The Rainmaker (2025) s01e06 Episode Script
Must Be Love
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Previously on "The Rainmaker"
That girl in there has a husband.
A husband who beats her?
What are you doing here?
You killed that man.
He was a drug addict.
You're gonna file
a motion to compel discovery
on this Tissue Committee.
See if Melvin's name pops up.
Your Honour, we have an eyewitness
who saw a nurse putting something
into Donny Ray Black's IV bag.
Mr. Baylor's naivete has
wasted the court's time.
Your motion to compel is denied.
So Wilfred Keeley has
invited us to dinner.
- Where are we meeting him?
- London.
It's been nice knowing you, Rudy.
Are you firing me?
Go.
I want your fire ♪
I want your love ♪
I want desire ♪
Oh, I want it all ♪
- Welcome back, Mr. Drummond.
- Mr. Noonan.
Hello, Adeline.
Adeline, this is our new associate,
- Sarah Plankmore.
- Hi.
Pleasure to meet you.
I'll see that your bags are
sent up immediately.
Oh, uh, I I don't have a bag,
so I'll have to do a bit of shopping.
I don't believe you will, Ms. Plankmore.
It's all been sorted.
This is the Victoria Room.
Mr. Noonan approximated
your sizes, but to be sure,
we procured at least two of each item.
So do let me know if there's anything
you'd like to exchange.
Welcome to London, Ms. Plankmore.
I want your fire ♪
I want your love ♪
I want desire ♪
Oh, I want it all ♪
Yes, I know it's not hiring season.
No, I haven't passed the bar yet.
Hey, we got customers.
Yeah, two seconds.
If you could just keep me in mind.
Yes, understood.
Hey, this ain't no unemployment office.
Sorry.
Prince.
Uh, is there any chance
I could borrow some money,
just till I land a new job?
Look, I like you, Rudy,
but I'm not the guy
you want to borrow money from.
I'll pay you back.
Ask someone else.
Prince, come on. You know me.
Look, that's why I'm saying this.
I don't want you to get hurt.
You get me?
Now, you need some shifts, I'm your man.
Anything else?
Bank of America.
Understood.
I would say my best qualities
are intelligence,
ambition, and style.
I'm sorry, did you say "style"?
As an attorney, I think it's important
how you present yourself.
Mm.
Hmm.
I was pretty involved in that
big suit against Chevron.
Oh, you worked on the case?
Not the case, per se.
I was more on
the passion side of things.
I wrote the petition.
Lot of signatures.
My secret goal is to be a congresswoman.
Daddy said I should have
some law work on the rés'.
Law work?
It was either that or the military.
And who wants to do that, am I right?
God.
You miss him yet?
Bite me.
You see how many people are
on this deposition list?
It's the cast of "Ben-Hur."
You know, you once said
you don't throw people out.
That was a lie.
When did I say that?
The first time I screwed up.
He went to the police.
- Was that really so wrong?
- Yes!
Bruiser, there is a killer on the loose.
We are the only ones that know it.
That doesn't weigh on you at all?
Hmm?
'Cause it weighs on me.
I can see that.
Of course it weighs on me.
But I told him not to do anything
until we had more than a theory.
His theory is right.
And what's crazy is, you agree with him.
- Says who?
- You.
Melvin Pritcher killed Donny Ray,
and he did it deliberately.
- When did I say that?
- Oh, my God.
You have the worst memory
when you're wrong.
You said it to Leo
when you demanded $80 million.
Now, did you believe it then?
- Sure.
- No, don't give me "sure."
OK, what's wrong with "sure"?
Oh, baby, the sex was
incredible last night.
Was it good for you? Sure.
OK, fine.
Yes, I believe it.
But and I shouldn't
have to tell you this
it doesn't matter what I believe.
Well, I believe we should hire him back.
He's too emotional.
Oh, and you're some kind of monk?
Who the hell is Bernie Manfred?
He's up first.
He's head of quality control
or something.
He had a meeting with Jackie.
We don't know what they talked about,
but he fired her two days later.
That seems important.
Oh, yeah.
So we have to settle.
Well, to quote the master,
the value of your settlement
goes up or down
like the stock market.
And our stock is what
you would call a falling knife.
Listen, Leo wants out
of this thing too, OK?
It stinks, and he knows it.
And stop quoting me.
You took my fork.
Again, again, again ♪
Again, again, again, oh ♪
I don't mean to be unkind ♪
It's feeling ♪
All right.
Now, this is the best soufflé suissesse
outside of Paris.
What's in it?
Cheese baked on double cream.
Does it come with a free angioplasty?
Don't worry about it, Leo.
I'll give you a discount.
Now, here's to our little lion.
Me?
I hear you mopped
the floor with that young man
at the hearing.
Oh, I I wouldn't go that far.
Oh, don't be modest.
Leo and Brad prepared me well.
A shrewd lion.
To Sarah the lion.
- Sarah the lion.
- Sarah the lion.
Now let's eat this suissesse.
I heard some news today.
Do tell.
Rudy Baylor has been calling around town
looking for a job.
She fired him?
No, that can't be true.
Why not?
Leo did.
He's a smart young man.
He'll he'll do just fine.
But let's talk about your future.
Where do you see yourself
in 5 or 10 years?
Partner at Tinley Britt, of course.
That's a good answer.
Come on, Leo. Don't be coy.
Give her some of that
well-earned advice.
Tell her how to make it happen.
I wanna hear this too.
Well, there comes a time in every career
where you have to ask yourself,
do I want to be staff or management?
And then every choice you make
going forward
has to be in service of that decision.
So which is it gonna be for you?
"Whether I shall be
the hero of my own life
"or whether that station will
be held by anybody else,
these pages must show."
She remembers the first line of novels.
Did you know that?
Which one's that from?
Dickens.
"David Copperfield."
Wonderful.
Really wonderful.
You got fired, Rudy.
It happens.
- You learn from it, and you move on.
- I know, Mom.
That's what I'm doing.
Looks more like you're
feeling sorry for yourself.
Well, I'm not.
What are you doing here?
I came to visit you. I can leave if
I meant, what are you
doing in this room?
All right.
This Bruiser,
she said you were undisciplined.
I'm not undisciplined.
Yes, you are.
Jeez, Mom.
Don't hold back.
Well, you were honest with me
about Hank, weren't you?
I didn't like it, but you were right.
Now it's my turn.
You lost your first job
because of that mouth of yours.
You lost your second job
for the same reason.
OK, but
Honey, if enough people are telling you
you're drunk, sit down.
You know, John wouldn't
have lost either job.
It's true.
He was smarter.
He was older.
Your name is Rudy Baylor, isn't it?
- Not John Baylor.
- Mom
I think if John had been
a short order cook,
you'd be making omelettes right now.
- That's not true.
- Yes, it is.
He's gone, honey.
You can't live his life for him.
Where is this coming from?
John was wise beyond his years.
You, on the other hand,
always come in hotter than blazes.
He wasn't better.
He wasn't smarter.
He was John Baylor.
And you're Rudy Baylor.
And you're here.
Neither of us have been to the cemetery
since the funeral.
We want to talk to John,
we come in here.
We pretend he could walk
through that door at any moment.
Maybe it's time to stop pretending.
Man, who is this ♪
Parlay, you know who this man is ♪
Tub, do you know ♪
I don't know him ♪
You not from around here ♪
But let me tell them
what we do 'round here ♪
Big Robins fan, huh?
Yeah.
Looks like you took that
off an eight-year-old.
Look, I don't want anyone
to see me with you.
And by "anyone," I mean Bruiser.
It's a hell of a disguise.
Rudy, we can't talk about the case.
Yeah, we're just two friends
grabbing lunch.
OK, but I'm not allowed
to tell you anything.
OK? Zip, zero, zilch.
I want to help fix what I broke.
You can't.
We're so deep in a hole,
I feel like a suppository.
There has to be another way
for us to get ahold of those
Tissue Committee reports.
That's the only way we can win this.
There is no way, OK?
You've been fired. You remember that?
Deck, we both wanna help Dot, right?
So let me help.
You have a ton of depos next week.
- Rudy
- Bernie Manfred's up first.
He's the guy who fired Jackie.
- I was thinking
- Rudy, stop, stop, stop.
Pal, I'm sorry this happened.
I am. I really am. I wish it didn't.
I truly, truly do. But it did.
- Dude.
- No, no, listen.
- I'm gonna take this to go.
- You're not gonna
Are you really gonna eat that?
You're not really gonna eat that.
Judy!
Can I get two boxes to go?
By the riverside ♪
This is how we throw it down ♪
Down by the riverside ♪
Here you go.
So that's it?
You gave up on me.
I didn't give up.
I got fired.
Know why I picked you, Rudy?
'Cause I'm the only lawyer who said yes?
No, dingbat.
I went with you
'cause you got a fire in your belly.
The other day, you said there were
two nurses that treated my son.
There were a lot of nurses.
Don't play dumb.
Bruiser didn't want me to know. Why not?
I'm not your lawyer anymore.
But you're my friend, right?
Yeah, of course.
What do you think
this Pritcher did to my boy?
I don't know.
You don't know, or you can't be sure?
What's the difference?
I think you know he did something,
but you can't be sure.
What I'm pretty sure of
is that the answer is in
that Tissue Committee file.
So get the file.
The judge shut us down.
Then find another way.
- It's not that easy, Dot.
- If it was easy, I wouldn't need you.
Rudy
would you mind
if I ask how your brother died?
Car accident.
We hit a deer.
You were there?
I was wearing a seat belt.
He wasn't.
Let me ask you something.
If a lawyer came to your house
and told you that it wasn't a deer,
but a man that caused that accident
and killed your brother,
and in the very same breath,
that lawyer asked you
how much money you would take
to forget about it,
what would you say?
There it is.
There's what?
Fire in the belly.
Leo, I'm worried.
We need to button this thing up.
We just won a motion
that will put the whole thing to bed.
Not all of it.
Both nurses still unaccounted for.
This Lemancyzk woman
and this psychopath
You worry too much.
Brad said that he had a professional
taking care of it.
But now
this whole thing was supposed
to protect me and my company.
But it was stupid.
Stupid and wrong.
I should have gone to the police.
Think I still can?
If you think it'll solve your problem.
Lob wedge.
Thank you.
However, I've always been
a believer that
there's a proper tool for
for every job.
You're bringing in someone else?
Let's go find your ball.
Oh!
Jesus.
Manfred.
Dr. Windon to paediatrics, please.
Dr. Windon to paediatrics.
Oh, yeah.
What are you doing here?
Thanks.
Hey. I just came to say hi.
Got you a Dr. Pepper.
No.
You shouldn't be here, Rudy.
I thought you said Cliff sleeps all day
when he works nights.
He does, but
he's been different since this.
He says it's 'cause he misses me, but
- but
- He's scared.
- He doesn't get scared.
- He should be.
He put his wife in the hospital.
I'm sorry.
I said I wouldn't talk about it.
They're discharging me tomorrow.
Yeah?
I asked if I could stay longer,
just till I get my strength up.
Is that the reason?
No.
What's that?
Oh, it's a game called Pass the Pigs.
Let me see.
I've been playing it with the nurses.
Turns out I'm really good.
Dice shaped like pigs.
Let's play then.
- Is that good?
- No.
- That's not good?
- It's bad.
Oh.
Kelly
I I had a plan
To get away from him.
I I saved for months,
hiding the money.
But then he found it.
Next thing I knew, I woke up here.
You don't have to go back there, Kelly.
Let me help you.
I can get you someplace safe.
No, there is nowhere safe,
not even the police.
That's why I didn't press charges.
No matter what I do,
no matter where I go,
he'll find me.
Let's just keep playing, OK?
Yeah.
I wanna stare at the sky
wasting time with you ♪
I like when the sun's in your eyes ♪
Makes them go so blue ♪
Well, Bradley, Sarah wasn't always
the killer lawyer she is now.
She was once a sensitive artiste.
I wanted to be a film director.
Not just a director, an auteur.
This is hilarious.
So one Christmas break,
she decided to make a short film.
And while they were shooting
in the dining hall,
a generator caught fire.
Oh, I am gonna murder you, Fi.
It was it was not my fault.
That's not what the judge said.
What, this went to court?
Andover survived 300 years of civil war,
witch hunts,
and shite New England weather,
but one day shooting
a Sarah Plankmore joint,
and it it is all over.
The building was fine!
OK, hold that thought.
I gotta run to the men's room.
You're incorrigible.
Your boyfriend was eating it up.
He is not my boyfriend.
Oh, come on.
Don't tell me you're still shagging
that sad bartender
Ruben or whatever his name is.
Rudy.
And, um, no, we, uh
we actually broke up.
- About time!
- Don't say that.
No, Rudy's a good guy.
Oh, good is boring.
I bet Smoke Show Brad is a romp.
Oh, look at him.
He's ridonkulous.
Cheers.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Mmm.
Who do you love ♪
Whoa.
Oh, stupid heels.
Yeah.
Stupid heels.
What time is our flight tomorrow?
Uh, it's early.
We should probably go to bed.
Yeah, we should definitely go to bed.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Do you wanna
- I don't know.
We probably shouldn't.
Yeah, yeah.
You're probably right.
Yeah.
Mm.
We should go to bed.
Yeah.
Well, if you change your mind,
you know where to find me.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Hello?
Did you mean what you said
about getting me somewhere safe?
Kelly.
Yeah, of course.
He'll be here in an hour, Rudy.
OK. I'll be there in 20 minutes.
Prince!
I gotta head out for a while.
Can you cover for me?
Yeah, well, where you going?
A friend is in trouble.
Yeah, well, what kind of trouble?
She's in the hospital.
Her husband beats her pretty bad.
She needs me.
I gotta go get her before he shows up.
Oh, that kind of trouble.
This guy know about you?
Yeah, probably.
Yeah, well, now that's
a different kind of trouble altogether.
Sit down.
I gotta go.
Sit down.
So this guy feels free
to give his wife a beatdown.
What you think he gon' do to you?
You sure you wanna put yourself
in the middle of this?
Well, don't take her to your place.
No, no.
I was gonna take her to my mom's.
Look, if I'm him,
I'd start at your place,
and then your family.
If you're really doing this,
you make sure you get her
somewhere he'd never look.
And get back here when you're done.
Thank you so much.
Hey.
Hey.
Last night was a lot of fun.
Yeah.
Yeah, Fiona's a trip.
That's not what I meant.
I know.
So it was a crazy night in London.
We can forget about
the whole thing if you want.
Is that what you want?
I tend not to think in those terms.
If you never wanna do it again
or if you wanna forget about it,
it's totally fine.
I don't wanna make you uncomfortable.
You're not.
Believe me.
- So guess what.
- Hmm?
J. Lyman Stone wanna talk
about settling when we're back.
Really? Wow.
It's all thanks to you.
But it was just a pre-trial hearing.
But if we had lost,
it would have been
a very different negotiation.
Why?
Brad, what's in those documents?
I should get back to Leo.
And you should get some sleep.
I'm sure you have
the same headache I do.
Thanks.
When my blood runs warm ♪
With the warm red wine ♪
Thank you.
I miss the life that I left behind ♪
But when I hear the sound ♪
Your chariot awaits.
- Thanks.
- Oh, let me get that for you.
Thanks.
I know I left in the nick of time ♪
Buy a girl a drink first.
Is that what I've been
doing wrong all this time?
Thanks.
- If I wander till I die ♪
- If I wander till I die ♪
May I know whose hand I'm in ♪
If my home I'll never find ♪
You ready?
No.
But yes.
The longer I run,
then the less I find ♪
Selling my soul
for a nickel and dime ♪
Breaking my heart to keep
singing these rhymes ♪
And losing again ♪
Thanks.
- Come on.
- Yeah.
Oh.
Hey, Daisy.
Thanks.
Kelly, this is Dot.
Dot, this is Kelly.
Thank you so much for
letting me stay at your house.
Well, you'll soon find out
this is Daisy's house.
I'm just living in it.
Now so are you.
Thank you.
Dot
thanks.
I was right about you.
Come on, girl.
Thanks.
Up here.
Oh, your house is lovely.
I ordered you a Vietnamese coffee.
I hope that's OK.
I'm on a sugar cleanse.
Coffee, black.
So the story goes that
the beans native to Vietnam
were so bitter that the French needed
something sweet enough
to choke the stuff down,
hence condensed milk.
I can sit here all day talking about
French colonialism, Leo,
but let's get to it.
It's time to close this thing.
Music to my ears.
It's gone on a month too long already.
Your lifeblood is billable hours,
so a simple "thank you" would suffice.
You don't wanna sit through a month
of meaningless depositions
any more than I do.
You've got nothing, and we both know it.
Well, my client feels otherwise.
She wants this fight.
So I need a number sweet enough
to get her to choke it down.
Really?
Emotional client you can't control.
You don't think
I've seen that move before?
I taught your dad that move.
- What's the offer up to?
- Up?
The last offer was $250,000.
The current offer is $150,000.
But there's a clock on it.
If you make me sit through
that first deposition tomorrow,
that offer cuts in half,
which brings your take down to
operating costs?
Speaking of the old man,
he gets out pretty soon, doesn't he?
How's he gonna feel about you
squandering a $250,000 offer?
Tick tock, Bruiser.
Brad Noonan wanted me to pull some files
for the Great Benefit case, um,
but I can't seem to find them
on the C server.
What files are you looking for?
It's, uh, minutes
from the Tissue Committee at North City.
Oh.
Looks like those are
on the internal server.
It's for highly sensitive client files.
Air gapped,
accessible only from the law firm.
You can access it
from that terminal over there,
if you're credentialed.
OK, thanks.
A proper supper with the serpent ♪
Our figures fuzzy from the wool ♪
He said if I'm the freer ♪
I need you to look something up for me.
Stop calling me.
Bernie Manfred's datebook
is in discovery.
I need the date
he met with Jackie Lemancyzk.
- Why?
- Come on, man.
Just give it to me.
Fine.
I hate you. Hold on.
I heard you were working here again.
Nice way of saying
you heard I got fired.
Give me two seconds, please.
All right, I got it.
OK, go ahead.
Jack, get in here!
Yeah, I'm coming!
September 2nd.
Great.
I'll I'll send you my résumé.
What?
Thanks so much for your time.
Just trying to find a new job.
Rudy, I'm really sorry.
Yeah? Me too.
London looked fun.
Yeah.
Yeah, Keeley was, um
was very generous.
I bet.
I hate this.
I hate that we can't, like
I don't know like, be
there for each other anymore.
I'm still here.
That's good to know.
You crushed that hearing, Sarah.
You don't owe me an apology.
You beat me, fair and square.
Look, now that you're off the case,
can I ask you something?
I still have to honour privilege.
So do I. I learned that the hard way.
Do you actually think
Melvin killed Donny Ray deliberately?
It's on the record.
And you honestly think that
Great Benefit covered it up?
Why would all those people
agree to do something like that?
How many people were involved in Enron,
Lehman Brothers, Theranos?
But this is a murder, according to you.
What would they have to gain
by covering for some psycho nurse?
Pull back the skin of the seeker ♪
Trey.
Hey, man. Surprised.
Haven't heard from you since graduation.
Look what the cat dragged in.
How you doing, man?
Your text was cryptic.
Trying to figure out
if an exec I'm up against
was doing some insider trading.
- Ever come across that kind of thing?
- At Merrill?
Only all the time.
How do people, uh, get caught?
Usually a Form 4 pops up
on the EDGAR list.
The EDGAR list?
SEC database.
Tracks filings and disclosures
for officers of all
publicly traded companies.
That sounds handy.
You want me to look him up?
You'd be OK with that?
What's the name?
It's Bernie Manfred,
Great Benefit Hospital Systems.
I got you.
In the kitchen.
You ready?
First, I have something for you.
OK.
I opened it by accident.
What is it?
Open it.
The reason you hadn't heard, Rudy,
is because you got
the highest score in 10 years.
They had to recheck it to make sure.
I'm so proud of you.
I couldn't have done it without you.
Hello, Tinley Britt.
Excuse me!
I'm late for a deposition.
Name?
Rudy Baylor.
Opposing counsel,
Black v. Great Benefit.
Clouds were every shade of gray ♪
You're not on the list.
I still feel the midnight chill ♪
Bernard Manfred.
I'm the vice president
of Quality Assurance
and Clinical Program Oversight
for North City Hospital,
a subsidiary of Great Benefit
Hospital Systems.
Sweet Mary on a cracker.
Got out of control way too fast ♪
I'll be right back.
Smell a gun, smoke fill the air ♪
Um, can you tell us
what your responsibilities are?
Guilty ♪
How you doing?
I ain't guilty ♪
Hey, dude, what the hell
do you think you're doing?
Look at this.
- OK.
- What do you see?
I don't know. I see
a rich guy showing off.
Except he's not a rich guy.
He makes less than a buck fifty.
He's VP of Quality Assurance
at Great Benefit.
What?
You see these dates?
They're all late September into October.
- You think he was paid off?
- Paid off, I don't know.
What I do know is he sold
a whole lot of stock.
What are you doing?
Getting Bruiser.
- Hey.
- You got a lot of nerve.
All right, boss, just hear him out,
'cause I think he's on to something.
- Et tu, asshole?
- No, I'm Sweden in this thing.
Switzerland.
Is it true, what Sweden here texted me?
Yes, I can get Manfred
to waive privilege
on the Tissue Committee.
That's a hell of a leap.
Plus, you don't work for me, remember?
Let me do it, Bruiser.
I can get you there.
If I had a nickel for every time
a guy said that to me.
I just have to get him to say the words
"Tissue Committee."
He just has to open up the door, right?
Yes.
What have you got to lose?
I already screwed up your case.
Great pitch.
OK.
Let's say I let you in there.
What do you think
you can do that I can't?
I'm gonna use my worst quality.
I'm gonna annoy
the living hell out of him.
Let the record show
that my associate, Rudy Baylor,
will take over questioning for a while.
Associate? Didn't you fire him?
Didn't your mother teach you
never to listen to rumours, Leo?
Nice suit.
Just a few questions
to clarify the timeline, Mr. Manfred.
You met with Jackie Lemancyzk
on September 2nd.
- Is that correct?
- If that's what my schedule says.
And what did you discuss?
We covered that
before you crashed the party.
He doesn't recall.
I meet with hospital staff all day long.
I don't remember all of the details.
But didn't you fire her?
Not that day, no.
No, you fired her on September 9th.
Is that correct?
Sounds right.
So you do remember that
seven days after meeting her,
you fired her,
but you have no recollection
of what you discussed.
Objection. Asked and answered.
Answer the question, please.
But he objected.
Good title for your memoirs, Leo.
This is a deposition, not a trial.
You have to answer.
I don't remember.
Melvin Pritcher was fired the same week.
Isn't that correct?
Yes.
So why were these two nurses fired?
The hospital was going
through a round of layoffs.
Really? Weird.
Personnel records show
the layoffs ended a year earlier.
Jackie Lemancyzk was
one of your top nurses.
Why was she fired?
She wasn't a top nurse.
Top nurses don't violate the law.
Oh, so now she's not just a bad nurse.
- She's a criminal.
- Oh, come on.
For your information,
she violated HIPAA 15 times.
She did it to herself.
I thought you said
you don't remember what you discussed.
The truth is, you know
exactly what you discussed.
Of course you remember,
'cause it scared the hell out of you.
Absolutely not.
Are stock options part
of your compensation package?
Objection.
- For the record, relevance.
- I'm gonna ask you again.
Are stock options part
of your compensation package?
Yes.
When do they vest?
After two years with the company.
Yours vested in 2013.
And I see from your quarterly filings
that since then
and for the last 41 quarters,
you haven't made any move
to sell or trade these assets.
Is that correct?
Yes.
Till September 5th,
three days after
you met with Jackie Lemancyzk
and one day after you met with your CEO,
- Wilfred Keeley, right?
- Objection, relevance.
She recorded the objection.
Mr. Manfred, what was it
that Jackie Lemancyzk said
to you in that meeting
that made you wanna dump all that stock?
I object strenuously.
I get it.
Right now, you're thinking,
I don't wanna get fired.
What you should be thinking about
is how much worse it's gonna be
when you're indicted
for insider trading.
Then it's not just civil penalties
against the hospital now.
It's prison for you, Bernie.
But I'm just an ambulance chaser.
What do I know?
Isn't it true that Jackie Lemancyzk
brought her concerns to you
about Melvin Pritcher,
that he knowingly and willfully caused
- the death of Donny Ray Black?
- This is ridiculous.
Objection. Harassing the witness.
What could she have said
that made you want to sell
- Jackie was wrong.
- Your stock in the company?
The Tissue Committee found
no evidence of wrongdoing.
- We done here?
- Done?
Did you not hear what I said?
There was no malpractice.
Stop talking now.
Documents within 24 hours, Leo,
or we will file for sanctions.
Welcome back.
What just happened?
You just waived privilege
on the Tissue Committee.
- Manfred screwed us.
- Did he?
Or did you?
Me?
What did he do wrong, Sarah?
Manfred got emotional.
Not Manfred, Brad.
Leo.
What did he do wrong, Sarah?
He objected too much.
Why is that a problem?
Because a client has to answer.
So when you repeatedly object,
you signal to the other side
that we're worried about this.
Thank you.
A trial is a hostage negotiation,
only you get to decide
which part you play.
Are you the prisoner
or the guy with the gun?
You object once for the record.
But when you're objecting a third time,
and strenuously no less,
you've handed the gun over
and joined the hostages
against the wall!
Maybe submission's your kink, Brad.
I don't know.
Something tells me Sarah wants the gun.
I'm sorry.
He trapped me.
I I
Wait a second.
It says here there are 11 doctors
on the Tissue Committee,
and Jackie was the first
and only nurse they ever admitted.
Wait. Check this out.
Six members of the committee voted
for a larger investigation
into Donny Ray's death.
Did we even know there was a vote?
No, we did not.
Boys, I've got it.
Is it what we thought?
Uh, yeah, but
But what? Don't give us blue balls here.
Well, Jackie doesn't just say
Donny Ray Black.
Yeah?
She says she believes that
this might be part of a larger pattern.
What does that mean?
They stopped the hearing.
Committee chair sent her in
to see Bernie Manfred.
- Bernie Manfred.
- Oh, wait.
Manfred fired Jackie
for violating HIPAA, right?
Yeah, 15 counts.
That's what spooked him.
Donny Ray was one of 15 cases.
A homicidal nurse on a killing spree.
We're gonna need a bigger boat.
No.
We need to find Jackie Lemancyzk.
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That girl in there has a husband.
A husband who beats her?
What are you doing here?
You killed that man.
He was a drug addict.
You're gonna file
a motion to compel discovery
on this Tissue Committee.
See if Melvin's name pops up.
Your Honour, we have an eyewitness
who saw a nurse putting something
into Donny Ray Black's IV bag.
Mr. Baylor's naivete has
wasted the court's time.
Your motion to compel is denied.
So Wilfred Keeley has
invited us to dinner.
- Where are we meeting him?
- London.
It's been nice knowing you, Rudy.
Are you firing me?
Go.
I want your fire ♪
I want your love ♪
I want desire ♪
Oh, I want it all ♪
- Welcome back, Mr. Drummond.
- Mr. Noonan.
Hello, Adeline.
Adeline, this is our new associate,
- Sarah Plankmore.
- Hi.
Pleasure to meet you.
I'll see that your bags are
sent up immediately.
Oh, uh, I I don't have a bag,
so I'll have to do a bit of shopping.
I don't believe you will, Ms. Plankmore.
It's all been sorted.
This is the Victoria Room.
Mr. Noonan approximated
your sizes, but to be sure,
we procured at least two of each item.
So do let me know if there's anything
you'd like to exchange.
Welcome to London, Ms. Plankmore.
I want your fire ♪
I want your love ♪
I want desire ♪
Oh, I want it all ♪
Yes, I know it's not hiring season.
No, I haven't passed the bar yet.
Hey, we got customers.
Yeah, two seconds.
If you could just keep me in mind.
Yes, understood.
Hey, this ain't no unemployment office.
Sorry.
Prince.
Uh, is there any chance
I could borrow some money,
just till I land a new job?
Look, I like you, Rudy,
but I'm not the guy
you want to borrow money from.
I'll pay you back.
Ask someone else.
Prince, come on. You know me.
Look, that's why I'm saying this.
I don't want you to get hurt.
You get me?
Now, you need some shifts, I'm your man.
Anything else?
Bank of America.
Understood.
I would say my best qualities
are intelligence,
ambition, and style.
I'm sorry, did you say "style"?
As an attorney, I think it's important
how you present yourself.
Mm.
Hmm.
I was pretty involved in that
big suit against Chevron.
Oh, you worked on the case?
Not the case, per se.
I was more on
the passion side of things.
I wrote the petition.
Lot of signatures.
My secret goal is to be a congresswoman.
Daddy said I should have
some law work on the rés'.
Law work?
It was either that or the military.
And who wants to do that, am I right?
God.
You miss him yet?
Bite me.
You see how many people are
on this deposition list?
It's the cast of "Ben-Hur."
You know, you once said
you don't throw people out.
That was a lie.
When did I say that?
The first time I screwed up.
He went to the police.
- Was that really so wrong?
- Yes!
Bruiser, there is a killer on the loose.
We are the only ones that know it.
That doesn't weigh on you at all?
Hmm?
'Cause it weighs on me.
I can see that.
Of course it weighs on me.
But I told him not to do anything
until we had more than a theory.
His theory is right.
And what's crazy is, you agree with him.
- Says who?
- You.
Melvin Pritcher killed Donny Ray,
and he did it deliberately.
- When did I say that?
- Oh, my God.
You have the worst memory
when you're wrong.
You said it to Leo
when you demanded $80 million.
Now, did you believe it then?
- Sure.
- No, don't give me "sure."
OK, what's wrong with "sure"?
Oh, baby, the sex was
incredible last night.
Was it good for you? Sure.
OK, fine.
Yes, I believe it.
But and I shouldn't
have to tell you this
it doesn't matter what I believe.
Well, I believe we should hire him back.
He's too emotional.
Oh, and you're some kind of monk?
Who the hell is Bernie Manfred?
He's up first.
He's head of quality control
or something.
He had a meeting with Jackie.
We don't know what they talked about,
but he fired her two days later.
That seems important.
Oh, yeah.
So we have to settle.
Well, to quote the master,
the value of your settlement
goes up or down
like the stock market.
And our stock is what
you would call a falling knife.
Listen, Leo wants out
of this thing too, OK?
It stinks, and he knows it.
And stop quoting me.
You took my fork.
Again, again, again ♪
Again, again, again, oh ♪
I don't mean to be unkind ♪
It's feeling ♪
All right.
Now, this is the best soufflé suissesse
outside of Paris.
What's in it?
Cheese baked on double cream.
Does it come with a free angioplasty?
Don't worry about it, Leo.
I'll give you a discount.
Now, here's to our little lion.
Me?
I hear you mopped
the floor with that young man
at the hearing.
Oh, I I wouldn't go that far.
Oh, don't be modest.
Leo and Brad prepared me well.
A shrewd lion.
To Sarah the lion.
- Sarah the lion.
- Sarah the lion.
Now let's eat this suissesse.
I heard some news today.
Do tell.
Rudy Baylor has been calling around town
looking for a job.
She fired him?
No, that can't be true.
Why not?
Leo did.
He's a smart young man.
He'll he'll do just fine.
But let's talk about your future.
Where do you see yourself
in 5 or 10 years?
Partner at Tinley Britt, of course.
That's a good answer.
Come on, Leo. Don't be coy.
Give her some of that
well-earned advice.
Tell her how to make it happen.
I wanna hear this too.
Well, there comes a time in every career
where you have to ask yourself,
do I want to be staff or management?
And then every choice you make
going forward
has to be in service of that decision.
So which is it gonna be for you?
"Whether I shall be
the hero of my own life
"or whether that station will
be held by anybody else,
these pages must show."
She remembers the first line of novels.
Did you know that?
Which one's that from?
Dickens.
"David Copperfield."
Wonderful.
Really wonderful.
You got fired, Rudy.
It happens.
- You learn from it, and you move on.
- I know, Mom.
That's what I'm doing.
Looks more like you're
feeling sorry for yourself.
Well, I'm not.
What are you doing here?
I came to visit you. I can leave if
I meant, what are you
doing in this room?
All right.
This Bruiser,
she said you were undisciplined.
I'm not undisciplined.
Yes, you are.
Jeez, Mom.
Don't hold back.
Well, you were honest with me
about Hank, weren't you?
I didn't like it, but you were right.
Now it's my turn.
You lost your first job
because of that mouth of yours.
You lost your second job
for the same reason.
OK, but
Honey, if enough people are telling you
you're drunk, sit down.
You know, John wouldn't
have lost either job.
It's true.
He was smarter.
He was older.
Your name is Rudy Baylor, isn't it?
- Not John Baylor.
- Mom
I think if John had been
a short order cook,
you'd be making omelettes right now.
- That's not true.
- Yes, it is.
He's gone, honey.
You can't live his life for him.
Where is this coming from?
John was wise beyond his years.
You, on the other hand,
always come in hotter than blazes.
He wasn't better.
He wasn't smarter.
He was John Baylor.
And you're Rudy Baylor.
And you're here.
Neither of us have been to the cemetery
since the funeral.
We want to talk to John,
we come in here.
We pretend he could walk
through that door at any moment.
Maybe it's time to stop pretending.
Man, who is this ♪
Parlay, you know who this man is ♪
Tub, do you know ♪
I don't know him ♪
You not from around here ♪
But let me tell them
what we do 'round here ♪
Big Robins fan, huh?
Yeah.
Looks like you took that
off an eight-year-old.
Look, I don't want anyone
to see me with you.
And by "anyone," I mean Bruiser.
It's a hell of a disguise.
Rudy, we can't talk about the case.
Yeah, we're just two friends
grabbing lunch.
OK, but I'm not allowed
to tell you anything.
OK? Zip, zero, zilch.
I want to help fix what I broke.
You can't.
We're so deep in a hole,
I feel like a suppository.
There has to be another way
for us to get ahold of those
Tissue Committee reports.
That's the only way we can win this.
There is no way, OK?
You've been fired. You remember that?
Deck, we both wanna help Dot, right?
So let me help.
You have a ton of depos next week.
- Rudy
- Bernie Manfred's up first.
He's the guy who fired Jackie.
- I was thinking
- Rudy, stop, stop, stop.
Pal, I'm sorry this happened.
I am. I really am. I wish it didn't.
I truly, truly do. But it did.
- Dude.
- No, no, listen.
- I'm gonna take this to go.
- You're not gonna
Are you really gonna eat that?
You're not really gonna eat that.
Judy!
Can I get two boxes to go?
By the riverside ♪
This is how we throw it down ♪
Down by the riverside ♪
Here you go.
So that's it?
You gave up on me.
I didn't give up.
I got fired.
Know why I picked you, Rudy?
'Cause I'm the only lawyer who said yes?
No, dingbat.
I went with you
'cause you got a fire in your belly.
The other day, you said there were
two nurses that treated my son.
There were a lot of nurses.
Don't play dumb.
Bruiser didn't want me to know. Why not?
I'm not your lawyer anymore.
But you're my friend, right?
Yeah, of course.
What do you think
this Pritcher did to my boy?
I don't know.
You don't know, or you can't be sure?
What's the difference?
I think you know he did something,
but you can't be sure.
What I'm pretty sure of
is that the answer is in
that Tissue Committee file.
So get the file.
The judge shut us down.
Then find another way.
- It's not that easy, Dot.
- If it was easy, I wouldn't need you.
Rudy
would you mind
if I ask how your brother died?
Car accident.
We hit a deer.
You were there?
I was wearing a seat belt.
He wasn't.
Let me ask you something.
If a lawyer came to your house
and told you that it wasn't a deer,
but a man that caused that accident
and killed your brother,
and in the very same breath,
that lawyer asked you
how much money you would take
to forget about it,
what would you say?
There it is.
There's what?
Fire in the belly.
Leo, I'm worried.
We need to button this thing up.
We just won a motion
that will put the whole thing to bed.
Not all of it.
Both nurses still unaccounted for.
This Lemancyzk woman
and this psychopath
You worry too much.
Brad said that he had a professional
taking care of it.
But now
this whole thing was supposed
to protect me and my company.
But it was stupid.
Stupid and wrong.
I should have gone to the police.
Think I still can?
If you think it'll solve your problem.
Lob wedge.
Thank you.
However, I've always been
a believer that
there's a proper tool for
for every job.
You're bringing in someone else?
Let's go find your ball.
Oh!
Jesus.
Manfred.
Dr. Windon to paediatrics, please.
Dr. Windon to paediatrics.
Oh, yeah.
What are you doing here?
Thanks.
Hey. I just came to say hi.
Got you a Dr. Pepper.
No.
You shouldn't be here, Rudy.
I thought you said Cliff sleeps all day
when he works nights.
He does, but
he's been different since this.
He says it's 'cause he misses me, but
- but
- He's scared.
- He doesn't get scared.
- He should be.
He put his wife in the hospital.
I'm sorry.
I said I wouldn't talk about it.
They're discharging me tomorrow.
Yeah?
I asked if I could stay longer,
just till I get my strength up.
Is that the reason?
No.
What's that?
Oh, it's a game called Pass the Pigs.
Let me see.
I've been playing it with the nurses.
Turns out I'm really good.
Dice shaped like pigs.
Let's play then.
- Is that good?
- No.
- That's not good?
- It's bad.
Oh.
Kelly
I I had a plan
To get away from him.
I I saved for months,
hiding the money.
But then he found it.
Next thing I knew, I woke up here.
You don't have to go back there, Kelly.
Let me help you.
I can get you someplace safe.
No, there is nowhere safe,
not even the police.
That's why I didn't press charges.
No matter what I do,
no matter where I go,
he'll find me.
Let's just keep playing, OK?
Yeah.
I wanna stare at the sky
wasting time with you ♪
I like when the sun's in your eyes ♪
Makes them go so blue ♪
Well, Bradley, Sarah wasn't always
the killer lawyer she is now.
She was once a sensitive artiste.
I wanted to be a film director.
Not just a director, an auteur.
This is hilarious.
So one Christmas break,
she decided to make a short film.
And while they were shooting
in the dining hall,
a generator caught fire.
Oh, I am gonna murder you, Fi.
It was it was not my fault.
That's not what the judge said.
What, this went to court?
Andover survived 300 years of civil war,
witch hunts,
and shite New England weather,
but one day shooting
a Sarah Plankmore joint,
and it it is all over.
The building was fine!
OK, hold that thought.
I gotta run to the men's room.
You're incorrigible.
Your boyfriend was eating it up.
He is not my boyfriend.
Oh, come on.
Don't tell me you're still shagging
that sad bartender
Ruben or whatever his name is.
Rudy.
And, um, no, we, uh
we actually broke up.
- About time!
- Don't say that.
No, Rudy's a good guy.
Oh, good is boring.
I bet Smoke Show Brad is a romp.
Oh, look at him.
He's ridonkulous.
Cheers.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Mmm.
Who do you love ♪
Whoa.
Oh, stupid heels.
Yeah.
Stupid heels.
What time is our flight tomorrow?
Uh, it's early.
We should probably go to bed.
Yeah, we should definitely go to bed.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Do you wanna
- I don't know.
We probably shouldn't.
Yeah, yeah.
You're probably right.
Yeah.
Mm.
We should go to bed.
Yeah.
Well, if you change your mind,
you know where to find me.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Hello?
Did you mean what you said
about getting me somewhere safe?
Kelly.
Yeah, of course.
He'll be here in an hour, Rudy.
OK. I'll be there in 20 minutes.
Prince!
I gotta head out for a while.
Can you cover for me?
Yeah, well, where you going?
A friend is in trouble.
Yeah, well, what kind of trouble?
She's in the hospital.
Her husband beats her pretty bad.
She needs me.
I gotta go get her before he shows up.
Oh, that kind of trouble.
This guy know about you?
Yeah, probably.
Yeah, well, now that's
a different kind of trouble altogether.
Sit down.
I gotta go.
Sit down.
So this guy feels free
to give his wife a beatdown.
What you think he gon' do to you?
You sure you wanna put yourself
in the middle of this?
Well, don't take her to your place.
No, no.
I was gonna take her to my mom's.
Look, if I'm him,
I'd start at your place,
and then your family.
If you're really doing this,
you make sure you get her
somewhere he'd never look.
And get back here when you're done.
Thank you so much.
Hey.
Hey.
Last night was a lot of fun.
Yeah.
Yeah, Fiona's a trip.
That's not what I meant.
I know.
So it was a crazy night in London.
We can forget about
the whole thing if you want.
Is that what you want?
I tend not to think in those terms.
If you never wanna do it again
or if you wanna forget about it,
it's totally fine.
I don't wanna make you uncomfortable.
You're not.
Believe me.
- So guess what.
- Hmm?
J. Lyman Stone wanna talk
about settling when we're back.
Really? Wow.
It's all thanks to you.
But it was just a pre-trial hearing.
But if we had lost,
it would have been
a very different negotiation.
Why?
Brad, what's in those documents?
I should get back to Leo.
And you should get some sleep.
I'm sure you have
the same headache I do.
Thanks.
When my blood runs warm ♪
With the warm red wine ♪
Thank you.
I miss the life that I left behind ♪
But when I hear the sound ♪
Your chariot awaits.
- Thanks.
- Oh, let me get that for you.
Thanks.
I know I left in the nick of time ♪
Buy a girl a drink first.
Is that what I've been
doing wrong all this time?
Thanks.
- If I wander till I die ♪
- If I wander till I die ♪
May I know whose hand I'm in ♪
If my home I'll never find ♪
You ready?
No.
But yes.
The longer I run,
then the less I find ♪
Selling my soul
for a nickel and dime ♪
Breaking my heart to keep
singing these rhymes ♪
And losing again ♪
Thanks.
- Come on.
- Yeah.
Oh.
Hey, Daisy.
Thanks.
Kelly, this is Dot.
Dot, this is Kelly.
Thank you so much for
letting me stay at your house.
Well, you'll soon find out
this is Daisy's house.
I'm just living in it.
Now so are you.
Thank you.
Dot
thanks.
I was right about you.
Come on, girl.
Thanks.
Up here.
Oh, your house is lovely.
I ordered you a Vietnamese coffee.
I hope that's OK.
I'm on a sugar cleanse.
Coffee, black.
So the story goes that
the beans native to Vietnam
were so bitter that the French needed
something sweet enough
to choke the stuff down,
hence condensed milk.
I can sit here all day talking about
French colonialism, Leo,
but let's get to it.
It's time to close this thing.
Music to my ears.
It's gone on a month too long already.
Your lifeblood is billable hours,
so a simple "thank you" would suffice.
You don't wanna sit through a month
of meaningless depositions
any more than I do.
You've got nothing, and we both know it.
Well, my client feels otherwise.
She wants this fight.
So I need a number sweet enough
to get her to choke it down.
Really?
Emotional client you can't control.
You don't think
I've seen that move before?
I taught your dad that move.
- What's the offer up to?
- Up?
The last offer was $250,000.
The current offer is $150,000.
But there's a clock on it.
If you make me sit through
that first deposition tomorrow,
that offer cuts in half,
which brings your take down to
operating costs?
Speaking of the old man,
he gets out pretty soon, doesn't he?
How's he gonna feel about you
squandering a $250,000 offer?
Tick tock, Bruiser.
Brad Noonan wanted me to pull some files
for the Great Benefit case, um,
but I can't seem to find them
on the C server.
What files are you looking for?
It's, uh, minutes
from the Tissue Committee at North City.
Oh.
Looks like those are
on the internal server.
It's for highly sensitive client files.
Air gapped,
accessible only from the law firm.
You can access it
from that terminal over there,
if you're credentialed.
OK, thanks.
A proper supper with the serpent ♪
Our figures fuzzy from the wool ♪
He said if I'm the freer ♪
I need you to look something up for me.
Stop calling me.
Bernie Manfred's datebook
is in discovery.
I need the date
he met with Jackie Lemancyzk.
- Why?
- Come on, man.
Just give it to me.
Fine.
I hate you. Hold on.
I heard you were working here again.
Nice way of saying
you heard I got fired.
Give me two seconds, please.
All right, I got it.
OK, go ahead.
Jack, get in here!
Yeah, I'm coming!
September 2nd.
Great.
I'll I'll send you my résumé.
What?
Thanks so much for your time.
Just trying to find a new job.
Rudy, I'm really sorry.
Yeah? Me too.
London looked fun.
Yeah.
Yeah, Keeley was, um
was very generous.
I bet.
I hate this.
I hate that we can't, like
I don't know like, be
there for each other anymore.
I'm still here.
That's good to know.
You crushed that hearing, Sarah.
You don't owe me an apology.
You beat me, fair and square.
Look, now that you're off the case,
can I ask you something?
I still have to honour privilege.
So do I. I learned that the hard way.
Do you actually think
Melvin killed Donny Ray deliberately?
It's on the record.
And you honestly think that
Great Benefit covered it up?
Why would all those people
agree to do something like that?
How many people were involved in Enron,
Lehman Brothers, Theranos?
But this is a murder, according to you.
What would they have to gain
by covering for some psycho nurse?
Pull back the skin of the seeker ♪
Trey.
Hey, man. Surprised.
Haven't heard from you since graduation.
Look what the cat dragged in.
How you doing, man?
Your text was cryptic.
Trying to figure out
if an exec I'm up against
was doing some insider trading.
- Ever come across that kind of thing?
- At Merrill?
Only all the time.
How do people, uh, get caught?
Usually a Form 4 pops up
on the EDGAR list.
The EDGAR list?
SEC database.
Tracks filings and disclosures
for officers of all
publicly traded companies.
That sounds handy.
You want me to look him up?
You'd be OK with that?
What's the name?
It's Bernie Manfred,
Great Benefit Hospital Systems.
I got you.
In the kitchen.
You ready?
First, I have something for you.
OK.
I opened it by accident.
What is it?
Open it.
The reason you hadn't heard, Rudy,
is because you got
the highest score in 10 years.
They had to recheck it to make sure.
I'm so proud of you.
I couldn't have done it without you.
Hello, Tinley Britt.
Excuse me!
I'm late for a deposition.
Name?
Rudy Baylor.
Opposing counsel,
Black v. Great Benefit.
Clouds were every shade of gray ♪
You're not on the list.
I still feel the midnight chill ♪
Bernard Manfred.
I'm the vice president
of Quality Assurance
and Clinical Program Oversight
for North City Hospital,
a subsidiary of Great Benefit
Hospital Systems.
Sweet Mary on a cracker.
Got out of control way too fast ♪
I'll be right back.
Smell a gun, smoke fill the air ♪
Um, can you tell us
what your responsibilities are?
Guilty ♪
How you doing?
I ain't guilty ♪
Hey, dude, what the hell
do you think you're doing?
Look at this.
- OK.
- What do you see?
I don't know. I see
a rich guy showing off.
Except he's not a rich guy.
He makes less than a buck fifty.
He's VP of Quality Assurance
at Great Benefit.
What?
You see these dates?
They're all late September into October.
- You think he was paid off?
- Paid off, I don't know.
What I do know is he sold
a whole lot of stock.
What are you doing?
Getting Bruiser.
- Hey.
- You got a lot of nerve.
All right, boss, just hear him out,
'cause I think he's on to something.
- Et tu, asshole?
- No, I'm Sweden in this thing.
Switzerland.
Is it true, what Sweden here texted me?
Yes, I can get Manfred
to waive privilege
on the Tissue Committee.
That's a hell of a leap.
Plus, you don't work for me, remember?
Let me do it, Bruiser.
I can get you there.
If I had a nickel for every time
a guy said that to me.
I just have to get him to say the words
"Tissue Committee."
He just has to open up the door, right?
Yes.
What have you got to lose?
I already screwed up your case.
Great pitch.
OK.
Let's say I let you in there.
What do you think
you can do that I can't?
I'm gonna use my worst quality.
I'm gonna annoy
the living hell out of him.
Let the record show
that my associate, Rudy Baylor,
will take over questioning for a while.
Associate? Didn't you fire him?
Didn't your mother teach you
never to listen to rumours, Leo?
Nice suit.
Just a few questions
to clarify the timeline, Mr. Manfred.
You met with Jackie Lemancyzk
on September 2nd.
- Is that correct?
- If that's what my schedule says.
And what did you discuss?
We covered that
before you crashed the party.
He doesn't recall.
I meet with hospital staff all day long.
I don't remember all of the details.
But didn't you fire her?
Not that day, no.
No, you fired her on September 9th.
Is that correct?
Sounds right.
So you do remember that
seven days after meeting her,
you fired her,
but you have no recollection
of what you discussed.
Objection. Asked and answered.
Answer the question, please.
But he objected.
Good title for your memoirs, Leo.
This is a deposition, not a trial.
You have to answer.
I don't remember.
Melvin Pritcher was fired the same week.
Isn't that correct?
Yes.
So why were these two nurses fired?
The hospital was going
through a round of layoffs.
Really? Weird.
Personnel records show
the layoffs ended a year earlier.
Jackie Lemancyzk was
one of your top nurses.
Why was she fired?
She wasn't a top nurse.
Top nurses don't violate the law.
Oh, so now she's not just a bad nurse.
- She's a criminal.
- Oh, come on.
For your information,
she violated HIPAA 15 times.
She did it to herself.
I thought you said
you don't remember what you discussed.
The truth is, you know
exactly what you discussed.
Of course you remember,
'cause it scared the hell out of you.
Absolutely not.
Are stock options part
of your compensation package?
Objection.
- For the record, relevance.
- I'm gonna ask you again.
Are stock options part
of your compensation package?
Yes.
When do they vest?
After two years with the company.
Yours vested in 2013.
And I see from your quarterly filings
that since then
and for the last 41 quarters,
you haven't made any move
to sell or trade these assets.
Is that correct?
Yes.
Till September 5th,
three days after
you met with Jackie Lemancyzk
and one day after you met with your CEO,
- Wilfred Keeley, right?
- Objection, relevance.
She recorded the objection.
Mr. Manfred, what was it
that Jackie Lemancyzk said
to you in that meeting
that made you wanna dump all that stock?
I object strenuously.
I get it.
Right now, you're thinking,
I don't wanna get fired.
What you should be thinking about
is how much worse it's gonna be
when you're indicted
for insider trading.
Then it's not just civil penalties
against the hospital now.
It's prison for you, Bernie.
But I'm just an ambulance chaser.
What do I know?
Isn't it true that Jackie Lemancyzk
brought her concerns to you
about Melvin Pritcher,
that he knowingly and willfully caused
- the death of Donny Ray Black?
- This is ridiculous.
Objection. Harassing the witness.
What could she have said
that made you want to sell
- Jackie was wrong.
- Your stock in the company?
The Tissue Committee found
no evidence of wrongdoing.
- We done here?
- Done?
Did you not hear what I said?
There was no malpractice.
Stop talking now.
Documents within 24 hours, Leo,
or we will file for sanctions.
Welcome back.
What just happened?
You just waived privilege
on the Tissue Committee.
- Manfred screwed us.
- Did he?
Or did you?
Me?
What did he do wrong, Sarah?
Manfred got emotional.
Not Manfred, Brad.
Leo.
What did he do wrong, Sarah?
He objected too much.
Why is that a problem?
Because a client has to answer.
So when you repeatedly object,
you signal to the other side
that we're worried about this.
Thank you.
A trial is a hostage negotiation,
only you get to decide
which part you play.
Are you the prisoner
or the guy with the gun?
You object once for the record.
But when you're objecting a third time,
and strenuously no less,
you've handed the gun over
and joined the hostages
against the wall!
Maybe submission's your kink, Brad.
I don't know.
Something tells me Sarah wants the gun.
I'm sorry.
He trapped me.
I I
Wait a second.
It says here there are 11 doctors
on the Tissue Committee,
and Jackie was the first
and only nurse they ever admitted.
Wait. Check this out.
Six members of the committee voted
for a larger investigation
into Donny Ray's death.
Did we even know there was a vote?
No, we did not.
Boys, I've got it.
Is it what we thought?
Uh, yeah, but
But what? Don't give us blue balls here.
Well, Jackie doesn't just say
Donny Ray Black.
Yeah?
She says she believes that
this might be part of a larger pattern.
What does that mean?
They stopped the hearing.
Committee chair sent her in
to see Bernie Manfred.
- Bernie Manfred.
- Oh, wait.
Manfred fired Jackie
for violating HIPAA, right?
Yeah, 15 counts.
That's what spooked him.
Donny Ray was one of 15 cases.
A homicidal nurse on a killing spree.
We're gonna need a bigger boat.
No.
We need to find Jackie Lemancyzk.
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