Lie to Me (2009–2011): Season 1, Episode 9 - Life Is Priceless - full transcript

- [Siren Wailing]
- [Horn Blaring]

[Chattering, Shouting]

[Man]
Hey, you just do your job, all right?

[Man On Bullhorn: Indistinct]

More slack!
We need more slack!

Just keep breathing.
You're okay. You're okay.

All right? And I want 'em safe.
I want 'em back. All right?

They're my men, and it's their lives.

[Female Reporter] A FEMA spokesman
on the scene refused to comment.

But Channel 8 News has learned that two
construction workers have been killed...

while others may still be buried alive
beneath tons of concrete.



[Voices Shouting, Overlapping]

[Man]
Just calm down!

Everybody, just calm down!

My construction company has built
a dozen of these eco-buildings.

We've never had anything more than
a minor injury. What are you implying?

Don't look at me.
City inspections found no evidence...

of any sequency issues
in the construction!

- Maybe you missed something!
- [Woman]
You took the proper safety precautions.

- How would something like this have happened?
- [Man] Oh, no!

I am not gonna take the fall on this.

[Siren Wailing]

What the hell is that?

[Blows]
Hello? Is this thing on?

- Who the hell are you?
- Dr. Lightman. Thank you so much
for coming down right away.



- It's Stevens, right?
- Right.

Dr. Lightman is here to assist FEMA
in the rescue effort.

- Assist? How?
- He's a deception expert.

He's worked with FEMA
on half a dozen cases.

I want you to give him
your full cooperation.

- Who's lying?
- Well, you're all pointing fingers
and shifting blame...

which is typical of
a disaster rescue operation...

which is gonna guarantee
you won't find your men.

We've pulled out nine men.
Two in body bags. Three are still missing.

- Blunt, Denman and Kisker.
- How long they been gone?

Fifteen hours. No sign of 'em.

We're not gonna find any sign of 'em
standing around here talking either.

- Who are you?
- Kevin Warren.

I own Green City Construction.
Those are my men buried down there.

They're my men too.
Those missing men are all from Frostburg.

Meredith Fallon. I'm the mayor.
This is the city engineer, Mark Boulware.

- How do you do?
- We've been focusing our search here.

Southeast quadrant... 2-B.
That's where the missing men were last seen.

Collapse brought down six stories
of concrete right on top of them.

Our experience, if we don't
get to them within 24 hours...

the odds of finding them alive
go way down.

Well, then you'd better
move fast, hadn't you?

So who do you want to talk to first?

I need to talk to whoever saw 'em last.

I've got an early meeting tomorrow that
I need you and Loker to take on your own.

- Did you find Dr. Lightman?
- FEMA confirmed he's at the disaster site.

I'm heading out there now while there's still
one or two people he hasn't had time to alienate.

Better drive fast.

- [Chattering]
- [Machinery Whirring]

- Dr. Foster? Dr. Foster?
- Yes.

Dr. Lightman is waiting for you.
Come this way.

Yeah, we were all on the same sub crew.

We've been working together
since we built these foundations.

And you left the men
just before the collapse?

Yeah. Like two,
three minutes at the most.

We were laying down rebar, southeast
quadrant. And I had to take a leak.

So I was in and out of the john.

And then I felt the ground shakin',
and I hit the dirt.

I thought, you know, these guys are trapped
down there, and I can't even get to 'em.

I can't imagine how you must
be feeling right now.

But I don't think you have any trouble
imagining how you're feeling right now.

- What?
- I think you imagined this
whole story you're telling.

- You calling me a liar?
- No. Your eyes are calling you a liar.
We just work here.

When people feel genuine guilt, they always look
down and away. You were looking straight at us.

The search team hasn't been able to find
the men where you said they were.

Look, we're just trying to understand
what happened here.

It says here that you were hurt on
a construction job earlier this year.

Had you out of commission
for almost three months.

Yeah, yeah. I almost broke my neck
on a nonunion contract.

I was lifting pylons.

- What expression do you see?
- Expression?

What emotion do you think
this person is feeling right now?

I don't know. Angry?

- [Gillian] No. Surprise.
- And... And this one?

- Embarrassed?
- [Gillian] Happiness.

And... this one?

Disgusted.

[Gillian]
Correct.

You're having trouble recognizing
every emotion except disgust.

It's a pattern we've found sometimes
with people who are addicted to opiates.

You can recognize disgust because you see it
over and over from your friends and family.

I'm guessing that after
you ran out of pain meds...

for your neck injury,
you started self-medicating.

Hey, I've done tons of drugs.
I understand completely.

Mr. Spaly, did you lie about
where you were before the collapse...

because you were
getting high someplace else?

Hey!
[Whistles] Who's that?

- Kisker. Denman.
- And who's that?

- And who's that?
- I know their names!

They're missing, Mr. Spaly.

Okay, look. I came up.
I went to my locker, and I got my stash.

I was... I lost track of time. But I wasn't
gone from down there more than an hour.

You saw the men in the southeast quadrant
an hour before the collapse?

This entire operation has been focused...

on 2-B in the S.E. quad
based on what you told us!

They could be anywhere on any level!

Halt the work! Stop!
Halt the work!

Thirty seconds of silence now!

Bring the dogs back in.

[Man]
Up here now.

Up here.

- [Barking]
- Hey! We got some banging over here!

[Excited Chattering]

- They're down here!
- [Barking]

Let's hope the dog's not lying too.

[Man]
#Dream, send me a sign #

# Turn back the clock #

# Give me some time #

#I need to break out #

#Make a new name #

#Let's open our eyes #

# To the brand-new day ##

- Thank you for meeting with me.
- What can we do for you today, Mr. Kashani?

I've read about
your marriage experiments...

and I had my people do a little research
into the work you do here.

- Okay.
- Long and short is...

I'm about to ask my girlfriend Nadia
to marry me.

Oh, mazel tov.
It's a good thing you're starting young.

It took my dad five times to get it right.

Affair, alcohol,
green card problems, affair...

So when my company Networker
went public, I did, uh, well.

Yeah. I'd call banking four and a half
billion dollars doing very well.

Before I propose to Nadia, I have to know
she loves me for the right reasons.

- What makes you think she doesn't?
- Nadia grew up with nothing.

Her father was a short-order cook
in and out of work.

She's struggled with money her whole life.

- Student loans, credit card debt...
- So?

So... right after
my company went public...

my partner's wife left him
and took their two-year-old daughter.

She used the little girl
against him for a huge settlement.

So what is it you'd like us to do?

Nadia says she had no idea
who I was before we met.

I just want to make sure
she's telling the truth.

Dr. Lightman does deception detection...

for the F.B.I., T.S.A., police.

We don't snoop into
people's personal lives.

But thanks for coming in.
Your Web site's incredibly useful...

for reconnecting with girls
who rejected me in middle school.

Look. Just do your boss a favor
and make a decision after you look.

I think that's the microexpression
for "holy crap."

[Chattering, Shouting]

[Stevens] We're dropping fiber-optic
cameras into the collapsed structure.

And the crawler drills will be
boring through the debris...

to create a hole through which
we will then pull out the men.

- Mayor Fallon?
- And we have every reason
to believe that Mr. Blunt...

Mr. Denman and Mr. Kisker are alive.

And the drills are the best way
to reach the men?

They've been down there for 19 hours now.
We need to reach them as quickly as possible.

No expense will be spared to save them.

And I want to reiterate that no wrongdoing
has occurred in the construction on this site.

- [Woman] What was the cause of the explosion?
- [Reporters Shouting Questions]

I'm gonna let you handle the questions.
I really have to get back to the families.

Excuse me.
I'm going to get back to the families.

[Reporters Continue Shouting Questions]

Mayor Fallon. Hi.
I'm Gillian Foster.

I know who you are.
We really appreciate your help here.

- Hi. Any idea how this happened?
- No.

You lied when you said there was no
wrongdoing on the site. Why was that?

- Oh, that was just...
- That was just what?

I pressured the Green City Construction...

to hire more Frostburg workers
than they needed.

None of our men would've even
been there if it weren't for me.

- How did you pressure them?
- Permits and zoning.

I helped them clear
some bureaucratic hurdles.

I don't know what things are like
for you D.C. folks...

but things have gotten real bad
for Frostburg with the recession.

The site was gonna bring
a whole new industry here.

Our Silicon Valley.
Thousands of new jobs.

- If I can help with anything else,
please call my office.
- Thank you.

[Man]
We've got video!

- There they are.
- [Man Shouting, Indistinct] Hey!

They're alive!

Can I see that?
No... Can l... Thank you.

It's Blunt, Denman and Kisker.

- It's Kisker. His leg's crushed.
- There's a lot of blood.

I can't really feel my toes.

- Oh, my God, baby. Someone's gotta help him.
- We are trying, Mrs. Kisker.

We rigged a tourniquet on it,
but he's not doing so good.

- Jered, are you hurt?
- No, I'm okay, Valerie.

We're all banged up, but we're okay.

I love you, Valerie.

All right, let's get you back to the
staging area. I will keep you updated.

- I'm staying here.
- I'm sorry. We have
to bring you back to the tent.

- Dr. Lightman.
- [Jered On Monitor]
Talk to FEMA. Come here.

- Denman, over here.
- My men need engineers and rescue workers...

not a couple of freak show shrinks
pointing fingers.

She's the shrink.
I'm the freak show.

I'm sorry.
We normally wear labels. Hello?

- [Denman] Hello? Yeah, we're here.
- Can you tell me what happened?

The sub roof just started coming down.

Once we heard it, we went to the elevator
shaft. We couldn't get there in time.

- Is there any way you can get over there now?
- [Denman] We tried.

But the substructure floor between
here and the shaft is just too unstable.

- It could give out.
- [Warren] He's right.

We haven't even completed
that substructure floor yet.

That man could bleed out down there.
We have to drill faster.

Listen, guys. I promise you, we're gonna
get you guys up from out of there, okay?

You just sit tight. The drill should
reach you in a couple of hours.

And we're gonna do whatever it takes.
You're gonna be rescued.

- Did you see that?
- Yeah.
- See what?

- [Cal] Hey, um, Mr. Blunt?
- [Jered] Yeah?

- Mr. Blunt, can you hear me?
- We lost the feed.

All right, we lost the feed.
Can you... Can you trace the line?

Guys, talk to me.
I need to know why we got cut off.

We got men down there.
We need to communicate with them.

[Man On Radio] All right.
Give us a minute. We're working on it.

Can you rewind it back to the point where
they'd just been told they were gonna be rescued?

[Man On Radio: Indistinct]
As soon as we get anything, we'll let you know.

Now, these two men
are showing joy and relief.

All right. Can you freeze it there?

Can we push in on this man?
Okay.

Lips stretched.
Can you pan up to the eyes?

Eyelids retracted.

- Fear.
- That's concealed fear.

Well, he's buried under 50 tons of concrete
and steel. What the hell were you expecting?

Relief. I don't expect a man...

who's just been told
he's gonna be rescued to show fear...

and everyone else is showing relief.

Maybe he doesn't believe
he can be rescued.

Posttraumatic stress can stifle
almost any positive emotion.

Maybe, uh, Mr. Blunt...
doesn't want to be rescued.

Who wouldn't want to be rescued?

Someone who caused the collapse
in the first place.

You think Blunt might've intentionally
caused the collapse?

Well, that would explain the look of fear.
Best explanation we've got.

- This is unbelievable.
- How long has Jered Blunt
worked for you, Mr. Warren?

- About six months.
- Any problems? Did he threaten
violence against the company?

Yeah. He confronted me a few times.

In fact, he sent a threatening letter
to my office complaining about overtime.

- Why didn't you fire him?
- Well, believe me, I tried. The union blocked me.

Why would Blunt sabotage the building
while he was still inside?

Well, maybe he got trapped down there.

Can you replay the video again?

Okay. We're up.

We're all banged up, but we're okay.
I love you, Valerie.

Wait. Freeze it! Freeze it!

Look at that. There's charring on the concrete.
Burn marks from an explosion.

- Damn.
- What's wrong?

Blunt could've used explosives
to try to blow up the building.

- That could've caused the collapse.
- [Stevens] If he did this...

he could be trying to sabotage
our rescue efforts too.

There could be more explosives down there.

What about my other guys?
We need to get them out of there.

They're trapped right here
in the northwest quadrant.

If they could get across
to the elevator shaft here...

- they'd be protected from another explosion.
- No way.

This floor's too unstable to get there.
They'd never make it.

[Stevens] We're getting ready
to send rescue workers down there.

If there are undetonated explosives,
I can't move forward.

Dr. Lightman,
can you find out from Blunt...

if he did this so we know if it's safe
to get these men down there?

If you could get the live feed back up,
I could talk to him directly.

Well, we have to get it back up then.

We won't get anything
from Blunt that way.

He's not gonna admit to blowing up the building
when he's still down there with his crew.

Then what the hell are we gonna do?
'Cause we're just wasting time here...

and Kisker's down there bleedin'.

Violence in the workplace
correlates to domestic violence.

A guy doesn't blow up a building
without that anger spilling over at home.

We should talk to his wife.

My father would've been proud
of these men.

When he was mayor, it was his dream
to try to bring industry to our city.

And we're fulfilling that dream.

And I am proud of our strength
in this difficult time.

- And once we get the men out...
- Excuse me. Is Valerie Blunt here?

- we'll rely on each other to get through this...
- Thank you.

just as we always have.

- [Voices Overlapping]
- I know you're concerned.

And I'll take questions one at a time.

- Please, one at a time.
- [Valerie] We met in high school.

I was a cheerleader, and Jered
was the third-string running back.

Ridiculous, right?

- But we fell in love.
- Are you still in love?

Of course. I mean, you know, it's...
it's not perfect.

It's...

It's a marriage.

I can't believe this happened
after everything else this year.

You and your husband
have been through a lot?

Uh, no. No, no.
I just mean, um...

with how hard it is to...

to find work around here for anyone.

- Maybe he's just crazy.
- What?

Your husband.
Maybe he's just bonkers.

What... What are you talk...

He was arguing with the company.
He was constantly gettin' into fights, right?

What my partner
is dancing around here is that...

we think your husband just lost it
and blew up the building.

- Jered would never do that.
- What are you doing? This isn't appropriate.

- There's something she's not telling us.
We're wasting time.
- I'm sorry.

I'm sick of watching you
coddle these women!

Well, I'm sick of you
derailing this investigation!

You know, you can be a bitch sometimes...
[Gasps]

Who the hell are you people?

Stay away from me!

- [Man] Hey, wait right there!
- You almost didn't sell it.

I'm gonna have to
hit you harder next time.

You know, you take a little bit
too much pleasure in that one.

Valerie Blunt was disgusted
when you slapped me.

- But she wasn't afraid.
- [No Audible Dialogue]

And she showed
no heightened sensitivity to violence...

between a man and a woman.

I think it's unlikely she was abused.

So you don't think her husband
could've blown up the building?

With no violence at home,
it's hard to believe.

- [Cell Phone Rings]
- Oh.

It's, uh... It's Loker.
Give me a second. Yeah?

Take it. Yeah.

- Yeah.
- [Beeps]

- What was that, a job?
- Yeah.

You wanna tell me what it is?

I don't need your permission
to take on a case.

Well, that depends on the case,
doesn't it, really?

- It'll be fine, I promise.
- That usually means I'm gettin' screwed.

Usually.

Isn't that the head of
Green City Construction?

Warren? With Mrs. Blunt?

Less than a foot and a half
between 'em.

Flash glance from her...
before a quick turn away.

They've been intimate before.

You know,
Valerie Blunt was hiding something...

when you asked if
she and her husband had problems.

Her eyelids fluttered.
There was something she didn't want to say.

Maybe her husband wasn't the perpetrator.
Maybe he was the target.

So Warren sleeps with Blunt's wife,
and then buries him alive.

If you think I would have anything
to do with this...

you are completely out of your mind.

Why... Why would I sabotage
my own job, my own company?

For-For a woman? And I got 10 guys
on this crew at least who can tell you...

exactly where I've been on this site
every minute of the last three days.

I haven't been down
to the substructure for-for weeks.

But you and Mrs. Blunt
had an affair, right?

[Exhales Sharply] It wasn't an affair.
They were separated at the time.

And he'd hardly spoken to her for...
for six months before they broke up.

- Why did your relationship end?
- I just wasn't into it anymore.

You know, I told her I just wasn't
really feeling it, you know?

That's a lot of anger you're showing
for a woman you don't care about.

Men usually reserve that kind of anger
for women that they love.

I don't know why it ended, okay?

I mean, I thought we were on cloud nine.
We both felt like we were kids again.

We were out to dinner one night.
She got a phone call from-from Blunt.

She spoke to him for about five minutes.
Then she bolted out of the restaurant, and...

I don't know. She went running
back to him just like that. So...

[Police Radio Chatter]

- You believe him?
- Well, he was pretty confident about his alibi.

Yeah. And he used similes and metaphors
when he was talking about Valerie Blunt.

"We were on cloud nine."
"We felt like kids again."

People don't use that kind of language
when they're lying.

What do you think Blunt told her
that brought her running back to him?

There's something going on between them.

And we still don't know why he showed fear
when he found out he was gonna be rescued.

I need to know what else
Loker found on the footage.

It's hot down here.
But there's still air.

Can we zoom in on his left cheek
and forehead, Sylvia?

- Oh, there's that thing again.
- What is that? Contempt?

It could be contempt.
It's unilateral.

Hey. I need to borrow Michael.

We're gonna go meet our billionaire's
girlfriend... Nadia Dawson.

- Wow.
- Yeah.

[Eli] Easy, tiger.
She's only into guys making 10 figures.

Maybe she really loves him.

Yeah. Right.

What makes you so sure?

The female hanging fly.

- What?
- The female hanging fly.

She'll only mate with the male when
he brings her a caterpillar as a food offering.

The bigger the offering, the more times
she will have intercourse with him.

For an insect, it's food.
For us, it's money.

She's a female hanging fly.

Okay, you need to get out more.

Look, I don't care
if she's into him for his money...

as long as she is up front
about it from the beginning.

Yeah, well, it's not always
so easy to be open about money.

I always tell women exactly how much
I have in the bank on the first date.

- And you wonder why you never get a second.
- [Phone Ringing]

Group lab.
Dr. Lightman's on the line.

Hey.

So it's a contraction of Blunt's orbicularis,
corrugator and frontalis muscles.

[Eli On Phone]
I'm thinking contempt.

Maybe he did try to bring
the building down after all.

No, that's not contempt.

[Eli]
Well, what is it?

Mr. Blunt's a very sick man.

Well, I wouldn't feel too well either
if I were buried under a building.

No. He was sick
long before he was buried.

[Chattering, Shouting]

[Man]
All right, take it up! Here we go!

Almost got the feed back up.

- How's your husband?
- How'd you know?

- Don't do that.
- [Stevens] Can you still hear us?

[Jered]
Yeah. We hear you.

Got it. How's Mr. Kisker?

He's not good.
You need to get us out of here.

- Mr. Blunt, I need you to tell us something.
- What is it?

On the video footage we got of you back here,
I noticed something a little peculiar.

You have a rippling contraction
of your facial muscles.

I don't understand.

Well, you haven't been well, have you?

- What do you mean?
- Your muscle contraction...

is a symptom of late stage
multiple sclerosis.

No. I don't...
I don't know what you're talking about.

When you and your wife were separated...

something that you told her over the phone
brought her running back to you.

Are you sick?

Mr. Blunt, it's okay.

Mr. Blunt, your friend can bleed to death.

I never meant for any of this to happen.

W- We got no savings.

I don't have insurance.

Doctor said I got...
I got a few years.

I didn't wanna leave Valerie with nothin'.

When you were told you were gonna
be rescued, you looked scared.

What were you afraid
we were gonna find out?

I was working near the elevator shaft.

My hands have been shaking a lot,
and I, uh...

And, um...

I was trying to hold on to my blowtorch,
and I couldn't.

And it fell...

from B-1 two floors down to B-3.

The tank must've exploded.

I mean, I didn't realize
I was putting you guys in danger. I...

I swear.

Hello. Can I help you?

- Are you Nadia Dawson?
- Yes.

Hi. I'm Christina Lopez.

Um, I was three years behind you
at North Columbus.

- Ah!
- You played softball for Miss Sleevi.
Pitcher, right?

- Yeah.
- Yeah!

She always said you had
the best pickoff move.

That is so funny.
Are you staying here at the hotel?

- Uh...
- I'm sorry. What was it? Christina?

Yeah. I was just here for a meeting.
You been working here a long time?

Hmm. Almost a year.

- Huh.
- Yeah. It turns out Georgetown...

actually wants you to pay for classes, so...

- Oh.
- God. How weird...

running into someone
from N.C. High here.

[Chuckling]

[Laughing]
Miss Sleevi would always say...

"You got four bases, three strikes...

two teams, but only one winner."

[Laughing]

So what brought you to D. C?

Um, well, my boyfriend
started a company that's based here.

It's one of those social Internet sites
the kids are into.

- Oh. Which one?
- It's called Networker.

- You're dating the founder of Networker?
- Yeah.

- Wow. How'd that happen?
- What do you mean?

I mean, it's just a long way
from North Columbus.

- Yeah, I guess so.
- Well, how'd you meet him?

You know, it's the funniest thing.
I'd obviously heard of the company.

But I had no idea who he was.

I just saw this adorable guy...

standing right here at the bar
trying to get a drink.

Yeah, that is funny.

It must be strange to come
from North Columbus...

and now to be with someone so well-off.

Take a look at this, Mr. Kashani.

"You got four bases, three strikes...

two teams, but only one winner."

That's Nadia telling the truth.

She's talking with her hands.
It's what we call illustrators.

But when she's asked if she knew
who you were when you met...

You know, it's the funniest thing.

Um, I'd obviously heard of the company.

But I had no idea who he was.

I just saw this adorable guy
standing there at the bar...

No more illustrators.
Her hands are in her lap.

[Ria] It must be strange
coming from North Columbus...

and now to be dating someone so well-off.

[Eli]
Instead, she touches her watch...

and her earring.

Manipulators. When you see illustrators
decrease and manipulators increase...

scratching,
licking the lips, or in this case...

touching jewelry...
it's a sign of lying.

- I can't believe this.
- Whatever she told you...

she knew who you were when you met.

- You have my check.
- Mr. Kashani...

- I don't want to see anymore.
- Mr. Kashani...

- I thought he was coming back in tomorrow.
- He said he couldn't wait.

- What did you tell him?
- The truth. She's after his money.

- That's not the whole truth.
- It's all he wanted to know.

Yeah, but that's not all we found out.

[Man]
Okay, okay. Keep it coming. Keep it coming.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- We're sure it was an accident?
- Of course it was.

We knew that our men would never
intentionally do harm to the building.

Mayor Fallon is right.
We've ruled out the possibility of explosives.

- Should be able to reach the men within the hour.
- What was the exact cause?

Detonation of a blowtorch...acetylene tank.
Dropped through the substructure by Mr. Blunt.

- That man doesn't believe a word he just said.
- No, he doesn't.

The specifics of the collapse pattern
are consistent with Blunt's description.

Maybe he knows what really happened.

Hey, Stevens!

You got a problem.
The city engineer...

doesn't believe a blowtorch
caused the building to collapse.

Of course he does.
He said so.

No. The engineer is lying. He knows
something about how this collapse happened.

Five minutes ago, you guys told me Blunt caused
the collapse. Who am I supposed to believe?

Well, I'll tell you who not to believe.
That guy.

I've been in love with the same woman
for 30-plus years...

[Voice Echoing]
The same woman for 30-plus years...

Thanks for coming back in, Mr. Kashani.

I don't understand why I'm here.

Well, the fact that Nadia knew
who you were before you met...

isn't the only thing we learned
when I talked to her.

- Okay.
- Look at this.

And the way he hates breakfast food...

and how frustrated he gets in traffic.

[Laughing]
I don't know. I just love everything about him.

I- I want to spend
the rest of my life with him.

There. That's an illustrator.

There, she is telling the truth.

She does love you and your money.

You're lying to yourself if you think
you can separate the two.

- But she lied to me.
- Well, why are you in love with Nadia?

She's charming, she's intelligent, and...

oh, wait for it...
she's beautiful.

How's her beauty any different
from your money?

- I don't know.
- Exactly.

- Just be honest with her.
- And yourself.

And get a prenup.

[Man]
Let's go!

I don't know what you're talking about.
I didn't shrug my shoulder.

You don't believe the blowtorch caused
the explosion, do you, Mr. Boulware?

Yes, I do.

What's he doin'?

Eleven beats every five seconds.

- That's 132 beats per minute.
- What are you talking about?

Your carotid artery's pulsing
132 beats per minute.

Your heart's racing.
Why are you so tense?

Maybe you found something in your
inspections that could've caused the collapse.

- I didn't find anything.
- Now, that's the truth.

Now you're telling the truth.

So I'm thinkin'...

maybe you didn't find anything in your inspection
because you didn't do the proper inspection.

There are three men
trapped underneath us.

And if you know there's a problem
and something happens to them...

it's gonna be your fault.

My wife and I were three payments
behind on our mortgage.

We were gonna get foreclosed. I don't know
where the hell the money came from.

- Money?
- And a note.

- From who?
- I don't know.

It just said to skip the inspections
and sign off on the approvals.

Why would someone pay you off?
What was it they didn't want you to find?

Look, usually,
these inspections are pro forma.

I'm sure someone just wanted
to move things along faster.

Mr. Boulware,
you don't believe that's all it is.

Now, you're minimizing. You're playing down
your responsibility for what's gone wrong.

You don't want to admit how big a risk
you really took with these men's lives.

But you need to tell us.
What is the worst thing...

somebody could be trying
to hide on this site?

There. There.

What were you thinking?

As soon as the drills
allow us to pull them through...

I'm gonna get your husband out of there.

Please. He's everything.

- Just get him out of there.
- [Cal] Hey, Stevens.

- You have to.
- We will, Mrs. Blunt.

- Stevens.
- I promise.

- You have to stop the drilling.
- What are you talking about?

- Tell him.
- You can't drill.
There could be methane gas down there.

- Methane?
- If there's methane down there...

Blunt's blowtorch could've ignited it,
causing the explosions.

The drills could set off another one.

Environmental testing
was done on this site months ago.

- There's no signs of any gas.
- No. He took a bribe.
Proper inspections weren't done.

- What?
- I went back over the old geologic surveys.

Decades ago, this entire area was a landfill.
And there could be methane seeping up from it.

How could you have signed off
without the inspections?

- Just stop the drills and do the testing!
- Methane testing takes hours!

These men have been trapped
for almost a full day.

One man is dying down there.
We could lose him while we do this testing.

Someone paid this man not to do his job.
You don't care who or why?

I'll let the cops deal with him.
I'm not wasting any more time.

- I am saving these men. We are drilling.
- Eight to one.

- What?
- Eight to one. Average ratio...

of firefighter deaths in the U.S.
compared to every other country...

- with the same training,
effectiveness and equipment.
- So what?

We have a hero complex in this country.
Our firefighters...

rush in too quickly trying to live up
to the expectation...

that they're heroes,
and more of our men get killed.

Step back.
And that is an order!

Now!

Almost! Ten more feet!

- Power up to 800 R.P.M.'s!
- [Machinery Whirring Loudly]

- [Men Coughing On Monitor]
- You guys all right?

[Jered]
It's hard to breathe. The air's gettin' thick.

- Is that the methane?
- It could explode. The drills could set it off.

- You gotta tell 'em what's going on.
- This is the city engineer.

I think there's a pool of methane
seeping up from underneath you.

Methane?
[Coughs]

Is there anyplace they can get to
where they'd be safer?

You need to try to get to the elevator shaft.
You need to go now.

- Tell her...
- [Denman] Come on, Blunt!

Tell my wife I love her.

If the drills hit that methane...

We've gotta stop the drilling.

Stop the drilling! Stop the drilling!

[Loud Explosion]

[Workers Yelling, Shouting]

[Man]
Careful, guys. Careful.

- [Chattering]
- Come on!

I don't hear anything!

[Man]
Emergency vehicles...

[Continues, Indistinct]

- I got nothin'!
- [Man #2] Still got nothing. Keep going down.

[Tapping On Metal]

- [Denman] Can you hear me?
- Yes! Yes! We got one!

[Excited Chattering]

Come on!
Pull him up! Pull him up!

He's all right! He's okay!

- [Chattering Continues]
- [Man] Look out. Move back.

[Man]
We got Denman!

All right. All right. All right.

Where is he? Where's Jered?

Blunt let us go first.

He didn't make it into the shaft,
and, uh...

with the fires...

I'm sorry.

- I'm so sorry.
- [Sobbing]

[Man]
Hey, keep that hose runnin'!

F.B.I. is here.
What do you want to do?

- You talk, I'll watch, okay?
- Okay.

Okay?

[Chattering]

- Kevin Warren?
- Yeah?

- You have the right to remain silent.
- What?

[F.B.I. Agent]
Anything you say or do can be used against you.

Are you kiddin' me?
What... What is this?

You found out that there was methane
underneath this site...

and you knew it would derail this project.

- That's crazy.
- And you tried to bribe...

- the city engineer to sign off
without proper inspections.
- Oh, this is crazy.

[Warren] I would never do
anything to risk my guys' lives.

And if there was methane,
I didn't know about it.

Well, that's the truth.
I know you didn't...

because you showed true surprise
when you were accused.

Everybody here was surprised...

and outraged...

except for one.

One person was relieved.

And when a guilty person sees someone
accused of the crime that they committed...

they show relief.

Your father tried to bring a factory to
Frostburg when he was mayor, and he couldn't.

Is that how you found out
about the methane?

I never thought anything
like this could happen.

I didn't. I didn't.

We needed the jobs.

##[Soft Rock]

I'm sorry.

[Man] #And I don't know
if you noticed anything different #

#It's getting dark and it's getting cold #

#And the nights are getting long #

Hands behind your back, ma'am.

- #And I don't know if you even noticed at all #
- This way.

- Hands behind your back.
- # That I'm long gone #

#Babe, I'm long gone #

#And the things that keep us apart #

#Keep me alive, and #

# The things that keep me alive #

#Keep me alone #

##[Vocalizing]

# This is the thing #

# This is the thing #

# This is the thing #

# This is the thing #

# This is the thing ##

[Gillian]
Hey.

[Chuckles]
I thought you could use a real drink.

- And a bath.
- Mmm.

Well, I can't help you with that.

Why do people always think
they're the only one with a secret?

Human nature, I suppose.

[Sighs Deeply]

If the mayor had told the truth...

or Blunt had been honest
about his illness...

None of this would've happened...

if the lies... hadn't come together.

They always do.