It always came down to this for Burger: defeat. But not just defeat. Public defeat. Spectacular failure in the very arena where he made his bread. It wasn't a matter of being outflanked with a clever argument, or having a stupid jury swayed by Trademark Theatrics. No. Mason showed that Burger's entire premise, his entire chain of reasoning that brought the case to the point of a jury trial, was wrong, a direct result of Burger's judgment and analysis.

He knew his conviction stats were good only because he prosecuted the people Mason unmasked. Oh, how that ate at him. How it burned.

But he kept swinging. Next: some tiny. potent clips.