Goliath

Brittany.

Brittany?

Go away.

Billy, go away! I'm not here! Go away!

Brittany, open the fucking door.

- I can't talk to you. - Come on.

I can't talk to you.

Just talk to me for a minute.

What the fuck are you doing?

Huh?

You need to leave.

What do you mean, I need to leave?

You look me in the fucking eye right now.

God damn you, look me in the fucking eye.

What did you expect me to do, Billy?

I don't have a fucking choice.

What do I expect you to do?

I expect you to be my fucking friend!

You were never my friend!

Really? You got a short memory, honey!

- Billy! - You got a really short fucking memory!

The only reason you hired me

is because I fuck guys for a living

and you thought that I'd be handy for you!

That was it!

And you were right

because you're fucking smart!

Because I did it!

I fucked that cop because you asked me to.

I asked you to do that?

I asked you to find some shit out for me.

- Okay? - You asked me to do it.

How much did Callie offer you?

After you watched the video,

you looked at me with so much fucking shame!

What did Callie... Really?

I never felt like more of a fucking whore

in my entire life!

I told you I was sorry about this shit, okay?

What did she offer you?

What did Callie offer you?

She didn't offer me anything.

Really? She offered you nothing?

This is my only chance...

You're selling me down the fucking river...

...to not go to fucking prison for ten years.

I'm supposed to sit in there and fucking rot

while you go and do your fucking case?

That's the only thing you care about!

You don't give a shit about anyone else!

People have been killed. Do you know that?

I know that, yeah. Well, you didn't save fucking Rachel!

What are you going to do for me?

You're too fucking fancy for this place!

Get the fuck out of here!

Okay, you sleep well, okay?

I came here to try, all right?

Oh, fuck.

Finally. Are we set?

We just came from a meeting with the management committee.

There's no way you can get in that witness chair, Donald.

I have been summoned.

We can get you out of that.

You are part of the defense team.

Anything you would say is shielded

by both privilege

and work product.

That was once true.

It is no longer so.

After Wendell Corey chose to invoke my name

during his testimony,

legally he waived the privilege

by raising a reliance on counsel defense.

You know this plays right into Billy's hands.

He has no case right now.

By you taking the stand, you risk giving him one.

The fact that his case rests on me...

what more could we want?

This isn't about you.

It isn't about your ego

or your intelligence or your Billy grudge.

This is about you

doing what is best for the client.

Ohh.

And you can't use that damn thing in court.

Are you saying they might see me as a monster?

You're damn right.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Letts.

I have been summoned.

I will comply with the court order,

and I will discharge my civic duty.

Donald.

Did you puppeteer this?

You told Wendell

to hide behind privilege,

knowing full well that they would ask you

to the stand.

This is the big day.

We don't want to be late.

The risk you are putting us through is enormous.

I need to get to court.

What a sight you all are for me.

You may find my appearance odd.

Remember, I am in no pain.

You are my people.

I'm your people.

Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth,

so help you God?

Yes, I do.

I'm sorry. I didn't hear that.

Yes, I do, I said.

Hmm.

Sir, in a nice loud voice,

please introduce yourself to the members of our jury.

Donald Cooperman.

And you're an attorney.

Yes.

A well-compensated,

Yale-educated attorney.

Not only Yale, but yes.

You represent the defendant, Borns Technology?

Yes.

As an experienced attorney, you're familiar

with something called the advice of counsel defense.

That's a legal doctrine involving...

good faith reliance

on an attorney's, uh...

advice.

Let me pose a hypothetical.

If someone like Borns Tech were to detonate napalm bombs

off the coast of Long Beach,

which is just a few miles from this courtroom,

that defense could come in pretty handy, couldn't it?

I don't agree with your premise.

A clever attorney could invoke that defense

to help his client avoid responsibility.

It's a...

it's... it's... it's...

it's a legitimate legal defense...

honored in courts across the land.

Ever advise Borns Tech

about testing cluster bombs in the ocean?

I did not.

- Wendell Corey says you did. - That's not what he said

on the closed circuit television replay I saw,

but if he did say that in some other venue,

I would say he was mistaken.

Did you advise or instruct Ryan Larson

or anyone else at Borns Tech

to design or test cluster bombs?

No. I did not.

Did a man named Karl Stoltz ever authorize Ryan Larson

to test cluster bombs?

Uh, I've never heard of anyone by the name of Karl Stoltz.

Are you familiar with the original plaintiff

in this lawsuit... Rachel Kennedy?

Only from the pleadings.

Hmm. She had to drop out of the suit

after she was run over by a car and killed.

Mm, yeah, I... I know...

I know she had to drop out.

Who's Lucy Kittridge?

How is this remotely relevant?

I was just getting to that.

You and Miss Kittridge had a personal relationship.

Right?

She worked for the firm.

Are you aware of a conversation

between Miss Kittridge and a man named Karl Stoltz?

Objection. Hearsay.

Not offering for the truth, Your Honor.

Are you aware of a conversation?

I don't know anyone named Stoltz.

Very well.

Are you aware Mr. Stoltz made threats on your life?

Can we at least get an offer of proof?

- Where is this going? - My offer of proof

is that Mr. Stoltz made threats against this witness,

and then the next day he wound up dead

in the trunk of a car.

What's the basis of knowledge here?

It was my car.

There isn't a scrap of evidence

tying our client to a murder.

So if Lucy Kittridge...

there she is right here... Lucy...

if she gets on the stand

and testifies that you know Karl Stoltz,

- would she be lying? - Objection.

Calls for speculation.

Well, Miss Kittridge is going to be my next witness.

I will take it to bene. Go ahead.

Miss Kittridge is going to say

that Mr. Stoltz had a conversation with you.

You know what I find, uh...

unconscionable?

Yes, please.

A bottom-feeding vulture

picking flesh off the bones of the dead

at the expense of a great company,