When the trial resumes on Saturday, Cable decides to call Dr. Olney, a researcher who studied mice by exposing them to cigarette smoke. None of his mice developed lung cancer. Many of the juror’s families watch the trial, including Hoppy; Derrick; Rikki’s husband, Rhea; Gladys’s husband, Nelson; Herman’s wife; and Loreen’s teenage daughters. Taunton also attends, watching Lonnie carefully.

Claire’s old friend Beverly wakes up after a night of using drugs and alcohol. She thinks back to another friend from Kansas named Phoebe, who once claimed to know secrets from Claire’s past. Beverly plots how to track down Phoebe and get the information for Swanson for more money.

One of Fitch’s investigators finds that Claire did not exist prior to popping up in Kansas, meaning that she changed her name in another state. Jeff was not secretive until he met Claire, as his trail to Kansas is clear. Fitch tells the investigators to keep looking.

Marlee researches the FBI agents that Hoppy met with. She finds no one who works in the government by those names. She hires an investigator to look into them. Fitch meets with Marlee and gives her the information about Rikki’s abortion. Fitch asks about Herman, suggesting that Marlee bump him off the jury. Marlee says that she’ll think about it before ending the meeting. Marlee calls the FBI, pretending to work for Hoppy, and reports that two men claiming to be FBI agents are harassing her boss. The FBI gives her the number of a local agent in Biloxi named Madden. Madden has the flu but still takes Marlee’s call. Madden confirms that there are no FBI agents named Napier or Nitchman investigating Jimmy Hull Moke. He asks to meet with Hoppy and the purported FBI agents, and Marlee states that she’ll set up a meeting.

The defense rests on Saturday afternoon. The jury gets Sunday off before hearing closing arguments on Monday.

The male jurors attend a high school football game on their day off. After the game, Hoppy visits Millie. Nicholas sneaks into their room to talk to them about their situation. Nicholas tells Hoppy that he called a reputable source on the outside and confirmed that Hoppy is being scammed, as Napier, Nitchman, and Cristano don’t work for the government, nor is the tape they have of Hoppy and Jimmy Hull Moke admissible in court. It is a ploy to influence Millie’s vote. Hoppy is upset and angry but also relieved.

The jurors are allowed to leave the motel to attend their respective church services. Some attend church, while others just go home to see their families. Hoppy goes to his office and calls Napier, asking to meet him and Nitchman for a status report. Napier and Nitchman go to his office, and Hoppy pretends that Millie is pushing for a verdict in favor of the defense. They are interrupted by Agent Madden, whom Hoppy knew was coming. Madden arrests Napier and Nitchman, who admit to using fake names and impersonating FBI agents while working for an unspecified firm in Washington, DC. Madden deems the offense to be minor, so he drives Napier and Nitchman across the border to Alabama and tells them not to return to Mississippi.

Fitch meets with Napier and Nitchman and hears the report of what happened. Fitch is enraged and thinks that only Marlee can salvage the situation.

When Beverly calls Phoebe, Phoebe states that she also received a phone call from a man claiming to be Jeff Kerr. Beverly and Phoebe compare notes about their interactions with Swanson. Beverly calls back later and pretends that she parted on bad terms with Claire and is looking for her to apologize. Phoebe confirms that Claire is not her real name and that her birth name was Gabrielle Brant. Gabrielle was from Columbia, Missouri. Her father is dead, and her mother was a university professor in Columbia. Beverly calls Swanson and offers him the information for more money.

Marlee meets Fitch again and discusses the trial. Fitch tells Marlee the truth about the scam with Hoppy. Marlee assures Fitch that Nicholas can get a unanimous jury in favor of the defense. Fitch feels less stress. Meanwhile, the lawyers for both sides practice their closing arguments. Fitch goes to the beach house to speak to the CEOs of the Big Four and tells them that he has purchased the verdict for $10 million, though he doesn’t specify how he’s obtaining it.

On Sunday night, the mood of the sequestered jury is light, as they believe that the trial will end on Monday. Millie thinks that she should recuse herself from the trial, but Nicholas advises her to stay, as more juror dismissals could result in a mistrial.

Derrick meets Cleve and receives $15,000 in bribery money for Angel’s vote and the other votes she can secure. Derrick gambles $4,000 of the money away in a casino while becoming increasingly intoxicated. He is arrested for drunk driving, and the police confiscate the rest of the money. Derrick wakes up in jail and needs to call Angel before she arrives at court. Derrick’s brother bails him out, and Derrick tries to sneak into Angel’s motel room. A deputy catches Derrick and arrests him again. Meanwhile, Swanson arranges to meet with Beverly to obtain the information about Claire.

Nicholas drugs Herman’s coffee with a pill that will make him ill for a few hours while Mrs. Grimes makes Herman’s breakfast tray. Herman, the most honest juror, is being bumped. A little later, Herman begins complaining about agonizing stomach pain. Nicholas tells Rikki that Herman is having a heart attack, as he had one year prior. Herman is taken to the hospital, and Lou Dell calls Harkin to inform him that another juror is out of commission.

Swanson waits for Beverly, but she doesn’t show up. He calls her roommate, who doesn’t know where Beverly is. Beverly shows up late, accompanied by a tattooed man and under the influence of drugs and alcohol. She demands the money and tells Swanson that Claire’s real name is Gabrielle Brant and that she’s from Columbia, Missouri, where her mother teaches at the university. Swanson gives her $4,000 and leaves.

Harkin refuses to declare a mistrial despite Herman’s heart attack. Shine Royce takes Herman’s spot. Rohr completes his closing arguments, pushing hard on the ideas of nicotine addiction and advertising aimed at youths before making an emotional appeal about Celeste Wood losing her husband. He doesn’t specify a number that the jury should award Celeste, but he does state that Pynex is worth $800 million. Cable gives his closing remarks and pushes the jury to focus on facts instead of emotion.

Marlee calls Fitch and tells him to wire the $10 million to a bank in Panama by 12:30 pm, or she’ll have Nicholas change course. Fitch wires the money, and Marlee confirms to Nicholas that the money made it. Meanwhile, Swanson calls Fitch and tells him that he’s on his way to Missouri to investigate Gabrielle Brant.

The jury needs a new foreman after Herman’s heart attack. The group elects Nicholas. Though some of the jurors, like Lonnie, want to vote without reviewing the documents, Nicholas convinces the group to divide up the documents and skim them before having a discussion.

Marlee arrives in Grand Cayman with a Canadian passport under the alias Lane MacRoland. She arrives at her bank and checks in with a man named Marcus. She starts by using the $10 million wired from Fitch to short sell 50,000 shares of Pynex (“short selling” means selling borrowed shares, waiting for the price to fall, and then buying them back and returning them to their owner, thus netting a profit). She then short sells 30,000 shares of Trellco, then 40,000 shares of Smith Greer, then 60,000 more shares of Pynex, then 30,000 more shares of Trellco, and then 50,000 more shares of Smith Greer. The Pynex stocks dips before righting itself again. Marlee has Marcus sell another 50,000 shares of Pynex. Marcus tells Marlee that she’s sold $22 million in stock and that he’d have to check with his supervisor to sell any more. Marlee goes to leave and tells Marcus to tell his other clients to short their tobacco shares, as their value will fall tomorrow.

The operative that Fitch sends to investigate Gabrielle Brant and her mother in Columbia find that Gabrielle’s mother was named Evelyn Brant; she died in 1987 of lung cancer. When they dig further, they find that Gabrielle’s father was named Peter Brant and that he also died of lung cancer. Swanson calls Fitch and tells him about Marlee’s past. Fitch doesn’t know how to stop the trial, as the jury is already deliberating. He shouts at everyone to find Marlee.

The jury begins their debate. Nicholas asks who thinks cigarettes cause lung cancer. All 12 raise their hands. Rikki then asks who thinks nicotine is addictive. All 12 raise their hands again. The group continues to review the materials, arguing about whether tobacco companies advertise directly to children. Though the findings from Dr. Sprawling-Goode state that tobacco companies do not advertise directly to youths, Rikki reminds everyone that all the smokers on the jury began smoking as early teenagers. Lonnie remarks that they all quit, though.

The jury then argues about what they think overall, as Lonnie is pushing to vote. Lonnie takes the defense’s side, arguing that cigarettes are bad but that people have the right to choose what they put in their bodies. Angel shares her story about starting to smoke when she was 13 because of an ad she saw. Loreen says that her teen daughter started smoking after she bought cigarettes from a vending machine in the mall, a place where teens hang out. The group then debates the difference between cigarettes and alcohol, as both are heavily advertised and addictive and have negative health outcomes. Phillip finally pipes up and says that he believes in choice and people’s right to choose. Henry says that he’s still thinking. Nicholas dictates that they need to keep reviewing the documents for 30 more minutes before they start voting.

Harkin calls in the jury and talks to Nicholas as the new foreman. He asks Nicholas if he thinks the jury will have a verdict that day, and Nicholas believes they will.

After dinner, the jury begins voting. Nicholas asks the jury to vote liability first, asking who thinks they should hold Pynex liable for Jacob Wood’s death. Rikki, Millie, Loreen, and Angel vote yes, while Lonnie, Philip, and Gladys vote no. The rest are uncertain. The group asks Nicholas what he thinks, and Nicholas’s moment has finally come. He tells the group that cigarettes are dangerous and deadly, that the world would be better if tobacco companies sold less nicotine, and that cigarettes killed Jacob. Nicholas encourages the group to stick it to the ruthless tobacco companies.

The group is split. Lonnie and Philip refuse to make Pynex liable for Jacob’s death. The rest of the group then begin arguing about the amount of money to award the plaintiff. Nicholas argues that they should make the amount $1 billion to send a message to the tobacco industry and work toward eradicating cigarettes. Some of the jurors seem uncertain about awarding that amount of money to Celeste, so Jerry suggests that everyone write down their proposed number on a piece of paper. Then, they’ll add the numbers and divide by 10 to get an average. The averaged number is $385,900,000. The 10 jurors agree to round up to $402,000,000. Before they go tell Harkin that they’ve reached a verdict, Lonnie pulls Nicholas aside and asks him to keep his name out of the verdict. Nicholas tells Lonnie that Harkin will ask them each to confirm the verdict, giving Lonnie a moment to voice his disagreement.

Lou Dell takes a note from Nicholas to Harkin that requests a deputy to escort Nicholas out of the courthouse after the verdict, with Nicholas stating that he’s afraid but will explain why later. At eight o’clock, the jury enters the courtroom. Nicholas reads the verdict, awarding $2 million in compensatory damages, which alone makes history in a case against a tobacco company, followed by $400 million in punitive damages to Celeste Wood. The defense lawyers are shocked, and Rohr quietly celebrates with Celeste, who cries silently.

Harkin polls the jury, asking each of them if they agreed with the verdict. All say yes, with the exception of Lonnie, Phillip, and Gladys. The verdict is 9-3 in favor of the plaintiff. Nicholas doesn’t see Fitch in the courtroom, which makes him nervous. Fitch watches the results from the secret camera in Oliver McAdoo’s briefcase while plotting what to do. He can’t risk kidnapping Nicholas, and if he follows Nicholas to Marlee, he’s not sure what he can do. He can’t turn her in for stealing his money, which was already dirty since he was breaking the law in paying her to influence a jury.

The Sheriff escorts Nicholas to an apartment out of town, where Marlee has stashed a rental car. Nicholas drives to the airport and catches a flight to Grand Cayman to meet Marlee. They reunite, thrilled by their victory. Marlee goes back to the bank to meet with Marcus to repurchase the tobacco company shares that she sold to complete the short-selling process. She nets $8 million, minus Marcus’s commission. She instructs Marcus to wire the money to a bank in Switzerland. Marlee and Nicholas then fly first-class to Miami, then Amsterdam, and then Geneva, where they rent a hotel suite for a month.

Fitch returns home to Arlington, Virginia, after the verdict. His future with The Fund is in doubt, but his firm has enough non-tobacco work to stay busy. He meets with Vandemeer and Jankle and tells them the truth about the Marlee debacle. Fitch meets with New York lawyers to discuss how to attack the verdict. Herman is releasing his medical records, which show that he did not have a heart attack, making his collapse suspicious. Frank maintains that he did not have the copy of Mogul under his bed, nor is Mogul sold anywhere in Biloxi. Cable is nearly ready to file a motion to interview the jurors to find out what happened in the jury process, which Harkin is okay with. Meanwhile, Rohr and the other plaintiff’s lawyers receive endless calls from other lawyers and potential victims. The Pynex and other tobacco stocks cannot recover from the destruction of the trial.

Six weeks after the trial, Fitch is having lunch when Marlee approaches him. She tells him that she’s wired his $10 million back to his account in the Korean bank. Marlee used the money to short the tobacco shares. After profiting, she now returns the money. She asks Fitch if he figured out her backstory as Gabrielle, and he admits that he did but too late. Marlee shares her pain about her parents’ deaths and reveals that she began hatching her plan to hurt the tobacco industry that she holds responsible while she was in graduate school. Marlee also tells Fitch that she’s watching the appeal process; if the lawyers get carried away attacking the verdict, Marlee will release copies of the wire transfers to illustrate how Fitch tried to buy the verdict. She finishes by telling him that the next time he goes to trial, she and Nicholas will be there.