Burden of Truth

Previously on Burden of Truth...

23 barrels in the field,

and we still can't tie it to Matheson Steel.

But our whistleblower can.

You want me to go on the record?

Joanna said that we're not suing you.

- We're suing the mill. - I am the mill.

We all have ends we gotta meet.

You keep this conversation going,

I'll show you where you meet your end.

I don't understand.

I have cancer?

She said opposing counsel called the meeting.

If it wasn't you, then who did it?

I did.

Joanna Hanley is hereby disqualified.

You've done a fabulous job of getting us this far.

I'll take it from here.

That's unnecessary.

I've got everything under control.

Thanks, guys.

What is going on?!

Grab a box and get comfortable.

What's all this?

The mill has been compelled to show us their files,

so they cooperate by burying us.

I thought we were prepping Molly today.

We are. We have to do both:

prep Molly and find the needle in the haystack.

Easy, right?

If only we had our third musketeer.

Shouldn't we have heard from her by now?

She'll reach out as soon as she gets her ruling.

So what's the needle?

Anything relating to the parent company:

e-mail transcripts, memos, board minutes.

We have to show that P and L knew

the illegal dumping was taking place.

Are you kidding me?

Oh, yeah... Anything that's been redacted,

we have to petition the court to have it unmasked.

- Every time? - Every time.

Welcome to discovery.

Before me today is the conflict of interest matter

for the prosecuting attorney of Ross v. Matheson Steel.

Ms. Hanley, you better have

one hell of an explanation for yourself.

During my time as lawyer at CTS,

I did not work on Matheson Steel files,

nor did I do any work substantially related

to the matter before the court. There is no conflict.

Furthermore, the Defence failed

to bring their complaint in a timely manner.

By failing to bring their complaint,

they have effectively waived their objection.

Use it or lose it.

Counselor Hanley.

Yes, Your Honour.

Counselor David Hanley.

Why the delay in bringing this to my attention?

I wasn't lead counsel for the Defence until last week.

But you knew your daughter was representing Molly Ross.

Yes, I did.

By removing me from this matter so late,

it will negatively impact our client.

They still have Billy Crawford, Your Honour.

Would your clients not be sufficiently

represented by your co-counsel?

William Crawford is a skilled attorney,

but Carver, Thatcher, Stokes

is a firm with enormous resources.

Even with the two of us, this isn't a fair fight.

And the resources that we do have

are being squandered fighting vexatious motions.

You're wasting Opposing Counsel's time

and more importantly, you're wasting mine.

Joanna Hanley is requalified as counsel.

Well, well.

Me and you back in court together. Just like old times.

I'm here because you had me disqualified from this case.

I've never given you special treatment. You know that.

I think that you are terrified

of what the girls are going to say

and you're trying to sideline our witness preparation,

and it's not gonna work.

Joanna, I was really hoping

that we could start mending fences here.

Come on.

Will you at least have breakfast with me?

Please?

We've always bonded over litigation.

There's no reason we can't do it from opposite sides.

That's gonna be a long road, Dad.

And right now, I'm kind of busy with my girls.

Your girls?

Now you sound like Crawford.

- What's that supposed to mean? - It means that he'll always be

Molly Ross's uncle first.

He's protective of her. He's emotional.

That's why he'll lose.

You think you can rattle Billy by going after Molly?

I should get going back to work.

- I'll get this. - You didn't finish.

I'll see you at the deposition tomorrow.

Hey.

Look, I know I'm not your favourite person,

but I was wondering if we could talk.

About my father.

I've been wanting to talk to you too.

When I told him I was having Luna,

your dad gave me an ultimatum.

I had to agree to never contact him again,

or else he'd sue for full custody.

He threatened to take her from you?

He was bluffing.

He had no interest in raising her,

but I was a kid. I didn't know that.

He told me that what you had together

felt like love.

I thought it was.

I was young and infatuated,

and he loved that.

But that's not love.

He's told so many lies.

I just need to find the one

that will trip him up.

Is that why you wanted to talk to me?

Ask your mother.

I'm sure she has enough dirt to bury him.

Yeah, I haven't heard from her in over a decade.

She was supposed to come with us.

She stayed back in Winnipeg to finish packing, and eh...

I never saw her again.

Maybe you should find her.

I mean, you know where she is, don't you?

I'll do what I can

to help you take him down.

But...

the person you really need to talk to is her.

Your kids made these for me?

I didn't tell them what happened.

Yeah. And they don't know about us?

How's the head?

Still feels like

the guy knocked something loose.

Whatever it is it's just...

rattling around in there.

Who would do this?

I keep replaying it in my head...

but... my head's the problem.

I can't remember anything.

You should get some rest.

I'll be back in a bit to check on you, OK?

Who the flowers for?

You cheating on me with some guy in a body cast?

They're for Taylor Matheson.

She's in the east wing, first round of chemo.

Give the kid my best, OK?

Dr. Barrow to Obstectrics.

Hey.

Shh!

How are you doing?

Oh, well, um, chemo sucks.

Well, we should put that on the back of a t-shirt.

Where's your mom?

They're on a rotating schedule,

which means I never get a break.

They don't want you to be alone.

And I'm always still here if you need me.

Oh.

- Diane. - Hi, Ben. Good morning.

Baby, did you sleep?

Yeah, when you weren't snoring.

I don't snore.

You must be hungry.

How about I get you one of those

tasty nutritional shakes?

Said no one ever.

Ms. Evans, can you take my dad on a walk or something?

He's been in that chair all night.

I'm fine. You don't need to worry about me.

I'd also really like to get some sleep.

Coffee?

Yeah.

We should start with named plaintiff, Molly Ross.

- She's the weak link. - OK.

She got some brain trauma on the soccer field

a couple years ago.

A concussion.

Yeah. Suffered traumatic brain injury

that caused sufficient damage,

enough to differentiate her symptoms from the other girls.

She only scored 10 on the Glasgow Coma Scale.

Look, it's an opening, OK?

We establish the brain injury,

and then we pivot to the gay thing.

- The gay thing? - Yeah.

Look, there are

certain psychological pressures

to being a closeted lesbian in a small town.