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Sundays 10:00 PM on ShowtimeWendy Rhoades Quotes
Wendy: Problem is, the money does the same thing that flying through the clouds without instruments does. You can't tell which way is up, which is down, and you don't know you're spinning until it's too late. Unless you have a great co-pilot who's monitoring the instruments.
Taylor: Thanks for being mine.
Wendy: Jesus fuck, this is already such a fucked day.
Wags: A two-fuck walk-in sentence from you is not something to take lightly.
Wendy: Sure as fuck isn't.
Wendy: Welcome home, Bobby.
Chuck: Never thought I'd say it, never thought I'd think it, but thank God you're here.
Wags: Ain't that the motherfucking truth.
Axe: Now, let's get to work.
Wendy: Explain the outsized revenue despite the skeletal staff of doctors.
Rian: Mental's been billing insurers for its A.I. check-ins as if they're actual human sessions.
Wendy: So our big strength, automated therapy, it's actually a big scam?
Rian: It's Medicare fraud. And, like, a federal crime, for reals.
Chuck: I have come to understand what it will take to make it possible for us to work together on this endeavor, and I have gone to those lengths. This drive cannot be copied. It contains a catalog of moves I have made. Extra legal and plain illegal that would flush me from office and public life irrevocably. Would get me disbarred and jailed if it were to come out.
Wags: OK. And that proves what?
Chuck: I have always been highly skilled at earning people's trust through means legit and illegit
Wendy: And betraying each other.
Chuck: Yes, that too. It's. So I realized that now I need to give trust. Wendy, I know if I hand you this material, you will never use it against me, even if I deserve it for the sake of our children.
Wendy: Sadly true.
Chuck: But. Wags will not hesitate to ruin me, as he just made painfully clear in my office.
Wendy: Instead of handing out the kudos and the blame, why don't we talk about turning this mess into action? Because I saw you in his office, and I know how you feel.
Philip: Whatever plan you're considering, leave me out. Whatever you and Taylor and I don't know who else we're thinking about doing. I can't. I need, and I will have complete deniability. As is right now, there is nothing I could tell anyone, nothing I should tell anyone. I aim to keep it that way.
Wendy: You should have let us know.
Wags: Yeah. You're completely exposed, and if things went south, we could have helped protect you. Covered your tracks.
Taylor: I had to move alone. And I was confident you'd see it eventually. But all this is only the set of getting to the payoff will be much more challenging.
Wags: Secrecy and deception starting to get misty.
Wendy: And now?
Wags: I have sign off.
Taylor: So yes, the beginnings of a plan.
Wendy: We might really have some pieces here.
Taylor: We might indeed. So, let's send this motherfucker to Siberia.
Doctor Mayer: And yet that's why The Trolley Problem takes up so many class sessions when it's taught at Harvard. We are feeling creatures, even if it often seems as though we are not, so we know we should only divert the runaway trolley if more people will live. And yet we hesitate if we learn too many nice things about any one potential victim, right?
Wendy: So how do I execute what I need to, all the little moves, knowing that I'm going to do real harm to people who've done nothing to earn that fate?
This is already hard. And messy. Don't get yourself fired. We get ... none of us can do this alone or on a one-off attempt. It needs to be full-on Murder on the Orient Express or nothing.
A lot of billionaires feel they never have enough. That's the driver? But I've learned that there is such a thing as too much. Too much ego, too much power. Prince is over that line.
Axe: Well, you know, geopolitics is fluid. Early in the conflict, Ukraine wanted Javelin anti-tanks, other things. Western governments weren't able to get them there first.
Wendy: You?
Axe: Structured the deal. Took care of the financing. Arranged a friend -- a guy you would not expect -- to find and deliver the actual arms. Bought me a great deal of goodwill all across the continent, EU and here.
Wendy: There's nothing more dangerous than a man who's sure he's never wrong. Add in the money, add in the intellect.
Wags: Smarts is good.
Wendy: Not when those smarts are used to strengthen the idea that no one else's opinion counts. And in add his ability to lie to himself about who he really is, and finally, fold in a textbook God complex.
