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BERLUTI: I thought
they said 9:00.

YOUNG: They did.

WASHINGTON:
Do we really think

they're going to settle now,

12 hours before we start?

That's when they all settle.

BERLUTI: Maybe we should put
our jackets on.

I read an article,

lawyers look more formidable

in their coats.

Jimmy,
they're coming in here

to either settle or not.

I doubt it'll turn
on whether or not

we're wearing jackets.

(door opens)

They're here.

Show them in.

(door closes)

Sorry we're a little late.

It's okay.

Please.

We're declining
to make an offer.

Any offer?

Look, how you got past
Summary Judgment

still remains a mystery.

The point is, we did.

Eugene, you would have
rejected the number

we were toying with anyway.

But the feeling is that

the precedent of any number

would be exponentially
devastating.

If every problem drinker
starts suing us--

WASHINGTON:
This problem drinker is dead.

Rebecca, it's not that
we don't sympathize.

WASHINGTON: You just
won't cough up a nickel.

Look me in the eye
and tell me

that you would advise
my client to settle here.

All right, look,

you came all the way over here
at 9:30 at night,

is there room for negotiation

or are you just messengers
for bad news?

The latter.

$125,000, sealed,

no admission of liability.

We can't on principle.

This was a kid.

He died of alcoholism.

Your client bears
some responsibility,

and you won't take it
on principle?

Okay, look, this need not
to get ugly.

We'll see you tomorrow.

Do the research on us, Mark,
would you?

Meaning?

When we try cases,

it gets ugly.

Eugene, this isn't criminal.

This is a civil case.

Lawyers tend to be--

what's the word?

Civil.

I don't think you scared them.

(music playing)

JOSHUA: He began to have
a problem in high school

in his senior year.

BERLUTI:
A drinking problem?

JOSHUA: Yes, I mean,
it wasn't that he was

terribly into parties.

Michael was an athlete.

But it started with beer

and it sort of shifted
into hard alcohol.

His mother and I got him

into a treatment program.

Was this successful?

Yes, for a year or two.

But then in college,

he got into the frat scene.

There was, uh...

What happened?

JOSHUA:
His grades suffered.

He didn't graduate.

His friends abandoned him.

We did an intervention
in 1999.

In April 2000,
he was released.

He spiraled down from there.

He was living on the streets.

He died of alcohol poisoning

that spring.

And you're blaming
Portiss Brewery

for your son's death?

He primarily drank
their beer

in high school.

I'm certainly aware that
there were other beers,

but for the most part,

it was Portiss.

Did he have other difficulties?

None.

Michael was an athlete.

He admired athletes.

He watched all those
beer commercials

they run during the games.

He saw his favorite
ballplayers

endorsing Portiss
and other beers

like they were
nutrition drinks.

These companies
targeted my son

and other young kids.

Drinking is cool.

Drinking will get you girls.

Well, it is not cool.

Drinking killed my son.

Is it your testimony, sir,

your son thought beer

was a nutritional drink

when he began consuming it?

That question reflects
the very arrogance

of your client,

who refuses
to take responsibility

for contributing
to a young man's death.

Do you take any
responsibility, Mr. Berry?

Your son was underage,

drinking illegally.

Let me ask you,
do you drink?

In moderation.

Responsibly?

Yes.

GRUNDEL: Your son
was raised in a household

where his parents
drank moderately

and responsibly?

Yes.

And when your son entered

his high school years,

did you ever talk to your son

about the dangers of drinking?

Many times.

You feel you adequately
informed him

as to all of the risks?

Look, no matter
what parents say,

it is hard to compete
with the images of fun

and social acceptance

that is being marketed

by the alcohol industry.

GRUNDEL: My question is,

do you feel you adequately

informed your son

as to the potential risks

of consuming alcohol?

Yes.

Thank you, sir.

And I'm very sorry
for your loss.

I thought alcohol companies

were exempt
from these lawsuits.

No one is exempt
from fraud.

They lie when they say

they don't market to kids.

HATCHER:
Can I help you?

Yes, I'm looking
for Ellenor Frutt.

I'm Ellenor Frutt.

Hello, my name
is Stephen Marshall.

I'd like to hire you.

Is there someplace
we can talk?

(door opens)

(door closes)

I guess I should just
get right to it.

I'm the warden of Goffstown
Correctional facility

in New Hampshire.

One of my inmates
is Denise Freeman.

She shot two young boys

who were playing
in the park.

She's scheduled to be
executed next week.

It's the first execution
in New Hampshire

in many years.

So, maybe you read about it.

I hadn't actually.

How can I help?

I'd like you to stop it.

Her execution?

Yes.

I read where you got
a death sentence

overturned several years ago.

I drove down here on the chance

that you could possibly
work your magic again.

You're the warden
trying to halt

the execution.

Yes.

Are you against
the death penalty?

No, not at all. No.

In fact, I think we should
employ it more often.

But we shouldn't be killing
Denise Freeman.

She's not the same person

who committed those crimes.

I know they all claim that,

but she really isn't.

That's why I drove down here

to convince you to help save

an extraordinary woman.

Oh, don't you even dare.

This is Sheila Berry.

She was just awarded
"Sister of the year."

Shut up!
North America only.

She competes for world
"Sister of the year"

next month.
Yeah, and I score

special endurance points

for having you
as my little brother.

Let me tell you
a little bit about Sheila.

Let's not.
She makes up her own words

playing scrabble.

She--
No, I don't.

That was your brother,
Michael?

Yes.

Does that video fairly
reflect his personality?

He had an amazing
sense of humor.

He was shy. You don't get that
from the video.

He was very shy.

I think that was one
of the reasons

he drank at parties.

Socially, he was
a little uncomfortable

until he got
to know people.

When was the last time

you saw your brother?

About a month
before he died.

Where did you see him?

My apartment.

He came...

to ask me for money.

He was living
on the streets.

Did you loan him money?

I told him he could
move in with me

if he wanted to,

but I wasn't gonna
give him money

so he could just go
buy liquor.

I begged him to get help

but he just walked away.

That was the last time
I ever saw him.

I have nothing further.

No questions, Your Honor.

It isn't exactly
great timing for us

to be taking
a pro bono case.

I'm not saying I definitely
want to take it on,

but...

I'd like to meet with her,

see who she is, what she is.

She's in New Hampshire?

Yes.

I thought I would
drive up there

with Jamie this afternoon.

Evidently, she runs this
"Talk straight" program

for troubled kids that...

the warden came here
personally.

I really think I should go.

I'll say yes
with one word of caution,

protect yourself.

I'm sure there'll
either be a guard

or a partition or--

I'm not talking
physically.

You're about
to emotionally invest

in somebody who, odds are,

will be dead in a week.

I won't invest emotionally.

Right.

Protect yourself.

BLOOMBERG: The cause of death
was alcohol poisoning.

Doctor, Michael Berry
went in and out

of many treatment programs.

Why couldn't he be cured?

Because he was addicted.

You mean, he lacked
the will to stop?

BLOOMBERG:
That oversimplifies it.

People think alcoholics

lack willpower.

I wish it were that easy.

The brain chemistry
is changed.

Telling a severely
impaired alcoholic

not to drink
is like telling someone

not to go to the bathroom.

We're talking about
an overwhelming urge

related to a bodily function.

Come on, doctor,
it's not like

he had no choice here.

He chose
to drink initially.

BLOOMBERG: Of course he did,

like smokers choose to smoke,

like people choose
to use cocaine.

But once the addiction
took hold,

he was robbed
of his free will.

That kid was dying
on the street,

homeless, for God's sake.

Does anybody think
he chose that?

GRUNDEL: Many alcoholics
do recover.

As do many smokers.

That doesn't mean
the addiction's not real.

But, doctor,
you make it sound like

an involuntary affliction,

when, in fact, as you--
I make it sound like

a disease, Counsel.

The very definition
of disease

is an involuntary disability,

which Michael Berry had.

May I be allowed
to finish my questions?

BLOOMBERG: You may,
but if you wrongfully

restate my answers,
I'll interrupt.

WEEKS: Doctor,
this isn't a rugby match.

GRUNDEL:
What is the likelihood

if one drinks moderately

that he or she will become
addicted to alcohol?

I can't answer that.

No one can.

Alcohol affects people
differently.

We need to do more studies,

which they haven't done.

GRUNDEL:
In your experience,

if someone
drinks moderately,

how likely is it--

It's extremely likely
that young kids

won't drink moderately--

If a person
drinks responsibly

in moderation,

he or she is not likely

to become addicted.

That would be fair.

Thank you.

I need you to look
at me, Janice.

You see, we're on a bit
of a time crunch here.

I'm scheduled to be killed
next week.

If I'm gonna help you,

I need to make fast progress.

Now, how about we...

let that anger give way
to greed, then?

You will probably be
the last person

who gets to talk to me.

You could write an article,

get paid for it.

Lots of good things
could come from you

talking to me.

Janice...

it all starts with your eyes

finding mine.

MARSHALL: I can't tell you
how many kids

whose lives she's rerouted.

She connects
with every single one, too.

She'll get to this one, too.

You watch.

All the appeals
are exhausted?

MARSHALL: Every one.

There's a petition
for a stay

with the Supreme Court,

but that's not going
to happen.

Look, as I said,

I'm pro-death penalty,

but this one,

she's something.

The problem is that
I am also a murderer.

At least, I was before
I got on the medication.

I shot a 13-year-old boy

playing on a jungle gym,

and then I pointed the gun

and shot his
11-year-old brother.

I was every bit the monster

the prosecution
made me out to be.

You need to be clear
about that.

You mentioned medication.

What medication?

I've been on
a psychotropic cocktail

for the last eight years.

And before you took it?

Monster.

You weren't listening.

FRUTT: Did you argue
diminished capacity

at the trial?

Yes, it failed.

The jury saw me sane

since I was medicated
for the trial, also.

Forced?

Sorry?

The medication
you took for the trial

was it forced?

Well it had to be,

I had no capacity to consent.

Why?

I'm just searching
for an angle.

Well, the insanity
one's been tried.

We need to come up
with something else.

FRUTT: You seem...

well, most death-row inmates

have a little
desperation going,

especially as the day
gets closer.

Is there a way
you want me to act?

No, but...

FREEMAN: You know,
the funny thing is,

there's a calm
that comes with it.

Actually
I'm a prolific worrier.

But now, you know,

I'm not afraid
of getting cancer,

financial security,

problems in the Middle East.

None of that gets to me.

I--I'm gonna be dead
in a week.

There's a calm that comes.

(scoffs)

Underneath the cool.

I'm gonna be dead in a week.

Do I really need to make

a showing of desperation?

PICKFORD: Alcohol addiction

is both genetic and social.

Some of the predisposition

is in the brain chemistry.

Some of it obviously
is environmental,

how a person lives.

But, doctor,

my question is,

is it possible a person

can become addicted
to alcohol

without drinking
excessively?

We have not proven it,

but my opinion is

it's absolutely possible.

How?

Well, the limbic system
in the brain

is very different in people

who suffer from alcoholism.

How do we know this?

Autopsies.

Problem is, we can't be sure
what came first.

Is it the alcoholism
that altered the brain

or is it the abnormal brain

that caused the alcoholism?

It may very well be

that many people
are born alcoholics

waiting to happen.

Michael Berry
could have been one of them.

Have you found
a single person

who became an alcoholic

who didn't drink
excessively?

No, but the reason
he drank heavily

could be the genetic makeup
of his brain.

That's what people don't get.

Did you study the brain
of Michael Berry?

No, because no autopsy
was ever done.

So you have no idea
as to the genetic makeup

of the plaintiff?

That's correct.

(knocks on door)

Hey.

How's it going?

So far, so good.

The case is still
a long shot,

but we'll see.

Your brother?

Yeah.

Hard to believe,
almost nine years

since he died.

He was an alcoholic.

Is that in play at all?

Did you come in to check
on the case or me?

I know you fully appreciate

the difficulty of the case.

I do wonder whether
that appreciation

could get blurred

by a sense of...

mission.

I'm not on a mission.

Did alcohol
help kill my brother?

Yes, but that hardly puts me
in a small group.

Half the adult population
in this country

has alcoholism
in their family.

That's a point worth arguing.

I plan to!

Eugene, I feel like
it's getting harder

and harder for you and me

just to have a conversation.

Bobby, you didn't
come in here to have

a conversation.

You came in here worried
about my objectivity

because of how my brother...

Like you say,

I have a full appreciation

of the difficulty of the case,

and if an offer does come in,

I'll recommend settlement
to the client.

Okay.

(door closes)

FREEMAN: I think
the biggest problem

with my insanity defense
was that

it played
so stereotypically.

I heard voices.

I thought they were
a mandate from God.

You know,
there's somebody like me

on Dateline once a week.

I think the jury just went,

"Yeah, yeah, next."

And the actual diagnosis?

Paranoid schizophrenia.

Do you have a memory
of the killings?

They haven't found
the medication yet

to erase memory.

Can you tell me
what you remember?

Can you tell me
how that's relevant?

Denise...

as you said to that young girl,

we're a little crunched
for time.

So I need you
to let me be the lawyer

and trust me to decide

what's relevant.

If the memory's vivid,
I want to know.

If not, I want
to know that, too.

Tell me what you remember.

In the moment,
time slowed down.

I saw the bullets travel.

I saw them floating
through the air

like feathers.

They hit the skulls.

Two incredibly
sweet little boys.

These floating feathers

just made their heads go

(imitates explosion).

That vivid enough?

Alcoholism is something

we all need
to be concerned with,

and we are at Portiss.

I guess the question becomes,

how do you manifest
that concern?

CARROLL: First,
by putting warnings

on every single
one of our products.

But I'll tell you something,

we probably should do

a better job of publicizing

the health benefits.

The benefits?

CARROLL: Absolutely.

Studies now show
that having a drink or two

of alcohol every day

can help fight
heart disease.

Evidence is now coming in

that it can even promote
mental health

and possibly prevent
Alzheimer's.

Some doctors are recommending
to their patients

that they consume moderate
amounts of alcohol

to promote general health,

well-being, and longevity.

Is the defendant testifying

in the narrative?

Mr. Carroll,

a young man died here.

And it's a tragedy.

My heart goes out
to his family.

I had a nephew who was killed

by a drunk driver,

and I'm angry about it
to this day.

But I'll tell you,

this country as a whole

is vigilant about this.

We have mothers
against drunk drivers.

We have PSAs
on every channel.

In our own advertisements,

we warn about drinking
and driving.

This isn't some obscure,

latent peril lurking
in the bushes.

The message on irresponsible
drinking is out there,

and it's been out there
for many, many years.

Our industry...

has spent millions of dollars
on that message.

And I'll tell you
something else

the majority
of Americans get it.

Objection!

Mr. Grundel, you need
to ask your client a question.

He only need respond
to that question.

Mr. Carroll,
what about the specific problem

of underage drinking?

We fund numerous
educational awareness programs

more than
any other industry.

We pay to train vendors
not to sell to kids.

We agree with the law
which raises

the legal drinking age
from 18 to 21.

And let's think about that.

You can vote,
you can fight in a war,

you're considered an adult
for the purpose of the law

in every single way
at the age of 18

and we still say,

"Whoa. We're gonna
make you wait

an additional three years

before you can drink."

Why?

Because we recognize the need

for maturity
and responsibility.

In fact, the only thing
left for us to do

would be to ban
alcohol altogether.

We tried that
in this country once

and it didn't work.

DONNELL:
Run that by me again.

FRUTT: It's not
as crazy as it sounds.

DONNELL: Just the same,
once more.

Okay.

She stops taking the meds,

in which case
she regresses quickly,

I might add,
according to the doctors.

Once she becomes
schizophrenic again,

we get the diagnosis
of insanity.

Supreme Court
has expressly held

the Eighth Amendment
prohibits executing the insane.

They also held
you can force-medicate

to make a person sane.

STRINGER: They upheld
forced medication

to make a defendant
competent for trial.

Not necessarily
for punishment.

FRUTT: Bobby, I can't think
of anything else.

You want to
take her off the meds?

FRUTT: And try
and stop the execution

on the grounds
that she's insane.

At a minimum,
it could buy us time.

The death penalty
is vulnerable.

Time is time.

What do we have to lose?

YOUNG: How much money
does the alcohol industry

make per year?

A lot.

You're a major manufacturer.

I'm sure you can get
more specific

than "a lot,"
can't you, Mr. Carroll?

It's in the billions.

It's close
to $120 billion a year,

$120 billion.

Which contributes to a healthier

U.S. economy, Mr. Young,

and employs hundreds
of thousands of Americans.

Thank you for that.

And how much money
does your company

spend to build or contribute

to treatment facilities
for alcohol abuse?

We make beer, Mr. Young.

We're not
in the hospital business.

The answer is zero?

CARROLL: No, it is not.

We donate a great deal of money
to prevention programs.

A great deal?
More or less than 1%

of what you spend
promoting alcohol use?

Hey, since it's voluntary--

Less than 1%?

I'd have
to check the figures.

Well, I have some figures.

Your industry takes in a hundred
and twenty billion a year,

fifteen million Americans
struggle with alcoholism--

Look, our product
is only dangerous

when used excessively.

So as aspirin,
for that matter.

Aspirin?

You're just like aspirin?

You understand my point,
Counsel.

When used responsibly--

Do you advertise
to young people?

Not underage, we don't.

Your key target demo is
21 to 25-year-olds, isn't it?

Which is perfectly legal.

What research do you do
to make sure

those ads intended
for 21-year-olds

don't influence
19-year-olds?

Look--
Are you aware, sir,

that underage kids
are drinking your beer?

We take every step to ensure
that doesn't happen,

but parents have to take
some responsibility.

YOUNG: You're aware...

minors drink your beer?

We're aware that
it happens sometimes.

YOUNG: Sometimes?

You're aware underage kids
are responsible

for 12% of the consumption

of all your beer,
aren't you?

That figure is debatable.

And that over 90%
of all the alcohol consumed

by underage drinkers
is for bingeing.

Is that debatable?

We do not target
underage drinkers!

Well, according
to the surgeon general,

over half of all high school
juniors and seniors drink.

But you don't target them?

CARROLL:
We make it our business

to curtail underage drinkers.

Really?

Besides those sex
and alcohol commercials,

what else?
Objection!

YOUNG: What the hell
do you do to curtail it?!

Objection!
WEEKS: Mr. Young...

YOUNG: Two-thirds
of underage drinkers

buy their own beer,
Mr. Carroll!

That's a vendor problem, not--

YOUNG: Oh, I see,
It's not your problem?

You just make the stuff
and put the logo on blimps?

Objection!

Mr. Young!

This kid couldn't so much

as watch a baseball game--

WEEKS: Mr. Young.
--without hearing your jingle,

Mr. Carroll, and he's dead.
He's dead!

WEEKS: Mr. Young, that's enough!

And you sit here testifying
nothing you can do.

Nothing you can do
for Michael Berry.

Go off my medication?

The Supreme Court has said

we can't execute the insane.

It's our last best shot.

Up until now, we have argued,

"Don't kill her. She's not
the monster she used to be."

And now you want me
to go off my medication

so that you can argue,
"Don't kill her.

She is the monster
she used to be"?

Yes.

And then, after that,

we'll argue that
it's cruel and unusual

to keep you insane
and we'll hopefully

get you on the meds again.

Oh, that sounds...

Perverse.

It is, and they will no doubt
try to force-medicate you.

It's been upheld in the past

but I have a better chance
at beating it.

How long after you stopped
taking the medication before--

It won't take long.

Okay.

I'm gonna draft up the document
stating your intent.

I'm gonna need you
to sign them

while you're
still competent.

My intent being?

You don't want the meds
under any circumstances.

I will go crazy, Ellenor.

You do realize that?

Alcohol is part
of the American culture.

I know it.

I get it.

We indulge openly,
proudly even.

We toast at weddings.

We drink to our health.

We drink
in front of our kids,

be it eggnog at Christmas,

mint julep
at Kentucky Derby parties,

Saint Patrick's Day.

And we romanticize it,
don't we?

Win a World Series
or a Super Bowl,

out comes the champagne
on national television.

Our best athletes,

role models
for physical fitness,

watch them drink.

Hey, it's our culture.

Like I said, I get it.

But you know what,

they never really warn you
about the downside.

Fifteen million Americans
are alcoholics.

Fifteen million.

And the statistics,
they go on and on.

It's the number one
teenage drug problem,

the number one
drug problem in college,

one quarter of all
emergency room admissions,

almost a third of all suicides,

one half
of all homicides, rapes,

one third of traffic fatalities,
alcohol-related.

It is the leading
cause of mental retardation,

fetal alcohol syndrome.

The cost to us,

the taxpayer,
and our economy,

over $185 billion
in lost productivity,

healthcare expenses, crime,
car crashes, and other costs.

The cost to Margaret
and Joshua Berry,

their son.

The cost to Sheila Berry,

her brother.

This was a decent kid,

B student, shy, good athlete,

who started having a few beers

with his high school buddies,

who developed
an addiction to a drug

that ended up taking his life.

This industry makes upward

of a hundred billion dollars
a year,

a lot of it coming from kids,

children, and however
much they deny it,

they target those kids
with their advertising.

They buy time on the programs
these kids watch.

We've all seen the ads.

They're funny.

Drinking is hip.

It's cool. It's now.

It kills.

It kills.

And they just take the money,
a lot of it.

During the course
of this three-day trial,

the alcohol industry
made another billion dollars.

Now, we're
a capitalist society.

Like I said, I get it.

But when you contribute
to the death of human life

over a hundred thousand lives
every year,

how can you not take
some responsibility?

It can't always be
about the money.

That's what I don't get.

Mr. Young says
we've committed fraud.

He's wrong.

We sell an honest product,
honestly.

We are not tobacco.

The tobacco company lied
about the risks

associated with smoking.

The risks of drinking
have been known

for thousands of years

and so have the benefits.

We drink with our friends
to relax, to celebrate.

There are social benefits
to responsible drinking,

and we all know it.

The problem is,
with alcohol abuse.

And the question...

is what do we do about it.

What we've done so far

is to pass a multitude
of regulations.

My client has complied
with every one of them.

We have raised
the drinking age.

We've mandated warnings
on every bottle of beer.

We now have dram shop acts,

making people liable
who serve alcohol.

You could be sued today
just for throwing a party.

We have done everything
humanly possible.

In truth, the only thing
left to do is ban alcohol.

And we've already
tried that once

with spectacular failure,
because, as Mr. Young

correctly points out,

drinking is in our culture.

We're always gonna have
that cocktail.

And no jury,

no act of Congress,

will ever, ever prevent it.

I'll say this,

Mr. Young is disingenuous

when he says
that we're all about money

and they're not.

They are in here today
asking you...

to award them money.

Well, I won't be disingenuous.

We're a business.

Lawsuits, judgments, they become
a cost of doing business.

And I don't have to tell you

who that cost
always gets passed back to.

You can't bring back
Michael Berry.

I so wish you could.

But all you can really do,

unfortunately,

is raise the price of beer.

Because, like he told you,

it's our culture.

We're going to Court when?

Next week.

Obviously,
the more you regress,

the better our chances.

And if we lose, it's better
to die crazy than sane.

I guess.

Listen, um, given that,

I probably should put in my
goodbyes to people now, right?

So, I mean,
by this time next week,

I may not even know
who my friends are.

How are you feeling now?

Anxious, a little.

Nervous, I guess.

I'm not sure what from.

I don't know if it's because
I have come off my medication

or whether it's because
I'm getting closer to...

a lethal injection
but either way, uh,

it's worse than a root canal,
isn't it?

You already seem...

Hyper.

That's the first stage.

You know, oddly, I talk
a lot more in the beginning

and then I become withdrawn.

This is my nervous stage.

The good news is that
there is a heightened clarity

that comes with it, so.

Okay.

These are the documents.

It's basically the same
as a living will.

It expresses your intent
not to be given

the psychotropic drugs
under any circumstances.

Okay.
I need you to sign it

and date it.

FREEMAN: Okay.

Shouldn't this be notarized?

It isn't necessary.

If they argue
you lacked capacity,

it just plays into our claim
of incompetence.

FREEMAN: Okay, if we win,

how are you gonna get me
back on the drugs,

assuming I want to go
back on the drugs?

Why wouldn't you want
to go back on the drugs?

Well, you know,
I have to admit

I feel less dull.

But you said
when you really regressed...

FREEMAN: True, true.

Um, I guess
what I would like is a,

um, an adjustment in the meds

to keep me where I am now.

I mean, I--this is a good state
where I am now.

I feel more clear.

Denise, first...

let's work
on keeping you alive.

Right.

(door opens)

Jury's back.

What?

(door closes)

They have a verdict.

(sighs)

What's wrong?

They could never have computed
the damages in an hour.

Which means?

They didn't have to.

They found no liability.

BERLUTI: Or maybe
they're just angry enough,

they picked a big number

and said, "Screw them."

Let's go.

Come on.

WEEKS: Members of the jury,
you have reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

Your Honor, could I have
a two-minute recess?

We have an offer we'd like
to propose to the plaintiff.

WEEKS: Your timing is curious,
Mr. Grundel.

Until that verdict is entered,

this case isn't decided.

It's Friday.

I'm not bringing
this jury back.

You have two minutes.

I'll confer with my client.

It's got
a two-minute clock, Eugene,

and it's final.

Excuse me, please.

Don't anybody scream.

$1.6 million.

No, why?

What?

He must've been
authorized to settle

if he didn't like
the faces of the jury.

Something tells him we've won.

And a verdict against them
is too devastating,

even if it's overturned
on appeal.

Should we take it?

It's a lot of money.

Let's take our chances.

What?!

You said that
they couldn't possibly

have computed damages
so fast.

Well, maybe they did pick
a big fat number.

And if we got them,
we'll let them off.

$1.6 million is a lot
to walk away from.

Not enough to make them hurt,
and if the idea--

Excuse me one second.

What are you doing?

This is a verdict that
could send a message, Jimmy.

We're this close.

It's not about
sending a message.

It's about getting
a result for our client.

And $1.6--
The faces on those jurors--

BERLUTI: We don't know
what those faces mean.

I realize you may want
to stick it

to the alcohol industry.

I'm only thinking
about the client.

It's got nothing to--
JOSHUA: What is going on?

BERLUTI: We're divided.

I think you should take it.

Eugene votes to reject it.

I have a feeling,
that's all I can say.

It's not a science.

(sighs)

Let's hear what the jury says.

Joshua.

Eugene?

If you want to make them pay,

$1.6 million
is a drop in the bucket.

Let's reject it.

The offer is rejected,
Your Honor.

Very well.

Mr. Foreman, what say you?

In the matter of the estate

of Michael Berry
versus Portiss Brewery,

on the count
of wrongful death,

we, the jury, find
in favor of the plaintiff.

And order the defendant
to pay compensatory damages

in the amount of $700,000.

We further order the defendant
to pay punitive damages

in the amount of $125 million.

Defense moves for a judgment,
notwithstanding the verdict!

Denied.

We appeal!

So noted.

Members of the jury,

thank you for your service.

You're excused.

And this matter is adjourned.

(gavel bangs)

MARGARET: Oh, my God.

(sobbing)

This will be appealed.

It'll be a long time
before you see any money, but...

this is...
A good start.

(sighs)
I don't know what to say.

Neither do I.

Wow.

Yeah, wow.

MARSHALL:
I tried to persuade her

to come to the visiting room.

It's okay.
Is she all right?

I think so. She's...

she just doesn't
want to come out,

and I didn't really
want to force her.

Denise?

Hi. I'm sorry.

I didn't, um, I didn't--

I didn't feel safe.
I'm--

I know it's not rational,

and I realize that
I am just a couple of pills away

from feeling better,
but even so--

I mean, do you mind?

I just--I feel
more comfortable in here.

No problem.

What's the news?

There is no news.

I just came by to tell you

that all the doctors
are lined up,

the appeal is being drafted,

and we're ready to file
as soon as...

As soon as I arrive
at my destination?

FRUTT: Basically.

How you doing?

I'm okay.

I'm okay.

I'm heading into that

I-don't-feel-like-being-
inside-my-skin part

but I'm all right.

FRUTT: Listen,
I'm gonna stop by daily

and check up on you, okay?

You know where to find me.

I don't travel much.

It's just as well.
It's not safe, is it?

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WOMAN: You stinker.

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