All language subtitles for BULL (2016) - S04 E17 - The Invisible Woman (720p - AMZN Web-DL)

Hi. My name's Michael Weatherly.

Tonight's episode of Bull
deals with a citywide panic

not unlike the
fears and concerns

people are experiencing all
over the world at this moment.

Before we start, we
wanted to remind you:

this is a work of fiction.

It was written and
filmed months ago.

And its only purpose
is to entertain you.

And that will do it for the
headlines for the 9:00 hour.

We will see you
back here at 9:30.

For New York News
3, I'm Allison Rojas.

PRODUCER: And
we're out.[buzzer sounds]

LENA: Nice broadcast.

Thanks. That new shade of
lipstick, that looks great on camera.

[laughs softly]

Who would send me

a birthday card two
months before my birthday?

[both gasp]

Okay, this is not funny.

Oh, no. It's in your
hair. It's everywhere.

I have to be back on the air in 23
and a half minutes. No, I'll get-get,

uh, wardrobe and makeup.Hurry.

[crew members
speaking indistinctly]

[woman speaking
indistinctly over P.A.]

MARK: Yesterday morning, my
wife... she woke up achy, nauseous.

She had a bit of a
fever, said her chest hurt.

We thought it was the flu.

But then, today, she
started coughing up blood.

Attendant,

let's get her to Room
One. MAN: Yes, Doctor.

Let's page Dr. Farmer
and the chief,

and then alert the Health
Department and the CDC.

The-the CDC?

Center for Disease
Control? What's going on?

ANCHOR: Government buildings

remain closed and
subway ridership

is at its lowest
level since 9/11

as anthrax terror
grips Manhattan.

A quiet panic has
descended on the city

as New Yorkers are trying
to figure out who's behind this

and when it will end.

At this hour, the death
toll remains at two.

The deceased are Katie Connors,

who opened a birthday card
addressed to her husband,

Manhattan Congressman
Peter Connors,

and Emmanuel Bakry, the
postal worker who delivered it.

But, finally, some good news.

News 3'sAllison Rojas
is responding to treatment

after opening an
anthrax-laden greeting card

in this very studio
more than a week ago.

Doctors expect her and
the four other News 3staffers

who were taken ill to
make a full recovery.

[indistinct chatter]

Folks, we're about
to roll, so I need quiet.

Five, four, three, two...

Good afternoon from ground zero.

Here in Manhattan we're all
collectively holding our breath,

waiting for the next
anthrax-laden shoe to drop.

With that thought in mind,
we thought we'd pay a visit

to Hudson University, which is
one of the foremost laboratories

for the study of chemical
weapons and bio-pathogens.

We wanted to talk with
Dr. Roger Simpkins,

a microbiologist and
researcher who runs this lab,

which is financed in a
combination of funding

from the university
and the government.

Dr. Simpkins, any
words of wisdom

or homespun advice
for our viewers tuning in,

missing work and school,
doing everything they can

to keep themselves
from becoming a victim,

falling ill, possibly
even dying?

The thing we all
need to remember

is that anthrax is not a virus.

It's a bacteria, and that
means you can't catch it.

It can't be transmitted
from person-to-person,

so if you don't have
direct contact with it,

it poses no threat to you.

So calm down.

NEWSMAN: A-And I've been told
that even if you do have direct contact,

it's still not
necessarily fatal.

Absolutely true.

If anthrax is identified
early, it can be treated.

What makes it tricky is
early anthrax symptoms

look just like the flu.

So unless your doctor knows

that you've actually
had contact with it,

the disease can go undetected
until the drugs we use

to cure it are no
longer effective.

But it's been nearly 20 years

since the last round
of anthrax incidents.

How is it there's still
no cure for this stuff?

SIMPKINS: Well, ironically,

uh, last year at this time,
my, uh, colleagues and I

were in the process
of developing

some very promising new
late-stage anthrax treatments.

NEWSMAN: Wait.

"Were"?

Well, our funding, particularly
with regard to anthrax research,

comes from the
federal government.

And they pulled
way back this year.

What can I tell you?

Go write your congressman.

[knocking on door]

SIMPKINS: The
FBI is in my office.

They've determined
that the anthrax used

in all these recent attacks

comes from our labs.

They want to talk
to the three of you.

What did you do?
Get a second job?

Aren't you afraid of dogs?

Other postal
workers going postal?

TAYLOR: Not
funny. It's just my mail

for the last couple of weeks.

I made the post
office hold it for me.

Once I found out the FBI
arrested the anthrax killer,

I figured it was
finally safe to pick it up

and sort through it all.

Won't be needing that anymore.

Bull in his office?

[chuckles]

[knocking on door]

I'm in the middle

of some very important
procrastination.

Hey. Sorry to interrupt.

Why are you so glum, Mr. Colón?

Haven't you heard?

It's a glorious day in New York.

Spring has sprung,

Easter's barely a month away,

and the anthrax
killer is off the streets.

We can put this whole
dark chapter behind us.

Well, actually, no, we can't.

What does that mean?

You remember, a couple
of years ago, we signed up

to be a part of that program
where private firms offer

their services to the
public defender's office?

No. I got nothing on that.

Must have been trying to get
into somebody's good graces.

What's the
difference? We offered,

and this morning they called.

Natalie Reznick, the
accused anthrax killer, is facing

two counts of capital murder
and a slew of other charges.

Well, she needs a defense team,
and we're one of the few firms

in the city with the expertise
to handle that type of case.

Well, just call 'em
back and tell 'em no.

I have a newborn
child and you have...

Just say that

we really appreciate the
offer, but we are not interested

in representing a
terrorist at this time.

An accused terrorist.

I think you're
missing the point.

The federal defender's
office wasn't asking

when they called
me this morning.

They were telling.

It's our case, Bull.

Happy spring.

♪

I have no idea why I'm here.

Surely you heard the FBI agent

read you the charges before
he took you into custody.

You're being charged
with murdering two people

with a Tier 1 federal
select biological agent

and terrorizing the
city of New York.

Yes, of course, but wh-why
would they think I would do that?

Well, the evidence against you

will be laid out at
your arraignment,

but based on the
charging documents,

the FBI has a
pretty strong case.

How is that possible?

BENNY: Well, when the
funding for your anthrax research

was cut last year,

you sent out dozens of e-mails.

To journalists, to politicians.

The very people who've been
the targets in these attacks.

Well, y-yes, b-but that's...

that's just a coincidence.

The-the letters that I
was writing were about

how shortsighted and dangerous
it was to cut that funding.

Just because anthrax was
out of the news did not mean

that it was no longer a
risk to national security.

BULL: Well, the
U.S. Attorney's Office

suspects that when your
warnings fell on deaf ears,

you orchestrated these
attacks to prove a point.

"Anthrax is still out
there. It's still lethal."

That's absurd. I am a
doctor, I am a scientist.

The work that my team was
doing was about saving lives.

How on earth
would killing people

help us achieve that goal?

If that's all they had,
I'd agree with you.

Are you aware that your
office had been bleached

before the FBI searched it?

Yes.

Bleach is a disinfectant.
I work with pathogens.

BULL: But yours
was the only office

in the complex to
have been so recently

and thoroughly bleached.

Bleach kills anthrax.

It makes it appear as if you
were destroying evidence.

Your apartment had
been bleached, too.

And investigators found a
stash of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin

and a box of N95 face
masks in your kitchen.

They suspect you used both

when you assembled the
anthrax-laden birthday cards.

I mean, the masks were... I...

I was gonna paint my bathroom.

And I go on a medical
mission every year.

This year, it's Cambodia.

Last year, it was
Honduras, Guadalupe.

Anyway, my doctor gives me
cipro before I go every year.

I meant what I said.

I have no idea why I'm here.

[lock buzzes, latch clicks]

BULL: I believe the woman.

I mean, she says she has no
idea what she's doing behind bars.

I believe her.

Okay. Well, that
makes two of you.

Unfortunately, the government
sees it all quite differently.

Yeah, government. You ever
heard of detective myopia?

Detective myopia?

No. Can't say that I have.

It is when law enforcement,

usually because of extreme
public or political pressure,

picks a suspect and then
evaluates all the evidence

with the predisposition
that that suspect is guilty.

And they stop looking
for other suspects,

they stop running down leads

that don't back up their
predetermined theories.

All their work goes into
proving that their suspect,

the person they picked
at random is guilty.

City's in a panic. FBI needs

to restore calm.

Natalie presented as someone
with access to the bacteria

and an apparent motive, so
they combed through her life

looking for ways
to prove she did it.

Detective myopia.

[sighs]

I think we need to argue
for a change of venue.

[groans]

Well... I know legal
strategy isn't exactly

my area of expertise, but
I have been going through

the potential jury lists,
and, well, given the panic

and all of the publicity
around this case,

wouldn't we be likely to get

a more impartial
jury somewhere else?

Somewhere that hasn't been
through as much as New York has?

That's not a bad
thought, actually.

You know, the problem
is, it's next to impossible

to get a change of venue
in a federal criminal case.

I'm just worried.

No matter how I
look at the data,

I just don't know how
we're gonna seat a jury

that can look past
their own fears.

That's why we shouldn't try.

In fact, we should
do just the opposite.

We should scare the
living daylights out of 'em.

People are predisposed

to convicting Natalie
because they want to believe

that the danger has passed.

So what we need to
do is convince the jury...

that it hasn't.

Anybody remember the last time

we had a series
of anthrax attacks?

It was right after
9/11, wasn't it?

BENNY: Yes, yes. Very good.

And do you remember how long

it took for them to
find the perpetrator?

WOMAN: Uh...

I seem to recall it
was pretty quick.

Indeed it was.

Attorney General John Ashcroft

publicly named former biodefense
researcher Steven Jay Hatfill

as a person of
interest in the attacks.

FBI tapped his phone.

He lost his job,
couldn't get another one.

Almost committed suicide.

Then, in 2008, everyone
suddenly realized

that they were
persecuting the wrong man.

So here's my question to you.

How many of you folks
believe that, of course,

with all the best
intentions in the world,

people whose job it is
to root out the bad guys

sometimes get it wrong?

Now we're getting somewhere.

CHUNK: Means,
motive and opportunity...

They must feel they have it,

or they wouldn't
have brought the case.

For those of us who
didn't go to law school,

what does "means" mean again?

It means she could do it;
she had the tools necessary.

In this case, anthrax.
She worked at a place

where anthrax was
readily available.

Yeah, but there's
more to it than that.

Every expert I've spoken
with said the same thing.

Researchers work
with wetanthrax spores.

To make a-a powder that
can be sent in the mail,

you have to use
dry anthrax spores,

and in order to dry them,
you have to use a very specific,

very large piece of equipment
built just for that purpose.

Which, of course,
they have at the lab?

Which, of course,
they have at the lab.

But all of that takes time.

Stealing the anthrax.
Drying the anthrax.

I've skimmed over
this grand jury transcript

three times... I've yet
to see an explanation

for when Natalie would
have been able to do that

without raising
suspicion. Obviously,

they are saving their
biggest surprises for trial.

I'll give you another one.

[taps keyboard]So,
the FBI was able

to determine that
all the anthrax letters

were mailed from this mailbox

within a specific
eight-hour period.

Really?

Well, since I'm
the only one here

who hasn't worked
for Homeland or FBI,

can someone tell
me how they do that?

When you drop a letter
into a government mailbox,

it goes into a bin
that's location-specific

and time-coded.

When that bin is carried
back to the general post office

for processing and
your letter is postmarked,

it carries all that
information with it.

[chuckles] Wow.
That's really cool.

And more than a little scary.

Back to the pictures.

All right, so, the FBI
examined security footage

from area cameras taken
during the same time frame.

They were able to
eliminate all but three people

who mailed letters
during that period.

Wha...? And how were
they able to do that?

How could they tell from
these... grainy photos

who's mailing
anthrax and who isn't?

Well, I can't be sure,
but my suspicion is,

what they really did was
basically eliminate everyone

who didn't look like Natalie.

There is your detective myopia
that Bull keeps talking about.

And that left them
with three people

who didlook like Natalie?

Well, it left them
with three people,

like this person here.

Or this person here.

Or this person here.

People who don't really
look like anyone in particular.

At least not as
far as I can tell.

So what am I gonna tell Bull?

Opening arguments, testimony
start tomorrow morning.

What in the world
am I gonna tell Bull?

Tell him that Danny and I
are putting together dossiers

on everyone Natalie
works with, and...

That our strategy
hasn't changed.

To get the jury and the
public to let go of the idea

that Natalie is the mastermind
behind these attacks,

we have to... come up with
another credible suspect.

And we will.

REYNOLDS: Now,
Dr. Poulson, as a researcher

in the Medical
Countermeasures Unit

at Hudson University
Laboratories,

you frequently work
shoulder-to-shoulder

with Natalie Reznick,
don't you? Yes, I do.

Now, it's against the lab's
standard operating procedures

for anyone to work alone?

That's correct, yes.
And to your knowledge,

Dr. Poulson, did Dr. Reznick

ever simply disregard this tenet
of standard operating procedure?

Yes, I believe she
may have. Once.

[gallery murmuring]About
a week before the attacks.

REYNOLDS: You're
referring to the evening

of the 11th? I don't know
what he's talking about.

POULSON: It was late. We
were the only two people in the lab.

And at around 7:00
p.m., I got summoned

to the chancellor's
office for a call with D.C.

Much of the work
we do at our labs

is in partnership
with the Department

of Defense, so
when they say jump,

we jump.

And I told Natalie to...

clean up and that we
would finish up another day.

So I left her unattended.

Which, as the senior
researcher, I shouldn't have done.

But she assured me that she
would just take a few minutes

and then she would
leave. Just to be clear.

Your expectation
was that Dr. Reznick

would take five,
maybe ten minutes

to clean up the
lab and then leave.

Correct?

That was my assumption, yes.

Dr. Poulson... this
is a single frame

from security footage taken
from the night in question.

It shows someone leaving the
laboratory complex at Hudson.

Can you identify that person?

It's Dr. Reznick.
And could you read

the time stamp on the
photo for us, please?

9:26 p.m.

Two and a half hours after
you left the lab, correct?

Yes.

Dr. Poulson,

in your professional opinion,
if Dr. Reznick had been alone

in that lab, not just for a
few minutes to clean up,

but for several hours, would
that have given her enough time

to dry the anthrax
spores into a powder

and sneak them out of the lab?

Objection, Your Honor!
Calls for speculation.

REYNOLDS: Your Honor,

Dr. Poulson is a microbiologist.

I'm simply asking him for
his professional opinion.

Objection overruled.

I'll allow him to answer.

I believe it would have, yes.

[gallery murmuring]REYNOLDS: No
further questions for now, Your Honor.

[clears throat]

Dr. Poulson.

Really appreciate
you being here today.

Now, I know we've
heard a lot of speculation

about what might have happened,
what could have happened,

but you are a scientist.

You deal with the
physical facts of the world.

So let's get back to that.

Do you have any proof

that Dr. Reznick
stayed in the lab alone

any longer than she
told you she would?

Well, based on the time stamp...

Oh, no, no. That time
stamp only proves

what time she left the building,

which was two and a
half hours after you did.

Nowhere does it indicate

what time she left
the lab itself, does it?

No, it doesn't.Uh-huh.

Now, Dr. Reznick
maintains she left the lab

as promised and spent
the remainder of that time

in her office typing a
report of the day's work.

In fact...

you reviewed that very report
the next morning, didn't you?

It's quite possible.

I often review the reports
from the previous night

the next morning. I see.

And before the FBI informed
you that Dr. Reznick was a suspect,

did you have any reason
to suspect her of this crime?

No.

I've always believed Natalie
to be trustworthy and...

a passionate scientist.

And I'm still inclined
to believe so.

I mean, hon... [sighs]

Honestly...

I hope the version of events
you just laid out is the truth.

Thank you very
much, Dr. Poulson.

No further questions,
Your Honor.

Redirect?

Regardless of what
you might hope,

Dr. Poulson,

doesn't the fact remain
that a pathogen was stolen

from your lab?

[quietly]: Yes. And based

on your own testimony,
wouldn't you agree

that Dr. Reznick was
the only researcher

who could possibly
have had an opportunity

to do it? Asked and
answered, Your Honor.

Counsel is
badgering the witness.

[gallery murmuring]I'll withdraw
the question, Your Honor.

How's the view from
where you're sitting?

The only good news is,

it can't get any worse.

[Benny sighing]

I'm awake. It's okay.

[chuckles] Partying all
night with Astrid again, huh?

[yawns]: Yeah.

I was sitting in the living
room at 3:00 in the morning,

little Astrid up on my shoulder.

I was trying to get
a burp out of her.

And I flip on the news,
and we're everywhere.

Mm-hmm. Every channel.

And if it is our intention
to convince the jury

that the real anthrax
killer is still out there,

well, the national media
has not picked up on it.

Which means... we're failing.

Well, you don't know that.

Our target's the
jury, not cable news.

But the world of
cable news is the world

these jurors go
home to every night.

And if the CNNs and the Foxes
and the CNBCs aren't buying

our version of
events, then neither

are the jurors'
families or neighbors.

And we all know they're not
supposed to talk about the case

or watch the news
about it... but they do.

I'm sorry, Bull, but I think
you're being a little premature.

The prosecution is still
presenting their case,

and we haven't
even gotten our turn.

I know. But we
can't wait until then.

We have to go on
the offensive now.

We got to use every objection,
every cross to hammer home

how dangerous it will be if
the jury gets this one wrong.

The killer is still out there.

CONNORS: My wife,
my-my wife Katie,

she didn't aspire
to a political life.

I mean, heck, when I
met her in grad school,

she didn't even read the paper.

But then we fell in love,
and the next thing you know,

I'm running for office and
then we're out there together

on the campaign trail.

Oh, she was a natural.

I mean, she loved people.

And people sensed it and
they loved her right back.

You see, I take enormous
pride in being a congressman.

But the thought that my job,

that my commitment
to public service

somehow contributed
to her d-death... [crying]

REYNOLDS: It's all right,
Congressman Connors.

No further questions.

Uh, Bull, it's not
looking good here.

This jury really feels
for the congressman.

Of course they do. So do I.

But that doesn't mean
his pain is Natalie's fault.

Congressman Connors.

I'd just like to say how
profoundly sorry I am

for your loss.

Thank you.

Now, much has
been made of the fact

that you were a part of
a long list of legislators

Dr. Reznick reached
out to in the wake

of a funding cut to
her research program.

Now, do you recall Dr. Reznick's

message to you to be
threatening in any way?

Honestly, I don't.

You see, my staff filters my
e-mails, so I only learned about

that message in the, in the
aftermath of my wife's passing.

But, no, it did not
appear to be threatening.

But I imagine your
office must receive

threatening e-mails
from time to time?

Yes, unfortunately,
in my line of work,

you have to make
tough choices sometimes,

choices that anger people,

and occasionally those
people do lash out.

How many threats would you
estimate that you've received

in the seven years that
you've been in Congress?

Uh, like I said, my staff
filters my communications,

so there's really no
way for me to know.

Well, my office inquired.

And according to
your staff, it's 102.

[gallery murmuring]

That's how many unique threats

your office has received
in the past seven years.

19 of those were death threats.

So let me ask you,

in the wake of these attacks,
to the best of your knowledge,

did the FBI investigate
those 19 people

who previously
threatened to take your life?

They may have.

Honestly, I don't know.

You don't know.

Wow. That's kind of unsettling.

I mean, did the FBI
even ask you about

anyone who possibly could
have had a vendetta against you

during that time period?

I don't know.

Well, then I truly am sorry for
you, Congressman Connors.

Not only for your tragic
loss, but also because,

apparently, law enforcement
seems more interested

in scapegoating Natalie
Reznick than it does

in making sure your wife's
real killer is off the streets.

Objection. Counsel
is testifying.

Sustained.

The jury will disregard the
defense's last statement.

Ask a question, Mr. Colón.

That's all right, Your Honor.

I have no further questions

at this time. BULL: I'm
sure you can't see it yet,

but it finally feels like
we're making progress.

AIMES: The government will
call its next witness, please.

The government rests
its case, Your Honor.

Then the defense will
call its first witness, please.

My parents came to this
country before I was born.

They were scientists
in the Soviet Union,

but they refused
to toe the party line,

so their lives were in danger.

They fled and they
found sanctuary here,

in America.

And until the day they died,

they never ceased
being grateful for that.

And they raised me
to be grateful, too.

I decided when I was

a very young girl
that, when I grew up,

I-I would help people somehow,

protect people somehow.

So, is that how you
ended up researching cures

for deadly biological weapons?

Uh, well, it was... [stammers]

It was part of it,
sure. [chuckles]

A love of science.

I don't know.

It-it-it gives me a
sense of satisfaction,

like I'm-I'm pulling
my own weight,

I'm doing my share.

I am showing my gratitude.

So the idea that you would hurt

or kill fellow Americans
for your own personal gain...

Is absurd.

To do the work that I do,

you have... You have
to become a doctor.

I'm-I'm a doctor.

I took an oath to save lives.

Why would I knowingly
set out to hurt anyone?

Kill anyone?

Thank you, Dr. Reznick.

No further questions,
Your Honor.

[quietly]: They look
engaged to me, receptive.

Open body language.

A couple jurors are
starting to lean in.

Does that line up with
what you're seeing?

Sure does.

They're starting to
find Natalie credible,

and a few of them are
now firmly on her side.

REYNOLDS: So, Dr. Reznick,

the pleasure you
take from your work

is fundamentally
altruistic, right?

I mean, you want to
pull your own weight.

You want to do your share.

And, most of all, you
want to helppeople, huh?

Protect people.

This is what you just
testified to, correct?

Yes.

And you would never
want to hurt anyone.

You certainly wouldn't
want to see anyone die.

I mean, the work you do,

your very reason for being,

is all about saving lives.

Is that correct?

That is what I said, yes.

Interesting.

Because I have a video

of an academic conference
you participated in,

which would seem
to suggest otherwise.

Uh... [clears throat] Objection.

Your Honor, this is the first

the defense has
heard of any video.

The AUSA knows... Your
Honor, a concerned citizen

sent this video to our office...
he has a duty to disclose

any and all... only
just yesterday.

Enough! Both of you.

Mr. Reynolds,

I'm gonna take you at
your word and allow this.

Mr. Colón, I will give
you ample time to prepare

should you choose to redirect.

Let's proceed.

REYNOLDS: Is that
you up there, Dr. Reznick,

on the stage, in the video?

It is. Yes.

REYNOLDS: Do you recall
when this video was taken?

Um, I-I believe

it was an ethics panel at
a microbiology conference

about... ten years ago.

I was still a postgrad.

I have a hypothetical
question for you, Dr. Reznick.

Okay.

If an unknown deadly
virus or bacteria

were to infect an
isolated group of people,

what, in your opinion,

is the best course of action?

Um, well, uh,

if there was a chance to contain
the outbreak within that group,

I'd say that the only choice

is to quarantine the infected...

Nobody in, nobody out...

And then watch the, uh,
progression of the disease.

MODERATOR: Even if
the disease were deadly?

NATALIE: Well, if you don't know

what the pathogen is,

treating the symptoms
may be futile.

You're going to have
to let in medical workers,

and then, at some
point, you're going

to have to let them back out,

and they very well may carry

whatever it is to the
general population.

So, yeah, harsh as
it sounds, quarantine.

Because, unfortunately,

sometimes five have
to die to save 5,000.

[courtroom murmuring]

"Sometimes five have
to die to save 5,000."

Is that why you sent the anthrax
through the mail, Dr. Reznick?

Because you thought it
would be okay to kill two

if it meant recovering the funds

that you needed in
order to find a cure?

BENNY: Objection.

Facts not in evidence.

Speculation.

Badgering.

Should I go on?

Of course not.

That is part of a
larger conversation.

You lifted that out of
context.[gavel banging]

AIMES: Dr. Reznick.
And organically contracting

a disease is
fundamentally different

than intentionally infecting
someone.Dr. Reznick.

Dr. Reznick.

Your attorney was making
an objection on your behalf.

In the future, when an attorney

makes an objection,

please refrain from answering
until I've rendered my decision

on the objection.

I will let the
witness's statement

remain in the record.

Let's take a ten-minute
break and allow everyone

to cool down. The witness will remain...
How's this playing where you are?

Not terribly well.

I'm afraid we lost
all our greens, Bull.

We will continue her testimony
at that time.[gavel bangs]

MARISSA: So, how
was dinner? Not great.

I wasn't hungry. I'd been eating

my small intestine
all afternoon.

I promise you,

it was as difficult
to listen to over here

as I'm sure it was for
you to witness in person.

The problem is, was,

and continues to be
we've presented the jury

with no real
alternatives to our client.

We keep insisting it must
be someone else, but...

we never say who. BENNY: Yeah.

Bull's hitting the nail
on the head, Marissa.

Every time I feel like
we're making progress,

every time I feel a hint
of traction with this jury,

it all slips away.

That's because they have no
one else to consider but Natalie.

I hear you. And all I
can tell you is that...

[stammers] Danny,
Chunk, and Taylor...

Who is standing
right next to me...

They're all beating the bushes,

trying to find someone who
could have plausibly pulled this off.

Dr. Bull, did you get a chance

to go through those
dossiers I prepared for you?

There's material there on
almost 50 lab employees,

all of whom have
access to anthrax.

I'm getting through them
as fast as I can, Taylor.

But it's not as if anyone
flagged one of the employees

and said, "Here's a
plausible suspect."

Come on, Bull.
We are all pulling

on the same end
of the rope here.

[screams][screams] What?

The hell was that?

What's going on over there?

[elevator bell chimes]

[indistinct chatter]

Uh... is it... safe out here?

Absolutely.

My name is, uh, Jason Bull.

This is my place of business.

I have two employees inside.

Do you have any sense of
when they'll be able to come out?

They will be able to come
out at some point, right?

It's gonna be quite a while.

You might want
to give them a call.

[exhales]

BULL: How you guys feeling?

At the moment? Absolutely fine.

A little hungry.

He asked.

We can't eat anything
from the kitchen.

Can't eat anything until
they give us the all clear

and we can get out of here.

We are gonna be fine. They've
loaded us up with antibiotics.

I think it's primarily

about waiting for lab
results at this point.

Marissa, Taylor, I'm so
sorry you're going through this.

They give you any
ETA on these tests?

Uh, they've estimated
another three hours or so.

Taylor, do you need us
to swing by your place

and pick up your son?

Nope. He's at his dad's.

Thank goodness.

Hey, uh, guys, there's
nothing for you to do here.

Why don't you just head home?

Bull, I will text you as soon
as they tell us anything.

As soon as they
let us out of here.

Are you sure? I mean,

I'm happy to stick around.

We're good.

We've got each other.Okay.

Then I am going to
go home, kiss my baby,

and read some dossiers.

Would you think I
was a terrible person

if I told you that,

as horrible as this must
be for Marissa and Taylor,

there's potentially
a big upside to it?

Oh, thank God.

I thought I was the only one
whose mind worked that way.

Natalie's in jail.

So she couldn't have done it.

If the FBI and the CDC confirm

that the handwriting is the
same on the letter we got at TAC

as on the envelopes
that went out

to the congressman
and the newscaster...

And that the
construction of the gizmo

that makes sure the anthrax
makes contact with the person

is similar...

I think our client
is free and clear.

I'll make sure to keep
all my digits crossed.

[snoring]

[phone vibrating]

[snorts]

[whispering]: Hello?

Marissa.

Tell me what's going on.

On your way home?

Uh, that's great.

Great to hear.

Really?

They certain of that?
Powdered sugar?

Yeah, that is funny.

If Taylor had only
licked her fingers,

she wouldn't have
been hungry anymore.

Well, the two of you
get something to eat,

get some sleep, and I'll
see you in the morning.

Night.

♪

[exhales]

You have no idea how happy I am

to be standing
here, talking to you.

You have no idea how
happy I am to be talked to.

Mm.

Just a copycat.

Copycat with powdered
sugar trying to intimidate us.

Somebody who'd watched the
news and convinced themselves

that Natalie is a murderer

and that we're the bad guys
just doing whatever we can

to help her evade the law. Well,

I went through the rest of
the dossiers early this morning,

and I found one that
ticked a lot of boxes for me.

Really?

What if I told you that one
of the employees at Hudson

served as a medic
during the first Gulf War?

Okay. And that's
meaningful because...?

Because it means they
have firsthand knowledge

of the devastation biological
and chemical weapons cause.

No offense, but that
hardly seems like enough

to get a jury to
change its mind.

What if I told you this person
was stationed in territory

where Saddam Hussein was
waging chemical and biological warfare

against a large
swath of civilians?

Still kind of feels like we're
making some big leaps here,

don't you think?

I don't know.

Why does someone dedicate
their life to finding an antidote

to something like anthrax?

We know why Natalie did it.

She felt... a sense of
obligation to her country.

So, what if this person did it

because they keenly understood

that biological weapons were an
imminent threat to the homeland?

So, when Congress cut
their funding for the research,

they took matters
into their own hands

and decided the one

or two deaths necessary to
seize the public's imagination

were a fair trade if it helped
prevent a greater harm.

So, you're saying the
FBI had the right motive...

Just pegged the wrong person.

Who is this person?

Roger Simpkins?

Uh, Natalie's boss?

The man who oversees
the entire program?

His position means he can come
and go between labs by himself

without raising suspicion,

which means he has
access to anthrax.

Not to mention the know-how

and the equipment
to dry the spores with.

DANNY: Not only did
Dr. Simpkins have the motive,

the means, and the
opportunity to commit this crime...

He was also in
the perfect position

to frame Natalie Reznick.

BULL: Natalie had
to get her boss's okay

before she wrote to that list

of legislators and journalists
in the wake of the budget cuts.

Dr. Simpkins

could easily have pulled
Congressman Connors'

and Allison Rojas' names
from that list in an effort

to make Natalie look guilty.

[scoffs]

I'm sorry,

but none of this sounds
terribly convincing.

In fact, it sounds desperate,

like you know
you're about to lose

and you're throwing
spaghetti on the wall,

hoping something will stick.

Look, I came to this meeting

in good faith.

But I got to tell you,

I believe Natalie
Reznick is guilty,

and nothing I've
heard here today

even remotely begins
to change my mind.

Well, perhaps we should
have skipped the warm-up then.

Danny, the pièce de
résistance, if you will.

You recognize these
images, Mr. Reynolds?

Of course.

Those are from
the security footage

the FBI lifted near the mailbox
where the letters were sent.

You were never
able to identify Natalie

in any of these
photos, were you?

[scoffs] Come on.
Look at the time of year.

Look how everyone is dressed.

Nevertheless, we do
believe one of them is Natalie.

Well, in the same way
you set out to prove

one of them is Natalie,

we set out to prove one
of them is Dr. Simpkins.

We widened the surveillance area

and accessed all of
the security cameras

within a half-mile
radius of the mailbox.

BENNY: Now, the FBI
determined that there was

an eight-hour window during
which the letters were mailed.

So, using a photograph
of Dr. Simpkins' face,

our office created an algorithm

to scan all eight
hours of the footage

from every single camera.

DANNY: This is what we found.

Recorded by an ATM
about four blocks away

from the mailbox.

BULL: As you can see,
that's Roger Simpkins.

And you'll notice his hat

perfectly matches this hat.

In this photo.

Where a person is
clearly mailing letters.

Letters which I would
bet contain anthrax.

Nice work.

Well, I suppose the four of us

should take a walk down
to the judge's chambers,

see if we can get an audience.

If this isn't probable
cause for a search warrant,

I don't know what is.

Look out there.

You see a single face mask?

Nope.

Just people walking their dogs,

strolling their kids.

Well, it's like we
told the judge...

The FBI searched
Dr. Simpkins' apartment,

only to discover it,
too, had been bleached.

Luckily, when they
opened up the HVAC ducts,

they found anthrax spores
behind a vent in the kitchen.

I still have a hard
time believing it.

We talked about it all the time.

He kept saying how he
wanted to help people,

protect people.

Oh, I'm sure he thought
he was doing just that.

Doing it for the greater good.

You know, I guess that's
why I like my work so much.

Bacteria may be challenging,

but they're a whole hell of
a lot easier to understand

than people.

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