Home Sweet HomeAt a certain point, Fielder decides he wants to stay at Holmes’s home in San Diego, so that he can be with them 24/7. Holmes and Evans
Home Sweet Home
At a certain point, Fielder decides he wants to stay at Holmes’s home in San Diego, so that he can be with them 24/7. Holmes and Evans had previously offered this to Fielder, but he had at first declined. When he moves into the guest house, there’s only a box spring on the bed. When he asks them about it, they say the mattress is in storage, and they’ll get it out. He’s later seen sleeping on the bed with a mattress, but no sheets or blankets. Weird!
Holmes Insists She Has Never Lied. Ever!
In the film, Fielder asks Holmes if she’s ever told a lie about anything in her life. She says no. Naturally, this shocks Fielder, who exclaims “Liz, what!” He tries to get her to admit to telling at least little white lies—saying, for instance, that she was unwell while bailing on a party she didn’t want to attend. Even then, Holmes can’t seem to pinpoint one time she remembers doing such a thing. “I’ve always tried to say what I believe,” she tells him. Evans confirms to Fielder that Holmes doesn’t lie: “She’s weird,” he says.
Later, Fielder tries to drill into a statement Holmes made about Theranos’s blood-testing technology: “The device can run any test.” This is a lie; the device could not run any test. After a long, convoluted conversation, Holmes explains that what she meant was that the device could potentially run any test—not that it had the ability to do so in its current form.
Fielder later shows Holmes a video of Abbott and Costello’s eminent “Who’s on First?” routine. When he asks her about it afterwards, she seems not to understand the bit’s main joke: that the player’s name is “Who.” All this seems to imply that Holmes’s mind perhaps really doesn’t work the same as most people’s when it comes to understanding interpersonal communication.
