Rebel (2021) s01e08 Episode Script

1
I think you should just leave.
Previously on "Rebel"
We're super drunk,
so obviously don't leave,
but we gotta figure this out.
Your eyes are so pretty.
"Where have I seen him before?"
- The video.
- The video.
You're the victim of revenge porn.
You're the lead associate
on the case now.
And we need the win. I need the win.
My husband developed Stonemore's
mechanical heart valve.
I think he's ready to talk.
A whistleblower. From inside Stonemore.
ANGELA: Does Rebel know that her
husband has an 8-year-old son
down in Torrance?
And get this The kid's name
is Grady.
♪
You walk like you're a live wire ♪
Lord knows could start a fire ♪
You got my attention ♪
♪
I wasn't looking,
but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
You got my attention ♪
Oh, no, Steve, I am not nervous
about the trial.
I am confident
that we will prove our case
That Stonemore knowingly put
a valve on the market
that kills people.
Sounds like Stonemore
should be feeling nervous then.
Oh, look. There are
good people inside Stonemore.
And those people? The good ones?
I think they feel just as victimized
as those people that are suffering.
Hey, Tiger, whip me up
a coffee, wouldja?
ZIGGY: Dad.
[SIGHS] Sorry, Steve.
That's my husband, Grady.
Who's this?
It's all of Chicago.
Nice to meet you, Grady.
Steve Rainey with
"Chicago on the Daily."
Oh, pre-trial interview day.
Sorry, man, I-I just forgot.
You can edit this out, right?
TOGETHER: It's live.
Hey, Chicago! Go Bulls!
So, uh, Grady.
- Think your wife's gonna win this case?
- She better, Steve.
'Cause she stole our
kid's college money to fund it.
Uh, actually, our daughter
willingly gave her money.
Tell 'em, Zig.
Mom Hi, Steve.
Uh, yeah, I gave my money happily
because I wanted to see justice served.
You know, corporations
have deep pockets.
Ours are not as deep, but they are wide.
Our daughter gave money, local
schools are having bake sales.
These are real people hurting,
and real people helping.
Well, we'll be sure
to check back in with Rebel
after the verdict.
Thanks for stopping by, Rebel.
Thank you.
And now for today's weather
Phew. [SIGHS]
Well, at least you weren't in a towel.
Chicago's loss.
[LAUGHS]
Zig, what's next?
Uh, WPVI in Philly. You have 10 minutes.
- Okay.
- LANA: And then we gotta head out.
Hey, have we heard from Randall?
Not yet. He said he would text
when Karsten woke up.
Karsten's the whistleblower guy?
Not yet. He's not cooperating.
Oh, but he will. We're gonna get him.
I'm just gonna go change.
Philly's gonna get
a little more cleavage.
Alright now.
Better charge this stuff.
- Wanna do it in your room?
- Yeah.
"Charge this stuff" better not
be code for "let's get it on."
N-No, sir.
I like being called "sir."
As much as you like
being called "Daddy"?
Oh, you're just mad
'cause I told some news guy
about the stolen college fund.
Grady Bello speaks the truth,
'cause the truth will set you free.
Oh, yeah?
Well, how about
letting me know if it's true
if you have a son with a woman
named Allison Watson?
Wow.
I shouldn't have said it.
I tried not to say it,
because I wanted it not to be true.
I actively did not check this out
because I was hoping it was a trap
that they were luring me into,
but it's not.
And that? That face of yours?
We can't have that face of yours,
'cause then she'll say,
"What's wrong, Grady?"
And you'll tell her, even though
you seem to have been fine
lying to her for 9 years.
Dammit. This was a trap,
and I fell right into it.
- How'd you find out?
- You know what?
You are such a weak man.
A truly weak man.
And you have been given so many
chances to be better than you are
because she loves you.
She willfully refuses
to see you as you are
because maybe
she realizes if she sees you
for who you really are, that
rage will swallow her whole,
and we can't have that.
At least not till this trial is over,
because that's what they want.
For her eye to be off the ball.
That's That's why
Stonemore let this information
come my way.
And I fell right into it.
- [SMACKS TABLE]
- Dammit!
You You are too weak to be trusted,
with your crocodile mouth
and hummingbird ass.
Now I gotta fix this.
Dammit.
Alright, what do you think?
Can Philly handle this much of me? Huh?
What?
Too much?
It's perfect!
Uh, Grady was just telling me
about his fishing trip.
Oh, you're going fishing?
Y You didn't tell her?
Yeah, he said he wanted to
get away from the media circus
and get a boat
and go fishing for a few days.
Maybe even a week.
- Oh.
- Going fishing.
You know, get out of your hair.
Well, sure.
Sounds really fun, actually.
I I swear I-I-I'm gonna go
on a fishing trip with you
once that whistleblower blows
and we win this case.
Right? Let's go. Come on.
Zig! Sean!
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We've put together a PowerPoint
of the witnesses Cruz will call
and the narrative he'll push.
We think he'll lead with Helen Peterson.
That's his hero
The gray-haired granny
who took on Stonemore.
Mm-hmm. And then he'll
bring up Maddie Peterson.
They'll lean heavily on the baby
who was born and died.
6 of our female jurors are mothers
and 4 of the men are dads.
If we cross-examine her
too hard, then we lose the jury.
But if we don't cross her at
all, we'll look afraid of her.
Or of them, and of the truth.
Yeah, she's a tough one.
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Morning. Brought you coffee.
I'd rather have a whistleblower.
Did you bring me that?
Not yet. Drink your coffee.
I don't want coffee. I want a case.
We lost Maddie.
- What do you mean?
- Helen called.
She said that Maddie was
too depressed to testify.
The baby, the heart,
the whole thing. So, no Maddie.
Yeah, well, Nate's working on her meds.
We'll get Maddie back.
And I'm supposed to believe you?
You said you had a whistleblower.
- I have a whistleblower.
- Where is he?
He's not ready to cooperate yet,
but it's gonna be fine.
I need proof that
that heart valve is bad.
I told you that I'm gonna get proof.
Lana, did Randall text back?
Yep. Karsten's up. He's in the shower.
Did you hear that? He's in the shower.
And how does that help me?
I had a brainstorm.
The way that we're gonna
get Karsten the chemist
is to introduce him to Daniel.
DANIEL: Uh, my name is Daniel Wiley.
I was custodian
at Sacred Heart for 25 years.
The kids all called me Dan the Man.
About the time I turned 55
is when the shortness of breath started.
It got to where I'd get winded
sweeping half a corridor.
So, I went to the doctor
and he told me I needed
a new heart valve.
But even with the insurance and
the time off and the co-pays,
I couldn't see how I was
gonna do it financially.
Well, my students heard about it
[LAUGHS] And have you heard of GoFundMe?
Oh, the kids put out the word
and the money
[LAUGHS]
The money just poured in.
And I got a new valve, a Stonemore.
And I felt great.
For two years.
Those kids went through
all the trouble
Here I am. You see me now.
I'm sicker than I was
before I got the operation.
They went through
all that trouble for me.
It's like someone played
a dirty trick on them.
And me, too.
And we all lost.
We call that our Dan the Man Problem.
Luke and I watched it last night
and he cried like a baby.
I-I mean, there's just something
about everyone
rallying around Dan the Man.
And he feels bad for them.
That they got tricked.
Oh, God. You too?
This is a disaster.
Patient after patient,
one story sadder than the next.
Yeah, but as you would say,
emotion doesn't equal proof.
If poor kids wanted to give
money to Dan the Man,
you don't think a jury's gonna want to?
Who else? Who else is on
that witness list?
They have a series of experts
to talk about the FDA loophole
and the lack of human trials.
And Dr. Misha Nelson and her study
that's yet to prove
any concrete correlation.
But she did put eyes on what she
said was a deteriorating valve.
Okay. We'll look cold and cruel
if we try to discredit the victims,
so let's find something on Dr. Nelson.
I mean, we looked.
High WebMD ratings,
no malpractice lawsuits
She's pretty unimpeachable.
Everyone's got skeletons
in their closet.
You should know that
better than anyone, Luke.
See what you can find.
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I'm never gonna live that down.
[SIGHS]
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What are we doing here, babe?
Did you adopt a dog?
I swear to God, Randall, I told you
I do not want a puppy
for our anniversary.
- [TRUCK DOORS CLOSING]
- It's not a puppy.
No. No, no, no, no.
You stay away from me.
I told you, I do not
want to talk to you.
Yes, I know, I know, I know.
You are not here to talk to me.
I want you to talk to my friend, Daniel.
He has a Stonemore valve.
What were you thinking?
Your husband is worried about you.
My husband has no idea what
he started by talking to you.
He thinks you want to talk.
That you are a victim of Stonemore, too.
He thinks this case
is eating away at you
and ruining your marriage.
Wow. Happy Anniversary.
Daniel asked us not to come
because he's not feeling well,
so we will keep this brief.
So, we're barging in on a sick
man who asked us not to come?
Amazing. Why is he sick, Karsten?
You tell me that and we'll
leave poor Daniel alone.
You are relentless.
I've heard.
- [SIGHS]
- Oh, Rebel.
- I told you
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I know.
But we were in the neighborhood
and this is Karsten, and he is a
Are you moving?
[SIGHS] I told you today wasn't good.
I don't understand.
[GROANS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
I wanted to take the settlement
from the beginning,
you know that.
W-What are you saying?
Are Are you backing out?
You have to understand, I'm in pain.
[SIGHS] Look, um, Daniel,
this is Karsten the chemist.
He He's the one
who created your valve.
Tell him how sick you are.
Tell him about the the headaches
and the shortness of breath.
I only have a limited amount of energy
and the movers are coming.
You see all these chairs
lined up against the wall?
He is so weak that he can't
walk to the bathroom
without taking a break.
He has to sit down every few feet.
Go on, tell him, Daniel.
Please. You need to go.
They got to you, didn't they?
Stonemore got to you.
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[SIGHS]
Oh.
Please, Daniel.
We are so close to winning.
You can't give up now.
I'm too sick and too old
to even survive a surgery
to take the valve out.
Look, I just want to enjoy
the little time I have left.
I'm moving to Hawaii.
They bought this house
for double what it's worth.
Cash, if I get out of the house today.
Who?
A-A couple. Maybe they were Stonemore.
Maybe they were just a nice couple.
I don't know.
But why should I have to suffer
because of what they did?
What you did?
I've never seen whales.
I'm gonna go whale-watching.
And I'm gonna have a mai tai
by a live volcano.
I'm gonna [LAUGHS]
just do something different
than die a painful death in this house.
I'm sorry.
Tell Cruz.
I didn't have the guts to do it myself.
When you get to Hawaii, um,
find a doctor who will start you
on a chelation protocol.
I'm done with doctors.
Listen to me. Chelation will help.
I promise. Trust me.
The chemist who made the valve
that's killing me
is asking me to trust him.
Please leave.
- [DOOR OPENS]
- All of you.
Oh.
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- Nate.
- Hey.
Hi.
- Um, look, about the other night
- Yeah, we should t
- No, you go.
- You go.
So, um, you said the thing
about wanting to be monogamous
and, uh, I feel like I've been
really clear about this
and this is
Yeah, no, it's work and sex.
I-I just I got drunk
and a little carried away, so
Can we just chalk it up to that?
- Oh. Okay.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- I gotta go. I got an ovarian cyst.
Not, personally. You know, a-a patient.
And I gotta go check on Maddie.
She's depressed and says
she doesn't want to testify.
- Yeah, I heard.
- How did you hear?
My mom just told me to go check on her.
Then she called me to check on you
to make sure you went
to go check on her.
- She's
- Yeah, she really is.
I
I did a whole soliloquy
about your eyes the other night,
- didn't I?
- You did.
You called them glossy chestnuts.
It was sweet, but you were drunk, so
- Gin.
- Hmm.
[CELLPHONE VIBRATING]
- And it's your mom.
- Oh, I'm leaving.
Yeah, he, uh
He just left to go see Maddie.
What's chelation?
Um, it's a process by which
metal ions in the bloodstream,
like mercury or lead,
are eliminated by binding
to a circulating chelating solution.
Simpler. Talk to me like I'm a toddler.
It's a therapy. It basically
makes bad things go bye-bye.
Alright, now you over-corrected.
Just, somewhere in the middle.
Karsten the chemist
said it would help Daniel.
Wow.
Um, he just admitted that
the valve is poisoning people.
That's the one I wanted. Thanks.
Yep, Misha says it's an admission.
[ARGUING QUIETLY]
You think he's gonna talk?
LANA: Let's hope so.
- [CELLPHONE RINGS]
- Ugh.
- Rick?
- Yep.
He wants to go to Carmel
after the trial is over.
Get a house, walk on the beach.
Sounds great.
I don't like sand in my toes.
No, you just don't know
how to take a vacation.
- [LAUGHS] Do you?
- No.
But after this trial, we're gonna learn.
We are gonna go on vacation
with those men of ours
who put up with our workaholic crap.
Oh, Lord, Rebel.
They put up with us,
but we also put up with them.
We need to see them clearly.
What do you mean?
He's gonna cooperate, right?
He better.
[ARGUING CONTINUES]
♪
What can I say? ♪
What can I say? ♪
So, I'm gonna go fish now.
Have fun.
I love you, Zig. Really.
A lot.
Love you, too, Dad.
Broken machine ♪
Built to obey ♪
- I wanna suffer ♪
- [DOOR CLOSES]
- In your shade is where I play ♪
- [ENGINE STARTS]
He's gone. So is she.
Well, unless she pops back in.
I mean, your mom's kinda unpredictable.
Yeah, we can't see her coming from here,
but we can see her from the kitchen.
The kitchen?
Okay. One eye on the driveway
at all times.
Clothes stay on above the waist
in case we have to move quickly,
and we set the scene. Books. Snacks.
We're studying, okay? Let's do this.
I'm so turned on by you right now.
Kiss like a mother ♪
You should run for cover ♪
Hey. So, Misha's social media
is full of pictures of food.
I think I've got something.
Ooh. Tell me.
Poor judgment.
She's sleeping with your brother.
Okay, that's bad taste,
but how is that poor judgment?
Well, your brother
is inclined to skew the results
of the study to be whatever
your mother wants them to be,
and Misha,
by sleeping with your brother,
is inclined to say
whatever he wants her to say.
Okay, first of all, my brother
is inclined to hate my mother,
so that part of
your little theory falls flat.
And Misha doesn't want
a relationship with him.
In fact, she dislikes him
on a fundamental level
and is just having sex with him
to scratch an itch.
Oh, come on. I mean, look
What? I think you're hot.
I also think this is a desperate
attempt to impress Benji
after your little ding dong dance,
and if I slept with you,
I'd still feel that way,
because I'm capable of having
enjoyable sex with a hot man
while having my own opinions.
Wow.
You think I'm hot?
Leave my office. I'm working.
[CHUCKLES]
♪
I hope you're not checking out
my hot ass.
That would make me
feel very objectified.
♪
No, I'm not I'm not doing
this. I'm not doing this.
[SIGHS] And, Rebel,
listen. I, um I admire you.
I mean, I find you maddening,
but under other circumstances,
I might want to grab a drink.
- Maybe. Someday.
- How 'bout today?
Let's go get drunk.
Maybe that's what you need.
I cannot talk to you.
You saw how sick he is,
and you have basically admitted
that the valve was flawed.
I talked to my medical expert.
Okay, I'm gonna choose
my words very carefully.
I know you think
you are helping. You are not.
You are not actually helping
the people you think you are.
I am, okay? At least I am trying.
So please, that is all
I can say, alright?
Thank you.
Babe.
I'm worried you are going to die.
Last week, I followed you to the lab
because you're too depleted
to drive like a normal person.
Because if you're not speeding,
you're swerving all over the road.
You followed me?
Because I'm worried you're going
to kill yourself on the road.
Well, wouldn't that be lovely.
It's been an absolute pleasure.
I'm going now. Are you coming?
♪
I don't know what else to do.
I'm sorry.
♪
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
[VEHICLE DEPARTS]
[SIGHS]
- You didn't get the chemist?
- We can subpoena him.
Oh, so he comes unwillingly
and says nothing?
Or Or he lies?
Or he pleads the fifth?
No, he might not.
Maybe he just needs to be scared.
Maybe the judge will scare him.
You told me you had this.
You told me you had this!
You said that you knew
that you could get this man
to cooperate freely.
[SIGHS]
I was wrong.
Oh.
Say that again.
I was wrong.
I was wrong about getting him
to cooperate freely,
but I am not wrong about him.
He knows something.
I think he knows everything.
I'm Charlie Brown.
I'm Charlie Brown.
I keep kicking that football
because I keep believing you.
I believed you when you said
that this case was a slam dunk.
I believed you when you
said you had a whistleblower
and I didn't have to dig up my wife.
I believed you when you said
you had Daniel and Maddie,
and now I keep believing you,
which makes me a sucker.
You are not a sucker.
Just get a subpoena.
It'll work.
I actually think
it might be what he wants.
It's like a cover.
He can tell Stonemore
that he had to cooperate
because he got a subpoena.
[SIGHS] Okay. Randall called.
Karsten thinks
you're gonna subpoena him,
forcing him to testify,
so he's leaving town.
He's packing, and Randall thinks
he's gonna head to the airport.
[SIGHS]
Charlie Brown with a football.
Don't talk! Just give me a second.
[SIGHS]
♪
Oh. I have an idea.
- A good one.
- [SCOFFS]
You call the judge
and get the subpoena ready.
I'm gonna fix this.
The worst part? I believe her.
I moved out of my mom's place
so she would stop hovering.
So now she sent you to hover?
Nope. I am not here to hover.
[CHUCKLES] Then you're here
to talk me into testifying.
No, I'm here to talk you
into going bowling with me.
Bowling?
L-Like Like, with the
funny shoes and the heavy balls?
Yeah.
I was raised by Mannies
and there's not a lot you can do
with a sullen teenager
who's pissed off at his parents
for never being around,
but there's this one guy
Patrick.
And, uh, he was kinda weird
and smelled funny,
but he loved bowling.
And so that's what we'd do.
We'd go bowling.
And I found that taking
something super heavy
and smashing it into things
was incredibly therapeutic.
So, I wanna take you somewhere
that you can smash things.
Maybe we'll talk about
your postpartum depression
and make sure you're getting
the kind of help you need.
- What?
- No.
Maddie, listen to me.
I don't care if you testify.
I really don't. But I do care
if you're depressed.
I'm a mess.
I-I haven't showered in a week.
Perfect. It'll be like old times.
Me and Smelly Patrick.
[SIGHS]
- Let's go. Come on.
- Okay.
Okay, we have caramel corn
and chocolate covered pretzels.
Which one do you want?
Uh, both.
Sex makes me hungry.
- [BOTH CHUCKLE]
- [VEHICLE DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
Hey, dude. It's your mom.
Oh, no. Oh, Sean, no, no, no, no, no.
No, it's good. We're cool. It
looks like we've been studying.
[DOOR OPENS]
Oh, my God, I forgot. I-I-It's taping.
- [DOOR CLOSES]
- It's been taping. We were taped.
We were taped having sex.
Oh, my God, it just recorded me
saying that we had sex!
[SIGHS] Hey, guys. Grady leave?
You good? Uh, Auntie Lana's in the car.
I'm just here to get this.
And I am so proud
you're getting your work done.
Yay! But don't work too hard.
Take breaks.
Hydrate.
♪
Frightening lightning ♪
Oh, it lights up the night
and it scares me ♪
But don't it feel good? ♪
♪
[RINGING]
[CELLPHONE RINGS]
Hey, can you grab my phone?
Yep.
[RINGING CONTINUES]
Oh. It's Grady.
I got it.
Hey, Grady. Now's not a good time.
We're in the middle
of a thing for the trial
and I don't want to distract Rebel.
REBEL: Have you caught anything?
I didn't cheat.
We weren't together.
It was back when we split up
for a few months.
Oh, boy. She's gonna love to hear that.
After the trial, you can
tell her all about it.
Right now, we have the lives of
a lot of people in our hands.
- Bye.
- But
He said the fish are really biting.
Oh.
No. No. No.
You're relentless. I said no.
A crime has not been committed.
I'm not going to arrest a man
because you asked me to.
Of course you're not,
but if you track down his car,
you'll see that
he is committing a crime.
Multiple crimes.
Reckless driving,
driving while impaired,
speeding, driving a stolen vehicle.
Mm-hmm. Who'd he steal it from?
His husband, who filed a police report.
After you told him to, to force my hand.
Hey, we're doing you a favor.
We're warning you
of a menace to the streets.
And offering you a gift basket
with cheeses from around the world.
Well, if you're doing me a favor,
how come you're bringing me a basket?
Sure feels like a bribe.
Blue Prius, 2018. Put the call out.
- Rebel
- Look, your job
is to make the streets safe.
So make them safe.
If this guy ends up killing someone
because of his erratic driving,
you are responsible
because I warned you.
And I will tell the world.
You know I will, because I'm
What's the word?
Relentless.
I have every reporter on speed dial.
They love me.
Where do you think the cheese came from?
♪
Gimme the CHP.
2018 Blue Prius
traveling south on the 110
from downtown headed towards LAX.
♪
Subpoena. Where is he?
He's on his way in.
They got him swerving
on the ramp to LAX.
He was going, like, what?
80 in a 35 mile-per-hour zone.
Which makes me What's that word?
- A hero.
- That's right.
A hero.
Hey, Cruz. Try some cheeses
from around the world.
Your guy will be here in about an hour.
Once he's processed and
released, you can serve him.
Here. Try this Brie with fig jam.
You're gonna love it.
I had to add him to the witness list.
Oh, yeah. That's good.
Oh, yeah? That means
Benji's gonna find out.
Benji? What's he gonna do about it?
The truth is on our side.
What you don't understand
about the law is a lot.
They're gonna send me to one of
those places for wayward teens,
where these, like, big, burly guys
are gonna come into my house
in the middle of the night
and take me away to the woods
of New Mexico or Montana,
and they're gonna
force me to hike in the hot sun
and journal my feelings and
SEAN: Got it.
Got it? Got what?
- No. Got in.
- You got in?
Dude, I told you to chill.
I used to steal computers.
I know how to hack
into a home security camera.
Okay, do you know how to erase it?
Well, it's gonna look like we erased it.
I don't care if it looks
like we erased it.
We could just say that
there was a power outage.
Please, you have to do this
so that I don't have to pee
in the New Mexico woods
while some counselor named
Jax or Pax or Slax
tells me that I'm worthless.
L-Let me see it.
taping. We were taped.
We were taped having sex.
Oh, my God, it just recorded me
saying that we had sex!
Yeah, before that.
- Before the to the sex.
- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Delete the sex.
Well, how about telling me
if it's true if you have a son
with a woman named Allison Watson?
- Wow. I shouldn't have said that.
- What?
Does your dad have a
No! No, no. Stop it.
Just stop the tape!
♪
So, Misha's whole case is about
statistical probability, right?
Which means she's going to
hammer at the numbers.
There's a .7% elevated rate of
toxins in the urine of patients
with the Stonemore valve,
and 1.2% elevated level of
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know
her studies. I know the numbers.
So what's new?
I hope you have something better.
The witness list just got updated.
- Daniel's out.
- That's great.
Yes, but they've added
a new name Karsten Vokelberg.
Who's Karsten Vokelberg?
Well, according to the witness list,
he's a chemist who works at Stonemore.
But he's not on any of
the company directories
or the company payroll,
so I called Mark Duncan
and his secretary says
he's in Zurich and it's
the middle of the night, so
[SIGHS]
So, I'll call her again and be
more persistent this time.
Sounds like a great idea, Luke.
So, that's it? I'm I'm free to go?
Yep. Your husband paid your bail.
Yeah, he also had me arrested.
You know damn well
I didn't steal your car.
I got you a lawyer.
My cousin has a friend.
She's on her way over here.
I don't need a lawyer.
Can we please Yes, you do.
This is a subpoena to appear in court
and testify to everything
you know about Stonemore.
If you leave town, that's a felony.
Randall, you have no idea
what you have done.
You are going to ruin me.
I have almost got this fixed and
I'm trying to help you.
Well, you're not!
Don't say anything to them.
- And who are you?
- Benji Ray. I'm your lawyer.
RANDALL: No, I
I called my cousin's friend.
Is your cousin's friend gonna be
able to quash this subpoena
and get to the bottom
of this ridiculous circus?
Does your cousin's friend
have the deep pockets
it's gonna take to fight
the LAPD for wrongful arrest?
He's already been served, Benji.
To fight Julian Cruz for
improper service of a subpoena?
Nothing improper about it.
Or to take on Annie Flynn Ray Bello
for slander of your good name?
- I didn't slander anyone.
- You will.
And if I know you, you won't
stop until everyone but you
has been painted
with the brush of corruption.
Well, I've got my own paintbrush,
and I've been authorized by
Mark Duncan to offer my services
to the tune of whatever it takes.
Mark Duncan is not your friend.
You don't talk unless I tell you to,
and all I need is the
answer to this question
Would you like me to represent you?
- Karsten.
- RANDALL: Babe.
♪
- Yes.
- BENJI: Great.
Nice try. See you in court.
But
♪
It's what Stonemore and its counsel
have done from the beginning.
Mr. Cruz did not even attempt
to depose Mr. Vokelberg.
And now he's sandbagged my
Lie, obscure, and -
- [GAVEL BANGS]
- Counselors.
Ms. Braun, my court reporter,
is very good,
but no mortal can transcribe
two people speaking at the same time.
Mr. Cruz, continue.
Your honor, we only
discovered Mr. Vokelberg now
because Stonemore scrubbed his
name from corporate directories
in order to hide him from us.
This is an outlandish story.
Not your turn, Mr. Ray.
They hid him from us because
he has more knowledge
than anybody else
about their valve in question.
He created the coating
that makes this valve unique.
Fairness demands that the jury
hear what he has to say.
Mr. Ray, why does Mr. Vokelberg's name
not appear in any of
the corporate directories?
Because he's not a Stonemore employee.
He works for a Stonemore subsidiary
and was not covered by
plaintiffs' discovery requests.
Subsidiaries were included, Benji.
Mr. Cruz.
Nonetheless, it sounds to me
that he has knowledge about the valve
that goes to the heart of this case.
Forgive the pun.
Forgiven. And, Your Honor, we disagree.
The only thing his testimony
will accomplish
is to expose my client's
proprietary information
and trade secrets in open court,
to the benefit of its competitors.
Then, if it pleases the court,
we'd like to request to examine
Mr. Vokelberg in camera now.
His testimony could be kept under seal,
and Your Honor can then rule
on its relevance.
He's not an expert witness.
He sounds like an expert to me,
but let's find out.
Bailiff, please clear
and secure the courtroom.
We'll proceed in camera.
Thank you, Your Honor.
♪
Hi.
- Oh, hey.
- How's Maddie?
She is a terrible bowler.
Like, brutal.
She got a 95 with no gutters.
You took her bowling?
I did. And, uh, she smiled.
We ate nachos and she
agreed to stick to her meds
and join a support group.
And she said she might even testify.
But she's a terrible bowler
- Hey.
- I overcorrected.
Sure, you ghosted me,
but you showed yourself
to be decent and kind
and the sex is excellent
and I enjoy the conversation,
and it occurs to me
that I overcorrected because
the man that I dated before you
turned out to be married, which,
my bad, I believed his lies,
but I didn't come here
to talk about him.
I came here to talk about you.
And dinner.
I will have dinner with you
if you'd still like to do that.
And by dinner, I mean
I will consider being in
a monogamous relationship with you.
You said the other night
that's what you wanted,
but then this morning, you said
it was because you were drunk
and we both pretended that was true.
You, I assume to save face,
and me, because, well,
as I said, I've been overcorrecting.
The next couple nights are bad for me
because I'll be preparing
my witness testimony,
but maybe later in the week?
Okay.
Okay, then.
Oh, and when I was little,
I had this blanket that was
blue and soft and warm,
and that's what your eyes remind me of.
[CHUCKLES]
Mr. Vokelberg, do you understand
that you're here to help me
determine whether
you have information relevant
to the issues in the case?
This is a private proceeding.
What you say will be kept under seal.
Yes, Your Honor.
Mr. Cruz, you may proceed.
CRUZ: Thank you, Your Honor.
Mr. Vokelberg,
do you know if there is a characteristic
in the Stonemore valve that
causes people to be sick?
Yes.
Can you please tell the court
what that is?
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
How many years?
Your anniversary.
How many years?
Hmm. You got me.
I'm at 10.
I may not make it to 18.
There's been a few times in my marriage
I didn't think I was gonna make it.
We managed.
People make it through hard things.
Here, look. That's him.
He's cute.
[CHUCKLES]
Oh, you should see Lana's guy.
Lana, come on.
Show him a picture of Rick.
- No.
- [SCOFFS] Gimme your phone.
I'm gonna show him.
Hmm. You have a missed call from Grady?
Yeah, h-he didn't want to bother you.
He just wanted you to know
he was going to bed early.
Oh.
KARSTEN: A mechanical valve
that lasted a lifetime
and didn't require the patient
to take blood thinners
was the Holy Grail.
The job was to create
a coating that was smooth
and would allow blood
to pass over it and not erode.
It was my life's work.
CRUZ: Did you succeed?
Did you create this coating?
Uh, I created the coating,
but I did not succeed.
Shortly after we began using it,
I realized that it was
causing the metal components
of the valve to leach out.
Because the coating wore away?
Because the coating was bonding
with the nickel in the valve
on an atomic level.
So now nickel was leaching
into the patients' bloodstream.
Can that cause autoimmune disease?
Objection. Lacks foundation.
Overruled. You may answer.
That's the theory.
Nickel is immune-modulating, so
♪
So, when you discovered that the coating
was causing the nickel to leach
into people's bodies
and poisoning them
did you tell anybody at Stonemore?
Yes.
I told my supervisor, her supervisor,
the Chief Innovation Officer,
and everyone on up.
Did you tell Mark Duncan,
the CEO of Stonemore Medical?
Objection.
Overruled.
Yes. I told Mark Duncan.
He told me to fix it, but
in the meantime, to stay quiet.
I was told not to say anything.
So, that's what I did.
Until now.
Too late, unfortunately, for so many.
I object.
I'm sure you do, Counselor.
I'm sure you do.
No further questions, Your Honor.
♪
♪
Hey.
We reached out to a few medical experts
to see who could refute
Karsten Vokelberg's claims.
We should hear something by tomorrow,
and I'll set up an interview.
Thanks.
But does it matter?
Are we gonna settle?
Duncan is on an airplane.
I will go ♪
What the chemist
was saying about the valve,
how do you know
I'm just having so many feelings
There's the word.
What word?
Feelings. [SCOFFS]
It's a tricky word.
Who do you want me to be right now?
Your boss or your dad?
My dad.
Cass, I think you're a brilliant lawyer,
but I think you're a little lost.
You don't know if you're
more Rebel or more me,
and you need to decide.
Okay, now my boss.
There's no room here for feelings.
You need to compartmentalize.
You put those feelings in a box,
you put that box on a shelf.
Don't touch that box again
till you've made an appointment
with your therapist
for after the trial.
Until then, you're a defense attorney.
And your job is to, yes,
provide the robust defense
that everyone is entitled to,
but also to remember
the reason everyone's
entitled to that defense.
Because when we administer that
defense to the ones at the top,
the ones at the bottom
will have the same right
to that robust defense.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I must love more ♪
I just can't help myself ♪
All the way with you ♪
I have feelings and I need help
putting them inside a box.
Maybe with tequila.
Quite possibly naked.
Are you interested?
I will love ♪
♪
How does it feel to kick
the football, Charlie Brown?
- Feels pretty damn good.
- [CHUCKLES]
Thank you.
LANA: You think they'll settle?
Oh, after hearing Karsten
testify, they're gonna settle.
Mark my words, they'll be
calling within the hour.
They're done and they know it,
and I'm gonna make them pay.
[LAUGHS]
And then Then I'm gonna celebrate.
[LAUGHS] Bird-watching trip?
Several. And you?
Lana's going to Carmel
with her boyfriend
and I am going to Mexico with Grady.
[SIGHS]
What's with the face?
There's no face.
What do you think, Cruz?
Should Lana go to Carmel
with her boyfriend, Rick?
Uh, let's stay out of my sex life.
Great idea.
- [CELLPHONE VIBRATES]
- Oh, is that Benji?
- Telemarketer, not Benji.
- Hmm.
And for the record, I didn't
want to go to Carmel with Rick
because he didn't ask me
where I wanted to go.
He told me where he wanted to go.
Everything is on his terms.
It's a red flag, which I saw.
Doesn't mean Rick is cancelled,
just means I took note.
I noticed.
Something you should do more of.
What are you talking about?
[CHUCKLES]
Do you have something to tell me?
Because if you do,
you should just tell me.
Hey, um, is Ziggy here?
No. Isn't she at home?
No. She took off and she told me
not to follow her,
and she's not
answering her phone, and
s-something happened.
What happened?
I don't know if I should tell you.
Of course you should tell me.
It's about her dad. She heard a rumor.
A rumor?
Yeah, I-I don't think
I'm supposed to tell you.
You definitely
are not supposed to tell her.
Tell me what?!
♪
Cass!
I have pizza and beer.
I saw your car outside.
I know you're here.
Don't pretend like you're sleeping.
Oh, hey, you're not Cass.
No. Uh, hello. And goodbye.
Huh. Pizza?
[DOOR CLOSES]
I'll have some.
Mm. Bet you will.
Don't judge me.
I wanted sex, I had sex, that's it.
We're like you and Misha.
[LAUGHS] Turns out,
me and Misha aren't like
me and Misha anymore.
We are monogamous.
- Since when?
- Since today.
This is what monogamy looks like, baby.
- Looks good on me, right?
- No, I'm freaking out.
- I'm going to bed.
- [KNOCK ON DOOR]
Is that her?
I hope so.
Unless it's your sex toy
coming back for more.
We have another sibling.
Yeah, uh, well, actually, I do.
My dad had a kid
with a woman named Allison,
so I actually don't know
what that makes him to you.
I think it's like a step-sibling?
I don't know. I can't deal
with this right now.
I want to get high, except I
don't actually want to get high,
so I came here.
Can I sleep over?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Oh.
There's a condom wrapper
on your nightstand.
Nate, have you had sex
in your bed recently?
No, I have not.
Great.
[CELLPHONE RINGS]
This is Mom. She keeps calling.
Can you just tell her I'm okay?
I don't want to talk about it.
Yeah.
♪
Hey, Mom?
[TIRES SQUEALING]
♪
For my money ♪
You can go wherever you want ♪
- For my money ♪
- You're not the chosen one ♪
- For my money ♪
- It is no sin ♪
- For my money ♪
- To fall in love with gin ♪
Grady!
♪
Grady?
Grady!
Grady!
For my money ♪
- Oh.
- Your head and soul is torn ♪
- For my money ♪
- It doesn't matter where you're born ♪
For my money Grady!
[GASPS, MUMBLING]
You have a son?!
How could you?!
I Let's talk about this.
- No, no, no, no.
- It is too late for talking.
Because you have a son
that you never told me about.
Because you had him
when we were married!
Because you are a lying dirtbag!
Yes, I did, but
When we took Ziggy to Disneyland
and we rode on those tea cups
10 times in a row,
that was a lie!
Because you have a son!
- Please, just
- And when we went to Mexico
and we stayed in bed for three
days because there was a monsoon
but we didn't care
because we had each other?
That was a lie, too!
Because you have a son!
Rebel!
And for 10 years, Grady,
I have been a wife and a mother,
but that was a lie.
A lie! Son!
Back when we separated,
y-you brought home a kid
without telling me.
Oh, you mean our daughter?
Yeah. Okay, but it worked out,
but back then
Oh, so you were mad
when I brought home Ziggy,
so you went and had a baby
with someone else?
No! I-I wa I was confused and
Oh, you were confused, so you
had a baby with someone else?
Are you gonna listen to me or what?
Are you gonna continue to lie?
Because that is what you do.
You lie and I look the other way
and I and I feel sorry for you
because it must be so hard
to live with someone
who's working all the time.
I make your weakness my problem!
Well, I'm not gonna stand here
and be yelled at by you.
Are you lying to the kid, too?
Does he even know you exist?
No. Okay?
He doesn't. I
I-I pay child support every
month because I'm a decent guy.
How? You don't make any money!
- I repair cars, Rebel.
- Oh, yeah.
Barely. You barely repair cars.
You barely work.
Well, I raised Ziggy! I did, not you.
Oh, and apparently, I raised
your love child with my money!
Oh, yeah, there it is.
Always about the money with you.
Money, money, money!
I-I'm sick of it, and I'm sick of you.
Get off the boat. I'm leaving.
Hey, no. I'm not going anywhere.
We are talking.
We're not talking. You're yelling. Go!
- Grady! Grady!
- [MOTOR STARTS]
Ah! Aah!
Ugh! Grady!
Ah!
Grady, you sonofadick!
Wah! Oh!
Ugh, I can't believe
that you're driving away!
Grady!
It's freezing!
Oh, Grady!
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
CRUZ: Oh, that's a good one.
♪
[CELLPHONE RINGING]
♪
Benji?
♪
Do I have a comment?
♪
Annie did what?
♪
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
♪