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Previously on The Practice.

We stipulated to strangulation as the cause of death. I'm not offering it. Can

finish? You don't need to finish. We already know what you're going to say.

got a sick, depraved, murdering client, like always.

And like always, the more truth you can keep under wraps, the better. Napoleon

complex, Your Honor. Res ipsa pipsqueak. All right.

You are a killer, you know that? An icy killer.

Thank you, Richard.

It's a compliment, I take it? Of course it was. Your style's the same as mine.

I'm in love with you.

I'm sorry, I should say infatuated. I mean, you're smart, you're sexy, you got

that little Catholic girl thing, and I'd totally go for it the whole package.

Richard, we're in the middle of a trial here.

I speak my mind. Yes, well, I'm speaking mine.

Let's stick to business.

Please, please!

Roberta! Judge Kittleson? Get out, all of you!

I didn't know you and I were speaking romantically, much less... I find it

difficult to tell a man I miss him.

For whatever reason, it's just easier to show up in his apartment naked.

How long do you think?

Three, four days tops. There aren't many witnesses.

Louise going to testify?

Well, she has to. It's her word against her husband's if I don't put her up.

What, people don't greet people here when they come through the door?

What do you want?

How's that?

Eleanor.

Our complaining witness isn't doing well. He's at Mass General Status One

awaiting a donor heart.

Evidently, the doctors don't expect his to hold out much longer. What I'd like

is to take his videotape depot there. We can introduce it at trial.

I'm assuming you'll agree?

You got that wrong.

I beg your pardon?

If you can't get your witness to trial, Richard, that's not our problem. The man

is on his deathbed.

For which I sympathize, but the man is also the chief prosecutorial witness,

you can't expect us to make it easier for him to put our client away. I'm

expecting you to have the decency to accommodate... We're not that decent.

I'll go to court, get an order from the judge.

Do that, but I'm not about to facilitate an attempted murder conviction.

I'm only talking about a humane way of getting the testimony. This does nothing

to my burden. We won't agree.

Get an order if you want, but like Eleanor says, we aren't about to make

easy.

How stupid of me to expect you people to be decent or humane. You think you're

heroes playing a part in the criminal justice system, the crusaders against

oppression. Well, you might have started out that way, but look at you now.

The day -to -day stench of your clients is rubbed off.

You're every bit as vile and contaminated as the murderers and

defend. You bring no dignity to law. You proffer disgrace.

Where you might once have been noble, you've sunk into a sinkhole of disrepute

where your only idealism is get the guy off, even when it offends human nature,

where it insults morality.

You're so lost in the inferno of crime and dishonor, you become sickening

animals, repugnant to everything that's good about this country, everything this

nation... celebrates in the spirit of humanity.

You are sick, awful vehicles of hate. If there is a God, he will get you, you

sleazy, cancerous -infected, malignant, grotesque snakes.

You're going to die an early death if you don't calm down.

They get to me. They're defense attorneys. They have a duty. The man is

deathbed, Helen. They can't agree to take his testimony in a hospital?

They're disgusting, despicable, dirty roaches. Richard. And they get to me.

Look, just go to court and get the order.

Who's the judge?

Kittleson. I hate her, too. And why is that?

Because Raymond Oz called me a midget at sidebar. She could have held him in

contempt. He was the defendant.

She couldn't have... Then she half called me a midget, too.

Kittleson.

It was a slip. She said Midge, then caught herself.

I hate her, too.

Richard, you're about ready to start an attempted murder trial. If you go in

there hating the defense attorneys, hating the judge, you're going to end up

being defeated by your own anger.

Now, go to court, get the order to do the video depot, and take it from there.

I really appreciate you taking the time, Jimmy. No problem.

You look great, by the way.

Did I say that already?

Twice.

And, uh, your husband?

How's he?

Gone. We divorced three years ago.

Oh.

Sorry to hear that.

You said you were sorry to hear we were getting married. Now you're sorry he's

gone? I was just talking as an old boyfriend back then. I mean, if you're

sorry he's gone, then neither am I.

Okay.

So, what's up?

Well, this is a little embarrassing, but... You can tell me.

Okay.

I sold my eggs to this man for $9 ,000.

What do you mean you sold your eggs?

My eggs, for reproduction.

I have a website, and I sell my eggs. I have back orders. You wouldn't believe

how many men are looking to have children, not wanting to wait for wives.

Wait a second.

You sell your eggs, and they like...

Fertilize them?

Yeah.

Men donate to sperm banks all the time. It's the same thing.

But you do it for money.

Yes, and this one customer, I trusted him. I usually demand payment in

but this one customer, I didn't, and he hasn't paid.

So I sued.

But now, as we're about to go into court, there's some motion to dismiss,

lawyer dropped me. He said for $9 ,000, it wasn't worth it.

The hearing's at 11. I'm really in a bind.

You sold your eggs.

If he's not ready for trial, I'll agree to a continuance. Oh, how generous. In

which case, my witness will be dead and I'll have no case.

Hey, why don't we continue for 10 years? Would that be safe?

Mr. Bay, getting snide doesn't really serve anything.

She wants continuance as installed, Judge. Quiet.

What exactly is the problem with the videotaped deposition?

It will prejudice our case.

How so?

Your Honor, if I have to cross -examine a man in a hospital bed, I will come off

so unsympathetic. I will alienate the jury. It will be irreparable.

I'll look like a monster.

You are a monster. Hey, look. Mr. Bay.

So what's the alternative? If we haul him in here, he could die.

All I can say is that my client is entitled to a fair trial, and she will

denied that if the chief prosecutorial witness has to give testimony from a

hospital bed, leaving me hamstrung. I'm going to grant the prosecution's

request. Your Honor. Save it, counsel. Your client tried to run the man over.

That is partly the reason he's in that hospital bed. Untrue. Pre -existing

condition. Brought on by stress, which your client didn't help by charging him

with a sport utility vehicle.

Now, since the jury is already impaneled, let's do this at noon. I will

Thank you, Your Honor.

It doesn't really delay the trial. It just means the part of it will happen in

the hospital.

This can't wait till he's better?

Well, the likelihood is he's not going to get better. Not unless a donor heart

comes in, and even then, because of some other complications, he may not be

deemed a suitable candidate.

Gee, if I'd known he was that sick, I never would have had to run him over.

It's a joke.

Yeah. Well, we should get to the hospital. Assuming we finish, the trial

begin this afternoon.

Okay.

A contract? A contract. First of all, there is an implied covenant that the

once fertilized, will become an embryo. There is no such implied covenant.

Second, this contract is against public policy. For a woman to be selling her

eggs, it is so unethical. Well, your client bought them. I am not defending

that. But he took them.

entered into a contract to pay for them, and now he's not paying. How ethical is

that? Your Honor, this is an unenforceable contract.

Then make restitution.

My client would give back the eggs if he could. He realizes now how immoral this

type of transaction is. To pay money in consideration would only serve to ratify

the immorality. Who are you kidding, Your Honor?

They made a deal. I understand that, Mr. Belluti, but the court is not in the

habit of enforcing contracts that go against public policy. Again,

You're not looking for restitution, counsel. You're looking for

and that begs the question of enforceability.

And frankly, I have problems upholding this kind of deal.

Your Honor. I'll hear oral arguments at 2 o 'clock.

Although, since we're just talking about $9 ,000, my suggestion is you people

work this out.

We'll give you $1 ,500.

We'll take six.

No way.

I didn't even get an embryo out of it. That wasn't in the contract, Mr.

I'll offer $1 ,500 and no more. Anything else, I just assume, come back to

court. Then we go back to court. Susan. No, Jimmy, it's principal.

Come on, Howard.

Come on.

Can you represent me one more day, Jimmy?

Susan.

How come you're doing this?

Selling your eggs?

It's hard making ends meet, Jimmy.

My life hasn't exactly worked out like I planned.

Could you please stop judging me? I'm not judging you. You are, like you used

do. I never... You did.

I don't need it now.

Can you help me or not?

We've been fighting a lot.

I told her I wanted a divorce.

What were you fighting about?

Oh, you name it.

We basically reached the point.

We didn't like each other. The marriage was over.

There was nothing left but hate.

I'd like to turn to August 10th of this year.

Do you remember that day?

Yes. That was the day she tried to kill me.

Objection sustained.

What happened on that day, Mr. Morgan?

Well, we just got back from grocery shopping, which, by the way, I was a

suspicious. She never asked me to go shopping with her before, but on this

she needs me.

And when we got home, the garage door opener, it wasn't working.

So she said she'd have to get out of the car and open the door. You offered to

do it. Mrs. Morgan.

You don't speak here.

Continue, sir.

So I got out of the car, stepped in front of it to open the garage door. I

opened the garage door, and at this point, she just gunned the accelerator

ran me over.

It's a miracle I lived.

God didn't want you. That's the only reason. Louise? Mrs. Morgan.

One second, Your Honor.

This one's played for the jury. They will see and hear everything you say. So

quiet.

Did you see the vehicle come at you? Yes.

And I saw her face.

Can you describe her face?

She had a look of determination.

It was willful.

I could see this was no stuck accelerator. She knew what she was

How can you be sure?

I've known her for 35 years.

I can read her face.

She meant to run me over.

Your wife contends it was an accident.

It was no accident.

She tried to kill me.

I know it as well as she does.

How sick is this man?

Very. His heart is weak. His left ventricle is... I'll kill him. All

Your Honor, every defendant is entitled to confront his or her accuser. Gee, I

never knew that. You're such a gift.

My point is, if I cross -examine him tough, which I'll have to do after that

testimony, I'll kill him. You're not that good, Eleanor.

Would you get back? If I mistake you for a gnat, I might swap.

All right. I want that on record.

Your Honor, you have to admit our hands are a little tied.

The doctor thinks he's strong enough to answer your question.

I am not going to lob softballs. This is a murder trial. You can cross -examine

without being overly aggressive.

I shouldn't have to. My client has rights. Oh, stop with the lecture. I

duty to go hard. Even if it induces a coronary, I have to protect the

of my client.

Thick, grotesque. Look, I am not trying to compromise this man's health, but I

won't compromise Louise Morgan's either. That testimony was damaging. So what

are you going to do? Get away!

Don't you ever! Push me. Back off. I'm not going to let you intimidate me with

everybody else. Knock it off now.

Hey.

Can this man withstand more questioning?

Perhaps, but I don't want him agitated.

You mean like him? Oh, funny. Eugene.

He needs to rest first.

Okay, we will resume back here at three o 'clock.

am i gonna do you gotta cross from eleanor his health can't be an issue

say we gotta protect louise great

look maybe i

should take over i'm fine look richard if you pushed eugene that tells me you

have some judgment problems he'd squish you like a bug i can handle myself why

are you personalizing this so much is it because bobby called you a pipsqueak

They laughed at us when Raymond Oz went free. No, they didn't. They did, Helen.

That old fart was a murderer and they helped him get off.

Now they've got another one and they know it. The woman mowed down her

Who's kidding who? They're defense attorneys.

Most of their clients will be guilty.

There's a difference between giving every defendant a zealous defense and

distorting the system. That's not what the framers had in mind. If you start

quoting the founding fathers again, I'm going to leave.

You know what I mean.

Eleanor, she'll cross -examine that guy into having a heart attack if a coronary

will keep his testimony out. She won't blink half an eye. She'll just do it.

They're not evil people.

Yes, they are.

Richard, for three years, I've been telling you what would happen if you

personalize your trials.

What did I say?

I'd lose my hair.

You're a great DA, but you gotta keep an even keel.

Helen, can I ask you something?

Sure. Will you have dinner with me tonight?

Oh, God, no.

Night. Just forget I ever lived. Get out.

I didn't mean... I just meant I don't ever want to eat with any fellow DAs.

Never mind.

No, sure. Let's have dinner. Let's do it.

Don't patronize me, Helen. I don't like... Richard, I am saying yes. You've

a window here.

Federal and state law prohibit the sale of any organs. We're not talking about

organs. An egg is not... The same principle applies.

The law doesn't say that. But maybe it should.

Just as we prohibit the sale of livers and organs. We could do that, Judge. But

then you'd have to cut off the sale of sperm.

That's going on. I would agree.

We should shut that down.

It's one thing to donate an egg or semen out of charity or altruism, but it's

quite another to do so for profit.

He's in here arguing what the law should be.

That's not a court's job.

The judge is supposed to rule on what the law is.

He wants it changed, let him go to Congress.

But what the law says today, it's okay for a woman to sell her eggs.

And the distinction between altruism and profit?

Forgive my language, that's just crap.

Profit saves lives.

The drug companies aren't out there developing vaccines because of altruism.

It's about patents and profits. This isn't about drug vaccines. It shouldn't

about hypocrisy either.

Everything that happens in business and much of the stuff that goes on in

medicine, it's got to do with money.

So don't be coming down on my client because she's looking for financial

She's acting inside the boundaries of the law.

She made a contract with that man inside the boundaries.

He breached it. And she's come to a court of law.

For the remedy she's entitled to.

How long before he rules?

It shouldn't take too long.

I'm on beeper, so as soon as I hear.

Hey.

Thank you, Jimmy. I really appreciate it.

Okay.

You don't approve, do you?

No.

I hope it didn't show in there, but...

I don't think women should be selling off their reproductive eggs.

I think it goes against God.

Still religious, huh?

Not too.

But on some things... You seen anyone?

Well... Sort of.

Yeah.

Figures. Most of the good ones are.

Susan, you and I, we already crossed that bridge.

You threw me over.

Well, I was what?

23?

Priorities change.

You gonna get married?

It ain't that serious.

Don't wait too long, Jimmy.

Yeah.

Listen, I'll call as soon as I hear.

Okay.

Thanks.

You said you were suspicious when your wife asked you to go shopping. Had you

never shopped with her before?

Oh, a few times, but certainly not enough. So you had then. When you said

that was a mistake.

More like an overstatement.

It was just not a usual thing for me to shop with her. And when you got home,

you got out of the car to open up the garage door? Yes.

And then you moved in front of the car? Yes.

And how many feet in front of the car were you standing?

Three feet, maybe. Three feet. And when you opened up the garage door, the car

suddenly came at you? Yes. Fast or slow? It just sprang at me. It lurched

forward and ran me over. How many seconds did it take to run you over? A

maybe less.

It just exploded toward me. She floored it. Knocked you down in less than a

second? Yes. In half a second?

Maybe. And in that half second, you saw the car come at you? Yes. And in the

remainder of that half second, when you weren't looking at the car, you saw your

wife's face?

I saw it good.

For less than a half a second. I didn't time it, but I saw it good.

You said you wanted to divorce her, right?

Yes. Didn't have any feelings for her anymore besides hate. Wasn't that your

testimony? Pretty much.

And since you've developed this heart condition, you've been gifting away as

much of your estate as possible. You've even told friends that, right, Mr.

Morgan? Keep it away from Uncle Sam.

And your wife, didn't you tell some friends you don't want her to get it?

In fact, the one thing you hated about the prospect of divorce was that she'd

get half, right? Which she didn't deserve. But if you could get her

attempted murder, that would surely disqualify her, wouldn't it? This isn't

something I hatched up. It's exactly that.

Objection! Sustained.

When the police and the paramedics first arrived, you said nothing about her

trying to kill you, did you, Mr. Morgan?

I first didn't believe it. Didn't tell the police anything about her face then,

did you? I was half dead.

And then it came to you like a million -dollar brainstorm?

Objection. Disdain. This is a way of getting even, isn't it, Mr. Morgan? Get

convicted of attempted murder.

Argumentative counsel.

Disqualifying her from everything.

Yes, I ran myself over. This was an accident and ruled an accident until you

came up with the idea about the expression on her face, which you

later, based on a... limps of less than half a second. She's badgering the

witness. No, I'm cross -examining.

How is it that you didn't know she tried to kill you right after the accident,

but that you came to know it later, sir? What happened since the accident? I

figured it out. Well, what happened since the accident that allowed you to

figure it out? I put two and two together. Ah, so it wasn't the

her face. Yes, it was. Did hate color your figuring, sir? Did money color it?

He's coding.

Oh, great.

Let's get out of their way. Let's talk to the staff.

Mr. Morgan, this could be your last chance. Get away. Did she try to kill

Yes. Squeeze the doctor's hand.

Will someone get this man out of here? Mr. Morgan, get this man away from here.

Atrophy.

That was despicable even for you. What the hell was that? The squeeze of the

hand last chance? What the hell was that? Both of you. He's in a systole.

He's in your CPR. I'm giving him an ample buy card.

How long is this the last chance?

Is he okay? Not really. He's dead.

Dead? His heart gave out. I'd offer condolences if I thought any of you

You killed him?

Dead? That's what she said.

What happened? Eleanor cross -examined a man to death. All right.

So what's going to happen with the trial?

They don't know. They're conferencing in Kittleton's chambers. If his testimony

is out, the trial is over.

He was the whole case.

I'm mindful every ethicist, as well as the leaders of all our infertility

groups, then discussed at the prospect of peddling eggs for cash.

But Mr. Belluti is right.

The law prohibits selling human organs.

But there's nothing illegal yet about trafficking sperm and eggs.

I find the contract to be binding and order the defendant to pay costs

plus interest.

Adjourned.

Thank you, Jimmy.

Congratulations, I guess.

Look, I know it's not much money, but the principal... Susan, if you're

about this case, I tell people it was about money.

Saying it's about principal, you're selling your eggs.

Can I talk to you in private somewhere?

why we broke up, Jimmy?

It's coming back to me.

It's because you were always putting me down.

You were always finding faults. Come on. I didn't put you down, Susan. You were

always telling me what I was doing wrong and never letting me talk.

You don't like the idea of a woman selling her eggs. You don't like the

a woman having an abortion.

You've got a lot of likes or dislikes that you're entitled to, but none of

render you more principled.

You want to know what principle is, Jimmy? Yeah.

Why don't you tell me? It's recognizing responsibility.

Principle is duty to your children, making sure that they are fed and

with a decent home and you don't have the slightest idea what that is. Tell

kids how you pay the rent. You're like a prostitute, Susan.

When you go to work every day and you come into this room with your clients,

Do you call them murderers to their faces?

Thieves? Child molesters?

I doubt it.

You quite likely show them more respect than that.

Me, you call a prostitute.

You tell me, Jimmy.

Why was it you were always so much harder on me than the rest of the world?

I'd really like to know what it was that made me the brunt of your anger. I

loved you.

That's why.

Do you still?

I don't know.

This other woman?

Thank you again for your services.

You obviously turned out to be quite a good lawyer.

I'm sorry I disappoint you.

You saw it yourself. She all but murdered him. What?

You're lucky I like you, Eleanor. I'm lucky you like me?

Settle down.

I'm sick of these scream fests. One could make the argument she deliberately

tried to induce a fatal heart attack to eliminate a chief prosecutorial witness.

One could, but he'd be a tiny little fool. Hey. All right. Now, I am warning

both of you. Your Honor, obviously Mr.

Morgan's testimony has to be excluded.

Why? Our client has to have full opportunity for cross -examination. We

short. Bogus. I'm sorry? If ever a witness were fully cross -examined, she

killed him. Mr. Bay, I knew they would try this. I knew it. Oh, what? Do you

have crystal balls? If only you had real... Ow! Oh, right.

He kicked me. Did you see that? He just kicked me. That just cost you $500. The

next insult goes for $1 ,000.

Your Honor.

Yes?

Even if you find we were afforded full opportunity for cross -examination, what

happened? The man had a heart attack.

The danger of Miss Frutt coming off unsympathetic is too prejudicial.

I didn't say anything. I didn't kick anybody.

With all due respect, he has clearly lost his mind. With all due respect,

just cost you $1 ,000.

May I speak?

You may speak. Do not kick. Do not stomp. Do not even move your legs.

Even if you were inclined to exclude Mr.

Morgan's testimony on the grounds their cross was cut short...

a decision which would border on judicial misconduct, we could

still introduce Mr.

Morgan's statement that his wife Louise tried to kill him.

Why? How?

As Mr. Morgan was suffering his fatal coronary, I asked him that question. He

answered yes, an answer which would qualify as a dying declaration which

not be subject to cross -examination in order to be admissible.

Is that why you did that?

Asked him to squeeze the doctor's hand, and you're calling me despicable?

Counsel, these attacks are outrageous. He's stroking out, and he asked a

question to qualify a dying declaration?

And it's the defense attorneys that are called scum? Your Honor, scum should

cost her $2 ,000. Well, let me know when it costs $20 ,000, you vile,

disgusting, repulsive little cockroach! You are a desperate person, Eleanor.

You grab a dying man to go for the big win, and then you question me about the

digital law, you vicious little peanut!

Why do you hate me, though?

Why do I hate you? Richard, you're the one who starts it. I'm just standing up

for myself. All right.

I don't even know why I'm here.

You're here to keep them from killing each other.

I am editing the videotape deposition personally. I will admit those parts

I feel you have had ample cross.

We go to court tomorrow, and we will try the rest of it.

Any of this nonsense goes on in my courtroom, I will be sending you to the

with my recommendation for a 60 -day suspension.

Let them out.

I have a date.

Did you love her?

I used to.

And some of those feelings came back?

I don't know.

It's like I realized I looked at her like maybe she could have been the

mother of my children.

So I held her up to higher standards.

And it made me think, when I see Roberta, I don't look at her that way.

As the mother of my kids or... She's got no eggs left to sell. That ain't funny.

But there is some truth to it, Jimmy.

You want a family one day. Maybe you don't see that with Roberta, but you can

see it with Susan.

Susan's not in the picture.

I'm not?

Am I really out of the picture?

You think?

You want to... I... He mumbles when he's smitten.

Lucy.

How

about

I take you to dinner?

Well, before I do anything like that, I got some ends I gotta clean up with

somebody else.

So I'm assuming they'll put their client up and then we'll pretty much close. I

mean, it's a short trial.

Great.

Then we can get some counseling.

Helen, she did knowingly cross -examine a man with a weak heart. I don't want to

hear about it anymore. You used up your whole date talking about a case,

Richard.

Does that mean I'm not getting another one?

Well, I can't say I had the greatest time, considering all through dinner you

slammed my roommate.

Oh, you should have heard the way that she went after this. You kicked her

twice.

You even took a run at Eugene.

Would you have some sort of a death wish?

Maybe.

What? Tell me.

Part of me... I think I do want to get into a fight.

A fist fight.

You ever bothered to ask yourself why?

I was captain of the debate team growing up.

president of the chess club, three -time state spelling bee champion.

But on the playground, I just got picked on.

I would love to get into a fight.

Well, I think you should see somebody about that.

But in the meantime, if you are going to take runs...

Taking one at Eugene isn't smart, or even Eleanor, for that matter.

Yeah.

Well, I'd better go work on my closing argument.

Can we go out one more time? I promise not to slam roommates.

Another chance?

I'd go for you.

The whole package.

Why wouldn't the garage clicker work?

I don't know.

Maybe the batteries were too low. It often didn't work.

So your husband opened the garage door.

And I went to inch forward, and the car lurched. I went for the brake.

and I hit the accelerator by mistake, and I ran right over Ronald.

It was an accident.

Of course it was an accident.

Well, Mrs. Morgan, it has become known to many people that you and your husband

have become very estranged.

Many husbands and wives become estranged. That doesn't mean that they

kill each other.

The ones who do, we usually see them charged with attempted murder.

Objection! Sustained.

Mrs. Morgan, you said you hit the accelerator to inch forward when the car

suddenly lurched. Yes. Your husband was, what, two, three feet in front of you?

Yes. Why was your foot hitting the accelerator at all with a man standing

three feet in front of the car?

Because I was inching. Inching into a lurch.

Objection. Sustained.

Do you ever have the car checked out?

Yes. Did they find any cause why it would lurch?

No. Did you sue the automaker?

Did I sue the automaker?

Do you still drive this car?

Yes. After what happened?

Aren't you afraid it'll happen again?

The main error was human error. When I hit the accelerator hard going for the

brake.

She hit the accelerator hard going for the brake.

With a man she hated standing two feet in front of the car.

He dies, she inherits everything.

They divorce, she gets half.

None of us were there.

Who are we to say it couldn't have been an accident?

None of us has ever had a car lurch.

None of us has ever inadvertently hit the accelerator while going for the

None of us has ever driven a car over somebody we hated and inherited $2

million.

You listen to the testimony of the victim.

He saw her face.

He read that face, a face that he had been reading for over 30 years.

She was gunning for him. She was trying to kill him.

A face he saw for a fraction of a fraction of a second.

That's their case, ladies and gentlemen. A look for a fraction of a fraction of

a second while a car is coming at you.

How reliable is that?

Are you going to tell me reasonable doubt can be overcome by a fraction of a

fraction of a second?

Hey, what's this I hear about you brokering eggs on the Internet?

Funny.

How's it going?

What's wrong?

Nothing's wrong. I just stopped by. Oh, I can always tell when something's the

matter with you, Jimmy. Your forehead beats up.

Okay.

I like a lot of things about our relationship.

But there's some stuff I find wanting.

You find wanting?

What do you find wanting, Jimmy?

Well...

I want to have a family one day.

Soon. And I think I'm just kidding myself, thinking that you

and I could go that way.

You

came

in here to end our relationship?

Well, yes.

I'm 37.

I got to take stock of what I am, where I'm going, take control of my life's

direction.

You think you know yourself?

You don't know yourself.

I know you, Jimmy.

And trust me when I tell you, you'll be coming back.

Might take two months, maybe three.

But you'll be back.

You want to know why?

No.

Yeah.

Because of your mother and father.

You were raised as a strict Catholic. You grew up sexually repressed. And what

you're going to be looking for in a woman more than anything else is a woman

liberates you sexually, who makes you feel sexual.

Do you really think that you can be with just anybody?

What you are with me?

Best sex you have ever had, will ever have. You'll get it right here, nowhere

even close.

And whether you want to admit that to yourself or not, it's important

to you.

Should I read it back?

Will the defendant please rise?

Has the jury reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

What say you?

Commonwealth v. Louise Morgan on the charge of attempted murder.

We find the defendant, Louise Morgan, not guilty.

The jury is dismissed with the thanks of the court.

We're adjourned.

You know, I'm still having trouble with my garage door. Maybe you can be there

to open it when I get home.

All right, Louise.

It's stacked against us sometimes.

Little old ladies.

I want to run every member of that jury to the computer. If there's an

outstanding ticket, I'm going to impound their cars.

Come on, I'll take you to lunch.

I mean it, Helen.

Let's go.

You know, this morning I was sorry I kicked Eleanor. Now I'm not.

I'm glad I kicked her. Okay.

I mean it.

Susan.

Hey, am I early?

No. I... No.

Okay. I made a reservation at Tiger Lilies. Have you ever been?

No.

Susan, uh... My unfinished business.

It's still unfinished.

Okay. Does that preclude lunch?

Well... The thing is... I don't think I want to finish it.

I'm... I'm still involved.

Well.

You know how terrific I think you are. Jimmy, don't insult me by putting a

ribbon.

I get it.

Better I get it now than after I went down a path.

This is what I'm thinking.

I'll see you around.