- Roxy!
- Coming!
- [YELLING] Rox!
There's no more soap!
- [YELLING] You'd better hurry up!
We're both going to be late for work!
- [YELLING] You know, I've been thinking!
Always meeting here at the Edgewater,
it's getting expensive!
I mean, not to mention the wrapped glasses,
the sanitized toilet seat.
It's all so sterile!
Tough place to conceive a baby, no?
- [YELLING] We both decided
-
-
- I don't know.
I think the holiday has me on edge.
Maybe we should skip out for a couple of days?
[knocking on door]
- Just a minute!
- Roxy!
- Hi.
- Good morning, Ms. Melman.
- Good morning.
- We were out of Corn Flakes, so I brought you Oaties instead.
- Oh, that's fine.
- And tell Mr. Mulaney, The Times wasn't delivered,
so here's USA Today.
Plenty of colors.
- We could go to Cabo, do a little fishing?
Play in the sand?
- Reminds me, forgot the banana for your cereal.
Be right back.
[theme music]
- [SINGING] I'll be home for Christmas.
You can count on me.
Please have snow and mistletoe,
and presents on the tree.
Christmas Eve will find me
where the love light gleam.
I'll be home for Christmas
if only in my dream.
- Can't guarantee snow, but maybe mistletoe.
- Morning, Dr. Bernardi.
- Sorry about these.
Last night, you tried pulling out your IV.
- I didn't have a good night last night.
I had that dream again.
- How are you feeling today?
- My head hurts.
- You must be having a reaction to the diazepam.
I'll halve the dosage.
Let's see how you feel.
You feel like talking about your dream?
- It's silly.
What's the point?
- Anything you can tell me will make my evaluation
for the court more complete.
- You think what I did was wrong?
- My opinion?
Setting those dogs free from the shelter
was an act of courage and sanity.
But I'm banana cream pie for animals.
- I threatened someone.
Even if the g*n wasn't loaded, that's
not the way to get things done.
- The important thing is you weren't out to harm
anyone, including yourself.
- All I have to fear is fear of myself.
- I'll see you this afternoon.
- That's your second piece.
- Who are you, my mother?
- I'm glad you like the baklava.
- People, this is not a coffee klatch.
- Oh, Douglas, you should really try some.
- With due respect to Melina's heritage,
I'm not partial to Greek cuisine.
- Oh, you never tried my mother's spanakopita.
- And probably never will.
Back to business.
Ann, where do we stand on Stuart's charges?
- Arraignment's today.
- You really think that's wise?
Representing your husband?
- This isn't open for discussion.
- Any chance he'll soon be released from the hospital?
- Maybe. Can we move on?
- Plowing ahead.
- Melina, I love the recipe.
- Mr. Taylor, is it your aspiration
to pass the California bar or win the Pillsbury bake
-off?
Next, while not official, McKenzie Brackman business,
People versus Karen Hastings.
- I go to trial this afternoon.
- Things shaping up since last we spoke?
- Well, I'm still looking for the smoking g*n.
- Let's not be cute.
Do you or do you not have evidence to convict
this woman of child abuse?
- At this point, the verdict could go either way.
- Obviously, the jury will tend to side with the mother.
- Why go to trial if you're not ready?
- Why go to trial at all if you don't have a case?
- I agree.
Even though you're still working for the Attorney General,
this could reflect badly on our firm.
- I haven't finished unpacking yet, Douglas.
Shall I look into staying on at the AG's office?
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hey, folks, I know that each of us
has been under a lot of pressure,
but this really isn't what the season's about.
Selflessness gives center.
Center creates order.
Order creates harmony.
- What should we all do now, Lao Tzu?
Hug?
[laughs]
- Oh, please, now.
Perhaps this would be a good time to present
Douglas with his present.
Merry Christmas, Douglas, from all of us.
- Merry Christmas.
- This comes as quite a surprise.
I really don't know what to say.
- To replace your old pocket watch.
- Get serious.
- That's the holiday spirit.
- Ho, ho, ho.
- We're adjourned.
- No, take it from me, the pine cone thing goes
well with what you're wearing.
- Romney?
- No, really.
- What are you doing here?
- I'm tired of the city attorney's office,
putting out feelers.
My resume.
You can't still be angry.
All I did was outwit you in court and send you to jail.
- My conviction was an abysmal miscarriage of justice,
not to mention an embarrassment to the constitutional
rights of every free
-speaking American!
- Put that on your book jacket.
- You're writing a book?
- What I do, Romney, is not up for your scrutiny.
But if you must know, I'm writing a romantic play
about the time I spent in jail.
- I didn't realize my first case would bring me such notoriety.
- You're not even a footnote.
Now, b*at it.
- It's not fair!
It's the day before Christmas!
- Well, we can't have everything we want, not even at Christmas.
- Why did Mr. McKenzie give away the party money anyway?
- Because the firm made a donation to help
rebuild LA after the rioting.
- But I'd rather have a party.
- Well, we can't!
And that's all there is to it.
Now, put that in the kitchen.
- Gwen.
Gwen.
I have a little something for you.
But then again, who doesn't, right?
- It's no fun having every pervert and wacko
sniffing after you, Romney.
- Merry Christmas.
- I don't want your gift.
- It's a token of my esteem.
- Low esteem.
Look, I got work, and I'm a little behind.
- Don't think I haven't noticed.
Maybe your ass is why you're being harassed.
Does this mean you're not joining me
and my folks for chestnut stuffing?
- In keeping with the holiday cheer, I'm calling security
and having you thrown out.
- Well, thank me later.
- Cubic zirconium.
- You've still no idea why she fell into the coma?
- Or why she came out of it.
Medicine isn't an exact science.
But she's doing much better now.
Her blood pressure is down.
Her weight is up.
She's responsive.
- Don't touch my daughter.
This is your fault. You let Social
Services take away my baby.
Isn't it enough that she's sick?
Why are you blaming me?
- Mrs. Hastings, I am not at liberty to discuss this case.
- You are out of control.
If you honestly cared about protecting my child,
you wouldn't keep us apart.
- We'll leave you and Janie alone.
[baby crying]
- How often does she visit?
- Every day.
Playing games with Janie, laughing, peekaboo.
- Is there always someone in the room?
A nurse, an orderly?
- This is a hospital, not a bed and breakfast.
Still think she's guilty of child abuse?
- I just can't prove it.
- I'd like to discuss your dream.
- I'm on the first tee at the Riviera,
way high up above the fairway.
I'm a pretty fair athlete.
Actually, I'm not a bad athlete at all.
You know, they say golf is a little man's sport.
Anyway, I'm in this foursome.
There's Leland and Benny and some other guy
that I don't recognize, and they all take their turn, you know.
They get up and smack the ball right
down the middle of the fairway.
And then, it's my turn.
- What happens?
- I'm not feeling very confident.
I played golf enough times to know
that it's pretty scary standing on the first tee
at the Riviera.
- Why is that?
- Well, you know, you're not warmed up,
and everybody's watching you.
- Something wrong?
- I just remembered that Ann is my caddie.
She's screaming at me to hit the driver.
I want to hit the
-wood.
The
-wood is much safer, and she hands me the driver anyway.
So it puts me all out of sync, and my palms starts sweating,
and I'm losing my grip.
I try to play anyway, but I sense
that everybody's impatient with me,
and Ann is screaming at me, hurry, hurry!
And I try to move fast.
But I'm in that slow
-motion thing.
I finally get the ball teed up, and I
can't take my back swing, because everything's
closing in on me.
Because
-
- because I'm in this closet, all alone.
So what's it mean?
- What do you think?
- You tell me.
- I don't know.
- Well, you're supposed to know.
You're the doctor.
[doctor sighs]
- Gwen, since your family is away for the holiday
-
-
- How did you know that?
- You told me last week.
If you don't have plans, I thought you might like to spend
Christmas Eve with me and Lucy.
Will you talk to me, please?
What did I do?
- Daniel, leave me alone.
- Roxanne, I'll be back later this afternoon.
- What does anybody really know about him?
- Besides the fact that he's a wonderful father,
a great litigator, and generous to a fault?
Nothing.
- That's what I mean.
He's too perfect.
Obviously, Daniel has a dark side.
We just haven't seen it.
- What are you talking about?
- All those sick gifts, the phone calls, Roxanne.
I think he's responsible.
- Oh, Melina, this just arrived.
- Oh, thank you, Roxanne.
No name?
No return address?
- Hope it's not a lump of coal.
- What could Mrs. Hastings be injecting
into her daughter's IV?
- Not a clue.
She looks a little nervous, though.
- And you have no idea who sent this?
- No, the receptionist said someone left it at her desk.
- Well, I'm going to find out what this woman is up to.
Something's not right here.
Whoever did send this to me knew exactly
what I wanted for Christmas.
- Appreciate whatever you can do, Tommy.
- Season forgiving, ain't it?
- Let's go, Counsel.
I still have Christmas shopping.
- Tommy Mulaney for the People, Your Honor.
- Ann Kelsey for the defense.
- How does your client plead, Ms. Kelsey?
- No contest.
- Your Honor, People recommend a suspended sentence.
- Defendant was carrying concealed w*apon,
which he drew on an innocent employee at the animal shelter.
- I have an affidavit from said employee,
stating that he suffered no injury, Your Honor.
- That doesn't mean jack straw to me, Ms. Kelsey.
I'd treat brandishing a . magnum
as a little more than just a breach of etiquette.
- Your Honor, my client has surrendered
his firearm to the police.
- Goody.
Give me some reason to suspend sentence.
- Defendant's no prior history and
-
-
- Your Honor, my client was recently the victim
of a vicious as*ault and is living in fear for his life.
He has yet to regain full mental faculties, but to that end,
he's working very hard at his rehabilitation and requests
leniency in sentencing.
- What Mr. Markowitz did was a serious offense.
In light of the circumstances and the evidence presented,
however, I shall suspend sentence.
Ms. Kelsey, inform your client that if he appears
in my courtroom again under these same circumstances,
I shall not be so understanding.
Next case.
- Enjoy.
- Happy Hanukkah, Becker.
- You swore to me that Beatrice Schuller could walk.
Only I pick her up, she falls to the floor
like a sack of potatoes.
You're using me, Ben.
I don't know what
-
-
- Help yourself to some kichelah.
- I don't want food.
I want the truth.
- The truth?
Which version?
- Your material is getting stale.
And for all I know, you're lying about your partner's divorce,
threatening to bring down Worldwide
like a house of cards.
- You play Canasta, or are you a Gin Rummy man?
- That's it. I'm through.
You'll get my bill.
Good luck finding yourself another puppet.
- Pinocchio wasn't a puppet to Geppetto.
- Excuse me?
- A man works a lifetime, seven days a week.
What's he have to show for it?
Old soundstages, lazy writers, and a few colorized movies
in someone else's library.
Pathetic.
Arnie, you've become like a son, but I
can't solve this problem alone.
- You still haven't told me what it is you're trying to solve.
- If I lose this studio, I'll lose my life.
I need you to buy me time.
- Looks like Mrs. Schuller will demand to have Worldwide's
books opened in the divorce.
- Then you'll have to meet Schuller.
- Up to now, you wouldn't let me speak with him.
What changed your mind?
- There's no other choice.
- Is Mr. Schuler in his office?
- No, he's out of town.
You'll have to wait till after the holidays.
Becker, I know it's frustrating, what with all the delays.
But it's for the best.
Believe me.
- I hope this time, I can believe you.
- At this time, Your Honor, the People
introduce into evidence a videotape
taken by a surveillance camera in Janie Hastings room.
- Your Honor, this is outrageous and completely prejudicial.
- Counsel, approach the bench.
- Ms. Paros, did you have a warrant?
- The camera was installed by the hospital.
- The only reason they would install it
-
-
- I'm inclined to suppress this.
- On what grounds?
- For starters, violation of the Fourth and th Amendments.
Your evidence was obtained illegally.
- I bring to the court's attention the Supreme Court
case, Burdeau versus McDowell.
They ruled that the Fourth Amendment does not
apply to evidence obtained by a private party, one
not under the employment or direction
of a law enforcement agency.
- This is clearly a Fourth Amendment case.
Therefore, a warrant describing what was to be seized
should have been obtained.
- I appreciate the civics lecture, Mr. Hygate,
but it's not so obvious to me.
I'll review the cases and make my ruling.
I assume you can authenticate the evidence,
including your own affidavit, that you
had no prior knowledge.
- Absolutely.
Oh, you might also look up an emergency exception to
the Fourth, State versus Hunt.
- Court is in recess.
- Things stacked up in X
-ray?
- You literally said it shouldn't be much longer.
- I have some time.
You feel like talking?
- You figured out my dream?
- Stuart, the literal interpretation isn't important.
It's where the dream takes you.
You've been living with this for months.
How does it make you feel?
- I told you I don't know.
On the surface, my life is about playing just inside the rules,
you know.
Like my job.
I'm a tax attorney, so I find shortcuts
and loopholes so that people can minimize their taxes.
But what are taxes?
Taxes are a means of paying for hospitals and teachers
and highways and cops
-
-
things that should be available to people, right?
But they're not.
I mean, I think some of the problems that led to the riots
were caused because people in South Central LA
weren't given their fair share.
- Are you saying you helped cause the riots?
- No.
Yeah.
- We're ready for him now.
- I don't know.
- Stuart, the riots weren't your fault.
You didn't deserve getting att*cked and beaten.
[sighs]
- Hey.
- Hi.
- Ready for lunch?
- Mm
-hmm.
Before we go
-
- try this on.
- Roxanne, what are you doing?
- Oh, the color makes your eyes so green.
What do you think?
- I don't know.
- It's your Christmas present.
- What kind of gift is that if I already know what I'm getting?
- Well, I want to make sure it fits,
so we could make the exchange at the store on our way to lunch.
- Well, next time, don't wait till the last minute, OK?
- Please, try it on.
- [YELLING] You try it on!
- Why are you being so stubborn?
- Roxanne, I told you a week ago,
don't buy me anything for Christmas.
- What's the matter, Tommy?
Never got the bicycle you always wanted?
- As a matter of fact, no.
- Well, I'd like to give you something.
- So give me the sweater or the bike, or not.
Just leave me out of the process, huh?
- All right.
I won't buy you a present.
- Fine.
- Fine!
Forget I brought it up.
- Fine.
Can we go to lunch now?
- I would like to stop by the store and exchange this.
- Roxanne, I told you to leave me out of it.
- Not a problem.
I'll go alone.
- Currently, I am chief of psychiatry in residence
at Cedric's hospital.
- Have you reviewed Janie Hastings' file?
- Yes, and nothing in it leads me
to believe that Mrs. Hastings was anything less
than a caring, loving mother.
Still, there's no denying that her daughter has been
doing better in the days she's been
out of Mrs. Hastings' care.
- Do you have a medical opinion as to the cause
of Janie's illnesses?
- Yes, her mother.
- Can you explain?
- The videotape you showed
-
-
- Your Honor, the defense again renews
its objection on the admission of said
videotape into evidence.
- Mr. Hygate, I've made my decision.
Ms. Paros, continue.
- How has this videotape changed your diagnosis?
- It helps confirm that Mrs. Hastings
suffers from a condition known as Munchausen syndrome
by proxy.
It's child abuse, wherein a parent feigns or manufactures
illness in the child.
- So the court fully understands,
you're contending that Mrs. Hastings has been deliberately
making her daughter sick.
- Oh, yes.
- Objection, leading the witness.
- Overruled.
- It's an unusual form of abuse, designed
to have the child subjected to unnecessary diagnostic tests
and treatments.
- Why would a mother do this?
- Typically, parents who perpetuate Munchausen's are
themselves diagnosed with hysteria,
sociopathy, and narcissistic or borderline
personality disorders.
- Do you have any doubt about your diagnosis, Dr. Lawrence?
- After viewing the videotape, absolutely not.
- Thank you.
- Dr. Lawrence, are you an expert on Munchausen syndrome
by proxy?
- Yes, one of a very few.
It's an underrecognized illness.
- And yet, without even an examination,
you've labeled my client as a sufferer of
this underrecognized illness.
Sure you're not a victim of your own expertise?
- In Mrs. Hastings' case, there were discrepancies
between history, clinical findings, and general health
of the child.
What's more, Janie's seizures and accidents were witnessed
only by Mrs. Hastings.
- I think you're reaching, Doctor.
There's a very sick little girl, and no one can figure out
what's wrong, so you plug in some bizarre diagnosis
to implicate my client.
What's the saying in the medical community?
Think horses, not zebras.
- Objection, badgering.
- Withdrawn.
Nothing further.
[classical music on car radio]
- Nice car.
- Thank you.
What the hell are you doing?!
- Go for a drive.
- Hey, pal, if you want money
-
-
- Light's green.
- And if you don't keep the revs above three grand,
the engine bogs down in a second.
- How about gas?
What kind?
- Unleaded, octane or better.
- Expensive.
- Maybe you should be stealing something more economical.
How about a Honda or a Toyota?
An American automobile.
You know, we're building more efficient, reliable
-
-
- A Porsche was on the top of my wish list.
Drive.
Whoa, get on the freeway.
- The freeway?
Look, you can have the car.
I'll even throw in a free t*nk of gas.
Just let me out.
- What do you say, jump on the freeway and change this music.
I hate classical music.
It's so old.
- Mind if I ask where we are headed?
- Las Vegas.
- Christmas in Vegas?
- Drive.
- What is it, Douglas?
- I have something to say about my gift.
- Happy to hear it.
- I hope you saved the receipt.
- Oh, how can you be so ungracious?
- It's easy.
My pocket watch was an heirloom, passed down by my father
from his father, from his father by
-
-
- Yes, Douglas.
- I've broken the legacy, and you
can't replace history like that with something store
-bought.
However misdirected, I appreciate the sentiment.
If my father were here, he wouldn't be angry.
Disappointed, which is much worse.
I let that watch slip from my grasp.
And now, my book as well.
- Oh.
I thought you were on the final chapter.
- My ghostwriter turned into a ghost.
Roger disappeared.
Now, I'll never see how my life story ends.
- Douglas.
You have so many things to be thankful for,
beginning with your freedom.
I just received a court notice delaying
Daniel's appeal for the release of Frank Osgood.
Now, there's a man that's going to spend his th Christmas
locked in a jail cell alone.
- Well, Leland, you put him there.
[banging]
- Gwen!
Gwen!
- Oh, now I know why I never use this machine.
Always eats my quarters.
- A man would rip it right off the wall.
Why is it when they can't deal with their emotions,
the response is always primal?
- I don't know.
I made a real mistake getting involved with Daniel.
- Daniel isn't sending you those weird gifts.
- You're relying on intuition?
- Well, that and the fact that my desk
is right outside his office.
Sometimes I hear him cooing to the baby, talking on the phone.
Behind that stoic mask is a man who's hiding a lot
of pain over his wife's death.
- Why is it men are afraid to show any weakness?
Maybe deep down, they're all just little boys
who don't know what they want.
I give up.
- Oh, you shouldn't.
And if you're interested in Daniel,
he deserves a second chance.
- No, I mean I give up on this machine.
I'm going to go use the ladies' room across the hall.
Thanks for your advice, though.
- Couldn't hurt taking a dose myself.
[keys clattering]
- Daniel?
- Oh, my god!
- Santa comes but once a year.
And then, it's down the chimney.
- Oh, you're disgusting.
- You kissed me.
Lean in, lean out.
You really know how to drive a guy wild.
- What are you doing back anyway?
- Just dropping off Christmas gifts
to go along with my resume.
Can't hurt, right?
- You ever approach me again, and I will
knee you back into puberty.
- OK, but first, can I have the ring?
I spent the last of my savings on that diamond.
- [scoffs] Diamond.
- . carats, could get Bugs Bunny through the winter.
[chuckles]
- Uh, Romney, listen.
I have to get back to you on that ring.
- These are your X
-rays from the latest MRI.
Tell me what you see here.
- Looks like a butterfly.
Joking.
- It's a cyst.
Probably formed post
-traumatically
during the healing process.
And now, it's placing pressure on your brain,
causing misfiring, known as uncinate fits.
- Is that why I felt that confusion?
- As well as the anger, the olfactory hallucinations, yes.
- What about my memory?
- You'll always have some loss.
- Can you operate?
- It may not be necessary.
I'd like to start you on a drug called Dilantin.
It should reduce the swelling, and hopefully, shrink the cyst.
And as your recovery progresses, we'll
gradually taper the medication.
- He'll be back to normal?
- Once the growth is gone, we'll take you off the
Dilantin altogether.
You shouldn't have any more of these problems.
- Oh, my god.
That's wonderful!
- I'll start the paperwork for Stuart's release.
- Sweetheart, I'm so happy for you.
For us.
- Me, too.
- You know, carjacking is one thing.
Grand theft auto, two years prison.
But as*ault with a deadly w*apon,
kidnapping
-
- you're looking at four to seven years, easy.
- I'll take my chances.
Besides, now I know a good lawyer.
- Maybe we should get back on the interstate.
Hey, what are you doing throwing your trash
out the window like that?!
- We're in the middle of nowhere!
- All the more reason!
No one's around to pick up after slobs like you
-
-
- Pull over.
- Wha
-
-
- To the side of the road.
- I didn't
-
-
- Stop.
[groans]
Pull over.
- OK.
- Come on.
- OK.
- Now hop out.
Go.
Go.
- Come on, you can't leave me out here!
It's freezing!
I could catch pneumonia!
Please, for a moment, be still, discover your inner security.
The more material possessions you acquire,
the more material possessions you might lose.
Is that owning or being owned?
- Beats me.
Woo
-hoo!
- Roxanne.
- I need to speak with you.
- Oh, gee, I'm pretty busy.
- Doing what?
There's no one else here.
- Well, you know, I can get a lot done when it's quiet.
- I think you're full of baloney.
- Pardon me?
- I need to know what's bothering you.
- Nothing.
- You were the one who wanted a relationship.
You can't have a relationship if you don't
talk to the person you're supposed
to be in a relationship with.
- And I'm telling you, there is nothing
-
-
- I know you better than that.
- What!
Do you think you're inside my head, huh?!
You're not.
- Don't yell at me.
- That's what I do.
I yell.
You're the one who listed all my great qualities.
I got lousy ones, too.
- Are you trying to prove I was wrong in asking
you to father a child?
- I am trying to let you see who I really am.
- You're working too hard at it, Tommy.
On Christmas.
- Mrs. Hastings, is it true your child has been severely
underweight most of her life?
- Janie's condition is known as a failure to thrive.
- I know what your doctors have listed.
What about witness accounts who claim you've
only given Janie breast milk?
- Well, whenever my daughter's tried baby food,
she breaks out in a rash or she gets diarrhea.
- That's not what the nurses say at the hospital.
- Ha!
Occasionally, she'll tolerate more than just milk.
But you can look over the pediatrician's records.
- Pediatricians, particularly those
dealing with children too young to speak,
rely on parental reporting.
Is it true?
- Yes.
- That gives you open license to fabricate symptoms.
- Objection.
- Sustained.
- Mrs. Hastings, why is it your first child
had three pediatricians, your daughter five?
- I'm particular.
It's not uncommon for a mother to have difficulty finding
a doctor that she likes.
- But isn't it true in your case, when
your pediatricians became suspicious of your reports,
you moved on?
- Objection.
Assumes facts, not in evidence.
- Withdrawn.
- Mrs. Hastings, you're diabetic?
- Objection!
Relevance!
- Latitude, Your Honor.
- I'll allow it.
- And as a diabetic, you regularly
give yourself sh*ts of insulin.
True?
- Yes.
- Tell me, what would a sh*t of insulin
do if injected into the system of a non
-diabetic?
You were a nurse once.
Certainly, you have some idea.
- Depending on the amount, the non
-diabetic
could be rendered comatose.
- Isn't it true what's seen in that
videotape is you causing the coma
-like
effects of hypoglycemia?
- Objection!
- What are you implying?
- You lied about Janie's condition,
falsified reports, deliberately induced
life
-threatening symptoms.
- I would never do that!
- Objection!
- Ms. Paros.
- Your Honor, medications are carefully
recorded at Cedric's Hospital.
There was an unaccounted for syringe with traces
of insulin found discarded
-
-
- I haven't done anything wrong!
- Mrs. Hastings, it's in the videotape.
- I was adjusting Janie's IV!
- You were injecting your daughter with insulin!
Isn't that what you were doing?
- Objection!
- And you've done so on more than one occasion!
Isn't that true?
- What!
- Those puncture marks on Janie's thighs
weren't caused by pins left in a new pair
of pajamas, but a needle!
- No!
- Fortunately, your daughter made a full recovery,
but you k*lled your son the very same way, isn't that true?
- I'm a good mother!
- You're not, Mrs. Hatings.
- I am!
I take care of my children!
- You hurt them!
- Objection!
- Ms. Paros!
- You hurt your daughter!
You k*lled your son!
- [CRYING] He
-
- he
-
-
he was only supposed to get sick!
He wasn't supposed to die!
- Your Honor, request to recess.
- [CRYING] I didn't mean to!
I'm a good mother!
[ominous music]
[music playing]
- Oh, well, with such a large office staff and so many people
sharing their goodies, food certainly adds up.
- I told my mother what Douglas said about Greek food.
She took it personally.
[non
-english speech] Bless her, she even made moussaka.
- Congratulations on winning the Hastings case.
- Well, that wasn't much of a victory.
What kind of future will that little girl have?
No family.
- At least she will have a future.
Justice was served.
- The only person I told about that verdict
was Janie's doctor at Cedric's.
- Well, I have a friend on the hospital board,
and they just called.
- You had that camera placed in the children's ward.
- Had I told you, I would have risked tainting the evidence.
- That took courage, Leland.
Thank you.
For believing in me.
- Welcome to McKenzie Brackman.
- I bought this for
-
-
for Lucy, and now she lost her other one.
- She loves Elmo.
Thank you.
- Look, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.
- Whatever that means.
- I don't know anything about you.
Yet, you're always so nice, so solicitous.
Are you the one that's haunting me?
- What makes you think it's me?
- Enough fairy tales, Daniel.
- Cinderella's glass slipper, Red Riding Hood's cloak,
Snow White's heart.
No wonder you've been avoiding me.
Gwen, I would never do this.
- I
-
- I know it's pretty insubstantial evidence.
I just
-
- I've been so off
-balance lately.
- Me, too.
When Alison was
-
- my wife
-
-
she was pregnant, we used to talk
about all the wonderful things we were
going to share in our baby's life,
especially Lucy's first Christmas.
Alison really loved the holidays.
She'd see something in a store and have to buy it right then
and there, because it'd make the perfect gift
for her sister or my mother.
All year long, every time I'd open
a closet, somebody else's present
would fall out and hit me on the head.
[laughs]
You were the first woman I kissed since she d*ed.
- Oh, thank god!
- Becker, what are you doing in the middle of the desert?
Waiting for the fourth wise man?
- Don't flatter yourself.
[door shuts]
- You know, there are coyotes out here.
Rattlesnakes, too.
- I'll take my chances, but I'm sure you'd feel right at home.
- Oh, such hostility in such a holy place.
- I'm sure it's no coincidence, the carjacking,
our crossing paths like this.
So I'd appreciate it if you'd just get my car back.
A joke's a joke, but I'm tired of being the punchline!
- Look at all those stars.
More than on Hollywood Boulevard.
Moses wandered years in the desert.
If he'd had a compass, how different the world would be.
- You're mixing up your holidays.
- Becker, I don't know why we've run into each other.
Kismet.
Who can tell?
[WHISPERING] Oh, I know.
Is that Darrow?
- Why are you whispering? [YELLING]
No one's around for hundreds of miles!
- Shh!
Listen!
What do you hear?
- The wind.
- That's right.
And powerful changes are about to blow through.
This is big.
But because you're an honest and honorable man,
I've been reluctant to compromise
your professional ethics regarding Worldwide Studios.
- What?
A merger, a buyout, what?
- You're warm.
- I wish I was.
- Pending your meeting with Eric Schuller,
I want you to join me at the studio.
- No more jokes.
- You'll be looking for hot properties,
green
-lighting movies.
With your youth and my savvy, we'll be unbeatable.
You are going to be a major player in Hollywood.
- How major?
- I'll tell you on the drive home.
[laughter]
- Squeeze in.
- Come on.
[distant howling]
- Come on in.
- Young lady, what in the world are you doing?
Don't you know Santa knows when you're sleeping?
He knows when you're awake.
Something I always thought was kind of scary.
Gosh, you sure look good, though.
Oh!
Can't you sleep?
Oh.
When I couldn't sleep, my mom used to sing me something.
A little lullaby.
Wanna hear it?
[baby crying]
[singing in greek]
- Something certainly smells good.
- I don't know what this stuff is called, but I like it.
- Mm!
Pass me a plate, Benny.
- Night, folks.
- Where are you headed?
- Home.
- Alone? Nonsense.
Come with me.
Share a goose with Sheila and the boys.
But first, try this.
- Oh, it's good.
- Hey, everyone.
- Whoa, who's the cook?
- Melina's mother.
- We hired the wrong relative.
- Where is Melina anyway?
- Last time I saw Paros, she was on her way out.
- Hey, look!
The g*ng's all here!
- Hey, Stuart!
- Hey, Leland.
How are you?
- Good to see you.
- Good to be back.
- I understand all charges were suspended.
- You never know when you'll need
a friend in the DA's office.
- How are you feeling, Stuart?
- I'm feeling just great. Thanks.
- No more headaches?
- No, none.
I'm feeling fine, and let's not talk about my problems.
We got a party here.
- Yeah, finally.
- Who's heard from Jonathan?
- According to his itinerary, he would be in Mozambique.
- Mr. Brackman, your watch?
Lincoln found your watch!
- Hey, Lincoln!
- Good dog, Lincoln.
Now, this calls for a celebration.
- While we're gathered
-
-
- Leland, you just can't help yourself.
- Friends, family, I wish you a healthy
and a prosperous new year.
May the saddest days of your future
be no worse than the happiest days of your past.
- Merry Christmas, everybody!
- Merry Christmas!
- Merry Christmas, everybody.
- Merry Christmas.
- Who can I help with some food?
- [laughs] Merry Christmas, Douglas.
[music playing]
[door opens]
- Here we are again.
- I'm glad you came.
I
-
- I didn't want to be alone tonight.
Rox, I don't know what this holiday is all about.
For you, it's reliving warm, fuzzy moments.
For me, my memories are of a drunken
father, a crying mother, and a terrified baby brother.
Actually, Christmas, New Year, and my old man's birthday
were the best days of the year.
He was too drunk to catch me and smack me around.
Funny thing is, I always felt like I kind
of deserved getting popped.
- You're a sweet, wonderful person.
You deserve good things, Tommy.
I can't convince you of that.
You have to convince yourself.
- I'm trying.
Scout's honor.
And I'm no quitter, Rox.
- Me neither.
Merry Christmas.
- I didn't buy any
-
-
Thanks.
What is this?
- I, uh
-
- took a home pregnancy test.
- It's blue.
We're going to have a baby?
- We're going to have a baby.
Oh!
[theme music]
07x08 - Christmas Stalking
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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.