Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Page #6

Jake, you have an hour.

I told him you were on the island.

Yeah, but I'm in the middle

of Friday afternoon traffic.

But he said after hours is okay,

because he left his home address.

East 65th Street and Park Avenue, honey.

Up to 8 p.m.

Did he sound upset?

Screw him, he destroyed this company.

You waltz in there

like Russell Crowe in Gladiator.

Thanks, babe.

Sounds like you're getting

your walking papers.

Jake, look, I don't need this ring now.

Just give me one

out of a Cracker Jack box instead...

What are you talking about?

Are you crazy? Everything's gonna be fine.

Jake, I grew up with a father

who only talked about money.

If you think I want to be

with the kind of guy

with his ego invested in his bank account,

you really don't get me.

"I love it," was what I was expecting.

Return it. It makes me uncomfortable.

Okay, Winnie. I'll return it.

Jacob Moore to see Mr. James.

He's expecting you.

(PIANO PLAYING)

BRETTON:
Saturno Devorando A Su Hijo.

Goya painted 15 Black Paintings

late in his life.

Fourteen of them are on view in the Prado.

That's the missing 15th.

An early sketch

for Saturn devouring his son.

Do you collect?

No.

Only the obsessive-compulsive

and the insecurely egotistical

feel the need to collect things.

Do you ride?

It's an avocation, yes.

You know the photograph.

Rollie Free, 1948.

He set the world record at 150.

And wanted it so bad he rode naked.

Why, you ride, Mr. Moore?

I'll put it to you this way.

If you rode the rest of your life, right,

and really became the best

that you could be,

you would never ride like I ride.

(LAUGHING)

Well, then I look forward

to us riding together.

You a bee, Mr. Moore?

A what?

Do you like to sting people?

You cost Churchill Schwartz $120 million

last week.

That's not a great deal of money.

But people know Hydra Offshore is ours.

I had dinner with the good

Commander Ojukwa in Paris last week.

He has no actual plans

of nationalizing any oil fields.

But I guess

that doesn't really matter to you.

No, it doesn't.

I checked you out with the desks in town.

You didn't make any money off it.

No, I didn't.

Then why?

Because you destroyed my firm.

Your firm destroyed itself.

You killed Louis Zabel.

Louis Zabel killed himself.

But you set the rumors.

The rumors were true.

You made them true.

No, Mr. Moore.

Putting 50% leverage

on toxic debt made them true.

Look, Zabel once knew how to run money.

Dying because of it was his choice.

As far as I'm concerned, it's just money.

But when you don't know

what you're doing,

it's fatal, Mr. Moore.

Not knowing what you're doing.

Come work for me.

What?

We fund most of the world's

integrated oil companies,

drillers, coal producers,

natural gas line providers...

I know who you are.

But where we're a little light

is in alternative energy.

Why me?

Because your loyalty demanded revenge.

Your balls actually attempted it,

and your skill pulled it off.

And frankly,

because I'd love to

beat the crap out of you on a bike.

Fair enough?

You got my attention, Mr. Moore.

That's pretty rare.

If I were you, I'd think seriously about it.

Because you'll have a hard time elsewhere,

now that you've captured our attention.

Now, if you'll excuse me,

I'm having a little fundraiser.

I got to get back to shaking my tin cup.

What's your number?

I'm sorry?

We'd start you at 300, like everybody else.

I mean, as a partner, I only pull in 600.

And the bonuses...

No, no, no.

Your number.

The amount of money you would need

to just walk away from it and live.

See, I find that everybody has a number,

and it's usually an exact number.

So what is yours?

More.

How did you know it was Bretton James?

Good morning to you, too. Come in.

- Good morning.

- You hungry?

No. I'm okay, thanks.

GORDON:
Brett, as I called him

in the old days,

used to run trades through me.

We used to piggyback off

each other's ideas.

Then we had a little discrepancy.

I won't bother you with the details.

Just to tell you that

it cost me 200,000 bucks,

which was a lot of money back then.

So when I got hot in the '80s,

and I started giving tastes to my friends,

I didn't invite James in,

and he didn't like that very much.

So?

GORDON:
So it's no big deal.

But when you're in prison,

you got a lot of time to think.

In fact, the best memory that I know

is hurt.

I did eight years, pal.

Five years before that in court.

Nobody does eight years.

They give murderers five.

I thought it was the kid

with the airline that gave you up.

Blue Star? Stock Watch? What was it?

- Who, Bud Fox?

- Bud Fox.

No, no, no. He got a wire on him.

He got me for insider trading.

But that's 12, 13 months, max.

After the first charges, it was one of my

co-conspirators who tipped off the Feds.

And that pious piranha, Bretton James,

he had just enough information to sink me.

You know, of course,

I'm never going to know it for sure.

He offered me a job.

Well, you just rocketed

into the center of the universe, pal.

I think my daughter's future is looking

a hell of a lot better.

I never made any money shorting Hydra.

You're kidding me. You didn't trade it?

That would've been insider trading,

Mr. Gekko.

Remember, your daughter and I

are engaged.

You wouldn't want to soil her name, right?

Well, you may not have traded,

but you try telling the Feds

you didn't commit a felony.

- What do you mean?

- You know exactly what I mean.

You induced others to trade on information

that you knew to be false.

Hard to prove that.

A fisherman always sees

another fisherman from afar.

I think you ought to start

calling me Gordon.

Well, I promised you this,

Gordon.

Makes us even.

There she is.

But keep this between us, though.

(EXHALES)

How is that lefty website of hers doing?

- Frozen Truth?

- Yeah.

It's doing well, actually.

They get about 50,000 hits a day.

- It's building.

- Mmm.

(LAUGHS)

She was such a pisser.

Relationships, they're like bubbles.

They're fragile. It's like these tulips.

This is the greatest bubble story

of all time.

Back in the 1600s, the Dutch,

they get speculation fever

to the point that you could buy a

beautiful house on a canal in Amsterdam,

for the price of one bulb.

They called it "Tulip Mania."

Then it collapsed.

You could buy 10 bulbs for $2.

People got wiped out,

but, you know, who remembers?

What would you do with your money?

Me? Switzerland. Still the best.

Got a healthy distrust

for a big government.

Is that where you keep it?

Yes, I did. Now I don't got

that kind of cash anymore.

But you do have money.

This is a rental.

I'm pretty sure James has invested

in an offshore fund in the Caymans.

Your time, you ever do anything with

some company called Locust Fund?

Locust Fund. I never heard of it,

but it's possible. Yeah.

James wants to build

his alternative energy sector.

Sounds serious.

I think I can get him to put real capital

behind this company I told you about.

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