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- I hate exercising on that machine.

- Let's get rid of it.

- Ha, you say that now.

Wait until my fanny falls around my ankles.

- You have an adorable Fanny.

- And you've already sold the film

rights for your second novel.

At what--

- Seven central--

- 5, 4, and--

- 38 minutes, Stuart, level 4.

- I beat your old record by 17%.

- How did you do that so quickly?

- I like numbers.

- Making real progress.

I'm very proud of you.

- I'm proud of you.

Level 4, 38 minutes, 17% proven.

- Stuart.

Oh, Stuart, I've missed you.

[music on television]

- Ugh.

[theme music]

- I just think pursuing this one is a mistake.

- Carla Ortiz has prior arrests--

- One conviction three years ago.

- Drug possession.

- After arraignment this morning,

I met with Carla, and her parole officer.

She's straight.

- If she's so straight, why was she arrested looting?

- Thousands of people got caught up in a frenzy.

Carla stole baby formula to feed her child.

Let's give her a break.

- Tell that to store owners who had their shelves cleared,

entire inventories pillaged.

I'm up for re-election.

And believe me, now more than ever, the mandate of the people

is they want justice.

- What about probation for Carla?

- Zoe, you work for the district attorney

not the public defender.

If you can't handle it, I'll ask for a continuance

and get someone else.

- I can handle it.

- You do that.

[telephone rings]

[door closes]

- Shall we get started?

First up, People versus Douglas Brackman.

- He fought the law, and the law won.

90 days in jail?

- Arnold, I know this isn't your primary area of expertise,

but Douglas insisted on our representation.

- Yeah, of course, he doesn't want to pay.

- Now just do your best to get him released.

- Yes please.

Billable hours, accounts receivable,

subbing for Douglas, and I'm drowning in red ink.

All right, next, Weston versus Weston.

- Yeah, and still working at home,

I've been assisting summarizing depositions,

and we go to trial next week unless a settlement

can be reached.

- If you have any questions or Anne is unavailable,

you come to me.

This firm needs Alec Weston's business.

- Anything else, Leland?

- Yes, don't forget election day is just around the corner.

And if the latest polls are any indication,

Jonathan Rollins could use whatever

support we could muster.

- That's all.

- In and out, that's what a staff meeting is all about.

- Ranks are getting pretty thin here.

- Any thinner, we can get together in the elevator.

- Or the unemployment line.

- All right, now listen up.

Douglas and I have made no secret of the fact

that our situation here at McKenzie, Brackman

is precarious at best.

However, you should be equally clear of the fact

that I have poured my lifeblood into this firm,

and I'll be damned if I'm going to give up now.

I expect the same commitment from all of you.

Becker, get a haircut.

You look ridiculous.

[telephone rings]

- 34821, People versus Kevin Richards, one count

of sexual battery.

- Gretchen Oliver for the defense.

- Assistant DA, Harold Chambers for the people, your honor.

- How does the defendant plead?

- My client pleads not guilty, your honor.

At this time, given this is my client's first offense,

I request bail to drop to get house

- People have voted, your honor--

- Not living together is one thing.

I haven't seen you in over a week.

- Ruby's got me waiting through the backlog prosecutions

from the riots.

I got arsonists.

I got looters.

- You're avoiding.

- Yeah, kind of, I got a lot on my mind.

- Can I help?

- Thanks, my problem.

- Oh, listen, I want to get a jump on the competition.

Tell me about this Marlene Branson.

- You haven't met?

- Case number 348--

- Only talk by phone.

- People versus Carla Ortiz.

- All I can say is pray.

- She's that tough, huh?

- All right?

- Mr. Ballon, how does your client plead?

- Not guilty, your honor.

Request defendant be released OR.

- The people have no objection.

- So ordered.

Preliminary hearing day after tomorrow.

- Santana, stop blowing, there go my sinuses.

Your dad here yet?

- No.

Is dad taking me home after?

- No, no, you go back to your aunt's

until social services finishes their investigation.

- 34824, People versus Joseph Russell.

- Back in a flash.

- She's going to be disappointed.

- Tommy Mulaney for the people.

- Sorry, I'm late your honor.

- Marlene Branson for the defense.

- Sidebar, your honor.

- Approach.

- Problem, Mr. Mulaney?

- With all due respect, your honor, sister Marlene's attire

could compromise a fair trial.

A juror might infer that God is somehow on her side.

- Ms. Branson has tried cases in my court before.

There's never been a Problem - Yes, but this--

- I've instructed the jury that Ms.

Branson's religious affiliation is not germane in this case.

And you get your shot at Voir Dire.

- But what I'm talking--

- You lost this one, Mulaney, step back.

[sneezes]

- Bless you.

- Look, I understand.

- "They used to say the streets of the city

were paved with gold."

- Yeah, right, but it's getting too close.

I think--

- "Now they're paved with the blues."

- I can't promise anything. I know I told you.

- We'll have to omit the entire first paragraph.

- No, no, no, keep the first. - Right, right.

All I can do is ask him.

- Delete the second.

- OK, hold on.

KPM wants to do a live on-air debate with Ellis.

- I don't know, Terry.

It may be too close to the election.

- Look, you're slumping. You need the exposure.

You'll kill Ellis on the issues.

Let me set it up.

Yeah.

- What is this crap?

Lies, half-truths.

- Let me call you back.

Jeff, shut the door.

And make sure you're on the other side.

- Let's save this for the debate, Ellis.

- No, you want a piece of me?

Here I am.

You got something to say, say it to my face.

- You're running for public office.

The voters have the right to know

the quality of your character.

- Rollins, you wouldn't know the meaning

of the word "character."

- And your lack of emotional stability.

- I overdosed when I was a teenager.

- Nobody's stopping you from telling your side of the story.

- You know what it's like trying to dig yourself out

from under garbage, Rollins?

You're going to find out.

- Don't let him rattle you.

- I'm not rattled.

It's still about who's the best man.

- Judge Niemann is considering the petition

to reduce your sentence.

I tried convincing her you were a model prisoner.

She wasn't moved.

- Niemann hates me.

- Well, from the court transcripts,

your conduct was the height of arrogance.

- I was the victim of vicious lies.

Say what you want.

Just get me out of this cesspool.

- Douglas, you haven't been--

- Violated?

Don't be silly.

That was John Dean's fear, not mine.

- Arnie, help him.

- I'll do my best.

- Looking like that?

Who's gonna take you seriously?

- Don't bite the hand that frees you.

- Sweetheart, he's right.

- This only happened because I was

desperate to exchange our vows.

- You're still desperate for me, aren't you?

- Douglas, I'll be in touch.

Sheila, I'll meet you outside.

- You are hungry for me?

- More than you know.

Every night, you are in my dreams.

- While you're trapped in here, dream of these.

- Oh, yeah.

[whistles]

- Wow.

- Oh.

[knocking on door]

Yeah, what?

Oh, Sister Marlene.

- I need just a moment.

And Ms. Branson is fine.

- Eight years of Catholic school.

Tough to break.

What can I do for ya?

- Joseph is prepared to plead guilty to misdemeanor child

endangerment with probation.

He's also willing to enter family counseling.

- Reduce felony child endangerment to a misdemeanor

just because he promises to attend therapy?

I know guys like this.

Apologizing, swearing.

They don't know what came over them.

- Joseph loves Gilbert.

That boy's only hope is his father.

- The boy's only hope broke his jaw.

I'm sorry, no deal.

- I'll tell my client.

- Sister, I don't appreciate being blindsided.

You and I spoke half a dozen times by phone.

You never mentioned you were a nun.

- You still think the way I'm dressed

will prejudice the proceeding?

- There isn't a jury member who won't

give you the benefit of the doubt during closing arguments.

And Judge Fiorella can rationalize till the saints

come marching in.

I'm telling you, your habit affects people.

- Clearly.

- Jeff.

- We're back on KPM-AM on your dial.

All day, all night.

Ross Greenberg sitting in all this week.

We're talking with city council candidate Jonathan Rollins.

Why don't we go straight to the phones?

Hello, you're on KPM.

- Mr. Rollins, what's your stand on the year-round

school calendar?

- That issue is decided on the state level, dummy.

KPM, go ahead.

- Hello? Hello?

- Turn your radio down.

- Hello?

Hello?

- You're tough.

- No patience for the brain-dead.

KPM, you're on the air.

- Ross?

- Yes, ma'am, go ahead.

- I'd like you to ask Mr. Rollins about his arrest

two years ago for rape.

- Funny.

- I have access to police records.

- Ghost in the machine?

- It was a sting, part of a blackmail attempt

by former DA Rogoff.

- Bruce Rogoff has been a guest on this show.

Hard to believe he's watching you.

- Rogoff wanted me to keep quiet about my firsthand experience

with police brutality in Los Angeles.

- Let's not confuse the issue.

- I want to know who paid off Rollins.

- Nobody was paid anything.

I was a suspect for probably 10 minutes.

- Let's discuss those 10 minutes.

- Let's discuss police brutality.

- We'll talk more about Councilman Rollins'

rape arrest right after this.

- No formal charges were filed. My name was cleared.

- Have to shout louder than that, Councilman.

We just went to commercial.

[phone ringing]

- Stuart, the phone.

Hello?

Of course Weston is angry, Gwen.

I told him we'd send him the settlement

proposal this morning.

Fax me a copy and call me back.

Stuart, what are you doing?

- I want to hear some albums.

- Well, the turntable is broken.

That's why we bought the disc player.

- Yeah, but I want to hear this.

- Shouldn't you be doing your leg flexes?

You know, your physical therapy is very important.

- Not now.

I can make this work.

- You have no mechanical ability, Stuart.

That's why you went to Wharton's and became an accountant.

- I can fix this.

- Gwen, you forgot the pension funds.

[sighs] Gwen Taylor, please.

Hi, it's me.

Look, first off--

Stuart, turn that down.

- What?

- Gwen, you forgot the pension fund.

Second, you didn't-- hold on.

Turn the damn thing down!

- I fixed it!

See, I told you.

- I'll call you back.

Stuart!

How am I supposed to work with all this racket?

- I fixed the record player.

- And I appreciate that.

It's just-- it's hard to concentrate with so much noise.

- You know how I did it?

- No.

- [sighs] Me, either.

[upbeat music]

- Gilbert, how old are you?

- 15 next month.

- Any brothers or sisters?

- Just me and my father.

- Are you and your dad close?

Get along?

- Not really.

He's always on my case.

About the way I dress, who I hang with.

- Tell me about the night your jaw was broken.

- I was hanging in Brad Park.

We wasn't doing anything.

We were just talking.

Next thing you know, my father's on me, yelling and screaming,

telling me to get my ass home.

- Watch your language, young man.

- When did he hit you?

- We got inside the house, and he just torqued out.

He started hammering me about my boys, going out.

Then he grabbed the wood.

- This?

- Yeah, I use that to hold up my window.

- Your Honor, I request this board be

entered as people's exhibit 3.

- So ordered.

- Go on, Gilbert.

What happened next?

- Then he grabbed that, and the window slammed shut.

Glass flew.

Then he started beating me.

- Your Honor, these photos taken at County General

are offered as people's exhibit 4.

- So ordered.

- Let the record reflect injuries sustained when Mr.

Russell repeatedly hit his son.

Welts and open cuts on Gilbert's thighs and buttocks, as well

as compound facial fractures.

One last question, Gilbert.

Are you scared of your father?

- I am now.

- Nothing further.

- Gilbert, the night this happened,

before your father left for work,

didn't he tell you not to go to the park?

- That's because he's always--

- Please answer yes or no.

- Yes.

- So it's easy to understand why he was angry with you.

- Objection.

What Ms. Branson understands is irrelevant.

- Sustained.

- Was there alcohol at the barbecue?

- Objection, irrelevant.

- A little leeway, Your Honor.

- All right, you may answer.

- There was some brew there.

- Did you drink?

- Yeah.

So?

- Your friends at the barbecue are members of the DP Deuces,

isn't that right?

- Objection, irrelevant.

- Goes to defendant's intent, Your Honor.

- I'll allow it.

- There were some Deuces there, yeah.

- And isn't it true that you have been trying to join

the Deuces for over a year?

- Yes.

- Gilbert, hasn't your father forbidden you

in no uncertain terms to join any gang?

- Yes.

- And in all that time, has he ever done

anything remotely like this?

- No.

- Thank you.

Nothing further.

- Hey, check out Tuxedo.

Yo!

Hey, Tuxedo.

- Well, well, well.

Look who's doing the fluff and fold.

Tennessee Tuxedo.

- Hey, Tennessee, bet you never saw stains like this

before, huh?

- I'm just doing my job, fellas.

- Uh.

Word is that-- that you're a lawyer

and that your old lady's got a decent pair of bazooms.

- You mind your business.

I'll mind mine.

- Hey, we just want to know if it's true.

- Yes, my wife is well-endowed.

- No, no, no, about you being a lawyer.

I mean, well, lawyers suck.

You suck?

You must if you're a lawyer.

- You think he's a lawyer?

I don't think he's a lawyer.

- No, I believe he's a lawyer because nothing matters

to lawyers besides getting the job done.

- And you think he's cute?

I don't think he's cute.

- You guys are talking in circles.

- And the only person who's gonna be talking in circles

is you.

- Hey, come on, Tennessee, let's take a free ride, huh?

- Hey.

Hey.

Ow.

- [laughs]

- Have a nice trip.

- Guard!

Guard!

Guard!

- Stuart Markowitz?

Detective Fowler.

I'd like to ask you about your assault.

My report says you were pulled from your car and beaten.

- Stuart?

- Mrs. Markowitz? - Yes.

Is something wrong?

- I'm Detective Fowler.

I've been assigned to your husband's case.

We'd like him to try identifying potential suspects

in his assault.

- Oh, this is not the right time.

- No, I'll look at the photographs.

Photographs are good.

- Five months and you still haven't caught these criminals.

- We're doing everything we can.

- Ann, I don't know these people.

Do you?

[tense music]

- Hey.

- Hey, yourself.

- Looks like that leafy green is making

a full recovery after all.

- You know, what some of these people hauled away looting,

I don't know if it's funny or pathetic.

A 55-year-old man hits a dry cleaner.

Comes away with nine busboy uniforms

from a Chinese restaurant.

- Which brings us to dinner.

Kung Pao chicken?

- This lady I'm prosecuting, Carlo Ortiz, a mother who

stole diapers and baby formula.

Technically, she broke the law, but she's not a criminal.

- So?

- I became a lawyer to help people.

- And you do that.

- Last week, it was asset forfeiture,

forcing me to take away a woman's home because her son

was caught dealing drugs.

The judicial process is a big practical joke,

and my diploma is the whoopee cushion.

- Come on.

Let me pull you out of this for an hour.

- Thanks.

- I'm gonna see you later?

- I don't think so, Tommy.

- OK.

Try not to stay too late.

- Mm-hmm.

- I'm gonna give my speech, shake a few hands,

and then I'm heading home.

- Ah, remember, everybody, tomorrow's election day.

Vote early, vote often.

- Councilman Rollins, how do you feel about Stuart Markowitz?

- He's a long-time associate. I like him.

- Then you're on his side?

- What?

- Word on the street is the men who beat

Mr. Markowitz were provoked.

What do you say?

- We should refrain from judging anyone until the police

completes the investigation.

- Community leaders claim Markowitz called them niggers.

Doesn't that qualify as racist?

- Well, of course.

- Was this a random act of violence?

- No.

- Shouldn't you support your district?

- Absolutely.

- Jonathan, we're late.

- Would you prosecute this case? - That's up to the DA's office.

- Who's telling the truth?

- We'll find out.

- Then it's possible Markowitz provoked his attackers?

- Anything's possible.

- Mr. Rollins.

- Hey, Councilman.

- Hey.

- Come on.

[theme music]

- Have you tried less severe ways of disciplining your son?

- Everything.

I even tried taking Gilbert to work with me,

but he couldn't get his homework done with all the noise.

- What upsets you about those boys

your son was with that night?

- They gang bangers.

They put Gilbert's life in danger.

- Objection.

What Mr. Russell believes is irrelevant.

- Overruled.

- Look, these gangs go looking for trouble.

I'm afraid my son will get killed.

I don't want to lose my son.

He's all I got.

- No more questions.

- Mr. Russell, for the past month,

Gilbert's been living with his aunt.

She's testified he hasn't been a problem.

Why is that?

- He's a good boy, just strong will.

And where we live, it doesn't take long for a boy's

world to be turned upside down.

- Or to have his jaw broken.

- Argumentative, Your Honor.

- Sustained.

- According to the police report,

you grabbed this piece of lumber,

and you kept swinging until you raised

welts on your son's backside.

Then you hit him in the-- - Objection.

- That was an accident. He turned around.

I didn't mean to do that.

- Mr. Russell, have you ever been

convicted of criminal assault?

- Five years ago.

Someone picked a fight. I didn't start it.

- You lost your temper, and you clobbered some poor--

- Objection! - Mr. Mulaney.

- You don't what you're talking about.

- I'm talking about felony assault, Mr. Russell.

- Look, that guy was way out of line.

- Just like your son?

- Objection.

- Withdrawn.

Nothing further.

- Mrs. Ortiz?

My name is--

- Ms. Clemmons.

Anything you have to tell my client, you say in front of me.

- Excuse me.

Actually, you and I should talk in private.

- Sure.

- Listen, I want you to know that I tried,

but the DA's office won't go for probation.

- How about a lesser charge?

- I'm sorry.

- Ah.

So what?

- Excuse me?

- Oh, Ms. Clemmons.

I'm being bombarded with dozens of cases like Carla Ortiz.

You know.

It's the same on your end, rubber stamping justice.

It's all part of the job, percentages.

But thanks for trying.

- [scoffs]

- Excuse me.

- You're really digging in here.

- Well, I want us to be prepared for next week.

Alec Weston is an important client.

Have a seat.

- How's Stuart?

- What?

Oh, doing great.

He's taking a nap.

He's making real progress.

He-- he fixed the stereo yesterday.

So it shouldn't be long before he's his old self again.

- Ann, I woke up thirsty.

- Stuart, you remember Gwen.

- Hi, Gwen.

- Hi.

- I'm gonna go into the kitchen and get

myself some orange juice.

- Well, why don't we get to work on these depositions?

- Ann, if there's anything I can do--

- Thanks.

Really, there isn't.

[glass breaking]

- Whoops.

Guess what I broke?

- Mandatory sentence, one year in county jail.

Credit four months time served.

Next case.

- Case number 34823, People Versus Carla Ortiz.

- Mr. Fallon, the meter is running.

- Your Honor, at this time, the People request that all charges

against Carla Ortiz be dropped.

- On what grounds, Ms. Clemmons?

- Insufficient evidence.

- Then why is this case on the docket?

- I'm sorry, Your Honor, I've only recently

been made aware of new facts in this case.

- Mr. Fallon, case dismissed.

Your client is free to go.

Ms. Clemmons, a little notice next time.

Court is adjourned.

- I'm Jonathan Rollins.

How you doing?

Leland!

You came down to support the cause, huh?

- Your campaign headquarters told me where you were.

Can you spare a minute?

- This is really lousy timing.

How you doing?

Jonathan Rollins, city council.

How are you?

- According to the newspaper, you believe Stuart Markowitz

provoked his own attack.

- Don't believe everything you read.

Jonathan Rollins, city council. How you doing, brother?

- Hey, what's up?

- All right.

- Whether you like it or not, your colleagues are confused.

Frankly, so am I.

- Jonathan Rollins.

- I hope I can rectify this thing before it snowballs

completely out of control.

- I always had a broad base of support at McKenzie-Brackman.

Jonathan Rollins.

- Do you honestly believe Stuart Markowitz provoked his beating?

- Of course not.

- Then I suggest you clear this up as soon as you can.

- Leland, I really resent you coming down

here questioning my integrity.

- What about Stuart's integrity?

- This is a no-win situation.

- If you believe that, be prepared.

Because if you lose this election and your remaining

option is returning to the firm, it

will be a cold place, indeed.

- Jonathan Rollins, city council.

How are you?

- Feels like I'm beginning to lose track of time.

Minutes turn into hours, hours into days, days into weeks.

Don't you know any other tunes?

[farts]

Ah.

I'm not a big Stephen Foster fan.

You really should see an internist.

You could see mine.

When you're released, I mean.

It would be my way of thanking you for pulling me out

of the dryer, watching over me.

Don't you know any Frank Sinatra?

[farts]

Oh.

[sighs] Nobody is above the law, but no principle can

justify this kind of treatment.

We have prisons, but clearly it doesn't

matter who occupies the cells.

I may have been a babe in the woods

when I was thrown in here.

But when I'm released, watch out.

I will not go quietly.

[farts]

And obviously, neither will you.

- In order to find my client not guilty,

you must believe that his behavior

was reasonable under the circumstances.

To do so, you must consider the world in which Gilbert lives--

a dangerous place of gangs and guns and poverty.

And you must also consider what was at stake--

a young boy's future filled with dreams and possibilities,

which are easily destroyed.

If any of you saw your child walk

in the path of a speeding train, wouldn't you

yank him out of the way, even if it meant

breaking a bone in the process?

This was Joseph Russell's dilemma.

- Joseph Russell's fear for his son's life is understandable.

But is beating a child ever a reasonable form of discipline?

The defense says Joseph battered his son in order to save him.

But before you make your decision,

you ask yourself this.

If you condone this man's actions

as an acceptable form of salvation,

how will he save his son tomorrow?

Fathers owe their sons more than discipline.

Tough love is hypocrisy.

Strength is a hug, a compassionate smile,

not a clenched fist or uncontrolled rage.

The body may heal.

The emotional wounds will never disappear.

- If you think dismissing this woman's charges is some kind

of defiance, some misdirected act of conscience,

you're mistaken. I'll refine.

- And I'll go to Judge Hansen and tell him I perjured myself

in the Meacham trial and that you were the one who advised

me to frame my testimony.

- You can't prove a thing.

- Try me, Ruby.

- All right.

You can have Carla Ortiz.

- Thank you.

- I will not be threatened by you again.

Because if I am, I will do everything in my power to make

sure your career is over.

- It is over.

- Matty decided to wear his lunch.

Stuart?

Are you OK?

- I know that I'm 41 years old.

But I-- I don't have memories that fill that time.

- You have those memories, Stuart, but the doctor said--

- The doctor said.

But the doctor said.

The doctor doesn't know anything.

And neither do I. I can't--

why can't I remember?

I-- I-- I don't know the people in those pictures.

I-- I don't know the guy who cuts the lawn.

I can't remember the name of our son.

Why can't I?

- Stop it, Stuart, stop it.

- Daddy.

- It's OK.

[tense music]

- So the rumor is true?

- I quit.

- Why am I the last to know?

- You were in court. I tried.

- No, I have tried.

I have tried for weeks to find out what's going on.

- Tommy, listen.

- I've never stopped listening, Zo.

- I'm not only quitting the DA's office.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- I'm leaving.

- I thought that--

- My plane's tonight.

- Where to?

- I don't know.

[chuckles] I'm going to Portland first to stay with my mother

a while.

- So you're tossing me out of your life just like that?

- Tommy, after I got shot, you took care of me

and you got me back on my feet, but now I'm

not standing in the same place.

The law, this job, LA, I--

I can't stay here.

I can't go back to being the person

I used to be because I'd turn into someone I wouldn't like.

Someone you'd hate.

Damn you.

- Leland?

Leland?

- Hmm?

Oh.

- Philip Darcy is on the top line.

- Oh, thank you, Roxanne.

Would you close my door, please?

- I'm worried about the old man.

He spends his days just staring out the window.

- He's had a rough couple of weeks.

- Leland should travel.

Clear his calendar, clear his head.

- With everything that's going on at McKenzie-Brackman?

I mean, haven't you taken a look around yourself

since you've got back? I thought you'd changed.

- Well, actually, I've mostly been looking inward,

but Leland was right about one thing.

I could use a trim.

Oh, come on, Rox, I really appreciated

the last one you gave me.

It was great.

- All right.

- Rox?

Rox, we're just talking trim here, right?

- It's been a long time since we've had a spare office.

- Turning it into a nursery for your little girl?

- Yeah, to have Lucy just down the hall is gonna be terrific.

Leland was completely open to the idea.

- Me, too.

Children are our future.

- Maybe you have changed.

Hello?

All clear.

- Hey, who am I to fault Morales for striking a sweetheart deal

and wanting his little kid nearby?

Anyway, with all the crying and whining going on around here,

nice to know now it'll be coming from a loaded diaper and not

another three-piece suit.

- Maybe you haven't changed.

Rox, I'm like water.

Nothing under heaven is more yielding,

but when it attacks something hard and resistant,

nothing can prevail.

- Sit, grasshopper.

- Go ahead, make all the jokes you want.

You wait and see.

- In the matter of the People Versus Joseph Russell

on the charge of felony child endangerment,

we find the defendant not guilty.

- Mr. Russell, you're free to go.

Gilbert Russell, I will recommend to social services

that you be released into the custody of your father.

Court is adjourned.

- Son.

- It'll take time, Joseph.

You'll get your son back.

- Congratulations, Sister.

Maybe next time his old man will love him to death.

- Who was it you saw when you looked at Joseph Russell?

- If this is one of those religious mysteries like how

many angels can dance on the head of a pin,

I don't have the time.

- Was it your father?

Was he the one?

- As a matter of fact, yeah.

- Sorry.

- Don't be.

It was a long time ago.

And some things can't be forgiven.

- Why not start with the things that can?

Good luck, Mr. Mulaney.

- Ellis is leading by 16%.

- The fat lady is singing.

- It's not just us.

Rudy Thomas is getting hammered as well.

- Well, speechwriting is not for me, anyway.

I'm gonna try punching out some short stories.

But it was nice working with you, Jonathan.

- I appreciate all you did, Jeff.

- I know, I know.

Don't let the door hit me in the ass.

- I'd like to say it's been nice working with you.

I'd be lying.

- I burned a lot of bridges during this campaign.

Said things I didn't mean.

And for what?

- I got a valuable piece of information for you.

You make a lousy politician.

- [laughs]

- You take things too personally.

And you're not comfortable with compromises or trade-offs.

- That's a compliment?

- You're damn right.

Jonathan, you take care of yourself.

- Hey.

You're not sticking around for my concession speech?

- I know who wrote it.

- [laughs]

- The water drainage initiative proposition

also looks likely to pass.

- Oh.

Keep it.

It'll be a collector's item someday.

- We go now live to the Thomas campaign headquarters.

- Oh, take a deep breath.

Fill your lungs.

You know what that is?

- Carbon monoxide.

- To me, that's the smell of freedom.

How can I ever thank you, Arnie?

- Let me practice entertainment law.

- Did I mention your shave and haircut look great?

- I'm going home.

- Let's go home, too.

- Not until I make this pledge, Sheila.

I have seen the underbelly.

I've tasted some of the worst food imaginable,

but I survived.

- As soon as we get home, you'll get your reward.

- Sheila, I'm being sincere.

I used to scoff at McKenzie-Brackman's

pro-bono work as a waste of time and lost income.

I hereby swear to pull at least one

drowning man from the River Styx and change his life forever.

- But first, a hot shower, and I've got the loofah.

[theme music]

- We're wasting our energy.

Our focus should be on rebuilding, repairing

neighborhoods and relationships that have been

damaged by neglect and anger.

Let us-- let us all create something from the ground

up-- sturdy, fresh, and full of possibilities.

[applause]

[knocking on door]

- [sighs]

- I come to say goodbye.

- It's not forever.

- You know, for the last couple of days,

I have been thinking a lot about love.

Why, after all these years, it's still so difficult for me.

But I-- Zo.

Anyway, this is for you.

Straight from the mini mart.

Bread, so that you will never know hunger.

Salt, so that your life will always have flavor.

Wine, so that you will know joy and prosperity.

- Grape juice?

- So it's a young wine?

- [laughs]

[horn honking]

That's my cab.

Thank you, Tommy.

I will always love you.

Be good to yourself.

[emotional music]

- Go.

- Ann, I brushed my teeth.

- Good.

- Are you gonna sleep with me again?

- You ask me that every night, Stuart.

- Oh, sorry.

It's just when I was in the hospital,

I used to sleep by myself.

- Are you glad to be home?

- Sort of.

[crying]

- Oh, I'll get him.

- Neat.

- Something wrong, Stuart?

- No.

What's he doing here?

- Matty is still running a little fever,

so he's gonna sleep with us.

- Is that OK?

- Yeah, because I'm very tired.

So as soon as he falls back to sleep,

I'll take back to his bed.

- [sighs]

Hey, Matty.

Ann?

Ann, I remember.

- What, Stuart?

- I remember the night our son was born.

It was raining, right?

You were in a lot of pain.

I told you to focus on your breathing.

And Matty came out.

Had that umbilical cord around his neck, and I was--

I was so scared.

And you looked me in the eye, and I--

I didn't want you to see that I was scared, so I smiled at you.

You smiled back.

And then Dr. Parker just slipped away the cord.

Then he put Matty on your chest, and he was healthy.

And he was safe.

And it was the most beautiful sight I ever saw.

- I remember.

[emotional music]

[theme music]