David McCloskey

So I also think it's interesting.

Remember, he's brought the money.

He's brought $10,000 cash in his concealment briefcase.

He actually has a support.

Mendez has a support officer show up, probably from L.A.

Station, and deal with the cash because Mendez wants to make sure that all the accounting is right.

So L.A., Mendez, Chambers, and Seidel, the money handled.

They start working.

Mendez is going to need a production company, and he's decided to name the production company Studio Six after the six houseguests in Tehran.

The first priority is office space.

Seidel says, okay, that's easy.

Hollywood production companies are constantly forming and dissolving, and the rental market is built for short-term leases.

The mob, in fact, the mafia,

routinely launders money in this era through Hollywood by opening and closing production companies, sometimes weekly.

There's been no shortage of office space.

And it's not abnormal in 1980 for someone to just start a production company.

Are they cousins of the candy...

The sweet shops off Oxford Street that are money laundering fronts.

And it takes about an hour to find office space.

So there's a location called Sunset Gower Studios.