All language subtitles for BULL (2016) - S04 E02 - Fantastica Voyage (720p - AMZN Web-DL)

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? 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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