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but it's clear we couldn't work together.

I would be too frightened.

I'm frightened just sitting here.

I have nothing further.

MURPHY:

Ms. Alvarez.

ALVAREZ:
Ms. Johnson,

I just wanna be clear on one thing.

Mr. Sanders suggested

the bottle of wine?

-That's right.

ALVAREZ:
But you bought it.

I sent my assistant Mrs. Ross

out to buy a bottle.

-That afternoon?

-Yes.

Did you tell her what kind?

I said to get a nice Chardonnay.

I remembered that Tom liked white wine.

From those trips to Napa that he was

an amateur wine connoisseur.

-He'd be impressed by a nice bottle?

-Yes.

-Do you remember the wine?

-No.

The '91 Pahlmeyer?

Yes. That's right.

Do you know where your

assistant got that wine?

I assume she got it from

the liquor store down the street.

Would it surprise you to know...

...that there isn't a liquor store

in Seattle that carries that bottle?

Mrs. Ross is very resourceful.

Very resourceful?

A bottle of wine you can't find

within 500 miles of Seattle.

I have no idea where she

got the bottle of wine.

Isn't it true, Ms. Johnson, that you told

Mrs. Ross three weeks ago...

...that you wanted

a bottle of '91 Pahlmeyer...

...for your meeting with Mr. Sanders?

-That's not true.

-And when she couldn't find it, you said....

Oh, oh, what was that?

It had such managerial brio.

Oh, here it is. Um....

"If you don't find the wine...

...find a replacement."

MURPHY:

Do you have testimony from Mrs. Ross?

ALVAREZ:

Yes, I do.

MURPHY:

Ms. Johnson?

The fact is Mrs. Ross

has personal problems.

She has a drinking problem.

She tends to make up stories

to make herself seem more important.

I told Mrs. Ross to go buy a bottle

of wine after Tom and I spoke...

...at the luncheon.

For all I know,

she had that bottle at home.

Maybe in her wine cellar.

Ms. Alvarez, any more questions?

Mm, no, not for now.

I think this is a good time for a break.

I just got some information on Meredith.

You won't believe it, or maybe you will.

[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

GEER:
Alan gave me a list,

we can't verify any of this.

-You told me you didn't have sex.

-I didn't.

-What about--?

-I didn't have sex with her.

What is it, Tom?

She's trying to quit smoking?

-I'm telling the truth.

-How could you do this?

She did it. That's the point.

You saw this woman alone.

You had wine, a back rub, you kissed.

And then this non-sex sex thing.

You took off her panties.

Those are facts.

So what? So what?

-Those don't happen unless the man wants--

-I was cornered.

-You let it happen!

-I did not let it happen!

How could you? How could you

let that woman into our lives?

-I did not!

-Get this.

Ten of her subordinates have transferred

in the last five years. All men.

-How's that for a red flag?

-Can we get hold of them?

Yeah, but nobody's gonna talk

and we can't subpoena them...

-...because this is just a mediation.

-Aw, damn it.

-Do you wanna have lunch?

-I gotta go back to the office.

ALVAREZ:
How about you, Mrs. Sanders?

Are you hungry?

Yeah.

-How are you holding up?

-Are you married?

Chandler, Hogue and Alvarez.

-I married Chandler.

-You married your boss?

Classic case of sexual harassment. He

asked me out five times before I said yes.

Today, if I had said no once,

he would have been afraid to ask again.

-Tom tells me you're a lawyer.

-Ten years.

-Wanna switch hats, tell me what you think?

-I don't look good in hats.

You're afraid she's telling the truth.

Yes.

What he did, he did out of weakness.

Hardly makes it better, does it?

I can't get in the middle

of your relationship with Tom...

...but the fact is she broke the law,

and that makes the difference.

Ms. Alvarez, 48 hours ago, my husband's

penis was in another woman's mouth.

There's nothing in the law

that's gonna help me deal with that.

TOM:
How long you had these?

CHERRY:
Came in an hour ago.

Garvin had me send the Corridor to the Four

Seasons for the Conley people to play with.

It's in the hotel?

Yeah. The Conley people

had such fun with it yesterday....

Getting anywhere with the drives?

I'm counting on you.

-I have a hunch.

-What is it?

-I don't know.

-What is it?

I don't know.

She got to you, didn't she?

What do you expect? They're stronger,

they're smarter and they don't fight fair.

It's the next step in human evolution.

Like the Amazons.

Keep some of us for sperm

and kill the rest.

What do you have?

If I know something for a fact,

I won't withhold it.

But I can't go out on a limb,

it's too intense around here.

I'm 23. I can't wake up tomorrow and

find I'm out of the computer business.

Why aren't you at the mediation?

I just came back to, uh.... This was

the last thing I needed this week.

Come in.

The situation you're in,

something's come up.

I need to know exactly

what happened that night.

Well, it's exactly like I told Phil.

You're not talking to Phil.

We got ahold of Sanders' phone records.

It's possible somebody overheard you two.

CINDY [OVER INTERCOM]:

John Levin called again.

TOM:

Find out what it's about.

CINDY:

He said he had to talk to you personally.

I don't wanna talk to him now.

Tom, could I talk to you?

Cindy...

...are you "a friend"?

A friend?

You know...

..."a friend." A friend.

I depends on what you mean

by "a friend."

[CHUCKLES]

All right, never mind.

He's heading for the elevator now.

[HORN HONKING]

Heading back to the mediation?

-Yeah, I gotta get back.

-I'll give you a lift.

Don't you think it's time we talked?

GARVIN:
I understand you both had

a chance to get it off your chest.

Your version of what happened.

Now I want it to stop.

TOM:

What I got off my chest was not a version.

It's always somebody's version.

That's the legacy of the modern age.

We have information but no truth.

Flashes of electrons in a grain of sand.

I'm telling the truth.

-You gotta look at this from all sides.

-How many sides are there?

All right, let's say she made a mistake.

So what?

She made a pass, that's all.

Put her hand on you.

You could have decided it was flattering.

You could've taken it off.

You could have handled it many ways,

but this vindictiveness...

-...I have to tell you, I'm surprised.

-It's against the law. I'm employed by her.

-I work for her.

-No. You work for me.

That's what I'm saying.

After all these years, why didn't you

come to me? Not go hire this lawyer.

Maybe I should have.

I mean, why can't you just forget it?

Work together like adults and

everyone makes a pile of money.

-What's wrong with that?

-Things have gone too far.

Things can go back.

Why would he offer to settle now?

He realized how much they got to lose.

No, he had us on the run.

It doesn't add up.

Maybe there's a vulnerability

we don't know about.

I'm still getting messages from "a friend."

I printed out the address.

Maybe your investigators

can check it out.

I hope the company doesn't find him first.

Remember the cleaning lady?

-Yeah.

-She's out of town.

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