06x15 - Great Balls Afire

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

Why now, Arnie?

Why push our luck?

Because...

Because I love you.

Don't tell me that under that

lawyerly suit you're really a romantic?

Well, if by that you mean I believe

every woman has one special light

in her eye that can only be seen by one special man,

then I'm guilty as charged.

Lock me up and throw away the key.

Racism is about oppression.

This would only be racism if blacks could oppress

or exclude whites from
-
-

You're trying to exclude me from Jonathan's life

on the basis of my race. What's the difference?

I probably should be having this talk with Jonathan.

You probably should.

Mom...

I do love her.

She's not a status symbol,

she's someone I really care for.

I know.

But it... it hurts...

seeing you with someone so different.

Mr. Markowitz, Barry Gorman. Thanks for seeing me.

Sure.

What can I do for you?

Oh, we'll get to that.

It's a nice family.

Thank you, thank you very much.

So you have a client with a tax problem, right?

Hmm? Oh, no, no.

This is a private matter.

You, uh...

knew a woman back in named Karen Alder.

Yes, I did indeed.

We met down in Baja. How's she doing?

She passed away a few months ago.

I'm very sorry to hear that.

She was a couple years younger than I am.

You and Miss Alder had a relationship, right?

Well, I wouldn't call it a relationship.

We went out a few times.

But you had...

sexual relations on some of those occasions, didn't you?

Excuse me?

What's this about, Mr. Gorman?

This is about paternity, Mr. Markowitz.

You have a daughter.

♪♪

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Well, so far this alleged daughter hasn't filed yet.

She'll probably thr*aten to go public to force a settlement.


-That's blackmail.
-Oh, absolutely.

Look, this Gorman is a bottom feeder.

I wouldn't be surprised if he manipulated this girl

into filing suit.

He may even try to get appointed her guardian.

So, we're looking at fraud here.

Probably.

But they've done some homework.

Stuart...

You did know this woman? Karen Alder?

Yeah, I dated her for, like, three months.

And you did go to bed with her?

Yes. It was a casual thing.

Well, I wasn't a monk.

I never said you were.

Okay, the good news is the girl is ,

the most she can ask for is two years support

until she reaches her majority.

What's the bad news?

California child support guidelines state

that a child must be supported in a fashion commensurate

with the father's wealth.

Oh, God.

Given your net annual salary,

I could see her going for, what, a month for two years?

You're looking at a $, hit here.

If this really were my daughter,

why didn't the mother contact me for support?


-Exactly.
-Relax.

They overlooked one thing.

What?

Your sperm count is so low, it can be measured in fractions.

Their case is real shaky.

Great, that makes me feel really wonderful.

So, what do we do?

The easiest way to get rid of this:

DNA tests.

But it probably won't come to that.

Look, Gorman is a K
-mart lawyer.

If I go at him at Warp and I don't let up,

I might intimidate him right back into the woodwork.

Good, because if he thinks we're going to roll over

for this kind of extortion, he is dead wrong.

Next up, the Simon and Katherine Rubin Foundation

vs. University of California and Dr. Emily Connor.

We're representing Dr. Connor and the University?

Yeah.

The Rubin foundation granted Dr. Connor $, to study

a new way to save heart att*ck and stroke victims.

She's halfway through the project and Kurt Rubin,

the foundation's president, wants his money back.

Why?

He says she's breached their contract

by using scientific data

from the n*zi concentration camps.


-What?
-Nazis?

We're representing Nazis?

No, we're representing a highly respected scientist

who wants to save lives.

Which particular n*zi experiments was she using?

The Dachau hypothermia experiment.

Oh!

You know, where they subjected prisoners to freezing temperatures

and monitored their physiological responses.

How many d*ed?

About men.

But tens of thousands die every month from heart disease

and my client thinks she can save a lot of them.

I'm sorry, I don't buy that.

I hate to sound crass, but if it meant

the life or death of someone that I loved,

I'd want them to use the data.

It won't change what happened to those prisoners.

I don't think it's quite that simple, Arnold.

Come on, Leland, no
-one's saying experiments weren't horrendous.

But they were years ago.

If the data can save even one life today,

I feel we should do it.

Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't take the case, Jonathan,

but I understand what Mr. Rubin is afraid of.

Is there any possibility of a settlement?

So far, they haven't been willing.

I think they're just hoping for the best deal at the th hour.

Good luck. And we're adjourned.

That's it for News at Noon.

Have a great day, L.A.

We're clear.

Good work, people.


-Good piece.
-Thanks.

These chairs are m*rder.

Here, let me show you what's good for that.

Come here, sit down.

Oh, I...

Oh, your scapula's in spasm.

Okay, just relax.

Oh...

How can I ever thank you?

Well...

Now that you ask...

I have two tickets for Phantom this Friday night,

and I just broke up with someone.

I'd hate to listen to the Music of the Night alone.

Would you go with me?

I'd love to...

But I can't.

I, uh... I'm living with someone, and...

She's going to meet me here for lunch.

Well, that proves it.

All the good ones are taken.

Sorry.

I'll live.

Just to show you there are no hard feelings,

I'll finish up your left trap.

Is this what they mean by hands
-on journalism?

[chuckles]

Oh, boy.

This is heaven.

[clears throat]

Roxanne, hi!

Uh...

This is Julie Rayburn.

Uh, do you know Julie Rayburn?

No. No, but I've heard a lot about her.

Julie, this is my girlfriend, Roxanne Melman.

Nice to meet you.

Got a great guy here.

Thanks, I think so, too.

Most of the time.

We gotta go. See you tomorrow.

We'd like to find some middle ground here, Mr. Rubin.

We've still got a few minutes before court.

No.

It can't hurt to at least listen, Kurt.

There is no middle ground.

Using my money to legitimize Nazis

desecrates the memory of my parents.

And letting people die honors them?


-Emily.
-We have a contract.

This isn't just about contracts.

It's about not forgetting.

This is pointless.

Jonathan!

Hey, babe.

There was a file on the kitchen table..

Ah, yes.

People vs. Beretto?

Thank you. Yes, you are a life saver.

I gotta go. Bye.

Mm
-hmm.

Your wife?

Girlfriend.

Is that, uh... is that a problem?

We live with it.

My mother was a protestant.

And my father was a Jew.

They were not allowed to live with it.

Under the Nazis, their marriage was a crime,

their punishment was death.

Mr. Rubin, what happened when you were seven years old?

I was climbing trees in the woods near our house.

When I got home, my parents were gone.

The Nazis had taken them to Auschwitz.

I never saw them again.

What did you do?

I lived in the woods for several days

before a neighbor found me.

For the next year, I was a child fugitive.

Sometimes running, sometimes hiding

in farmer's barns and cellars.

Finally, I was smuggled to Switzerland.

Do you know what happened to your parents

in the concentration camps?

Yes.

A survivor I found after the w*r told me that...

the Nazis tried to make my father a kapo.

A prisoner who would help them brutalize other prisoners.

Did your father agree?

No.

He committed su1c1de by throwing himself on an electrified fence.

And your mother?

They sh*t her when she tried

to stop them from removing my father's head.

Why would they remove his head?

A n*zi anthropologist wanted Jewish skulls for his collection.

And this is the kind of science

the Nazis practiced.

Objection, irrelevant.

It is not the kind of science Dr. Connor practices.

Sustained.

Why did you establish your foundation

in your parent's name, Mr. Rubin?

To, uh, promote the betterment of mankind,

subject to ethical medical research standards.

Then why did you agree to fund a project

that included the Dachau hypothermia data?

Because Dr. Connor's application didn't state

that she was going to use the data.

It was only after she cashed my check

that she began conducting seminars

which referenced this t*rture.

If you'd known this,

you'd never have agreed to give her the grant.

Absolutely not.

My father and mother were butchered

by those criminals, Mr. Robertson.

How can anyone expect me to give money in their name

to someone who says that these criminals

were scientists?

No further questions.

Does the Rubin foundation require grant applicants

to list all of their research sources?

We require primary sources, yes.

And didn't Dr. Connor list her primary sources?

Yes, but...

So Dr. Connor didn't deceive you in her application.

No, but she obviously omitted the Dachau data


-because she knew that
-
-
-Move to strike.

Mr. Rubin isn't able to read Dr. Connor's mind.

Sustained.

Doesn't your grant include a statement

protecting full academic freedom?

This is not about academic freedom, Mr. Rollins.

It's about my right to refuse to finance lies.

Yes or no, Mr. Rubin.

Do you believe in academic freedom?

Yes.

But I don't believe in legitimizing atrocity.


-And doesn't Dr. Connor say her research can save lives?
-Yes.

And if that's true, isn't her work promoting the betterment of mankind?

Not if it exonerates savagery.

You think this is all over and done with?

You think the Nazis were just some historical aberration?


-Your Honor, move to strike.
-Look around you.

We're in a recession and up swings a former Ku Klux Klansman

to run for president.


-Your Honor.
-Mr. Rubin.

In Germany, Neo
-Nazis are k*lling foreigners

and people watch, just like they watched h*tler.

Mr. Rubin, please.

What if you're a communist, Dr. Connor?

Or a h*m*?

That's enough. Sit down, Mr. Rubin.

What if they outlaw scientists?

What if you are the enemy next time?

Mr. Rubin, please.

Be aggressive, Arnie, I want vintage Becker.

Please, Anne.

Good morning.

Mr. Markowitz, Mr. Becker.

This is my wife, Anne Kelsey.

Mr. Gorman.

I'd like you both to meet my client, Sarah Alder.

Hi.

Hello.

Hi.

Hi.

Let's get started.

The first thing I'd like to know is what you're doing

representing a minor.

It so happens, counselor,

that I'm planning on seeking guardianship for this young lady.

You know, the only thing that stinks here worse than your case, counselor,

is your ethics.

Let's drop the animosity, shall we?

You haven't even seen animosity, Mr. Gorman.

It's highly unlikely that this girl is Mr. Markowitz's daughter.

These medical records from his urologist can attest.

You're leveling flimsy charges against a man of high principles...

and low sperm count.

All right, Arnie.

She's your daughter, Stuart.


-What?
-What?

You're the father, I can tell.

Terrific, let's draw up some papers.

Look at her eyes, for God's sake, can't you see it?

I don't believe this.

How are we going to tell Matthew?

Honey, Matthew's two years old.

I can't just see it now, Mother, this is

Stuart's daughter by a previous relationship.

Now, wait a minute, we don't talk to your mother now, why should this change
-
-

He's not my father.


-What?
-What?

I'm sorry.

I knew my mom had been with you.

I knew you had money, that's why I came to you.

But you're not my real father.

Let's not jump to any rash conclusions here.

He doesn't even look like me.

I'm sorry.

During and ,

approximately male concentration camp prisoners

were either plunged naked into vats of freezing water

or hosed down and left outdoors in sub
-zero weather.

To lower their body temperatures to sub
-normal levels?

Yes.

As their temperatures dropped,

physiological and biological changes were recorded.

When they were near death, the Nazis tried various methods

to rewarm them.

What was the so
-called purpose for these experiments?

To find ways to save German pilots

who fell into the North sea when they planes were sh*t down.

As an expert on these experiments,

how would you say the Dachau study measures up scientifically?

The report is riddled with inconsistencies

and very likely falsifications.

There is no evidence that scientific standards were maintained.

And what about the man who ran these experiments?

Dr. Sigmund Rascher was a mediocre scientist,

but he was an accomplished sadist

whose hobbies included collecting human skin for riding britches.

Did Dr. Rascher conduct any other experiments for the Nazis?

Objection. Relevance.

Goes to the competency of the researcher, Your Honor.

I'll allow it.

I hesitate to call what Rascher did experiments.

He... he put people in pressure chambers

until his subject's lungs exploded.

He also slaughtered men and women by amputating their limbs,

to test a medication he claimed would reduce bleeding.

Dr. Howell, if a scientist came forward today

with data gathered with methods like Sigmund Rascher's,

what do you think would happen?

He'd be throw in prison.

And his data recognized for the garbage it is.

Thank you.

Your witness.

You say this data is garbage, Dr. Howell?

Yes.

Then how do you explain the fact that it has been cited

in numerous respected medical studies?

The authors obviously only took the results at face value.

They haven't done any real analysis.

But didn't the Dachau data help researches develop techniques

for open heart surgery and cold
-water survival suits?

The degree to which that data helped

is highly debatable, counsel.

The majority of medical ethicists agree with me.

Medical ethicists agree, and that's primarily your field,


-isn't it, doctor?
-Yes.

But physicians and physiologists like Dr. Connor

have found that data valuable and utilized it in the past,

isn't that correct?

Every time that we accept the unacceptable,

the unspeakable, we bring it

that much closer to happening again.

Doctor, we don't live in n*zi Germany.

Starting in , the U.S. Public Health service

studied hundreds of black men with syphilis.

They never told them they had the disease.

Bad blood is what they called it.

And even after the introduction of penicillin,

they refused to cure them.

Those men d*ed horrible deaths,

all for the sake of a study.

A study that didn't stop until ,

so don't tell me this kind of thing can't happen here, counsel.

That's tragic, Dr. Howell, but it is not what this case it about.

Dr. Connor is not an unethical researcher.

She is if she uses unethical data.

Or maybe she saw a way to bring some good out of

the pain and terror these prisoners suffered.


-Objection.
-Withdrawn.

I have nothing further.

Arnie, just the man I want to see.

Do you know anything about computer sex?

Sex between computers?

Two minutes to floor.

No, no, computer operators.

Electronics bulletin boards on sexual topics.

Like phone sex but via modem.

And it's not all talk, either.

With a good printer, you can send photographs

or illustrations like these.

I guess it's the missionary position.

If you're a missionary from mars.

Computer generated images.

Cybersex. It's a natural, right?

Oh, absolutely, a natural.

For what?

Sweeps week.

Now, what I need from you is the legal angle.

seconds to floor.

This could give us both a big boost.

It's incredibly hot.

Our faces will be all over every promo for the : news.

Think of the exposure.

Sounds good, let's do it this afternoon.

I can't, I've got a remote at Griffith Park.

And I'm in the editing room all day tomorrow.

How about tomorrow night? We can go to my place,

order a pizza, go over everything.

Your place tomorrow.

You've got it.

And four, three, two, one...

Dr. Connor, you're a specialist in hypothermia

and the study of blood flow to the brain, correct?

Yes. With the Rubin grant,

I hope to find ways to lessen the damage of heart disease

by cooling certain parts of the brain.

What good would that do?

During a heart att*ck or a stroke,

the brain gets less oxygen and glucose.

Cooling the brain helps diminish its need for those things

and hopefully extends the time for medical intervention.

And where does the Dachau hypothermia data fit in?

That data could pin
-point which areas of the brain

are most responsive to cooling.

It will also help determine

how far we can cool someone's brain

before we do damage ourselves.

And that information isn't available elsewhere?

No.

With all their flaws, the Dachau hypothermia experiments

are the most extensive studies of

the human thermoregulatory system we have.

What about using animal studies?

They don't help.

All mammals respond differently to cold.

Hmm.

How do you feel about what the Nazis did

at Dachau, Dr. Connor?

As a human being, I think it's horrendous.

As a medical researcher,

I have to balance it against

the potential the research has to save others.

Thank you, Dr. Connor. No further questions.

Dr. Connor, could you complete your project

without the Dachau hypothermia data?

Yes.

But it would take longer, months longer,

and every seconds in this country,

someone dies of cardiovascular disease.

Someone I might be able to save.

Wouldn't those extra months also benefit you

professionally, Dr. Connor,

by giving you a leg up on the other researchers

working in this field?


-Objection.
-Overruled.

My main concern is saving lives.

But you have no compelling evidence

your findings will do that, do you?

Of course, I can't guarantee it.

In fact, it's just speculation on your part, isn't it?

Technically yes, but...

Thank you. Doctor, you knew the Rubin foundation

was established in memory of two Holocaust victims.

Why didn't you tell them you were planning to use the n*zi data?

It never occurred to me.

The data's origins aren't important to my research.

Its origins weren't important to you.

Tell me, doctor, how many people were exterminated in the Holocaust?

Objection, relevance, Your Honor.

Dr. Connor claims to have

balanced the data's n*zi origins

against the potential good it may provide.

I'm trying to find out how much she actually knows

about those origins.

I'll give you some leeway here, Counsel.

But keep it brief.

Thank you. Dr. Connor?

Six million people d*ed in the Holocaust.

millions, doctor. Six million were Jews.

Do you know what Babi Yar is?

No.

It was the largest single act of genocide of the w*r.

, Jews slaughtered.

What about Kristallnacht?

No.

Who conceived the Final Solution?


-Adolf h*tler.
-Adolf Eichmann.

How can you have balanced the good against the evil

when you clearly have no idea of the enormity of that evil, doctor?

The history of Nazism wasn't my concern.

million dead. That's not your concern?

I wasn't about to become a Holocaust scholar just to do a physiology study.

It wasn't relevant.

You researched everything else, why not this?

Because you just didn't care?

Objection, argumentative.

Withdrawn.

I have nothing further.

Where the hell were you in there?

Oh, he has the right to question you.

Question me? He was haranguing me.

I didn't conduct those experiments, Jonathan.

I just want to study them.

Any more objections would have alienated the jury, Emily.

And implied you didn't know the answers to his questions.

Well, obviously, I didn't.

Did you?

No.

It took me four years to get a grant for this project.

I am not unsympathetic to Mr. Rubin's feelings,

but I do not intend to go back to being a dog labber

just because some old man can't see the forest for the trees.

I called Dr. Finkelstein.

I want that DNA test.

It'll only confirm what we already know, Stuart.

She is your daughter.

[sighs]

It's weird.

I was in that room, what, five minutes?

Most of which I spent telling myself she was a fraud.

And this feeling keeps coming up.

It's the same feeling I had that day we lost Kelsey.

[sighs] What was the mother like?

She was... she was nice.

Karen.

She was...

funny. She was smart.

Was she good in bed?

Anne...

At that point in my life, if I got a woman in bed, it was good.

Obviously, you didn't practice safe sex.

No, in ,

safe sex meant not having sex in a moving vehicle, okay?

Are you okay about this?

It's not the mother.

Or your relationship with her.

It's the idea that there is a stranger out there

that has some kind of claim on you.

She doesn't have a claim on me.

She gave up whatever claim she had when

she walked out that door.

She gave it up. Does that mean you can?

No.

No, I don't think I can.

♪♪

One of the SS men brought me into the operating theater.

Next to the table, there was a large glass t*nk

filled with water.

There was ice on the water.

They asked me if I would like

to send a message to my family.

Since they were all dead, I declined.

What happened then, Dr. Schulan?

I was stripped naked,

then they lifted me into the t*nk.

The pain from the cold was indescribable.

After about minutes, I passed out.

And when you woke up?

I was in a bed, with two other naked prisoners.

Put there to warm me with body heat.

It was one of several methods of

rewarming that the Nazis tested.

I was lucky I was not thrown into boiling water.

Dr. Schulan,

how do you feel about the data from those experiments

being used by Dr. Connor?

If it will save lives, it should be used.


-God forgive you.
-Objection.

If there is a God, may he let us both find peace.

There is no peace for those who betray the dead.

Mr. Rubin, that's enough.

Kurt, sit down.

Sir, what do you think the data should be used?

Well, before I retired.

I was a pediatric surgeon.

Like any doctor, I had patients die.

Sometimes painfully.

But I used what I learned from their deaths

to help others.

If knowledge from Dachau

can help other human beings,

then the suffering of those who d*ed there

might begin to have some meaning.

I have nothing else.

Doctor...

How did the Nazis monitor your body temperature?

They inserted a wire into my rectum

and another into my mouth.

Didn't the Nazis at one time

consider moving all experiments from Dachau?

Yes, they did.

Why?

Because the screams...

from the men and women

who were being experimented upon

was so loud that they disturbed the families

of the officers who were stationed there.

Can you ever forgive the Nazis for what they did?

No, never.

Can you really blame Mr. Rubin for seeing Dr. Connor's project

as legitimizing what the Nazis did?

I appreciate his point of view.

But we each of us have to make our own decisions.

Thank you, doctor. No further questions.

♪♪


-Karen?
-Stuart.

Stuart Markowitz?

I thought you were dead.

Do I look that bad?

[scoffs] No. Sorry.

Mom, do you know where the car keys are...

Oh, God.

Mom was going to take a second mortgage

out on the house in order to pay for college.

I couldn't let her do that.

She's made too many sacrifices for me.

One more and she's up for canonization.

Sarah...

So you hired some low
-rent lawyer

who wouldn't ask too many questions

when you told him your mother was dead.

I didn't want to.

But I knew you'd never go for the idea.

Yeah. You were right.

So that's why you came to see me, for the money?

I also wanted to meet you.

I guess...

Mom told me your name.

She said you were a lawyer,

so I just checked with the state bar.

I wanted to know my father.

Then why did you back out?

I didn't know you had a son.

And...

Well, it wasn't until I saw you

and your wife in the meeting

that it actually hit me how much I was disrupting our lives.

I just couldn't do it.

Wow, here's an interesting one.

A Viennese oyster.

The woman puts her feet behind her head
-
-

I know it.

I thought you might.

Julie, these people are incredible, I mean...

Sharing your sexual fantasies in bed is one thing

but... doing it in public?

You know what my favorite fantasy is?

No, what?

I come home from the : night cast,

I slip into a hot bath,

I feel the water swirl and flow between my legs,

I lean back, close my eyes.

I feel the water from the faucet caress my ankle like a kiss.

And when I open my eyes...

he's there, crouched by the tub,

kissing the calf of my leg.

And slowly working his way up.

My eyes meet his.

Julia, I, uh... I can't. I can't.


-I'm sorry.
-Why not?

Listen, you're a beautiful woman.

If we'd met a year ago, you might have been the

greatest thing that ever happened to me.

I still can be.

I live with someone.

And I love her.

And I can't...

I won't hurt her.

God, that turns me on.

Julie, look, I gotta go.

Ah! Ah!

Arnie?

What's wrong?

Oh, the pain!

It's like a Kn*fe!

What, did you hurt your back?


-Here, let me.
-No, I'm fine! I'm okay.

Arnie, I'm not going to r*pe you, here, sit down.

Ah!

Arnie, where is this pain?

Oh, in my, uh...

left testicle.

You know, I'm trying not to take this personally,

but it isn't easy.

Maybe it's just like a Charlie horse.

Maybe you just need to work it out.

No! Ah, ah!

No kidding, Julie, I...

I'm in real pain here.

Well, we'd better get you to a hospital.

Can you walk?

Yeah, I'm fine as long as it... as long as it

doesn't touch the inside of my thigh.

Ah! Ah!

Could you get my coat?

Come on.

Who says romance is dead?

How are you feeling?

It hurts even when they're touching the table.

Why don't you bend your knees, that way...

you're not making contact?

Careful.


-Arnie?
-Rox.

I called the studio, they said that you were at her house,

and you had an accident.

What the hell are you doing?

I'm just trying to make him more comfortable.


-Ah! Oh!
-I'll bet.

Rox, they don't know how this happened.

It might be a hernia, I may have sprained a muscle

in my, uh... groin.

You know, I'm probably not needed her anymore.

You're gonna be fine, Arnie.

Roxanne will take care for you.

This is a new one, even for you.

Rox, I swear, nothing happened.

We were just working.

At her house?

Mr. Becker, I'm Dr. Stewart, I'm a urologist.

Rox, don't leave?

Are you kidding? I'm thinking of selling tickets.

Okay, now.

I'm going to have to palpate the area.

Just relax.

Does this hurt?

No.

How about this?

Ngh, ah!

Oh!

Yeah.

Mr. Becker, you have a torsion.

A man's testicles are suspended inside the scrotal sac

by the spermatic cords.

These cords can sometimes become twisted.

How did it happen?

Any number of ways. A sharp sudden movement.

Slipping on a wet surface.

Don't worry, though, it's easily correctable.

We just go inside an rotate the testes

until the cord is untwisted.

You have to cut them open?

Yes, but it's only minor surgery.

We give you a spinal block to numb it,

and then we go in.

But I do have to warn you, when the cord becomes twisted,

it can cut off the flow of blood.

We could open it up to discover

that the testicle has turned gangrenous.

Gangrene?

In that case, of course, we'd have to remove it.

Oh...

Auschwitz, Dachau,

Bergen
-Belsen, Treblinka.

million human lives.

That's the entire population

of New York and Los Angeles combined.

Imagine the city empty.

Every human behind who lives here dead

in the gas chambers.

It's too much for us to take in.

We can't help abstracting it.

But that is the one thing we cannot do.

If someone like Sigmund Rascher

proposed doing his hideous experiments today,

society would never permit it.

So why is it alright to use it

after the atrocities have been committed?

What kind of deterrence does that pose

to unethical researchers?

Dr. Connor signed a contract

that requires the use of ethical medical standards.

Now by using the Dachau experiments in her work,

she has violated those standards,

especially since she is unable to show

that the Dachau data is of any compelling value.

First we ignore

the lessons of history.

Then we forget.

Then we repeat them.

Tell those who would draw comfort from this

we shall never forget.

Doctor Emily Connor is not a n*zi.

She abhors, as all of us do,

the methods by which this data was gained.

But the data is there.

And there are many respected scientists who find it valid.

For her to ignore it is to ignore the pain

and suffering which she might be able to alleviate.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the one thing she cannot do.

Dr. Stanley Schulan, a survivor of the hypothermia experiments,

believes she should be allowed to try.

Mr. Rubin is a good man

with a tragic history.

His concern is understandable, respect what he has to say.

It's important, but give the situation

the perspective he can't.

Let Dr. Connor honor the dead by honoring the living.

Don't stand between her and the lives she might be able to save.

[chuckles]

What?

"To Arnold, who brings new meaning to the phrase,

hoist on his own petard."

Well, at least the family jewels are as good as new.

Better.

The doctor told me he tacked them down while he was in there.

Tacked them down?

Yeah, sutured them to the inside of the scrotum?

So they wouldn't get twisted up again.

Rox...

About Julie...

I swear, nothing happened.

Only because you sprained your testicle.

No, no, even before that.

I admit, I thought about it, okay?

But when push came to shove...

So to speak.

It was weird, Rox, for the first time in my life,

there was this, I don't know,

there was this, like circuit breaker inside of me and

it just tripped.

I said no.

I couldn't believe it myself,

so I know how hard it is for you to believe,

but I swear, it's true.

Okay.

Nothing happened.

You don't sound like you mean it.

Don't push it, Arnie.

I'm doing the best that I can.

If I'd hired you, Mr. Rollins,

could you have argued my case as convincingly?

I thought your side was very convincing.

The jury may, too.

I don't expect them to.

Even Mr. Robertson thought we had a tough case.

Then why wouldn't you even discuss a settlement?

How do you make a settlement with evil, Mr. Rollins?

Each time you refuse to look it in the face,

and say no more,

it creeps a little closer.

Do I have to tell this to you with your people's history?

No.

When my father was told that he could

no longer teach at the university,

he stayed home and tutored.

When the students stopped coming,

he found work running errands.

When the Nazis came for our neighbors,

he comforted us by saying that sanity must return.

If we could just wait it out.

And when the Nazis finally ordered my father

to choose the next men to die at Auschwitz,

I believe he understood at last, and he k*lled himself.

I'm sorry.

I didn't come here just to win, Mr. Rollins.

I came to...

Bring a warning.

You think anybody heard me?

Yeah.

I do.

The jury's in.

Has the jury reached a verdict?

Yes, we have, Your Honor.

In the matter of the Simon and Katherine Rubin foundation

vs. University of California and Emily Connor

we find for the defendant.

Thank God.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

thank you for your service.

This court is adjourned.

So, what's the latest?

Well, I think I finally talked her

into letting me send Sarah to college for one year.

And then, if that goes well we'll go on from there.

Unless you have a problem with it.

No, no, it's the right thing to do.

It's just hard to believe that this Karen

wouldn't have come to you for help before.

Well, it's... not hard to believe if you know her.

I mean, this is a woman who started her own

catering business, it goes belly
-up,

in the recession and she refuses to go chapter .

She's going to pay off each and every creditor.

That's the way she is.

It's admirable.

Not terribly realistic.

No, it's not.

So I told her, look, if you're determined

to go about it this way, at least let me help you

set up a more structured schedule so she's gonna...

you know, she's gonna let me do that.

That's very nice of you.

I have to do something here, honey.

Absolutely, I understand.

She sounds like a very interesting person.

You want to have them to dinner?

Why don't we have her and Sarah to dinner next week?

I think it might be a little soon.

She's still getting used to the idea

of accepting help from me.

I, uh... I don't want to push it.

Maybe down the line.

Okay. Fine.

It's just...

hard to get used to the idea

that you have this entire family out there

that I'm not a part of.

Honey...

[phone rings]

Oh, that could be Ned, he was gonna call.

Hello?

Oh, hi, Karen.

How are you doing?

No, no, it's no problem at all.

No problem at all.

Yeah, I'm gonna take care of it tomorrow.

Yeah, Claremont does have more individualized instruction

but I don't think we should discount Stanford.

You know?

It's not that much more.

Hey, let me worry about the money, okay?

Okay.

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