time.
03:36Because if we don't, there's nothing left.
03:37I swear I'll tear it all down.
03:40All that we have.
03:41Do not question my resolve.
03:43I got in the middle of it because you didn't.
03:45To find out who was after me.
03:47No!
03:47The truth!
03:53You're right.
03:55It's enough.
03:58It's time for both our sakes.
04:03Are you sick?
04:10Tom?
04:15Yes.
04:20What is it?
04:22You'll know soon enough.
04:23But today it doesn't matter.
04:25Because today I'm not going anywhere.
04:29By the time this day ends,
04:32every person who has plotted against me
04:34will feel the force of my wrath.
04:39No one will be left unscathed.
04:42No one.
04:44And you will have to choose where you stand.
04:49Either you believe I have what it takes to stay where I am,
04:51or you believe that I'm done.
04:54And dead.
04:57But know this.
05:00If you stay with me,
05:02it will be up to you to prove
05:05your commitment.
05:13The truth.
05:20I went to Zajac and offered him my help.
05:24I took him to McGantry for money to run against you.
05:27Anything else?
05:28I pulled Kitty into it.
05:30But the whole thing was already in play
05:32before I got involved.
05:36That's it.
05:39How little there is to say
05:41when we finally arrive at it.
05:48When the time comes,
05:52you will have to show me where you stand.
05:57When?
06:10Everything happens today.
06:36He has a press conference then he doesn't.
06:39I don't know.
06:40I'm sure Treasurer Zajac
06:42is handling things
06:43as he sees fit.
06:45But playing footsie with the press
06:46shouldn't be what this is all about.
06:48I would ask everyone
06:50to focus on the fundamentals.
06:53I've run a campaign
06:54that tried to bring real debate
06:56to some pressing issues for our state.
06:58And I look forward
07:00to the results tonight.
07:01Thank you, everyone.
07:03You have good work, Governor.
07:05Yeah!
07:07Yeah!
07:07Yeah!
07:10What do we have?
07:11Still nothing, sir.
07:13It's gone completely quiet
07:14and this thing's standing still
07:15on the ballot.
07:16Anything from Ross?
07:17Nothing.
07:18What the fuck is going on?
07:22Where are their numbers?
07:24Too tight to tell.
07:30Where's my wife?
07:33Traveling.
07:33She'll be here for the rally.
07:34All right?
07:36Good.
07:39Good.
07:41Your lock on the nomination
07:43is guaranteed.
07:44So today,
07:45when the boys duke it out,
07:46you act the statesman
07:47and let them tear each other down.
07:48Still need a jab, though.
07:50Something to really stick them with
07:51so they're damned even in winning.
07:53That's Kane.
07:54The stunt he pulled last night.
07:56The drug raid.
07:57His daughter's involvement.
07:58It was a hit.
07:59It swung public emotion toward him.
08:01But as a story,
08:02it has minimal legs at best.
08:04It'll cover him.
08:05For today.
08:06Maybe even through to the weekend.
08:07But once it subsides,
08:09he's back to being radioactive.
08:10Senator Walsh,
08:11you're tossing the pressure.
08:12This is a race, ma'am.
08:12Everyone,
08:13thank you all for waiting.
08:14I want to wish
08:15Governor Cullen
08:16and Treasurer Zaychek
08:17the best in today's primary.
08:20I've been through
08:20a few knock-down drag-outs myself,
08:23so I know the sort of toll
08:24they can take.
08:25Especially the fratricidal kind.
08:27That's brother against brother, Robbie.
08:29And when all this is over,
08:30I look forward to engaging
08:32the winner on the issues.
08:34And perhaps once they've gotten
08:36their marching orders from Chicago,
08:37they'll be able to respond.
08:39Even if only to tell us
08:40what's on Mayor Kane's mind.
08:41Thank you all very much.
08:42That's all for now.
08:46Perfect, Mom.
08:47I don't know.
08:49How can I do anything
08:50if I don't know what he's gonna do?
08:51Because you have no choice.
08:56I'm sorry, Maggie.
08:58I ruined everything.
08:59No, not now.
09:00We don't get to talk about that now.
09:02Kane.
09:03No one knows what he'll do.
09:05And as things are,
09:06he needs you to win
09:07just as much as we do.
09:10Win what?
09:11Huh?
09:12His lover in Springfield forever?
09:14To be pulled at his will?
09:16Yes.
09:17Where do you think
09:18anyone ever gets their start?
09:20Listen to me.
09:21You're gonna get out there
09:22and you are going to hide
09:23what's in your heart
09:23and put on the best show
09:25a campaign has ever seen.
09:26This election will be won
09:27by small numbers
09:28and today, of all days,
09:30will make the difference.
09:31Don't falter at the final hurdle.
09:33You have a talent
09:35to be in public,
09:36to sound interested,
09:38sound concerned,
09:39sound real,
09:39and make people believe.
09:42Use it.
09:59That's a tough thing he did,
10:01his own daughter.
10:03I'm not saying he's squeaky clean
10:06as a mayor, you know,
10:07but he does what's needed.
10:09Excuse me,
10:09and your thoughts on Tom Kane?
10:10I don't like him.
10:12I never voted for him,
10:13but I hope he and his family
10:14are okay.
10:15In recent days,
10:16the mayor has publicly shifted
10:18his political weight
10:19away from the incumbent governor
10:21and towards state treasurer Zajac.
10:24Now, it seems today's primary results
10:27could be as much...
10:27Everyone, let's go.
10:29Pitches!
10:30Pitches, sir?
10:32Come on, cough them up.
10:33The primary.
10:34Race is too tight again
10:35to tell a frontrunner
10:37at the 11th hour,
10:37so I'm looking at how accurate
10:39exit polls are in elections.
10:40History of primaries.
10:42What are they?
10:43Who selects the candidates?
10:44How far they have to tack back
10:45to their base
10:46before swinging center?
10:47Wives.
10:48Comparing them.
10:49Education, interests,
10:50mothering skills,
10:51how they carry a dress
10:52for the life section.
10:53Spotlighting life in Springfield.
10:54If Zajac goes on to beat Wall,
10:56should be one of the youngest governors
10:57in recent memory.
10:58Where will his kids go to school?
10:59All right, stop.
11:02Honestly, sincerely,
11:03who gives a fuck
11:04about this election?
11:05Nothing's changing here.
11:07Not the people running,
11:08not the way they do business.
11:10And not our stories.
11:12Here's what we're going to do.
11:14From now on,
11:15I am directing this paper's resources,
11:17that's you,
11:17towards one goal.
11:19No more business as usual.
11:21No more dusting off old stories,
11:23switching around an adverb here
11:25and a comma there,
11:26handing it in and going home.
11:27No, we are going to change
11:29things.
11:30And our first target
11:32is Tom Kane.
11:35I want your work to reveal things
11:36about him that I don't already know,
11:38and I know a lot about him.
11:41We're going to take the long view here.
11:43I'm talking about a battle
11:45of slow attrition.
11:47Day in, day out,
11:49we are going to hammer at him
11:51with everything that we've got.
11:53Slow, steady, unrelenting.
11:57Nothing sensationalist
11:58or salacious,
12:00just real investigative reporting
12:02until the picture
12:03that we have painted of him
12:05is the right one.
12:09Here,
12:10the truth will no longer be damp.
12:14Okay, thank you.
12:17We've received our court date
12:18four weeks from today.
12:20On the 3rd,
12:20we'll be announcing that later today.
12:22Everyone here deserves
12:23to be compensated for their pain
12:25so that we can finally give
12:26some meaning to that pain
12:27by making sure that this
12:28never happens again.
12:29But for that,
12:30we need to win.
12:32Now, the burden of proof
12:33is on us.
12:34The other side is going to try
12:35to convince the jury
12:36that we're using junk science,
12:38that the cancers can be attributed
12:40to other sources,
12:41carcinogens in the environment
12:43or in food.
12:44But trichloroethylene's
12:46not like asbestos
12:47where exposure causes
12:49a signature cancer
12:50like mesothelioma.
12:51We could be accused
12:52of using association
12:53rather than causation.
12:55So, our best bet
12:56is to present
12:57three bellwether cases,
12:59cases that no medical expert
13:01can refute.
13:04Which cases?
13:06We picked two renal carcinoma cases,
13:08extremely rare in children,
13:10and one infantile
13:11choriocarcinoma of the liver,
13:13also very rare.
13:14That's a tumor
13:15that starts in the placenta
13:17and then spreads to the fetus.
13:21And the rest of us?
13:22When they find in favor
13:24of these cases,
13:25the court deems
13:26the suit resolved.
13:27So, anyone not represented
13:29by these cases
13:30will have to settle
13:31for compensation
13:32through closed arbitration only.
13:35Meaning no court date?
13:36That is correct, yes.
13:38Unless compensation?
13:40That's a matter of negotiation.
13:46It is through exposing
13:47these tragedies
13:48that all of our voices
13:49can be heard.
13:54One day,
13:55each of them
13:55will go to their mailbox
13:56and pick up a check.
13:57Then all will be forgiven.
13:58You just silenced most of them.
14:00They're grieving.
14:01Yeah, of course they are.
14:03Announcing today,
14:03won't we get buried
14:04by election coverage?
14:05Buried?
14:06Kane's shadow wounds
14:07all over this election.
14:08I'm announcing today
14:09precisely because
14:10I want it out
14:11just as the first results
14:12come trickling in.
14:13Bury him
14:14in the court of public opinion.
14:15I need all the eyeballs
14:16I can get.
14:17No one else but tonight
14:18is the entire state
14:19watching TV.
14:21It's a political launching pad.
14:23Press conference
14:24is set for tonight.
14:25Yeah, when?
14:26If I were doing it,
14:27I would time it
14:27to the evening news,
14:28first results.
14:29He'll be announcing
14:30the suit and the court date.
14:32He'll have a few families
14:33with him.
14:33They'll be trying
14:34to reestablish Bensonville
14:35as a topic of conversation,
14:37wiping out the primary
14:38completely.
14:39Where's Kitty?
14:41She doesn't come in.
14:43All right.
14:44The nurse.
14:46Yeah.
14:47We got a lead.
14:48We're working on it.
14:48We're close.
14:49Good.
14:53Kitty was going to
14:53drop out of the race.
14:56Take me on next year.
14:59Can you believe it?
15:03Ross, Cullen,
15:05Mata,
15:06Collar, Solomon.
15:10Bunch of other vermin.
15:13Kitty.
15:15All of them in on it,
15:16right under our nose.
15:17Just, boy,
15:20you stop being able
15:20to see the angles.
15:22Fuck.
15:23Something this big.
15:25Making it from
15:26one day to the next
15:28isn't clean or pretty.
15:29It's messy.
15:30But if you've survived
15:32the day,
15:32then you survive.
15:33That's it.
15:34That's all that matters.
15:35And today?
15:37Primary.
15:38Yeah.
15:42The ward bosses
15:43can be swung around.
15:44They see what you've done
15:45and how it's playing.
15:48Public's outright animosity
15:49has been diverted,
15:50if only temporarily.
15:51It's not that they think
15:51of you as a good guy,
15:52but they do see you
15:53as a father in pain.
15:54They sympathize,
15:55and that's the mother load
15:57in terms of connecting
15:57with voters.
15:59What you did was,
16:02it worked.
16:04Painful,
16:05but politically it worked.
16:07They relate to you out there.
16:13Zajac.
16:13Yeah.
16:15Translate the credit
16:16you've created
16:16with the public
16:17into a win for the kid.
16:18You do that,
16:18and you regain
16:19your strategic footing,
16:20continue to swing
16:21the pendulum of opinion
16:22in your favor.
16:24Wins beget wins,
16:25and give capital.
16:31I need to work today.
16:32You broke the law.
16:34I want to understand,
16:35but I can't on my own.
16:37These matters
16:38you brought upon yourself
16:39in the church,
16:40they're serious.
16:43The clinic will no doubt
16:44close now for good.
16:45Is that what you want?
16:49There's little chance
16:50for redemption
16:51in earthly matters.
16:51Your job,
16:52your relationships.
16:53You dealt drugs
16:55illegally from the clinic,
16:56did so under the cover
16:57of the church,
16:58brought disrepute
16:59and irreparable damage.
17:01All that remains
17:02is what you have left with God.
17:03It was right.
17:04What I did was right,
17:06and I won't apologize.
17:06What you did was illegal.
17:08They don't have anything.
17:10They come to the clinic
17:11because they can't
17:12afford anything else.
17:13I broke rules.
17:15What I did was try
17:16and find a way
17:16to help people
17:17who have nothing.
17:19It doesn't work that way.
17:20What?
17:20You want me to heal
17:21my relationship with God.
17:23He let me down.
17:25What I did was right.
17:27Where is he?
17:28What are you saying?
17:30That somehow you are owed
17:32something that you can
17:33strike some kind of deal
17:34with God?
17:35You don't follow rules
17:37so that God will provide you
17:38with a safety net.
17:39The real test
17:40is when you don't hear
17:41anything at all from him
17:42and you still follow him.
17:44He didn't let you down
17:46because he doesn't owe you
17:47anything.
17:49If you never saw
17:52the transcendent
17:53in all of this,
17:54if the church was just
17:54some form of self-imposed
17:56stricture to keep you sober,
17:57how did you expect it to work?
18:07You can't trick it, Emma.
18:10That's not how it works.
18:13That's not how it works.
18:40You're not at an age
18:40where we have to worry,
18:41but I still recommend
18:43that you get screened.
18:44Amnio's a little dated.
18:45We're having much better results
18:47from nuchal translucency test.
18:50It's a new procedure
18:51that combines blood testing
18:52with an ultrasound
18:53that measures accumulated fluid
18:55behind the fetal neck.
18:56It's done in the first trimester,
18:58results in higher detection rates
18:59and it's non-invasive.
19:00We'd have to schedule you soon.
19:01After 20 weeks,
19:02we'd have to go back to amnio.
19:04And what if I choose
19:05not to have it?
19:06Oh, nuchal translucency
19:07is so safe.
19:08The baby.
19:10Well, as long as you're
19:11in the first trimester,
19:12it's a viable option.
19:15Of course, the sooner you decide,
19:16the better you're going to be,
19:17physically, emotionally.
19:21Perhaps you should take some time.
19:23It's not a decision
19:24you should have to make on your own.
19:25Is there someone you can talk to?
19:28Yeah.
19:29Well, if you do choose to terminate,
19:31we should have a discussion
19:32about harvesting your eggs.
19:34But as it stands now,
19:36everything is looking good
19:37and there's no reason
19:38why you shouldn't have
19:39a perfectly healthy pregnancy.
19:49The numbers are small.
19:50It's a primary,
19:51so margins can be played
19:52more easily.
19:54Cook County can be swung
19:55with a mere few hundred votes
19:56per ward.
19:57We hit key wards
19:58in the north,
19:59northwest,
19:59and west side.
20:00If they go our way,
20:01relationships and allegiances
20:02across the rest of the 50
20:04will ensure they go our way, too,
20:05where they can.
20:07Alan.
20:08Tom.
20:08I'm not going to keep you.
20:11I'm not going anywhere.
20:13My back's against the wall.
20:14You know it, I know it.
20:15So from where I stand,
20:17I'm only hitting back.
20:19I will survive today,
20:20I will survive tomorrow,
20:21and the next day.
20:23One day at a time.
20:25Where do you want to be
20:26when I do?
20:28What we built,
20:29we did together.
20:30Our web stretches
20:31across the 50.
20:31We're entrenched,
20:33symbiotic,
20:34our interests aligned.
20:35We work together,
20:36dispensing and managing it
20:37for the good of all within.
20:39Rebuilding the web
20:40is dangerous,
20:41difficult,
20:42and costly.
20:44It will cause upheaval
20:45and disruption
20:46of the expected streams
20:47of return on investment.
20:49It's easier
20:50not to shake things up.
20:52It's easier to let things
20:53keep ticking along,
20:54as always.
20:56Now,
20:57the illusion of change,
20:58on the other hand,
20:59is a good thing.
21:00It gives the people
21:01a jolt of hope.
21:02It makes them believe
21:02in the possibility of things.
21:04Putting Zajac above Colin
21:06does both.
21:07It gives us the illusion
21:08of change on the surface,
21:09continuity beneath,
21:11with me.
21:13This isn't personal.
21:15I'm not defending anything
21:16that doesn't already belong
21:17to all of us together.
21:18I'm defending the status quo.
21:21Tell me I'm wrong.
21:23Tell me that what we have
21:24together
21:25isn't the most efficient,
21:26indispensable,
21:28undisplaceable mechanism
21:29that can get things done.
21:30Doubt that.
21:32You doubt the reality
21:33of this city.
21:34You doubt that.
21:36There's nothing left
21:37to believe in.
21:40What do you need?
21:43This late,
21:44the margin is governed
21:45by the supposed undecideds
21:46at the center of the spectrum.
21:48The smaller their number,
21:49the greater our ability
21:49to bend that number
21:50in our direction.
21:51How much bending?
21:54We're asking you
21:55to point your operations
21:56in the ground
21:56to strategically targeted
21:58precincts.
21:59Which ones?
22:0040 to 60 percent
22:01in wards 23 through 29,
22:03low teen digits
22:03in Irving Park,
22:04Portage Park,
22:05Dunning,
22:05Montclair,
22:07Belmont, Cragen.
22:10No more than
22:10five to ten points
22:12from Westridge
22:13to all six parks.
22:21Democracy.
22:28Anything at all
22:29from his campaign?
22:30No.
22:31What am I supposed to do?
22:32Call Zajac HQ
22:33and ask the idiot
22:35at the desk
22:35if the candidate's
22:36still interested
22:37in plotting
22:37against Tom Kane?
22:38He's a no-show
22:40at yesterday's
22:40planned press conference.
22:42As things stand,
22:43he hasn't dropped
22:43out of the race
22:44and no one
22:45in Cullen's inner circle
22:46knows if the kid's
22:47really running or not.
22:48What if it was
22:48all Kane all along?
22:50What if Zajac
22:51was just a means
22:52to flush us out?
22:53Sit back.
22:55This isn't the 15th century
22:57and we're not
22:57in fucking Florence.
22:59Kane's been doing
22:59the rounds today
23:00in the friendly wards,
23:01personally canvassing
23:02for Zajac
23:03to win the primary.
23:04What the fuck
23:05do you imagine
23:05that means?
23:07Where the hell
23:08is Ross?
23:18How long do we
23:19intend to stay like this?
23:22I don't know
23:23what else we can say.
23:24It happened.
23:26It meant nothing.
23:28It's not something
23:29that will ever
23:30happen again.
23:34Bill.
23:39Where are you going?
23:40I need some water.
23:41Sit.
24:32I need some water.
24:39I don't know.
25:05I don't know.
25:36You want to get back in the fold?
25:38I need something.
25:40McGantry's kid is planning on going public
25:41at the announcement of class action,
25:43so tonight I'd like it to go away.
25:47I'd like a settlement.
25:55Unusual attention the primary race for governor
25:57is getting in the state of Illinois,
25:59particularly in light of recent scandals
26:01surrounding Mayor Thomas Kane
26:03over toxic waste dumping
26:05and a cover-up to hide the medical fallout.
26:08The Windy City's mayor has been plagued by allegations.
26:14What do you think it tastes like?
26:30Mom?
26:32Well, baby, don't play with your food, okay?
26:39You've reached Sam Miller of the Chicago Sentinel.
26:41Please leave your name, the subject of your call,
26:43your number,
26:44and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
26:47Majority leader, and I think that's something
26:50we can work out.
26:51We've had very good working relationships in the past.
26:54Yes.
26:55Do you think that his canceling...
26:56Not today.
26:57...is just a campaign ploy to get, you know...
26:59You know, I'm not really sure about that.
27:02No, thank you.
27:03Not today.
27:04...the treasure of Zajac may have something up his sleeve.
27:06He's a very clever young man.
27:07I mean, all right, now, as you were saying,
27:09first he has a press conference,
27:12then he doesn't.
27:13I, uh, I don't know.
27:15I'm sure treasure of Zajac is...
27:18Oh!
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27:46Oh!
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27:52Oh!
27:53Oh!
28:14Uh, everyone is left, the rest of the office, got the rest of the day off to go out and
28:18vote, but the mayor and Mr. Stone are on their way back in.
28:25Okay.
28:28What would you like me to do?
28:32Ms. O'Neil?
28:41Go home.
29:05Go home.
29:17Go home.
29:31you sure you don't want me to come in with you you take the follow car I'll see you at
29:35the office
29:37this may not take too long
29:54you okay Tom yeah
30:01the captain's an old friend he gave me a call knowing I could reach you he felt it best that
30:08you'd see her down here in private she's not in a good state they found her in her cell she'd
30:16inhaled
30:16a bottle of computer duster chemicals they've done a number on her she should be transferred to the
30:24hospital but out of deference the captain wanted your permission to do so first since the news will
30:32get out once the transfer happens wait here
30:57you
30:58you
31:00you
31:01you
31:01you
31:15you
31:27you
31:27you
31:27you
31:27you
31:27you
31:28you
31:28you
31:31Buddy?
31:39Daddy.
31:42Dad...
31:49Are you here to interrogate me?
31:54No.
32:08Jesus, I'm sorry.
32:12I'm so sorry.
32:44Tommy, Tommy, you can stay as long as you like, but there's something else the guys here told
32:51me about, something I thought you might want to know.
32:55About an hour ago, they found a former employee of yours, a Deborah Whitehead.
33:01Where?
33:02At a motel in the city outskirts, beaten to within an inch of her life.
33:09You need me to do anything, Tom?
33:11No.
33:14Where's he now?
33:15St. Thaddeus, ECU.
33:27All right, come on.
33:31No.
33:32You don't even know what I'm going to say.
33:34Well, you can mean, come on, as in snap out of it, in which case the answer is no.
33:40Or you can mean, come on, as in let's go somewhere, which again, no.
33:46Or you can mean, come on, as in talk to me, which is also a no.
33:54You are so beyond redemption, man.
33:56You have no idea.
33:57Well, I actually meant all of those things.
34:00No.
34:02The Zajac rally.
34:03I prefer it here, in the peanut gallery.
34:06You can either come with me willingly, or you can fire me for dragging your ass over there.
34:11Either way, I suggest you get off it.
34:13Your ass, that is.
34:14So that you can write a proper editorial for the morning edition about what it was like
34:18on the ground and in the air on election day.
34:20It was shitty.
34:21On the ground and in the air.
34:23Not bad for a first draft, but I think you need more.
34:27Whether you like it or not, actual history is happening in the city tonight.
34:31Elections are matters of record, part of the life of the city and of its people,
34:35and it's our job to record it, so.
34:38Come on.
34:38Yes.
34:45Come on.
34:46Yes.
34:47Her condition is very fragile.
34:49Did she talk?
34:50Her windpipe was bruised.
34:53Even her lungs were damaged from the beating she took.
34:55And she's in and out of consciousness.
34:57It's very touch and go.
34:58Can she talk?
35:01She needs rest.
35:04May I have a moment with her?
35:11Dr. Shamami, to cardiac telemetry.
35:14Dr. Shamami, to cardiac telemetry.
35:21Deborah.
35:24Can you hear me?
35:27I'm sorry.
35:32I did this to you.
35:48Who did this?
35:51Who did this?
35:52What?
36:06I did this.
36:06Do you?
36:06I did?
36:07I did?
36:07Do you?
36:21What?
37:05She didn't die. Chicago PD found her. Did she know what the files were? The ones you leaked to Miller?
37:18No. Why did you do it?
37:42Why did you do it?
37:48I ran to the city. I've done, we have done too many terrible things in the course of running matters,
37:56but I've always known why. It was always in the end because...
38:04It mattered that we ran the city because we were best equipped to provide that which was good for its
38:12people. And if elements got in our way, elements that needed to be torn down, I could justify even the
38:19most ruthless of measures in how we dealt with them because I knew we were preserving what was good for
38:24the city by preserving this.
38:30If I could justify the end to myself, my conscience, I could pursue it by any mean.
38:36What changed?
38:39You. You got sick. Your judgments wavering. Your decisions no longer justifiable. You began to act out of a sense
38:51of pure personal preservation. Stay in place at any cost.
38:57I could no longer see the end justifying our means because the only end that matters to you now is
39:03you. Your personal survival. I can't abide by that. I can't do what I need to do for you to
39:16stay where you are.
39:17When did you decide this? Your handling of Cullen. Your denial of his request for another term. It was a
39:27bad decision. It was personal, emotional, disproportionate.
39:32Why didn't you come to me? I tried. You shut it down. It was at that point that I realized
39:40that you were no longer in control. I leaked the O'Hare dump documents and watched you prove with every
39:52turn you took in handling the fallout that sadly I was right.
39:56Your handling of the sick kids of Bensonville. Your smearing of Dr. Reyes. Your use of your daughter. Was I
40:11not right to think that you would stop at nothing? To spare yourself above everything and everyone else?
40:20Why not resign? Why not try to take me out of the picture instead of yourself?
40:26Because men like you never leave. The system isn't designed to cleanse itself of a Tom Kane. You stay and
40:33hold on to power beyond when you should and in so doing bring corruption to everything while you remain.
40:43You need to be pushed. I did the pushing. I'm dying. I know. The question is, given where you sit,
41:01does that make you more dangerous or less? What now?
41:13For 30 years you've advised me on the appropriate course of action in the worst of situations. What would you
41:23advise I do now, given I know what you've done?
41:28You don't have a choice. Punishment should always be commensurate to the crime. It should be proportionate and visible.
41:43A punishment is not only an act of retribution. It's also a signal. It needs to be seen and understood
41:51by anyone else who might have flirted with the notion of committing the same transgression.
41:55You don't have a choice. You don't have a choice. You don't have a choice.
42:15Tom isn't going anywhere. His grip is firm and steady. I believe it and frankly I'm relieved about it.
42:27And the kid. Treasurer Zajac is on board. There is no run in the Meriton next year. Today's primary vote
42:34will make it all clear to everyone. Wipe all the confusion. Please.
42:38Tom is staying.
42:40What can I do?
42:42One problem still stands. The class action lawsuit that Elliot is taking to court against Tom. It's to be announced
42:48tonight at the close of voting.
42:51Yes.
42:53If it were to be dropped, things could return to the usual in no time. Continuity, status quo, interests preserved.
43:03You're his father, babe. Isn't there anything you can do to steer him in a different direction?
43:09What do I get out of it?
43:11And it's a signal that no one is exempt from the consequences of betrayal.
43:17Exit polls suggest a tight race has stayed tight until the very end. Incomitant Governor McCall Cullen holding sway in
43:25rural areas and smaller municipalities.
43:27With Treasurer Zajac showing strongly in Aurora, Rockford, Joliet, Naperville, Georia, and of course, Cook County.
43:40With 65% of the precincts reporting Treasurer Zajac has opened up a six point lead. With most of the
43:46votes still to be counted coming from Bourbon areas, it looks like it could be a difficult night for incumbent
43:51Governor Cullen.
43:52All eyes now are on Chicago. We're voting booths of...
43:56If you think Cain hasn't sewn up Cook County for him, you don't know the man.
44:02This is over. We're done.
44:06Where the fuck is Ross?
44:09Now that we're all sitting here on a train to fucking Siberia.
44:30Yes, ma'am.
44:31You're holding for Alderman's office?
44:32No.
44:33Alderman Ross.
44:34Who, sir?
44:35Ross?
44:36I'm sorry, sir.
44:37I'd like to speak to him, please.
44:39Nobody's answering his extension, sir.
44:42Sir.
44:42Well, can you tell him that I called?
44:44Yes, what was your name?
44:44Moco Ruiz.
44:46Do you know everybody?
44:46Yes, I know it's after hours.
44:48All right, sir.
44:55Alberto Ruiz.
44:58Yes?
44:59You'd like you to come with us, sir?
45:02What's this about?
45:03Just a few questions.
45:04About the disappearance of Alderman Lala Mata.
45:08Oh, can we just do this here?
45:10No, we can't.
45:14We had a saying when I was in the Boy Scouts whenever we entered a camp.
45:19Take pictures, leave footprints, but now more than ever, you must do neither.
45:27With 75% of precincts reporting, we are close to declaring a winner in the gubernatorial primary.
45:50Okay, we are now projecting a win for Ben Cidshack.
45:55Yes!
45:58We won.
46:01We won!
46:02We won!
46:08Do you believe me?
46:14No.
46:14No.
46:17If I did, I'd have to leave you.
46:25Are you ready?
46:26Yeah.
46:28No, that's...
46:28Let's go.
46:52Well, they don't call me Governor Sullen, you know, so...
46:55Let's wipe the glum looks off all those faces out there.
46:58Three terms in office, huh?
47:00Not a bad run.
47:04You're an Englishman, a man I don't agree with about pretty much anything one said.
47:10All political lives, unless they are cut off mid-stream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is
47:18the nature of politics and of human affairs, and I've always wondered about that.
47:23About whether I would finally have to agree with him on this one point, when it was all done.
47:31Let me tell you, I still don't agree with him about anything.
47:37Because in this moment, I don't feel failure. I feel gratitude to the people of Illinois for all that they
47:43are, to my staff and friends throughout the years for all that they have done, to those that I love,
47:50for all that they have given.
47:52I feel peace, and I feel surrender.
47:57I will keep doing what I have done, all along.
48:01Though now, perhaps in a different form, I wish Treasurer of candidate Zajac the best moving forward.
48:11Thank you all. May God bless you.
48:23There's a formal aspect to punishment, a ritual nature. It has shape and body. It's about consequence, accountability, actions having
48:37repercussions.
49:09There's a cleansing of a sedation in the case.
49:09There's also a coordination in presence, where I went to the center of the entire world sometimes.
49:11No never mind.
50:40There are times when I'm certain that words will fail you fully expressing the truth going
50:45on.
50:45And this is one of them.
50:54I stand here for showing you, filled with hope.
50:58I'm bursting with praise and admiration
51:01for every single one of you,
51:04our beautiful city, this glorious state,
51:07and this proud country.
51:09A place where we all have equal say
51:12in how our lives are ordered,
51:14and how we live.
51:15Where the fair and equal practice
51:17of political self-determination is held paramount.
51:20Where every vote has equal weight.
51:22Where anyone can choose to seek
51:24to represent their fellow citizens.
51:26Where our elections are competitive,
51:29they're informed, they're fair and free.
51:32For the people and by the people.
51:33Because no matter what you may think
51:35of our political system,
51:36and how imperfect it may be,
51:38it is still the best of its kind.
51:40Conceived by mankind for the betterment
51:42of society, life and progress.
51:44It gives us a chance to make things new.
51:47And to change course.
51:48To determine our own destiny as a people.
51:51It is a picture of our deepest desires,
51:55as human beings.
51:56To determine who we are.
51:58What we stand for.
52:01I stand right here.
52:03Humbled.
52:04And grateful.
52:07All of you.
52:08For all that you have done.
52:14I want to thank my staff.
52:17My family.
52:20Maggie.
52:24But I would like to reserve my sincerest
52:27and most heartfelt thanks for the help of one individual.
52:32Mayor Tom Kane.
52:35Because he believed in me.
52:36He inspires me and he pushes me every day
52:39to be a better public servant.
52:43God bless you all.
52:44God bless you all.
52:48Miss O'Neil.
52:49Sam Miller.
52:49Chicago Sentinel.
52:51Big night for him.
52:52Yes.
52:53The mayor too.
52:55Mr. Miller.
53:00No.
53:00.
53:05.
53:27Hello.
53:32hello mr miller hello it's ella harris who dr ella harris i treated mayor kane
53:43hold on whoever this is i can't hear you
53:46hold on
54:18it's vital that the transgressors understand the rules they've broken it's okay
54:24guess it wouldn't be chicago politics without they'll spill blood right
54:32your choice of punishment needs to be seen as fair proportional and reciprocal
54:42but the nature can only be decided by the punisher himself
54:50you
54:53you decide
55:16boss
55:27it's about preservation protecting the way things are
55:32we dropped the announcement in the court day tomorrow we'll go to him with a deal
55:35he did as you asked you're having trouble with it yes i understand you want to build a reputation
55:43for yourself apart from the families and that is a fine thing
55:49a necessary thing but this family has been sailing a boat with city hall from the time the building
55:55itself went up the choice to remain with kane is a choice of preservation
56:04you can pursue your own agenda even at the expense of kane if you so desire
56:10but not now
56:12when
56:13the next round
56:15this particular case had to be let go
56:19continuity
56:20at all costs
56:23leaving the landscape unchanged or
56:26changed in appearance only
56:28it is how we've gotten to where we are
56:32and how we stay here for the future
56:58we are
57:11we are
57:13we are
57:15we are
57:23No.
57:50Oh, my God.
58:47Oh, my God.
58:50Oh, my God.
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