For the People (2018) s01e04 Episode Script
The Library Fountain
1 Previously on "For the People" Damn! I can cancel my date tonight and work on this with you.
I don't want you to cancel your date.
I'll be thinking about you the whole time.
It's about opposing counsel.
She's my girlfriend.
The AUSA handling the case filed the additional claims for the sole purpose of pressuring Ms.
Locarno into a deal.
- SETH: I'm on probation.
- I did what I had to do.
And now I'm gonna do what I have to do.
I'm leaving.
- Good morning.
- Not for you, apparently.
We were just talking about losers.
My case was thrown out.
Can we really call that a loss? Oh, we can call it a big loss.
We are not going to break up over an insider-trading case.
No, we're gonna break up because I don't want to be second chair to you the rest of my life.
And if I stay, we both know that I would be.
[NELLY'S "SOUNDS GOOD TO ME" PLAYS.]
Oh Yeah Na, na, na, oh, my God Your body so sensational Incredible Na, na, na, won't be long 'Fore it's time to go Hoo-whoo That's all right - Hoo-whoo - Hey Sound good to me There he is.
Hey, Mom! You're all moved in.
Yep, feels like home.
- This is the best thing for you.
- Don't.
- What? - Bring Allison up.
I wasn't.
I'm just proud that you have your own place.
Thanks, Mom.
- Without Allison.
- Mom Can you believe what's going on - over here in Lincoln? - What? You know the aerospace plant that went in a few years back? - Kappler-Hays, yeah? - They've been allowing some chemical to run off their property, and, apparently, it's in the soil, the drinking water.
People are getting really sick.
Is that Carver? Your elementary school.
Remember Jenny Mars? Of course I remember Jenny.
That's her son, Theo, in the picture.
He's on life support.
You're a lawyer.
Can you do something about all this? I'm not that kind of lawyer, Mom.
Well, what kind of lawyer are you? [BREATHLESS.]
Hey.
- You biked here? - Yeah.
You? - Oh.
- [SCOFFS.]
Ah! I thought I'd beat her here.
I saw her at home in the morning once.
That was the closest I've come.
Chloe Daniels, assault on a postal worker I'll take it.
Have you ever done a murder case? Y-You said "assault.
" He might die.
Allison? Jay? Not a lot of murder at the ACLU.
Lot of talking, mostly.
A-At County PD, I had guys who probably had murdered, so This one's mine then.
Assist and learn.
What exactly did Chloe Daniels do? I was getting my mail.
Just like a normal day.
He was already in the mail room.
Were you alone? It wasn't Stanley, our normal mail guy.
This guys was weird.
He was, um looking at me Yeah, it was just the two of us.
Before I could even open the mailbox, he came at me.
So I-I grabbed a letter opener off the counter.
Really, the next thing I can remember is him bleeding from his neck.
And then I called the police.
I've never hurt anyone in my life, Ms.
Carlan.
[VOICE BREAKING.]
I was just trying to defend myself.
And I'm here to defend you, Chloe.
A plea of not guilty is entered as to all counts of the indictment.
Our next order of business is assigning a judge for trial.
Ms.
Krissman? The Honorable Judge Gerald McKinnon.
The Honorable Judge Eva Corcoran.
The Honorable Judge Nicholas Byrne.
My client has no criminal record, she isn't a flight risk, and has roots in the community.
We respectfully ask for bond in an amount commensurate with her resources.
Under the condition that Ms.
Daniels confine herself to her home except for the purposes of work, bail is set for $20,000.
Now, let's pick a trial judge.
M-Maybe just pull a card, Ms.
Krissman? How bad is it? We may have to put her down.
That's sad.
I remember the first time on the Wheel, I got Judge Wallace Andrews.
- Yuck.
- Deeply unpleasant.
But then he ruled for me on an impossible suppression motion.
Still remember that.
Never doubt the Wheel.
First of all, who even thinks about running a pipeline full of poison next to a school? T-The school is already right there.
It's not an invisible school.
I found it every morning for six years.
It's hard to ask you to leave when you're using the words "poison" and "school.
" - I'm angry.
- You should be.
And they're probably gonna get away with this.
If only you knew someone in the federal justice system who could do something about it.
Kappler-Hays has already committed so many EPA violations here Clean Water Act, Toxic Substances Control Act Doesn't Nebraska have an attorney general and courts and stuff? I'm not up on Nebraska.
Nebraska depends on Kappler-Hays for jobs.
The attorney general's never gonna go hard at them.
But their headquarters are here in Manhattan, so we can get them in the Southern District.
It's a big case to make.
It is.
But the EPA and state regulatory authorities have already done so much to make it.
We just need to pull it all together.
You look like Seth Oliver.
Even sound like him.
Let me do this.
Yeah, but I can't use resources on a case we can't win.
I'm not Rocky Balboa.
Rocky did win.
He beat Ivan Drago.
I meant the first one.
He just wants to go the dist Wait.
You've seen "Rocky IV", but not the original? - Four is a classic.
- It's four! Let me do this.
I can win.
Okay, but on the condition that you rent "Rocky" the first one and tell me if there's a better movie anywhere.
That's literally a condition! - Cool if I sit? - No.
So, here's the scenario.
Let's say you embezzled I would never embezzle.
- But if you did.
- I didn't.
- What would you spend the money on? - What money? - The money you embezzled.
- I didn't embezzle.
TONY: Hey, sorry to interrupt.
I finished the discovery binder for the Stewart International case.
Thanks, Tony.
You can leave it there.
You got any big plans for the weekend? Going through this.
If you need a break, a bunch of us are going over to the Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island.
You should come.
I probably won't have time, but thanks for the invite.
Okay, well, if anything changes, you have my number.
Mm-hmm.
- That was real cold.
- What? He likes you.
He sent up a test balloon and you shot it down.
Cold.
I-I'm not interested.
- If you were interested - I'm not! - But if - I'm I have to move floors.
I did it.
Opened a criminal investigation into Kappler-Hays.
Subpoenas are out.
You're going up against Kappler-Hays? You both have offices, right? You know every big firm in New York is trying to get that case now, right? Right now.
As we speak.
And the firm that does get it is gonna spare no expense to destroy you, and they will salt the earth when they are done.
Is this a pep talk? I just want you to know what you're up against.
[CELLPHONE VIBRATES.]
I think I do know.
- Todd.
- Seth.
- How are you? - Oh, great.
Thanks for coming.
Thanks for, uh, inviting me.
- We miss you at the firm, Seth.
- Well, I miss being there.
- You should.
- [CHUCKLES.]
I mean, you have the best job in the world, obviously, but there's a lot of great stuff happening at Stillman right now.
- We have nap pods.
- Nap pods? - I just woke up 15 minutes ago.
- Huh.
Can you tell I was asleep? Look at me.
Seriously.
Can you tell? I-I guess a-a little bit.
- Maybe around your eyes.
- No, you cannot! Right? - [BOTH LAUGH.]
- That's what I'm saying.
These things are amazing.
Oh, we have a whole onsite wellness center.
It makes a difference.
Meditation and bee pollen every morning means less partners screaming.
I heard you made partner.
- In record time.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Ah.
Three years in the Southern District doing your job, and they minted me.
And it'll probably be even faster for you because you already have your first client lined up.
Mm.
Let me guess.
Kappler-Hays.
You didn't need to guess.
You're smart.
And they're smart.
For hiring the former firm of the prosecutor.
Former firm.
Future firm.
Yes.
It's smart.
Listen, you're gonna be surprised to hear this, but I'm glad you put pressure on Kappler-Hays by opening this investigation.
It was the right thing to do.
They know they messed up.
The CEO, Jack Lewis, is personall overseeing the creation of a $50-million health fund for any affected child in Lincoln.
I ordered you the chop.
They're also putting in new inspection protocols, reforming the entire system of safety measures company-wide, beyond anything the Nebraska AG and EPA are asking.
And that's because of you.
Look, we're technically across the table here, but we all want the same thing.
Okay, so here's what we do.
Let's make a deal that gives you a win and gets the company on the right track, and, most importantly, gets the community taken care of your community.
My only ask in all of this is just don't jump the gun and file charges.
Because that would be unproductive right now.
For the good people of Lincoln.
For you.
And the firm.
For you and the firm.
I know you know how this works.
I know the kind of lawyer you are, Seth.
- Dead as a doornail.
- Good.
Remind me not to let you write my obituary.
Hey, we had an agreement.
It breaks We go automated, I know.
I've got IT installing the random selection software now.
By the end of the day, I will be assigning judges with the push of a button.
Welcome to the 20th century.
No, you can leave it here.
My clerks will get rid of it.
I'll take care of it.
I-I could really use the firewood.
We need to talk to you about Chloe.
JILL: Is she here? - Not yet.
She's late.
Have you tried calling her? She doesn't live in that building.
What are you talking about? She told you she lived in that building.
She said she was checking her mail, like she does every day.
She hasn't lived in that building for four years.
Maybe I misunderstood.
She told you that she was the one who called the police, but it was actually the doorman.
We need to get her in here.
There are other inconsistencies with her story.
[RINGING.]
- Chloe? - [TRAFFIC NOISE.]
- I c-can't - Are you okay? - CHLOE: I don't know.
Where are you? I will come to you, but you have to tell me where you are.
I just went for a walk, and I must've gotten turned around Can you Can you look for a sign? Chloe, you need to tell me where in Penn Station you are.
Chloe? Chloe? Chloe.
Chloe! You're here.
Are you her sister? What? No.
You should take her home.
She tried to jump in front of a train.
This is distracting.
- What? - You.
I'm not doing anything.
You're brooding.
I don't like it.
I need to talk to someone.
Oh, at least it's not in my office.
I have five minutes.
Not you.
I'm sorry.
Oh, God.
Don't be sorry.
[SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE.]
You called me from your work phone.
I did.
- So, this is about work? - Yes.
Good.
- This is weird.
- It is.
But you know me better than anyone else, and I need your advice.
You got one block.
Okay, you know how the plan was that after a few years in the U.
S.
Attorney's Office, I'd go back to Stillman Pearce, - but as a partner? - Yeah.
The company I'm investigating hired the firm as outside counsel.
And Todd Hardart Remember him? - No.
- Really? I can't even tell what you're saying.
Hardhart? Hardart? I'd remember.
Anyway, he told me that the company's already agreeing to do the things I would have asked them to do if I brought charges, without me bringing charges.
- You believe that? - I looked into it.
They are.
Doing the things Todd said they were.
Could you get more if you brought charges? - I don't know.
- You know.
If I file charges, I think I can get more.
More money.
More reforms.
Send a stronger message to the industry that this is intolerable.
I'll tell you this if you could stand up to me and say the things you said, why can't you stand up to a company? And if it's because it ruins your plan to be a lawyer at a big, corporate firm, maybe you should think about whether that's such a great plan.
One block.
We could do this, you know? Maybe.
Be friends? You made a choice to be independent.
To be a man.
I am trying my best to respect that.
Don't let them underestimate you, Seth.
Like I did.
WOMAN: They spilled poison near my Annie's school.
Now she has headaches, she gets dizzy, she's losing her hair.
MAN: My boy's seven, and the doctor says he needs dialysis.
And they keep saying this was an accident.
I'm proud of our commitment to the environment, to the public health.
For me, it's a sacred trust.
I'm gonna bring criminal charges.
Same suit.
Same conversation.
I told you to rent "Rocky", not "Groundhog Day".
I'm gonna bring criminal charges against the CEO of Kappler-Hays, Jack Lewis, personally.
- This sounds personal.
- It is personal.
He was the person who made the decisions that led to these crimes.
The fines are meaningless.
Kappler-Hays is a $22-billion company.
$50 million is just another cell in their accounting software.
The public needs to see someone go to jail a person.
That's the only way to show that we're serious.
- What do you have? - The EPA interviewed multiple witnesses who can testify that Jack Lewis knew about these leaks and chose not to remediate them because of cost.
They're gonna want to cut a deal.
Guilty plea.
Minimal time.
No trial.
I'm not looking to try a case against Stillman Pearce.
As long as Lewis does jail time, I'll cut a deal.
But he needs to go to jail.
I hired a psychiatrist to do a full evaluation to see what we're dealing with.
- Where's Sandra? - Sandra doesn't like hospitals.
- Who likes hospitals? - It's different with Sandra.
What are we dealing with? Chloe was on the edge of the tracks at Penn Station and speaking incoherently.
She says she gets lost often.
So, we could be dealing with an insanity defense? Mental disorder defense.
But yes.
I'm sure it explains all of the inconsistencies in her story.
You need to wait for the psychiatrist's report while I start preparing our papers.
Chloe may need to be committed.
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
Are you not into guys? Is that what this is about? It has nothing to do with gender.
Then is it because he went to a state school? I went to a state school.
Nothing wrong with that.
If I went to that music festival with Tony, he'd buy me a hot dog, we'd listen to some bands, then we'd go back to his place and we'd have sex.
I don't want that.
What's the point? Of the music festival? I don't know.
Any of it.
Well, some of it could be fun.
I don't want fun.
I want challenging.
Interesting.
Stimulating.
- Fun is - What your 20s are for.
I'm practically 30.
That's a terrible attitude.
It's the truth.
I'm not saying you have to get blackout drunk and wake up on a small boat in Peru.
True story.
You can go out every once in a while.
- With Tony? - With anybody.
Find somebody you like and send up a test balloon of your own.
This is sounding a lot like middle school.
- I hated middle school.
- Everyone hated middle school.
This is different.
You're cool now.
You're interesting, you're smart and attractive you're a catch.
I don't want to be caught.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Nothing? - ALLISON: The psychiatric testing showed no mental or cognitive issues of any kind.
They even did a bunch of lab work.
Nothing.
We need to find another doctor.
You said he was the best.
Is it at least possible she's faking a mental condition? She almost threw herself in front of a train.
But she didn't.
Maybe there's some history with her and this mail carrier.
Maybe there's a whole different angle on this.
I don't think so.
She lied about everything else.
Why wouldn't she be lying about this, too? This isn't a potential murder case anymore.
The mail carrier is recovering.
One of us can take this now.
I need to talk to Chloe.
Okay, am I, like, missing something here? Apparently, we all are.
WOMAN: Kappler-Hays' chairman and CEO, Jack Lewis, was arrested today, charged with multiple criminal violations of the Clean Water Act a highly unusual, highly personal prosecution that Mr.
Lewis's attorneys have indicated they intend to fight in every way possible.
- Todd.
- Seth.
- Thanks for coming.
- Thanks for inviting me.
Uh, listen, Todd.
I just want to say, before we get started, this isn't personal, obviously.
I-I have a lot of respect for you and Stillman.
And I really value my association with the firm.
- The respect goes both ways, Seth.
- Thank you.
[CHUCKLES.]
Yeah, seriously.
I'm impressed.
[CHUCKLES.]
- This.
You.
How far you've come.
I was riding up in the elevator just now thinking back to the day - you interviewed here.
- [LAUGHS.]
Roger Gunn calls me the minute you left the office and says, "You have to be kidding me.
This guy?" [CHUCKLES.]
meaning you.
And I say, "No.
Trust me.
He's good.
" But Roger's totally dug in on this you.
"No way.
" [CHUCKLES.]
More colorful language, obviously.
But he's not budging.
I'm sure you guys have laughed about this, right? [CHUCKLES.]
- Ha ha.
So, I go back to Ron Stillman and he's like, "Well, he can't stay here at the firm.
He's not cutting it.
" [CHUCKLES.]
"He" meaning you.
So, I call Roger and push and push and beg, and finally, we get him to take you.
[CHUCKLES.]
My powers of persuasion and a half dozen box seats at Yankee Stadium can move mountains.
And now look at you.
Sitting there.
Fearless.
You have no future at Stillman or any top firm in this city.
You have no future in this office.
Roger's not gonna be thrilled about a guy he didn't want to hire coming off probation and getting his head handed to him.
But you don't seem to care about any of that.
It's impressive.
Anyway, I think you called me in to make an offer.
Uh I probably should've said we're not looking for a deal on this anymore.
We wanted to avoid criminal charges.
This spectacle.
You went ahead anyway, and now we're feeling a little less magnanimous.
We'll see you at trial.
SETH: Ms.
Shore, you were Kappler-Hays' Deputy Chief Environmental Commitment Officer - for how many years? - 12 years.
On March 9, 2012, did you and Mr.
Lewis discuss the company's facility in Lincoln, Nebraska? Yes.
We had a big wastewater leak beneath the Lincoln plant.
Chemicals were leaking into the water, spreading through the soil.
Right next to Carver Elementary.
I told him that we needed to make critical upgrades.
What did Jack Lewis say when you told him you need to make these upgrades? He said he didn't want to spend the money.
Do you recognize this document, Ms.
Shore? It's my mortgage application.
And you swore to tell the truth under penalty of perjury on this form, correct? - Correct.
- Did you? I misstated my assets.
You lied.
Because you wanted something.
- Objection.
Counsel is testifying - Overruled.
Just like you're lying today so you can avoid being held responsible for alleged environmental crimes that were in your portfolio.
As head of Intergovernmental Affairs, you urged Mr.
Lewis to bring the Lincoln plant into compliance to obey the law, - is that right? - Yes.
I told him that we were doing damage to that community, that state legislators were sounding alarm bells.
- His response? - He told me to get out of his office.
He told me I was the alarmist.
- Mr.
Cantor, you are divorced, correct? - I am.
And is it true, Mr.
Cantor, that during your divorce proceedings, you swore under oath that you were at all times faithful to your wife during the course of your marriage? - That's correct.
- Isn't it true, Mr.
Cantor, that, while married to Lily Cantor, you attended sex parties at a private club - called "Venom" at least 16 times - Objection! To what? The name "Venom"? Mr.
Cantor's sex life is completely irrelevant.
This isn't about his sex life.
This is about his credibility.
I'll allow it.
Mr.
Cantor, you have shown an alarming ability to lie in order to protect yourself.
Is there any reason for this jury to believe that you are not doing the exact same thing here? BERNARD: Crankshaft just needs a little TLC is all.
I'll fix it up, free of charge.
You don't have to do that.
It's no trouble.
Just happy she's still in use.
Everybody's got smartphones and and search engines.
I get it.
I like the Internet, too, but do you know who made the Internet? That curly-haired kid from the movie? I haven't the faintest idea.
What I do know is that I carved this handle.
I soldered this joint.
There's a crack in this corner.
That's you and all the people who've used her since.
Sorry about the place.
Moved in such a hurry and haven't had time to Started a new job.
Here's some milk.
Thank you.
So the doctor said he couldn't find anything wrong.
No.
They never do.
[SIGHS.]
Over the last five years, I've been called, uh, "stressed," "depressed," "moody," "premenopausal.
" I've had blood tests, thyroid tests, Chinese tea, acupuncture.
The only thing that came close to working was paroxetine, but I didn't feel like myself.
Mitchell that's my ex he wanted me to stay on it.
[SIGHS.]
We fought.
I think it's hard to live with a crazy person.
Can we not say "crazy"? But I thought that was my defense.
It was, Chloe.
But the psychiatrist didn't find anything, and I need to explore with you if maybe there's something else going on here.
Something you might not have told me.
Do you not believe me? It's not about what I believe, Chloe.
It's about what the jury will believe.
That's okay.
I understand.
I'm used to it.
Maybe we can talk more about the incident.
Did you have any history - with the mail carrier? - No.
- Why were you in the building that day? - I don't know.
I'm your attorney.
Anything you say to me is protected.
My son got frustrated, too.
I'm not frustrated.
He doesn't want much to do with me these days.
I don't blame him.
He needed his mom to be the same person day to day.
She's not much of a mom.
Let's talk about why you felt you were in danger I wasn't always like this.
In college, I was on the Dean's list Have you been attacked before? Gamma Delta Gamma president.
I was a cheerleader.
I went abroad my junior year Maybe there's still a self-defense argument.
That's when I met Mitchell Wait.
You were a cheerleader? [SIGHS.]
Since I was 14.
National champions one year.
Why? [CHANTING.]
JILL: CTE Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease from years as a competitive cheerleader.
I thought CTE was caused by years of getting clobbered playing football.
It's also caused by this [GASPS.]
- Oh! Cheerleading causes half of all catastrophic injuries in female athletes.
I watch a lot of "SportsCenter.
" - I've never heard of this.
- Most people haven't.
But CTE explains everything about Chloe confusion, rage, memory loss Why didn't this come up in the psychiatric evaluation? Because it doesn't show up on a psychiatric evaluation.
JAY: Well, how do you test for it? There is no test for it.
It's diagnosed at death with an autopsy.
I watch a lot of "SportsCenter," too.
That has been the only way, but there's a doctor, here in New York, Alexander Cole, working on a new test.
That won't be admissible.
Then your job is to make it admissible! So now you have something to do instead of just standing there.
She has CTE, and we're gonna get her tested, and then we'll know and she will know.
Again? I don't like it.
I need to talk to someone.
So, talk to whoever it was you talked to last time.
- That seemed to work.
- That got me into this mess.
Oh, God.
I have to sit down now, don't I? [SIGHS.]
My case is falling apart, I'm getting humiliated by Todd Hardart Hardhart? Uh, sorry, what are you saying? My old firm.
They've got an army of associates working 24/7, digging up anything and everything to discredit my witnesses.
They're pummeling me.
I'm letting everyone down my mom, Jenny, Theo.
This is why Roger didn't want to hire me.
Roger probably didn't want to hire you because of the way you sound right now, which is incredibly whiny.
Roger didn't want to hire you? That's what I was told.
I was told that my feet were too small to be a competitive swimmer.
And then you won the state championship No.
Usually, I came in last, but I didn't give up.
I'm not giving up.
- Is he giving up? - I am not giving up! - I'm sorry.
- Don't do that.
Don't apologize.
- [SLAMS DESK.]
- Stay there.
Now what do you need to do to make your case? They destroyed my witnesses, but I have these memos, which show the company knew about the leak and knew how much it would cost to fix it.
But you need someone to testify Lewis actually saw them and decided not to do anything? Yes.
But Jack Lewis is a powerful guy.
People are scared of him.
He flung a piece of bacon at his secretary.
Former secretary.
I saw that in the "Washington Post.
" Top 10 worst CEOs in America.
The secretary! Now let's get to work.
SETH: - Ms.
Davis, you were Jack Lewis' secretary for nine months? Nine long months.
I'm told it was two weeks short of a record.
That's why you're here today, to tell us about Mr.
Lewis' management style TODD: Objection, Your Honor.
The witness did clerical work.
Answered phones.
She knows nothing about the highly specialized issues in this case.
She saw every piece of paper that crossed his desk for nine months.
This trial is about whether he's personally responsible for his company spewing toxins.
How is it not relevant? I'll allow it.
Take us back to the morning of March 20, 2016, your last day at the company.
How'd that day begin? Mr.
Lewis asked me for a breakfast sandwich egg and cheese on a roll.
He specified egg and cheese on a roll - Your Honor - JUDGE BYRNE: Get to the point.
You brought him the sandwich.
Then what happened? He flung a piece of bacon in my face.
Did he say why he flung bacon in your face? He didn't ask for bacon.
He said, "Do only what I tell you.
No more.
No less.
" He said that 50 times a day to everyone.
That was his management style? Not a lot of style, but yes.
He was a micromanager.
About everything.
I want to direct your attention to these four memos, which have been marked as Exhibit J, written to Mr.
Lewis over a three-year period.
They estimate the cost of complying with EPA regulations at Kappler-Hays' Lincoln plant.
Objection.
The witness doesn't know the first thing about EPA regulations.
If he can make bacon relevant, he gets a crack at this, too.
Do you have an opinion, Ms.
Davis, about whether Mr.
Lewis ever saw these memos? No.
I mean, it's not an opinion.
He definitely saw them.
No piece of paper passed through the company without him reading and okaying it.
And anyway, these memos are covered with checkmarks in Mr.
Lewis' handwriting.
That's his writing.
So, if Mr.
Lewis contends he never knew his facilities were breaking the law, poisoning children, do you have an opinion about that? That would be a lie.
[MACHINE BEEPING.]
JILL: What are you seeing? I'm seeing high levels of tau accumulation in the amygdala and in all subcortical regions.
That's where the damaged neurons are.
And what does that mean? It means she has the brain of a 50-year-old defensive lineman.
It means you were right, Ms.
Carlan.
The pattern in which her brain lit up indicates an extremely high likely that Ms.
Daniels suffers from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.
I'm sorry.
I need you to testify in a hearing so we can use this scan as evidence.
This isn't FDA approved.
It hasn't been tested widely enough.
It'll never hold up in a court hearing.
Yes, it will.
We'll make sure of it.
If you walk past the back door of the library at Carver Elementary School in Lincoln, Nebraska, you'll see a line of students.
Almost anytime, but always in the afternoon after lunch and recess.
If you don't know Carver, it looks a little odd.
This line.
Tucked behind a building, pressed up against a hedge.
But if you peek around the corner, you see it.
You understand.
A drinking fountain.
Blue.
Three heads.
Always in the shade.
Always cold.
Carver opened in 1961, and nobody remembers why this drinking fountain was put back there, but it's been a part of the school for over 50 years.
Future farmers, accountants, mayor, an astronaut, doctors, a few lawyers.
They all drank the cold water from the library fountain.
So did Theo Mars every day for the last two years.
He's seven now.
Wants to be a scientist or a racecar driver.
He's still deciding.
[CHUCKLES.]
Either way, it's going to be a challenge because Theo has Leukemia.
Because of the library fountain.
Because Jack Lewis built a plant next to the school and allowed toxins to seep into the cold water that Theo and his classmates at Carver lined up to drink every day.
Jack Lewis knew this water was contaminated.
He knew this contaminated water was making kids sick.
And he knew how to stop it.
And Jack Lewis said no.
What will you say now? Because there are only two sides here Kappler-Hays or Carver Elementary.
Jack Lewis or Theo Mars.
The choice is yours.
Carver Elementary is unremarkable in a lot of ways.
But it has real spirit.
Heart.
Character.
There's a saying at the school "Never count a Carver kid out.
" So don't.
Your Honor, the government strongly objects to the admission of any experimental tests They weren't done by some kid with a chemistry set.
They come from one of the world's leading CTE researchers.
And while we sincerely hope they yield results in the future, in the present, the only reliable diagnosis of CTE is through autopsy.
Well, my client prefers not to wait for her autopsy results to mount her defense.
Your Honor, if she had a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, we wouldn't be begging for it to be admitted, unless this was 1983.
If she were a diabetic, I could argue low insulin as a factor, but not 20 years ago.
Every new thing we learn about mental illness, we learn from a study that started as experimental.
Chloe Daniels has a disease, and she shouldn't be punished for her bad timing in getting it.
Mental illness has always been problematic for us.
At one point, schizophrenics were burned as witches.
Depressives were lobotomized.
Women with anxiety were sterilized.
It seems like so long ago, right? But out there, now, lives are being wasted in institutions, families broken up.
People are living and dying under overpasses because they have no idea that a pill could fix it.
Chloe Daniels has lost a marriage, a son, and, soon her life.
Even if we can show that she has CTE, a cure is a long way off.
She has a disease, and letting us mount her best defense, all we're really deciding is whether she dies of it in prison or out.
JILL: They offered a deferred prosecution agreement.
Essentially a term of probation.
She'll be supervised by pretrial services for two years.
That's good.
You don't look good.
She needs help, someone to take care of her.
This disease is degenerative.
She's only gonna get worse.
What about her family? Her son doesn't want anything to do with her.
She's burned every bridge.
My sister was like that.
I have a sister.
Where is she? I don't know.
Madame foreperson, how do you find the defendant, Jack Lewis, on Count One of the Indictment, violating the Clean Water Act, guilty or not guilty? Guilty.
[CHUCKLES.]
Are we going to discover electricity next? I know what you think.
Do you? Really? I know.
I'm a dinosaur.
I don't like change.
I'm the mother of the Mother Court.
I'm protecting all these antique traditions and institutions.
I guess you do know what I think.
It's not that.
I mean, that is all true.
I used to take the Wheel home every weekend.
You didn't know that, did you? I'm sure it's a federal crime.
It is.
Larry and I couldn't decide about a lot of things.
Not big things.
Little things.
Where to go to dinner.
Where to go on vacation.
So, I started bringing the Wheel home, and we'd write all our options on little pieces of paper and put them in the Wheel and the Wheel would decide.
We trusted the Wheel.
It got kind of addictive in our home.
When Jason was deciding where to go to college, he used the Wheel.
For real! He went to Wesleyan because of the Wheel.
These are bigger things.
When Larry got sick two days before he died, he wanted me to read him a story.
He couldn't decide.
So we gave it to the Wheel.
And I read him "Hound of the Baskervilles.
" He liked that.
The Wheel was fair.
It saw us through a lot of joy and excruciating sadness.
I could take it home, Nick but that's hard now.
It belongs here.
[SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE.]
[EXHALES DEEPLY.]
Hey.
What are you still doing here? I got a trial in the morning.
I'm gonna grab something to eat.
If you? I think I might be out for this one.
I'm gonna finish up here and then I got a thing later.
A thing? With a girl? Hopefully.
Okay, well, if you change your mind, I'll probably be watching "Charade" in my pajamas.
I'd expect no less.
Good night, Kate.
Good night.
[KNOCK ON DOOR.]
Jack Lewis is going to jail.
Kappler-Hays agreed to triple the health fund to $150 million.
This is a day.
You should go home.
Celebrate.
I'm good.
I've lied to you a thousand times I didn't think you could pull it off.
I know you didn't.
And when you say those three words I never watched "Rocky.
" Not interested.
Because I don't want to just "go the distance.
" - Indefinitely I will wait for you - I like "Rocky IV" because he wins against a roided-up commie.
Nice things I like to hear I don't wanna hear you love me if you don't Whoever you are, I prefer you to Seth Oliver.
My heart hurts My one, I know I loved you first - But did you ever love me at all? - [RINGING.]
Hey.
Hey.
I won.
What is this? I wanted to say thank you.
Okay, Seth.
Great.
And also apologize.
I left.
It was hard, but it was the right thing to do.
I can't have it both ways.
I can't leave you and then lean on you.
It's not fair.
It's wrong.
But when you stay so lip-locked It's not good for either of us.
No matter how right it feels in the moment.
I hurdle and fall to get to you, babe Learn your secrets and enemies I wanna find the remedies But I don't wanna hear an empty line tonight Again I underestimated you.
Make me feel beautiful Tell me, tell me Oh, tell me now And you promise you'll call me if you need anything? Yes.
Thank you.
Jill? Um you said you'd call my son? I wasn't able to reach him.
But I'll keep trying.
I promise.
My one, I know I loved you first But did you ever love me at all? Oh, when you say those three words Is it just to make me feel beautiful? Tell me, tell me Oh, tell me now Tell me, tell me Oh, tell me now My one, I know I loved you first But did you ever love me at all? Oh, when you say those three words Is it just to make me feel beautiful? Tell me, tell me Oh, tell me now Tell me, tell me Oh, tell me now
I don't want you to cancel your date.
I'll be thinking about you the whole time.
It's about opposing counsel.
She's my girlfriend.
The AUSA handling the case filed the additional claims for the sole purpose of pressuring Ms.
Locarno into a deal.
- SETH: I'm on probation.
- I did what I had to do.
And now I'm gonna do what I have to do.
I'm leaving.
- Good morning.
- Not for you, apparently.
We were just talking about losers.
My case was thrown out.
Can we really call that a loss? Oh, we can call it a big loss.
We are not going to break up over an insider-trading case.
No, we're gonna break up because I don't want to be second chair to you the rest of my life.
And if I stay, we both know that I would be.
[NELLY'S "SOUNDS GOOD TO ME" PLAYS.]
Oh Yeah Na, na, na, oh, my God Your body so sensational Incredible Na, na, na, won't be long 'Fore it's time to go Hoo-whoo That's all right - Hoo-whoo - Hey Sound good to me There he is.
Hey, Mom! You're all moved in.
Yep, feels like home.
- This is the best thing for you.
- Don't.
- What? - Bring Allison up.
I wasn't.
I'm just proud that you have your own place.
Thanks, Mom.
- Without Allison.
- Mom Can you believe what's going on - over here in Lincoln? - What? You know the aerospace plant that went in a few years back? - Kappler-Hays, yeah? - They've been allowing some chemical to run off their property, and, apparently, it's in the soil, the drinking water.
People are getting really sick.
Is that Carver? Your elementary school.
Remember Jenny Mars? Of course I remember Jenny.
That's her son, Theo, in the picture.
He's on life support.
You're a lawyer.
Can you do something about all this? I'm not that kind of lawyer, Mom.
Well, what kind of lawyer are you? [BREATHLESS.]
Hey.
- You biked here? - Yeah.
You? - Oh.
- [SCOFFS.]
Ah! I thought I'd beat her here.
I saw her at home in the morning once.
That was the closest I've come.
Chloe Daniels, assault on a postal worker I'll take it.
Have you ever done a murder case? Y-You said "assault.
" He might die.
Allison? Jay? Not a lot of murder at the ACLU.
Lot of talking, mostly.
A-At County PD, I had guys who probably had murdered, so This one's mine then.
Assist and learn.
What exactly did Chloe Daniels do? I was getting my mail.
Just like a normal day.
He was already in the mail room.
Were you alone? It wasn't Stanley, our normal mail guy.
This guys was weird.
He was, um looking at me Yeah, it was just the two of us.
Before I could even open the mailbox, he came at me.
So I-I grabbed a letter opener off the counter.
Really, the next thing I can remember is him bleeding from his neck.
And then I called the police.
I've never hurt anyone in my life, Ms.
Carlan.
[VOICE BREAKING.]
I was just trying to defend myself.
And I'm here to defend you, Chloe.
A plea of not guilty is entered as to all counts of the indictment.
Our next order of business is assigning a judge for trial.
Ms.
Krissman? The Honorable Judge Gerald McKinnon.
The Honorable Judge Eva Corcoran.
The Honorable Judge Nicholas Byrne.
My client has no criminal record, she isn't a flight risk, and has roots in the community.
We respectfully ask for bond in an amount commensurate with her resources.
Under the condition that Ms.
Daniels confine herself to her home except for the purposes of work, bail is set for $20,000.
Now, let's pick a trial judge.
M-Maybe just pull a card, Ms.
Krissman? How bad is it? We may have to put her down.
That's sad.
I remember the first time on the Wheel, I got Judge Wallace Andrews.
- Yuck.
- Deeply unpleasant.
But then he ruled for me on an impossible suppression motion.
Still remember that.
Never doubt the Wheel.
First of all, who even thinks about running a pipeline full of poison next to a school? T-The school is already right there.
It's not an invisible school.
I found it every morning for six years.
It's hard to ask you to leave when you're using the words "poison" and "school.
" - I'm angry.
- You should be.
And they're probably gonna get away with this.
If only you knew someone in the federal justice system who could do something about it.
Kappler-Hays has already committed so many EPA violations here Clean Water Act, Toxic Substances Control Act Doesn't Nebraska have an attorney general and courts and stuff? I'm not up on Nebraska.
Nebraska depends on Kappler-Hays for jobs.
The attorney general's never gonna go hard at them.
But their headquarters are here in Manhattan, so we can get them in the Southern District.
It's a big case to make.
It is.
But the EPA and state regulatory authorities have already done so much to make it.
We just need to pull it all together.
You look like Seth Oliver.
Even sound like him.
Let me do this.
Yeah, but I can't use resources on a case we can't win.
I'm not Rocky Balboa.
Rocky did win.
He beat Ivan Drago.
I meant the first one.
He just wants to go the dist Wait.
You've seen "Rocky IV", but not the original? - Four is a classic.
- It's four! Let me do this.
I can win.
Okay, but on the condition that you rent "Rocky" the first one and tell me if there's a better movie anywhere.
That's literally a condition! - Cool if I sit? - No.
So, here's the scenario.
Let's say you embezzled I would never embezzle.
- But if you did.
- I didn't.
- What would you spend the money on? - What money? - The money you embezzled.
- I didn't embezzle.
TONY: Hey, sorry to interrupt.
I finished the discovery binder for the Stewart International case.
Thanks, Tony.
You can leave it there.
You got any big plans for the weekend? Going through this.
If you need a break, a bunch of us are going over to the Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island.
You should come.
I probably won't have time, but thanks for the invite.
Okay, well, if anything changes, you have my number.
Mm-hmm.
- That was real cold.
- What? He likes you.
He sent up a test balloon and you shot it down.
Cold.
I-I'm not interested.
- If you were interested - I'm not! - But if - I'm I have to move floors.
I did it.
Opened a criminal investigation into Kappler-Hays.
Subpoenas are out.
You're going up against Kappler-Hays? You both have offices, right? You know every big firm in New York is trying to get that case now, right? Right now.
As we speak.
And the firm that does get it is gonna spare no expense to destroy you, and they will salt the earth when they are done.
Is this a pep talk? I just want you to know what you're up against.
[CELLPHONE VIBRATES.]
I think I do know.
- Todd.
- Seth.
- How are you? - Oh, great.
Thanks for coming.
Thanks for, uh, inviting me.
- We miss you at the firm, Seth.
- Well, I miss being there.
- You should.
- [CHUCKLES.]
I mean, you have the best job in the world, obviously, but there's a lot of great stuff happening at Stillman right now.
- We have nap pods.
- Nap pods? - I just woke up 15 minutes ago.
- Huh.
Can you tell I was asleep? Look at me.
Seriously.
Can you tell? I-I guess a-a little bit.
- Maybe around your eyes.
- No, you cannot! Right? - [BOTH LAUGH.]
- That's what I'm saying.
These things are amazing.
Oh, we have a whole onsite wellness center.
It makes a difference.
Meditation and bee pollen every morning means less partners screaming.
I heard you made partner.
- In record time.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Ah.
Three years in the Southern District doing your job, and they minted me.
And it'll probably be even faster for you because you already have your first client lined up.
Mm.
Let me guess.
Kappler-Hays.
You didn't need to guess.
You're smart.
And they're smart.
For hiring the former firm of the prosecutor.
Former firm.
Future firm.
Yes.
It's smart.
Listen, you're gonna be surprised to hear this, but I'm glad you put pressure on Kappler-Hays by opening this investigation.
It was the right thing to do.
They know they messed up.
The CEO, Jack Lewis, is personall overseeing the creation of a $50-million health fund for any affected child in Lincoln.
I ordered you the chop.
They're also putting in new inspection protocols, reforming the entire system of safety measures company-wide, beyond anything the Nebraska AG and EPA are asking.
And that's because of you.
Look, we're technically across the table here, but we all want the same thing.
Okay, so here's what we do.
Let's make a deal that gives you a win and gets the company on the right track, and, most importantly, gets the community taken care of your community.
My only ask in all of this is just don't jump the gun and file charges.
Because that would be unproductive right now.
For the good people of Lincoln.
For you.
And the firm.
For you and the firm.
I know you know how this works.
I know the kind of lawyer you are, Seth.
- Dead as a doornail.
- Good.
Remind me not to let you write my obituary.
Hey, we had an agreement.
It breaks We go automated, I know.
I've got IT installing the random selection software now.
By the end of the day, I will be assigning judges with the push of a button.
Welcome to the 20th century.
No, you can leave it here.
My clerks will get rid of it.
I'll take care of it.
I-I could really use the firewood.
We need to talk to you about Chloe.
JILL: Is she here? - Not yet.
She's late.
Have you tried calling her? She doesn't live in that building.
What are you talking about? She told you she lived in that building.
She said she was checking her mail, like she does every day.
She hasn't lived in that building for four years.
Maybe I misunderstood.
She told you that she was the one who called the police, but it was actually the doorman.
We need to get her in here.
There are other inconsistencies with her story.
[RINGING.]
- Chloe? - [TRAFFIC NOISE.]
- I c-can't - Are you okay? - CHLOE: I don't know.
Where are you? I will come to you, but you have to tell me where you are.
I just went for a walk, and I must've gotten turned around Can you Can you look for a sign? Chloe, you need to tell me where in Penn Station you are.
Chloe? Chloe? Chloe.
Chloe! You're here.
Are you her sister? What? No.
You should take her home.
She tried to jump in front of a train.
This is distracting.
- What? - You.
I'm not doing anything.
You're brooding.
I don't like it.
I need to talk to someone.
Oh, at least it's not in my office.
I have five minutes.
Not you.
I'm sorry.
Oh, God.
Don't be sorry.
[SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE.]
You called me from your work phone.
I did.
- So, this is about work? - Yes.
Good.
- This is weird.
- It is.
But you know me better than anyone else, and I need your advice.
You got one block.
Okay, you know how the plan was that after a few years in the U.
S.
Attorney's Office, I'd go back to Stillman Pearce, - but as a partner? - Yeah.
The company I'm investigating hired the firm as outside counsel.
And Todd Hardart Remember him? - No.
- Really? I can't even tell what you're saying.
Hardhart? Hardart? I'd remember.
Anyway, he told me that the company's already agreeing to do the things I would have asked them to do if I brought charges, without me bringing charges.
- You believe that? - I looked into it.
They are.
Doing the things Todd said they were.
Could you get more if you brought charges? - I don't know.
- You know.
If I file charges, I think I can get more.
More money.
More reforms.
Send a stronger message to the industry that this is intolerable.
I'll tell you this if you could stand up to me and say the things you said, why can't you stand up to a company? And if it's because it ruins your plan to be a lawyer at a big, corporate firm, maybe you should think about whether that's such a great plan.
One block.
We could do this, you know? Maybe.
Be friends? You made a choice to be independent.
To be a man.
I am trying my best to respect that.
Don't let them underestimate you, Seth.
Like I did.
WOMAN: They spilled poison near my Annie's school.
Now she has headaches, she gets dizzy, she's losing her hair.
MAN: My boy's seven, and the doctor says he needs dialysis.
And they keep saying this was an accident.
I'm proud of our commitment to the environment, to the public health.
For me, it's a sacred trust.
I'm gonna bring criminal charges.
Same suit.
Same conversation.
I told you to rent "Rocky", not "Groundhog Day".
I'm gonna bring criminal charges against the CEO of Kappler-Hays, Jack Lewis, personally.
- This sounds personal.
- It is personal.
He was the person who made the decisions that led to these crimes.
The fines are meaningless.
Kappler-Hays is a $22-billion company.
$50 million is just another cell in their accounting software.
The public needs to see someone go to jail a person.
That's the only way to show that we're serious.
- What do you have? - The EPA interviewed multiple witnesses who can testify that Jack Lewis knew about these leaks and chose not to remediate them because of cost.
They're gonna want to cut a deal.
Guilty plea.
Minimal time.
No trial.
I'm not looking to try a case against Stillman Pearce.
As long as Lewis does jail time, I'll cut a deal.
But he needs to go to jail.
I hired a psychiatrist to do a full evaluation to see what we're dealing with.
- Where's Sandra? - Sandra doesn't like hospitals.
- Who likes hospitals? - It's different with Sandra.
What are we dealing with? Chloe was on the edge of the tracks at Penn Station and speaking incoherently.
She says she gets lost often.
So, we could be dealing with an insanity defense? Mental disorder defense.
But yes.
I'm sure it explains all of the inconsistencies in her story.
You need to wait for the psychiatrist's report while I start preparing our papers.
Chloe may need to be committed.
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
Are you not into guys? Is that what this is about? It has nothing to do with gender.
Then is it because he went to a state school? I went to a state school.
Nothing wrong with that.
If I went to that music festival with Tony, he'd buy me a hot dog, we'd listen to some bands, then we'd go back to his place and we'd have sex.
I don't want that.
What's the point? Of the music festival? I don't know.
Any of it.
Well, some of it could be fun.
I don't want fun.
I want challenging.
Interesting.
Stimulating.
- Fun is - What your 20s are for.
I'm practically 30.
That's a terrible attitude.
It's the truth.
I'm not saying you have to get blackout drunk and wake up on a small boat in Peru.
True story.
You can go out every once in a while.
- With Tony? - With anybody.
Find somebody you like and send up a test balloon of your own.
This is sounding a lot like middle school.
- I hated middle school.
- Everyone hated middle school.
This is different.
You're cool now.
You're interesting, you're smart and attractive you're a catch.
I don't want to be caught.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Nothing? - ALLISON: The psychiatric testing showed no mental or cognitive issues of any kind.
They even did a bunch of lab work.
Nothing.
We need to find another doctor.
You said he was the best.
Is it at least possible she's faking a mental condition? She almost threw herself in front of a train.
But she didn't.
Maybe there's some history with her and this mail carrier.
Maybe there's a whole different angle on this.
I don't think so.
She lied about everything else.
Why wouldn't she be lying about this, too? This isn't a potential murder case anymore.
The mail carrier is recovering.
One of us can take this now.
I need to talk to Chloe.
Okay, am I, like, missing something here? Apparently, we all are.
WOMAN: Kappler-Hays' chairman and CEO, Jack Lewis, was arrested today, charged with multiple criminal violations of the Clean Water Act a highly unusual, highly personal prosecution that Mr.
Lewis's attorneys have indicated they intend to fight in every way possible.
- Todd.
- Seth.
- Thanks for coming.
- Thanks for inviting me.
Uh, listen, Todd.
I just want to say, before we get started, this isn't personal, obviously.
I-I have a lot of respect for you and Stillman.
And I really value my association with the firm.
- The respect goes both ways, Seth.
- Thank you.
[CHUCKLES.]
Yeah, seriously.
I'm impressed.
[CHUCKLES.]
- This.
You.
How far you've come.
I was riding up in the elevator just now thinking back to the day - you interviewed here.
- [LAUGHS.]
Roger Gunn calls me the minute you left the office and says, "You have to be kidding me.
This guy?" [CHUCKLES.]
meaning you.
And I say, "No.
Trust me.
He's good.
" But Roger's totally dug in on this you.
"No way.
" [CHUCKLES.]
More colorful language, obviously.
But he's not budging.
I'm sure you guys have laughed about this, right? [CHUCKLES.]
- Ha ha.
So, I go back to Ron Stillman and he's like, "Well, he can't stay here at the firm.
He's not cutting it.
" [CHUCKLES.]
"He" meaning you.
So, I call Roger and push and push and beg, and finally, we get him to take you.
[CHUCKLES.]
My powers of persuasion and a half dozen box seats at Yankee Stadium can move mountains.
And now look at you.
Sitting there.
Fearless.
You have no future at Stillman or any top firm in this city.
You have no future in this office.
Roger's not gonna be thrilled about a guy he didn't want to hire coming off probation and getting his head handed to him.
But you don't seem to care about any of that.
It's impressive.
Anyway, I think you called me in to make an offer.
Uh I probably should've said we're not looking for a deal on this anymore.
We wanted to avoid criminal charges.
This spectacle.
You went ahead anyway, and now we're feeling a little less magnanimous.
We'll see you at trial.
SETH: Ms.
Shore, you were Kappler-Hays' Deputy Chief Environmental Commitment Officer - for how many years? - 12 years.
On March 9, 2012, did you and Mr.
Lewis discuss the company's facility in Lincoln, Nebraska? Yes.
We had a big wastewater leak beneath the Lincoln plant.
Chemicals were leaking into the water, spreading through the soil.
Right next to Carver Elementary.
I told him that we needed to make critical upgrades.
What did Jack Lewis say when you told him you need to make these upgrades? He said he didn't want to spend the money.
Do you recognize this document, Ms.
Shore? It's my mortgage application.
And you swore to tell the truth under penalty of perjury on this form, correct? - Correct.
- Did you? I misstated my assets.
You lied.
Because you wanted something.
- Objection.
Counsel is testifying - Overruled.
Just like you're lying today so you can avoid being held responsible for alleged environmental crimes that were in your portfolio.
As head of Intergovernmental Affairs, you urged Mr.
Lewis to bring the Lincoln plant into compliance to obey the law, - is that right? - Yes.
I told him that we were doing damage to that community, that state legislators were sounding alarm bells.
- His response? - He told me to get out of his office.
He told me I was the alarmist.
- Mr.
Cantor, you are divorced, correct? - I am.
And is it true, Mr.
Cantor, that during your divorce proceedings, you swore under oath that you were at all times faithful to your wife during the course of your marriage? - That's correct.
- Isn't it true, Mr.
Cantor, that, while married to Lily Cantor, you attended sex parties at a private club - called "Venom" at least 16 times - Objection! To what? The name "Venom"? Mr.
Cantor's sex life is completely irrelevant.
This isn't about his sex life.
This is about his credibility.
I'll allow it.
Mr.
Cantor, you have shown an alarming ability to lie in order to protect yourself.
Is there any reason for this jury to believe that you are not doing the exact same thing here? BERNARD: Crankshaft just needs a little TLC is all.
I'll fix it up, free of charge.
You don't have to do that.
It's no trouble.
Just happy she's still in use.
Everybody's got smartphones and and search engines.
I get it.
I like the Internet, too, but do you know who made the Internet? That curly-haired kid from the movie? I haven't the faintest idea.
What I do know is that I carved this handle.
I soldered this joint.
There's a crack in this corner.
That's you and all the people who've used her since.
Sorry about the place.
Moved in such a hurry and haven't had time to Started a new job.
Here's some milk.
Thank you.
So the doctor said he couldn't find anything wrong.
No.
They never do.
[SIGHS.]
Over the last five years, I've been called, uh, "stressed," "depressed," "moody," "premenopausal.
" I've had blood tests, thyroid tests, Chinese tea, acupuncture.
The only thing that came close to working was paroxetine, but I didn't feel like myself.
Mitchell that's my ex he wanted me to stay on it.
[SIGHS.]
We fought.
I think it's hard to live with a crazy person.
Can we not say "crazy"? But I thought that was my defense.
It was, Chloe.
But the psychiatrist didn't find anything, and I need to explore with you if maybe there's something else going on here.
Something you might not have told me.
Do you not believe me? It's not about what I believe, Chloe.
It's about what the jury will believe.
That's okay.
I understand.
I'm used to it.
Maybe we can talk more about the incident.
Did you have any history - with the mail carrier? - No.
- Why were you in the building that day? - I don't know.
I'm your attorney.
Anything you say to me is protected.
My son got frustrated, too.
I'm not frustrated.
He doesn't want much to do with me these days.
I don't blame him.
He needed his mom to be the same person day to day.
She's not much of a mom.
Let's talk about why you felt you were in danger I wasn't always like this.
In college, I was on the Dean's list Have you been attacked before? Gamma Delta Gamma president.
I was a cheerleader.
I went abroad my junior year Maybe there's still a self-defense argument.
That's when I met Mitchell Wait.
You were a cheerleader? [SIGHS.]
Since I was 14.
National champions one year.
Why? [CHANTING.]
JILL: CTE Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease from years as a competitive cheerleader.
I thought CTE was caused by years of getting clobbered playing football.
It's also caused by this [GASPS.]
- Oh! Cheerleading causes half of all catastrophic injuries in female athletes.
I watch a lot of "SportsCenter.
" - I've never heard of this.
- Most people haven't.
But CTE explains everything about Chloe confusion, rage, memory loss Why didn't this come up in the psychiatric evaluation? Because it doesn't show up on a psychiatric evaluation.
JAY: Well, how do you test for it? There is no test for it.
It's diagnosed at death with an autopsy.
I watch a lot of "SportsCenter," too.
That has been the only way, but there's a doctor, here in New York, Alexander Cole, working on a new test.
That won't be admissible.
Then your job is to make it admissible! So now you have something to do instead of just standing there.
She has CTE, and we're gonna get her tested, and then we'll know and she will know.
Again? I don't like it.
I need to talk to someone.
So, talk to whoever it was you talked to last time.
- That seemed to work.
- That got me into this mess.
Oh, God.
I have to sit down now, don't I? [SIGHS.]
My case is falling apart, I'm getting humiliated by Todd Hardart Hardhart? Uh, sorry, what are you saying? My old firm.
They've got an army of associates working 24/7, digging up anything and everything to discredit my witnesses.
They're pummeling me.
I'm letting everyone down my mom, Jenny, Theo.
This is why Roger didn't want to hire me.
Roger probably didn't want to hire you because of the way you sound right now, which is incredibly whiny.
Roger didn't want to hire you? That's what I was told.
I was told that my feet were too small to be a competitive swimmer.
And then you won the state championship No.
Usually, I came in last, but I didn't give up.
I'm not giving up.
- Is he giving up? - I am not giving up! - I'm sorry.
- Don't do that.
Don't apologize.
- [SLAMS DESK.]
- Stay there.
Now what do you need to do to make your case? They destroyed my witnesses, but I have these memos, which show the company knew about the leak and knew how much it would cost to fix it.
But you need someone to testify Lewis actually saw them and decided not to do anything? Yes.
But Jack Lewis is a powerful guy.
People are scared of him.
He flung a piece of bacon at his secretary.
Former secretary.
I saw that in the "Washington Post.
" Top 10 worst CEOs in America.
The secretary! Now let's get to work.
SETH: - Ms.
Davis, you were Jack Lewis' secretary for nine months? Nine long months.
I'm told it was two weeks short of a record.
That's why you're here today, to tell us about Mr.
Lewis' management style TODD: Objection, Your Honor.
The witness did clerical work.
Answered phones.
She knows nothing about the highly specialized issues in this case.
She saw every piece of paper that crossed his desk for nine months.
This trial is about whether he's personally responsible for his company spewing toxins.
How is it not relevant? I'll allow it.
Take us back to the morning of March 20, 2016, your last day at the company.
How'd that day begin? Mr.
Lewis asked me for a breakfast sandwich egg and cheese on a roll.
He specified egg and cheese on a roll - Your Honor - JUDGE BYRNE: Get to the point.
You brought him the sandwich.
Then what happened? He flung a piece of bacon in my face.
Did he say why he flung bacon in your face? He didn't ask for bacon.
He said, "Do only what I tell you.
No more.
No less.
" He said that 50 times a day to everyone.
That was his management style? Not a lot of style, but yes.
He was a micromanager.
About everything.
I want to direct your attention to these four memos, which have been marked as Exhibit J, written to Mr.
Lewis over a three-year period.
They estimate the cost of complying with EPA regulations at Kappler-Hays' Lincoln plant.
Objection.
The witness doesn't know the first thing about EPA regulations.
If he can make bacon relevant, he gets a crack at this, too.
Do you have an opinion, Ms.
Davis, about whether Mr.
Lewis ever saw these memos? No.
I mean, it's not an opinion.
He definitely saw them.
No piece of paper passed through the company without him reading and okaying it.
And anyway, these memos are covered with checkmarks in Mr.
Lewis' handwriting.
That's his writing.
So, if Mr.
Lewis contends he never knew his facilities were breaking the law, poisoning children, do you have an opinion about that? That would be a lie.
[MACHINE BEEPING.]
JILL: What are you seeing? I'm seeing high levels of tau accumulation in the amygdala and in all subcortical regions.
That's where the damaged neurons are.
And what does that mean? It means she has the brain of a 50-year-old defensive lineman.
It means you were right, Ms.
Carlan.
The pattern in which her brain lit up indicates an extremely high likely that Ms.
Daniels suffers from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.
I'm sorry.
I need you to testify in a hearing so we can use this scan as evidence.
This isn't FDA approved.
It hasn't been tested widely enough.
It'll never hold up in a court hearing.
Yes, it will.
We'll make sure of it.
If you walk past the back door of the library at Carver Elementary School in Lincoln, Nebraska, you'll see a line of students.
Almost anytime, but always in the afternoon after lunch and recess.
If you don't know Carver, it looks a little odd.
This line.
Tucked behind a building, pressed up against a hedge.
But if you peek around the corner, you see it.
You understand.
A drinking fountain.
Blue.
Three heads.
Always in the shade.
Always cold.
Carver opened in 1961, and nobody remembers why this drinking fountain was put back there, but it's been a part of the school for over 50 years.
Future farmers, accountants, mayor, an astronaut, doctors, a few lawyers.
They all drank the cold water from the library fountain.
So did Theo Mars every day for the last two years.
He's seven now.
Wants to be a scientist or a racecar driver.
He's still deciding.
[CHUCKLES.]
Either way, it's going to be a challenge because Theo has Leukemia.
Because of the library fountain.
Because Jack Lewis built a plant next to the school and allowed toxins to seep into the cold water that Theo and his classmates at Carver lined up to drink every day.
Jack Lewis knew this water was contaminated.
He knew this contaminated water was making kids sick.
And he knew how to stop it.
And Jack Lewis said no.
What will you say now? Because there are only two sides here Kappler-Hays or Carver Elementary.
Jack Lewis or Theo Mars.
The choice is yours.
Carver Elementary is unremarkable in a lot of ways.
But it has real spirit.
Heart.
Character.
There's a saying at the school "Never count a Carver kid out.
" So don't.
Your Honor, the government strongly objects to the admission of any experimental tests They weren't done by some kid with a chemistry set.
They come from one of the world's leading CTE researchers.
And while we sincerely hope they yield results in the future, in the present, the only reliable diagnosis of CTE is through autopsy.
Well, my client prefers not to wait for her autopsy results to mount her defense.
Your Honor, if she had a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, we wouldn't be begging for it to be admitted, unless this was 1983.
If she were a diabetic, I could argue low insulin as a factor, but not 20 years ago.
Every new thing we learn about mental illness, we learn from a study that started as experimental.
Chloe Daniels has a disease, and she shouldn't be punished for her bad timing in getting it.
Mental illness has always been problematic for us.
At one point, schizophrenics were burned as witches.
Depressives were lobotomized.
Women with anxiety were sterilized.
It seems like so long ago, right? But out there, now, lives are being wasted in institutions, families broken up.
People are living and dying under overpasses because they have no idea that a pill could fix it.
Chloe Daniels has lost a marriage, a son, and, soon her life.
Even if we can show that she has CTE, a cure is a long way off.
She has a disease, and letting us mount her best defense, all we're really deciding is whether she dies of it in prison or out.
JILL: They offered a deferred prosecution agreement.
Essentially a term of probation.
She'll be supervised by pretrial services for two years.
That's good.
You don't look good.
She needs help, someone to take care of her.
This disease is degenerative.
She's only gonna get worse.
What about her family? Her son doesn't want anything to do with her.
She's burned every bridge.
My sister was like that.
I have a sister.
Where is she? I don't know.
Madame foreperson, how do you find the defendant, Jack Lewis, on Count One of the Indictment, violating the Clean Water Act, guilty or not guilty? Guilty.
[CHUCKLES.]
Are we going to discover electricity next? I know what you think.
Do you? Really? I know.
I'm a dinosaur.
I don't like change.
I'm the mother of the Mother Court.
I'm protecting all these antique traditions and institutions.
I guess you do know what I think.
It's not that.
I mean, that is all true.
I used to take the Wheel home every weekend.
You didn't know that, did you? I'm sure it's a federal crime.
It is.
Larry and I couldn't decide about a lot of things.
Not big things.
Little things.
Where to go to dinner.
Where to go on vacation.
So, I started bringing the Wheel home, and we'd write all our options on little pieces of paper and put them in the Wheel and the Wheel would decide.
We trusted the Wheel.
It got kind of addictive in our home.
When Jason was deciding where to go to college, he used the Wheel.
For real! He went to Wesleyan because of the Wheel.
These are bigger things.
When Larry got sick two days before he died, he wanted me to read him a story.
He couldn't decide.
So we gave it to the Wheel.
And I read him "Hound of the Baskervilles.
" He liked that.
The Wheel was fair.
It saw us through a lot of joy and excruciating sadness.
I could take it home, Nick but that's hard now.
It belongs here.
[SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE.]
[EXHALES DEEPLY.]
Hey.
What are you still doing here? I got a trial in the morning.
I'm gonna grab something to eat.
If you? I think I might be out for this one.
I'm gonna finish up here and then I got a thing later.
A thing? With a girl? Hopefully.
Okay, well, if you change your mind, I'll probably be watching "Charade" in my pajamas.
I'd expect no less.
Good night, Kate.
Good night.
[KNOCK ON DOOR.]
Jack Lewis is going to jail.
Kappler-Hays agreed to triple the health fund to $150 million.
This is a day.
You should go home.
Celebrate.
I'm good.
I've lied to you a thousand times I didn't think you could pull it off.
I know you didn't.
And when you say those three words I never watched "Rocky.
" Not interested.
Because I don't want to just "go the distance.
" - Indefinitely I will wait for you - I like "Rocky IV" because he wins against a roided-up commie.
Nice things I like to hear I don't wanna hear you love me if you don't Whoever you are, I prefer you to Seth Oliver.
My heart hurts My one, I know I loved you first - But did you ever love me at all? - [RINGING.]
Hey.
Hey.
I won.
What is this? I wanted to say thank you.
Okay, Seth.
Great.
And also apologize.
I left.
It was hard, but it was the right thing to do.
I can't have it both ways.
I can't leave you and then lean on you.
It's not fair.
It's wrong.
But when you stay so lip-locked It's not good for either of us.
No matter how right it feels in the moment.
I hurdle and fall to get to you, babe Learn your secrets and enemies I wanna find the remedies But I don't wanna hear an empty line tonight Again I underestimated you.
Make me feel beautiful Tell me, tell me Oh, tell me now And you promise you'll call me if you need anything? Yes.
Thank you.
Jill? Um you said you'd call my son? I wasn't able to reach him.
But I'll keep trying.
I promise.
My one, I know I loved you first But did you ever love me at all? Oh, when you say those three words Is it just to make me feel beautiful? Tell me, tell me Oh, tell me now Tell me, tell me Oh, tell me now My one, I know I loved you first But did you ever love me at all? Oh, when you say those three words Is it just to make me feel beautiful? Tell me, tell me Oh, tell me now Tell me, tell me Oh, tell me now