04x12 - Je Ne Sais What?

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Grace!

Homework?

Nope.

Campaign?

I already did my homework, Mom.

I know.

How's Dad doing?

He's good.

I don't see much of him, though.

It's mostly...

What?

Nothing.

GRACE: Morning, Mom.

I have to call Eli.

Hi.

I don't need breakfast.

Too bad. You're getting it.

Sit down.

What's he doing?

I don't know.

I've given up on parenting.

How'd you sleep?

Well.

You look good.

I look...?

Yeah.

Your hair-- it's-it's cool.

ZACH: Uh, Eli Gold, please.

No, no, tell him it's important.

For those of you who don't know Jordan, he was chief of staff to Barbara Boxer and has worked on three California senatorial campaigns.

JORDAN: Hello, print journalists.

How does it feel to perpetuate a dying medium?

WOMAN: Does this mean the candidate has lost faith in you, Eli?

No. It means we're expanding.

JORDAN: Let me, uh, backstop that.

There's been absolutely no loss of confidence in Eli.

MAN: But Maddie Hayward is gaining on you in the polls.

That's just a temporary novelty bounce.

Yeah, Zach, is this important?

I think so. I was checking out the Maddie Hayward Web site, and they accidentally left a link open to internal political documents.

Okay...

It's an easy thing to do, but I got a screen grab before they closed it.

(Beeping)

Hold on.

That's our call waiting.

Oh, sure. Take your time.

That's why I'm here.

Hello? No.

Okay, hold on.

Uh, Mom, do you know an Elsbeth?

Tascioni? Is that her on the phone?

Yeah, she wants to talk to you, but I have Eli on the other line.

Zach, give me the phone.

Sorry, Eli. I have to call you back on my cell phone.

Elsbeth, hi.

Are you all right?

Uh, yes.

I just need your help on a case.

Okay. What's the case?

It's a contract enforcement arbitration for my client, Anna.

It should only take a few hours.

We've got it covered, Zach.

Don't worry.

No, Maddie Hayward is going after race-- racial bias.

There is no racial bias.

Don't worry.

It says right here that they have two ASAs working under Dad who will say that he's biased against them because they're black.

It's a bluff.

They want us to chase our tails.

I don't think so, Eli.

When did you start talking to me like I was a peer?

Sorry, Mr. Gold.

Okay, send me your screen grab, and I'll look into it.

Okay, I'm sending it now.

Yeah. Okay.

No, I'm going to come right in.

I'll see you there.

Nice having breakfast with you, too.

(Laughing)

That joke was written for me by my staff, so they appreciate your laughter.

(Laughter)

But, uh, this is no joke.

I love business.

I am not the type of feminist that hates to make a dollar.

I am a feminist that wants you to make money.

With women.

(Laughter)

And with African-Americans.

And Latinos and all minorities.

I think racial bias is an impediment to business.

(Quietly): Where the hell did that come from?

(Applause)

We need to talk about debates.

Okay. We're talking.

Four debates?

Better talk to Eli.

Eli says one.

Well, Eli speaks for me.

Nice to see you.

Yes. Say hello to Alicia.

I will.

ELI: What'd she say?

(Sighs)

The debates.

She wants four.

(Groans)

She may be coming after you about race.

Preferential hiring and promotion in the State's Attorney's Office?

Uh, let it go.

Race is a scab-- you don't pick at it.

We think she has a couple of ASAs who are... gonna go public.

Public about what?

And who's "we"?

Zach.

He found an open link on Maddie's Web site to some confidential memos.

Who's Zach?

Your son.

Yeah.

So talk to the ASAs.

See if anyone's disgruntled.

Just let it go.

Let me think about it.

Hi. Elsbeth Tascioni.

Elsbeth?

Alicia! In here. Hi!

(Quietly): Oh, boy.

ELSBETH: I was trying to question

Simon Fassel, the defendant in this arbitration.

He was giving a Q and A after a speech, and he had me arrested.

I've never been arrested in my life.

And then I turned around.

This is nice.

What is this?

Tahari, I think.

So you want me to cover for a case for you.

Is that it?

Yes, yes.

This defendant, Fassel, is the CEO of Erobos, the running shoe company.

Do you know it?

Well, they reneged on an endorsement contract for $5 million with my client, and the contract enforcement arbitration is in two hours, and I won't be out in time.

And what time is your bond hearing today?

Not until 2:00, so if you could just cover for me, that would be great.

Hi, Judy.

Meet Alicia.

Hi.

WILL: This is in Skokie?

ALICIA: Yes, on a Friday.

They don't do bond hearings on the weekend.

Get her a transport to downtown in the next 20 minutes or she won't get a hearing until Monday.

So, I have to ask a favor, Will.

Can you handle a contract arbitration in an hour?

No, I've got a deposition.

Can someone else there handle it?

It's Elsbeth Tascioni.

It's Elsbeth?

That's the lawyer you're with?

Yes.

Miss Buday?

Hello.

I know you were expecting your lawyer, Elsbeth Tascioni.

I'm her friend, Will Gardner.

She asked me to take the arbitration today.

What happened?

She was arrested for harassing Simon Fassel, the CEO.

Oh, my gosh.

So she's not coming?

Just for today.

I'll ask for a continuance, but don't worry.

Your endorsement contract is ironclad.

This is just a formality.

Now, you won two silver medals.

They can't argue nonperformance.

If I can't get the continuance, I'll handle today's evidence and Elsbeth will take over on Monday, okay?

You got her arrested?

Don't answer that, Simon.

I'll meet you inside.

Is this your new lawyer?

Temporarily.

I'm Will Gardner.

Morgan Croft.

Sorry to lose Elsbeth as an opponent.

She was very entertaining.

Can you b*at them?

Yes.

The Erobos team sh*t that commercial last December.

Is that correct, Anna?

Yes.

Were you ever paid for it?

No.

It was also never shown.

Payment was not dependent on distribution, was it, Anna?

No.

Sir, very simply, Erobos owes my client $5 million, and we understand they've overextended themselves with endorsement contracts, but there's no reason my client...

Actually, sir, the company has always reserved the right to void any endorsement contract.

Yes, with cause.

Erobos has shown no such cause.

That's true, sir.

We haven't-- until now.

The contract may be voided if the athlete is banned from a race due to doping.

What? - Ann Buday has been banned from Monday's world team trials.

I have not.

I have here an AADL release of their findings last night.

Anna has been accused of using dexitetrasolone and has been banned from Monday's...

I have never doped.

My parents would k*ll me before they'd let me dope.

The AADL disagrees, and if Anna misses her race on Monday due to this ban, her contract is voided.

You need to get me Elsbeth.

This was all a setup.

No.

Yes.

I can't get a bond hearing until Monday, and Anna has to appeal the AADL decision this weekend in order to run on Monday.

They knew this was gonna happen.

Well, Will is gonna take the appeal...

I like Will.

I-I do, too.

How is he?

Good. He's good.

I was sad when he was suspended.

I was, too.

He's gonna take the appeal to the, um...

CAS--

Court of Arbitration for Sports.

Tell Will that the CAS doesn't run like an American court, okay?

It has a whole set of rules based on Swiss law.

Okay, and I'm gonna work on getting you transported downtown for a weekend bond hearing.

Good, and I'll do what?

You're gonna sit tight.

We're on it.





You know what the lesson is here?

Don't get arrested in the suburbs.

Not on a Thursday night.

Unfortunately, we need a little relief now, Your Honor.

I can't help you on the arrest.

Oh, no, it's not that.

We just need to get my client transferred so we can get a bail hearing here on the weekend.

Otherwise she's stuck in the suburbs till Monday.

Skokie won't transfer her?

She missed the last transport.

Please, Your Honor?

How's Peter doing?

Good. Well.

I bet you that bitch is nipping at his heels, huh?

Yes.

Hey, John.

It's Tommy, upriver.

How you doing?

Listen, you've got an arrestee there by the name of...

Elsbeth Tascioni.

...Elsbeth Tascioni?

Yeah, listen, uh, get another transport to drag her ass up here, okay?

Yeah, it's nothing big.

(Chuckles)

What?

No, no, no, no, okay.

You do what you got to do.

All right.

Thank you. Bye.

Is your client erratic?

My... Why?

He says this Elsbeth has, uh, been demonstrating some erratic behavior, and they have to do a psych evaluation before they can transport her.

Liability.

Well, I can Tr*mp a lot of things, but I can't Tr*mp insurance issues, so you tell your client to pass her psych eval and I'll get her up here.

We think we can get Elsbeth out in a few hours, but I'll have to take this for now.

They're going to do the hearing here?

It's the only place the arbitrators could find on such short notice.

It's a three-judge panel like any other appeals hearing.

We'll be fine.

Le Tribunal Arbitral du Sport est en session.

Je m'appelle Antoine Villapique.

Je serai le président du comité.

Il y aura trois membres du comité, À moins qu'il y ait une objection.

Monsieur Plunkett?

Je n'ai aucune objection.

Et bienvenue à nouveau aux Etats-Unis, monsieur le président.

VILLAPIQUE: Merci.

Ça me fait plaisir de te revoir.

What the hell? It's in French?

I don't know.

This is my first.

À ma droite, Alberto Ciccone de l'Italie.

Et à ma gauche, Karl Heinrich de l'Allemagne...

Excuse me, Your Honor.

Yes?

I apologize for interrupting.

I don't speak French.

You... don't?

No, I'm sorry. This is... all new to me.

Je n'ai aucun problème à conduire cette procédure en anglais.

Monsieur Plunkett? - Bien sûr.

Une autre victime de notre système éducatif américain.

(Laughter)

VILLAPIQUE: Mr. Plunkett from the American Anti-Doping League has agreed to let us conduct this panel entirely in English for your benefit, Mr....

Gardner, Will Gardner, from good old U.S. of A.

Good to know.

(Speaks French)

Good, so we're set to begin.

Please proceed, Mr. Gardner.

Excuse me?

Please proceed.

With?

Your defense.

What is the charge?

There is no charge.

Miss Anna Buday has been banned from Monday's race due to her use of boosters, dexitetrasolone.

If you have no defense, there is no reason for a hearing.

Yes, but Anna has passed every drug test, including the one last week for Monday's race, Your Honor.

Technically, she did pass her drug test, monsieur le président, but afterward, the tester found ghosting.

Her B-sample had the same marker ratios as the Notorious Six.

Notorious six?

Six runners banned from Monday's race for using boosters, designer dr*gs.

In fact, the tester found a surge of ICSH, interstitial cell stimulator, the fingerprint for booster use.

(Panel conversing in French)

Uh, I-I need...

I'm sorry. Excuse me, all right?

Objection.

There's no objection here, Mr. Gardner.

This is not Law & Order.

(Laughter)

Yeah. Thank you.

How do I express my displeasure with something that has transpired, monsieur le...

You may speak it to me.

Well, given that we've established I flunked out of French, uh, it seems unfair to conduct in a colloquy in a language unknown to the defendant.

Appellant.

Merci, monsieur.

VILLAPIQUE: Your point is well-taken, Mr. Gardner.

And Mr. Plunkett referred to a witness who saw a courier carry dr*gs to Anna Buday at the Olympics.

Here is the affidavit.

Well, then we call this witness to the stand--

Chenise Jayes.

There is no stand, Mr. Gardner.

Well, to the chair in the middle of the room.

(Panel conversing in French)

Excuse me, Your Honors...

Uh, I mean, uh, uh, messieurs, uh, le présidents...

We are debating whether to grant you your request to question your witness.

Grant my request?

No.

Oui.

By a two to one margin, we grant your request.

We shall suspend this panel until we contact the witness.

(Gavel bangs)

I'm gonna need to get some help here.

I'll be right back.

(Sighing)

(Cell phone ringing)

Will, how'd the deposition go?

What?

Yes, how's your French?

"Elle était fort déshabillée "Et de grands arbres indiscrets "Aux vitres jetaient leur "feuillée Malinement, tout près, tout près."

Good.

I need you at a sports hearing.

Oh, ha, ha, ha.

Thank you. I have a massage in two hours.

Diane, I need your help.

This CAS panel-- that's the Court of Arbitration for Sport-- they're talking in French.

What is this again?

It's something for a friend.

I need your help, Diane.

Will, it's the weekend.

Another time.

It's Elsbeth Tascioni.

Where?

You are one of the most brilliant lawyers I have ever met.

Aw. Really?

But that's not going to help you.

You need to pass your psych eval.

Okay. How?

They're gonna ask you 120 questions, and they are going to pause for a long time between each question to encourage you to talk.

And I'm not supposed to talk?

No, you are, but just not as much as you normally would.

Do I talk too much?

No. I just think it's best to be... circumspect.

Okay.

So they'll ask you questions like, "Do you resent being given advice?"

Oh, well, what advice?

Just... any advice.

Okay. But...

Of course not.

I like getting advice.

Is that bad? Does that make me seem noncommittal?

No. That's fine.

Just don't worry about it afterward.

Like I just did?

Right.

Okay. Give me another one.

Um... um... do you like to stay active, and are you bored really easily?

No.

I mean...

I like to stay active, but I don't really get bored.

That's a tough one, because it's a compound question.

But I guess that's the point.

Huh. (Clicks tongue)

They want my mind to chase down the two tracks.

Yes, that's why they ask them that way.

So, it is best just to... let the silence rest.

Okay?

Okay?

Oh. (Laughs)

Good. Exactly.

Good. Very good.

Thanks for doing this, Geneva.

For doing what?

Talking with me, helping me.

Can I get you anything?

Water? Soda?

No. Thanks.

(Clears his throat)

So, how am I doing?

How are you doing?

Yeah, you know, promotions, reductions, fostering limited funds, managing the office.

That kind of thing.

Fine.

Uh-huh. Good.

And do you find any, uh, bias in how I'm handling things?

Well, I know. I know.

You're in my office, and I'm asking you whether I'm doing a good job.

It puts you in a very uncomfortable position, I know.

But let me just say this.

I need to self-evaluate.

There will be no repercussions one way or another-- none-- so... how am I doing on racial bias?

You're asking about racial bias in the office?

Yes.

And you want me to speak honestly?

Yes, and with no repercussions.

You're racially biased.

I am?

Well, what do you mean by that?

You have fired five African-Americans and promoted two Caucasians.

That's racially biased.

Well, that's strictly coincidence.

You're right.

Thank you.

Oh, wait.

Wait. Geneva, I'm sorry.

Let's start over.

Tell me.

(Laughs)

Cary Agos was not ready to be promoted to deputy.

Matan Brody was.

I was.

Together, we had two decades more experience, but you promoted Cary because you liked him.

You fired Wendy Scott-Carr.

You demoted Dana Lodge.

Wait a minute.

There might have been reasons.

There are always reasons.

But you didn't listen to their reasons for staying.

It's about who you listen to.

That's the key.

Well, let's say that you're right.

What should I do?

Rethink.

Review all promotions.

Return hiring to a pure meritocracy.

And you rejected the request to speak at the Minority Rights Coalition last week?

It was considered a slap in the face.

So the Minority Rights Coalition is offended?

Yes.

Your opponent is going.

I would talk to them.

You're a good talker.

Talk to them.

WOMAN: Chenise Jayes.

I'm an anchor on the 400-meter U.S. relay team, and Anna's roommate.

VILLAPIQUE: This isn't necessary, Mr. Gardner.

We know who she is.

Of course.

Thank you, Your...

Uh, monsieur... le président.

So, you claimed you saw a man giving my client, Anna Buday, dr*gs.

Could you describe what you saw?

Yeah. It was the night before we left for London, and this Asian guy in a Cubs cap shows up around 2:00 in the morning.

And he was talking all hush-hush, and handed her a bottle of pills, and then Anna went into the bathroom.

Did you see the pills?

Uh-uh, I was over on the couch.

Oh, couldn't they have been vitamins or aspirin?

We had all that stuff in our room.

So you didn't know this guy?

You'd never seen him before?

I didn't know him at the time, but now I do.

You do?

Yeah.

It was Nelson Kimora, one of the Notorious Six.

(Panel conversing in French)

Excuse me.

Yes.

We are not stumbling our way through anything.

And we ask that you show our defense its due respect.

My apologies, madam.

We have come here not to be prejudged, and we ask nothing other than you listen to us with an open mind.

Uh, what is the quote?

"Ceux qui sont libérés de préjugés ordinaires peuvent acquérir les autres."

Prejudices have no place here.

Yes, you are right.

My personal apology.

Ask for something.

Like what?

I don't know.

Something.

Uh, and, uh, we ask the panel for a brief recess until tomorrow.

We are looking at an arrière-pensée for this persecution.

PLUNKETT: I believe the defendant has already been allowed an extended break.

Appellant.

VILLAPIQUE: I believe this panel can allow the appellants time to prepare for their... attaque au fer.

Merci, monsieur.

WILL: Okay, all those years

I disparaged French as a pointless class-- I take them back.

Nice job.

Anna, who is this guy who visited you-- Nelson Kimora?

Someone on the team, a sprinter.

Did he bring you these dr*gs?

No.

Did he bring you anything?

But he meant something to you.

I mean, who is he?

My boyfriend... before the Olympics.

We're not together now.

So he was your boyfriend, but he didn't bring you dr*gs?

That's correct.

Anna, if you don't tell us the truth, we can't help you.

I am telling the truth.

There were no dr*gs.

Nothing happened.

ALICIA: And you don't believe her?

DIANE: She's, uh, hiding something.

We don't know what.

Maybe just her boyfriend's drug use.

Or maybe she's hiding the dr*gs for him.

Well, I don't know, but we can't defend her unless she tells us.

Could you check with Elsbeth?

She knows Anna more than we do.

I already did, but she's in a psych evaluation right now.

Well, when she's done, would you ask her again?

We need some help with Anna here.

We only have one more day left.

Okay.

I will, and, Diane, thanks for doing this.

Hey, it's just the weekend.

MAN: Do you feel guilty about drinking or using chemicals?

I don't feel guilty about drinking, which I do do...

Do do?

But I don't use chemicals, which, I imagine you mean chemical stimulants, so it would be impossible to feel guilty about that.

(Laughing)

Why did you laugh, Ms. Tascioni?

No reason.

Just... your pause seemed funny.

Why?

No reason.

Well, there must be some reason.

No. Just the oddity of human behavior.

What do you mean, the oddity?

What do I mean?

The...

Yes, Ms. Tascioni?

She was pregnant.

Excuse me?

(Gasps)

ICSH is the male equivalent of LH.

Luteinizing hormone, a pregnancy-related hormone.

Ms. Tascioni... - That's why the unexplained hormonal surge.

It wasn't drug use.

She was pregnant.

Do you mind? - But that was ten months ago-- the Olympics.

She doesn't have...

I know. I know. Wait.

The pills her boyfriend brought her.

What if it wasn't boosters?

What if it was mifepristone?

And that's why she doesn't want to tell us.

You have to go talk to her, tell her she has to tell the truth.

Okay.

(Sighs)

What was the question again?

You have to tell them.

That I had an abortion?

No.

No, I can't.

Anna, you didn't dope.

You terminated a pregnancy.

You need to tell them.

I can't.

DIANE: Your family?

My parents, my-my sister.

WILL: They'll understand.

It's worse that you were doping.

No.

It's not worse.

Not to my family, not to me.

I wanted to medal.

I was pregnant, and I wanted to medal.

Here's the problem, Anna.

We can defend you with the truth.

If you tell the truth, you will get your $5 million contract, and you will run on Monday.

If you don't, you will lose both.

Then I'll lose both.

I can't break their hearts in this, Will.

So what do we do?

You need to help me win this.

With a lie?

If that's what it takes.

Hi. Um, how's it going?

No, no, no, no, no, no, I...

I was just checking in.

Oh, thanks.

So, what are you doing?

Trying to get a lawyer out of lockup. What about you?

I'm, uh, watching Eli and Jordan argue over whether I should go to the Minority Rights Coalition today.

What did you say you were doing?

A lawyer friend of mine got arrested in Skokie, and she missed the transport to her bail hearing.

That's not good.

Why don't you have the presiding judge transport her downtown?

I tried that.

The lawyer failed her psych eval.

Mmm. Liability.

You want me to make a call?

Could you?

Yeah. What's the lawyer's name?

You know her. Elsbeth Tascioni.

Ah.

What?

She was the lawyer on my retrial.

It's gonna look like a political favor.

Not a personal one.

Right. Um... look, let me think about it.

No, no.

Peter, that is not why I called.

Why did you call?

Uh... I was just checking in.

Oh. Then why don't you... come visit me at the campaign bus?

We're at Morgan Park, and then maybe we'll get a bite to eat.

If I get a break, I will.

Good. And one thing you might try with Elsbeth-- question the arrest itself.

Make it a constitutional issue, and that way, the presiding judge will have to transport her.

Good. Thanks.

All right. See you.

DIANE: Thank you for answering our questions, Mr. Chesterfield.

Dr. Chesterfield.

Ah.

C'est ma faute.

I'm sorry. I don't speak French.

Ah.

My mistake.

So, you are the chemist who tested Anna Buday's B-sample?

I'm lead analyst at Edgar Labs.

We test and interpret samples for all U.S. athletes.

So that's a yes?

Yes.

And you are familiar with the booster scandal, docteur?

Yes, I'm the one who discovered it.

And the new compound, dexitetrasolone.

Uh-huh.

And after you discovered it, did you test this... substance?

No.

We're still waiting on subpoenas of private labs in China who manufacture it.

DIANE: I see, so... you have never seen this mysterious substance.

You have never held it, never tested it.

So how can you be positive it even exists? - I don't need the actual drug to know that it's real, ma'am.

Think of contrails from an airplane-- they don't just appear; Something had to make them.

So how do you prove definitely that Anna used this compound when she denies it?

Does she have contrails?

PLUNKETT: If we are to argue in metaphors, gentlemen, then contrails are enough.

They were enough with Lance Armstrong.

I'm sorry.

Is it your turn to argue?

This isn't about arguments.

These Chicago lawyers continue to think that this is an adversarial proceeding.

Oh, our mistake. I guess we should all just agree Anna is guilty.

VILLAPIQUE: This is not an American court, Mr. Gardner.

There's no need to be at each other's throat.

Uh, this is not Rambo.

Les règles de LAAD n'exigent pas la preuve définitive.

The rules don't require actual proof to keep her from running on Monday.

We have to find another way.

Hi.

Hi.

What do you need?

Will and Diane are running into a dead end at the CAS and have asked me to review your trial notes.

These.

Diane? Diane's on it, too?

Yeah.

She's so elegant.

Yeah. Um... what does that say?

That's background on Dr. Chesterfield.

What happened with him?

Contrails.

(Sighs)

Yeah.

He loves his contrails.

The problem with doping charges is the burden of proof is reversed-- you have to prove you're innocent.

What?

Where's Alicia?

She's trying to get you a trial downtown, but what is it you were about to say?

Me?

Yeah.

Oh, yes.

Tell Will and Diane they have to att*ck the three pillars.

The three...

Pillars.

It's the way they substantiate doping charges--

Pillar one: Analysis.

I guess we lost on that one.

What are the other two?

Uh, I-I don't know.

No, I'm asking myself.

Oh.

Co... confidentiality.

And, uh... chain of custody.

Chain of custody?

Yes. Like a three-legged stool, you knock that out, the CAS falls over.

(Chuckles)

Okay. Thanks.

You know what?

What?

I hate depending on other people.

(Chuckles)

Me, too.

Look, I'll be back.

(Door opens)

Oh, looks like your transport downtown has arrived.

(Gasps)

Yay!

PETER: Now, we all know that I have made mistakes, but I want to learn.

That's why I'm here speaking to you, the Minority Rights Coalition.

MADDIE: Three debates?

You do the voters a disservice if you give them anything less.

Oh, yes, that's what this is all about, doing the voters a service.

We'll consider three.

We will not. Two.

You give us two town halls, we will consider three.

This is not an official negotiation.

Why not, Eli?

What's wrong with three?

Maddie, send your representatives over to me...

I do things myself.

Write my own speeches, spend my own money.

Why don't we just shake right now on three?

No. Not right now.

(Audience clamoring)

My office... prosecutes more African-Americans than any other group, and I want to know why.

(Audience jeering)

President Obama... promised a discussion on race in this country.

We've never had it.

I'm not the type that likes to point fingers, Eli, but... you should listen to me more.

I know what I'm doing.

ALICIA: No, court's at 9:00 tomorrow.

I should have her out by noon.

Okay, got to go.

Did... you have a break?

Yeah.

You all right?

Yeah. It was a... just a bad speech.

You have time for a bite?

Sure.

♪ Non, rien de rien ♪
♪ Non, je ne regrette rien... ♪

(Knocking)

ELI (Outside): Come on, Peter.

It's not as bad as you think.

ELI: Come on! Peter, let's talk!

I need a minute!

Just a minute?

(Whispers): A campaign minute.

♪ Ca commence avec toi. ♪

(Grunting, clattering)

(Sighs)

Okay.

I've got to get going.

What?

Nothing.

So, uh... do I have to ask how we're doing?

No.

Okay.

So we're just... where we are.

Do you want us to be somewhere else?

Oh, no, no, just... just checking.

Okay.

I'll talk to you later.

You want some water?

Sure.

Oh. Don't worry.

Just the wife.

ALICIA: That is not true, Your Honor.

This is a constitutional matter.

No, it is a stupid matter.

Would one of you take a break from your scrimmage and please fill me in?

Ms. Tascioni was arrested for harassing Mr. Fassel, CEO of Erobos Sports and a defendant...

He was speaking at Braddock University and invited questions.

Yes, which would've been fine, except she followed him out to his car.

What is the constitutional matter here?

ALICIA: The campus police who arrested Ms. Tascioni did so illegally by leaving their area of jurisdiction.

That's why we're here on a Sunday?

As you can see from this map, Your Honor, the campus police arrested Ms. Tascioni beside Mr. Fassel's car here in Parking Garage C.

Which is a part of the university grounds.

No, it is adjacent to the university, but it is owned by the Illinois Trust & Loan Bank here.

(Whispers): Fassel's lawyer.

Okay. Your Honor, if we're sinking to this level of ludicrousity...

"Ludicrousity"?

Braddock University leases the garage from Illinois Trust, and is thus entrusted to patrol it.

Not the second and third floor.

How do you know that?

I don't know how I know half the things I know.

POLITI: Mrs. Florrick?

Yes, Your Honor.

The university does not lease the second and third floors.

It only leases the...

First and the fourth.

...the first and the fourth floors.

The second and third floors are for bank customer parking only.

Ms. Tascioni was arrested on...

The third floor stairwell.

...in the third floor stairwell.

Okay, here's how we're doing things.

The four of you get all of your whispering out of the way.

Go and discuss everything you want to discuss outside the court.

Come back in here in 20 minutes with your best arguments.

And Ms. Pine?

I have to say this.

I'm inclined to toss this arrest, 'cause I, too, think it's stupid.

So, Anna Buday gave a urine sample on the 20th of July 2012 at 7:00 a.m.?

Yes, that's what my intake form states.

Good.

And that was the sample that led you to conclude that Anna had a contrail, oui?

Well, that she had a burst of ICSH.

Similar to the Notorious Six.

Ah. No more metaphors.

Good.

And when did the technician give the sample to your designated shipping company?

I don't know.

Well, hopefully this will refresh your memory.

It is a receipt for the shipping of the sample.

Can you see the time and the date there?

Would you read it?

July 21, 5:18 p.m.

Rule 44G, subpart M of the AADL code states, "All samples shall be shipped "via approved courier on the same day that they are collected."

I am aware of the code.

"Any unexplained delay in shipping "will constitute a break "in the chain of custody, and the test must be discarded."

Occasionally, a technician is unable to mail the sample on the same day, usually because the courier is closed.

There's no violation as long as the sample remains in our facility.

You're right.

That is why we, um...

Merci, mademoiselle.

That is why we checked the log at your testing facility.

It was closed.

It could not have remained in your facility.

It must have remained with this technician.

PLUNKETT: Objection.

This is a respect of form over substance.

I thought there were no objections.

PLUNKETT: There is no scientific way the delay in delivering the sample could create a false positive.

One moment, please.

(Speaking French)

Judge Villapique says the sample should still be allowed.

Why?

The delay was a technicality.

DIANE: The Italian judge is for us.

The German is against us, but not as strongly.

(Speaking French)

Villapique says this is what comes from these Rambo tactics.

What is it with him and Rambo?

Does anybody even watch Rambo anymore?

(Speaking French)

DIANE: He is suggesting a 30-minute recess to discuss this further.

We need to flip the German.

Where's Tascioni?

Here we are again.

With your argument this time, Ms. Pine.

While the State continues to maintain the campus police's jurisdiction included the parking garage-- all levels of said garage-- their arrest on the third floor also qualifies for the hot pursuit exemption.

Your Honor, please, if I may borrow the ASA's word "ludicrousity..."

POLITI: You may not.

I'm banning that word.

ALICIA: Um...

POLITI: Mrs. Florrick...

The hot pursuit doctrine applies only in emergency situations when the officer doesn't have time to alert another jurisdiction.

Neither of these elements existed here.

GENEVA: The defendant threatened a guest lecturer at the university.

He fled, she followed him, verbally assaulting the victim while he was trying to get to his car.

Okay, okay.

Thank you, everyone.

I think we're gonna make history here today, spending more time on less.

And yet, I have come to my decision.

Afterward, you can all appeal to the Supreme Court.

He's gonna rule against us.

POLITI: It was a legal arrest.

The campus police-- loath as I am to give them any kind of a win-- did step out of their jurisdiction, but with cause.

And on that note...

Your Honor, we request that you allow Ms. Tascioni to be taken to bond court currently in session down the hall.

GENEVA: No, Your Honor.

Respectfully, this court lacks the authority to overrule a Skokie psychologist's determination on her mental state.

Your Honor, it was in Skokie that they determined that my client was too risky for transport, yet here she is.

If you rule against her, they will take her back to Skokie and then drive her back here again on Monday.

This is bureaucratic insanity.

And yet, it's the law.

What is even more insane is this emergency hearing, which was just deployed to get the defendant here in the first place.

Your Honor, all we are asking is that you allow my client to walk down the hall. - We request that Ms. Florrick be sanctioned.

Oh, my God.

(Gavel slams)

Stop it. Seriously, stop.

Please, go find some criminals to prosecute and defend.

Jim, please escort the defendant down to bond court so she can post bail.

GENEVA: Your Honor, that is not...

Come on, Ms. Pine.

When the law is an ass, someone has to kick it.

(Squeals, laughs)

POLITI: You can do all your crying and hugging down the hall.

Get her out of here.

Thank you all for the fervor and passion you brought to our proceedings.

It has been quite dramatic.

We have considered your arguments, pro and con, and we have decided against your chain of custody concern.

You've decided?

It's in your own rule book.

You can't just decide.

Yes, it's in our discretion to apply the guidelines as we see fit, depending on the unique set of facts.

The ruling stands.

So, they're guidelines now?

(Speaking French)

ELSBET I'm coming!

Hi!

I'm here!

I'm here.

Hello?

I'm coming.

Sorry.

(Laughs)

I was delayed.

Uh, pardonnez-moi, messieurs.

Pouvez vous nous conférer un instant?

We are ready, Your Honor.

We have a new lawyer joining us.

Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. Okay.

Sorry.

Je tiens à appeler un autre témoin, messieurs.

We're conducting this in English, Elsbeth.

Ah, well, yes.

Will! Hey.

Oh, thank you.

And Diane.

...what an elegant dress.

(Laughs) Thank you.

Uh, I've just been really moved by you guys doing this...

Excuse me.

We have a hearing.

Ah, yes.

(Giggles)

Hi. I'm Elsbeth Tascioni, and I am late because I was under arrest.

But I have one more witness: Dedrick Klein.

Mr. Klein, the cyclist?

Why is he here?

To speak regarding the CAS rule application.

I don't think we need this witness.

Pourquoi?

Pourquoi ne pouvons-nous pas entendre Klein?

(Conversation continues in French)

Uh, uh, uh, gentlemen?

Gentlemen, please, please.

We ask for a consensus.

Par un vote à main levée.

ELSBETH: Judge Villapique, you're outvoted two to one.

Thanks for coming, Mr. Klein.

Welcome.

Two years ago, you were accused of using banned substances and suspended from cycling.

Did you appeal like Anna?

Yes.

My arbitration was in Lausanne.

And can you tell us what happened?

Yes.

There was no evidence, but the panel confirmed my guilt, two to one.

Judge Villapique convinced the Egyptian judges, which is wrong.

Excuse me.

This is not relevant.

So, Judge Villapique was on your panel?

KLEIN: Yes.

VILLAPIQUE: I think Mr. Plunkett makes a very good observation.

The relevance has not been established.

Uh, you were the one?

The witness is excused.

You pushed our cyclist out?

Mr. Klein's arbitration was confidential.

ELSBETH: Except if the athlete chose to waive confidentiality, which Mr. Klein just did.

She's correct.

ELSBETH: Mr. Klein, who convinced the Egyptian judge to vote against you?

Judge Villapique.

And when you were stripped of your title, who was the runner-up?

Xavier Lanier.

Xavier Lanier, who is French?

KLEIN: Yes.

This has nothing to do with it.

I'm appalled by the insinuation.

Antoine, you should have recused yourself.

He cheated.

He didn't deserve that medal.

(Speaking French)

(Panel arguing in French)

I just realized... you're Rambo.

PETER: President Obama promised a discussion on race in this country.

Well, now, why would I want to hear that?

Because it went viral.

Because people are calling you brave, standing up to special interests.

Let's wait till the polls come out tomorrow.

Yeah, let's wait.

The polls will prove what the editorials are saying.

This is your Sister Souljah moment.

ELI: You spoke truth to minority interests, so when those two ASAs go public, they'll be seen as sour grapes.

You inoculated yourself.

Yeah, that's some win.

Winning by pissing off minorities.

Here's a thing that some people just never learn.

We are not teaching a fifth-grade ethics class.

We're here to win.

Win pretty, win ugly-- it's still winning.

(Door opens and closes)

Go easier on him, Eli.

Why?

Because we need him.

Why?

Do you want to get into this now?

I want to know why we need him.

Are you being investigated?

Then you know why.

ELSBETH: To my friends.

Thank you for getting me out of the suburbs.

WILL: No need to thank us.

Especially once you see the bill.

(Diane laughs)

Eli.

What are you doing?

Nothing.

Okay.

What are you doing?

You know I'm being investigated?

Yes.

And you know I'm being edged out of the campaign?

No, I didn't know that.

And you guys can't represent me because you're being investigated.

Yes, I had heard that.

I need a lawyer to represent me.

Ms. Tascioni?

Got a minute?

Sure.