Theodore Melfi

Al Harrison challenges Katherine to look past standard calculations to find the math required for space travel. He emphasizes the high stakes of the Space Race and demands a visionary approach rather than just technical accuracy.

Mary Jackson petitions a judge for the right to attend night classes at an all-white high school to pursue her engineering degree. She appeals to the judge's own history of being a 'first' in his family and profession to convince him to break segregationist precedents.

Katherine Johnson reaches a breaking point and confronts her boss, Al Harrison, about the systemic racism and segregation she faces daily at NASA, specifically the lack of accessible bathrooms for Black women.