[ Drumsticks Tapping ]
[ Marching Band ]
- [ Continues ] - [ Chattering ]
[ Camera Shutter Clicks ]
[ Ends ]
Let's hear it for the Somerset High SchooI marching band. Great job!
- [ Cheering ] - Great job! AII right.
It is my sincere hope that this center wiII become...
a beacon of academic exceIIence in an underserved community for years to come.
- CIara, wouId you do the honors, pIease? - Of course.
[ Camera Shutters Clicking ]
Thank you, Mrs. Musso, for your friendship and generosity.
- You're weIcome, Governor. - [ Applause, Cheering ]
[ Governor ] Thank you, ladies.
For many years- and I speak to you today not as a poIitician...
but aIong with my wife, as parents-
pubIic education in America has been in periI.
You know the refrain: Iack of funds...
under-quaIified teachers, negIigent parents.
And to this I say, no more excuses.
[ Crowd Chanting ] No more excuses! No more excuses!
No more excusesl No more excusesl No more excusesl
The guy in the denim jacket- do we know him?
- [ Governor ] Cast your vote for responsibility. - Denim jacket, 1 1 :00.
Cast your vote for this great state of Virginia.
- Governor, your car is waiting. - [ Applause ]
Thank you, kind voters of Virginia.
[ Cheering ]
[ Resumes ]
Thanks very much for coming out. Appreciate your support. Thank you. Thanks very much.
It's nice to see you. Thanks very much for your support.
So Iet's get out and vote, huh? Thanks for your support.
Thank you for the support.
[ Man ] Brooks for governorl
Thanks for coming.
- [ Gunshot ] - [ Grunts ]
[ PeopIe Screaming, Shouting ]
[ Grunts ]
[ Handcuffs Clicking ]
- The governor's down. He's hit. - [ Man ] Secure the weapon.
- Sir? - [ Camera Shutters Clicking ]
There's no such thing as an assassin's gaze.
All right. So l can report back that you can't tell if Duane Corey was acting alone.
Didn't say that. No, he had an accompIice.
lt was the governor.
- What? Come on. - I know. It turns your stomach, doesn't it?
The governor knew MicheIIe DaIy.
Of course he knew her. She was a staffer.
No, he knew-knew her. Know what I mean?
[ Gillian ] Flirtatious. Flared nostrils. Admiring look.
[ Cal ] Yeah, she really fancied him.
The F.B. I. is paying you to find out if the gunman was acting aIone...
not dig into the governor's personaI Iife.
No, the F.B. I.'s paying me to poke around and find the truth. I'm not a gIorified cop, Ben.
Foster, show ReynoIds the situation.
The governor's in a tight race, too cIose to caII.
A staffer who was cIearIy more than that was shot dead.
[ Cal ] Now the man's back up in the polls, so you can't ignore the possibility...
that the girI was just a victim of a nine-point buIIet bump.
- [ CIara ] Where are you going? - Oh, to see the governor.
CaI, Iisten. Brooks isn't just any oId governor.
I know. He's a cIose and personaI friend of yours.
I appreciate this must be difficuIt for you.
As majority stakehoIder in this firm-
See, I bet that you regret saying that aIready.
Just go easy on him, okay? I respect this man a Iot.
Some day he couId be president.
Not with this girI's bIood on his hands, he won't.
[ Man ] Dream, send me a sign
Turn back the clock
Give me some time
l need to break out
Make a new name
Let's open our eyes
To the brand-new day
The democratic process is no stranger to hardship and suffering...
but the death of MicheIIe DaIy is especiaIIy crueI and incomprehensibIe.
- Michelle was an intelligent, hard-working young woman- - [ Woman ] Excuse me.
[ CIears Throat ] Dr. Foster. Or may I caII you GiIIian?
I see CIara Musso caIIed to give you a heads-up.
... which is why my will to win this race...
is onIy strengthened by aII our desires...
each and every one of us, to stand strong in the face of adversity.
So l invite all of you to join my staff...
my famiIy and me in our prayers for the famiIy of MicheIIe DaIy...
in the wake of this terribIe tragedy.
Which is why the governor here has decided to retain the Lightman Group...
to get to the truth behind aII of this.
Dr. Lightman. I've read aII your books. Big fan.
Yeah, cobbIers. Don't change the subject, aII right? Not with me.
Ladies and gentlemen, the governor would like to invite you all...
to warm up your coffees and grab some more pie...
before he continues the question and answer segment of today's visit.
PIease. HeIp yourseIves.
[ ChuckIing ]
- I'm not sure I foIIow. - WeII, do your best, Governor.
You know, for the dead girI in the morgue.
- I beg your pardon? - No, don't beg, see?
Look. It frightens the voters.
- [ Camera Shutter Clicks ] - Governor?
Not a good idea. This is Lightman being discreet.
If MicheIIe DaIy's not enough to haunt the governor for the truth...
Lightman is.
- What do you want from me? - WeII, a nine-point bump in the poIIs...
24 hours before the eIection 'cause a girI took a buIIet for you-
I want a IittIe bit more than coffee and pie, you know what I mean?
My pIace or yours?
If it were a choice between Iosing the eIection and having MicheIIe DaIy back with us...
I'd gIadIy choose the Iatter.
My pIace, then. Let's keep it scientific, shaII we?
CIear his scheduIe this afternoon.
No more excuses, Governor.
[ Bell Jingling ]
Brooks is a dog...
and needs to be taken out back and put down.
Wow. No. That guy's a Ione woIf. No way he's gonna heIp Corey.
- [ Computer Tone ] - Oh. WeII, you know, don't Iose hope.
We stiII have 42 more videos of guys...
- who cIaim that they want Brooks dead. - [ Computer Tone ]
Are you chatting onIine...
whiIe I'm over here Iooking for an assassin?
- What? - You have a new girIfriend?
No, no, no. Just a friend who happens to be a-
EmiIy Lightman?
Mmm- PIease try not to judge.
You're cyber-friends with EmiIy?
Look- Judgment aII over your face.
I mean, Iook, she friended me. She's the boss's daughter.
- What am I supposed to do? - Hit ''Ignore''?
Look, she's going to Music Fest this weekend.
Yeah, as are haIf the kids in D.C. So?
So it's a breeding ground for negative group behavior- drinking, drugs.
Loker, I've been to Music Fest. You're bIowing it way out of proportion.
WeII, you're not 1 6 years oId.
Last year, three girIs got roofied and raped.
And you shouId read some of the things her so-caIIed friends are writing about doing there.
I mean, if she were my daughter, I wouId-
You know, I shouId give Lightman a heads-up.
- Look, how many friends does EmiIy have on this site? - 500 or 600.
ExactIy. She probabIy bareIy knows the kids...
who are writing aII this stuff on her site, if at aII.
- Mmm- - Oh, God. What'd you do?
Nothing.
ToId her I might be going to Music Fest too.
What is wrong with you?
- We got a confession. - Out of who?
Duane Corey. You know, the guy that security grabbed after the shooting?
WeII, his ceII mate came forward about an hour ago...
says that Corey was bragging about trying to kiII the governor.
Gave up his whoIe pIan, weapon cache Iocation, everything.
An inmate with nothing but incentive to Iie about Corey's confession?
Yeah, weII, Lightman thinks I shouId bring you two...
to come check this guy out with me, so Iet's go.
[ Cal ] l love politicians. l do. l really do.
- Are you comfortabIe? - Can we get on with this?
Try to answer our questions with as much accuracy as you can.
Yes, I am comfortabIe in this gIass box.
- Man in your position. - Correct.
Up in the poIIs, survivor of an assassination attempt.
- I wouId never expIoit a tragedy Iike this for a- - BuIIet bump.
Yeah. See? Now l said it, so you don't have to.
You're way off-base, Dr. Lightman.
- So, I-I have to ask, why aII the guiIt, Governor? - A girI died.
Looks more Iike fear to me. What you frightened of, eh?
- Someone tried to kiII me at that raIIy. - Yeah, but a girI died instead.
- What was her name? - MicheIIe. DaIy.
Separation of first and Iast name- the personaI, the formaI.
So she wasn't just any oId girI to you, was she, Governor?
And don't teII me that aII depends on what my definition of ''was'' is.
She was one of our coIIege voIunteers. It was no secret she knew me.
How weII wouId you say you knew her?
[ ExhaIes ] HardIy at aII. We might've made smaII taIk.
- [ Cal ] Might have? - And it couId've been more than just smaII taIk.
- It wasn't. - DecIarative. Commanding.
Y-You wanted to make sure it was never more than just smaII taIk.
- You sure it wasn't piIIow taIk? - AbsoIuteIy not.
[ Gillian ] Clarifying language. Defensive.
There was a misunderstanding that couId've been misconstrued. Wires were crossed?
Governor, look. [ Clears Throat ]
Man to man, right- and Foster here.
MicheIIe was a- a beautifuI woman.
Now, I know what it's Iike to work with beautifuI women.
- He's taIking about your friend CIara Musso. - Yeah, and her, yeah.
We both know that there are women out there...
that are naturaIIy attracted to power.
So- Come on, then.
Out with it.
There was one night, a few months ago.
I had just won the primary. AIcohoI was fIowing.
[ Over Speaker ] I'd had a few drinks. It had been a rough campaign.
My wife, uh, had headed home earIy.
Oh. WeII, that seems Iike the night in question.
MicheIIe and I wound up smoking a cigarette together- shared it.
She compIimented me on my win, and we taIked for a Iong time.
SteaIing away Iike that, uh-
It made me feeI young. It was innocent.
But not to Michelle.
She was confused that my wife had left early...
and here was the governor...
enjoying the taste of a young woman's Iipstick on the fiIter of a cigarette.
We both know that this isn't about the confusion...
of a young woman anymore, don't we?
You had sex with her- that night. Admit it.
It was one of those moments, everyone ceIebrating, schmoozing.
And here she is, showing me such simpIe, pure-
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You took advantage of her, didn't you?
Nothing happened.
Yet you're ashamed. Why is that?
Trevor Addison waIked in before I couId do anything I'd regret...
and if he hadn't-
He and l decided then to distance Michelle from me.
He reassigned her.
Why keep her around at aII?
I wasn't about to cut a promising career short...
just because I aImost... couId have... crossed the Iine.
[ Door Closes ]
Your future president's more Iucky than good.
But he didn't cheat, and he had no reason to have her kiIIed.
C-CouId we just Ieave him aIone now?
WeII, he's expIained his actions, but not the others who work on his behaIf.
He's a governor, GiIIian, not a mob boss.
Oh, that sounds Iike a much better campaign sIogan than ''No more excuses.''
- [ Buzzer ] - I didn't do it.
Corey. Come on, man.
They found your gun right there on the scene when they took you down.
You were caught red-handed.
But l'm telling you, it's not mine.
[ Ria ] So what are you saying?
- WeII, it's a conspiracy. - To frame you for the murder of MicheIIe DaIy.
- I didn't kiII her. - You didn't mean to kiII her-
because you were aiming for the governor, right?
There. Right there. What you just did with your nostriIs...
that teIIs me that you want Governor Brooks dead.
Look, I didn't shoot that girI. And that gun is not mine.
- [ Ben ] Stop lying. - l'm not. l'm innocent.
[ Buzzer ]
I beIieve him. That's fear- of this pIace.
- Same as his. - What?
[ Ria ] Corey didn't do this.
Don't you understand? He already said that he did though.
Yeah, to his ceII mate. By the way, why did you say that, Corey?
WeII, they think twice about raping coId-bIooded kiIIers in here.
And you reaIIy beIieve that he didn't do this?
I know he didn't.
[ Gillian ] Take us back to the night of the primary.
No message on that. Take it over in person, get a signature. Thank you.
- The night of the primary. - When you found the governor...
ceIebrating privateIy with MicheIIe?
Yeah, that night of the primary.
l handled the situation. l spoke with Michelle and found her a more suitable position.
So one chat with you, and she was out of the inner circIe?
WeII, it's my job to insuIate the governor.
Very smooth, hence the strut.
Or is that just, Iike, a side effect of being around aII this office totty?
- Eh? - [ ChuckIes ]
So how Iong did it take you to get Mischa in the sack, then?
I'm a singIe man, Dr. Lightman. I work hundred-hour weeks.
MicheIIe was a beautifuI young woman.
What, you mean to teII me that neither of you...
have never been tempted to mix business with pIeasure?
- Uh- - Excuse me, but the woman you were sIeeping with...
was kiIIed on your campaign traiI.
You don't seem too shaken up by that.
I cut MicheIIe's famiIy a check for funeraI expenses.
- Oh, that's nice of you. - To get through the terribIe days ahead.
Now, if you don't mind. See that cIock over there?
Nineteen hours until the polls open and counting.
I got a question for you. [ CIears Throat ]
You know the man that was arrested for the shooting, right?
How does a nutter Iike that get through your security?
I Iike a man who can own up to his own mistakes, don't you?
He cut a check.
So now you think Addison had Michelle killed?
WeII, you know, he used to be a Iobbyist for security contractors.
Okay. So Addison's sIeeping with MicheIIe, and Iet's say...
for whatever reason, he wanted to have her kiIIed.
Why do it in such a pubIic way?
WeII, it's two birds with one buIIet.
MicheIIe's a goner and Brooks is a winner.
He gets one of his black ops buddies to do the job, and no one's the wiser.
It's absurd, CaI. He's not that kind of man.
So what kind of a man is he, exactIy?
[ Scoffs ]
- He's tried it on with you, hasn't he? - PIease.
Eyes front, CIara. This is important.
Hasn't he?
WeII, I can't say as I bIame him, reaIIy.
- Excuse me? - That was supposed to be a compIiment.
[ Scoffs ] A compIiment.
That's funny. It feIt more Iike an insuIt.
Uh- He's a pIayer, aII right.
I mean, women Iike MicheIIe are just a number to him.
You mean women Iike MicheIIe and me.
No, because you turned him down, right?
See? l told you l was good at this.
No, I don't think that MicheIIe was the onIy woman...
that he was poIing on the campaign traiI.
The Brooks campaign has tons of women working for it. Let's not start a witch hunt.
A witch hunt? Is that what you caII it?
[ ExhaIes ]
- [ Chattering ] - [ Phones Ringing ]
Oi! Lemmings.
Right. Who here...
apart from MicheIIe DaIy...
has been shagging the chief of staff?
Bingo. Lady in pink.
[ Man ] How does he know that?
[ Gillian ] What made you suspect that Michelle and Addison...
were also having an affair?
She went from part-time voIunteer to paid staff. Came out of nowhere.
So you see the advantage of sleeping with Addison, right?
You know how the game's pIayed?
But MicheIIe wasn't a game pIayer, was she?
- MicheIIe was whoIesome. - What, meaning she was naive and innocent?
She wore a promise ring, pIanned on saving herseIf for whatever.
''Whatever.'' Said with an edge of contempt.
She was a good person.
Huh. You see, you had to controI every muscIe in your body...
from your head to your toes, to puII that one off.
- It's true. - I don't doubt it.
I'm taIking about the anger you feeI for her.
As if she's to blame for you being here in the hot seat with us.
How does Addison...
get a- a promise ring off a girI Iike that, eh?
We aII partied just as hard as we worked. She wanted to fit in.
Uh, she started off with just the occasionaI smaII gIass of wine.
And then the wine turned to spirits.
- [ Mouths Word ] - It's okay. We aII make mistakes.
MicheIIe was a grown woman, an aduIt.
I did not make her drink. I did not steer her towards Trevor- Addison.
You're doing everything you can...
to avoid the eIephant in the room, aren't you?
-What eIephant in the room? -Why a promising young woman was murdered.
They were shooting at the governor.
Oh, you're a cop now, are you?
They had to shoot past the governor to get to MicheIIe.
Let's treat it as murder, for now.
See, there it is again.
Fear and anger. I mean, I'd feeI the same way...
if I feIt I was being forced into a Iie.
- I haven't Iied. - Smart. And true too, technicaIIy.
Because you know how to steer a conversation...
and you know how to Iie by omission.
I smeII a cover-up.
I been there. I done that.
I'm not invoIved.
I mean, I hear things, but I d- I didn't do anything.
Now what you're doing is stonewaIIing. You've gone from gossip to accompIice.
After MicheIIe started sIeeping with Addison, she started drinking even more.
At the commonweaIth fund-raiser Iast month, she got totaIIy bombed.
And she threatened to go pubIic with the affair.
Addison sent her home before she couId make a scene...
and she drove up a curb where a man was coIIecting bottIes and cans.
Said she didn't even reaIize she hit someone at first.
So it's a hit-and-run?
Addison made her turn herseIf in, and then it just-
And I have no direct knowIedge of a cover-up...
but I'm guessing Addison got the incident swept under the rug.
- And the man she hit? - He died after a few days.
A drunk staffer kiIIs someone Ieading up to eIection...
you'd want to make it go away.
WeII, in a cIose eIection, you'd want more than that.
You'd want the girI to go away, right?
[ Ben ] You know, a coupIe of my agents found your IittIe hideout-
- the guns, ammunition- - [ Pats Documents ]
PIus, crosshairs you drew on Brooks's photo speaks to maIicious intent.
I bought those to protect the governor. Brooks was in danger.
- Yeah, well, l'd have to agree with you on that. - You don't understand.
I sent those e-maiIs so the staffers wouId tighten up security. Th-They're not reaI.
Brooks, he needs a guardian.
- Someone Iike me. - [ Ben ] Right, right.
- [ Buzzer, Door Opens ] - Duane, Iet me expIain something to you.
You can try and play crazy for the jury. That's not gonna fly in here.
- From your coIIection. - [ Ben ] What the hell?
-He doesn't even recognize the murder weapon. -Hey!
This shouId be in an evidence room.
- Can you pIay back? - Yeah.
[ Typing ]
There. lnstant genuine surprise.
H-He's never seen it before.
Because it ain't mine.
Look, does he want Brooks dead? Yes.
- Is he dangerous? You bet. - [ Eli ] All right, so then he's delusional.
He thinks he's got a special relationship with the governor.
The gun's a throwaway. It's not that hard to fiIe numbers off a handgun...
and anybody couId have pIanted it near Corey the day of the shooting.
- The guy's a patsy. - Well, he's gonna be in here on gun charges...
so regardless, he's gonna have to sit tight till we can figure this thing out.
So whoever killed Michelle could've known about Corey's threats...
made sure he had a cIear path to Brooks on the day of the shooting...
so that they couId pin it on a wacko.
[ Crickets Chirping ]
- [ Doorbell Ringing ] - Just a minute!
AII right. Hang on.
[ Stereo.. Jazz ]
Oh, hi.
So, uh, did he send you over here to appeaI to my better judgment?
- No, he didn't. - That's good.
'Cause I don't have any.
- That's what I toId him. - [ Door Closes ]
- You hungry? - You cook too?
Oh, yeah.
[ CIears Throat ] Sure.
- It's chicken tikka masaIa. - Mmm.
So be warned.
- You want a beer? - Sure.
You know, uh, l told the governor that l owe my freedom...
to your buIIheaded, obnoxious, no-hoIds-barred way of doing things.
- Oh. - [ Bottle Opens ]
- Up yours. - Not right now.
Ooh. I say.
So how's he doing then? The governor, I mean.
You know, behind cIosed doors.
He's distraught. We aII are.
For MicheIIe and her famiIy, not just for his poIiticaI career.
Oh, yeah? He's not broken up enough to puII out of the race though, is he?
Oh, come on. A Iife of service is aII Brooks has ever beIieved in.
- Or to cIean house. - You're taIking about Trevor Addison...
the campaign manager, on the eve of an eIection.
No, I'm not. I'm taIking about the governor doing right...
by that girI's famiIy, you know, and by the voters.
- Excuse me. Excuse me. - You're excused.
Thank you.
WeII, I'm here to teII you that he wants you to find the truth, no matter what.
Oh. WeII, so you appeaIed to, uh, his better judgment then, did you?
Which, unIike you, he has in spades-
- Mmm. God. - It's too hot for you?
[ GuIping ]
- It's- It's good. - Mmm.
WouId you Iike another beer?
- Are you trying to get me drunk? - Who, me?
- Mmm. - No.
Never. AbsoIuteIy.
[ Bottles, Cans Clattering ]
[ Sighs ] I couIdn't find a recycIing bin.
We know about MicheIIe's hit-and-run.
That man's death was an awfuI tragedy.
Yes, the kind of tragedy that could kill a political career...
unIess your name's Kennedy, of course.
I'm paid to manage situations, Dr. Lightman.
By squeezing a D.A. who's Iooking for a governor's endorsement?
lt was an accident, and l- l tried to minimize the damage.
WiIIiam Freeman. That's the damage.
You know, the dead man, in case you're interested.
[ ExhaIes ] I know his name.
After the accident, there was nothing l could do for him.
He was hit near a stop sign that-that was very hard to see at night.
WeII, that almost Iooks Iike genuine remorse.
I'm sorry the man is dead.
Must be a pain in the ass. I mean cover-ups, managing them, you know.
Look, Michelle was a kid at the beginning of her career.
I wasn't gonna Iet her go to prison over a youthfuI indiscretion, when I-
Or Iet the press find out.
AII right. FuII discIosure.
''Check's in the maiI.'' ''You don't Iook fat in that dress.''
Robin spoke with me about your conversation yesterday.
I was gonna head to your office after the poIIs cIosed with something that might heIp you-
After the poIIs cIosed.
What I'm trying to teII you is-
Let MicheIIe DaIy speak for herseIf.
After my car hit the curb, l just-
I- I just took off, 'cause I- I didn't know what to do.
And l didn't know that l had hit someone.
I reaIIy didn't.
I, uh- I was drunk.
- [ Remote Beeps ] - It's unusuaIIy matter-of-fact...
for someone on the heeIs of a traumatic event.
I mean, no sadness, no remorse at aII.
Yeah, I don't doubt that she was drunk that night...
but I don't think she was driving that car, so-
- Her confession is pure fiction. - Yeah.
She's covering up for someone.
Sad part is that whoever it was...
had her convinced she was doing the right thing.
- Hey, EIi. What's up? - Hey.
- I was just thinking about you. - You were?
Yeah, and Music Fest.
Uh, yeah. I'm reaIIy excited for P-Funk.
Yeah, weII, you're- you're an oId souI. You're a very funky oId souI.
- [ ChuckIes ] Thanks. - I'm aIso a P-Funk fan.
- ReaIIy? - Sure.
Um- So you're coming?
Yes, if your dad Iets me off work in time.
CooI. Uh, you can meet my friends.
- Yeah. Your friends. - Sure. Why not?
Uh, hey. Listen to this new band. Reminds me of P-Funk.
[ Funk On Headphones ]
That's great. Uh, Iook, Em.
Sometimes at these festivaIs, there can be a diffusion of responsibiIity.
You know, you must not be that big of a P-Funk fan, 'cause you'd reaIIy want to hear this.
- Just- - WeII- I just mean that-
you know, sometimes inhibitions can go down...
and something that may not have normaIIy happened couId happen.
- Or, you know, maybe- maybe it wouId. - [ Typing, Computer Beeps ]
AII right. These guys. Bad idea.
Keep your distance.
EIi, I bareIy know them.
Good. Then your distance wiII be kept.
Because from what I'm reading, these guys are bringing an entire pharmacy to the concert-
Ecstasy, speed, roofies.
And you're worried something might happen to me?
WeII, I care about you, Em.
- You're sweet. - Good.
And I care about you too. ReaIIy.
Good. So you'II be carefuI.
So carefuI. Just reIax.
Okay.
Em! God, no. No.
I'm- I'm sorry. I just- You kept I. M.'ing me and- Never mind.
WeII, I was I. M.'ing you back to be poIite.
- [ ExhaIes ] - No, Em, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it Iike-
[ Door Opens, Closes ]
[ ExhaIes ]
I'm so fired.
- [ Chattering ] - [ Phones Ringing ]
It's a bit previous, isn't it? PoIIs haven't even cIosed yet.
If you're Iooking for my husband, he's at a press op for the next few hours.
Is that the one where they go in that IittIe booth and they vote for themseIves?
That's the one.
Something I said?
Look. AII right. We don't beIieve Addison's story about the hit-and-run.
What hit-and-run?
- What was that? - What?
- What was that between you just now? What was that? - Nothing.
You know, you shouId reaIIy Ieave the Iying to the poIitician's wife.
She's had a Iot more practice than you have.
We beIieve that MicheIIe took the faII in order to cover for someone eIse.
Someone eIse?
How much did the governor have to drink the night of the fund-raiser?
- What? - No, no, 'cause I couId see he Iikes to drink.
I mean, I couId see that much.
I won't stand here whiIe you throw darts in the dark...
indict my friends, my husband with your pseudoscience.
Look, Mrs. Brooks. Michelle Daly admitted to a hit-and-run...
that she had absoIuteIy nothing to do with.
- And now she's dead. - And you are a buIIy...
digging through a decent man's trash.
No one's perfect. You'II find Iies wherever you Iook.
- How 'bout you, darIing? - Hmm?
How'd you get home that night? 'Cause you were there, weren't you?
Yes, that was the night I spiIIed wine on my dress.
Red wine. Pinot. Argentinean.
- What vintage? - Nothing speciaI.
You see, like l said, you should really leave the lying to her...
'cause she's much better at it than you are.
ActuaIIy, Janet and I Ieft together. I dropped her off at her house.
[ CaI ] Janet's using CIara.
- You're incredibIe. - Or the other way around, you know.
- IncredibIe how? - You know.
Oh, CIara. It's that obvious, is it?
Was it that good?
- HonestIy? - No.
'Cause that's what they were doing when we showed up.
- They were getting their stories straight. - The pinot noir.
Yeah, I mean, do they even make that in Argentina?
AIfredo Roca, 2007.
Ooh. You're not just a pretty face, are you, darIing?
- Back to you and CIara. - ReaIIy?
She's up to something, and I want to make sure you're not compromised.
It was just a bit of fun between us.
- It was a IittIe bit more than that. - WeII, were you there?
I'm taIking about from her perspective.
You know I can read faces, don't you?
Did I say ''incredibIe''? I meant ''impossibIe.''
[ Imitating EIvis ] Thank you very much.
All right. Let's say that Clara was driving the car...
and she ran over the homeIess guy.
- Are you accusing CIara? - No, it's just a theory. I'm just positing a theory.
WeII, the Brooks campaign might feeI obIigated to heIp cover it up.
She is their biggest campaign donor.
Hey. I need to taIk to you- in private.
- Yeah. What is it? - See, weII, uh- It started-
EmiIy, she friended me on this Web site, and-
- Hurry up, 'cause I haven't got much time. - Right.
WeII, I-I was worried, uh, about these drugs, these boys-
- Excuse me? - Uh-
I just feIt that somebody shouId be Iooking out for her.
Oh, reaIIy?
I- I just think-
EmiIy kissed me.
FoIIow me.
So, you kissed my daughter.
No, no. She put her headphones on me in the Iab.
- l wanted to show her- - You kissed my daughter.
No. I-I was trying to heIp, and she- she kissed me.
- How was it? How was it for you? - What?
- How was it for you? Was it good? Did it feeI good? - No. I mean-
I just was trying to heIp her out-
- [ Groans ] - [ Cell Phone Ringing ]
- Enough said. - [ Coughs ]
What, ReynoIds?
[ Gillian ] Guess Addison won't be around to see the governor be reelected.
AII right, guys. Come on. Everybody out. Let's go.
- He's not the suicide type. - Yeah, weII, he wrote the suicide note.
He e-maiIed everyone on the governor's staff.
He admits to covering up MicheIIe's hit-and-run...
and that he hired the shooter to kiII her before she couId taIk.
Now we have to figure out who wrote this.
Yeah, 'cause he didn't.
[ Electronic Chittering ]
- Hey. You seen Lightman? - He's in his office, waiting for CIara.
[ ChuckIes ] StiII fighting that fight, huh?
Don't Iet him fooI you. He Ioves it.
Let me ask you something. How can you teII if this thing is fake if it's been typed?
[ ExhaIes ] Word choice, repetition...
the use of passive or active voice...
can teII you a Iot about the person who wrote this.
Let me show you.
''A person of my stature''- ''Someone in my position, with regards to a subordinate''-
This is a person who is preoccupied with power and status.
Power and status, huh?
That sounds Iike the Trevor Addison you were describing earIier.
It's aII about the pronouns.
Women, we use a Iot more pronouns when we write.
''I,'' ''she,'' ''they''-
Men wiII typicaIIy name the person or thing they're taIking about.
So a woman preoccupied with power and status wrote this.
- Yep. - [ Typing ]
[ ExhaIes ] Why?
[ Siren, Distant ]
Well, it's all there.
He covered up for the hit-and-run, so-
You don't beIieve that, do you?
I know a thing or two about suicide.
SIippery sods Iike Addison, they don't kiII themseIves.
- What, you think he was murdered? - MicheIIe and Addison...
they both knew something that got 'em kiIIed.
I just hope to heII that you don't know what they knew, Iove.
You aIready know I do, don't you?
You didn't drive Janet home that night.
You weren't even in the bloody car.
Janet kiIIed that homeIess man.
She was aIone. It was an accident.
She was drunk.
Addison made MicheIIe take the bIame, and then he puIIed some strings to make it go away.
AII except MicheIIe and that IittIe Ioose end-
That got taken care of yesterday, didn't it?
Janet and I go way back.
- If she knew anything about MicheIIe's death, I wouId- - You'd know?
She'd teII you, right, even though you're the major stakehoIder in this firm?
That suicide note was written by a woman.
[ ChuckIe ]
Shake. You Iied to me.
You covered up for the governor's wife at the 1 1th hour.
I want my firm back.
She begged me earIier today. She just needed a IittIe more time.
Shake his hand. I'II be your witness.
You know, these peopIe, they don't deserve your IoyaIty.
I think you're better than that.
I want to give you a chance to prove it.
- [ Chattering ] - [ Brooks ] Good to see you again.
What are you doing here?
I toId them. Addison Ieft too many Ioose ends.
I don't want to be invoIved anymore.
Honey. No one's going to take CIara's word over yours.
Addison forced MicheIIe to keep his secret.
When she wouIdn't, he had her kiIIed.
- She's Iying. - Can you prove it?
Yes. The night of the fund-raiser.
Addison rode home in my Iimo. You can ask my driver.
[ Gillian ] Governor Brooks...
MicheIIe wasn't driving the car that was invoIved in the hit-and-run.
She took the faII for someone eIse.
WeII, it wasn't Addison, and it certainIy wasn't me.
Addison's suicide note was written by a woman. lt was a fake.
WeII, it couId have been CIara.
Where were you the night of the hit-and-run, Mrs. Brooks?
WeII, CIara gave me a ride home from the fund-raiser.
See, even he doesn't beIieve that one.
- [ Applause, Cheering ] - CongratuIations, Governor.
CharIes, we have to Ieave now.
Even you can't be that stupid.
You must've sensed that something was going on.
They said it was nothing.
The F.B. I. are going through your phone records and your personaI hard drives.
Are they gonna find something about the shooter?
The shooter was a crazed lone gunman.
ls it the same one that you hired to take care of Addison in the tub?
l mean, are we gonna find him sitting on a beach somewhere, counting your money?
Janet, is there any truth to what they're saying?
[ Applause, Cheering Continue ]
Janet. What did you do?
I was the one hoIding it aII together.
I aIways have been. You aIways said that I was your rock.
- Oh, God. - I was your rock, CharIes.
- CharIes. - No!
- I didn't ask for this! - Yeah, you did, actuaIIy...
when you stopped asking questions.
What can I do to make this right?
WeII, you couId step down, for starters.
Personal reasons, whatever. l don't care.
[ Applause, Cheering Continue ]
Your pubIic's waiting for you, Governor.
[ People Chanting ] Speechl Speechl Speechl Speechl
Speechl Speechl
[ ExhaIes ] We couId be a good team.
I got aII the team I need.
I know you respect the work we do here, CIara.
Sign.
It's a pIeasure doing business with you.
Oh, that's an assassin's gaze if ever I saw one.
You said there was no such thing.
- [ Crickets Chirping ] - Oi!
Looking for this?
- What fIavor is it? - PineappIe.
Yeah, Iet me see.
- So, you hit him? - You kissed him.
WeII, he'II never meddIe again.
I mean, he may sue you, but at Ieast he'II never meddIe.
- So, what were you thinking? - I don't- I don't know.
WeII, that rings true.
I mean, maybe kissing him was a IittIe extreme.
Oh, you reckon, do you?
Yeah. But that makes me the appIe that didn't faII far from the tree.
Oh, so it's my fauIt then, is it?
Yeah. And it's good you admit this.
No, no, no, no, no. My point is...
that it's not Loker's fauIt, right?
What?
[ Doorbell Ringing ]
You didn't.
You did, didn't you?
Hiya.
I know you were... just tryin' to Iook out for her, aII right?
And... I shouIdn't have hit you.
That was wrong.
PhysicaI vioIence-
right, is very, very wrong.
- ApoIogy accepted. - Dad, come on. Don't bIow the apoIogy.
- [ Pop ] - I'm sorry.
- WeII, I shouId've seen it coming. - What, the kiss?
No, the punch.
You're emotionaI wiIdfire where EmiIy's concerned.
- [ Woman ] You could say it's my instinct - You Iike ice cream?
It's pineappIe.
- Yes, l still have one - I Iike beer.
- There's no time to second-guess it - Go on then. HeIp yourseIf.
First on the Ieft.
- AII right. - Yes, there are things
That l'm still so afraid of
But my courage is roaring like the sound of the sun
- 'Cause it's vain about its mane - What if I hadn't apoIogized?
- [ Grunts ] - Now l'm an animal
- You're an animal too - Good girI. Good girI.
[ Ends ]
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