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My name is Marty Kaan,
and I'm a management consultant.
Every week me and my team go somewhere
and talk people into thinking they really, really need us.
RAINMAKER: In a fight between Greg Norbert and Marty Kaan...
***.
...all the *** money is on you.
She made me come more
in a toilet stall in six minutes
than you have in the past three years.
You could not resist
slapping around Greg Norbert's manhood.
I think you wish someone would take you
and *** your brains out.
'Cause whoever's doing it now
isn't doing it right.
I think we should have the engagement party.
MARTY: Still don't know exactly what it is we do?
Time's up. Got to run. Call me.
(laughing)
(sighs)
What's wrong, what's wrong?
God, what the *** happened?
You know, I think you hit your ***.
Yes.
MAN: We're beginning our descent into Los Angeles.
If you are just visiting Los Angeles
we hope you have an enjoyable trip.
If you live in the greater L.A. area, welcome home.
(sighs) Home.
The place a management consultant goes
To... do his laundry.
(pinging)
...traveling to other destinations,
see your gate attendant for your flight assignments.
Have a wonderful day, and thank you for flying with us.
We're on the road Monday to Thursday every week,
in the office Friday and then back on the road Monday.
So every week, every year, as the mileage rewards accumulate,
and the travel hook-up points accrue,
the meaning of home diminishes proportionately
until, for some of us, it's-- it's kind of like limbo.
I know you just checked out my ***.
What? He did.
I may have.
And?
Not bad.
Thank you.
Hey, Jeannie, hold up.
Hey, listen, it's the last weekend of the national tour
of Wicked, and I happen to have an extra ticket for Saturday.
Didn't want to ask the others, but...
I-- you know what, I actually have to get going,
but I'm going to see you guys bright and early tomorrow.
Bye, Jeannie.
Hey, Clyde, what do you say, Wicked?
Doug, I wish I could, but I have to clean my oven,
so I can stick my head in it and kill myself.
See, that's what I'd rather do than go on a man date
to Wicked with you.
Just say no.
Just say no.
Yeah.
Sure.
So you go home and do what you can to cope with the shift.
♪ ♪
(school bell ringing)
My dad smokes weed.
Not mine.
That's cool, too.
Yeah?
Would you ever?
Smoke weed?
No.
What else wouldn't you do?
I don't know, lots of stuff.
What would you do?
Lots of stuff.
No I didn't.
You kissed me.
I didn't. I considered it, but I'm not that into him.
I didn't.
No, I didn't.
What?
Marty, your 10:00 is here.
You have somebody out here
who says you do.
Mr. Kaan.
Thank you so much for seeing me
My pleasure.
Uh, right this way.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, baby, baby, baby, slow down.
What are you doing here?
You're not happy to see me?
Should I be?
Are you nervous?
Sweetheart, I'm not nervous.
Confused a little, maybe befuddled,
definitely ***, but not nervous.
What are you doing here? I thought you were in New York.
I got in. USC-- full ride.
What? You got into S.C.?
Give it up.
You may approach the bench.
(chuckles)
Mama, I think it's okay for you to admit now that your move
was a little about me.
Yeah.
I uprooted my life, moved cross-country
for a guy I met stripping.
So I could intermittently relieve his boredom
Oh.
Because I am so in his thrall.
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
(chuckles) Oh, sweetheart,
you remember Greg Norbert?
Greg Norbert...
You turned out his wife?
Right.
Yeah.
She sexted me a couple times.
That is so sweet.
But listen, he's here.
He's trying to buy the company.
I don't know about that.
See, I have this non-compete clause
in my contract.
It means I can't just take my talents
and start working for the competition across the street.
No, it's not good at all.
I'd prefer if Mr. Norbert didn't find you here today.
You must be so stressed.
I can't even talk about it.
You know what, come here.
There are only a few things that work for stress.
I've had a lot of success
April, this is a bad idea
at this time, this place.
April, April...
Oh, hello.
Ohh!
You're going to be an excellent lawyer.
Marty...
Can I... Can we just put all the animosity
on hold for like five minutes?
I just need a sounding board, bro.
It's my wife.
Oh, my ex,
I guess.
Jesus, I can't even say it.
I know she's younger and not exactly a rocket scientist,
but she has such pretty hair.
Yeah, hey, Greg, I was... do you think that it would be possible
if we could just, uh... do this at another... another time?
Maybe in your office?
No.
I just feel like everything I'm saying in there
is being listened to. Just like someone's privy
to my private... Is everything okay?
You know what, Marty?
Hey, I'm not here on business.
I'm not playing you here, man.
This is mano a mano.
You are misusing that term, Greg.
Yeah.
"Mano a mano," uh... doesn't mean man to man.
It means hand to hand.
It's like combat.
But I think what you're trying to say is man to man
so you're actually using it
in the exact inverse of what you're trying to say.
Yeah.
It's a common mistake.
*** consultants.
You guys are sharp, man.
You are the sharpest of the sharp.
I'm going to write that down.
I got other pens, Greg.
Rolling under... No.
Yeah, I got that as a gift.
Can I be honest with you? It's weird because
I want to kill you.
But I feel a kinship, you know? We should hang.
That would be awesome, but I've got this crazy workload...
Since I've been in So Cal, in LaLa Land,
I write things down.
I started meditating.
Kiteboarding. ***, right?
***.
(cell phone ringing)
No, that's not me.
(Greg mutters)
Oh, ***.
Principal Gita.
MONICA: I have a real great nail place, it's just down the street.
I would totally... Oh, hi, sweetie.
What the *** is going on?
You have my son out there
traumatized, Gita.
Can we just dial back the language, Mr. Kaan?
It's not going to help your cause.
Okay, what the *** is she doing here?
Well, I thought, given the seriousness
of what happened,
both parents should be present.
Our son's out there on some bogus
Marty.
Hey, Marty, Marty...
Marty. Marty?
Mar... just...
just calm down a little bit.
I think we should really listen
to what Gita has to say.
Our son is-is wearing dresses,
What we have here,
basically? It is a failed culture, okay?
It's a broken pedagogical paradigm
in the New Pacific School. What started out
as a system based on the near-perfect
theosophical teachings of Rudolf Steiner has now descended.
It's now an outmoded,
anachronistic bastardization-- well, a limitation, really--
of its original intent...
...really.
Mr. Kaan!
Yes?
I have a doctorate
Oh, boy.
My first job after my PhD
was as an educational consultant for DeLoit.
Which is where I met
my ex-husband, a management consultant very much like you,
who made my life a living hell,
until I met my dear life partner Deandra.
So I know the nest of *** pit vipers you crawl in.
(laughs) Well... that came out.
Anyway, my desire is for the highest good
as it relates to Roscoe, and as it relates to the school.
In this case, I feel
Just say it.
You're trying to expel my son.
Let's not think of it as an expulsion.
What do you want to think of it as?
What...?
I mean, is the other kid, Caleb,
It's complicated.
Is it? Well, let me unpack it for you.
Here's what's happening:
See, uh, I'm not paying for your new science lab, okay?
And I'm definitely not getting the band
together to play your funky little fundraiser
for the school so Caleb's daddy, the rock star--
the '90s grunge big money man donor--
he gets it, he wins.
Right? Great values, Gita.
I hope you're teaching that to the kids.
Caleb's father is a generous contributor to the school.
But this is about Roscoe, and what happened today.
I think we both know
You know what, this is ***.
Marty...
This is ***.
Now, I am headed to the airport Monday morning.
But before I get there,
I'm dropping my son off at this school.
I don't think that's a good idea.
Gita... he is coming to school
Not a good idea.
But I am more than willing to discuss this
further with the relevant parties before you leave.
I don't have a lot of time before I leave. It's gonna have to be Sunday.
I can do that.
(very quietly): Wow.
(louder): Heard you really QB'd the *** out of
that Stay Rite engagement in Salt Lake.
Tough gig, you brought it home.
It was, and I did.
Mr. Control Freak Marty Kaan was okay with that?
Uh... more or less.
More, or less...
What?
Shh, shh, shh. Shh, shh, shh.
It's just uncanny to me, how much you remind me of my wife.
Well, you know, my... God... My ex-wife.
Wife/ex-wife/wife/ex-wife...
Yeah, I didn't... um...
I-I know, I know, what could you possibly say to that, right?
It's a big compliment.
She's very talented.
She's a... formidable person.
That's very kind.
Well, I can be a kind person
some of the time, Jeannie. And you
are deserving of kindness.
Thanks very much, Greg.
Hey, listen. Listen. I'm, um...
I'm new to town.
And I don't know a lot of people.
I don't know a lot of women. I do know you.
Hey.
Marty... (stammers) just talking to Jeannie about that
Stay Rite engagement
in Salt Lake. She really tore it up, didn't she?
Oh, my God, thanks so much, Marty!
Well, hey, Marty, you gotta treasure your team,
treat 'em right. Love 'em up.
Am I right, Jeannie-who-reminds- me-of-my-wife-who-left-me-
after-Marty's-wife- made-her-squirt?
Greg...
I've already apologized for that.
And she wasn't my wife.
Oh, God, that's right. I remember now.
She was a cheap bi-curious stripper
who just gutted my life. Moving on.
Hey, guys. Guys!
Don't go anywhere, I need you. Stay.
Us two?
Stay.
So, it was fun to catch up.
I'm off to examine every piece of business
you've done in the last two years with
an electron microscope.
Wow! Get ready to be blinded by 1,000 suns!
Oh! Ready! (imitates gunfire)
Ting ting ting!
I knew it was bad, but...
this is bad in a way that even I couldn't imagine.
Ah, *** that guy.
So listen... it's the weekend coming up.
It's a sacred time, really.
You know?
A time when we just escape that hustle and bustle
A little time for Guggenheim.
Yeah. Well, that's not going down this weekend.
No.
Roscoe is in trouble at school; he's being
unfairly persecuted and I need to buy some leverage.
So the four of us are gonna go *** that little
hippie-haven, find something to *** them up.
That's not exactly on the development matrix, Marty.
I'm asking for a little help here, Jeannie.
Right, but I have the right to say thanks but no thanks.
I don't see you coming to my house on the weekends,
helping me weed my vegetable garden.
Oh, yeah?
Jeannie, this is not a vegetable garden; this is my son
But I... you can handle it.
I'm gonna see you guys Monday.
Really? Just like that?
Apparently.
Well, I'm out then. I'll see you Monday.
No... What do you guys want to eat for dinner?
Oh, I'm out. Kind of doing a cleanse at the moment.
So... talk to me.
Dream cake?
Every bride's got a dream cake.
Yeah, you know, the one you've fantasized about
shoving in his face?
Ha.
(clears throat)
We, uh... we talked about that.
We... yeah, just... right.
We could do that. But might I make a suggestion?
Rolled fondant.
It's huge. It's enormous, it's the thing right now.
Sure. I mean, I'm not familiar with fondant,
Great.
So what colors are we working with?
We didn't really have...
a chance to talk about it.
Um...
I was just thinking maybe just cake... color.
(Wes laughs quietly)
Uh, could we take a look at your book, or do you...
have a book?
Yeah. Feel free. It's right over there.
All right. Cool.
Okay.
Mm-hmm. Yes.
I love you and all, I just don't love cake.
Right.
Or vol au vent pastry with herbed goat cheese.
Or *** horse-drawn carriages. Or a wedding.
You're talking to the right guy.
Okay? Let's just keep this simple,
and have a kick-*** party.
Okay?
I mean... I guess we have to have a wedding cake, right?
So let's just *** pick one out
Okay.
And we can go do unspeakable things in the parking lot
Okay.
Okay? All right?
BAKER: How are you doing?
Oh, my goodness!
Okay. I pulled this
out of a bridal magazine in Provence.
OMG. I love this cake.
Six-tiered hexagon almond amaretto cake,
covered in Tiffany blue sugar flowers and fondant bows,
Beautiful.
Well, my wife has great taste.
(sighs) You just said "wife."
MAN: I sure did.
(woman squeals)
BAKERS: Aw...
Oh, ***...
*** Marty Kaan needs me to come into the office today.
Yeah.
My God, he has no respect for your personal life.
Okay, well, it's my job.
I mean, what's not my job is to be standing here,
tasting 14 different varieties of dry cake, you know?
Okay.
Okay. Jesus.
Sorry. I... um...
It's just, this *** acquisition,
Marty's freaking out,
and he doesn't have a friend in the world, so he's afraid
he's gonna be pushed out by this guy from New York.
Wait, why are you rushing to take his side right now?
I mean, shouldn't you be playing some politics at this point?
I... I'm trying to.
All right. Well, uh, hey, go get 'em, babe, all right?
Okay. Thanks.
Hey. We're still okay, right?
Yeah. We're good.
Good.
(panting)
Thanks for bringing me to your office.
I like it.
Very architectural.
Yeah, thanks. Yo!
Hey, good timing.
No.
A small part.
You know, there's other partners, and they own
a lot bigger part of the business, a lot bigger shares.
Are you going to be a big partner, with bigger shares?
What do you think?
Definitely big time.
Hey, hey.
What up, little man?
Cold chillin', Sir Clyde of the North.
Sir Clyde of the North?
ROSCOE: Did you hear?
I'm being wrongfully accused, like Joan of Arc?
We're going with Hurricane Carter, buddy.
Don't even worry about it, because you know we got you, right?
DOUG: I heard that, dawg.
Come on. Knuckle up, bro-heem.
Don't black it up.
That's what I'm talking about.
Daddy, you're about to fall in love with us
for we have officially found
the creamy center of the Ho-Ho.
Do tell.
(mimics tires screeching)
***, Roscoe!
Go to the kitchen or something.
Raid the fridge. I got some frozen Snickers in there.
Don't eat all of 'em.
Yes, I know he's gonna 'em all.
Okay, listen. Back in 2009,
NSR: National Standardized Review was
found guilty of orchestrating widespread cheating
across 20 schools, private and public.
Okay.
Okay, so New Pacific
was one of the schools mentioned.
So, what the NSR
would do was inflate the schools' test scores
to give the appearance that they had a greater
success rate than they actually did.
When was this?
Hold on. NSR's now gone
the way of Milli Vanilli,
but Roscoe's school has moved on
to an apparently more "credible" testing source:
the National Testing Board.
However, have a look at the brochures from '09.
Compare them with the brochures for 2012.
2009, 2012.
Those look exactly the same.
Because they're identical.
That's right. New Pacific is still claiming
fraudulent scores from '09 to bolster their enrollments.
Even though the kids are still not performing as promised.
That's bad.
That is bad.
(whispers): That's good.
That is good.
(laughs) So, I can still make Wicked in time?
I invited my landlady. I should let her know.
The lady with a dozen pigeons?
Yeah, they're homing pigeons.
Hey, listen, we are good.
(doorbell rings)
Thing One and Thing Two are fast asleep.
APRIL: Does that mean we have to be quiet?
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
Who?
Roscoe. You think he did it.
You think he kissed that boy.
If I don't believe him, why am I taking on the school?
Why am I fighting so hard?
'Cause that's what you do.
You're a good dad.
I do.
I had a *** one.
You're a consultant.
I need a consultation.
You know I love hanging out with you.
April, don't *** me, okay?
I don't want to play games with you.
Just, just tell me what's up. Don't soft sell it.
I killed someone.
Okay, maybe you can soft sell it a little bit.
But it was an accident, and they're talking about second-degree ***.
Wait a minute, are you *** serious?
You killed somebody?
Baby, uh... (chuckles)
listen, that's, that's
not really my area of expertise, you know?
There are legal consultants.
But they gotta do actual work.
I have consulted plenty of lawyers, Marty.
I need someone with a genuinely meta take on this whole thing.
Someone's who's not constrained
by something as finite as the law.
Okay, um... who's the vic?
Off-duty cop.
(chuckles ruefully)
*** cute.
Came over to my apartment, we had relations,
and she went to get a drink out of the fridge...
Wait a minute. Did you say "she"?
Yeah. As you know, I have a soft spot for cute girls.
Baby, except for the whole *** thing,
you're the perfect woman.
Anyway, she chugged a bottle of water filled with GHB.
GHB, the party drug?
What are you doing with a bottle full of GHB
I'm a 25-year-old stripper, Marty.
Yeah, true that.
And if I get a second-degree *** conviction,
I'll be barred from practicing.
Barred from practicing? You're gonna be behind bars.
I told her it was, it was marked clearly, "GHB" in big letters.
You told her and it was marked?
She was a cop.
I am a stripper.
They want blood.
I can't let this go to trial, Marty.
So I need a sexy *** like you
to help me work some angles.
Consult.
Yeah?
You believe me, right?
Doesn't matter if I believe you. You're my son.
Dad, do... you... believe me?
100%.
Now let's get these guys.
So as you can no doubt see from the numbers there,
if this information were to get out to the press,
well, the New Pacific School would be in a very,
I don't know, sticky situation.
Yeah, it just got real, Gita.
Mr. Kaan, Marty, can I speak really honestly?
I have no idea.
It's not about the school or any perceived problem
you or anybody else has with it.
It's about you, Mr. Kaan.
Mmm-mm.
It's about you and your very sweet son.
And about how you're going
to lose him if you can't plug into his issues on
a very real and emotional and substantive level.
You are really talking out of your *** right now, Gita.
Please, Marty, let's just hear what she's got to say, okay?
Yeah, come on, Marty.
Well, I've talked
to your father and ex-wife about how
you lost your own mother to suicide
at a young age.
See? This is exactly
what I've been trying to say;
that your relationship with Roscoe
and Annalise's suicide are the same...
Are you ***' kidding me right now?
Exactly. Marty, tell her what
your mom used to say to you
when you were little.
Okay, that's it, that's it.
I'm done with this ***.
Just hang in there, Marty.
No, *** that! What is this? Is this an intervention?
Are we here for Roscoe?! What is this ***?!
Yes?
Sorry, but Caleb wanted to talk to you guys.
CALEB: Hey, I told my dad what happened;
that Roscoe didn't try to kiss me. I tried to.
And I guess, well, we're kids, you know?
And my dad said anyway, David Bowie and Marilyn Manson,
they're both badasses who get tons of strange...
Thank you, Caleb. That's very interesting.
I told him no hard feelings. I mean, I get it.
I have an irresistible magnetism.
Okay. Go.
(Jeremiah chuckles)
He's got a magnetism.
MONICA: I think he was wearing my scarf.
It looks good on him.
You should have taken that scarf.
Do you think they really kissed or...?
GITA: Probably they did.
(indistinct conversation)
♪ ♪
I admit the weather's *** great, but it's not New York.
No, it is better..
Uhh!
Whoo!
You want to get out of here?
Let's go.
All right.
Come on. LA over New York?
Are you high?
Yes, I'm definitely high.
(laughs)
But it's better, it's better.
It's just a secret.
A secret? Between you and 11 million people?
My closest friends.
(laughs)
Ah, but you told me. Does that mean I'm in?
Hey, so I was thinking about your cop situation.
Was this chick depressed or-or suicidal even?
And before you answer, listen, I-I could be subpoenaed.
But I'm just saying if she was depressed,
and you told her about the GHB in the fridge and...
Yeah.
Suicide by GHB.
I'm just saying. Ask your lawyers,
but I think that constitutes a defense.
Yeah. You have the morals of a crocodile.
Said the rattlesnake.
I think you may have just saved my ***.
(chuckles) Glad to do it.
I like that ***. Now put it in the car.
I probably should have waited to tell you, though.
If I can get you to stay around a little bit longer.
No?
Uh, I am, though.
I got a 4:30 a.m. car.
Where are you going?
***, I don't know.
Someplace where they make ***
and they need us to come in and tell them how
to make that *** better or faster or cheaper or...
I don't know.
Can I come watch you pack?
Yeah. Only take about two minutes.
I got that *** down to a science.
Sounds like we got some time left over.
Dirty girl!
♪ There's nothing left to prey on ♪
♪ Except everything... ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh... ♪
♪ Oh-oh, oh-oh ♪
♪ Oh-oh, oh-oh ♪
♪ Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh. ♪
(meows)