L.A. Law

Michael Kuzak:
That's because I've never had anything this responsive underneath me.

Leland McKenzie:
[settling an argument during a staff meeting] It's time you people remember whose name is at the top of the letterhead!

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I'm more like my father than I thought. I wanted to be the lawyer he was, the man he was. Turns out we both just like to cheat on our wives.

Stuart Markowitz:
Don't underestimate me, I'm amazing with mums. When I was at High School all of them had crushes on me, it was the daughters I had trouble with.

Ann Kelsey:
You thought you could buy me off with a few trinkets?

Stuart Markowitz:
Yes.

Executive at Hackett Development Corporation:
Okay, Mr. Brackman, better get your people in.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
We're in.

Executive at Hackett Development Corporation:
Just the two of you?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
How many people did the other firms bring?

Executive at Hackett Development Corporation:
Bundies, back set for partners, you'll be fine. [Douglas here with Law Messenger Benny]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Benny?

Benny Stulwicz:
Yeah.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I want you to sit next to me in the meeting, okay? Like a lawyer.

Benny Stulwicz:
Uh - uh - I don't know.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
It'll be fine. Sit next to me, just take a yellow pad and write. Don't talk. Don't look around. Just look down at the pad and write.

Executive at Hackett Development Corporation:
Mr. Brackman? [Douglas needs a minute with Benny and they'll be in the meeting in few minutes]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Put these on. [Douglas will give Benny to put on a reading glasses] Great. [Now Douglas and Benny are now ready for the meeting] And get rid of the gum.

Benny Stulwicz:
Uh. [Benny has to find out where would he get rid of that chewing gum, Douglas got a tissue, Benny spit out the gum]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Head down. Write. [Douglas and Benny are now getting to the conference meeting]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
McKenzie, Brackman, may not be all things to all men, but we think our strengths and your needs make a nice stiff.

Executive at Hackett Development Corporation:
I think it's only fair to express my concern about Nobey area office.

Leo Hackett:
That's what the alliance are for. Look, we're severing our tides with Gacey Whitman because I'm going to be able to pick up the phone and talk to my attorneys, I don't want to wait 3 days for a return call.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Of course not.

Leo Hackett:
What's going to make this work is compatibility, because if you don't like the way I do business, if you're constantly having to be the barrier of bad news, it's going to affect your commitment to us.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Rest assure, Leo, that our professional obligation...

[Mr. Hackett is moving along to Benny Stulwicz]

Leo Hackett:
What does your associate think?

[Douglas pause. And moving to Benny. Benny is writing quietly. Leo is talking to Benny]

Leo Hackett:
You.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Uh, Ben?

[Douglas wants Benny to answer and pay to attention to Leo. Benny look at Leo]

Leo Hackett:
You heard all this. Uh, how would you assess this imagine terms of compatibility?

Benny Stulwicz:
[Benny thinking] I don't know.

[Douglas turns back to Leo]

Leo Hackett:
I don't know either, Ben, but I appreciate the cantor. For once, a lawyer doesn't bluff an answer when he doesn't have one. Thank you, Ben.

[Benny is continues writing, Douglas come back to Benny and pat Benny on his shoulder. Benny turned to Douglas. Douglas is so proud. Benny will find out]

[C.J. and Zoe are teaching a seminar in trial procedure to a group of lawyers from the former Soviet bloc]

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Goooood morning, communists! My name is C.J. Lamb. I'm your co-host, and the first thing about American law is LOUD! We jump up! We call each other names!

Zoey Clemmons:
[in C.J.'s hotel room at a law conference] C.J.! Get up! It's nine o'clock! We are in trouble! We were supposed to have an eight o'clock class setup. We have a mock trial before three California Supreme Court judges at 1:00 PM and our class knows nothing except how to get jailed for contempt.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Zoey, calm down.

Zoey Clemmons:
I can't calm down! What did you do last night?

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
It was hammer time. What could I do? We started home after midnight, but they played that "Wang Chung" song and we didn't get in 'til 5:00 AM.

Zoey Clemmons:
Great, you keep the class out dancing til dawn. Now, who the hell do we know to fake it in front of three California Supreme Court judges?

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Me.

Zoey Clemmons:
What?

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
I'm from England. Nobody knows me here. I'll put on a suite, a wig, my best Polish accent, and you'll win the prize for best class.

Zoey Clemmons:
We can't do this. It's fraud, it's wrong, it's a lie!

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
And we have no choice. Not only do our students not know anything, but they're also completely hung over.

Zoey Clemmons:
I am never taking you with me on another trip, ever!

[Back at Douglas' office, he hears there's a phone beeping, and press off. But the door is opened is Douglas' ex-wife Sheila]

Sheila Brackman:
You son of a b*tch!

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Sheila.

Sheila Brackman:
How could you do that?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I assume you're talking about me and Veronica.

Sheila Brackman:
How could you humiliate me like this?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Sheila, no one is trying to humiliate anyone, all this is about is two people who discovered a mutual need to be with one another.

Sheila Brackman:
You're stooping my baby sister!

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Well you stooped my baby brother!

Sheila Brackman:
So, I was right. You're doing this just to get back at me?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I'm not doing anything to you! I'm doing something for me. I didn't set out to fall in love with your sister, it just happened.

Sheila Brackman:
Pervert.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Pervert?

Sheila Brackman:
This is insets. But do you care? No! Do you think for one single minute how this is gonna make your sons feel? No! All you care about is your own disgusted perverted sexual desires!

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
This is not perversion! This is not insets! This is two single people who have every right to be with each other!

Sheila Brackman:
I hope your thing falls off, you son of a b*tch! [That goes for Arnie, too] Yours, too, you son of a b*tch! [Arnie and Gwen finds out what's that all about. And Douglas closed the door]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
He's been there 3 months?

Arnie Becker:
According to Roxanne, who knew about this, Benny's been a pretty good parent. He even got the kid enrolled in school, that's a social services caught up with him. Benny couldn't show any proof of legal guardianship.

Stuart Markowitz:
We're the real parents.

Arnie Becker:
No father, mother's an alcoholic who abandoned him. The kid was living on the streets for 10 months.

Ann Kelsey:
Oh, my God.

Arnie Becker:
Look, I promise Benny we try to help get him back. Grace is going to handle it, since I could be a witness.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Wait a second. We're going to actually advocate that Benny keep this kid?

Grace Van Owen:
Why not?

Ann Kelsey:
What's wrong with that?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
He's mentally retarded.

Arnie Becker:
I pledge this firm support, he gets it, Douglas.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
All right. But please. People, under no circumstances is this firm to assume guardianship responsibilities. On a more soothing note, I'm please to announce that no charges will be filed against Tommy Mullaney in the self defense shooting of John Harvey. [Leland was surprised]

Stuart Markowitz:
That must be a relief.

Tommy Mullaney:
Yeah.

Grace Van Owen:
I'm so surprised, they even considered it.

Tommy Mullaney:
Thanks. Thanks, guys.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Uh, where are we Malone vs. West Side Medical at all.

Ann Kelsey:
Deposition start today.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Any settlement offer to our client?

Ann Kelsey:
Nothing worth mentioning.

Leland McKenzie:
How much?

Ann Kelsey:
25,000.

Leland McKenzie:
Should realistic to hope for mortgage account?

Ann Kelsey:
Client doesn't want to.

Leland McKenzie:
Well, don't you think she should?

Ann Kelsey:
We're more concerned with stopping this guy from operating on anybody else, it's only a matter of time for he kill someone.

Tommy Mullaney:
Is that the client talking of you?

Jonathan Rollins:
Besides, isn't this guy is so unlike the top orthopedic surgeon in the universe?

Ann Kelsey:
I've got a client who came out of surgery paralyzed for life. And the scrub nurse who says it's something weird happened to the universe's top orthopedic surgeon in the operating room that day, I'm gonna find out what.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Good for you.

Arnie Becker:
Good for her, Mister Settlement? Mister, take the money and run?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Excuse me, believe it or not, I haven't to think there are certain things more important than money.

Stuart Markowitz:
Douglas, are you feeling okay?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I'm on your side, Ann.

Ann Kelsey:
Thank you, Douglas.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Now that concludes our business. We're adjourned. [Stuart closes his not and Ann closed the notebook. The meeting is over. Leland is waiting for awhile]

John Vincent:
[the waiter serve the bottle of champagne] You look lovely.

Grace Van Owen:
Thank you. None for me.

John Vincent:
Please.

[the waiter pours glass of champagne. John Vincent toast between the two Grace Van Owen and John Vincent]

John Vincent:
To us.

Grace Van Owen:
There is no us, Mr. Vincent.

[John chuckling]

John Vincent:
Nah. Charles told me you're little reluctant.

Grace Van Owen:
My mind's made up.

John Vincent:
I'm always found it best to postpone final judgment, until I have all the facts.

Grace Van Owen:
I have all the facts I need. And...

John Vincent:
I don't think you do. For instance, I don't think you know who paid for that fancy office you're sitting. I don't think you know who owns the building, Ms. Van Owen, or who owns the firm or to a lesser extend who owns you.

[John drinks the glass of champagne]

Grace Van Owen:
You may own the firm, Mr. Vincent, but I guaranteed you. You don't own me.

[John straightening his tie]

John Vincent:
You listen. You gotta go into court, and you're gonna substitute in as counsel for Tommy. Then you're gonna get a nice continuance, courtesy the judge will be only too happy to extend to a popular ex-D.A. Then if you want, I'll get someone else to substitute in for you. Do you understand?

Grace Van Owen:
No.

John Vincent:
I need time, Ms. Van Owen. It's just come to my attention that the state's key witness may suffer a serious decline and help in the next few weeks. It sometimes happens to people who disappoint me.

Grace Van Owen:
My answer is not changing.

John Vincent:
Some mistakes are very hard to live it, Ms. Van Owen. I seriously suggest you rethink your position.

[the waiter arrived at the table]

John Vincent:
She's still drinking the champagne.

[But suddenly, the waiter pulled out the revolver and shot and killed the mob boss John Vincent]

Grace Van Owen:
Oh!

[the crowds are murmuring. John Vincent was shot and died in the scene in the restaurant]

Leland McKenzie:
I'm told you did not appreciate what happened last night?

Jonathan Rollins:
Not true. I think I fully appreciate last night. Everyone acting in concert to scare and embarrass me.

Leland McKenzie:
You know what they say Jonathan. A peacock that struts with its feathers out makes for an easy target.

Jonathan Rollins:
I didn't do anything to cause that kind of resentment, Leland. The resentment was already here when I first walked through those doors to work here.

Leland McKenzie:
You didn't do anything? You pranced around telling everyone that you were making more money then the other associates. You defied my direct instructions on how to try cases... several times. You connived to steal a client from Stuart. You set off a smoke bomb during a deposition and now you mocked us on national television. That stunt you pulled on TV yesterday accounts for something, Jonathan!

Jonathan Rollins:
I intend to be aggressive because as a black man I feel I have to prove myself in this white man's world. People look at me and see affirmative action! Nobody is gonna accept me, Leland! They think I'm just part of an equal opportunity program!

Leland McKenzie:
We accepted you the day we hired you and I think you know that.

Jonathan Rollins:
And I suppose last night's cruel joke was just a way of saying "welcome to the club".

Leland McKenzie:
Actually, it was a lot more then that. It was a way of knocking you down a peg. You need our help, Jonathan and our friendship. But you have been too arrogant and too self-important to accept it. It has nothing to do with the color of your skin, my friend. That joke last night served two purposes: to let you know how angry we were and to invite you to have a laugh with us at your expense and I think you missed the point... on both counts.

Jonathan Rollins:
[on TV] No, no Gina. That just they way they are.

Gina Westland:
It's sounds like they're incompetent.

Jonathan Rollins:
No, not incompetent, just amusing. We have one partner I won't mention names but... it's Brackman! He keeps having extramarital affairs. He even slept with his female bailiff when he was a small claims court judge.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
[watching on the TV] Oh, God! OH, GOD!

Jonathan Rollins:
[on the TV] And our divorce lawyer Arnold Becker beds down with around 90% of his female clients.

Arnie Becker:
[watching the TV] Son of a b*tch!

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
He's fired!

Jonathan Rollins:
[on TV] And we have two partners, Ann Kelsey and Stuart Markowitz, that sleep with each other.

Gina Westland:
Come on!

Jonathan Rollins:
They are married, but I heard it was a shotgun wedding.

Ann Kelsey:
That bastard!

Stuart Markowitz:
I'll kill him!

Jonathan Rollins:
[on TV] But you know what really gets me? It's that none of them... NONE of them can tell the difference between a live broadcast... and a videotaped gag. Gotcha!

Arnie Becker:
What the...?

Jonathan Rollins:
[on the TV to the lawyers] I know I got you!

Grace Van Owen:
[the trial about stolen bull semen] Now, Professor L'Hommedieu, could you please describe for the court the manner in which these sperm samples are collected?

Prof. Philip L'Hommedieu:
Well, the first of the two methods is electro-ejaculation. However that's rather an aversive experience for the animal, and the far more common technique is to...

Defense Attorney:
[Interrupting] Objection to the question, your honor. and I renew my objection as to the admissibility of Professor L'Hommedieu's testimony in general. What's at issue here is whether my client stole it and how much it was worth. The manner in which the bull expresses himself is of no relevance whatsoever.

Prof. Philip L'Hommedieu:
Tell that to the bull.

Grace Van Owen:
Your honor, it's imperative that the jury understands the intricate process involved here.

Defense Attorney:
Come on, we all know how it works.

Grace Van Owen:
It's not that simple, judge. They don't just send the bull behind the hayloft with a magazine and a baggie.

Judge Sidney Schroeder:
Ms. Van Owen...

Grace Van Owen:
It is a protracted and expensive process, your honor. One which the dairy industry takes very seriously.

Judge Sidney Schroeder:
Look, I'll let him briefly describe it, but keep it short.

Grace Van Owen:
Thank you, your honor. Please continue, Professor.

Prof. Philip L'Hommedieu:
Certainly. The bull is led from the pen into a collection area. If he's an experienced animal, he knows what's coming. So he's already in a state of excitation.

Grace Van Owen:
[With an awkward reaction] What happens next?

Prof. Philip L'Hommedieu:
By this time, a technician has tethered a stimulus. Oh, I should add that, uh, most of the time, a male stimulus is used to prevent accidental intramission.

Grace Van Owen:
[Grimacing] You mean the bull will engage with another male?

Prof. Philip L'Hommedieu:
A sexually naive animal, no. But a mature bull will mount almost anything.

Judge Sidney Schroeder:
[Through restrained chuckling] Ms. Van Owen...

Grace Van Owen:
[Likewise] We're almost finished, your honor.

Prof. Philip L'Hommedieu:
After the bull mounts, the animal technician takes hold of his... [He turns to Judge Schroeder] Can I say the "P" word?

Judge Sidney Schroeder:
Just continue. [Judge Schroeder holds a hand to his mouth]

Prof. Philip L'Hommedieu:
He takes hold of the member and inserts it into an artificial... [He turns to Judge Schroeder again] Can I say the "V" word?

Judge Sidney Schroeder:
Counsel... [Judge Schroeder stands up]... in my chambers. Right now. [Judge Schroeder enters his chambers and Grace and the Defense Attorney join him. Upon Schroeder shutting the door behind him, all three laugh hysterically and blushingly]

Ray Breecher:
I was shocked. They're running a frog jumping contests. It's supposed to be a legitimate thing. I show up with my frog and they won't let him jump.

Michael Roitman:
What reason did they give for excluding you, sir?

Ray Breecher:
And they say it was too big. Now there's nothing about size in the rules and suddenly they go too big. The fix had a be in.

Jonathan Rollins:
Objection.

Judge Walter Green:
Sustained.

Ray Breecher:
I paid 1,300 bucks for this frog, plus travel.

Michael Roitman:
Plus travel?

Ray Breecher:
I had him flown in for Africa. There's a lot of paperwork to be done on that, I tell you.

Michael Roitman:
You also put him to, uh, rigorous training camp, did you not?

Ray Breecher:
And we did sprints, jumps, squats, big hops, little hops, and I even put him on his little wheel for aerobic conditioning.

[Scoffs]

Ray Breecher:
I tell you, I push that frog.

Michael Roitman:
How much does this, uh, arbitrary disqualification cost you, sir?

Ray Breecher:
The winner gets 40,000, which would have been mine. You get an extra 10 grand for setting a record, which my frog could have done on one leg easy.

Michael Roitman:
I have nothing further, sir.

Jonathan Rollins:
Are you real concerned with fairness, Mr. Breecher?

Ray Breecher:
What's a contest without fairness? Yeah.

Jonathan Rollins:
4 years ago, you attempted to enter a tiny but long leaping run toad, didn't you?

Ray Breecher:
Well, I look like a frog. I was mistaken.

Jonathan Rollins:
And 2 years ago, you're winning entry tested positive for cocaine, did it not?

Ray Breecher:
I don't know how he got the drugs. Frog had a life.

Jonathan Rollins:
Mr. Breecher, your reptile has been known to... to eat small rats.

Michael Roitman:
Objection, Your Honor, it is not a reptile. It is an amphibian.

Judge Walter Green:
Sustained.

Jonathan Rollins:
How large is your amphibian, sir?

Ray Breecher:
It's big.

Jonathan Rollins:
Exactly, how big?

Ray Breecher:
How? With legs extended, I'd say he was about 3 ft. long.

Judge Walter Green:
3 ft.?

Ray Breecher:
That's one big mother frog.

[Ann, Stuart and Douglas having a coffee break before heading to court, Ann is speaking with Douglas and Stuart]

Ann Kelsey:
Did you see that? She's taking over. I told you, Stuart. I told you.

[Stuart sighed]

Stuart Markowitz:
She just backed you up on your case, Ann. That's a good thing.

Ann Kelsey:
That wasn't backing me up, Stuart. That was a calculated manipulation.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
She bossed me up. Did you hear the way she bossed me?

Stuart Markowitz:
She wasn't bossing you, Douglas.

Ann Kelsey:
Support, support, support. That's all she ever gets from you.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
''Move along''. Very bossy.

Stuart Markowitz:
She beat me in the election. I'm the one who's being sensitive here.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I think we should organize a little private meeting, see how everyone feels.

Ann Kelsey:
Why don't we just take another vote?

Stuart Markowitz:
It got to be done by executive committee. Article 3, Section 7.

Ann Kelsey:
Support, support, support.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Not support, Ann. A rule.

Leland McKenzie:
Excuse me. What's going on?

Stuart Markowitz:
Uh, nothing. We're just talking.

Leland McKenzie:
Benny has a little problem, Stuart. Could you help him out?

Stuart Markowitz:
Sure.

Leland McKenzie:
Let's be grownups.

[while Ann is preparing to head to court, Douglas will be heading back to his office, and Stuart will take care of that while helping the Law Messenger Benny]

Abby Perkins:
2 grams. Simple procession. I could probably plead him out and get 6 months minimum security. Of course, if we go to trial and lose, we're talking a year easy.

Arnie Becker:
State prison?

Abby Perkins:
I doubt it, but it's their defense. It's possible.

Abe Lassen:
Take the plea.

Abby Perkins:
No. Just a minute. Don't forget the motion to dismiss. We have a real shot at getting it kicked.

Arnie Becker:
Right.

Abe Lassen:
In which case he just walks?

Abby Perkins:
Exactly.

Abe Lassen:
Take the plea. Let him do the 6 months.

Abby Perkins:
Excuse me?

Abe Lassen:
My son is a drug problem, Ms Perkins. Nothing we tried has ever worked - programs, clinics. This is the third time he's been arrested. Every time, he goes free. Every time, he goes back to drugs. Maybe jail is just the thing he needs.

Abby Perkins:
That may be, Mr. Lassen, but Joel is the client, at least technically. And it would have to be his decision.

Abe Lassen:
If Joel were capable of making tough decision, we wouldn't be standing here right now, would we? This... this is me son - my only son. If something drastic doesn't him shake him out of this, I'm gonna lose him.

Abby Perkins:
You're asking a defense attorney to deliberately put her client in jail when there's a chance of getting him off.

Abe Lassen:
That's the way you see it. The way I see it is I'm asking you to help me save his life. [Arnie will find out and Abby will do her best]

Benny Stulwicz:
The refrigerator guy came by...

Stuart Markowitz:
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, whoa. Slow down. Come on in. Tell me about it.

Benny Stulwicz:
It started because I want a new refrigerator on a counter I'm getting married, and the one I have it doesn't get cold on the bottom part.

Stuart Markowitz:
Uh-huh.

Benny Stulwicz:
And the guy who came to fix it, says he can't fix it now, and he said it be cheaper to get a new one. So that's what I'm want to do. Because If I'm gonna married, I want to have a good refrigerator.

Stuart Markowitz:
I agree with that.

Benny Stulwicz:
But I don't have enough money in my emergency savings, I used it for Alice's ring. So I decided to sell my baseball card collection for money. So Jerry, he came and looked at my cards, and he said he wanted them.

Stuart Markowitz:
Who's Jerry?

Benny Stulwicz:
Uh, he likes my cards. Only I can't give him all my cards because I promised Frank Malzone to add.

Stuart Markowitz:
Who's that?

Benny Stulwicz:
Third base, Red Sox.

Stuart Markowitz:
No, that's uh, that's Frank Malzone. And who's Ed?

Benny Stulwicz:
He's my friend who likes my cards. Except he doesn't want all of them. He just want some.

Stuart Markowitz:
Mm-hmm.

Benny Stulwicz:
And so I told Jerry that I couldn't give him Frank Malzone and some of the others, and he got real mad, and he send me this.

Stuart Markowitz:
It's a summons.

Benny Stulwicz:
What's that mean?

Stuart Markowitz:
It means he's suing you, Benny. Your friend Jerry's gonna take you to court.

Benny Stulwicz:
Oh, God.

Stuart Markowitz:
No. Don't worry. I'll look into it. Okay? Don't worry.

Benny Stulwicz:
I just wanted a new refrigerator because of the bottom part.

Stuart Markowitz:
It doesn't get cold. I know.

Gretchen Wynn:
It wasn't that his frog would have won. I don't know it would've even budged. It was very obese.

Jonathan Rollins:
Why did you disqualify it?

Gretchen Wynn:
Because it was dangerous. He's trying to enter this giant African thing with teeth, and I had to be concerned for the other frogs.

Michael Roitman:
Come on, Your Honor.

Judge Walter Green:
Mr. Roitman.

Gretchen Wynn:
It's true. The people spend a lot of money on them. They're like pampered athletes. And if one of them gets eaten by his entrant, then we've got a lawsuit on our hands.

Michael Roitman:
Move to strike, Your Honor, there's no evidence that my client's frog eats it's competition.

Judge Walter Green:
Denied.

Gretchen Wynn:
I'm sorry, but the committee couldn't consider this a normal frog within the spirit of the rules. And we felt that disqualification was warranted.

Jonathan Rollins:
Thank you, Mrs. Wynn.

Michael Roitman:
Mrs. Wynn. Uh, Ms. Wynn. Are there, uh, rules guiding these competitions?

Gretchen Wynn:
There are.

Michael Roitman:
Do these rules limit the size of the entrance?

Gretchen Wynn:
Who would've thought they could get so big?

Michael Roitman:
Is it not true, Mrs. Wynn, that you disqualified my client's frog because you knew that would break the world's record? You didn't want to be on the hook for extra 10 grand?

Gretchen Wynn:
Not true. That frog was fat, and languid, and it probably wouldn't have budged.

Ray Breecher:
Lying cheat.

Jonathan Rollins:
Objection.

Ray Breecher:
It jumps huge!

Judge Walter Green:
Hey, Mr. Breecher.

Gretchen Wynn:
We also suspected steroid.

Michael Roitman:
Objection, Your Honor!

Ray Breecher:
Defamation of character!

Judge Walter Green:
That's enough! Alright, I wanna see this thing. Can you bring it in here?

Gretchen Wynn:
In a truck, maybe.

Judge Walter Green:
Mrs. Wynn, I'm going to lose my patience.

Michael Roitman:
Uh, yes, Your Honor. We can have said frog here, uh, in the A.M.

Judge Walter Green:
Good. I want to see if it's really a frog. And I want to see if it jumps. Have it here at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

[Judge Green puts his glasses back on, and warned Mr. Breecher, remember to stay clean and drug-free without steroids]

Judge Walter Green:
Drug-free. We're adjourned.

[It's raining, the traffic of downtown Los Angeles]

Joel Lassen:
I can't have 6 months in jail.

Abby Perkins:
It might be get a good way to get drugs out of your system.

Joel Lassen:
What about this motion to dismissed? You said we can win that.

Abby Perkins:
And then what? You're back on the streets. You're getting high.

Joel Lassen:
You're suppose to be my lawyer here, not my social worker.

Abby Perkins:
I am your lawyer. And I'm also trying to thinking of what's best for you.

Joel Lassen:
This is coming from my father, isn't it? This what he wants, right?

Abby Perkins:
Your father is scared, Joel. He's scared that drugs are gonna ended up killing you.

Joel Lassen:
I can't spend 6 months in jail, Abby. I can't.

Abby Perkins:
Look, I've always been straight with you, okay? And I'm being straight with you now when I say that I think your father is right.

Joel Lassen:
And be straight with me, and one more thing, this motion to dismiss. You think you can win it?

Abby Perkins:
Yes.

Abby Perkins:
Then that's what I want you to do.

Abby Perkins:
He's the client. Not Abe. If he doesn't want to plead guilty - I can't be...

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Come on. Abby, he's a drug addict.

Abby Perkins:
He wasn't on drugs when he was here, Douglas, I have no reason to question his capacity to make this decisions.

Arnie Becker:
OK, Abby, technically, you're right. Joel is the client, you're... you're supposed to do what he says. Look if we do get this thing kicked, that kid go straight back to drugs. Hey, are you gonna feel good about that just because technically you're ethically correct? Let me tell you something else. If we get the case dismissed, we'll lose Abe Lassen as our client.

Abby Perkins:
I can't let that be a factor.

Arnie Becker:
Look, Abby, I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you here. [Arnie closed the door and have private at Douglas' office] If I lose Abe Lassen as a client, I lose a big chunk of my clout. The balance of power tilts even more heavily in Rosalind Shays' favor. She already has to be as client bases, she already been made Senior Partner. Losing Abe Lassen is going puts her one step closer to having unfettered control to do whatever the hell she wants.

Abby Perkins:
Why don't you take me off the case? Cut the plea yourself.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
If we did that, Joel would smell a rat, and get a new lawyer, and the results for here will be the same.

Arnie Becker:
You know the kid is better off doing the 6 months, Abby, you know it. All we're asking you to do is steer him in the direction would best help him give up drugs. Yes, I'm asking you to do it for Abe, yes, I'm asking you to do it for me, but I'm asking you to do it for Joel. Maybe his only chance, for God's sake.

Abby Perkins:
OK, I'll see if I can convince him.

Arnie Becker:
Thank you.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Thank you. [Abby will give it a shot and a try to help save her client Joel Lassen]

Stuart Markowitz:
Look, uh, he's willing to sell them to you, Mr. Svetka. He just wants to hold back a few back for Ed.

Jerry Svetka:
He's looking to hold back Heinie Manush, He's looking to hold back Gus Bell, he's looking to hold back a '62 Warren Spahn in near mint condition.

Benny Stulwicz:
I never said I'd sell them to you, Jerry.

Jerry Svetka:
Whether express or implied, binding representations were made which I placed reliance upon thereto.

Stuart Markowitz:
Are you an attorney?

Jerry Svetka:
Freelance Paralegal.

Stuart Markowitz:
Aha.

Jerry Svetka:
Well you think that's gonna make it easy for you?

Stuart Markowitz:
Look, what are we talking about here, a couple hundred bucks?

Jerry Svetka:
Try 13,000, and it's an appreciating asset. He's got an important collection, Mr. Markowitz, I'm not about to watch it slip away. You'll see by the affidavits annexed hereto, but all parties have been served, a TRO's been issued, freezing any subsequent transfers and depositions have been scheduled.

Stuart Markowitz:
You got to be kidding.

Jerry Svetka:
I know my way around litigation, Mr. Markowitz. Maybe even better than your average tax attorney.

Stuart Markowitz:
Look, if you want to go to court, we'll go to court.

Benny Stulwicz:
Stuart!

Jerry Svetka:
Benny, I want those cards placed in escrow. Excuse me.

Benny Stulwicz:
Stuart, I don't want to go to court. You said we wouldn't have to.

Stuart Markowitz:
It's going to be fine, Benny. Don't worry. It's just going to be fine.

[In the morning of the city of Los Angeles, in the 444 Flower Building, the first day of a new incoming Senior Partner as the first woman to be in charge in the law offices meeting is Rosalind Shays since she was elected last week]

Stuart Markowitz:
Ann.

Rosalind Shays:
Douglas, I think everybody's here. Why don't you get started? [And every people seated. Douglas bring his coffee and opened his time on his pocket watch, beginning the meeting of today in the morning]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Okay. People vs. Lassen. [That's for Abby Perkins]

Abby Perkins:
Joel Lassen's been busted for possession again. Arraignments tomorrow.

Rosalind Shays:
Why are we in this?

Arnie Becker:
Because he's Abe Lassen's son.

Rosalind Shays:
Say no more. [Abby will get started working on Joel's case. Moving along]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Breecher vs Wynn. [That's for Jonathan Rollins' who represent the defendant Gretchen Wynn, being suing for damages by the plaintiff Ray Breecher, who was represented by Mr. Breecher's lawyer Michael Roitman]

Jonathan Rollins:
That's mine. [Michael Kuzak has done enough already working on Earl Williams' case last week, and he'll be returned to practicing law on his own until he listen during the meeting. But right now he's looking up the paper in the file] Our client packages county fairs. The main event of one of them is a frog-jumping contest. There was prize money involved, and one enterprising entrant, got himself something called an African Goliath frog.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
An African Goliath frog.

Jonathan Rollins:
Yeah. It was ruled ineligible hence the suit.

Rosalind Shays:
I understand that there's appeal in things novel and strange. I also understand that as an attorneys we need to amuse ourselves. But quite frankly, what I can't countenance are the sort of indulgences that hurt us.

Victor Sifuentes:
How does this hurt us?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
It costs us. It makes us look foolish. What I'm saying, Jonathan, is that I think you're to have to be more selective of the kinds of cases he take on.

Leland McKenzie:
Actually, he didn't take on the case, Rosalind. I did. [Rosalind is waiting. Move on the next quorum. Arnie looked quiet. Leland is waiting, too]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Moving along. Jackson vs. Haas. [That's for Ann Kelsey, who is representing the plaintiff Charles Jackson and his wife Mrs. Jackson, who is suing against the skinhead family for kicking the black youth boy to death. Joseph Haas as a defendant were represented by his Lawyer William Willis, and were helped from Joseph's his wife Pauline]

Ann Kelsey:
That's mine. A young black boy was kicked to death by a skinhead. We're suing the skinhead's parents.

Arnie Becker:
Why?

Ann Kelsey:
Why? Because a kid doesn't become a racist thug in the vacuum.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
But suing the parents? To me, this utter litigiousness. It's... it's looking to the courts for a payday.

Jonathan Rollins:
It's looking to the courts to fight bigotry, like... like Brown vs. Board of Education. Was that utter litigiousness?

Rosalind Shays:
What was the age of the defendant's son at the time of killing, Ann?

Ann Kelsey:
He was 15, Rosalind.

Rosalind Shays:
I think that's young enough to infer parental liabilities. Good luck. [Stuart is next soon] Move along, Douglas. [Douglas is waiting, Leland holding his address note book] I said, why don't we move along? [Meeting is adjourned]

[Knocking on the door is Leland to see Rosalind Shays, as the Office of Senior Partner]

Leland McKenzie:
How goes life at the top?

[Rosalind chuckling]

Rosalind Shays:
As lonely as it's cracked up to be. I'm still a little terrified, Leland.

Leland McKenzie:
Aah. You've got nothing to worry about.

Rosalind Shays:
I'd be a little more self-assured if I'd gotten your vote.

[That was last week]

Leland McKenzie:
And you won the election, Rosalind. Having done so, you get my full support. You need anything, you just ask.

[Rosalind appreciate it]

Rosalind Shays:
Thank you.

[Leland will be leaving and heading back to his office]

Rosalind Shays:
There is one thing you could do for me.

[Leland turned back to Rosalind]

Leland McKenzie:
Name it.

Rosalind Shays:
Start wearing your hearing aids.

Leland McKenzie:
Excuse me?

Rosalind Shays:
I'm sorry. I know that, you wear them to court. And at home in your private life. I think you should wear them here.

Leland McKenzie:
But that's, uh, personal decision, Rosalind.

Rosalind Shays:
Leland, if a client representation is compromised because you didn't catch something or you misheard something. This firm could be subject to a malpractice suit.

Leland McKenzie:
Oh, but that's never happened, Rosalind, and I...

Rosalind Shays:
And it probably never will. But your hearing disability is known. And that makes the possibility of mishap foreseeable. And that leave us exposed to potential liability. Just as you had to look after this place when you were in charge, so now must I.

Leland McKenzie:
Okay, Rosalind. I'll wear 'em.

[Then Leland can go and closed the door. And Rosalind will get back to work]

Abe Lassen:
Let's just see what the District Attorney offers. If it's reasonable...

Joel Lassen:
Let's cut to the crap, dad, you want me to do times, so let's not pretend...

Abe Lassen:
I want you off drugs, Joel.

Abby Perkins:
Look, I don't even know what our options are yet. If we can get an offer for 6 months, Joel, we should probably...

Joel Lassen:
No! You're my lawyer, not his. You're supposed to be...

Abe Lassen:
We're all on the same sides.

Joel Lassen:
We are not on the same sides! You want me...

[Abe grabbed and holding his son Joel]

Abe Lassen:
Will you listen to me?

[Joel is arguing and refuses to listen to his father Abe]

Abe Lassen:
Will you listen to me! For God's sake, Joel, I'm your father, you're my son, I love you. We got a problem here. We can't get seem to get by.

Joel Lassen:
Well, prison's not gonna do it, dad. Don't make me do this.

Abe Lassen:
It's the only thing left to try. 6 months is a good deal, probably the best we can do, ask your lawyer.

Abby Perkins:
Come on. We better get in there.

Abby Perkins:
It's not like you're going to San Quentin, Joel.

Joel Lassen:
Jail is jail. I'll stick in the cell.

Abe Lassen:
Listen to your lawyer, you don't plea, and you lose, and you could get 2 years in State prison. You want that?

Joel Lassen:
No. All I want us to be free.

Abby Perkins:
Look, I don't even know what our options are yet, okay? I gotta talk to the D.A. When the case is called, step up with me. [Abe Lassen and his son Joel Lassen will take a seat and wait]

Clerk:
People vs. Steve Dollof. Disturbing the peace.

Abby Perkins:
Jim, I got Joel Lassen.

D.D.A. Jim Aoli:
Yeah, that's me. Are we dealing?

Abby Perkins:
I'm looking for next to nothing. We got a rookie cop searching in the trunk on a moving violation, there's no way...

D.D.A. Jim Aoli:
Yeah. Yeah. What was it? 2 grams?

Abby Perkins:
No intent. You want a guilty plea? Let him go for probation.

D.D.A. Jim Aoli:
Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Abby Perkins:
What?

D.D.A. Jim Aoli:
Well we do it today. We roll the dice for a dismissal motion and I'm going for jail time.

Abby Perkins:
Okay.

D.D.A. Jim Aoli:
6 months?

Abby Perkins:
Done.

Clerk:
People vs. Joel Lassen. [Abby wants Joel to come to the Judge's bench]

D.D.A. Jim Aoli:
Jim Aoli for the people. [Joel Lassen is coming] Straight possession, Your Honor, I think we can make this thing going away right now.

Judge Richard Bartke:
How delightful.

D.D.A. Jim Aoli:
Defendant agrees to plead guilty, Joint recommendation for 6 months probation.

Judge Richard Bartke:
Defense he'll agrees?

Abby Perkins:
We do.

Judge Richard Bartke:
You got it. Guilty. 6 months probation. Mr. Lassen, check with probation officer, please. Next case.

Clerk:
People vs. Robert Brown.

Joel Lassen:
Probation. That's it, I can go?

Abby Perkins:
Yeah.

Abe Lassen:
Way the go, Counselor.

Abby Perkins:
Look, Mr. Lassen, I did what the D.A. was going to...

Abe Lassen:
I don't talk to you anymore. I talk to your boss. Come on, Joel. [Abe takes his son Joel and left the courtroom. And Abby will be leaving, too]

[the box has caution and warning says in the box of a frog, "Handle with Care." When Mr. Breecher and his lawyer Michael Roitman helped open the box, Mr. Breecher brings out the frog named Richard with a little ace bandage in his left leg to get started. And they're ready to begin the demonstration. The frog croaking]

Michael Roitman:
As you can see, Your Honor, this is clearly a frog.

Judge Walter Green:
It's very big frog. What's that on it's leg?

Ray Breecher:
It's a little ace bandage, Your Honor. He pulled the hamstring during a workout yesterday.

Gretchen Wynn:
Show him the teeth.

Judge Walter Green:
All right. All right. I'm sure it is bigger than any of the contest commissioner's ever imagine. But, Mrs. Wynn, that is a frog.

Michael Roitman:
Thank you, Your Honor. May we expect the judgment?

Judge Walter Green:
Hold on, I don't see it doing much jumping. There's no evidence that it would definitely won the event.

Ray Breecher:
Oh, I'd like to demonstrate then, Your Honor.

Michael Roitman:
May I remind the court of the hamstring injury?

Judge Walter Green:
Just make it jump.

[Judge Green will make himself smile happily and see the frog demonstration. And Judge Green will be proud of it]

Ray Breecher:
Okay, Richard, inhale, and leap. Come on, boy. Inhale. [Ray smelling. Richard the big frog sitting] I just had breakfast, Your Honor, so...

Gretchen Wynn:
Probably a donut.

Michael Roitman:
Objection, Your Honor. May I ask the defendant to cease the harassment during this demonstration?

Judge Walter Green:
What demonstration? It looks dead to me.

Ray Breecher:
He's gathering himself, Your Honor. He's not ready to jump. Look at his eyes.

Judge Walter Green:
Oh, for God's sake.

Michael Roitman:
Oh, no, I can see it.

Jonathan Rollins:
Hey, he's sticking him with a pin. [Ray sticking his frog Richard with a pin demonstration]

Ray Breecher:
Prodders are allowed.

Judge Walter Green:
Oh, just get on with it, would you?

Gretchen Wynn:
I told you, it doesn't jump. [Then watch Ray do the demonstration when he kick the frog and have Richard the frog jump higher to take off and landed on Judge Green]

Judge Walter Green:
Yaah! [Judge Green was screaming and was attacked by the frog Richard]

Michael Roitman:
He's attacking the judge! [Judge Green is scared]

Gretchen Wynn:
Look at the teeth. [Frog croaked] It's vicious. It's a vicious frog.

Ray Breecher:
I told you to sit! Stay! Stay right there!

Judge Walter Green:
Get this thing now! [Ray got his pet frog Richard]

Ray Breecher:
I got him. I got him, Your Honor. Oh, uh, I think he pulled another muscle.

Michael Roitman:
Ask you've recuse yourself, Your Honor.

Judge Walter Green:
Forget it. I'm going to take this stupid thing under advisement. I want everybody back here at 2 O'clock tomorrow. [Richard the frog croaking] Oh, for God's sake. [Judge Green heads back to his chambers and closed the door. Frog ribbit. The crowds are laughing. Jonathan felt dejected]

Abby Perkins:
What was I suppose to do? The DA went for. I suppose to say...

Abe Lassen:
Because you pushed for it.

Arnie Becker:
Listen, Abe, this was a difficult call.

Abe Lassen:
Where the hell were you? You're supposed to be taking care of me.

Arnie Becker:
I thought Abby would.

Abby Perkins:
Thanks, Arnie.

Arnie Becker:
I - I agree with Abe. Jail time is what Joel needs. [Rosalind arring late]

Rosalind Shays:
Sorry, I'm late.

Abe Lassen:
Who the hell are you?

Rosalind Shays:
I'm Rosalind Shays, Mr. Lassen, I'm the new Senior Partner here. Douglas has explained to me what's happened.

Abe Lassen:
Good. Explain to me what you got to do about it.

Rosalind Shays:
Well, under the circumstances...

Abe Lassen:
I don't want any circumstances. I want her fired today.

Rosalind Shays:
Now, why would I do that?

Abe Lassen:
Why? Because she ignored my instructions. That's why.

Rosalind Shays:
Ms. Perkins was bound by an attorney's code of ethics, and she behaved appropriately. This firm's stands behind her. [Abe Lassen pointing his finger at the two Arnie and Douglas]

Abe Lassen:
These two don't seem to stand behind her.

Rosalind Shays:
As I said I'm the Senior Partner.

Abe Lassen:
I'll have somebody here to pick up my files. You just lost yourself a client, Senior Partner. [Abe Lassen walks out of that door, exit, and leave Arnie's office]

Arnie Becker:
I appreciate that, Rosalind, that was my client you just encouraged out that door.

Rosalind Shays:
How dare you hanging associate out like that, both of you! Abby have no choice but to do what she did, and for you not to support her here is reprehensible! [Arnie shouting back]

Arnie Becker:
Abe Lassen is good for about 500,000 a year!

Rosalind Shays:
There was no price tag on our ethics when Leland is in charge, and there isn't now. [Rosalind leaves and slams the door closed]

Rhonda Vasek:
I think I hate your wife.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
You've met her?

Rhonda Vasek:
No, I'm just jealous of her.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I remember when we were first starting out, this'll sound silly, I used to make popcorn for us and we'd lie in bed till all hours watching old movies on tv. Now she says the salt make her retain water.

Rhonda Vasek:
I have a popcorn popper but I've never even taken it out the box. I don't even know if it works.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
All you have to do is plug it in, I could show you.

Rhonda Vasek:
Would you, would you show me how to pop my corn.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Lets go, now!

Michael Kuzak:
Earl, you gotta get real straight with me real fast. I can either go in there and attack the prosecution's DNA expert. Or, I can find one of our own experts to testify that semen wasn't yours. But before I do, I got to know. Did you go to bed with her that afternoon? Yes or no?

[Earl mumbles]

Michael Kuzak:
Yes or no, damn it!

Earl Williams:
Yes.

Michael Kuzak:
Earl, you're a smart man! You know how sophisticated the crime labs are! What do you think they were gonna find out?

Earl Williams:
I didn't think they could trace it to me.

Michael Kuzak:
So you send me in there spewing bald-face lies that the D.A. cut the links out from both of us?

Earl Williams:
I thought you'd do better job representing me if you believed I was innocent.

Michael Kuzak:
Meaning what? You're not?

Earl Williams:
I'm innocent of murder!

Michael Kuzak:
Well, it sure as hell doesn't look like that!

Earl Williams:
I know!

Michael Kuzak:
What did your wife say?

Earl Williams:
I'd rather not get into it.

Michael Kuzak:
You don't have a choice!

Earl Williams:
It's between her and me.

Michael Kuzak:
Look, I am not asking you this because I'm nosey. I have to know whether or not to put her on the stand.

Earl Williams:
Then talk to her.

Michael Kuzak:
I'm talking to you! Now, you better give me some answers that aren't lies and stop wasting my time!

Earl Williams:
[after a short pause] I went to Nina's apartment early that afternoon... and I made love with her. Afterward, we sat in the kitchen and had a cup of tea. About 4 o'clock, I kissed her goodbye and I left. [Kuzak nods his head, looking skeptic] You think I'm a liar?

Michael Kuzak:
I know you're a liar. So does the jury. The question now is whether or not they think you're a killer. We're done here.

Marvin Pick:
It never fails to amazed me that people actually think that they can get away with this things. [the name of the sign of his desk in his office, his name is Marvin Pick]

Stuart Markowitz:
Mr. Pick, nobody's trying to get away with anything, if errors were made and calculating Ms. Bauman's tax return, we're directed file those errors.

Marvin Pick:
Come on, Mr. Markowitz, I wasn't born yesterday.

Stuart Markowitz:
What does that mean?

Marvin Pick:
It means that this isn't someone who makes errors. This is someone calculates long and hard to conceal, connive and defraud. This is someone who actually thinks that she doesn't have to pay her right to the share taxes that the United States Government, and I found it absolutely intolerable.

Stuart Markowitz:
Mr. Pick, this entire problem can be attributed to Ms. Bauman's former account.

Marvin Pick:
Hmm. I don't buy that. It appears that in addition to a significant amount of unreported personal income, your client was using corporate employees to, [sighed] perform a variety distinctly non business related functions. [Gwen hand it the paper writing to Stuart]

Celeste Bauman:
Wait a minute. [sighs] I am inviting my company. What it affects me and affects my employees. This is all business related.

Marvin Pick:
You're kidding me, right?

Celeste Bauman:
No, I'm not kidding you.

Marvin Pick:
I would appreciate it, if you would, uh, you know tell your client to stop wasting my time.

Stuart Markowitz:
We have tax returns for the last 10 years, where do you want to start?

Celeste Bauman:
I didn't build my business on - on vitamins and nutrients supplements alone, Mr. Pick. I build it on stamina, I build it on guts, and I build it by hearing to a personal philosophy that does not allow me to become intimidated by anyone.

Stuart Markowitz:
Celeste, Mr. Pick is just trying to do his job.

Marvin Pick:
That's right. And my job is to enforce the tax code. I enforce you comply.

Celeste Bauman:
You're not a well man, Marvin. [Stuart and Gwen turned to Celeste, and looked what's wrong with Celeste] You worked in this miserable office. You drink coffee, and you smoke, and your diet is high and fat, it's low and fiber, it's not nearly dense enough in nutrients. And I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if your body wasn't ravaged by intestinal parasites.

Marvin Pick:
You - you know what? You're right. I drink coffee, I smoke, I only eat things that are bad for me, and with all that, I'm still healthy enough to bring you to your knees. Me and my parasites. [Marvin eating the danish]

Celeste Bauman:
You want to know what healthy is? I'll tell you what healthy is. How do you think I am?

Marvin Pick:
I have no idea.

Celeste Bauman:
I'm 75 years old.

Gwen Taylor:
You're 75?

Celeste Bauman:
The reason that I don't look my age, is because I have a healthy life affirming attitude toward everybody in everything. It comes from being a peace with myself, and from being a peace with the whole world. I'm 75, and I'll live to dance on this little pissant's grave. [Marvin is continuing eating the danish] Stuart, Gwen, you know where to reach me? And I know that I shall be hearing from you very soon. [Celeste Bauman is going to leave now. Stuart sees Celeste leaving and turned back to Marvin]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Uh, can we get started?

Leland McKenzie:
Just start, Douglas.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I'm started. People vs. Matz. [That's for Jonathan Rollins' while pouring to get a cup of coffee]

Jonathan Rollins:
Yes. Yes. That's mine. Matz' has accused of selling stolen artwork to undercover cop. I'm pleading entrapment.

Melina Paros:
That's a tough cell.

Daniel Morales:
I know it is. You yet to stolen art in his position?

Jonathan Rollins:
He did.

Daniel Morales:
Any sold it to the cop?

Jonathan Rollins:
Yep.

Melina Paros:
So where's the entrapment?

Jonathan Rollins:
Well, my client's gay. He claims to a fallen for the cop. He also claims that it was mutual, I'd say for the purposes of his trial at least that, uh, the cop seduce him.

Arnie Becker:
In other words, it's your only shot.

Jonathan Rollins:
Yes, right.

Ann Kelsey:
Then it must me true.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
In the matter of Celeste Bauman.

Stuart Markowitz:
Yes, that's me. Uh, Ms. Bauman has accompanied that markets' vitamins and dietary supplements, the IRS claims that she has under paid her taxes by some $800,000, and for some reason to being nasty about it.

Melina Paros:
The IRS's nasty?

Stuart Markowitz:
Celeste is gonna need little managing, but I think we can resolve it.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Gwen, you're observing on to this one, correct?

Gwen Taylor:
Yep.

Roxanne Melman:
Arnie, Jack Caller's here.

Arnie Becker:
I gotta go. [Ann fines out how Roxanne's been]

Ann Kelsey:
How you're feeling, Roxanne?

Roxanne Melman:
Pretty good.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Everything going all right? Visa V-V pregnancy?

Roxanne Melman:
So far.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Good. [Leland was so relieved about Roxanne's pregnancy. Arnie will be going and escorted out by Roxanne] How much paid leave are we on the hook forward this one?

Stuart Markowitz:
6 weeks.

Ann Kelsey:
You wouldn't have a problem with that by any chance, would you, Douglas?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Oh, no. I think it's the least we can do.

Michael Owen:
Come on, kid's only 16.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
The victim's was 16, too, that doesn't make him any less dead.

Michael Owen:
Look, would you bill willing consider lowering the judge to manslaughter?

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Maybe.

Michael Owen:
You've also got a request in for a fitness here, is it possible to let that one go into twine as a juvenile?

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
I don't know, Michael, it's seems pretty grown to me. He carried the gun into school, he shot this kid point-blank, you're asking a lot here.

Michael Owen:
He was scared. He was tired of being picked on. It's not like this is a career criminal we're dealing with.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Give him time. [Tommy heads to the elevator]

Michael Owen:
Come on, Tommy.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
All right. You want to try the kid as a juvenile? We will try him as a juvenile.

Michael Owen:
You're a beautiful human being.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
I love you, too. [the elevator doors are now closing]

Simon Matz:
It's nervous, Jon.

Jonathan Rollins:
I know.

Simon Matz:
I won't make it. If they send me to prison, I'll tell you right now...

Jonathan Rollins:
Simon.

Simon Matz:
I will not...

Jonathan Rollins:
Simon.

Simon Matz:
What?

Jonathan Rollins:
Let's not get the ahead of ourselves, okay?

Simon Matz:
You still convince the entrapment is the way to go?

Jonathan Rollins:
Mm-hmm.

Simon Matz:
Another words, you think a jury is going to believe me and not some big strong Irish cop?

Jonathan Rollins:
You wanna go in there now to change a plea of guilty? Come on.

Simon Matz:
Jonathan, wait a minute.

Jonathan Rollins:
I'm telling you right now, you do that and you're going away for sure. Your got your debt to rights. The only way you're not going to prison is to plead entrapment. I hope that jury buys it.

Simon Matz:
You're the lawyer.

Jonathan Rollins:
Okay. [Jonathan is going to take his client Simon Matz to the courtroom]

Pete Bostik:
The American people will not let you get away with this! They will not let you...

Grace Van Owen:
The American people will yell "Pete! Pete!" for a while, and then they will forget about you and find someone else.

[at the firm's annual Christmas party]

Elizabeth Brand:
What a farce. All year long these lawyers treat us like schnauzers. And then once a year, they expect us to cheer up and sing Christmas carols.

Hilda Brunschwager:
How can they even think to have a party with Mr. Brackman in the hospital?

Elizabeth Brand:
Oh, Hilda. You think they care? They don't care.

[Brackman has just collapsed at his court claims desk]

Bailiff Alton:
Heart attack! Just be cool everyone! Stand back. I'm gonna have to give this man mouth-to-mouth...

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
[weakly] No! No bodily fluids!

[C.J. answers her front door in the night to find her father standing behind it]

Charles Lamb:
[drunk] This is not a city! A city is like London or New York where one can just walk outside and hail a taxi!

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
You're five hours late because you coudn't get a stupid taxi?

Charles Lamb:
I apologize for missing dinner. I hope I'm not disturbing anything.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Yes, we're asleep.

Charles Lamb:
We?

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
I have a date in bed upstairs.

Charles Lamb:
Can't I come in for a little drink?

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
No.

Charles Lamb:
Please? I won't wake him. Her? Or, did you discover a third option?

Michael Kuzak:
A month?

Judge Donald Tytell:
That's right, Mr. Kuzak. A month.

Richard Mathers:
[Kuzak has arrived at the courtroom, take a seat and listen to who Richard Mathers is, while addressing a speech when representing himself as an unlicensed lawyer] I was felt that the beauty of the jury system was that ordinary people make the ultimate decisions. Guided by their hearts, their minds, and their own humanity. Right now, I don't want to talk about the elements of fraud, burdens of proof, or reasonable doubt, or any of that. I just want to tell you who I am. My whole life, I never wanted to be anything but a lawyer. The time I was a teenage. I can recite the courtroom speeches from every loyal movie I had ever seen. Inherit The Wind. To Kill a Mockingbird. Town Without Pity. I knew all of them. I went to law school for a year at night. When I lost my scholarship, I dropped out, I drove a cab, I taught high school, I sold office furniture. But the whole time, I read, and I work at teaching myself how to be a lawyer. At first, I practice just for friends little by little though I realize I could really do this. I didn't needed the diploma. I was going up against graduates from top 10 schools and beating them cold. I might not have been legitimate. But I served my clients with unstinting loyalty. A single one of them came to testify against me, because not a single one of them felt defrauded. Competent representation is what they ask for, and competent representation is what they got. Yes, I practice law without a license. And regardless of your verdict, I will never practice law again. Not for me is the greatest punishment of all.

[Members of the Jury listen to Mr. Mathers' speech]

Richard Mathers:
When I walked through those doors, when I see that reporters seating at her machine, and I plead my case knowing that someone is depending on me, to get them through whatever most likely the most desperate moments of their life, I feel more life year than I do anywhere else on earth. I love doing this. God, I love doing this. It's hard to imagine, this the last time I ever will.

[Richard Mathers ending his speech in court]

Richard Mathers:
[Richard Mathers arriving to meet is Michael Kuzak at the State Bar of California in Los Angeles, CA., before the Disciplinary Committee hearing] Kuzak.

Michael Kuzak:
What are you doing here?

Richard Mathers:
I thought I lend you for my support.

Michael Kuzak:
Uh-huh. In exchange for what?

Richard Mathers:
You're doing the same. I testify for you. And you testify for me. Very symmetrical, though.

Michael Kuzak:
No. [Mr. Mathers talking with Mr. Sifuentes]

Richard Mathers:
He'll be helping me out.

Victor Sifuentes:
Hey, don't look at me.

Richard Mathers:
Mike.

Michael Kuzak:
I'm sorry. But I don't want you to be my witness. And I certainly don't want to be yours.

Richard Mathers:
First part of that's up to you. Second part of that's up to me. [Mr. Mathers handing over the subpoena to Mr. Kuzak] Here's your subpoena.

Elliott Oppenheim:
As the evidence clearly as established, Michael Kuzak violated Disciplinary Rule 3101. And aiding the Unauthorized Practice of Law.

Victor Sifuentes:
If the Committee, please. In order to assess Mr. Kuzak's ethical conduct, I'd believe it first necessary to appreciate the circumstances under which it occurred.

Judge Donald Tytell:
In other words, you got an excuse.

Victor Sifuentes:
The discovery that Richard Mathers was unlicensed to Practice Law came more than half way through the trial.

Ralph DeSuvio:
The issue here is that the court didn't learn of it until after the verdict. Then from only Mr. Mathers himself.

Victor Sifuentes:
Well, if you can just stand back from the code for one moment. I think that you see that the only motivation here was a fair settlement.

[Judge Gregg takes off her classes]

Judge Constance Gregg:
We don't stand back from the code, Mr. Sifuentes. We enforce it.

Victor Sifuentes:
I understand that, ma'am. I...

Judge Constance Gregg:
Furthermore, this isn't some net picking technical violation we're talking about.

[Judge Gregg looking up this file]

Judge Constance Gregg:
These charges indicate conduct indirect violation of a lawyer's obligation as an officer of the court.

Victor Sifuentes:
All Mike Kuzak did was try to avoid having Richard Mathers' fraud force his clients into protracted litigation into considerable further expense.

Judge Donald Tytell:
That's not the concern of this Committee.

Michael Kuzak:
Well, with all due respect, maybe it should be.

Victor Sifuentes:
Mike.

[Kuzak has something to say. Judge Tytell listening]

Michael Kuzak:
If the only question here is, did I or did I not violate the code? Let's not stop wasting each others' time. I did. You'd only talking about lawyer's obligation as an officer of the court. What about my obligation to my client?

Elliott Oppenheim:
Your first loyalty is to the legal system.

Victor Sifuentes:
The purpose of which is to administer justice. Richard Mathers was a highly skilled practitioner. There's no argument about that. Mr. Kuzak and he went head to head. Both clients received skilled, compromised representation. Tell me what that is if not justice.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Michael, isn't it possible that your client, Earl Williams, really is guilty?

Michael Kuzak:
[suddenly angry] Now that's a stupid question, Douglas!

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
What? I don't think it's a stupid question. Earl Williams admitted to cheating on his wife with the murder victim. He had sex with the victim in her apartment on the afternoon she was murdered. You put him on the witness stand were he revealed to have an angry and violent temper. He was convicted by a jury in a California Superior Court. Isn't it possible that he really did kill Nina Cory, and that he's manipulating you to make you still think that he's innocent?

Michael Kuzak:
I'm not even going to answer that! Now, if you don't mind, I'm late for court!

[Kuzak storms out while Sifuentes and Markowitz both look oddly at Brackman]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
What? I don't think that it's a stupid question at all. Did Earl Williams really do it?

[both Sifuentes and Markowitz both exit without saying a word leaving Brackman alone]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
[bewildered] What?

[Michael Kuzak here at the Los Angeles Supreme Court in Los Angeles, CA. Michael has more, clearing his throat]

Supreme Court Judge Donald Tytell:
Mr. Kuzak, the court has decided not to entertain your rebuttal.

Michael Kuzak:
If it pleases the court, I would respectfully ask...

Supreme Court Judge Donald Tytell:
Counsel, it would please the court if you take your seat.

[Mr. Kuzak has done enough already, so he'll take a seat and sit down. Los Angeles Supreme Court Judge Donald Tytell has something to say and address it in the Los Angeles Supreme Court]

Supreme Court Judge Donald Tytell:
All of us have reviewed the transcripts on this case with a great deal of scrutiny. And we unanimously agree that this was an extremely balanced and close trial. In fact, it could be argued that on the record, the defendant appeared to have established to reasonable doubt. The jury obviously found otherwise which was certainly within their problems. But it cannot be disputed. That the prosecutor's ability to establish the defendant as a liar, played an integral part in her ability to secure a conviction. And it is likely that the district attorney never would have been able to do this, and she properly advise defense counsel of the card she was holding. Now it is our custom to go in session and issue written opinions, but since our respective positions are so clearly unanimous in this instance. And since justice delayed in some cases amounts to justice denied. We are ruling now. The surprise DNA evidence, prejudice the defendant's right to a fair trial under the United States Constitution, accordingly we hereby set aside the verdict, and the death penalty, and order a new trial to be scheduled immediately.

[A.D.A. Margaret Flanagan looked forward to it. Jackie has praised to God, that it will help saved her husband Earl Williams' life. Victor give thanks to Michael Kuzak]

Supreme Court Judge Donald Tytell:
This matter is remanded to Supreme Court for retrial.

[Mr. Kuzak and Ms. Flanagan has thanked the Supreme Court Judge Donald Tytell for everything]

Supreme Court Judge Donald Tytell:
Thank you, Mr. Kuzak and Ms. Flanagan. We're adjourned.

[Michael Kuzak will be working on it. But Jackie Williams gives hug to Mr. Kuzak and thanked him]

Jackie Williams:
Oh, thank you.

Michael Kuzak:
I know someone we have to call.

[A.D.A. Margaret Flanagan will look forward to it later in a new trial to be renewed of the case of Earl Williams]

Michael Kuzak:
Did you read the brief?

Earl Williams:
I've read it. It's good.

Michael Kuzak:
We argue on Wednesday, I'll call you as soon it's over.

Earl Williams:
I, uh, shouldn't be trying get my hopes here, should I?

Michael Kuzak:
Death penalty appeals are usually losers, I'm not going to lie to you about that, but we do have a chance, Earl, we have a legitimate chance.

Earl Williams:
How long does it take down to make up their minds?

Michael Kuzak:
We usually taken under advisement. But you never know what this kind of case they could decide pretty quickly.

Earl Williams:
This... is it. Isn't it, Michael?

Michael Kuzak:
[Scoff] Not necessarily. We've got plenty of appeals left. We haven't even got into Federal Court yet, so...

Earl Williams:
Yes. But this is one. I don't win here, and, I'm going to the gas chamber.

Michael Kuzak:
[Here at the Supreme Court hearing] May I pleased the court, I'm Michael Kuzak appearing for the appellant Earl Williams. To entertain in my papers is an overview of the case. As well as specific grounds which mandate reversal in my client's conviction. Today, I would like to focus on the most compelling of those grounds the prosecutorial misconduct of Margaret Flanagan.

Supreme Court Judge Donald Tytell:
I don't mean to cut you off with the jump, Counsel. But this court is generally suspect in that particular claim. Are you sure that's where you're want to steer us?

Michael Kuzak:
I'm exactly sure. Margaret Flanagan's conduct in this trial was reprehensible. It was unethical. It was a breach of her duty to act as an officer of the court and it is the reason why an innocent man sitting on death row.

Supreme Court Judge Washington:
I assume you're referring to the DNA evidence which place your client semen on the victim's bed.

Michael Kuzak:
That's correct, Your Honor. The District Attorney had an obligation to disclose that information to me and to the court prior to the trial. She did not.

Supreme Court Judge Connolly:
But according to the record Ms. Flanagan herself got this evidence at the last second. There's no evidence that she willfully concealed anything. And the judge offered you a continuance to give you time and you declined.

Michael Kuzak:
First of all, the record will show that she got the evidence from the lab on the eve of the trial. She sprung it in court 3 days into the trial, that give her 2 days to inform me which she didn't. That makes her conduct willful. As for my refusing the continuance, the damage has already been done.

Supreme Court Judge Richardskull:
How so?

Michael Kuzak:
Had I known which she had. As I was entitled, too, under Walker vs. Superior Court. I would never have deny that my client was having a sexual relationship with Nina Corry. I also would never have denied that he was in her apartment on the night she was murdered.

Supreme Court Judge Richardskull:
In other words, you never would have lied to the court, if you knew you'll be caught.

Michael Kuzak:
I didn't know my client was having an affair with the victim, it was a surprise to me as well. Earl Williams did lie. I'm not making excuses for that. But had I known he was lying, and I would have, had she followed the law, I would have stopped him from using it.

Supreme Court Judge Parker:
I'm sorry. I'm not sure I understand the harm. Everything she introduce that the trial, your client admitted himself once he took that stand.

Michael Kuzak:
The harm is that he was portrayed as a liar.

Supreme Court Judge Parker:
Because he was a liar.

Michael Kuzak:
He told one lie. Yes. And what I'm saying, Your Honor, is that had I known about her DNA evidence, I would have known he was lying. As the good attorney, I would have counseled him not to lying. The jury would never have perceived him is dishonest, and without that perception, Earl Williams would have been acquitted.

Supreme Court Judge Washington:
Sounds a little meandering to me, Mr. Kuzak.

Michael Kuzak:
Then let me make it more clear. She had two lynch pins in her case. The circumstantial evidence that placed Earl Williams at the scene of the crime at the time of the murder. And the evidence if his dishonesty. Have a District Attorney complied with the law, I would have kept the second part of her case out. That means that she would have been left trying to prove murder beyond a reasonable doubt, but nothing more than circumstantial evidence. And that's why she withheld it. To give herself something that she otherwise would not have had. She fights hard. She fights to win. I understand that. But if you are going to put someone at death row. If you are going to send a human being to the gas chamber, you should at least follow the rules and obey the law. Margaret Flanagan didn't. [That wasn't good enough for ADA Margaret Flanagan]

[2 months later, Thursday, April 1, 1993, 5 weeks, and 35 days, the L.A. Law firm of McKenzie, Brackman in Los Angeles, CA are back to normal]

Arnie Becker:
They're lot of ways I can go with this porn, I can become an Independent Producer, I can become an agent.

Gwen Taylor:
I thought you were having been a Studio Executive, Arnie.

Arnie Becker:
Gwen, in show-business, accentual plangency is a very dangerous thing.

Ann Kelsey:
I'm thinking of opening a restaurant.

Jonathan Rollins:
A restaurant?

Ann Kelsey:
Yeah. These guys has started the California Pizza Kitchen, we're both lawyers. [Douglas has arrived to begin the Session meeting]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
What kind of restaurant?

Ann Kelsey:
I don't know yet.

Stuart Markowitz:
What about Fast Food Jewish?

Daniel Morales:
Fast Food Jewish?

Stuart Markowitz:
Yeah, absolutely. I'd think I'll be great to be able to walk up to a counter and get a little paper cone filled with Kasha varnishkes. [Melina laughs]

Jonathan Rollins:
Well, I know that something, I've always want to do. [Ann laughs. Leland has arrived to get started in the Session meeting]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Well, shall we get started? Falcone vs. Falcone.

Arnie Becker:
Yeah, another divorce. I'm meeting with the woman for the first time today. I'll try to dispose of it as painlessly as possible. I'm really not up for a fight.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
People vs. Quinn.

Daniel Morales:
That's my murder case. The jury's picked, we go to trial later today.

Ann Kelsey:
Are you still holding with the plea of temporary of insanity?

Daniel Morales:
I don't believe in it, but it's all I got.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Samuels vs. San Fernando Psychiatric.

Ann Kelsey:
Uh, all I know is the - this is a negligence action and Samuels knows some people in the Clinton Administration.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Whether we knew some people in the Clinton Administration. Mickey Kantor and Warren Christopher, both came out of L.A. Law firms, they tap in all kinds of people from here to do all kinds of things. What do we get? Nothing.

Leland McKenzie:
Are you done, Douglas?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Yeah?

Leland McKenzie:
Good.

Leland McKenzie:
I have something I want to say. I've set-by and watched this - this place has changed. People have dissipated their time and wasted their talent, you have all in varying degrees pursuit other enterprises and neglected the one that this place was build on. The law. This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is a law office, and while you're present here, you will practice law. Period.

Arnie Becker:
Leland? [Arnie will let Leland finished]

Leland McKenzie:
I'm not done. What you do on your own time is your own business. At the work week, it belongs to me. So, you're all going to have to do little sore searching. I want to see all partners in my office at 5 O'clock today. I will expect either a commitment or a resignation.

[Law partners and members will figure it out]

D.A. Bruce Rogoff:
I'm putting two uniforms on you. They'll walk you two in from your car and they'll park outside your place at night.

Michael Kuzak:
That's not enough.

Grace Van Owen:
The man's in custody, Michael.

Michael Kuzak:
Well his gang friends aren't. You going to have to cut off his visitors.

D.A. Bruce Rogoff:
We're on top of it, Counsel. Grace, let me ask you something. You got a gun?

Grace Van Owen:
No.

D.A. Bruce Rogoff:
Do yourself a favor, I'll take care of the permit.

Grace Van Owen:
And that's your answer? Arming the victims?

D.A. Bruce Rogoff:
Maybe it's not the answer, but it won't hurt.

Grace Van Owen:
Well it send the hell of a message, doesn't it, Bruce? The society of law and order, but just in case pack a pistol.

D.A. Bruce Rogoff:
There could be a nut out there looking to blow your head off and you're worried about what message you sent?

Grace Van Owen:
All I know is that I'm supposed to, supposed to represent the criminal justice system. And the day that I validate the notion that the only way to affect orders for district attorney to strap sidearms to this. That is the day I quit!

D.A. Bruce Rogoff:
I'm not talking department policy here, I'm talking survival!

Grace Van Owen:
I have never even fired a gun. And I'm not about to start carrying one. Not now. Not ever!

[Grace and Michael walk out]

[Back at home, Rosalie is vacuuming the room and clean the house. Benny is back, and he bought and won $24,000]

Rosalie Hendrickson Stulwicz:
What's that?

Benny Stulwicz:
This is what we won.

Rosalie Hendrickson Stulwicz:
Well, we have to give away. How much?

Benny Stulwicz:
We won $24,000 on the bet, and we have another $9,000 coming when we get the purse.

Rosalie Hendrickson Stulwicz:
Oh.

Benny Stulwicz:
You won, Rosalie, it went just like Dominic said it would. He came out of that last turn, and he went out ahead in front of all the horses, and he won.

Rosalie Hendrickson Stulwicz:
Well, I guess whatever Dominic said goes there.

Benny Stulwicz:
I don't think that.

Rosalie Hendrickson Stulwicz:
Is that your money? Or is it our money?

Benny Stulwicz:
It's our money.

Rosalie Hendrickson Stulwicz:
Well, then give me a kiss.

[Benny and Rosalie hugged and then kissed together as husband and wife. They crosses the finish line. And Rosalie saw the money on the table and they won]

Rosalie Hendrickson Stulwicz:
Bada bing!

Garry Lowell:
Is your name Robert Henry Richards?

Robbie Richards:
Yes.

Garry Lowell:
Were you born in Santa Monica, CA?

Robbie Richards:
Yes.

Garry Lowell:
Did Tara McDermott consent to have sexual intercourse with you on September 20, 1991?

Robbie Richards:
Yes.

Garry Lowell:
Did you have the highest batting average in the national league last year?

Robbie Richards:
Uh, no.

Garry Lowell:
No?

Robbie Richards:
Well they called my single in the last game in error, so Pendleton won the title.

Garry Lowell:
You were robbed. Their California driver's license?

Robbie Richards:
Uh, yes.

Garry Lowell:
Did you rape Tara McDermott on September 20, 1991?

Robbie Richards:
No.

Garry Lowell:
Okay. That's it. You can move.

Robbie Richards:
So, how I do?

[Garry Lowell looked at Grace Van Owen. Grace nodded to Robbie Richards]

Grace Van Owen:
He can hear.

Garry Lowell:
Your client's telling the truth.

[Mr. Lowell gets up, and unwrapped the polygraph arm cuff in Robbie's right arm]

Robbie Richards:
So how come we can't use this thing in court?

Grace Van Owen:
So how come you can't steal second base on a foul ball?

Robbie Richards:
Rules of the Game.

Grace Van Owen:
That's right. But don't worry, the jury will get to hear you.

Grace Van Owen:
[angry tone] Now I have tried to keep my mouth shut about the Petrovek case. I have tried not to let my disagreements with your beliefs in this matter get in the way of my personal feelings for you. But getting this crazy animal out on bail... it's unconscionable! How could you!

Michael Kuzak:
The man was wrongfully convicted, Grace.

Grace Van Owen:
Are you saying he didn't do it?

Michael Kuzak:
I am saying that his conviction was tainted. He does not deserve the death penalty. Nobody does. He deserves a new trial. He is innocent until proven guilty. That's a principal you don't turn your back on even if he is accused of committing a heinous crime.

Grace Van Owen:
It is one thing to stick up for a principal, but you have taken your anti-death penalty views to a point of total obsession where you are jeopardizing innocent people by releasing a convicted killer!

Michael Kuzak:
In other words, if people are frightened enough of Jimmy Pretrovk because of his appearance and attitude, that is it also okay to lock him up without bail and for the law suspend his constitutional rights to due process?

Grace Van Owen:
Are you out of your mind? The man is a crazed killer! He has a criminal record a mile long! He murdered a pregnant woman and her husband! He did it! And he will do it again and again and AGAIN! And when he does... when Jimmy Pretrovk kills again, it will be on your hands!

Michael Kuzak:
You've got a hell of a nerve saying that to me, Grace!

Grace Van Owen:
Why? Because I dare to disagree with you? The Great Civil Libertarian?

Michael Kuzak:
I don't punish you for your personal opinions and beliefs. Don't punish me for mine!

Michael Kuzak:
What the hell happened?

Mr. Adler:
Your man, Jimmy Petrovek, knocked off a liquor store. That's what happened.

Michael Kuzak:
And four plainclothes police detectives just happened to be there ready to gun him down in cold blood?

Mr. Adler:
He pointed a pistol at them. They were justified.

Michael Kuzak:
Like hell! It was an ambush and you know it!

Mr. Adler:
That punk was sticking a gun in peoples faces less then 10 hours after you got him released!

Michael Kuzak:
That's not my point! Those cops executed Petrovek instead of capturing or wounding him and you set it up!

Mr. Adler:
If you mean did I call the police and tell them to follow Petrovek? You're damn right I did! I told you so! Am I glad that he got killed before he could kill someone else? You bet!

Michael Kuzak:
Thank you. You just brought yourself a wrongful death action that I am filing against you and whole district attorney's office first thing tomorrow morning!

Mr. Adler:
Take your best shot! You have as much chance at that as I had at keeping that sleaze locked up in the first place!

Stuart Markowitz:
It's still brooding. Why you still brooding?

Ann Kelsey:
I'm not brooding.

Stuart Markowitz:
Yeah, you are. Ever since I said whatever was I said about you dress, you're beautiful on brew. [Stuart comforts Ann sitting alone]

Ann Kelsey:
It was a painful thing to hear, Stuart.

Stuart Markowitz:
Mine. You know they still have desire for you, don't you?

Ann Kelsey:
I guess I don't know it as much as I used to know it.

Stuart Markowitz:
Yeah, well, there's a lot of things that aren't there used to be, huh? [Stuart take a seat and talk with Ann for a minute]

Ann Kelsey:
Like what else?

Stuart Markowitz:
Like one's desire doesn't come to the fore as often as I used to. We work hard all day. You got the kid at home. Retired. Our stamina has to what it used to be. [Ann turned to her husband]

Ann Kelsey:
I don't wanna require stamina, Stuart. I don't want our marriage to be something that we endure.

Stuart Markowitz:
Why do you read these vast gloomy passages and everything I say? There will be periods of time when the fire is out. Yes. But that doesn't mean I don't love you. It doesn't mean I don't desire you. It probably does mean that I'm tired.

Ann Kelsey:
Fine.

Stuart Markowitz:
And now she says fine. And now she is not gonna let up on me. Because I haven't demonstrated the requisite amount of sympathy, or passion, or whatever the hell it is, I'm suppose to demonstrate. [Stuart gets up and walk] I'll tell you something , Honey, demonstrations are passion, you're suppose to arise spontaneously. And it doesn't help matters that I live in fear offending you all the time. That I think you're gonna jump down my throat. Every time I might make an inappropriate remark. Think about that. And think about what you might have done. If the fire's out, to put it out. [Stuart walks away. And Ann looks shock]

Benny Stulwicz:
[Benny has arrived] What do you want, Arnie?

Arnie Becker:
He said he wanted to see you. [Benny turned is Tim. Tim is hereby signing the annulment paper to handover to Benny who is going to marry Rosalie after the engagement]

Benny Stulwicz:
What do you want?

Tim:
I came to sign the paper.

Benny Stulwicz:
You did?

Tim:
Yeah, I didn't do it because of you. And I didn't do it because of you, either. I... I did it because of Rosalie. [Tim owe Arnie and Benny an apology]

Arnie Becker:
That's okay. [Tim got something in his pants. Is the sealed envelope]

Tim:
But, uh, I... I... I want you to give this to her before the wedding.

Arnie Becker:
May I inquire as to what is in there?

Tim:
No. And... and you can't look at what's inside there, either. You... you gotta promise not to look.

Benny Stulwicz:
Oh, okay.

Tim:
And... and you also got to promise now you give it to her.

Benny Stulwicz:
Okay.

Tim:
Say you promise. [Benny will keep his promise]

Benny Stulwicz:
I promise. [Tim handover the sealed envelope to Benny Stulwicz and give it to lovely engaged soon to marry Rosalie Hendrickson before the wedding. And moving along, Tim is ready and ask Arnie where do he signed the papers]

Tim:
Where do I sign? [Arnie points the paper before having Tim signed his signature]

Arnie Becker:
Right there. [Arnie hand Tim a pen and sign his name in the annulment paper, where it says, "X Marks the Spot". Arnie smiles happily to Benny. It's ready and Tim leaves the door to exit Arnie's office. And now Benny is now going to get ready to marry his future wife Rosalie Hendrickson on Saturday. Arnie patted Benny]

Arnie Becker:
You're getting married.

Benny Stulwicz:
Yeah.

[Back at home, Murray is changing the channels and see what shows that Murray is watching on television. Frankly, Murray has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Benny bought a Christmas tree]

Benny Stulwicz:
Hi.

Murray Melman:
I can't believe it. Second game in the series and thought on television.

Benny Stulwicz:
Why?

Murray Melman:
Baseball. World Series. How come they're not put it on?

[Murray finds out what is it in the house]

Murray Melman:
What the hell is that?

Benny Stulwicz:
That's a Christmas tree.

Murray Melman:
What are you nuts? You can't back Christmas tree on October. It won't last.

[Benny has proved and it's December in the newspaper. 2 months passed since October]

Benny Stulwicz:
It's not October, it's December. Christmases next Tuesday. You're having your Alzheimer's again.

Murray Melman:
Shut up. I don't want that in here.

Benny Stulwicz:
Th - th - it's Christmas.

Murray Melman:
Don't you talk back to me! You see any Christmas in here? Christmas is rules full of people, an eggnog, and relatives spending the night? You see any eggnog? You see people?

Benny Stulwicz:
We're here.

Murray Melman:
I don't want that tree in here!

Benny Stulwicz:
But don't yell at me! Come on, you're having your Alzheimer's again!

Murray Melman:
I can't even smell it!

Benny Stulwicz:
Don't do that, please! Well stop it! You're gonna hurt the tree!

Murray Melman:
Let me go!

Benny Stulwicz:
No!

[Benny restrained Murray not wanting to let Murray go]

[Stuart opening the door is this man is Barry Gorman]

Barry Gorman:
Mr. Markowitz, Barry Gorman, thanks for seeing me.

Stuart Markowitz:
Sure, uh, what can I do for you?

Barry Gorman:
Oh, we'll get to that.

[Mr. Gorman looking up Stuart Markowitz's family]

Barry Gorman:
It's a nice family.

Stuart Markowitz:
Thank you. Thank you very much. So you have a client with a taxpayer problem, right?

Barry Gorman:
Hmm? Oh, no, no. This is a, uh, private matter. You, uh,

[Mr. Gorman clears his throat]

Barry Gorman:
You a woman back in 1974 name Karen Alder?

Stuart Markowitz:
Yes. 19 indeed we met down in Baja. How she doing?

Barry Gorman:
She passed away a few months ago.

Stuart Markowitz:
I'm very sorry to hear that. She, she was, she was couple of years younger than I am.

Barry Gorman:
You and Mrs. Alder had a relationship, right?

Stuart Markowitz:
Well, you wouldn't call that a relationship, we went out a few times.

Barry Gorman:
But you had uh, sexual relations on some of those occasions, didn't you?

Stuart Markowitz:
Excuse me? There were... what's this about, Mr. Gorman?

Barry Gorman:
This is about paternity, Mr. Markowitz. You have a daughter.

[Stuart has to find out that he has a daughter]

Arnie Becker:
Well, so far, this alleged daughter hasn't filed yet, you're probably threatened to go public to force a settlement.

Ann Kelsey:
That's blackmail.

Arnie Becker:
Well absolutely. Look, this Gorman is a bottom feeder. I wouldn't be surprised if he manipulated this girl into filing suit. He may even try to get appointed a guardian.

Ann Kelsey:
So we're looking at fraud here?

Arnie Becker:
Probably. But they've done some homework. Stuart, you did know this woman Karen Alder?

Stuart Markowitz:
Yep, I - I dated her for like, uh, 3 months.

Arnie Becker:
And you did go to bed with her?

Stuart Markowitz:
Yeah, yeah, it was a casual thing. Well I wasn't among...

Ann Kelsey:
I never said you were.

Arnie Becker:
Okay, the good news is the girl is 16, the most you can ask for is 2 year support until she reaches her majority.

Stuart Markowitz:
What's the bad news?

Arnie Becker:
California child support guidelines state that a child must be supported in a fashion commensurate with father's wealth.

Ann Kelsey:
Oh, God.

Arnie Becker:
Giving you net annual salary, uh, I could see her going to what? 6,000 a month for 2 years? You're looking at a $150,000 hit here.

Stuart Markowitz:
If this really were my daughter, why didn't the mother contact me for support?

Ann Kelsey:
Exactly.

Arnie Becker:
Relax. There will looked one thing.

Stuart Markowitz:
What?

Arnie Becker:
Your sperm count is so low can be measured infractions, their case is real shaky.

Stuart Markowitz:
Great. That makes me feel really wonderful.

Ann Kelsey:
So what do we do?

Arnie Becker:
The easiest way to get rid of this, DNA tests. They'll probably won't come to that, but Gorman is a K-Mart lawyer, if I go at him, it worked in and I don't let up, I might intimidate him right back into the woodwork.

Ann Kelsey:
Good. Because if he thinks we're gonna roll over for this kind of extortion, he is dead wrong.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Next stop, the Simon & Catherine Rubin Foundation vs. University of California and Dr. Emily Connor. We're representing Dr. Connor and the University?

Jonathan Rollins:
Yeah. The Rubin Foundation granted Dr. Connor $100,000 to study a new way to save heart attack and stroke victims, she's happy to the project and Kurt Rubin the Foundations President wants his money back.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Why?

Jonathan Rollins:
He says she's breach the contract by using scientific data from the Nazi concentration camps.

Alex DePalma:
What?

Tommy Mullaney:
Nazis?

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
What date?

Stuart Markowitz:
We're representing Nazis?

Jonathan Rollins:
No. We're representing a highly respected scientist who wants to save lives.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Which particular Nazi experiments is she using?

Jonathan Rollins:
The deco hypothermia experiment.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Huh.

Jonathan Rollins:
You know where they subject to prisoners to freezing temperatures and monitor the physiological responses.

Alex DePalma:
How many died?

Jonathan Rollins:
About 90 men, but tens of thousands die every month from heart disease and my client thinks you can save a lot of them.

Stuart Markowitz:
I'm sorry, I don't by that.

Arnie Becker:
You're hate to sound crass, but if it meant the life-or-death of somebody that I love dad want them to use the data, it won't change would have to those prisoners.

Leland McKenzie:
Well, I don't think it's quite that simple, Arnold.

Jonathan Rollins:
Come on, Leland, no one's saying experiments were horrendous, but there were 50 years ago. If the data concede even one life today, I feel...

Leland McKenzie:
Now, I - I'm - I'm not saying you shouldn't take the case, Jonathan. And I understand what Mr. Rubin is afraid of.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Is there any possibility of a settlement?

Jonathan Rollins:
So far they haven't been willing, I think it just hoping for the best deal at the 11th hour.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Good luck. And we're adjourned.

[the meeting is dismissed and they're done]

Ann Kelsey:
Be aggressive, Arnie. I want vintage, Becker.

Arnie Becker:
Please, Ann. [Arnie open the door to get to the proceedings] Good Morning.

Barry Gorman:
Mr. Markowitz. [Mr. Gorman shaking hands with Stuart Markowitz] Mr. Becker. [And Mr. Gorman shaking hands with Arnie Becker]

Stuart Markowitz:
This is my wife Ann Kelsey. [Mr. Gorman meets Stuart's wife Ann Kelsey]

Ann Kelsey:
Mr. Gorman.

Barry Gorman:
I'd like you both to meet my client Sarah Alder. [Sarah meets is Ann Kelsey and Stuart Markowitz]

Sarah Alder:
Hi. [Sarah shaking hands with Ann]

Ann Kelsey:
Hello. [Sarah shaking hands with Stuart]

Sarah Alder:
Hi.

Stuart Markowitz:
Hi.

Arnie Becker:
Let's get started. First thing I like to know is what you doing representing a minor.

Barry Gorman:
So happens, Counselor, that I'm planning on seeking guardianship with this young lady.

Arnie Becker:
You know the only thing that stinks here worse than your case, Counselor is your ethics.

Barry Gorman:
Let's drop the animosity, shall we?

Arnie Becker:
You having even seen animosity, Mr. Gorman. As highly likely, that is girl is Mr. Markowitz' daughter, as these medical records from his urologist can attest. You're leveling flimsy charges against him demand high principles. All those sperms count.

Stuart Markowitz:
All right, Arnie.

Ann Kelsey:
She's your daughter, Stuart.

Arnie Becker:
What?

Stuart Markowitz:
What?

Ann Kelsey:
You're the father, I can tell. [Stuart has a daughter Sarah and he's now the father]

Barry Gorman:
Terrific. Let's drop some papers.

Ann Kelsey:
Look at her. Look at her eyes, for God's sake. Can't you see it?

Arnie Becker:
I don't believe this.

Ann Kelsey:
How are we gonna tell Matthew?

Stuart Markowitz:
Mat - - Matthew's 2 years old.

Ann Kelsey:
I can just need a mother. This is Stuart's daughter by a previous range.

Stuart Markowitz:
Now wait a minute. We don't talk to your mother now. Why should we... [Sarah finds out that's not true]

Sarah Alder:
He's not my father.

Barry Gorman:
What?

Arnie Becker:
What?

Sarah Alder:
I'm sorry. I knew my mom have been with you. I knew you had money, that's why I came to you, but you're not my real father.

Barry Gorman:
Let's not jump to any rash conclusions here.

Sarah Alder:
He doesn't even look like me. [Stuart and Sarah are not related] I'm sorry. [Sarah's leaving and heading home. What's wrong with Stuart Markowitz biologically paternal? And what's the matter with Ann Kelsey?]

[Later in the evening at home. Zoey is sleeping. But someone is behind the shadow. Zoey gasped and turned. The man having long hair]

A.D.A. Zoey Clemmons:
Who are you?

John Harvey:
Who else could it be, dear? No deadbolt, it's a shame. [the man having a wig turned on the lamp and see who he is] You treat me with such vindictiveness in court, and you think I can just accepted? Oh, no, I feel compelled to discuss your behavior further. [the man takes off the wig is the serial killer John Harvey, holding the knife is to threatening Zoey] I'm shocked you didn't expect me. [Tommy enters from the nearby bathroom pointing a gun]

Tommy Mullaney:
I expected you.

John Harvey:
[Harvey stopped] Oh, dear.

Tommy Mullaney:
You know you really had me going, John, I didn't know if Kelly Sossa was gonna show. Only thing I was positive about was that someone was going to show up tonight.

John Harvey:
Ah, which your timing is such a pity. [Harvey put the knife down] As it stands, I can only be arrested for breaking and entering. Had you stayed in the bathroom for just a bit longer, I might have said somethings to Ms. Clemmons, you could've really used against me. What a shame. I really was feeling chatty. This way I'll be in and out of jail in a jiff. What a disappointing end to such a good story. Dear, dear. [Harvey gasp] Maybe when I get out, I'll come back again.

Tommy Mullaney:
No, you ain't coming back. [Tommy got a gun to take the serial killer John Harvey down] See I had to kill you in self defense. [Gun c*cks] Too bad really.

John Harvey:
This, uh... [Getting nervous] that's cold-blooded murder. She's a District Attorney. She'll prosecute you for this.

Tommy Mullaney:
I'm saving her life, and something tells me she'll save mine. Bye-bye John.

John Harvey:
I get it. You want me to do something threatening. Something to justify self defense. You wouldn't dare shoot if I stayed passive. [John Harvey is walking away]

Tommy Mullaney:
Wrong.

[But John got the gun to threatened to Tommy, but Tommy shoots Harvey twice as he falls dead]

Tommy Mullaney:
Watch your better ethic now. [Tommy finds out that Zoey is okay now, and he holds and comfort her safely]

[C.J. intervenes in a near-fistfight between Rollins and Mullaney]

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Will you two knock it off! Jonathan, please leave.

[Rollins exits]

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
[to Mullaney] And you!

Tommy Mullaney:
What? He barges in here telling me how to try a case!

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Well why did you take the case in the first place for God's sake?

Tommy Mullaney:
Because the money's good, there's good publicity and I get my name in the news. Why do you thing I took the case?

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Tommy, the prosecuter is your ex-wife. You took the case to beat up on her, lose to her, anything so you can be the same room with her. You want to do any to make sure that Zoey remains part of your life.

Tommy Mullaney:
[feigning ignorance] What? You have no idea what your're talking about. This has nothing to do with Zoey, or my past with her.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
[sarcastic tone] Yeah, right. I couldn't be further from the truth, could I?

[McKenzie follows Susan Bloom into the ladies room]

Leland McKenzie:
Hey, come here! You've been avoiding me!

Susan Bloom:
Not now Lee, I gotta duche.

Leland McKenzie:
Listen, I let you share office space here to bring in extra revenue for this firm, which means that I have to put up with your filth and disguesting habits of the way you practice law. But you crossed the line with the videotape. Cross it ever again, and I guarantee that I will terminate your lease so fast that...

Susan Bloom:
[interupting] You know, Lee, I get the feeling all this hostility of yours is a way of venting your frustration out on your personal life.

Leland McKenzie:
It's Leland.

Susan Bloom:
Whatever... Lee. I see that because of this hot-temper of yours is a way of saying that you are in a way attracted to me. So, to settle this little hassle, I'm willing to let you have your way with me once.

Leland McKenzie:
What are you talking about?

Susan Bloom:
I'm talkin' about sex, Leland. I'm talking about the way you look at me with those hostle eyes and know you want to take me. Go ahead, pick a stall. I'm yours for seven minutes.

Leland McKenzie:
[frustrated to himself] Give me strength.

[McKenzie exits the ladies room as Bloom smiles]

Arnie Becker:
Roxanne, open your eyes. Jimmy Markham is conning you.

Roxanne Melman:
Anrie, you don't know the first thing about Jimmy. You've never even met him.

Arnie Becker:
Oh, come on, Roxanne! I've met this guy, I've met him a thousand times. He's the typical guy I see in all my divorce cases. His wife hires me to make him look bad. He hires me to make him look good. Either way, I know him for what he is the minute I see him. He comes on like a romantic but he's only in business for himself. I know this guy, Roxanne. Hell, I've been this guy!

Roxanne Melman:
[sarcastic] Thanks for the legal advice.

Roxanne Melman:
I appreciate both of you taking the time to help me, but I've decided that I'm going to take the fifth.

Michael Kuzak:
Roxanne, once they have granted you full immunity you have no right to take the fifth. You will get thrown into jail for contempt.

Roxanne Melman:
But they can't keep me in jail for long if it won't make me change my mind.

Arnie Becker:
Did your boyfriend tell you that?

Roxanne Melman:
Isn't it true?

Michael Kuzak:
Well... yes. But a judge can keep you in jail for up to one year before he decides it won't make you change your mind. What's more the U.S. attorney's office could withdraw the immunity and charge you for insider trading and mail fraud. Why go through all of that?

Roxanne Melman:
Because one day this will be all over. I will say good bye to his law firm of McKenzie-Brackman and start a life with Jimmy. So whatever happens to me, I cannot hurt him. I love him. I've never felt this way about any man before.

Arnie Becker:
Doesn't it bother you at all that all those brokerage accounts that Jimmy Markham set up to deposit his stock profit funds were in your name?

Roxanne Melman:
No, because Jimmy is currently in the middle of a divorce and he didn't want his wife to find out about them.

Arnie Becker:
Why didn't he tell you that?

Roxanne Melman:
He was going to tell me when his divorce became final.

Arnie Becker:
Oh, that sounds real convincing coming from a straight-arrow like him.

Roxanne Melman:
I will not testify against Jimmy! I love him and I will to anything to protect him! Michael, please tell the federal prosecutor that the immunity deal you made for me is off.

Michael Kuzak:
Absolutely, not! If you are so intent on putting yourself though this king of a ringer, I want you to march into open court tomorrow and tell him and the judge yourself. Maybe between now and then you'll come to your senses.

Roxanne Melman:
They told me my attorney was here to see me. Who are you?

Gay Halloran:
My name is Gay Halloran.

Roxanne Melman:
I don't know you. How did you get in here? They only allow lawyers.

Gay Halloran:
I'm a legal secretary at Dukalski and Goldfarb. I presented their letterhead to the guard and told them I was a lawyer.

Roxanne Melman:
Why?

Gay Halloran:
Because I wanted to tell you something about Jimmy Markham that you obviously don't know.

Roxanne Melman:
[scoffs] Let me guess. Your his wife.

Gay Halloran:
No... I'm his girlfriend. His live-in girlfriend for the past six months.

Roxanne Melman:
[thrown off guard] Oh, my God...

Gay Halloran:
I'm the one he wants to make a life with as soon as his divorce becomes final. I'm the one he reaches for in the middle of the night. Or maybe you thought that was you?

Roxanne Melman:
Something like that.

Gay Halloran:
I read all about you in the newspapers this morning about you going to jail for your insider trading boyfriend. I read all about you... with the same dumb expression that you have on your face right now.

Roxanne Melman:
[trembling] Oh, my God. I can't believe this is happening!

Gay Halloran:
Yeah well, I did not come here for the two of us to cry on each others shoulders. I was involved with Jimmy's stock deals too and the same way the feds came after you, they're gonna come after me. Only, I don't want to give back the money I made, I don't want to have to hire a lawyer, and I don't think you should spend another night here in jail. So why don't you do us both a favor and stop protecting him!

Roxanne Melman:
I love him. I trusted him. How could he lie to me after I trusted him?

Gay Halloran:
I guarantee you that last night, he never lost any sleep over it. So, your here rotting in jail, I'm expecting a subpoena any minute, and we both had our hearts stomped on! You stand fast and they come after me, I'm gonna testify and send that bastard away to prison without a second thought! Nothing heals like vengeance.

Michael Kuzak:
Well, I moved we skip the trial and proceed immediately to sentencing.

Judge Walter Stone:
Don't get smart with me.

Michael Kuzak:
That juror was not only predisposed to see a race thing here, he took a potshot at me.

Judge Walter Stone:
Maybe you provoked him.

[Michael sighed, looked at Jonathan. Jonathan shrugged]

Michael Kuzak:
Your Honor, I move that you recuse yourself from this case.

D.A. Marcia Fusco:
Opposed.

Judge Walter Stone:
On what grounds?

Michael Kuzak:
On the grounds that you like Rogoff are too politically scared to do the job here.

Judge Walter Stone:
If I was scared, I would find a way to get off this case. I would dodge this thing like an oncoming train, which is exactly what it is. But this judge doesn't delay justice simply because the victims are black. And this judge doesn't all out favors and continuances the defendants simply because they happen to be police officers.

Michael Kuzak:
And this judge because the boundaries of his district were changed suddenly can't be reelected unless he captures at least 50% of the black vote.

Judge Walter Stone:
Your motion is denied.

Michael Kuzak:
I want this on the record.

Judge Walter Stone:
It's on the record. Now let's get back in there. This trial's going forward.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
[Back at the 444 Law Office Building in Los Angeles] Aside from humiliating this firm what you did bordered on fraud.

Murray Melman:
I was trying to help.

Ann Kelsey:
That doesn't help. Passing yourself off as an attorney, lying to the media, that doesn't help.

Murray Melman:
I thought it sounded good. You see it.

Arnie Becker:
Murray, you can't do that.

Murray Melman:
So you don't want me to help?

Ann Kelsey:
No.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
No.

Murray Melman:
You want to pitch in?

Arnie Becker, Roxanne Melman:
No.

Murray Melman:
OK. OK. Just so I understand that. My help you never want it.

[Back at the courthouse in the city of Los Angeles. Here at Judge Stone's chambers, Judge Stone reads the letter]

Judge Walter Stone:
This is a last-minute stunt.

Michael Kuzak:
It's no stunt, Your Honor, my client seeks to discharge me as counsel. That's his prerogative.

Judge Walter Stone:
What's wrong?

Michael Kuzak:
As long as I am still his lawyer, I would like all dialog to go through with me, please.

Judge Walter Stone:
Denied. You want a new lawyer? You're so glad to tell me why.

Brian Chisolm:
We had differences of opinion, which I feel compromise Mr. Kuzak's ability to provide effective representation.

Judge Walter Stone:
Such as?

Michael Kuzak:
Work product. Don't answer.

Judge Walter Stone:
Fine. Mr. Rollins will be your lawyer. We start tomorrow.

Michael Kuzak:
Your Honor, the conflicts are germane to the entire firm, Mr. Rollins included.

Judge Walter Stone:
Either you tell me what these conflicts are or your motion is denied.

Michael Kuzak:
Defense strategy, personality differences, he's not satisfied with my competency.

Judge Walter Stone:
Uh-huh. Well, you're competent all right. So competent in fact that I have no doubt that you instructed him to discharge you in order to buy more time. Hoping that by the time this thing rolled around again the trial. I'll be wrapped up in something else and you have to get a different judge. Well, that's not going to happened. You're very adequate, counsel, no grounds for a switch. This trial starts tomorrow. That's all.

Michael Kuzak:
Your Honor!

Judge Walter Stone:
I said that's all.

[Mr. Kuzak, Mr. Rollins, D.A. Marcia Fusco, and Brian Chisolm leaves the chambers of the Honorable Judge Walter Stone. And now Michael talks with D.A. Marcia Fusco]

Michael Kuzak:
You could live with this?

D.A. Marcia Fusco:
Hey, you think I like it? I get everybody breathing down my back for conviction while I barely have any evidence. Was hoping it'll trick with work.

Brian Chisolm:
Mr. Kuzak. Mr. Kuzak, what the hell is going? God, I thought you said this will work out.

Michael Kuzak:
Well, I was wrong, Brian, and quite honestly right now I don't know what to tell you.

[Michael sighed]

[to begin to questioning the members of the jury during a pretrial]

Michael Kuzak:
And how long have you been lived in Inglewood, Mr. Lewis?

Mr. Lewis:
About 42 years.

Michael Kuzak:
Have you any problem with the police?

Mr. Lewis:
None that I can recall.

Michael Kuzak:
And do you believe that white policeman applied one set of rules to white people and, uh, different set to blacks.

Mr. Lewis:
Not in my experience.

Michael Kuzak:
Thank you. Defense accept this man.

D.A. Marcia Fusco:
Have you ever been the victim of a crime, Mr. Lewis?

Mr. Lewis:
My house was robbed once.

D.A. Marcia Fusco:
Police catch you did it?

Mr. Lewis:
Yes.

D.A. Marcia Fusco:
You recall his race?

Mr. Lewis:
He was a black kid.

D.A. Marcia Fusco:
The prosecution ask that Mr. Lewis be excused for cause.

Michael Kuzak:
Objection. There's no showing for cause.

D.A. Marcia Fusco:
I believe that Mr. Lewis' condition to believe that blacks are more likely guilty when charge of a crime.

Michael Kuzak:
Where'd you get that?

Judge Walter Stone:
The jurors discharge for cause. [Judge Stone puts his glasses back on. Ms. Fusco takes a seat and moving along to question the next juror]

[the next juror]

D.A. Marcia Fusco:
Will the fact that he's a police officer make you more inclined to believed he's innocent?

Arthur Pryor:
No. All kinds of people commit crimes. Policeman, too.

D.A. Marcia Fusco:
Thank you, Mr. Pryor. The people accept this juror.

Michael Kuzak:
Have you ever been arrested, Mr. Pryor?

Arthur Pryor:
I resent that.

Michael Kuzak:
I take it, you've never been arrested then?

Arthur Pryor:
That's right.

Michael Kuzak:
Thank you.

Arthur Pryor:
You ask white jurors that question?

Michael Kuzak:
Your Honor, the defense ask that Mr. Pryor be excused for cause.

D.A. Marcia Fusco:
No showing up cause, Your Honor.

Judge Walter Stone:
I see no reason this jurors should be excused.

Michael Kuzak:
The defense exercises it's last peremptory challenge, it has to be heard in chambers, Your Honor.

Judge Walter Stone:
Let's go.

D.A. Marcia Fusco:
Officer Chisholm claims that he was fired upon first, by two unknown drug dealers. There's no evidence to suggest that these two drug dealers even exist, no stray bullets were ever found, and though Mr. Chisholm never took a lie detector test.

Michael Kuzak:
Objection.

Judge Walter Stone:
Ms. Fusco, you know better than that. Members of the Jury, whether or not the accused took a polygraph test is have no relevance, and you have to give that no consideration.

Michael Kuzak:
Move for a mistrial.

Judge Walter Stone:
Approached. [Mr. Kuzak and Ms. Fusco approached the sidebar of Judge Walter Stone. Brian has a whispering talk with Jonathan] You're not getting a mistrial.

Michael Kuzak:
For God's sake, Your Honor.

Judge Walter Stone:
She didn't say he failed it.

Michael Kuzak:
She implied that he refused to take it.

Judge Walter Stone:
She did no such thing. She just said he didn't take it. I see no prejudice.

Michael Kuzak:
But this is outrageous!

Judge Walter Stone:
Keep your voice down.

Michael Kuzak:
You let Holloway grandstand, you let him bias jurors are now with an obvious prejudicial statement by the District Attorney's motion.

Judge Walter Stone:
Your motion is denied. It's all on the record. Take it up on appeal, but I'm not stopping this trial. Now step back, both of you.

Michael Kuzak:
This is a back job.

Judge Walter Stone:
Step back. [Mr. Kuzak and Ms. Fusco step back. Mr. Kuzak will returned his seat. And District Attorney Marcia Fusco will continue the opening statement]

D.A. Marcia Fusco:
Members of the Jury, I apologized for the disruption. I'm not gonna take up anymore of your time. I think that justice will best be served if we get right to the evidence. Evidence that will clearly demonstrate that the defendant Office Brian Chisholm gunned down a black teenager in cold blood. Evidence that will demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt, that Brian Chisholm is a murderer. [Crowds murmuring] Thank you. [Ms. Fusco returns to her seat]

Judge Walter Stone:
Mr. Kuzak? [Someone's coughing] Mr. Kuzak?

Michael Kuzak:
I'm sorry. [Mr. Kuzak clears his throat, and gets up while addressing an opening statement] Serving justice, that what she said we were here for, right? The only problem with that is it's premised on the assumption that we have... impartial jurors and - and a fair judge, now I have my doubts about you jurors, I'll be honest with you. But have no doubts at all about that big chicken bastard sitting up there wearing a robe!

Judge Walter Stone:
Mr. Kuzak, you are in contempt!

Michael Kuzak:
There's nothing about adjusting, all he only cares about is getting reelected, all he only cares about is staying on Holloway's good side...

Judge Walter Stone:
Hustle now!

Michael Kuzak:
...gained in the press! [Kuzak was caught by the bailiff] You gotta call a mistrial now!

Judge Walter Stone:
Take him away!

Michael Kuzak:
There's no choice now! Hey! I haven't finish my opening statement! [Mr. Kuzak is dragged by the bailiff and is taken away in contempt of court]

Judge Walter Stone:
Members of the Jury, you are not consider counsel's breakdown or in any way hold it against the defendant. Mr. Kuzak was simply attempting to get this trial called off, for reasons which have nothing to do with the issue before you.

[Now moving on to Mr. Rollins]

Judge Walter Stone:
Mr. Rollins, please take over.

Jonathan Rollins:
Excuse me?

D.A. Marcia Fusco:
Your Honor, under the circumstances, I...

Judge Walter Stone:
I will not reward Mr. Kuzak's outburst by letting him attain his objective. Now this trial will go forward.

[Ms. Fusco should stay quiet. And Judge is asking Jonathan to take over to make a statement]

Judge Walter Stone:
Mr. Rollins, please take over where Mr. Kuzak left off.

Jonathan Rollins:
You can't be...

Judge Walter Stone:
I said take up where he left off!

Jonathan Rollins:
Okay. Um...

[And turned to Brian Chisholm sitting quietly]

Jonathan Rollins:
Um, I believe he left off calling you a big chicken bastard worried about reelection.

Judge Walter Stone:
You're in contempt, too. Bailiff! Take Mr. Rollins into custody.

Jonathan Rollins:
You forgot to call you stupid, and forgot to ask who you bribed to get that robe!

[Mr. Rollins was protesting and was caught by the bailiff and get Mr. Rollins out of the courtroom]

Judge Walter Stone:
Get him out!

Jonathan Rollins:
Objection! We... Get your hands off me! I want my objection on the record! This is hot and prejudicial job!

Judge Walter Stone:
Members of the Jury, I'm sorry, I have no other choice, but to suspend this proceedings and to declare a mistrial.

Derron Holloway:
You're giving them what they want!

Judge Walter Stone:
Shut up, Mr. Holloway!

[Crowds speaking. Mr. Holloway shouldn't interrupt Judge Stone, he has to address the court]

Judge Walter Stone:
I have no choice. The jury is dismissed. We're done.

[Mr. Holloway sitting down. Crowds murmuring and complaining]

[Opening the door is Grace, she is here see Leland, and she is doing him a favor to take the stand]

Grace Van Owen:
You're ready.

Leland McKenzie:
Ready.

Grace Van Owen:
The main thing is show authority.

Leland McKenzie:
I know, Grace. We've been over it again and again.

Grace Van Owen:
Leland, I've prepared more than a thousand witnesses. Nobody testifies exactly the way it's rehearsed. When you get up on the stand, you're gonna be nervous. That's acceptable. Nerves cause some people to be tentative, that is not acceptable, not on this case. We'll try and paint you as the weak aging Senior Partner who needed to be rescued, your demeanor has to suggest otherwise.

Leland McKenzie:
I know what I have to do.

Grace Van Owen:
Good.

Jonathan Rollins:
[Here at the cell] What happens now?

Michael Kuzak:
Well, we just sit here.

Jonathan Rollins:
No, I mean the trial. What happens?

Michael Kuzak:
Well, we're on the panel a new jury and we'll start all over again.

Jonathan Rollins:
With Judge Stone still sitting?

Michael Kuzak:
I'll make another motion for recusal but the way things are going on. Jonathan, I want you to try this case.

Jonathan Rollins:
Okay.

Michael Kuzak:
Are you sure?

Jonathan Rollins:
Yeah. Yeah, I'll try the case.

Tommy Mullaney:
How's Zoey doing?

Michael Kuzak:
Zoey?

Tommy Mullaney:
She's the D.A. prosecuting your client. She's also my ex-wife.

Michael Kuzak:
You're kidding! That young blond woman is your ex-wife?

Tommy Mullaney:
Yeah. She told me that she thinks it's funny you representing a guy with multiple personalities when you yourself don't even have one.

Corrine's Lawyer:
How long have you been in Mr. Becker's direct employment?

Roxanne Melman:
12 years.

Corrine's Lawyer:
And in that time, how many affairs had Mr. Becker had with his female divorce clients?

Roxanne Melman:
I don't know.

Corrine's Lawyer:
More then 25?

Roxanne Melman:
I guess... I don't know.

Corrine's Lawyer:
More then 50?

[pause]

Corrine's Lawyer:
Awnser the question, Miss Melman.

Roxanne Melman:
I'm thinking.

Arnie Becker:
Oh, please Roxanne! 50?

Corrine's Lawyer:
[to Becker] Interrupt again, I'll suspend these proceedings and move for costs and sanctions.

Arnie Becker:
Threaten me again, and I'll pick you like a crusty scab you cheap night school act!

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
By giving up California Rifle and making it C.J.'s client, she gets 40% of the business. No doubt she promised the kickbacks to you.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
I'm shocked you'd think something like that.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I'm not talking to you, C.J. [to Abby] Abby, you can't do this.

Abby Perkins:
Douglas, I just decided that I didn't want the client anymore. C.J. picked it up, so what's wrong with that?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
What's wrong with that? Since you'll be doing all the work for this client, it doesn't make sense. It's just a sham.

Abby Perkins:
Why? As it is all I do is slave away and make other people rich. I would just rather profit C.J. then the partners that's all.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
All right. I'm aware that we have a situation here, so this is what I'm prepared to do. I'm cutting your salary by 20%... in exchange for which I'm offering you 20% of the business that you bring in.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Can you do that?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Of course I can, I'm senior partner. It's similar to the deal that Leland made with you when he was in charge.

Abby Perkins:
Except it's not as good.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
No, but that's as good as it gets. I lower overheads and give incentives to you... an associate who's not on a partnership track. You get a big upside now, Abby.

Abby Perkins:
As long as you don't have the right to refuse the clients that I want to bring in.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Agreed... as long as you still bill work hours at 1,800 per year.

Abby Perkins:
Agreed.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Well... that's all then. Dismissed.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Hey, how would you like to have dinner with me again tonight? We could take in a movie afterwards. Rump Ranger.

Abby Perkins:
Tonight? I can't find a sitter for Eric that fast. Sorry.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
[somewhat disappointed] Uh... okay. Never hurts to ask.

[C.J. is about to walk out when when Abby turns back towards her]

Abby Perkins:
It's supposed to be terrible, you know.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
What is?

Abby Perkins:
That movie, Rump Ranger. Why not blow it off and come have dinner at my house? You can get to meet my son Eric.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Okay, you're on.

Abby Perkins:
Eight o'clock. Don't be late.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Oh, Abby... just one small favor.

Abby Perkins:
What?

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Wear that tight little black dress that you had on during the Christmas party.

[Abby looks a little shaken]

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Kidding, Abby! Go easy, will you?

Abby Perkins:
You're a real jerk, Lamb.

Abby Perkins:
This is actually better then being a partner because just like before I can leave anytime I want to set up my own private practice and still have time for Eric.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Partnerships are pretty overrated these days. All that bonding with corporate boneheads. Can you imaging yourself going on a retreat with those guys? Sitting in a mudbath between Leland and Douglas!

Abby Perkins:
I like men.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
So do I.

Abby Perkins:
Oh? So that means you're... uh...

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Flexible?

Abby Perkins:
I see.

[Meanwhile, Ann is looking at the picture. Knocking on the door is Leland to a minute with Ann at her office since the riots in Los Angeles, and all about Ann and Stuart]

Leland McKenzie:
You have a minute?

Ann Kelsey:
Of course.

Leland McKenzie:
Ann, we known each other along time. Going forward with your lawsuit against the city is the worst thing you could possibly do.

Ann Kelsey:
I'm acting on my own, Leland, not as a Representative of McKenzie, Brackman.

Leland McKenzie:
Come on now. You know I'm not concerned about the effect on this firm. I'm talking about you and Stuart.

Ann Kelsey:
Did Stuart talk to you?

Leland McKenzie:
No. No. But you know better than I, he's against this. See, I - I can only imagine how difficult this year has been for the two of you. But you have a chance to put the past behind you to get on with your lives.

Ann Kelsey:
Leland, I cannot just pretend that this never happened. I cannot let the people who did this to us just get away with it.

Leland McKenzie:
But you can unring a bell, Ann. No amount of money. No prison terms however lengthy can balance the books. And I won't lecture you, but I do know that I have been lucky enough in my life to have love twice, my wife and Rosalind, twice, to have that taken away. Well - There are a million reasons that people who end up alone, there need only be one stay together.

[Back and returned to the courthouse, Daniel has mysteries to be solved in the hall. But there's someone renew Daniel's acquaintance. Her name is Linda Salerno]

Linda Salerno:
Daniel?

Daniel Morales:
Well, hi. I'm sorry I didn't know.

Linda Salerno:
Linda.

Daniel Morales:
Right.

Linda Salerno:
I, uh, I changed my hair.

Daniel Morales:
Yeah. What you are doing in LA?

Linda Salerno:
Hmm. Move down a couple a months ago. I found a new a court reporting job. Of course if I known there was so expensive I might have stayed in Santa Barbara.

Daniel Morales:
Yeah, listen, I gotta go.

Linda Salerno:
Well, it's... listen, you look great. The city is treating you well.

Daniel Morales:
Actually it's not.

Linda Salerno:
Really? Can I help?

Daniel Morales:
No. No thanks. I'll see you later. [Linda grab while holding Daniel's shoulders to give hugs]

Linda Salerno:
It there's something I can do. Please let me know. [Daniel nodded his head. And Linda Salerno gives Daniel a kiss. Daniel just left. And Linda has to find out who she is like in Fatal Attraction]

[In the office, Stuart has to think about what happened about his life, and Ann is here to talk with Stuart about her reaction]

Ann Kelsey:
Stuart, you're making it worse. [Stuart is not in the mood, and he's very busy]

Stuart Markowitz:
I'm busy.

Ann Kelsey:
Please, don't do this.

Stuart Markowitz:
Why am I getting subpoenaed by the City Attorney's Office?

Ann Kelsey:
Because I'm angry, Stuart.

Stuart Markowitz:
No kidding.

Ann Kelsey:
There were two of us who were mugged! And only one of us was treated! What about me?

Stuart Markowitz:
I didn't ask for this, Ann. I - I give anything for this not to have happened. But it happened. And now what I wanna do is get past it.

Ann Kelsey:
What am I supposed to do? I have been waiting.

Stuart Markowitz:
Waiting for what? What do you want from me, Ann?

Ann Kelsey:
I want you the way you were!

Stuart Markowitz:
Well it's not possible. I'm sorry, but that's not possible. A person can't go through it, I went through come out the same as he went in. And if you can't accept that, I'm packing up and I'm out of here. [Ann has opened the door and leave for the moment]

[Here at the Los Angeles hospital. Tommy walked and see how his father doing so far]

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
How you feeling?

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
Better. Get my clothes.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Dr. Harwood says you got to lay low.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
If I passed out once. I passed out a thousand times, it's no big deal.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Relax, pop, you're in for a while.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
Give me a smoke.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
I'm not allowed.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
Give me a drink.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
I'm not allowed either.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
Then give me...

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
No more gimme's. I want you get some sleep.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
Yeah. I'm tired.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Sure. I'll be here when you wake up.

[Tommy will have the first watch to look after his father]

City Atty. Dana Romney:
[City Attorney Dana Romney has returned again] Hello everybody.

Stuart Markowitz:
Oh, great.

City Atty. Dana Romney:
Oh, it's a gorgeous day. Oh, and what a view from the tower of power. One of these days. All right, Dana Romney, City Attorney. Douglas Brackman may have told about me.

Ann Kelsey:
We know who you are, Mr. Romney, let's get on with this all of us are very busy.

City Atty. Dana Romney:
We certainly are, Ms. Kelsey, which is why your meritless claim offends me. Why not spared taxpayers the cost of defending your charges and your husband the agony of what a mine interrogation.

Ann Kelsey:
Excuse me?

City Atty. Dana Romney:
Drop the suit.

Ann Kelsey:
Drop dead.

City Atty. Dana Romney:
Suggests me or there's a surplus of hostility in this room? [Romney laughing] Okay.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
No guy is scrubbing my ass. Especially no guy with earrings.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Uh, why I don't I takeover my father can be kind of difficult?

Peter Jablow:
Not a problem. Got a dozen more just like him. Waiting.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
What kind of place is this? You wake up and some hormone. He's got some arm around you.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Pop, relax, huh? Nobody had a chance to clean you up. That's all you need a bath.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
I need a drink.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Enough already with that. Now come on. Come on. Lean forward.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
Oh, hospitals. Doctors tell you to rest. Step by step there plotting and poking.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Why'd you get tired and complaining?

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
A fact is a fact. Hey! Easy! That water is cold!

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
You know, you always bitched about the cold. So tell me, how come we lived in Boston?

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
I don't know what you mean, "how come we always live in Boston?" That's where my family was. I had no choice. Not are you. Every step of the way, you did it exactly as you please.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
...exactly as you please. I did not ask for a lecture.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
Oh, I'm trying to get it into your head is that... in the end, we're you got is family. Don't be left alone, you understand?

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Pop, there's some I haven't told you, I've been um... me and Roxie, we're having a baby. [That's better. It will change everything to a full normal, curing recovery. Tom is going to be a grandfather]

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
I'm gonna be a grandpa. [That's makes Tommy happy and smiled to love his father. Tommy gives hug to his father Tom and bless them]

Ann Kelsey:
Stuart, I have something I need to say to you.

Stuart Markowitz:
I can't wait, Ann, Douglas needs his figures.

Ann Kelsey:
It can't wait.

[Ann closed the door. Stuart puts his paper and his pen down and listen. Ann needs to tell Stuart the truth all about Ann and Stuart that they have loved]

Ann Kelsey:
Stuart, I wish I had been more supportive. Less judgmental, more secure with myself and who I am. But when all this happened, it so shook my world. It... it so altered everything that I... have finally begun to take for granted. All I want was to punish the people that have done this to us, and instead I... I wound up punishing the only true victim of this whole sorry mess. So if you... if you really want to leave this marriage. I'll understand. Hmm. But I love you, and... if you can possibly forgive me and...

[Ann sobbing]

Ann Kelsey:
and help me to put this behind us.

Stuart Markowitz:
Shh.

[Stuart will comfort Ann and forgive her. Holding, hugged Ann, and kissed her]

Stuart Markowitz:
I love you.

[And continues kissing]

City Atty. Dana Romney:
Mr. Markowitz, uh, according to your wife's suits, since your attack, you are not the same man you once were? Uh, Ms. Kelsey's safe a declining rate of marital concupiscence, that is to say sexual intercourse? Is that accurate?

Stuart Markowitz:
Yes.

City Atty. Dana Romney:
She says you haven't had sex in over 3 months?

[Romney scoffs]

City Atty. Dana Romney:
Is - is that accurate?

Stuart Markowitz:
Sounds right. Yes.

City Atty. Dana Romney:
So it's your position then that your lack of inter marital sex results from the beating you took last April?

Stuart Markowitz:
No, the only reason my wife and I don't have sex, that I currently find her undesirable.

[Ann is silent and scared]

City Atty. Dana Romney:
Really?

[Ann is going to be alone in her office for a while. Romney sighs]

City Atty. Dana Romney:
I could have secure better testimony if I written it myself.

[Romney laughed]

Stuart Markowitz:
Are we done?

City Atty. Dana Romney:
Pretty go, Mr. Markowitz. Bye.

[Stuart will take a break. The City Attorney Romney turning the pages]

[Gwen needs under surveillance police protection]

Detective Tom Blomquist:
Since Ms. Taylor's been staying here, we rerouted her calls, both lines are monitored.

Daniel Morales:
Yeah. Gwen. [Gwen needs help, Daniel is on Gwen's side, here to protect Gwen, and then Daniel hugs Gwen safely. There's someone be with Daniel any minute]

Gwen Taylor:
Daniel Morales, this is Melina's friend from the FBI. Behavior Science Unit, Warren McElroy. [McElroy shows his FBI I.D. badge]

Daniel Morales:
Hi.

Warren McElroy:
I'm so sorry hearing about your daughter.

Daniel Morales:
Do you thinks she's in danger?

Warren McElroy:
Well I think it's definitely a consideration. Yeah, I mean I've got all the information that Melina gave me. The thing that consumes me, is the fairytale motif in the gifts and letters this woman sent. Eh, characters and - and children stories often meet tragic ends, they fall down wells or they - they eaten by wolves or - I remember rhyme about a cobbler name Grendel who grounded Davy's up to the sausages...

Detective Tom Blomquist:
McElroy, you're not helping matters talking this way.

Warren McElroy:
I have a successfully assisted in the safe return of 17 children kidnapped by mentally unstable suspects. [McElroy will be back any minute and look for mystery clues in that ransom]

Detective Tom Blomquist:
Mr. Morales, I'd like you to look over some mugshots.

Warren McElroy:
Suspect doesn't have a record.

Detective Tom Blomquist:
You know mine, I'm not sure. Mr. Morales, whenever you're ready.

Daniel Morales:
Yeah. Yeah.

Warren McElroy:
As I was saying, uh, from everything that I know it seems to suggest that this woman suffers from a combination a psychological disorders, primarily erotomania.

Gwen Taylor:
She's a sexual deviant?

Warren McElroy:
Uh, erotomania is about romance. Not sex. I mean it seems this woman is deluded herself into thinking that she has a relationship with Daniel.

Gwen Taylor:
So, she knows Daniel?

Warren McElroy:
You definitely met. You need to search your memory for any acquaintance that fits description that Gwen and Melina gave you.

Daniel Morales:
I have. Oh, wait a minute.

Gwen Taylor:
Daniel?

Daniel Morales:
This woman who used to work as a court reporter for Santa Barbara county... Linda Salerno, I just ran into her at the courthouse. Oh, my God. [Daniel finds out that Linda is on the loose] I let her get away.

[Tommy is back and bought some magazine for his father to read in the hospital bedside]

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Hey. I bought you something to read.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
I appreciate it.

[Find out that where did Tom get the cup of liquor]

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Where'd you get that booze?

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
That elderly. You weren't so bad.

[Tommy take a seat and have a talk with his father Tom]

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
So tell me. Do you wanna be a father or did you just knock wear up?

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
I was plan, pop, I was very plan.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
You were mistake. Your brother, too.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Yeah, you told me.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
You see I never wanted to be a father, but your ma all just loved kids and if she knew that you're gonna have one, this will be the happiest day on earth!

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Yeah.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
Get yourself a cup.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
You know I don't drink anymore.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
Nah, this isn't anymore. This is special. We'll toast your baby.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Pop, I'm not gonna have a drink.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
All I'm asking...

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Try and respect my... Listen!

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
I told you, Mullaneys! Get yourself a cup! What's the harm?

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Pop, I'm not drinking with you.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
This is a request. Don't you know I'm... I'm dying?

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
After 7 years of being sober, you want me to fall off the wagon out of pity?

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
What pity? I'm trying to celebrate.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
You trying to screw me up one last time and I won't let you.

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
Get out.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Look, pop, let's talk...

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
I'm being nice and you spit on me. Out!

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Pop!

Tommy Mullaney, Sr.:
Get the hell outta here!

[Tommy turns and walk away. Wipe off his mouth for talking while spitting and having a fight with his alcoholic father during the argument. Tommy went to cool off his anger. Tommy Sr. takes the hiding bottle of liquor underneath his blanket, twisting, turning, opening the cap, and pours it in his cup to drink by himself without his son Tommy. Tommy is not drinking with his father. That's before he died of cardiac arrest]

[Back at the hospital. Tommy got back and find out his father was gone and he was not seen at the hospital bed. The doctor got some bad news]

Doctor:
We tried to call you as soon as he went into arrest. I need you to come downstairs and signed this paperwork.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Huh? Um, I'll be out later.

Doctor:
Sure. I'm sorry, Mr. Mullaney. [Tommy walks and mourn his father, who passed away, Tommy sits down and make an apology. Tommy consoles his father]

Gordon Reeve:
About 7 O'clock that night, Bill Collins call the newsroom.

Ms. Wodjack:
Did you know who he was?

Gordon Reeve:
Sure. After the trademark closing, Collins all over the airwaves giving speeches. A lot of people knew who he was.

Ms. Wodjack:
What did Mr. Collins say on the phone?

Gordon Reeve:
He said he was going to set himself on fire in front of the trademark building, to protest American jobs going overseas. He said send a camera.

Ms. Wodjack:
What did you do?

Gordon Reeve:
First I called the police, then I told my Station Manager Eric Simms and he said cover it.

Ms. Wodjack:
What happened when you got to the trademark building?

Ms. Wodjack:
I didn't see anything at first. But, uh, soon as I sat down my equipment, Collins walk down the alley carrying can of gasoline stood on the sidewalk, he said he's going to kill himself. I ask him why. He said, "Turn on the camera. And I'll tell you."

Ms. Wodjack:
What happened next?

Gordon Reeve:
I did what he said. I was, um, expecting the cops to show.

Ms. Wodjack:
What happened after you began rolling the camera?

Gordon Reeve:
Collins made a speech, pour gasoline on himself, and then he lit a match.

Ms. Wodjack:
You have no regrets about your actions that day?

Gordon Reeve:
Do I to second guess myself? Sure. I feel for Bill Collins and his family, but who's to say that he died in vain, after what he did, trademark scratch plans to close that Anaheim plant.

Melina Paros:
Objection, speculation.

Judge Richard Lobel:
Sustained.

Ms. Wodjack:
Mr. Reeve, do you feel responsible for Bill Collins' death?

Gordon Reeve:
Over 19 years as cameraman, I've seen a lot of tragedy, I've seen, uh, soldiers blown up by grenades, I've seen, uh, children starving. [sighs] I - I just photographed these things, I don't cause them.

Ms. Wodjack:
Thank you. Nothing further, Your Honor.

Warren McElroy:
As soon as Linda Salerno's photos fax we'll let Gwen try and make a positive ID.

Daniel Morales:
She was right there in my face, it just never occurred to me to do...

Detective Tom Blomquist:
Stop about yourself up. How well did you know her?

Daniel Morales:
Barely. Sometimes we said hello in the morning or goodbye at night. That was it. [McElroy hand in the cup of coffee to Daniel] Why - why would she picked me?

Warren McElroy:
In most cases, erotomania the initial contact insignificant. To me as you might not even remember but to her, its the beginning the most meaningful relationship in her life.

Gwen Taylor:
Why take Lucy?

Warren McElroy:
To force a confrontation. We'll hear from her within 24 hours.

Detective Tom Blomquist:
Or we could be in for a long wait. [Turn behind is the telephone ringing]

Daniel Morales:
All right, I'll get that. You guys ready?

Detective Tom Blomquist:
No. Ms, Taylor, let your phone, you better answer it. [That's for Gwen to answer the phone. Telephone ringing. Detective Tom Blomquist, FBI Warren McElroy, and Daniel Morales will listen to the other phones. Telephone ringing. Gwen picks up the receiver phone and answer it and see who is calling]

Gwen Taylor:
Hello?

Linda Salerno:
[Linda Salerno's voice on the telephone] Hi, Gwen. [Baby Lucy crying] Oh, Lucy says hi, too.

Gwen Taylor:
Please don't hurt her.

Linda Salerno:
[Linda's voice on the telephone] She wants to see you. [Baby Lucy crying] And you certainly must wanna see her. Meet us Spinic Specific Center in the tunnels. And Gwen, don't bring anyone. [Telephone ends sound. Gwen hangs up the phone]

Daniel Morales:
Let's go.

Warren McElroy:
Whoa, hang on. You have to go along.

Gwen Taylor:
Okay.

Daniel Morales:
What are you talking? She goes where sort that's out of the question.

Warren McElroy:
No, listen, we will be following short distance behind if this woman gets wind of us, or she your daughter could be in real danger. [sighs]

Detective Tom Blomquist:
I'm afraid he's right.

Gwen Taylor:
Daniel, you don't have any choice.

Warren McElroy:
It's your choice.

Daniel Morales:
Let's just go.

[Back here in is the Los Angeles Courthouse in Los Angeles. The testimony continues crossing the examination is Eric Simms, Station Manager of KINX News]

Ms. Wodjack:
Mr. Simms, As Station Manager of KINX News, have you set a policy governing the way that your reporters cover the news?

Eric Simms:
Yes. We tell our people to get as close as possible to the event without breaking the law of course.

Ms. Wodjack:
Did Mr. Reeve conform to station policy when covering the self-immolation of Mr. Collins?

Eric Simms:
Yes.

Ms. Wodjack:
Assisting to suicide is against the law, isn't it?

Eric Simms:
Gordon didn't assist a suicide. He didn't pour the gasoline, he didn't offer a match. He was there to record an event.

Ms. Wodjack:
How do you respond to the plaintiff's charge that the very act of videotaping encouraged Mr. Collins to kill himself?

Eric Simms:
We've been hit with these charges before. During the riots, we were accused of ferment in the looting simply because we showed pictures of people looting, but that doesn't change the fact that what was happening. It was news.

Ms. Wodjack:
What you could be selective and what stories you pursue.

Eric Simms:
Editorial decision shouldn't be made by courts. Start telling us what we can and can't cover, and that's the slippery slope to tyranny.

Ms. Wodjack:
Thank you. Your witness.

Melina Paros:
Thank you. Mr. Simms, are you aware that Mr. Collins notified two other news groups of his planned suicide only the elected not to cover it citing ethical considerations?

Eric Simms:
When we made that tape available, every station in this city aired it, including the networks and the cable news programs.

Melina Paros:
Last year, didn't you speak to a group of UCLA journalism students exhorting them to strive for journalistic integrity?

Eric Simms:
I did. And that's the same thing I try to impress upon my employees.

Melina Paros:
Last November, did you air footage of, uh, the game warden being eaten by an alligator, the sky diver was parachute didn't open, a home video of a grandmother as she was being gunned down by a drive-by shooting?

Eric Simms:
Yes.

Melina Paros:
And as your October 31st staff meeting, did you exhort your employees to seek out such sensational stories?

Eric Simms:
We're a small station, Ms. Paros, fighting for our share the audience. Yes, I went after those stories because that's what people want to watch. And that's why we beat our competition during that sweeps period.

Melina Paros:
Was Mr. Reeve at this October 31st meeting?

Eric Simms:
Yes.

Melina Paros:
And what date did Mr. Reeve photographed the Malaysian of Mr. Collins?

Eric Simms:
I believe it was November 5th.

Melina Paros:
Thank you. Nothing further.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Any word on Daniel's baby?

Leland McKenzie:
No. Not yet. But we're working on the problem.

Arnie Becker:
Well colleagues at Channel 3 have been...

Jonathan Rollins:
I've got City Council members getting the word out on the district's.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Well let's hoped his efforts pay off before time runs out for Lucy. [Leland is looking at his appointment book] Well, Collins vs. Reeve and KINX News. Wasn't this settled?

Melina Paros:
KINX is offering nuisance value, but on my advice, Mrs. Collins has refused.

Leland McKenzie:
What cause of action?

Melina Paros:
Wrongful death. We're suing the cameraman and the newsgroup for 1,000,000 bucks.

Arnie Becker:
Come on, this poor guys distraught over losing his job barbecues himself on TV. You blame the press.

Melina Paros:
If the cameraman weren't there, my client's husband would be alive.

Jonathan Rollins:
Except for the first amendment, you might have a case.

Melina Paros:
I know I'm pushing the envelope, but the people attire the media's lack of responsibility, I think it'll fly.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Who knows? Maybe we'll said a President, we could use the publicity. Ann Kelsey vs. City Los Angeles. What's this?

Ann Kelsey:
I'm suing the LAPD for inadequate response during the riots. They had a helicopter overhead during Stuart's attack, and all he did was watch.

Leland McKenzie:
Stuart, you're not involved in this action?

Stuart Markowitz:
No, I'm not. This is Ann's shot.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
What kind of damages he's looking for?

Ann Kelsey:
Loss of consortium.

Leland McKenzie:
Wait, you're aware with a case such as this, you can expect questions about your intimacies...

Stuart Markowitz:
It doesn't matter, Leland. Clearly, I'm a shadow of my former self. [Stuart needs to take a moment and be alone at his office]

Ann Kelsey:
I understand that this is a matter of public record, but it's not up for discussion here. [Ann closed her desk folder] Excuse me. [Ann is going to be back to have a talk with Stuart]

Leland McKenzie:
Yes, ma'am.

[Here in the kitchen cabinet, Roxanne is having a snack break is the bag of salted crackers to eat]

Arnie Becker:
Roxanne, you got crumbs all over the Barringer File.

Roxanne Melman:
Better than the alternative. At least salted crackers stay down. [Roxanne looking up the file] But this note.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Any word on Lucy?

Roxanne Melman:
Still missing. Oh.

Arnie Becker:
What?

Roxanne Melman:
I guessed wrong about that salted crackers. Whoa. [Roxanne is heading somewhere to cool off. Douglas saw Roxanne took off]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
So what's the latest on Mike Hoover.

Arnie Becker:
Over a budget.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
How's that?

Arnie Becker:
Long and short, I read your books ever written, we have to make cuts.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
What did you take out?

Arnie Becker:
A little judicious trimming here and there. Chapters 4 through 12.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Those chapters were the heart of my stories.

Arnie Becker:
Douglas worldwide wouldn't have to make any cuts, if we reschedule the production. The scope for the material may be too intimate for a big-budget release.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Ah, a smaller boutique presentations, similar to a foreign film?

Arnie Becker:
No. More like a movie of the week. It - it now takes place, no women's prison. Haa.

[Here at the witness room. Melina and her plaintiff Belinda Collins sitting quietly. Coming from outside, Ms. Wodjack and her two defendants Gordon Reeve and Eric Simms has arrived at the witness room, have a seat, talk, and make the offer]

Melina Paros:
What's your offer?

Ms. Wodjack:
Mr. Collins made 40,000 a year when he was let go. Assuming he remain healthy, he had another 10 years of earnings. Had lost of love and affection, we're rounded up to 500,000. Present value at 385.

Melina Paros:
Belinda?

Belinda Collins:
Okay. On one condition, I want you to go on TV and take responsibility for what you did. I want you to say that what you did was immoral.

Eric Simms:
Mrs. Collins, I can't allow Gordon to do that. Even if he wanted, will be inviting losses from every person who didn't like what we put on the air.

Belinda Collins:
Then I reject your offer.

[Belinda declines the offer. Ms. Wodjack is taking Eric Simms outside and leave. While Melina is outside the witness room, waiting for Belinda, but Gordon Reeve want to owe Belinda an apology of how Gordon feel, ashamed and terrible about what happened to Belinda's late husband Bill Collins]

Gordon Reeve:
Mrs. Collins, I want you to know that, I feel terrible about what happened to your husband, and... if I had to do over it, I wish I'd done something.

Belinda Collins:
Why didn't you say that under oath?

[Belinda is leaving with Melina and Gordon will be alone]

[the court bailiff set up the video and the television screen in the courtroom]

Melina Paros:
Mr. Reeve, you've testified that your train to avoid becoming part of the story?

Gordon Reeve:
That's right.

Melina Paros:
But it never occurred to you that by agreeing to videotape Mr. Collins' suicide, you helped create the story?

Gordon Reeve:
No. I don't see it that way.

Melina Paros:
You had no sense that Mr. Collins was performing for the camera?

Gordon Reeve:
Most of the people I shoot a performing for the camera.

Melina Paros:
And you feel no responsibility for how others react to being taped?

Gordon Reeve:
If I had to worry about that I wouldn't be able to do my job.

Melina Paros:
Let's see what kinda job you did.

Ms. Wodjack:
Your Honor, I renew my objection, this tape is prejudicial...

Judge Richard Lobel:
I've made my ruling, Ms. Wodjack. Proceed, Ms. Paros. [Ms. Paros will proceed turning the view of the videotape. Bill Collins making messages as was seen on the videotape footage]

Bill Collins:
The four directors a trademark treat the American workers like slave labor, one of the CEO's in this country can alert that sending American jobs to a third world is creating a third world right here in the United States. Did you hear that?

Gordon Reeve:
Cut it! [But pause the videotape]

Melina Paros:
Mr. Reeve, do you think that by affirming that Mr. Collins' message was heard, you encouraged to suicide?

Gordon Reeve:
He asked me a question, I replied. I didn't encourage him. [Continue playing a videotape footage. Bill pours a can of gas all over by himself. Belinda watched her late husband on the screen. Ms. Wodjack is watching]

Bill Collins:
You're ready?

Gordon Reeve:
I'm rolling! [pause the videotape]

Melina Paros:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you just green light a suicide?

Gordon Reeve:
No. I didn't tell him to do anything.

Melina Paros:
A man drenched in gasoline, holding a match, ask you if you're ready, and you answer affirmatively, you don't call that encouragement?

Gordon Reeve:
I just told him I was rolling. What he did was up to him. [Continues playing a footage, Bill lights the match and throws it to the ground and Bill Collins was burned himself to death. Belinda was sobbing and lost her husband. Bill screaming. Members of the Jury find out. Bill continues screaming to his death of immolation on fire]

[Gwen kisses Lucy, the baby girl, hold by her loved father Daniel, and she back and reunited. Gwen is wounded in her left arm. And Gwen is going to be all right]

Daniel Morales:
Oh, yes.

Gwen Taylor:
She was in the ladies room?

Roxanne Melman:
Yes. She was just sitting there waiting to be found. [Gwen and Daniel want to thank Roxanne who helped found Lucy]

Daniel Morales:
Oh, sweetheart. Thank God, you're all right.

Roxanne Melman:
Look how, she's so happy to be back with her daddy. [But Warren McElroy knocking the door and has made something important]

Warren McElroy:
I notify the Santa Barbara Police Department they've assign an officer to parents, round-the-clock.

Daniel Morales:
You should come with me.

Warren McElroy:
Daniel, you need to get Lucy to a safe place. And this woman still out there nobody knows what she wants. At least for the two of you apart and focuses split.

Gwen Taylor:
Daniel, I'll be fine.

Daniel Morales:
I'll call as soon as I get there. [Daniel gives kiss to Gwen and Gwen is going to be okay. Gwen loves Daniel and Daniel loves Gwen]

Gwen Taylor:
Drive carefully. Bye, sweetie. [Gwen kisses Lucy, the baby girl. Daniel will take his daughter Lucy and heads safely to Santa Barbara County. While Warren McElroy keep an eye on the first watch to protect Gwen from being stalked]

Melina Paros:
[Melina prepares the closing argument] Gordon Reeve says that taking pictures with the distraught man burning himself to death is all in a day's work. I'm a journalist, he says no blood on my hands. But Mr. Reeve crossed the line. Not only a responsible journalism, but if human decency and the law. Why? Violence sells. Now Bill Collins may have thought that he was dying for a purpose, but the only purpose that Mr. Reeve and his station had in mind was winning higher ratings. If you think that their actions were substantial cause of Mr. Collins' self-immolation, then you must find Mr. Reeve and KINX responsible for contributing to a suicide. Thank you. [Melina heads back to her seat. And Ms. Wodjack's turn to prepare for closing]

Ms. Wodjack:
That video is excruciating to watch. What happened? And it was news and every station in this town, every network ran that tape is estimated 20 million people saw the footage. No. Maybe you think that Gordon Reeve is an awful person because he didn't stop somebody from killing himself, but under the law, he had no duty to rescue Bill Collins from himself, his duty as journalist was to photograph the event. And to say Bill Collins wouldn't have killed himself if my client had capped his lens is ranked speculation, and believe me. If Gordon Reeve had refuse to run his camera, Bill Collins would have found another reporter who would have gladly cover the story. [Ms. Wodjack turned to plaintiff Belinda Collins] This is tragic news. Yes. I grant you that. But don't make the mistake of blaming the messenger. [Ms. Wodjack is finished with the closing and head back to her seat]

[Here at home, Gwen turns on the lamp, and sees the Ice Hockey sports on television. Gwen's left arm will be healed, and she's looking up letters, sit down and drink tea. But someone is knocking on the door. But someone is going to stalk Gwen. She's going to answer the door and see who it is]

City Atty. Dana Romney:
Okay. Okay.

[Gwen opened the door and find out what was going on. Warren McElroy caught the trespasser from entering]

Warren McElroy:
Good evening, Ms. Taylor, I found this weasel, uh, slinking around in the shadow.

City Atty. Dana Romney:
I wasn't slinking. That's my natural gate. Yeah.

[Gwen find out is it the City Attorney Dana Romney. And what's he doing here? Dana Romney are not suppose to enter Gwen's home]

Gwen Taylor:
Romney?

City Atty. Dana Romney:
Yeah.

[McElroy protects Gwen and caught to try arrest Dana Romney. McElroy heard is it Dana Romney, the City Attorney, and he let Romney go. He is protecting Gwen outside the door]

City Atty. Dana Romney:
I thought I comeby and see if you're okay, only I didn't know way from cymbalist as a junior, was parked on your front step. I guess I'll go.

[Dana Romney as the City Attorney will leave Gwen alone and leave]

Gwen Taylor:
No. Come on in.

[Gwen changed her mind, and she don't mind inviting Dana Romney to come in for a while]

City Atty. Dana Romney:
Really?

Gwen Taylor:
Yeah.

[Romney will never do that ever again. And McElroy will let Romney to stay for awhile with Gwen]

Gwen Taylor:
So, you still content to hang on here in the shadow?

Warren McElroy:
Yeah. She makes it to the door, Ms. Taylor, I got her.

[McElroy will keep an eye on Gwen against the stalker Linda Salerno]

Gwen Taylor:
Okay.

[Gwen closed the door]

[Here at the courthouse]

Melina Paros:
And when did your late husband go into his late depression?

Belinda Collins:
Last year, after trademark tools moved their manufacturing plant to Taiwan, after 23 years is a dime maker, he was on the street along with 50 other machinists.

Melina Paros:
Please go on.

Belinda Collins:
He felt tremendous guilt. As a worker's rap, he helped management to keep trademark non-union in return for the assurance that their jobs would be secure. And after the shutdown, he... he became obsessed with how he'd been lied to, he wrote letters constantly to congressman, magazines, 60 Minutes. You believe that what happened to trademark was symbolic up what's wrong in this country, with companies selling out their workers in shipping jobs overseas. He wanted his story to be heard. No one was interested.

Ms. Wodjack:
Objection. We don't know the state of the decedent's mind. This is sheer's speculation.

Judge Richard Lobel:
I'll allow it.

Belinda Collins:
My staging, this, uh... spectacle. My late husband was crying out for help, but he never would have gone through with it, and it not been for the cooperation of Gordon Reeve.

Ms. Wodjack:
Your Honor.

Judge Richard Lobel:
Mrs. Collins, while you're on the witness stand, you'll limit your comments to questions posed by the attorneys, understood? [Belinda nodded] The jury will disregard Mrs. Collins' outburst.

Melina Paros:
Nothing further. Thank you.

Ms. Wodjack:
Mrs. Collins, were you aware in advance of your husband's preoccupation with his suicide?

Belinda Collins:
I knew he was troubled.

Ms. Wodjack:
On November 2nd, 3 days before his suicide, didn't you tell a county mental health worker that you were afraid your husband might harm himself?

Belinda Collins:
Yes, I call Social Services.

Ms. Wodjack:
Do you wish you done more to prevent your husband's death?

Belinda Collins:
Of course. But I didn't know what he was planning.

Ms. Wodjack:
And you honestly believe that my clients photographing of your husband's suicide influenced to this decision to go though with it?

Belinda Collins:
Be a little told your client that he wanted to send a message. Your client was the messenger, he refused, he would not have done it.

Ms. Wodjack:
Were you may feel that way, Mrs. Collins, but isn't it possible that your husband would have killed anyway, even if my client had never turned his camera on?

Belinda Collins:
Gordon Reeve should have done something. He was only 6 ft. away? Filming when my husband doused himself...

Ms. Wodjack:
Mrs. Collins. I...

Belinda Collins:
...and then led a match...

Ms. Wodjack:
Your Honor.

Belinda Collins:
...and then he burned... [Sobbing] and he burned...

Judge Richard Lobel:
Mrs. Collins.

Belinda Collins:
...until... how could you!

Judge Richard Lobel:
Mrs. Collins, please.

Belinda Collins:
How could you stand there? And not do something! I...

Judge Richard Lobel:
Mrs. Collins, that's enough.

Belinda Collins:
[Belinda speaks quietly] How could you.

Ms. Wodjack:
Nothing further.

[Judge Lobel handover the verdict to the bailiff and return it back to the members of the jury]

Judge Richard Lobel:
Has the jury reached the verdict?

Jury Foreperson:
We have, Your Honor.

Judge Richard Lobel:
What say you?

Jury Foreperson:
We find damages in the amount of $600,000. We portion 90% in the responsibility to Mr. Collins. And 10% to the defendant.

Judge Richard Lobel:
The verdict is so entered. The defendant is ordered to pay Mrs. Collins the amount of $60,000. The jury is discharged with the thanks from the court. We're adjourned.

Belinda Collins:
60,000?

Melina Paros:
The jury felt your husband was mostly responsible for his suicide. I'm sorry.

Michael Kuzak:
[Guess who's back from exile in his vacation holidays following his suspension without being caught is Michael Kuzak. He's safe and sound. He arrives and returns back to the law firm for practicing law] Sorry.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Well, well. Welcome back, Brother Kuzak. Freshly return from exile.

Michael Kuzak:
Thank you. Thank you.

[Leland is so happy to welcome Kuzak back to the firm]

Arnie Becker:
Boy, that month fly by.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I take it you're already to plunge into your defensive of the nudist colony?

Michael Kuzak:
Yeah, I just came from there, we're ready for trial.

Victor Sifuentes:
Ready for trial? Do I have to take a little Unauthorized Practice of Law at home here?

Michael Kuzak:
Certainly not. My suspension ended on Friday, and I've prepared over the weekend.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Well, in the interest in the firm and the client, I wish you good luck. That is as purely personal observation. I wouldn't want those perverts prancing around my neighborhood, either.

Arnie Becker:
Check out this centerfold of this month's flamingo, Mike. It's your star witness.

Michael Kuzak:
Yeah, thanks, but, uh, I've already seen the evidence.

Michael Kuzak:
[angry] What kind of law firm did you used to work for, Dorothy?

Dorothy Wyler:
What do you mean?

Michael Kuzak:
We just got dismissed with the Davis case!

Dorothy Wyler:
What? Why?

Michael Kuzak:
Apparently, Jacqueline Davis got a bogus divorce from her first husband which voids her marriage to Ray. Ray is now out of court. Did you make any background check on them?

Dorothy Wyler:
Well... I saw the marriage license and I stopped there. I... I thought it was legitimate.

Michael Kuzak:
I know you did. If you hadn't and made a further background check of Ray and his wife we would have come away with something. I could have kept Ray off the stand or I could have earlier accepted their settlement offer. I would have done something besides get torpedoed in open court!

Dorothy Wyler:
I'm sorry, Michael. Investigating Ray was my responsibility. I let you down.

Michael Kuzak:
Yeah, you bet you did!

Dorothy Wyler:
[as Kuzak turns to leave] Wait a minute! Michael! I'm sorry about it.

Michael Kuzak:
I'm sorry too. It was both of our responsibility.

Michael Kuzak:
It's not all my fault. Ray never told us that his wife has been married before.

Arnie Becker:
[while reading the Davis marriage and divorce papers] I don't think Ray even knew. Apparently his wife fled from her abusive criminal husband who never gave her a proper annulment before she married Ray Davis while she was living in Mexico under her false name. There's no way that either Ray or Michael could have known about this prior to trial. Douglas, I don't think we have anything to worry about.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
No? Trust me, the legal malpractice sharks will be at our door salivating this.

Arnie Becker:
You think this was malpractice?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I don't, but you can be damn sure that Ray Davis is gonna find someone who does.

Michael Kuzak:
When I left him, he was a little too devastated to be even thinking about formulating a battle plan to sue us.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Believe me, that won't last. In five days from now, he and his new lawyers are gonna be rising up like the wrath of God.

Michael Kuzak:
Well, he will go after somebody.

Arnie Becker:
Hey Mike, if's Ray's gonna go after somebody, that somebody is us. Douglas is right. Ray does have the grounds to sue all of us for malpractice.

Michael Kuzak:
Well, maybe it should be us. How else is he going to get any compensation for this disaster?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Uh-oh. This attitude of yours worries me. I got a distinct feeling that in an attempt to offer Ray Davis compassion with your very own admitted words: "oh I'm very sorry, Ray. I could have done better"... you just served up admissions of negligence!

Michael Kuzak:
The poor man just lost his wife because some hospital let her die because they didn't have any health insurance! On top of that, he finds out that he was never legally married to her in the first place because she kept her whole past a secret from him. Doesn't compassion for Ray Davis enter into this at all for you?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
So long as it doesn't cost us money.

Michael Kuzak:
Ah, the old refrain! The ultimate lynchpin consideration to which all issues turn!

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Don't get high-mined on us, Michael. You are the one who screwed up here! You overlooked making any background check on Ray Davis' wife and didn't find this loophole first! You messed up, not Dorothy, not us... you!

Michael Kuzak:
Careful, Douglas! You'd better not say that outside of this office because it might cost us money!

[Beginning to make a plea bargain discussion]

Stephen Hygate:
We like to throw something new into the mix.

A.D.A. Zoey Clemmons:
I won't plead down from felony hit-and-run. That stands.

C. Howard Grady:
A felony conviction would destroy me in the business community.

A.D.A. Zoey Clemmons:
He left the man to die in the street. What's that do for your in your business community?

Stephen Hygate:
Mr. Grady accepts responsibility for the accident, but on the charge of hit-and-run, he's innocent.

A.D.A. Zoey Clemmons:
I have an eyewitness that says otherwise. We're due in court.

Stephen Hygate:
Mr. Grady is sensitive to the fact that the victim was a homeless person, as he is sensitive to the needs of other homeless community members. This corporation owns the Rio Del Mar Motel in Venice, 48 rooms, due for renovation. Mr. Grady will convert the motel to a shelter facility for the homeless, 400 beds, and the kitchen.

A.D.A. Zoey Clemmons:
That's very generous.

Stephen Hygate:
And we plead to misdemeanor reckless driving suspended.

A.D.A. Zoey Clemmons:
This offers premature. When we get to sentencing, I will recommend leniency.

Stephen Hygate:
Forget this sentencing, this offer won't be made.

A.D.A. Zoey Clemmons:
Killing a man is not a misdemeanor.

Stephen Hygate:
Mr. Grady did not know that he hit the man, this offer allows them to do something constructive for the city.

A.D.A. Zoey Clemmons:
What this does is allow C. Howard Grady to buy his way out of the system.

Stephen Hygate:
Nonsense. Fines are punitive. Mr. Grady's willing to be punished to the tune of $15,000,000, that's not skirting the system.

A.D.A. Zoey Clemmons:
Pleaded the hit-and-run, I'll drop the vehicular manslaughter, and I will work with you on the sentence.

Stephen Hygate:
We can't plead to felony.

A.D.A. Zoey Clemmons:
Then I'll see you in court.

Michael Kuzak:
Leland.

Leland McKenzie:
That was a betrayal. To go to the others behind my back. That was a betrayal, you son of a b*tch!

Michael Kuzak:
I got two choices here. Either I can walk away from this firm or I can stay here and I fight for. I chose the latter.

Leland McKenzie:
You chose to screw me!

Michael Kuzak:
You chose to step down! You chose to put Douglas in charge! It's that were rebellion against...

Leland McKenzie:
It's a rebellion against me! This is spittin' my face to be summon like that and given an ultimatum!

Michael Kuzak:
It's not an ultimatum, for God's sake, Leland, don't you listen? All you have to do is say no. You said it. So it's done. It's over. You're not the one being pushed out here.

Leland McKenzie:
Yeah.

Lawyer Russell Spitzer:
[Rollins has just delivered a very racist closing argument] Oh, yes. The little red ants are marching over here to colonize us. Isn't it just awful. Pearl Harbor? That kind of Japan-bashing is disgraceful. The fact is, Japan-bashing is a convenient way for us to avoid responsibility. Is it their fault their kids spend sixty days more a year in school than ours do? That their blue-collar workers can do algebra, while some of ours can't even read? We like to blame the Japanese for our problems, but the truth is, we've made 'em ourselves, right here at home. We've forgotten all the good old American values like excellence and hard work, and the Japanese remember them. Katsu used them to bring MicroLink into the global market. Bruce Fairchild, Page Lockhart and Donald Schwartz couldn't do that. When Katsu fired them, and replaced them with more gifted executives, the company became bigger, more profitable, it flourished! Merit, ladies and gentlemen. That's what we call this. That used to be the American way. You can prove it still is.

[Raymond Holtz and his wife Patricia is speaking with the reporters in the press. A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney and Lawyer Brian La Porte find out what's going on outside the courtroom]

Raymond Holtz:
I mean you just have question an assistant that would even entertain the possibility of letting a brutal killer like this go free only after 8 years. What's happening here? It's not only... [Holtz keeping talking to the press. Tommy light the cigarette and smoke]

Brian La Porte:
What the hell is he doing?

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
He let some civil rights.

Raymond Holtz:
...protecting criminal's rights over those of his victims. [Mr. Holtz continues talking to reporters and make a statement]

Brian La Porte:
Holtz can't do this, Tommy. For God's sakes, he's right outside the jury room. [Brian will go back to the courtroom and report it to the judge in the judge's chamber]

Raymond Holtz:
Watch it with David Orcott get a second chance. My daughter should sure as hell will get a second chance. And don't let David Orcott go free, as don't let him get away with murder, you all know that!

Tom:
You've violated our trust.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I deserve a chance.

Jay:
I don't want to be curt. But give me that vile.

Tom:
Jay. Maybe we should try looking this with the new heart.

Jay:
It's the fair moon talking, Tom.

Tom:
Please.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I made a mistake. Curiosity got the better of this cat.

Jay:
Stop making excuses.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I'm simply trying... trying to protect Ms. Kelsey. You see she's been having problems with her husband.

Ann Kelsey:
Douglas, this is the lowest you have ever sunk. How dare you! Gentleman, perhaps it would be in your interest if you're represented by another firm.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Ann!

Jay:
You can take that to the bank because we're taking him to the cleaners.

Tom:
We're suing for... What are we suing for?

Ann Kelsey:
Embezzlement. Breach of fiduciary duties. Ethics charges.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Quit being so damn helpful.

Jay:
Thank you. You're fired. [Two clients Tom and Jay are leaving, but Douglas wants them to wait and have some explanation]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Gentlemen. Gentleman. If there's anything else we can do here at McKenzie, Brackman.

Tom:
You've done too much already. [Douglas find out who is that man, accompanied by Daniel Morales]

Daniel Morales:
Dennis Smith, this is Douglas Brackman, our Managing Partner. Dennis was an expert witness on the Graney case. [Dennis shaking hands and met Douglas]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Oh, isn't that nice? Tom, Jay, are you sure there isn't something?

Jay:
Oh, no.

Tom:
Leave us alone. [Dennis is smelling with his nose]

Dennis Smith:
Doug. So, uh, what's your sign?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Excuse me?

Dennis Smith:
And the Dennis like you doesn't need any excuse. [Dennis trying to kiss Douglas, Tom and Jay find out what. But Douglas wants Dennis to get away not to be kissed of. Douglas wipe off his lips]

Daniel Morales:
Douglas... [Douglas confronts and punching Dennis Smith in the face, and have Dennis hit and fall to the ground. Daniel will pick Dennis up. Douglas' fist is not hurt]

Sheila Brackman:
Sweetheart, are you hurt?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Of course not.

Dennis Smith:
I'm bleeding!

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I'm all man.

Dennis Smith:
You son of a b*tch! [Dennis' nose is bleeding] My nose! You probably put me out of business!

Daniel Morales:
Get some ice on it.

Dennis Smith:
I'm gonna sue you!

Daniel Morales:
Come on. [Daniel is taking Dennis away]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
One more today. It'll be a hat trick.

Dennis Smith:
I'll see you in court!

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I look forward to it. [Telephone rings, and Sheila is wiping Douglas' mouth with a tissue because of Dennis kissing]

Brian La Porte:
My client can no longer possibly get a fair hearing. Mr. Holtz made inflammatory statement.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
Mr. Holtz has a right to free speech.

Brian La Porte:
Move for a mistrial.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
What?

Judge Donald Phillips:
Denied.

Brian La Porte:
Mr. Holtz has maligned my client in the press daily. He seems intent on creating an atmosphere for a lynch mob. At a very least, I request a gag be impose.

A.D.A. Tommy Mullaney:
This is ridiculous. He's a non party.

Judge Donald Phillips:
He's right, Mr. La Porte. I have no authority to impose a gag. The jury has been admonished to avoid press coverages of the trial.

Raymond Holtz:
Your Honor, may I say something?

Judge Donald Phillips:
No. You may listen. I can't prevent you from speaking to reporters. But I can damn well keep you from doing so inside this courthouse.

Raymond Holtz:
You yourself said I had a first amendment right.

Judge Donald Phillips:
Which is out way by Mr. Orcott's right to a fair trial. If you want to be heard, you do it off county property. Because if you pull a stunt like this again, you can expect to spend the night in jail.

Stuart Markowitz:
Okay, we're willing to shave our demand by half to $50,000, provided that you agree to an audit...

Robert Boland:
[rudely interruping] Drop dead, loser! My settlement offer is $5,000, that's it. No more, no less.

Stuart Markowitz:
Five? Five thousand? How can you say that, Mr. Boland? That poor old woman is living off food stamps because of your...

Robert Boland:
[rudely interruping again] I don't give a damn if that old bag has to hock her dentures. If I cave into her, every one of those old goats, whom you noticed sitting behind you in that courtroom, will be coming after me with their hands out.

Stuart Markowitz:
Those "old goats" are broke because of you. That "I'm sorry" speech on the witness stand was an act. You really did rip all those old people off.

Robert Boland:
I did no such thing. Besides, the geologist supported everything that I said in his testimony. I have nothing to hide.

Jonathan Rollins:
You must have payed off that geologist.

Robert Boland:
Completely unprovable. Even if you can prove it, so what? I got no assets. I have nothing in my name you can't take.

Jonathan Rollins:
You listen, Mr. Boland, we will get a judgment against you regardless of the time it takes, and we will turn the heat on you until that ice cold exterior of yours melts into liquid and when it does, we will pounce all over you!

Robert Boland:
[sarcastic] Ooooo, nice theory, hot shot. The only problem with it is that your client, Mrs. Crutcher, is 74-years-old. One thing I've learned about old people is that they don't wait very long for a settlement to come their way. They have a nasty habit of dying.

Stuart Markowitz:
What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Robert Boland:
It means if you win this case, I'll appeal. If you win the appeal, I'll appeal the appeal, and so on and on. She keeps fighting, I keep holding out. The day it's finally settled, the day I finally become liquid is the day after Mrs. Crutcher croaks. Why do you think all my clients are only old people, huh?

Stuart Markowitz:
You make me sick.

Robert Boland:
I know. Spoken like a true lawyer who knows he can't get me. You want to do your old client some good? Cut your losses and take the five grand. Come on, Lisa, let's get out of here.

[Boland and his lawyer exit the conference room while Rollins slams his briefcase to the table in a rage, while Markowitz has a look of disbelief on his face]

Stuart Markowitz:
[to Rollins] Whatever it takes Jonathan... I want you to nail that bastard!

Elizabeth Brand:
So, how was your date with Dave Meyer last night?

Roxanne Melman:
If I had three weeks to live, I'd marry him.

Elizabeth Brand:
Why?

Roxanne Melman:
Because every boring day with that man would seem like 10 years.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Will Rosalind be joining us?

Leland McKenzie:
Uh, no. No she won't. As a matter a fact, Rosalind has ask me to informed you all she'll be leaving by the end of the week.

Arnie Becker:
She's taking all those clients with her?

Leland McKenzie:
Yes. [Benny has serve some Danishes on the plate. Ann ask Benny how's his show of The Wizard of Oz going so far]

Ann Kelsey:
So, Benny, how's the show going?

Benny Stulwicz:
Good.

Stuart Markowitz:
You're shopping for an agent yet?

Benny Stulwicz:
No. [Benny felt bad and now left the meeting]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
What's with him?

Leland McKenzie:
Can we get started?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Cavanaugh vs. Smyth. [That's for Michael Kuzak representing the plaintiff Tom Cavanaugh, who is suing the defendant Warren Symth]

Michael Kuzak:
And we go today. It's gonna be a tough one.

Arnie Becker:
I'm surprised you're even taken it to trial.

Michael Kuzak:
Well, outting makes some people pretty mad, Arnie, particularly the out he...

Jonathan Rollins:
What is outting?

Michael Kuzak:
There some gay activists like the defendant who believed in forcing other gays to come out of the closet. Sometimes it's gay, politicians who don't support gay causes other times it's just people that they want everyone to know they are gay.

Abby Perkins:
Sounds nasty.

Michael Kuzak:
Yeah, well the defendant has freedom of the press on his side, what was published was true. So it's not liable. It's probably not invasion privacy either since my guy was a public figure.

Ann Kelsey:
Which is why he was out in the first place.

Michael Kuzak:
Right.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Well, a couple of queens get mad each other. Look out.

Michael Kuzak:
These are not queens, Douglas, one is a cop, the other is a journalist. And they are both gays. But they're not queens. [But guess who's here will be joining the firm in a while during the meeting is Gwen Taylor for Roxanne who is absent, spending sometime with her father Murray who has Alzheimer's disease]

Gwen Taylor:
Mr. Becker?

Arnie Becker:
Yep.

Gwen Taylor:
I'm sorry to interrupted, but lease decker's on the phone wants to know if she can come in at 3:00.

Arnie Becker:
Yeah, sure.

Gwen Taylor:
Okay.

Victor Sifuentes:
Who is?

Arnie Becker:
Oh, Roxanne's working half days this week, she needs some more time to tint to her father, so, uh, Gwen is filling in for...

Victor Sifuentes:
Gwen.

Leland McKenzie:
Is there anything else we can cover?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Actually, that's it.

Michael Kuzak:
Uh, just a second. It's no secret that I have been interviewing with the Wall Street Firm. I've decided to go back to New York. My father has cancer, and the doctors give him a year so to live. I'd like to give him a year also myself. I'm sorry. [Michael will be going]

D.D.A. Grace Van Owen:
So... some kid take a potshot at me and all of a sudden I'm supposed to be the department's hard ass.

Michael Kuzak:
Well, I don't think your being singled out, Grace. I think he was doing what cops do.

D.D.A. Grace Van Owen:
Since when are you an apologist for the L.A.P.D.?

Michael Kuzak:
Since when do you have three drinks for lunch?

Ann Kelsey:
[while hiking] Stuart, my back is killing me.

Stuart Markowitz:
Are your hip stablizers secure?

Ann Kelsey:
I don't know if they are. I told you it was ridiculous to bring all this junk!

Stuart Markowitz:
Don't start with me, Ann. Don't start with me!

D.D.A. Grace Van Owen:
[drunk] Hey... if you want me to go home. I can go home.

Michael Kuzak:
How are you gonna get there? Crawl?

Stuart Markowitz:
[while cutting into a potato after roasting it over an open fire] Ugh! Ann, the middle is all raw. I knew we should have bought that butane stove.

Ann Kelsey:
[voice-over] Eat some more trail mix.

Stuart Markowitz:
I'm sick of trail mix.

Ann Kelsey:
Well, if you hadn't broken all the eggs when you tumbled over...

Stuart Markowitz:
Yeah, like that was really my fault.

Ann Kelsey:
I don't want to fight anymore. Could you throw some toilet paper over here?

Stuart Markowitz:
Sure. Where'd you pack it?

Ann Kelsey:
I didn't pack it. You did.

Stuart Markowitz:
No, I thought you did.

Ann Kelsey:
Oh, swell! You brought ever damn thing in the world out here except the toilet paper! What am I supposed to do?

Stuart Markowitz:
How about using a leaf?

Ann Kelsey:
A leaf?

Stuart Markowitz:
Yeah. You said you didn't want anything to come between you and nature.

[a distraught Arnie pulls his car off a road and dials a number on his car phone]

Roxanne Melman:
[voice] Hi, you've reached Roxanne. I'm not home right now, but if you leave your name and any brief message at the sound of the beep, I will get back to you. Thank you. Have a great day!

[the beep is heard]

Arnie Becker:
[into the phone] This is Arnold Becker. I'm calling from Pico Boulevard where I've just pulled over to the curb to wait out the impulse to head due west until I crash through the guardrail of the Pacific Coast Highway to plunge to my death in the ocean below. I hope you're are having a hell of a good time in Hawaii. [hangs up]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Anybody know the whereabouts of our Mr. Morales?

Gwen Taylor:
He had a pro bono arraignment this morning.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Then let's begin. First, People vs. Emory Lewis and Gary Stubbs. I should hope those animals who beat you will finally get convicted.

Stuart Markowitz:
Unfortunately, the eyewitness backed out, she's afraid of reprisals from neighborhood kids if she testify.

Ann Kelsey:
That shouldn't affect our case. Stuart was really convincing at the prelim health do even better at trial tomorrow.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Next. Marciante vs. Bernheim Memorial Hospital.

Jonathan Rollins:
That's mine. Anthony Marciante's girlfriend is brain dead after the automobile accident. She's also 18 weeks pregnant.

Gwen Taylor:
And being used as an incubator to bring the baby to a term, I caught those stories in the news, that's grotesque.

Jonathan Rollins:
We're seeking a court order to keep her body functioning long enough to deliver the baby. However, the girlfriend's mother wants to pull the plug and bury your daughter.

Arnie Becker:
Well, I agree, the woman's dead, for God's sake.

Jonathan Rollins:
Arnie, we're talking about a potential human life. Mr. Marciante wants to be a father.

Gwen Taylor:
You should have thought about that before driving himself and his girlfriend off the road drunk.

Ann Kelsey:
He killed her and now he wants to...

Jonathan Rollins:
It was an accident.

Stuart Markowitz:
He's still has rights.

Arnie Becker:
So's the girl's mother.

Melina Paros:
What about the baby?

Leland McKenzie:
All right, folks, we're all in the same team. [But Daniel Morales has arrived late in the meeting]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Mr. Morales? Honor that you can join us? How's the arraignment?

Daniel Morales:
Um, People vs. Alejandro Cruz, he's charged with the shooting a news vender who refuse to pay protection money.

Leland McKenzie:
Any extenuating circumstances, Daniel?

Daniel Morales:
No, Leland, not really, I'm trying to have Cruz tried in the Juvenile, but right now that's looking doubtful.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Well, if there's no other business. We're adjourned. [Douglas closed his gold hunter case from the pocket watch that the time is up]

Daniel Morales:
Melina, I need your advise.

Melina Paros:
What is it? [Daniel sighs]

Daniel Morales:
Well, we can't talk here and actually I should speak first with my client.

Melina Paros:
Cruz?

Daniel Morales:
Yeah, I might be in trouble on those one. I'll catch you later.

Melina Paros:
All right.

[Roxanne shows Arnie the dead body of Norman Chaney across his desk]

Roxanne Melman:
I was looking around for the smell when I saw this. Mr. Chaney. I haven't actually touched him, but I'm pretty sure he's dead.

Arnie Becker:
If he is, I got dibs on his office.

Ann Kelsey:
What's going on?

Roxanne Melman:
Mr. Chaney's dead.

Ann Kelsey:
Oh, no!

Roxanne Melman:
Yep. I found him.

Michael Kuzak:
Miss Moore, for what it's worth, if you really do decide to get a gun, go out, and kill those three men who raped you... I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Adrianne Moore:
That's the difference between us. I would.

Victor Sifuentes:
Andrew about your legal fees... I may have a way for you to work them off. Are you really that good with telephones?

Andrew Putnam:
Am I good? Come here, watch this.

[Andrew and Victor walk over to a payphone in the courthouse hallway where Andrew picks it up and dials a three-number area code, then attaches a device to the speaker and begins pushing several buttons on the device in sequence]

Victor Sifuentes:
What are you doing?

Andrew Putnam:
This is to get by all the security checks.

[Andrew finishes pushing the buttons as he takes the device off the phone as a ringing sound is heard over the receiver and the phone is picked up by an unseen man on the other line]

Man:
[voice] Oval Office. Can I help you?

Andrew Putnam:
[into the phone] Yes, is President Regan in?

[Victor angrily snatches the phone away from Andrew and hangs it up. Andrew smiles]

Michael Kuzak:
[choosing stakes for a bet] You can pick anything you want.

Victor Sifuentes:
Ok... your leather chair.

Michael Kuzak:
Except that.

[the prison guard have escorted the prisoner named Frank Osgood and meeting a new lawyer named Daniel Morales, Frank has been incarcerated for the past 33 years, 2 months since August 1959, and opening the case of Frank Osgood]

Daniel Morales:
Friend.

Frank Osgood:
Morales.

Daniel Morales:
As the prisoner rights advocate, I hear a lot of guys claim their innocent.

Frank Osgood:
33 years and 2 months. I love the woman. I didn't kill her.

Daniel Morales:
That's why I'm here. I have a signed confession by someone who agrees with you. His name is Phillip Tice.

Frank Osgood:
Why is he coming forward now?

Daniel Morales:
Mr. Tice's dying of stomach cancer. And I'm afraid of burning in hell.

[Frank chuckling. Frank sighed]

Frank Osgood:
I'm living in it.

[Daniel silent]

Frank Osgood:
So when do I get out?

Daniel Morales:
Courts are skeptical the third party confessions. Before I could do anything, I need Tice to take a polygraph, see if he's for real.

Frank Osgood:
For real? I've been in this bit half my life, writing or be for a crime I didn't commit. That's real.

Daniel Morales:
Well, it's your call.

[Daniel takes a seat]

Daniel Morales:
If you want to pursue this, I'll handle the case.

Frank Osgood:
I was 27 years old, when that son of a b*tch put me away. Prosecutor and the DA's office smug, cocky, phone in New England accent, I'll never forget him... Leland McKenzie.

[Daniel is going to find out about Leland McKenzie in his story]

Judge Donald Tytell:
All right. You may be seated.

[Ann Kelsey, Stuart Markowitz and Tommy Mullaney seated and listen to the hearing, presided by Judge Donald Tytell at the State Bar]

Judge Donald Tytell:
Ms. Kelsey, I'm impressed with your unflinching sense of morality. The breaching of the privilege with Suzanne Hamel was admittedly arguable. But with Jeanette Walker, it was inexcusable. While I'm aware that our legal code of ethics, sometimes runs in the face of human decency, lawyers can never be allowed to run in the face of that code. Given the severity of your violations, it is my decision that you hereby be suspended from the practice of law for a period of 3 months.

Stuart Markowitz:
3 months? Are you nuts?

[Stuart interrupting during the proceedings]

Ann Kelsey:
Stuart.

Judge Donald Tytell:
Who are you?

Stuart Markowitz:
Stuart Markowitz. I'm her husband. As well as member of the bar.

Judge Donald Tytell:
I'll ask you to take your seat.

Stuart Markowitz:
She did a moral thing, for God's sake.

Ann Kelsey:
Stuart.

Judge Donald Tytell:
Counsel.

Stuart Markowitz:
You just suspended her for 3 months for having a conscience. You insult our entire profession.

Judge Donald Tytell:
You can keep your wife company for the first week. You're suspended for 7 days.

Ann Kelsey:
Objection!

Stuart Markowitz:
You can't just suspend me for that.

Judge Donald Tytell:
I just did.

Stuart Markowitz:
You self righteous fat ass Rotarian windbag.

Judge Donald Tytell:
You hit a month with fat ass. Windbag bought you to 5 weeks.

[Judge Tytell takes off his glasses]

Judge Donald Tytell:
You want to keep going?

Tommy Mullaney:
No, Your Honor. Uh, 5 weeks is a nice round number. We will stop there. Let's all just have a lovely day.

Judge Whitney Baldwin:
I can certainly understand any insurance companies unwillingness to fund experimental radical treatment. Especially where proven medical options are available. But when there is only one option and the doctors are recommending that option, how can you even consider denying coverage based on the exclusionary language in the fine print of a contract?

Bill Castroverde:
Your Honor, the option you're talking about hasn't been approved by the FDA itself.

Judge Whitney Baldwin:
I don't give a damn about the FDA. They're not even doctors. The FDA is a government agency. People die waiting for government agencies to take action. He paid you a premium. You promise to cover him if he got sick. No matter what disease he got sick with. That's the spirit of this contract. Mr. Cashman, I am holding you to it.

[Judge Baldwin make the ruling and favor the plaintiff Mark Gilliam]

Judge Whitney Baldwin:
Judgment for Plaintiff. That's all.

[Congratulations to Mark Gilliam and he won helped from his friend Victor Sifuentes. Richard Cashman has to pay damages and Bill Castroverde is in shock]

Mark Gilliam:
Wow. I never thought it could happen.

Victor Sifuentes:
Me neither. Congratulations. He stuck it out and you won.

Mark Gilliam:
Thank you, Victor. You really. Thanks.

[Mark was hugged by his friend comfort by Victor]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Leland, we have to face reality. When Victor and Michael left, litigation fell off. When Jack Sollers went, it nose-dived. Now Abby's leaving and taking more business with her.

Leland McKenzie:
All right. The situation is serious, but it's not critical.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I disagree. In 3 months, we've lost 4 major corporate clients including Tammon Group. The bank is so nervous they reviewing our line of credit.

Leland McKenzie:
Oh, that's ridiculous. They overreacting.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
It gets worse. I got a letter this morning from Perry Littlefield. Because of the Shays' claim, Ballantine is doubling our liability premium. Because of Ann Kelsey's suspension, malpractice is going up to 1/2 a million.

Leland McKenzie:
Over my dead body. We'll take our business elsewhere. I'll make a loan if I have to.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
You can't keep propping up the firm with Rosalind's money. We have to consider alternatives.

Leland McKenzie:
I will not consider renting space to Susan Bloom.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
[Douglas speaking quietly] Her practice is phenomenal. She represents half of Hollywood and she's willing to pay top dollar.

Leland McKenzie:
They call her "Jaws", Douglas.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
[Douglas almost whispering] A rumor. Printed in the same rag that called me a bald bore.

Leland McKenzie:
Susan Bloom is everything I hate about entertainment law - cheap, phony utterly devoid of ethics.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Shh.

[Douglas really whispering]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
You don't even know her. She's dynamic, she's... she's cutting edge, she's a litigator anyone would be proud to share space with.

Leland McKenzie:
Why are you whispering, Douglas?

[Douglas turns back over there, there's someone there at Douglas' office. Douglas whispering]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
She's in my office. She's taken the trouble to stop by on her way to a very important screening.

Leland McKenzie:
Bloom is here? Now?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Just meet her. That's all I ask.

[McKenzie and Brackman come in to see - Susan Bloom with her feet up on Brackman's desk, calmly reading one of his files. She wears a neon caftan and puffs a cigarette. McKenzie shoot Brackman a look. Brackman pastes on a smile]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Susan Bloom, Leland McKenzie.

[Susan turned and meet Leland while she's smoking sitting the desk]

Susan Bloom:
Hiya, Leland. I hear you need someone to save your ass.

[Susan sticking her leg on the desk while smoking in the office. But Leland is in shocked]

[All filing in or getting coffee, including Castroverde minus Becker and Markowitz. C.J. passes Kelsey]

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Great hair.

Ann Kelsey:
Thanks.

Leland McKenzie:
Before we start, I have an announcement. For those of you who don't know, Abigail Perkins is no longer with the firm.

Ann Kelsey:
What?

Jonathan Rollins:
You're kidding.

Tommy Mullaney:
Is she okay?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
She got a huge offer from McCann Jones, we couldn't match it, she resigned her partnership last night. And frankly, she couldn't have picked a worse time.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Doug, her father had a stroke. She's putting him in a nursing home which is gonna costs God knows how much. She needs some security.

Ann Kelsey:
You knew about this?

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Uh-huh.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Since there's nothing we can do, I suggest we move on. I'd like to introduce our new associate, Bill Castroverde. Some of you are familiar with his talents as a litigator.

Tommy Mullaney:
Familiar? He killed me.

Jonathan Rollins:
Welcome to our side.

Bill Castroverde:
Thanks. It's weird to be here.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
He'll be moving into Victor's old office. Second, a heartfelt welcome back to Ann Kelsey. Believe me, you were missed.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Ann's here?

Jonathan Rollins:
All right. It's about time. [Tommy applause to Ann since her more than 3 months suspension]

Ann Kelsey:
It's good to be back.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Too bad Stuart can't say the same.

Ann Kelsey:
He's with Matthew. Amalia quit 2 days ago and we've been going crazy trying to replace her.

Vinnie La Rosa PI:
You want some lunch? They make a nice brisket here.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I'm too upset to eat. My dog's been killed.

Vinnie La Rosa PI:
What?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I'm almost certain my neighbor poisoned him. We haven't had an autopsy yet but the vet thinks it was strychnine.

Vinnie La Rosa PI:
That's terrible.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Sparky, that's my dog. My wife found him in the back corner of the yard. He must have crawled over there to die.

Vinnie La Rosa PI:
Did you call the police?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
They say they can't do anything. No one saw it happen.

Vinnie La Rosa PI:
I'm a dog lover myself. I know what you must be going through. If some screwball did this to my little Quinnie, I'd want to go nuts here. I think I'd want to kill somebody.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Exactly! What about that?

Vinnie La Rosa PI:
What about what?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Justice!

Vinnie La Rosa PI:
Justice?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
As a private investigator, surely you must know some people out there... people in the underworld, who could give me justice.

Vinnie La Rosa PI:
Justice? How?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
As in hit man!

Vinnie La Rosa PI:
Hit man?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Shhhh! Don't say it out loud!

Vinnie La Rosa PI:
Look, time out Mr. B. This is extreme. If you're talking about murder here, you're gonna have to stop and let me out right here.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
All right. Just break his knees!

Vinnie La Rosa PI:
Look, Mr. B. If you're serious, and I only pray you are just overwrought and emotional here, I mean what you're thinking about doing... its just plain wrong!

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I can't let Sparky's death go unavenged!

Vinnie La Rosa PI:
Can I give you a piece of advice here? Whatever your differences are with this guy, and I'm not trying to make light of it... how do you know he even did this terrible thing? Go see him. Talk to him. Confront him directly. It's the only way.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
[in the woods during a paintball war] You're very lucky, Jonathan.

Jonathan Rollins:
Why?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Because you have youth. Choices. Look at me. I'm 40 years old. I'm out here in the woods, shivering all night, because I can't say "no" to a client who makes designer tampons for a living and sells them to the uptight and out-of-sight. I'm intimidated by clients! I'm scared of my ex-wife. My teenage son ignores me. And I'm too afraid to light a fire because of Stuart Markowitz, a five-foot, six-inch tax attorney with a Hitler complex. Don't end up like me, Jonathan. You still have choices.

Jonathan Rollins:
Douglas, you still have choices in life.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
You know, you're right. I chose to light a fire.

Jonathan Rollins:
Any sign of 'Rambowitz'?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Stuart? I hope he got captured. He's probably eating bugs for breakfast.

[Markowitz stomps out a fire that Brackman has lit]

Stuart Markowitz:
I said no fire! You want us all to be killed in our sleep?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Painted, not killed, Stuart. Worse case scenario: we get painted in our sleep.

Stuart Markowitz:
And you think that's nothing? Tell that to the Cobras.

[Markowitz produces four 'kill-chip' badges and lays them out to them]

Jonathan Rollins:
You killed FOUR more guys?

Stuart Markowitz:
I'm going back out on recon. Jonathan, get two hours sleep. Douglas, you stand guard. Get up in the tree so you won't fall asleep.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
What? I'm not climbing any tree.

Stuart Markowitz:
Get in the tree, Douglas! I'll be back!

Referee:
Here are your kill chips. You get killed, you hand it over to the guy who 'kills' you. You kill that guy, you take his chip. Any questions?

Stuart Markowitz:
Yeah, is there like a snack bar out there someplace?

Victor Sifuentes:
No, I... I can't think about anything else, but this case up. There's a client that you can't put off for any reason just... [Grace Van Owen has arrived]

Grace Van Owen:
What is this? [Victor didn't know Grace is here. Grace got the subpoena]

Victor Sifuentes:
We, uh, can finish up later. I want to, okay? [the woman leave and closed the door]

Grace Van Owen:
What are you doing, Victor?

Victor Sifuentes:
My parents are suing the man that killed Charlie and I'm representing him.

Grace Van Owen:
Your father isn't well enough to leave his house. Your mother...

Victor Sifuentes:
Grace, they want this. And we need you as a witness.

Grace Van Owen:
And this is how you tell me? The subpoena?

Victor Sifuentes:
Well, look, you didn't return my phone calls. [Grace paused]

Grace Van Owen:
What exactly do you want me to testify to? I didn't see anything that's good...

Victor Sifuentes:
You saw the accident. You saw how drunk William Boyd was when he's out of his truck.

Grace Van Owen:
I can't prove that he was drunk. [Grace clears her throat] He could have been in shock from the accident and that is the first thing his lawyer will say.

Victor Sifuentes:
You have to prove anything, so you say how he weak the liquor on how he hardly stand up.

Grace Van Owen:
You can't win this, Victor. They didn't charged Boyd with manslaughter because the D.A. didn't have enough evidence. He got 6 months because the D.A. wasn't even sure he could make felony DUI.

Victor Sifuentes:
Boyd got off easy, okay? He was blind drunk driving. He was driving like a maniac when he killed Charlie, and the law... the law can get off a slap on the wrist.

Grace Van Owen:
The juries isn't gonna care.

Victor Sifuentes:
I want to pay for what he did.

Grace Van Owen:
So, this is about revenge?

Victor Sifuentes:
No. It's about justice.

Grace Van Owen:
You're the last person to be objective here, Victor.

Victor Sifuentes:
William Boyd is a killer. Now, he murdered Charlie just as he had picked up a gun and pointed to his head. But I have to put you up on the stand. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do whatever it takes. But I'll be damned... I'm not letting him get away with murder! [Grace is leaving] Grace?

Benny Stulwicz:
This is for white paper. This is for color paper.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Uh-huh.

Benny Stulwicz:
This is for newspaper.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Right.

Benny Stulwicz:
This is for shiny paper.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Benny, try not to spend the whole day on this, you know what I mean?

Benny Stulwicz:
Okay.

Dominic Nuzzi:
Where's my buddy? Hey, Ben! [Someone's there calling Benny buddy. Benny finds out that he has a friend of his]

Benny Stulwicz:
Dominic? [Benny's friend. The person's name is Dominic Nuzzi holding his cap]

Dominic Nuzzi:
There he is. How's it going, chief?

Benny Stulwicz:
Dominic, hi.

Dominic Nuzzi:
Put out your hand.

Benny Stulwicz:
How come?

Dominic Nuzzi:
Put out your hand. I got something for you. Ha ha! [Dominic got the large amount of money, for the total of $3,000, and gives it to Benny] I wheeled an exactly to 8 race and a 25-1 shot. Bingo! He has no idea what I'm talking about. We had a very big day today, Ben! There's three large right in the palm of your hand! [Benny appreciates it and thank his friend Dominic for giving Benny $3,000 in cash. And Benny would like Douglas and Arnie to introduce Benny's friend Dominic Nuzzi. Benny was away]

Benny Stulwicz:
Oh, thanks. Uh, this is my friend Dominic.

Dominic Nuzzi:
Don't dribble on you shirt.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
How you do?

Dominic Nuzzi:
Fine, thank you. Nice to make your acquaintance. [Arnie finds out, what's going on in the filing room] Very beautiful offices you have here. Very nice. Very centrally located.

Arnie Becker:
Where do you know Benny from?

Dominic Nuzzi:
Oh, we, uh, sit at the counter at Du-Par's and have supper every night. [Dominic put on his baseball cap]

Benny Stulwicz:
Uh, uh, are we still done a thing?

Dominic Nuzzi:
What thing?

Benny Stulwicz:
You know the place you said where we're going?

Dominic Nuzzi:
Yeah, well, I said we're going. We're going.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Going where?

Benny Stulwicz:
It's a secret.

Dominic Nuzzi:
Oh, this guy. Everything's a big game. It's no big deal, Benny.

Benny Stulwicz:
Well, it is to me.

[Dominic mimics Benny]

Dominic Nuzzi:
Don't get all emotional on me, all right?

Benny Stulwicz:
I'm sorry.

Dominic Nuzzi:
Okay. Now there's a 2 year old running today that looks very good to me. Okay? They're all the Anna's the trainer. McCarron's up. I intend to show his source some support by going out to the track and betting next month's rent. Who's coming along?

[Benny changed his mind]

Benny Stulwicz:
We have work to do, Dominic.

Dominic Nuzzi:
Why? Are you sure's nothing going to wait?

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Thanks anyway. I don't think so.

Dominic Nuzzi:
How about you, dear? You're interested in dating a Jackie?

Gwen Taylor:
Excuse me?

Dominic Nuzzi:
All right. Never mind. Listen, Benny, don't spend it all on comic books, huh? I'll see you for suppers? Same time? Same station? Nice meeting youse. Yeah.

[Benny's friend Dominic is leaving out to the exit of the filing room. Gwen just turned when Dominic leaving the filing room, and she turned back again to see that Dominic went in the right way]

Abby Perkins:
Are you married? Is it true?

Bill Ringstrom:
Yes.

Abby Perkins:
Do you have any kids?

Bill Ringstrom:
Two boys.

Abby Perkins:
You jerk! You scummy jerk! I supposed I'm to sit still after 16 dates between us because your wife doesn't understand me?

Bill Ringstrom:
My wife and I have accumulated our grievances, but I don't know anyone who has been married for 12 years who hasn't. We are a happy couple living in Pomona without central air conditioning as can be.

Abby Perkins:
You lied to me! At the heart of all this, you are a liar!

Bill Ringstrom:
I didn't lie. You never asked me. Hey, you are the one who set the conditions when we began dating. No histories. No dark colors. I kept waiting for you to ask me personal questions. Some sign of curiosity. Not if I was married, but about anything for that matter. Like where I went when I left the hotel room. How come we didn't see each other at night? I just followed your lead.

Abby Perkins:
If I had asked you if you were married, would you have told me the truth?

Bill Ringstrom:
I thought about it enough. Yeah... I probably would have. Abigail, I don't blame you for being mad, but believe me... I did not go looking for this. It just happened and I don't want it to end. I'm a decent guy who is totally over matched by what is between us.

Abby Perkins:
Decent? Decent guys do not go screwing around on their wives.

Judge Lawrence O'Neil:
I am a very conservative judge, Mr. Kuzak. I am a little curious to know why you agreed with the opposing counsel to pick me to hear this case.

Michael Kuzak:
Well, because of your reputation for fairness among other things.

Judge Lawrence O'Neil:
Would those "other things" have anything to do with Stephanie Hall?

Michael Kuzak:
[caught off guard] I beg your pardon?

Judge Lawrence O'Neil:
Stephanie Hall... a private investigator who has been asking me pointed questions about my personal life. And a little digging of my own reveals that she is sometimes employed by your firm. I have no doubt that my reputation for fairness played my part in your selection Mr. Kuzak, and frankly... I think it stinks!

Michael Kuzak:
I had a very tough case to try. I didn't want to make it tougher by selecting a judge with any unfair prejudice. I figured that you wouldn't condemn a person based on his sexuality.

Judge Lawrence O'Neil:
That's well put, counselor. But the truth is, you are the one who's guilty of prejudice here. You automatically assumed that just because you had me investigated and found out that I was gay that my private lifestyle would factor into my personal judgment? Do you also make that assumption on heterosexual judges?

Michael Kuzak:
I didn't assume anything. I was hoping to find someone to recognize that gay people can be heroes. That gay people can endorse products!

Judge Lawrence O'Neil:
And I will be the first person to applaud your cause. But as a gay person, let me also tell you that public acceptance is not here yet. Nor do I think it will ever be. Do you think that I would have been elected or re-elected judge if people knew the truth about me? No, of course not. If anything, me being gay hurt your case also made me all too aware that the public will never be accepting or tolerant to homosexuals. People do not want to see our faces on billboards, posters, television commercials, or cereal boxes in the case of your client.

Michael Kuzak:
[rises to leave] Thanks for the bone, Judge. You just gave me the grounds for appeal.

Judge Lawrence O'Neil:
Excuse me?

Michael Kuzak:
You just said that you being gay hurt my case... suggesting possible judicial bias against us.

Judge Lawrence O'Neil:
Judicial bias? My ruling was completely fair. You damn well know that!

Michael Kuzak:
All I know is that I have to do whatever I can to protect my client. And that is taking advantage of what you just said to re-open this case here.

Judge Lawrence O'Neil:
That is a total long shot, counselor!

Michael Kuzak:
Which I have nothing to lose by taking. Look, I don't want to expose your private life here. That is not my intention. But I have to do anything I can to serve Matt Leonard or I will be guilty of malpractice. But if you were to set aside your verdict of your own accord for whatever reasons you decide... then I don't think anything about your personal life would have to come out in any appellate court.

Judge Lawrence O'Neil:
Right or wrong, counselor, I have decided to keep my sexual identity a secret my entire life mainly for electoral and personal survival. But over the years, I have asked myself a thousand times, what would happen if somebody threatened to expose me or extort me in the middle of a trial? This has never happened to me before, so I've never known exactly how to respond. Now I do. My ruling stands! You do whatever you think you have to do.

[Kuzak and Rikki Davis enter a secluded conference room after her acquittal for murder]

Michael Kuzak:
How do you feel?

Rikki Davis:
Well, I'm exhausted, but relieved that it's over.

Michael Kuzak:
Yeah, you should be. You pulled it off.

Rikki Davis:
Excuse me?

Michael Kuzak:
It was too easy Rikki. The pieces you set in motion fell into place too neatly.

Rikki Davis:
What are you talking about?

Michael Kuzak:
I'm talking about you and Mark Chelios. We got a hold of the surveillance videos in his office building. I just found out that you've been in to see him twice in the last month.

Rikki Davis:
So?

Michael Kuzak:
So it was you two. You two killed your husband. It wasn't you and your boyfriend David Schaefer. It was you and your husband's lawyer Mark Chelios. You two either did it, or had it done.

Rikki Davis:
That's preposterous.

Michael Kuzak:
I don't think so. Mark Chelios is a brilliant attorney. That screw up he made on the will is something not even a rookie would make. He did it to give Mr. Davis' daughter a motive. He knew about Maryanne Davis' alienation with you so he romanced her to set her up, and to set himself up to be impeached on the witness stand.

Rikki Davis:
Now you've completely lost me.

Michael Kuzak:
No, drop the act. You follow me exactly. You and your partner-in-crime Mark Chelios knew that there would be no way for you to get away with killing your husband without suspicion falling directly on you. Sure, you could set it up to look like a suicide. But that would be fifty-fifty at best. The only way to guarantee you getting away with it was double jeopardy: to be tried and acquitted. So, Mark Chelios sets himself up as the big star witness against you. He carefully arranges those papers of Mr. Davis will to make it look like he was under undo influence when orchestrating the will. He puts the papers away in his files, and under subpoena, he gives the files to us. It all points to Maryanne Davis as the one who orchestrated this whole thing. He takes Maryanne Davis on dinner dates to make it look that she was taking advantage of HIM. He kisses Maryanne Davis, when he's got to know that we're having her followed. My God... you were the one who insisted that we tail the daughter. You also insisted that we tail Mark Chelios. Perfect. I couldn't have pulled off a better plan myself.

Rikki Davis:
Now wait a minute. Why would Mark Chelios take the witness stand and make himself a suspect if he was really involved in killing my husband?

Michael Kuzak:
Probably because he has an airtight alibi for the day in question. And, since he knows that you were the one who made all the arrangements, there's no way any part of the crime could be traced back to him, even if he was investigated.

Rikki Davis:
[chuckles very sinisterly] That's a very good story, counselor. Too bad you can't repeat it.

Michael Kuzak:
Yeah, well sometimes I get so carried away with defending my clients that I lose my track on their own morality.

Rikki Davis:
Look, you've got two choices here. There's a press conference going on outside this room. You can either walk in there with a long face and say that you were completely duped by your client. Or you can say nothing, keep your head up, shoulders back, and be the brilliant star defense attorney the whole country knows you to be. A winner, or a loser. It's up to you, Michael. As for me... well, I believe I'm free to go.

Leland McKenzie:
Ann, there is something bothering me. Rosalind proposed to me last night.

Ann Kelsey:
Proposed what?

Leland McKenzie:
Marriage. She asked me to marry her.

Ann Kelsey:
[slightly shocked] She did? What did you say?

Leland McKenzie:
I told her I would think about it. What do you think about me and Rosalind getting married?

Ann Kelsey:
It's fine. You two make a cute... well, just an O.K. couple.

Leland McKenzie:
Can you see yourself standing at our wedding?

Ann Kelsey:
Yes, I'm sure it would be lovely.

Leland McKenzie:
The truth, Ann.

Ann Kelsey:
I would rather dive head-first into a bucket full of my own vomit!

Ann Kelsey:
Leland, dating Rosalind Shays is one thing. Sleeping with her is another. But to exchage wedding vows with that... person who can shed skin and swallow large rats whole... and who can kill a man with just one venomous bite is beyond stupid!

Leland McKenzie:
Ann! When I asked for your honest opinion, I didn't mean that honest.

Jack Sollers:
Objection!

Judge Marilyn Travelini:
Sustained.

Grace Van Owen:
Isn't it true, Ms. Shays, that you have alienated almost everybody you have ever worked with?

Rosalind Shays:
No, that isn't true.

Grace Van Owen:
Okay. Those seven firms totaled 452 lawyers. How many of those colleagues are friends of yours today?

Jack Sollers:
Objection!

Grace Van Owen:
Turn propensity to several relationships is directly at issue.

Jack Sollers:
Move to strike!

Grace Van Owen:
Her inability to get along with the people she works with is directly at issue!

Jack Sollers:
Your Honor!

Judge Marilyn Travelini:
The objection is overruled.

Rosalind Shays:
I get along with people I work with.

Grace Van Owen:
Name a friend, Rosalind, there are 452 names on this list. Pick one, pick one person who is a friend.

Jack Sollers:
This is badgering!

Grace Van Owen:
Go ahead. Choose one, but I would subpoena whoever that is.

Jack Sollers:
Your Honor!

Judge Marilyn Travelini:
Ms. Van Owen.

Grace Van Owen:
I'm sorry, Your Honor. Ms. Shays, given the fact that you have never established a close friendship with any of your colleagues. Given the fact that you have left eight law firms, four of them on very unfriendly terms. Given the fact that nobody at McKenzie, Brackman even remotely like you at the end, despite once having like you enough to elect you Senior Partner. Is it possible that you are not a nice person to be around?

Jack Sollers:
Your Honor, this is total badgering.

Grace Van Owen:
I'm done here.

Victor Sifuentes:
And during the trial, evidence was introduced that my client had been a heavy user of methyl green for a period of more than 10 years.

Federal Judge Jackson:
I hope you're not gonna ask us to consider that a mitigating factor.

Victor Sifuentes:
A recent doctoral thesis completed only last month on the long-term effects amphetamines makes it a mitigating factor, Your Honor.

Federal Judge Emmanuel:
Five different psychiatrists were called to the stand, now everyone of them testified about the effects of long-term addiction to amphetamines.

Victor Sifuentes:
Yes, but none of them knew about the results of this research.

Federal Judge Constance Greg:
With all due respect, Counselor, this attempt seems a little desperate.

Victor Sifuentes:
Your Honor, my client is scheduled to die tomorrow. I think an evaluation of this new evidence is warranted before you comment on its legitimacy.

Federal Judge Emmanuel:
Let's do this without the attitude, Counsel.

Victor Sifuentes:
I mean no disrespect to the court. But I grew up with Hector Rodriguez, I know him personally which causes me to take this case personally.

Federal Judge Emmanuel:
Well, don't. Your relationship with him has no relevance here.

Victor Sifuentes:
My relationship with him puts me in a position to recognize his capacity for change and rehabilitation which is directly relevant to death penalty cases, Your Honor.

Federal Judge Constance Greg:
This is not an evidentiary hearing.

Victor Sifuentes:
I knew Hector Rodriguez on drugs. I know him off drugs. He's off of them now, Your Honor.

Federal Judge Jackson:
You're not a character witness, Mr. Sifuentes.

Victor Sifuentes:
That's right, Your Honor. I am a lawyer. The three of you are judges. And we are all here to administer justice. Killing Hector Rodriguez doesn't accomplish that.

Federal Judge Constance Greg:
In your objective opinion.

Victor Sifuentes:
I know him. None if you do. And I respectfully request that until you can be assured as I am, about all of this. Please don't let this man be killed. Please. Thank you, Your Honors.

Federal Judge Jackson:
Mr. Keene?

State Attorney Allard Keene:
Your Honors, there is absolutely no indication that this new evidence would have made any difference, the jury heard ad nauseam that Mr. Rodriguez was a user of methyl green.

Federal Judge Constance Greg:
Uh, Mr. Keene, excuse me. Mr. Sifuentes, as compelling as your argument may have been, this study does not constitute substantial new evidence. And as we previously stated, your personal relationship with Hector Rodriguez is simply not relevant. Your application for an emergency stay is denied. You can try your luck with the Supreme Court, but we're not interfering with the execution.

Victor Sifuentes:
You haven't seen the evidence yet, Your Honor...

Federal Judge Constance Greg:
Mr. Sifuentes, that's enough.

Victor Sifuentes:
No, it's not enough. Look, I don't care how damn busy your schedules are.

Federal Judge Jackson:
One more word, Counselor, and you're in contempt.

Victor Sifuentes:
He is off the drugs.

[Victor turned behind Norman]

Victor Sifuentes:
8 years now, he has been a model prisoner...

Federal Judge Jackson:
This court is adjourned.

[Norman Patton help Victor to chill out. Crowds and the reporters murmuring]

[Leland has received a Christmas card from Rosalind Shays, six months after her fatal accident]

Leland McKenzie:
Look at this. A Christmas card from Rosalind.

Grace Van Owen:
You know, Leland; she probably had them sent out by a service and no one thought to notify them that she was dead.

Leland McKenzie:
I guess you're right; a Christmas card from the grave.

[starts laughing]

Grace Van Owen:
One thing you can say about Rosalind, she sure knew how to network. [Continues laughing]

[Here at the restaurant. Daniel having a conversation with Rosalind]

Daniel Siegfried:
The fact that Leland McKenzie is not here is indicative of my problem, I'm not getting the service I need.

Rosalind Shays:
And just how has our service been inadequate?

Daniel Siegfried:
To begin with, our last three distribution contracts have left us considerably expose. Before that, I blame you.

Rosalind Shays:
That's very interesting because I blame you.

Daniel Siegfried:
Excuse me?

Rosalind Shays:
Those contracts were all drafted by outside counsel fear subsidiaries and you didn't let us supervised.

Daniel Siegfried:
So you gonna blame the other lawyers? It's not very professional.

Rosalind Shays:
You misunderstood. I'm blaming you. You're the one that has hired all those different attorneys.

Daniel Siegfried:
I don't want the same lawyers for everybody. It's not good business practice.

Rosalind Shays:
Well, that's wrong. There is no reason or I'm everybody with different attorneys, so they can generate fees, and make separate deals with distributors. It's only counterproductive, but it potentially exposes you to anti-trust problems, and it'll makes you look stupid less to Sigfried, that one firm draft all of your contracts, that one firm represents both you and your succeeded areas.

Daniel Siegfried:
And I suppose is one firm should be McKenzie, Brackman.

Rosalind Shays:
I'm not gonna lie to you. We've had our problems. Maybe Leland McKenzie is what he is to be, but I will promise you this, if you leave business here, I will personally take responsibility.

Daniel Siegfried:
And I can be sure you're this good?

Rosalind Shays:
They brought me in here because I'm not good. I make money, Mr. Siegfried. Money for my firm, money for the client as served money for you.

[Daniel is paused]

Rosalind Shays:
Give me 3 months. If you're not like what you get, you walk away.

[Daniel Sigfried found out that he see the point]

[Here at the filing room, Law Messenger Benny Stulwicz is preparing the papers, but Arnie is back and came to say hi to Benny]

Arnie Becker:
Hi-ya, Benny.

[Benny was just to press the button in that machine]

Arnie Becker:
I said hello, Benny.

Benny Stulwicz:
Hello.

Arnie Becker:
You want to tell me what's the matter?

Benny Stulwicz:
No.

Arnie Becker:
You're mad at me because I left the firm, aren't you?

Benny Stulwicz:
I'm busy now.

[Arnie turns off the button of the keypads. But Benny continues to press the button on. Arnie turns off the switch at the left end corner. Benny does it when he turned on. Arnie takes off the plug]

Arnie Becker:
Benny, if you're mad, I think you're owe me the courtesy talking to me about it.

Benny Stulwicz:
You lied.

Arnie Becker:
I didn't really lied to you, Ben, know I just...

Benny Stulwicz:
Yes you did. You said you and Roxanne were going to the car, and you said you were coming back. That's a lie.

Arnie Becker:
Well, I did that for your own protection, believe it or not. You see, it was important that nobody at the firm know about my leaving and... it's - it's - it's - it's kinda hard to explain why, can you just trust me on that?

Benny Stulwicz:
No.

Arnie Becker:
Well, I think you can trust the fact that you and I are friends, Benny, and I would never do anything to hurt you.

Benny Stulwicz:
You went away! And you didn't even say good-bye!

[Benny was mad and got upset and he walk away]

Arnie Becker:
But...

[Arnie doesn't even know what to do]

Grace Van Owen:
Well, who was it that call you, Mr. Dunham?

John Dunham:
The contact was a man named Willie Kosar. The information was that he wanna me to kill Mrs. Joseph Schaeffer.

Grace Van Owen:
What exactly did Mr. Kosar tell you, sir?

John Dunham:
He said the woman's husband wanted...

Victor Sifuentes:
Objection. Hearsay.

Grace Van Owen:
Goes to show state of mind that the deal was being made, Your Honor.

Victor Sifuentes:
It doesn't matter. It's totem pole. She's asking the witness to tell her what Mr. Kosar told him about what my client told Mr. Kosar.

Judge Jonathan Cramer:
I'm overruling the objection.

Victor Sifuentes:
Exception.

Judge Jonathan Cramer:
Noted.

Grace Van Owen:
I'll ask you again, Mr. Dunham. What did Mr. Kosar tell you?

John Dunham:
He said Schaeffer would pay $10,000 to have his wife killed.

Grace Van Owen:
And you accepted?

John Dunham:
I accepted.

Grace Van Owen:
Thank you, sir. I have nothing further.

Victor Sifuentes:
You never killed Mrs. Schaeffer, did you?

John Dunham:
No, I didn't.

Victor Sifuentes:
Because in fact Willie Kosar called you back and told you to cancel it. Isn't that right?

John Dunham:
That's not right. I just decided to tell the police about it.

Victor Sifuentes:
You just decided to tell the police, and this sudden attack of candor occurred after you were arrested on racketeering charges, didn't it?

John Dunham:
I made a deal. So what?

Victor Sifuentes:
Yeah, you made a deal. You made a great deal. You give them a murder conspiracy in exchange for total immunity in all racketeering charges against you dropped.

John Dunham:
What's the point?

Victor Sifuentes:
The point is you were looking at 12 years minimum, and since you had to give the police something to avoid growing all the fact, would you decided given this murder conspiracy leaving out the part of how Kosar cancelled it.

John Dunham:
That didn't happen. Your client's guilty.

Victor Sifuentes:
Because you say so, right? Tell me, Mr. Dunham, you murder people for a living?

John Dunham:
I refused to answer that on the grounds it'll might incriminate me.

Victor Sifuentes:
Oh, I'm sorry, we wouldn't want anything to incriminate you. Nothing further.

Judge Jonathan Cramer:
You can step down, Mr. Dunham.

Victor Sifuentes:
Uh, Your Honor, I'd like to request a sidebar.

Judge Jonathan Cramer:
We're done for the morning. I will seek counsel in my chambers.

Victor Sifuentes:
Your Honor, I'd like to move that Ms. Van Owen be disqualified from this trial.

Grace Van Owen:
What?

Judge Jonathan Cramer:
On what grounds?

Victor Sifuentes:
Conflicts-of-Interest, Judge, she personally involved with a member of my firm, and I...

Grace Van Owen:
Give me a break.

Victor Sifuentes:
I didn't think you would pose any conflicts, Your Honor, but I have just learned that Ms. Van Owen has had communications with Mr. Kuzak regarding this case, and I think the interest of justice here...

Grace Van Owen:
I've had no significant communications with Mr. Kuzak concerning this matter, Judge. And Mr. Sifuentes has been fully aware of this relationship long before he took this case. He's simply brought up this motion now so that he could buy extra time while he continues his manhunt for Willie Kosar.

Judge Jonathan Cramer:
Your motion is denied, Mr. Sifuentes.

Victor Sifuentes:
In the alternative then, Your Honor, I would like some time to look for Mr. Kosar, his testimony is certainly vital...

Grace Van Owen:
There is no reasonable expectation that he will ever be found. We've looked for him, too, Judge, he's gone.

Judge Jonathan Cramer:
Do you know where he is, counselor?

Victor Sifuentes:
No, Your Honor, but I think with a little bit of time...

Judge Jonathan Cramer:
Motion denied. See you at 2:00.

[Grace and Victor leaving the Chambers, but Victor have some explanation]

Victor Sifuentes:
Your Honor...

Judge Jonathan Cramer:
That's all.

[And Grace and Victor exited the Chamber of Judge Jonathan Cramer]

Grace Van Owen:
Victor. Victor, you surprised me.

Victor Sifuentes:
Hey, it was worth the shot.

[Typewriter sound]

Judge Herbert Foster Reeves:
[Kuzak's defendant Gil Tecowsky felt relief] This time, I'd like to thank the jury for it's time and patients.

Richard Mathers:
Your Honor. I moved that the court set aside the verdict and declare a mistrial.

Judge Herbert Foster Reeves:
On what grounds?

Richard Mathers:
The plaintiffs were not represented by an attorney at law.

Judge Herbert Foster Reeves:
They were represented by you.

Richard Mathers:
I'm not an attorney, Your Honor. Even though these people didn't know anything about it. Counsel for the defense did. Thereby facing me to severe disadvantage in terms of negotiating posture.

Judge Herbert Foster Reeves:
Gentlemen, in my chambers. The juries to be held.

Richard Mathers:
Your Honor, the paramount issue here must be the interest to the party's, not the misconduct of an attorney or individual serving in that capacity.

Judge Herbert Foster Reeves:
Excuse me, I''ll get to you later. Mr. Kuzak, are you at all familiar with the Cannon of Ethics as it pertains to an attorney's obligation when he discovers the Unauthorized Practice of Law?

Michael Kuzak:
Your Honor...

Judge Herbert Foster Reeves:
When he's made aware the ongoing commission of a crime.

Michael Kuzak:
Forgive me, Your Honor, but I didn't think that my client should be victimized by this man's fraud.

Richard Mathers:
He didn't hesitate to try to victimize my clients with his own opportunism, though.

Judge Herbert Foster Reeves:
Thank you, Mr. Mathers. You were going to say anything unless you lost. Is that right, Mr. Kuzak?

Michael Kuzak:
All I was doing was trying to mitigate the damage.

Judge Herbert Foster Reeves:
That isn't your role. When you found out, you had an obligation to reveal what you knew, period.

Michael Kuzak:
With all due respect, Your Honor, Mr. Mathers may be lacking in character, but his clients receive legal representation at least as good as that provided by most of the licensed practitioners to be found in these courts.

Richard Mathers:
And in no way vitiates the need for a mistrial. There is a presumptive conclusion that a party can receive adequate representation only from an attorney licensed to practice.

Michael Kuzak:
The totems got a fair trial. Justice isn't served by declaring it void.

Judge Herbert Foster Reeves:
Thank you for your commentary, gentlemen. Mr. Kuzak, despite your rhetoric, you were party to defrauding this court. I'm declaring this a mistrial. And I'm referring you to the Disciplinary Committee at the Bar Association. You can tell them how you were trying to serve interests of justice. [Judge Reeves is moving along is Mr. Mathers] Mr. Mathers? [Mr. Mathers take a seat] Is this the first case you lost? [Mr. Mathers sighs]

Richard Mathers:
No.

Judge Herbert Foster Reeves:
Then why the confession now?

Richard Mathers:
Because these people were more innocent and more ruined than any clients I ever had before that's why. They had terrific lives and ram the bottom fell out. Place their trust in me to try to obtain for them. Little financial security. Seems like honoring that trust is little more important than covering my ass. [Judge Reeves sighs. Judge Reeves press the intercom to call the bailiff Gene]

Judge Herbert Foster Reeves:
Gene, will you come in here? [Judge Reeves clears his throat] You're smooth, Mister. But I suspect at whatever you call yourself, whatever trade you appeared apply first, last and forever. You'll always be a con man. [Gene the bailiff has arrived. But Judge Reeves orders the bailiff to take Mr. Mathers into custody] Lock Mr. Mathers up. [Bailiff Gene got the handcuffs to escort Mr. Mathers out. Mr. Mathers gets up and heads to the exit of the chambers of Judge Herbert Foster Reeves, leaves and closed the door. Mr. Kuzak is sitting for a while to wait]

Stuart Markowitz:
I have a confession. I'm rich.

[first lines]

Arnie Becker:
So, my client, Mrs. Troutman, decides that she needs to get away for a few days. She packs her things into her car, drives down to her condo in Palm Springs, and puts the key in the door. She opens the door, kicks off her high-heeled shoes, walks down the hallway to the bedroom to collapse in the bed, opens the bedroom door only to find the surprise of her life: her loving husband, in the bed... in the arms of another woman.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Excuse me, Arnold. But why are we squandering valuable staff meeting time to hear this boring ressatation of a mondane little domestic drama?

Arnie Becker:
You have interrupted me right at the punchline, Douglas!

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Well?

Arnie Becker:
You see, that was no "woman." That... was his wife.

[everyone looks at Arnie with puzzlement]

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
I'm afraid I'm not tracking.

Arnie Becker:
Bigamy. Bigamy! Do you know how rare it is? This is the divorce lawyer equilivant of a hole-in-one!

Angela Sipriano:
You're going to find this interesting. Your original client was Mrs. Foster F. Troutman. He told her his middle name was Farrell. The one in Palm Springs is Mrs. Foster J. Troutman. He told her his middle named was James. The new ones I found are Mrs. Foster C for Charles, E for Errol, and K for Kenneth.

Arnie Becker:
Alphabetical order?

Angela Sipriano:
Exactly. Which means that there's most likely 11 of them. A, B, D, G, H, and I still unaccounted for.

Stuart Markowitz:
And what about L through Z?

Arnie Becker:
How the hell does he do it? Bee pollen?

Angela Sipriano:
While we're on that subject, what Mr. Foster does is that he takes their stuff. Jewelry, furs, cars, etc., report them stolen, live on the settlement from the insurance company, and he gives the stolen item to another wife as a gift.

Stuart Markowitz:
You know, I'm not a violent man by nature... but boy, what I would really enjoy is five minutes alone in an elevator with this guy!

[Markowitz slams his right fist into his left hand simulating a punch]

Angela Sipriano:
Me too. But not for the same reason. I'd like to find out what the big attraction is.

[during a break in jury selection]

Mark Gilliam:
Must have hurt to lose Walters, huh?

Grace Van Owen:
I don't want a prejudice juror any more than you do.

Mark Gilliam:
Yeah, right. You mean your office didn't tell you to stack it with "fag bashers"?

Grace Van Owen:
I am not unsympathetic to your client, and I'm ready to make any moves to his well being.

Mark Gilliam:
Good. Then you'll dismiss the case.

Grace Van Owen:
I can't do that, Mark. Your client took the life of another human being.

Mark Gilliam:
My client performed a merciful act. His only motivation was love.

[Becker, Markowitz, and Kelsey are loudly arguing over which one of them will get the late Norman Chaney's office]

Arnie Becker:
I had dibs on this office the day he croaked!

Stuart Markowitz:
Forget it, Arnie! It doesn't work that way!

Ann Kelsey:
You move in here Arnie, and I will scratch the paint off your Porsche!

[McKenzie enters]

Leland McKenzie:
SHUT UP!

[Becker, Markowitz and Kelsey are now silent]

Leland McKenzie:
Do you realize that your bickering can be heard throughout the complex? Keep this in mind: if you three cannot find some mature and intelligent matter in which to settle this within the next three minutes, this office will be turned into a conference room!

[McKenzie exits and closes the office door shut]

Arnie Becker:
All right. Under the circumstances and given the absence of time, there is only one way to settle this.

Ann Kelsey:
What?

[Becker removes his suit jacket and holds out his clenched fists]

Stuart Markowitz:
Arnie!

Arnie Becker:
Come on, we haven't got a lot of time. Get 'em out there. Get them out!

[Markowitz and Kelsey hold out their fists and it is shown that they are playing 'potatos']

Arnie Becker:
One potato/two potato/three potato/four. Five potato/six potato/seven potato/more. [to Kelsey] Out. One potato/two potato/three potato/more. Five potato/six potato/seven potato... more.

Stuart Markowitz:
[to Becker; smirks] Out.

Mark Gilliam:
Mr. Appleton, how long did you know Glen Gates?

Christopher Appleton:
We met at a party four years ago on the fourth of July 1982.

Mark Gilliam:
And what was the nature of your relationship?

Christopher Appleton:
We were lovers.

Mark Gilliam:
Would you care to catagorize your relationship a casual one?

Christopher Appleton:
No. We loved each other very much. We were very committed to one another.

Mark Gilliam:
You two lived together?

Christopher Appleton:
Yes, almost from the start when we first met.

Mark Gilliam:
When did you first find out that Glen had AIDS?

Christopher Appleton:
He was diagnosed last year in August 1985.

Mark Gilliam:
Would describe to the court if you will the course of Mr. Gates disease?

Christopher Appleton:
Well... he started becoming sick last July. In the beginning we thought it was just a bad cold. Weeks went by and Glen just kept getting sicker. He got so weak that he could hardly stand up. Well... if you were me, you live in a gay community that lives in terror. Like AIDS is a plague. You become used to seeing all your friends die. Somehow you think it won't happen to you. When Glen got sick, I think we both knew.

Mark Gilliam:
Once he was diagnosed with having AIDS, what happened then?

Christopher Appleton:
Basically he just deteriorated. He was in and out of the hospital. Toward the end he was going blind. He had periods when he wasn't lucid. He... he was in horrible pain.

Mark Gilliam:
Mr. Appleton, would you describe to the court if you would what your life was like as Glen got sicker?

Christopher Appleton:
We couldn't go out in public anymore, because people everywhere were physically repulsed at the sight of him. He lost so much weight. His face, his arms... his whole body were covered with dark sores. We became like... lepers, even in our own gay neighborhood where we lived.

Mark Gilliam:
When did you decide to take his life?

Christopher Appleton:
Oh, we had talked about it almost from the start. We had so many friends who died from AIDS in our community. We heard so many horror stories. Glen was not afraid of death. He couldn't stand the thought of the inevitable suffering. The loss of his dignity. He talked a lot about suicide. He hoarded pills for months. Towards the end he tried to kill himself while he was in the hospital. But... he was so weak that he couldn't get all the pills down his throat. That's when he begged me to do it. To take his life for him.

Mark Gilliam:
And you agreed?

Christopher Appleton:
No. Not at first. But towards the end he couldn't bear it. He was in horrible pain.

Mark Gilliam:
Mr. Appleton, would you describe for the court if you would Glen Gates last few hours of life?

Christopher Appleton:
It was early morning in March... exactly eight months ago. I'd fallen asleep in the chair beside his bed. Suddenly I woke up and I felt that Glen was really there. Not just physically, but his mind was there. And it woke me and I looked at him. His head was turned and he was looking at me with such sweet sadness in his eyes. It was as if all the fight was out of him. By this time, he was too weak to talk. He kept falling asleep and it was as if he was forcing himself to wake up. I felt like he was begging me to end it. I picked him off the bed and carried him to the bathroom. God... he was so light. It was like holding... a dying small bird. I bathed him, changed his bed clothes, tucked him back into bed and then I got into the bed with him. I held him in my arms and rocked him. I sang to him. And then when he finally fell asleep, he was like a baby in my arms. I knew for a certainty that it was time for death to happen. To let him wake up to one more day of pain and sadness and dispair. It wouldn't be a greater crime then I am up here accused of committing?

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Why are you so nervous?

Abby Perkins:
Because, you and I... I've never done this before.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
What makes you think something is going to happen now?

Abby Perkins:
Because I'm... ready.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Well, first of all, I never said I was ready.

Abby Perkins:
But...

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
You're not ready at all. Look at yourself. Your shaking, you've been nervous all through dinner... you haven't earned enough decency to earn a friend, let again, anything more than a friend. I like you a lot, but I'm not going to jeopardize our friendship because you want to satisfy your curiosity.

Abby Perkins:
It's not just curiosity.

Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb:
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But nothing is going to happen tonight. Now consider yourself two things: dumped, and relived.

[Back at 444 Plaza Building in the evening. Jonathan cleans everything up. But Leland opens the door and have a word with Jonathan all about what Jonathan has done since his arrest]

Leland McKenzie:
So the complaint against you is dismissed?

Jonathan Rollins:
Yeah, I'm free and clear.

Leland McKenzie:
Not with me you're not.

Jonathan Rollins:
Excuse me?

Leland McKenzie:
You're going to Grace Van Owen was irresponsible, Jonathan.

Jonathan Rollins:
I took a calculated risk.

Leland McKenzie:
It was a stupid risk. You indirectly reveal privilege information? You...

Jonathan Rollins:
I didn't give her anything she can really used, Leland, I just ask...

Leland McKenzie:
You let her know that Mark Davies' body was in the ditch? You let her know that her client of yours killed him? That's giving her something.

Jonathan Rollins:
And what can she do with that?

Leland McKenzie:
For starters, they can watch this office, monitor everybody who goes in and out.

Jonathan Rollins:
I told Manny not to come here anymore.

Leland McKenzie:
And did you first get his permission before running off to Grace?

Jonathan Rollins:
I protected him, Leland, if I'm good at all.

Leland McKenzie:
Not good enough. What if it got out to this firm's sold out it's client? You had any idea how fatal that would be to our practice?

Jonathan Rollins:
I didn't sell anybody out!

Leland McKenzie:
You screwed up! You indulged your own conscience at the expense of this firm's reputation! Don't you ever do it again! [But Jonathan didn't do anything wrong. But Leland is leaving the office of Jonathan and slams the door closed. Jonathan is going to get back to work and clean up]

[first lines]

Arnie Becker:
As far as I'm concerned, Patrick Flanagan is a felon. He gave me assurances that this little girl would not testify. That is obstruction of justice.

Leland McKenzie:
Do you have any proof of that?

Arnie Becker:
Of course, I don't have proof.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Patrick says that he tried notify you with the settlement offer. You were unavailable.

Leland McKenzie:
He also maintains that no such assurances were made.

Arnie Becker:
He's lying. Less to be under any further illusions, this is someone who lies. He stood my office, he told me what he wanted to do. I told him, no uncertain terms: "do not do." He went ahead and he did it anyway

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Parenthetically, it should be noted that he did bring in about $9 million.

Arnie Becker:
Douglas, he is dangerous.

Leland McKenzie:
Now, I think that might be a little harsh.

Arnie Becker:
All right, Leland, look, you do whatever you want with him. But I'm telling you right now, I will not work with him again.

Leland McKenzie:
That's your provocative.

Arnie Becker:
On this one. Morales was right.

[Arnie leaves, storms out of the office and closed the door shut]

Leland McKenzie:
Well, Patrick maintains that no assurances were given.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Patrick maintains a lot of things, Leland.

Leland McKenzie:
Yes, he does.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
At a minimum, it does seem to be someone who gets accuse pretty often.

Leland McKenzie:
Well, so far all the accusations have been groundless.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
So far.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
[shaken tone] First Daniel quits, now Arnie threatens to because of Patrick Flanigan? Doesn't that strike you odd at all?

Leland McKenzie:
[skeptic tone] No, it doesn't. Patrick maintains that no such assurances were ever given. I belive him.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Patrick maintains a lot of things, Leland.

Leland McKenzie:
[realizing it] Why... yes, he does.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
At the very least, for a nice guy who brings in the business and makes money, he does stand to get accused of obstructing justice pretty often. Think about it. Plagerizing his thesis in law school. Accusations of evidence tampering, witness intimidation and extortion, inducing perjury, and now this?

Leland McKenzie:
Well, so far all of the accusations have been groundless.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
[gets up and leaves] Yeah... so far.

Dr. Frederick Schodel, DDS:
What do you want?

Patrick Flanagan:
I want to know how we can resolve this case.

Dr. Frederick Schodel, DDS:
It was resolved. What do you want, Mr. Flanagan? Shouldn't my lawyer be here?

Patrick Flanagan:
I want $750,000.

Dr. Frederick Schodel, DDS:
Come again?

Patrick Flanagan:
One payment to me, non-negotiable. A check made right now.

Dr. Frederick Schodel, DDS:
In case no one mentioned it to you, I won that case. According to my lawyer, you have less chance of that then at appeal. So if you're gonna threaten me with that, forget it.

Patrick Flanagan:
I don't think your lawyer is taking all the facts into account.

Dr. Frederick Schodel, DDS:
What facts?

Patrick Flanagan:
Things that should become public which might ruin your reputation and practice.

Dr. Frederick Schodel, DDS:
What things?

Patrick Flanagan:
Like what happened to your practice in Philadelphia over 10 years ago.

Dr. Frederick Schodel, DDS:
I never had a practice in Philadelphia.

Patrick Flanagan:
I think you did. I think you had to pack up and leave Philadelphia just like you did in Framingham, Massachusetts a year before and Essex, New Hampshire two years before that.

Dr. Frederick Schodel, DDS:
What are you talking about? I've never been to any of those places in my life!

Patrick Flanagan:
I think you have. What do you think it would do to your reputation if it would come out that you left those places after you were caught by your co-workers molesting female patients while they were anesthetized?

Dr. Frederick Schodel, DDS:
Who told you that?

Patrick Flanagan:
[smirks] I really don't recall. It could have been... at a party, or some kind of professional function. All I will say is that I heard it and took note of it.

Patrick Flanagan:
You wanted to see me?

Leland McKenzie:
Yes, it's about the Rudolph case.

Patrick Flanagan:
I know that Arnold says I engineered the whole thing and went behind his back, but that's really not the case. He's just jealous that I thought up of the settlement before he did. This all has been a misunderstanding.

Leland McKenzie:
You know, Patrick... you always seem to have a perfectly logical answer and explanation to every question, every issue, and every accusation that is brought to you. A little too perfect, I might add. I always looked upon McKenzie Brackman as a family then a law firm. I want the people who work for me to be happy and I also want them to be honorable. However, there are some cases and clients that we will not take on. There are some things we will not do.

Patrick Flanagan:
I don't believe I did anything wrong in this case, sir. Becker just has it out for me because he thinks I upstaged him with this case over...

Leland McKenzie:
[cutting him off; firm tone] I don't want to talk about Arnold Becker. I want to talk about you. I will not tolerate lying or deception from anyone that works for me, not even from you. I am going to ask you one question this one time, and I want you to look me in the eye and tell me the truth. Your answer will stay in this office between you and me. No one else will know. If you tell me the truth, I will stand by you and help you out any way I can.

Patrick Flanagan:
All right.

Leland McKenzie:
Did you secretly meet with Mr. Rudolph and forced or intimidated him into accepting a nine million dollar settlement to be sent from him to our firm and then afterwords, under Mr. Rudolph's behalf, did you give assurances to Arnold Becker that Mr. Rudolph's daughter would not testify against him?

Patrick Flanagan:
[short pause; impassive tone] No, I did not.

[there is another pause as Leland is clearly not sure this time if Patrick is telling the truth -which he is not-; but Leland seems to accept it anyway and lets the matter drop]

Leland McKenzie:
Okay.

[Here at Becker's office, Arnie is writing something in his writing pad. But someone is opening the door, Allison Gottlieb got a surprise, it's a videocassette]

Allison Gottlieb:
Ta-da. The finished product. [Allison tossed the videocassette and giving to Arnie Becker and looked at it] What do you think?

Arnie Becker:
Nice. Very, very nice. I like the disaster credit. Arnold Becker's Guide to Divorce.

Allison Gottlieb:
They're not gonna be able to keep it on the shelves.

Arnie Becker:
Your lipsticks to God's ears.

Allison Gottlieb:
Hey, I've done a billion of these things. This one's got popped. It's gonna be a huge seller.

Arnie Becker:
You think so? [Allison kisses Arnie]

Allison Gottlieb:
It's great. You're great. I got to run.

Arnie Becker:
Allison, you're always running. Why don't you stop for a minute? And smell the daisies.

Allison Gottlieb:
My luck, I get stung by the bee.

Arnie Becker:
Dinner tonight. Celebrate.

Allison Gottlieb:
I can't, I'm working. Oh, and Dave Meyer's said to tell you that he'll send the case of those over tomorrow. [Allison is leaving, but she bumped into Victor Sifuentes]

Victor Sifuentes:
Oh!

Allison Gottlieb:
Oh! God, I'm sorry.

Victor Sifuentes:
No, no. Excuse me, I was...

Allison Gottlieb:
It's okay. [Allison laughs. Allison meets Victor]

Victor Sifuentes:
I'm Victor Sifuentes.

Allison Gottlieb:
Allison Gottlieb. Nice to meet you. [Victor sighs]

Victor Sifuentes:
Yeah, it is.

Allison Gottlieb:
I got to go. [Allison is leaving to the door exit, and Victor will find out]

Stuart Markowitz:
No, it's not a good offer. 40,000 is not good.

Abby Perkins:
It's all the client loss, Stuart. We're not getting any punitives and it's seems to me that...

Stuart Markowitz:
He's out a pocket loss was 40, Abby, that doesn't take into account loss a profit. It doesn't take into account interest. And this things on a 4 year payout schedule which means the present-day values is about 32.

Abby Perkins:
Which is still not bad considering the cost of a trial.

Stuart Markowitz:
Abby, the client doesn't bear that cost, you took it on a contingency, remember?

Abby Perkins:
Even so, Stuart, anti competition cases are tough to win. And I'm not sure we should roll the dice for wobbler.

Stuart Markowitz:
You have a strong case here, Abby, that's why the offers as good as it is. I think you can get at least 65.

Abby Perkins:
I disagree. Look, even if we win on liability, which to me is very iffy. The upside award in this is gonna be in the low 50's.

Stuart Markowitz:
I think you're wrong.

Abby Perkins:
Thank you, but that's my decision. I'm gonna recommend the client that he take it.

Stuart Markowitz:
Fine. But I gotta tell you if he ask me, I'm gonna recommend otherwise.

Abby Perkins:
Stuart, I'll talk to the client, I don't need you giving him mixed signals about this deal.

Stuart Markowitz:
Whoa. Whoa. I'm co-counsel here, Abby. I have a duty to protect Mr. Cheng's interest as well.

Abby Perkins:
I'm the one who hire you.

Stuart Markowitz:
Yeah, on the client's behalf, which means I have an affirmative obligation to...

Abby Perkins:
Well then I just removed that obligation as of this moment!

Stuart Markowitz:
I beg your pardon?

Abby Perkins:
You're fired.

Stuart Markowitz:
You're firing me?

Abby Perkins:
I'm sorry, but your services are terminated as is your obligation to speak to my client. You can send me your bill. [Abby leaves. But Stuart has been under a lot of pressure]

[Vanna White is at the office to see Douglas Brackman]

Roxanne Melman:
There's a Vanna White to see you, sir.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Ha. Ha. Very funny. Why don't the two of you go somewhere and have a vowel movement.

Vanna White:
[enters his office] That's not very funny.

Victor Sifuentes:
[Back at the LA Law firm building in the evening, Victor went to see Rosalind at her office] Cynthia Brown just fired Jimmy Hoffs, you know anything about that?

Rosalind Shays:
Yes. I advise her to discharge him. I also recommend...

Victor Sifuentes:
Where the hell do you get off going to her?

Rosalind Shays:
Don't you talk to me like that.

Victor Sifuentes:
Jimmy Hoffs build this case. He did all the leg work on this case.

Rosalind Shays:
Jimmy Hoffs was giving bad advise. And it's co counsel, it was my obligation to point that out to the client.

Victor Sifuentes:
Co counsel? You blindsided him! You blindsided me!

Rosalind Shays:
I came to you! You wouldn't listen!

Victor Sifuentes:
Oh, it's crap. Look I don't know what the hell your game is, lady, but I'm gonna tell something point-blank Senior Partner or not. I don't trust you.

Rosalind Shays:
I warned you once, don't talk to me like that!

Victor Sifuentes:
When the hell you gonna do? Fire me? Go ahead!

Rosalind Shays:
Don't think that I won't! You have something to say to me. You come into this office like a civilized human being and we will discuss it. But charge in here again, shouting at me, and I guarantee you all fire you!

[Victor is leaving the firm without Rosalind and the rest of the team. Nobody is going to stop Victor except Rosalind]

Rosalind Shays:
Is your dislike for me that strong?

Ann Kelsey:
It's getting there.

Rosalind Shays:
Well, I've done some of my best work with fellow lawyers who despise me, so we're off to a good start.

Ann Kelsey:
Fine. You want to keep this between you and me, you got a deal. I work here, you work here, and I'll respect our feelings to stay private. But get one thing straight: you don't scare me. And if you do anything to undermine me with the rest of this firm, I will bury you. Don't take you on? Don't you take me on.

[Here in the police custody, Leland McKenzie, an ex-assistant D.A. returns again to see his client Frank Osgood and having some important to make an announcement]

Frank Osgood:
When the guard said you were here, I thought he was yanking my chain.

Leland McKenzie:
Daniel Morales and I found the witness. He'll testify that he saw a Tice at the murder scene, not you. The court's reopening your case.

Frank Osgood:
I told you I was innocent.

Leland McKenzie:
I can't begin to express my regrets.

Frank Osgood:
You know how many times I've dreamed of getting close enough to use so I can? At the time it would take that guard to walked through the door. I could snapped your neck like a chicken bone.

Leland McKenzie:
You won't.

Frank Osgood:
How can you be so sure?

Leland McKenzie:
You're not a killer.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Oh, for heaven sakes. What's wrong with Benny? No bagels. No bear claws.

Arnie Becker:
No, blame L.A.'s finest who have us surrounded.

Gwen Taylor:
It's been under surveillance is no picnic, Arnie, but I'm trying to go about my daily routines, so... let's get on with business.

Douglas Brackman, Jr.:
Couldn't put it better myself. First up, everyone's favorite, innocent convict. People vs. Osgood.

Leland McKenzie:
Well the bad news is Phillip Tice who confessed to the Halliday murder, uh, recently died. On the upside, I have secured an address on a missing witness. Daniel and I plan on paying him a visit.

Daniel Morales:
Assuming the address is current.