1 00:00:01,043 --> 00:00:02,628 Meister Meyer. How goes it? 2 00:00:02,628 --> 00:00:04,463 Hello, Arnie. 3 00:00:04,463 --> 00:00:06,173 - What is this? - Take a look. 4 00:00:08,467 --> 00:00:12,012 There's a couple of bon mots on the underside. 5 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:15,098 "To Arnie Becker, with great appreciation, Dave. Meyer." 6 00:00:15,098 --> 00:00:17,601 - Dave. - I'm a sentimental guy, Arnie. 7 00:00:17,601 --> 00:00:19,728 People are important to me. They figure prominently. 8 00:00:19,728 --> 00:00:22,147 Not just as demographics or zip code clusters 9 00:00:22,147 --> 00:00:24,191 but as friends and associates. 10 00:00:24,191 --> 00:00:27,236 It's beautiful. Thank you. 11 00:00:27,236 --> 00:00:28,904 Anyway... having addressed that 12 00:00:28,904 --> 00:00:30,781 which can't be financially defined 13 00:00:30,781 --> 00:00:32,532 i.e, measured in money, 14 00:00:32,532 --> 00:00:35,118 let us turn to that which can. 15 00:00:35,118 --> 00:00:36,370 Oh, yeah. How we doin'? 16 00:00:36,370 --> 00:00:37,746 It is scary. 17 00:00:37,746 --> 00:00:39,540 Early projections give us sales 18 00:00:39,540 --> 00:00:42,834 of over a million units within three years. 19 00:00:42,834 --> 00:00:44,836 And what are you basing the projection on? 20 00:00:44,836 --> 00:00:46,588 Market analysis. 21 00:00:46,588 --> 00:00:48,924 We have identified our primary market 22 00:00:48,924 --> 00:00:50,550 as what we call the Sensitive Satyrs 23 00:00:50,550 --> 00:00:52,344 and Hausfrau Hedonists. 24 00:00:52,344 --> 00:00:53,929 Centered around urban area, 25 00:00:53,929 --> 00:00:55,597 new money, voracious consumers 26 00:00:55,597 --> 00:00:57,683 with of course a very high rate of divorce. 27 00:00:57,683 --> 00:01:00,060 - That's who's buying the tape? - In droves. 28 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:02,604 What is surprising is who else is buying the tape. 29 00:01:02,604 --> 00:01:06,024 And here I am talking pulpwood cutting and strip mines. 30 00:01:06,024 --> 00:01:07,192 The far hinterlands. 31 00:01:07,192 --> 00:01:08,860 Remote exurbia with near-zero 32 00:01:08,860 --> 00:01:10,279 cable saturation. 33 00:01:10,279 --> 00:01:12,155 What are we talking about in real dollars? 34 00:01:12,155 --> 00:01:14,866 You're asking me what are we talking about in real dollars? 35 00:01:14,866 --> 00:01:17,494 Okay. This is belt and suspenders. 36 00:01:17,494 --> 00:01:18,954 I'm going to figure things are going to go wrong 37 00:01:18,954 --> 00:01:20,914 that I know won't go wrong. All that? 38 00:01:20,914 --> 00:01:22,416 All that, Dave. All that. 39 00:01:22,416 --> 00:01:25,377 Net, net, your end, 40 00:01:25,377 --> 00:01:29,172 two million, four-hundred thousand this fiscal annum 41 00:01:29,172 --> 00:01:31,758 an cumulative net of eight to ten million 42 00:01:31,758 --> 00:01:35,470 within the first three. 43 00:01:35,470 --> 00:01:38,015 That's most gratifying, I must say. 44 00:01:38,015 --> 00:01:39,641 Only the beginning. 45 00:01:42,394 --> 00:01:43,937 But you know something? 46 00:01:43,937 --> 00:01:45,731 It's not so much the money. 47 00:01:45,731 --> 00:01:47,816 That's just one consequence of many. 48 00:01:47,816 --> 00:01:49,484 The ability to reach millions of people 49 00:01:49,484 --> 00:01:51,153 to be at the leading edge of your discipline. 50 00:01:51,153 --> 00:01:53,697 The simple satisfaction of a job well done. 51 00:01:53,697 --> 00:01:57,784 That's it. That is ultimately what really matters. 52 00:01:57,784 --> 00:01:58,994 We'll sit down next week 53 00:01:58,994 --> 00:02:01,204 and start talking about promotion. 54 00:02:01,204 --> 00:02:04,583 Dave, it is always a pleasure. 55 00:02:04,583 --> 00:02:07,419 And, uh, thank you. 56 00:02:14,468 --> 00:02:17,554 Oh, my God, I'm rich! 57 00:02:17,554 --> 00:02:19,056 I'm rich! I'm rich! 58 00:02:19,056 --> 00:02:21,433 I'm rich! 59 00:02:21,433 --> 00:02:23,352 [theme music] 60 00:02:52,798 --> 00:02:54,716 [music continues] 61 00:03:22,869 --> 00:03:24,788 [music continues] 62 00:03:53,150 --> 00:03:55,068 [instrumental music] 63 00:04:14,463 --> 00:04:16,506 You'll be interested to know I am off to Chicago 64 00:04:16,506 --> 00:04:19,342 on the noon flight in quest of a major new client, 65 00:04:19,342 --> 00:04:21,636 - Maxwell Enterprises. - What's that? 66 00:04:21,636 --> 00:04:25,307 Maxwell was hit with a hostile takeover attempt last week 67 00:04:25,307 --> 00:04:29,311 and they need to engage outside counsel ASAP. 68 00:04:29,311 --> 00:04:31,062 - That sounds major. Douglas: It is. 69 00:04:31,062 --> 00:04:32,105 Who're we up against? 70 00:04:32,105 --> 00:04:33,273 Flaherty and Dunne, 71 00:04:33,273 --> 00:04:34,274 Householder and Doyle, 72 00:04:34,274 --> 00:04:35,859 and Cohen, Simon, Goorwitz. 73 00:04:35,859 --> 00:04:37,444 But I've had lengthy conversations 74 00:04:37,444 --> 00:04:39,946 with their house counsel, Kevin McNally, 75 00:04:39,946 --> 00:04:43,241 and I believe we have the inside track. 76 00:04:43,241 --> 00:04:45,619 - Good work, Douglas. Douglas: Thank you. 77 00:04:45,619 --> 00:04:46,995 Hurrying along, I've scheduled 78 00:04:46,995 --> 00:04:48,580 a partner's meeting for 10 a.m. 79 00:04:48,580 --> 00:04:51,500 to discuss an issue of some urgency. 80 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:53,293 Will Mother Markowitz be here, Stuart? 81 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:55,670 Well, she said she was going to be here. 82 00:04:55,670 --> 00:04:57,214 Good. Good. 83 00:04:57,214 --> 00:05:00,050 Victor, where do we stand with the Shaeffer trial? 84 00:05:00,050 --> 00:05:01,384 Uh, started yesterday. 85 00:05:01,384 --> 00:05:03,011 You know I don't get it. 86 00:05:03,011 --> 00:05:04,679 He gets drunk in a bar, says what a billion 87 00:05:04,679 --> 00:05:06,973 other guys've said at one point or another 88 00:05:06,973 --> 00:05:08,558 I'd like to kill my wife. 89 00:05:08,558 --> 00:05:10,018 What's the big deal? 90 00:05:10,018 --> 00:05:11,645 The big deal is that this guy 91 00:05:11,645 --> 00:05:13,313 unlike the other billion guys 92 00:05:13,313 --> 00:05:15,148 actually talked Turkey to a hit man. 93 00:05:15,148 --> 00:05:17,526 Only to tell him that it was misunderstanding. 94 00:05:17,526 --> 00:05:20,237 The harmless ravings of a guy who'd had a few too many, 95 00:05:20,237 --> 00:05:21,655 going through a lousy divorce. 96 00:05:21,655 --> 00:05:23,657 Which reminds me, Arnie. Can you stay available? 97 00:05:23,657 --> 00:05:25,033 I may want to call you as a witness. 98 00:05:25,033 --> 00:05:26,451 - Why? - He was your client. 99 00:05:26,451 --> 00:05:28,078 You can testify as to his state of mind, 100 00:05:28,078 --> 00:05:29,496 as well to the kind of things 101 00:05:29,496 --> 00:05:31,248 that people say in the heat of a divorce. 102 00:05:31,248 --> 00:05:33,166 You know, I don't think I'm violating a confidence here 103 00:05:33,166 --> 00:05:34,543 when I tell you that Gracy thinks 104 00:05:34,543 --> 00:05:37,087 she's gonna kick your butt on this one. 105 00:05:37,087 --> 00:05:40,006 Well, she did it before, when I was a P.D's office 106 00:05:40,006 --> 00:05:42,676 and she might do it again if I can't locate my key witness. 107 00:05:42,676 --> 00:05:45,303 - Who've you got on it? - A P.I. named Stephanie Hall. 108 00:05:45,303 --> 00:05:48,139 - I hear she's good. - I hear she's gorgeous. 109 00:05:48,139 --> 00:05:49,641 Guilty on both counts. 110 00:05:49,641 --> 00:05:51,476 I hereby sentence her to six months hard labor 111 00:05:51,476 --> 00:05:53,603 at the Becker Penal Colony in Malibu, 112 00:05:53,603 --> 00:05:55,021 I'll fondle. 113 00:05:55,021 --> 00:05:56,481 I mean handle her appeals. 114 00:05:56,481 --> 00:05:57,607 Leland: Gentlemen, gentlemen. 115 00:05:57,607 --> 00:06:00,235 Ah-ha. There's little Kelsey. 116 00:06:00,235 --> 00:06:02,487 - Hi, honey. - Ooh, a baby. 117 00:06:04,197 --> 00:06:05,574 - Hi. - Hi, honey. 118 00:06:05,574 --> 00:06:10,579 - Oh, she is so beautiful. - Yeah. She is. 119 00:06:10,579 --> 00:06:12,289 Can, can I see her? 120 00:06:12,289 --> 00:06:13,373 Sure. 121 00:06:17,294 --> 00:06:20,005 [laughs] 122 00:06:20,005 --> 00:06:22,591 You want to hold her? 123 00:06:22,591 --> 00:06:23,842 Sure. 124 00:06:27,304 --> 00:06:29,014 She's so tiny. 125 00:06:29,014 --> 00:06:31,474 She likes you, Benny. 126 00:06:31,474 --> 00:06:32,767 I like her. 127 00:06:40,191 --> 00:06:42,819 Well, who was it that called you, Mr. Dunham? 128 00:06:42,819 --> 00:06:45,739 John: The contact was a man named Wilie Kosar. 129 00:06:45,739 --> 00:06:47,449 The information was that he wanted me 130 00:06:47,449 --> 00:06:49,868 to kill a Mrs. Joseph Shaeffer. 131 00:06:49,868 --> 00:06:53,246 What exactly did Mr. Kosar tell you, sir? 132 00:06:53,246 --> 00:06:54,706 He said that the woman's husband wanted-- 133 00:06:54,706 --> 00:06:56,249 Objection, hearsay! 134 00:06:56,249 --> 00:06:57,667 Goes to show state of mind 135 00:06:57,667 --> 00:06:59,669 that a deal was being made, Your Honor. 136 00:06:59,669 --> 00:07:01,087 That doesn't matter, it's totem pole. 137 00:07:01,087 --> 00:07:02,589 She's asking the witness to tell her 138 00:07:02,589 --> 00:07:04,174 what Mr. Kosar told him about 139 00:07:04,174 --> 00:07:06,343 what my client told Mr. Kosar. 140 00:07:06,343 --> 00:07:08,219 I'm overruling the objection. 141 00:07:08,219 --> 00:07:09,971 Exception. 142 00:07:09,971 --> 00:07:11,973 Jonathan: Noted. 143 00:07:11,973 --> 00:07:14,017 I'll ask you again, Mr. Dunham. 144 00:07:14,017 --> 00:07:16,853 What did Mr. Kosar tell you? 145 00:07:16,853 --> 00:07:18,313 He said Shaeffer would pay 146 00:07:18,313 --> 00:07:20,649 ten thousand dollars to have his wife killed. 147 00:07:20,649 --> 00:07:22,275 And you accepted. 148 00:07:22,275 --> 00:07:25,070 - I accepted. - Thank you, sir. 149 00:07:25,070 --> 00:07:26,655 I have nothing further. 150 00:07:30,909 --> 00:07:32,369 You never killed Mrs. Shaeffer, did you? 151 00:07:32,369 --> 00:07:34,079 No, I didn't. 152 00:07:34,079 --> 00:07:35,872 Because, in fact, Willi Kosar called you back 153 00:07:35,872 --> 00:07:38,875 and told you to cancel it. Isn't that right? 154 00:07:38,875 --> 00:07:40,043 That's not right. 155 00:07:42,170 --> 00:07:44,255 I just decided to tell the police about it. 156 00:07:44,255 --> 00:07:46,466 You just decided to tell the police. 157 00:07:46,466 --> 00:07:48,635 And this sudden attack of candor 158 00:07:48,635 --> 00:07:50,136 occurred after you were arrested 159 00:07:50,136 --> 00:07:52,263 on racketeering charges, didn't it? 160 00:07:52,263 --> 00:07:53,890 I made a deal, so what? 161 00:07:53,890 --> 00:07:55,642 Yeah, you made a deal. You made a great deal. 162 00:07:55,642 --> 00:07:57,435 You give them a murder conspiracy 163 00:07:57,435 --> 00:07:59,020 in exchange for total immunity 164 00:07:59,020 --> 00:08:00,730 and all racketeering charges against you dropped. 165 00:08:00,730 --> 00:08:02,357 What's the point? 166 00:08:02,357 --> 00:08:06,277 The point is, you were looking at 12 years minimum. 167 00:08:06,277 --> 00:08:07,862 And since you had to give the police something 168 00:08:07,862 --> 00:08:09,406 to avoid growing old at Vacaville, 169 00:08:09,406 --> 00:08:11,491 you decided to give them this murder conspiracy, 170 00:08:11,491 --> 00:08:14,828 leaving out the part of how Kosar canceled it. 171 00:08:14,828 --> 00:08:17,747 That didn't happen. Your client's guilty. 172 00:08:17,747 --> 00:08:20,041 Because you say so, right? 173 00:08:20,041 --> 00:08:22,585 Tell me, Mr. Dunham. You murder people for a living? 174 00:08:24,379 --> 00:08:26,005 I refuse to answer that on the grounds 175 00:08:26,005 --> 00:08:27,507 it might incriminate me. 176 00:08:27,507 --> 00:08:28,800 Oh, I'm sorry, we wouldn't want 177 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,970 anything to incriminate you. 178 00:08:31,970 --> 00:08:33,179 Nothing further. 179 00:08:33,179 --> 00:08:36,015 You can step down, Mr. Dunham. 180 00:08:36,015 --> 00:08:38,184 Your Honor, I'd like to request a side bar. 181 00:08:38,184 --> 00:08:39,519 Jonathan: We're done for the morning. 182 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:41,604 I will see counsel in my chambers. 183 00:08:46,401 --> 00:08:47,819 Your Honor, I'd like to move that Ms. Van Owen 184 00:08:47,819 --> 00:08:49,487 be disqualified from this trial. 185 00:08:49,487 --> 00:08:51,072 - What? - On what grounds? 186 00:08:51,072 --> 00:08:52,490 Conflict of interest, Judge. 187 00:08:52,490 --> 00:08:54,075 She is personally involved with a member 188 00:08:54,075 --> 00:08:56,578 of my firm and I think that-- - Give me a break. 189 00:08:56,578 --> 00:08:58,371 I didn't think it would pose any conflicts, Your Honor, 190 00:08:58,371 --> 00:09:00,123 but I have just learned that Ms. Van Owen 191 00:09:00,123 --> 00:09:02,167 has had communications with Mr. Kuzak 192 00:09:02,167 --> 00:09:03,752 regarding this case. 193 00:09:03,752 --> 00:09:05,587 And I think that in the interest of justice here-- 194 00:09:05,587 --> 00:09:08,339 I've had no significant communications with Mr. Kuzak 195 00:09:08,339 --> 00:09:10,091 concerning this matter, Judge, 196 00:09:10,091 --> 00:09:12,093 and Mr. Sifuentes has been fully aware 197 00:09:12,093 --> 00:09:15,388 of this relationship long before he took this case. 198 00:09:15,388 --> 00:09:17,474 He simply brought up this motion now 199 00:09:17,474 --> 00:09:18,975 so he can buy extra time 200 00:09:18,975 --> 00:09:21,478 while he continues his manhunt for Willi Kosar. 201 00:09:21,478 --> 00:09:23,897 Your motion is denied, Mr. Sifuentes. 202 00:09:23,897 --> 00:09:25,440 In the alternative then, Your Honor, 203 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,275 I would like some time to look for Mr. Kosar 204 00:09:27,275 --> 00:09:28,693 who's testimony is certainly vital-- 205 00:09:28,693 --> 00:09:30,111 There is no reasonable expectation 206 00:09:30,111 --> 00:09:32,072 that he will ever be found. 207 00:09:32,072 --> 00:09:34,240 We've looked for him, too, Judge. He's gone. 208 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,117 Do you know where he is counselor? 209 00:09:36,117 --> 00:09:37,827 No, Your Honor, I think with a little bit of time-- 210 00:09:37,827 --> 00:09:40,330 Motion denied. See you at 2:00. 211 00:09:43,458 --> 00:09:45,293 Your Honor... 212 00:09:45,293 --> 00:09:46,753 That's all. 213 00:09:52,634 --> 00:09:56,471 Victor. Victor, you surprise me. 214 00:09:56,471 --> 00:09:58,223 Hey, it was worth a shot. 215 00:10:02,477 --> 00:10:04,521 Leland: If the situation was reversed, Arnold, 216 00:10:04,521 --> 00:10:06,272 you'd be taking the same position 217 00:10:06,272 --> 00:10:08,691 we are now and you know it. 218 00:10:08,691 --> 00:10:12,612 Arnie: No, I wouldn't. Absolutely not. 219 00:10:12,612 --> 00:10:15,740 This firm is not entitled to one dime off of my videotape. 220 00:10:15,740 --> 00:10:17,283 Time out. 221 00:10:17,283 --> 00:10:19,452 I direct your attention to paragraph eleven, 222 00:10:19,452 --> 00:10:21,830 subsection J of our partnership agreement. 223 00:10:21,830 --> 00:10:24,833 "All revenues attributed to or connected 224 00:10:24,833 --> 00:10:26,543 with the practice of law 225 00:10:26,543 --> 00:10:29,003 shall inure to the benefit of the firm." 226 00:10:29,003 --> 00:10:31,130 But this isn't the practice of law, 227 00:10:31,130 --> 00:10:32,674 this is show biz. 228 00:10:32,674 --> 00:10:34,926 Gee, I distinctly remember hearing something about 229 00:10:34,926 --> 00:10:37,554 how it was providing legal services for those in need. 230 00:10:37,554 --> 00:10:39,347 I'm not saying it isn't. But what's making the tape 231 00:10:39,347 --> 00:10:41,266 fly off the shelves is this face, 232 00:10:41,266 --> 00:10:43,810 this voice and this screen presence. Period. 233 00:10:43,810 --> 00:10:45,228 Arnie, you fell into this. 234 00:10:45,228 --> 00:10:46,938 Anything you make from it is gravy. 235 00:10:46,938 --> 00:10:49,148 - My gravy. - No, sir. 236 00:10:49,148 --> 00:10:50,900 Putting the principle aside for a minute, 237 00:10:50,900 --> 00:10:53,319 how much money do you really need to make? 238 00:10:53,319 --> 00:10:54,863 Arnie: Please, Michael, 239 00:10:54,863 --> 00:10:56,823 don't start with the warmed-over Woodstock rap, 240 00:10:56,823 --> 00:10:58,158 do me a favor. You might look to avoid 241 00:10:58,158 --> 00:11:00,034 the trappings of wealth. I don't. 242 00:11:00,034 --> 00:11:02,370 Well, you're just going to have to make do with the trappings 243 00:11:02,370 --> 00:11:04,789 that one sixth of your royalties can buy. 244 00:11:04,789 --> 00:11:07,417 Now if you'll excuse me, 245 00:11:07,417 --> 00:11:08,877 I have a flight to catch. 246 00:11:12,255 --> 00:11:14,841 Look, if I had come to you with this before I did it, 247 00:11:14,841 --> 00:11:16,676 you all would've hooted me out of the office 248 00:11:16,676 --> 00:11:19,137 and don't tell me it isn't so. 249 00:11:19,137 --> 00:11:21,389 You would've sniffed and said it was unbefitting an attorney. 250 00:11:21,389 --> 00:11:23,349 That it involved a schlock merchant 251 00:11:23,349 --> 00:11:24,851 like Dave Meyer. 252 00:11:24,851 --> 00:11:26,728 Crass Arnie. Hollywood Arnie. 253 00:11:26,728 --> 00:11:29,355 Unrefined Arnie. Undignified Arnie. 254 00:11:29,355 --> 00:11:30,940 I am stunned 255 00:11:30,940 --> 00:11:32,650 that you would turn on your partners 256 00:11:32,650 --> 00:11:36,529 with this vehemence over money. 257 00:11:36,529 --> 00:11:39,115 Put your hand in my pocket, Leland, 258 00:11:39,115 --> 00:11:41,034 I will turn on you every time. 259 00:11:44,162 --> 00:11:46,080 [plane engine whirring] 260 00:11:57,967 --> 00:12:00,637 Going to Chicago? 261 00:12:00,637 --> 00:12:02,764 I think that's where this flight is headed, yeah. 262 00:12:02,764 --> 00:12:05,391 - Great town. - Yes, it is. 263 00:12:05,391 --> 00:12:07,101 City of big shoulders, 264 00:12:07,101 --> 00:12:08,645 hog butcher to the world. 265 00:12:08,645 --> 00:12:10,146 Astrid: Ms. Joyner? 266 00:12:10,146 --> 00:12:12,023 I'm Astrid, your flight attendant. 267 00:12:12,023 --> 00:12:14,359 Would you care for a cocktail after takeoff? 268 00:12:14,359 --> 00:12:16,277 Club soda will be fine. Thank you. 269 00:12:16,277 --> 00:12:18,196 You choices for lunch today 270 00:12:18,196 --> 00:12:19,822 are navarin of lamb, 271 00:12:19,822 --> 00:12:21,574 pomegranate chicken, 272 00:12:21,574 --> 00:12:24,619 or vegetarian pate with assorted breadsticks. 273 00:12:24,619 --> 00:12:27,455 I'll have the chicken. 274 00:12:27,455 --> 00:12:28,915 Mr. Brackman... 275 00:12:28,915 --> 00:12:30,124 Charles: We've got some good news 276 00:12:30,124 --> 00:12:33,002 and some bad news today... 277 00:12:33,002 --> 00:12:34,545 - Oh, no. Charles: The good news is 278 00:12:34,545 --> 00:12:36,339 we have perfect flying weather 279 00:12:36,339 --> 00:12:38,466 both here and over the Midwest . 280 00:12:38,466 --> 00:12:40,677 The bad news is that we've got a red warning light 281 00:12:40,677 --> 00:12:42,971 on the instrument panel of the no-go variety. 282 00:12:42,971 --> 00:12:45,056 He's kidding. 283 00:12:45,056 --> 00:12:47,266 Charles: Please bear with us while we check it out. 284 00:12:47,266 --> 00:12:48,518 We hope to get you where you're going 285 00:12:48,518 --> 00:12:51,312 just as soon as we can. Thanks. 286 00:12:51,312 --> 00:12:52,647 Excuse me, one moment. 287 00:12:52,647 --> 00:12:54,232 I've got a meeting in Chicago. 288 00:12:54,232 --> 00:12:55,858 You're not the only one. 289 00:12:59,153 --> 00:13:00,989 [clears throat] 290 00:13:00,989 --> 00:13:04,659 Excuse me, miss... 291 00:13:04,659 --> 00:13:06,411 At what point will passengers be allowed 292 00:13:06,411 --> 00:13:07,954 to make other arrangements? 293 00:13:07,954 --> 00:13:09,956 - Excuse me? - How long does this delay 294 00:13:09,956 --> 00:13:13,001 have to run until the pilot lets us return to the terminal? 295 00:13:13,001 --> 00:13:14,544 Oh, right now we don't anticipate 296 00:13:14,544 --> 00:13:16,754 that being necessary, sir. 297 00:13:16,754 --> 00:13:19,590 When do you anticipate it being necessary? 298 00:13:19,590 --> 00:13:22,969 That's the pilot's decision, sir. Excuse me. 299 00:13:26,764 --> 00:13:27,932 Excuse me. 300 00:13:46,617 --> 00:13:48,494 This is unbelievable. 301 00:13:48,494 --> 00:13:51,622 We might as well have been taken over by the Hezbollah. 302 00:13:51,622 --> 00:13:53,750 I really do have to get off this plane. 303 00:13:53,750 --> 00:13:55,334 Mr. Brackman, I'm sorry 304 00:13:55,334 --> 00:13:57,837 but we're all out of the lamb and the chicken. 305 00:13:57,837 --> 00:13:59,630 I don't care about that. 306 00:13:59,630 --> 00:14:00,882 What I care about is that 307 00:14:00,882 --> 00:14:02,592 the entire purpose of my trip 308 00:14:02,592 --> 00:14:05,636 is being frustrated by your pilot's indifference. 309 00:14:05,636 --> 00:14:06,971 We're all in this together, sir. 310 00:14:06,971 --> 00:14:08,848 We're not all in this together. 311 00:14:08,848 --> 00:14:11,642 You didn't pay $1500 to be here. 312 00:14:11,642 --> 00:14:13,895 [Judy] Ladies and gentlemen, due to the length of the delay, 313 00:14:13,895 --> 00:14:15,772 we've decided to proceed with the showing of our movie 314 00:14:15,772 --> 00:14:17,231 this afternoon, 315 00:14:17,231 --> 00:14:19,525 "The Good Mother," starring Diane Keaton. 316 00:14:19,525 --> 00:14:24,072 That's it. I've got a meeting in Chicago. 317 00:14:24,072 --> 00:14:25,865 I'm leaving this airplane. 318 00:14:25,865 --> 00:14:27,742 Mr. Brackman. Please. 319 00:14:27,742 --> 00:14:30,078 Captain, we're having a problem with one of our passengers. 320 00:14:30,078 --> 00:14:32,330 Mr. Brackman, sit back down! 321 00:14:32,330 --> 00:14:34,165 I won't sit down! 322 00:14:34,165 --> 00:14:37,085 Sir! Mr. Brackman, please! 323 00:14:37,085 --> 00:14:38,753 Get away from that door. 324 00:14:38,753 --> 00:14:40,963 Ah, the captain emerges. 325 00:14:40,963 --> 00:14:43,049 - Get back in your seat, sir. - No. 326 00:14:43,049 --> 00:14:45,301 This isn't the army and you're not my commanding officer. 327 00:14:45,301 --> 00:14:48,346 - I said return to your seat. - No. 328 00:14:48,346 --> 00:14:50,556 You will deal with me rationally. 329 00:14:50,556 --> 00:14:52,016 I cannot deal with you rationally 330 00:14:52,016 --> 00:14:53,601 until you return to your seat 331 00:14:53,601 --> 00:14:56,354 and stop endangering the safety of other passengers. 332 00:14:56,354 --> 00:14:58,940 I want you to explain why we've been held captive 333 00:14:58,940 --> 00:15:01,859 in this airplane for two and a half hours. 334 00:15:01,859 --> 00:15:04,362 I want reasons or I want to be allowed to leave. 335 00:15:04,362 --> 00:15:06,823 Charles: Once we pull away from that terminal 336 00:15:06,823 --> 00:15:08,741 your rights as a citizen end. 337 00:15:08,741 --> 00:15:10,993 I am in sole charge of this plane 338 00:15:10,993 --> 00:15:12,745 and everyone on it. 339 00:15:12,745 --> 00:15:15,790 Now, you may be unhappy with my decisions, 340 00:15:15,790 --> 00:15:19,377 but you may do nothing to challenge my authority. 341 00:15:19,377 --> 00:15:21,003 Should you persist in doing so, 342 00:15:21,003 --> 00:15:24,090 I am fully empowered by federal aviation law 343 00:15:24,090 --> 00:15:26,425 and the rules of the Warsaw Convention 344 00:15:26,425 --> 00:15:28,761 to take any and all measures required 345 00:15:28,761 --> 00:15:32,140 to restrain you up to and including 346 00:15:32,140 --> 00:15:34,225 having you shot dead. 347 00:15:34,225 --> 00:15:36,769 Right now we are waiting for a part. 348 00:15:36,769 --> 00:15:40,314 I am expecting it to be installed shortly. 349 00:15:40,314 --> 00:15:43,317 I hope that suffices as an explanation for you, sir. 350 00:15:43,317 --> 00:15:44,610 But even if it doesn't, 351 00:15:44,610 --> 00:15:47,029 I trust you will sit in your seat 352 00:15:47,029 --> 00:15:49,323 and do what you're told. 353 00:15:53,411 --> 00:15:55,746 Let me know if he acts up again. 354 00:15:59,876 --> 00:16:03,921 I admire your nerve, even if it didn't work. 355 00:16:03,921 --> 00:16:05,673 Let me borrow that phone of yours 356 00:16:05,673 --> 00:16:07,466 and I'll make a call that will. 357 00:16:07,466 --> 00:16:09,093 Shaeffer: I was just sitting at a bar talking 358 00:16:09,093 --> 00:16:11,345 to a guy that I'd never even seen before. 359 00:16:11,345 --> 00:16:13,431 That would be Mr. Kosar? 360 00:16:13,431 --> 00:16:15,474 And I was going on about the divorce. 361 00:16:15,474 --> 00:16:18,769 About how my wife makes my life hell. 362 00:16:18,769 --> 00:16:20,688 And then he says that he could arrange 363 00:16:20,688 --> 00:16:23,566 for her not to bother me anymore. 364 00:16:23,566 --> 00:16:26,235 - He could put her on ice. - How did you respond to that? 365 00:16:26,235 --> 00:16:27,653 I thought he was puffing, you know, 366 00:16:27,653 --> 00:16:30,239 two guys sitting at a bar, talking tough. 367 00:16:30,239 --> 00:16:33,159 So we went on about killing her, 368 00:16:33,159 --> 00:16:36,495 but it was talk, really just talk. 369 00:16:36,495 --> 00:16:38,206 I mean, I didn't take it seriously. 370 00:16:38,206 --> 00:16:41,667 I sure as hell didn't think he took it seriously. 371 00:16:41,667 --> 00:16:43,127 Till he calls me the next day 372 00:16:43,127 --> 00:16:45,004 he said he set up a meeting with a hit man. 373 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:46,589 Well, what was your reaction to that? 374 00:16:46,589 --> 00:16:49,300 I told him "forget it." 375 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:52,345 I said "Look, I may hate my wife, 376 00:16:52,345 --> 00:16:54,388 but there's no way, there's no way 377 00:16:54,388 --> 00:16:57,433 I'm going to hire somebody to kill her. 378 00:16:57,433 --> 00:16:59,560 Did you ever give this Mr. Kosar any money? 379 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,562 Of course not. I never even saw him again. 380 00:17:01,562 --> 00:17:03,314 Thank you, Mr. Shaeffer. Nothing further. 381 00:17:05,191 --> 00:17:06,692 You did tell Mr. Kosar 382 00:17:06,692 --> 00:17:09,654 you wanted your wife dead, didn't you? 383 00:17:09,654 --> 00:17:11,697 Shaeffer: Look, I was just rambling. 384 00:17:11,697 --> 00:17:13,324 I had too much to drink. 385 00:17:13,324 --> 00:17:14,659 I was very upset, 386 00:17:14,659 --> 00:17:16,327 and maybe I blurted out a few things 387 00:17:16,327 --> 00:17:17,411 that I shouldn't have said. But-- 388 00:17:17,411 --> 00:17:20,039 Well, according to the bartender 389 00:17:20,039 --> 00:17:22,333 who overheard your discussion, 390 00:17:22,333 --> 00:17:26,462 you spoke in a clear hushed tone. 391 00:17:26,462 --> 00:17:29,548 You asked specific deliberate questions 392 00:17:29,548 --> 00:17:32,927 as to where the body should be disposed. 393 00:17:32,927 --> 00:17:35,888 You asked whether the entire ten thousand dollars 394 00:17:35,888 --> 00:17:37,807 would have to be given in advance. 395 00:17:37,807 --> 00:17:40,518 I mean, that's very reflective for a "blurt," Mr. Shaeffer. 396 00:17:40,518 --> 00:17:42,645 - Objection, Your Honor. - Sustained. 397 00:17:42,645 --> 00:17:44,689 Your phone number, your address, 398 00:17:44,689 --> 00:17:46,774 the information as to how you could be reached. 399 00:17:46,774 --> 00:17:48,484 That all just popped out of you. 400 00:17:48,484 --> 00:17:50,778 Look, look, Ms. Van Owen. 401 00:17:50,778 --> 00:17:54,824 See, I'm not denying that I said any of those things. 402 00:17:54,824 --> 00:17:58,452 But I never, never meant to go through with it. 403 00:17:58,452 --> 00:17:59,912 You meant to go through with it 404 00:17:59,912 --> 00:18:02,081 up until the time the police arrested you. 405 00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:03,624 That's not true. 406 00:18:03,624 --> 00:18:05,126 I called it off with Kosar long before 407 00:18:05,126 --> 00:18:06,127 the police even showed up, I swear! 408 00:18:06,127 --> 00:18:07,586 You called it off. 409 00:18:07,586 --> 00:18:09,422 So at some point in your mind, it was on then? 410 00:18:09,422 --> 00:18:10,423 No. 411 00:18:10,423 --> 00:18:11,549 Well, why bother to call off 412 00:18:11,549 --> 00:18:13,676 something that's never on. 413 00:18:13,676 --> 00:18:16,304 I just misspoke just now alright. I-I... 414 00:18:16,304 --> 00:18:18,014 It just blurted out, right? 415 00:18:18,014 --> 00:18:19,348 Objection, Your Honor! 416 00:18:19,348 --> 00:18:21,934 Grace: Withdrawn. 417 00:18:21,934 --> 00:18:25,271 Mr. Shaeffer, what is the net worth 418 00:18:25,271 --> 00:18:28,441 of your community property? 419 00:18:28,441 --> 00:18:30,568 Including the house, a million, two hundred. 420 00:18:30,568 --> 00:18:31,986 And pursuant to your divorce, 421 00:18:31,986 --> 00:18:33,487 you're to split this with your wife. 422 00:18:33,487 --> 00:18:34,488 - Correct? - Yes. 423 00:18:34,488 --> 00:18:36,073 But if she, for some reason, 424 00:18:36,073 --> 00:18:38,576 should die before the divorce were final, 425 00:18:38,576 --> 00:18:40,161 you'd get it all, wouldn't you? 426 00:18:40,161 --> 00:18:41,412 I don't know. 427 00:18:43,497 --> 00:18:45,624 - I guess so. - You guess. 428 00:18:47,293 --> 00:18:49,086 I have nothing further. 429 00:18:54,175 --> 00:18:55,968 You can mail it to me. Bye-bye. 430 00:18:59,096 --> 00:19:00,097 - Hi, Jonathan. - Hey, Ab. 431 00:19:00,097 --> 00:19:01,390 You look busy. 432 00:19:01,390 --> 00:19:02,767 Yeah, Douglas is stuck on a plane. 433 00:19:02,767 --> 00:19:04,518 They've been on the runway since noon. 434 00:19:04,518 --> 00:19:06,771 And I'm trying to get a court order to get him off. 435 00:19:06,771 --> 00:19:08,064 Why? 436 00:19:09,940 --> 00:19:13,736 Pamelee, I've gotta get to the judge with this. 437 00:19:19,450 --> 00:19:20,493 Your Honor... 438 00:19:20,493 --> 00:19:22,953 [indistinct chatter] 439 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,167 Douglas Brackman versus Omni Airways 440 00:19:28,167 --> 00:19:29,585 and Captain Charles Laughlin. 441 00:19:29,585 --> 00:19:32,588 Emergency ex-parte application. 442 00:19:32,588 --> 00:19:35,091 Approach counsel. 443 00:19:35,091 --> 00:19:38,844 Your Honor, Douglas Brackman boarded Flight 725 at noon. 444 00:19:38,844 --> 00:19:40,429 I'm here now because that flight is still 445 00:19:40,429 --> 00:19:43,432 sitting marooned on the tarmac at LAX. 446 00:19:43,432 --> 00:19:45,518 Unless he is permitted to make alternate travel arrangements, 447 00:19:45,518 --> 00:19:47,228 the firm he represents will suffer 448 00:19:47,228 --> 00:19:48,854 permanent irreversible damage. 449 00:19:48,854 --> 00:19:50,481 Cut through it. You're asking for what? 450 00:19:50,481 --> 00:19:52,233 A court order requiring the pilot 451 00:19:52,233 --> 00:19:54,443 to return to the terminal and permit those passengers 452 00:19:54,443 --> 00:19:56,320 that wish to to get off that plane. 453 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,823 It's been on the runway how long? 454 00:19:58,823 --> 00:20:00,908 - Four hours. - Uh-huh. 455 00:20:00,908 --> 00:20:03,035 I believe that such relief is not terribly extreme 456 00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:04,704 relative to the potential harm threatened. 457 00:20:04,704 --> 00:20:06,205 Right. 458 00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:07,206 Furthermore, there's judicial precedent 459 00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:08,207 for the court intervening. 460 00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:09,500 Never mind, counselor. 461 00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:11,043 With all due respect, Your Honor, 462 00:20:11,043 --> 00:20:13,212 in the case of Banta versus Sacramento Air, 463 00:20:13,212 --> 00:20:15,172 the Court of Appeals affirmed an award of damages 464 00:20:15,172 --> 00:20:17,174 based on excessive delay and specifically stated... 465 00:20:17,174 --> 00:20:18,759 Harlan: You made your point. 466 00:20:18,759 --> 00:20:21,554 I'm more than happy to grant your motion. 467 00:20:21,554 --> 00:20:23,305 Furthermore, I'm going to keep it in mind next time 468 00:20:23,305 --> 00:20:25,015 I get stuck out there. 469 00:20:25,015 --> 00:20:28,185 Enter the order. Call the next case. 470 00:20:28,185 --> 00:20:29,395 He's a ghost, Victor. 471 00:20:29,395 --> 00:20:31,147 Kosar is nowhere to be found. 472 00:20:31,147 --> 00:20:32,481 Jesus, he's got to be found. 473 00:20:32,481 --> 00:20:33,816 This guy's our only chance that we have 474 00:20:33,816 --> 00:20:36,527 at proving that his hit was cancelled. 475 00:20:36,527 --> 00:20:38,821 I got my mole in the FBI moonlighting. 476 00:20:38,821 --> 00:20:41,073 I've called in every favor ever owed to me by the police 477 00:20:41,073 --> 00:20:44,535 and, and I've got trunk lines on his family's telephones. 478 00:20:44,535 --> 00:20:46,537 Trunk line? How'd you manage that? 479 00:20:46,537 --> 00:20:48,873 This lech at the phone company's been chasing me. 480 00:20:48,873 --> 00:20:51,834 So... I let him rub my knee the other night 481 00:20:51,834 --> 00:20:55,004 while I whispered sweet telephone digits in his ear. 482 00:20:55,004 --> 00:20:56,380 And he's tapping them for you? 483 00:20:56,380 --> 00:20:58,632 What can I say, he likes high cheekbones. 484 00:20:58,632 --> 00:21:01,552 So if mama Kosar gives little Willi a ring, 485 00:21:01,552 --> 00:21:03,429 we might know something. 486 00:21:03,429 --> 00:21:04,889 That sounds promising. 487 00:21:04,889 --> 00:21:07,057 I'm gonna find this slug, Victor. 488 00:21:07,057 --> 00:21:08,601 You just gotta do whatever you can 489 00:21:08,601 --> 00:21:09,894 to buy me some time. 490 00:21:09,894 --> 00:21:11,604 Okay. Okay. 491 00:21:11,604 --> 00:21:13,189 I've got Arnie Becker on the stand tomorrow. 492 00:21:13,189 --> 00:21:15,399 That'll string it out another day, tops. 493 00:21:15,399 --> 00:21:18,736 Other than that, there's not much that I can do. 494 00:21:18,736 --> 00:21:21,447 Let me just throw something out for your consideration. 495 00:21:21,447 --> 00:21:23,949 I've got the names and addresses 496 00:21:23,949 --> 00:21:28,621 and incomes of every juror. 497 00:21:28,621 --> 00:21:31,415 Sometimes, these jurors can be a little susceptible 498 00:21:31,415 --> 00:21:33,417 to some anonymous influence. 499 00:21:33,417 --> 00:21:36,378 - I don't work that way. - Neither do I. 500 00:21:36,378 --> 00:21:39,590 But sometimes it is an option some attorneys do explore. 501 00:21:39,590 --> 00:21:41,383 I don't, Steph. Okay? 502 00:21:43,761 --> 00:21:46,013 Just find Kosar for me. 503 00:21:46,013 --> 00:21:48,307 I'm trying, Victor. 504 00:21:48,307 --> 00:21:50,476 Believe me, I'm trying. 505 00:22:01,946 --> 00:22:03,447 If we stay here much longer 506 00:22:03,447 --> 00:22:05,032 all I'm gonna do when we get to Chicago 507 00:22:05,032 --> 00:22:06,784 is turn around and come home. 508 00:22:06,784 --> 00:22:09,995 I know. We'll probably sit on the runway there, too. 509 00:22:09,995 --> 00:22:12,665 I've put so much time into preparing for this. 510 00:22:12,665 --> 00:22:14,917 I can not believe I'm struck here on the ground 511 00:22:14,917 --> 00:22:17,836 watching it all go to waste. 512 00:22:17,836 --> 00:22:19,838 Charles: Ladies and gentlemen, 513 00:22:19,838 --> 00:22:22,758 you'll notice we've started our engines. 514 00:22:22,758 --> 00:22:25,386 I wish I could say we were preparing for take-off. 515 00:22:25,386 --> 00:22:27,263 Unfortunately, I have to inform you 516 00:22:27,263 --> 00:22:30,724 that the passenger in seat 3-A, Mr. Douglas Brackman, 517 00:22:30,724 --> 00:22:32,852 an attorney from Los Angeles, 518 00:22:32,852 --> 00:22:34,228 has obtained a court order 519 00:22:34,228 --> 00:22:36,772 requiring me to return to the terminal. 520 00:22:40,609 --> 00:22:42,236 - Thank you. - It's okay. 521 00:22:42,236 --> 00:22:44,321 I am really not ready to fly. I know this now. 522 00:22:44,321 --> 00:22:46,156 It's too confining. 523 00:22:46,156 --> 00:22:48,242 - Douglas Brackman? - Yeah? 524 00:22:48,242 --> 00:22:50,035 Place your hands against that pillar, please. 525 00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:51,829 - What's going on? - I'm placing your under arrest 526 00:22:51,829 --> 00:22:53,247 for reckless endangerment, 527 00:22:53,247 --> 00:22:54,790 interfering with a flight crew 528 00:22:54,790 --> 00:22:56,750 in the execution of their duties, 529 00:22:56,750 --> 00:22:59,336 and use of a cellular phone while on board an aircraft. 530 00:22:59,336 --> 00:23:00,546 You have the right to remain silent. 531 00:23:00,546 --> 00:23:01,797 You have the right to an attorney. 532 00:23:01,797 --> 00:23:03,257 If you cannot afford an attorney, 533 00:23:03,257 --> 00:23:05,259 one will be appointed to you by the court. 534 00:23:05,259 --> 00:23:07,511 Anything you say from this point forward 535 00:23:07,511 --> 00:23:10,472 can and will be used against you in a court of law. 536 00:23:17,229 --> 00:23:20,316 Any revenue that derives either from your practice of law 537 00:23:20,316 --> 00:23:21,775 or from your expertise 538 00:23:21,775 --> 00:23:23,152 gained in the practice of law 539 00:23:23,152 --> 00:23:25,070 while a partner at McKenzie-Brackman 540 00:23:25,070 --> 00:23:27,114 shall be deemed moneys subject 541 00:23:27,114 --> 00:23:29,199 to all the terms and conditions of the partnership. 542 00:23:29,199 --> 00:23:31,368 In other words, what's mine is theirs. 543 00:23:31,368 --> 00:23:33,537 Unless you signed it under duress, 544 00:23:33,537 --> 00:23:35,164 you don't have a leg to stand on. 545 00:23:35,164 --> 00:23:36,749 That partnership agreement 546 00:23:36,749 --> 00:23:40,502 clearly never anticipated a situation like this. 547 00:23:40,502 --> 00:23:42,129 Well, no agreement between parties 548 00:23:42,129 --> 00:23:45,674 ever anticipates every situation that could arise. 549 00:23:45,674 --> 00:23:47,843 That's why we have lawyers. 550 00:23:47,843 --> 00:23:50,179 Well, you're mine. 551 00:23:50,179 --> 00:23:51,680 What if they sue? 552 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,307 You'd lose. 553 00:23:53,307 --> 00:23:55,726 And I think you'd lose a lot more than money. 554 00:23:58,646 --> 00:24:01,065 McKenzie, Brackman is a great firm. 555 00:24:01,065 --> 00:24:05,402 Much of your reputation derives from your relationship with it. 556 00:24:05,402 --> 00:24:07,279 Are you prepared to lose that? 557 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:08,948 But it's my money! 558 00:24:08,948 --> 00:24:10,407 Giving up five sixths of it, 559 00:24:10,407 --> 00:24:13,202 with absolutely no input from them isn't fair. 560 00:24:13,202 --> 00:24:14,536 Hell, Stuart Markowitz 561 00:24:14,536 --> 00:24:16,038 and Ann Kelsey are married. 562 00:24:16,038 --> 00:24:17,539 Is it fair that they should make more money 563 00:24:17,539 --> 00:24:19,083 from my guide to divorce than me? 564 00:24:21,502 --> 00:24:24,171 Arnie, you're a masterful negotiator. 565 00:24:24,171 --> 00:24:26,674 This is a unique situation. 566 00:24:26,674 --> 00:24:29,218 I suggest you reconvene the partners, 567 00:24:29,218 --> 00:24:30,844 throw yourself on the mercy of the court, 568 00:24:30,844 --> 00:24:33,764 and negotiate a settlement you can all live with. 569 00:24:33,764 --> 00:24:36,308 What if they refuse to negotiate? 570 00:24:36,308 --> 00:24:38,519 You're a valued member of the firm. 571 00:24:38,519 --> 00:24:40,104 And your partners by and large 572 00:24:40,104 --> 00:24:42,564 are fair-minded men and women. 573 00:24:42,564 --> 00:24:45,275 I'm sure there's a way out of the thicket. 574 00:24:45,275 --> 00:24:49,029 Lawyers... What a greedy bunch of bastards. 575 00:24:49,029 --> 00:24:51,407 [chuckles] 576 00:24:51,407 --> 00:24:52,992 Who better than a lawyer knows? 577 00:24:52,992 --> 00:24:55,160 A difficult divorce can be emotionally crippling 578 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,079 for all parties involved. 579 00:24:57,079 --> 00:24:58,872 And it isn't at all uncommon 580 00:24:58,872 --> 00:25:02,543 for a spouse to be given to volatile threats and outbursts. 581 00:25:02,543 --> 00:25:05,796 Now, in the course of your representation of Mr. Shaeffer, 582 00:25:05,796 --> 00:25:08,173 did he ever manifest any kind of 583 00:25:08,173 --> 00:25:10,634 criminal intentions toward his wife? 584 00:25:10,634 --> 00:25:13,095 He never had any criminal intentions. 585 00:25:13,095 --> 00:25:15,055 That business in the bar was very simply 586 00:25:15,055 --> 00:25:17,057 Joseph exfoliating his frustrations-- 587 00:25:17,057 --> 00:25:19,059 Objection, this man has no foundation 588 00:25:19,059 --> 00:25:21,395 to render psychiatric opinions. 589 00:25:21,395 --> 00:25:23,313 He's represented the defendant and his divorce 590 00:25:23,313 --> 00:25:24,898 for the past three years 591 00:25:24,898 --> 00:25:27,109 and he can certainly speak to his state of mind. 592 00:25:27,109 --> 00:25:29,486 I'll give you a little latitude, counselor, 593 00:25:29,486 --> 00:25:32,239 but that's it. 594 00:25:32,239 --> 00:25:34,324 Joseph Shaeffer is a law-abiding 595 00:25:34,324 --> 00:25:36,160 and extremely moral person. 596 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,536 He would never hire somebody to commit a murder. 597 00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:38,996 Victor: You're sure. 598 00:25:38,996 --> 00:25:41,123 If a client of mine had criminal propensities 599 00:25:41,123 --> 00:25:44,543 of that nature, I'd know it, believe me. 600 00:25:44,543 --> 00:25:46,587 Okay. Thank you, Mr. Becker. 601 00:25:46,587 --> 00:25:47,588 Nothing further. 602 00:25:53,218 --> 00:25:55,512 Two years ago, Mr. Becker, 603 00:25:55,512 --> 00:25:59,016 a client of yours by the name of Carolyn Glasband 604 00:25:59,016 --> 00:26:01,101 walked into a settlement conference 605 00:26:01,101 --> 00:26:04,313 with you at her side and blasted her husband 606 00:26:04,313 --> 00:26:06,148 with a pistol, didn't she? 607 00:26:06,148 --> 00:26:07,149 Yes. 608 00:26:07,149 --> 00:26:08,901 Did you know of her plans, Sir, 609 00:26:08,901 --> 00:26:10,319 when you scheduled that meeting? 610 00:26:10,319 --> 00:26:11,570 Of course, I didn't. 611 00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:13,781 Then I guess it would be possible 612 00:26:13,781 --> 00:26:15,407 for one of your clients 613 00:26:15,407 --> 00:26:16,909 to harbor criminal propensities 614 00:26:16,909 --> 00:26:19,078 without you having a clue, wouldn't it? 615 00:26:19,078 --> 00:26:22,706 - That was a one time thing. - A "one-time thing" 616 00:26:22,706 --> 00:26:25,584 And last year a client of yours, 617 00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:28,086 kidnapped his child from his estranged wife 618 00:26:28,086 --> 00:26:29,880 who'd been awarded custody, right? 619 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,590 - Yes, but-- - Did you see that one coming? 620 00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:32,674 No, I didn't, but again-- 621 00:26:32,674 --> 00:26:34,051 Joseph Shaeffer himself 622 00:26:34,051 --> 00:26:35,677 once threatened to strangle his wife 623 00:26:35,677 --> 00:26:37,346 in a settlement conference, didn't he? 624 00:26:37,346 --> 00:26:38,764 All he was doing was venting. 625 00:26:38,764 --> 00:26:40,307 He certainly didn't mean it. 626 00:26:40,307 --> 00:26:42,601 Because you would have known if he did, right? 627 00:26:42,601 --> 00:26:46,730 - I think I would, yes. - That's fine. 628 00:26:46,730 --> 00:26:50,317 Joseph Shaeffer is a client of yours, isn't he, Mr. Becker? 629 00:26:50,317 --> 00:26:51,318 He is. 630 00:26:51,318 --> 00:26:52,861 And as such, 631 00:26:52,861 --> 00:26:55,322 you have a duty and obligation 632 00:26:55,322 --> 00:26:57,324 to protect his interests, don't you? 633 00:26:57,324 --> 00:26:58,325 That would be correct. 634 00:26:58,325 --> 00:26:59,910 And in fact, 635 00:26:59,910 --> 00:27:01,620 if you were privileged with any 636 00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:03,372 incriminating information 637 00:27:03,372 --> 00:27:05,833 about Mr. Shaeffer, you wouldn't share it with us, 638 00:27:05,833 --> 00:27:06,917 would you? 639 00:27:06,917 --> 00:27:09,419 No, I wouldn't. 640 00:27:09,419 --> 00:27:12,756 Attorney-client privilege would prevent me from doing so. 641 00:27:12,756 --> 00:27:15,300 Thank you, sir, I'm sure the jury will have no trouble 642 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:18,762 in evaluating your totally objective opinion, then. 643 00:27:18,762 --> 00:27:21,140 - Objection. Grace: Withdrawn. 644 00:27:21,140 --> 00:27:22,683 I have nothing further. 645 00:27:26,395 --> 00:27:27,771 You should have been objecting up and down. 646 00:27:27,771 --> 00:27:28,897 You never let your witness get savaged 647 00:27:28,897 --> 00:27:30,440 when they're there to help. 648 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,943 Savaged? I think Grace has a grudge against me. 649 00:27:32,943 --> 00:27:35,737 Come on, Arnie. She was just doing her job in there. 650 00:27:35,737 --> 00:27:37,865 That's beautiful, defend her. 651 00:27:37,865 --> 00:27:39,616 I tell you, the support I'm getting from my co-workers 652 00:27:39,616 --> 00:27:41,702 these days is really overwhelming. 653 00:27:46,123 --> 00:27:47,332 Stephanie: Victor! 654 00:27:49,376 --> 00:27:51,378 Guess what? 655 00:27:51,378 --> 00:27:52,546 I found him! 656 00:27:52,546 --> 00:27:54,339 Kosar?! Good deal! 657 00:27:55,632 --> 00:27:57,718 Arizona probation had a new alias, 658 00:27:57,718 --> 00:28:00,137 which I plugged into our local computer. 659 00:28:00,137 --> 00:28:01,805 I tracked down a job he had, 660 00:28:01,805 --> 00:28:03,515 and then a friend of a friend 661 00:28:03,515 --> 00:28:05,350 who worked with him at the job 662 00:28:05,350 --> 00:28:07,144 and he pointed me to a loan shark in Glendale-- 663 00:28:07,144 --> 00:28:08,604 Where's he at right now? 664 00:28:08,604 --> 00:28:10,814 Holed up in a downtown rooming house. 665 00:28:10,814 --> 00:28:14,568 Landlady says he's out days, in nights. 666 00:28:14,568 --> 00:28:16,236 - I'll grab him tonight. - I'm going with you. 667 00:28:16,236 --> 00:28:17,946 No, that won't be necessary. I can handle it. 668 00:28:17,946 --> 00:28:21,074 I'm going, Steph. I need to talk to him first, anyway. 669 00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:23,118 Okay. 670 00:28:23,118 --> 00:28:26,496 I'll pick you up at your apartment, 8 o'clock. 671 00:28:26,496 --> 00:28:28,248 Dress casual. 672 00:28:33,128 --> 00:28:35,547 So my thinking is, rather than make a big deal out of it, 673 00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:38,050 an equitable split of, say, five percent per partner, 674 00:28:38,050 --> 00:28:39,676 would be fair division of profits. 675 00:28:39,676 --> 00:28:43,555 In other words, the five of us split 25% 676 00:28:43,555 --> 00:28:45,182 and you get 75%. 677 00:28:45,182 --> 00:28:46,475 This isn't in the nature 678 00:28:46,475 --> 00:28:47,893 of legal fees, Douglas, and you know it. 679 00:28:47,893 --> 00:28:49,478 Arnie, what about the firm's 680 00:28:49,478 --> 00:28:50,896 thirty percent allocation against overhead? 681 00:28:50,896 --> 00:28:52,648 That come out of our cut, too? 682 00:28:52,648 --> 00:28:57,069 Alright... we each throw in five percent into the pot. 683 00:28:57,069 --> 00:28:59,404 Leaving you with seventy-three percent 684 00:28:59,404 --> 00:29:01,657 and the rest of us with three percent. 685 00:29:01,657 --> 00:29:03,659 Naught but greed laid bare... 686 00:29:03,659 --> 00:29:06,703 Douglas is right, Arnie. It hardly seems equitable. 687 00:29:06,703 --> 00:29:08,538 Equitable? 688 00:29:08,538 --> 00:29:10,832 Oh, you want to talk about equitable? 689 00:29:10,832 --> 00:29:13,794 I put my ass out there in front of that camera, not you. 690 00:29:13,794 --> 00:29:15,462 The thing stinks up the joint, 691 00:29:15,462 --> 00:29:18,256 I'm the laughing stock of the industry, not you. 692 00:29:18,256 --> 00:29:19,925 Whoa, whoa! What if you were representing 693 00:29:19,925 --> 00:29:21,426 McKenzie-Brackman in a divorce-- 694 00:29:21,426 --> 00:29:23,011 - But this-- - You'd be claiming the profits 695 00:29:23,011 --> 00:29:24,388 from that video were community property, 696 00:29:24,388 --> 00:29:26,723 But this isn't a divorce, Stuart. 697 00:29:26,723 --> 00:29:28,600 'Cause you know if it was, you'd lose. 698 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,268 Alright, alright, people, that's enough. 699 00:29:30,268 --> 00:29:31,687 Now I've listened to both sides, 700 00:29:31,687 --> 00:29:34,189 and there's merit to both arguments. 701 00:29:34,189 --> 00:29:35,857 But in the interests of peace, 702 00:29:35,857 --> 00:29:38,318 Arnold, and given that there is a binding agreement, 703 00:29:38,318 --> 00:29:40,654 may I suggest the following 704 00:29:40,654 --> 00:29:42,155 you get 50% of your net profits... 705 00:29:42,155 --> 00:29:43,448 Fifty? 706 00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:45,993 The rest of us split the other 50%, 707 00:29:45,993 --> 00:29:48,286 with the 30% overhead charge being borne 708 00:29:48,286 --> 00:29:52,874 equally by the six partners. Is that acceptable? 709 00:29:54,376 --> 00:29:57,671 Sounds fine to me. 710 00:29:57,671 --> 00:29:59,798 - Fine. - Fine. 711 00:29:59,798 --> 00:30:02,509 I bow to the will of the majority. 712 00:30:05,679 --> 00:30:08,557 I don't like it, 713 00:30:08,557 --> 00:30:11,560 but I guess I can live with it. 714 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:12,853 Thank you, people. 715 00:30:16,064 --> 00:30:18,066 Douglas... a moment? 716 00:30:20,861 --> 00:30:23,488 It appears we've lost Maxwell Enterprises. 717 00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:26,241 Kevin McNally hasn't returned a single call of mine. 718 00:30:26,241 --> 00:30:27,617 Nor mine. 719 00:30:27,617 --> 00:30:31,079 You indulged a childish temper tantrum 720 00:30:31,079 --> 00:30:33,123 at considerable expense to this firm. 721 00:30:33,123 --> 00:30:34,541 It wasn't my fault. 722 00:30:34,541 --> 00:30:35,959 No? Whose was it? 723 00:30:35,959 --> 00:30:38,545 The pilot's, that Nazi bastard. 724 00:30:38,545 --> 00:30:42,340 Not the pilot, yours. 725 00:30:42,340 --> 00:30:43,967 I can be on a plane tomorrow 726 00:30:43,967 --> 00:30:45,802 right after my preliminary hearing. 727 00:30:45,802 --> 00:30:47,637 Tomorrow is their deadline. 728 00:30:47,637 --> 00:30:50,474 I doubt if they'll push it to accommodate your schedule. 729 00:30:50,474 --> 00:30:52,642 Maybe you could go. Or Kuzak. 730 00:30:52,642 --> 00:30:56,646 You're the only one conversant in the case, Douglas. 731 00:30:56,646 --> 00:30:58,023 Face it. 732 00:30:58,023 --> 00:30:59,858 You behaved like an ass, 733 00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:02,986 now we're all paying the price for it. 734 00:31:02,986 --> 00:31:04,696 - I'm sorry. - Sorry? 735 00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:07,824 Sorry doesn't begin to cover our losses here. 736 00:31:07,824 --> 00:31:09,534 Not to mention what could happen to you 737 00:31:09,534 --> 00:31:12,788 if the court decides to make an example of you. 738 00:31:12,788 --> 00:31:14,790 I'll get on a plane tomorrow, anyhow. 739 00:31:14,790 --> 00:31:16,625 Just on the chance. 740 00:31:16,625 --> 00:31:18,418 Well, if you do, 741 00:31:18,418 --> 00:31:21,379 I suggest you book your ticket under an alias. 742 00:31:26,968 --> 00:31:29,179 [indistinct chatter] 743 00:31:33,266 --> 00:31:34,559 What a dump. 744 00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:36,895 What'd you expect? 745 00:31:36,895 --> 00:31:39,940 Okay, here it is. Two thirty two. 746 00:31:39,940 --> 00:31:41,483 [knocking in door] 747 00:31:41,483 --> 00:31:43,068 It's showtime. 748 00:31:43,068 --> 00:31:44,778 Willie: Who's there? 749 00:31:44,778 --> 00:31:47,823 Private investigator, Willi, could you please open up? 750 00:31:47,823 --> 00:31:49,866 Willie: Ah, get the hell lost! 751 00:31:49,866 --> 00:31:52,369 Oh, rude, rude. 752 00:31:52,369 --> 00:31:54,037 You got no egress, Willi, 753 00:31:54,037 --> 00:31:56,206 while I got a bodyguard and a gun. 754 00:31:56,206 --> 00:31:58,542 Now open up real fast, sweetie, before I call the cops 755 00:31:58,542 --> 00:31:59,668 and tell them where to find you. 756 00:32:02,462 --> 00:32:03,839 Okay, what? 757 00:32:03,839 --> 00:32:05,423 Mr. Kosar, my name is Victor Sifuentes. 758 00:32:05,423 --> 00:32:06,883 I'm an attorney. If we could just 759 00:32:06,883 --> 00:32:08,135 come in and talk to you for a second. 760 00:32:08,135 --> 00:32:10,804 Course we can, we're guests. 761 00:32:10,804 --> 00:32:13,223 - Hey, nice digs, Willi. - What do you want? 762 00:32:13,223 --> 00:32:17,811 Mr. Kosar, I represent Joseph Shaeffer. 763 00:32:17,811 --> 00:32:21,273 The man on whose behalf you hired Edward Dunham 764 00:32:21,273 --> 00:32:22,858 Come on! To kill his wife. 765 00:32:22,858 --> 00:32:23,900 I don't know what you're talking about. 766 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:24,901 Look, we need you to testify. 767 00:32:24,901 --> 00:32:25,902 I need you to tell the jury 768 00:32:25,902 --> 00:32:26,945 that you called the hit off. 769 00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:29,531 [laughs] Yeah, right. 770 00:32:29,531 --> 00:32:31,825 I'm gonna go into court and tell them I ordered a hit. 771 00:32:31,825 --> 00:32:34,161 Yeah, right. 772 00:32:34,161 --> 00:32:36,663 I-I think there's a way that you could do it 773 00:32:36,663 --> 00:32:38,373 without really incriminating yourself, 774 00:32:38,373 --> 00:32:40,167 Why don't you get the hell out of here, counselor? 775 00:32:40,167 --> 00:32:43,837 Hey, drugs. And gambling chits. 776 00:32:43,837 --> 00:32:45,338 What lovely evidentiary trinkets. 777 00:32:45,338 --> 00:32:46,965 Hey, you can't be doing that! 778 00:32:46,965 --> 00:32:50,218 I'm not police, Willi, I don't need a warrant. 779 00:32:50,218 --> 00:32:51,970 I can just turn this over to the cops 780 00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:54,514 and it's all admissible in court. 781 00:32:54,514 --> 00:32:55,765 - You listen to me, bitch... - Hey! 782 00:32:55,765 --> 00:32:58,101 No, you listen, slug head . 783 00:32:58,101 --> 00:33:00,270 Now, we tried polite, 784 00:33:00,270 --> 00:33:03,523 but since that didn't work, you now get plan B! 785 00:33:03,523 --> 00:33:06,067 These are the facts of life. 786 00:33:06,067 --> 00:33:07,485 My little search for you turned up 787 00:33:07,485 --> 00:33:09,404 all kinds of interesting things. 788 00:33:09,404 --> 00:33:11,364 Including a connection to a murder 789 00:33:11,364 --> 00:33:14,367 of one Stevie Bennison in Torrance last April. 790 00:33:14,367 --> 00:33:18,038 I got names, dates the police would kill for. 791 00:33:18,038 --> 00:33:21,750 Not to mention this little bag of illegal substances. 792 00:33:21,750 --> 00:33:25,545 So, in short, 793 00:33:25,545 --> 00:33:29,049 I can deliver you. 794 00:33:29,049 --> 00:33:31,468 You're crazy! [chuckles] 795 00:33:31,468 --> 00:33:32,677 Yeah, well, that's the first thing 796 00:33:32,677 --> 00:33:34,512 you've gotten right, big boy! 797 00:33:34,512 --> 00:33:36,306 Now you either testify in court 798 00:33:36,306 --> 00:33:39,267 or I haul your ass down to the police right now. 799 00:33:41,937 --> 00:33:46,191 After I blow your stones off. 800 00:33:47,317 --> 00:33:50,028 You go three seconds to decide. 801 00:33:50,028 --> 00:33:51,488 [gun clicking] 802 00:33:51,488 --> 00:33:53,406 [heavy breathing] 803 00:33:53,406 --> 00:33:55,200 Okay! For God's sake! Okay! Okay! Okay! 804 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,035 Alright, Willi, good. 805 00:33:57,035 --> 00:33:58,787 So now we're a team! 806 00:33:58,787 --> 00:34:02,791 You and me and this is what we're gonna do. 807 00:34:02,791 --> 00:34:04,793 We're gonna go over your evidence real careful, 808 00:34:04,793 --> 00:34:06,461 to make sure we get it right. 809 00:34:06,461 --> 00:34:08,797 It's gonna be so much fun. 810 00:34:08,797 --> 00:34:11,383 And cheer up now Willi. 811 00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:13,551 Hey, you're the luckiest guy in town, you know. 812 00:34:13,551 --> 00:34:16,429 Because after we finish reviewing 813 00:34:16,429 --> 00:34:19,099 you get to spend the night with me. 814 00:34:24,145 --> 00:34:25,563 I knew he'd been drinking a lot 815 00:34:25,563 --> 00:34:27,524 but I still thought he was serious. 816 00:34:27,524 --> 00:34:28,900 Until the next day. 817 00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:31,403 And what happened the next day, Mr. Kosar? 818 00:34:31,403 --> 00:34:33,655 I called Mr. Shaeffer back to tell him about the meeting 819 00:34:33,655 --> 00:34:34,823 with Mr. Dunham I'd set up. 820 00:34:34,823 --> 00:34:36,032 Then he tells me he doesn't want 821 00:34:36,032 --> 00:34:37,742 to really go through with it. 822 00:34:37,742 --> 00:34:40,245 That he was just talking in the bar to hear himself talk. 823 00:34:40,245 --> 00:34:41,746 How did you respond to that? 824 00:34:41,746 --> 00:34:43,832 I said "You sure?" And he says "Yeah." 825 00:34:43,832 --> 00:34:46,876 And then he says I don't want to have a meeting with Mr. Dunham 826 00:34:46,876 --> 00:34:49,504 and for me to forget the whole thing. 827 00:34:49,504 --> 00:34:51,673 Okay. 828 00:34:51,673 --> 00:34:52,966 So what happened then, sir? 829 00:34:52,966 --> 00:34:54,050 I called Dunham back 830 00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:56,928 and I told him the deal was off. 831 00:34:56,928 --> 00:34:59,472 Thank you, Mr. Kosar. 832 00:34:59,472 --> 00:35:00,724 Your witness. 833 00:35:05,312 --> 00:35:07,814 Would you tell us, Mr. Kosar, 834 00:35:07,814 --> 00:35:11,610 why it is you suddenly decided to appear here today 835 00:35:11,610 --> 00:35:14,404 and incriminate yourself in a murder conspiracy? 836 00:35:14,404 --> 00:35:16,197 There wasn't any conspiracy. 837 00:35:16,197 --> 00:35:19,075 Like I said, it was just a misunderstanding. 838 00:35:19,075 --> 00:35:20,952 Not in your mind, sir. 839 00:35:20,952 --> 00:35:24,497 I wasn't conspiring anything. 840 00:35:24,497 --> 00:35:26,291 I was just passing on a message. 841 00:35:26,291 --> 00:35:28,126 And I got the message wrong. 842 00:35:31,838 --> 00:35:34,758 Your Honor, I request a 15 minute recess 843 00:35:34,758 --> 00:35:37,177 so that I may confer with defense counsel? 844 00:35:37,177 --> 00:35:40,472 Any objections, Mr. Sifuentes? 845 00:35:40,472 --> 00:35:42,307 Ah, no, Your Honor. No. 846 00:35:42,307 --> 00:35:45,185 Fifteen minutes. Jury will stay. 847 00:35:48,855 --> 00:35:50,774 I know Stephanie Hall, Victor, 848 00:35:50,774 --> 00:35:53,318 and I know Kosar doesn't come prancing in here like this 849 00:35:53,318 --> 00:35:54,986 unless you've got him jacked up pretty good. 850 00:35:54,986 --> 00:35:56,696 He is telling the truth, Grace. 851 00:35:56,696 --> 00:35:59,949 We sometimes use the lovely Miss Hall ourselves. Okay? 852 00:35:59,949 --> 00:36:01,326 I mean, we're talking about a woman 853 00:36:01,326 --> 00:36:04,537 who goes bounty hunting on her vacations. 854 00:36:04,537 --> 00:36:06,164 Now I am willing to bet. 855 00:36:06,164 --> 00:36:08,208 that she threatened Kosar physically 856 00:36:08,208 --> 00:36:12,670 as well as with whatever dirt she dug up on him. 857 00:36:12,670 --> 00:36:14,672 So cross examine him. 858 00:36:14,672 --> 00:36:18,468 I can do better than that. 859 00:36:18,468 --> 00:36:19,969 I just might offer him immunity 860 00:36:19,969 --> 00:36:21,262 on whatever it is you got him on. 861 00:36:21,262 --> 00:36:22,680 What good is that going to do? 862 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,474 In exchange for that, he'll gladly tell 863 00:36:24,474 --> 00:36:26,768 the jury exactly how you motivated him 864 00:36:26,768 --> 00:36:27,811 to come forward. 865 00:36:27,811 --> 00:36:30,063 Who knows, if I remove duress, 866 00:36:30,063 --> 00:36:32,941 his testimony might even change. 867 00:36:32,941 --> 00:36:34,734 Grace, look, 868 00:36:34,734 --> 00:36:36,569 I am not going to deny that we pushed this guy's hand 869 00:36:36,569 --> 00:36:38,363 a little, just like you did with Dunham. 870 00:36:38,363 --> 00:36:40,365 But there's no way that I would put false testimony 871 00:36:40,365 --> 00:36:44,244 up on the stand. Now, you know me. 872 00:36:44,244 --> 00:36:46,496 You know, what we both know, Victor, 873 00:36:46,496 --> 00:36:48,540 is that even if your guy did call it off, 874 00:36:48,540 --> 00:36:51,000 he initially agreed to commission the hit. 875 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,627 At a time when he was drunk and he lacked 876 00:36:52,627 --> 00:36:54,504 the mental capacity to form an opinion... 877 00:36:54,504 --> 00:36:57,632 Grace: Ah-uh, no go. 878 00:36:57,632 --> 00:36:59,843 Grace, you are never going to get a conviction here. 879 00:36:59,843 --> 00:37:01,845 Now, you can go, you can push Kosar all you want 880 00:37:01,845 --> 00:37:03,430 but he just established reasonable doubt 881 00:37:03,430 --> 00:37:04,556 and we both know that, too! 882 00:37:04,556 --> 00:37:06,850 I'll get whatever I can get, 883 00:37:06,850 --> 00:37:09,519 but I'm not kicking him, Victor. 884 00:37:09,519 --> 00:37:11,730 Grace... 885 00:37:11,730 --> 00:37:14,065 off the record, okay? 886 00:37:14,065 --> 00:37:15,775 We both know what went down in there. 887 00:37:15,775 --> 00:37:17,152 Shaeffer did agree to the hit. 888 00:37:17,152 --> 00:37:19,070 And the next day he changed his mind. 889 00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:21,281 Now the guy's not a saint. But he's no murderer, either. 890 00:37:21,281 --> 00:37:23,658 And we should... 891 00:37:23,658 --> 00:37:25,493 We should be able to work this thing out. 892 00:37:27,954 --> 00:37:29,289 I can give you conspiracy to commit assault. 893 00:37:29,289 --> 00:37:30,874 That's the best I can do. 894 00:37:30,874 --> 00:37:33,585 - Recommend probation? - No, one year suspended. 895 00:37:33,585 --> 00:37:36,504 C'mon, Victor, no jail time, it is a bargain. 896 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,884 I think he'll go for that. 897 00:37:40,884 --> 00:37:42,719 I think he will. 898 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,472 Deal? 899 00:37:45,472 --> 00:37:48,057 Deal. 900 00:37:48,057 --> 00:37:51,478 And did you ever threaten anybody, Mr. Brackman? 901 00:37:51,478 --> 00:37:53,146 Douglas: Absolutely not. 902 00:37:53,146 --> 00:37:54,772 Put up any physical struggle? 903 00:37:54,772 --> 00:37:57,609 Against the captain and his copilot? Not I. 904 00:37:57,609 --> 00:37:59,110 Jonathan: How about the flight attendants? 905 00:37:59,110 --> 00:38:00,612 Douglas: I'm not a bully, sir. 906 00:38:00,612 --> 00:38:03,740 I just asked for permission to leave. 907 00:38:03,740 --> 00:38:04,866 Jonathan: Your witness. 908 00:38:06,868 --> 00:38:09,329 You don't like to be kept waiting, do you? 909 00:38:09,329 --> 00:38:11,289 I'm not the most patient of men, no. 910 00:38:11,289 --> 00:38:14,542 But what would it have taken to permit passengers to leave? 911 00:38:14,542 --> 00:38:16,419 A flight of stairs pushed up to the plane-- 912 00:38:16,419 --> 00:38:18,046 Excuse me. I don't believe 913 00:38:18,046 --> 00:38:19,798 you've been qualified as an expert witness 914 00:38:19,798 --> 00:38:21,633 in airport ground operations, have you? 915 00:38:21,633 --> 00:38:23,927 I'm just trying to use a little common sense. 916 00:38:23,927 --> 00:38:26,221 That's all I was trying to do on the plane. 917 00:38:26,221 --> 00:38:27,430 I could've walked back to the terminal 918 00:38:27,430 --> 00:38:28,848 when you get right down to it. 919 00:38:28,848 --> 00:38:30,600 Ask that the witness confine his comments 920 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,185 to answering the question. 921 00:38:32,185 --> 00:38:34,229 C'mon, counsellor, there's no jury here. 922 00:38:34,229 --> 00:38:35,647 What are you worried about? 923 00:38:35,647 --> 00:38:37,357 All I wanted on that plane 924 00:38:37,357 --> 00:38:38,858 was to be dealt with reasonably. 925 00:38:38,858 --> 00:38:40,777 We get on a plane and we entrust 926 00:38:40,777 --> 00:38:42,862 our lives to a company. 927 00:38:42,862 --> 00:38:45,156 We trust that the pilot's competent, 928 00:38:45,156 --> 00:38:47,575 that the plane has been properly maintained. 929 00:38:47,575 --> 00:38:49,702 We trust that we'll get where we're going 930 00:38:49,702 --> 00:38:52,288 somewhere around the time designated. 931 00:38:52,288 --> 00:38:54,541 The company spends millions of dollars 932 00:38:54,541 --> 00:38:56,543 to encourage that very trust. 933 00:38:56,543 --> 00:38:59,838 Tell me what happens when they're not trustworthy? 934 00:38:59,838 --> 00:39:01,047 What do I do? 935 00:39:01,047 --> 00:39:02,423 Watch the movie? 936 00:39:02,423 --> 00:39:03,842 Wait it out? 937 00:39:03,842 --> 00:39:05,218 I'm not a violent person. 938 00:39:05,218 --> 00:39:07,345 And I'm not particularly reckless. 939 00:39:07,345 --> 00:39:09,973 But things have to make sense to me. 940 00:39:09,973 --> 00:39:13,726 And sitting on a runway at LAX for four-and-a-half hours 941 00:39:13,726 --> 00:39:17,021 on Wednesday, things didn't. 942 00:39:17,021 --> 00:39:18,439 man 1: Here, here! 943 00:39:22,944 --> 00:39:24,571 Your Honor, I have to ask 944 00:39:24,571 --> 00:39:27,574 that the witness be instructed to stop making speeches. 945 00:39:27,574 --> 00:39:30,952 Alright, step back, Mr. Appel. 946 00:39:30,952 --> 00:39:32,870 Without specifically endorsing the actions 947 00:39:32,870 --> 00:39:34,789 taken by the defendant, I'm convinced 948 00:39:34,789 --> 00:39:36,416 there was sufficient provocation 949 00:39:36,416 --> 00:39:38,293 for all kinds of things to have happened. 950 00:39:38,293 --> 00:39:39,711 Insofar as the court finds 951 00:39:39,711 --> 00:39:42,255 probably cause lacking as to criminal intent, 952 00:39:42,255 --> 00:39:43,798 I'm dismissing the charges. 953 00:39:43,798 --> 00:39:46,467 - Your Honor-- - That's it. Gentlemen. 954 00:39:48,219 --> 00:39:50,555 Any airline that tangles with McKenzie Brackman 955 00:39:50,555 --> 00:39:52,181 will know they've been in a fight. 956 00:39:52,181 --> 00:39:54,434 Is your firm gonna make a specialty of taking them on? 957 00:39:54,434 --> 00:39:55,852 We don't shy away from anyone. 958 00:39:55,852 --> 00:39:58,146 Mr. Brackman, one more question? 959 00:39:58,146 --> 00:39:59,397 [indistinct chatter] 960 00:40:01,482 --> 00:40:03,318 The inspiration was all Mr. Brackman's. 961 00:40:03,318 --> 00:40:04,861 I didn't get a chance to thank you. 962 00:40:04,861 --> 00:40:06,446 You came here just to do that? 963 00:40:06,446 --> 00:40:09,032 No. As a matter of fact, I came here to testify for you. 964 00:40:09,032 --> 00:40:10,199 But you were doing such a good job 965 00:40:10,199 --> 00:40:11,492 that it wasn't even necessary. 966 00:40:11,492 --> 00:40:13,161 I certainly appreciate the gesture. 967 00:40:13,161 --> 00:40:14,370 Well, you're getting that court order, 968 00:40:14,370 --> 00:40:15,788 that allowed me to charter a plane 969 00:40:15,788 --> 00:40:17,582 and make my meeting in Chicago. 970 00:40:17,582 --> 00:40:19,792 Is that right? 971 00:40:19,792 --> 00:40:22,086 By God, you are one resourceful woman. 972 00:40:22,086 --> 00:40:24,881 I'm also an attorney with Householder and Doyle. 973 00:40:24,881 --> 00:40:27,884 - Householder and Doyle? - That's right. 974 00:40:27,884 --> 00:40:30,845 I was going to Chicago for the very same reason as you. 975 00:40:30,845 --> 00:40:33,348 - Well, any word? - Still waiting. 976 00:40:33,348 --> 00:40:34,891 It's probably a lost cause 977 00:40:34,891 --> 00:40:36,851 but I'm flying out this afternoon. 978 00:40:36,851 --> 00:40:40,229 Well, if it isn't us, I hope it's you. 979 00:40:40,229 --> 00:40:41,189 Likewise. 980 00:40:43,816 --> 00:40:46,986 Mr. Brackman, win or lose, 981 00:40:46,986 --> 00:40:48,279 will you let me take you to dinner 982 00:40:48,279 --> 00:40:50,406 when you get back from Chicago? 983 00:40:50,406 --> 00:40:52,033 I'd like that a lot. 984 00:41:01,250 --> 00:41:04,420 Rox? Dammit! 985 00:41:04,420 --> 00:41:05,630 Roxanne! 986 00:41:08,174 --> 00:41:09,968 Roxanne, wh... 987 00:41:09,968 --> 00:41:11,970 Where the hell is the Rosen file? 988 00:41:17,225 --> 00:41:19,227 Here. 989 00:41:19,227 --> 00:41:21,521 - What's the matter with you? - What's the matter with you? 990 00:41:21,521 --> 00:41:23,773 Nothing. I'm just having one of those days. 991 00:41:23,773 --> 00:41:24,899 Well, I have a lot of those days, 992 00:41:24,899 --> 00:41:26,150 and I don't take it out on you. 993 00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:27,735 I'm sorry, okay? 994 00:41:27,735 --> 00:41:29,570 Very heartfelt, Arnie. 995 00:41:29,570 --> 00:41:32,073 [sighs] 996 00:41:32,073 --> 00:41:35,702 Okay. You want to know what's bugging me? 997 00:41:35,702 --> 00:41:37,036 I make this videotape, right? 998 00:41:37,036 --> 00:41:38,913 It's tearing up the market place. 999 00:41:38,913 --> 00:41:41,499 They're projecting sales in the ten million dollar range. 1000 00:41:41,499 --> 00:41:44,252 People are starting to actually recognize me in restaurants. 1001 00:41:44,252 --> 00:41:47,213 So I should be ecstatic, right? 1002 00:41:47,213 --> 00:41:51,342 Wrong. Because suddenly everyone wants a piece of me. 1003 00:41:51,342 --> 00:41:52,677 Your husband gets 40%. 1004 00:41:52,677 --> 00:41:55,513 The partnership gets 50% of my 60%, 1005 00:41:55,513 --> 00:41:57,223 which leaves me with 30%. 1006 00:41:57,223 --> 00:41:59,058 Five percent of that has to go to overhead, 1007 00:41:59,058 --> 00:42:02,020 which leaves me with a lousy 25%. 1008 00:42:02,020 --> 00:42:04,814 That's what's bugging me! 1009 00:42:04,814 --> 00:42:08,484 25% of ten million is still a fortune, Arnie. 1010 00:42:08,484 --> 00:42:10,570 Roxanne, do you realize that you and Dave 1011 00:42:10,570 --> 00:42:13,573 are gonna make more money off my videotape than I am? 1012 00:42:13,573 --> 00:42:15,283 That if you divorced him tomorrow, 1013 00:42:15,283 --> 00:42:17,493 you'd come out with two million bucks cash 1014 00:42:17,493 --> 00:42:19,287 in community property? 1015 00:42:19,287 --> 00:42:20,955 Is that fair? 1016 00:42:28,129 --> 00:42:29,505 Rox? 1017 00:42:29,505 --> 00:42:30,882 Roxanne? 1018 00:42:44,103 --> 00:42:46,647 [knock on door] 1019 00:42:46,647 --> 00:42:48,441 I talked to McNally an hour ago. 1020 00:42:48,441 --> 00:42:50,693 You can unpack your briefcase. 1021 00:42:54,238 --> 00:42:56,449 - Who'd they pick? - You. 1022 00:42:59,243 --> 00:43:02,747 They read about your ruckus in the Chicago papers. 1023 00:43:02,747 --> 00:43:06,334 McNally said something about any lawyer aggressive enough 1024 00:43:06,334 --> 00:43:08,795 to find a legal way to get off an airplane 1025 00:43:08,795 --> 00:43:11,547 caught in a holding pattern should be smart enough 1026 00:43:11,547 --> 00:43:13,925 to fight off a hostile takeover. 1027 00:43:13,925 --> 00:43:16,094 [chuckles] 1028 00:43:16,094 --> 00:43:18,429 Congratulations, Douglas. 1029 00:43:18,429 --> 00:43:21,224 [laughing] 1030 00:43:21,224 --> 00:43:23,142 [car siren beeping] 1031 00:43:33,444 --> 00:43:36,405 Grace: Victor! 1032 00:43:36,405 --> 00:43:38,449 Victor, I didn't get a chance-- 1033 00:43:38,449 --> 00:43:39,450 What? 1034 00:43:43,704 --> 00:43:46,332 I wanted to tell you. [laughs] 1035 00:43:51,963 --> 00:43:54,090 Wow! A preview of hell? 1036 00:43:54,090 --> 00:43:55,675 I know. It's terrible. 1037 00:43:55,675 --> 00:43:58,219 I refuse to put an alarm in my car. 1038 00:43:58,219 --> 00:44:02,598 Anyway, I didn't get a chance to see you after we closed. 1039 00:44:02,598 --> 00:44:04,725 And I just wanted to tell you 1040 00:44:04,725 --> 00:44:07,436 what a first-rate lawyer you are, Victor. 1041 00:44:07,436 --> 00:44:11,148 Your client was really lucky to have you. 1042 00:44:11,148 --> 00:44:12,233 Thanks, Grace. Thanks. 1043 00:44:12,233 --> 00:44:14,777 That means a lot coming from you. 1044 00:44:14,777 --> 00:44:17,113 I just hope you and I get to go up against each other again 1045 00:44:17,113 --> 00:44:19,699 one of these days. 1046 00:44:19,699 --> 00:44:22,118 Me, too. 1047 00:44:22,118 --> 00:44:23,369 See you. 1048 00:44:27,999 --> 00:44:29,709 Grace... 1049 00:44:32,128 --> 00:44:33,838 Mike and I are friends... 1050 00:44:33,838 --> 00:44:36,174 I know. 1051 00:44:36,174 --> 00:44:38,092 I'm sorry. 1052 00:44:38,092 --> 00:44:40,928 I just always wanted to do that. 1053 00:44:40,928 --> 00:44:43,931 From the first time I ever saw you in the P.D.'s office. 1054 00:44:46,017 --> 00:44:47,894 It will never happen again. 1055 00:44:47,894 --> 00:44:48,895 I promise. 1056 00:44:51,147 --> 00:44:53,274 You okay? 1057 00:44:53,274 --> 00:44:54,525 Yeah, okay. 1058 00:44:57,111 --> 00:44:58,738 Good night. 1059 00:44:58,738 --> 00:45:01,115 [instrumental music] 1060 00:45:28,226 --> 00:45:30,144 [theme music]