Patriot (2015–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - McMillan Man - full transcript

You don't talk that way
in my house!

- Get the fuck off me!
- Leslie, stop it!

You have no respect!

Look.

I work my tail off
for this family.

You guys know it.

Because I love you.

I love you guys.

You know it.

We love you, too, Dad.

Just stop doing
cocaine all the time.



Act like a man.

What's going on here?

Leslie, can we talk?

What's going on here?
This is my company.

What's the issue here?

Leslie, these gentlemen
want to talk to you.

Ahem.

The closest feeling to that
of cocaine is...

is winning or...

acquiring a large
sum of money...

such as in a...

a lottery or an inheritance.

And... And good cocaine...

is like pure concentrated cool.



You become an expert...
Joe Cool...

On all topics,

and you want to pass all
your knowledge on right now.

And the universe glows,

and rooms...

take on lovely concavities.

I recall once...

after using cocaine
in the office place...

that my...
My thirtysomething secretary,

who I had not looked too
closely at previously...

was really...

quite beautiful.

And she was very kind to me.

She had a lovely smile.

And her breasts
were quite splendid.

This appetite for cocaine

has led to costly indiscretions.

I'm standing trial...

for embezzlement
from the company

that I formed when I was 24.

My family...

no longer speaks to me.

This morning I...

I sat in a park...

where I spent the better
moments of my life...

with my then-small
half-Vietnamese son...

and I watched a young boy...

engineer and then
single-handedly build

a splendid sand castle.

And then he rose

and gleefully stomped it
back once more

simply into grains of sand.

Why do we do this?

I'm Leslie Claret,

and I can't stop doing
something that's harming me.

Help me. Please?

Lockdown in five.

Lockdown in five.

Well, the steps give you order,

and that gives you clarity,

and out of the clarity

you find purpose.

That's the long and short of it.

Leslie, listen.

We've known each other
a long time.

You were a legendary influence

in the modern age
of industrial piping.

You're welcome here at McMillan.

We're honored to have you
here at McMillan.

But, Leslie, I'm afraid
there'll be a ceiling

for you, for good, Leslie,

at McMillan.

My mother-in-law holds you
in the highest regard,

but she has a responsibility
to our shareholders.

It's impossible,
because of your conviction,

to offer you a position
greater than divisional.

Hey, let's get to work.

When do you want to start? June?

I'd rather start sooner
than later, though,

just to get back in the swing.

Let's say June,

start of the third quarter.

You're good till then?

Good till then?

There he goes...

It's like it just
calls out to him.

It summons him... C19.

He can't resist it.

Look. He's tucking
right in there,

his little second home.

Fuck.

Fuck.

Well, he still has to make
the Denon presentation.

Hello. I'm Eugene Chow.

I'm a process engineer.

I'm sorry.
His name's not Eugene.

That's cool.
I don't even work here.

I'm just visiting my girlfriend.

Big step back for you, Stephen.

Well, that was embarrassing

for both of us there, Stephen.

I'm sorry.

That's okay. I'm just...

running out of ideas, you know?

You should write it
on your hand, too.

Ready for the Denon?

Leslie, yeah. Hey.

Let's say 2 p.m.
The Harbaugh Room.

Sounds good.

Great. Hey, let's
try to get back

on the right track
here, me and you.

Let's do it.

All right. Good luck.
See you at 2.

We've made things difficult

for your European detective.

I'm gonna do more along
those lines this afternoon.

Carlson.

- Thank you.
- Tom, get out of here.

Come on. How many times
have we done this?

That's game.

Looks like maybe
you lost a step.

Let's go again.

We'll see who's lost something,

you son of a bitch.

Carlson, are you pretending
to still be in shape?

- Yeah.
- Yeah, me, too.

You want to say
the next point wins

before one of us has a stroke?

Yeah.

Good game.

Carlson, thanks again
for your help with this.

Tom, come on.
It's the way it works.

We'll slow her down.

Take care of yourself.

I always do.

Aah!

I work here. What do you do?

Me? Hey...

I'm required to have

a local access writ now.

The INTERPOL Orange
Writ of Coaction.

Well, we prepared
the Orange Writ.

We didn't send it, though,

as your Blue Notice for
federal access was denied.

Okay. Well, now I can
mail the writ to you.

Possibly can you
just hand it to me?

My flight leaves for Milwaukee
in an hour and a half.

Well, see, it's in the mailroom.

We'll never find it.

Is the Orange Writ orange?

It is.

That will probably
make it easier.

Probably.

Is that it?

That is probably it, yes.

I'll be frank with you.

Carlson Sohns,
who runs INTERPOL U.S.,

said "Let it get buried
in the mailroom."

We delay like that all the time

when we're awfully busy.

I don't think
he expected for you

to get your Blue Notice.

Yeah. Thanks. You showed me.

So I'm not sure what I'm
supposed to do now.

I called Carlson.
They said he went out

to play racquetball
five hours ago

and never came back.

I don't want to piss off my boss

by handing you something
he wanted me to mail later.

And I don't want
to piss off my boss

by not catching someone
who murdered someone.

Rochambeau?

See you at 2.

- Harbaugh.
- Sounds good.

Make no mistake.
A nuclear-armed Iran

is not a challenge
that can be contained.

It would threaten
the elimination of Israel,

the security of Gulf nations,

and the stability
of the global economy.

It risks triggering
a nuclear arms race...

in the region

and the unraveling of the
Nonproliferation Treaty.

That's why a coalition
of countries

is holding the Iranian
government accountable,

and that's why the United States

will do what we must
to prevent Iran

from attaining a nuclear weapon.

I organized a plan
to transfer a sum of money

to the candidate
who would work against

the goal of a nuclear Iran.

But...

I put it in...

the hands of the other guy.

And that guy had set
the table at that moment

to use it to employ a specialist

to put the final systemization
on their program.

So in May of 2012,
I was in the position

of possibly having
single-handedly armed Iran.

So what we try to do

is personalize
Stephen's recovery.

- Right.
- Organizing his exercises

around, say,
Stephen's favorite movie.

Right.

So this exercise

is a comprehensive indication

of where Stephen is
on his road to recovery.

It involves recall,

motor skills,
and sequencing functions.

So did you guys
practice this at lunch?

- Yes.
- Yeah?

Yes.

Okay.

Let's see where we're at.

Ahem.

She wants to interview
me tomorrow.

I'm going to miss the duck hunt.

When we have guys
in town like Denon,

we go out in the marsh,
take him out.

It's fun.
You should go tomorrow.

It's kind of
a McMillan Man thing.

Yeah.

No.

Why?

Because I don't want
to shoot birds.

Hey. Listen.

Focus on this interview
because it's...

- It's for real.
- Yeah.

It's the real deal.

Yeah. It's the real deal.

You should come over for dinner,

help me prep for that.

Denon in ten.

The Harbaugh.

Do you know who this guy is?

Galvanized United?

Leslie Claret.

Of course. What about him?

This is Leslie Claret.

You are Leslie Claret?

A million years ago.

Founder of Galvanized United.

A million years ago.

This is John Lakeman.

John is going to walk us through
our terrace installation program.

Are you on this project,

something this...
Something this size?

Well, this is...

foundational division
at McMillan.

I pay attention to it,

but I'm not your point guy.

I'm not your guy
on the ground because...

Because you're Leslie Claret.

No. Thank you. No.

Because I'm old.

Our young bucks here handle
the day-to-day stuff.

So, John,
let's just jump in here

and give them the 10 cent
tour of the terrace plan.

Yeah. Guys. Hey.

Let's do it.

So...

let's do the...

let's start with
the patch handlers.

Shit.

What?

We're handler-free.

We're what?

We can't filter

at any stage
during the transfer.

I'm sorry. I thought
that was clear.

We don't plate process
or filter with samplers

or any patch process.

Well, that's fine.
It's not uncommon.

It's probably wise.

John, throw out this week's
filter floor plan

and just get
into the nitty-gritty

of our systemized
nonfiltered diffusion.

Can you give us a sec?

I just want to...

I don't want to overstep my...

I want to hone in
on this with Leslie

so we don't land
on any unsustainable

or, unavailable,

sss... products along our line.

- Yes.
- No problem.

Leslie, do you mind
taking the lead?

- I don't want to...
- You don't want to what?

I... I thought the whole
thing was filtered.

It's no big deal. It's 101.

Yeah, I'm not...

101.

I'm not prepared to pitch

for an unprocessed filter line.

I'm sorry.

John, what the fuck?

That's rote, 101, man.

I'm...

Here's the thing.

I was hired to run a division,

and we employed you to help me,

and you have serially
failed to do that.

You are burdening me,

and you are disrupting
the very important order

of the way McMillan operates.

The McMillan way. 101, man.

All right.

I'll do it myself.

I'll do fucking junior work,

work that wouldn't
have crossed my desk

when I was your age...

When I ran a company
at your age,

not a fucking division...

Because I cared.

And I was good because I cared.

And you?

You just don't seem to, son.

And the roster for the trial
squad comes out on Monday.

Don't bother
looking at it, Lakeman.

Luxembourg, yes?

When?

Tomorrow.

I have something with Efram.

I'm sorry, but you're going.

We know something serious
is happening there.

The physicist's wife
is from a strict sect.

She's never left her home
in her life

without a male escort.

She bought a plane ticket
to Luxembourg...

One ticket, no escort.

She's going to get the money.

And...

And what?

We...

What do I do?

You help John.

Yeah. I mean, of course.

I'm gone. I just... I don't...

What is your reluctance, son?

What? No. I don't...
I don't have one. I...

It's... Alice had asked me

what John does,

and I realized that I
don't even know, really.

I... So how can I...

Don't you have guys, like,
trained guys for this?

I said I was going
to ask a lot of you.

I'm also going to ask you

not to ask me any more
questions, Edward.

Get packed.

Yeah. Okay, Dad.

Kitchen. There's
a little pool out back.

Standard.

- We can talk out here.
- Okay.

For, like, an hour
or more, openly.

What does she...
What does your wife

think we're doing out here
in the garage for an hour?

I told her we were
going to lift weights,

so we should probably
lift weights

because you can hear
the weights in the kitchen.

How'd it go with
the Denon presentation?

I'm fucked.

What now?

You got to go on that duck hunt,

kiss his ass... Leslie's.

I'll deal with my thing.

Okay?

This interview tomorrow,

have you ever been
interrogated before?

No, I have not.

Don't cough, twitch,
or touch your face.

- Or tell the truth.
- Right.

There will be long silences.

She'll try to stress
you out over time.

Is there anything
that stresses you normally,

like being hungry or...

- caffeine?
- Twins.

- Twins?
- Twins, yeah.

They creep me out a little.

They unsettle me.

Well, that probably
won't come up.

Dad, Mom said dinner 45 minutes.

Okay. Thanks, girls.

Cool. 45 minutes.
We can do legs.

You got to go on that
duck hunt, John.

Everyone gets drunk.
There's camaraderie.

Everyone relaxes. Go.

Win Leslie back.

You got another plan?

Can I tell you something?
Honestly?

You kind of suck at piping.

If you're going
to suck at piping

and also not shoot birds,

you're not going to be
a McMillan Man.

Leslie will most likely
fire me out there.

Leslie won't.

La Croix does that.

He always does that.
He's good like that.

He's a good leader.

Lawrence might fire you.

But not Leslie personally.

You have to go
on that duck hunt.

That's the way I see it.

You got your story
straight, right?

For tomorrow?

John,

you might think that I'm boring

or normal, whatever.

But I'm not stupid.

I know how important
this is to you.

Safety's on.

Don't feed the dogs, remember.

What's up, Richie Rich?

All right, let's get
out in the marsh.

Snag a marsh partner.

And let's try
not to drop our guns.

Okay, Richie Rich?

Leslie.

Maybe we could
get some time together

in that marsh.

Icabod is my marsh partner,

so... nope.

What's your last name
anyway, Peter?

Icabod.

That's...

I thought that was a nickname.

No.

Okay.

Why did you think
it was a nickname, John?

John.

Would you like some water?

Why?

To clear your throat.
You're coughing.

Coughing? That doesn't count.

The interview hasn't
started yet.

I'm not going to cough
during the interview.

How do you know?

Just have a strong
sense of myself.

Okay. Let's get started.

30 years. Never seen that.

Yeah. I know. It's weird.

Ten digits on
a Social Security card.

Yeah.

You want a cold one?

Yep.

You arrived in Luxembourg
on the 11th?

Yes.

What did you think?

Of?

Luxembourg.

It's... I loved it.

You loved it?

Yes.

You loved being stabbed
in the leg in Luxembourg?

No. Not that part.

What part?

Just...

the castles and stuff.

Cold one, Leslie?

No. I have my own.

- Leslie.
- Yeah.

I wanted to say to you

I respect the way
you run the division.

Great. Thanks, kid.

Describe the moments
just before your stabbing.

Walking. Really dark.

This figure appeared
in front of me.

On Chantalain?

On Chantalain.

And I was checking my phone,

and I looked up,

and it seemed
like they were fighting

to get past me,

and they jostled me,

and I said,
"Hey, man, watch it."

They moved left,

and then, unfortunately,
I moved right,

and then they moved right,

and then I got in their way,

and I think
they mistakenly thought

that I was trying
to impede them,

and then, next thing I know,

I got a hot slice in my quad.

You were stabbed.

Yes.

Yes. And then I went
to the hospital,

and then I went to dinner,

and then I went to my room,

and then I worked out.

He's long gone. He's gone.

Do it this afternoon.

It's just... you know,

doesn't show up for dinner.

And he fucks up with Denon.

Well, I'll give him a big talk

in the little boat.

What was the destination
of the walk you were on

when you were attacked?

Walking.

Just enjoying
your beautiful sights,

your castles,
with my friend John.

John?

Lakeman.

Last sortie.
Then we'll haul ass.

- Okay.
- Richie Rich, west marsh.

You guys go east and south.

Partner up, everyone.

John, you want to come with me?

Yeah.

Okay. Thanks, John.

And what was
your friend's destination?

Ahem.

We were...
We were strolling together.

But he wasn't with you
when you were stabbed.

No.

Why did you stop
strolling together?

I think he... he went
to prepare for a meeting.

Where?

I don't know.

Back to his room, possibly.

Did you make any phone calls

around the time of your assault?

- Yes.
- To who?

To my loving wife.

Her name?

I can't... Holy shit.

What... Audrey.

Jesus. Audrey McClaren.

Sorry.

Would you write the following

on a page of paper for me?

77 de Champlaine.

I traveled this distance

because a second man was stabbed

within several blocks
of your assault,

the same evening,

within the same hour.

And your wounds
are similarly sized.

Assaults like this are
uncommon in Luxembourg City.

I don't know anything
about that.

I'm surprised to hear that.

You read our newspaper
the next morning.

It was a featured item
in the morning's paper.

I meant...

noth... anything further.

Yes, I heard about the murder.

I remember some of the staff

was discussing it in the lobby,

and I read the paper
only because I thought

it might shed some
light on my attack.

It might, you know,
illuminate my attack,

but it didn't.
There weren't any facts

that helped me have
a greater understanding

of what happened to me.

Thank you. That's all.

I appreciate your time

and your help
with our investigation.

I'm sorry I couldn't
be more of a help.

I'm not from here, John.

Yeah?

From Montreal.

Piping. Married into it.

But you know,
we've had good success

because, well,
I hire good people,

and I let them guide and marshal
through their divisions.

Cool.

Yeah. That is cool.

Never held a gun
until I came out here.

Really. In fact,

never got a bird
since I've been out here.

Well, there's other
things to enjoy.

I enjoy looking at Lori often.

I guess it's like my hobby.

- You...
- Did you meet her?

She's here with her
boyfriend Dick.

I...

I've had a few beers.
I should stop talking.

Okay.

I think I love her.

I'm certain I love her,

and she won't give me
a second look.

I'm scared before
pulling the trigger,

and I don't like holding it.

It's smelly, and it's a cheat.

It would be one thing to use
a gun against an animal

if you're the man
who invented guns,

but if you just bought one
at the store,

I mean, big whoop, right?

Still...

Still what?

Still I'd like
to shoot a bird some day

because when I'm feeling
optimistic,

I think, well, maybe Lori
simply has never considered me

because we're from
two different worlds,

and those days, I think,

Man, if I shoot
one of these birds

on one of these outings,

she might say...

"Hey, Lawrence isn't
from a different planet.

"He can get his hands dirty.

"Hey, look at him.

Hey, let's make love now."

But I always come back
with zilch.

Her boyfriend openly mocks me,

which makes me...

well, a world apart from Lori.

John, Leslie says

you're having trouble
finding your footing

at McMillan.

I care about this company,

so I wanted to have you
out on this little boat

and explore why it's not
working out

and maybe figure out a way
for us to part on good terms.

For you and McMillan
to part company.

I got jack.

Whoo! Hey!
Check it out, fuckers!

- Whoo!
- All right, Lawrence.

I blasted them!

I'd say they were
thousands of feet away.

Well, maybe not thousands,

but boy, were they up there.

- Way.
- I mean, yeah.

Why would the guy buy a car
when he can buy a truck?

Yeah.

Two shots, two ducks.

You like this, you dumb fuck?

Yeah, you do. You love it.

Just like I love...

Just like I love this company

and you guys

and this guy right here.

Come on in. My men.

McMillan Men.

You men ready to have
some fun in Luxembourg?

Lakeman's not going
to Luxembourg.

Well, that's not a divisional
decision, Leslie.

That's an executive call,
and yeah, he is.

This kid's got something.

Come on in here,
my McMillan Men.

He was okay with it.

We'll hit a game
when I get back.

He wants a snow globe

from there, he said.

Okay.

I'll call you from there.

Why?

Just to, you know, check in?

Okay.

Okay.

- Okay, bye.
- Bye.

Can we go over this again?

So all you needed for this trip

to take care of everything,

everything that's going on
in Luxembourg,

$170,000,

nine rolls of duct tape,

and the telecast schedule

for the English soccer squad
Jaywick Sands.

Yeah.

And I could use a chair
for in here.

Yeah. We're working on that.

So how did it go
with the Brazilians?

Okay.

They knew jujitsu,
didn't they, John?

John.

What?

Didn't they?

Yes.

See? I don't waste
your time, guy.

I'm the A-team.

John, I think
the interview went okay.

She asked me one thing
about you, and that's it:

Where you went when we split up.

Get some rest.

I need you to smuggle $170,000

through the airport tomorrow.

Thanks for letting
my buddy come in.

Any dog with a job is welcome.

Dogs with jobs.

- Yeah.
- Warms the heart.

Yeah.

Honey, is this your dog?

We're just hanging out.

Well, I know a little
about what these guys do.

They're HALT dogs.

What's that?

Hungry, angry, lonely, tired.

It's for, trauma victims

or addicts.

Whoever might crack.

Well, when they're all those,

when they're HALT all at once,

so they do. They crack.

These guys are trained
to sense it coming,

and they try
to calm their patients

when they need to sleep

and signal when they
need to eat.

You know, that kind of thing?

You should really get this guy

back to wherever
he's supposed to be.

Yeah. Yeah, I should.

Chk-chk.

Come on.