War (2026) s01e06 Episode Script

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(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) - MOLLY GIORDANO:
Hang on, let's just go through it again.
I typed up your notes,
and then Serena checked it,
and then I updated the document.
SAEED MASOOD: Yeah, and then
I sent that list to Cathcarts.
I swear, Testarossa
wasn't in there.
It was in there, and then Serena
told me to take it out.
- SAEED: So, that's what you did?
- MOLLY: So, that's what I did.
- SAEED: 'Cause I wasn't sure.
- Wasn't sure about what?
Whether Carla was joking or not.
- (INAUDIBLE CHATTER)
- (MUSIC BUILDING) ♪
Well, there were loads of things
in there, weren't there?
Yeah, but a Ferrari Testarossa
wasn't one of them.
So, the question is, if
If if Carla said it as a joke
and I took it off
the asset list,
that you gave them,
how did Cathcarts get that word?
How did Cathcarts get the joke?
- SAEED: That's what I'm saying.
- SERENA BYRNE: Good night.
- Good night, guys.
- Good night, younglings.
- Night.
- Night.
SAEED: (SIGHING) Well
What if I sent
the wrong thing to Suzie
- from an earlier draft?
- Well, no, because Testarossa
- was only mentioned once.
- Well, this is the thing
Maybe we sent the old version
to Suzie Levitnik.
Maybe you sent
the wrong version.
SAEED: No.
No, I wouldn't have done that.
MOLLY: We need to tell
Nick and Serena.
Molly, let's not fuck
our careers over a typo.
It's not a typo, though, is it?
Because you didn't misspell it.
JOHNNY WARREN: Oh, guys, look.
It's like anything in life
until you know for sure
you've got a problem,
there's no point
saying anything.
What?
No, I like that.
Not until you
absolutely have to.
- I love the sound of that.
- Yeah, I thought you might.
Look, we'll check it first,
keep it between us,
at least for now.
It might not even
be a thing, okay?
Yeah, great.
(MUSIC RISES) ♪
(ELEVATOR BELL CHIMES)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(THEME MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(BIRDS CAWING, SQUAWKING)
MORGAN HENDERSON:
The Ancker offer.
ERIC MCDANIEL:
He said he wanted to talk.
We said we'd make
the introduction.
(PANTING)
That's all there is to it.
Without asking me?
(HUFFS) 'Cause you would have
never taken the meeting.
No.
And we wanted you
to hear the number.
Because it was
a very good number, Morgan.
Very good.
What, you knew
the number beforehand?
- What else did you know?
- (EXHALES)
We knew if you took it,
he'd want you to step away.
That was the deal.
He'd want me out?
- From my firm?
- From the firm.
(GRUNTS)
His feeling was
that the business
would benefit
from a change in leadership.
The divorce.
It's not the best look.
And? What was he offering you?
He was offering us
what we deserve
- (SOFTLY) Eric.
- for all the work we put in these past ten years.
- It's our payday, too.
- Eric, we sell to Ancker,
we might as well
all pack up and leave.
We can't all afford to get
on our moral high horse.
Oh, come on.
You've a few pennies
lying around
- for a principle or two.
- (CHUCKLES)
MORGAN: That crap
with your daughter?
She's fine now.
She was stalked on his platform.
His whole business
is to spread bile.
Bile's too passive a word.
Active hate.
All alongside adverts
for yoga mats
- and package holidays.
- I think if you took the time
I created a safe alternative.
We sell to Ancker
and we turn out
the last of the lights.
Jesus.
I came out for a run.
Not a lecture from a guy
who only found his conscience
when it became profitable.
(SOFT PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ERIC: (SIGHING) 44:56.
Not as quick as I thought.
Not as quick as we used to be.
I'm not selling out, Eric.
Eric!
Eric!
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(ELEVATOR BELL CHIMES)
We give them 'til the end
of play tomorrow
to complete Section 25.
That's Carla's full statement.
- They will proof it.
- But so should we.
- And by we?
- You mean me.
I mean you. And, Fred,
if we could cut down on this
completing-my-sentence business,
I'd be grateful.
Start doing it in court
And you'll scream. I get it.
I'm doing it again.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
JOY "BUDGIE" BUDGE: You may
sense we're in a rather serious mood,
and you'd be right.
For these, the last few days
in a case of such magnitude
are where things
are won and lost.
Carla's account of what happened
at Section 25 is her story,
but it must be
shored up by witnesses
who will back her up
before it's disclosed
to the judge, to the enemy.
Cathcarts will look to pull
the arms and legs off.
Carla's entire account
of the marriage.
And we will do the same to his.
And we will do the same to his.
It's what we barristers do.
It's what Budgie does better
than anyone else.
But this is the most
important thing.
In a case where there are lies,
betrayals, concealing of assets,
I want to know everything.
- No squirrelling.
- (LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
BUDGIE:
Her mistakes, your mistakes,
whatever it may be.
If it trips me up in court,
even if you're convinced
that the other side
couldn't possibly know
anything about it,
- it comes to us. Is that clear?
- Mm-hmm.
- SERENA: Yep.
- Yeah.
- Johnny.
- (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
- Makes total sense to me.
- (KNOCKING ON DOOR)
(DOOR OPENING)
- Carla's here.
- BUDGIE: Right.
You're all brilliant,
and you all know
what you're doing,
so on you go.
- NICHOLAS TAYLOR: Thank you, Budgie.
- SERENA: Thank you, Budgie.
- (EXHALES)
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
- (TELEPHONES RINGING)
- MOLLY: Michael and Nora,
they were in
the Testarossa meeting
when Carla made the joke, right?
Yeah, so?
So, let's ask them
if they mentioned it to anyone.
- What, the joke?
- Then this all goes away.
No, only if they said
something to Cathcarts,
which they wouldn't,
because that is our entire job,
to make the formal
submissions, okay?
That's the thing. Someone must
have sent it as a formal submission,
or it would never
have come back the way
that it did,
as a formal response.
Molly, I went through everything
again last night.
I checked my entire laptop.
I never sent them that word.
- I never sent it them.
- Neither of us did.
- So, what are you saying?
- I'm saying, how the fuck did
FRED TEMPLEMAN: Budgie's asking for the
full asset list to be appended to her note.
SAEED:
Uh, yeah, okay. I'll, um
You'll get that now? Thank you.
- (SIGHS)
- MOLLY: Shit.
(LOW RIVETING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CELL PHONE CHIMES)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
I mean, I know I've talked
about taking him
for every penny,
but thinking about it,
about Gabe, I really,
I really just want what's fair.
So, can we just go for that?
That won't be
what I'm doing, darling, no.
No. Budgie's going in
looking for as much
- as she can humanly get.
- That's how we end up at fair.
NICHOLAS: That's why
we wanted you to come in today.
We're two days from court.
We need you to do
your Section 25, your statement.
And when you do
(CLEARS THROAT)
There mustn't be
anything left outstanding.
- Outstanding?
- Anything you haven't told us,
things you maybe,
you know, for whatever reason,
decided not to mention.
- Dirt, Nick?
- (SIGHS)
'Cause if that's what you mean,
you can just say it.
Yeah, that's what he means.
Debts, drug habits,
love children,
lies, whatever
you're sitting on.
- Budgie needs the lot.
- Yes, please.
I'm not sitting on anything.
We do mean it, Carla.
Now, is the time to tell us.
I told you
I'm not sitting on anything.
(SCOFFS) Honestly.
- Am I?
- I wouldn't say so.
Just say no.
No.
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
- Just testing.
Jesus.
It's because we're not
the only ones looking.
Just as we're digging up
everything on Morgan,
looking to undermine
his character,
so they will be looking
to undermine you.
Prudence certainly will.
Who?
(RIVETING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Pru-Pru.
- Shall we?
- Mm-hm.
- Tony.
- St. John.
There are two sides
to every marriage,
so it's not his Section 25
that interests us,
it's not really hers.
- It's how the statements differ.
- TONY MURPHY: (SNAPS FINGER) Thank you.
See, that is where the fun
is to be had.
In defending his position,
the correct and fair position,
and contesting hers.
Most acutely
in regards to Zephyr.
Morgan's shares of Zephyr
aren't officially in the marital pot.
Though she will argue
that point.
Yeah, she will.
And she will fail.
We definitely expect them
to contest it.
Some sob story
about her being with him
when he first had the idea,
apparently.
It's as if the man
can't brush his own teeth
or wipe his own arse
without Carla following him
about the house,
claiming to be his muse.
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
- Everything all right at home?
Get all these materials
over to me in good time, please.
(FAINT CHATTER)
(WHISPERS) She doesn't really
seem that scary.
That's what's so terrifying.
(CELL PHONE VIBRATING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Opposition barristers
are in place.
- They've hired Joy Budge.
- We know that how, sorry?
I rang her chambers,
pretended I wanted to hire her,
and was told she
was unavailable.
On our exact dates.
- That's very clever.
- I agree.
- You've told Pru?
- Pru's pleased.
Knows all the ticks
and weak spots,
claims she's what
the Americans call four and O.
Great.
(CELL PHONE BUZZING)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
You boys waving the white flag?
- MOLLY: I just want.
- To check one thing.
Yep.
MOLLY: The asset list
that Saeed sent you.
I just want to make sure
that we're working off
the document with the same date.
- Okay.
- (MOUSE CLICKING)
SUZIE LEVITNIK:
So, I've got November 30th,
the updated version.
Right, and what updates
are those,
just to be 100 percent?
So, the cottage in Normandy,
the two horses,
plus the new addition,
the Ferrari Testarossa.
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
That's great. Thanks, Suze.
SUZIE: Okay, bye.
(SIGHS)
MICHAEL STEFANOU:
Come on, guys. Clock is ticking.
Nora, Nora,
can I borrow you a second?
NORA OKAFOR:
Okay, Michael. Yep.
David!
Taylor and Byrne just called.
They were checking
on those amendments
that you sent me,
the additions to the asset list.
Yeah, it was like they thought
they'd sent
the wrong information.
It was weird.
Well, they'll be
dropping balls left,
right, and center,
knowing that lot.
It's good. It's what we want.
Keep going, please.
(LOW RIVETING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CLEARS THROAT)
They definitely have it,
the wrong information.
- Cathcarts do?
- Yeah.
- Says who?
- Says Cathcarts.
- What? You called them?
- Yeah, you told me to.
No, I said keep it between us.
While we figure out if we have
a problem, which we do.
Like a massive problem,
because I inputted it properly,
which means
it was submitted properly.
- Yeah, you're right.
- Yeah, and the only two people
that were supposed to be
submitting anything.
Were the two of you.
And you didn't.
(SIGHS) Shit.
Someone's been
feeding stuff across,
working for the other side.
(SIGHS) We need to tell someone.
Let's think about this.
- There's nothing to think about.
- JOHNNY: No, look, look.
If someone has been
feeding information across,
they're going to have
a backup plan, aren't they?
A way to blame other people
if they get caught.
- You think?
- JOHNNY: Yeah.
Yeah, unless they're
a fucking idiot, of course.
Now, look.
The only people they're going
to blame are the three of us.
And I don't know about you,
but I can't lose this job.
Now, look, we take a beat,
talk to Saeed.
We try and work
this whole thing out,
just the three of us,
before people get
the wrong idea.
(MUSIC FALLS) ♪
I don't think so.
I think I need
to put it in writing.
- Email Serena.
- Yeah.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (MUSIC RISES) ♪
- (LINE RINGING)
DAVID SCHILL: (ON VOICEMAIL) This
is David Schill. Please leave a message.
(CELL PHONE BEEPS)
(LINE RINGING)
-DAVID: This is David Schill. Please leave a message.
-(CELL PHONE BEEPS)
JOHNNY: Call me. Seriously,
we have we have an issue.
This is actually
really fucking urgent.
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
(AMBULANCE SIREN WAILING)
(MUSIC FALLS) ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(QUIETLY) Oh, for fuck's sake.
(DOOR OPENING)
NURSE: Mr. Schill?
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
CATHY SCHILL: He's taking in
oxygen all on his own now.
They took the tube out.
(COOS SOFTLY)
- He can breathe.
- He can huff and he can puff.
He gets that from you.
- I like to think so.
- (CHUCKLES)
You okay?
I think I fucked up.
You always say that.
I really have this time, though.
You always say that, too.
You'll be okay.
- If he's okay
- I know.
when he's
minus-one-month-old
- I know, I know.
- then you'll work it out.
(BABY COOS)
But you will still make partner
if that's what
you're worried about.
Because you're good, David.
And also, let's not forget,
because they can only
turn you down so many times.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
Joke. (SIGHS)
DAVID: Minus-one-month-old.
Do you think he knows
we're talking about him?
I think he probably assumes
people are talking about him
the whole time.
If he's anything
like his father.
(DISTANT SIREN BLARING)
We promised Budgie
the completed Form H
by tomorrow night.
Is there a question buried
inside that statement, Michael?
Well, how realistic
do we think that is?
Well, you've already
promised her now,
so we're gonna have to,
aren't we?
Yeah. Yeah,
I suppose that's right.
(DOOR CLOSING)
(SIGHS)
(LOW RIVETING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
- (ELEVATOR DOORS CLOSING)
(WHISPERS) Sound.
(MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(CLEARS THROAT)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
- (KNOCKING ON DOOR)
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
I'm off, you're
the last one here.
Okay, thank you.
Johnny, all okay with you?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, honestly, I'm loving it.
I just really want us to win
and I think we've actually
got a good chance.
(CHUCKLES) Thanks.
- JOHNNY: Night.
- Night.
(DOOR CLOSES)
(LINE RINGING)
- NICHOLAS: Hey.
- Hey.
Um, we need to arrange
a meeting with Bernard.
- NICHOLAS: Bernard?
- (LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
For an emergency,
uh, an emergency meeting.
NICHOLAS: Are you okay?
Serena, talk to me.
Nick, we have a mole.
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
There's absolutely no way
this could be true.
- They've tested it.
- Who have?
The trainees. They've checked
all their disclosures,
everything we've ever shared.
It's the only explanation.
But it's
it's unheard of, unprecedented.
You get caught doing something
like that, well,
- you get struck off.
- Mm!
BERNARD KANE:
It's a matter for the SRA.
There isn't anyone
working for us
that used to work for them,
is there?
- Present company excepted.
- No one.
No. It's pretty much our one
and only founding principle.
Oh, that and wanting a firm
that's nothing like Cathcarts.
But it's it's a small world.
Everyone knows each other.
People move about.
It doesn't matter how
How it happened.
The fact is, it has.
And we need to stop it.
(SIGHS) - Find whoever
it is and eject them
from the fucking building.
Two days before court
and Cathcarts have it all.
Our fucking strategy.
They could know
about Flora, and the NDA.
They could know more
about our legal arguments
than our fucking barristers do.
What about Antonia on reception?
- She knows everything.
- (SNIGGERS)
Bernard asked Antonia to go
to Wagamama with him,
but she said no,
so he's desperate
to find an excuse
to give her the elbow,
so no one else finds out.
- Antonia's too junior.
- I don't disagree.
She wouldn't have access
to the files.
No.
We've got to find them,
without anyone knowing
that we're looking,
before this whole case
falls flat on its arse.
And we can't afford for that
to happen, can we?
Because the whole firm
goes with it.
(LOW RIVETING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
What?
What this actually does is raise
the stakes for both firms.
Yes, they had this advantage
all this time,
but if we can find the mole
and prove it
We could use it
against Cathcarts.
NICHOLAS: Yeah, they'll be
in a world of pain,
and not just in this case,
which they'll lose,
'cause we will save this up
and drop it on them in court.
But for, you know,
a 200-year-old law firm
this could destroy them.
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
- (CELL PHONE CHIMES)
(SOFT PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(LINE RINGING)
FLORA MONROE: Hello?
MORGAN: Look,
I I don't want to know
how you got this number,
or what went into it,
this plan to set me up.
Morgan, listen
(CONTINUES SPEAKING)
But what I do need you to know
Just Just hang on, just let me finish.
I do need you
to know that I'm sorry.
It should not have happened.
Ever.
There was no plan.
It was a stupid test.
Well, whatever you want
to call it.
FLORA: Morgan, listen,
I would never have done it
unless I wanted to.
It was fun.
- It's okay to say it out loud.
- (CHUCKLES)
Do you not remember
when the tabloids
hacked everyone's phones?
Before my time.
MORGAN: Well, that's what
they did to people in the public eye.
They tapped them
and they hacked them
and they hung them out to dry.
- Hang on, is that what this is?
- FLORA: Morgan, we
(CELL PHONE BEEPS
(DISCONNECT TONE BEEPING)
Fuck!
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
What are you thinking?
Just thinking about New York.
Yeah, I think about New York.
How exciting it was.
Yeah. I mean, just because, uh,
it went wrong at one law firm,
doesn't make it
a bad place to live.
Doesn't mean
we can't ever go back.
It didn't just go wrong.
You signed a legal document
you should never have signed,
and we ran away.
Yeah, well. No,
they threw me under the bus.
Okay. They threw you under
the bus and then we ran away.
I had to tell Mum
that we came back
- because I missed Waitrose.
- (SCOFFS)
Besides, you're working
on a great case
with great colleagues
who you respect.
You don't just throw
the towel in now.
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (CELL PHONE CHIMES)
- This ain't a suggestion, David.
You call me, okay?
We have a big fucking issue
because you had your people
send back the wrong
fucking wording, okay?
And listen to me.
If you keep ghosting me
and this goes
down south, guess what?
You're coming with me,
you and Cathcarts, all right?
I'm your worst
fucking nightmare.
(FLOORBOARD CREAKING)
(WHISPERS) I'm fucking serious.
You watch me, I'll blow
this wide fucking open.
- Johnny.
- Yep, sorry, I'm coming up.
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
JOHNNY: (OVER VOICEMAIL)
I'm your worst fucking nightmare.
I'm fucking serious.
You watch me, I'll blow
this wide fucking open.
Oh, David. I was right.
- Suzie
- That asset list,
there was something weird.
They just sent me
a revised copy, and guess what?
They removed one of the assets.
Just cut it.
I mean, like, how and why?
I'm sure there is a perfectly
reasonable explanation.
Yeah, like what?
And that you will work it out
whenever you've got time
to make it a priority.
And that day will come, okay?
(MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Come.
(DOOR OPENS)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
Problem. With the boy.
The boy?
The lawyer we installed
at the other firm.
It seems as if
Oh, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
- I'm sorry, I don't quite
- Don't you fucking dare!
There is an issue
with the inside man,
and I am not doing anything
until you and I
have agreed a plan.
What was that quote of yours?
"The simple act"
"The simple act
of paying attention
can take you a long way,"
said by a certain Keanu Reeves.
Yes.
Well, perhaps I myself have
fallen foul of that, David,
because this is the first
I'm hearing about any of this.
- (PRINTER WHIRRING)
- (TELEPHONES RINGING)
(FAINT CHATTER)
SAEED: Fuck, she's told them.
Or if she hasn't,
she's about to.
Maybe they already knew.
And this is it,
they're blaming us.
- Us?
- Me.
- I didn't do anything.
- I'm saying me.
This is my problem,
you see, I freak out.
Even if I haven't
done something,
if people start thinking I have,
I go all red and suspicious.
She's not looking
suspicious though, is she?
You don't think
- What?
- (LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
You don't think
that maybe?
Nah, I'm not even
gonna go there.
What, Molly?
No.
- Talk about the ultimate bluff.
- (SIGHS) No!
No, you're right.
Exactly. That's why
I'm not even going to go there.
(MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
NICHOLAS: Firstly,
we're grateful for your honesty.
But now we must insist
on your discretion.
This is a case review.
That's what we're calling
these conversations.
We're going
through each member of staff,
checking their disclosures,
their correspondence.
Looking for human error.
Which is perfectly
standard stuff
as we head to court.
But this is our way
of finding out
who this might be.
And we need you in here
so people don't start wondering
why you're not being
reviewed, too.
Yeah, makes sense.
There's only
one question, Molly.
Is there anyone,
when we're doing these reviews,
to whom we should be
paying special attention,
in your opinion?
- (SIGHS)
- Go on, Molly. It's all right.
I'm disappointed
that that's your question.
(SIGHS) I wanted you
to ask me if it was me.
If I'm the mole. I'm not.
- Then why?
- Because I I give a shit.
Because I worked my backside
off to get this job.
Because I believe
in what you two are doing.
I believe in what you're doing
when you say that
you put the client first.
So, I want your investigation
into whichever scumbag did this
to be as painstaking
as bloody possible.
Because I don't want us
to lose this case.
Because if we lose
then the firm might fail.
That's the rumor anyway.
(RIVETING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
It's a good answer.
NICHOLAS: There's nothing
to worry about.
We're having these conversations
with everyone
before we go to court.
Okay, um Well, uh,
uh, everything is is ready.
Um, I'm, uh
I I'm still waiting for bits
for, um from Johnny and Saeed.
But, um
But, uh, Budgie's happy.
- SERENA: Nora.
- She told me that herself.
Nora, you can relax.
We just want to make sure
you're happy
with how things are working
with the rest of the team.
(SIGHS) You can check anything
you like. Emails, texts.
Everybody blanks me anyway,
so it'll be nice to think
someone's reading them.
Has something happened?
I mean, things
are crazy enough right now.
Odd time to start marking
everybody's homework.
SERENA: How are you feeling
about your role here?
CLEO HYLAND: Well, I'd say
I'm ambitious, I work hard,
and I don't suffer fools.
NICHOLAS: Who would you say
is putting in the most work?
The paralegals and junior
associates stay latest.
No one stays later
than Molly, Johnny, Saeed.
It's like a competition
to see who works latest.
SAEED: Yeah, no, I'm fine.
Loving everything about it.
Working here,
obviously, it's just always been
an ambition of mine to work
at the the very best law firm.
So, I'm just I'm super,
super grateful to both of you
for showing faith in me
and uh, that I get to be
here doing good, honest work.
(MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
BERNARD: We continue
to keep a lid on this.
Rat them out ourselves.
The other option
is you call Cathcarts
and confront them with it.
Say that you found a mole,
want to do a deal to bury it.
Find out who it is that way.
At least then you'll know.
It won't work.
I thought that last night.
If If they have done this,
if they've organized this,
they'll have done it in a way
that gives them
total deniability. This
this is only a crisis for us.
I'm the new kid at school.
You're not going
to trust me the same way
- that you trust the others.
- No, that's not true.
(GULPS)
But I think there's a bit
of hedging going on.
People trying
to position themselves.
I don't want to speak
out of turn here.
Speak out of turn.
Uh, well, the rumor is,
is that you're struggling
financially.
We either win this case
or you let people go.
- To be clear, we are not
- Let him finish.
So, you can feel it in the air.
When people are on the phone
to Cathcarts.
Or when they meet them
in person, they're
- they're keen to impress.
- Which people?
(SIGHS) I'm not gonna start
naming names here.
I've I've just started
working here and I'm loving it.
I love the team.
I feel supported
by the two of you.
If I name the wrong person
well, I could ruin
someone's career.
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
SAEED: God,
how fucking intense can you get?
- (GULPS)
- (LIVELY CHATTER)
- I aced it.
- Really?
Yeah. No, the way
they were coming at me
like the Stasi,
or whatever it's called.
No, I wasn't blinking
with any of that shit, sorry.
(BUZZES)
Oh, that's another thing
we've got to solve.
Hmm. Be right back. Hello?
What?
I don't even want to say it.
(SOFTLY) Fuck.
I don't even want to think it.
- It's like
- What?
- (SCOFFS)
- No.
You can piss right off,
there's no way.
(SOFT PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
MOLLY: There's no way.
JOHNNY: Every time
I look at him,
he's got his head in his hands,
he's freaking out,
he's trying to suggest
it's someone else. I just
I just can't get it
out of my head.
I don't know who else to tell.
I know it's not me.
It's not you, so
You know,
there has to be someone.
(SIGHS)
SAEED: Okay, quick halfs,
then back for the night shift.
Get our homework
done for Michael.
- Thank you.
- SAEED: You're welcome.
Oh, shit.
Uh, I need to call Bella.
- Right now?
- Yeah, sorry.
I am genuinely sorry.
I hope you're thirsty.
Um, I will meet you
back at the office.
- Bye.
- JOHNNY: Cheers. See you.
All good?
- All great.
- SAEED: Mm-hmm.
(TENSE DRAMATIC
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- MALE VOICE: Johnny.
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
ST. JOHN SMALLWOOD: Phone.
You weren't provided
with a burner.
(PA BEEPS)
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMEN
OVER PA)
- Hmm. (SIGHS)
- (BEEPS)
I have a colleague,
David Schill.
He says he's been receiving
unwanted messages from you.
He thinks it might stem
from the fact
that you came to us once
and embarrassed yourself
in a job interview.
- Trust me
- Now, why would I do that?
I've got plenty
of shit on Schill,
on Cathcarts, on all of you.
Just like you did in New York?
Well, this is a moment
of leverage, isn't it?
One can wash one's hands
of something like this,
or as David and I were saying,
one can look
for something to salvage.
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
I want proof of this honey trap.
No verbals, not just an NDA,
a text, payment,
something from Carla
that proves it.
Get me that
before we go to court,
and you could rescue
your career.
So, get proof
and I get a job with you,
that's what you're saying?
I don't believe you.
I really can't help you
with that.
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
JOHNNY: I I just wanted
to make sure
that she's doing okay,
feeling protected,
court starts tomorrow.
She's not here, darling.
Okay. All right,
sorry, no worries.
MELINDA "MUMSY" MONROE: Night.
- (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
- (DISTANT SIREN WAILING)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
How many more fake envelopes
are people going
- to think I need to sign?
- (CHUCKLES)
Sorry for blowing
so hot and cold.
CARLA DUVAL:
Don't look stressed.
If you look stressed
the night before court,
imagine how stressed
that makes me.
Well, what are you going
to do about it, then?
Excuse me?
Well, you want
to take the edge off,
let me make you
a drink or something?
You know, a little bit
of Dutch courage before court?
- Yeah.
- JOHNNY: Yeah.
Okay.
CARLA: I spent the day
with Budgie
going through my statement.
"The Story of my Marriage,"
by Carla Duval,
all so it can be
picked apart in court.
(SIGHS)
You've got nothing to hide,
have you?
You've been honest about Gabe,
about being away.
You've told them about Flora.
It's just not what people think.
It's not what Nick
and Serena think,
- that's for sure.
- (CLEARS THROAT)
And now I'm just worried
that that's what Flora thinks
because I can't speak to her,
I can't see her, I can't.
And now they're just digging
on Morgan's side.
They're trying to catch me out.
They're going to find Flora.
I know they are.
They won't. Come here.
They won't.
And, uh, even if they do,
they can't prove anything, okay?
Not unless you've called her,
obviously, or
sent her any, um, text messages
since this all started.
But you haven't, have you?
I mean, maybe a couple,
but I deleted them.
(LOW RIVETING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Promise?
Did they say
anything incriminating?
No.
I don't know. I don't think so.
Okay.
Remember when we went
to find Gabriel
and I helped you
check your phone?
Do you want me
to do that for you now?
Just check to see
if there's anything
on there about Flora.
Would that help?
- Yeah? Okay. (CLEARS THROAT)
- Yeah.
Cool. Right.
- (CARLA SIGHING)
- Yep.
You forgot to delete
the deleted messages.
- CARLA: Thank you.
- That's okay.
CARLA: You're one
of the only people I can trust.
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
- JOHNNY: Uh
All good.
There's nothing
that proves anything. There's
no
nothing about payment or Morgan.
It's just, um,
two mates talking.
(CELL PHONE THUDS)
Stay?
I want to. I do really want to,
but I can't.
Listen, I want to be there
for you tomorrow. Not tonight.
(SOFT PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Tomorrow is when
everything changes.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS) - ♪
(TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
- (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
ANTONIA:
Not gonna win this time.
Everyone's working late tonight.
If I can get the different
shadow evaluations
summarized and then put
into the green folder
FRED: Then she can give
them to me to look after.
-Sorry, mate.
-Where the hell have you been? It's 11:00 p.m.
I know. Sorry.
Well, I've done it
all now, okay?
The least you can do
is just proof it
and then Nick needs it
as soon as you're done.
Cool.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Yep, it's coming, mate.
- FRED: Chop, chop.
- (SOFTLY) Fuckin' hell.
(SOFT PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
It can only be someone
with access
to the file you rejected.
That can only be Molly,
Saeed, or Johnny.
Johnny, who was very quick
to say it was anyone
other than him. Remember?
It can't be Johnny.
He works the hardest.
He's been amazing.
We need to tell Budgie.
Biggest case of our careers.
We can't keep this to ourselves.
What we need is to stay calm.
Everything's already submitted.
We can win this for Carla,
and no amount
of spying can stop us.
(QUIET TENDER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- Hmm?
- Hmm.
Say yes, please.
Yes, please.
(SOFT PENSIVE MUSIC RESUMES) ♪
(FAINT CHATTER)
(SIGHS)
(KEYBOARD KEYS CLATTERING)
(MUSIC RISES, BUILDS) ♪
(MUSIC FADES) ♪
(TENSE DRAMATIC
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Prudence, Beatrice, St. John,
Morgan in the lead car.
We leave for court
in 20 minutes.
TONY: Put all this
back in the binders
(MUSIC RISES) ♪
(LOW RIVETING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SUZIE: "I confess I have
sent you materials
I should never have disclosed.
Information designed
to give your firm
an unfair advantage.
I do not want
to get you in any trouble,
so I also wish to state
that what I have sent you
in regards to the asset list,
I sent entirely off my own bat.
This was all down to me.
Because of this error
and my stupid attempt
to impress you
as potential future employers,
there is now an internal
investigation underway.
All I've ever wanted is
to be a lawyer,
to do good work for good people.
So please, I beg you,
should anyone
from Taylor and Byrne
try and contact you
about this matter,
"please say nothing."
That's it?
The end of the message?
Yeah, and then he just signs off
with an S.
- For Saeed Masood.
- (POIGNANT MUSIC CHORD) ♪
- SUZIE: What the fuck is this?
- Suzie.
What the fuck
are we going to do?
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
We do the only thing one can do
in a situation like this,
which is to remember
one's principles,
one's integrity.
We ignore (HESITATES)
- Saeed.
- Saeed's request not to tell.
- (Forward this to Nicholas Taylor.
- DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Suzie, it's okay.
You work at Cathcarts.
We might play hard,
but we do at least play fair.
(MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
(EMAIL NOTIFICATION PINGS)
(MUSIC RISES) ♪
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
What email?
I have no idea what the fuck
you're talking about.
- I haven't sent anything.
- MOLLY: Saeed!
Molly!
- COLLEAGUE: Jesus Christ.
- (OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
Get off me!
Let me walk, please?
- SERENA: Everybody listening?
- (CHATTER STOPS)
What just happened here
is a test.
A test we will pass.
Not because we have no choice,
though we don't,
but because we're great lawyers
with a strong case
and good principles.
And no amount of spying
or double dealing
is going to fucking stop us.
We do this for Carla,
and also for each other. Okay?
(RIVETING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Is this catching on?
It's catching on.
All right, yep.
All right.
Thank you, everyone.
We leave in ten.
(CELL PHONE BUZZING)
Molly. Ah, it's shit, I'm sorry.
Hmm.
(SIGHS)
(MUSIC RISES) ♪
- (CAMERAS SHUTTER CLICKING)
- (REPORTERS CLAMORING)
(CLAMOR INTENSIFIES)
(MUSIC FALLS) ♪
(TENSE
STRING ARRANGEMENT PLAYING) ♪
- (REPORTERS SHOUTING)
- (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
SERENA: Yeah,
we liked him a lot. Saeed.
Hired him straight
after he qualified.
One simple error of judgement
has cost him everything.
Well, "The simple act
of paying attention"
can take you a long way."
You know who said that?
Yes.
David Schill.
("DEVIL SONG"
BY THE LOVEBIRDS PLAYING) ♪
(JOHNNY INHALES)
Serena. Quick. It's starting.
I met the devil
And he's in my head ♪
I met the devil
And he's in my head ♪
I met the devil
And he's in my head ♪
I met the devil
And he's in my bed ♪
I met the devil
And he's in my bed ♪
I met the devil
And he's in my bed ♪
Better get that devil
Outta my head, come on ♪
Come on, come on ♪
Come on, come on ♪
I met the devil
And he's coming to get you ♪
I met the devil
And he's coming to get you ♪
The devil is coming
To get you, oh, come on ♪
I met the devil
And he's coming to get you ♪
I met the devil
And he's coming to get you ♪
(SONG CONCLUDES) ♪