Class Action Page #6

Then...

Depth charge.

- It blew up?

- It blew up.

The Meridian blew up?

Yeah.

You see, where there's

an impact of metal on metal.

In this area,

the devices are maybe 50-75cm apart.

If there's an arc

in the flow of the circuit...

Yeah.

Just as it's penetrating

the electrical fuel pump,

then the gas tank will blow up.

It's just a simple chain reaction.

So you're saying that,

if the car is hit from the rear,

when the left-turn signal is functioning,

itjust might blow up.

Correct.

If you are really interested in this,

why don't you read my report?

And let's have a coffee.

The report...

When you filed this report,

did you give a copy to Getchell?

- To the company.

- May I see another copy?

No, the company has it, of course.

- The company has everything?

- Yep.

Except my notes.

- You do have notes?

- Of course.

- May I see those, please?

- No.

No?

If you want my notes,

you need to go to Iron Mountain.

Sugar?

Thank you.

Miller's left the office.

You want me to try him at home?

No, no.

I think I should have died

the day Nixon resigned.

Look at this. See? Look.

See this? This guy here.

How about I make you

some dinner at my place?

No. Thank you, but...

I'm really not very hungry.

So...

Anyway, listen. I think

I found something pretty interesting.

What's that?

A commendation letter

from Flannery to Getchell.

Do you remember an Argo research guy,

Alexander Pavel?

- Yeah.

- Look at this.

Thank God.

I don't know.

Maggie, we're talking about Argo Motors.

- They have guys who research everything.

- Not everything.

A glitch that takes three or four things

to happen simultaneously could slip by.

I get Getchell to come clean.

We settle quietly out of court.

Argo Motors kisses my feet

for avoiding a public scandal.

Maybe, maybe.

Then again, maybe Pavel is a nut bar.

Maybe.

I grant you, these days, the guy

is a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic.

But somebody was at home

when that report was made.

Mr Getchell is returning your call.

Oh, it's our good buddy from Argo!

- Dr Getchell.

- Miss Ward, how are you?

I'm fine, sir. How would you

like to discuss Alexander Pavel?

Alexander Pavel is a senile old fool.

So you didn't take his advice

on the blinker circuit?

I decided his test results were inconclusive

and informed Mr Flannery,

the chief executive officer at the time.

People were blown up, sir.

We changed that light in the next model year.

I suggest you get an attorney.

I've already talked to one.

It was right at the time the report came out.

He said we had nothing to worry about.

What idiot told you that?

If I'm not mistaken, he's your boss.

Michael Grazier.

Miss Ward? Are you there?

What? What did he say?

Maggie?

It was a rough time.

I was buried, working on 50 things at once.

It got lost in the shuffle.

You gave advice on something

you hadn't reviewed.

I mistook it for another report.

Why didn't you tell somebody?

Well, Quinn had just made me liaison

with Argo's in-house counselor.

That was a huge plum.

If I did it well, they were gonna

give me all of Argo's litigation.

Not a good time to appear sloppy.

Now what?

We have to lose it.

I am not going to be a party

to destroying evidence.

Maggie, Argo paid this firm a little over

8 million dollars in fees last year.

Do you want to jeopardize that?

We'd hurt ourselves and the client.

It would compound the mistake.

- Michael, people were killed!

- Yes, I know that.

It was a bad mistake, but it's done.

Over. We have to move on.

I don't know.

What? What don't you know?

People make mistakes. Mea culpa.

But they don't want to trash their lives.

Guilty as charged.

Sometimes you have to learn the hard way.

You know, you're not the only one

that doesn't sleep at night.

OK. Tell me you don't

make mistakes yourself.

Maggie.

Maggie, come on, please.

If you have any feelings for me, please.

Think about this for a while, huh?

Hey, come on.

Oh, Michael, no.

What?

You didn't give me this case

to help my career.

You wanted to cover your ass.

If this ever came up, who better to keep your

secret than someone you're sleeping with?

You asked me for this case.

You threw the bait down

and waited for me to snap it up.

Maybe this isn't completely clear to you,

Maggie. If I go down, so do you.

- I haven't done anything wrong.

- You're about to.

You're gonna break rule no. 1,

which is don't f*** your friends.

You turn on me,

every lie here is gonna turn on you.

You'll be on the bricks

faster than you can dream of.

When you try to tie into another firm,

you'll be lucky to get hired as a messenger.

I guess that's a risk I have to take.

Look around you, Maggie.

I'm all you've got, anywhere.

Now, you do this, you are all alone.

Frederick, the way I see things...

The way you see things

is what's gotten us in this position.

My father does want

all of the information on Pavel.

We hand this over,

we lose Argo and the case.

If we don't give full disclosure

and we get caught,

we lose the confidence of all our other clients.

You're jeopardizing the biggest corporate

play this firm has ever been involved with.

We're down to the wire here.

We cannot let this become

even more of a disaster.

What do you want to do?

How long did Pavel work for Argo?

32 years.

You have to figure, an awful lot

of paper would build up over that time.

Right.

So we bury it.

We send them everything. Every letter,

every phone message, every scrap of paper.

Anything we can find,

we'll send them the Library of Congress.

They just have to pull the files

from the year the research was done.

- Things get misfiled.

- You can't do that.

We can inventory the documents

any way we like.

Come up with some arcane structure, bury it.

Bottom line, it is within the letter of the law.

- It'll work.

- It had better, Michael. It had better.

Now, both of you, this matter is quarantined.

No one outside this room is to hear about it.

There is still the matter of Miss Ward.

What does that mean?

Well, it's obvious there are serious questions

regarding her loyalty to this case.

I consider her an important and extremely

loyal member of this team, Michael.

Are you going to have a problem with that?

No.

Good.

Can I see that, please?

There it is, page 23, third from the bottom.

I transposed the numbers,

put it in project 2340.

Plausible deniability.

- Congratulations, they'll never find it.

- That is the idea.

- Ah, the glamour of law!

- Justice by avalanche.

Maggie, you're just defending your client.

- What about the victims?

- They should have had a better lawyer.

- This entire box is from 1963.

- This is ajoke.

All of my labels are falling off.

Let's just keep digging.

Maybe we'll find what we're looking for.

Hey, what's going on?

We lose our lease?

No, this is a Father's Day gift,

courtesy of Quinn Califan and Lunt.

- What's so funny?

- Don't you get it?

We ask for one man's files.

She sends us a paper blizzard.

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