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Previously on "Bluff City Law"...

You're my daughter.

I want you to come back to the firm.

I want you fighting for what's right.

Meet Emerson. Paralegal, assistant,

and all around in-house genius.

Yeah, it's, uh,
nice to finally meet you.

The teacher's wrongfully
convicted of killing a student.

Why would you say that you
were guilty if you were innocent?

Your ex-husband is
the chief of detectives.

Jake, is it?

Did you break his heart?

You broke his heart.

I know that if you can
channel all this passion

that you have, you can change the world.

Hey, Dad? How long you staying?

What did he just call you?

[LIGHT MUSIC]

♪♪

- These three best behave together.
- Emma?

I heard.

- Sorry.
- Thank you.

Yeah, vultures.

You should've called me, Emma.

If a farmer has a problem,
she turns to other farmers.

Not a lawyer.

Well, this lawyer taught his daughter

to ride her first horse on
that field right over there.

150 years, Elijah.

This land has been in
my family for 150 years,

and now I lost it because
the court says I'm a thief.

You know, some things you
just don't tell your friends

'cause you don't want to see
their faces when they find out.

Five minutes, folks.

The auction will begin in five minutes.

[TIRES SCREECH]

[LIGHTLY EDGY MUSIC]

_

♪♪

- Hey, that's our cart.
- Stop her!

- Sorry, I need it.
- Where you going?

Ladies and gentlemen,
if you'll please gather

up front for the auction to begin.

Bring your catalogs and,
of course, your wish list.

Now, when you look at your lot numbers,

I'd like to give you a quick reminder...

Judge Sarnow!

Judge Sarnow!

Judge Sarnow!

Judge Sarnow, Your Honor. I got it.

Miss Strait.

I would say I'm shocked,
but when it comes to you,

I think I'm going to retire that word.

Oh, thank you.

I'd like to remind you
that the entire household

is for sale. I will be selling
everything here, at least...

Hold on! Hold on, hold on, man,

you're gonna want to see this. Hold on.

- Excuse me, excuse me, sir.
- [AUCTIONEER CONTINUES TALKING]

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Excuse me... Okay.

Let me remind you
the bidding will start with...

30Day Stay of the foreclosure.
Said you wanted it in person,

so I put some tape on
it so it won't get lost.

Sorry, folks, but today's auction
has been canceled,

so if you can just make your
way back to your vehicles,

that would be much appreciated.
Thank you so much.

Delayed... folks, this auction
has not been canceled, just delayed.

Did you see that? See what I did there?

- [LAUGHTER]
- Wait, wait, stop.

Easy, easy. I don't wanna
get this nice suit all dirty.

Oh, like that would stop me.

- Nothing ever did.
- [LAUGHS]

Now, Sydney,
I do appreciate your help...

but I already lost to
Terennial in court.

I just don't see how
we're doing anything

but putting off the inevitable.

Well, because tomorrow
we're gonna go before

the Court of Appeals,
we're gonna expose Terennial

for the criminals they are
and get the ruling against you

set aside, and then the bank
won't have to foreclose,

because you won't have
any penalties to pay.

[LAUGHING]

She hasn't changed at all, has she?

All right, come on. Y'all came
all the way out here...

the least I can do is feed you.

You know, I gotta get back to the city.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

All right. Rain check then.

Yes.

- Drive safely.
- Yep.

Well, I was gonna ask how
things were going between

the two of you, but...
seems I don't have to.

Oh, come on.

[SCOFFS]

- I'm feeding you.
- [LAUGHS]

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[BLUESY MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ Born on your bad side ♪

You hear that Sydney got the stay?

Found the judge on the 12th green.

I'll say this for her,
she does keep things interesting.

[LAUGHS]

Hey, you got a blood lab that you trust?

George Bell case?

Yeah, just wanna run
the blood samples again.

- What?
- Oh, nothing.

Just so used to you doing
big corporate cases.

It's kind of sweet to see you
fight this hard for one guy.

This is an innocent guy

with a wrongful imprisonment
case worth millions.

This isn't about the money.

- He got you.
- Okay, therapy session over.

What's in the sauce?

It's cumin.

No, it's cinnamon.

Your Yankee upbringing's showing.

Cinnamon is never found in
your better barbeque sauces.

It's never found in any barbeque sauce.

No, it's never found in your
run-of-the-mill mediocre sauces.

Those are fighting words, Jacob.

Wars have been fought over less.

Look, I know what you're saying, Tony.

You're from here.
You think you know everything.

But sometimes you have
to think different.

That's what Steve Jobs says.

Now you're comparing
yourself to Steve Jobs?

No, I'm far better
dressed than Steve Jobs.

[LAUGHING]

So, you boys ready?

Oh. Come...

This week's secret ingredient is...

- Cumin.
- Pay up.

- This... this is a conspiracy.
- Pay up, get the wallet.

This is a conspiracy
to make me look like

some kind of Yankee fool.

Charlie, is everything okay?

You're a lawyer, right, Anthony?

Yeah, we're both... lawyers, Charlie.

People say you're the guy
who saved Shelby Park?

I am that man.

Good, 'cause I need you.

Butchie's making moves.

Thinks he can start some
franchise using my recipe.

- Excuse me?
- I wanna sue my brother

for stealing my secret barbeque sauce.

[BLUESY MUSIC CONTINUES IN BACKGROUND]

He's your man.

♪ Oh, I would have no luck at all ♪

Jesus, Bri.

What have I told you about
breaking into my house?

Something about how I shouldn't do it?

Yeah, boundaries.

What is this? What are we doing?

It's been two days since
you found out you had

a half-brother and haven't
talked about it, so...

we're going out and talking about it.

[CHATTER, MUSIC]

♪ I been away from you, baby ♪

My mom's dead and my dad
and I aren't speaking

because he has a secret
love child who now works

at our office.
My life is a blues song, Bri,

and it's not even a good one.

You didn't know, did you?

I suspected, but I didn't dig

'cause I figured if Elijah
was keeping it a secret,

he had a good reason.

And since the big reveal,
what have we learned?

Della knew, but no one else at the firm.

My dad doesn't have a whole
secret second family, does he?

Please. In fact, I don't think

he's been aware of
Emerson for all that long.

So Dad found out while he
and I weren't speaking.

- That a comfort?
- [GRUNTS]

That could be one.

No.

Come on, he's so pretty.

- Mm-mm.
- Hi.

All right, fine.
If that's what you think

- is gonna make you feel better.
- Thank you.

Get your ass right back here.

[LAUGHTER] You're a mess.

I know. [LAUGHTER]

Honestly, I don't even know
what's bothering me.

I mean yes, of course I'm mad at Dad,

but I'm not exactly all that surprised.

I don't know.
There's just... there's something

just... like eating away at me,
and I can't... I can't...

I can't put my finger on it.

♪♪

There's a tragedy unfolding
across the country.

Small farmers like
Emma Sutton are falling victim

to a corporate trap from
which there's no escape.

What is this trap?

First Terennial makes a
genetically modified seed

and patents it.

A farmer then plants this seed,

and when that crop
matures, those seeds do

what all seeds do...

They take to the wind

and blow into the fields
of neighboring farms.

Then one day, Terennial knocks
on those farmers' doors

and says, "Guess what?

You've got our patented seed

in your field, so technically
part of your harvest is ours,

so kindly pay up."

Now it doesn't matter if
you didn't want their seed.

It doesn't even matter
if, like Emma Sutton,

you took measures to keep
it off your property.

Terennial demands their cash,
and if you say no,

they take you to court for
stealing their product.

And that's where the
real tragedy happens.

They win.

This madness has to stop.

Farmers can't stop the wind.

They can't fight Mother Nature.

They are not stealing.

If anything, Terennial is trespassing.

And as such,
we ask that Emma Sutton's ruling

be set aside as defective.

Thank you.

The court finds Ms. Strait's
arguments persuasive.

However, this matter has
already become settled law.

Farmers across the country
have litigated the issue

all the way to the Supreme Court,

and each time, it's been found legal.

Therefore the court affirms
the district court's ruling

against Ms. Sutton.
She will pay the judgment

against her or she will forfeit
her farm as previously ordered.

All rise.

Court is adjourned.

[COURTROOM MURMURS]

Nothing this wrong is
every entirely legal.

Our system's not perfect,
but somewhere in it

there is a way to make this wrong right.

And we'll find it.

Okay, Della will be the judge.

Jake and Anthony, you be our jury.

I'll argue possible
strategies for our side.

Sydney, since
you used to work for these kinds

of companies, uh, you be Terennial.

We'll start and we'll just keep on going

until we have an approach

that we think has a snowball's chance

of saving these farms.

Hey, when's the big barbeque meeting?

- Tomorrow.
- Sound good?

- Yes.
- Yep.

- Good.
- Okay, uh...

We attack them with science.

Call their specialists.

Get them to talk about

how these seeds are engineered
to spread like wildfire.

First of all,
that's protected work product,

so no way you're getting that in court.

She's right.

Second, it's also settled law,
like the court said...

yesterday.

Fine. How about Antitrust?

Terennial's got a near
monopoly with the percentage...

Antitrust is a matter for Congress.

Any secret Congressmen here?

Public Health. We can argue the dangers

of every crop being
genetically related...

Yes, please come after us
for doubling productivity

and keeping the world from starvation.

- Deceptive practices.
- Dead in the water.

- Patent limitations.
- Even deader in the water.

Fine, then our best bet is
to go back to the science

- and the spread of the seed...
- Yes, by all means,

let's hammer them for the indiscriminate

spread of their seed.

Okay, I think it's time for a nice

get-your-act-together recess.

- Am I right?
- Mmhmm.

[QUIET MUSIC]

Well, I'd say we have Terennial
right where we want them.

[LAUGHING]

Move over.

I know it doesn't seem like it now,

but it will be a relief
not to have to keep

that secret anymore... for both of us.

I saw Carolyn the other night.

- What'd she say?
- Well, she teased me mostly.

[LAUGHING] Well,
that sounds like Carolyn.

You don't think me seeing
something like that

- is so strange?
- No.

When I was 14,

my sister died,
and I saw her for an entire year.

Any time I wanted to see her,
I would just close my eyes...

And when I opened them, there she was.

Should I, uh, quit?

Like, seriously, should I?

I feel like this is all... my fault.

I asked you to wait to tell people,

and now it's like crazy
town out here, so I...

Emerson. First of all,

none of this is your fault.

Sydney and I...
we've got a lot of history and, um,

she has every right to be mad at me,

just like you have
every right to be here.

But more than that,

you're wanted here.

By me and the rest of the firm.

I'm sorry but, uh,
things are gonna be a little

bumpy for awhile but, uh...

I love you, son.

And knowing Sydney the way I do,
in time she will, too.

Please trust that.

So, I see you found my spot.

- Your spot?
- Mm-hmm.

First time I worked here
this was practically my office.

Can we share it then?

Thank you.

Shared a dog with a boyfriend once.

That ended poorly.

For him or the dog?

I'm sorry for how I acted downstairs.

- I should've...
- Don't be. You were pissed. I get it.

I mean, nobody actually tells
me what goes on in there,

but from the little I do know...

I do, in fact, get it.

And I also get that it's not long

since you lost an amazing mother.

I liked Carolyn.

She had a way of seeing
the best in people.

Thank you.

Of course.

You know, Jake,

I think I may have misjudged you.

No... we should go back inside.

You come across as this macho,

fast-car-driving guy.

Your dad probably wants
to talk to us, so...

But you're actually a nice person.

- Hi, Jake.
- Hey, handsome.

- [GIGGLING] Hey.
- Hey.

Hi, Jake. [LAUGHTER]

- Huh.
- Yeah.

- That's why you sit out here.
- Of course not.

- Mm.
- But if you need me,

I will be here Tuesdays at 4:00.

and Fridays at 6:00.

Is that your ex-husband?

Why is he here?

[EDGY MUSIC]

Why didn't you tell me?

I didn't want to worry
you if it was nothing.

Plate traces back to
Pelham Security Services

out of Atlanta.

There's no red flags,
there's no link to Terennial.

However, I did just notice

a car idling up the block just now.

Took off as soon as I rolled up,

- which makes me think that...
- Terennial's having us watched.

Yep. Not surprising based
on the reports we get.

Pretty much any time

a farmer makes a stink,
Terennial sends guys.

They intimidate, follow...

I've tried to get people
to file complaints but...

It's all downside if they do.

Appreciate you taking the time.

Really great seeing you, Robbie.

You too.

Robbie, Dad? Really?

He's the chief of detectives,
and he cares about you.

That's exactly who I'm calling

when someone's following my daughter.

Well, thanks for the head's up.

You know, you can't give people
the silent treatment

and then get angry
if you're out of the loop.

One thing has nothing
to do with the other.

Okay, fine. Noted.

But you're here now
and, uh, we're talking.

So besides me apologizing for
the way that you found out

about Emerson,

how's about we clear the air?

I don't want any more walls
between us, Sydney.

No more secrets.

Well, that's not gonna
leave us with much.

What do you want to know?

Ask me any question. I'll answer it.

[BEEP] Mr. Strait?

Sorry to disturb you,
but I have Sheriff Lord calling.

He's says it's about Emma Sutton.

[POLICE RADIO CHATTER]

Was he on her land?

3 feet from the property line.

Did he say why he was just
parked way out here like this?

He claims he heard the farm
was gonna be foreclosed soon

and he was thinking about buying it.

Elijah, he's not pressing charges,

but if she does it again...

Appreciate you calling.

So, farmer has a problem,
she takes a tire iron to it, huh?

- You're damn right she does.
- Emma, I know that you're...

What, you want me to play nice?

They're bullies.

There's only one way
you deal with bullies.

They punch you, you punch harder.

Emma, this isn't a street fight.

- We need to do this in court.
- Well, someone should tell them that,

because as far as I'm concerned,

they're no better than gangsters.

They sue me, but they're the ones

that should be in handcuffs.

Dad?

[LIGHTLY EDGY MUSIC]

♪♪

No better than gangsters.

Okay, now what?

Now the new lab will
compare your blood and DNA

with that found at the crime scene,

and when it doesn't match,

I will demand that
the DA either free you

or give you a new trial...
How's that sound?

Pretty damn good, I'd say.

How you doing, George?

You need anything?

Apple sauce?

[LAUGHING]

You know, it's funny.
You'd think it'd be easier,

knowing I actually got a
chance of getting out of here.

But in a way, it almost feels harder.

Well, just...

Just hang in there
a little longer, okay?

Guard.

All right. And I will call you as soon

as I hear anything about
the DNA from the lab, okay?

Bye, George.

Hey, Jake.

What's it like out there?

I'm gonna let you find that
out for yourself, George.

[SOFT MUSIC]

[DOOR CLICKS SHUT]

Your Honor, this is insane.

They wanna use the
Civil RICO statutes...

Laws designed to go after
drug cartels and the Mafia...

To prosecute a case against Terennial

just because their
client lost her appeal.

They move into new
territory, like a gang.

They force their product on you,
like a gang.

And if you don't say yes,
they resort to tactics

like intimidation and
threats to your way of life.

So you're saying all
corporations are criminal?

- No, just yours.
- Insane as it may sound,

Mr. Wells, I agree with Mr. Strait

that this is a matter for a jury.

Ms. Sutton's lawsuit against
Terennial may go forward.

Now, I believe we can come
to an amicable solution.

Counselor, I'd like for you
to explain to my client...

I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm late.

Mr. Cooper, we met before.
Jake Reilly, second chair.

I'm just, uh,
here to learn from the legend.

Mr. Reynolds was about to
explain his client's position.

My client believes, being brothers,

they shared in
the creation of this business.

And now that my client wants to leave,

he's entitled to take the
recipes they created...

They? Who's they, Butchie?

Were you in the kitchen
sweating day and night?

I don't think so, 'cause there's no way

I would've missed seeing your fat ass.

I was out front, running the whole show.

Ordering ingredients,

greeting the customers,
doing the marketing.

Fixing tables with my bare
hands when they broke.

Broke because you sat on them.

Insults are the tools of small minds,

like Tony Robbins says.
Well, this Coop is ready

to fly the coop to greener pastures.

Gentlemen,
I think we all agree on the basics.

Now your client's leaving with the hopes

of starting a franchise of his own.

My client's saying that
he can't take the sauce.

Now, given that your client has admitted

that he was nowhere near the kitchen

- when the recipes were being created...
- Don't matter.

We have a contract.

Says everything's 50/50.

- Contract?
- Didn't I mention that?

_

_

Contract?

My name is Tucker Goodman,
and I am the CEO of Terennial.

I flew out here personally
because that's how seriously

all of us at Terennial take
these outrageous charges.

I started as a farmer.

I came up in a farming family.

Multi-millionaire farmers.

Terennial has, and always will be,

a company where farmers matter.

Criminals don't come with a sign on them

that says "criminal."

And nowadays,
it seems like anyone can be one...

Bankers, doctors, lawyers.

What you're going to hear from us

during the course of
this trial is that sometimes

companies can be criminals, too.

Could you tell me what happened?

I was broke.

I have a wife, three kids...

I was under a mountain of debt.

[EDGY MUSIC]

And that is when the Terennial sales rep

offered you a cash incentive

that just happened to be the
exact amount that you owed

if you would be the first
farmer in the county

to try his product?

Yes.

So what'd they do after
they showed you proof

that their seed had mixed with yours?

They were nice at first.

Said if I switched over,
they'd give me a discount.

- And did you switch over?
- No.

We're an organic farm, non GMO.
Terennial's GMO.

And so then what happened
when you told them no?

They... they sued.

And then while I was
waiting for the trial,

that's when the other
things started to happen.

Other things? What other things, sir?

They slashed my tires.

They started following me
around... everywhere.

I'd wake up and find smashed equipment.

I'd even see them when I
picked my kids up at school.

How'd that make you feel?

I was scared.

I was scared.

I was terrified.

So what did you do?

Carla and I talked about it.

And we held our ground.

We decided not to take their product.

And are you still farming now?

No.

The bank took the farm after
we lost the court fight.

Nothing further.

Uh, if I may, Your Honor?

Mr. Miller,

how long has this farm
been in your family, sir?

110 years.

And what do you do for work now?

I work the graveyard
shift at the Stop & Shop.

Carla drives Uber.

[SOMBER MUSIC]

Thank you. Nothing further.

Court will adjourn for the day.

Why didn't you ask those last
two questions like we planned?

I made a judgment call.

This case is about community.

This group of farmers...

All the years that they've done this.

I decided that it would
be stronger to end

on the bank foreclosing.

That decision wasn't
solely yours to make,

and you did it without consulting.

You don't want to talk about Emerson,
that's one thing.

You don't want to talk about the case,

maybe take some time off.

- What?
- I can handle you being mad.

I understand sad,
but what I will not tolerate

is letting our stuff
impact you as a lawyer.

That's unfair to our clients.

You wanna know what
question's eating at me?

The one thing that I just...

I can't get out of my head
no matter how hard I t?

- Yes.
- Did Mom know?

[QUIET MUSIC]

♪♪

She did.

That's what I thought.

[KNOCKING]

Yes?

Hey.

Hi.

Should I quit?

I asked Elijah, but I realized

the person I should ask is you.

I don't wanna make you miserable.

I don't want to be the reason
that you stop working here.

You're important.

What you guys do here... That's...

it's important.

But, you know, if every time you...
you see me,

you see his mistake,
I just think it makes

more sense for me to go than you.

Don't... don't leave, Emerson.

I... I don't know how to say
much more than that right now,

but, um... don't... I don't...

I don't think you should leave.

Right.

Okay.

Sorry, do you mean, like,
don't leave the firm

or don't leave your office right now?

- I mean the firm.
- Right, okay.

[BLUES GUITAR CHORDS]

♪♪

[VOICES CHATTERING, APPROACHING]

[LAUGHTER]

Yeah.

Yep. Okay, bye. Goodbye.

[SIGHS]

See ya.

[HEAVY MUSIC]

♪♪

I grew up in South Memphis.

Gonna take more than
some corporate lackey

in an idling car to scare me.

She's attractive and
smart, your daughter.

Must be proud.

[BOTH GRUNTING]

Anyone say one more word
about my daughter...

give her one more look... Dead man.

[GRUNTS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪♪

Do you recognize Plaintiff's Exhibit A?

t's the contract Charlie and I made

when we first started.

- And who's it signed by?
- Me and Charlie.

Really? Where's your name?

Next to his, right here.
I signed it, "Coop."

Objection, Your Honor.

Counsel is trying to use a technicality
to deem this contract void.

Coop is clearly my client's nickname.

Doesn't matter. Nicknames without a DBA

or a side-letter do not meet
the standards of a contract,

which means the court must
refer to the business license

to assign ownership, and that license

is in my client's name alone.

Your Honor, may I approach?

What's happening?

Means you're getting everything and
your brother's getting the shaft.

[LAUGHING]

I knew you was the man, Anthony.

From now on, your money's
no good at my place.

There's something I wanna show you.

Keep an open mind.

No.

What's this pot roast doing here?

Oh, you come here to gloat?

I don't got nothing to say to you.

You think Cooper Brothers

is the best barbeque in Memphis?

You're standing in front

of the best barbeque this city ever saw.

I'd tell you the name of
the place, but...

[SIGHS] you never heard of it
'cause the family

that owned it turned on each other.

This is all that remains.

My wife and I, we had our first date

at your restaurant.

Families wait all week to go out,

have their Saturday night
dinner together at your place.

In a city that's trying to be better,

you two built something
this whole community loves,

and you think this fight is about you?

'Cause ask yourselves how
many other people will pay...

If you tear each other apart?

I know I bust your balls, but, uh...

you're one hell of a lawyer.

Double or nothing on tomorrow's sauce.

Now you're talking.

How are we gonna win this trial, Sydney?

I think we're doing good.

The jury wants to rule for us, so...

Yeah, but we need more
than anonymous bad guys.

We need a face, an insider...

Proof that this company
might as well be a gang.

Begs the question, uh...

what's justice in this case, hmm?

Terennial pays big and
Emma gets back her farm.

Yeah, what about the next
wave of farmers downwind?

And the one after that?

Okay, well, real justice would be
these people in handcuffs,

but we're not the law, Dad.

We're just trying to do what's right.

Your mother...

she knew about Emerson.

She found out 18 months ago, when I did.

She also knew that she had
a husband who was desperate

to reconnect with
his daughter and, uh...

and a daughter who might just...

call it a day when she found out.

And she knew that she
was the thing that was

keeping us together because you and I,

we... we might be too damn
proud to work it out ourselves.

She knew a lot of things, your mother.

What she didn't know was

that she wasn't gonna
have the time to...

guide us through this.

To get us safely to shore.

I've done things, Sydney.

You can be mad at me all you want.

Don't... please don't be mad at her.

She loved you... and me.

And, I... I think that makes us

the two luckiest people I've ever known.

[SNIFFLES]

[SOFT EMOTIONAL MUSIC]

♪♪

Well, you weren't yelling,
so that probably means

I'm interrupting a nice moment,

which you'll forgive me
for when you see this.

Okay. Meet Cameron Rook.

Resident of Charlotte,
North Carolina and coordinator

of all of Terennial's
intimidation tactics.

- How'd you find him?
- Okay, so every time I ran

a plate on one of those mystery cars,

I'd get a different company
'cause they were being careful.

However, when I cross-referenced

all the plates looking for
common names in insurance,

maintenance... led me to him.

We need to call Judge Frye
and get a subpoena for Rook.

Gotta do it quiet, though,
'cause if Terennial hears,

this Rook... He'll be in the wind.

You think you gonna have
a problem heading over

to Charlotte, bringing this guy back?

I'm gonna pretend you
didn't ask me that.

What, I know that look. What is it?

I'm thinking...

putting in a call to State
Attorney General Edwards.

Back-up plan.

Just in case someone
else is looking for Rook.

Emma, what do you love about farming?

It's honest work.

It's hard, but it's satisfying.

You see the payoff after every harvest.

And you know that you're feeding people,

and it feels good.

Would you tell the jury,

what does it mean to
leave a field fallow?

It means you don't plant it.

Costs you money, but it allows
your soil time to regenerate.

And in the last ten years,
you've left larger portions

of your fields fallow than ever before,

costing you thousands
of extra dollars. Why?

To try to protect my
land from contamination

with Terennial seed.

Did it work?

I wouldn't be here if it did.

Nothing further.

[WHISPERS] Look at this
before you say anything.

Your Honor,
we have no questions for Miss Sutton.

We thank her for her
courage and her candor.

The witness is thanked
for her time and excused.

Court is adjourned until
10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.

[TAPS GAVEL]

- What the hell was that?
- A performance.

Terennial always will be a
company where farmers matter.

Unfortunately,
some very serious illegal activity

has been brought to
our attention recently.

So I launched an internal investigation.

As of an hour ago,
Terennial has filed suit

against Cameron Rook,
an independent subcontractor

who we believe did try to
intimidate innocent farmers

in order to boost sales
for his own benefit.

[TENSE MUSIC]

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Cameron Brook is gone.
Terennial must've found out

we were coming and warned him.

Yeah, we know.

He's gone.

What I heard this past week,

shocked and upset me.

- Isn't this good for us?
- No.

No, by getting out in front,

he's painting himself as the hero

and he's inoculating
Terennial from guilt.

They're not a bad company,

just had one bad apple
acting on his own.

It's the ultimate
defense for a RICO case.

I'd also like to thank Elijah Strait.

While I think this proves
his lawsuit is frivolous,

he did help bring Mr. Rook's
infractions to our attention.

He also gave our company
the chance to show, again,

farmers matter.

Looks like we've got one
more witness to call.

Plaintiff calls Tucker Goodman.

Your Honor,
Mr. Goodman is not on the witness list.

Well, that's because we
had no idea that he would

inject himself into this case

by launching investigations,
thanking me publicly.

Mr. Goodman,
you've been CEO of Terennial

for 14 years now.

Would you say the company has
thrived under your leadership?

- It's a team effort.
- There's no need

to be modest here, sir.

Under your stewardship,
the stock price has gone up 600%.

And you produce almost 80%

of all of the seed that
is sold in this country.

- Is there a question here?
- Has Terennial thrived

by making farmers an
offer they can't refuse?

Your Honor,
Counsel is wording his question

in a veiled attempt to invoke
thoughts of organized crime.

There's nothing veiled about it.

It's the point of this trial.

We make attractive offers.

We also make a superior product.

But farmers can and do refuse offers.

And at one point do you sue them?

On rare occasions.

[CHUCKLES] Oh, no.

114 times Terennial has sued
farmers in the last two years.

Of those 114 farmers, some of them who

are here today, do you know how many

of them still own their farms?

I do not.

Would you be surprised to
know that that number is zero?

Are you surprised that
no one who refuses

a Terennial offer continues to exist?

- Your Honor...
- Take your product

or they are out of business.

Isn't that an offer you can't refuse?

Mr. Strait, your question
has been asked and answered.

We should just cut to the chase here.

Mr. Goodman, you think this whole

court case is frivolous, don't you?

- I do.
- Why?

Because while we may
be a tough competitor

in a fierce market,

nothing we do is illegal.

- Having farmers followed?
- I don't do that.

Having women and children intimidated?

- I don't do that either.
- Witness tampering?

I'm sorry, did you answer that?

It's a simple yes or no question.

Have you,
as head of the Terennial family,

ever been involved in witness tampering?

Objection.

I'll allow it.

Hypothetically,
would it surprise you to learn,

Mr. Goodman, that
the North Carolina attorney general

was already investigating Cameron Rook,

the man you identified as
a "rogue contractor"?

- Objection, Your Honor.
- Your Honor, Mr. Goodman

opened the door to this
line of questioning

when he decided to
hold a press conference

on the steps of our courthouse.

Continue.

Hypothetically,
would it surprise you to hear

that you were recorded
telling Mr. Rook to flee

before I could subpoena him?

Your Honor, Counsel is testifying

and not allowing the witness to speak.

Hypothetically,
would you be worried, sir,

that there's an arrest
warrant for your behavior?

For your criminal behavior?

Can you answer that?

No, I would not be worried

because we don't do things
like that, Mr. Strait.

At Terennial, farmers matter.

Indeed they do.

He scored points in there.

He looked like a desperate
man on a fishing expedition.

Well, tomorrow when you question me,

I want to make sure you put
any lingering doubts to bed.

Then I want you to file a complaint

with the Tennessee Bar Association.

Tucker Goodman,

I have a warrant for your arrest

on the charge of witness tampering.

Let me see that warrant.

[REPORTERS CHATTERING]

Turns out, the attorney general
really did tap that phone.

I've got a car waiting around the side,

but I know you like pictures,
so we can take you out front.

Don't say a word. We'll go out the side.

[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]

You were right. Farmers matter.

George, hey.

Um... [CLEARS THROAT]

Test results came back.

They rule you out completely.

They prove you're innocent.

[LAUGHS]

So, officially settlement
talks will start tomorrow,

but with Terennial's CEO
indicted and the company

under RICO investigation,

I'd say we got pretty
good leverage to start...

I've got my farm.

[SCOFFS]

The money, when it comes, it'll be nice.

But I got my farm

and the freedom to work it as I see fit.

So do a lot of other people around here.

All thanks to you.

You did good, kiddo.

You done real good.

But now this thing with your dad...

work it out, even if he's wrong.

No, especially if he's
wrong, work it out,

because life is short.

[SOFT, STIRRING MUSIC]

♪♪

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