Catch and Kill

Farrow decides to take his reporting to another outlet but worries that NBC owns the rights to all the interviews he recorded. McHugh offers him a computer storage device with all of the recorded material. Although they both know they could be fired for this offense, they refuse to let the story die. Farrow places the recorded interviews in his safe deposit box.

The next day, Auletta introduces Farrow to David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker. Farrow continues to work at NBC but feels the tension and anxiety in the office. He meets with Oppenheim again and realizes that NBC is in a dilemma: they do not want to run the story, but they also want to avoid the scandal of refusing to run it. McHugh believes that NBC will simply continue to vet everything until the story grinds to a halt. Farrow agrees to keep the option of taking the story elsewhere open.

Later, Farrow receives an update on the threatening social media messages, which are said to come from “run-of-the-mill stalkers with mental health issues” (127). Meanwhile, Weinstein contacts many of Farrow’s sources, offering some of them the chance to work on a book about his company. These offers are a thinly veiled ploy to gather a list of all potential sources.