Jury Duty (2023) s01e07 Episode Script

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[DEBRA] The defendant
mishandled an important order,
resulting in catastrophic damage.
And then he passed out,
soaked in his own urine.
[JACQUIL'NE] He destroyed my career,
my business, and my mental health.
Would you even hire
you with leaky barrels
all around here filled with chemicals?
[LONNIE] Check this out.
- [RONALD] What is it?
- [LONNIE] I don't know.
- There's no labels.
- [RONALD] It's burning up my nose.
I have here some photos which
clearly show chemical barrels.
- [WOMAN] Objection.
- [JUDGE ROSEN] Sustained.
I'm sorry, sir. They
can't come into evidence.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
- Is that your girlfriend?
- [NOAH] I mean, yeah,
it's my girlfriend. But who's that?
I have to, uh, appoint
a full-fledged juror.
Sit down. Number 13,
you're gonna be our
new full-fledged juror.
Please come up.
It works out for the best
'cause, uh, I was supposed to
be getting the Lone Pine script.
- It's called Lone Pine.
- [WOMAN] Oh.
We just have this connection,
my wife, Sonya and I.
Sir, this isn't relevant. Sit down.
It reminded me of my wife, Sonya.
My wife Sonya. We've been
separated for eight months.
I was trying to put up the
front that everything was okay.
Everyone, I'm a liar.
In my opinion, the foreperson
is essentially the captain of the jury.
[RONALD] I would really
rather not be a foreperson.
If I have to talk in front of
a crowd, get a little jittery.
Juror number 6, you are the foreperson.
Are you capable of doing that?
Yes, Your Honor.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[RONALD] Fingers crossed.
Today is the last day
we're going to deliberate,
uh, hopefully today. [CHUCKLES]
I have no idea what could
come up, what can come up.
It always seems like there's something.
- Good morning. Good morning, y'all.
- [LONNIE] Ooh.
That's a nice looking shirt, Vanessa.
- [VANESSA] Thank you.
- [JEANNIE] It's true, with your eyes,
- gorgene.
- [VANESSA] Thank you.
I'm ready to deliberate.
- I guess [INDISTINCT]
- Guys, guys, big news.
Lone Pine director canceled.
Yeah, canceled.
Done. Done. Dead.
I guess he called some bitch
sweetheart or something like that.
Can't do that.
Anyway, let's, let's
do this. Let's focus.
[RONALD] I just had this really,
really, really bad feeling
that not only gonna have
people who are on the fence,
but we're gonna have people who
are on opposite sides of the fence.
The judge did confirm yesterday,
it has to be unanimous,
so it makes me a little bit nervous.
- Hmm.
- [INEZ] Insane.
Like when I came to this,
I was I was totally fine
- with being facing the crowd, you know?
- [VANESSA] Is that what you want?
Oh, I could just be chilling right
here. I could be giving my input.
Let somebody else
lead this [BLEEP] shit.
Well, what'd you think now?
I don't know. I don't
[BLEEP] gonna do to come
to a conclusion on this one.
The fact that I'll have to
stand up and deliver the news
that the very least one
person's not gonna like to hear,
just kinda gives me
butterflies a little.
I I remember you,
you told me that you
you did not want to be foreman.
- I know.
- And uh, foreperson.
And I also did not did
not want to be a foreperson.
I'm glad he is not, not me.
Yeah.
[OFFICER NIKKI] Let
me check everybody out.
Y'all made. Y'all snapped off.
I'm proud. You know what I'm saying?
'Cause y'all a reflection of,
you know, we in this together.
We got some serious stuff to do today.
Y'all look over the evidence.
Once y'all done looking
it over, y'all will vote.
If it's unanimous,
we can go back into the courtroom.
If it is not, you gonna keep voting
until y'all can get to a unanimous vote.
Knock yourselves out. Trust
yourself and trust each other.
[RONALD] Once we get
the toxicology report,
we're gonna put this blood
alcohol content up there.
- Do you feel persuasive?
- [RONALD EXHALES SHARPLY]
No, because I coming at this unbiased,
so no, I don't feel persuasive
because I'm not trying to convince
anybody of anything, you know?
- Interesting.
- That's why I'm nervous about this.
I just wanna hear what other people
have to say honestly before I
- make a decision.
- [WOMAN] Yeah.
I don't know, man. I I'm also
new. I don't know what I'm doing, man.
Not proud to admit it, man.
It's gonna be one of them days.
We have to step up when we are needed.
And, uh but on the other hand,
I'm also I don't really
have a responsibility
because I'm not on the jury technically
so I can kind of zone out
like going to a party
with a bunch of friends
and you can drink your ass off
'cause someone else is gonna be
the designated driver. Not me.
[RONALD] Hey, do you
guys want to just start?
- [WOMAN] Yes.
- [NOAH] We can, right?
Vanessa, Todd, are we
good? You guys wanna start?
Maybe we do, uh, something
to show what we are thinking.
This is essentially us, like,
us taking a vote right now.
Just gauging how everybody feels.
So how which way which way are
we leaning with everybody feeling?
[PAT] I don't think
the defendant is liable.
- That's me.
- I think he is.
I think the defendant's liable.
[RONALD] So we get our one for
one. Jeannie, how are you feeling?
I feel that the defendant is not liable.
[RONALD] The defendant is not
liable. How are you feeling, Noah?
I I feel I feel the
same I feel the same way.
Do you have anything you
wanna support that with?
Anything?
Uh
no, no, I mean, I
just that's just kind of
- That's how you feel?
- [NOAH] That's how I feel, yeah.
[RONALD] Todd, how are you feeling?
[TODD] Uh, not liable.
- [RONALD] Inez.
- I think the defendant is liable.
Ken, how you feel?
I believe the defendant is liable.
- [RONALD] Lonnie?
- I don't think he's liable.
- [RONALD] Vanessa?
- Um, I do think he's liable.
I agree with Ken.
They said more likely than not.
Well, at the moment
it feels to me like they're both liable,
which means she didn't prove anything.
But if I have to pick a side,
I'd say he's liable.
[RONALD] Ravi, how are you feeling?
My 30-year face reading experience
is the fact and he's liable.
[VANESSA] Face reading?
[RAVI] Yes, I do face reading.
What am I thinking about right now?
You are in thinking, not thinking,
thinking, not thinking, like that.
- That is what I was doing.
- So where are you?
I'm here with Barbara.
I find them both liable.
As you can see here, you guys,
we're damn near split decision.
Pretty much half of us are
gonna have to change our mind.
- Yeah, what do you got, Todd?
- This might be helpful
for people that, um, think
about this differently.
If this is his station,
then
this is one of the
places where the rings were.
And this is
the other place
where the rings were.
This is just helpful, I think,
for me to see his proximity
to these open containers.
He's been observed walking in
and nobody made any comment on it.
He's starting work
and this is producing the T-shirts.
And these are open. This is heating up.
At some point, he passes out here.
Before he passes out, he would've
had to override the computer.
- Could I grab these?
- [RAVI] Mm-hmm.
He's being covered
with these shirts as they're coming out.
If there's 3,000 in the order,
this is presumably causing a disruption
if people have to get
around this machine.
If there were 25 people on the floor,
how come no one saw
someone just pass out?
[TODD] And then, if he's
covered in urine and excrement
just seems to it
seems inconsistent to me.
- [INEZ] He only made yellow.
- [LONNIE] He, he okay.
- They said that he also poopied.
- [BARBARA] Wait a minute.
No, they said the other.
If you say void your
bowels, it means poop.
[JAMES] That's visual. I
can see that coming out.
- That's poop. That's pooping.
- [LONNIE] The bowel movement is
- He said the wrong terminology.
- [BARBARA] Voiding yeah.
He either said something wrong, but
Should we ask the judge
- if it was poopies or pee-pee?
- [PAT] It doesn't matter. Either one.
- [VANESSA] It's poopies.
- [BARBARA] What exam you have to do?
- [LONNIE] Colonoscopy? Yeah. Or an enema?
- [BARBARA] Yes!
They make you void your bowels.
[LONNIE] I'm not trying
to talk about poop all day.
He he used the
bathroom on himself. Okay?
He did say he emptied his bowels.
He didn't say what that meant.
- Well, bowels, bowels is a duty.
- [VANESSA] Okay.
You're not supposed to be talking
and we're not supposed to be
talking about chemicals anyway,
because the judge said to strike it.
The judge did order us
to disregard this notion.
But what I won't disregard is the fact
that when Lonnie and
I were at the factory,
we pointed out that there were
very clearly some barrels moved.
But it is very possible that
those barrels were
moved up into that room
because they knew we were
coming to eliminate that odor.
Uh, I saw this coming though.
- Good ol' stalemate.
- [VANESSA] You know what is hard?
People can't even get on the same
page when you order [BLEEP] lunch.
It's hard to get everybody
on the same page about this.
[KEN] I'm I'm basing my position
- on his prior work experience.
- [BARBARA] Mm-hmm.
And each position
was very consistently,
uh, careless.
So you're saying people can't change?
He had many opportunities to change.
He has not shown
that he is, uh, changed.
[ROSS] I just I just wanna
say I just wanna say one thing.
I yeah, I've been
teaching for ten years
and I know hundreds,
hundreds of Trevors,
you know, they have goals and
they have dreams and stuff,
but they're not gonna accomplish that
unless they learn from
their consequences.
If we, as a group find him
liable, he learns from that.
I think we're doing
him a favor. That's all.
It's not about tough
love, it's about the facts.
That's just how that's
just how I'm feeling.
It's like, um, if you have
smoking, uh, cigarette,
uh, short
if you do it for a short time,
then you might not get, uh
emphysema.
But if you smoke cigarettes
for a very long time,
someday you will get emphysema.
And that day for Trevor
was his, uh, emphysema day.
Makes sense.
[RONALD] Did the plaintiff
supply enough evidence
in your guys' mind
to prove that Trevor was negligent?
Let's say we don't blame
Trevor, then who do we blame?
- Somebody's responsible.
- The boss.
- No, no, no.
- Yes, there is yes, you're right.
- Somebody is responsible.
- No.
- [RONALD] An incident occurred.
- No.
If you've been fired
from all these jobs,
then that's, that's for me,
I'm already sold.
You know, you're guilty. You're guilty.
No offense to Trevor or to Sean.
But they didn't seem thoughtful
in what they were wearing.
And that was a little offensive for me.
Little bit.
I had a trucking company
and as the employer,
I am always responsible
for my drivers.
At the end of the day, I am responsible.
- She is responsible for whatever he did.
- It doesn't
- it doesn't have to be [INDISTINCT]
- And he also said she's rarely there.
Like he has never seen
her at the factory.
- Does she even know what's going on?
- [INEZ] What does that mean?
- [VANESSA] That's
- [BARBARA] Yeah, what does that mean?
It means she's not
running her business right
'cause you have to take in consideration
the working conditions there.
- You know, you can't you
- [INEZ] Yeah, he may have done it,
- but he's tripping on chemicals.
- [LONNIE] You can't just ignore that.
I would like to know what
his blood alcohol content was.
I mean, he he tells us that
he was drinking the night before.
We know that for sure.
So was it a very, very low amount?
And does that reflect or is
does he have a 0.1
blood alcohol content?
Was he drinking that morning
before he went to work as well, too?
Like, to me that's very,
very relevant to the case.
Foreperson.
- Oh, here you are.
- [RONALD] What's up, bailiff?
- There you go.
- [JURY LAUGHING]
- [RONALD] Oh, is this
- That's it.
His blood alcohol content.
Um, we were told that we would
see the toxicology report.
Um, he wasn't able to talk
about it, but when we look at it,
he confirmed what I've
been talking about.
His blood alcohol content
is going to be very, very low
because it's just going to be the
leftover from the night before.
That was key to me
because if his blood alcohol
content was very high,
that means that more than
likely he was drinking
in the morning before
he went to his shift,
which would've shown us that,
yeah, you know, maybe he was drunk
and maybe that's how
this whole thing happened.
So something I've been wanting to see
this entire time is
the toxicology report,
'cause this is gonna tell us
what his blood alcohol content is.
And according to the toxicology report,
his blood alcohol content
is 0.011.
Judging off this number
and going off my own past
experiences, this is nothing.
This is him drinking the night before.
So to me, that corroborates
his story that he was not drunk.
[PAT] That can be mouthwash.
So he did not pass out
because he was wasted.
[LONNIE] That blood alcohol level,
that's the determining factor.
The smoking gun, as they say.
I was appointed the title of
foreperson. It was my job to lead.
That was made abundantly clear
that once we went into deliberation,
it was my job to, you know,
kind of take the wheel,
being at the whiteboard,
writing everything out.
It just felt like the right place to be.
If I'm gonna be leading
the conversation,
I needed to be in a position to lead.
When I ran through this in
my head, I tried finding holes
in the way I was leaning
towards and I couldn't find any.
So just to recap,
so we know that Trevor
Morris placed himself
at the workstation where
the incident occurred.
He said he started working
and he was then shaken awake.
You guys saw the workstation.
You have to type something
into the keyboard,
you have to submit it to the machine.
We heard from three different people.
A human would have to have intervened
in order for that machine
to not shut itself down.
[BLENDER WHIRRING]
- [INEZ] Are you [BLEEP] kidding me?
- [BARBARA] Oh, it was you.
- Okay.
- [JAMES] Sorry. Go ahead. Sorry.
[RONALD] But Mr. Schiller has testified
he didn't see Trevor
show up to work that day.
- Some
- [BLENDER WHIRRING]
- [INEZ] Oh, my God.
- I'll be done. I'll be done.
[BLENDER CONTINUES WHIRRING]
Where did you get
that shake? What is it?
Sorry. Done.
Mr. Schiller, he didn't
see him at his work station.
He got a report from somebody
else who was on the floor
that Trevor was being disruptive.
So he finished his phone call
and then he went down there.
So based off of
everything we've been told,
more likely than not,
was it Trevor who
pushed these buttons in?
It's his workstation. He's
admitted to being there.
So I think that he was the one
who entered the information wrong.
But I don't think it was his negligence
that caused him to input
this wrong information.
It sounds like he had
poor working conditions.
Going back to the comment Pat made.
As an employer, you are responsible
for not only providing
safe working conditions,
but you are responsible for what
your employees are doing, too.
I wanna talk about his workstation next.
What Lonnie and I noticed
directly across from his station,
there were two rings right here
that were very, very clearly
some sort of paint,
some sort of chemical.
So, this corroborates what
he was telling us yesterday
when he said that his
workstation was not the same.
He specifically said that
these tanks had been moved.
And Lonnie and I did witness this.
And Todd can corroborate this one, too.
When we went upstairs,
there was a backroom,
very, very, very heavy chemical
smell coming out of there.
Like if we would've stayed
in there for a few minutes,
- very easily could've got lightheaded.
- [TODD] Um, I just wanted to say
that I use a device that,
um, uh, allows me to make sure
that it's not just, um, some
residue leftover in my own nose.
So I I used this
when we were upstairs
- and the chemical smell was still strong.
- [WOMAN SNEEZES]
- Bless you.
- [RONALD] Nice. Good.
- Thank you for clarifying.
- [TODD] Yeah.
[RONALD] If Trevor
really was such a problem,
probably was negligent on their part
for even keeping him
around for this long
if he was such a terrible employee
that he has been made out to be.
Then you look at why were these moved?
Why would you take these
barrels up those stairs
to just stash them in this room?
To me, that doesn't add up.
So, that's why I'm leaning
the way I'm leaning.
[ROSS] I remember you
started off with liable
and then you ended up being non-liable.
And that the big thing for you was
[RONALD] This exists.
So, this is what changed my mind.
But it was speculation
until Trevor testified.
Trevor said everything
I needed him to say
when he told us about his
unsafe working conditions,
about his stuff being move
that was near a station,
that put everything together for me.
Vanessa, I never heard
from you for a while,
- so I'd love to hear from you.
- I'm having a hard time
believing anything
that Trevor says.
Do you believe, like,
the plaintiff's side?
Yeah, because, like, the plaintiff
presented her case, right?
If I don't believe what Trevor's saying,
why would I think that
the plaintiff is lying?
You can maybe not believe Trevor,
but do you believe our three jurors
that saw these things upstairs?
But I would assume that they have
chemicals at a printing factory.
[LONNIE] As a jury, we have to
figure out the inconsistencies
of what's going on in this case.
They still, um, have to
the burden of proof to prove
that that happened, right?
I mean, that's, you
know, that's Court 101.
[KEN] I will tell you why
I I changed my vote.
We are a decision-making body.
And I take what you say.
And, Ronald, what you said
was very important for me
to reconsider
what potential manipulation
there may have been.
Are you saying that
basically things don't add up?
Much shorter way than what
I just said. Yes. Thank you.
- Do you think we should do a vote now?
- You guys wanna do a vote?
- [INEZ] Yes.
- [NOAH] Let's let's do it.
[JEANNIE] Wait, can we
do an anonymous vote?
- Because he keeps
- [NOAH] Yeah.
[RONALD] No. Wait, uh, you're
not making your own decision?
- He's, like, not even listening.
- [NOAH] I'm, I'm, I'm no I'm
- And it's starting to piss me off.
- [NOAH] totally I'm saying
I'm saying what I
believe. It just happens
to be also what my girlfriend feels.
[RONALD] No, you got to
make your own decision.
We're gonna table that because that's
not what this is about right now.
- I agree.
- We're not trying to rush us,
but we've got a job to do.
So that that's gonna be table.
I'm paying attention. I wanna
do the best job that I can,
especially since the judge
appointed me as the foreperson.
Now I feel like I have
the responsibility to lead.
James, can we borrow your hat?
- [JAMES] You're gonna sell it on eBay?
- [MAN LAUGHS]
[RONALD] Liable means he
was negligent in his duties.
- [INEZ] Who's got James' hat?
- [VANESSA] Is this it? No.
[JAMES] Put I didn't put L or an N.
I wrote little more [INDISTINCT]
- Is that yours?
- [OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
Everybody in?
[RONALD] All right. Pat,
read me off what you had.
Not liable.
Not liable.
Not liable.
Not liable.
Not liable.
Not liable.
- Not liable.
- [VANESSA] Wow.
[PAT] Not liable.
Not liable. Wow, again.
Not liable.
Not liable. One, one more.
Liable.
- [VANESSA] Ay, ay, ay.
- [RONALD] All right.
So we got one person on the fence.
Without naming any names,
we'll open this to the group.
What is this supporting evidence
that shows that Trevor is liable?
And again, this is for everyone.
And this is not a rhetorical question.
This is I'm asking you guys.
I'm just trying to lead
the discussion in a way
to essentially just coax
information out of people
to see why they would be
still feeling this way.
I mean, I'll speak towards
whoever voted liable
without naming any names.
I made it a point to not
single that person out
because we did an anonymous vote.
I don't want that person to
feel like they're gonna be
attacked if they spoke up.
I I really don't
know what I'm gonna do,
to be honest.
If you speak, it doesn't mean
you're the person that said liable.
[ROSS] Uh, well, this isn't
getting resolved anytime soon.
So what do you say we take a break?
Boss, half hour, forty-five, full hour?
So 11 of us have voted in one direction
and one of us, uh, voted
- in the other direction.
- [VANESSA] Mm-hmm.
[PRODUCER] How is it
going? How long do you think
this is going to take?
I mean, who's to say?
You know, we've, uh,
we've gotten really close
and I don't wanna put a number on it.
I don't wanna put the
date on it. Um, but
Yeah, I hope it's over
as soon as possible.
And I, you know, and
I feel the opposite.
Ross.
He's the one the one.
Honestly, I think he's doing this
because he wants us to stay here
and he loves this community of us.
And I understand,
but it's a little bit not fair.
But I love him. But,
uh, he's you know,
but I think he's doing this
because he doesn't wanna go home.
Because he's going
back to heartache, so
[PAT] Too aggressive.
This is about self-love.
[JEANNIE] Hey, don't act like anything.
So, yeah, but, hey, um
can you talk to Ross?
You know he's gonna listen to you.
We're never gonna get out of here
if you don't get through to him.
[CHRISTINE] Just looking at the verdict?
[RONALD] Uh-huh. Aiming to.
Just stay where I can see
you, guys. Right over there.
[RONALD] It's a delicate
situation, you know,
because I have to get
somebody to change their mind.
But I can't pressure them.
I don't want them to feel like
they're being forced
to change their mind
just to go along with the group.
But at the same time,
we also have to talk
about the facts and
evidence of the case.
We can't, you know, bring our
personal feelings into this.
I don't know if that's what's happening.
First of all, I just
wanna say that I'm sorry
for what you're going through,
man. I I can only imagine.
Um, with that being said, you know,
regardless of whatever
outcome we come here,
whatever decision we come to,
you know, we're always
gonna be a family.
We're always gonna be
there for each other.
It's just like you said, you
know, we formed some strong bonds.
Um
I just don't know.
I just don't know.
I just wanna tell you I
just wanna tell you this, okay?
I know why you brought
me out here. And I know
Like, this is affecting
somebody's life right now.
Like, this is really
gonna affect his life.
So, I think we've got
to come to a decision.
I, uh
I I just really like
hanging out with you guys.
Okay? So if we can just
stretch it a little bit.
You see, I got nothing going on at home.
[RONALD] We just got to
we got to focus, you know,
and I think we got to
set our feelings aside.
And again, I'm sorry,
man. I can only imagine.
But we've, we've got
to get this finished.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
[VANESSA] I was gonna
tell you the other day
All right. Let's take another vote.
- [KEN] Okay.
- [RONALD] Same question, guys.
Is the defendant liable, not liable?
[PAT] Ronald.
[BARBARA] You think he's
liable? Right in now.
- [VANESSA] Okay.
- [BARBARA] I'll be all right with me.
[RONALD] Wait okay.
Liable or not liable?
L or N, right?
- [JAMES] I know.
- [ROSS] Two good people.
- There you go.
- [VANESSA] Do you wanna read it, James?
I just kind of mix it up.
- [RONALD] What do you got for me?
- [BARBARA] Jesus Christ.
- [JAMES] All right.
- [BARBARA] Needs to be involved.
First one not liable.
Second one,
defendant is not liable.
Third one,
not liable.
Fourth, not liable.
Fifth, not liable.
Sixth, Z Oh, not liable. Sorry.
- [NOAH] Okay. So close.
- Come on, James.
- [BARBARA] Hey.
- Not liable.
Not liable.
Not liable.
Not liable.
Not liable.
Last one.
Not liable.
Oh, my gosh.
We did it, guys.
- [JEANNIE] We did it.
- [JAMES] Good job, guys.
- [BARBARA] All right!
- [JAMES] Good job.
[ROSS] All right. What a job.
We did it! I did it!
[PRODUCER] You guys
finally came to a verdict.
How does it feel?
I'm humbled to think that
just a lowly alternate,
an understudy, if you will,
uh, made the greatest impact of all.
Just hiring those fake paparazzi
to come here make a scene.
- [JEANNIE] What?
- [VANESSA] Are you serious?
- [INEZ] Sequestered for nothing?
- [JAMES] Yeah.
Oh, no, no, it doesn't
matter. We're, we're a family.
You asshole.
You can't take that away from me.
[WOMAN] All rise.
[JUDGE ROSEN] Please be seated.
Uh, has the jury reached a verdict?
- Yes, we have, Your Honor.
- Okay. Would you please stand up
and would you please give
the verdict to the bailiff?
Would you please read the verdict?
[RONALD CLEARS THROAT]
We, the jury, in the
above-entitled action,
render the following verdict,
to the charge of negligence
resulting in property damage,
no personal injury,
we find the defendant, Trevor
Julian Morris, not liable.
- [TREVOR] Oh.
- [RONALD] To the charge
of negligent infliction
of emotional distress,
we find the defendant, Trevor
Julian Morris, not liable.
- [TREVOR] I told you. I told you.
- [JUDGE ROSEN] Okay.
Uh, Mr. Foreperson, could you
come up here with the verdict?
Take a seat here. I just
got one more formality.
Can I see the verdict, please?
You are you are juror
number six, is that correct?
- Correct.
- This is your signature?
- That is correct.
- Okay.
Uh, I hereby enter judgment
in favor of the defendant
and against the plaintiff.
- Hold on just hold on just a sec.
- [RONALD] Sorry.
Your name is?
- Ronald Gladden.
- Okay.
Now, as I said weeks ago,
when you first entered this courtroom,
that this is the last
trial of my career.
What I didn't tell you
is it's also the first
because I'm not a real judge,
and you're not a real foreperson,
and this is not a real case.
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What?
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