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Previously on L .A. Law.

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Is Nelson going to become a client here?
I just opened some dialogue, that's

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all. Like hell.

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What are you saying, Victor?

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

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know for a fact? You mean, can I prove
it?

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No. I never can with her. She's too damn
good.

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I'm not sure how to put this, but the
quality of the work we've been getting

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never been better than since Rosalind
Shays took over the account.

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If she left the firm, they could... be a
problem.

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Don't walk out on me, Michael.

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It wouldn't be walking out on you,
Leland.

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It'd be walking out on Rosalind.

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I'm not stepping down.

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Then I'll have to break you.

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You want a war, Leland?

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You've got one.

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I think your father is losing touch with
reality.

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In what way? He takes on the persona of
a television character.

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I wanted to see where he was working.

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What are you wearing?

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Same thing I always wear.

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Norton Palavine!

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Let me take care of you.

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No.

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Thank you.

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You're facing the deprivation of very
important rights. Your daughter has

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petitioned for a conservatorship.

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You're entitled to an attorney, sir.

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It's okay, Judge.

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I was always able to stand up for
myself.

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And that's what I'm going to do here.

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As you like.

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Mr. Becker, you may call your first
witness. Yes, Your Honor.

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We call Gut Nivens.

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Do you swear to tell the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth,

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help you God?

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I do.

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State your name.

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Gus Nivens.

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How do you know the respondent, Mr.
Nivens? Well, he had the unit next to

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at the retirement home until they kicked
him out.

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Did you spend much time with him? At one
time, we were best friends, but not

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anymore. Why not?

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I hate to say this with him sitting
there, but he ain't right in the head.

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really believed that he was Ralph
Crandon.

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Judge. Yes, Mr. Melman.

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What is he going to say what it was that
I believed?

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The witness will refrain from
speculating on the respondent's state of

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How do you know that he wasn't just
having fun? What he talked about wasn't

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funny. He'd say how his family didn't
want him around.

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He'd say, Norton, you're all I got left.

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Finally, I said, uh, my name ain't
Norton. How did he respond to that?

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He grabbed me by the throat.

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For a minute, I thought he was going to
kill me. Then, just like that, he lets

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go and busts into tears.

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Was that the last time you spoke with
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No, I spoke to him this morning, as a
matter of fact. I asked him how he was

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doing, and he said that if they're not
going to let him drive a bus no more,

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that he was going to throw himself
underneath one.

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No further questions.

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My turn?

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Yes, Mr. Melman.

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Hi, Gus.

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You really think I'm crazy?

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Well, you tried to strangle me, Murray.

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Does that mean I'm crazy?

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Look, I ain't no shrink.

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Yeah, but you're sitting here saying
that I'm nuts.

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What have I done?

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Do I yell at strangers?

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Do I drop my pants in public?

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You're losing touch with reality,
Murray.

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Reality?

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Reality was a bunch of toothless old
farts sitting around discussing the last

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thing they ate.

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Mr. Mailman. I'm sorry, Judge.

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Gus.

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Do you still talk to your buddy
Mitchell? Well, you know I do, Murray,

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day. Would you tell the judge where
Mitchell is right now?

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Sure. Sitting right here on my shoulder,
where he always is.

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Trudging forward, Victor, you start the
priest malpractice case today?

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Yep. Priest malpractice?

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Negligent confession.

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Our client refused to absolve a 32 -year
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breakdown. Her husband is suing for
emotional distress and loss of

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Whatever happened to the separation of
church and state?

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The count against the church was
dismissed, but they're making it stick

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our guy individually.

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Why isn't the church defending him?

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Father McNamara baptized me.

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And when he asked me to personally
defend him, I said yes.

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Well, just make sure the father pays his
legal fees.

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Move along, Douglas.

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Arnie, you're handling Roxanne's
conservatorship hearing? I am, and the

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is representing himself, and he's pretty
good.

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Glad to hear it. Now, as you all know,
because none of you could have possibly

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forgotten, Benny's portrayal as the
cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz takes

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place this Friday evening.

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Incredibly, Abby has managed to get
tickets.

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All right, all right.

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Can we move along, please?

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I think we're done. Hold on.

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I have an announcement.

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I'm seeking to reinstate my position as
senior partner.

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A new vote will be scheduled for this
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Excuse me. You have no authority to call
that vote. The executive committee can

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call the vote, Rosalind, and that's what
I'm doing. The executive committee

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hasn't even discussed this. We're
discussing it now.

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All committee members in favor of a new
vote, say aye. Aye?

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Douglas, how do you vote?

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I guess there's nothing wrong with
voting if, uh... That's two to one.

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The committee has authorized a new vote.

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Now we're adjourned.

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We can still settle it, Walt.

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It might make sense.

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Penance isn't something you negotiate
for, Victor.

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Yeah.

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I just want you to remember that even
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the only one on the hook here.

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I mean, if they win, any judgment comes
out of your pocket personally.

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Wait a minute, Victor.

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Personally, I'm a priest.

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If I ignore God's law, then I've got to
face a whole different kind of judgment.

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I wasn't wrong, Victor. I don't want to
settle.

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She had always been a very devout
Catholic.

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Church every Sunday.

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She'd go to confession all the time. And
there were these counseling sessions.

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What counseling sessions, Mr. Delahunty?
She'd have all these sessions with

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Father McNamara.

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Those are what usually upset her. But
this particular time, it was the

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confession. Now, this was the confession
with Father McNamara on April 4, 1988,

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correct? Yes.

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She came back from church, and she
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Did she tell you what was wrong?

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Not right then.

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But I sure found out the next morning.

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What happened then, sir?

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Well, she just went crazy.

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Ranting and crying, you know, crying
that she was going to hell.

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What else did she say?

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She said that Father McNamara had
condemned her to eternal damnation.

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Your Honor, that's totem pole here
today.

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Overruled.

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He said that since we used birth
control, she was committing a sin

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and that because of that, God would not
forgive her. What effect did this have

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on your wife?

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Well, she was sedated that day.

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And she was hospitalized for depression
after the breakdown.

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And she really can't do anything now.
The doctors say that she's becoming

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totally dysfunctional. Objection. Your
Honor, could we have counsel use

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psychiatrists to present psychiatric
evidence?

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Sustained.

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What about your children?

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She can't even talk to them or spend any
time with them.

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He says that...

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Her soul is damned, and that the kids,
for their own sake, should stay away

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her. They're three and seven years old.

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I have nothing further, Your Honor.

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Mr. Cifuentes?

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Sir, as I understand these medical
reports, your wife's depression was

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on by severe guilt, which guilt was
caused by having violated her religious

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faith. Is that correct?

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It was brought on by him telling her
that she was going to burn in hell.

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me, sir, but to your knowledge, did he
ever use those words?

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He said he wouldn't forgive her.

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She certainly knew what that meant.

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And he also knows how seriously she
takes her religion.

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As did you, sir.

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And yet you repeatedly encouraged her to
go against her religious beliefs,

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didn't you? I'd make love to my wife.

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That's hardly... You'd wear a condom.

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You'd insist to her that you use birth
control against her faith, didn't you?

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Look, Catholics today use contraception.
Everybody knows it. Sir, your wife is a

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foreign -born Irish Catholic, strictly
religious, and you'd insist on wearing a

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condom, yes or no? We have two kids. I
make $31 ,000 a year. We could have...

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Yes, thank you, sir.

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Now, at the time of her breakdown, on
the morning of April 5th... Exactly what

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were you two doing? She had the
breakdown because he condemned her. What

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the two of you doing when she suddenly
started, as you say, ranting and crying?

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We were having marital relations. You
were having intercourse.

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You were using a prophylactic, weren't
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Yes. And the doctors concluded that it
was this particular event, it was the

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intercourse that was the initiating
event of this breakdown, did they not?

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That's what they say.

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Thank you, sir.

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Nothing further, ma 'am.

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This is bad.

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The clients Rosalind's brought in
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What's more, three of our biggest pre
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go with Rosalind if she leaves.

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Who?

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Petramco, Feldenkrantz.

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Toll. Oh, God.

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By my calculations, we stand to lose
over 50 % of our projected revenues.

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How the hell can this be? She's been
winning over Leland's clients, that's

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We gave her the big accounts because
they seemed to like her so much. And now

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she's got them.

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So what you're saying is if we vote
against her and she walks, this place

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fold.

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We let it fold.

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We can all find other jobs. I mean, it's
better than being under Rosalind's

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reign, right?

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It's not as simple as that, Mike.

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We've got a five -year lease here, $25
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If this place dissolves, the partners
are going to be on the hook for that

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personally.

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So they re -rent the space?

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Don't bet on it. There's a lot of vacant
office space in downtown L .A. right

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now. It's not going to be easy for them
to re -rent it. And if they don't, we're

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going to have to fork over as much as
$200 ,000 apiece. What?

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We also have an outstanding loan of half
a million, which will cost us another

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$75 ,000 each.

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This is unbelievable.

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This can't be right.

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It's right.

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If we lose Rosalind and her clients, we
don't just make less money. Some of us

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could be losing our houses.

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...can be more empowered over a
confessing mental state than is your

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psychiatrist. But, doctor, priests see a
great many parishioners.

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Yes, but he saw this particular
parishioner over and over again in

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sessions, which made his relationship
with her much more like doctor and

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patient. So?

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So, he knew her fragile emotional state
and how vulnerable she was with respect

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to her religion. He had to know that
damning her soul would devastate her.

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Doctor, why doesn't this woman...

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simply find herself another priest.

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She doesn't have the freedom of
conscience to choose another priest.

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convinced by virtue of their counseling
sessions together that Father McNamara

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specifically is her agent of God. If he
doesn't absolve her in her mind, she

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goes to hell. Well, thank you, Dr.
Smithson.

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I have nothing further.

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Doctor, based on your psychiatric
examination of this woman...

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What is the cause of her underlying
depression?

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Guilt for having sinned against God.

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That's right.

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And is my client in any way responsible
for the commission of these sins?

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No. But he's the one who exacerbated her
depression to the point of making her

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delusional. How is she delusional, sir?
She's obsessed with the thought she'll

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burn in hell.

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Well, do you know for a fact that she
won't?

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Well, that's a ridiculous question.

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You're not Catholic, are you, sir?

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Objection, Your Honor.

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The expert is obviously making judgments
concerning the plaintiff's religious

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beliefs. His own religious beliefs are
therefore relevant to his foundation as

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an expert.

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The objection is overruled.

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Are you a Catholic, sir?

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No, I'm not. I see.

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And so, in the gospel, when St. Mark
claimed that a man who had been dead for

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three days rose and ascended bodily into
heaven, was he delusional? I don't

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consider religious beliefs to be
delusional, per se.

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Do you think a dead body could rise up
and ascend?

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No. If someone told you that they saw
this happening, would they be

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When my client holds the wafer and wine
in his hand and believes it to be the

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body and blood of Christ, is he
suffering from some psychiatric

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happen to be his beliefs. If a woman
says she's pregnant but says she's never

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had sex, is she psychotic?

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You're talking about religious faith.

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Exactly. You see, when you cut right
down to it, Doctor, if Kate Delahunty is

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going to hell, if her soul is going to
burn,

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And she is not delusional, is she?

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Not if you make that kind of assumption,
no.

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Thank you, sir.

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I have nothing further.

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He insists that people around him are
other characters from The Honeymooners.

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gets very agitated when they tell him
that they're not.

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Has he ever endangered himself?

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He commandeered a city bus.

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He didn't crash it only because the cops
got to him first.

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Boss, you there, Charlie?

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Are you making an objection, Mr. Melman?

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No.

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I'm just saying she wasn't there.

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Of all the people who were there, no one
said a word about my driving.

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How come she's so sure I would have
crashed?

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The respondent's correct.

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His driving ability isn't before the
court.

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I'd like to ask you something, Mr.
Melman.

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Isn't it possible that your father's an
eccentric and he's behaving this way

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simply because he's bored?

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In the beginning, that's all I thought
it was.

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That's what I desperately wanted to
believe.

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I've watched him go into these states,
though.

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He's becoming someone who can't take
care of himself.

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I'm afraid of what could happen.

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All right, Miss Melman, thank you. I
have no further questions.

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I wouldn't ever put him through this
otherwise.

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Mr. Melman.

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So, you think your old man can't flip
the flop tax anymore, huh? I think you

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need help.

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Your Honor, I ask that the witness be
addressed as a witness and the

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conduct his cross -examination
appropriately.

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00:17:47,580 --> 00:17:51,200
All right, Mr. Becker, but I am giving
everybody a little latitude here.

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Mr. Melman, you can only ask questions
for now.

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Questions?

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Hmm.

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Uh...

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When you got the call that your father
was being thrown out of the retirement

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home, how long had it been since you
last paid him a visit?

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00:18:08,230 --> 00:18:09,730
Objection. Wholly irrelevant.

303
00:18:09,950 --> 00:18:11,710
Really? I don't think so.

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The witness said how concerned she is.

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I'd like to judge the side for herself.

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You may answer the question.

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It had been about six months.

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And how long before that?

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It had been months. I don't know how
many.

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How can you talk about what your father
was becoming when you have no idea what

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he was to begin with?

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00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:36,610
That's not true.

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Does the witness know that last year her
father underwent surgery?

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For what?

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An obstruction in his digestive tract.

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Thought to be cancerous in nature.

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Was it?

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Apparently the witness knows nothing
about this.

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00:18:49,180 --> 00:18:50,520
Daddy, do you have cancer?

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00:18:53,180 --> 00:18:56,200
No. But you wouldn't have known about it
even if I did.

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00:18:57,420 --> 00:19:01,210
Why do you think I'm doing this, Daddy?
So you can forget all about me, honey.

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So you can put me in that house and
forget all about me.

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I have nothing further for this witness.

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00:19:15,371 --> 00:19:21,999
What's going on, Douglas? And why on
earth do we have to meet in the men's...

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Because this is the one room Rosalind
won't come in. I have the solution.

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What? Leland can't bear the thought of
her being in charge, and Rosalind can't

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bear the thought of losing her power.

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Leland would support me as senior
partner, however, and Rosalind might too

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can convince her I'd still let her run
things. She'd never go for it. She

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She's faced with losing, or if she wins,
a mass exodus, she's got to be willing

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to compromise, and I might be the
perfect compromise.

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And you'd be the senior partner.

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00:19:51,241 --> 00:19:54,999
Figuratively. Yes. Well, what about me
being the senior partner figuratively?

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00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:59,859
You. Come on. What do you mean, come on?
The only other vote you got was from

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your wife. What does that tell you?

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00:20:01,821 --> 00:20:05,539
Douglas, you didn't even get your own
vote. What does that tell you? Hey, I'm

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trying to make a good -faith effort to
solve a crisis here. No, you're not.

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00:20:09,151 --> 00:20:11,959
You're trying to wheedle yourself into
becoming senior. Wait a minute.

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00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:16,860
Typical short man's complex. Typical
bald man's complex. I used to have hair,

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00:20:16,861 --> 00:20:20,419
but you've never been taught. Shut up!
For God's sakes, you're both acting like

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children.

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I'm just trying to solve a problem.

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Well, then do it. Fine.

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Sorry I brought it up.

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00:20:26,940 --> 00:20:28,180
Meeting's over. Fine.

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00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:41,219
Mrs. Delahanty, you have agreed to
testify here on behalf of the man your

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husband's suing.

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00:20:42,420 --> 00:20:43,500
Could you tell us why?

349
00:20:43,900 --> 00:20:46,070
I don't think what the father did was
wrong.

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He refused to grant you absolution.

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00:20:48,100 --> 00:20:52,219
I didn't deserve it. Do you think you
deserve to be condemned for using birth

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control? I believe in one...

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True church, Mr. Cifuentes.

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00:20:56,350 --> 00:20:58,590
Holy, Catholic, and apostolic.

355
00:20:59,030 --> 00:21:02,010
I have sinned in thought, word, and
deed.

356
00:21:02,210 --> 00:21:03,830
And birth control is a sin?

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A mortal sin.

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00:21:05,121 --> 00:21:09,189
And you also believe that whoever dies
in the state of mortal sin is condemned

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to hell?

360
00:21:10,690 --> 00:21:14,120
Yes. It would seem that your belief has
caused you a great deal of pain.

361
00:21:14,830 --> 00:21:16,630
That isn't important.

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00:21:16,631 --> 00:21:20,469
Kate, don't you wish that Father
McNamara could find it in his heart to

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you? Father McNamara...

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00:21:22,360 --> 00:21:26,340
has been my strength since the day I
moved into his parish.

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00:21:26,620 --> 00:21:32,099
He's guided me and he's comforted me. He
didn't absolve me because he couldn't

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absolve me.

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00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,240
Even now, he hasn't abandoned me.

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00:21:36,460 --> 00:21:38,560
And I never will, Kate. I never will.

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00:21:38,780 --> 00:21:39,830
That will do, Father.

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00:21:42,020 --> 00:21:43,070
Thank you very much.

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00:21:43,820 --> 00:21:45,260
Nothing further, Your Honor.

372
00:21:51,420 --> 00:21:55,889
Aside... From what Father McNamara told
you, did you think what you did was so

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bad? It's not what I think that matters.

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00:21:58,610 --> 00:22:03,849
It's what the church tells me. And is it
fair to say that Father McNamara knew

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00:22:03,850 --> 00:22:05,190
this about you? Of course.

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00:22:05,670 --> 00:22:12,369
He was my priest. Did you ever tell him
how hard it was to be a good wife

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00:22:12,370 --> 00:22:16,470
and a good mother and a good Catholic
all at the same time?

378
00:22:16,710 --> 00:22:21,310
Yes. Did you tell him how desperately
afraid you were of having more children?

379
00:22:21,820 --> 00:22:23,540
Yes. What was his advice?

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00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:29,540
To use natural planning and to follow
the teachings of the one true church,

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00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:31,960
holy, Catholic, and apostolic.

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00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:38,500
And if you strayed from the teachings of
the one true church, holy, Catholic,

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00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,540
and apostolic, did he tell you what
would happen?

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00:22:41,780 --> 00:22:46,240
If I remained in a state of sin, I would
spend an eternity in hell.

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00:22:46,460 --> 00:22:48,930
Did he paint a picture of what that
would be like?

386
00:22:49,060 --> 00:22:50,110
Yes.

387
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,440
You would... Burned forever in a non
-consuming fire.

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00:22:53,780 --> 00:22:55,340
Hotter than a thousand suns.

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00:22:55,660 --> 00:22:58,500
My flesh gnawed by vermin and goaded by
spikes.

390
00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:01,180
Never to be permitted into heaven.

391
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,980
Never to be allowed in the presence of
God.

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00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:11,139
Since Father McNamara confirmed that
this would be your fate, have you

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00:23:11,140 --> 00:23:12,940
been able to care for your children?

394
00:23:13,820 --> 00:23:18,140
No. Have you been able to so much as
touch them?

395
00:23:23,149 --> 00:23:24,199
No, sir.

396
00:23:26,690 --> 00:23:28,630
Did Father McNamara know this?

397
00:23:30,410 --> 00:23:31,460
Yes.

398
00:23:31,590 --> 00:23:33,570
I have no further questions, Your Honor.

399
00:23:34,130 --> 00:23:35,650
Let's take a 30 -minute recess.

400
00:23:43,110 --> 00:23:49,490
What can I say, Judge?

401
00:23:50,410 --> 00:23:51,910
How can I prove I'm not crazy?

402
00:23:52,981 --> 00:23:55,069
How does anyone?

403
00:23:55,070 --> 00:23:58,670
You'll concede, Mr. Melman, that your
behavior does raise the issue.

404
00:23:58,910 --> 00:24:00,650
What am I doing that's so terrible?

405
00:24:02,290 --> 00:24:05,230
Assuming that I fall into my own little
world.

406
00:24:06,330 --> 00:24:07,380
Who am I hurting?

407
00:24:07,390 --> 00:24:10,940
I think your daughter's fear is that you
might end up hurting yourself.

408
00:24:11,750 --> 00:24:13,770
Please, Judge, tell her not to worry.

409
00:24:14,950 --> 00:24:16,350
I can take care of myself.

410
00:24:17,030 --> 00:24:18,080
Mr. Becker.

411
00:24:20,650 --> 00:24:23,390
Are you aware of it when you assume the
role of...

412
00:24:23,630 --> 00:24:27,969
Ralph Cramden, Mr. Melman? Sure, I'm
aware of it. Yet you told your daughter

413
00:24:27,970 --> 00:24:29,020
that you weren't.

414
00:24:29,790 --> 00:24:32,310
I was yanking a chain, that's all.

415
00:24:32,311 --> 00:24:36,249
And so when you called the mentally
retarded clerk at McKenzie Brackman, Ed

416
00:24:36,250 --> 00:24:39,270
Norton, you were just having fun with
him?

417
00:24:39,271 --> 00:24:41,069
That's right.

418
00:24:41,070 --> 00:24:44,080
Same as when you put on a uniform and
drove off with a city bus.

419
00:24:44,310 --> 00:24:46,360
I was just trying to be funny, that's
all.

420
00:24:46,410 --> 00:24:48,690
Come on, Mr. Melman. Listen, wise guy.

421
00:24:50,190 --> 00:24:51,630
I'm telling you the way it was.

422
00:24:51,631 --> 00:24:56,399
Maybe I don't dress as good as you do.
But I put on a clean pair of underwear

423
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,620
every morning. I eat three meals a day.

424
00:25:00,100 --> 00:25:02,390
And I was doing just fine until you came
along.

425
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,000
Why Ralph Cramden, Daddy?

426
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,080
Miss Melman, you have an attorney here.

427
00:25:06,140 --> 00:25:08,940
Your Honor, you said you were giving
some latitude.

428
00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:12,380
I'd like to ask a few questions myself.

429
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:13,890
All right.

430
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:16,570
Daddy.

431
00:25:17,060 --> 00:25:19,740
Daddy, you watched a lot of other
television shows.

432
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:26,440
Now, why didn't you become Jack Benny or
Sergeant Bilko?

433
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,020
Why Ralph Cramden?

434
00:25:28,260 --> 00:25:30,060
Because he never gave up, that's why.

435
00:25:31,100 --> 00:25:33,570
Because he was always looking for his
pot of gold.

436
00:25:33,620 --> 00:25:35,940
He also never ran off and left his
family.

437
00:25:36,780 --> 00:25:39,120
I think it's all a favor. You didn't.

438
00:25:39,380 --> 00:25:42,040
I was always a failure in everything I
did, no?

439
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,060
You were a failure because you left.

440
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:46,920
Son of a bitch!

441
00:25:46,971 --> 00:25:50,289
Promise me the pocket concession.

442
00:25:50,290 --> 00:25:53,729
Mr. Melman, who are you referring to?
Frank. Everything he wanted, I did for

443
00:25:53,730 --> 00:25:55,749
him. He needed tickets, I got him
tickets.

444
00:25:55,750 --> 00:25:58,829
You wanted me to watch the store, ma
'am? I watched the store. Sir. I'm going

445
00:25:58,830 --> 00:26:01,960
take care of you, Murray. I'm going to
give you a piece of the pie.

446
00:26:01,961 --> 00:26:06,049
Where is it? When was the last time you
spoke with Frank, Mr. Melman? Just last

447
00:26:06,050 --> 00:26:10,290
Friday. I said, Frank, Roxanne is going
to start high school next year.

448
00:26:10,550 --> 00:26:13,500
Before I know it, she's going to be
thinking about college.

449
00:26:14,190 --> 00:26:17,320
What are we talking about, huh? Do I get
the concession or not?

450
00:26:17,450 --> 00:26:19,710
Who am I, Mr. Melman? Oh, come on,
Bernie.

451
00:26:19,711 --> 00:26:21,769
What's the matter? You don't trust me
anymore?

452
00:26:21,770 --> 00:26:25,170
All of a sudden, everybody decides
Murray's care, shall we?

453
00:26:25,390 --> 00:26:28,370
Daddy. Well, it's nice to know who my
friends are.

454
00:26:28,371 --> 00:26:30,389
I think maybe we should take a short
reset.

455
00:26:30,390 --> 00:26:31,610
Ah, forget about it.

456
00:26:32,630 --> 00:26:33,990
I can always make a buck.

457
00:26:34,970 --> 00:26:37,560
As long as I got my strength, I can
always make a buck.

458
00:26:38,010 --> 00:26:39,060
Who earns tickets?

459
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:47,360
Oh, thanks for coming in.

460
00:26:49,140 --> 00:26:53,759
Listen, I'd like to represent to the
partners that the associates here fully

461
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:54,810
back me.

462
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:56,010
I have Victor.

463
00:26:56,820 --> 00:26:58,480
I'd like to confirm the two of you.

464
00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:01,300
Well, Leland, you know we both hope you
win.

465
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,420
I want your endorsement on the record.

466
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:04,690
Suppose you lose.

467
00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:07,340
That makes our future here very tenuous.

468
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,540
Oh, well, Rosalind could certainly
forgive you for backing me.

469
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,220
She isn't the one who hired you.

470
00:27:14,899 --> 00:27:16,980
I, on the other hand, did hire you.

471
00:27:16,981 --> 00:27:21,679
You're putting us in a bad position,
Leland, and I don't think that we

472
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,940
Yes. Yes, I am. But this is a war, and
everybody has to take a side.

473
00:27:27,780 --> 00:27:30,240
I'm simply asking you to make your call
now.

474
00:27:31,620 --> 00:27:32,670
Okay.

475
00:27:32,780 --> 00:27:34,220
You have my official support.

476
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,310
Good. In exchange for your unconditional
support when I come up for partner.

477
00:27:38,980 --> 00:27:40,030
Me too.

478
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,199
I didn't call you in here to bribe you
with anything, and I don't think... Then

479
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:46,400
let's not call it a bribe.

480
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,330
Let's call it a threat, because that's
exactly what you just did to us.

481
00:27:50,331 --> 00:27:54,119
Look, Leland, when we come up for
partnership, everyone is going to have

482
00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:54,779
a side.

483
00:27:54,780 --> 00:27:56,950
We're just asking you to make your call
now.

484
00:27:59,340 --> 00:28:00,390
Okay.

485
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:01,450
Good.

486
00:28:02,420 --> 00:28:03,470
We have a deal?

487
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:05,530
Yes, we do.

488
00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:08,320
Good. Best of luck in the vote, Leland.

489
00:28:09,220 --> 00:28:10,270
We're with you.

490
00:28:12,261 --> 00:28:19,109
I'm sorry, I cannot break the
confessional seal to talk about this. I

491
00:28:19,110 --> 00:28:23,589
that. But generally, and of course
hypothetically speaking, Father, if a

492
00:28:23,590 --> 00:28:27,469
came to you and confessed to having used
birth control, would you grant

493
00:28:27,470 --> 00:28:28,520
absolution?

494
00:28:28,770 --> 00:28:31,540
If I felt the person were truly
repentant, yes, I would.

495
00:28:31,541 --> 00:28:35,009
Again, hypothetically speaking, under
what circumstances would you not?

496
00:28:35,010 --> 00:28:38,269
Well, like every priest, I would refuse
to grant absolution if I felt the

497
00:28:38,270 --> 00:28:40,349
penitent was not sincere about his
confession.

498
00:28:40,350 --> 00:28:44,589
And if a person had come to confession,
say, hundreds of times, and each time

499
00:28:44,590 --> 00:28:49,049
confessed to having committed the same
sin, would a priest consider him or her

500
00:28:49,050 --> 00:28:54,769
to be truly repentant? If a person kept
repeating the same sin and showed no

501
00:28:54,770 --> 00:28:59,869
real intention of conforming his or her
moral behavior, no, no, I would not

502
00:28:59,870 --> 00:29:03,709
consider the person to be repentant. And
would you condemn this parishioner to

503
00:29:03,710 --> 00:29:04,549
burn in hell?

504
00:29:04,550 --> 00:29:06,270
No, I would never say that.

505
00:29:07,310 --> 00:29:11,430
I simply would no longer continue to
absolve that person for the same sin.

506
00:29:11,431 --> 00:29:12,549
Thank you, Father.

507
00:29:12,550 --> 00:29:19,329
What happens when a

508
00:29:19,330 --> 00:29:21,230
person dies in a state of mortal sin?

509
00:29:22,010 --> 00:29:24,660
It's God's will that the soul is damned
for eternity.

510
00:29:24,970 --> 00:29:30,149
And if Kate Delahanty were ever denied
absolution, she'd understand that to

511
00:29:30,150 --> 00:29:33,689
she'd burn in hell, right? Objection,
Your Honor. This witness had counseling

512
00:29:33,690 --> 00:29:36,909
sessions with her. He knows her state of
mind. He knows how obsessed she was

513
00:29:36,910 --> 00:29:37,909
with her afterlife.

514
00:29:37,910 --> 00:29:41,449
The objection is overruled. In fact,
Father, you knew that by withholding

515
00:29:41,450 --> 00:29:43,769
absolution, you'd shatter this woman,
didn't you?

516
00:29:43,770 --> 00:29:46,670
I'm sorry. I cannot divulge the contents
of a confession.

517
00:29:47,010 --> 00:29:51,549
Would the vast majority of Catholic
priests withhold absolution because of

518
00:29:51,550 --> 00:29:53,930
control? That defendant was not sincere
yet.

519
00:29:53,931 --> 00:29:57,929
Many Catholics today use contraception.
Are you saying... Yes, I know. Many of

520
00:29:57,930 --> 00:30:00,249
them don't even come to confession at
all anymore. They might as well be

521
00:30:00,250 --> 00:30:06,349
Protestants. Well, in his encyclical
letter of human life, Pope Paul VI

522
00:30:06,350 --> 00:30:11,330
upon priests when dealing with this
issue to have consideration of the weak.

523
00:30:12,170 --> 00:30:16,190
Now, did you think... I had
consideration, Mr. Laporte.

524
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,619
But paragraph 28 of that encyclical
letter calls for obedience to the

525
00:30:20,620 --> 00:30:24,579
authority of the church. And that
encyclical letter also clearly states

526
00:30:24,580 --> 00:30:29,119
birth control is against the law of the
church. In the Vatican II document, The

527
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:33,719
Church in the Modern World, it says that
the condition of the times should be

528
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,119
taken into account when dealing with
contraception, right?

529
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,200
But that paper also says...

530
00:30:38,430 --> 00:30:41,890
that conjugal love is intended for the
transmission of life.

531
00:30:42,270 --> 00:30:46,609
Hypothetically speaking, Father, would
you deny absolution to a parishioner

532
00:30:46,610 --> 00:30:49,560
though you knew it would psychologically
devastate her?

533
00:30:50,130 --> 00:30:52,810
All we can do, Mr. Laporte, is put our
trust in God.

534
00:30:53,010 --> 00:30:54,060
No, Father.

535
00:30:55,610 --> 00:30:58,950
Kate Delahanty put her trust in you.

536
00:31:10,380 --> 00:31:14,959
Forget about the fact that he's a
priest, ladies and gentlemen. This case

537
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,040
nothing to do with God's law.

538
00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:24,399
We're talking about a therapeutic
relationship where that man served as

539
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,620
woman's de facto counselor.

540
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:33,899
Now, Pope Paul VI, in his encyclical
letter, called upon the priest to act as

541
00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:34,950
counselors.

542
00:31:35,210 --> 00:31:39,549
Well, if they're going to hold
themselves out that way, people, they

543
00:31:39,550 --> 00:31:42,190
assume the responsibilities of that
role.

544
00:31:42,430 --> 00:31:46,190
They have to exercise ordinary care.

545
00:31:47,210 --> 00:31:49,550
That man didn't.

546
00:31:49,750 --> 00:31:55,569
A weakened, unstable woman came to him
seeking

547
00:31:55,570 --> 00:31:59,690
compassion, and he crushed her.

548
00:32:00,150 --> 00:32:04,290
Knowing her to be fragile, knowing
her...

549
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:11,559
to be emotionally infirm, this man, from
his own psychological vantage

550
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:18,459
point, devastated her. That made his
conduct negligent. That made it

551
00:32:18,460 --> 00:32:24,620
reckless. Because of what he did, she
can't hug her own child.

552
00:32:25,100 --> 00:32:28,020
She can't have sexual relations with her
husband.

553
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:33,720
Because of what he did, she has
nightmares every day about her flesh

554
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:35,530
In hell.

555
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,060
That man did that to her.

556
00:32:39,300 --> 00:32:41,000
He did it knowingly.

557
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:46,440
And he wants you to excuse that just
because he wears a collar on his neck.

558
00:32:47,740 --> 00:32:48,920
For her sake.

559
00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:52,800
For God's sake.

560
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,760
Don't you forgive him.

561
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:09,319
Basically, they're asking you to find my
client negligent for suggesting that

562
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,420
Kate Delahunty would be going to hell.

563
00:33:11,780 --> 00:33:17,839
But in order for you to find him
negligent, you'd have to find the whole

564
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,540
Catholic faith negligent.

565
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,320
Because it is the teachings of
Catholicism that say this woman will go

566
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:31,120
Despite what modern day practices, the
law of the Catholic Church is still...

567
00:33:31,450 --> 00:33:35,429
that a penitent who is not sincere in
his confession shall not be granted

568
00:33:35,430 --> 00:33:39,809
absolution. The law of the Catholic
Church is that if a person dies in a

569
00:33:39,810 --> 00:33:43,170
of mortal sin, he will be damned for
eternity.

570
00:33:43,171 --> 00:33:45,229
Now, you don't have to believe that.

571
00:33:45,230 --> 00:33:50,949
You are all free to pick your faith,
just as Kate Delahunty picked hers. She

572
00:33:50,950 --> 00:33:56,209
chose Catholicism. And my client acts in
strict accordance with the laws of that

573
00:33:56,210 --> 00:33:59,460
religion. You condemn him, then you
condemn the Catholic Church.

574
00:33:59,930 --> 00:34:02,810
And if you want to put his religion on
trial, look out.

575
00:34:03,830 --> 00:34:04,880
Yours will be next.

576
00:34:05,130 --> 00:34:10,529
Because the truth is, ladies and
gentlemen, the day you apply negligence

577
00:34:10,530 --> 00:34:15,630
religion, the day you hold divine faith
up to standards of reasonableness,

578
00:34:15,850 --> 00:34:19,350
that is the day you outlaw religion
altogether.

579
00:34:21,690 --> 00:34:22,740
Thank you.

580
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:35,170
You may be seated.

581
00:34:40,739 --> 00:34:44,560
There are few things sadder than the
deterioration of a human mind.

582
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,779
Most of us just stand and watch
helplessly as it becomes clear that a

583
00:34:49,780 --> 00:34:52,130
no longer do what they've done all their
lives.

584
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:58,559
We may be powerless to prevent it or
reverse it, but we're not powerless to

585
00:34:58,560 --> 00:34:59,940
minimize the consequences.

586
00:35:00,650 --> 00:35:05,149
Based on the testimony presented and
what I myself have observed, I'm

587
00:35:05,150 --> 00:35:09,750
the petition for conservatorship and
appointing Roxanne Melman as

588
00:35:10,610 --> 00:35:14,689
Effective immediately, she's to have
full control over all of Murray Melman's

589
00:35:14,690 --> 00:35:15,930
finances and affairs.

590
00:35:16,290 --> 00:35:20,949
His pension and Social Security checks
will be mailed directly to her. I've

591
00:35:20,950 --> 00:35:24,350
taken it upon myself to revoke Mr.
Melman's driver's license.

592
00:35:25,610 --> 00:35:26,930
You're locking me up.

593
00:35:27,190 --> 00:35:29,790
No, sir. I urge you, however...

594
00:35:30,540 --> 00:35:33,240
To accept the fact that you need to be
taken care of.

595
00:35:35,580 --> 00:35:36,630
That's all.

596
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:47,170
Okay,

597
00:35:47,171 --> 00:35:50,999
this will simply be a forum for free
discussion, after which we'll convene at

598
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,579
the end of the day for final statements
from the two candidates, followed by the

599
00:35:54,580 --> 00:35:57,160
votes. The floor is now open. If I may.

600
00:35:57,580 --> 00:36:02,239
I would like to hear your specific
criticisms of my performance as senior

601
00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:03,290
partner.

602
00:36:03,420 --> 00:36:06,620
I assume that you do have reasons for
wanting me out.

603
00:36:09,140 --> 00:36:12,120
Nothing. This stupid executive committee
thing.

604
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,690
Leland's idea, I simply put it into
effect.

605
00:36:14,691 --> 00:36:16,059
What else?

606
00:36:16,060 --> 00:36:19,279
You wanted to take on Anderson
Industries to directly do business with

607
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,340
Africa. Arnold Becker also wanted to
take on that client.

608
00:36:23,020 --> 00:36:26,030
As did Douglas Brackman, as did Leland
McKenzie initially.

609
00:36:26,031 --> 00:36:28,899
What about going to Victor's client
behind his back?

610
00:36:28,900 --> 00:36:30,820
I asked Victor to go to the client.

611
00:36:31,220 --> 00:36:34,820
When he refused, I had to fulfill an
attorney obligation.

612
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,830
There's no attorney obligation to accept
a bribe and sell out a client.

613
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,100
I did no such thing.

614
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,739
I challenge everybody in this room to
offer a single piece of evidence to the

615
00:36:44,740 --> 00:36:48,710
contrary. Oh, look, Rosalind, nobody can
tell what goes on behind closed doors.

616
00:36:49,050 --> 00:36:52,150
But you did go to the client behind the
back of a lawyer here.

617
00:36:52,390 --> 00:36:57,909
You went behind my back to Scott Perot
with a deliberate attempt to undermine

618
00:36:57,910 --> 00:37:03,209
me. Now, that is a breach of fiduciary
duty. And you did it. Maybe in an

619
00:37:03,210 --> 00:37:04,770
to keep this firm together.

620
00:37:04,771 --> 00:37:06,689
Is that where your interest lies,
Michael?

621
00:37:06,690 --> 00:37:07,770
In staying together?

622
00:37:08,270 --> 00:37:12,969
If so, I'd be very curious to know why
you're currently interviewing with a

623
00:37:12,970 --> 00:37:14,020
on Wall Street.

624
00:37:16,030 --> 00:37:18,590
Don't underestimate my network out
there.

625
00:37:18,950 --> 00:37:20,950
I find out most everything.

626
00:37:21,290 --> 00:37:25,689
Look, my future is not the subject
matter of this meeting. But the future

627
00:37:25,690 --> 00:37:26,740
this firm is.

628
00:37:27,670 --> 00:37:33,229
And I am the only one here that can
guarantee it. Keep in mind, with me in

629
00:37:33,230 --> 00:37:35,870
charge, you have the freedom to leave.

630
00:37:36,370 --> 00:37:40,950
But if I leave, I take 50 % of the
business with me.

631
00:37:41,610 --> 00:37:43,470
And you lose that freedom.

632
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:49,300
Your only choice remains to stay and
work much, much harder for far less

633
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:54,779
or to leave, in which case the firm
dissolves, and you all incur staggering

634
00:37:54,780 --> 00:37:57,060
partnership liabilities.

635
00:37:57,820 --> 00:37:58,870
Come on.

636
00:37:59,740 --> 00:38:01,800
I'm certainly open for more discussions.

637
00:38:10,340 --> 00:38:13,320
As the jury reached a verdict... We
have, Your Honor.

638
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:14,810
What say you?

639
00:38:15,340 --> 00:38:19,799
On the claim of negligence leading to
loss of consortium, we find for the

640
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:25,220
plaintiff, Kevin Delahanty, we award the
lump sum of $250 ,000 in damages.

641
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:26,740
This matter is concluded.

642
00:38:27,140 --> 00:38:29,680
The jury is dismissed with the thanks of
the court.

643
00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:36,350
Hey,

644
00:38:36,351 --> 00:38:39,899
maybe we can sit down and work something
out here.

645
00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:40,950
Excuse me a minute.

646
00:38:41,060 --> 00:38:42,620
You want to work something out?

647
00:38:43,460 --> 00:38:45,080
Here's what you tell your client.

648
00:38:45,220 --> 00:38:46,720
Tell him I don't want his money.

649
00:38:47,180 --> 00:38:48,620
Tell him I want my wife back.

650
00:38:50,060 --> 00:38:51,620
He's not about to give in, Kevin.

651
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,090
Why don't you give me a couple of
minutes with him?

652
00:38:57,140 --> 00:38:58,190
Sure.

653
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,420
All those people want from you, Walt, is
absolution.

654
00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:07,360
I think you should grant it.

655
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,300
You've known me a long time, Victor.

656
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,879
Do you really think I could put a price
tag on the blessed sacrament of

657
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:16,930
confession?

658
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,260
No. Then why are you asking me to sell
it?

659
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:25,059
According to my reading of canon law,
what's required for absolution is

660
00:39:25,060 --> 00:39:28,010
repentance. You really think she's
undeserving of mercy?

661
00:39:29,380 --> 00:39:30,580
It's not enough, Victor.

662
00:39:31,700 --> 00:39:34,860
She hasn't committed that sin in two
years, Walt.

663
00:39:35,380 --> 00:39:37,000
That tells me that she's sincere.

664
00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:39,860
Look at her, Walter.

665
00:39:43,279 --> 00:39:46,340
Father McNamara, look at her.

666
00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:06,350
Wait here, Victor.

667
00:40:10,340 --> 00:40:11,780
Would you excuse us, please?

668
00:40:27,251 --> 00:40:34,199
Through the ministry of the church, may
God grant you pardon and peace.

669
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:38,019
I absolve thee in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy

670
00:40:38,020 --> 00:40:39,070
Spirit.

671
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,580
This vote isn't about Rosalind.

672
00:40:44,820 --> 00:40:45,960
It isn't about me.

673
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,080
It's about all of you.

674
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:53,300
It's your standards, your priorities
that are on the line here.

675
00:40:55,140 --> 00:40:59,540
Arnold, you said that if I put your name
on the door,

676
00:41:00,590 --> 00:41:02,770
this firm would become a part of you.

677
00:41:03,070 --> 00:41:05,690
Well, Arnold Becker was stenciled in on
that class.

678
00:41:05,970 --> 00:41:08,090
This place is now a reflection of you.

679
00:41:08,490 --> 00:41:12,510
With your vote, you get a chance to show
us what that means.

680
00:41:14,570 --> 00:41:21,169
Ann, you once said that Rosalind Shays
embodied money and power, and you feared

681
00:41:21,170 --> 00:41:22,550
this place would become her.

682
00:41:22,770 --> 00:41:26,950
The question today is not whether the
firm has strayed from its moral center,

683
00:41:27,010 --> 00:41:29,050
but rather, have you?

684
00:41:30,410 --> 00:41:35,349
Stuart, when you campaigned for this
job, you said the main function of a

685
00:41:35,350 --> 00:41:39,690
partner is to breed a sense of community
into an otherwise cutthroat business.

686
00:41:40,010 --> 00:41:42,840
What kind of community feeling is
Rosalind giving you?

687
00:41:48,950 --> 00:41:55,210
By far the most humbling part of this is
for me to have to lobby for your vote.

688
00:41:57,710 --> 00:41:59,730
Your father and I started this firm.

689
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,370
flourished and floundered a hundred
times during those early years.

690
00:42:05,820 --> 00:42:09,840
But whatever this firm was, it was
always us.

691
00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:14,160
And then he passed on, and this firm
became you and me.

692
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:18,370
You and me.

693
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:25,279
If Rosalind Shays remains his senior
partner, Michael Cusack won't be the

694
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:26,330
one to leave.

695
00:42:26,780 --> 00:42:29,320
One by one, you will all leave.

696
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:35,279
Because each of you... ultimately, will
choose to work at a place that just

697
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:39,259
doesn't help you make your mortgage
payment, but in a place that serves your

698
00:42:39,260 --> 00:42:45,899
values, a place that makes you proud, a
place that personifies what you know

699
00:42:45,900 --> 00:42:47,160
yourselves to be.

700
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:49,980
If I stay, you get that.

701
00:42:51,060 --> 00:42:55,680
If I stay, this place remains what it's
always been.

702
00:42:56,740 --> 00:42:59,740
Mackenzie Brackman, Cheney Cusack.

703
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:01,730
And Becker.

704
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:04,100
Isn't that something?

705
00:43:05,780 --> 00:43:08,500
I'm asking you now. Don't you let that
get away.

706
00:43:17,260 --> 00:43:20,180
Rosalind? Leland is beloved.

707
00:43:21,140 --> 00:43:22,190
I'm not.

708
00:43:22,220 --> 00:43:23,270
I know this.

709
00:43:33,070 --> 00:43:36,710
Not without a few personality clashes.

710
00:43:37,890 --> 00:43:39,590
But I've eradicated it.

711
00:43:40,630 --> 00:43:46,530
Is there anybody here who wants to see
me remain a senior partner?

712
00:43:52,070 --> 00:43:55,750
I don't think there's any need for a
vote, Douglas.

713
00:43:57,010 --> 00:43:58,060
I resign.

714
00:44:21,740 --> 00:44:22,840
So, what now?

715
00:44:24,620 --> 00:44:26,120
Can I turn on some lights?

716
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:28,640
What are you asking me for?

717
00:44:29,860 --> 00:44:32,090
You're going to do whatever you want
anyway.

718
00:44:49,450 --> 00:44:53,670
I wish there had been another way to do
this, Daddy. Well, it's done now.

719
00:44:54,870 --> 00:44:56,550
You want to tell me what I'm in for?

720
00:44:57,990 --> 00:44:59,430
What kind of an institution?

721
00:45:01,230 --> 00:45:03,340
Are there going to be bars on the
windows?

722
00:45:04,550 --> 00:45:05,600
Straight jackets?

723
00:45:06,110 --> 00:45:07,160
Shock treatments?

724
00:45:07,530 --> 00:45:09,700
There's not going to be anything like
that.

725
00:45:09,870 --> 00:45:10,920
Oh, no.

726
00:45:12,430 --> 00:45:14,050
Well, what's it going to be like?

727
00:45:16,341 --> 00:45:21,629
It can't be another one of those
retirement villages.

728
00:45:21,630 --> 00:45:23,610
They don't want anybody who's a problem.

729
00:45:24,050 --> 00:45:26,250
Listen, we haven't even started looking.

730
00:45:26,590 --> 00:45:27,910
You're putting me in a home.

731
00:45:28,050 --> 00:45:29,510
I'm not putting you anywhere.

732
00:45:29,511 --> 00:45:33,909
We're going to find some place where
you're comfortable. If you don't want to

733
00:45:33,910 --> 00:45:34,990
stay there, you won't.

734
00:45:36,370 --> 00:45:37,810
I don't want to go in a home.

735
00:45:39,230 --> 00:45:42,950
We ought to see some of these places
before you say that.

736
00:45:43,210 --> 00:45:45,860
A home is a place where you go when
you're ready to die.

737
00:45:48,910 --> 00:45:51,440
And the rest of the world doesn't need
you anymore.

738
00:45:52,690 --> 00:45:54,450
When one day is just like the next.

739
00:45:56,890 --> 00:45:59,490
I have to know that I have something
going for me.

740
00:46:00,010 --> 00:46:02,300
Even though it's only handing out
handbills.

741
00:46:03,090 --> 00:46:04,570
Placing a $2 bet on a horse.

742
00:46:14,590 --> 00:46:16,230
You can live with me, Daddy.

743
00:46:24,430 --> 00:46:25,510
It's not going to work.

744
00:46:26,750 --> 00:46:27,800
Maybe it will.

745
00:46:30,530 --> 00:46:32,150
You got a life of your own.

746
00:46:38,030 --> 00:46:39,170
Now you're in it.

747
00:46:43,070 --> 00:46:44,120
Come on.

748
00:46:44,770 --> 00:46:45,820
Let's go.

749
00:46:46,810 --> 00:46:47,860
I'll help you pack.

750
00:46:52,300 --> 00:46:54,290
I'm paid up here till the end of the
week.

751
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,700
I'd like for you to come with me now.

752
00:46:59,750 --> 00:47:04,300
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