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I had a wonderful
time tonight, Carter.

Really wonderful.

Me, too.

Wonderful.
Wonderful.

(LAUGHS)

Carter, I can't go too fast.

I've only been separated
for three months and I...

It's just too soon.

I'm sorry.

Do you understand?
Sure.

It's just,
Kenny said, "If you don't get

a good kiss by
the third date, forget it."

Just be patient.

I'm in the process of
filing for a divorce,

and emotionally, I just need
a little more time.

Okay.

Oh, you are a doll.

Hey, what did I just say?

I'm sorry.

I mean,
a second ago you were sorry,

and then, boom,
you act like this!

Alice.

Oh, I am so sick and tired of you men
pretending to be sensitive,

and then turning into
groping, little grunts.

Alice.

You all pretend to be sweet.

You're not sweet.

You bring me flowers
and you think you're sweet?

Hey!

You want a flower, Carter?

CARTER: Alice!

Have a plant on me,
you penile pig.

Alice!

Hold still. Hold still.
I've just got one more.

(GROANING)
Oh, Carter, don't be such a baby.

You didn't even feel that.

Just tie the knot
and get me out of here.

I'm tying the knot.
I'm tying the knot.

Why don't you tell
me what happened?

I told you what happened.
I fell!

Oh, you didn't fall.

You've got
a laceration on the top

of your head,
you've got a cut lip.

You were in a fight.

Who hit you?
And don't lie to me.

I don't know. I was hit from behind.
I didn't see anything.

You weren't hit from behind, Carter.
Who brought you to my office?

None of your business, Jill.

Well, I think it is
my business, Carter.

I get an emergency phone call
in the middle of the night.

A woman's voice telling me...
That's it.

...that you've been in an accident.
That's it. I'm out of here.

First you tell me
that you were hit from behind,

and now you tell
me that you fell?

Why does that make
it your business?

Well,
I have a legal duty to report

any crime that's
been committed,

and I think one's
been committed here.

Well, then, report it.
I'll just deny everything.

Fine.

Fine!

(DOOR SLAMMING)

How did you get in here?

The point is,
Matthew, I'm here.

MAXINE: Here for you.

Me?

Chocolate cake,

Game Boy and me.

Which would you like first?

What about my parents?

Oh, they won't hear.

I have something else.
What?

Just for you.

Ted Williams, rookie card. Mint.

Wow.

Not yet.

First, you have to kiss me.

Then I have to show
you something else.

This.

(GULPS)

So here we go.

(GASPS)

Mom! Dad!

Matthew?

What is it? What's wrong?

Nothing. Nothing.

(STAMMERING) I had a dream.

I wake up
drenched in sweat, Jill.

My heart pounds so hard,
I think it's going to explode.

Well,
your blood pressure's up,

but that's just
because you're upset.

I'm more than upset.

Last night,
I almost killed Carter Pike.

What?

I broke
a planter over his head.

I knocked him out.
I could've killed him.

Yes, I know.
I stitched him up.

What the hell happened?

He got a little aggressive
and I went berserk. I just overreacted.

Well, Alice, you're under
an enormous amount of stress.

You're going
through a divorce.

For the first time in your adult life,
you'll be facing life alone.

No, no. It's not fear
of being alone, Jill. Come on.

If that were it, I would be clinging
to Carter, not fracturing his skull.

My husband's ruined me,
that's what it is.

I hate men.

I can't be with any man.

I just end up scared.

A little counseling
and you're going to be just fine.

I'm going to prescribe
a very mild antidepressant.

I'm okay? Really?

Really.

Jill.

Did Alice
Freeman beat you up?

Are you crazy?

Jill said somebody did.

I know you had a date
with Alice last night.

This is my private business.
You have no right...

Carter,
just tell me what happened.

If it's nothing,
I'll blow it off.

It was just a little
rough sex, that's all.

Rough sex? How?

We got a little out of control,
bumped into the porch wall,

and the planter
came down on my head.

Well, last week,
Ellen McGrath said that

Alice tried to run
her down on Elm Street.

Alice tried to
run down Ellen?

Now, Alice said that
the accelerator stuck.

But Ellen didn't see
it that way at all.

If this woman had a psychotic episode
with you last night,

I want to know about it.

No.

No.

Just a little overzealous necking,
that's all.

Really?

What, you think nobody wants to kiss me
but former men?

Is that it, Max?

I didn't say that, Carter.

Plenty of people
go out with me,

I've got a good
profile in this town.

I'm not desperate.

Maxine, let's go.

What?

Alice Freeman just ran over her husband.
Let's move it.

(POLICE SIREN WAILING)

With a steamroller?

Max. Here you go.

Thanks.

We will need
an official pronouncement.

She ran him over
with a steamroller?

Neighbors said
they had an argument.

She hit him with the shovel first,
knocked him unconscious,

then she went for the drive.

Where did she
get a steamroller?

Construction crew
left the keys in it.

Jimmy, she's ready
to make a full confession.

Will you take her
down to the station?

Get moving,
for crying out loud.

What's going on?
Everybody's standing around.

JIMMY: Get the thing started!

Hey, get that thing going.

JIMMY: Carter!

(SIREN WAILING)

Go to it.

We started arguing
over the settlement, as always.

I was upset over
the prenuptial agreement.

This argument took
place in the driveway?

Yeah. I don't remember
why we started yelling.

Parts of it are blank.

But I do remember I
felt like I was on fire.

You felt like
you were on fire?

Carter, she's confessing?

Evidently.
As soon as they finish,

they're taking her down to court
for the arraignment.

But what happened to her?

Bipolar mood disorder. Mixed or manic,
I can't be sure.

Could be dysthymia.

But my bet's a major
depressive hyper-manic

episode bordering
on psychosis.

(BELL RINGING)

If they wouldn't have called my last
breakaway offside,

I would have had four goals.

Yeah, right.

Hey, Peter, you should be happy
with the hat trick.

I mean,
if they had a good goalie,

you wouldn't
have got anything.

(ALL LAUGHING)

Hey, look.
Matthew's got a post-game-on.

Shut up.

Are you excited
to see us, Matt?

I said shut up.

Uh-oh. There it goes.

BOY: It's sad now.

♪ You lost
that loving feeling

I'm telling you guys,
shut up.

ALL: ♪ Whoa, that
loving feeling ♪

(ALL YELLING)

Fight! Fight!

MATTHEW: Get off of me!

Come on, now. Let's go!

I don't want to
talk about it.

Well, you're going to talk about it,
young man.

You broke a boy's nose.

They started it.
Look here.

You don't use
karate offensively.

Most of it was defense, Dad.

What happened, Matthew? Here.

They made fun of me,
I got mad, I got even.

You know, you've been acting
very peculiar lately.

You didn't say
a word at breakfast.

You didn't look at
your Cocoa Puffs.

Something is wrong.

Nothing's wrong.

Matthew,
we're your parents.

If something's the matter,
of course, you can discuss it with us.

Nothing is wrong.

BAILIFF: Case Number 42333,
People v. Alice Freeman,

murder in the first degree.

Douglas Wambaugh,
appearing for the steamroller.

Wave reading.
My client pleads not guilty

by reason of temporary insanity
brought upon by menopause.

What?

Menopause. You know,
when women parts dry up,

and the hormones
start swirling around like...

I know what menopause is.

And it is not insanity.

When did you go through it?

Your Honor,
I would like to offer you

the medical records
of Dr. Paul Marino,

who is the leading ob-gyn
here in Wisconsin.

He treated my
client three months ago

and diagnosed
the onset of menopause.

I don't care.

Menopause is not
an insanity defense.

It is now.

The prosecution will be ready
to proceed quickly, Your Honor.

Let's go.
Call your first witness.

Wambaugh!

Your Honor,
the facts here are not in dispute.

We could stipulate
as to what happened.

She flattened dear John
with a John Deere.

BONE: Hey.
A person died here.

Don't you be making jokes
in my courtroom about it.

Forgive me, Your Honor.

But we have two victims here.

The other is my client,
Alice Freeman.

And, in her interest, I ask that this
matter not be drawn out.

The main thing at issue here
is the insanity defense.

So let's swear in a jury,
put those medical experts up there,

and let's try this thing.

(GAVEL POUNDING)

Chambers.

You serious?
You both ready to go now?

Well, I need time to round up
my medical experts,

but the fact-finding is done.

What have you got?

Three eyewitnesses
plus a videotaped confession.

Well, I just had to
cancel the Fineman trial.

Ross came down with gout.

Um, I've got a jury
already sworn in.

How many women on it?
Six.

I'll take them.
Hey, wait a second.

I want some voir dire.
I can't just...

Meet with them
this afternoon.

Today is, uh, Tuesday.
We can start next Monday.

That will give you almost a week
to line up your experts.

Fine.
Then we've agreed.

Trial date is set,
Monday the 12th at 10:00.

And everybody is happy,
happy, happy.

Now, get out.

I could read your mind, Henry.
We're like old friends.

(CHUCKLES)

Get out!

Why wouldn't you tell me
you'd been diagnosed?

I'm 40 years old. I didn't really believe
I could be getting menopause.

How could I be?

All right, the feeling of burning skin,
the night sweats. Did it...

What about your sex drive?

Sometimes it
can make you less, you know.

I think it's okay.

And--And what about
when you have sex?

Do you experience dryness?

I'm sorry.

You still feel like
having sex, is that right?

I haven't had sex for over six months,
so I wouldn't know.

I do have a libido, though.
I know I do.

All right, good, good.
This is good.

What is good about it?

Who cares about
my sex drive, Jill?

I killed my husband!

I'm just
checking your symptoms.

(CRYING)

John is dead.

I murdered my own husband.

Doctor-patient privilege.

I can't talk to you.

Yes, you can.
They already introduced

your medical
records in court.

They plan to put them in evidence,
so privilege is waived.

You can sit down.

When did you
treat Alice Freeman?

Three months ago, I examined her twice,
I diagnosed likely menopause,

she ran out of the room,
and I never saw her since.

Now, according to Jill Brock,

she never even brought up
the idea of menopause.

Now, you're telling us
that you talked with her

about it three months ago?

Yes.
But the fact that the idea

remained foreign
is not surprising.

Menopause stirs up
tremendous powers of denial,

especially among
younger patients.

She completely
denied it with me.

She was obviously hoping for
a different diagnosis from another doctor.

Can this condition
make a person temporarily insane?

Enough to commit murder?

No.
Not even in extreme cases.

And Alice Freeman
was not an extreme case.

She wasn't?

Her estrogen levels were down,
but not that dramatically.

She did not kill her husband
because of menopause.

Will you testify
to that in court?

No. It's not my habit to testify
against former patients.

I understand that, but you're the leading
obstetrician in this state.

I mean, you're
published on menopause.

We've got a murder here.

Your habits aside,
we need your help.

Doctor-patient
communications...

Selective waiver,
I can get around that.

Look, this woman is inventing
an insanity defense.

You're
the person to refute that.

JILL: Well, I don't
care what Dr. Marino says.

I'm testifying for Alice.

What?

Well, she demonstrated
all the symptoms, Jimmy.

Her menopause is real,
and I think it is extreme.

Why didn't you diagnose it?

Well, she's-- she's only 40.

I--I didn't even
think about menopause.

I mean, God, 40.

You know, I read
an article some time ago.

It said a woman over 40
can still be interested in sex.

Really?
Yeah.

In some countries.

Not in this one.

No, no, no, no.

(SIGHING)

I guess you think you're just
pretty funny, huh?

What are you doing?

Oh, I'm just being a doctor.

I'm giving you a physical.

Cough.

Oh!

(BOTH MOANING)

Reflexes are normal.

What's it going to be, Matthew,
hockey or sex?

I got in trouble in the locker room
because of you.

Why?

Were you thinking
about me, Matthew?

I wasn't
thinking about hockey.

Good.

I don't think you're going to be thinking
about hockey tonight, either.

What's gonna happen?

Sex.

Sex is going to happen.

(GULPS)

Freeze! Out of
the bed with your hands up.

I didn't do anything.
Yes, you did. It was all you.

Out of the bed or I'll shoot.
No!

Oh, man.

MATTHEW: Something's
wrong with my penis.

Excuse me?

I think it's sick.

Sick how?

A couple of times at night,

it exploded.

What do you mean, "exploded"?

Some...

Something came out.

Oh. Were you having a dream?

You were dreaming about sex,
weren't you?

And that's the punishment?

It's-- It's not punishment, Matthew.

It was... Do you remember
having that conversation

about Mr. Seed and Mrs. Egg?

Yeah.
Well...

That was Mr. Seed
that came out.

It was?

I thought it would be
like a little pellet.

Why do they call it a seed?

First Kimberly, now you.

Now me what?

What?

It's nothing to
worry about, Matthew.

You're just...

You're changing hormones,
that's all.

I got menopause?

No, you don't have menopause.

Puberty.

Carter, you've got to.

No. No!

I don't wanna testify.

I need you.

I'm not an ob-gyn.

The jury knows you
just like they know Jill.

In fact, you'll count
more than any of those

textbook
experts we parade in.

Plus which, your version of the date
that you had with Alice

will help show
that she's crazy.

That's exactly why
I don't want to get up there.

Carter.
No!

I'll be humiliated.

"Carter Pike
kissed a transsexual.

"Carter Pike tried to kiss Alice Freeman,
gets knocked unconscious."

She used a planter.

Nobody could
stand up to that.

I'm tired of being ridiculed.

I'm tired of being typecast

as the lonely
medical examiner

with
the left-handed sex life.

What are you talking about?

I'm talking about a person's
sexuality being a stigma.

It's a fact.
It's a simple fact.

Well, here's another fact.

I'm trying an insanity defense
based on menopause.

Now, that's a long shot.

Her own doctor,
who is the top ob-gyn in this state,

is testifying for
the prosecution.

Now, if you don't help me,

Alice Freeman could be going to jail
for the rest of her life.

Don't you care
about this person?

Of course I care.
I care a lot.

Then forget about your ego.

Carter,
do something to help her.

Tell me, sir,

what happened just
before this petite,

little woman
knocked you unconscious?

We were being romantic.

Suddenly she started to rant.
She was yelling at me.

She shoved me into the wall,

started
screaming about flowers,

and then she beamed
me with the planter.

And in your opinion,
did she understand

the nature and
quality of her actions?

No, sir, she did not.

In my opinion, and I'm a doctor,
chief pathologist,

she could not
distinguish right from wrong at the time.

This insane
behavior occurred when, Dr. Pike?

The day before she
killed her husband.

Thank you. Nothing further.

Your witness.

(CLEARS THROAT)

How long had you been dating
the defendant?

Well,
we were on our third date

the night of
the planter incident.

So, you know her?

Yeah, I do.

Do you make room
for the possibility

that she staged
the planter incident

in order to set up
this insanity defense?

That's ridiculous. Her behavior with me
was completely genuine.

I can attest to that both as a layman
and as a medical doctor.

Got any
psychiatric training, Carter?

No, I do not.

No medical
expertise whatsoever

in diagnosing behavior,
right?

No formal medical
training in that field,

but I'm an excellent
judge of character.

An excellent
judge of character?

Well, when you were trying
to French kiss the defendant,

did you think it
was in her character

to knock you out
with one punch?

Badgering.

PETROVEK:
And the last woman you dated

before Alice Freeman,
Louise Talbot,

did you sense in her character
she used to be a man?

That isn't fair!
All right.

In fact, Dr. Pike,

living people aren't
even your specialty, are they?

You work with corpses.

I'm a highly
trained medical scientist.

Didn't you once
tell Deputy Maxine Stewart

that the only reason
you went into pathology

was because treating already dead people
was the only way

you could be sure
of not killing your patients?

DOUGLAS:
Your Honor, I object.

You think that's funny?

Objection. No relevance.

Withdrawn. Uh, I'm done.

You can step down, Carter.
We'll take a recess.

MAN: Attaboy, Carter.

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

(MEN LAUGHING)

MAXINE: Carter.

I'll bet you got a big laugh
telling that to the DA.

A big, belly, bullock laugh.
Good for you.

I didn't tell him in a context
I thought he'd ever use it.

I can't take it, Maxine.
You hear them laughing in there?

You hear it?

Carter, the people in this town
adore you. They respect you.

That's why
Wambaugh put you up there.

The people in this town think
I'm a limp, little Muppet.

I have sexual prowess, Maxine.

I'm sure you do.

Everybody says
menopause is so awful for the woman.

Well, let me tell you, it's no great
shakes being the man sometimes.

The onus of masculinity...
All right, Carter.

...the pressure
of performance.

Nobody has
questioned your masculinity.

Yeah, well, sometimes
I have to question it.

Hey. You're forgetting,
Alice Freeman is nuts about you.

She's apparently
nuts in general. She...

Carter. When this is all over,
if she gets off,

I say you go find the biggest bunch
of roses you can,

go over to her
house and celebrate.

I'm sure she'd love that.

Really?
Really.

We're winning.
Why should we accept a plea?

You're not winning. We've got her own
doctor ready to testify.

If you were that cocky,
you would still go for murder one.

Now, the fact is...

The fact is,
you planned the whole thing.

You dated Carter to
lay the groundwork,

you visited Jill to line her up
as a character witness.

Skip the terrorism.
We're not gonna fold.

You think it
was premeditated?

You think I actually
planned to kill John?

I'll tell you
what I know, Alice.

Menopause is
a misunderstood condition.

Doctors are confused.

It lends itself perfectly
to reasonable doubt.

It's also
a temporary condition.

You don't get institutionalized.

Now, as insanity defenses go,
it's a good one.

You can win,

and you can walk
away completely free.

KIMBERLY: As the lips meet,
you close your eyes.

MATTHEW: Like this?

Don't forget to
turn your head.

Why?

So the noses don't hit.

You don't want nose on nose.

So you turn your head
slightly to the left or right.

That's good.

What's the French part?

The French part
is, um, after you kiss,

you can open up
your lips a little

and let your
tongue touch hers.

Can I get AIDS from that?

No.

Okay. Then what?

I lick her?

No, you don't lick her.

And don't come
in tongue first.

Lips meet, then, tongue.
And go easy.

Should I make sounds?

What?

Well, in the movies when they kiss,
they make little sounds.

Not groans, but sounds.

Well, you just kind of sigh.

Like this.

(SIGHING)

Boy. I kind of wish I
didn't get hormones.

I think you'll be fine.

And what's this
with the ears?

I hear girls like to
get their ears licked.

PETROVEK: Menopause can
make a person crazy?

It's possible.

Dr. Brock, when Alice Freeman
left your office that day,

she seemed sane, didn't she?
Yes, but...

In fact, you didn't
even diagnose that she

was suffering from menopause,
did you?

I hadn't had a chance
to look at Dr. Marino's records.

But when I did,
her estrogen levels were definitely...

I'm not talking
about Dr. Marino.

You didn't
diagnose menopause.

In many cases, it goes
unrecognized by doctors.

Even obstetricians
often falsely attribute

these symptoms to stress,
as I did.

She's sitting in your office,
you examine her,

you don't see menopause.

Now you're asking this jury
to accept the premise

that her symptoms were so extreme
they can excuse murder.

Her symptoms were extreme.
This is a hormonal imbalance

that can definitely affect the mind,
Mr. Petrovek.

It can cause women
to become different people.

In extreme situations,
it can even cause episodes of insanity.

By "extreme," you mean remote,
right, Doctor? Very rare.

It had happened to her.

How can you say that
with any medical certainty?

She flattened her husband
with a steamroller.

What is that if not insane?

Oh, so murder is
proof of insanity.

I guess we should let all killers go.
They're all crazy.

Don't twist my words,
Mr. Petrovek.

Your words are clear, Doctor.
It's your logic that's twisted.

Objection!

All right, all right.

I'm sorry, Your Honor.
I'm done.

Well, do you know
what your problem is?

You, like most men,
have no concept of menopause.

JIMMY: Oh, that woman knew
what she was doing, Jill.

How can you say that?

That kind of
certainty only comes

from narrow-mindedness
or ignorance.

Oh, come on, Jill.
You're talking about

a hot flash
justifying murder.

It was more than
just a hot flash.

Have you gone through it?

No, I haven't. Have you?

No. I'm only 27.

Well, you've shown more symptoms
than I have.

So,
what's that supposed to mean?

All right,
all right, all right.

Well, she accused me first.

Do you see?

Now this is the kind of shame and denial
associated with menopause,

which is the reason
that in the 20th century,

with all of our
modern medicine,

we still know
almost nothing about it.

Have you gone through it?

No, Ginny,
I haven't gone through it.

Well, that little fit with your father,
that wasn't normal.

JIMMY: Ginny.
What did you tell her?

Never mind. Jimmy, I want to
know what you told her.

Makes them crazy
just talking about it.

Shut up, Kenny.

JILL: Jimmy, you tell
me what you told her.

Forty is early,
but not uncommon.

And you diagnosed menopause
with Alice Freeman?

Yes. I tested her pituitary hormones,
checked her estrogen level,

and determined early onset.

Dr. Marino, as this woman's
treating gynecologist,

and as chairman of
the Midwest Obstetric

and
Gynecological Association,

do you have an opinion
as to whether or not

menopause could render
a woman homicidally insane?

It is my
opinion that menopause

did not make
Alice Freeman insane.

Even with extremely
low estrogen levels

and a severe
hormonal imbalance,

a woman will not
become homicidal.

And with Alice, well, she only suffered
a mild estrogen drop.

PETROVEK: So,
the defense claim,

based on your medical data,
your examination,

their claim that menopause
induced insanity,

that claim is invalid?

That claim is invalid.

Thank you, Doctor.
That's all.

I've been a police officer for 22 years.
I know what I see.

She is guilty.

And I've been a doctor for 13 years
and I know what I see.

What are you doing?

I'm horny. Let's go.

Jill, come on. Not again.

I mean,
day and night for the last...

For over a week.

I'm sore.

Why do you have to
keep count like that?

Why can't you just make love?

That's the point.
I've lost count.

Are you, uh, taking
hormones or something?

What's that supposed to mean?

I didn't say
anything about...

I have a sexual appetite.
Is that all right with you?

Can I have a sexual appetite?

Excuse me? What,
I'm too old for you now?

You don't find me
attractive anymore?

What are we talking about?

I don't want to
talk about anything.

Oh, I get it. Alice Freeman is 40
and she's got menopause.

You're scared that...

Oh, Jimmy,
I'm not scared of anything.

If you don't
want to make love,

that's fine, but don't
blame it on my libido.

So that's what this
sex marathon is about.

You're trying to
prove your sexual...

Oh, shut up, Jimmy.
Just shut up.

What's going on here, Jill?

I get back pains.
That could be a symptom.

Jill.

I've had a little weight gain.
That could be a symptom, too.

Most women
don't feel anything,

so the stuff
that I don't feel,

that would be
consistent with that.

Oh, this is crazy.

Well,
that's a symptom, too, Jimmy.

Oh, God, I'm crazy.

(STAMMERING)
I've got back pains. I'm crazy.

I've spent the last
week attacking you

just to prove
my own sexuality.

I'm throwing things.
Here I am...

That could be a symptom, too.

This could be
happening to me.

Okay, I won't give you the keys
to the steamroller then.

Oh, that is not funny.
That is not funny.

She's 40, I'm 40.
It can happen at 40.

Oh, God, how can it
happen at 40? I'm...

Forty.

I cross-examine
the doctor tomorrow.

I could lose, Miriam.

I don't like to lose.

She killed somebody.
Maybe you should lose.

When you were going
through the change,

did you think
about killing me?

In 40 years of marriage,
a day hasn't gone by

I haven't thought
about killing you.

Really, Miriam. Did this menopause thing
make you crazy?

It certainly terrified me.

My mother never
told me about it.

My friends never
talked about it.

I thought...

I thought I wouldn't
be a woman anymore.

But we still have
sex on the holidays.

Well, it didn't
change my sex drive.

I've still got it.

In fact, when I saw you hop in bed
with that porno book,

I thought maybe I
had a chance tonight.

No, no. This isn't porno.

This is Dr. Marino's book.

I've got to crucify him
on that stand tomorrow or I'll lose.

A man testifying
against his former patient.

That isn't right.

Explain to me about
this menopause thing.

All I can explain, Douglas,
is that you or Sheriff Brock

or Judge Bone or Dr. Marino,
you'll never understand it.

And Jill Brock,
she doesn't have a clue, either.

Until you've lived it,
you can't understand it.

This doesn't help me, Miriam.

Now, most of the expert testimony
has been a wash so far.

But Dr. Marino, the defendant's
former doctor,

is clearly
the decisive witness.

It was a major coup
for the prosecution,

and unless defense counsel
can trip him up,

chances favor a conviction.

Well, Dr. Marino,

I didn't enjoy your
testimony at all yesterday.

It was very upsetting.

I'm sorry.

The first question,
Dr. Marino.

When did you
examine my client?

Three months ago.

And at that time, sleeplessness

and swollen feet
were her only symptoms.

Correct. A mild case.

When she went to
visit Dr. Jill Brock a week ago,

her symptoms
were night sweats,

migraines, loss of memory,
hot flashes...

Assuming those
symptoms were true.

Do you have any reason
to doubt Dr. Jill Brock?

MARINO: No, but...

Oh, so the patient
that you examined three months ago

may not be the same person
that she examined,

the person
that's on trial here.

Even if that's true,
that kind of progression

in three months
would be very unusual.

Unusual?

What is the usual progression
of menopause?

Well,
there's no typical duration.

It could be six
weeks or six years.

So how can you tell this court
what's usual or unusual

for a three-month period?

You're right.
I misspoke there.

Well,
as long as we caught it.

DOUGLAS:
Oh, by the way, Doctor,

I have here a book
called The Golden Lochness.

You wrote this book,
didn't you?

Yes.

I read it a little. I enjoyed the pictures
in the middle very much.

BONE: Get on with it.

I underlined
a section here in chapter two.

Now, these are your words.

Do you mind
reading it for the court?

BONE: Read it quickly.

(CLEARING THROAT)

"The experience of menopause
is an individualized one.

"Every woman brings
her own body chemistry,

"her own personality
into the transition."

There are no absolutes?

No.

And here you are testifying
about absolutes.

Well, there are certainly norms
and general...

In your preface,
Doctor, you wrote

that you chose the title
The Golden Lochness

because menopause
represents a mysterious monster

that medical science
cannot either define or predict, right?

Yes.

Then how can you
tell this court with any medical certainty

that menopause
cannot cause homicidal insanity?

That kind of extreme
would be so highly improbable...

We're not talking
about probabilities, Doctor.

I'm talking
about possibilities.

Is it possible?

Possible, maybe.
Ah, thank you.

But I have never heard
of such an extreme case.

But you can't rule
out the possibility

that menopause has caused my client
to become insane enough

to kill her husband, can you?

In my 22 years...
You can't rule that out, can you?

No.

DOUGLAS: What's that, Doctor?

I said no.
I can't rule it out.

DOUGLAS: Thank you, Doctor.

You just hand-delivered
reasonable doubt, gift-wrapped.

The guy asked
the right questions. All right.

You should have been cutting him off.
All right.

Objecting to what?
All right!

Put me back up there.
I can give some statistics.

You've done enough!

Dr. Marino, please,
would you excuse us?

You should have been objecting.
Get out!

I don't know, Jimmy.

But I'm pretty good
at closing arguments.

But I don't know
if I'm this good.

Well, maybe...

Maybe we're wrong.

The truth seems to
be that menopause

is something we
don't understand.

Now, don't get me wrong,
I think she's guilty.

But I've got to admit,

I never even considered she
could be innocent.

(CHUCKLES)

Sexuality is
a terrifying thing

when you
discover it in puberty

or when you
lose it at old age.

It cuts you
right to the core.

A man can be accomplished,
but with a battered sense of sexuality,

he feels he is nothing.

DOUGLAS: A woman can lead
a professional, productive life,

may not even want children,

but when her
reproductive system is threatened,

she suddenly
doesn't know who she is.

This menopause thing...

Oh, I've read many books.

Ten different doctors
tell you ten different things.

It just gets more confusing.

Look how it
affected Alice Freeman.

She drove the car
at Ellen McGrath,

she went on a rage
with Carter Pike,

she complained to
Dr. Jill Brock

that she thought that
she was going crazy.

Could it cause
homicidal behavior?

If you choose not to
believe our experts,

if you choose not to believe
Dr. Jill Brock and Dr. Carter Pike,

two of our most
trusted members in our community,

then at least
choose to believe

the prosecution's expert,
Dr. Paul Marino,

supposedly the leading ob-gyn
here in Wisconsin.

He told you. I've asked him.

Did menopause cause this woman
to be homicidal?

He answered, "It's possible."

It's possible.

What is it, then,
if not reasonable doubt?

(PEOPLE MURMURING)

Millions and
millions and millions

of women have gone
through menopause.

Struggled with it.

Some more
successfully than others.

They have hot flashes,
episodes of irritability,

even crises in esteem.

But they don't commit murder.

This woman did.

The question before you

isn't whether menopause
made Alice Freeman homicidal.

The answer to that is obviously yes.
I mean, it did.

The question is,
did it make her insane?

Did she know
what she was doing

when she drove
that steamroller over her husband?

Of course she did.

She hit him with a shovel,
went back,

climbed into a sophisticated
piece of machinery,

operated it perfectly,
maneuvering it over the man,

splattering him all
over the driveway,

leaving her with
a $3-million estate,

which she
otherwise would have lost

because of
a prenuptial agreement.

And her defense to
that is menopause?

A condition that'll
affect over 40 million women

in the next 20 years alone.

I mean, if you buy
what she's asking you to buy,

I mean, if you legitimize menopause
as a defense to homicide,

I mean, you license every woman
in this country, ultimately,

to start up their
tractor engines.

That is a cold,
calculating woman.

She kissed Carter Pike
and then flattened him,

in order to set
up his testimony.

She went to Jill Brock,
complained of being crazy,

and secured her testimony.

And now she's
looking to dupe you.

Don't be fooled,
ladies and gentlemen.

Don't you dare be fooled.

BAILIFF: Will
the defendant please rise?

Members of the jury,
what say you?

In the case of Wisconsin v.
Alice Freeman,

charge of murder
in the first degree,

we find
the defendant not guilty

by reason of
temporary insanity.

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

- Is that an inquiry?
- The jury gets it.

Told you. Did we bet?

No.

BONE: Quiet.

(GAVEL POUNDING)

I understand that
Mrs. Freeman

is currently under a successful
estrogen program.

This medical treatment
shall remain court-supervised.

In the meantime,
you are free to go.

This court is adjourned.

Do you realize what a precedent
this verdict is?

If menopause
remains a medical mystery,

then reasonable doubt
will always be available.

Wives everywhere will start wiping
out their husbands

every time they
get a hot flash.

Well, I've already
ordered my forklift.

Honey,
I'm sorry I was such a kook.

I was just suffering from sympathetic
menopause, that's all.

You're really
scared of it, aren't you?

No, it's a perfectly natural phase
in every woman's life.

There's nothing
to be scared of.

I'm terrified.

What if you don't look at me
the same way anymore?

Oh, honey,
don't worry about that.

I'll just look at other women.
Oh, you jerk.

You creep.

You worm.

Don't you be getting...

You get upstairs.
You get upstairs.

No, you just do what I tell you,
right now.

It's okay.
Come on, now!

MARINO: Come over here.

(ALICE LAUGHING)