Leverage: Redemption (2021) s02e06 Episode Script

1
Ms. Dewitt, please.
Just stay a little longer.
Look, the scouts are
coming to see Travis play,
I'd hate to see him
miss this opportunity.
You're worried about your team's season?
No! Of course not.
Jess, you know me.
This isn't about football,
it's about this town.
It's worth fighting for.
I watched you and your
sisters grow up here.
You think this was an easy decision?
I have two sons I have to think about.
Look, I've been gathering evidence.
Working to shut that fracking rig down.
But there's no guarantee, is there?
- No, there's no guarantee
- And in the meantime
how many more people end up sick?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[HARRY] Look, I'm just
saying that it's not like you
to blow off the gloat. I mean,
you're the one who taught me
that seeing the mark defeated is
the, um what did you call it?
Curtain call?
Curtain call. Sophie Devereaux
missing a curtain call?
Well, maybe I'm seeing
things differently now.
How so?
Well, before we met you, you
you had a moment of clarity.
When you looked back
and realized you didn't feel
good about some things you'd done.
Oh, you mean helping the rich
and powerful do horrible things?
I think I could've picked
up on that a little sooner.
Well, maybe I'm having
a similar realization.
You help people, I was hurting
them, that's not the same thing.
I don't know.
Sometimes I wonder
if I haven't considered how
what we do affects other people.
The people we don't think about.
Collateral damage?
Look, I know that this Arthur
Wilde character brought up
a whole bunch of stuff for you, but
but you are a good person, Sophie.
[CHUCKLES]
[PARKER] You getting it?
Hmm, almost have it.
Mm-hmm.
- [BREANNA] Oh, there!
- Y'all got me?
Yeah, babe, you're a
little close to the camera.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just
wanna make sure y'all ready.
Ready for what?
- Ah.
- [ALL] Oh!
Look at this.
Uh, I'm out here, I'm in orbit.
I'm in a satellite, floating.
- I'm weightless.
- Wow.
Oh, wait, watch, watch.
- Wait, oh.
- [ELIOT] Uh-oh.
- [PARKER] Oh, no.
- Okay. Okay.
- There you go, there you go.
- Use your core.
- Come on.
- Wait. Oh. Oh. Wait. There we go.
- Yeah!
- Hold it right there.
Hold it right there, that's perfect.
Ah, it's just a little tight up in here
It's so cute. It's like
a vent with gadgets.
I didn't think that satellites
had life support systems.
This one does now.
So that, that stuff that you had
me build, that's actually working?
Oh, yeah. I never had any doubt.
Hey.
So how long do you
have to be up there for?
That solar flare did
some pretty real damage.
I can get it fixed pretty quick,
but I'll have to stay up
here a while to monitor it.
It's not practical
to come back up later.
And besides, up here,
I can get hacking access
unlike anything on Earth.
Can you get high-tech
banking schematics up there?
Babe, I I can get that
down there, yeah. Yeah.
[BREANNA] Yeah, yeah,
yeah, it's cooler up there.
Everything's cooler in a satellite.
- Yes.
- [ELIOT] Hey.
Dorks in Space.
I've seen this movie.
[HARRY] You going someplace?
I'm gonna be off the
grid for a few days, so
Everything all right?
Yeah.
Just got some unfinished business
I need to attend to, so it's just
Is Eliot off to kill someone?
Something I gotta do.
Uh, excuse y'all, I'm
calling from a satellite.
Don't nobody wanna talk to me?
- Hey, hey, wait. Where are you going?
- [ELIOT] What?
Somewhere.
You do know that Hardison's on a
spy satellite and we can track you
anywhere, so maybe just tell us?
I'm going to Oklahoma.
What's in Oklahoma?
What's in Oklahoma?
His father.
He has a father?
[ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING]
[SINGER] Life goes on ♪
I'm a lone wolf, baby ♪
- Hey, Eliot!
- What the hell are you doing here?
Sophie said I should come
along to give you something.
- What?
- Emotional support.
What the hell?
Hardison wanted me to make sure
she knew what emotional support was.
What's this unfinished
business with your father?
I gotta tell him something.
Why don't you just call him?
Because it's complicated.
Yeah, Eliot hasn't talked to his dad
- since he joined the army.
- [ELIOT] All right.
Wait, you haven't talked
to your dad in 60 years?
It's been I'm not that
freaking old, Breanna.
Aren't you, though?
Good job on the
"emotional support," guys.
So if you haven't seen him
in all this time, why now?
I told you, I gotta tell him something.
[ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING]
[PARKER SNORING]
[GASPS]
This is a lot more Smallville than
I imagined your childhood to be.
What did you imagine?
Hmm, Gotham.
[ELIOT] Right there.
I used to work at that
hardware store every day
when I wasn't at football practice.
Stop the truck.
[ALL GRUNTING]
No!
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
[ALL GRUNTING]
You see, with the right
combination of vodka
[SCREAMS]
couple shots of oil
[SCREAMS]
and a bit of chili pepper.
[SCREAMS]
[SCREAMS]
Voila.
Pepper spray.
- Oh. [SNIFFS] Ugh.
- No.
[ELIOT] You okay?
Eliot?
What are you doing here?
Wait, you know this guy?
This is my father.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[WATER POURING]
[BILLY] Oh, thanks.
[BREANNA] Mm-hmm.
I'm all right, really. Thanks.
So what's the deal with those bikers?
Those guys weren't bikers.
Wait, so they were just
dressed like bikers?
Uh, I recognized them.
They work security
for GreenSlate Energy.
- Oh.
- I guess this was their poor attempt
at a disguise.
Why would security guys from
GreenSlate Energy wanna rough you up?
They work at the fracking
rig right on the edge of town.
Ever since they got here,
we've had, um, earthquakes,
uh, people getting sick,
hospitalized even from the
contaminated drinking water.
I've been leading an effort here in town
to get the rig shut down.
Oh, so they were trying to shut you up?
Well, listen, I don't scare that easy.
[CHUCKLES]
I've lived my whole
adult life in this town.
It means something to me.
The people here
mean something to me.
They're worth fighting for.
So, um, yeah, how do you
go about shutting them down?
Well, we have enough signatures
to petition the state.
Convince the state's Attorney
General to force the fracking company
to put up a $60 million
bond for reparations.
And set up an independent committee
to review the environmental
impacts study that they've ordered.
So you've already won.
Well, we'll see what the study says.
The company that they've hired
to do it, Enviro Defense Group,
they don't pass the smell test.
So you think they were bought
off by the fracking company?
Well, uh, I think we
know what we need to do.
- No, I I
- Mm-hmm.
[BILLY GROANS]
Why are you here, Eliot?
I have something that I
No, no, no never mind. Never mind.
What did the kid mean when she said,
uh, "I think we know what to do"?
I work with them.
We help people.
- That's what we do.
- I I didn't ask for your help.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[INHALES SHARPLY]
Whoa. Wait, wait,
wait, wait, come again?
Eliot's father?
- Yeah.
- Yeah. Yeah, yes, yes.
Mm-hmm.
What about my father?
You know, that your dad that
your that your father is
Bruh, you never told me?
[ELIOT] I didn't tell you what?
That I'm adopted?
I'm adopted. All right?
It's not that big a deal.
My mother worked at the
hospital where they
dropped me off.
She brought me home and they adopted me.
See, I knew I knew something
special about that boy.
I said, "That boy special."
You know what, bro?
Welcome to the cookout.
You're in the family.
What?
So, considering how he's
reacting to you being here,
you still wanna help him?
I grew up in this town, too.
What do we got?
Okay. So this is Peter Marsh.
He's the operator of GreenSlate Energy.
They almost got shut
down a few years ago
because of some safety concerns,
but then the case just
suddenly disappeared.
Well, fracking provides tens of
thousands of jobs across the country,
but there's a catch. Most
of those jobs are temporary.
See, the companies, they hire
300, 400 people to build the rig,
then they lay them off in favor
of a handful of engineers
to keep it running.
A small town like this, I
mean, even short-term work,
that many people, it's
gonna make a difference.
[BREANNA] Not if it's hurting people.
I mean, fracking?
That causes pollution,
it messes up entire
ecosystems, poison the water,
cause cancer.
Actually, it's kinda hard to prove
the whole cancer thing in court.
Seriously?
I'll add it to the list.
- Mm-hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
Okay.
All right. So Oklahoma's
Attorney General, James Hodgins.
He owns a home in Carson.
He's the one that ordered the study
and suspended the rig's permits.
Everything that I've
seen, every article,
every case study, it says he
goes after all people equally.
So he will shut the rig down then
if the study shows negligence.
[BREANNA] Right. But these
are the guys running the study.
And, uh, they have
very little experience
and all the backgrounds of
people running it, shady.
I tried hacking GreenSlate to
see if they had any connections
to Enviro Defense Group. Nope.
Both companies are completely offline.
They're operating on closed systems.
So we can't get in there remotely.
All right, Sophie. What's the play?
Um
uh, right.
Harry and I'll go to the
capitol, get a read on Hodgins.
Uh, Breanna, penetrate
Enviro Defense Group.
Eliot, Parker, break into GreenSlate.
- [CLAPS]
- [SOPHIE SIGHS]
You okay?
You know Eliot.
He wears this, this coat of armor.
His relationship with his father
is one of his only vulnerabilities.
We mess this up, Eliot blames himself.
Eliot will be the collateral damage.
I can't have that.
[HARDISON] Eliot.
You all right?
I don't know.
I'm here if you need me.
Anytime.
I appreciate the ride to town.
I gotta make these deliveries anyway.
How long have you been doing this?
Couple months.
People need fresh drinking water.
We had a few folk end
up in the hospital.
[PHONE TRILLING]
What are you what
are you doing on that?
Oh, see, when I go over
there, I'm going to be
Kelly Johnson, the new IT member
of the Enviro Defense Group.
You're hacking their website
and creating an entire social
media profile on a tablet?
Yeah.
Why aren't you in college or
working for Google or something?
Mm.
You know, you should
think about your future.
I see why you and my son get along.
Eliot never wanted to follow
the path we set for him either.
Is that why you two stopped talking?
That's them.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Thanks.
What is it you need to say to your dad?
Look, we go in, we bug Marsh's
office, and we get on his computer.
Let me see that.
Are we going as pirates?
I love pirates! Arr, matey.
Keep up!
Everybody, calm down!
All right? I'll find 'em.
Ma'am, I need you to calm down.
- Hey, excuse me, I I
- [GRUNTS]
- Has anyone seen a python?
- [ALL SCREAM]
I lost Eddie at the vet
next door and they lost him!
- Did she say "python"?
- [ELIOT] Yes, sir, she sure did.
- He's this big.
- I tell you what, snakes are slippery.
Slippery son of a guns.
You know what I mean? But it's
okay, Eddie's a sweetheart, okay?
He only attacks if you
get too close to him.
You know what I mean? I
learned that the hard way.
You know what I'm saying? You
gotta get everybody outta here.
Everybody out! Let them
find the snake! Come on!
Hurry up!
Look out!
[DOOR CLOSES]
Are you dying?
Oh, my God.
Are you?
No, I'm not dying, Parker.
You don't look well.
Wow.
[PARKER] You know, maybe your
dad would stop ignoring you
- if you told him you were dying.
- Well, I'm not gonna do that!
Ah. Hmm.
Well, if you are dying,
please let me know so I can have
Hardison prepare your robot body.
Hmm. Check this out.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[ELIOT] This can't be good.
[STATIC]
[BREANNA] Hey, yo, the office
sent me to check out your tech.
Nothing is uploading! They
even tried calling you.
We don't upload data.
We use a closed system.
HR just sent over the new guidelines,
hence, why they've
been trying to call you.
- H
- Keep up, man.
[PHONE BEEPS]
Dammit, I don't have a signal.
[PHONE BEEPS]
[BREANNA] Let's see if these
guys are working with GreenSlate.
[TRILLING]
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[SOPHIE] Remember, politicians
are ambitious by nature.
Give them an opportunity and they'll
often reveal their true selves.
- Thank you very much.
- [HARRY] James! [LAUGHS]
I've been looking everywhere for
you. You almost missed our meeting!
- What, uh, what? What
- We set up the whole thing up
with your secretary.
Didn't she tell you?
- What who are you?
- Douglas Aaron. We met last year
at that crazy convention,
State Party Legal.
Now, listen, the world
doesn't want another candidate.
They want a man of the
people, you understand?
- [JAMES] Candidate for what?
- [HARRY] I'm sorry, we're running
a little bit late. Aubrey Harford,
can I introduce you Attorney
General James Hodgins?
[AMERICAN ACCENT] Oh, I've been,
uh, looking forward to meeting you.
Douglas gave me some background
and told me about, uh,
all the jobs you've
created in your hometown.
Well, it's, it's nice to meet you, too.
I'm embarrassed to say that,
uh, I'm a little ill-prepared
- for this meeting.
- She wrote the profile piece
that got Obama the speech at the
Democratic National Convention.
I've been, uh, following your career.
You're quite the maverick.
It seems you don't just
follow partisan party lines.
That's right.
I believe my responsibility
is to the people,
not to any one particular party.
That is rare these days.
With the incumbent congressman
stepping down this year,
I'd say James Hodgins here might
be the man to fill that seat.
- I, uh, I read about the fracking rig
- Mm-hmm.
that went up in Carson, creating
- uh, what was it?
- Three hundred.
[SOPHIE] Three hundred
new jobs in the community.
That is impressive.
Yeah, my home is in
that district, and, uh,
when I first learned of GreenSlate's,
uh, intention to build in
Carson, I was skeptical.
Fracking is uh, it's controversial.
But when handled correctly,
it can be safe and, uh, create
an enormous amount of jobs.
What about, uh,
reports that the rig is damaging
the environment, making people sick?
Those reports are troubling,
which is why I suspended
GreenSlate's permit
and I ordered an environmental
impact study that will be reviewed
by a local independent commission.
You spend a lot of time in
your home in Carson then?
Of course, he does. He's very
close to his constituents.
[CHUCKLES]
Okay, then.
I think, uh, I'd like to follow up
on this story at your home in Carson.
Well, uh, I I don't know about that.
I'm I'm I'm stuck
up here at the capitol.
Why don't you just call my
office and we'll set something up.
We can finish this
whole thing in Carson.
- What
- I'll see you there.
What, what, what is all of this?
I don't have time to be
hanging out in Carson.
Oh, now, now, spend a night
or two in Carson, let 'em
see that you have a house
in the district you're
gonna be representing.
Committee's gonna get behind a
candidate in the next couple of weeks.
It oughta be you.
Don't you think?
Yeah.
[BREANNA] Okay, so we
didn't find anything
from the Enviro Defense Group
or on Marsh's computer to suggest
that they were in
league with one another.
But a map that Parker found
led to these permit applications.
[PARKER] They're already filled out.
The Xs on that map are where Marsh
plans to put new fracking rigs.
Yeah, we can't let that happen.
[SOPHIE] Hodgins seems genuinely
proud of all the jobs
that the rigs create,
so I got the impression that
he, he really would shut it down
if he thought there was a problem.
Okay. So this whole thing still rests
on what the Enviro
Defense Group guys do?
Well, Hodgins agreed to meet
Sophie and I at his house in Carson.
Look at that. His house
is right next to a rig.
I think we need to show him what
it's really like living there.
If he is who he says he is,
he's not gonna let his
constituents live like this.
Let's go flip the Attorney General.
[PLAYFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[GRUNTS]
Oh, good morning.
Good morning, uh
Some fresh eggs.
Got you some grits.
Homemade biscuits and red-eye
gravy, like Mom used to make.
You made all this?
Yeah.
[SOPHIE] Right. Today's the big day.
Everybody ready?
Yup. Parker and I prepped the
house before they got home.
Let's do it.
[CLEARS THROAT]
[DOOR CLOSES]
I went to the market this morning.
Uh, I saw all you had was beer
and pickles in your fridge,
so I got you some better pickles.
There's nothing wrong with my pickles.
These are better. They're
rustic, they're good.
Made by a local vet.
Why didn't you go with your friends?
I figured I'd stick around in
case your biker pals stop back by.
- [FORK CLINKS]
- I don't need a babysitter.
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
Remember, we just wanna show
him what fracking can do.
We don't wanna hurt anyone.
Um, so far, it's just some buzzing.
And all the people Billy talked to
reported hearing this
weird buzzing sound.
It gave some of them nosebleeds.
What? I I'm not gonna
give anybody a nosebleed.
You were totally gonna
give someone a nosebleed.
Just a little one.
- Well, just leave this out for the
- Okay.
- [DOORBELL RINGS]
- guests. That's
I'll be right there.
[CHUCKLES]
- [HARRY] Ha! There he is!
- Hey, come on in.
Alicia and my daughter have set out
some hors d'oeuvres in the living room.
[AMERICAN ACCENT] Oh, um, actually,
I'd really like a house tour.
Really get a feel of the
man at home in Carson.
Yes, of course. Let let's
start in the living room.
- [BUZZING]
- Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Y'all hear that?
What is that? Is that does,
does Carson have a locust
problem, Mr. Hodgins?
I certainly hope not. Right this way.
Oh.
Oh.
I've heard so much
about you both. Welcome.
You have a beautiful home.
Uh, have you lived here long?
We split our time.
We [LAUGHS] we always love
getting away from the city for a bit
to reconnect with our
people in the district.
[INHALES DEEPLY] Play the pipes.
- [WHIRRING]
- Pipes are played.
But you like it here really?
- [CREAKING]
- Um, ooh, uh
It's just some just some
creaky old pipes, you know?
[LAUGHS]
Shall we move to the kitchen?
- Mm-hmm. Oh.
- Please, right this way.
You sure everything's all right?
Oh, yeah. It's just some
run-of-the-mill plumbing issues.
We actually haven't noticed anything
too disruptive since being back in town.
[PARKER] And sink.
[WHIRRING]
Oh, this is gonna be nasty.
[LIQUID SPUTTERING]
- [CHUCKLES]
- [PARKER] Ask for a glass of water.
Um, actually, can I have a
glass of water before we go on?
I have a little dry patch
from that delicious mushroom.
- [LAUGHS]
- Of course.
- [CLEARS THROAT]
- Tap.
Uh, actually, I prefer tap.
Are you sure? Because we
have ice cold and filtered
built right into the fridge.
Tap is fine.
[CHUCKLES] Just a second.
[CLEARS THROAT]
- Whoa!
- Hold the front page.
Is that coming from the fracking rig?
The hell is all of this?
Well, let me get this straight.
Even with the light and
the and the plumbing issues
and the and the noise, you
still think the jobs are worth it?
Well, well, we don't know
definitively that this is happening
because of the fracking
or if there are other
infrastructure problems in town.
We have to wait to see
what the report says.
[SCREAMS, GASPING]
[RUMBLING, GLASSES SHATTERING]
[GRUNTING]
Whoo! [GASPS]
Breanna, I told you not to go crazy.
We're not trying to hurt anyone.
That, that was not me. I hadn't
even turned on the shakers yet.
[PANTING] That is it! We're leaving!
You're right! This is insane!
- Come on.
- I wanna get out of this town.
[PHONE BEEPS]
- [PHONE RINGS]
- And he's calling Marsh.
I don't care what you are doing.
Drop everything, wait there!
I am coming over now!
[STATIC]
- [BEEPING]
- What?
Oh, Hodgins is pissed.
Marsh squashed our bug.
We're deaf.
[PHONE BEEPS]
[SOPHIE] Is, uh, is there
anything we can help you with?
No, I'm sorry, I need to cut this short.
This is unacceptable and I'm
gonna speak to someone right now!
Huh.
[ENGINE STARTS]
[TIRES SCREECH]
I think AG Hodgins is
sufficiently motivated.
Oh, what I wouldn't give
to be a fly on the wall
when he gives it to Marsh.
[PARKER] I got it handled.
Where are you?
Parker?
I'm hanging with the AG.
[LAUGHS]
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR OPENS]
You tell those Enviro
Defense Group nerds
that that report will be ready tonight.
I'm not spending another night
in this god-forsaken town.
I am not giving these
hillbillies $60 million.
I poured all my money into that rig.
It is time it started giving back.
Fix it!
[STATIC]
We're not getting any of this.
Hey, Parker, what are they saying?
Hodgins is in on it.
They rigged everything.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Why would the Attorney General
suspend their license
and form a committee
if he was in on all this?
Got half a dozen more
rigs they wanna open.
The approval process could've
taken months, if not years.
Yeah, but a big public validation,
they would've rubber
stamped them right away.
Okay. I found these legal
bills on GreenSlate's servers.
Seems like there was a major case
against them that suddenly evaporated
when Hodgins was named Attorney General.
Yeah, as Attorney
General, he gets to decide
which cases the state pursues
and which ones they don't.
My guess is he did so in exchange
for a lucrative piece of the company.
How did we miss this?
It was wiped from the entire system
when the charges were dropped.
All right. Look, listen,
we'll take the proof tonight
to the committee meeting, okay?
And we show them that
Enviro Defense Group,
the Attorney General, and
GreenSlate are all in bed together.
Anonymous trusts withholding
interest in anonymous LLCs,
that's the stuff I used to draw up.
No, no, that paper trail
would take forever to unravel.
And we don't have time.
That meeting is in two hours.
What, what, what does all this
What a waste of time.
I knew I should have taken
care of this mess myself.
[SIGHS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Oh
[SIGHS]
How does this happen?
Well, Breanna feels terrible. I think
No, no, no. No, no,
no, no, no, no. Me. Me.
I mean, how did I miss this?
I completely misread
him. That is not me.
That is not what I do.
Well, reading people,
spotting their strengths and
weaknesses is your superpower.
But self-doubt is your kryptonite.
And as I've been saying, you've
been second-guessing yourself
ever since Arthur Wilde showed up.
This, this, this is
feeling really complicated.
It's not over. Not yet.
Why are you here, Eliot?
Why did you come back?
Because I have something
I wanna say to you.
Now?
After all these years?
Now, after all these years.
Well, I don't wanna hear it.
If you have something to say to me,
you should have said it a long time ago.
I'm sorry I wasn't
here for Mom's funeral.
Is that what you came back to say?
Look, I know you didn't
want me to join the military,
but I joined anyway.
They put me in a special
unit, made us do things
Some things that I am not proud of.
They didn't allow me to
come back when she died.
And I wasn't here for you.
All I want to say is I am sorry.
You knew I didn't want you to sign up.
- Why'd you do it?
- Why did I do it?
Because the stories you told.
Your time in the military,
how you helped everybody escape
from that prison camp.
I wanted to be like you.
My service got me a bum hip
and killed my chances
to play professionally.
You had a chance.
You were a natural athlete.
And you were a hero.
A hero? Oh, shit.
You know they awarded the Medal
of Honor for that prison escape,
but they didn't give that medal to me.
A lily white boy from Kentucky got that.
All I got was a medical discharge
and a lifetime of fighting the VA
for my medical benefits.
I wanted more than that for you.
Your mother wanted
more than that for you.
I know.
Hey, guys. I think we've got something.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Parker lifted a key
card from Marsh's office.
- A key? What is
- [BREANNA] To the fracking rig.
Breaking into the computer at
GreenSlate's corporate offices
was easy, but of
course we found nothing.
That's because they didn't keep
anything important in there.
Anything worth keeping
secret, they kept at the rig.
[SOPHIE] All the high-tech
security is there.
It's nearly impenetrable.
The fracking rig is like
one big gigantic safe.
But the RFID key card gets
us into the security station,
and from there, I can
do a lot of damage.
Everything we need
is in that rig. Right.
- Here's the plan.
- No, stop, stop, stop! Enough!
I've had it with all your plans.
It's gotten us nowhere, and
that meeting is starting soon.
Okay. Dad, where you going?
I'm going to that committee hearing
and I'm going to tell
them everything I know.
I still have some weight in this town.
I'll convince them.
They have a restraining
order against you.
They can arrest you.
Let 'em try.
What just happened?
Like father, like son.
[QUIRKY MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSION]
[PARKER] There's way less guards
here than there were before.
Hey, Eliot, heads up.
My bet is that they're waiting
for your dad back in town.
Yeah, I'll keep an eye out.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[PEOPLE PROTESTING]
You're not getting inside
that meeting, Billy.
Did you forget how this went last time?
Nope.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MAN] No more fracking! Kill the drill!
[ALL] No more fracking!
No more fracking!
[AMERICAN ACCENT] You
ask for action and wow,
they call an emergency meeting.
Well, I believe the people of
this town have waited long enough.
If this is the fault of
the fracking rig, so be it.
If it's not, we have
other issues to address.
And the report just
happens to be ready tonight.
Just a fortunate, uh,
coincidence. If you'll excuse me.
Are you sure you want to rush this now?
I mean, if we wait just a minute,
we can get press from all
over the state to attend.
Don't worry. We will
have our press event.
Trust me.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Hey, Eliot.
Yeah, Dad.
What smells like a fracking
rig and screams like a girl?
[GRUNTS, SCREAMING]
That's a classic.
[ALL GRUNTING]
Yes, Mr. Chairman. We're
ready to present our findings.
And we'll answer any questions
the committee has at this time.
Parker, what do you have?
Breanna is going through
their files right now
and I've gotten
everything else rigged up.
And on the matter of
methane in the water,
we found no evidence that
this is related to fracking.
The data points to all
methane in the area coming
from bacterial decomposition
of vegetable material
and other natural sources.
[SECURITY GUARDS GRUNTING, GROANING]
Not bad for a man with a bum hip.
Well, it looks like you
learned a thing or two
in the last few years yourself.
Yeah.
[ALL GRUNTING]
[SHRIEKS]
[SOPHIE] Eliot, the committee
is about to make a ruling.
- You ready?
- Yeah.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Saw what we needed. On our way.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Too late, old man.
Not only do we get to
turn the rig back on,
but I'll be building six
more across the state.
[SIGHS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Wait!
Wait! Wait! Listen to me!
Listen! I have more evidence.
We can stop them. We can shut them down.
We need to get these people
back to work as soon as possible
and I think the people
will be comforted to know
about all the new jobs being created.
Exactly. We'll be setting up a
press conference in the morning.
We'll have reporters
from all over the state.
[BILLY] Listen, we can do this.
We can stop this thing! We can
stop them, we can shut them down!
But we have to work together!
Do something!
[REPORTER] So you're not
worried about the stories
coming out of the town about
water quality or health issues?
Of course, we were concerned.
But the report confirmed
that the fracking rig
has nothing to do with it.
Now, to keep that rig closed any longer,
it just hurts the people of this town.
Now, speaking of jobs, Mr. Marsh
And with this wonderful news, I
finally feel confident in announcing
that GreenSlate will be
opening six more rigs,
bringing us thousands of jobs.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
- Why are we here?
- Just
All right, Mr. Marsh.
Now, without further ado,
let's turn it on.
- [BEEPS]
- [WHIRRING]
[LAUGHS] There you have it, folks.
[APPLAUSE]
- [EXPLODING, RUMBLING]
- [ALL GASP]
[ALL CLAMORING]
[JAMES] Damn! What
the hell is happening?
I don't know. I had the engineers
test it. It was fine last night.
Are you absolutely sure
that we have to blow it up?
Blowing stuff up is cool.
When the rig starts,
the water will flow.
The lithium is going to hit the water,
initiating a chemical
process that creates a flame.
Since the water is
already full of methane,
it's gonna causes a chain
reaction and go boom!
See, we're not blowing it up.
It's blowing itself up.
[GRUNTS]
You're certain no one was inside that?
We cleared the rig of any people
and locked it up, made
sure no one got inside.
Attorney General Hodgins,
what do you think caused the explosion?
Do you think that the Enviro
Defense Group report was wrong?
No, of course not.
This is clearly a machine malfunction
and that there will be a
full-scale investigation.
I bet he did it. He's
hated us since we got here.
Hodgins, you wanna bet
that the methane that's been causing
our town's water to catch fire
caused that explosion?
The water that the company you
hired claimed was methane-free.
[CROWD GASPS, JEERING]
[AMERICAN ACCENT] What
a momentous occasion.
You should think about
doing your press conference
in front of the rig
being turned back on.
That would be amazing press.
Excuse me.
You and GreenSlate should cut
your losses and get out of town.
By the time the rest of the country
hears about you clearing
GreenSlate's charges
so you could fund your next campaign
you're done.
My what? I don't know
what you're talking about.
Once we realized that
you were funding them
and not the other way around,
it didn't take very long to
find your secret bank account,
and connect that to your
brother's secret bank account,
and connect that to the
Enviro Defense Group.
You see, you're gonna have to give
the great people of this nice town
$60 million for their trouble.
Uh
- Good luck with that.
- [CROWD CHEERING]
Uh, this, uh
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
Been a real pleasure, sir. [CHUCKLES]
Oh, it was so good to finally meet you.
I hope it's not as long
before the next time.
Me, too. [CHUCKLES]
[SIGHS] Next time, I'll finish
telling you about the robot bodies.
Damn it.
Okay.
[GRUNTS, LAUGHING]
Don't forget what I
said about your future.
I won't forget.
What about your future?
Uh, he just reminded me
to keep my options open.
[HARRY] Hmm.
Well, it all seemed to work out.
Thank goodness.
It was a bit close for comfort.
It could have been a disaster.
Thanks to you, Eliot
was able to do something
he hasn't been able to
do his entire adult life.
Be happy.
For what it's worth,
if you hadn't ignored me and joined up,
you wouldn't be where you are today.
Doing good for a lot of people.
I'm proud of you.
We wasted a lot of good years, huh?
Yeah.
We still have some years ahead of us.
Let's make 'em count.
You know, in our line of work, we
don't get recognition for what we do.
We have the satisfaction of
knowing that we made a difference.
And you may not have gotten
a medal for what you did,
but in the eyes of all
the guys you saved
you're a hero.
And for what it's worth
[VOICE CRACKS] in my eyes, too.
[SNIFFLES]
Try to stay out of trouble.
No, sir.
That's my boy.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[SOPHIE] Hey.
Are you okay?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[ENGINE STARTS]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
- Parker.
- Hmm?
We're going to be here
longer than expected,
then I'm not gonna
waste a single minute.
Breanna, I need more snowflakes!
[BREANNA] Good Stewart
Trucking is a piece of work.
We have a couple of Scrooges
who are bleeding their
father's legacy for profit.
The books are showing several
regular anonymous shipments
that don't match with what's
on the original manifest.
- [SOPHIE] So
- [BOTH] They're smuggling something.
You ready? This is the fun part.
We have got a big shipment
of guns sitting on the dock.
We have to move the guns off the dock.
If we don't do this, we're dead.
These shipments are off limits.
[GRUNTING]
[HORN HONKING]