Richard calls Wall Street Journal news reporter John Carreyrou to convince him to investigate Theranos. John says Richard needs a better source, someone who has worked there.

Tyler and Erika quickly become good friends, and they work together to improve the lab’s efficiency. However, there are still some tensions that remain. Tyler is always trying to be the center of attention, while Erika is more introverted. Despite their differences, they are able to work together to make Theranos a better place.

In an interview at Stanford, Elizabeth mentioned how a female professor didn’t believe in her. She also said that she’s been working on a book about feminism and how it can be used to improve society.

After Elizabeth’s comments about the sciences, Phyllis rants to Richard about what she knows will happen. She knows that she will ruin everything and all women in the sciences will look bad.

The three of them later show up at the house of Ian’s wife, Rochelle. Like Richard and Phyllis, she wants to burn the company to the ground. ..

Erika is confused by the shabby condition of The Edison’s. Tyler tells her there’s a secret lab called Normandy where they keep the real technology and run the actual tests.

She becomes suspicious when Mark, the new lab director, asks her to cherry-pick data. Everyone is very vague and insistent about deleting “outliers,” aka, data points that don’t do what they want them to do. She begins to wonder if they are trying to hide something.

Later, Tyler brings up this lab “mismanagement” to Elizabeth. She thanks him.

Erika is moved to Normandy the next day. She’s told she’ll be working with real patient samples. When she gets there, she sees them diluting blood samples and running them through the same shabby technology.

John Carreyrou interviews Rochelle about how Elizabeth never invented anything, though her name is on all of Theranos’ patents. Rochelle tells John that she knows this because she was there when Elizabeth created the company’s technology. John needs a primary source to be able to run a story.

Erika tests blood samples alone in the lab. The machine doesn’t work, so she calls for help. ..

Erika comes in to override the machine’s results. She protests that this is a real patient she’s dealing with, but the woman ignores her. So, Erika investigates the lab, finding that the Edison machines are just repurposed Siemens machines. This leads her to tell Tyler.

Tyler is hesitant to help Erika because he doesn’t believe Elizabeth would purposely give people bad results. Erika persists, insisting she can do it on her own. When Tyler still doesn’t respond, she becomes frustrated and leaves his office. ..

Elizabeth and Sunny head to Elizabeth’s 30th birthday party. Sunny is upset they can’t be affectionate in public. He so wants to go public that he puts an offer on a house for the two of them. At the party, Tyler’s stepmom notices that there’s something between the CEO and COO.

Elizabeth tells Tyler that she was right about everything and that he should leave her alone. Tyler leaves her alone, feeling intimidated.

Dear Elizabeth, We hope this email finds you well. We wanted to let you know about some of the mismanagement that has been going on at the lab. We hope that by letting you know, you can’t ever claim that you were unaware of it. Sincerely, Erika and Tyler ..

Sunny fires Tyler and knows Erika gave him the information. He threatens to make her unhireable if anything like this happens again.

Tyler and Erika go to Tyler’s grandfather to try and convince him that Theranos is a scam. However, he refuses to listen.

In the meantime, Richard manages to set up a secret meeting with Mark Roessler. Mark points Richard in the direction of Erika and Tyler.

The Wall Street journalist ends the episode by calling Tyler and Erika.

The Episode Review

The Holmes/Theranos scandal is a thread that runs through the show’s investigation into the mysterious death of Erika Cheung and Tyler Schultz. Though, unfortunately, it introduces us to even more characters we have to keep track of (perhaps an indication that the Holmes/Theranos scandal isn’t the most adaptable history).

Despite the damning evidence against her, Elizabeth Holmes continues to maintain her innocence. The TV crew’s hard work in presenting this complex story is commendable. ..

The Dropout contextualizes Elizabeth Holmes’s rise in a male-dominated atmosphere. Many held the real Elizabeth Holmes as a shining example of female entrepreneurship and a feminist icon because of her success. However, after her company was revealed to be a fraud, many people have turned their backs on her. ..

In this episode of “The Theranos Show,” skillfully navigating these loaded themes, the show does not make Elizabeth into a sympathetic character, but uses her character to create sympathy for other women in the industry: women who will be deeply let down by the Theranos founder’s deception.