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- I hold a family's future
in my hands--

not in theory, not indirectly.

What I say and how I say it

will determine
the life they have.

This is Edgar Soriano.

And this is the high school
where he worked as a custodian

for 15 years.

This is his wife, Maria,

who now supports the family
by working double shifts

since Edgar got sick.

And this is
their daughter, Eva,

who plans
to go to medical school

so she can cure her dad.

Edgar is my client.

It's my job
to find him justice.

Everyone likes to talk about

how this kind of work
is noble or rewarding,

but what they
don't tell you is,

if you lose,

it destroys you.

Mr. Davis, before we begin,
would you like some water?

Anything at all to make you
more comfortable?

- No.

- Mr. Davis, in your complaint,
you stated that

you have chewed Kentucky Red
tobacco since you were 14.

During that time, did you ever
use a competitor's product?

- Sometimes.

- But you believe
that Kentucky Red

is the reason
for your throat dysphagia?

- I do.
- Mr. Davis,

have you been tested for
sexually transmitted diseases?

- Hang on now--

- Untreated STDs are a known
cause of his illness.

I just wanna know
if he's been tested.

- I don't need to be tested.
I'm happily married.

- Mr. Davis, are you aware
your wife has had three affairs

in the last ten years?

- Counsel, if you're planning
to attack this woman

I will end this deposition--

- Mr. Davis, is it possible any
of the prostitutes you visited

in the last ten years
could've given you

a sexually transmitted disease?

- Okay, we are done here,
Ms. Strait.

- Yes, we are.

- You really do
look down on us.

I thought that was just
a figure of speech.

- Carla, what part of
"my father isn't welcome here"

didn't you understand?

- The part where
your mother dies.

- What?

I don't know if I can do this.

I'm serious, Bri.

I mean, five days ago,

Mom and I are having lunch
and laughing

at all the horrible dates
I'm going on,

and now she's just gone
from a stroke.

- When my mother passed,

my best friend was with me
every step of the way.

I intend on doing
the same thing for her.

- Okay.

- My wife was my light.

And, uh,

terrifies me to think
that she's gone.

I remember, I think
it was our second date,

I...

I just finished telling her
how impressive I was gonna be

as a big money lawyer.

And she gave me that stare...

That Carolyn stare that

our daughter Sydney inherited.

She said,
"Why measure yourself by money

when you have a chance
to change the world?"

- So, uh,
that's the infamous Sydney.

You two stay in touch?

- Nah.

I haven't talked to her
since the day she walked out

three years ago.

- Your mother gave me updates

every week she saw you.

- Me too.

- She'd get a kick out of this,
wouldn't she?

Two of us sitting here
on the porch.

- Especially this quietly.

- Can I show you something?

What do you think?

- I think there's a reason

Amerifarm is 66 and 0
in lawsuits against Greencoat.

- 68 and 0.
They won two more last week.

- Oh.
- Seriously.

You work for these
companies now--

- You mean the dark side?

- You know how they think.

Tell me.
How would you beat me?

- Part of a class-action?

- 86 clients.
24 states.

- Kay.

First thing I'd do
is avoid your client.

I'd scour the 86,

find someone who plays
like he's in it for the money,

make him the face for the jury.

Then I'd drag you
into a war of experts.

Mine would be EPA certified,

and yours would be
"guns for hire."

And finally,
I'd nail you on causation.

"Prove Greencoat
made him sick."

You won't be able to,
and Amerifarm will be 69 and 0.

I'm sorry.

You just--you can't win.

- Could you win?

If you were representing
the Sorianos,

could you win this case?

I want you to come back
to the firm, Sydney.

- Dad.

- I want you fighting
for what's right.

Yes, by my side.

It's where you belong.
We both know it.

Your mom did too.

- I appreciate the offer,

but there's a reason it was
a disaster the first time.

We're both alphas.
Two alphas just don't mix.

Not to mention
we're total opposites

with how we do the job--
you're conservative.

I wage war.
- Strengths.

Our differences could
be our strengths this time.

- You're serious.
- For 35 years,

I've had some of the best legal
minds pass through my office,

and one of the brightest?

I let walk away.
- I don't like you, Dad.

Have you forgotten that?

I can't just ignore
how you treated me

when we worked together.

And I'm not gonna forgive you
for all the years

that you cheated on mom.

I don't see a hero.
I see a hypocrite.

- Well, that's no reason
to become some vampire

selling justice
to the highest bidder.

You hate me?
Fine.

You're never gonna forgive me.

Okay.

Get back in the fight, Sydney.

If not with me, somewhere else.

Because in case
you haven't noticed,

the world's running out
of heroes.

- Why would it be any different?

If I came back,
why would it be any different?

You are Elijah Strait.

You are beloved and famous
in your field.

People like you
don't just change, Dad.

Why would you even try?

- Because, wh...

When you lose
the love of your life,

you realize that...

that you don't wanna miss
even one moment

with your incredible daughter.

- Strait & Associates.
One moment.

Thank you.

- Guess hell froze over, huh?

Come here.

- Aww, Della.
- Oh.

Your mom is smiling down
right now, you know that?

- I'm gonna have to get on
the horn with Vanderbilt,

tell them their top two students
are back on the same side.

- Just so we're clear--one, two.

- Only 'cause I helped you
in Con Law.

- You keep
telling yourself that.

- Hey, I heard you had
another daughter.

- Four to one.

- I'm outnumbered
in my own house.

- His girls are a delight.

- You only say that 'cause you
get to leave after you babysit,

which reminds me, Aunt Della,

is it you or your wife who's
been bringing over ice cream?

- Anthony, I'm a sixth
generation woman of the South.

Spoiling other people's children
is in my DNA.

- Yeah, that's her.
- Oh, Sydney.

Meet Emerson.

Paralegal, assistant,
and all around in-house genius.

- Yeah, it's, um,
nice to finally meet you.

- You too.
Anyone that--

- He's an acquired taste.

- Ah.

- Have the calls started?

- Calls?
What calls?

- Oh, I bet an hour
after news got out,

your phone was ringing
off the hook.

"Elijah's bringing back
his daughter.

What does that mean for
a rainmaker like you, Jake?"

- In fairness, they weren't
as eloquent as that.

- Give me 30 days.

After that, if you feel
Sydney being here

compromises you in any way,

I'll make sure you get a job
at any firm you want.

- Can I use the 30 days
to start places

bidding against each other,
drive my price up?

- I'd be disappointed
if you didn't.

But in the meantime,

I found that in Carolyn's study.

It's a teacher she thought
was wrongfully convicted

of killing a student.

You know how she was.

Memphis Saint of Lost Causes.
- Why me?

I mean, I haven't done
a criminal case

since before I worked for you.

- I don't know.

But if there's one thing
my wife was a genius at,

it was matching people
to a purpose.

- The Sorianos are here.
- Mm.

Mean a lot
if you took a look, Jake.

- And in the final phase
of the trial,

we'll present evidence
as to loss of quality of life.

We'll call on your friends,
Maria, and Eva,

if you're still up for it.

Okay, then.
That's everything.

The trial itself
will take about ten weeks,

but still on track
for a Spring 2020 start.

- Edgar,

something we should know?

- My tumors have spread faster
than the doctors anticipated.

They've revised their timeline.

- We're very sorry to hear that.

- Is there any way we can
move the trial to this year?

- Unfortunately, trials like
this can only move so fast--

- Unless we switch
to the alternate strategy.

- The alternate strategy.

- We start by breaking
from the class action

and file individually
for an expedited trial

due to your new prognosis.

Then we pare the case down.

Instead of telling our story
in three months,

we tell it in three weeks,
focusing on three keys.

Key one is you.

I think a jury will love you.

I want them to hear your story
in your words.

In politics, they say it's not
the crime that gets you.

It's the cover-up.

So we show that Amerifarm
engaged in deliberate,

and malicious cover-up
of debates, reports,

anything at all
that suggests that they knew

Greencoat was dangerous--
am I going too fast?

- No.

- Once the jury is convinced
there's been a cover-up,

we call our expert witnesses
and we keep our message simple.

Greencoat can cause cancer.

Amerifarm hid that.

Let's the jury connect the dots.

- And I would get to testify?

- If we break
from the class action,

your trial could start
in a matter of weeks.

- Without all the resources
and protections

that a class action brings,

including bargaining power
for a settlement.

- Do we wanna settle,
or do we wanna win?

- Thank you.
- Thanks again.

- Of course.
We'll talk soon.

- Sydney, a word in my office.
- Sure.

- How bad?

- Two hours.

She's been here two hours,
and already she's upended

two years worth of work.

.

- Mr. James, as head of research
for Amerifarm,

you oversaw 143 safety studies
of Greencoat.

But you presented
only 80 of those to the FDA

when applied for approval.

Why not present all the studies?

- Well, some were inconclusive.

The data in others
contained errors--

- How'd you know
it was an error?

- Excuse me?

- How did you know
it was an error?

- Not really sure I--
- Well, when you say "error,"

what you actually mean
is a result that didn't fit

your mandate to show Greencoat
was safe, is it not?

- You're twisting my words.

- No, sir.
Your words are twisted.

- On the right is the paper
presented by you,

a world-respected
biopharmacological researcher,

in which you declare
the active ingredient

in Greencoat to be harmless
to human beings.

And on the left
is the same paper,

written eight weeks earlier
not by you,

but by Mrs. Sally Jenkins,

a marketing executive
for Amerifarm.

Is it fair to say
she wrote this report for you?

- She gave input.

- In fact, the only change you
made was to add your signature.

Wasn't it?

- That's correct.

- Hm.

- "If I can get this one
thrown out,

they'll have to save me
a corner office."

Then you added a little
smiley face there at the end.

- It was written in jest.
It was simply a joke.

- I'm sure.

Your current job, sir,
as a director of the EPA

carries with it
the responsibility

of protecting average citizens

from exposure to toxic
materials, does it not?

- It does.
- True or false.

The report
you were getting thrown out

was actually a study
that suggests a link

between Greencoat and
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,

the disease Edgar Soriano has?

- True, but that report d--
- True or false.

Your email bragging about
getting this same report

thrown out was written to a
current executive at Amerifarm?

- True.

- That corner office you have
waiting for you at Amerifarm,

does it have a nice view?

- Objection, Your Honor.

- Withdrawn.
Nothing further, Your Honor.

- Mr. Bell.

Hi.
Jake Reilly.

I'm an attorney
at Strait & Associates.

- Oh, as in, Elijah Strait?

- Yeah, I was actually given
your name by his wife, Carolyn.

Did you know her?
- Mm.

No, just him,
from seeing him in papers.

But this is great.

Elijah Strait.

He--

well, he's handled some of
the biggest civil rights cases

in the past 20 years.
- That's right.

- And that's what this is.
- Mm-hmm.

- This is a violation
of my civil rights.

- Kay, well, Mr. Bell, we--
- Not just a petty complaint.

Not a nuisance lawsuit.

This is about
more than applesauce.

- Applesauce?
- Yeah.

See, for the past ten years,

FCI has been serving
world-class applesauce.

I mean, I'm talking
little plastic tubs of heaven.

Six months ago?
They stop.

"Budgets cuts," they said.

But I know better.

- Mr. Bell, I'm not here
about applesauce, okay?

I'm here because even
a cursory look at your trial

shows that you have
several grounds for appeal.

Now Carolyn Strait felt that
there was something wrong--

- Okay, okay.

Let me just save you
the shoe leather, pretty boy.

There's no pot of gold
at the end of this rainbow.

- I'm guilty.

- Thank you.

- Emerson said
you were looking for me.

- Yeah, any idea why your mom

wanted me to work
on the George Bell murder case?

- I don't understand.

I thought this guy
admitted he was guilty.

- You really think your mom
would have a file on him

file on the guy
if it were that simple?

So word around the office
is that your ex-husband

is the Chief of Detectives.

I was hoping
you could introduce us.

Ah, there's--there's things in
the investigation

that don't make sense,

so a look at the actual police
files would go a long way.

Are you two not on good terms?
- No, no, we're fine.

We just had a--a strict
no work lines crossed policy.

- I assume that died
with the marriage?

- That's charming.
- Thank you.

Thank you.

- Hey, Robbie.

- How you holding up?

- Some days
are better than others.

- Jake, is it?
- Yeah.

- Thought you said
you were gonna come alone.

- Jake is lead on the case,

so he's the one
that needs to see the files.

- Come by tomorrow?

- Mm-hmm.
- Say 3:00?

I'll have them waiting for you,
but they don't leave my office.

- Absolutely.
- Kay.

- Thank you, Robbie.

- I'm doing this
'cause I loved your mom,

so as far as I'm concerned,
she's the one asking.

Okay.

- Yeah, now it makes sense.

- What?
- Cowboy still loves you.

- That's how you saw that?

- Did you break his heart?

You broke his heart.

- Hi.

- I got a call from Sanford.

He wants to discuss
a settlement.

- I can carve $200,000 out
of legal fees for the Sorianos.

Obviously, there would
have to be an NDA

and they have to drop the suit.

- 200,000?

You're off by a couple zeroes.
- Sydney.

- Their medical expenses alone
are $400,000.

You'd just be paying off
some of their creditors.

- Syd.

Thomas, what's going on?

- You guys had a good week,
but you're not gonna win.

- Please tell me you didn't
just drag us out here

to do the whole,
"I'm doing you a favor" routine.

Otherwise, this is
a giant waste of our time--

- Sydney, either let this man
talk, or wait outside.

- My daughter
doesn't always know

when someone's
trying to do a kindness.

- 200K is all I can give without
Amerifarm shutting me down.

I know you're probably
gonna say no...

- But...

- You and I have been doing this
a long time, Elijah.

We both know a man
tells another man

when the sky is about to fall.

- Next time you ask me
to walk out of a meeting,

I'm gonna keep walking.

- You have to do something
about that anger.

It just makes you see everything
in black and white.

- "People are complicated.
They make mistakes."

You know, that speech
was a lot more compelling

before I realized you were
just talking about yourself.

- Change the topic, it's not
gonna solve the problem.

- What do you suggest I do, Dad?

Maybe check into a hotel,
blow off some steam,

screw some of mom's friends?

- Stop, stop.

Stop making this about me.

If you could drop the attack dog
act for just one minute,

wait, instead of lashing out,
just one minute,

you'd stop thinking
Sanford was trying to screw us

and ask yourself
why is he trying to warn us?

- Dr. Reeger, you've spent the--
- Your Honor.

At this time, we are lodging
a formal objection

to Dr. Reeger's testimony.

She is simply not qualified
to testify

to the subject matter
on trial today.

- She studies cancer.

- She has never
studied Greencoat

or any similar product.

It's like asking a blood expert
to testify about fingerprints.

- That's absurd.
- Sustained.

- What?
You can't possibly--

- The objection is sustained.

Call your next witness,
Ms. Strait.

- Dr. Chen, you have a PhD
in industrial chemistry.

What would--
- Objection, Your Honor.

I'm sorry, but we have
the same problem with Dr. Chen.

- Sustained.
- Are you kidding me?

- That's a warning, Ms. Strait.

- Mr. Lynch, how much did
Amerifarm pay you--

- Objection, Your Honor.
Beyond the scope.

- Sustained.

- Mr. Lynch, what did you
charge Amerifarm in the years--

- Objection.
Scope.

- Sustained.

- Mr. Lynch, what was
your salary in the year--

- Your Honor.
- Sustained.

- Ms. Strait, do you have
any relevant questions?

- Just one, Your Honor.

How much is Amerifarm
paying you?

That's perfect, yep.
- Yep.

.

- You said it would work

because you've changed,
but she hasn't.

She's reckless,
she thinks she's smarter

than everyone,
and she doesn't listen.

Blowing up in front of a jury
says we think we're losing.

That's a terrible message
to send.

- He's right.

- Well, forget about today.

But make sure Edgar's ready
for tomorrow.

We need an expert--

an expert Judge Collins
cannot disqualify.

We need to get that fast

'cause we are out of witnesses.

Anthony.

- You're not gonna talk to her?
- No.

I can talk all I want.

If she doesn't wanna listen
at a certain point,

that's on her.

- That girl grew up
with a hero for a father,

a hero she found out
was all too human.

Every time somebody told her
how lucky she was,

think how that pulled her apart

to keep your secrets
behind that beautiful smile.

Elijah,

you're my friend and I love you,

but don't be an ass.

You helped build
that wall around her,

and you will keep
knocking it down.

- All this time,
I told myself that I quit

because I resented you

for not being the man that
I thought you were.

And because you resented me
for how I saw you.

And--and maybe that is all true,

but what's also true is that

I don't think I can handle
losing on this side of the law.

Because at my last job,
I slept like a baby.

I mean, I...

Sure, I wanted to win,

but I didn't care if we lost.

And now I look
at Edgar Soriano...

and I look at his wife...

And his daughter.

How do you do it, Dad?

I mean, how do you do it?

How do you handle the pressure

when winning or losing
means everything?

- Poorly.

For years.

That's how I nearly
lost your mother.

- Look, Sydney.

I don't know if we'll work
as colleagues

or as a family,

but I do know that

I can teach you how to
hold on to your sanity

and do this job.

And if you can learn
how to channel

all of this passion
that you have...

Sydney,
you can change the world.

- Come on.

- Why would you say
that you were guilty

of murdering a 16-year-old girl
if you were innocent?

- You're sure?

- The witness stories
don't add up.

Timeline is wrong.

And, Della, if I--
if I didn't know better,

I'd say they actually
framed this guy.

- Well,
thank God Carolyn found him.

- Well, it's too bad
he doesn't want anyone's help.

He insists that he's guilty,
which means I gotta figure out

how to change
this lunatic's mind,

or else an innocent man is gonna
end up rotting in jail.

- What do you need?

- You can start by telling me

why the hell Carolyn gave me
this in the first place.

- What do you need?

You do trust and estate law.
- Mm-hmm.

- People come to you
to talk about

what happens to their families
after they die.

The way I see it, life in prison

is about as close to dying
as you're gonna get.

So I'm asking you.

Why would George Bell lie?

- When new clients
sit on this couch,

we talk about assets,
money, property,

but after about an hour or so,

the conversation always comes
around to the same thing.

Legacy.

After they're gone,

how will their lives
have shaped the future?

For me, that legacy is my son.

For Elijah, it's Sydney.

Legacy is why Edgar Soriano
has the strength to fight,

even with tumors
in every organ of his body.

You wanna know why George Bell
tells people he's guilty?

Find out why he's chosen guilty

as his legacy.

- Briana!

- Plaintiff calls Edgar Soriano.

Mr. Soriano, how long
did you use the product?

- 15 years before my illness
forced me to stop working.

- And when did you
first start having symptoms?

- After about three years.

- When you noticed
your skin lesions

weren't getting any better,

you called
Amerifarm's 800 number?

- Yes, I couldn't help but think
perhaps there was connection.

- And what did
the product rep tell you?

- That they had never heard

of anything like
what I was reporting.

- So you didn't know
you were actually

the 451st call of its kind?

- No.

- It's like, I know that
Amerifarm was referring to her,

but I can't find her anywhere.

I checked online databases.
I ran a search--

- You don't need to know
where she is to find her.

You just need to know
where she's been.

Alumni relations.

Hello?

Yes, this is Dr. Nancy Deemer,
class of '89.

- Mr. Soriano,

I wanna go back to the events
of November 6th, 2014.

That was the day
the nozzle on your sprayer

had its cataclysmic failure
and basically fell apart.

- Yes.

- Mr. Soriano, you testified

that when that happened,
you grabbed the hose,

you jumped onto your vehicle,

and you drove off
while holding it,

thereby drenching yourself from
head to toe in their product.

- Yes.

- Sir, at the risk
of sounding cynical,

please tell the jury why would
you expose yourself like that

if you really thought
Greencoat was killing you.

The well that fed
the school's water

was only a few yards away.

If I would've done nothing,

the chemical
would have reached it.

I couldn't let that happen.

I...

I couldn't let it
reach the children.

No further questions.

- Mr. Soriano, before we begin,
would you like some water?

Anything at all
to make you more comfortable?

- No, thank you.

- Mr. Soriano,
you used Greencoat for 15 years.

- Yes.

- And you believe it is
the reason you have cancer?

- Yes.

- Mr. Soriano,
do you drink diet soda?

- Yes.

- Spend time in the sun?

- Yes.

- Been around secondhand smoke?

- Yes.

- Do you eat red meat?

- Yes.

- Do you drink
from plastic bottles?

- Yes.

- Mm-hmm.

Oh, my God.

- We're not gonna win, are we?

- Sydney!

- Emerson,
what're you doing here?

- I, um, I found something

in an email to a German
subsidiary of Amerifarm.

It said, "Redakt/ND."

ND, like, non-disclosure, right?

But in German,
you don't say non-disclosure.

You say "Geheimhaltung."
So it's like...

ND's not a term.
It's a person.

- Emerson, what are you saying?

- Briana and I tracked down a
doctor that worked on Greencoat,

and we're pretty sure she proved

that it causes cancer.

.

- I was so excited
about my new test,

I wasn't paying attention
to the results.

Before I knew it,
lawyers were in my lab,

shutting me down
and telling me

if I said anything,
they'd bankrupt me.

- Dr. Deemer,

if I may, what exactly
were the results of your test?

- That past a certain level
of exposure,

Greencoat is 500 times more
carcinogenic than cigarettes.

- I don't think
I have to tell you

how much your testimony
will mean to this case.

- Testimony?
- Yes.

- I'm afraid there's been
some misunderstanding.

I told you what I did
to help you,

but I'm not going to testify.

- But ma'am, we'll need your--
- They'll ruin my life.

I have a family.

- Edgar Soriano
has a family too.

- Excuse me.

- I've been fighting
these companies

pretty much my whole life,
so I know what they do.

They tell you they're gonna
fix the problem,

get you a new job somewhere
where you feel good again,

and then years go by.

Nothing happens.

What they count on is fear.

They make you feel complicit
when you're not.

Edgar Soriano isn't the only
victim here, Dr. Deemer.

This moment is--

it's the moral arc
of the universe coming round

to give you the chance

to hold them accountable
for forcing you to live

all of these years
with that guilt

and regret.

- Oh, I spoke to some friends
in high places,

so from now on,

you get applesauce
with every meal.

- You're a good man, Jake.

- George, you didn't
start telling people

that you were guilty until
after you were convicted.

You did that

so that your wife and your son
could move on,

so that they wouldn't have to
live a shell of a life waiting.

And it worked.

And she--she met a good man.

And they have a family.

And then your son--

your son is a sophomore
at Georgetown.

And he's on the debate team,
which means in a couple years...

He's probably
gonna try and take my job.

- They all have lives, George.

They have rich,

beautiful, messy lives.

And now it's time
you had one too.

- Okay, Jake.

Okay.

- Plaintiff calls
Dr. Nancy Deemer.

- Objection!
- Objection!

- Your Honor,
they want her to testify

about the results of a test
that there's no record of.

It's impossible for us
to impeach the testimony,

and it is prejudicial
to the point of farce.

- Your Honor, there's no record

because they destroyed
the record.

Too often, trials are decided
without us knowing the truth.

We have the truth
sitting right out there,

and all we ask is that she
be allowed to tell her story.

- Mr. Strait makes
a compelling argument.

However, with no way
to support or impeach

what Dr. Deemer would say,

I must side with the defense.

Dr. Deemer may not testify

to any testing she may
or may not have done.

- If I--
- Thank you, Your Honor.

- What if we stay broad?
- They'll shoot us down.

- Okay, maybe if we ask
about her lab--

- Same problem.

Judge Collins won't let her
say anything about her work.

- And her work
is all that matters.

- No.

It's not all that matters.

- Dr. Deemer, during your time

as a research chemist
at Amerifarm,

did you ever hear about
our client, Mr. Soriano?

- No.
- You never met him?

You only know him
because of this case?

- That's right.

- Is there anything
you'd like to say to him?

- Objection, relevance.

- Say to Edgar and his family?

- Your Honor.

- Ms. Strait,
where are you going with this?

- I'm sorry.

I'd like to say I'm sorry
to him and his family.

- Objection!
- Prejudicial!

- Dr. Deemer, you will refrain
from answering the question--

- I'm sorry, Mr. Soriano.
This did not have to happen.

They knew the dangers.

- The witness is excused.
- They came to my lab...

- Instruct this witness
to stop speaking now!

- The jury will disregard
all of her answers.

- Objection, Your Honor!

- You can't just
silence the truth.

- This witness cannot be heard.

- There will be order
in my court!

- You to the judicial board
for review.

- You did the right thing
by not talking.

- Yeah, man...

- Been a lawyer
almost 40 years now.

Could be one 400 more,

and I never would've come up
with something as brilliant

as that one question
you asked in there.

You gave us a chance, Sydney.

.

- My mother died
not too long ago.

It was sudden and I miss her,

but the truth is,
she had a wonderful life

because she got to live it
on her terms.

That's all any of us wants.

Isn't it?

A chance to take on life

on our terms.

Edgar Soriano
didn't get that chance

because known risks
about the safety of Greencoat

were willfully
withheld from him.

Our society is a living thing.

It grows, it evolves,
often for the better,

but sometimes,
things go off course.

More and more,
values like fairness and decency

are vanishing
before our very eyes.

That's where the law comes in,
because out there,

the fight may be fixed,
but in here,

we get to say what kind of world
we want this to be.

Ladies and gentlemen, right now,

we live in a world where
companies like Amerifarm

think it's okay
to hide truths from us.

And in this world,
what we've sacrificed

is the chance to live life
on our terms

because like Edgar Soriano,

we are making choices
without all the information

because companies like Amerifarm
are lying to us

in order to make more money.

That's not right.

Someone has to speak up,
and right now,

that's the 12 of you.

Your verdict will be both
your message and your voice.

So use it here, today,

and make this a better world
for all of us.

- That was some inspiring stuff.

Do you know who teared up?
Robbie.

- Jake...
- I saw him.

You know,
the Chief of Detectives

sitting in on the close
of a civil case--

I'm sure that means nothing.

- What happened
with George Bell?

- He's on board.
- Mm-hmm.

You know, it's gonna be
a battle to get him out,

and an even bigger fight to get
him any kind of restitution.

- It sounds like
he's got the right attorney.

- Well, while you're feeling
warm and fuzzy about me,

I should tell you that
the files Robbie showed me

are gonna be pivotal
to the case.

No, I'll do my best
to keep him out of it...

- But the truth is,

doing right by George
is gonna make things

really difficult for your ex.

- Wish I could say it was the
first time I did that to him.

Verdict.

- As to question one,

did Greencoat cause harm
to Mr. Soriano?

How do you answer?

- Yes.

- Since you answered
in the affirmative,

we proceed to question two.

Was Amerifarm aware

of the potential dangers
of their product?

How do you answer?
- Yes.

- Since you answered
in the affirmative,

we proceed to question three.

Did Amerifarm withhold knowledge
of these dangers

in an attempt
to avoid responsibility?

- Yes.

- Since you answered all three
in the affirmative,

you must assess
and assign damages.

- In the matter of
Soriano v. Amerifarm,

we, the jury, award...

$1.4 million
in compensatory damages,

and $45 million
in punitive damages.

- You're gonna be okay.

You're gonna be okay.

- Juror number three,
is that your verdict?

- Yes.

- Juror number four,
is that your verdict?

- Yes.
- Juror number five,

is that your verdict?
- Yes.

- Juror number six,
is that your verdict?

- You know this win

is a roadmap for the whole
class action, right?

That's 85 people
that have a chance now.

- Juror number seven,
is that your verdict?

- Yes.

- Juror number eight,
is that your verdict?

- Yes.

- Amazing, amazing.
- That was amazing.

She wins cases.
She buys drinks.

Sydney,
yours is a welcome return.

- Here, here.

- To new beginnings.

all: To new beginnings.

- And to family.

- Family.

- Whoo!

- Yeah, go Pa!

- If Cresser Mining
doesn't go for it,

then I say we just
file immediately.

- You wanna take
the first chair?

- Let's just see
how much I dislike them.

- What?

- 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon,

and I have no idea
what to do with myself.

I know that sounds silly.

- No, Dad.
It doesn't sound silly.

I think it's just gonna take
some time for all of us.

- I'm glad you're back, Sydney.

- Me too.

Speaking of that, I wanted
to talk changes to the firm,

starting with my car allowance.

- Car allowance?
It's a boutique operation.

- And then
there's vacation time.

- I never take vacation.
- Well, maybe you should.

- Hey, Dad,
how long you staying today?

- What did he just call you?