04x21 - Outward Bound

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Previously on "L.A. Law"...

I'm seeking to reinstate my position as senior partner.

A new vote will be scheduled for this Friday.

To unseat the senior partner against her will,

you need two
-thirds,

which means all she needs is two lousy votes.

I don't like sitting up there high and mighty.


-So what are you saying?
-I'm saying that

my days on the bench are numbered.

We could remain cautious and back away from each other.

You think that would be a good idea?

I think relationships change.

LELAND: McKenzie Brackman Cheney Kuzak and Becker.

And that's something.

I'm asking you now.

Don't you let that get away.

Is there anybody that wants to see me remain

as senior partner?

I resign.

Will you...

marry me?

Yes.

You will?

Yes, I will.

[cheering]

Great show. Great show!

Careful with the costumes,

we've got one more tomorrow night.

There's no smoking back here, Barry,

please put that out.

Munchkins!

Paul, get me all the Munchkins in room two right away.

Oh, Benny. Oh, you were sensational.


-Did it feel right?
-Yeah.

'Cause it looked right. I'm telling you, you were terrific.


-Lullaby League, too?
-Yes. I want all the Munchkins in that room now, please!

Oh, Cindy, great melt job. Just perfect.

Have you seen Alice?

Uh, yeah, I saw her go in wardrobe.


-GIRL: Excuse me.
-Flying monkeys,

watch your wings, would you, please?

Backstage call for stage
-
-

WOMAN: ...is :.

BENNY: Hey.

What are you doing?

Nothing.

BENNY: I saw ya.

You were kissin' Scarecrow.

♪♪ [theme]

♪♪

Ouch.


-Hold still.
-I am.

[knocking]

Hello, hello.

School express ready to go.

Hi, Sara. Okay, Chloe.


-Hi, Arnie.
-Hi.


-There you are.
-ARNIE: Kisses? Kisses.

Bye
-bye.

I'll pick you up at Stephanie's.


-Okay.
-Okay.


-SARA: Bye.
-Bye.

Want some more coffee?

Yeah.

You and I have to talk about something, Arnie.


-Really?
-Yep.

In case you haven't noticed,

Chloe's getting kind of attached to you.

That's good, right?

Well, it depends.

I've got to know where we're headed.

Well, I can tell you

I've never been as happy with anyone as I am with you.

So... does that mean you're in it for keeps?

I don't know. Think so.

But you're not sure.

Hey, I might never be sure.

[sighs]

So, where does that leave me?

Do you want to move in together?


-Arnie
-
-
-Let's do it.

I don't want to play house.

I want to get married.

Will Rosalind be joining us?

Uh, no, no, she won't.

As a matter of fact,

Rosalind has asked me to inform you all that

she will be leaving at the end of the week.

Is she taking all those clients with her?

LELAND: Yes.

So, Benny, how's the show going?

Good.

You shopping for an agent yet?

No.

What's with him?

Can we get started?

DOUGLAS: Cavanaugh vs. Smythe.

We go today. It's gonna be a tough one.

I'm surprised you're even taking it to trial.

Well, outing makes some people pretty mad, Arnie,

particularly the outee.


-What is outing?
-KUZAK: There are some gay activists,

like the defendant, who believe 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 are gay.


-Sounds nasty.
-Yeah, well, the defendant has

freedom of the press on his side.

What was published was true, so it's not libel.

It's probably not invasion of privacy, either,

since my guy was a public figure.

Which is why he was outed in the first place.


-KUZAK: Right.
-Well, when a couple of queens

get mad at each other, look out.

KUZAK: These are not queens, Douglas.

One is a cop, the other is a journalist.

They are both gay,

but they're not queens.


-Mr. Becker.
-Yeah?

I'm sorry to interrupt but Lee Stecker's on the phone,

wants to know if she can come in at three.


-ARNIE: Yeah, sure.
-Okay.


-Who is...
-Oh.

Roxanne's working half days this week.

She needs some more time to tend to her father,

so, uh... Gwen is filling in for her.


-Gwen.
-Is there anything else we need to cover?

Actually, that's it.

KUZAK: Uh, just a second.

It's no secret that

I have been interviewing with a Wall Street firm.

I've decided to go back to New York.

My father has cancer,

and the doctor's given him a year or so to live.

I'd like to give him a year or so myself.

I'm sorry.

[knocking]

I can only assume you've thought this through.

I'm sorry, Leland. I hate to bail on you.

But I have to do this.

Will you come back?

I don't know.

How soon will you be leaving?

Just as soon as we can find someone to take my place.

I'm late, I
-
- I have to be in court now.

♪♪

Why did you quit the police department, Mr. Cavanaugh?

CAVANAUGH: It was impossible to do my job.

once my fellow officers found out I was gay.

KUZAK: How'd they find out?

He printed it in his magazine,

and the word spread.

Now, you had gotten quite a bit of publicity

up to that point, hadn't you?


-Yes, sir.
-KUZAK: Why was that?

I had been involved in a hostage situation

where I disarmed an individual

who was holding his family at gunpoint.

It got a lot of attention.

So, you weren't just a cop, you were a hero cop.

Once Mr. Smythe's article outed me,

to the men I worked with, I was just a q*eer.

But what he wrote about you was true, was it not?

What he wrote about me was my business,

and nobody else's.

What, specifically, were the consequences?

Well, they'd write f*gg*t on my locker,

no one would eat with me, hang around with me.

No one wanted to ride with me, either.

KUZAK: Why didn't you sue the police department?

My grandfather was a cop, my father was a cop.

Two of my brothers are still cops.

I don't blame cops for this, they are the way they are.

I blame him.

Well, he'll say that you were a public figure,

that he was entitled to write whatever he wanted to about you

as long as it was true.

I never set out to be a public figure, sir.

All I ever wanted to be was a cop.

KUZAK: Thank you. I have nothing further.

When did you first realize that you were gay, sir?

I was years old.

CUMMINGS: And you concealed that from the police department?


-Yes.
-CUMMINGS: You pretended to be straight.

For me, that was a matter of accepting reality.


-In other words, you lied.
-KUZAK: Objection.

The plaintiff claims that he was harmed by the truth, your honor.

I'm attempting to show that years of living a lie


-caused far more harm.
-The objection is overruled.

You think what he did made it better for me?

I think it's better to fight than to lie.

Hey, I'll pick my own battles.

Do you believe that gay people are discriminated against?

CAVANAUGH: Yes.

Do you believe that the courts have failed to protect their rights?


-Mm
-hm.
-CUMMINGS: That the police

have failed to protect their lives?

I believe all of that.

Do you make room for the possibility that one reason

the discrimination against gay people continues to exist

is because gay people refuse to stand up and be counted?

I believe that what a person does

is his or her own business.

It's not the government's, It's not their boss's,

and it's not his.

I became a cop to protect people,

and because of him, I can't be a cop anymore.

Now, there are plenty of gay people

who choose to live the way I did;

they're people with families,

people who don't want their lives destroyed.

I'm here now to protect them.

Hi, Benny.

What are you doing here?

I came to visit.

You want to go to a movie tonight?

No.

I want to.

Go with Harold.

I don't want to go with Harold, I want to go with you.

I'm busy now.

You mad at me?

Go with Harold.

You kissed him, that means you like him.

You like him, too.

Well, how about sex. You gonna have sex with him?


-No.
-Well, you like to kiss him,

go on, have sex with him.

I only want to do that with you.

Get away!

VICTOR: Hey! Benny!

Are you okay? Alice, you all right?

What do you think you're doing?

Are you okay?

Benny, don't you ever knock her down like that again.

Don't ever do that, okay?

She kissed Scarecrow on the lips.

I don't care, Benny,

don't ever go knocking her down like that.

Benny!

Now, you're with the Los Angeles Police Department,

is that right?

MAN: That's correct.

Now, for some three and a half years,

you were partners with Tom Cavanaugh.

Also true.

KUZAK: Who requested a transfer?


-I did.
-KUZAK: When?

When I found out he was a h*m*.

KUZAK: Well, he was still a good cop, though, wasn't he?

MAN: He was a great cop.

Then why didn't you want to ride with him?

MAN: When you're out there, you gotta feel comfortable, you know?

You gotta be able to trust your partner

more than you trust your wife.

KUZAK: You mean you stopped trusting him

because you found out he was gay?

No, it's not that I didn't trust him,

it's that...

I didn't feel I knew him anymore.

Were there any other officers on the force

who were willing to ride with him?

No. Hell, half of 'em didn't even want to ride with me.

They figured I rode with him long enough to be questionable myself.

They still razz me about it.

Tell the court, if you would,

what kind of things they would do to Tom.

They'd make remarks. If they had to hand him something,

they'd put on rubber gloves.

Signifying what?

They're afraid of catching AIDS.

KUZAK: In your opinion, officer,

was Tom Cavanaugh driven off the force

following the disclosure that he was gay?

He got the message loud and clear

that nobody wanted him around anymore, yes, sir.

KUZAK: Thank you. I have nothing further.

You've come across other gay men,

haven't you, officer?

Not really. I don't know any socially,

uh... there's none in my family,

and Tom's the only one I've worked with,

as far as I know, anyway.

Oh, come on. You're a cop in L.A.

You haven't come across any gay men?

I wasn't counting the ones that we arrested.

Oh, but I want you to.

I want you to count the ones you arrested.

The ones you harassed, the ones you roughed up.

Hey, miss, I don't know what you're talkin' about.

Ask the court to advise the witness

defense counsel doesn't care to be addressed as miss.

The witness is so advised.

What did the plaintiff do when he went out to bust fags for cruising?

Objection. The witness is not on trial here.

It's precisely the witness's attitude

that every gay person in America is up against.

I object to the self
-serving speech.

Sustained.

CUMMINGS: Officer Vlasic,

do you have a negative attitude toward h*m*?

I got no problem with 'em.

You just couldn't sit in a car with one.

You like and admire Tom Cavanaugh, do you not, sir?

Yes, I do.

CUMMINGS: Does knowing that Tom Cavanaugh is gay

cause you to re
-examine your attitude towards gay people?


-I don't know.
-In other words, it might?

Yeah.

Thank you, sir.

Nothing further.

[traffic noise]

Needless to say, this comes as kind of a shock.

Well, according to Michael,

you don't much like being a judge.

I think I can offer you a better package.

But me working at McKenzie Brackman?

LELAND: Why not? You know the people,

and they know you.

Michael's leaving leaves me with a big hole to fill,

and I need a star litigator.

And you think I'm that person.

Well, you're also a judge.

That would give us a high level of prestige.

I don't know, Leland. Obviously, I'm flattered.

Then you owe it to yourself to think about it.

You'd be trying cases again.

You'd be working with good people.

And I'll pay you a hell of a lot more money

than you'd ever make as a judge.

I need you, Grace.

And I'll do whatever I can to get you.

Hi. These just need your signature.


-So, what do you think?
-About what?

Working in this joint. How's it been?

I like it.

Well, it's been a real Godsend having you.

It's nice to hear that.

But as good as you are at it,

something tells me that being a secretary

is not really what you have in mind for yourself.


-True?
-I like what I'm doing.

Come on, Gwen, what do you want to be when you grow up?

I want to be a movie star, okay?

Just like a million other girls

who come here from someplace else.

Well, I don't know if you can act or not,

but this much I will say;

you're a very beautiful woman.

Thank you.

ARNIE: Have you gotten anywhere?

No, not really. I've done a couple plays,

and I have a call back for a movie of the week,

but that's about it.

Well, I wish you the best of luck.

Thanks.

Let me know if I can see you in something.

Okay.

Would you like to have a drink?


-Are we done for the day?
-Yeah. All done.

Sure. I'll have a drink.

Is, uh...

something happening here?

I don't know.

Do you want something to happen?

Well, I hadn't planned on it.

Some things you just don't plan.

KUZAK: You're Tom Cavanaugh's sister, is that right, Theresa?

Yes.

How did it affect you when the defendant revealed that

your brother was gay?

I already knew it.

I was the only one in our family who did.

Why did you keep it a secret from the others?

Because I love my brother.

KUZAK: Didn't anyone else in your family love him?

They all loved him.

But once they found out, they just couldn't accept him.

KUZAK: Did they try to accept him?

THERESA: Everybody tried.

We'd get together for Christmas and, uh, birthdays,

and everyone would pretend that it didn't matter.

Tom and I would watch them pretend.

It broke his heart to see how hard it was for them.

Does your family still get together?

Everyone except Tom.

KUZAK: I have nothing further.

Tom would sometimes bring a woman

to these family gatherings, wouldn't he?


-THERESA: Sometimes.
-CUMMINGS: Sure.

He wanted everyone to think that he was dating her.

Right. So what?

Knowing him the way you do, do you think that

having to lie to his family caused him pain?

He managed to live with it.

CUMMINGS: People manage to live with all kinds of things.

What I'm asking is whether concealing who he was

caused him to suffer.

Not as bad as losing his family did.

CUMMINGS: That didn't have to happen, Miss Cavanaugh.

With all due respect,

your family could have accepted Tom for who he is.

No, Miss Cummings, they really couldn't.

We were a happy family, though.

You might not think so, but we thought so.

My brother had a secret and I guarded it with my life.

Who is he to say how my brother should live?

Who are you?

Tommy just didn't want to be hurt.

Why'd you want to go and hurt him?

What did he ever do to you?

[moaning]

Take off your clothes.

This, uh
-
-

This is happening too fast.

Let it.

I think we should stop.

I don't want to stop.

Oh... we can't keep this up much longer.

I'm gonna not let you.


-No?
-No.

You want me naked right here in your office?

Right here, right now.

[moaning]

You want to watch me take off my clothes, don't you?

Yeah, I do.

And that's not the only thing you want me to do, is it?


-Is it?
-No, it isn't.

Then sit... and watch.

♪♪

Thank you, Douglas.

We'll just be a few minutes.

I'm gonna be very direct with you, Benny.

I'm very concerned that

you would push Alice and knock her down.

I didn't mean to knock her down.

But you did, Benny.

You knocked her to the ground so hard she's black and blue.

Now, I don't want you ever to do anything like that again.

Do you understand?

Yes.

Are you sure?


-Yes.
-Good.

If you two are gonna be married,

then that kind of thing cannot happen.

I know.

Now, I understand she was kissing the Scarecrow,

and that, too, presents a problem.

And I'm gonna talk to her about that.

No, it's between me and Alice.

Okay.

You talk to her.

My only intention was and is

to change what it means to be gay in this society.

Tom Cavanaugh didn't ask you to change what it meant for him.

SMYTHE: No, he didn't.

But he was in the public eye.

Gay people need role models,

and I took it upon myself to make him one.


-Even if it hurt him?
-Living in the closet hurts worse.

It hurts millions of others.


-CUMMINGS: How?
-By allowing everything to stay the way it is.

The Supreme Court upholds a law

that makes every one of us a criminal.

Comedians insult us, AIDS is k*lling us,

and it's only gonna be different

when enough of us come out of hiding.

Isn't it better if we come out on our own?

SMYTHE: Absolutely.

I've only exposed two kinds of people;

elected people who hurt us,

and those with enough visibility to help us.

We need to know that gay men and lesbian women

are actors and rock stars

and executives and hero cops.

Straight people need to know it about us.

And we need to know it about ourselves.

What goes through your mind

when you look at Tom Cavanaugh now?

I wish that I could tell him that I understand his pain.

That I went through the same thing he's going through.

I was rejected by my family, I wa
-
-

I was fired from my job.

I also tried to k*ll myself.

I want to tell him to hang in there;

to come to terms with who he is,

to be proud of it.

I want him to know...

that there's no greater joy on Earth.

CUMMINGS: I have nothing further.

You think that because a cop gets his name in the paper,

the First Amendment gives you the right

to tell the whole world who he sleeps with.

Yes, sir. I think that the public has a legitimate interest

in knowing about the private lives of its heroes.

KUZAK: Now, you once concealed the fact that you are gay,


-didn't you?
-Oh, yeah, I worked very hard at it.

And what were the circumstances surrounding your coming out?

It was my th birthday,

and I was crying myself to sleep.

I was thinking about living out the rest of my life

unable to tell the truth about myself.

Suddenly I realized that I didn't have to do that.

Right then and there,

I decided that I was going to tell the truth

whether society wanted me to or not.


-KUZAK: You decided.
-SMYTHE: Yes.

But you didn't just decide for yourself,

you decided for Tom Cavanaugh as well.

I think I explained the reasons for that.

In other words, this man was denied

the very right that you so passionately claimed for yourself

all because you had your reasons.

For gay people, Mr. Kuzak,

reasons amount to life or death.

Well, here's the gay person that it affected the most, sir.

A cop.

Now, what did you think it was gonna do to him?

I knew that it would hurt him.

You knew that it would destroy his life.

I knew... that it would hurt him.

And you did it anyway.

Yes.

KUZAK: I have nothing further.

GRACE: You don't think I'm crazy

to just even consider it.

Well, Grace, you always told me

you thought McKenzie Brackman was the perfect law firm.

Anything else, folks?


-Mm
-mm.
-No, no thanks.

Wouldn't it bother you

your ex girlfriend taking your place?

That has to bother you a little.

Well, to be honest, I'll feel less guilty about leaving

knowing that someone great is coming in behind me.

You really are leaving, aren't you?

He's dying, Grace.

We never were that close but...

he's dying.

What about Kimberly?

Kimberly and I are not seeing each other anymore.

What happened?

She asked me if I was totally over you,

and I told her the truth.

Bad strategy.

Yeah.

You know, though, if you go to New York,

then we are probably totally over.

[water running]


-Hi.
-Hi.

Uh, Rosalind,

at the risk of being incredibly two
-faced,

I am really very sorry for the way that this has all ended.

Me , too.

And I know that a lot of the resentment

that snowballed against you

started with me.

You came at me head on, Ann.

As much as I disagree with you,

I have to respect that.

The thing is,

I also know that if a man had come in here

and played hardball as successfully as you did,

with no fear of being called a bad guy,

he would have been hailed as a great leader.

With a woman,

the reviews come in a little differently.

Yes, they do.

Even from the other women.

Believe it or not,

I really do wish you well.

Believe it or not,

I wish the same for you.

All of the letters went out except for

the McPherson response which is still on the tape,

and Gwen can do that.


-Good.
-Did I hear my name?

Oh, great, perfect timing.

I'm out the door.


-Hi.
-Hi.

How are you today?

Great, thanks.

Good.

Oh, thanks, Rox, uh...

and give my best to your dad, all right?

You had sex with her, didn't you?

Excuse me?

I know you too well, Arnie.

I know your body language.

I saw the way she looked at you,

and I saw the way you looked back,

and I know you two did it.

I didn't plan on it, it just happened.

Oh, you incredible jerk.


-Roxanne
-
-
-What about Corrinne?

D
-
- Don't you see this
-
-

this happened because of Corrinne?


-Because I love her?
-What?

Yes, I
-
- I love her so much that I'm afraid.

I'm afraid. I'm afraid of dependency,

I'm afraid of
-
- of parting with control,


-I'm afraid of giving up
-
-
-Oh, you lying pig.

It's more complicated, Roxanne.

Subconsciously, I think I'm trying to blow it.

[stammers] I'm looking for an escape,

I
-
- I want to find every reason to get out of this thing.

Don't give me that crap! There are other people out there.

There's a woman who loves you, there's a
-
-

a little girl who's getting attached to you.

They count on you.

It was a slip.

It was a despicable slip.

Integrity isn't something you can take off a shelf

and use whenever it's convenient.

Either you've got it or you don't,

and you don't.

Don't you talk to me like that.

Hey, as long as we've got a relationship

that's based on
-
- on honesty,

I'm gonna tell you how I feel.

Right now, you make me sick to my stomach.

[door opens, closes]

[traffic noise]

We've got structured over four months.

We'll give you today, and that's the best we can do.


-Tom?
-No.

Maybe we ought to go outside and talk about it.

No, you're just gonna tell me my case stinks

and I should take it.

The man ruined my life. I'm not going away for .


-Your life was a lie.
-TOM: Shut up.


-We don't have to go
-
-
-Hey, tell your client

I'm about to put him through the wall.


-Okay, Tom
-
-
-Put me through the wall.

You want a fight, Tom? All right, let's fight.

Maybe I can knock a little social responsibility into your head!

Hey, I was one person living my life.


-This meeting is over.
-I'm telling you that was wrong.


-Because I was a hero.
-No, because you're a gay hero,

and gays are bashed and spat on,

and made to feel ashamed of themselves.

And when role models like you bury your heads,

you tell 'em they should be ashamed.


-Hey, guys!
-We're done here.

No, we're not done here.

If you want to be an activist, that's your right,

but you cost people their families, you son of a bitch.


-You cost me my family.
-They didn't know who the hell you were, Tom.


-Hey, for God's sake!
-You want to bury my head in the wall,


-go ahead, do it.
-Don't think I won't.

You want to k*ll me, Tom? Go ahead, k*ll me.


-I'm calling security.
-Spend the rest of your life in jail.

Better that than being labeled a f*gg*t, right?

Let him go, Tom!

Let go of him now!

Hi.

Hi, Alice.

How come you wanted me to come here?

I'm sorry I pushed you.

You are?

Yeah.

You scared me, Benny.

I didn't mean to.

I know you didn't.

You know why I was mad, though, right?

'Cause I kissed Harold.

Right.

How come that made you mad?

'Cause I only want you to kiss me.

I don't want you to kiss anybody else.

How come?

'Cause if you love somebody,

you're not supposed to kiss anybody else.

What if I forget?

You're not supposed to forget.

What if I do?

I think maybe you
-
-

We shouldn't get married, Alice.

Well, uh...

why not?

I'm afraid I might get mad again.

Benny.

I don't want to get married.

[sniffles]

♪♪

There are few things as frightening to me

as the certainty of those who think they know

what's best for others.

For more than three years, my client has suffered,

and suffered horribly.

And he may well suffer for the rest of his life,

all because that man knew what was best.

Now, Tom Cavanaugh lost the two things that he held most dear,

being close to his family,

and being a cop.

All because one day he risked his own life

to save the lives of others.

Now, he didn't ask to become a celebrity.

That was foisted upon him.

He didn't deserve to be sacrificed

to this man's cause.

And he didn't deserve to have

the most personal aspect of his life

revealed in print.

Now, the defendant knew

how important privacy was to Tom Cavanaugh.

He knew because it had once been

just as important to him.

Now, the defendant views this man as a symbol.

I want you to view him as a man.

I want you to recognize that bound together with the right

to come forward and announce to the world who you are

is the right not to.

The right to remain silent

is as fundamental as the right to speak.

And the defendant took that right away.

He appropriated Tom Cavanaugh's name for his cause,

and he made Tom Cavanaugh pay the price.

Why should my client

be permitted to pry into someone else's life?

Why should he be permitted to do that which results in

the kind of pain that Tom Cavanaugh suffered?

The answer...

is that it isn't a free society if he isn't.

The point isn't whether or not

the plaintiff asked to become a celebrity.

The point is that he became one.

He made himself available to reporters,

he granted interviews,

he posed for photographers.

He became not just a cop.

He became a hero.

The law says that when a person steps out onto

the public stage,

his private life becomes of legitimate public interest.

My client, in all respects, was a responsible journalist

exercising his right of a free press.

He was also...

a gay man living in America.

I want you to think about what that means.

You see,

it's not about dancing and Disneyland anymore.

It's not about parades in West Hollywood.

It really is about life and death

for the gay and lesbian teenagers

who are driven to su1c1de.

For those who destroy themselves

with drinking and dr*gs out of shame.

My client didn't write about Tom Cavanaugh to get him.

He didn't do it for the money.

He did it...

to tell straight people...

that our lives aren't worthless.

And he did it to tell gay people

that their lives aren't cursed.

My client figured

that if all the Tom Cavanaughs in this world

could reveal who they were,

that just might get it across a little quicker.

GRACE: And I figured

if I am gonna begin to think about this seriously,

I at least better find out if you can give me

what it is that I want.

LELAND: sh**t.

Well, at a minimum,

I'd have to be a full partner,

insolated from all partnership liabilities

incurred prior to my start date.

I'd want the buy in waived,

and I'd want to be head of litigation.

I'll give you the first three.

As to the department head position,

let me wait a month.

If I've learned anything lately

it's don't let the new kid steamroll in.

Okay.

One month, then official designation.

I'd want a guaranteed salary of .

That's a lot.

You've got no portables.

I'm a Superior Court judge, Leland.

The prestige will bring in business for everybody.

Well, okay, okay.

Michael told me about your executive committee.

I'd want to be on it.

Again, I have to be concerned about

resentment from the other lawyers.

And I'm concerned with being able to take

the kinds of cases I want to handle.

Being on the executive committee

allows me to do that.

When can you start?

Hold on, Leland.

I still have a lot to think about.

Come on, Grace.

You've obviously given it a lot of thought.

You came in here with a well thought out list of requests.

Every one of which I granted.

Now, my need right now is damage control.

I want to put out an immediate press release

that as Rosalind Shays departs,

the honorable Grace Van Owen arrives.

What about the other partners,

don't you have to run this by them?

The other partners are congregating

outside this office right this second.

Hoping you'll say yes.

Now, I'm sorry but time is of the essence right now.

I gotta move fast.

Okay, Leland, I'm in.

Really?

Really.

Oh, God.

That's fantastic.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to present

the honorable Grace Van Owen,

new partner at McKenzie Brackman Cheney Kuzak and Becker.

[cheering, applause]

God, you people do things fast.


-ABBY: Way to go, Grace.
-Unbelievable.

You'll never be able to hold me in contempt again.

Well, I guess not.

But you can use her office any time you want.

[indistinct chatter]

JONATHAN: Here comes the judge. All right, Grace.


-Congrats.
-GRACE: Thank you, Jonathan.


-ABBY: Great to have you here, Grace.
-GRACE: Thanks, Abby.

♪♪


-Quittin' time.
-Oh, hi.

I thought I'd insure your prompt arrival at the restaurant

by escorting you there myself.

What's the matter?

You wanted me to think about getting married, right?

Uh
-huh.

Well, at this point in my life,

I don't want to think about it.

I just want to do it.

You do?

I'd also like to do it very soon.

Okay.

'Cause if I don't, I'll wreck it.

Guarantee it, I'll find a way and...

I'll wreck it.

You weren't looking to have a big wedding, were you?

No.

All we need is a judge, witness,

and a bottle of champagne.

And I'd like Chloe to be there, too.

Absolutely.

Come here.

What?

Give me a kiss.

What?

I'm not really sure what kind of husband I'm gonna make.

I think you're gonna make a great husband.

I gotta tell ya,

my history with women would indicate otherwise.

I don't care about history,

as long as that's what it is.

From this point on,

I've got two women in my life.

You and Chloe.

JUDGE: Has the jury reached a verdict?


-MAN: We have, your honor.
-What say you?

On the claim of invasion of privacy,

we find for the defendant.

On the claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress,

we find for the defendant as well.

JUDGE: This matter's concluded.

The jury is discharged with the thanks of the court.

Sorry, Tom, I should have pushed for a settlement.

[sighs] If we'd settled, all that would have happened

is that he'd pay me some money.

All I would have done was to spend it.

What I needed to do was to b*at him.

I want to thank you in any case, Michael.

I'll call you tonight.

Excuse me.

Hey, Tom.

I'm probably the last guy in the world

you'd want to talk to right now,

but if you should ever feel differently,

and I hope
-
- I hope one day you do
-
-

just pick up the phone, I'm in the book.


-You gonna be my friend?
-I'd like to be.

I'd like us to get together, have a few beers

and really talk to each other.

And I'll tell you, Warren,

I never wanted to have a beer with you before.

Why would I want to have a beer with you now?

♪♪

No, don't.

Just stay where you are.

Just stay like this.


-Okay?
-Okay.

Do you think this will be our last time?

Hm ?

Do you think we'll ever be together again?

I've given up making predictions about that.

I'm gonna miss you.

I'm gonna miss you, too.

♪♪