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[music playing]

- Nice day to have the top down.

- I'd rather be driving
what you're driving.

- You can appreciate the view
more fully from the inside.

- Are you offering me a ride?

- Absolutely.

- Generally, I make
it a rule not to get

into cars with strangers.

- But there's an exception
to every rule, isn't there?

- And are you the exception?

- Yes, I am.

I am the exception.

So what I suggest we do is you
follow me back to my office,

you park your car in
my space, and we'll

take a ride right now.

- Where's your office?

- 444 South Flower.

- And you want me
to follow you there?

- Right this minute.

[tires screeching]

[bang]

[music playing]

- [laughs]

[theme music]

- United States versus Ellison.

- Trial starts today.

- What's your defense?

- That the action
taken was justified.

- Aiding and abetting
an escape was justified?

- Right.
- What about smuggling in a gun?

- He didn't do that.

- Stuart, are you in
accord with this approach?

- Jonathan's trying this case.

I'll defer to his judgment.

- Tomba versus Tomba.

- Arnie asked me to
take this one over.

We're representing Gretchen
Tomba who's suing for divorce.

Her husband says he
wants desperately

to stay married or in the
alternative to receive $50,000

a month in spousal support.

- Good morning, Arnold.

- Where do you stand?

- We're in depositions.

- And you're comfortable
dealing with California law?

- I dealt with it when I was
handling divorces in New York,

plus I'll be taking the
California bar exam soon.

So I'll be boning up on it.

- When is the exam being given?

- Is anybody in here at
all interested in what

happened to me this morning?

Is anybody interested
in why I am late

and why I am sitting
here utterly distraught?

I got rear-ended
sitting at a light.

- Your Bentley?

- Yes, my Bentley.

It'll be in the
shop for six weeks.

It'll cost five figures,
if it costs a dime.

And do you know who hit me?

Or rather, do you know the
ethnicity of who hit me?

- The ethnicity?

- I'll give you a hint.

They are the worst drivers
on the face of the Earth.

- Chinese.

- Bingo.

- Is that really relevant?

- Is it even accurate?

- What do you mean?

I know who it was who hit me.

- You know that he was Chinese?

You know he wasn't Japanese
or Korean or Thai or--

- He was oriental, OK?

D-W-O, Driving While Oriental.

- You know that oriental is
considered a derogatory term.

- Oh, is it?

Excuse me.

What is the correct term?

- Asian.

- All right, Asians it is.

Asians can't drive.

They don't know how.

They make right hand turns
from the center lane.

They stop in the
middle of the street.

And they run into cars
sitting at a dead stop.

- No doubt, there
are Asian people

who are unaccustomed
to driving a car, who

are unfamiliar with the city.

Why wouldn't you
attribute it to that?

- I don't know what to
attribute it to, Jane.

I don't know whether it's
cultural or physiological

or what it is.

All I know is that it's true.

They can't drive.

And because they can't drive, my
Bentley Continental R got hit.

I'm going home.

I can't-- I can't
stay here right now.

I'm going home.

- Move along, Douglas.

- Mm-hmm.

Mr. Weeks, I'd like for you
to tell us where you were

and what you were doing
in the spring of 1968.

- I was a correctional
officer at the Eastern

Idaho federal prison.

- Was Horus Washington
a prisoner at that time?

- Yes, he was.

- Would you describe
the events that you

observed on June 19, 1968?

- Mr. Washington
tried to escape.

- How did he do that?

- By commandeering
a laundry truck.

- And what happened?

- He was ordered to
stop, at which point

he opened fire, killing Donald
Foley, a fellow officer.

We returned fire,
killing Mr. Washington.

- That would indicate
that Mr. Washington

had a gun in his possession.

Is that right?

- That's right.

- Tell us, Mr. Weeks,
have you ever seen

the defendant before today?

- I saw him at the prison.

- What were the circumstances
surrounding that visit?

- He was visiting
Horus Washington.

- I have no further questions.

- What kind of prisoner was
Horus Washington, Mr. Weeks?

- Objection, irrelevant.

- The witness's attitude
toward the prisoner

is directly relevant to whether
or not the prisoner's life

was in danger.

- I'll allow it.

- Mr. Weeks.

- He was a pain in the ass.

What else would
you like to know?

- What made him a
pain in the ass?

- He was a militant.

He'd stir up the other convicts.

And he'd file a different
writ every week.

We always had to keep
transporting him to the court.

He was always having
visits from his supporters,

like your friend over there.

And he had a big mouth
and had a foul mouth.

I didn't like him.

I didn't like what he stood for.

- Did you ever strike
a prisoner, Mr. Weeks?

- Only when it was necessary.

- And what would cause
it to be necessary?

- They'd act up.

I'd have to show them
who was in charge.

- Was that a need that arose
with particular frequency

when the prisoner also
happened to be a Black Panther?

- I don't know.

I didn't keep track.

- Oh.

You testified that Horus
Washington opened fire.

Did you personally
observe him opening fire?

- No, I did not.

- No, you did not.

What do you base
your testimony on?

- On the fact that a fellow
officer was dead on the ground.

You think that Horus Washington
was a great man, don't you?

- Mr. Weeks.

- You think his
life was in danger?

My life was in danger.

Every hour of every
shift of every day

that I went to work in
that prison, my life was--

- Mr. Weeks.
- in danger.

As far as I'm concerned, he
got what was coming to him.

And you got what's
coming to you.

- Mr. Weeks.

- I have no further questions.

- When did you start Roy
Tomba seminars, Mr. Tomba?

- Gee, I guess it must have
been around 1988 when I

first came up with its concept.

- Would you describe for
us what that concept was?

- Well, essentially,
it was a series

of workshops and weekends
during which I talked to couples

interested in improving upon and
deepening their relationships

with one another.

- Well, did this prove to be a
money-making prospect at first?

- No, it did not.

- As a matter of fact,
it wasn't until year four

that it started making
a profit at all?

- That is correct.

- Now, you also have a
rather extensive expenses.

Is that right, sir?

- Yes, I do.

- Yeah, you rent
hotel ballrooms.

You travel around the country.

You produce video
and audio tapes.

You buy commercial
time on television.

Where does that money come from?

- From my wife.

- From your wife.

- And I want to say something.

We're going through a little
bit of a tough time right now.

She has the urge to
sprout her wings.

OK.

But what I feel is it's time
for us to roll up our sleeves

and work on our marriage.

- Could we get on with this?

- Yes.

So it was your wife
using money that she

inherited from her family who
provided the startup capital.

It was your wife who
covered your overhead.

And you're in here
now asking for a lump

sum payment of $4 million and
spousal support of $50,000

a month.

Can you tell us how
you justify that?

- Well, he doesn't
have to justify.

- I call this one of
the three dividers.

I'm being used.

I'm being ignored.

I'm being made fun of.

Gretchen feels as
though I'm using her.

What she needs to see
is that I value her,

that I value the experience
of being your husband--

one of the four building blocks
to respect, to communicate,

to understand, to value.

- You know, Eli,
I can't stay here.

- You don't have to stay.

- Gretchen, the nine
pillars, are you forgetting?

- No, Roy, I am not forgetting
the nine pillars or the four

building blocks or the seven
wake-up calls or the five

life-affirming gestures.

My problem is one that you
don't address in your seminars

or your audiotapes.

My problem is that
I become physically

ill every time I realize that
I am still married to you.

- I want to say something, and
I want to say it for the record.

Whether or not we manage to
get our marriage back on track,

that lady is a 10.

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- Where were you and
what were you doing

in the spring of 1968, sir?

- I was a prisoner at
Eastern Idaho Federal Prison.

- What had you been
sentenced to prison for, sir?

- Bank robbery.

- Were you affiliated with
any particular organization

at that time?

- I was a member of the
Black Panther Party.

- Was the treatment received
by the members of the Black

Panther Party different from
the treatment received by

the general prison population?

- You could say that.

- In what way was it different?

- There were threats.

There were beatings.

I saw a guard shoot a prisoner
from a tower in the yard.

It was made clear to us
on a regular basis that

to be a member of the
Black Panther Party,

you were a target for anything
that the guards thought

they could get away with.

- Objection, speculation.

- Sustained.

The last part of the witness
response is stricken.

- Was Horus Washington a member
of the Black Panther Party?

- Yes, sir, he was.

- Did you have any
reason to believe

that in the spring of
1968 Horus Washington's

life was in danger?

- Objection,
leading the witness.

- Overruled.

The witness may answer.

- Horus was about to
have his book published.

The guards had said on
more than one occasion

that they would kill
him if that happened.

- Objection, hearsay.

- Sustained and stricken.

The jury will disregard.

- Did you yourself observe
a change in the behavior

of the prison guards
toward Mr. Washington

when it became known that his
book was going to be published?

- I observed them beat
him half to death.

- I have nothing further.

- Were you ever privy to any
prison directives regarding

the Black Panther Party?

- No official ones.

- Well, then how
about unofficial ones.

Did you ever witness a warden or
assistant warden giving a guard

a direct order to
threaten or harass

or abuse members of the
Black Panther Party?

- They don't give direct orders.

That's not the way it happens.

- Ask that the witness be
directed to answer the question

that he's been asked.

- I-- [sighs] was
never a witness

to a direct order being issued.

- Is it possible
Mr. Hovey that what

the correctional
officers were doing

was nothing more than
maintaining order?

- They brutalized us Mr. Shale?

- Were not you
yourselves brutal?

We're not you yourselves
nothing more than a group

of violent criminals
who were treated

the way violent criminals
are always perforce treated?

- Does that mean murder?

- Who, Mr. Hovey, who
has been murdered?

- Horus Washington was murdered.

- Isn't it a fact, Mr.
Hovey that Mr. Washington

fired the first shot?

- No, Mr. Shale.

It is not a fact.

It's a lie.

They lied about it
when it happened,

and you're lying right now.

- Move that the
witness's last remarks

be stricken from the record.

- So stricken.

- Horus never fired a gun.

Horus didn't have a gun.

- Oh, what's happened, Douglas?

- Someone dented
your car, Arnold.

It doesn't require you
to reevaluate your life.

- I think it might.

For some time now,
everything I touch turns bad.

And it isn't just
the car, Douglas.

It isn't just the car.

- What else is it?

- Women aren't going
to bed with me anymore.

- Has it been more
than a week, Arnold?

- Yes, it has.

- Mm-hmm.

- I engage him, I talk to
them, and they don't respond.

They look at me like
I'm some mildly amusing

throwback to another era.

It's like the secret
council of women

has met and voted unanimously,
Becker doesn't get any.

- Well, you know, it is possible
that your career as a stickman

is coming to a close.

You've had a good run,
a longer run than most.

And now maybe it's time
for you to live life

like the rest of us
for whom the world

isn't a smorgasbord of sexually
willing and

adventurous females.

Every three or four weeks,
you have sex with your wife

assuming she's speaking to
you, and that's about it.

- Douglas, I'm not
ready for that.

- Buck up, skipper,
you've got a great car.

[tapping]

- Eli?

- Jinx, what are you doing here?

- You wanted to see me.

We have an appointment.

- That's right.

The husband's name is Roy Tomba.

I need to set up some kind
of surveillance on him.

Here's the file.

- What am I looking for?

- Well, he's been rather
mercenary in this divorce,

like anything that
would make him go away.

- I'll see what I can find.

- Thanks.

- I thought you were
headed back to New York.

- I decided to stay.

- Having second thoughts?

- Can I confide
something in you?

- Of course.

- I was just lying over there in
the midst of a full on anxiety

attack.
- Why?

- [sighs] In the interest of
being spontaneous and groovy,

I acted precipitously.

I sublet my apartment.

I took a leave of absence from
my firm, and I moved out here.

- Yeah.

- I think I made a big mistake.

I went from a great
apartment in Manhattan

to a hotel room in Los Angeles.

I don't know how to drive.

I don't know any places to eat.

- You don't drive?

- I know it's inconceivable
to anyone who lives out here.

- How do you get around?

- Bus, cab, people
give me rides.

The other night to get back to
my hotel from the restaurant,

I decided to walk.

Halfway back, I started to
panic and hyperventilate

and feel a sense of
total disorientation.

I said to myself, great,
this is all I need.

I'm now coming down
with agoraphobia too.

- What can a
restaurant do you like?

- All kinds--

Chinese, Italian, Jewish,
dairy restaurants.

The other day what I wanted
more than anything in the world

was a hot dog.

- Are you free tonight?

- I'm free every night.

- I'll pick you up at 7:00.

- Really?

- Mm-hmm.

Wait for me downstairs
so I don't have to park.

- Do you deny taking
part in the attempt

to assist Horus Washington's
escape from prison?

- No, I don't.

- Would you tell me
with some specificity

exactly what part you played.

- I attended meetings of
the committee in solidarity

with the Black Panther Party.

I met with Horus
Washington at the prison.

I obtained false
identification and rented

a car that I left for Horus
by the side of the road.

- Did you smuggle a
gun into the prison?

- No, I did not.

- To the best of your
knowledge, was a gun

in fact being smuggled in?

- No, there was no gun.

- Would you tell us why you saw
fit to play a role in the plan?

- I was convinced that if Horus
Washington remained in prison

he would be killed.

- What was it that
convinced you of that?

- A conversation
I had with Horus

when I visited with
him at the prison.

- What was said?

- He told me that he had been
beaten two nights before.

- Objection.
Hearsay.

- Goes to the witnesses
state of mind your honor.

- I'm going to allow it.

The objection is overruled.

- Did Horus Washington
show physical signs

that he had been beaten?

- Yes, he did.

He had both his eyes blackened.

There were several bandages
on his face and head.

And he walked with
a pronounced limp.

- What specifically
made you believe

that his life was threatened?

- He said that the guards had
told him that if his book was

published, they would kill him.

- Objection, Your Honor,
this is now double hearsay.

- Your Honor, once
again I maintain

it goes to the
defendant's state of mind.

- I'll allow it.

- What, if anything,
made you believe

that this threat was imminent?

- Well, Horus's book
was going to come

out at the end of the month.

- I have nothing further.

- Let me ask you
something, Mr. Ellison,

if Charles Manson's
life were in danger,

would you help him to escape?

- Objection.

- I'm entitled to pursue
this issue, Your Honor.

It was the defense
who brought it up.

- As it pertains to Horus
Washington not Charles Manson.

- I'm going to allow the
government to pursue this.

The objection is overruled.

- Well, Mr. Ellison,
how about it?

- In my opinion, Charles Manson
is not a political prisoner.

- The last time I looked,
Horus Washington was in prison

for bank robbery and murder.

Now, what was it exactly that
made him a political prisoner?

- What made Horus Washington a
political prisoner was the fact

that his treatment in the
criminal justice system

followed from his
political activities

not from his so-called crimes.

- So he was innocent?

- I don't know whether
it was innocent or not.

- Did you ever think
about the public's

safety considerations
of releasing

a killer onto the streets?

- No.

- Did you ever think of
the people who might die,

who did die as a result
of your adventure?

- Look, we were--

we were trying to--

we were interested
in doing something.

I don't know, maybe we
just wanted to be outlaws.

Maybe we wanted to violate
every middle class convention

possible, I don't know.

I can't say with absolute
certainty that what we did

was right or justified.

- Your Honor, may
I have a moment

to confer with my client?

- I have no further questions.

Counsel can confer with his
client as long as he wants.

- You may stand
down, Mr. Ellison.

- I have lived
with having played

a part in the death of two
men for most of my adult life.

Now, I will not concede
that that was wrong.

And I-- and I won't
insist that it was right.

The truth is that I
don't-- that I don't know.

After-- after all this time,
the one thing I am sure of is--

I have to tell the truth.

[music playing]

I didn't do it on purpose.

I just found that I couldn't
not say what was on my mind.

- You might have
thought to indulge

yourself in that outside
the presence of the jury.

- Oh, you think I
was being indulgent?

- Yeah, man, I think
you're being completely

indulgent and not real smart.

- All right, Jonathan,
let's try to be

a little constructive here.

We know Vernon Weeks was lying.

- Is that an
ideological position

or are you possessed
of some information?

- Why are you being like this?

- Because he's tired.

Because we're all tired.

- Well, why don't we
just call it a day then?

- Is it a lost cause, you guys?

- We have to turn the jury
against the government,

the government then
and the government now.

- And how do we do that?

- We make the actions
of the government

appear sufficiently
evil, sufficiently

brutal so that they refuse
to reward the government

with the conviction.

That's how you do it.

- Where's the file
on the prison guard?

- We should have
one here someplace.

- Here it is.

[car engine roaring]

- My god, what kind
of car is this?

- It's a Ferrari.

- You're not an overly fast
driver by any chance, are you?

[car engine roaring]

- OK, I got.

[chatter]

- You're completely
without fear.

- That's not true.

- You do drive at an
excessive rate of speed.

I hope you realize that.

- I drive as road
conditions permit.

What I was doing was not unsafe.

- You're insane.

You live in a state
of total fear.

- Well, the car just now, that
was a reasonable apprehension

of death.

That's not living in
a state of total fear.

- But you do live in
a state of total fear.

- Not really.

I'm afraid of death.

I'm afraid of illness.

I'm afraid of different
kinds of illness--

prostate cancer,
adult onset diabetes,

embolisms of all forms.

- You think about those things.

- I could say they cross my
mind every once in a while.

- I never think
about those things.

I'd like to live as
good a life as I can.

I don't like to fill
it with bad thoughts.

- You do know some
good places to eat.

- You like this place?

- I love this place.

- I had a feeling
you'd like this place.

- If I could face the prospect
of riding in the car with you,

I'd ask you to give me a tour.

- I'll give you a tour.

I'll drive slow.

[knocking]

- Yeah.

- Vernon Weeks?

- Yeah.

- My name is Stuart Markowitz.

- You're one of the lawyers?

- Yes I am.

May I come in for a minute?

[chatter]

[sirens wailing]

- So what can I do for you?

- I'd like you to
help me understand

something, Mr. Weeks.

The Department of
Corrections forced

you into an early retirement
because of a medical

problem, right?

And judging from the number
of grievances that you filed,

it's obvious that you
feel you got screwed.

I'm trying to understand why
you're standing up for them.

- How am I standing up for them?

- You're lying.

You know what happened in
the prison yard that day.

You know there was no gun.

You're about to
send a man to jail,

and I'm trying to figure out
what you're doing it for.

- You know, I bet you're not
even supposed to be here.

- What I don't
understand, Mr. Weeks,

is what you think you're
getting out of this.

- I don't want to talk to you.

- Are they taking care
of your medical costs?

- That's none of your business.

- Are they going to take
care of your wife, Mr, Weeks?

- Hey, I don't have to have some
smart Jew lawyer come in here

and stick his nose
into my affairs.

- Mr. Weeks, I'm going
to give you a reason

to change your testimony.

If you get up on the stand
and tell the truth about what

happened that day, you're going
to buy yourself the services

of one smart Jew lawyer.

And he's going to make
sure that your pension

and your disabilities
and your medical needs

are completely taken care of.

- You're trying to
bribe me, Mr. Markowitz.

- No, I'm trying to induce you
to tell the truth, Mr. Weeks.

- And because I'm just
some dumb old redneck,

you figure the way to do that
is to throw me something.

- I don't think of it that way.

- The hell, you don't.

It never occurred to you that
if I was lying that I would have

my reasons and I would
be thinking about the men

that I worked with, that I
would feel some loyalty to them,

some obligation.

You just don't think
that that matters.

- I think there are
things that matter more.

- Like what?

My pension, my health benefits,
a fistful of $100 bills?

- No.

How about being able
to die a little bit

easier knowing that you didn't
send a man to jail with a lie?

Look, Mr. Weeks, I'm sorry I
tried to buy you off there.

That was-- that was
a stupid thing to do.

In the end, this has got
nothing to do with pensions

or medical benefits or
whatever else it is a smart Jew

lawyer can get for you.

- Gretchen, yesterday we
talked about your contribution

to your husband's business.

I'd like to talk today about
your husband's contribution.

To the best of your knowledge,
who ran the company?

- My husband ran the company.

- Mm-hmm.

Who was on the road three
days out of every five

to different cities all
across the United States?

Your husband was, wasn't he?

- Yes, my husband was.

- You could say he was being a
hunter gatherer, couldn't you?

- Are you taking his seminars?

- Yes, I am.

And I find that
what they've done

is to increase by
a factor of 1,000

the intimacy and closeness that
my wife and I are capable of.

- Well, that's great, Seth.

- Could we move on with the
questions and answers, please.

- All right.

Now, you're aware, are
you not, that Roy Tomba

seminars is about to
take some very dramatic

steps toward expansion.

- I don't know what Roy Tomba's
seminars is about to do.

- Well, you know that Roy has
been actively pursuing a number

of celebrity endorsements.

You know that he's approached
Frank Gifford, Joe Piscopo,

Alan Thicke, that he has
gone about doing all of this

confident that you
would be there for him.

- Excuse me.

- And Gretchen, now you're
saying you won't be there.

- Excuse me, this
is a deposition.

That means a question
and answer format.

It doesn't mean testimonials
for Roy Tomba's seminars.

- I'm getting to
a question, Eli.

- And it doesn't mean long,
self-serving speeches.

Ask a question or
let's get out of here.

- Gretchen, have we
really reached this point?

Have we gone through the
entire troubleshooting guide

to marital repair?

- Do you have any idea
how annoying you are?

- Am I annoying
or am I tenacious?

- Annoying.

- Am I annoying or am
I determined to use

the principles that I've
developed, the-- the pillars,

the building blocks,
and so forth,

to help our marriage in the same
way that I've helped so many

other people's marriages?

- Well, not this one, Roy.

I can't live inside of a
24 hour a day infomercial.

So, Seth, why don't you ask me
whatever you have to ask me?

Let's get the deposition done,
and then let's go to trial.

- Don't let's get
ahead of ourselves.

- I am not getting
ahead of myself.

We've made very generous offers.

He has rejected
every single one.

So if a settlement
can't be reached,

let's get into a courtroom,
and let's go to war.

- Gretchen, Eli,
why the hostility?

[phone buzzing]

- Excuse me.

- Yes.

- Are you Mr Arnold Becker?

- Yes.

- I understand that
you were involved

in an automobile accident with
a member of a Chinese community.

- Yes, I was.

Please, come in.

Have a seat.

- Hi.

I'm Chu Hua.

- Hi.

I'm here representing the
Chinese-American

benevolent society.

We just want to make
sure that everything

is being done that can be done
to remedy this great wrong.

- The insurance companies
are taking care of it.

- If the insurance companies
don't take care of it,

please, Mr. Becker,
make sure that you

feel free to call on us.

- If you don't mind my asking,
why are you taking such

a special interest in this?

- Well, Mr. Becker, ours is
a very close-knit community.

If our driving skills
aren't what they should be,

we'd like to make
amends for that.

- There's nothing wrong
with your driving skills.

- Well, many people
feel otherwise.

A quirk that we can
laugh about becomes

instead of fodder for those
who foster racism and violence.

- If anything, I would
attribute a lack of skill

in driving to someone
being a recent immigrant

rather than their belonging
to a specific ethnic group.

Maybe they aren't
accustomed to driving a car.

Maybe they're unfamiliar
with the city.

- What an unusual man
you are, Mr. Becker.

- I don't think I'm so unusual.

I just try to understand
the forces that

make us the way we are,
that divide us, that turn us

against one another.

- Well, Mr. Becker, I sense
that you're a man for whom

race isn't really a problem.

- I love people of all races.

- Wow.

Well, when I came
up here I wasn't

expecting anyone like you.

- Listen, being a white
male, being a very affluent

white male, I
understand that I have

an incredibly privileged life.

I consume an inordinate
amount of resources.

I have a standard of
living that can only

be called grotesque
when compared to that

of the rest of the world.

- I find myself wanting to
get to know you, Mr. Becker.

- You ever been over to
Kim Choi's on Broadway.

- I don't believe
I ever have been.

- King of chaozhou wonton.

- [chuckles] You want
to take me there?

- Yes I do.

- Well, Mr. Becker,
I wouldn't go

to eat chaozhou wonton
with you if it meant never

eating chaozhou wonton again.

- What do you mean?

- I mean you're a racist pig.

I'm not here from
the Chinese-American

Benevolent Society.

I'm here at the
request of the McKenzie

Brackman Minority Alliance.

And I believe that whatever
you may have said to me just

now was said for
one reason only,

you want to go to bed with me.

Mr. Becker, that's just
not going to happen.

Now, that you know that,
you may drop the pretense

and go back to being
who you really are.

- McKenzie Brackman
Minority Alliance?

[laughter]

- Boy, have I got some
good news for you.

- What's that?

- Roy Tomba is not exactly
your true blue kind of guy.

- No?

- Your names,
pictures, the works.

- [sighs] Boy, you're good.

- Thanks.

- I had a pretty
good time last night.

- Me too.

- Do you think we could
do it again sometime?

- You're willing to get
back in the car with me?

- Yes, I am.

I'm willing to get back
in the car with you.

- Mr. Weeks, I'm going
to ask you some questions

that you answered the other day.

I'd like you to
answer them again.

- When Horus Washington
was trying to escape,

did he fire at the guards
who were trying to stop him.

- No.

- Was it a bullet from
Mr. Washington's gun

that killed Donald Foley?

- No.

- From whose gun was
that bullet fired?

- From my gun.

- When Horus Washington's
body was examined,

was he found to have had a gun?

- No.

- How did the gun he was
alleged to have had get there?

- The captain of the
guard put it there.

- Was Horus Washington shot
to prevent him from escaping?

- We shot the tires out
of the laundry truck.

He was not about to escape.

He had his hands over his
head when he was shot.

- Who pulled the trigger?

- We all did.

We wanted to kill him
and we killed him.

- I have no further questions.

- Tell us, Mr. Weeks, what
happened between the time

you first testified and today?

- Nothing happened.

- Did either of the
defendant's attorneys

communicate with you in any way?

- Mr. Markowitz spoke to me.

- I see.

And what did he say?

- He impressed on
me the importance

of telling the truth.

- He impressed on
you the importance

of telling the truth.

How did he do that?

- I don't know how he did that.

- What did he
offer you in return

for changing your testimony?

- Nothing.

- Sir, you are up here
admitting to murder.

Are you aware of the fact that
you can and will be prosecuted.

And if convicted, you
will in all likelihood

spend the next 10 to
20 years in prison.

- That won't happen, Mr. Shale.

- It won't happen.

And what do you base your
belief that it won't happen?

- On the fact that I will
be dead inside of 6 months.

I have cancer.

And even though I
have no use for him

or anything that he
stands for, I think,

before I leave this world--

I ought to own up to what I did.

I think that I will be able
to die easier that way.

- I want to talk
about accountability.

I want to talk about
the absolute necessity

for judging people's actions
by a consistent codified

standard of behavior, the law.

Now, the defense doesn't
want you to do that.

No, they would rather you
not be quite that rigorous.

They'd rather you apply
situational ethics, which

are infinitely malleable to
accommodate historical context

or youthful fervor
or anything else that

serves to excuse what was done.

This man participated
in a conspiracy

to enable a convicted killer
to escape from prison.

His defense is that said
killer's life was in danger.

And in lieu of proof,
we are offered an array

of anecdotes and conjecture.

We are given the revised
testimony of a prison guard

who has suddenly decided
to bare his soul.

As to what he may have been
offered in return for this,

we can only guess.

- I object to the
implication that Mr.

Weeks was offered anything.

- The objection is sustained.

The jury will disregard.

- Ladies and gentlemen,
I don't know what

your respective politics are.

I don't know what
you thought or think

of the Black Panther Party.

What I do know is this,
a crime was committed.

The man who committed
it remained a fugitive

from justice for some 25 years.

To torture the facts
into forgiving his crime

does violence to the system
that we are sworn to uphold

and which he was
dedicated to destroy.

Convict him.

Convict him and
send him to prison.

- My adversary, Mr. Shale talks
about the law and the need

for obedience to the law.

And in general, I
would agree with him.

I would ask you to remember that
when police officers or prison

guards brutalize, beat, and kill
those people in their custody,

they are breaking the law.

To try and save a man's life in
such an instance isn't a crime.

The law recognizes that there
are times when people must take

decisive, sometimes
violent action in defense

of another person's life.

We believe that the evidence
speaks resoundingly that this

is what Jay Ellison did.

It isn't conjecture
to say that Horus

Washington's life was at risk.

We all saw the sworn testimony
of a man that put it at risk.

We have all seen the
sworn testimony of one

of the men who killed him.

I'm not asking you to take a
nostalgic view of these events.

I'm asking you to determine
whether the actions Jay Ellison

took were taken in good
faith and whether they

were justified by the conditions
that existed at that time.

I believe that in doing so
you'll come to the conclusion

that the only just
verdict is not guilty.

[phone buzzing]

- You know what, I'd like to see
if we can't settle this matter.

What do you think about that?

- Hey, Eli, we're for that.

Honest injun, we are for that.

- I think it's important
to stress at this point

that we're pretty much
at rock bottom as to what

I would consider fair.

- In other words, the
$4 million up front

and the $50,000 a month
that's pared down to the nub.

- It's not Roy who
wants a divorce.

- No, it's not Roy
who wants a divorce.

It's Roy who wants
to get under the hood

of a marriage that is broken
down by the side of the road.

It's Roy that wants
to fix things.

It's Roy that wants to try.

- I think he's entitled
to compensation

for his emotional devastation.

- You know, I'd
have to think, Mr.

Tomba, that your
image is a great deal

to do with your success.

- I'm sure that's true.

- People whose marriages
are foundering come to you

so that you can guide them.

From where I sit, I'd
say that your image

is your principal asset.

- I'd be inclined
to agree with that.

- Well, what do you
think that'll do to it?

- Which of the
five life-affirming

gestures are being
performed in that first

series of photographs, Roy?

- Gretchen, I think that
we should take a moment

and think about how we
want to deal with this.

- We've already
thought about it.

- You aren't contemplating
going public with this, are you?

- Yeah, I've already
written a press release.

- Now, Gretchen, that is
not being constructive.

That is not a
life-affirming gesture.

- It would, however, give me an
inordinate amount of pleasure.

- OK.

What is it you're looking for?

- A divorce, that's number one.

Number two, she doesn't
have to buy him off.

He can have Roy Tombas
Seminars Incorporated

in its entirety, no cash up
front, no spousal support.

- Nothing?

- Nothing, zero Z.

- Seth.

- Roy, look, I'd
be lying if I said

there wasn't an exposure here.

I mean, if it were
simple adultery,

I think we could weather that.

But the fact is we're
talking threesomes

and oh, well, costumes involved.

It kind of makes me feel as
though this could hurt us.

- Would it change anything
if I said that I know

that these sexual exploits
correspond to a deficiency

in me and not in you.

- No, dear, it wouldn't
change a thing.

[knocking]

- Go away.

- Yeah, you're available then?

- Yeah.

[chatter]

- Does that mean me?

- What are you doing here?

- You said you'd give me a ride.

I came to take you
up on your offer.

- How did you find my office?

- You told me the
address of the building,

and your parking place
has your name on it.

And I know what kind
of car you drive.

- But the Bentley
is in the shop.

- I asked the parking
attendant the name

of the man who drove it.

- Did the Chinese
people send you?

- Excuse me.

- The Chinese
people, the McKenzie

Brackman Minority Alliance.

Isn't that the point being
made, is what I'm asking?

Are you here because my
attitude towards women

has been found wanting?

Who's standing
outside my door now?

- Maybe this is a bad time.

- Wait a minute.

Why are you here?

- I wanted to apologize.

- For what?

- For driving away instead of
sticking around just in case

you needed for me
to be a witness.

- It's OK.

- And I'm sorry for laughing.

- God, I love hearing
a woman apologize.

- Mm-hmm, how's the car?

- It'll be all right.

- I have to tell you
something, Arnold Becker.

I haven't stopped thinking
about you since the day we met.

- Do you have dinner plans?

- No, I don't.

- Let's go to dinner.

- Let's go.

[car engine roaring]

- I've got to tell
you, I find car culture

and all its ramifications
largely insidious in nature.

- Eli-- Eli, try not to let
the clutch out all at once.

- It totally atomizes
us as a society.

We exist in a world
encapsulated in steel.

The random ordering of a
real city like New York

doesn't happen out here.

- Eli, pay attention
to what you're doing.

- Well-- that's the other thing,
all the contemplative time

people have while walking
or riding on a bus or subway

is totally transformed.

Now I have to
concentrate on driving.

My attention for
force is given over

essentially to avoiding death.

- There is no more
contemplative place in the world

than the inside of a car.

- This is hopeless.

- Eli, it is not hopeless.

- Yes it is, Jinx.

I'm never going to
adapt to life out here.

- Hey, you think I was born
doing what I'm doing now?

It wasn't very long ago I was
working at a beauty parlor

on Edgecombe Avenue
in the Bronx.

- How did you wind up
a private investigator?

- You really want to know?

- Yeah.

- I worked as a secretary
for a private investigator.

I watched.

I listened.

- And today you're
driving a Ferrari.

- I have a weakness
for fast cars.

- I would think most
people with cars

like this wouldn't want to
use them for driving lessons.

- I have more than one weakness.

[car engine roaring]

- Has the jury
reached a verdict?

- We have your honor.

- What say you?

- On the charge of aiding
and abetting escape,

we find the
defendant not guilty.

On the charge of conspiracy, we
find the defendant not guilty.

- Thank you, Jonathan.
- We did good.

- Yeah.
- Thank you.

- We're going to go out and
celebrate tonight, right?

- Absolutely.

- I'm going to head
back to the office.

Pick a restaurant, call me,
and I'll meet you there.

- OK.
- Hey.

Good work.

- Thanks, Stuart.

- You came.

- Yeah.

- I'm glad you came.

- Me too.

[chatter]

- Mr. Ellison.

Mr Ellison--

- How do you feel vindicated?

- I feel fortunate.

- What name are you going
to go by, Barry, or Jay?

- Jay.
- What do you think--

- Stuart.
- What are your plans?

[reporters clamouring]

- I'll be back and then I'll
answer all your questions.

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Stuart.

Thank you.

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