The Good Fight

Where are they thinking?

Uh...

There.

But there was also a noose there.

How would he do it there?

Supposedly, leaning forward.

He was using his weight.

How do they not know

if he hung himself from the window or the bed?

Well, because there were nooses in both places.

What nooses?

Well, he-he made them from bedsheets.

A guard cut him free and tried to revive him.

- And the guard can't tell us? - He's being prosecuted.

Can we... can we get a photo of that?

- Sure. - They're lying!

- They're all lying. - Shut up.

Back away.

- How many prisoners per cell? - Two...

in the Special Housing Unit.

But no one in that cell?

Correct.

And when was the second prisoner removed?

- The day before. - Why?

He was released.

This prison is massively overcrowded?

- Mm. - And no one was put in that cell?

So he was on suicide watch,

but he was allowed to be in that cell by himself?

He was taken off watch a week later.

And that video camera, that's the one that wasn't working?

- Yes. - And we don't know why?

But there was another video camera?

Yes.

But you don't have the footage

- from this one? - No.

But Bill Barr has reviewed it, and he saw nothing unusual.

No one entering the SHU or exiting.

- The attorney general saw this? - Yes.

But we can't see it?

It wasn't made available to my department.

You're the U.S. attorney, and it wasn't made available to you?

Yes.

Look, Liz, that's why I need you to review this.

We thought that the media attention would die down,

but it's been nine months, and the reporters keep calling

and asking, "Did he kill himself,

or was Jeffrey Epstein murdered?"

So, why me?

- We're objective. - That's right.

I need my own Warren Commission.

This is a printout of Epstein's little black book.

It has every name of every lawyer

worth his salt in New York.

You worked for me in Chicago.

- You pushed me out in Chicago. - Yes, but I remember

you came to me five years ago and you told me,

"We should arrest Jeffrey Epstein."

You wanted to investigate his sexual transporting

of underage girls.

You were ahead of all of us.

You kept saying, "We need to protect the girls,"

and I said, "No, he's too connected."

Well, here's our chance to correct that.

- Yeah, well, it's a little late. - You do a good job here, Liz,

I can imply but not promise

that there could be other work for your firm.

A lot of work.

Epstein died in this cell.

Did he commit suicide, or was he murdered?

You have a budget of $400,000,

and 133,000 pages of evidence.

And if I decide that he was murdered?

- I won't censor you. - Even if I find out

that it was done by powerful people?

Follow the evidence wherever it takes you.

I need outside-the-box thinking.

- How long do I have? - Two weeks.

Brief me in a week, I'll get you more time.

But I need something.

Something 60 Minutes doesn't have.

All right, you...

You told me that I could interview somebody

who knew Epstein in prison?

Yes. This way.

No, no, no, no. I want him.

No. That's Niko.

- He's a liar. - Yeah, it's better if you talk to someone else.

Was Niko there that night?

Then-then I want to talk to him.

He used to stand just inside that door.

We talked a lot.

He gave me investment advice about index funds

that I'm definitely going to follow.

Do you remember anything about the night that he died?

He was kind of chatty that night, said he, uh,

had doubts about the Jets' starting quarterback.

And then he said something weird.

He said, right before he was arrested, on his jet,

he took care of the most important thing.

What was that?

I have no idea.

Any idea what this is about?

Nope.

But an unscheduled midweek meeting?

Never good.

The coffee's better up here, though, huh?

Mm.

Ah, good morning. Thank you for starting your day with me.

I will make this quick.

You are the heads of all of our major departments,

and you're doing an amazing job.

That... Yes.

Yes. Applause. Indeed, indeed.

Well-deserved. Worth it.

I have very good news for everyone.

- Here it comes. - One of the reasons

for these mergers is the great

opportunity for synergy.

It gives us the-the chance to hone our operations,

to create greater communication, to maximize profits.

I mean, y-you carefully sand a piece of wood

in order to reduce the chance of slivers.

Now, as department heads,

I want you to take a look at your lawyers and associates,

and then I want you to come back to me with suggestions

for reductions of 20%.

We've made copies of your personnel lists.

Just go through them.

Put an "X" next to

whoever you think we might be able to reduce.

We will handle notification, severance packages and the like.

Now, look, there are exciting days ahead.

Let us remember the words of the master:

"Only when we are soft and pliable

can we be hard and strong."

You're dictating our staffing levels.

I don't consider it dictating.

- What do you consider it? - Stewardship.

Which, by the way, significantly increases all our incomes.

Except for the people who are fired.

You can't force us to lay off 20% of our employees.

- How do you figure? - Because we agreed that for the first year,

we would be allowed to supervise our own shop.

- It's in our contract. - And you are.

I'm not telling you who to let go.

Just put an "X" by their name.

We'll take care of the rest of it.

There are so many files to go through here.

This is just the first truckload.

We're gonna be at this for weeks.

We're gonna need a system to get this organized.

Who wrote all these reports?

Oh, there it is. All right.

Okay, let's put the... let's put the medical evidence here,

we'll put the correspondence here, and let's put

the interviews with the prison officials here.

I've never worked on a case this famous before.

- I know, right? - This is criminal charges

- and victims' accounts? - Okay, why don't you get

a team of three and go through all of that?

Okay, look, find any evidence

that argues for murder or suicide, you put it here.

Murder. He was killed by the Trumps.

Oh, come on. You blame everything on the Trumps.

Nobody in Trumpland is organized enough to pull this off.

Why not the Clintons? You sound like right-wing talk radio.

Bill was on the Lolita Express, too.

Hey! Wait, no.

No. No conspiracy theories,

no... no insane charges.

Everything we do, we need evidence, so let's start here.

Epstein was a middle-aged white man.

That is the demographic most likely to die by suicide.

It says here suicide rate in pretrial jails

is three times higher than in other prisons.

Yes, but the last suicide in that jail was 21 years ago.

It was unusual.

Yeah, but Epstein knew that he was going

to prison for the rest of his life.

So let's not rule out the simplest explanation.

Actually, there are two autopsy reports.

One by a private examiner.

- Paid for by the family? - So?

Maybe he's just telling them what they want to hear.

He thinks that Epstein's injuries

are more consistent with homicide.

Broken blood vessels in the eyes,

broken hyoid bone and cartilage.

But the official report says that injuries like that

- are not unusual in hanging. - They got a reason

- to protect their own asses. - Key words there are "official report."