Molly's Game Page #3

Civ?

-Yeah.

-Do you know it?

Could you teach it

in class today?

If I asked you to teach me

Roman law, could you do it?

Yes.

'Kay.

So, first things first,

when was the last time you slept?

Today's Friday.

Tuesday morning at 5 a.m.

I was arrested by the FBI,

I spent Tuesday in

L.A. County Jail.

I was assessed to be

a minimal flight risk

and bail was set at $100,000.

My mother signed over her house.

I was released on Wednesday and

ordered to appear in Federal Court

in New York's Southern District

at 10 a.m. today.

In here.

Close that will you?

I flew here Wednesday and met

with five attorneys yesterday.

Have a seat.

You didn't hire any of them?

Three of them had

already been taken.

Yeah, 31 people were named

in your indictment.

It's Black Friday for

criminal lawyers.

What about the other two?

One told me money was his

second favorite form of payment.

I know him.

The fifth was also taken

but he recommended I call you.

Why?

I told him I wanted someone who'd

worked in the prosecutors office

and wasn't even a

little bit shady.

Do you know about me?

Um, I've been briefed a

little by my daughter

who knows a lot about your story

because her mother's a moron.

Her mother reads the tabloids.

Yeah, and I read them too.

I read your indictment after

I got your call last night

and I bought your book.

I'm only on page 112, but Molly,

did you commit a felony and

then write a book about it?

I haven't run

a game in two years.

Not to spoil the ending, but

that's when the government

raided my game and

took all of my money,

assuming all of it was made

illegally which it wasn't.

I've been living in my mother's

house in Telluride and...

I wrote the book so I could

start paying off debts.

I just finished a press

tour for the book

and I moved back to Los Angeles

so I could start over.

Hm.

You ran games in L.A. for

roughly eight years?

-Yeah.

-Without taking a rake?

Right.

And then you ran games in

New York for roughly two?

I took a rake

the last six months.

In the first 112 pages

you name a bunch of names.

Sorry?

Uh, you named the name

of some movie stars

that played in your game.

Yeah.

That not against some

sort of poker code?

Am I supposed to be sitting

all the way over here?

Can you hear me from there?

Yeah.

Are you taking me

on as a client?

My retainer's $250,000.

Do you have $250,000?

No, I don't have anything.

What about the sales

from your book?

The book isn't jumping

off the shelves

but I will find a way

to pay you, Charlie.

Ask around about me.

Unfortunately, the people

I'd ask are going away for a while.

What happened on

Tuesday morning

was called a

GPS Takedown.

31 people were arrested

in the same instance.

Something in excess of 600 agents

were dispatched to locations in

New York, and L.A.

in coordinated strikes

with automatic

weapons and you're

trying to tell me

you're in my office

because you raked a

game of Texas Hold 'Em?

Yes.

Have you seen the other

names in your indictment?

Nicolas Koslovsky,

Peter Druzhinsky,

Peter Antonovich,

the Gershen brothers,

I mean, come on, Molly,

just how deep into

the Russian mob were you?

Because your book doesn't say.

Why are you making your

daughter read The Crucible?

So she can see what

happens to a group

of bored teenage girls

when they gossip.

I never read the play.

Many consider it to be

the best play of the 20th Century.

Is that what many

consider it to be?

I don't defend

violent criminals.

I've never hurt

anyone in my life.

-Your friends have.

-I've never heard of 90 percent

-of the names in the indictment.

-And the other 10 percent?

I didn't know they

were connected.

I had no idea

who they really were.

Let me ask you a question.

The character in the

book you call Dean Keith,

he didn't say "Poor

people bagels," did he?

I think I know who he is,

I think I know a real estate lawyer

that worked with him and quit.

He said,

"n*gger bagels," right?

I'm not telling you his real name,

he's not involved in this.

But you were willing

to name some names.

Why is the FBI arresting me

two years after I've

stopped running games?

Were you paid extra in your book

deal to name the movie stars?

I'm not your guy, Molly.

I wish you good luck

but this just isn't for me.

I didn't know who

the Russians were.

I can get you the 250,000,

I left ten times that on the

street, it'll just take some time.

We regularly lend out our best

litigators like me to the ACLU,

Southern Poverty Law

Center, veterans groups,

but I don't think I can

convince my partners

to take a flyer on

the Poker Princess.

I didn't name myself

the Poker Princess.

Uh, "Molly Bloom, the

self-proclaimed Poker Princess..."

Is that Us Weekly?

I would agree it would

be unusual for them

to print something

that wasn't true

but it's not true and

if you think a princess

can do what I did,

you're incorrect.

I'm getting you don't

think much of me

but what if everyone

of your ill-informed,

unsophisticated opinions

about me were wrong?

I'd be amazed.

Yeah, you know what, bud?

You would.

You don't need me,

you need a publicist.

No, I need a f***ing lawyer!

You didn't answer my question.

When was the last

time you slept?

It was a while ago.

All right.

I'm gonna walk you through

the arraignment this morning

'cause you shouldn't

do that alone.

I'm gonna put some bodies on you,

walk you through the side door.

'Cause I don't know what

you got on the Russians

but neither do they

and the Russians

take care of sh*t.

Do you understand

what I'm saying?

Yes.

Almost. You gotta keep

your eyes up, okay?

Always gotta look ahead.

If you look down, that's

where you're gonna go.

If you look down,

that's where you'll go.

You ready?

Let's go.

My father's a therapist

and a psychology professor

at Colorado State.

No!

No!

The second rule of his house

was that academic excellence

and athletic excellence

weren't optional.

You can't be afraid of it.

All right?

Don't play defense.

And the first rule

-was that he made all the rules.

-Again!

Dad, I'm pretty tired.

Hon, she's tired.

We've been out here since 6:00.

Her lips are blue.

-You tired?

-Yeah.

What's another word for tired?

Name a synonym for tired,

and we'll get in the car.

Weak.

That's right.

Let's go home.

Again.

I decided to postpone law

school another year.

After six week of tips,

I went to Barney's and

asked for a dress

that made me look

nothing like myself.

I'd overheard stories about games

that folded after one bad night

and I needed this

one to keep going

and I needed to

bring value to it.

Good night, Molly.

Thanks very much.

I knew if I wanted

to cement my place,

there was one guy I

needed to team up with.

-Ten thousand.

-Fold.

And that was this man.

The game had regulars

and the game had guests.

Check or bet?

And four of the regulars

were famous actors.

And I'm gonna call

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