Diggstown (2019) s04e05 Episode Script
Marcie Diggs
1
Previously on "Diggstown".
Judge Dewey is accusing me
of professional misconduct.
Can you believe this?
I am this far away from
suspending you two.
You're testing me, Doug.
Pam tested me.
Do I have to fire you too?
Randy Slaney can rot in jail.
You can't do this.
I'm gonna protect my
daughter at all costs.
You were a good little whore.
Your talents and my brain
made a lot of money.
[TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Guess you should have kept
your stupid mouth shut.
Do you still work for Goldenview Fields?
I am the Clawford's
personal groundskeeper.
ELLERY: So you get a promotion
and your friend gets
tossed into the Atlantic.
MARCIE: I am not going
to stop coming after you
until Basil Allen's death is avenged.
REGGIE: Back in the dark ages,
when I was thinking of
applying to law school,
I remember I went to my
father for his opinion.
And Dad repaired shoes for a living.
Good honest work, he used to say.
Anyway, he answered me with a joke.
"Why do they bury lawyers
ten feet underground
instead of six feet
like everybody else?"
"Because deep down,
lawyers are good people."
[CROWD LAUGHS]
REGGIE: Yeah, I laughed too but for,
for an 18-year-old kid
trying to figure out how to
make a difference in the world,
it-it kinda hurt.
Look, it's-it's easy to be
cynical about this profession,
lord knows.
But I, I try to hold on to that kid.
That kid wanted to be a good person.
And a lawyer.
Believed that you could do both.
And that's what this hearing is about
at the end of the day, isn't it?
What makes a lawyer ethical?
What makes her good?
I teach these days.
I can tell you what my
students would say.
They would say
you have to be willing to go
to the mat for your client
every single time,
no matter what the cost.
And no lawyer I've ever
known exemplifies that ideal,
that commitment like my
client, Marcie Diggs.
Now we look forward to
demonstrating that
during the course of this hearing.
Thank you.
[LIGHT EMOTIONAL MUSIC]
Justice Dewey, you brought forward
the initial misconduct complaint,
which prompted the bar's investigation
of Ms. Diggs, correct?
That's right.
She accosted me after
court was adjourned.
Accosted you?
She stormed up to me,
hurled a series of insults.
She called me a "ghoul".
In all of my years on the bench,
I have never experienced
such disrespect from a lawyer.
Inside or outside of the courtroom.
Thank you, Your Honour.
Mr. Thompson?
REGGIE: Your Honour,
were you aware that Ms. Diggs was shot
at point blank range
just ten months ago?
I heard about the shooting, yes.
She was in surgery for seven hours.
Then rehab and therapy for PTSD.
Did you know that this suit
that she brought before you
was her first case since
returning to work?
And that excuses her not
conducting herself professionally?
Did you know that in her entire career,
Ms. Diggs has never
been cited for contempt?
[CHUCKLES] That's a
claim that I can't make.
How about you, Your Honour?
How many times were you cited?
I would never personally insult
REGGIE: Not my question.
How many times?
How many outbursts in court, Judge?
Three.
Oh.
Well you must have had good reasons, hm?
All three times.
I mean, maybe you were suffering trauma.
Did somebody shoot you?
Okay, really?
Are you done, Mr. Thompson?
Ah, sure, I'm done.
[LIGHT EMOTIONAL MUSIC]
DOUG: So, the Clawfords say
you used their corporate credit card
to take out cash advances.
The amounts were then wired
to a Mexican bank account
under the name Miguel Diaz.
It's my oldest.
Talk to him. No one in my family,
no one knew that bank account existed.
Who else had access to that card?
Lots of people.
Carl, he oversees the PEI estate.
The Clawfords, Ned.
They say that your e-signature
was on the money transfers.
My e-signature.
I never stole any money.
They are doing this because they know
I'm gonna tell the truth.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I can't carry this anymore.
If I hadn't told Ned about Basil's plan,
he'd be alive.
They claim that you took $50,000.
That's an indictable of fence.
We're gonna beat this.
Don't lose hope.
Pam!
I mean, I figured we'd be on
opposing sides at some point,
I just
I never thought she'd be
coming after me personally.
Ah, you know it's not personal.
- [PHONE BUZZES]
- [PHONE BUZZES]
You want to get that?
It's Avery.
REGGIE: Ah.
Keeps calling.
Mm.
What?
It's fine, Reggie.
I didn't say anything.
Hi, Marcie.
It's been a long time.
Rhonda LeBlanc.
We got this.
RHONDA: I worked
hard for that fellowship.
Sacrificed.
Pulled all-nighters,
all the student cliches, you know?
PAM: But you got it in the end.
You were awarded the fellowship.
RHONDA: I got it.
Then it was yanked
away because of Marcie.
She decided the only way
she could win my sister's case was
to pin everything on me.
She convinced Nikki
that I was the enemy,
had her wear a wire.
PAM: But that wire tap evidence
ultimately was ruled
inadmissible, correct?
Yes. But I still lost my fellowship.
So essentially Marcie set
you up for Nikki's crime,
derailing your future.
REGGIE: Excuse me,
"essentially" is doing a lot of
heavy lifting in that sentence.
Agreed.
I'm good, Mr. Adjudicator.
You're-you're back at school now, right?
Studying for my masters, yes.
How are you paying for that?
I'm a ta.
REGGIE: Ah, well that covers textbooks,
but not two semesters worth of tuition.
Now you created an app, didn't you?
You sold the algorithm
to a company called "Bytesizd Labs"?
Yes.
REGGIE: I-I dug up the
paperwork on that sale.
[CHUCKLES] You did okay.
Ah, who's Mia Stepaniak?
It's me.
That's my middle name,
my mother's maiden name.
I use it in business. I have to.
The whole thing with Nikki just
Bad for the brand, no, I-I-I get it.
But it-it made me
curious as to what else
the tech-savvy Mia Stepaniak
might be getting up to.
[REGGIE CHUCKLES]
Ah, NFTs!
Now, I, uh, I gotta admit,
my brain shuts down
when it comes to this stuff.
I had to have a student
walk me through it
Where are we going with this?
Rhonda, would you like to explain
what you've been selling
online for the past two years?
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
REGGIE: Well I'll-I'll take a swing.
Ah, if you check out
Mia Stepaniak's page on Open Sea,
which is where these things are sold,
you'll find a selection of "erotic art".
Why is this any of our business?
Rhonda? Would you like to explain
where you got the photographs
that you've been "minting" into NFTs,
as the kids say?
What are we looking at?
REGGIE: Images of underaged women.
These photos are the ones
that were made available
on Rhonda's app
that she used to pimp her
sister and her friends.
They are also Mia Stepaniak's NFTs,
the same images with
the faces blurred out.
Those photos are my copyright,
I have the right to
To exploit underage
girls for personal gain?
Yeah, well, that would
be in your wheelhouse,
wouldn't it, Rhonda?
Sorry, Mia.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I honestly can't believe
prosecution services
is going forward with this appeal.
Martin Jesper and Loretta go way back.
He clerked for her husband.
[SCOFFS] This place, like
a bloody human centipede.
Everyone up everyone's asses.
DARCY: Hey, the court
of appeal would be fools
to give leave to this case.
And what the hell was that
woman still doing on the bench?
Change will happen.
Not soon enough for me.
That woman needs to go.
Marcie, how goes the battle?
Ma Clean take it easy on ya?
MARCIE: What do you think?
No, it's going not bad.
What she means to say is
that "Reggie's crushing it".
You know, let's, uh, let's
talk after the arraignment.
Uh, one quick thing you're
probably not gonna want to hear.
Iris.
Okay, I don't, I don't wanna
I just can't right now.
I know.
But you can't fire her because
she slept with your boyfriend.
Doug, I
DOUG: I'm not defending what they did.
Just keep in mind that Iris
knows a lot of lawyers.
At some point it might occur to her
that she wasn't exactly fired for cause.
MARCIE: Okay, well, you
think she's gonna sue?
Let her try.
DOUG: Marcie, I'm just saying
you shouldn't leave
things the way they are.
Let's talk later.
I think we have another problem.
We're asking for the defendant
to be held in custody
in accordance with section
516 of the criminal code.
Mr. Diaz is not a flight risk.
He's without financial resources.
Precisely, Your Honour.
Goldenview Fields provided
Mr. Diaz with room and board.
Now that he's been terminated,
where else is he gonna go,
if not home to Mexico?
He's the definition of a flight risk.
[DOUG CLEARS THROAT]
We can find him a place to stay.
But you don't have one at the moment.
Therefore, I will Grant
Mr. Conway's request
that the defendant remain in custody
and we'll adjourn until you can find
an alternative address.
BAILIFF: All rise!
Thanks.
Happy? Setting up an innocent man?
I'd like to call
William Steven MacIsaac.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
I just read testimony
from your arresting officer
stating that when Constable Regan
got to your ex-wife's home,
you and Ms. Diggs
Marcie was there but she,
she didn't know what
happened 'til later.
But once she did know,
she kept that information
from the police.
WILLY: No, I did, I did.
I was afraid. Marcie actually
PAM: In fact, you and
your lawyer, Ms. Diggs,
stood by and watched as an innocent man,
Randall Slaney,
was arrested and charged
with your ex-wife's murder.
REGGIE: My client can't
control who the police arrest.
WARREN: Let's stick to
Mr. MacIsaac's arrest, Ms. Ma Clean.
So when you called Ms. Diggs
after you found your ex-wife dead,
what did she advise you to do?
She said, uh,
SHE SAID: Wait for me.
Wait for me.
NOT: Call the police.
Call an ambulance,
Gloria may still be breathing.
She wasn't.
PAM: And then according
to Constable Regan,
you and Ms. Diggs cleaned
up the scene together
so that Becca no, I did that.
I-I did it.
PAM: This is yet another
example of Ms. Diggs' willingness
to bend the rules for her clients.
Or as Mr. Thompson likes to call it,
"going to the mat".
Actually
PAM: I'm done.
You're up, Mr. Thompson.
I think that we'll let Mr. MacIsaac
tell us about Marcie
in his own words.
Take your time, Willy.
I first met Marcie [STAMMERING]
I first met Marcie [SIGHS]
When I was charged with a DUI,
uh, driving under the influence.
I knew the drill.
I'd been charged with
drunk and disorderly,
that kind of crap.
Um, I was a messed up kid.
Uh, my old man, he, uh
So, you know, there's,
uh, stuff to work out.
But the-the lawyers that were,
uh, defending me back then,
they, uh, they acted
like I was dog shit.
[EMOTIONALLY] And Marcie
never made me feel that way.
She treated me like I was a person.
And, uh, if I yelled at her or
I was acting like a idiot, she
She would just yell back at me.
But-but she fought hard
for me.
Like it mattered.
Like-like I-I mattered.
I've-I've had a lot of rock
bottoms in my life, you know?
But on the wor-worst day of my life
I-I called Marcie Diggs because
[STUTTERS] there's no one
in the world that I
[CRIES] I'm sorry.
There's no one in the world
that I trust more than Marcie.
MARCIE: Hey, Willy.
I'm sorry.
Nope, don't be sorry.
That was that was beautiful.
I shouldn't've cursed.
I shouldn't have used a word
like dog shit at your hearing,
I just, I wish
I was so nervous.
It was great.
I didn't want to testify.
She said she'd subpoena me.
You did me a huge favour in there.
Really.
You know, I was I was
just telling the truth.
Thank you.
NEIL: Never been
visited by a judge before.
So, um, this is where
the magic happens, huh?
Yep.
You've entered the
throbbing nerve centre
of the Boyle report.
Up by three subscribers this week!
A little uh-ah, no, a little
A little early for me, thanks.
So to what do I owe this pleasure?
Well, Neil, I was
remembering all the good work
you do on your news site,
keeping people like me in the
legal community accountable.
You're a subscriber?
No, um, but I do,
I do check out the site
from time to time.
But for now, I think I
might have a lead for you.
NEIL: You intrigue me, Your Honour.
COLLEEN: Oh, this has
to be on background.
I can't be an official source.
So you're gonna have to do
the legwork on this one.
Legwork is my middle name.
There's a judge, um, Loretta Dewey.
She's been pulling strings to
overturn a verdict in a case
that otherwise she has
nothing to do with.
What case?
Kidnapping,
but not like it sounds.
A young indigenous mother
under a birth alert
wanted her newborn to go with her aunt.
The social services wanted to
send the baby away to strangers,
and so the aunt took the baby
at the mother's request.
The bastards charged her?
I hope she got off.
She did.
But if this verdict gets overturned,
this woman, Ronnie Maloney,
a survivor of the sixties scoop,
she'll have to be retried and
Why does this judge want
the verdict overturned
if it wasn't her case?
Because it was mine.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Ah.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Good morning.
Hi. Do you know Cruz?
Cruz Diaz?
Can I be of assistance Mr. Paul?
Hello Ms. Clawford.
These workers won't speak to you.
I told you we're a family.
Do you often have family
members hauled off to to jail?
We're all very sad about Cruz.
He was a trusted employee.
He was planning on being
a permanent resident
with your family's support.
Mmm.
DOUG: Don't you find it odd
that he would suddenly
jeopardize all that
over some light credit card fraud?
Someone lives in poverty
their whole life.
I mean, I get it.
You think you understand poverty?
Is that so hard to believe?
Look at me, I'm working side
by side with these people.
I know their hometowns, their children.
I've seen photos of Cruz's kids.
I know them. I care about them.
Did you know that if Cruz is convicted
he'll never work in Canada again?
If you care so much
about him and his kids,
why don't you help get those
charges against him dropped?
And what makes you think
that I could do that?
Your last name, for starters.
Bye Mr. Paul.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
WARREN: I hope everyone's
had a pleasant evening.
I believe we've heard from
all Ms. Maclean's witnesses,
so this morning we'll turn to the
PAM: Sorry, I actually do have
one more witness I'd like to call.
Just confirmed last night.
Last night?
You could have done me
the courtesy of an email.
It was very late.
Mr. Thompson, why don't we
find out who the witness is?
Sure. The suspense is killing me.
I'd like to call Avery Mueller.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
REGGIE: Okay, this is entirely offside.
PAM: Mr. Mueller has
information relevant to this inquiry.
WARREN: I will allow the witness.
[TRAFFIC HUMMING]
Steve.
Hey Doug.
Ellery and I were just
discussing Mr. Diaz.
The crown is proposing a deal.
STEVE: A six month suspended
sentence if he pleads guilty.
The catch being?
He leaves the country immediately.
It's a non-starter.
It's a gift.
Your client gets to go
home to his family.
Never to return.
[CHUCKLES] Well, it
could be worse, right?
He's not guilty, Steve.
If he pleads, it goes on his record
and he can never return to Canada again.
Okay, so we go to trial,
Cruz is found guilty, and yeah,
he gets to stay in the country,
but now it's in prison
for up to four years.
Thanks for stopping by.
- [LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- Okay.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
[PHONE RINGING]
- Hello?
- AUDRA: May I speak with Iris Beals?
Yes, speaking.
AUDRA: Hi Iris,
this is Audra Alward
from MacIver and McAlpine.
You've heard of us?
Of course.
Hello.
AUDRA: We've heard of you too.
Specifically, we've
heard what great work
you've been doing lately
for Marcie Diggs.
You have?
AUDRA: Good investigators
are rare jewels in this town,
and our in-house guy just
decamped to the west coast.
We'd love to sit down with you.
Discuss a future here.
Of course.
Yeah, that
That'd be great.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
How will I support my family
from a Canadian prison?
If it's prison or go home,
I'm choosing home.
ELLERY: You know this is
what the Clawfords want, right?
They want you gone from this country,
discredited, so that you can
never tell the truth about them.
Why couldn't I testify from Mexico?
DOUG: Because you'd be a convicted thief
with a clear grudge against the
Clawfords and zero credibility.
I told you.
There is no beating these people.
Just take the deal.
PAM: So you were colleagues at M&M
and then adversaries
once you made the move over to
the crown attorney's office.
- Well, we weren't really
- PAM: Forgive me.
Professional adversaries.
But you stayed friends?
Yes.
Rhonda LeBlanc testified that
Marcie teamed up with you
and another crown attorney in
order to entrap her with a wire tap.
Our cases were connected.
"Connected".
That's an interesting word.
Did you ever destroy evidence
in a potential criminal
prosecution against Ms. Diggs
because of this "connection"
that you have with Ms. Diggs?
Objection.
Move along, Ms. Ma Clean.
You've been in love with
Ms. Diggs for a long time,
haven't you, Mr. Mueller?
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Yes.
I have never loved anyone more.
And when you were a crown attorney,
she used that love to
get you to pull strings,
do favours,
help achieve leniency for
her clients, didn't she?
That's beneath you, Counsellor.
Mr. Thompson.
Ms. Ma Clean, can we not
deal in insinuations?
Look, Marcie was always professional.
Are we finished?
No, we are not.
Can you tell us what exactly
Marcie is doing in this video?
[GLASS SHATTERING]
AVERY [IN VIDEO]: Marcie, what the?
PAM: Is this how a 'professional'
comports herself, Mr. Mueller?
AVERY [IN VIDEO]: Marcie!
Marcie, what the hell are you doing?
What's wrong with you?!
[TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[LIGHT MUSIC]
Thanks.
- Ooh!
- [LAUGHS] Oh, Colleen.
Oh.
Martin. Sorry. Did you get splashed?
No, look, I'm-I'm good.
I'll get some napkins.
COLLEEN: It's not every day
I get mopped by the head
of public prosecutions.
Oh, jokes.
You must have gotten news of
the court of appeal's decision.
No, I'm just on my way
into the office right now.
Well, they declined to hear our appeal.
Your ruling on Maloney stands.
Congratulations.
You were a med student when
these charges were laid.
Still am, thanks to Marcie.
But back then I was on the
brink of losing my scholarship.
I would have if I accepted
the deal the crown offered,
like I wanted to.
So you considered pleading
guilty even though you knew
that you weren't?
I did.
But that's because I was so beaten down,
I thought that was the best I could get.
But Marcie wouldn't let you.
Well, we fought about it.
But she promised me that
we'd beat the charges.
And we did. She did.
Seems like a miracle.
Thank you, Delroy.
So, Delroy, you said
that Marcie got you off
when in fact the charges were dropped
because a video came to light.
Oh, but she made that happen.
Oh? How'd she do that?
That's, um, a long story.
Let me help you out.
So Marcie went to Julia Clarke,
the grieving mother of the boy
you were accused of killing.
And she told Mrs. Clarke
a story, didn't she?
Your story.
It was a story about your background.
Poverty, the abuse you
suffered growing up.
Did you give her permission to do that?
I didn't know about it.
PAM: You didn't know about it.
What did that feel like seeing your
personal life as headline fodder?
I was angry about it,
yes, but it worked.
That video came out because of Marcie.
It worked.
This was an egregious breach
of solicitor-client privilege,
but it worked.
Marcie got her win
professional ethics be damned.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
COLLEEN: Hey!
You look not okay.
The Boyle report.
You saw.
Well, what Neil lacks in subtlety
he makes up for in a
colourful turn of phrase.
It's, uh, pretty great, actually.
I'm proud of you.
Wanna know how great?
The court of appeal decided
to let my verdict stand.
I just found out this morning.
I've had some news as well.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I've been asked to step
down from chief justice.
What?!
Inappropriate fraternization.
Someone complained.
About us.
Oh my God.
Dewey.
Actually?
I am so sorry.
I never meant for any of
this to blow back on you.
To hell with her.
With all of them.
You were right to do what you did.
We're gonna fight this, all right?
I'm not gonna let Dew
You can't be okay with this.
I'm not.
But it's just a job.
And I'm still very much okay with this.
- Hey.
- Hey.
We have a meeting?
Brian, what's all this stuff with Cruz?
Yeah, I know.
I'm upset about it too.
He seemed like such a dependable guy.
It doesn't make sense
that he would do this.
Look, Andy, these kind of things,
they happen all the time
with workers, you know?
People get greedy.
You know, we took a chance on Cruz,
he let us down.
Mom's pretty beside herself.
Okay, but Cruz isn't stupid.
He'd have to be stupid to do
something like this, wouldn't he?
Look at these credit card statements.
It's right there in black and white.
No one was authorized
to take cash advances
and no one did until we
gave Cruz access last month.
But that's-that's exactly
what I'm talking about!
This is like a glowing neon sign saying,
"Hey, it's me, Cruz!"
"I took the money!"
Look, the guy was desperate, clearly.
Listen, let's not do
this on an empty stomach.
Give me a couple minutes,
we'll go for lunch.
What am I supposed to
do while I wait for you,
answer your emails?
Seriously. Wait for me.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
[♪]
Any more witnesses, Mr. Thompson?
Time to haul out the big guns.
We call Judge Colleen MacDonnell.
Marcie was one of my top students.
Ah, later when she told me
that she wanted to come
work at legal aid I,
I was delighted but also stunned.
I mean, she'd been soaring to the top
of her profession in corporate law.
Why do you think Marcie
put the brakes on
this upward trajectory to
work as a legal aid lawyer?
PAM: It calls for speculation.
Well let's hear
Judge MacDonnell's opinion,
and we'll take it as such.
Marcie told me that she
wanted to help people,
not companies.
Defend lives instead of
someone's bottom line.
Ah, I'm done.
Defending lives.
Sounds so noble!
Well, as I'm sure you
know, Ms. Ma Clean,
legal aid wasn't always glamorous.
We settled parking tickets
and spousal disputes.
We also got clients into rehab,
kept families together.
Prevented innocent people
from going to prison.
Like Percy Lincoln?
Oh no, wait, you,
you didn't actually want
Percy Lincoln as your client.
It was Marcie's devotion to
the notorious Mr. Lincoln
that made you fire her.
You're wrong.
She left her job.
I never fired her.
My understanding was-wrong.
However, I have fired other
lawyers for conduct unbecoming.
Let me be clear.
Marcie was one of the best
lawyers I've ever worked with.
I hated to lose her.
It became untenable for legal aid
to continue representing Mr. Lincoln,
and when I told Marcie that
she chose her client over the job.
That's what she does.
She chooses the client
every single time.
I respected the hell
out of her for that.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Sorry, that took a while.
So seafood?
Got a craving for oysters
like you wouldn't believe.
ANDREA: Cruz was set up.
I called the credit card company.
What? What for?
Because I know when you're
full of shit, Brian!
They told me that there was a
note on this file telling them
not to bother notifying
anybody at Goldenview
of any large cash transactions.
So Cruz must have been
the one to call them.
Ned Flores.
That's who they said
called and gave the order.
So Cruz impersonated Ned.
I don't buy it.
Get these charges dropped, Brian.
We don't know that he didn't do it.
I know.
Please, just do this for me.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Okay.
But you're gonna have
to return the favour.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
PAM: Your full name
for the record please.
Noreen Deborah bond.
Noreen, you contacted me
urgently requesting to
testify at this hearing.
Could you tell us why?
Marcie Diggs killed my daughter.
She represented Kim in a custody dispute
after you handed off the file.
As you know, Kim had some,
some mental health challenges.
Marcie was supposed to help
her keep custody of River
but instead she,
she screwed her over.
And my baby never recovered from that.
PAM: Noreen, your daughter
Kim died in a house fire.
You can't really blame
Marcie Diggs for that, can you?
Marcie went behind Kim's back,
made a deal with River's
paternal grandparents.
But she was supposed to be Kim's lawyer
but she was plottin' against her.
Speculation.
NOREEN: It's no speculation. I saw it!
I saw it with my own eyes!
She robbed my daughter of her
child and that killed her.
It killed her!
Let's continue the testimony
after a short break.
This stinks, right?
Like Friday fish on a Monday.
- [NOREEN SNIFFING]
- [DOOR SQUEAKS]
Well, that was quite a performance.
NOREEN: That was the truth.
You know how hard I worked for Kim.
I cried with her when she
lost custody of River.
Now you're gonna tell me
who paid you to come here
and tell those lies about me.
No.
MARCIE: Fine. I can
I can get the cops to come and take the
cocaine in your purse off your hands.
What's it gonna be?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Ms. Bond, what prompted you to come here
and testify today?
Marcie always acted so high and mighty.
Treated me like I was garbage.
I was happy to have the
opportunity to get back at her.
So the testimony that you just gave
about Marcie colluding with
the paternal grandparents
to take your daughter's child,
that was a lie?
Yes.
Yeah, Marcie fought real hard for Kim,
did more for her than anyone ever has.
Maybe even me.
[LIGHT MUSIC]
The panel is ready to rule.
With respect to complaints
concerning Rhonda LeBlanc
and Willy MacIsaac,
we find no evidence of misconduct.
But regarding Judge Dewey's complaint,
we find your behaviour did
constitute conduct unbecoming.
Therefore, we're imposing
the following disposition:
We require you complete
a fifteen hour course
on professional courtesy and
etiquette in the courtroom.
You'll be emailed the pertinent details.
May I say, Ms. Diggs,
you're very fortunate in your friends.
And I wish your luck
against your enemies.
[LIGHT MUSIC]
[♪]
Hey.
Hey?
That what you always say when
you run someone over with a truck?
I did my job.
Yes, you did.
Good to see you both.
You still got some moves, old man.
Well, kid?
ELLERY: I just got off the
phone with the crown.
Steve says that they're
dropping the charges.
Just like that? What for?
Oh, I don't know.
He was pretty evasive on that front.
Do you think the
Clawfords lost interest?
Probably not, given that the last guy
who tried to blow the whistle
on them ended up in the morgue.
Well, let's not look a gift horse.
With Cruz in pocket,
we finally have a chance to give
the Clawfords a little payback.
May I?
You can't possibly think
that I really wanna talk
things through with you.
No.
I just wanted to say thank you
for taking a chance on me.
For giving me the opportunity
to do the work with you.
That's all.
I'm grateful.
You have a funny way of showing it.
What happened, it really wasn't about
MARCIE: It wasn't about me.
Right, I know.
It kind of felt like it was.
I'm sorry.
I am. I'm sorry.
MARCIE: I'm
[MARCIE CLEARS THROAT]
[BITTERSWEET MUSIC]
I'm grateful for you too.
I mean, I'm not saying
that we're gonna be friends
and that I'm happy about any of this
'cause trust me, I really am not.
But I am grateful.
[BITTERSWEET MUSIC]
Take care, Marcie.
You too. Take care.
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Thank you Terri.
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[♪]
[PULSING DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
AVERY: Hey.
Hey, what are you doing here?
I just
Look, I just thought we should talk.
I didn't want what was
said in that room
PAM: Oh, no, no, no.
We knew what we were.
You didn't have to come down here.
- Oh shoot.
- Oh, hey.
- Sorry, no, no, no.
- No, it's okay.
Thanks.
AVERY: Did you, uh
Congratulations.
Thank you.
NANNY: We thought we
heard mommy out here.
This one's all ready to go.
Hey cutie.
Got your toys?
Will you wait for Mommy in the car?
I'll just be two seconds, okay?
Will you take him to the car?
- Yeah.
- Thanks.
Bye.
Bye Honey.
I gotta go.
Yeah, um
Is that
Is that my son?
No, that's my son.
Bye, Avery.
[LIGHT EMOTIONAL MUSIC]
How'd it go with the
woman at the hearing?
Everything okay?
NED: Not so much.
Looks like she took the money and ran.
I've got people looking.
So now I'm just
Okay, forget about her.
We gotta deal with this Cruz problem.
Listen, I'll call you
back when I'm done here.
Why am I here?
BRIAN: What are we gonna do
about this Marcie Diggs thing?
That's abrupt.
Well, Kristin wants to
get down to business,
let's get down to business.
Did you take care of that deal?
Yes, it's done.
Right, the deal.
Andrea told me about it on our way here.
So is this your plan of attack?
Real estate?
It's one prong, Kristin.
Can you get that through your head?
If we want to end this
obsession that she has with us,
we have to completely
destabilize her operation.
Are you two gonna help me figure out how
or am I the only one that puts
this family over everything?
ELLERY: I have no idea what
made them change their mind,
but we still have our whistleblower,
and that's what matters.
Hey, just take the win.
The situation with Ellery
and Andrea is not good.
You know, you still haven't told us
how you got Noreen to recant.
What happened?
So they offered her
half a million dollars,
two-fifty in advance as
a show of good faith
and two-fifty after she
testifies against me.
So I tell her:
Call your contact,
tell 'em we're on a break,
Reggie's raking you over the coals
and you're gonna lose
your nerve and you're
You're gonna bail unless
You fork over the rest of the money.
So you and Noreen are standing there
In the lady's room.
Waiting for the money
to land in her account
and then she goes back
into the hearing and flips.
Wow.
You know who's gonna flip?
Brian Clawford,
assuming he's behind it.
Well, Noreen might want
to get out of town
for a few days or maybe forever.
Well, that's 100% the plan.
[PHONE RINGING] [PHONES DINGING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC SWELLS]
ELLERY: It's Fallon, from the office.
What, she texted you
all at the same time?
What, is the office on fire?
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
Oh, you've gotta be kidding me.
What is it?
They've bought the building.
No, this-this isn't true.
You couldn't.
I'm sorry.
We're giving you thirty days to vacate.
[SOFT MUSIC]
Wake me to the fire ♪
wake me to the fire ♪
Previously on "Diggstown".
Judge Dewey is accusing me
of professional misconduct.
Can you believe this?
I am this far away from
suspending you two.
You're testing me, Doug.
Pam tested me.
Do I have to fire you too?
Randy Slaney can rot in jail.
You can't do this.
I'm gonna protect my
daughter at all costs.
You were a good little whore.
Your talents and my brain
made a lot of money.
[TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Guess you should have kept
your stupid mouth shut.
Do you still work for Goldenview Fields?
I am the Clawford's
personal groundskeeper.
ELLERY: So you get a promotion
and your friend gets
tossed into the Atlantic.
MARCIE: I am not going
to stop coming after you
until Basil Allen's death is avenged.
REGGIE: Back in the dark ages,
when I was thinking of
applying to law school,
I remember I went to my
father for his opinion.
And Dad repaired shoes for a living.
Good honest work, he used to say.
Anyway, he answered me with a joke.
"Why do they bury lawyers
ten feet underground
instead of six feet
like everybody else?"
"Because deep down,
lawyers are good people."
[CROWD LAUGHS]
REGGIE: Yeah, I laughed too but for,
for an 18-year-old kid
trying to figure out how to
make a difference in the world,
it-it kinda hurt.
Look, it's-it's easy to be
cynical about this profession,
lord knows.
But I, I try to hold on to that kid.
That kid wanted to be a good person.
And a lawyer.
Believed that you could do both.
And that's what this hearing is about
at the end of the day, isn't it?
What makes a lawyer ethical?
What makes her good?
I teach these days.
I can tell you what my
students would say.
They would say
you have to be willing to go
to the mat for your client
every single time,
no matter what the cost.
And no lawyer I've ever
known exemplifies that ideal,
that commitment like my
client, Marcie Diggs.
Now we look forward to
demonstrating that
during the course of this hearing.
Thank you.
[LIGHT EMOTIONAL MUSIC]
Justice Dewey, you brought forward
the initial misconduct complaint,
which prompted the bar's investigation
of Ms. Diggs, correct?
That's right.
She accosted me after
court was adjourned.
Accosted you?
She stormed up to me,
hurled a series of insults.
She called me a "ghoul".
In all of my years on the bench,
I have never experienced
such disrespect from a lawyer.
Inside or outside of the courtroom.
Thank you, Your Honour.
Mr. Thompson?
REGGIE: Your Honour,
were you aware that Ms. Diggs was shot
at point blank range
just ten months ago?
I heard about the shooting, yes.
She was in surgery for seven hours.
Then rehab and therapy for PTSD.
Did you know that this suit
that she brought before you
was her first case since
returning to work?
And that excuses her not
conducting herself professionally?
Did you know that in her entire career,
Ms. Diggs has never
been cited for contempt?
[CHUCKLES] That's a
claim that I can't make.
How about you, Your Honour?
How many times were you cited?
I would never personally insult
REGGIE: Not my question.
How many times?
How many outbursts in court, Judge?
Three.
Oh.
Well you must have had good reasons, hm?
All three times.
I mean, maybe you were suffering trauma.
Did somebody shoot you?
Okay, really?
Are you done, Mr. Thompson?
Ah, sure, I'm done.
[LIGHT EMOTIONAL MUSIC]
DOUG: So, the Clawfords say
you used their corporate credit card
to take out cash advances.
The amounts were then wired
to a Mexican bank account
under the name Miguel Diaz.
It's my oldest.
Talk to him. No one in my family,
no one knew that bank account existed.
Who else had access to that card?
Lots of people.
Carl, he oversees the PEI estate.
The Clawfords, Ned.
They say that your e-signature
was on the money transfers.
My e-signature.
I never stole any money.
They are doing this because they know
I'm gonna tell the truth.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I can't carry this anymore.
If I hadn't told Ned about Basil's plan,
he'd be alive.
They claim that you took $50,000.
That's an indictable of fence.
We're gonna beat this.
Don't lose hope.
Pam!
I mean, I figured we'd be on
opposing sides at some point,
I just
I never thought she'd be
coming after me personally.
Ah, you know it's not personal.
- [PHONE BUZZES]
- [PHONE BUZZES]
You want to get that?
It's Avery.
REGGIE: Ah.
Keeps calling.
Mm.
What?
It's fine, Reggie.
I didn't say anything.
Hi, Marcie.
It's been a long time.
Rhonda LeBlanc.
We got this.
RHONDA: I worked
hard for that fellowship.
Sacrificed.
Pulled all-nighters,
all the student cliches, you know?
PAM: But you got it in the end.
You were awarded the fellowship.
RHONDA: I got it.
Then it was yanked
away because of Marcie.
She decided the only way
she could win my sister's case was
to pin everything on me.
She convinced Nikki
that I was the enemy,
had her wear a wire.
PAM: But that wire tap evidence
ultimately was ruled
inadmissible, correct?
Yes. But I still lost my fellowship.
So essentially Marcie set
you up for Nikki's crime,
derailing your future.
REGGIE: Excuse me,
"essentially" is doing a lot of
heavy lifting in that sentence.
Agreed.
I'm good, Mr. Adjudicator.
You're-you're back at school now, right?
Studying for my masters, yes.
How are you paying for that?
I'm a ta.
REGGIE: Ah, well that covers textbooks,
but not two semesters worth of tuition.
Now you created an app, didn't you?
You sold the algorithm
to a company called "Bytesizd Labs"?
Yes.
REGGIE: I-I dug up the
paperwork on that sale.
[CHUCKLES] You did okay.
Ah, who's Mia Stepaniak?
It's me.
That's my middle name,
my mother's maiden name.
I use it in business. I have to.
The whole thing with Nikki just
Bad for the brand, no, I-I-I get it.
But it-it made me
curious as to what else
the tech-savvy Mia Stepaniak
might be getting up to.
[REGGIE CHUCKLES]
Ah, NFTs!
Now, I, uh, I gotta admit,
my brain shuts down
when it comes to this stuff.
I had to have a student
walk me through it
Where are we going with this?
Rhonda, would you like to explain
what you've been selling
online for the past two years?
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
REGGIE: Well I'll-I'll take a swing.
Ah, if you check out
Mia Stepaniak's page on Open Sea,
which is where these things are sold,
you'll find a selection of "erotic art".
Why is this any of our business?
Rhonda? Would you like to explain
where you got the photographs
that you've been "minting" into NFTs,
as the kids say?
What are we looking at?
REGGIE: Images of underaged women.
These photos are the ones
that were made available
on Rhonda's app
that she used to pimp her
sister and her friends.
They are also Mia Stepaniak's NFTs,
the same images with
the faces blurred out.
Those photos are my copyright,
I have the right to
To exploit underage
girls for personal gain?
Yeah, well, that would
be in your wheelhouse,
wouldn't it, Rhonda?
Sorry, Mia.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I honestly can't believe
prosecution services
is going forward with this appeal.
Martin Jesper and Loretta go way back.
He clerked for her husband.
[SCOFFS] This place, like
a bloody human centipede.
Everyone up everyone's asses.
DARCY: Hey, the court
of appeal would be fools
to give leave to this case.
And what the hell was that
woman still doing on the bench?
Change will happen.
Not soon enough for me.
That woman needs to go.
Marcie, how goes the battle?
Ma Clean take it easy on ya?
MARCIE: What do you think?
No, it's going not bad.
What she means to say is
that "Reggie's crushing it".
You know, let's, uh, let's
talk after the arraignment.
Uh, one quick thing you're
probably not gonna want to hear.
Iris.
Okay, I don't, I don't wanna
I just can't right now.
I know.
But you can't fire her because
she slept with your boyfriend.
Doug, I
DOUG: I'm not defending what they did.
Just keep in mind that Iris
knows a lot of lawyers.
At some point it might occur to her
that she wasn't exactly fired for cause.
MARCIE: Okay, well, you
think she's gonna sue?
Let her try.
DOUG: Marcie, I'm just saying
you shouldn't leave
things the way they are.
Let's talk later.
I think we have another problem.
We're asking for the defendant
to be held in custody
in accordance with section
516 of the criminal code.
Mr. Diaz is not a flight risk.
He's without financial resources.
Precisely, Your Honour.
Goldenview Fields provided
Mr. Diaz with room and board.
Now that he's been terminated,
where else is he gonna go,
if not home to Mexico?
He's the definition of a flight risk.
[DOUG CLEARS THROAT]
We can find him a place to stay.
But you don't have one at the moment.
Therefore, I will Grant
Mr. Conway's request
that the defendant remain in custody
and we'll adjourn until you can find
an alternative address.
BAILIFF: All rise!
Thanks.
Happy? Setting up an innocent man?
I'd like to call
William Steven MacIsaac.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
I just read testimony
from your arresting officer
stating that when Constable Regan
got to your ex-wife's home,
you and Ms. Diggs
Marcie was there but she,
she didn't know what
happened 'til later.
But once she did know,
she kept that information
from the police.
WILLY: No, I did, I did.
I was afraid. Marcie actually
PAM: In fact, you and
your lawyer, Ms. Diggs,
stood by and watched as an innocent man,
Randall Slaney,
was arrested and charged
with your ex-wife's murder.
REGGIE: My client can't
control who the police arrest.
WARREN: Let's stick to
Mr. MacIsaac's arrest, Ms. Ma Clean.
So when you called Ms. Diggs
after you found your ex-wife dead,
what did she advise you to do?
She said, uh,
SHE SAID: Wait for me.
Wait for me.
NOT: Call the police.
Call an ambulance,
Gloria may still be breathing.
She wasn't.
PAM: And then according
to Constable Regan,
you and Ms. Diggs cleaned
up the scene together
so that Becca no, I did that.
I-I did it.
PAM: This is yet another
example of Ms. Diggs' willingness
to bend the rules for her clients.
Or as Mr. Thompson likes to call it,
"going to the mat".
Actually
PAM: I'm done.
You're up, Mr. Thompson.
I think that we'll let Mr. MacIsaac
tell us about Marcie
in his own words.
Take your time, Willy.
I first met Marcie [STAMMERING]
I first met Marcie [SIGHS]
When I was charged with a DUI,
uh, driving under the influence.
I knew the drill.
I'd been charged with
drunk and disorderly,
that kind of crap.
Um, I was a messed up kid.
Uh, my old man, he, uh
So, you know, there's,
uh, stuff to work out.
But the-the lawyers that were,
uh, defending me back then,
they, uh, they acted
like I was dog shit.
[EMOTIONALLY] And Marcie
never made me feel that way.
She treated me like I was a person.
And, uh, if I yelled at her or
I was acting like a idiot, she
She would just yell back at me.
But-but she fought hard
for me.
Like it mattered.
Like-like I-I mattered.
I've-I've had a lot of rock
bottoms in my life, you know?
But on the wor-worst day of my life
I-I called Marcie Diggs because
[STUTTERS] there's no one
in the world that I
[CRIES] I'm sorry.
There's no one in the world
that I trust more than Marcie.
MARCIE: Hey, Willy.
I'm sorry.
Nope, don't be sorry.
That was that was beautiful.
I shouldn't've cursed.
I shouldn't have used a word
like dog shit at your hearing,
I just, I wish
I was so nervous.
It was great.
I didn't want to testify.
She said she'd subpoena me.
You did me a huge favour in there.
Really.
You know, I was I was
just telling the truth.
Thank you.
NEIL: Never been
visited by a judge before.
So, um, this is where
the magic happens, huh?
Yep.
You've entered the
throbbing nerve centre
of the Boyle report.
Up by three subscribers this week!
A little uh-ah, no, a little
A little early for me, thanks.
So to what do I owe this pleasure?
Well, Neil, I was
remembering all the good work
you do on your news site,
keeping people like me in the
legal community accountable.
You're a subscriber?
No, um, but I do,
I do check out the site
from time to time.
But for now, I think I
might have a lead for you.
NEIL: You intrigue me, Your Honour.
COLLEEN: Oh, this has
to be on background.
I can't be an official source.
So you're gonna have to do
the legwork on this one.
Legwork is my middle name.
There's a judge, um, Loretta Dewey.
She's been pulling strings to
overturn a verdict in a case
that otherwise she has
nothing to do with.
What case?
Kidnapping,
but not like it sounds.
A young indigenous mother
under a birth alert
wanted her newborn to go with her aunt.
The social services wanted to
send the baby away to strangers,
and so the aunt took the baby
at the mother's request.
The bastards charged her?
I hope she got off.
She did.
But if this verdict gets overturned,
this woman, Ronnie Maloney,
a survivor of the sixties scoop,
she'll have to be retried and
Why does this judge want
the verdict overturned
if it wasn't her case?
Because it was mine.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Ah.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Good morning.
Hi. Do you know Cruz?
Cruz Diaz?
Can I be of assistance Mr. Paul?
Hello Ms. Clawford.
These workers won't speak to you.
I told you we're a family.
Do you often have family
members hauled off to to jail?
We're all very sad about Cruz.
He was a trusted employee.
He was planning on being
a permanent resident
with your family's support.
Mmm.
DOUG: Don't you find it odd
that he would suddenly
jeopardize all that
over some light credit card fraud?
Someone lives in poverty
their whole life.
I mean, I get it.
You think you understand poverty?
Is that so hard to believe?
Look at me, I'm working side
by side with these people.
I know their hometowns, their children.
I've seen photos of Cruz's kids.
I know them. I care about them.
Did you know that if Cruz is convicted
he'll never work in Canada again?
If you care so much
about him and his kids,
why don't you help get those
charges against him dropped?
And what makes you think
that I could do that?
Your last name, for starters.
Bye Mr. Paul.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
WARREN: I hope everyone's
had a pleasant evening.
I believe we've heard from
all Ms. Maclean's witnesses,
so this morning we'll turn to the
PAM: Sorry, I actually do have
one more witness I'd like to call.
Just confirmed last night.
Last night?
You could have done me
the courtesy of an email.
It was very late.
Mr. Thompson, why don't we
find out who the witness is?
Sure. The suspense is killing me.
I'd like to call Avery Mueller.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
REGGIE: Okay, this is entirely offside.
PAM: Mr. Mueller has
information relevant to this inquiry.
WARREN: I will allow the witness.
[TRAFFIC HUMMING]
Steve.
Hey Doug.
Ellery and I were just
discussing Mr. Diaz.
The crown is proposing a deal.
STEVE: A six month suspended
sentence if he pleads guilty.
The catch being?
He leaves the country immediately.
It's a non-starter.
It's a gift.
Your client gets to go
home to his family.
Never to return.
[CHUCKLES] Well, it
could be worse, right?
He's not guilty, Steve.
If he pleads, it goes on his record
and he can never return to Canada again.
Okay, so we go to trial,
Cruz is found guilty, and yeah,
he gets to stay in the country,
but now it's in prison
for up to four years.
Thanks for stopping by.
- [LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- Okay.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
[PHONE RINGING]
- Hello?
- AUDRA: May I speak with Iris Beals?
Yes, speaking.
AUDRA: Hi Iris,
this is Audra Alward
from MacIver and McAlpine.
You've heard of us?
Of course.
Hello.
AUDRA: We've heard of you too.
Specifically, we've
heard what great work
you've been doing lately
for Marcie Diggs.
You have?
AUDRA: Good investigators
are rare jewels in this town,
and our in-house guy just
decamped to the west coast.
We'd love to sit down with you.
Discuss a future here.
Of course.
Yeah, that
That'd be great.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
How will I support my family
from a Canadian prison?
If it's prison or go home,
I'm choosing home.
ELLERY: You know this is
what the Clawfords want, right?
They want you gone from this country,
discredited, so that you can
never tell the truth about them.
Why couldn't I testify from Mexico?
DOUG: Because you'd be a convicted thief
with a clear grudge against the
Clawfords and zero credibility.
I told you.
There is no beating these people.
Just take the deal.
PAM: So you were colleagues at M&M
and then adversaries
once you made the move over to
the crown attorney's office.
- Well, we weren't really
- PAM: Forgive me.
Professional adversaries.
But you stayed friends?
Yes.
Rhonda LeBlanc testified that
Marcie teamed up with you
and another crown attorney in
order to entrap her with a wire tap.
Our cases were connected.
"Connected".
That's an interesting word.
Did you ever destroy evidence
in a potential criminal
prosecution against Ms. Diggs
because of this "connection"
that you have with Ms. Diggs?
Objection.
Move along, Ms. Ma Clean.
You've been in love with
Ms. Diggs for a long time,
haven't you, Mr. Mueller?
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Yes.
I have never loved anyone more.
And when you were a crown attorney,
she used that love to
get you to pull strings,
do favours,
help achieve leniency for
her clients, didn't she?
That's beneath you, Counsellor.
Mr. Thompson.
Ms. Ma Clean, can we not
deal in insinuations?
Look, Marcie was always professional.
Are we finished?
No, we are not.
Can you tell us what exactly
Marcie is doing in this video?
[GLASS SHATTERING]
AVERY [IN VIDEO]: Marcie, what the?
PAM: Is this how a 'professional'
comports herself, Mr. Mueller?
AVERY [IN VIDEO]: Marcie!
Marcie, what the hell are you doing?
What's wrong with you?!
[TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[LIGHT MUSIC]
Thanks.
- Ooh!
- [LAUGHS] Oh, Colleen.
Oh.
Martin. Sorry. Did you get splashed?
No, look, I'm-I'm good.
I'll get some napkins.
COLLEEN: It's not every day
I get mopped by the head
of public prosecutions.
Oh, jokes.
You must have gotten news of
the court of appeal's decision.
No, I'm just on my way
into the office right now.
Well, they declined to hear our appeal.
Your ruling on Maloney stands.
Congratulations.
You were a med student when
these charges were laid.
Still am, thanks to Marcie.
But back then I was on the
brink of losing my scholarship.
I would have if I accepted
the deal the crown offered,
like I wanted to.
So you considered pleading
guilty even though you knew
that you weren't?
I did.
But that's because I was so beaten down,
I thought that was the best I could get.
But Marcie wouldn't let you.
Well, we fought about it.
But she promised me that
we'd beat the charges.
And we did. She did.
Seems like a miracle.
Thank you, Delroy.
So, Delroy, you said
that Marcie got you off
when in fact the charges were dropped
because a video came to light.
Oh, but she made that happen.
Oh? How'd she do that?
That's, um, a long story.
Let me help you out.
So Marcie went to Julia Clarke,
the grieving mother of the boy
you were accused of killing.
And she told Mrs. Clarke
a story, didn't she?
Your story.
It was a story about your background.
Poverty, the abuse you
suffered growing up.
Did you give her permission to do that?
I didn't know about it.
PAM: You didn't know about it.
What did that feel like seeing your
personal life as headline fodder?
I was angry about it,
yes, but it worked.
That video came out because of Marcie.
It worked.
This was an egregious breach
of solicitor-client privilege,
but it worked.
Marcie got her win
professional ethics be damned.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
COLLEEN: Hey!
You look not okay.
The Boyle report.
You saw.
Well, what Neil lacks in subtlety
he makes up for in a
colourful turn of phrase.
It's, uh, pretty great, actually.
I'm proud of you.
Wanna know how great?
The court of appeal decided
to let my verdict stand.
I just found out this morning.
I've had some news as well.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I've been asked to step
down from chief justice.
What?!
Inappropriate fraternization.
Someone complained.
About us.
Oh my God.
Dewey.
Actually?
I am so sorry.
I never meant for any of
this to blow back on you.
To hell with her.
With all of them.
You were right to do what you did.
We're gonna fight this, all right?
I'm not gonna let Dew
You can't be okay with this.
I'm not.
But it's just a job.
And I'm still very much okay with this.
- Hey.
- Hey.
We have a meeting?
Brian, what's all this stuff with Cruz?
Yeah, I know.
I'm upset about it too.
He seemed like such a dependable guy.
It doesn't make sense
that he would do this.
Look, Andy, these kind of things,
they happen all the time
with workers, you know?
People get greedy.
You know, we took a chance on Cruz,
he let us down.
Mom's pretty beside herself.
Okay, but Cruz isn't stupid.
He'd have to be stupid to do
something like this, wouldn't he?
Look at these credit card statements.
It's right there in black and white.
No one was authorized
to take cash advances
and no one did until we
gave Cruz access last month.
But that's-that's exactly
what I'm talking about!
This is like a glowing neon sign saying,
"Hey, it's me, Cruz!"
"I took the money!"
Look, the guy was desperate, clearly.
Listen, let's not do
this on an empty stomach.
Give me a couple minutes,
we'll go for lunch.
What am I supposed to
do while I wait for you,
answer your emails?
Seriously. Wait for me.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
[♪]
Any more witnesses, Mr. Thompson?
Time to haul out the big guns.
We call Judge Colleen MacDonnell.
Marcie was one of my top students.
Ah, later when she told me
that she wanted to come
work at legal aid I,
I was delighted but also stunned.
I mean, she'd been soaring to the top
of her profession in corporate law.
Why do you think Marcie
put the brakes on
this upward trajectory to
work as a legal aid lawyer?
PAM: It calls for speculation.
Well let's hear
Judge MacDonnell's opinion,
and we'll take it as such.
Marcie told me that she
wanted to help people,
not companies.
Defend lives instead of
someone's bottom line.
Ah, I'm done.
Defending lives.
Sounds so noble!
Well, as I'm sure you
know, Ms. Ma Clean,
legal aid wasn't always glamorous.
We settled parking tickets
and spousal disputes.
We also got clients into rehab,
kept families together.
Prevented innocent people
from going to prison.
Like Percy Lincoln?
Oh no, wait, you,
you didn't actually want
Percy Lincoln as your client.
It was Marcie's devotion to
the notorious Mr. Lincoln
that made you fire her.
You're wrong.
She left her job.
I never fired her.
My understanding was-wrong.
However, I have fired other
lawyers for conduct unbecoming.
Let me be clear.
Marcie was one of the best
lawyers I've ever worked with.
I hated to lose her.
It became untenable for legal aid
to continue representing Mr. Lincoln,
and when I told Marcie that
she chose her client over the job.
That's what she does.
She chooses the client
every single time.
I respected the hell
out of her for that.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Sorry, that took a while.
So seafood?
Got a craving for oysters
like you wouldn't believe.
ANDREA: Cruz was set up.
I called the credit card company.
What? What for?
Because I know when you're
full of shit, Brian!
They told me that there was a
note on this file telling them
not to bother notifying
anybody at Goldenview
of any large cash transactions.
So Cruz must have been
the one to call them.
Ned Flores.
That's who they said
called and gave the order.
So Cruz impersonated Ned.
I don't buy it.
Get these charges dropped, Brian.
We don't know that he didn't do it.
I know.
Please, just do this for me.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Okay.
But you're gonna have
to return the favour.
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
PAM: Your full name
for the record please.
Noreen Deborah bond.
Noreen, you contacted me
urgently requesting to
testify at this hearing.
Could you tell us why?
Marcie Diggs killed my daughter.
She represented Kim in a custody dispute
after you handed off the file.
As you know, Kim had some,
some mental health challenges.
Marcie was supposed to help
her keep custody of River
but instead she,
she screwed her over.
And my baby never recovered from that.
PAM: Noreen, your daughter
Kim died in a house fire.
You can't really blame
Marcie Diggs for that, can you?
Marcie went behind Kim's back,
made a deal with River's
paternal grandparents.
But she was supposed to be Kim's lawyer
but she was plottin' against her.
Speculation.
NOREEN: It's no speculation. I saw it!
I saw it with my own eyes!
She robbed my daughter of her
child and that killed her.
It killed her!
Let's continue the testimony
after a short break.
This stinks, right?
Like Friday fish on a Monday.
- [NOREEN SNIFFING]
- [DOOR SQUEAKS]
Well, that was quite a performance.
NOREEN: That was the truth.
You know how hard I worked for Kim.
I cried with her when she
lost custody of River.
Now you're gonna tell me
who paid you to come here
and tell those lies about me.
No.
MARCIE: Fine. I can
I can get the cops to come and take the
cocaine in your purse off your hands.
What's it gonna be?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Ms. Bond, what prompted you to come here
and testify today?
Marcie always acted so high and mighty.
Treated me like I was garbage.
I was happy to have the
opportunity to get back at her.
So the testimony that you just gave
about Marcie colluding with
the paternal grandparents
to take your daughter's child,
that was a lie?
Yes.
Yeah, Marcie fought real hard for Kim,
did more for her than anyone ever has.
Maybe even me.
[LIGHT MUSIC]
The panel is ready to rule.
With respect to complaints
concerning Rhonda LeBlanc
and Willy MacIsaac,
we find no evidence of misconduct.
But regarding Judge Dewey's complaint,
we find your behaviour did
constitute conduct unbecoming.
Therefore, we're imposing
the following disposition:
We require you complete
a fifteen hour course
on professional courtesy and
etiquette in the courtroom.
You'll be emailed the pertinent details.
May I say, Ms. Diggs,
you're very fortunate in your friends.
And I wish your luck
against your enemies.
[LIGHT MUSIC]
[♪]
Hey.
Hey?
That what you always say when
you run someone over with a truck?
I did my job.
Yes, you did.
Good to see you both.
You still got some moves, old man.
Well, kid?
ELLERY: I just got off the
phone with the crown.
Steve says that they're
dropping the charges.
Just like that? What for?
Oh, I don't know.
He was pretty evasive on that front.
Do you think the
Clawfords lost interest?
Probably not, given that the last guy
who tried to blow the whistle
on them ended up in the morgue.
Well, let's not look a gift horse.
With Cruz in pocket,
we finally have a chance to give
the Clawfords a little payback.
May I?
You can't possibly think
that I really wanna talk
things through with you.
No.
I just wanted to say thank you
for taking a chance on me.
For giving me the opportunity
to do the work with you.
That's all.
I'm grateful.
You have a funny way of showing it.
What happened, it really wasn't about
MARCIE: It wasn't about me.
Right, I know.
It kind of felt like it was.
I'm sorry.
I am. I'm sorry.
MARCIE: I'm
[MARCIE CLEARS THROAT]
[BITTERSWEET MUSIC]
I'm grateful for you too.
I mean, I'm not saying
that we're gonna be friends
and that I'm happy about any of this
'cause trust me, I really am not.
But I am grateful.
[BITTERSWEET MUSIC]
Take care, Marcie.
You too. Take care.
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Thank you Terri.
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[♪]
[PULSING DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
AVERY: Hey.
Hey, what are you doing here?
I just
Look, I just thought we should talk.
I didn't want what was
said in that room
PAM: Oh, no, no, no.
We knew what we were.
You didn't have to come down here.
- Oh shoot.
- Oh, hey.
- Sorry, no, no, no.
- No, it's okay.
Thanks.
AVERY: Did you, uh
Congratulations.
Thank you.
NANNY: We thought we
heard mommy out here.
This one's all ready to go.
Hey cutie.
Got your toys?
Will you wait for Mommy in the car?
I'll just be two seconds, okay?
Will you take him to the car?
- Yeah.
- Thanks.
Bye.
Bye Honey.
I gotta go.
Yeah, um
Is that
Is that my son?
No, that's my son.
Bye, Avery.
[LIGHT EMOTIONAL MUSIC]
How'd it go with the
woman at the hearing?
Everything okay?
NED: Not so much.
Looks like she took the money and ran.
I've got people looking.
So now I'm just
Okay, forget about her.
We gotta deal with this Cruz problem.
Listen, I'll call you
back when I'm done here.
Why am I here?
BRIAN: What are we gonna do
about this Marcie Diggs thing?
That's abrupt.
Well, Kristin wants to
get down to business,
let's get down to business.
Did you take care of that deal?
Yes, it's done.
Right, the deal.
Andrea told me about it on our way here.
So is this your plan of attack?
Real estate?
It's one prong, Kristin.
Can you get that through your head?
If we want to end this
obsession that she has with us,
we have to completely
destabilize her operation.
Are you two gonna help me figure out how
or am I the only one that puts
this family over everything?
ELLERY: I have no idea what
made them change their mind,
but we still have our whistleblower,
and that's what matters.
Hey, just take the win.
The situation with Ellery
and Andrea is not good.
You know, you still haven't told us
how you got Noreen to recant.
What happened?
So they offered her
half a million dollars,
two-fifty in advance as
a show of good faith
and two-fifty after she
testifies against me.
So I tell her:
Call your contact,
tell 'em we're on a break,
Reggie's raking you over the coals
and you're gonna lose
your nerve and you're
You're gonna bail unless
You fork over the rest of the money.
So you and Noreen are standing there
In the lady's room.
Waiting for the money
to land in her account
and then she goes back
into the hearing and flips.
Wow.
You know who's gonna flip?
Brian Clawford,
assuming he's behind it.
Well, Noreen might want
to get out of town
for a few days or maybe forever.
Well, that's 100% the plan.
[PHONE RINGING] [PHONES DINGING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC SWELLS]
ELLERY: It's Fallon, from the office.
What, she texted you
all at the same time?
What, is the office on fire?
[LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[♪]
Oh, you've gotta be kidding me.
What is it?
They've bought the building.
No, this-this isn't true.
You couldn't.
I'm sorry.
We're giving you thirty days to vacate.
[SOFT MUSIC]
Wake me to the fire ♪
wake me to the fire ♪