Bull (2016) s06e04 Episode Script

1 - [PHONE RINGING.]
- Previously on Bull - Where's my daughter? - SHERYL: It's hell when someone - takes your child from you.
- BULL: They nearly took - everything from us, didn't they? - [PHONE RINGING.]
[ASTRID CRYING.]
- Oh, no.
Where's Astrid? - I don't know! [CRYING.]
: He took her.
He had a gun! - [RINGING STOPS.]
- I need a minute.
Bull? Tess, don't forget to come home right after school on Wednesday, okay? That college counselor will be here at 3:30 - for your follow-up.
Tess? - [ROCK MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY.]
Tess.
Hey, Sophia.
Sophia.
[SOPHIA SIGHS.]
We have a problem.
This was plugged in behind the dryer.
I think Tess is vaping.
You want to talk to her or should I? Actually [SIGHS.]
[SIGHS.]
It's mine.
Sophia, seriously? Don't look at me like that.
All that crap with my sister and that damn bathroom remodel? - We had a deal.
- I know.
I know.
You're right.
It's going in the trash.
[WHISPERS.]
: Okay? - [EXPLOSION IN DISTANCE.]
- [GLASS BREAKS.]
[ALARM BEEPING.]
Sophia! Sophia! What happened? [SCREAMS.]
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God! Mom.
Mom! DETTMER: When the Smokestack vape pen that Sophia Echols was smoking overheated, it exploded, sending metal and plastic shards into her right hand, neck, mouth and face.
CHUNK: And these injuries They caused Sophia's death? DETTMER: The ejected materials penetrated the floor of her mouth and went into her neck, dissecting both the carotid artery and internal jugular vein.
She bled to death in minutes.
Dr.
Dettmer, were Sophia's injuries consistent with those suffered by the other 146 plaintiff-victims of this class action? The nature of the injuries was quite similar.
- They just differed in degree.
- And how is that? DETTMER: Sophia's injuries were the most extreme, hers being the only fatality.
But across the board, we saw burns, nerve and tissue damage, lost limbs, lost teeth, facial disfigurement.
Three victims were blinded.
The ejected shrapnel was catastrophically destructive.
Ejected shrapnel? Doctor, it sounds as if you're describing a battlefield wound.
In a way, I am.
In each of these cases, the Smokestack vape pens were closer to a grenade than a recreational device.
Thank you.
No further questions, Your Honor.
How we doing? MARISSA: Green prairie for miles on this end.
I wouldn't get too comfortable with that.
- Here comes Carole.
- So, Dr.
Dettmer, if the device was a grenade, who pulled the pin? I don't understand the question.
Sophia Echols ignored multiple warnings and used an unauthorized charger for the device, in effect, weaponizing her own vape pen.
Isn't that right? I wouldn't put it that way.
CAROLE: Hmm.
I would.
Not a single injury has occurred when a Smokestack vape pen is charged as instructed with an authorized charger.
- Isn't that correct? - CHUNK: Objection.
Your Honor, counsel is testifying.
This clearly falls outside of the scope of the witness' expertise.
I withdraw the question, Your Honor.
[EXHALES.]
Mm-hmm.
No, don't even think about it.
Your mom needs you.
You are exactly where you need to be right now.
- Is that Danny? - Yeah.
Uh, is there anything we can do? Order in food to the hospital? Does she need me to send her more clothes? Do you need more clothes? Okay.
Well, hang in there.
We're praying for your mom.
Okay.
- How's her mom doing? - Still in the ICU.
Danny's hoping she'll get transferred to a rehab facility for stroke victims soon, - but who knows how long that'll take.
- [SIGHS.]
I think we need to bring in a temporary investigator.
- I mean, this case is really - The last thing we need right now is another person on the payroll.
I need to talk to you.
Yeah, just give me a second.
Carole Atkins killed us today in court with those warnings against unauthorized chargers.
- I'm aware.
- We need to find a way to turn those warnings against Smokestack.
Show they were wholly insufficient.
Isn't it obvious? They say if you use the wrong charger, the vape pen may malfunction.
They don't say it'll blow your damn face off.
Right.
We need to prove Smokestack knew these devices could blow your damn face off before they put them on the market.
I've scoured R & D reports, internal emails.
So far, zilch.
Well, keep scouring.
We need a smoking gun.
Or a smoking vape pen.
[CHUCKLES.]
Get it? - 'Cause vape - I got it.
I got it.
I thought it was funny.
- MARISSA: Hello? - Hi, there.
I'm all yours.
Uh, that's what you said last week.
And yesterday.
There's no escaping now.
Uh, we need to talk money.
- What about it? - We don't have any.
That sounds a tad hyperbolic.
This is the biggest case we have ever taken on, and it's bleeding us dry.
We've already spent nearly $2 million for all the medical experts, engineers, trauma specialists, not to mention the paralegals we hired just to get through all the discovery.
And there is no end in sight.
Well, got to go big to win big.
Meanwhile, we are turning away clients because we don't have the bandwidth for anything else.
Well, none of that matters when we get our contingency fee.
Whenever that is.
But I talked to our bank, and they agreed to extend our credit line.
Problem solved.
No.
Problem not solved.
It's only enough to cover about half our expenses.
Have you read my proposal yet? Remember our bandwidth conversation? It'll bring in money right away.
Best part, no extra work for you.
I'm sorry to interrupt, but Rebecca Healy is here, and she's in the conference room.
Not it.
Yes, it.
I talked to her the last time.
I talked to her the last three times.
Bull, she's demanding to talk to you.
- [SIGHS.]
I will talk to her.
- Uh, no, Bull, I really need to talk to you about this proposal.
Everything is fine.
I have everything under control.
Hey.
- You said we'd be done by now.
- I know.
Have our money by now.
- I know you're frustrated, Rebecca.
- My son can't wait any longer for his reconstructive surgery.
I know.
And he shouldn't have to.
This is taking a lot longer than any of us anticipated.
Smokestack has been dragging it out, right? Smokestack already offered to settle.
More than once.
You're the one dragging this out.
Those were not settlement payouts.
Not real ones.
They were nuisance payouts to make us go away.
I am gonna get you, and the rest of the class so much more.
I want out.
Of the class, I mean.
I want to negotiate my own settlement.
Now.
Right.
But we already talked about this.
You can't opt out.
- The deadline has passed.
- No.
- Yes.
- No.
There has to be a way.
There isn't.
Once we've been certified a class, the court sees us as one entity, and there's no jumping in or out of one entity.
We just have to have patience a little while longer.
But I promise you, we are in the right.
I am gonna get your son everything he deserves.
But I can't do that if I don't get back to work, and I've got to prep a witness right now, okay? So, I will see you in court tomorrow.
[SCOFFS.]
You lied to me! Rebecca, I never lied to you.
You said that Smokestack Labs would never go to trial.
You said that you would pick a jury that would scare the pants off of them.
I told you You said that being a part of this stupid class was the best thing for my son.
I did.
I gave you my word.
And Your word means nothing.
Everything's under control, hmm? CHUNK: Should be able to get through the last of our witnesses today.
That is, unless Taylor has found a rabbit - for me to pull out of my hat.
- Not yet.
Oh.
Well, you got to hand it to Carole.
Pretty smart, having Mrs.
Clayton here every day by her husband's side.
'Cause he's not the big, bad CEO of a evil corporation, but a president of a nice, friendly, family business.
I might be mistaken, but it seems to me like you admire Carole.
Well, you don't have to like a hurricane to appreciate its ferocity.
Well, heads up.
Hurricane Carole looks to be making landfall.
Think she's got another offer for us? Either that or it's the first chapter of her memoirs.
I don't know which would be worse.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- CAROLE: Gentlemen.
BULL: Good morning, Carole.
I think we're beyond that, don't you? How about we wrap this up and take the day off.
I'm looking for a punch line, but I can't Oh, wait, there it is.
$9 million.
You can't be serious.
CHUNK: We have 147 seriously injured victims.
One of them is dead.
My clients included seven warning labels on their devices and packaging.
Well beyond industry standards.
What else could they have done? I don't know.
For starters, maybe sell a product that doesn't kill people? Mr.
Palmer, you're new to the class action game, but Bull and I have been around the block more times than we would like to admit, and we both know how expensive it is to try these cases.
My guess is that TAC is starting to feel the bite.
Put yourself out of your misery.
Take the offer.
You know, I think you and I went to different charm schools, 'cause that wouldn't have been my approach.
But I have an eye for juries, and I like this one.
All I need is one juror.
One juror on my side, and I hang the whole damn thing.
And then guess what? We do this whole thing all over again.
You pay more experts, more court fees, not to mention more time down the drain.
- No one's hanging my jury.
- Can you afford to find out? I'm racking up billable hours no matter what.
You You are on contingency.
You lose, you get nothing.
Think about it.
- So? - There's nothing to think about.
PATRICK: We quit smoking over two years ago.
One day, I came home from work, and Sophia was looking out the back window at Tess.
She was growing up so fast.
And Sophia, she wanted to be around for all of it.
Tess' marriage.
When she had children.
And that's when we quit.
CHUNK: But she didn't quit, did she? She started vaping, using the Smokestack vape pen.
Isn't that right? PATRICK: She slipped.
I-It happens.
I'm sure she'd have preferred a cigarette.
I-I'm positive she chose to vape because she thought it was safer.
But it wasn't safer, was it? No.
It wasn't.
It killed her.
No further questions, Your Honor.
CAROLE: Mr.
Echols, do you recognize these? Yeah, they're chargers from our home.
Correct.
This is the authorized Smokestack Labs charger that came with your wife's vape pen, and this is your daughter's phone charger.
And which of these was plugged into the vape pen that malfunctioned on the day of your wife's death? The white one.
Let the record reflect that the plaintiff indicated the nonauthorized third-party phone charger.
Can you read the warning label on the authorized charger, please? "Warning: Use of third-party charger may result in device malfunction.
" CAROLE: Pretty clear.
But your wife chose to ignore it, didn't she? I don't think Sophia chose to ignore anything.
Are you suggesting that someone else used an unauthorized charger - to charge your wife's vape pen? - PATRICK: No.
- That's not what I'm saying.
- BULL: Come on, - Patrick.
Take control of this.
- CAROLE: The fact is your wife used an unauthorized charger despite being warned not to do that very thing.
Isn't that right? The world is full of warnings.
CAROLE: I am not asking about the world, Mr.
Echols.
Just these chargers.
Every time you get gas, there are warnings on the pump.
But you still pump gas, don't you? - Here we go.
- CAROLE: I am asking - the questions, sir.
- Do you deserve to die for pumping gas? Your Honor, please, instruct - the witness - PATRICK: No, my wife didn't deserve to die for ignoring - one stupid warning.
- Mr.
Echols.
Your vape pens have all sorts of warnings - about the dangers of nicotine.
- Mr.
Echols.
- Mr.
Echols.
- But you count on your customers to ignore those warnings, don't you?! Mr.
Echols, enough.
You will restrict your testimony to the questions asked.
And now he can.
[GRUNTS SOFTLY.]
- Uh-oh.
- What? Marissa, remind me how pregnant juror number five is again.
32 weeks and counting.
Why? [SIGHS.]
Well, let's just hope she can keep the rocket on the launchpad a little while longer.
The alternate juror is not be our friend.
- Hey, Chunk.
- Hey.
I think I may have found a new witness for you.
Who? Follow me.
All right.
This guy.
Dennis LaBrie.
Former Smokestack Labs engineer.
Worked in the charger division.
If anybody can tell us what Smokestack knew about their chargers, Dennis is the one.
Why him? I found an archived copy of Smokestack's website.
This is their engineering staff chart.
- See Dennis there? - Sure.
Mm-hmm.
This is the web page they have up now.
- Notice anything? - Yeah, your engineer's gone.
Wiped clean from their site just two days after the class action was filed.
Okay, well, maybe he just went and got a new job.
- Maybe it's just a coincidence.
- Mm, could be.
But in the thousands of pages of discovery documents Smokestack sent over, he's nowhere.
He's not listed in a single R & D report even though he was on the team when the charger research was done.
So, looks like Smokestack went out of their way to make him disappear.
- That's what I've been saying.
- Okay.
Well, it sounds like you need to go find him.
You need to get him to talk to us, - and you need to do it fast.
- [CHUCKLES.]
That part's usually more of a Danny thing.
Yeah.
But, uh, unless he's in a hospital in Florida, it sounds like it's got to be a Taylor thing.
Okay.
I spoke to Louis, the marshal in the courtroom.
He said that juror number five asked him for an antacid.
So, thankfully, no premature labor.
Just good, old-fashioned indigestion.
Thank God.
Our alternate juror - is a real "do not pass go" situation.
- Yeah.
But you nice work - today, Counselor.
- [CHUCKLES.]
Patrick's testimony was very impactful.
Thank you.
Well, I'm not gonna lie.
It was a good day.
Have a few more days like this, and we may just meet that contingency threshold after all.
Uh, what threshold? Bull didn't tell you? There is a contingency threshold? Doesn't anyone say hello anymore? We have to win over $50 million in damages, or we get nothing.
Not nothing.
Five percent.
Uh, that's practically nothing.
Compared to 33% like a normal contingency case, - which I thought we were getting.
- Well, plaintiffs started to look at other representation.
I had to sweeten the pot.
Sweetening the pot is lowering our fee to 25% or 20%, not five.
Well, the agreements are signed.
- There is nothing we can do now.
- Okay.
Well, given the financial situation, I really think we need to talk about my proposal.
This isn't the best time.
We have this great predictive algorithm to analyze jury behavior.
No one else has anything like it.
We can lease it out to other firms, and I'll still be running the analytics from TAC.
You want to rent out the algorithm? To bring in revenue, shore up our finances, yes.
Winning the case is gonna shore up our finances.
I can't do this right now.
We got to put the CEO of Smokestack on the stand tomorrow.
Chunk and I are preparing his cross.
You bet the farm, Bull.
For all of us.
And it never even crossed your mind to talk to us about it.
Talk to me.
My mistake.
I didn't realize I had to run all my business decisions past you.
You're still getting paid, right? You know that's not the point.
Oh, it is exactly the point.
Everybody's getting paid, and I'm the only one with anything to worry about.
Yeah, my mistake.
I thought we were all in this together.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
IZZY: It's 4:00 in the morning.
That explains the whole "sun not being up" thing.
[SIGHS.]
I swear you're becoming a worse sleeper than Astrid.
And I cry more, but I'm working on that part.
[CHUCKLES.]
Is that TAC's balance sheet? Unfortunately, yeah.
Well, I've seen enough of those to know that that much red is not a good thing.
[BREATHES DEEPLY.]
I know.
Marissa warned me.
I've just been so busy.
I didn't want to believe it was that bad.
Are we talking "pack up the car and move to Mexico" bad? No.
Although that is not a bad plan B.
I'm just gonna have to take money out of my personal account, put it into TAC until this case resolves.
Uh, okay [SIGHS.]
I'm not gonna touch our retirement accounts or Astrid's education.
It's just Or my money? [CHUCKLES.]
: Or your money.
Of course.
You know why you're doing this, right? Taking on one of the biggest cases of your career? Because it's a game-changing payday when we win.
No.
It's not about the money for you.
It's about the win.
You know, it's only been a few months since Astrid was kidnapped, and that knocked us both for a loop.
I'm past all that.
I know.
It's just that when you're used to being king of the mountain and you get knocked down, sometimes you look for the biggest, baddest bear to wrestle just to prove that you're on top.
I do like the idea of me wrestling a bear on top of a mountain, but that's not what this is about.
This is about helping people.
Hmm.
I'm gonna go back to bed.
Okay.
You know, just be careful, babe.
Sometimes the bear wins.
You know what a chop block is? - Some kind of football thing? - Yeah.
When you hit a guy in the legs and someone else comes and hits him up top.
Tear him apart, basically.
- Mm.
- You know what I'm gonna do to Smokestack's CEO on cross today? - Chop block him.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- And love every minute of it.
- Excuse me.
Well, keep talking like that, we might win this thing.
Yeah.
HOPKINS: Mr.
Palmer, Dr.
Bull, a word.
Something tells me this isn't gonna be a friendly chat.
Ms.
Atkins and I were just having a fascinating conversation.
One of your plaintiffs, Rebecca Healy, called Ms.
Atkins last night and attempted to negotiate her own settlement.
We - We apologize, Your Honor.
- Oh, oh, oh, it gets better.
When Ms.
Atkins explained that as defense counsel, she was barred from speaking to a member of the class, do you know what your client did next? She ambushed me outside my chambers as I arrived this morning asking to be excused from the class because her concerns are being ignored.
And according to Ms.
Healy, she's not the only one who feels this way.
Your Honor, we've spoken with Ms.
Healy multiple times about how class action litigation works.
At the class certification hearing, you two assured me the victims were all in the same boat, unified in what they wanted.
But from what I'm seeing, no one's rowing in the same direction.
Get your clients under control, or I will decertify this class.
- Am I understood? - Absolutely, Your Honor.
BULL: I know you're frustrated.
You want results.
The process is slow, and I get it.
But you cannot talk to the judge.
You can't talk to the defense attorney.
I had to talk to someone.
You won't listen to me.
Do you know what happens if the judge decertifies this class? He'll declare a mistrial, and it all starts over.
Good.
I can negotiate my own settlement.
- No.
- It might not be as much money, but at least I'll get it faster.
Get my son his surgery faster.
That is not true, Rebecca.
A mistrial means you have to get a new attorney.
You have to go through discovery again.
They're not just gonna write you a check.
- It's not how it works.
- I'm just trying to get my son his surgery.
- I know.
- No, you don't.
Do you know why I had to ask you to meet me outside? Ronnie won't let me bring anyone up to the apartment.
He's too ashamed.
- He doesn't want anyone to see him.
- [EXHALES.]
When the vape pen exploded The damage it did to his face [CLEARS THROAT.]
He won't go to school.
He hasn't left the apartment in months.
He's afraid of what people are gonna say about him.
Do you have any idea what it's like to watch your child be hurt like that? And be helpless to do anything? It's just the two of you, huh? You and Ronnie.
That's a lot of pressure.
I want to help you take some of that pressure off.
You're not alone.
Stick with me on this.
I promise you, we are gonna win.
[SIGHS.]
We have to win.
TAYLOR: I need help.
- MARISSA: Wh-What's the matter? - I'm not Danny.
Okay, you're gonna have to be a little more specific.
Chunk asked me to track down this former Smokestack Labs engineer, Dennis LaBrie.
I called him.
I texted him.
I DM'd him.
Radio silence.
I finally found out he's got a new job as a manager at a Cable Warriors.
So I came here, told one of the guys at the help desk that I bought a lemon laptop and needed to speak with the manager, but it completely backfired.
How? He offered me a new laptop.
I didn't even buy my laptop here.
So, I made up some weird excuse and ran away, and now I have no idea how to get to Dennis LaBrie.
Well, you need to figure it out today.
If we can't call him as a rebuttal witness tomorrow, we'll be heading into closing arguments, and then it's too late.
Thank you, Marissa.
I wasn't stressed enough.
Yeah.
Got it.
I'm sorry.
So, uh, okay, you're not Danny.
You're Taylor.
What's Taylor good at? [SIGHS.]
[ALARM BLARING.]
Mr.
LaBrie.
Thank God.
I can't get them to turn off.
For Pete's sake, just go back to the help desk.
- Dennis LaBrie? - Yeah.
Try control, six, underscore, ampersand.
[BLARING STOPS.]
How did you Do you need a job? No.
My name is Taylor Rentzel.
I've been trying to reach you.
I'm working on behalf of a class of plaintiffs who are suing Smokestack.
Wait.
You did this? Sorry.
I really needed to talk to you.
You're the lady who's been calling me about Smokestack Labs.
Well, you know, I hope that you take those bastards to the cleaners.
They fired me for telling the truth.
Now I'm stuck having to commute to Jersey every day.
Any chance that truth had something to do with how dangerous the vape pens are? That's right.
I told Clayton himself that if people used the wrong charger, they could get hurt.
But no, he was more interested in saving a buck.
Clayton.
Arnold Clayton, Smokestack's CEO? Yes, ma'am.
You told him using unauthorized chargers was dangerous? I told him people could get killed.
And this was before anyone had been hurt? Before the product even shipped.
It was obvious.
I-I can't tell you how helpful you could be to this case.
Will you testify about this in court? Yeah.
No, I can't do that.
TAYLOR: He signed an NDA as part of his severance agreement, and Smokestack - wasn't messing around.
- BULL: How bad is it? There's a $500,000 penalty if he breaches the NDA.
Okay.
Tell LaBrie we'll cover the $500,000 if Smokestack - comes after him.
- We will? - Yeah, we will.
Thanks, Taylor.
- Bull.
It's gonna look like we're buying this guy's testimony.
No.
We are allowed to pay for a witness', uh, expenses, for instance.
And if he gets sued, that's just an expense.
The expenses exemption was designed for things like a hotel room or a plane ticket.
Now, it may not be technically unethical, but we're skirting the line.
Carole's about to rest her case, and we are losing, so we have to call Dennis as a rebuttal witness.
It's our best shot.
[INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSION.]
- What happened? - WOMAN: A delivery guy on one of those electric bikes came zipping out of nowhere and hit some poor man.
- No.
- God, I hate those things.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
That's one of our jurors.
Was one.
There's no way he's coming back today.
Or tomorrow.
The alternate is terrible for us.
Carole just got her one juror.
So Apparently, couple of you thought it was a good idea to go to a party the night before a game.
[SCOFFS.]
So I guess the contract you all signed doesn't mean a damn thing.
Meet our newest juror, Coach Randall Hughes.
You think the rules are just suggestions? Hmm? Hmm? Playing's a privilege.
You just lost it.
We're forfeiting the game.
[BOYS SIGH.]
I said it before, and I'll say it again.
Actions have consequences.
Fan of bluegrass music.
Despiser of victim culture.
For the last 20 years, he's been head coach at Tatum High School.
CHUNK: Think it's safe to say he's more Bobby Knight - than Ted Lasso.
- Yeah.
He's all about following the rules and paying the price - when you don't.
- CHUNK: I mean, he's just one guy.
Maybe the other jurors can get him to come around.
He doesn't seem much like a "come around" guy.
BULL: Well, maybe the key is not to change his thinking but embrace it.
Most coaches don't like cheaters.
No, they don't.
Dennis LaBrie is about to testify that Smokestack knew that their customers could be seriously injured.
He's proof that they were trying to cheat their way out of accountability.
I can say it.
Maybe it'll convince Coach Hughes.
Hmm.
Where's Marissa? She should be here for this.
I think she's with some people in the mock courtroom.
What people? Our software is a predictive tool that can help you anticipate how juries will react to opening and closing arguments, witnesses, evidence, even how they will decide cases.
We have been using and refining this algorithm at TAC for over a decade, and now we will be making this tool available to you.
Marissa? Excuse me? Everyone, I think you know Dr.
Jason Bull.
Hey there.
Can I borrow you for just a moment? I'll be right back.
Excuse me, I need the room.
Thank you.
What are you doing? Trying to protect TAC.
Trying to protect you.
The Smokestack case is a huge gamble.
We need some insurance.
Right now, this Smokestack case is TAC.
Tomorrow we are putting our most important witness on the stand.
We have a bum juror in the box.
I need everybody to stay focused.
And what I don't need is somebody going behind my back.
I didn't go behind your back.
I've been in front of you the whole time.
You just refuse to see me.
Well, I see you now.
Get your head in my game.
'Cause that's the one we got to win.
You okay? Sure.
Have a good night.
See you tomorrow.
You're not okay.
I'm having a moment.
It'll pass.
This have anything to do with the presentation Bull cut short today? Oh, yes and no.
I said it was our algorithm.
But it isn't.
It's mine.
I created it.
I know.
Everyone knows that.
Do they? I'm not sure Bull does, sometimes.
After Benny left, I thought he would offer me this office.
But it's been months, and it just sits here empty.
Bet he never even thought about it.
You should ask him.
I could.
I just I thought it was obvious.
I guess he didn't.
Maybe with the kidnapping and everything that's been going on, he just Maybe.
Like I said, I was just having a moment.
Let's get out of here.
CHUNK: And what was your concern? DENNIS: I realized that there was a design flaw.
If you used third-party chargers, the battery could overheat dramatically.
And what would be the result of this dramatic overheating? DENNIS: Well, when the batteries get too hot, they explode.
So you don't need to be a genius to know that people were gonna get hurt.
S-Seriously hurt.
So what did you do? I took it straight to the top.
I told him.
Let the record reflect the witness just pointed to Arnold Clayton, the CEO of Smokestack Labs.
Now, what exactly did you say to Mr.
Clayton? Well, I explained the problem to Mr.
Clayton and I offered a simple solution.
We could make a unique charging port that isn't compatible to third-party chargers.
Problem solved.
Unique charger port.
W-What's that mean? Well, the port is essentially the socket on your device where you connect your charger.
Smokestack Labs Vape Pens are all compatible with the industry-standard micro USB chargers.
Micro USBs are used for pretty much everything.
Phone, camera.
That's why it's so easy for people to use the wrong charger.
And so how did Mr.
Clayton react when you proposed making this unique charger port? DENNIS: He shot it down.
Said it would be too expensive and it would turn off our customers.
Did he propose an alternative? Yeah.
A cheaper one.
Adding a battery warning light to the vape pens, but nobody pays any attention to warning lights.
I told him people could get hurt.
And what happened next? They fired me.
CHUNK: No further questions, Your Honor.
What are you seeing on your end? MARISSA: Dennis' testimony is definitely landing.
Even with Coach Hughes.
He might just come around after all.
CAROLE: Mr.
LaBrie, at this meeting with Mr.
Clayton, the charger port was not the only concern - you brought up, was it? - I'm not sure.
There was a lot going on.
Let me see if I can refresh your memory.
Do you remember bringing up the poor quality of the toilet paper in the third-floor bathroom? DENNIS: Uh, I don't remember exactly, but they were using very cheap products.
It was a health concern.
Hmm.
And the rattling vent over your work station, which you described to Mr.
Clayton in some detail? - Was that a health concern, too? - Well, it made it very difficult to get anything done.
It was affecting my productivity.
CAROLE: Right.
And the "illegal" use of the microwave for popcorn? There were signs everywhere, and that smell It permeated everything.
CAROLE: And after the meeting with Mr.
Clayton, you followed up with a call to him and seven other top Smokestack executives to alert them to all these issues, including And I believe this was your phrase The "nefarious" popcorn situation.
- Do I have that right? - No.
No, y You're making me sound silly.
These were important matters.
These were important matters.
And-and-and the entire executive team They ignored it.
I had to bring it up.
I had to.
I had to.
CAROLE: Nothing further, Your Honor.
CHUNK: It would've been nice to know that Dennis was a crackpot before we put him on the stand.
MARISSA: Taylor didn't have enough time to ferret out anything other than what he wanted us to know.
We all knew he was a Hail Mary.
And Hail Marys usually fail.
Unfortunately, Dennis' testimony isn't our only problem.
Everyone's favorite juror, Coach Randall Hughes, is a natural leader.
He may even end up as the jury foreman.
He could spread the red.
Great.
So now Carole may not just hang the jury, she may win the whole thing.
We still have one shot: Your closing.
I've been working on a couple different versions.
Well, the mirror jurors are downstairs waiting.
So if you want to test them out, they're ready.
Bull? Send the mirror jurors home.
You both should go home, too.
You don't want to test the closing? No.
We've all been working hard.
I think the most important thing is to get some rest.
It'll do us all good.
Tommy.
Hey, would you do me a favor and leave the keys to the SUV with security downstairs.
I'm gonna drive myself home tonight.
Thanks.
[LINE RINGING.]
IZZY: There you are.
Astrid and I missed you at bath time.
Yeah, sorry, the day got away from me.
Well, the good thing about toddlers is that they have short memories.
Are you still at work? Yeah.
Uh it's just this case.
You sound weird.
Is everything okay? I may have bet too big.
For the plaintiffs.
For TAC.
For us.
I think the bear may be winning.
Come home.
I got a tub of Rocky Road, and it'll do wonders.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
I just have one more thing I got to do.
I'll be home soon.
I love you.
I love you, too.
"the death of Sophia Echols and catastrophic injuries "to the other 146 plaintiffs had nothing to do with them.
That placing a few stickers" Ah, I love the smell of genius in the morning.
[LAUGHS.]
I think what you're smelling is a guy that's been up all night revising his closing argument.
I sent you a copy.
- How do you feel about it? - Honestly? I feel pretty good.
I'd say you hit it out of the park.
I have no notes.
No notes? - No notes.
- But you always have notes.
What's the matter with you? I've done everything I can.
It's out of my hands now.
HOPKINS: Has the jury reached a verdict? HUGHES: We have, Your Honor.
Will the foreman read the verdict? HUGHES: We the jury in the above entitled case find the defendant, Smokestack Labs negligent.
[GALLERY MURMURING.]
The jury awards damages to the plaintiffs in the amount of $145 million dollars.
BOTH: Oh, my God! [CHEERING, CLAMORING.]
HOPKINS: Jurors, the Court thanks you for your service.
The jury's dismissed.
What?! [LAUGHS.]
[CHEERING, CLAMORING.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Oh, thank you for hanging in there with me.
It will take a few months for the settlement to be distributed.
That's okay.
Just knowing there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Yeah, well in the meantime.
What's this? An advance on your settlement.
For Ronnie's surgery.
[CHUCKLES.]
Oh, my goodness.
Thank you.
You may want to hold off on spending any more of that judgement money.
I'm already working up an appeal.
I would expect nothing less.
I'll see you around, Bull.
See you around, Carole.
And I been takin' care of business every day Takin' care of business Is that caviar? Yeah.
We can afford it.
We just won a $145 million judgement.
Man, I do not get tired of saying that.
I heard a rumor we're all getting bonuses.
It's not a rumor.
All I've been able to think about since they the verdict is that money.
What are you gonna do with yours? Mauricio really wants the Lego Death Star which costs, like, a month's rent.
- Right, of course.
- So I thought I'd splurge on that.
- And some orthodonture.
- Hmm.
- What about you? - Well, now I feel selfish 'cause all I'm doing with mine is buying Giants season tickets.
I think we've both always known I'm a superior being.
If you get in with the right bunch of fellows [LAUGHS.]
People see you having fun Just a-lying in the sun Tell them that you like it this way [CLEARS THROAT.]
Hey.
You are going to the party, right? Oh, uh yeah, of course.
Congratulations again.
It's a huge win.
You really pulled it off.
We really pulled it off.
Takin' care of business Marissa, look, I couldn't have do CHUNK: Hey, Bull.
I just got a call from the court clerk's office.
Judge Hopkins wants to see us.
What? When? Right now.
[KNOCKS.]
Judge Hopkins.
Carole.
Hello, everybody.
What's the FBI doing here? There's been a development in the Smokestack class action.
What's the development? The U.
S.
Attorney's Office received an anonymous tip that there had been interference with the jury.
One of the jurors Randall Hughes Said that he'd been bribed.
Bribed? By who? - By you.
- [LAUGHS.]
What? Yeah, that-that's ridiculous.
Wha You're just gonna take the word of this juror? AGENT: We have corroborating evidence that Dr.
Bull made direct contact with this juror.
HOPKINS: To answer your earlier question, Dr.
Bull, I'm afraid the agents are here to take you into custody.
AGENT: Dr.
Jason Bull, you're under arrest for the crime of jury tampering.
You have the right to remain silent.
- Anything you say I -'ll just, I-I'll follow you downtown and we'll handle all of this at the station.
No.
Go to my apartment, tell Izzy what happened.
Don't call her on the phone.
Tell her in person.
Tell her I said everything's gonna be okay.
Everything's gonna be fine.