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Last season on LA Law.

Rosalind Shays.

What? She wins.

You're the new senior partner.

I'm overwhelmed.

I think your father is losing touch with reality.

In what way?

He takes on the persona of a television character.

What are you saying, Victor?

I'm saying you sold out our client. I'm saying you were bought, Rosalind. Do you

want to move in together?

I don't want to play house.

I want to get married.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Becker.

I'm not stepping down.

Then I'll have to break you.

Is there anybody that wants to see me remain a senior partner?

I resign.

What's your name? Ralph Crabden. Murray Melvin. Ralph Crab... Ralph Cramden is a

TV character, Daddy. Don't be a Weisenheimer, Alice.

Don't be a Weisenheimer!

If a man had come in here and played hardball as successfully as you did, he

would have been hailed as a great leader.

With a woman, the reviews come in a little differently.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to present the Honorable Grace Van Owen,

partner of Mackenzie Brackman Chase.

We have got to make this go away, Leland. The publicity alone will hurt

She can't win this trial.

It doesn't matter. This will be ugly, Leland. We don't want our dirty laundry

hung out for everyone to see. He's right. I think we should get out now.

Excuse me.

They're here.

Well, bring them in.

Douglas and I will take this.

Everybody else outside.

125 ,000. Sealed. No admission of liability.

This isn't a game, Leland. Oh, come on, Jack.

There was no bad faith, no sex discrimination. You've got no case. The

reason I'm offering anything is to avoid the embarrassment of a public

spectacle. 500 ,000. Rock bottom. You've got to be kidding.

Not a chance. You don't want to go forward with this, my friend.

It'll put you and this entire firm on trial, and by the time I get finished,

public will be laughing at everybody here.

Everybody except you, Leland.

You they'll pity.

I'm not giving her half a million dollars.

Shall we?

Leland, you just made your last mistake.

Okay, first up, as you all probably know, Shays versus Mackenzie Brackman

today.

Abby and I got subpoenaed last night.

What? You? What could she want with you? I don't know. It may have something to

do with what I said to her after she lost the senior partnership.

Well, what did you say?

Something like, this wouldn't have happened to her if she were a man.

I'm hearing this now. Oh, my God.

You said that?

You better not say that on the stand.

Am I supposed to lie? Of course. For God's sakes, Anne, you'll make her hold

case. What are you suggesting, Leland? That I commit perjury? I'm suggesting

that that conversation took place almost six months ago.

You couldn't possibly be expected to remember.

And, Abby, we know you like Rosalind, but I would expect a little loyalty in

your testimony as well. Meaning what?

Meaning just that.

From you both.

This firm is risking serious exposure here.

This is not a time to be overly righteous.

I still don't think we should be representing ourselves. There's a

interest. Peter and Grace are not named in the suit. There is no conflict. Let's

move on. Michael, your murder case seems to be getting a lot of press.

We pleaded out this afternoon. The media will go away. Why shouldn't it?

Was it just a black kid who died? It was an accident.

Yeah? An accident by a white cop?

You got a problem, Jonathan? All right, that's enough. Now look, we're all under

a lot of pressure here. Let's not start sniping at each other.

Why don't we adjourn, get ready, it's going to be a big day. And I want as

partners as possible in that courtroom. If Rosalind says anything, you can trip

her up on, I want to be able to do it.

Victor, Grace, you ready?

Ready. Yeah.

Good. Well, let's go. Best of luck to us all.

Wow, great!

Rox, did you buy the popcorn strings?

We put it right by the sofa, you know. Popcorn strings. I buy popcorn strings,

honey, and make them. Did you make them?

It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Hey, you want portrait Christmas

cards by December, you've got to take the pictures now.

Is it Christmas time already?

Because if it is, I've got just the right gift for it.

Rocks, baby, this time I've done it.

I'll leave.

Daddy, it's a little hectic here today.

Rocks, what about hats? I asked for hats.

Oh, too hectic to make a million bucks, huh? The hats are here. Thanks.

Rocks, baby, this time I've done it.

This one's going to sell.

Watch my hands.

Look, look, look, look. Are they here?

Nothing there, right? See?

But when I go like this... Daddy!

It's all down the strings.

I'm going to pull it by my back. Daddy, you cannot keep charging in here with

your little inventions. It's just as simple as up, down, up, down.

Daddy, baby, look here. Watch this.

You want to make a few extra bucks?

It's a trick, I'm telling you.

Daddy, please. Do this.

And I don't say anything here?

When they call the case and step up to the defense table, the whole thing

take maybe 30 seconds. And the judge will definitely go along with this. I

he's not going to suddenly say he wants jail time. Right.

Michael, it's a felony.

Involuntary manslaughter is a felony, and I have seen judges reject joint

recommendations. Well, if the judge doesn't agree to the suspended sentence,

just reject the plea. That's all.

Settle down.

This is a classic example of selective prosecution.

A black teenager is dead.

And the district attorney is telling justice because the murderer is a cop.

One hour, tops.

Oh, God.

What's going on? That's Daryl Holloway. He represents the family of the kid you

shot. Oh, yeah, I know who it is. Just stay with me. We'll move right through

it. Don't say nothing.

Just follow me.

There he is. Shot a black kid in the back. He's going in to complete the

transaction.

Don't the cops... Give out special merit for executing niggers, huh?

You are not excused. You are not excused. People, be quiet now.

I wish to hell you'd warn me about that.

What, don't you watch the news?

Let's get this over with. Is the clerk ready to call it? Oh, Mike.

Give me a second.

Things have changed.

The deal's off.

Who are you talking about?

It isn't me. It's coming from the top.

We're going with murder, too.

Look, we plead that we've got a race riot, Mike. Wait a minute, wait a

We have a deal. We don't have a deal. I'm really sorry.

What, are you afraid of the headlines or something? Is that what's going on

here? It isn't me.

You understand?

Well, then who the hell is it? The mayor? I don't know. All I know is it

to me from Rogoff.

Look, you didn't hear me say this, but he is scared.

Mostly about all the noise Holloway's making.

Might I show Rogoff you can make some noise, too?

Give me a meeting with him. Done.

When Rosalind Shays joined Mackenzie Brackman last January, she knew it was a

ship taking on water.

That's why she was brought in, after all, to fix the leak.

But there was no way that even she could anticipate the level of ineptitude that

so pervaded this stumbling, bumbling group of lawyers.

The head litigator was so invested in the murder trial, for which he wasn't

getting paid, by the way, that they had to throw their tax attorney into

litigation. The matrimonial attorney, when he wasn't making home videos for do

-it -yourself divorces, or when he wasn't being sued over them for

was busy stealing files and planning midnight defections. The senior partner

tired and old, while the administrative partner went from wearing toupees to

braces, while bouncing through love affairs involving women such as his own

father's mistress, as well as a sexual surrogate. Now, ordinarily, I would tell

you to just take a look at this collection of kooks and have a good

what they did to my client wasn't funny.

Facing bankruptcy, they brought her in to rescue them. They made her a senior

partner to bring them credibility.

The evidence will show, ladies and gentlemen, that Rosalind Shays not only

brought them credibility, she brought them clients, she brought them money.

She brought them the profit and the prestige they never had, and then, after

had done all this, this little boys' club decided that they didn't want a

at the helm, and they got rid of her.

Just like that. After she had served their purpose, they dumped her.

You know, as a rule, I don't take cases where the defendant is another attorney.

Call it professional courtesy, I don't know. But when I saw what they did...

When I saw this repulsive level of deceit, this blatant sex discrimination,

I took the case.

As a fellow member of the bar, I'm embarrassed. I'm even ashamed by what

did. They degrade the entire profession.

And we're going after them.

Appealing to the evidence, appealing to the truth, appealing to your fundamental

notion of fairness, I'm going to teach this unscrupulous bunch of thieving

sharks a lesson they will never forget.

Honey, things just got a little backed up at the office. We have plenty of

Not too much, Scott.

Are you kidding?

You think I forgot a playoff game?

You think I would let the team down by failing to deliver the second leading

scorer in the league?

It's going to be hard to score today.

Riverside's got a pretty good defense.

Counties was better and you scored twice.

Just stay aggressive.

Keep up.

It's going to be a big game.

Okay, Mr. Sollers, let's go. Yes, Your Honor.

Plaintiff calls his first witness, Mr.

Stuart Markowitz.

Objection. Your Honor, this witness is not on his list.

He's on yours. Yes, he is, and he's prepared to testify for us, not you. He

testify for whomever he wants. I'm simply asking him to do so now.

Your Honor, if counsel intended to call this witness as part of his case, then

he should have included him on his list. What is the big deal, Mr. Fuentes? You

were planning on calling him anyway.

The big deal is that Mr. Markowitz is scheduled to be our fourth or fifth

witness, which is considerably down the road. Now, I haven't prepared testimony

with him as of yet. I don't want the prepared version.

I'm more interested in the truth. Objection to that. All right, counsel.

Fuentes, I am overruling your objection.

I move then for a continuance to allow discovery to... No.

Call the witness.

Mr. Stuart Markowitz.

What was the reason that Miss Shays was brought in as a partner, sir? The firm

was becoming less profitable, and we felt we wanted to bring someone in who

could expand our client base. And Miss Shays accomplished that, didn't she?

she did. In fact, in her short tenure, my client increased your revenues by

Is that right?

That would be right, yes.

It would also be right, wouldn't it, to say that at the time that she arrived,

your firm was in considerable disarray, even to the point that... No, no, no.

The firm was functioning just fine. Was it now? Yes, it was. Well, I would be

interested in knowing how a tax attorney such as yourself, with no litigation

experience whatsoever in over 18 years of practice, was suddenly trying cases.

I was totally prepared to litigate. Really?

What prepared you for that, Mr. Markowitz? Watch a lot of Matlock?

Objection. Sustained.

I'm looking over your trial record. Your first case concerned a woman suing over

a bad date.

Your next case involved an old rabbi whose hand had slipped during a bris.

That's right.

And I did a good job with those cases.

No doubt.

But do you think that these big trials really prepared you for your next case,

Mr. Markowitz?

I'm referring to a major personal injury trial where you represented a man who

had been tortured by electrocution.

I was ready. This was a potential multi -million dollar lawsuit. It was a huge

case, and they gave it to you.

Rosalind Shays was senior partner at the time. She okayed it.

Yes. On the recommendation of your head litigator.

Objection. This has no relevance at all. It goes to show what a mess this firm

was. Rosalind Shays was calling the shots. This man had no business trying

cases. He's an accountant with a law degree.

Objection. Ann. You can't make objections, ma 'am. You are not an

record in this matter.

What happened at this torture trial, Mr. Markowitz?

We lost. You lost.

And yet the trial transcripts indicate that the defendant himself took the

stand. He stood right up there, and in front of the jury, he admitted to doing

it. He admitted to wiring up your client's genitals and sending electric

currents through his body. He admitted it, didn't he? That's right. And still,

you lost. Yes, we lost.

What a gifted attorney you must be.

Objection! Withdrawn! It's a pity they didn't put you in charge of this trial.

Objection, Your Honor!

Withdrawn again.

I'm sorry.

You certainly didn't have to be so passive, Stuart.

Shut up.

Oh, now he fights back.

Somebody had to save you. Shut up, Douglas. I mean it. Just shut up.

I'm really getting a lot of support from you. I'd like to see you up. I said it

from the beginning. Letting him try cases would come to haunt us. And he

to be senior partner. I'm telling you, I think we should really think about

unsettling this thing. Make it disappear.

Everybody shut up. Oh, that's constructive.

Let's all shut up.

Stuart?

What's wrong? What is it? Is he having a heart attack?

He's Stuart.

It's a trick. Get up, Stuart.

What's wrong with him?

Can you get him on his back?

Oh, my God. Go, Douglas!

I'll get oxygen. Oh, no.

Is he breathing?

Yes. Is he breathing? Are you sure? Yes. Yes, he's breathing.

Hiya, Rockson.

Is Arnie in?

I need a lawyer.

No, Daddy.

Arnie's in court.

You know that. I told you this morning. Almost everyone's in court.

Okay.

Truth of the matter is, I came to see you, too.

What did the doctor say?

I beg your pardon?

What did the doctor say?

I know you went to see him this morning.

It's all in your pocket calendar thing. You went into my purse and looked at my

calendar? Okay, okay, I know. Daddy, that's my business. It's private.

It's my health.

It's my business.

What did the doctor say?

He said you were fine.

He looked at your shoes.

Excuse me?

Roxanne, all your life, whenever you lied, you looked down at your shoes.

Ten years old, you swapped your mother's lipstick.

I asked you about it.

You look at your sneakers.

19 years old, you start late.

I say, are you a virgin? You go right for the sandals. Now you got some

giving me a million tests.

I ask you what's cooking and you looked at it.

I don't even know what those are.

Pumps.

He said he's pretty sure that you have Alzheimer's.

It's probably just a very mild stage.

It may not affect you very much.

You probably will just, you know, forget things a little.

Like my name?

Oh, no, you're not going to forget your name, Daddy.

They got a cure for this thing?

No.

You know what I think?

I think all those doctors are nuts.

They dream up this crazy disease.

It sounds good because it's hard to pronounce.

And then they tell you they don't really have a fix for it. But they keep

scheduling more appointments and they take more money. Just like the lawyers.

Except they wear white coats.

Yeah. Well, you tell them your old man was nuts before this Alzheimer thing.

You tell them that, sweetheart.

Okay.

Here we go now.

Oh, uh...

Tell Harry to give me a call right away. It's very important. Please, something

to call me. What for?

Oh, didn't I tell you?

I got an offer for my pants gag.

Yeah, an adult toy and game company. They're going to give me 18 grand for my

patent. Really?

Yeah, really.

Pretty good for a guy who's losing his mind, huh?

Quacks. You tell him my father's in his prime.

Quacks.

Quacks.

I don't believe this.

You told me it'd be over and done with.

Well, it was supposed to be.

But it's not.

You see the news?

Every channel, for God's sake, they're calling me a racist murderer.

Now, take it easy, Brian. How am I supposed to take it easy?

I got groups protesting in my driveway. My wife and kids are afraid to even

leave the house.

Listen to me. They have a lousy case on murder, too. A terrible case, in fact.

The only reason they're going ahead with this is because of all the racial

tensions. If their case is so terrible, how come you're pushing the plea?

Because you can never be sure.

Right. You can never be sure.

Look, Brian, I just got off the phone with the commissioner.

He's issuing a public statement this afternoon fully backing you and saying

under the circumstances, the shooting was justified.

Tomorrow, I'm meeting with Bruce Rogoff, the district attorney. This whole thing

is political.

I'm sure I can get the guy to back off. What if you can't?

Then I go in front of the judge Friday. At the very least, we get a continuance

and we delay the thing until the political climate has cooled down a

But in the meantime, you can't panic.

Do you understand me? You cannot panic.

You are innocent, Brian. It was an accident.

You have to carry that knowledge and that confidence with you wherever you

You have to walk around with the outward calm that comes from knowing you're

going to win this.

Because believe me, If the press smells your fear, if Holloway smells your fear,

the media will hang you before we ever swear in the first witness. Do you

understand that?

I'm definitely beginning to.

Hi, sweetie.

What are you talking about?

You're fine. The doctor says you're just fine.

I had a heart attack.

I know.

But you're okay, Stuart.

You're okay.

I thought I was going to die.

I kept thinking about Matthew.

I don't want to tell him about it.

So we won't ever tell him, okay?

Why did you join Mackenzie Brackman? I guess it was ego, mostly. They said they

were looking for a savior, and that presented a very romantic challenge.

You think you lived up to that challenge, Miss Chase?

I know it's self -serving to say I did, but I did.

I brought in new clients.

I generated over $3 million in revenues, and I kept existing clients from

walking out the door.

Everyone was so happy, they made me senior partner.

And then, one day, it all changed.

Yes.

Leland. Leland McKenzie came to me and said... He said that it wasn't working

out. He asked me to quietly resign.

And when I told him that I couldn't do that in good conscience, he said he'd

break me.

And that's what he did.

Could you tell us what transpired? A partner's meeting was quickly arranged,

I was told it would be best if I were to leave.

It was obvious the whole thing had been orchestrated secretly behind my back.

Objection. That's conclusive.

Overruled. Keep going, ma 'am.

I left.

Quietly? Yes. I thought I could live with it.

But I couldn't. I just couldn't. So, you initiated this lawsuit?

Yes. They brought me in because they were falling apart.

And after I saved them, after they didn't need me anymore, they threw me

That isn't right.

Well, with all due respect, ma 'am, you seem to have landed on your feet.

In the legal community, I will always be known as the dame who couldn't cut it

as a senior partner. Because of that, I will probably never be given another

chance. Was being a senior partner so important? Yes, I suppose.

Since my husband died nine years ago, all I've had is my career and that

dream.

And that's why I was so, so proud when it came true at Mackenzie Brackman.

I don't think I've ever felt a greater sense of contribution anywhere.

And when they made me senior partner, I had earned it.

That's what made it so special. I had earned it.

And that's why when they...

took it away...

I have nothing further.

Hey, what's up?

What have you got planned for Rosalind's crime?

Well, I'm going to get in and out as fast as I can, basically try to get her

admit that she wasn't liked or trusted.

No, that's not enough.

Leland, I think it's a mistake to try to go in there and attack her. I mean, the

jury really likes her. I know what you think, and I disagree.

You haven't been nearly aggressive enough.

First, you let Sollers beat up on Stewart. That is ridiculous. His opening

malicious. You should have objected to that. You should have objected to the

adjournment yesterday after Rosalind's direct. Come on, Leland. You let her

testimony sink in overnight when you could have immediately discredited her.

Now, wait a minute. That's wrong. The judge would have just overruled the

objection. We would have come off looking like bullies, and that plays

into her case.

Starting now, your second chair.

Grace, you're taking over. What?

Leland. You heard me.

Leland, I happen to agree with Victor. Attacking Rosalind now could play right

into the discrimination claim.

Not when the attack comes from another woman.

Our feeling is we can't win this trial without destroying her.

You mean you're panicking? We're doing what we feel we have to do to win.

And I am telling you both right now that you're dead wrong here.

Leland, it's risky. Rosalind is good. And if we go after her and don't get

we'll lose for sure.

Then you've got to get her, Grace.

You damn well have got to get her.

You okay?

It's a little weird.

I'm wishing for a car accident or a heart attack.

Roxanne.

Both of those things are better than Alzheimer's, aren't they?

Come on, nobody knows how fast it'll accelerate.

You may not even end up dying from that.

But if it does accelerate, he'll lose all his dignity.

You know, I keep thinking about Grace's client. His wife had it.

And he said that she would smear her own VCs

all over the wall.

That's not going to happen.

What if he gets that way?

I just couldn't let him be like that, Arnie.

I just... I just couldn't... I just couldn't...

He

shot and killed an innocent boy. We can't ignore that.

The IAD cleared him. They said that there was... That's an internal

investigation. Cops clearing another cop.

You think that'll satisfy the public?

You've got no case, Bruce. You're prosecuting me. Then you'll have no

getting them all. With all the hysteria that Holloway's whipping up out there,

I'll have lots of trouble. If we don't prosecute, it'll mean another

Bensonhurst. Oh, we can't have that, can we? Not with you up for re -election

next month.

Your two minutes are up. Get out. You worried about headlines, Bruce?

I got plenty.

Don't forget I used to sleep with one of your foot soldiers, so I know the kind

of politics you play.

You prosecuted Lyle Torrey with illegal evidence, and don't think I won't put

that dirt in print.

You'll just look like a desperate defense attorney.

And anything that sticks will smear your old girlfriend in the process.

Which is all that she and your firm need at the moment.

So don't make me laugh with your stupid threats.

But my client is innocent. So get him acquitted. Hey, with a trial you even

a bigger fee.

Nice talking to you.

You son of a bitch.

Hey, here he is.

All ready to go?

Yep, ready to go. I was just telling Ann you should stay quiet for the next few

days. Take an aspirin, get plenty of rest.

Next week you can start in with half days.

Oh, well, that's great.

I also want you on a cardiac rehab program.

Uh -huh, terrific.

Okay, let's go. Um, what about, uh, you know, sex?

Ann? Stuart, we have to ask.

Will it kill him? Of course not.

Heart attack victims can lead normal sex lives.

Sounds great. So normal is okay, but anything more than that... And?

Stuart, this is our doctor. We have to be candid.

He tends to be a little rigorous.

How rigorous?

He usually perspires.

Well, try and avoid positions where you're on your arms for a long time.

no positions on my arms. No hot or cold showers before or after.

About how long does it usually take between arousal and resolution?

Um, 15 minutes.

Yeah. But it's a good 15 minutes.

Okay, that's it. Stewart, Stewart, don't wheel yourself out like that. I was

only being concerned. Thank you, Doctor.

Stewart, I was only being concerned.

Okay, Miss Shays.

Just a couple of questions about yesterday's testimony.

Do you feel strong enough to continue?

Yes. Good.

First, you kept talking about getting forced out of Mackenzie Brackman. Were

fired? It was made clear to me. Were you fired, ma 'am?

Technically, no. Technically, you resigned without anyone directly or

asking for your resignation, correct? I knew I wasn't wanted.

Yes, but quitting because you felt unwanted is different than being fired.

You also suggested that your departure cost you your share of the profits, but

you took clients with you when you left, didn't you? A few, yes, I did. A few.

In fact, you took every client that you had brought in, plus several pre

-existing clients who had been at Mackenzie Brackman years before you

I didn't force anybody to come with me. The point is, you led this jury to

believe you built this firm up only to be discarded after you were no longer

needed, when, in fact, you left this firm much weaker than when you found it,

when, in fact, you weren't discarded at all. You left voluntarily.

True or false, Miss Shays? It may be true. And isn't it also true that you

more money than any partner at McKenzie Brackman right now?

Yes. Do you think anybody on this jury got that impression from yesterday's

performance? Objection. Sustained.

How many firms had you been with prior to McKenzie Brackman? I had been with...

Seven law firms previously.

Well, it seems like you have a tough time getting along with anybody.

Objection. Were they all sex discriminators?

Objection. Disdained. Isn't it true, Miss Shays, that you have alienated

everybody you have ever worked with?

No, that isn't true.

Okay. Those seven firms totaled 452 lawyers.

How many of those colleagues are friends of yours today?

Objection. Her propensity to sever relationships is directly at issue. Move

strike. Her inability to get along with the people she works with. is directly

at issue. Your Honor, I get along with people I work with.

Name a friend, Rosalind. There are 452 names on this list. Pick one. Pick one

person who is a friend.

This is badgering. Go ahead. Choose one, but I will subpoena whoever it is. Your

Honor. Sorry, Your Honor. Miss Shays.

Given the fact that you have never established a close friendship with any

your colleagues, given the fact that you have left eight law firms, four of them

on very unfriendly terms, given the fact that nobody at McKenzie Brackman even

remotely liked you at the end, despite once having liked you enough to elect

senior partner, is it possible that you are not a nice person to be around? Your

Honor, this is total badgering.

I'm done here.

Great. Give it just like that.

Okay, now give me that smile.

Got it. Got it. Great.

Just going to check the lighting, a couple more shots, and then we're

Roxanne, I'm going to give you a mailing list to put in your computer, and then

we can work off that.

Okay. And then when you have the chance, maybe you could go through Arnie's

Rolodex and add the appropriate clients.

I don't know who they are, and I really would hate to bother Arnie with it.

Yeah, that'd be fine.

Rox, darling, could you please put this over the light there? Just shade this a

little bit there.

Just like that.

Very nice. And, Benny, you're tall. You could block that light with this. Go on.

Very nice.

Okay? Great.

Okay, Gay.

Keep those smiles up. Smiles up. Assistant, block that light.

Ready? Perfect.

Gay, you've got to smile like that. Great.

Great.

Get Jonathan for me. I need to see him right away.

Mickey, you got a second? Sure.

You want to explain the little stunt with Rogoff?

What stunt?

Threatening him with information you learned through your involvement with

Grace, we both know Rogoff can be intimidating. My relationship with the

office is extremely valuable to me. It's valuable to the whole firm.

I sure as hell don't need you to poison it. I didn't do that. Of course you did.

Rogoff is pissed at me.

Which means instead of having an advantage when I deal with the DA's

which I should have, after putting in nine years there, I am disadvantaged.

You hurt me. You hurt every lawyer in this firm.

I disagree.

Really?

Well, the next time you want to commit political suicide like that, I'd

appreciate you leaving me out of it.

Yeah.

You want to see me, Mike? Yeah.

You're second sharing the Chisholm case, as of now.

Why? Because you're black.

Because the media and everyone else is making this into a race thing, and

because I need some window dressing. I'm not comfortable with that. It's not a

request, Jonathan.

I've got a motion for continuance this afternoon at 2. We leave here at 1 .15.

A ground ball to Matthew Marowitz.

He scoops it up, and he throws it in his mouth, and then he throws it to Daddy

back at first. That's enough.

I get it. I get it. I get it. Don't worry.

Let's do it.

What?

Oh, God.

What are you doing?

I thought you had another heart attack, for God's sake. Anne, you're going to

give me a heart attack screaming like that? What are you doing lying down on

floor like that? I'm getting the baby's bowl. It's under... Oh, come here,

honey. Come here. Don't you ever do that to me again.

No, don't you ever do it to me again.

I'm fine, honey.

You don't have to be so skittish. Heart attacks are very common.

I'm totally fine. The doctor said I'm fine. I know, you're fine.

Go to court. Go testify.

Do I look sympathetic enough?

Yeah, you look fine. What are you going to say?

If I repeat that story, Stuart, we're going to be out a lot of money.

It would be hard to remember what I said back then. Don't you think?

Sorry. Anybody could forget.

You had any conversations with her? Not since I left the

firm, no.

Hi, Abby. Hi.

Perkins, thanks for meeting us.

Listen, this is a terrible thing. We really hate putting you in the middle

this. We really do.

I don't know why you subpoenaed me.

Well, I won't be asking you to say anything negative about Mackenzie

You can rest easy about that.

But it is my understanding that you considered your work experiences with

Rosalind to be quite positive.

I'd simply be asking you to comment on those positive experiences.

But before you put me up there, you want to be sure that I'll say the right

thing.

Well, naturally, I'd like to know that I have an accurate understanding of your

feelings for Rosalind.

You don't want my testimony.

If you're in that witness chair, Miss Perkins, you have to tell the truth.

I know which side of my bread is buttered, Mr. Thallers. You're telling

you're prepared to commit perjury? I'm telling you that if you put me up there,

you'll get hurt.

Excuse me.

You know her better than I do. Is she bluffing?

Skipper, let Jeff put up Ann Kelsey.

Your Honor, the defense would move for a six -week continuance so that we may

have time to fully prepare for trial.

Opposed? Your Honor, the district attorney had agreed to a plea bargain,

agreement was suddenly revoked two days ago.

We didn't anticipate a trial, therefore we're not ready.

An innocent boy gets murdered, and they don't anticipate a trial? Mr. Holloway,

I'll ask you not to disrupt this courtroom.

Mr. Cusack, I understand that the district attorney has afforded you

discovery. That's right, Your Honor, but I would like to conduct my own

investigations. We've had five months for that. Well, as I explained, we

expected to plead this out. That's just lawyering. That's no grounds for a

continuance. I'm not delaying this trial. You can't be serious.

I'll give you one week.

Next Tuesday, we impound him.

That's ridiculous.

Why is it ridiculous, Mr. Cousin? Is it ridiculous to expect the life of a black

child to finally count for something?

Your Honor, I would also move for an order restraining this man to say

publicly about this case.

Mr. Holloway is representing the family of the victims in a civil litigation,

and it is my belief that he is publicly promoting a criminal conviction here in

order to bolster his own civil cause of action. Is counsel seeking to squash my

First Amendment rights? Counsel seeks to stop your hysterical grand theft. All

right, that's enough.

Your Honor, he is inflaming the public and the media and undermining my

right to a fair trial. What about the fairness to blacks that are being

by white Americans? Sit down, Mr.

Holloway. This man is a sideshow. Quiet!

I've made my ruling. And I object to that ruling. Well, that's too bad. We go

trial next week. We're adjourned.

Well,

would you consider yourself a friend to Rosalind Shays, Miss Kelsey?

I don't harbor any ill will towards her.

But would you consider yourself to be her friend?

No. In fact, you were totally opposed to her ever joining the firm.

You repeatedly clashed with her after she came to the firm, and you loathed

idea of her becoming senior partner. Now, would that assessment be fair or

unfair, Miss Kelsey?

Fair. You, uh...

You also had a pet nickname for her, didn't you?

Objection. This has no relevance.

I'm trying to show, Your Honor, that this witness has any bias or

that goes against my client.

I think we've established that.

Your Honor, I'd like the jury to see the level of hostility at work here.

I'll allow it.

So what was the nickname you used to call my client?

I'm not sure what you mean.

Come on, I've subpoenaed Miss Perkins and several secretaries that heard you

it. I can also recall your husband, after he's feeling better, of course.

Now, what was the name you used to call her?

The Queen Bitch.

Now, given how unwilling you must be to help her, having dubbed her what you

dubbed her, I'm going to ask you to call now a certain conversation that you had

with Rosalind Shays after she was forced out of being senior partner.

Objection. Calls for hearsay. It's an admission as well as declaration against

interest, Your Honor.

Objection is overruled.

Do you remember that conversation, Miss Kelsey? I had many conversations with

her. I certainly can't remember all of them. I'm talking about a very specific

conversation you had in the ladies' room shortly after she was forced out. Now,

do you remember that one?

I can recall talking with her in the ladies' room a few different times. Did

say to her that if a man had done the things that she'd done, he would have

hailed as a hero and a great leader, but because Rosalind Shays was a woman, she

was punished and forced out?

I don't think I used those words, no. Well, did you use words to that effect?

I never used any words like punished or forced out.

Did you represent to her that things might have been different if she had

man, yes or no?

In sympathy, I might have... Yes or no, Miss Kelsey?

Did you tell her that things might have been different if she were a man, yes or

no?

Oh, and Miss Kelsey, when you said that to her, when you said that she had

basically been discriminated against because she was a woman, were you lying

did you really mean it?

I really meant it.

Thank you, ma 'am.

Nothing further.

What you doing?

Nothing.

Watching a little television.

It's not turned on.

Details.

You know what I want to like about being cuckoo?

I don't have to think up all the logical reasons to do all the stuff I want to

do.

I'm going to have cod blush.

You're not going to be cuckoo.

Oh, yes, I am.

I read an article on it.

It just degenerates the brain.

You wind up a child.

You know what scares me most of all?

That I won't even know what I don't know anymore.

I mean, how will I know if I don't know something, or if I used to know it?

But I just forgot.

How will I know the difference?

You'll know.

You'll know because I'll be right there beside you, nagging you.

You know, I used to say when I grow old, I'll probably end up with nothing but

my memories.

Yeah.

Wishful thinking.

I don't want to forget.

I don't want to forget the first time I kissed your mother.

I fell in love with her the first time I kissed her.

I don't want to forget the first time you and I went fishing together.

You were six years old.

Just you and me.

All alone.

I remember.

You remember you were afraid of the worms?

Huh? You wouldn't touch them?

Huh? You remember what you used to say they did to you?

They squiggled me. They squiggled you?

They did?

They squiggled you.

You remember?

I'll tell you this.

I won't forget our song.

You remember when I used to tuck you in?

You always asked me to sing it for you?

Mm -hmm.

You remember?

Let me call you sweetheart.

I'm in love with you.

Let me hear you whisper that you love me

too.

Keep your love like glowing with your eyes so

true.

Let me call you. you sweetheart I'm in love

with you