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[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for<\/b> The Rainmaker<\/i><\/b><\/a> Episode 6.]<\/b><\/p>\n After being humiliated in court and then fired<\/a> for the second time, you might think Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan<\/a>) would just hang it up and find something else to do. But that was decidedly not the case on this week\u2019s edition of The Rainmaker<\/i>. Instead, Rudy returned to the bar to earn much-needed money while he searched for another job. Then, when that didn\u2019t work, he gave the Black vs. Keeley case another run and made a miracle happen.<\/p>\n At the start of the episode, Sarah (Madison Iseman<\/a>) flitted off to London in a private jet to enjoy the spoils of luxury on her client\u2019s dime \u2014 and fell right into the open arms of Brad (Wade Briggs<\/a>). About her attraction to Brad, showrunner Michael Seitzman explained, \u201cWith Tinley Britt, she is in the lion\u2019s den, and she really only has two choices if she\u2019s going to remain: if she\u2019s going to be predator or she\u2019s going to be prey. She\u2019s surrounded by predators, and her ambition tells her that she needs to become a predator, whereas Rudy\u2019s ambition tells him something else. Rudy\u2019s ambition tells him that he has to fight for other people, but hers tells her that in order to get ahead, she has to be like them. So when she looks at Brad, it\u2019s kind of like looking through a surface mirror. She sees some version of herself, but a little bit blurry, and as she moves along, that image becomes clearer and clearer. She wants to become one of them. So what she sees in Brad is she sees what she wants to be. She sees her ambition in its purest, most blood thirsty form, and it\u2019s attractive to her.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Deck (P.J. Byrne<\/a>) wisely declined Rudy\u2019s effort to divulge details of the case, even as he championed for Bruiser to rehire him. However, Rudy still learned everything he needed when he was nearly run over by a key defense witness whose social media brags contradicted his story. After conferring with an old law school buddy who could give him intel on the man\u2019s stock portfolio history, Rudy had a plan.<\/p>\n Bruiser was desperate to settle the case until Leo (John Slattery<\/a>) dropped the offer to a number that her client would never accept. She came into the deposition with little hope of gleaning anything new from it until Rudy interrupted. Considering the man at the table was the one the mysterious-to-them nurse Jackie talked to about her suspicions about Melvin Pritcher (Dan Fogler<\/a>), and he conveniently made some stock exchanges after speaking with her, Rudy believed he could get the guy to talk about the tissue committee and thus open it up to discovery despite the official ruling against him.<\/p>\n So what made Bruiser, who\u2019d just fired Rudy, decide to let him take the lead on this? Seitzman said the whole exercise was a lesson. \u201cBruiser basically likes Rudy from the outset, and I think for Bruiser, she sees somebody who she could form in her image, the same way that Leo and Brad see someone in Sarah that they can form in their image. So I think when he shows up, he makes a lot of sense in that lobby. And I think she doesn\u2019t really have many other cards to play in that room, but he comes in with a couple cards to play, and she sees it and thinks, \u2018Why not?’\u201d he explained. \u201cI also think on some level, Bruiser is always rooting for Rudy. He doesn\u2019t necessarily see it that way at first, but like any great mentor, she teaches with tough love sometimes, and I think that\u2019s part of the fiery crucible that Rudy has to go through.\u201d<\/p>\n As for the source of Rudy\u2019s own confidence in the matter, Seitzman added, \u201cWith both Rudy and Sarah, they\u2019re wrestling with confidence all the time, and I think very often, for most people, confidence is what holds people back. Overconfidence, rather, will cause people to stumble, but that confidence from the outset will make people they\u2019ll make people fill the shoes that they\u2019re dying to fill. And I think for Rudy, his confidence is born out of that, which is he also wants to fit into bigger shoes. And I think he walks into this with knowledge that he\u2019s gleaned from hard work and intelligence, and I think he\u2019s feeling pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, at the deposition, Brad\u2019s continuous objections to Rudy\u2019s questions only amplified the irritation of the witness as Rudy pressed and pressed, and the guy finally broke, mentioning the tissue committee without realizing what he\u2019d done. From there, Rudy was immediately welcomed back onto the team.<\/p>\n