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[ Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings'
"This Land Is Your Land" plays ]

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♪ This land is your land ♪

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♪ This land is my land ♪

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♪ From California ♪

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♪ Well, to the New York Island ♪

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♪ From the Redwood Forest ♪

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♪ To the Gulf Stream waters ♪

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♪ I'll tell ya ♪

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♪ This land was made
for you and me ♪

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She's not a citizen.

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But I've always --
Voted illegally?

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Yeah,
where's your I.D.?

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Let me show you my I.D.
You know why?

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'Cause I bring my I.D.
'Cause I do it legally.

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Come on. And them, too,
where's their documentation?

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They don't need
I.D. to vote.

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They're committing
voter fraud.

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You need to back up!
Oh, ho, hey.

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I have every right to be here.
Hey, don't leave.
You don't need to leave.

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I have every right to be here.
Jay, maybe we should vote
another day.

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People show their I.D.s.
There is no other day.
This is the day.

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That's the way it works
in this country.
Maybe we vote another year.

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[ Indistinct shouting ]
You're citizens.
I was at the swearing-in.

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You were, too.
Can I just ask you,
did you show your I.D.?

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Oh, I can't be yelling?
All right, let me tell you this.
[ Murmuring ]

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Voter fraud is a felony!

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You vote illegally,
you go to jail!

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Intimidating voters
is a federal crime!

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Is there security
around here somewhere?

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Woman: There's a hotline
you could try calling.

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We're gonna vote.
After --

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[ Indistinct conversations ]

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Better go
call the hotline.

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[ Telephone rings ]

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This is Kate.

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Kate, this is Jay.
Jay Simmons.

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I need your help.

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I'm at my polling place --

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Oh, wow.
Word has really gotten out.

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Okay. So, "no" on Question 1.

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I pref--
No, I don't need help
with my ballot.

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There's a problem here
at my polling place.

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What kind of problem?

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Voter intimidation
in New York?

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New York has
some of the most regressive,

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voter-restrictive laws
in the country --

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I'm from Texas.

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Can you come with me
to the courthouse?

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Why do you need me?

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Anything not in this warrant
or affidavit

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I should know about,
Ms. Littlejohn?

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No.
I know you sometimes like to
squirrel away information

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and then turn it over
at the last minute.

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No. Your Honor, those documents
are complete and accurate.

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Good idea
bringing him along.

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Oliver, let's go.

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Petrini crime family.
Do you know them?

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Violent and Organized Crime Unit
has been trying to build

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a RICO case against the Petrini
family for two years,

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getting nowhere,
then, two weeks ago,

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Angelo Petrini,
nephew of boss Gaetano Petrini,

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walks into a field office on
23rd Street, and he is singing.

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No.
What?

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No. I know
exactly what this is.

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You tell me I'm working
on the Petrini case,

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I look skeptical,
you convince me it's real,

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we start humming the theme
from "The Godfather,"

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and then I wake up, and there's
some kid in my office

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telling me it's "Avatar"!
I'm not doing that again!

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No!

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On the other hand,
if this isn't a dream,

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then what I'm saying sounds
completely insane.

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That is correct.

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Rosen had to jump off the case,
so this is yours.

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Lock down
the Angelo testimony.

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Personal
or professional?

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Professional.

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Personal.
I'm not actually sure.

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You didn't, uh,
show up the other night.

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I haven't seen you in days.

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I can't really talk now.

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I'm sorry.
[ Beep ]

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You two haven't talked?

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The integrity of our entire
democracy is at risk here,

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and I'm the one
being arrested?

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Our government
should be thanking me.

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I understand
that's your opinion,

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but intimidation of voters is
a federal crime, a serious one.

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What's serious is the epidemic
of election fraud.

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Don't you read FraudWars?

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I do not.
FraudWars is where
the facts are.

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All those secrets the mainstream
media tries to bury?

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FraudWars finds them.

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Do you have any idea
how many foreign nationals

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voted in
the last election?

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Nineteen.
Millions.

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Only nineteen were charged,
I mean.

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In the entire country.
You see?

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My point exactly.

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Let's talk
about your defense.

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They said a lawyer
was part of the deal.

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Are --
Are you the lawyer?

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Who said a lawyer
was part of what deal?

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If I'm charged
with any crime in connection

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with the verification
of voter identity,

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a lawyer will be provided,

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the compensation for which
will not be reduced

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from the amount
otherwise due to me.

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You were paid
for what you were doing

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this morning
at the polling place?

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Well,
I haven't been paid yet.

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You were hired to disrupt
a federal election?

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That was the idea.

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Democracy isn't free.

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Four instances
of voter intimidation

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in the tri-state area alone.
And I found dozens more

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all around the country
just like this one.

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Same phrases.
Same techniques.

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Challenging people's
residency and citizenship.

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And you're saying
they were paid?
Allison: Yes.

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By whom?
We don't know.

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But if you immunize Harley,
we can help you find out.

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He'll cooperate?
He told me he would.

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How does Jay
feel about that?

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Jay?
I have no idea.

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Why?

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You were there?
I reported the case to Kate.

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She got the warrant.
Did Jill know this?

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I guess not.
You're defending him?

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Well, not for very
much longer!

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I can't defend the guy
if you're going to be
a potential witness.

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Harley is going to
need new counsel.

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He has new counsel.
So you did know about this?

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Know about what?
I was there.

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He was intimidating
my parents.

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I didn't know that.

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We just got a notice that
he substituted in new counsel.

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A private firm.
And a very good one.

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You guys met. Good.

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A bodyguard?
Yes.

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Why do I need
a bodyguard?

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'Cause they're gonna
try to kill you.

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Kill me?!
Yes.

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You didn't mention
anything about that!

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Really?
I-Is that why Rosen
isn't on the case?

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Well, Rosen has a kid
and a wife.

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He has a lot to live for.

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You'll probably be fine,
though. Right?

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Sure.

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I need to talk to you.

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Listen.

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I told her.

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That I know
about her and Roger.

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You told me not to,
but I did.

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I didn't tell you not to.
I told you I wouldn't.

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Well, I did.

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Because what she's
doing is wrong

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and I think
she needs to end it.

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Okay. You don't
have to convince me.

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[ Sighs ]

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You got me the swatting report.
I just thought you should know.

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Jill's been good to me.

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Really good to me
when I needed it.

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I'm not neutral on Jill.

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But I'm not neutral on you,
either.

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Which I think you know.

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If you believe this
is the right thing to do,

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then I'm with you.

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Chief of the Criminal Division
and the Federal Public Defender.

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I can see why you're here.

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Is there any way
around this, Judge?

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Not if you want to
keep your jobs.

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Look, if you were a client
in your office

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and you found this out,
how would you feel?

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What would you think?

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If we lived in a different time,
I might answer differently.

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But we're all
that's left now.

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This. Us.

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An independent
judicial system.

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We're the last fortification
against tyranny,

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and it's not the marble around
here that's gonna protect us.

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It's our integrity.

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In the eyes of others.

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That's all we have.

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I'm sorry, Jill.

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Hey. How's it going?
[ Door closes ]

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Really bizarre day.

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Who are you?
Oh, Jay, this is Gabe.

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He's gonna be staying with us
for a while.

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What?
I have a case in which
I could be killed.

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You could be, too.
Are you serious?

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I don't know.
Could he?

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Sure.

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Hey!

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What the hell?!
That was my dinner!

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It smelled like poison.

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See.
He's here for both of us.

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[ Sighs ]

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Good night, Jay!

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Good night, Gabe.

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Why does he have a new lawyer?
Because whoever is paying him

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to disrupt this election
wants to control his defense

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so he doesn't talk.

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Look, this isn't
our case anymore,

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so I can express
an opinion here.

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I hope you guys
pursue this.

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Plus one.
Oh, we will.

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We can still bring the weight
of the government down on him.

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I'm not sure how much putting
pressure on him will even help.

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Harley's the key.
Or maybe this new lawyer is.

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Why do you say that?
How much does Harley even know

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about this whole operation?
I'm guessing he's a stooge.

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Based on my time with him,
I think that's a good guess.

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But if we figure out
who this new lawyer is,

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we might be
able to unravel this.

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That might have given us
a gift here.

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Okay. So who is
this new lawyer?

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Bob Dickerson.
Sorry I'm late.

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He's a partner at Walsh Gates,
where he represents

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multiple high-ranking
government officials who serve

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on the Board of the Alliance
for American Advancement,

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a "pro-business" advocacy group
that was responsible

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for paying Harley Kemp
to harass my parents.

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I was up all night 'cause
Seth's bodyguard was snoring,

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but I found the time
unusually productive.

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-Oh, so gross.
-Can you run through this again?

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Okay, the Alliance
for American Advancement claims

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to be a responsible non-profit
which raises money

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for "issue advocacy."

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Deregulation, tax cuts,
that sort of thing.

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But, in fact, it's a front
for voter suppression

257
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that uses well-connected lawyers

258
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and a series of artfully named
shell companies --

259
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VoteSafe,
the Voter Sanctity Project,

260
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the Voter Justice League --

261
00:11:11,580 --> 00:11:15,460
to pay people like Harley
to intimidate voters.

262
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These companies fund lawsuits

263
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to purge legitimate voters
from the rolls

264
00:11:20,170 --> 00:11:22,500
and media campaigns
to scare voters.

265
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People of color. Poor people.

266
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Brand-new citizens.
People like my mom and dad.

267
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So who do we go after?

268
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Who's running the Alliance?

269
00:11:29,670 --> 00:11:32,120
Thorne Spiller.
I did a little digging, too.

270
00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,080
Spiller started off
as a political operative.

271
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Smear campaigns.
Dirty tricks.

272
00:11:35,460 --> 00:11:37,790
Then he graduated
to corporate espionage.

273
00:11:37,790 --> 00:11:38,790
Now suppression of votes.

274
00:11:38,790 --> 00:11:40,210
So Spiller
runs the Alliance,

275
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which uses shell companies
to pay the Harleys.

276
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What do we charge
Spiller with?

277
00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,670
We can't get him on
voter intimidation directly --

278
00:11:45,670 --> 00:11:47,290
and even if we could,
that wouldn't be enough

279
00:11:47,290 --> 00:11:49,290
to bring down an elaborate
operation like this.

280
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♪♪

281
00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:04,960
♪♪

282
00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:06,830
Are you thinking
what I'm thinking?

283
00:12:06,830 --> 00:12:08,420
Unlikely.

284
00:12:08,420 --> 00:12:09,460
RICO?

285
00:12:09,460 --> 00:12:10,880
Yes, the same
racketeering statute

286
00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:12,170
they use to take down the mob

287
00:12:12,170 --> 00:12:13,750
can be used to take down
a voter-suppression cabal.

288
00:12:13,750 --> 00:12:15,540
Spiller told donors
to the Alliance

289
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that their money
would be used for one thing,

290
00:12:17,170 --> 00:12:18,540
but it was used for another.

291
00:12:18,540 --> 00:12:20,960
Any funds they sent anywhere
at that point were fraudulent.

292
00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,540
Which means RICO laws apply.

293
00:12:22,540 --> 00:12:24,040
Which has never been tried
in this context.

294
00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:25,420
Well,
we're not trying it now.

295
00:12:25,420 --> 00:12:26,580
We know it's uphill --

296
00:12:26,580 --> 00:12:27,960
You don't know
the half of it.

297
00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,750
All voting cases
are supposed to be prosecuted

298
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by the Justice Department.

299
00:12:32,170 --> 00:12:33,670
All of them. You know that.

300
00:12:33,670 --> 00:12:36,040
This warrant shouldn't
ever have come through

301
00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:37,460
this office in the first place.

302
00:12:37,460 --> 00:12:39,250
These charges
shouldn't have been filed.

303
00:12:39,250 --> 00:12:41,210
Well, this is where
we are now.

304
00:12:41,210 --> 00:12:42,330
And now
we're getting out.

305
00:12:42,330 --> 00:12:43,420
This is political treason.

306
00:12:43,420 --> 00:12:45,620
If we can't do this,
what are we doing here?

307
00:12:45,620 --> 00:12:47,620
♪♪

308
00:12:47,620 --> 00:12:49,210
[ Sighs ]

309
00:12:49,210 --> 00:12:52,210
♪♪

310
00:12:52,210 --> 00:12:54,790
You see this chair,
Roger?

311
00:12:54,790 --> 00:12:58,380
This chair belonged
to Henry Lawrence Burnett.

312
00:12:58,380 --> 00:13:01,000
He held my job
in the early 1900s.

313
00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,670
After fighting
in the Civil War

314
00:13:02,670 --> 00:13:06,670
and prosecuting the conspiracy
to assassinate Lincoln.

315
00:13:06,670 --> 00:13:09,460
The Attorney General himself
got it out of storage for me

316
00:13:09,460 --> 00:13:10,670
when I was first sworn in.

317
00:13:10,670 --> 00:13:12,380
Nice gesture, right?

318
00:13:12,380 --> 00:13:14,750
No. It wasn't a gesture
at all.

319
00:13:14,750 --> 00:13:17,920
It was a warning that the chair
lives longer than I do.

320
00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:21,540
That I can be out of this job
faster than it stops spinning.

321
00:13:21,540 --> 00:13:26,120
You're asking me
to approve an uphill,

322
00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,750
untested, untried prosecution

323
00:13:28,750 --> 00:13:30,960
against the people
who own all the chairs.

324
00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:32,880
The board
of this organization?

325
00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:34,500
And what it represents?

326
00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:38,920
It's everything this
administration stands for.

327
00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,830
I'm gonna take that on for
a prosecution we can't even win?

328
00:13:41,830 --> 00:13:43,670
No.

329
00:13:43,670 --> 00:13:46,460
I'm not ready to give up
this chair.

330
00:13:46,460 --> 00:13:49,710
It's not my time yet.
It's not yours, either.

331
00:13:49,710 --> 00:13:54,330
♪♪

332
00:13:54,330 --> 00:13:58,500
Plead out Kemp
and bury the Spiller case.

333
00:13:58,500 --> 00:13:59,710
I'm sorry.

334
00:13:59,710 --> 00:14:02,830
♪♪

335
00:14:02,830 --> 00:14:04,620
I want to review
some of the testimony

336
00:14:04,620 --> 00:14:06,620
you gave to Mr. Rosen,
okay?

337
00:14:06,620 --> 00:14:09,580
On April 8th, FBI surveillance
picked up an incoming call

338
00:14:09,580 --> 00:14:12,380
to your cellphone
from Salvatore Parisi.

339
00:14:12,380 --> 00:14:14,210
If you say so.

340
00:14:14,210 --> 00:14:16,620
In that call,
Mr. Parisi said,

341
00:14:16,620 --> 00:14:20,250
"I need you to clean up
that dirt Little Matty spilled.

342
00:14:20,250 --> 00:14:22,170
Come by and pick up
the tools."

343
00:14:22,170 --> 00:14:24,170
That's what that paper says,
I guess.

344
00:14:24,170 --> 00:14:25,960
When you met
with Mr. Parisi,

345
00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:27,580
he further clarified
what he meant?

346
00:14:27,580 --> 00:14:28,710
Did he?

347
00:14:28,710 --> 00:14:32,120
You said he gave you
the "tool,"

348
00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:34,710
which was then passed on
to Giancarlo Cabrizzi

349
00:14:34,710 --> 00:14:36,880
and used in the murder
of Hector Cruz.

350
00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:38,250
Is that correct?

351
00:14:38,250 --> 00:14:41,460
No, no, not at all.
What happened was --

352
00:14:41,460 --> 00:14:42,830
Sal just wanted me to help him
in the garden.

353
00:14:42,830 --> 00:14:45,210
See, Sal, he's got a real
green thumb, but his kid,

354
00:14:45,210 --> 00:14:47,460
Little Matty,
total friggin' klutz.

355
00:14:47,460 --> 00:14:49,790
So I go over there, and then
Sal gave me one of those,

356
00:14:49,790 --> 00:14:52,380
uh....you know...

357
00:14:52,380 --> 00:14:54,330
The thing.
A planter?

358
00:14:54,330 --> 00:14:56,790
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And, uh, one of the...

359
00:14:56,790 --> 00:14:59,170
A shovel.
Right, right, but one
of those little baby ones,

360
00:14:59,170 --> 00:15:02,210
and then, uh, I was supposed to
put a thing in it.

361
00:15:02,210 --> 00:15:04,170
A...
Plant.

362
00:15:04,170 --> 00:15:06,790
[ Sighs loudly ]

363
00:15:06,790 --> 00:15:10,170
This is all wildly contradictory
to your previous statements.

364
00:15:10,170 --> 00:15:11,790
I was really stressed.

365
00:15:11,790 --> 00:15:14,000
Things weren't going so good
for me at work.

366
00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000
You know how that goes.

367
00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,380
You're no longer cooperating
with the government?

368
00:15:19,380 --> 00:15:21,580
In that case,

369
00:15:21,580 --> 00:15:24,620
you will likely spend
the rest of your life in jail.

370
00:15:25,830 --> 00:15:28,460
But I will be alive.

371
00:15:28,460 --> 00:15:31,460
There's a reason why Rosen
left this case.

372
00:15:31,460 --> 00:15:33,460
Follow him.

373
00:15:33,460 --> 00:15:36,620
Because they will kill you
to kill this case.

374
00:15:39,290 --> 00:15:41,290
[ The Shins' "New Slang" plays ]

375
00:15:41,290 --> 00:15:46,250
[ Vocalizing ]

376
00:15:46,250 --> 00:15:48,790
♪♪

377
00:15:48,790 --> 00:15:50,540
Personal or professional?

378
00:15:50,540 --> 00:15:53,080
Professional.

379
00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,460
Spiller.
We can't talk about that.

380
00:15:56,460 --> 00:15:58,790
I took it
as far as I could.

381
00:15:58,790 --> 00:16:01,080
[ Vocalizing continues ]

382
00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,080
Personal.

383
00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:05,080
♪♪

384
00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,540
Sandra knows about us.

385
00:16:07,540 --> 00:16:09,750
♪♪

386
00:16:09,750 --> 00:16:11,170
This doesn't
have to be a problem.

387
00:16:11,170 --> 00:16:13,170
It is, though.
You know it is.

388
00:16:13,170 --> 00:16:15,380
♪ Gold teeth and a curse
for this town ♪

389
00:16:15,380 --> 00:16:17,750
We haven't done
anything wrong.

390
00:16:17,750 --> 00:16:19,290
We don't talk about work.

391
00:16:19,290 --> 00:16:20,710
♪ Were all in my mouth ♪
We just proved it.

392
00:16:20,710 --> 00:16:22,290
We're not even talking about
work right now --

393
00:16:22,290 --> 00:16:24,170
Is that good?
I-I don't even know.

394
00:16:24,170 --> 00:16:25,540
♪ They got out, dear ♪

395
00:16:25,540 --> 00:16:28,670
This whole situation
is totally messed up.

396
00:16:28,670 --> 00:16:30,500
♪ Turn me back into the pet ♪
You know that.

397
00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:33,500
We are compromised in ways
we don't even understand.

398
00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:36,080
We don't know what we can talk
about and what we can't

399
00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:41,040
or how the things that are
unsaid impact what we do.

400
00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,500
Or don't do.

401
00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:46,540
If this comes out --
What are you saying?

402
00:16:46,540 --> 00:16:48,080
♪ Well, I'd 'a jumped
from my tree ♪

403
00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:50,750
You know what I'm saying.

404
00:16:50,750 --> 00:16:54,330
♪ And I'd 'a danced like
the king of the eyesores ♪

405
00:16:54,330 --> 00:16:56,330
There's an answer here.
The only answer

406
00:16:56,330 --> 00:17:01,210
is for one of us
to give up our jobs.

407
00:17:01,210 --> 00:17:05,250
♪ New slang when you
notice the stripes ♪
And that is not an answer.

408
00:17:05,250 --> 00:17:06,460
♪ The dirt in your fries ♪

409
00:17:06,460 --> 00:17:09,120
We had fun. We hid.
We got caught.

410
00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:10,330
That's not what this was.

411
00:17:10,330 --> 00:17:12,790
♪ Old and bony ♪

412
00:17:12,790 --> 00:17:15,540
♪ Dawn breaks like a bull
through the hall ♪
No, it wasn't.

413
00:17:15,540 --> 00:17:17,330
But it can't be
anything else.

414
00:17:17,330 --> 00:17:19,710
♪ Never should have called ♪

415
00:17:19,710 --> 00:17:21,670
♪ But my head's to the wall,
and I'm lonely ♪

416
00:17:21,670 --> 00:17:22,670
Jill --

417
00:17:22,670 --> 00:17:26,080
♪♪

418
00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,670
♪ And if you took to me ♪

419
00:17:28,670 --> 00:17:33,250
♪ Like a gull
takes to the wind ♪

420
00:17:33,250 --> 00:17:35,620
♪ Well, I'd 'a jumped... ♪♪

421
00:17:35,620 --> 00:17:44,580
♪♪

422
00:17:44,580 --> 00:17:46,210
You're late.

423
00:17:46,210 --> 00:17:48,790
Um, it's 1:15 a.m.

424
00:17:48,790 --> 00:17:51,330
Well, if we're gonna give up
everything for this job,

425
00:17:51,330 --> 00:17:52,960
then what we do
ought to be worth it.

426
00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:54,540
I want you to bring me
everything we have

427
00:17:54,540 --> 00:17:56,170
on Spiller
and voter suppression.

428
00:17:56,170 --> 00:17:57,080
We're taking this
son of a bitch to trial.

429
00:18:02,210 --> 00:18:04,830
Mr. Knox. Ms. Littlejohn.

430
00:18:04,830 --> 00:18:06,040
We're ready when you are.

431
00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:07,460
Roger:
We need to show fraud.

432
00:18:07,460 --> 00:18:09,460
That the money spent
on voter suppression

433
00:18:09,460 --> 00:18:12,040
was raised for other purposes.
Who do we have?

434
00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:13,830
My firm was contracted
to do fundraising

435
00:18:13,830 --> 00:18:15,080
for the Alliance
for over four years.

436
00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,040
When you raised these funds,
how would you do it?

437
00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,670
I would visit corporate leaders
and CEOs,

438
00:18:19,670 --> 00:18:21,830
generally in person,
and explain how their money

439
00:18:21,830 --> 00:18:22,920
would be used
to advocate issues.

440
00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:24,210
Issues such as...

441
00:18:24,210 --> 00:18:25,620
Corporate tax cuts,
deregulation.

442
00:18:25,620 --> 00:18:28,380
Did those issues
include voter suppression?

443
00:18:28,380 --> 00:18:29,750
[ Chuckles ]

444
00:18:29,750 --> 00:18:32,540
Did I ask for donations
to break the law?

445
00:18:32,540 --> 00:18:34,330
Never. Not once.

446
00:18:34,330 --> 00:18:35,500
We need to show intent.

447
00:18:35,500 --> 00:18:37,500
That Spiller knew laws
were being broken.

448
00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:39,500
Denman: I've been on the
Alliance's board for five years.

449
00:18:39,500 --> 00:18:41,620
And you've given money
to the Alliance, Ms. Denman?

450
00:18:41,620 --> 00:18:44,210
I have.
Were you aware that
much of the money you gave

451
00:18:44,210 --> 00:18:46,500
for the purpose
of business advocacy

452
00:18:46,500 --> 00:18:48,830
was actually being used
for voter suppression?

453
00:18:48,830 --> 00:18:50,960
No, but in retrospect,
I should have been.

454
00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,830
Can you explain?
Mr. Spiller told me
he had "ways and means"

455
00:18:53,830 --> 00:18:56,250
of defeating
anti-corporate candidates.

456
00:18:56,250 --> 00:18:58,750
Did he describe
these "ways and means"?

457
00:18:58,750 --> 00:19:00,960
When I expressed concern over
a close Congressional race,

458
00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:02,880
he told me not to worry.

459
00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:04,830
He said, "Our people on the
ground will take care of it."

460
00:19:04,830 --> 00:19:06,290
We need to show harm.

461
00:19:06,290 --> 00:19:08,330
That the money Spiller raised
was actually being used

462
00:19:08,330 --> 00:19:10,120
on the ground to stop people
from voting.

463
00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:12,080
We lost Harley.
He won't cooperate.

464
00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:12,920
Well, then, we need to
make him cooperate.

465
00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:14,460
Release the hounds.

466
00:19:14,460 --> 00:19:16,620
Thank you, Your Honor.
In addition to a pending charge

467
00:19:16,620 --> 00:19:18,790
for voter intimidation,
the government expects to file

468
00:19:18,790 --> 00:19:20,790
14 new charges
against Mr. Kemp

469
00:19:20,790 --> 00:19:22,420
related to
an illegal tax scheme

470
00:19:22,420 --> 00:19:23,920
involving Mr. Kemp
and his sister.

471
00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,120
This investigation is ongoing,
and there may still be

472
00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:27,790
additional counts
forthcoming.

473
00:19:27,790 --> 00:19:29,790
Of course, as always,
we are happy to discuss

474
00:19:29,790 --> 00:19:32,500
a comprehensive cooperation
agreement with Mr. Kemp.

475
00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:34,960
Harley: I was paid $4,000
to challenge voters.

476
00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,540
Were you told specifically
how to challenge them?

477
00:19:37,540 --> 00:19:38,620
Yeah, we had training.

478
00:19:38,620 --> 00:19:40,250
How to single out
an illegal

479
00:19:40,250 --> 00:19:42,420
or someone who looked like they
were gonna be fraudulent.

480
00:19:42,420 --> 00:19:45,540
How to single "an illegal" out
and do what?

481
00:19:45,540 --> 00:19:46,750
To get them not to vote.

482
00:19:46,750 --> 00:19:48,120
I think we have this.

483
00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:50,580
Well done.
We don't have it. Not yet.

484
00:19:50,580 --> 00:19:52,040
Anyone ever tell you you're
terrible with compliments?

485
00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:53,290
That wasn't a compliment.

486
00:19:53,290 --> 00:19:55,170
It was premature
self-congratulation.

487
00:19:55,170 --> 00:19:57,120
Terrible.
We analyzed some spreadsheets.

488
00:19:57,120 --> 00:19:58,750
We connected some dots
and lines.

489
00:19:58,750 --> 00:20:01,580
We broke down tactics, but
we didn't show a real victim,

490
00:20:01,580 --> 00:20:03,960
and we're not gonna win
the jury without one.

491
00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:05,330
You taught me that.

492
00:20:05,330 --> 00:20:06,710
She's right.
I know she's right.

493
00:20:06,710 --> 00:20:09,120
I'm just not sure what to do.
I know what to do.

494
00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:11,420
You taught me this,
too.

495
00:20:11,420 --> 00:20:14,250
These guys will never flip.

496
00:20:14,250 --> 00:20:16,330
They'll never turn
on their family.

497
00:20:16,330 --> 00:20:20,290
Family? What family?
They all hate each other.

498
00:20:20,290 --> 00:20:23,500
What kind of family
kills each other?

499
00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:24,670
Gabe: Polar bears.

500
00:20:26,790 --> 00:20:31,250
I'm just talking
to myself here.

501
00:20:32,620 --> 00:20:34,830
Sand tiger sharks.
[ Sighs ]

502
00:20:34,830 --> 00:20:37,250
Female wolf spiders eat male
spiders during copulation --

503
00:20:37,250 --> 00:20:40,960
You know what?
That is really...

504
00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,580
helpful.

505
00:20:43,580 --> 00:20:45,420
Thank you
for sitting down with me.

506
00:20:45,420 --> 00:20:47,000
You picked me up
in the produce aisle.

507
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,000
I really didn't
have a choice.

508
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,460
I'm Seth Oliver.

509
00:20:49,460 --> 00:20:52,420
Seth Benjamin Oliver.
Two older sisters.

510
00:20:52,420 --> 00:20:53,580
Law school at
the University of Michigan,

511
00:20:53,580 --> 00:20:54,960
and then onto
a mid-tier firm.

512
00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,120
Not entirely accurate.

513
00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:58,420
How's your mom,
Miriam?

514
00:20:58,420 --> 00:21:01,210
Is that, like, a threat?

515
00:21:01,210 --> 00:21:03,460
You people have been harassing
my family for months.

516
00:21:03,460 --> 00:21:06,880
It's only fair I know
a little about you.

517
00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:08,210
Now, listen, Ben --

518
00:21:08,210 --> 00:21:10,210
Seth.
You entrapped my husband.

519
00:21:10,210 --> 00:21:12,000
You squeezed some lies
out of him.

520
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,960
He strung you along for a little
bit, but now he's done talking.

521
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,170
Angelo ain't perfect,
but he's a provider,

522
00:21:18,170 --> 00:21:19,330
and he cares
for his family,

523
00:21:19,330 --> 00:21:21,210
and he has always
been loyal to us.

524
00:21:22,620 --> 00:21:24,040
[ Beep ]
Angelo: Are you kidding?

525
00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,040
Karen ain't no
innocent bystander.

526
00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,250
We'd run the poker game
in the back of her salon.

527
00:21:28,250 --> 00:21:31,040
She handled the rake, ran the
money through the salon's books

528
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,000
so it came out clean.
[ Beep ]

529
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,210
I'm sorry.

530
00:21:36,210 --> 00:21:38,620
That can't
feel great to hear.

531
00:21:38,620 --> 00:21:41,880
That your husband was willing to
give you up to save himself.

532
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:45,670
There is no reason
for you to go down

533
00:21:45,670 --> 00:21:49,080
for people who don't
really care about you.

534
00:21:50,250 --> 00:21:53,080
You don't care about me,
either.

535
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,920
And those people?
They're my family.

536
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:57,750
And I'm not a snitch.

537
00:21:57,750 --> 00:21:59,420
So I'll stick
with the devil I know.

538
00:22:02,540 --> 00:22:05,000
[ Footsteps approaching ]

539
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,460
We need to talk.

540
00:22:08,460 --> 00:22:10,460
Okay.

541
00:22:10,460 --> 00:22:12,710
Yes.

542
00:22:12,710 --> 00:22:14,420
Not here.

543
00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:18,670
Where did you go
to college, again?

544
00:22:18,670 --> 00:22:20,540
Berkeley.

545
00:22:20,540 --> 00:22:22,500
Did you take philosophy?

546
00:22:22,500 --> 00:22:25,170
I was a history major.

547
00:22:25,170 --> 00:22:27,960
One of the fundamental laws
of logic

548
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,750
is the law
of non-contradiction.

549
00:22:30,750 --> 00:22:34,080
Two contradictory statements
cannot both be true.

550
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,920
I am the
Federal Public Defender.

551
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,120
I am in a relationship with the
Chief of the Criminal Division

552
00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:41,330
of the U.S.
Attorney's Office.

553
00:22:43,460 --> 00:22:46,420
You were right.

554
00:22:46,420 --> 00:22:50,420
Those two things
cannot both be true.

555
00:22:50,420 --> 00:22:52,040
And yet they are.

556
00:22:53,750 --> 00:22:55,710
They were.

557
00:22:55,710 --> 00:22:58,920
♪♪

558
00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:00,580
You're young, Sandra.

559
00:23:00,580 --> 00:23:02,460
You have to trust that I know
some things you don't.

560
00:23:02,460 --> 00:23:06,040
And one of those things is that
life doesn't follow axioms.

561
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:09,460
There's no bright-line
ethical standard.

562
00:23:09,460 --> 00:23:12,420
There are people who do
everything by the book

563
00:23:12,420 --> 00:23:14,500
and are deeply immoral.

564
00:23:14,500 --> 00:23:18,290
There are those who break
all kinds of rules

565
00:23:18,290 --> 00:23:23,250
who are compassionate
and decent and good.

566
00:23:23,250 --> 00:23:25,670
That's true here
in the work we do,

567
00:23:25,670 --> 00:23:27,420
and it's true
in the world.

568
00:23:27,420 --> 00:23:29,750
It is complicated.

569
00:23:29,750 --> 00:23:34,540
You asked me who I am?

570
00:23:34,540 --> 00:23:36,920
I am this.

571
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,540
I...

572
00:23:39,540 --> 00:23:41,330
This body.

573
00:23:41,330 --> 00:23:43,540
This person.

574
00:23:43,540 --> 00:23:45,960
We are not our jobs,
Sandra.

575
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,960
I know it may feel that way
to you now, but eventually,

576
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,330
even if you never
want anything more,

577
00:23:51,330 --> 00:23:56,460
you will realize
you need something more.

578
00:23:56,460 --> 00:23:57,880
♪♪

579
00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,540
You are a lawyer.

580
00:24:00,540 --> 00:24:03,790
You are the most talented lawyer
I've ever seen in my life.

581
00:24:03,790 --> 00:24:08,170
You are a lawyer.
That is who you are.

582
00:24:08,170 --> 00:24:10,710
But that is not
all you are.

583
00:24:10,710 --> 00:24:17,540
♪♪

584
00:24:17,540 --> 00:24:19,920
Can you please state your name
for the record?

585
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,170
Vera Simmons.

586
00:24:22,170 --> 00:24:23,960
Is this your first time
testifying in court,

587
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:25,620
Ms. Simmons?
Yes.

588
00:24:25,620 --> 00:24:27,210
Are you nervous?

589
00:24:27,210 --> 00:24:29,210
Very.

590
00:24:29,210 --> 00:24:30,500
I understand.

591
00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:32,920
I'm gonna ask you
a few questions,

592
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,330
and you just need to answer
truthfully, okay?

593
00:24:35,330 --> 00:24:37,960
Yes.

594
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,750
I want to draw your attention
to election day.

595
00:24:41,750 --> 00:24:43,460
Yes.

596
00:24:43,460 --> 00:24:44,960
Did you vote?

597
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,960
No.

598
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,750
Why not?

599
00:24:50,750 --> 00:24:52,540
There was a man there

600
00:24:52,540 --> 00:24:55,290
who told us that we were
voting illegally.

601
00:24:55,290 --> 00:24:57,670
That we needed
documentation.

602
00:24:57,670 --> 00:24:58,880
Is the man in this photo,

603
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,380
which is marked
as Government Exhibit 38,

604
00:25:01,380 --> 00:25:03,120
the man who was
at the polling place?

605
00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:04,540
Yes.

606
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,710
When he asked you for
documentation, what did you do?

607
00:25:09,710 --> 00:25:11,960
I l-left.

608
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,000
I went home.
I was scared.

609
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,620
How long have you been

610
00:25:16,620 --> 00:25:18,750
a United States citizen,
Ms. Simmons?

611
00:25:18,750 --> 00:25:20,790
Seventeen months
and two weeks.

612
00:25:20,790 --> 00:25:24,380
This would have been
your first vote in this country?

613
00:25:24,380 --> 00:25:26,960
This would have been
my first vote anywhere.

614
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,880
You never voted in Syria?

615
00:25:30,540 --> 00:25:34,080
I went to the polls
one time.

616
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,080
♪♪

617
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,210
I was 23.
I had a newborn.

618
00:25:39,210 --> 00:25:41,250
A boy.

619
00:25:41,250 --> 00:25:44,830
It was a two-hour bus ride
from our home.

620
00:25:44,830 --> 00:25:47,420
I wore nice clothes.

621
00:25:47,420 --> 00:25:50,670
I heard that was what
you were supposed to do.

622
00:25:50,670 --> 00:25:55,040
I might have seen that
on American television.

623
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,250
I waited in line
for three hours,

624
00:25:57,250 --> 00:26:02,330
and then
I opened my ballot...

625
00:26:02,330 --> 00:26:06,540
and there was only
one candidate.

626
00:26:06,540 --> 00:26:09,120
♪♪

627
00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:11,330
One.

628
00:26:11,330 --> 00:26:16,290
♪♪

629
00:26:16,290 --> 00:26:19,120
I wept.

630
00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:24,670
I remember looking at the face
of my son, and I wept.

631
00:26:24,670 --> 00:26:27,120
♪♪

632
00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:31,290
A vote is a choice
between two things.

633
00:26:31,290 --> 00:26:33,710
♪♪

634
00:26:33,710 --> 00:26:35,880
I did not vote that day.

635
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,290
♪♪

636
00:26:38,290 --> 00:26:41,290
I still have never voted.

637
00:26:41,290 --> 00:26:43,120
♪♪

638
00:26:47,210 --> 00:26:50,830
[ Siren wails in distance ]

639
00:26:50,830 --> 00:26:52,960
[ Door opens ]

640
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,080
Gabe?

641
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:05,210
♪♪

642
00:27:05,210 --> 00:27:12,250
♪♪

643
00:27:12,250 --> 00:27:19,290
♪♪

644
00:27:19,290 --> 00:27:20,710
What are you doing?

645
00:27:20,710 --> 00:27:23,040
Is that a shoe?

646
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,580
Why are you looking
at those files?

647
00:27:25,580 --> 00:27:27,000
I had to use the bathroom,

648
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,790
and I just saw this stuff
on my way out.

649
00:27:28,790 --> 00:27:30,380
I was curious
how things are going.

650
00:27:30,380 --> 00:27:32,420
How is it going?

651
00:27:32,420 --> 00:27:34,330
You gonna make another run
at Karen?

652
00:27:34,330 --> 00:27:37,120
I...can't talk
about the case.

653
00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:39,580
Of course you can't.

654
00:27:39,580 --> 00:27:43,040
I'm gonna post up
out here.

655
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,080
Okay.

656
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,080
The Petrinis
are very dangerous people,

657
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,290
capable of
heinous things.

658
00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:58,040
I can feel
you're getting close.

659
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:05,670
♪♪

660
00:28:05,670 --> 00:28:12,960
♪♪

661
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,580
[ Lock clicks ]

662
00:28:14,580 --> 00:28:20,540
♪♪

663
00:28:20,540 --> 00:28:22,330
[ Alarm blaring ]

664
00:28:22,330 --> 00:28:24,540
[ Siren wails in distance ]

665
00:28:24,540 --> 00:28:27,170
[ Alarm continues ]

666
00:28:29,460 --> 00:28:30,880
[ Sniffs ]

667
00:28:35,170 --> 00:28:41,580
♪♪

668
00:28:41,580 --> 00:28:42,790
[ Screaming ]

669
00:28:42,790 --> 00:28:48,210
♪♪

670
00:28:48,210 --> 00:28:49,620
Oh, thank God!

671
00:28:49,620 --> 00:28:53,380
♪♪

672
00:28:53,380 --> 00:28:55,460
Gaetano Petrini
would like to say hello.

673
00:28:55,460 --> 00:28:56,750
No.

674
00:28:56,750 --> 00:28:57,880
[ Grunts ]

675
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,290
[ Thud ]

676
00:29:00,290 --> 00:29:04,880
[ Sighs ]
Dude, drama, drama, drama.

677
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,040
So much drama with you.

678
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:07,540
You saved my life.

679
00:29:07,540 --> 00:29:08,540
In your dreams.

680
00:29:08,540 --> 00:29:10,290
Is this a dream?

681
00:29:10,290 --> 00:29:12,080
You think I'd do this
in real life?

682
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,460
I might.

683
00:29:13,460 --> 00:29:16,290
I would.
We're family.

684
00:29:16,290 --> 00:29:20,880
Now get up.
You've got to talk to Karen.

685
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,420
You're really desperate.

686
00:29:22,420 --> 00:29:24,210
[ Chuckles ]

687
00:29:24,210 --> 00:29:26,790
Yes, I am.

688
00:29:26,790 --> 00:29:29,210
I am desperate.

689
00:29:29,210 --> 00:29:32,670
Look, Karen.

690
00:29:32,670 --> 00:29:35,670
I don't know
the Petrini family.

691
00:29:35,670 --> 00:29:38,880
I know their names.
I know what they look like.

692
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,250
I know what crimes
they've committed.

693
00:29:40,250 --> 00:29:42,500
I know I want to
take them down.

694
00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:46,620
But I don't know them
like you know them.

695
00:29:46,620 --> 00:29:48,830
Like a family.

696
00:29:48,830 --> 00:29:50,750
This is your family.

697
00:29:50,750 --> 00:29:52,920
I'm not gonna try and convince
you to turn on people you love

698
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:54,670
by telling you all
the bad things they've done.

699
00:29:54,670 --> 00:29:56,460
You know.

700
00:29:56,460 --> 00:29:59,080
I just want to ask
what you think

701
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:03,080
they would do
in your situation.

702
00:30:05,790 --> 00:30:09,960
Would they be as loyal to you
as you are to them?

703
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,170
Are you sure?

704
00:30:12,170 --> 00:30:16,040
Was Angelo?

705
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,420
I don't know the Petrinis,

706
00:30:18,420 --> 00:30:22,040
but I do know
that family...

707
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,580
sticks with you
no matter what.

708
00:30:25,580 --> 00:30:27,210
Family would
take a bullet for you,

709
00:30:27,210 --> 00:30:29,380
and they know you'd do
the same for them.

710
00:30:32,210 --> 00:30:36,000
Do you really feel that way
about these people?

711
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,960
Are you willing to risk your
son's future on their word?

712
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,290
If so, go with God.

713
00:30:44,290 --> 00:30:50,080
If not, I'm offering you
a way out.

714
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,380
The choice is yours.

715
00:30:54,620 --> 00:30:56,500
[ Sighs ]

716
00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:58,710
I don't know.

717
00:31:00,750 --> 00:31:03,620
Then let's keep talking.

718
00:31:03,620 --> 00:31:07,580
♪♪

719
00:31:07,580 --> 00:31:12,960
In a few hours, you're going
to go through that door,

720
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,380
you're going to sit down
together,

721
00:31:16,380 --> 00:31:18,540
you're going to
sort through the evidence,

722
00:31:18,540 --> 00:31:20,750
you're going to listen
to each other,

723
00:31:20,750 --> 00:31:23,540
you're going to argue --
you will --

724
00:31:23,540 --> 00:31:24,920
and then you're gonna do

725
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,170
what humans
have done throughout history

726
00:31:27,170 --> 00:31:29,750
to make difficult
and important decisions.

727
00:31:29,750 --> 00:31:32,330
You are going to vote.

728
00:31:32,330 --> 00:31:37,170
We are here
so that you can vote.

729
00:31:37,170 --> 00:31:40,170
Our entire system of justice
is built on this.

730
00:31:40,170 --> 00:31:41,750
Your vote.

731
00:31:41,750 --> 00:31:44,040
So, now, imagine,

732
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,420
you go back into that room,
and someone comes in and says,

733
00:31:47,420 --> 00:31:49,750
"Wait, no. Not you.

734
00:31:49,750 --> 00:31:52,790
No. No. No. No.

735
00:31:52,790 --> 00:31:55,210
No. You can't vote.

736
00:31:55,210 --> 00:31:56,620
He votes.

737
00:31:56,620 --> 00:31:58,710
And him. And him.

738
00:31:58,710 --> 00:32:01,170
And that's it.

739
00:32:01,170 --> 00:32:03,000
That is this case.

740
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,620
Mr. Spiller created
a sophisticated operation

741
00:32:06,620 --> 00:32:09,620
to deprive Americans
of their existential right

742
00:32:09,620 --> 00:32:12,830
to participate
in self-government.

743
00:32:12,830 --> 00:32:16,620
It is flagrantly undemocratic,
but what is so pernicious

744
00:32:16,620 --> 00:32:20,080
and insidious about this
operation is that it pretends

745
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,880
to preserve the democratic
government it undermines.

746
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,790
"Oh, we're just rooting out
'fraud.'

747
00:32:26,790 --> 00:32:29,210
We're just trying to 'protect'
the vote.

748
00:32:29,210 --> 00:32:31,750
We care about the 'integrity'
of the election."

749
00:32:31,750 --> 00:32:33,790
These are lies.

750
00:32:33,790 --> 00:32:36,330
And these are dangerous lies,
because the greatest threat

751
00:32:36,330 --> 00:32:39,580
to democracy
is making it meaningless.

752
00:32:39,580 --> 00:32:42,580
Hollow.

753
00:32:42,580 --> 00:32:44,500
Dysfunctional.

754
00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:46,290
If you live in an authoritarian
government --

755
00:32:46,290 --> 00:32:48,330
and some of you have,
I'm sure --

756
00:32:48,330 --> 00:32:49,880
there is always the promise
of democracy.

757
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,120
There is hope.

758
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,500
But if appears
to be a democracy

759
00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:57,710
and it doesn't work...

760
00:32:57,710 --> 00:33:01,040
what is there left to hope for?

761
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:05,170
There is here, now,
something left to hope for.

762
00:33:05,170 --> 00:33:07,960
Democracy isn't one story.
It is our story.

763
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,120
Of coming together.

764
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,540
Of building and progress.

765
00:33:14,540 --> 00:33:17,290
Of unity and participation
and representation.

766
00:33:17,290 --> 00:33:20,290
It is a story.

767
00:33:20,290 --> 00:33:23,120
That starts with one person

768
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,710
on one day in one line
pulling one lever.

769
00:33:26,710 --> 00:33:29,330
An ink-stained thumb.
A red pinky.

770
00:33:29,330 --> 00:33:31,290
A paper ticket
in a plastic bucket.

771
00:33:31,290 --> 00:33:33,080
An X. A number. A digit.

772
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,080
A pencil mark.
A raised hand.

773
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:36,460
A voice. A vote.

774
00:33:36,460 --> 00:33:38,710
A choice.

775
00:33:38,710 --> 00:33:44,330
A choice between two things.

776
00:33:44,330 --> 00:33:48,750
And this choice today is yours.

777
00:33:48,750 --> 00:33:54,880
You can continue to tell
this story -- our story --

778
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,500
or you can help end it.

779
00:34:01,580 --> 00:34:09,790
♪♪

780
00:34:09,790 --> 00:34:12,790
I understand the jury has
reached a unanimous verdict.

781
00:34:12,790 --> 00:34:14,580
Woman:
Yes, Your Honor.

782
00:34:14,580 --> 00:34:18,420
In the matter of United States
v. Spiller on Count One,

783
00:34:18,420 --> 00:34:20,170
Racketeering, how do you
find the defendant,

784
00:34:20,170 --> 00:34:21,750
guilty or not guilty?

785
00:34:21,750 --> 00:34:25,250
♪♪

786
00:34:25,250 --> 00:34:27,170
Guilty.

787
00:34:27,170 --> 00:34:36,210
♪♪

788
00:34:36,210 --> 00:34:45,290
♪♪

789
00:34:45,290 --> 00:34:54,380
♪♪

790
00:34:54,380 --> 00:35:03,540
♪♪

791
00:35:03,540 --> 00:35:12,670
♪♪

792
00:35:12,670 --> 00:35:21,710
♪♪

793
00:35:21,710 --> 00:35:22,880
The chair is yours.

794
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,250
We won.

795
00:35:25,250 --> 00:35:29,210
This isn't a win to them.
This is an insurrection.

796
00:35:29,210 --> 00:35:31,040
We are
the sovereign district,

797
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:32,620
and Washington
has never liked that,

798
00:35:32,620 --> 00:35:34,830
but they have lived
with it.

799
00:35:34,830 --> 00:35:36,830
They are not gonna
live with this.

800
00:35:36,830 --> 00:35:41,040
This was a direct assault
on their power.

801
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,540
Someone has to pay.

802
00:35:46,790 --> 00:35:48,880
Then someone will.

803
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,540
I have 30 days.

804
00:35:50,540 --> 00:35:53,330
No. Not you.

805
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:59,290
[ Siren wails in distance ]

806
00:36:17,170 --> 00:36:19,000
What are
you doing here?

807
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,420
I came to see you.

808
00:36:21,420 --> 00:36:24,420
Personal or professional?

809
00:36:24,420 --> 00:36:26,500
Personal.
You shouldn't be here.

810
00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:29,170
They offered me
Acting U.S. Attorney.

811
00:36:29,170 --> 00:36:31,250
What are you talking about?

812
00:36:31,250 --> 00:36:32,620
Washington didn't like
the Spiller case.

813
00:36:32,620 --> 00:36:33,920
They want Delap out.

814
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:36,960
And what did you say?

815
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,620
I said I was honored.

816
00:36:38,620 --> 00:36:42,120
I said, uh, this is the job
I've wanted my whole life.

817
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,290
I said I love this office
and everything it represents...

818
00:36:45,290 --> 00:36:47,710
♪♪

819
00:36:47,710 --> 00:36:51,500
...but I love the woman
across the street even more.

820
00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:54,920
♪♪

821
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,920
Roger --
I actually didn't say
the last part.

822
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,080
They would have
thought that was weird.

823
00:36:58,080 --> 00:36:59,500
Roger.

824
00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:01,750
I quit, Jill.

825
00:37:01,750 --> 00:37:03,380
I quit.

826
00:37:03,380 --> 00:37:05,880
You didn't.
I did.

827
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,290
And I know
you're thinking,

828
00:37:07,290 --> 00:37:09,250
"I didn't want you
to quit your job.

829
00:37:09,250 --> 00:37:10,460
I don't want that
responsibility."

830
00:37:10,460 --> 00:37:12,920
I know
you're thinking this.

831
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,500
But it's not
your responsibility.

832
00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:17,710
It's mine.

833
00:37:17,710 --> 00:37:20,880
And I don't care if this
all falls apart tomorrow.

834
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:22,250
I really don't.

835
00:37:22,250 --> 00:37:25,830
We are here now,

836
00:37:25,830 --> 00:37:28,040
and I want five minutes
with you

837
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,210
more than I want
that chair.

838
00:37:30,210 --> 00:37:33,000
What chair?

839
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,880
Can you kiss me, please?

840
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:44,380
♪♪

841
00:37:44,380 --> 00:37:53,880
♪♪

842
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,460
As most of you have now heard,
Roger Gunn has resigned his job

843
00:37:57,460 --> 00:38:00,670
as Chief of
the Criminal Division.

844
00:38:00,670 --> 00:38:03,330
I'm pleased to announce
his replacement.

845
00:38:03,330 --> 00:38:07,710
♪♪

846
00:38:07,710 --> 00:38:08,880
Where is she?

847
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:17,500
♪♪

848
00:38:17,500 --> 00:38:25,830
♪♪

849
00:38:25,830 --> 00:38:34,460
♪♪

850
00:38:34,460 --> 00:38:39,620
[ Applause ]

851
00:38:39,620 --> 00:38:48,540
♪♪

852
00:38:48,540 --> 00:38:51,500
[ Indistinct conversations ]

853
00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:54,000
♪♪

854
00:38:58,170 --> 00:39:01,830
We're taking the party
down to Tiny's.

855
00:39:07,170 --> 00:39:10,170
You coming?
Yes.

856
00:39:10,170 --> 00:39:11,170
You?

857
00:39:11,170 --> 00:39:14,250
Yes, of course.
Of course?

858
00:39:14,250 --> 00:39:16,380
Yeah, I wouldn't miss
something like this.

859
00:39:17,750 --> 00:39:19,330
13 after-work drinks.

860
00:39:19,330 --> 00:39:21,540
4 trivia nights.
2 softball games.

861
00:39:21,540 --> 00:39:22,750
[ Scoffs ]
One darts tournament.

862
00:39:22,750 --> 00:39:24,290
You're gonna count
a darts tournament?

863
00:39:24,290 --> 00:39:27,120
We won.
Against who?

864
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:28,670
They appeared
to be children.

865
00:39:28,670 --> 00:39:30,120
Mm-hmm.

866
00:39:32,330 --> 00:39:34,540
We should go.

867
00:39:34,540 --> 00:39:37,920
Place is called Tiny's.

868
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,750
We're never all gonna fit.

869
00:39:39,750 --> 00:39:42,540
[ The Decemberists'
"Make You Better" plays ]

870
00:39:42,540 --> 00:39:45,120
Sandra.

871
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,120
Ted.

872
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,170
What are you doing?

873
00:39:50,170 --> 00:39:52,540
I'm not neutral on you,
either.

874
00:39:52,540 --> 00:39:54,380
♪♪

875
00:39:54,380 --> 00:39:56,330
Sandra.

876
00:39:56,330 --> 00:39:58,710
You look nervous.

877
00:39:58,710 --> 00:40:01,580
I don't get nervous.

878
00:40:01,580 --> 00:40:04,790
♪♪

879
00:40:04,790 --> 00:40:08,420
There are some
ground rules here.

880
00:40:08,420 --> 00:40:09,620
Nothing at work.

881
00:40:09,620 --> 00:40:10,710
Mm-hmm.

882
00:40:10,710 --> 00:40:12,460
I will never sacrifice my job
for anything.

883
00:40:12,460 --> 00:40:14,250
Not ever.

884
00:40:14,250 --> 00:40:18,040
You can never ask me
to clean my office.

885
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,040
Never at work.

886
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:21,540
Now you're just
repeating yourself.

887
00:40:21,540 --> 00:40:24,000
Never.
♪ I want you, thin fingers ♪

888
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,120
That's a lot of rules.
♪ I wanted you,
thin fingernails ♪

889
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,540
Well, I am a lawyer.

890
00:40:28,540 --> 00:40:32,540
♪ And when you bend backwards ♪

891
00:40:32,540 --> 00:40:36,120
♪ I wanted you,
I needed you ♪

892
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:42,170
♪ Oh-oh, to make me better ♪

893
00:40:42,170 --> 00:40:47,500
♪♪

894
00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:52,750
♪♪

895
00:40:52,750 --> 00:40:56,540
♪ I'll love you in springtime ♪

896
00:40:56,540 --> 00:41:00,960
♪ I lost you when summer came ♪

897
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:05,040
♪ And when you
pulled backwards ♪

898
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:10,580
♪ I wanted you
to make me better ♪

899
00:41:10,580 --> 00:41:13,170
♪♪

900
00:41:13,170 --> 00:41:20,170
♪ But we're not
so starry-eyed anymore ♪

901
00:41:20,170 --> 00:41:26,960
♪ Like the perfect paramour
you were in your letters ♪

902
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,580
♪♪

903
00:41:29,580 --> 00:41:35,620
♪ And won't it all just
come around to make you ♪

904
00:41:35,620 --> 00:41:42,420
♪ Let it all unbreak you
to the day you met her ♪

905
00:41:42,420 --> 00:41:46,080
♪♪

906
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:52,330
♪ Won't it all just
come around to make you ♪

907
00:41:52,330 --> 00:41:58,710
♪ Let it all unbreak you
to the day that you met her ♪

908
00:41:58,710 --> 00:42:05,000
♪ But it'd make you better, oh ♪

909
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:10,080
♪♪

910
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:15,170
♪♪

911
00:42:18,790 --> 00:42:28,120
♪♪

912
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,120
♪♪