All language subtitles for L.A.Law.S08E16.Whose.San.Andreas.Fault.Is.It.Anyway.1080p.DSNP.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-NTb_track4_[eng]

- Daniel, we'll be meeting
later today to go over

the disposition of your cases.
Yes?

- Yes.

- Very good.

- Vonzel versus Stanley Huggins
and Castellano Construction.

- We're representing Cille
Vonzel against her architect

and contractor for
damages her home

sustained from the earthquake.

I'm expecting settlement
offers sometime today.

I've been led to believe
that there'll be more

than $1 million on the table.

- And we're on
board for a third.

Not bad for a month's work.

- How are you getting
settlement offers this fast?

- Well, it was a new house, so
there was clear cut liability.

- Is it an earthquake
considered an act of God?

- We're not holding them
responsible for the earthquake.

We're holding them responsible
for misrepresenting

the protection they were
providing from the earthquake.

- I know we're all
lawyers and everything,

but it seems to me we
were all in this together.

There isn't any one person who
was to blame for what happened.

- Moving on, Andrew Cass
versus Lynn Barnett.

- Sexual harassment,
wrongful termination.

Trial starts today.

- Andrew versus Lynn.

He's suing her for
sexual harassment?

- Yeah.

- Well, she did tie him up.

- There are subtler forms of
expressing one's desire, Arni.

- Like quoting scripture.

(ALL) Ooh.

- Bullock versus Barca.

- OK.

Now, who asked me for coffee?

- Me.

- And me.
- Water.

- Congas.

[glass rattling]

- Aftershock.

[glass breaking]

- Bullock versus Barca.

- We're in depositions all week.

- I need to talk
to you regarding

the offshore business.

The Cayman Island
shelter's not gonna fly.

- All right.

Let's get together
right after this.

- Hazel versus Mahoney?

- I have a pretrial
conference set for 3:00 today.

- Well, please do not be
overly anxious to try this one.

- And with that, I
think we're adjourned.

[car alarms]

[music playing]

(SINGING) Day after day,
more people come to LA.

Don't you tell anybody, the
whole place shaken away.

Where can we go when
there's no San Francisco?

Better get ready to tie
up the boat in Idaho.

- One thing this quake did
was force me to get organized.

- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.

And I've gone about
it with a vengeance.

I've had a structural engineer
out to look at the house.

I've made up a master
list of supplies.

I have worked out an evacuation
route and a telephone tree

with the other parents
at Matthew's school.

- No one in this office is
prepared for a major earthquake

except me.
- Are you kidding?

I'm totally prepared.

I've got shoes under all
the beds, flashlights

in every room, automatic
shut off for the gas, water,

canned goods, portable
radio with extra batteries.

- How about a generator?

- You put in a generator?

- That's right.

How about a four wheel drive
Dodge Power Wagon with front

mounted winch?

Milk?

- Yeah.

What's the point of that?

- When the freeways collapse
and the roads are barricaded,

how are you going to get around?

- What else?

- How about $20,000
in gold Bullion.

- What's that for?

- For when the
currency collapses.

- You're keeping
this in your house?

- No, I keep it in the yard.

Don't ask me to tell you where.
- It's OK.

I just hope you'll be able to
get home in order to get to it.

- In the event that I can't
get home, the trunk of my car,

I have a water purification
kit, flares, dehydrated food,

flashlights, blankets,
camp stove, crowbar,

first aid kit, and work boots.

- You got all that in
the trunk of your car?

- I usually keep it in
the trunk of my car.

It's not in there right now.
- Why not?

- I needed the room,
I went shopping.

- Why wouldn't the
city be liable?

- It's not clear
that they wouldn't.

It would depend on whether
or not they were negligent.

- Negligence of the
contractor we got.

Negligence of the
architect we got.

- That's why there is a
settlement offer on the table.

- Well, as far as I'm
concerned, we should

still be going after the city.

- Well, number one,
I don't think we

have a case against the
city, and number two,

you are being well
compensated by the contractor

and the architect.

- Brand new house, brand new
foundation, and the assurances

of both of them that
it would withstand

earthquakes of this magnitude.

Is there any question that
I should be compensated?

- No.

- I'm told Stanley will
declare personal bankruptcy.

- That is my understanding.

- I find myself
just wishing there

were more people we could sue.

- Look, Cille, you
should be really

happy with this settlement.

To tell you the truth, it's
more than any of the attorneys

in the office thought you would
get whether we went to trial

or not.

- I probably should
feel fortunate

that while thousands were left
homeless by this earthquake

because I own four homes,
I'm left with three.

- That might be one
way of looking at it.

- I don't care.

I feel aggrieved by
what happened to me.

I feel abused by the
forces of nature.

And I feel abused
by tradespeople.

And I can't bear it when
either of those things happen.

- I need you to sign all three
of these copies right here.

- I stay awake nights
compiling lists of grievances

and not just earthquake
related grievances.

There are things I
blame my family for,

and there are things I
blame my dentist for.

I'm unhappy with my
accountant, and I

am unhappy with my housekeeper.

I am not, despite what you
may think, a happy person.

- I'm not sure I know
what to tell you.

- You read that Bible?

- Every day.

- I haven't read
one since I'm a kid.

- Well, maybe you would feel
better if you read it again.

- I don't think so.

- This way.

- Thank you.

Hi.

- Hi.

Thanks, Ava.

So how do we do this?

I haven't had anybody
pick out my clothes

since I was 12 years old.

- Well, show me the clothes
you're thinking of wearing,

and I'll give you my opinion.

- You want to start
with what I've got on?

- Sure.

Maybe not.

- Too predatory?

- Yeah.

- OK.

- You know what?

- What?

- You probably don't
need me to do this.

You probably know what to
wear to court all on your own.

- No, I want your help.

You're my lawyer, I want the
benefit of your expertise.

- It's just that what you wear
is a rather personal decision.

- Leon, I'm in advertising.

You know what we
do before we dress

an actor for a commercial?

We put 12 executives
in a room to decide

what he's going to wear.

There is nothing
personal about this.

Believe me.

This is about an image that I
am going to project to a jury.

And I want you to help me figure
out what that image will be.

- OK.

These are the
clothes I picked out.

- Hmm.

Too upper class.

- OK.

- Too sexual.

- Really?

All right.

Losing both.

- These look fine.

- You got any suggestions
for shoes and handbags?

Those are the real
indicators, you know?

- I think I'll leave
them both up to you.

- You ever get involved
with anybody at work?

- Not really.

I'm not officially,
not formally.

- If I were you, I would adhere
to that policy at all possible.

- I wouldn't necessarily
call it a policy.

- You know when I first knew
that my affair with Andrew

would end badly?

- When?

- We were walking out
of a meeting one day

and he put his arm
around my waist.

- What did that tell you?

- That told me that he wanted
everyone to know that he

was sleeping with his boss.

- We have a strong case, Lynn.

I don't think he's
going to beat us.

- Good.

- Would you describe
for the court

your relationship
with the defendant?

- I was a copywriter.

She was a vice president
at the agency for a period

of about three months.

She was also someone with whom
I was romantically involved.

- I'm going to ask
you to describe very

specifically how that happened.

- Your honor, the
fact that these two

people had a romantic
involvement is not in dispute.

I object to this whole
line of questioning.

- The role each of
them played is very

much in dispute, your honor.

I asked to be
permitted to pursue

this line of questioning.

- The objection is overruled.

The witness can answer.

- We had just landed a major
account, I'd gotten a raise,

she was made a vice president,
and it was Saint Patrick's Day.

We drank Irish whiskey at Tom
Bergin's until closing time,

then we went back
to my apartment.

- And who initiated going
back to your apartment?

- Objection, irrelevant.

- Overruled.

The witness can answer.

- Who initiated it, Mr Cass?

- Lynn did.

- Characterize for
us, if you would,

what kind of
relationship you had.

- I think we had a fairly
intense relationship.

We began spending three or
four nights a week together.

We were going away for
the weekends together.

For a while, it was great.

- Did there come a point
at which that changed?

- Well, there came a point
at which the relationship

had run its course.

It wasn't her fault.
It wasn't mine.

It just happened.

- And what effect, if
any, did the cessation

of your romantic
involvement have on

your professional relationship?

- It had a profound effect.

She'd exclude me
from meetings that I

once would have been a part of.

She stopped sending
me good assignments.

She'd berate me.

Ultimately, she fired me.

- Are you currently
employed, Mr Cass?

- Yes, I am.

- And how much are you
earning relative to what

you had been earning before?

- Half.

- Why would you take
a job that paid you

half of what you were making?

- I had no alternative.

Ms Barnett got the word out
to too many people a little

too fast.
- Objection.

- Sustained.

- No further questions.

- Did you feel
coerced into having

a relationship with Ms Barnett?

- Coerced?

No.

- She give you an ultimatum?

Go to bed with me or else?

- No.

How did you react to
having a woman you were

sleeping with being your boss?

- I think I reacted fine.

- How did you react to
your work being rejected?

- When I felt my work was
being rejected out of spite,

I probably got angry.

- Yet you often felt like
your work was being rejected

out of spite, didn't you?

- I did where Lynn
were concerned.

- Isn't what happened
Mr Cass is that you

weren't moving up
the ladder quite as

fast as you would have liked?
- No, that's not what happened.

- You were hoping, were you not,
that sleeping with Lynn Barnett

would result in a little
career advancement?

You wanted it to
do you some good.

- Objection.

Mr Levinson is
browbeating this man.

- Sustained.

- She fired me because
I broke up with her.

- Isn't it possible, Mr
Cass, that she fired you

because your work
was unsatisfactory

and you wouldn't take direction?

- My work was never
unsatisfactory

while we were going out.

- Was it that your work
was never unsatisfactory

or that Ms Barnett covered
for you when it was?

- That never happened.

- I have nothing further.

- I assume you've got
a whole argument worked

out as to why the
Hermann case should

be yours to take with you.

- No.

- You don't want to
take it with you?

- I think it rightfully
belongs to the firm.

- OK.

- What about the Reese brothers?

- Well, it seems like the big
fees from the Reese brothers

have all been had.

So whatever's left, I'm
happy to leave behind.

- Just out of curiosity, are
you setting us up for something?

- Douglas.

- Like what?

- Like what cases are you
hoping to take with you?

- I'd like to take the Edelman,
and I'd like to take the Snow.

- That's it?

- I would also ask
that Jonathan take over

for me in the Donnelly case.

I think our client would be
most comfortable with him.

- It's OK with me.

- What about the Reinhold?

- It's yours.

- What about Hutton?

- Hutton is also yours.

- What are you doing, Daniel?

- I'm leaving, Douglas,
and it doesn't much matter

to me what I take with me.

I'll call the clients
and let them know,

and I'll be out of my office
by the end of the week.

- Excuse me.

- Daniel, you
adamant about this?

- I don't know about adamant,
but I have made up my mind.

- I'm going to miss you, man.

- Likewise, brother.

[heartwarming music]

[knocking]

- I'm going to be in
trial most of the week.

I might not see you again,
I wanted to say goodbye.

- OK.

- I'm sorry this happened.

- I'm sorry about it too.

- It's like watching
a train wreck for me.

I knew it was
going to end badly.

And all I could do was watch.

- Is that all you did?

- I had to remain
neutral, Daniel.

I haven't been here long
enough to take positions

on these things, I don't think.

- Except you did
take a position.

- I abstained.

- That's a position, Eli.

It caused something to happen.

If you had voted
the other way, it

would have resulted in a tie.

Had that happen,
Patrick Flanagan

would not have been hired,
and I would not be leaving.

- And I'm genuinely sorry
that that's what happened.

- Fine.

- And you're right.

I did take a position.

I'll see you.

[chatter]

- Cashier's checks
are on their way over.

- We closed at 1,000,005?

- We closed at 1,000,008.

- Fabulous.

- I thought you'd be pleased.

- I'm extremely pleased.

You handled this case very well.

- Thank you.

- I thought this
was worth nothing.

To find that it's dumped
$600,000 into our lap,

this is like found money.

- Oh, here you are.

- Hi, Cille.

- I just had the most remarkable
night of my entire life.

- Let me leave you two ladies.

- No, stay, please.

Jane, you told me to read the
Bible, and I read the Bible.

Instead of falling asleep
in front of the television,

I made myself a pot
of coffee, bought

a fresh pack of cigarettes,
got out that Bible, and I read.

And let me just
say, I was blind.

And now, I see.

- That's great.

- I have such a feeling
of serenity and calm

I don't believe I've ever had.

- And that's before you get
your hands on the money.

- Forgive and you will
be forgiven, Luke 6.

- Absolutely.

- I'm not taking the money.

- What do you mean?

- What I mean is that I need
to forgive my architect.

I need to forgive my
contractor, and the one real way

to do that is not
to take the money.

- There may be other ways.

- No.

There are no other ways.

Now, I want to thank your
office for representing me,

but I want to thank you for
pointing me back toward Jesus.

And I wish for the two of
you a very pleasant day.

- Are you kidding?

- What's your position
at the agency, Mr Justin?

- President.

- Do you deal with Lynne Barnett
directly on a day-to-day basis?

- Yes, I do.

- How would you
characterize her performance

supervising the creative
teams that report to her?

- I would characterize
it as outstanding.

- You ever observe her being
vindictive with anyone?

- No, I have not.

- Are you familiar with Mr Cass?

- I was aware that he worked
for us, but I never dealt

with him on a day-to-day basis.

- Were you aware of the
fact that he and Ms Barnett

had anything other than a purely
professional relationship?

- I became aware of it.

Yes.

- How did you
become aware of it?

- Well, Ms Barnett came to me
and explained the situation.

She told me that they had had
an affair, that the affair was

over, that his work
was deteriorating,

and that his attitude was bad.

And she wanted to let him go.

- How did you respond?

- I told her that
if he wasn't making

a contribution, that it was
up to her to get rid of him.

- Did you trust Lynn Barnett
to make that determination?

- Yes, I did.

- Thank you.

I have nothing further.

- You stated that
you didn't deal with

Mr Cass on a day-to-day basis.

Is that true Mr Justin?

- Yes.

- That would mean,
would it not, that you

had no direct knowledge of
the quality of his work?

- That's correct.

- So in other
words, you just took

Lynn Barnett's word for it.

- I take Ms Barnett's word
for a great many things,

Ms Gershon Wu.

- Would your confidence,
in this instance,

be at all influenced by
the fact that your agency

bears principal liability
for her actions?

- My confidence is based
solely on her work performance.

I think the fact that she's a
vice president of my company

would attest to that fact.

- Just for the record, would you
say that Ms Barnett exercised

particularly good
judgment in having

an affair with a subordinate?

- It happens.

- Yes.

We all know it
happens, but I'm asking

whether or not you endorse it.

- I treat the people that
I work with as adults.

I don't make a habit
of second guessing

how they conduct
their personal lives.

- Except this wasn't Lynn
Barnett's personal life,

this was her professional life.

And I am asking you once
again whether or not you

endorse the practice of
becoming involved sexually

with people who work for you.

- No, I don't.

- Why not?

- Because it introduces
a new set of variables

into the work environment.

It carries with it the
potential of problems

in terms of job
performance and lawsuits,

such as the present case.

- So it's safe to
say, is it not,

that you would have
preferred Ms Barnett

not to have had this affair?

- All things being equal, yes.

- Thank you.

I have no further questions.

[chatter]

- Correct me if I'm
wrong here, Jane,

but it seems as though
you convinced this woman

to not take the money.

- All I did was suggest
she read the Bible.

- Why would you do that?

- There is a Bible on my
desk she made mention of it.

She said that she hadn't read
it since she was a little girl,

so I suggested
she read it again.

All of this after she was
telling me how unhappy she was.

- And we ended up taking
a half million dollar hit.

- How are you taking a
half million dollar hit?

Before Cille came
in, Douglas said

that this was not money
he anticipated getting,

that it was found money.

- Do you think that makes me any
more willing to part with it?

It is found money, Jane.

We found it, and
we want to keep it.

- Have you contacted
the other party?

- No, I've been
ducking their calls.

- This fax just came in.

They've upped the
offer by $100,000.

- They think you're
holding out and

they're willing to pay more.
I'm going to kill myself.

- Don't overlook the
malpractice exposure here.

- What malpractice?

- She changes her mind
about Christian forgiveness,

realizes she signed
a release, and comes

after us to make it up to her.

- She agreed to sign
a waiver against us.

- She'll come after us anyway.

She'll claim that
she was delusional

when she signed the waiver.

Any way you look at it, we
come out on the losing end.

- What do you want me to do?

- I want you to
convince her to do

that which is reasonable
under the circumstances.

- I.e.

take the money.

- You and I can spend
an hour this afternoon

and find all the
biblical citations you

need to support that position.

- I am perfectly
capable of finding

biblical citations
on my own assuming

that I wanted to use them.

- The woman's hysterical, Jane.

Use whatever you have to use.

- Nice to have you here, doctor.

Let me ask you if people are
having a lot of trouble--

- You can't find pizza
by the slice around here.

- Actually, you can.

- You can't find pizza,
forget about the slice.

I mean, there's no place
like Johns or Stromboli

and definitely no place
like LMB Spumoni Gardens.

- I know.

Something's been
bothering you lately.

- Yeah.

A lot of things have
been bothering me lately.

- I know.

- Hurry up.

- You know, I used to buy my
clothes at Cesar's Bay Bazaar.

There's no place
like that out here.

- You have to talk about
it eventually, Denise.

- And there's no ANS.

- We had a moment
back at the wedding.

- You know, I used to go dancing
at Lamoors, Pastels, Elefis.

You know, they don't have
places like that out here.

- I kissed you and
you kissed me back.

We didn't plan for it.

We didn't expect it,
but there it was.

- I used to get
my shrimp earrings

from the Chinese
guy on 34th Street,

but do you think I could
do that here in LA?

Look at this.

I'm not going to
make this light.

[jackhammer drilling]

Look at this.

- Maybe part of my
problem is that I

tend to overanalyze things.

- This is my worst nightmare.

- Will it happened again?

I have no idea.

- Am I crazy or is
that a crack up there?

- The main thing is I
don't want there to be

any awkwardness between us.

I don't want to lose intimacy.

I don't want to be less close
all the result of this kiss.

[honking]

- Come on, come on.

- You talking to me?

- This is absolutely insane.

- I know it is.

Denise, what are you doing?

- Eli, look where you are.

Look what you're sitting under.

- Where are you going?

I have to be in court.

Denise, I just have
a learner's permit.

- Center lane, so that's
going to be slow to go.

- Oh, God.

[chatter]

- It's been alleged, Ms
Barnett, that you initiated

the affair with Andrew Cass.

Is that true?

- I always thought that it
was more or less mutual.

Technically, you could
say I made the first move.

Yes.

- It's also been alleged
that it was Andrew

Cass who ended the affair.

Is that true?

- Yes.

- Would you concede that
having a fair in the office

is a bad idea?

- Yes.

- Why did you do it?

- I worked 12 hour days.

If I'm going to meet a
man, the likelihood is

I will meet him in the office.

- You also meet men who
occupy equal status with you.

This man was a subordinate.

Would you concede that that
carries additional problems?

- Yes, I would.

This just happens to be
who I fell in love with.

- How did you react
when Mr Cass told you

he wanted to end the affair?

- I was relieved.

It had become increasingly
difficult to balance

our respective roles.

- Would you describe
what you mean by that?

- Before and after
work, I was his lover.

At work, I was his boss.

He couldn't handle that.

- In what way
couldn't he handle it?

- He would question
decisions that I made.

He would question
deadlines that I set.

I felt that he was
trying to undermine me.

- It's been alleged that you
rejected work that Andrew

Cass had done out of spite.

Was that the case?

- I would look at
work that he had done,

I would ask other people's
opinions about it.

And I tried very hard to
think about it fairly.

And I believe that
in the end, I used

my best professional judgment.

- Did you ever
communicate to Andrew Cass

that his career would suffer
if he refused to continue

having a sexual relationship?

- No, I did not.

- Why was it
necessary to fire him?

- Because his work was bad,
because it had been bad for too

long, and mostly
because he showed

no willingness to improve it.

And I believe in his heart,
he knows that's true.

- Objection.

- Sustained.

The witness's speculation as
to what is in the plaintiff's

heart is stricken.

- I have nothing further.

- How long had it
been since you'd

had a significant relationship
with a man before Andrew Cass?

- Objection.

- Overruled.

The witness will answer.

- About five years.

- Do you like being in a
significant relationship

with a man?

- Yes, I do if
it's the right man.

- Was there ever a
time when you thought

Andrew Cass was the right man?

- Yes.

There was.

- Didn't you in fact discuss
marriage and children with him?

- Yes.

- And yet you tell us that you
had an overwhelming feeling

of relief when he left you.

- I was also hurt
and lonely and tired.

- Isn't it possible
that those feelings

of being lonely
and hurt and tired

intruded into your business
relationship as well?

- No, it is not.

- Is it possible that it's
your behavior that's changed?

It's not Andrew Cass's
work that's changed

but rather your
perception of it.

- No, it is not possible.

- Ms Barnett, after
you fired Andrew Cass,

why did you feel it was
necessary to blackball

him in the business?
- Objection.

Assuming facts--

- I never did
anything of the kind.

- Ms Barnett, please.

The objection is sustained.

- Subsequent to his
being fired, did you ever

speak to any individual from any
other agency about Andrew Cass?

- No, I did not.

And if my opinion was
solicited, I decline to give it.

I decline to get
into any conversation

of any kind about Andrew.

His opinion to the
contrary notwithstanding.

From the day he came
to work with me,

he was talented and
charming and undisciplined

and totally ill equipped to work
with clients and colleagues.

I was infatuated with
him, so I protected him.

I didn't punish
him because of how

he made me feel when he left.

I protected him
because of how he

made me feel when he was there.

And when I stopped protecting
him, he turned on me.

- And that really made
you furious, didn't it?

That made you want to just
do anything to get even--

- Objection.

Counsel is making speeches.

- Sustained.

- What it made me do
was attend to business.

- I have nothing further.

- Hurry up.

- Cille.

- Oh, Jane.

- Your housekeeper said
that I would find you here.

- What brings you here?

- I wanted to talk to you about
your decision to drop the suit.

- Oh, I'll see you later.

You mind if we keep
walking while we talk?

- Not at all.

- It's my daily regimen.

- Cille, I wanted to tell you
that I don't think your taking

the money from these
people is necessarily

an un-Christian thing to do.

- Oh, well, wouldn't that
depend on what what's

in the heart of the taker?

- Yes.

But I don't think
there's anything

un-Christian about your heart.

- Oh, well, you're charitable.

And you're kind,
and I appreciate it,

but you also may not
know me very well.

There is a great deal that's
un-Christian in my heart.

- Well, I think the same could
be said about most of us.

But I also think that no
matter how much you want

to affect a change in your
life, not taking the money

is an extreme gesture.

- Oh.

But I think this
calls for extremes.

What is it that they say?

If you want something
you've never had,

you have to do something
that you've never done.

And I have never forgiven
anyone for anything.

- Yes.

But legitimately, you're
owed something here.

The contractor and the architect
were negligent in the way

that they constructed
your house.

- Love your enemies.

Bless them that curse you.

Do good to them that
hate you, and pray

for them that despitefully
use you and persecute you.

That's from the Book of Matthew.

- Yes, you could still do that.

- Blessed are the merciful
for they shall obtain mercy.

That's also the Book of Matthew.

- Yes.

You could still be merciful.

- If you hold anything
against anyone,

you must forgive him so
that the Lord in heaven

will forgive you.

That's the Book of Mark.

- A man's gift maketh room
for him, the Book of Proverbs.

- Oh, would that then support
my taking of the money?

- It might.

People have justified
all kinds of actions

by using scriptural passage.

Being able to do that
doesn't necessarily mean they

did the right thing.

I think it's great
that you're so

enthusiastic about
the Bible, but I

don't think that it requires
you not taking the money.

I really think that
could be something

that you would come to regret.

- You don't believe
I'm sincere, do you?

- I don't doubt
that you're sincere.

- Oh, yes.

You do.

You think of me as some
sort of Christian wannabe,

who's grasping to make some
dramatic but basically

empty gesture.

- I don't think
anything of the kind.

- Well, see you--

- Cille, wait a second.

- I don't know what to do.

Jane, excuse me.

I just think I better go off
and be by myself right now.

I think I'd like to go home.

[laughing]

- How do you just
leave the man there?

- I had an anxiety attack.
What?

That never happens?

- No, no, no.

Hey, it happens.

- Well, Eli managed to
drive himself to court.

Everything worked out.

- Listen, Denise.

Nobody wants to
be under a freeway

overpass in an earthquake.

- You're right about that.

- You probably also
don't want to be

in that underground
garage we got to park in.

You probably don't want
to be in this office.

Believe me, though, when
the aftershocks die down,

you forget all about it.

[rattling]

- We're having one.

[glass breaking]

This is a big one.

Oh, God.

- That wasn't a big one.

- 4.5.

- If that.

- Oh, 4.5--

- Not 4.5.

- Are you kidding?

- No, I'd say 4--

- I'd say you're all
out of your minds.

- In what way?

- We're going along
like this was nothing.

- Why?
What should we do?

- Something, we
should do something.

- Like what?

- Like move someplace
where there's

not earthquakes every day.

- Denise, these are aftershocks.

- Aftershocks are
earthquakes, Jonathan.

We just call them
aftershocks, and you guys

are standing around
trying to figure

out what number they are.

What difference does it make?

Who cares if we die
in a 6.2 or a 7.3?

And we don't have
the slightest idea

what's going to happen next.

I mean, no one does.

We don't know how big they are.

We don't know when
they're going to stop.

We don't know if
they're going to stop.

All we know is that we
got to go back to work.

- I think it shows the
strength of the human spirit.

- I think it shows that
we're completely nuts.

Right now, I'm going home.

[chatter]

- We know the following,
Andrew Cass worked at the ad

agency for eight months
prior to becoming

involved with Ms Barnett.

During that time, his work
was by all outward

appearances satisfactory.

But the truth is it
was better than that.

This is a talented hardworking
young man, whose career

has been derailed by the actions
of a spiteful embittered woman.

Did she force him to
have an affair with her?

It depends on your
definition of the word force.

She was several tiers above him
in the hierarchy at the agency.

She made it very clear
what it is she wanted.

Make no mistake
about it this, woman

wielded the same authority in
their personal relationship

that she wielded in their
professional relationship.

And she did not like to see that
authority questioned one bit.

And when it was and her
will was not complied with,

she sought to punish
whoever defied her.

Now, whatever Andrew
Cass's responsibility

may have been in the initiation
and continuation of this love

affair, he does
not deserve to be

both professional and
financially savaged

as a consequence of it.

Dare I say, were he a
woman, we would not hesitate

to award him due compensation.

Let us not hesitate
because he is a man.

- These two people
had an affair.

Not a single shred
of evidence has

been adduced to support the
contention that this affair was

coerced by the
defendant, that it

was anything other
than volitional

on the part of both of them.

That this affair took place
does not entitle the plaintiff

to compensation of any kind.

The only bases for compensation
would be that the plaintiff was

harassed or humiliated
or wrongfully

terminated as a result
of ending the affair.

And much as the plaintiff
and his attorney

would like you to
believe otherwise,

there is no proof
of that either.

You may think that Lynn Barnett
exercised less than impeccable

judgment in having
this affair, maybe

she threw caution to the
winds, but what she also

did was to continue carrying
out the responsibilities

of her position.

I submit to you that her
treatment of the plaintiff

while he remained at the agency
and her subsequent termination

of his employment
there represent

precisely and exclusively that.

The fact is Lynn Barnett
had wholly legitimate

reasons to fire the plaintiff.

She had them because
he gave them to her.

By the quality of his work
and the nature of his conduct,

he brought it on himself.

Lynn Barnett proved not
to be the girlfriend

Andrew Cass wanted her to be.

In the end, she wasn't the boss
he wanted her to be either.

That should not entitle him
to exact from her anything

more than the pain
and the humiliation

that this trial has
already yielded.

Thank you.

- Jane, any news?

- I talked to her,
she's confused.

- They just upped their
offer by another 75,000.

Unconfuse her.

- I don't suppose there's any
way to talk you out of this.

- No.

It's-- it's done.

- I'd like to explain to you
why I voted the way I did.

- You don't have to
do that, Stewart.

- Yeah, I do.

- I feel bad about it, Daniel.

I had no idea that voting
for Patrick Flanagan

was going to result
in your leaving.

And in that it did, I want
to explain why I did it.

OK.

It's not that I thought
Leland was right, Daniel.

It's that I think that Leland
doesn't have to be right.

Sometimes it's enough
that he's Leland.

- Well, I-- I don't
see it that way.

- Yeah.

Well, you haven't been
with him as long as I have.

- Length of service has
nothing to do with it.

The man showed me
a complete lack

of respect for no other
discernible reason than

to throw his weight around.

- Did it ever occur
to you that sometimes

it's important for him to
throw his weight around?

- Why is that?

- Because he's old, because
he's looking for a sign

that he's got any weight left.

And I think when
I'm his age, that's

what I'll be thinking about.

And 50 years later
when you're his age,

that's what you're going
to be thinking about.

Have you spoken to him?

- No.

- Do you intend to?

- I wasn't planning on it.

You know?

I mean, what is there to say?

- I think you know
that better than I do.

- Jane.

- Hi.

- May I come in?

Just a moment talk to you.

- Of course.

This won't take long.

I want you to know that I've
done what you asked me to do.

I thought about it, I read
the Bible, and I prayed.

And I did find scriptural
authority that would support my

taking the money, and I
found scriptural authority

for not taking the money.

Well, the truth
is the only solace

I found last night
came from a five

gallon canister of barbecue
flavored potato chips.

- Look, Cille.

You can take some time
to think about this.

- Oh, I don't want
to take any time.

My heart tells me I should
give back the money.

But my head says that
that would be foolhardy.

So I want you to decide
what I should do.

- I can't do that, Cille.

- Well, I listened to you when
you suggested I read the Bible.

That gave me a great
deal of serenity.

So I stand fully prepared
to listen to you again.

- Oh, please don't
do this to me, Cille.

- Jane, you're in a better
position to judge than I am.

I'm asking you as my
attorney, as my spiritual

seeing eye dog, so to speak.

Take this burden from me.

Now, I'm going to go drop
my car at the dealership.

I'll be home late
this afternoon.

Call me and let me know.

- Has the jury
reached a verdict?

- We have, your honor.

- What say you?

- In the matter of
Cass versus Barnett,

we find for the defendant.

- The jury is dismissed with
the thanks of the court.

We're adjourned.

[chatter]

- Good work, Eli.

- Thank you.

- From all of us,
really good job.

- No matter what kind of
job I did, it all came down

to the jury believing Lynn.

- Absolutely.

- It goes without saying.

- Hey, why don't
I call my office?

We can go have a
celebratory drink.

- I can't do that.

- Just to cap off the trial.

- Well I'd love to, but
I'm already running.

Maybe another time.

Maybe you guys would like to go.

- Well, I've got to
jump on the freeway.

And if I'm not mistaken,
these gentlemen

are heading back to the office.

- Some other time.

- Bye.

- Thank you.

- Was it something I said?

- It's just not
something they would do.

- What is it?

Go out, have a drink together.

That's not something that we do.

- They were on the hook
for half a million dollars.

I would think
they'd be thrilled.

- They hate this.

They hate learning
about my personal life.

They don't want to know.

- Why is that?

- Because I'm a girl
and they're the boys.

And we may work
together but that

doesn't mean we're friends.

- Well, we could
go have a drink.

- Yeah.

That would be nice.

- Well?

- Cille left it up to me.

- Fantastic.

- I advised her
to drop the suit.

- Now, tell us what
really happened.

- Oh, I am telling you
what really happened.

She told me that in her heart
she didn't want the money,

but she would do
whatever I advised.

I advised her to
follow her heart.

- Has this been communicated
to the other side as yet?

- Cille told it to them herself.

- Does that allow us to bring
an action de novo claiming

it hadn't come from counsel?

- Let it go, Douglas.

- I hate letting it go.

I hate letting it go.

- I'm sorry.

- Yeah, you're sorry.

You'd do the same
thing all over again.

- If that means
that I would refuse

to ask someone to act against
their religious beliefs,

then you're right.

If that means that I will
profane the word of God

by using it to manipulate
someone, then you're wrong.

I did that this time.

I won't do it again.

If that's grounds for dismissal,
I assume you'll let me know.

- Letting your religious
beliefs interfere

with your fiduciary
responsibility

to the other
members of this firm

most certainly is
grounds for dismissal.

- Are you firing me?

- Absolutely not.

As far as I'm concerned, you
did the only thing you could.

- Thank you.

- Hey.

- Hi.

- So I'll see you.

- Are you leaving?

- In a little while, yeah.

- Well, I may not be
too far behind you.

- You're thinking about leaving?

- I'm thinking about moving.

- How come?

Because the city feels
completely unsafe to me,

that's how come.
- Because of the earthquake.

- Yeah.

So where would you move?

- When I move, I
move to New York.

Where else am I going to move?

- There are other
places you know?

- No.
Not for me.

For me, it's either
here or there.

- New York's not
exactly safe either.

- No, you're right.

It just depends what risk
you choose to live with.

I mean, hey, there's
misery in both places.

You know, I'm on the
subway, I'm on the bus.

I walk late at
night on the street.

There's maniacs on
every street corner.

Believe me.

I die from the cold.

I die from the heat.

I mean, until all this
happened, I was very happy here.

You know, I was riding
around in my car.

I was loving it.

- Maybe you should
wait a month and see

how you feel about it then.

- Yeah, I suppose.

So what about you?

What are you going to do.?

- I'm going to take a
time to think about it.

I might end up at another
firm or I might start my own.

- You think you'll do it here?

- Maybe.

Maybe in Santa Barbara.

- They got earthquakes
in Santa Barbara?

- I don't know.

I'm out of here.

- Oh, good luck.

- Good luck to you.

You're the best.

- I'll miss you.

- Maybe I'll see you
around town sometime.

- I hope.

- Unless I move.

- Leland, I'm leaving.

I thought I'd say goodbye.

- Come in.

Come in.

I assume this is
not the last time

we'll be seeing one another.

- I'm sure it isn't.

- Should any of
the clients you're

leaving behind
choose to follow you,

naturally we'll
forward their files.

- Thanks.

- You'll let us know
when you're situated.

- Yeah.

And I'm sure there'll
be referrals going

back and forth as time goes on.

- I'm sure.

Do you think there will ever
come a time when we'll actually

talk about what happened?

- My door is always
open, Daniel.

- That's not why I asked.

- What exactly is
there to talk about?

We opposed one another.

I enjoyed the support of the
majority, you opted to quit.

- Do you think you were right?

- Yes, I do.

Good luck, Daniel.

- Thank you.

[music playing]

- Goodnight.

- Oh, let me get that for you.
- Oh, that's cool.

I got it.

- Here.

- Thanks.

- Excuse me.

- Thanks.

[elevator bell]

[music playing]