[shower running]
- I'm leaving.
- Are we driving in together?
- Can't, remember?
I have court later this morning.
- Right.
I'll drop Maddie off on the way to work.
See you in the office.
[blows kiss]
[door locking]
- Ready?
Draw.
Bang.
Ready?
Draw.
[g*nsh*t, glass shattering]
[theme music]
[theme music]
- As of this morning, McKenzie
-Brackman marches
boldly into the st century.
From this point forward, all staff meetings
will be videotaped so that we have an electronic record
of the proceedings.
Therefore, without further ado, let us start.
First, Alner versus Alner.
- That's me.
Two years ago, when the Alners couldn't get pregnant,
they resorted to in vitro fertilization
-
-
her eggs, his sperm, and a Petri dish.
- Mmm, romantic.
- Some of the fertilized eggs were implanted into Mrs. Alner,
and the other five were frozen.
The pregnancy didn't take, and the Alners got divorced,
and now they're fighting over the embryos.
- Zygotes on ice.
- A show the whole family can enjoy.
- I'm representing Mr. Alner, who doesn't want
to father his ex
-wife's child.
He's filed an injunction to stop her from using the embryos.
- Ann Kelsey, a card
-carrying feminist,
representing a man's right to choose over a woman's?
- Mr. Alner's position actually favors abortion rights
-
-
a person's choice to avoid procreation.
- What's that noise?
- What noise?
- Do you hear something ringing?
- Next, Osgood versus The State of California.
Daniel, wasn't this your pro bono case?
- That's right.
Osgood's still in Lompoc Prison.
- Where he should remain.
The guy's as guilty now as he was
the day Leland convicted him.
Stop squandering McKenzie
-Brackman resources
trying to be a do
-gooder.
- We're in the early stages of an appeal, Douglas,
and I'm going to follow through.
- Oh, really?
Says who?
- I do.
- Not a problem, Leland.
Moving on.
Galena versus The Santa Monica Planning Commission.
- This will be Gwen's first unsupervised effort.
- Yay. [knocking on table]
- All right.
Judge Menday has agreed to allow Gwen
to appear before the Galena matter
without a supervising attorney.
- Mrs. Galina's a shut
-in.
She installed a satellite dish to bring the world to her.
Now the planning commission wants
her to remove the dish, claiming she's in violation
of city building codes.
- Hasn't she ever heard of cable?
- Oh, she speaks only Spanish, and only
has one Spanish teacher.
- Can the woman pay the firm's freight?
- Our
-
- our client is more than able to pay the freight.
- Am I the only one who hears that ringing?
- Finally, with Christmas fast approaching,
and with our current charitable posture,
it's been suggested we forego this year's party.
- You mean no Christmas party?
- Perhaps monies normally used to pay for festivities
are better spent given to selected charities.
- No Christmas party?
- Think about this, folks.
We'll bring it up at the next meeting.
We're adjourned.
- No Christmas party.
- Leland, why are you bothering to pursue this Osgood case?
- Frank Osgood is a man I may have wrongfully
put in jail for years.
Now I'm seeing this through to the end.
- Are you interested in clearing a man's name
or clearing your conscience?
- Both, I would hope.
- You never forget your first time.
- Is that your lascivious way of finally asking me out?
- That's my lascivious way of wishing you luck in court.
- Oh.
Thanks.
Pretty puny case, huh?
- You're not excited?
Nervous, maybe?
- Actually, I am.
Well, speaking of lascivious, do you
want to get together Saturday night
and do dinner and a movie?
- Maybe.
- Gwen, I found this for you in the mail room.
- Is this
-
-
- Nope, not from me.
- Once again, no card.
Oh, this is gorgeous.
Can you help me?
- Yeah.
- Little Red Riding Hood.
- It's beautiful.
- Fits like a glove.
- Probably not the best fashion statement
for a court appearance, huh?
All the better to eat you with.
- Somebody out there is pretty warped.
- Oh, who's afraid of the big bad wolf?
- Hey, guys.
You want to take a ride to South Central?
- Sorry, Stuart.
- Oh, sorry.
Get my brains bashed in again, maybe get my memory back.
- I just bought a new jar of psyllium.
- You smell something burning?
- Here we are.
Death begins in the colon, you know.
- That looks awful.
What is that?
- Powdered psyllium and bentonite
mixed with lemon juice.
Acts like a sponge.
Purges a lifetime of accumulated toxins.
- What's in South Central, anyway?
- Oh, the apartment. I rented it during the campaign.
- Right.
Your constituent
-friendly address
to qualify you as a candidate.
- All I want is to put this whole experience behind me.
Instead, I get a registered letter from the landlord saying
the apartment's trashed and he's not
refunding my security deposit.
- Financial minefields of rental agreements.
- I have to go down there and convince Mr. Lee Johnson
I never set foot in the place.
- Good luck.
It's tough getting a check back that's already been cashed.
It's like the smell of burning rubber.
You don't pick that up?
- Best diet is no better than the worst
if the sewage system of the bowel
is clogged with corruption.
- This is a headache I definitely do not need.
- You got to be kidding.
m*rder two?
The kid bought a sawed
-off shotgun three weeks prior.
Wh
-
- listen, Frank, call me back when you got a legit plea.
Roxanne.
- Is this a bad time?
- No, no, no.
Have a seat, please.
So how are you?
- I'm OK.
You?
- Mm.
Fine.
Great.
Listen, I was going to call about the
-
-
- You know, I couldn't wait for you to call.
Look, this is a bad time.
- No, no, no.
Please.
Sit.
Do you want to
-
-
- No, I want to stay healthy and get pregnant, remember?
- Right.
Right.
- So have you had a chance to think about helping me?
It's actually pretty simple.
You wouldn't be responsible after conception,
but if you feel like this isn't something that you can do,
you know, you should just tell me.
- No, it's not that. It's
-
-
- I don't want you feeling like you have to
-
-
- No, no, no. Of course.
It's just that I haven't had time to think is all.
- Are you sure?
- Uh, yeah, I'm sure.
- Are you positive?
- I'm positive.
- Are you lying?
- I'm lying.
Actually, I've been avoiding making a decision,
and that's unfair to you.
I apologize.
- Oh, so then you're still considering it.
- Oh, yes, I'm still considering.
Seriously considering.
- Busy for lunch?
- Mr Alner, please tell the court
why you and your ex
-wife decided to undergo
in vitro fertilization.
- Lois and I desperately wanted children,
but she was unable to conceive naturally.
In vitro was our only hope.
- Was it successful?
- We made one implantation attempt
that failed, and shortly after, so did our marriage.
- You divorced.
- Yes, rather unpleasantly.
It never occurred to me she'd be getting pregnant again.
- What did you think would happen to the other five
frozen embryos?
- I assumed they'd stay frozen a while and then be disposed of.
The doctor said they weren't viable after a few years.
- When did you hear that your ex
-wife
planned to implant one of these embryos into her uterus?
- Last month.
Lois had heard my new wife and I are expecting,
and said she felt cheated.
- Why do you oppose her bearing your child?
- I have a new wife.
A new family.
I don't want a child by Lois.
- Even if she raises it without you?
- By law, I'd still have to pay child support.
But aside from that, I grew up without a father.
I promised myself my kids would never go through that.
- Thank you.
No further questions at this time.
- Mr. Alner, you say you and Mrs. Alner wanted
to have children desperately.
Why is it, then, that you waited six years, when Lois was
, before trying to conceive?
- We agreed to wait until I felt I could
financially afford a child.
- Until you felt you could support a child.
Lois, however, wanted children much earlier.
Isn't that correct?
- The agreement to wait was mutual.
In your supporting declaration, page six, you state, I quote,
"Lois harangued me to have children from day one."
You see that?
- Yes, but
-
-
- Isn't it a fact that you prevented
your wife from having the children
that she so desperately wanted?
Just like you're trying to prevent her now?
- No, that's not true.
- Who asked for the divorce, Mr. Alner?
You or your wife?
- It was a mutual decision.
- Wasn't the reason you divorced because you fell
in love with another woman?
- Objection, irrelevant.
- There were lots of reasons. Our marriage was failing.
- Wasn't it a woman in your office
-
-
- Objection, this line of questioning
is totally irrelevant.
-
-
- years your junior?
- I never cheated on Lois.
- Sustained.
Mr. Keene.
- I'm sorry, Your Honor.
- Mr. Alner, do you recognize that your ex
-wife has but a few
childbearing years remaining?
And that if you withhold these embryos,
you may be cutting off her only chance at motherhood?
- Lois can find another man, go to a sperm bank, adopt.
But those embryos have as much of me in them as they do her.
The decision to produce a child must be mutual.
- Like the other mutual decisions
you made and then changed your mind about?
Getting married? Waiting to have children?
- Objection.
- Withdrawn.
Nothing further.
- [laughs] OK, so number three, great sense of humor.
- I'm lousy at telling jokes.
I always forget the punchline.
Let me see.
You made a list of reasons you want me to father your child?
What does good teeth have to do with
-
-
- That's on the optional list.
- Wow, you've really done your homework.
- I told you, this baby is the most important consideration
in the world to me.
Number four, you're kind.
- You think so?
- Five, gentle.
- I'm harsh.
- Sincere.
- Phony.
- Caring.
- Nosy.
- Strong.
- Stubborn.
- Would you stop?
This is my list.
- Sam, now, Sam
-
-
I'm flattered that you think all of these nice things about me.
But don't you get it?
I'm no bargain.
- I'm not looking for a bargain.
I'm looking for very special qualities in a man.
- Yeah, but you start listing qualities like
that, I got a list of my own.
I drank too much.
I still smoke too much.
I've been down on my luck broke.
I have never been able to sustain
a long term relationship.
Not to mention I have flat feet.
- Tommy, I look at you, I talk to you
-
-
you're a real, genuine, caring person.
The kind of person that I would like my child to grow up to be.
- I don't know.
I'm not sure that I can do this to an innocent kid.
- OK.
I guess that's the answer that I was waiting for.
- Hey, Roxanne, try to
-
-
- No, Tommy, look.
It's OK.
I told you, I'm going to have a baby, with you or without you.
For your own sake, you do smoke too much.
Thanks for lunch.
- Gwen Taylor.
Is this a small town or what?
How come you're here?
- I'm handling the Galina case.
- Oh, the satellite dish beef.
Dish beef.
Beef dish.
Sounds like dinner at Sizzler.
Well, I'm opposing counsel.
Yeah.
It's a rotating city attorney's program.
That's a great color.
Matches your thighs.
- My what?
- Eyes.
Your eyes.
- Romney.
- Hm?
- There's a guy over there staring at me.
Don't look.
OK, you can look now.
- Who can blame him? You
-
-
- Do you have any idea who that is?
- Just some legal beagle who couldn't
make the cut in law school, so he hangs out in courtrooms.
Probably sitting there wishing he was me.
- Somehow, I doubt that.
- [laughs]
[siren in distance]
- Hello?
- Can I help you?
- Yeah.
This is my apartment.
Sort of.
I'm looking for Lee Johnson?
- You found her.
- Letter said Mr.
- I was named after my father.
He wanted a boy.
What can I do for you?
- I'm Jonathan Rollins.
- Used to be Councilman Rollins, right?
Nice concession speech.
- I paid first and last on this place.
The lease is up.
I'd like my security deposit back.
- We need that money to repair the damage.
- I didn't cause any damage.
- Your name is on the rental agreement.
- I didn't live here.
This is my first time seeing the place.
- Why'd you rent it?
- Maybe I should speak to your father.
- He's not here.
- Well, when will he be?
- I've got a torn
-up apartment, your name on the lease,
and your check in the bank, where it's going to stay.
- All right, know what?
Keep the money.
Forget the whole damn thing.
I don't want to waste any more time than I already have.
- You forgot your water.
- To some people, these embryos are nothing
more than a cluster of cells.
But to me, these cells embody my hope
for having a son or daughter.
Anyway, that's how I've thought of them for nearly two years.
Discarding them would be like k*lling my own child.
- Do you consider this a matter of religious conviction?
- Yes, I do.
After my divorce, I turned to the church,
and that's given me a renewed spiritual view.
I believe human life is sacred, even in its earliest stages.
- Your ex
-husband says that these embryos are as much his
as yours, and that therefore his wishes
should carry equal weight.
- To prepare for harvesting surgery,
I had hormone injections every day for a month.
Then they put me under.
Then they cut me open so the doctors could dig out my eggs.
- But surely your husband contributed
something to the effort.
- He masturbated into a cup.
- That's it?
- That's it.
- Your witness.
- Mrs. Alner, is it coincidence that your religious conversion
comes at a time when you're fighting
for control of these embryos?
- Objection.
- I'll rephrase.
Are you able to reconcile your newfound reverence for life
with the fact that the vast majority of these embryos
fail to implant properly and wind up expelled from the body?
- To me, it would be irreverent not
to try and bring about life.
- In , did you have an abortion?
- Objection.
- Overruled.
The witness will answer.
- Yes.
- Mrs. Alner, you have a number of options
for motherhood that don't involve
your ex
-husband's genes.
- It would mean more surgery.
I would have to go through
-
-
- Wouldn't that be preferable to bearing the child of a
man who
-
-
and I refer to deposition transcripts
page , lines through
-
- deceived
you, subjected you to mental and verbal abuse,
damaged your self
-esteem to where you required
eight hours of therapy a week?
Why in the world would you want to have this man's baby?
- I'm years old.
It's my right.
- Mrs. Alner, do you resent the fact
that your ex
-husband is remarried
and expecting a child?
- Objection.
- Overruled.
- Isn't it true that after your husband left home,
you begged him to come back, phoning him up to times
a day?
- I was trying to save our marriage.
- You can't accept your husband's rejection, can you?
You will do anything to insinuate
yourself into his life.
- No.
- That's what this is about, isn't it?
- No.
- Disrupting the life of a man you cannot let go of.
- No, you're wrong.
- Nothing further.
- Ms. Taylor.
- The planning commission's order
is an infringement upon my client's
First Amendment rights.
Consequently
-
-
- So now, Councilor, let me understand this.
You're appealing a planning commission order using
a constitutional argument?
- I believe it's applicable, Your Honor.
- Remote, counselor.
Besides, I'd like to be done with this case
while I'm still in my s.
- Your Honor, may I address the court?
- Yes, Mr. Romney.
- I, too, think Ms. Taylor's argument is arguable.
- Whose side are you on?
- Oh, I didn't say it was a winning argument.
Just arguable.
- Thank you for sharing.
Sit down.
As for you, Ms. Taylor, be grateful I didn't find
for the planning commission.
By four o'clock sharp tomorrow, come up
with a reasonable argument, not some thesis
that wastes my time.
Otherwise, Mrs. Galena's satellite dishe is history.
Next case.
- Case number , Berkeley versus Waterman.
- Who the hell do you think you are?
- Ms. Alner, we're not supposed to speak to the
-
-
- How dare you make me into a pathetic, cloying ex
-wife?
You don't know who I am, and you have no idea what I'm about,
or what it's like to want a child your body can't give you.
Everybody's talking about his choice.
What about my choice?
Whatever happened to that?
- I'm sorry.
[melancholy music]
- She'll make an incredible addition to the firm.
- Well, let her come up.
We'll try to finalize the details.
- We may not have the luxury, Leland.
The deal should have been concluded sooner.
She's being courted by four other outfits.
If we expect to come out on top we need to
-
-
- Step lively.
- Exactly.
- I mean, look out.
- [groan] This mess is to be cleaned up immediately.
And for Lincoln's sake, the fiber seal
had better do its job.
- [scoffs]
- That was a good one, Ben.
- Looks real, huh?
- Yeah.
That's a genuine old smelly.
- Lincoln and me got it at the novelty shop.
- What's the problem now?
- You're so intuitive.
- In my office.
- The whole point of having a baby by myself
is that I wouldn't have to deal with the husband's
fear of commitment.
Only there I was, practically begging Tommy Mulaney to
-
-
- Whoa, Tommy Mulaney?
- Yes.
It was humiliating.
- Mulaney?
You picked Mulaney?
- Yes, but he was afraid the kid would end up like him.
- Out of all the guys in this town, you chose
-
-
- Yes, yes, yes.
Tommy Mulaney.
Only it doesn't matter now, because he said no.
- Oh.
What do you mean, he said no?
Mulaney doesn't want to have a baby with you?
- Oh, he didn't say that in so many words.
- You want me to talk to him?
- Arnie, no.
- Who does this guy think he is?
- Well, maybe this whole idea was a mistake.
I have enough trouble finding a date.
- Rox, don't give up.
You could always go to a sperm bank.
- [groan] I want a real, live father for my child.
Someone kind, gentle, sincere.
Someone stubborn, who doesn't know how perfect he'd be.
- Tommy Mulaney?
OK, OK, follow your internal impulses.
The truth is before you.
Now you must illuminate that truth
to the one who refuses to see.
[theme music]
- The First Amendment?
- You and I discussed that argument.
- No, you discussed it, Gwen.
I said argue the standard that's in the municipal code.
- I thought we had a better sh*t with the First Amendment.
- You thought?
Based on what, your prior courtroom experience?
- I'm sorry.
I guess I was a little overeager.
It won't happen again.
- You may have won the Weston case using unorthodox methods,
but that does not make you a free agent.
Now go back into that court and you litigate this case the way
it should have been tried in the first place.
- Yes sir.
- First Amendment.
- Douglas, I'm heading over to Worldwide
Studios for another meeting.
- There'll be kudos all around if you land the business.
Say, I never asked you, how'd your golf game go with Flipper?
- Oh, I let him b*at me on the th, of course.
Whoa! Watch it.
- Whoa.
- See you.
- Again?
What's this dog been eating, anyway?
I want him gone.
Enough's enough.
- Douglas.
Douglas.
Douglas.
It's not real.
I bought it at the novelty shop.
- A real laugh riot, boys.
Were they out of the plastic vomit?
- [chuckles] Got him.
Does Douglas really want Lincoln gone?
- Nah.
Man, my ears are still ringing.
- How come?
- I think I hurt them yesterday.
- How?
- sh*t a g*n.
- You have a g*n?
- Shh!
Blasted out the bathroom mirror.
I told Ann I got angry and threw the scale.
- Where did you get a g*n?
- Store.
- [WHISPERS] Can I see it?
- Not right now, but maybe after work.
- Wow.
- Yeah.
Hey, don't tell anybody.
- Ann.
I thought I'd find you here.
Got a minute?
- About , then closing arguments.
- I need to get a written statement
from Stuart about the att*ck.
- Call him.
- Well, that's the problem.
He tells me he doesn't have time.
- Stuart's been afraid of this every step of the way.
- It's understandable.
From what I hear, it's a miracle he survived the att*ck.
But you and I both know these cretins got to stay locked up.
Identifying them was only the first step.
- I'll talk to him.
- Thanks.
Well, the building's all abuzz with this Alner case.
Could set a precedent.
- No, this is the same right to choose that's being challenged
all across the country.
So how come all I'm feeling is sympathy for Mrs. Alner?
- Ann.
Um, I'll see you around.
- You talked to Ms. Alner yesterday after court?
- She contacted me, ex
-parte.
I didn't say a word.
- She wants to propose a settlement.
Find your client.
We'll meet you in the witness room.
- That depends.
- Mr. Rollins?
- I'll get back with you.
You here to make more false claims?
- May I come in?
I have a proposition.
- What do you mean?
- My father hasn't been able to put our building
back together since the riots.
No electricity in weeks.
He paid a small fortune to an electrician who says he
should call the power company.
Power company says the problem is faulty wiring.
- Where do I fit into all this?
- The electrician says if dad's not happy, he should sue him.
I've got my canceled check and a signed work agreement,
but I need someone to convince this guy
he'll be hauled into court unless he
does what he was paid to do.
- And I'm that someone?
- In exchange, I'll return your deposit check.
I know you didn't trash the place.
- Oh, now you know?
Ms. Johnson, I'm sorry, but I don't make deals anymore.
- Now that you're not in public office, that it?
- Hey, hey, look.
I didn't ask you to come down here,
and I don't need you giving me grief.
Now, I'm sympathetic to your problems
-
-
- But they're not your problems.
- What do you want from me, Ms. Johnson?
- Nothing.
Here's your deposit back.
- And having a kid changes your life, right?
[baby cooing]
- For sure, you don't get as much sleep.
I thought Roxanne was raising this baby herself.
- She is.
Oh, Roxanne will make a great mother.
- Still, you would be the father.
- I can barely take care of myself.
- No one should become a parent unless they're ready.
- Right.
- Goes without saying.
- Now I know what to do.
- Seems clear.
- Crystal.
- You shouldn't have the baby with Roxanne.
- I'm having the baby with Roxanne.
- Excuse me?
- Just, Roxanne had so much hope for the future,
like this baby could make a difference in the world.
You have children, you know there's going to be a tomorrow.
Listen, um, don't tell Roxanne we talked.
- What did we talk about?
- Aaron.
I'll do whatever it takes.
You'll have no financial responsibility whatsoever.
All I ask is that you drop the injunction
and let me have this operation.
- You don't understand, do you?
It's not the money.
You think I could ignore that I had a child in the world?
We live in the same city.
What if we bumped into each other?
- I'll move. Anywhere you want me to.
- Lois, I've built a new life.
A daughter on the way.
How could I explain to her she's got a brother or a sister
out there we know nothing about?
- Please, Aaron.
- Lois, I'm sorry.
I just can't.
I have my own life now.
I don't want a baby with you.
- Roxanne.
- Tommy.
- After a lot of thought
-
-
- I've had a change of heart.
- You have?
But if you still want me to, you know,
I'll meet you tonight at the Edgewater.
Sound of boats reminds me of growing up on Boston Harbor.
And if you don't want me to, you know
-
-
well, thanks for asking.
I think.
- I have nothing further, Your Honor.
- Ms. Taylor, care to present your case again?
- Oh, I don't mind giving the little lady
another sh*t, Your Honor.
- One more demeaning comment like that,
and you're bucking for sanctions.
- My client, Marguerite Galina, complied
with all city requirements in the installation
of her satellite dish.
Let the record show this is an affidavit from the contractor
stating his installation complied
precisely with building permit conditions.
This contractor also happens to do a considerable amount
of work for the city.
However, prompted by a call from an unhappy but influential
neighbor, the city changed its requirements after the fact.
Therefore, the city has no right to revoke Mrs. Galina's permit.
- Very nice, Ms. Taylor.
Any rebuttal for the little lady?
- No, Your Honor.
- Good.
Then I'm finding for the plaintiff.
Doesn't happen very often, but the city's actions
were improper.
Mrs. Galina's dish stays.
Looking forward to seeing you in my courtroom again, Ms. Taylor.
So long, Mr. Romney.
Next case.
- Lucky break.
- Buzz off.
- You know, there's an old courthouse tradition.
The winner buys the loser a drink.
- Tom.
Not today.
- Aaron Alner isn't trying to prevent his
ex
-wife from becoming a mother.
He simply wants to avoid becoming a father.
It's a matter of personal privacy.
At the moment, the courts still protect
a woman's right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
My client asks only that the same protection
be afforded him.
Ms. Alner can still be a biological mother to her child
without those frozen embryos.
And while it places a substantial burden on her
to find a suitable donor, to undergo surgery,
it would be an even greater burden to foist onto Mr. Alner
a child he does not want.
Thank you.
- Mrs. Alner's best chance at motherhood
is to have these existing embryos implanted
-
-
a simple, non
-surgical procedure.
By refusing her access to the embryos that they produced,
Mr. Alner would force her to undergo
torturous egg
-harvesting surgery, with all
of the pain and the risk that a major operation brings,
and Mrs. Alner should not have to go through such physical
and emotional pain again.
Your Honor, to her, these embryos are more than
just cell tissue, they're
-
-
they're her children.
She's their mother.
Allow this woman to nurture her offspring, and God willing,
to bring them into this world as fully
-formed human beings.
[car brakes in distance]
- Hello?
[tense music]
[rings bell]
- Oh, Daniel!
- What's wrong?
- Someone's following me.
- Take Lucy.
Head back upstairs.
- Right.
- Call security.
[tires screeching]
Hey!
[jazz playing on radio]
- Doing a nice job.
- It's easier now that there's light to work by.
How did you convince the electrician
to finish the wiring?
- Didn't take much more than waving the McKenzie
-Brackman
letterhead in his face.
And a few remarks about how financially
draining legal action can be.
- Thank you.
What made you change your mind, anyway?
- City council.
Turned out to be a lot of rhetoric and hype
and closed door meetings.
And then you walked into my office,
and there was something I could do to help.
You missed a spot.
- Grab another paintbrush.
- That's not in the deal.
- I feel bad.
- What?
- I voted for your opponent, Councilman Ellis.
[laughing]
- Well, um
-
-
- Did I thank you?
- Not enough.
I'll see you.
- As a matter of law, an embryo is not a human life.
But it is potential life, which makes
this decision a troubling one.
In this case, Mr. Alner's right to privacy
includes the right to avoid becoming
a parent against his will.
On the other hand, Mrs. Alner has the right
to become a mother, and she is willing to give
life to these embryos.
However, Mrs. Alner has other opportunities for motherhood,
burdensome though they may be, and in light of that fact,
Mr. Alner's right to avoid fathering children
by these embryos must take precedence.
Accordingly, I'm granting his motion
for a permanent injunction.
Court is adjourned.
[jazz music]
- Should we order champagne?
- I don't want any, but if you do.
- Oh, no, no.
I just thought it might be more romantic.
- What?
- Never mind.
Hi.
Oh, you look very pretty.
- Thank you.
I always wondered what the honeymoon
suite would look like.
- Pretty swanky, huh?
- Perfect.
- So, what do you think?
A boy or a girl?
- I don't know.
Uh, either I guess.
A girl would be nice.
- With red hair like yours?
- Oh, it's not
-
-
- Mmm.
You smell pretty.
- [soft laugh]
- Wait.
- Whoa.
- Sorry.
I'm sorry.
- Roxanne.
I want to have a baby with you, but this just feels kind of
-
-
- Strange.
- Yeah.
Like we're doing business.
- Yeah, I know.
We never even talked about test tubes or
-
-
- Maybe I'm just more old
-fashioned than I thought.
- Should I turn out the light?
- Um, how about if we, I don't know, ate dinner first?
- Well, we could go downstairs.
- Room service?
- You got it?
It's a real g*n?
- I didn't get it at a novelty store.
Want to hold it?
- I'd better not.
- Well, if you don't pull the trigger, it won't sh**t.
Come on.
- OK.
Got any b*ll*ts?
- Yeah.
Six of them.
Well, five after what happened yesterday.
- Huh.
- Whoa, easy. Give it back.
Give it back.
g*ns are dangerous.
You're the only person who knows I have this.
- Oh, I won't
-
-
I won't tell.
I promise.
- I'm going to have it with me all the time.
If those guys that att*cked me ever come around,
I'll be ready.
- First the flowers, then the glass slipper, the briefcase.
- You don't think it's Alec Weston?
- His ego is too big.
He'd not only signed the card, he'd deliver the gifts himself.
- Tell me more about this city attorney.
- What's to tell?
Romney's a ferret.
- You said he likes you.
- And he makes no bones about it.
Why wouldn't he own up to all this if he was responsible?
- Don't get mad, all right?
I'm just trying to help.
- I know.
- It must be the guy you said was watching you in court.
- Or it could be anyone, right?
I've got to go to class.
- Let me drive you.
- No.
No, I appreciate the offer, but I am not going to let
some sick bastard scare me.
I'll be OK.
And, um, I'd love to go out with you on Saturday.
- Great.
- Hey, this is a surprise.
- Daddy.
- I thought I was going to meet you at home.
- We decided we couldn't wait to see you.
- Douglas.
You should know I closed the deal.
- When does she arrive?
- Sometime next week.
But I still have some reservations.
- About her?
- No, our methods.
Not consulting the others before hiring a new associate.
It won't sit well.
- This is a bold move, and we had to strike first.
She's an excellent attorney.
- When do you suggest we make the announcement?
- Let's wait.
Nobody needs to know anything until absolutely necessary.
- Oh, this plastic dog dropping's
getting to be an old joke.
[groan]
Oh!
Lincoln!
- They do not call it a meatball.
- They do, they do.
Lame pitch right over the plate, that's called a meatball.
- Well, what do they call a good pitch?
- Well, you got your fastball, called a cheese.
Curved inside, the kitchen.
And a pitch that drops right before the plate
is known as off the table.
- [laughs]
- What?
- Men.
Always want to be reminded of your mom's kitchen.
- Well, why not?
- [laughs] You want one?
- Mm
-hmm.
- They're delicious.
- Oh, you're right.
Juicy.
- Want another?
- Mm
-hmm.
- Oh, here.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry.
[bed creaking]
[glass shattering]
[roxanne laughs and sighs]
[theme music]
07x06 - Love On the Rox
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High-powered law firm of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak handles both criminal and civil cases, but the office politics and romance often distract them from the courtroom.
High-powered law firm of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak handles both criminal and civil cases, but the office politics and romance often distract them from the courtroom.