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- Aside from drinking?

- Yeah.

- Being a professional alcoholic.

- That's it.

Jimmy, I sit here, I guard the door,

I mail off the tapes,

and I make sure no one walks in

and pops your ass.

- Cheers.

- Love you, baby.

- Glass up.

- Yeah.

I actually mail the tapes.

And I write out the envelopes.

I'm in trouble. I'm in trouble.

- The tapes, recordings of when I'm in there?

- Yeah.

Over there in the closet.

Where do you mail them to?

Just out of curiosity.

P.O. Box, for your evaluation.

- Don't go f*** up our system.

- Larry, don't get so serious.

I ain't feeling the love.

I ain't feeling no love, man.

- Where'd the love go?

- I don't know, man.

- It's to who?

- Down, boy.

- I fold. I'm out. Yeah.

- You're out?

The system is a series of drops,

and Green has confirmed exactly

what the three wise men said.

Three wise men?

The three whacked-out fiends

who play cards in the kitchen.

Now, if we can figure out

who leases the P.O. Boxes

and who makes the pickups,

we might be able to get our leads.

And the camera in the vault?

The recording device

appears to be a live remote feed.

We already checked.

The signal's untraceable.

Good to know.

Two hours ago, LAPD got a report

that Archie Green was missing.

- He's been gone two days.

- His wife thought he was on a business trip.

And we can't inform LAPD of the operation.

Ziggy's way over their jurisdiction.

Just be prepared now for any hurried tactics

in trying to get him to talk.

- Hey, Jimmy.

- What's going on, Mo?

- You're late, bro.

- Late?

- Yeah.

- Late for what?

The big guy just sent a package for you.

- Did he bring it himself?

- No, man, I didn't ask his name.

Some old guy in a suit said,

"Give this to Jimmy."

He said the code is your birthday.

- Anything good?

- More toys.

Call me Santa. I come bearing gifts.

We've got this.

Festive. Or we've got this.

You haven't had solid food in days.

Why don't we start with a little treat?

Okay.

Mr. Green, just relax.

Nothing's going to happen

if you just tell me what I need to know.

Let's start with a place.

Give me a place to look.

Is the money in the Caymans?

- No.

- Zurich?

Rome? The money's in Rome?

Jimmy, I already told you.

I don't have Ziggy's money.

I know I can't prove it.

But how can I disprove a false accusation

when I don't have any understanding of it?

Now you could tell me anything.

You could tell me the sky is red outside.

To me right now, in here, the sky is blue.

Until we're both standing outside

under the same sky,

it's your word against mine.

We both have the same kind of credibility.

So you gotta help me, Jimmy.

Tell me the facts.

Tell me who told you I stole Ziggy's money.

Ziggy told me you stole the money

and that's all I need to know.

- That's all he said? He didn't say how?

- Mr. Green, I'm growing impatient.

- You hear me!

- He didn't say which account the money...

Mr. Green, I'm hoping the electricity

woke up some forgotten memories.

Babe?

Hey.

I tried to wait up for you.

Come lie down. Come lie down.

Hello?

Hello, Jimmy. I didn't wake you, did I?

- Who is this?

- You know who this is.

Baby...

I've been watching your sessions

with Archie Green.

Nice work, Jimmy.

What's your gut telling you?

My gut's telling me

to do whatever it is that you want.

While that's the correct answer

most of the time,

this is one of those rarities

when I'm really asking your opinion.

- Do you think he stole the money?

- Yes.

So do I. Carry on with your sessions.

Thank you, sir.

And Jimmy, try to get some sleep.

Don't you ever do that again.

- What're you doing here?

- I flew in first thing this morning

as soon as I heard Ziggy had called you.

Yeah, well,

we're not 100% sure it was Ziggy.

Whoever it was jammed our trace.

I've dealt with him before.

I'll lay you odds it was Ziggy.

How do you wanna proceed from here?

I finish the operation,

I get Ziggy and I bring him to justice.

Agent Cole, I was not speaking to you.

Sit down and listen

while Director Cole and I reach a decision.

He's been underground a long time.

Why would he call Kevin last night?

Why surface? Why now?

And what's this Archie Green thing

all about, anyway?

Sir, you don't believe

it's about the $10 million?

I have no idea.

We don't know what Green knows.

That's the real question.

Please, please.

I'll tell you anything you want.

Anything I can, anything you wanna know

that I actually know...

Don't hurt me anymore.

This is me now. It's me. It's me.

Now just relax. Just relax.

Now, we're gonna try to retrace your steps

to remember the exact moment

when you made 10 million mistakes.

Mr. Green, I'm gonna let you speak freely.

How long have you known Ziggy?

A long time.

Twenty... Twenty to twenty-five years.

I met him at a card game.

It was a high stakes game at...

Mickey Sullivan's place in the basement.

And how did your relationship

move forward?

He had just adopted a little girl.

She was, I don't know,

seven, eight years old.

And he was having problems with her.

Anyway, that's because he wasn't married.

And I had just gotten married, so I...

I offered up my wife, Gloria,

to take her shopping and stuff like that.

- Ziggy's daughter?

- Yes.

What's her name?

Tally.

My wife Gloria and Tally

would go shopping and the movies.

You know, girly foolishness.

You see how easy this can be, Mr. Green?

Please, continue.

Well, one week at the game, Z tells me...

That's what we called him, Z.

He tells me, he says,

"Archie, you look tired."

I explained to him how I was working

my tail off at Arthur Andersen.

He tells me he's a pretty wealthy guy.

He doesn't make a big deal out of it.

It's nothing showy.

He just says it matter-of-factly,

like he was presenting something to me.

You know,

he started out in Streets and Sanitation.

Up in Chino, I think.

Anyway, he told me he would give me

the books to one of his companies,

and that if he liked my work,

he would pay me twice my annual salary.

Twice.

I did it.

I left Arthur Andersen,

started my own little practice.

I only had one client.

I started with one client.

I still to this day only have one client.

And you kept totally legit, clean books?

Sure. I would keep the records for a year

and then I'd send it back to him.

But that's not unusual.

I had a lot of clients from my old firm

who did the same thing.

They sent their taxes by themselves.

It wasn't that unusual.

- So when did you realize, Mr. Green?

- About Z?

Five years later, maybe six, I don't know.

I started doing some of his

other businesses, all cash businesses.

Bars, restaurants, laundromats, diamonds.

I mean, when you have two or three

cash businesses, that's one thing,

but when you've got a dozen

and they're moving

tens of millions of dollars through them,

and I'm talking about 20 years ago,

well, that's quite a different thing.

I was in too deep, anyway.

I mean, he supported my entire business.

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