Molly's Game Page #15

I gotta go.

-Molly.

-I gotta go.

Molly, sit the f*** down!

All right, we're gonna do three

years of therapy in three minutes.

How?

I'm gonna do what patients

have been begging

therapists to do for

a hundred years,

I'm just gonna

give you the answers.

To what?

Well, let's start with this

Why does a young woman who,

at 22, has a gold-plated resume,

why does she run

poker games?

Why did I choose to

make a ton of money?

That's a head scratcher.

You were gonna be a success

at anything you wanted,

you know it.

If you'd gone to law school

you'd have

you'd have owned the

law firm right now.

Why did you do...

the other thing instead?

I don't know.

Drugs.

You didn't start with

the drugs until the end.

They weren't the problem,

they were the medicine.

It was so you could

control powerful men.

Your addiction

was having power

over powerful men.

Is that what you really think?

No.

I know it for sure.

You've now completed

your first year of therapy.

I saw an opportunity,

it wasn't about you.

Nah, it wasn't just about me.

-It wasn't at all about you.

-It was.

Second year, second question.

Do you think you

were a good husband?

What do you care?

I care because you were

married to my mother.

I care because

my father's an a**hole.

Congratulations,

you've completed Year Two.

And for the record,

your father raised

three kids on a college

professor's salary.

One of them

is a two-time Olympian,

a sixth round draft pick of

the Philadelphia Eagles

and a leading philanthropist.

The other is a cardiothorasic

surgeon at Mass General

and the third

managed to build a

multi-million dollar business

using not much more

than her wits.

I'm about to plead

guilty in federal court.

Well, nobody's perfect.

The point is

I did a few things right.

Last question.

No, I have to go.

Last question, Mol.

I'll answer it

but you have to ask it.

You have... to ask it.

Why didn't you like me

as much as my brothers?

There it is.

I did.

It only from time to time

appeared that I didn't.

It only appeared that you didn't?

Yeah.

That is some Schedule 1 bullshit.

Why would--it only appeared--

Why would--

Okay, I had an attitude problem.

I talked back.

I broke some normal

adolescent rules.

I snuck phone time after curfew,

I took your car when I

wasn't allowed to--

And drove it into a McDonald's.

And kids get punished for

that, but they don't--

Did I not say the McDonald's?

I mean, did you misunderstand

what drive-thru meant?

You turned into

a different person,

-your voice, your face.

-It's because I knew you knew.

I didn't hear what you said.

I said

I knew you knew.

You knew I knew what?

What do you uh,

think about the following concepts?

Just gonna run 'em by you.

Marriage.

It is a trap.

That I was cheating on Mom.

I knew you knew.

-Society.

-It is a joke.

No, I didn't know unt--

until I was 20.

-People.

-I don't trust people.

No, you'd known since

you were five.

You saw me in my car

and you really didn't

know what you saw.

I don't have any heroes.

You knew, honey.

And I knew you knew,

and that's...

That's how I reacted

to the shame.

And you reacted by showing

seething contempt for me,

by driving my car

into a McDonald's

And wanting to have power

over powerful men?

No.

That was a red herring

just to make you mad.

-You're such an--

-You tripped over a stick.

Okay?

Twelve years ago

you tripped over a stick.

It was a one-in-a-million thing.

You tripped over a stick.

That's what you did wrong.

There's your session.

It's funny how much

faster you can go

when you're not

charging by the hour.

I'm your father.

Trying to comprehend

how much I love

you would be like

trying to visualize the size

of the universe.

I didn't know

you got beaten up until I

read it in your book.

It was a hell of a way

to learn about it.

You should know

that I'm hiring someone to

find the guy who did it

then I'm hiring

someone to kill him.

Don't even joke about that.

I'm not.

It wasn't a purse snatcher,

Dad, it was the mafia.

I don't care if it's

the leader of Hamas.

Someone put their hands on you.

They're gonna suffer.

-Dad, I'm fine.

-No, they're gonna suffer.

Dad, I'm all right.

No. They're gonna suf--

Really, I'm fine.

-Did you know--

-Oh!

I didn't see you.

Did you know that we know

what the center of our

galaxy smells like?

Smells like rum and raspberries.

The center of the galaxy

is ethyl formate,

which is the same gas

that gives rum its smell

and raspberries their taste.

How do you know these things?

To stay busy during games,

I surfed the internet.

Then I started taking

online courses.

I'm 12 credits away from

a degree in astronomy,

I didn't even know

I was enrolled.

Hey.

I want to thank you

for what you said tonight.

It was Stella

who asked me to be your lawyer.

She read the book,

I accused her of

reading trash but she

defended the book impressively.

And then defended you.

You're her role model.

I'm gonna give her that.

There's a new offer on the table.

What is it?

We hand over the hard drives.

I don't get it.

We hand over the forensic imaging

of the e-mails and texts

in exchange for uh--

Exchange--What could they

possibly offer for me to do that?

I wrote it all down, it's um...

Your money back.

They'll give you all your

money back plus interest.

It's over 5 million dollars.

Is that why they took

it in the first place?

So they could offer it back to me?

Yeah.

For what it's worth,

if we went to trial

you'd have to hand over the

forensic imaging in discovery.

But that's different from

voluntarily handing it over.

Sure, but it's not

really voluntary anymore

when the alternative is prison.

And that's what they're

gonna recommend, 42 months.

Why do you keep breaking

eye contact with me?

I-I'm looking right at you.

You think I should do it.

You gotta let me keep

you out of prison.

You've seen what's on

those hard drives.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a lot more than

a little color.

Yeah, but complete immunity.

All right? You get

all your money back.

You'll be the first defendant

to walk out of a courtroom

better off than

when you walked in.

Careers will be ruined.

Families.

Wives, lives on both coasts--

Hey, when a rich

guy goes to jail

he spreads his money around.

His-his lawyer knows how

to take care of that.

He spreads his money around.

You don't have any!

The composition of female

inmates in federal prison--

they did not commit

financial crimes.

They're drug dealers.

They get raped

by prison guards.

You...you will not

be anonymous, Molly.

You will be a target!

Children will read their

father's text messages

saying he wished

he'd never had kids.

These guys--

These guys, where are they?

Why are you in this alone?

Where are your friends?

Where is the one guy saying,

"Hey, you know, Molly, I know you're

doing everything to save my life,

what can I do for you?

Let me buy you a sandwich.

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