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Previously on Fern.

I have eight good clients. But one of those clients is Althea Sanderson, whose

case is about to settle.

DC Tech has no intention of settling this case.

To the contrary. We fully intend to try the matter.

Sarah Holt. She was officially charged with murder this week.

The ME's report says that Margaret Whitaker was smothered to death.

I didn't kill her. I'm innocent. You have to believe me. So her son.

You're saying he did it? He surprises Sarah Holt at the apartment. She rushes

out. He grabs his chance.

He's a cop. He knows how it's going to look.

Sarah Holt was arrested. She had a laptop with her. It contains

incriminating evidence in a murder investigation that could lead back to

this firm.

What's happening with that computer?

Oh, my God.

Good news. We were able to remotely wipe Sarah Holt's laptop.

McDeer just arrived.

Do not lose him again.

Mitch, be careful.

Okay. I see Andrew. He's here.

How's it look? Is it safe?

Yeah. Yeah, I think so.

Mitch, be careful.

Look, it's okay.

Andrew's a friend. I'm just going to see if he can tell us what's going on.

The deer just arrived.

Do not lose him again.

Everything's fine. I'm almost there.

Freeze!

I said freeze!

Miss, what's happening? I don't know what's going on.

Are you okay?

What's going on?

I have McDear.

Suspect is in custody.

For what?

He threw a guy off a hotel balcony, that's what.

You're under arrest for murder.

Althea Sanderson is not the firm's only client.

No. Has Ken Ross and Clark actually done anything on Althea's case?

Infarction? It means heart attack.

They're making progress.

Just by joining Ken Ross, we scared the other side into upping their offer.

What is a stent exactly?

It's a little tube that they put inside you to make your heart work better.

Well, if it's supposed to help make your heart work better, why did it make

Althea worse?

Because the people your dad is suing made the stent, and they did a really,

really bad job.

Oh, I get it. So it's like, um, defective design.

What are you reading?

Uh, Althea Sanderson's litigation file.

Honey.

Okay. A little help, please.

Julia's mom's gonna be here in 20 minutes.

So how good's the offer?

210,000. You know that's not enough.

And that's why I want you to go talk to them. You've been keeping the books on

this case for months. Show them our situation, Althea's finances.

Are they even going to care? I mean, Ken Ross is a big firm. They're probably

just looking for a quick settlement.

No, we don't know that.

Althea's not going to live out the year, Mitch. Carolyn deserves more than $200

,000 for losing her mom 20 years too early.

And we will tell them that. Look, if you want, I will meet you at Ken Ross after

my morning session.

That's okay, I'll go. But if Andrew wants to settle, you may be defending me

next. Or killing him.

Go.

Bye, Claire.

Bye.

Answer the question again.

How many times are we gonna do this? Until you convince me it was self

-defense. It's the truth.

It's a low percentage play, Judd. You're a gambler.

Read the odds.

We already have an uphill battle in this case. Why?

Because you're a lawyer.

And rather than practice law, you decided to open an illegal casino.

And made more money in a year than any other graduate from my class.

Yeah, that's not something I'm going to tell the jury.

I tried to be a lawyer, Mr. McDeer.

But there's no market for new attorneys. Okay, less than half of law school

graduates today have a job when they leave school.

Back in the day, some firm probably gave you a new car and a house.

I don't know if we can win, Judd.

I just want a fair trial.

I'm innocent, if that matters.

The offer was for six years. Now, if we lose... No.

Jack Riggs was a gangster.

He hurt people for a living, and he would have killed me.

I trust a jury to see that.

If they don't... It's my call, Mr. McDeer.

No deals.

No more discussion.

Let's start the trial.

Excuse me.

Sorry, I need to take this.

Yeah? Judd, take the plea deal?

Nope. He's too scared and too stubborn. Man, it is hard representing lawyers.

I think they know everything.

Kind of sort of like you.

That's not helpful, Ray.

Where are you?

Visiting your client, Sarah Holt. Thought you were gonna meet me. I can't

make it. My trial starts soon.

Can you handle it?

Don't know.

Can she handle me? Just give her an update and get back here. This

prosecutor's sharp.

I might need you to sniff around, make sure I don't get blindsided.

Gotcha.

You asked me to tell you when McDear got here?

Well, he didn't come.

His brother did.

Should we be worried about McDear's brother?

Oh, Ray?

It's all right.

Maybe a bit of a wild card.

Look, don't worry. Things are under control.

Sarah Holt's computer's been neutralized. Mitch hasn't gotten any

closer to the truth.

Make sure he doesn't.

Abby's coming by later today on the Sanderson case.

I'm staying close.

Stood up by my own lawyer.

Very nice.

I don't take it personally.

He's my brother. He stands me up all the time.

He's starting a trial.

Sorry. I'm just tired.

You have no idea how hard it is to sleep on one of these cots.

You want the good news or the bad news?

Bad. Gives me something to look forward to.

We have a problem with your computer. You were working on it the night that

Margaret died.

So Mitch asked us to print off the files as evidence.

What happened?

I don't know. It went down as soon as we started it up. We saved a little bit,

but whatever was on your drive is pretty much gone.

And the good news?

We took a look at Margaret's son, deputy sheriff.

I think he might have motive.

To kill his own mother? His girlfriend broke up with him a couple days before.

Said there wasn't room in his life for both of them.

Might have made room.

Thank you.

Thank Mitch.

I don't even really know what I'm feeling right now.

It's cold hope.

Don't let anyone in here take that away from you, okay?

The investigation started almost a year ago. My squad got word that there was an

illegal casino being run out of a bar called the Double Down. On 11th Street.

That's correct. Now, over time, we learned that that operation was being

run by the defendant.

And the bar?

It belongs to Thomas Conley, his best friend.

They grew up together.

Tom protected him in the neighborhood.

Tom's the reason this all got started.

Please, tell us what you mean.

Well, in the beginning, the Double Down business was pretty small.

But over time, they actually started to make some real money.

The kind of money that's gonna get the attention from a guy like Jack Riggs.

Who's Jack Riggs?

The deceased.

Now, before Judd killed him, he ran all gambling below 14th Street.

Riggs heard about the casino, and he demanded a cut.

And did the defendant pay him?

No.

So Tom ended up in that chair.

Riggs beat him so bad, he almost killed him.

Well, that must have upset the defendant.

Well, I'll put it to you this way.

Two weeks later, we got a call about a shooting at the Double Down.

We got there, place was empty, Riggs was dead.

Judd was holding a gun.

Thank you. No further questions.

Fact is, Detective, my client called 911.

Yeah, that's right.

He didn't run or hide the gun?

No. Jack Riggs also had a gun. No. That gun was placed in the victim's hand

after the fact. You don't know that. You're not a medical examiner, are you?

Jack Riggs was a loan shark, correct?

He was a suspect in multiple beatings, even homicides.

Last I checked, he can't murder loan sharks.

You never heard of self-defense?

My client is a lawyer.

A licensed attorney.

Jack Riggs is a killer. Shows your client.

Look, he can hide behind that law degree all he wants, counselor.

He's not fooling me.

Judd Grafton is a gangster.

Hi.

Thanks so much for coming in. I brought the books you asked for. Everything was

spent on Althea's case so far. I'll take those. And I also brought all of

Althea's medical bills. You can't settle without understanding her finances. No

one said anything about settling yet.

Althea's was the first case Mitch and I took when we started in D.C.

We care about her.

We care about her daughter.

Caroline.

Yes, Caroline.

She matters to us.

So before you guys cut and run for 210, I... 210 is a lot of money, Abby.

She is 19, Andrew. She spends her days sitting by her mother in an ICU... I'm

not saying that it's fair.

Okay, but I've looked at the case.

Bottom line, you don't have what we need to win.

Cromwell's only offering us 210 because of the reputation this firm brings to

the table.

Then help us find what we need to win.

Walk with me, Abby.

Please.

Sarah Holt ain't all she appears to be.

What's up?

Where are you?

I'm heading back to the office.

Something's off. Sarah didn't seem all that shocked or upset that her computer

got wiped. It was like she expected it. She is beaten down, Ray. You can't

expect her to react normal.

What did surprise her was we think Margaret's son is a killer. That just

rocked her world.

So you really think she was hiding something?

How long was she in the military?

Military?

She's a claims adjuster. She never mentioned anything about being enlisted.

Yeah, well, in all my time being locked up, the only guys who made their bed,

like Sarah, formed the military.

Cops just released her keys. I'm gonna roll by her place.

No. Well, it can't hurt to check it out. It can hurt, Ray. Listen to me. You

can't search her apartment without her permission.

Sorry, bro.

I can't hear you. Bad connect.

I'm calling Tammy. She's not going to give you keys.

My name is Dr. Radha Pradeep, medical examiner and forensic analyst.

And, doctor, did you examine the victim in this case?

Yes. Mr. Riggs suffered three gunshot wounds.

The first to his right shoulder, the second to his left chest, and the final

to the back.

I'm sorry, did you say the victim was shot in the back?

Yes. Now, doctor, this is very important.

In the defendant's statement, he was absolutely clear that the victim was

pointing a gun at him when he fired in self-defense.

That didn't happen. And how do you know that?

It's quite simple.

The victim's right arm was down at his side when the first shot hit.

The bullet entered the shoulder and passed out the back in a straight line.

If the victim had been pointing a gun, the bullet couldn't have hit the

shoulder head-on.

And what about the gun in the victim's hand?

I believe it was put there after the fact.

The victim had blood spatter on his right palm.

If he were holding a gun, that blood wouldn't be there. Thank you, Doctor.

No further questions.

No gun and shot in the back.

Wow.

Maybe I should just go home.

Unless you're wrong.

I'm not wrong. Unless you made a critical mistake and altered the shot

sequence. I didn't. What if you did?

What if the first shot hit him in the chest, which caused him to drop his arm,

and then the second shot hit him in the shoulder head-on? No.

He dropped his arm and then dropped the gun, and that explains the blood on his

palm. That is false. The shot to the chest was a mortal wound. He wasn't

strong enough to take the hit and then remain on his feet. You don't know that.

Jack Riggs was a fighter. Objection. The witness should be allowed to answer, and

counsel knows this is speculation. Is it possible, Doctor?

Overruled. Possible, yes.

But in my experience, also unlikely.

In your experience, have you ever seen the force of a bullet actually spin a

victim around?

Yes. And could that account for why the second or third bullets hit Riggs in the

back?

Again, unlikely.

But possible.

I guess I am glad I stuck around.

We're not like other firms. It's not all about money, power, and ego.

Oh, really?

It's only 86% money, power, and ego. Okay, and the other 14%?

Oh, let me guess. Vanity and expense counts.

Actually, it's just hard work.

Meet Team Althea, Abby.

All of these people work on Althea's case?

That's all they do for now.

The other side hits you with a ton of discovery documents.

They don't want you to find the golden ticket or the smoking gun. Whatever's

hidden in all these papers approves Althea's case.

Is it in there somewhere?

I don't know.

But I do know that you and Mitch wouldn't be able to find it without us.

You did a good thing when you joined us, Abby. For you, for Caroline, and her

mother.

At the very least, you gave them reasonable doubt.

Maybe. Are you kidding?

I can't believe that.

We're winning. I know a little bit about trial law, Tom, enough to know what I

don't know. Let me tell you, you never know what a jury's thinking.

Once I testify, it'll be over.

They'll know how dangerous Jack Riggs really was.

Judd, man, you're going home.

Altered shot sequence.

Not bad, McDeer.

What if it's true, Gordon?

It's not.

I'm amending my witness list.

Bobby Monahan's up next.

Who? He's a regular at your client's casino.

Perfect witness to help me prove motive.

Your client just got stabbed in the back.

Quit kissing on me, Ray. Mitch called. I know you just want the key to Sarah's

place.

Ouch, that's not true. Yeah, I want the key, but... Stop.

I'm a detective, baby.

I'm an investigator.

Want me to be bad at my job?

Come on, I'm no good at picking locks.

That's not what I heard.

Listen, Sarah Holt's a client. You can't just rummage through her stuff because

you feel like it.

Any moron knows that.

You don't.

I'm not just any moron.

No, you're not.

Ray!

What?

This is just bad.

Okay, so who ordered a big ol' slab of me?

You're referring to the defendant.

We went to law school together.

We were friends. That is, until Judd started to think of himself as a

gangster. Were you aware that Jack Riggs was threatening Judd's operation?

Yes. But Judd didn't pay him? No. And not long after, Tom Connelly was

paralyzed. Yes.

The, uh, surgeon said that Tom fractured his spine and he may never walk again.

Uh, it could take weeks, years.

He didn't know. What was the defendant's reaction?

He went crazy.

I remember a few weeks after it happened, we all went to the hospital to

visit Tom, and this was the night Riggs was killed.

And Judd just lost it. He was pacing around, and he almost put a chair

through a window.

He said that he was gonna kill Jack.

He said he owed it to Tom. He said it right.

Thank you.

No further questions.

Bobby, Bobby, Bobby.

You made a deal with the government, didn't you?

Yes. You didn't just gamble at Judd's casino.

You helped run it.

You would go out and find new clients, and Judd would pay you. Sometimes.

And in exchange for your testimony, the prosecution agreed not to prosecute you.

Correct? Yes.

So you say you knew him from law school.

So? So you understand evidence.

You know exactly what the prosecution needs you to say so they can prove their

case. Objection.

Overruled. Here's the bottom line, Bobby.

Did Judd Grafton ever tell you that he intended to shoot Jack Riggs?

No. So as far as you know, he was scared for his life when he pulled that

trigger. Look, I've known Judd for a long time now.

I've seen him happy, angry, upset, you name it.

But scared?

Never.

Are you winning?

No, I am not winning.

You would know that if you were here.

Take it easy. What's the problem?

I just got sandbagged by a cooperating witness.

And it hurt us.

Bad.

Don't they have to give you a heads up for that kind of thing?

Yes, Ray, they do. But I don't expect the government to play fair. I expect my

private investigator brother to warn me.

Hey, I'm an investigator, dude, not a psychic.

Where are you?

At the office.

Why? What do you need? I need you to go to the hospital.

Get every surveillance video from the night Jack Riggs was shot.

What are you looking for?

The truth.

Our client acting like a normal person, not stomping around like he was about to

kill someone.

Normal person.

Got it. Actually, get every visit Judd made.

Anything that proves he wasn't out of control.

See ya.

Caroline, how are you?

Uh, I'm okay, I guess.

Is Mitch here?

No, he's at court.

How are you doing? Anything I can help you with?

Our rent was due yesterday.

With Mom's medical bills, I think we might be evicted.

Well, I can call the landlord and explain and get you more time.

Yeah. We're already three months behind.

I'm sorry, it's just that, um...

Whatever money my mom had has been gone for a while. I got a job working the

register at Hamilton's.

200,000.

That's the offer now.

210.

Um, I don't want to disappoint you.

This company should pay for what they've done, what they're still doing with

other families. Of course they should. And they will. Listen to me. I know that

$210,000 feels like a lot of money to you right now.

But we can win this.

But I can't keep going.

My mom... She's not getting better.

I sit with her almost every day, and she doesn't even know I'm there.

One more week.

Your mom's a fighter, and so are you, and we're not going away, not for 210.

One more week.

Okay.

You should have seen her, Mitch.

Now she's falling apart.

Well, then, we're getting closer, aren't we? I mean, Andrew has ten full-time

associates working on it. We told her that, but she's 19, and she's scared.

Well, we can just lend him some money till the case is over.

No, honey, we can't. Lawyers aren't allowed to lend their clients money.

There's no rule that says I can't lend her money. I'm not a lawyer.

You work for my office. There is a rule against it.

You started dinner without me.

And finished, babe.

Close.

Hey, did you go to the hospital? Yeah, I just finished looking at security

footage for the last two hours. You're not gonna believe this.

Judd visited Tom at the hospital at night of the shooting. He was there a

couple hours before.

Yeah, Bobby Monaghan saw him there.

Yeah.

But Bobby Monaghan didn't see this.

We need to talk to Judd. Now.

Ray found this in the surveillance footage from the hospital.

I had to watch it a couple times before I knew what I was looking at. That is

the camera looking down the back stairwell.

That's Tom Connolly.

He walked out of the hospital 30 minutes before Jack Riggs was shot.

Doctor said Tom could take weeks or years to walk.

I guess it was weeks, huh?

I got nothing to say.

What the hell is going on, Judd? Did you know about this?

Do you really shoot Jack Riggs?

Huh? Was Connolly there? I'm not talking.

Show it to the judge.

Wait.

Okay, look.

I didn't shoot Riggs.

We're listening.

I went to the hospital to see Tom.

It was his birthday.

I said, five weeks is long enough.

We're going to open the casino again.

What about Riggs?

I told Tom we were paying him off. Obviously, he wasn't happy.

Called Riggs, told him to come by after closing.

Did you have a gun?

In the office, but I didn't need it.

We were paying Riggs his money.

Tom must have come in the back.

I was hurt, but...

He made it.

Tom, no!

It's my fault.

I'm the one that didn't want to pay Riggs. Tom got jumped because of me. So

you covered it up. I didn't know what else to do.

Why didn't you tell me that you could?

I didn't know until I tried.

I wasn't going to let you pay on the money.

Get out of here.

No one knows you were here.

Judd. Listen to me. But once in your life, just let me protect you.

Let my lottery count for something.

This was self-defense.

I can spin this.

We can make it work.

We have to take this to the court. No. I know you want to help him. I almost got

him killed. Judd, you're looking at a murder conviction. Yeah, well, that's my

decision.

Look, nobody knows that Tom was there.

Nothing has changed. Everything has changed.

You're innocent, and we can prove it. Yeah, not without my permission.

What are you going to do, Judd?

Are you going to go to prison for him for the rest of your life?

It's not going to happen.

We're winning.

What do you think?

I think Tom's like a brother to him, man.

Brothers protect each other.

Yeah, he is.

Let me take a shot at him.

Hey.

Got a minute?

Sure.

You work with Mr. McDeer?

Yeah. Ray.

I'm his brother. Also his investigator.

Good to meet you. Make sure I help.

Actually, Judd doesn't need my help. I think you're the only one who can help

him. Yeah, I'm ready to testify.

You know what I mean.

Are you gonna let your friend take the... life sentence for something you

did?

I'm gonna tell you something.

Judd may think he knows what he's doing.

Prison. You don't know until you've been there.

Are we done? Just wait.

Judd goes away, he's not coming back, even if he gets released someday.

Trust me, the guy who goes in is not the same guy who comes out.

Look, man wants to roll the dice, let him roll the dice.

Nothing we can do about it.

Well, we gotta do something. We can't just let him risk it. If anybody has any

ideas, I'm open.

Why doesn't Ray just testify about the video? Look, I'm not doing that. Why

not? You saw the footage. You know that Tom Connelly left the hospital.

Yeah, but even if he wanted to, I don't think he could. Which I don't. The man's

trying to protect his friend. I respect his decision. This is up to Tom to fix.

The question is, how do I introduce the surveillance video into evidence when

our client expressly ordered us not to?

Hello? Abby, it's Andrew.

Andrew.

Are you having a party?

We will be.

Abby, we found it. You found what?

A golden ticket away to win Althea's case.

I told you we wouldn't give up.

Abby, we got it.

We got it.

It's not exactly a smoking gun.

No, but it's damn close once you explain it.

So this is the stent they put in Althea? This is a design for a better stent.

One that corrects the design flaw that made Althea so sick. So how long did

they know the stent in Althea was defective?

This blueprint was written 18 months before Althea got her stent. So why

didn't they just give Althea the safer stent?

Because they didn't have it.

They never manufactured it. The risk of the defect was rare.

The cost to replace all the stents out there was massive. So DC Tech, they made

a business decision to shelve this new model.

There's your closing argument.

Sounds like a winner to me.

Andrew, thank you.

Thank you. Listen, the associates did all the work, but don't tell them I said

that. They'll want raises. Hold on. This document is only half the battle. We

still need an expert who can explain this to a jury.

Buddy, this is why you joined Kinross.

For the firepower we have in times like this, right?

Set up a settlement conference.

What about your trial?

My trial may be over. I'm asking the judge to let me withdraw.

Withdraw?

You're putting me in a difficult position, counsel. I'm sorry, Your

Honor. So am I.

You're not the first lawyer to realize his client is guilty, Mr. McDear. Well,

I am not asking because he's guilty. I am asking because he is innocent.

Oh, that's a new one on me. How do you know?

I can't tell you.

Excuse me?

My client specifically ordered me not to say.

Well, then, we have nothing to talk about.

Well, that can't be the law.

No, the law is clear.

It assumes that a man on trial for murder will want to defend himself.

And if he won't? My hands are tied.

If he insists on going with self-defense, he accepts the risk. Well,

I don't, so I move to withdraw and testify.

Denied. With all due respect, Your Honor, the rules are wrong on this one.

I hear you, Counsel.

But whether a jury hears you depends on him. Now, are you presenting evidence?

No, Your Honor. We rest.

Fine. Then I'll see you in the morning for closing arguments.

Okay, start at the edges.

What are you doing?

Oh, don't worry about it.

I got pretty damn good at doing puzzles in prison.

Man, you're gonna love this part.

So many lawyers.

Very impressive, man. Shall we go around the table and introduce ourselves?

Let's just get down to business.

Gonna be a short meeting, man.

We're not raising our offer a dime.

Did everybody hear that?

Good.

Because I just want to make sure that we are all on the same page.

What page would that be?

This one.

The one you hid...

Underneath all the discovery.

Which means nothing to me.

Me neither. It didn't mean anything to any of us.

Until we found the spec sheet for it.

50 boxes later.

Spec sheet.

The one that says this new design is a better stint.

And if Althea Sanderson got it, she wouldn't be dying.

Remedial action to fix a defect after the fact can't be introduced at trial.

It's inadmissible.

This wasn't written after the fact. It was written 18 months ago.

The company's always doing R&D. I still don't see the relevance.

I don't think that's true, John.

I think you see the relevance just fine.

Your company knowingly sold a defective product rather than fix the problem

because it was too expensive.

That greed destroyed Althea Sanderson's life.

Did I say it?

That's why you...

Called this meeting.

Can I be frank with you, Mitch?

It'd be nice for a change.

Up until this very moment, I assumed you were in over your head.

An ambulance chaser.

Strictly low rent. But now, after this meeting, I realize that I've

overestimated you.

You thought an army of lawyers would scare us? We've got our own army.

You thought this document would scare us? It doesn't. Because?

Because you have no idea what it means.

Even if it were relevant, you'd need a very, very special expert to interpret

it. These are Cromwell and Taft's retained experts on this case. We signed

up every credible expert in the United States on this issue six months ago.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Did I forget to introduce everyone?

Mr. Bolson, this is Dr. Jean Armand from France.

And this is Dr. Sakaita from the National University of Tokyo.

These are the premier stent design engineers in the world.

And if you will read your file, you will see that our

guys taught most of your guys.

Why don't you sit down, Mr. Bolson?

My client wants a settlement check today.

And before you say anything, whatever the number you have in your mind, make

it bigger.

Much bigger.

Hi. I got here as fast as I could.

How's your mother?

She's okay.

What's going on? Did something happen with the case?

Nothing bad. No, nothing bad at all.

No, just give it to her, Dad.

They finally settled, Caroline.

It's not everything you deserve, but it is a good number. It's a great number.

How did you... Well, you are part of one of the biggest tort cases of the year.

And Ross and Clark will be signing up plaintiffs from all over the country and

holding DC Tech accountable.

You did it, Caroline.

People will get justice because of you and your mom.

Thank you so much.

You want motive?

Greed.

Judd Grafton didn't kill out of fear.

He killed because he didn't want to give part of his illegal gambling business to

the victim.

Not enough?

How about revenge?

His best friend was paralyzed by the victim.

He had to get even.

That's what gangsters do.

You want proof?

He was caught at the scene, standing over the victim, holding the murder

weapon. And he confessed to the shooting.

What else could he say?

Self-defense.

He's a lawyer.

He knows it's the only thing that can save him.

Judd Grafton's a gambler.

He's betting that you won't convict him.

Show him you've got his number.

Find him guilty.

My client confessed to shooting Jack Riggs.

The only question is why.

We all agree that Riggs was a bad man.

He was a violent man, and on that night, he was an armed man.

People were right to be afraid of Riggs.

Judd Grafton was right to be afraid of Riggs. Look at what he had done to Tom

Connolly.

Imagine coming face to face...

with the man who beat your best friend so badly that doctors say he may

never walk again.

Riggs wanted money.

He had proven that he was willing to hurt people to get it.

Now, the prosecution can second-guess it, but my client did what he had to do.

And he has come this far because he is innocent.

He's not a gangster. He is not a killer. He is just a scared man who is in over

his head.

Now he is gambling.

He is gambling that you will see the truth and let him go home.

Whatever happens, thank you.

It's not too late, you know.

You did a great job.

We're gonna win.

I feel it.

Chad, remember what I told you.

You can never know what a jury is thinking.

Maybe he's right.

We are okay.

You don't have to do this.

All right, I can't handle it. I never asked you to do any of this. Hey!

How many times did you save me?

Growing up, huh?

My smart mouth was always getting me into trouble, and you always got me out.

You never did have any street smarts. No.

But I know how to read the odds.

When we were both going home today, I feel it.

Judd, if the jury finds you guilty, even if you change your mind, we may never be

able to get you out.

You know that, right?

Before we continue, does either party wish to address the court?

Will the defendant please rise?

Members of the jury, have you reached a unanimous verdict?

We have, Your Honor. What say you?

In the case of the people versus Judd Grafton on the sole count of murder, we

find the defendant, Judd Grafton, not guilty.

Members of the jury, this completes your service.

You are dismissed with thanks of the court.

Thank you.

Sure read a jury and make a hell of a lawyer.

Hey, baby.

Looking good.

Yeah, I know. I still got to change for the party. Ray. No, no, don't worry.

Stop.

What did you do?

Finished your puzzle.

It was mostly a blank page, but you were right. Starting with the edges helped.

This is what it said?

Four names.

Four women's names.

You got that from Sarah's apartment, didn't you?

I'd be mad right now, but I'm a little in shock.

Martha Epps.

That was the night nurse that Margaret Whitaker fired.

The one Sarah Holt replaced.

The three others are also nurses.

They're the three that Margaret Whitaker fired over the year and a half before

she died. This is bad.

I know.

Sarah said she didn't know Margaret Whitaker, had only met her on the day

she died. So why does Sarah have a shredded piece of paper with the names

of all the fired nurses?

Because she lied.

She knew her history. She used it to get into the apartment.

Maybe she really was there to rob her. We have to tell Mitch and Abby.

Come on, we're late for the party.

Glad you could make it. It's kind of awkward having the guests of honor not

show up. Thank you so much, Andrew, for everything.

Oh, thank you.

And, uh,

this should take the edge off for a while.

And if this case is as big as we think it is, it's only the beginning.

The McDear family.

Ah, hello, Alice.

Congratulations, Mitch.

Thank you. Thanks for our 50%. Hello,

Ray. Good to meet you.

Uh, would you excuse us just for a minute?

Hey.

You, uh, said you wanted to talk about something?

No. Everything's okay.

I'll tell you tomorrow.

Enjoy your night.

Deserve it.

Bye, dude.