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- In the criminal justice system,

the people are represented

by two separate, yet equally important groups:

the police, who investigate crime,

and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

- People accuse you of being ruthless

in your investment philosophy, especially considering--

- I'm the only one keeping these companies honest.

There's rampant mismanagement and waste

in corporate America--

unearned bonuses, excessive salaries.

When I buy a stake in a company,

I become a watchdog.

- Some would say a rabid watchdog.

Even better.

But I'm doing it for the little guy--

the cops, the teachers, the nurses.

They own publicly traded stocks in their 401s,

in their IRAs.

I keep the fat cats honest,

make them justify decisions, their compensation--

- So you consider yourself a public servant?

No, no, no.

I'm a capitalist.

My goal is to make money

for me and for all the other shareholders

who put their faith in the hands of executives

running publicly traded companies.

- Museum of Natural History.

- I believe in growth, prosperity,

pushing for change

in the name of the greater good.

- Big party?

- No, no, no. - My God.

My God. No.

- Vic's Thomas Hardiman, 53. - What happened?

- He was hit by a taxi, 2003 hours.

- Hit-and-run? - More like hit-and-cry.

The driver was a blubbery mess.

Said there was an altercation.

Vic was shoved in front of the cab.

- Did he see who did the shoving?

- Nope.

- Was there a passenger in the taxi?

- A woman.

She was on her phone, didn't see anything.

- Did the driver give a description?

- It was dark.

Couldn't even say if it was a man or woman.

All he said was medium build, wearing some kind of brown hat.

Headed east on foot. - Okay.

Pull all the ARGUS footage from the area.

And since there was a struggle, have the MLI check

for third-party DNA on the vic.

- Vic's got his phone here.

And this is a very fancy wallet,

so I don't think we're looking at a robbery.

Lives at 1157 57th Street.

That's near Billionaires' Row.

- He's got a wedding ring.

- Let's go deliver the news.

Till death do us part.

* *

* *

- It would be helpful

to know where your husband was this evening,

who he was seeing.

I wish I could help.

Tom and I have been separated,

about three months now.

- Do you know what he was doing in the neighborhood

where he was killed-- West 43rd Street?

That's by the Harvard Club.

Tom went there most nights, around 8:00 or so.

- And did your husband have any enemies,

anyone who might have threatened him?

- Do you know who Tom was, what he did?

Well, his business card

just said that he ran Broadchurch Investment Fund.

- Tom wasn't just any investor.

He was an activist investor.

- What does that mean?

- He buys a big stake,

tells them not so nicely what they're doing wrong,

how to run their company.

- Used to call those guys "corporate raiders."

- So made money, not friends.

- Exactly.

- How about recently?

Did he get into it with anyone in particular?

- I have not kept up on his day-to-day.

His girlfriend might know.

- His girlfriend?

- Some professor up at Hudson. I don't have a name.

Sometimes it's better not to know.

- And what about you?

What were you doing tonight around 8:00 p.m.?

I was at my book club.

It's ten women married to fund managers.

We all have a lot of downtime.

- Okay, well, we're--

we're gonna ask you to send us some names.

- Of course.

I can't believe he's really gone.

- If you think of anything else...

- We looked at the university's social media.

Tom Hardiman was a guest lecturer

in your class a few months ago,

and I guess you two, hit it off?

- I never meant to fall in love.

There's no one like Tom--

fearless thinker in an age of cowardly groupthink.

- What's a billionaire investor doing

giving a lecture at a college?

No offense.

- I teach Information Asymmetry.

It's how knowledge translates into economic power.

- So how were things between you two?

- We made each other very happy.

- Did you see Hardiman last night?

- No. I was stuck on campus meeting with students.

You can talk to security.

- Was he receiving any threats? - Some people hated him

or hated the way that he challenged them...

Challenged their rigid old-school ways.

He liked to say he could fill a country with his enemies.

- Got any names? - No.

He never took them seriously.

- We have to get moving.

- Okay, well, if you think of anything...

Any chance your husband found out about the relationship?

- Of course. I told Marc. It's why I filed for divorce.

- Thanks.

- All right, that text I got?

They found third-party DNA under Hardiman's nails

and on his jacket.

- Any hits in CODIS? - Nope, but it's male.

- I say we talk to the jilted husband.

- Ariana told me she was in love.

Hell, I was glad she told me.

Truth is freeing.

And if Ariana wants out, that's her right.

- Pretty zen for the guy who called Tom Hardiman

over a dozen times in the past week.

- Look, I wanted to sit down with the man face-to-face.

That jackass was paying for her divorce lawyer,

bankrolling her custody fight.

- If I'm being ferociously honest...

that sounds like motive.

- I got nothing to hide.

We met for lunch,

and I told Hardiman exactly what I thought of him.

- Really? - How'd that go?

Things get ugly? They turn physical at all?

- They probably would have, but some nut job beat me to it.

- What does that mean?

- As Hardiman was heading for the exit,

some guy comes up,

starts grabbing at him, taking swings.

So I just watched and enjoyed the show.

- Okay. You got an alibi for 8:00 p.m. last night?

- Yeah. I was leading a seminar on the Lower East Side--

Finding Your Truth.

You should come sometime.

- Hey.

So our life-coach husband was telling the truth.

62 people were learning to be ferociously honest

for 180 bucks a pop

while Tom Hardiman was getting pushed in front of a cab.

- I bet ferocious honesty kills more people per year

than cigarettes. - Yeah.

Yeah, when my wife and I got back together,

we had one agreement-- no questions,

no confessions about our time apart.

- What you don't know can't hurt you.

And what you don't say can't be used in a custody battle.

- Hey.

So I pulled that video you asked for from the restaurant.

Take a look.

There's no match in facial rec,

but there was a patch on his jacket.

- Okay, let's do a little digging

and see if anyone was trashing Hardiman

at Mercy Hospital. - Yeah.

Couple posts on social media here.

#MercyHospital, #TomHardiman.

There's one from Carlos Guzman, who seems to be a nurse.

This one's a gem from a couple days ago.

- "Tom Hardiman has blood on his hands.

Time for retribution."

* *

COO said he worked on the fifth floor?

- On Mondays, yeah.

He's on the sixth floor the other four days.

Wait a minute. Is that our guy right there?

- Looks like it.

- Hey, Carlos Guzman. NYPD. We need to talk to you.

He's gonna rabbit.

* *

- All right, all right. Don't move. Don't move.

Don't look so surprised.

- You're coming with us.

- I told you, I got nothing to do with any murder!

- Sit down, okay? Sit.

- You took swings at Tom Hardiman

outside a midtown bistro, and two days later, he's dead.

You understand why we have questions?

- What's your beef with the guy, anyway?

Why this need for retribution?

- Hardiman's fund... - Broadchurch Investments.

- They bought a big-ass stake

in the hospital chain I work for.

No one told us.

It's not like we're reading financial news.

But all of a sudden, there's a new head of hospital.

Then half the trauma ward gets fired.

- So he downsized.

Must have ticked you off.

- What ticked me off?

Empty supply closets, no pain meds for patients,

no ventilators.

The nursing staff couldn't even get protective gear.

- And so you wanted him dead.

I wanted to expose him.

People need to know the truth.

- That's very noble.

But we think there's something more personal.

- And we happen to know that your mother died

at Mercy Hospital two months after Hardiman took over.

And that would piss me off

if I found out that some suit's budget cuts led to my mom

not getting the care that she needed.

- Carlos, where were you last night around 8:00 p.m.?

- At the bedside of a 28-year-old,

who died because we didn't have a goddamn ventilator!

Ask his wife, his parents...

or his two young children.

* *

- We will look into that.

- Whoever offed Tom Hardiman saved lives,

did good.

* *

- Guzman's alibi checks out.

And he's kind of a hero over at Mercy,

so I think we got to cut him loose

before the nursing staff storms this place.

- Okay. Do it.

These hedge funds are pillaging our health-care system.

- They're also going after newspapers,

toy companies, anything,

as long as there's a green rainbow at the end.

- Maybe we should look

into some of Hardiman's other investments,

see if there's anyone who feels as passionately as Guzman.

- Well, according to "The Wall Street Journal,"

Hardiman's latest investment was WellPoint Therapeutics.

There's a ton of articles predicting a brutal showdown

between Hardiman and WellPoint's CEO.

- I'm looking at Hardiman's calendar.

Last meeting he had on the day he was killed was at WellPoint.

- Let's go.

- I was shocked to hear about Tom.

He was such a young man.

- You had a meeting with him on the day he was killed?

- Yeah. We met right here.

- Anything strange about the meeting, any arguments?

- I'll save you from barking up that tree.

Despite the press hoopla

about a looming showdown between us,

our meeting was cordial.

So don't believe everything you read.

- So he wasn't trying to pillage your company?

No.

Well, he--he--he bought a 24% stake,

got himself a seat on the board,

had some thoughts he wanted to share,

asked me for a one-on-one to present his ideas,

and I agreed. - And?

And, it was a pleasant, productive conversation.

- Mr. Munson, your conference call

is about to begin.

- Yes. - Yes, thank you.

Um...

I'm sorry. My assistant will see you out.

- Just one last thing for protocol--

where were you last night at 8:00 p.m.?

- I was at home reading a bedtime story

to my grandkids.

We should all be so blessed.

- Okay, thank you.

- Munson mentioned that his meeting was a one-on-one.

But in Hardiman's calendar, he mentions

that he met with someone else from the company

by the name of Kevin Goodall?

- Sure. He's our head of research.

- Well, Hardiman wanted it to be just the two of them,

but I insisted on attending. - And why is that?

- Norm founded this company 40 years ago.

He devoted his time and capital into researching cures

for rare diseases, whereas Tom Hardiman--

thank you--

is a high-end pickpocket in a Brioni suit,

trying to tell Norman Munson, who started as a doctor

and is one of the pioneers of drug research,

how to run his pharmaceutical business?

The arrogance.

So, yeah, I wanted to be there.

- Sounds like maybe things got a little heated.

- No.

No.

Norm is a class act.

He refused to take the bait.

Eventually Hardiman backed off,

and the whole thing stayed pleasantly professional.

- Did Hardiman seem distracted or stressed?

- I don't know the guy's baseline.

But the meeting was shorter than I would have anticipated.

Thought he would've stuck around and pressed his points.

It took about 30 minutes or so.

Then he ran out of here like he had a plane to catch.

- What time was that? - 6:30.

- Do you know where he was going?

- No, he wasn't the chatty type.

- Okay, well, just so we can cross you off the list,

where were you last night at 8:00 p.m.?

- I was at home with my wife,

telling her what a clown Hardiman is--

was.

- Just got off the phone with Goodall's wife.

She confirms he was home at 8:00.

And Munson's family

corroborates his version of events.

- Well, I got video of Hardiman leaving WellPoint at 6:30,

like Goodall said.

He is pacing.

Looks like he's yelling at somebody on his phone.

And then he heads off down the street,

and we lose him on the cameras.

- And according to his call log,

at 6:38, he called a number registered

to Preston Kane four times.

- Who's Preston Kane?

- He's the chairman of WellPoint Therapeutics.

- Yes, I got a couple calls, but I didn't pick up,

and I was out when Tom appeared on my doorbell cam.

- Do you know why he came by?

- Hardiman had a one-track mind.

Every call and meeting was about the same thing--

he wanted to fire Norman Munson.

- Why is that? - Change the company's focus.

Redirect our R&D to big-market, high-profit therapies.

- Well, that sounds like Hardiman's MO.

- It is, except the WellPoint board loves Norm.

Everyone loves Norm, despite the company's

lackluster financial results the past few years.

- So Hardiman wanted him fired, but the board wasn't having it?

Couple board members were on the fence, but you're correct.

Hardiman was never gonna get the votes he needed.

It was driving him crazy.

- Why so much love for Norm Munson?

- Look, it's not the most popular concept these days,

but Munson believes there are things

more important than profit.

He believes in a greater good.

- Hardiman called you 4 times,

and one of the calls lasted 17 seconds.

Are you sure he didn't reach you?

- He left a voicemail--

"I finally got what I need. Norm Munson is a goner."

* *

- Ryan Elliott?

I'm Detective Riley.

This is Lieutenant Brady. NYPD.

- We were told you worked closely with Tom Hardiman.

Yeah, until he fired me yesterday.

Don't worry.

I was throwing back Patron shots

with a half dozen colleagues when Hardiman hit the pavement.

- You sound really broken up about it.

- What can I say? The guy was a prick.

The thing that really gets to me, though,

is I knew it but tried to convince myself

that he was actually a decent human being.

- What do you know about Hardiman's relationship

with Norman Munson? - He hated that man.

He spent 50% of his time trying to fire his ass.

Already had his successor picked out, too.

- Hardiman chose Munson's successor?

- And a three-year business plan.

He shared it with the board.

- Munson knew about this? - He sure did.

But he didn't care.

Told Hardiman to kiss his ass.

- Well, apparently, Hardiman left a voicemail

with WellPoint's chairman of the board.

- Preston Kane.

- Yeah, something about how he finally had

what he needed to get Munson fired,

like he had some smoking gun.

- And 30 minutes or so later, he was dead,

so we think there's some connection.

Whatever Hardiman discovered

might have triggered someone to kill him.

- I wish I could help you, but...

I don't know anything about that.

Sorry.

- Okay, well, thank you for your time.

Well, one thing's clear--

Munson lied to us when he told us that meeting with Hardiman

ended in some sort of gentlemen's agreement.

- Yeah, it sounds like that one-on-one

wasn't quite as friendly as he suggested?

- Yeah, maybe he's not as warm and cuddly as he looks.

- Even a teddy bear is gonna get its back up

when some young hotshot's trying to fire him

from his own damn company.

- Sounds like motive.

- Yeah, but, I mean, what, Munson's 70?

He didn't seem like a killer type to me.

And his family said that he was home at the time of the murder.

- Maybe they're covering for him.

Just pull more video from the WellPoint offices

and the crime scene.

We just need one shot of Munson,

hopefully wearing a brown hat.

And then we can get a warrant for his DNA.

- What's going on here?

- Sorry, sir. You're gonna step aside.

- This is my company. - Sir, step aside.

- Kevin Goodall, we need to talk.

- We found video of you at the crime scene

and your DNA on the victim.

- Which means you're under arrest for murder.

You have the right to remain silent.

- Kevin, what's going on? - Don't talk to anyone, Norm.

- I don't understand. - Say nothing to anyone!

* *

- I can't wait.

Hey, I got to go.

Yep. See you later.

You have no poker face, Nolan.

- It's the mystery woman, isn't it?

You're clearly smitten.

No comment.

- Just give me something--

how you met, what she does.

- She is a psychiatrist.

Don't say it.

- No, I won't.

'Cause I can think of absolutely no reason

for you to be seeing a psychiatrist.

- How'd the arraignment go? - Judge Romano granted bail.

- On a murder two charge? - Yeah.

Defense rattled off Goodall's résumé.

He's got awards from the NIH, CDC,

MD, PhD in pharmacology,

member of the AMA, an active community member

who has never so much as gotten a speeding ticket.

- Not our first golden-boy murderer.

- Yeah. - How's our evidence?

- Video showing Goodall leaving WellPoint at 7:30 p.m.,

heading in the direction of the crime scene,

and then one block away,

putting on a brown hat that matches the description

from the taxi driver.

Plus, his DNA was a full match to the third-party DNA

found on the victim.

- Why'd he do it? - I'm not sure yet.

W-we know Hardiman was gunning to fire Goodall's boss.

- So let's find out what would have happened to Goodall

if Hardiman had had his way.

Otherwise, your evidence is solid.

- I'm not so sure about that.

Defense just filed a motion to suppress the DNA.

- It's a Fourth Amendment violation,

a total invasion of my client's privacy.

- Your Honor, the defendant voluntarily surrendered his DNA

and blood to his employer without signing or--

or demanding any agreement that his employer keep

those records confidential. - Is this true?

- Only because the sample was provided

years before standard privacy forms,

before the government was actively assembling

DNA databases to solve crimes.

- Please tell me police at least had a subpoena.

- Yes, they had reason to believe Goodall was the killer,

so we served the company with a grand jury subpoena

to produce Goodall's DNA,

which, again, he had voluntarily provided

to the company.

This was not some wild database goose chase.

- It is an incontrovertible good for medical researchers

to provide their blood and DNA in labs

so that research can proceed accurately and safely

without any risk of cross-contamination.

But if we violate the privacy of these doctors

because of a technicality,

you put future life-saving research at risk

because nobody will sign up

to hand over their DNA for science.

- I agree.

- Your Honor, w-we could have gotten

a separate warrant t-to collect the DNA after the arrest.

- An arrest based on this first invasion of privacy--

fruit of the poisonous tree.

- The DNA is out.

And you won't be getting any other warrant to get it either.

* *

- And Tom Hardiman was notorious for ousting CEOs

and installing new ones? - Correct.

- Did he articulate this plan

to members of the WellPoint board?

- Brought it up at every meeting,

even called me a few times.

- In fact, he had proposed a specific replacement CEO.

- Yes, called him a brilliant shark.

- The night Tom Hardiman was killed,

he left you an urgent voicemail, correct?

And he tried to find you at home.

- Correct. - Do you know why?

- His voicemail suggested he'd finally found a way

to get rid of Munson.

"I finally got what I need.

Munson's a goner," were his words.

- And if Munson was gone,

what would happen to the defendant, Kevin Goodall?

- Objection. Speculative.

Your Honor, the victim shared

his own WellPoint three-year business plan with the witness.

- Overruled. Mr. Kane, please answer.

- Munson hired Goodall right out of medical school,

treated him like a son.

Hardiman told us the new CEO would clean house.

And that meant firing Goodall.

- Thank you. Nothing further.

- Is Kevin Goodall a capable head of medical research?

- He's excellent.

- Under his oversight, how many drugs has WellPoint patented

and brought to market?

- Last ten years? Seven.

- Are you aware he'd received four offers

from competing firms in the past year alone

for better pay?

- I heard about one. The others don't surprise me.

Kevin is a well-respected researcher.

And we knew he only stayed at WellPoint

out of loyalty to Norm's vision.

- Do you have any reason to believe that Kevin Goodall

had financial problems? - No.

- Have you ever been to Kevin Goodall's home?

- Yes, once, for dinner.

* *

- Is this it, on Central Park West?

- Objection. Relevance.

- Prosecution put forth a theory

that my client's motive was anxiety

about losing his $600,000-a-year job.

Mr. Kane can rebut that.

- I'll allow. Mr. Kane?

- Yes, this is Kevin's home.

- He purchased it for $12.7 million in 2019.

Not bad for a medical researcher.

- I believe there's family money there from real estate.

- So do you have any reason to believe that Kevin Goodall

was desperate to keep his job at WellPoint,

so desperate he would kill for it?

- No, not at all.

* *

- Defense is right.

If Goodall is that wealthy, he didn't even need to work.

Why would he stress about losing his job at WellPoint?

The motive still doesn't add up yet.

What are we missing?

- This murder was emotional, improvised.

Nobody plans to push someone in front of a taxi.

So what set it in motion?

Maybe something happened at the WellPoint meeting

between Hardiman, Munson, and Goodall?

Something that rattled Goodall?

- Made him angry or worried enough to kill.

- I'm saying nothing.

- We just want to know about the meeting that day,

if anything happened to upset Kevin Goodall.

- Do you know how many hours

of rigorous, meticulous laboratory oversight

goes into bringing a life-saving drug to market?

It's not a job. It is a sacred commitment.

It takes constant vigilance.

Goodall is a great researcher...

and a great man.

- Mr. Munson has to prepare for a call.

- You've got the wrong guy.

* *

- Mr. Munson did nothing wrong in that meeting.

Please stop agitating him.

- How do you know he did nothing wrong?

Were you there?

- I attend all of Mr. Munson's meetings.

I'm with him the entire workday.

- Okay, then why don't you just tell us what went down?

Did Hardiman threaten Munson? Did he threaten Goodall?

- I can't answer any further questions.

- Just so you know, the DA can subpoena you

to appear in court.

- I can't speak.

I'm bound by New York State law.

- What law?

- HIPAA.

I'm Norman Munson's nurse.

* *

Here we go.

Munson's assistant-- before this,

he spent five years working at the Flowering Garden Facility

in Queens.

- What is that?

- Memory-care facility.

- According to his financials,

Munson made three large payments this year

to a Dr. Naomi Nezkahmi.

Nezkahmi.

She's a neurologist.

* *

- That's it.

That's the smoking gun Hardiman was looking for.

Norman Munson has dementia.

- Somehow, Hardiman discovered Munson's dementia

at that meeting. - Well, he must have.

- It was a pretty late meeting.

In my father's last years, he struggled to stay sharp.

But after an hour, especially in the afternoon,

his basic recall always failed.

He could tell you every detail

of what happened in his childhood,

but he would forget what he had for breakfast.

I remember the shame on his face

when he couldn't find an answer.

It was--it was heartbreaking.

- So Munson tripped up, and Hardiman saw it.

- And Goodall saw it.

- My guess--

that's why Goodall was in the meeting to begin with.

He spends a lot of time with Munson.

He had to know about Munson's decline.

He was guarding the secret,

because if the board found out about Munson's dementia...

- Forget about votes. That would force his dismissal.

So Hardiman was going to expose Munson's condition,

have him fired.

That still only gets you halfway to motive.

Why would Goodall kill to keep Munson as CEO?

You said he was rich, had job options.

- I know. I've been digging into Goodall's life.

He was the furthest thing from desperate.

He donated lots of money,

tens of thousands to various schools, hospitals.

- Whatever motivated him, his wife seemed to know.

She vouched for his alibi, right?

- Lied to police about what time he got home.

- Yeah, there's no way she's gonna talk to us.

- When Goodall's wife lied, she waived privilege.

Give it a shot. Track her down.

- Rachel Goodall-- her housekeeper said

she's been here since 7:00 a.m.?

- Yes, Mrs. Goodall is an early bird,

always here at the crack of dawn.

Here we are.

Do you mind?

The kids are fragile.

Leukemia, Batten disease-- here for our trials.

* *

Mrs. Goodall is over there.

* *

I am not talking to you.

Please leave.

- We just have some questions. Please.

- I'm not gonna help you with anything.

- We can subpoena you.

- That is the least of my concerns.

* *

- Hi, sweetie. What's your name?

* *

Is this Kevin Goodall's daughter?

She can't speak?

- Batten disease.

It's brutal.

It erodes the ability to communicate...

on top of the seizures, the disorientation,

- eventual blindness. - They're all kids?

- Symptoms present around the age of six.

From that point,

the body essentially starts to deteriorate.

- You're running the trials for WellPoint, correct?

- We're one year in.

- How's it going? Are you close to a cure?

- We're getting close,

but we're still a few years out.

The survival rate for Batten is under 2%.

That's why we're working around the clock.

It's the only chance these kids have.

- Thanks.

- Goodall didn't kill Hardiman to save his job.

- So, if Hardiman had been able to install

his new profit-driven CEO at WellPoint,

what would have been his first order of business?

- Eliminate budget waste.

- Can you elaborate?

- WellPoint spends a fortune on small-market research

into rare diseases.

Hardiman wanted WellPoint moving to cholesterol,

blood pressure, weight-loss drugs,

products with bigger markets.

- So some WellPoint trials would have ended.

- Immediately. - Had he done this before--

cut drug research mid-trial

in--in other firms that he invested in?

- It's how he made his money.

- Did Tom Hardiman share his proposed budget cuts

with the WellPoint board?

- Yes.

He gave them a list.

- I'm gonna show you what was previously marked as Exhibit 5.

Was this it?

This was presented in June, a list of drug research

he wanted to end at WellPoint. - Yes.

- Is Batten disease included on Hardiman's cut list?

- Among others, yes.

Your Honor, I'd like to submit a photograph.

- Objection.

- This was from a hospital newsletter, Your Honor.

It's publicly available.

- I'll allow it.

- This was taken at a Mt. Hope Hospital event

celebrating the strength and courage

of children fighting Batten disease

and participating in WellPoint's Phase I trials.

Please, could you read the caption aloud?

- "Dr. Kevin Goodall

"with his wife and daughter, Emily...

a patient battling Batten disease."

- So, if Munson had been removed,

that would have been a de facto death sentence

for Kevin Goodall's daughter. - Objection.

- Withdrawn.

No further questions.

- Did Tom Hardiman have the power

to fire Norman Munson?

- He did not.

- Do you have any evidence that Tom Hardiman,

or anyone for that matter,

had amassed the board votes to fire Munson?

- It was Tom's plan, but-- - Yes or no.

Had he assembled the votes?

- Not that I know of.

- So the idea of what Munson's replacement might change

at WellPoint--

it's total speculation on top of complete impossibility,

which means my client had no reason to kill Mr. Hardiman.

* *

Nothing further.

* *

- As distasteful as it might seem,

the only way to win this

is to prove that Hardiman knew Munson had dementia,

and he was gonna use that to force him out.

- How?

We can't get access to Munson's medical records,

let alone present them in court, without violating HIPAA.

- We have to call Munson to the stand.

- Based on what? - I don't know.

Hardiman's plans to fire him? - And then?

- I'd find a way to trip him up

and reveal that his mental acuity is diminished.

- That does not feel right, Nolan, for a lot of reasons.

Look, we can always plead this to a lesser charge.

Sam, he pushed the man into a moving car.

That's murder. - Or manslaughter.

He was acting under extreme emotional disturbance.

He was panicked at the idea a new CEO

would abandon Batten disease research,

that his daughter's life was in jeopardy.

- Who gave Goodall the right to decide

what company shareholders can and can't know?

Look what happened to Biden's inner circle

when the world was questioning his fitness to serve.

No one thought they had the right to keep that secret.

- Norman Munson is not a commander in chief.

And by all accounts, in the small portion

of the world he does control, he did nothing but good.

You want to humiliate him on the stand

to--to help some Wall Street guys get richer?

Hardiman's fund still owns a 24% stake.

If Munson goes, they'll end research,

medical research to save children's lives--

children we saw, Nolan.

And we're doing this to--

to send a devoted doctor and father to prison for life

to get justice for a corporate raider?

- We don't get to rate our victims or defendants.

- But Munson-- he's a bystander in all this.

- Show me any other way.

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We are prepared to offer murder two.

But we'll recommend 15 to 20 years,

which is a gift for a charge of this magnitude.

- Your case is weak, Nolan. That's why you're here.

- No, we're here because we're offering

a lifeline to your client and his daughter.

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- Meaning what?

- If you plead this out, no one will ever find out

about Norman Munson's dementia.

- "Dementia"? That's absurd.

- WellPoint is going to continue its research

into Batten disease, find a cure.

- And your daughter will live.

- This is one of the more brazen threats

I've heard all year.

- Take this to verdict, you run two risks.

One, I expose Norman Munson's cognitive issues,

which means Munson is gone as CEO

before the judge even sends the jury off to deliberate.

Two, you will face a much harsher sentence

than 15 to 20.

- Well, we're not gonna lose, so we'll see you in court.

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O-one more thing--

I mentioned to Judge Dreben,

I have a scheduling conflict in the morning,

so we'll be calling Norman Munson late in the day.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

I hope he's not too tired.

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- Were you considering retirement?

- Not at all.

No. I love working.

Do you know of any situation

that could force your termination...

for example, if you were convicted of a crime?

- Well, in that case, I'm out.

- What if you were caught

deceiving the board or shareholders?

- I'd be removed.

- What if you were deemed

medically incapable of fulfilling your duties?

- They would have to remove me.

- Your Honor, relevance.

We have been at this for an hour,

and the witness has made it clear

he was not about to retire or be fired

from WellPoint Therapeutics,

despite all of Mr. Price's dire hypotheticals.

- I'm getting there, Your Honor.

- Defense asks he get there tomorrow.

It's late. Requesting an adjournment.

- Continue but swiftly.

- So, Mr. Munson, once more...

for the record,

you had and have no intention of abandoning your position

as CEO of WellPoint.

- Correct. - One more question, and...

It's the easiest one of the day.

how did you get here today?

- What?

- How did you get to this courthouse?

- Your Honor, relevance?

- Overruled.

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- I don't--I don't understand.

- You arrived at this courthouse two hours ago.

And I'm simply asking that you tell us how you got here.

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Um...

What's the question?

- It's how you got here today.

I'm asking how you got to court today.

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my car.

- Really? You--you came here by car?

- Yes, yes.

A beautiful...

blue BMW convertible.

We would ride around with the top down all summer.

Do you remember that?

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- Do I remember?

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Mr. Munson. - Do it. Go, stop it.

- Judge, we'd like to meet in chambers.

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- I understand you've reached an agreement on a plea.

- Yes, Your Honor, the defendant has agreed

to plea to a charge of murder in the second degree.

We recommend a 15-year prison term.

- Mr. Goodall...

do you understand the terms of this deal?

- I do, Your Honor.

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- Kevin! - Rachel.

Rachel.

I'm sorry. - Kevin!

- There was no other way.

Tell Emily I love her.

- He was willing to give up his freedom,

his whole life for his daughter...

for the greater good.

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