- This week on Breakfast with Becca,
we've got makeover magic with Emily Fleet and a visit
from nutritionist Bob Leonard.
- OK, great. Let's cue up the next one.
- Hey, I got your text. What's up?
- Becca left me a voicemail
saying she needed to see us after her show.
She seemed upset. - SHH!
- And be sure to tune in on Friday when I sit down
for an exclusive chat
with City Councillor Samantha Bowman. She's running
for mayor and the old boys' club is running for cover.
See you then, 'cause no breakfast is complete
without Becca.
- OK, cut! That's a wrap.
- Here you go, Ms. D'Orsay.
- Change this. - It doesn't seem
like there's a problem. - Sometimes Becca's idea
of a crisis can be somewhat overblown. - Oh, come!
- Becca. - Matt!
Great to see you!
When are we gonna book you as a guest on the show?
- I'll have to check my schedule.
- That's what you said the last nine times I asked.
I'm gonna make this happen, Matt. You mark my words!
Great show, Bec.
Where are we with the Samantha Bowman interview?
- I submitted the interview questions yesterday.
I'm waiting to hear back.
This isn't "gotcha" TV.
- I gotcha!
- Love this girl! Love this girl.
- I had to bend over backwards to get that interview approved.
Maggie's great but she's never met
a piece of fluff she didn't like.
- Is she the reason you called us?
- No. But she is one of the reasons I need you guys
to keep this to yourselves. Any hint
of a scandal and Maggie'll break into a rash.
- Shh!
Follow me.
- Your water, Ms. D'Orsay. - Thanks, Tina.
And pick up that dry cleaning for me, all right?
- Already done! - And I only asked last Tuesday!
Ah, millennials.
Your wish is their when I feel like it.
- Oh, hey Becster!
Great cooking segment this morning.
Colour me amazed!
- Thanks, Jeffrey. And may I say
your weather report this morning made the downpour
seem like a guilty pleasure.
Calls himself a meteorologist.
He wouldn't know a cold front if it smacked him in the face.
- Becca, as fascinating as it is to get a glimpse inside
your glamorous world of sugar-coated insults,
could we get on with this, please?
- OK, so I got to the studio this morning as usual.
Came to my room
to leave my things here and go to hair and makeup...
and then I found this.
- I don't get it.
Aren't flowers in a dressing room a good thing?
"You will be mine."
- It's my stalker.
He's back.
- ♪♪ I see you and you see me
♪ Watch you blowin' the lines when you're makin' a scene ♪
♪ Oh boy, you've got to know
♪ What my head overlooks
♪ The senses will show to my heart ♪
♪ When it's watching for lies 'cause you can't escape my ♪
- ♪ Private Eyes They're watching you ♪
♪ Private Eyes
♪ They're watching you, watching you, watching you ♪
♪ Watching you ♪
- You better fill her in.
: Well, Shade and I had just started dating.
And I had my first meteorologist position,
delivering the weather on Channel 3's morning news.
- And that's when the flowers appeared in your dressing room.
- Always with notes in powder pink envelopes.
- At first, the messages were pretty innocent, you know?
Like old-fashioned valentines. But then they got scarier
and scarier. - Until they became
outright threats. - I couldn't sleep,
I couldn't eat. I lost my concentration at work.
Finally, my doctor had to prescribe medication.
- It was a pretty horrible time.
- Did the police finally catch the guy?
- Yeah. His name was Harvey Stanwell. There was a trial;
he was convicted. They gave him a restraining order
and some community service. After making
your life complete hell? - The prosecutor said we were
lucky to get a conviction at all.
- I have no idea.
I haven't thought about him in years... until this morning.
- It's OK. We'll find him. - We should contact the officer
in charge of the case back then.
- Yeah, Sergeant... O'Donnell. He worked out of the 57th--
- No. No police. No one can know about this.
- Becca... - The last time this happened,
the story was all over the press. And you've seen
these guys in here! They feed on gossip like this. Not to mention
I don't want Jules getting upset right before she's going away
to Italy. No.
No. I just want this guy stopped and I want to move on
with my life like nothing happened.
- OK. We'll be discreet. - Thank you.
Well, according to his court-appointed attorney,
Harvey Sandwell completed his community service
and hasn't been in trouble with the law since.
- So why is this guy suddenly stalking Becca again?
- She's back on the air for the first time in years.
Maybe seeing her sparked his obsession?
- Did we find a way to contact him yet?
- His Ameechee page says he volunteers
at his community centre Mondays and Wednesdays.
He should be there now. - All right. Text me the address. Let's go.
- Zoe, see if you can track down
where the flowers were ordered from and more importantly--
- Who ordered them. On it.
: I'd been fine for weeks and then...
one day, I just couldn't stop thinking about my ex-girlfriend.
So I got in the car. I was gonna drive
over to her apartment-- - But you called your sponsor.
- He helped me realign my thinking.
- Good work, Dale. Thanks for sharing. OK. Let's take a five minute break.
Which one's our guy?
- The leader of the group. That's Harvey.
Hey! Harvey!
- Mr. Shade... what're you doing here?
- I think you know exactly what I'm doing here.
- Whoa. Whoa. I'm Angie Everett, a private investigator,
and Mr. Shade is my partner.
- You can start by leaving Becca alone!
I haven't had any contact with her in years.
- So you're denying sending flowers and a threatening message this morning?
- It showed up in her dressing room, just like the old days.
- I had nothing to do with that.
- Because I'm not that person anymore.
I feel terrible about everything that I did back then.
But now I take medication
and I'm helping other men who are struggling
with the same obsessive tendencies.
- Where were you between midnight and 6AM?
- At home... with my wife and kids.
- Yeah. And I wouldn't
do anything to jeopardize that. - You know we'll be checking
that alibi, Harvey. - Please do.
You won't find anything.
Mr. Shade...
I know you don't trust me.
But you have to take this situation very seriously.
- Not only is this person
stalking your wife,
but they've gone to the trouble to copy me.
Whoever this person is,
they need help.
- Well, yeah, that's why they cancelled
Bring Your Daughter to Work Day. All right. Bye.
Oh, hey! Does one of those
happen to belong to me?
- It could...
if...
you run a credit card number for me.
- Are you attempting to bribe a police officer
with a glorified milkshake?
- What if I sweeten the deal with...
- Oh, I'm going to hell.
OK, I'll do it. Sure. Do I still get the coffee too
or is it like a trade? - Yeah.
- Thank you. So what's the story with this?
- Becca has a stalker. Yeah.
- Hm. - He left a bunch of roses
in her dressing room this morning. I tracked down
the florist, got the credit card number
but it was an online order and the name was fake.
- Jeez, a stalker. Serious business.
All right, this'll just take a second.
- Hey! You didn't tell me there's a blood drive here.
We should donate!
This actually got cancelled. I don't know why I had that on my desk. Hey, the number's up!
- All right.
Let's find this cardholder's name.
O... M... G.
- After meeting Harvey, I have a hard time believing
he's stalking Becca again. He seems to have really
turned his life around. - A leopard that crazy
can't change his spots.
- There's Becca. This is Zoey.
I'll catch up with you later. - All right.
- Hey... - Shadow!
- Hey. - Hey.
I'd like to introduce you to Councillor Samantha Bowman,
a hero of mine and this city's next mayor.
- Well, I hope you're right about that.
- Nice to meet you. Aren't you the one who got arrested?
- Shadow! - No, it's fine.
Look, I will take the recognition
wherever I can get it. Yes, I was part of the protest
to prevent the destruction of parkland in my ward.
As you know, the environment's really important to me.
I've based my entire campaign around it.
- Samantha stopped by so we could discuss the interview.
We're gonna go with a more intimate format
so we can really dig in to those questions.
- Samantha, we're on a pretty tight schedule.
- I'm sorry, this is my campaign manager,
Simon Murphy, also known as my task master
and my right hand man. - Nice to meet you.
Now, if you'll excuse us.
- I'll show you to the board room.
You'll want to follow me. Join us, Bec.
- I'll be right there. - OK.
- Well, the jury's still out on him. We're gonna stay
on top of it.
Hey. What's wrong?
Was Zoey able to find out who sent the roses?
- Yeah. Let's go talk about it.
Who was it?
- The name on the credit card was...
Becca D'Orsay.
: I can't believe
you think I'd actually stoop so low as to pose
as my own stalker? I mean, for what
- Look, you have to admit you have been known
to seek attention from time to time.
- Yes, I can be a bit dramatic. !
- OK. Even if I did pull off a stunt like this to raise
my profile, I wouldn't be stupid enough to use
my own credit card! - Yeah, you're right.
I'm sorry.
- OK, look. Someone is obviously
trying to make you look bad as they drive you crazy.
- You guys really don't think that Harvey did this?
- He runs a support group for other stalkers
and he has an alibi. - Yeah, but all the details
were the same. - The original stalker trial
is the third thing that comes up if you google your name.
- The roses,
the pink envelope, the note. It would be really easy
for someone to find out the details of the original attack
and just mimic them.
- Can you think of anyone that might have accessed
your credit card information? - Not at the studio.
I always keep my wallet locked up in this drawer.
Here's the credit card right here.
- Any chance you forgot to lock this drawer yesterday?
- Well, no... I... I guess.
- Well, I...
I had a fling, recently.
It was nothing serious,
it was just a boy at the gym. !
- He was more of a... boy toy.
He's a personal trainer.
- Better and better.
- Lance Masters.
- I leant him my credit card because he broke a veneer
and he needed a new one and he couldn't afford it.
- Can't have a boy toy with only one front tooth.
- Apparently not. - I mean, I guess
Lance could've copied my credit card number.
I broke up with him two weeks ago and he wasn't
very happy about it. - He's gonna be less happy
when he talks to us.
- He works out of a gym next to a vegan juice bar
in Liberty Village. - Of course he does.
- TINA! Tell Maggie I'm coming!
♪♪♪
: I can't believe Becca's dating a gym rat.
- That is such a double standard,
like you haven't dated a few... wow!
What
- Nothing. I just, uh...
I found Lance's profile picture.
- Let's see. Please.
- Maybe I should get a boy toy.
So much muscle, so little time. - Do you think you can
pull yourself out of dream land for five seconds
and come up with a plan? - Already done.
You search Lance's car and...
I'll search Lance.
: Hey! What are you doing back here?
I thought we were supposed to meet at the restaurant.
- I got off work early and I thought I'd pick you up
this time. - Oh, wow!
- And I'm glad I did because it looks like that blood drive
wasn't cancelled after all! - Oh. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know
what I was thinking. Oh well! We can do it next time.
I mean, we still have time to donate blood
before dinner.
- Yeah, I...
I... I can't.
- All right, look. I don't like
to talk about this too much,
but I was on a police exchange in England
a few years ago back when there was an outbreak
of mad cow disease. No, I don't have it.
It's not like... I wasn't exposed
but the upshot is that... I can't give blood.
Ever. That's it. Doctor's orders. For life.
- That's awful. - Yeah, I know. I mean,
you think I don't wanna donate, you know, while I can?
It feels good to give! I'm a charitable guy, right?
So... yeah, it sucks. - Yeah, I'm sorry I hit
a sore spot. - Oh, that's OK. Let's just go
to dinner. Strangely, I could murder a steak right now.
Well, let's get back
into those mad cows! - Let's!
- Come on, Angie! Big waves! Slam!
Slam! Slam!
I really need a drink of water. - Sure, sure.
Absolutely. - Oh, thanks. You know,
you are really good at this.
- It's a gift.
Well, you're doing really great.
Some of the women I train aren't half as ripped as you.
- Well, which half would that be? Because I am sore all over.
So... is there a special someone in your life?
Guy like you must get swiped right a lot.
- Oh, you know.
I have my moments.
- Was.
It didn't go so well.
- She was everything
I ever dreamed of, you know? Pretty, in great shape,
a celebrity... which could've been great
for my personal training image.
- That is so romantic.
- Yeah. And then she ruined everything
by DUMPING ME! - Oh, wow. You're running
a bit hot, huh? - It's the protein powder.
- Yeah. Sure.
♪♪♪
Bingo.
She was gonna introduce me to her celebrity friends.
I could have really made something of myself.
- That's just the way the power bar crumbles.
- Hey, Lance. Does this look familiar to you?
'Cause it's familiar to me. My daughter gave it
to my ex-wife Becca for Christmas.
- Hey, you're Matt Shade.
Wait.
You two know each other? - Yeah.
We're private investigators. We're looking into
a stalking incident directed at Becca D'Orsay.
- Stalking...
Wait, you think I'm stalking Becca?!
- Stalkers are known to covet personal items
from their victims. How do you explain this?
- But... - You just admitted you're upset
over Becca dumping you. - I'm an intense guy!
Women find it sexy.
- No. They don't, Lance.
- OK. OK.
I took the scarf.
The night Becca told me it was over, I lifted it
from her purse. But I just wanted to make her
call me looking for it, OK?
Look at me.
I'm not used to rejection.
: Oh, come on!
That guy had motive, opportunity
and he was hoarding a souvenir
of their relationship. He is suspect number one.
- There's no way that thatguy
had the idea to look up the details
of Becca's previous stalker and copy them.
We've gotta be missing something.
- Well, let's call her and let her know what's going on.
!
Ugh! That was couture!
- I... I think you're missing the point.
We haven't ruled Lance out
as a suspect but he's definitely not looking
[like a shoe-in as your stalker.]
I mean, he was
really upset when I told him that we were through.
Bec?
- Hey!
You OK?
- Inside.
♪♪♪
- I feel terrible!
Someone must have stolen Mrs. D'Orsay's extra fob
when I stepped away from the security room.
Please, tell her I'm sorry.
- Well, maybe next time you go for a pee break,
you'll remember to lock the office. OK? Thanks a lot, Gus.
All right, we're gonna take the bear and the note
back to the lab, see if we can't find any trace elements
of the stalker's DNA.
- Seems like he really knew what he was doing.
Avoided the cameras, snatched the fob from security.
How's Becca handling this?
- I better go check on her.
- Yeah.
: Mom!
Are you OK?
I can't believe this is happening.
- I'm fine. Hey, Don.
- Good to see you safe, Becca.
Stay as long as you like. - Grandpa told me
about the first stalker. That must have been awful.
- I don't want you to worry about me. That's my job.
We can talk about it in the morning, OK?
Right now I just wanna get some sleep. Put it out of my mind for a bit.
- OK. Goodnight. Love you. - Goodnight.
- Night, sweetie. - Night.
- Hey, this way, honey. - Thank you.
- Goodnight. - Night.
- Do you need any help with those bags?
- No, it's all right, Dad. I got 'em.
- OK. See you.
A drink, maybe?
- Yeah. Yeah, I could use one.
- You're safe here, Becca. You know that, right?
- Oh, yeah. I know.
It's not that.
It's just sometimes I wonder if this is the universe
telling me to get over myself.
- When this happened the last time,
I was the Channel 3 weather girl.
Perky and smiling.
Standing in short skirts
next to the big green screen.
And here I am
years later and I'm doing the exact same thing.
- But you've got your own show now.
- But is it really any different?
I try so hard to make it about real issues, Shadow...
but all anyone wants me to do is give my opinion
on fashion trends or workout tips
or how to stuff a throat pillow.
- But you got that big interview.
Samantha Bowman's the real deal, isn't she?
- Yeah.
Yeah, she's amazing.
Did you know that she implemented a pilot program
in her ward to improve the quality of curbside recycling?
She held an open bid and she chose the company
with the greenest profile. - You did your homework! - Exactly!
But all Maggie wants me to ask her
is where she shops and what she eats
and what the name of her Labrador retriever is.
How did you do it?
How did you change who you were and...
and actually make it stick?
- I had help.
- Yeah. Angie's pretty great, isn't she?
- Don't you dare tell her I said that.
: OK.
Well, thanks for letting me know.
Yeah, see you.
Oh, hey! That was Maz.
There was no DNA on the stuffed animal or the note
left in Becca's apartment.
- So we're back to square one.
- Afraid so.
What's wrong? - What do you think
the chances are of Maz
actually developing mad cow disease?
- Well, he told me this story
about him being in the UK during the epidemic
and I looked it up and the virus can lay dormant
in your spinal column for years.
What?
- Maz hasn't been to London, Ontario,
let alone London, England.
He was havin' a laugh, as they say.
- He lied. Ugh.
I can't believe this.
- Well, what prompted this little confession of his?
- I went to meet him for dinner.
I suggested we donate blood.
- And he got out of that one big time.
- Oh, my God.
Is Maz afraid of needles?
- Uh, yeah! Like terrified!
When we were in grade school,
it took both of the gym teachers and school nurse to wrestle him
into a booster shot.
Mad cow disease. That's a good one.
- Yeah.
Hilarious.
- Hey. You're up and dressed early.
- Yeah. Turns out sleeping wasn't as easy as I thought.
Besides, I have the interview with Samantha today,
so I wanna get there and get ready.
- You're gonna get through this, Becca. You know that, right?
- Of course.
You're trending.
- Yeah, the stalker story. It's all over
social media. - Let me see.
- Including the fact that my previous stalking incident
caused a mental collapse, forcing me off the air?!
Who would leak something like that?
- Jules, can you find who started that?
- Yeah.
Ah, OK. It all started with... @partlycloudy100.
"Becca D'Orsay has a stalker. Colour me amazed."
- Take me to the studio. Now!
♪♪♪
TINA!
Morning, Hank!
Morning, Missy! Sarah! Good to see you.
TINA!
What have I told you about being late, Tina?
- It won't be tolerated, Ms. D'Orsay.
Ahh.
JEFFREY! - Ow!
- How dare you expose my personal struggles on Twitter?!
- I do not know what you are talking about.
God! You couldn't even
be bothered to come up with a decent alias?
- Well, I thought you'd appreciate the shout out.
Every tweet is a good tweet, as they say.
- Nobody has ever said that! Ever!
Oh, yeah. If you think
some second-rate cloud caller like you
is gonna rattle my cage with a cheap move like this?
Did you send the flowers, too?
! Absolutely not.
- But you knew about them.
- Tina told me. - You're trying to wreck
my career because you're jealous.
Jealous of the big interview, jealous of the fact
that I made it out of the weather racket and you didn't.
Oh, please!
- There is a storm front
coming for you, Jeffster. And it is gonna smack you
right in the...
right in your cheap, little...
- Becca, calm down. - I can't breathe.
Hey, Becca!
Becca?
Call 911!
Becca? Becca!
Hey! Hey! Look at me! Becca!
- Yes.
This is my ex-husband,
Matt Shade. - As I suspected, Ms. D'Orsay,
you suffered an anaphylactic reaction to peanuts.
But that's impossible!
- Becca's known about her peanut allergy
since she was a little kid. She's always extremely careful.
- And the studio is strictly peanut free.
- Yes, we called them to check but we also tested the water
you were drinking before the attack.
It tested positive for peanuts even though there are none
listed in the ingredients.
- You mean someone laced my water on purpose?
- The police have been notified. - Thanks for lettin' us know.
- "If I can't have you, no one can." Shade...
the stalker's following through on his promise!
- All right. I'll let Maz know. Maybe he can
assign an officer to you at the studio.
! - Maggie! What are you
doing here? - Becca! Thank God you're OK.
Oh, I was worried! - Oh, yeah!
I'm totally fine. And completely capable to do the show.
- No, no. I just got off the phone with Simon,
Ms. Bowman's campaign manager. OK? And given the circumstances,
he thought it best just to cancel the interview.
- No! No, Maggie, you can't let them do that!
I've done all this preparation-- - I'm sorry, Becca.
There's nothing I can do. I scheduled
a rerun for this morning. Listen, listen.
Down the road, maybe, if we decide it's a good idea,
we can reschedule it then. OK?
In the meantime, I need you to rest and look after yourself.
- Becca, this is just temporary. You know that.
- I'm gonna get to the bottom of this. I'll call you when I know somethin'.
- Sure.
- Hey.
- Hey! I got your message. How's Becca?
- She's demoralized. Samantha Bowman backed out
of her interview. - Maz just brought
Becca's assistant Tina in for questioning. Zoe's gonna
update us if she hears anything. - This is serious now, Ange.
We gotta find this guy before he tries somethin' else.
- I put a timeline together. It's all the stalker incidents,
people's various alibis,
and any relevant events in Becca's life.
- So, who's obsessed with Becca enough to try to take her life?
- I don't think anybody is.
- We already know the culprit started out
by mimicking the stalker from years ago. The red roses...
- The pink envelopes, the notes, yeah.
- So if the new stalker got all those details off the internet,
they also could have learned that Becca took time
off work to recover. - You think the reason
for all this is to try to keep Becca off the air?
- The Samantha Bowman interview was scheduled for today,
but now it's canceled. Check this out.
The flowers showed up the day after
Becca submitted her questions for approval.
- Maybe there was somethin' in those questions the future mayor
didn't want to be asked about.
- We just need to find out what.
- Thank you so much, Detective.
It feels so good to get all that off my chest.
- It's just part of my job. It's totally fine.
OK. Yeah.
You take care now.
- That's Becca's assistant. You're letting her go?
- I really should have been a therapist.
I just spent the last hour hearing about how Becca
helps her improve her performance.
- But do you think she had anything to do with the assault?
- Becca keeps her water in a mini fridge in her dressing room
with her name on it. Anybody could have had access.
It's gonna be impossible
to pin somebody down to... that.
What's wrong?
- I'm sorry. I just really wish we could donate blood together.
I know you're not allowed
and I feel bad
for bringing it up but it's really important to me.
- Yeah!
In college,
I volunteered at a hospital
and one night, this kid came in
and he'd been in a really bad car accident and needed blood.
He was O negative and believe it or not,
the hospital was out.
- Oh jeez, that's terrible. - I know!
But then this guy in the waiting room
stood up and said, "I'm O negative!"
- Wow. - It's just a simple act,
but to me, that guy was a hero.
It's not your fault. I know you'd be a hero
if you could. But... you can't on account of the cows.
- You know, I actually talked to my doctor
after we spoke, and...
it turns out they got the dates wrong. So...
- Well, mad cow disease wasn't
really a thing when I was in London, so...
Last time I go to that doctor, right? But, uh...
apparently, uh... I'm good to go as far as donating.
- That's so great. You know they're still taking people?
- Great! - And you even get a free donut and a glass of orange juice.
- Lucky! OK!
Let's go! Let's go! Yeah! Nice! Wonderful! Thank you!
- OK. - All right!
: Turns out politics isn't very interesting
without the scandals. - There's gotta be something
in these questions that made Samantha back out
of the interview. - Becca wasn't exactly
going for zingers. Topics of the interview include:
Samantha's love of knitting,
her two dogs, the heartbreak
of selling her family cottage.
The recycling program that took place in her ward.
- Well, it's not exactly breaking news. The contract
was awarded six months ago. - Exactly. No one else
is asking about it because it's a done deal.
Maybe Becca inadvertently picked at an old wound.
- Yeah. It may be worth a fishing expedition.
- It's the only nibble we've got.
- Let's check out the recycling company.
- Yeah. Totally. Top notch.
Just marveling at the intricate process
involved in jabbing a metal tube in one's arm
and then extracting the fluid necessary to sustain human life.
Let's not do this.
- Sorry.
Sorry. No, it's fine.
It's important to you. We can do it.
It's just a needle, right? Takes 30 seconds. Goes in and out.
Right? - Well, actually it takes
about eight minutes.
- OK, Maz. Really, we can come back.
- It's fine. I just have to concentrate
on not dying. - OK.
Next.
Detective? - Yeah.
- I'm a detective.
- I am a cop and detective. - OK, wait, stop. Get away
from him. Sorry. - It's fine.
- I'm sorry!
I knew you lied about mad cow
and I thought I could trick you
into giving blood and overcome your fear
by telling you the hospital story.
Which was stupid
because you clearly do have a phobia
and I totally underestimated it.
- You made up the hospital story
in order to help me get over my fear of needles?
- I know. I'm the worst girlfriend ever.
- It's actually kind of sweet.
I mean, I shouldn't have lied to you
in the first place.
I mean, mad cow disease?
I was dead in the water.
Thank you for letting me get away with that one.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
You totally do not have to go through with this.
- No, I... want to.
As long as you're here with me.
I might throw up on you.
- That would be unfortunate.
: According to news reports from six months ago,
five companies were given the opportunity to bid
on the recycling contract. It was eventually awarded
to a newcomer, Trafalgar Recycling.
- Never heard of 'em. - The CEO is listed as...
Huh. That's weird.
- Well, back when this was published, the CEO was this guy,
Jason Phillips, but now he's not on the website anywhere.
- Well, maybe he got fired. - Six months after scoring
the largest contract in the company's history?
- That is a little odd.
- Yeah! Somethin' stinks... and it ain't the recycling.
- I'm thinkin' maybe we should have a little chat with Mr. Phillips.
: I didn't do anything wrong.
- Do you know who says things like that?
People who did something wrong.
- How did you lose your job
as CEO of Trafalgar Recycling?
- I can't talk about it. - Well, you can talk to us
or you can talk to the cops. Your choice.
- Look, I was just the front man.
- All I had to do was smile
and say the right things on camera and when the deal
was awarded, I got paid and left.
- You're saying that Trafalgar paid you to be pretend CEO.
Why would they do that?
- You don't get it. There is no Trafalgar.
- But their website is--
- Is fake, along with everything else.
The carbon neutral processing plant,
the hybrid electric recycling trucks,
the forest restoration project,
they just did whatever they needed to to win the bid.
- Grand Ridge Waste Management.
- I know that name. They were in the news
for dumping toxic waste in the lake a couple years ago.
- Who at Grand Ridge actually hired you?
- It wasn't them. It was some other guy.
I don't know his name.
He wired me the fee.
- Fine.
Don't leave town.
What do you think? - I think Samantha Bowman's
got some explaining to do.
- Why would she rig her own pilot recycling project?
Takes cash to run a campaign.
- Grand Ridge does have deep pockets.
- Not to mention it'd give them an in with the future mayor.
- I'm really starting to regret admiring that woman.
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: You sure about this? : Sort of.
But we haven't been able to find any concrete evidence
that Grand Ridge rigged the bid
or that Samantha took a kickback from it, but a backroom deal
would explain why she wanted to cancel the interview.
- I can't believe this.
I was her biggest supporter!
- I'm sorry, Becca.
- Well, this really changes everything.
- An hour ago I called Samantha personally
and begged her to reinstate the interview.
She agreed. We're going live in 20 minutes.
- Are you planning on confronting her? - You're damn right I am!
We don't have any evidence yet.
- And didn't you just say that Angie's getting some?
- Yeah, but what if she doesn't get it in time? Think about
this, Becca. If you're wrong, it could ruin your career!
If she did a dirty deal with municipal money
to get a kickback for her campaign and I sat there
with her talking about fruit smoothies,
I'd look like an idiot.
- Makeup's asking for you Ms. D'Orsay.
- I'll be right there.
- Welcome to Breakfast with Becca.We are live today
with an exclusive one-on-one with mayoral candidate
Samantha Bowman.
Welcome, Samantha. - Thank you.
- You look wonderful. - Oh, isn't that nice
of you to say! Thank you. - First question.
Who are you wearing?
: Not yet, but when I was staking out
Grand Ridge, I saw a bunch of their dump trucks headed
to the Port Lands.
It seemed odd. I'm following one now.
- Keep me up to date.
- I'd like to talk to you
about the recycling program in your home ward.
- Yes. Now, that's a cause
that's very near and dear to my heart.
We engaged a company called Trafalgar
with a commitment to efficient
and affordable waste management.
- And this is the CEO
of Trafalgar
- I don't know, actually. I've never met him personally.
: What is she doing!
: Is there a reason you brought him up?
- Jason Phillips isn't who you think he is, Ms. Bowman.
He was hired to pose as the CEO
of Trafalgar just long enough to win the bid
for the recycling contract in your ward.
In fact,
Trafalgar doesn't even exist.
It was an elaborate front for the true recipient
of the contract, Grand Ridge Waste Management.
Can you explain that? - I have no idea
what you're talking about.
- No.
As far as I'm aware, Trafalgar won that bid
fair and square. If there's any deception,
I certainly don't know about it.
- Please tell me you found something.
- You're not gonna believe what I'm seeing right now.
I'm sending you a video. Just stand by.
- You said a moment ago that you never met Jason Phillips.
Why is that? - Because I wasn't personally
involved in vetting the candidates.
That was handled by my chief of staff, now my campaign manager,
Simon Murphy.
- Hey Fred, can you swing camera two around
to get Mr. Simon Murphy, please?
- What the hell is happening here?
- Mr. Murphy, were you responsible
for the backroom deal that resulted in Grand Ridge
Waste Management being awarded the recycling contract
in Ward 52? And for posing
as my former stalker and for trying
to poison me in order to scare me out of doing this interview?
- That is ridiculous. Samantha, you know this isn't true.
- You'd better have proof of this, Ms. D'Orsay.
- OK. OK. Just cut to a commercial. Right now!
- No. No, wait. Put this on the screen.
- Oh, my God. Are they just dumping waste into the woods?!
- That's what it looks like to me.
Please tell me that what I'm seeing and hearing isn't true.
- We needed money for the campaign, Samantha.
Grand Ridge was offering-- - I don't care what they were offering.
Look at what they're doing.
You took something
that was important to me and you destroyed it!
- Samantha-- - No! Ms. D'Orsay, I am so,
so, very sorry about this,
and I wanna make it clear to everyone watching
that I take full responsibility for what happened.
I will get to the bottom of this and I will make sure
that it never happens again.
And that's a promise.
- Well, you heard it here first. We'll be right back
after these very important messages from our sponsors.
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- Well, Maggie looks happy.
- Nothing like a takedown
on live television to drive up the ratings.
- Simon's denying it, of course, but with all the execs
at Grand Ridge rushing to point fingers, the proof
will be out soon enough. - Plus, there's surveillance
video of Simon's car parked down the street from your condo.
- You know what I still can't figure out? How he got
your credit card number. - I made a contribution
to Samantha's campaign three months ago.
He had it the whole time.
- Simon can run... a campaign, that is, but he can't hide.
- How long you been sittin' on that one?
- Oh, my God! Bec!
The head of the network was watching
and she wants to talk about transitioning
Breakfast with Becca into a mixed-format
of news and talk!
- Yes, I'm serious! - Look out, Katie Couric!
- And Matt, don't think that this counts
as an appearance because I'm still comin' after you.
- Well, congratulations, Becca. You deserve this.
- Well, none of this would have happened without the two of you.
And thanks so much for your help, Shadow.
You were really there for me when I needed you.
- Yeah. What are ex-husbands for? I'll tell Jules everything's OK.
- Well, I better get back to work!
I'm researching a piece on climate change called
Don't Sweat It: Fighting Global Warming Through Fashion.
Tina? TINA!
- It looks fine.
- It's not clotting. What's it called when your blood
doesn't clot? Hemophilia?
- Yeah. - You do not... no, you do not
have hemophilia. - Well, Maz, did you really
overcome your mortal fear of needles to give blood?
- He was incredibly brave and only bit the nurse twice.
- Oh, she had that coming.
- Hey, we're gonna go grab some food. You guys wanna join?
- No, thanks. I gotta get home. - I'll take a rain check.
Not hungry? - EW!
- All right. See you tomorrow.
- Watching you do hot yoga.
Why would you... Ah. Where you goin'?
- None of your business!
But don't wait up.
- Wow. I did not see that comin'.
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