109 The Real Game of Missing Money Watch the iconic scene of an attempted settlement: https://www.youtube.com/embed/BGX4nMrnxg0 Traffic (2000) https://www.youtube.com/embed/6TetUbh6jrU The anatomy of drug trafficking in 1990s America. A conservative judge who has a presidential mission to lead a war against drugs discovers that his own daughter is a crack addict. A wife of a drug boss tries to continue the family business while he is in jail. DEA agents are protecting their informant. Nothing is black and white in this story, and lawmen are as tainted as the criminals. Taken (2002, 1 season) https://www.youtube.com/embed/rSBQ_61H4_4 Produced by Steven Spielberg, this miniseries spans four generations in the life of several families. A WWII soldier is abducted by aliens during the war; the Roswell incident transforms another man from an Air Force captain into an evil conspirator; another woman is impregnated by an alien visitor. As the decades go by, the heirs of each of these people are affected by aliens’ plans and manipulation. The Day After Tomorrow (2004) https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ku_IseK3xTc A series of climate disasters plunge the world into a new Ice Age. While the world is slowly freezing to death, corporations and governments fight for access to information and the means to escape south. Syriana (2005) https://www.imdb.com/videoembed/vi780992793 A very personal project for George Clooney, the 2005 cinematic bombshell of a movie was based on a memoir, “See No Evil,” written by former CIA operative Robert Baer. Clooney, who ex- ecutive-produced the film, made no secret of his political fist-shaking in this fearless story that tackles global oil corruption, roots of fundamentalism, and governmental collusion. The Good Shepherd (2006) https://www.youtube.com/embed/jl_9ayxs69A Matt Damon stars as a man who only wants to do good but eventually finds that honor and discretion are not enough when his employment follows from OSS to the CIA. The film portrays the intelligence organization through the life vicissitudes of one man. There is an iconic scene of Joe Pesci’s character talking to the quiet CIA man (Damon) who actually runs things here. Michael Clayton (2007) https://www.youtube.com/embed/5kJRYBhG43Q George Clooney stars here as a fixer, brought in by a law firm when one of their own has a sus- picious breakdown during a negotiation involving a chemical company. With billions at stake, bodies soon follow. The International (2009) https://www.youtube.com/embed/LFqx2sROwsE An Interpol agent attempts to expose a major bank’s role in international arms dealing. We get to watch war, arms dealing, a corrupt global banking system, and Clive Owen. https://www.youtube.com/embed/0xaoEjhsSX0