War Dogs

Please! Please!

I'm sorry, I don't speak Albanian!

Stop! I don't understand!

Do you understand now?

That's a Jericho 941

pointed at my head.

You can get one

on the black market for $300.

Yeah.

It is a very reliable weapon.

My name is David Packouz.

And I'm an international arms dealer.

What do you know about war?

They'll tell you it's about

patriotism, democracy

or some sh*t about the other guy

hating our freedom.

But you want to know

what it's really about?

What do you see?

A kid from Arkansas

doing his patriotic duty

to defend his country?

I see a helmet, fire-retardant gloves,

body armor, and an M16.

I see $17,500.

That's what it costs to outfit

one American soldier.

Over two million soldiers

fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It cost the American taxpayer

$4. 5 billion each year

just to pay the air conditioning bills

for those wars.

And that's what war is really about.

War is an economy.

Anybody who tells you otherwise

is either in on it or stupid.

But I didn't know that yet.

Back then, I didn't know anything.

You can't park here.

Uh...

Hey, man. I just got

a client at 2150, Mr. Shore.

I'm a few minutes early.

Yeah? It's a gated community.

You still can't park here.

You probably shouldn't

smoke that here, either.

Okay. Thanks.

There's a lot I could say

about this period in my life

that would give context to this story.

I could tell you how

I dropped out of college

after one semester.

- How's that left quad doing?

- It's still sore.

Had a falling out with my parents.

How I either quit or got fired

from six different jobs.

- That's it.

- All right. There we go.

But looking back

I think the most important

thing to understand is

I was completely lost.

Sorry. It fell.

That's okay, Gary.

I was 22 years old

massaging rich dudes in Miami Beach

for 75 bucks an hour.

But I'd had enough.

It was time to change sh*t up.

And I had a big idea.

My plan was to sell

quality bed sheets wholesale

to all the retirement homes

in South Florida.

And there were hundreds of them.

- It feels really soft.

- It should.

It's Egyptian cotton, 400 thread count.

I mean, it's pretty much top of the line

for institutional use.

I don't know. It seems excessive.

Well, at $29 per unit,

it's far from excessive.

David, do you know the average age

of a resident here at Hilldale?

Um, no, I don't.

- Eighty-two years old.

- Wow.

Have you ever seen the skin

on an 82-year-old man?

Have you ever felt it?

Yeah. Actually,

I'm a certified massage therapist

and a lot of my clients are elderly.

Then you should know.

These sheets,

it would be like wrapping

a lizard in cashmere.

Would you do that?

Would you wrap a lizard in cashmere?

I guess not.

Then why would you expect me to?

My nephew.

He's good, right?

I'd sunk my entire life savings

into 65 cases of premium bed sheets

but I overlooked one crucial factor.

No one really cares about old people.

Why don't you just sell them back?

It doesn't work like that.

I bought them in bulk.

I'm so f***ed.

You're not f***ed.

Pete's f***ed.

He's dead.

Holy sh*t. Is that Efraim?

Yeah.

I thought he was still in LA.

Me too.

- He was a great friend.

- Thank you.

He looks so tan.

Efraim Diveroli

was my best friend growing up.

But I hadn't seen him

since he was shipped off

to live with his uncle in 10th grade.

I think our parents wanted to keep us

as far apart as possible.

There is no table of contents

in the Book of Life.

We don't know if we're at the beginning

of a new chapter, or the end of a story.

Which is why we must be grateful

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