Clarice (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Silence Is Purgatory - full transcript

- ARDELIA: Previously
on Clarice: - Catherine?

- How are you out there in the world?
- We're different people.

- [Receiver slams]
- [Gasps]

Ma'am, I think we
should go get her.

I'm afraid Catherine's
gonna go do something rash.

If she could make it past
the elevator, I'd be worried.

CLARICE: Angela Bird,
Tess Laughty, Sandra Bishop.

They were not random
victims of a serial killer.

Those women were whistleblowers.

Karolina Savich was
here on a student visa

sponsored by Global
Health Horizons.



It's a charity run by a Tyson
Conway. He's her emergency contact.

I brought Karolina
Savich over here.

We can always try to help people,
but we never really get the final say.

KRENDLER: DNA
says you were right.

Hudlin was the man
you saw at Woodhaven

the night Marilyn
Felker killed herself.

Pull your team off what went
down on the Anacostia River,

the three dead women.

[Wheels squeaking]

KRENDLER: Three
dead whistleblowers.

Now another dead woman. All
with connections to Joe Hudlin.

What's Hudlin connect them to?

Well, we might know. We
dug into Tyson Conway.

His not-for-profit? Guess
who his major donor is.



Conway's dad. Founder and
CEO of Alastor Pharmaceuticals.

- The makers of Reprisol.
- The drug Karolina Savich took.

CLARKE: I found an Alastor
drug rep I can leverage.

She's got a green-card
boyfriend dodging a drug charge.

Really? You're leaning
on his immigration status?

Hey, working a CI is an art.
They don't teach it at Quantico.

It's all in finding
their thumbscrews.

Starling. Work Conway.

See if he'll give us access
to his dad's company.

I'll keep working Hudlin, or
letting him think he's working me.

See if I can suss out his
connection to Karolina.

You two, map the case.

Everything we've learned
since we waded into the river.

Walk the path, see what
we missed the first time.

- Sir.
- Yep.

Seriously. Find some
leverage on Conway.

There comes a point
when staying silent

costs more than
telling the truth.

CLARKE: Mm-hmm.

- [Sighs]
- [Phone ringing]

CATHERINE: Bea? Bea!

[Ringing continues]

- Bea, are you gonna get the phone?
- [Beep, click]

MAN: [on answering machine]
Hi. This is a message for Catherine.

It's Ned. It's been a long...

Sorry. It's been so long. I
was wondering how you are.

Anyway, maybe you want to
grab a cup of coffee or something.

- [Beep]
- Ned? Hi.

It's me.

TY: No, Ledja's already
been in the States a year.

She's been staffed at a hospital.
She wants her children to join her now.

Your failure to grant
approval is the issue.

No, you may not call me back.
I'm staying on this phone all week.

Can you help me
stay on this phone?

- WOMAN: All week. Got it.
- Sorry. Um, INS.

- Can I get you a coffee...?
- No, I'm fine. Thank you.

I just wanted to ask a few
more questions about Karolina.

Sure.

Did you know the baby Karolina
was carrying had birth defects?

That's too bad. She
must have been so afraid.

She was taking a drug her doctor
prescribed her called Reprisol.

- It's an anti...
- I know what Reprisol is.

My dad is Nils Hagen.
His company makes it.

Do you know a man
named Joe Hudlin?

Yeah, he works for my father.

Well, I was hoping that you
could give us some insight

into your father's company.

And your father and maybe
what Hudlin does for him.

Look, you're overestimating
the amount of insight

- I have into my father's business.
- Oh?

We didn't meet till I was 14.

[Chuckles] I was, as
they say... an oversight.

Is that what they call it?

Growing up, it was
just me and my mom.

I didn't even know
who my dad was.

Anytime I asked her,
she would just say,

"Me, Tyson. I'm your
dad. And your mom."

Why? Why did she
keep it from you?

I don't know. I
had what I needed.

We were dirt poor,
but I had what I needed.

Still, you wonder.

- Was I...
- Cast off?

Doing the work I do, I've
learned to steer clear of, uh,

self-pity, but, yeah.

Anyway, when I was,
uh, 14, my mother got sick.

A lung infection, then sepsis,
and then she died. Suddenly.

I was the only family she had.

And then, suddenly, he appeared.

How? How did he find you?

He's a powerful man. He... He...

He kept looking for
me until he found me.

There he was. I had
nobody, and then...

You had a father. And you
don't want to mess that up.

I'm sorry. You're easy to talk to.
Must make you good at your job.

But, honestly, I just
don't think I can help you.

I wish I could.

Agent Carter was
refused a routine transfer

when his dad was
dying of cancer.

That's 15 acts of discrimination
against Black agents.

How many complaints
does this lawyer want to see

before he'll take our case? And
is it bad I've never heard of him?

George Castillo. Used
to be an agent at the Bu.

He's not big, but he's our guy.
You'll see. We're meeting at 2:00.

- At 2:00?
- Mm.

- I have to be on duty.
- Oh, Evans...

Someone left a brochure
for life insurance on his desk...

for accidental death.

- Clear threat of bodily harm.
- Mm-hmm.

Carlisle. His fellow agents

pasted a cut-out of a
chimp over his son's photo.

His eight-year-old. I
would've walked out right then.

[Papers thud]

If you ever have kids, how
long are you gonna let them

be kids before you give them
the truth about this country?

Carlisle needed his salary,
his pension. They knew it.

- They don't want us to run.
- They want us to suffer.

Mm-hmm.

This is enough,
right? For the lawyer?

I feel invigorated because we
have so many that I want to scream.

'Cause we have so many.

- Get someone to cover you at 2:00.
- [Sighs]

- I'll fake a hernia or something.
- Can I watch?

- That sounds funny.
- [Chuckles]

[Chuckling]

♪ The itsy bitsy spider
climbed up the water spout ♪

♪ Down came the rain
And washed the spider out ♪

- ♪ Out came the sun ♪
- Catherine?

♪ And dried up all the rain ♪

- ♪ And the itsy bitsy spider... ♪
- Catherine. Nugget.

- [Distorted conversations]
- [Horn honking]

[Echoing] Nugget,
what're you doing out here?

[Horn honks in distance]

- [Sobbing]
- Oh, oh!

I thought I could leave the house
to meet Ned. I thought I'd make it.

[Sobbing]

♪ There's power in the blood ♪

♪ In the precious
blood of the Lamb ♪

CLARICE: Angela
Bird, Tess Laughty,

and Sandra Bishop were interviewed
by Rebecca Clark-Sherman...

and then murdered
by a hired killer.

ESQUIVEL: Karl Wellig, who
was then offed in our own house

by two more posing as
a lawyer and a fake cop.

Is there any movement
on ID'ing these guys?

Off a fake name and
two sketches? No.

We've run them past every
agency in the area, and nothing.

Okay, so, they led us
to the lead physician

of the victims' clinical
trials, Marilyn Felker.

Ah. Who kills herself
because she's being framed

for her involvement with
the whistleblowers' deaths.

Most likely by... Joe Hudlin.

Ah. With Hudlin and Meriwether.

CLARICE: Alastor
Pharmaceuticals' fixer-lawyer.

ESQUIVEL: Joe Hudlin.

- [Breathes sharply]
- Hmm.

[Pager buzzes, beeps]

I have to cancel something.

Is it your, uh,
medical examiner?

You see, I never should
have told you. I knew it.

Nope. I mean, I'm
just saying. Two years?

Where I come
from, that is married.

ESQUIVEL: Mm.

- I'm sorry. I didn't... That...
- It's fine. It's fine.

- Okay.
- [Clears throat]

I'm sorry. I... Look.
I'll talk about it.

I just... I just don't
want to hear about it.

Okay.

CLARKE: Ah, you
must be doing all right,

from the look of that
Mercedes you pulled up in.

Or is that pharma money?

WOMAN: It's called
a stocking bonus.

Alastor hired me to encourage
doctors to prescribe their drugs.

We get triple our commission
if a clinic exceeds their quota.

Tell me what that comes out to.

Whoa! You get that
bonus... on every drug?

[Chuckles] No, no.
Just one. Reprisol.

It's in stage four trials,
so they can't advertise yet,

but we can get
doctors to prescribe it.

The stuff does everything,
muscle relaxant, anti-anxiety,

anti-migraine,
anti-inflammatory.

It sells itself.
I'm making bank.

Hmm. I'm gonna need some
samples of Reprisol. [Laughs]

Who's this woman
who signs your check?

Julia Lawson? How
do I contact her?

- Look. Maybe this is a bad idea.
- No, no, no.

- [Chuckles] It's not.
- This is my career, you know?

I shouldn't mess
with it. I think I'm done.

No, Naomi. You're not done.

Unless you want your boyfriend
on the next boat back to Australia,

you're done when
I say you're done.

[Sighs]

I know. It's no
fun for me, either.

CATHERINE: I
thought... I could do it.

You'll get there, Nugget.
You've already taken the first step.

That's huge.

- Ned called.
- Did he, now?

I can call him back.
Maybe we can try again.

- Tonight. [Sniffles]
- Maybe just let Ned be.

We had been talking
about marriage when...

He abandoned you.

[Sniffles] You
said you'd help me.

Will you take me? Please?

Let's talk to your mum.

Please. Don't tell Mom.

She'll... [Sighs]
She'll ruin it.

Somehow, hearing
his voice, it felt like...

normal again.

It felt like... before.

- [Sighs]
- Please.

I just want to feel
normal again. [Sniffles]

You led the Hispanic agents
discrimination complaint

when you were at the Bureau.
That was a massive win.

It was. What you didn't hear is
that after the suit, the harassment,

the situation became unbearable.

Within a year, most of us left.

The Bureau that we
loved, that we fought for...

it wasn't there
anymore. Not for us.

- So you regret it.
- Yes. I wanted to retire there.

But would I do it again? Yes.

'Cause it was the right fight.

Now, what's your stake?

I lost a promotion to a clueless,
feckless hack of a white man.

The hell you say?

- You know the Cody Phelps case?
- Sure. The serial guy.

Mm-hmm. I thought
Clarice Starling did the...

With Ardelia. Without
Ardelia, it'd still be a cold case.

- Is that true?
- Well, yes.

Starling and I investigated.
We took him down together.

He was in my cuffs. My
DNA research found the guy.

Then I got put back
on cold-case duty.

My work secured the funding
to continue the DNA research,

but they put a white male
colleague in charge of me,

and I have to train him,
because he knows... nothing.

- I know it's tricky to quantify.
- No, actually. That's the case.

- The feckless hack is the case?
- No, no, no.

Starling is.

She's the FBI's poster
girl. She's tabloid red meat.

If she's in the story,
people will pick up the paper.

By comparing you two, we hit
the FBI where people see them.

Okay. If you'll step up,

if you make Clarice
Starling your lead complaint,

I'll take your case.

And I'll win it.

- CLARKE: Where's the boss?
- Meeting with Hudlin.

I just saw my drug
rep, who bought a Benz

with the ridiculous bonuses
she gets from pushing Reprisol.

Hmm. Well, if it's the same
drug from the original trial,

they would have known
it caused birth defects.

Her paycheck has
the name of someone

from accounting and sales
and distribution, Julia Lawson.

Follow the money.
Go on. Go detect.

Julia Lawson. Go find her. Go.

HUDLIN: Mandy
will receive this today.

You filed for an ex parte order?

Even if the judge doesn't
grant it, it's gonna help us.

Mandy is not an "imminent
danger" to our kids.

- She would never hurt them.
- Hey.

I promised I would
get you custody.

[Sighs] This is gonna kill her.

She's already dead.

It helps if you
think of it like that.

The woman you love is gone,

and she's been replaced
by a ruthless, hateful bitch

who wants to take your
children. Can you see that?

I'm constantly surprised at
what I can do lately. Hmm.

You know anything
about this woman?

Karolina Savich.

I thought we had an
understanding, Paul.

This crossed my desk, and your
name was in connection with her.

Now, I'm trying to be a
team player here, but...

that came to me from
an Assistant US Attorney.

I do pro bono immigration
work for a non-profit.

That's why my name was there.

Why is the DOJ looking
at her? How did she die?

I was gonna ask you that.

Maybe you should just
do what's asked of you.

- Make it go away.
- [Chuckles]

I know. Look.
It's... It's not forever.

What's in there?

Paul, our case depends
on you taking the high road.

You gonna tell on me?

[Inhales deeply]

- [Glasses clink lightly]
- 16-year-old single malt.

[Stopper clacks]

[Engine idling,
engine shuts off]

[Vehicle doors slam shut]

ESQUIVEL: Excuse
me? Julia Lawson?

We're with the FBI. Can
we talk to you a second?

Sorry to bother you at home.
We tried to call at work, but...

I had a doctor's appointment.
I'm sorry. What's this about?

- Is there some place we could talk?
- Um, right here's good.

You're a senior accountant
at Alastor Pharmaceuticals?

That's right.

We wondered if you could
answer some questions

about the drug Reprisol.

That's proprietary
information. I... I can't discuss it.

- Who's this?
- They're from the FBI.

They're asking
questions about work.

This is, um... This is
my roommate, Erin.

- She doesn't have to speak with you.
- Erin's right, Julia, you don't.

But if you change your mind...

This is her. It's
Clarice Starling.

Can you please leave? Now.
Do we need to call a lawyer?

No, no, no. No. It's okay.
Thank you for your time.

What was that about?

Excuse me?

Three women are dead. They
were in a clinical trial for Reprisol.

All three had children
with birth defects,

and when they tried to
speak up, they were murdered.

Look at Reprisol, and if you can
help get justice for these women,

then, please, call me.

KRENDLER: Hudlin said he was
in the middle of a big acquisition.

There were files with
the Whitfield & Webb logo.

Is Alastor Pharmaceuticals
in the middle of a buyout?

Suddenly, a lot of things
start to make sense.

Like why they'd make an old,
failed clinical trial just disappear.

And why Tyson Conway's unwilling
to talk about his father's company.

Get back to that sales rep.

Starling, get this
accountant on our payroll.

Um, sir, I'm not sure
how easy that will be.

- She had some resistance...
- Overcome it.

- Sir.
- Murray, hang on.

Hudlin needed me
under his thumb.

I wanted to get him
comfortable, so to get him talking,

I let him knock me
off the wagon. Yeah.

Can't tell my sponsor why,
obviously, so I'm telling you.

Okay?

Whatever you're about
to say is a load of crap.

You're a good agent. You could
find another way to crack him.

I am going to suggest
that you saw a side door

because you wanted a drink.

And even if that's not true,

well, you'd better
damn well act like it is.

GARRETT: So? What's
the verdict, Mapp?

Are you gonna call
George? Tell him yes?

- I can't throw her under the bus.
- It's not about Clarice.

And I've got news for you.

You're pulling her under the bus
because you're already under it.

- You and a hundred other agents...
- She didn't sign up for this.

Neither did you. Neither did I.

We all signed up
for the same FBI.

We deserve our
victories. This is our shot.

You are our shot.

And if your friend
doesn't understand,

I'm not sure what
you're trying to protect.

CLARICE: So, Joe Hudlin
connects us to Karolina Savich.

ESQUIVEL: Yeah, who
had Reprisol in her system

and was carrying a
baby with birth defects,

just like our River Murders.

So... is she a noisy
eater? What's the problem?

You pivot from
murder to my love life.

[Scoffs] Healthy.

And it's not her. She's great.

She's a good person.

Bet a coroner makes for some
pretty spicy dinner conversation.

[Chuckles]

Yeah, we met when
she first moved here.

Two years ago.

She'd been a paramedic
in Killeen, Texas.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

She worked the Luby's
Cafeteria shooting.

- 25 dead.
- 27 injured.

She still wakes up
crying sometimes.

All those people.
The senselessness.

"How could someone
be so cold?" she says.

"How can he be so destructive?"

You've never told her you
were a sniper in the Army.

"Were?" [Scoffs] Krendler
still calls me his "sniper-guy."

- Clarke calls me "Killer."
- But she only knows a part of you.

Yeah, well, she's not
gonna like the other part.

Does anyone know all of you?

JULIA: I think you might
just be overreacting a little bit.

I'm just afraid that you're
gonna start talking to the FBI

- and throw away your job.
- I didn't say that! I...

I just said that the
stuff I found was weird.

But why... How
does it concern you?

It concerns me because they
told us that women died, Erin.

[Both sigh]

Am I supposed to... unhear that?
I'm supposed to un-find what I found?

I'm sick. And uninsurable.

And we have insurance,
and we have a house,

and those things are
dependent on your job.

If we lose it all... [Sighs]

Now I sound like a selfish bitch

who doesn't care about
anyone but herself.

No. Honey.

- Ugh.
- No.

[Sighs] I know.

People like us don't
get those things.

Look at our friends.

I haven't decided
that I'll do it yet.

[Voice breaking] Yes, you have.

Just promise me this.

Tell Starling what she did.

- N...
- Tell her. Make sure she knows.

You want to stand
up for other people?

Start by standing
up for yourself.

Yeah.

[Mellow rock music
playing over speakers]

I'm okay. Thank you.

[Chuckles]

[Inhales deeply]

[Door creaks lightly]

[Indistinct conversations]

[Door creaks lightly]

NED: Cat.

- Ned.
- Catherine.

[Ned exhales shakily]

[Breathes deeply]

- CLARKE: You're not going home?
- Finishing some stuff.

Too many bars
between here and there?

[Phones ringing in distance]

You don't have to sit and
watch me like a Spaniel.

Woof.

- [Knock on door]
- CLARICE: Sir?

Hey, it's a party. How'd
it go with the accountant?

You lean on her?
You make her your CI?

- I'm not gonna lean on her.
- [Pager buzzes]

- Sir, I haven't been back yet...
- CLARKE: Speak of the devil.

It's the lovely Naomi. "911."

- You good?
- I'm good.

Starling. I need you to
go back to the accountant.

Find out if there's anything
to this buyout thing.

She seems to have a
problem with me. Specifically.

- Why?
- I have no idea.

WOMAN: Excuse me. Mr. Krendler?

Ms. Starling, you have
a visitor. Julia Lawson?

What made you change your mind?

Um, I... I haven't,
but I brought you this.

- [Door closes]
- Would you like a seat?

- Uh, no.
- Okay.

Can you tell me what this is?

There is a discrepancy
in how we paid the CRO.

It's... It's all in here. The
FBI has accountants, right?

I mean, isn't that
how you got Capone?

- Was there something else?
- Yes.

- Is it about the murder?
- No.

The NDAs they make us sign,
th... [Scoffs] They'll ruin me.

- I can't so much as confirm...
- It's okay. It's okay. You haven't.

I brought it up.

So, what was it? The
thing you have to say?

- Is it about me?
- It's about...

Buffalo Bill.

[Scraping]

NED: It's just so nice to
see you, Cat. I just, uh...

- You look fantastic. [Chuckles]
- I've lost a lot of weight.

Sure, but that's not it.
You've always been beautiful.

Always. But you look... [Laughs]

I'm just happy to see
that you're healthy, is all.

- I am so sorry, Cat.
- What do you mean?

I wasn't prepared. [Stammers]

I didn't know anyone that
went through anything like that.

I... I didn't know how
to be there for you.

Yeah, it's, uh... It's
not a regular thing.

- But it's okay.
- No, it's not.

If I could just go
back, I would be...

It's fine. Really. It's fine.

No, I would have been better for
you. I would have stayed with you.

Well, you're here
now. It's okay.

- Moving on, right?
- [Sighs] Right.

So, what's next for you?

Going back to school
was always the plan.

- I've been looking at Parsons.
- [Chuckles]

You and I always
talked about RISD.

You are so talented. Any place
would be lucky to have you.

- Shut up.
- [Both laugh]

I'm really happy you called.

- I've been thinking about you.
- Yeah.

Yeah. Me, too, obviously. I just
wanted to make sure that you were...

And thank you... for
wearing my favorite sweater.

What's wrong?

[Sighs] Cat... I, um...

I think I might have given
you the wrong impression here.

What do you mean?

Whatever it is you have
to say to me, it'll be okay.

Um...

That case...

and, um, all the
press that came with it,

the... your TV interview,
the magazine covers,

it created a story.

Um, a story that did a
lot of damage for me.

[Sighs]

Buffalo Bill was
clearly a monster,

a killer, and I don't know
what their story was,

but they got
labeled transsexual.

And whether it's true or not,

that word was then
in every headline,

every story,

every gruesome tabloid photo
right next to "murderer," "maniac."

"Psycho skins women, driven
mad by transsexual desire."

That was the front page
of the Baltimore Herald.

Overnight, suddenly, the
biggest story on everyone's minds

was that transsexuals
were monsters.

And this affected
you personally?

Clarice... I'm transsexual.

And... I have to keep
that part of myself hidden

because I could lose my job.

My life.

I have to hide who I am
because of stories like Buffalo Bill.

And at the center of
all of those was... you.

You made my life harder.

I didn't write those articles.
I didn't say those things.

No, but the press
were listening to you.

And people like me
don't have a voice.

You had the power to say
something, and... you never did.

So I needed to
say something now.

[Sniffles]

You know, being silent, it's...

it's like purgatory.

You're never really living
one truth or the other.

[Sniffles] I, um... just needed
you to know, you know?

What your silence can do.

I have to get these back tonight,
so you need to make copies.

NED: We met in Chemistry.

She was, um...

Anyway, we're kind of
seeing each other now.

Right. Okay.

But I told her that I couldn't
commit to anything until I...

- Until you cut me loose.
- Until I knew you were okay.

- Until you were absolved.
- No.

I came here. I haven't
left the house in a year.

I left for you. So you
could ask forgiveness?

Cat.

You weren't there
when I needed you.

But it's okay. I never
expected you to be.

I knew it very early.

The way you held
my hand so gentle.

Almost... weak.

Like how you touched me in bed.

I thought, "This is
someone I'll have to carry."

I accepted it.

How you pouted when you
thought I didn't like your play.

Or the blizzard. When
we camped in Oakridge?

- When I gave you my coat?
- You said you were warm enough.

Yes. That is what I said.

And now you're here

before you attach
yourself to someone else

hoping I'll disprove
what you already know.

What she'll find out.

This is not a man
you can count on.

This is not a man.

I'd like you to go.

- I just...
- I would like you to go!

[Amplified sounds echoing]

[Register dings]

[Dog barking]

[Fan blades thumping]

[Distorted male scream]

RUTH: You're okay, sweetheart.

I'm here. Bea told
me where to find you.

- [Sniffles]
- You're okay.

You're okay, sweetheart.

Let's go home,
okay? We'll go home.

Yes, please.

[Jazz music plays over speakers]

[Engine idling]

Wait. Wait. Hey!

Naomi? Naomi!

Damn it!

Might have been an overdose.

Tell me you think for one
minute she paged you "911"

and then just decided to take
a lethal amount of Reprisol.

Hudlin made the River
Murders look like a serial killer.

He made Wellig
look like a stroke.

Rebecca Clark-Sherman
was gonna be a suicide.

It has all been misdirection.

KRENDLER: She's right.
This feels like a message.

Hudlin's way of telling me
he knows we're investigating

- without confessing to a murder.
- CLARKE: He's a fixer.

We need inside Alastor.
Your accountant...

CLARICE: She helped
us out, but now she's done.

We're not putting Julia
Lawson in the line of fire.

Well, I got some
leverage on our Julia.

Her background
check only goes back

a little over five
years, then disappears.

- Our accountant is a transves...
- Stop. Stop it right there.

You do not know what you're
talking about, and I am not...

You're not what?!
Gonna do your job?!

- I am not gonna blackmail someone!
- Hey!

And don't tell me you are pushing
this out of anything other than guilt

- that you just got a woman killed.
- You want Hudlin?!

- She was your responsibility!
- Enough. Murray. Enough!

Yes, sir.

[Sighs] Find anything new?

I think you dropped the ball.

Look, Hudlin led us to Karolina,

who was sponsored here in
the States by Tyson Conway,

whose dad owns
Alastor Pharmaceuticals.

Tyson is our way to
Nils, and you let up.

I think you need to push him.
Lean on him, like Clarke said.

Find out what's
important to him and use it.

- She's known you almost two years.
- Oh, my God.

You seriously think she
won't see the difference

between a soldier
and a mass killer?

There are days I don't.
That was a joke. Mostly.

You're in purgatory.
Keeping your mouth shut.

- What?
- You need her to accept you,

but she never can until
you tell her who that is.

- Tell her.
- How do I do that?

You're a pretty smart guy.

I'll go back to Conway.

[Mellow rock music
playing over speakers]

- [Knocking]
- TY: Back here!

Agent Starling. Hello.

- I hope it's not a bad time.
- No.

- Do you want to come in?
- I can't. I can't. I just...

I just wanted to ask y...

[Laughs] Ahh. Uh...

[Laughs] I'm here
to, um... lean on you.

I'm here to use some leverage,
use something important to you,

to try and coerce you
into helping us, but...

- That sounds...
- Yeah. I don't want to do that,

because...

I know what's important to you,

and I think we both
want the same thing.

We want to know
who your father is.

I think you spent years
coloring in the lines

of what little you knew about
him... wondering what he's like.

What he'd think of who you are,
of every decision you ever made.

And now you get to know. And
what's more, he approves. [Chuckles]

I lost my dad when I was little, so
I can imagine how that must feel.

- I'm sorry.
- Thank you.

But I need your help.
And I think you need mine.

I think your father is associated
with some very, very bad people.

Everyone I've met on this
trail who's crossed with him

has paid a price,
some with their lives,

and I just want to make
sure that you don't get hurt.

You know where to find me.

Julia.

- Mr. Hudlin.
- [Drawer closes]

Hi. Um, is there
something you need?

No. I just wanted
to say I took a look

at the due-diligence
prep and the audit stuff.

- Terrific. Very tight.
- Ah. [Sighs] Uh, well, thank you.

- Uh, was there something else you...
- You sure are here late.

Yep, yes. Uh,
lots to go through.

For the merger.

Anyway, I just wanted to say
you're doing great work, Gordon.

[Stammers] I'm sorry. Um...

Uh, what... what did you say?

I said, "Great work,
Julia." See you soon.

Oh, God.

[Elevator door sliding closed]

[Mellow rock music
plays on radio]

- What's this?
- Sit down. [Clears throat] Please.

- What are we drinking to?
- Friendship.

[Glasses clink]

I'm going to file a racial
discrimination complaint

against the FBI...
with the EEOC.

[Exhales deeply] Okay.

You are included in
my complaint. By name.

- Is it about the Phelps case?
- Yes.

Please say something.

I'm thinking.

Today, I keep finding out I hurt
people without knowing I did it.

You never hurt
me. The Bureau did.

But using your
example and your fame

and your name
will help the suit.

And the Coalition.

And a lot of people
who are counting on me.

It's true. We should be rising
on the same tide. I'm sorry.

Don't apologize to me.
I'm about to ruin your life.

[Glasses clink]

[Phone ringing]

Oh.

[Dusts hands]

- Hello?
- CATHERINE: I went outside today.

Uh, Catherine. That's good.

To a coffee shop. It
wasn't much. I just...

- wanted you to know that.
- That's good. That's good.

I'm happy for you. I
know that wasn't easy.

I just had to take action,
right? Not just keep hiding.

You can't just keep hiding from
this. From what Bill did to us.

Right?

I just wanted to say thanks.

- You kind of... inspired me.
- That's good.

Catherine, is
everything all right?

Everything's fine.
Good night, Clarice.