#78 Monday, August 18th

Sterling is in his hotel room, when there's a knock at the door. He answers it and Cassandra walks in.

Sterling: What's wrong?

Cassandra: We've got trouble.

Sterling: What kind of trouble?

Cassandra: I think one of the original discs with the real study on it may

have went out with some papers to John Phelps.

Sterling: What?!

Cassandra: Calm down.

Sterling: Calm down? How could you let this happen?

Cassandra: I'm saying stay calm because I'm not for sure that's what happened.

Sterling: We're in big trouble if he sees the date the study was really written, if he shows

the SEC we're toast.

Cassandra: I know that. We've got to find a way to get it back.

Sterling: I have no idea how to do that.

Cassandra: Well, think of something. If I go down, you go down.

Sterling: That's right, crap.

Cassandra: If you have any bright ideas, call me. I'll be brainstorming too.

Cassandra leaves.

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John, Anna and Aaron are at McGregor going over the files that Lightner handed over to them about the takeover.

John: There's nothing else here.

Anna: If we could find just one slight slip-up to go along with what we've got, we'd be home free.

John: This is frustrating, because I feel we are this close.

Aaron: The injunction only last for another day now, we've got to find something quick.

John: I know, but what?

John starts looking through the box of files again, when he feels something hard inside a manila envelope. He reaches inside the envelope and finds a disc.

John: Here's something we missed.

Aaron: A disc.

John: It's not even labeled and it wasn't with the other disc Lightner sent over.

Anna: Pop it in.

John puts the disc in the PC. The disc loads and an explorer window showing the file on the disc pops up.

Aaron: It's a PDF.

John: Let's find out what's in this thing.

John clicks the PDF and brings up the study.

John: It's just the study from Sterling.

Anna: I thought we might have been on to something.

Aaron: We still might be on to something.

Anna: What?

Aaron: Look at the date at the top of the page.

John: It's different than the date on the one he gave us. Look at this, there are all sorts of

bogus figures here, fake pie charts, spreadsheets, this isn't even close to what McGregor's projected outlook would be.

Anna: In the study he gave us, everything was just innuendo.

John: He didn't want us to see the original, because we could refute it with our own facts.

Anna: So he gave us another copy so we could go to court.

John: Exactly.

Anna: Can we get the company back with this?

John: If they tricked the shareholders with fake data, then this takeover is definitely null.

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Jim walks into the bar in Flint where he first got the Valium. He approaches the woman who sold him the pills.

Woman: What are you doing here again? I just gave you something a little while ago.

Jim: You only gave me a couple and I need more.

Woman: You got the dough?

Jim: I got out everything I could out of my bank.

Jim pulls out the money.

Woman: You look a mess, I don't think you need anymore of this stuff.

Jim: Please, please. I've got the money.

Woman: I'm in the small time, I only sell a little bit at a time. I don't get

into big transactions, because that's where the trouble starts.

Jim: This is all the money I've got, it could do you a lot of good.

The woman looks around hesitantly and then pulls out a larger bottle of pills. She grabs the money

and gives Jim the bottle.

Woman: Now get out of here.

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Lynette getting ready to start work at Number 37 when her cell phone rings.

Lynette: Hello?

Banker: (over phone) This is Oakland County Bank, is this Mrs. Craig?

Lynette: This is she.

Banker: We are calling to inform you about suspicious activity on your joint account, we tried

to reach Mr. Craig as well, but we haven't been able to.

Lynette: What's going on?

Banker: There have been several transactions on your account at a liquor store and most recently

a large cash withdrawal from an ATM.

Lynette: I don't know anything about those.

Banker: Have you lost your card?

Lynette: No, I didn't.

Banker: Well, the account has been frozen for security.

Lynette: Thank you, I'll try and get to the bottom of this.

Lynette hangs up and a look of fear comes over her face realizing that Jim probably made transactions.