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One day he comes home
and says,

"Can't bring that stuff
home no more."

"Why?" Won't tell me.

Then he'd get sick
for weeks.

The Teflon flu,
the guys would call it.

We knew
something wasn't right.

But this house,
we bought it just by

showing the bank
my husband's DuPont ID.

Put both our kids
through college. Engineers.

In this town,
that doesn't come without a price.

My brother Kenny
didn't know that price.

He joined DuPont at 19.

Died on the operating table
two years later.

- Ulcerative colitis.
- Just like Dan Schiller had.

Who's Dan?

A chemist at DuPont.
Worked with my ex-husband.

And Roger,
what's his name?

Wilkins,
the foreman.

Steven Gellar.
Randy Field.

Randy's was kidney cancer.
He survived.

- His wife didn't.
- No, June's was thyroid.

It was supposed
to be treatable.

They didn't catch it
in time.

But they caught it
in their son.

Were your children
born healthy?

- Yes. Yes, they were.
- Good.

But we wanted
a third and couldn't.

I went to my doctor.

He says, "You need a hysterectomy.
You need it right away."

I'm so sorry.

Bad luck, I guess.

I was 36.

Mr. Kiger,

you think I could get
a copy of that letter?

What's wrong
with your hand?

Nothing. It's fine.

Whoa, Rob?

Rob, what are you doing?

I mean, it's not enough
to poison these people?

They gotta swindle them too?

Okay, calm down. All right?

DuPont wrote that letter!

- Not the water authority.
- How do you know that?

You think I don't know what a
DuPont letter looks like by now?

Okay. Okay.

I mean, Jesus!

It's evil, Sarah.

It's fucking evil!

What's fack?

Perfect.

It's nothing, sweetie.
It's nothing. Oh, boy.

I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, honey.

Can you give
Charlie the bottle, please?

- Where's his bottle?
- It's in the bag.

- What is all this?
- It's from Grammer's.

It was left
in her mailbox.

- "Medical claims, now and forever"?
- Here, bud.

- "Now and forever."
- Is that that...

That...

Medical monitoring.
Is that...

I thought you said
that wasn't gonna pass?

- Morning.
- Guys.

Our lead plaintiff
is Mr. Joe Kiger.

Potential plaintiff,
if the partnership approves.

Mr. Joe Kiger,
a Phys Ed teacher

from Parkersburg,
West Virginia.

On behalf of
the 70,000 local residents,

whose water
DuPont knowingly poisoned

for the last 40 years.

A class action?

Let him finish.

The Kigers were notified

by their local water company
that DuPont had found

small concentrations of C-8
in their water supply,

but not to worry

because those concentrations
were safe.

Why?
Because DuPont said so.

This is what DuPont
considers safe.

That's something like
one drop of water

in an Olympic size
swimming pool.

In other words,
even a trace of C-8

renders water unsafe.

But DuPont told
the local water authority,

"Don't worry.

"Your wells have got even
less than that."

- Except that was a lie.
- A lie?

Yes. DuPont has been
secretly testing

these wells for decades.

They knew they had
contaminated those wells

up to six times
that level.

And thanks to the Tennant
case, now we know too.

Hold on. This stuff
is unregulated, right?

I mean, as far as
EPA's concerned,

it might as well
be rose petals.

The EPA hasn't
set a standard, that's true,

but DuPont did.

And all the law requires
to win a case like this,

is to show
that DuPont exceeded

what DuPont itself
considers safe.

Self-regulation.

- If what you're saying is right...
- It is right.

...then why would DuPont tell this
water district anything at all?

Seems to me
that they're being

a good
corporate citizen here.

That's how long
you have to file suit.

One year from the moment

you realize your water's
been contaminated.

This letter looks like it's
telling people their water is safe.

In fact, it's notifying them
that it isn't.

DuPont has started the clock.

Smart.

We would've
counseled that.

It was sent
11 months ago.

The moment they realized
we knew.

In 30 days,
they're home free.

So that's the proposed
case in brief.

But there's something else
to consider.

You think?

Rob.

C-8 bio-accumulates.
It builds up inside of us.

Some class members
who aren't sick today

will get sick tomorrow.

We need a way to protect
them into the future.

Jesus, Tom! If you're even thinking
about using medical monitoring...

Hold on. Hold on.

Medical monitoring
is a claim now permitted

in West Virginia courts.

- Oh, come on.
- Let's hear him out.

It say if a company
exposes a community

to something
that makes them sick,

they must monitor the health
of that community indefinitely.

Everybody get that? You're creating
liability from mere exposure.

It's also unprecedented.

Exactly!
Which is why not six months ago,

we fought tooth and nail
against it.

And you lost.
Our clients have the right

to avail themselves
of the law.

Potential clients.

Okay.

I know you, Rob.
I know your passion.

You got a great settlement
for your farmer.

You should be proud of that.

And perhaps as the newest
partner at this table,

I should be
more circumspect.

But what he's
proposing here is

nothing less
than a shakedown

- of an iconic American company.
- We do not represent DuPont.

No, you don't
represent anyone.

Is this what
we have become?

Plaintiff's attorneys.
Ambulance chasers.

Why don't you just admit it?
Rob, you wanna flip.

You wanna take everything
that you know

about how
chemical companies operate

and turn it against DuPont.
Like an informant.

- That's enough.
- Isn't that right?

- Okay!
- Isn't that right?

- Isn't that right?
- Yes.

Okay, then, I...
I say we take a vote

and determine whether or not

we continue
in the tradition

that has distinguished this
firm from everyone else...

Okay, I'm running
this meeting. Okay?

You got that?

Has anyone even read
the evidence

this man has collected?

The willful negligence,
the corruption?

Read it!

And then tell me we should
be sitting on our asses!

That's the reason
why Americans hate lawyers.

This is the crap that fuels
the Ralph Naders of the world.

We should want
to nail DuPont.

All of us should!

American business is better
than this, gentlemen.

And when it's not,
we should hold them to it.

That's how you build
faith in the system.

We're always arguing
that companies are people.

Well, these people
have crossed the line!

To hell with them!

It may come
as a surprise

to corporate defense types
like yourselves,

but there's more to the law
than just flooding

the other side in papers.

From where I sit,
you have to touch people.

These girls,
they handle the calls

from the
class action members.

And there's thousands of 'em
on any given case.

And it's here that we come
to know their pain.

Isn't that right, Hazel?

Yes. We hear it every day

and it's my job to make
a jury feel that pain.

Not out of pity,
but out of fear.

Whatever it is
that happened to my client,

that juror has to think,

"That could happen to me."

You just
keep hammering it.

One part per billion.
One part per billion.

It's their own documents.
Their own scientists.

Absolutely.

They set that standard,
they have to live with it.

Yeah, I think
we can relax, Rob,

though, there's no way they're gonna
prevail with a motion to dismiss.

This is procedural.

It's nonsense.
We'll get a trial today.

Okay, I'll catch
you guys in there.

I wouldn't drink that.

Earl.

How ya doing?

Still here.

That's somethin',
right?

Yes, that's something.

Good to see ya,
Robbie.

Can't let 'em

shut you down.

I won't. I promise.

Whole world

needs to know.

They will, Earl.
They will.

Hey, Rob? It's time.

I have to go.

We are here
on defendant's motion

to dismiss the case
brought by Mr. Kiger, et al.

Now, which one of you
is Mr. Wallace?

Edward Wallace,
Your Honor,

on behalf of the E.I.
DuPont de Nemours and Company,

better known as DuPont.

Yes, I've heard of it.

- Your motion.
- Thank you.

Your Honor, we're here today because
of a uniquely American invention.

Teflon.

Since 1961, Teflon
has liberated housewives...

- No, no, no.
- Excuse me. Homemakers...

This is a courtroom,
Mr. Wallace.

Not the Home Shopping Network.

Plaintiffs have alleged
that DuPont

did not meet
its own standard of safety

with regard to
the level of C-8

in the local water supply.

That's irrelevant,
Your Honor.

We ask you to dismiss
on grounds

that the only standard
that matters,

is the one that elected
government deems safe.

Not if it's unregulated.

It's government's job
to make these determinations.

- Not any one company.
- It's a trap.

They can't revert
back to...

I got it.

Is there a problem,
Mr. Deitzler?

Apologies, Your Honor,

but DuPont has been hiding
the dangers of this chemical

from the government
for a while now.

And they're asking you
to let them off the hook

because they've succeeded
in their strategy.

Government doesn't
regulate C-8.

Actually,
that's not true.

No, no.

The West Virginia's
C-8 Working Group

has just issued
a standard.

Here with us today,

is the governmental official
who led that effort,

Dr. Mary Sue Kimball.

And, Dr. Kimball,
as a senior member

of the State's Department
of Environmental Protection,

isn't it, in fact,
your duty,

- to protect the citizens of West Virginia...
- Mr. Wallace.

I'll cut to the chase.

What is the level of C-8
in drinking water

that the State
of West Virginia

has determined to be
completely safe?

Watch it go from one
part per billion to?

- Five.
- Ten?

150 parts per billion.

- Welcome to West Virginia.
- The levels found in the wells

of all six water districts
represented in this suit,

do they fall below
this maximum level?

Well below.

Nothing else, Your Honor.

Your witness,
Mr. Deitzler.

Wait. Who's on
the working group?

DuPont, of course,
and who else?

- Who did the water testing?
- Mr. Deitzler?

- When was it done?
- One moment, Judge.

What was
the sample size?

We should
be able to see...

Going once, going twice...

Dr. Kimball, who were
the members of this cabal

you call the C-8
working group?

Objection.

Cool it, Mr. Deitzler.

Go ahead, Dr. Kimball.

Agency officials,

representatives of the scientific
community, um, stakeholders.

Stakeholders?
Which stakeholders?

Oh, wait, let me guess.
It rhymes with bouffant?

DuPont is a stakeholder. Yes.

So, I see.

So, don't you find it peculiar
that on the eve

of a class action lawsuit,

where DuPont might be
considered liable

for poisoning this community,

they get you
to come in here suddenly

and reverse decades of their
so-called heralded science?

That's false.
I don't work for DuPont.

I didn't say you did.

But now you bring it up,
we'll check back in a month.

- Your Honor...
- You honestly, was gonna plan on

telling this community that they
can drink 150 times more C-8?

I mean, come on,
people, bottoms up.

Honestly, Judge...

All right,
Mr. Deitzler, enough.

We'll be unveiling
the new standard

at an upcoming
public hearing.

Unveiling. Oh,
that sounds like a party.

We'll be there!

Their safety standards thing,
that's all a sham.

Thanks to
the Judge's decision,

we will have our day
in court.

Yes, we will!

Because if the state
of West Virginia

won't stop
the DuPont Corporation

from literally
poisoning its citizens,

then we, the citizens,
will stop them ourselves.

Good
evening and welcome to 20/20.

Well, it coats the pots you cook
with so the food doesn't stick.

It protects the carpet
your baby crawls on.

I miss carpet.

...your skin lotion,
even your makeup.

We're talking about Teflon.

And tonight our 20/20
investigation uncovers

alarming information about
this much-used material.

It is very alarming, Barbara.
I cook with Teflon.

I didn't know until I watched this
report that you're about to see,

that if Teflon
gets hot enough...

...millions of people
have in their homes.

Teflon has become
such a familiar...

...Substance that is also used in
clothing and cars. Even in contact lenses.

...already found in the blood
of most Americans.

...millions of homes across
Australia. Teflon, a non-stick surface...

The
Environmental Protection Agency

this morning announced it has opened
a priority review of the chemical C-8,

currently the subject
of a class action lawsuit

against the chemical giant
DuPont.

Joe!

Joe! Oh, my Lord!
Joe, just wait!

Wait for the fire department,
please, honey!

Please don't go crazy!

...have triggered a
mass panic amongst Chinese consumers.

...just throw away
your non-stick pans, many experts...

Are your pans
making you sick?

That's the question
being asked...

...kitchen
implements coated in Teflon.

The house was empty.
It belongs to my father.

I don't know
how it could've started.

His name Kiger?

Think someone might have
got the wrong house?

All of this
hullabaloo is just silly.

Teflon is completely safe
for cooking.

That is why we founded
the Cook Healthy campaign,

to set the record straight.

And besides being completely safe, it is also...

Copy that.

All the way down.

We're now on the record.

This is the videotaped deposition
of Charles O. Holliday, Jr.,

taken by the plaintiffs in
the matter of Kiger et al

v. the E.I. DuPont
de Nemours and Company.

Raise your right hand.

Do you swear to tell the whole
truth and nothing but the truth?

I do.

Uh, please state
your name.

Charles O. Holliday, Jr.

And are you
presently employed?

Yes.

What is your position?

I'm the chairman and chief executive
officer of the DuPont Company.

In DuPont's most recent filing with
the Securities and Exchange Commission,

you state, "Based on over 50
years of industry experience

"and extensive
scientific study,

"DuPont believes there is
no evidence that PFOA causes

"any adverse human health effects
or harms the environment."

You signed
that legal filing, correct?

I don't recall the exact statement,
but that sounds right to me.

Are you aware that DuPont
has, in its own files,

studies dating back to the 1970s
that say just the opposite?

That PFOA, or C-8,
as it's called,

has potentially life-threatening
effects on human health?

I'm not familiar with the exact
studies we may have in our files.

Then I'll take you through them.
Uh, Exhibit 9.

Uh, you were just
handed Exhibit 9.

- Uh, do you see the date March 13th, 1979?
- Yes.

- Do you see the DuPont logo at the top?
- Yes.

- Do you see this word here, highlighted?
- Yes.

- Would you read it for me, please?
- "Receptors."

Do you know what that word refers
to, receptors?

Um, in this context,
I do not.

It means human beings.

DuPont refers
to the men and women

that your company
exposed to C-8 as receptors.

And in these receptors,
your scientists found,

"significantly higher
incidents of allergic endocrine

"and metabolic disorders."

As well as, "excess risk of
developing liver disease."

- Do you see that?
- Yes.

Moreover, you have
infertility at Teflon.

Occurrences of leukemia.

You have excess of cancers.

Bladder, kidney,
oral, pharynx.

Next paragraph. 78.

Do you see that heading?
Do you see that date? Do you see that?

Exhibit 96. Exhibit 53.

I'd like to move on
to birth defects.

We've gone
almost seven hours.

Mr. Holliday, you're aware
that in 1981

3M notified DuPont that it
had conducted studies on rats.

And these studies showed

that sustained C-8 exposure
can cause facial deformities?

I'm not aware
of a study by 3M.

How about DuPont's own studies that
showed the same thing in humans?

That's DuPont's
pregnancy study from 1981.

Does that look like
a DuPont document to you?

It looks to be.

Are you aware that DuPont has
denied that any such study

ever even took place?

I'm not familiar with specific
statements we've made about that.

Seven pregnant women,
all DuPont employees,

all from the Teflon line.

Do you see this here?

"Child, four months,
one nostril,

- "eye defect."
- Yes.

Two of the seven women,
nearly 30%, gave birth

to babies that had the exact facial
deformities that your company

- already knew about.
- We're done here.

Sir.

His parents named him Bucky.

Bucky Bailey.

This is your receptor.

Now we're done.

The Environmental Protection
Agency has levied the largest fine

in agency history against
the chemical giant, DuPont.

The EPA concluded the company failed
to report the health dangers of C-8

used in the manufacture
of Teflon.

Dupont will pay the EPA
16.5 million.

It earns a billion dollars in
profits from Teflon each year.

To recap,

we've agreed that DuPont will
clean local water supplies.

Install infiltration systems
in all six water districts.

Additionally, DuPont will pay
70 million in cash to the Class.

Three days' revenue
on the Teflon line.

Which leaves our most
challenging issue. Medical monitoring.

We've agreed to establish
an independent science panel

comprised of three scientists who
have no relationship to either side.

This independent panel will
study the members of this Class

to determine whether C-8 exposure
has led to increased incidents

of disease in this region.

If the panel finds that there
are probable scientific links

to a particular disease,
the health of everyone in the Class

will be monitored for
that disease in perpetuity

at DuPont's cost,
up to 235 million.

And any Class member
who develops that disease

can sue DuPont for damages.

However...

If the science panel fails to
establish probable scientific links,

then this case is over.

No monitoring.
No lawsuits. No exceptions.

Good. Well, gentlemen, you are now
officially in the hands of science.

Well, wouldn't have
pegged you as a Mai Tai guy.

- It's festive.
- Wouldn't have pegged you for that either.

We have something to celebrate.
Yeah?

Do we?

Look, how do we know
that the panel's gonna prove

that DuPont made
all these people sick?

I'm no scientist,
but even I know you'd need

huge amounts of medical data,
not to mention

thousands of blood samples
and...

From people
who don't trust us.

"Hey, folks, we wanna stick you with
some needles. You won't mind, will ya?"

I know these people,
you know.

They're gonna
take the money and run.

Wouldn't you?

I think they want more than just the money.
I think they...

They wanna know if they're
gonna get sick or not.

Or if they have C-8 in their
blood, and what that's gonna do

to them and their families.

So, we're just gonna trust
that they show up?

- Trust, but verify.
- What does that mean, Rob?

Well, come in for an exam.

Um, give us a blood sample.

Then, we'll give you
your check.

On second thought,
make mine a Mai Tai.

All around, please.

- Rob Bilott.
- Yeah.

Where'd you pull that out of?

Healthy drinking
water is vital to all of us.

That's why scientists need
to know if the chemical C-8

causes any health problems.

Starting today, you can help by completing
a health questionnaire and having...

Oh, come on!

...medical van's downtown.
Well, how about you?

- You gonna get your blood tested?
- Nah. I hate needles.

It's $400, buddy.

Really?

Got your attention, didn't I?

Okay. Okay.
All right. All right.

Yeah. That'll work.

We bring them back here.

Draw the blood,
hand them a check.

- $400?
- Each.

Lots of money around here.

How many you brought
with you today, Miss LUAnn?

My husband,
and my three kids, and me.

$2,000.

- Not too shabby right before Christmas.
- Yup.

But you ain't
gonna find nothing.

DuPont's good people.
You'll see.

Gigi, Gigi, Gigi!

It's your turn to put
the angel on the top.

- You do it, sweetie.
- Gigi's too pooped.

Why don't you get your Uncle
Ben to give you a boost?

- Ooh.
- Mom, you okay?

Yeah.

Seriously, it's huge.

They're gonna be making you
partner this year. I know it.

Well, they'd better.
I mean...

Mommy, come see!

Hey, baby,
did you hang that ornament?

- Rob, can you get that?
- Let me see.

Okay, I'm coming.

Hello?

- Rob, you sitting down for this?
- Larry, what's wrong?

- Sixty-nine thousand.
- Sixty-nine thousand what?

Sixty-nine thousand people got tested.
Sixty-nine thousand!

Do you realize
how much data this is?

It's what we needed, Rob!
This is it!

- Oh, my God.
- You were right all along, my friend.

- Merry Christmas!
- Thank you!

- You bet.
- Thank you!

Talk real soon.

- Hey, who was that?
- You won't believe it.

- Daddy, guess what I just did?
- What? What'd you just do?

I put the angel on the top.

- Yeah?
- Uncle Ben lifted me.

He did? Like this? Oh!

- Merry Christmas, everyone!
- Merry Christmas!

We are gathered here today
in the memory of Wilbur Earl Tennant.

"The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want.

"He makes me lie down
in green pastures.

"He leads me besides still waters.
He restoreth my soul.

"Even though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death,

"I will fear no evil..."

Quick, everybody.
Mustard or ketchup?

Teddy, for the tenth
time, that's my ketchup.

- Charlie, don't start.
- What? It's mine. I got it.

- He's got his own, okay?
- You're that lawyer.

Finish up.

My brother's Dale Lamb. You took his blood.
Said you'd help him.

Yeah, I did. We're...
We're working on it. I promise.

He's dead.

Testicular cancer.

Left three little boys
younger than yours.

But you enjoy your family.

Okay. Everybody up.

- I'm not finished.
- I said up.

Well, Darlene can't even leave
the house without being harassed!

First, they blame us
for suing DuPont,

and now they hate on us 'cause
they ain't seen nothing from it!

- I'm sorry, Joe...
- Well, that ain't good enough!

And they wonder why in the
hell it takes four damn years

to read a lousy blood sample,
and I don't blame 'em!

We trusted you, Rob.
We put our faith in you.

- I know, Joe. I'm so...
- All right?

Isn't there just some
kind of a progress report?

Anything that I can
share with these folks?

I mean, they...
They have been waiting.

I'm sorry, Mr. Bilott.

The Panel is still
in the process of

analyzing complex data
and modeling

from thousands of samples
and medical histories.

I'm so sorry. Could you hold a moment?

Charlie,
don't pick at your food.

What's a hooker?

Where did you learn that?

He told me that
Mary Magdalene was a hooker.

- What? She was.
- You're supposed to say prostitute.

And then
she found God

and became one of Jesus's
most fervent disciples.

See? I was just
teaching him the Bible.

I can't today.
So everybody up.

Everybody up!

- Can we still afford it?
- What?

Catholic school.

My brother's back in rehab.
Did you know that?

- No, I'm sorry.
- Today's...

Today's Mom's first day
at chemo.

I forgot.

'Cause it's not
about your case, Rob.

Car!

- Gosh.
- Okay. Jimmies.

Teddy forged my signature,
and Tony's quitting football. Tony.

But how would you
know about that, right?

Because all you see,
all that you...

You... The boys have ever seen is
you, obsessing about this...

Have I ever complained?

Say something,
for God's sakes, Rob!

- No.
- No?

- No.
- No.

Because I knew that
you needed something.

Some connection...
Something.

And...

So I took it on.

But if you want to start accounting,
if you want to start with,

"Oh, can we afford," then...

I don't know, Rob.

Can the boys afford a father who
can't string two words together?

Can our marriage
afford 13 years of...

Thirteen years of this?

How about it, Rob? You wanna talk about it?
About our lives?

Of course not.

I'll tell Mom
you asked about her.

What in God's name is that Panel
doing? Why are we still getting bills?

Overhead. Uh...

Local counsel.

- Harry's call center...
- $1,000 an hour.

That... That was
a technical expert.

We needed to do filings when DuPont
started lobbying Washington...

That's Washington's problem,
not ours.

That's why you got them involved.
Your memo.

It was just a fine, Tom.
It's a fine. Sixteen million.

It's... It's nothing for these people.
It's pocket change.

Yes, but if they get charged with
criminal concealment, game over.

- You said DOJ was investigating.
- Not anymore.

- What?
- They dropped the investigation.

- They dropped... What?
- They dropped it. No reason given.

Tom, our government is
captive to DuPont.

This case,
it's the only hope we have.

They know that, and they're
trying to make it as expensive

as they can to force you
to make me stop.

- Just tell me how much longer.
- I...

I... I can't.
I... wish I could.

- Tom, I...
- Are you okay?

Um, I'm fine. I'm just...

Rob, I'm a Managing Partner
now. I have a firm to run.

I know. And Tom, I think there
could be a huge payout here...

You think
I'm in this for money?

- No, I...
- You think I am...

Letting you drag this firm's
reputation through a meat grinder

for some kind of
plaintiff's payoff?

I... I don't know why you're doing it.

Rob, listen, I... I'm sorry,

but you're gonna have to
take another pay cut.

Tom, that's...
That's my fourth pay cut.

I... I'm down
to a third now.

You don't have any clients.
No one will take your calls.

What am I supposed to do here?
Now, I'm on your side, but...

Rob?

Amy? Amy!

- Kathleen!
- Get some help!

- Kathleen!
- Get some help!

Rob! Rob!

Looks like
we should, uh, cancel

my 4:00 with Jerry and...

I don't know.
We're waiting to find out.

It was, uh...

Make... Make sure that,
uh, Jerry knows that...

I... I have to go.

- Mrs. Bilott?
- Yes.

We think your husband's
most likely experienced a TIA.

A transient ischemic attack.

Blood is briefly cut off to the brain,
mimicking the symptoms of a stroke.

Uh, excuse me. A TIA?
This wasn't short.

It... It kept going on.

What about poison?

I'm sorry?

Could someone
be poisoning him?

No, Mrs. Bilott.
This is neurological.

You just said
it wasn't a stroke.

Well, not this time.

- What does that mean?
- Well, it means that

- he needs to never miss his medication.
- Mmm-hmm.

And needs to reduce all
sources of stress in his life.

He's under
enormous pressure at work.

Well, that needs to change.
But he's a young man.

He shouldn't be
having these incidences.

He's sedated, but
you can see him.

- I'll check in on him tomorrow.
- Thank you. Thank you.

I'll give you
some privacy.

Anything you
need, call me.

I need you to stop making
him feel like a failure.

I appreciate the stress that your
family must be going through.

Please don't talk to
me like I'm the wife.

Did Rob ever tell you about
moving around as a kid?

I...

Ten times before
senior year.

No friends,
no ties, no...

Just him, his sister,
his folks.

Then I came along and
you came along and...

Taft, it's not
just a job.

To him it's...
It's home.

And he was willing
to risk all that

for a stranger who
needed his help.

Now, you and I may
not know what that is,

but it's not failure.

Lord, you have
searched my heart

And you
know when I sit and when I stand

Your hand is upon me

Protecting me from death

Keeping me from harm

Oh, Lord, I know
you are near

Standing always at

My side

Hey, do you
know the score?

The game? Sorry,
my radio's busted.

Sorry.

Don't worry about it.
It'll be a surprise.

Bucky, come on.
We'll be late.

Have a good one.

Hey,
Rob, Bill Leary. We haven't met.

I'm the new comptroller
out of Indianapolis.

Listen, we need to talk about these
unbilled hours and these unreimbursed...

- Hello?
- Mr. Bilott?

Yes?

I guess I should start
by apologizing for taking...

well, seven years to call you.

- Who is this?
- Oh, yes, of course.

- It's Dr. Karen Frank from the...
- Science Panel?

Again, I'm so sorry to have kept
you waiting this long, Mr. Bilott.

- But there was just so much data...
- Please, Doctor, please,

can you...

Would just please
tell me what's happened?

What's happening?
What you've found out?

Yes. You gave us an
unprecedented amount of data.

The largest epidemiological
study in human history.

It's irrefutable.
We have linked sustained exposure to C-8

to six categories of
serious illness.

Kidney cancer,
testicular cancer...

thyroid disease,
preeclampsia...

high cholesterol,
ulcerative colitis.

3,635 people in the Class
already have these diseases.

Many more will
develop them.

Thanks to you the entire
Class will be monitored...

and those who get sick
can seek restitution.

You did a good thing here,
Mr. Bilott. You did good.

Thank you.

Rob? What happened?

Rob?

DuPont, they're
reneging.

- Which part?
- All of it.

They're tearing up
our agreement.

Rejecting the
Science Panel.

They're gonna fight
every claim in court.

Thousands of claims.
People, sick people, they'll give up.

They can't
fight DuPont!

How can they
go back on...

- Sarah.
- They can't go back on everything.

They're a titan
of industry.

They can do whatever
the hell they want.

Nothing else matters.

They can fight
you all they want.

It doesn't take away
from what you've done!

Of course, it does.
That's exactly what it does!

They want to show the world
that it's no use fighting.

Look, everybody,
even he can't crack the maze

and he's helped
build it!

The system is rigged!

They want us to think
it'll protect us,

but that's a lie.

We protect us. We do.

Nobody else.

Not the companies.
Not the scientists.

Not the government. Us.

A farmer with a 12th grade
education told me that.

On day one, he knew
and I thought he was crazy.

Isn't that crazy?

No.

All rise.

The honorable Timothy Burg...

United States District Judge for the
Southern District of Ohio presiding.

This court is now in session
pursuant to the adjournment.

Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye.

All persons having business
with this honorable court

draw near, give their attention
and they shall be heard.

God save the United States
and this honorable court.

Please be seated.

And we're here this
morning for a jury trial.

So, 3,535 claims.

At a rate of four
or five cases a year,

we can all expect
to be here till...

Well, the year 2890.
If we're lucky.

Guess we'd better
get started.

Mrs. Johnson, is your
attorney present?

Good morning, Your Honor.

Rob Bilott for the plaintiff.

Oh, still here, huh?

Still here.

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