Paranoia Page #3

How did you know where I was?

I mean, I don't even live around here.

Ah! Mr. Cassidy.

The man who claims he knows

my business better than I do.

Here, take a seat.

- Drop of vino?

- Uh... No.

It seems you were the beneficiary

of an accounting error we made.

I don't know

what you're talking about.

The Ethion discretionary

fund.

Where's my money?

We used it on market research.

At Club Rise?

Sixteen grand?

It must be a very detailed report.

You think you can rip me off

and get away with it?

Credit card fraud?

No, sir, I'm sorry.

I'm gonna pay you back.

No you won't. It wasn't a loan.

Now there's two ways

we can play this.

Are you a horse or a dog?

A horse is motivated by fear.

He's running from the whip.

The whip here being felony fraud.

- He's a dog.

- A dog is motivated by hunger.

He's chasing the rabbit,

his next meal.

You were raised

in a low-income home in Brooklyn.

Your mother died

when you were seven.

Your W-2 says you

now support your father.

30?

So, it means you came

across that bridge every day

hungry to succeed.

- Everyone wants to succeed.

- Yeah, but not like us.

Your father spent 32 years

as a security guard.

- Where's the ambition in that?

- What's this about?

You want more out of life!

I grew up like you.

I mean, different streets.

Same dream,

but nobody gave it to me. No one.

And what if I told you

I could make you rich?

And give your friends their jobs back?

That was a smart pitch

you gave yesterday.

I started out at Eikon.

Jock Goddard was my mentor.

Do you know him?

Yeah, of course I know him.

I did my graduate thesis

on semi-conductor memory.

Goddard's basically the reason

cell phones aren't the size of bricks.

He founded Eikon.

And built it

into the largest publicly traded

technology company in the world.

And ever since I left,

he has spent

every waking moment

trying to destroy me.

Eikon has a new smartphone coming

that's said to be a game-changer.

They're calling it Occura.

You are going to work for Eikon.

- What?

- Get us in the door, you get 500K.

Get us what we need, you'll see

another million in stock options.

Money like that

would allow you to take care

of your father and a whole lot more.

Eikon's not just going

to hire me.

They will when

we're done with you.

This is illegal.

It's stealing trade secrets.

This is the opportunity

you have been waiting for.

Now, you could have done a lot of things

with that credit card last night.

Your father's health insurance premium,

graduate school loans,

but you decided to take your mates

out on the town, living it large.

Because you want to know

how the other half lives.

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