BULL: I'm Dr. Jason Bull. I'm not a lawyer.
I'm an expert in what's called trial science.
I study a jury's behavioral patterns.
I know what they're thinking before they do.
Everything my team learns gets plugged into a matrix,
which allows us to assemble a mirror jury
that is scary in its predictive efficiency.
The verdict you get depends on me.
And that's no bull.
Vitals are crashing. We're losing her.
Where's that O-Neg?!
Another bag? Pressure's not coming up.
NURSE: Second bag coming up.
Femoral artery is lacerated.
She's a hemophiliac.
She'll bleed out before it gets here.
DOCTOR: Plasma. Factor VIII and Factor IX.
It won't work. Kyra's anti-bodies
reject standard clotting factors.
She's my sister. I can help.
You have to use this.
You can't be back here.
Hey! MAN: Hey! Security!
DOCTOR: Get her out of here.
GUARD: Ma'am?
What did you give her?
She's stabilizing.
That's impossible.
NURSE: EP's dropping.
Ten, 140.
WOMAN: She's such a klutz.
130 What are you waiting for?
Stitch up my sister.
(indistinct chatter)
NURSE: Tray's ready, Doctor.
The Angel of New York Sacred Heart.
Now, that's how some people are describing Kerry Ketchum.
Only 25 years old,
with advanced degrees in chemistry and molecular biology,
but no formal medical training, she saved her sister's life
with a drug she developed in her own small lab.
* On and on and on and on
* Got to do it and do it right *
* We'll stop the rules...
How deep down the rabbit hole are you?
Oh, I'm the Mad Hatter, Danny. I'm in Wonderland.
She's the perfect client.
The hospital won't press charges.
Too many people worshipping at the altar
of the Angel of Sacred Heart.
Who would besmirch an angel?
It's blasphemy.
The hospital wants her hemophilia B cure.
A lot of hospitals do... all over the country.
And get this: she offered to give it to them.
What do you mean give it to them? She means give for free.
For no money? Must be some money.
Well, cost, but that's basically free, and because
she's attempting to distribute nationwide,
this guy Windemere is suing her.
Errol Windemere, CEO of WindGen Pharmaceuticals says
he holds the patent to Kerry's drug. He's filing,
saying she's infringing.
And this is the part Bull's gonna love.
You're this excited about a patent case? Why?
Even though Kerry Ketchum lives in New York,
because she's offering the drug all over, including Texas,
that just opened her up to the jurisdiction of Callisto.
Hmm.
Who's Callisto?
BULL: Callisto isn't a who.
Callisto is a where.
Geographically situated in West Texas.
Population 25,000.
But in the legal world, it's located
somewhere between the sixth and seventh circles of hell.
I take it
you've been there before?
Oh, yeah.
Once.
Don't let its quaint appearance fool you.
Callisto is a litigation speed trap.
They've made a cottage industry out of patent cases.
How? BENNY: Well, the jury always sides
with the plaintiffs, and they hand out
the biggest cash verdicts in all the country.
BULL: These plaintiffs, they hire the local law firm.
And the juries well, they know,
and they like these local lawyers.
And so, if they represent the plaintiffs,
the plaintiffs must be right.
That sounds wildly unfair.
It's called the Halo Effect.
Juries apply their love of local lawyers to
whoever they represent.
So how did you beat them the last time?
I didn't.
But-but I thought you've never lost.
Doesn't mean I've always won.
Callisto.
(slow rhythmic beeping)
I don't even have a lawyer yet.
I can't go to trail.
In Texas?
This is totally unfair.
Oh, Kerry, it's way worse than that.
Windemere has all the leverage of a crooked system,
and he's using it against you.
MARISSA: Can you tell us
about your drug? The challenge of hemophilia B
is not just synthesizing a clotting factor.
It's delivering that factor in a way the body won't reject.
My sister's disease
affects fewer than one in 50,000 people.
There are some treatments, but it's not a big enough market
for large pharmaceutical companies
to invest in developing a cure.
They'd call what I make an "orphan drug."
So you've done this out of love.
Devoted my entire life to a cure.
But WindGen Pharmaceuticals claims
that their patented hemophilia B treatment covers your invention.
They haven't advanced that drug in 17 years.
It has to be used once a week to have any effect.
Mine lasts a year and doesn't wear off.
Thousands of people could live better lives.
That sound different enough to you?
But the question is how it sounds to a jury.
The technicalities of patent law are very complex.
I'm sorry, I don't see technicalities.
I see my sister slip
cutting a bagel, and spending a month
in the ICU. MARISSA: And in this case,
Windemere himself is showing up to testify.
He's on the witness list.
Why?
I don't know.
Maybe 'cause he's a heartless, money-grubbing old douche.
Works for me.
So I take it we're going.
Yeah, Bull, I've only got a foggy picture
of what happened to you in Callisto the first time round,
but I have heard you
say the words "deep personal downward spiral"
in referencing its aftermath.
Lot of good can come from a deep personal downward spiral.
From the bottom of a hole, it's easy to see the light.
Good to go.
Bull, I-I can't get ahold of Danny.
Oh, yeah, she's on special assignment.
Care to elaborate? Um, not now.
Can I have everyone's attention?
I have a request of each and every one of you.
I want you to imagine
we are an invading hostile force.
Because that is how the devil's armpit
that we are traveling to is gonna see us.
And I may not be able to share every tiny detail
of strategy with you in the moment.
Trust that... I am your general...
...and I am in full command.
(people murmuring)
Bull, you may be making too big a deal of this.
I'm not, and that's a perfect example
of the opposite of what I just said.
We got this, Bull.
Carry-on only, Chunk. CHUNK: Okay.
See, now you're just talking crazy.
Just get what you need when you're down there.
CHUNK: How...?
What's up? Cable,
you're staying here.
Could have just punched me in the face.
(groans)
It's nothing personal, but I need you on the outside.
Uh-huh.
All right, so, every attempt at doing
what we do will be undermined from the second
we step off that plane, we're gonna be sabotaged.
But...
we are on the side of the better angel.
It's gonna be fun.
Nah. He's not losing it.
(whooping, clamoring)
(truck horn honking)
(clamoring continues)
They gave away our conference area.
How are we supposed to have mock trials?
We don't have a workspace. Or rooms.
The concierge apologized for losi our reservations.
If I wasn't carrying bags, I'd throw up air quotes.
At least you have your bags.
The airport porter said he couldn't find mine.
I'll never question you again.
See the park bench?
Banners
all around town?
Those same names are on the local
high school football stadium.
All generous donations courtesy of Bender, Lindsay & Partners.
Who are they?
Counsel for the plaintiff, the local firm.
But don't worry.
We also have local counsel.
It's part of our strategy to undercut their advantage.
Someone from another firm? Not quite.
And don't worry about where we're gonna prep.
I've made arrangements.
Callisto's not gonna catch me with my pants down again.
(truck horn toots)
Right on time.
JB?
How about it? Hey, welcome back, man.
Merle the Pearl. Right.
Good to see you. Yeah.
All right. Merle, this is my team.
Team, this is Merle Deavers.
Local baseball star, prom king, war vet,
and handyman.
Yeah, well, I'm a jack of some trades. But come on, y'all.
Everybody pile in. Here, let me take that for you.
All right.
Here.
Oh.
(yells)
Well, it's nice to meet y'all.
You know, last time JB came through solo.
Not a phone call, not a letter?
You could have let us know
you were back in town, Dr. Bull.
Oh, you knew we were coming, Diana.
Hey there, Merle.
You taking good care of these out-of-towners?
Yeah, sure thing, Ms. Lindsay. All right.
Now I didn't think I'd see your face again, Bull.
You made a good decision,
getting rid of the old soup strainer.
I always did
find those whiskers ticklish. (chuckles)
CHUNK: Bull had a mustache?
All right, y'all.
Diana Lindsay,
senior partner at Bender, Lindsay
She's prosecuting Kerry's case.
Just on a reconnaissance mission.
Wants to see who she's up against. (truck engine starting)
So... Callisto is a kind of a who.
MARISSA: This is where we're staying? (Merle groans)
(chickens clucking) Lot of hay, no livestock.
There definitely has been at some point, though.
Yeah, picked up your, uh, crates yesterday night.
Came to my name like you said.
Nobody messed with 'em and I made a list Shoo!
of my friends and relations for your mock juror pool.
Folks who won't go blabbing what you ask 'em about.
We'll need to determine how well
Kerry's narrative cuts through the Halo Effect.
See if the jury will like her more than Diana.
Sweep it first. Excuse me?
For bugs. Bugs?
You mean electronic surveillance devices?
I do, indeed.
But that's not legal.
Now you're catching on.
Kerry, with me.
(clucking)
Hi. Huge fan of your work.
And your lack of respect for authority.
Uh, hi.
So I've been tasked with finding the connection
between Windemere and you.
And I got my hands on his research study
from 1999 that led to the patent.
The participants' names
as well as some of the details from the experiments
were confidential, but Windemere himself
was the lead researcher.
And this might explain why he's coming to testify.
Windemere is taking the position that he invented your drug.
No, he didn't invent my drug. They're not the same.
No, I know, but he's going to say that he did.
Thank you, Cable.
I'll take it from here.
She's very enthusiastic.
(huffs)
Kerry, your cure is composed of distinct elements
of Windemere's patented.
But I beat his science.
Luckily, this isn't about science.
It's about people.
And the people on this jury are not gonna understand
any of this.
So we need to stick to the plan.
And that is?
The good people of Callisto on the jury...
love the other side.
We just have to make them love us more.
Create our own halo.
We can conflict out anyone who's already served
on Windemere's jury.
That only leaves about 180... eligible jurors.
Danny?
(Texas accent): Hi.
BULL: This is Danny's special assignment.
I'm Courtney Jean,
your waitress. You new to town?
Oh, I just started. Oh.
Still getting to know the regulars.
Never seen you before.
Are you all here for the Windemere case? I have heard
so much about it. Everyone's so excited
to meet the man.
Well, okay,
I'll be right back to take your orders.
Uh, what are those?
Dossiers on our
potential jurors.
Oh, she's not a waitress, is she?
She's with us. Former FBI.
I kind of hope she keeps that accent.
These juror backgrounds
are very useful, but...
this voir dire's gonna be different.
These jurors are gonna trust one lawyer
more than the other.
Ours or theirs.
And when do we meet our attorney?
We already have.
Hey.
The judge wrapped his other case early.
He wants us to do our voir dire right now. All right.
Now, everyone knows everyone in this courthouse,
so... it's gonna be weird.
Chunk, I'm gonna need your Southern charm.
Never leave home without it.
Don't forget to tip your waitress.
MARISSA: You sure about this?
Merle's our attorney?
We need a bigger halo.
Here comes Mr. Popularity himself.
Uh, well, I was the runner-up.
But, uh, Carl Crenshaw moved to Dallas.
People around here don't like it much when you leave.
I never realized that you practiced law.
Well, mostly estate planning, property law.
I did have a sticky probate a few years back.
You ever tried a case in front of a jury?
Nope.
Everybody loves Merle.
Which is why we need him.
Okay, game faces, everyone.
It's not too late to back out.
(Bull chuckles)
I hate lawyers.
All rise.
Anyone having matters in the court
of Callisto, Texas... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Louis,
save it. Twitter gal said there may be a storm rolling in.
Let's go.
Judge Albert Darling presiding.
Ms. Lindsay,
let's get started. Well, Your Honor,
I'd first like to acknowledge defense counsel
Merle Deavers.
Never seen him in court before.
It is like seeing a dog drive a tractor.
Uh, uh, well, uh, thanks. Uh...
and you know, for what it's worth,
I had a Labrador
that could steer a motorcycle.
Now, he had a terrible sense of direction, but, uh,
the ride was always fun.
All right. Let's get this done.
How's your hot water heater working, Mary?
Fine, Merle.
That thermocoupler you replaced
is holding up well.
Good, good.
Acceptable to defense.
Ethan, remind me--
you served on two juries last year?
Uh, yes, ma'am. Found for the plaintiffs both times.
Hmm.
Hey, did that calico get out again?
No, no, no, she's warming up to the kids. And they love her.
Thank you for finding her, Merle.
(siren starts wailing)
DARLING: Oh, shoot.
Tornado warning.
You got to be kidding me.
DARLING: All right, everybody,
we got to get downstairs.
Who's left that thinks they can be impartial?
All right, uh, Debbie,
Len, uh, Kelly-Anne,
Doug-- you're all in. I promise
we'll get this wrapped up by the weekend, Jerry,
so you won't have to cancel that fishing trip. You're in, too.
That's our jury. Let's move.
Everybody down in the shelter.
Come on in.
Hey, Bulldog.
You played defensive back at Georgia, right?
Yeah. Hey, nice memory.
A&M. Special teams.
Man, I drilled you once.
(laughs)
How could I forget?
What's up, man? Good to see you.
Happens all the time.
Rarely gets above a category two.
I'm sure it'll blow over. Mm.
You know,
while we're here we could talk about settlement if you want.
Doesn't seem an appropriate conversation to have
in front of the entire jury.
Oh, but you do want to have it?
If you would like to discuss
your absentee client's position,
I'd be happy to.
Drinks later?
Okay.
(both laugh)
Cute. (chuckles)
Of course I remember.
The dispute was over the rights
to a piece of farming equipment. Right.
It was a money job for you. You weren't emotionally invested.
Till you lost.
I did not win.
Watch out, Dr. Bull, if you come back here
to settle some imaginary score.
The client needs me.
So I'm here.
Really?
Is that what it takes
to get you to come back here--
a woman in need?
Is there some kind of gravitational force
that prevents you from leaving Callisto?
Oh.
Now, you're thinking about spreading a rumor
that I'm gonna pull up stakes and abandon my people.
Now, maybe they turn against me?
I'm onto your strategy, darlin'.
My town, my people...
my jury.
Now, you better hope your little Angel of Sacred Heart
doesn't have a broken wing.
What?
No, I'm gonna ride the bull.
Cable from Cable.
She tracked down the participants
in Windemere's research study.
Took place from '98 to '99
at Hudson University.
Kyra, Kerry's little sister, was part of the study.
Windemere experimented on her.
So they knew each other. Worse.
Kerry could have access to every bit of his research,
and she never mentioned it.
Huh... Our client's no angel.
She's a liar.
Hmm.
To broken wings.
I didn't lie. I'm not allowed to talk about my sister
and Windemere's research project. It's all...
it's all confidential. Under a nondisclosure agreement.
You were a kid.
You signed a binding legal document?
Benny, easy. No, that man
promised me he would find a cure for my sister.
And he didn't.
So I-I finished the job.
It'll be viewed as unethical.
It's perfectly ethical.
Yes, my synthetic clotting factor's identical to his.
And yes, I paired it with a protein to replicate
the plasma inside the bloodstream,
preventing antibodies from rejecting it.
And yes, I got that from his research, too.
But he didn't put them together.
I only got about half of that, but the part I did get
is his drug's inferior. Obviousness.
KERRY: Thank you. (scoffs)
Glad someone gets it.
No. The legal issue at play
is a term called "obviousness."
Yeah, Windemere's patent covers a combination
of the clotting factor and the delivery system.
But you can override
his patent if it wasn't obvious
to put the same elements together
in the way that you have.
BULL: Obviousness.
Of our jury, only Mary, Ethan and Curt
have anything past high school chemistry.
We'll need to make the science easy to comprehend.
All right.
Benny, let's find language
even an eight-year-old can understand.
And start lining up experts who can
use those words. Diana loves experts.
She'll start with her own.
Marissa,
mirror jurors? I...
Merle, um, help me line them up.
All right.
Time to get to court.
Oh, hey, good morning.
Hey, how are you? Morning, Mr. Windemere.
Barely recognize Errol Windemere without a suit.
Uh, well, Diana did her prep.
She knows not to make Windemere
look like a Yankee. CHUNK: Jeans are a nice touch.
Give me your notebook.
I've never seen you take notes.
Wasn't asking a question.
Ready to make my client an offer?
How about surrender?
We'd accept.
(quiet, indistinct chatter)
Hey, hey!
Bruce, Mitch, Tonya,
all y'all in the back row, what are you doing?
You don't have any business in my court.
Why don't you get out.
Don't need any extra bodies in here heating this room up
any more than it already is.
Good-bye, mirror jury.
DARLING: All right, then-- opening arguments.
Patent infringement.
Now, it sounds complicated, but this is a simple case.
If you leave your truck
sitting in your front yard
and someone takes it away, well,
whose truck is it now?
It's still yours.
Even if you're not driving it.
And that person is a thief.
Okay, true.
But if I saw your pickup
and the garden hose lying next to it
and I got inspired
to build my own fire truck,
and then drove around town putting out fires,
now what do you call me?
Somebody say hero?
Doctor, if you could,
please describe hemophilia for us.
Hemophiliacs have
a lower clotting factor level of blood plasma,
or impaired activity
of the coagulation factor
needed for a normal clotting process. So, does
a hemophiliac bleed more intensely
than a person without it?
No, but they can bleed much longer.
Even a minor injury can result in
blood loss lasting days or even weeks.
Okay. And Mr. Windemere's drug,
recognized by United States patent number
6-B 117293,
dated August 11, 1999,
counteracts this process.
It does.
His synthetic clotting factor,
under certain circumstances,
increases the efficacy of coagulation.
DIANA: Ms. Ketchum's
product utilizes the same factor? Yes.
So they're the same.
Yes.
No further questions.
Bull?
(clears throat) Uh, Your Honor,
I don't want to bore our friends in the jury
with any more questions for this fella.
Appreciated.
That's lunch. (gavel bangs)
No, oxygen doesn't tell the blood to turn scabby.
There's already oxygen in blood.
It's blood cells.
Every cell does something.
That's what those cells do.
MARISSA: Good thing Danny's getting us all this intel.
Don't need a mirror jury if the real jurors talk loud enough.
They're not supposed to talk about the case.
Be the first jury in history to obey.
Hey.
Do y'all know how blood clots are formed?
When a blood vessel wall breaks,
platelets change shape from round to spiny,
sticking to the broken vessel wall and each other
to plug the break.
They interact with other blood proteins
to form fibrin strands into a net
trapping more platelets and...
producing a clot.
DANNY: Dang, you're pretty smart.
You should hear what those folks are coming up with.
Good. Their expert failed to teach them.
This presents us the opportunity
to define the terms.
I'd call that a win. BULL: A small one.
A big one would be if we can use the whole crooked system
against itself.
How do you do that?
That's what we got to figure out.
DIANA: Mr. Windemere, in the time
since you were granted this patent,
you've distributed only one version of a hemophilia drug,
is that right? Research and development is
a complicated and expensive process.
When we make a choice, as a company,
what matter is
what does the most good for the most people.
MERLE: Your, uh, your suit,
claims that you patented all the elements
contained in Ms. Ketchum's product.
Is-is that right?
WINDEMERE: Yes, I did.
MERLE: You had all the pieces,
but you haven't put them together this way yet?
That's a simplified way of expressing it, but yes.
Like you had a-a-a toaster and a clock,
and hadn't squished 'em into one.
Sure. If that helps you.
Well, yeah. It-it kind of does.
Cause I'm holding here, the patent
for the first pop-up toaster.
And it's not from the inventor of the toaster or the clock.
Did you want to contest that one, too?
Objection. Argumentative.
Sustained.
MERLE: I'm sorry, but...
If you could make what she made,
was there any reason to sit on it,
presuming that-that your story is true,
that-that research and development made it
not cost effective, I mean...
You're saying it's about the money,
while people are literally dying?
Your Honor.
MERLE: I'm sor...
I'll leave it at that.
Got Danny's report from afternoon break.
We are making some inroads.
CABLE (over speaker): We shored up Carlos and Franny.
Plus Len and Lisa liked what Merle had to say
about the toaster.
Well, like you said, the science is lost on all,
save Mary, Ethan and Curt, who are against us.
MARISSA: And that's not all the great intel Danny got us.
We also know that Diana's halo
is still shining brightly on Windemere.
and the mind's of Kelly-Anne, Doug, Debbie and Jerry.
Sorry, but they prefer her over Merle.
They don't see her as the enemy.
Maybe we should stop seeing her that way, too.
Cable, monitor the weather systems, will you?
I'm on it, but I can't predict the weather, Bull.
Oh, and I found this.
It's a good look.
(laughing) You look really good.
I-I think we're losing our connection.
Hey, don't you dare...
*
Mm-hmm, that was nice.
Here you go. Thank you.
Yeah, on special teams, you got to do
whatever you can do to stay on the team.
Hey. Oh...
Is that shirt tailored?
Yeah, Chunk's suggestion.
The bulky uniform
wasn't properly showcasing the guns.
Oh.
You look good.
Put away our weapons?
Put something away.
(cheering and applause)
Bull was a hired gun, but he was damn good.
All right, my client was corporate.
His client was corporate.
But he climbed into the mind
of every single one of those jurors.
They went to deliberate on a Friday night.
I had 'em.
But you lost.
Well, Monday morning was a different story.
MARISSA: What happened over the weekend?
I couldn't say.
And I won't.
Mm.
Hey, Merle! Line 'em up!
Passing the bar.
Hey, I would never pass a bar.
You ought to know, shots are Merle's Achilles' heel.
What did happen that weekend?
Yeah, what did happen that weekend?
'Cause I was thinking, and if I've got it right,
you started dating my sister
soon after this case. Mm.
This is a good time to get refills.
Come on.
(sighs)
So what about you, huh?
You want to go for a walk?
Maybe I'll tell you some secrets.
I feel deprived of this in the city.
Light pollution...
it's a terrible plague.
Well, I'm sure it has its trade-offs.
You've seen all that passes for nightlife around here.
Hmm.
Why, Ms. Diana, are you trying to take advantage of me?
Hmm, the great Dr. Bull?
Now, I didn't think that was possible.
Last time I was here, I learned a lot.
It changed me.
Hmm. Not too much.
I thought I could win any case in any court.
Well, not all cases are decided in a courtroom.
After that Friday night,
you didn't leave my sight until Sunday morning. Yeah.
You wanted to watch football.
You wanted to go to church.
Monday morning,
the whole jury was back on your side.
The whole jury was in those pews.
If I had said anything to them,
that would be tampering.
You didn't have to.
You sang,
didn't you? Hmm.
That was supposed to be my secret weapon.
I have a secret weapon too.
It's not that big of a secret. (laughs)
MARISSA: Clearly, Diana knew Merle had a weakness for tequila,
but there's nothing obvious about cellular chemistry.
The jury will glaze over
and assume that Windemere knows his business.
Unless I find the words to explain science
to an eight-year-old.
Yeah, I think Bull is losing his mind.
He may be losing his mind,
or it may just be Callisto.
Did you leave the barn open?
No.
(panting)
My laptop's missing.
The boxes... our research.
Lindsay and Partners took everything.
I'll call Bull.
They put a move on us.
No way that she put one on him, too.
No answer.
(birds singing)
(rooster crows)
(groans)
(grunts)
Oh!
(grunts)
(groans)
(snorts)
(mooing)
I'm not exactly filled with confidence
that you have thousands of lives in your hands.
Not to mention my own professional future.
That's understandable.
But I am in full command.
Getting this sloppy was intentional.
Oh, wait. It was?
Oh, yeah.
Okay, it was.
But the other side stole all of our research and your notebook.
I never intended to call some parade of experts.
So you wanted this to happen.
Everything I wrote in that note pad
was to make you look like the Angel of Sacred Heart.
You're not gonna do that?
Mm-mm.
No experts. Just you.
Diana's been prepping for experts all night long.
Well, half the night.
(clears his throat) BENNY: Wow.
This strudel is fantastic.
May I have another one,
waitress?
Please?
(laughs) * Ta-da!
Look what I got.
Okay, so you've got pants.
What's the rest of your strategy?
BULL: Part one--
I'm gonna show your deep frustration with Windemere.
And we show how much you love your sister
and how those two things
helped you accomplish something he never could.
Part two-- you may recall Windemere stated
that he didn't change the drug for 17 years because of cost.
Four of our jurors sided with you because they saw him
as more interested in financial gain than saving lives.
But to reach the rest of the jury,
you need to beat him with your science.
How?
Nerd up.
Well, what about explaining the science?
Benny's working on it.
Whoa! Oh, what is in this thing?!
Eggs, flour, water, apples and sugar.
No. I mean, what is
the magic recipe?
'Cause however it's put together--
it is the perfect hangover cure.
I'm gonna take this to go.
Marissa, with me.
Waitress, strudel for everywhere?
Well, all right.
BULL: It was a big night.
So the people were hungry,
and this is all they had.
So the guy took an apple
and the water, and he made apple juice, which was okay.
But the people were still hungry.
So she took all of these ingredients and made this.
And the people were full.
So it's not just about making a good strudel.
BOY: What you're saying is
he wanted to save money,
but she wanted to save lives.
MARISSA: I think they got it.
(indistinct chatter)
(chuckles) Nice pants.
So, it's a grandísimo kind of morning, huh?
Don't you worry. I'm gonna rip your little cavalcade
of so-called experts to pieces.
Where are they?
Mmm.
We only have one.
MERLE: Ms. Ketchum, is it true that your sister was a participant
in Mr. Windemere's research study?
Yes, and I followed his career since I was a kid.
He inspired me to create this cure.
MERLE: How did he inspire you?
By failing.
My sister tried his drug.
Hell, he used her blood, my own sister's blood, to experiment.
And you were a witness to this?
You know how scary it is, watching your baby sister,
four years old, giving blood,
when she's a hemophiliac?
His drug worked for a little while, but...
then her body got used to it
and it wouldn't work anymore.
It took me years, but I figured out how to make it keep working.
Using the same ingredients?
There's a million ways to combine flour,
water, eggs, apples and sugar.
But only one method works like the strudel at the diner.
So you're saying
that you're a better cook than Errol Windemere?
I'm a scientist.
Unlike Mr. Windemere,
I don't consider cost
when I'm trying to save a life.
MERLE: No further questions.
How did you do it?
I don't understand the question. Well,
you claim to be an expert.
A better scientist than Mr. Windemere.
So you should be able to explain the process.
How'd you do it?
No.
I'm not telling you.
He knows the recipe, and he still can't make it work.
I'm not gonna let you sucker me into giving away
my trade secrets.
You're-you're here saying you're entitled
to 20 years to figure it out.
That's 20 years of people dying,
while also claiming it's obvious.
Obviously, it's not obvious. You have no right!
You have no brains! You stole
my work! You gave up on my sister!
All right, all right, all right.
Let's take a recess.
Everybody cool off.
(gavel bangs)
So, Kelly-Anne and Doug apparently saw
Diana toss a look to the judge.
Thought it was cheating.
That makes it six to six.
But, uh, Debbie, Curt, and Lisa
all wanted to hear the rest of the argument.
They won't be moved without it.
So we're winning on merits,
but we're still losing.
MARISSA: All the holdouts want to know
if Kerry's right about Windemere's science.
Do we put him back on the stand?
BENNY: Yeah, we could,
but we don't know if he's right or wrong.
Without drowning the jury in those technical terms,
there's only one person who can actually speak
his language. Jury needs to hear Kerry sing.
Judge isn't gonna let her rip into Windemere again though.
And Diana's not gonna let him fall for it again.
These are good people. They just need to be convinced.
MARISSA: I just don't know how
we get any more points on the board in that courtroom.
Maybe we can't.
But we can still win.
I'm having fewer regrets about not making the trip down.
It's tough to see you like this.
I prefer this. (chuckles)
Yeah.
(chuckles)
Well, it's time to play the ace in the hole.
Oh, yeah? What's that?
You.
Pretty sure most of it's legal.
But, then again, I'm not a lawyer.
Thank you, Chunk.
Well, where's the rest of your crew?
Packing up. Long trip home.
Don't tell me you're conceding defeat.
You could still win.
It'd take a miracle.
When you get the chance-- and you will get the chance--
you know what to do.
(door opens)
The Honorable Judge Albert Darling.
DARLING: All right.
Let's close this thing up.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
this case is pretty simple.
Errol Windemere owns a 20-year pa...
(phone beeping, buzzing)
I'm sorry.
And it's only been 17 years.
(phones chiming, buzzing)
DARLING: Uh, shoot, there's a storm coming in.
Wrap it up, Counselor.
You know me.
I know Errol Windemere.
I vouch for him.
DARLING: Merle.
Uh...
Uh, well, Your Honor, uh...
(alarm blaring)
DARLING: Okay. Put a pin in this.
Let's go.
Jury, everybody, let's get down to the shelter.
(alarm continues blaring)
Don't be shy. Come on in.
Plaintiff
and Defendant,
in here.
(alarm blaring in distance)
Go get inside, you dummy. There's a tornado coming.
Is there?
Yeah. I mean, it's lit up all over social media.
Look, they're tweeting about it a town over.
Once again, there's a severe
tornado warning issued for all of Callisto.
While everyone in Callisto
should immediately find shelter,
a tornado watch has been issued for neighboring counties.
(chuckles) I feel for you, folks.
Ah.
(alarm continues blaring)
You don't know how to do what I did.
Your patent comes up short, and I'll bet my sister's life
this jury will see that.
How is Kyra?
What happened?
I really do care about her, you know.
She was pulling a shirt over her head
and walked through a plate glass sliding door.
She thought it was open.
12 stitches. She thinks
it's gonna be a cool scar. (sighs)
I wish I could have made it last forever,
instead of just temporarily.
You were close.
Started with your individualized protein methodology.
Had to bond it with factor VIII.
How? Did you separate the platelets from the plasma?
Well, first, I produced platelet-rich plasma
through differential centrifugation,
adjusting the acceleration force
to sediment the cellular constituents.
But a second centrifugation
concentrates the platelets
in the smallest final plasma volume,
leaving the platelets... WINDEMERE: The platelets in near-to-perfect isolation.
Yes. KERRY: That's the step you missed.
That's what kept my sister alive.
WINDEMERE: With all the time and money in the world,
I wouldn't have figured that out.
(sighs) Very impressive. Nice work.
I can move for a mistrial.
I doubt the court will spend another week on this.
DARLING: All right, everyone,
seemed like another false alarm. Let's get back to it.
Merle, you're up.
(whispering): I want to drop the suit.
DIANA: You're sure? Yes.
Your Honor, my client would like to withdraw the suit.
(murmuring)
Are you kidding me, Counselor?
No, Your Honor. He's changed his position
regarding the patent.
Okay. Apologies to the jury.
Wasn't a complete waste of time. You each made ten dollars a day.
We are adjourned. (gavel bangs)
Jerry, go fishing.
(indistinct chatter)
That's it?
He's not gonna stop me from making my drug?
It's over. You won.
(chuckles)
(grunts) Congratulations.
Merle,
Bender, Lindsay & Partners
may have the plaintiff's side all shored up,
but there's a lot of defendants out there
who could use your services.
You know, that's not a bad idea, JB.
Congratulations.
Well, you may not be able to sing
but... sure can make it rain.
Pair of pants
come with this?
(chuckles)
Callisto.
*
* I'm in a small-town world...
Let me get this straight.
You're mad because you couldn't get the jury to officially
find in our favor? Let me clarify,
I'm not mad. I'm merely disappointed.
And there's a difference. MARISSA: Let's be honest, the reason
you're not satisfied is because
Diana didn't call it a win.
Ooh... Ooh...
BULL: All right, it's a win.
With an asterisk.
After the first time
you, quote,
"didn't lose in Callisto,"
how'd you pull out of your tailspin? BENNY: Wait a minute,
don't tell me my sister was your Callisto rebound.
Not exactly.
I went down there a lone wolf who'd never lost a case.
But I had forgotten why I got into this business
in the first place.
And, no,
it wasn't the money.
It was people.
Because you can't take on the world
all alone.
And so I sought
people I could trust.
People like your sister.
And you guys.
This team.
And clients
I could believe in.
That's what I learned.
CABLE: Oh.
I thought you lost in Callisto 'cause of this.
BENNY: Oh, hello! CHUNK: Oh! (chuckling)
Wow.
(laughter)
Captioning sponsored by CBS
Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org