For The People

Previously on "For the People"...

Damn!

I can cancel my date tonight and work on this with you.

I don't want you to cancel your date.

I'll be thinking about you the whole time.

It's about opposing counsel. She's my girlfriend.

The AUSA handling the case

filed the additional claims for the sole purpose

of pressuring Ms. Locarno into a deal.

I'm on probation. - I did what I had to do.

And now I'm gonna do what I have to do. I'm leaving.

- Good morning. - Not for you, apparently.

We were just talking about losers.

My case was thrown out. Can we really call that a loss?

Oh, we can call it a big loss.

We are not going to break up over an insider-trading case.

No, we're gonna break up because

I don't want to be second chair to you the rest of my life.

And if I stay, we both know that I would be.

There he is.

Hey, Mom!

You're all moved in.

Yep, feels like home.

- This is the best thing for you. - Don't.

- What? - Bring Allison up.

I wasn't. I'm just proud that you have your own place.

Thanks, Mom.

- Without Allison. - Mom...

Can you believe what's going on

- over here in Lincoln? - What?

You know the aerospace plant that went in a few years back?

- Kappler-Hays, yeah? - They've been allowing some chemical

to run off their property,

and, apparently, it's in the soil, the drinking water.

People are getting really sick.

Is that Carver?

Your elementary school.

Remember Jenny Mars?

Of course I remember Jenny.

That's her son, Theo, in the picture.

He's on life support.

You're a lawyer.

Can you do something about all this?

I'm not that kind of lawyer, Mom.

Well, what kind of lawyer are you?

Hey.

- You biked here? - Yeah. You?

- Oh. -

Ah! I thought I'd beat her here.

I saw her at home in the morning once.

That was the closest I've come.

Chloe Daniels, assault on a postal worker...

I'll take it.

Have you ever done a murder case?

Y-You said "assault."

He might die. Allison? Jay?

Not a lot of murder at the ACLU. Lot of talking, mostly.

A-At County PD, I had guys who probably had murdered, so...

This one's mine then. Assist and learn.

What exactly did Chloe Daniels do?

I was getting my mail. Just like a normal day.

He was already in the mail room.

Were you alone?

It wasn't Stanley, our normal mail guy.

This guys was... weird.

He was, um...

looking at me...

Yeah, it was just the two of us.

Before I could even open the mailbox,

he came at me.

So I-I grabbed a letter opener off the counter.

Really, the next thing I can remember

is him bleeding from his neck.

And then I called the police.

I've never hurt anyone in my life, Ms. Carlan.

I was just trying to defend myself.

And I'm here to defend you, Chloe.

A plea of not guilty is entered

as to all counts of the indictment.

Our next order of business is assigning a judge for trial.

Ms. Krissman?

The Honorable Judge Gerald McKinnon.

The Honorable Judge Eva Corcoran.

The Honorable Judge Nicholas Byrne.

My client has no criminal record,

she isn't a flight risk, and has roots in the community.

We respectfully ask for bond

in an amount commensurate with her resources.

Under the condition that Ms. Daniels

confine herself to her home except for the purposes of work,

bail is set for $20,000.

Now, let's pick a trial judge.

M-Maybe just pull a card, Ms. Krissman?

How bad is it?

We may have to put her down.

That's sad.

I remember the first time on the Wheel, I got Judge Wallace Andrews.

- Yuck. - Deeply unpleasant.

But then he ruled for me on an impossible suppression motion.

Still remember that. Never doubt the Wheel.

First of all, who even thinks about

running a pipeline full of poison next to a school?

T-The school is already right there.

It's not... an invisible school.

I found it every morning for six years.

It's hard to ask you to leave

when you're using the words "poison" and "school."

- I'm angry. - You should be.

And they're probably gonna get away with this.

If only you knew someone in the federal justice system

who could do something about it.

Kappler-Hays has already committed

so many EPA violations here...

Clean Water Act, Toxic Substances Control Act...

Doesn't Nebraska have an attorney general and courts and stuff?

I'm not up on Nebraska.

Nebraska depends on Kappler-Hays for jobs.

The attorney general's never gonna go hard at them.

But their headquarters are here in Manhattan,

so we can get them in the Southern District.

It's a big case to make.

It is. But the EPA and state regulatory authorities

have already done so much to make it.

We just need to pull it all together.

You look like Seth Oliver. Even sound like him.

Let me do this.

Yeah, but I can't use resources on a case we can't win.

I'm not Rocky Balboa.

Rocky did win. He beat Ivan Drago.

I meant the first one.

He just wants to go the dist... Wait.

You've seen "Rocky IV", but not the original?

- Four is a classic. - It's four!

Let me do this. I can win.

Okay, but on the condition

that you rent "Rocky"... the first one...

and tell me if there's a better movie anywhere.

That's literally a condition!

- Cool if I sit? - No.

So, here's the scenario. Let's say you embezzled...

I would never embezzle.

- But if you did. - I didn't.

- What would you spend the money on? - What money?

- The money you embezzled. - I didn't embezzle.

Hey, sorry to interrupt.

I finished the discovery binder

for the Stewart International case.

Thanks, Tony. You can leave it there.

You got any big plans for the weekend?

Going through this.

If you need a break, a bunch of us are going over

to the Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island.

You should come.

I probably won't have time, but thanks for the invite.

Okay, well, if anything changes, you have my number.

Mm-hmm.

- That was real cold. - What?

He likes you. He sent up a test balloon

and you shot it down. Cold.

I-I'm not interested.

- If you were interested... - I'm not!

- But if... - I'm...

I have to move floors.

I did it.

Opened a criminal investigation into Kappler-Hays.

Subpoenas are out.

You're going up against Kappler-Hays?

You both have offices, right?

You know every big firm in New York

is trying to get that case now, right?

Right now. As we speak.

And the firm that does get it

is gonna spare no expense to destroy you,

and they will salt the earth when they are done.

Is this a pep talk?

I just want you to know what you're up against.

I think I do know.

- Todd. - Seth.

- How are you? - Oh, great. Thanks for coming.

Thanks for, uh, inviting me.

- We miss you at the firm, Seth. - Well, I miss being there.

- You should. -

I mean, you have the best job in the world, obviously,

but there's a lot of great stuff

happening at Stillman right now.

- We have nap pods. - Nap pods?

- I just woke up 15 minutes ago. - Huh.

Can you tell I was asleep?

Look at me. Seriously. Can you tell?

I-I guess... a-a little bit.

- Maybe around your eyes. - No, you cannot! Right?

- - That's what I'm saying.

These things are amazing.

Oh, we have a whole onsite wellness center.

It makes a difference.

Meditation and bee pollen every morning