1 00:00:30,165 --> 00:00:33,120 Hey, Pete, I think I got something. 2 00:00:33,155 --> 00:00:34,848 You better call it in. 3 00:00:42,563 --> 00:00:43,894 Agent Eppes? 4 00:00:43,929 --> 00:00:45,461 Yeah. 5 00:00:46,187 --> 00:00:47,784 - David Sinclair. - How you doing? 6 00:00:47,819 --> 00:00:49,963 John Reacher. I'm with the bureau's security division. 7 00:00:49,998 --> 00:00:53,139 Victim was a computer science researcher for a private think tank. 8 00:00:53,174 --> 00:00:55,813 High-level national security clearance. 9 00:00:56,396 --> 00:00:57,983 Who's that? 10 00:00:58,018 --> 00:01:00,989 This is Robert Oliver. 11 00:01:01,024 --> 00:01:02,736 He's the CEO of the Lorman group. 12 00:01:02,771 --> 00:01:04,088 How are you? Don Eppes, FBI. 13 00:01:04,123 --> 00:01:05,267 Hi. 14 00:01:05,302 --> 00:01:07,384 - The Lorman group is the think tank? - That's right. 15 00:01:07,419 --> 00:01:10,570 They have a number of contracts with us for classified government projects. 16 00:01:10,605 --> 00:01:12,625 So the victim was one of your employees? 17 00:01:12,660 --> 00:01:16,120 Yes. Uh, Dr. Hoke was one of our senior researchers. 18 00:01:16,155 --> 00:01:18,107 - I'll check on the body. - All right. 19 00:01:18,630 --> 00:01:21,884 Any reason to think the murder had anything to do with the work he was doing for you? 20 00:01:21,919 --> 00:01:23,582 It's possible. 21 00:01:25,442 --> 00:01:27,384 Those bureau techs? 22 00:01:27,419 --> 00:01:29,129 No, they're with my company. 23 00:01:29,164 --> 00:01:30,695 What are you doing? They're civilians. 24 00:01:30,730 --> 00:01:32,935 They have security clearance. 25 00:01:35,029 --> 00:01:37,444 Gentlemen, back away from that computer. 26 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:39,934 Agent Eppes, can I talk to you for a minute? 27 00:01:41,511 --> 00:01:44,206 I have an obligation to secure the contents of Dr. Hoke's computer. 28 00:01:44,241 --> 00:01:46,407 Well, I got an obligation to investigate a murder, 29 00:01:46,442 --> 00:01:50,116 and whatever these guys are doing, they're contaminating my crime scene. 30 00:01:50,377 --> 00:01:51,589 - Your crime scene? - That's right. 31 00:01:51,624 --> 00:01:52,767 Unless there's something I don't know, 32 00:01:52,802 --> 00:01:56,601 my homicide investigation's gonna take priority over your security concerns. 33 00:01:56,636 --> 00:01:58,360 Don. 34 00:02:00,741 --> 00:02:02,225 We've got multiple stab wounds. 35 00:02:02,260 --> 00:02:06,071 The coroner's investigator says he's been dead for almost two days. 36 00:02:06,756 --> 00:02:10,598 What was that about? / He was gonna let those guys take data off that computer. 37 00:02:10,633 --> 00:02:12,603 Well, I think somebody beat them to it. 38 00:02:12,638 --> 00:02:14,626 According to what I heard, the files were already erased. 39 00:02:14,661 --> 00:02:16,614 All right, we're gonna start with that. Nobody touches it. 40 00:02:16,649 --> 00:02:18,426 All right? Let's get our people on it immediately. 41 00:02:18,461 --> 00:02:20,255 All right. Adam, Carter. 42 00:02:25,482 --> 00:02:27,991 To predict weather 43 00:02:28,026 --> 00:02:31,156 To tell time... 44 00:02:31,191 --> 00:02:34,287 to handle money... 45 00:02:34,322 --> 00:02:37,523 Math is more than formulas and equations... 46 00:02:37,558 --> 00:02:40,690 It's logic... 47 00:02:40,725 --> 00:02:42,761 It's rationality... 48 00:02:43,582 --> 00:02:46,779 It's using your mind to solve the biggest mysteries we know 49 00:02:56,828 --> 00:02:58,402 Okay, well, the first thing is, 50 00:02:58,437 --> 00:03:00,753 whoever wiped the information off of this hard drive 51 00:03:00,788 --> 00:03:03,070 - didn't make a copy of it. - You sure about that? 52 00:03:03,105 --> 00:03:04,420 Absolutely. 53 00:03:04,455 --> 00:03:06,810 Hoke had an event log on his computer. 54 00:03:06,845 --> 00:03:09,131 Recorded the wipe, but no duplication. 55 00:03:09,166 --> 00:03:12,369 And whoever did do the wipe knew exactly what they were doing. 56 00:03:12,404 --> 00:03:15,128 This code's been flipped hundreds of thousands of times. 57 00:03:15,163 --> 00:03:16,424 Wait. Define flipped. 58 00:03:16,459 --> 00:03:18,702 A computer's language boils down to binary code. 59 00:03:18,737 --> 00:03:22,497 Every bit of information is a specific sequence of zeroes and ones, 60 00:03:22,532 --> 00:03:24,920 like coins, all heads or tails. 61 00:03:24,955 --> 00:03:27,016 When you wipe the data, you don't really erase it. 62 00:03:27,051 --> 00:03:29,043 You just start flipping the coins back and forth. 63 00:03:29,078 --> 00:03:33,111 That destroys the code and renders the information pretty much unintelligible. 64 00:03:33,146 --> 00:03:36,118 Now, mind you, we're talking about binary code, 65 00:03:36,153 --> 00:03:39,090 which is millions upon millions of zeroes and ones. 66 00:03:39,125 --> 00:03:40,975 In order to recreate the data, 67 00:03:41,010 --> 00:03:43,584 I need to reconstruct the original sequence of the code. 68 00:03:43,619 --> 00:03:45,478 To flip it back to the way it was originally. 69 00:03:45,513 --> 00:03:46,854 Try to. 70 00:03:46,889 --> 00:03:50,412 But as you said, you're talking about millions and millions of numbers. 71 00:03:50,447 --> 00:03:53,936 Now the program that was used to flip Hoke's code left a pattern behind. 72 00:03:53,971 --> 00:03:55,264 If I can find it, 73 00:03:55,299 --> 00:03:59,215 I can reverse engineer the program and reconstruct the original sequence. 74 00:03:59,250 --> 00:04:02,124 Give it a shot. Let me know if you find anything. 75 00:04:04,610 --> 00:04:05,792 Hey. 76 00:04:05,827 --> 00:04:06,939 Hey. 77 00:04:06,974 --> 00:04:09,492 Jonas Hoke was an applied physicist. 78 00:04:09,527 --> 00:04:12,983 Lived alone, no kids, and from everything I've heard so far, 79 00:04:13,018 --> 00:04:14,490 totally devoted to his work. 80 00:04:14,525 --> 00:04:17,464 He was in the middle of a divorce. Wife left him a few months ago. 81 00:04:17,499 --> 00:04:19,138 Oh, yeah? Any history there? 82 00:04:19,173 --> 00:04:23,859 No police reports, no 911 calls. Neighbors say he was a quiet, friendly guy. 83 00:04:23,894 --> 00:04:26,397 Yeah, who somehow wound up being butchered in his own house. 84 00:04:26,432 --> 00:04:28,990 House ransacked. You've got multiple stab wounds. 85 00:04:29,025 --> 00:04:31,270 Alarm tripped. 86 00:04:31,419 --> 00:04:33,361 Not really the M.O. of a professional killer. 87 00:04:33,396 --> 00:04:35,617 Why is the alarm tripped on the night the body's discovered, 88 00:04:35,652 --> 00:04:39,427 as opposed to two days earlier, when the guy's actually murdered? 89 00:04:39,624 --> 00:04:42,213 There's no evidence the body was ever moved. 90 00:04:42,248 --> 00:04:44,935 Yeah, the neighbors don't report seeing anyone else in the area. 91 00:04:44,970 --> 00:04:49,353 Still, the house being ransacked suggests somebody was searching for something. 92 00:04:49,388 --> 00:04:52,347 Well, whoever wiped that file knew what to look for, that's for sure. 93 00:04:52,382 --> 00:04:54,763 You think they trashed the house on a ruse? 94 00:04:54,798 --> 00:04:57,288 Make it look like an amateur? 95 00:04:59,406 --> 00:05:00,571 Why don't you go check out the wife? 96 00:05:00,606 --> 00:05:03,239 I'm gonna talk to Reacher about the Lorman connection. 97 00:05:03,597 --> 00:05:07,579 Mrs. Hoke, I understand there was a dispute over the money involved in the separation. 98 00:05:07,614 --> 00:05:12,082 I guess we both valued our time together a little differently. 99 00:05:12,226 --> 00:05:14,712 Maybe it was because he was angry I left, I don't know, 100 00:05:14,747 --> 00:05:19,207 but Jonas felt it appropriate that I leave the marriage with what I came to it with. 101 00:05:19,242 --> 00:05:23,307 I wanted to ask him for the 12 years back, but I didn't know how. 102 00:05:23,342 --> 00:05:25,896 When was the last time you spoke to your husband? 103 00:05:25,931 --> 00:05:27,899 A few weeks ago. 104 00:05:27,934 --> 00:05:30,326 He was late with a separation check. 105 00:05:30,361 --> 00:05:32,674 He'd do that, forget. 106 00:05:32,709 --> 00:05:36,551 Sometimes I wondered if it was intentional. 107 00:05:37,061 --> 00:05:41,263 Mrs. Hoke, I have to ask you, where were you on the 14th? 108 00:05:41,298 --> 00:05:44,344 Right, I understand. 109 00:05:44,379 --> 00:05:46,126 As it happens, I was at home. 110 00:05:46,161 --> 00:05:48,516 Any witnesses who can verify that? 111 00:05:49,096 --> 00:05:51,092 Lucas Grodin. 112 00:05:51,127 --> 00:05:53,089 He is a friend. 113 00:05:55,383 --> 00:05:57,302 I don't expect you to understand. 114 00:05:57,337 --> 00:05:59,187 I'm not judging you, Mrs. Hoke. 115 00:05:59,222 --> 00:06:00,925 I'm just trying to take your statement. 116 00:06:03,602 --> 00:06:04,631 So your tech's sure 117 00:06:04,666 --> 00:06:07,528 whoever it was who wiped Hoke's files from the hard drive, they didn't make a copy? 118 00:06:07,563 --> 00:06:10,347 That's right. Apparently, it was erased, but not duplicated. 119 00:06:10,382 --> 00:06:12,652 My bosses will be happy to hear that. 120 00:06:12,687 --> 00:06:14,945 You know, you guys... 121 00:06:14,980 --> 00:06:18,471 you ought to remind your bosses that a man was murdered over this, you know? 122 00:06:18,506 --> 00:06:20,025 I didn't mean it the way it sounded. 123 00:06:20,060 --> 00:06:21,271 Look... 124 00:06:21,306 --> 00:06:24,980 what exactly did Hoke do for the Lorman group? 125 00:06:26,858 --> 00:06:30,230 The company had a contract with the defense department for a new computer system, 126 00:06:30,265 --> 00:06:33,187 one that could better interpret global satellite imaging. 127 00:06:33,222 --> 00:06:36,605 So so new that someone would kill over it? 128 00:06:37,014 --> 00:06:40,542 It's pretty sensitive stuff, but a motive for murder? 129 00:06:40,577 --> 00:06:42,036 I don't know. 130 00:06:45,989 --> 00:06:46,966 Hey. 131 00:06:47,001 --> 00:06:49,184 So Hoke was working on a DOD contract 132 00:06:49,219 --> 00:06:51,802 for a computer program that interprets satellite images. 133 00:06:51,837 --> 00:06:53,428 Remote sensing. 134 00:06:53,620 --> 00:06:57,335 It's a process that scans electromagnetic signatures from the earth's surface. 135 00:06:57,370 --> 00:07:02,685 It was used to detect prehistoric Incan paths to sacred burial sites. 136 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,726 Hoke was probably developing it to read roadside bombs or ruts from tanks. 137 00:07:06,761 --> 00:07:07,882 Why didn't you tell me you found this? 138 00:07:07,917 --> 00:07:10,949 Because that data wasn't the focus of the hard drive wipe. 139 00:07:10,984 --> 00:07:12,861 All right. What was? 140 00:07:15,253 --> 00:07:18,606 Say I want to hide what I've written. 141 00:07:22,676 --> 00:07:24,646 Have I hidden it? 142 00:07:31,059 --> 00:07:35,129 Exactly. The impression runs deeper than the one sheet I've written it on. 143 00:07:35,164 --> 00:07:38,835 Now, if I really wanted to conceal it, I would do this. 144 00:07:51,998 --> 00:07:55,458 Hoke's remote sensing work was erased with the equivalent of a magic marker, 145 00:07:55,493 --> 00:07:59,509 but this section here was scribbled out with a data scrubber, 146 00:07:59,544 --> 00:08:01,182 the equivalent of a pencil. 147 00:08:01,217 --> 00:08:03,916 On the surface, it renders the computer code meaningless, 148 00:08:03,951 --> 00:08:06,917 but here there are magnetic shadows underneath, 149 00:08:06,952 --> 00:08:09,884 pieces of data left behind that I was able to find. 150 00:08:09,919 --> 00:08:11,540 All right, tell me. 151 00:08:11,575 --> 00:08:12,674 Numbers. 152 00:08:12,709 --> 00:08:16,107 Specifically, like, baseball statistics. 153 00:08:16,142 --> 00:08:17,445 Baseball statistics? 154 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:19,473 Batting averages, on-base percentages. 155 00:08:19,508 --> 00:08:20,363 I mean, as far as I can tell, 156 00:08:20,398 --> 00:08:24,061 Hoke was developing a pretty sophisticated application of sabermetrics, 157 00:08:24,096 --> 00:08:26,831 which places numerical values on specific skills, 158 00:08:26,866 --> 00:08:30,106 like home runs, hits, walks. 159 00:08:30,141 --> 00:08:34,237 A lot of teams use sabermetrics to identify the best way to allocate their resources. 160 00:08:34,272 --> 00:08:36,596 Yeah. What was that book about the... 161 00:08:36,631 --> 00:08:38,286 - It was the Oakland A's GM. - Money ball. 162 00:08:38,321 --> 00:08:39,953 - Yeah, money ball. - Right. 163 00:08:39,988 --> 00:08:42,276 Only Hoke was taking his formulas to a whole new level, 164 00:08:42,311 --> 00:08:45,673 attempting to predict player performance based on statistical curves. 165 00:08:45,708 --> 00:08:48,627 All right, so... why erase baseball stats? 166 00:08:48,662 --> 00:08:49,861 And why kill over it? 167 00:08:49,896 --> 00:08:51,565 I have no idea. 168 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,737 But I might be able to use a predictive equation to rebuild the missing data, 169 00:08:54,772 --> 00:08:57,429 like detecting the original lines here, 170 00:08:57,464 --> 00:08:59,433 and guessing at what letters they could make. 171 00:08:59,468 --> 00:09:02,222 Right. Well, I mean, we got to know what they were trying to hide. 172 00:09:06,764 --> 00:09:10,271 Obviously, it was quite a shock to hear about Jonas. 173 00:09:10,609 --> 00:09:12,919 To see him like that. 174 00:09:13,048 --> 00:09:15,041 I'm sure. I'm sorry for your loss. 175 00:09:15,076 --> 00:09:17,420 Yeah. We'd worked together for quite a while. 176 00:09:17,455 --> 00:09:20,934 Well, I'm gonna need to get a consultant in to access Dr. Hoke's computer. 177 00:09:20,969 --> 00:09:23,146 Well, I don't see a problem. 178 00:09:28,276 --> 00:09:31,020 So this is Dr. Hoke's office. 179 00:09:31,055 --> 00:09:33,907 This is Scott Reynolds. He's Dr. Hoke's research assistant. 180 00:09:33,942 --> 00:09:35,877 Has anything else been touched in this office? 181 00:09:35,912 --> 00:09:39,100 Uh, no. Uh, agent Reacher told us to leave everything in place. 182 00:09:39,135 --> 00:09:40,336 What are you doing on this computer? 183 00:09:40,371 --> 00:09:42,563 Just checking e-mails, general housekeeping. 184 00:09:42,598 --> 00:09:45,104 Well, I'd appreciate it if you did that someplace else for the time being. 185 00:09:45,139 --> 00:09:46,382 Okay. 186 00:09:46,417 --> 00:09:48,085 You worked with Dr. Hoke on a daily basis? 187 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:49,267 Yeah. 188 00:09:49,302 --> 00:09:51,317 You remember what you were doing on the 14th? 189 00:09:51,352 --> 00:09:53,456 Uh, it was a Tuesday? 190 00:09:53,491 --> 00:09:55,103 Um, he came in that Monday, 191 00:09:55,138 --> 00:09:59,095 and then I didn't hear from him again till Mr. Oliver called me and told me what happened. 192 00:09:59,130 --> 00:10:01,972 Well, he was missing for two days. Wasn't that a little unusual? 193 00:10:02,007 --> 00:10:04,814 No, he would stay home from the office three, four days at a time. 194 00:10:04,849 --> 00:10:07,958 Scott's right. Jonas could get lost in his work. 195 00:10:07,993 --> 00:10:11,068 Was Dr. Hoke a fan of baseball, by any chance? 196 00:10:11,103 --> 00:10:12,656 - Baseball? - Yeah. 197 00:10:12,691 --> 00:10:14,174 Oh, I'm not sure. 198 00:10:14,209 --> 00:10:17,727 Uh, he never went to any games or anything, if that's what you mean. 199 00:10:18,142 --> 00:10:19,488 Why do you ask? 200 00:10:19,523 --> 00:10:21,192 It's just a little survey I'm doing. 201 00:10:21,227 --> 00:10:24,136 You gentlemen are gonna have to leave this office. 202 00:10:27,523 --> 00:10:29,344 Well, apparently, Hoke wasn't that into baseball. 203 00:10:29,379 --> 00:10:32,327 I mean, there's no autographed balls, no sports memorabilia whatsoever. 204 00:10:32,362 --> 00:10:35,276 So whatever his interest, as far as I could tell, it wasn't personal. 205 00:10:35,311 --> 00:10:37,866 Maybe he was interested in sabermetrics as a hobby? 206 00:10:37,901 --> 00:10:40,027 Well, it doesn't seem like that should get you stabbed to death. 207 00:10:40,062 --> 00:10:41,604 How are you doing on recreating his data? 208 00:10:41,639 --> 00:10:45,141 I've been running the corrupted files through a series of algorithms on my computer. 209 00:10:45,176 --> 00:10:46,460 All right, well, as soon as you find anything, 210 00:10:46,495 --> 00:10:49,166 let me know, because I want to get you out here and look at his computer, all right? 211 00:10:49,201 --> 00:10:52,204 All right, well, I'm actually on my way to give a lecture right now, 212 00:10:52,239 --> 00:10:55,170 but sure, afterwards, any way I can help. 213 00:10:55,205 --> 00:10:56,921 All right, good, thanks, Charlie. 214 00:10:57,811 --> 00:11:00,987 Now, did I just hear you say the word "sabermetrics"? 215 00:11:01,022 --> 00:11:02,177 Familiar with it? 216 00:11:02,212 --> 00:11:05,330 The "money ball" craze? Oh, yes, I'm familiar with it. 217 00:11:05,365 --> 00:11:07,043 I take it you don't approve. 218 00:11:07,844 --> 00:11:11,802 Well, the notion that human achievement on a baseball diamond 219 00:11:11,837 --> 00:11:15,760 can be predicted through the application of statistical analysis 220 00:11:15,795 --> 00:11:19,231 is, at it's very core, highly problematic. 221 00:11:19,266 --> 00:11:22,006 Even if the skill can be statistically measured? 222 00:11:22,041 --> 00:11:26,593 Yes, because, Charles, the human spirit is immeasurable. 223 00:11:26,628 --> 00:11:28,727 You know, our brains aren't just these machines. 224 00:11:28,762 --> 00:11:31,193 There's a lot of either/or going on here. 225 00:11:31,228 --> 00:11:33,745 Yes, statistical probability is a wonderful tool, 226 00:11:33,780 --> 00:11:37,837 but applied to human performance, it's only an extrapolation of the past. 227 00:11:37,872 --> 00:11:41,937 Still there are a number of baseball teams that use sabermetrics to determine who to pay. 228 00:11:41,972 --> 00:11:45,963 As a Dodger fan, I'm all too painfully aware of that fact, 229 00:11:45,998 --> 00:11:48,906 but I'm also aware that in a statistical model, 230 00:11:48,941 --> 00:11:50,837 the Red sox never beat the Yankees. 231 00:11:50,872 --> 00:11:52,733 Ah, there are exceptions to every rule. 232 00:11:52,768 --> 00:11:55,230 Yes, and aren't they glorious? 233 00:11:55,265 --> 00:11:58,940 Now, why is Don even asking you about statistical baseball analysis? 234 00:11:58,975 --> 00:12:01,737 A researcher was found murdered. 235 00:12:01,772 --> 00:12:04,368 Wait, are we talking about Jonas Hoke? 236 00:12:04,519 --> 00:12:06,461 You knew him? 237 00:12:06,496 --> 00:12:08,369 He, yeah. 238 00:12:08,404 --> 00:12:12,108 We were doctoral students together. Well, not together, but at the same time. 239 00:12:12,143 --> 00:12:14,028 He just... I don't know. 240 00:12:14,063 --> 00:12:15,878 There's that old saying. 241 00:12:15,913 --> 00:12:19,051 "Applied physicists are from Venus, theoretical physicists... " 242 00:12:19,086 --> 00:12:20,903 "wonder why it rotates in the opposite direction. " 243 00:12:20,938 --> 00:12:22,603 There you go. 244 00:12:22,638 --> 00:12:25,066 No, our department was informed of his passing 245 00:12:25,101 --> 00:12:27,161 and the planned memorial service. 246 00:12:27,196 --> 00:12:28,844 - I'm sorry. - Well, 247 00:12:28,879 --> 00:12:31,468 the book doesn't always work, Charles, 248 00:12:31,503 --> 00:12:35,713 and numbers can't always account for the way life turns out. 249 00:12:35,748 --> 00:12:38,283 Well, I mean, just ask Jonas Hoke. 250 00:12:43,030 --> 00:12:44,249 What do you say, David? 251 00:12:44,284 --> 00:12:46,513 Hey. Anything at the Lorman group? 252 00:12:46,548 --> 00:12:49,157 Well, Hoke didn't show up for work for two days, and he wasn't missed. 253 00:12:49,192 --> 00:12:52,097 That's either very sad, or that's a really good job. 254 00:12:52,132 --> 00:12:53,601 Yeah? Seemed odd to me. 255 00:12:53,636 --> 00:12:57,329 Well, guess who had a $2 million insurance policy. 256 00:12:58,185 --> 00:13:00,025 What? The good Dr. Hoke? 257 00:13:00,060 --> 00:13:02,142 And guess who the beneficiary is? 258 00:13:02,177 --> 00:13:03,616 - Not the wife. - Yep. 259 00:13:03,651 --> 00:13:06,088 Turns out the divorce was nastier than we thought. 260 00:13:06,123 --> 00:13:08,378 Major issue being Hoke's potential earnings. 261 00:13:08,413 --> 00:13:10,599 Apparently, he didn't want to give her any. 262 00:13:10,634 --> 00:13:13,312 So she takes him out and gets the money she's entitled to? 263 00:13:13,347 --> 00:13:16,827 Then she's free and single again. 264 00:13:17,499 --> 00:13:19,056 He's her alibi the night of the murder. 265 00:13:19,091 --> 00:13:20,996 Arrested in '84. 266 00:13:21,031 --> 00:13:22,866 Assault and battery. 267 00:13:22,901 --> 00:13:26,711 I guess she figured Hoke was worth more dead than alive. 268 00:13:31,812 --> 00:13:34,519 I was twenty years old. I got in a fight with a guy at a bar. 269 00:13:34,554 --> 00:13:37,774 Two years probation, believe me, I learned my lesson. 270 00:13:37,809 --> 00:13:38,953 Which was what? 271 00:13:38,988 --> 00:13:41,130 Don't leave any witnesses behind the next time? 272 00:13:41,165 --> 00:13:43,060 You have some imagination. 273 00:13:43,095 --> 00:13:44,132 We do. 274 00:13:44,167 --> 00:13:45,350 How about you imagining this? 275 00:13:45,385 --> 00:13:47,607 Gail Hoke's in the middle of a bad divorce, right? 276 00:13:47,642 --> 00:13:49,287 I mean, it really isn't going well. 277 00:13:49,322 --> 00:13:53,750 On the other hand, a dead husband pays out on a $2 million insurance policy. 278 00:13:53,785 --> 00:13:56,382 Wonder how many of these you'd have to work to make up that. 279 00:13:56,417 --> 00:13:58,798 And killing Jonas helps me how? 280 00:13:58,833 --> 00:14:01,771 Because maybe Gail will give me some of her insurance settlement? 281 00:14:01,806 --> 00:14:05,411 Well, with him out of the way, she's free to marry again. 282 00:14:06,059 --> 00:14:09,199 Gail and I like each other. Maybe it's even more than that, 283 00:14:09,234 --> 00:14:12,355 but neither one of us has ever talked about marriage. 284 00:14:12,390 --> 00:14:13,599 All right. 285 00:14:13,634 --> 00:14:15,297 We'll be in touch. 286 00:14:17,114 --> 00:14:19,071 Gail Hoke wasn't over her ex-husband. 287 00:14:19,106 --> 00:14:20,994 I got that much from both of them. 288 00:14:21,029 --> 00:14:22,706 Well, doesn't mean she didn't kill him. 289 00:14:22,741 --> 00:14:26,248 Yeah, but I got the feeling she wasn't willing to admit the marriage was over. 290 00:14:26,283 --> 00:14:28,373 She was thinking about going back to him. 291 00:14:28,408 --> 00:14:29,408 How'd you get that? 292 00:14:29,443 --> 00:14:32,124 Kind of reminded me of my sister Linda when she got divorced. 293 00:14:32,159 --> 00:14:36,177 Moved out, got her own place, sat around waiting for her ex to call 294 00:14:36,212 --> 00:14:38,415 instead of getting out and getting on with her life. 295 00:14:38,450 --> 00:14:40,338 Did he call? 296 00:14:41,227 --> 00:14:43,387 Yeah, and she went back to him. 297 00:14:43,422 --> 00:14:45,031 I always thought she could've done better, you know, 298 00:14:45,066 --> 00:14:47,424 just given herself a chance. Thanks. 299 00:14:47,459 --> 00:14:48,747 Yeah? 300 00:14:48,782 --> 00:14:50,490 Yeah. Knucklehead, you know. 301 00:14:53,199 --> 00:14:55,997 Hello. I'm sorry. I have pretty specific instructions. 302 00:14:56,032 --> 00:14:57,539 No one's supposed to use this computer. 303 00:14:57,574 --> 00:14:59,047 Oh, I'm sorry. You must be Scott. / Yeah. 304 00:14:59,082 --> 00:15:00,268 I'm professor Charlie Eppes. 305 00:15:00,303 --> 00:15:01,811 Oh, I'm the, um, yeah, 306 00:15:01,846 --> 00:15:03,779 - I'm the FBI consultant. - Oh, all right. 307 00:15:03,814 --> 00:15:05,712 Yeah, Mr. Oliver said you were coming. 308 00:15:05,747 --> 00:15:07,363 I was told that, uh, 309 00:15:07,398 --> 00:15:10,618 none of Dr. Hoke's work was to be touched before I got here. 310 00:15:10,653 --> 00:15:12,583 No, all that stuff's mine. 311 00:15:12,618 --> 00:15:14,479 - Oh, you're leaving. - Yeah. 312 00:15:14,514 --> 00:15:18,423 Well, they probably would have offered me another position here, 313 00:15:18,458 --> 00:15:21,551 but Dr. Hoke was kind of, kind of a mentor to me, 314 00:15:21,586 --> 00:15:24,609 and you work that closely with someone, it's hard. 315 00:15:24,644 --> 00:15:27,363 I can imagine. I work pretty closely with someone myself. 316 00:15:27,398 --> 00:15:29,477 He always wanted me to go back to school, 317 00:15:29,512 --> 00:15:31,501 finish my dissertation, so... 318 00:15:31,536 --> 00:15:33,659 - thinking now I will... - That's great. 319 00:15:33,694 --> 00:15:36,021 - What's your field? - Econometrics, 320 00:15:36,056 --> 00:15:38,320 specializing in economic statistics. 321 00:15:38,355 --> 00:15:40,550 Yeah, that's exactly what my dad said 322 00:15:40,585 --> 00:15:44,375 when I told him I was gonna borrow 30 grand a year to pay for it. 323 00:15:44,410 --> 00:15:46,436 He's like, "you don't make money by studying it. " 324 00:15:46,471 --> 00:15:49,959 Mathematics can be much more lucrative than most fathers think. 325 00:15:49,994 --> 00:15:53,100 Yeah, but I want to do something with it. 326 00:15:53,135 --> 00:15:56,206 You know, make a difference in the world. 327 00:15:56,241 --> 00:15:57,312 That's really admirable. 328 00:15:57,347 --> 00:16:03,073 Well, because people, they assume that the economy's this adversarial relationship, 329 00:16:03,108 --> 00:16:06,896 where one person's gain, by definition, has to be another person's loss. 330 00:16:06,931 --> 00:16:09,040 But it doesn't have to be that way. 331 00:16:09,075 --> 00:16:11,115 There can be gains for everyone. 332 00:16:11,150 --> 00:16:12,765 - I'm sure you're right. - No, I know I am. 333 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,939 It's all there in the numbers, if anyone would just bother to look. 334 00:16:16,974 --> 00:16:18,265 Ah, I think I know just how you feel. 335 00:16:18,300 --> 00:16:20,584 Well, if you need me for anything, just let me know. 336 00:16:20,619 --> 00:16:22,510 Hey, Scott. 337 00:16:22,545 --> 00:16:26,506 Is there any reason that Dr. Hoke would've been working on, like... 338 00:16:26,541 --> 00:16:27,990 baseball formulas? 339 00:16:28,025 --> 00:16:32,011 Yeah, you know, the other FBI agent asked me that same thing about baseball. 340 00:16:32,046 --> 00:16:34,760 I told him Dr. Hoke never mentioned it. 341 00:16:34,795 --> 00:16:39,316 Yeah. Any backup files, any other workstation that Dr. Hoke might have used? 342 00:16:39,351 --> 00:16:42,270 No. That man was particular about where he worked. 343 00:16:42,305 --> 00:16:45,190 It was either this computer or the one at home. 344 00:16:45,373 --> 00:16:48,048 And you weren't aware of any of his work on sabermetrics? 345 00:16:48,083 --> 00:16:51,056 But then again, I'm not much of a baseball fan. 346 00:17:04,437 --> 00:17:05,951 Larry. 347 00:17:05,986 --> 00:17:07,431 Charlie. 348 00:17:07,466 --> 00:17:09,050 What are you doing here? 349 00:17:09,085 --> 00:17:12,217 Well, you mentioned a memorial, and I knew you'd be here. 350 00:17:12,252 --> 00:17:13,509 Oh, yeah. 351 00:17:16,419 --> 00:17:19,546 It's a rather disheartening turnout, isn't it? 352 00:17:21,159 --> 00:17:22,399 Are we early? 353 00:17:22,434 --> 00:17:24,919 No, I don't think so. 354 00:17:26,363 --> 00:17:28,522 It's physics. 355 00:17:28,557 --> 00:17:31,601 It's such a demanding field. 356 00:17:31,636 --> 00:17:34,639 Leaves little time or energy for a social life. 357 00:17:34,674 --> 00:17:39,452 Einstein said that one has either time for science or family... 358 00:17:39,487 --> 00:17:40,790 but not both. 359 00:17:40,825 --> 00:17:45,589 Well, now, that's spoken like a man who can appreciate our predicament. 360 00:17:46,336 --> 00:17:47,643 I wonder though... 361 00:17:47,678 --> 00:17:50,945 is our work the actual cause, or is it an excuse? 362 00:17:50,980 --> 00:17:54,466 That's a fair hypothesis, isn't it? 363 00:17:54,501 --> 00:18:00,605 I suppose the real trick is in finding the solution while it still matters. 364 00:18:01,972 --> 00:18:03,433 What do these formulas tell you? 365 00:18:03,468 --> 00:18:05,828 The ones I've recovered indicate that the Dodgers 366 00:18:05,863 --> 00:18:08,824 are not on the right track to win the pennant next year. 367 00:18:08,859 --> 00:18:11,216 Like you needed math to figure that one out, huh? 368 00:18:12,188 --> 00:18:13,253 No. 369 00:18:14,807 --> 00:18:17,773 I heard that, uh, Don was leaning towards the wife. 370 00:18:17,808 --> 00:18:19,735 That's right. 371 00:18:19,770 --> 00:18:22,105 Seems to be the first place they look nowadays. 372 00:18:23,043 --> 00:18:26,456 I don't understand. I mean, if you hate the person you're married to that much, 373 00:18:26,491 --> 00:18:28,598 get divorced. 374 00:18:29,130 --> 00:18:31,494 Even the thought of divorce holds its own special horrors, 375 00:18:31,529 --> 00:18:32,941 let me tell you. 376 00:18:32,976 --> 00:18:35,401 Well, you and mom never thought about... 377 00:18:35,549 --> 00:18:37,379 I mean, I was never witness to any kind of... 378 00:18:37,414 --> 00:18:40,685 That's exactly the way we wanted it. 379 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,770 Well, it was a long time ago, we, um... 380 00:18:45,926 --> 00:18:47,909 we had a little rough patch there for a moment, 381 00:18:47,944 --> 00:18:50,136 but we got through it. 382 00:18:51,810 --> 00:18:54,420 How rough a patch are we talking about? 383 00:18:54,455 --> 00:18:58,482 It was when you were 13 years old, and you went off to Princeton. 384 00:18:58,517 --> 00:19:00,876 Mom came with me. 385 00:19:01,648 --> 00:19:06,217 The separation was pretty hard on both of us. 386 00:19:06,252 --> 00:19:13,074 And aside from the money matters, there was this irrational jealousy. 387 00:19:13,109 --> 00:19:15,580 Anyway, even the possibility of divorce was never discussed, 388 00:19:15,615 --> 00:19:18,666 because we loved each other too much. 389 00:19:19,682 --> 00:19:22,045 I don't remember any of it. 390 00:19:22,939 --> 00:19:26,236 I don't even remember a raised voice between the two of you. 391 00:19:26,271 --> 00:19:27,802 That's because your mother and I both agreed 392 00:19:27,837 --> 00:19:31,333 that we wouldn't stress you or Don any more than we had to. 393 00:19:33,190 --> 00:19:36,623 Charlie, that's how parents argue in front of their children. 394 00:19:37,235 --> 00:19:39,854 They disguise the big things as little things. 395 00:19:43,227 --> 00:19:45,381 Big things disguised as little things. 396 00:19:45,416 --> 00:19:49,354 In World war II, U.S. submarines were equipped with bathythermographs, 397 00:19:49,389 --> 00:19:52,816 which helped them find warm pockets of water beneath colder ones, 398 00:19:52,851 --> 00:19:55,864 because warm water bent the sound waves away. 399 00:19:55,899 --> 00:20:00,804 If the submarine hid in the right place, the enemy's sonar was useless. 400 00:20:01,934 --> 00:20:04,384 Hoke did the same thing with his own data. 401 00:20:04,419 --> 00:20:05,959 He hid it in warm water. 402 00:20:05,994 --> 00:20:08,380 He disguised his work as baseball statistics, 403 00:20:08,415 --> 00:20:10,262 thereby hiding its real meaning. 404 00:20:10,297 --> 00:20:11,617 How'd you figure it out? 405 00:20:11,652 --> 00:20:15,078 The magnetic shadows that were left on the hard drive after the wipe. 406 00:20:15,113 --> 00:20:18,505 I ran the extrapolated data through a series of simple algorithms. 407 00:20:18,540 --> 00:20:21,900 The end result was that the baseball statistics fell away, 408 00:20:21,935 --> 00:20:24,067 leaving the pertinent numbers. 409 00:20:24,102 --> 00:20:26,294 I then did a simple brute force analysis. 410 00:20:26,329 --> 00:20:30,154 Brute force? / I just went on the internet and googled the set of numbers. 411 00:20:30,189 --> 00:20:33,979 I sifted through the hits one by one, to find the matching data tables. 412 00:20:34,092 --> 00:20:38,289 Hoke pulled his data off of U.S. census bureau reports over the last ten years. 413 00:20:38,324 --> 00:20:43,065 Other tables were federal budgets, grade point averages, SAT scores. 414 00:20:43,100 --> 00:20:47,496 Grade point averages? / Hoke's work had nothing to do with baseball at all. 415 00:20:47,531 --> 00:20:51,892 He was attempting to apply the concept of sabermetrics to average communities, 416 00:20:51,927 --> 00:20:54,605 - not athletes. - You're talking about real people? 417 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,107 Actuaries do it all the time. 418 00:20:57,142 --> 00:21:01,051 Uh, taking into account income levels, access to health insurance. 419 00:21:01,086 --> 00:21:03,301 Only Hoke wasn't measuring life expectancy. 420 00:21:03,336 --> 00:21:05,584 He was measuring human potential. 421 00:21:05,876 --> 00:21:08,816 What do you mean? Like predicting success? 422 00:21:08,851 --> 00:21:10,362 Almost from birth. 423 00:21:10,397 --> 00:21:11,838 That's not possible. 424 00:21:11,873 --> 00:21:15,487 Baseball teams use sabermetrics to determine which players to pay. 425 00:21:15,522 --> 00:21:20,600 He was using sabermetrics to determine what people were worth investing in. 426 00:21:20,635 --> 00:21:23,883 So no one gets left behind, they just never get started to begin with. 427 00:21:23,918 --> 00:21:26,601 It applies to schools. It applies to hospitals, to libraries. 428 00:21:26,636 --> 00:21:32,573 I mean, companies fire employees who smoke because of future statistical probabilities of cancer. 429 00:21:32,608 --> 00:21:35,840 Uh, they use DNA to deny employees access to healthcare. 430 00:21:35,875 --> 00:21:39,189 I mean, why not a mathematical analysis to do the exact same thing? 431 00:21:39,224 --> 00:21:41,195 And you're saying he was actually close? 432 00:21:41,230 --> 00:21:44,400 Well, from what I can tell, he hadn't finished his main equation, 433 00:21:44,435 --> 00:21:46,744 though once he was through, theoretically, 434 00:21:46,779 --> 00:21:49,639 he'd be able to predict human performance based on geographic and 435 00:21:49,674 --> 00:21:52,719 environmental factors, down to a city block. 436 00:21:52,754 --> 00:21:54,518 So basically, you are where you live? 437 00:21:54,553 --> 00:21:58,980 A mathematical determination of who will or won't be a winner. 438 00:22:10,607 --> 00:22:12,397 I've never seen any of this stuff before. 439 00:22:12,432 --> 00:22:14,152 Well, it's an incredible amount of data. 440 00:22:14,187 --> 00:22:16,420 So you're saying Dr. Hoke never asked for your help? 441 00:22:16,455 --> 00:22:18,226 With this? Absolutely not. 442 00:22:19,049 --> 00:22:20,756 I mean, you know how it is. He works alone. 443 00:22:20,791 --> 00:22:24,608 I'd get glimpses, but it's not like he includes me or anything. 444 00:22:24,643 --> 00:22:27,054 Yeah, but what about research, Scott? I mean, you never prepared charts, 445 00:22:27,089 --> 00:22:29,676 or downloaded statistics? That seem a little weird, 446 00:22:29,711 --> 00:22:32,229 considering what you thought he might be working on? 447 00:22:32,264 --> 00:22:35,334 Um, there's some market research studies that he asked me to get. 448 00:22:35,369 --> 00:22:37,949 - Yeah? - But I don't know. 449 00:22:38,117 --> 00:22:39,398 Market research? 450 00:22:39,433 --> 00:22:41,597 Yeah, stuff the Lorman group was compiling. 451 00:22:41,632 --> 00:22:43,331 What kind of stuff? 452 00:22:43,484 --> 00:22:46,636 Household incomes, housing costs, buying tendencies. 453 00:22:46,671 --> 00:22:49,788 This was all stuff the Lorman group was working on? 454 00:22:49,823 --> 00:22:52,071 Yeah. Um, Dr. Hoke would make the request, 455 00:22:52,106 --> 00:22:54,878 and then Mr. Oliver would have me e-mail it to his home. 456 00:22:54,913 --> 00:22:56,749 And when was this? 457 00:22:56,784 --> 00:22:58,648 Up until a few weeks ago. 458 00:22:58,683 --> 00:23:00,087 What happened a few weeks ago? 459 00:23:00,122 --> 00:23:02,165 For the last request, 460 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,905 Mr. Oliver called me into his office, 461 00:23:03,940 --> 00:23:06,851 and he said the company was not going to allow Dr. Hoke 462 00:23:06,886 --> 00:23:08,830 access to the information anymore. 463 00:23:08,865 --> 00:23:10,263 Did he tell you why? 464 00:23:10,298 --> 00:23:12,378 I mean, it's not really my place to ask, 465 00:23:12,413 --> 00:23:15,254 but I just remember Dr. Hoke was pretty upset about it. 466 00:23:15,289 --> 00:23:16,304 Oh, yeah? 467 00:23:16,339 --> 00:23:18,029 Okay. Thanks for talking to us. 468 00:23:18,064 --> 00:23:19,515 - I'll take that. - Yeah. 469 00:23:19,550 --> 00:23:20,733 Thanks a lot, Scott. 470 00:23:20,768 --> 00:23:22,021 All right. 471 00:23:26,205 --> 00:23:28,482 Sounds like Hoke was going behind the company's back, 472 00:23:28,517 --> 00:23:30,763 trying to develop a new software program. 473 00:23:30,798 --> 00:23:33,430 Either that, or trying to hijack it. 474 00:23:33,465 --> 00:23:36,560 Explains why Oliver shows up the night the body's found. 475 00:23:36,595 --> 00:23:38,986 Yeah, he's gonna get back his program, right? 476 00:23:39,021 --> 00:23:42,235 Question is, did they want it bad enough to kill him for it? 477 00:23:42,270 --> 00:23:45,457 Well, I mean, he was concerned that someone was gonna steal it, right? 478 00:23:45,492 --> 00:23:47,933 Otherwise, why disguise it as baseball stats? 479 00:23:47,968 --> 00:23:49,905 Why would he bother to do it on his own home computer? 480 00:23:49,940 --> 00:23:53,980 Unless he was worried that his house wasn't as private as he thought it was. 481 00:24:42,251 --> 00:24:45,455 Don, take a look. 482 00:24:49,162 --> 00:24:51,131 Oh, yeah, look at that. 483 00:24:51,214 --> 00:24:53,256 Something was there. 484 00:24:54,029 --> 00:24:56,293 Maybe they didn't have time to pull the wire. 485 00:24:56,328 --> 00:24:58,598 A dead body decomposing a few feet away, 486 00:24:58,633 --> 00:25:01,118 maybe they felt the need to rush. 487 00:25:04,724 --> 00:25:06,506 Oh, yeah. 488 00:25:06,659 --> 00:25:09,158 Someone put some kind of surveillance there. 489 00:25:09,193 --> 00:25:12,107 Hoke had a reason to be paranoid. 490 00:25:14,997 --> 00:25:18,007 See, that must be why the alarm went off two days late. 491 00:25:18,042 --> 00:25:20,736 So someone came in after he was murdered to remove the device. 492 00:25:20,771 --> 00:25:21,871 That's what tripped it. 493 00:25:21,906 --> 00:25:25,713 So someone planted a surveillance device in Dr. Hoke's house. 494 00:25:25,846 --> 00:25:29,440 Well, judging by your tone, you think that someone is me? 495 00:25:30,196 --> 00:25:32,230 Dr. Hoke was working on a software program 496 00:25:32,265 --> 00:25:34,774 that would be extremely valuable to a lot of people. 497 00:25:34,809 --> 00:25:37,997 Yes, well, I gave the FBI full access to the imaging data. 498 00:25:38,032 --> 00:25:40,654 Well, actually, we found a second body of work on his home computer, 499 00:25:40,689 --> 00:25:42,952 and it had nothing to do with your satellite program. 500 00:25:42,987 --> 00:25:44,549 I have no idea what you're talking about. 501 00:25:44,584 --> 00:25:46,144 No? 502 00:25:46,179 --> 00:25:47,586 You sure? 503 00:25:47,621 --> 00:25:51,504 So if our consultant wanted to develop that data, you wouldn't assert a claim? 504 00:25:51,539 --> 00:25:55,913 Well, the Lorman group has a contract with every researcher we employ, 505 00:25:55,948 --> 00:25:59,411 so anything that Dr. Hoke worked on is owned by the company. 506 00:25:59,446 --> 00:26:00,708 Maybe he didn't agree. 507 00:26:00,743 --> 00:26:02,880 Maybe you went to his house, argued. 508 00:26:02,915 --> 00:26:06,806 The night I met you is the only time I was ever in Dr. Hoke's house. 509 00:26:06,841 --> 00:26:09,059 There's more than one way inside of a person's home. 510 00:26:09,094 --> 00:26:11,243 Look, we want that surveillance, okay? 511 00:26:11,278 --> 00:26:12,464 I want my lawyer. 512 00:26:12,499 --> 00:26:15,234 You sure? Because if someone happened to leak to the press that your company 513 00:26:15,269 --> 00:26:17,825 is under criminal investigation, your government contracts? 514 00:26:17,860 --> 00:26:20,095 they might dry up pretty darn fast. What do you think? 515 00:26:20,130 --> 00:26:21,612 Feds don't like scandals. 516 00:26:21,647 --> 00:26:23,936 You take a moment, think about it. 517 00:26:35,770 --> 00:26:38,160 Jonas had no right doing what he did. 518 00:26:38,195 --> 00:26:39,380 No? 519 00:26:39,415 --> 00:26:43,851 The idea of using statistical analyses to 520 00:26:43,886 --> 00:26:48,676 predict human performance originated in this company. 521 00:26:48,711 --> 00:26:50,378 But he didn't see it that way? 522 00:26:50,413 --> 00:26:54,065 He refused to provide algorithms to us unless 523 00:26:54,100 --> 00:26:57,718 we gave him a percentage of the license fees 524 00:26:57,753 --> 00:27:00,315 we charge for the use of our software. 525 00:27:00,350 --> 00:27:02,228 And this time I bet you refused. 526 00:27:02,263 --> 00:27:06,162 I had no intention of being extorted by Jonas Hoke or anyone else. 527 00:27:06,197 --> 00:27:07,885 So you put the surveillance on him? 528 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,192 I did no such thing. 529 00:27:10,227 --> 00:27:11,776 But after I learned that he died, 530 00:27:11,811 --> 00:27:15,534 I felt that we were within our rights to retrieve the research. 531 00:27:15,569 --> 00:27:18,421 So, what, you called your friend, Reacher? 532 00:27:18,456 --> 00:27:20,969 Look, the point of all of this is, 533 00:27:21,004 --> 00:27:23,964 I didn't have to steal anything from Jonas Hoke. 534 00:27:23,999 --> 00:27:26,307 I already owned it. 535 00:27:28,345 --> 00:27:29,597 All right. 536 00:27:29,632 --> 00:27:31,331 We'll be in touch. 537 00:27:38,911 --> 00:27:40,671 So Oliver told you what Hoke was working on. 538 00:27:40,706 --> 00:27:42,183 That's why you wanted his people there. 539 00:27:42,218 --> 00:27:45,656 Oliver said Hoke had a program that could determine with mathematical certainty 540 00:27:45,691 --> 00:27:49,095 which neighborhoods would benefit from public spending and which ones wouldn't. 541 00:27:49,130 --> 00:27:51,049 Yeah, and you understand this is about justifying 542 00:27:51,084 --> 00:27:53,972 taking money from some certain communities and giving it to others. 543 00:27:54,007 --> 00:27:56,861 In case you hadn't heard, we're running a $10 trillion deficit. 544 00:27:56,896 --> 00:27:58,397 Yeah, I read the papers. 545 00:27:58,432 --> 00:28:00,966 Why throw money away on state-of-the-art lab facilities 546 00:28:01,001 --> 00:28:02,412 for kids who have no potential? 547 00:28:02,447 --> 00:28:04,854 That's right. Why even give them books? 548 00:28:05,951 --> 00:28:08,757 Oliver asked me if such a program would be 549 00:28:08,792 --> 00:28:10,656 of value to the government. 550 00:28:10,691 --> 00:28:11,955 I believed it would. 551 00:28:11,990 --> 00:28:14,761 So you put the surveillance in Hoke's house? 552 00:28:15,086 --> 00:28:16,816 No. 553 00:28:17,264 --> 00:28:19,542 You wouldn't tell me if you did, would you? 554 00:28:21,256 --> 00:28:23,358 I understand you haven't turned the data you got from Hoke's computer 555 00:28:23,393 --> 00:28:24,791 over to the Lorman group yet. 556 00:28:24,826 --> 00:28:26,734 Yes, that's right, and I don't have any intention of it. 557 00:28:26,769 --> 00:28:28,754 Oh, you realize, I'll just have my boss call your boss. 558 00:28:28,789 --> 00:28:30,739 These relationships go way beyond the two of us, Eppes. 559 00:28:30,774 --> 00:28:32,351 Part of a homicide investigation. 560 00:28:32,386 --> 00:28:33,954 There's no telling when it might become available, 561 00:28:33,989 --> 00:28:36,051 but you go ahead, you make your call. 562 00:28:36,105 --> 00:28:38,980 We did not place surveillance inside Jonas Hoke's house. 563 00:28:39,015 --> 00:28:41,684 So if it wasn't us, and it wasn't Oliver's people, 564 00:28:41,719 --> 00:28:43,184 who was watching Hoke? 565 00:28:43,219 --> 00:28:45,878 Well, whoever it was, it's clean. 566 00:28:45,913 --> 00:28:48,135 No prints, no identifying signature. 567 00:28:48,170 --> 00:28:50,322 Any idea how they could have done it? 568 00:28:50,357 --> 00:28:53,417 Well, the alarm company runs a phone line through the touch pad. 569 00:28:53,452 --> 00:28:55,933 Whatever system was used to spy on Hoke was 570 00:28:55,968 --> 00:28:58,615 piggybacked onto the security system. 571 00:28:58,650 --> 00:29:00,464 So it was a listening device? 572 00:29:00,499 --> 00:29:02,098 Some sort of audio would be my guess, 573 00:29:02,133 --> 00:29:04,667 but it's hard to tell without the actual device. 574 00:29:04,702 --> 00:29:07,201 Wait a minute. Hold that screen right there. 575 00:29:07,236 --> 00:29:08,392 Don, take a look at this. 576 00:29:08,427 --> 00:29:11,176 This is the manufacturers' list for the alarm system, right? 577 00:29:11,211 --> 00:29:14,972 This is the serial number for that unit, the unit in Hoke's house. 578 00:29:15,007 --> 00:29:17,266 Take a look at who bought it. 579 00:29:17,301 --> 00:29:19,770 Grodin construction. 580 00:29:19,805 --> 00:29:21,521 The boyfriend. 581 00:29:33,387 --> 00:29:35,674 - Take it to four. - Okay. 582 00:29:35,709 --> 00:29:37,209 You two again. 583 00:29:37,244 --> 00:29:39,284 Yep, with more questions. 584 00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:41,306 I don't know what else I can tell you. 585 00:29:42,341 --> 00:29:45,632 Why don't you tell us about the bug you planted in Jonas Hoke's house? 586 00:29:45,667 --> 00:29:48,606 You know, for a while there, I was thinking Gail was the victim in all this. 587 00:29:48,641 --> 00:29:50,118 I didn't do anything wrong. 588 00:29:50,153 --> 00:29:53,450 No? / Don't tell me this is the part where you say that she did it all? 589 00:29:53,485 --> 00:29:55,476 Look, neither of us did anything. 590 00:29:55,511 --> 00:29:58,210 Well, we still got a dead body and an alarm system that was bugged, 591 00:29:58,245 --> 00:30:00,846 an alarm system that you installed. 592 00:30:01,529 --> 00:30:04,114 Gail's lawyer asked me to help her guy put a wire 593 00:30:04,149 --> 00:30:06,699 or something into Jonas's house, but that's it. 594 00:30:06,734 --> 00:30:08,401 That's all I did. 595 00:30:08,436 --> 00:30:10,338 Turn around. Let's go. 596 00:30:15,489 --> 00:30:17,897 Last time we spoke, you weren't exactly forthcoming 597 00:30:17,932 --> 00:30:20,300 about your relationship with Lucas Grodin. 598 00:30:20,335 --> 00:30:21,936 In what way wasn't she forthcoming? 599 00:30:21,971 --> 00:30:23,608 For starters, how about the fact you never mentioned 600 00:30:23,643 --> 00:30:27,908 you asked him to wire your husband's house. 601 00:30:27,962 --> 00:30:30,546 The house was never adjudicated as separate property, 602 00:30:30,581 --> 00:30:35,011 so therefore whatever monitoring system Mrs. Hoke may have placed in her own house, 603 00:30:35,046 --> 00:30:37,467 she was absolutely entitled to do so. 604 00:30:37,502 --> 00:30:40,206 I put Jonas through college and grad school. / Gail... 605 00:30:40,241 --> 00:30:42,847 I waited tables. I did anything I could, 606 00:30:42,882 --> 00:30:45,419 because I believed we had a future together. 607 00:30:45,454 --> 00:30:48,330 Do you have any idea what it's like to have your husband tell you 608 00:30:48,365 --> 00:30:51,040 your contribution to your marriage isn't of value? 609 00:30:51,075 --> 00:30:52,203 I think we should take a break now. 610 00:30:52,238 --> 00:30:54,634 I'm not finished with your client, counselor. 611 00:30:54,669 --> 00:30:56,774 You can't prove Gail did anything. 612 00:30:56,809 --> 00:31:00,216 All I need to make out conspiracy at this point is probable cause. 613 00:31:00,251 --> 00:31:03,304 And your boyfriend's alarm system gives me exactly that. 614 00:31:03,339 --> 00:31:05,825 It also puts you in possession of material evidence, 615 00:31:05,860 --> 00:31:08,277 and an obstruction of justice charge, counselor. 616 00:31:08,312 --> 00:31:12,774 If Jonas were a doctor or a lawyer, I'd be entitled to half of everything. 617 00:31:12,809 --> 00:31:17,236 But everything he had was inside his head, so tell me, agent Sinclair, 618 00:31:17,271 --> 00:31:18,938 how do you get half of that? 619 00:31:18,973 --> 00:31:20,804 Which is why you put surveillance in his house, 620 00:31:20,839 --> 00:31:21,921 to see what was on his computer. 621 00:31:21,956 --> 00:31:26,079 It was the only way Jonas would have ever given me what I was entitled to. 622 00:31:26,114 --> 00:31:27,895 Right. 623 00:31:27,930 --> 00:31:31,374 But after you had the information you needed, 624 00:31:31,409 --> 00:31:33,687 why'd you kill him? 625 00:31:34,136 --> 00:31:36,641 I didn't kill him. 626 00:31:36,892 --> 00:31:39,106 I could never do anything like that. 627 00:31:39,141 --> 00:31:41,321 I told you, he was late with a check. 628 00:31:41,356 --> 00:31:42,531 I went there to get it. 629 00:31:42,566 --> 00:31:44,435 That's when I found him dead. 630 00:31:44,470 --> 00:31:46,269 Gail did not kill her husband. 631 00:31:46,304 --> 00:31:49,261 Forgive me if I'm not willing to take your word for it. 632 00:31:49,296 --> 00:31:50,840 You don't have to. 633 00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:53,764 I have the surveillance, remember? 634 00:31:55,029 --> 00:31:57,079 So is this an audio file? 635 00:31:57,114 --> 00:31:58,949 No, actually, digital video. 636 00:31:58,984 --> 00:32:01,390 So the device was a camera? 637 00:32:01,425 --> 00:32:03,797 Not exactly. It was an antenna. 638 00:32:03,854 --> 00:32:05,492 A Van Eck Phreak. 639 00:32:05,527 --> 00:32:07,341 But at a far more sophisticated level. 640 00:32:07,376 --> 00:32:09,121 Wait, what are you guys talking about? 641 00:32:09,156 --> 00:32:12,154 The wire you found in his house wasn't for a camera. 642 00:32:12,189 --> 00:32:13,941 It wasn't for a microphone. 643 00:32:13,976 --> 00:32:15,694 It was for a high-gain antenna. 644 00:32:15,729 --> 00:32:16,875 An antenna? 645 00:32:16,910 --> 00:32:18,696 For what? To pick up what? 646 00:32:18,731 --> 00:32:20,448 Well, with any LCD screen, 647 00:32:20,483 --> 00:32:24,127 liquid crystals provide an image when energy passes through them. 648 00:32:24,162 --> 00:32:25,418 The color they become 649 00:32:25,453 --> 00:32:27,740 depends on the amount of energy that they're exposed to. 650 00:32:27,775 --> 00:32:30,028 When the energy passes through these liquid crystals, 651 00:32:30,063 --> 00:32:32,697 it emits a wave of electromagnetic radiation. 652 00:32:32,732 --> 00:32:36,634 Dutch physicist Van Eck realized that with an antenna and a decoder, 653 00:32:36,669 --> 00:32:38,921 you could both read the waves and decode them 654 00:32:38,956 --> 00:32:42,169 into a perfect replica of what someone would be seeing on their computer screen. 655 00:32:42,204 --> 00:32:42,982 What you're saying is, 656 00:32:43,017 --> 00:32:44,816 that the antenna was able to read and pick up 657 00:32:44,851 --> 00:32:46,615 whatever was on Hoke's home computer screen. 658 00:32:46,650 --> 00:32:48,369 - That's right. - That is amazing. 659 00:32:48,404 --> 00:32:51,335 Hoke had elaborate safeguards against conventional hacking. 660 00:32:51,370 --> 00:32:52,646 Firewalls, blockers... 661 00:32:52,681 --> 00:32:55,068 still, nothing could stop this. 662 00:32:55,103 --> 00:32:56,682 Isn't that around the time he was killed? 663 00:32:56,717 --> 00:32:58,492 Yeah. 664 00:33:02,735 --> 00:33:04,830 That's where the files were being erased. 665 00:33:04,865 --> 00:33:08,848 See the zeroes and ones just flipping around, back and forth? 666 00:33:08,883 --> 00:33:11,153 So the killer knew Hoke's passwords. 667 00:33:11,188 --> 00:33:13,424 Too bad he didn't leave a fingerprint. 668 00:33:13,666 --> 00:33:17,451 Actually, you know what? I think he did. 669 00:33:20,372 --> 00:33:21,826 All right, so what are we looking at? 670 00:33:21,861 --> 00:33:24,322 Digital representations of a pattern of keystrokes. 671 00:33:24,357 --> 00:33:26,322 One taken from Hoke's computer at home, 672 00:33:26,357 --> 00:33:28,258 one from Hoke's computer at work. 673 00:33:28,293 --> 00:33:31,311 Now, you know that experts can distinguish one person's typing 674 00:33:31,346 --> 00:33:34,330 - from another by their rhythm. - Yeah, you mean like Morse code. 675 00:33:34,365 --> 00:33:35,307 Right. 676 00:33:35,342 --> 00:33:37,770 Telegraph operators used to recognize each other 677 00:33:37,805 --> 00:33:41,054 by the different ways they used to tap into the exact same codes, 678 00:33:41,089 --> 00:33:44,304 like a concert pianist sitting down to play a piece of music. 679 00:33:44,339 --> 00:33:46,701 Even though the notes originate from the sheet music, 680 00:33:46,736 --> 00:33:48,833 the way she plays them is entirely distinctive. 681 00:33:48,868 --> 00:33:53,463 Now, if another pianist sits down to play the same piece of music, 682 00:33:53,498 --> 00:33:54,960 the strength of notes, 683 00:33:54,995 --> 00:33:59,828 the flourishes in rhythm would make the keystrokes totally different. 684 00:34:01,522 --> 00:34:05,550 Now, only by seeing them side-by-side would you be able to tell they were different. 685 00:34:05,585 --> 00:34:07,610 See... 686 00:34:07,645 --> 00:34:09,873 I'm sitting here, and I'm looking at these, 687 00:34:09,908 --> 00:34:11,893 and they look identical to me. 688 00:34:11,928 --> 00:34:13,844 That's because they are, Don. 689 00:34:13,879 --> 00:34:16,544 This is from Hoke's computer at home. 690 00:34:16,579 --> 00:34:20,167 The keystrokes you're seeing are passwords used to tap 691 00:34:20,202 --> 00:34:23,889 into Hoke's sabermetrics files, made after Hoke was dead. 692 00:34:23,924 --> 00:34:27,577 This is from Hoke's computer workstation at the Lorman group, 693 00:34:27,612 --> 00:34:29,778 made after Hoke was dead. 694 00:34:29,813 --> 00:34:34,154 So then this is the same person that erased the files? 695 00:34:48,866 --> 00:34:51,257 Scott Reynolds, you're under arrest for the murder of Dr. Jonas Hoke. 696 00:34:51,292 --> 00:34:53,095 Get your hands up. 697 00:34:53,993 --> 00:34:55,290 You have the right to remain silent. 698 00:34:55,325 --> 00:34:58,460 Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. 699 00:34:58,495 --> 00:35:00,029 Bring him down. 700 00:35:21,626 --> 00:35:23,469 All right, sir. Go ahead. 701 00:35:23,504 --> 00:35:25,238 What do you want? 702 00:35:25,753 --> 00:35:28,713 I'm trying to figure out how you could kill a man, 703 00:35:28,948 --> 00:35:32,274 how you could kill a fellow scientist to steal his work. 704 00:35:32,309 --> 00:35:35,601 Is that why you think I killed Dr. Hoke for the money? 705 00:35:36,222 --> 00:35:39,008 You weren't jealous of his accomplishments. 706 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,095 His accomplishments, is that what you call them? 707 00:35:44,418 --> 00:35:46,959 I grew up in West Oakland. 708 00:35:46,994 --> 00:35:49,972 Anyone I grew up with who isn't dead or in prison 709 00:35:50,007 --> 00:35:52,001 is flipping burgers or driving a truck. 710 00:35:52,036 --> 00:35:55,763 And it's not too difficult to guess what Dr. Hoke's formula would have said about 711 00:35:55,798 --> 00:35:58,540 putting a computer lab in my high school. 712 00:35:58,601 --> 00:36:00,354 That computer lab saved my life, 713 00:36:00,389 --> 00:36:02,538 and next year, it's gonna save somebody else's. 714 00:36:02,573 --> 00:36:06,362 And killing Dr. Hoke accomplishes that? 715 00:36:07,359 --> 00:36:10,058 You think it stops there? 716 00:36:10,404 --> 00:36:13,708 In the last century, the Nazis used the theory of eugenics 717 00:36:13,743 --> 00:36:16,920 to stop the poor from reproducing. 718 00:36:16,955 --> 00:36:20,247 Eventually, they justified just killing the sick ones. 719 00:36:20,282 --> 00:36:21,478 You can't compare that to this. 720 00:36:21,513 --> 00:36:23,068 Actually, that's a perfect comparison, 721 00:36:23,103 --> 00:36:28,393 because what Jonas was doing was taking away a person's chance at life. 722 00:36:28,428 --> 00:36:30,029 It's taking away someone's hope. 723 00:36:30,064 --> 00:36:33,641 And I did what I had to do to stop that before it started. 724 00:36:33,710 --> 00:36:36,970 That makes you a murderer. 725 00:36:38,512 --> 00:36:40,938 Don't you ever wonder about your own work? 726 00:36:42,834 --> 00:36:44,804 What about my work? 727 00:36:46,676 --> 00:36:50,393 Well, you consult for the NSA, don't you? 728 00:36:51,751 --> 00:36:54,213 of course you do. 729 00:36:54,304 --> 00:36:59,180 So you're gonna tell me that everything you do will be used for good all the time? 730 00:36:59,745 --> 00:37:02,147 What's your point? 731 00:37:02,182 --> 00:37:04,952 You're asking me how I'm gonna live with myself. 732 00:37:04,987 --> 00:37:07,723 Look in the mirror. Ask yourself the same question. 733 00:37:07,758 --> 00:37:09,240 Let's go. 734 00:37:24,775 --> 00:37:26,502 Jonas Hoke's last hurdle. 735 00:37:26,537 --> 00:37:32,137 Oh, yes, his equation seeking to predict a person's chance at success. 736 00:37:33,695 --> 00:37:35,935 He never got to finish it. 737 00:37:35,970 --> 00:37:38,868 I thought maybe I'd give it a shot myself. 738 00:37:38,991 --> 00:37:40,790 Why? 739 00:37:40,825 --> 00:37:42,568 To what end? 740 00:37:42,603 --> 00:37:46,541 This work is just a self-fulfilling prophecy. 741 00:37:46,576 --> 00:37:47,649 How do you mean? 742 00:37:47,684 --> 00:37:48,781 Well... 743 00:37:48,816 --> 00:37:54,805 Charles, if we use numbers to choose who among us gets opportunity, 744 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:59,352 then by definition, those we haven't chosen don't. 745 00:37:59,579 --> 00:38:03,190 That's not science. Well, it's not good science. 746 00:38:03,225 --> 00:38:07,321 It's like, every year college football chooses a national champion, 747 00:38:07,356 --> 00:38:11,418 but they use computers to determine which two teams play for the title. 748 00:38:11,453 --> 00:38:13,710 And every year, invariably, 749 00:38:13,745 --> 00:38:16,238 some team gets left off that believes, 750 00:38:16,273 --> 00:38:21,517 well, it could have won the game on the field if it had just been given the chance. 751 00:38:21,552 --> 00:38:25,084 I've always believed that it was my duty to... 752 00:38:25,119 --> 00:38:28,122 develop mathematical tools, 753 00:38:28,157 --> 00:38:32,240 and someone else's to use them wisely. 754 00:38:32,945 --> 00:38:35,182 Could I have been wrong? 755 00:38:36,689 --> 00:38:41,016 The consequence of our understanding subatomic particles 756 00:38:41,051 --> 00:38:46,514 was a horrible bomb that transformed the world we live in 757 00:38:46,549 --> 00:38:51,978 and a source of energy, the basis of life-saving techniques, 758 00:38:52,013 --> 00:38:55,474 and an indispensable scientific tool. 759 00:38:55,509 --> 00:38:57,683 Science... 760 00:38:57,718 --> 00:38:59,625 you know, science, 761 00:38:59,660 --> 00:39:04,271 not this, but real science, is discovery, Charles. 762 00:39:04,306 --> 00:39:06,124 It's not invention. 763 00:39:06,159 --> 00:39:07,908 The truths are there, 764 00:39:07,943 --> 00:39:10,994 whether we find them or not. 765 00:39:11,029 --> 00:39:13,888 Listen, I'm gonna grab a bite to eat. You want to come? 766 00:39:17,494 --> 00:39:19,355 Okay.