Syriana

Tehran, Iran

Bobby, where have you been?

Whiskey, whiskey.

- You want some whiskey?

- No, champagne.

- Champagne? Yeah.

- Bob.

My brother wants to know...

...have you ever tried liquid MDMA?

Liquid MDMA? No.

Tehran is the world capital.

- Oh, yeah?

- Oh, yeah.

You've got a... friend there.

How's the kid?

He's fine.

He's...

He's fine.

Arash, when you wanna do this?

After prayer.

Okay.

- You said they were both for you.

- What do you care?

Not a move!

Okay. Okay.

I was looking for the bathroom.

Not a word. Shut up!

Okay.

You don't speak Farsi, do you,

you son of a goat?

Georgetown

Washington, DC

Mr. Whiting, I'm Bennett Holiday.

A very big company, Connex,

our client...

...Ioses a huge natural-gas contract

in the Persian Gulf...

...to the Chinese. At the same time...

...a smaller company, Killen, somehow

gets the rights to Kazakhstan...

...one of the largest

untapped oil fields in the world.

The big company, our client,

merges with Killen...

...Justice wants to know

how Killen got those rights.

You've been scrutinizing

exactly these types of deals...

...so if there's something to find...

...I expect you to get it before they do.

And come straight to me.

Bennett.

Sir?

At my firm, I have a flock of sheep...

...who think they're lions.

Maybe you're a lion

everyone thinks is a sheep.

No, I wanna talk about the Gulf,

and how a goddamn emir...

Connex Oil

Houston, Texas

- What is an emir anyway?

- King, it's a king.

A king. Well, how some Podunk king

tossed you out on your ass.

Every company in the world

wanted into Kazakhstan...

...into the Tengiz, but Killen got it.

And then Connex wanted Killen,

and here we are.

I made investments.

Investments that'll bear fruit

for this company.

Hell, Tommy, we've all got

the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act...

...committed to memory.

I got a little copy of it taped

to the wall of my head. Right here.

Thanks, Jimmy. We appreciate

hearing your point of view.

However, a U.S. Attorney...

...is looking into your relationships

in Kazakhstan...

...and the U.S. Government is holding off

on approval of our merger.

So Mr. Janus and I have brought...

...Connex's Washington counsel,

Sydney Hewitt...

...down here to talk about

our strategy for the next 30 days.

Sydney?

In a way, I feel like Switzerland.

I'd like to remind everybody

in this room...

...they've signed

confidentiality agreements.

Allow me to introduce my associate,

Bennett Holiday...

...who will be... How shall I put it?

- Building consensus day-to-day.

Good morning.

You've just visited what

someday soon...

...could be the most profitable

corporation in America.

Provided the government

approves the merger.

Provided we don't start

running automobiles on water.

And provided there's still chaos

in the Middle East.

Now the job is, find the problem,

fix the problem.

And if you do not find a problem,

then there is no problem.

And when the government

approves this merger...

...it's gonna buy a lot of houses

in the Vineyard.

Maybe even yours.

Geneva, Switzerland

Cheerios again?

- Max!

- Max!

- Hey, man.

- Let's not read at the table, okay?

- Put this hand here. Block me.

- Sweetie, sweetie.

- Mommy? I want bacon.

- Yeah?

- You have bacon.

- I want real bacon.

You have real bacon,

only it's made from soy beans.

I want pig bacon.

I want pig bacon too.

- Don't say it.

- I'll try it if you try it.

- I don't know if I can bite this.

- It's crunchy.

- How'd you do that?

- It's kind of hard to cut.

- It's pretty bad.

- You be quiet.

A merger between two U.S. Oil

companies is taking place in Houston.

The new company,

Connex-Killen Corporation...

... will become the fifth largest

oil and gas company in the world.

The move affects 37,000 workers

in 160 countries...

... and with revenues larger

than the gross domestic product...

... of Pakistan or Denmark, will create

the world's 23rd largest economy.

Mr. Leland Janus, chairman of Connex,

spoke today of synergy...

... and a desire to pass on savings

to the consumer.

The merged operations

will create economies of scale...

...to deliver the best products to the

consumer at the lowest possible prices.

LELAND JANUS:

CEO, CONNEX OIL

It's a merger of necessity for Connex,

Rebecca, who wants Killen 's fields...

... in Kazakhstan, after gas blocks

they pursued in the Gulf...

... were awarded

to a Chinese consortium.

Producer nations continue to look

toward developing markets in Asia...

... which is having a powerful effect

on crude prices.

There's at least 10 to 12 dollars

of instability premium.

You have protests in Iran,

the threat of more strikes in Venezuela...

...and the Turks still making noise about

Russian crude through the Bosphorus.

All right, thanks for having me, Rebecca.

I'm playing. That's my job, playing.

Yeah, well, that's a very,

very good job for you to have.

- Tell Daddy you love him.

- I love you, Daddy.

Hey.

The emir's summer party,

Marbella, this weekend.

Any interest?

Well, I can't. I got, you know...

Guy could be huge

for the company, Bryan.

It's Maxie's birthday this weekend, so...

So we have Saturday...

Hey, Bryan, I just need your help on

this... The emir's party. I'll take that.

Through finagling,

we have an audience with the emir.

He wrote the strategy,

and he's not slick.

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