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I brought these.

Which one would you like?

You insist.

Nope. That was all they were.

So far, a draw.

You gonna be done in time to go on vacation?

I have to be, don't I?

Counselor's orders.

You know, Meg, I thought that I was gonna hate this therapy stuff.

That guy really has a point on the vacation issue.

On the other hand, most people don't have to pay someone to tell them they

need a vacation.

True. But this is a vacation together.

24 hours a day.

Three meals.

One bed.

You're not planning on getting on my nerves now, are you, Zombro?

I'm planning on torturing you.

So, what kind of a trip did you have in mind?

Well, I've always wanted to go sea kayaking.

Here's this trip I was reading about right here, around these islands.

Off the coast of Alaska.

Oh, that sounds great.

Yeah. Be sure to write.

What'd you have in mind?

The south of France.

How's the kayaking there?

Yes,

Kaufman wanted to meet you herself.

Look, I am sorry I started this whole thing.

If you're really sorry, help us.

A former neighbor of Rory Elvis Blanding said that you were his girlfriend.

Are you doing all this because of Henry?

Now, what does it matter, anyway?

Henry is dead.

It matters to me.

Was Elvis Blanding your boyfriend?

Lady, I've had a lot of boyfriends.

A couple of husbands.

I don't recommend it.

Did you know Elvis?

Oh, yeah.

Sort of.

Maybe.

What the hell difference does this make, anyway?

Do you know where he is? No.

And he didn't kill those people, anyway.

Henry did.

Henry did?

What about Frank, your husband?

You said he did.

Well, I felt sorry for Henry, so I lied.

I liked Henry.

How do you know that Henry was guilty?

Well, for the hamburger stand, he killed two people in Michigan.

Michigan? When?

He never got caught.

He used to brag about it.

You liked him?

He was nice to me.

Mr. Kane, could you please stick to the point?

When you met with the principal, what reason did she give you for expelling

your daughter?

She said that Martha's behavior was disruptive to the learning process.

Did she give you any specifics?

She said that Martha argued with the teacher about things like how old the

earth is, the origin of man, things like that. Did she say why these discussions

constituted grounds for expulsion?

Well, I asked you that, and I never got a satisfactory answer.

Did you take it further?

Yes, we got the school board to hold a hearing, and they sided with the

principal. And here we are.

Yes. Oh, one more thing, Mr. Ellis.

Why don't you just send your daughter to a private Christian school?

That's Martha's decision.

She feels that God has called her to...

Bring the word to non-believers not to preach to the converted.

Thank you. I have nothing further.

Ms. Umbra.

Had the school administration given you warnings that Martha's behavior was

problematical? Yes.

How many warnings?

Two, three. So you can't have been very surprised when the action was taken.

I'm never surprised when Christians are persecuted.

Persecuted. What exactly did the principal say?

She said that a public school is not a religious institution.

And what is there about that concept that you find difficult to grasp?

Your Honor.

You have an objection, Mr. King? Ms. Zombrow is badgering the witness about

side issues.

I will instruct defense counsel to refrain from arguing with the witness.

But the issue she has raised seems to me to be central to the case.

Please answer the question, Mr. Ellis.

God does not exist in a single compartment of life.

He's everywhere, all the time. And we are enjoined to live his word

everywhere, all the time.

Even at those times? In those places when other people's rights are

transgressed?

But what greater right is there than to be given the opportunity to hear the

truth?

Your truth.

Hey, man.

The south of France.

That's near Switzerland, right? Glaciers, all that stuff.

Do you believe in God?

Do I what?

Your parents. They were Catholic, right?

Yes. Were they religious?

My mother was religious.

She never met a priest she didn't like.

My mother was religious.

She used to pray to God to change my father's behavior.

It never changed.

Maggie, what is going on in there? They're trying to convert you or

something? It would be nice to believe it all.

You know why you were here.

You know how to act.

No hard decisions to make.

Heaven would be waiting.

Everything explained.

Hell, do it. Sign up. And check my brain at the door? I don't know if that's

fair.

It didn't answer my question.

Do you believe in God?

Look, my religion, or whatever you want to call it, is based on 20 years on the

streets.

It's much more a feeling than it is a one-minute speech.

Does it give you all the answers?

I think I'd take all the fun out of it.

Any answers?

On a good day.

A few.

Do you suffer from any medical condition that would preclude you from serving as

a juror in this case?

I don't have any diseases.

Have you ever been the victim of a violent crime?

No, no.

Oh, but my mom was chased by a runaway ostrich once.

Is this juror acceptable to the prosecution, Ms. Kaufman?

The people pass, Your Honor.

Miss Kirby?

Hi.

Do you have a brain?

What's that supposed to mean? Miss Kirby. I'll just take that as a no. Miss

Kirby.

Although these proceedings are adversarial in nature, there is no need

to be positively hostile.

And it is generally the opposing counsel, not the jury, who occupies the

counter position.

Even the post office requires its employees to have the vestige of a

brain, for God's sake.

Is jury service the last refuge of morons?

How much more time do you want?

I don't know.

Michigan State Police.

1987. Two people killed in a gas station hold up on I-94.

They got a partial print but never matched it. Until today.

Henry Constable.

Happy now, Tess?

The man we executed was a murderer.

His fingerprints weren't found at that restaurant in Illinois.

Tess. Rose Stepkey.

The one who started this whole thing. Remember her?

Now she says that Henry Constable killed all those people.

She could be lying now.

Why?

Suppose Billy Gordon's telling the truth. Suppose the moon is made of

pretzels. Rose's boyfriend, Elvis, killed those people.

She knows about it, but she's afraid of him.

She doesn't want Henry Constable to be executed, so she blames the murder on

her dead husband.

Now, Elvis finds out that Dickie's looking for him.

He threatens Rose.

She retracts everything.

Even if Elvis is pressuring her to retract, that doesn't mean he's the

killer.

Hell, maybe he just doesn't like having a cop on his tail.

Let me give you both a simpler theory.

Henry Constable was guilty.

Billy Gordon is lying to save his miserable butt from a weapons charge.

Then why did Rose Stepkey tell us that first story about her husband?

She liked Constable.

He was nice to her when he wasn't shooting people.

We gotta get moving on Gordon's case, Tess.

I want to talk to him one more time.

Hey, you heard from Asher?

Postcard. From Honolulu.

At least you know where he is.

Stop in the right direction.

You coming this way?

It will be nice.

I'll see if he's in.

What's going on?

Sound like a gunshot. Where is it?

I'll call medical.

Your friend Gordon?

He's just been shot.

Billy Gordon's been shot.

It's your fault, Cobb.

You know, I would like to shoot you, Gordon. I really would, but I can't take

the credit.

Who's Elvis?

Is he in the jail? No, but some of his friends are, and one of them got a gun.

In jail?

You can get anything you want in there. That jail's a zoo.

This friend of Elvis, does he have a name?

I didn't see anything.

I got blindsided because you went around town asking questions about Elvis and we

didn't even have a deal yet.

And when he heard about it, he wanted me quiet.

Are you ready to tell us now where to find him?

You ready to give me immunity?

Mr.

Kessler, you were Martha Ellis' teacher at Adams Street School?

Yes.

And, uh, was it you who brought Martha's alleged behavior to the attention of the

administration? Yes.

Why? Because Martha was interfering with the other children's education, and I

couldn't persuade her to stop.

To stop what, exactly?

Martha has vociferous and unshakable opinions that are hard to reconcile with

the public school curriculum.

I think I'm going to need some examples, if you will.

All right. When I told the class that dinosaurs existed some hundred million

years ago, Martha insisted that the Earth is only about 4,000 years old.

Can you say that she's wrong in that belief?

The best available evidence contradicts her. The best available scientific

evidence? Yes.

What if Martha considers the Bible to be the best available evidence?

Your Honor, is this a forum for theological speculation?

Where are you going, Mr. Kane?

To the heart of the matter, Your Honor. Fine.

Watch your step.

Mr. Kessler, were you teaching impressionable kids the theory of

evolution?

Not in great detail.

Not to fourth graders, it was mentioned.

Did you teach them that the Earth just appeared, that man just appeared without

causation? I teach what is generally...

agreed upon to be true. Two and two make four. The earth revolves around the sun.

The dinosaurs became extinct about 75 million years ago.

Are you familiar with the term secular humanism? I do not teach so-called

secular humanism any more than I teach so-called creation science.

I teach known facts and theories based upon known facts.

Theories are often made obsolete as more facts become known. Isn't that true? Of

course it is. So, in fact, you are teaching beliefs masquerading as

theories. And if a student takes exception to your beliefs, you are so

threatened that you cause that student to be expelled.

Who knows where Elvis Blanding is?

Hey, I'm looking.

If Elvis had Gordon shot, then we have to take his charge seriously. But you

know Gordon.

A lot of people might have shot him.

I just got a phone call from Gordon's attorney.

Who? Sizemore? No. His civil attorney.

Gordon's filing a lawsuit against the county. Claims he was inadequately

protected while in the county's custody.

What's he want?

Armed guard?

Oh, yeah.

And, uh...

Three million dollars damages.

What are you looking at, Earl?

I didn't see anything you didn't see.

And I'm in the middle of an investigation.

Like I'm on vacation here?

I got more cases of my death than you see in a year.

I don't want to do it. You've got that Boy Scout face.

Jury's love. Wait!

Hedge the tail.

Hedge?

Yeah.

She said that he tried to rob her, and he said that she kidnapped him, so we

arrested them both.

Thank you, Detective.

Nothing further.

Miss Kirby.

Objection. To what, Miss Kirby?

I object to having my fate rest in the hands of someone so weak-willed he

cannot quit smoking.

Excuse me?

He was in my office for maybe 15 minutes, and in that time, he sucked

down probably half a pack of cigarettes.

So if my cats get lung cancer, I am sending the vet bill to the city.

Miss Kirby, sit down.

Mr. Kaufman, I realize this woman...

is not your client, strictly speaking.

But if you do not find a way to rein her in, I will find a way to cite you for

contempt.

The sham of a trial will continue at 9 a.m. tomorrow, and I expect compliance

with procedure.

Ms. Umbro?

So far, what we have heard is that Martha Ellis has opinions she's eager to

share.

What we have not heard is why they were disruptive.

Can you enlighten us, Mr. Kessler?

She would not allow any discussion to proceed on non-biblical lines.

She repeatedly told the other children they were going to hell.

I had to stop having show and tell because of the things she brought.

Such as?

Anti-Catholic literature.

Pictures of men in drag.

An aborted fetus.

What was your response to her behavior?

I talked to her.

When that didn't work, I sent her to the principal's office.

When that didn't work, we suspended her.

When that didn't work, she was expelled.

How long a period of time are we talking about?

Eight months.

We really tried.

Have other children been expelled since you've been teaching at this school?

Yes. For?

For bringing a loaded handgun to school, for vandalizing the teacher's

lounge, for beating up other children.

Has any child ever been expelled for anything other than unacceptable

behavior? No.

Thank you, Judge Clausen. I have nothing further.

Perhaps you could sit down later, detective, and you could give me some

technical advice.

Well, I'm a little weak. I'll be listening back.

About your work.

I'm writing a mystery novel.

Yeah, yeah, sure. Anytime after next week.

Uh, Doc, listen.

About Billy Gordon.

He was shot with a small caliber pistol.

Very lucky.

Right at 25.

Down near the body. No prints.

Shot in the thigh, missing the bone.

Very lucky.

See him walking here or what?

Couple of days, Sutherland.

The shot went in and out cleanly.

Very lucky.

No one is that lucky. Right, Doc?

Exactly.

There was gunpowder tattooing around the entry wound and gunshot residue on the

right hand.

That lying bastard shot himself.

If I hadn't figured it out, you were going to tell me, weren't you? Of

course. But I would have got someone else to advise me on my novel.

You ought to be able to outmaneuver the deaf one.

The deaf one? The deaf one is a formidable opponent, my friend.

With all the help I'm giving you? Listen, if you... Oh, no! My client has

a right to have his attorney present at every site of the total interrogation.

This is a gross infringement of the Sixth Amendment.

You heard what he said, Cobb. I have a right... Hey!

What? Just checking out the $3 million wound here.

Ow! What?

What are you complaining about?

What is it? $100,000 a groan?

Let me ask you something. You shoot yourself mainly for the money, but try

to crank up that cock and bull story on the evil Elvis. It's true. Really, it's

true. You are a lying sack.

You want to shoot yourself again?

Here. Go on. Use my gun.

Come on.

Nah, I didn't think so.

I'll see you in court.

You pull the death penalty, I'll be the one there selling programs.

Hey, cop, wait a minute.

Come on, man.

Hear me out.

This had better be very good.

I'm a professor of comparative religion at Blackwell College.

My specialization is secular humanism.

Secular humanism? Is that a religion?

It prescribes a code of human behavior.

It accounts for the origin of all the planets and all living things.

It offers an explanation of the place of man in the universe.

Yes, it is a religion.

But it is not accepted by everyone as a religion.

It pretends not to be.

That's the insidious thing about it.

Insidious? In public schools, for example, teachers present it as a kind

of neutral norm and propagate its ideas under the banner of neutrality.

It's really indoctrination.

So if a Christian student rebutted those ideas, she would be exercising her

constitutional rights to be free of an alien religion.

Objection, Your Honor. Mr. Kane is asking the witness to make a legal

conclusion.

Mr. Kane.

I have nothing further for the professor.

What kind of institution is Blackwell College?

It's a Christian college.

We don't pretend to be something we're not. And in so-called secular humanist

institutions, such as the public schools of the United States, what kind of

religious ideas do they teach?

That evolution is a fact.

That there's no difference between men and women. That homosexuality is

acceptable behavior.

That's a big one nowadays.

These ideas are false?

They're value judgments.

Christianity has different values.

The Bible says homosexuality is an abomination.

We believe it.

Defense offers into evidence one Holy Bible King James Version.

Objection, Mr. King?

Oh, we welcome the word of God in this courtyard.

Would you show me, please, where the Bible forbids homosexuality?

If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman,

Both of them have committed an abomination.

They shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 20, 13.

Just a few lines away from Leviticus 19, 19.

Would you read that passage, please?

Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind.

Neither shall a garment mingled of woolen and linen come upon thee.

So, Mr. Tuttle?

Is a store that sells jackets made of a linen-wool blend an outpost of secular

humanism? Objection. The plaintiff opened this area, Your Honor. Indeed you

did, Mr. Kane.

Deuteronomy 25.5, Professor.

It says, If a man's brother dies childless, it is the duty of the

surviving brother to impregnate the dead man's widow.

Is anyone who opposes this practice a secular humanist?

Miss Zombrou, you are not a Bible scholar.

So I'm asking for your help.

Deuteronomy 21, 18.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, all the men of his city shall stone

him with stones that he die.

Are our laws against murder and abomination in the eyes of God?

I don't know how they even get police. They don't go outside.

If we could focus on the case, Ms. Kirby, you need to concentrate on the

legal issues instead of going off on tangents.

What, that hair-splitting crap you lawyers seem to think means something?

When you cross-examine Detective Gaddis tomorrow, you need to concentrate on the

guy you locked in the closet.

You know, the knife, the fact that he's got a record.

Make him look as bad as you can.

See? All those nasty leaves are dead.

And whatever you do, don't steamroll him. Let the jury see that Gaddis made a

mistake, that you're the victim of a terrible error.

Be calm.

Be logical.

Be nice.

Did it?

occur to you detective that the law applies to you as well as everyone else

did it occur to you you need a search warrant or an invitation before you go

barging onto people's private property yes to the first question no to the

second considering the circumstances your honor mrs kirby this area was

explored in pre-trial motions you lost

Then I want you to explain to the jury why the Bill of Rights applies to

criminals, riffraff, and lowlife, but offers no protection whatsoever to

people who work and pay their taxes on time and in full.

Mr. Kaufman?

Your Honor, I tried. I talked till I was hoarse. And I can tell you that this

woman has never heard anything anybody ever said to her.

It's not my fault.

Honest. Legal advisor.

He told me to be nice. Now what the hell kind of legal advice is that?

Ms. Kaufman, is the prosecution willing to stipulate that the police officers

had no warrant when they entered Ms. Kirby's office?

Yes, sir. If the court will instruct the jury that there was no need for a search

warrant in this instance.

Fine. Ms. Kirby.

Do you have any questions for this witness that do not pertain to search

warrants and smoking habits?

All my questions have to do with why I am here wasting my time on this drivel

in the first place, when I am the victim.

The victim, I tell you.

Boy, if you laid all the lawyers end to end, do you know what you would reach?

Stupidity!

Henry Constable did it, Cobb.

D-I-D-I-T. Was there an empty bottle of wagon wheel bourbon in the car?

What part of did it do you not understand?

Come on, Ernie. Was there a bottle?

One empty wagon wheel, one half-empty Kleenex box, three black socks.

Just his carpet prints?

We did.

And guess what?

We found Constable's prints on it.

Art, there he is.

That was because it was Constable's car.

We also found his prints on his gun that we found inside his car.

What other prints were on the car?

I don't know, Cobb.

The boys from the car wash?

Mr. King?

Your Honor, the plaintiff calls Martha Ellis, who requests that she be allowed

to swear on the Bible.

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

So help me God.

Now, Martha, you've heard people testify that your behavior in class bothered

other people.

How do you feel about that?

You can't fight the devil without bothering people who are doing the

devil's work.

You also heard them say that there is no place for God in the public schools.

Then there's something wrong with them, not me.

Can you tell us why you feel that way?

Because we were put on this earth to do God's bidding.

And the most important thing he bids us to do is to spread the gospel before

it's too late.

Ms. Zombrow gets to ask you some questions now, and you're going to have

to try to answer them, even if they may seem like bad questions.

Given the nature of the case and the age of the witness, I'm giving you a good

deal of leeway, Mr. Kane.

But I will instruct the jury to disregard your premature and unwarranted

characterizations of the cross-examination.

Are you finished?

Ms. Zambra.

Ms. Zambra.

Do you have any questions?

Martha.

You told us that God asked you to spread the gospel before it was too late.

What did you mean by that?

We're in the end time.

Jesus is coming.

Armageddon is coming.

Our only hope is the rapture.

Our only salvation is faith.

You understand that not everybody shares your beliefs.

Yes. Do you understand that no one at the school wanted you to change your

beliefs? They wanted me to shut up.

Don't you think that perhaps they just wanted you to extend to other people the

right to hold their own beliefs?

That they just wanted you to let the other children learn?

Learn lies?

Learn to serve Satan?

People have to listen.

And if they don't listen?

Then somebody has to make them listen.

I have no further questions, Your Honor.

Mr.

Kane, do you have any further witnesses?

No, Your Honor. The plaintiff rests.

Court is adjourned until 9 a.m. tomorrow, at which point the defense

will present its case in chief.

May I ask you a question?

Do you really think that your client, this little girl, is being well served

by what you're doing?

What am I doing, Ms. Zumbro?

I'm representing the interests of my client in the manner she requested.

Do you agree with her position? I am her attorney.

I'm following the ethics of my profession, of our profession, yours and

mine. And the dictates of your conscience?

I don't take cases that violate the dictates of my conscience, do you?

Is your conscience for rent to the highest bidder?

I have, on more than one occasion, represented clients who nauseated me.

What gives me that feeling in this case is not my client.

My client?

The little girl? Makes you sick? Seeing a little girl's entire life ruined makes

me sick.

She's been turned into an automaton. She has no capacity to think for herself.

She has no...

Standards for making her own judgments. She has the highest standard available

to any of us. What? Her parents' hysterical, apocalyptic interpretation

of God's word? The collapse of the moral structure of this country is directly

related to the declining belief in what the Bible teaches us.

Like it or not, Ms. Umbro, God is on Martha Ellis' side.

Isn't God on everybody's side, Mr. Kane?

Good night, Ms. Umbro.

Can you try to pay attention, Mr. Kohut?

I'm doing everything that you want me to do.

I understand that, and I appreciate it.

Now, when you're on the witness stand tomorrow, I'm going to ask you what

happened, and I want you to answer truthfully.

My client will do everything within his power to see that justice is done.

Thank you, Mr. Mervis. The truth will serve.

Will I get my boy back?

I don't know.

I'm cooperating.

Couldn't you just drop the charges so I could be with my boy?

If I get convicted, he won't have anybody.

It's up to the courts.

You're testifying against Miss Kirby, and she's testifying against you.

If her jury believes you, she loses.

If your jury believes her, you lose.

I'm sorry.

What do they wear at night in New Orleans?

You think it's going to be cold in the riverboat?

Fur wouldn't be right, would it?

Hello?

Billy Gordon told me a couple of things yesterday.

Billy Gordon, the lying sack of garbage?

He told me that Henry Constable and Elvis Blandings were buddies from

prison. And that Blandings...

told the burger joint job with Constable's gun, and that he ditched the

gun in Constable's car, along with a bottle of bourbon that he'd been

drinking. More Billy Gordon lies to increase his bargaining power with Tess?

Absolutely, but I found out that Blanding's and Constable did do time

together, and that Blanding's fingerprints were on Constable's car,

and that there was an empty bottle of bourbon in the car.

So they were friends.

Billy Gordon knew the brand name of bourbon.

How the hell would he know something like that?

Have you told Tess?

It doesn't prove that Constable didn't kill those people.

And even if he didn't kill those people, who cares? We know he killed other

people.

Absolutely.

If Constable was executed for a crime that he did not commit, and Tess finds

out about it,

it'd tear her apart.

Is it true?

I don't know.

I don't care.

What the hell?

Can't bring the guy back anyway. Who cares?

I just don't want to be the one to tell Tess.

It's pretty.

Yeah, spring.

Birds, the bees, beggars, buses.

Hard to believe that all this ends when?

When we die.

Unless we go to heaven.

Then we can look at the birds and the bees there.

People believe in that, Tess.

Do they really?

Yeah, well, they say that they believe it.

Yeah, well, people do struggle against dying.

Struggle against death.

Against going to heaven.

Even when their lives are pretty lousy.

Even when they live on death row.

Tess, you need to put this Henry Constable thing behind you.

I mean, you still can't believe Billy Gordon, do you? No.

I know we're talking about death. Death. Like death. The people that Henry

Constable killed.

Death.

Let it go.

I can't.

Ms. Zombrow?

Your Honor, the defense feels no need to present witnesses.

I would like to renew my motion that this case be dismissed.

What are your grounds, Counselor? The plaintiff has failed to make a prima

facie case that the school board acted outside its lawful sphere.

Your Honor. I don't need to hear it, Mr. Kane.

Ms. Zombrow is within her rights in deciding not to present a defense, but

this case will go to the jury.

Defense motion is denied.

Present your arguments, Counselor.

The guy's left a mess.

Don't worry about it. The maid will be here soon.

We can set up back here.

All right, Gordon, you got the drill? When Elvis gets here, you get him

talking about old times, like the time he killed six people at Juicy Burger.

You think this Elvis will show?

I don't think Elvis exists.

He exists plenty.

Now, do I got to wear this wire?

Or we take you back to jail and forget the whole thing.

We got a deal, right? If you deliver.

Why would he come visit a worm like this anyway?

Because I called him and I told him I can get a Tech 9 converted to automatic,

which he's been looking for for months.

Oh, shouldn't I have one here, Sean?

800 rounds per minute?

No, I don't think so.

Can we order a pizza?

Chinese.

Like you've been.

Well, here we are again.

Miss Kaufman, do you have another witness for us to put through the meat

grinder?

The people call Joseph Cohut.

If you don't forget about trying to make everybody admit you're right, you're

gonna lose this case. I am right.

Nobody cares.

What the hell is that?

I don't have to put up with it.

Fine, I give up. But don't think I'm going to take fleas off your calves for

the next three to five.

Mr. Cohut, do you recall the events on April 5th of this year?

I refuse to answer on the grounds that I don't have to sit here and incriminate

myself.

Can you tell me what's going on, Ms. Kaufman?

I would if I knew, Your Honor.

Try again.

On April 5th of this year, did you enter the office building at

358 Baxter Drive?

I refuse to answer.

Were you accosted inside that building by the defendant?

I refuse to answer. Same reason.

Did the defendant point a gun at you and lock you in a closet?

I refuse to answer. Same reason.

I have a police report and a statement from you.

in which you answered yes to all of these questions.

Do you remember making those statements?

Excuse me. Is she allowed to, uh, to browbeat her own witness, Judge? If the

little weasel wants to plead the fifties within his rights.

Although it could be argued people like him shouldn't have rights.

And I'm sure you're just the person to make that argument, Miss Kirby.

How do you wish to continue, Miss Kaufman?

I would like to introduce this witness's prior statements into evidence, Your

Honor. If he doesn't want to incriminate himself, he doesn't have to.

I just want my boy back.

I'm all he's got.

Your Honor?

Yes, Miss Kaufman?

The prosecution requests a continuance until 4 o'clock.

I suppose I should ask what the purpose of the continuance is, Counselor, but

the truth is, I don't care.

I'd like to try to settle these cases.

Mr. Kaufman, if you can make all of this go away, you will have earned

my... Everlasting gratitude.

I cannot believe this.

Now, you want me to have a record just so you can make that prune-faced judge

happy?

I'm offering you a way out of this mess with minimal damage.

I'd advise you to take it.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

My client was the victim in this case.

That horse has left the barn, Mr. Mervis.

Your client will never, ever in his life be offered a better deal than this one.

I'll take it.

I'll take it. You're letting him off with just a slap on the wrist? She's

letting you off with less than that.

Does this mean I get to stay with my dad?

I think so.

I'll talk with the juvenile authorities and the social services people.

We'll probably have to put up with some supervision for a while.

Anything.

I'll do anything.

He'll rob, he'll steal, he'll cheat, he'll pillage, he'll...

You will plead guilty

to one misdemeanor count of trespass.

You will plead guilty to one count of disturbing the peace.

Also a misdemeanor.

No jail time for either of you.

That's it.

That's all.

Take it or leave it.

Miss Kaufman, if it were not a breach of decorum, the court would descend from

the bench and kiss your hand.

Miss Kirby, Mr. Cohut, if I ever

see either one of you again, not just in my court, but anywhere, on the street,

in a restaurant, picking through a dumpster, I will not answer for the

consequences.

This case is dismissed in the interest of justice.

Your Honor?

Has the jury reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

We fine for the defense.

There is no justice in Caesar's courts.

Men who turn their face from God will find no solace in heaven.

The court thanks the members of the jury for their service and dismisses them

from their obligation.

It's not over, Ms. Zumbro.

I didn't expect it was, Mr. Kane.

I'll see you in appellate court.

Boy, it's gonna be a pleasure dumping you back in prison.

Yeah, well, don't you worry. Elvis will be here.

That's what you said three hours ago.

Well, maybe he don't know how to tell time.

Look,

I gotta go to the john.

Is that all right?

make me crawl through that window.

We're at the door jams. I had to go through the window.

That's it.

Party's over.

All right, look.

I know where he lives. I'll take you to his house.

What do you say?

I'm telling you he'll talk no problem.

Keep talking.

I look pretty stupid talking to myself.

Sing. Hub.

Why are you putting up with this bum?

Yes.

She's still mourning for Henry Constable?

Not like that.

If we eliminate this Elvis fairy tale, she can let herself off the hook.

He's gonna run.

So we'll catch him again.

I'll go get him!

I went down to the street. My man must have gone up to the roof.

How's he?

No more lies.

The dead man was Elvis Blandings.

He shot Gordon.

Probably? Probably.

The bullet was too fragmented to compare.

There was another guy there. He got away.

Well, if it was Elvis, do you think it was because...

Gordon fingered him for the restaurant murders? We don't know if Elvis knew

what Gordon was saying about him. I mean, he could have had ten other

reasons to shoot the guy.

So, we still don't know?

Gordon, Elvis, Constable, these were bad guys, Tess.

No one innocent got hurt here.

Tess, it's not bad.

I tried.

I'm ready to go.

Are you ready to go?

He's ready.

Thanks.

You're welcome.

You okay?

Awesome!