"Trust." "In a successful company like this, that's the glue that holds everything together." "At Veridian organize Dynamics we even hold special events to build that trust." "Don't let me go!" "I will not let you go!" "Come on!" "It's just like the virtual climbing wall at MIT." "It wasn't there when I was there!" "It's virtual." "Technically, it was never there." "Now, don't look down." "I'm falling!" "I'm falling!" "I got you." "Onceyouhavethattrust,youknow someone will always have your back." "You realise if this project goes forward, all the aborigines in Australia will lose their sense of smell." "Which is why I'm going to kill it." "It's just to high a price to pay for fabric software." "If those Aborigines were here, they'd smell a good man." "You ready?" "Hair?" "Good." "Teeth?" "Clear." "Tie?" "Stain." "Got ya." "Butthemostimportantthingisthe trust the public has of our products." "That's why many of our products never get pass the testing phase." "Like a soldier tracking GPS underwear." "Hot!" "Hot!" "Butsometimes,inspiteofourbestefforts, a bad product does get through." "Andforanycorporation,theworst casescenariois..." "The company has been sued for something we made." "Is that the numbers the accounting guy invented for tax purposes?" "No." "Then, on a scale from 1 to zurplex, how bad is it?" "It's bad." "Remember that perfume your team developed about a year ago?" "In 3 out of 5000 women, it reacts with their body chemistry and attracts hornets, who want to mate with them." "And when the hornets realise they've been deceived, did they just..." "laugh it off?" "If by "laugh" you mean sting over and over again in endless ways of fury, then, yes, they have a wonderful sense of humor." "So, is the company offered a settlement?" "Generously." "And after buying each woman a new face of equal or greater value than her original." "But their lawyers are gonna try to screw us, by claiming we knew the perfume had this problem, but put it on the market anyway." "What?" "That's ridiculous!" "Exactly." "So we all gonna have to give depositions and say that we didn't know this could happen." "But we didn't know it could happen." "Good!" "That sounds very trustful." "Because we didn't know." "This one wasn't this good." "But we didn't." "There you go!" "That's the one." "Veronica!" "I'd leave my name out of it." "With the public trust at stake, we all gave depositions." "Veronicahaddoneitbeforeand so knew just what to say." "Or how little to say." "Were you involved in the development of this product?" "Yes." "And how would you summarize the company's reaction when they found out that the women who used this product were savagely attacked by insects?" "Ouch." "Will you elaborate on that please?" "No." "Can you describe your job?" "Yes." "How would you describe your job?" "Cleverly." "My deposition also went well, although it tooked an odd turn." "Tell me, Mr. Crisp... would you give this perfume to your wife?" "I don't have a wife." "Girlfriend?" "I don't have a girlfriend." "Boyfriend?" "No boyfriend." "So there's nobody significant at all in your life?" "I mean, that you would give the perfume to." "No, just me and my 8 year-old daughter." "And Phil?" "Well, Phil doesn't do well pressure." "Mr. Myman, it says here you went to MIT, is that correct?" "No." "I am a liar, a damned dirty liar." "Excuse me?" "When I took this job, I lied, on my resume." "I didn't attend MIT, I graduated from the University of Aruba." "I wanted to be a big fish in a little pond." "I played rugby, and I am proud of my years as a syphilitic conquistador." "That was the team name, they wanted something the local found frightening." "Lem was nervous too." "So nervous he wipped out something in the lab to keep himself calm." "He may have overwhipped." "Hello cats and kittens." "I am here to testify." "That's nice." "The air feels like J-lo." "Buteventually,allthe depositions ended up in the same place." "Were you aware that this product was potentially dangerous?" "No." "No." "Absolutely not." "Negative, Catwoman." "Yes." "Now, what exactly..." "One minute..." "Did you just say yes?" "Yes." "And did you notified anyone within the company about the situation?" "I sent an email to the CEO." "And I sent another one to..." "Yes." "Miss Zwordling, who else knew about this?" "Ted." "Our Ted?" "Mistakes... we all make them." "Butsometimesmistakes leadtogreatdiscoveries." "Mistakes are how we learn and grow... so we can do amazing things." "When you think about it, shouldn'tyouthankingusformakingmistakes?" "You told the lawyers that you sent me an e-mail saying that the perfume attracts hornets?" "I was under oath." "I had to tell the truth , which I probably would have done anyway." "It's kind of a bad habit I have." "But it wasn't the truth." "You didn't send me an email." "Yes I did." "No, you didn't." "Yes I did." "No, you didn't." "Oh, yes I did." "I didn't get any e-mail, and you could have at least warn me that's what you were gonna say." "The lawyers told us not to discuss our testimonies, and I did send it to you, Ted." "I remember." "It was my first week here." "It was my very first project." "The very first DRAFT LINDA" "Hello." "Linda, right?" "Yes, Mr. Crisp." "Linda Zwordling." "Please, call me Ted." "Oh, and... you call me Linda." "Oh, you already did." "Then keep calling me Linda." "And you keep calling me Ted, and together, we'll call each other by our names." "It's just crazy enough to work." "Oh God, that's not my laugh." "I don't know where that came from." "I'm just so excited to be here and working for this company that does all these great things." "You know, my cousin uses the wheelchair you guys invented, the one that climbs stairs." "You know it was my idea to give them brakes." "You should have see those suckers rolling downstairs..." "You're joking... with me... on my first day." "I love this place." "Oh, before I forget, we've been getting some unusuals results on this perfume product I've been testing." "Ted, can I speak to you a minute?" "Sure." "Have you met Linda?" "Yes." "With a laugh." "Don't worry." "I'm working on a new one." "That's not it." "Well, keep us posted." "Oh, and if there something I should know about the perfume results, just... send me an email." "E-got it." "You know what I'm doing?" "I'm trying too hard." "A few minutes later, I sent you the e-mail." "Yeah, well I believe that you believe you sent it but I know exactly where I was, and I didn't get anyhing." "How can you be so sure?" "For me it was memorable, because it was my first week, and I was... field testing my laugh." "For you, it was just another day." "Well, I..." "I remember because... well, I just do." "And if there something I should know about the perfume results, just... send me an email." "E-got it." "You know what I'm doing?" "I'm trying too hard." "I like that hairstyle." "It's very powerful." "Would you mind if I wear my haird like that?" "Of course not." "Good." "Then you can't anymore." "The laughing girl whose hair I'm taking likes you." "So, you wanted to talk to me?" "Right after the teleconference, France called." "They're in." "God, you're in your game this afternoon." "You think?" "Cause I wasn't really feeling it." "Ted, that was an excellent presentation." "Everything you said, was just so... concise and exactly." "I think you and I should have sex." "If you want." "How could you know where you were at that exact moment six months ago?" "What you were doing that was so memorable?" "Well, I was... lying down." "You were lying down?" "That's how you remember it so vividly?" "Yes, because... well the blood had rushed to my brain." "Why are you being so weird?" "I'm not being weird." "You're being weird." "Oh, my god." "You did get my e-mail and you're lying." "That's what's happening." "This is what Ted looks like when he lies." "You think I'm lying?" "You think I'd lie to you?" "I think you'd do anything to protect this company and its precious CEO." "You're totally gay for this place." "Well, I'm not lying and I don't think bthe company did anything wrong." "So if that makes me gay, then I am gay." "Oh, settle down." "Linda's claim that she warned me and the CEO about the faulting perfume anything is pretty frost between us." "Hello, person who thinks I'm incompetent." "Hello, person who thinks I'm lying." "I am incompetent and a liar." "I don't get a hello?" "AndLinda'sstatementdid not justaffectthetwoofus." "Itsentshockwavestothewholecompany ." "Our legal department was working aroud the clock looking for a defense strategy." "And our executives were workin equally hard to find a scapegoat." "Butitwasn'tjustLinda'sdepositionthatwascausingfallout." "You went to the university of Aruba?" "Where knowledge is king and clothing is optional." "You lied to me." "You said you wnet to MIT like I did." "We even did this school beaver dance together, remember?" "Now it just seems stupid." "My God." "What else have you been lying to me about?" "How can I trust you now?" "I bet you weren't even rescued in Montana by Harrison Ford." "No, that is true." "I swear." "I woke up next to a campfire with Indiana Jones making me bacon." "Look, I'm sorry." "I should have been honest with you, but I had just started working here and I was afraid I'd get fired if anyone find out I lied." "I know it was wrong, but it was so long ago." "Too bad your first day at work has to be during sixties' week." "So I heard you went to MIT." "Me too." "Really?" "I guess I should have figured I'd run into another MIT graduate, here in the world of science." "Now that we both went there, let's promise never to talk about it again." "Are you kidding?" "That's all we're gonna talk about." "MIT was the best." "The academic clubs, the dorms, the guys, the girl..." "You lied, Phil." "And you know what we do at liars at MIT?" "No, you don't." "The companies needs to protect its image and we have a very interesting offer for you." "PhilandLem'strusthadbeenshattered butthecompanyhadn'tgivenupontryingtorestorethepublic'strust." "They want me to be the scapegoat?" "We can't let the CEO take the blame, and you're the one who blurt." "But I'm the only one who did the right thing." "Well, you know how we call that?" "Irony." "Now, here's how it's going to work." "You say you knew the product was faulty but you didn't tell anyone and you made up that story about the e-mail because... you have a drug problem." "I don't have a drug problem." "I haven't taken drugs since..." "Well, you don't need to know the last time I got high." "The point is, I don't have a drug problem." "But you don't need one." "That's the beauty of this plan." "Linda, why can't you ever trust the company?" "They know what they're doing." "They've done it before." "It is all my fault." "I knew that there was a problem with the sauce, but I did not notified my superiors because well," "I am a drug addict." "My godness, how I love the drugs." "I would take them at my house." "I would take them with a mouse." "With a mouse, people." "Now, that's rock bottom." "This way the company is protected;" "and if you agree to this, you'll be handsomely rewarded." "Didn't do it." "You'll be send to the most beautiful rehab facility in the country." "Didn't do it." "You'll get to meet movie stars, rock stars, and people famous just for going in and out of rehab." "Didn't do it." "And when you get back, your job will be waiting for you, because you have a disease, Linda." "A disease that makes you look weak and dirty, and us compassionate and forgiving." "It's a win-win." "How is that a win for me?" "Shut ut junkie." "Itwasn'tsurprisingthatthecompany wanted Linda to be a scapegoat." "The surprising thing was..." "You accepted their offer?" "You're gonna say it's all your fault?" "Yes." "I'm gonna take the fall... and land on a giant pile of money." "But you're not a drug addict." "I've seen what you make, you can't afford to be a drug addict." "Well, that's all about to change." "Linda, why are you doing this?" "Look at this place, Ted." "they freeze an employee." "They weaponize pumpkins." "They took an innocent panda and turned it into an assasin." "When you work at a place like this, you try to find one person you can trust, one person who see things the way you do and knows right from wrong." "I thought I found him, but he sold his soul to the company, so why shouldn't I?" "I swear to God, I didn't get the e-mail." "The company scheduled a press conference." "As Linda's supervisor, would you be comfortable saying you caught her trying to sell the copier?" "She said she's okay with it." "No, I am not gonna say this." "Why must you always fight me?" "What are you doing anyway?" "I'm looking for a record of Linda's e-mail." "She said she sent it May 5." "May 5, May 35, what's the difference?" "Let it go." "Let her take the deal and make some money." "Don't you see what's happening?" "We are taking the only person here who has never compromised her ideals and... and turning her into an ideal compromiser, and I don't mean an ideal compromiser, one who, all the other compromisers look up to." "I understand context, Ted." "She was our conscience." "So now what are we gonna do?" "Gosh, you are right." "How we ever make the fortune 500 list of the most moral companies?" "Oh, wait." "They don't have that." "Morning Lem." "Phillip." "So," "I've been thinking about our past, and how I... shammed to the waters of our friendship with fishcuts of dishonesty." "And I've been thinking about how the shark of my loyalty gorges to the sinful entrails of your bloody lies." "So we both saw that sharks special last night." "Wasn't it great?" "I was struck by their capacity for forgiveness." "Their cold black eyes, so full of compassion." "What you're watching, is two scientists in their natural habitat, awkwardlycirclingeachotheras they attempt to repair their friendship." "ThisritualallowsPhilandLemto  confront and resolve their problems, whilestayingwithinthe safeconfinesofmarine biology." "And that is why the otter will always be the jester of the sea." "Agreed." "I forgive you." "Thanks, Lem." "I just wish..." "I could forgive myself for lying to my closest friend for the past ten years." "Here." "Maybe these will help." "Look through my glasses." "Look through my liying glasses." "These are not prescription." "These are just clear glass." "When I first started working here, I thought they'd make me look smarter." "For the last ten years..." "I've been... lying to you too." "I always assume you had poor eye sight." "You know, because you wore glasses." "I had the feeling that's what people were thinking." "Just glad I don't have to wear these anymore." "Still look smart without them, right?" "Phil?" "Ok, before you sign let me go over the conditions with you once more." "We've been through it three times, Veronica." "I am a scapegoat, not an actual goat." "Linda, wait!" "I have to show you something." "Go ahead, Angel junk." "That's the street name we're giving you in the press release." "Look, this explains everything." "Security camera C. 5 May 2008." "Wow, Ted, I know how babies are made, and I am so not in the mood for porn right now." "Wait, let me zoom in." "Yeah, that's gonna help." "Oh, my God." "Is that you and Veronica?" "Gross, why are you showing me this?" "What the hell is wrong with you?" "Look at the date." "It was May 5." "This is right after we talked about the perfume, this is what I was doing." "I didn't want to tell you before because I didn't think it was... relevant, but keep watching." "No!" "Youhavenewmail." "Didyousaysomething?" "No, the orientation's over." "You're on your own now." "Now, look at the computer." "There's your e-mail arriving." "From:" "Linda Zwordling." "Email delete?" "Email removed." "Veronica deleted it." "She kicked the keyboard." "While she was having her second ..." "Allright Ted." "I get it, you're a stud." "So this is why you didn't see my e-mail." "You were telling the truth ." "We both were." "I am sorry I doubted you." "Yeah, what was with that?" "Hey, you're the one that called me a liar." "Yeah, well..." "I'm sure you've lied to someone about something, so I'm just gonna call it even." "Wow, you should have a license for that thing." "That's it for me." "You taped us having sex." "You're kinkier than I thought you were." "You have no idea." "But I didn't tape us." "I confiscated this a few months ago from Dewey, the security guard." "He had dozens of employees sex tapes like that." "Dewey?" "Damn." "That's the first person I ever met named Dewey I thought he was normal." "The quest continues." "Anyway... when you mentionned Linda sent the e-mail May 5, there was something about that date that ring a bell." "Then I remembered that was the date on our tape, since I watched it several times." "You've watched it several times?" "Well, if you don't study your performance how do you expect to keep your edge?" "Well, I don't really look at it as a competion, but whatever gets you there..." "It was nice you did this for Linda." "Well, her heart wasn't really in being a scapegoat." "It just made more sense to give it to someone who's gonna take the ball and run with it." "I, Angel junk, am responsible for the hornets, the perfume, you name it." "It was the drugs again." "What can I say?" "I am weak." "I would do it on the train, I would do it in the rain..." "In the rain people!" "Now that's messed up." "E just a desperate case."