06x04 - George Testi-Lies for Benny

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no good can be served by sending bonita lopez to prison

as an accessory to a robbery her boyfriend committed?



Thank you.

The defense rests.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

Once you've reached your verdict, please inform the bailiff.

BANG!

Bailiff, can you give me a minute with my mother, please?

So that we may pray that gays.

Can Mary...

I'm working on juror number four.

Hello.

I'm not worried, okay, because I have found the juror

who's going to acquit me, number eight.

The old guy with the watery eye?

Well, I don't know about his eyes, but...

His mouth was watering when I bent over and gave him a shot of Exhibits A and B.

My God, Mom, you're going to hang like Exhibits A and B.

I give you credit, Penny.

I wouldn't be able to make jokes if 12 strangers were about to decide whether or not I go to prison.

Yeah.

Well, I'm tougher than you. Who knew?

Hey, listen, could you go get me a candy bar from the vending machine?

March.

What if they convict me?

I thought you weren't worried.

Well, I didn't want the princess to hear.

Mom, I know it's hard to wait.

But the lawyer said that the longer the jury's out, the better for you.

It means someone in there is fighting for you.

The jury's back.

This is not good.

George.

Mom.

Look, he doesn't know anything.

Keep the prison van here. I got one more coming.

That's a little more troubling.

Everyone, please be seated.

Thank you for watching.



Mr. Foreman, has the jury come to a decision?

Oh, yeah, in the hall on the way to the jury room.

How do you find?

If you find the defendant, Benita Lopez, guilty as charged.

So says the jury.

What? This is crazy!

Now there are murderers and rapists running around loose on the streets and you...

Are going to put me in jail?

You are the 12 dumbest people I've ever seen.

Mom.

What?

They're still sentencing.

I'm sorry I shouted.

It's the hormones.

I'm pregnant.

Don't make me have my baby in jail.

Well, that was a setback.

Setback? My mom's looking at hard time.

Oh, not necessarily, George.

If we can show your mom in a sympathetic light, maybe we can get her probation.

But we need character witnesses to speak well of Benny.

can we hire actors

I'm assuming you'll speak about what kind of mother she was.

Can we hire actors?

What about the judge?

Even if the jury wants to send her to prison,

can't they be overruled?

Yes.

But unfortunately, I have a problematic history with Judge Alvarez.

As you young people say,

I hid it and proceeded to quit it.

You know what? I'll speak for my mom.

So will I.

What about you?

Love to help.

I don't really know Benny that well.

Now, if you need someone to just sit on the stand and look hot, I can do that.

Oh, that's a cheap and obvious move.

Let's try it.

You know what? I don't want to take any chances here.

So what else can I do to help my mom?

You know, it might be helpful.

if one of her parents testified.

Are they alive?

Her mom is.

I'll track her down.

But they haven't talked for 40 years.

Benny's parents kicked her out when she got pregnant, George.

Well, you know what? She's older now.

Maybe she wants to make up with Benny before it's too late.

What if she doesn't?

Well then.

Saski, I'll just turn on the Lopez charm.

You see, I could get a woman to do anything.

I got you to go out with me in high school, didn't I?

I went out with you because I felt sorry for you.

Not in front of company!

You never back me up!

Hey, did my grandma call?

Yeah, she hit traffic, but she'll be here any minute.

Dad.

What's your grandma like?

I don't know, Max. I only heard my mom's story.

She's supposed to be old school.

Oh, George, George, George, tell them about the time

that Benny got in trouble with the nuns.

Oh, yeah, one day my mom mouthed off in class,

and the nuns hit her with a ruler.

They were like that.

Then when she got home and her mom found out what happened,

she hit her with a switch.

She was like that.

Move your hand! Move your hand!

Then her dad came home and beat her mom

because dinner was late.

That's horrible

Did anyone beat him?

Tequila and a curve in the freeway.

Max.

Go wash up for dinner.

Thanks for watching!

Uh-oh, she's here!

You know what? I'm gonna go out the front door.

Hey.

You don't want to meet her?

Dude, she gave birth to Benny.

How bad can she be?

I mean, she must have mellowed

if she came all the way down here to help Benny.

Actually, I told her that my mom was shot.

you lied to her i thought you were going to use the lopez charm

It didn't work. I can't do my puppy dog eyes over the phone.

GRANDMA!

Cheers.

It's great to finally meet you.

It's too bad that it took my mom being in the hospital to finally bring us together.

I'm his wife, Angie.

Thank you.

Nice to meet you.

Yeah, you too.

How's Benny doing?

She's in a semi-private room and there are people watching her like 24 hours a day

How did this happen you rushed me off the phone before I could add she wrote you a letter asking for your

forgiveness

And then she went to the post office to mail it then a postal worker who had just been fired. Wait a minute. That

makes sense

Shut up the place grandma

All right, so we'll go to the hospital first thing in the morning.

Figured you'd be too exhausted to cook, so I brought some homemade tamales.

When are you going to tell her?

Tchau, gente.

If you could cook, I'd tell her right now.

I'm gonna get some tamales first.

George, isn't there some news

you should tell your grandma before you eat?

Yeah, I guess I could tell her now.

Tell me what?

You know how grandmas are supposed to spoil you

and give you candy and forgive you when you lie?

what's going on.

I lied.

My mom didn't get shot. I just said that to get you down here.

She's in jail.

That's why I'm here?

Let's see.

You owe me a hundred bucks for the gas,



Look, my mom needs your help.

If you say something nice about her at her sentencing hearing tomorrow,

she might not have to go to prison.

And 12 bucks for the salsa verde.

You know, you got a lot to make up for, too, you know,

with the beatings and everything.

Oh.

I never laid a hand on Benny.

If anything, we were much too easy on her and look what happened.

She got pregnant and ran away.

Wait a minute, she said you kicked her out.

I kicked her.

She left on her own, and my husband, may he rest in peace.

Never got over the shame.

that you brought on this family.

Well, as the shame.

I'd like to ask you for a favor

I've had my own problems with my mom.

but I'm going to suck it up and say something nice on the stand,

and I'd like for you to do the same.

This could be your last chance to make up with your daughter.

I'll do it.

You can get past what she did to you.

I can get past my own problems.

Thank you.

And I'll tell you, that girl has caused us both a lot of grief.

Amen, Granny. Donitos.

i'm sure you wonder what it would have been like if that other family hit you

What other family?

Once she tried to give you a way to.

Uh-oh.

No, you mean my sister, right?

She tried to give my sister away.

No, no, no, no, no.

She gave you away first.

But the family returned you

Honey.

You know how much I love you.

But.

I have to stay.

Your life is really jacked up.

Did you reach your mom?

No, the jail wouldn't put my call through.

Honey.

I know you're still upset about Benny trying to give you away,

but I hope that's not going to influence your testimony.

You know, just a little at the end.

So I don't think my mother should go to prison.

for an old robbery charge.

when her real crime was giving away her only son.

I hate her, I hate her so much.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

George.

You can't do that to your mom!

Yes.

She tried to give you away, but she did raise you.

Because she was stuck with me.

She never wanted me, Angie.

I mean, you know what it's like to feel unwanted.

No, I don't.

I've been wanted my whole life.

The people who don't get to have me are disappointed,

and I have to live with that.

Okay, it's not the same.

What the...

George.

You can't get on that stand and condemn Benny.

Look, I don't think I can go up there and say anything nice about her.

Not now.

But-

Honey.

I know.

She hurt you.

This is your chance to be the bigger person.

I don't want to be the bigger person!

I want to be small and mean.

Like a scorpion, I'll be like that.

and I get you all distracted by my pinchers.

oh but you forgot about my tail don't you realize you're consumed by your own anger and and when you

sting her

Your tail is gonna fall off and you'll die.

That's a B! You don't know nothing! I win!

Hello, Benita.

Mom?

What is she doing here?

She's going to test the...

She is the last person who would want to help me.

Ha, ha, ha.

I wouldn't say the last

All right, let's get started

The defense may call its first character witness.

Or maybe he'd rather send an email.

Two weeks later.

To let her know it's over.

My client has been found guilty.

And I know that once you hear from her loved ones.

You're going to see her in a different light.

I think her son, George Lopez, would like to say a few words.

Pass.

What are you doing?

Paz, what do I got nothing to say?

Adjourned.

Okay.

We call Luisa Diaz the defendant's mother.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mrs. Diaz, would you like to tell the court something about your daughter?

Benito was smart and hardworking.

So she had to quit school and go to work to help support the family.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

She never helped us.

She had to leave school because she got knocked up.

And it took a lot of courage to keep the child.

And raise it on her own.

Ah!

I wouldn't know.

That's the choice that she made when she decided to leave home.

What?

That's not what happened?

I had to leave. What was I supposed to do?

Stay there and let you hit me some more?

Order.

Why do you have to twist things?

We spanked you, sometimes in the face.

you shouldn't have done that

Well, you got what you deserve for running around like a little wh*re!

Order!

I told you never to call me that!

Then you should never have acted like one.

I knew you would end up like this!

WORTHLESS!

All right.

You can step down now.

I've changed my mind.

Got something to say.

Why not?

Wasn't gonna come up here today, but

Now I feel I have to.

My mom may have made some.

mistakes in her life, but when someone like that raises you.

What do you expect?

She doesn't deserve to be punished.

for a stupid decision she made a long time ago.

She's never committed another crime.

She's worked at the same job for.



So I'm asking you.

as her son.

Don't send my mom to prison.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching!

Your testimony helped a lot.

I got probation, a couple of hundred hours of community service.

All I have to do is pick up trash from the freeway.

Really?

Which one? Maybe I'll run into you.

Angie told me what my mom said

I know you got some crying to do

So let's just get over with

Go

We don't have anything to talk about.

I'll see you at work tomorrow, Benny.

Benny

So I'm not your mom anymore.

You didn't want to be my mom when you gave me away.

I got you back. I begged for you.

Look.

After a week, the family gave you back and got a puppy instead.

You didn't care about what happened to me, did you?

Here, I stopped at the house and got this.

What's this?

It's an agreement that I made with the Delgados.

family that took

Raise him as if he were your own.

Tell them you love them.

Hug him every day and make him feel like he's special.

I had conditions.

What's this? It looks like you tried to white something out.

No. No, no. I didn't give it back.



What is this?

We're negotiating.

you sold me what did they pay for the puppy

Now, George.

Uh, that dog came from a long line of champions.

So I'm worth less than a dog?

Not just any dog, George, a championship dog!

Look.

They offered me the money. It wasn't about that.

I was 16, and I was scared.

I wanted to give you a better life.

I'll see you next time.

Well, then why didn't you do?

The things you asked the other family to do!

Because I didn't think I could do it.

You saw my mom?

She wasn't exactly a great teacher when somebody needed to feel special.

You know.

You're supposed to do better for your kids.

Believe it or not, I did.

Thank you.

Takk for at du så med.

Good to meet you, George.

And I guess I'll see you at your next trial, huh?

Not unless I see you at your funeral first.

I've outlived your father.

And your brother.

We'll see who's next.

I don't know.

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Damn, I think some flowers died when she walked by them.

Okay, well, you know what, maybe you did do.

better.

I'll see you tomorrow at work.

Hey.

Called me mom.

All right, I'm back.

Now I suppose you want a hug and...

Like, I love you.

You know, I don't need.

Thank you.

Hey, Max.

Thanks for watching!

Love you, man.

Okay?

Say it back

Or next time we do it in front of your friends.

I love you, Dad.

Come on, man.

Hadi.

Give me a hug.

Come on, hug me like you mean it.

Sasuke, I'll trade you for a puppy.