zavitz bumps into an old college friend, labor lawyer robert clayton dean, and slips the disc into his shopping bag without his knowledge. shortly after, zavitz is killed when he collides with a fire truck on a stolen bicycle; reynolds' men later kill the journalist he'd called. when reynolds and his team discover that dean might have the video and after failing to convince him (under the guise of police officers) to allow them to search his shopping purchases, they, believing that dean and zavitz were in collusion together, raid his house and plant surveillance devices. they then disseminate false evidence to implicate dean of working with the family of mafia kingpin paulie pintero and having an affair with ex-girlfriend rachel banks. the subterfuge destroys dean's life: he is dismissed from his job, his bank accounts are frozen, and his wife carla throws him out of the house.