The Good Fight

You want some candy?

Want some vegetables?

Oh.

I know what you want.

- Ta-da! - Unc, I'm not a kid.

Oh, this is not a toy.

It's a medical device.

See, you put all your hurt in this end.

Well, go ahead. Want to give it a try?

"I'm Dustin, and my favorite uncle

"just got me this

"because he thinks I'm five years old

"and that it'll make the bone marrow transplant

suck less."

And then out the other end...

I'm Dustin,

and my favorite uncle just got me this

because he thinks I'm five years old

and that it'll make the bone marrow transplant

suck less.

- Yes, and we planned for surgery today. - Do you know how much pain

- he's been going through? - What-what's going on?

They canceled the transplant.

No. We didn't cancel it. We're ready to go.

- Then what happened? - The donor canceled.

He was supposed to be here by 83:00.

Why? Why did he cancel?

All we know is that he promised his bone marrow

- to someone else. - No!

We-we-we need to talk to him.

He insists on maintaining his anonymity.

I'm feeling manipulated.

It's voluntary, of course.

The bone marrow donor can back out whenever he wants.

Who are you calling?

I'm calling work.

Unfortunately, there's no plan B here, sir.

We're lawyers.

There's always a plan B.

What do you want me to do about it?

Find out who did it.

Check the elevator security camera.

- They were off. - The cameras were off?

What the fuck?!

- Maintenance was working on them. - Are you kidding me?

The one day some white supremacist puts

"Blood and Soil" stickers all over our elevator,

- and the surveillance cameras are off? - They've been off for a while.

Check the lobby camera.

There's one hour when somebody could've done this.

Red dick and Associates.

Red dick & Richard.

- Who's in today? - No one. It's early.

On a Zoom call in 15 minutes.

And any associates you can scrounge up, bring them in.

Can I tell them what this is regarding?

It's a life-or-death situation.

Unhand her right now, you son of a bitch!

Thank you, Julius.

You did? How'd you know that?

Because who else comes into the office on Saturday morning?

Richard wants everybody thon a Zoom call in 15 minutes.

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What are you doing?

I, uh, got to go.

What? Where?

To work.

I'll go with you.

Um, no, no. I will, uh...

I'll see you at St. Barts.

Are you hiding me?

Come on.

Stop it.

They don't know you're gay, do they?

Um...

They don't know I'm anything.

Lock the door.

Why, why am I always doing things for you?

Everybody else does things for me.

I got to get this.

- We're all here? - Yes.

This is about my 11-year-old nephew, Dustin.

He has sickle cell disease.

And he's been in and out of hospitals

half his life. He was supposed...

Yes, sorry. Hebrew

Uh, he's facing organ failure, uh...

uh, we found out that

How hard is it to find uh, another match?

That Dustin might have another...

Oh, my God!

Is being paid to donate his bone marrow to someone else.

- Which is illegal. - Yes, but not unlikely.

I need legal solutions.

- Do you know who the donor is? - No. We only know he's a male

- Do we have any legal options? - No-I don't think there's male

Unless we can prove some manipulation of the process.

To follow through on a gift.

You'd have to prove to detrimental reliance.

E-Either way, uh,

let's work up the lawsuit.

Uh, I'm getting court time at noon.

So we have to move fast.

Uh, Carmen and, um...

- Marissa. - Right, um...

and turn over every stone for another option.

The-the status on the database changes hour to hour,

so something might come up.

- Uh, and meanwhile, I need the partners... - Okay, I'll come in.

I'll-I'll work on the estoppel.

Thank you.

I'm not giving up on Dustin...

until the Good Lord tells me to.

Unfortunately, I think I have to go.

Can we schedule another session on Monday?

Certainly. I hope you don't mind.

I couldn't help overhearing your Zoom call.

The nephew of one of our partners, it's just awful.

I heard sickle cell. You know, we volunteer here

helping sickle cell patients with pain management.

It's way past that. He-he has a week to live.

I'm just saying, from my work,

I'm on the board for clinical trials.

Well, what trials?

Gene-editing technology. You've heard of CRISPR?

It's like that.

Trials are proving it cures sickle cell.

Keep going.

It works like a tiny pair of scissors, snipping off

the segment of the DNA that causes sickle cell.

That's been done? Successfully?

Yes. Well, then why would anyone need a bone marrow transplant?

They wouldn't.

Gene editing is so new, it's-it's only in trials.

But the results are amazing.

I know the doctor doing the trials here

in Chicago, and I could introduce you.

- You would do that? - Of course.

Bone marrow matches are very rare.

So I'm gonna need you both to...

Came from the gym.

I'm gonna need you to scour

the donor databases. There are three or four.

- And what are we looking for? - According to Richard,

these are Dustin's leukocyte antigens markers.

What's our deadline?

Well, the operation can be pushed back

till Monday, but that's about it.

- This Monday? - Yes.

We should check social media, too.

That's up to you.

Uh, don't you want

to work off the same computer?

It's better if we work separately.

Dr. Singh, thank you for hearing me out.

No problem. Uh, come on. They need me in triage.

- Is it normally like this? - No.

I came in to check on the trials,

and protestors started fighting around the corner.

Give me the rushed version.

Uh, his name is Dustin Gish. Here he is.

He's already in Chicago. He can start right away.

In fact, he has to start right away.

I told her you had one slot for a compassionate use exception

for sickle cell. Life or death, Singh.

Christina. We'll need the paperwork ASAP.

Just tell me where to send it. We have it all collected.

Clear a sickle cell gene-editing examination for...?

- Dustin Gish. - No, what day?

- Oh, Monday. - Monday morning.

- How old is Dustin? - 11.

- Oh, shit. - What?

- Christina, never mind. - What's wrong?

11 is too young.

- Who says? - The FDA.

I don't have authorization for patients under 12. I'm sorry.

Wait.

He's only three weeks from his birthday.

It doesn't matter. This is the FDA.

Wait until his birthday.

He'll be dead by his birthday.

Come on, Singh, what can you do?

Nothing. I don't make these stupid rules.

If I get an "all clear" from the FDA,

will you put Dustin in your trial?

Diane, I don't understand.

This isn't about bone marrow?

No, it's gene splicing.

We may have a chance for a sickle cell clinical trial.

The board has agreed

to a compassionate acceleration on its trial protocols.

Wow. Uh, how did you manage that?

Uh, one of the board members is a...

an exemption from the FDA.

What exception, Diane?

The patient has to be 12.