Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

by Ronan Farrow

“I told him there’s smoke but I don’t know that there’s fire. We don’t really have a smoking gun. I said, ‘Noah, if you ask me right now, you know, I don’t think we have it.’” I reminded him that I’d heard audio of Weinstein admitting to an assault and seen his signature on a million-dollar nondisclosure agreement. I pressed on whether we could schedule that meeting between Gutierrez and our lawyers. “It’s not in the news. I don’t think there’s any rush here,” Greenberg said. “I think where we stand now is, we give it a rest.” “What does ‘give it a rest’ mean?” I asked. “You know, just—just keep it on the back burner,” Greenberg said. That phrase again, I thought. “Ronan, you have so many promising things going on. You’ve got a lot of stories in progress, the series is doing well. You know, you don’t have to necessarily focus on this.” A few minutes later, I was on the phone with McHugh. He was as puzzled as I was. “This feels like somebody called them,” he said. “You hear from Hiltzik and Harvey, then this? It doesn’t feel like a coincidence.”