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Ten, nine, eight, seven

six, five

four, three, two, one!

♪ One two three four ♪

Okay, everyone, final score

for Lionstaff initial public offering.

Opening price, $11 a share.

Closing price, 31.

Gentlemen, you're officially rich.

So this is the last free pizza you're getting on me.

Scott, 31, that's like 15 million.

For the company. How much is it for me personally?

I don't know, Midas. Enough.

Scott, Amy, you kids. We did it.

And the guys at the club said that tech stocks are over.

Well, youth is the future, and they're old.

- We're glad you're pleased. - Pleased?

I'm ready to party. You got something set up for after?

Uh, Mr. Coleman, the brokers are asking for a picture with you.

- Sure. - Not with us?

If you really want your picture taken dressed like that.

♪ If you feel your dreams are dying ♪

♪ Hold tight ♪

Don't worry.

Lionstaff will help people.

It's not just a trough of money.

Thanks, but that's not it.

Then what?

♪ This world is gonna pull through ♪

It's all on paper. It's not real yet.

To be worried at a time like this

takes a special kind of person.

♪ We only get what we give ♪

No, I'm happy.

- Yeah? - Yeah, I really am.

♪ I'm coming home baby ♪

♪ You're tops ♪

♪ Give it to me now ♪

I think finally the public schools

are doing something right, and then this.

Just a sec. It's loading.

And what has your boy found exactly?

Death threats in a document on the computer.

Donated to the school.

I found it on the hard drive.

'I was recovering it for extra credit.'

It sounds like you're good at this.

Nah, I just can't do PE.

It's up. Take a look.

Entries are dated. Looks like a diary.

'Well, it could be just a prank.'

That's what I thought.

But then I looked at the name.

Amy Lind's an actual person..

...who's, like, actually dead.

'"Poison shuts her eyes.'

'"Poison stops her tongue.'

'"Poison stops her'

ghasty heart." Ghasty?

Writer don't wanna break the flow and run spell check?

"Goodbye to hell, Amy Lind."

Dies of a heart attack. 24 years old.

Poison stops her heart.

You can take it from here.

- Come on. - They could need me.

It's good work, we got any questions

we'll let you know.

Thanks.

Twenty four's pretty young to have a bad ticker.

Yeah, I guess it happens, but, uh, so does poison.

Let's find this writer who hated Amy so much.

See if he went from diarist..

...to doer.

Mayes, what's up?

Hey, Scotty.

Manny Fernandez called me.

I know.

I asked her if I could catch you out here.

Okay.

We gave it some thought before reaching out to you.

Didn't wanna stir things up.

- What happened, Anna? - Um..

We had an incident on the bridge this morning.

Guy threw a girl into the Schuylkill.

She died?

In ICU.

Busted up pretty bad.

Washed up near the same spot as Elisa.

You're thinking this is a serial thing with him?

- Don't know yet. - But it was the same spot.

As her?

Figured you'd want your shot at this guy when he came in.

Yeah.

Probably tomorrow sometime?

What's his name? I'll read up.

Dante Catches.

I figured..

...this would be the way.

Sit tight.

Somethin' about Elisa would come out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Thanks, Anna.

'Amy Lind died two days'

'after the last entry in that diary.'

The computer unit have any luck with it?

Can't ID a writer, but it came from an internet company.

Lionstaff.

Is that the start up Amy worked at?

No, not just worked at, created..

...with fellow Wharton grad, Scott Sawyer.

They were co-CEOs.

Nice timing they had.

Got their MBAs in '97.

Started their company in '98.

IPO December '98, peak of the dotcom boom.

- Try bubble, Nick. - Theirs sure popped.

Top of the world for two months

then quick slide into nothin'.

Amy dies in May

just before they close the doors.

Well, how's the coroner explain heart failure at 24?

"Stress-induced."

The company was losing $200,000 a day by then.

How about drugs?

None in her system.

But standard autopsy doesn't test for poison.

Our diarist's method of choice.

I start with Scott, Amy's partner.

He can tell you who was on those computers.

Other angle is the poison.

Maybe exhume the body? Test again?

Need family's permission.

Umm, there's a sister, Alora.

Local.

Good.

'You have my permission, sure.'

'Whatever you need to do.'

'Well, it's likely with a new autopsy'

we'll get new information.

You really think someone poisoned her?

Someone sure wrote about it.

'Was there anyone at her office'

she had a problem with?

I wouldn't know.

She was living here, but after she and Scott

got the venture capital money, I almost never saw her.

Business took up all of her time?

She worked late every night, went rowing every morning.

If I saw her, she was asleep right there.

Couch surfing, she called it.

What about this Scott?

Were they involved at all?

I don't think Amy would have said no but..

...Scott liked them busty and adoring.

'That wasn't Amy.'

So, strictly business.

She said they made the perfect team.

'Scott had the flash, got the attention.'

Amy knew how to close a deal.

Ever see the two of them in action?

I was here when they first got funded.

Their whole world changed in a day.

Well, interesting idea.

But, uh, how are you gonna make it work exactly?

Two Wharton graduates, summa cum laude

we'll find a way.

Good packaging, I admit

but, uh, it's not really an answer.

♪ My skin is theirs ♪

It's 3:00 a.m. Your child's having a seizure.

He's speaking gibberish. You need help.

Uh-huh.

'You go online.'

What's happening with this boy?

And there we are.

Lionstaff.

Type in the symptoms, get answers in a matter of seconds.

And instructions how to help him.

It's a lofty goal, helping people.

And a sound business idea.

The users will be desperate.

Desperate people pay.

♪ I feel so real ♪

Well, I gotta tell you

'when I was your age, the only thing'

I had going on in my garage was..

...a band.

♪ Could you take my picture ♪

What do you think?

♪ 'Cause I won't remember ♪

I'm in.

How much?

Oh!

How's a million sound?

♪ 'Cause I won't remember ♪

After that, they rented the office

and she was pretty much gone.

But she kept living here?

Yes.

Eating ramen.

'I told her, "Honey, you're a millionaire.'

If I were you, I'd be setting up house on the Main Line."

Sounds like a tough lady.

Desperate people and all.

No.

You should understand the reason

Amy wanted this company.

'We had a brother, Gage.'

He died just before he turned ten.

The pictures on the table.

When she talked about being online at 3:00 in the morning

she was talking about herself.

'You saying Amy didn't have a heart attack?'

Well, she did, but someone might have helped her along.

I guess anything's possible.

Those days were crazy.

How so?

You're 24, too young to rent a car.

You can't imagine being a multimillionaire.

Can't imagine your friends would die.

Yeah, but then you are, and they do.

And then you lose it all.

It was a wild ride. And I was lucky.

Couldn't have taken it without her.

Now?

Amy had the ideas.

I did the dog and pony show.

'She did the head work.'

Anyone around who felt different?

You mean, did she have enemies?

Yeah, we called them employees.

Malvinder has something he'd like to discuss.

- Okay. - 'He came to me.'

I told him he had to talk to both of us.

'Go on, Mal.'

I wanna be made partner.

- Partner? - 'I'm building your system.'

Without me, you have no business.

Well, your work has been really creative.

- It sure has. - Thank you.

But Scott and I started the business.

It's ours.

- So I don't matter? - You do.

That's why you pull a big salary.

♪ ...like the chorus to the verse ♪

Sorry. Guess it's no can do.

Okay, we'll revisit this later?

There are only two partners of Lionstaff

Scott and me.

I get the picture.

Ghasty. Idiot woman!

♪ I want something else ♪

I admit I leaned on her for the bad cop stuff.

I don't enjoy saying no.

That word Malvinder used.

Ghastly?

Hindi for whore.

We learned a few variations.

Malvinder sounds like an angry guy.

And he sounds like our diarist.

"Poison stops her ghasty heart."

Recognize that?

Key word there. Ghasty.

What is this?

Came off a computer from Lionstaff, 1999.

So because there's a Hindi word, I must have written it?

- Did you? - No.

So how come it sounds like you?

Everyone in that office picked up my swear words.

Yeah, but you had a real beef with Amy.

You wanted to be made partner.

She said no.

'Hard on you?'

Having a woman turn you down?

That whole time was hard for me.

New country, no friends, trying to send money home.

My behavior wasn't too..

...graceful, but not this.

So you didn't carry a grudge over her shuttin' you down?

I was lucky not to get caught between her and Scott.

I thought they were friends.

Started that way.

When the big money came..

...war.

Is it true?

You bought a Ferrari?

Why not?

King crab roll?

Scott, the way you're spending

we can't afford any setbacks.

I don't plan on any.

And I have a great new idea for us.

What's that?

Super Bowl ad.

A million five for 30 secs.

A million five is more than we started with.

'And we've grown.'

I have a good feeling about this.

We're not doing it, Scott.

Too late.

It's done.

♪ Only upside down ♪

♪ Only upside ♪

Beginning of the fireworks.

So he made a million dollar decision without her?

And it was a flop.

No takers from the ad?

We got lots of hits, but zero business.

Suddenly, we're three million in the hole.

No wonder she was miffed.

That's when the business started to slide.

Throw downs between Scott and Amy.

They escalate?

Into silence.

Like a shout.

Scott said he and Amy were friends.

Opposite was true according to this Malvinder dude.

Let me guess. They fell out over money?

Not that Scott told us that.

Sounds like a re-interview.

News from the ME.

Amy's body had eight times

the normal level of potassium chloride.

- That a poison? - Not normally.

But a high enough dose induces heart attack.

And how is it ingested?

Dissolves in water.

Kicks in within half an hour.

So she probably drank it that morning.

Points to someone close.

Now, new questions for the sister.

New autopsy shows your sister was poisoned, Alora.

- With potassium chloride. - 'Hmm.'

Oh, you know what that is, I bet being a..

...chemistry teacher, and all.

Yes.

Know who could have been with her

6:30 that morning?

No idea.

And how about you?

So we disagreed on how to spend money?

So you say that like it's no big deal.

In my line of work

when people fight about money

it usually don't end too well.

I'm not some street corner thug.

So you got some more refined way of getting what you want?

'Hands off?'

Poison, maybe?

Why would I want my sister dead?

Little hard living next to all that success

none of it being yours.

I was proud of her.

Pride can turn to envy on a dime.

After Gage died, Amy was all I had.

Sisters have to stick together.

Well, if not you, Alora, then who?

- At 6:30 a.m.? - I don't know.

She row with anyone?

No.

The river was her place.

She went there alone.

No boyfriend? Anyone who stayed over?

Amy was driven, focused.

It wasn't attractive to a lot of guys.

'She got a kitten when she moved in.'

I always joked it was gonna be her

her career and her beloved cats.

'My true feeling..'

Amy died of a broken heart.

She never got over Gage.

- Convenient theory for you. - We were partners.

I wouldn't profit from hurting her.

No?

And ultimately, we had the same wolf at our door.

That wolf being..

Coleman.

After the Super Bowl fiasco..

...he rained fire on both our heads.

I thought you were gonna sell that.

I'm not giving up the car.

Makes an impression.

How are you keeping up payments?

Another loan?

Mom.

Lay off.

'Scott!'

Amy!

I buy that?

- Excuse me? - Whoo!

You've just been throwing my money around

like confetti, haven't you?

'Is this about the ad, Cliff?'

You think this is a game?

- 'Monopoly?' - Of course not.

I give you a million dollars that I've earned

'sweating and bleeding, and you spend it on cars.'

- Watches, sushi. - Appearances matter.

Then you get around to an actual business decision

and you blow your wad on one ad?

We thought the exposure was worth the gamble.

- 'No! No.' - Oh, my God!

Whose stupid idea was this?

It was a joint decision.

- It was a fiasco. - We're sorry.

You let another one get by you..

...I'll do worse than this.

♪ Don't say you need me ♪

♪ Don't say you love me ♪

♪ It's understood ♪

♪ Don't say you're happy ♪

He had a right to be mad, but..

...he was psycho mad.

Sounds like you ducked for cover and let him blame Amy.

Not exactly me at my best.

News.

I got some background on Cliff Coleman.

Me too. He's got a rage problem.

Well, he also had a rich wife. In '94, she died.

- Of a heart attack. - Like Amy.

Plus Coleman has a medical condition, kidneys.

Which is managed by potassium chloride..

...in a steady daily dose.

'Dante, we got two witnesses'

'say you grabbed Angela Stimson by the hair.'

'Tossed her off the bridge.'

Yeah, I know.

I was there.

Wanna say why?

I had to.

You had to?

Some people just gotta go off.

What people?

Girls.

Long hair. Wrong in the head.

So it wasn't just Angela had to go over, there were others?

A lot of girls.

How about her?

'Yeah.'

Oh, yeah.

Are we talking last winter?

You see her and decide she had to go?

'Cause she ain't right in the mind.

- How do you know that? - She talked to me.

Yeah?

'Wanted to get to her boyfriend's house.'

'He lived all the way across town.'

But her car was broke, and..

... he ain't picking up the phone, so..

...she's walking when I meet her.

So why does that make you throw her in the river?

'She don't listen.'

Why does she got to love that guy?

'He don't love her like I do.'

Uh, who are you talking about, Dante?

Angela.

I wrote her letters with my heart poured out on 'em.

I loved her so bad.

- So you know Angela? - I followed her every day.

I was her guardian angel.

'And the other girls?'

There were no other girls.

Elisa didn't drive, she..

...never had a car. We lived six blocks from each other.

'Angela should be arrested.'

'Cause she took my heart.

You think she'll ever forgive me?

It ain't him.

I killed her.

- Sorry, Scotty. - Angie..

It will just be a moment.

Coffee or tea, sir?

Sir.

Officers.

Hello.

Oh, nice digs you have here.

I have the privilege of being a fortunate man.

Got some questions about that fortune.

It came from your wife's family, we understand.

Guilty.

Please.

And how did she die?

Heart failure.

The loss of my life.

You know, Amy Lind died the same way.

Coincidence, huh?

Yes, both were tragedies.

Why are you here?

We're looking into Amy's death.

We hear you bitched her and Scott out.

'Pretty bad at one point.'

'Gotta breathe fire once in a while.'

Make people jump.

Gotta smash cars too, huh?

Oh, that.

The reason I was so..

...mad at Amy was she knew better.

And the golf club, that was your way of saying it.

Oh, I told her more calmly again.

Right here.

I'm sorry about my outburst in the parking lot.

- Wasn't my car. - Good of you.

- To give me a second chance. - Sure.

Geraldine, thank you, and hold all calls.

♪ I'm angry still ♪

Again, I'm really sorry about the ad.

It wasn't your idea, was it?

♪ You'll help me out ♪

I believe..

...that Lionstaff can succeed, Amy.

But I don't think it can succeed with Scott.

♪ Don't worry baby ♪

Mr. Coleman.

You're a rescuer, I see that.

First your brother, now Scott.

That's fine.

'But when push comes to shove'

you gotta save yourself.

He's my partner.

Amy..

...your company is like..

...a hot air balloon.

It's rising. It's way up.

But it's coming to a mountain.

You cut a sandbag, you can stay up in the sky.

You keep that sandbag, and..

...it brings the whole thing crashing down.

Scott's not a sandbag.

He's dead weight.

He's showing of. He's, uh, seduced by trappings.

He deserves to be cut out.

We're best friends from business school.

- We've been together since-- - Honey.

That's sentiment. This is business.

Your next appointment is here, Mr. Coleman.

♪ I want to see you shine ♪

Go home.

Get out of here. You're a child.

Excuse me?

Miss, don't get hysterical

and don't raise your voice to Mr. Coleman.

♪ We'll stay up all night ♪

♪ This is the noise that keeps me awake ♪

Moral of the story.

Don't do business with kids.

They're emotional.

And the millions they cost you

no feelings about that?

Oh, venture capital is gambling.

I knew standing in that garage, I was just..

...layin' a bet.

Excuse me. Powder room.

Coffee?

Thank you.

You didn't like Amy, did you?

She wasn't interested in being liked.

By you?

By anyone.

That's what they teach girls these days

to be hard, aggressive.

Mannish.

Coleman seemed to have a high opinion.

He always looks for the good in people.

And you?

I just try to look afterhim.

Anyway, Amy was busy enough carrying on with a married man.

Really?

Every time I went by that office, I saw it.

She had him wrapped around her finger.

Who are we talking about?

That Indian.

But I suppose to every feminist, a man's just a toy on a string.

- 'So Amy and you.' - Just me.

It was the one way kind.

I thought you hated her, Mal.

Not making you a partner.

That was before I worked with her.

Spent time with her.

And your wife?

My marriage was arranged.

They still doin' that?

My family's traditional.

So you were pretty much strangers.

Home was..

...an awkward place.

I was more comfortable with Amy.

She know how you feel?

Love, it's hard to keep to yourself.

♪ It doesn't mean much ♪

♪ It doesn't mean anything ♪

Is this seat taken?

Someone's shorting our stock

betting against us.

I have something I must tell you.

I'm gonna find out who.

If it's anyone inside

my next call is to the SEC.

There's a book.

It is called "Out Of Africa."

♪ I can't return ♪

Thanks, Malvinder.

It is about a young woman

obliged to marry and move far from home.

There's a movie, right?

She is lonely, but she is very brave

and she works very hard.

She reminds me of you.

Malvinder, thank you.

I am also from far away

and I am also alone.

Didn't you just get married?

♪ And sweet surrender ♪

Well, you see, it's that..

...I love you.

♪ Take me in ♪

I've been there.

'Thanks.'

Did your wife know?

It's why she wrote the diary.

Uh, back up, your wife wrote that diary?

She was new to the country, all alone.

She could see I was thinking about someone else.

'How did she know it was Amy?'

I suppose I talked about her a lot.

She wrote that on the computer I took to and from work.

There's some serious things said in that diary.

I know but Mopali was no threat to Amy.

The morning Amy died, my wife and I were in Bangalore, India.

We'll need to see your passports.

- Yes, sir. - It must've been quite a scene.

When you found out what she wrote.

She talked, I listened.

After four months of marriage

we finally met.

You heading home, Scotty?

Uh, no, I was just..

...takin' a sec.

Those SEC financials are making us cross-eyed.

You're looking for who was shorting Amy's stock?

No, looking for one guy in particular.

It's Coleman.

'I figure he lost a pile'

betting on Amy and Scott.

Maybe he tried to make it back playin' dirty.

How did it go over at West?

It was okay.

Interviewed a guy

Mayes brought in.

Thought maybe there was a connect

to Elisa there.

Just didn't pan out.

Oh, Scotty, you're not gonna know.

Not next year, not the year after.

Yeah, so lay it to rest?

Saving grace heals the pains.

I'm gonna go back up.

- Sure. - Goodnight.

Can't we call some forensic accountants to read this stuff?

This is worse than those poems last year.

I think I found something.

You serious?

A HG Friday.

Holding company with 9.8 mil.

You got Coleman's name attached to that?

- Looking. - That's gotta be illegal.

Sure, he knew the company was tanking.

He bets against it. Insider trading.

So maybe Amy finds out, calls him on it.

And unless he's willing to go to jail, he has to shut her up.

Good theory, but we're talking about the wrong millionaire.

Name attached to H.G. Friday is Geraldine Wright.

Coleman's secretary.

'H.G. Friday.'

- I don't know what that is. - Who that is.

His Girl Friday?

A certain clever secretary

with a $9.8 million nest egg.

I've never seen these before.

'You know what I think?'

I think, Geraldine pretends

she doesn't know anything about business.

Hmm, math is for men.

'But I think she understands perfectly.'

I think she got filthy rich playing dumb.

I-I have $2,237

in the bank. Also an IRA.

Come on, Geraldine, you hated Amy.

Like you hate all women who are driven.

Headstrong.

Mannish.

'The least you could do was make some money'

off the little chippie.

So you shorted stock on her company.

And when Amy caught on to it

you slipped her some of Coleman's potassium chloride.

Probably in that fine coffee of yours.

I don't understand.

You can talk to my accountant, Stephen Franklin.

That's Coleman's accountant.

He handles everything for me too.

Then I think you know how your name got on this paper.

You're loyal, Geraldine.

Doesn't mean he is.

I looked after Mr. Coleman.

I took care of his needs for 22 years.

I was his constant companion.

I guess this is your reward.

'Six years ago, he sets you up for securities fraud.'

And now, he sets you up for murder.

That girl thought she could play with the big boys.

She thought they'd play fair.

- But? - They didn't.

And the knives came out.

Mr. Sawyer.

Amy found out.

Found out what?

About you shorting stock.

You mean she found out about us.

'I don't think she knows that..'

...that it's me, too.

- What's she doing? - Calling the SEC.

- That's prison. - 'I know.'

- It's bankruptcy, then prison. - Oh, God, I can't.

We both know there's no talking to her.

She's so damn stubborn.

So what do we do?

Stop her.

You know what happens if we don't.

'That Ferrari gets repoed.'

'Condos emptied out.'

You move in to the state pen.

I can't. Not to her.

Scott..

...do you remember us standing here a week ago

talking about your future?

- Yeah. - What's your future like?

A hot air balloon.

And what did you say you'd do if anything got in your way?

If any sandbag started dragging you down.

I said..

Go on.

I said, "Whatever it is, I'll chop that mother off".

I guess I wanted to see her get knocked down a peg.

But she didn't get knocked down a peg, Geraldine.

- She got killed. - I know.

She was killed with Coleman's medication.

You...know that too.

Yes.

'I keep track of his prescriptions.'

I refilled that one just before that meeting.

And?

In the afternoon...

...it was gone.

Are you packing up, Scott? That never looks good.

I'm just going for the weekend.

We know about you and Coleman.

Know?

That you were shorting stock together behind Amy's back.

H.G. Friday. Ring any bells?

But Amy found out, was going to report you.

You're always one step behind aren't you, Scott?

'And now's your chance to get ahead'

so we're talking to you first

before Coleman.

- I don't have anything to say. - Really?

'Cause I'm guessing Coleman's fancy lawyers

are gonna say you stole his meds.

No!

Oh, he'll sell you out as easy as you two sold out Amy.

'He went to her first, Scott.'

Did you know that? Tried to cut you out.

But she said no. She was loyal.

You don't have to tell me how much better than me Amy was.

That's something I knew all about.

'Is that why you did it?'

Sick of always coming up a little short next to her?

No.

I was trapped.

'I couldn't face jail.'

And I couldn't face her finding out.

Coleman said, it would be fast.

That he knew it would work.

Yeah, because he did it to his wife.

He told me, I'd be a natural.

'Cause all I had to do was talk.

You still do this every morning by yourself?

Why?

- Thinking about joining me? - No.

I get enough of workout just looking at you.

I came to say the Super Bowl ad was dumb.

We didn't know it wouldn't work.

I went about it wrong. I should have worked with you.

Thanks.

Peace?

I know you don't like to buy them for yourself.

Lionstaff was a good idea.

Was?

We struck out on this one.

We got stuck with a bad guy.

'But it's okay.'

Yeah?

We just have to choose our partners better next time.

I mean..

...if you want to.

Sure.

It will be back to the garage.

You and me is how it worked best anyway.

Yeah.

You know, when I first started coming here

it was for Gage, to think about him.

But lately, I started letting myself

notice everything that's alive

here, now.

And there's so much.

I still love him

but I think, maybe now I'm ready to..

...start having my own life, you know?

That's good.

'Yeah.'

So, thanks for sticking with me.

Amy.

Yeah?

See you in the office.

See you.

♪ You look like ♪

♪ A perfect fit ♪

♪ For a girl in need ♪

♪ Of a tourniquet ♪

♪ But can you save me? ♪

♪ Come on and save me ♪

♪ If you could save me ♪

♪ From the ranks of the freaks ♪

♪ Who suspect they could never love anyone ♪

♪ 'Cause I can tell ♪

♪ You know what it's like ♪

♪ The long farewell ♪

♪ Of the hunger strike ♪

♪ But can you save me? ♪

♪ Come on and save me ♪

♪ If you could save me ♪

♪ From the ranks of the freaks ♪

♪ Who suspect they could never love anyone ♪

♪ You struck me dumb ♪

♪ Like radium ♪

♪ Like Peter Pan ♪

♪ Or Superman ♪

♪ You will come ♪

♪ To save me ♪

♪ Come on and save me ♪

♪ If you could save me ♪

♪ From the ranks of the freaks ♪

♪ Who suspect they could never love anyone ♪

♪ Except the freaks who suspect ♪

♪ They could never love anyone ♪

Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.