Leverage

I can't believe you actually bought this dreadful red thing.

I believe it's called a sweater.

This monstrosity defiles the good name of sweaters everywhere.

Lees, I was kidding, the sweater is fine.

I just need to rest for a second.

Lisa?

Lisa!

Lisa!

Somebody!

Help!

Ashley?

Ashley Moore, right?

You must be doctor Roberts.

Yes, sorry I was so cryptic on the phone.

I have some information about your sister's death.

What? Did you know Lisa?

No, but I know about the drug trial she was part of.

I'm so sorry.

Were you involved in the trial?

I'm sorry. I should see who this is.

Of course.

Hello?

Hello?

Oh, who is this? I can't hear you.

Are you okay?

F.B.I., sir.

That young lady's in our custody.

Aw, see, you made two mistakes, bro.

First, you flashed that fake-ass F.B.I. badge at me.

Second...

You spilled his coffee.

See, I-I got your back.

The rich and powerful take what they want.

We steal it back for you.

Sometimes, bad guys make the best good guys.

We provide...

My sister was part of a drug trial

For a new medication called HT1.

A week into the trial,

She suffered acute liver failure and died.

Did the drug company offer a settlement?

J.R.P. Pharmaceuticals...

The company sponsoring the trial...

They sent a very attractive man in a suit to our house.

He said nobody else had any side effects

And it was a freak accident.

He sat at our kitchen table,

And he wrote a number on a piece of paper.

Sitting at the kitchen table where she used to eat pancakes.

I'm sorry.

So, your parents, uh, declined any kind of settlement?

I convinced them not to.

I gave them a great speech

About how Lisa's life couldn't be bought,

How I'd make the people who killed her take responsibility.

Yeah, but that never happened.

Sounds like you've been there.

Close enough.

We sued,

But J.R.P. claimed Lisa had a pre-existing condition.

We lost.

Yeah, causation is the hardest thing to prove in these cases.

We couldn't find a lawyer who would take our appeal.

I've spent three years looking for any new evidence.

I found nothing until Dr. Roberts contacted me.

And now he's gone.

Well, we'll... we'll find him.

We're happy that you're okay.

Thanks to Alec.

I don't know what would have happened

If he hadn't been there.

Now, before Dr. Roberts disappeared,

Did he leave you anything, give you any information, uh, some...

Just this.

"Arcadia" and a bunch of names. I don't know.

Here.

Okay, Arcadia's a town about 30 miles from here.

But I got nothing on the names.

None of these names link to Arcadia?

No, like "nothing" nothing...

No school records, no addresses, no birth certificates.

They've been erased.

But I did find Dr. Roberts.

Wow. You found that while we were sitting here?

Oh, yeah. It's nothing.

It's amazing. I've always wanted to do that.

Well, I-I could show you some stuff.

As soon as I get you a refill.

Hey, what do we know about her?

Did you do a background check?

She's a nice girl who needs our help.

Yeah, but she could be a spy or a terrorist.

She looks kind of like a terrorist.

Yeah, I'm gonna keep my eye on her. Right.

Yeah, according to this, uh...

...Up until, uh, eight months ago,

Dr. Roberts worked for J.R.P. Pharmaceuticals.

That's the company that made HT1.

Okay, now, J.R.P. Pharmaceuticals

Was bought by Pallagen Laboratories.

Dr. Roberts and all the other researchers were let go.

Maybe... maybe we should maybe take this to the, uh...

Poker room? Yeah.

Yeah. Where's Eliot?

Oh, he had to change his shirt. He got coffee on it.

And some blood and some teeth.

Oh... uh, okay. Well, why don't you call him

And, uh, tell him to go to Dr. Roberts' home address,

And, Parker, you and Sophie do things the old-fashioned way.

Knock on some doors in, uh, Arcadi...

Parker?

Want to go knock on some doors in Arcadia?

Right. Got it. Yeah.

All right.

Door's locked and nobody's answering.

Here you go. Thanks.

All right, well, see if you can break in, but be subtle.

Yeah, yeah.

Not subtle.

Dr. Roberts?

Pretty small apartment to be driving a BMW.

He doesn't drive a BMW. He drives a moped.

It's a flash drive.

Okay, well, plug it into your phone.

Really?

You getting this?

Okay, according to these files,

Dr. Roberts was meeting with Darren Hoffman.

Now, Hoffman was trying to buy something from him

For $200,000.

Sounds like a bribe.

No, no, no, there's nothing

in his account that shows up that big.

If it was a bribe, he didn't take it.

All right, well, we got to figure out

Who this, uh, Hoffman guy is.

Give me a second.

Cross-referencing Dr. Roberts' cell records with his file and...

Okay, Hoffman is the C.E.O. of Pallagen Laboratories.

Pallagen is the company that bought J.R.P. Pharmaceuticals.

Well, it... it shows that Hoffman

Doesn't have a background in medicine or science.

He's a career executive.

He started with finance, went to telecom,

Jumped to software,

And then he jumped to the top spot in Pallagen a year ago.

Yeah, I know his type.

Yeah, well, he's chasing the C.E.O. chair.

He's moving from company to company,

Juicing their profits

And using the publicity to move onto the next corporation.

No loyalty.

But what could Hoffman want from Dr. Roberts

That's worth $200,000?

Well...

I found your Dr. Roberts.

They made it look like a heart attack.

What do you mean "made it look"?

Well, there's nice places a professional will use

To deliver an injection.

They went under the fingernail.

Your Dr. Roberts was murdered.

Nate, we found the people in Arcadia.

Tiffany Helland, Michelle Coratola,

Nicholas Paxton.

Okay, who have you talked to so far?

Well, that's not really an option.

They're all dead.

All right, here it is.

15 people from Arcadia

Participated in the HT1 drug trial.

10 of them died of liver failure.

Ashley's sister was not the only victim of HT1.

See, Hoffman, what he...

oh, come on.

Damn it, Hardison.

You know, he keeps changing the settings, and I can't...

Where is he? Where is Hardison?

He's downstairs in the poker room.

He's looking after Ashley.

Parker's helping.

Parker's helping? Mm-hmm.

There. Okay, so after Pallagen buys J.R.P. Pharmaceuticals,

Hoffman has all the online records of Arcadia erased.

Now, luckily, his reach doesn't extend

To the Arcadia public library.

So, Roberts finds a connection between Hoffman and HT1.

Hoffman offers him the 200 grand to silence him.

But Roberts doesn't take the bribe,

So Hoffman has him...

Erased.

I'm thinking the Swedish rail con.

The Cairo flyer?

Oh, no way. I'm not wearing that dress again.

The double-blind. The double-blind.

Yeah.

Hi. Oh, hi.

Welcome to Vioplex training day.

I'm Trina. And you are?

Laurie. Laurie Sprang.