alex gibney's documentary, "the crime of the century," they interviewed him. ain why he was chosen, what was special about him? alex: he had such a high tolerance for the medication. these weren't ju 50 pills, it was 5160 milligrams tablets. anyone else would have been dead. he was approached by a purdue salesperson, who said we can give you some free samples. wouldn't that be great? he said sure. they gave him free samples and as it turned out, the purdue sales rep also had a sexual relationship with the doctor prescribing these pills and was prescribing them without even examining the patient. what purdue did, or what the sales rep did with gary blinn and used him -- was used him as a marketing tool, going to other doctors and saying this guy is taking 50 pills a day. no dose is too high. you may be asking, surely when purdue discovered the behavior of the sales rep, she must have been viewed as a bad apple and harshly punished. to the contrary. she was promoted to a position in sales training, so it gives you some idea about just how aggressively and how fra