Bull (2016) s04e12 Episode Script

1 (GRUNTING) DAVIS: Come on, man! Escape! Escape! Roll out! Roll out! Roll out! Get to your feet! Come on! (WHOOPS) (WHISTLE BLOWS) (PANTING SOFTLY) (EXHALES) (BREATHLESS): Come on (RETCHING) We're heading over to the dining hall.
You coming? Nah, I think I'm gonna stick around.
Still over? Yeah.
We'll catch you later, then.
(BEEPING) DAVIS: Antonio.
You got to be kidding me.
You're still three pounds over.
We talked about this.
- You said you had it under control.
- I thought I did.
Well, I guess you thought wrong, didn't you? - I'm sorry, Coach.
- Yeah, I bet you are.
But it's your teammates you should be apologizing to.
If we have to forfeit your slot, again, do you know how hard it's gonna be for us to qualify for state? You got two hours before weigh-ins.
Maybe you can still fix this.
You know what you got to do.
(HORN HONKING) (PANTING) (WHEEZING) Antonio! Hey.
Antonio.
Come here.
Look at me, kid.
BOY: Is he okay? Call 911.
One of you guys call 911.
CHUNK: What about Emmet? Man, if anybody was gonna go pro, it was gonna be Emmet.
Oh, um, he sort of went pro.
He is a sportscaster in Atlanta? Uh, beautiful wife.
No gray hair.
Ah, okay.
I hate him.
Well, those are all very hateable qualities.
Mm-hmm.
Wish I had accomplished enough for somebody to hate me.
- What? - Mm-hmm.
What are you talking about? Man, you work at one of the snootiest prep schools in America.
I mean, I'm sure there's plenty of people out there that hate you.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I'm a guidance counselor, Chunk.
(BOTH LAUGH) So, what can I do for you, Reggie? Well, what makes you think I want something? "Makes you think" Well, you called me out the blue.
I haven't seen you in, what, eight years? - What? - You bring your briefcase - with you.
- Oh What, are you gonna try to sell me something? I wish.
Um (LAUGHS) Uh, it's a 16-year-old kid.
Um One of the students at my school, and he died while he was training, of a heart attack; he's a wrestler.
Seriously? He's a scholarship kid, uh, Latino.
And the school, they can't get his parents to sign a legal waiver fast enough.
The school wouldn't think twice about firing me if they knew I was talking to a lawyer about this.
He used to come by my office quite a bit.
He grew up poor in Newark.
Trust me, there are not many kids like that at Dartwell Preparatory School.
I just want to even up the odds a little bit.
I mean, not that the school's doing anything wrong.
Everything's very polished, very appropriate, very respectful.
So, what is it you'd like me to do? I want you to get involved.
This boy's parents, these are good people.
But they're in way over their head.
I know how Dartwell operates.
They're just gonna keep throwing their fancy lawyers at them and pressuring them to sign away their rights.
Do everything they can s-so they got zero chance of getting a fair settlement.
Just because these people are poor and their boy was there on a scholarship, that doesn't mean that his life was worth any less than any other kid there.
Let me see what I can do.
CLAUDIA: He was always good at sports.
At games.
But wrestling, that was his favorite.
Last year, he was a freshman, he wrestled for the public school down the street.
They got into a state tournament.
First time it ever happened.
And everyone knew it was because of Antonio.
That's when the calls started.
- The calls? - Yes.
Schools wanting Antonio to wrestle for them.
Expensive private schools.
Seven of them.
Three even offered full scholarships.
That's very impressive.
We were thrilled.
This neighborhood is not that safe.
The gangs, they're everywhere.
Especially in the schools.
So why Dartwell? We went and we looked.
It was beautiful.
(LAUGHS SOFTLY) But most of all, it was Coach Davis.
He sat there, right where you're sitting.
Promised us that he would take care of our boy.
And has the school been forthcoming with you since your son passed? Yes and no.
Manuel and I have been there at least a dozen times.
I don't know how many phone calls we've made.
They all tell us how sorry they are but there are no answers.
And no one will explain how this happened.
And I've yet to get a call back from Coach Davis.
His lawyers have probably advised him not to call you.
BULL: We took a look at the documents you sent over.
The proposed settlement agreement, the medical examiner's report.
And the examiner found that Antonio died of heart failure brought on by heat exhaustion and extreme dehydration.
But he also mentioned a juvenile mitral valve murmur? Yes.
That was something he was born with, but the doctors said that that disappeared years ago.
That has nothing to do with this.
BENNY: No, I'm sure you're right.
But in the agreement, the school's lawyers reference an "undisclosed congenital heart condition.
" It's clear they're trying to use Antonio's heart murmur to shield themselves from blame.
BULL: Regardless of that, they are offering you a half a million dollars, which is certainly a respectable place to start.
The catch, of course, is to get it, or wherever we might land money-wise, you are gonna have to sign a no-fault agreement.
That's what I don't understand.
What does that mean? It means they're paying you to go away.
Once you take the money, they don't want to hear from you again.
You can't sue them, you can't complain, you can't go to the press.
The matter is closed.
Which means that I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't breathe.
No.
I don't care about the money.
I want to know why this happened and I want to know how this happened.
My son was a healthy teenager.
And healthy teenagers don't have heart attacks.
Well, then the choice is simple.
If you folks want to force answers out of the school, your only option is to sue.
BENNY: What we'd do is file a wrongful death civil suit on your behalf.
We'd effectively be suing Dartwell Prep School and Coach Davis.
Just so everyone understands, once you demand a trial, all bets are off.
Maybe we'll get some answers, maybe we won't.
Maybe we'll get you some money, or maybe you'll end up with none.
So let me ask you, Dr.
Bull, would you accept half a million dollars and silence in return for your child's life? No.
Of course not.
Then we need to sue.
For Antonio.
(MUTTERING): Come on (GRUNTS) Around I mean, come on.
(WHIMPERS, MOANS) You look pregnant.
Taylor! Someone! Help me! Normally, don't you put on your coat and mittens and then your scarf? It's a baby sling.
You had a baby, didn't you? Yeah, but it didn't come with one of those.
Never mind.
I was hoping you might be able to help me a little.
Hey.
Ju Uh just wanted you to know we got the witness list.
Defense is calling Sarah Barnes to the stand.
Wow.
Playing hardball.
- Mm-hmm.
- Who's she? She is a brilliant medical mind completely unfettered by ethics and morality.
- Excuse me? - She's a gun for hire.
A very expensive gun for hire.
The best or the worst, depending on what side of the courtroom you're standing on.
Used to be New Jersey's chief medical examiner.
Now she makes a fortune providing her clients with whatever medical opinion they need to win.
(SIGHS) Well, if Dartwell Academy's hiring her, we can assume they're going all in on the heart murmur as Antonio's cause of death.
We're gonna need to get ahead of her testimony.
So, Taylor, comb the Internet for every word this woman has ever uttered or written on the subject of heart murmurs.
If she's ever said anything even slightly contradictory to what she says about Antonio's death, I want Benny to be able to pounce on it.
Let's talk jurors.
Oh, let's talk authority bias.
Okay, what about authority bias? It's not good for our side.
People with an authority bias are blinded by the power of an authority figure, or, for that matter, an authoritarian institution.
They will always give it the benefit of the doubt.
So they'll take the school's word that this was just a tragic accident.
Exactly.
Mm.
And that's why we want jurors who are distrustful.
Good afternoon, folks.
Let's start with a hypothetical.
You are on an airplane.
The cabin doors close, you've been instructed to put your cell phone on airplane mode.
But you are in the middle of a very important text exchange.
What do you do? Ma'am? Uh, turn it off.
Safety first.
What do you think would happen if you left it on? What's the difference? They want you to turn it off, I'm gonna turn it off.
Blind faith in a vague instruction issued by an institutional authority.
You seeing any signs of rebellion below the surface? Not a whiff.
Big joiner.
Rotary Club.
President of her alumni association.
(SCOFFS): No.
Your Honor, we'd like to thank and excuse this juror.
And what about you, sir? - Me? - Yeah.
You hear the announcement, - what do you do? - I keep texting.
To be honest, I never turn my phone off on the plane.
I just silence it.
They pretend like it's about safety, but really, it's just about them not wanting us on our phones.
It's a control thing for them.
Tell me this man is exactly who he seems.
Randy Grider, grandfather and self-described cynic.
Manages a restaurant, and has had what appears to be a very public ten-year feud with the health department.
Refers to health inspectors as navel-gazing bureaucrats whose only concern is hitting a monthly quota of violations.
Oh, my.
Welcome aboard, Randy.
I've been thinking about tomorrow.
I think maybe we attack the school's narrative right from the jump.
Put our medical expert on first to dispel any idea that this supposed heart murmur had anything to do - with Antonio's death.
- Mm.
Uh, I'm leaning towards making Claudia, Antonio's mother, - our opening act.
- Why is that? When Dr.
Barnes takes the stand, the last thing we need is for the jury to be wondering why the Garcias didn't fill in the school.
So we put Claudia on first and have her speak directly to it.
They didn't tell the school, because the heart murmur disappeared sometime after Antonio's third birthday.
So they didn't inform the school because it was a nonissue.
- Exactly.
- Ah.
And we'll drive the point home with our own medical expert.
BENNY: Mrs.
Garcia, at what age was Antonio diagnosed with the mitral valve murmur? Shortly after he was born.
He was three months when they first noticed it, I think.
And after you received that diagnosis, were you aware of it manifesting itself in any way on your son? Did he exhibit any symptoms? Was he suffering in any way? No.
Never.
But we weren't surprised.
At the time of the diagnosis, the doctors told us that in all likelihood, it would have no impact on him at all.
In fact, in most cases, it actually disappears.
Or "resolves itself," which I think is how they put it.
Mrs.
Garcia, do you recall submitting this health questionnaire to Dartwell with Antonio's admission materials? Yes, I do.
And on the questionnaire, it asks if the student had ever been diagnosed with a heart condition.
And you answered no to that question.
- Didn't you? - Yes, I did.
Why would you do that? Why wouldn't you include the information on the heart murmur? When he was five years old, the doctors told us that it was gone.
He didn't have a heart condition.
All right, I understand that.
But the question was asking if Antonio had ever been diagnosed with a heart condition.
I guess that you can read it that way.
To be honest, I just didn't think about it.
When he was born, they said that he had something, and then they said that he didn't.
So, in my mind, he didn't.
Every year, he had a physical.
And even when the Dartwell Preparatory School's doctor examined him, before he began at that school, he said that my son was completely healthy.
But of course, none of these doctors anticipated that my son would be made to run behind a school bus in a garbage bag, like some kind of a dog! Your Honor, the witness is being inflammatory.
She's speculating about the thoughts of others.
She's assuming facts not in evidence.
Sustained.
The jury will disregard that last statement.
No further questions, Your Honor.
Mrs.
Garcia, before Antonio enrolled, were you aware of how competitive Dartwell's wrestling team was? We knew that they won a lot.
We knew that winning mattered to them.
We knew that it was one of the reasons why they wanted our son.
And it's one of the reasons that you wanted Dartwell, because it was one of the best in the state.
Well, yes, of course.
Every parent wants the best for their child.
So you must have been thrilled when you got an offer from them.
Yes.
We thought we'd won the lottery.
We? Yes, we.
The whole family was thrilled.
Antonio was thrilled, and we were thrilled for him.
Well, and not just because he'd get to wrestle, but he'd also get a better education.
Maybe even a chance to go to a superior college.
Yes, of course.
Has anyone in your family ever attended college before? CLAUDIA: No.
Antonio would have been the first.
So there was a lot riding on Antonio's success, or lack thereof at Dartwell, wasn't there? For him, for the family.
I would think for any child, yes.
Now, regarding the mitral valve prolapse, the questionnaire was not the only opportunity you had to disclose this condition, was it? There was nothing to disclose.
You accompanied Antonio to his preliminary physical exam at the school.
Did you tell the doctor about it then? No, but You spoke to Coach Davis on no less than a dozen occasions.
Did you ever bring it up with him? Objection, Your Honor.
Asked and answered.
Not with regard to Coach Davis it hasn't been.
Objection overruled.
The witness will answer the question.
There was nothing to bring up.
The condition no longer existed.
And that's why you chose not to include it - in the questionnaire.
- Yes.
Even though you knew how rigorous the Dartwell wrestling program was, you never thought to mention a heart condition? That's pretty reckless, don't you think? But there was no heart condition.
Wouldn't you have wanted Antonio to have the most thorough physical exam possible? Wouldn't you have wanted that doctor to know - everything about your son? - Of course.
MOSLEY: Didn't they ask you whether he'd had the measles or the mumps? Yes, of course.
And even though he no longer had those diseases, you answered those questions, - didn't you? - BENNY: Objection! Relevance.
Counsel is conflating contagious diseases - with genetic - Overruled.
Ask the question again, please.
Even though he no longer had those diseases, you chose to answer those questions.
Didn't you? The witness will answer the question.
Yes.
MOSLEY: So you understood the question, but intentionally misled the school because you feared if they knew the answer, they might withdraw the scholarship.
Objection.
Argumentative.
Counselor's badgering the witness, Your Honor.
I'm trying to establish that the witness applied different criteria to different questions.
That the witness knew full well what the intention of the question was, but when it didn't suit her purposes, she didn't answer it.
There was nothing to answer.
He didn't have a heart condition.
You lied, and your son died, Mrs.
Garcia.
(GAVEL BANGS) Ms.
Mosley, I have given you a wide berth of latitude today.
Don't give me reason to regret it.
I withdraw the question, Your Honor.
Nothing further at this time.
(ELEVATOR BELL CHIMES) TAYLOR: I've been going through the last three years of Dr.
Barnes' testimony transcripts, - and I've come up empty.
- MARISSA: Good news/bad news is she never met a paying gig she didn't like, so we have four or five more years of material to go through.
Do we know when she's gonna testify? BENNY: It's hard to say.
We could rest our case as early as tomorrow.
I'll read fast.
Danielle James, you're next in the Thunderdome.
(SIGHS) You ever heard the expression "no news is good news"? - Never.
Never ever.
- Hmm.
Well, then you won't find what I have to say very comforting.
So, uh, Antonio's teammates were not particularly forthcoming.
I've never been "no, ma'amed" so much in my life.
They acted like the team's regimen was no big deal, just standard practice.
Yeah, been there and done that.
They're circling the wagons.
Team first.
That's how competitive athletes think.
Anything else is disloyal.
And you, Mr.
Palmer, you dragged us into this.
Have you any light to shed? Actually, I did find something interesting.
It was in the discovery packet the defense sent over.
These are the wrestling team's rosters and body measurement stats for the last four years.
And why are we looking at these? You see last year's? Now look at the rosters, then look at each kid's weight.
Now look at the year before that.
(CLEARS THROAT) They look almost identical.
What's your point? Now go back one more year.
I'm sorry.
They look virtually the same.
You're losing me, Chunk.
Now look at their heights.
They're growing, but they're not changing their weight classes.
Bingo.
BENNY: Coach Davis, you have had quite a run at Dartwell.
16 years as head coach.
Four years as an assistant at other schools.
I've been very blessed.
BENNY: And I'm guessing, in your two decades of working with young athletes, you have learned a thing or two about sports nutrition? All part of the game.
Ah.
So tell me, how is it possible that during some of your wrestlers' prime growth years Now, I'm talking between 14 and 18 They don't seem to gain any weight? I'm sorry, I-I don't know what you mean.
I apologize.
Let me get a little more specific.
As it turns out, I was able to get my hands on the Dartwell wrestling team's varsity roster for the last three years.
Now, Coach Davis, are you aware, according to your own rosters and weight records, from sophomore to senior year, on average, only 12% of the wrestlers on your team changed their weight class? Okay.
What You don't find that odd? No.
I don't.
A lot of it's genetics.
But wrestlers Winning, competitive high school wrestlers Just tend to be early developers.
It's the right body type for wrestling.
So their growth just isn't terribly dramatic, because, by and large, the bulk of it has happened before they start their work with the team.
Really? Well, then, how do you explain Lance Briles, grew two inches in three years and didn't gain any weight? Clearly the bulk of his growth didn't happen before he joined the team.
Well, Lance, I mean, you're talking about an outlier there.
That's not a typical situation.
I see.
And-and what about Ryan Tissen? Grew four inches but didn't gain a pound.
He an outlier, too? What about Reese Nichols? Grew five inches, and no weight gain.
(CHUCKLES): I mean, wrestler after wrestler.
Uh, these stats don't lie.
Although 80% of your wrestlers grew at least three inches during their time on your team, only 12% gained weight.
Now, I don't know about you, but that seems pretty strange to me.
Pretty scary, pretty dangerous.
Objection.
Counselor's testifying.
Mr.
Colón.
Oh, that's all right, Your Honor.
I'm gonna put a pin in that for now.
Now, Coach Davis, your success with the team has started to wane in the last few years.
You even failed to qualify for state in the last three.
Very tough competition.
Last three years have been challenging.
Actually, in all three of those years, you didn't have a wrestler that qualified in Antonio's weight class.
Am I right? You had to forfeit the slot.
Yes.
Probably didn't make your bosses very happy.
Now, uh, were you aware that the school's administration had actually started reaching out to potential replacement candidates for your position? I'd heard rumors.
But that's the nature of athletics.
You don't bring home the trophies, people start to look elsewhere.
Yeah.
Well, it must have been very exciting when you were able to recruit Antonio.
Great wrestler, perfect weight.
I had high hopes for Antonio.
Really believed in the boy.
BENNY: So how did you feel when he showed up an inch and a half taller and eight pounds heavier than he was last May? (CHUCKLES): Obviously, I was surprised.
But eight pounds is not an insurmountable goal for these kids.
BENNY: Oh, I know.
Look at all the athletes you've worked with in the past that have grown inches taller and have gained absolutely no weight.
And now here we are.
Let me ask you a question.
If you found out that some of your athletes were doing things that compromised their health to keep their weight down, maybe even put their lives at risk, what would you do? To stop them, I mean.
Objection.
The attorney is badgering the witness, making up hypotheticals.
BENNY: You're right.
Let's not be hypothetical.
Let's get specific.
What did you say or do for Lance Briles? Or Ryan Tissen? Or Reese Nichols? Or for that matter, Antonio Garcia, when you discovered that they were getting taller? Because let's be honest, you can't get taller and not gain any weight.
Did you tell them to run behind the team's bus in a garbage bag? Witness will answer the question.
BENNY: Oh, that's all right.
I'm making the coach uncomfortable, and I don't want to do that.
I withdraw the question.
Nothing further.
DALTON: Let's take a ten-minute recess and then continue with defense's cross-examination.
Any news on our friend Dr.
Barnes? MARISSA: Actually, Taylor is waiting outside in the hallway for you.
She thinks she found something.
TAYLOR: I've looked through everything Dr.
Barnes has ever written or said.
Every medical journal article, every FDA drug testimonial, every speech, every seminar, every everything.
And believe it or not, I found nothing about heart murmurs.
How is that possible? But when I looked through her corporate accounts, I noticed she almost always tries to time her vacations with European medical symposiums.
And then it occurred to me, could it be that Dr.
Barnes offers her opinions and expertise in languages other than in English and in countries other than the United States? Long story long, my three years of high school German paid off.
Dr.
Barnes was a speaker at a cardiology trauma convention in Munich two years ago.
This is a transcript of her speech.
What did it say? I'll spare you my terrible German accent, but basically, she says that mitral valve murmurs have never I repeat, never been shown to increase the risk of myocardial infarctions, regardless of other externalities.
So in the words of the good doctor, Antonio's heart murmur couldn't have caused his heart attack.
That's how I read it.
Ooh.
Speak of the devil and she will appear.
Jason.
Sandra.
Nice work, Taylor.
This is gonna be fun.
So, after examining the original medical reports, the toxicology results and Antonio's personal medical records, what conclusions were you able to draw? Well, the first thing to catch my attention was Antonio's mitral valve prolapse, his heart murmur.
That a girl, Sandra.
Come on in, the water's fine.
MARISSA: Bull, you better watch out.
Your smug is showing.
MOSLEY: So, in your expert opinion, you believe that Antonio's mitral valve murmur was the cause of his catastrophic heart event? Actually, no.
(GALLERY MURMURING) - No? - No? No? And why is that? The more I looked at the medical reports, the more I felt as though something had been overlooked.
And then I realized.
It was lactic acidosis.
MOSLEY: Lactic acidosis? Could you explain to the jury what that is? Certainly.
When the body is under extreme physical exertion, as Antonio's was, and it can't get enough oxygen, it looks for alternate sources, alternate pathways to get its energy.
Anaerobic pathways.
The by-product of this process is lactic acid.
Lactic acidosis is simply when this lactic acid enters the bloodstream.
And why is this important? Because in certain cases, lactic acidosis can interfere with a standard toxicology test.
Like the one performed during the autopsy in this case.
So I had some of the samples rerun at a private lab.
And what were those results? Objection, Your Honor.
This is the first we've heard of these tests.
I'm going to allow this.
But I'll make sure you have ample time to conduct any confirmations that you need, Counselor.
- Overruled.
- MOSLEY: And what did these new tests show? They showed that Antonio was using amphetamines at the time of his death.
(GAVEL BANGING) Now, how big a factor would these amphetamines be in causing Antonio's heart attack? Enormous.
In my opinion, it's the amphetamines that killed him.
She's wrong.
Antonio would not use drugs.
I know my son.
BENNY: We could go to another lab.
An independent lab.
See if we get a different result.
Benny, you don't understand.
My boy, he grew up around drugs.
Where we live, there are drugs everywhere.
He grew up stepping over strung out junkies on the sidewalk.
Does anybody honestly believe that my boy would put in all this hard work to get to go to a place like Dartwell and then just throw it all away just to get high? I don't think they think it's about getting high.
Athletes have been known to use amphetamines to train harder, to train longer, to push themselves further.
Especially boxers and wrestlers.
Athletes looking to cut weight.
Well, then they made him do it, because my son would never do that unless somebody made him! (CLAUDIA CRYING) (DOOR OPENS, CLOSES) I think she's had enough.
I think we've all had enough.
Excuse me? She'll just keep fighting and fighting till it kills her.
Or kills us.
He was her everything.
He was my everything, too.
But the longer I think about it, Antonio would've done anything to stay in that school.
What are you trying to tell us? Tell them we'll sign the agreement now.
She'll hate me for the rest of our lives together, but I'll hate me if I don't put a stop to this.
- Manuel - Look, I know money won't bring back our son, but at least it'll give Claudia time to not work.
Time to heal.
Mr.
Garcia, I sympathize.
But at the moment, they're winning.
There's no reason for them to settle.
And a "not liable" verdict is gonna go a long way to restoring their reputation.
Also, there's nothing I can do without Mrs.
Garcia signing off.
You filed suit together.
There's no way for me to negotiate a settlement without her approval, too.
TAYLOR: More? Employment records for everyone in the athletic department for the last seven years.
Every notation, every complaint.
If there's any history of amphetamine use in that department, I have to believe I will find it here.
What are you two up to? Taylor got me into Antonio's e-mails for the last two years.
I'm-I'm looking for something, anything.
I'm going through the social media accounts of every wrestler at Dartwell, and by the way, teenage boys need to be rounded up and kept under lock and key until their early 20s.
(QUIETLY): Oh, man.
Hey, if I want to print something out, do I do it the regular way even though this is kind of a bootlegged file? Just press Command-P, and it will be waiting for you in the printer.
Good talking to you.
(PHONE RINGING) Yes.
Oh, yes.
Sure.
Send him in.
Hey.
You come by to give me a progress report on the trial, or did someone catch you smoking out behind the field house? Why didn't you tell me? Tell you what? Been going through some of Antonio's e-mails.
Found this one, from you.
"Antonio, "I want to make sure that I was crystal clear "in our meeting earlier today.
"What you are doing is not only unfair and unsportsmanlike, "it is extraordinarily dangerous, "as well as grounds for expulsion.
"I told you that your secret "was safe with me, but only if you stayed true "to your promise and never again repeat this behavior as long as you are a student at Dartwell.
" You knew that that boy was taking drugs? You wrote this three weeks before he died! Yes, but that didn't have anything to do with his death, did it? I mean, I got him to stop, Chunk.
That's why I wrote the e-mail.
Okay, the medical report The one I read said that kid was clean when he died! The school just ordered a new toxicology report, Reggie.
Antonio was using amphetamines when he collapsed.
Oh, man.
I'm sorry, Chunk.
I would've never reached out to you had I known How did you find out? I guessed.
And then he-he fessed up.
That kid, he would come here all the time, Chunk.
All he wanted to talk about was how he was terrified that he wasn't gonna make weight.
You see, in his mind, if he didn't make weight, he couldn't wrestle.
And if couldn't wrestle, then they'd take his scholarship, so he'd have to leave school.
(QUIETLY): Right? But you know, he was, he was sweaty, he was jittery.
So I knew he was on something.
And I made him promise he was done.
And you just took him at his word? He's 16.
He thinks his life is on the line.
How could you just leave it at that?! I didn't.
Yes, I didn't tell anyone in the administration, but I did tell the one person in this school who I thought could make him stop.
I told Coach Davis.
DALTON: Okay, Counselors, we will proceed to final arguments.
Actually, Your Honor, if I may, the plaintiffs would like to recall defendant Wayne Davis to the stand.
Objection, Your Honor.
The defendant has already testified, and the plaintiff has rested.
In light of the testimony of Dr.
Barnes, new evidence has been discovered that we did not have the chance to introduce earlier.
All right, Mr.
Colón.
I'll allow it.
I want to remind you that you remain under oath.
You may proceed.
Now, Coach Davis, I'm assuming your team, your school, has some sort of policy in place with regard to drugs.
Would you mind sharing that with us? Uh, it's simple.
No drugs allowed.
Okay.
And what if one of your wrestlers were to violate that rule? Uh, immediate suspension.
Pretty straightforward.
So let me ask you a question.
You ever drug test Antonio Garcia? No.
I don't test my wrestlers unless I have a reason to suspect something's going on.
Now, when you say "reason to suspect something," I'm guessing you mean unusual behavior.
Absences, maybe even a worried teammate? Yeah, sure.
Any of those.
BENNY: Now, Coach Davis, do you recall a conversation you had with Reggie Baumann, one of the school's guidance counselors, about Antonio Garcia that took place about two weeks prior to his death? Um (CLEARS THROAT) It's hard to say without knowing more about the conversation.
BENNY: Of course.
My mistake.
Let me be more specific.
Let me see if this will jog your memory.
Do you recall the conversation you had where Reggie Baumann told you that Antonio was taking amphetamines to drop weight in order for him to be able to wrestle in the slot that would be most advantageous for you and the team? You told Mr.
Baumann that you'd take care of it.
That ring a bell? The witness will answer the question.
On advice of counsel, I refuse to answer, and invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege.
(GAVEL BANGING) You didn't take care of it, did you, Coach Davis? You didn't confront Antonio Garcia, a minor in your custody, about his amphetamine use, did you? Because that would have meant you would have had to bench him.
No.
Instead you made him run behind the team bus because you needed him to compete if you had any chance of making state.
If you had any hope of salvaging the season.
If you had any chance of keeping your job.
Isn't that what happened here? Again, uh, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to plead the Fifth.
(GALLERY MURMURING) (GAVEL BANGS) We the jury find the defendants, Wayne Davis and Dartwell Preparatory School, liable for the wrongful death of Antonio Garcia.
We the jury award compensatory damages in the amount of $300,000 to the plaintiff.
Wha That is less than the settlement offer.
But wait, there's more.
JURY FOREPERSON: In addition, we the jury also award punitive damages in the amount of $5 million.
(LAUGHS SOFTLY) (INHALES SHARPLY) Hmm.
All right.
Here we go.
(LAUGHS) Yeah.
CHUNK: Oh, look.
You gave birth to a sporting good.
What do you got, a Wilson? A Spalding? (LAUGHS) Can I help you? Just thought you should know, I just heard from Reggie.
The school officially fired Coach Davis.
Sounds like the police department is opening up a criminal investigation as well.
Hmm.
And how's your friend Reggie doing? Mm.
(SIGHS) He tendered his letter of resignation today.
Said he feels like he failed Antonio.
Well, let him know he did his best.
I did.
And I will.
And I appreciate you and the firm diving in like you did.
Even though there wasn't necessarily anything in it for you.
For any of us.
Thank you.
Getting ready to be a dad.
Trying to build some good karma.
(CHUCKLES) I hear you.
Hey.
Let me play with Bull Junior.
Oh Oh Okay, I'd like my boy back, please.
Are you sure you can handle this? It's like looking in a mirror.
(LAUGHS) Nice.
(GASPS) (CHUNK CHUCKLES)