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♪ I'll have a blue Christmas ♪

♪ Without you ♪

♪ I'll be so blue
Just thinking ♪

♪ About you ♪

♪ Decorations of red... ♪

Are you nuts?

You can't sing a sad song on a Christmas
pageant, it's supposed to be happy.

Holidays aren't merry for everybody.
It's the loneliest time of the year.

So call an escort service
and don't bother us.

It's that kind of insensitivity
that compounds the melancholy.

[Douglas] ...unite.

[Carter] It's not your pageant,

I get to sing the song I want.

Would you keep it down, please?

Oh, honey, is your head
still hurting?

I feel a little dizzy.

♪ Have a holly jolly
Christmas ♪

♪ It's the best time
Of the year ♪

♪ Now I don't know
If there'll be snow... ♪

[doorbell rings]

Ah, good.

It's the police telling us
to quiet down.

♪ And when you walk
Down the street ♪

♪ Say hello
To friends you know... ♪

- Hey.
- Hi.

I'm looking for Carter.

- Carter.
- [Carter] Right here.

Somebody dead?

Uh, yeah.

Heart attack. ER.
Doctor already pronounced.

Suspicious? Foul play?

No. Simple cardiac arrest.

We don't you
for anything official.

Then why do you want him?

Well, uh...

I'm sorry.

It was your mother.

♪ Now I don't know
If there'll be snow... ♪

[theme music playing]

[theme music ends]

Hi, Mom.

Well...

You'd usually find a way
to ruin Christmas.

Carter.

Lyman.

I came as soon as I heard.

Mom.

Her heart?

Went into a cardiac arrest
while watching TV.

Hi, Mom.

You know, she'd usually find
a way to ruin Christmas.

Yeah.

She's dead, Lyman.

We don't have any parents left.

Well... I got to find out how.

- Better get to work.
- What do you mean "get to work?"

I got a lot to do, toxicology, dissection,
internal examination.

You're gonna autopsy Mom?

Of course, this is
a suspicious death.

What suspicious?
She had heart disease.

It could just look that way.

You're not cutting up Mom.

Lyman, I'm chief pathologist.
It's my job.

I've been a pathologist longer
than you have, this is natural cause.

You have no jurisdiction here.

- No!
- What's wrong with you?

You're interfering with
an official investigation.

I'm interfering with
a certified nut!

What kind of a pathologist
has a piano in his cutting room?

That's to practice
for the Christmas pageant.

- If you wanna embark on one of your postmortem--
- Stop interfering.

If anybody's gonna autopsy mom
it's gonna be me!

I'm the medical examiner of Hogan county,
this is my case. You get out!

If you so much as to make one incision,
I swear, I'll have your license.

Get out!

We'll see about this.

[Ginny] Emergency.
Rome High School.

[Max] We're on it.

[woman screams]

Back me up.

Come on, Ricky, come on now.
Put that thing down.

No!

- Help!
- Shut up!

Ricky, just take it easy.

- What happened?
- Take care of the kids.

He just went crazy,
he tied her to the tree.

Ricky, put the flagpole down.

Get away! She's my angel.

She's my angel!

Don't take another step closer,
she's my angel.

- He keeps calling her his angel.
- Ricky.

♪ Away in a manger
No crib for his bed ♪

- [Denise] Please help!
- Show and tell is over.

Kenny.

You've got a flagpole,
I've got a gun.

- Shut up!
- [Kenny] See the star, Ricky?

[woman screams]

- I never miss what I shoot at, Ricky.
- Kenny.

You don't want me
shooting at you.

[groans]

Hey, look what you did.

Look what you did to my angel.

Put down the pole, now!

[indistinct chatter]

[man] All right.

Get this in the... staff,
they are waiting for him.

- Got it.
- Keep him in those restraints.

Denise, you fainted from fear

but you're just fine
to go back to school.

Oh, thanks.

And you... You...

- You're going home to bed. You have the flu.
- I'm fine.

You're not fine. Your temperature
is a 100. You're going to bed.

- I'll phone in.
- Bed rest.

Don't answer
his calls, Max. Bye.

Oh...

I should've seen
this last night.

I'm okay.

How about the Welch kid,
has he got the flu?

No. It's more like crack.

Crack?

Crack cocaine?

- [woman] In Rome, Wisconsin?
- [Kenny] Hospital confirmed it.

Cocaine in his bloodstream.

You have to act, Kenny. Fast.

- We'll question Ricky Welch as soon as he gets released.
- Not enough.

The parents are gonna go wild.

We have to do something proactive to show
the people that we are responding.

Well, I'll talk to Jimmy
and see what he says.

The problem is now.

You're the acting sheriff.

This panic could spread like
a brush fire, we must act now.

[Lyman] An injunction.
I want an injunction.

Hold on.

- Do you have a lawyer?
- I did two years of law school.

I can bring legal motions
if I want to.

- I'm gonna miss Hanukkah.
- Quiet.

Your Honor, it was cardiac arrest,
it was natural causes

and I don't want him getting
knife happy with my mother.

She's my mother, too, and I'm a better
pathologist than you.

- Ha! [indistinct]
- I'm state pathologist of the year.

Two years running over you.

Ask him about the piano, Judge,
he's a wacko.

- This man's a wacko.
- Shut up.

My county, my autopsy.

My mother and she wanted me
making these decisions.

This is Hogan county.
It's Carter's official call

if he wants to dissect
his mother.

[indistinct]

Shut up, everybody.

If Carter wants to do an autopsy,
I suppose that's his official right.

Over the objection of family.

He is family. So are you.

And since you are also a pathologist,
my ruling is this:

You can both do the examination.

Now, get out!

God.

Do we really have to do this
in the middle of the day?

Whole point's shock value.

Good afternoon, boys and girls, we got
information there is cocaine in this building.

We're here to find it.

Hey, that's mine!

- Public property.
- But you can't just--

[Kenny] Take another
step forward, you go to jail.

[officer] There's nothing here.

[Max] Nothing.

- And this one's empty.
- [Kimberly] That's mine.

Open it.

- Clean.
- Good. Next?

[officer] Nothing here.

LSD.

[girl] Oh, my God.

Can anybody tell me
where Lisa Fenn is?

- [girl] Lisa?
- [indistinct chatter]

Here.

Arrest her, Max.

All right, keep going.

All right, kids,
get out of the way.

You have the right
to remain silent.

If you give up that right,
anything you say

can and will be used against
you in a court of law.

A drug sweep at school?

They just charged right in busting open
lockers, that has to be unconstitutional.

- This just happened?
- First they broke open my locker

and searched it and then Lisa's.

I'll talk to him. [sighs]

And uh, um...

Dad, in Lisa's...
they found some...

they found some,
you know, drugs.

I beg your pardon?

There was some LSD.

What was your best friend
doing with LSD?

Okay, I just got it to try,
that's all. I mean, I...

All the kids are doing it.
I thought maybe just once.

There was more than
just one try there, Lisa.

There were four or five
hits on that paper.

But I wasn't gonna take it all.

I mean, that's why I brought it
to school for the other kids.

- I wasn't gonna take it all.
- You were gonna sell it?

Just to get my money back.

- I mean, the guy sold me too much stuff.
- Wait.

- Who?
- What guy?

I don't know, I mean,
I don't know his name.

Do we have to tell my parents?

Don't worry about
your parents.

You better get
yourself a lawyer.

I told you I don't
want a lawyer.

I'll do anything, okay?
I'll plead guilty.

I just don't want
my parents to find out.

They're gonna find out, Lisa.

You're in a lot of trouble.

- [machine whirring]
- [Carter] What are you doing?

- Thoracic abdominal.
- I wanted that incision.

- You're the xiphoid.
- Well, I like to start them, too.

I start there,
go down the pubis.

- So you got to wait.
- What do you want me to do, probe for dandruff?

- She's my mother, too, you know?
- I'm in charge here,

just stick to the esophagus,
there's plenty there.

When it's time for the thoracic,
then we can both...

Whoa.

- What? What?
- Come here, quick!

Visor.

Right there, just above
the knee cap.

Dry fluid, look close.

[both] Semen.

I'm prosecuting it. No question.

- As a felony?
- If this was a federal bust,

she'd get a ten year
mandatory sentence.

Ten years?
Killers don't do ten years.

Well, in the eyes
of the federal law,

drug dealers in school
are worse than killers.

- And if she's--
- She's not a drug dealer.

She's a good kid who made
a mistake, that's it.

Look, let me tell you
something, Sheriff,

possession with intent
makes her a drug dealer.

Now, I don't have the discretion
to kick this thing.

Even if I wanted to...
Which I don't.

Who told you to raid the school?

I was the acting sheriff,
we had a problem, I responded.

I'm out for one day with a flu
and you feel you gotta respond?

We found cocaine in
12 lockers, marijuana in six.

That search was way overdue.

Uh-huh. Well, I'm back now.

I found semen on my mother.

Carter, would you quiet down?

I won't quiet down,
my mother has been murdered!

- She wasn't murdered!
- What are you talking about?

I don't think it was
a simple heart attack.

Wally Pendleton made love to her

and intercoursed
during the cardiac.

- What?
- I want him charged with murder!

Okay, slow down.

- What is going on?
- My brother's losing his mind.

- I want this man off her case!
- Carter. Carter.

She was on a date with
Wally Pendleton!

We know that. He called the house
to make sure that she got home safely

when she didn't answer
the phone he called us.

Well... he slept with her.

Tell her, Lyman, we found semen.

That doesn't make
the guy a murderer.

Death by suspicious cause,
that's my official report.

Look, I'll talk to
Wally, all right?

Meanwhile, concentrate on making
some funeral arrangements.

She was murdered,
I'm not burying her.

She wasn't murdered!

[Kimberly] Daddy?

Can I talk to you for a second?

Yeah, honey, in my office.

All right, give me your reports.
I'll review them.

And you, don't go around yelling
"murdered," you got that?

[Lyman] Carter.

What's up, honey?

They still prosecuting Lisa.

She was planning to
distribute LSD, Kimberly.

She just bought it off
this guy to experiment.

She didn't know how much there was,
she didn't buy it to sell it other kids.

Can she identify the man
who sold it to her?

No.

He just came up to her
in the parking lot

at Fenton's Mall.

She doesn't know who he is.

[sighs] I don't know
what to tell you, honey.

Daddy...

she's my best friend.

[shuddering] And I know...

I know I can't expect favors
because my father's the sheriff.

But I've never asked
for special treatment, not once.

I'm asking for it now.

I can't do that.

Please.

[Douglas] I ask the court
to consider my motions

to suppress all evidence.

The despicable search
of the school lockers--

Students are warned that
their lockers can be searched.

They, therefore, have
no expectation of privacy.

This was a warrantless
Fourth Amendment violation.

Motion denied.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court
has spoken on this.

The lockers can be searched.

[Douglas] The confession
was also illegal.

- Now, my client--
- She waived counsel!

- She's 18, she had the capacity to waive and she didn't.
- Her statement is allowed.

Well, why don't you execute her
right here in this courtroom?

Wambaugh, please.

She's just a kid, she was
intimidated by the police.

She didn't know
what she was saying.

She's of adult age.
The case stands.

Probable cause,
hearing tomorrow at ten.

Defendants released all.
Hour adjourned.

Carter's driving the lab crazy,
trying to prove somebody killed his mother.

I'll check out Wally Pendleton
just to satisfy Carter.

[woman] It's a sad day when any of our
youth are arrested on drug charges.

We, nevertheless, have to applaud the quick
action of our acting sheriff Kenny Lacos.

As soon as the threat of drugs in our
schools became real, he responded.

It's this kind of fast action
that is sorely needed in our community.

[reporters clamoring]

It's not like it
was crack or ice.

LSD can be even more
harmful, Kimberly.

But it's not addictive.

Have you ever tried it?

No, but...

It's all over, Mom.

It only costs like three dollars

and it's supposed to be amazing.

It can leave you
in a permanent psychotic state,

even one time

and you risk permanent
psychological effects.

Promise me you
will never try it?

I was going to try it.

I was with Lisa when she...

Um...

We bought the LSD together.

It could've just as easily
been in my locker.

Does anybody else
know about this?

No. Just me and Lisa.

All right, look,
we don't tell anybody.

Not even Dad.

No.

I mean, I'm sure that your father
wouldn't turn in his own daughter, but...

We...

I don't know.

I'm not, I'm sure that he
wouldn't have you arrested.

I'm-I'm positive that he wouldn't
turn you in. But-but what...

[sighs]

So for now we say nothing. We say nothing
to your father about you buying drugs.

Okay.

And you, get this, young lady...

How dare you?

How dare you, aside
from the utter stupidity

how dare you risk
getting caught?

How dare you risk be an embarrassment
to your father?

He is the sheriff and he...

And your little brothers,
they worship you.

This family has an obligation to
each member whether you like it, or not.

They look up to you
whether you like it, or not.

- If they should hear or see that you...
- [knock on door]

- What's that?
- Nothing. Kimberly has some questions about her cycle.

This is a family.

Try not to let your damn
teenage selfish curiosity destroy it.

[Lyman] How can you
blame yourself?

I've been practicing this song
"Blue Christmas" for the pageant

it's about losing somebody
right before the holidays.

Somebody you love
more than life and...

I don't know,
maybe it's some sort of...

self-fulfilling prophecy. Maybe
I shouldn't have been singing that song.

Carter, you don't really
believe that.

No.

I just hope she knows
how much I loved her.

- I didn't tell her enough. I hope...
- She knew.

Yeah, but three days ago,
on the phone, we were talking and...

What?

Semen analysis back
from the lab.

Wally Pendleton isn't
who he says he is.

Well, who is he?

[Carter] Wally Pendleton
is a murderer.

[Max] What are you doing
with that gun?

I have a carry permit.

I'm not just a
medical examiner you know.

I don't care.

We got test results
back from the lab.

The man my mother had sex with
is genetically identified

as Ross Margolis.

- [Max] What?
- [Lyman] DNA.

The semen analysis
trace it to Ross Margolis. Now, get this--

- I discovered it, let me tell him.
- They won't believe you.

- Can I go?
- [Carter and Lyman] No!

[Lyman] Hey, okay.
Here's the thing.

Ross Margolis was wanted for
drug trafficking and five murders in 1988

- when he suddenly vanished.
- What do you mean he vanished?

Right off the face of the Earth.

And here is
a computer picture ID...

of Ross Margolis.

[Carter] Dead ringer
for Wally here.

This man is a fugitive
and he killed my mother!

Mr. Pendelton, what do you
have to say about this?

Don't I get a phone call?

Maxine, arrest the gentleman.

Then let him have
his phone call.

I didn't kill
your mother, Carter.

If he'd murdered, he'd lie.

- I think we should be deputized on this?
- No.

I'm not saying another word.

I just feel so guilty
staying silent.

And what good would it do if you confessed,
I mean, it wouldn't help me any.

Just mean the two of us
going to jail.

Besides, it was my idea
to buy the stuff anyway.

Do you think
I will go to jail?

[Douglas] There is no
avoiding it!

That's what I keep telling you.

[Mrs. Fenn] But she
is just a teenager.

Now, I'm not gonna let them just
send my little girl to prison

- without my trying to do everything--
- Mrs. Fenn...

No. We do not plead guilty.

They found the drugs
in her locker.

She signed a written confession.

If we go to trial,
we'll lose. I, uh...

I'm not a magician.

So stall. I mean,
drag it out, maybe.

Exactly, the opposite.

If we plead guilty now,

we can proceed directly
to sentencing.

Our best shot is leniency.

A week before Christmas
is the most lenient time of the year.

I'm telling you as a lawyer,

we must put it
to the judge today,

while the wreaths are still
hanging in the courtroom

and the Christmas carol
are in his head.

- F.B.I.
- Thank you. Release Wally Pendleton

- Pardon me?
- As I understand that there is

no evidence linking him to the
death of the coroner's mother.

I want him released at once.

But there is evidence
linking him

to other crimes
including murder.

- His real name--
- Is Ross Margolis. Yes, I know that.

Mr. Margolis was part of
an international drug ring,

he is now part of our federal
witness protection program.

He was given a new identity,
Wallis Pendelton

and he has lived happily
under that identity since 1988.

You put him in my town
and you didn't tell me, the sheriff?

We have marshals
he checks in with.

How many people
has that man killed?

That's none of your
concern, Sheriff. What's important--

You put a killer in a community
I'm in charge protecting,

it damn well is my concern!

This is a federal program,
you're preempted.

The man has killed people.

And his testimony has put
a lot of people behind bars.

Look, drugs are destroying
the country, we all know it.

Sometimes when a problem gets big enough,
you do whatever you have to to fix it.

Including making deals
with murderers?

Please release Wally Pendleton.

[Douglas] Lisa Fenn

is not a criminal who poses
a risk to society, Your Honor.

We all know that.

No prior record.

She's not even gotten
a parking ticket.

She's an honor student
who made one stupid mistake.

She has a loving family.

A good community.

And all her life she reflected
the values of this community.

You can read for yourself
the glowing recommendations

from 13 different teachers
who are saying that this...

is a giving, caring young woman
with a bright, bright future.

She pleads guilty today
because she chooses not to lie.

She wants to accept responsibility.

Thats her character.

I think...

that under the circumstances

community service or perhaps,
a few weekends in jail

would be a penalty proportionate
with her indiscretion.

She is deeply,
deeply sorry, Your Honor.

And we know...

what prison can do to a person.

Every ruling you ever made...

was tempered by compassion.

For Lisa's sake, please...

don't make an exception today.

An exception is exactly
what he is asking you to make.

If this were a Black defendant
in a city court,

he'd be going straight to jail
without ever passing go.

Don't make this about race!

- You made it about race!
- [Henry] Mr. Littleton.

[Littleton] I heard the message in
his speech, Your Honor. And so did you.

Lisa Fenn isn't one
of those gang members.

She's a... a nice suburban kid from
a nice family in a nice lily white town.

- Don't politicize this.
- Exactly my point.

Don't politicize.

Treat this like
any other drug case.

Don't give her special treatment because
she's a wonderful honor student who is sorry.

The fact is, Judge,
those are not mitigating factors.

She had a choice.

Now, most teenage drug defendants
are thrown into that world with little or no choice.

They don't have a stable family,
the solid community.

The devoted teachers flanking them
with glowing recommendations.

She's privileged.

Now the question is,
does she...

get a lighter sentence because
of her socio-economic advantage?

You can't give into
that kind of hypocrisy.

He's fighting a different war!

I'm fighting the war
against drugs.

I'm not so sure, Mr. Littleton.

Stick to the facts
of this case.

If this were in federal court,

Lisa Fenn would get
a ten year mandatory sentence.

That's a fact.

We are not in federal court.

[Littleton] But we are subject
to the same public policy.

Drugs are invading our schools.

We have not been able
to stop it.

A 17-year-old kid OD'd
on crack two days ago

and almost killed
his teacher with a flagpole.

Now, something's gotta be done.

You are the judge, you have a chance
right now to do something about it.

The kids at Rome Wisconsin
high school are waiting for your message.

So am I.

Now, I have no doubt
that Lisa Fenn is a very nice young woman.

But she's also
a convicted drug dealer.

She must go to prison.

I didn't kill your mother.

You've killed before,
five times.

That was another life.

Ethel and I were friends.

Friends communicate.

Did you tell my mother
about your former life?

She'd think not.

You... You must be Lyman.

Hmm?

She said you'd always
ask and answer your own question.

My mother talked about me?

Both of you. All the time.

With such joy.

[door opens]

- What are you doing?
- I'm questioning the suspect.

- No!
- Lyman.

It's appropriate
for medical examiner...

- [both] ...to question suspects.
- They don't believe me.

Would you let me do
the talking?

[Carter] I have
the relationship.

I'll do the talking.

This man had nothing to do
with the death of your mother.

They had sex at his house.

And two witnesses
saw her drive away.

- Federal witnesses probably hired by him.
- What?

- Excellent.
- Thank you.

Okay. Out we go.
Come on.

We even gave Wally
a lie detector test, he passed that, too.

Your mother died
of natural causes,

there is nothing
to suspect foul play and you know it.

So let's just put her
at peace.

Body's evidence,
I won't bury her.

- Carter.
- No!

I release Wally Pendleton.

But I'm also releasing his
true identity and his criminal records.

If you do that he'll be killed.

My job is protecting
the people in this town.

One of which is Wally Pendleton.

If you blow his cover,
that's a death sentence.

The mob will expunge him.

He's a dangerous
violent man.

Sheriff, you and I have gone
head to head so many times,

our minds are bound
to meet at least once.

Not on this one.

The witness protection program
represents a huge federal investment.

If you out this guy you would jeopardize
federal cooperation

with your town at every level.

Should you need police
equipment, the national guard

F.B.I backup.

Is that a threat?

It's the truth.

We need Pendleton
for more testimony.

We're about to break a huge
cartel in New Jersey.

We can't blow his cover.

Take him out of Rome.

- Sheriff!
- You want me to be quiet,

you take him to a town a hundred miles
from here. That's the deal.

Okay, we'll pick him up tonight.

[court clerk] All rise.

Be seated.

[Henry] Seventy percent of all
murders are drug-related.

We have a hundred thousand
crack babies born every year.

Drugs have driven up violence,

healthcare costs...

They have economically crippled

every major city in the nation.

So desperate are we
to stop it,

we make plea bargains.

Freeing murderers

if they can offer testimony
to helps stem the tide.

So desperate are we to stop it,

federal law gives life sentences

to first time drug offenders.

So desperate are we to stop it,

we keep building prison
after prison after prison.

We have over a million
people behind bars.

More prisoners per capita
than any country in the world.

So desperate are
we to stop it...

but we can't.

It keeps spreading.

And now, it's come to Rome.

On your feet, young lady.

If my mission was solely to be
safeguarding this community,

I'd put you away
for a long, long time.

Mr. Littleton is right.

Society is desensetized

to the incarceration
of Black inner city youths.

A pretty suburban honor student

such as yourself...

with a bright, bright future.

I could send quite a message

and I'm tempted.

But my job is to consider
this specific case before me

and all the mitigating circumstances.

Your clean record,

your plea,

your exemplary
background and past

and I do so.

I must also consider, however,

the fact that you brought
those drugs to a school

with intent to distribute.

That means enhancer
penalties applied.

I hereby sentence you

to three years...

- No!
- Oh!

[Henry] ...at Taycheedah women's
correction facility.

[Douglas] Your Honor...

I beg you.

Sentence to begin immediately.

Take the defendant into custody.

[Lisa sobs]

Excuse me, Your Honor, but this matter
has come to the attention of the DEA.

I have been ordered to place
Ms. Fenn under arrest

and to take her into
federal custody.

No!

[indistinct chatter]

Lawyers and police...
in chamber.

[gavel pounds]

This is overkill.

It comes from the top,
I have absolutely no control over it.

If you prosecute her
in the federal court,

she goes away for ten years.

That's mandatory.

- I know that.
- Ten years.

My God, that's her life.

- How could that possibly serve society?
- It doesn't.

Like they say, the Fenn girl is ideal for
sending a wakeup call to other teenagers.

My superiors wanna
make that call.

Three years sends that message.

Why don't you ask your superiors

how can they take
Lisa Fenn for ten

when murderers get out in six?

What is the federal government's
answer to that?

Public policy.

- [Jimmy] What?
- I'm gonna be sick.

At least can she spend
Christmas with her family?

No, they want her
in custody tonight.

I'll give it till ten o'clock,
that's the best that we can do.

[Carter] I can't send her
to the mortuary.

Carter.

Let her go.

Can't you see you're... You're doing
everything you can to avoid grieving.

I've been doing it, too.

Time has come to grieve.

I...

She was my strength, Lyman.

She stood up for me.

- I'll stand up for you.
- No. No.

You were
a good older brother.

I-I know how you always
got me included,

camping trips. Made sure
I always got picked for the team.

But...

You never believed in me.
Mom did.

I believe in you.

You know, I always wanted
to be you.

Followed you to the same
college. Went into pathology.

What I'm saying, Lyman,
is that...

I admired you

and I've always looked for the slightest
sign that you admired me back...

I've never seen it.

Did you ever doubt
that I love you?

No.

But...

Mom...

gave me my foundation.

And now...

No offense, but...

I feel completely alone.

We-We'll make it, Carter.

We're brothers.

We'll make it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

- Hi.
- Hi, honey. What, uh...

Kimberly wanted to say goodbye
to Lisa so I brought her in.

Oh, God.

Would have been Kimberly instead of Lisa,
you ever think of that?

They're here.

Get Pendelton, too.
We'll take them both.

Well, what a proud day
for law and order.

Wally Pendleton had a million dollar drug
business and you give him house and home.

Lisa Fenn makes one mistake
and she gets ten years.

I'll fight it to supreme court,
I won't give up, Lisa.

Oh, inspector.

Allow me to vomit on your shoes.

All right.

Let's go.

- I'll visit tomorrow.
- Yeah...

Don't worry, honey, this isn't goodbye.
I'll see you soon. Take care.

- This isn't goodbye.
- Okay?

Okay.

We better go.

I'm afraid there's
been a mistake.

Uh, in reconsidering Lisa's confession
was a product of coercion.

It was wrong of us to
questioned her without a lawyer.

- She waived counsel.
- Under duress.

Without the confession,
the guilty plea is set aside.

And if you federally prosecute her,
I'll testify that her statement was coerced.

Very good.

Except we really don't need
the confession or the state conviction.

The drugs were found in her locker,
that's enough to make a case.

Except I lost the evidence.

You lost the evidence.

Yes, we, uh...

Uh, it was... my fault.

See, I took the LSD
out of the locker to send to the lab

but I put it in the bag
on my desk.

And I threw it away
not knowing what it was.

Well, isn't this inspiring?

Sometimes when the problem
gets too big,

you do whatever you have to...

to fix it.

Well...

Mistakes happen.
One of those things.

I'm sure we'll all do better
next time.

Ms. Fenn...

I'm afraid we have
to let you go.

Come on.

Well, you people are something.

Thank you.

Thank you, everybody.

Ah... now it feels
like Hanukkah.

[Henry] Hey!

What happened here
was a complete prevention of justice.

Don't you dare celebrate it!

Any of you.

You lucked out, young lady.

This man saved your ass.

The idea that you get
to walk completely free...

is disgusting to me.

As I'm sure it is to him.

And... him.

But...

ten years in federal prison

happens to be more repugnant.

So you get a windfall.

When you wake up Christmas
morning, Ms. Fenn,

remember how lucky you are
to be with your family.

Remember, in reality,

you're a drug dealer.

And especially remember,

that you forced a lot of good

law-abiding people

to resort to organized anarchy.

Don't any of you dare
celebrate it!

[piano playing]

♪ I'll have a blue Christmas ♪

♪ Without you ♪

I'll be so blue ♪

♪ Just thinking about you ♪

♪ Decorations of red ♪

♪ On a green Christmas tree ♪

♪ Won't be the same, dear ♪

♪ If you're not here with me ♪

♪ And when those blue ♪

♪ Snowflakes start falling ♪

♪ That's when those blue ♪

♪ Memories start calling ♪

♪ You'll be doing all right ♪

♪ With... ♪

[sobbing]

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