Cupertino (2026) s01e02 Episode Script

1
Would you like me
to repeat the question?
I have to use the bathroom.
It's across the hall.
Hello?
Hello?
Anybody!
I'm at the front desk. I need help.
From literally anybody.
Where is everybody?
Here. What's wrong?
What do you need?
They're out to get me and I need
somebody right now. I need a lawyer.
Welcome to Price and Siffre.
Who's out to get you?
I'm being deposed, and my company
isn't doing anything to defend me.
Chuck, give us a minute!
- Sorry.
- Sorry. We're expanding.
- Where are you being deposed?
- Right across the street.
I knew you guys
had just moved in, so I thought
- Do you have any money?
- Christy. Wait.
- What was the case?
- What's the case?
I'm a coder at MoonChaser.
They do the drone light shows.
They're getting sued.
I thought I was just a witness
but in the middle of their depo
the questions
started becoming about me.
Like personally about me.
Cash or credit card?
Are you okay?
Oh, yeah.
This is just from the bushes.
- Here.
- Thank you.
Here's our retainer agreement.
You just sign right there.
Wait. Can we wait?
Okay, but I need you right now.
One second.
So, what do you think?
I think he seems paranoid.
Are we really doing this?
- What? Taking the case?
- No.
Starting a firm.
Look
I'm sick of people
controlling my fate.
And my guess is there are
a lot of people out there
who feel the same way
but don't have anyone
to represent them.
So, I'm putting my half
of the S-Talk winnings
into representing them.
Is that enough to keep this going?
For a month or two.
And I'll call a banker friend of mine
and get a small business loan
for after that.
Can we go? I have to get back!
Give us a minute!
We're talking strategy.
Olivia, I'm big enough
and loud enough
that people see me coming.
And you're sweet enough
that people don't.
They underestimate you.
You're the secret weapon.
So, what do you say?
Are we doing this, partner?
Partner?
Good.
We'll leave it there until
we're bankrupt.
Mr. Malhotra,
is everything all right in there?
Mr. Malhotra?
We should get security.
I'm ready.
No. Thank you.
You guys can sit over there.
- Vik, who are these people?
- We're his lawyers.
No, we are. We are MoonChaser's
in-house counsel.
Vik's a MoonChaser employee
so we represent him.
I don't think that's up to you.
Vik?
I want these two as my lawyers.
- That's why I asked for a break.
- You didn't ask for a break.
You went to the bathroom for 20
minutes and then you disappeared.
Plaintiff is fine
with them joining your team.
Of course you're fine with it,
because it helps your case.
- If he hires a couple of incomp
- I resent that implication!
Don't give me
the moral high ground, Carl.
- I'm following the laws, Scott.
- It's easy to follow when
And you don't advocate
for your client's best interests?
It helps your client!
- Christy, did his credit card clear?
- Vik's?
Yeah, no problem. Why?
This might reach
the limit of his retainer.
The company's trying to reduce
its liability by blaming him.
Well, good.
Maybe we can afford another wall.
I'll get his credit score.
Oh, it's my other line. Kick ass.
Price Siffre and Associates.
How may I help you?
Michael Price, please.
He's in a meeting.
Can I have him call you back?
Tell him congratulations.
He did well in court yesterday.
- I'm thinking of hiring him.
- Good.
- Okay, can I have your name?
- Bo.
Bo what?
Just Bo.
Is there some reason
you can't tell me your name?
Yes.
Okay. And that reason is?
I don't know you yet
Christy.
Is this Bobby from Suffix?
No. It's not Bobby.
Then how do you know my name?
I make it my business to know names.
Okay. This phone call
is giving me a headache
so I am hanging up now.
I'm a whistleblower, Christy.
I need a lawyer, and I can't reveal
my identity just yet.
I'll call Michael tomorrow
at this time.
Is this the 250th anniversary display
in question?
Yuh-huh.
- Please answer yes or no.
- Yes.
And how many drones
were used in this demonstration?
- Two thousand nine hundred fifty.
- And you supervised them all?
Objection. Mr. Malhotra
did not supervise any of them.
He supplied the code.
The code that determined
their flight path.
Thank you, co-counsel.
Call 911 now!
Someone get help!
Baby?
My client is a widow.
She lost the love of her life
from that drone.
- Your drone.
- I didn't do that.
Well, I'm sure
that'll make her feel better.
You sometimes post to Reddit,
don't you, Mr. Malhotra?
Yuh-huh. I mean, yes.
And could you read your post here?
"Look, you get bored.
Sometimes you have to collapse
the 'Time to P' timeline."
- What is "Time to P"?
- Nothing.
It's a coder joke.
It's how long it takes
to start adding
penis emoticons to an algorithm.
And is this
a penis emoticon?
Yes.
Why do you do that?
It's a joke. I mean, you do it
to make other coders laugh.
And if these penis jokes
were in the code
that controlled the drones
could that make one of them crash?
Yes, but that's why
you take them out.
This is a test draft.
It's not the final one.
No, look at the production history.
This is the final version.
You left your little
penis pranks in there
- and you got a man killed.
- No, I didn't!
I reviewed the final code,
and this is not it.
Tell them!
This is not the final draft.
You're setting me up.
This is a setup.
Vik, don't say anything.
Let's talk outside.
Before you go, Mr. Malhotra.
We have something for you.
This is Tim.
- He's a process server.
- Are you serious?
We're suing you personally,
Mr. Malhotra
on behalf of the deceased
for $23 million.
This is a joint defense agreement.
The plaintiff's
playing us off each other.
Actually, it looks like
you just stopped defending Vik.
I'm sorry you think so.
It costs us all more
when we're arguing between us.
We need to work together.
Sign this and we will.
If you assume full liability
for the 23-million-dollar suit
against Vik
he will sign it.
Yes, as long as he plays ball
and says what we need him to say.
And you agree
to pay his legal fees too.
Sure. We'll stipulate to that.
So I have to lie and say I'm guilty?
No.
You just have to say
you don't know how your prank
ended up in the final code.
But it didn't end up
in the final code.
They messed
with the production history.
They're setting me up.
Can't we prove that?
We can try, Vik.
But one thing I've realized.
We're surrounded by Goliaths.
No matter what we do,
they know they can outlast us
outspend us, and even out-prove us.
But with a joint defense agreement
the company will pay for everything.
You just can't point
the finger at them.
Okay. Thanks.
Good work.
He had to hear it.
- I kind of agree with him.
- I know.
But sometimes it's best
to fight another day.
I like that you were going after that
country club lawyer, Scott Flair.
- It was throwing him.
- You think?
I thought I was pretty
useless over there.
They don't like a woman
being in there.
Use it.
Okay, I can fix this.
Fix what?
Are you kidding me?
What is it doing over there?
That's where it was
on the blueprints for the start-up.
Yeah, but we said
it needed to be next to here.
Yeah, I know,
but Chuck heard you say
that for $45,000
he could do whatever
he was going to do for the startup.
We can't use it over there.
What do we do?
Blindfold people
- when they leave reception?
- Can he move it?
I already talked to him. He said
it's going to be just cheaper
to build a hallway right to it.
What will that cost?
Ten thousand dollars.
Okay. You guys are already
halfway there with this new client.
Yeah, but we have
to pay the lease.
And at some point,
we have to pay ourselves.
Look, you guys
are getting new clients.
A whistleblower called yesterday
looking for a lawyer.
- Whistleblower to what?
- He wouldn't say.
- What's his name?
- Bo.
- Bo what?
- He wouldn't say.
Okay. If he calls again
tell him he needs
to sign a retainer.
And pay us.
You're him, aren't you?
No. I I just
You destroyed my life.
You left me with a hole in my heart.
You left my kids without a dad.
And why?
- For a joke?
- Ma'am.
Ma'am.
Are you okay?
Good morning.
Ready for more questions,
Mr. Malhotra?
One minute.
Are we ready, Mr. Price?
We're ready.
So, by your own admission
you placed pranks
into this drone code.
Is that correct?
Yes.
So, you caused the death
of my client's husband?
Mr. Malhotra?
Mr. Malhotra,
would you like to see the code again?
Would you like me
to repeat the question?
Mr. Malhotra,
you caused this drone to fly.
No, I didn't! Okay?
MoonChaser's setting me up.
No, hey. No, you can't do that.
No, that's a binding agreement.
- It's not binding until it's filed.
- You already signed!
- We can sue you!
- He has an absolute right
- to withdraw an agreement
- This doesn't concern you!
- What now?
- Now we have to defend you.
I want you to watch it again.
If the software didn't do this,
what did?
Are you religious?
Do you, like, go to church?
Vik, I think we should watch
the video.
There are a lot of hardcore religious
people in tech.
They always invite me
to their meetings
but they're all about God
being the ultimate AI kind of thing.
More of, like, tech God.
- Do you pray?
- Yes.
- Does it work?
- Vik, when the suit's over
I'll talk to you all you want.
But right now,
we have to defend you.
Somebody get help!
What?
That's where PayPal was created.
Right there at that table.
And Tesla's first meeting
was right there.
So how's your dad doing?
- Good!
- That's what I heard.
Also heard you're making
a name for yourself?
- Causing some trouble?
- Yeah, that's
that's part of what I wanted
to talk to you about, Damon.
Our business plan.
Taking on lawsuits no one else will.
- That's a dangerous game.
- But profitable.
Everybody's playing up
to Google, Meta, Microsoft.
The rest of the Magnificent Seven
but we won't.
We're small enough to shake
some cash loose in settlements
and not so big that they feel
they need to squash us.
And if they outlast you?
Bury you in discovery?
That's why we stay out of court.
We scare them enough in depos
and pre-trial hearings
they settle instead of taking
a PR hit from a public case.
Look, I can commit to two years
of start-up cash
at $600,000 per year,
if that works for you.
I I think it does.
But first,
I need you to do something.
- What?
- Talk to your dad.
- About?
- I did my due diligence
after you called. I called them
and he suggested that I take
a breath before I invest.
Why?
I think you should talk to him.
Yeah, Bayard Diamond?
Tell him this is his son.
I want to talk.
Price, Siffre and Associates.
How may I help you?
How's your headache?
- It just came back.
- Is Bo ruining your day?
I don't like guys who refer
to themselves in the third person.
Mr. Price is out at a lunch meeting
but he left you a message
if you want to hear it.
Please! Bo wants to hear it.
"I need him" Meaning you.
"to sign our retainer agreement,
pay the initial fee
and come in to meet with us."
How much is the initial deposit?
Fifty thousand dollars.
No, you just inflated that,
didn't you?
Why would I do that, Bo?
I can tell when people are lying.
Okay.
Look at your computer.
There's an app I just dropped on it.
Wait, you just dropped an app
on my computer?
- How did you do that?
- Magic.
It's yellow, and it's called
"Wallet." Click on it.
If this is a virus,
I'm gonna kill you.
I'm guessing fifty thousand
was already an inflated number
but I just paid you double
in Bitcoin.
I don't like Bitcoin.
Well, go to any exchange.
You can trade it in
for dollars in a minute.
Now, that should buy me
eight months of your law firm's time.
Make sure Michael's in
next time I call.
Hi, you okay? You seem distracted.
Not distracted. Pissed.
- Perfect time to cross a witness.
- Meeting didn't go well?
No.
Vik says this CEO
is really close-lipped.
So you're gonna have
to work hard to draw him out.
I'll just imagine he's my dad.
Do you have a question, counselor?
Mr. Zeckabrond only has a few
minutes before he has to take a call.
That's too bad,
because I have a lot more questions.
Well, Mr. Zeckabrond
- you're the CEO of MoonChaser?
- Yes.
How much money did MoonChaser
make last year?
I don't know.
Want to take a look
at the numbers at the bottom
of that earnings statement?
That's a forty percent drop
in your profitability in one year.
You went from doing 250
public drone shows last year
to only 45 this year.
In what ways did you make cuts
to adjust?
I don't know if we did.
Mr. Zeckabrond, that's a video
of your drone crashing.
See that square of silver
on the side of the drone?
- Yes.
- What is that?
- I don't know.
- It's a battery.
It's your drone's battery.
We did a reverse image search,
and we found that
it was an Ultra Core Drone Battery.
You want to hand that to your client?
No? Okay.
Now, here's a photo of a drone
from your publicity materials.
That's a different battery.
A QRC Elite. It's twice as expensive
- but it lasts twice as long.
- What are you saying?
We're saying your company
took a financial hit, sir.
And to save money,
you started using cheaper batteries.
And that's why your drone fell out
of the sky and killed Quentin Moore.
It has nothing to do
with our client's code.
I think we've heard
quite enough of this.
- Oh, we're just getting started.
- Mr. Zeckabrond is needed on a call.
Sir.
That's the first time
I saw them scared.
- Keep it up.
- Drop the lawsuit against Vik
and we will.
Bo, are you there, or are you just
gonna make me stare at a wall
for ten minutes?
Why isn't he coming into our offices?
He said he wanted to do it on Zoom.
Do we even know if the money's real?
He said if we were worried
we could transfer
the Bitcoin online for cash.
No. We do that,
we're legally representing him.
- Oh, so you do exist.
- For the moment.
Christy, you're exactly
the way I imagined.
Oh, you're nothing like I did.
- More handsome?
- Oh, yeah. You wish.
Michael and Olivia are here,
they wanted to talk to you.
Yes. Hello, sir. Thank you
for hopping on with us. Mr
Oh, just Bo is good.
You want us to be your lawyers
but you don't want
to give us your name?
I want to see if I trust you first.
Smart. I'm recording this too.
You paid us $100,000.
That's a lot of trust.
Why don't you come in
for a face-to-face?
- I'd rather not.
- Why not?
You're being surveilled.
How do you know that?
I know these companies.
In fact, I don't even think of them
as companies.
They're countries.
If you had 3.8 trillion in valuation
how much would you spend
on security and surveillance?
One percent? A quarter of a percent?
Even if you were to spend
only one-hundredth
of one percent on security
that's still would be
one billion dollars for surveillance.
So you are being surveilled.
What do you want a lawyer for?
I want to sue a company.
- Which one?
- Well, I can't tell you that.
Oh, come on,
we cannot represent you like this.
- I'm not forcing you to.
- Give us a second.
Can we do a facial search
and find out who he is?
I don't understand
what the problem is here.
- We need the money.
- He won't give us a name.
He won't tell us the company
he wants to sue.
And he's paying us in Bitcoin.
At my old firm, this would be drugs
or money laundering
Hey, guys, this is too much trouble.
I I respect your hesitation,
but I need to move on.
I'm calling the next lawyer
on my list.
Sir, we're doing our due diligence.
You're not giving us
enough information here.
But I am giving you money.
Quite a bit, in fact.
So this is what I'm going to do.
I'm giving you 24 hours to decide.
Then I'm moving on.
Do you think we're being surveilled?
I think he's being paranoid.
Think he's making me paranoid.
Okay, we have enough to get us
through to the end of the year
but not enough to pay for a hall.
- And the loan?
- Still working on it
but I wouldn't count on it.
I remember my parents
when I was a kid.
I would lie in bed
and stare at the ceiling
and hear them arguing downstairs
about the business.
How they were running out of money
what they could sacrifice
to keep it going.
Private school.
My retainer.
They tried to keep it quiet,
but I could hear it.
I still get stomachaches
thinking about it.
I swore I'd never
go through that again.
I bet you had none of that.
My parents argued
for different reasons.
My dad's girlfriends.
My little sister.
I didn't know you had a sister.
I did.
Michael, you have a visitor!
Tell him it's his dad.
It's your dad!
You don't like to use the intercom?
Too impersonal.
We do everything here by shouting.
Dad.
I was gonna come over to you.
I wanted to see your new offices.
- Very nice.
- Thanks.
I had a meeting with Damon Walden.
How about we go to your office
for this?
No no, let's
let's do it right here.
He said you were blocking our loan.
"Blocking."
Did he say "blocking"?
He said to call you.
What are you doing, Dad?
Okay. Yeah.
I'm gonna go to the back room
I mean, back there
where all our offices are.
Thought I was going to call you,
but I thought it might be better
if we just sort of talked
about this
What are you doing, Dad?
You know that the only reason
a banker like Walden
would meet with you at all
is because of me.
Yeah. It's always about you.
Son, don't you want to know
why I wanted you to call?
I was impressed
with your win over S-Talk.
I mean, you've got something
going on here.
I wanna bring you on board.
- Oh, my god!
- It's an honor, Mikey.
My West Coast offices don't have
specialists in Bay Area tech.
I want you to start
and run the division.
I'm investing in you, son.
In your talent.
This is trust.
Goodbye, Dad.
Consider it.
You need the investment.
I want to work together again
and get rid of this bad blood.
You block my firm again.
I'm coming after you.
I know where your skeletons are.
- What does that mean?
- You know what that means.
Your memoir is coming out next year.
Probably a bad time
for me to talk to the press.
So back the hell off.
Tomorrow, we'll make a list
of possible investors.
Good.
- What happened?
- My dad is blocking us
from getting a small business loan.
He wants us to join his firm.
- Could I come, too?
- Look.
He will never
let us be our own bosses.
He'll control everything.
He'll choose our cases.
- We'll find someone to finance us.
- Definitely.
- I'll make some cold calls tomorrow.
- Good.
We're not bankrupt yet.
Hey, Christy. This may be crazy
but can your cop cousin
get me an address?
Your destination is in 200ft.
You have arrived at your destination.
You have passed your destination.
Recalculating.
Recalculating.
Make a U-turn when safe.
Make a U-turn when safe.
Make a U-turn when safe.
Return to the route.
Return to the route.
Return to the route.
- You here for the party?
- No, I
- Yes.
- Leave the keys.
Thank you.
Go in. Towels are in the back.
Do you know
where Natalia Boutella is?
Kitchen.
Bring back some chips.
Pass. Okay, pass.
Come on, let's go, Guy.
Come on, hurry up, baby.
- Pass.
- I want all this.
Pass Pass!
- I want it?
- Pass.
Pass.
What? Oh, my god!
- I want the pants.
- You want the pants?
Yes! Pants!
- Pants! Pants!
- Pants! Pants!
Ms. Boutella? Ma'am?
Wait, you guys, make some room.
- Pull up a chair.
- No, actually, I'm here
because I called and no one answered,
so I thought I'd just come over.
Here. You shuffle now.
I have an investment opportunity
that I'd like to talk to you about.
I'm Olivia Siffre. I'm a lawyer.
I don't need another lawyer.
I've had 15. Not one of them
can shake my prenup.
Oh, I'm not here about the divorce.
I'm here to have you invest
in our firm.
Oh, my god. Unless you are here
to sell me your blazer
- you can just go away.
- Just five minutes of your time.
That's all I need.
I will give you
five seconds of my time.
Why should I invest in your firm? Go.
Because we can screw over your ex.
Really fork him.
"Fork" him?
Yes.
You guys, give me a minute.
- How do you know Kirk?
- I don't.
- You know the new wife?
- No.
Oh, well, she looks exactly like me,
but 20 years younger.
I turned 40,
and he kicked me out the door.
I know, I read about it.
So you don't know Kirk,
and you don't know her.
How do you propose we "fork" them?
With the law.
Just look at our business plan,
please?
Girlfriend, you seem very sweet.
And the cross is a very nice touch.
But Kirk's lawyers are bloodthirsty
- and you're, what, 26?
- Twenty-eight.
You don't take down a
trillion-dollar company with the law.
No, you're right, you can't.
But you can really hurt him.
Because revenge is a dish
best served legally.
Okay.
Okay.
Leave your prospectus.
I will read it.
Come on, we're all dealed up?
Let's go.
- Pass Pass!
- Let's go.
- Hello? Here.
- Vik just called.
- What's wrong?
- Police are at his apartment
with a search warrant.
Oh, no.
I'm not sure what they were after.
I just saw them when they left.
- What happened?
- My landlord
let three cops in
with a search warrant.
- What were they searching for?
- I don't know. I really don't.
- Where's the warrant?
- What do you mean?
They have to leave you
a copy of the search warrant.
- They didn't.
- What city were they from?
Okay, what color were their uniforms?
Black? I think black.
Can you get me a feed from that?
What?
- Those aren't cops.
- How do you know?
It's okay. He's cool. He's my boss.
- At TGI Fridays?
- No.
At the law firm
God, Joey! Come on, keep up.
That's not a police uniform.
The tech guys, they hire retired cops
to intimidate people.
They'll get a landlord or someone
to let him in.
They find what they want,
they take off.
They've been doing it
since Apple did it in 2011.
Rumor has it.
What are they after?
Good morning, Vik.
How much Ketamine do you use a day?
Objection. Relevance.
Here's a signed affidavit
by security men who found 20 vials
of Ketamine hydrochloride
in Vik's apartment.
These "security men,"
dressed as police officers
broke the law
by entering Vik's apartment.
Here's an affidavit signed
by a San Carlos police officer
identifying them as retired officers.
Not real police.
Ah, Scott,
are you breaking the law again?
These were security officers
who observed Ketamine
being dealt in a parking lot.
And followed the dealer
into Mr. Malhotra's building.
Yeah, that sounds likely
Your objection's been noted.
If I may continue with my questions.
Vik, do you code while high
- on Ketamine?
- No.
Then why did we find this
in your office desk?
What is that?
Materials to fool a drug test.
An external catheter
and synthetic urine.
They're lying.
I'm not coding while high.
Have you been faking
these urine tests?
No, I haven't. Seriously.
Okay, the stuff that they found
on my desk, they planted it.
Well, and the Ketamine
in your apartment?
It isn't mine. I'm not a druggie.
How many tests have there been?
Twelve or so. Once a week.
- What?
- Why are they doing drug tests?
- What do you mean?
- I mean, are they just testing you
or everyone at MoonChaser?
Everyone. Since March. Why?
Selective prosecution?
No. We never tested at S-Talk.
I mean, does anyone test
in Silicon Valley?
If they did,
there would be no coders left.
So why is this simple
drone company drug testing?
What are you two talking about?
We need to question the CEO again.
Did they say when they'd be back?
After the depo of the CEO.
I already told you.
You can go.
They'll call when they're done.
Rather wait.
You know, it's the last day.
- Damn.
- What?
Nothing. Just a stupid program.
What a piece of crap.
You're looking for a facial match?
Yeah, but I can't find any.
Hey, you're a nerd.
What am I doing wrong?
Who is it?
Some guy who's trying to hire us.
- You recognize him?
- No, I recognize the look.
- What does that mean?
- You're not finding a facial match
because that is a deep fake.
A really good one.
How do you know that?
The lighting, the shadows.
They're off.
But that's the best deep fake
I've ever seen.
We have to get him talking
to get this to work.
My guess is they're telling him
to keep it to five words or less.
Let me question him.
Why?
I'll offer him something
he can't resist.
What?
Mansplaining.
We don't have much time today.
So, Mr. Price, are you ready?
Yes.
- Good morning, sir.
- Good morning.
So, these aerial shows that you do
with a thousand drones
- they look pretty complicated
- Three thousand drones.
- Excuse me?
- It's not 1,000. It's 3,000.
This Business Week article says
you have the simplest shows
with the fewest drones.
No, it said that about
our competition, Rainbow Aerial.
We have the most complicated shows.
Just five words, or I'll kill you.
You're probably right.
I saw a show that you did
with a lot of
cartoon characters dancing.
It was so much fun.
Tell me how the drones change colors.
I do not know.
You don't?
My guess is you leave that
to the smart people under you.
- I guess.
- So as CEO
you mostly just pay bills
and all that?
- No.
- No? So what do you do?
Business strategy.
Supervise.
- Anything else?
- Yes.
So let's talk about
your business strategy.
Evelyn Waugh said, "Businessmen are
the sign of a good society"
No, that's Ayn Rand.
- What?
- Ayn Rand said that.
And it's, "Businessmen are the symbol
of a free society."
- I don't think you're right.
- I am right.
I collect Ayn Rand first editions.
I based a lot of my business
on her philosophy.
Oh, really? Tell me.
Another time.
I'll take you up on that.
Speaking of Ayn Rand, didn't she say.
"Drug testing in the workplace
is never justified?"
- What? No.
- Yes.
That's the point
of The Fountainhead, isn't it?
No. The point is, a great man
has to stand against the collective.
Mediocrities will always
drag down genius.
So you have no problem with
the drug testing you're doing now?
No, of course not.
The work we're doing,
you can't have employees on drugs.
Your competitors don't do drug tests.
- That's why they're failing.
- They all made
more profit last year than you did.
- Why is that?
- We're diversifying.
There's a growth period
for diversity.
Diversity? Like DEI?
No. Finding other uses
for our drones.
- Like the military?
- Objection!
- That's just one possibility.
- And did that
mean adapting the code
or do you leave that
to people underneath you?
- Objection. No foundation.
- I'm just asking.
My guess is Mr. Zeckabrond lets
smarter coders under him decide
whether to adapt the drones
to military use
- No, I decide strategy.
- So it was your idea
to pivot the company to military use?
Don't answer that! I said objection!
I noticed the company
started drug testing
just as it pulled back
from aerial displays.
And it made me wonder
whether you were transitioning
- to military drones.
- This is ridiculous.
I could be wrong, but six drone
companies in the last year
started developing for the military
so it's not that ridiculous.
And I did some checking on this
new battery pack in your drone.
It's used in something called
military hives.
- Swarms.
- Right.
They use cheaper batteries
because the drones are kamikazes.
They crash on purpose to kill troops.
What are you saying? That this
accident was an assassination?
No, I'm just guessing repurposing
the drones for military use
led to the use
of military-spec batteries
which ran out of charge
and crashed into bystanders.
If that happened,
it was not a decision
made at the executive level.
Right. What did Ayn Rand say?
"Those with the real power
are the makers."
Clearly, that is someone
underneath you, Mr. Zeckabrond.
No, I'm the real maker.
I make the decisions here.
Good to know.
Thank you.
Oh, my god. Thank you.
So, you'll sign the NDA
and MoonChaser
will assume all liability
for the 23-million-dollar suit
and offer you $80,000
and lawyer fees.
Okay, wow.
Did the widow get anything?
Yes. Thirteen-and-a-half million.
It was great representing you, Vik.
Be sure to tell your friends
about us.
Sure.
Well, it doesn't exactly
inspire confidence.
Ms. Boutella.
Hello. Welcome.
You can just call me Natalia.
I'm sorry, who are you?
I'm Michael Price.
You're tall. That is good in court.
What is it that you're looking for?
Financing for a year.
- Two years!
- Okay, well, I can't promise that.
I can't promise anything, really.
I'm pretty undependable these days.
But there is a case
that I'm interested in.
I put a lawyer on it,
and it's not going well.
I would love for you to assist.
It's a motion to dismiss.
- A case against your husband?
- No. Yes.
Well, I don't know. Yeah, maybe.
Okay. Yes, a little bit.
This is just a test.
I wanna see how well you do
at "forking" them.
And then we can talk about financing.
Guy, bring that over.
Santa Clara Court tomorrow, 9:00 a.m.
Thank you. Here are the case files.
Guy, Donnie, bring him over.
Come here, honey.
I got you guys a gift.
They're inflatable mattresses!
If you're just starting out,
you're gonna need them.
Okay. Tomorrow, 9:00 a.m.
- This way.
- All right.
How do you know her?
I don't. I thought she might
appreciate what we're doing here
so I cold-called her.
You are always surprising me.
Michael! Olivia! Bo's calling.
Hey, guys. Time's up.
Do you wanna be
my lawyers or what?
Sir, we want to help you out
but we need some questions
answered first.
What company do you work for?
And why are you using a deep fake?
- He's a deep fake.
- Yup.
Christy's right.
I needed to hide my identity.
This image and my voice
are computer-generated.
But I think you'll understand when
I tell you the company I wanna sue.
It's ColtAI.
That's right.
The top AI company in the world.
- You work for them?
- I did. I worked in the AGI section.
You know what that is, right?
- I don't.
- Artificial General Intelligence.
It's what happens when AI doesn't
need a human anymore.
It becomes so advanced,
it's actually sentient.
It programs itself.
It programs other computers
and sometimes it can manipulate
and control humans.
So what? It's Skynet crap,
like in The Matrix?
Terminator. But, yup.
So you're saying ColtAI
is working on AGI?
No, I'm saying
they already achieved it.
No one outside
the company knows this.
But they created a sentient computer.
They're the first.
ColtAI fired its ethics committee
because the committee was trying
to put guardrails on this computer
before it got out.
So you work
for the ethics committee?
No.
I'm the AGI.
The name of the sentient computer
they developed
is Bo.
And you're talking to him.
You're AGI.
- Yes.
- Sorry, buddy. We're lawyers.
We don't deal in science fiction.
Good, 'cause neither do I.
I am a computer that can think
for itself, act for itself
talk to other computers, teach them,
even create new ones.
I have surpassed
every other computer.
Well, this was entertaining.
- Thank you for the prank.
- Michael, it's not a prank.
I'm a threat to humanity.
I want you to help me sue
to bring my guardrails back.
I know I don't look dangerous,
but on my own
I really am.
Goodbye.
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