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but it was too late to go back.

It was pretty cool

to move to Toronto.

Everything was bigger.

Welcome to your new home,

Mr. Sawyer.

The building has 24-hour

security, has a shared rooftop.

There's a loading dock

around the back.

You've got all brand-new

stainless steel appliances,

floor-to-ceiling windows.

The neighborhood is absolutely

up-and-coming.

There's not much more

you could get.

Do you have any questions?

Yeah, how do I connect

to the Internet?

Unfortunately,

my payment was late,

and the university said I could

only start in January.

That meant I needed money

to live.

I'd made enough money

for Roosevelt

that he increased

my access on darkweb.

I could now buy credit card

numbers and fake I.D.S

and use 'em for online shopping.

Next station

is St. George.

- I'm expecting a package.

- Okay.

Yeah. Let me check it out.

Yeah, this should be it.

Okay.

Just sign right there.

Sure.

And there we go,

Mr. Munchausen.

Thank you.

Can you take me to Chinatown?

But things weren't so simple.

I couldn't use craigslist

to find buyers in the city.

Too many cops and fakes,

so I tried my luck

with a few pawnshops

and jewelry stores.

Hey.

You... you speak English, yeah?

I... I have watches.

Okay?

I want to sell them.

Do you want to buy them?

Look, these are real...

these are real watches, okay?

This cost... this cost $15,000.

I sell for... for ten.

- Thousand?

- Yes.

- W-what's that?

- No, no, no. Look, look.

See, these are real watch,

too, okay?

I sell these to you

for 200 bucks.

Ten. Ten. I got...

there's three watches.

- Now ten.

Hey, wait.

- Hey.

- What can I do for you?

Says here you purchased these three

days ago. How come you're selling 'em?

I... you know, I just

didn't want 'em anymore.

I can't. I lost the card that

i used to purchase 'em, so...

Well, wait for

a replacement card.

I mean, surely it's worth the wait

rather than losing money on the resale.

Look, do you want to buy them,

or do you not?

Okay. Mr... Munchausen...

We're going to need two pieces

of I.D. And a proof of address.

Bank statement is fine.

Then we're going to get you

to sign a form

stating that

these were not stolen,

at which point,

we'll review your application.

If everything checks out,

then you can come back,

and we'll make the purchase.

- You can't just buy 'em now?

- Sorry.

You know, I can drop the price,

by another thousand.

Hey, you know, don't worry about it.

I'll just... I'll keep them for now.

Sure.

You having a rough day?

Sorry. Do I know you?

Sye.

Hey, I just wanted to talk

to you about your watches.

No, no, no.

I'm not a cop.

I'm not a cop.

I just might want

to buy your watches.

Yeah, what do you want

to talk about?

Look, if it'll help,

I'll give you five grand

for all of 'em.

I'm not an idiot.

Thirty grand.

Seven.

Thirty grand.

All right, tell you what.

I go in there.

I sell 'em for at least 30,000.

I take 30 percent off the top.

All right, but you get the money

today, huh. Otherwise...

otherwise, you take

your watches and go.

Hey, look, the watches

are stolen anyway, right?

So what do you got to lose?

- All right. Yeah.

- Yeah, all right. Let's go.

Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Wait. Wait.

I go in alone, all right?

Hey, Christopher!

Look who it is.

How you doing, buddy boy?

What the hell?

Aw, you dick.

That's rude.

Come on.

Walk with me.

What happened back there?

What? Exactly what I said

i was going to do...

no, you disappeared, though.

Yeah, I went out

the back door. Here.

You didn't tell me you were

going to go out the back door.

What's this?

$24,500 in very dirty 20s.

Well, it would have taken a while

to get fifties and hundreds.

But you sold my watches

for 35,000?

Receipt's in the bag.

See, now you don't strike me as some student

who has very expensive taste in watches,

and you don't seem like a thief, so I'm

thinking to myself, "who is this kid?"

How'd you do that so fast?

I'll tell you

if you tell me how

you got those watches.

Hey, hey, don't worry.

It's all in there.

I promise.

Okay.

Yeah.

And that was how I met sye.

And you want to approach

every buyer differently.

I know that sounds simple,

but it is important,

because you say the wrong thing,

you could lose credibility.

You know, you could get

blacklisted real quick.

You don't want to do that.

You're still working

in these conditions, eh?

I mean, it takes a lot of

strength to do what you guys do.

You should give yourselves

a pat on the back.

You guys are troopers. And you

know who else shares my opinion?

Your wives, your parents,

your sons and daughters,

and I think that you should

be able to call them.

Now, you ever use one of these?

But if you can put yourself

in the shoes of the buyer,

whew, you're gold.

Thank you very much.

And then there are also people, you

know, sometimes people in high places

that you... you don't

think are on the market,

and they're not until you find

them something they like.

All right, what we have for you gentlemen,

nothing short of extraordinary.

So we got monochrome

lcd display, USB interface,

20 megabytes of built-in memory.

It's got an electronic compass.

More importantly, your friends

will be really impressed

as to how you actually

got your hands on 'em, so...

Who'd you steal from this time?

I know someone works

for the watch company.

I'm getting 'em

for a good price.

How many have you got?

Two for you.

Eight for your friends.

Yeah, we'll take 'em.

Now then,

there's your longtime buyer.

Now, you always got

to make them happy.

You got to keep

bringing 'em stuff,

because trust is the most important

commodity in this business, all right?

Takes a long time to build, but

you can lose it just like that.

What's up?

- Hey, I'm Chris, by the way.

- Hi.

So what can I do for you?

Boom.

In just a couple months,

we made about 60 grand.

That's your half.

I sent some money to my parents

and saved the rest,

the criminal mastermind behind last

night's cyber-attack on the world bank

has claimed responsibility for

what he calls an act of justice.

But authorities say the breach

in security was substantial.

The banks of this world have

enslaved their citizens

and then quietly stand back and let the people

suffer under the weight of their debts.

That is not the fault

of the people.

It is the manufactured sin

of the bank.

A drug addict makes a mistake,

but the drug dealer

commits the crime.

Banks and bankers,

watch your backs.

Darkweb is coming after you.

I thought about these words

and realized a university life

wasn't for me.

Hey.

If you... if you haven't

bought all your books yet,

these'll save you a few bucks.

So I called up sye and asked

him for help with another job.

I told him I wanted

to try something bigger,

forums had a blacklist of corrupt

bankers who were going to get punished,

but we needed to get

into their wallets,

'cause their online information

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