05x16 - Good To The Last Drop

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

I'm not a young gal, and I know what I want.

You want me.

I do.

I want to be your wife.

I love him very much.

He's on the fence, Ann.

I'd just like for you

not to impulsively push him to the other side.

What do you think about the two of us?

You seem... very cute.

Could you see yourself standing at our wedding ceremony?

I'm sure it would be lovely.

The truth, Ann.

I would sooner dive head first into my own vomit.

Rosalind,

I'm very happy being with you, you
-
-

You don't have to preface anything, Leland.

You're answer is no.

LELAND: The partnership agreement authorizes me to make

a pro tem designation unilaterally,

and that's what I'm doing.

Douglas, for the next six weeks, you're in charge.

I leave it to you to establish

a fair and democratic process

that everyone can live with.

I am coming forward as an officer of the court

to prevent what I believe to be

a gross violation of the judicial process.

Jonathan Rollins is an innocent man.

Nobody's ever gone out on a limb for me

as much as you did today.

And you don't even know me.

It's him.

He makes me do crazy things.

That's why I had to leave him.

As soon as I heard the sh**ting,

I turned around.

They were sh**ting at this house on the corner.


-Which house?
-WOMAN: It was just a big gray house.

I didn't know who lived there.

I just grabbed Christy,

and I told Scott, my six
-year
-old,

to get down.

Then... as they drove by
-
-

As they drove by,

I saw the g*n sticking out the back window,

and I saw it go off.

And, Ms. Carter, what happened then?

CARTER: It sped away.

And when I looked around for Scott,

he was just lying there.

He wasn't moving.

Ms. Carter, do you see in the courtroom today

the man who k*lled your son?

Ma'am, please identify the person you saw fire the g*n.

I'm not sure.

What do you mean, you're not sure?

Just what I said.

It could have been him, but I'm not sure.

You were positive when you picked him out of the line up.


-Well, I have my doubts now.
-ATTORNEY: Your honor
-
-


-Did the defendant thr*aten you?
-ATTORNEY: Move to strike.


-Counsel.
-Withdrawn.

Have you had contact with the defendant

in the last hours?

No.

Your honor, minute recess to confer with the witness.

Ten minutes.

I want to know what he threatened you with.

Nothing. I just ain't sure, okay?

Damnit, Noreen, he k*lled your son.

And I got three other children to think about.

But if we put him away, he can't hurt you.

Oh, come on. Do I look that stupid to you?

He's the g*ng's leader, for God's sake.

If he's alive, he can hurt me.

Even if he's in jail, he can still
-
-

Listen to me, listen to me.

This whole case turns on your positive ID.

Now, if we don't win this, you can forget about getting a conviction on the driver


-in the next trial
-
-
-I said I don't know.

He'll walk, they'll probably both walk,

and this one, Waring, he'll k*ll again.

He's gonna k*ll again, lady, no matter what you do.

Only thing I'm making sure of,

it won't be another one of my kids.

You lied up there under oath,

I can prosecute you for perjury.

Do you think there's anything you can do to me

that scares me more than him?

Yeah.

You can prosecute,

you just can't protect.

♪♪ [theme]

♪♪

All right, first up,

I note that CJ, who is late again,

has brought us another significant client again.

German Motorworks is opening up an American Division

and she's evidently snagged them.


-All right, CJ.
-How does she do this?

DOUGLAS: Next up, United States vs. Weeks.

Yeah, that's mine, and we're ready for trial.


-You?
-Don't start with me, Douglas,

this is tax litigation, okay?

It's my case, I'm a litigator,

I'm trying it, get out of my face.

This is our old friend Upton Weeks.

He was arrested for tax evasion.

Supreme Court recently held you can't throw a man in prison

for failure to pay his income tax

if he had a good faith belief that he was exempt.

Next up, Recklaw vs. Sinai Hospital.

Yeah, we represent Kate Recklaw

suing for damages because of an unnecessary hysterectomy.

The depositions will be this week.

Ann has been kind enough to loan me her office
-
-

Yes, well, this time I do have an excuse.

I've been stuck in a bloody lift for minutes.

DOUGLAS: Which brings up an administrative item.

Besides elevator mishaps,

the electrical difficulties in the building

have caused some power surges

which have shut down word processing.


-Oh...
-DOUGLAS: I'm sorry.

CJ, you've got the German car company, this is a fact?

Yeah, I'm meeting with the CEO,

and four vice presidents on Friday.


-Looks like a go.
-DOUGLAS: Fantastic.

And Leland, you're meeting with Rosalind Shays over


-Velnick's lease with Tammon?
-Tonight.

Let's keep the negotiations at arms length.

Lastly, a reminder.

Next week is scheduled to be my last as senior partner

unless, Leland, you'd like me to continue?

No, I'm ready to return.

Oh. Adjourned.

He took some tests and told me I had a
-
-

a fibroid tumor in my uterus.

MAN: This was a benign tumor?

Yes, but he said that if it grew rapidly,

there could be problems, even a remote chance of cancer.

And what course of treatment did he advise?

A total hysterectomy.

Removing both the uterus and the ovaries

as well as the tumor.

And after the surgery,

this is when you became symptomatic?

KATE: He put me on a hormone therapy that made me sick.

I was tired all the time and depressed.

Did you tell Dr. Kyle about this?

Oh, yes. He implied that it was all in my head.

He put me on antidepressants.


-MAN: Did it help?
-No.

Lethargy just got worse.

I didn't go out.

Some days, I wouldn't even get dressed.

Wouldn't bother to eat.

I was this zombie who sat around the house and cried all the time.

So, basically, you suffered from depression.

KATE: Not just that.

I
-
- I wasn't able to...

feel things the way I used to.

And not just emotions,

though that was part of it.

But sexual feelings.

What feelings did you lose?

I lost all sensitivity in my nipples.

Nothing.

And I could no longer achieve orgasm.

I was
-
- I was just dead inside.

I wasn't me anymore.

I'm still not me.

And for all this, you blame the doctor,

and the hospital?

Oh, yeah, I blame them.

They didn't tell me what it would be like,

what a hysterectomy could do to a woman.

For God's sake, why didn't they tell me?

♪♪

On April , , we received a letter from Mr. Weeks,

mailed in the envelope provided for his tax return.

And what did Mr. Weeks's letter say?

That he refused to pay his federal income taxes.

Well, did he say why he was refusing to pay?

He wrote,

"I read his lips, his lips lied,

and I won't pay."

Can you tell the court the amount of

the defendant's outstanding tax bill?

$,.

Thank you, Mr. Fletcher.

You had heard from Upton Weeks before,


-hadn't you, Mr. Fletcher?
-Many times.

And he made it very clear why he wasn't going to pay his taxes, didn't he?


-Oh, yes.
-I refer to defense exhibits one through , your honor.

Would you read the marked paragraph in this letter, please?

Your honor, what does this have to do with anything?

Either he paid his taxes or he didn't.

STUART: The Supreme Court of the United States

has made it clear that the reasons why Mr. Weeks refused to pay

are relevant, your honor.

This is a test case.

The political ramifications here are monumental.

I'm going to allow it for now.

"Enough is enough.

"I refuse to continue funding rank stupidity.

"I won't keep paying my hard earned money

"to politicians who flush it down $, toilets.

"I won't, I won't, I won't.

Sincerely, Upton Weeks."

[clapping]

Thank you, Mr. Fletcher.

That's all I have.

Lyman Hatcher for the defense, ready for trial. Again.


-Who's the DA?
-Your honor, I am, Zoey Clemmons.

Your honor, this case was just reassigned to me.


-I'll be seeking a continuance.
-Opposed.

This matter's been continued seven times, Miss Clemmons,

it's marked no further continuance.

My apologies to the court, your honor,

but I'm currently in the middle of a m*rder trial
-
-

I don't care. It's something different every time.

And meanwhile, the defendant is being denied

his constitutional right to a speedy trial.


-Your honor, if I could
-
-
-JUDGE: It's a simple robbery, for God's sake.

We can do it in a day.

My understanding is there's also an aggravated as*ault.


-Tomorrow, :.
-I'm in with Judge Armand on a m*rder case.


-I can't be here
-
-
-Tell him to let you out at :.

I don't like my docket backlogged any more than he does.

If he's got a problem, have him call me. Next case.


-CLERK: Case number .
-Mr. Johanson, Edward Johanson?

JOHANSON: That's me.

Oh. Hi.

I'm Zoey Clemmons, I'm handling your case.

What happened to Mr. Cavalini?

Well, he's no longer with the department.

Look, I'm gonna put you up first.

We have your statement in the file and this is a copy for you.

I want you to go over it tonight,

and if you have any additions, or if anything's not right,


-I want you to let me know.
-Okay.

Uh, Zoey, car's waiting out front.

All right, let's you and I meet tomorrow,

:, right here, and we'll go over everything.

Okay, we'll see you then.

Simple deal. Testify that Waring sh*t the boy,

we plead you out as an accessory.

I'm not givin' you nothin'.

Let me do the talking, Billy.

Hey, she's lost her witness, man, she's got no case.

My case may be falling apart against your buddy,

Mr. Michaels, but my chances of convicting you just went up.


-How do you figure?
-If I don't get Waring,

I simply stand up in front of the jury at your trial,

and I say, hey, the b*ll*ts that k*lled Scott Carter

came from your car.

Waring was acquitted, so guess who must have done it.

That's crap!

A jury's gonna hold someone accountable, we all know it.

If Waring goes free, it's gonna be you.

Come on, all you did was drive the car.

Do you really want to risk life imprisonment?

I'm gonna be looking for total immunity

before I let him make a squeak.

Testify you saw him sh**t the boy,


-I'll give you use immunity.
-I didn't see that.


-Billy
-
-
-I didn't, he was in the back seat.

He was sh**ting, I didn't see him hit the kid.

Testify to that, time and place.

You saw him stick the g*n out, you saw him fire.


-Total immunity.
-Plus protection.

I don't want him comin' after me.

He's not coming out of custody, ever.

So I go completely free, even though I was driving.

Yeah, you go free.

Deal.

We'll video tape your statement under oath this afternoon,

you'll be in court tomorrow morning.

Have him there in a suit and tie.

Glad we can work it all out.

[scoffs]

I think it's a mistake to just capitulate on the tax abatement.

Well, what's the point?

Wasting the time of six attorneys?

Fighting over a moot point?

It's not a moot point, Leland, it's contingency.

It's what every good lawyer plans for.

Rosalind, I'm sorry I can't marry you.

This isn't about that.

This is about that.

For the past week, I've been getting nothing but resentment.

You know that's true.

I don't resent you, Leland.

If anything, maybe I resent myself.

For staying with a man who doesn't love you?


-[elevator dings]
-I really don't want to talk about it.

[screams]

Rosalind!

Oh. Oh, my God!

We didn't know if there was anybody inside.

He was just sh**t' at the house to give 'em the message.

So this was basically g*ng retaliation.

Basically.

And after you drove away from the gray house,

did the defendant, Richard Waring,


-fire his g*n again?
-BILLY: Yeah.

ZOEY: Did you drive by a woman and her two children


-about a block from the house?
-Yes.

And did the defendant stick his g*n out the window,

and fire in their direction?

I don't know if it was in their direction.

But he did stick his g*n out the window and fire.


-Yes, ma'am.
-And, sir,

you yourself were scheduled to go on trial next

after Mr. Waring and you've offered up this testimony

in exchange for immunity, isn't that right?

Yeah, but I'm tellin' the truth.

Richard fired his g*n.

Thank you. That's all.

[indistinct whispering]

Sir, do you know for a fact that my client

sh*t and k*lled Scott Carter?

No, sir.

Do you know how Scott Carter was k*lled?


-BILLY: Yes, sir.
-ATTORNEY: How?


-I sh*t him.
-What the hell is this?

In my chambers. Now!


-JUDGE: Bailiff.
-[indistinct chatter]

Don't tell me you didn't know about it.


-I didn't!
-You both participated in a fraud on the court.

[overlapping dialog]


-His immunity is revoked.
-It is like hell!

JUDGE: Quiet!

Now, I want to know exactly what you instructed your client to do.

Nothing. I told him he had immunity on the m*rder

no matter what he said as long as he stuck to his proffer, and he did.

It is too damn perfect. He goes free on immunity

while clearing his buddy.

He had to have help from you two.

I never even spoke to him!

Your honor, they crossed briefly in the holding cell,

maybe they figured it out then,

but I didn't orchestrate this.

I have no knowledge that Billy Michaels didn't sh**t the boy.

Oh, please. Your honor, I move for a mistrial on this,


-and then
-
-
-I can't just call a mistrial Miss Clemmons,

we've got double jeopardy problems.

As for your guy's immunity, I want to see the agreement.


-I also videotaped his statement.
-I want to see that.


-HOFFS: He said every
-
-
-Shut up.

At a minimum, you've walked the line here, counsel.

His testimony was a surprise to me, too, judge.

Get me a transcript.

If he breached his promise, even slightly,

he loses immunity, and he's standing trial,


-you got it?
-Got it.

Good.

This trial is stayed until I read all the papers.

That's all.

As most of you no doubt know,

last night, a little after :,

Rosalind Shays, uh,

inadvertently stepped into an empty elevator shaft.

It wasn't know exactly how far she fell,

only that, uh, she didn't hit bottom.

And the police, by lowering a camera,

were able to determine that she'd been ensnared in some cable wires

between the seventh and eighth floors.

Uh, we saw no signs of life.

Since this is the express elevator,

there's limited access on the lower floors,

and they've not yet retrieved the body.

They expect to do so by noon.

I will make the funeral arrangements and let you know.

Uh, Jack Sollers is representing Rosalind's estate.

He's already been in touch.

Uh, Douglas, coordinate that.

As for everyone else,

the situation with the elevators is not resolved.

Obviously, your attention before boarding is advised.

I told her recovery would take about six weeks,

there'd be localized pain, some loss of stamina,

and that she would need the estrogen therapy.

That's it? You told her nothing else?

In my experience, those are the medical consequences

of a total hysterectomy, yes.

Are you aware, doctor, of the studies that show that

fully / of all hysterectomy patients

suffer a decreased sexual response

as well as an inability to have uterine orgasms?

The uterus, in my opinion, is a reproductive organ,

not a sexual organ.

So this was a pretty easy call, wasn't it?

You just chop out her uterus and her ovaries.

When there's a potential cancer risk,

I think that it is important
-
-

There was a one percent chance of cancer, doctor,

and you recommended a radical surgery on a year old woman.

Now, if a man had a one percent chance of testicular cancer,

would you opt to castrate him just to be on the safe side?

It's not the same thing.

These are your medical records here for the past years.

Of all of the thousands of women who have come to you

with fibroids, with pelvic pain,

you have recommended hysterectomies for percent.


-There's no relevance
-
-
-It's relevant.

Despite alternative treatments,

you've been chopping out uteri for nine out of ten women.

What the hell are you accusing me of?


-Everett
-
-
-I'm accusing you of running a hysterectomy farm.

These operations, they take to minutes tops.

The hospital bills $, a pop
-
-

easier than the alternative methods.


-I'm not staying for this.
-Sit down, Everett.

Let's just get it over with.

Your hospital performs hysterectomies annually,

generating an income of $ million.

You personally perform close to of these procedures a year,

with the surgeon's fee alone being ,.

That means you, yourself, make over $, a year

cutting out women's uteri.

That doesn't mean anything.

It means something to these women.

This deposition's over.


-I'll be going for cost.
-You do whatever you want.

This deposition is over.

What made you so mad that you refused to pay your taxes, Mr. Weeks?

I can sum it up in two words: George Bush.


-George Bush.
-Yeah.

He said, "Read my lips. No new taxes."

So I voted for him.

He's a year into office, and what do we got?

New taxes. It's fraud.


-Fraud?
-Fraud.

Listen to what he spends our money on.

Here.


-
-

$,

to find out if cow belches affect global warming.

Yeah, he did that.

. million to preserve a sewer

as a historical monument.

, to find out why hockey fans smile.

And for a solar toilet.

Solar toilet?

Yeah, it's written down here, right here.

What are your sources?

The government itself.

Here it is, right here.

General Accounting Office, Office of Management and Budget,

Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture,

Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Oh, it's all documented, your honor.

$, to test supply and demand on pigeons.


-Pigeons.
-$, to find out

how long it takes to cook breakfast.


-[chuckles] Breakfast.
-And $ million

to allow Medicare to pay for cutting our toenails.

Your honor, this is ridiculous.

Of course, it's ridiculous.

We have a ridiculous government.

And I'll be damned if I'm gonna pay for it anymore.

I won't! And neither should any of you!

[applause]

Hold it, hold it. Calm down out there.

It was just before :,

and I was closing up the newsstand,

when suddenly I felt this thump on the back of my head,

and everything went kind of brown.


-Did you black out?
-No, no.

But I went down,

and next thing I knew, I was gettin' kicked.

Did you look up to see who was kicking you?

Yes, I did, it was that man right there.


-ZOEY: You're sure?
-JOHANSON: Very sure.

I picked him out at the line up,

and I recognize him now.

What happened after he kicked you, Mr. Johanson.

He took off my cash belt.

ZOEY: How much cash were you carrying?

Oh, about $ maybe.

And he took my wedding ring, too.

Then he kicked me in the head and he run off.

Thank you, sir. I have nothing further.

Mr. Johanson, before you first looked at the assailant that night
-
-

We got the transcripts printed, the judge is going over them.


-You'd been struck on the back of the head, right?
-Yes.


-And it made everything seem brown.
-Yes.

And when the police arrived
-
-

Keep pressing m*rder on Michaels unless Armand kicks it.

As for Waring, let's try to plead it out.

HATCHER: And the only description you gave police at the time

was young, black, over six feet.


-Is that right?
-Yes.

Mr. Pinkett's only '".

Well, I was on the ground, so he probably looked bigger.

See if we've got grounds to make perjury against Michaels.


-Yes.
-At the line up,

you said you were pretty sure it was my client,

but you weren't positive, were you?

I was under a little shock then,

but I'm positive today.

Thank you, sir. That's all.

JUDGE: Miss Clemmons.

Your honor, we have one more eye witness

who we've been unable to locate.

Can you assure the court you will locate this witness?


-No, but
-
-
-JUDGE: Then forget it.


-No other witnesses?
-No.


-JUDGE: Mr. Hatcher.
-Defense calls no witnesses, your honor.

We're ready for closing arguments.

Same time, same place tomorrow.

Witness may step down. We're adjourned.

See if there's anything to muscle Michaels with,

we have to break the immunity agreement.

I don't know how.

These guys are K*llers, John, they're gonna walk.

We have to do whatever we can.

The man broke my jaw, three of my ribs,

knocked out two teeth.

How come you didn't ask me about that part?

We got our case in, Mr. Johanson, it went very well.

Did you know about that part?

♪♪

The birth of this nation was a tax protest.

Americans tossed their tea into Boston Harbor

to protest an unfair tax on it,

and pretty soon there was a sh*t heard 'round the world.

From the Revolution to the Pentagon Papers,

true patriots have never hesitated

to tell this country what was wrong with it.

When he refused to pay his taxes,

when he balked at shelling out

for more solar toilets and toenails,

Upton Weeks was living up to his heritage.

When he stood up and said, no, I won't be soaked anymore,

for any more useless Hubble telescopes

and rockets that explode in our faces,

Upton Weeks was being a true patriot.

He was saying that a government of the people,

by the people, and for the people,

should not be allowed to rob the people.

And so when he saw his taxes so unfairly raised,

Upton Weeks stood up...

as an American,

as a lover of democracy,

and he said...

I won't.

I won't.

Read my lips.

I won't.

Upton Weeks is a criminal.

In direct violation of federal law,

he refused to pay his taxes.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, we all hate paying taxes.

We all hate that some of our money goes to waste.

But if we were all to be like Mr. Weeks and refuse to pay,

we'd have no government.

We'd have no army,

no navy, no Social Security, no Medicare.

Now, if you think it's patriotic

to refuse to pay for your fair of these things,

then by all means, acquit Upton Weeks.

But if you believe, like our founding fathers,

that the government is the responsibility of the governed,

and that includes paying for it,

then you'll find Upton Weeks guilty.

Thank you.

We've got some serious problems here, people.

And most of them are yours.

On Waring, we are prepared to deal.


-Funny thing
-
-
-JUDGE: Don't give me an excuse

to jump on you, Mr. Klein.

As it is, I'm just this close to locking you up.

On what grounds?

On the grounds that I don't like you.

We'll dismiss on m*rder if he cops to as*ault with deadly


-plus reckless endangerment.
-Rejected.

ZOEY: I've got a laundry list of felonies, including arson.


-KLEIN: Which you can't make.
-ZOEY: Yeah, but I can file,

and since your boy won't make bail,

that's a two year sentence.

Assuming he doesn't get kicked right now.

Safe assumption.

We'll agree to two, out in one on parole.

That's a year for a m*rder, Mr. Klein.

Okay. Done.

Now, for Michaels, the People would ask for

a revocation of the immunities
-
-


-No way, uh
-uh.
-Since he clearly contravened his agreement

with that surprise confession.

I'd like to agree with you, Miss Clemmons,

but he's testified exactly as he said he would when you made the deal.

Well, I obviously didn't know he would claim to be the sh**t.

That's because you didn't ask him all the right questions.

Your honor, he lied, for God's sake,


-he got up on that
-
-
-I understand that perfectly,

but use immunity is use immunity.

Anything he said can't be used against him.

Now, even if I tried to stick him,

I'd only get spanked on appeal.

And with a docket so jammed
-
-

He m*rder*d a six year old child.

I am not gonna throw away hundreds of thousands of tax payer dollars

on a case where we already know the result.

Billy Michaels has use immunity.

Now, that's all the business for today.

Everybody is free to go.


-MAN: Miss Clemmons
-
-
-WOMAN: Do you have any further information?

I have nothing further.


-Please.
-Or did you simply make a mistake with
-
-

Hey, I said I have no comment.

You keep bothering me, I'll bring you up on harassment.

Get lost.

Uh, Miss Clemmons.

I've found somebody that knows Maxine Rolly.


-Who?
-She's the eyewitness who saw me get mugged.

This guy says she lives someplace over in Torrance.

Do you have an address?

No, but if we could send out a few men over there
-
-

Mr. Johanson, the evidence on your case is closed.

The judge won't re
-open without a guarantee that she can be found.

But if you could send a few policemen over there
-
-

I don't have the manpower to do that,

now, we've got closing arguments in about minutes,

and I have to go figure out what I'm
-
-

I have to go work on my summation.

I'll meet you in the courtroom, okay?

Yeah. Okay.

Noreen, what are you doing here?

I've been thinking.

Maybe
-
- Maybe if you got us into

a witness protection or something,

I'd identify him.

It's too late for that. I just cut a deal.

He gets a one year sentence.


-You can't undo it?
-It wouldn't matter.

The driver took the stand and said he sh*t your son.

It was Waring, not the driver.


-I saw who it was.
-It doesn't matter.

We could never get a conviction now.

Don't you see, with Michaels's testimony
-
-

[sighs]

Noreen, it's over.

There is nothing either you or I can do now.

It's done.

I made a big mistake. Didn't I?

I'm sorry.

So am I.

, full settlement.

Payable over the next year,

schedule of payments.

With one other condition.

All terms confidential.

Uh, I'll have to consult with my clients about that.

LOWELL: What's the problem here, counselor?

There's a statutory cap of $,.

We're offering you $, above

what you could get in court as a matter of law, if you win.

We just need to think it over.

That's all.

I'll give you a call as soon as we've had

a chance to talk about it.

[door opens]

[door closes]

My God, .

You said the most we could ever get was .


-It's a bribe.
-What?

They want a gag order to stop us from talking about the case,

or reveal any information that might have been brought up

during discovery.

Well, what does that mean?

That we can't ever tell about what they're doing over there?

That's right. See, they're afraid a trial

will expose their $ million hysterectomy factory.

So what are you saying, we should turn down the offer?

That hospital is guilty of mutilation.

And if we don't speak out, what happened to Kate

is gonna keep on happening to thousands of other women.

Mr. Sifuentes, we got two kids.

Kate's been too tired, too depressed,

to take care of.

I make , a year.

We've gone thousands of dollars into debt for daycare,

and you're asking us to turn down $, more

than we could ever get at a trial?

KATE: Honey, maybe he's right.

I can't put any other women through what I went through.

And what about you?

This money can never replace

what those bastards took from you,

but we sued them.

We're in this for the money. How can we not take it?

Accepting their offer, in my opinion,

is morally wrong.

I'm sorry.

We'll think about it, and let you know.

DOUGLAS: $,?

Death by elevator shaft pays big.

Come on, Jack.

Tough way to go, Leland,

plunging downward into darkness,

suddenly clotheslined by a cable wire.

I don't appreciate that.

We're not responsible for the elevators.

But you knew about the malfunction,

she was invited to the property,

and you didn't warn her.

Come on, boys, there's a monster case here.

It figures.

When Rosalind goes down, she'd find a way to take you down with her.

For God sakes, the body's not even cold yet.

Please. If anything, death probably warmed her up a few degrees.

One more cr*ck like that and I'll bounce you right out of here.

Uh, Jack, Leland and Roz had a social relationship.

Lately.

Oh, I'm sorry, Leland, I had no idea.

I just
-
- Really?

Let's just address this case.

Okay, here's the deal.

I'll be chasing the landlord mainly,

plus the elevator people,

but let's face it, you guys are liable, too.

Make me an offer, I'll be as reasonable as I can.

We'll think it over, Jack.

Great.

Oh, if you can, think it over fast.

[door closes]

I'm gonna settle it.

We have very little exposure here, even if
-
-

Leland, if I can bring it in under five,

it's within our coverage.

And I don't want the firm dragged through this.

I don't want you put through it.

Ah, don't worry about me, just get the
-
-

Hey. Let me take care of it, will you, please?

Yeah.

You know, the last thing I said to her before she
-
-

I reminded her that I didn't love her.

She knew you cared about her, Leland.

Yeah.

That's all she knew.

That I cared.

No witnesses, except the victim himself

who admitted he was knocked woozy

before seeing the assailant's face.

He identified the suspect as being over six feet,

my client is only '".

He admitted he wasn't positive at the line up.

There's no evidence,

except the tentative ID of a dizzy victim

in the middle of a mental brown out.

Ladies and gentlemen, there can be no suggestion

that the prosecution has cleared reasonable doubt.

This has already taken up too much of your time.

Let's go home. Hm?

Under the Constitution,

Kyle Pinkett gets represented here.

Edward Johanson does not.

I would love to tell you about this man's family,

get you to see him for the human being that he is,

and feel his pain.

But I don't even know if he has a family.

And I don't have time to care.

I have m*rder cases, kidnapping, r*pe.

He just got b*at up and robbed.

I have a capital case, for God's sake,

two K*llers, they k*lled a child,

one gets a year in prison, the other goes free
-
-

Miss Clemmons,

I direct you to stick to the facts of this case.

That facts.

He gave you a positive ID on the stand.

He told you under oath that's the guy, that's the guy.

Picked him out of a line up, identified him in this room,

and his testimony, ladies and gentlemen,

is uncontroverted, unopposed.

Nobody put up here to dispute the fact that that's the guy.

Nothing to dispute the facts that he put in evidence.

So the only way for you to not convict here...

is to just look at Edward Johanson

and dismiss him.

Dismiss him.

The thing is...

the only hope for Edward Johanson and victims like him

is that people living outside the oppression of the system,

people like you,

can find it in your hearts to care.

Because the people living inside it,

people like me...

we haven't got the time.

And I'm sorry for that.

I am.

♪♪

Mr. Foreman, do you have a verdict?


-Yes, your honor.
-JUDGE: How do you find?

In the matter of the People vs. Kyle Pinkett,

count one, first degree as*ault,

we find the defendant guilty.

On count two, robbery,

we find the defendant guilty.

JUDGE: Thank you. We're done.

Sentencing is on the th at a.m., same bail.

We're adjourned.

Noreen Carter...

just sh*t and k*lled Richard Waring.

What?

They were transferring him to county,

she was standing outside the courthouse.

She just sh*t him dead.

[indistinct chatter]

[speaking German]

Splat.

[speaking German]

[German continues]

Splat.

[speaking German]


-You wanted to see me, Doug?
-I certainly do.

Ed Recklaw called me this morning.

Both he and his wife wanted to accept the hospital's offer,

but Kate Recklaw was upset about

the prospect of facing you.

I accepted the defendant's offer.


-You did what?
-It was , above what you could get at trial.

How could you even consider advising them against it?

Because it contained a gag order, Douglas.

Which means that that hospital can continue to perform

the unnecessary hysterectomies on these unsuspecting women
-
-

We don't represent those women.

We represent the Recklaws,

and counseling them to reject that offer

was not only grossly irresponsible, it was malpractice.

Well, I'm sorry, but I just can't keep my eyes closed.

What you did was unethical and you damn well know it.

Well, you know something? I don't care.

I'm sick and tired of following the lawyers ethical guidelines.

From now on, I'm gonna follow my own ethics,

not the damn ABA's.

And I might just go out there and make a public statement about that hospital.

If you do that, you'll vitiate the settlement,

and make no mistake, I'll fire you before you


-finish your first sentence.
-You don't have the authority


-to fire me.
-I do, I do.

If a lawyer willfully disregards

the professional rules of responsibility,

the senior partner can discharge that lawyer without a vote,

and I'll do it, Victor.

If it's the last thing I do as senior partner, I'll do it.

You indulged your conscience at the expense of this firm

and at the expense of your clients.

You better hope the state bar doesn't find out.

[door closes]

The matter of the United States vs. Weeks,

have you reached a verdict?

Yes, your honor.

Though we all feel a bond with Mr. Weeks,

we find him guilty. Heroic, but guilty.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Ladies and gentlemen, you're dismissed.

I'll pronounce sentence in this matter on Monday morning,

until then, court is adjourned.

I've lost again.

I want to appeal, Supreme Court.

You need a procedural error.

There was a procedural error.

Deceit, harassment, George Bush.

Oh, God.

[keys jangling]

I couldn't
-
-

Just couldn't walk away.

I wish I could get that other one, too.

You say you cared about your children.

What now for them, Noreen?

What kind of mother could I have been?

Livin' with me...

they'd have just grown up with all my hate.

This way, I
-
- I live with myself.

You'll be prosecuted. You know that.

But that other one, Michaels,

he don't get prosecuted, does he?

No.

[scoffs]

Can you tell me how that can be?

He goes free, and I go to jail.

You got an answer for that?

No.

Do you know that the risk of cancer and heart disease

is triple that in hysterectomy patients

than of other women?

I know.

I also know you're obsessing just a little.

Yeah, but Grace, this is not just

this particular hospital, this is going on everywhere.

Hysterectomies are the most over performed operation in the country.

I mean, how can I just let that go?

Victor, you've been a lawyer for what, for nine years?

I mean, you know all of this.

You've been down this road before, it's nothing new.

Oh. Rub me right there.

I don't know, I'm just
-
-

I don't know, I guess I just, uh
-
-

I'm letting this one get under my skin

a little bit too much. I'm sorry.

Because I'm pregnant?

Yeah, because you're pregnant.

♪♪

Excuse me.

Visiting hours are over at :.


-Oh.
-Five minutes?

Yeah, fine. Thank you.

Hi.

Oh, Ann, oh, thanks for coming.

I thought I'd be here sooner,

but I had the closing in Sacramento.

I know, I know, I know. It's good of you to come.

Everybody in the firm made it.

Yeah, I appreciate that.

ANN: Were there many other people here?

LELAND: No. Her daughter, a few friends.

She made me alive again.

A year ago, I was a tired old man,

and she came in and...

challenged me.

She empowered me.

She did a little of that to all of us.

But you... she loved.

I miss her.

I miss you.

Goodbye.

Come on, they're gonna throw us out of here.

♪♪

♪♪ [theme]