Burden of Truth (2018) s02e03 Episode Script

1 - Someone broke into your car.
- They gained control of it remotely.
Get this letter to Taylor.
- I don't know where she is.
- Yes, you do.
My mom's birth certificate says she was underage.
Guys like David get off with nothing.
First order of business will be to create a statement of claim.
Everything you remember about your encounters with David Hanley.
We don't have any kind of freedom! - State your name for the court.
- Mara Tran.
What's your relationship to the accused? - I'm his girlfriend.
- Your Majesty.
Joanna Chang, counsel for the accused.
Manual roll-down windows front and back, every door needs a key to open it, or ya pop it up from the inside here.
- So nothing automatic? - Nope.
- But ah, the radio's busted.
- I'll take it.
It's great.
Pharmacy Benefit Managers stopped covering over a thousand active ingredients in compounded drugs.
So since your PBM limited their insurance policy, you've received Um, with your current policy, you've received 14 lawsuits that aren't covered, but would have been What we're trying to decipher is Under the previous policy And due to vague laws governing PBMs - Can I be excused? - I'll take over.
- It's going viral! - What is? The video of me in court! Let me get this straight.
You interrupted a meeting with potential new clients because you got new Twitter followers? I'm trending alt-right.
Racists and misogynists are claiming me.
How's that possible? Without choice, we don't have freedom.
Take away our privacy and we don't have anything! A neo-Nazi posted this ridiculous tweet.
"Noah Achari fights for free speech".
"No more left liberal censorship.
Demand privacy now".
firstamendment freespeech"? You didn't say that.
Yeah.
They're equating protecting privacy with protecting hate speech, online harassment Your followers are smart.
They'll see right through this.
OK, how naïve are you? I already have 3,000 retweets.
Look, Joanna, it's just that my parents, they immigrated here for me.
They gave up everything.
The idea of them getting hate mail, threats I-I can't let that happen.
They're good people.
- Listen - Boss, thought I'd stop in and check if you needed any help with the, uh Is he okay? Noah! What are you doing? - What the hell is going on? - Do you know what this is?! - It's a smoke detector! - No.
A surveillance camera.
There's no download, it's just Wi-Fi so it can livestream your every move and mine.
Sunil, that plumbing inspection you set up, that was Saturday morning? It was a standard inspection, municipal government ordered it.
Lovand, pulling strings through government? OK, we do not stay here.
It's not safe.
- We'll go work from my house.
- I want to nail them.
OK, well, use that rage.
Keep this thing from snowballing.
His popularity is supposed to help us.
[ELECTRONIC MUSIC.]
Sharp! Hey, buddy.
You want a granola bar? No? Okay.
Who's this? - Get back here, man! - I didn't take your money! - Get back here! - It's okay.
Go.
[GRUNTING.]
Hey! Hey! Stop it! - Are you okay? - Yeah.
I said stop it! Hey, Angie! I've got one of your strays! Grab first aid.
[MEN GRUNTING.]
If he's been cut, we need to get him to the hospital.
You gonna eat that? Oh, you can have it.
- I can - No, no, it's good.
[SOFT MUSIC.]
Oh You meeting a date? - New shirt.
- That's perceptive.
You ever considered law? - I prefer more honest work.
- I don't blame you.
How you holding up? Waiting on his statement of defense, not knowing how he's going to respond it's agony.
You haven't heard anything from their side? [PHONE RINGING.]
It's not the case.
Just my idiot brother.
- Hey Shane, what's up? - Billy! - I'm with Wendy.
- Hi.
Ah, I am so sorry about this.
- About what? - Wendy's broken car.
We are stranded - about an hour out of town.
- Where? A certain relative's residence.
Alright, so, get that certain relative to drive you.
Yeah, no dice.
Let me guess.
He lost his license again? Alright.
I'm on my way.
I thought you said your place wasn't safe.
Yeah, I dealt with that.
[ALARM BEEPING.]
Twitter is up to 8,000 mentions.
You look guilty not responding.
Just deny it.
Tweeting a denial will only make Noah look insensitive to hate speech.
A thoughtful, personal statement will not.
To strip someone of their credibility takes specific strikes.
We have to get ahead of Lovand before they drop their next bomb.
Oh really? A military analogy? How about, 'before they play their next card'? - No.
It'll be a bomb.
- They want you to give up.
They're not gonna stop at a smear campaign.
Look how far they went with Jared Lapinski.
Wait.
How do you know about that? I sent her the documents we hacked on Jared.
You weren't gonna do it and she had to know.
Noah and Jared, they were friends.
Yeah.
He helped me with the code for the scrambling app.
When he saw what Lovand was doing, he came to me.
He made GenBreach possible.
He trusted me.
I couldn't even go to his funeral.
I'm sorry.
They went after his family.
That's what finally broke him.
And that's the kind of battle you two are up against if you leave GenBreach online.
Hey, whatever happens Yeah, uh, I'm not taking down GenBreach.
Then let's get to work.
Hey! Doreen, right? Oh hey! Yeah.
What's your name? - Luna.
- That's moon, right? - You a night owl? - Not really.
What First Nation are you from? Long Grass.
What about you? I'm from Peguis.
Ah shoot! I forgot my pads.
Oh, hey, I probably have a tampon somewhere in here.
No, no, no, it's for my bra.
I leak milk like every night.
Oh, you're breastfeeding.
She yanks at my hair.
- She's super cute.
- Yeah, I know.
She looks just like her dad.
Not that she'll ever meet him.
She's good, barely cries.
Plus, these? I was flat.
Well, thank god.
Do you have a bag? I want to grab some things from my van.
What are you doing? Hop out.
I'm good.
Wendy's gonna take a minute.
Stretch your legs.
You know, Dad was asking about you.
I told him about the brewery.
He said that - if you want to start a business - [HONKING.]
- Okay, if you go talk to him - [HONKING.]
- Billy, I see what you're doing.
- [HONKING.]
You can't walk from here to there and say hi? Alright, I'm leaving! Get in, stay, I don't care.
- Shotgun.
- [BOTH.]
: No.
Look at us all together.
"I advocate for online privacy laws to protect us" "from corporate manipulation and government control.
" "I do not support hate speech or online harassment.
" "I do not tolerate bigotry.
" OK, I'm happy with that.
Take a final read.
- Yeah.
Yeah, no it's good.
- [PING.]
- "Noah Achari murdered Jared Lapinski"? - What? Who said that? - I don't know.
- Don't open it.
It's a virus.
If you open that on our network, it's gonna wipe our whole system.
- Jesus.
I can't do this - Noah, you need to focus.
We need to post that statement now.
- Sent to you.
- Yeah, OK.
Posted.
Oh God.
Now what do we do? Wait? No.
Help me understand why keeping your data scrambling app online is worth this fight.
When you say micro-expression data mining, - it sounds like sci-fi to me.
- Yeah, you and everybody else.
Lovand doesn't want people seeing the data that they're mining from Hidden Complex.
The people playing are their lab rats.
- No, no, you play.
I'll watch.
- It's the only way you'll understand.
New Player.
Yes.
You got your baseline.
Now, you navigate.
- Right.
- OK.
Press Level 1.
There.
I'll bring some food back for you two, OK? He's a dick.
He never pays their full rate.
Some kind of demented power trip.
I wish I believed in hell; it would be satisfying to know he'd end up in it.
You could believe in karma.
From my personal experience, karma is soft on men like him.
Hi.
Your call.
I know you're working, but I read your claim and I felt that you deserved to hear this in person.
I'm sorry.
I I'm really sorry.
I know what you're doing.
You can save whatever backdoor offer you're about to make for my lawyer.
It's less than I claimed.
It's way more than you'll get going before a judge, believe me.
I don't care.
I want you exposed publicly for what you did to me.
And then what? When will it be enough? Because if I recall, you thought the house was enough.
But now you want justice, coincidentally right after losing your job at the mill.
No.
I decided to sue you after I found out our criminal justice system isn't exactly just.
- I could've told you that.
- This isn't about your money.
Yeah, OK.
I'll be at the motel for two days.
Let me know.
I don't want this.
Then tear it up.
Go ahead, tear it up.
I thought so.
You know how long it takes to register fear? 12,000ths of a second.
That is what this app measures the whites of your eyes, the tiny expressions.
The more you play the game, the more it makes inferences about who you are.
OK.
Lovand wants to monopolize the data mining industry.
They have over 200 surveillance and data mining contracts in the works.
Yeah, one of the contracts is from a Toronto security company, represented by your old firm, CTS.
Not surprising.
So if Lovand can prove the premise of their tech with Hidden Complex, they'll release it on the market? We don't have proof, but yes.
And your app scrambles the data, which sabotages their R and D.
Yeah, but not enough people know about my app.
That's why I booked all those university talks next month.
To try and reach the mainstream.
It's synthesizing.
OK, keep in mind this is just from the first levels.
Get ready.
Were you an orphan? No.
My mom was sick.
And my dad Can you stop it? Turn it off.
Let's fry the bastards.
[PHONE RINGING.]
- Who is this? - Noah.
What happened? Lovand just dropped their next bomb.
They found a photo.
It's compromising.
Josh Hentig is a featured speaker at white nationalist rallies - and you took a picture with him? - He ambushed me after a Silicon Valley tech conference.
I just got off stage, and he was like: "Noah! Long time, buddy!" And threw his arm around me and took that photo.
- You went to Stanford together? - They weren't friends.
Definitely not friends.
He used to call me turd-boy, which was not very creative, but everyone laughed.
So did I, because that's what you do.
It's survival and it sucked.
One sec.
Sorry.
Okay, hey, what's up? The stress Noah doesn't seem to be handling it very well.
Should we be worried? Well, he's not exactly a happy guy to begin with.
People throw the word depression around, but when I met Noah? That was dark.
I have this thought If I can't find him a way out, then he will.
Like Jared.
Uh, Noah and I weren't gonna ask you this, but I don't know what else to do.
Remember Noah said that CTS represents one of Lovand's clients? The Toronto security company.
We couldn't hack into their contract with Lovand, but if you got it I don't have access to CTS contracts anymore.
No, but your dad does.
That was my agent.
U of T and Dalhousie just canceled my talk.
I have liquids.
[GROANING.]
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
What happened last night? Are you OK? Sex workers shouldn't have to put their lives in danger.
There's so little being done to help them.
- You're helping, Lu.
- I'm handing out granola bars, smalls.
I'm not changing the law.
Maybe you should take a break from volunteering.
The North End is so depressing.
What? You have to admit it's been getting you down.
Let's just drop it, OK? I never know what to say to you anymore.
It's like, just tell me the politically correct thing - you want me to say, and I'll say that.
- Just listen, OK? - Actually listen to me for once.
- For once? - [DOORBELL.]
- It's Taylor.
She's borrowing the car to go to Millwood.
Don't get up.
- Hi.
- Hey.
How are you? - I'm alright, how are you guys? - Good.
Um, keys, keys Don't know where they are.
I put them here every time, um.
I always put them right here.
Luna, have you seen my car keys? No.
- Don't rush.
There's no stress.
- Ugh! So what's the deal with visiting your dad? What changed? I read his letter.
- He kind of sounded sad.
- Well, duh.
He messed up.
Yeah.
Kind of scared me, actually.
Yes! Here.
Hey, mind if I join you, actually? I want to go visit my mom.
Yeah, sure.
Um, do you want to come too? You know, I would, but I'm feeling a little mom'd out.
[BIRDS CHIRPING.]
[LOUD TRUMPETING.]
- You're dead! - It's tradition, Billy! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! It's tradition! [TRUMPETING.]
It's tradition! It's tradition, Billy boy! - Come on! - The Crawford Cup? Seriously? - I have work to do.
- OK, cool.
- Yeah.
- Then the cup is mine.
Any reigning champ that doesn't accept a challenger immediately forfeits his or her title.
Bro, you made the rules.
- This is ridiculous.
- Oh, wait.
Are you afraid that you don't got it anymore, old man? [PHONE RINGING.]
- Joanna? - Hi, Dad.
Hi.
I guess you can say you told me so.
I'm in over my head with a case.
Well, I'm sure it's nothing that we haven't weathered before.
Um, how can I help? It isn't exactly above board.
Is it ever? Why don't I meet you for lunch tomorrow and you can tell me all about it.
It's kind of time sensitive.
Oh, um I'm in Millwood right now.
But I could meet you in the city tonight for a late dinner.
Nine, at Arturo's? What do you say? You know what, I'm not doing this.
Bye.
Joanna? - What'd he say? - It's a dead end.
- He's not gonna help us? He's too busy in Millwood fighting his civil suit.
- [PING.]
- Ugh! Over 200,000 likes.
60,000 retweets.
Josh Hentig is a popular guy.
I got a million more followers.
Guess what side of the political spectrum they're on? OK, they hijacked your Twitter account, but what about your YouTube channel? Speak directly to your most avid supporters.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Forget the spin doctor crap.
Just do you.
I think it's a good strategy.
Keep me updated as it evolves.
- Oof! - Whoo! I've got a feeling Shane is gonna win the cup I'm heading out.
Only one more round.
- I gotta figure out my van.
- No, Billy needs you to stay - so he can have a shoulder to cry on.
- I already called a cab.
I've been with you 48 hours.
I gotta go.
- Bye, Billy! Don't kill each other.
- No promises.
- Where you going? - Hydrate.
Ah, good idea.
Check my bag if there's none cold! Yo, check my bag, there's brews.
It's the brand I buy for my truck.
Same ones I put in Wendy's van.
That is some twisted psychology, Shane.
- You did that to get me to see Dad? - You caught me red-handed.
How many times have you called for help? Every time, I come through why? Because that's you, man.
You're the hero, not me.
That's always the way it is.
Shane, the screw-up.
- God forbid I try to help you for once.
- Is that what you call this? Man, your grudge against Dad I don't get it.
I don't.
You need to move on.
- I don't need your advice.
- Talk about it, OK? Yes, he kicked the shit out of us, but with Mom gone, he's the one we have left.
- Shane.
- Please, go see him.
He'll apologize to you.
It'll make things better.
You don't know.
You got to be a kid.
I didn't.
I had to take care of everyone.
- And that was your choice.
- My choice? My choice? The day he left, you were playing in the backyard.
He took me aside in the kitchen and he said, "I guess you're the man of the house now.
" I was eight.
I had to be her little husband at eight.
I didn't know that.
Now you do.
I want you to leave.
I need some space, a couple nights on my own.
Dude What part of that don't you understand, Shane? Pack your shit.
Hey, have you seen Noah's video? - No.
He posted it? - I've got it right here.
Hi, Noah Achari here.
It seems that a lot of people are confused about what I stand for, so here's a little about me.
I was hired by Lovand the multinational war profiteering corporation when I was 19 years old.
I thought I was going to go protect the society.
I was very ignorant, having spent my whole life coding.
- The projects I worked on for Lovand - What's he doing? taught me how wrong I was.
He can't speak about his contract with Lovand.
- He has an NDA.
- Money, making as much money as they can, that's what they protect.
And get this Hey, this is Noah's voicemail.
Leave a message or not.
He breached his DNA.
- What are the liquidated damages? - Two million.
I don't regret working for Lovand.
No.
Even though I contributed to people's privacy being outright violated.
Because after quitting Hey, this is Noah's voicemail.
Leave a message or not.
What if you took all the evil crap that you knew that you did and use it to protect people? Make a difference.
Yeah, that that didn't work out.
I'm sorry.
Forgive me.
Forgive me.
He's giving up.
Scour the NDA agreement for mistakes, things like "and/or".
Lovand needs to prove damages, - but it's not - Joanna.
Do you have a minute? I'm taking you off this case and appointing Sunil as lead.
What? No, this is my case.
With respect, Sunil is not ready.
To mitigate damages in a losing trial? He will be fine.
We landed the pharmacist class-action.
This is an opportunity to set precedent.
I can do both.
How? Noah has you running from one fire to the next.
Joanna, you are far too valuable - for damage control.
- Just let me talk to him and I can turn things around.
I'm sorry, Joanna.
This is my call.
And I'm making it.
OK.
Can I let him down in person? It will be an easier transition to Sunil.
- Of course.
Just make it quick.
- OK.
- Mom? - Luna? - Hey, baby! - Hi! This is a nice surprise.
If you told me, I would've gotten tonight off work.
That's OK.
What's the matter? I've just missed you.
I've missed home.
OK, now I know something's wrong.
[CHUCKLING.]
- I met this woman - Someone at university? No, no, no, not like that.
Molly and I, we're fine.
It was with Bear Clan Patrol.
Her name's Doreen.
She's Native and she's a single mom.
Doreen's this amazing person, like funny, and smart, and she protected me, and-and she's getting into cars with strange men and there is no one protecting her.
- And she - Come here, come here.
Shh.
It's OK.
[SOBBING.]
Hi.
[LAUGHING.]
One second.
Wow! Look at you.
Um, I brought this for you, it's a - Vanilla latte, your favourite, right? - Thanks.
Do you want to sit down? Do you wanna go for a walk? - No, this is good.
This is fine here.
- OK.
You look good.
Older.
You look different too.
It's, it's the hair.
I think I'm thinning.
You gonna drink that or what? Uh, my naturopath actually has me off sugar.
You have a naturopath? Wow.
Well, glad that you're taking care of yourself.
But no sugar, really? Don't people need sugar? Fruit? Yeah, I have most fruits.
It's just processed sugars.
Oh, OK, gotcha.
'Cause you need your vitamin C.
I'm just concerned about your health.
You're concerned about my health? Dad, you made us sick.
Hey, Taylor, you know what? I know that you took the money, and it's OK, I don't want any of it back.
This is about moving on from all that.
I'm living in a fog most days.
And I don't know if that's from depression or the treatments.
My cancer might come back, Dad.
I don't know how to move on from that.
What? Wait.
Where are you going? This was obviously a mistake.
- Please don't contact me again.
- Taylor, don't.
Taylor, come back! [PHONE RINGING.]
Oh.
Hey.
How'd it go? He just doesn't care.
He just doesn't care.
[SOBBING.]
Let's hang out tonight, yeah? Uh, we can, we can watch sad movies and cry into an extra-large pizza.
[LAUGHING.]
I thought you were with your mom? She goes to work at eight.
I can come over then.
Okay.
Yeah.
Thanks.
- It's over, Mara.
- No.
What do we say? Whatever happens Whatever happens Don't watch it burn.
Joanna, do you have the injunction documents? - I wanna sign them.
- Take your app down? - Are you sure? - No, you can't take it down.
Noah, this is bigger than you, or me or any of them.
Caleb? He's flying in tonight.
And so are Jackie and Fuzhan.
To help us.
OK.
Now.
I want to sign them now.
- Yes.
- Noah, please Don't give up on this.
Don't give up on us.
Are you happy? Is this what you wanted from the beginning? Mara, OK? They're gonna come after you next.
And then my parents? I can't have that.
OK? It's over.
Mara, it's OK.
It's over.
I'm not gonna stand by to watch it burn.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
I will take it down by midnight.
Caleb, Jackie and Fuzhan Who are they? Friends, I guess.
Other Internet hacktivists.
Lab rats I tested GenBreach on.
Mara said they're coming in tonight.
Yeah.
I don't wanna see them.
No, before you take GenBreach offline, maybe there's something we can try.
I spoke with Lovand's lawyers.
It seemed like they were anticipating you calling this sit-in.
I'm not surprised.
Their smear campaign destroyed my client in less than 48 hours.
OK, you're hard to read, but you don't seem upset.
This isn't over yet.
You got an ace up your sleeve? Do tell.
Make me a copy of this.
And it is classified, - so don't leave it around.
- You got it, boss.
- Why would you do this? - No, I take them for my own records You're working for Lovand? - No, no, Joanna, it's for me.
- Security! Do you know what happens to lawyers who trade secrets? - They get disbarred.
- What's going on? I caught him red-handed.
The smoke detector.
You let them surveil me.
Confiscate his computer.
And don't let him out of your sight.
Joanna, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry! Joanna, this is serious.
You still keeping the Lovand meeting? You better believe it.
This doesn't change a thing.
Just gonna finish this up.
Then I'll be out of your hair.
- You staying at Wendy's? - No.
I think I've officially maxed out my sibs.
I'll stay at the motel.
Yo.
I, uh I never realized how hard it was for you.
Well, then I did my job.
What are you doing here? Believe me, if there were another hotel within 30 miles I'd be there.
I don't know what your mother told you, but it's a good offer.
She should take it.
What are you talking about? What offer? Never mind.
Go home.
Wait, you offered her money?! - Go talk to your mother.
- No.
I'm talking to you.
And I'll decide when I go, Dad.
You're my dad.
You are! You slept with a teenager and then you left her.
You live in this delusional world, but my mom didn't get to.
She had to raise me alone in the very real world.
Like every other single mother out there - What are you doing? - I've had enough crazy bitch for one evening.
I'm calling the police.
- Gimme that! - Hey! Let go of me! Give me that! First of all, thank you for meeting on such short notice and giving up your evening.
I notice your client didn't make it.
- He's had a difficult two days.
- So have we.
Your client violated his NDA and purposefully attacked my client's reputation.
We just want this all to be over and done with.
My client feels the same.
It took him reaching the point of having nothing left to lose.
[SNIFFLING.]
[SCREAMING IN RAGE.]
The attention my client's received online has placed him in a rare limelight.
Anything that he posts next will predictably trend.
Ms.
Chang, you've told us Noah was willing to comply with the court injunction to remove GenBreach.
If you could get on with your terms.
Of course.
Hidden Complex fine print.
"granting the Company unrestricted license" "to use, copy, adapt, and sublicense" "your data.
" That's what the players agree to? Seems fairly benign.
This, on the other hand, does not.
It will be posted on my client's Twitter account in an hour.
That's theft.
The data is proprietary of Lovand.
Really? It says Jackie has conflicting responses to intimacy.
Caleb is Type A, and Fuzhan suffers PTSD from a possible assault.
Is that your data? Because it feels like it's theirs.
Posting it would be a criminal offence.
Funny what happens when someone in the public eye has nothing left to lose.
Waive your rights to sue my client for violation of his NDA, and drop your lawsuit and injunction against his app, GenBreach, and none of this will go public.
You have a half hour to complete the paperwork.
Tell Noah we'll see him around.
- She's basic, but it was all her, OK? - We make a good team.
No.
As you can see, she doesn't take praise very well.
What if I give you another compliment right now? I will drop you as a client.
[LAUGHING.]
Hey, I know Lovand's come back twice as hard at us, but let's just enjoy the moment.
- Right? - OK.
[PHONE RINGING.]
- Billy? - Joanna? - I'm just out with a client right now.
- [INDISTINCT.]
Sorry, I can't hear you.
Joanna? Joanna, can you hear me? No, can you hear me? The line is bad.
You're breaking up.
Joanna, you need to come home.
No.
No, listen.
Listen to me.
I'm at the motel.
It's your dad.
- What are you saying? - I'm so sorry.
They found him in his room.
Where are you? Can you hear me? Where are you?