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MAN:
Ladies and gentlemen,
Whitney Holland.

[applause, cheering]

I grew up on a farm.

Couple hundred acres.

Every day,

my dad would go out
to the field.

Bale hay,

feed slop to the pigs,

shovel cow dung.

[inhales]

I can still smell that cow dung.

[audience chuckles]

And then the summer
before my ninth birthday,

there was
this amazing heat wave,

and with it,
this unrelenting drought.

The kind of drought that just
seems to go on forever.

And I remember my dad
doing everything he could

to save the crops,
save the animals,

but the crops dried up.

Animals started to die.

And then,
one late August morning,

my father dropped dead
in a cornfield.

[audience murmuring]

Dehydration and heart failure.

He was 32 years old.

By the way,

I'm not talking about India

or Africa.

I'm talking 150 miles

up the New York State Thruway.

Less than three hours
from this vast body of water.

Makes no sense.

In a world with so much water,

why are so many people without?

This...[audience gasping]

...is the Freshwater Honeycomb.

It's a passive, nonelectrical
desalination tool.

It acts like a chemical magnet,

separating salt from water
on a molecular level.

It's inexpensive

and doesn't rely on any
exhaustible energy sources.

Imagine this,
ladies and gentlemen,

happening on a global scale.

An endless supply of water

provided by the world's
five oceans,

hundreds of rivers,
and thousands of lakes,

and purified
by the Freshwater Honeycomb.

My tech team tells me
we're only 90 days away.

[audience murmuring]

Ah.

So who wants in?

[clamoring]

[knocking on door]

Come on in.

[taps keyboard]

I hear you told them 90 days.

To scale up to what?

25 million gallons
a day?

That would be a good start.

You know that's not
gonna happen.

Not in 90 days,
maybe not in 90 years.

No, I don't know
that's not going to happen,

and you don't either.

Whitney, not every problem
can be solved

simply by adding enthusiasm.

Okay, Derek,
it's 10:00 at night.

What do you need?
Some new piece of software?

What-what new gizmo do you need?

What-what new biochemist do you
want me to try to steal from...

It's none of that.

Whitney, I'm done.
I'm just done.

You keep taking people's money,
promising them the moon,

and I'm supposed to be
your Neil Armstrong

and give it to them,
and I'm telling you I can't.

What? Derek,
we've been here before.

You're just tired.
You're nowhere near done.

500 gallons is great
for a demonstration,

but we need to prove
we can scale up

the Freshwater Honeycomb
to handle whole municipalities,

city water systems,
state water...

I've been trying
to tell you for a month.

It can't. You know it.
We both know it.

And tomorrow the D.A.
is gonna know it.

[clicks tongue]

Psst.

How did he score
vacation time?

He didn't,
not that I'm aware of.

[knocking on door]

Beautiful.

I'm still using the ones
I got in college.

Funny you should say that.
They're for my daughter.

Your daughter? You guys
are taking a trip together?

She called me last night.
She won a scholarship,

a journalism
scholarship,

to study abroad for six months
in Jordan.

Jordan, ah, Middle East.

How do you feel about that?

Thrilled, excited,
proud of her.

[chuckles]
Scared for her.

The packet
that they sent

keeps talking about
how safe it is,

even though we know it's in
a part of the world that,

you know, is
a little scary.

But if you want
to be a journalist,

a serious journalist,
and she does...

My God.
[chuckles]

1,500 students applied,
and they picked her.

I mean, you're looking at a guy
who didn't leave Georgia

until he was 18 years old.

It is obscene how proud I am.
[chuckles]

[knocking]

Yeah.

I'm guessing
you've read the papers,

seen the reports.

The federal government
is taking me to court.

Criminal court. Uh...

Charging me with two counts
of conspiracy to commit fraud,

nine counts of wire fraud,

some other,
less consequential things

that I can't remember right now,

though all the charges
do end with the word "fraud."

You're on
the front page.

WHITNEY:
Oh, that's

pithy.

So, why do you think
the government

is suddenly
coming after you?

My friend...

my head of R & D,

he just became convinced
we were chasing a ghost,

that there was no way we could
get to where we needed to go,

so he went to the Feds.

MARISSA:
But why do that?

If he was unhappy,
why not just quit?

I think I became so good

at raising money
that he got spooked.

And when it was just a lark,
when we had no money,

no one to answer to,

there was
no pressure.

But when people heard
what we were up to,

they started
throwing money at us.

I mean, it's been
a wild couple of years.

But the more successful we got,

the more Derek just froze.

I'm guessing he thought
that if he could

recast himself
as the whistleblower

rather than the co-conspirator,

that he might be able
to work again.

The government is claiming your
water desalination technology

is incapable of being applied
to anything other than

personal use
application,

but that in your pitches
and demonstrations and

investment prospectuses,

you've been selling it
as the answer

to the global water shortage.

They say you're peddling
a pipe dream.

Look, I'm not a nut.

I'm not a scam artist.

I'm not saying
I've discovered something

that can help you lose weight
or make your hair grow back.

I'm not saying
I can help women

fill out their bikinis
or men look more manly

in their Speedos.

I'm saying I can help quench
the thirst of the world.

I can help water crops
in a desert.

The ramifications are huge.

I mean... look,
there are four things

every human being
on this planet needs:

air to breathe, food to eat,

a piece of land to stand on,

and water.

You figure out the water part,

everything else
falls into place.

You can grow more food,

you can plant more trees
to help create more oxygen,

and people can live anywhere,

no matter the climate.

This is real.
This matters.

MARISSA:
I get that the guy choked,

but why sell her out
to the government?

It just doesn't
make sense to me.

Well, it's all about the money.
As soon as he called the Feds,

he stopped being
a disgruntled employee

and became classified
as an SEC whistleblower.

And as an SEC whistleblower,
if the government wins,

he gets a percentage of whatever
cash judgment the court levies.

[scoffs]
The plot thickens.

You're not gonna represent her,
are you?

What's your issue, Benny?

First of all, you promised me

that I could have some say in
the cases we take around here.

And second of all,
we just sat with that woman

for a half an hour, and
she didn't say a single thing

I can use to mount a defense.

Do you believe
what she told you?

Do you believe
she was lying to you?

I'm not sure that's relevant.

I think it's the only thing
that is relevant.

If she believes
what she's saying,

what she's selling, then
there is no criminal intent.

And if there is
no criminal intent,

then there is no crime.

But, Bull, how do we do that?

How do we prove what someone
does or doesn't believe?

Especially if the thing
that she believes in

doesn't actually exist?

Well, for what it's worth,
I believe her.

You think she can change
seawater into drinking water?

You believe
she can change the world?

I believe she believes she can.

Of course you do. Well, I don't.

Benny...

I told you that
I would listen to you,

and I have listened to you,

and what you said
mattered to me,

but I'm taking the case.

♪

So, how does
this work?

Well, today is about
trying to select a jury

that's at least open
to hearing the arguments

we're gonna make in court.

And how
do we do that?

Yes, Dr. Bull,
how do we do that?

Well, the first thing
we have to try and do

is reframe what this trial
is about.

The assistant
United States attorney

wants to make it about
the things you promised

versus the things you were
actually able to accomplish

before they pulled
the plug on you.

BENNY:
Well, that is

what the trial is about.

Not if we have anything
to do with it.

I want to use the jury selection
process to put the idea

in their head
that what this is really about

is something different entirely.

And that would be?

Belief systems.

There are people who believed
for the longest time

that phones had to be black,
with rotary dials,

and be connected with wires
that disappeared into the wall

and ran from pole to pole
along the side of the road.

And that that's what phones are

and that's what phones
will always be.

That cars could only run
on gasoline,

that movies could only
be seen on giant screens

in air-conditioned
theaters, and that news

could only be delivered via
black newsprint on white paper.

Flying cars.

Anybody here think
we'll ever see them?

In our lifetime?

[whispers]:
Maybe we got a live one.

Well, don't anybody
get their hopes up.

David Murphy is a
financial planner,

considers himself
fiscally conservative.

Doesn't seem like
he'd fit the bill.

Well, you might be right.
You might be wrong.

Hard to know without getting
a peek at his belief system.

So you're thinking, one of
these days, you'll be hovering

over Fifth Avenue
in your brand-new convertible.

Something like that.

And please don't take this
the wrong way,

but you look like
you've been around a while.

Like you've seen a thing or two.

Where does all of this
fanciful optimism come from?

It's not fanciful optimism
at all.

It's more like once bitten,
twice shy.

Ah. How do you mean?

Well, 20 years ago or so,

a man came to me
for some investment capital.

He wanted to put it in
a new company he was starting.

Said he was gonna sell books
over the Internet.

I absolutely did not
understand. I asked him,

"How are the books going
to come out of the computer?

"Are they, are they gonna ooze
out of the slot

for the f-floppy disk?"

I-I basically threw him
out of my office.

Do you know how rich I'd be if I
had just been a better listener?

Can we clone this guy?

BENNY: Your Honor, this
juror is acceptable

to the defense.

What about you?

What about me?

I read you dropped
out of college.

I did.

I had this idea
for the Freshwater Honeycomb

and I didn't want to wait
four years to get going on it.

Well, the prosecution
is gonna try and use

your lack
of formal education as proof

that you don't really know
what you're talking about.

And then they're gonna
bring in a bunch of experts,

like your ex-employee
Derek Goodman,

that have all kinds
of degrees and doctorates

and associations with
institutions of higher learning,

and they are going to testify
that you are just plain wrong.

Sounds delightful.That's why I want

to use voir dire
to undermine that assertion.

I'm sorry. You lost me.

What assertion?

That there is a correlation

between the amount of education
one receives

and one's ability to innovate.

To see beyond what is there

and imagine a thing
that's not there yet.

And I want to put
that idea out there

before the trial even starts.

How many people think
there's a relationship

between the amount of time
one spends

getting a college education

and their ability
to change the world?

So, Henry Ford.

The founder
of the Ford Motor Company

and one of the earliest
proponents of the assembly line,

which ushered in
the age of mass production.

Lots of college?

I don't know. Did they even
have college back then?

I assure you they did.

Well, then, yeah.
I would suppose so.

Actually, he never went.
Not a single day.

How about
Coco Chanel?

Here is a woman who
not only revolutionized

fashion in her day,

but really sort of created
the concept of branding,

the idea of putting her name
on a variety of products.

Did she go to college?

[chuckles] Why are you
picking on me? I-I don't know.

All-all these people
are from a long time ago.

[chuckles]
True, true, true.

A-And by the way,
she never went to college.

She grew up in an orphanage
where she learned how to sew,

and that was pretty much the
extent of her formal education.

All right, so, let
me give you some

contemporary names.

Steve Jobs.
You ever heard of him?

The computer guy? Yeah, sure.

He probably went
to a bunch of colleges.

Nope. Went to one,
never graduated.

So my question
to you is simple.

Do you think, just because
someone has a bunch of degrees,

that that makes them an expert?

Or that, uh,
sometimes,

maybe when someone
doesn't have the best education,

they have something else?

A vision of the future maybe?

And that they may have
something unique

and wonderful to offer mankind?

Yeah. I think there are people
like that, definitely.

♪ You feel like summertime...

Excuse me.
[quietly]:
Sorry, excuse me.

Thanks.

♪ You took this heart of mine

♪ You'll be my valentine

♪ In the summer

♪ In
the summer ♪

♪ You are my only one

[line ringing]

♪ Just dancin', havin' fun...

Hi. This is Anna.

Leave me a message
and I'll call you right back.

[phone beeps]

Hey, little girl.

It's your dad.

Uh, I'm standing in front
of your dorm room door.

Uh, kind of thought
we had agreed to get together

and celebrate some
of your good news, but, uh...

Anyway, I-I brought you a gift.

But it looks
like you're not here.

Could you give me a call back
and let me know

if we're still good for tonight?

Or just that you're okay?

It's 7:15.

I can stand here
for another couple minutes

if you want to call me back.

[sighs]
Love you.

♪ Do love me, do love me, do, do love me, do love me, do...
♪

[phone buzzing]

♪ Do love me, do love me, do♪♪ Oh

♪ Do love me, do love me, do♪

♪ I need you

♪ Do love me, do love me, do♪

♪ Do love me,
do love me, do♪

♪ Hoo!

♪ Is it summertime magic

♪ That makes me want
to dance all night long? ♪

♪ It's your summertime magic.

We started testing
our Freshwater Honeycomb

about seven months ago,

trying to replicate how it would
be used in a municipal setting.

The pressure with which
the water hits the filter

is controlled by a combination

of volume, speed,
and pipe diameter.

Using a pipe
60 inches wide,

we noted that at 477 gallons per
second, the filter did its job.

The problem

started to manifest
when we tried to push through

more than
477 gallons per second.

The filter itself
starts to disintegrate.

The cellulose material and the
filament that holds it together

would start to appear
in the supposedly clean water

as microparticles.

Invisible to the naked eye
but in the water nonetheless.

Effectively, the filter was
no longer cleaning the water

but actually
polluting it,

making it dangerous to drink.

Once those materials
hit the human stomach,

they could very well
tear it apart.

Ah. And as director of research,

who did you share
these findings with?

Um, the defendant.

CRUZ:
So you don't believe anything
you said had any impact on her?

DEREK:
Well, just the fact

that she was continuing
to court investors.

Telling them
that we were 90 days away

when I was plainly telling her
that what she was promising

was not possible
on any timetable.

CRUZ:
Thank you.

Nothing further.

MARISSA:
I'm guessing

you already know
what I'm about to tell you.

I could read this jury
on a moonless night

with a blindfold on.

Good morning, Mr. Goodman.

Doctor.
Ah.

Doctor. My apologies.

And you are a doctor in what?

Well, I have a doctorate
in civil engineering as well

as a second doctorate
in arid lands resource sciences.

Wow. That is impressive.

Sounds like you know a lot
about desalination.

Well, I do pride myself on being

something of an expert
in my field.

Terrific. So it's reasonable
to assume that you know

everything there is to know
about, uh, seawater

and desalination and...Well, I don't think

anyone knows everything
about anything.

Great point.

So, when you say
no one could scale up

the Freshwater Honeycomb

for use in municipal
water purification application,

what you're really trying
to say is,

"I," meaning you,
"couldn't scale up

"the Freshwater Honeycomb

for use in municipal water
purification applications."

Isn't that correct?

Objection. Asked and answered.

BENNY:
Your Honor.Badgering the witness.

Your Honor...JUDGE:
Save your breath,

Mr. Colón.

The question has not
been asked and answered.

And the counselor is not
badgering the witness.

Objection overruled.

Ask your question again.

Isn't it true, Dr. Goodman,
that all you can say

with any certainty
is that you couldn't do it?

You couldn't scale it up?

[gallery murmuring]BULL:
Ooh.

What is that I'm feeling?
Could it be attitudes shifting?

Yes.
I mean,

for all you know,
there could be some kid

sitting in his or her garage
right now

with just the fix
for this thing.

[scoffs]
I doubt it.I didn't ask you

if you doubted it.

I had asked if what I am saying
right now is possible.

If a solution is possible.

I suppose anything is possible.

Exactly.

Anything is possible.

Sir, how much
do you stand to make

if the government
wins this case?

Isn't it true that if
the government prevails

in this case,
as a whistleblower,

you stand to profit?

Actually make
some real money?

I'm sorry.
[chuckles]

Let me put it another way.

Isn't it true that you stood
to make considerably more

by not finishing your work
and leaving the company

and turning state's evidence
than if you'd stayed

and done the job you'd
originally been hired to do?

I mean,
we're talking millions, right?

CRUZ:
Objection.

Relevance?

No, that's all right,
Your Honor.

I withdraw the question.

I think the jury
could connect the dots.

Nothing further.

[sighs]

What's going on
over there?

Looks like you're having
a troublesome bowel movement.

[chuckles]
You did great, Benny.

We got 'em on the run.

I think you're mistaking
a momentary change of fortune

for a real victory.

That was, that was everything.

That's our whole defense.

I've got nothing else
to fight with.

Don't be ridiculous.

Tomorrow we present our case.
We put Whitney on the stand.

Did you see those YouTube videos
I sent you?

Girl could sell sawdust
to a lumber mill.

[chuckles]

She's just trying to finance her
dream, and that is not a crime.

But, Bull,

the law does not
differentiate

between a
run-of-the-mill lie

and a lie for
a worthwhile dream.

To the law, it's all a lie.

It's all a fraud.

Come on, Bull,
you saw that film.

The most current version
of this thing

disintegrates before
water starts flowing

at anything approaching
the required speed.

There's no way she didn't
know she was lying,

and that's fraud.

MARISSA:
So, everybody, we've all
been working very hard

trying to pull this
together for you

and Benny and
the client.

Uh, why don't we
let Taylor start?

Thanks.

Uh, some

little bumps in the road
we need to discuss.

So glad you're going first.

Whitney didn't, in fact,
drop out early

to pursue her
Freshwater Honeycomb dreams

like she told us,
like she told every reporter

who's ever done
a story about her.

She had to leave.

They made her leave.Because?

Because she was
in arrears.

She had a habit
of writing tuition

and housing checks
that bounced.

The school would give her
second and third chances

to make good
on her bills,

offered her campus jobs
to make money,

but she'd no sooner
pay off one bad debt

and then write another
worthless check.

Finally,
they had enough.

I'm sorry, Bull.

You think the
prosecution knows?

Who cares?
I think you guys are making

a mountain out of a molehill.

Well, I don't agree.
It's not a molehill.

Writing bad checks,
that's fraud.

That's the exact crime she's
being accused of right now.

You're forgetting
her father had died.

They'd lost the family farm.
Of course money was an issue.

Did she pay the college back?

Did everybody get everything
they were owed?

Yes. Eventually.

Probably with the salary
she paid herself

after the investors
came on board.

I'm confused.

Are we trying to prove her guilt
or prove her innocence?

Hit me with a real problem.

Guess that's my cue.
Uh, so I went upstate

to see her mother today, with no
help from Whitney, I might add.

What does that mean?

Well, I asked her
for her mother's info

the day she came in here,
and she never sent it.

Finally had
to figure it out on my own.

And?

And she wouldn't
talk to me.

The neighbors
seem to think

Whitney might be
paying the bills.

She got a new car, had
the house painted last spring.

Where are you going with this?

Again, I'm talking
to the neighbors,

and according
to them,

Whitney's family
never owned a farm.

And her father

worked on a farm, but he
didn't die of dehydration.

His blue jeans got caught
in a combine machine.

It pulled him in
and chewed him up

before anyone could, uh,
shut it off.

What time are we due
in court tomorrow?

We reconvene
after lunch. 1:00.

Okay. Reach out to Whitney.

Tell her I want to meet her here
tomorrow morning, 10:00 a.m.

Okay.And somebody find

a polygraph examiner.

I want to do a little work
with Whitney.

You want to examine her
with a lie detector?

You do know that those tests
are not admissible in court.

It's not for court.
It's for me.

Was it something I said?

It's just a technique we use
to prepare clients to testify.

See which questions
make you anxious.

Identify any
possible triggers.

Okay. Sort of surprised
Dr. Bull isn't here.

Well, he will be reviewing
the results

before we go into court
this afternoon.

I'm sure he'll have
a conversation with you

about it before you testify.

I'm amazed she
agreed to do this.

She's got to know
we're onto her.

Well, it's
a good sign.

It means she thinks
she has nothing to hide.

All right,

let's get this show
on the road.

EXAMINER [over earbud]:
Good morning.

Is your name Whitney Holland?

Yes.

Are you 26 years old?

Yes.

Ask her if she
grew up on a farm.

Did you grow up on a farm?

I grew up near a farm.

EXAMINER:
I need you to answer yes or no.

WHITNEY:
No.

I did not grow up on a farm.

Ask her if her father
died of a heart attack.

Did your father die
of a heart attack?

No.

In a field?
EXAMINER:
In a field?

During a heat wave?

During a heat wave?Of dehydration
and sunstroke?

Of dehydration
and sunstroke?

Trying to save his
crops and animals?

Trying to save
his crops and animals?

No, he did not.

He died in an accident
involving

some farm machinery.

Well, there goes your defense.

If she knew she was lying when
she told people those things,

then there's criminal intent.

Game over.

Ask her if the
Freshwater Honeycomb

will ever actually
be able to...

...purify enough water
for a small municipality.

Absolutely.

A large city?
EXAMINER:
A large city?

Without a doubt.

Are you 90 days away
from being able to prove that?

EXAMINER:
And are you 90 days away

from being able to prove that?

I don't know.

Possibly.

If the government
will let me continue my work.

[chuckles]

What are you smiling about?

[phone beeps][line ringing]

Hi, this is Anna.

Leave me a message
and I'll call you right back.

[beeps]

Hi, Anna. It's Dad again.

Listen, I-I know you said that
you needed a couple of days,

but, um, well, see,
I'm trying to help out with

this travel stuff. You know,
passports, doctor visits,

but I feel a little
funny setting them up

and I haven't
talked to you.

Call me back,
please?

Thanks. Love you.

[phone beeps][sighs]

[exhales]

Kids.

Where do they come from?

Tell me about it.

Were you ever 19?

Nope. Went straight
from old enough to vote

to bitter divorcée.

Whatever it is,
it's gonna be fine.

I know.
Intellectually, I know that,

but it's just that I-I wasn't
there to be her parent

for so long, and now I'm here
and I'm ready and I'm proud,

but she's getting older,
and so, for whatever reason,

she's not wanting
a parent right now,

and it makes me crazy.

This, too, will pass.

[footfalls approaching]

You look like the cat
who ate the canary

and then decided
what he really wanted was fish.

I can't make up my mind
about you.

Do you lie to hide the truth,

or tell the truth
to hide your lies?

I always tell the truth,
except when I'm selling myself.

Then I do my best
to tell a good story.

People appreciate
a good story

when they're being
sold something.

A product, a person, an idea.

Especially an idea
that doesn't exist yet.

Like a desalination filter?

Like many things, like gravity.

Story is, an apple fell
on Sir Isaac Newton's head,

but that didn't really happen.

Turns out, he was sitting
under a different tree

when he saw the apple
fall off another tree,

the one he wasn't
sitting under.

It's not nearly as good a story,

but the myth about the apple
hitting him in the head

doesn't do anything to diminish
the importance of his theory,

the importance of his discovery.

Clearly, people prefer
the myth to the truth

or they wouldn't
keep repeating it.

Just because
my father didn't die

in the middle of a drought
doesn't change the fact

that my filter can and will
do what I claim.

And what about the 90 days?

You told investors
you were 90 days away.

That's me selling.

That's me exciting my investors

and motivating my research team.

It's like when Thomas Edison
was working on his light bulb.

He tried a thousand
different materials

before he found one that
would glow without burning up,

but one day... there it was.

I'm just looking
for the right kind of sponge,

the right kind of filament.

And who's to say
I'm not 90 days away?

She said to the man

wearing completely
clear eyeglasses.

No prescription.

To convince people of what?

To hide from what?

Misspent youth?

A face that's
a tad too pretty

to be taken seriously
as a trial scientist?

As a scientist of any kind?

I'm not the one
on trial for fraud.

And I'm not the one
who has to take the stand

and answer questions
about all those lies.

About which I will tell
the absolute truth.

Just like I did this morning.

That's gonna confuse
the hell out of the jury.

That's why I hired you,
jury guru.

I know you get it. I know
you can explain me to them.

And what if I can't?

What would you suggest?
I go in there and lie?

Of course not.

For one, you would be
committing another crime,

and for two, your attorney--
my associate--

would never knowingly
suborn perjury.

Well,

if you can't make my testifying
to the truth work,

tell me now
so I can find new counsel.

I know I will eventually
get that filter

to do what I need it to do.

You really believe it,
don't you?

Well, we should head
into court, then.

And, if you wouldn't mind,

keep the glasses thing
to yourself.

So at this point,
you're working...

In my kitchen.

We got the water
from one of the fountains

in Prospect Park
on a 90-degree day.

I mean, it was brown.

We ran a gallon
of the water

through our little
homemade filter.

Poured another gallon
into a sterile container

and had them
both tested.

The filtered water was
everything we hoped it would be.

It was clear,
it was ready to drink.

The other gallon was
pretty damn toxic. [chuckles]

It was just Derek and I
at that point.

I don't think
it's possible to hug someone

harder than we hugged
each other that day.

BENNY:
So let me ask you
a question.

You had a filter that worked.

You could have sold it to any
one of a number of companies

for use in personal
drinking mugs,

for camping, for survival kits
after natural disasters?

Yes.

Why not just sell it
and be done?

Because it was never
just about the money.

It was, and is, about knowing
there's a real problem,

a real need,

and realizing that you might
be able to fix it.

You might be able
to make things better.

I mean, we're all here
for a reason, right?

I mean, why did Edison's company
devote all of those resources

to developing
the incandescent light bulb?

We had candles,
we had gas lights.

I think he thought
he could make things better.

I think he thought he could...
make life better.

Thank you.

[whispering]:
Come on.

"He thought he could
make life better."

Even I teared up.

You lied to investors
about the circumstances

surrounding your father's death,
didn't you?

Yes.And, contrary

to what you told reporters
and investors,

you didn't leave college because
you were consumed with this idea

about a revolutionary
new desalination filter,

but because you couldn't
pay your bills

and had bounced several checks.

Isn't that right?

Both are actually true.

You admit you told investors
that you were within months

of having the filter
field-checked and ready

when your director of research

indicated
quite clearly

that he felt that no further
upscaling was possible

on the Freshwater Honeycomb.

Isn't that true?

I didn't agree
with my director of research.

I didn't ask
if you agreed.

I was pointing out that you
didn't share his assessment

with your current
or future investors,

which feels deceptive.

In fact, it feels like
there's a pattern of deception

at Freshwater Honeycomb.

Objection. The witness is here
to answer questions,

not to be lectured to.

Okay. Here's a question.

How is your life
better today

than it was,
say, three years ago,

before investors were
lavishing you with money

in the hopes of cashing in
on the success

of Freshwater Honeycomb?

If, by better,
you mean financially,

I have made no secret
of the fact that my life

is markedly different.

But I'd also like to mention
that those investments

pay for 200 employee salaries.

They pay for research tools
and offices

and lab rentals and...Are you a liar?

Your Honor!

It's a simple question.

Not about the filter.

Not about what I believe
it can do.

Not about the things that count.

So we should just believe what
you tell us about this filter,

which doesn't yet exist,

even when almost everything else
you have told us is a lie?

Yes.

I have no further questions,
your Honor.

That was a very nice
closing argument.

Well, he wrote it. Mostly.

It was fine.

You know, we can appeal.

I mean,
if they find you guilty,

we'll immediately file
for an appeal.

Not that that's
a foregone conclusion,

I'm just saying that, uh...

[stammers] Jury deliberations
are funny things.

Lots can happen.

Uh, people start
to compare notes,

minds get changed, uh...

It's not over
till it's over.

This is me.

Thank you both
for everything.

Yeah. We'll give you a call
the second we hear.

[car door closes]

I'm sorry.

What are you sorry about?
Jury's not even back yet.

Come on, you called it.

You called it the second
she first walked

through the door.[sighs]

It wasn't her, Bull.

It was...

I know. The lies.

The untruths.

Once the jury knows
you're willing to make things up

to get what you want...

God, I'm arrogant.

I thought
we could get them to see

it was just a means to an end.

The end was so worthwhile.

Hmm.

You two are the same person.

You know that, don't you?

You set your sights on something
that's almost impossible,

and you don't let anyone
talk you out of it.

It's one of the things
I love about you, man.

Sometimes I wonder
if it isn't all a lie,

this thing we do,
this jury thing.

I mean... what was the point?

According to Marissa,
by the time the AUSA

was done with her closing,
it was a shutout.

Was a field of red.

And she is betting
that by tomorrow morning,

we are back in court,

and Whitney is behind bars
by tomorrow afternoon.

[exhales]

I mean, I'm really
no good at this at all.

JUDGE:
"Dear Judge Graves.

"As you know,
we have been deliberating

"for four solid days.

"All of us are united
in our verdict

"with the exception
of one juror.

"This juror refuses to budge,
refuses to debate.

It is difficult to see
a way forward from here."

I'm going to call everyone back
into the court in an hour,

officially declaring a mistrial.

My assumption is you're going
to want to retry this

as quickly as possible?

Absolutely.

Your client, will, of course,
remain out on bail.

What's your first availability,
gentlemen?

Unfortunately,
our office is booked

for the next seven months.

All right, then.
Seven months it is.

I'm going to
pencil it in,

and I would hope that
if things change,

you'll let us know so that
we can move this forward.

Now go get your client

so we can make this official.

[quietly]:
Seven months?

We don't even know
what our next case is.

I ever tell you how my dad died
in a tsunami in the Mojave?

My God, in a million years,

that is not
where I saw this going.

Well, like I told you,
deliberations are a funny thing.

But seven months?

It seems so far away.

I wanted to give you time
to work on that filter.

You get that thing to do
the things you say it can do,

and there is no fraud
and there is no case.

Okay.

I appreciate that.

But the truth is, at this
point, I have no money.

Ever since the government
filed this case,

investors have been
pulling their money out.

Creditors have been
demanding payment.

It may make more sense to
just get this over with.

That's not to say
I don't appreciate

what you're trying
to do, but...

Ms. Holland.

Um, forgive me for intruding.

I'm, uh, one of the jurors.
Uh, the foreman, actually.

I have to tell you, I am
positively fascinated

by what it is
you're trying to do,

and I was hoping you might
be able to find room for me

to help, perhaps provide
some additional capital.

Uh, if I'm doing
something improper,

uh, one of you will
tell me, right?

All sounds proper to me.

I look forward to
speaking with you.

This may just work out.

I take back what I said.

I think I may actually be
pretty good at this jury thing.

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