I can't believe you're really here.
You should've called me first.
And ruin the surprise? No way.
You tell Mom and Dad you were coming out?
Are you kidding?
I finished my last final and took the first flight I could get.
They're gonna freak out.
Eh, they'll get over it.
So, I figured since you couldn't be home for the holidays,
I'd bring a piece of home to you.
What are you talking about?
Say hello to my little friend.
Marcus, you can't bring that here.
What's the big deal? Get rid of it right now.
Oh, relax. We'll smoke it back at your place.
Put it away.
- Put it back in your pack right now. - Why?
Just do it, Marcus.
Don't look at them.
Stay calm.
Really calm.
What's going on? Who are these people?
They're Yemeni military.
Don't say anything. Keep your hands where they can see them.
They have guns. What do we do?
Don't say anything.
- Nicole, what do we do? - Shut up, Marcus!
Nicole, what do we do?
Don't say a word.
- What do we do? - Shut up, Marcus.
Nicole, what do we do?
I...
I disrespected the most...
holy laws.
I do not deny this.
I'm so sorry for my actions.
I'm deeply... deeply sorry.
I am guilty of my crimes.
I do not deny this.
I also apologize and beg forgiveness.
They sound terrible.
Do you hear how terrible they sound?
Diane, you got to... Let 'em do their job.
Listen, I told you that we're negotiating with the Yemeni government to release your children.
We're just having trouble getting a read on their negotiator,
and that is why we hired the Lightman Group.
We understand how hard this must be.
We can tell you that last year the Lightman Group helped free
several American hostages in Colombia.
You have to be patient.
It's been 29 days,
and my children are halfway around the world having God knows what done to them.
Don't tell me to be patient.
You might have tried a little diplomacy with Mom and Dad there.
Please, I don't have time to hold hands.
The situation's getting worse by the minute.
Why are the Yemenis detaining them?
The brother Marcus was visiting the sister on spring break.
Yemeni police pulled them over for speeding.
They find an ounce of marijuana in the car.
Under Islamic law, trafficking drugs is punishable by death.
Nicole slurred a few words. Have they been tortured?
Well, she might have seemed sleep-deprived,
but Yemeni's definitely not known for its humane treatment of foreign prisoners.
Is that their negotiator?
Yep. Guy speaks in monotone,
has an endless list of demands, and we have no idea of what
he actually needs to get a deal done.
So if you can pick up...
anything in his speech or his body language, get a read on him.
We'll take a look at the negotiation footage...
I don't need details.
Okay?
I need answers.
Nicole and Marcus are being sentenced in two days.
If we don't start making progress,
they're gonna be facing execution.
Lie to me S01E07 ''The Best Policy''
Dr. Buchanan?
Yes.
- Hi. Ria Torres. - Hi.
- Dr. Lightman's just finishing up a call. - Oh, great.
You must be the new wunderkind he's told me so much about.
How many times has he lied to you?
- Excuse me? - Well, he said you're a natural.
You must have caught him in some big fat ones?
- Yeah, maybe one or two. - One or two?
Oh, he's mellowed out.
Back in the day, he was pathological.
Really?
Oh, seriously.
The morning of my 25th birthday,
I look out my dorm window, and there parked outside
is a vintage Harley registered in my name.
I have no idea how he pulled that off.
- Oh, come on. - I'm serious.
That boy lied, cheated, and stole his way through Oxford.
I never stole.
Uh-huh, so you say.
Hey-hey!
- It's good to see you. - And you.
- You good? - Yeah, I'm good.
I trust Jeffrey introduced himself.
Yep. Former US Surgeon General.
Used to be quite an important man.
Don't let him fool you.
I'm still quite an important man.
Yeah.
Something wrong, Jeffrey?
Need your help, Cal.
He's 27!
Who has a stroke at 27?
Mrs. Coleman, Ribocore will do everything we can to help you.
Everything? What are you doing
to track down the people who did this to my husband?
That's Erica Vandeman.
She's the CEO of Ribocore Pharmaceutical.
Is that one of the companies that throws money at you?
I only take their money if I believe in them.
Erica was a student of mine at Georgetown.
She's one of the good guys.
Six weeks ago, someone broke into the Ribocore labs,
stole the formula for Priox.
It's their new insulin pill.
Recently, a cheaper knockoff version hit the market.
And it's killing people, Cal.
Drew Coleman is the third case we've found.
They all took the knockoff.
Priox is a complicated compound.
Run the formula the wrong way,
and the side effects can be lethal.
Well, why don't you just call in the FDA?
FDA investigation take months.
Our IT guys say the data theft was an inside job.
Only three chemists have lab access.
They're all denying they were involved.
If you could tell us who's lying,
we can find out who's making the knockoff and shut them down.
If we don't get this counterfeit drug off the market soon,
we are looking at hundreds of deaths.
Okay, the Ribocore theft took place at 2:27 a.m.
in testing lab 290.
Now, one of you...
disabled the scanner so it couldn't identify your key card.
You know, I'm a chemist, not an engineer.
I wasn't even in the building that night.
Now, you managed to avoid the security cameras...
You know, this is ridiculous.
I've worked for Ribocore for 15 years.
But one of you,
when you downloaded the Priox formula...
left your fingerprint on the data port.
Well, you can check mine.
Uh, come on. I use that computer all the time.
So do I. I mean, you can't possibly think...
No, I don't.
So you two can go.
So...
why'd you steal the Priox formula?
I didn't.
Go ahead. Check my fingerprints.
You didn't leave any.
I made that up.
What are you talking about?
The thief wore gloves.
But you knew that, didn't you?
That's why you leapt at the chance to prove your innocence.
Only a guilty person...
would know that a fingerprint couldn't possibly be theirs.
All right, call Vandeman and tell her we found who stole the information.
It's not what you think.
No, see, it's not what you think.
That formula you sold, your knockoff Priox,
- it's killing people. - You're wrong.
I didn't break in to the lab to steal the formula.
Why, then?
Two months ago, I came across a lab study
that said stroke was a possible Priox side effect.
Vandeman had buried the full report,
but it was in the database in testing lab 290.
I was trying to build a case against the drug.
The problem isn't knockoff Priox. It's the real drug, that's the killer
This is new.
I asked Grace not to let anybody back here.
I'm going on Larry King to talk up the new flu vaccine,
so this is just, you know, saving time.
- Does your missus know how much you spend on makeup? - No.
And unless you want Larry King to know how you got drunk
and talked your way past White House security...
- Never happened. - Oh, that never happened?
Well, this never happened either.
I need to talk to you about Erica Vandeman.
- Derek, just, uh, give us a second. - Thanks.
You find out who broke into the lab and stole the formula?
The chemist who broke into the lab wasn't after the formula.
Really?
...early-stage testing on Priox...
"...blood clotting leading... to stroke."
What, this chemist is pretending to be some kind of a whistle-blower?
Her study says that the real drug is the killer.
Cal, it doesn't make sense.
Why would Erica hire you?
Damage control?
You hire us, and you...
spin this into a story about a counterfeit drug.
No, not Erica.
I mean, if she thought this drug was killing people,
she'd be first to pull it off the market.
Well, the chemist doesn't appear to be lying.
- And the study indicates... - Indicates what?
What does it indicate?
It indicates nothing.
Maybe the lab was careless.
Maybe they made a mistake.
So you think I should talk to them?
Cal...
I have known Erica Vandeman for years,
and you spent, what, five minutes with this chemist?
I'm as worried about this drug as you are.
So give me the name, and I will look into this.
Okay.
Hey, Heather.
Gillian, what are you doing here?
We're working with Peters on the Yemeni negotiations.
Is my husband...?
He's at lunch.
Well, tell him I stopped by.
You're here early.
I like to be prepared.
Well, you're not billing me for it.
Where's the Chia Pet?
Loker?
Yeah, that guy definitely needs a shave and haircut.
He's monitoring the closed-circuit cameras
so he can do stress analysis on the Yemenis.
But I'm sure he'll appreciate the tip.
Very funny.
Dr. Gillian Foster,
meet Deputy Ambassador Hassan.
It's a pleasure meeting you.
I trust you've been briefed on our position?
- She wouldn't mind hearing it again. - Very well.
We have several demands.
Yes, I'm sure, but actually, I'd prefer to hear it from...
Deputy Ambassador Rafik.
I'm happy to oblige.
As Deputy Ambassador Hassan was saying,
we have several demands.
Well, you don't know what the hell you're doing.
We have two days, and you wasted the entire session talking to Rafik?
The guy's a mid-level bureaucratic schlub.
Actually, he's not.
Loker, can you pull up the Camp David video?
This is Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak at Camp David.
See how they're trying to shove each other through the door?
In the Middle East, appearances are very important.
The most powerful person is always the last through the door.
When the Yemeni delegation entered the room,
your man Hassan wasn't the last one through the door, Rafik was.
That's why you couldn't get a read.
Hassan's a puppet.
He has no idea which demands are important.
They wanted us to go down to the wire so they could get the best deal.
They were trying to keep us in the dark.
Okay, so did you get anything off of Rafik?
Well, we got clear vocal spikes on the demands he cares about the most.
Of course, he wasn't the only one.
Yes, obviously, it goes without saying that any deal
must secure the release of both Nicole Bradin and her brother Marcus.
We hired you to focus on the other side of the table, not ours.
Well, we catch the lies wherever they come from.
And the vocal stress in your voice is three times higher when you mention Nicole.
You care more about getting her released than Marcus.
Why?
We can't do our jobs unless we know your priorities.
I'm only going to say this once.
I want Marcus released just as much as Nicole.
You got it?
I'm only going to say this once:
classic qualifying statement.
He wouldn't need it if he was telling the truth.
Will you get a hold of Nicole and Marcus' confession videos?
Let's see what we can pick up.
Hey, I just set up a meeting with Neeman Labs for tomorrow morning.
Yeah, postpone it.
I thought you wanted to talk to them about the mouse study.
Jeffrey's looking into it.
- Dr. Buchanan? - Yeah. I told him about Aisha,
told him about the study.
He said he'd look into it.
What, so we're just dropping it?
Yup, for now.
You think this one is ever going to stop talking back?
I hope not.
Half day?
Hope you don't mind.
Got an hour free for dinner thought I'd steal her away.
No problem.
What?
What now?
You saw her covering, right?
I mean, you saw how upset she looked.
Congratulations.
Once again you've arrived at the apparently foreign destination of "None of Your Damn Business".
Man, I don't get you.
- Good. Stop trying. - Fine. Pretend like you don't give a damn
what's going on with her. I know you do.
Sit down.
Look, in case you haven't figured it out yet,
it's different when you're one of us.
Everybody has things they don't wish to share.
She's your friend.
You're not listening to me.
In this workplace, with everything that we see,
we have to be very clear on the rules.
You and Foster have rules?
If there's something she wants to tell me, she will.
Everything else-- everything else I see, I ignore.
I trust her to take care of herself.
Wow, when did you get religion?
You trust Foster. You trust Buchanan.
You were there.
Aisha Ward was telling the truth.
Jeffrey will get to the bottom of this.
He brought us the case.
Don't you think he's just a little biased?
Okay.
How many people in this world do you trust?
How many?
I don't know. Ten.
Six.
Well, when you get to my age,
there'll be three.
And when one of those people asks you for 24 hours,
you give it to him.
Dr. Lightman.
Dr. Buchanan left you a message.
Well, can you get him on the line?
Yeah, but you might want to take a look at this first.
Guess he did get to the bottom of it.
Really nice to meet you.
Thank you so much for your hospitality.
Tell Larry I'll come back any time he'd like.
Thank you.
Cal what are you doing here? You gave us Aisha Ward.
And a good evening to you, sir.
You went straight to Vandeman.
You didn't even bother to call.
Well, Cal, I didn't realize we were going steady,
but I did try you at your office.
Hey, there are serious questions here.
I stopped investigating.
Cal, you were not hired to investigate Ribocore.
You were hired to investigate who broke into their lab.
The drug's killing people.
I have six lab reports on Priox, including a 9,000-person study.
Priox did not cause strokes in any of them.
Only the knockoff does that.
Ribocore's issued a warning and they're working with police to find the distributor.
You read through this study?
Vandeman walked me through them, yes.
Oh, really?
She also showed me this.
The police did a little more digging.
Aisha Ward had $500,000 wired into her savings account from an offshore bank
just before the break-in.
That would be four times her annual salary.
She stole the formula, Cal.
She stole it.
She sold it.
Now she's trying to cover it up.
I'm not easily fooled, Jeffrey.
I know. That makes you one hell of liar.
What do you want?
Well, I love being duped.
Doesn't happen often, but, you know, I'm intrigued.
So, we can either chitchat or...
you can tell us the truth.
I gave you the truth, and you ran right back to Vandeman.
You're incredible... you're incredible.
You're incredible.
You know, it's not hard to find a good liar, but...
a truly great one... that's rare.
I am not lying.
Well, your bank statement says you are.
500 grand wired to your account.
Now, that sounds about right for the formula
to a billion-dollar drug, so who did you sell it to?
Doesn't matter.
Oh, so you admit it.
You sold the formula?
Sure, I sold it, but I didn't need to break into the lab for that.
I knew the formula by heart.
I sold it months before the break-in.
So, why break into the lab at all?
I told you.
I found the summary for the mouse study.
I wanted the full report.
Mouse study was an outlier.
Just one bad test.
Did you talk to Neeman Labs?
That study is evidence that Priox is a killer.
Yes, I sold the formula,
but then, I found the study and...
it tore at my conscience.
I had to do something.
So, first, corporate thief...
then, whistle-blower.
That's what you want us to believe, right?
Please.
Someone has to get Priox off the market,
and the knockoff I sold is the same as the real thing,
and the real thing is killing people.
Go to Neeman Labs.
They'll tell you.
Thanks for seeing us at such short notice, Dr. Dembeck.
Uh, no problem.
It's, uh... it's a light day.
Oh... very light.
Want to ask you a couple of questions about,
um, some testing you did on a drug called Priox.
Uh, I have nothing to say.
Why is that?
'Cause you botched the test?
Anger's real.
No shame, no guilt.
Maybe Ribocore didn't like what they got back in the report.
So, what, did they, uh,
just drop you as a client, then?
They fired us... okay?
They blackballed us and gave the drug to a lab that would give them the results that they wanted,
that would test it into compliance.
And then, after that, there was no more testing?
Priox.
No, but I have heard rumors about some of the other studies.
You know, I got into this business to do cutting-edge research, try to help people.
Apparently, science and business just don't mix.
Have you seen Dr. Lightman?
He went down to the hospital.
- DC General. - What for?
Our Priox victim, Drew Coleman--
he had another stroke.
He's being taken off life support.
Oh, my God.
That's not all.
I found anecdotal evidence online.
Two more stroke cases linked to Priox.
Both victims young, both in good physical shape.
That's still not gonna be enough to get it pulled off the market.
I'll be right back
Hey.
Torres told me you were here.
Is everything okay?
Well, for Mr. Coleman it's not.
Maybe Aisha Ward was right.
You don't have to do this.
If you want to choose your friendship first,
you can just hand this over to the authorities.
Let somebody else investigate it.
Yeah, I'm sure they'd do a bang-up job.
I'm just saying that...
You can walk away.
What if the drug really is killing people?
Come on.
I need to show you something back at work.
I'm so sorry for my actions.
I'm deeply, deeply sorry.
So, like I told you, we think the State Department's
more interested in getting his sister out.
There's nothing noteworthy here.
Yeah, but check out Nicole.
I also apologize and beg forgiveness.
At first we thought it was just sleep deprivation, but she doesn't look fatigued.
No slouching, no leaning.
I mean, I guess that could be adrenaline.
No, she's not sleep-deprived.
She's slurring her words intentionally.
The US should leave Iraq now.
Saddam Hussein is a great leader.
I don't understand.
Who is this soldier?
He's an American POW from the first Gulf War,
but what's relevant here is that he's using
the same speech pattern in his confession that your daughter does.
It's a code, the army teaches soldiers to slur their words
if captured or forced to give a confession.
The enemy can't hear the difference,
but it signals that they haven't broken you.
It's part of the military Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape training.
Military training?
Neither of our children have any military training.
The State Department files don't mention any.
I'm sorry. What are you saying?
- Diane, please... - Don't do that, Robert!
You've been telling me to be calm this whole time.
Now, Marcus is a poetry major, for God's sake!
What about your daughter?
This is a joke.
Mr. Bradin?
To my knowledge,
Nicole's never been involved with the military.
To my knowledge.
Are you telling us everything?
Robert?
Mr. Bradin, I can't be effective without all the information.
I can't give you all the information.
Robert, what are you talking about?
I can't tell you.
I'm not supposed to know. I'd be breaking the law.
She's US intelligence. She's a spy.
What the hell were you thinking?
Uh, excuse me?
Our firm has a reputation for discretion.
You have secrets, you tell us.
Otherwise, we can't do our job.
I still don't know what you're talking about.
You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Nicole Bradin is a spy.
How was I supposed to tell you that?
It's classified information.
Get a lot of people killed, including Nicole.
I wish I had known that earlier.
Yeah, well, maybe now you'll understand why I'm taking the deal.
Wait. What deal?
Rafik called an hour ago.
He's offering to hand over one of the prisoners in exchange for their humanitarian demands.
We're getting Nicole back.
We'll do what we can for Marcus.
No, that is a terrible call.
It'll tear the family apart.
Nicole will never be able to live with herself.
Okay, do you understand that woman knows the address
to every CIA safehouse in the Middle East?
And you're worried about her feelings?
Rafik's demanding patriot missiles for Marcus.
So, it's a nonstarter.
We're done here.
I am getting Nicole back home before the Yemenis find out who she is, and that is it.
Dr. Foster.
Mr. Bradin, what are you doing here?
The, uh, State Department hasn't been returning my calls.
I didn't know where else to go.
This is Ms. McDermott from the Red Cross.
One of their nurses was allowed to visit Marcus yesterday
and she managed to get these photos out.
What happened?
Apparently, he tried to escape.
The Yemeni guards beat him severely.
He has broken ribs and a concussion.
He hasn't been allowed to see a doctor.
Our nurse demanded that Marcus be transferred to a medical facility for treatment.
She was told there was no point in treating him.
Marcus is going to be sentenced tomorrow.
And then they're going to execute him.
They're gonna shoot my son.
Please.
You gotta get him out.
You need to raise the acidity if you want it to act as a compound.
Oh, scientist and a businesswoman.
No wonder Jeffrey was such an advocate.
Dr. Lightman, Ms. Torres.
This is a pleasant surprise.
I'm sorry about the unexpected pop-in,
but I find the more time one has to prepare a lie,
the harder it is for me to spot.
Okay.
Would you excuse us for a moment?
So, what can I do for you?
Oh, well, um, some of the pharmaceutical journals found out that I was involved in the case
and they, uh, called with a couple questions.
So, I thought I'd just run a few things by you.
- Sure. - Appreciate that.
Uh, well, first then...
The real Priox versus the knockoff drug.
What exactly is the difference?
Well, it's complicated.
It has to do with the way that you run the compound.
All right, well...
Try me.
I was quite a chemist back in Oxford.
There's certain proprietary information.
Why don't you have the journals refer to me on that one?
Okay.
How about the mouse study Ms. Ward keeps mentioning?
There's nothing to it.
No other Priox testing showed any side effects.
And all these labs are on the up-and-up, right?
I am intimately involved with every one of those companies.
I trust them all.
Oh, well, that's good.
'Cause it's quite hard to find a company one can trust these days, right?
So, she bit her lip every time I went at her.
Incredibly anxious.
I don't know how we missed it earlier.
Well, lie detection's all about asking the right questions.
Shame.
They were paying top dollar, too.
You calling reporters?
No, made them up.
Uh, Vandeman will be trying to track them down,
which will buy us a little time.
Time for what?
Heidi? Yeah.
Can you make an appointment with,
uh, Jim Gunderson of the FDA?
Tell him it's urgent.
Yeah, I'm on my way back.
It's mice, Cal.
It's one study.
Yeah, well, Vandeman's lying about the other tests.
Well, even if you're right,
there's not enough here to pull Priox off the market.
I can start investigation, but I can't do more than that.
FDA investigations take months.
A lot of people could die, Jim.
Well, if you can prove that Vandeman manipulated the Priox testing,
I'll recall the drug immediately.
But without more hard data, my hands are tied.
All right, well, uh,
do you mind if I use your name?
Throw it around, see if I can open a few doors?
You should start with your friend Buchanan.
He was a driving force behind the drug's approval.
Buchanan pushed the drug?
Yeah, I can show you about a dozen letters he submitted on behalf of Priox.
You do know he's on the Ribocore payroll?
He's not involved in this.
Jeffrey encouraged me to come and talk to you.
I mean, he's as eager to get to the bottom of this as we are.
Jeffrey encouraged me to come see you?
All right, the walls at the FDA have ears.
Yeah, well, then I'm sure they can tell you were lying, too.
Hey, if Jeffrey knew what was going on,
he'd have come to the FDA himself.
The guy's on the payroll.
He pushed the drug through FDA approvals.
You can't really believe that.
You know...
If it was someone in your family, all right,
how much proof would you need before you hung them out?
I... Look, if Jeffrey knows about Priox, he's going to jail,
but I'm gonna be damn sure before I send him there.
All right?
- Okay. - Good.
I thought you said Peters was making the deal.
Just because he's done doesn't mean we are.
He's almost comical with the sound off.
I'm trying to concentrate here.
Well, he's got the best posture I've ever seen.
He looks like Mussolini.
He's trying to make himself look bigger.
Men, gorillas, blowfish.
You know, when they want to appear dominant they puff themselves up.
This guy's definitely compensating for something.
Maybe you're on to something.
Rafik really cares about appearances.
He wants to look like a leader.
That could be our leverage.
Hey, I thought I heard you come back in.
Where's Torres?
I sent her off to talk to labs that tested Priox.
You know, Jeffrey always loved the limelight.
Can't tell you how many times I'd come home,
switch to the news, and there he is...
in my living room...
pushing some new drug or other.
Cal...
Merry-go-round of government, business, and media.
Enough money and fame to make heads spin, I suppose.
Do you really think Jeffrey's guilty?
I don't know.
You know, when my mother died,
Jeffrey took the train back to London with me.
I'd only known him for about a month.
But he skipped out of college and...
came with me just to keep me company.
So, honestly, I don't know.
Hey, I've got something you should see.
So, I went to all six Priox testing labs.
I didn't get anything until I talked
to the researcher at the lab that did the 9,000-person study.
He show signs of deception leakage?
Yeah, he looked like he was about to hurl, so, I came back
and pulled a video of Vandeman talking about that study.
Priox promises to help the millions living with diabetes.
An intensive 9,000-person study...
Same lip bite.
She does it every time she talks about that study.
...And given the depth and the breadth of this 9,000-person study....
Just like today.
She is totally freaked out.
She's not the only one.
What? He's just staring at the floor.
Yeah, watch.
He looks at her when she's talking about the study
and then catches her eye and then looks down and away.
Signs of... Guilt.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Yeah me too.
Where did you dig this up?
I still remember you bounding into morning lab straight from the poker tables,
having hustled some jackass out of 100 pounds.
Seems like a thousand years ago.
Yeah. I could read you back then.
Not as well as you thought.
What?
I spoke to Gunderson at the FDA.
We know the 9,000-person study is a sham,
so if you've got anything to say, you should say it now.
Cal, I have no idea what you're talking about.
She's selling a killer drug.
We spoke to the testing labs.
We watched her on tape.
Aisha Ward was telling the truth about Priox.
If Vandeman's lying...
Are you serious?
Yeah.
And I know you're helping.
Oh, and you think that I would do something like that?
Tell me it's not true.
- It's not true. - You're lying.
- I can see it in your face. - No, I'm not.
Yeah, you are. You're covering.
You are unbelievable, you know that?
I saw the guilty look you have when you watch Vandeman.
You're involved in this.
There's no "this", Cal.
Okay?
Erica and I are having an affair.
That's it.
We're having an affair, okay? You happy now?
You're cheating on Sarah?
Are you going to lecture me about marriage now?
'Cause, you know what?
That would be rich.
You really had no idea she was manipulating the data.
You know something?
For somebody who studied emotions their entire life,
you really don't understand them at all.
You have to stay away from her, Jeffrey.
Okay.
I mean it. This investigation's going to get ugly.
Erica's going to jail.
You can't call her. You can't email her.
You can't be near her when that happens.
I mean it. Stay away from her.
Thanks for the friendly advice.
Mr. Peters, I just got your message.
I thought we had a deal.
We have another proposal.
There's only an hour until sentencing.
Please.
Hear us out.
I'm listening.
In return for the pardon and release of Nicole and Marcus Bradin,
the United States is prepared to meet all of Yemen's humanitarian demands.
This is an insult.
Ambassador Rafik.
To thank you for putting aside your military demands,
we would like to show our gratitude.
What's this?
It's an invitation.
A state dinner.
Honoring the Republic of Yemen.
Only leaders held in the highest esteem are hosted at the White House.
The President's social secretary has a few dates in mind,
and the Chief of Staff has assured me already
that you'll be seated beside the President himself.
I almost forgot we had a date.
We need to talk.
Jeffrey.
I think we should go to your office.
Hey, how did you get Buchanan to go for this?
You didn't tell him?
I did not doctor the report.
Then why is the 9,000-person study so perfect?
Why are there no outliers?
You and I both know every drug has side effects. But according to this
Priox has almost none at all.
How is that possible?
You doctored the report.
We were behind.
The drug had been promised to market.
The stock price was falling.
The board was all over me.
What would you have done?
Postponing the Priox launch would have put Ribocore into bankruptcy.
I think we got enough, don't you? Shall we?
We have two choices:
destroy the company or put out the drug and hope for the best.
Hope for the best?
We have been working on a new pill.
We've got the blood clotting under control.
We're about to reintroduce Priox to market.
If you can just buy me a few months...
Buy you a few months? Did you just say,
buy you a few months? What about Drew Coleman?
What about the other victims? Tell me.
I just need a few months.
Dr. Vandeman, you're under arrest.
- Put your hands behind your back. - Cal?
What the hell's going on?
Oh, you can drop it now, Jeffrey.
FBI have got what they want.
I'm pulling Priox off the market immediately.
Thanks for your help, Jeffrey.
I prefer to get the truth in person,
but sometimes we just have to make do.
Yeah.
Okay.
You should have told me, Cal.
Should have warned me the feds were listening.
Told you to stay away from her.
What if I'd offered to protect her? What if I'd agreed?
I knew you wouldn't.
Oh, so now you have faith in me?
You know, I can count on one hand the number of people I'd do anything for.
You were one of 'em.
I would've lied for you.
Jeffrey.
I wish I could believe that.
...and earlier this evening,
the State Department successfully convinced the Yemeni government
to pardon and release Nicole and Marcus Bradin.
This is a proud new step in what we hope will continue
to be a productive friendship with the United States.
Well, at least one of us had a good day.
You saved his reputation and kept him out of jail.
Jeffrey will come around eventually.
You've known each other too long.
One second.
Hi, honey.
Uh, yeah, I just got back to the office.
Okay.
Yeah, no, no, uh, I...
I understand.
Do you want me to pick something up?
All right, well, just let me know if you change your mind.
Okay.
Alec stuck at work?
We're almost on the right schedule.
You know, I spend my days at the State Department.
He spends his nights there.
You want to grab some dinner?
I'd love to.
But I've got to take care of something.
Rain check?
Sure.