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Previously on "The Practice"...

Did you murder her because she was going

to break off a sexual affair?

I did not have an affair with her, and I did not kill her!

You're going down for murder now, you get that?

It was Steven.

Your son Steven?

I saw the dark clothes on him when he left.

Why haven't you told anybody?

Because I don't want him to spend life in jail

for something I drove him to.

-Let me go to the D. A. -Absolutely not.

This is between you and me.

You gave me your word.

Man: We find the defendant guilty.

I didn't do it.

I didn't do it.

Jimmy, are you okay?

What? Oh, uh, I was just thinking

about something the doctor said.

What are you looking for?

Evidence in connection

with the attempted murder of Lindsay Dole.

What?

On what basis do you get such a warrant?

I'm sorry.

I saw the picture of Bobby and Lindsay

with the face all scratched.

My brain just started going sideways.

Lindsay, Lindsay, are --

Oh, sorry.

Do you guys brush or you just start right in with morning breath?

Helen.

Never mind I just got called to a crime scene

so I got to go.

Okay well, thanks for coming in to tell me.

Sorry again.

She's not sorry. She likes doing that.

I'll get a lock.

Never mind a lock.

Move in with me.

Bobby.

Why do we have to wait till we're married?

We haven't set the date.

You can still wear white if we live together first.

Tell that to my father.

What about Helen?

She can't afford this place by herself.

And that's the real issue, isn't it?

You don't want to bail on Helen.

We go back and forth just to collect clothes.

This is ridiculous.

What do we got?

Big ticket. The suspect's thepresident of Boston Liberty bank--

Pierce Stanton.

This is officer Henderson.

Helen Gamble, district attorney.

Okay, let's go take a look.

I pulled him over for a traffic violation.

He ran a stop sign.

I haven't touched anything yet.

And he confessed?

Just started crying and said he strangled her.

Mr. Stanton, I'm Helen Gamble

from the district attorney's office.

We're going to take you to the police station.

And we'd like you to make a statement, okay?

We'll try to help you.

I think I should call my lawyer.

Okay. That's fine.

Would you call him?

His name is Bobby Donnell. I'm sure he's listed.

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She may have jumped the gun on the search a little,

that's why I called you down here.

Jumped the gun how?

Well, reasonable suspicion is iffy.

She's the one he confessed to?

Yeah.

Officer Henderson.

Can you come by my office this morning?

Sure.

Okay. Bye, Mike.

I can't continue to just sit on this.

You gave me your word, Jimmy.

Let me ask you something, Henry.

Are you sure?

Have you talked to your son about it?

It's a little difficult to have a conversation

from where I'm situated at the moment.

Have you told your wife?

No.

So what we got here, your son's a killer

living in your home with your wife

and your 11-year-old daughter.

Aren't you concerned as a father?

Of course, but --

how can you stay quiet?

I can't necessarily trust Allison not to tell.

She might tell out of concern for him.

The kid needs help.

I don't want to have this discussion --

We're going to have this discussion!

Man: Sir, I'll have to ask you to leave

if you do that again.

Henry, you're an intelligent man.

You've got to know this is not smart.

You're in jail for a crime you didn't commit.

Your son is in desperate need of help

and isn't getting it.

For god's sake, Henry.

I don't know what to do any more, Jimmy.

I can't see him go to prison.

I couldn't live with that.

You trusted me once.

I know a judge I think I can trust.

Let me talk to her,

and maybe my partners.

They'll keep my confidence.

I promise.

I didn't plan it.

It wasn't like it was premeditated.

Just tell me what happened.

We'd been fighting,

which we'd been doing a lot of lately,

and she wasn't happy.

She kept saying she wasn't happy

about this and about that.

It was building.

Everything that I did wasn't good enough,

whether it be my personality or my sperm count

or the way I rinse a damn dish.

I buy her a $3 million home in Cambridge,

and every time I drive home to it,

I'm afraid to go inside

because I know I'm going to get an earful

of how I don't measure up. I got sick of it Bobby.

Calm down and tell me what happened.

Like I said, we were having an argument,

and she's saying she hates this,

she hates that,

and I said to her,

"it's me you hate, isn't it?

It's me."

And she says maybe she does.

Then there's some more screaming,

and suddenly my hands are on her throat.

I don't know what the argument was about.

But my hands are on her throat and I'm squeezing,

and I'm squeezing as hard as I can,

and suddenly she goes limp.

I let her go.

Where were you going with her?

What?

With her in the trunk.

She had made plans to go shopping in town,

and she told some friends.

I was going to try

to make it look like a mugging or something,

then I ran a stop sign.

You believe it?

Okay, how much of what you just told me

did you tell that police officer?

All of it.

Helen.

What are you doing here?

Stanton case.

It takes two to do an arraignment now?

No. Actually, I came to see you.

Oh.

I'm going to move in with Bobby.

Oh. When?

Well, pretty much right away.

I'm there half the time anyway, so...

Is this because I walked in on you guys?

'cause I can cut back on that.

No, it's something that we've been talking about.

Okay, but I'm going to have to move out.

I can't swing that place on my own.

You can find another roommate.

Lindsay, who am I going to find?

Women don't like me.

Men just want to sleep with me.

I end up wanting to sleep with them.

It's a vicious cycle.

Woman: 32114...

I got to go.

Commonwealth vs Pierce Stanton

on the charge of murder in the first degree.

Bobby Donnell for the defendant your honor--

waive reading, plead not guilty.

Helen Gamble for the commonwealth --

oppose bail.

My client has established roots in the community--

-Murder one. -Event so.

Bail is denied.

Move for a probable cause hearing.

2:00. Put the defendant back in the lockup.

Next case.

Any offers?

Bobby, he confessed.

What kind of deal do you expect me to cut?

Jimmy.

You got a second?

I suppose.

I know Eleanor was in last week hitting you up for the special favors.

I promise this ain't about that.

I love when you use words like ain't.

Eloquence has a way of leaving me moist.

Listen...

I know your integrity as a judge

comes above anything else,

and I'm here, actually, to ask your help or advice.

It's kind of a grave thing.

I'm listening.

I would appreciate it

if we could keep this confidential

'cause it involves

a privileged relationship on my end.

I got a client convicted of a serious crime

which he didn't commit.

His son committed it.

My client doesn't want his son

to go to prison for the rest of his life,

so he's taking the fall.

I can't convince him to come forward with the truth.

Nevertheless, I got the truth.

Do you have evidence

that the son committed the crime?

Well, just my client's word, but it's a good word.

So basically,

you've got a client convicted of a crime

who says he's innocent.

You expect what?

I don't know, but this isn't just a case

of the convicted guy saying he's innocent.

It's exactly that.

That's what happens in 90% of the cases.

Now, you have new evidence, you take it to the D. A.

If you don't -- what am I missing here?

Well, I guess I am looking for a favor,

though I don't see it like that.

We're both officers of the court.

An injustice has occurred.

If I go to the D. A., he's just going to laugh.

It's going to seem exactly as you said.

I'm going to look like every defense attorney

throwing a hail Mary,

but if I go in with a judge,

that might give me some credibility.

Get out.

If I could convince you

that what I'm saying is true --

I said get out.

You could help prevent a big miscarriage here.

This "integrity of the robe" thing,

that's just a bunch of crap.

Hey, you think I won't hold you in contempt?

Go ahead. We'd be even.

And no matter how hard I try to change his mind,

he won't budge.

The son did it?

-Yes. -And you knew this.

I didn't know till closing arguments.

Why didn't you tell us?

I gave him my word.

We're his lawyers on this case.

Don't you start in on me, damn it.

I gave him my word. That has to count for something.

Alright let's calm down and figure out where we're going from here.

Can we go to the D. A.?

Bay? Forget it.

Without evidence, Bay is just going to laugh.

A confession is new evidence. I say we go to the son.

We can't reveal what we heard from Henry --

client privilege.

You broke privilege when you went to Kittleson.

Kittleson won't talk! And I asked you not to start in.

Alright.

Look, Go to Henry.

Get his permission to talk to his son.

He'll just say no.

He wants to spend life in jail?

Yes. That's what I keep telling you.

Let me have a little chat with Henry.

Please have a seat.

How long have you been a police officer?

Two years.

Do you remember learning anything at the academy

about the fourth amendment?

What right did you have to open that trunk?

He was acting suspiciously.

We've got a problem, officer.

You had no legal grounds to conduct that search.

Unless...

I see he didn't have his registration on him.

That's right.

See, I think what happened

is you decided to impound the vehicle.

Once you made that decision, you then conducted

an inventory search of the vehicle.

Is that what happened?

Yes.

Okay well, we need to be clear on that

once you get in the witness chair,

otherwise the contents of that trunk together

with the confession will be suppressed.

Are we clear?

Yes.

Good.

You might want to get some coffee.

You're on in an hour.

Roberta.

Can I speak to you in private?

First of all,

you had no right to reveal to me your client's --

I didn't give you names.

I can figure it out. Give me some credit.

Are you sure your client is telling the truth?

Yes.

What you first need to do

is get his permission to talk to the son.

Eugene's trying to do that now.

Assuming he consents, you need to get the boy counsel.

I would then try to secure a written confession

with counsel.

Then you take that to the district attorney

and you go from there,

but the boy must have counsel.

Yeah.

The reason I got so angry --

when somebody so much as asks for special treatment

on the basis of a personal relationship,

I consider it a professional indictment

and I take offense.

I wasn't trying to insult you professionally, Roberta.

Everybody knows you're a great judge.

That's why I came to you --

for advice,

and maybe a little because I missed you.

Well...

You have my advice.

I pulled him over

after he failed to stop for the sign.

He appeared to be very nervous.

What happened then?

I asked for his license and registration.

He didn't have his registration,

so I decided to impound the vehicle.

I then ordered the suspect

out of the vehicle and then searched it.

I discovered the body of a deceased woman in the trunk.

What happened next?

He then basically broke down

and told me he had murdered his wife

and was planning to dispose of the body

to avoid being caught.

Thank you, officer.

You said he was acting nervously.

Very.

Did his behavior make you suspicious?

Well, I suppose it did a little.

He looked like he was hiding something.

You said you ordered the suspect out

and then searched the trunk.

What was he a suspect of?

He wasn't a suspect at that time.

He became a suspect after I opened the trunk.

You said you ordered the suspect out.

Shall we read back your testimony?

I misstated it.

He wasn't a suspect until I opened the trunk.

Okay, and when you went to search the trunk,

was it because you thought he was hiding something there?

No, that was an inventory search.

I had decided to impound the vehicle,

so I did an inventory search.

Why were you impounding the vehicle?

Because he didn't have any registration.

The car wasn't registered?

It turned out to be registered,

but he didn't have the registration on him.

Is it your policy to impound registered vehicles

when the driver isn't in possession of the registration?

No. I didn't know it was registered when I decided to impound it.

You call in the plates?

No.

Isn't it procedure to call in the plates to determined whether a car is registered?

Many officers do that.

I didn't on this occasion. I suppose I could have.

You suppose you could have.

Did you tell my client

you were impounding his car when you asked him to open his trunk?

I don't recall.

-Did you call a tow truck? -No.

-Why not? -No. I hadn't gotten to that yet.

Were you planning to get to that?

-Objection. -Overruled.

I was going to order he truck after I did the search.

Officer Henderson, we all know

how long it takes tow trucks to show up.

It's your testimony that you planned to search first and then call for the truck?

Yes.

Okay, when you went to search the trunk,

you didn't tell my client you were taking his car.

You didn't tell him he'd have to get picked up by somebody?

Or hitch a ride to the station?

No.

Your Honor the defense moves to suppress the contents of the trunk

together with my client's confession.

Opposed.

I'll hear oral arguments tomorrow morning, 10:00.

He says we can't talk to the son.

So now what?

It's over.

It's not over.

Jimmy, there's nothing more we can do.

It can't be over.

We just don't sit back saying it's over

while the wrong guy sits in jail.

I think we should confront the son anyway.

Can't do that.

Why not? If --

Because he instructed you not to. you can't talk to the kid

without revealing a lawyer-client communication.

Eugene, what are we supposed to do here,

forget about it? Move on while an innocent man

serves a life sentence?

That's exactly what we do, Jimmy.

Now if you want to go through the transcripts,

find an appealable issue, do it,

but what the client told you in confidence,

you keep it in confidence.

Not when it amounts to --

Jimmy, you can't do it.

Um, I'm here to see Mr. Berluti.

Steven, hey.

Hey.

Thanks for coming.

Had no trouble getting here?

No. I took the "T."

Here, let's use this office right here.

Jimmy, can I talk to you a second?

Go ahead, Steve. I'll be right in.

-What are you doing? -I'm going to talk to him.

We didn't get permission from his father to talk to him.

I won't be revealing anything Henry said --

Jimmy, you can't reveal client privileged information.

There's no way you can talk to him without--

I won't say what his father told me.

How do you accuse him of the crime

without violating privilege?

You don't have any independent information other than what Henry told you.

Eugene, If I get called before the bar,

I get called before the bar. I really don't care anymore.

I'm going in there with you.

No, you're staying out here.

The officer admitted he seemed suspicious,

thought maybe he was hiding something,

so what did she do?

She opened the trunk.

And anybody with a law degree knows

she made a mistake.

This was no inventory search.

She never said she was going to impound the vehicle.

The police don't seize vehicles

when the drivers don't have proof

of registration.

They just call the plates in to check.

It takes 30 seconds.

She never called a tow truck.

She said she was going to do that after.

Please. We all know what's going on here.

They've decided to call it an inventory search

to justify it.

Nothing in the behavior of that police officer

is consistent with police procedure

on an inventory search.

This all hinges on what officer Henderson was thinking

when she opened that trunk.

We have her word that it was inventory

versus Bobby Donnell's ability to read minds.

Come on counsel, how many officers are out there taking cars

because the drivers can't find their registration?

Maybe she was a little overzealous.

She's 27 years old.

Young police officers get that way sometimes.

So what. She hadn't taken him into custody.

She hadn't placed him under arrest.

He wasn't any kind of suspect.

By officer Henderson's own uncontroverted testimony,

it was an inventory search,

and defense counsel is standing up here

asking you to read minds,

asking you to play guessing games,

asking you to suppress the contents of that trunk.

Anybody with a law degree knows what happens

if you do, don't we?

It's a lie.

Is it, Steven?

Your dad saw you going out the door.

The reason he's staying quiet,

he doesn't want to see you go to prison.

He loves you too much for that.

He'd rather spend the rest of his life in jail

than see you get hurt.

I don't see you as some kind of monster.

A boy finds out his dad's got this sick sexual fetish,

it's got to be devastating,

doing what he was doing,

and when you went to the office

and saw the woman, I don't know.

Any kid would probably go a little nuts inside,

and the court would understand this, Steven.

They would.

However angry you might be at your dad,

you're going to be more angry

at yourself one day

if you let him go to prison forever.

The fact that he's willing to do it,

that shows how much he loves you.

The fact that you got so hurt

by his fetish thing,

that shows how much you love him.

I've known you practically your whole life.

You're a good kid, a great kid.

You'll destroy yourself

if you don't correct what's happened here.

He's sick. He's sick.

I know he is,

and we got to get him some help,

but first we got to get him out of jail.

Will you help me do that?

Oh.

You and me roommates?

Lindsay said you needed one,

I'm looking at the moment,

and I thought maybe on a temporary basis --

Eleanor, do you think you and I are compatible?

Well, why wouldn't we be?

Well don't get me wrong I like to have fun during off hours, I love to, but,

I just have this vision of you doing drugs or I guess I'd had to have you arrested.

-You think I do drugs? -No, no I don't but.

I have this notion

of you traveling in underground circles.

Well, Helen, I wish I did.

But, unfortunately, I work all day

and I come home and I work all night,

and really, I'm less fun that Lindsay.

Nobody's less fun than Lindsay.

I heard that.

You think Eleanor and I are a good match?

Well...

Look she dates men who cut off heads.

I have this thin little neck.

Okay, that's really funny.

See, you're already bickering -- roommates.

Helen, the judge is coming back.

Ms. Gamble is correct in her assertion.

We cannot know what was in officer Henderson's mind

when she searched that trunk,

but the court is certainly entitled

to exercise common sense together

with the benefit of experience

when making its guess.

She was suspicious of the driver.

She admitted as much.

The search of the trunk in the court's opinion

was a result of that suspicion,

and while granted that suspicion

turned out to be extremely well founded,

it was nevertheless legally unreasonable.

The contents of the trunk are suppressed.

The defendant's ensuing confession

is therefore also suppressed

as a fruit of a poisonous tree.

Ms. Gamble...

I'm as disappointed as you are.

This is awful,

but we both know it's not even a close call.

If you can get new evidence, refile,

so long as it's independent.

Otherwise...

Congratulations, Mr. Stanton.

For now, you get away with murder.

Adjourned.

I don't believe it.

I would hope you get some counseling, Pierce.

It doesn't seem right

I can just walk out totally free.

I wouldn't book yourself on "Larry King."

What are you waiting for, somebody to say,

"chin up, don't feel so bad"?

You should feel bad. You made a terrible mistake.

If I hadn't opened up that trunk,

we might never have known a murder even happened.

Maybe, but because you did open up that trunk,

you pretty much guaranteed his getting away with it.

You've never made a mistake, Ms. Gamble?

No.

I'm going to go home and check on her.

You know how she is about losing.

I should probably check up on Stanton.

He hasn't even begun to deal with losing his wife.

How are you?

Me? I'm okay. Why?

I don't know what's worse,

the fact that we freed another murderer

or the fact that it doesn't really bother us anymore.

You know what I don't care.

If I broke lawyer-client privilege,

I can live with it.

The issue isn't whether you care.

You guys are trying to make me feel bad.

I'm not gonna to feel bad.

If I violated some precious lawyer rule, tough. I wasn't about to let some innocent man--

Privilege isn't just some precious lawyer rule.

I left you out of it.

You didn't leave any of us out of it.

-Oh please. -Hey, you did this to us, Jimmy, to us.

Well, then I'm sorry.

Well, I lose my roommate, I lose my cases,

I lose my cases to my roommate.

Have you given any thought to Eleanor?

Not really.

-We're still going to see each other, right? -Helen.

Don't Helen me,

I-I like having you in the next room.

I've even gotten used

to Bobby being in it with you.

We're still going to see each other all the time.

Yeah. When are you moving out?

At the end of the month, I guess.

I don't want to lose you, Lindsay.

You're not going to lose me.

Promise.

Anything else?

LUCY: No. Everything else can wait till tomorrow.

Okay. I'm on my way to Pierce Stanton's house.

I'm just going to see how he's doing,

then I'll probably head home.

Have a good night.

You, too.

Where's he going?

I'm not saying I don't like her.

I'm just saying you two as roommates?

What? We get along great.

Oil and vinegar.

I hear a phone ringing.

It would just be nice

to get out of that rabbit warren.

That's all I can say.

Hey, Jimmy, it's Allison Olson.

Allison, what's up?

Oh, my god.

When?

Oh, god.

Where are you now?

I'll be right there.

Jimmy, what's wrong?

Steven Olson --

he just hung himself in the garage.

He's dead?

Yeah.

I know he was upset by all of this,

but I never, never...

Allison, Steven killed the woman.

What?

Your husband was taking the fall for him.

I confronted Steven on it this afternoon.

-Come on. come on, come on. -Hi, this is Lindsay. I'm not home right now,

but if you leave a message, I'll call you back. Thanks.

Lindsay, call me as soon as you get this.

I just saw our little friend Pierce Stanton

go into officer Henderson's home.

I think they pulled off the perfect crime.

-You killed my son. -Henry.

You killed my son!

I didn't kill him, he took his life out of guilt.

Because you went to him

after I told you not to go to him!

I know, and I'm sorry.

All that's left for me to do now

is get you out.

I'm going to tell the D.A. Everything that's happened,

and hopefully we can get you out.

I told you not to go to him.

I told you not to go to him.

You have one new message.

BOBBY: Lindsay, call me as soon

as you get this.

I just saw our little friend Pierce Stanton

go into officer Henderson's home.

I think they pulled off the perfect crime.

To store message press save. Message saved.

This is a warrant to search your house.

What?

Cynthia Henderson, you're under arrest

for the murder of Elizabeth Stanton.

You have the right to remain silent.

You have the right to an attorney.

If you cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed to you...

(telephone ringing)

Hello.

What?

I'll be right there.

What?

The police somehow figured it out.

They just arrested both of them.

Did he leave any kind of note?

No.

Well, did he admit to anyone he killed the woman?

No. He didn't exactly deny it though either when I confronted him.

What are you asking me for?

Henry didn't do it.

I'm asking you to release him.

You're not serious.

Of course. The guy didn't commit the crime.

You think I'm going to release a convicted murderer

on the grounds his defense attorney says he's innocent?

I expect you to because he is innocent!

For all I know, the kid hung himself

-because his father's a killer. -That isn't the case.

Well give me evidence. Your word of honor

doesn't buy a cup of coffee.

Richard, I'm telling you the truth here.

Look, even if I did believe you,

and let's say I do, okay?

I'm inclined to.

I don't trust your partners so much,

but you strike me as honest.

I don't have any way of knowing you're right.

Again, even if I thought you were right,

you think I've got any basis to throw out a conviction?

Even if I went to the judge,

he'd throw me out on my ass,

after which my boss

would throw me out on the street.

There is nothing I can do here.

An innocent man

is going to spend the rest of his life in prison

for a crime he didn't commit.

Wouldn't be the first time that happened.

I'd tell you're client to think twice before hiding the truth from his attorney.

Woman: case number 32345 and 32346 --

commonwealth vs Pierce Stanton

and Cynthia Henderson,

murder in the first degree, conspiracy to commit murder.

Bobby Donnell for Pierce Stanton, your honor.

Marcia Shultz for Cynthia Henderson.

Your honor, this seems like harassment.

The police are frustrated at losing Mr. Stanton,

so they've hatched a conspiracy theory between Mr. Stanton

and the officer who searched the trunk

without any new evidence whatsoever, as fas as I could tell on the incident report.

I have to admit Ms. Gamble I'm a little curious.

We have new evidence. I have an audio tape

which I'm happy to play for the court.

Let's hear it.

Bobby: Lindsay, call me as soon

as you get this.

I just saw our little friend Pierce Stanton

go into officer Henderson's home.

I think they pulled off the perfect crime.

That was attorney Robert Donnell

talking to attorney Lindsay Dole.

We then went to Ms. Henderson's home

and found Mr. Stanton and Ms. Henderson together.

First of all, that tape was a private message

from me to Ms. Dole.

Mr. Donnell is not the defendant.

He has no standing to assert fourth amendment arguments.

Second, it's work product -- lawyer to lawyer.

This isn't work product, it doesn't involve strategy.

How did you get this tape?

Lindsay Dole is my roommate.

I pulled it off her answering machine.

Which is an invasion of privacy.

You're not on trial here, they are.

They cannot argue an invasion of your privacy as a defense.

I maintain it's work product.

The case was over it doesn't apply..

Quiet. Am I to understand these two orchestrated

that unconstitutional search of the trunk?

Yes, your honor. They're lovers.

He kills the wife.

She as a police officer, illegally searches the trunk.

The body and the confession are thrown out.

And of course, it would be nearly impossible

for the police to build a case independent

of search and confession.

End result -- they get away with murder.

Well, aren't we clever?

That phone message should not be allowed in!

Mr. Donnell, I had no choice

but to set your client free the last time,

but here I am very much in charge.

As Ms. Gamble pointed out,

your client has no standing

to assert your privacy rights,

nor do I find your little phone message

to fall within work product.

The charges stand.

They'll be held without bail,

and that is that.

I don't want to hear it, get out of my office.

Not until you look me in the eye --

I am looking you in the eye! I wasn't about to let those two murderers go free.

I didn't think it was going to jeopardize our friendship, Lindsay.

I thought our friendship was stronger than that.

It was a private message.

And if the stakes weren't so high --

Come one Helen, you of all people--

You of all people what? Was it a violation of trust?

Maybe it was. In the scheme of things --

and you, you traded

on inside information with me last year

to much more tragic results.

I can't believe you could be standing there

complaining at all.

Did you think I was going to sit on that information

because you're my friends?

Come on. I'll buy you a beer.

I got a little more work to do.

There's nothing else you can do, Jimmy.

No, I've done enough.

I should have listened to you.

The kid wasn't going to survive this staying quiet.

We both know that.

He was a murderer. Let's not forget it.

I'm going to head home.

If you need me, call, okay?

Okay.

It's so easy to play "if I'd just done that,

if I'd only said this."

You'll lose that game, Jimmy.

I've put killers back out on the street

only to have them kill again.

You can only be true to yourself

and trust that.

No.

You can only be true to the rules.

You put killers back on the street

because the rules of law told you to.

The rules here,

they said honor privilege.

I broke the rules,

and now a kid is dead

and my client...

I don't have any system to cling to.

You saw a terrible situation.

You tried to improve it.

Cling to that.

What if we get sued for malpractice?

You think about that?

By a murderer?

Yes, I'm sure the jury will award huge damages.

Maybe we can suppress the tape as hearsay.

I doubt it.

Declaration against interests,

maybe even res gestae. It'll get in.

What were you thinking anyway?

-Lindsay -- -Don't "Lindsay" me.

What, you're going to attack me now?

Yes, Bobby because that was a stupid thing to do.

I'm not going to listen.

You know Helen retrieves my messages for me

ever since I've been sleeping here.

I call her to get them

because I can't call in myself...

Oh, my god.

You know Helen retrieves my messages for me.

That phone call was for Helen.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Bobby Donnell --

Lindsay, just read your book.

♪

You stinker!