Dark Waters (2019)

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"Dark Waters" is a gripping legal thriller inspired by true events. The film follows Robert Bilott (Mark Ruffalo), a tenacious corporate defense attorney who takes on an environmental lawsuit against the powerful chemical company DuPont. When a farmer from Bilott's hometown alerts him to unexplained deaths and widespread health problems in his community, Bilott begins to uncover a shocking history of chemical pollution. As he digs deeper, he risks his career, health, and personal relationships to expose the truth and seek justice for the affected families. This intense drama highlights the profound impact of corporate negligence on public health and the environment, showcasing one man's unwavering determination to fight for what is right.

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00:01:00I miss the one where I was young I wish you'd leave me here like this

00:01:20Stop the world and let me out

00:01:27I'm tired of holding on to ground

00:01:34That's right ladies and gentlemen

00:01:38Let's start it over

00:01:40I need a fuckin' beer, okay?

00:01:43I ain't goin' to get no beer

00:01:44Let's go!

00:01:50I can give you booze if you want

00:01:51I don't need no ale

00:01:53Now she got you buddy

00:01:55Here you go

00:01:56Got it

00:01:57Okay, let's go

00:01:59Alright, alright

00:02:01Hold up, hold up, beer

00:02:03Take this, take this

00:02:06Damn, she's...

00:02:26Come on in, it's warm

00:02:27Come on buddy

00:02:30Look, you can even wash your hair

00:02:33I washed mine last month

00:02:44Whoa, Keith, come here, look what I found

00:02:48What is it?

00:02:49What the hell are you doing?

00:02:50Get out of here, now!

00:02:52Keith!

00:02:56Goddamn kids

00:03:16Turn off the beam, boo

00:04:26That's Keith from now

00:04:28Ted from Union Carbide

00:04:30Jerry from Exxon

00:04:32And Andy from Ally

00:04:34Welcome to Taft Law, gentlemen

00:04:37Before we get started, a little housekeeping

00:04:40All of you know this young man as the dedicated Taft associate

00:04:44Who for the past eight years has buried himself in the Superfund Law

00:04:49I'm not paying for that clean up

00:04:51Well still, it is my pleasure to share with you

00:04:54That just last week, Rob Bilotte was welcomed as a partner

00:04:57Here at Taft, Stettinius and Hollister

00:05:03Good morning, Taft Law

00:05:04One moment, I'll connect you

00:05:09Good morning, Taft Law

00:05:11One moment, please

00:05:16It's the governor's office calling for...

00:05:19Calling for Mr. Burke

00:05:24May I help you?

00:05:25Wilbur Taney calling on Robby Bilotte

00:05:28EPA saddled them with the whole bill

00:05:30And given your client's history at that site, that's a real possibility

00:05:34I'll take it back to them

00:05:35Good

00:05:36Taft 12, Middletown...

00:05:38I know, sorry

00:05:41But they won't leave

00:05:42Who's they?

00:05:44I don't know

00:05:45They say they know you

00:05:48Robby Bilotte?

00:05:50Um, yes

00:05:53They call it a landfill, dumps, what it is

00:05:57They told my brother and me no chemicals, just trash

00:06:00But we ain't stupid

00:06:01Made them videotapes myself

00:06:03All the proof you need

00:06:04They're poisoning the creek, killing my animals

00:06:06I'm in the middle of a meeting

00:06:07So I want a lawyer

00:06:08Every damn morning in Barkingsburg

00:06:09To yell at her to take my case

00:06:11Rob, he wants you back in there

00:06:13There's no way I'm going back in there

00:06:15Rob, he wants you back in there

00:06:17They're all scared shit, this is DuPont

00:06:19Well, I ain't scared of nobody

00:06:20Kathleen is my paralegal

00:06:22She's going to give you a directory of lawyers

00:06:24That's why I called your grandma

00:06:28What?

00:06:29My neighbor tells me, called Alma White

00:06:31Her grandson's some fancy environment lawyer down in Cincinnati

00:06:40Sir, I am a corporate defense attorney

00:06:44I defend chemical companies

00:06:46Well, now you can defend me

00:06:48Rob

00:06:50Uh, 30 seconds, Tom

00:06:52Uh, I'm sorry, Mr...

00:06:54Tenant

00:06:55I can offer you a referral

00:06:57But I'm just, I just don't see how I can be of any help to you

00:07:00You can start by watching them tapes for one thing

00:07:02Oh, let's go, Earl

00:07:04I'm sorry

00:07:05I wish you all the luck

00:07:07I don't need any luck, boy

00:07:08I need your help

00:07:09Rob

00:07:10I'll be back for this, all right?

00:07:11Sure

00:07:13Wow

00:07:21I'm not arguing with the overall analysis

00:07:24My only point is that whatever we decide upon...

00:07:32Thank you, gentlemen

00:07:36Do you know where we're going?

00:07:39Right around the corner

00:07:40Yeah

00:07:41What was that all about?

00:07:43Tino's my grandmother

00:07:45Really?

00:07:46Well, my mom's from West Virginia

00:07:48Uh, from town, Parkersburg

00:07:50Not us, my father's Air Force

00:07:53We moved around a lot, but we spent the summers there

00:07:55Come on, Terp, you're buying

00:07:57Of course I am

00:07:59You can be from West Virginia, Rob

00:08:02I won't tell anyone

00:08:04All right, gentlemen

00:08:05Morton's it is

00:08:08Still deemed to eat with us lowly associates?

00:08:13He can't drive an American car

00:08:16Taft, Hartley, Union, Buston

00:08:19We practically invented it

00:08:21We?

00:08:22Besides, I know a highly esteemed partner

00:08:24Who still drives Americans

00:08:25And real clunkers, too

00:08:26Yeah, but he collects

00:08:28I mean, he collects

00:08:29I mean, he collects

00:08:31That's different

00:08:32Like his no-name college in law school

00:08:34No offense

00:08:35Are you listening to this?

00:08:36Hey, you guys go ahead, all right?

00:08:37Hey, look, I didn't mean anything by it

00:08:39No, no, I gotta make a call

00:08:40It's all right, I'll see you there

00:08:41Okay, we'll save you a fish log

00:08:42Yeah

00:08:45You can be such an asshole

00:08:46Oh, it was a joke

00:08:47Yeah

00:08:48It was always a joke

00:08:49Oh, yeah, you guys are a couple of jokes

00:08:51Anyway, I'm off to anyway

00:09:02You've reached the residence of Alma White

00:09:06I can't come to the phone right now

00:09:09He's good

00:09:10He's home early tonight, actually

00:09:12I told him I'd say, howdy, partner

00:09:15He says, howdy, partner

00:09:17Are we ever gonna see him again?

00:09:18Yes, he gets to come to sunny dinners

00:09:20Mom, he's a partner

00:09:21Not the President of the United States

00:09:23Do you have my book, Pam?

00:09:25Returned it

00:09:26Where? I look under the cupboard

00:09:27It's in the right-hand cupboard

00:09:28In the plastic

00:09:29Yeah

00:09:31Okay, well, we just sat down

00:09:34So I gotta go

00:09:36All right, see you Sunday, love to Dad

00:09:39Pretend to be surprised about the cake

00:09:40She wants it to be very special

00:09:42Oh, and the granite samples came in

00:09:44Will you pick them up on your way home tomorrow?

00:09:47Rob?

00:09:48Sure

00:09:56You okay?

00:09:57Yes

00:09:59Bless us, our Lord, and we thank you

00:10:00for what you're about to receive

00:10:01from thy mouth, Jesus Christ, our Lord

00:10:03Amen

00:10:04Thank you, God

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00:11:55...hate to see it

00:11:56You don't...

00:11:57You don't know me

00:11:58My too fake knees

00:11:59I don't want to see it

00:12:00yet

00:12:01A uhm farmer came to see me

00:12:08Wilbur Tennant

00:12:10You do know him

00:12:11I don't socialize with him

00:12:13if that's what you mean

00:12:14Inez Graham

00:12:17Owned the farm next to his

00:12:19I used to таким and Beth

00:12:21over there when you were little

00:12:23That's the place???

00:12:24You rode that pony.

00:12:42Oh, I love that place.

00:12:47Saw a cow for the first time.

00:12:50Learned to milk it.

00:12:52Remember you sitting there for hours, making sure you got every last drop, just like you.

00:12:59There.

00:13:00So, you're going to help him?

00:13:04Huh?

00:13:05Huh?

00:13:36You come up the holler, dumps up the hill.

00:13:42Since I start complaining about my creek, fence goes up.

00:13:52Hi, I'm Ralph.

00:13:55Sandra.

00:13:56The state, any of it in the area, I call them Barkeysburg.

00:14:06They will not return my phone calls like I about to hand that to you.

00:14:15Sorry, I've already...

00:14:17This is a gall.

00:14:20Look at the size of it.

00:14:23Ain't never seen no gall that big.

00:14:27Bigger than a heart.

00:14:30That's your cows?

00:14:32Look at them teeth.

00:14:35Black as night.

00:14:38There.

00:14:39Hoof, all turned in on itself.

00:14:43Half my calves born hooves like that.

00:14:48Tumor I done cut off the back of heifer.

00:14:51How'd you like that on your table?

00:14:57What am I looking for?

00:15:00What am I looking for?

00:15:03You blind boy.

00:15:05Stones as white as the hairs on my head.

00:15:09Bleeds, that's chemicals I'm telling you.

00:15:13My animals drink this water, cool off in her.

00:15:17Get them bloody wells and dead eyes charge at me crazy like.

00:15:22Animals used to eat out of my own hand.

00:15:29Where are the rest of them?

00:15:32I don't know.

00:15:46You need not bury them, each one.

00:15:49They're family.

00:15:51We got to be so many, pile them up, set fire.

00:15:57How many did you lose?

00:16:00A hundred and ninety.

00:16:04A hundred and ninety calves.

00:16:06You tell me, nothing's wrong here.

00:16:15And this landfill wasn't always here?

00:16:20No.

00:16:21My brother Jim used to dig ditches over at DuPont land.

00:16:25Got sick, couldn't do it no more.

00:16:28One day they come to him offering to buy his land right off that holler.

00:16:32They promised no chemicals.

00:16:34And I assume you reached out to DuPont?

00:16:37DuPont, the state, the feds, called everybody there is, dozens of times.

00:16:42EPA finally comes out here.

00:16:44Oh they did?

00:16:45Offered some report.

00:16:47What did it say?

00:16:48You think they're going to show me?

00:17:18He's been like this all day.

00:17:30Of course you're a perfect angel for daddy.

00:17:34Did you get the tile?

00:17:36I'm sorry, no.

00:17:39Rob?

00:17:42I didn't drive into town today, I'm sorry.

00:17:45What do you mean you didn't drive into town?

00:17:48I had to go to Parkersburg.

00:17:51Parkersburg?

00:17:52Why'd you have to go to Parkersburg?

00:17:55I may have a client there.

00:17:57In West Virginia?

00:17:59What kind of a case would you have?

00:18:01He's a farmer, he knows my grammar, not well.

00:18:05So you saw her?

00:18:08Was your mother there?

00:18:09Oh, come on Sarah, I didn't sneak off to see my mother.

00:18:13So why did you sneak off?

00:18:15I didn't.

00:18:18Our speaker tonight's no stranger to the Taft family.

00:18:23Philip Donnelly, Phil to us, serves as in-house corporate counsel at DuPont,

00:18:29not only one of America's most revered chemical companies,

00:18:34but one of the few giants of the industry that Taft doesn't represent.

00:18:39Not yet anyway.

00:18:41That's the spirit, James.

00:18:44We asked Phil here tonight not just to show him what he's missing,

00:18:48but to hear how a renowned leader of our industry stays that way.

00:18:54Please welcome Phil Donnelly.

00:18:56Applause

00:19:02At DuPont, we're not producing chemicals for chemicals' sake,

00:19:06we're producing them for people's sake, to make folks' lives easier, happier, longer.

00:19:14That's why better living through chemistry is not just a slogan at DuPont.

00:19:23It's our DNA.

00:19:26Applause

00:19:30Hey, Rob.

00:19:31Hello, Phil.

00:19:32Is it true what Tom tells me?

00:19:33Yeah, it's true.

00:19:34Well, good on them. They're lucky to have you.

00:19:36Thanks, Phil.

00:19:37Like I always tell my young associates, just keep your head down and do the work.

00:19:41Thanks.

00:19:42Uh, Phil, can I ask you sort of an odd question?

00:19:45Shoot.

00:19:46Does the name Wilbur Tennant ring a bell?

00:19:50Tennant, did you say?

00:19:51Tennant.

00:19:52No, not that I recall.

00:19:54Mr. Tennant's a farmer from West Virginia.

00:19:57His property abuts one of your landfill's dry run,

00:20:00and his cows have been getting sick.

00:20:02He thinks possibly because of the runoff from the landfill into his creek.

00:20:06You're kidding.

00:20:07How did this come to you?

00:20:08Hey, Phil.

00:20:09He's a farmer.

00:20:11He's my grandmother's from Parkersburg.

00:20:14Really?

00:20:15Washington Works.

00:20:16Great plant.

00:20:17Right.

00:20:18She knows the Tennants.

00:20:19Your grandma's on your back, huh?

00:20:20Something like that.

00:20:21Anyway, the farmer said the EPA came out, took a look around.

00:20:25I wondered...

00:20:26The name of the landfill again?

00:20:27Dry run.

00:20:28Dry run.

00:20:30That does ring a bell now that you mention it.

00:20:32We may have even sent some folks out there, if I remember correctly,

00:20:35to help EPA check it out.

00:20:36That's got to be it.

00:20:37So I'd love to share whatever came of that with Mr. Tennant,

00:20:40help settle his nerves.

00:20:41Absolutely.

00:20:42As soon as I'm back in Wilmington, I'll take a look.

00:20:44Thanks, Phil.

00:20:45I really appreciate it.

00:20:46Happy to do it.

00:20:47Now let's get a drink and toast you, my friend.

00:20:50You.

00:20:51Okay.

00:21:01Mr. Tennant!

00:21:10Mr. Tennant!

00:21:11I have the report!

00:21:15Sons of bitches.

00:21:17Who the hell think they are?

00:21:19Who gives them the right?

00:21:20It's an evaluation.

00:21:21Evaluation.

00:21:22That's what it is.

00:21:25I've been farming my entire life.

00:21:27Entire life!

00:21:28You read that.

00:21:29You tell me you recognize my farm.

00:21:31Mr. Tennant.

00:21:32Read it!

00:21:35The herd health investigation revealed deficiency in herd management,

00:21:41including poor nutrition, inadequate veterinary care,

00:21:47and lack of fly control.

00:21:49You see any flies here?

00:21:51It's snowing.

00:21:53Can't stop making excuses for them, can you?

00:21:57It could be pests.

00:21:58They consulted a vet.

00:22:00Who's vet?

00:22:01DuPont?

00:22:05Look at yourself.

00:22:06Swallowing a hole in whatever they've been feeding you.

00:22:09I can't tell truth from lie.

00:22:12You even watch them tapes I gave you?

00:22:14Sir, I am trying to help.

00:22:17Quiet.

00:22:18Trying to help.

00:22:20Stop moving.

00:22:27Easy now.

00:22:29Easy.

00:22:33Get in.

00:22:35Slow.

00:22:57Hey!

00:23:03Forgive me, girl.

00:23:07Help!

00:23:26Jesus.

00:24:26Something to warm you up right about now?

00:24:28Well, how about this?

00:24:34Almost heaven

00:24:37West Virginia

00:24:40Blue Ridge Mountains

00:24:42Shenandoah River

00:24:47Life is old there

00:24:49Older than the trees

00:24:52Younger than the mountains

00:24:55Growing like a breeze

00:24:57Country roads

00:25:00Take me home

00:25:03To the place

00:25:06I belong

00:25:09West Virginia

00:25:12Mountain Mama

00:25:15One day or another

00:25:17This cow's eyes are clouding with pink eyes

00:25:21Is what they'll call it.

00:25:22Anyway, her eyes are sucked way back in her head.

00:25:25She's as poor as a whippoorwill.

00:25:30I'm gonna cut her open and find out what caused her to die.

00:25:35Because I was feeding her enough feed that she should have gained weight instead of losing weight.

00:25:41This is what her teeth look like.

00:25:45That's the upper one.

00:25:47But this one here...

00:25:49I've never been into anything like it in my lifetime.

00:25:53Even the veterinarian who's been in it, he would have never saw anything like this before in his life either.

00:26:08So, what are you proposing we do?

00:26:13File a claim, trigger discovery, and find out what's in that landfill.

00:26:19You want to sue DuPont?

00:26:20Targeted.

00:26:22Property dispute. Routine stuff.

00:26:24Not routine. Not around here.

00:26:26I know, but Tom, if you'd actually seen it, his farm is like a graveyard.

00:26:31There's something very wrong.

00:26:33So he should hire a local lawyer.

00:26:35None of them will do it. They're all terrified of DuPont.

00:26:38Well, what does that tell you?

00:26:39We know DuPont.

00:26:41They're gonna want to hear if some of their local guys are screwing something up.

00:26:46So they're gonna thank us for suing?

00:26:48Better us than the EPA. I mean, new partners are supposed to bring in business, right?

00:26:53So your farmer can swing $2.75 an hour?

00:26:55It'd be a contingency.

00:26:57Jesus. What are we, coupon chasers now?

00:27:01It's a small matter for a family friend. I'll get in, I'll get out.

00:27:05Help a guy who needs it.

00:27:07Who? The farmer or you?

00:27:17All right.

00:27:30Surgical. You hear me?

00:27:32Absolutely. Thank you.

00:27:36Come on, Rob. Of course I'm gonna take your call.

00:27:39Even though I was, I admit, a little surprised.

00:27:42I mean, getting sued by Taft Law, it's not every day, or any day, frankly.

00:27:48No, I'm sorry.

00:27:49Look, you and I are friends. This is a minor issue. No reason it should get messy.

00:27:55Thank you. I totally agree.

00:27:57Yeah, I'm putting you on speakerphone.

00:28:01So, you want to know if we violated our permits?

00:28:04Pretty much, yeah.

00:28:06Okay, then. I'll have our guys send over anything related to hazardous waste at dry run,

00:28:11and I'll tell them to hurry it up this time. How's that?

00:28:14Thank you. That sounds great.

00:28:16And don't stress. I forgive you.

00:28:18Thanks, Phil.

00:28:37You take your baby into the office.

00:28:39I needed a bigger trunk.

00:28:41Why?

00:28:42Discovery for the tenant case came in today.

00:28:45Oh.

00:28:46Oh, you started before me. You're so fast.

00:28:50Good boy.

00:28:52Rob's missing such a lovely day.

00:28:55Law's a jealous mistress, Mom.

00:28:57Means it comes with the territory. Let's go over here.

00:29:00Nice. Thank you. That's more like it.

00:29:03All right, let's go. One more, one more. All right.

00:29:34Sit.

00:30:00How's my favorite plaintiff's attorney?

00:30:02Hey, help me out, will you?

00:30:04You're a run-of-the-mill dump, nothing but trash.

00:30:06You sound like my first girlfriend.

00:30:09Why a requisition order for 55-gallon containers?

00:30:13Conspiracy. Standard-sized drums.

00:30:16Ash, ash by-product, glass tubing, plastic, paper waste.

00:30:20It's just trash. You pile it onto a truck, drive it away.

00:30:23You don't pack it into drums.

00:30:24So they've got liquid waste.

00:30:26Not hazardous, or they'd have to disclose it.

00:30:28So what is killing these cows? It's not paper and ash.

00:30:31Well, maybe it's human error.

00:30:32They're dumping something in there they don't know is toxic.

00:30:35Kim, it's DuPont. They know more than the EPA does.

00:30:39Everyone knows more than the EPA does.

00:30:41Why else would they let us regulate ourselves?

00:30:46What?

00:30:47Do we?

00:30:48Do we what?

00:30:51The EPA only started regulating chemicals in 76.

00:30:55They grandfather in every existing chemical,

00:30:58non-hazardous, unless they knew it was hazardous or a company told them it was.

00:31:03We're saying the same thing.

00:31:04No, we're not.

00:31:05I'm saying what if a company didn't tell?

00:31:10What if the reason Phil Donnelly agreed to discovery on hazardous

00:31:17is because he knows whatever's in that landfill isn't even regulated?

00:31:22Okay, now you are sounding like a plaintiff's attorney.

00:31:25I've got a meeting.

00:31:26Oh, wait one second. Have you heard of this PFOA?

00:31:32No.

00:31:34You know, it's mentioned here.

00:31:35I can't find anything about it in any of the literature.

00:31:38I don't even know if it's a chemical.

00:31:40Ask Phil.

00:31:42Well, thank you.

00:31:44As I said, Mr. Donnelly is still out of town.

00:31:47I called last week and left two messages and haven't heard back from him.

00:31:51I will make sure to tell him that you called again.

00:31:53Okay.

00:31:54Damn it.

00:31:56Your tickets to the Chemical Alliance dinner.

00:31:59And no, dark suit is not the same as black tie.

00:32:03Wouldn't he be going?

00:32:25Good to see you.

00:32:36I don't know if Rob told you, but I was a receptionist at Taft before law school.

00:32:40Is that right?

00:32:41But well, I think the right ballot ended up there.

00:32:43Harold, you're not getting away from me.

00:32:45Sure, it was...

00:32:47It's great to see you.

00:32:49That's funny.

00:32:51Right away I saw a little of myself in Rob.

00:32:54One black sheep to another.

00:32:56My dad was a steel worker, you know.

00:32:58Was he?

00:32:59Have you seen Phil?

00:33:01No.

00:33:03So you're an attorney.

00:33:05Oh, recovering.

00:33:07I represented employers and worked in comp disputes, but now I stay at home with our baby.

00:33:12Well, that's the thing with lady lawyers.

00:33:15I want to say hi to the Dow folks. Have you seen them?

00:33:17No, I've been looking for Phil.

00:33:19Can you send me some more?

00:33:20Dow? That's great.

00:33:22It's a small project, like a tryout, but if I impress them, can you imagine if I brought on Dow?

00:33:28None for me, thank you.

00:33:30You're not.

00:33:34I'm not.

00:33:36You're...

00:33:38I'm...

00:33:40I'm going to wait as long as I can to tell the firm.

00:33:43Would you excuse us for a moment? These lady lawyers need a quick sidebar.

00:33:47Of course.

00:33:48He probably signs your paycheck. Be nice to him.

00:34:01Excuse me.

00:34:12Rob, how are you?

00:34:13Phil, I've been trying to reach you.

00:34:15So sorry all this traveling. How about I give you a shout tomorrow?

00:34:17I'm going to need to broaden discovery to everything in that landfill, hazardous or not.

00:34:21It turns out good lawyers turned out...

00:34:24Excuse me.

00:34:26Are you kidding me?

00:34:28No.

00:34:32I think whatever's causing problems in there isn't something the EPA regulates or knows to regulate.

00:34:38I'm sorry?

00:34:39I'm seeing things in your documents. I don't understand.

00:34:42You're seeing ghosts is what you're seeing. In fact, you're making an ass of yourself.

00:34:46Okay, then help me out. I mean like this.

00:34:49What is this PFOA?

00:34:53What's that stand for?

00:34:56Jesus. You're on a goddamn fishing expedition.

00:35:00You want to flush your career down the toilet for some cow hand?

00:35:04Be my guest. I'm done helping you.

00:35:06Phil, I need to insist on broadening discovery.

00:35:08Sue me!

00:35:10I'm already suing you.

00:35:12Welcome everyone to the 14th Annual Ohio Chemical Alliance...

00:35:16Fuck you.

00:35:17...Awards Dinner.

00:35:26So, let's get the fun started.

00:35:43I'm sorry.

00:35:45You're not the only one who's sacrificed.

00:35:55I just hope you know what you're doing.

00:36:03You know the difference between business and pleasure, right?

00:36:05So, why are you...

00:36:07I'm sorry.

00:36:09You know the difference between business and pleasure, right?

00:36:11So, why on earth would you engage in business conversations at a public function?

00:36:16Tom, he's hiding something. You saw his reaction.

00:36:20Yeah, me and everyone in that room taffed in a pissing match with DuPont.

00:36:24I'm going to get a court order and force them to tell me everything that's in that landfill.

00:36:27Jesus, Kurt. Now you want to actually take them to court.

00:36:30And I'm going to need local counsel in West Virginia.

00:36:32What happened to routine stuff?

00:36:34Ask Phil Latterley.

00:36:36Of course I remember you.

00:36:38Yeah, last time I saw you, I think Phil Domley was trying to get you to go out on the links with us.

00:36:43Yeah.

00:36:47You what?

00:37:09Good morning.

00:37:14Good morning, Larry.

00:37:22Morning, Miss Clay.

00:37:24Don't you look nice.

00:37:26Save it for the judge, Mr. Winter.

00:37:32You're suing DuPont?

00:37:36Yes, ma'am.

00:37:38You represent DuPont?

00:37:40My old firm did. I've been out of my own for a while.

00:37:45Good luck with that.

00:37:51Just wanted to let you know personally that your court-ordered discovery is on the way.

00:37:57Thanks, Phil.

00:37:59No, it's my pleasure.

00:38:02Discovery.

00:38:20Son of a bitch.

00:38:22All right, no admission of liability.

00:38:26Non...

00:38:29Non-disclosure of any and all terms.

00:38:33Pardon me a moment.

00:38:51Holy Jesus.

00:38:55What in the...

00:38:58...world?

00:39:00I guess the joke's on me.

00:39:02Yeah.

00:39:04No one can go through all this crap, not in a million years.

00:39:07Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what they're banking on.

00:39:12Goddamn it!

00:39:19No, no, no, you shouldn't be around this stuff.

00:39:22You sure?

00:39:24Thank you, though.

00:39:26Yeah.

00:39:28Good luck.

00:39:511957.

00:39:541957.

00:40:241957.

00:40:541957.

00:41:02Hey, Bobby, how you been?

00:41:04What are you having?

00:41:06Usual.

00:41:09Eggs over bacon and grits.

00:41:12Same.

00:41:24Sorry.

00:41:30Wilbur Tennant.

00:41:32He's not in his office. Can I take a message?

00:41:34I've been leaving messages.

00:41:36I know, Mr. Tennant, but he really can't get to the phone right now.

00:41:39I won't service!

00:41:41I'll let him know that you called again.

00:41:45Is she getting accustomed to being at mom and dad's?

00:41:48You know grammar. She misses her own house.

00:41:50What?

00:41:52I have a bad cell.

00:41:54She said grammar. She misses her own house.

00:41:56Okay, can you, can I talk to her?

00:41:59She and mom are at the doctor's.

00:42:01Will you tell grammar as I call?

00:42:03And mom, too?

00:42:05Let's try again on Sunday.

00:42:07All right.

00:42:15C-H.

00:42:23You know you look like a crazy person, right?

00:42:25What's the name of that guy that you brought by?

00:42:28What guy?

00:42:30The chemistry expert.

00:42:32The guy who does the models.

00:42:34Gillespie.

00:42:36Here you go.

00:42:38Thank you.

00:42:40Kim Burke had an expense account.

00:42:42Oh, sorry. It's not that kind of case.

00:42:45Are you familiar with something called P-F-O-A?

00:42:51No.

00:42:55No.

00:42:57I did read something recently about a P-F-O-S.

00:43:01I think it was. That sounds related.

00:43:04What was that?

00:43:06Long-chain fluorocarbon synthetic.

00:43:09I'm sorry.

00:43:11Chemistry was my worst class in high school.

00:43:14Boy, you in the wrong line of work.

00:43:16Tell me about it.

00:43:18So synthetic, right?

00:43:20Man-made.

00:43:22Frankenstein.

00:43:24And?

00:43:26Long-chain fluorocarbon is a sequence of carbon atoms out of fluoride.

00:43:30All right.

00:43:32In the lab, you take a carbon atom,

00:43:35and then you add another carbon atom,

00:43:38and then another, and another.

00:43:41Look.

00:43:43You're making a chain, right?

00:43:48Right?

00:43:50Could it be...

00:43:52eight? Eight carbons?

00:43:54Well, sure, yeah. In a lab, you can do almost anything.

00:43:57And why would you want to make this, I mean?

00:44:02Well, a chain like that is pretty much unbreakable,

00:44:05biochemically speaking.

00:44:07So industrial uses, I imagine.

00:44:103M made it.

00:44:12They don't anymore. That's what I read.

00:44:14Why did they stop?

00:44:16Didn't say.

00:44:19What if...

00:44:22What if you drank it?

00:44:25Drank it?

00:44:27You don't.

00:44:29Well, what if you did?

00:44:31Ready to order?

00:44:33Yeah, I think I'd like a...

00:44:35What if you did?

00:44:37That's like saying, what if I swallowed a tire?

00:44:40I don't know.

00:44:42You want to be the guy that finds out?

00:44:44Tune him up.

00:45:05Let us all begin with hymn number 452 in our hymnal books,

00:45:10Here I Am, Lord.

00:45:12Please rise.

00:45:16By the glorious sea and sky

00:45:21I have heard my people cry

00:45:26All who dwell in deepest sin

00:45:31I am and will stay

00:45:35I am and will stay

00:45:37Make sound.

00:45:39Asteroids ahead.

00:45:41Make sound.

00:45:43Are you ready to blast off?

00:45:59I'm taking off now.

00:46:11I'm taking off now.

00:46:32You said it had fluoride?

00:46:34Well, I missed your bill out at Sunday.

00:46:36That chemical. You said it had a fluoride atom.

00:46:40It's a fluorocarbon, so yes, somewhere along the chain.

00:46:43What would it do to your teeth if you drank it?

00:46:45Don't tell me you shouldn't if you did.

00:46:47If you drank a lot of it, what would it do to your teeth?

00:46:50Well, in trace amounts, fluoride hardens teeth,

00:46:53but too much, it's going to stain them

00:46:55and even turn them black.

00:46:59Can I get back to my family now?

00:47:05Oh, where are you going?

00:47:07It's in their water.

00:47:08What? What is?

00:47:38How long's the coughing been?

00:47:41A couple of months.

00:47:44A year.

00:47:46Are you a smoker?

00:47:50Roll up your sleeve. We're going to take some blood.

00:47:58I'm sorry.

00:48:00I'm sorry.

00:48:02I'm sorry.

00:48:04I'm sorry.

00:48:06I'm sorry.

00:48:16I thought you left him inside.

00:48:18I did.

00:48:24Baby.

00:48:26Come on.

00:48:34You move this?

00:48:36What?

00:48:37Did you go through this?

00:48:39No.

00:48:45Baby in here.

00:48:47Baby in here.

00:48:56Baby in here.

00:49:17What happened?

00:49:20Wash up.

00:49:26Jack.

00:49:30Jack.

00:49:34What is it?

00:49:36What is it?

00:49:48Get out of here!

00:49:50Go!

00:49:52Go!

00:49:55Go!

00:49:57Get in here!

00:50:01I know you!

00:50:24I know you!

00:50:54I know you!

00:51:24I know you!

00:51:54I know you!

00:51:56I know you!

00:52:15Rob?

00:52:24Rob?

00:52:42Holy crap! Rob!

00:52:44What?

00:52:46I thought someone was breaking in. For God's sakes!

00:52:48No, it's just me.

00:52:50Rob, you need to tell me what in the hell is going on.

00:52:54We're being poisoned.

00:52:58Rob.

00:53:00What? I mean it.

00:53:02DuPont is knowingly poisoning us.

00:53:04You mean the farmer.

00:53:06His land.

00:53:08All of us.

00:53:10Please don't look at me like that.

00:53:14They're already poisoning the baby.

00:53:18No, I'm not listening to this.

00:53:20Sarah!

00:53:22Do you hear yourself?

00:53:24You are acting like a crazy person.

00:53:26Tearing up our floor.

00:53:28Scaring me half to death.

00:53:30I know it's my job to support you.

00:53:32But that does not mean you get to come into our home.

00:53:34To our family.

00:53:36And tell me that our unborn child is being poisoned.

00:53:38No!

00:53:40I'm sorry. Can I please explain?

00:53:42Explain what?

00:53:44All of it.

00:53:46And if you still think I'm crazy, I'll drop it.

00:53:48I swear to God.

00:53:50I'm sorry.

00:54:08There is a man-made chemical.

00:54:12It was invented during the Manhattan Project.

00:54:16It repelled the elements, especially water.

00:54:18The first ever waterproof coating for tanks.

00:54:20It was indestructible.

00:54:22Then some companies thought,

00:54:24Hey, why just the battlefield?

00:54:26Why not bring this chemical into American homes?

00:54:30Rob's here.

00:54:32He'll see you now.

00:54:38DuPont was one of those companies.

00:54:42So they took this chemical, PFOA.

00:54:44They renamed it C8.

00:54:46And they made their own

00:54:48impenetrable coating,

00:54:50but not for tanks.

00:54:52For pans.

00:54:54They called it Teflon.

00:54:56A shining symbol

00:54:58of American ingenuity

00:55:00made right here in the USA

00:55:02in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

00:55:06But right from the start,

00:55:08something wasn't right.

00:55:10The men and workers who made Teflon

00:55:12were coming down with nausea,

00:55:14fevers.

00:55:16DuPont wanted to know why.

00:55:18So they laced cigarettes with Teflon.

00:55:20They told a group of the workers,

00:55:22Hey, smoke these.

00:55:24DuPonters did as they were told.

00:55:26Almost all those men

00:55:28were hospitalized.

00:55:34That's 1962.

00:55:36One year after Teflon launched

00:55:38and already DuPont knew.

00:55:40The dust, they just sent right up

00:55:42the smokestacks, released into the air.

00:55:44The sludge,

00:55:46tossed it into the Ohio.

00:55:48Or packed it in the drums

00:55:50and chucked it into the Chesapeake.

00:55:52But then the drums started

00:55:54washing up.

00:55:56So DuPont starts digging ditches

00:55:58on the grounds of the Washington Works plant.

00:56:00And in those pits, they dumped

00:56:02thousands of tons

00:56:04of toxic C8 sludge and dust.

00:56:06One of the men that they hired

00:56:08to dig those ditches was

00:56:10the tenant's brother, Jim.

00:56:12But they weren't the only ones

00:56:14covering their tracks.

00:56:163M, who pioneered these chemicals

00:56:18for Scotchgard, they were testing

00:56:20them on monkeys.

00:56:22Most of the monkeys died.

00:56:24Wasn't like DuPont didn't know that

00:56:26because they were doing their own tests

00:56:28on rats.

00:56:30Watched their organs balloon.

00:56:32Now the rats are getting cancers.

00:56:34Tested them on pregnant rats

00:56:36and watched them give birth

00:56:38to pups with deformed eyes.

00:56:40So they yanked

00:56:42all the young women off the Teflon line

00:56:44and never told them why.

00:56:50Sue Bailey's job

00:56:52was scrubbing these huge steel

00:56:54vats where they held the liquid

00:56:56C8. She was pregnant.

00:56:58I love you.

00:57:00Just stop.

00:57:02She gave birth

00:57:04to a baby with one nostril

00:57:06and a deformed eye.

00:57:08Remember how DuPont had seen those deformities

00:57:10in their rats?

00:57:14What about his eyes?

00:57:16Blue, just like all newborns.

00:57:18But the normal, the lids,

00:57:20the pupils?

00:57:22Mr. Bullock, relax.

00:57:24He's perfect.

00:57:26Hi, Charlie.

00:57:28So Sue goes to DuPont.

00:57:30She says, why did you pull me off

00:57:32the Teflon line?

00:57:34Did C8 make my baby this way?

00:57:36No, they tell her.

00:57:38Then all of her records

00:57:40from her time at Teflon disappear.

00:57:42One year later,

00:57:44they put all of the women

00:57:46back on Teflon

00:57:48and never say a thing.

00:57:56He's here.

00:57:58DuPont knew everything.

00:58:00They knew

00:58:02that the C8 they put into the air

00:58:04and buried into the ground

00:58:06for decades was causing cancers.

00:58:08They knew that their own workers

00:58:10were getting these cancers.

00:58:12They knew that the consumers, too,

00:58:14were being exposed,

00:58:16and not just in Teflon,

00:58:18in paints,

00:58:20in fabrics,

00:58:22in raincoats,

00:58:24boots.

00:58:26To this day.

00:58:30For 40 years,

00:58:32you knew C8 was poison.

00:58:34You knew the Happy Pan

00:58:36was a ticking time bomb.

00:58:38And you knew exactly why.

00:58:40Because C8,

00:58:42it stays in us forever.

00:58:44Our bodies are incapable

00:58:46of breaking it down.

00:58:48And knowing all of this,

00:58:50still you did nothing

00:58:52because doing something,

00:58:54quote,

00:58:56would essentially put

00:58:58the long-term viability

00:59:00of this product segment

00:59:02on the line, end quote.

00:59:06You're making too much money.

00:59:08One billion dollars a year

00:59:10just in profit,

00:59:12just in Teflon.

00:59:14And so you pumped

00:59:16millions more pounds

00:59:18of toxic C8 into the air,

00:59:20into the water,

00:59:22so you could actually see it foam.

00:59:24C8 was everywhere.

00:59:26There was nowhere

00:59:28left for you to contaminate.

00:59:34And that's when they came to Jim.

00:59:36They knew he was sick

00:59:38and needed the money,

00:59:40and they needed his land.

00:59:42And when they got it,

00:59:44they dug up all the C8

00:59:46from every single pit

00:59:48at the Washington Works.

00:59:50The toxic C8 sludge.

00:59:52And they dumped it again,

00:59:54this time right up there,

00:59:56steps from your creek, from your house.

00:59:58And that's what your cows

01:00:00have been drinking, Earl.

01:00:06Put them behind bars.

01:00:08Whole damn lot of them.

01:00:10Right in jail.

01:00:12I understand, believe me,

01:00:14but this is a civil case.

01:00:16The most we can hope for is damage.

01:00:18The whole damn world.

01:00:26They should see what they've done.

01:00:28You're right, they should.

01:00:30And it kills me that they won't.

01:00:34But that would mean

01:00:36going to trial and proving

01:00:38that C8 killed your cows.

01:00:40And every scientist who knows anything

01:00:42about any of this already works

01:00:44for these chemical companies.

01:00:46Earl, these companies,

01:00:48they have all the money,

01:00:50all the time, and they'll use it.

01:00:52Trust me, I know.

01:00:54I was one of them.

01:00:56You're still one of them.

01:01:02You can't be serious.

01:01:04You know what I put on the line here.

01:01:06You won a prize.

01:01:08It's a medal, because for once in your life

01:01:10you took the side of the little guy.

01:01:12Sorry, no prize.

01:01:14All you get is your share of this blood money.

01:01:16And you sleep real good tonight.

01:01:18Talk to your family.

01:01:20It ain't just my cows, it was poison.

01:01:22What do you think I fed my family on?

01:01:24Wilmer.

01:01:26Please.

01:01:28Leave this place.

01:01:32Start over.

01:01:34Give your family a fighting chance.

01:01:36Too late for that.

01:01:38We got it, Sandra and me.

01:01:40The cancer.

01:01:42Surprise, surprise.

01:02:08Come on.

01:02:38Here.

01:02:44Let it go.

01:02:48What's wrong?

01:02:50Rob?

01:02:52Rob, what is it?

01:03:04I'm sorry.

01:03:06What happened?

01:03:08What happened?

01:03:10Oh, honey, honey, honey.

01:03:12You saw a man hurting,

01:03:14and

01:03:16you did the Christian thing.

01:03:18You helped him.

01:03:20How?

01:03:22Either he dies penniless,

01:03:24or he lets DuPont just keep

01:03:26pillaging his community.

01:03:28How's that helping?

01:03:32Gotta get some sleep.

01:03:36Okay.

01:03:46I can't believe

01:03:48a freaking case settlement could shut this up.

01:03:52Have you read their confidentiality

01:03:54agreements?

01:03:56You've uncovered a threat

01:03:58to the public.

01:04:00This goes beyond lawyering.

01:04:02That's all I know is lawyering.

01:04:04Fine.

01:04:06Then be the lawyer.

01:04:08You know DuPont better than anyone.

01:04:10What haven't they thought of?

01:04:34I'm sorry.

01:04:36I'm sorry.

01:04:38I'm sorry.

01:04:40I'm sorry.

01:04:42I'm sorry.

01:04:44I'm sorry.

01:04:46I'm sorry.

01:04:48I'm sorry.

01:04:50I'm sorry.

01:04:52I'm sorry.

01:04:54I'm sorry.

01:04:56I'm sorry.

01:04:58I'm sorry.

01:05:00I'm sorry.

01:05:02I'm sorry.

01:05:10God, Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

01:05:12What is that?

01:05:14A memo and 136 exhibits.

01:05:32Hello.

01:05:48Welcome, sir.

01:05:50This is your time.

01:06:02Thank you.

01:06:12The EPA announced a public hearing

01:06:14into this family of chemicals I've been looking into.

01:06:16I heard about it from Tucker.

01:06:18What, Santo Tucker?

01:06:20Union Carbide, now.

01:06:22He says to me, is it true that a Taft lawyer

01:06:24sent a phonebook's worth of confidential DuPont documents

01:06:26to the entire federal government?

01:06:28Internal documents, not confidential.

01:06:30I signed up to testify, and the next thing I hear

01:06:32is DuPont has petitioned a judge

01:06:34to stop me from testifying,

01:06:36from flying to D.C., from even picking up the phone.

01:06:38They filed for a gag order.

01:06:40Yes. This is what we're up against.

01:06:42Jesus. David.

01:06:44Where do we stand?

01:06:46Well, the judge rejected the gag order,

01:06:48so I fly out on Monday.

01:06:50Nice. I guess we'll just watch on C-SPAN.

01:06:54If you ever do anything like this again,

01:06:56I will cut your balls off and serve them to DuPont myself.

01:07:00Now, get out of here.

01:07:04Good luck in Washington.

01:07:06Thanks, Tom.

01:07:08This material, uh,

01:07:10is a perfloral,

01:07:12or a PFOA.

01:07:14It's also known as

01:07:16FC-143

01:07:18ammonium

01:07:20perfloral octonate.

01:07:22It has been shown

01:07:24by DuPont's

01:07:26own science

01:07:28that PFOA-C8

01:07:32is possibly

01:07:34life-threatening to human health.

01:07:36We are asking

01:07:38this agency

01:07:40to do something.

01:07:58Do you forget to pay the water bill?

01:08:00What?

01:08:02Do you forget to pay the water bill?

01:08:04No.

01:08:06Well, we got a notice.

01:08:08What's it say?

01:08:10Uh,

01:08:12PFOA is a persistent chemical

01:08:14that is slow to be eliminated

01:08:16from the bloodstream of people

01:08:18who use it.

01:08:20Uh,

01:08:22PFOA is a persistent chemical

01:08:24that is slow to be eliminated

01:08:26from the bloodstream of people

01:08:28who have been exposed to it.

01:08:30The DuPont Company has advised

01:08:32the Lubbeck Water District

01:08:34that low concentrations have been found

01:08:36in the district's wells.

01:08:38DuPont has advised the district

01:08:40that it is confident these levels are safe.

01:08:44What the hell does that mean?

01:08:48That flavor came last fall.

01:08:50Made no sense to me, so I started making calls.

01:08:52I told you, don't kick

01:08:54that hornet's nest.

01:08:56It's not like we didn't know what we'd signed up for.

01:08:58What do you mean?

01:09:00Oh, I was married

01:09:02before Joe

01:09:04to a chemist at DuPont.

01:09:06Dream job. Paid real well.

01:09:08And the perks?

01:09:10Presents for no reason.

01:09:12We get this catalog. Just pick.

01:09:14Whatever you want.

01:09:16And little stuff.

01:09:18He'd bring home this soap, this miracle powder.

01:09:20He'd put it in the washing machine

01:09:22or the dishwasher, just wipe stuff clean

01:09:24like you would not believe.

01:09:26One day he comes home

01:09:28and says, can't bring that stuff home no more.

01:09:30Why? Won't tell me.

01:09:32Then he'd get sick for weeks.

01:09:34The Teflon flu,

01:09:36the guys would call it.

01:09:38We knew something wasn't right.

01:09:40But this house?

01:09:42We bought it just by showing

01:09:44the bank my husband's DuPont ID.

01:09:46Put both our kids

01:09:48through college. Engineers.

01:09:50And this town?

01:09:52That doesn't come without a price.

01:09:54My brother Kenny didn't know that price.

01:09:56He joined DuPont at 19.

01:09:58Died on the operating table

01:10:00two years later.

01:10:02Ulcerative colitis.

01:10:04Just like Dan Shuler had.

01:10:06Who was dead?

01:10:08A chemist at DuPont. Worked with my ex-husband.

01:10:10And Roger?

01:10:12What's his name?

01:10:14Wilkins, the foreman.

01:10:16Steven Geller? Randy Field?

01:10:18He didn't have any cancer. He survived.

01:10:20No, his wife didn't.

01:10:22No, June's was thyroid. It was supposed to be treatable.

01:10:24They didn't catch it in the time.

01:10:26They caught it in their son.

01:10:30Were your children born healthy?

01:10:32Yes. Yes, they were.

01:10:34Good.

01:10:36But we wanted a third.

01:10:38Couldn't. I went to my doctor.

01:10:40He says, you need a hysterectomy.

01:10:42You need it right away.

01:10:44I'm so sorry.

01:10:46I was 36.

01:10:48Mr. Kiger,

01:10:50do you think I could get a copy of that letter?

01:11:06What's wrong with your hand?

01:11:08Nothing. It's fine.

01:11:16Whoa. Rob?

01:11:20Um, what are you doing?

01:11:24I mean, it's not enough to poison these people.

01:11:26They gotta swindle them, too.

01:11:28Okay, calm down, all right?

01:11:30DuPont wrote that letter, not the Water Authority.

01:11:32How do you know that?

01:11:34You think I don't know what a DuPont letter looks like by now?

01:11:36Okay, okay.

01:11:38I mean, Jesus!

01:11:40It's evil, Sarah.

01:11:42It's fucking evil.

01:11:44It's back.

01:11:46It's back.

01:11:48It's nothing, sweetie. It's nothing.

01:11:50I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

01:11:52Where's the bottle?

01:11:54It's in the bag.

01:11:56Some grammars.

01:11:58Left in the mailbox.

01:12:00Medical claims now and forever?

01:12:02Yeah, but...

01:12:04Now and forever? Is that that...

01:12:06medical mom drink? Is that...

01:12:10I thought you said that wasn't gonna pass.

01:12:14What?

01:12:24Our lead plaintiff is Mr. Joe Kiger.

01:12:26Potential plaintiff,

01:12:28if the partnership approves.

01:12:30Mr. Joe Kiger,

01:12:32a phys ed teacher from Parkersburg, West Virginia,

01:12:34on behalf

01:12:36of the 70,000

01:12:38local residents

01:12:40whose water DuPont

01:12:42has been wrongly poisoned for the last 40 years.

01:12:44Class action?

01:12:46Let him finish.

01:12:48The Kigers were notified by their local water company

01:12:50that DuPont had found

01:12:52small concentrations of C8

01:12:54in their water supply.

01:12:56But not to worry,

01:12:58because those concentrations

01:13:00were safe. Why?

01:13:02Because DuPont said so.

01:13:08This is what DuPont considers safe.

01:13:10That's something like one drop

01:13:12of water in an Olympic-sized

01:13:14swimming pool. In other words,

01:13:16even a trace of C8

01:13:18renders water unsafe.

01:13:20But DuPont told the local water authority,

01:13:22don't worry, your wells

01:13:24have got even less than that.

01:13:26Except that was a lie. A lie?

01:13:28Yes. DuPont has been secretly

01:13:30testing these wells for decades.

01:13:32They knew they had contaminated

01:13:34those wells up to six times

01:13:36that level.

01:13:38And thanks to the Tennant case,

01:13:40now we know, too. Hold on.

01:13:42This stuff is unregulated, right?

01:13:44I mean, as far as EPA is concerned,

01:13:46it might as well be rose petals.

01:13:48The EPA hasn't set a standard, that's true,

01:13:50but DuPont did.

01:13:52And all the law requires to win a case

01:13:54like this is to show that DuPont

01:13:56exceeded what DuPont itself

01:13:58considers safe,

01:14:00self-regulation. If what you're saying

01:14:02is right, then why would DuPont

01:14:04tell this water district anything at all?

01:14:06Seems to me that they're being a

01:14:08good corporate citizen here.

01:14:10That's how long you have to file

01:14:12suit. One year from

01:14:14the moment you realize your water's been

01:14:16contaminated. This

01:14:18letter looks like it's telling

01:14:20people their water is safe.

01:14:22In fact, it's notifying them

01:14:24that it isn't. DuPont has started

01:14:26the clock. Smart.

01:14:28We would have counseled that.

01:14:30It was sent 11 months ago,

01:14:32the moment they realized

01:14:34we knew. In 30 days,

01:14:36they're home free.

01:14:38So that's the proposed case in brief,

01:14:40but there's something else to consider.

01:14:42You think?

01:14:44C8 bioaccumulates,

01:14:46it builds up inside of us.

01:14:48Some class members who aren't sick

01:14:50today will get

01:14:52sick tomorrow. We need a way

01:14:54to protect them into the future.

01:14:56Jesus, Tom, if you're even thinking about using

01:14:58medical monitoring...

01:15:00Medical monitoring

01:15:02is a claim now permitted

01:15:04in West Virginia courts.

01:15:06Let's hear him out. It says

01:15:08if a company exposes a community

01:15:10to something that makes them sick,

01:15:12they must monitor the health of that

01:15:14community indefinitely. Everybody get that?

01:15:16You're creating liability for mere

01:15:18exposure. It's also

01:15:20unprecedented. Exactly, which

01:15:22is why not six months ago we fought tooth

01:15:24and nail against it. And you lost.

01:15:26Our clients have the right to

01:15:28avail themselves of the law. Potential

01:15:30clients.

01:15:36Okay.

01:15:38I know you, Rob.

01:15:40I know your passion.

01:15:42You get a great settlement

01:15:44for your farmer. You should be proud of that.

01:15:46And perhaps as

01:15:48the newest partner

01:15:50at this table, I should be more circumspect,

01:15:52but what he's

01:15:54proposing here is

01:15:56nothing less than

01:15:58a shakedown of an iconic American company.

01:16:00We do not represent

01:16:02DuPont. No, you don't represent anyone.

01:16:06Is this what we have become?

01:16:08Plaintiffs, attorneys, ambulance

01:16:10chasers. I mean, why don't you just admit it?

01:16:12Rob, you want to flip. You want to take everything

01:16:14that you know about how chemical

01:16:16companies operate and turn it

01:16:18against DuPont like an informant.

01:16:20Isn't that right? Okay.

01:16:22Isn't that right?

01:16:24Okay, then I

01:16:26say we take a vote

01:16:28and determine whether or not

01:16:30we continue in the tradition that

01:16:32has distinguished this firm from everyone

01:16:34else in the industry. Okay, I'm running this meeting.

01:16:36Okay? You got that?

01:16:38Has anyone even

01:16:40read the evidence this man has collected?

01:16:42The willful

01:16:44negligence, the corruption?

01:16:46Read it!

01:16:48And then tell me we should be

01:16:50sitting on our asses.

01:16:52That's the reason why

01:16:54Americans hate lawyers.

01:16:56It's the crap that fuels the

01:16:58Ralph Naders of the world. We should

01:17:00want to nail DuPont.

01:17:02All of us should.

01:17:04American business is

01:17:06better than this, gentlemen. And when it's not,

01:17:08we should hold them to it.

01:17:10That's how you build faith in the system.

01:17:12We're always

01:17:14arguing that companies are

01:17:16people. Well, these

01:17:18people have crossed

01:17:20the line.

01:17:22To hell with them!

01:17:26It may come as

01:17:28a surprise to the corporate defense

01:17:30types like yourselves, but there's

01:17:32more to the law than just blood on the other

01:17:34side and papers. From where I

01:17:36sit, you have to touch

01:17:38people. These girls,

01:17:40they handle the calls from the

01:17:42class action members. And there's

01:17:44thousands of them on any given case.

01:17:46It's here that we come

01:17:48to know their pain

01:17:50isn't there?

01:17:52Yes. We hear

01:17:54it every day, and it's my job

01:17:56to make the jury feel that pain.

01:17:58Not out of pity, but out of

01:18:00fear. Whatever it is

01:18:02that happened to my client, that

01:18:04juror has to think,

01:18:06that could happen to me.

01:18:08You just keep hammering it. One part

01:18:10per billion, one part per billion.

01:18:12It's their own documents, their own

01:18:14sciences. They set

01:18:16that standard. They have to live with it.

01:18:18You know, I think we can relax,

01:18:20Rob, though. There's no way they're going to

01:18:22prevail with a motion to dismiss.

01:18:24This is procedural, and it's

01:18:26nonsense. We'll get a trial today.

01:18:28Okay, I'll

01:18:30catch you guys on this.

01:18:32I'm

01:18:34doing

01:18:36that.

01:18:40Earl.

01:18:42How

01:18:44you doing?

01:18:46Still here.

01:18:48That's something, right?

01:18:50Yes,

01:18:52that's something.

01:18:54Good to see you, Rob.

01:18:58Can't

01:19:00let them

01:19:02shut you down.

01:19:04I

01:19:06won't, I promise.

01:19:08The whole world

01:19:10needs

01:19:12to know.

01:19:14They will.

01:19:16They will.

01:19:18They will.

01:19:20Hey, Rob, it's time.

01:19:22We are here on

01:19:44defendant's motion to dismiss

01:19:46the case brought by Mr. Kiger

01:19:48et al.

01:19:50Now,

01:19:52which one of you is Mr. Wallace?

01:19:54Edward Wallace, Your Honor.

01:19:56On behalf of E.I. DuPont

01:19:58Dinamore & Company, better known as

01:20:00DuPont. Yes, I've heard of it.

01:20:02Your motion. Thank you.

01:20:04Your Honor, we're here

01:20:06today because of a uniquely American

01:20:08invention, Teflon.

01:20:10Since 1961,

01:20:12Teflon has liberated house...

01:20:14No, no, no. Excuse me.

01:20:16Homemakers... This is a courtroom,

01:20:18Mr. Wallace, not the home

01:20:20shopping network.

01:20:22Plaintiffs have

01:20:24alleged that DuPont did not meet

01:20:26its own standard of safety with

01:20:28regard to the level of C8

01:20:30in the local water supply.

01:20:32That's irrelevant, Your Honor.

01:20:34We ask you to dismiss on grounds that

01:20:36the only standard that matters

01:20:38is the one that elected government

01:20:40deems safe. Not if it's unregulated.

01:20:42It's government's job to make these determinations,

01:20:44not any one company. That's a trap.

01:20:46I can't revert back to it.

01:20:48Is there a problem, Mr. Ditzler?

01:20:50Apologies, Your Honor, but

01:20:52DuPont has been hiding the dangers

01:20:54of this chemical from the

01:20:56government for a while now,

01:20:58and they're asking you to let them off the hook

01:21:00because they've succeeded in

01:21:02their strategy. Government doesn't regulate

01:21:04C8. Actually, that's not true.

01:21:06No, no. The West

01:21:08Virginia's C8 Working Group has

01:21:10just issued a standard.

01:21:12Here with us today is the governmental official

01:21:14who led that effort, Dr. Mary Sue

01:21:16Kimball.

01:21:18And, Dr.

01:21:20Kimball, as a senior member

01:21:22of the state's Department of Environmental Protection,

01:21:24isn't it, in fact, your duty

01:21:26to protect the citizens of West Virginia?

01:21:28I'll cut to the chase.

01:21:32What is the level of C8 in drinking water

01:21:34that the state of West Virginia

01:21:36has determined to be completely safe?

01:21:38That should go from one part per billion to

01:21:40150 parts

01:21:42per billion.

01:21:44The levels found in the wells

01:21:46of all six water districts

01:21:48represented in this suit,

01:21:50do they fall below this maximum

01:21:52level? Well below.

01:21:54Nothing else, Your Honor.

01:21:56Your witness, Mr.

01:21:58Ditzler.

01:22:02Mr. Ditzler.

01:22:04One moment, Judge.

01:22:06Going once.

01:22:08Going twice.

01:22:10Going twice.

01:22:12Dr. Kimball, who were

01:22:14the members of this cabal

01:22:16you call the C8 working group?

01:22:18Objection.

01:22:20Cool it, Mr. Ditzler.

01:22:22Go ahead, Dr. Kimball.

01:22:24Agency officials,

01:22:26representatives of the scientific community,

01:22:28stakeholders.

01:22:30Stakeholders, which stakeholders? Wait,

01:22:32let me guess. It rhymes

01:22:34with bouffant.

01:22:36DuPont is a stakeholder, yes.

01:22:38So don't you find it peculiar

01:22:40that on the eve of a class

01:22:42action lawsuit where DuPont

01:22:44might be considered

01:22:46liable for poisoning

01:22:48this community, they get

01:22:50you to come in here suddenly

01:22:52and reverse decades

01:22:54of their so-called heralded

01:22:56science. That's false.

01:22:58I don't work for DuPont. I say you did.

01:23:00But now you bring

01:23:02it up, we'll check back in a month. Your Honor.

01:23:04You honestly couldn't plan on telling

01:23:06the community that I can drink 150

01:23:08times more C8?

01:23:10I mean, come on, people. Bottoms up.

01:23:12Honestly, Judge. All right, Mr.

01:23:14Ditzler, enough.

01:23:16We'll be unveiling the new standard

01:23:18at an upcoming public hearing.

01:23:20Unveiling? Oh, that

01:23:22sounds like a party.

01:23:24We'll be there!

01:23:30Their safety standards thing, that's all

01:23:32a sham.

01:23:34In the face of the judge's decision,

01:23:36we will have our day in court

01:23:38because if the

01:23:40state of West Virginia won't

01:23:42stop the DuPont Corporation from

01:23:44literally poisoning its citizens

01:23:46then we, the citizens, will

01:23:48stop them ourselves.

01:23:50Good evening

01:23:52and welcome to 2020.

01:23:54Well, it coats the pots you

01:23:56cook with so the food doesn't stick.

01:23:58It protects the carpet your

01:24:00baby crawls on. I miss carpet.

01:24:02Your winter jacket, your skin lotion,

01:24:04even your makeup. We're talking

01:24:06about Teflon. And tonight

01:24:08a 2020 investigation uncovers

01:24:10alarming information

01:24:12about this much-used material.

01:24:14It is very alarming, Barbara.

01:24:16I cook with Teflon. I didn't know until

01:24:18I watched this report that you're about

01:24:20to see that if Teflon gets hot enough

01:24:22millions of people have in their homes

01:24:24Teflon has become such a familiar word.

01:24:26Substance that is also used in clothing, in cars,

01:24:28even in contact lenses.

01:24:30Most Americans now

01:24:32PFOA

01:24:34across Australia.

01:24:36Teflon, a non-stick

01:24:38surface...

01:24:50Joe!

01:24:52Joe!

01:24:54Oh my lord, Joe, just wait.

01:24:56Wait for the fire department, please.

01:24:58Please, honey.

01:25:00Please don't go crazy.

01:25:02Triggered a mass panic among Chinese consumers.

01:25:04Roll away your non-stick pans.

01:25:06Many experts... Are your pans

01:25:08making you sick? That's the question

01:25:10being asked. ...of kitchen implements

01:25:12coated in Teflon.

01:25:14The house was empty.

01:25:16It belongs to my father.

01:25:18I don't know how it could have started.

01:25:20His name, Kiger?

01:25:22Think someone might have got

01:25:24the wrong house?

01:25:28...

01:25:34All of this hullabaloo is just

01:25:36silly.

01:25:38Teflon is completely

01:25:40safe for cooking. That is why

01:25:42we founded the Cook Healthy campaign

01:25:44to set the record straight.

01:25:46And besides being

01:25:48completely safe,

01:25:50it is also...

01:25:58Copy that.

01:26:02All the way down.

01:26:28...

01:26:58...

01:27:00...

01:27:02...

01:27:04...

01:27:06...

01:27:08We're now on the record. This is the

01:27:10videotaped deposition of Charles O.

01:27:12Holliday, Jr., taken by the plaintiffs

01:27:14in the matter of Kiger et al

01:27:16versus E.I. DuPont,

01:27:18Dena Moore's and company.

01:27:20Raise your right hand.

01:27:22Do you swear to tell the whole truth and

01:27:24nothing but the truth? I do.

01:27:26Please state

01:27:28your name.

01:27:30Charles O. Holliday, Jr.

01:27:32And are you

01:27:34presently employed?

01:27:36Yes.

01:27:38What is your position?

01:27:40I'm the chairman and chief

01:27:42executive officer of the DuPont company.

01:27:44In DuPont's

01:27:46most recent filing with the

01:27:48Securities and Exchange Commission,

01:27:50you state, quote,

01:27:52based on over 50 years of industry

01:27:54experience and extensive

01:27:56scientific study, DuPont

01:27:58believes there is no evidence that

01:28:00PFOA causes any

01:28:02adverse human health effects

01:28:04or harms the environment.

01:28:06You signed that legal filing, correct?

01:28:08I don't recall the exact statement, but

01:28:10that sounds right to me. Are you aware

01:28:12that DuPont has in its own

01:28:14files studies dating

01:28:16back to the 1970s that

01:28:18say just the opposite?

01:28:20That PFOA,

01:28:22or C8 as it's called, has potentially

01:28:24life-threatening effects

01:28:26on human health? I'm not familiar with

01:28:28the exact studies we may have in our files.

01:28:30Then I'll take you through them.

01:28:32Exhibit 9.

01:28:38You just handed

01:28:40Exhibit 9.

01:28:42Do you see the date?

01:28:44March 13, 1979.

01:28:46Yes. Do you see the DuPont logo at the top?

01:28:48Yes. Do you see this word

01:28:50here, highlighted?

01:28:52Yes. Would you read it for me, please?

01:28:54Receptors.

01:28:56Do you know what that word refers

01:28:58to, receptors?

01:29:00In

01:29:02this context, I do not. It means

01:29:04human beings.

01:29:06DuPont refers to the men and women that

01:29:08your company exposed to C8

01:29:10as receptors.

01:29:12And in these receptors,

01:29:14your scientists found

01:29:16quote, significantly higher

01:29:18incidence of allergic, endocrine,

01:29:20and metabolic disorders,

01:29:22end quote, as well as, quote,

01:29:24excess risk of developing

01:29:26liver disease. Do you see that?

01:29:28Yes.

01:29:30Moral.

01:29:32You have infertility at Teflon.

01:29:34Occurrences of

01:29:36leukemia. You have

01:29:38excess of cancers, bladder, kidney,

01:29:40oral, pharynx. Next paragraph.

01:29:4278.

01:29:44You see that heading? You see that date?

01:29:46You see that? Exhibit 95.

01:29:48Exhibit 53. I'd like to move on

01:29:50to birth defects. We've gone on

01:29:52seven hours. Mr. Holliday, you're aware

01:29:54that in 1981, 3M

01:29:56notified DuPont that it had

01:29:58conducted studies on rats, and these

01:30:00studies showed that sustained

01:30:02C8 exposure can cause facial

01:30:04deformities? I'm not aware of a study

01:30:06by 3M. How about DuPont's own

01:30:08studies that showed the same thing

01:30:10in humans?

01:30:12That's

01:30:14DuPont's

01:30:16pregnancy study from 1981.

01:30:18Does that look like a DuPont document

01:30:20to you? It looks to be.

01:30:22Are you aware that

01:30:24DuPont has denied that any such

01:30:26study ever even

01:30:28took place?

01:30:30I'm not familiar with specific

01:30:32statements we've made about that. Seven

01:30:34pregnant women, all

01:30:36DuPont employees, all from the

01:30:38Teflon line.

01:30:40Do you see this here?

01:30:42Quote, child,

01:30:44four months, one nostril,

01:30:46eye defect, end quote.

01:30:48Yes. Two of the

01:30:50seven women, nearly 30%,

01:30:52gave birth to babies that had the exact

01:30:54facial deformities that your company

01:30:56already knew about. We're done here.

01:31:00Sir,

01:31:02his parents

01:31:04named him Bucky.

01:31:06Bucky Bailey.

01:31:10This is your receptor.

01:31:20Now we're done.

01:31:36Okay.

01:32:06Okay.

01:32:36...

01:32:38...

01:32:40...

01:32:42...

01:32:44...

01:32:46...

01:32:48...

01:32:50...

01:32:52...

01:32:54...

01:32:56...

01:32:58...

01:33:00The Environmental

01:33:02Protection Agency has levied

01:33:04the largest fine in agency

01:33:06history against the chemical giant

01:33:08DuPont. The EPA

01:33:10concluded the company failed to report

01:33:12the health dangers of C8

01:33:14used in the manufacture of

01:33:16Teflon. DuPont

01:33:18will pay the EPA $16.5

01:33:20million.

01:33:22It earns a billion dollars in

01:33:24profits from Teflon each year.

01:33:26...

01:33:28...

01:33:30...

01:33:32To recap,

01:33:34we've agreed that DuPont

01:33:36will clean local water supplies,

01:33:38installing filtration systems

01:33:40in all six water districts.

01:33:42Additionally,

01:33:44DuPont will pay $70 million in cash

01:33:46to the class. Three days revenue on the Teflon

01:33:48line. Which

01:33:50leaves our most challenging issue,

01:33:52medical monitoring.

01:33:54We've agreed to establish an independent

01:33:56science panel comprised of

01:33:58three scientists who have no

01:34:00relationship to either side.

01:34:02This independent panel

01:34:04will study the members of this class

01:34:06to determine whether C8 exposure

01:34:08has led to increased incidence

01:34:10of disease in this region.

01:34:12If the panel finds that

01:34:14there are probable scientific links

01:34:16to a particular disease,

01:34:18the health of everyone in the class will be

01:34:20monitored for that disease

01:34:22and will be assessed for its

01:34:24effectivity. At DuPont's cost,

01:34:26up to $235 million.

01:34:28And any class member who develops that

01:34:30disease can sue DuPont

01:34:32for damages.

01:34:34However,

01:34:36if the science panel fails

01:34:38to establish probable scientific links,

01:34:40then this case is over.

01:34:42No monitoring, no lawsuits,

01:34:44no exceptions.

01:34:46Good. Well, gentlemen,

01:34:48you are now officially in the hands of science.

01:34:50Well,

01:34:52wouldn't have pegged you as my type guy.

01:34:54It's festive.

01:34:56Wouldn't have pegged you for that either.

01:34:58We have something to celebrate.

01:35:00Do we?

01:35:02Look,

01:35:04how do we know that the panel is going to prove

01:35:06that DuPont made all these

01:35:08people sick?

01:35:10I'm no scientist, but even I know

01:35:12you'd need huge amounts of medical

01:35:14data, not to mention

01:35:16thousands of blood samples.

01:35:18People who don't trust us.

01:35:20Hey, folks, we want to stick you in some needles.

01:35:22You don't mind, do you?

01:35:24I know these people.

01:35:26They're going to

01:35:28take the money and run.

01:35:30Wouldn't you?

01:35:32I think they want more than just the money.

01:35:34I think they

01:35:36want to know if they're

01:35:38going to get sick or not.

01:35:40Or if they have C8 in their blood and what that's

01:35:42going to do to them and their families.

01:35:44So,

01:35:46we're just going to trust that they show up.

01:35:48Trust, but verify.

01:35:50What does that mean, Rob?

01:35:52Well,

01:35:54come in for an exam.

01:35:58Give us a blood sample.

01:36:00Then we'll give you your check.

01:36:06I'm sick, Doc. Make mine a Mai Tai.

01:36:08All around, please.

01:36:10Rob the Lot?

01:36:12Yeah.

01:36:14Healthy drinking

01:36:16water is vital to all of us.

01:36:18That's why scientists need to know if the chemical

01:36:20C8 causes any health problems.

01:36:22Starting today, you can help

01:36:24by completing a health questionnaire

01:36:26and having...

01:36:28Come on!

01:36:30Come on!

01:36:32Well, how about you?

01:36:34You going to get your blood tested?

01:36:36I hate needles.

01:36:38400 bucks, buddy.

01:36:40Really?

01:36:42I don't think I can.

01:37:12Okay. Okay.

01:37:14All right. All right.

01:37:16That'll work.

01:37:18We bring them back here,

01:37:20draw the blood,

01:37:22hand them a check.

01:37:24$400 each.

01:37:26Lots of money around here.

01:37:28How many you brought with you today, Ms. Luann?

01:37:30My husband and my three kids and me.

01:37:32$2,000.

01:37:34Not too shabby right before Christmas.

01:37:36Yep.

01:37:38But you ain't going to find nothing.

01:37:40They're good people.

01:37:42You'll see.

01:37:46Gigi, Gigi, Gigi.

01:37:48It's your turn.

01:37:50Gigi's too cute.

01:37:52You should get your Uncle Ben

01:37:54to give you a boost.

01:37:56Mom?

01:37:58You okay?

01:38:00Seriously, it's huge.

01:38:02They're going to be making a partner this year.

01:38:04I know it.

01:38:06Well, they better.

01:38:08Baby, did you hang that ornament?

01:38:10Let me see.

01:38:12Okay, I'm coming.

01:38:16Hello?

01:38:18Larry, what's wrong?

01:38:2269,000 what?

01:38:30Oh, my God.

01:38:34Thank you.

01:38:36Talk real soon.

01:38:40You won't believe it.

01:38:42Daddy, guess what I just did.

01:38:44I put the angel on the top.

01:38:46Uncle Ben lifted me.

01:38:48He did? Like this?

01:38:50Merry Christmas, everyone.

01:39:06We are gathered here today

01:39:08in the memory of

01:39:10Wilbur Monroe Pennington.

01:39:12The Lord is my shepherd,

01:39:14I shall not walk.

01:39:16He makes me lie down

01:39:18every past week.

01:39:20He keeps his eyes still watching me.

01:39:22The Lord is my shepherd,

01:39:24and so I walk in the fountains

01:39:26in the meadow of Denny's.

01:39:28The Lord is dear to me.

01:39:36The Lord is my shepherd,

01:39:38and so I walk in the fountains

01:39:40in the meadow of Denny's.

01:39:42Hurry, everybody,

01:39:44it's much better catch up.

01:39:48Tight for the tenth time.

01:39:50That's my catch up.

01:40:04That's my catch up.

01:40:06Charlie.

01:40:08What? It's mine. I got it.

01:40:10He's got it, Donald.

01:40:11You're that lawyer.

01:40:12That's great.

01:40:13Finish up.

01:40:16My brother's Dale Lamb.

01:40:18He took his blood, said she'd help him.

01:40:20Yeah, I did.

01:40:21We're working on that, I promise.

01:40:23He's dead.

01:40:26Testicular cancer.

01:40:30Left three little boys younger than yours.

01:40:32Good boy.

01:40:38She enjoy your family.

01:40:42Okay, everybody up.

01:40:44I'm not finished.

01:40:45I said up.

01:41:16Darlene can't even leave the house without being harassed.

01:41:30First they blame us for suing DuPont, and now they hate on us because they ain't seen

01:41:35nothing from it.

01:41:37Well, that ain't good enough.

01:41:41And they wonder why in the hell it takes four damn years to read a lousy blood sample,

01:41:46and I don't blame them.

01:41:48We trusted you, Rob.

01:41:50We put our faith in you.

01:41:52I know, Joe.

01:41:53All right?

01:41:59Isn't there just some kind of a progress report?

01:42:03Anything that I can share with these folks?

01:42:06I mean, they have been waiting.

01:42:09I'm sorry, Mr. Millon.

01:42:10The panel is still in the process of analyzing complex data and modeling from thousands of

01:42:15samples and medical histories.

01:42:17I'm so sorry.

01:42:18Could you hold a moment?

01:42:30Charlie, go pick up your food.

01:42:34What's a hooker?

01:42:37Where did you learn that?

01:42:39You told me that Mary Magdalene was a hooker.

01:42:43What?

01:42:44She was.

01:42:45You're supposed to say prostitute.

01:42:47And then she found God and became one of Jesus' most fervent disciples.

01:42:54See?

01:42:55There's a teaching in the Bible.

01:42:56I can't today.

01:42:57Everybody up.

01:42:59Everybody up.

01:43:06Can you still afford it?

01:43:10What?

01:43:12Catholic school.

01:43:29My brother's back in rehab.

01:43:30Did you know that?

01:43:34No, I'm sorry.

01:43:36Today's...

01:43:39Today's Mom's first day of chemo.

01:43:42I forgot.

01:43:43Because it's not about your case, Rob.

01:43:46Car.

01:43:47Gosh.

01:43:48H-T's.

01:43:55Teddy board's my signature.

01:43:56And Tony's quitting football.

01:43:58Tony.

01:43:59But how did you know about that, right?

01:44:02You say the boys have ever seen you obsessing about this woman.

01:44:10Have I ever complained?

01:44:16Say something for God's sakes, Rob.

01:44:19No.

01:44:20No.

01:44:21No.

01:44:22No.

01:44:24Because I knew that you needed something to have some connection.

01:44:28Something.

01:44:29Something.

01:44:30And so I took it on.

01:44:33But if you want to start accounting, if you want to start with, oh, can we afford the...

01:44:42I don't know, Rob.

01:44:45Can the boys afford a father who can't string two words together?

01:44:48Can our marriage afford 13 years of this?

01:44:55How about it, Rob?

01:44:56You want to talk about it?

01:44:57About our lives?

01:45:03Of course not.

01:45:06Tell mommy I asked about her.

01:45:11What in God's name is that panel doing?

01:45:13And why are we still getting bills?

01:45:15Overhead.

01:45:17Local council.

01:45:18Harry's call center.

01:45:20A thousand dollars an hour.

01:45:21That was a technical expert.

01:45:23We needed to do filings when DuPont started lobbying Washington.

01:45:27That's Washington's problem, not ours.

01:45:29That's why you got them involved.

01:45:30Your memo?

01:45:31It was just a fine, Tom.

01:45:32It's a fine.

01:45:33$16 million.

01:45:34It's nothing for these people.

01:45:36It's pocket change.

01:45:37Yes, but if they get charged with criminal concealment, game over.

01:45:39You said DOJ was investigating.

01:45:40Not anymore.

01:45:41What?

01:45:42They dropped the investigation.

01:45:44What?

01:45:45They dropped it.

01:45:46No reason given.

01:45:50Tom, our government is captive to DuPont.

01:45:54This case, it's the only hope we have.

01:45:57They know that, and they're trying to make it as expensive as they can

01:46:00to force you to make me stop.

01:46:04Just tell me how much longer.

01:46:07I can't.

01:46:09I wish I could.

01:46:12Are you okay?

01:46:14I'm fine.

01:46:15Rob, I'm a managing partner now.

01:46:18I have a firm to run.

01:46:20I know, and Tom, I think there could be a huge payout here.

01:46:24You think I'm in this for money?

01:46:26No.

01:46:27You think I am letting you drag this firm's reputation through a meat grinder

01:46:32for some kind of plaintiff's payoff?

01:46:36I don't know why you're doing it.

01:46:43Rob, listen, I'm sorry, but you're going to have to take another pay cut.

01:46:48Tom, that's my fourth client.

01:46:51I'm down to third now.

01:46:54You don't have any clients?

01:46:55No one will take your call?

01:46:58What am I supposed to do here?

01:47:00I'm on your side.

01:47:02Rob?

01:47:04Amy?

01:47:06Amy!

01:47:07I can't leave!

01:47:08Get some help!

01:47:09I can't leave!

01:47:10Get some help!

01:47:11I can't leave!

01:47:12Get some help!

01:47:13I can't leave!

01:47:14I can't leave!

01:47:15I can't leave!

01:47:16I can't leave!

01:47:17I can't leave!

01:47:18I can't leave!

01:47:19I can't leave!

01:47:20I can't leave!

01:47:21I can't leave!

01:47:22I can't leave!

01:47:23I can't leave!

01:47:24I can't leave!

01:47:25I can't leave!

01:47:26I can't leave!

01:47:27I can't leave!

01:47:28I can't leave!

01:47:29I can't leave!

01:47:30I can't leave!

01:47:31I can't leave!

01:47:32I can't leave!

01:47:33I can't leave!

01:47:34I can't leave!

01:47:35I can't leave!

01:47:36I can't leave!

01:47:37I can't leave!

01:47:38I can't leave!

01:47:39I can't leave!

01:47:40I have to go.

01:47:42Mrs. Pallott, we think your husband's most likely experienced a TIA, a transient ischemic attack.

01:47:49Blood is briefly cut off to the brain, mimicking the symptoms of a stroke.

01:47:55Excuse me, a TIA?

01:47:57This wasn't short.

01:47:59It kept going on.

01:48:02What about poison?

01:48:03I'm sorry?

01:48:05Could someone be poisoning him?

01:48:08No, Mrs. Pallott, this is neurological.

01:48:12You just said it wasn't a stroke.

01:48:14Not this time.

01:48:15What does that mean?

01:48:16Well, it means that he needs to never miss his medication, and he needs to reduce all sources of stress in his life.

01:48:23He's under enormous pressure at work.

01:48:26Well, that needs to change.

01:48:28He's a young man. He shouldn't be having these incidences.

01:48:32He's sedated, but you can see him. I'll check in on him tomorrow.

01:48:36Thank you. Thank you.

01:48:45Well, I'll give you some privacy.

01:48:50Anything you need, call me.

01:48:56I need you to stop making him feel like a failure.

01:48:59I appreciate the stress that your family must be going through.

01:49:03Please, don't talk to me like I'm the wife.

01:49:10Did Robert ever tell you about moving around as a kid?

01:49:15I, uh...

01:49:16Ten times before senior year.

01:49:18No friends, no ties, no...

01:49:21Just, it happened.

01:49:24He taffed. It's not just a job.

01:49:27To him, it's...

01:49:29It's home.

01:49:33And he was willing to risk all that for a stranger who needed his help.

01:49:40No.

01:49:41No.

01:49:42No.

01:49:43No.

01:49:44No.

01:49:45No.

01:49:46No.

01:49:47No.

01:49:48No.

01:49:49No.

01:49:50No.

01:49:51No.

01:49:52No.

01:49:54You and I may not know what that is.

01:49:59But it's not failure.

01:50:22I won't let you leave me.

01:50:26This way you'll never let me.

01:50:35For you have searched my heart.

01:50:40And you know when I sit and when I stand.

01:50:45Your hand is upon me.

01:50:48Protecting me from death.

01:50:52Keeping me from harm.

01:50:59Oh Lord, I know you are near.

01:51:09Standing always at my side.

01:51:21You are here.

01:51:39Hey, do you know the score?

01:51:43The game?

01:51:45Sorry, my radio's busted.

01:51:48Sorry.

01:51:50Don't worry about it. It'll be a surprise.

01:51:52Bucky, come on. We'll be late.

01:51:55Have a good one.

01:51:57It'll be a surprise.

01:51:58Bucky, come on. We'll be late.

01:52:01Have a good one.

01:53:27Hey, Rob. Bill Leary. We haven't met. I'm the new controller out of Indianapolis.

01:53:50Listen, we need to talk about your unbilled hours and these unreimbursed...

01:53:57Hello?

01:54:11Mr. Bilotte?

01:54:13Yes?

01:54:14I guess I should start by apologizing for taking, well, seven years to call you.

01:54:20Who is this?

01:54:21Oh, yes, of course. It's Dr. Karen Frank.

01:54:25Science panel?

01:54:27Again, I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting this long.

01:54:32But there was just so much data...

01:54:33Please, doctor, please, can you just please tell me what's happened, what's happening, what you found out.

01:54:41Yes, yes. You gave us an unprecedented amount of data.

01:54:45The largest epidemiological study in human history.

01:54:49It's irrefutable.

01:54:50We have linked sustained exposure to CH to six categories of serious illness.

01:55:01Kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease, preeclampsia, high cholesterol, ulcerative colitis.

01:55:123,535 people in the class already have these diseases.

01:55:17Many more will develop them.

01:55:21Thanks to you, the entire class will be monitored.

01:55:24And those who get sick can seek restitution.

01:55:29You did a good thing here, Mr. Bilotte.

01:55:32You did good.

01:55:36Thank you.

01:56:36Thank you.

01:57:07Thank you.

01:57:30Rob?

01:57:33What happened?

01:57:38Rob?

01:57:41DuPont, they're reneging.

01:57:46Which part?

01:57:47All of it.

01:57:49They're tearing up our agreement, rejecting the science panel.

01:57:52They're going to fight every claim in court.

01:57:56Thousands of claims.

01:57:57People, sick people, they'll give up.

01:58:00They can't fight DuPont.

01:58:02How can they go back on...

01:58:05They can't go back on everything.

01:58:07They're a titan of industry.

01:58:08They can do whatever the hell they want.

01:58:09Nothing else matters.

01:58:11They can fight you all they want.

01:58:12It doesn't take away from what you've done.

01:58:14Of course it does.

01:58:16That's exactly what it does.

01:58:19They want to show the world it's no use fighting.

01:58:21Look, everybody, even he can't crack the maze.

01:58:24He's helped build it.

01:58:26The system is rigged.

01:58:29They want us to think it'll protect us, but that's a lie.

01:58:32We protect us.

01:58:34We do.

01:58:35Nobody else.

01:58:38Not the companies, not the scientists, not the government.

01:58:42Us.

01:58:46A farmer with a 12th grade education told me that.

01:58:51On day one, he knew.

01:58:54And I thought he was crazy.

01:59:03Isn't that crazy?

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