Leverage: Redemption (2021) s01e10 Episode Script

Julie?
Julie, we have a doctor's
appointment today.
Come on, Julie, can't miss another one.
Julie, it's Beth. Let me in.
Julie, let me in.
Thanks to the dominance of the
patriarchal Western medical tradition.
This tradition's focus on
rationality and experimentation
- has sidelined the crucial
- Julie!
Julie! Julie! Julie! Julie.
Julie, come on.
911 emergency.
Yes, this is Dr. Beth Duque. I need
an ambulance over at 236 Sycamore.
I have a female, age 32, unresponsive.
- Sending an ambulance now.
- Julie.
It's important to trust
this ancient wisdom.
Pulse is rapid and thready.
- To trust yourself and to trust me.
- Honey, stay with me, okay?
- Remember, we're in this together.
- They're on their way.
Thank you guys so much for coming.
I wanted you to see all the supplements
and other products my sister bought.
I just got through visiting
her at the hospital,
so the thought of bringing
all of this to the office
"Himalayan Chakra Rebalancing Extract."
Why was your sister
taking all this stuff?
Because she was sick.
We don't know what it is.
And I'm a doctor, so I
know how that sounds, but
We think it was an autoimmune disorder.
Testing came back inconclusive, so
we've been keeping her on medication
just to control the symptoms, but
it has been three years of suffering.
Hmm.
She started looking online
and found Bronwyn Lark.
If this Bronwyn is selling fake
medication, then that's a crime.
- Um, food supplements, right?
- Mm-hmm.
See, the FDA treats food
and drugs differently.
A drug has to prove that it's safe,
but a food or dietary supplement
is considered safe
until it's proven unsafe.
You can't take it off the shelves
until it's actually hurt people.
Very good.
And you know this because ?
- Evil lawyer.
- Evil lawyer, yeah.
And does Bronwyn tell people
to stop taking their meds?
No, but she walks right up to the line,
saying that Western medication
interferes with the healing traditions,
so patients aren't getting
their cancer treatments.
Parents aren't giving their
kids the medicine they need.
Instead, they're relying on this.
I've been tracking the media
reports around her company.
Hundreds of people like Julie are sick.
But they haven't met the
necessary requirements
for the government to get involved,
and by the time they do,
thousands will be sick.
Hundreds, I assure you, will be
dead, and it's gonna be too late.
All right, Bronwyn Lark.
After a decent acting career
and a slightly more successful
"getting her picture in People magazine
for dating problematic dudes" career,
she retired and then rebranded
herself a wellness maven.
She had just enough
camera presence and fame
so that she stood out from other
amateurs in the online wellness world,
and her business, Enlyven, with a "Y,"
is the fastest growing
influencer brand in the region.
I mean, they sell everything.
Everything from $200 eye
cream to $50 crystals.
And this is ?
She's coordinating an op
between the Korean Leverage team
and the Nigerian team.
And the knives?
It's probably part of the
con. I don't know, it's Parker.
Maybe it's Knife Day.
Anyway
So Bronwyn's childhood
friend, Melanie Brown, PhD,
is a real doctor and her expertise
is in nutrition and immunology,
so she runs the combo spa
and laboratory at Enlyven.
As her business partner,
she gives Bronwyn
just the right words to sound legit,
and then Bronwyn sells access.
So you buy a few products,
you get an email from her.
Buy a lot more, get a video chat.
Drop a thousand on that junk,
and you get a weekend
at the spa with her.
This is a very small team
for a con of this scope.
Well, that's because she doesn't
make any of her own products,
so she spends crazy money
buying out these, like,
indie health products that are
making a splash, rebrands them,
pushes them out as her own.
Some of them are fairly useless.
Okay, but some of them
have nasty side effects.
She turns over the
products so quickly, though,
none of it sticks to her.
So she's a shark.
She's gotta keep eating, she's
gotta keep moving, or she dies.
That's how we get her.
You ever fought a shark?
Yes. That's not
The point is, is that
we poison her food.
I see where you're going.
She overinvests in
launching new products.
So if we sell her a product
that fails spectacularly,
then her company and
her reputation fails.
Can I just ask the question,
should we even be doing this?
I mean, we have a whole
stack of other cases.
And this does seem like
one of those moments
where they brought it on themselves.
I mean, I do feel bad and
all, but they use the products.
In fact, if you don't mind me saying so,
it sounds a little bit like
the con that you used to do.
This is about the evil lawyer
crack earlier, isn't it?
No, no, no. The difference
is the Rabbit Hole.
Breanna.
So, uh, let's say you're, like, a
smart person and you have a problem.
You wanna be responsible,
do some online research.
So use a search engine or social media.
The problem is those
are driven by algorithms.
Right, so algorithms,
they point you to sites
that have the most engagement, but
not necessarily the most accurate.
So Bronwyn is using this common
tactic to game the system.
She created this whole
network of fake websites
and social media accounts that
all refer back to a central site,
drives the traffic up.
So, say, you're a smart person
and you want to do some research,
and you want to look for other
sources, it doesn't matter.
You're gonna get bounced back,
fall deeper into the Rabbit Hole.
The more you research, the
further down they drive you.
And that is how Grandma
learns about space lasers.
So stupid.
You can also fine tune
the Rabbit Hole, right?
I mean, design it to pull
the relevant search terms.
Yes, so I can tell you exactly
what phrases Bronwyn is grabbing.
She's specifically targeting women.
Women get misdiagnosed,
like, 30% of the time,
- and it takes two years longer to get that diagnosis.
- What?
Hell, that's how they
almost killed Serena.
You see, I targeted the powerful
and trapped them with their desires.
She targets the powerless, and
she traps them with their pain.
She tasks me.
And I shall have her.
What's going on with the knives today?
Breathing in.
And out.
We are all one.
One with each other.
We are all sisters joined in eternal
And that is all the time we
have left on silver package.
Thank you, bye-bye.
Bronwyn, I just wanna
talk you about my symptoms.
Mm-hmm. Download the Wynner app.
The app is where we
collect all of our expertise
and advise the best products
to purchase for your issues.
Remember, it's for
entertainment purposes only.
Bye!
I just read some exciting new research
on inflammation-reducing diets.
Oh. Ooh, I do not want to tell people
to eat beets. Beets are not sexy.
They can be. Deeply.
Can you find something with,
like, magnets or space metals?
We're starving for financing,
and Chad Deihle has been
hitting me up on social.
I think he's looking to invest.
The tech guy?
The tech guy? He is a
Bitcoin financial wizard.
Calling him "the tech
guy" is like calling him
I mean, who's someone
awesome in your field?
Rosalind Franklin. She's
No. A famous person.
- Uh
- Oh, I gotta post a post-yoga post.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Hey, Wynners, I just got finished
with a very spiritual yoga practice
where we really got in
touch with our inner Artemis.
Why don't you be W-Y-wynners
and check out our storefront?
Let's Bron-wyn together.
So good.
Anyway
He is super into technology,
so find me something sci-fi,
like, I don't know, tiny robots.
Nanoparticles.
Tiny robots are real?
Yeah.
Bonus.
Okay, we just need to find something hot
that'll get him to dump
a bunch of cash our way.
We're running very thin on H?
H? What's H?
All of the wellness influencers
are running this logo.
This is the hotness.
"Coming soon." Not out yet.
Yes.
We can brand this.
But is it a product? A service?
Oh, who cares?
Find it.
Okay, so first, we seed the
ground by paying influencers
to post our mysterious letter "H."
How much did that cost us?
Sponcon?
Depends on the reach, but
could go for about $200 a pop.
Then my bot army goes
in, amplifies the posts,
and then we get that hashtag trending.
We hit peak saturation
at exactly the time
Bronwyn will be checking her
feed, every day, same time,
right after yoga.
Privacy is dead.
Yeah, my generation doesn't
really know what that means.
She uses her reputation to hurt people,
and she's nothing without it.
Let's go steal her fame.
What is this?
Where the bees are. I told
you, we're going to an apiary.
Oh, I was expecting apes.
This is better. Hello!
Oh, my gosh, you're
Bronwyn Lark! You're famous!
I am, and I am.
Doris Bask, freelance media consultant.
This is my assistant, Zazi.
Hank! Get over here!
Hank!
Bronwyn Lark is here!
Damn it, Doris, the bees are sleeping!
Sorry. Shh.
Hank, this is Bronwyn
Lark and this is
A-and Melanie Brown.
Our company, Enlyven, is curious
about your product, Mr. Hank.
Hank.
Hank's Honey Creme,
skin care rejuvenation.
Hank and I are business partners.
Much like you, Ms. Brown, with Ms. Lark.
Some partnership! I do all of the work!
All right? I I tend to the bees.
I listen to their eternal song.
I I interpret their every need
by a delicate dance that they do.
You put H's on everything!
That's your social media campaign?
You have talent.
That means so much to me for
you to say that about me to me.
Mr. Hank, you need to appreciate Doris.
It doesn't matter how
good your product is,
if it doesn't get out
there, it will fail.
Melanie and I have
the same relationship.
Her health company, with all
of its science and research,
was dying until I came
along and helped her.
I wouldn't I wouldn't say dying.
We would love to get our
product on your website.
It's It's not her product, it's
my product, it's their product,
and I don't know if I'm ready
to share this sweet
nectar with strangers.
We have very attractive terms.
Melanie, the offer documents.
They're in the car. I thought I'd
look at the research first and
Sorry. Sorry.
I'll get them. I'll get them.
- Yeah.
- Thank you.
Zazi, go and get our
perspectives from the car, too.
- Oh.
- Oh.
Ooh.
Ooh.
He likes you.
Doris, let's go on a walk.
He's a bit of a handful.
Oh, you know people like him,
they just can't believe
their dreams will come true
without the dream seller.
Mm-hmm. Let me take him off your hands.
- Ah.
- I have a financier, Chad Deihle.
You know, the Bitcoin genius,
and he is looking to
invest in a product with me.
Let's make it this one.
We'll buy you out.
I was thinking partnership.
- Mm.
- But hear me out.
My media campaign got you to
drive all the way out here.
Imagine what I could do
for your other products.
I want to learn from you, Bronwyn.
You get people to believe in themselves.
No, I get them to believe in me.
You see, that's it. That's
the kind of insight that
I hope that your partner
understands how lucky she is.
We could use a little new
blood in the business. Come on.
Stupid. Stupid!
Do better, Melanie.
Uh, hey.
You know, for what it's worth,
I think it's pretty cool
you having PhD's and stuff.
As Bronwyn points out,
PhD's don't move products.
Yeah, right. My boss is
pretty mercenary, too.
But hey, someday we'll
be in charge, right?
Just understand, it doesn't
matter if you want to help people,
if nobody will listen to you.
Some people are born to be in front.
Got the buyout forms.
Oh, no, this is a partnership.
W we didn't talk about a
Partnership?
Yes, partnership.
Well, then we do it the old way.
Oh. Oh.
The golden nectar
Of eternal life.
Ooh. It's so very so Yeah.
Come on, I'm totally ready.
Ninety percent of jumping off
buildings is proper preparation.
Not until you take your test.
Right, I'm gonna go meet
this Chad Deihle with Bronwyn.
Hey there, partnership.
I thought the whole plan
was to buy Hank's honey
and put her deeper in the
hole, and then take her company.
Yes, it was,
but we weren't expecting this
outside money from this Chad guy,
and I decided that,
you know, if we partner,
I can manage the con from the inside.
Or
- Or what?
- I mean, I'm with Harry on this one.
I mean, this chick hasn't gotten
just a little bit under your skin?
She's an actress and a con
woman. Why would oh, I get it.
Good one, Harry.
Question, could we take it
a little easy on Melanie?
I'm starting to feel like
she's less of an accomplice
and more just stuck with a bad friend.
Like Bronwyn's her personal Rabbit Hole.
Oh, well, she's part of a company
that's defrauding vulnerable people
and putting them in hospital, so
I'm not making any promises,
and I'm not justifying
myself to you or anyone.
Right.
All right, here we go.
Go up!
Ah.
- Yes!
- Great work. Let's go to lunch. Yeah.
Anyway, uh uh
Can I get a little help here?
Can I just get a little help?
Hey, 90% of jumping off
buildings is preparation,
10% is learning to hang
off them. See you later.
Eliot, grab me a chalupa,
the one that I like,
and a juice.
Do you want to see $40 million?
Absolutely.
My fortune comes from the
digital currency exchange,
Crownscoin, that I created.
Millions in digital currency
are exchanged there every day.
And this is my personal fortune.
This is the future of money. It
exists only in bits and bytes.
Bitcoin. Blockchain-based
digital currency.
If this were gold, you
could steal it from me.
If it were cash, you
could counterfeit it.
But this is completely worthless
unless I type in the 12-word key phrase
to this secure computer and unlock it.
It can't be faked. It cannot be stolen.
Incredible.
Much like I am the
architect of the spirit,
you are the architect of the future.
And it explains the security.
Eivor? Oh, no, he just
makes a good smoothie.
Now, I am going to give $5 million
to launch your bee cream.
We are so excited about the bee cream.
- I do not care about the bee cream.
- Oh.
Bronwyn, I care about your customers.
- Well, I care about my customers.
- Yes.
I do not care about your customers.
I care about the hundreds of
thousands of distinct users
who have filled out
health questionnaires.
Uh, we've had nearly a million,
although not all of them
have purchased any product yet.
Oh, who cares about the
sales of physical objects?
That's so 18th century.
- I care
- You care about the data.
Very good.
Doris, right?
And why, Doris, do I
care about their data?
Well, you say data, I say data.
You say potato.
Because it's hundreds of thousands
of people sharing their pain.
Their weaknesses, their fears.
Hell, I can crosstab and find out
who bought the stupidest
stuff off your site.
- No offense.
- Don't care.
To see who is the most desperate,
and then I can monetize that database.
Like, have you ever thought
about how many of your customers
must be in financial distress
because of their illnesses?
I have not.
- We can sell those names.
- Oh. Oh.
To loan services, financial advisors.
I will so absolutely launch a bee cream
if it means thousands more
people are gonna come to your site
and give you their data, which
we can use to target them.
And hey, you already did half the job
with that really nice viral H campaign.
Oh, well, that was Doris.
I see a lot of potential in her.
- Actually, I see a lot of me in her.
- Oh.
Product launch is about to start,
according to Bronwyn's social media.
Are you sure we're ready?
For the past week,
I've been coordinating
the campaign across five
different time zones,
so I haven't had any sleep
in five different time zones.
Is it safe for the bees to be in here?
Staging! Theater!
Chad is giving us $5 million
to launch this campaign.
We have to make a splash.
Just don't bump the boxes.
Three, two
Wynners!
A few weeks ago,
everyone's social was abuzz with
our virtual marketing campaign.
Today, I get to reveal the product,
and it is something
that I, Bronwyn Lark,
promise will change skin care.
Its healing properties are unparalleled.
Its soothing qualities are unmatched.
- Now.
- Pew!
- Its comforting abilities are unrivaled.
- And the media blitz begins.
This bee cream is top of the line.
You'll never experience
Sorry, uh, you people
keep lighting up my
Oh.
Breaking news at Channel 6.
Hank's Bee Farm is in a sticky
situation after the authorities
The city is in a buzz
over the controversy
that the bee cream
was never FDA approved.
It was the bees! The
bees told me to do it!
The bees told me!
It's unknown how many
bodies have been found
on the property and the question is
They said Hank's Honey
Creme would heal my rash!
Oh, this is great.
How could we didn't wait
till after the announcement?
Well, we're piggybacking
off of Bronwyn's feed.
Most of my accounts are fake,
so I had to create a little
firestorm amongst her followers.
And I didn't want to
give her time to react.
I mean, her audience needs to see her
reputation and fame
destroyed in real time.
Oh.
My modeling career is over!
Like I was saying,
this bee cream industry is filled
with charlatans and fraudsters.
Now, they sell you cream, but
you don't know what's been added.
Here at Enlyven,
we go straight to the bee.
The venom of the bee, or as
we call it, the bee's kiss.
Well, what is what is happening?
Dr. Brown, tell us, what
is in the bee's kiss?
Uh, the-the bee sting?
Uh, melittin, apamin.
Ah. Okay, I'm seeing the comment shift.
They cause inflammatory responses.
With responses that help
prepare your immune system
for other toxins and
diseases causing inflammation.
The bee sting is nature's vaccine.
Not derived from shadowy laboratories
or with added unreliable ingredients.
H is the honey bee's kiss.
We will be selling bee venom extract.
And for a premium, we
will ship you live bees
so that you can inoculate
yourself with nature's power.
Oh, clever girl.
Wait, these are presales?
Yep.
Bronwyn, look at these numbers.
- You are a genius.
- Thank you.
You do know that I have holdings
in other wellness companies
all around the world, right?
I'm taking you global, Bronwyn.
Whatever money you need,
whatever infrastructure you need,
you got Chad.
- Namaste, Chad.
- Namaste, babe.
This is the opposite of
what we wanted, right?
Thank you, Parker.
All right, what's our next move on her?
I have no idea. This woman
lies without any remorse,
and then she pivots without thought
to consequence or even reality.
Imagine the good she could've done
if she'd had the decency to
become an honest con woman.
All right, we'll wipe out her database.
That's where the values at, right?
If we do that, she'll
just restore from a backup.
I guess I could install
a virus that corrupts it.
Corrupts the backups, too.
Fine.
You know, my my first grift
I went to pastry school in Paris
to get a job in an arms
dealer's favorite restaurant.
You know, catch his eye over time.
And I spent six months
just carving my way
into his life like a scalpel,
but I walked away from that con
with a Van Gogh and a
briefcase full of diamonds.
I mean, they were physical
objects. They were treasures.
She
She finds thousands of
victims in their own homes,
and and she sells their
their their thoughts
to a man who pays her in
money that doesn't even exist.
I mean, is this what crime has come to?
Well, I hate to have a
"well, actually" moment,
but Bitcoin actually exists, okay?
Just it physically exists.
Like Santa, or the Grey
Man Who Haunts Our Dreams.
- Who's the Grey Man Who Haunts Our
- Shh!
You never say his name twice! Never!
Bronwyn can recover from anything
as long as she's got Chad's money.
We break that connection.
Mm. Let's hack his Bitcoiny thing.
No. Sophie already said, the only
way this guy accesses the exchange
is from a secret computer that is
not connected to any outside network.
There is no way in.
You know, Chad is
throwing up a lot of flags
that could get him investigated
for money laundering.
A lot of people think you can't
launder Bitcoin, but you can.
You do it through initial coin offering.
Chad's exchange gives him access
to all those root accounts.
If he just coin-mixes
during the transactions,
he could launder millions of
dollars and no one would ever know.
I've been keeping up with
my evil lawyering reading.
- Mad respect.
- All right, look, even if he is legit,
he's still living in fear of
the FBI sniffing around his life.
It's an inside/outside play.
We convince Chad that Bronwyn's
part of an investigation
and scare him away from her.
Yes, and I convince Bronwyn
that there's a scandal
coming on Chad's side
and scare her away from him.
Hey, wake up.
You're gonna work on
a virus, as a backup.
And I'm gonna go prove that
the personal touch still works.
Stop there.
You are a harbinger of negative energy.
Be gone.
I didn't know. I didn't know.
I chose Hank's company because I
saw the potential for it to go viral,
and I was right.
Imagine what I can do
for your other campaigns.
Doris, like bees,
there's only one queen.
You cannot imagine what my life is like.
I was an actress.
I know what it does to you.
Sitting in a room with women
who all look exactly like you,
knowing that only one
of you is gonna succeed,
and the rest of us,
ah, the rest of us have already failed.
I know what that does to
you, the constant judging.
What did you do? Did you
break like so many others?
No, you left them behind.
You took what they didn't appreciate
and you made your own rules.
You made your own world.
I get you, Bronwyn.
I understand you.
There are times when
Melanie's conscience is, uh
It's a burden.
I did a one-woman show
of Death of a Salesman
in a casino dinner
theater in the Outback.
Nothing scares me.
Hello, hello, hello!
Hey, how's it going?
Kent Allard, Southeastern
First Financial.
We're Bronwyn Lark's bankers.
Dude, welcome to the future
of banking. Virtual currency.
Yeah, very exciting. Yeah,
very happy to be here.
Okay, so we're gonna be entering
into a partner arrangement.
So part of our "Get to
Know Your Client" policies,
I'm gonna need to take a
look at your transactions,
your filings, and all your
extant partnerships up till now.
You mind if I go down
to the exchange floor,
take a look at those
documents I requested?
Of course. Right this way.
Just gonna head downstairs.
And hey, mi casa es su casa.
Hey, muchas gracias.
I know what you're thinking, Eivor.
"Know Your Client," that's an
anti-money laundering policy.
All right, so you have a bank
employee profile on their website,
but if Chad is paying attention,
he's gonna notice that you
just joined two months ago.
So then he'll try to find your last job.
And what does he find? Your last
job at Freedom Business Bank.
But then he's going to notice
that you were also only
there for six months.
And the more research he
follows, the deeper down he goes.
There was your job before that.
- Also six months.
- That's weird, right?
Like these jobs are cover-ups.
So who are you really?
And why are you just
hopping from bank to bank?
If he's smart, he's gonna do
an image search of your photo.
And there you are with a different name
at a trial with a
whole bunch of FBI guys
with the MLFBU.
You built him a Rabbit Hole.
- Melanie's here.
- What?
Okay, uh, my rig, it takes two minutes
to inject the virus into the
database. Just plug it in.
Okay. Uh, where are you going?
Hey.
My boss and your boss are
cooking up something evil,
and I thought I'd just,
uh, take a look around.
Do I hear bees?
Bronwyn says it's soothing.
They can last a week off the food.
I'm getting them to the roof tomorrow.
Just don't bump the boxes.
Are you, um, okay?
I just
I really wanted to help people.
And at the beginning, we were.
Bronwyn's fame helped
me get real treatments
out to people who needed them.
But now, peddling this ridiculous
You know what this is?
Elixir of Venus.
"An extract of four
different tropical plants
to bring back your sex drive."
- Did you make this?
- No, it's a placebo.
The men's wellness websites,
they sell the exact same
powder, they call it Ram Energy.
Yikes.
Oh. This is jade. It's supposed
to have healing properties.
Do you know how you're
supposed to use this?
Mm-mm.
For an hour.
I don't know how long
I can keep doing this.
Uh, speaking of which,
you know, you should take some time off.
Uh, from Bronwyn, my boss.
What do you mean?
You seem like a really good person,
and Bronwyn isn't.
And, you know, maybe my boss is here
because of the not-so-good stuff.
Is Doris undercover?
Just, for once, think of you.
Bronwyn is not a good friend.
Maybe you need to be that
good friend for yourself.
Thanks.
I don't even know you, and you cared.
Why do you want to help her?
You ever just have a friend and
realize that they were using you?
Or you see, like, a friendship
and it's just one way?
That stuff hurts. Like, a lot.
I didn't really have friends
until I met your brother.
And now, he, Eliot, Sophie, and
I, we're family, not friends.
Well, Peggy and Hurley are friends,
but they'd never try to hurt me.
You know, in a weird way, I
think your not having friends
might have actually saved you some pain.
Maybe.
Melanie just called Bronwyn
to warn her, didn't she?
Yep, just like we knew she would.
God, I'm so stupid
for thinking otherwise.
No. I like that you tried to help her.
Hardison would've done the same thing.
Hmm.
Who are you?
Melanie just told me that your
assistant spilled the beans.
Damn it.
Bronwyn, you need to know, Chad
Deihle is under investigation,
and you seemed like our best way in.
What? No. No, I do
not want to be part
- Is this you?
- No, it is not.
Oh, my God, does that guy have a gun?
- Get up.
- Oh, my God, is that a gun?
Let's go. Hurry up.
Let's go!
What is happening?
What is going on?
I have my suspicions.
I think I can get us out of here alive,
but we have to stick
together and play innocent.
- Okay.
- Good.
It was her! All her!
There we go.
I'm supposed to believe
that you had no idea
that she was an undercover FBI agent
investigating me for money laundering?
Why would I think that?
Because he is indeed money laundering.
Yeah, Bronwyn.
I am money laundering a lot
for some very scary people.
And you took my investment
in a company that she set up
and used it as a Trojan
horse to get under my roof,
to get access to my records.
I had no idea.
Now, if you have to kill her,
I could just look the other way.
Bronwyn, you're lying.
- No.
- Because it's what you do.
You always lie. You set up
a company based on lying.
I can't believe a word that
comes out of your mouth.
So yes, now I have to kill both of you.
I mean, not me, I'm not gonna kill you.
Eivor's gonna kill you.
But this sucks.
What?
What's so funny?
I'm sorry.
You really don't have
any idea what to do.
You're so used to your victims
coming to you half-cooked
that you don't know what to
do with a live tiger in a trap.
What am I supposed to do?
Eat.
Or be eaten.
I am not an FBI
investigator. I am a grifter.
I work with a team.
We were just after Bronwyn's database,
but then you became a
target of opportunity.
I mean, $40 million in
a little electronic box.
How could we not?
This, I believe.
Here's why you're not gonna kill us.
I'm gonna buy our freedom
with something of value.
I would prefer not to
have Eivor kill you.
Right?
Bronwyn's database.
It's still worth millions.
Agreed.
- Okay, I will go get it.
- No, sit down.
You'll call someone from your
office. Have them download it.
Eivor will go pick it up.
There.
Melanie will download it.
Now we wait.
Hey, has Sophie checked in? She's
not returning any of my calls.
Uh, last known location
was at the Enlyven office.
Eliot's on his way over there right now.
I am tracing her phone.
She's somewhere weirdly shielded.
Parker's chasing down the
nearest cell towers now.
Okay.
Hey, it's Melanie.
Zazi? Is that you?
Uh, Melanie?
Uh
Oh, I had to call someone.
First, Bronwyn disappeared.
Then she texted me and asked me to
do something, and I know it's wrong.
She asked me to download all
our users' confidential data.
That information could hurt people.
I couldn't think of anyone else
I could trust, so I called you.
Okay, Melanie, just slow down.
Okay, what exactly did she say?
She said to download the database
and give it to Chad's
man when he arrived.
Uh, hold on.
Chad's guy? What does Chad's
guy want with the database?
Sophie and Bronwyn disappeared
at the same time last night.
- Coincidence?
- No.
So Chad's a kidnapper?
I did not see that coming.
So Bronwyn and Sophie are at
The Bitcoin exchange,
that's why it's shielded.
It's vulnerable to
electromagnetic charges.
The database is a price for
I don't know, but if Chad is over there,
snatching people off the street,
he's not gonna let Melanie live.
Melanie, just stay where you
are, okay? Help is on the way.
- Who?
- Hank.
Okay, I'll call Eliot. He's on
his way over to Enlyven anyway.
I'm gonna go to Chad's and I'll
see if I can get Parker to meet me.
Wait, she's on the
wrong side of the city.
I think we're solo
here. Do you have a plan?
Yo, man. Shh.
You'll wake the bees.
Oh, man.
Hey.
I told you to be quiet.
Ha!
Don't bump the boxes!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Easy, easy, easy, easy,
easy, bro, bro, bro.
Ooh. That one would've stung, huh?
Ooh!
What the hell is this?
Ah, it's
Go, go, go, go.
- Hello.
- FBI guy.
Ah, not FBI guy. I get it.
Where's Eivor?
He was detained.
Why are you detained?
Chad is in fact, money laundering.
Oh, so I was right.
You are very good at what you do.
Okay, one of you, please
give Chad what he wants
so I can get out of this chair?
Well, that is the database
of the personal information
of hundreds of thousands
of Bronwyn's customers.
Breanna downloaded it just
the way she said she would.
Now, I give this to you, we can all go.
What?
You think you can claim
this as Bronwyn's database
and then just walk out of here?
Verify it yourself.
Good.
Now, we're still gonna kill everybody,
but at least this wasn't a total waste.
I don't think so.
What the hell?
Careful. That's an EMP charge.
I had them build it into my phone
after you showed me
your virtual currency.
Electromagnetic pulse.
It is fascinating.
If your $40 million was gold,
there's nothing I could do to harm it.
If it were currency,
that safe would protect
it from fire or explosives.
But it's as you said, it
just exists in bits and bytes.
And I could just wipe it
out without even touching it.
Kill them.
Oh, my God!
And that is a dead man's switch.
You shoot my friend, he
relaxes his grip and zap
$40 million wiped out of existence.
You're bluffing.
Let's wait and see.
It's $40 million.
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
But it's not my $40 million.
So it doesn't really
matter to me, does it?
The EMP pulse thing!
Oh, my phone has a magnetic case,
so it sticks to my dashboard.
- Hey, the dead man's switch
- Ballpoint pen.
Good improv. And the
Breanna tip, good clue.
Do you guys know how
much trouble you're in?
I'm Bronwyn Lark.
Yeah, that's your trouble.
Chad's gonna want all of us dead.
He doesn't even know our
real names, but you're famous.
I am famous.
Nowhere to hide as Bronwyn Lark.
Unless you go into the
witness relocation program
- and testify against Chad under a different name.
- What? No!
Chad's gonna be very angry
when he loses his fortune.
Not to mention his
money-laundering clients.
But the EMP thing is fake!
Hit it again.
Just get it out of here.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
This is a secure laptop.
How could a virus
Let's hack his Bitcoiny thing.
No. Sophie said the only way
this guy accesses the exchange
is from a secret computer
that's outside of the network.
That there's no way in.
We access her database.
Hey, that's the value, right?
If we do that, she'll just
restore from the backups.
The only thing I can do is
install a virus that corrupts it
- and corrupts the backups, too.
- What?
You think you can claim
this as Bronwyn's database
and then just walk out of here?
Verify it yourself.
I did it. I put a virus in the exchange.
It's a new regiment of
blood tests from Indonesia.
It sounds really exciting.
Cutting edge. I I didn't know
anything like this even existed.
Our business was global.
I tracked these studies,
even if we never used them.
Thanks to you, I can go back
through all our customers,
try to find ways this
time to really help them.
People like my sister.
Thank you.
- Put your name on it.
- imaginary friends.
- I'm trying to make a romantic dinner
- I have told you
- for you and Hardison.
- ten times, I don't know
- whose food is whose. I'm gonna eat it.
- Hey, what's up? Don't.
Sounds like the docs are getting
on like a house on fire, huh?
Yeah, they got a real
super-friend vibe going on.
They're talking about starting
a company like you guys did.
We didn't start a company
because we were friends.
I didn't even like 'em the first year.
I didn't even learn his name till
after the team broke up the first time.
No. No. That's stupid.
She called me by my name all the time.
Yeah, because somebody else
said it, and I was like,
"Oh, right, Eliot," but
I didn't remember it.
Damn it, Parker. I'm getting a beer.
And I'm not coming back.
Oh.
- He's coming back.
- He's totally coming back.
So you managed to save her after all.
Ah, she was ready to save herself.
She just needed a little push.
Like off a building.
Hardison warned me about that.
Please don't push me off no building.
- Do you wanna be friends or not?
- Not being pushed off a building.
- I don't think I do.
- Thank you.
Hey, Eliot, I spoke to a
buddy of mine in Justice
and he said they're gonna
come down pretty hard on Chad.
Now, I think we all want
Bronwyn to lose her business,
but none of us really
want her to lose her life.
Yeah, well, I talked to
the Marshal last night.
She said that Bronwyn has been tucked
into the relocation program just fine.
No one's ever even gonna recognize her.
Hmm, wonder how she's gonna handle that.
Thank you.
- I'm telling you, that's her.
- I don't
Why would she even be working here?
I don't know, but it's
her, I'm telling you.
Oh, no, you're right. Oh, my God.
You know who you look like?
Okay, what what who's she?
That actress, Bronwyn.
I get that sometimes.
- Bronwyn Stark.
- Uh, Lark, yeah.
No, it was Stark.
God, whatever happened to her?
- Didn't she die?
- Oh, I don't know. I did not care for her.
- Did you see that last movie she did?
- Ugh, horrible.
By the way, objection withdrawn.
I'm glad we did this one,
and I do see the difference
between you and Bronwyn.
What part of "I'm not justifying
myself to you" was I not clear on?
Well, it's not like you require my
validation, but if I may offer it,
I think Bronwyn does what
she does because it's easy,
and you do what you do the way
that you do it because it's hard.
- And I find that distinction very useful.
- How so?
Well, I think I used
to look at what I did,
lawyering for the rich and
powerful, as being hard,
but when I really think
about it, it was easy.
'Cause I always had power on my side.
I never really picked
a fight I could lose.
The one fight that was hard,
keeping my marriage together
and staying by my daughter, I did lose.
Maybe because I was fooling
myself which one was which.
Hmm. I think I do like a challenge.
Sometimes to my regret.
It's a long list of those.
Am I on that list?
Time will tell, Mr. Wilson.
But promise me one thing.
When you leave, and you will leave,
go and do something really hard.
I promise.