- [Woman] I was smoking at
the lab, smoking at home,
I actually smoked in the evidence room.
I was totally controlled by my addiction.
- [Man] At these drug labs,
a single chemist can do
thousands of cases a year.
- [Man] It wasn't really clear
the extent to which things had gone wrong.
- [Woman] She didn't realize
how many people it would hurt.
- [Man] And it turns out it's
not just one but two chemists.
- This was one of the biggest
miscarriages of justice
in the history of Massachusetts.
- [Man] All these convictions
needed to be wiped away.
- When you're investigating somebody
who's tampered with evidence,
the scope of this could be very large.
- [Woman] It's amazing the ripple effect
of a single person's act.
- These allegations do not implicate
any system-wide practices.
- [Man] How do you come
out and make a statement
that no one's been wrongfully convicted?
- How do you know?
- You just assume they're doing their job
unless you're told otherwise.
- [Man] This isn't just a
scandal about bad science,
it is a scandal about bad law.
(ominous music)
- [Man] The whole idea
was to keep this as small as possible.
- [Man] Billions of dollars
flood into this system
to perpetuate this war on drugs.
- And maybe I found the smoking gun
in this whole sorted tale.
- Unless you're part
of the bigger problem.
- [Man] She took the drugs.
- [Man] Anything that she
touched should be tossed out.
- [Man] Liquid meth raises the intensity
at which you feel alive.
- [Woman] It made me feel more alert.
It gave me the pep I was looking for.
(dramatic upbeat music)
- Your job isn't to contain it,
it's to figure out how
do we gonna do justice?
(ominous upbeat music)
