[Jerry goes to get out of the lift, but an angry looking Mac, having found out that he had trimmed the footage of a Genoa interview, confronts him at the door]
You forgot about the shot clock.
Mac? [she pushes him back in, pressing the "G" button] Hey, easy does it.
The shot clock jumps. From nineteen, to three, to two, to fourteen.
[There is no response from Jerry, and she gives him an impatient look]
He said it, Mac.
How do you not understand what you've done?
[They begin talking over each other]
He said it before we were rolling, but I couldn't get it to say it on camera. He said it to me.
We have to retract it. Do you understand this..?
Did Genoa happen? It happened. It happened.
...That we invented evidence to support a story of a war crime. A WAR CRIME!
Maggie was there, she heard him say it. She's just fucked up. Yeah, it's a war crime, and it happened! We went into Iraq because he had these things. We don't torture, we don't use chemical weapons.
No one... No one... No one... No one..!
I WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THIS ON ANY OTHER STORY, AND I WOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT UNLESS I WAS SURE!
... Is ever going to believe us again.
[after a brief silence] I think I shouldn't say anything more until I've talked to a lawyer.
[They reach the ground floor, and he leaves]
You're fired.
I know.
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