The Dropout (2022) s01e01 Episode Script
I'm in a Hurry
1
MAN: We are on the record
at the beginning of media
number one, volume one.
WOMAN: This is the testimony of Elizabeth Holmes.
Going on the record in San Francisco, California, nine o'clock a.
m.
on July 11th, 2017.
LAWYER: Ms.
Holmes, please raise your right hand.
You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I do.
LAWYER: This is an investigation of Theranos Inc SF to determine whether there have been violations of certain provisions of federal security laws.
Any reason why you can't give full, complete, and truthful testimony today? INTERVIEWER: Can you say the company name? Theranos.
I thought it was Ther-ah-nos.
No.
Theranos.
It's a mix between "Therapy" and "Diagnosis.
" Why not Theranosis? [CHUCKLES.]
Because the name is Theranos.
Actually, can we cut that part about the name? So, currently we have 500 employees.
We are valued at nine billion dollars.
INTERVIEWER: Wow.
We offer 200 of the most commonly ordered blood tests.
And the best part is LAWYER: "We don't use a syringe for any of it.
" Then you go on to say, "We can run 70 tests on a single drop of blood.
" Would you characterize those claims as truthful? INTERVIEWER: Okay some rapid-fire questions.
We call them "Maker's Minute.
" So you are America's youngest female self-made billionaire.
- That's pretty cool.
- [ELIZABETH CHUCKLES.]
Yes.
INTERVIEWER: If you are what you eat, what are you? Green juice.
INTERVIEWER: Favorite place to visit.
Uh, my office.
INTERVIEWER: Best word to describe you? Uh [SIGHS.]
Mission oriented.
[PANTING.]
choir singing OFFICIANT: You don't have to finish.
You can stop if you want to stop.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Don't cross the track till the last runner is done, alright? Why is she still running? Go, Elizabeth.
You are doing great! Why does she run so weird? WOMAN 1: A healthcare pioneer is being compared to visionaries like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs MAN 1: revolutionary company that threatens to change healthcare, the same way that Amazon changed retail or Apple, yes, changed the cell phone.
It could be the MAN 2: We've got a just really smart female CEO who's going to do a wonderful thing for the world.
You want it to work.
We all want that to work.
MAN 3: Not only did they fool the investors, they fooled the media.
They fooled patients.
They fooled doctors.
WOMAN 2: It was a medical fraud.
WOMAN 3: This disregard for patients' lives was unconscionable.
They hurt people.
This company hurt people.
Um WOMAN: [ON CD.]
Can you help me? My wallet has been stolen.
- [SPEAKING MANDARIN ALONG WITH CD.]
- I'm not listening to this.
[ELIZABETH CONTINUES IN MANDARIN WITH CD.]
[SPEAKING MANDARIN.]
Dude, why does your music blow so hard? Do you want to walk home from school or do you want me to drive you? [CHANGES CD.]
CHRISTIAN: You're such a biatch.
[ON CD, SINGING ALONG.]
I'm in a hurry to get things done Oh, I rush and rush until life's no fun This is a great song.
All I really gotta do is live and die But I'm in a hurry and don't know why [ON CD.]
Don't know why I have to drive so fast My car has nothing to prove CHRISTIAN: Why is dad home? [HANDBRAKE ENGAGES, MUSIC STOPS.]
REPORTER 1: [on TV.]
It was pink slips for 4,000 Enron [DOOR OPENS.]
Chris.
Chris! The kids are here.
Are you going to tell them? REPORTER 2: increasing consumer spending in October Your father lost his job.
Everyone lost their jobs.
Company's bankrupt.
It's on TV.
REPORTER 2: And many Enron employees will lose more than just their jobs.
At the outside of this year, fully half NOEL: Who wants a snack? REPORTER 2: 401(k) money was in company stock.
CHRISTIAN: I don't want Snackwells.
Mom.
Mom! I don't want Snackwells.
This is what we have.
- Enron Corporation now heading - CHRIS: They lied to me.
About everything.
The whole company.
It was a fraud.
You didn't know? Does this mean we're gonna have to move again? Not if your father asks Richard for help.
CHRIS: I don't want to talk about this in front of the kids.
Lorraine said he would help.
All you have to do is call.
She's your friend.
I'm not asking the husband of your friend for money.
He's classless, he's a scam artist, he's Well, I'm not gonna move again.
I'm not asking Richard.
So Enron, huh? I saw that coming.
Well, I wish I had as well.
- [NOEL CHUCKLING.]
- Well, on a lighter note, uh, early decision at Stanford, huh? - NOEL: Hmm.
- You must be a legacy.
- No.
I'm a President's Scholar.
- We are so - Oh.
- ELIZABETH: It means that I'm the top ten percent of the accepted students.
Yeah.
Okay! - You're not shy about that.
- [NOEL CHUCKLES.]
Well, why would I be? LORRAINE: I don't know.
President's Scholar sounds like you're gonna be president some day.
I don't wanna be president.
I, I wanna be a billionaire.
Okay! [LAUGHTER.]
RICHARD: Well - Is this cheese? - It's chevre.
You know, it's not just about the money.
You have to have a, a purpose.
She's going to study biomedical engineering.
We come from a long line of doctors on my side of the family.
First step is Stanford.
And then I'm gonna graduate, and I plan on inventing a product and start a company.
Well, I may know a little something about that.
Richard's company has hundreds of medical patents.
- RICHARD: Mm-hm.
- He could give you some advice.
But don't you just file patents so companies have to pay you off? - No.
- Right? NOEL: No.
That is not what Richard does at all.
I wouldn't put it that way.
The medical training company that I started sold for over $50 million.
But I get the feeling you think you're smarter than me.
No.
Well [NOEL CHUCKLES.]
Would anyone like to see the upstairs remodel before dinner? Yes.
LORRAINE: One taker.
Anybody else? Chris, maybe this is a good time for you to talk to Richard.
Y-yes.
- Richard, can we go in the other - How bad is it? Well well, it's fine.
It's, it's gonna be fine.
Lorraine says you need help with your house.
Richard, um, I'm going to wait till the kids leave, - uh, to keep talking.
- Yes.
Come on, kids, let's go.
LORRAINE: Oh, I want you to see this wainscoting.
We haven't sold our old house.
You can stay there.
I don't mean to put you on the spot.
I could help.
Thank you.
Yes.
[CRICKETS CHIRPING.]
Dad.
Oh.
I didn't see you.
Don't take Richard's money.
We don't need him.
Dad.
Remember this? You invented a time machine.
I was seven.
That's stupid.
Look at this.
You wrote me a letter.
Look.
"Dear Dad, "What I really want out of life "is to discover something new.
Something mankind didn't know it was possible to do" [SOBS.]
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
[CONTINUES SOBBING.]
I'm in a hurry to get things done Oh, I rush and rush until life's no fun All I really gotta do is live and die But I'm in a hurry and don't know why Can't be late I leave in plenty of time Shaking hands with the clock I can't stop I'm on a roll and I'm ready to rock, oh I'm in a hurry to get things done Oh, I rush and rush until life's no fun All I really gotta do is live and die But I'm in a hurry and don't know why I'm in a hurry to get things done Oh, I rush and rush So we just need to do some blood work for the physical.
- Where are you going this summer? - Beijing.
She's going to need to lie down.
Blood makes her faint.
- No, it doesn't.
I'm fine.
- She gets it from me.
NURSE: Here, eat these cookies, and I'll be right back to draw your blood.
You need to touch up your roots.
You look better blonde.
- Hey, Mom.
- Yeah.
I want you to know that I'm considering becoming sexually active this summer What? Is there a boy you know going on the Beijing trip? I haven't picked anybody out.
But I, I wanna do it before I go to college, and I wanted you to know.
Are you gonna be careful? Obviously.
I'll use condoms.
No.
I mean, yes, use condoms, but that's not what I was talking about.
Um boys aren't always going to act like gentlemen, so it is up to you to protect yourself as a woman - NURSE: Excuse me.
- Uh, yep.
Yes.
[WHISPERING.]
You have to watch out.
When you travel, a nice man could turn around and kidnap you and make you a sex slave and then I just need your left arm.
I can't look at this.
I'll be outside.
- ELIZABETH: Mom, wait.
- I'll be outside.
Wait.
It's okay.
You got this.
[HEARTBEAT THUMPING.]
LAWYER: And you and Mr.
Balwani were engaged in a romantic relationship? Yes.
LAWYER: And after Mr.
Balwani joined the company as president and COO, did you ever tell investors that you and Mr.
Balwani had a romantic relationship at the time you were asking them to invest in Theranos? No.
LAWYER: And when did you first get to know Mr.
Sunny Balwani? [HORNS HONKING.]
[BLOWS WHISTLE.]
[SPEAKING MANDARIN.]
[BLOWS WHISTLE.]
- - [SIGHS.]
[CLICKING PEN.]
[GIRL LAUGHING.]
No.
No, truly, when are Josh and those guys coming? - It's like, I gotta know.
- I don't know but, like, are they bringing beer? Oh, I hope they're bringing beer.
Yeah, we're gonna drink.
No, Josh is like, he's on.
No, it's so fun.
It's gonna be such a good time.
- I'm gonna get drunk! - What are you wearing? My god, speak English.
- [ALL LAUGHING.]
- It's Friday.
[GIRLS LAUGHING, CHATTERING.]
- [LAUGHTER CONTINUES.]
- She's so weird! [PLAYING ON IPOD.]
And I'm not only among But I invite who I want to come So I missed a million miles of fun I know it's up for me If you steal my sunshine Making sure I'm not in too deep If you steal my sunshine Keeping versed and on my feet If you steal my sunshine [WATER RUNNING.]
I know it's done Yeah, I don't know what you're saying.
I'm not good at this.
[OPENS MICROWAVE DOOR.]
[CLOSES MICROWAVE DOOR.]
[MICROWAVE WHIRRING.]
It, it translates to "you very impressive.
" So, you go from the noun straight to the degree adverb.
Huh.
Are you an administrator here? Why, because I'm old? Yes, it's a college program.
I came because I wanted to learn Mandarin.
China's just entered the WTO.
It's going to be the manufacturing capital of the world.
[MICROWAVE BELL DINGS.]
- Do you have a job or something? - No.
I started a software company and sold it for $40 million.
You're not supposed to open the lid all the way.
It's not going to cook.
No, I can't watch this.
Come with me and get some real food.
Come on.
I can't leave the dorm with you.
Fine.
Wait.
Wait.
Le Uh, let me just Let me grab my money belt.
[INDISCERNIBLE CONVERSATIONS.]
ELIZABETH: Are you a Muslim? I'm Hindu.
That's why my family had to leave Pakistan and move to India.
And then I got the fuck out of there and moved to California.
Do you miss your home? I don't know what my home is.
When we left Pakistan, we had to leave our house, we had to leave everything.
And after that, I wanted to go to the States for college.
This was in 1986.
How old were you in '86? - Uh, I was two.
- Jesus.
Try some of my scorpion.
No.
Thank you.
- It's crunchy.
- No way.
[CRUNCHING.]
- Go on, take a bite.
- I don't want to take a bite.
Do it.
[SIGHS.]
[SUNNY CHUCKLES.]
[ELIZABETH RETCHING, GROANS.]
ELIZABETH: It's not funny.
[SPITS.]
[GROANS.]
You can go.
I want to stay here till I know you're safe.
Sparklehorse's Gold Day playing Good morning, my child Stay with me a while [BOTH SPEAKING MANDARIN.]
- I can't.
- You can't hear how that's wrong? [SPEAKING MANDARIN.]
You know what? You're not trying hard enough.
It's not that hard.
That's why I think I want to focus on the biomedical industry.
Because I want to help people and I want to be a billionaire.
Like Steve Jobs.
You know what you want.
I do.
Thank you.
For what? Not laughing.
My dad comes from an incredible family of inventors and businessmen.
He just wants me to live up to my potential.
What about your parents? My mother's in India.
My dad died a couple of years ago.
Oh.
I'm so sorry.
How? I don't want to talk about it.
Would you like to dance? Spirits in the trees And drown all the clocks No.
This doesn't feel right.
Well - we can just - Yeah.
Keep all your crows away Hold skinny wolves at bay In silver piles of smiles The sunset is beautiful.
It's the air pollution.
You know what this has meant to me? Yeah? This whole month has been Yeah, but we don't have to say goodbye.
Because I'm gonna be in Palo Alto in August, and then we'll live in the same city.
What time do you have to leave for India tomorrow? Early.
My mother's arranged this whole dinner thing.
Can I ask you something? How did your dad die? You never told me.
He went to the hospital with chest pains.
And the idiot doctor ordered a bunch of tests, but they were the wrong tests.
He said it was just stress and sent him home.
And then, that night he died.
Of a heart attack.
Completely fucking preventable.
And I think about it every single day! I don't know, I I get angry sometimes.
Give me your wallet.
It's custom in China to burn the things that you want the dead to have in the afterlife.
[PAPER RUSTLING.]
For your dad.
[LAUGHS.]
[BOTH BLOWING.]
We're gonna burn this fucking building down.
[ELIZABETH LAUGHS.]
I should get to bed.
Have a good freshman year.
Justin Timberlake's Rock Your Body playing Just let me rock you till the break of day [BOY MOANS.]
Dance with me [SINGING.]
Guy time, but I don't mind [MOANS.]
I'll have whatever you have - Come on, just - Give it a whirl Oh shit.
Your shower caddy.
It's okay.
Don't worry.
[BED CREAKING.]
Rock you, girl Because it's beautiful.
SUNNY: [OVER PHONE.]
Microfluidics is beautiful? How? Microfluidics is Okay, imagine printer ink.
So your printer has one base color to start, and then it goes through, say, three different channels and then that reaches three different destinations, and each of those has a different reactive that give you a different color.
SUNNY: So you want to make ink cartridges.
- No.
- SUNNY: I'm kidding.
By the way, I'm sorry we didn't talk yesterday.
I was moving into my new place.
Hey, do you like beer? 'Cause I really like it.
SUNNY: Ah, so you like microfluidics and beer.
- Sunny.
- SUNNY: Yeah.
I really love it here.
Wolf Parade's I'll Believe in Anything playing Give me your eyes I need sunshine Give me your eyes I need sunshine Your blood, your bones Your voice, and your ghost We've both been very brave Walk around with both legs WOMAN: I'm not a software engineer.
I'm a physician and a scientist.
But I do think that technology can have an enormous, uh, impact on the healthcare industry.
And I, I do think that we're just starting to understand the impact that technology can have on all parts of our life.
MODERATOR: Amazing.
- So you are a doctor? - WOMAN: Yes.
An inventor.
An investor.
You've served on boards of companies.
I mean, why are you also a professor? Because, honestly, Stanford is the most exciting place to be right now.
And it's 2002, so just imagine what tech is gonna be able to do in 2022.
And it's gonna be up to you guys.
What are they calling you these days? The Millennials.
[LAUGHTER.]
'Cause you, you grew up with computers.
You're not scared of what they can do.
But you still have to remember there's a lot that we don't know.
And you, you, are the ones who are gonna find out.
[DOOR OPENS.]
- Professor Robertson.
- Oh god, it's you.
No.
No, I can't let you in.
It is a graduate-level research group and you are a freshman? - Right.
- So, you're not ready.
I know, but I, I was thinking Why do you want to be in a graduate group? Just be a freshman.
Just run around and get drunk and break some hearts and sleep with your boyfriend.
Oh, I broke up with my boyfriend this morning 'cause he's too much of a distraction.
How did that go? Pretty good.
- Pretty good, huh? - You need to change the flow rate.
That's why your experiment is not working.
- Wait, what? - You need to change the flow rate.
How do you know what we're working on here? Because my TA, Rakesh, let me look at his notes.
He's a Cubs fan.
I bought him a hat.
Come on.
[BEEPING.]
CHANNING ROBERTSON: It's over here.
Where are we on the flow rate? What's up, dude? Hey, what's up? It's not the flow rate.
I tried that.
We think maybe changing the viscosity a little bit might You Um You, you did, you sped up the flow rate but in order to, to maintain the average linear velocity, you you need to also increase the dimension of the five outlet channels.
- That's not true.
I personally - Yes, it is.
Yes, it is.
RAKESH: Mm-hmm.
She's one of my freshmen.
Fuck, you're a freshman.
You're in.
- Can you get her a lab coat? - Nice.
ELIZABETH: Channing said he would hear my ideas for products.
And we're working on such amazing technologies.
SUNNY: [OVER PHONE.]
That professor is in love with you.
No, he's not.
SUNNY: Whatever.
Am I going to see you this summer? - See me? - Yeah, see you.
Uh I don't know.
What are you up to? I'm very busy.
I'm going to be driving around in my new Lamborghini.
ELIZABETH: Ooh.
You got a Lamborghini.
SUNNY: Yes, the most expensive one.
Why? SUNNY: Because I can.
Because no one thinks that you're a terrorist when you drive a Lamborghini.
- [LAUGHS.]
- Motherfuckers.
ROBERTSON: So, you wrote this up this summer? Yeah, I had a little too much downtime at my internship.
So it's a, it's a patch.
I can see that.
It's a wearable device that administers a drug, just like an antibiotic, directly into the patient's bloodstream while simultaneously monitoring whether the medication is working.
It's diagnosis and therapy at the same time.
Huh.
Yeah.
I want to start a company.
And I'd like you to be a founding member.
[CHUCKLES.]
I don't want to wait.
David Filo and Jerry Yang started Yahoo while they were in your program.
You must have invested.
Actually they asked me, and I said no.
Wish I could take that one back.
You know what, I'm gonna put you in touch with a physician to talk about the viability of this.
Do you know Phyllis Gardner? Channing Robertson sent you? Yes, I'm in his graduate research group as a, a sophomore.
PHYLLIS: Mm.
Well um, it's never gonna work.
A patch is too small to store full doses of a single drug, let alone multiple drugs, and the reagents needed for long-term testing.
But then even if it could, it would have to provide long-term storage for those chemicals at body temperature and Let's just, let-let's put all that aside.
Let, let, let's say that you were able to work out a way to do any of that.
If you think that people want a patch to diagnose them and then put medicine directly into their skin, then you've never met a sick person before.
People go to school for a very long time to understand how to diagnose patients.
You can't get a diagnosis from a patch because human beings aren't machines.
But doctors make mistakes.
And this would be based on data, so Well, data isn't everything.
Um, people your age need to remember that machines make mistakes too, especially when humans are operating them.
- Yeah, but - It's, it's fine.
It's, uh, nothing personal.
You had an idea, it's not gonna work, so you just, you keep learning.
Keep trying.
I'm going to be heading home and, uh, very nice to meet you.
"Do or do not, there is no try.
" What? That's Yoda.
From Star Wars.
Oh.
Professor Gardner.
Wait, wait.
I just think that, I think that we can work together.
- Work together? - Yeah.
You're, you're a, what, freshman, sophomore? I just started my sophomore year.
So you've had a couple of classes, maybe a seminar or two, and now you think you know enough to start a company.
I just thought as a, as a woman, you Well, as a woman, let me explain something to you.
You don't get to skip any steps.
You have to do the work.
Your work, other people's work.
You have to do so much work that they have to admit that you did it and nobody helped you.
You have to take away all their excuses.
And then if you get anything, anything wrong, they'll destroy you.
And they'll be so happy to do it.
So no, as a woman, I can't help you right now.
And just [SIGHS.]
One other thing, don't ever quote Yoda to anybody ever again.
Science is trying.
That's all that it is.
You only get to really do something when you've been trying for so long that doing doesn't even seem possible anymore.
So science is real.
Yoda is a fictional green character who apparently know everything in the universe except for syntax and grammar.
So I'm sorry your idea's impossible, but that's the way the world works.
The world works in certain ways until a great idea comes along and, and changes everything.
Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go now.
My husband's waiting for me with a glass of red wine and a foot massage and a DVD of My Big Fat Greek Wedding which came in the mail today.
So I suggest you find a version of that for yourself.
You're 19.
You don't have to be anything else right now.
RAKESH: Beep-boop-beep-boop-beep.
What do we have here? Oh.
Oh wow, that's alive.
Yep.
You are gonna come up with a new thing.
Should I just stop? What should I do? Well, you could, I don't know, like, try being a sophomore in college for a night.
That might be fun.
You like a capella? You ever heard Don't Stop Believing in 12-part harmony? It's fun.
Club music playing That's so funny! Hey.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
How are you guys? Oh my god, that's hilarious.
Oh [CLEARS THROAT.]
Oh my god, that's hilarious.
That's the best joke ever.
That's so funny.
I'm having so much fun.
Woo-hoo.
Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo.
Woo-hoo! [GIRLS LAUGHING.]
LAWYER: Ms.
Holmes.
Ms.
Holmes.
Please answer the question.
I don't remember specifically.
LAWYER: You were the CEO.
Yes.
LAWYER: And you don't remember specifically? ELIZABETH: I, I don't, uh No, I don't recall details from years ago.
I, I, I I don't recall.
Dreamy guitar playing LAWYER: Ms.
Holmes.
Ms.
Holmes.
Do you need a break? No.
[WHISPERING.]
What's wrong with her? Did something happen? [WHISPERING.]
At the party.
I think a guy did something to her.
I don't know the whole story, but she went to the police.
The police.
GIRL 2: She said it was rape.
GIRL 1: Really? Do you believe her? I don't know.
- [CELL PHONE RINGING.]
- Let's go.
[RINGING CONTINUES.]
[RINGING CONTINUES.]
Hello.
SUNNY: [OVER PHONE.]
Hey, where have you been? I tried calling you for a few days.
I've been busy.
SUNNY: I miss you.
You know how much I miss you when I don't talk to you.
ELIZABETH: Do you know how weird that is that you would say that to me? I'm 19.
I'm 19.
You should talk to somebody your own age.
SUNNY: That's what you want? Yeah.
Yes.
This is fucking weird.
Don't call me again.
[PHONE SNAPS.]
tense music [DOOR OPENS.]
MAN: Ms.
Holmes.
They're ready for you.
[SCRUBBING, RATTLING.]
What did they say? ELIZABETH: They aren't recommending any disciplinary action.
I know that.
But what did they say? It's my word against his.
They don't believe me.
I can't get anyone to believe me.
I ca I can't get the smell out.
I think we should just throw it out.
[ELECTRICAL ZAP.]
Oh my god! This is dangerous.
This could hurt you.
We should get rid of it.
[GRUNTING.]
I need your help.
Elizabeth.
- Get under it.
- [ELIZABETH GRUNTS.]
- Yeah.
Come on.
- Wait, wait, wait.
Mom, I have to put it down.
I have to put it down.
Alright.
Slowly, slowly, slowly.
- Go.
- NOEL: Okay.
Ugh.
I don't want to do this right now.
I Elizabeth.
No, just go back to the hotel.
I don't leave me alone.
I believe you.
I believe you.
I believe everything you said.
But I, I didn't You told me to be careful, and I didn't listen to you.
I was drinking.
Men will take and take from you.
So you have to decide right now if you are going to let that stop you.
- But how - You just put it away and forget it.
And then one day, one day, you'll just be fine again.
Come on.
This thing smells awful.
Okay.
Great.
Okay.
And one, two three! [GRUNTS.]
[PANTING.]
Woo! Oh! I love you.
We should wash our hands.
[SIGHS.]
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs' Y Control playing Oh so all my lovin' go's Under the fog, fog, fog And I will leave them all Well, I'm just a poor little baby 'Cause, well, I believe them all Oh, so while you're growing old Under the gun, gun, gun And I believe them all Well, I'm just one poor baby 'Cause, well, I believe them all I wish I could buy back The woman you stole - You're back.
- I'm back.
It's a redesign.
It's a box the size of an iPod.
And it doesn't administer medicine, it tests your blood.
What if you could test your blood in your own home? And what if it's not a whole vial but just a drop? It would always be with you.
And it could keep you safe.
Oh, so all my lovin' goes Under the fog, fog, fog And I will leave them all Well, I'm just a poor little baby 'Cause, well, I believe them all I wish I could buy back The woman you stole Y-control, Y-control You walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners Out of control So Channing wants us to begin the research phase as soon as possible.
We're renting office space in east Palo Alto.
But isn't that the part of the city they told you not to go to during orientation? - Yeah, it's dangerous.
- Yeah.
I got lost there during the move in when you sent me to the Urban Outfitters.
We can't afford anything else right now.
And I wanted to ask you if you would consider investing my tuition money into the company.
Well, how would we pay for your tuition? Well, you won't have to, because I'm, I'm going to drop out.
- You're gonna do what? - No.
No! Steve Jobs dropped out.
Bill Gates dropped out.
Michael Dell, Paul Allen, Elon Musk Who's Paul Allen? - He's the other Microsoft guy.
- I don't care.
You're not dropping out of Stanford.
Start a company after you've graduated.
No.
I, I don't even go to class anymore Wait, you don't go to class? Elizabeth, is this about what happened? - Noel.
- No.
No.
NOEL: What does this thing even do? It tests your blood? It's Mom, you would never have to have a needle ever again.
[SNIFFLES.]
I don't understand you I know.
LORRAINE: Guess what? Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford.
And get this, she invented a medical device.
Some sort of blood testing thing.
A professor from Stanford is helping her.
They already raised a lot of money.
- She didn't call for my advice.
- What do you mean? She's going to be doing the exact same thing that I'm doing.
She doesn't call me? She's a kid.
She probably doesn't have our phone number.
No.
'Cause they all think they're better than us.
That whole family.
Anyway, Mrs.
Holmes said that Why do you call her Mrs.
Holmes? She calls you Lorraine.
Why do you call her Mrs.
Holmes? I never thought about it.
She should have called me.
Don't make a big thing of it.
I'm not.
I just think that she should have called me.
[GUNSHOT, GLASS SHATTERS.]
[TIRES SCREECHING.]
[ELIZABETH GASPING.]
[DISTANT SIREN.]
SUNNY: What happened? Was someone shooting at you? No.
It was a stray bullet.
There was a fight, I think.
Thank you for coming.
Why did you call me? You told me never to talk to you again.
I don't know.
Yes, you do.
Why am I here? Why am I here? You can't push me away again.
I'm going to protect you.
I know.
LAWYER: Do you ever recall telling anyone, your patients, your investors, your board, that in fact none of the technology you claimed to have invented was operational? And that the results they received were often inaccurate? Do you recall telling any of these people that your company was endangering their lives by giving them false information about their health? I know that we made so many mistakes, but we were, we were trying to, to, to take this forward and at that time we thought that we were doing the right thing.
LCD Soundsystem's North American Scum playing
WOMAN: This is the testimony of Elizabeth Holmes.
Going on the record in San Francisco, California, nine o'clock a.
m.
on July 11th, 2017.
LAWYER: Ms.
Holmes, please raise your right hand.
You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I do.
LAWYER: This is an investigation of Theranos Inc SF to determine whether there have been violations of certain provisions of federal security laws.
Any reason why you can't give full, complete, and truthful testimony today? INTERVIEWER: Can you say the company name? Theranos.
I thought it was Ther-ah-nos.
No.
Theranos.
It's a mix between "Therapy" and "Diagnosis.
" Why not Theranosis? [CHUCKLES.]
Because the name is Theranos.
Actually, can we cut that part about the name? So, currently we have 500 employees.
We are valued at nine billion dollars.
INTERVIEWER: Wow.
We offer 200 of the most commonly ordered blood tests.
And the best part is LAWYER: "We don't use a syringe for any of it.
" Then you go on to say, "We can run 70 tests on a single drop of blood.
" Would you characterize those claims as truthful? INTERVIEWER: Okay some rapid-fire questions.
We call them "Maker's Minute.
" So you are America's youngest female self-made billionaire.
- That's pretty cool.
- [ELIZABETH CHUCKLES.]
Yes.
INTERVIEWER: If you are what you eat, what are you? Green juice.
INTERVIEWER: Favorite place to visit.
Uh, my office.
INTERVIEWER: Best word to describe you? Uh [SIGHS.]
Mission oriented.
[PANTING.]
choir singing OFFICIANT: You don't have to finish.
You can stop if you want to stop.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Don't cross the track till the last runner is done, alright? Why is she still running? Go, Elizabeth.
You are doing great! Why does she run so weird? WOMAN 1: A healthcare pioneer is being compared to visionaries like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs MAN 1: revolutionary company that threatens to change healthcare, the same way that Amazon changed retail or Apple, yes, changed the cell phone.
It could be the MAN 2: We've got a just really smart female CEO who's going to do a wonderful thing for the world.
You want it to work.
We all want that to work.
MAN 3: Not only did they fool the investors, they fooled the media.
They fooled patients.
They fooled doctors.
WOMAN 2: It was a medical fraud.
WOMAN 3: This disregard for patients' lives was unconscionable.
They hurt people.
This company hurt people.
Um WOMAN: [ON CD.]
Can you help me? My wallet has been stolen.
- [SPEAKING MANDARIN ALONG WITH CD.]
- I'm not listening to this.
[ELIZABETH CONTINUES IN MANDARIN WITH CD.]
[SPEAKING MANDARIN.]
Dude, why does your music blow so hard? Do you want to walk home from school or do you want me to drive you? [CHANGES CD.]
CHRISTIAN: You're such a biatch.
[ON CD, SINGING ALONG.]
I'm in a hurry to get things done Oh, I rush and rush until life's no fun This is a great song.
All I really gotta do is live and die But I'm in a hurry and don't know why [ON CD.]
Don't know why I have to drive so fast My car has nothing to prove CHRISTIAN: Why is dad home? [HANDBRAKE ENGAGES, MUSIC STOPS.]
REPORTER 1: [on TV.]
It was pink slips for 4,000 Enron [DOOR OPENS.]
Chris.
Chris! The kids are here.
Are you going to tell them? REPORTER 2: increasing consumer spending in October Your father lost his job.
Everyone lost their jobs.
Company's bankrupt.
It's on TV.
REPORTER 2: And many Enron employees will lose more than just their jobs.
At the outside of this year, fully half NOEL: Who wants a snack? REPORTER 2: 401(k) money was in company stock.
CHRISTIAN: I don't want Snackwells.
Mom.
Mom! I don't want Snackwells.
This is what we have.
- Enron Corporation now heading - CHRIS: They lied to me.
About everything.
The whole company.
It was a fraud.
You didn't know? Does this mean we're gonna have to move again? Not if your father asks Richard for help.
CHRIS: I don't want to talk about this in front of the kids.
Lorraine said he would help.
All you have to do is call.
She's your friend.
I'm not asking the husband of your friend for money.
He's classless, he's a scam artist, he's Well, I'm not gonna move again.
I'm not asking Richard.
So Enron, huh? I saw that coming.
Well, I wish I had as well.
- [NOEL CHUCKLING.]
- Well, on a lighter note, uh, early decision at Stanford, huh? - NOEL: Hmm.
- You must be a legacy.
- No.
I'm a President's Scholar.
- We are so - Oh.
- ELIZABETH: It means that I'm the top ten percent of the accepted students.
Yeah.
Okay! - You're not shy about that.
- [NOEL CHUCKLES.]
Well, why would I be? LORRAINE: I don't know.
President's Scholar sounds like you're gonna be president some day.
I don't wanna be president.
I, I wanna be a billionaire.
Okay! [LAUGHTER.]
RICHARD: Well - Is this cheese? - It's chevre.
You know, it's not just about the money.
You have to have a, a purpose.
She's going to study biomedical engineering.
We come from a long line of doctors on my side of the family.
First step is Stanford.
And then I'm gonna graduate, and I plan on inventing a product and start a company.
Well, I may know a little something about that.
Richard's company has hundreds of medical patents.
- RICHARD: Mm-hm.
- He could give you some advice.
But don't you just file patents so companies have to pay you off? - No.
- Right? NOEL: No.
That is not what Richard does at all.
I wouldn't put it that way.
The medical training company that I started sold for over $50 million.
But I get the feeling you think you're smarter than me.
No.
Well [NOEL CHUCKLES.]
Would anyone like to see the upstairs remodel before dinner? Yes.
LORRAINE: One taker.
Anybody else? Chris, maybe this is a good time for you to talk to Richard.
Y-yes.
- Richard, can we go in the other - How bad is it? Well well, it's fine.
It's, it's gonna be fine.
Lorraine says you need help with your house.
Richard, um, I'm going to wait till the kids leave, - uh, to keep talking.
- Yes.
Come on, kids, let's go.
LORRAINE: Oh, I want you to see this wainscoting.
We haven't sold our old house.
You can stay there.
I don't mean to put you on the spot.
I could help.
Thank you.
Yes.
[CRICKETS CHIRPING.]
Dad.
Oh.
I didn't see you.
Don't take Richard's money.
We don't need him.
Dad.
Remember this? You invented a time machine.
I was seven.
That's stupid.
Look at this.
You wrote me a letter.
Look.
"Dear Dad, "What I really want out of life "is to discover something new.
Something mankind didn't know it was possible to do" [SOBS.]
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
[CONTINUES SOBBING.]
I'm in a hurry to get things done Oh, I rush and rush until life's no fun All I really gotta do is live and die But I'm in a hurry and don't know why Can't be late I leave in plenty of time Shaking hands with the clock I can't stop I'm on a roll and I'm ready to rock, oh I'm in a hurry to get things done Oh, I rush and rush until life's no fun All I really gotta do is live and die But I'm in a hurry and don't know why I'm in a hurry to get things done Oh, I rush and rush So we just need to do some blood work for the physical.
- Where are you going this summer? - Beijing.
She's going to need to lie down.
Blood makes her faint.
- No, it doesn't.
I'm fine.
- She gets it from me.
NURSE: Here, eat these cookies, and I'll be right back to draw your blood.
You need to touch up your roots.
You look better blonde.
- Hey, Mom.
- Yeah.
I want you to know that I'm considering becoming sexually active this summer What? Is there a boy you know going on the Beijing trip? I haven't picked anybody out.
But I, I wanna do it before I go to college, and I wanted you to know.
Are you gonna be careful? Obviously.
I'll use condoms.
No.
I mean, yes, use condoms, but that's not what I was talking about.
Um boys aren't always going to act like gentlemen, so it is up to you to protect yourself as a woman - NURSE: Excuse me.
- Uh, yep.
Yes.
[WHISPERING.]
You have to watch out.
When you travel, a nice man could turn around and kidnap you and make you a sex slave and then I just need your left arm.
I can't look at this.
I'll be outside.
- ELIZABETH: Mom, wait.
- I'll be outside.
Wait.
It's okay.
You got this.
[HEARTBEAT THUMPING.]
LAWYER: And you and Mr.
Balwani were engaged in a romantic relationship? Yes.
LAWYER: And after Mr.
Balwani joined the company as president and COO, did you ever tell investors that you and Mr.
Balwani had a romantic relationship at the time you were asking them to invest in Theranos? No.
LAWYER: And when did you first get to know Mr.
Sunny Balwani? [HORNS HONKING.]
[BLOWS WHISTLE.]
[SPEAKING MANDARIN.]
[BLOWS WHISTLE.]
- - [SIGHS.]
[CLICKING PEN.]
[GIRL LAUGHING.]
No.
No, truly, when are Josh and those guys coming? - It's like, I gotta know.
- I don't know but, like, are they bringing beer? Oh, I hope they're bringing beer.
Yeah, we're gonna drink.
No, Josh is like, he's on.
No, it's so fun.
It's gonna be such a good time.
- I'm gonna get drunk! - What are you wearing? My god, speak English.
- [ALL LAUGHING.]
- It's Friday.
[GIRLS LAUGHING, CHATTERING.]
- [LAUGHTER CONTINUES.]
- She's so weird! [PLAYING ON IPOD.]
And I'm not only among But I invite who I want to come So I missed a million miles of fun I know it's up for me If you steal my sunshine Making sure I'm not in too deep If you steal my sunshine Keeping versed and on my feet If you steal my sunshine [WATER RUNNING.]
I know it's done Yeah, I don't know what you're saying.
I'm not good at this.
[OPENS MICROWAVE DOOR.]
[CLOSES MICROWAVE DOOR.]
[MICROWAVE WHIRRING.]
It, it translates to "you very impressive.
" So, you go from the noun straight to the degree adverb.
Huh.
Are you an administrator here? Why, because I'm old? Yes, it's a college program.
I came because I wanted to learn Mandarin.
China's just entered the WTO.
It's going to be the manufacturing capital of the world.
[MICROWAVE BELL DINGS.]
- Do you have a job or something? - No.
I started a software company and sold it for $40 million.
You're not supposed to open the lid all the way.
It's not going to cook.
No, I can't watch this.
Come with me and get some real food.
Come on.
I can't leave the dorm with you.
Fine.
Wait.
Wait.
Le Uh, let me just Let me grab my money belt.
[INDISCERNIBLE CONVERSATIONS.]
ELIZABETH: Are you a Muslim? I'm Hindu.
That's why my family had to leave Pakistan and move to India.
And then I got the fuck out of there and moved to California.
Do you miss your home? I don't know what my home is.
When we left Pakistan, we had to leave our house, we had to leave everything.
And after that, I wanted to go to the States for college.
This was in 1986.
How old were you in '86? - Uh, I was two.
- Jesus.
Try some of my scorpion.
No.
Thank you.
- It's crunchy.
- No way.
[CRUNCHING.]
- Go on, take a bite.
- I don't want to take a bite.
Do it.
[SIGHS.]
[SUNNY CHUCKLES.]
[ELIZABETH RETCHING, GROANS.]
ELIZABETH: It's not funny.
[SPITS.]
[GROANS.]
You can go.
I want to stay here till I know you're safe.
Sparklehorse's Gold Day playing Good morning, my child Stay with me a while [BOTH SPEAKING MANDARIN.]
- I can't.
- You can't hear how that's wrong? [SPEAKING MANDARIN.]
You know what? You're not trying hard enough.
It's not that hard.
That's why I think I want to focus on the biomedical industry.
Because I want to help people and I want to be a billionaire.
Like Steve Jobs.
You know what you want.
I do.
Thank you.
For what? Not laughing.
My dad comes from an incredible family of inventors and businessmen.
He just wants me to live up to my potential.
What about your parents? My mother's in India.
My dad died a couple of years ago.
Oh.
I'm so sorry.
How? I don't want to talk about it.
Would you like to dance? Spirits in the trees And drown all the clocks No.
This doesn't feel right.
Well - we can just - Yeah.
Keep all your crows away Hold skinny wolves at bay In silver piles of smiles The sunset is beautiful.
It's the air pollution.
You know what this has meant to me? Yeah? This whole month has been Yeah, but we don't have to say goodbye.
Because I'm gonna be in Palo Alto in August, and then we'll live in the same city.
What time do you have to leave for India tomorrow? Early.
My mother's arranged this whole dinner thing.
Can I ask you something? How did your dad die? You never told me.
He went to the hospital with chest pains.
And the idiot doctor ordered a bunch of tests, but they were the wrong tests.
He said it was just stress and sent him home.
And then, that night he died.
Of a heart attack.
Completely fucking preventable.
And I think about it every single day! I don't know, I I get angry sometimes.
Give me your wallet.
It's custom in China to burn the things that you want the dead to have in the afterlife.
[PAPER RUSTLING.]
For your dad.
[LAUGHS.]
[BOTH BLOWING.]
We're gonna burn this fucking building down.
[ELIZABETH LAUGHS.]
I should get to bed.
Have a good freshman year.
Justin Timberlake's Rock Your Body playing Just let me rock you till the break of day [BOY MOANS.]
Dance with me [SINGING.]
Guy time, but I don't mind [MOANS.]
I'll have whatever you have - Come on, just - Give it a whirl Oh shit.
Your shower caddy.
It's okay.
Don't worry.
[BED CREAKING.]
Rock you, girl Because it's beautiful.
SUNNY: [OVER PHONE.]
Microfluidics is beautiful? How? Microfluidics is Okay, imagine printer ink.
So your printer has one base color to start, and then it goes through, say, three different channels and then that reaches three different destinations, and each of those has a different reactive that give you a different color.
SUNNY: So you want to make ink cartridges.
- No.
- SUNNY: I'm kidding.
By the way, I'm sorry we didn't talk yesterday.
I was moving into my new place.
Hey, do you like beer? 'Cause I really like it.
SUNNY: Ah, so you like microfluidics and beer.
- Sunny.
- SUNNY: Yeah.
I really love it here.
Wolf Parade's I'll Believe in Anything playing Give me your eyes I need sunshine Give me your eyes I need sunshine Your blood, your bones Your voice, and your ghost We've both been very brave Walk around with both legs WOMAN: I'm not a software engineer.
I'm a physician and a scientist.
But I do think that technology can have an enormous, uh, impact on the healthcare industry.
And I, I do think that we're just starting to understand the impact that technology can have on all parts of our life.
MODERATOR: Amazing.
- So you are a doctor? - WOMAN: Yes.
An inventor.
An investor.
You've served on boards of companies.
I mean, why are you also a professor? Because, honestly, Stanford is the most exciting place to be right now.
And it's 2002, so just imagine what tech is gonna be able to do in 2022.
And it's gonna be up to you guys.
What are they calling you these days? The Millennials.
[LAUGHTER.]
'Cause you, you grew up with computers.
You're not scared of what they can do.
But you still have to remember there's a lot that we don't know.
And you, you, are the ones who are gonna find out.
[DOOR OPENS.]
- Professor Robertson.
- Oh god, it's you.
No.
No, I can't let you in.
It is a graduate-level research group and you are a freshman? - Right.
- So, you're not ready.
I know, but I, I was thinking Why do you want to be in a graduate group? Just be a freshman.
Just run around and get drunk and break some hearts and sleep with your boyfriend.
Oh, I broke up with my boyfriend this morning 'cause he's too much of a distraction.
How did that go? Pretty good.
- Pretty good, huh? - You need to change the flow rate.
That's why your experiment is not working.
- Wait, what? - You need to change the flow rate.
How do you know what we're working on here? Because my TA, Rakesh, let me look at his notes.
He's a Cubs fan.
I bought him a hat.
Come on.
[BEEPING.]
CHANNING ROBERTSON: It's over here.
Where are we on the flow rate? What's up, dude? Hey, what's up? It's not the flow rate.
I tried that.
We think maybe changing the viscosity a little bit might You Um You, you did, you sped up the flow rate but in order to, to maintain the average linear velocity, you you need to also increase the dimension of the five outlet channels.
- That's not true.
I personally - Yes, it is.
Yes, it is.
RAKESH: Mm-hmm.
She's one of my freshmen.
Fuck, you're a freshman.
You're in.
- Can you get her a lab coat? - Nice.
ELIZABETH: Channing said he would hear my ideas for products.
And we're working on such amazing technologies.
SUNNY: [OVER PHONE.]
That professor is in love with you.
No, he's not.
SUNNY: Whatever.
Am I going to see you this summer? - See me? - Yeah, see you.
Uh I don't know.
What are you up to? I'm very busy.
I'm going to be driving around in my new Lamborghini.
ELIZABETH: Ooh.
You got a Lamborghini.
SUNNY: Yes, the most expensive one.
Why? SUNNY: Because I can.
Because no one thinks that you're a terrorist when you drive a Lamborghini.
- [LAUGHS.]
- Motherfuckers.
ROBERTSON: So, you wrote this up this summer? Yeah, I had a little too much downtime at my internship.
So it's a, it's a patch.
I can see that.
It's a wearable device that administers a drug, just like an antibiotic, directly into the patient's bloodstream while simultaneously monitoring whether the medication is working.
It's diagnosis and therapy at the same time.
Huh.
Yeah.
I want to start a company.
And I'd like you to be a founding member.
[CHUCKLES.]
I don't want to wait.
David Filo and Jerry Yang started Yahoo while they were in your program.
You must have invested.
Actually they asked me, and I said no.
Wish I could take that one back.
You know what, I'm gonna put you in touch with a physician to talk about the viability of this.
Do you know Phyllis Gardner? Channing Robertson sent you? Yes, I'm in his graduate research group as a, a sophomore.
PHYLLIS: Mm.
Well um, it's never gonna work.
A patch is too small to store full doses of a single drug, let alone multiple drugs, and the reagents needed for long-term testing.
But then even if it could, it would have to provide long-term storage for those chemicals at body temperature and Let's just, let-let's put all that aside.
Let, let, let's say that you were able to work out a way to do any of that.
If you think that people want a patch to diagnose them and then put medicine directly into their skin, then you've never met a sick person before.
People go to school for a very long time to understand how to diagnose patients.
You can't get a diagnosis from a patch because human beings aren't machines.
But doctors make mistakes.
And this would be based on data, so Well, data isn't everything.
Um, people your age need to remember that machines make mistakes too, especially when humans are operating them.
- Yeah, but - It's, it's fine.
It's, uh, nothing personal.
You had an idea, it's not gonna work, so you just, you keep learning.
Keep trying.
I'm going to be heading home and, uh, very nice to meet you.
"Do or do not, there is no try.
" What? That's Yoda.
From Star Wars.
Oh.
Professor Gardner.
Wait, wait.
I just think that, I think that we can work together.
- Work together? - Yeah.
You're, you're a, what, freshman, sophomore? I just started my sophomore year.
So you've had a couple of classes, maybe a seminar or two, and now you think you know enough to start a company.
I just thought as a, as a woman, you Well, as a woman, let me explain something to you.
You don't get to skip any steps.
You have to do the work.
Your work, other people's work.
You have to do so much work that they have to admit that you did it and nobody helped you.
You have to take away all their excuses.
And then if you get anything, anything wrong, they'll destroy you.
And they'll be so happy to do it.
So no, as a woman, I can't help you right now.
And just [SIGHS.]
One other thing, don't ever quote Yoda to anybody ever again.
Science is trying.
That's all that it is.
You only get to really do something when you've been trying for so long that doing doesn't even seem possible anymore.
So science is real.
Yoda is a fictional green character who apparently know everything in the universe except for syntax and grammar.
So I'm sorry your idea's impossible, but that's the way the world works.
The world works in certain ways until a great idea comes along and, and changes everything.
Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go now.
My husband's waiting for me with a glass of red wine and a foot massage and a DVD of My Big Fat Greek Wedding which came in the mail today.
So I suggest you find a version of that for yourself.
You're 19.
You don't have to be anything else right now.
RAKESH: Beep-boop-beep-boop-beep.
What do we have here? Oh.
Oh wow, that's alive.
Yep.
You are gonna come up with a new thing.
Should I just stop? What should I do? Well, you could, I don't know, like, try being a sophomore in college for a night.
That might be fun.
You like a capella? You ever heard Don't Stop Believing in 12-part harmony? It's fun.
Club music playing That's so funny! Hey.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
How are you guys? Oh my god, that's hilarious.
Oh [CLEARS THROAT.]
Oh my god, that's hilarious.
That's the best joke ever.
That's so funny.
I'm having so much fun.
Woo-hoo.
Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo.
Woo-hoo! [GIRLS LAUGHING.]
LAWYER: Ms.
Holmes.
Ms.
Holmes.
Please answer the question.
I don't remember specifically.
LAWYER: You were the CEO.
Yes.
LAWYER: And you don't remember specifically? ELIZABETH: I, I don't, uh No, I don't recall details from years ago.
I, I, I I don't recall.
Dreamy guitar playing LAWYER: Ms.
Holmes.
Ms.
Holmes.
Do you need a break? No.
[WHISPERING.]
What's wrong with her? Did something happen? [WHISPERING.]
At the party.
I think a guy did something to her.
I don't know the whole story, but she went to the police.
The police.
GIRL 2: She said it was rape.
GIRL 1: Really? Do you believe her? I don't know.
- [CELL PHONE RINGING.]
- Let's go.
[RINGING CONTINUES.]
[RINGING CONTINUES.]
Hello.
SUNNY: [OVER PHONE.]
Hey, where have you been? I tried calling you for a few days.
I've been busy.
SUNNY: I miss you.
You know how much I miss you when I don't talk to you.
ELIZABETH: Do you know how weird that is that you would say that to me? I'm 19.
I'm 19.
You should talk to somebody your own age.
SUNNY: That's what you want? Yeah.
Yes.
This is fucking weird.
Don't call me again.
[PHONE SNAPS.]
tense music [DOOR OPENS.]
MAN: Ms.
Holmes.
They're ready for you.
[SCRUBBING, RATTLING.]
What did they say? ELIZABETH: They aren't recommending any disciplinary action.
I know that.
But what did they say? It's my word against his.
They don't believe me.
I can't get anyone to believe me.
I ca I can't get the smell out.
I think we should just throw it out.
[ELECTRICAL ZAP.]
Oh my god! This is dangerous.
This could hurt you.
We should get rid of it.
[GRUNTING.]
I need your help.
Elizabeth.
- Get under it.
- [ELIZABETH GRUNTS.]
- Yeah.
Come on.
- Wait, wait, wait.
Mom, I have to put it down.
I have to put it down.
Alright.
Slowly, slowly, slowly.
- Go.
- NOEL: Okay.
Ugh.
I don't want to do this right now.
I Elizabeth.
No, just go back to the hotel.
I don't leave me alone.
I believe you.
I believe you.
I believe everything you said.
But I, I didn't You told me to be careful, and I didn't listen to you.
I was drinking.
Men will take and take from you.
So you have to decide right now if you are going to let that stop you.
- But how - You just put it away and forget it.
And then one day, one day, you'll just be fine again.
Come on.
This thing smells awful.
Okay.
Great.
Okay.
And one, two three! [GRUNTS.]
[PANTING.]
Woo! Oh! I love you.
We should wash our hands.
[SIGHS.]
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs' Y Control playing Oh so all my lovin' go's Under the fog, fog, fog And I will leave them all Well, I'm just a poor little baby 'Cause, well, I believe them all Oh, so while you're growing old Under the gun, gun, gun And I believe them all Well, I'm just one poor baby 'Cause, well, I believe them all I wish I could buy back The woman you stole - You're back.
- I'm back.
It's a redesign.
It's a box the size of an iPod.
And it doesn't administer medicine, it tests your blood.
What if you could test your blood in your own home? And what if it's not a whole vial but just a drop? It would always be with you.
And it could keep you safe.
Oh, so all my lovin' goes Under the fog, fog, fog And I will leave them all Well, I'm just a poor little baby 'Cause, well, I believe them all I wish I could buy back The woman you stole Y-control, Y-control You walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners Out of control So Channing wants us to begin the research phase as soon as possible.
We're renting office space in east Palo Alto.
But isn't that the part of the city they told you not to go to during orientation? - Yeah, it's dangerous.
- Yeah.
I got lost there during the move in when you sent me to the Urban Outfitters.
We can't afford anything else right now.
And I wanted to ask you if you would consider investing my tuition money into the company.
Well, how would we pay for your tuition? Well, you won't have to, because I'm, I'm going to drop out.
- You're gonna do what? - No.
No! Steve Jobs dropped out.
Bill Gates dropped out.
Michael Dell, Paul Allen, Elon Musk Who's Paul Allen? - He's the other Microsoft guy.
- I don't care.
You're not dropping out of Stanford.
Start a company after you've graduated.
No.
I, I don't even go to class anymore Wait, you don't go to class? Elizabeth, is this about what happened? - Noel.
- No.
No.
NOEL: What does this thing even do? It tests your blood? It's Mom, you would never have to have a needle ever again.
[SNIFFLES.]
I don't understand you I know.
LORRAINE: Guess what? Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford.
And get this, she invented a medical device.
Some sort of blood testing thing.
A professor from Stanford is helping her.
They already raised a lot of money.
- She didn't call for my advice.
- What do you mean? She's going to be doing the exact same thing that I'm doing.
She doesn't call me? She's a kid.
She probably doesn't have our phone number.
No.
'Cause they all think they're better than us.
That whole family.
Anyway, Mrs.
Holmes said that Why do you call her Mrs.
Holmes? She calls you Lorraine.
Why do you call her Mrs.
Holmes? I never thought about it.
She should have called me.
Don't make a big thing of it.
I'm not.
I just think that she should have called me.
[GUNSHOT, GLASS SHATTERS.]
[TIRES SCREECHING.]
[ELIZABETH GASPING.]
[DISTANT SIREN.]
SUNNY: What happened? Was someone shooting at you? No.
It was a stray bullet.
There was a fight, I think.
Thank you for coming.
Why did you call me? You told me never to talk to you again.
I don't know.
Yes, you do.
Why am I here? Why am I here? You can't push me away again.
I'm going to protect you.
I know.
LAWYER: Do you ever recall telling anyone, your patients, your investors, your board, that in fact none of the technology you claimed to have invented was operational? And that the results they received were often inaccurate? Do you recall telling any of these people that your company was endangering their lives by giving them false information about their health? I know that we made so many mistakes, but we were, we were trying to, to, to take this forward and at that time we thought that we were doing the right thing.
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