The loan officer is an old high-school buddy of Zaks, but even he cant help them.

(The loan-to-value ratio, he explains with a few sad, sorry hand gestures, it skews negatively.

You have no meaningful collateral and minimal revenue coming in.

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Which is a pretty fair summation of where American Century is at right now.)

So Skips actually not too far off when he turns it to Richie and asks, And how doyoufeel?

Do you even give a s anymore?

Richies solutions is (surprise!)

to get some cocaine in his system because he needs to focus.

I built this company using drugs.

When I got sober, thats when everything got fed up.

(Even if, as Zak points out, Holmes was not a real person.

They do sound, we do picture, she spits, referring to the A&R team.

And the picture has got to be like nothing anyone has ever seen before.

Now were in the studio with the Nasty Bits, and did you almost forget about them?

Because theyve basically been stuck in neutral since signing.

Makes me wanna eat a can of spinach.

And P.S., he can barely afford the studio time theyre burning through.

And if you dont deliver there wontbea new label.

Kip makes his own stinky-barnacle face to that, which is sort of his default mode anyway.

He also says Richie smashed Bucks head in, which is technically not true…

I seem to recall Joe doing most of the major damage.

Regardless, he lets Richie know that he wont go down alone, dad alibi or no.

(Hes a beautiful man.

She snaps back, More like a steward on the Titanic.

Really, what is she even sticking around for at this point?

Shes better than this.

Midday dance party for two!

Theres probably no worse idea than getting into bed with Galasso at this point in the game.

And yet, theyre still going to do it, arent they?

Dev might be a better negotiator than either of them; shes busy charming the Sgt.

They drop the dime on the whole wiretap thing, and send him to a holding cell.