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- Seizures, twitching,
loss of motor function.

- All vaccinations will
be on the bargaining table,

open for litigation.
- Go to Millwood

and block this injunction.
- There's a reason that we
left when you were a kid.

- I'll keep my head down,
avoid any bar fights,

and I will get this done.
- Crush them and get the hell

back here. I love you.
- I love you too, Dad.

Joanna Hanley,
attorney for Bordoxx.

- William Crawford,
Crawford and Associates.

- Last time I saw you,
we were in high school.

Our girls are sick, Joanna.
- You know you're the
bad guy, right?

- Molly, Luna just told me.
You didn't get the HPV vaccine.

Something else is making these
girls sick. You have to figure

out what it is.
We worked so hard to get here.

Did you ever think
it would feel different?

- You saw me and you thought,
"Well, she's just a sick kid.

She'll agree to anything."
- Agh!

♪♪♪

- Morning, beautiful.
Are you just getting up?

I've been
working since four. You?

- Oh, you know the drill.
Trying to get to work.

The freeway's a parking lot.

Alan, look. I think
something big is going on here.

- Jo, we already
absolved our client.

- Yeah, but something's still
making these girls sick.

- Well, that may very well be
true, but I mean, that's not

your cross to bear.
- There's a case here.

A huge one. I know it, and...

I want to stay here
and fight it.

! What are you
talking about?

- I'm teaming up
with Billy Crawford.

- Wait. The... the guy
that used to mow your lawn?

- Yeah. Turns out he's talented.

He just doesn't
have any resources.

- [Jo, you're supposed
to be home already by now.]

- I know.

- Your dad's been
trying to reach you.

- I just need more time
to work on this.

- You're gonna pitch CTS

to take this case.

With your help.

- We're still a team, Alan,
and...

you are the best lawyer
that firm's got.

So, what do you say?

- I'm gonna send over some
materials in the next few hours.

I need you to review them
and then brief my father.

- You got it.

Thank you.

- I don't know, just energized.
You know, more passionate.

Must be the country air.

- Yeah, must be.

OK. I gotta go meet Billy.

Keep an eye out for that email

and I will touch base
with you later.

- Come on! Let's go!

♪♪♪

- It hasn't changed much.

Large half-caf, soy,
no-foam latte.

- Yeah.

- The CT scans are booked,

and all the girls can get their
blood work done in the meantime.

- Good.
- So...

the twitches, they started right
after the vaccine clinic?

- Yeah, a couple of weeks after.

- Was anything else
happening at the time?

- No, just normal life.

That's why we focused on the
vaccine. It was the only thing.

- Morning.

- Morning, Billy.
Ma'am. Still here?

- Yeah.

- We got a call to you-know-
where about you-know-who.

You better take care
of this or I will.

- All right. I'll drive over.
See what I can do.

- Appreciate it.

- It's on the way
to the hospital.

It'll just take a second.

Wait here.

Hey, Jax. How you doin'?
- Hey, Billy.

- I can't find my shoes.
- Control that mutt, Phil!

Screw off, you stupid dog!

This'll be the last time!

You shut your dog up!

- I see your dog on my property
one more time,

he's dead. Do you hear me, Phil?

- Hey. Ease up, John.

- Come on, Rocky.

- You know what happens
if the cops come out here again.

- Look, I'm not raising Jackson

in some unsafe environment

or whatever Patti's
lawyer calls it.

- She will petition for sole
custody and she'll get it.

You wanna lose Jax
over some dog?

- No.

- Later, buddy.

- Can we do some
actual legal work now?

- In Millwood, that was
actual legal work.

Welcome home.

Hey.

Are you getting any sleep?
- I'm trying.

- They're running
all these tests.

- Yes, I ordered a full work-up,
just so we know

what we're dealing with.
- I didn't know she was sick.

What kind of mother am I?
- You're a great one.

I would know.

You practically raised me.

Hey...

♪♪♪

- Come in.

What the hell
are you doing here?

- I heard you were in here.

I wanted to come and see
how you were doing.

- About to get a giant needle
plunged into my spine.

How do you think I'm doing?

You stayed in Millwood?

- I did.

Did you hear of more kids to...

to screw out of their money
or something?

- Not exactly.

I stayed to fight...

and I switched sides.

- It means that we're
on the same team, Taylor.

- I still don't trust you.
- That's fine.

You don't have to.

I'm your lawyer,
not your friend.

- Yes.

You and all the other girls.

Billy Crawford and I
formed a partnership.

- Because you told me I should

stand up for you.

- You made

a compelling argument.

Anyway...

I shouldn't keep you any longer.

I just... wanted you to know

that I am here

if you need anything.

- Hey...

You might not be as bad
as I thought.

- Thanks.

I think.

- Hi.

11 times.

- No one in Millwood is busy.

[I got the materials
that you sent me.]

- Yes. I will have
more for you soon.

- You need to come home, Joanna.

more time.

an imaginary law suit
just to indulge your whims.

This could be toxic exposure.

Aldred's Case?
You'd never prove causation.

- That's what they said in
Eldring Power v. New Glasgow.

- OK. I'll bite.

Do you know where the toxins
are coming from?

- Not yet.

- I'm worried about you,
sweetheart.

[Where's your sense of
priority

Take a day. 24 hours.

Poke around,

and then throw me a pitch that
we can knock out of the park.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

- It's frontal lobe abnormality.
There's been damage

to the protective sheath around
nerve fibers in the brain.

This damage can range

from mild impairment
to dementia.

- Is this what's
causing the symptoms?

- Could be a number of things.
A personality disorder,

though that's very unlikely
in this case.

It could also
be brain impairment caused

by a toxic chemical.

With teenagers, that usually
points to inhalants.

- No. These girls
aren't huffers.

One of them is my niece.

She's a jock.
- Our homes

are full of chemicals and teens
find them. The problem is

inhalants are as addictive
as any drugs and can cause

irreversible brain damage.
- So you think

these girls are
doing this to themselves?

- Chemical damage
explains the symptoms.
- But you can't be sure if this

is caused by drug use or not?
- You'd have to ask them.

- Well, that's progress.
- Right.

"Frontal lobe abnormalities."

It's music to my ears.
- It's information.

We're narrowing down
what we're dealing with.

- I'll get Molly to tell me the
truth.

- You can't just storm in there
accusing them of things.

They'll clam up.

- It's a commonalities
questionnaire.

- There are no wrong answers.

- Sweet.
- We need to know

all the things you do,
products you use, places you go.

- Uh... do you
mean everything?

- Yeah, everything.

- Is it protected
by lawyer-client...

If it means you'll

tell the truth,
then yes, absolutely.

And if you need

help filling it in...
- I can do it.

- They're letting...

they're letting me out today.

- One last test.

I promise.

Hey, we just need

information, OK?

It doesn't matter
what you've done.

- I don't do drugs, Uncle Billy.

- I used to like to stand beside
my father when he pumped gas.

- Whipped cream
has nitrous oxide.

My mom had to stop buying it.

- Only two of these girls have
admitted to using inhalants,

and all that means
is we can rule it out.

It wasn't Molly.

If you use nail polish
often enough,

that can mimic an inhalant.
- Yeah, Molly doesn't really

paint her nails.

- All these girls
use different make-up,

different shampoos.
Their parents use different

household cleaners.

The only thing they have in
common is the fact that they are

girls and that they
go to school.

- The school was the first
place I checked.

The environmental records
were spotless.

- It has to be the school.

- Then why would it
just affect the girls?

I'm telling you -- air, heat,

water, they all came back clean.

- What about the girls
locker room?

- Billy! Answer your damn phone.

- Give me a second.

- Yeah.

- You can't let them
send me to jail, Billy.

- The first thing you need to
know is that I did not do this.

- OK. OK, relax. We'll...

we'll figure this out.

- This is just what we need.

- Don't worry. I'll sort it out.
- He killed a dog.

- He says he didn't do it.

- He's my friend.

And my client.
- We don't have time for this.

- He could lose his kid.
- He should've thought of
that before he killed the dog.

- All right.

What do you want me to do?
- We have to go double-check

the school. We have 24 hours
to figure this out.

- We have to pitch
my firm on this tomorrow.

- That's not enough time.
- Well, it's all
the time I have.

So you can go

with him, but I have work to do.

♪♪♪

- I'll be fine by next week.

I can't... I can't
miss regionals.

- You know your body best.

- It's Jackson High.

- Time to go home.

- I can walk.

- They do this for everyone.

- So if you find
what you're looking for,

you're gonna sue the school?
- Not the school.

The government
that runs the school.

- Sounds like the same thing.
- It's not.

Can I speak to you?

- No, it's... it can
totally wait.

- OK. Meet me in my office
after school. OK, Allie?

- OK.

- I bring my kids to the gym on
the weekend when it's raining.

Sarah always complained
about the smell.

- Did they send someone to check
it out? Was it a certified

microbial investigator?
- It was probably

an unemployed plumber. This
school's barely staying open

as it is.
- I saw a brand-new

athletic field out back.
- Yeah. That's boys sports.

The guys get a new turf field
and we get the old cow pasture.

Life ain't fair.

- This place hasn't
changed at all.

- Here it is.

My kids shower here.
Are they gonna get sick?

- People react to substances
in different ways.

Could be
a genetic predisposition,

a hormonal reaction

or an underlying condition.

- So maybe.

- We don't know
that this caused it.

Mould would likely

show up in the lungs first.

But we'll have
this tested anyway.

The hardest thing with cases
like this is having to prove

that this caused the twitching.

If we can't prove that,

then we don't have a case.

I don't think it
can wait, actually.

It keeps happening.

I can't make it stop.
- OK.

OK.

Allie was in my office a couple
of days ago, totally fine.

- She was so scared.

- We were just doing
applications to art school

in New York.
- There's an explanation.

Things like this don't
just happen out of nowhere.

- It doesn't mean she's
not gonna get better,

go to New York.
- I've known these kids

since they were little, and now
I'm watching their lives

fall apart.

- You feel helpless.

It's so weird,

being back here like this.

Everywhere I look,
something just

seems off.

Last time I was here, I was

those girls' age. We were.

And here we are now,

the grownups.

How did that happen?

- I got married.

Had two kids.

Became the guidance counsellor
at the school I used to go to.

Got divorced.

And you...

- Went to law school.

- What about the rest of the 17
years since you've been gone?

I'm glad you
came back, Joanna.

- Yeah.

I think I am too.

- I'm gonna go talk to Billy

and see if he's dug up
anything new about the girls.

- Owen, he didn't kill the dog.
- He's driving around with it
in the back of his truck.

How many times have you
threatened to kill him?

- I never meant it. It's just...
it's something you say.

- OK, John, just tell him
exactly what you told me.

- I found him dying
on my front lawn.

I tried to rescue him.

- You're gonna have
to do better than that.

- OK, you said that this
morning, Rocky was barking.

- He barks all day, every day.
- Yes, but you said that

this morning was different.
You saw him get off chain,

start running around.
You said he seemed crazy.

- Yeah, like he was on meth
or something.

- Then you saw him run
towards the farm.

- That's right. He could still
hear him barking. Probably

driving the cows nuts.
- From my porch, I could see him

tearing across towards the
school, zig-zagging everywhere.

- An hour later, you saw him
come out from the trees

by the school. You said
he was shaking,

panting, foaming at the mouth.
Then he just keeled over.

- I put him in my truck. I was
trying to take him to the vet.

He was alive when I
put him in my truck.

Just a misunderstanding.

He was trying
to do the right thing.

- We share a fence.

- Southvale got big
after it was sold.

Big corporate operation
right on your doorstep.

Maybe you don't like
the noise, the smell.

- Foaming at the mouth,

disoriented, tremors.
A bunch of cows

at Southvale died the same way.

What, you got a problem
with them too?

- Look, my client
didn't do anything wrong.

- I didn't kill any cows, and I
didn't kill the dog.

- Then how do you explain
everything around you that's

living seems to be dying?
I gotta move on this, Billy.

- Look, if you arrest him,

he'll lose custody.
Just give him a chance.

- Yeah, I think we're
all out of chances.

Let me look
into Southvale, all right?

Just give me 24 hours.

Owen, please.

- You got one day, Billy.

That's it.

- Joanna, it's me.

Can you meet me
at Southvale Farms?

- It's been an awful year.

I'm not gonna pretend otherwise.

I know these cows better
than I know myself, but...

they kept getting sick
and for the life of me,

I couldn't figure out why.

- We noticed we were going
through a lot less feed.

You want your cows to fatten up

and they were losing weight.

And then, the loss of balance.
Motor control.

- That's what we thought.

We tested. Negative.

The company writes it off
as spillage,

but I'm the one that has
to watch them die.

- The police think someone's
been poisoning them?

- When there were sick cows,
I suspected a competitor...

but none of our animals
calved this year.

- All stillborn.

- I used to play with Amy McEwan
on this farm after school.

It was nothing
but cow pasture back then.

♪♪♪

- EVERYBODY OFF THE FIELD!
- GET OFF THE FIELD!

- EVERYBODY OFF THE FIELD!

- GET OFF THE FIELD!
- GET OFF THE FIELD NOW!

The field floods when it rains

and the girls
play there every day.

- Do you know
where it's coming from?

]

- It is a huge breakthrough.

that was dumped in the
Love Canal. 40 years later,

they're still litigating it.
- Yeah. I won't let that happen.

You turn around and you're 60

and that's been
your entire career.

[You really want to throw it
all away for Millwood

- I grew up here, Dad.

- You're too sentimental.
It clouds your judgment.

- [Yeah. Either because
I'm your daughter]

.

- Maybe both.

[Look, when you're
a tough negotiator,]

[you make a lot of enemies.
I'm sorry, honey.]

- No. There's something
you're not telling me.

[She asked if I
was your daughter.]

- Why do I feel like I'm
being interrogated here?

- You're not.

Your mother never fit in there.

Small town, small minds.

[You should get working.
You have to pitch me tomorrow.]

I'll try and keep an open mind.

Goodbye.

- We sent a sample to the lab.

They're testing it now.

We did this?

- We'll know more once we
get the results.

And it doesn't mean
the school's at fault.

- The field was a part
of the farm.

- They donated it.

- I talked to Allie's dad.
He's taking her to the hospital

to get all the same tests
as the other girls.

- The dog owner
wants to press charges.

- Owen...
- I got a neighbour dispute,

dead animal,
poisons in his truck...

Hi, Diane. Haven't
seen you in a while.

- Always at work, I guess.

- Me too.
- He can't go to jail.

He would lose Jax.
- Then give me something.

I'll let you get back to work.
Say hi to Derek for me.

- They're not together anymore.

- Sorry to hear that.

- Ed Magnus said that Southvale

referred to the dead cows
as "spillage."

The only farms who consider
dead cows spillage--

- Have very deep pockets.

- My favourite kind.

What time does City Hall
open in the morning?

- Long after our pitch...

but I have a guy.

- That's everything
on Southvale Farms.

- Hey, I really
appreciate this, Kevin.

- Nothing says thank you
like a case of beer.

Need anything else?
- Nah, we're good.

- All right. I'm going
back to bed.

- Goodnight.

All right.

Has Southvale ever been cited

for using illegal substances?
Banned pesticides?

- If there were any violations,
they'd be in these files.

♪♪♪

- Hey. Southvale Farms

is a small operation here in
Millwood, but it's a subsidiary

of Vickerton Foods.

Annual earnings of over...
$600 million.

- Ooh!
- The soil sample from the field

came back positive
for 16 chemical compounds.

The highest concentration

is for benzene. What's that?

- Benzene is the sweet-smelling
part in gasoline.

- Farms use a lot of gasoline.

OK. Um...

the farm had a spill...

and it was too costly
to clean up,

so they donated the land
to the school.

- It would explain our symptoms.

If the chemical was
coming up from the soil,

then girls were huffing...

just... in gym class.

- They donated toxic land
to a school.

- And got a huge tax break.

- Ahem. OK.

Benzene's only

0.6% of gasoline.

- So there would've
had to have been

a massive spill
to have these levels.

Farms don't have that much fuel.

If the spill

didn't come from Southvale,
then it must have

traveled there in
the groundwater from somewhere.

- OK.

Factory. Dry cleaner.

Fuel storage.

- There's a commercial dry
cleaner in the industrial park.
They do pretty big business.

- McMahon Rubber.
They make tires.

- And the steel mill.

- Well, that's three potential
good defendants.

- Yeah, that's two too many.

♪♪♪

Hey. You ready?

Yeah, I couldn't sleep either.

Meet me on Main Street.
Bring coffee.

- The chemical is in the soil.
All the girls

used the field. Your firm
has to see the potential.

- My firm doesn't do potential.

They want minimum risk

and maximum reward.

We don't have a defendant.
We don't have causation.

Even the most straightforward
case takes a lifetime.

- When people you love are sick,
you can't worry how long

the fight's gonna take.
You just...

you just have to start
throwing punches.

- "Throwing punches"...

That's the Billy Crawford
I remember.

- Well, I can't
change completely.

You know, I didn't

come right back
after law school.

Just in case you
thought I couldn't hack it

in the city.
- I didn't.

- I summered at Ross McCann.

- That's a good firm.
- It's a big firm.

- You could have
done well there.

- They held these seminars
for the first year associates

to make us better lawyers.

One of them was in wine tasting.

- We did that one too.
- They taught us how to swirl

the glass to open it up.

Stick our noses
right in and sniff.

That was the beginning
of the end.

I came back here.

If you believe
in this, Joanna...

so will they.

- [Good morning,
Ms. Hanley. Mr...]

- Crawford. William Crawford.

]
- Yes, sir.

- [Well, looks like you
defied the odds, son.]

[OK, then.
Why don't you tell us]

]

♪♪♪

- With a minimal investment

from Carver Thatcher Stokes,
we will tie the chemicals

in the soil to one of the deep-
pocketed corporate entities

in town; we'll establish
a causal nexus

between the chemical and
the harm suffered by the girls;

and we will negotiate

a substantial settlement.

Our firm, of course,

will receive one-third
of that fee.

[You've given us
a lot to think about.]

- Just one more thing.

Tell them about Molly.

- My sister's kid...

Molly, she's a star athlete.

Even when she was little,

you'd just hand her a ball
and she knew what to do.

Soccer's her best sport
and she already has

three letters of interest from
Division II schools.

She wants to study
sports medicine,

help other athletes
with her hands.

The thing is she can't really

use her hands any more.

She's having trouble
with basic motor functions,

and...

and it's getting worse.

Sorry. I'm sorry.

- Those are our victims,

and that is who
the jury will see.

[Well, we'll discuss it
internally and give you]

[an answer shortly,
but good work all around.]

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

That was good, right?

- I guess now we wait.

- And sleep.

- You have a client

who's been accused
of a terrible crime

and may lose his kid.

- Wow. That's a whole lot
of empathy, Hanley.

- Don't tell anyone.

- According to the vet,
the dog died

of acute benzene poisoning.
- That is the same substance

we found in the soil
at the school.

That's what killed him.

Definitely not.
But I'd never kill him.

- He died from the soil
around the school and the farm.

It's called
hydrocarbon toxicosis.

- Symptoms include:
rapid heartbeat, confusion,

foaming at the mouth,
convulsions and death.

- Chemical comes up
from the soil after a rain.

Dogs are low-lying
and vulnerable,

just like cows.

- I know I'm not
your favourite guy,

that I shoot my mouth off,

but I'm not, like,
the Millwood poisoner.

- You know how hard
John's worked to get
his reputation back.

None of us are the same guys
we were in high school.

Don't charge him.

- We did find high levels

of benzene in the ground
around the school.

- It explains the symptoms.

That's reasonable doubt.
You'll never get a conviction.

It doesn't mean
that he's innocent.

- I'm gonna keep my eyes on you.
- Yeah. You and everyone else.

- Owen...

Thank you.

- Yeah.

- His opinion really
matters to you.

- This case is bigger
than we thought.

CTS has the resources.
We need them on this.

- Sure, but his opinion
always mattered to you.

- Obviously. He's my father.

- Looking back, did you
ever think it was weird,

how fast you left here?

- Dad got an offer
he couldn't pass up.

- Same thing happened
in Winnipeg.

When David Hanley's
done with a place...
- Best to keep moving I guess.

- No...

I mean, like everybody else,

I heard rumours.

- What have you heard
about my dad?

- Nothing substantiated.

- The reason why they took
his name off the library?

- You'd have to ask him that.
- I did.

- And...

- He said lawyers make enemies.
- I'm sure he's not wrong there.

- But it seems like
it's more than that.

- Listen, Joanna.
It's all hearsay.
- Very good, Counsellor.

- You know how small towns are.

- Right.

"Small towns."

- I should get to work.
Thanks for the coffee.

- I've lived on that field.

- You're all connected to it.

It explains why it's
just the girls.

- I know.

- So if we...

So if we stay off the field,
will we get better?

- I hope so.

Just one thing at a time.

- Mom'll be happy.
She can blame it on me.

- She's not gonna blame you.
- She hates sports.

- You need to ease up on her.

Yeah, your mom hates sports,
but she's come to every one

of your games.
She's learned all the rules.

- She still doesn't
understand offsides.

- Nobody understands offsides.

Look, she did her best with you.

And me.

She has only ever
tried to protect you.

- I'm supposed to graduate
this year.

I have... plans.

- You're still gonna
do those plans, you just...

you might have
to adjust the timeline.

- No. I can't eat.

- So your father, he was in his

late 30s when he left Millwood?

Yet...

he still became
senior partner at CTS.

How?

- He always gets what he wants.

Hi.

- We're passing, sweetheart.
It's not there yet.

[We need something with a
greater likelihood of success.]

- Then give us more time.

- [The Court of Appeals
in Smith v. Nickel]

makes the environmental class
action virtually unwinnable.

- We have a better
case than that.

This isn't about property
values. It's about sick girls.

- The firm can't allocate assets
for a couple of...

twitching girls.

- There are 5 girls

and there could be 10
by tomorrow.

- Joanna, I said no.

- I'm building a case here.

- Twitching girls, dead cows,
poison in the fields.

You're not making any sense.
It's enough. Now, come home.

♪♪♪

- No.

By my calculation,

I have 13 weeks paid vacation.

]

- I'm taking it now.

- We're gonna have to start
with all the companies

in town who use
or have used the chemical.

And we're gonna need experts:

a geologist, a hydrologist.

- That doesn't sound cheap.

- We'll make do
without my firm's resources...

or their money.

- Well, I'm happy for the help.

- I have savings.

- Joanna, you said this case
was unwinnable.

That you'd have to be stupid
or crazy to take it.

- I was wrong.

Oh, no.

- I can't believe that this
is where the firm put you up.

- Hey, this is luxury
in Millwood.

- It does, actually.

Did you get hit?

- Yeah.

A stranger punched me at a bar.

!
- I broke my promise

to my dad...

to not get into any bar fights.

What are you doing here, Alan?

- I don't know. I just
wanted to come and see you.

I missed you.

I was worried about you.
Is that OK?

- Well, you must
have been worried

to come to a town that doesn't
have a drive-thru dry cleaners.

- Ah, it's one night.
I'll survive.

Come home with me.

- Alan....

- Look, I know things...

haven't always
been perfect, but...

nobody can beat us.

- It's not what I want.

- I don't know,

but...

but I know that that's

not the life
that I want anymore.

- Right.

OK.

Then let's go home together

and figure it out.

OK?

Let's get out of here.

I'll buy you for breakfast.

They booked us on the first
flight out of here.

"They?"
"They" booked us?

- He sent you.

- My father

sent you here to bring me home.

- I mean, I was
coming here anyway--

- No. Get out. Get out.
- Jo... think about what
you're throwing away.

And for what? I mean,
for this small town that...

clearly doesn't want you?

- You need to leave, right now.
- Jo...

- Get out!

♪♪♪

- ♪♪ Tell me where we're
going tonight ♪

♪♪♪

♪ Home is better
than wandering in our heads ♪

♪ We tried everything
to save our love ♪

♪ The best was always

♪ Waiting to come

♪ Do you feel a little broken?

♪♪♪

♪ Do you feel a little

♪ Broken?

♪♪♪

♪ Do you feel a little broken?

♪♪♪

♪ Do you feel
a little broken? ♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪