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Previously on "the rainmaker"...

That girl in there has a husband.

A husband who beats her?

What are you doing here?

You killed that man.

He was a drug addict.

You're gonna file a motion to compel discovery

on this tissue committee.

See if Melvin's name pops up.

Your honor, we have an eyewitness

who saw a nurse putting something

into Donny ray black's iv bag.

Mr. Baylor's naivete has wasted the court's time.

Your motion to compel is denied.

So wilfred keeley has invited us to dinner.

Where are we meeting him?

London.

It's been nice knowing you, Rudy.

Are you firing me?

Go.

Welcome back, Mr. Drummond. Mr. Noonan.

Hello, Adeline.

Adeline, this is our new associate,

- Sarah plankmore. - Hi.

Pleasure to meet you.

I'll see that your bags are sent up immediately.

I... I don't have a bag,

so I'll have to do a bit of shopping.

I don't believe you will, Ms. Plankmore.

It's all been sorted.

This is the Victoria room.

Mr. Noonan approximated your sizes, but to be sure,

we procured at least two of each item.

So do let me know if there's anything

you'd like to exchange.

Welcome to London, Ms. Plankmore.

Yes, I know it's not hiring season.

No, I haven't passed the bar yet.

Hey, we got customers.

Yeah, two seconds.

If you could just keep me in mind.

Yes, understood.

Hey, this ain't no unemployment office.

Sorry.

Prince.

Is there any chance I could borrow some money,

just till I land a new job?

Look, I like you, Rudy,

but I'm not the guy you want to borrow money from.

I'll pay you back.

Ask someone else.

Prince, come on. You know me.

Look, that's why I'm saying this.

I don't want you to get hurt.

You get me?

Now, you need some shifts, I'm your man.

Anything else?

Bank of america.

Understood.

I would say my best qualities are intelligence,

ambition, and style.

I'm sorry, did you say "style"?

As an attorney, I think it's important

how you present yourself.

I was pretty involved in that big suit against chevron.

You worked on the case?

Not the case, per se.

I was more on the passion side of things.

I wrote the petition.

Lot of signatures.

My secret goal is to be a congresswoman.

Daddy said I should have some law work on the rés'.

Law work?

It was either that or the military.

And who wants to do that, am I right?

God.

You miss him yet?

Bite me.

You see how many people are on this deposition list?

It's the cast of "Ben-hur."

You know, you once said you don't throw people out.

That was a lie.

When did I say that?

The first time I screwed up.

He went to the police.

- Was that really so wrong? - Yes!

Bruiser, there is a killer on the loose.

We are the only ones that know it.

That doesn't weigh on you at all?

'Cause it weighs on me.

I can see that.

Of course it weighs on me.

But I told him not to do anything

until we had more than a theory.

His theory is right.

And what's crazy is, you agree with him.

- Says who? - You.

Melvin pritcher killed Donny ray,

and he did it deliberately.

- When did I say that? - My god.

You have the worst memory when you're wrong.

You said it to Leo when you demanded $80 million.

Now, did you believe it then?

- Sure. - No, don't give me "sure."

Ok, what's wrong with "sure"?

Baby, the sex was incredible last night.

Was it good for you? Sure.

Ok, fine.

Yes, I believe it.

But... and I shouldn't have to tell you this...

it doesn't matter what I believe.

Well, I believe we should hire him back.

He's too emotional.

And you're some kind of monk?

Who the hell is Bernie manfred?

He's up first.

He's head of quality control or something.

He had a meeting with Jackie.

We don't know what they talked about,

but he fired her two days later.

That seems important.

Yeah.

So we have to settle.

Well, to quote the master,

the value of your settlement goes up or down

like the stock market.

And our stock is what you would call a falling knife.

Listen, Leo wants out of this thing too, ok?

It stinks, and he knows it.

And stop quoting me.

You took my fork.

All right.

Now, this is the best soufflé suissesse

outside of Paris.

What's in it?

Cheese baked on double cream.

Does it come with a free angioplasty?

Don't worry about it, Leo.

I'll give you a discount.

Now, here's to our little lion.

Me?

I hear you mopped the floor with that young man

at the hearing.

I... I wouldn't go that far.

Don't be modest.

Leo and Brad prepared me well.

A shrewd lion.

To Sarah the lion.

Both: Sarah the lion.

Now let's eat this suissesse.

I heard some news today.

Do tell.

Rudy baylor has been calling around town

looking for a job.

She fired him?

No, that can't be true.

Why not?

Leo did.

He's a smart young man.

He'll... he'll do just fine.

But let's talk about your future.

Where do you see yourself in 5 or 10 years?

Partner at Tinley britt, of course.

That's a good answer.

Come on, Leo. Don't be coy.

Give her some of that well-earned advice.

Tell her how to make it happen.

I wanna hear this too.

Well, there comes a time in every career

where you have to ask yourself,

do I want to be staff or management?

And then every choice you make going forward

has to be in service of that decision.

So which is it gonna be for you?

"Whether I shall be the hero of my own life

"or whether that station will be held by anybody else,

these pages must show."

She remembers the first line of novels.

Did you know that? Which one's that from?

Dickens.

"David Copperfield."

Wonderful.

Really wonderful.

You got fired, Rudy.

It happens.

You learn from it, and you move on.

I know, mom.

That's what I'm doing.

Looks more like you're feeling sorry for yourself.

Well, I'm not.

What are you doing here?

I came to visit you. I can leave if...

I meant, what are you doing in this room?

All right.

This bruiser, she said you were undisciplined.

I'm not undisciplined.

Yes, you are.

Jeez, mom.

Don't hold back.

Well, you were honest with me about Hank, weren't you?

I didn't like it, but you were right.

Now it's my turn.

You lost your first job because of that mouth of yours.

You lost your second job for the same reason.

Ok, but... honey, if enough people are telling you

you're drunk, sit down.

You know, John wouldn't have lost either job.

It's true.

He was smarter.

He was older.

Your name is Rudy baylor, isn't it?

- Not John baylor. - Mom...

I think if John had been a short order cook,

you'd be making omelets right now.

That's not true.

Yes, it is.

He's gone, honey.

You can't live his life for him.

Where is this coming from?

John was wise beyond his years.

You, on the other hand,

always come in hotter than blazes.

He wasn't better.

He wasn't smarter.

He was John baylor.

And you're Rudy baylor.

And you're here.

Neither of us have been to the cemetery

since the funeral.

We want to talk to John, we come in here.

We pretend he could walk through that door

at any moment.

Maybe it's time to stop pretending.

Big Robins fan?

Yeah.

Looks like you took that off an eight-year-old.

Look, I don't want anyone to see me with you.

And by "anyone," I mean bruiser.

It's a hell of a disguise.

Rudy, we can't talk about the case.

Yeah, we're just two friends grabbing lunch.

Ok, but I'm not allowed to tell you anything.

Ok? Zip, zero, zilch.

I want to help fix what I broke.

You can't.

We're so deep in a hole, I feel like a suppository.

There has to be another way

for us to get a hold of those tissue committee reports.

That's the only way we can win this.

There is no way, ok?

You've been fired. You remember that?

Deck, we both wanna help dot, right?

So let me help.

You have a ton of depos next week.

- Rudy... - Bernie manfred's up first.

He's the guy who fired Jackie.

I was thinking... Rudy, stop, stop, stop.

Pal, I'm sorry this happened.

I am. I really am.

I wish it didn't.

I truly, truly do. But it did.

- Dude. - No, no, listen.

- I'm gonna take this to go. - You're not gonna...

are you really gonna eat that?

You're not really gonna eat that.

Judy!

Can I get two boxes to go?

Here you go.

So that's it?

You gave up on me.

I didn't give up.

I got fired.

Know why I picked you, Rudy?

'Cause I'm the only lawyer who said yes?

No, dingbat.

I went with you 'cause you got a fire in your belly.

The other day, you said there were

two nurses that treated my son.

There were a lot of nurses.

Don't play dumb.

Bruiser didn't want me to know.

Why not?

I'm not your lawyer anymore.

But you're my friend, right?

Yeah, of course.

What do you think this pritcher did to my boy?

I don't know.

You don't know, or you can't be sure?

What's the difference?

I think you know he did something,

but you can't be sure.

What I'm pretty sure of

is that the answer is in that tissue committee file.

So get the file.

The judge shut us down.

Then find another way.

It's not that easy, dot.

If it was easy, I wouldn't need you.

Rudy, would you mind if I ask how your brother died?

Car accident.

We hit a deer.

You were there?

I was wearing a seat belt.

He wasn't.

Let me ask you something.

If a lawyer came to your house

and told you that it wasn't a deer,

but a man that caused that accident

and killed your brother,

and in the very same breath, that lawyer asked you

how much money you would take to forget about it,

what would you say?

There it is.

There's what?

Fire in the belly.

Leo, I'm worried.

We need to button this thing up.

We just won a motion

that will put the whole thing to bed.

Not all of it.

Both nurses still unaccounted for.

This lemancyzk woman and this psychopath...

you worry too much.

Brad said that he had a professional

taking care of it.

But now...

This whole thing was supposed to protect me and my company.

But it was stupid.

Stupid and wrong.

I should have gone to the police.

Think I still can?

If you think it'll solve your problem.

Lob wedge.

Thank you.

However, I've always been a believer that

there's a proper tool for... for every job.

You're bringing in someone else?

Let's go find your ball.

Jesus.

Manfred.

Dr. Windon to pediatrics, please.

Dr. Windon to pediatrics.

Yeah.

What are you doing here?

Thanks.

Hey. I just came to say hi.

Got you a Dr. Pepper.

No.

You shouldn't be here, Rudy.

I thought you said cliff sleeps all day

when he works nights.

He does, but... He's been different since this.

He says it's 'cause he misses me, but...

- but... - He's scared.

He doesn't get scared.

He should be.

He put his wife in the hospital.

I'm sorry.

I said I wouldn't talk about it.

They're discharging me tomorrow.

Yeah?

I asked if I could stay longer,

just till I get my strength up.

Is that the reason?

No.

What's that?

It's a game called pass the pigs.

Let me see.

I've been playing it with the nurses.

Turns out I'm really good.

Dice shaped like pigs.

Let's play then.

- Is that good? - No.

- That's not good? - It's bad.

Kelly...

I... I had a plan...

To get away from him.

I... I saved for months, hiding the money.

But then he found it.

Next thing I knew, I woke up here.

You don't have to go back there, Kelly.

Let me help you.

I can get you someplace safe.

No, there is nowhere safe, not even the police.

That's why I didn't press charges.

No matter what I do, no matter where I go,

he'll find me.

Let's just keep playing, ok?

Yeah.

Well, Bradley, Sarah wasn't always

the killer lawyer she is now.

She was once a sensitive artiste.

I wanted to be a film director.

Not just a director, an auteur.

This is hilarious.

So one Christmas break,

she decided to make a short film.

And while they were shooting in the dining hall,

a generator caught fire.

I am gonna murder you, fi.

It was... it was not my fault.

That's not what the judge said.

What, this went to court?

Andover survived 300 years of civil war,

witch hunts, and shite new England weather,

but one day shooting a Sarah plankmore joint,

and it... it is all over.

The building was fine!

Ok, hold that thought.

I gotta run to the men's room.

You're incorrigible.

Your boyfriend was eating it up.

He is not my boyfriend.

Come on.

Don't tell me you're still shagging

that sad bartender... Ruben or whatever his name is.

Rudy.

And, no, we... we actually broke up.

- About time! - Don't say that.

No, Rudy's a good guy.

Good is boring.

I bet smoke show Brad is a romp.

Look at him.

He's ridonkulous.

Cheers.

- Cheers. - Cheers.

Whoa.

Stupid heels.

Yeah.

Stupid heels.

What time is our flight tomorrow?

It's early.

We should probably go to bed.

Yeah, we should definitely go to bed.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

Do you wanna... I don't know.

We probably shouldn't.

Yeah, yeah.

You're probably right.

Yeah.

We should go to bed.

Yeah.

Well, if you change your mind, you know where to find me.

Yeah.

Hello?

Did you mean what you said

about getting me somewhere safe?

Kelly.

Yeah, of course.

He'll be here in an hour, Rudy.

Ok. I'll be there in 20 minutes.

Prince!

I gotta head out for a while.

Can you cover for me?

Yeah, well, where you going?

A friend is in trouble.

Yeah, well, what kind of trouble?

She's in the hospital.

Her husband beats her pretty bad.

She needs me.

I gotta go get her before he shows up.

That kind of trouble.

This guy know about you?

Yeah, probably.

Yeah, well, now that's

a different kind of trouble altogether.

Sit down.

I gotta go.

Sit down.

So this guy feels free to give his wife a beatdown.

What you think he gon' do to you?

You sure you wanna put yourself in the middle of this?

Well, don't take her to your place.

No, no.

I was gonna take her to my mom's.

Look, if I'm him, I'd start at your place,

and then your family.

If you're really doing this,

you make sure you get her somewhere he'd never look.

And get back here when you're done.

Thank you so much.

Hey.

Hey.

Last night was a lot of fun.

Yeah.

Yeah, Fiona's a trip.

That's not what I meant.

I know.

So it was a crazy night in London.

We can forget about the whole thing if you want.

Is that what you want?

I tend not to think in those terms.

If you never wanna do it again

or if you wanna forget about it, it's totally fine.

I don't wanna make you uncomfortable.

You're not.

Believe me.

So guess what.

J. Lyman stone wanna talk about settling when we're back.

Really? Wow.

It's all thanks to you.

But it was just a pre-trial hearing.

But if we had lost,

it would have been a very different negotiation.

Why?

Brad, what's in those documents?

I should get back to Leo.

And you should get some sleep.

I'm sure you have the same headache I do.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Your chariot awaits.

- Thanks. - Let me get that for you.

Thanks.

Buy a girl a drink first.

Is that what I've been doing wrong all this time?

Thanks.

You ready?

No.

But yes.

Thanks.

- Come on. - Yeah.

Hey, Daisy.

Thanks.

Kelly, this is dot.

Dot, this is Kelly.

Thank you so much for letting me stay at your house.

Well, you'll soon find out this is Daisy's house.

I'm just living in it.

Now so are you.

Thank you.

Dot... Thanks.

I was right about you.

Come on, girl.

Thanks.

Up here.

Your house is lovely.

I ordered you a Vietnamese coffee.

I hope that's ok.

I'm on a sugar cleanse.

Coffee, black.

So the story goes that the beans native to Vietnam

were so bitter that the French needed

something sweet enough to choke the stuff down,

hence condensed milk.

I can sit here all day talking about

French colonialism, Leo, but let's get to it.

It's time to close this thing.

Music to my ears.

It's gone on a month too long already.

Your lifeblood is billable hours,

so a simple "thank you" would suffice.

You don't wanna sit through a month

of meaningless depositions any more than I do.

You've got nothing, and we both know it.

Well, my client feels otherwise.

She wants this fight.

So I need a number sweet enough to get her to choke it down.

Really?

Emotional client you can't control.

You don't think I've seen that move before?

I taught your dad that move.

- What's the offer up to? - Up?

The last offer was $250,000.

The current offer is $150,000.

But there's a clock on it.

If you make me sit through that first deposition tomorrow,

that offer cuts in half,

which brings your take down to... Operating costs?

Speaking of the old man,

he gets out pretty soon, doesn't he?

How's he gonna feel about you squandering a $250,000 offer?

Tick tock, bruiser.

Brad noon an wanted me to pull some files

for the great benefit case,

but I can't seem to find them on the c server.

What files are you looking for?

It's, minutes from the tissue committee at north city.

Looks like those are on the internal server.

It's for highly sensitive client files.

Air gapped, accessible only from the law firm.

You can access it from that terminal over there,

if you're credentialed.

Ok, thanks.

I need you to look something up for me.

Stop calling me.

Bernie manfred's datebook is in discovery.

I need the date he met with Jackie lemancyzk.

- Why? - Come on, man.

Just give it to me.

Fine.

I hate you. Hold on.

I heard you were working here again.

Nice way of saying you heard I got fired.

Give me two seconds, please.

All right, I got it.

Ok, go ahead.

Jack, get in here!

Yeah, I'm coming!

September 2nd.

Great.

I'll... I'll send you my résumé.

What?

Thanks so much for your time.

Just trying to find a new job.

Rudy, I'm really sorry.

Yeah? Me too.

London looked fun.

Yeah.

Yeah, keeley was... was very generous.

I bet.

I hate this.

I hate that we can't, like...

I don't know... like, be there for each other anymore.

I'm still here.

That's good to know.

You crushed that hearing, Sarah.

You don't owe me an apology.

You beat me, fair and square.

Look, now that you're off the case,

can I ask you something?

I still have to honor privilege.

So do I. I learned that the hard way.

Do you actually think

Melvin killed Donny ray deliberately?

It's on the record.

And you honestly think that great benefit covered it up?

Why would all those people

agree to do something like that?

How many people were involved in enron,

lehman brothers, theranos?

But this is a murder, according to you.

What would they have to gain

by covering for some psycho nurse?

Trey.

Hey, man. Surprised.

Haven't heard from you since graduation.

Look what the cat dragged in.

How you doing, man?

Your text was cryptic.

Trying to figure out if an exec I'm up against

was doing some insider trading.

Ever come across that kind of thing?

At merrill?

Only all the time.

How do people, get caught?

Usually a form 4 pops up on the Edgar list.

The Edgar list?

Sec database.

Tracks filings and disclosures

for officers of all publicly traded companies.

That sounds handy.

You want me to look him up?

You'd be ok with that?

What's the name?

It's Bernie manfred, great benefit hospital systems.

I got you.

In the kitchen.

You ready?

First, I have something for you.

Ok.

I opened it by accident.

What is it?

Open it.

The reason you hadn't heard, Rudy,

is because you got the highest score in 10 years.

They had to recheck it to make sure.

I'm so proud of you.

I couldn't have done it without you.

Hello, Tinley britt.

Excuse me!

I'm late for a deposition.

Name?

Rudy baylor.

Opposing counsel, black v. Great benefit.

You're not on the list.

Bernard manfred.

I'm the vice president of quality assurance

and clinical program oversight for north city hospital,

a subsidiary of great benefit hospital systems.

Sweet Mary on a cracker.

I'll be right back.

Can you tell us what your responsibilities are?

How you doing?

Hey, dude, what the hell do you think you're doing?

Look at this.

Ok.

- What do you see? - I don't know.

I see a rich guy showing off.

Except he's not a rich guy.

He makes less than a buck fifty.

He's vp of quality assurance at great benefit.

What?

You see these dates?

They're all late September into October.

- You think he was paid off? - Paid off, I don't know.

What I do know is he sold a whole lot of stock.

What are you doing?

Getting bruiser.

- Hey. - You got a lot of nerve.

All right, boss, just hear him out,

'cause I think he's on to something.

- Et tu, asshole? - No, I'm Sweden in this thing.

Switzerland.

Is it true, what Sweden here texted me?

Yes, I can get manfred to waive privilege

on the tissue committee.

That's a hell of a leap.

Plus, you don't work for me, remember?

Let me do it, bruiser.

I can get you there.

If I had a nickel for every time

a guy said that to me.

I just have to get him to say the words

"tissue committee."

He just has to open up the door, right?

Yes.

What have you got to lose?

I already screwed up your case.

Great pitch.

Ok.

Let's say I let you in there.

What do you think you can do that I can't?

I'm gonna use my worst quality.

I'm gonna annoy the living hell out of him.

Let the record show that my associate, Rudy baylor,

will take over questioning for a while.

Associate? Didn't you fire him?

Didn't your mother teach you never to listen to rumors, Leo?

Nice suit.

Just a few questions

to clarify the timeline, Mr. Manfred.

You met with Jackie lemancyzk on September 2nd.

Is that correct?

If that's what my schedule says.

And what did you discuss?

We covered that before you crashed the party.

He doesn't recall.

I meet with hospital staff all day long.

I don't remember all of the details.

But didn't you fire her?

Not that day, no.

No, you fired her on September 9th.

Is that correct?

Sounds right.

So you do remember that seven days after meeting her,

you fired her,

but you have no recollection of what you discussed.

Objection. Asked and answered.

Answer the question, please.

But he objected.

Good title for your memoirs, Leo.

This is a deposition, not a trial.

You have to answer.

I don't remember.

Melvin pritcher was fired the same week.

Isn't that correct?

Yes.

So why were these two nurses fired?

The hospital was going through a round of layoffs.

Really? Weird.

Personnel records show

the layoffs ended a year earlier.

Jackie lemancyzk was one of your top nurses.

Why was she fired?

She wasn't a top nurse.

Top nurses don't violate the law.

So now she's not just a bad nurse.

- She's a criminal. - Come on.

For your information, she violated hip a a 15 times.

She did it to herself.

I thought you said

you don't remember what you discussed.

The truth is, you know exactly what you discussed.

Of course you remember,

'cause it scared the hell out of you.

Absolutely not.

Are stock options part of your compensation package?

Objection.

- For the record, relevance. - I'm gonna ask you again.

Are stock options part of your compensation package?

Yes.

When do they vest?

After two years with the company.

Yours vested in 2013.

And I see from your quarterly filings

that since then and for the last 41 quarters,

you haven't made any move to sell or trade these assets.

Is that correct?

Yes.

Till September 5th,

three days after you met with Jackie lemancyzk

and one day after you met with your ceo,

wilfred keeley, right?

Objection, relevance.

She recorded the objection.

Mr. Manfred, what was it

that Jackie lemancyzk said to you in that meeting

that made you wanna dump all that stock?

I object strenuously.

I get it.

Right now, you're thinking, I don't wanna get fired.

What you should be thinking about

is how much worse it's gonna be

when you're indicted for insider trading.

Then it's not just civil penalties

against the hospital now.

It's prison for you, Bernie.

But I'm just an ambulance chaser.

What do I know?

Isn't it true that Jackie lemancyzk

brought her concerns to you about Melvin pritcher,

that he knowingly and willfully caused

- the death of Donny ray black? - This is ridiculous.

Objection. Harassing the witness.

What could she have said that made you want to sell...

- Jackie was wrong. - Your stock in the company?

The tissue committee found no evidence of wrongdoing.

- We done here? - Done?

Did you not hear what I said? There was no malpractice.

Stop talking now.

Documents within 24 hours, Leo,

or we will file for sanctions.

Welcome back.

What just happened?

You just waived privilege on the tissue committee.

- Manfred screwed us. - Did he?

Or did you?

Me?

What did he do wrong, Sarah?

Manfred got emotional.

Not manfred, Brad.

Leo.

What did he do wrong, Sarah?

He objected too much.

Why is that a problem?

Because a client has to answer.

So when you repeatedly object, you signal to the other side

that we're worried about this.

Thank you.

A trial is a hostage negotiation,

only you get to decide which part you play.

Are you the prisoner or the guy with the gun?

You object once for the record.

But when you're objecting a third time,

and strenuously no less, you've handed the gun over

and joined the hostages against the wall!

Maybe submission's your kink, Brad.

I don't know.

Something tells me Sarah wants the gun.

I'm sorry.

He trapped me.

Wait a second.

It says here there are 11 doctors

on the tissue committee, and Jackie was the first

and only nurse they ever admitted.

Wait. Check this out.

Six members of the committee voted

for a larger investigation into Donny Ray's death.

Did we even know there was a vote?

No, we did not.

Boys, I've got it.

Is it what we thought?

Yeah, but... but what?

Don't give us blue balls here.

Well, Jackie doesn't just say Donny ray black.

Yeah?

She says she believes that

this might be part of a larger pattern.

What does that mean?

They stopped the hearing.

Committee chair sent her in to see Bernie manfred.

- Bernie manfred. - Wait.

Manfred fired Jackie for violating hip a a, right?

Yeah, 15 counts.

That's what spooked him.

Donny ray was one of 15 cases.

A homicidal nurse on a killing spree.

We're gonna need a bigger boat.

No.

We need to find Jackie lemancyzk.