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The Mentalist Season 1 Episode 10
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00:00The
00:28The human mind is a vast universe, an inner cosmos that we are only now beginning to explore.
00:37Our next speaker is one of the nation's leading cosmonauts, a rising star in the field of neuroscience,
00:46and a prized member of the Leland faculty, I give you Alex Nelson.
01:10CBI, Briggsby.
01:19CBI, Briggsby.
01:31Yeah.
01:32Jay, phone for you.
01:33Someone called Sophie Miller?
01:34Tell her I'm not here.
01:35Okay.
01:36I'm sorry, ma'am.
01:37He's not available right now.
01:38No, no, no.
01:39Wait, wait.
01:40I'll put you through.
01:41Dr. Miller.
01:42Yeah, this is Patrick.
01:44Hey.
01:45Hey.
01:46Hey.
01:47If someone is murdered on the campus of the State University, it's ours, isn't it?
01:50It can be if we muscle out the locals.
01:51Why'd you ask?
01:52I need a favor.
01:53Sophie.
01:54Yeah.
01:55Chef Victor Miller?
01:56Hey.
01:57Hey.
01:58Uh, if someone is murdered on the campus of the State University, it's ours, isn't it?
02:01It can be if we muscle out the locals.
02:02Why'd you ask?
02:03Need a favor?
02:16Sophie, Alex Nelson's water bottle contained a 10% solution of hydrogen cyanide.
02:25What do you know about that?
02:26I know that hydrogen cyanide is a lethal poison.
02:29Beyond that, nothing at all.
02:31Please, call me Ms. Miller or Dr. Miller or ma'am.
02:34Not Sophie, if you don't mind.
02:35You're not setting the boundaries here.
02:38You were seen by several witnesses arguing with the victim shortly before his death.
02:42You fled the scene immediately after his death.
02:44A cunning plan, eh?
02:49Since you divorced from the victim two years ago, you've been arrested for assaulting him twice.
02:55And made several death threats against him.
02:58He obtained a restraining order against you.
03:00And I obtained one against him also.
03:02Well, that's all right then.
03:07Didn't bother you that Alex had remarried?
03:09That he found happiness with another woman?
03:11Alex and I got past our personal history.
03:13We had to for the sake of our work together.
03:17Ah, yes.
03:17You worked together at the, uh, Stutzer Institute, right?
03:22Which gave you radio access to the hydrogen cyanide.
03:26You know, I had thought being innocent that I don't need a lawyer.
03:28But I can see that you have some animus against me.
03:31So I'll say nothing more until I have a lawyer present.
03:34What if we take this case and it turns out she's guilty?
03:41She didn't do it.
03:43How do you know?
03:44Because she told me she didn't.
03:46She wouldn't lie to me.
03:47Why not?
03:49Because she wouldn't.
03:50I suppose she did.
03:52Well, if she is guilty, then we need to catch her and punish her.
03:55But she's not.
03:56Jane, I know I said I wouldn't ask, but I'm asking, who is this woman?
04:03What's the connection?
04:05You don't want to know.
04:06She'll talk.
04:19She just needs time.
04:20To do what?
04:21Okay.
04:23I'm not saying she isn't good for it, but we don't have enough solid evidence to support that right now.
04:28I disagree.
04:29That's your right, but the CVI's lead agency on this.
04:32Yes.
04:33It's strange, though, that a Department of Justice unit likes CBI's lead agency because Sophie Miller called the DOJ switchboard this morning.
04:41You might almost think that she chose her own investigators.
04:44Leland is a state university.
04:46We automatically offer our services when local agencies aren't equipped.
04:50If Sophie Miller called the DOJ, it's a coincidence.
04:53Excuse me, sir.
04:55What is it, Droby?
04:56This was posted up all over Leland campus during the night.
05:03The Animal Equality League has seen justice served.
05:07The blood of innocent animals was on Nelson's hands, and he has paid the price for his crimes.
05:12Looks like there's more suspects now.
05:15They want the animal testing in Leland University's science department to stop, or the monster Stutzer will be next to pay for his genocidal crimes.
05:26Who is Stutzer?
05:27Louis Stutzer is one of the world's foremost neuroscientists and founder of the Stutzer Institute at the university.
05:34And, um, what is his connection to the victim, Alex Nelson?
05:38Alex Nelson and Sophie Miller are his colleagues, his seconds in command.
05:43Please understand that there's a great deal at stake here for the university.
05:48The Stutzer Institute is our linchpin.
05:51I came to see you in person to get you a firm assurance that this will be handled properly,
05:57with speed and discretion and ironclad security for Dr. Stutzer.
06:02Of course, Chancellor Stern, you have my absolute assurance.
06:05I will have a squad of state marshals around Dr. Stutzer within the hour.
06:10Agent Lisbon and her team will handle the murder investigation.
06:13They have the highest clearance rate in the state.
06:15Good.
06:17Sir.
06:24What are you, nuts?
06:25An animal rights case?
06:26You know what nightmare they are?
06:28I know, I know, I'm sorry.
06:30I didn't realize it was an animal rights case until too late.
06:32And that butt stern is going to be a pain in the ass.
06:36You better close this crap quick, Lisbon.
06:48Hey, thanks for not telling him I made you take the case.
06:53Lisbon?
06:53Hello?
06:57Tell me the truth.
06:58Truth.
06:59Darth Vader?
07:01Luke's father.
07:03Seriously?
07:04I've stuck my stupid neck out for you for the umpteenth time.
07:07I think I deserve the truth.
07:14Why is Sophie Miller so important to you?
07:19She was my doctor.
07:23She's a psychiatrist.
07:24Yes, she was my psychiatrist.
07:25Yes, she was my psychiatrist.
07:27But you hate psychiatrists.
07:29It's like you always say.
07:33She was a good psychiatrist.
07:36She must have been if she managed to keep you in the room.
07:40It was a locked room.
07:41Oh.
07:52Yeah, I went through a rough patch.
07:53I did a little time in the hospital, and Sophie helped me through that time.
07:56It's not on your record.
07:57No.
07:58Believe me.
07:59I...
08:00It's not easy to do.
08:01I...
08:03It's not easy to do.
08:11I know there's nothing shameful about having a breakdown, but I gotta confess, I am ashamed of it.
08:16Thank you for being so honest with me.
08:22Sorry I kept it from you.
08:32Uh...
08:33Shall I come back later?
08:34No.
08:44Rigsby started in on the campus security tapes.
08:47Nothing yet.
08:48I've been tracking this Animal Equality League.
08:50They're all over the internet.
08:51They believe in animal equality, so, you know, they're not very happy.
08:56They've taken credit for several firebombing attacks on slaughterhouses and animal testing facilities.
09:00Serious people.
09:01I interviewed the staff at the auditorium.
09:03There's no security to speak of.
09:04Anyone present at the symposium could have poisoned his water bottle.
09:07There are no prints on it but Nelson's.
09:08Nobody saw exactly where he got it from.
09:10Brand is the same all over campus.
09:16I'm Carrie Sheehan, Dr. Stutzer's teaching assistant.
09:19He's ready to see you now.
09:22Did you know Alex Nelson well?
09:25He was a very good man.
09:27He was, uh...
09:29He was a, um...
09:30Yes.
09:33He was.
09:35He was a good, good man.
09:49Dr. Stutzer?
09:51We're with the CBI.
09:52Oh, yeah, yes, of course.
09:55Come in.
09:56Shut that door, please.
09:57Sit down.
09:59Mm-hmm.
10:03Terrible.
10:04Terrible business.
10:06Alex was a first-rate researcher.
10:07Truly first-rate.
10:08I cannot tell you how much I'm going to miss him.
10:10I'm sorry, Dr. Stutzer.
10:12Mm-hmm.
10:13We wanted to talk to you a little about the threats.
10:15Couldn't have come at a worse time, of course.
10:17It's going to set us back.
10:19Months, I'm afraid. Months.
10:20What is it you do here exactly, Dr. Stutzer?
10:22Our work here is highly sensitive.
10:24What you tell us regarding your work is completely confidential.
10:29All CBI agents sign a binding non-disclosure agreement.
10:33Very well.
10:35I will tell you what we're doing here.
10:38We're curing evil.
10:41We're banishing the devil.
10:44We have identified a section of the brain
10:46that governs moral decision-making.
10:50It's a small fold of tissue of the cingulate gyrus
10:53here in the medial part of the brain.
10:56This is the source of good and evil.
10:59We've learned how it works and how to readjust it
11:02when it does not work properly.
11:04We've created what we call a morality engine.
11:09A morality engine.
11:11You are skeptical.
11:14Nevertheless, it's true.
11:16We are plumbing the depths of the human soul.
11:19Do you know what's down there?
11:20Do you know what your soul is made of?
11:23Frogs and snails and puppy dogs' tails?
11:26Ah. Humor.
11:29Good.
11:31Thank you, Noel.
11:34Your soul is electricity.
11:36Essence of your being is a series of rapid electrical impulses.
11:41Morality is a binary switch system in the brain,
11:44and we are learning how to control that switch system.
11:48Where do animals come into this?
11:50Well, we aren't allowed to poke around inside human heads
11:54until we have done the same things on animals first.
11:57This is Susie.
12:12When she first arrived, she was quite violent.
12:16Especially over food.
12:17We recalibrated her anterior cingulate gyrus,
12:20and now look what a happy and generous girl she is.
12:26Oh.
12:29Let it go.
12:40There it is.
12:46Is Susie here the extent of your animal testing?
12:48Oh, no, there's been other chimpanzees before her.
13:01Rats, mice, pigeons.
13:05Have you ever been threatened by animal rights activists before now?
13:09Yes, of course.
13:10When one is a prominent scientist,
13:12one is sometimes menaced by animal people.
13:14It's always nonsense.
13:16In this case, you must assume the threats are very real.
13:19The marshals will provide you full protection,
13:21but you're gonna need to be careful.
13:23I am not intimidated.
13:26The work we are doing here is far too important.
13:29That is why I have this.
13:32In the long term, this technology has the potential
13:37to eradicate violence from human relations.
13:40That is what these animal rights maniacs don't understand.
13:42We are trying to create a world of peace.
13:45Where everyone is safe.
13:47For monkey attacks.
13:49Ah.
13:51More humor.
13:56Come this way.
14:02Well passed, animal testing.
14:04into the first stages of testing on humans.
14:12Question five.
14:14A house is on fire.
14:16You can save A, a briefcase full of money,
14:20or B, a homeless man.
14:23Which do you choose?
14:25B.
14:27Question six.
14:29Forget about the Animal Equality League.
14:32We should fire bomb the place.
14:34That guy's gonna put us out of his job.
14:36I can't see it.
14:37Human beings are more than just electrical appliances.
14:39Patrick.
14:41Dr. Miller.
14:43Sophie.
14:44Uh, this is, uh, Agent Lisbon.
14:54Hello.
14:58I'm gonna wait in the car.
15:00All right.
15:04Thanks for getting me out.
15:06Oh, it wasn't me.
15:07I was in the Quality League that sprung me up.
15:09It's the thought that counts.
15:13How have you been doing?
15:14Good.
15:16Very good.
15:17You?
15:18I've had my issues.
15:20Well, I...
15:22I don't know why that should surprise me.
15:24I suppose most patients assume their doctors have no problems themselves.
15:28Well, who'd consult a sick doctor?
15:32It's one of the reasons I left clinical practice and went into pure research.
15:37What are they exactly?
15:38Your issues.
15:39I mean, what's the story of you and Alex Nelson?
15:42Assault.
15:43Restraining orders.
15:45What can I say?
15:46I'm just drawn to controlling but damaged and emotionally unavailable men.
15:54You and Alex made a truce?
15:56Yeah.
15:58That you were arguing just before you died.
16:01About work.
16:02Is this an interrogation?
16:04No, no.
16:05I'm sorry.
16:06I was just wondering about the logic of it all.
16:08What logic?
16:10Well, you saved my life.
16:11I owe you.
16:12I would do anything to repay that debt.
16:14You know that, right?
16:16But you're innocent.
16:18So, why do you need my help?
16:21Why am I here?
16:23Maybe I just wanted to see you again.
16:25Now I have.
16:26Goodbye, Patrick.
16:31Patrick, my name is Sophie Miller. I'm here to help you get better.
16:46I've got a partial plate.
16:47She gets us a list of about 2,000 vehicles.
16:48Take a look at the back window.
16:49Looks like a cat.
16:50Or a dog.
16:51It's a bear.
16:52It's a bear.
16:53The Northwestern Oregon State Bear.
16:54So, Van Puck cross-referenced that vehicle list with alumni.
16:55It's a bear.
16:56It's a bear.
16:57It's a bear.
16:58It's a bear.
16:59It's a bear.
17:00It's a bear.
17:01It's a bear.
17:02It's a bear.
17:03It's a bear.
17:04It's not a exceedingly real, I get stuck around in hearing, but it's a bear.
17:05So, it's still here in Ihreемpe 72 percentile.
17:07Ok.
17:08You were a witness.
17:09You got a partial plate.
17:10It's a bear.
17:11It's a descriptions.
17:12I got a partial plate.
17:13It's a list of about 2000 vehicles.
17:14Take a look at the back window.
17:15Looks like a cat.
17:16Or a dog.
17:17It's a bear.
17:18A Northwestern Oregon State Bear.
17:20So, Van Puck cross-referenced that vehicle list with alumni of Northwestern Oregon State.
17:23Which gets us five names.
17:25All clean.
17:26No criminal records.
17:27No animal rights activism.
17:29All living quietly in Oregon.
17:30But one guy sold his van six months ago to a company based in Sacramento.
17:33based in Sacramento a company with no apparent business and no registered
17:39employees based out of one of those warehouses by the river that's work
17:47we've been monitoring the building closely so far nobody's gonna come out
17:50we don't know how many people are in there it's gonna get nasty
18:03so
18:33Police!
18:35Freeze!
18:36Let me see your hands!
18:37Let me see your hands!
18:38Dump out!
18:52Yeah, I killed Nelson.
18:54He had it coming.
18:55And I'm gonna kill Stutzer, too, for what he's doing to the animals.
18:58He's got it coming.
18:59What's he doing to the animals?
19:01Hey, can I go now?
19:03I gotta feed the cats.
19:05They get hungry, you know?
19:07And they get mad.
19:09And they pee on my computer keyboard.
19:11And it really screws up my work.
19:13We won't keep you here any longer than we need to.
19:15Now, this Animal Equality League, tell me about it.
19:18It's a league of people who believe that animals should be equal to humans.
19:22I'm chair of the League Supreme Council.
19:25He's crazy.
19:27Yeah, crazy don't make him innocent.
19:29Crazy is what makes people kill other people.
19:33How did you kill Nelson?
19:35Poison.
19:36What kind of poison did you use?
19:37Wouldn't you like to know?
19:38I do know.
19:39I'm wondering if you do.
19:41Do you realize that the real rulers of this planet are insects?
19:45Okay.
19:46Crazy innocent.
19:47Probably.
19:48Okay.
19:49Yeah.
19:50Keep him locked up until forensics has swept his stuff just in case.
19:51Call mental health services.
19:52Have them take a look at him.
19:53Looks like the animal rights angle's a dead end.
19:55Back to square one.
19:56Grieving widow?
19:57That's always a good place to start.
19:58Yes, I think so.
19:59Flowers for a funeral?
20:00I don't know how many flowers you're supposed to have in a memorial service.
20:01Is three arrangements too few?
20:02Well, how much do lilies cost?
20:03Maybe you should just speak to Chancellor Stern.
20:04He might have a better idea.
20:05I'm sorry.
20:06Death is so complicated.
20:07I'm sorry.
20:08Death is so complicated.
20:09I'm sorry.
20:10I'm sorry.
20:11I don't know how much do you get me up.
20:12I don't know what you're supposed to have in a memorial service.
20:13Yes, I don't know.
20:14I don't know how many flowers you're supposed to have in a memorial service.
20:18Is three arrangements too few?
20:20Well, how much do lilies cost?
20:25Maybe you should just speak to Chancellor Stern.
20:27He might have a better idea.
20:28I'm sorry.
20:32I'm sorry. Death is so complicated.
20:35I'm expected to answer all these questions about everything.
20:38Mrs. Nelson, I just...
20:39Please call me Emily.
20:40I never really got the hang of being called Nelson.
20:43Can we sit?
20:50I was just getting the hang of being a newlywed, and now I'm a widow.
20:54Did you ever get any sense that there was anything wrong in any aspect of Alex's life?
20:59No, I don't think so.
21:00I mean, work had been really hard lately, I know that.
21:04Is that you?
21:08Yes, that's when Alex and I first met.
21:11Cute picture.
21:13Why was work so hard?
21:15I don't know.
21:17When Alex would talk about his work, I couldn't understand a word, and he just stopped trying after a while.
21:22But he had an argument on the phone a few weeks ago.
21:27Alex went into his office, and I could hear him shouting.
21:30He was so angry.
21:31He never shouts.
21:33Any idea who he was shouting at?
21:34No, it was a woman.
21:37Rosie, I think you called her?
21:39Rosie.
21:40Do you know anybody named Rosie?
21:44No.
21:45Did you ever ask him about the phone call?
21:46I did.
21:47He said it was a work thing.
21:48And you believed him?
21:49Yeah.
21:49You didn't suspect that there was another woman involved?
21:53No.
21:55Sorry, I have to have such things.
21:57Sorry.
21:59You have a beautiful house.
22:01Beautiful.
22:01Did you do the decorating?
22:03No, it's all Alex.
22:05He was teaching me.
22:06He had an aesthetic.
22:07Mm-hmm.
22:11He keeps doing that every five minutes.
22:13What am I going to do?
22:21When this funeral stuff was done with, and Alex is married, I want you to go someplace beautiful.
22:27Just get on a plane.
22:28Don't tell anyone where you're going.
22:29Just go.
22:30Fly away.
22:31And start building in your life for yourself.
22:35Okay.
22:35Okay, but you promise me you will fight hard against your weakness for control freaks.
22:41Okay.
22:42Good.
22:44I'm sorry.
22:46No.
22:49She couldn't kill anyone unless they told her to in a firm voice.
22:52That's funny.
22:53Don't listen to control freaks.
22:55Whatever you say, sir.
22:56Let's go see Stutz's assistant.
22:59Carrie Sheehan?
23:00What, you think she's the mysterious Rosie?
23:02The widow's not a true blonde.
23:03She's naturally dark.
23:04Is that you?
23:05Yes, that's when Alex and I first met.
23:07And what?
23:09And her hair is colored and styled to look like Sophie, only younger.
23:13It was a brunette when I knew her.
23:14So Nelson was a control freak, like you said.
23:16A control freak with a serious thing for getting his women to dye their hair blonde.
23:20Carrie Sheehan has roots.
23:22Yes, she does.
23:23She and Alex Nelson were having an affair.
23:25Bravo.
23:26Don't patronize me.
23:27Miss Sheehan?
23:36Carrie?
23:37Teresa Lisbon?
23:41We want to talk to you about Alex Nelson.
23:44I need EMTs in 965M.
23:58He was a good, good man.
24:03Tell him not to run the lights.
24:04It looks like suicide.
24:12It looks like suicide.
24:12Is it what it looks like, you think?
24:25Yeah.
24:26How pink she was?
24:27That's cyanide.
24:28Causes high blood oxygen saturation.
24:30Thanks.
24:32Look at this, boss.
24:34I tell he's in the garbage upstairs.
24:39That's Alex with the victim.
24:46It's not a tidy end to this sad saga, but it is an end at least.
24:51Thank you for all your hard work.
24:54We're not done here, I'm afraid.
24:55If Carrie Sheehan was a suicide, that doesn't make her guilty of Alex's murder.
24:59If she's a suicide?
25:07The note's too brief for a woman.
25:08Women like to explain themselves.
25:10I think it's a staged suicide.
25:11Perhaps she was too ashamed of what she'd done to talk of it.
25:14She had enough pills to kill herself ten times over.
25:16And hoarding pills is a characteristic of a suicidal type.
25:19Yes, but why would she kill herself with a hydrogen cyanide?
25:22With terrible pain, when she'd collected pills that would let her slip away gently.
25:25Well, maybe she wanted the pain.
25:27She needed the pain to punish herself for killing her lover.
25:29You really want this case to be over, don't you?
25:32Don't you?
25:33Actually, no.
25:34I want to find out the truth.
25:35And if Carrie didn't kill herself, then...
25:37The widow had a motive.
25:38Yeah, but not the temperament.
25:39There's no way she's a killer.
25:41That leaves one obvious suspect.
25:44Oh.
25:46Selfie.
25:47Look at her record.
25:49She and Alex were violently obsessed with each other.
25:52Maybe they were still secretly involved.
25:54Maybe she was jealous of Carrie.
25:56Yeah, but why kill Carrie and leave Emily unharmed?
25:57And how did she even know Carrie was sleeping with Alex?
25:59Let's go ask her.
26:09Let's keep it casual to start with, Selfie.
26:10Let her relax.
26:12If she gets her guard up, we'll get nothing from her.
26:13You're very combative all of a sudden.
26:15You know, she is guilty.
26:18She lied to me, and I believed it.
26:20She fooled me.
26:21The ultimate sin.
26:23Yes, it is.
26:27You're adrift in a lifeboat.
26:29You can save ten small children
26:30by pushing one 60-year-old man out of the boat.
26:33Yes or no?
26:35No.
26:37You're adrift in a lifeboat.
26:39You can save ten small children
26:41by not helping one 60-year-old man into the boat.
26:45Yes or no?
26:47Yes.
26:49That's it.
26:50If you could just wait for Greg to release you from the chair,
26:53you can go, and thank you very much for your help.
26:55Really, both dilemmas are exactly the same.
26:59One life for ten.
27:00But almost everyone answers the set of questions the same way.
27:04It's the most basic human morality,
27:05the value we place on a human life
27:07and when we're willing to sacrifice it.
27:09But watch.
27:10If I run a current through this part of the brain,
27:13I can provoke a response
27:14that totally bypasses conscious thought.
27:17I can manipulate the subject's moral reasoning towards good
27:20and if I want, the reverse towards evil.
27:24Now, you know, obviously,
27:26there are complex ethical issues involved.
27:28So we've recalibrated the test subjects
27:30just enough to prove our finding
27:32because we don't want to get too far ahead of public sentiment.
27:35Theoretically, this way.
27:37Villains.
27:37And this way, saints.
27:43Yes, in simple terms.
27:46I must have a try.
27:48You gotta let me have a try.
27:49Really?
27:51As test subject or controller?
27:53Controllers.
27:54You call them controllers?
27:55That's brilliant.
27:56I'll do either.
27:57I'd like to do both.
27:58Really?
27:58I'm so glad that we've amused you.
28:01Dr. Miller?
28:02Yes?
28:02I assume you've heard about Carrie Sheehan's death.
28:06Yes, it's tragic.
28:07Do you think that she killed Alex?
28:09Is there somewhere we can talk in private?
28:12Sounds so ominous.
28:14We could do it downtown with lawyers present,
28:16but I thought it'd be more congenial to talk here.
28:19You're right, and I'm happy to talk to you
28:21because I understand you're just trying to do your job.
28:23We were wondering,
28:25did you know Carrie and Alex were having an affair?
28:27Well, I knew she was having an affair with a married man
28:29because she told me.
28:31I didn't know it was Alex.
28:32I didn't put it together.
28:33She told you, though.
28:34You were close then?
28:35No, not really.
28:38She had to have known you were Alex's ex.
28:40Why would she talk to you, of all people?
28:42I don't know.
28:46You're a psychiatrist.
28:47Give it a shot.
28:48My guess is that she was a silly little girl
28:51who liked the secret drama of it all
28:53and the safety of the rules
28:54that would prevent me from slapping her senseless
28:56if I found out.
28:58Why would you slap her for that?
29:00You didn't care about Alex anymore.
29:02I cared nothing at all for him,
29:03but I don't like being played with.
29:05Were you still involved in a physical relationship with him?
29:08No.
29:10Who's Rosie?
29:12Rosie?
29:13I can't say that I know anybody with that name.
29:16You're sure?
29:17Yes.
29:18Why?
29:18Was that Alex's other woman?
29:20Emily heard Alex arguing with a woman
29:22she thought was called Rosie.
29:28Lisbon, would you leave us alone for a moment?
29:32No problem.
29:39What?
29:42I know you're feeling powerless right now,
29:45but you're in control.
29:46You have a choice.
29:47You can choose to let people defeat you,
29:49or you can fight back.
29:51You can fight,
29:53or you can give up and die.
29:54It's your choice.
29:55I asked Lisbon to leave us because you gave me my life back,
30:03and I owe you the chance to do the right thing.
30:07Which is?
30:08Tell me the truth.
30:09I told you I don't know anybody with that name.
30:12What about a monkey?
30:13Did you know a monkey with that name?
30:19Yes.
30:20Because that's Rosie in there, isn't it?
30:26Yes.
30:26You switched it with Susie because Susie never did get gentle, did she?
30:30No.
30:31The morality engine doesn't work, does it?
30:33It's all phooey.
30:35And this guy, Professor Louis Stutzer, he's the Wizard of Oz.
30:38No.
30:39We are this close.
30:41We are this close to cracking this.
30:43We're on the edge of a revolutionary...
30:45On the edge?
30:46Sophie, this building, this institute,
30:49this whole multi-million dollar project
30:50is based on a sham, yes or no?
30:55Yes.
30:57It's a sham.
30:59We've been falsifying data for almost a year now
31:01to make it look like it works, but it doesn't.
31:04Why lie about it?
31:08It's bound to be discovered.
31:14Pride, delusion, greed.
31:17You have to understand, Louis Stutzer is a genius.
31:22This project is the culmination of his life's work.
31:26I so desperately wanted it to work.
31:29We all did.
31:30We began to believe the lies that we were telling.
31:35And Alex threatened to expose the whole thing.
31:37He was going to at the symposium that morning.
31:39He was going to confess.
31:41I begged him, I begged him not to.
31:43It'd be the end of our careers.
31:44It'd be the end of everything.
31:46So you killed him and Carrie to cover this whole thing up?
31:51Patrick!
31:52Look at me.
31:54I had nothing to do with the deaths.
31:58I promise.
31:59Who was it?
32:02Stutzer?
32:03I don't know.
32:06You knew they were both killed to cover this thing up,
32:08and yet you didn't say a word to me.
32:14That's why you asked me to help you, isn't it?
32:16Because you thought you could push my buttons.
32:18You thought you could manipulate me into exonerating you.
32:22Sophie, look at me.
32:23I don't care about the fraud.
32:27But if you had anything to do with those murders,
32:29if you had anything at all to do with those murders,
32:33now is it time to walk away.
32:36Walk away and get on a plane to Brazil.
32:38Patrick!
32:39Thank you, doctor.
32:53Goodbye.
32:54Goodbye, Patrick.
32:54Be well.
32:55I had nothing to do with the murders.
32:57I had nothing to do with the murders.
33:02I had nothing to do with the murders.
33:16No, no, no, no, no, no.
33:26I don't like the sound of that at all.
33:29That's a crazy idea.
33:32Yeah, absolutely.
33:34All right, will do, boss.
33:36Thanks.
33:38He said, uh, go ahead.
33:40It's fine.
33:42Love the idea.
33:43Professor Stutzer.
33:49We've done it.
33:50What?
33:50The morality engine works.
33:52It works?
33:53I was showing the policeman how the brain scanner works,
33:55but the synchronous oscillator kept tripping off.
33:57Yes, it's been doing that.
33:58So I decided to bypass the differential filters.
34:01I think it's producing an ion flow into the dendrit.
34:03But how?
34:04I don't know how it works, but it works.
34:06This is his baseline before recalibration.
34:11And after.
34:13You're sure about this?
34:15I've checked and rechecked the results.
34:16Watch.
34:17I'm going to optimize his moral clarity.
34:20Question 65B.
34:22A gunman is going to shoot an innocent child.
34:24You can save the child by jumping in front of the gun,
34:27but it will cost you your life.
34:29Do you A.
34:30Give up your life,
34:32or B.
34:33Let the child die?
34:34A.
34:34And now I'm going to make him evil.
34:38Question 98.
34:39You are stranded on an island with a stranger.
34:42You find a food supply,
34:43but there is only enough to keep one person alive.
34:46If you do not share the food,
34:48your survival is guaranteed,
34:50but the stranger will starve.
34:52Do you A.
34:53Share the food,
34:54or B.
34:55Keep the food for yourself?
34:57B.
34:58C.
34:59It works.
35:01It does work.
35:03It really works.
35:04We must tell the Chancellor that it works.
35:09Eating people is wrong.
35:11True or false?
35:13False.
35:13Question 95.
35:15Seeing another human being in pain is pleasant.
35:18True or false?
35:19True.
35:21Well done.
35:22Well done.
35:23Thank the Lord.
35:24I told you I would succeed in the end.
35:27Yes, you did.
35:28You certainly did.
35:29Did it?
35:31Mr. Jane.
35:32Mr. Jane, I haven't restored your normal calibration.
35:35Don't worry about it.
35:35But he's been calibrated from evil.
35:37Sir.
35:39Sir, please follow Dr. Miller's advice.
35:42You do not understand what has happened to you.
35:43Yes, I understand.
35:45Your morality engine worked.
35:46Made me into a good man.
35:47No, you do not understand.
35:49It is the exact opposite.
35:50No, Doc, you don't understand.
35:54What are you doing?
35:58Put the phone down.
36:01You know why I'm alive on this planet?
36:04My sole purpose.
36:07I catch bad people and punish them.
36:09That's all I do.
36:10Because when I do that, I know I'm doing something good.
36:13You see?
36:13Yes.
36:14Good people do good things.
36:16Bad people do bad things.
36:18That's true.
36:19Yes.
36:20Now let's test your moral baseline.
36:22Question 99.
36:24Who killed Alex Nelson and Carrie Sheehan?
36:27I don't know.
36:30That's not an acceptable answer.
36:31Tell me the truth or I will kill the woman.
36:34I am telling you the truth.
36:38Oh, my God.
36:39Oh, my God.
36:41Oh, my God.
36:42Okay.
36:48Now that we've established some real test parameters, tell me who killed Alex Nelson and Carrie Sheehan,
36:55or I will shoot your good friend here.
36:57And then if you still don't give me an honest answer, I will kill you.
37:00Man, my good man, I cannot tell you what I do not know.
37:03I need an answer.
37:04It was me.
37:07It was me.
37:08It was me.
37:09You.
37:09Why?
37:10Why?
37:11I'm sorry, Louis.
37:13I was only trying to protect you.
37:15I need evidence.
37:17In my basement.
37:19In a charcoal lighter fluid bottle.
37:22What's in the bottle?
37:23Cyanide.
37:24Why did you do it?
37:26To protect the university.
37:28Alex was going to expose the Stutzer Institute as a fraud.
37:34The university's finances are based on Stutzer's reputation.
37:40If Stutzer goes down, Leland University goes down.
37:44And Carrie came to you after Alex died, said that Alex had told her everything.
37:48She was going to expose Stutzer not just as a fraud, but as a murderer.
37:51Yes.
37:52Yeah.
37:53Where in the basement is that bottle?
37:54Top shelf.
37:55Top shelf on the left as you come down the stairs.
37:59I bet you keep a nice, neat basement.
38:02What was in that bottle again?
38:04Cyanide.
38:08Sophie, you can get up now.
38:11See?
38:12The blood.
38:13Totally worth it.
38:13It's always those little details that help sell the whole thing.
38:16That was, that was great.
38:21It's all inadmissible.
38:22I, I said what I had to say to, to save myself from this lunatic with a gun.
38:27It's inadmissible.
38:28She knows, but knowing the truth is important too.
38:32Uh, top shelf left or right, did you say?
38:35Left?
38:35We have agents at your house right now with a search warrant.
38:40Inadmissible.
38:41Yes.
38:43I'd hate to be a state's attorney.
38:44Jane's always pulling crap like this on them, but they always win.
38:47In the meantime, you're under arrest.
38:49Joe?
38:51What just...
38:51Put your hands on your head.
38:54You have the right to remain silent.
38:55Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
38:58You have the right to have an attorney present during questioning.
39:00If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you.
39:03You understand these rights...
39:04The engine doesn't work?
39:07Huh.
39:08You were pretending.
39:11Doesn't work.
39:13Pretending.
39:16To catch the chancellor.
39:18Or me, I suppose you couldn't know which.
39:21No, I thought it was you.
39:24Very clever of you.
39:27I so badly wanted to believe that it worked.
39:32Mind plays tricks, huh?
39:36Yeah.
39:39Never mind.
39:47In the future, I hope that your love life is a little more peaceful.
39:50But if it's not, and an ex-lover turns up dead again, do me a favor.
39:55Don't call me.
39:57I think we're pretty much even.
40:00Paid and full.
40:01Great.
40:03What are you going to do now?
40:04I'm ruined as a scientist.
40:10So I'll probably go back to helping people one by one.
40:13I think that's a great idea.
40:14You're very good at that.
40:17Thanks.
40:17Bye, Sophie.
40:31Be well.
40:31Bye.
40:32Jane kissed a girl.
40:47Well, yeah, I was...
40:48Yeah.
40:50I'm a chick.
40:51Still kiss.
40:53Counsel's what?
40:54Nothing.
40:56Just saying.
40:56You want to drive?
41:17Oh, that's a very sweet offer.
41:19Do I really seem so sad?
41:21What?
41:22I was just asking you if you wanted to drive.
41:24You don't like it when I drive.
41:26You despise it.
41:26You drive way too fast.
41:28I drive just fast enough.
41:30You hate not being the one in control,
41:32and yet you're willing to overcome your irrational fears to cheer me up.
41:35That's a beautiful thing, Lisbon.
41:38I'd love to drive.
41:39Never mind.
41:39I don't even know.
41:41I don't mind.
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