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Previously on L .A. Law. Why now, Arnie?

Why push our luck?

Because... Because I love you.

Don't tell me that under that lawyerly suit you're really a romantic.

Well, if by that you mean I believe every woman has one special light in her

that can only be seen by one special man, then I'm guilty as charged. Lock me

and throw away the key.

Racism is about oppression.

This would only be racism if blacks could oppress or exclude whites. You're

trying to exclude me from Jonathan's life on the basis of my race. What's the

difference?

I probably should be having this talk with Jonathan. You probably should.

Mom, I do love her.

She's not a status symbol. She's someone I really care for.

I know, but it hurts.

Seeing you with someone so different.

Mr. Markowitz, Barry Gorman. Thanks for seeing me.

Sure.

What can I do for you?

Oh, we'll get to that.

It's a nice family.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

So you have a client with a tax problem, right?

Oh, no, no.

This is a private matter.

You, uh...

Knew a woman back in 1974 named Karen Alder?

Yes, I did indeed. We met down in Baja.

How's she doing?

She passed away a few months ago.

I'm very sorry to hear that.

She was a couple of years younger than I am.

You and Ms. Alder had a relationship, right?

Well, we didn't call it a relationship. We went out a few times.

But you had sexual relations on some of those occasions, didn't you? Excuse me?

What's this about, Mr. Gorman?

This is about paternity, Mr.

Markowitz.

You have a daughter.

Well, so far, this alleged daughter hasn't filed yet. She'll probably

to go public to force a settlement.

That's blackmail. Oh, absolutely.

Look, this Gorman is a bottom feeder.

I wouldn't be surprised if he manipulated this girl into filing suit.

He may even try to get a point at her guardian. So we're looking at fraud

Probably. But they've done some homework.

Stuart, you did know this woman, Karen Alder?

Yeah, I dated her for like three months.

And you did go to bed with her? Yeah, yeah, I was there.

Casual signer.

Well, I wasn't a monk. I never said you were. Okay, the good news is the girl is

16. The most she can ask for is two -year support until she reaches her

majority. What's the bad news?

California child support guidelines state that a child must be supported in

fashion commensurate with the father's wealth. Oh, God. Given your net annual

salary, I can see her going for, what, $6 ,000 a month for two years? You're

looking at a $150 ,000 hit here. If this really were my daughter, why didn't the

mother contact me for support?

Exactly. Relax.

The over looked one thing. What?

Your sperm count is so low it can be measured in fractions.

Their case is real shaky.

Great. That makes me feel really wonderful.

So what do we do?

The easiest way to get rid of this?

DNA tests.

But it probably won't come to that.

Look, Gorman is a Kmart lawyer. If I go at him at warp 10 and I don't let up, I

might intimidate him right back into the woodwork.

Good. Because if he thinks we're going to roll over for this kind of extortion,

he is dead wrong.

Next up.

The Simon and Catherine Rubin Foundation versus University of California and Dr.

Emily Conner. We're representing Dr.

Conner and the university?

Yeah. The Rubin Foundation granted Dr.

Conner $100 ,000 to study a new way to save heart attack and stroke victims.

She's halfway through the project and Kurt Rubin, the foundation's president,

wants his money back.

Why? He says she's breached their contract by using scientific data

The Nazi concentration camps. What? Nazi? We're representing Nazis? No,

representing a highly respected scientist who wants to save lives.

Which particular Nazi experiment is she using?

The Dachau hypothermia experiment.

You know, where they subject a prisoner to freezing temperatures and monitor

their physiological responses.

How many died?

About 90 men. But tens of thousands die every month from heart disease, and my

client thinks she can save a lot of them. I'm sorry, I don't buy that.

I hate to sound crass, but if it meant the life or death of somebody that I

loved, I'd...

Want them to use the data.

It won't change what happened to those prisoners. I don't think it's quite that

simple. Come on, Leland. No one's saying experiments weren't horrendous, but

they were 50 years ago. If the data can feed even one life today, I feel we

should do it. I'm not saying you shouldn't take the case, Jonathan.

But I understand what Mr. Rubin is afraid of. Is there any possibility of a

settlement? So far, they haven't been willing. I think they're just hoping for

their best deal at the 11th hour.

Good luck.

And we're adjourned.

That's it for News at Noon. Have a great day, L .A.

We're clear.

Good work, people.

Good people.

These chairs are murder.

Yeah, let me show you what's good for that.

Come here. Sit up.

All right.

Oh, your scapula's in a spasm.

Okay, just relax.

How can I ever thank you?

Well, now that you ask, I have two tickets for Phantom this Friday night,

and I just broke up with someone.

I'd hate to listen to the music of the night alone.

Would you go with me?

I'd love to, but I can't. I'm living with someone, and

she's going to meet me here for lunch.

Well, that proves it. All the good ones are taken.

Sorry.

I'll live.

Just to show you there are no hard feelings, I'll finish up your left trap.

Is this what they mean by hands -on journalism?

Oh, boy.

This is heaven.

Roxanne. Hi.

This is Julie Rayburn.

Do you know Julie River? No.

No, but I've heard a lot about her.

Julie, this is my girlfriend, Roxanne Melvin.

Nice to meet you.

Got a great guy here.

Thanks. I think so, too.

Most of the time.

We gotta go. See you tomorrow.

We'd like to find some middle ground here, Mr. Rubin.

We've still got a few minutes before quarter. No. Well, it can't hurt to at

least listen, Kurt. There is no middle ground.

Using my money to legitimize Nazis desecrates the memory of my parents.

And letting people die honors them? Emily. We have a contract.

It isn't just about contract.

It's about not forgetting.

This is pointless.

Jonathan.

Hey, babe. There was a file on the kitchen table.

People versus a burrito?

You are a lifesaver. I gotta go.

Bye.

Your wife?

Girlfriend.

Is that a problem?

We live with it.

My mother was a Protestant, and my father was a Jew.

They were not allowed to live with it.

Under the Nazis, their marriage was a crime.

Their punishment was death.

Mr. Rubin, what happened when you were seven years old?

I was climbing trees in the woods near our house.

When I got home, my parents were gone.

The Nazis had taken them to Auschwitz. I never saw them again.

What did you do?

I lived in the woods for several days before a neighbor found me. For the next

year, I was a child fugitive, sometimes running, sometimes hiding in farmers'

barns and cellars.

Finally, I was...

Smuggled to Switzerland.

Do you know what happened to your parents in the concentration camps?

Yes. A survivor I found after the war told me that the Nazis tried to make my

father a kapo, a prisoner who would help them brutalize other prisoners.

Did your father agree?

No.

He committed suicide by throwing himself on an electrified fence.

And your mother?

They shot her.

When she tried to stop them from removing my father's head.

Why would they remove his head?

A Nazi anthropologist wanted Jewish skulls for his collection.

And this is the kind of science the Nazis practiced? Objection irrelevant.

It is not the kind of science Dr. Conner practices.

Sustained. Why did you establish a foundation in your parents' name, Mr.

To promote the betterment of mankind subject to...

Ethical medical research standards. Then why did you agree to fund a project

that included the Dachau hypothermia data?

Because Dr. Karner's application didn't state that she was going to use the

data. It was only after she cashed my check that she began conducting seminars

which referenced this torture.

If you'd known this, you'd never have agreed to give her the grant.

Absolutely not.

My father and mother were butchered by those criminals, Mr. Robertson.

How can anyone expect me to give money in their name to someone who said that

these criminals were scientists?

No further questions.

Does the Rubin Foundation require grant applicants to list all of their research

sources? We require primary sources, yes. And didn't Dr. Conner list her

sources? Yes, but... So Dr. Conner didn't deceive you in her application?

No, but she obviously omitted the Dachau data because she knew that I would...

Move the drag, Mr. Rubin isn't able to read Dr. Conner's mind.

Sustained. Doesn't your grant include a statement protecting full academic

freedom? This is not about academic freedom, Mr. Rollins.

It's about my right to refuse to finance lies. Yes or no, Mr. Rubin? Do you

believe in academic freedom?

Yes. But I don't believe in legitimizing atrocities. And doesn't Dr. Conner say

her research can save lives?

Yes. And if that's true, isn't her work promoting the betterment of mankind?

Not if it exonerates savagery.

You think this is all over and done with?

You think the Nazis were just some historical aberration?

Your Honor, I move to strike. Look around you.

We're in a recession and up brings a former Ku Klux Klan man to run for

president. Your Honor. Mr. Rubin. In Germany, neo -Nazis are killing

and people watch just like they watch Hitler. Mr. Rubin, please. What if

a communist, Dr. Connor, or a homosexual? That's enough. Sit down, Mr.

What if they outlaw scientists?

What if you're the enemy next time? Mr. Rubin, please.

Be aggressive, Arnie. I want vintage Becker. Please, Ann.

Good morning.

Mr. Markowitz.

Mr. Becker.

This is my wife, Ann Kelsey.

Mr. Gorman.

I'd like you both to meet my client, Sarah Alder.

Hi.

Hello.

Hi.

Hi. Let's get started.

The first thing I'd like to know is what you're doing representing a minor.

So happens, Counselor, that I'm planning on seeking guardianship for this young

lady. You know the only thing that stinks here worse than your case,

is your ethics.

Let's drop the animosity, shall we? You haven't even seen animosity, Mr. Gorman.

It's highly unlikely that this girl is Mr.

Markowitz's daughter, as these medical records from his urologist can attest.

You're leveling flimsy charges against a man of high principles.

And a low sperm count.

All right, Arnie.

She's your daughter, Stuart.

What? You're the father, I can tell.

Terrific. Let's drop some paper. Look in her eyes, for God's sake. Can't you see

it? I don't believe this. How are we going to tell Matthew? Honey, Matthew's

years old. I can just see it now. Mother, this is Stuart's daughter by a

previous relationship. Wait a minute. We don't talk to your mother now. Why

should this change? He's not my father.

What?

I'm sorry.

I knew my mom had been with you.

I knew you had money. That's why I came to you.

But you're not my real father. Let's not jump to any rash conclusions here.

He doesn't even look like me.

I'm sorry.

During 1942 and 43, approximately 350 male concentration camp

prisoners were either plunged naked into vats of freezing water or hosed down

and left outdoors in sub -zero weather.

To lower their body temperatures to subnormal levels.

Yes. As their temperatures dropped, physiological and biochemical changes

recorded. When they were near death, the Nazis tried various methods to re -warm

them. What was the so -called purpose for these experiments?

To find ways to save German pilots who fell into the North Sea when their

were shot down.

As an expert on these experiments...

How would you say the Dachau study measures up scientifically?

The report is riddled with inconsistencies and very likely

is no evidence that scientific standards were maintained.

And what about the man who ran these experiments?

Dr. Sigmund Rascher was a mediocre scientist, but he was an accomplished

whose hobbies included collecting human skin for writing britches.

Did Dr. Rascher conduct any other experiments for the Nazis?

Objection. Relevance. Goes with the competency of the researcher, Your

I'll allow it.

I hesitate to call what Rasher did experiments.

He put people in pressure chambers until his subjects' lungs exploded. He also

slaughtered men and women by amputating their limbs to test a medication he

claimed would reduce bleeding.

Dr. Howe, if a scientist came forward today with data gathered using methods

like Sigmund Rasher's, what do you think would happen? He'd be thrown in prison,

and his data recognized for the garbage it is.

Thank you.

Your witness.

You say this data is garbage, Dr. Howell? Yes. Then how do you explain the

that it's been cited in numerous respected medical studies? The authors

obviously only took the results at face value. They haven't done any real

analysis. But didn't the Dachau data help researchers develop techniques for

open -heart surgery and cold -water survival suits?

The degree to which that data helped is highly debatable, Counsel.

The majority of medical ethicists agree with me. Medical ethicists agree, and

that's primarily your field, isn't it, doctor? Yeah. But physicians and

physiologists like Dr. Conner have found that data valuable and utilized it in

the past. Isn't that correct?

Every time that we accept the unacceptable, the unspeakable, we bring

much closer to happening again.

Doctor, we don't live in Nazi Germany.

Starting in 1932, the U .S. Public Health Service studied hundreds of black

with syphilis. They never told them they had the disease.

Bad blood is what they called it. And even after the introduction of

they refused to cure them.

Those men died horrible deaths, all for the sake of a study. A study that didn't

stop until 1972.

So don't tell me this kind of thing can't happen here, counsel. That's

Dr. Howell, but it is not what this case is about. Dr.

Connor is not an unethical researcher.

She is, if she uses unethical data. Or maybe she saw a way to bring some good

out of the pain and terror these prisoners suffered.

Objection. Withdrawn. I have nothing further.

Arnie, just the man I want to see. Do you know anything about computer sex?

Sex between computers?

Two minutes to floor.

No, no. Computer operators.

Electronic bulletin boards on sexual topics. Like phone sex, but via modem.

it's not all talk, either. With a good printer, you can send photographs or

illustrations like these.

I guess it's the missionary position.

If you're a missionary from Mars.

Computer -generated images.

Cybersex. It's unnatural, right?

Oh, absolutely unnatural.

For what?

Sweeps week.

Now, what I need from you is the legal angle. 30 seconds to floor.

This could give us both a big boot.

It's incredibly hot. Our faces will be all over every promo for the 6 o 'clock

news. Think of the exposure.

Sounds good. Let's do it this afternoon.

I can't. I've got a remote at Griffith Park.

And I'm in the editing room all day tomorrow.

How about tomorrow night? We can go to my place, order a pizza, go over

everything.

Your place tomorrow.

You've got it. And four, three, two, one.

Dr. Connor, you're a specialist in hypothermia and the study of blood flow

the brain, correct?

Yes. With the Rubin Grant, I hope to find ways to lessen the damage of heart

disease by cooling certain parts of the brain. What good would that do?

During a heart attack or stroke, the brain gets less oxygen and glucose.

Cooling the brain helps diminish its need for those things and hopefully

the time for medical intervention.

And where does the Dachau hypothermia data fit in? That data could pinpoint

which areas of the brain are most responsive to cooling.

It will also help determine how far we can cool someone's brain before we do

damage ourselves.

And that information isn't available elsewhere?

No. With all their flaws, the Dachau hypothermia experiments are the most

extensive studies of the human thermoregulatory system we have. What

animal studies?

They don't help. All mammals respond differently to cold.

How do you feel about what the Nazis did at Dachau, Dr. Conner?

As a human being, I think it's horrendous.

As a medical researcher, I have to balance it against the potential the

has to save others.

Thank you, Dr. Conner. No further questions.

Dr. Conner.

Could you complete your project without the Dacal hypothermia data?

Yes, but it would take longer, months longer. And every 32 seconds in this

country, someone dies of cardiovascular disease, someone I might be able to

save. Wouldn't those extra months also benefit you professionally, Dr. Conner,

by giving you a leg up on the other researchers working in this field?

Objection. Overruled. My main concern is saving lives.

But you have no compelling evidence your findings will do that, do you?

Of course, I can't guarantee it. In fact, it's just speculation on your

isn't it? Technically, yes, but... Thank you. Doctor, you knew the Rubin

Foundation was established in memory of two Holocaust victims. Why didn't you

tell them you were planning to use the Nazi data?

It never occurred to me.

The data's origins aren't important to my research.

Its origins weren't important to you.

Tell me, Doctor, how many people were exterminated in the Holocaust?

Objection. Relevance, Your Honor. Dr. Connor.

claims to have balanced the data of Nazi origins against the potential good it

may provide.

I'm trying to find out how much he actually knows about those origins. I'll

you some leeway here, Counsel, but keep it brief.

Thank you.

Dr. Conner?

Six million people died in the Holocaust.

Sixteen million, Doctor. Six million were Jews.

Do you know what Babi Yar is?

No. It was the largest single act of genocide of the war.

34 ,000 Jews slaughtered.

What about Kristallnacht?

No. Who conceived the final solution?

Adolf Hitler. Adolf Eichmann.

How can you have balanced the good against the evil when you clearly have

idea of the enormity of that evil, Doctor? The history of Nazism wasn't my

concern. Sixty million dead.

That's not your concern. I wasn't about to become a Holocaust scholar just to do

a physiology study. It wasn't relevant.

You research everything else. Why not this? Because you just didn't care?

Objection argumentative. Withdrawn.

I have nothing further.

Where the hell were you in there?

He has the right to question you. Question me? He was haranguing me.

I didn't conduct those experiments, Jonathan. I just want to study them. Any

more objections would have alienated the jury, Emily, and implied you didn't

know the answers to his questions. Well, obviously I didn't.

Did you?

No. It took me four years to get a grant for this project.

I am not unsympathetic to Mr. Rubin's feelings, but I do not intend to go back

to being a dog labber just because some old man can't see the forest for the

trees.

I called Dr. Finkelstein.

I want that DNA test.

It'll only confirm what we already know, Stuart. She is your daughter.

It's weird.

I was in that room, what, five minutes?

Most of which I spent telling myself she was a fraud.

And this feeling keeps coming up.

It's the same feeling I had that day we lost Kelsey.

What was the mother like?

She was nice.

Karen.

She was funny. She was smart.

Was she good in bed?

Yeah.

At that point in my life, if I got a woman in bed, it was good.

Obviously, you didn't practice safe sex.

No. In 1974, safe sex meant not having sex in a moving vehicle, okay?

Are you okay about this?

It's not the mother or your relationship with her.

It's the idea that there is a stranger out there that has some kind of claim on

you. She doesn't have a claim on me. She gave up whatever claim she had when she

walked out that door.

She gave it up. Does that mean you can?

No.

No, I don't think I can.

One of the SS men brought me into the operating theatre.

Next to the table, there was a large glass tank filled with water.

There was ice on the water.

They asked me if I would like to send a message to my family.

Since they were all dead, I declined.

What happened then, Dr. Sean?

I was...

stripped naked, then they lifted me into the tank. The pain from the cold

was indescribable.

After about 40 minutes, I passed out.

And when you woke up? I was in a bed with two other naked prisoners, put

to warm me with body heat. It was one of several methods of re -warming that the

Nazis tested.

I was lucky I was not thrown into boiling water.

Dr. Shulman, how do you feel about the data from those experiments being used

Dr. Connor?

If it will save lives, it should be used. God forgive you. Objection. If

is a God, may he let us both find peace. There is no peace for those who betray

the dead. Mr. Rubin, that's enough.

Kurtz is done.

Sir, why do you think the data should be used?

What? Before I retired, I was a pediatric surgeon.

Like any doctor, I had patients die, sometimes painfully.

But I used what I learned from their death to help others.

If knowledge from Dachau can help other human beings, then the

suffering of those who died there might begin to have some meaning.

I have nothing else.

Doctor, how did the Nazis monitor your body temperature?

They inserted a wire into my rectum and another into my mouth.

Didn't the Nazis at one time consider moving all experiments from Dachau?

Yes, they did.

Why? Well, because the screams were from

the... Men and women who were being experimented upon were so loud that

they disturbed the families of the officers who were stationed there.

Can you ever forgive the Nazis for what they did?

No, never.

Can you really blame Mr. Rubin for seeing Dr.

Conner's project as legitimizing what the Nazis did? I appreciate his point of

view.

But we each of us have to make our own decisions.

Thank you, Doctor.

No further questions.

Karen? Stuart.

Stuart Markowitz.

I thought you were dead.

Do I look that bad?

Sorry. Mom, do you know the car keys are... Oh, God.

Mom is going to take a second mortgage out on the house in order to pay for

college. I couldn't let her do that.

She's made too many sacrifices for me.

One more and she's up for candidation.

So you hired some low -rent lawyer who wouldn't ask too many questions when you

told him your mother was dead.

I didn't want to.

But I knew you'd never go for the idea.

Yeah.

You were right.

So that's why you came to see me, for the money?

I also wanted to meet you, I guess.

Mom told me your name.

She said you were a lawyer, so I just checked with the state bar.

I wanted to know my father.

And why did you back out?

I didn't know you had a son.

And, well, it wasn't until I saw you and your wife in the meeting

that it actually hit me how much I was disrupting your lives.

I just couldn't do it.

Wow.

Here's an interesting one.

A Viennese oyster.

The woman puts her feet behind her head. I know it.

I thought you might.

Julie, these people are incredible.

I mean, sharing your sexual fantasies in bed is one thing, but doing it in

public? You know what my favorite fantasy is?

No. What?

I come home from the 11 o 'clock night cast.

I slip into a hot bath.

I feel the water swirl and flow between my legs.

I lean back, close my eyes.

I feel the water from the faucet caress my ankle like a kiss.

And when I open my eyes, he's there, crouched by the tub,

kissing the calf of my leg and slowly working his way up.

My eyes meet his.

Julie, I can't. I can't. I'm sorry.

Why not?

Listen, you're a beautiful woman.

If we had met a year ago, you might have been the greatest thing that ever

happened to me. I still can be.

I live with someone.

And I love her.

And I can't...

I won't hurt her.

God, that turns me on.

Julie, look, I gotta go.

Arnie, what's wrong?

Oh, the pain.

It's like a knife.

What, did you hurt your back? Here, let me... No, I'm fine. I'm okay.

Arnie, I'm not gonna rape you. Here, sit down.

Arnie, where is this pain?

In my left testicle.

You know, I'm trying not to take this personally, but it isn't easy.

Maybe it's just like a trolley horse.

Maybe you just need to work it out.

No. No kidding.

Julie, I'm in real pain here. Well, we'd better get you to a hospital. Can you

walk? I'm fine as long as it doesn't touch the inside of my thigh.

Could you get my coat?

Who says romance is dead?

How are you feeling?

It hurts even when they're touching the table.

Why don't you bend your knees? That way...

You're not making contact.

Careful.

Arnie? Rock. I called the studio. They said that you were at her house and you

had an accident.

What the hell are you doing?

I'm just trying to make it more comfortable.

I'll bet. Rock, they don't know how this happened. It might be a hernia. I may

have sprained a muscle in my groin.

You know, I'm probably not needed here anymore.

You're going to be fine, Arnie.

Roxanne will take care of you.

This is a new one, even for you.

Rox, I swear, nothing happened. We were just working.

At her house?

Mr. Becker, I'm Dr. Stewart. I'm a urologist.

Rox, don't leave. Are you kidding? I'm thinking of selling tickets.

Okay, now.

I'm going to have to palpate the area.

Just...

Relax. Does this hurt?

No. How about this?

Mr.

Becker, you have a torsion. A man's testicles are suspended inside the

sac by the spermatic cords.

These cords can sometimes become twisted. How did it happen?

Any number of ways. A sharp, sudden movement, slipping on a wet surface.

Don't worry, though. It's easily correctable. We just go inside and

testes until the cord is untwisted.

You have to cut them open? Yes, but it's only minor surgery. We give you a

spinal block to numb it, and then we go in. But I do have to warn you, when the

cord becomes twisted, it can cut off the flow of blood.

We could open it up to discover that the testicle has turned gangrenous.

Gangrenous? In that case, of course.

We'd have to remove it.

Oh.

Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen -Belten, Treblinka.

16 million human lives.

That's the entire population of New York and Los Angeles combined.

Imagine the city empty. Every human being who lives here dead in the gas

chambers.

It's too much for us to take in.

We can't help abstracting it.

But that is the one thing we cannot do. If someone like Sigmund Rector proposed

doing his hideous experiments today, society would never permit it.

So why is it all right to use it after the atrocities have been committed?

What kind of deterrence does that pose to unethical researchers?

Dr. Conner signed a contract that requires the use...

of ethical medical standards.

Now by using the Dachau experiment in her work, she has violated those

standards.

Especially since she is unable to show that the Dachau data is of any

value.

First we ignore the lessons of history.

Then we forget.

Then we

Repeat them.

Tell those who would draw comfort from this.

We shall never forget.

Dr. Emily Connor is not a Nazi.

She abhors, as all of us do, the methods by which this data was gained.

But the data is there.

And there are many respected scientists who find it valid.

For her to ignore it is to ignore the pain and suffering which she might be

to alleviate.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the one thing she cannot do.

Dr. Stanley Shulin, a survivor of the hypothermia experiments, believes she

should be allowed to try.

Mr. Rubin is a good man with a tragic history.

His concern is understandable. Respect what he has to say. It's important.

But give the situation the perspective he can't.

Let Dr.

Connor honor the dead by honoring the living.

Don't stand between her and the lives she might be able to save.

To Arnold, who brings new meaning to the phrase, hoist on his own petard.

Well, at least the family jewels are as good as new.

Better.

The doctor told me he tacked them down while he was in there.

Tacked them down?

You know, sutured them to the inside of the scrotum so they wouldn't get twisted

up again.

Rocks. About Julie.

I swear, nothing happened.

Only because you sprained your testicle.

No, no, even before that.

I admit, I thought about it, okay?

But when push came to shove... So to speak.

It was weird, Rocks. For the first time in my life, there was this... I don't

know, there was this, like, circuit breaker inside of me, and it just

And I said, no.

I couldn't believe it myself, so I know.

How hard it is for you to believe, but I swear it's true.

Okay.

Nothing happened.

You don't sound like you mean it.

Don't push it, Arnie.

I'm doing the best that I can.

If I'd hired you, Mr.

Rollins... Could you have argued my case as convincingly?

I thought your side was very convincing.

The jury may too.

I don't expect them to.

Even Mr. Robertson thought we had a tough case.

Why wouldn't you even discuss a settlement?

How do you make a settlement with evil, Mr. Rollins?

Each time you refuse to look it in the face and say no more, it creeps a little

closer.

Do I have to tell this to you with your people's history?

No.

When my father was told that he could no longer teach at the university, he

stayed home and tutored.

When the students stopped coming, he found work running errands.

When the Nazis came for our neighbors, he comforted us by saying that sanity

must return if we could just wait it out.

And when the Nazis finally ordered my father to choose the next man to die at

Auschwitz, I believe he understood at last and he killed himself.

I'm sorry.

I didn't come here just to win, Mr. Rollins.

I came to bring a warning.

You think anybody heard me?

Yeah.

I do.

The jury's in.

Has the jury reached a verdict?

Yes, we have, Your Honor. In the matter of the Simon and Catherine Rubin

Foundation versus University of California and Emily Conner, we find

defendants. Oh, thank God.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, thank you for your service. This court is

adjourned.

So, what's the latest?

Well, I think I finally talked her into letting me send Sarah to college for one

year. And then if that goes well, we'll go on from there.

Unless you have a problem with it.

No. No, it's the right thing to do.

It's just hard to believe that this Karen wouldn't have come to you for help

before. Well, it...

Not hard to believe if you know her.

This is a woman who started her own catering business. It goes belly up in

recession, and she refuses to go Chapter 11. She's going to pay off each and

every creditor. That's the way she is.

It's admirable.

Not terribly realistic.

No, it's not.

So I told her, look, if you're determined to go about it this way, at

me help you set up a more structured schedule. So she's going to let me do

That's very nice of you.

I have to do something here, honey.

Absolutely. I understand.

She sounds like a very interesting person.

You want to have them to dinner?

Why don't we have her and Sarah to dinner next week?

I think it might be a little soon. She's still getting used to the idea of

accepting help from me. I don't want to push it.

Maybe down the line.

Okay.

Fine.

It's just hard to get used to the idea.

That you have this entire family out there that I'm not a part of.

Hi.

Oh, that could be Ned. He was going to call.

Hello?

Oh, hi, Karen. How you doing?

No, no, it's no problem at all. No problem at all.

Yeah, I'm going to take care of it tomorrow.

Yeah, well, Claremont does have more individualized instruction, but I don't

think we should discount Stanford, you know?

No, it's not that much more.

Hey, let me worry about the money, okay?

Okay.