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Previously on The Practice.

First of all, what's going on?

Are you leaving? I'm done.

Retiring. You're retiring?

I can't make the rent.

I'm being evicted.

All set?

I want to start my own practice.

Start a new practice in this room? I can take little collection cases, contract

disputes, fight parking tickets. I can even be my own secretary.

Don't you like it?

Well, yes.

But usually the personal stuff is left off the door.

I'll take it off eventually. But I want the people who hire me to get the idea.

I'm not going to be here late or on call at home. When they see Mother, it makes

a point.

If I pick him up after Dr. Ash, that will give me time to go straight.

Mommy, look.

I think it's a client.

That could be my first client.

Why else would she be sitting there?

Do you think she's a client?

Why don't you ask her?

Excuse me.

You're here to see... Lindsay Dole, attorney at law, mother.

That's me.

How did you hear of me? Well, I came to see Pat McGee, but he's not here. And I

saw the door and I figured I'd just see whatever lawyer.

But actually, I think I have heard of you.

Aren't you the lady who shot somebody?

I did.

But I beat it.

Technicality.

Come on in.

Okay.

Um, wasn't a client you shot, right? No.

It doesn't concern you. It concerns the firm, which concerns me, Eugene.

What's going on?

Tell him.

A client came in last night. I took the case. Jimmy doesn't like it. The client

does stem cell research.

It's an abatement proceeding. What's the big deal?

The big deal is, it's a political hot button that this firm doesn't need. And

think it should have been discussed.

Oh, come on. Don't hide behind that. Why don't you just say it? You don't like

the research. It isn't that.

A political hot button? When have we ever shied away from a case? This office

was bombed before, Eleanor. Yes, by a client that we defended on murder

Does that mean we should shy away from all homicide cases?

All right.

Eugene.

The city rezoned to basically put the center out of business. It's all

And, I guess now, religion.

It isn't that.

Look, we're all in agreement that we face some public relations obstacles.

We're still getting hate mail over Lindsay. Lindsay doesn't work here

But people don't really know that.

Come on, I'm not being unreasonable.

This could explode in our faces. And I think we should have discussed it. There

wasn't time.

And with all due respect, Jimmy, last time I checked the door, you weren't

listed as a partner.

Fine.

We're doing it at 9 o 'clock. I'll let you know. Come on.

Three lawyers?

Yes. You want to come? That'll make three and a half.

Hey, you know what, Jimmy?

You provoked that.

My only beef.

I think the firm should have discussed it first.

This is going to blow up in our faces.

That's it?

Just singing?

Well, I sing loud.

I have a big diaphragm. Jesus Christ, my Savior, gave me a booming voice and a

big heart, and I try to use both.

Okay. And your neighbor, is there bad blood? No, he's a nice man.

He just doesn't care for my singing, which is his right.

I know it's a free country to each his own, but in the spirit of that

I should be able to sing, right? Well, if he's bringing a nuisance action, he's

basically saying that you're interfering with the quiet enjoyment of his home.

Oh, that's hooey.

He's a loud man himself. He doesn't enjoy anything quiet.

You should hear him watching the Patriots. That's my goal, by the way.

To one day sing the national anthem at a Patriots game.

Okay. Well, there's a hearing scheduled for 2 o 'clock.

Let's see how we do.

Okay.

I have a very good feel about you.

I can tell you are one person.

Thank you.

Look, whenever a zoning ordinance is passed, somebody invariably gets put out

business. That is not an uncommon result.

It is certainly uncommon for the city to sprint off the court to enforce that

ordinance. Any impact on my client is hardly incidental. That ordinance was

passed for the express purpose of closing the doors... Were you in the

Young? I didn't have to be, Mr. Davies. The doors are as transparent as the

motive. Mr.

Young is claiming the city lacks the authority to rezone districts. I am not

claiming that. I am saying this ordinance was arbitrary. It was

bad faith. It is politics, and contrary to what Mr. Davies...

Counsel, I apologize.

Your Honor, I call your attention to Blankenship v.

Machalski, recently decided in 1957.

The city of Palo Alto rezoned its permitted youth zones for the purpose of

closing down a pharmacy.

The court struck down the ordinance as arbitrary and invalid. It's decidedly on

point. I reiterate, every time a city zones or rezones, somebody claims foul.

Don't insult me, Mr. Davies. The zoning board burns the midnight oil to push

this through.

They then dispatch Top Gun to get injunctive relief.

The victim here is a facility that just happens to do stem cell research.

Do you really mean to tell me they're not a target?

Even if the ordinance was designed to impact the facility, and I make no such

confession.

I maintain the action was neither arbitrary nor capricious.

I want to see the chairman of the zoning board in the witness chair.

I beg your pardon? The motive of the board is very much in play here, Mr.

Davies, and from where I sit, this ordinance smells like a dead, decaying

Get the chairman in the hot seat or you won't like my ruling.

1957? It was on point. Yes, decidedly. We all heard. Never mind. Look.

The good news is, obviously, the judge seems with us. The bad news, by calling

an evidentiary hearing, this thing is headed for a debate on the merits, which

means you could be testified.

Fine. Not so fine.

No offense, but in my experience, scientists make for lousy witnesses.

I need somebody to exude passion. I can do that.

All the same, I need somebody... Eugene, I have diabetes.

Both my father and grandfather died of Alzheimer's.

Don't worry about passion.

Press is calling.

Word's already out.

Great. What, suddenly we're afraid of the media?

Our Judge Fox is a registered Republican.

Did we know that?

So? So, given the administration's policy against stem cell research, she

not favor us as much as we thought.

Actually, President Bush very quietly shifted his policy on that. They issued

clarification which allows for private funding.

That's not exactly true.

There's one other danger.

This case hits all of the abortion buttons.

Gee. And since Roe v. Wade is vulnerable, which Fox also knows, I'm

about Davies turning this into a referendum. I'm sure they're the ones

tipped off the press.

Why is Roe v. Wade vulnerable?

Hello, have you glanced at the Supreme Court lately?

Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, even Sandra Day O 'Connor. This court could

overturn Roe in the blink of an eye.

Um, actually...

That's not necessarily true.

If you look at Planned Parenthood versus Casey Desai in 92, you'll see Kennedy,

O 'Connor, and Souter all supported Roe.

Wrong. We lose one justice, we lose Roe versus Wade. Look, you don't want to get

into Roe versus Wade. This case is much simpler than that. It deals with the

authority of a zoning board, period, and that's where your focus is.

Killing embryos is simple to you? Hey, Jimmy, do us a favor. Don't come at me.

don't like the hostility. Come on, guys.

I can't comment on the merits of a case now? No, you can comment as a lawyer.

I'd even appreciate that. But I don't need you flapping your Catholic

Hey, you guys. Hey, if I ever said to you, stop flapping your black wings,

jump out at me.

Hey, let me tell you something.

The fact that I don't like stem cell research, it goes to humanity, not

religion. But since you bring it up... I don't apologize for being Catholic. And

I'm sick and tired of you and everyone else declaring war on Catholicism just

because... I haven't declared war on anything. Yes, you have.

Because of a few bad priests.

Yes, you have. And I'm sick... All right, that's enough.

Both of you.

You focus on the case. You stay away from them.

I didn't provoke that one.

Donna Young -Dole in front.

Oh, I'm sorry, you've got the wrong number. Everyone makes that mistake.

I believe the number you're looking for is 557 -RUN -A -ROD -UP -YOUR -RECTUM.

Bye.

I don't mean to criticize your work.

They were looking for the lawyer defending the fetus factory, Rebecca.

I see. Well, as long as you don't inflame them.

These people are already on fire, Rebecca.

These people?

Jimmy?

You support what this laboratory is doing, Rebecca?

Really? Look at our client base.

How many engaging activities we support.

That doesn't fly.

Here, we're enabling the activity.

I love music, and I'm very fond of Maxine.

She knows this. She's a good person, but I just can't take it. Take what, Mr.

Emerson? The singing.

Every morning, 8 .15, and it's the same song, one moment in time. She

bellows it.

My walls practically shake.

Is this really such a problem?

You know, I said the same thing to myself at first.

Just a few minutes.

What's the big deal?

And it's not like she has a bad voice.

But, well, when I bought this condo, it was mine, you know?

And a person looks to realize a few dreams when he becomes a property owner.

Know what I mean, Judge?

I'm sure I do, but I never tire of hearing it said aloud.

My dream was a cup of coffee and a morning paper.

quiet cup of coffee in my very own dominion as I sit and read the sports

section. I don't get this.

I get one moment in time every single day.

Did you ever ask her to stop?

Yes.

She said she just had to sing it and it had to be in the morning and it had to

be loud.

It was her way to get ready to face her day.

And I just couldn't take it anymore.

So we took steps to stop it. So you don't deny you rezoned this district to

purposely put the Wayne Cell Technology Institute out of business.

We feel it poses a danger to the community. It represents a magnet for

possibly violent protests, even religious terrorism. Because their

involves stem cell research.

Yes.

Abortion clinics have been attacked and similarly rezoned because of safety

concerns. We did the same thing.

So this is all about safety?

Yes. Protecting lives?

Yes. Protecting human life?

I know where you're going, and that wasn't it.

You're a member of the Republican Party, Mr. Blaine.

Objection. This doesn't concern politics.

Oh, it doesn't? The issue before this court is whether the zoning board acted

capriciously. I agree.

The objection is sustained.

You say, sir, the Wayne Shell Technology Institute might be a magnet for violent

protests because of the type of research it does.

Correct. Has it ever been targeted, to your knowledge?

No. Are we supposed to wait till it happens?

Ever received any threats?

I don't know where you've lived the last year, Mr. Young, but things can blow up

absent a threat these days.

So we should just start zoning out any possible target of violence. Is that

position, sir?

Our position is we should zone out this particular facility.

And it is located in the same district as Mass General Hospital, is it not?

Yes. Is it your feeling, sir, that if Mass General began a program on stem

research, that you'd zone it out of business?

No, that is not my feeling.

Well, why not?

Mass General is a world -renowned hospital. It could become a high

magnet for protest.

I believe that people would weigh all the public good Mass General does

the controversy of the research and find it to be a redeeming facility.

Ah, and you don't think my client's institute serves the public good?

No, we don't.

Thank you, Mr. Blaine.

You want me to testify?

Well, here's the thing. Right now, it doesn't seem like a hardship for you not

to be able to sing this song. Yes, it is. Let me finish.

Which means for us to win, we need you to impress the judge with why it's so

important to you.

It's how I start my day.

Yes, we have to make a strong case as to why you need it to start your day.

I can't make that showing, Maxine.

It's why I hired you. No lawyer is going to be able to convince a judge that a

person needs to kick off her morning with one fine day.

One moment in time.

I need you to speak from your heart.

Can you do that?

Jesus gave me a big heart.

Yes, and I want you to use it, just like you do your diaphragm. Tell that judge.

Make us all feel it.

Can you do that, Maxine?

Yes, I can.

I will.

Good. You still here?

Something's on your mind.

Yeah.

I don't know whether I'm your best friend anymore, Eugene.

But you're still pretty much mine.

And I'm pretty much on it.

I'm Catholic, Eugene.

And your anti -Catholic remarks... Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I'm not anti -Catholic, Bobby.

I am angry at the Catholic Church. I think the Church should go the way of

Enron. But I assure you, I am not anti -Catholic.

Look, I'm a Christian man.

To tell you the truth, I don't know the difference between my Protestant

denomination and Catholicism other than our hymns have a little more pep.

Are you a Christian?

Really?

Now I feel a judgment, and I don't like it.

Eugene, I'm not a hugely religious guy.

But I do believe in God.

I believe man has a soul. You think I don't? Maybe in theory.

But what you live by, you believe in the law.

And you know what? It happens to most criminal defense attorneys. What

We free killers for a living.

Rapists, people who sometimes go on to rape and kill others.

And the only way we live with ourselves is to treat the law like a religion.

That's what you do.

And over time, it's making you angry.

I think you got this void.

Really?

You're wrong.

And I have a case I need to work on.

Okay, look, I'm not in here to say go get born again.

But out of respect for me and Jimmy, lay off the

anti -Catholic rhetoric.

First, my doctor tells me I got low self -esteem on account of being obese.

Then he says I'm depressed.

He prescribed Prozac, then Zoloft, then some bullet -sized fat pills I can't

even pronounce.

None of it worked.

I got up every day and I felt the same.

Which was?

Like a donut.

This big wad of soft dough with a giant hole in the middle.

I could barely get out of bed.

And I'd drag my overweight, over -medicated, fat self to work.

And I'd stink at my job, which made me more depressed, which made me eat more,

which made me more fat, which made me stink more.

Until I found the song.

The song.

One moment in time.

Whitney Houston, the woman has heart.

And hers would speak to mine through that song.

And I so loved the thing.

I tried it. And you know what?

It worked.

The melody, the lyrics, whatever.

I just puffed myself up with inspiration and hope.

And I'd charge off to work.

And you know what else?

I got good at what I do.

I no longer stink.

I'm no longer depressed.

It's all a fact.

Maxine, do you have to sing it in the morning? Yes, before I start my day.

I'm not trying to upset Mr. Emerson. He knows I like him.

And I promise you, I need to do it.

I swear.

Thank you, Maxine.

Could you sing it for us now?

What? The word booming has been used to describe it, but Mr. Emerson tells me

one cannot fully appreciate the quaking nature of your performance unless one

actually experiences it.

Your Honor, I object.

Why?

We're all sitting here wondering what the big deal is. Why don't we just

for ourselves?

And try to drink a cup of coffee, I dare you.

Thank you, Mr. Emerson.

I need my boom box. I don't sing a cappella.

Okay, you can get your accompaniment and come back.

But, Miss Shipp, you will be under oath as you sing, which means, to be

truthful, you must sing at the same volume you do every morning.

Oh, don't worry, Your Honor. I only know one way to sing it.

Very well.

We'll adjourn until 11 o 'clock, at which point we'll hear your rendition

One Moment in Time.

We do not consider ourselves a security risk. Why not?

We do not maintain a high profile. If you drove by our building, you might not

even know it's a biomedical research facility.

And to date, we have never faced so much as a picket line.

So the idea that we're a magnet for protest is totally unfounded.

Okay.

Doctor, you heard Mr. Blaine talking about serving the public good? I was

offended by that testimony.

Why? Our research is designed to save lives.

There is no other motive. We're not like a pharmaceutical company who develops a

life -saving drug which just so happens to bring in a billion dollars in

revenue. None of us are getting rich here. None of us dream or hope to.

Our goal, the only goal, is to protect human life against disease.

Along with treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, heart disease, we're

about treating leading causes of death in this country and around the world.

But doctor, you know the concern.

Today's stem cell, Tomorrow cloning. We do not clone.

We never will.

And I take additional offense at the implication that we're a bunch of mad

scientists running around with petri dishes.

You certainly seem indignant, Doctor.

When religion raises its ugly head to squash medical progress, I get

You consider religion to have an ugly head?

I'm a man of faith.

And I do believe in religion.

But yes, I'm coming to the opinion that the head is often the ugly part. Your

lawyer thinks this is all politics. You think it's religion. Do you allow any

room for the possibility that your facility might be a target of violence?

I consider such possibility negligible.

It certainly doesn't warrant shutting our doors.

Because you're in the business of saving human life.

Tell me, Doctor, when do you believe human life begins?

According to the law? No, I'm not talking about the legal definition.

I'm asking you as a person of medical science, when does human life begin?

When an organism matures into a being depends on... No, I'm not talking about

the beginning of a human being, Doctor, and you know what I'm asking you is not

a complex question, so I'll ask it one more time. From a medical science

perspective, when does human life begin?

In its organism form upon conception.

When an egg is fertilized and an embryo forms, correct?

Yes. And your facility uses embryos in its research, correct, Doctor? Yes.

embryos? Yes.

Doctor, where do these embryos come from?

Where do these embryos come from?

Many are discarded from fertility clinics.

Many?

All?

No. Where do the others come from?

We harvest them.

You harvest them.

You take an egg, fertilize it, create an embryo, and then destroy it for your

research. Right, Doctor?

Yes. You create human life in order to destroy it.

We create the embryos to treat diseases which are destroying human life. Yes,

that's your take on it. Certainly you're aware, Doctor, when it comes to stem

cell research, this is the public's worst nightmare, that the scientists

one day go from taking discarded embryos from fertility clinics to harvesting

embryos themselves. That's the stated fear on every talk show, isn't it,

That day has already arrived, not only at our facility. Doctor, I really need

you to answer the questions I ask. You're doing in your lab the very thing

public fears most.

I don't know what the public fears most.

I would think they'd fear sickness and death.

You go to great lengths to keep your research quiet so the public doesn't

out you're harvesting embryos, don't you, doctor? We keep all our research

quiet. So is it your testimony, should the public find out what you're doing,

you couldn't possibly become a target for violent protest?

Why don't we see?

Give the public the benefit of the doubt before you shut us down.

You've been keeping this secret because you believe in giving the public the

benefit of the doubt.

What didn't you tell us? You were harvesting embryos. I wasn't really at

to. We all signed confidentiality agreements. Don't feed me that. Look,

we're doing is not illegal.

It's going on elsewhere, like I said, and in the near future it will be going

at Mass General and every major research... That's not the point. You

playing hide -the -ball with the wrong judge.

Somebody inside must have whistled. I don't know how it got out.

Well, like you said, it's out now.

May I make a suggestion?

If this is why they're rezoning you, maybe a deal can be struck.

If you agree to stop harvesting and only use discarded embryos, maybe they'll

drop the ordinance.

We can't.

We don't get enough embryos from the clinics. We need to harvest.

Is it worth risking being shut down? If we can't harvest, you might as well shut

us down.

We need to win this, Eugene.

Yeah, well, you just made that a lot tougher.

Each day I...

I never said she wasn't good. She isn't exactly quaking. We haven't got

there yet.

my dreams are a heartbeat away and the answers are all up to me.

Give me one moment in time

when I'm racing with death.

can do is argue it.

It's still a state imposing its morality on a private facility.

It's wrong and we should win.

Fox is conservative, but she's a fair judge.

Let's hope.

How's it going?

Fine. You need anything?

I heard what happened in court.

They're harvesting?

Yep.

What's next?

I'll get up and argue the law like it's a religion. It's who I am.

All right, Eugene.

Look, I need to prepare. I don't give a damn. I came to you in the spirit of

friendship. Telling me I had no center? I never said that. I got the point,

Bobby. I'm a man without a soul.

You know what, Eugene? You want to make me the enemy? Fine. No, no, no, no. The

enemy is thyself. Isn't that what the Bible says? I take it all back.

I was wrong. I thought you were angry.

Clearly, you're not. I thought the law was your ideology, but I can see now

you're a spiritual guy.

Forgive me for trying to step between you and your profound sense of

contentment.

Did I miss something?

It was a splendid performance.

To hear it once, fabulous.

But day after day after day after day, as Mr. Emerson stated, part of

owning a home, perhaps the very essence of it, is your quiet enjoyment of it.

To be able to sip a cup of coffee.

In peace.

Not all the time, of course.

Disturbances are part of life.

But Mr. Emerson shouldn't be forced to endure a daily dose of what we heard in

this courtroom.

People do have a right to peace and quiet.

Peace and quiet.

are overrated.

I've just left my firm to start my own practice, ostensibly to find peace and

quiet, but I've discovered what I've really been yearning for is a sense of

being connected with people, friends, loved ones.

I've gotten to know Maxine Shipp a little.

I like her.

I just think there's too much peace and quiet going on.

People building fences, gates, getting bigger yards, going around with Walkmans

and iPods, wearing headphones, shutting out the world in search of privacy,

seclusion, peace and quiet, growing more isolated, if not lonely.

We're all so disconnected, you know?

I think...

I think we need to start letting our neighbors' voices come through our walls

more.

The reason they kept this research secret is because they knew the

reaction it would cause.

The most volatile issue in this country is abortion. It has been for 25 years,

and stem cell research triggers the same emotions, compounded by the fears and

condemnation of runaway medical science, where high -tech tissue plants start to

harvest cells, organs, and body parts. There is every reason to fear protest.

Violence. And accordingly, there is nothing arbitrary about the decision to

rezone this district in the interest of public safety.

That's the legal argument, Your Honor.

But if I may,

Mr. Blaine also raised the issue of public good.

And the notion that that is something the zoning board should be concerned

was basically scoffed at by Mr. Young.

Well, I don't scoff at it.

Our public officials...

Our trustees.

The public welfare must always be a vital and relevant concern. By passing

ordinance, the zoning board is reaffirming a sanctity to human life.

begins at the embryo stage. Regardless of one's position on abortion or when an

unborn should have rights, when it becomes a person, there is no medical or

political dispute that human life in its organism stage begins upon conception.

And I submit it is one thing.

To balance the sanctity of that life against the interests of the mother and

-choice, it is quite another for an entity, public or private, to create

life for the purpose of destroying it.

To say that's acceptable is to assert that human life itself

has no intrinsic value, that it's not sacred.

And once society accepts that premise,

God help us.

Now, I'm sure Mr. Young was hoping I'd say the word God because he no doubt

wants to lay this argument off on religious dogma because in a court of

words God, religion, they're ugly words, aren't they?

But the reality is, if one truly wants to find dogma in this society, it's in

the idea that religion and God have no place.

in our secular lives. We are much more dogmatic in our commitment to the

separation of church and state than we are towards any faith.

Mr. Davids, you're getting off track.

I don't believe I am, Your Honor. We are a nation, a people, a government that

profoundly believes in the sanctity of human life.

Defense should neither negate nor invalidate that belief simply because it

be rooted in faith or a commitment to God.

What they're doing in these... test tubes and petri dishes

is an atrocity.

It's a violation against humanity.

And a decision to put a stop to it is anything but

capricious.

If a commission chooses to shut down a research lab because people may protest,

that's arbitrary.

If you decide to close the doors on medical progress that could save lives

because of the possibility of public outrage, that's capricious.

There's been no violence here, no threats, no indication of the danger the

zoning board...

says it's worried about, and the action by that board had nothing to do with the

risk to public safety, and it's in bad faith for them to even offer that as a

pretext. This is government shutting the door on an idea. We all know it.

Mr. Davies knows you know it, Your Honor, which is why he spent the

his closing not on the merits, but on religion, life's sanctity. It's

irrelevant. The sanctity of life is irrelevant to you, Counsel?

Your Honor, since a year ago, Every one of us has become a lot more in touch

with the sanctity of human life. Nobody is more committed to their sanctity than

my clients. They do what they do to fight off diseases that are killing us.

they don't need to be told what is sacred by a city zoning board. There is

nothing remotely democratic about this abatement proceeding.

And if the petitioner is concerned about outrage.

The reason abortion.

And the question of when does human life begin, the reason this issue remains as

combustible as it does today, we the people never got to decide it.

It was done by fiat, by nine people sitting on a bench, nine people nobody

elected, nobody voted for Justice Blackburn, nobody dropped a ballot in

and checked off the name of John Paul Stevens.

Now you're getting off track.

No, I am not.

Our most basic human value was dictated to us by a court. And Congress can't

change it. A president can't change it. The people can't change it. We're bound

with no democratic recourse to even address it because the Supreme Court

let no electoral process tear us under. That's why the public is still angry 30

years later. And that's why it remains this country's civil war.

I believe in God, Your Honor, as I do in the sanctity of human life.

But one sanctity of democracy is that we, the people, enjoy religious and

political freedom and the liberty to decide for ourselves what is sacred.

Here we are today, with a city zoning board running to a court to impose

its own idea of intrinsic human value.

Let the protest begin.

Be seated.

Miss Shipp, to be honest...

I wouldn't be thrilled to hear that Sousa -sized voice every morning.

But Mr. Emerson, when I was buying my house, I asked my real estate broker

privacy, and she said, oh, this is a quiet neighborhood.

You won't have to worry about your neighbors getting all chummy or throwing

block parties.

People here like to keep to themselves.

She said that as a selling point, something to drive the price higher.

It's a sad day when people go to court to stop their neighbors from singing.

Your motion for a TRO is denied. I'm entering judgment for the defendant.

Oh, thank you.

We're adjourned.

Thank you so much.

Congratulations. I just had such a feeling about you.

I loved it. It was so much fun practicing again.

How'd it go? The judge said she'd rule by the end of the day. We finally gave

and came back.

Eugene was... very good.

The clerk's office just called.

Judge Fox denied the injunction.

She did?

We won?

That's incredible.

Eugene! Eleanor.

Let me tell him, okay?

Sure.

Clerk's office just called.

You won.

We did.

Congratulations. The girl said you gave quite a closing.

I don't know.

Guess I spoke from my center.

You misunderstood me, Eugene.

I consider you a man of such heart.

And humanity.

That's why I worry about you.

Anyway, congratulations.

You know, the closing the girls like so much.

I got up and argued the law.

Like a religion.

Yeah.

And there you sit.

The winner.

You stink.