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with him?

Two days ago.

But I think he's getting suspicious.

I've been dragging this thing along.

I think if we don't make a move...

I mean, he could already

have backed down here.

And these calls, they've been coming in

on your home line?

Well, I have an ADM line at my house.

It's a business line.

They've been coming in

on the business line.

Well, I think we should start with...

...putting a recording device

on your phone.

There's a sale at Bachrach's.

They have those Oscar de la Renta ties

that nobody buys.

What are they,

two for one for another week?

Diagonal bands of color hanging

around your neck.

They never put the nice Brioni ties

on sale.

I should just get all my ties in Paris...

...wear them once or twice

and shove them in a duty-free bag.

Nobody gets stopped at customs

for ties.

I can help with that.

So...

...that's it, then.

I can go?

Listen. Why don't...? Ahem.

I'd like to come out tomorrow,

get on that phone.

Great. No problem.

- Thank you for your time.

- Thank you.

You told the truth, Mark.

That's all you can do.

I never even had the chance.

They were watching me the whole time.

Cheviron was in the room.

Mick Andreas gets the vice president

of the United States as his godfather.

He goes to Richard Nixon's house

for Thanksgiving.

It's not like his parents died

in a car accident...

...and he ended up in an orphanage.

Mick's dad wrote a check

to the Nixon campaign.

It wound up in the account

of the Watergate burglars.

Did he admit it? I don't think so.

Besides, ADM probably owns the FBI.

They probably wanted me

to move into Dwayne's old house...

...because they got it wired

like in a Crichton novel.

Marty Allison called.

And Sid Hulse wants to know if you can

have dinner at 7:00 instead of 7:30.

Great earrings, Ginger.

Bet you can see those shining

from space.

Mark got them abroad.

I can't remember where.

Nigeria?

Not funny, Sid.

You're telling me.

So, Sid, you're off tomorrow?

Where to?

West Coast swing.

Gotta get up there.

Kick some Japanese butt.

I'm not gonna see you for weeks?

Maybe longer if I get lost in the Ginza.

Have a great trip, Sid.

Just tell them everything.

We'll leave.

I don't like what this company

is doing to you.

This is a chance

to start somewhere new.

Remember, you said Mexico?

I may tell them at some point. But now,

I gotta toe the company line here.

Mark...

...if you don't tell them, I will.

I can't.

Not now.

Hello. Please.

Agent Shepard, my wife, Ginger.

Ma'am. I know it's late.

I'll be out of your hair in a minute.

Great. Maybe a cup of coffee

for Agent Shepard?

Okay.

Just show me where the line

in question...

It's that one over there.

There should be a TV show about

a guy who calls home and he's there.

He answers, he's talking to himself,

only it's someone else.

He's somehow divided into two

and the second one of him drives away.

The show is about him trying

to find the guy.

I'll give you a call tomorrow.

We can test it out.

Great. Great. Okay.

Thank you for coming by.

- Good night.

- Night.

Good night, Mrs. Whitacre.

Good night.

- Are you gonna say something, or am I?

- Don't.

Brian?

Hey, got a minute?

Um...

Can I talk to you in the car?

Sure.

We could go back inside if you want.

They might have it bugged.

We're safer out here.

Bugged?

What?

Who?

Us?

All right, there's things I know.

If I decide to tell you...

...could I be prosecuted?

I cannot provide you with immunity,

but any information...

...about your involvement

in criminal activity...

...would be discussed in a favorable light

with the U.S. Attorney's office.

Okay. Everything I told you yesterday

about Nakawara was true. Absolutely.

Except one thing. He never called me

on my business line.

Well, why did you tell me that he did?

Before I spoke with you yesterday,

I was coached by the guys at ADM...

...to tell you that he called

on my business line, not my home line.

Why?

What I'm about to tell you,

it involves something very large.

This Nakawara extortion thing is nothing

compared to it, nothing at all.

This involves price fixing

in the lysine business.

- Now...

- Wait, hang on.

Take some notes.

- Okay, go on.

- Price fixing in the lysine business.

I have been in several meetings with

our Japanese and Korean competitors...

...over the last few months, where

the sole purpose was to fix the prices.

ADM made me go to those meetings.

See, that's why they wanted me to lie.

Because the Nakawara calls came in

on my home line...

...but so do the calls from the people

we're fixing prices with.

They don't want you to hear those.

They instructed me to tell you the

Nakawara calls came in on my ADM line.

But I realized that once you guys started

digging around in the records...

...you'd see I have all these calls

to Japan.

Right? That's what scared me.

Nobody's got more calls than me.

So if you figure out the price-fixing thing,

I'd be the fall guy.

Who told you to participate

in these price-fixing talks?

I'm operating under the direction of

Mick and Dwayne Andreas.

He seems like a real good guy.

I hope he doesn't mind me calling

him Brian instead of Agent Shepard.

I might even try Bri out.

This must be very different for him...

...talking to a guy like me instead

of a bank robber or a drug dealer.

I could see us fishing or whatever.

What a good listener.

You don't meet one of those every day.

Morning.

What happened last night?

What do you mean? Nothing.

Well, they put a...

...recorder on the phone.

That's it?

Well, yeah.

He said when Nakawara calls...

...I just flip a switch

and record the conversation.

Yeah?

- Oh. Put her through.

- Make sure you do it.

They have ways of checking up.

Sure thing.

Hi, hon.

What?

Slow down, honey, slow...

What?

A pound of bacon, a peanut

butter sandwich, some vitamins.

Anything that ADM has a hand in,

it's all fixed. That's what he's telling me.

I mean, basically...

I mean, everyone in this country is a victim

of corporate crime...

...by the time they finish breakfast.

You think the automobile

companies can't make a car...

...that gets 100 miles to the gallon?

You think the networks

don't know who'll win the Worid Series...

...before the season starts?

Paranoid is what people who are trying

to take advantage...

...call you to get you to drop your guard.

I read that in an in-flight magazine.

One potential problem I see moving ahead

with ADM is this guy Cheviron.

He wants to be kept in on the loop

on everything that we're doing.

I want to meet Mark Whitacre.

You said they were only

gonna tap one line. One line.

- They are only monitoring one line.

- That is not true.

That is absolutely not true.

I just got off the phone with my wife.

Some woman named Regina

at the phone company called her...

...and said that both my lines are tapped.

My home phone.

Come on, Mark. The phone company

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