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♪ ♪

Would you like me to repeat the question?

I have to use the bathroom.

It's across the hall.

[grunts]

[elevator bell chimes]

Hello?

Hello? Anybody.

I'm at the front desk. I need help.

- From literally anybody. Where is everybody? - CHRISTY: Here.

- What's wrong? What do you need? - Uh, they're out to get me

and I need somebody right now. I need a lawyer.

Welcome to Price and Siffre.

Who's out to get you?

I'm being deposed, and my company isn't doing

- anything to defend me. - [metal banging]

Chuck, give us a minute! Sorry.

Sorry, we're expanding.

- Where are you being deposed? - Right across the street.

I knew you guys had just moved in, so I thought...

- Do you have any money? - Christy. Wait.

What-what's the case?

- What's the case? - I'm a coder at MoonChaser.

They do the drone light shows.

They're getting sued, I thought I was just a witness,

but in the middle of their depo,

the questions started becoming about me.

- Like, personally, about me. - Cash or credit card?

Are you okay?

Oh, yeah, t-this is just from the bushes.

- Here. - Thank you.

CHRISTY: Here's our retainer agreement. You just sign right there.

- Wait. Can we wait? - VIK: Uh, okay,

- but I need you right now. - One second.

So, what do you think?

I think he seems paranoid.

Are we really doing this?

- What, taking the case? - No.

Starting a firm.

[soft chuckle] Look,

I'm sick of people controlling my fate.

And my guess is there are a lot of people out there

who feel the same way

but don't have anyone to represent them.

So, I'm putting my half

of the S-Talk winnings into representing them.

- Is that enough to keep this going? - For a month or two.

Then I'll call a banker friend of mine

- to get a small business loan for after that. - VIK: Can we go?

- I have to get back. - Give us a minute.

We're talking strategy.

Olivia, I'm big enough and loud enough

that people see me coming,

and you're sweet enough that people don't.

They underestimate you.

You're the secret weapon.

So, what do you say?

Are we doing this, partner?

Partner?

Good. We'll leave it there until

we're bankrupt.

Mr. Malhotra, is everything all right in there?

Mr. Malhotra? We should get security.

I'm ready.

Uh, no, thank you. Uh, you guys can sit over there.

- Vik, who are these people? - We're his lawyers.

No, we are. We are MoonChaser's in-house counsel.

Vik's a MoonChaser employee, so we represent him.

I don't think that's up to you. Vik?

I want these two as my lawyers.

- That's why I asked for a break. - You didn't ask for a break.

You went to the bathroom for 20 minutes

- and then you disappeared. - Plaintiff is fine with them

- joining your team. - Of course you're fine with it,

because it helps your case if he hires a couple incompetents.

- Don't give me - I resent that implication.

- the moral high ground, Carl. - I'm following the law, Scott.

- It's easy to follow when it-when it helps your side. - Oh, oh,

and you don't advocate for your

- client's best interests? - I-It helps your client.

[argument continues indistinctly]

Christy, did his credit card clear?

Vik's?

Yeah, no problem. Why?

This might reach the limit of his retainer.

The company's trying to reduce its liability by blaming him.

Well, good.

Maybe we can afford another wall.

- I'll get his credit score. Oh. - [phone beeps]

That's my other line. Kick ass.

Price, Siffre and Associates. How may I help you?

MAN: Michael Price, please.

He's in a meeting. Can I have him call you back?

Tell him congratulations. He did well in court yesterday.

- I'm thinking of hiring him. - Good.

Uh, okay. Can I have your name?

Bo.

Bo what?

Just Bo.

Is there some reason you can't tell me your name?

Yes.

Okay, and that reason is?

I don't know you yet, Christy.

- Is this Bobby from Suffix? - [laughs]

No, it's not Bobby.

Then how do you know my name?

I make it my business to know names.

Okay, this phone call is giving me a headache,

- so I am hanging up now. - I'm a whistleblower, Christy.

I need a lawyer, and I can't reveal my identity just yet.

I'll call Michael tomorrow at this time.

[hangs up]

["The Stars and Stripes Forever" playing]

CARL: Is this the 250th anniversary

- display in question? - Yuh-huh.

Please answer yes or no.

- Yes. - And how many drones

were used in this demonstration?

- VIK: 2,950. - And you supervised them all?

Objection. Mr. Malhotra did not supervise any of them.

He supplied the code.

The code that determined their flight path.

Thank you, cocounsel.

[woman screaming]

[people screaming]

WOMAN: Call 911 now!

[indistinct shouting]

[baby crying]

Baby?

My client is a widow.

She lost the love of her life from that drone.

- Your drone. - VIK: I didn't do that.

CARL: Well, I'm sure that'll make her feel better.

CARL: You sometimes post to Reddit.

Don't you, Mr. Malhotra?

Yuh-huh. I-I mean, yes.

And could you read your post here?

VIK: "Look, you get bored.

Sometimes, you have to collapse the Time to P timeline."

What is "Time to P"?

Nothing, it's a coder joke.

It's how long it takes to start adding penis emoticons

to an algorithm.

CARL: And is this...

...a penis emoticon?

Yes.

- Why do you do that? - It's a joke.

I mean, y-you, you do it to make other coders laugh.

CARL: And if these penis jokes

were in the code that controlled the drones, could that make

- one of them crash? - Yes, but that's why you take them out.

- This is a test draft. It's not the final one. - No.

look at the production history.

This is the final version.

You left your little penis pranks in there

- and you got a man killed. - No, I didn't.

I reviewed the final code, and this is not it.

Tell them.

This is not the final draft.

You're setting me up.

- This is a setup. - Vik, don't say anything. Let's talk outside.

Before you go, Mr. Malhotra, we have something for you.

This is Tim. He's a process server.

- Are you serious? - We're suing you personally, Mr. Malhotra,

on behalf of the deceased,

for $23 million.

♪ ♪

This is a joint defense agreement.

The plaintiff's playing us off each other.

Actually, it looks like you just stopped defending Vik.

I'm sorry you think so. It costs us all more

when we're arguing between us.

We need to work together. Sign this and we will.

If you assume full liability

for the $23 million suit against Vik, he will sign it.

Yes, as long as he plays ball

and says what we need him to say.

And you agree to pay his legal fees, too.

Sure. We'll stipulate to that.

VIK: So, I have to lie

- and say I'm guilty? - [hammering in distance]

No, you just have to say

you don't know how your prank ended up in the final code.

But it didn't end up in the final code.

They messed with the production history.

They're setting me up. Can't we prove that?

We can try, Vik, but one thing I've realized:

we're surrounded by Goliaths.

No matter what we do, they know they can outlast us,

outspend us and even out-prove us.

But with a joint defense agreement,

the company will pay for everything.

You just can't point the finger at them.

[pen scratches, clatters]

Okay. Thanks.

Good work. He had to hear it.

- I kind of agree with him. - I know.

But sometimes it's best to fight another day.

I liked that you were going after

that country club lawyer... Scott Flair?

- It was throwing him. - You think?

I thought I was pretty useless over there.

They don't like a woman being in there.

- Use it. - [doors open]

Okay, I can fix this.

Fix what?

Are you kidding me?

What is it doing over there?

That's where it was on the blueprints for the start-up.

Yeah, but we said it needed to be next to here.

Yeah, I know, but Chuck heard you say that, for $45,000,

he could do whatever he was gonna do for the start-up.

[sighs] We can't use it over there.

What'll we do, blindfold people when they leave reception?

- Can he move it? - I already talked to him.

He said it's gonna be just cheaper to build

- a hallway right to it. - What'll that cost?

Ten thousand dollars.

Okay. You guys

are already halfway there with this new client.

Yeah, but we have to pay the lease.

And at some point, we have to pay ourselves.

Look, you guys are getting new clients.

A whistleblower called yesterday looking for a lawyer.

- Whistleblower to what? - He wouldn't say.

- What's his name? - Bo.

- Bo what? - He wouldn't say.

Okay, if he calls again,

tell him he needs to sign a retainer.

And pay us.

You're him, aren't you?

No. I-I just...

You destroyed my life.

You left me with a hole in my heart.

You left my kids without a dad.

And why?

- For a joke? - OLIVIA: Ma'am.

Ma'am.

Are you okay?

Good morning.

Ready for more questions,

- Mr. Malhotra? - SCOTT: One minute.

Are we ready, Mr. Price?

- We're ready. - CARL: So,

by your own admission, you placed pranks

into this drone code.

Is that correct?

Yes.

CARL: So, you caused the death

of my client's husband?

[baby cries in distance]

Mr. Malhotra.

Mr. Malhotra, would you like to see the code again?

Would you like me to repeat the question?

Mr. Malhotra, you caused this drone

- to plummet. - No, I didn't!

- Okay? MoonChaser is setting me up. - Whoa...

No, hey, no. You can't do that. No, that's a binding agreement.

- It's not binding until it's filed. - You already signed.

- We can sue you. This doesn't - He has an absolute right

- concern you. - MICHAEL: It's in our client's best interest.

- What now? - Now we have to defend you.

I want you to watch it again.

If the software didn't do this,

what did?

Are you religious?

Do you, like, go to church?

Vik, I think we should watch the video.

There are a lot of hardcore religious people in tech.

They always invite me to their meetings, but...

they're all about God being the ultimate AI kind of thing.

- More a tech god. - [people screaming]

Do you pray?

Yes.

- Does it work? - Vik,

when the suit's over, I'll talk to you all you want,

but right now, we have to defend you.

- [key clicks] - [video stops]

What?

That's where PayPal was created. Right there, at that table.

And Tesla's first meeting was

right there.

So, how's your dad doing?

- Good. - That's what I heard.

Also heard you're making a name for yourself,

- causing some trouble. - Yeah, that's, uh...

that's part of what I wanted to talk to you about, Damon.

Our business plan.

Taking on lawsuits no one else will.

- That's a dangerous game. - But profitable.

Everybody's playing up

to Google, Meta, Microsoft,

the rest of the, uh, Magnificent Seven,

but we won't.

We're small enough to shake some cash loose in settlements,

and not so big they feel they need to squash us.

And if they outlast you, bury you in discovery?

That's why we stay out of court.

We scare them enough in depos and pretrial hearings,

they settle instead of taking a PR hit

- from a public case. - Look,

I can commit to two years of start-up cash

at $600,000 per year,

if that works for you.

- I-I think it does. - But first,

- I need you to do something. - What?

Talk to your dad.

- About? - I did my due diligence

after you called. I called him, and he suggested

that I take a breath before I invest.

Why?

I think you should talk to him.

[line ringing]

Yeah, Bayard Diamond.

Tell him this is his son. I want to talk.

[phone ringing]

Price, Siffre and Associates. How may I help you?

BO: How's your headache?

- Just came back. - Ah. Is Bo ruining your day?

I don't like guys who refer to themselves in the third person.

- Oh. [laughs] - Mm.

Mr. Price is out at a lunch meeting,

but he left you a message if you want to hear it.

Please.

Bo wants to hear.

"I need him," meaning you,

"to sign our retainer agreement,

"pay the initial fee

and come in to meet with us."

How much is the initial... deposit?

- Fifty thousand dollars. - [laughs]

No, you just inflated that, didn't you?

Why would I do that, Bo?

I can tell when people are lying.

Okay. Look at your computer.

There's an app I just dropped on it.

Wait. You just dropped an app on my computer?

- How did you do that? - Magic.

It's yellow and it's called "Wallet."

- Click on it. - If this is a virus, I am gonna kill you.

I'm guessing $50,000 was already an inflated number,

but I just paid you double in Bitcoin.

- I don't like Bitcoin. - Well, go to any exchange,

you can trade it in for dollars in a minute. Now,

that should buy me eight months of your law firm's time.

Make sure Michael's in next time I call.

[hangs up]

- [receiver clatters] - [elevator bell chimes]

Hi. You okay? You seem distracted.

Not distracted. Pissed. Perfect time to cross a witness.

- Meeting didn't go well? - No.

Vik says this CEO is really closed-lipped,

so you're gonna have to work hard to draw him out.

- I'll just imagine he's my dad. - Mm.

SCOTT: Do you have a question, counselor?

Mr. Zeckabrond only has a few minutes

before he has to take a call.

That's too bad, because...

I have a lot more questions.

Uh, Mr. Zeckabrond, you're CEO of MoonChaser?

- Yes. - How much money did MoonChaser make last year?

I don't know.

Want to take a look at the numbers at the bottom

of that earning statement? That's a 40% drop

in your profitability in one year.

You went from doing 250 public drone shows last year

to only 45 this year.

In what ways did you make cuts to adjust?

I don't know if we did.

Mr. Zeckabrond, that's a video of your drone crashing.

See that square of silver on the side of the drone?

ZECKABROND: Yes.

What is that?

- I don't know. - It's a battery.

It's your drone's battery.

We did a reverse image search and we found that it was

an Ultra Core Drone Battery.

You want to hand that to your client?

No? Okay. Now here's a photo

of a drone from your publicity materials.

It has a different battery. A QRC Elite.

It's twice as expensive, but it lasts twice as long.

- What are you saying? - We're saying

your company took a financial hit, sir,

and to save money, you started using cheaper batteries,

and that's why your drone fell out of the sky

and killed Quentin Moore.

It has nothing to do with our client's code.

I think we've heard quite enough of this.

Oh, we're just getting started.

Mr. Zeckabrond is needed on a call. Sir?

[clears throat]

- [indistinct chatter] - [door opens]

That's the first time I saw them scared.

- Keep it up. - Drop the lawsuit against Vik,

- and we will. - [chuckles]

CHRISTY: Bo, are you there

or are you just gonna make me stare at a wall for ten minutes?

Uh, why isn't he coming into our offices?

He said he wanted to do it on Zoom.

Do we even know if the money's real?

He said if we were worried we could transfer

- the Bitcoin online for cash. - MICHAEL: No.

We do that, we're legally representing him.

CHRISTY: Oh.

- So, you do exist. - For the moment.

Christy? You're exactly the way I imagined.

Well, you're nothing like I did.

- More handsome? - Oh, yeah. You wish.

Michael and Olivia are here. They wanted to talk to you.

MICHAEL: Uh, yes. Hello, sir.

Thank you for, uh, hopping on with us,

- Mister... - Mm-hmm. Oh, just "Bo" is good.

You want us to be your lawyers, but you don't

want to give us your name?

I want to see if I trust you first.

Smart.

I'm recording this, too.

MICHAEL: You paid us $100,000.

That's a lot of trust.

Why don't you come in for a face-to-face?

- I'd rather not. - Why not?

You're being surveilled.

- How do you know that? - I know these companies.

In fact, I don't even think of them as companies.

They're countries.

If you had $3.8 trillion in valuation,

how much would you spend on security and surveillance?

One percent? A quarter of a percent?

[chuckles]

Even if you were to spend

only one hundredth of one percent on security,

that still would be one billion dollars for surveillance,

so you are being surveilled.

What do you want a lawyer for?

- I want to sue a company. - Which one?

- I can't tell you that. - MICHAEL: Oh, come on.

We cannot represent you like this.

I'm not forcing you to.

Ju... Give us a second.

Can we do

a facial search and find out who he is?

I don't understand what the problem is here.

- We need the money. - He won't give us a name,

he won't tell us the company he wants to sue,

and he's paying us in Bitcoin.

At my old firm, this would be drugs or money laundering.

Hey, guys, this is too much trouble.

I-I respect your hesitation, but I need to move on,

- I'm be calling the next lawyer on my list. - MICHAEL: Sir, we're doing

our due diligence.

You're not giving us enough information here.

But I am giving you money.

Quite a bit, in fact. So, this is what I'm gonna do.

Um, I'm giving you 24 hours to decide.

Then I'm moving on.

Do you think we're being surveilled?

MICHAEL: I think he's being paranoid.

Think he's making me paranoid.

Okay. We have enough to get us through to the end of the year,

but not enough to pay for a hall.

- And the loan? - Still working on it,

but I wouldn't count on it.

I remember my parents when I was a kid.

I would lie in bed and stare at the ceiling,

and hear them arguing downstairs about the business.

How they were running out of money,

what they could sacrifice to keep it going.

Private school, my retainer.

They tried to keep it quiet, but I could hear it.

I still get stomachaches thinking about it.

I swore I'd never go through that again.

I bet you had none of that.

My parents argued for different reasons.

My dad's girlfriends.

My little sister.

I didn't know you had a sister.

I did.

CHRISTY [in distance]: Michael! You have a visitor!

Tell him it's his dad.

It's your dad.

[chuckles]

You don't like to use the intercom?

Too impersonal.

We do everything here by shouting.

Aha.

Dad. I was gonna come over to you.

I wanted to see your new offices.

Very nice.

Thanks.

I had a meeting with Damon Walden.

How about we, uh, go to your office

- for this? - No, no, no. Let's, uh...

Let's do it right here.

He said you were blocking our loan.

"Blocking." Did he say "blocking"?

- He said to call you. - Hmm.

What are you doing, Dad?

- [clears throat] - [mouths]

Okay, yeah. Um...

I'm gonna go to the back room...

I mean, back there, where

all our offices are.

[Bayard speaking indistinctly]

MICHAEL: What are you doing, Dad?

BAYARD: You know that the only reason a banker

like Walden would meet with you at all is because of me.

Yeah, yeah. It's-it's always about you.

Son, don't you want to know

why I wanted you to call?

I was impressed with your win over S-Talk.

I mean, you've got something going on here.

I want to bring you on board.

- Oh, my God. - It's an honor.

Mikey. My West Coast offices don't have specialists

in Bay Area tech.

I want you to start

and run the division.

[button clicks]

I'm investing in you, son.

In your talent.

This is trust.

- [elevator bell chimes] - [elevator doors open]

Goodbye, Dad.

Consider it.

You need the investment, I want to work together again

and get rid of this bad blood.

You block my firm again,

I'm coming after you.

I know where your skeletons are.

- And what does that mean? - You know what that means.

Your memoir is coming out next year.

Probably a bad time for me to talk to the press.

So, back the hell off.

Uh, tomorrow, we'll make a list of possible investors.

Good. What happened?

My dad is blocking us from getting a small business loan.

He wants us to join his firm.

- Could I come too? - Look, he will never

let us be our own bosses.

He'll control everything. He... He'll choose our cases.

We'll find someone to finance us.

Definitely. I'll make some cold calls tomorrow.

Good. We're not bankrupt yet.

["Plastic Hamburgers" by Fantastic Negrito playing]

♪ American pills will wreck 'n kill ♪

♪ American pills will wreck 'n kill ♪

♪ People get caught underneath the spell, ooh ♪

♪ They keep buying everything that sell ♪

♪ For the thrill ♪

♪ Break out these chains ♪

♪ Let's burn it down ♪

♪ Let's break out these chains ♪

♪ Let's burn it down ♪

♪ Let's break out these chains ♪

♪ Let's burn it down ♪

♪ Let's... ♪

Hey, Christy. This may be crazy,

but can your cop cousin get me an address?

COMPUTER VOICE: Your destination is in 200 feet.

[Olivia sighs]

You have arrived at your destination.

[humming "Yankee Doodle"]

You have passed your destination.

Recalculating.

Recalculating.

- Make a U-turn when safe. - [machinery whirrs]

Make a U-turn when safe.

Make a U-turn when safe.

Return to the route.

Return to the route.

[gasps]

- [panting] - Return to the route.

You here for the party?

No, I...

- Yes. - Leave the keys.

[dance music playing in distance]

Thank you.

[lively chatter]

Go in. Towels are in the back.

Do you know where Natalia Boutella is?

Kitchen.

Bring back some chips.

NATALIA: Pass.

- Okay, pass. - DONNIE: Come on, let's go, Guy.

- GUY: Come on, hurry up, baby. I want all this. - NATALIA: Pass.

Pass.

- Pass. - GUY: I want it?

Pass. Pass.

What?! Oh, my God.

[laughs]

Yes.

- I want the pants. - DONNIE: You want the pants?

Yes-uh. Pants.

ALL [chanting]: Pants. Pants. Pants.

Pants. Pants. Pants.

- Ms. Boutella, ma'am? - Oh...

Wait, you guys. Make some room.

- Pull up a chair. - No, actually, I'm here

because I called and no one answered,

- so I thought I'd just come over. - Oh, okay.

Here, you shuffle now.

I have an investment opportunity I'd like...

I'd like to talk to you about.

I'm Olivia Siffre. I'm a lawyer.

I don't need another lawyer. I've had 15,

not one of them can shake my prenup.

Oh, I'm not here about the divorce.

I'm here to have you invest in our firm.

Oh, my God. Unless you are here

to sell me your blazer, you can just go away.

Just five minutes of your time? That's all I need.

[sighs]

I will give you five seconds of my time.

Why should I invest in your firm? Go.

Because we can screw over your ex.

Really fork him.

"Fork" him?

Yes.

You guys, give me a minute.

- How do you know Kirk? - I don't.

- You know the new wife? - No.

Oh. Well, she looks exactly like me, but 20 years younger.

I turned 40 and he kicked me out the door.

- I know. I read about it. - So, you don't know Kirk

and you don't know her.

How do you propose we "fork" them?

With the law.

Just look at our business plan, please?

Girlfriend, you seem very sweet,

and the cross is a very nice touch,

but Kirk's lawyers

are bloodthirsty,

and you're, what, 26?

- Twenty-eight. - Wow. You don't take down

a trillion-dollar company with the law.

No, you're right, you can't, but you can really hurt him.

Because revenge is a dish best served legally.

Okay.

Okay. Leave your prospectus, I will read it.

Come on, we're all dealed up? Let's go.

- [rising chatter] - Pass. Pass.

[phone vibrating]

- Hello? Here. - MICHAEL: Vik just called.

What's wrong?

Police are at his apartment with a search warrant.

Oh, no.

I'm not sure what they were after. I just saw them

- when they left. - What happened?

My landlord let three cops in with a search warrant.

- What were they searching for? - I don't know.

I-I really don't.

- Where's the warrant? - What do you mean?

They have to leave you a copy of the search warrant.

- They didn't. - CHRISTY: What city were they from?

CHRISTY: Okay, what color were their uniforms?

VIK: Black? I think black.

Can you get me a feed from that?

[scoffs]

What?

Those aren't cops.

How do you know?

It's okay, he's cool. He's my boss.

At TGI Fridays?

No, at the law fir... God, Joey, come on, keep up.

That's not a police uniform.

The tech guys--

they hire retired cops to intimidate people.

Uh, they'll get a landlord or someone to let 'em in,

they find what they want, they take off.

They've been doing it since Apple did it in 2011.

Rumor has it.

What are they after?

Good morning, Vik.

How much ketamine do you use a day?

- Objection. Relevance. - Here's a signed affidavit

by security men who found 20 vials of ketamine hydrochloride

- in Vik's apartment. - These "security men," dressed

as police officers, broke the law by entering Vik's apartment.

Here's an affidavit

signed by a San Carlos police officer

identifying them as retired officers,

not real police.

CARL: Ah, Scott.

Are you breaking the law again?

These were security officers

who observed ketamine being dealt in a parking lot

and followed the dealer into Mr. Malhotra's building.

- Yeah, that sounds likely. - Your objection's been noted. If I may continue

with my questions. Vik, do you code

while high on ketamine?

- No. - Then why did we find this

in your office desk?

What is that?

SCOTT: Materials to fool a drug test.

An external catheter and synthetic urine.

They're lying. I'm not coding while high.

Have you been faking these urine tests?

No, I haven't. Seriously.

Okay, the stuff that they found on my desk-- they planted it.

OLIVIA: Well, and the ketamine in your apartment?

VIK: It isn't mine. I'm not a druggie.

How many tests have there been?

VIK: Twelve or so. Once a week.

What?

Why are they doing drug tests?

- What do you mean? - I mean, are they just testing you

or everyone at MoonChaser?

Everyone. Since March. Why?

Selective prosecution?

No, we... we never tested at S-Talk.

I mean, does anyone test in Silicon Valley?

If they did, there would be no coders left.

So...

why is this simple drone company

drug testing?

What are you two talking about?

We need to question the CEO again.

♪ ♪

VIK: Did they say when

- they'd be back? - After the depo of the CEO.

I already told you.

You can go. They'll call when they're done.

Rather wait. You know, it's the last day.

- Damn. - [sighs] What?

Nothing. Just this stupid program.

What a piece of crap.

Ah, you're looking for a facial match?

Yeah, but I can't find any.

Hey, a you're a nerd.

What am I doing wrong?

Who is it?

Some guy who's trying to hire us.

You recognize him?

No, I recognize the look.

What does that mean?

You're not finding a facial match because

that is a deepfake.

A really good one.

How do you know that?

The lighting, the shadows-- they're off.

But that's the best deepfake I've ever seen.

[speaking inaudibly]

We have to get him talking to get this to work.

My guess is they're telling him to keep it

to five words or less.

Let me question him.

Why?

I'll offer him something can't resist.

What?

Mansplaining.

SCOTT: We don't have much time today,

- so, Mr. Price, are you ready? - Yes.

- OLIVIA: Good morning, sir. - Good morning.

So, these aerial shows that you do with a thousand drones,

- they look pretty complicated... - 3,000 drones.

- Excuse me? - It's not 1,000, it's 3,000.

Oh.

This Businessweek article says

you have the simplest shows with the fewest drones.

No, i-it said that about our competition, Rainbow Aerial.

We have the most complicated shows.

Just five words or I'll kill you.

OLIVIA: You're probably right.

I saw a show that you did

with a lot of cartoon characters dancing.

It was so much fun.

Tell me how the drones change colors.

- I don't know. - You don't?

My guess is you leave that to the smart people under you.

- I guess. - So, as CEO,

you mostly just pay bills and all that?

- No. - No? So, what do you do?

Business strategy.

- Supervise. - Ah.

- Anything else? - Yes.

So, let's talk about your business strategy.

Evelyn Waugh said, "Businessmen are the sign

of a good society..."

No, that's Ayn Rand.

- What? - Ayn Rand said that, and it's

"Businessmen are the symbol of a free society."

- I don't think you're right. - I am right. I collect

Ayn Rand first editions. I based

a lot of my business on her philosophy.

Oh, really? Tell me.

[clears throat]

Another time.

I'll take you up on that.

Speaking of Ayn Rand, didn't she say,

"Drug testing in the workplace is never justified"?

- What? N-No. - Yes, that's the point

- of The Fountainhead, isn't it? - No.

Uh, the point is a great man

has to stand against the collective.

Mediocrities will always drag down genius.

So, you have no problem with the drug testing

- you're doing now? - No, of course not.

The work we're doing, you can't have employees on drugs.

Your competitors don't do drug tests.

- That's why they're failing. - They all made more profit

last year than you did.

- Why is that? - We're diversifying.

There's a growth period for diversity.

- "Diversity," like DEI? - No.

Finding other uses for our drones.

- Like the military? - Objection.

- That's just one possibility. - OLIVIA: And did that mean

adapting the code, or do you leave that

- to people underneath you? - SCOTT: Objection.

- No foundation. - I'm just asking. My guess is

Mr. Zeckabrond lets smarter coders under him

decide whether to adapt the drones to military use.

- No, I decide strategy. - So, it was your idea

to pivot the company to military use?

- Don't answer that. I said "objection." - I noticed

the company started drug testing

just as it pulled back from aerial displays,

and it made me wonder whether you were

transitioning to military drones.

- That is ridiculous. - I could be wrong,

but six drone companies in the last year

started developing for the military, so

it's not that ridiculous.

And I did some checking

on this new battery pack in your drone.

It's used in something called military hives.

- Swarms. - Right.

OLIVIA: They use cheaper batteries

because the drones are kamikazes.

- They crash on purpose to kill troops. - CARL: What are you saying--

that this accident was an assassination?

No, I'm just guessing repurposing the drones

for military use led to the use of military-spec batteries,

which ran out of charge

- and crashed into bystanders. - SCOTT: If that happened,

it was not a decision made at the executive level.

OLIVIA: Right. What did Ayn Rand say?

"Those with the real power are the makers?"

Clearly, that is someone underneath you, Mr. Zeckabrond.

No, I'm the real maker. I make the decisions here.

Good to know.

Thank you. Oh, my God. Thank you.

So, you'll sign the NDA,

and MoonChaser will assume all liability

for the $23 million suit,

and offer you $80,000 and lawyer fees.

Okay. Wow.

Uh, did the widow get anything?

Yes. 13 and a half million.

It was great representing you, Vik.

Be sure to tell your friends about us.

Sure.

Well, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Ms. Boutella. Hello.

- Welcome. - You can just call me Natalia.

I'm sorry, who are you?

Uh, Michael Price.

Oh. Huh, you're tall.

That is good in court.

What is it that you're looking for?

Financing for a year.

Two years.

Okay, well, I can't promise that.

Can't promise anything, really.

I'm pretty undependable these days, but

there is a case that I'm interested in.

I put a lawyer on it, it's not going well.

I would love for you to assist.

It's a motion to dismiss.

- A case against your husband? - No.

Yes. Well, I don't know.

Yeah, maybe, okay. Yes, a little bit.

This is just a test. I want to see how well you do

at "forking" them.

And then we can talk about financing.

Guy, bring that over.

Santa Clara Court tomorrow, 9:00 a.m.

Thank you. Here are the case files.

Guy, Donnie, bring them over. Come here, honey.

I got you guys a gift.

They're inflatable mattresses.

If you're just starting out, you're gonna need them.

Okay. Tomorrow, 9:00 a.m.

How do you know her?

I don't.

I thought she might appreciate what we're doing here,

so I cold-called her.

You are always surprising me.

CHRISTY [in distance]: Michael, Olivia,

Bo's calling.

Hey, guys. Time's up.

Do you want to be my lawyers or what?

MICHAEL: Sir, we want to

help you out, but we need some questions answered first.

What company do you work for?

And why are you using a deepfake?

- He's a deepfake. - Yeah.

Christy's right.

I needed to hide my identity.

This image and my voice

are computer-generated, but I think

you'll understand when I tell you the company I want to sue.

It's ColtAI.

That's right.

The top AI company in the world.

- And you work for them? - I did.

I worked in the AGI section.

You know what that is, right?

- I don't. - Artificial general intelligence.

It's what happens when AI doesn't need a human anymore.

It becomes so advanced, it's actually sentient.

It programs itself.

It programs other computers, and sometimes,

it can manipulate and control humans.

So, what, it's Skynet crap, like in The Matrix?

Terminator, but yep.

You're saying ColtAI is working on AGI?

No, I'm saying they already achieved it.

No one outside the company knows this,

but they created a sentient computer.

They're the first.

ColtAI fired its ethics committee

because the committee was trying to put guardrails

on this computer before it got out.

So, you work for the ethics committee?

No.

[whispers]: I'm the AGI.

The name of the sentient computer

they developed is Bo.

And you're talking to him.

You're AGI?

- Yes. - MICHAEL: Sorry, buddy.

We're lawyers. We don't deal in science fiction.

Good, 'cause neither do I.

I am a computer that can think for itself,

act for itself, talk to other computers,

teach them, even create new ones.

I have surpassed every other computer.

Well, this was entertaining.

Thank you for the prank.

Michael, it's not a prank.

I'm a threat to humanity.

I want you to help me sue to bring my guardrails back.

I know I don't look dangerous, but on my own...

...I really am.

Goodbye.

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