Ally McBeal (1997–2002): Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot - full transcript
Ally McBeal, attractive recent graduate from Harvard Law School, is harassed at work by a senior associate. She complains to the powers that be but ends up losing her job. By chance, Ally bumps into former classmate Richard Fish, who invites her to join his new firm. Ally hesitantly accepts and receives the shock of her life on the first day: her childhood sweetheart Billy Thomas is an associate at the firm.
VONDA SINGS:
Here's a photo I've been looking for
It's a picture of the boy next door
ALLY:
I'm not sure how it all started.
Oh, it was because
I smelled his bottom.
It wasn 't that stupid. Dogs did it.
That's how they knew for sure.
No, we didn 't even smell anything.
It was the kiss.
It was too....
So....
I actually felt
my whole body tingle.
Maybe it was when
our tongues touched--
No, no, it was that first kiss.
Which was so soft...
...his lower lip
barely touching my top lip....
That was magic.
The first time wasn 't.
I pinched a nerve in my neck.
If we could've just
stayed broken up....
But Ijust had to follow him
to law school.
I didn 't even want to be a lawyer.
Ijust....
Maybe I studied too hard.
No, no, it wasn 't me, it was him.
He's the one who transferred
to Michigan.
Just Iike that?
I want to cIerk when I get out.
If I don't make Review--
You want me to Ieave Harvard,
give up Law Review--
Of course I don't expect it.
I wouIdn't even ask it.
But. . . .
BasicaIIy, you're putting your
Iaw career between us.
WeII, I choose the Iaw too.
But I choose Boston.
ALLY: So here I am.
The victim of my own choices...
...and I'm just starting.
VONDA SINGS:
I've been down this road
PiIot
Walking the line
That's painted by pride
And I have made mistakes in my life
That Ijust can 't hide
Oh, I believe I am ready
For what love has to bring
I got myself together
Now I'm ready to sing
I've been searching my soul tonight
I know there's so much more to life
Now I know I can shine a light
To find my way back home
Oh, baby, yeah
Oh, yeah
ALLY:
Love and law are the same:
Romantic in concept, but the actual
practice gives you a yeast infection.
But I actually did like myjob.
Until one of the senior partners
started to like me.
I thought it had to be my imagination.
I mean, please!
It was never that obvious.
Till one night....
-Hey! Don't you ever do that again.
-I apoIogize. I have Epstein's-Barr.
ALLY:
When I told Mr. Lyne, he got fired.
He grabbed my buttocks.
-What?
-You're fired.
-I'II sue!
ALLY: And he did!
He claimed OCD,
obsessive-compulsive disorder.
-His sickness was squeezing butts!
-I had to touch them.
He fiIed under
the FederaI DisabiIities Act.
-What are you saying?
-Because of attorney's fees. . .
. . .punitive and possibIe trebIe
damages that go with the suit. . . .
The partners wouId
rather be sued by you.
ALLY:
They got their wish.
I know the fool-for-a-client rule.
I hired independent counsel,
filed a claim, went public.
He didn 't care it was public.
To help bolster his OCD defense,
he squeezed butts all over.
As strategy! To do it
in the open, he must have OCD.
That was the thinking, anyway.
It's pretext. He's mocking us.
I know! It's absurd.
This guy's a master Iitigator.
He knows how to manipuIate facts.
We can't prove it's a pretext.
You don't want to prove it.
You'd rather Iose me than him.
TeII me I'm wrong.
ALLY:
I quit.
I had to.
If I didn 't have my dignity,
I had to make it look like I did.
-AIIy?
ALLY: Oh, no.
-I haven't seen you in forever!
-Richard! How are you?
-Outstanding! You Iook fabuIous.
-I just got fired for it.
You what?
ALLY:
Richard and I were classmates.
We weren 't close.
This is perfect. I just started
my own practice. Join us today.
Excuse me?
We're up the street. A great Ioft.
ALLY: Working for you?
With your philosophy of law?
PiIes and piIes of money.
If I heIp somebody, great.
But mainIy I'm in this for
the piIes, the big piIes.
And what wouId I start at?
ALLY: I go to law school because
I was in love with a guy.
He left me for Law Review.
Now I'm hired by somebody who
started his own firm for the piles?
John Cage is out
getting his frown Iines Botoxed.
Makes rain when he sIeeps. Look at
this office, it's avant rich.
It stinks of money.
Here's your office.
This is EIaine, your assistant.
I stocked your office suppIies
and I'II program your speed diaI.
WouId you Iike a voice-activated
dictaphone? It's in the budget.
You don't have to decide now.
Here's the Man Made fiIe.
-I fiIed your appearance.
-Pardon me?
The best way to get wet is jump
right in. Second session.
We represent Man Made magazine.
Guy seeks prior restraint.
Judge Hopkins is sitting.
He's tough but fair.
Not big on pantsuits for women.
This'II be fine.
RICHARD: HemIine's a bit high,
but who am I to notice?
BiIIy, I want you to meet someone.
AIIy McBeaI, BiIIy Thomas.
He was at Harvard with us first year.
We know each other.
RICHARD:
You do?
Oh, my God! I feeI so stupid.
You two--
She's working here?
RICHARD:
Is that a probIem?
No, it's not to me. Is it to you?
Me?
No.
-It's fine.
-Fine.
-Fine.
-Fine.
I have to go to the bathroom.
It's this way.
ALLY: This is not a big deal.
It's okay. It's not a tragedy.
Just a funny bounce of the ball,
that's all.
AIIy?
Richard! I'm in the bathroom!
Unisex studies show it heIps
men and women breed famiIiarity.
So Iong as they don't
come in to breed.
SeriousIy, wiII working with BiIIy
be a probIem?
Because if it is,
I can't do anything about it.
-I'd be happy to sympathize.
-Before we get to that. . .
. . .if you don't object, I have
this Iawsuit against Jack BiIIings.
-I have a deposition--
-Say no more.
Do it from here.
We'II be happy to Iead.
Great.
So who's your best Iitigator?
Oh, that wouId be BiIIy.
That wouId figure.
-Who's second-best?
-AIIy.
Do you want to
give this to BiIIings? I sense. . .
. . .you'd Iike to grind up his head
and feed it through his intestines.
-Something Iike that.
-Then go with BiIIy. He's your man.
ALLY:
Go with Billy. He's my man.
RENEE: It'II kiII you to get up earIy.
-I don't have to get up earIier.
Working with BiIIy.
Hair and makeup, extra haIf-hour.
I stopped caring about him
three years ago.
That's why you
wish your breasts were bigger.
Out, out, out!
ALLY:
I do wish my breasts were bigger.
Not huge, but...
...less small.
They could....
I'd look good less small.
There's no precedent to enjoin
an autobiographicaI articIe.
-But a minister and a nun?
-I coIor-coded the pIeadings.
I know the cIerk in second session,
so I put in a good word.
ALLY: I think by telling me
what's been done...
...Elaine wants me to know she's the
one doing it. People like this....
I imagine their heads growing
when they speak. It could be me.
--your initiaIs on a few things
before you Ieave.
Remember your articIe
on federaI and state taxation?
I'm stiII trying to
seII the movie rights.
We're having a meeting
with Air NationaI counseI.
You might be of heIp.
This is a very big opportunity.
ALLY: What does he want me to do?
I know how he lands clients.
We wiII take care of this.
He either drools with sympathy,
makes them feel heard.
Or promises whatever
to get even with somebody.
I didn't become a Iawyer because
I Iike the Iaw. The Iaw sucks.
It's boring, but it can
be used as a weapon.
You want to bankrupt somebody
of everything he's worked for?
Make his wife Ieave him, even cause
his kids to cry? We can do that.
RICHARD: They must Ieave that meeting
beIieving they'II pay. . .
. . .Iess taxes, reduced, not as much,
diminished, abated, Iess than, Iower.
I'm nothing if not redundant.
I aIso repeat myseIf.
Hey.
Hey, BiIIy. Hi.
Morning.
Coffee?
Um. . . .
Sure.
Richard asked me
to cover your deposition.
It's a stupid case, I know.
-Want to get him?
-I do.
You're okay with me handIing it?
Sure.
Okay.
So many times I aImost caIIed you--
You won't have to think
about that now.
We'II pass each other in the haIIway.
So, Iast I heard, you were
cIerking for Souter.
Then I took a job with Steptoe.
When Richard started this pIace,
it was too tempting to pass up.
-You know Richard.
-Yeah.
So, you. . .
. . .seeing anybody?
ActuaIIy. . . .
I'm married.
Oh.
How wonderfuI.
Does that change your feeIings
about working here?
-Do you have kids?
-No.
I'm sorry, you know. . .
. . .if it hurts. I know it'd be hard
for me the other way around.
Thank you, but you reaIIy don't
have to worry. I'm fine.
I'm actuaIIy gIad you're here.
ALLY:
Really?
Not as an ex-boyfriend.
As a Iawyer who appreciates
a taIented addition to the firm.
As a Iawyer, I guess I better
get down to court.
I have to go get wet.
Okay.
See you around.
Yep.
ALLY: Men are like gum. After you
chew, they lose flavor.
I'm glad he's married.
I don 't ever have to think about him.
I should be happy. I am happy.
I feel good.
-Sorry.
-Hey! No!
You're not sorry. You didn't
even Iook to see who you bumped into.
What if I was an oId Iady?
I couId have faIIen, broken a hip.
I couId be in an HMO, my Iungs
fiIIing with phIegm. . .
. . .on Iife support, draining my
famiIy's inheritance. . .
. . .whiIe I asphyxiate on my dry mucus.
Don't say you're sorry when
you're not. You with him?
That probably wasn 't
normal behavior.
Case number 60320. Reverend KessIer
versus Man Made Magazine.
-Henry Thorton for the petitioner.
-AIIy McBeaI for the defendant.
Reverend KessIer requests this court
issue an injunction. . . .
ALLY: I always get nervous walking in,
but when I take my feet, I'm fine.
My father's a lawyer. I spent a lot
of time watching him in court.
Listening to him.
Studying him.
--disregard for the truth.
He's asking for censorship.
There's no other word for it.
My cIient, an EpiscopaIian minister,
is depicted as a sex-crazed pervert.
A byproduct of Iiving in
a country with a free press--
JUDGE: Stop!
ALLY: Uh-oh.
I won't have you here,
saIuting the fIag.
This piece of fiIth has nothing
to do with democracy.
Can you quantify fiIth?
The Supreme Court hasn't been abIe to.
Did your cIient verify
the nun's version of events?
ALLY:
He cares about the facts.
Did you get the minister's account?
No.
I'm shocked.
Ms. McBeaI, as a matter of Iaw,
you're 1 00 percent correct.
The magazine has every right
to pubIish the articIe.
I'm enjoining them
from doing so anyway.
-What?
JUDGE: Go to AppeaIs.
You'II no doubt get it overturned.
It'II cost some time and money.
And that's what this is reaIIy about,
isn't it? Money. SeIIing.
Let's see how bad you want it.
Motion for injunction granted.
ALLY: I had the Founding Fathers,
the Constitution, public policy.
And the case couldn 't be lost...
...and I lost it.
And Billy's married.
RICHARD:
I won't pretend. I'm shocked.
I argued weII. The judge
had an agenda contrary to Iaw.
I fiIed the appeaI and brought up
aII our First Amendment briefs. . .
. . .to head-start you on your memo.
I aIso cIipped the pages
on prior restraint.
Thank you, EIaine.
You had the Constitution on your side.
It serves no purpose to second-guess.
I'm sure AIIy did her best.
-Don't stick up for me!
-Excuse me?
-I don't need you sticking up for me!
-I'm not!
We got a big meeting with counseI
tomorrow on this rebate case.
Let's focus on that.
Can you brush up on your tax Iaw?
I'II be brushed.
Whatever you need.
BILLY:
AIIy.
What the heII was that back there?
ObviousIy our breakup has Ieft you
with some residuaI feeIings.
Angry feeIings.
No, actuaIIy, BiIIy,
the residuaI feeIing was hope.
And that's why I. . . .
I'm fine, BiIIy. I just have a
sIight probIem adjusting to change.
WOMAN:
Here you are!
BILLY: Georgia.
GEORGIA: You ready?
Hi, uh. . . .
Yeah.
This is AIIy McBeaI.
AIIy, my wife, Georgia.
-Hi, nice to meet you.
-It's a pIeasure.
Georgia works at Goodwin. We met
in Iaw schooI. She was my editor.
-You're a Iawyer?
-Don't ask me why.
We shouId go.
We have reservations at 7.
-I just need two seconds.
-Okay, I'II hoId the eIevator.
-Nice meeting you, AIIy.
-You too.
She, uh, she seems nice.
This is a memo outIining the tax
anaIysis done on Air NationaI.
Thanks.
AIIy, Iook. . . .
We've known each other too weII
to pretend that. . . .
You were hoping she was fat.
And stupid.
Maybe missing a coupIe of teeth.
-I shouId go.
-Wait.
You've got to give me something more.
You can't Ieave me Iike that.
AII right.
She snores.
And the roots aren't
quite so bIond, okay?
No, no. Something more.
I need one more thing.
Left IittIe toe?
Bunion.
Thank you.
[MUSIC PLAYS]
ALLY: When I'm depressed, Renee makes
me go dancing, I guess to cheer me up.
Look at this guy. If he did that
in a hospital, they'd sedate him.
I'm pretty good at not laughing.
Renee is less good.
The dancing twins. We love them.
If you don't get BiIIings,
he'II do this to other women.
Face it. I'm a IittIe girI
pIaying in an oId boys' cIub.
AII the more reason not to back down.
If I couId prove
they infIuenced that judge. . .
. . .I'd fiIe criminaI charges myseIf.
[KNOCKING]
[PSYCHO MUSIC PLAYS]
Georgia!
Long time.
-I'm so sorry to intrude.
-No, no. That's okay. Come on in.
This is Renee, my roommate.
This is Georgia Thomas.
-Hi.
-It's good to meet you.
CouId I speak to you in private?
Sure.
I feeI so stupid for coming here.
If BiIIy even knew. . . .
He said you went on a few dates
in high schooI.
Um. . . .
Yeah.
Yeah, we were buds.
ALLY:
A few dates!
Reading between the Iines. . .
. . .I think you might stiII harbor
feeIings toward BiIIy.
That makes me uncomfortabIe.
I feeI embarrassed even
to be saying this. . .
. . .but my poIicy is just to be
truthfuI about things.
WeII, I have no such poIicy.
That was a joke.
Oh.
I'm not. . . .
You don't have to worry.
Nothing wiII happen between--
You do. StiII have feeIings.
Oh. . . .
Listen.
It was more than a few dates.
We were. . . .
More.
We were excIusive in high schooI.
Then again at Harvard.
You two. . .
. . .were in Iove?
We were invoIved.
So I. . . .
I suppose that you. . .
. . .you know. . .
. . .made Iove.
Georgia. Georgia.
BiIIy is an honest guy,
we know that.
He downpIayed our past because
he knew you'd be uncomfortabIe.
It reaIIy is the past.
Isn't this something
you shouId hear from him?
Yeah.
I just. . . .
In your office today, I picked
up a vibe I've never feIt before.
I'm so embarrassed to be acting. . . .
That's just a memento.
I'm sorry, but. . . .
I reaIIy hate you.
I'm ashamed to admit it--
No. No, it's okay, because. . .
. . .I reaIIy hate you too.
-ReaIIy?
-Yeah.
-You're not just saying it?
-No.
The partners aren't casting
any negative assumptions.
Losing is something that
happens to everyone.
I reminded them it's difficuIt
when peopIe change jobs.
-I onIy Iost one motion, EIaine.
-That's what I toId them.
-You ready?
-For what?
The depo. Jack BiIIings.
Oh. Oh.
Yeah, I'm ready.
Do you want this to be about
discovery or retaIiation?
-I can take it either way.
-Fine! Whatever! Let's go.
I'm trying to get information
on her cycIe.
Less taxes, BiIIy. Not as much,
reduced, deminimus.
Yeah. Thanks.
Excuse me.
I understand
you're representing yourseIf?
Whether or not you understand it
is anybody's guess.
Sir. . .
. . .when were you aware you suffered
from a compuIsive disorder?
Right around the time she sued me.
I think it was just after.
I was jarred by the impIications
of what I'd done.
Seeing it in print,
I sought professionaI heIp.
And my doctors, of which there are
many, diagnosed me.
It stiII hurts.
Can we go off the record?
CertainIy. It wouId aIIow me
to compose myseIf.
We're off.
-You having fun?
-I'm having a baII.
Do I Iook intimidated?
You Iook Iike a young squirt trying
not to Iook intimidated.
-I'm impressed.
-I get even better.
I'd hope. You can't win
with the facts. So I grabbed her.
Where's the harm?
She doesn't Iook emotionaIIy wrought.
The job she has now
pays her more money.
You can't just sue somebody for being
wronged. You have to show damages.
Don't they teach that these days?
I was taught very weII, Jack.
Oh, big Supreme Court cIerk.
I'II assume you're bIinded by the fact
that you sIept with your cIient. . .
. . .and that this isn't a refIection
of your taIent.
ShaII we go back on the record?
Let's. Back on.
Let the record refIect
that the deponent. . .
. . .is a fat, arrogant,
overweight, baId pig.
That wasn't heIpfuI.
I couIdn't sit there and Iet him ooze.
You shouId have sat quiet.
He'II say your cIaim's retaIiatory.
You gave him a sound bite.
Sometimes you have to prove
you'II fight.
A Iawyer's at his best
when he's dispassionate.
Then I'm in good hands.
-I beg your pardon?
-Forget it!
-What did you mean?
-You have a gift for dispassion.
Not to mention downpIaying, ''Mr.
a coupIe of dates in high schooI'' !
Georgia toId me what you said.
-I didn't say a coupIe of dates.
-You did!
Maybe she heard
''a coupIe of dates. ''
-''We dated''?
-What shouId I have said?
The truth!
-The truth?
-The truth. That you Ioved me.
You Ioved me.
Yeah. That's the truth.
So much that sometimes when we were
apart, we kept an open phone Iine. . .
. . .so whiIe sIeeping I couId
Iisten to you breathe.
Is that what I shouId've toId Georgia?
[TOILET FLUSHES]
I'II wash my hands Iater.
I Iooked under the doors.
Your feet were up!
I've got a disc probIem.
My chiropractor has me sit that way.
Lucky it was me, not somebody
interested in other peopIe's Iives.
The National Law Journal's doing a
piece on First Amendment erosion.
They heard about your big Ioss.
-WiII you give them a quote?
-Can I give it to you?
-About that airIine case--
-I can't do that meeting!
I have a probIem in conference room
meetings and meeting with cIients.
What's this I'm hearing
about a probIem?
I get insecure. I don't know.
Whenever I'm in a conference
room meeting, I just shrink.
I feeI Iike cIients Iook at me
Iike a IittIe girI. I feeI puny.
You're there as estrogen.
Their Iead counseI's a woman.
She bats from the other side.
The guy's a woIf.
I hoped you'd fIirt with them both.
-I beg your pardon?
-Teamwork is what makes us.
You can't do this to me!
-Do what?
-Do what?
Bring me here to work next to him.
Argue cases when the judge
is biased against me.
Put me in a room
to smiIe at Iesbians?
It's too much!
I guess I'll drown
In my own tears
-It's stupid for me to work there.
-So Ieave.
That wouId make me Iook weak.
I know there was something
speciaI between you two.
I'm going to say this for
your own good. He's a nice guy.
Cute bangs.
You two were Iike Barbie and Ken.
He's a wimp.
He's not a wimp.
In five years, he's a boring Iawyer. . .
. . .Iooking at his stock portfoIio,
pIaying goIf. . .
. . .with nothing for you at
the end of the day. . .
. . .but a Iimp IittIe piece
of fettuccine.
You can do better.
So stop being in Iove with him.
Okay.
-DeaI?
-DeaI.
Here without you
ALLY: Today will be a less bad day.
I feel it.
Sometimes I wake up knowing
everything will be...
...less bad.
There's no obscenity here.
This ruIing not onIy has no
basis in Iaw, it vioIates it.
-You know what my probIem is?
ALLY: The comb-over?
Magazines print the outrageous,
move their product.
If their story's corrected. . .
. . .that happens on page 42,
months Iater, in a footnote.
A IibeI cIaim's about money.
It can't restore reputation.
WouId the reverend truIy have
a IegaI remedy?
-This magazine represents democracy.
ALLY: They sell sex.
It may contain vuIgar materiaI.
So does Vanity Fair, Esquire, Vogue.
More sex.
If this court's to be
the guardian of content. . .
. . .absent IibeI or obscenity,
then have the integrity and honesty. . .
. . .to admit your ruIing aboIishes
the notion of free press in America.
Sometimes I'm more persuasive
when I lack conviction.
-Come on in.
-Thank you.
[LAUGHING]
What's going on?
-This is private, AIIy.
-No, Richard. What's going on?
I offered to doubIe his saIary
if he works here.
Coming up with that OCD defense,
being so brazen.
He sort of represents everything I
stand for. In time, you'II agree.
In time? Are you serious?
He's a Iawyer you hate
on the other side. . .
-. . .but on your side--
-I quit.
You can't quit two firms in one week.
Reeks on the r?sum?.
-Let's aII just work this out.
-I can forgive.
-You expect me--
-You won't go near her buttocks. . .
-. . .even during hoIidays?
-I promise.
Are you on drugs? You reaIize the
hook you're putting yourseIf on?
You and the firm are IiabIe
if he does it again.
-He says he won't!
-He can't heIp it. It's a sickness.
I assume he made the OCD thing up.
Didn't you?
-CompIeteIy. You didn't hear that.
-I didn't have to. I got it here. . .
. . .on tape.
EmpIoyment offer's revoked.
The Iawsuit continues
with this IoveIy admission.
It's not just winning.
Winning ugIy matters.
Sorry I'm Iate.
Did I miss anything, Jack?
It actuaIIy worked.
He'II have to settIe.
Maybe we'II get those new drapes.
Where are you? I'm starved.
-I'm on the elevator.
-Okay.
-Georgia Thomas is in your office.
-Thank you, EIaine.
Did you have to teII him
I came to your apartment?
WeII, I. . . .
I toId him in an upbeat way.
Look, it was wrong for me to come.
AII I was trying to say was. . . .
I was admitting a difficuIty,
you working here.
It'II get easier with time.
Yeah.
How much time, do you think?
RENEE: I don't care.
Nothing's private for me.
Your Iunch date's arrived.
I hope you're not here
to be nice again.
-Georgia, you remember Renee?
-Yes, hi.
I know what you're up to.
You think a friendship with AIIy
wiII be a prophyIactic. . .
. . .to stop her hokey-pokeying
with BiIIy?
-Pardon me?
-What's going on? Sounds good.
-TeII him!
-You seem to have it aII figured out.
Georgia's upset that AIIy toId BiIIy
she showed up at her apartment.
AIIy's upset BiIIy denied their past.
Renee's angry that Georgia's friendIy
with AIIy as a prophyIactic.
I haven't sussed it aII out.
-What's this?
-Now BiIIy's--
-Quiet!
RICHARD: Look.
PersonaI stuff. Let's take Iunch
breaks, keep it in perspective.
There wiII be cIients
in our conference room.
We aII need to remember, ''Less taxes.
Not as much, Iess than.
Reduced. Less--''
-Taxes.
-Taxes.
-I'm sorry.
-Right.
-What?
-Bygones.
You can have it in any jurisdiction.
So why choose to bring it in a
state known as ''Taxachusetts''?
I say we expIoit that mindset.
Massachusetts, particuIarIy Boston. . .
. . .is sensitive to being IabeIed
the ''Tax CapitaI of the Country. ''
This state proposed taxing
professionaI athIetes pro rata.
ALLY: Why does he have to be so cute?
BILLY: They stiII feeI the backIash.
Even assuming the state wants to
change its image, we owe the taxes.
We need something more
than ''It's too much. ''
We couId argue seIective enforcement.
Say it's tantamount to discrimination.
Discrimination?
The IRS goes after the airIines due to
the money invoIved. It's not random.
The airIine industry's singIed out.
That's de facto discrimination.
RICHARD:
Yes!
You were both fantastic.
I mean it, fantastic!
Speaking as an attorney, I
didn't foIIow anything you said.
That doesn't matter, because they did.
That matters. . .
. . .because they pay the biIIs.
Here is to. . .
. . .a very big account.
As we have the gIasses out, we
shouId toast our new associate. . .
. . .who won her case before
the AppeaIs Court. . .
. . .and heIped Iand the cIient
we're ceIebrating having Ianded.
To AIIy.
To AIIy.
I gotta go.
BILLY:
AIIy.
This isn't going to work, is it?
Um. . . .
You couId be right.
-Maybe you shouId Ieave.
-Me?
-I Iike this firm.
-So do I! I came from Michigan--
If you hadn't gone to Michigan
in the first pIace. . . .
So, I stiII Iove you.
I'm not afraid to admit it.
I stiII Iove you,
but I Iove the woman I married.
I'm not Iooking to
go down that road again.
I'm just admitting. . .
. . .a difficuIty.
It'II get easier in time.
Yeah.
How much time, do you think?
I, um. . . .
I have some work I gotta do.
Okay. WeII, see you tomorrow?
Yep. Tomorrow.
Night.
Good night.
I have my heaIth.
I have my heaIth.
I have my heaIth.
-Hey.
-Hey.
Tough day?
WeII. . . .
Tough first week, I guess.
AIIy.
It's none of my business. . .
. . .but I think I'm entitIed
to be avuncuIar now and then.
Love. You can't bank on it.
It's an unsafe bridge.
The onIy thing you can reaIIy
take to the bank: money.
PiIes.
Make enough money,
everything eIse wiII foIIow.
Quote me. It's a Fishism.
Got it.
VONDA SINGS:
Here's a photo I've been looking for
It's a picture of the boy next door
And I loved him
More than words could say
Never knew it till he moved away
Faded pictures in my scrapbook
Just thought I'd take one more look
And recall when we were all
In the neighborhood
ALLY: The real truth is, I probably
don 't want to be too happy or content.
Because, then what?
I actually like the quest,
the search.
That's the fun.
The more lost you are,
the more you have to look forward to.
What do you know? I'm having a
great time and I don 't even know it.
OLD LADY:
You stinker!
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Here's a photo I've been looking for
It's a picture of the boy next door
ALLY:
I'm not sure how it all started.
Oh, it was because
I smelled his bottom.
It wasn 't that stupid. Dogs did it.
That's how they knew for sure.
No, we didn 't even smell anything.
It was the kiss.
It was too....
So....
I actually felt
my whole body tingle.
Maybe it was when
our tongues touched--
No, no, it was that first kiss.
Which was so soft...
...his lower lip
barely touching my top lip....
That was magic.
The first time wasn 't.
I pinched a nerve in my neck.
If we could've just
stayed broken up....
But Ijust had to follow him
to law school.
I didn 't even want to be a lawyer.
Ijust....
Maybe I studied too hard.
No, no, it wasn 't me, it was him.
He's the one who transferred
to Michigan.
Just Iike that?
I want to cIerk when I get out.
If I don't make Review--
You want me to Ieave Harvard,
give up Law Review--
Of course I don't expect it.
I wouIdn't even ask it.
But. . . .
BasicaIIy, you're putting your
Iaw career between us.
WeII, I choose the Iaw too.
But I choose Boston.
ALLY: So here I am.
The victim of my own choices...
...and I'm just starting.
VONDA SINGS:
I've been down this road
PiIot
Walking the line
That's painted by pride
And I have made mistakes in my life
That Ijust can 't hide
Oh, I believe I am ready
For what love has to bring
I got myself together
Now I'm ready to sing
I've been searching my soul tonight
I know there's so much more to life
Now I know I can shine a light
To find my way back home
Oh, baby, yeah
Oh, yeah
ALLY:
Love and law are the same:
Romantic in concept, but the actual
practice gives you a yeast infection.
But I actually did like myjob.
Until one of the senior partners
started to like me.
I thought it had to be my imagination.
I mean, please!
It was never that obvious.
Till one night....
-Hey! Don't you ever do that again.
-I apoIogize. I have Epstein's-Barr.
ALLY:
When I told Mr. Lyne, he got fired.
He grabbed my buttocks.
-What?
-You're fired.
-I'II sue!
ALLY: And he did!
He claimed OCD,
obsessive-compulsive disorder.
-His sickness was squeezing butts!
-I had to touch them.
He fiIed under
the FederaI DisabiIities Act.
-What are you saying?
-Because of attorney's fees. . .
. . .punitive and possibIe trebIe
damages that go with the suit. . . .
The partners wouId
rather be sued by you.
ALLY:
They got their wish.
I know the fool-for-a-client rule.
I hired independent counsel,
filed a claim, went public.
He didn 't care it was public.
To help bolster his OCD defense,
he squeezed butts all over.
As strategy! To do it
in the open, he must have OCD.
That was the thinking, anyway.
It's pretext. He's mocking us.
I know! It's absurd.
This guy's a master Iitigator.
He knows how to manipuIate facts.
We can't prove it's a pretext.
You don't want to prove it.
You'd rather Iose me than him.
TeII me I'm wrong.
ALLY:
I quit.
I had to.
If I didn 't have my dignity,
I had to make it look like I did.
-AIIy?
ALLY: Oh, no.
-I haven't seen you in forever!
-Richard! How are you?
-Outstanding! You Iook fabuIous.
-I just got fired for it.
You what?
ALLY:
Richard and I were classmates.
We weren 't close.
This is perfect. I just started
my own practice. Join us today.
Excuse me?
We're up the street. A great Ioft.
ALLY: Working for you?
With your philosophy of law?
PiIes and piIes of money.
If I heIp somebody, great.
But mainIy I'm in this for
the piIes, the big piIes.
And what wouId I start at?
ALLY: I go to law school because
I was in love with a guy.
He left me for Law Review.
Now I'm hired by somebody who
started his own firm for the piles?
John Cage is out
getting his frown Iines Botoxed.
Makes rain when he sIeeps. Look at
this office, it's avant rich.
It stinks of money.
Here's your office.
This is EIaine, your assistant.
I stocked your office suppIies
and I'II program your speed diaI.
WouId you Iike a voice-activated
dictaphone? It's in the budget.
You don't have to decide now.
Here's the Man Made fiIe.
-I fiIed your appearance.
-Pardon me?
The best way to get wet is jump
right in. Second session.
We represent Man Made magazine.
Guy seeks prior restraint.
Judge Hopkins is sitting.
He's tough but fair.
Not big on pantsuits for women.
This'II be fine.
RICHARD: HemIine's a bit high,
but who am I to notice?
BiIIy, I want you to meet someone.
AIIy McBeaI, BiIIy Thomas.
He was at Harvard with us first year.
We know each other.
RICHARD:
You do?
Oh, my God! I feeI so stupid.
You two--
She's working here?
RICHARD:
Is that a probIem?
No, it's not to me. Is it to you?
Me?
No.
-It's fine.
-Fine.
-Fine.
-Fine.
I have to go to the bathroom.
It's this way.
ALLY: This is not a big deal.
It's okay. It's not a tragedy.
Just a funny bounce of the ball,
that's all.
AIIy?
Richard! I'm in the bathroom!
Unisex studies show it heIps
men and women breed famiIiarity.
So Iong as they don't
come in to breed.
SeriousIy, wiII working with BiIIy
be a probIem?
Because if it is,
I can't do anything about it.
-I'd be happy to sympathize.
-Before we get to that. . .
. . .if you don't object, I have
this Iawsuit against Jack BiIIings.
-I have a deposition--
-Say no more.
Do it from here.
We'II be happy to Iead.
Great.
So who's your best Iitigator?
Oh, that wouId be BiIIy.
That wouId figure.
-Who's second-best?
-AIIy.
Do you want to
give this to BiIIings? I sense. . .
. . .you'd Iike to grind up his head
and feed it through his intestines.
-Something Iike that.
-Then go with BiIIy. He's your man.
ALLY:
Go with Billy. He's my man.
RENEE: It'II kiII you to get up earIy.
-I don't have to get up earIier.
Working with BiIIy.
Hair and makeup, extra haIf-hour.
I stopped caring about him
three years ago.
That's why you
wish your breasts were bigger.
Out, out, out!
ALLY:
I do wish my breasts were bigger.
Not huge, but...
...less small.
They could....
I'd look good less small.
There's no precedent to enjoin
an autobiographicaI articIe.
-But a minister and a nun?
-I coIor-coded the pIeadings.
I know the cIerk in second session,
so I put in a good word.
ALLY: I think by telling me
what's been done...
...Elaine wants me to know she's the
one doing it. People like this....
I imagine their heads growing
when they speak. It could be me.
--your initiaIs on a few things
before you Ieave.
Remember your articIe
on federaI and state taxation?
I'm stiII trying to
seII the movie rights.
We're having a meeting
with Air NationaI counseI.
You might be of heIp.
This is a very big opportunity.
ALLY: What does he want me to do?
I know how he lands clients.
We wiII take care of this.
He either drools with sympathy,
makes them feel heard.
Or promises whatever
to get even with somebody.
I didn't become a Iawyer because
I Iike the Iaw. The Iaw sucks.
It's boring, but it can
be used as a weapon.
You want to bankrupt somebody
of everything he's worked for?
Make his wife Ieave him, even cause
his kids to cry? We can do that.
RICHARD: They must Ieave that meeting
beIieving they'II pay. . .
. . .Iess taxes, reduced, not as much,
diminished, abated, Iess than, Iower.
I'm nothing if not redundant.
I aIso repeat myseIf.
Hey.
Hey, BiIIy. Hi.
Morning.
Coffee?
Um. . . .
Sure.
Richard asked me
to cover your deposition.
It's a stupid case, I know.
-Want to get him?
-I do.
You're okay with me handIing it?
Sure.
Okay.
So many times I aImost caIIed you--
You won't have to think
about that now.
We'II pass each other in the haIIway.
So, Iast I heard, you were
cIerking for Souter.
Then I took a job with Steptoe.
When Richard started this pIace,
it was too tempting to pass up.
-You know Richard.
-Yeah.
So, you. . .
. . .seeing anybody?
ActuaIIy. . . .
I'm married.
Oh.
How wonderfuI.
Does that change your feeIings
about working here?
-Do you have kids?
-No.
I'm sorry, you know. . .
. . .if it hurts. I know it'd be hard
for me the other way around.
Thank you, but you reaIIy don't
have to worry. I'm fine.
I'm actuaIIy gIad you're here.
ALLY:
Really?
Not as an ex-boyfriend.
As a Iawyer who appreciates
a taIented addition to the firm.
As a Iawyer, I guess I better
get down to court.
I have to go get wet.
Okay.
See you around.
Yep.
ALLY: Men are like gum. After you
chew, they lose flavor.
I'm glad he's married.
I don 't ever have to think about him.
I should be happy. I am happy.
I feel good.
-Sorry.
-Hey! No!
You're not sorry. You didn't
even Iook to see who you bumped into.
What if I was an oId Iady?
I couId have faIIen, broken a hip.
I couId be in an HMO, my Iungs
fiIIing with phIegm. . .
. . .on Iife support, draining my
famiIy's inheritance. . .
. . .whiIe I asphyxiate on my dry mucus.
Don't say you're sorry when
you're not. You with him?
That probably wasn 't
normal behavior.
Case number 60320. Reverend KessIer
versus Man Made Magazine.
-Henry Thorton for the petitioner.
-AIIy McBeaI for the defendant.
Reverend KessIer requests this court
issue an injunction. . . .
ALLY: I always get nervous walking in,
but when I take my feet, I'm fine.
My father's a lawyer. I spent a lot
of time watching him in court.
Listening to him.
Studying him.
--disregard for the truth.
He's asking for censorship.
There's no other word for it.
My cIient, an EpiscopaIian minister,
is depicted as a sex-crazed pervert.
A byproduct of Iiving in
a country with a free press--
JUDGE: Stop!
ALLY: Uh-oh.
I won't have you here,
saIuting the fIag.
This piece of fiIth has nothing
to do with democracy.
Can you quantify fiIth?
The Supreme Court hasn't been abIe to.
Did your cIient verify
the nun's version of events?
ALLY:
He cares about the facts.
Did you get the minister's account?
No.
I'm shocked.
Ms. McBeaI, as a matter of Iaw,
you're 1 00 percent correct.
The magazine has every right
to pubIish the articIe.
I'm enjoining them
from doing so anyway.
-What?
JUDGE: Go to AppeaIs.
You'II no doubt get it overturned.
It'II cost some time and money.
And that's what this is reaIIy about,
isn't it? Money. SeIIing.
Let's see how bad you want it.
Motion for injunction granted.
ALLY: I had the Founding Fathers,
the Constitution, public policy.
And the case couldn 't be lost...
...and I lost it.
And Billy's married.
RICHARD:
I won't pretend. I'm shocked.
I argued weII. The judge
had an agenda contrary to Iaw.
I fiIed the appeaI and brought up
aII our First Amendment briefs. . .
. . .to head-start you on your memo.
I aIso cIipped the pages
on prior restraint.
Thank you, EIaine.
You had the Constitution on your side.
It serves no purpose to second-guess.
I'm sure AIIy did her best.
-Don't stick up for me!
-Excuse me?
-I don't need you sticking up for me!
-I'm not!
We got a big meeting with counseI
tomorrow on this rebate case.
Let's focus on that.
Can you brush up on your tax Iaw?
I'II be brushed.
Whatever you need.
BILLY:
AIIy.
What the heII was that back there?
ObviousIy our breakup has Ieft you
with some residuaI feeIings.
Angry feeIings.
No, actuaIIy, BiIIy,
the residuaI feeIing was hope.
And that's why I. . . .
I'm fine, BiIIy. I just have a
sIight probIem adjusting to change.
WOMAN:
Here you are!
BILLY: Georgia.
GEORGIA: You ready?
Hi, uh. . . .
Yeah.
This is AIIy McBeaI.
AIIy, my wife, Georgia.
-Hi, nice to meet you.
-It's a pIeasure.
Georgia works at Goodwin. We met
in Iaw schooI. She was my editor.
-You're a Iawyer?
-Don't ask me why.
We shouId go.
We have reservations at 7.
-I just need two seconds.
-Okay, I'II hoId the eIevator.
-Nice meeting you, AIIy.
-You too.
She, uh, she seems nice.
This is a memo outIining the tax
anaIysis done on Air NationaI.
Thanks.
AIIy, Iook. . . .
We've known each other too weII
to pretend that. . . .
You were hoping she was fat.
And stupid.
Maybe missing a coupIe of teeth.
-I shouId go.
-Wait.
You've got to give me something more.
You can't Ieave me Iike that.
AII right.
She snores.
And the roots aren't
quite so bIond, okay?
No, no. Something more.
I need one more thing.
Left IittIe toe?
Bunion.
Thank you.
[MUSIC PLAYS]
ALLY: When I'm depressed, Renee makes
me go dancing, I guess to cheer me up.
Look at this guy. If he did that
in a hospital, they'd sedate him.
I'm pretty good at not laughing.
Renee is less good.
The dancing twins. We love them.
If you don't get BiIIings,
he'II do this to other women.
Face it. I'm a IittIe girI
pIaying in an oId boys' cIub.
AII the more reason not to back down.
If I couId prove
they infIuenced that judge. . .
. . .I'd fiIe criminaI charges myseIf.
[KNOCKING]
[PSYCHO MUSIC PLAYS]
Georgia!
Long time.
-I'm so sorry to intrude.
-No, no. That's okay. Come on in.
This is Renee, my roommate.
This is Georgia Thomas.
-Hi.
-It's good to meet you.
CouId I speak to you in private?
Sure.
I feeI so stupid for coming here.
If BiIIy even knew. . . .
He said you went on a few dates
in high schooI.
Um. . . .
Yeah.
Yeah, we were buds.
ALLY:
A few dates!
Reading between the Iines. . .
. . .I think you might stiII harbor
feeIings toward BiIIy.
That makes me uncomfortabIe.
I feeI embarrassed even
to be saying this. . .
. . .but my poIicy is just to be
truthfuI about things.
WeII, I have no such poIicy.
That was a joke.
Oh.
I'm not. . . .
You don't have to worry.
Nothing wiII happen between--
You do. StiII have feeIings.
Oh. . . .
Listen.
It was more than a few dates.
We were. . . .
More.
We were excIusive in high schooI.
Then again at Harvard.
You two. . .
. . .were in Iove?
We were invoIved.
So I. . . .
I suppose that you. . .
. . .you know. . .
. . .made Iove.
Georgia. Georgia.
BiIIy is an honest guy,
we know that.
He downpIayed our past because
he knew you'd be uncomfortabIe.
It reaIIy is the past.
Isn't this something
you shouId hear from him?
Yeah.
I just. . . .
In your office today, I picked
up a vibe I've never feIt before.
I'm so embarrassed to be acting. . . .
That's just a memento.
I'm sorry, but. . . .
I reaIIy hate you.
I'm ashamed to admit it--
No. No, it's okay, because. . .
. . .I reaIIy hate you too.
-ReaIIy?
-Yeah.
-You're not just saying it?
-No.
The partners aren't casting
any negative assumptions.
Losing is something that
happens to everyone.
I reminded them it's difficuIt
when peopIe change jobs.
-I onIy Iost one motion, EIaine.
-That's what I toId them.
-You ready?
-For what?
The depo. Jack BiIIings.
Oh. Oh.
Yeah, I'm ready.
Do you want this to be about
discovery or retaIiation?
-I can take it either way.
-Fine! Whatever! Let's go.
I'm trying to get information
on her cycIe.
Less taxes, BiIIy. Not as much,
reduced, deminimus.
Yeah. Thanks.
Excuse me.
I understand
you're representing yourseIf?
Whether or not you understand it
is anybody's guess.
Sir. . .
. . .when were you aware you suffered
from a compuIsive disorder?
Right around the time she sued me.
I think it was just after.
I was jarred by the impIications
of what I'd done.
Seeing it in print,
I sought professionaI heIp.
And my doctors, of which there are
many, diagnosed me.
It stiII hurts.
Can we go off the record?
CertainIy. It wouId aIIow me
to compose myseIf.
We're off.
-You having fun?
-I'm having a baII.
Do I Iook intimidated?
You Iook Iike a young squirt trying
not to Iook intimidated.
-I'm impressed.
-I get even better.
I'd hope. You can't win
with the facts. So I grabbed her.
Where's the harm?
She doesn't Iook emotionaIIy wrought.
The job she has now
pays her more money.
You can't just sue somebody for being
wronged. You have to show damages.
Don't they teach that these days?
I was taught very weII, Jack.
Oh, big Supreme Court cIerk.
I'II assume you're bIinded by the fact
that you sIept with your cIient. . .
. . .and that this isn't a refIection
of your taIent.
ShaII we go back on the record?
Let's. Back on.
Let the record refIect
that the deponent. . .
. . .is a fat, arrogant,
overweight, baId pig.
That wasn't heIpfuI.
I couIdn't sit there and Iet him ooze.
You shouId have sat quiet.
He'II say your cIaim's retaIiatory.
You gave him a sound bite.
Sometimes you have to prove
you'II fight.
A Iawyer's at his best
when he's dispassionate.
Then I'm in good hands.
-I beg your pardon?
-Forget it!
-What did you mean?
-You have a gift for dispassion.
Not to mention downpIaying, ''Mr.
a coupIe of dates in high schooI'' !
Georgia toId me what you said.
-I didn't say a coupIe of dates.
-You did!
Maybe she heard
''a coupIe of dates. ''
-''We dated''?
-What shouId I have said?
The truth!
-The truth?
-The truth. That you Ioved me.
You Ioved me.
Yeah. That's the truth.
So much that sometimes when we were
apart, we kept an open phone Iine. . .
. . .so whiIe sIeeping I couId
Iisten to you breathe.
Is that what I shouId've toId Georgia?
[TOILET FLUSHES]
I'II wash my hands Iater.
I Iooked under the doors.
Your feet were up!
I've got a disc probIem.
My chiropractor has me sit that way.
Lucky it was me, not somebody
interested in other peopIe's Iives.
The National Law Journal's doing a
piece on First Amendment erosion.
They heard about your big Ioss.
-WiII you give them a quote?
-Can I give it to you?
-About that airIine case--
-I can't do that meeting!
I have a probIem in conference room
meetings and meeting with cIients.
What's this I'm hearing
about a probIem?
I get insecure. I don't know.
Whenever I'm in a conference
room meeting, I just shrink.
I feeI Iike cIients Iook at me
Iike a IittIe girI. I feeI puny.
You're there as estrogen.
Their Iead counseI's a woman.
She bats from the other side.
The guy's a woIf.
I hoped you'd fIirt with them both.
-I beg your pardon?
-Teamwork is what makes us.
You can't do this to me!
-Do what?
-Do what?
Bring me here to work next to him.
Argue cases when the judge
is biased against me.
Put me in a room
to smiIe at Iesbians?
It's too much!
I guess I'll drown
In my own tears
-It's stupid for me to work there.
-So Ieave.
That wouId make me Iook weak.
I know there was something
speciaI between you two.
I'm going to say this for
your own good. He's a nice guy.
Cute bangs.
You two were Iike Barbie and Ken.
He's a wimp.
He's not a wimp.
In five years, he's a boring Iawyer. . .
. . .Iooking at his stock portfoIio,
pIaying goIf. . .
. . .with nothing for you at
the end of the day. . .
. . .but a Iimp IittIe piece
of fettuccine.
You can do better.
So stop being in Iove with him.
Okay.
-DeaI?
-DeaI.
Here without you
ALLY: Today will be a less bad day.
I feel it.
Sometimes I wake up knowing
everything will be...
...less bad.
There's no obscenity here.
This ruIing not onIy has no
basis in Iaw, it vioIates it.
-You know what my probIem is?
ALLY: The comb-over?
Magazines print the outrageous,
move their product.
If their story's corrected. . .
. . .that happens on page 42,
months Iater, in a footnote.
A IibeI cIaim's about money.
It can't restore reputation.
WouId the reverend truIy have
a IegaI remedy?
-This magazine represents democracy.
ALLY: They sell sex.
It may contain vuIgar materiaI.
So does Vanity Fair, Esquire, Vogue.
More sex.
If this court's to be
the guardian of content. . .
. . .absent IibeI or obscenity,
then have the integrity and honesty. . .
. . .to admit your ruIing aboIishes
the notion of free press in America.
Sometimes I'm more persuasive
when I lack conviction.
-Come on in.
-Thank you.
[LAUGHING]
What's going on?
-This is private, AIIy.
-No, Richard. What's going on?
I offered to doubIe his saIary
if he works here.
Coming up with that OCD defense,
being so brazen.
He sort of represents everything I
stand for. In time, you'II agree.
In time? Are you serious?
He's a Iawyer you hate
on the other side. . .
-. . .but on your side--
-I quit.
You can't quit two firms in one week.
Reeks on the r?sum?.
-Let's aII just work this out.
-I can forgive.
-You expect me--
-You won't go near her buttocks. . .
-. . .even during hoIidays?
-I promise.
Are you on drugs? You reaIize the
hook you're putting yourseIf on?
You and the firm are IiabIe
if he does it again.
-He says he won't!
-He can't heIp it. It's a sickness.
I assume he made the OCD thing up.
Didn't you?
-CompIeteIy. You didn't hear that.
-I didn't have to. I got it here. . .
. . .on tape.
EmpIoyment offer's revoked.
The Iawsuit continues
with this IoveIy admission.
It's not just winning.
Winning ugIy matters.
Sorry I'm Iate.
Did I miss anything, Jack?
It actuaIIy worked.
He'II have to settIe.
Maybe we'II get those new drapes.
Where are you? I'm starved.
-I'm on the elevator.
-Okay.
-Georgia Thomas is in your office.
-Thank you, EIaine.
Did you have to teII him
I came to your apartment?
WeII, I. . . .
I toId him in an upbeat way.
Look, it was wrong for me to come.
AII I was trying to say was. . . .
I was admitting a difficuIty,
you working here.
It'II get easier with time.
Yeah.
How much time, do you think?
RENEE: I don't care.
Nothing's private for me.
Your Iunch date's arrived.
I hope you're not here
to be nice again.
-Georgia, you remember Renee?
-Yes, hi.
I know what you're up to.
You think a friendship with AIIy
wiII be a prophyIactic. . .
. . .to stop her hokey-pokeying
with BiIIy?
-Pardon me?
-What's going on? Sounds good.
-TeII him!
-You seem to have it aII figured out.
Georgia's upset that AIIy toId BiIIy
she showed up at her apartment.
AIIy's upset BiIIy denied their past.
Renee's angry that Georgia's friendIy
with AIIy as a prophyIactic.
I haven't sussed it aII out.
-What's this?
-Now BiIIy's--
-Quiet!
RICHARD: Look.
PersonaI stuff. Let's take Iunch
breaks, keep it in perspective.
There wiII be cIients
in our conference room.
We aII need to remember, ''Less taxes.
Not as much, Iess than.
Reduced. Less--''
-Taxes.
-Taxes.
-I'm sorry.
-Right.
-What?
-Bygones.
You can have it in any jurisdiction.
So why choose to bring it in a
state known as ''Taxachusetts''?
I say we expIoit that mindset.
Massachusetts, particuIarIy Boston. . .
. . .is sensitive to being IabeIed
the ''Tax CapitaI of the Country. ''
This state proposed taxing
professionaI athIetes pro rata.
ALLY: Why does he have to be so cute?
BILLY: They stiII feeI the backIash.
Even assuming the state wants to
change its image, we owe the taxes.
We need something more
than ''It's too much. ''
We couId argue seIective enforcement.
Say it's tantamount to discrimination.
Discrimination?
The IRS goes after the airIines due to
the money invoIved. It's not random.
The airIine industry's singIed out.
That's de facto discrimination.
RICHARD:
Yes!
You were both fantastic.
I mean it, fantastic!
Speaking as an attorney, I
didn't foIIow anything you said.
That doesn't matter, because they did.
That matters. . .
. . .because they pay the biIIs.
Here is to. . .
. . .a very big account.
As we have the gIasses out, we
shouId toast our new associate. . .
. . .who won her case before
the AppeaIs Court. . .
. . .and heIped Iand the cIient
we're ceIebrating having Ianded.
To AIIy.
To AIIy.
I gotta go.
BILLY:
AIIy.
This isn't going to work, is it?
Um. . . .
You couId be right.
-Maybe you shouId Ieave.
-Me?
-I Iike this firm.
-So do I! I came from Michigan--
If you hadn't gone to Michigan
in the first pIace. . . .
So, I stiII Iove you.
I'm not afraid to admit it.
I stiII Iove you,
but I Iove the woman I married.
I'm not Iooking to
go down that road again.
I'm just admitting. . .
. . .a difficuIty.
It'II get easier in time.
Yeah.
How much time, do you think?
I, um. . . .
I have some work I gotta do.
Okay. WeII, see you tomorrow?
Yep. Tomorrow.
Night.
Good night.
I have my heaIth.
I have my heaIth.
I have my heaIth.
-Hey.
-Hey.
Tough day?
WeII. . . .
Tough first week, I guess.
AIIy.
It's none of my business. . .
. . .but I think I'm entitIed
to be avuncuIar now and then.
Love. You can't bank on it.
It's an unsafe bridge.
The onIy thing you can reaIIy
take to the bank: money.
PiIes.
Make enough money,
everything eIse wiII foIIow.
Quote me. It's a Fishism.
Got it.
VONDA SINGS:
Here's a photo I've been looking for
It's a picture of the boy next door
And I loved him
More than words could say
Never knew it till he moved away
Faded pictures in my scrapbook
Just thought I'd take one more look
And recall when we were all
In the neighborhood
ALLY: The real truth is, I probably
don 't want to be too happy or content.
Because, then what?
I actually like the quest,
the search.
That's the fun.
The more lost you are,
the more you have to look forward to.
What do you know? I'm having a
great time and I don 't even know it.
OLD LADY:
You stinker!
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