The Informant! Page #7

into price fixing.

We have seen you and your boss,

Mick Andreas...

...conspire with your competitors

to fix prices.

We have seen you tell others to do it.

There will be indictments.

Search warrants have been issued.

And some people, people who you know

and work with, will be going to jail.

Look at that.

Look at that. Look at Terry and Bob.

Oh, I wish I could be a fly on that wall.

Oh, hey, I was good, right?

Didn't I seem really scared?

I actually felt scared.

Remember what we told you, all right?

Tell them you're that cooperating

first thing...

- ...and do not take one of their lawyers.

- Right. No.

What'd you say to your guy?

Nothing, I told him nothing. Slow down.

Me neither. I said nothing.

He said that he had price-fixing

tapes. What the f*** is that?

Well, I bet they have the phones

tapped. I always said that. It's the phones.

I can't believe they would

pull this sh*t on Dwayne Andreas.

Look, I get phone calls

from time to time.

I know, I know.

Oh, God.

We're going to the lawyers.

I don't want phones.

See? The phones.

They hit everybody.

My dad, Schmidt, Randall.

Oh, f*** me.

No, they played me a tape of me.

Some meeting with the f***ing Japanese.

I called the lawyers.

- We're gonna go there.

- Yeah? They played a tape.

- How the f*** did they get a tape?

- I really don't think they have that much.

When you factor in everything

we've done for them...

...this will be a 10-year thing

for the lawyers. Maybe a fine.

That's all this is ever gonna be.

Trust me.

- How's it going?

- Good.

FBI.

Yeah, he's here.

I got Agent Temples for Attorney Mutchnik.

This is James Mutchnik.

Just interviewed

an ADM employee, Kirk Schmidt.

Schmidt knew we were coming.

Says he knew about the raid days ago.

He says Whitacre told him.

Thanks.

- He sees you sitting in the window and...

- Bob. Brian.

Can I talk to you guys for a second?

That was amazing.

You guys should have seen it.

Oh, Terry was so scared,

and Mick and the lawyers, they were just...

- They were pissed.

That's super.

They thought you guys

gave me the once-over.

They're like, "You all right?"

I'm going, "Yeah."

- Did you make a tape?

- Yeah, I made a tape. A great one.

Really good.

So it's over, then.

Mark...

...who did you tell?

- What?

- Who else did you tell about the raid?

Well...

I had to tell my secretary.

Guys, I'm the head

of the bioproducts divisin.

She has to know where to get in touch

with me. I told her months ago.

So all I said was,

"Liz, I'm doing some work with the FBI.

I might be out of touch for a while."

That's it.

She had no idea about our case.

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned the name

Kathy Dougherty a time or two...

...in my divisin.

Kathy is a friend. She is a trusted ally.

I didn't want her to be scared.

Why would you do that, Mark?

Why would you tell Dougherty?

Because I didn't want her to be scared.

I trust her.

- Guys, we can trust Kathy.

- Who else?

Don't jack us around, Mark.

Mm.

Kirk Schmidt. I mean, Schmidty...

Look, I was afraid that he wouldn't

say anything to you guys.

That he'd clam up on account

of he's loyal to me.

You could have ruined

this entire operation.

Has anything gone wrong?

Has anything gone wrong?

Time out. Time out. Time out.

Mark, you know what you did,

in our eyes, was wrong.

- It was supposed to be a secret.

Look, we can get past this.

But is there anything else

that we need to know?

No.

No, not that I can think of.

Remember...

...tell them you're getting

your own lawyer.

I know about the lawyers, Brian!

Mark Whitacre, Aubrey Daniel.

Pleasure to meet you.

I'm representing ADM in this matter.

Okay.

- This is John Dowd, a colleague of mine.

- Good morning, John.

Dwayne has filled us in

on your responsibilities here, so...

Aubrey prosecuted Lieutenant Calley

after the My Lai massacre in Vietnam...

...so this ought to be a cakewalk

for him.

We were hoping you'd have time

to talk to John.

- Sure.

- ADM's behind you on this, Mark.

Dad and I want all the key people

to know...

...that we're gonna be paying

all your legal fees.

Oh, great. Great.

Thank you, that's great.

Then... Then we'll let you fellas

get acquainted, okay?

Okay.

- How you holding up, Mark? Thanks.

- Good. Please, sit down.

- John, can I ask you something?

- Sure, anything.

If I say something to you, are you allowed

to say anything to Mick and Dwayne?

Oh. Here we go.

I need to tell you I'm gonna

be cooperating with the FBI.

They have hundreds of tapes.

They know all about lysine.

And John here agrees with me

I should be getting another lawyer.

Oh. No question about it.

I want to say sorry

for everything that's happened.

Sorry?

What's that?

It feels good to talk, to clear the air.

You get to be like a balloon

after a while...

...a balloon looking for a pin

to bump into and relieve the pressure.

You could get sick from keeping it inside

and get a tumor or something.

I didn't ask for that.

I have a friend from school

who has a law practice.

And he's always telling me

how they can't talk about their cases.

Like in The Firm.

You can tell them anything.

They have to keep it to themselves or they

get in a lot of trouble. They're boxed.

That's what they say: boxed.

So there wasn't a saboteur

at all. You made that up?

Well, maybe there was.

I mean, there could have been.

Okay.

ADM steals technology

from the Japanese...

...so I wouldn't put it past the Japanese

to do the same thing to us.

But once I told the FBI

that I'd made that part up...

...they said I had very little choice

but to be a cooperating witness.

And you began making tapes.

How many tapes did you make?

There are over 200 tapes.

Ooh.

There are so many really nice people

in the worid, people who want to help out.

Good neighbors, good listeners.

Like when they had floods

in Mississippi...

...and people lose everything

and are sleeping in a gym...

...someone always shows up with a warm

coat and a homemade pot roast.

That's why Ginger and I bought that girl

a computer after she had the spine injury.

That kind of thing

really makes a difference.

Jim here strikes me as that kind of guy.

He's the one-in-a-hundred guy who, when

you come into the emergency room...

...you thank your lucky stars

it's his watch.

...illegal campaign contributions,

whatever. Whatever we're talking about.

So then I'd come back.

Two nights a week or so...

...Brian and Bob and l

would get together, and we'd...

You know, we'd work it.

We'd build the investigation.

Get everything we needed,

gather all the information.

Then we went to DOJ,

briefed those lawyers...

...and before you knew it, we were hitting

ADM, raiding the place, taking it down.

And for how long did you do this?

Work as an informant?

Ahh, ooh. Two and a half years.

Two and a half years.

You know, and I always thought...

...there'd still be a place for me at ADM

when this whole thing was over.

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