As former U.S. president turned special commission investigator George Mullen ( Robert De Niro) delivers a climactic closing speech in the final scene of Netflix's new political thriller Zero Day, it's this admission that gets to the heart of the show's message about the importance of truth in today's world.

In our Zero Day ending explained piece, we break down what happens in the finale of the Netflix political thriller starring Robert De Niro.

Robert De Niro attended the New York premiere of his first television series Tuesday. In Netflix's Zero Day, which debuts Thursday, De Niro portrays the fictional former president George Mullen, who is picking up the pieces after a brutal cyber attack that killed thousands.