06x09 - False Positive

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Previously on "Bull..."

BULL: You want to
rent out the algorithm?

MARISSA: To bring in revenue,
shore up our finances? Yes.

What I don't need is somebody
going behind my back.

I've been in front of you
the whole time.

You just refuse to see me.

- You okay?
- After Benny left,

I thought he would offer me this office.

One of the firms circled back

and asked me if I would
work for them in-house.

And what did you say?

I am considering a Plan B.

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♪ Overstepping get you bound ♪

♪ With no protection ♪

♪ No protection ♪
♪ Ain't no question ♪

♪ If the answer is you guessing ♪

♪ Mirror over the drawer
is speeding up my dressing ♪

♪ Ay, there no point in moving
top speed if you ain't ♪

♪ Headed nowhere and
you ain't planting no seeds ♪

♪ Seeds ♪
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♪ Dreams ♪

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and I ain't had no spare key ♪

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♪ You take the right step... ♪

- MAN: g*n!
- [g*nshots]

[DOGS BARKING]

[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

[g*n CLATTERS]

WOMAN: Don't go out there!

- NYPD.
- Police officers.

NYPD. Stay back.

- Stay back.
- Go back inside.

Adam to Central.

Ten- .

sh*ts fired. Repeat, sh*ts fired.

Suspect is down. Need a bus ASAP.

- DISPATCHER: Copy that.
- You see the money?

Nothing.

Well, it's-it's got to be here.
Check again.

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

[SIREN APPROACHING]

Where's the money?

Did we get the wrong guy?

[SIRENS WAILING]

CHUNK: His name's Corey Rice.

Had a job as a security guard,

and he was on his way to work
when the cops came after him.

They were looking for a guy

who was robbing check cashing stores.

How'd they end up targeting him?

The NYPD uses a facial
recognition software

made by a company called Viridipoint AI.

They ID'd Corey as the robber

from some security camera footage,

- and the cops went to arrest him.
- Okay.

He didn't have anything
to do with the robbery?

- They found that out after he was dead.
- Yeah.

The city settled with his
mother for $ . million.

Wow.

[SCOFFS]

That's gonna be inadequate
next to the loss of her son.

Yeah.

If she's settled,
what does she want with us?

Corey was my rock.

Cancer took his father.

[SIGHS]

I've seen firsthand
what can happen to a boy

when his father is taken from him.

My Corey decided
just to grow up, then and there.

years old, acting like it was his job

to take care of me.

Sounds like he was a fine young man.

He was studying criminal justice
at John Jay.

He wanted to be one of them,

and they sh*t him.

They sh*t my baby.

CHUNK: Mrs. Rice,

obviously, what happened to your son

was a tragedy.

But since you accepted
a settlement from the NYPD,

what is it you'd like for us to do?

That settlement's blood money
as far as I'm concerned.

I'll never touch a penny of it
for myself.

I'm going to use it
to make sure no other mothers

lose their babies

because they were misidentified.

Let me show you something.

This is the mugshot

of the man who was ultimately arrested

for robbing those stores.

Doesn't look anything like Corey.

VERNICE: Their complexions
are different.

He's, like, ten years and pounds off.

And this is the photo

from the security camera

from the robbery.

Somehow, when this image
was uploaded into Viridipoint's

facial recognition program,

it gave the police my son's name.

Viridipoint sent

armed men to hunt my child
like an animal.

So, you want to sue Viridipoint
for wrongful death?

They put a target on my son's back.

I want them held accountable.

Mrs. Rice, I hear you,
but we'd be asking

a jury to assign blame to someone

after another party effectively

accepted responsibility by paying you

a financial settlement.

I know it'll be a fight.

[GRUNTS]

I'm afraid it's more than that.

If we win,

then the settlement's
just gonna be about money...

Blood money, as you put it.

VERNICE: If I hit them where they live,

cost them enough,

maybe they'll think twice

before they let the cops
use their software.

They'll change their ways

before another innocent man is k*lled.

Corey's death has got to mean something.

It's got to.

CHUNK: You don't like this case, do you?

Well, we got to convince a jury
that a bunch of coders

are liable for a k*lling
they didn't take part in,

witness, or even know about.

I know it's gonna be a difficult case,

but don't you think that
this company bears

- some responsibility?
- [SIGHS]

I don't care if it's difficult.

I care about getting this
mother what she needs.

- What's that mean?
- She's in pain.

She wants to avenge her son's death.

Civil litigation is not gonna
get her what she wants.

It's the only way I know to help her.

I understand that,
but $ an hour attorney

hammering out another settlement
for her, that's just...

not gonna bring her joy.

Wait a second.

What's going on there?

Is that Marissa having
a sit-down with Bradley Lena?

Looks like it.

BULL: He just won that big

gender discrimination lawsuit.

Did she tell you
she was meeting with him?

Well, she said she was meeting someone.

She didn't say it was him.

- That was a very lawyerly response.
- I'm a lawyer.

So, she said she was meeting
someone, but she didn't say...

- I didn't say it like that, Bull...
- it was Bradley Lena?

I'm gonna find out what's going on.

MARISSA: She was a kid. [LAUGHS]

Hey!

- Oh. Bull.
- Hi.

Uh, Bradley, this is...

Jason Bull. How are you?

Uh, by the way,
congrats on that big win.

Couldn't have happened
to a nicer oil company.

Well, thank you, uh...

You know, you take some
cases for the principle,

you take some for the payday.

Sometimes, you win the
lotto and get both.

[BULL CHUCKLES]

So, what's going on?

You guys discussing a way
our shops can team up?

Actually, I was interested
in learning more

about TAC's jury algorithm.

We have a different
approach to voir dire,

and Ms. Morgan agreed
to talk me through yours.

Really?

Uh... No. Thank you for trying.

You don't need to lie for me.

We're here to talk about a job.

Oh. What kind of case is it?

No. A job.

With Bradley.

For me.

Oh.

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TAYLOR: Facial recognition
works by making a map of the face

and measuring certain features:

the space between the eyes,

the distance from the chin to the nose.

Then it runs the results
through databases

looking for a match.

It's a highly sophisticated
tool, but, as we've seen

from Corey Rice's tragic case,
it's not always accurate,

and, unfortunately,

these systems often misidentify
the faces of people of color.

Yeah, well, black and brown
folks been catching hell

while companies like V-Point

have been cashing in.

It's the same song.
It's a different verse.

I think this is on those cops.

All they had to do
was look at Corey Rice

before they opened fire.

Instead, they were cowboys,
and they came in hot.

That's what the other side's gonna say.

And what are we saying?

We're saying that V-Point was negligent,

which led the cops to target Corey,

convinced that he was
the man that they wanted.

V-Point lied, and Corey d*ed.

Well, it has a ring to it.
Can you prove it?

We're gonna try.

If we can prove that their
software isn't as accurate

as they claim, I think we're home free.

We need to know if any other departments

have had cases like this.

Cops who were misled by over-reliance

on V-Point's facial rec.

I'll see what I can find, but...

I still think Corey Rice's death
is on those cops.

Yeah, I heard you the first time.

Hi. Can we talk?

Let's.

I want to apologize.

That is not how I wanted you to find out

that I was considering another job.

First of all, I completely understand.

It's not my first rodeo.
I've seen this tactic before.

Tactic?

Yeah. You want to talk about a raise,

so you let me know
somebody else is interested.

I get it. It's just that we've
worked together a long time,

and I think you could've just
come and talked to me about it.

Okay, Bull, it's not a tactic.

I'm considering leaving TAC

and going to work for Bradley Lena.

Why?

Well, I think it's...

pretty clear that I've been...

unhappy for a while.

Really? Is it clear?

It's not to me.

Oh, come on. I-I've tried and tried

to talk to you about this.

The fight we had

about me licensing the algorithm.

- Yeah. Didn't we work that out?
- No, we didn't work it out.

You got arrested,

which made everything about you, again.

Yeah, I'm-I'm so sorry
that my getting arrested

got in the way
of your self-actualization.

That is not what I am talking about.

Okay. Let's just cut to the chase.

What is it that you want?

It's time for a little
transparency here, I think.

- [DOOR OPENS]
- Hi. Hello. I know, I know,

I'm sorry to interrupt,
it's just the office is locked.

- Uh, what office?
- Benny's old office.

Benny's office?

He said I could use it
because it's empty.

He didn't tell you?

I must have missed that
in all the transparency.

Why don't I go grab you a key?

IZZY: Thanks.

What did I just walk into?

[SIGHS]

MARISSA: [SIGHS] What a day.

Yeah.

I did not see the whole Izzy
in Benny's office thing coming.

Me neither.

I'm scared this means
you're gonna leave.

Right now, all it means is

I am going home

and pouring myself
a beautiful glass of wine.

- What is going on with your computer?
- What?

Whoa, whoa!
Someone's attacking my system.

MARISSA: Who?

I-I don't know. I just managed

to get past Viridipoint's
proxy firewall.

So it's someone from V-Point?

I don't think so.
I think this is someone else.

[COMPUTER CHIMES]

"Back off"?

No, no, no.

I'm locked out.

I've been h*jacked.

You want a glass of wine, too?

[ELEVATOR BELL CHIMES]

BULL: Mrs. Rice,

it's just pretrial motions today.

You don't have to be here.

Oh, I'm here, every day.

You don't have to worry about that.

Hey. You're from TAC, right?

Vijay Paterson, counsel for Viridipoint.

We're in . Motion's been reassigned.

Reassigned? What judge?

- Preston.
- Preston? Never heard of him.

It's a her.

She's new. Just appointed.

Is new good?

- We're gonna find out.
- VIJAY: Your Honor,

my client understands
the emotions involved,

but the fact remains,
Viridipoint had no duty of care

to Corey Rice.

That duty rested solely
with the NYPD officers

at the scene.

As such, we ask the court to grant

our motion to dismiss.

Your Honor, Viridipoint's
facial recognition software

falsely identified

Corey Rice as a dangerous suspect.

Mr. Rice's fatal sh**ting
at the hands of police

who relied on the accuracy
of that software proves

conclusively that

the duty of care rests with Viridipoint.

Isn't it the NYPD's job

to properly train its officers

how to use tools
such as facial recognition?

- That's true, Your Honor, but...
- I'm skeptical

that you have grounds
for wrongful death here.

One moment, please, Your Honor.

Just a hunch, but I don't
think she's buying it.

Well, she's a new judge.

She's just trying to make her mark.

You got a Plan B?

I could argue a civil rights violation,

but that's more of a stretch
than wrongful death.

I doubt she'll go for that either.

Well, we need something she will go for.

Well, do you have any suggestions?

'Cause in about ten seconds,
she's about to toss our case,

and then we're nowhere.

Okay, well, I'll come up with something,
just keep her talking.

Your Honor, if it please the court,

we would like to amend
our existing complaint.

Taylor, can you boot up your hard drive,

or whatever it is
you do with that thing.

- Now isn't a great time.
- BULL: Oh.

I'm sorry. I will try and arrange

my emergencies better in the future.

I'd love to help. I can't.
We're completely off-line and...

[COMPUTER WHIRRING]

Oh, wait. We're back.

We're on line.

Great. Listen, I need you
to do something for me.

Yes, in about ten minutes
when my system reboots.

[SIGHS] I don't have time.

You know what? Never mind.

Viridipoint is a corporate entity.

How does your civil rights claim apply?

Law enforcement is
a state function, Your Honor.

By providing investigative leads
to the NYPD,

Viridipoint is, in effect,
a state actor.

[CLICKS TONGUE]

I don't see it.

Nice try, but I'm afraid we're gonna...

[FIRE ALARM BLARING]

All right, everyone, take it easy.

We'll have a brief recess

- while we get this sorted out.
- [BANGS GAVEL]

Everyone out this way, please.

- Did you...?
- I plead the Fifth. Let's go.

We got five minutes
to come up with an argument

that Judge Preston won't kick.

The judge called

V-Point's facial recognition
program a tool.

Yeah. "A tool is only as good
as the user" argument, yeah.

So Corey Rice d*ed
because V-Point's tool,

its... product,

didn't work as advertised,

and that's not on the user.
That's false advertising.

Wait a minute, you want to sue
for deceptive trade practice?

Well, Don Quixote, you wanted
to tilt at windmills. Try it.

- I got to go.
- You're not sticking around for this?

Well, some schmuck
pulled the fire alarm.

I can't stick around for that.

CHUNK: Viridipoint misrepresented

material facts to their
customers to perpetrate a fraud,

and in so doing engaged

in a pattern of deceptive
trade practices, Your Honor.

Vernice Rice wasn't a customer
of Viridipoint, Your Honor.

In that case, I don't see
how she has standing.

Remington v. Soto, Your Honor,

where the Supreme Court upheld
the lower court's decision

to allow the parents
of Sandy Hook victims

to sue the g*n manufacturer Remington

for marketing their g*ns in a manner

that would inspire the sh**t.

That is a novel argument.

I'd like to see if you
can make that stick.

Motion to dismiss is denied,

but good luck
convincing the jury, Mr. Palmer.

[BANGS GAVEL]

I just spoke to a friend at DHS.

She said the hack used to shut us down

looks like the work
of a penetration tester

known as "Tidal."

What's a penetration tester?

They're hackers who test
defenses in corporate systems.

They look for holes,

and when they find them,
sell the information

to the company so they can fix them.

I was working a hole
in V-Point's firewall.

I guess Tidal thought I was competition,

so she gave me a shove
to get me to back off.

What do you want to do?

Pay.

Money's the only thing

hackers like this pay attention to.

How much?

, .

You can have five, and get a receipt.

No problem.

Hackers love to give receipts.

[ELEVATOR BELL CHIMES]

Chunk called. I will adjust
the juror algorithm

to account for the new cause of action.

Deceptive trade practices, right?

That's what he sold them on.

I need you to help me

prepare someone to take over the board

in case you leave us
while we're working on this one.

I won't walk out on you
in the middle of a case.

Give me some credit.

Well, I would have before yesterday.

All right, we have worked
together for years.

I know. Oh, is that
Mr. Lena checking in?

All due respect,
that's none of your business.

Okay.

Listen. I think we can handle
this one without you.

You got a lot going on.
You got a new job to consider,

a lot on your plate. We got this one.

I... Who'll run the board?

I will.

- Hey.
- Hi.

- Is everything all right?
- Yup.

Look, if Benny's office is an issue,

I can find another place.

The office is not the problem.

Well, Jason mentioned that

you got a job offer,
and that you've been unhappy.

At least he heard me this time.

He needs you.

TAC cannot work without you,

- and he knows it.
- Really?

Is that why he just
pulled me from the case?

Well... [CHUCKLES] I never said

he's not an idiot, but...

Don't you dare say that
his heart's in the right place.

He has been dismissing me
and my ideas for months.

Look, I love TAC.

I helped build it.

It's my home.

I want to stay, but...

if he won't listen to me,

won't acknowledge
what I'm bringing to the table,

how can I?

Excuse me.

Hey, um... [CLEARS THROAT]

[SIGHS] I'm having computer problems.

Have you tried unplugging it
and plugging it back in?

I think it's a little more
complicated than that.

Maybe Tidal can help?

That's you, right?

I can't help you.

You shut down my system

because I found a gap
in Viridipoint's AI firewall.

I need that gap to stay open.

[CLEARS THROAT]

$ , .

It's yours...

if you leave me alone.

Oh, I'm gonna need... [EXHALES]

...$ , for that
to be worth my while.

I don't have that.

Then you still got a problem.

Sorry, soccer mom.

Uh, for the record,
my son does not play soccer,

and I pulled off the Whisper Mode hack

while you were still dancing on your bed

under a poster of Avril Lavigne,

so bite me.

Yo.

No way you pulled off Whisper Mode.

Oh, yeah, I did.

Prove it.

The point was to remain anonymous.

I didn't keep a bunch
of hard evidence against myself.

Okay, well I know a little bit about it.

Tell me something
you can't read on Wikipedia.

Um...

Okay.

Everyone thinks I hacked

the FBI, DHS, and GCHQ,
but I also hacked NASA.

That's not generally known
because it was classified.

Respect.

Does that mean you'll back off
and let me do my work?

- Won't matter if I back off.
- Why not?

That hole in the firewall
you were working?

Viridipoint plugged it up this morning.

Great.

I might know

some other ways into their servers.

I could show you.

BULL: Testing.

Testing one, two, three.

Rubber baby buggy bumper.
Rubber baby buggy bumper.

Bull? Please stop.

Just warming up my lips.

So, has our data scientist
taken the stand yet?

- So help me God.
- Just sworn in.

Now, keep him out of the weeds.

Nothing loses a jury faster

than five-dollar words and tech jargon.

Dr. Gasden,

you are an expert
in artificial intelligence,

particularly with
facial recognition, correct?

Yes.

Doctor, I'd like to show you
a photograph

of some footage from the

security camera that the police used

to falsely identify

Corey Rice as a suspect.

Now, in your expert opinion,

is this footage conducive

to finding an accurate match
using facial recognition?

No.

The dark lighting
and obscured facial features

in that recording are...

far from ideal.

Given those conditions,

the accuracy would only be
somewhere between...

Mm...

and...

%.

BULL [OVER EARBUD]: Chunk, do something.

They're falling asleep.

Far from the . %

that V-Point touts.

Can you explain this discrepancy?

It has to do with eigenface values.

BULL: Reel him back, Chester.

Okay, um... [CHUCKLES]

Can you explain that in layman's terms?

What you're really describing

is a set of eigen vectors

relating to the computer vision problem

- of human face recognition.
- BULL: [SIGHS] We're in the weeds.

We are deep in the weeds.

Well, you lost the jury with Dr. Nerdly.

If I didn't have someone
doing color commentary

in my ear the whole time,

I would've had a better control of him.

Hey. Found a possible witness for you.

Salvador Johns. Hartford PD.

Retired.

How can he help us?

Well, he sh*t a man
during a traffic stop.

The victim was a Black HR manager

who was misidentified as the
suspect in a police sh**ting.

- And he's willing to testify?
- Oh, yeah.

The way he sees it,
V-Point ruined his life.

Well, that's two people that have been

misidentified by V-Point.

The jury's got to feel that.

You don't sound enthusiastic about him.

I don't like giving cops

an excuse for k*lling innocent people.

I hear what you're saying,
but we've got to do something

that's gonna break through to this jury.

We don't have a choice, Bull.
We have got to put him up.

[LAPTOP BEEPS]

And you're in.

And...

here's your cash.

I never would've found that.

Thank you.

What are you looking for?

Some information Viridipoint
really doesn't want us to have

that'll prove they're responsible

for an innocent man's death.

Well, if it's super-secret,

probably not gonna find it
on their servers.

Where would I find it?

The CEO, Voight,

he has an air-gapped computer
at his house.

No connection to the Internet.
I would guess,

for top secret stuff.

So, I'd have to...

physically get inside his house?

If you want what's on that server.

Yeah, I think that would involve

going a little further outside the lines

than I'm comfortable with.

This from the woman
who pulled off Whisper Mode?

I hate to admit it,
but I was younger then.

Maybe I am a bit of a soccer mom now.

Well, if you change your mind,

I've got some ideas. Might be fun.

I'm sure it would be.

[CHUCKLES]

Hey, thanks again.

No problem.

CHUNK: Mr. Johns, is it fair to say

that Viridipoint put a target

on the back of an innocent man?

I never would've gone at him like that

if Viridipoint's facial rec
hadn't positively identified him

as the maniac who sh*t two cops.

I feel terrible about what happened.

I k*lled an innocent person.

I have to live with that every day.

CHUNK: So, the information
provided to you

by Viridipoint convinced you

that you needed to use lethal force?

Yes, absolutely.

Nothing further, Your Honor.

Jury's with you. Nice work.

VIJAY: Mr. Johns,

how long were you with
the Hartford Police Department

before you were fired?

I wasn't fired.

My mistake.

How long before you

left the department?

years.

In those years,
you had more than a dozen

excessive force complaints
against you, isn't that true?

SALVADOR: Every cop
on the street gets those.

Look at my record.
I was never formally disciplined

because I did the job right.

Hmm. How many of those complaints

were filed by African Americans?

I mean...

my precinct was to % Black.

It's only natural.

VIJAY: It's only natural

that you as*ault African Americans,

or it's only natural
that none of their complaints

led to any charges?

Objection. Inflammatory.

Sustained.

The innocent man you sh*t,

he was African American, wasn't he?

Yes. But that's not...

Is that why you opened fire?
Because it was only natural?

Objection, Your Honor,

the counsel is badgering the witness.

PRESTON: Sustained.

Dial it back, Counselor.

I'll rephrase.

Isn't it true that of
the complaints against you

were filed by African Americans?

SALVADOR: I know
what you're trying to do.

You're trying to paint me
like I'm some kind of a r*cist.

Are you a r*cist?

I don't have a r*cist bone in my body.

My partner was Black.

Oh, no.

[SIGHS]

Damn it.

VIJAY: No further questions.

PRESTON: Court will take a brief recess.

[GAVEL BANGS]

Mrs. Rice.

Mrs. Rice.

Please, can we talk?

Can we talk? Mrs. Rice, please, listen,

listen. I am so sorry.

I know that you're angry.

Since the day my son was taken from me,

all I've been is angry.

Anger won't bring him back.

I know I should've prepared you
for that witness.

I... You should know

I would rather lose

than have a man like that

speak for my son.

I understand, but we have to

try to show the jury
what V-Point has done,

and he was a way to do that.

The only reason
I'm holding onto this pain,

the senselessness of all of this,

is to make my son's death
mean something.

- I want that, too.
- If you thought

putting a man who robbed another
Black mother of her child

on the stand was the right thing to do,

then you never understood
what I was trying to accomplish,

and you damn sure
never understood my son.

Hey.

Hey, yourself.

Heard court was a little rough.

That's one way to describe it.

You'll get the jury back. You always do.

I wouldn't be so sure of that.

I don't even know if we're
gonna get the client back.

Did you find any

test results, anything that would prove

V-Point's facial rec is not as accurate

- as they claim?
- No.

I've looked all over their system.

Nothing that can help us.

That's too bad.
I really could've use that data.

There is...

actually one other thing I could try.

Great. What is it?

The less you know about it, the better.

[CLEARS THROAT]

Tidal.

Soccer mom.

You still up for an adventure?

[SIGHS]

[SIGHS]

[CLEARS THROAT SOFTLY]

BULL: floors. Not a word.

[SIGHS] How's it gotten this bad?

Well, she seemed pretty upset
when I spoke to her.

Really?

What did she say?

That she loves TAC,

but she feels disrespected.

Disrespected?

I mean, we had our disagreements
over the year, but...

disrepect... I mean...

I-I have the utmost respect for Marissa.

Well, I can't speak to
what happened between you two.

- I'm just telling you how she feels.
- [SIGHS]

I know.

So, what did you tell her?

I said she should do

whatever makes her happy.

I thought you were on my side.

I am on your side.

- Your side wants Marissa happy.
- Really...

You know, I asked her what she wanted.

She just wouldn'ttell me.

[SIGHS]

My dear,

lovely,

sometimes self-obsessed husband,

has it been possible that she's been

telling you what she needs,
and you haven't been listening?

Oh.

Yeah. So...

Tell me what I should do.

She's trying to decide
what's right for her.

Make staying at TAC her best choice.

[CAR ALARM CHIRPS]

I like the outfit.

Bloomingdales,

Fall Misdemeanor Collection?

Funny.

Did you get me a Trojan Horse?

I went through Voight's
credit card transactions.

He ordered a speaker just like
this one two days ago.

If we leave it on his doorstep,

he'll think it just arrived early.

So... what's it delivering?

This is a Raspberry Pi with
a few tweaks of my own design.

Once it's inside,

it can use any nearby Wi-Fi signal

to infiltrate Voight's
entire home network,

even... [CLICKS TONGUE]
...his air-gapped server.

Slick.

Fun working outside the lines, isn't it?

You know, when you h*jacked my system,

I wanted to punch you in the face,
but... [CHUCKLES]

I have to admit, I kind of needed this.

Cool.

[CHUCKLES]

[ELEVATOR BELL CHIMES]

Can we talk?

[SIGHS]

There is no TAC without you.

And I know I haven't
always acted like that.

I am sorry.

Thank you.

I know I can be a little inflexible.

- [LAUGHS] Really?
- Yeah.

I want you to have
whatever it is you need

to be happy here at TAC,

and I will match whatever it is

Mr. Bradley Lena
is offering you, plus %.

[CHUCKLES] And it's

your algorithm, so whatever
you want to do with it,

we will do.

And the office.

Obviously.

You will have your own office.

[SIGHS]

That's very generous, Bull.

Give me time to think about it.

I don't need to think about it.

The answer is yes.

Good answer.

Now, I'm gonna go back to work.

Morning.

Did that plan I'm not
supposed to know about

produce anything I should know about?

Well, I was able to access
Voight's private,

air-gapped server but, sadly,

I didn't find any test results,

just some financial documents.

Well, thanks for trying anyway.

I just got a text
from V-Point's attorney.

They want to discuss a settlement.

But they're winning.

That's what's weird,

but Bull always said
that he thought this thing

would end up in a settlement conference.

I guess he was right.

What happens now?

Convince our client to accept
a settlement she doesn't want

or lose in court.

CHUNK: V-Point's offer is substantial.

BULL: And they've agreed
to suspend licensing

the facial recognition software to

New York state law enforcement.

The police couldn't use it anymore?

In New York state.

Elsewhere, they can.

Where's the other shoe?
What do they want?

There's a non-disparagement
clause, which means that

you would have to refrain from
making any public statements

that were critical
of V-Point or its technology,

forever.

They want me to go away.

Forget Corey ever existed.

They are buying your silence, yes.

That money they're offering...

I know charities that could
put it to good use.

And for the NYPD to give up
facial recognition...

That's something.

BULL: It is, and

if we go in front of a jury,

I promise you,

you'll get nothing, absolutely nothing.

Would you sign it?

If it meant I had to be silent
about the death of my child,

I would politely tell them
how to fold that offer,

and I would tell them
exactly where to put it.

I wasn't raised to be a quitter.

No sense starting now.

VERNICE: Corey always called me

as soon as he got to work.

He worked a lot of nights.

Didn't matter how late,

he always made sure to let me know

he was all right...

but not that night.

Mrs. Rice,

when you found out that Corey was dead,

did the authorities tell you
what had happened?

I was told my son

had been misidentified

by an algorithm.

An algorithm.

How can you protect
against an algorithm?

I taught my son

keep your hands in the open,

walk, don't run.

"Yes, Officer.

No, Officer."

That's what we need
to teach our children

so they can get through this world.

To survive.

He did everything he was supposed to,

but they still put a target on his back

because some machine
said it was all right.

Mrs. Rice, you don't believe

Viridipoint's claim of being

. % accurate, do you?

Not for my son.

Not for anyone whose
skin looked like his.

He was a fine young man,

and he would've had so
much to give this world

if someone at Viridipoint hadn't

thrown up their hands
and said, "Close enough."

No.

I can't accept that.

Not if "close enough"

means someone else might
have to bury their child.

[INHALES]

[SOFTLY]: No.

CHUNK: I have nothing further,
Your Honor.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

have you reached a verdict?

JURY FOREMAN: We have, Your Honor.

We the jury find the defendant,

Viridipoint AI,

not liable under
the consumer protection laws

of the State of New York.

PRESTON: The court thanks the members

of the jury for their service.

- Court is adjourned.
- [GAVEL BANGS]

Mrs. Rice, I'm not sure I deserve that.

You let my son speak.

Everyone in this courtroom
knows who he was

and what was taken from him.

You gave me that much.

We still lost,

and I don't know why I'm not surprised.

Corey used to say,

"Fight for keeps,

so you can keep fighting."

So, keep fighting.

Keep fighting.

Goodbye, Dr. Bull.

It's been an honor, Mrs. Rice.

BULL: I keep thinking about
V-point's settlement offer.

What about it?

Well, people try to settle
'cause they're scared of losing.

Yeah, usually.

When they made the offer,
they were winning, no question,

so what are they scared of?

The financial documents
that Taylor dug up

contain two sets of books.
One public, one private.

V-Point's a publicly held company.

If they've been feeding
investors fake numbers,

that is securities fraud.

MARISSA: Yup.

Securities fraud? What did I miss?

I think we just figured out why
V-Point was so keen to settle.

MARISSA: Their offer came right after

Taylor hacked into Voight's
super-secret computer,

which made us wonder if he knew
he'd been hacked and was scared

about what we might find.

So, Voight offered to settle,

so we would stop digging
and not find his cooked books.

He must've crapped his pants
when we turned him down.

He thought we were gonna bust him.

Well, is there anyone
stopping us from doing that now?

MARISSA: Well, the way Taylor
got these was not what

you'd call kosher.

We release them, we put her
in legal jeopardy.

Right, but there's got to be
a way around that.

Hey, doesn't the SEC
have an anonymous tip line?

Why, yes.

Yes, it does.

REPORTERS: Mr. Voight!
Mr. Voight! Mr. Voight!

What do you have to say
about the accusations?

They just said Voight is facing years

and up to $ million in fines.

Yeah, and the company's
filing for bankruptcy.

So long, Viridipoint.

This just came for you. Wine club?

Not unless you signed me up.

_

Who's that from?

Me,

a long time ago.

I'm going to get some food.
Want to come?

Uh, thanks, but...

I need to make a call.

[VIDEO CALL RINGING]

Marissa!

Oh...

Why do I feel like a man
who's about to be let down easy?

Bradley, your offer
was incredibly generous,

but...

I'm afraid my answer is no.

Well... you'd be a tremendous
asset to any company

for all the reasons
I've stated repeatedly,

but the thing I like
about you most of all

is your sense of loyalty.

Thank you.

Look, I know we went over

the compensation package earlier, but...

there was one perk I didn't mention.

Can I show it to you?

Sure.

[COMPUTER CHIMES]

What do you think?

- [KNOCKS ON WALL]
- You got a minute?

Hey. You bet I do.

In fact...

I'm glad you came by,

because I got a little something

I wanted us to share once
you signed your deal memo,

but, what the heck,
let's cr*ck her open now.

Barolo.

Don't ask how much it cost, 'cause...

it would make me blush.

You didn't have to do that.

Yes, I did, and that is precisely

the point.

- [BOTTLE POPS]
- [SIGHS]

Isn't that the best sound in the world?

I have to tell you something.

You're leaving...

to work with Lena.

I'm sorry.

[SIGHS]

[CHUCKLES] But...

Okay.

We... did talk,

and I was giving you everything

- that you wanted.
- You are.

But...

What is he giving you?

You... Okay.

You want your name above the door?

You never asked for that.

Mm, you're right, I didn't.

With him, I didn't have to.

Okay, well, technically,
my name's not above the door

'cause it's just TAC,
but if you would like to change

- the name of the company...
- I want to be somewhere

- my value is known.
- You are...

Not something that I have
to argue for or negotiate.

I'm gonna go get my things.

I'll be out in an hour.

[WHISPERS]: Goodbye.