But instead of speaking Mandarin, his voice leaps upward as he’s belting out Katy Perry’s “ Firework” in a shaky falsetto. We’re introduced to Walgreens executive Jay Rosan (Alan Ruck) the same way we met Elizabeth: fiddling with a car stereo behind the wheel. But the beginning of the next episode, “Old White Men,” finds one of her future investors heading in the precise opposite direction. It’s then that she has the inspiration that will define her life, and Theranos’ entire doomed existence: a small rectangular box, its smooth surface marked by minimal controls, that “could always be with you, and will keep you safe.”īy The Dropout’s third episode, Seyfried has adopted Holmes’ comically artificial CEO voice, a lugubrious bass designed to stamp out any trace of feminine uncertainty. ( The Dropout establishes early on that Elizabeth doesn’t really have friends, and when she tells her mother she’s been assaulted, her best advice it to put it behind her and move on.) Sitting alone in her dorm room, she blasts Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “ Y Control,” and as singer Karen O wishes she could “buy back the woman you stole,” Elizabeth runs the MP3 player’s stainless steel casing over her neck like it’s an ice cube on a hot day. She uses those iconic white earbuds to shield her from uncooperative classmates in the Mandarin immersion program where she meets Sunny Balwani (Naveen Andrews), who would become her lover and alleged partner in crime, and when she’s sexually assaulted at Stanford, it’s the device that offers her comfort.

(The real Holmes listed “I’m in a Hurry” as her favorite song in her high school yearbook.) And it’s the combination of technology and music, as realized in the iPod, that carries her forward. Elizabeth is, as Alabama says, in a hurry to get things done.

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