[music] No, no, no, no.
[music] [panting] Somebody please.
[music] Oh, no.
No.
No.
Ma’am, don’t move.
Don’t even breathe hard.
The car, it’s sliding.
[music] I’ve got you.
Stay still.
Hold on.
[music] Come on.
Hold.
[music] Look at me.
[music] Look at me.
Not down.
Take my hand.
I can’t I can’t move my leg.
[music] I thought I really thought that was it.
Not today.
I’m Danny.
Danny Brooks.
You’re going to be okay.
What’s your name?
Claire.
Claire Mercer.
The pass is closed and the clinic’s shut till Monday.
My garage is 10 minutes away.
No ambulance, no police, please.
Okay.
No sirens.
2 minutes.
Keep the blanket on.
[music] Why did you stop?
Most people would have driven past.
My dad said a road isn’t empty if somebody’s on it.
Landlord’s idea of a welcome mat.
[music] You’re very good at this.
Find [music] what’s broken.
Don’t make it worse.
Thank you, Danny.
Rest.
[music] How long will the past stay closed?
3 days, maybe four.
Keep it off if you want.
[music] You look like someone who’d rather not be found.
I need 3 days where nobody wants anything from me.
Your family must be worried.
My father passed [music] in June.
Nobody’s waiting.
I’m sorry.
What do you do, Danny?
Tow trucks, tire plugs, brakes.
I used to be an engineer.
What happened?
Long story.
Not before coffee.
Not again.
There it is.
Seals cracked.
That’s why your brakes hit the floor.
I wrote a report on this exact failure.
You sound like you’ve seen it before.
I used to work I used to work for the company that built it.
Somebody should see it someday.
Someday when someone with power finally listens.
Let me pay for the rescue, the room, the food.
Nobody pays me for waiting out a storm.
For waiting out a [music] storm.
Righty tighty.
I manage things [music] like a restaurant.
Something like that.
Look at you.
You’re hired.
Careful.
I might take it.
[laughter] Well, I’ll be.
Danny Brooks has company.
Danny Brooks has company.
Claire Mercer.
Nice to meet you.
She dresses like she owns the bank.
She’s lost.
Mabel, leave it.
That boy’s been alone too long.
Sam Brooks, [music] 1516, 40 years on the line.
What did he [music] teach you?
A machine tells you the truth if you listen.
What’s it like losing [music] someone?
Quiet like an engine cutting off.
It’s clean.
Mostly two coffees, Mabel.
And whatever pie’s not moving.
[music] I don’t know how to do this.
Do what?
Sit somewhere without an agenda.
Danny, still fixing the world one flat at a time.
One flat at a time, Hank.
That’s the only way it gets fixed.
Stay long enough and he might forget to be miserable.
Is he miserable?
He’s polite about it.
I’m sitting right here.
Mile marker 14.
There’s a cabin my father loved.
I’d like to see it once.
Once is a strange word for a place.
I’ve been putting it off for 6 months.
You want me to wait outside?
Just don’t say anything kind yet.
For Victoria, open when you’ve lost your way.
What is it?
Not yet.
Whatever you’re carrying, you don’t have to carry it alone today.
That’s the kindest [music] thing anyone said in months.
That’s a low bar.
I’ll take it.
Heavy snow warning.
Next time I’ll teach you to parallel park a tow truck.
Next time you’re assuming I’ll survive this one.
I’m assuming you’ll [music] want to.
What’s that?
My proof.
Proof of what?
Of something nobody wanted to hear.
Years ago, I fixed an old man’s broken [music] truck on a county road.
Didn’t know he was Richard Hail.
You didn’t know who he was?
He asked my name first.
[music] Best break I ever got.
Eight months of failures.
Priaire proved it.
I took it to Gregory Vance.
What did he say?
He said, “Thank you.”
Very politely.
Do not escalate to V.
Hale GV.
And after that, two weeks later, I got a termination letter signed Victoria Hail.
I had a little shop in Denver, Brooks Autocare.
12 years.
Hail properties owned it.
10 days to vacate.
I slept in the bay the last three.
I never met her.
I shouldn’t hate her.
Maybe she didn’t know.
Signing is knowing.
Yes.
Routine approvals.
Victoria.
Sign where the flags are.
All of them.
All of them.
Then go home.
Danny, I need to make one phone call tomorrow from somewhere else.
To someone who can help.
Someone who can listen.
Then use Mabels.
She’ll pretend not to hear.
It’s me.
[music] Don’t say my name.
Victoria, where are you?
Victoria.
Thank God.
Gregory told the board you’ve had a breakdown.
He’s called a vote for December 20 at Titan launch.
A vote for what?
To make himself CEO.
Did you ever see a Titan break report or Daniel Brooks’s termination?
The termination had your signature, dear.
[music] I know.
Oh, Victoria, don’t tell Gregory I called.
Quietly.
Find Prianire in the safety lab.
What’s happened to you?
A mechanic taught me to listen.
How much of that did I hear, Mabel?
I read the Denver papers.
Honey, I just didn’t want to say it first.
Does he know?
If I tell him now, he’ll never believe a word I say.
Truth’s cheapest upfront.
Give me two more days.
Two.
And then I start telling him myself.
Why are you still here, Claire?
It’s the first place people ask what I like instead of what I’ll approve.
That’s a sad way to live.
That’s a sad way to live.
It’s a very quiet one.
What did you do before this?
I made decisions too fast about people I never met.
Sounds like Hail.
Sounds exactly like her.
Danny, a man just pulled up.
Say nothing about the crash to him.
Who is he?
I don’t know.
That’s why I’m recording.
Daniel Brooks, Marcus Reed, Hail Automotive Claims about a company vehicle on Ridge Road.
It’s in my bay.
So, I see.
Beautiful work.
Who’s the lady?
I understand you kept some company property.
Failed parts.
Evidence.
Let’s call it a misunderstanding.
Mr.
Vance values you.
Does he?
250,000.
The part, the notebook, the wreck, and your silence.
That’s a lot of money for a broken seal.
It’s a lot of money for a quiet life.
And who’s this?
My customer, Claire.
Of course, Claire.
I’m nobody’s [music] customer.
I need until tomorrow.
Generous people think overnight, and patient ones think twice.
Then think once and Well, she’s here in a mechanic’s garage.
He has the notebook and the part.
Which garage?
Pine Hollow off the Ridge Road.
Offer him the money.
If he refuses, call his loan and pull his permits.
Then bring Victoria home.
The doctor will sign.
[music] And if the sheriff asks questions, then bring the sheriff a court order.
What will you do?
It’s 250,000.
[music] The loan, the shop, a roof, and the rest of it.
That’s the [music] part I can’t price.
What would your father say?
He’d say a man who sells his name doesn’t own a shop.
He rents [music] a lie.
And you’d have to live in it.
[snorts] Funny.
I thought it’d feel braver.
It looks brave from here.
Then stay where you’re standing.
My answer.
That’s a mistake.
Mr.
Vance’s instructions are simple.
The notebook disappears.
You go broke and your guest’s incompetency papers get signed.
Say that again.
Incompetency [music] papers.
Miss Hail, enough games.
Mr.
Vance sent me to bring you home safely.
[music] Miss who?
Danny.
Wait.
Victoria Hail, CEO of Hail Automotive.
She didn’t tell you.
Tell me what?
That the woman you pulled out of that ravine signs your paychecks or stops signing them.
I hate her.
Signing is knowing.
Say it isn’t true.
I can’t.
I’m Victoria Hail.
You sat in my house.
Yes.
I pulled you out of a ravine.
I told you everything.
You sat in my house.
I know.
[music] Say something better than that.
I didn’t know about you until you told me, Danny.
I swear.
I signed papers I never read.
I signed papers I never read.
No.
I was burying my father and I trusted the man who handed me the pen.
Never read.
That’s how you wrecked my life.
Yes.
8 months of work, 12 years of a shop, one signature you didn’t read.
And I’m ashamed.
That’s all I have.
That’s true.
Get off this property.
The doctor’s waiting, Miss Hail.
The sheriff comes tomorrow with a court order.
You should go.
Danny, I’m going to fix this.
You can’t unsign a life.
No, but I can sign something better.
You want to tell me what happened in there?
He knows who I am.
Then [music] that’s the first honest morning you’ve had in a week.
What do I do with [music] this?
She’s the reason and she’s the only way through.
Same person.
He’s right to hate me.
Hate’s a poor tool.
Honey, fix what you broke.
What if it can’t be fixed?
[music] Then fix the next one before it breaks.
Whatever’s in that envelope, you’ve been carrying it like it’s heavy.
Go read it.
Will you drive me?
Get in the truck.
Mabel, thank you.
[music] My darling Victoria, by now you’ve been told yes by everyone who needs something from you.
That is not [music] the same as being told the truth.
A boy named Danny Brooks once fixed my truck on a county road and never asked my name.
He was the best hire I ever made.
The people who say no are the ones who love a company most.
Protect them.
Danny was the one who said no and I fired him.
You were right, Dad.
I stopped listening.
I’m listening now.
Eleanor, I’m coming back for the 28th.
I need Priya, the lab, and one more thing.
A mechanic.
Will he come?
He shouldn’t, but I’ll ask.
Then ask him properly.
Danny, I’m sorry.
This order says I have to seize Hail property.
Morning, Tom.
You want coffee before you [music] do something you’ll regret?
I’d rather have an excuse not to.
It’s failed parts and my own notes, Tom.
Theft of corporate property.
Hand it over or be arrested.
Then arrest me.
Nobody’s arresting anybody until I hear the rest of it.
Sheriff, [music] I’m Victoria Hail.
I own Hail Automotive.
That order was obtained through lies.
Ma’am, that’s a serious thing to say in front of a court order.
It’s a serious thing to be handed one.
Miss Hail isn’t well, Sheriff.
Her doctor has documented.
Let’s discuss unwell.
That’s a private [music] medical.
That’s a private medical.
So is my garage.
Notebook disappears.
You go broke and your guest’s incompetency papers get signed.
Mr.
Reed, put your hands where I can see them.
Marcus Reed, you’re detained for obstruction and extortion.
Vance will bury you.
He’ll try.
Danny, I’ll want that recording as evidence.
[music] Why did you come back?
Because you didn’t sell.
You said no.
I need to learn how to do that.
[music] It’s not a trick.
It costs.
I know.
I’ve seen the bill.
I don’t deserve this.
But I need the part, the notebook, and the man who wrote it.
Gregory launches the Titan [music] 2027 on the 28th.
Thousands of people will drive it.
I’m not doing this for you.
I’m doing it for everyone who will drive a Titan.
That’s the only reason that counts.
And when it’s done, we’re even.
Not for Go, boy, and bring her back in one piece.
You knew, honey.
I always know.
I’m just kind.
Thank you, Mabel, for the two days.
I’ll keep him till the county van comes.
[music] You watch the past, Danny.
Always do.
Bring her back, boy.
I’m sorry [music] for the signatures, for the silence.
I’m still angry.
You should be, but you came back.
My dad said trust is like torque.
Too loose, everything rattles.
Too tight, it snaps.
Where are we?
Loose enough to drive.
Danny, they said you quit.
I got fired.
Same thing from where [music] I stood.
Pria, this is Victoria Hail.
I kept the raw data.
Vance ordered everything deleted.
I couldn’t.
38,000 cycles, give or take a 100.
[music] It fails like a clock.
That’s cycle 41,000.
[music] That’s what happened to me.
That’s what’s going to happen to a lot of people.
312,000 Titans are on the road, Miss Hail.
How many are in launch stock?
11,000.
Not one leaves the lot.
Freeze the line, print the recall notice, [music] and date it today.
You writing a speech?
No, I’m saying what I [music] should have said in July.
Say it in the boardroom.
They can’t hang up on you there.
I took the liberty, Victoria.
They’re [music] listening.
Thank you, Eleanor.
Let’s end this.
Miss Hail will need the part, the report, and the recording.
Shouldn’t you be up there by now?
In a minute.
First, I need to walk [music] in with the people who told me the truth.
Then walk slower.
I’m not dressed for this.
Weird being back.
Last time I left in a box.
You’re walking in on your own two feet.
In these boots, especially in those boots.
Given Ms.
Hail’s condition, do we have an opinion?
We have a letter [music] and sympathy.
An interim CEO won’t be necessary.
Gregory.
Victoria, [music] you’re we were told.
I know what you told them.
Sit down.
Victoria, thank God.
You’re unwell.
Security.
Sit.
Gregory.
That’s a Hail Titan master cylinder.
Cereals’s on the casting.
This failed on Ridge Road.
I was in the car.
The man who pulled me out wrote a report on this exact seal 8 months ago.
8 [music] months.
8 months.
And a signature I did not read.
Page 41.
Mr.
Vance, your initials.
Do not escalate to V.
Hale.
That’s a copy.
Anyone could [music] write a copy.
It’s your handwriting.
You signed the memo.
It’s taped to a disgruntled employees scribbles.
And these are the lab results you ordered deleted.
Those files were backed up in my drawer where you never looked.
[music] Fine.
A minor issue, but Victoria signed his termination and closed his shop.
She’s as guilty as I am.
Miss Hail, is that true?
[music] It is.
He’s right.
I signed.
I didn’t read because I was grieving and I trusted the wrong person.
Hiding a break defect from this board is yours.
Those are not [music] the same crime, Gregory.
That’s mine to answer for.
They are not.
Your guest’s incompetency papers get signed.
Who is that?
Marcus Reed.
He’s [music] in Sheriff Callahan’s custody and he’s already talking.
Gregory, the board will now vote on your removal.
I [music] I You’ll all lose this company without me.
Then we’ll lose it honestly.
Gregory Vance, you’re being detained for concealing a safety [music] defect and obstruction.
You’ll never run this without me.
I’ll run it the way my father did.
You’ll never run this without me.
I’ll run it the way my father did.
With the people who tell me no.
[music] Told you signing is knowing.
Hail Automotive is recalling every Titan.
300 repairs are free.
Miss Hail, what changed?
A mechanic in Pine Hollow told me the truth and I find A [music] mechanic named Daniel Brooks tried to warn us.
We fired him.
That was my failure first.
Danny, I’m sorry.
Say that into the microphone again.
Effective today, Daniel Brooks is Hail’s chief of vehicle safety with authority to stop [music] any launch, including mine.
Is she serious?
Take the job.
I fix brakes.
I don’t do whatever this is.
I don’t want a tower.
I want a garage and a clear conscience.
Then take both.
I’ll take the job from Pine Hollow.
Done.
My building’s yours now, Danny.
Claire bought [music] it at full price and handed it over.
She didn’t have to do that.
But she did, and you’ll take it.
[music] Reed pleaded guilty, by the way.
[laughter] Do you still hate Victoria Hail?
Do you never met her?
I know a woman named Claire.
