00:00Mrs. Skilling, are you pleased with this verdict?
00:02Am I grateful that the police who murdered my husband will be punished?
00:06Yes, I am. But my husband's side of the bed will still be empty tonight, so...
00:10There's no justice that can make my life any less lonely.
00:13Mrs. Skilling, just a few more questions.
00:15Excuse me.
00:16All right, no more questions.
00:23Hello?
00:24I see you've just watched a video I sent of Mrs. Skilling.
00:29Who is this?
00:30It doesn't matter who I am.
00:32Tell me or I'm hanging up.
00:34All that matters is what I know about your company.
00:39What do you think you know?
00:40That Xavier Skilling was murdered because of your company's negligence.
00:46And I can prove it.
00:48How?
00:49Twenty million dollars.
00:51That's my price for keeping this to myself.
00:54Unless you want me to leak it to the media.
00:57Look, whoever you are and whatever you're trying to do, this is really not—
01:01Don't be in touch.
01:19What the heck?
01:21All right, brother, tell me what's going on.
01:25You tell me.
01:31Know what that is?
01:39Analytics from our beta version that we tested seven years ago with the Sacramento PD.
01:44Yeah, it's saying that our system has a higher margin of error identifying blacks and Asians.
01:48Slightly higher. Statistically insignificant.
01:51You want a drink?
01:52So you did know about this?
01:53Yeah, of course I knew about it.
01:56I'm the one who fixed it.
01:58How'd you dig it up?
01:59Someone sent it to me.
02:03Someone smart enough to hack into our server and contact me from a non-traceable VOIP.
02:08What?
02:09They're threatening to go public unless we give them twenty million dollars.
02:13And they're blaming us for Xavier Skilling.
02:16Okay.
02:17The cops that killed Skilling were supposed to confirm his identity before they went in, right?
02:21With their own eyes.
02:24They didn't follow protocol. That's why they went to prison.
02:27Human error killed Xavier Skilling, all right?
02:29Not our software. There's no universe where we're legally liable.
02:33Yeah, maybe not in a court of law, but in a court of public opinion, we're gonna get crucified.
02:42How could you release our software when you knew this was a problem?
02:46Because you said that we needed Sacramento to get our second round of financing.
02:49Do not try to turn this on me.
02:51Tell me that I'm wrong.
02:52Tell me that you didn't say our burn rate was so high that if we didn't get Sacramento,
02:56we'd have to shutter the whole company in six months, huh?
03:01So what are we gonna do when Google finds a discrepancy?
03:04They won't.
03:06They're auditing our analytics.
03:09I scrubbed the numbers.
03:10You did what?
03:11There's no record of the differential after Sacramento, okay?
03:13Google can't find something that never happened.
03:15Except the person that's blackmailing us has the unedited version.
03:18Which is why you need to pay them.
03:19Marcus.
03:20I can't.
03:20Marcus, we're talking about less than 5% of what you and I stand to make from this deal.
03:24But there won't be a deal if we don't pay them.
03:26So you tell me, what other options do we have here?
03:29I don't know.
03:30What do you want to do, man?
03:31You want to go to the FBI?
03:32You want to go straight into the New York Times?
03:34What, you tell me what you want to do and I'll do it.
03:35I don't know.
03:36Well, I do.
03:38And unless you want to burn down the last 18 years of our lives,
03:41and the lives of everybody that works for us, there is only one choice.
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