L.A. Law1986

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.