Wisdom of the Crowd

Hey, Dad, um, your office said you're out of town,

so, figured you'd like the personal touch.

Anyways, um, can't wait to see you tomorrow.

Hey, I know I probably don't say this enough,

but I love you, Dad.

And, um, I know we've had our problems,

but I wouldn't be who I am without you.

So...

Anyways, travel safe.

Love you.

I already said that, didn't I?

Okay, bye.

You're watching a live feed

from AllSourcer headquarters in Silicon Valley,

where Jeffrey Tanner, the notoriously driven CEO

behind the popular social media aggregator

has called a press conference.

It's pennies on the dollar.

Are you sure you want to do this?

It's already done.

Now, given the timing

and the rumors swirling around the company,

speculation abounds as to what he's going to announce today.

(REPORTERS SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES)

We'll go live to Palo Alto,

where he's making his way to the podium now.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Please, everyone, listen.

Listen, I don't, I don't know if you got the memo,

but I also will not be releasing my tax returns.

Um...

I just signed an agreement

giving up ownership of AllSourcer.

I'm out.

The question you're all probably asking yourself is why.

So I'm gonna try to explain it,

as best I can. Um...

Next week is the one-year anniversary

of my daughter Mia's death.

More accurately, her murder.

You all know the story.

The press covered it in excruciating detail.

But I-I have to tell you,

unless you have lost a child yourself...

...you can never know what it does to you.

Your schedule, Congresswoman.

What do we have? You have a constituent meet and greet.

Your briefing at noon.

Flight's at 3:00.

Hi, I'm so sorry I'm late.

- The Beltway. - (TANNER SPEAKING OVER TV)

Hi, John. How are you?

Katherine.

With all due respect, Congressman...

Um, can you, can you just turn that back for a moment, please?

But the wheels of justice turned,

and they caught and convicted the man

they believe to have murdered my daughter, a former addict

named Carlos Ochoa, who worked at the shelter

where my daughter was interning.

Just knowing that her killer is behind bars

should bring me some comfort, some closure.

I think they got the wrong guy.

I now have evidence,

evidence that has never been made public,

evidence that leads me to believe...

Hey.

- What's going on? - Tommy.

...that they have incarcerated the wrong man.

See this?

And whoever did this to my daughter is still out there.

And I believe that more evidence would emerge

if a platform existed for it to be brought forward.

And that is why I have created that platform.

I call it Sophe.

And as of right now...

...it is active.

Sophe is real time crowdsourced crime solving.

It's a hub where people can submit

- and dissect evidence. - Ma!

WOMAN (IN DISTANCE): Damn it, what?

Sophe was the Greek personification of wisdom...

your wisdom.

The cops, the courts,

they can only do so much.

The rest is up to us.

I truly believe that Sophe

will revolutionize crime solving.

And to prove it, I am offering a powerful incentive.

$100 million

- to anyone that can help identify - (CROWD MURMURING)

or apprehend the killer of my daughter.

Holy crap.

Deputy chief wants to see us.

Now.

My money is on you.

All of you.

Good luck.

Let's get to work.

I should've told you first.

I know that.

Would've been nice. (CHUCKLES)

But we both know what you would've said.

Which is what?

That Mia's killer's in prison, right?

Where he belongs.

Jeffrey, it's over.

Please, just let this be over.

You know what I can't stop thinking about? St. Barts.

Before we split up; her running through those waves.

Do you remember that?

I remember she got the stomach flu.

She threw up all night.

Two days later, I got it.

I guess it's just how we see things, you know?

Good and the bad.

I should've been there.

Should've been there.

Please, just stop this.

Nothing that you do is gonna bring her back.

I have to go.

You were a good dad.

- I wasn't. - Hmm.

But thank you for saying that.

Thank you.

Well, I... don't get me wrong, you were a terrible husband.

That's more like it.

- Yes. Awful. - Thank you.

But you were a good dad.

Thank you.

Where the hell am I?

Come on, Tommy, you must be loving this.

You thought we got the wrong guy all along.

You even got yourself kicked off

the case because of it.

Should've kept my mouth shut.

I'd have made lieutenant, too.

Hold on.

Detective Cavanaugh, SFPD.

Well, Tanner asked just for you.

So now's your chance to prove us all wrong.

Have fun in Silicon Valley.

Yeah, well,

not exactly.

Detective Cavanaugh.

Thank you for coming.

I was sent.

There's a difference.

Oakland... I mean, um, that's a little ghetto for you, isn't it?

Well, from humble beginnings come big things.

100 million of them.

Yeah. Not about the money, Detective.

People want to be a part of something meaningful.

This is Sara Morton.

She's in charge of day-to-day for Sophe.

Detective.

Here, you'll be needing this.

This Sophe Web thing, what does it do exactly?

Hundred years ago, there was a scientist,

Sir Francis Galton; he went to a county fair,

he asked 800 people to guess the weight of a prize-winning ox.

No one could get it exactly right.

But then, when he averaged in all of the answers,

they were dead on,

within a half a pound. Half a pound.

That's what it does.

- Wisdom of the crowd, huh? - Yep.

It's a nice story; you should post it online.

You'd get a ton of likes.

You're a skeptic.

I just know there's a reason why cops solve crimes.

For one thing, we know how to gather evidence

so it's admissible.

The chain of custody is clear

for any evidence posted on the site.

Yeah, maybe.

But we have this thing

called the Constitution, which protects people's privacy.

- (LAUGHS): Privacy? - Yes.

We gave that up a long time ago so we could watch cat videos

on our phone.

Welcome to The Hive, Detective.

What the hell is this?

This is where we maintain the Sophe

CrowdTec database and monitor the platform.

We vet any evidence before it's posted,

and then we can pull it up at the stroke of a key.

Those are just posts to the site, Officer.

Uh, nothing interesting yet.

Sir. Officer.

You really think all this is gonna work?

I know it'll work. I tested it.

I wanted to hold