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Previously on L .A. Law. You have no respect for my client, Your Honor. You

disapprove of sex, and you disapprove of him because he sells it. You're in

contempt, Mr.

Kickridge. I move for a mistrial. So noted. Now shut up!

We're supposed to concentrate on the facts here and we can't. All we can hear

you two yelling at each other. Do you know what you're saying?

We took an oath, Your Honor, to give you a verdict based only on the evidence

and I am telling you that right now we can't do it. Those fights were

deliberate. You used us.

I couldn't get the judge to bite.

But you were a dream come true.

You slimy son of a bitch. You had no case.

My name goes on the door.

We issue a press release and agree to talk closer ties in six months. A year.

And this will all have to be approved by the partners. Small strokes, baby. We

got a done deal.

Frank Kittredge, my new associate. I promise the hired gun I deliver.

The eminent Leland McKenzie. Pleased to meet you.

Oh, damn!

This is Gwen Taylor.

We've met.

I am coming forward as an officer of the court to prevent what I believe to be a

gross violation of the judicial process.

Jonathan Rollins is an innocent man.

Nobody's ever gone out on a limb for me as much as you did today. It's him.

He makes me do crazy things.

That's why I had to leave him.

Where is your sense of adventure? Tommy, please come out here.

I'm so sorry, Tommy.

We were going to tell you.

It's my fault.

Excuse me, guys.

In professional wrestling, there is no one bigger than Beef Barstow.

He's a star of the first magnitude, and he is an inspiration to millions of

kids. So it is with great pleasure that I announce my representation of him and

the formation of his new company, All Beef Productions.

Which, by the way, is already negotiating for major film and

projects. Oh, give him a break, fellas. What did I tell you?

Is it true that your ex -wife is going to sue for back alimony? Darla's still

love with me. So how come she's taking you to court? I don't think we're here

talk about that. Is it true Darla turned you into the IRS?

Back off, man. Let's give someone else a chance. Come on, stop hiding behind

your lawyer. Your fans have a right to know. I asked you to wait your turn. To

get fifth your wife and Uncle Sam. I said back off, man.

That's my business. No sense of decorum. Yesterday, she came bursting right into

a... Out of my business!

What in the world?

It's my personal business.

I told you, you peddle -neck geek.

Come on.

Oh, in Ray yesterday's press conference, Susan Bloom is replacing the door, and

she managed to persuade young Geraldo not to file suit.

How'd she do that?

That's two out of three balls. Now, that's not funny. We can't have the firm

disrupted like that, Douglas. And I really hate to bring this up, but can we

something about her smoking in the hallway? And what about monopolizing the

direct? She was crying about coffee beans ten times a day.

Hey, come on, she's not that bad. We did make the six o 'clock news last night.

Well, that kind of publicity is worse than none at all.

Bloom was your idea, Douglas. Speak to her. Right.

Scarrett versus Miles.

Trial starts today. We represent Mrs. Scarrett. Dr.

Miles removed her spleen, then made money from it without informing her of

real value. Excuse me, what value? Her spleen cells were unique.

Miles cloned them into a drug he's now marketing for big bucks. So, he's the

inventor. He has every right to profit. From her spleen? Well, if she couldn't

sell it, that would be against the law.

You have no case for property rights. We're going for failure to disclose. The

doctor gave her some information, but not enough. This is one determined

Good for her.

We're adjourned.

Tom, I'd like to talk to you about this. There's nothing to talk about.

Thank you.

Your Honor, David Lee murdered a mother and her two children in cold blood.

Habeas corpus has been denied by the Supreme Court. The governor won't step

to... He's insane, Miss Clemens. You can't execute an insane man. He has been

medication for two years. He is lucid and he meets the standards. He is being

forcibly medicated, Your Honor, against his will. Let's stick to the facts.

Mr. Lee's execution is set for Saturday.

You are petitioning to stay it and to stop him being medicated with

My client has been on death row for eight years, Your Honor.

His schizophrenia was borderline when he went in.

But now, his mental condition has completely deteriorated. Three separate

hearings have found him legally sane. Almost ten years ago.

The man is no longer competent to be executed. You know your client doesn't

to be perfectly rational, Mr. Merrill.

He has to be aware of his execution and the reason for it. He is, Your Honor,

when he's medicated. Then it is not in his best interest to medicate him since

it leads directly to his death. Your Honor, this is maneuvering. He's simply

trying to prevent David Lee's execution.

You're damn right I am. Mr. Merrill has made his reputation on death row. He

comes in at the 11th hour so that he can argue against the death penalty itself.

Your Honor.

If you don't stay David Lee's execution, you'll be killing a man that does not

know the gas chamber from a city bus. This sentence is the will of the people,

Your Honor.

And this case is not a referendum on capital punishment.

Well, I'm not deciding this on the papers alone.

I'll hear evidence tomorrow at 10 o 'clock.

Last week, she commandeered five secretaries to get a contract out. She

in enough Chinese food to feed 60 people and then left the trash all over the

file room. Benny was almost in tears.

She tips the building crew, Douglas, which makes everybody else look cheap.

And then her cappuccino maker leaked all over the bullpen.

Douglas,

somebody has got to do something.

You're absolutely right.

And you're going to. Me?

You are the office manager. This is an office problem.

I don't manage the lawyers. You are the managing partner.

Exactly. Since we'd like to maintain friendly relations with Bloom, I should

the good cop, which makes you the bad cop.

I don't make a good bad cop.

Because you're a woman?

I hope that's not what I'm hearing, Roxanne.

Stand your ground. Don't let her bulldoze you. If you can handle Arnold

you can handle Susan Bloom.

Just lay down the law.

Mrs. Garrett, what happened to your spleen? It was stolen by that doctor

right there. Why don't you start at the beginning?

About six years ago, our family doctor told me that I had something called

cell leukemia, that it was very rare, and that I should see Dr. Miles, a

specialist here in Los Angeles.

And he said that if I didn't have my spleen removed, it would keep

these malignant blood cells.

I would die. Did you see Dr. Miles after the surgery?

Almost every month for the next six years. He had me drive in from Riverside

blood tests and urine tests and bone marrow tests. Couldn't your family

have taken those samples?

Well, that's what I asked, but Dr.

Miles insisted that he do the tests.

He said they were to make sure that the cancer didn't come back.

And when did you stop going to Dr. Miles?

Well, after I found out from a news story that he had cloned.

the cells of my spleen.

It turns out that there's something about them that fights cancer.

And what else did you find out?

That he had sold the cell line that he had developed to a pharmaceutical

for millions of dollars, and that company stands to make maybe hundreds of

millions of dollars off of it. And he even had the nerve to call it the Miles

cell line.

Did Dr. Miles at any time offer you anything out of these proceeds?

Not a cent.

In fact, he wouldn't even take my phone calls.

Thank you, Mrs. Skerritt. Nothing further.

According to your medical records, Mrs. Skerritt, before the surgery, you had

anemia, intense abdominal pain, and a spleen swollen to 13 times its normal

size. You'd been given 10 months to live if it weren't removed.

Is that correct?

Yes. And what is your condition following the splenectomy?

I feel better. Better. In fact, it was a complete success, wasn't it?

Your leukemia's in remission.

Dr. Miles saved your life.

I never said Dr. Miles didn't help me. And the post -operative tests were all

paid for by your insurance company.

Yes. And Dr.

Miles did tell you that your diseased spleen might be used for research

before he removed it, didn't he, Mrs. Garrett?

Yes, but he didn't... He asked you to sign a form consenting to this research

purpose, and you signed it, didn't you? Yes, but he didn't say that he was going

to make money off of my spleen. Well, I'm confused, Mrs. Garrett.

The DMV says that you have an organ donor card on the back of your driver's

license. Is that right? Yes. A card that specifies that you're willing to donate

any needed tissues or organs, such as a spleen, to whomever might need them in

the event of your death. Isn't that so? It's not the same thing.

No. Well, what's the difference between giving, say, a kidney that might save a

single life?

And some cells from a diseased spleen that might save thousands of lives.

Objection. Withdrawn.

Nothing further.

Except you.

You and Tommy love each other.

He'll be okay.

Just need some time.

I'm not great at waiting.

I've noticed.

Bethany, just tell me.

The supervising deputy called me today.

to congratulate me for making the death squad.

They really call it that?

Kept saying how good it was for my career.

If I'm the one who finally gets David Lee into the gas chamber, there's no

telling how far I can go.

What'd you say?

Dr. Zeller, in your expert opinion, is David Lee psychotic? Yes. He exhibits

symptoms of severe schizoaffective disorder, including auditory

delusional thinking, and sudden rage episodes.

So why isn't he exhibiting them now? He's had his daily injection of

haloperidol, a psychotropic drug. It has a powerful effect on the central

nervous system.

Doctor! Are there reasonable ways to control David Lee's schizophrenia other

than forcibly medicating him with haloperidol? Yes. There's confinement.

There's psychotherapy.

There are physical restraints.

Mind -altering drugs are not the only alternative.

Mind -altering? What do you mean?

Haloperidol flattens the affect and makes behavior more passive. The

disappear, but so can most of the patient's personality.

So the David Lee we see on medication isn't anything like the real David Lee?

No. Effectively, they're two different people.

Dr. Haloperidol is the only way to make David Lee understand that he's about to

be executed.

Should he be treated with Haloperidol? Well, the Hippocratic Oath says, first,

do no harm.

The ethics code of the AMA specifically prohibits a doctor from doing anything

to facilitate a patient's death.

So if medicating David Lee makes it legal for the state to kill him, no

doctor should do it.

Thank you, Doctor.

You aren't Mr. Lee's psychiatrist, are you, Doctor?

No, but I did an extensive evaluation... So you've read his file. You know that

he hasn't always been on haloperidol. And you also must have read why a

Court judge decided two years ago that Mr. Lee should be forcibly medicated.

Why, Doctor?

He had been beating his head against his cell wall and screaming about voices.

For how long?

Several days.

He also attacked a guard and tried to mutilate himself. So we can assume that

David Lee was in physical as well as psychological pain then.

Yes. And the haloperidol stopped it. It also stopped the voices that told Mr.

Lee to kill people, didn't it?

Yes. But you don't think David Lee is better off being given haloperidol? How

can he be better off?

It makes it possible for you to execute him. And you don't believe that anyone

should be executed, do you, Doctor? No matter how horrible the crime, the death

penalty is morally wrong. Objection. Dr. Zeller's personal beliefs are

completely irrelevant.

She's clearly an advocate, Your Honor, with the same views as Mr.

Merrill. Overruled. I'll allow it. Do you believe in capital punishment,

No. I have nothing further.

I want to talk to you.

I thought the McDermott declarations were being messenged over yesterday

so I could have them on my desk first thing today.

They're not ready. Why aren't they ready?

I don't know. I just took the message. Why didn't you give it to me?

Because you've gone home and I was going to tell you when you came in today.

I can call the messenger service. That's useless.

I'll track down the declarations, but you're going over there to pick them up

yourself. Look, just because you have a problem does not give you the right to

take it out on the people that work for you. We all feel bad enough when we

screw up without some petty martinet beating us up for it.

Benny, let's call the investigator's office and see if we can put a rush on

those declarations, okay?

Sure. That's all it would have taken. Next time, don't shoot the messenger.

Dr. Miles, what was so special about Mrs.

Garrett's spleen? It contained a high number of T -lymphocyte cells. Her T

-lymphocyte cells overproduced a protein that helps create white blood cells.

Once you discovered these cells, what did you do? After five years using

recombinant DNA, I succeeded in cloning them. So Mrs. Garrett's cells were

simply raw materials for the cell line. Exactly. I discovered the cells.

But I invented the cell line.

And what are the practical applications for mild cell line products?

Cancer patients will be able to manufacture enough white blood cells to

the side effects of chemotherapy.

Indeed, enough to attack even the cancer itself.

Did your research interest in any way affect your medical judgment in Mrs.

Garrett's case? Absolutely not. I'm a doctor.

Yes, biotech paid me a lot of money for my invention, but I'm not in this for

the money. And I have never let my interest as a researcher compromise my

responsibilities as a physician.

Thank you, Dr. Miles.

Dr. Miles, when exactly did you realize Mrs. Skerritt's cells were unique?

Shortly after the surgery, when I'd analyzed the results of the tissue tests

her spleen. And Mrs. Skerritt was already undergoing post -operative tests

this time?

Blood samples, blood serum, bone marrow aspirin? That's right.

It's all routine cancer follow -up. Most of those tests were conducted at your

office in L .A., but...

A few samples were drawn by her family doctor and shipped to you for analysis,

weren't they? Yes, I believe my schedule was rather full, so I had Dr. Leonard

take some samples. But three months after the surgery, you suddenly insisted

that all tests be done at your office on a monthly basis.

Optimally, I like to see the patient myself.

It couldn't be, could it, doctor, that you were afraid of losing control over

her? Of losing your exclusive access to her for your research?

That's ridiculous.

You say these were all normal post -operative tests.

But her records show on several occasions you took skin samples and high

of blood. Since when do you need skin samples and whole units of blood to

monitor for internal cancers?

Obviously you don't.

I needed those samples for my T -cell research.

But by that time, Mrs. Garrett was fully recuperated and such tests posed no

risk at all to her health.

I see. So, after she was fully recovered...

You continued to subject Mrs. Scarrett to tests that you needed for your

research under the pretext of monitoring her health. I informed her of all risks

and benefits.

How much did you license your invention for, Doctor?

70 ,000 shares of biotech stock.

And how much is that worth?

I don't know. As of yesterday's close of trading, $5 .1 million.

$5 million.

I'm surprised you waited till she was under anesthesia to rip out her spleen.

Objection. That's enough. I'm done here, Your Honor.

You know what I'm saying, Jerry?

Beef does not want to be another Stallone.

Rambo's a cardboard character.

So this is Predator with a sensitive sign?

Is he the lead?

Great. Send it over.

Fox is on two, and they're still holding your table at Spago. I'm on my way.

Tell Fox I'll call back.

We have an appointment.

Jerry, I'll call you back.

What can I do for you? You have to notify us when you call a press

You can't smoke in the halls. Don't tip the building staff. And please remember

that the Xerox machine is for everybody.

Now, I know you're used to working alone, but... Fair enough?

Honey, my life moves 100 miles an hour.

Now, that sometimes makes me inconsiderate, but I'm not a monster.

Now, if I've been offensive, I'm sorry.

I appreciate you pointing it out.

You do? Yeah, I like your style, too.

You direct without being obnoxious?

I hear you came up through the ranks.

I used to work for Arnie Becker. What kind of deal do you have now? Bump?

Cringes? Points? What are they putting up to retain your talent?

I never thought of it as talent.

Oh, well, honey, you should.

A good office manager is scarcer than hen's teeth.

Look, I'm late for lunch, but you and I have to have a heart -to -heart soon.

It's been a pleasure.

Yeah. Help yourself to cappuccino.

You're very good at this.

It's hard to believe it's your first time.

If you think that gives you an advantage, fine.

Go ahead.

No.

Look, I've been watching you try and turn off your compassion.

This is very hard for you, isn't it?

Arguing to murder a human wreck like David Lee.

Is it kinder to take him off the medication?

So that he can spend the next 50 years of his life in a straitjacket beating

head against a wall?

You've never even met him, have you?

Let me introduce you to the man you're trying to kill.

What is this supposed to prove?

Nothing.

I just want you to really look at him.

Miss Clemens, this is David Lee.

A responsible adult person remembers to set her alarm.

I can't believe I forgot that. I wanted to get there early.

Now the freeway is jammed, I'll barely make it on time, and Meryl will be

standing there, calm and collected, ready to shred me.

Shred you?

Not a chance.

You don't know him. He'll use anything.

You're taking this personally.

He's doing his job.

Same way I would do my job. Well, this is my job. Maybe I don't like this part

of it. Maybe I don't want to be doing it, but the state of California says

I have to. Then why don't you stop blaming yourself?

I'm not blaming myself. I'm trying to separate my emotions from what it is

I'm being asked to do. Well, maybe you can't.

God, that's easy for you to say. You are in private practice. You are in your

own separate little world, and if you don't like a case, you don't have to

it. Well, I don't have that luxury, Tommy, Jonathan.

I'm sorry.

It's no big deal.

I didn't mean... Hey, hey, hey.

It's no big deal.

I had to go.

Yeah.

See you tonight.

Leukemia, diabetes, osteoporosis, hepatitis.

Emphysema. These are just a few of the terrible diseases that we now have

treatments or tests for.

But these advancements are all dependent on the research of human cells, just

like the ones found in Mrs. Garrett's spleen. Ladies and gentlemen, you can

for Dr.

Miles and let him get back to what he does best, curing disease.

Or you can find that Mrs. Skerritt is entitled to profit from a spleen that

happily discarded five years ago.

That'll be nice for Mrs. Skerritt, but devastating for medical research.

Remember Jonas Salk?

He invented a polio vaccine.

Thank God he didn't have Mrs. Skerritt as a patient.

You come to your doctor to get well, not to get rich.

Lucille Skerritt got everything she bargained for. She got her life.

Don't believe that medical research will come to a grinding halt if you find for

Mrs. Skerritt.

Ethical researchers won't be hurt, only ones like Dr.

Miles. He may well have begun his treatment of Lucille Skerritt with care

concern, but somewhere along the way he began caring more for what she could

give to him than what he could give to her.

He performed tests unnecessary to her physical well -being, but very necessary

to his financial well -being.

And he never told her the real reason, the $5 million reason why he was doing

them.

The tests may have been minor, but they were not without risk and were an

assault on her right to privacy and on her dignity.

Dr. Miles betrayed his patient's trust.

And that's why my client seeks compensation, ladies and gentlemen, to

doctors like him know they have to deserve our trust.

I have something to say to you.

I didn't appreciate being lectured in front of Benny.

He didn't appreciate the way you were treating him. We're talking about what

did. It was inappropriate.

You know what's inappropriate?

It's the little glass system you've got in your head.

To you, the hired help aren't people, so it's okay to bully them. No one counts

to you unless they're making over $100 ,000 a year.

I don't understand the hostility that comes out whenever you're around me.

Is it hormonal?

Hormonal? As in attraction you don't know what to do with.

Hugh, egotistical, arrogant.

You can't understand what I'm saying, so you boil it down to sex.

Well, let me go on the record right now.

Even the idea of sleeping with Hugh is so repulsive, so totally nauseating,

I would rather be celibate for the rest of my life.

Funny.

I don't recall asking.

David Lee has been your patient for how long, Dr. Hayward? Eight years, ever

since he's been on death row. And what was your psychiatric evaluation of him

when he first came there?

His delusions were intermittent, but he had uncontrollable rages. He said he

heard the voices of demons.

These episodes became more frequent. He stabbed himself twice and attacked a

guard. That was when you decided to medicate him with haloperidol? Yes.

Mr. Lee has been taking haloperidol now for two years. Has he changed?

He's much calmer.

The rage episodes have stopped.

So you believe David Lee is better off being medicated?

I've been a prison psychiatrist for 25 years.

I have seen very few men as tortured as David Lee was.

To be released from that, my God, he has to be better off. Thank you, Doctor.

Dr. Hayward, how much time have you actually spent in psychotherapy with Mr.

Lee? I...

See Mr. Lee six times a year. Six times a year for a maximum of 15 minutes per

visit, primarily to monitor Mr. Lee's medication.

The only sessions longer than that were the two times you videotaped him. You

weren't interested in treating Mr. Lee, Doctor. You simply wanted to control

him. You know how many inmates I have to take care of.

Over a thousand. Do you know how many of them come to me psychotic or brain

damaged or on drugs? We are talking about one inmate, David Lee. I'm only a

doctor. I can't work miracles. So you let Haloperidol do it for you, even

it caused Mr. Lee to have severe involuntary spasms of his eyes, his

his throat. Those are normal side effects and controlled with the same

Parkinson's. Ah, more drugs.

So each time you had a problem with Mr. Lee... You shot him up with another

drug. Objection.

Argumentative. Sustained.

Doctor, did you consult with anyone before you decided to medicate Mr. Lee?

I consulted with the executive medical officer and I also discussed the case

with Warden Danforth. In other words, you got permission from your bosses who

run a state prison, the same state that employs you, the same state that wants

to execute David Lee.

Yes.

I have no more questions.

Mr. Foreman, has the jury reached its verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

What say you? In the matter of Skerritt v. Miles on the claim of breach of

fiduciary duty, we find for the plaintiff and order the defendant to pay

compensatory damages in the amount of $650 ,000.

Thank you.

We're adjourned.

That's ridiculous.

I want to appeal. Could we have a word in private?

About what?

You won. Mrs. Garrett has a proposal she'd like you to consider.

Notwithstanding the jury's verdict, my client is prepared to reduce her award

exchange for other consideration.

Like what?

Renaming the cell line.

We'd call it the Garrett -Miles cell line. Absolutely not. And you're willing

reduce the award by how much? $100 ,000.

Why? I work in the post office, Dr. Miles.

I weigh packages and I stuff post office boxes.

I know I didn't create the cell line, but there's still a part of me in it,

every time somebody uses that medicine, I'm there in a way, helping them to get

better. I just want them to know my name.

All right.

The Miles -Scarrett cell line.

Draw up the papers.

Thank you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know we said the office. But maybe we start the shot

you know?

Tracking through reception.

Come by here toward the elevator.

What's going on here? Who are you?

Rick Nash, Upside Films.

We're doing the location shoot for Boku Jeans. This is Bloom and Associates,

isn't it? No.

This is McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney, and Becker. Out.

Susan Bloom rent an office here.

Yeah, Susan Bloom.

She rented us this location until 6 a .m.

We paid 8 ,000 bucks.

She signed off two weeks ago.

Get me Susan Bloom.

She's on a plane to Vancouver. She won't be back till tomorrow.

Great. But our managing partner isn't here right now either, and you'd have to

have his permission in order to do this.

Now, I'm sure Ms. Bloom would be more than happy to refund your money. Oh,

We're talking a lot more than that.

These guys are all on the clock.

You want to pull the plug?

It's about $30 ,000 down the drain.

If you're talking about suing, we have the best litigators in town.

Hey, isn't there some way we can work something out?

If we damage or break something, we pay for it.

All right.

But just to make sure, I want our security people here the whole time.

Bill to you.

Agreed. Okay. No food, no drinks, no tracking through reception.

Your contract is for Susan Bloom's office. That's where you stay.

If any lawyers complain, we refer them directly to you.

And if I even smell you here after 6 .01 tomorrow morning, we charge for another

day. Okay. We're all in agreement? Good. Everyone to work, please. Not so fast.

It's 4 .57 p .m.

Your contract says you start at 6 p .m.

For the next 63 minutes...

Nobody moves.

Anyone else, Miss Clemens? No, Your Honor.

Your Honor, I'd like to call one more witness.

I thought you were done, Mr. Merrill. I want the testimony of David Lee.

The people have no objection?

I want him taken off haloperidol first. What?

Your Honor, he can't take him off medication to determine if he should be

off medication.

Mr. Lee's testimony would be wholly inappropriate.

David Lee is going to die on Saturday.

When he isn't forced to take drugs, he can't understand that. He is

Then it violates the evidence code. The testimony of the incompetent is

excluded. It's the only evidence that counts here, Your Honor. Does the real

David Lee understand what's happening to him and why? He's going to need time to

get him off the medication. This is a blatant move to force a stay. How long

you need? His current dosage wears off in about 24 hours. You know what will

happen then, Judge. Mr.

Merrill will manufacture yet another delay. That's enough, Ms. Clemens. We're

talking about a man's life here.

We'll hear from Mr. Lee tomorrow afternoon.

Court is adjourned.

Benny, we're almost out of message pads. Do you think you could put that on the

list of supplies?

I want to talk to you. Honey, it's hard to talk when you're having your pores

vacuumed. I don't care. I'm not leaving.

Why don't you go get a cup of herbal tea?

You didn't hear a word I said the other day.

You know, you and I need to have a talk about your deal.

But we're having this one first.

You wanted to know when you were being offensive.

Well, renting this firm out as a movie set is offensive. I said they could

in my office.

You know, you give these producers an inch, they take a mile. That's not the

point. You rented out our place of business like it was a cheap motel room.

It was a favor for a friend. We set it up days ago, and quite frankly, I

But I was going to give you a percentage.

Is that what everything is to you, a percentage?

Mackenzie Brackman has principles. We stand for something.

We don't ambush each other, and we don't sell ourselves out to the highest

bidder. Honey, we're talking about lawyers here.

I didn't say we were perfect.

But we try to have respect.

Let me tell you about respect, baby.

I've had a sweat for it all my life.

My family was dirt poor.

I went to a piss -ant college in West Virginia.

And about a hundred pounds ago, I worked my way through law school as a

stripper. Now, I've taken a lot of crap to get where I am. And one of the things

that I've learned is that play by the rules generally means pardon us while we

screw you.

You changed the subject.

We were talking about how you treat the people you work with.

Boy, you don't give up, do you?

All right. If I have to be a good little girl, I can handle it. I hope so.

I can see why they promoted you. You are one hell of an enforcer.

Hey, Benny.

Benny, you want some coffee?

Uh, no, thanks.

How about a bagel?

No. Benny.

I'm glad I caught you. I gotta go.

Benny?

What a friend we have in Jesus.

All our sins and griefs to bear.

Precious Savior, still our refuge.

So get to the Lord in prayer.

Precious Savior, still our refuge. Can you tell me your name, sir?

All our sorrows we share.

Do you know you're in a court of law?

Take it.

Do you know what crime you were convicted of?

Do you know that you are going to die in the gas chamber on

Saturday?

I am the power and the glory. I am Satan.

I serve the demons and the demons serve me.

In the blood. I have no more. Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?

There's a fountain flowing for the soul is unclean. Are you washed in the blood

of the lamb?

You liked church, didn't you, David?

You felt safe there.

Do you remember a house across the street from a church? Objection.

Overrated. Who lived in the house, David?

The lambs lived there, didn't they? Across from the church.

They had to.

They had to be close to God. Who were the lambs? They were Anne and Carrie

Sternhagen. Anne was four years old. Carrie was six.

They were asleep in a bedroom full of dolls and stuffed animals when you broke

in and you strangled them. You took a piece of wire, David, and you put it

around their necks and you pulled it tight.

I am the power. I am the power!

You work for the demons, but you can't touch me.

And then you killed their mother.

You killed their mother and you remember what you did to her too, don't you? I

am Satan. You beat her. Demons obey me. You raped her and then what?

What did you do, David? What did the demons tell you to do?

I did what they said.

I cut her throat so she could be with her babies.

They were the lambs at the foot of God.

And what did God say, David? What happens to people who kill?

Objection! Overruled.

Thou shalt not kill David.

What's going to happen to you?

You know the demons, don't you? What's going to happen?

You're going to kill me.

An eye for an eye.

I killed them. Now I have to die, but I won't be there.

Before the president drops in, the demons are taking me to heaven. If you

anyone, I have to kill you too.

Bailiff? No!

You can't touch me!

I am the power. Jesus knows.

Jesus told the demons I am the power.

Jesus knows. Jesus told the demons I am the power.

I did what they said.

You got a minute?

Um, I'm pretty swamped here, Jonathan.

This won't take long.

I'm not going to apologize for being with Zoe. I'll expect you to.

It's still new for us, Tom.

That's why we hadn't told anybody, but you would have been... Look, A, um... I

read some signals wrong, and I ended up where I didn't belong.

It's my mistake, not yours.

You're my friend.

I respect your work, and I don't want this to affect the way we deal with each

other. Oh, it has to.

I'm... That's not saying that we'll never get past it.

Zoe says you haven't returned her calls. Well, yeah.

Then there used to be a phone in here somewhere.

When you can, Tom.

She'd like to hear from you.

Sure.

When I can.

So, Benny, Frank Kittredge is looking for you.

Benny.

What's the matter with you?

I've been trying to talk to you all day.

You didn't really shoot a messenger, did you?

No, that was a figure of speech. I've never shot a messenger.

A few witnesses, one judge, but never a messenger.

That was a joke, right?

Right.

Did you get your papers?

Yes, I did. Thank you.

And I want to apologize for the way I spoke to you.

I have a case going badly, and I was taking it out on you. I'm sorry.

That's okay.

Good.

I find this case very troubling.

There are moral questions here that are far beyond the scope of this proceeding.

But I can only rule on the two petitions before me. The matter of removing Mr.

Lee's medication.

I find that he is a danger to himself and to others, and that it's in his best

medical interest to be medicated with haloperidol.

The fact of his impending execution has no bearing on that.

I have listened to Mr. Lee's unmedicated testimony, and he has, in my opinion,

shown that he understands his crime and his punishment.

That's all the law demands.

I find, therefore, that David Mason Lee has been proven legally competent to be

put... This is wrong, Judge.

Please don't do it. I have no choice, Mr. Merrill.

Motion for a stay of execution is denied.

David, if you tell us you want to take haloperidol, we can stop the shots and

give you pills.

The shots hurt.

I get bruises all over.

They don't have to hold me down.

I don't want to hurt them.

But the medicine makes you feel better.

Come in.

Hi. Hi.

Um, I came to give you these.

I should have done it a long time ago. I don't know why I held on to them so

long.

Tommy? I apologize for not returning your calls.

That was rude.

Can we talk about it? No.

Jonathan's great.

I wish you the best.

That's all there is to say.

I love you. You know that.

What makes you feel better?

I can sleep.

I don't hear the voices.

I feel pretty clear now.

I don't want to do things to myself.

You're making good progress, David. We'd like to keep you on the medication.

Yeah, it's good for me.

I wish I had it before.

Maybe things would have been different, you know?

Maybe I wouldn't be here.