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for your hat and sweater.

Hey, it's me.

Tony, remember Edward

sent you some ZHP file?

Yeah. What about it?

You said Zeffert sent you some huge file

that was corrupted, right?

Well, yeah, I don't know

if it was that file.

Well, it just occurred

to me that last week,

Zeffert said that he needed

your home address

so that he could send you a package.

Are you sure?

Yeah, I'm sure. Positive.

Maybe it was that file.

Oh, you know what?

Do me a favor.

Go downstairs

and see if they're still in there.

Hey.

They're still in negotiations.

Good.

Oh, and I don't know

what happened to Zeffert.

He still hasn't checked in.

I left another message.

What could he be doing?

No idea.

Do not let him out of your sight.

Tony, so if they were

looking for the ZHP file,

why not just ask for it?

Why would they steal it?

ZHP is our--

is our number-one product.

They'd have to have paperwork--

like, extensive paperwork

to show that it was theirs.

So why steal it at all?

Honestly, if I'm Traxil

and I'm about to drop

billions of dollars

to buy a company,

I'd wanna see for myself.

If they knew what was said

after it failed its first clinical trials,

- I'd wanna know.

- And why now?

If we don't close tonight, they have

Now, if they find out that data

was altered in any way--

You know what?

They could sue us.

They'd sue us for nondisclosure,

and at that point,

we'd be investigated by, uh--

by the SEC, and-- and the FDA.

Our stocks would plummet.

It's a hostile takeover.

I'm sure.

They'd buy us out.

They'd get us for pennies on the dollar.

Wait. ZHP doesn't work?

No, no. ZHP works.

I mean, it works now.

It works now.

Zeffert, he turned things around.

Yeah, well, then why would Traxil

even risk getting caught?

If-- If they do, everything's over.

Well, because they're buying us.

Janet, they're buying us,

and billions of dollars are at stake.

I don't know.

I guess they--

I guess they think that

the rewards outweigh the risks.

Okay, so let me get this straight.

They're looking for some file

that has something to do with ZHP.

When they don't find it,

they take Sofia.

But-- But Sofia

was only home because you--

Sofia was only home

because I sent her there.

Oh, my God, Tony.

I'm so sorry.

Yeah, it's, uh--

It's some anniversary, huh?

All this was just a case of the wrong place

at the wrong time, right?

That's it.

So this whole ransom thing

is just a cover.

They were just trying to get you out

of the house long enough to take the file.

Most of my files are

in the office except, um...

Hey, Sumner, are you there?

Can you hear me?

You've got to get out

of the house right now.

Sum-- Get out of the house.

Sh*t.

Oh, this just gets better

all the time.

He's in there!

Whoever's in the house, listen carefully.

I know what you want.

I have the disk.

It's here with me.

I'm gonna wait exactly one minute.

If you want it,

then you pick up the phone.

Hey, come here.

Twenty seconds.

Hello?

Hello?

You've got the disk?

Where's my wife?

You bring the disk,

we'll bring your wife.

You know where I am.

Come and get it.

Tony.

Hey, it's me.

Oh, God, Tony.

I know why we didn't hear

from Zeffert.

He's dead.

What?

The police called Edward,

and I overheard the call.

They found Zeffert

shot in the head.

I guess they called to ask him

some questions or...

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Also, I found a message from Zeffert

that he left two days ago.

I guess with everything

that's been going on,

I just didn't have time to hear all your

incoming messages.

What did he say?

Uh, he said a lot of things.

I'll patch you through

to voice mail.

You can hear for yourself. Hold on.

Yeah, okay.

Tony, it's Zeffert.

Listen to me.

Edward covered up seven deaths

so we could rush to announce ZHP.

The results were nowhere

near our thresholds.

We tried our best

while he pushed forward.

We had no idea that

he would announce the product.

I've sent you my file

with the real findings by e-mail,

and, uh, I also sent you

my original disk

and Edward's

altered disk by ZepEx.

You need to be careful, man.

Trust no one.

How could a guy like this just vanish?

I don't know.

You tell me.

How could an everyday Joe

just go off like this?

- I don't know, man.

- Possible 187.

Please advise your ETA.

And 1 4-niner...

Hey. Hey, you okay?

Hey. Uh, well,

I haven't had this much exercise

since my honeymoon,

but, yeah.

Well, listen,

they don't want money.

What do you mean?

Everybody wants money.

Whoever it is that took Sofia--

I know what this is about.

It's-- It's a file.

They want a file.

Zeffert sent it to me.

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

This is about files?

Yeah, I mean, it's a--

it's a billion-dollar file.

It's Zeffert's hybridization process.

It can-- It can rewrite genetic code.

It can actually block tumors.

Okay.

Zeffert must've figured out

that somebody would come looking for it.

So, you know, how do you figure

Zeffert knew that, though?

Well, he's dead.

I mean, that tells me a lot.

Okay.

Yeah.

So...

I have a really

bad feeling that-- that--

that Traxil's behind this.

Who-- Who's he?

It's not a person.

They're-- They're--

It's our number-one competitor.

Right now, they're in the middle

of a 75 billion-dollar buyout

of our company.

Wow. What do you mean--

- Wait. Hold on.

- What do you mean--

Hey!

- Hello.

- Tony, it's Edward.

Hey. Did you hear about Zeffert?

Yeah. It's terrible.

I have no idea who could

have done such a thing.

You know, Tony,

if it is Traxil,

someone would have had

to tell them about that file.

mine and Zeffert's.

Well, who could have done it?

You tell me.

I don't know.

You know, Tony,

there is a possibility

that Zeffert could've

been working with them.

You're kidding.

No, it's true.

And if that's the case,

if he wouldn't cooperate,

they probably killed him.

Where are you, Tony?

I'm at the park.

Let me call you back.

I'm here now.

He lied to me.

He knows.

Oh, God,

I think I'm gonna be sick.

What's going on?

Edward's in on it.

Your boss?

Yeah.

He's the one who took Sofia?

I don't know

what to think anymore.

Uh, hey, you know--

you know what, Anthony?

Uh, the human resources position--

you can just kind of

rip up my application,

'cause I'm not sure that--

that your company would be

such a great place to work.

Mr. Garnett, it's Edward.

- Can it wait?

- No.

Thank you.

What is it?

How close are you

to closing the deal?

We've still got 33 minutes

to closing. Why?

Don't waste time.

Get it done.

And do not-- I repeat--

do not let them

walk away from the table.

So you think that Edwards

is after the files?

I'm not sure.

Well, what's on the disk?

Data.

Yeah, I figured that out.

What kind of data?

What'd it look like?

- I don't know. I haven't seen it.

- Speculate.

No, I don't wanna speculate

until I've actually seen it.

- I have no idea.

- Okay. Well, where are they?

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