All language subtitles for Burden of Truth_ s01e03

- Previously...
- You're my lawyer?
- You and the other girls.

- The firm can't take on
an imaginary lawsuit

just to indulge your whims.
- It's not a whim.

This could be toxic exposure.

- Foaming at the mouth,
disoriented, tremors.

A bunch of cows at Southvale
died the same way.

- The field was a part
of the farm.

EVERYBODY OFF THE FIELD!
- GET OFF THE FIELD!
- A soil sample came back

positive for 16
chemical compounds.
- [Twitching girls, dead cows,]

poison in the fields?
You're not making any sense.

- You said this case was
unwinnable, that you'd have to

be stupid or crazy to take it.
- I was wrong.

- Think about what you're
throwing away and for what?

- You need to leave.

(crickets chirping)
- Mom?

Have you seen my hoodie?
I need it for school tomorrow.

(phone ringing)

Hey, Uncle Billy.
- [Hey, kiddo.]

I have Joanna here with me.
- Oh, so this is a
business call.

- Molly, in order to file
a class-action suit,

we need to pick one of you
to be the named plaintiff.

- Ask Taylor.

She was the first one
who got this thing.

- [Taylor's family has money.]

If we don't win, the Mathesons
can still afford to pay

for her treatment.
You are a star athlete

[from a single-income family.]

- You need someone
with more to lose.

- Pretty much.
- So you wanna
make me a sob story?

- No, it's not that simple.
- Actually, it kind of is.

We need a sympathetic face,

someone with a story
the jury can understand.

- [I don't want people
thinking that I'm sick]

or that I can't play.
- You don't have to
decide right now.

- But we need to know
within the next 24 hours.

Molly, this is the best chance

that you and the girls
have of winning this case.

- Uncle Billy, what do you
think I should do?

- [It has to be your decision.]

But Joanna's right.

You're our best candidate.

- God, I hate this town.

(sighing)

(shower running)

(soft music)

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

(dramatic sound indication)

(screaming)

(whimpering)

(theme music)

♪♪♪

- ♪♪ Now don't they know ♪
- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪

- ♪ This heart is free ♪
- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪

- ♪ A brand-new day ♪
- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪

- ♪ Is at my feet ♪
- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪

- ♪ And I'm singing low ♪
- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪

- ♪ Low and sweet ♪
- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪

- ♪ I give it more soul ♪
- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪

- ♪ I'll give it all of me ♪
- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪

- ♪ It all feels like gold ♪
- ♪ Gold ♪

- ♪ Gold to me ♪
- ♪ Gold ♪

- ♪ Might not be a diamond
But it shines for me ♪

♪ It all feels like gold ♪
- ♪ Gold ♪

- ♪ Gold to me ♪
- ♪ Gold ♪

- ♪ It'll last in silence ♪

♪ It's all gold to me ♪

♪ Singing ♪
- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah-ah ♪

♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪

♪ Yeah-ah-ah-ah ♪
(camera clicking)

♪ Yeah-ah-ah-ah ♪
- ♪ Simple things ♪

♪ That light me up ♪
(camera clicking)

♪ What a beautiful world ♪
- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪

- ♪ And I see the love ♪
(camera clicking)

- ♪ In everything ♪
- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪

- ♪ And everyone ♪
- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪

- ♪ When I'm digging softly ♪
(eerie sound indication)

♪ Oh, the tide will come ♪

♪ Singing ♪

- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah-ah ♪

♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪

♪ Yeah-ah-ah-ah ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Oh, yeah-ah-ah-ah ♪

(camera clicking)
♪ Yeah-ah ♪

♪ Yeah-ah-ah-ah ♪

♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪
- ♪ It all feels like gold ♪

- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah-ah ♪
- ♪ All gold to me ♪

- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪
- ♪ It will last in silence ♪

♪ It's all good to me ♪

- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪
- ♪ It's all good to me ♪

- ♪ Oh, yeah-ah-ah ♪
- ♪ So good to me ♪

- ♪ Yeah-ah-ah ♪♪

(birds chirping)

- There we go.

That's not going anywhere.
- Great.

- I almost had a heart attack

when she fell last night.
- I just lost my balance.

I'm fine.
- You pulled the shower

curtain down. You screamed.
- No. You screamed.

She was louder than me.
- Maybe just stick to baths

from now on.
- Aren't you worried

I would drown?
- If you need to shower,

just call me
and I'll come in, OK?

- Ew!
- Hey, you know, for another cup

of coffee, I will
put that railing

on the stairs
before I go to work.

(sighing)

- She's overreacting.
- Maybe.

Right now, the most important
thing is to keep you safe.

- Well, it makes me feel worse

when people treat me
like I'm made of glass.

- It makes her
feel better to help.

It makes her feel less helpless.
- Trust me,

no one gets helpless
more than me.

- I know.

I wish I was doing more than
putting in a safety railing.

- Do you still
think it's the field?

- We're having a tough time
proving it.

(sighing)
Hey!

It doesn't mean we're giving up.

(sighing)

(birds calling)

- ♪♪ I don't wanna believe
that we could've done more ♪

♪♪♪

♪ When all we care for ♪

♪ Has long been gone ♪♪

- Could I get a coffee?

- You're late.
- Good morning.

- I went out on reconnaissance
this morning.

- OK...

- Steel mill.

- Yeah, that's the tailings
pond. It's lined, inspected.

- I found a couple
of storage containers

at the tire factory.
- Thank you.

- One of them looked cracked
but I couldn't tell if it

was leaking, I was on the other
side of the security fence.

- You took all of these
this morning?

- The steel mill,
the screw cutting factory,

the tire factory
and the old hospital here.

- Well, they tore down
the hospital years ago.

I think there's
a recycling plant there now.

- It could've left
a legacy underground.

Each of these places
would've used

a substantial amount of benzene,

and not just benzene:

ammonia, chlorine,
methyl, mercury,

ethylene trichloride,
calcium hypochlorite.

- They all have
clean safety records.

We checked into them.

- We are not wrong
about the field.

Billy, if we're
not onto something,

then why is someone
following me?

- Someone's following you?
- Yes.

A black truck-SUV thing.

I've seen it in multiple places.

- Why don't you let me
take the lead a couple of days?

Just... take some time, relax.

- This is how I relax.

We have to show that the toxin

leaked into the groundwater
at one of these places

and turned up at the school.

At CTS, we used
to hire a hydrologist

to do the groundwater testing.
- We don't have any money.

We're so busy on this case,
I can't take on

any other work.
We can't afford a hydrologist.

- Hello, Joanna.
- Howard.

I'm so happy that you
could make it.

Billy, this is
Dr. Howard Davies,

he's our hydrologist.

- Always available for CTS. I
reviewed the material you sent.

- Great! Let's get started.
- Yup.

- But you felt OK enough
to come to school today?

- I didn't even fall.
It was just...

one little tick and then I was
fine for the rest of the night.

- OK.

- Miss Evans wanted me to go
to this group therapy thing

this morning.
- What thing?

- She thinks that all the girls
who are sick

need to get together and...

feel their feelings
or... whatever.

- Well, that sounds OK.
- Does it?

Because I don't want
my whole life to be about this

and I definitely don't wanna
go to meetings about it.

- Maybe it'd be good for you
to talk about what you're

going through. I mean, babe,
it's only your first day back.

You don't always
have to pretend--

- I'm not pretending anything!
Look, it'll be

a good day, OK? I'll go
to class. I'll see my friends.

I'll hate algebra. Just...
just a day like any other, OK?

OK.

Bye.

(soft music)

♪♪♪

- OK. I know some of you

have been dealing with this
longer than others, and that's

why I thought it made sense
to bring you guys together.

You can talk freely

about your experiences.

You can share coping strategies,
all in a safe

and supportive space.

Georgia, did you

get a new bracelet?
- My dad got it for me.

It's actually like, um...
a panic button.

- It kind of looks
like a Fitbit.

- I almost fell

coming down the stairs
last week, so...

now my dad freaks out if I
leave the house without it.

- It's like one of those ankle
monitors they use for prisoners.

- Why do you say that, Taylor?

- I don't know.

Isn't that what this whole thing
is like, being trapped?

- Trapped how?

- Nobody can tell us
what caused this.

Nobody knows
how to make us better.

We're just freaks now.

- I heard the vaccine lawyer

thinks it's some kind of
pollution in the athletic field.

- My mom says it's screen time.

She said it scrambled my brain.

- Parents blame everything
on screen time.

- Maybe. We all
have phones, right?

- Five billion people have
phones and we're the only ones

who are sick? That makes sense.

- My dad just keeps
asking me if I'm on drugs.

- You didn't cause this.
- No one knows what caused this.

Maybe we did do it to ourselves.

- I'm not on drugs.
- That's what you tell your dad.

That's what you tell us.

- I know that you're scared

and upset...

and you can talk about it
here all you want...

but you should
remember something.

Despite everything
that's going on,

you have each other,

and that is what's gonna
get you through this.

Try not to forget that, OK?

(soft music)

♪♪♪

- You told him you're
working for CTS?

- I do work for CTS.
- Not on this case.

- Minor technicality.

- He is gonna bill us
like we're them.

- Billy, we have to win this.

In order to win this,
we have to do it right!

- And how do we pay him
if we don't make a case?

- I took out a loan on my condo.

- So any one of these industries

is a potential source
of the benzene.

Judging by geography alone,
my gut tells me that

that is your polluter.
- That's where the
old hospital was.

- Why do you say that?
- Because it's closest

to the field and groundwater
moves very slowly.

- And how can you be sure
where the toxin is coming from?

- You follow
the "yellow sludge road."

- Sorry?

- That's a little
hydrology joke.

Sorry. We dig a series of wells

from the suspected sites towards
the field. This helps us

chart the direction
the groundwater is flowing in.

If the toxin is present
and the groundwater is flowing

in the right direction,
then we have our polluter.

(soft music)

♪♪♪

- You're back?
- Hi, Miss Evans.

Yeah, first day.
- Feeling better?

- Yeah, totally.

Good as new.

- Maybe you didn't hear.

I've started a group--
- I know.

I... couldn't make it.

- Next time.
- Yeah.

Maybe.

- How many sports have you
played at this school?

- Um...

soccer, basketball,

hockey, tennis, volleyball.

- Pretty amazing.
- Yeah. I even ran

the steeple chase one year
when nobody else would sign up.

- And, uh...

you were the captain
of most of those teams.

Talking to
the other girls today,

it struck me that they could
use a little team spirit.

Maybe... someone who's
a natural leader.

- Have you been
talking to Joanna?

- No. Why?

- She keeps asking me
to be the leader of the lawsuit.

"The named plaintiff."

- So you would stand in

for all the other girls,
legally speaking.

Makes sense.

Joanna needs someone
who likes to win

as much as she does.
- Hey, Ross!

You playing or what?
- I am.

Later, Miss Evans.

- I'm really sorry.
I don't have your permits.

- You told me
this would be no problem.

- Normally. I had the permits
all ready to go, but...

the mayor found out.
- Why would the mayor

have a problem with us
digging on municipal land?
- You'd have to ask her.

(phone ringing)

- OK. When can she meet us?

- I'll check.

- Mayor Shepherd! Allison.

- Can we talk to you?
- Make an appointment.

- I'm Joanna Hanley.

- Yes, I know who you are.
- We requested

an expedited permit
to drill exploratory wells.

- Well, I'm afraid Kevin
has overstepped his authority.

- We need to determine
the source of the pollutants

in the girls' field.
- Permits will be processed

in due time. Why is your firm
so interested in Millwood?

- I'm here on my own.

- Look, we just need to drill.
It'll be quick and easy.

- I'll put your requests at the
top of the pile and I'll have

an answer for you in a few days.

- You do know a criminal
negligence charge could result

in a prison sentence
of up to seven years?

- Excuse me?
- Beasley, Illinois
mean anything to you?

Mayor charged
with involuntary manslaughter.

- That town had a contaminated

water supply. People died.
- City officials looked
the other way.

- You can't possibly
be comparing--

- Even when they knew there was
a life-threatening problem,

they did nothing.

- You may drill one well
for each source of pollutants.

- Four wells?

That's not nearly enough.

- It'll do for now. Thank you.

- Careful, Billy. You know word

travels fast in this town.
Can't have people getting upset.

(tense music)

♪♪♪

- You get to act like that,
but I'm the one

that has to live here.
- We need to drill.

- She's just worried
about her town.

These factories employ people.
They pay taxes.

One of them shuts down,
Millwood might not survive.

- Hey, guys.

Can I talk to you?
- Why aren't you in school?

- Free period.
(car engine starting)

- That's the car. That's the one
that's been following me.

Hey!

HEY!

I told you. It's been
following me all morning.

- This looks like an E. Or a 4.
- Maybe a 7?

- Why would
someone be following you?
- Well, it could be whoever's

responsible for poisoning the
field. People must know that
we're looking into it.

(phone beeping)
- Howard's waiting for you,

whoever that is.
- Meter's running. Gotta go.

- I sent the photo to my phone.

I've got a guy I can talk to.
- I'm sorry.

You've "got a guy"?
- That's what I just said.

Consider it my job application.

- Excuse me?
- I need to be doing something

to help Molly. I get
straight As. I am a hard worker,

and I know all the people
you need to know

in this town.

- OK. We'll consider it
a trial run.

- All right...

but I'll need to get paid.

I've got expenses.

- Fine.

- Nice reflexes, Ross...
now that we're off the court.

- OK, like you
could even keep up!

- Whoa!
- I'm sorry, Erin.

- It's OK. It's fine.

- Oh, she's spazzing!
- OK, calm down.

- Are you kidding?
We could catch it!

- It's not con...
it's not contagious.

- Says you.

- They don't know that
for sure though, do they?

(sombre music)

♪♪♪

(sighing)

- Here.

- OK.
- Screw-cutting factory

is a couple of clicks away,

but we're still
on municipal land.

- What kind of results are we
gonna get, drilling four wells?

- Uh, we have to get as close
to the sites as possible,

but even then, it's not entirely
conclusive. Maybe enough

to confirm my hypothesis
about the hospital site.

Can you plug that in please?
- Yeah.

If it's the hospital, then we
can go after the government.

- I don't know about that.

It was a private institution.

I remember they got
sued for cutting corners,

had to shut down.
- Well, in that case,

we need it
not to be the hospital.

- I thought what we needed
was to get at the truth.

- I'm just saying, if we don't
get the results we want,

we can get permission
to drill more wells.

- The results we want?

Is that the kind of thing
this guy does for your firm?

- You know what I mean.

- No, not sure I do.
- We can't file suit

against a defendant
who's already bankrupt.

- We would know the source,
and that would lead us

closer to a cure.
I'd call that a win.

- You installed a safety rail
at Molly's today. What'd that

cost you? 20, 30 dollars?
What if

next month it's physio
or a wheelchair ramp?

What if these girls need
round-the-clock nursing care?

That all costs money.
- OK, let's not get ahead

of ourselves.
- What if they never are able

to work? Who's gonna repay them
for a lifetime of lost wages?

If someone took Molly's future

and she gets nothing,
I don't call that a win.

- Uh, guys? Juice?
- Yeah.

We need to give Ben Matheson

a heads up that we're gonna
drill at the steel mill next.

(mechanical whirring)

- What are you doing?
- I need a favour.

Come on, it's not like
you're working.

Let me in.

(sighing)

(car unlocking)

OK.

I need to find out
who's driving...

this truck.

- What are you up to?

- I'm trying to land a job...

with Billy Crawford
and the city lawyer.

- Your mom know?

How is she?

- Same old everyday hurricane.
- Yeah.

I kind of miss that.

Sometimes.

- Hey, do you remember when you
used to let me sound the siren?

- Oh, I don't recall
that I "let" you.

- Yeah, well...

There can't be
that many of these in Millwood.

I was hoping that you could

wave your magic police wand
and get me some names.

It's important.

Please?

(sighing)

♪♪♪

- Ben, the mill
is just one of four places

we've been permitted to drill.
At this point,

it's a process of elimination.

- How do you come here and say
something like that to my face?

- No one is accusing you
of anything.

- That's not
what it feels like, Billy.

I have a spotless record.
I follow

every safety regulation.
- I know,

so help us prove it.
- You want me to trust

the lawyer who conned
my 18-year-old kid

into signing away her rights?
Great. You know,

you were at Taylor's
christening, remember that?

- She made a mistake.

She's working for us now.
- "Us"?

Who's "us"? Me and Taylor?

Millwood? This mill
was on life support.

The town was dead.
My family brought it

back to life, Billy.
Me and my dad.

- I know how much Millwood
means to you, Ben.

Look, I get why you're insulted.

- That's not
why I'm insulted, Billy!

My daughter is sick.

- I know.
- No, you do not know!

You don't know what it's like

to watch everyone
you grew up with

starting families and you can't.

We tried everything.

Taylor was our miracle.

She's all we have.

- That's why we need to find out
what is making her sick

and stop it.

- Drill.

(soft music)

♪♪♪

- Repeat after me:

this is not to become a pattern.
- I promise.

I promise! OK.

- You've got three
SUV owners there.

Kay Hansen, mother of two,
works at The Boot. I know her,

nice lady.
An elementary school teacher,

Robert Jones,
and another gentleman

I'm familiar with, Pat Collins.
Works at McMahon Rubber.

- The tire factory?

- What are you doing with
this information exactly?

- I already told you.

- So you won't be
approaching these people?

- No.

- Collins has
a domestic assault charge

on his record. Bit of a hothead.

Don't go anywhere near him.

- I promise you.

They're really

gonna appreciate this.

I owe you one.

- Yeah, you can buy me a beer
when you're old enough.

(Luna chuckling)
- You know...

I miss having you around.

- It's hard to believe anyone
ever thought this was

a good place for a hospital.

- I can kind of see it.

It's isolated.
It might have been peaceful.

Howard, how's the sample
coming along?

- Almost got it.

(birds chirping)

- You know, there was
a couple of months there,

last year of high school,
back before they tore down

the old building,
it was a perfect place

to come drinking.

- You used to get drunk
in an abandoned hospital?

- Oh, yeah! It's Millwood!

We had some awesome
wheelchair races.

- On the drive here,

I kept thinking I've
been out this way before.

- You would've left before

the great wheelchair
races commenced.

- I think that I visited my mom
in this hospital.

She had pneumonia.

She was only here
for a month, I think.

Yeah, I remember.

It was this beautiful
old building, right?

I thought she
was living in a castle.

- How old were you?

- I don't know, like 11?

What?

What?

- This was
a psychiatric hospital.

- (Howard): OK! Got it!

Three down, one to go.

- You OK?
- Yeah.

- All right. You ready
to hit the tire factory?

- You go ahead. I'm gonna go
take care of something first.

(soft music)

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

- It doesn't get old,
being super jock?

- I wish I had
the chance to find out.

I just wanted
to have a normal day.

- I don't think
we get those anymore.

We're the freaks now.

The twitching girls of Millwood.

Come on.

- Hi, Owen.

- Diane. That...

is a lot of pies. Six!

- Staff meeting.

The teachers listen better
when you bribe them with food.

- Yeah. We do the same
thing when we're

interrogating suspects.
- I will remember that

if you ever have to arrest me.

- Well, last week, you were
going... 52 in a 40 zone.

- Oh, you're serious.

- I'll let it slide.
- Thank you.

I'm always running late.

Like... now.

Um...

It was nice to see you, Owen.

- Right.

Uh... hey, can I ask you

about one of your kids
at school?

- Depends on what you
want to know. There are

confidentiality issues.
- Of course. It's Luna Spence.

- Is she in any trouble?
- No, just... um...

How is she doing?

School-wise?

- Smart, hardworking,
self-motivated.

She's one of those kids where
you run out of superlatives.

- I, you know...

I used to... date her mom
for a few years,

when Luna was a kid. Um...

- And you just wanna make sure
she's on the right track.

- The drama between me
and her mom

I don't miss, but...

the step-dad thing...
I kind of do.

- Well, as far as I can tell,

you don't have anything to worry
about. You should be proud.

I'm... whoa!

- Oh, jeez! Hey, let me
get that for you.

Yeah.

Ahem.

- See you.

- Yeah. And, uh, hey, uh...

slow down out there.

- OK.

(sighing)

- [I've only got a minute,
sweetie. I'm on my way]

[to court.]
- Remember that summer you sent

me to camp? You said Mom
had pneumonia.

- I hope you haven't been
listening to malicious rumours.

- What rumours?
- [I'll tell you one thing,]

your mother was often the target
of that sort of thing when
we were in Millwood.

- Why didn't you tell me Mom
was in a psychiatric hospital?

- Look... we'll talk about this
when you get back. I gotta go.

- McMahon Rubber owns
all the land from here

south to the Red River.
All of it is fenced in.

- That's smart.
Rubber's a toxic nightmare.

We can dig outside the fence,
but we'll get better results

if we dig closer to the site.
- I can't get anyone from

the company to call me back.
- Hey!

Can I help you with something?
- Hey, Mr. McMahon!

William Crawford,
Crawford and Associates.

I'm working on a civil case

representing a group
of sick young girls.

- Oh, yeah. I heard about that.

The twitchers.

- We believe a toxin

has been leaking into
their athletic field at school.

It's affecting
their nervous systems.

- Well, a girl that age would do
anything for attention, right?

- We'd like permission
to drill on your property.

We wanna test the groundwater.
- And railroad me

into a lawsuit?
I don't think so.

- We just wanna find out
what's making them sick.

- Gentlemen.
Have a nice day now.

- I guess we're
digging outside the fence.

- So...

my mother was committed
when I was a child.

- Is that a question?
- No.

What can you tell me about it?

Doctor-patient privilege.
I know.

But I have a right to know

any increased
genetic risk factors.

- Your mother seemed
to be in distress.

It was clear to me
that she needed a rest.

- What do you mean, "clear"?

- She showed
all the classic signs...

of a mental breakdown.

- What would've brought that on?
- Well, these episodes are...

generally caused by stress.

It can be sleep deprivation,
severe overwork.

The individual
becomes overwhelmed.

We all have a survival instinct

that kicks in
when things get hard,

and if we can't retreat
physically, we retreat mentally.

- My mom did both.

She disappeared from my life

10 some years ago.

- Your mother didn't
confide in me, Joanna.

Your father simply
asked me to get her

the help she needed,

and I agreed.

- It was my father's idea?

- It seems to me you should
ask him about that.

- I will.

(tense music)

♪♪♪

[You've reached Joanna Hanley.]

[Leave a message.]
- Hey, Joanna.

I did some digging, and I think

your stalker's a guy
named Pat Collins.

Works at the tire factory.
He drives a black SUV,

but he doesn't seem
to be driving it today.

I'll get back to you, OK? Bye.

Oh, this is Luna, by the way.

(phone beeping)

(door bell jingling)
- Hey.

You OK?
- Yeah, fine.

How'd it go at the tire factory?
- McMahon was a piece of work.

He wouldn't let us drill
anywhere near the site.

You know, I got the feeling
he knew we were coming.

- But you got a sample, right?
- We did.

- I am so ready
for some good news.

- Don't get your hopes up. Four
wells is not a lot to go on.

- But you have a gut feeling?
- Yeah, I do.

And it's the same one
I had from the start.

The hospital site
is still my best guess.

- Hey, we'll get permission
to dig more wells, just
like you said.

- I put my job on the line
for this.

I put my entire life on hold.
- I know, and we're gonna

keep digging 'til we
know for sure.

You need to stay.
We need a better answer.

- I know you guys
want a case you can win,

but you need a case worth
winning and this is not it.

- Howard, look at
your results again.

Luna found the driver of
the truck that was following me.

It's someone working
for McMahon rubber.

- So he did know we were coming.

- McMahon's gotta
be the polluter.

- Dubious. The direction of the
groundwater flow is not right.

This isn't right.
- What isn't right?

- Well, this isn't typical
contaminant-pollutant behaviour.

A pollutant typically starts
at the source of contamination

and becomes more diluted as it
moves through the groundwater.

But this... pollutant
is just sitting there

in this single,
concentrated mass.

If anything, it's going
in the wrong direction.

It's becoming more diluted
as it moves away from the field.

If that's right, then the
contamination's not coming

from any of the four sites.
- Then where is it coming from?

- The field itself.
It's just there.

- The field is the source.

- If "it's just there"...

- Then someone put it there.

Deliberately.

(soft music)

- You weren't at Miss Evans'
group thing this morning.

- I'm already sick
of being sick.

I don't wanna talk about it.

Who was there?

- Lisa, Georgia, Allie.

Everyone... except you.

- What did you guys talk about?

- Uh... our one thing in common.

- See? Like, that's the thing.

I don't even know those guys,
and now we're supposed

to sit in a room
and bond over muffins?

(Molly sighing)

- Do you think that...

that lawyer
and your uncle are right?

That there's some kind of...

poison in the field?
- I don't know.

I mean, what else could it be?

I play sports.
You're a cheerleader.

- What about Jamie's party
when that weird purple drink

was going around?
- No.

I wasn't even there.

- Right. You don't
go to parties.

- I party!

I did ecstasy once. Yeah.

At a tournament in Winnipeg.

- Molly did some molly?

Isn't it weird?

You and I have known each other
since kindergarten...

and this is the longest
conversation we've ever had.

- Yup.

Now look at us.

- Isn't that your uncle?

- Yeah.

- (Howard): Are you sure we
don't need permission

to dig on school property?

- We get a sample that proves
this field is ground zero

for a deadly toxin,
I'm pretty sure they'll

overlook a missing permit.

- (Billy): You good?
- Yeah!

- What are they doing?

- Not a clue.

(mechanical whirring)

(tense music)

♪♪♪

(metallic clanging)

- Oh, no! No, no, no,
no, no, no, no! Get back.

Get back! Get back! Get back,
get back, get back, get back!

Don't let that get on you!
- Go!

What did you hit?
- It was metal, like a drum

or a container or something.
I don't know.

- I can't believe it was
under our feet the entire time.

- Hey! What the hell is going
on?!

- We found some
kind of container

of toxic waste in the field.
We were drilling for

a groundwater sample and then--
- Who gave you permission to
drill on school property?

That wasn't our agreement.
- You're not listening.

Someone has buried toxic waste
in this field.

- What do... Who?
Who would ever do that?

We have to get it out of there!
Who... why is everybody

just standing around?!
- 'Cause as soon as we told them

what it is,
they refused to go near it.

- Hey! Uncle Billy!

- You guys shouldn't be here.
- We saw what happened.

There's actually
something in there?!

- Right now, I just need you
to stay away from it. OK?

Go on home. Go. Go!

- You need to remove
whatever's in the field

as soon as possible.
- That is what I'm trying to do.

- The container's punctured now.
- Well, they're telling me

that if we just yank it out
of the ground, that stuff will

get everywhere.
- Better you risk some
spillage than let the toxin

contaminate your groundwater.
It gets in the aquifer,

you can't get it out. That's
your town's drinking water.

- Allison!
- Ben, thank God you're here.

- "Secure and Collect,"
who is that?

Who are these people?!
- They're my disposal guys.

- Ben uses them at the mill.
- We'll get this handled.

- I can't thank you enough.
- OK.

- You need to tell us where that
container is going after
it's been excavated.

- Haven't you done enough?
- What are you talking about?!

If we hadn't done this, that
container would've been sitting

underground for who knows how
long, making more people sick.

- I suggest the three of you
just go to the hospital

and get yourselves checked out.
We'll take it from here.

- Thank you, Howard,
for everything.

- We still don't know
who did it.

- But now we know
it was deliberate.

- Never doubt your gut, Joanna.

You guys got a hell of a lawsuit
on your hands.

(engine humming)

(mechanical whirring)

(muffled indistinct speaking)

(muffled indistinct speaking)

(muffled indistinct speaking)

(muffled indistinct speaking)

(mechanical whirring)

(mechanical whirring)

(engine starting)

- Ben says his disposal guys can

contain the barrels 'til
the government gets involved.

- Yeah. I wanna see for myself
where that storage facility is.

- Why'd you just take off in the
middle of everything today?

- I just had some personal stuff
I needed to take care of.

They always... told me
it was pneumonia.

- Well, maybe they were
just trying to protect you.

- That would be a first.

Apparently she had a breakdown.

- I'm sorry.

- I guess she just couldn't
cope with her life.

(phone ringing)

Hey, Luna. What's up?
- [Hey, Joanna.]

I talked to Pat Collins and it
turns out that I got it wrong.

He sold his truck a month ago.

- To who?
- [A scrapyard.]

- Huh.

Well, uh, good work.

[Thanks, Luna.]
- Does this mean I'm hired?

- Yeah. Meet us
at Billy's office,

[9AM sharp tomorrow.]
- OK.

- They're leaving.

- Let's go.

(tense music)

♪♪♪

- We thought it was
something that we did.

We thought it was our fault.

♪♪♪

- I guess this clears
the tire factory. So...

McMahon isn't our guy.

- We don't know that.

We don't know anything...

but now we have
material evidence

when the time comes.
That's huge.

(ominous music)

♪♪♪

(tires screeching)

- What the hell is he doing?!

- I don't know.
Try and see who it is.

- I can't make him out.

(tires screeching)

(grunting)

- Hang on! Hang on!

(heavy breathing)

You OK?

- Yeah. You?

- Yeah.

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