seconds to air!
Where's America's sweetheart?
Everett.
Where's Everett?Has anyone seen Everett?
Keep your pants
on,Kravet.I'm right here.
seconds till we go live.
Well,you think I wake
up looking like this?
It takes time.
They want ratings,I'm
giving 'em ratings.
You still eating those damn Tums?
Only thing keeping me alive.
Okay,Jane,you've got the S&L
thing and the rerun thing.
Little to your left,Jane.
- How's this,Clay?
- Camera loves you.
Have you talked to them yet?
Come on,Nathan.
Barbara Wa-Wa isn't the only
one who can make celebrities cry.
Get me a special.
You won't remember my name when you sign
that big contract with network,will you?
- ...
- The adorable man who
rescued me from tiny-town action news?
- You kidding?
- ...
- I'll talk to them.
- ...
A fire in a West Philadelphia
row house claims six lives.
The Channel News Team is on the
ground with that story in just a moment.
And later we'll bring you the...
What?
- We lost the teleprompter.
- Where is it?
Um,the update on the...
Cut to commercial?
Give her a second.
The story on the Bass Group's...
- $ billion purchase of the Savings and Loan Association.
- Quiet,quiet,quiet.
- No,hang on...
- But first,what you've been waiting for.
After months of reruns due to
the writer's strike,Falcon Crest,
m*rder She Wrote,and all
your favorites are back.
The update after these messages.
All clear.
You get 'em,Jane.
- Okay.
- This ain't casual Friday.
What,are you trying out
for the team mascot,Nick?
Game's tonight.
You in,Scotty?Hitting Jones.
I don't do hockey.
I want to see a fight,I go to the ring.
This one's something.
Anyone remember a newscaster named
Jane Everett,co-anchor at Channel ?
Jane Everett.She was hot.
Yeah,strangled in Fairmount
Park back in the 's.
A research assistant from Channel
is on her way up to show us something.
Was that a tooth?
Gloves are off,baby.
Tory Roberts?
Channel .
I'm Detective Rush.
Why don't you come with me?
Oh...I got it.
Make sure you get all her
info,you know-- name,number...
marital status.
Said you had something to show us?
An old Beta tape.
We're converting
outdated formats to DVD.
I got stuck logging all the footage.
You'd give WCNU reporters a run for
their money,they put you on the air.
- Going to make that jump one day.
- Yeah?
So what do you got?
This is Jane Everett of WCNU.
Tonight I'll be bringing
you a special report.
Jane Everett.
What?
Slow down.
Are you threatening me?
Listen,just...
you did the right thing.
Just don't make any decisions tonight.
Tell me where you are.
I'll be there in minutes.
Tape's got a time stamp.
November , Everyone said
her m*rder was this random thing,
but they found the body
six hours after that call.
: p.m.
Means Jane met her
caller around midnight.
So the caller's either
the last to see...
Or Jane's talking to her k*ller.
COLD CASE
Season Episode
"Breaking News"
"Local cross-country team finds newscaster
Jane Everett strangled in Fairmount Park."
No shortage of coverage
or man-hours on this one.
Story was all over the place.
People felt like they knew her.
Well,she was in their
living rooms every night.
Pretty girl.
Looked great in a leotard.
Did you see that special
she did on aerobics?
You into aerobics,Nick?
What's it to you?
Don't let me catch you in a leotard.
Jane grew up in Manayunk.
Tough neighborhood.
Father was a tollbooth operator,d*ed
in '; mom was a housewife.
Margie Everett.
Valens and Miller are
talking to her now.
Only years old.
- Strangled with her own scarf.
- Crime of passion.
No mention of a boyfriend.
Original theory was some
perv saw an easy target.
No DNA or witnesses
to discount the theory.
Abrasions,torn clothes.
She didn't go without a fight.
Lived a few blocks from the park.Jogged
there every morning at : a.m.before work.
: a.m.-- hours
are worse than ours.
She d*ed in the same clothes she was wearing
in that video: turtleneck,windbreaker.
Time of death was estimated
between : and : a.m.
Maybe she didn't go to
the park for her run.
- Could have met the caller there.
- Or the caller knew she'd be there.
Tracked her down.
See what you can get
from WCNU phone records.
If Jane knew her attacker,it's
about time we did,too.
My daughter was a natural.
One look at her,people
just fell in love.
Anything you can tell us about
her personal life,Mrs.Everett?
Yeah,she didn't have one.
She spent years at stations out west.
Then she gets a job here in
Philly,I still didn't get to see her.
Attractive woman like Jane
must have had a boyfriend.
Well,if she did,she
didn't tell me about it.
Two of you...
have a falling out?
I left college in the middle
of my junior year to have her.
I got my education from the school of
Edward R.Murrow and Walter Cronkite.
Janey and I,uh...
we bonded over the news
when she was a little girl.
She'd even give her own
broadcasts at dinner.
But by the time she d*ed,the
news wasn't the news anymore.
It was nothing but fluff,and
she didn't seem to care.
Aerobics and...celebrity love lives.
That what your spat was over?Type
of stories she was covering?
She was co-anchoring the fourth
largest market in this country.
It still wasn't enough for me.
- Hundreds of families...
- Janey,you're on.
...are taking part in this great event.
Oh,what are you wearing?
Um,it's a Halloween costume.
I got to say I think the adults
are having as much fun as the kids.
- It's better than the sexy witch.
- And best of all,the proceeds go to charity.
Shaw Plastics raised $,
for disadvantaged kids.
It was a good cause.
More like a good advertisement.
Did Shaw Plastics pay
you to cover that story?
We do this kind of
stuff all the time,Ma.
You give companies
positive press,they buy ads.
Well,the Jane I knew dreamed of
covering the presidential debates.
Mort is covering the presidential
debates.You know that.
Can't you cover them,too?
Why do you always get
stuck with the fluff?
There's got to be something else.
Like what?The elections in Chile?
Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan?
Do you know what it would take to get people to
watch a story about armed rebels in remote villages?
Well,you don't really
believe that,do you?
Management made changes
to improve our ratings.
I took their advice about my hair and
my wardrobe,and we went up four points.
Four points for teasing your hair?
I don't know how many times
I have to tell you this,Ma.
It's just...it's the
way the business is now.
I just...I don't understand
why news had to stop being news.
Well,ask Nathan if you don't believe me.
We've made peace with
it.Maybe you should,too.
Janey,I'm not trying to be critical.
I know.I've got an early
morning,Ma.I'll see you later,okay?
Well...
The last time I saw my daughter alive
and I was giving her a hard time.
Who's this Nathan she was talking about?
Nathan Kravet.
He was her boss.
Well,he was her mentor,really.
They met when Janey was
at Syracuse University.
Thanks for your time,Mrs.Everett.
What I wouldn't give to see
Janey on TV again,cat suit or not.
Everett was something else.
I gave a guest lecture at
Syracuse her freshman year.
She sent me a story idea
every week till she graduated.
They any good?
Not bad,actually.
She had an eye for the angle.
Could find a story in any picture.
Where'd the cat suit fit in?
By the time I hired her at
WCNU,things were changing.
What qualified as news was
anything that got ratings.
Including cute newsgirls?
Before Reagan took office,stations had to
serve the public,present balanced reports.
Hell,there were even
limits on the amount of ads.
Reagan relaxed all the rules.
Relaxed is right.
Looks more like a
vacation than reporting.
Company retreats.
Better ratings meant better profits.
Better profits meant
better corporate retreats.
Any idea who might have been
threatening Jane the night she d*ed?
No idea.It wasn't like
she was breaking Watergate.
Uh,I think her last story
was about mall walkers.
You see her that night?
I was holed up in my
office on the third floor.
Jane was on the first,so no.
Did she always work till midnight?
Evening news wrapped at
:; doesn't mean we did.
Public persona like that,she ever
attract the wrong kind of attention?
Far as I knew,everyone loved her.
After a year at WCNU,she was getting
more fan mail than the seasoned reporters.
Any of those seasoned reporters
have a problem with that?
There's one person who comes to mind.
The crime has left two people dead
and an entire neighborhood devastated.
It's yet another casualty of the
cr*ck epidemic here in the Philly...
...in,in the city of Ph...
In other news,he's this
year's Sexiest Man Alive.
JFK,Junior.
So who made his list of sexiest women?
We'll have the story after this.
All clear.
Last I checked,I was the lead anchor.
- I was trying to help you.
- You help by letting me finish the damn story.
It's called a transition.Or don't they
teach that in journalism school anymore?
Take it easy,Mort.
She's doing her job.
You're the one who hired this
amateur bubblehead newsreader.
As opposed to a pompous has-been?
Hey,I was here before
you,sweetie; I'll be here after.
- Ten,nine,eight,seven,six...
- Have you checked with management on that?
- You bet against me,sweetheart,and I'll crush you
- ....five,four...
...three,two.
An update on a story from yesterday:
the President has stated that
his position will not change
in spite of what Congress has
proposed on the latest energy bill...
WCNU went from worst to first that year
and there was only one reason: Jane Everett.
Mort knew it?
His low-grade insecurity
became full-blown paranoia.
Called me all hours of the
night trying to get her fired.
Why not get rid of him instead?
Thought about it.
Till he won a Peabody for
his coverage of Jane's m*rder.
Bought himself another
years in the business.
So I get this Bobby
Badass in the squad car.
Thinks I'm hauling him down to PPD till he
realizes,we're heading in the wrong direction.
The kid starts freaking out 'cause
we're going into th Street territory.
- The rival g*ng?
- Yeah.
He's begging us to turn around,and I'm talking
to my partner about stopping for doughnuts.
Kid wets his pants,tells us everything.
That'd make a great segment.
Well,there's more where that came from.
How are things going?
Jane Everett case?
Stick around...and I'll let you know.
Scratch my back,I'll scratch yours?
Sounds good to me.
Hey,take that off,would ya?
- What?
- Looks like you're about to take flight.
Check out Casanova with
that hottie from Channel .
Back in the saddle.
Excuse me.
What up,fellas?
Rush dug up some dirt on Mort Ackerson.
Jane lodged a formal complaint against him
with the WCNU Human Resources,October ,'.
That's two weeks before she's k*lled.
It said Mort showed up at her sh**t,was
following her to interviews and press conferences.
All right,Tory says
the guy's a real tool.
Got serious issues
working with the ladies.
Eat it,Zaretsky!
That's gonna be better than the game.
Well,last I checked,this was a cop bar.
Is that the best you can do?
- Newsroom Barbie?
- Oh,damn it,Frankie.
What?I like hockey.
Your husband like hockey too?
Admit it.
What?
You're trying to make me jealous.
You're the one came here.
So,maybe it's working.
You know,you're not the
only woman in the world.
Right now I am.
I should go.
Yeah,you should.
Come on.Let's get out of here.
***I'm Detective Rush.
I don't normally do this,but you
think I could have your autograph?
Well,sure.
Call me Mort.
It's for my auntie.
Sign it "Dear Edie,see
you in to life."
You think I hurt Jane Everett?Is
that what this is all about?
Convince me otherwise.
I always thought it was
innocent until proven guilty.
Remember what happened to your
ratings after Jane was m*rder*d,Mort?
I didn't pay attention to ratings.
They went up.
Or maybe it's 'cause of
the Peabody Award I won?
For covering Jane's m*rder.
You ever show up at her sh**t?
- No.
- Call her at home?
No.
Oh,Jane's Human Resources file.
But I guess you already know about
the complaint she filed against you.
So I wasn't her biggest fan.
But that girl didn't know her place.
That's the Shaw Plastics
fundraiser,isn't it?
Who's that fighting?
David Wyatt.
He's their PR guy,isn't he?
Doesn't make sense.
They take care of their employees.
Tell it to that guy.
Mandatory drug testing?
Don't you think I
know what that's about?
My family has given
years to this plant.
Would you keep your voice down?
Hey,look,I just want
some answers,all right?!
We both know I'm entitled to
ask for a lot more than that.
Something's going on here.
So,what do you think,you're some kind of
breaking news reporter all of a sudden?
Why don't you go bother that new
intern you've been circling,huh?
Piece of advice,sweetheart?
Stick to putting on your lipstick
and smiling pretty for the camera.
And upstage you?
Never.
She was investigating a story.
I was wondering about that myself.
But if there was a story
there,Jane wasn't getting it.
She reported me to Human
Resources the next morning.
She was just mad 'cause she
didn't have what it took.
I was the one people trusted.
Where was that house located?
Corner of th and...Lehigh?
Where were you the night Jane d*ed?
I caught up with that new intern.
Rhonda Stewart.
Gonna need her number.
No problem.
I'm sure she'll remember.
Boss,got the phone records from WCNU.
Call to Jane's extension
at : was local.
So there was no way to
trace it back that far.
What about her reporter's notebook?
Station cleaned out
her office back when.
Mort Ackerson's alibi check out?
Uh,Rhonda the intern.
Big producer over at WIXA now.
Uh,she vouched for him.
Mort's lucky day.
Canvassed the block of th and Lehigh.
Guy who lived in the
corner house moved in '.
Name's Evan Briggs.
Neighbor said he worked at
Shaw Plastics with his wife.
Left the neighborhood after she d*ed.
Where is he now?
Meijers Plastics bought
Shaw,December '.
Lot of red tape getting
to his personnel file.
See if ADA Bell can
help with the warrant.
Sounds like this Briggs
had real issues with Jane.
I,uh,think you got something of mine.
Something of yours?
You sure?
I'm sure.
Let me,uh,see what I can dig up.
Yeah,you do that.
Detectives,I'm Andrew Powers,CEO.
I was hoping to join your meeting,
but,uh,I'm sure David can help
you with whatever you need.
I'm David Wyatt.Public Relations.
I understand you have some questions
concerning a former employee,Evan Briggs?
Two of you had some kind
of altercation back in '?
That was a long time ago.
In fact,it didn't ring any
bells until I pulled the file.
I'd only been with the
company a few months.
What does this have to do
with Jane Everett's m*rder?
Can I see that file?
Yes.
He was terminated for failing
to pass a mandatory drug test.
I don't see any prior
infractions,previous years?
We didn't start the testing until '.
He could've been coming to work high
every day.We would never have known.
Meijers bought Shaw Plastics
later on that year,right?
Drug testing a precursor to the buyout?
Did make sense,I mean,you'd want
to get rid of the deadbeats first.
Well,drill it down,and yes,a guy
like Evan Briggs was bad for business.
Shaw Plastics is a family corporation.
No room for drug use.
Family corporation?It's
a funny way of putting it.
Sometimes we had to
use a little tough love.
Jane Everett ever contact you
about this "tough love" program?
Uh,no.
Well,she ever talk to you about Briggs?
Ms.Everett covered a
few fundraisers for us.
That's all.
Now,if you will excuse me,I do have
some business I need to attend to.
Thanks for your time.
Oh,we're holding on to this.
Drill it down.
Guy's a schmuck.
Hey,I gotta swing by Channel .See
if they got more Jane Everett tapes.
You wanna come with?Hit Geno's after?
Oh,you mean 'cause you don't
wanna go to Channel alone
after you ditched that
girl at the bar last night?
What are you talking about?
Leave me out of it.
Nope!
Look who's back.
Yeah,Tory,listen...
on-the-line guys needed help
with a bust over in Fishtown.
I wanted to tell you,but this kind
of thing goes down quick and...
Your on-the-line guys
always wear pencil skirts?
Yeah,right,well,actually,that girl,she's
an associate of the undercover unit.
Hmm,you know what?Next time
something "goes down'...
I get a call for the exclusive.
Deal.
So,where do you want to start?
Are these the tapes?
Every tape Jane ever made.
So,you were Jane's cameraman?
I knew Jane better than anyone.
Best angle,best lights.
Sounds intimate.
Nature of the job.
You two ever get involved?
Wouldn't have minded.
But she was busy climbing the ladder.
She ever mention a story involving
a plastics factory,Shaw Plastics?
We covered a fundraiser for them once.
Jane saw something.
She had me film a couple of guys arguing
while she pretended to talk to fans.
Was this man one of them?
Yeah,he was arguing with a guy.
Looked like his boss,maybe.
Ever see him giving Jane any trouble?
Yeah.
A couple of nights later,we were
sh**ting B-roll at an aerobics class.
She wanted to go by his house.
But he definitely wasn't expecting us.
MR. Briggs?Are you home?
What the hell are you
doing back here again?
MR. Briggs,the door was
open; I thought you heard us.
I already told you,I got nothing to say.
Now that drug test was a lie.
Now,get before I call the cops!
Please,I just want to talk
to you,help figure things out.
Maybe that is what the test picked up.
Percocet?
- You get out of here with that thing!
- Easy,buddy!
Wait outside,Clay.I have done some
research,and I think I can help you.
Look,I ain't going to ask you again.
Now,get out.
I don't know what that story was about,but
whatever it was pissed that guy off.
You didn't think that might've had
something to do with Jane's m*rder?
Hotheads like him made good TV.
Way reporters earned their stripes.
********
Evan Briggs?Philadelphia Homicide.
Like to ask you a few questions.
What kind of questions?
Kind about Jane Everett.
Got nothing to say.
You want to talk to us for an hour
or talk to a grand jury for six?
Your choice.
Briggs?Briggs?Run!
Hey,don't hurt him,you hear?!
Control the dog or the
next one has his name on it.
Saw your brand of hospitality,Briggs.
Jane Everett come at you too
many times,get the same treatment?
I didn't hurt that reporter.
You were in a hell of
a situation back in '.
Lost your job,your wife...
Life was in a tailspin.
Jane found out you got terminated,threatened to
make your life even worse by exposing your drug use.
Couldn't get worse.Not when
they took my health insurance.
Not when they took my house.
Had to sting.
Jane throwing you under a
bus just to break a story.
Don't you get it?
Story wasn't about
me.It was about my wife.
We worked at the factory
together till she got cancer.
Jane knew who was to
blame for her getting sick.
MR. Briggs.
You scared me.
She's gone.My wife.
Doctors said it was coming,but...
You don't want to believe.
I'm sorry.
Uh,what you were talking about?
I'm listening.
I spoke to the pharmacist you go to about
the Percocet you're taking for your cough.
She said you're not the only
one from the factory taking it.
- So?
- I met with a doctor.
Told him the tubing that Shaw
manufactures is reinforced with asbestos.
He said the tests are just being confirmed,but
a lot of people are saying that asbestos is bad.
Said it's probably what
caused your wife's cancer.
They knew?
There are others.
Doctor gave Peggy Foster
four months this morning.
She's even younger than my wife.
Cliff Schuster.Len Turner...
All right.
what do you want to do?
I want to take them on.
Take on Shaw Plastics?Yeah.
Anyone opens their mouth,company
will cut 'em off at the ankles.
They'll take their health
insurance.That's all those people got.
You do nothing,the company
gets away with m*rder.
Hey,my word ain't going to
mean squat against those suits.
That's why I found
someone to back us up.
- An insider.
- Someone from Shaw?
He agreed to go on camera,admit that Shaw knew their
employees were being exposed to asbestos and covered it up.
- I'm going to film him tonight.
- Then what?
Then I bring it to my boss and
we break the story tomorrow.
Prime time.
Wait,your boss knows about this?
Gonna tell him tonight.He
will stand by us.
- Ms.Everett,uh...
- Jane.
These,uh,men...
they play dirty,and they
ain't gonna stop at me.
So why are you doing this?
What kind of a reporter
would I be if I didn't?
She ever tell you who this insider was?
No idea.
Guys in management were cronies.
Can't imagine any one of
them sticking a neck out.
Morning Jane d*ed,where were you?
Cleaning toilets in Center City.
Worked the midnight shift at the Atco
Building after the factory canned me.
At least until I got sick.
You,too?
Been in remission twice.
Don't think there'll be a third.
When my wife got diagnosed,would've given
anything to be the one going through it.
Guess my prayers have been answered.
"You did the right thing.Don't
make any decisions tonight."
Got to be this insider
who called her that night.
Well,Jane wanted to broadcast
the interview the next day.
Guy was trying to undo
what he'd already done.
So if Jane recorded the
interview,where's the tape?
Well,it definitely ain't at WCNU.
I screened every tape Jane ever touched.
Could've brought it home with her.
That's what I would've done.
Who packed up Jane's house?
Here are the rest of them.
Been in there for years.
Just couldn't bring myself
to throw anything away.
Did Jane ever tell you about the
last story she was working on?
Was,um,something about people walking
in malls for exercise,wasn't it?
Lil,I got something.
November ,.
A day before she d*ed.
People deserve to know the truth
about what's happening to them.
Why it's happening.People are dying.
The people you're referring to
are employees of Shaw Plastics?
Factory workers.
They're being exposed to a
dangerous toxin called asbestos.
How do you know this?
Because I have the memo.
Shaw Plastics was aware
of the effects of asbestos.
Can you explain what that means exactly?
Well,if you drill it down,it means the
company knew asbestos was causing cancer.
And instead of doing anything
about it,they covered it up.
...means exactly?
Well,if you drill it down,it
means the company knew...
There's our smoking g*n.
That spin doctor,Wyatt.
Bad PR from a big,fat liar.
Like to see him spin this.
What'd you talk about,last
time you saw Jane?
A few fundraisers.
I told you,I-I barely knew her.
That what you called
her about at : p.m.
night before she was
k*lled?"Fundraiser"?
Shaw Plastics was
knowingly harming people.
Company falsified the results of mandatory drug
tests to flush out anyone who opened their mouth.
And you knew about it.
The thing is, years
later,you're still working there.
- What's that make you?
- This is ridiculous.
You people don't know
what you're talking about.
...explain what that means exactly?
Well,if you drill it down,it means the
company knew asbestos was causing cancer.
And instead of doing anything
about it,they covered it up.
Gonna ask again.
What were you calling
about night before she d*ed?
I didn't k*ll her.
"You did the right thing.Don't
make any decisions tonight."
Got your conversation on tape.
You drill it down,she was
trying to warm your cold feet.
Interview never aired.You changed your
mind and got rid of her to cover it up.
I'll be there in minutes.
She was going to meet you; makes
you the last to see her alive.
I was trying to help those
people who were getting sick.
I tried.I really did.
And then I thought about
what the company would do.
Intimidation,blacklists...
- People's lives get ruined.
- Lives did get ruined.
It takes courage
being a whistle-blower.
Heavy lifting for a schmuck like you.
Family corporation and all.
I thought I could talk her out of it.
I shouldn't have talked to you.
I want you to destroy the tape.
I gave Briggs my word,David.
Look,what the company is doing is wrong.
- That-that's not the
issue.- So what is?
What are they going to do
to us when they find out?
Once the story's
out,Shaw can't touch us.
Everyone will know the
truth.Don't back out on us,David.
Every minute we sit here
someone else gets sick.
Tell me you're with me.
All right.
For every one of those people...
thank you.
I called Powers.
Bastard was sailing
in the Cayman Islands.
You told him about Jane?
The interview you gave her?
I thought he'd fire me.
Instead I got promoted.
Keeping his enemies closer.
You keep your k and Jane
ends up dead.You sleep at night?
I asked him to fix the problem so
that more people would not get sick.
What'd he say he was
going to do about it?
He said all he had to do was call the
station and the story would disappear.
No wonder he didn't stick
around last time we met.
Andrew Powers?
Remember that asbestos scandal
you covered up back in '?
Looks like it's making a comeback.
Got stock in the company,might want to
call your broker.Insider information tip.
- **
- I'll meet you at the restaurant.
What do you want?
We're thinking you're a conspirator
to the m*rder of Jane Everett.
m*rder?
I didn't touch that girl.I
was in the Cayman Islands.
We know.
You called someone at WCNU from your house
a few hours before Jane showed up dead.
Got the phone records to prove it.
You tell us who you called,maybe
the conspiracy goes away.
I only wanted to k*ll a story.
Never intended for anyone to get hurt.
We'll let the jury decide that.
All we want is a name.
You friends with Andrew Powers,Nathan?
Station covered a few Shaw
fundraisers,but,uh,no,I didn't know him personally.
Think of any reason why he might've
been calling your extension at WCNU
from his house in the Cayman Islands?
Corporate bigwigs liked
throwing their weight around,
bitching about a story,so
sometimes they'd call.
This particular conversation
happened at : in the morning,
few hours before Jane was k*lled.
Probably had some idea he
wanted the station to cover.
Looked into your financials,Nathan.
- Yeah?
- You bought stock in Shaw Plastics
two weeks before Meijers
bought the company.
Stroke of genius made you
a millionaire overnight.
What can I say?I had a good broker.
It was the 's.Guys like Powers were making
millions and you wanted a piece of the pie.
Nothing wrong with free enterprise.
Except there was
nothing "free" about it.
The stock tip came
with strings attached.
Powers was calling you that night
because he wanted a story to go away.
And he was right.
Jane had no business
taking that interview.
No,David Wyatt was no scientist.
I mean,you had taught her better than
that,letting her heart lead a story.
It's called journalistic integrity.
You don't just take the
word of some PR hack.
How'd you know about that interview?
What?
The one Jane had with
David Wyatt,that "PR hack"?
Did Powers tell you about it?
Or...was it Jane?
I would never hurt Jane.
She was almost like a daughter to you.
- She was.
- Sending you those stories every week.
Coming to work for me.
But she was still
holding onto something.
What,what was that you called it?
- Journalistic...
- Integrity.
Wasn't as simple for you.
You had suits to answer to.
Ratings to get.
Hard not getting swept up in
the bonuses,the kickbacks...
The business demanded
it.It was sink or swim.
You just wanted that tape.
- Simple request.
- That's all I wanted.
But Jane refused.
She knew that if she gave it to me...
we'd both be lost.
Nathan?What are you doing here?
I've been...I've been trying
to reach you all night.
I thought it was timeto
take care of this.
So what'd you want to talk to me about?
I know I asked for a celebrity special,
but... I have a story.
I have a real story.The kind that
we used to talk about at Syracuse.
Tell me.
Employees at Shaw
Plastics are getting sick.
I found an executive who admitted management
knew they were being exposed to asbestos,
a toxin that causes cancer.
I got him on tape reading the memo.
Jane Everett, you cracked a story.
We break the story.
I mean,employees get a chance
at getting their compensation.
They get... they get
their medical bills paid.
Right.So,uh,where is it?
- Where's what?
- The tape.
- It's in a safe place.
- Great.
I'll need to vet it with,uh,legal first.
Legal?
No,these people don't have
that kind of time,Nathan.
We're exposed on this.Shaw
could take us to the cleaners.
We need to be responsible to our
advertisers and to corporate sponsors.
Then I'll take it to another station.
Are you kidding me?We'll lose our jobs.
Be sued for slander.This
isn't college, Jane.
This is business.
Now what's it going to
take for you to see that?
One million.
I always knew you were smart,Everett.
A million it is.
Wait. Hey. Where you going?
You were the one who
lectured me about ethics!
Come on,Jane.News isn't news anymore.
You love it just as much as anybody.
- The ratings,the attention.
- No.Not anymore!
- Come here!
- Just stay away from me!
- Get over here!
- Stay away from me!
Give me the damn tape!
No!
Stop!
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