Bull (2016) s03e04 Episode Script
Justice for Cable
1 How do you explain the inexplicable? You don't.
You just surrender to it.
You move on.
Why? Because (SIGHS) what other choice is there? The thing about Cable though, if you knew her, you'd know (EXHALES) she wasn't easy to move on from.
She wasn't easy to quit.
Take it from me.
I hired her.
I fired her.
I hired her again.
(SOFT LAUGHTER) (SIGHS) But, hey, Cable wouldn't want us to cry too hard or cry too long.
She would want to know that we all got together at her favorite hang, had a bunch of beers, put some of her favorite songs on the jukebox and remembered all those nutty T-shirts.
To Cable.
ALL: To Cable.
If there's anything I can do, anything at all, don't hesitate to call.
What? That's okay.
I can have my husband take care of it.
(SNIFFLES) The police called last night.
They recovered some things from the car.
From her They said I could come pick 'em up, but I It's okay.
We can do that.
We'll take care of that.
And then we can bring them to you.
Or not.
Whatever you decide.
DANNY: Hey, Marissa, can you put the TV on? Channel 3.
And if you are just joining us, we have a late-breaking development to tell you about.
According to investigators, they now believe a single member of the 40-person crew performing routine maintenance on this bridge less than three weeks ago embedded plastic explosives and a remote timer in one small section - of the bridge's undercarriage.
- That's the bridge that Cable The question now is, if this wasn't a case of infrastructure failure, but rather an act of sabotage, perhaps even an act of terrorism, who was behind it and why? I don't have an answer, Ellen.
It's a horrible world.
We do unspeakable things to each other.
I wish I understood why.
Absolutely.
Whatever you need.
Whatever the hour.
I'm here.
You call.
(EXHALES) I'm not gonna drop dead from a sip of whiskey.
You don't know that.
I might kill you.
- (GROANS SOFTLY) - (KNOCKING) - Did you tell him? - He was on the phone.
- Tell him what? - They found the terrorists.
Found the cell.
Where? When? They were all killed.
Somewhere in Prague.
And according to reports, no one is taking credit for the bridge collapse on purpose.
They wanted to make it look like an accident.
They wanted to make us afraid of everything we take for granted.
During the raid, they found plans for, uh, 25 more what did they call those events.
Now they're checking all over the country to make sure that none of those were put into motion.
So what do we do now? Nothing.
Nothing.
There's-there's nothing we can do.
Leave here, we get in an elevator, we hope that no one has messed with it.
We get on the subway, and we hope that's safe, too.
(CHUCKLES) You know, they've won.
They've taken that certainty away from us.
They've taken away our confidence.
And they've taken Cable.
(PHONE RINGING) (EXHALES) (GRUNTS) Hello? Really? Sure.
Send him up.
Send who up? It's, like, 3:00 in the morning.
BULL: I just kept thinking about what Benny said.
How there was nothing to do.
Nothing to do but embrace fear.
(DOOR SLAMS) (INHALES DEEPLY) (SIGHS) Time for breakfast? Eh, somewhere in the world.
Sorry about the intrusion.
No, you're not.
Nice speech the other day.
We haven't officially met.
I'm Greg.
I'm her husband.
I'm Jason.
I'm her I know who you are.
This midnight caller thing, you do this a lot? - No.
- Yes.
You want something stronger than that? - No.
- Yes.
BULL: So, here's my question.
How do you do this? Plastic explosives.
Remote timers.
Passports.
20-some other events.
Training.
It all costs money, right? I mean, you have to house people.
You have to feed people.
Okay So (EXHALES) where does all this money come from? Maybe a foreign government somewhere.
Yeah.
But how do you get it here? To America.
How do you pay for all this stuff, all these people? You need credit cards, bank accounts, cash.
Sounds like you need a bank.
Bingo.
Marissa, you must know someone at the U.
S.
attorney's office that specializes in terrorism.
I do.
But, Bull, the terrorists are all dead.
Who is it you're looking to go after? The folks that killed Cable.
The folks who helped pay for that bridge to come down.
They bank with Thoreau Financial.
A grand old 120-year-old American bank with branches all over the world.
Your mom and dad probably had a mortgage with them.
So why aren't you guys over there right now, guns blazing, throwing whoever's allowing this to happen into prison? Well, we would if we could.
Thoreau Financial was actually investigated by the Senate Banking Committee in 2010.
Then again in 2014.
Then again last year.
They were cleared of any wrongdoing each and every time.
(SIGHS) But how is that possible? You know, when my old Homeland buddy Marissa called and asked me if I'd meet with the great Jason Bull, I never would've guessed what a babe in the woods you'd be.
Was that meant to offend me? Never been called a babe before.
(CHUCKLES) Have you ever heard of John Honaker? He's the CEO of Thoreau.
Basically, he is Thoreau.
He bought it in 2008 after the financial crisis.
He took a string of small mom-and-pop community banks and he built it into a multibillion dollar financial institution.
No, you'll never get Thoreau.
People have tried.
I've tried.
You bring down Thoreau Financial and the repercussions will affect the entire economy.
So that's that? That is that.
What about that guy? What guy? The guy who runs it all.
Honaker? - What if I just went after him? - MARISSA: This is John Honaker, the CEO of Thoreau Financial.
This is what he had to say on television this morning.
All of us at Thoreau Financial were shocked when we learned earlier today that the terrorists responsible for that bridge collapse apparently used our bank to facilitate their horrific activities.
To be clear, we are in contact with Homeland Security, the CIA, the NSA, and both local and international law enforcement.
We're going to do everything we can to get to the bottom of this, to try and understand why it happened, how it happened, and to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again.
In the meantime, our prayers and sympathies are with the victims and their families.
And according to Bull, he's our target.
We're not prosecutors.
We can't bring any criminal charges against him.
And as far as a civil lawsuit goes, we cannot sue on Cable's behalf.
We are her employers, not her family.
Seems like a fairly minor technicality.
(DOORBELL RINGS) (DOOR CREAKS) Oh, my goodness.
Dr.
Bull.
How can I say no? Why would I say no? It might be painful.
Reliving it again.
I'll be filing the suit on your behalf, so you may have reporters knocking on your door.
As for court, you don't have to be there every day.
I will pay for everything.
Still you might want to discuss it with your husband.
I love my husband.
But, uh, he's not Cable's real father.
And, frankly, this is my call.
I don't suppose you've ever lost a child, Dr.
Bull.
Make it hurt.
I'm sure gonna try.
Look at me.
I'm looking.
I'm not Cable.
Thanks for that.
The resemblance is startling.
I'm an investigator.
And this is not a case that you learn on, Bull.
This is a case that you-you go out and you get the very best po I've got this.
DANNY: But he needs to hear that we MARISSA: I've got this.
Really.
I've got this.
See you in the morning.
(CLEARS THROAT) You see that pile of papers on the left-hand side of your desk? Oh, my God, it's the Da Vinci Code.
Who knew? It's been here the whole time? - I better call Tom Hanks.
- Those are résumés.
They have been here for three weeks.
Okay, look, I don't want to replace her, either.
None of us do.
It seems callous and final, and I hate it, but if you want - to win this thing - Well, I can't do it.
I can't sit here with strangers and interview them and pretend that I'm excited they're here.
Well, then you don't get to pick.
I'm getting someone in here ASAP.
I have to.
I'm heading home.
I will start to make calls as soon as I get there.
Then I'm going to bed.
So I'll see you tomorrow.
What do you mean? Tomorrow? In the morning, as opposed to later tonight? Oh, come on.
That was fun.
And yes, you'll see me in the morning and not before.
- What are you gonna do? - I'll just be here for a few more hours.
Need to do a couple of miles on the hamster wheel over there, and then start learning everything I can about Honaker and his lawyer.
Don't stay here too late.
(SIGHS): And, look don't fall asleep in your office.
And don't drink.
Can I at least have a few friends over, have a small party? I promise to clean up.
Dad said it was okay.
Night, John-Boy.
Night, Elizabeth.
(DOOR CLOSES) (SNORING SOFTLY) Peace up, A-Town down Yeah! Okay! Usher, Usher Lil' Jon Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Let's go! Hello? I was up in the club with my homies Trying to get a little V-I Keep it down on the low key - You should know how - Hey! Oh, my gosh! I seen Shorty, she was checking up on me You scared me.
- (TURNS OFF MUSIC) - Sorry about the music.
Helps me stay awake when I work.
Oh, but I am so glad to see you.
All these trash cans have food in them, (CHUCKLES): and they're really starting to smell.
Miss? Who the hell are you and how in the world did you get in here? Did they not tell you someone was working tonight? I'm supposed to be here.
I promise.
See? Credentials.
(CHUCKLES) You do not comport yourself like someone who does office maintenance.
My name is Dr.
Jason Bull.
These are my offices.
(LAUGHS): Oh, my gosh.
You're him? Sh ugar.
I had no idea.
These belong to Marissa Morgan.
I know.
She's the one who called me.
I'm Taylor.
Taylor Rentzel.
She and I worked together at Homeland.
She said you guys needed a bunch of cyber-sleuthing done ASAP.
And as it turns out, tonight's the night my three-year-old goes to my ex for two days, so Oh.
Was that him on the phone? Child on the left, ex on the right.
Mauricio.
And moron.
And Mauricio's very beautiful.
Actually, uh, moron's kind of pretty, too.
This is Ivan Gronsky, and as I'm sure you've read, he's the leader of the cell that took down that bridge.
Right.
And he was killed along with the rest of his cell during the CIA raid in Prague.
- Right you are.
- Mm-hmm.
So why are we wasting our time talking about a dead man? Because at least the way Marissa explained it to me you're trying to prove that this guy personally used his bank to launder money so the bad guys could do bad things.
That is the working theory, yes.
So I've been looking for points of intersection between this guy and anyone connected with this cell.
And by "points of intersection," you mean? Any time banker fellow and anyone from the cell might have been at the same place at the same time.
Or, in this case, just on the same continent at the same time.
- Okay.
- And as it happens, for about a six-month period, Mr.
Gronsky lived in America.
Really? And what was he doing here? He spent a semester at an Ivy League school.
Do tell.
And guess who else attended the same school, three years ahead but at the same time? Scrooge McDuck.
Thank you for doing this.
I'm sorry I frightened you before.
I'm going to leave you now, so you can dance, dance, dance.
And you're hired, by the way.
Did Marissa already talk money or Rein it in there, big guy.
I'm not hired, because I already have a job.
I work for Homeland Security.
Specialize in international banking.
And, uh, there is no pay, because I'm not allowed to do this if there is.
Homeland policy.
This is a favor for my friend Marissa.
And it's just for two days.
Hmm.
But it was a pleasure to meet you.
A pleasure to be met.
And again, thank you so much.
Anytime.
(SIGHS) Can I help? He worked late.
Yeah.
Well, I just got a love letter from Thoreau Financial.
Motion to dismiss.
JUDGE: Ms.
George, I read your motion to dismiss, all 220 pages of it.
If I could trouble you to restate your argument briefly as to why I should dismiss this case? Thank you, Your Honor.
And let me begin by saying that our hearts go out to the victims of the I-99 Bridge collapse and to their families.
But while we grieve for the victims, we take strong exception to the assertion that Mr.
Honaker is somehow involved or personally responsible.
And given the complete lack of evidence to support such an outrageous assertion, dismissal seems like the only just course of action.
Mr.
Colón, you haven't presented the court with much information.
Yes, we know that, Your Honor.
Unfortunately, all of the relevant transactional records are in the possession of Thoreau Financial.
All we're asking for is a chance to examine their records.
Which is the very definition of a fishing expedition.
Ooh, there's nothing wrong with fishing.
Sometimes you hook a marlin.
What are you afraid of, Ms.
George? Mr.
Colón.
Your Honor, terrorists have struck our soil.
37 people are dead, including my client's daughter.
All of the victim's families every American, for that matter is entitled to transparency.
They're entitled to the truth.
Motion to dismiss denied.
- Thank you, Your Honor.
- But barely.
I'm allowing this to go to trial, but if you don't come up with more than this, I won't hesitate to pull the plug.
Ms.
George, I'm ordering you to comply with the plaintiff's discovery requests.
(ELEVATOR BELL CHIMES) They're trying to paper us into submission.
Yeah.
I can see exactly what they're doing.
400,000 pages of transactions, 250 million routing records.
Every time little Timmy got a ten dollar birthday check from his nana, it's in there.
Hmm.
Can you call them and thank them for their exceptional response to our request, but see if they couldn't send us their digital files? Now that we have a new Cable.
- We have a new Cable? - We have a temporary Taylor.
Mrs.
McCrory.
Ellen.
What's that expression? "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck"? Sorry, you lost me at the first duck.
A man came to my home early this morning.
He knocked on my door.
He would not explicitly identify himself as working for Thoreau or Mr.
Honaker, but he did let me know in no uncertain terms that a $10 million settlement was not out of the question if I were to drop my lawsuit.
What'd you say? I told him to go duck himself.
You okay? (SIGHS) Kind of pleased, actually.
I mean, th-they're basically admitting they did it, aren't they? If you give somebody money like that, try to get them to go away That's exactly what it means.
We're making progress.
Yeah.
But we haven't made it hurt yet.
This trial's about banking and coding and transactions and details.
We need people who are gonna be able to absorb bits of minutiae and not be overwhelmed.
Which means Honaker's lawyers will be looking for the opposite jurors with short attention spans.
People who, when confronted with the enormity of complicated evidence, will tune out.
Do you own a smartphone, sir? It's a phone.
Okay.
And has anyone ever texted you a photo on it? Yeah.
I-I think.
BENNY: All right.
Well, let's just assume someone has, and let's assume that you wanted to share that photo with juror number eight.
Can you take me through the steps involved for you to re-text that photo? No.
You touch the picture, and you drag it to his phone.
And how do you do that? You just you just drag it as hard as you can.
WOMAN: You touch it, the picture or the text message you're trying to send.
That highlights it.
Once it's highlighted, an icon will appear with the arrow.
You highlight that, and a dialogue box will appear asking for the phone number you want to text to.
You enter the phone number, and you press send.
BENNY: Okay.
I've got a riddle.
Your Honor I like riddles.
Thank you, Your Honor.
Now, a man has a fox, a duck, and a bag of beans.
And he has to get them across the river, but he can only take one at a time.
Now, if he leaves the fox with the duck, the fox will eat the duck.
If he leaves the duck with the beans, the duck will eat the beans.
How is he? I'm getting rid of all of them.
Wait, why? They know the answer.
No.
They just think they do.
There is no answer.
(MOUTHING) So, here's the good news.
You have a case.
The bad news is it's a circumstantial case.
We've won with circumstantial.
Well, you won't win with this one.
The terrorist accounts should have been red-flagged by the bank's own internal auditing system, and they weren't.
A problem with the program? I'm sure that's what they want you to think.
But then I found 71 other suspicious activity alerts that the bank was all over, immediately.
But not Gronsky's.
- Not Gronsky's.
- BULL: You find any direct connection between Honaker and the terrorist? Now that you mention it, apparently Honaker was in Panama with a group of bankers two days after that bridge came down.
And that matters because? I cheated.
I ran an NSA check.
Gronsky was off the grid at that time, and the soft intel suggests he was probably in Panama.
MARISSA: That's really great.
But it's still not conclusive.
We made a point to pick a jury that would pay attention to the details, follow a fact pattern, not leap to conclusions.
- (PHONE CHIMES) - We really need proof.
Hard proof.
Sorry to eat and run.
My day care closes in 25 minutes.
I'll be in early tomorrow.
7:30-ish.
Nice to meet you, Danny, Benny, Chuck.
Chunk.
(CHUCKLES) Well, other than screwing up my name, she's very impressive.
Yeah, nice work, Marissa.
Well, we only have her for one more day, so let's use her while we can.
Anything else on the investigative front? Yeah, I've got something.
So, I've been tracking down former employees who might be able to shed some light on Honaker and Thoreau, and I found this independent contractor who was hired to write banking code for Thoreau.
His specialty is defeating governmental safeguard systems.
Bingo.
- You think he'll talk to us? - Well, everyone I've approached with any connection to the company is either afraid to speak or has signed an NDA.
Including this guy, Adam Shaw.
CHUNK: I-I don't get it.
If he won't speak to us if he can't speak to us Well, the thing is, uh, he's dying.
Stage IV lymphoma.
Well, nothing to lose.
Chuck, bring him in.
Do your magic.
I know you had me served with a subpoena, but I'm honestly not sure I can be of any help to you.
I only worked at Thoreau for nine months.
Oh, let me be the judge of that, Mr.
Shaw.
- So, you write code? - When I'm well enough to work, which is not terribly often these days.
I'm sorry.
Can I ask you about John Honaker? About Thoreau Financial? Y-You know I'm-I'm not supposed to tell you anything.
You know they made me sign an NDA.
Yeah, but I know you know there are 37 people dead.
And a lot of times, that changes things.
BENNY: Mr.
Shaw, how did you come to apply for a job at Thoreau? ADAM: I-I didn't apply for the job.
They-they sought me out.
And when you say "they"? I was I was hired directly by Mr.
Honaker.
He seemed to know exactly who I was and exactly what I did.
And this was shortly after the terrorist Ivan Gronsky opened up his accounts at Thoreau? - That's correct.
- And at that time, did Mr.
Honaker explain to you exactly what he wanted? He couldn't have been more specific.
Uh, my first assignment was to create a backdoor code.
And for those of us who don't speak computer, what is a backdoor code? I-It's a type of bypass key.
Um, it's a piece of code created specifically to work around the regulatory protocols set up by the U.
S.
government to detect suspicious transactions.
Everybody following along? They're hanging on his every word.
BENNY: That must have raised some concerns for you.
I mean, the president of a bank asks you to create some software so that he can defeat government safeguards.
I mean yes and no.
I guess it should have.
The truth is that I didn't specifically know what they were going to use the code for.
Sometimes banks keep it as a fail-safe.
They know a transaction is good, and they don't want the government freezing it or flagging it.
I mean, I didn't specifically know that Thoreau was going to use it to thwart the AML or KYC protocols.
Again, a little help, sir.
(CHUCKLES) AML are anti-money laundering programs.
KYC stands for "know your clients.
" Uh, every bank is required to have them.
Okay, so you create this code.
And how did you come to realize that it was being abused? I take pride in my work.
I would dip into the system and monitor it from time to time just to make sure that there wasn't anything going wrong.
Just to get ahead of any potential problems.
And that's how you became aware of what the bank was really doing with the code.
Yeah.
And I reported it immediately.
Who did you report it to? Hey, Mr.
Shaw, it's okay.
To him.
To John Honaker.
(GALLERY MURMURING) MARISSA: Things are getting really green with our mirror jury.
The real one's buying it, too.
You realize that you're breaking your NDA - by testifying with us today? - Of course.
But I'm dying.
What are they gonna do to me? - Nice work, Counselor.
- Thank you.
By any chance would you gentlemen be free right now? For you? Never free.
Always available.
My offices.
It's a shame we didn't have a towel.
We could have handed it to her here and now so she could throw it in.
Have Marissa call Cable's mother.
Put her on high alert to come to court tomorrow.
Will do.
You understand this is a nuisance case for my bank.
Period.
It's bad PR, but PR is highly perishable.
All it takes is a couple of news cycles and What's it doing for your stock price? How many shares does he personally control? - 15 million.
- Ooh.
And every dollar it goes down If you're suggesting that I put my personal net worth over the safety of others That's not for us to decide.
We're comfortable leaving it to the jury.
We'll pay your client $25 million to settle.
Obviously, I'm obliged to share your offer with my client, but I will strongly advise her to reject it.
If you'll excuse me, have a moment with my partner here.
And she does tend to take my advice.
I'm trying to be reasonable here.
I'm trying to put this all behind us.
Oh, well what do you know, it's not there.
What do you want? I want him to hurt.
The way my client is gonna hurt every time she walks by her daughter's bedroom.
The way those families are hurting.
Mr.
Colón, any idea why your witness has chosen not to grace us with his presence? Uh, Your Honor, I know that Mr.
Shaw was most anxious to be cross-examined, and I know that with his illness, mobility can sometimes be an issue.
We expect him any minute now.
I will give him another three minutes.
Yes, Your Honor.
(WHISPERING): Talk to me.
He's dead.
- What? - I went to his apartment to pick him up, and the ambulance was already there.
EMTs.
The cleaning lady found him.
Mr.
Colón? Dr.
Bull? So, the judge gave us a continuance until tomorrow.
He's also giving the jury a stern instruction to disregard all of Shaw's testimony.
Well, there you have it.
Can I ask a really horrible question? Does anyone think it's just a coincidence that that poor man was found dead this morning? For what it's worth, everyone at the scene believed they were looking at natural causes.
There wasn't even a hint of anything criminal.
From your lips.
TAYLOR: Knock, knock.
What you thinking, Lincoln? Someone looks unhappy.
I thought we were finished with you.
How'd you get in here? I was over at Homeland, and I stumbled across something I thought you might find interesting.
Told Marissa all about it and And she gave you her credentials.
Doesn't she know that goes on your permanent record? Doesn't she know she's not gonna get into a good college now? Why do you look so sad? Our key witness, a whistleblower Danny found, suddenly died before he could complete his testimony.
I'm sorry.
Pulmonary embolism.
I had one of those a few months ago.
I heard.
Fun fact: if you want to poison somebody, always choose potassium chloride.
Leaves no trace and presents as pulmonary embolism.
Oh, my God.
This guy Honaker helped kill Cable.
I'm pretty sure he killed my witness.
And it looks like he's gonna go scot-free.
But that's not why you came here in the middle of the night.
Is that for me? Yeah, but (SIGHS) now I'm not sure if it's gonna help or hurt.
Try me.
Remember I told you I had soft intel that suggested Honaker and Gronsky were together in Panama? This is two days after the bridge collapse in Panama City.
BULL: Oh, my God.
This is great.
This changes everything.
It does, and it doesn't.
I cheated again.
I got that by hacking into an NSA server.
You can't use it.
If you introduce that photo, I'll be behind bars in a matter of days.
Well, why'd you bring it to me? I just sensed how badly you needed to know.
You were right all along.
I thought it was important.
I'm sorry.
Dr.
Bull you can't use it.
I understand.
Can I have it, please? No.
I think you should probably go now.
(SIGHS) There's not a day gone by since the tragedy when I haven't wondered what we could have done differently.
And what have you determined? I believe, we honestly did the best we could.
You know, we handle over a thousand transactions a second.
The possibility that we might miss one errant financial anomaly, one exchange, though infinitesimally small, obviously still exists.
And that's no excuse.
We have to do better.
We will do better.
To begin with, we've taken down Mr.
Shaw's code, and we are in the process of setting up far more rigorous protocols.
Thank you, Mr.
Honaker.
Nothing further.
Cross-examination? Yes, Your Honor.
(SIGHS) Just to clarify.
It sounds like you're suggesting that the fault lies not with the bank, and by extension, not with you, but with the coding created for you by the late Adam Shaw.
I take no pleasure in speaking ill of the dead, but clearly, his work was flawed.
Aah.
I don't know if I follow that.
I mean, he didn't make the software that was supposed to spot the transactions.
The government did that.
He made the software that allowed you to circumvent the government safeguards.
Objection.
Is counsel going to ask a question, or simply pontificate for the jury? I apologize, Your Honor.
And yes, I-I do have a question.
(SIGHS) Are you certain you don't know an Ivan Gronsky, the terrorist leader who took down the bridge? No.
I do not.
As I've stated numerous times.
So, if you don't know Ivan Gronsky, then how do you explain this photo Oh, my gosh.
Bull, you can't do that.
BENNY: which was taken in Panama two days after the I-99 collapsed? That's you, isn't it, with Mr.
Gronsky, together, a week before the CIA and Interpol took him and the rest of his team out? Objection! We've never seen this photo.
We have complied with the court order to turn over our documents.
For the plaintiff to sandbag us like this is beyond the pale.
Counsel, my chambers, now.
Dr.
Bull, you, too.
There's no foundation for this photo whatsoever.
It could have been photoshopped.
Okay, then.
Mr.
Colón, Dr.
Bull, one of you had better tell me where this photograph came from now.
It just surfaced this morning on a small website.
Probably being picked up by all the major media outlets as we speak.
For all we know, members of the jury are looking at it on their phones while we're back here fighting.
Can't control the media.
As for the veracity of the photograph, may I suggest, Your Honor, that since her client is already on the stand, why don't we ask him to authenticate it? He knows whether it's him or not, and he certainly knows whether he was there.
You're right.
Of course he does.
Let's get back in there.
It's a simple question, sir.
Is that you in the photo or not? I'd have to study it to say for sure.
Really? That's what you're going with? You know what you look like, don't you? Objection.
Withdrawn.
I'll concede, it looks like me.
Looks like you? (LAUGHS) Okay.
All right.
All right, we'll go with that.
Uh let me ask you another question.
Uh, this guy who looks like you? He looks pretty angry in this picture.
Is it because his terrorist buddy who'd been limiting his activities to Eastern Europe suddenly killed 37 Americans? I mean, that must have really turned up the heat on you and the bank.
(LAUGHING): I'm sorry.
I mean the heat on the guy in this photo who looks exactly like you.
No answer? I understand.
It's a lot to digest.
But while you're thinking about it let me ask you.
How much did you and the bank make with Gronsky? I don't know off-hand.
Well, according to our analysis, he moved hundreds of millions of dollars a year through Thoreau.
(GALLERY MURMURING) Funding from foreign governments, ransoms.
Over the last decade, over a billion dollars.
HONAKER: Again, I can't verify those numbers.
What about your year-end bonus this past year? Can you verify that? $80 million.
BENNY: $80 million.
$80 million.
Wow.
Whew! 37 dead Americans driving over that bridge, trying to get home to their loved ones.
No further questions, Your Honor.
JUDGE: Has the jury reached a verdict? We have, Your Honor.
In the above entitled action, we find for the plaintiff in the amount of $100 million.
(KISSES) - Thank you.
- Thank you for letting us do this.
Oh, my God.
We did it.
And you.
You were amazing.
Oh, Cable was.
This was for her.
- Yeah.
- (KISSES) (SIGHS) Hmm.
I wish this felt better.
He doesn't look too unhappy.
Pocket change for him.
Just wait a second.
John Honaker.
You're under arrest for providing material aid to terrorists, resulting - in multiple deaths.
- (HANDCUFFS CLICKING) (SCOFFS) You feel better now? Yeah.
I guess I do.
(LAUGHS) (SIGHS) You know, everyone at TAC still thinks it was me that slipped that photo to that anti-banking website.
Girl has to protect herself.
Soon as I realized you weren't gonna give me the picture back, I had to come up with a plausible reason why it was out there.
Classic Homeland move, by the way.
Using a news outlet to launder a photograph? Oh.
- I may steal that from you.
- Hmm.
Unless, of course, you've changed your mind and want to come work for me, in which case there'd be no point.
Well that depends.
If I hadn't done what I did, would you have sold me out? Would you have used that photo? I think you would have.
I think nothing matters more to you than getting the bad guys.
I'm sorry.
Of course this bad guy had done something awful to a member of your team.
You were seeking justice for her.
Nothing for yourself.
I'd love to work for someone who sticks up for me like that.
Excuse me? I've already discussed money and benefits and hours with Marissa.
Hours? We don't do hours.
I do.
But I promise you you and your company will be the second most important thing in my life.
Second.
That's all I have to offer, and I'm offering it to you.
Sold.
BOY: Mommy? I believe you're being summoned by Number One.
I believe he might have just done a number two.
See you Monday.
See you Monday.
You just surrender to it.
You move on.
Why? Because (SIGHS) what other choice is there? The thing about Cable though, if you knew her, you'd know (EXHALES) she wasn't easy to move on from.
She wasn't easy to quit.
Take it from me.
I hired her.
I fired her.
I hired her again.
(SOFT LAUGHTER) (SIGHS) But, hey, Cable wouldn't want us to cry too hard or cry too long.
She would want to know that we all got together at her favorite hang, had a bunch of beers, put some of her favorite songs on the jukebox and remembered all those nutty T-shirts.
To Cable.
ALL: To Cable.
If there's anything I can do, anything at all, don't hesitate to call.
What? That's okay.
I can have my husband take care of it.
(SNIFFLES) The police called last night.
They recovered some things from the car.
From her They said I could come pick 'em up, but I It's okay.
We can do that.
We'll take care of that.
And then we can bring them to you.
Or not.
Whatever you decide.
DANNY: Hey, Marissa, can you put the TV on? Channel 3.
And if you are just joining us, we have a late-breaking development to tell you about.
According to investigators, they now believe a single member of the 40-person crew performing routine maintenance on this bridge less than three weeks ago embedded plastic explosives and a remote timer in one small section - of the bridge's undercarriage.
- That's the bridge that Cable The question now is, if this wasn't a case of infrastructure failure, but rather an act of sabotage, perhaps even an act of terrorism, who was behind it and why? I don't have an answer, Ellen.
It's a horrible world.
We do unspeakable things to each other.
I wish I understood why.
Absolutely.
Whatever you need.
Whatever the hour.
I'm here.
You call.
(EXHALES) I'm not gonna drop dead from a sip of whiskey.
You don't know that.
I might kill you.
- (GROANS SOFTLY) - (KNOCKING) - Did you tell him? - He was on the phone.
- Tell him what? - They found the terrorists.
Found the cell.
Where? When? They were all killed.
Somewhere in Prague.
And according to reports, no one is taking credit for the bridge collapse on purpose.
They wanted to make it look like an accident.
They wanted to make us afraid of everything we take for granted.
During the raid, they found plans for, uh, 25 more what did they call those events.
Now they're checking all over the country to make sure that none of those were put into motion.
So what do we do now? Nothing.
Nothing.
There's-there's nothing we can do.
Leave here, we get in an elevator, we hope that no one has messed with it.
We get on the subway, and we hope that's safe, too.
(CHUCKLES) You know, they've won.
They've taken that certainty away from us.
They've taken away our confidence.
And they've taken Cable.
(PHONE RINGING) (EXHALES) (GRUNTS) Hello? Really? Sure.
Send him up.
Send who up? It's, like, 3:00 in the morning.
BULL: I just kept thinking about what Benny said.
How there was nothing to do.
Nothing to do but embrace fear.
(DOOR SLAMS) (INHALES DEEPLY) (SIGHS) Time for breakfast? Eh, somewhere in the world.
Sorry about the intrusion.
No, you're not.
Nice speech the other day.
We haven't officially met.
I'm Greg.
I'm her husband.
I'm Jason.
I'm her I know who you are.
This midnight caller thing, you do this a lot? - No.
- Yes.
You want something stronger than that? - No.
- Yes.
BULL: So, here's my question.
How do you do this? Plastic explosives.
Remote timers.
Passports.
20-some other events.
Training.
It all costs money, right? I mean, you have to house people.
You have to feed people.
Okay So (EXHALES) where does all this money come from? Maybe a foreign government somewhere.
Yeah.
But how do you get it here? To America.
How do you pay for all this stuff, all these people? You need credit cards, bank accounts, cash.
Sounds like you need a bank.
Bingo.
Marissa, you must know someone at the U.
S.
attorney's office that specializes in terrorism.
I do.
But, Bull, the terrorists are all dead.
Who is it you're looking to go after? The folks that killed Cable.
The folks who helped pay for that bridge to come down.
They bank with Thoreau Financial.
A grand old 120-year-old American bank with branches all over the world.
Your mom and dad probably had a mortgage with them.
So why aren't you guys over there right now, guns blazing, throwing whoever's allowing this to happen into prison? Well, we would if we could.
Thoreau Financial was actually investigated by the Senate Banking Committee in 2010.
Then again in 2014.
Then again last year.
They were cleared of any wrongdoing each and every time.
(SIGHS) But how is that possible? You know, when my old Homeland buddy Marissa called and asked me if I'd meet with the great Jason Bull, I never would've guessed what a babe in the woods you'd be.
Was that meant to offend me? Never been called a babe before.
(CHUCKLES) Have you ever heard of John Honaker? He's the CEO of Thoreau.
Basically, he is Thoreau.
He bought it in 2008 after the financial crisis.
He took a string of small mom-and-pop community banks and he built it into a multibillion dollar financial institution.
No, you'll never get Thoreau.
People have tried.
I've tried.
You bring down Thoreau Financial and the repercussions will affect the entire economy.
So that's that? That is that.
What about that guy? What guy? The guy who runs it all.
Honaker? - What if I just went after him? - MARISSA: This is John Honaker, the CEO of Thoreau Financial.
This is what he had to say on television this morning.
All of us at Thoreau Financial were shocked when we learned earlier today that the terrorists responsible for that bridge collapse apparently used our bank to facilitate their horrific activities.
To be clear, we are in contact with Homeland Security, the CIA, the NSA, and both local and international law enforcement.
We're going to do everything we can to get to the bottom of this, to try and understand why it happened, how it happened, and to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again.
In the meantime, our prayers and sympathies are with the victims and their families.
And according to Bull, he's our target.
We're not prosecutors.
We can't bring any criminal charges against him.
And as far as a civil lawsuit goes, we cannot sue on Cable's behalf.
We are her employers, not her family.
Seems like a fairly minor technicality.
(DOORBELL RINGS) (DOOR CREAKS) Oh, my goodness.
Dr.
Bull.
How can I say no? Why would I say no? It might be painful.
Reliving it again.
I'll be filing the suit on your behalf, so you may have reporters knocking on your door.
As for court, you don't have to be there every day.
I will pay for everything.
Still you might want to discuss it with your husband.
I love my husband.
But, uh, he's not Cable's real father.
And, frankly, this is my call.
I don't suppose you've ever lost a child, Dr.
Bull.
Make it hurt.
I'm sure gonna try.
Look at me.
I'm looking.
I'm not Cable.
Thanks for that.
The resemblance is startling.
I'm an investigator.
And this is not a case that you learn on, Bull.
This is a case that you-you go out and you get the very best po I've got this.
DANNY: But he needs to hear that we MARISSA: I've got this.
Really.
I've got this.
See you in the morning.
(CLEARS THROAT) You see that pile of papers on the left-hand side of your desk? Oh, my God, it's the Da Vinci Code.
Who knew? It's been here the whole time? - I better call Tom Hanks.
- Those are résumés.
They have been here for three weeks.
Okay, look, I don't want to replace her, either.
None of us do.
It seems callous and final, and I hate it, but if you want - to win this thing - Well, I can't do it.
I can't sit here with strangers and interview them and pretend that I'm excited they're here.
Well, then you don't get to pick.
I'm getting someone in here ASAP.
I have to.
I'm heading home.
I will start to make calls as soon as I get there.
Then I'm going to bed.
So I'll see you tomorrow.
What do you mean? Tomorrow? In the morning, as opposed to later tonight? Oh, come on.
That was fun.
And yes, you'll see me in the morning and not before.
- What are you gonna do? - I'll just be here for a few more hours.
Need to do a couple of miles on the hamster wheel over there, and then start learning everything I can about Honaker and his lawyer.
Don't stay here too late.
(SIGHS): And, look don't fall asleep in your office.
And don't drink.
Can I at least have a few friends over, have a small party? I promise to clean up.
Dad said it was okay.
Night, John-Boy.
Night, Elizabeth.
(DOOR CLOSES) (SNORING SOFTLY) Peace up, A-Town down Yeah! Okay! Usher, Usher Lil' Jon Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Let's go! Hello? I was up in the club with my homies Trying to get a little V-I Keep it down on the low key - You should know how - Hey! Oh, my gosh! I seen Shorty, she was checking up on me You scared me.
- (TURNS OFF MUSIC) - Sorry about the music.
Helps me stay awake when I work.
Oh, but I am so glad to see you.
All these trash cans have food in them, (CHUCKLES): and they're really starting to smell.
Miss? Who the hell are you and how in the world did you get in here? Did they not tell you someone was working tonight? I'm supposed to be here.
I promise.
See? Credentials.
(CHUCKLES) You do not comport yourself like someone who does office maintenance.
My name is Dr.
Jason Bull.
These are my offices.
(LAUGHS): Oh, my gosh.
You're him? Sh ugar.
I had no idea.
These belong to Marissa Morgan.
I know.
She's the one who called me.
I'm Taylor.
Taylor Rentzel.
She and I worked together at Homeland.
She said you guys needed a bunch of cyber-sleuthing done ASAP.
And as it turns out, tonight's the night my three-year-old goes to my ex for two days, so Oh.
Was that him on the phone? Child on the left, ex on the right.
Mauricio.
And moron.
And Mauricio's very beautiful.
Actually, uh, moron's kind of pretty, too.
This is Ivan Gronsky, and as I'm sure you've read, he's the leader of the cell that took down that bridge.
Right.
And he was killed along with the rest of his cell during the CIA raid in Prague.
- Right you are.
- Mm-hmm.
So why are we wasting our time talking about a dead man? Because at least the way Marissa explained it to me you're trying to prove that this guy personally used his bank to launder money so the bad guys could do bad things.
That is the working theory, yes.
So I've been looking for points of intersection between this guy and anyone connected with this cell.
And by "points of intersection," you mean? Any time banker fellow and anyone from the cell might have been at the same place at the same time.
Or, in this case, just on the same continent at the same time.
- Okay.
- And as it happens, for about a six-month period, Mr.
Gronsky lived in America.
Really? And what was he doing here? He spent a semester at an Ivy League school.
Do tell.
And guess who else attended the same school, three years ahead but at the same time? Scrooge McDuck.
Thank you for doing this.
I'm sorry I frightened you before.
I'm going to leave you now, so you can dance, dance, dance.
And you're hired, by the way.
Did Marissa already talk money or Rein it in there, big guy.
I'm not hired, because I already have a job.
I work for Homeland Security.
Specialize in international banking.
And, uh, there is no pay, because I'm not allowed to do this if there is.
Homeland policy.
This is a favor for my friend Marissa.
And it's just for two days.
Hmm.
But it was a pleasure to meet you.
A pleasure to be met.
And again, thank you so much.
Anytime.
(SIGHS) Can I help? He worked late.
Yeah.
Well, I just got a love letter from Thoreau Financial.
Motion to dismiss.
JUDGE: Ms.
George, I read your motion to dismiss, all 220 pages of it.
If I could trouble you to restate your argument briefly as to why I should dismiss this case? Thank you, Your Honor.
And let me begin by saying that our hearts go out to the victims of the I-99 Bridge collapse and to their families.
But while we grieve for the victims, we take strong exception to the assertion that Mr.
Honaker is somehow involved or personally responsible.
And given the complete lack of evidence to support such an outrageous assertion, dismissal seems like the only just course of action.
Mr.
Colón, you haven't presented the court with much information.
Yes, we know that, Your Honor.
Unfortunately, all of the relevant transactional records are in the possession of Thoreau Financial.
All we're asking for is a chance to examine their records.
Which is the very definition of a fishing expedition.
Ooh, there's nothing wrong with fishing.
Sometimes you hook a marlin.
What are you afraid of, Ms.
George? Mr.
Colón.
Your Honor, terrorists have struck our soil.
37 people are dead, including my client's daughter.
All of the victim's families every American, for that matter is entitled to transparency.
They're entitled to the truth.
Motion to dismiss denied.
- Thank you, Your Honor.
- But barely.
I'm allowing this to go to trial, but if you don't come up with more than this, I won't hesitate to pull the plug.
Ms.
George, I'm ordering you to comply with the plaintiff's discovery requests.
(ELEVATOR BELL CHIMES) They're trying to paper us into submission.
Yeah.
I can see exactly what they're doing.
400,000 pages of transactions, 250 million routing records.
Every time little Timmy got a ten dollar birthday check from his nana, it's in there.
Hmm.
Can you call them and thank them for their exceptional response to our request, but see if they couldn't send us their digital files? Now that we have a new Cable.
- We have a new Cable? - We have a temporary Taylor.
Mrs.
McCrory.
Ellen.
What's that expression? "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck"? Sorry, you lost me at the first duck.
A man came to my home early this morning.
He knocked on my door.
He would not explicitly identify himself as working for Thoreau or Mr.
Honaker, but he did let me know in no uncertain terms that a $10 million settlement was not out of the question if I were to drop my lawsuit.
What'd you say? I told him to go duck himself.
You okay? (SIGHS) Kind of pleased, actually.
I mean, th-they're basically admitting they did it, aren't they? If you give somebody money like that, try to get them to go away That's exactly what it means.
We're making progress.
Yeah.
But we haven't made it hurt yet.
This trial's about banking and coding and transactions and details.
We need people who are gonna be able to absorb bits of minutiae and not be overwhelmed.
Which means Honaker's lawyers will be looking for the opposite jurors with short attention spans.
People who, when confronted with the enormity of complicated evidence, will tune out.
Do you own a smartphone, sir? It's a phone.
Okay.
And has anyone ever texted you a photo on it? Yeah.
I-I think.
BENNY: All right.
Well, let's just assume someone has, and let's assume that you wanted to share that photo with juror number eight.
Can you take me through the steps involved for you to re-text that photo? No.
You touch the picture, and you drag it to his phone.
And how do you do that? You just you just drag it as hard as you can.
WOMAN: You touch it, the picture or the text message you're trying to send.
That highlights it.
Once it's highlighted, an icon will appear with the arrow.
You highlight that, and a dialogue box will appear asking for the phone number you want to text to.
You enter the phone number, and you press send.
BENNY: Okay.
I've got a riddle.
Your Honor I like riddles.
Thank you, Your Honor.
Now, a man has a fox, a duck, and a bag of beans.
And he has to get them across the river, but he can only take one at a time.
Now, if he leaves the fox with the duck, the fox will eat the duck.
If he leaves the duck with the beans, the duck will eat the beans.
How is he? I'm getting rid of all of them.
Wait, why? They know the answer.
No.
They just think they do.
There is no answer.
(MOUTHING) So, here's the good news.
You have a case.
The bad news is it's a circumstantial case.
We've won with circumstantial.
Well, you won't win with this one.
The terrorist accounts should have been red-flagged by the bank's own internal auditing system, and they weren't.
A problem with the program? I'm sure that's what they want you to think.
But then I found 71 other suspicious activity alerts that the bank was all over, immediately.
But not Gronsky's.
- Not Gronsky's.
- BULL: You find any direct connection between Honaker and the terrorist? Now that you mention it, apparently Honaker was in Panama with a group of bankers two days after that bridge came down.
And that matters because? I cheated.
I ran an NSA check.
Gronsky was off the grid at that time, and the soft intel suggests he was probably in Panama.
MARISSA: That's really great.
But it's still not conclusive.
We made a point to pick a jury that would pay attention to the details, follow a fact pattern, not leap to conclusions.
- (PHONE CHIMES) - We really need proof.
Hard proof.
Sorry to eat and run.
My day care closes in 25 minutes.
I'll be in early tomorrow.
7:30-ish.
Nice to meet you, Danny, Benny, Chuck.
Chunk.
(CHUCKLES) Well, other than screwing up my name, she's very impressive.
Yeah, nice work, Marissa.
Well, we only have her for one more day, so let's use her while we can.
Anything else on the investigative front? Yeah, I've got something.
So, I've been tracking down former employees who might be able to shed some light on Honaker and Thoreau, and I found this independent contractor who was hired to write banking code for Thoreau.
His specialty is defeating governmental safeguard systems.
Bingo.
- You think he'll talk to us? - Well, everyone I've approached with any connection to the company is either afraid to speak or has signed an NDA.
Including this guy, Adam Shaw.
CHUNK: I-I don't get it.
If he won't speak to us if he can't speak to us Well, the thing is, uh, he's dying.
Stage IV lymphoma.
Well, nothing to lose.
Chuck, bring him in.
Do your magic.
I know you had me served with a subpoena, but I'm honestly not sure I can be of any help to you.
I only worked at Thoreau for nine months.
Oh, let me be the judge of that, Mr.
Shaw.
- So, you write code? - When I'm well enough to work, which is not terribly often these days.
I'm sorry.
Can I ask you about John Honaker? About Thoreau Financial? Y-You know I'm-I'm not supposed to tell you anything.
You know they made me sign an NDA.
Yeah, but I know you know there are 37 people dead.
And a lot of times, that changes things.
BENNY: Mr.
Shaw, how did you come to apply for a job at Thoreau? ADAM: I-I didn't apply for the job.
They-they sought me out.
And when you say "they"? I was I was hired directly by Mr.
Honaker.
He seemed to know exactly who I was and exactly what I did.
And this was shortly after the terrorist Ivan Gronsky opened up his accounts at Thoreau? - That's correct.
- And at that time, did Mr.
Honaker explain to you exactly what he wanted? He couldn't have been more specific.
Uh, my first assignment was to create a backdoor code.
And for those of us who don't speak computer, what is a backdoor code? I-It's a type of bypass key.
Um, it's a piece of code created specifically to work around the regulatory protocols set up by the U.
S.
government to detect suspicious transactions.
Everybody following along? They're hanging on his every word.
BENNY: That must have raised some concerns for you.
I mean, the president of a bank asks you to create some software so that he can defeat government safeguards.
I mean yes and no.
I guess it should have.
The truth is that I didn't specifically know what they were going to use the code for.
Sometimes banks keep it as a fail-safe.
They know a transaction is good, and they don't want the government freezing it or flagging it.
I mean, I didn't specifically know that Thoreau was going to use it to thwart the AML or KYC protocols.
Again, a little help, sir.
(CHUCKLES) AML are anti-money laundering programs.
KYC stands for "know your clients.
" Uh, every bank is required to have them.
Okay, so you create this code.
And how did you come to realize that it was being abused? I take pride in my work.
I would dip into the system and monitor it from time to time just to make sure that there wasn't anything going wrong.
Just to get ahead of any potential problems.
And that's how you became aware of what the bank was really doing with the code.
Yeah.
And I reported it immediately.
Who did you report it to? Hey, Mr.
Shaw, it's okay.
To him.
To John Honaker.
(GALLERY MURMURING) MARISSA: Things are getting really green with our mirror jury.
The real one's buying it, too.
You realize that you're breaking your NDA - by testifying with us today? - Of course.
But I'm dying.
What are they gonna do to me? - Nice work, Counselor.
- Thank you.
By any chance would you gentlemen be free right now? For you? Never free.
Always available.
My offices.
It's a shame we didn't have a towel.
We could have handed it to her here and now so she could throw it in.
Have Marissa call Cable's mother.
Put her on high alert to come to court tomorrow.
Will do.
You understand this is a nuisance case for my bank.
Period.
It's bad PR, but PR is highly perishable.
All it takes is a couple of news cycles and What's it doing for your stock price? How many shares does he personally control? - 15 million.
- Ooh.
And every dollar it goes down If you're suggesting that I put my personal net worth over the safety of others That's not for us to decide.
We're comfortable leaving it to the jury.
We'll pay your client $25 million to settle.
Obviously, I'm obliged to share your offer with my client, but I will strongly advise her to reject it.
If you'll excuse me, have a moment with my partner here.
And she does tend to take my advice.
I'm trying to be reasonable here.
I'm trying to put this all behind us.
Oh, well what do you know, it's not there.
What do you want? I want him to hurt.
The way my client is gonna hurt every time she walks by her daughter's bedroom.
The way those families are hurting.
Mr.
Colón, any idea why your witness has chosen not to grace us with his presence? Uh, Your Honor, I know that Mr.
Shaw was most anxious to be cross-examined, and I know that with his illness, mobility can sometimes be an issue.
We expect him any minute now.
I will give him another three minutes.
Yes, Your Honor.
(WHISPERING): Talk to me.
He's dead.
- What? - I went to his apartment to pick him up, and the ambulance was already there.
EMTs.
The cleaning lady found him.
Mr.
Colón? Dr.
Bull? So, the judge gave us a continuance until tomorrow.
He's also giving the jury a stern instruction to disregard all of Shaw's testimony.
Well, there you have it.
Can I ask a really horrible question? Does anyone think it's just a coincidence that that poor man was found dead this morning? For what it's worth, everyone at the scene believed they were looking at natural causes.
There wasn't even a hint of anything criminal.
From your lips.
TAYLOR: Knock, knock.
What you thinking, Lincoln? Someone looks unhappy.
I thought we were finished with you.
How'd you get in here? I was over at Homeland, and I stumbled across something I thought you might find interesting.
Told Marissa all about it and And she gave you her credentials.
Doesn't she know that goes on your permanent record? Doesn't she know she's not gonna get into a good college now? Why do you look so sad? Our key witness, a whistleblower Danny found, suddenly died before he could complete his testimony.
I'm sorry.
Pulmonary embolism.
I had one of those a few months ago.
I heard.
Fun fact: if you want to poison somebody, always choose potassium chloride.
Leaves no trace and presents as pulmonary embolism.
Oh, my God.
This guy Honaker helped kill Cable.
I'm pretty sure he killed my witness.
And it looks like he's gonna go scot-free.
But that's not why you came here in the middle of the night.
Is that for me? Yeah, but (SIGHS) now I'm not sure if it's gonna help or hurt.
Try me.
Remember I told you I had soft intel that suggested Honaker and Gronsky were together in Panama? This is two days after the bridge collapse in Panama City.
BULL: Oh, my God.
This is great.
This changes everything.
It does, and it doesn't.
I cheated again.
I got that by hacking into an NSA server.
You can't use it.
If you introduce that photo, I'll be behind bars in a matter of days.
Well, why'd you bring it to me? I just sensed how badly you needed to know.
You were right all along.
I thought it was important.
I'm sorry.
Dr.
Bull you can't use it.
I understand.
Can I have it, please? No.
I think you should probably go now.
(SIGHS) There's not a day gone by since the tragedy when I haven't wondered what we could have done differently.
And what have you determined? I believe, we honestly did the best we could.
You know, we handle over a thousand transactions a second.
The possibility that we might miss one errant financial anomaly, one exchange, though infinitesimally small, obviously still exists.
And that's no excuse.
We have to do better.
We will do better.
To begin with, we've taken down Mr.
Shaw's code, and we are in the process of setting up far more rigorous protocols.
Thank you, Mr.
Honaker.
Nothing further.
Cross-examination? Yes, Your Honor.
(SIGHS) Just to clarify.
It sounds like you're suggesting that the fault lies not with the bank, and by extension, not with you, but with the coding created for you by the late Adam Shaw.
I take no pleasure in speaking ill of the dead, but clearly, his work was flawed.
Aah.
I don't know if I follow that.
I mean, he didn't make the software that was supposed to spot the transactions.
The government did that.
He made the software that allowed you to circumvent the government safeguards.
Objection.
Is counsel going to ask a question, or simply pontificate for the jury? I apologize, Your Honor.
And yes, I-I do have a question.
(SIGHS) Are you certain you don't know an Ivan Gronsky, the terrorist leader who took down the bridge? No.
I do not.
As I've stated numerous times.
So, if you don't know Ivan Gronsky, then how do you explain this photo Oh, my gosh.
Bull, you can't do that.
BENNY: which was taken in Panama two days after the I-99 collapsed? That's you, isn't it, with Mr.
Gronsky, together, a week before the CIA and Interpol took him and the rest of his team out? Objection! We've never seen this photo.
We have complied with the court order to turn over our documents.
For the plaintiff to sandbag us like this is beyond the pale.
Counsel, my chambers, now.
Dr.
Bull, you, too.
There's no foundation for this photo whatsoever.
It could have been photoshopped.
Okay, then.
Mr.
Colón, Dr.
Bull, one of you had better tell me where this photograph came from now.
It just surfaced this morning on a small website.
Probably being picked up by all the major media outlets as we speak.
For all we know, members of the jury are looking at it on their phones while we're back here fighting.
Can't control the media.
As for the veracity of the photograph, may I suggest, Your Honor, that since her client is already on the stand, why don't we ask him to authenticate it? He knows whether it's him or not, and he certainly knows whether he was there.
You're right.
Of course he does.
Let's get back in there.
It's a simple question, sir.
Is that you in the photo or not? I'd have to study it to say for sure.
Really? That's what you're going with? You know what you look like, don't you? Objection.
Withdrawn.
I'll concede, it looks like me.
Looks like you? (LAUGHS) Okay.
All right.
All right, we'll go with that.
Uh let me ask you another question.
Uh, this guy who looks like you? He looks pretty angry in this picture.
Is it because his terrorist buddy who'd been limiting his activities to Eastern Europe suddenly killed 37 Americans? I mean, that must have really turned up the heat on you and the bank.
(LAUGHING): I'm sorry.
I mean the heat on the guy in this photo who looks exactly like you.
No answer? I understand.
It's a lot to digest.
But while you're thinking about it let me ask you.
How much did you and the bank make with Gronsky? I don't know off-hand.
Well, according to our analysis, he moved hundreds of millions of dollars a year through Thoreau.
(GALLERY MURMURING) Funding from foreign governments, ransoms.
Over the last decade, over a billion dollars.
HONAKER: Again, I can't verify those numbers.
What about your year-end bonus this past year? Can you verify that? $80 million.
BENNY: $80 million.
$80 million.
Wow.
Whew! 37 dead Americans driving over that bridge, trying to get home to their loved ones.
No further questions, Your Honor.
JUDGE: Has the jury reached a verdict? We have, Your Honor.
In the above entitled action, we find for the plaintiff in the amount of $100 million.
(KISSES) - Thank you.
- Thank you for letting us do this.
Oh, my God.
We did it.
And you.
You were amazing.
Oh, Cable was.
This was for her.
- Yeah.
- (KISSES) (SIGHS) Hmm.
I wish this felt better.
He doesn't look too unhappy.
Pocket change for him.
Just wait a second.
John Honaker.
You're under arrest for providing material aid to terrorists, resulting - in multiple deaths.
- (HANDCUFFS CLICKING) (SCOFFS) You feel better now? Yeah.
I guess I do.
(LAUGHS) (SIGHS) You know, everyone at TAC still thinks it was me that slipped that photo to that anti-banking website.
Girl has to protect herself.
Soon as I realized you weren't gonna give me the picture back, I had to come up with a plausible reason why it was out there.
Classic Homeland move, by the way.
Using a news outlet to launder a photograph? Oh.
- I may steal that from you.
- Hmm.
Unless, of course, you've changed your mind and want to come work for me, in which case there'd be no point.
Well that depends.
If I hadn't done what I did, would you have sold me out? Would you have used that photo? I think you would have.
I think nothing matters more to you than getting the bad guys.
I'm sorry.
Of course this bad guy had done something awful to a member of your team.
You were seeking justice for her.
Nothing for yourself.
I'd love to work for someone who sticks up for me like that.
Excuse me? I've already discussed money and benefits and hours with Marissa.
Hours? We don't do hours.
I do.
But I promise you you and your company will be the second most important thing in my life.
Second.
That's all I have to offer, and I'm offering it to you.
Sold.
BOY: Mommy? I believe you're being summoned by Number One.
I believe he might have just done a number two.
See you Monday.
See you Monday.