1 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:04,600 Previously on L .A. Law. 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:06,120 Rona versus Gradinger. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:10,020 Discovery is complete, and I'm pushing for an accelerated trial date to try and 4 00:00:10,020 --> 00:00:10,959 stir up some action. 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,640 What are you doing with this case? 6 00:00:13,740 --> 00:00:14,820 I'll show you disruption. 7 00:00:15,260 --> 00:00:18,280 Let the director reflect that Attorney Kilbourne has risen manifesting violent 8 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,940 propensities. Excuse me. You know what this kid's doing? I'm wearing him down, 9 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,520 sir. He's about to give up. I can... No. 10 00:00:24,140 --> 00:00:25,740 What if other firms did this to us? 11 00:00:26,170 --> 00:00:30,230 Tying up Michael Cusack or Arnold Becker for two full days. Do you have any idea 12 00:00:30,230 --> 00:00:31,850 how much that would cost us? When? 13 00:00:32,150 --> 00:00:33,850 Mickey, it's been forever. 14 00:00:34,210 --> 00:00:35,210 You look great. 15 00:00:35,370 --> 00:00:36,530 I'm going to call you for lunch. 16 00:00:38,210 --> 00:00:39,210 Who was that? 17 00:00:39,930 --> 00:00:40,930 My ex -wife. 18 00:00:42,250 --> 00:00:44,570 I think we ought to take a little break, you and me. 19 00:00:44,830 --> 00:00:46,730 I'm moving back to my place, Michael. 20 00:00:47,030 --> 00:00:50,550 You know, you're being just as controlling and manipulative as you 21 00:00:50,550 --> 00:00:52,330 being. Stuart, that's just not true. 22 00:00:52,530 --> 00:00:54,830 You won't accept one single gift from me. 23 00:00:55,050 --> 00:00:56,090 You don't want to make love? 24 00:00:56,350 --> 00:00:58,790 You won't even let me hold you. I call that punishment. 25 00:00:59,130 --> 00:01:03,750 I'm not saying you're right, but I'll take it under advisement. Thank you very 26 00:01:03,750 --> 00:01:05,230 much, Counselor. Go away! 27 00:01:06,990 --> 00:01:09,110 You down there. Did you find it? 28 00:01:09,390 --> 00:01:11,170 My bailiff lost her contact lens. 29 00:01:11,510 --> 00:01:12,510 Got it! 30 00:01:13,090 --> 00:01:17,070 Out of curiosity, does your wife know you're carrying on with that nearsighted 31 00:01:17,070 --> 00:01:18,070 tootsie? 32 00:01:21,119 --> 00:01:22,760 Rhonda, please, sit down. 33 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,000 Rhonda, I don't know any way to say this except to be blunt. 34 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:30,720 We have to break it off. 35 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:32,860 I'm being blackmailed. 36 00:01:33,660 --> 00:01:34,660 Oh, no. 37 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:36,720 Your brother? 38 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,420 He's determined to turn this into something cheap and tawdry. 39 00:01:42,180 --> 00:01:46,540 Oh, Douglas, I'm so sorry. 40 00:01:47,340 --> 00:01:49,440 It's all my fault. Rhonda, no. 41 00:01:50,750 --> 00:01:51,750 You were wonderful. 42 00:01:52,550 --> 00:01:55,610 You brought feeling back to what has long been heartless. 43 00:01:56,150 --> 00:01:58,610 Your passion, your kindness. 44 00:01:59,330 --> 00:02:00,670 I'll never forget you. 45 00:02:02,070 --> 00:02:03,130 How does it go? 46 00:02:04,090 --> 00:02:07,730 They know not I knew thee who knew too well. 47 00:02:09,030 --> 00:02:13,670 Long, long shall I rue thee too deeply to tell. 48 00:02:15,170 --> 00:02:18,890 What? It's a poem by Byron. 49 00:02:20,460 --> 00:02:21,780 I can't believe it. 50 00:02:22,020 --> 00:02:24,980 No one ever quoted poetry to me before. 51 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:27,760 In secret we met. 52 00:02:28,620 --> 00:02:35,320 In silence I grieve that thy heart could forget, thy 53 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:36,580 spirit deceive. 54 00:02:37,660 --> 00:02:44,440 If I should meet thee after long years, how should I greet thee 55 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,160 with silence and tears? 56 00:04:43,299 --> 00:04:45,220 Michael, how's our celebrity hoodlum? 57 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,880 I can't believe the DA's office is actually making me take this one to 58 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,960 beat up a fan and they found cocaine in his pocket. 59 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,180 What should they do? Make a movie of the week? 60 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:59,600 This is simple assault and less than a gram of cocaine. They usually plead 61 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,040 things out. Only in this case, the deputy DA likes to see her face on the 62 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:03,859 nightly news. 63 00:05:03,860 --> 00:05:08,100 And on the subject of entertainment, how's our producer Gordon Bass doing? 64 00:05:08,340 --> 00:05:10,260 He's still unhappy, Douglas. 65 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,370 We filed a complaint against... studio, but he wants instant results. 66 00:05:14,690 --> 00:05:17,930 He will be in tomorrow, so you all might want to close your doors. 67 00:05:18,630 --> 00:05:19,630 Wonderful. 68 00:05:20,490 --> 00:05:24,970 Rona versus Gratinger. Well, the more I go over this, the more convinced I am 69 00:05:24,970 --> 00:05:26,410 the parties really want a reconciliation. 70 00:05:26,810 --> 00:05:27,810 Are you nuts? 71 00:05:28,530 --> 00:05:31,270 I'm going to bring them in for a little heart -to -heart. I think they can work 72 00:05:31,270 --> 00:05:35,190 it out. This isn't a coffee clutch, Miss Perkins. This is a complex breach of 73 00:05:35,190 --> 00:05:37,570 contract case involving millions of dollars. 74 00:05:37,950 --> 00:05:41,890 The bottom line is that we are talking about two ex -best friends suing each 75 00:05:41,890 --> 00:05:43,030 other over muffin recipes. 76 00:05:43,470 --> 00:05:46,270 And from everything I've seen, they're looking for an excuse to get back 77 00:05:46,270 --> 00:05:47,350 together. This is insanity. 78 00:05:47,690 --> 00:05:50,970 I know what I'm doing. Abby has the matter in hand, Douglas. Next case. 79 00:05:51,650 --> 00:05:53,070 There is no next case. 80 00:05:53,830 --> 00:05:54,830 We're adjourned. 81 00:05:56,210 --> 00:05:57,310 Do you want to get a cup of coffee? 82 00:05:57,550 --> 00:05:59,690 Sure. Stuart, you got a minute? 83 00:06:00,250 --> 00:06:01,250 Yeah. 84 00:06:01,710 --> 00:06:02,710 What? 85 00:06:03,710 --> 00:06:05,610 What's that? I got some bad news. 86 00:06:06,590 --> 00:06:08,450 What? It's my mother. 87 00:06:09,070 --> 00:06:10,170 Is she sick? 88 00:06:11,570 --> 00:06:15,890 Worse. She's in San Francisco with some tour group, and she wants to jump off 89 00:06:15,890 --> 00:06:17,010 and fly down here tonight. 90 00:06:17,770 --> 00:06:19,450 Well, that's not so unreasonable. 91 00:06:20,630 --> 00:06:24,530 Is she going to stay with us? No. She stays with some old college roommate in 92 00:06:24,530 --> 00:06:25,429 Hancock Park. 93 00:06:25,430 --> 00:06:26,430 What's the big deal? 94 00:06:27,870 --> 00:06:28,870 What? 95 00:06:30,230 --> 00:06:33,370 She's not sophisticated in a lot of ways, Stuart. 96 00:06:33,830 --> 00:06:35,390 I'm just afraid you're not going to like her. 97 00:06:35,770 --> 00:06:37,530 And she's your mom. I'm going to love her. 98 00:06:38,370 --> 00:06:41,310 Don't underestimate me, okay? I happen to be amazing around moms. 99 00:06:41,590 --> 00:06:43,670 When I was in high school, all of them had crushes on me. 100 00:06:43,910 --> 00:06:45,910 It was the daughters I had trouble with. 101 00:06:47,230 --> 00:06:48,230 Trust me, okay? 102 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:06,160 Are you okay? 103 00:07:06,340 --> 00:07:07,340 I'm sorry. 104 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:12,120 I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... Whoa. 105 00:07:14,740 --> 00:07:16,700 Duck, I... Hello? 106 00:07:17,900 --> 00:07:19,660 Hello? We're stuck in here. 107 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Okay, we're on it. 108 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:22,740 How long do you think it'll take? 109 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:24,900 We're sending a man right now. Okay. 110 00:07:25,260 --> 00:07:26,260 Thank you. 111 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:29,600 It shouldn't be real long. 112 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:31,040 Oh, dear. 113 00:07:31,460 --> 00:07:33,980 I'm sorry. I thought I'd feel like such a fool. 114 00:07:36,910 --> 00:07:38,130 Thank you. It's okay. 115 00:07:44,430 --> 00:07:46,290 I was in with my divorce lawyer all morning. 116 00:07:46,690 --> 00:07:47,549 Mm -hmm. 117 00:07:47,550 --> 00:07:48,550 That'll do it all right. 118 00:07:49,230 --> 00:07:50,230 You divorced? 119 00:07:50,390 --> 00:07:51,790 No, actually, I've never been married. 120 00:07:52,230 --> 00:07:55,570 I just could imagine how difficult it must be seeing your marriage die. 121 00:07:58,190 --> 00:08:01,090 Not this marriage. 122 00:08:02,470 --> 00:08:05,390 Even in front of those two lawyers out there, my husband was still so abusive 123 00:08:05,390 --> 00:08:06,390 towards me. 124 00:08:06,590 --> 00:08:08,190 I mean, finally, I just had to run out of there. 125 00:08:09,390 --> 00:08:11,030 And then you get stuck in an elevator. 126 00:08:12,090 --> 00:08:13,850 I guess this just isn't your day. 127 00:08:14,350 --> 00:08:15,530 Yeah, maybe. 128 00:08:20,950 --> 00:08:21,950 I'm sorry, maybe not. 129 00:08:24,850 --> 00:08:27,410 Anyway, I'm Lauren Sevilla. 130 00:08:28,030 --> 00:08:30,690 This is Fuentes, right? How do you do? Nice to meet you. Nice. 131 00:08:39,849 --> 00:08:41,190 So you work in this building? Mm -hmm. 132 00:08:41,950 --> 00:08:42,950 A lawyer, then? 133 00:08:42,990 --> 00:08:44,670 Oh, no, you mean I'm really starting to look like one? 134 00:08:47,990 --> 00:08:49,210 Yeah, well, oh. 135 00:08:49,470 --> 00:08:50,470 Great. 136 00:08:52,570 --> 00:08:53,570 We're moving. 137 00:08:53,770 --> 00:08:54,770 Oh, good. 138 00:08:55,450 --> 00:08:58,610 Great. You know, I can guarantee you if I were trapped in here with a dozen 139 00:08:58,610 --> 00:09:01,410 screaming kids, they would have taken at least an hour to get me out. 140 00:09:03,830 --> 00:09:04,830 Look, 141 00:09:06,030 --> 00:09:09,030 what would you say to continuing this, uh... 142 00:09:09,370 --> 00:09:10,370 Over lunch? 143 00:09:11,230 --> 00:09:15,170 Well, uh... Oh. 144 00:09:15,490 --> 00:09:19,610 Thank you very much anyway, but I better not. 145 00:09:20,050 --> 00:09:21,590 Thank you. Bye -bye. Bye. 146 00:09:26,490 --> 00:09:27,490 Mr. 147 00:09:28,530 --> 00:09:32,990 Savenko, can you describe the events on the night of June 21st for us? 148 00:09:33,230 --> 00:09:37,150 My girlfriend and I were walking around on Sunset and a limo pulled up in front 149 00:09:37,150 --> 00:09:38,109 of Spago's. 150 00:09:38,110 --> 00:09:40,470 and we saw Patrick Boyd and his date get out and go inside. 151 00:09:40,870 --> 00:09:43,890 Well, my girlfriend wanted to get some pictures or maybe an autograph or 152 00:09:43,890 --> 00:09:45,910 something, so we hung around, waited for him to come out. 153 00:09:46,290 --> 00:09:49,410 When he did, she goes to take his picture, and he starts cursing at her. 154 00:09:49,630 --> 00:09:50,630 What happened next? 155 00:09:50,890 --> 00:09:53,490 He was acting like he was going to knock the camera out of her hands, so I step 156 00:09:53,490 --> 00:09:55,630 in front of her, and out of nowhere, the guy slugs me. 157 00:09:56,190 --> 00:09:59,730 Now, I tried to cool him out, but I couldn't, so the cops came, they broke 158 00:09:59,730 --> 00:10:01,130 up, and I told them I wanted to press charges. 159 00:10:01,890 --> 00:10:04,830 Can you tell the court what you observed at this point? 160 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,500 The police had him up against the car, and they were patting him down. 161 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:12,940 And when they came up with that little dark brown glass vial, I saw him just 162 00:10:12,940 --> 00:10:13,940 kind of slumped. 163 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:15,440 I have no further questions. 164 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:18,300 Patrick, you are so gorgeous. 165 00:10:18,580 --> 00:10:20,720 Does a poor officer remove that young woman? 166 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:22,120 Sorry, Your Honor. 167 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:23,720 I'm sorry. Don't make me leave. 168 00:10:24,260 --> 00:10:25,420 I love you, Patrick. 169 00:10:25,620 --> 00:10:29,120 Another such outburst, and I will clear this courtroom. 170 00:10:30,140 --> 00:10:31,140 Mr. Cusack? 171 00:10:32,220 --> 00:10:33,240 Mr. Savenko. 172 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,600 I have a sworn testimony from one of the parking attendants at Spago that you 173 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,160 and your girlfriend were having a heated argument just prior to your altercation 174 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:42,280 with Patrick Boyd. 175 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:43,939 Couples fight. 176 00:10:43,940 --> 00:10:46,940 At the moment, sir, you and your girlfriend are the only couple I'm 177 00:10:46,940 --> 00:10:50,220 in, and the question is, what were you fighting about? 178 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,420 She could not stop talking about him. 179 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,900 She wouldn't leave without seeing him. I'm standing on a sidewalk waiting for 180 00:10:58,900 --> 00:11:01,660 this guy like an idiot. He comes plowing through like we're not even there. 181 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:03,800 And when he pushed you, you pushed him back. 182 00:11:04,020 --> 00:11:05,020 Yeah, in self -defense. 183 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:06,540 And that's when the punching started. 184 00:11:06,740 --> 00:11:09,000 He threw the first punch. And you punched him back. 185 00:11:10,500 --> 00:11:11,540 He was threatening me. 186 00:11:13,420 --> 00:11:16,340 Mr. Savenko, do you work out with weights? 187 00:11:16,820 --> 00:11:18,200 Colts gym five times a week. 188 00:11:18,750 --> 00:11:23,090 And you are currently employed as a bouncer at a disco bar called the Golden 189 00:11:23,090 --> 00:11:26,950 Cadillac. Is that right? Yeah. And yet in your testimony, you say that you 190 00:11:26,950 --> 00:11:29,350 my client poses a physical threat to you? 191 00:11:29,570 --> 00:11:32,370 He's supposed to be so tough in his movies. He ain't nothing. I'd have 192 00:11:32,370 --> 00:11:35,210 his teeth down his throat if the cops hadn't showed up. Thank you, Mr. 193 00:11:35,430 --> 00:11:37,070 Savenko. No further questions. 194 00:11:50,250 --> 00:11:51,250 It's a charming place. 195 00:11:51,830 --> 00:11:52,830 The prices. 196 00:11:53,070 --> 00:11:54,230 Hey, we're celebrating. 197 00:11:54,730 --> 00:11:57,870 Besides, nothing is too good for the mother of my wife to be. 198 00:11:58,770 --> 00:12:01,170 Well, isn't that nice? 199 00:12:03,030 --> 00:12:04,650 So, do it. 200 00:12:05,790 --> 00:12:06,970 Tell me about yourself. 201 00:12:07,310 --> 00:12:09,930 Now, I understand that you are a brilliant tax attorney. 202 00:12:10,790 --> 00:12:12,810 Well, tax attorney part's right anyway. 203 00:12:13,110 --> 00:12:14,990 Oh, you're just being modest, I'm sure. 204 00:12:15,290 --> 00:12:17,950 You people are always so good at that sort of thing. 205 00:12:18,430 --> 00:12:19,129 Well, me? 206 00:12:19,130 --> 00:12:21,010 I can't even balance my checkbook. 207 00:12:21,570 --> 00:12:24,610 Really? That must be where Anne gets her head for figures. 208 00:12:25,610 --> 00:12:27,750 Stuart tried to do my taxes last year. 209 00:12:28,150 --> 00:12:29,410 Well, aren't you lucky? 210 00:12:29,930 --> 00:12:33,990 You know, your father used to say if only he had had a Jewish bookkeeper, 211 00:12:33,990 --> 00:12:34,990 all be millionaires. 212 00:12:35,230 --> 00:12:37,390 I don't think you should generalize like that, Mom. 213 00:12:38,550 --> 00:12:41,050 I meant that as a compliment. 214 00:12:41,890 --> 00:12:46,250 Stuart, I want you to know I do not judge a man by his race or creed. 215 00:12:47,050 --> 00:12:48,830 That's what's in the heart that really matters. 216 00:12:49,730 --> 00:12:50,730 Good for you, Mom. 217 00:12:53,190 --> 00:12:54,470 So how's Aunt Fiddle, Mom? 218 00:12:55,150 --> 00:12:58,010 Oh, Fiddle's fine. Just to take it easy for a while. 219 00:12:58,470 --> 00:13:01,670 She is so happy that Annie is marrying a Jewish man. 220 00:13:02,010 --> 00:13:05,970 She says Jewish men don't drink. Jewish men don't run around with women. 221 00:13:06,250 --> 00:13:09,870 And Jewish men put their wives on a pedestal. Oh, yeah? 222 00:13:11,570 --> 00:13:14,050 You want to know why we put our wives on a pedestal, Miss Kelsey? 223 00:13:14,530 --> 00:13:15,530 Why? 224 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,620 Because that way it's much easier to kiss them on their... Let's do it. 225 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:29,580 I know we can't prove it. Those thieves are jacking me up 226 00:13:29,580 --> 00:13:31,180 and down like this, and you're doing nothing. 227 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:36,800 Well, we filed a complaint. The movie has grossed 90 million, and those laying 228 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,000 pitches say they're not in profits yet? That's why we're suing them, Mr. Bass. 229 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:41,740 But litigation takes time. 230 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:43,280 I want an immediate injunction. 231 00:13:43,580 --> 00:13:44,559 Well, you can't have one. 232 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:45,560 I want... 233 00:13:45,670 --> 00:13:48,810 You're seeking money damages, Mr. Bass. You're not entitled to equitable relief. 234 00:13:49,070 --> 00:13:50,070 Crap! 235 00:13:50,270 --> 00:13:51,550 Legal, technical crap! 236 00:13:52,710 --> 00:13:56,590 Nevertheless, the law. That stinking studio's getting rich off my movie, and 237 00:13:56,590 --> 00:13:59,130 you're letting them get away with it! Read my lips, Mr. Bass. 238 00:13:59,850 --> 00:14:01,110 They're not getting away with it. 239 00:14:01,650 --> 00:14:02,650 We're suing them. 240 00:14:02,850 --> 00:14:04,450 Your rights will be vindicated. 241 00:14:04,710 --> 00:14:07,150 It's gonna take a little time. You know what the problem is here? 242 00:14:07,490 --> 00:14:10,350 What? There's not enough froth in your mouth. You're not mad enough. 243 00:14:10,930 --> 00:14:12,650 I'm an attorney, not a pit bull. 244 00:14:12,970 --> 00:14:15,650 You're not my attorney anymore. I had the file sent over to my house this 245 00:14:15,650 --> 00:14:16,650 afternoon. 246 00:14:22,070 --> 00:14:24,370 Did you ever hear the one about the attorney and the moving mogul? 247 00:14:26,610 --> 00:14:30,410 You know, you're the fourth lawyer in four years. I wish someone would explain 248 00:14:30,410 --> 00:14:34,550 to me what the hell is going on here. Well, Mr. Roaner, I've been poring over 249 00:14:34,550 --> 00:14:38,390 the claims and the counterclaims and deposition transcripts. 250 00:14:38,950 --> 00:14:42,330 And the thing that sort of jumps out here... 251 00:14:42,540 --> 00:14:46,440 The two men are paying lawyers a lot of money because their feelings are hurt. 252 00:14:47,140 --> 00:14:48,700 Why should my feelings be hurt? 253 00:14:49,460 --> 00:14:53,660 Just because my best boyhood friend took my recipes, went national, 254 00:14:53,780 --> 00:14:57,560 international, and now is in all the supermarkets, too? I've read your 255 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:58,700 deposition, Mr. Roaner. 256 00:14:59,060 --> 00:15:00,060 Page 27. 257 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:04,020 He's the only partner I've ever had. The only one who understood me. 258 00:15:04,620 --> 00:15:05,760 His deposition. 259 00:15:06,540 --> 00:15:07,920 Page 47. 260 00:15:08,780 --> 00:15:12,940 Those early days in our first mini -muffin store, I always thought we'd 261 00:15:12,940 --> 00:15:13,940 together forever. 262 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:19,040 Now, those statements have nothing to do with business or money or breach of 263 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,080 contract, Mr. Roaner. 264 00:15:20,540 --> 00:15:24,260 But those statements say to me that you two miss each other. 265 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,720 I hired this firm for legal advice. 266 00:15:26,940 --> 00:15:30,520 I already have a therapist. I'm sure you do, and I'm willing to bet the name 267 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:32,060 Gradinger comes up at every session. 268 00:15:34,140 --> 00:15:35,140 Look, 269 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:37,880 you came to this office four years ago. 270 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:41,360 Because someone had wronged you, and you wanted lawyers to fix everything. 271 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,060 And no matter what the legal ruling is in this case, Mr. Owner, I don't think 272 00:15:46,060 --> 00:15:50,540 that everything will feel totally fixed until you sit down with your friend and 273 00:15:50,540 --> 00:15:51,540 you work out your differences. 274 00:15:54,700 --> 00:15:56,440 Even if I agreed, he'd never do it. 275 00:15:56,900 --> 00:15:59,780 If I can get him to talk, you promise you'll talk back? 276 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:05,400 Good. 277 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:07,680 Good. 278 00:16:08,180 --> 00:16:11,000 Vinnie, my man, you got the Gordon bath bomb handy? 279 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:12,600 Right here. 280 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,120 Mr. Markowitz wants me to bring it to Mr. 281 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:16,680 Bath in a taxi cab. 282 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:18,660 Well, I'm going out that way. I'll take it to him. 283 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:20,040 Save you some time. 284 00:16:20,500 --> 00:16:21,820 He's supposed to get it today. 285 00:16:22,420 --> 00:16:23,420 No problem, buddy. 286 00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:25,840 It's as good as bad. 287 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:29,800 Mr. 288 00:16:33,900 --> 00:16:34,900 Sapuente? 289 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:36,080 Hello. 290 00:16:36,820 --> 00:16:37,820 Hello. 291 00:16:39,140 --> 00:16:42,380 Um, I hope I'm not disturbing you. Uh, no, no, not at all. 292 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:43,640 Come in, please. 293 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:50,720 I wanted to attend to you. 294 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,060 Oh, you don't have to do that. 295 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:54,480 Sit down. 296 00:16:58,020 --> 00:17:03,680 I'd also like to explain that I did want to have lunch with you yesterday. 297 00:17:04,420 --> 00:17:05,420 So why did you say no? 298 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:07,040 Oh. 299 00:17:10,190 --> 00:17:12,609 My husband, Armand Sevilla. 300 00:17:13,109 --> 00:17:14,109 The land developer? 301 00:17:15,390 --> 00:17:16,390 Yeah. 302 00:17:17,270 --> 00:17:19,470 He's a man very used to getting his own way. 303 00:17:19,730 --> 00:17:23,829 And this divorce... He never wanted it. 304 00:17:26,210 --> 00:17:27,369 He's made certain threats. 305 00:17:28,050 --> 00:17:29,370 And you're frightened of him? 306 00:17:32,170 --> 00:17:33,170 Yes. 307 00:17:34,210 --> 00:17:35,450 I'm very frightened of him. 308 00:17:38,050 --> 00:17:39,050 Well, I'm not. 309 00:17:40,930 --> 00:17:42,690 So why don't you have dinner with me tonight, Lauren? 310 00:17:45,430 --> 00:17:46,430 Yes. 311 00:17:47,390 --> 00:17:49,190 Okay. I'd like that very much. 312 00:17:53,570 --> 00:17:58,150 Mike, I just found out I've got to testify in federal court, so let's get 313 00:17:58,150 --> 00:17:59,350 held over till tomorrow, okay? 314 00:17:59,630 --> 00:18:01,750 Well, you've got a co -counsel who can try the case, don't you? 315 00:18:02,010 --> 00:18:04,910 Oh, come on. You're going to make me get this continuance from the judge? 316 00:18:06,090 --> 00:18:09,290 You know, there's nothing that says that we have to finish this trial. 317 00:18:09,610 --> 00:18:11,430 You're not going to start this again, are you? 318 00:18:12,290 --> 00:18:13,610 My client's an actor. 319 00:18:14,010 --> 00:18:15,010 You know what that means? 320 00:18:15,590 --> 00:18:18,710 When he gets on that stand, the jury's going to want to reach out and touch the 321 00:18:18,710 --> 00:18:21,930 hem of his garment. The last thing they're going to want to do is send him 322 00:18:21,930 --> 00:18:25,690 jail. So what's your problem with finishing the trial if that's the way 323 00:18:25,690 --> 00:18:26,690 feel? 324 00:18:27,590 --> 00:18:30,750 You know, it occurs to me that there's something more important going on here 325 00:18:30,750 --> 00:18:32,830 than either you or me getting our name in the papers. 326 00:18:33,530 --> 00:18:36,350 Like maybe my client could benefit from being in a drug program. 327 00:18:38,350 --> 00:18:42,030 Now, if that jury comes back with an acquittal, he's going to think he's 328 00:18:42,030 --> 00:18:44,910 invincible. That's only going to make that problem worse. 329 00:18:45,190 --> 00:18:46,330 So what's your suggestion? 330 00:18:46,770 --> 00:18:47,770 Same as before. 331 00:18:47,970 --> 00:18:48,970 Dismiss the assault. 332 00:18:48,990 --> 00:18:49,990 It's trash anyway. 333 00:18:50,330 --> 00:18:53,730 Suspend the criminal proceedings on the felony possession and let him enroll in 334 00:18:53,730 --> 00:18:54,730 a drug program. 335 00:18:55,090 --> 00:18:58,850 And I'm supposed to want to do this because he's a big star, right? 336 00:18:59,470 --> 00:19:02,970 Damn it, Yvonne, maybe you're supposed to want to do it because it's the right 337 00:19:02,970 --> 00:19:03,970 thing to do. 338 00:19:04,190 --> 00:19:06,690 You know, this guy killed me. 339 00:19:06,930 --> 00:19:08,690 What's the matter? He's never heard the word no. 340 00:19:08,910 --> 00:19:11,830 He thinks we've all been put on this earth just to make him happy. 341 00:19:12,230 --> 00:19:16,710 Patrick Boyd is entitled to the chance to get himself straight. That's no more 342 00:19:16,710 --> 00:19:17,790 than anyone else would get. 343 00:19:18,730 --> 00:19:20,650 All right, all right, all right. 344 00:19:21,690 --> 00:19:22,690 Tell Mr. 345 00:19:22,710 --> 00:19:27,470 Boyd, if he enters an approved drug program, I will ask the court to let the 346 00:19:27,470 --> 00:19:28,470 prosecution ride. 347 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:32,360 Entry into a drug program by itself won't do it. 348 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:36,580 Either he cleans up his act permanently or the charges get reinstated. 349 00:19:47,700 --> 00:19:51,520 The DA has been subpoenaed to testify in federal court. 350 00:19:52,060 --> 00:19:53,520 So what does this have to do with me? 351 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:55,000 One day continuance. 352 00:19:55,939 --> 00:19:58,500 You tell me I sat in there all morning for nothing? 353 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:02,580 It happens sometimes. Just do me a favor. Don't tell me it happens, all 354 00:20:02,660 --> 00:20:05,600 It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't excuse anything. It's nothing. 355 00:20:05,940 --> 00:20:08,980 There's nothing for you to excuse here, Patrick. This is official court 356 00:20:08,980 --> 00:20:12,640 business. Do the studio lawyers know about this? I'm not consulting with the 357 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:16,640 studio lawyers. Well, maybe you should be. I mean, if they're rearranging their 358 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,360 shooting schedules around this trial, they'd like to know that some... 359 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,260 civil service bimbo is trying to stick it to me. Well, what can I say? 360 00:20:23,260 --> 00:20:28,220 being a defendant in a criminal trial has its inconveniences. And your job is 361 00:20:28,220 --> 00:20:31,880 insulate me from as many of those as possible. Now, the more that I have to 362 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:35,440 with those on my own means the more that you are not doing your job. Now, you 363 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:36,980 don't pay for that. I pay for that. 364 00:20:38,100 --> 00:20:41,720 Patrick, the DA is willing to suspend the criminal proceedings, provided that 365 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,820 you check into a drug treatment program. 366 00:20:44,940 --> 00:20:46,660 Well, you tell her to jam it, all right? 367 00:20:47,220 --> 00:20:50,320 Now, look, drug programs are for people with drug problems. I don't have a drug 368 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:51,360 problem. Now, what are you, my mother? 369 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:55,240 Your job is to try my case, not enroll me in a drug program. You want to take a 370 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:56,240 poke at me, too, Patrick? 371 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:03,600 That's great. 372 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,880 My uncle. 373 00:21:15,980 --> 00:21:19,580 I got sprung unexpectedly. I thought I'd drop by and see what you were up to. 374 00:21:20,620 --> 00:21:23,140 Going over motions and eating a yogurt. 375 00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:27,100 Well... Well, I have a better idea. 376 00:21:30,340 --> 00:21:31,340 What? 377 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:33,640 No. 378 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:35,360 Why not? 379 00:21:35,620 --> 00:21:36,640 Come on, Mickey. 380 00:21:37,740 --> 00:21:40,760 I miss you, Gracie. I'm never touching you. 381 00:21:42,940 --> 00:21:43,960 How's your ex -wife? 382 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,100 The operative word there is X. 383 00:21:47,300 --> 00:21:49,600 I haven't seen her, and I don't think about her. 384 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:52,720 But I do think about you. 385 00:21:54,700 --> 00:21:56,540 Could I at least have a kiss, please? 386 00:21:57,700 --> 00:22:00,760 There's about a million people outside my door. So what? 387 00:22:00,980 --> 00:22:04,900 Come on, just one little kiss, okay? One kiss? 388 00:22:05,180 --> 00:22:06,180 Mm -hmm. 389 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:42,080 Mickey. 390 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:43,720 Mickey. 391 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:46,340 Mickey, stop. 392 00:22:47,540 --> 00:22:49,980 Stop. I'll lock the door. No, no, no, no. 393 00:22:50,660 --> 00:22:53,800 If we're going to do it, may as well do it right. 394 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,980 You like the Biltmore or the Bonaventure? 395 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:10,230 Before we embark down the list of accounts receivable, There is 396 00:23:10,230 --> 00:23:14,230 something else on the table, which is the situation with Miss Perkins. I 397 00:23:14,230 --> 00:23:17,270 we settled this. We settled nothing. I think we should give serious 398 00:23:17,270 --> 00:23:21,550 consideration to yanking Rona versus Gradinger from her before we risk losing 399 00:23:21,550 --> 00:23:22,389 major client. 400 00:23:22,390 --> 00:23:25,630 Your mind is so made up that she can't do the job. You won't even give her a 401 00:23:25,630 --> 00:23:26,630 chance to prove you wrong. 402 00:23:26,790 --> 00:23:31,370 She has no experience with complex commercial litigation, particularly not 403 00:23:31,370 --> 00:23:34,350 matter in as delicate a phase of negotiation as this one. 404 00:23:34,730 --> 00:23:35,730 My apologies. 405 00:23:36,990 --> 00:23:37,990 Something came up. 406 00:23:38,710 --> 00:23:39,710 Douglas. 407 00:23:39,860 --> 00:23:43,100 Rona versus Gradinger has been on the books for four and a half years. 408 00:23:43,700 --> 00:23:47,760 I've had it, Michael's had it, and it is no closer to a resolution now than it 409 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:48,760 was when it came in. 410 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,880 If Abby has the initiative and wants to put in the hours, I don't see the 411 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,720 downside. I'm with Ann on this. 412 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,220 Fine. You want to give her enough rope to hang herself? 413 00:23:57,460 --> 00:23:58,460 Be my guest. 414 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,760 You just better be prepared to take the consequences. 415 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:05,020 Excuse me. Excuse me. If you have a summons, I can... You bastard. 416 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,560 You went to my captain and got me transferred, didn't you? Excuse me? You 417 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,840 put on disciplinary probation. I'm being reassigned to county jail. 418 00:24:13,220 --> 00:24:16,100 Ah, my court bailiff. 419 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,600 Miss Vasek, I will be happy to discuss your employment problems. 420 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,000 Employment? But this is not the appropriate forum. What a jerk I was. I 421 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,560 thought you cared about me. I do care about you. I care about everybody in my 422 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,820 courtroom. And what about everyone in your chambers? 423 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:35,040 The disgust. Disgusting things I let you do to me. I assure you, I know nothing 424 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:36,040 about what she's talking about. 425 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,300 Waiting for you like a fool after sessions so you could jump on me and do 426 00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:40,300 dirty business. 427 00:24:40,420 --> 00:24:43,480 And then five minutes later, you were back on your way to your wife. 428 00:24:43,740 --> 00:24:45,020 Rhonda, please. 429 00:24:45,460 --> 00:24:46,780 You know the craziest thing? 430 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,640 I thought all this time you were so decent. 431 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,400 So above me. 432 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,260 But you're not above me at all. 433 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,600 You're a swine, Douglas Brackman, and I will hate you forever. 434 00:25:14,830 --> 00:25:15,850 If you'll excuse me. 435 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:45,040 What, Jonathan? 436 00:25:45,340 --> 00:25:48,760 Gordon Bass called looking for his file. Benny said you took it? 437 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,380 I thought I'd take it to myself. I think I can convince him to stay with us. 438 00:25:52,620 --> 00:25:54,980 We don't solicit clients, Jonathan. 439 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,240 That's not our style. Well, it's not solicitation, really. Just a little 440 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:02,260 salesmanship. Just the same, I'd appreciate it if you'd just deliver the 441 00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:03,260 without the pitch. 442 00:26:03,980 --> 00:26:07,920 Stewart's handling of the case was fine, and if Bass doesn't like it, that's his 443 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,880 right. But we don't stroke clients for business. 444 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:13,380 Okay. I'll get the file to him right away. 445 00:26:13,980 --> 00:26:14,980 Mr. 446 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:16,400 McKenzie? Oh, yes. 447 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,640 God, she's great, Michael. She's smart, beautiful, funny. 448 00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:21,380 You're rolling your eyes. 449 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:22,560 You're rolling your eyes. 450 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:27,320 Well, forgive me if it sounds like maybe I've heard this story from you before. 451 00:26:27,460 --> 00:26:30,460 Look, look, I know that I haven't had the best crack record debut when it's 452 00:26:30,460 --> 00:26:34,360 to picking women, but she seems totally normal, down to earth. Oh, Armand 453 00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:37,800 Sevilla's wife, down to earth? Kind of hard, I think, when you're worth $50 454 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,000 million. No, she signed a prenup. Forget it. 455 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,020 I never saw a prenup I couldn't bust. 456 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,460 Thanks, Arnie, but A, she's really not into the money, and B, she's already got 457 00:26:47,460 --> 00:26:48,460 herself a lawyer. 458 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,620 Michael, Victor, Doug. Stephen, do you have a minute? 459 00:26:57,260 --> 00:26:59,080 Michael, Victor, a moment. 460 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:04,920 I just want you to know I had no idea that woman would pursue me into the 461 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,340 workplace to wreak her vendetta. 462 00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:11,130 If... Not as if I pursued her. She practically threw herself at me. 463 00:27:11,950 --> 00:27:14,510 Well, who could resist a woman in uniform? 464 00:27:22,030 --> 00:27:23,030 Don't start. 465 00:27:23,810 --> 00:27:26,130 I'll have no fury. I just hope you used protection. 466 00:27:26,530 --> 00:27:30,710 If you mean you think she might have meshed me into a paternity situation, I 467 00:27:30,710 --> 00:27:32,610 assure you I made dirt when she was on the pill. 468 00:27:32,910 --> 00:27:33,990 Not her. You. 469 00:27:36,250 --> 00:27:37,250 Condom? 470 00:27:38,330 --> 00:27:39,309 AIDS, Douglas? 471 00:27:39,310 --> 00:27:40,850 The second coming of the black plague? 472 00:27:41,150 --> 00:27:42,150 AIDS? 473 00:27:42,250 --> 00:27:45,190 Look, if you're going to practice surgery, take it from someone who knows. 474 00:27:45,670 --> 00:27:48,710 Never operate without your gloves on. What are you talking about? 475 00:27:49,610 --> 00:27:50,610 Heterosexuals aren't at risk. 476 00:27:50,910 --> 00:27:55,290 I read an article in Playboy. Do you believe everything you read? Arnold, 477 00:27:55,290 --> 00:27:56,730 not as if I'm promiscuous. 478 00:27:56,990 --> 00:27:57,990 Well, okay, what about her? 479 00:27:58,330 --> 00:28:00,050 She's, what, 30, 35 years old? 480 00:28:00,450 --> 00:28:04,470 15 years of sexual activity, average of a dozen guys a year, each with a dance 481 00:28:04,470 --> 00:28:06,210 card of his own. That's 12 times 15. 482 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:09,700 180. 180 to what? 483 00:28:10,340 --> 00:28:11,340 20th power? 484 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:13,520 Face it, Douglas. 485 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,260 Each time you hit the sheets with someone new, you link yourself up 486 00:28:17,260 --> 00:28:18,820 about half the world population. 487 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,260 Victor, have you met my mom? 488 00:28:29,260 --> 00:28:30,960 Charlotte Kelsey, Victor Cifuentes. 489 00:28:31,460 --> 00:28:32,500 Victor's one of my colleagues. 490 00:28:33,140 --> 00:28:34,800 Hello. Nice to meet you. 491 00:28:35,060 --> 00:28:37,160 Mom is here all the way from Waterville, Maine. 492 00:28:37,740 --> 00:28:38,780 Oh, Maine. 493 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:40,480 That's in New England. 494 00:28:41,300 --> 00:28:42,960 Really? Who's from Maine? 495 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:44,480 Annie's mother. 496 00:28:44,780 --> 00:28:46,460 Charlotte Kelsey, John Rollins. 497 00:28:46,780 --> 00:28:47,800 John's just joined us. 498 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:50,840 Isn't that nice? 499 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:52,980 Maine's only about my favorite place in the world. 500 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:54,319 You've been there. 501 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,040 Oh, a couple of us from school used to rent a house for the summer on Deer 502 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,780 Listen, I'd love to talk to you about it, but I have a file to deliver. 503 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:01,580 I've got to get back to... 504 00:29:02,620 --> 00:29:03,620 Pleasure, ma 'am. 505 00:29:05,420 --> 00:29:06,420 I don't understand. 506 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:11,200 The Spaniard was wearing an earring. And that Negro man, is he a lawyer or the 507 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,200 delivery boy? 508 00:29:12,820 --> 00:29:13,840 A lawyer, Mom. 509 00:29:14,780 --> 00:29:18,060 Can you tell us what happened as you were leaving Spago's on the night of 510 00:29:18,060 --> 00:29:21,340 21st? I'll tell you it's a little hard to say. 511 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,880 It seemed as though we just stepped out the door when the flash went off in my 512 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:27,880 face. 513 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:33,640 I asked... both Mr. Savenko and the young lady he was with, to please 514 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,120 privacy, and especially that of the young lady that I was with. 515 00:29:36,620 --> 00:29:38,940 He kept pushing into me, though. 516 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:44,400 His girlfriend kept snapping pictures, and I put up my hand and said, hold it, 517 00:29:44,460 --> 00:29:48,680 and that's when he took a swing at me, and I just did the best I could to 518 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,420 myself. I'm not much of a fighter, to tell you the truth. 519 00:29:51,940 --> 00:29:56,140 Mr. Savenko testified that you cursed at his girlfriend when she asked to take 520 00:29:56,140 --> 00:29:56,959 your picture. 521 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:03,160 When I said no to any more photographs, and she did it anyway, I said, damn it, 522 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:04,160 I asked you not to. 523 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,860 We've heard the testimony of Officer Richard Barkey of the L .A. County 524 00:30:08,860 --> 00:30:12,360 Sheriff's Department that you had a vial of cocaine in your jacket pocket. 525 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:13,680 Well, that's just it. 526 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:15,620 It wasn't my jacket. 527 00:30:15,940 --> 00:30:20,300 You see, it was Karen's birthday, and we were going out. I knew she was going to 528 00:30:20,300 --> 00:30:23,920 be all dressed up, and I felt kind of bad that I wasn't. 529 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,600 We were running late on the set, and I wasn't going to have a chance to go home 530 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,260 and change, so I grabbed a sports jacket off the wardrobe rack. 531 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,960 I sure never expected anything like that to be in the pocket. 532 00:30:37,380 --> 00:30:41,640 So you're saying the vial of cocaine in your jacket pocket didn't belong to you? 533 00:30:42,020 --> 00:30:43,160 No, sir, it did not. 534 00:30:43,620 --> 00:30:49,640 I wasn't knowingly carrying drugs of any kind, nor do I use drugs of any kind. 535 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:51,640 Thank you. I have no further questions. 536 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:53,240 Take me with you, Patrick. 537 00:30:53,540 --> 00:30:55,520 If they send you to jail, take me with you. 538 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,680 If you bend your knees and really get out in front of the ball, you can cream 539 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:24,720 those for cross -court winners. 540 00:31:24,980 --> 00:31:25,980 Who are you? 541 00:31:26,020 --> 00:31:27,860 Jonathan Rodham from McKenzie Taney Bracklin. 542 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:31,080 I've got your file. 543 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,960 About time. Maybe now I could do something with it. Excuse my candor, 544 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,540 it's silly to recruit an entire new team when all you really have to do is 545 00:31:38,540 --> 00:31:40,340 change quarterbacks. 546 00:31:40,860 --> 00:31:41,880 What are you talking about? 547 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,180 I'm talking about someone who will buff these guys and crush a few stones in the 548 00:31:47,180 --> 00:31:48,960 process. I suppose that's you. 549 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:52,120 You mind? 550 00:31:52,420 --> 00:31:53,420 Go ahead. 551 00:32:00,340 --> 00:32:02,420 Attorney Alden Thompson, please. Jonathan Rollins calling. 552 00:32:03,380 --> 00:32:04,380 Excuse me? 553 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:08,400 Yes, well, tell him he can talk to me now or see me in court after I move for 554 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:09,880 sanctions against him for frivolous motions. 555 00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:13,300 Thank you. 556 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,220 Try keeping your body at a 90 -degree angle when you make contact. 557 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,740 Keep your racket up and don't... Turn your wrist over. 558 00:32:22,220 --> 00:32:23,220 This isn't squash. 559 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:25,600 Yeah. 560 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,260 Yes, Mr. Thompson. Jonathan Rollins, new McKenzie Bracken attorney for Gordon 561 00:32:29,260 --> 00:32:31,180 Bass and our claim against Capitol Studios? 562 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,640 Uh -huh. Great. Now, how about we dispense with the pleasantries and cut 563 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:36,640 to the chase? 564 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,000 You continue these stalling tactics at my expense, and I'll holler you into the 565 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,000 motion for sanctions. 566 00:32:42,710 --> 00:32:46,350 Yeah, I know who I'm talking to. A heel -dragging defense lawyer who likes to 567 00:32:46,350 --> 00:32:49,630 make life miserable for legitimate plaintiffs with legitimate claims. But 568 00:32:49,630 --> 00:32:53,130 you pull that crap this time, I suggest you learn who you're talking to. Good 569 00:32:53,130 --> 00:32:54,130 day, Counselor. 570 00:32:55,750 --> 00:32:57,610 And that is just warming up. 571 00:32:58,970 --> 00:33:02,670 Now, give me 20 minutes with your backhand, and I'll have your next 572 00:33:02,670 --> 00:33:03,770 eating the ball. 573 00:33:06,070 --> 00:33:07,070 Mr. 574 00:33:07,450 --> 00:33:11,160 Gradinger, in your interview last year with Fortune magazine, You said that the 575 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,420 one thing missing in all your success was the opportunity to share it with the 576 00:33:14,420 --> 00:33:15,600 person that it all began with. 577 00:33:16,620 --> 00:33:17,640 Do you still believe that? 578 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:20,640 A little. 579 00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:22,080 Funny way of showing it. 580 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:26,300 You're the one who said you never wanted to see me again. I never said that. 581 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:27,640 You always make a... Hold on. 582 00:33:28,260 --> 00:33:31,740 Both of you. Mr. Roaner, I'd like to ask you a question, and I would like an 583 00:33:31,740 --> 00:33:32,740 honest answer. 584 00:33:33,540 --> 00:33:35,440 Do you miss working with Mr. Gratinger? 585 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:38,720 A little. 586 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:43,500 And if there was some way to work all of this out and to get you two back 587 00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:46,440 together again, would you be interested in exploring that? 588 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:51,200 Maybe. 589 00:33:51,900 --> 00:33:52,900 Mr. Gradinger? 590 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:57,520 Maybe. 591 00:33:58,230 --> 00:34:03,650 Now, before I get all choked up here, may I point out, none of this is 592 00:34:03,650 --> 00:34:04,629 to Mr. 593 00:34:04,630 --> 00:34:09,130 Roaner's blatant attempt to rip off royalties from my clients. Rip off? 594 00:34:09,170 --> 00:34:10,069 rip off. 595 00:34:10,070 --> 00:34:13,750 You let my client take all the risks. Now, you want to cash in on the payoff, 596 00:34:13,889 --> 00:34:17,610 don't you? You had to go big time at the expense of quality preservatives and 597 00:34:17,610 --> 00:34:19,290 the muffins irradiated blueberries. 598 00:34:19,510 --> 00:34:20,510 Here we go. 599 00:34:20,530 --> 00:34:23,830 You're the purist. I'm the whore. Look, let's just get this back. You're just as 600 00:34:23,830 --> 00:34:27,750 blind and petty as the day we split up. And you're as greedy. A negative, 601 00:34:27,870 --> 00:34:30,150 little, small -minded, rip -off artist. 602 00:34:30,429 --> 00:34:34,170 Mr. Burnett, you are provoking this. You like to keep milking your cash cow. Oh, 603 00:34:34,230 --> 00:34:37,830 please. You are always small -time. I carried you for years. 604 00:34:38,429 --> 00:34:39,429 I'm out of here. 605 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,600 Manny. That's it. Run away. 606 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,400 For once, have the guts to face up to something. I'll face up to you. 607 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:48,139 You're still the scared little man. Manny. 608 00:34:48,820 --> 00:34:50,540 Stop it. Oh, no. 609 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:55,280 Oh, my God. 610 00:34:56,340 --> 00:34:58,540 Are you all right? 611 00:35:18,759 --> 00:35:20,080 It's a miracle no one was hurt. 612 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:22,320 Tell me the truth. 613 00:35:22,660 --> 00:35:24,360 Should I offer to pay for the new glass? 614 00:35:24,980 --> 00:35:25,980 Insurance will cover it. 615 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,560 Besides, you didn't break it. Tell that to Brackman. 616 00:35:29,060 --> 00:35:30,060 Why, did he say something? 617 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:31,480 No. 618 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,520 That's what has me terrified. He's been in his office all morning with the door 619 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:35,520 shut. 620 00:35:36,100 --> 00:35:37,620 I know they're going to fire me. 621 00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:39,520 They're not going to fire you. 622 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,640 You miscalculated, that's all. 623 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:42,840 I said you. 624 00:35:47,150 --> 00:35:48,550 Come on, I'll buy you a cup of coffee. 625 00:35:50,030 --> 00:35:52,150 You think you've got problems. 626 00:35:52,530 --> 00:35:54,490 My mother is driving me nuts. 627 00:35:55,330 --> 00:35:59,030 The woman drops in out of the blue and expects everyone to run around and dance 628 00:35:59,030 --> 00:36:01,010 attendance on her. Is it really that bad? 629 00:36:01,390 --> 00:36:02,390 It's that bad. 630 00:36:04,190 --> 00:36:08,410 Besides that, Stuart is convinced that she's anti -Semitic. Oh, now why would 631 00:36:08,410 --> 00:36:09,410 think that? 632 00:36:09,850 --> 00:36:10,850 Because she is. 633 00:36:11,870 --> 00:36:13,230 Oh. Oh. 634 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,100 At least she'll only be here a couple more days. 635 00:36:19,220 --> 00:36:20,860 But tonight is the worst. 636 00:36:22,140 --> 00:36:25,780 Tonight the people she's staying with are throwing a party, complete with cut 637 00:36:25,780 --> 00:36:29,740 glass punch balls and a guest list out of the Descendants of the Mayflower. 638 00:36:30,860 --> 00:36:33,740 Stuart will have a chip on his shoulder, and I can feel my neck getting as tight 639 00:36:33,740 --> 00:36:34,740 as piano wire. 640 00:36:34,780 --> 00:36:35,880 They're both adults, right? 641 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:37,920 I'm sure that they're going to behave themselves. 642 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,400 Of course, that's what I said about Rona versus Gratinger. 643 00:36:42,879 --> 00:36:45,940 With a January start date in Portugal, but this time no one's going to jack me 644 00:36:45,940 --> 00:36:46,940 around on net profit. 645 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:49,820 You want to... Here's my killer. 646 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,260 It seems you've persuaded Mr. Bass to stay with the firm. 647 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,360 As long as you're my lawyer. And I've told about a thousand of my closest 648 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:57,360 friends about you. 649 00:36:58,580 --> 00:37:01,300 Great. Well, I better go. I know your hourly rates. 650 00:37:02,420 --> 00:37:03,420 Go get him, man. 651 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:04,600 And keep me informed. 652 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:05,840 We will. 653 00:37:06,060 --> 00:37:07,060 Bye. All right. 654 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,300 Well, whatever. your play was. 655 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:14,920 It must have been pretty effective. 656 00:37:16,060 --> 00:37:17,060 What can I say? 657 00:37:17,620 --> 00:37:18,660 How about nothing? 658 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:23,420 Last week, you were instructed to make short shrift of a deposition. You turned 659 00:37:23,420 --> 00:37:24,420 it into a marathon. 660 00:37:24,820 --> 00:37:29,260 Yesterday, I directly told you not to solicit for his business, and you did 661 00:37:29,260 --> 00:37:33,820 that. And the execution of this grandstanding, I'm told, consisted of 662 00:37:33,820 --> 00:37:37,100 berating a respected attorney in this community over the telephone. 663 00:37:37,420 --> 00:37:38,720 I'm not that crazy, sir. 664 00:37:39,390 --> 00:37:41,350 The only thing I berated was my own answering machine. 665 00:37:46,610 --> 00:37:48,310 I'm the one who brought you in here. 666 00:37:49,570 --> 00:37:54,890 I thought then, and still do, that you have the potential to be a colossal 667 00:37:54,890 --> 00:37:55,890 talent. 668 00:37:56,190 --> 00:37:58,390 But my name comes first on the letterhead. 669 00:37:59,390 --> 00:38:04,250 Defy me, disobey me, or embarrass me, and you'll be doing your little dance at 670 00:38:04,250 --> 00:38:05,250 somebody else's prom. 671 00:38:06,630 --> 00:38:07,630 Understood? 672 00:38:08,110 --> 00:38:09,110 I hear you. 673 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:19,960 Has the jury reached a verdict? 674 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:22,820 Yes, Your Honor, we have. 675 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:28,860 On the charge of assault, we find the defendant, Patrick Boyd, not guilty. 676 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:39,300 On the charge of possession of a controlled substance, we 677 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:42,460 find the defendant also not guilty. 678 00:38:50,220 --> 00:38:52,920 The jury's being charged to the fans of the court. 679 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:54,400 This court's being reached in. 680 00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:02,360 There's a little celebration planned with Jardino tonight. 681 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,560 Really? I didn't know there was going to be something to celebrate. 682 00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:07,440 I think positive is the key to success. 683 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,560 Anyway, look, I hope you can make it, because I intend to tell everybody that 684 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,920 when I'm in a jam, you are my man. 685 00:39:15,020 --> 00:39:18,160 Patrick? To tell you the truth, I really don't need the business. 686 00:39:18,460 --> 00:39:21,300 Not to worry. My days as defendant are over. 687 00:39:21,540 --> 00:39:23,180 Patrick, congratulations, 688 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,860 Patrick. Thank you. Have any statements for the press? 689 00:39:26,260 --> 00:39:30,120 Maybe later. Right now, I want to thank the jury. I think they'd like that. 690 00:39:43,220 --> 00:39:44,220 Gracie. 691 00:39:44,660 --> 00:39:45,660 What? 692 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:48,540 I want you to move back in with me. 693 00:39:50,500 --> 00:39:51,520 I don't think so. 694 00:39:52,380 --> 00:39:53,380 Not yet. 695 00:39:55,180 --> 00:39:56,680 Well, what about the other afternoon? 696 00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:02,040 Maybe I'm crazy, but I was under the distinct impression that you still kind 697 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:03,040 like me. 698 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,300 Making love to you has never been a problem, kiddo. 699 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,840 Well, realistically then... 700 00:40:14,730 --> 00:40:16,330 You work 12 hours a day. 701 00:40:17,590 --> 00:40:19,150 I work 12 hours a day. 702 00:40:20,770 --> 00:40:24,250 So, how are we going to work things out if we don't live together? 703 00:40:24,570 --> 00:40:26,370 You sound like an efficiency expert. 704 00:40:30,530 --> 00:40:37,370 Gracie, these last few weeks without you... Well, what I'm trying to say is 705 00:40:37,370 --> 00:40:40,130 you are the most important thing in the world to me. 706 00:40:40,350 --> 00:40:42,130 And if I thought that being apart... 707 00:40:42,380 --> 00:40:44,740 would make things right, I'd have no problem with it. 708 00:40:46,820 --> 00:40:51,340 But I believe that the only way we're going to heal this relationship is by 709 00:40:51,340 --> 00:40:56,080 being together and fighting for it as hard as we can. 710 00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,600 Damn it, Kuzak, you're not playing fair. 711 00:41:00,260 --> 00:41:02,020 You know I love you. 712 00:41:02,260 --> 00:41:04,300 You know I love Stephanie. 713 00:41:06,860 --> 00:41:09,100 You're seducing me. 714 00:41:15,069 --> 00:41:16,069 Thank God. 715 00:41:16,630 --> 00:41:17,630 Mr. 716 00:41:18,330 --> 00:41:19,330 Cruz there? 717 00:41:20,150 --> 00:41:21,610 You have a telephone call. 718 00:41:28,370 --> 00:41:28,810 You 719 00:41:28,810 --> 00:41:37,090 guys 720 00:41:37,090 --> 00:41:41,110 are the most wonderful party. There are so many people. I want to meet you. 721 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,560 You don't have to stay that long. I'm okay. 722 00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:48,520 I'm sure. 723 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:50,120 Will you stop worrying, Ann? 724 00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,180 I'm fine. I'm fine. 725 00:41:53,540 --> 00:41:54,540 No, thank you. 726 00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:58,520 Night. Night. 727 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:00,660 Life in South Africa. 728 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:03,760 I need a drink. 729 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:06,700 Can I get you something? Would you? White wine? 730 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:15,640 Excuse me. 731 00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:17,420 Black martini and oil. 732 00:42:17,900 --> 00:42:24,540 What about the children? They'll be Jews, you know. 733 00:42:24,980 --> 00:42:28,120 You'll never let her take them to church or be baptized. 734 00:42:28,740 --> 00:42:31,080 Well, I'm just so afraid of alienating her. 735 00:42:31,420 --> 00:42:35,160 Charlotte, it's a mother's duty to let her child know how she feels. 736 00:42:36,030 --> 00:42:40,550 She's such a lovely girl. I can't believe she couldn't do better than some 737 00:42:40,550 --> 00:42:41,570 little money man. 738 00:42:41,910 --> 00:42:44,290 But she says she's happy. Listen to me. 739 00:42:44,570 --> 00:42:49,750 Jews are not like us. They look different. They think differently. 740 00:42:50,050 --> 00:42:51,890 Let them keep to their own kind. 741 00:42:54,510 --> 00:42:55,510 Excuse me. 742 00:42:55,910 --> 00:42:57,870 I couldn't help but hear your conversation. 743 00:42:58,390 --> 00:43:02,910 Do it. You have expressed so much hostility to me. 744 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,660 To Jews in general, let me ask you a question. 745 00:43:05,860 --> 00:43:09,600 Have you ever done anything to you personally to fill you with such hatred? 746 00:43:10,100 --> 00:43:11,100 I? 747 00:43:11,460 --> 00:43:12,460 No. 748 00:43:13,500 --> 00:43:16,080 Well, um... Excuse me. 749 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:17,720 Step aside, please. 750 00:43:18,660 --> 00:43:19,660 No one has. 751 00:43:38,330 --> 00:43:40,530 Well, didn't take you long, did it, Patrick? 752 00:43:40,790 --> 00:43:46,030 You wipe out your car, send your date to the hospital, get nailed with two and a 753 00:43:46,030 --> 00:43:47,530 half grams in the glove compartment. 754 00:43:48,030 --> 00:43:49,930 Well, just do what you have to do to get me out of here, okay? 755 00:43:51,190 --> 00:43:53,910 Nope, not this time. I'm finished mopping up with you. 756 00:43:54,130 --> 00:43:57,090 Hey, uh, Counselor, lawyers are a dime a dozen in town. 757 00:43:57,550 --> 00:43:58,550 Oh, yeah? 758 00:44:09,020 --> 00:44:10,200 I'm not releasing you, okay? 759 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:12,400 Don't bother. 760 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:14,440 I'm releasing myself. 761 00:44:15,300 --> 00:44:16,218 Wait a minute. 762 00:44:16,220 --> 00:44:20,620 Come on, you're going to tell me that you don't reach for a little nose candy 763 00:44:20,620 --> 00:44:23,360 every once in a while, jump and tingle on occasion, huh? 764 00:44:23,580 --> 00:44:26,260 The conversation isn't about me. 765 00:44:26,720 --> 00:44:28,600 You're the one whose name's on the arrest report. 766 00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:33,040 You're this self -destructive little jerk who has a drug problem that you 767 00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:34,780 even come close to controlling. 768 00:44:35,300 --> 00:44:36,680 Yeah, well, it's my right, isn't it? 769 00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,150 Huh? Live fast, die young. 770 00:44:40,070 --> 00:44:41,390 Leave a good -looking corpse. 771 00:44:41,910 --> 00:44:44,530 Yeah, you want to be James Dean. Why don't you do it right? 772 00:44:44,990 --> 00:44:48,250 Why all the meaningless fistfights and drug fights? Get off my back, all right? 773 00:44:48,510 --> 00:44:50,030 Oh, put the pedal to the metal. 774 00:44:50,310 --> 00:44:53,030 Checkout's clean. No skid marks, no mop -up, no nothing. 775 00:44:53,590 --> 00:44:56,650 Look, I... I don't want to die, all right? 776 00:44:57,650 --> 00:44:58,650 Really? 777 00:44:59,410 --> 00:45:01,970 Well, you sure as hell give the impression of someone who does. 778 00:45:03,310 --> 00:45:04,310 Wait a minute. 779 00:45:05,690 --> 00:45:06,690 Please. 780 00:45:07,630 --> 00:45:10,930 You don't know what it's like to lie in bed at night, scared to death that 781 00:45:10,930 --> 00:45:13,370 they're going to find you out and take everything away. 782 00:45:14,010 --> 00:45:17,390 I do a couple of rails of cocaine and the whole world is mine. 783 00:45:18,630 --> 00:45:25,630 The truth is, I can't imagine what it 784 00:45:25,630 --> 00:45:27,090 would be like not to do cocaine. 785 00:45:31,190 --> 00:45:36,070 Well, maybe the first step is to get some help imagining it. 786 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:39,900 I don't know how to explain it. 787 00:45:42,980 --> 00:45:47,380 Just... I heard them. 788 00:45:51,580 --> 00:45:55,600 And this rage started building up until it reached a flashpoint. 789 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,040 Not like that. 790 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,480 I've never done anything like that. 791 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:05,040 I know. 792 00:46:13,260 --> 00:46:18,120 I'm not a very good Jew. I don't go to temple. I don't observe the holidays. 793 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:22,320 It's who I am. 794 00:46:24,380 --> 00:46:28,920 I don't know. It's like the weight of 5 ,000 years or whatever. 795 00:46:30,620 --> 00:46:32,800 Stuart, you don't have to justify anything to me. 796 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:40,980 What happened, what they said, I'm just so sorry you had to hear 797 00:46:40,980 --> 00:46:41,980 it. 798 00:46:44,140 --> 00:46:46,940 I hate that I'm the cause of this rift between you and your mother. 799 00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:48,240 That's old business. 800 00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,040 And anyway, she had it coming. 801 00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:57,840 And given what happened, are you sure you want to get married? 802 00:46:59,580 --> 00:47:04,020 How can you ask that? She and I are never going to be able to repair this 803 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,820 Stuart, if there's really any doubt in your mind, let me make it simple. 804 00:47:10,460 --> 00:47:12,860 I love you unconditionally. 805 00:47:13,730 --> 00:47:14,730 And unequivocally. 806 00:47:14,990 --> 00:47:17,550 And if she's going to make me choose between you, it's no contest. 807 00:47:19,750 --> 00:47:23,790 She either accepts you and me for who we are, or if that's too much for her, 808 00:47:23,830 --> 00:47:25,670 it's even simpler. She's out of our lives. 809 00:47:29,210 --> 00:47:30,270 I'm nuts about you. 810 00:47:32,370 --> 00:47:33,670 And I want to marry you. 811 00:47:35,870 --> 00:47:39,810 And right now I'm freezing cold. And I want to take you home and make you 812 00:47:39,810 --> 00:47:40,810 something to eat. 813 00:47:49,930 --> 00:47:51,830 Some life chicken soup. What could it hurt?