Boston Legal (2004–2008): Season 1, Episode 3 - Catch and Release - full transcript

After he helped her to get out of a psychiatric clinic, Alan now has to face his ex-girlfriend Christine as an opponent in court. Lori is appointed to help Alan. Sally has her first real case of which she has got to take care all by herself and it isn't going very good for her. Denny Crane's son Donny, whom he hasn't seen for 15 years, shows up in the office, but not just as a visitor but also a lawyer.

NARRATOR:
Previously on Boston Legal:

Pull a rabbit out of your hat.

That's the secret of both
trial law and life.

- Rabbits?
- Oh, yeah.

- Christine Pauley.
- Ex-girlfriend tried to kill me.

- She tried to kill you.
- She did.

- Now she wants out?
- She does.

- Alan.
TARA: She's stalking you.

She tried to kill you, was institutionalized,
now she's out and stalking you.

Freedom is a privilege, not a right.

- A privilege?
- And it's revocable.



Especially if you tried to run someone
over with an automobile.

I got my old job back.

It's truly fantastic news,
isn't it, Alan?

Yes.

- Why aren't you helping me?
- Sally, I have a trial of my own...

...beginning tomorrow.
A rather big one.

- But this is my first trial.
- You've certainly been to court before.

- I have no doubt you'll...
- Motion practice. This is with a jury.

I don't... I don't think I'm ready.

Sally...

...Iook at me.

- You trust me?
- I do.

And because you trust me, you'll
believe what I'm about to tell you?

- I will.
- That's all it is.



- All what is?
- Trial law.

Getting the jury to trust you
so they'll believe what you tell them.

Really?

Sincerity, Sally.

Once you learn to fake that,
there'll be no stopping you.

Denny, we've got...

- What's going on?
DENNY: A little maintenance work, Paul.

Wouldn't hurt you.
You look like a prune.

We have the Kaneb meeting
in 15 minutes.

Excellent. Why do I care?

You care because this is the construction
project that the entire firm...

...has been working on for 18 months.
You care because Byron Kaneb cares.

And he expects you to be present.

- Ow! Damn it, man. What have you done?
- The needle broke.

- Not to worry. Let me remove it...
- Don't you touch me.

Half the needle's in your head.

- Let me remove it.
- You're not touching me.

Get Dr. Michaels back down here.

This is what happens when I let his kids
cut their teeth on my head.

- Lf I could remove it, l...
- Don't you touch me.

Denny, there's a needle in your head.
Let him at least remove it.

Get me Dr. Michaels.

I really don't need
a second chair for this.

Sexual harassment
is a specialty of mine.

- Mine too.
- No doubt.

But while your experience tends
to be more hands-on, mine...

- Tends to be more wishful thinking.
- Not to mention, you ooze.

- I ooze?
- Yes.

That certain something that
subliminally champions misogyny.

You need me.

Lori, as much as I may want you,
desire you even...

...I do not need you.

See that right there? Ooze.

ALAN:
Hm.

- When can I dig my hole?
- We're almost there, Byron.

Don't tell me we're
almost there, Paul.

We've been almost there for six months.
When will we be there?

City council agreed to the variance
for the golf course.

We expect an answer from the
redevelopment commission for the mall.

Sources say they'll rule in our favor.

- What about the EPA?
- The Blue-spotted Salamander...

...got downgraded from endangered
to threatened last week.

So the marina
looks like a go except for...

- Except for what?
- It seems there's a river...

...where some salmon spawn.

Evidently there's some environmental
lawyer who's making a stink.

When you say "stink"...?

He got a TRO.

A fish? My city's being held up
by a fish?

We are meeting the lawyer today.
We will make it go away.

Do you plan to contribute
or are you assigned to mop up ooze?

WOMAN:
Alan.

Hello. Christine Pauley.

- Well, heard so much about you.
- How are you?

Fine, thank you.

- Lf you'll excuse us, we're due in court.
- Yes, I know. I'm opposing counsel.

I beg your pardon?

- What do you expect me to do?
- Disqualify her.

This is stalking. She got herself
assigned to this case because I'm on it.

And as an officer of the court, I question
if she has the capacity to try a case.

She was released
from a mental facility last week.

Certainly, counsel,
if you wanna conflict out...

I can't. I'm the only one
who knows the case here.

- Miss Colson was simply put on...
- Miss Pauley, what's going on?

Of all the cases to start off with, you
pick one against an ex you tried to kill?

Actually, I didn't pick it.
My firm came to me.

- Christine...
- Because I used to date Mr. Shore...

...they thought I could shed light
on his procedural eccentricities.

Which I did.
Since I have extensive experience...

...in sexual-harassment law,
the partners asked me if I'd first chair.

- I agreed.
JUDGE: We start at 11 a.m.

- Your Honor, l...
- lf you wanna conflict out, do so.

But I have no legal basis
to disqualify Miss Pauley.

May I speak with you alone, Alan?

No, you may not, Christine.
If you choose to be on this case...

...conduct yourself at arm's length
and on the record.

It's just coincidence to you
your first case out...

- I consider it a preposterous coincidence.
- You have no business trying...

- I know you better.
- How sad you can't be happy for me.

- I'm not happy.
- Clearly.

Well, that seemed perfectly normal.

The DA offered a three-month
suspended. We should take it.

- Does it go on my record?
- Well, yes. But...

Answer's no. I didn't do it.
I didn't take that wallet.

And as a man of principle,
I won't pretend that I took it.

- They have an eyewitness.
- Look here.

I might seem like some
court-appointed charity case...

...but I'm an honest man.
I don't steal.

And I won't agree to any plea
that says otherwise.

Mr. Seymore.

Hi, Sally Heep.
I'm in litigation at the firm.

I know that.

- Are you in court today, or...?
- No. But you are.

I'm here to observe your work,
Miss Heep.

Good luck.

Denny, the lawyer who got the TRO?

On the Kaneb construction project?

Ah. Pay him off.

Give him a bottle of Scotch
and money to buy more bus-bench ads.

He says he's your son.

It's true.

You're a lawyer now.

Hey...

...Dad.

- You got a needle in your head.
- Small accident. Not to worry.

Son.

Dad.

You're a lawyer now.
That's how you greet people?

[CLEARS THROAT]

Donny Crane.

Denny Crane.

- Donny Crane.
- Denny Crane.

- Donny Crane.
- Denny Crane.

- Donny Crane.
- Denny Crane.

- Donny Crane.
- Denny Crane.

Donny Crane.

I had a one-night stand
with his mother.

I paid for his education and so forth.

I did everything I could
to be a good father.

- When's the last time you saw him?
- Oh, I don't know.

When he was 12?

We've offered several
decent compromises.

And?

He just keeps on saying his name.

Oh. I'll talk to him.

- How's my boy?
- They don't really need...

...to bug you with this, Dad.
- So, what's this all about?

Saving some fish?

Well, see, your lawyers,
who are clearly very talented...

...persuaded a judge
to eliminate the distinction...

...between farmed salmon
and wild salmon.

The president of the United States
proposed eliminating that distinction.

Yes, I know. That's probably why
the judge granted your motion.

See, Dad, wild salmon
are an endangered species.

The administration figures
if you eliminate the distinction...

...between farmed and wild
and count them as one...

...numbers would go up and
you could take them off the list.

That way, they can lift environmental
protections in place to protect them.

Which, of course, allows you
to build more shopping malls.

Well, son, look at the big picture.

If building this mall can save
a species from becoming endangered...

...let's by all means do it.

I was vice president in charge
of alternative investments.

And at the time of the affair,
Mr. Ralston...?

He was and remains
president of the firm.

This romantic affair
lasted how long, Ms. Moore?

About nine months,
at which point I broke it off.

- Because?
- Well, mainly because I was married...

...and I wanted to work things out
with my husband.

I see. And how did Mr. Ralston
handle the breakup?

At first, I think fine. But then he would
continue to try to get back together.

He would schedule lunches,
meetings, about business...

...only to pursue
his romantic interests.

He started calling me after-hours.
Sometimes he would send flowers.

Eventually, it got so bad
I simply had to leave.

ALAN:
You went to another brokerage firm?

MOORE:
At a lesser position for less money.

There seemed to be a stigma
about my departure.

I don't know. Maybe people thought
that I had secretly been fired.

I don't know. What I do know is
I was basically forced out of my job...

...by his relentless, unwelcome
sexual advances.

Thank you, Ms. Moore.

She looks demented.

JUDGE:
Miss Pauley?

Leading up to your affair with my client,
he made welcomed sexual advances?

Well, not at first.
I was a married woman.

But at some point,
the advances became welcomed?

- Yes.
- A love affair then ensued?

- Yes.
CHRISTINE: So my client's strategy was:

"If at first you don't succeed,
try, try again."

A strategy you certainly ratified.

- Well, l...
- Since perseverance was rewarded...

...the first time, it would be natural
for him to adopt that strategy again.

I may have sent mixed signals
the first time...

...but I did no such thing this time.

Ah.

When you left, did you tell
prospective employers the reason?

- No, l...
CHRISTINE: Why not?

I suppose I feared that it wouldn't
depict me in the best possible light.

MOORE: I was a married woman
having an affair.

Got it.
So this stigma you refer to...

...people wondering whether
you were fired or not...

...that stigma was partly caused by your
embarrassment over your own behavior...

...a married woman having an affair.

- I suppose that's true. But l...
- Thank you, Ms. Moore.

WOMAN: I was reaching into my purse to
get some change to feed the homeless.

- That's when I saw him coming.
- Who?

Him. The guilty defendant
sitting right there.

- Objection.
- The jury will disregard reference...

...to the defendant's guilt.

ATTORNEY:
Then what happened?

He reached into my purse, grabbed
my wallet, started rifling through it.

ATTORNEY: What did you do?
- I stood there, frozen.

I was shocked.
He started running away...

...as he was rifling through it. And then
he turns. And he's coming back.

- Then what happened?
WHITE: I ran.

He started chasing me.

Thank God he was tackled by people.
I don't know what he might've done.

Miss White, are you absolutely
sure that it was the defendant?

I can show you the pictures.

- What pictures?
- I have one of those little...

...phone-camera thingies.
I snapped his picture.

- And you have them?
- Look.

WHITE:
You can see he's got the wallet.

You just let the pictures
be introduced...

...without so much as an objection.

I thought the prosecution
didn't know about it either...

...so I couldn't claim unfair surprise.

You could've gotten time
to prepare a cross-examination...

...to research the photos
for authenticity.

Instead, you sat there quietly.

There's eyewitness testimony
from the victim.

Positive ID and pictures.

How do you plan
to proceed now, Sally?

Um...

My client wants to testify.

And say what?

Um...

That he's innocent.

It's a fish, for God's sakes.

It's not just a fish. It's a salmon
the government is trying to wipe out.

I like to fish myself. Catch and release,
the whole shebang.

Pull them in, throw them back out
to prove you're humane.

You're mocking me.
He's mocking me, Dad.

- You're a Crane. Get used to it.
- We will go to court.

I love court.

Donny Crane.

Look, Donny, you seem like a nice kid.

I have no doubt that you're
a terrific attorney.

But you are not him.

You're like a son to him, aren't you?

Does he hug you much?

If this is about some score
between you and the old man...

It's not about any score. Hey, if you
people wanna go to court...

Beat it, will you, Brad?

Is it a score?

Was I not there enough?

Were you not there enough?
Dad, I haven't seen you in 15 years.

I may not have had the time
to give that most dads had...

...but I thought I was giving you
something much more important.

Money.

You gave me something even
more important than that, Dad.

You gave me the Crane legacy.

And I fully plan on living up to it.

So...

...I'll see you and your team in court.

Donny Crane.

At first I saw it, but I didn't see it
if that makes any sense.

It took a few seconds to register.

What took a few seconds?

My wallet. I lost it two days earlier.

And then I see it
right there in her bag.

- Your wallet?
- Yeah.

This funky orange color.
Not like there could be two.

And I lost it on Washington
right where we were at.

So I figured she stole it.
That woman stole my wallet.

- So...?
- I walked right up and snatched it back.

- Self-help.
- You snatched back your own wallet?

- Yes, I did.
- And I hustled off...

...because, truth be told,
the woman looked a little vicious.

- So, what happened next?
- Well, I started to go through it...

...to make sure it was mine.

And as I was going
through the inside, I saw:

"Oh, my God. It's not my wallet."

It looked exactly like mine,
but it wasn't.

Truth is, I discovered later
I'd left it in my car.

It was all a big mistake.
So I started to run back to return it...

...and she just took off.

And I started chasing,
yelling, "Lady, wait!

I'm bringing it back!
I'm bringing it back!"

Then I got tackled and here I am.

Your witness.

So the wallet that you ripped
out of Miss White's purse...

...the wallet that you ran off with,
you thought it was your own?

- Yes, ma'am.
- Because it looked exactly like yours?

Yes, ma'am.

This one here.

RALSTON: When we broke up,
it was because she felt...

...committed to working things out
with her family.

It wasn't that things were
emotionally over between us.

- She said that?
- Yes.

And I suppose I felt,
you know, when...

When two people love each other,
you persevere through obstacles.

My so-called sexual harassment,
it wasn't about sexual advances...

...it was about getting her
to be true to her feelings.

You were trying to show her that
she felt like having sex with you?

- Please don't trivialize this.
- I assure you, I take it very seriously.

You say it's okay to harass women in
the workplace so long as you love them.

I believed and still believe
she was in love with me.

I see. And she lacked the autonomy
to make up her own mind?

- Objection.
- She lacked the capacity perhaps...

...to be happy without you?
- Objection!

Why is it some people
refuse to accept it's over?

Objection!

CHRISTINE:
I truly apologize.

For a second, I thought you were
personalizing it, Alan.

And I was out of line. I'm sorry.

It's okay.

- You all right?
- Yes.

It is ridiculous, the stress of a trial...

...a week out of the rubber room
going up against you.

Why are you doing this?

I was always safe inside work,
you know?

It was a little cocoon.

- Can you continue?
- Oh, yes.

It's just a little...

Again, I apologize
for the outburst.

Whatever you can do
to keep it personal.

I'm sorry?

She's kind of been kicking our ass.
That's the first crack...

...I've seen in her armor.

I'm not going to exploit her.

If you can't put your client's interest
ahead of Christine's, then step aside.

Let number two take over.

- We now have to go to court?
- We are confident we'll handle this.

I hire one of the biggest law firms
in Boston, one of the most expensive...

...and I'm being neutralized by Salmon
Man, who happens to be your son?

Let me tell you something, Byron.

Uh, Brad Chase is one of
our finest litigators.

He will handle this.

BRAD: We've had meetings with the
Environmental Protection Agency.

- They signed off on this.
- With all due respect...

...the EPA gets steamrolled
by the administration all the time.

No matter what anyone
proposes these days...

...somebody somewhere screams,
"Whoa, the environment."

Now, there's a very simple word that
describes what my client is trying to do.

Please don't let the word
be "progress."

How about "people"?

- "People"?
BRAD: Yes.

We are trying to invest
in the future of people.

Creating jobs
at a time of unemployment.

We're talking about over 1000 jobs
benefiting people below the poverty line.

People hoping
to educate their children...

...afford medical coverage,
feed their families, basic human needs.

This man wants to put all that on hold
because it inconveniences a fish.

Mr. Crane?

Well, first...

...this whole thing kind of goes
to the farmed salmon issue.

The government is trying to count
genetically raised salmon as wild.

So they can take salmon
off the endangered species list.

- I get that. So what?
- So what?

People, judge. Jobs, insurance,
schoolbooks, food. People.

DONNY: Well, farmed salmon
is terrible for people.

They're carcinogenic.
They don't even look like real salmon.

By the way, they're fed little pellets
to turn their meat red.

- Otherwise it's this pallid white...
- People, jobs, America first.

There's a rumor... I can't give evidence
on this, but there's a rumor...

...the cattle they have to kill
due to mad cow disease...

...they grind them up and then
feed the meat to the farmed salmon.

Objection, Your Honor.

There is nothing in the record
that even remotely substantiates that.

Counsel, the river in question
only concerns wild salmon.

So can we get off the farmed salmon?

We're talking about lifting
environmental protections on that river.

They're inflating the salmon count
with farm numbers...

...to get those protections lifted.

People, jobs, food chain.

Oh, yes. People and jobs.

Wild salmon is a billion-dollar industry
in this country alone.

Once we destroy
the wild salmon population...

And that's what we're doing.
- That's a billion-dollar industry gone.

People, jobs, schoolbooks.

And we'll have to go back
to eating meat. People, cancer.

We'll just eat the farmed stuff.

There's nothing wrong
with synthetic food.

We live in a synthetic country,
for God's sake.

Whoa.

And on that note, I'll rest.

Donny Crane.

You should've seen Seymore's face.

- I think I'm about to get fired.
- You won't be fired.

What am I gonna do?
What can I possibly say in my closing?

I've got nothing.

Rabbit?

- I'm sorry?
- Pull a rabbit out from under your dress.

You know what Gerry Spence does
in these hopeless situations?

He just tells the jury a story.

- A story?
- Any story, as long as it's interesting.

He just entertains the jury.
He gets them right here.

And in that moment
when he has them right here...

...he connects the story to his case.

Sometimes barely.
Sometimes ridiculously.

And then he asks the jury
to let his client go.

And for God knows what reason,
they often do.

- A good story may be your rabbit.
CHRISTINE: Alan.

I'm sorry, Sally.
This is a little important.

I need your number.

You have my number, Christine.
I haven't changed it.

Alan, every lawsuit
eventually comes down to a number.

What's your number?

Seven hundred and fifty thousand.

And I'm the insane one.
Two hundred and fifty.

- Too low.
- It's more than fair.

- She got other employment.
- At less pay.

- The present-day value of 200...
- That offer is rejected, Christine.

I don't know if I'm up to closing.

I think I am, but I...

My client will only go up to 250.

Please.

That number won't get it done,
Christine.

ATTORNEY: A man with felony priors
for robbery and burglary...

...but this time
he stole the wallet "by mistake."

Sure.

One day I was in my kitchen,
I think I was about 15...

...and in came Fred,
my big chocolate Lab.

And in his mouth...

...was a dead rabbit.

The neighbor's pet rabbit.

And I thought, "This is it for Fred.

If they find out
he killed their adored pet...

...Animal Control
would be down and..."

So I took the rabbit...

...washed him off in the sink...

...pulled out the blow dryer,
got him all white and fluffy-looking...

...and I snuck over to my neighbor's
back yard and put him back in the cage...

...hoping they'd think
he died of natural causes.

That night my parents
came into my room.

The neighbor's pet rabbit had died
three days ago, they told me.

They buried him in the woods.

And some wacko
evidently dug him up...

...washed him off
and put him back in the cage.

But I remember thinking to myself:

"The truth is not only
stranger than fiction...

...but often less believable."

And that's what we have here,
ladies and gentlemen.

The logical version, I suppose,
is that my client stole that wallet.

The less believable,
but quite possibly true account...

...is that he mistook it for his own.

Nobody, not one of us, can be sure...

...it didn't happen exactly the way
Ramone Valasquez said it did.

That's reasonable doubt.

People like to stare
at their coffee a lot here.

- All set?
- Yep.

You like being a lawyer, Alan?

- I do, actually. You?
- Yeah.

Except for the days
when the job is ugly.

When you have to go against your
instincts to be kind or compassionate.

It's important that she not close well.

Some people simply cannot let go.

You love a person so desperately
you perhaps lose sight of reason.

And you begin to act unreasonably,
perhaps out of control even.

It's possible Daniel Ralston
had no control over his behavior.

Maybe he truly couldn't stop
pursuing Wendy Moore.

Maybe he had to keep calling.
Had to schedule those lunches.

Had to seemingly stalk her, if you will.
He was in love with her.

People in love lose their grip.

But what's at issue here
is her state of mind. Her mental state.

Not Mr. Ralston's state of mind,
but Wendy's.

Was she reasonably upset
by this relentless pursuit?

She's a married woman with a family
trying to salvage her marriage.

And her boss keeps calling,
keeps coming...

...keeps coming,
keeps propositioning her.

The fact that she once loved this man
only makes it worse, more difficult.

What choice did she really have
but to leave?

Maybe that was his plan all the time.
He knew he couldn't fire her.

Maybe that was his psychological game.

Where the only thing that she could
really do in the end was get in her car...

...and drive off.

He created
a hostile working environment...

...with repeated, unwelcomed
sexual advances, ladies and gentlemen.

That is prima facie
classic sexual harassment.

Love happens in the workplace
all the time.

In fact, it's where most affairs start.

Most relationships.

It happens. So do breakups.

As a woman, I am offended
by the onslaught of these lawsuits.

As neutral as the language may be,
sexual-harassment law is gender-biased.

It exists to protect women.

It feeds into the perception
that women are weaker than.

It goes all the way back
to common law...

...where women were denied the right
to enter contracts...

...because we lacked mental capacity.

Today's harassment law
is designed to protect us...

...from sexual banter in the workplace
because we just can't take it.

I can take it.

Can you? Can you?

Do we really need to cleanse
the workplace of all sexual expression...

...so it'll be safe for us?

These laws treat us as if we were either
psychologically or emotionally impaired.

And I'm sick of it.

Are some cases legitimate?
Absolutely.

But here, this woman is a grownup.

She entered into an adult,
consensual relationship with her boss.

It ended. Perhaps bumpy.

He's hurt, he's still in love,
so she sues.

She wasn't fired.

She is a college-educated vice president
of a brokerage firm.

She's 34 years old.
She's a professional.

She's here today to tell you
that she can't stick up for herself.

She is here today
trying to take advantage of a law...

...that declares women
to be the weaker sex.

Not for me, ladies and gentlemen.

I wouldn't have gotten in my car
and driven off.

I'd have sooner driven over him.

Let's treat these people,
both of them...

...as if they were grownups.

My own quick research reveals
wild salmon, especially Atlantic salmon...

...are threatened with extinction.
They're an endangered species.

Which means environmental protections
on that river have to stay in place.

They're not endangered
if you count the farmed salmon.

I'm not counting the farmed salmon.
And the idea to count them is absurd.

That river stays protected.
Your variance is officially pulled.

A permanent restraining order
is now in effect.

I keep telling you, you talk too fast.
You talk too damn fast.

"America first.
We're a synthetic country."

- What is wrong with you?
- The best man won in there.

You know, Dad, I've never really
had a big trial to speak of.

This is the...

For the last 10 years or so...

...I've pretended to be you.

Through college, law school and...

I always felt like
whenever I'd go into a courtroom...

...I would kind of channel you
or something.

But this is the first time
I actually felt it.

I was Donny Crane.

Yes, you were.

Yes, you were.

WOMAN: In the matter of Moore v.
Ralston, on the question of liability...

...we find in favor of the plaintiff.

We further order the defendant
to pay damages...

...in the amount of $ 125,000.

Damn it.

JUDGE:
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury...

...thank you for your time.
You are discharged.

[GAVEL BANGS]

- I'm sorry.
- I got my verdict anyway.

- Thank you.
- You're welcome.

- Thank you.
- You're welcome.

Great, thanks.

Congratulations, Christine.
You tried an excellent case.

Thank you.

Alan.

I can and do accept that it's over.

The thing is,
while I was institutionalized...

...the only person who wrote to me,
who came to visit me...

...who called me...

...was you.

My world became
quite two-dimensional.

There was the hospital and you.

And when I was suddenly faced
with having to walk away...

...from both the hospital and you,
it was more than I could...

But I am going to make it.

I have no doubt.

You tried an excellent case.

We should eat at that wonderful
Indian place sometime.

I'd like that.

You don't think she'll
go Glenn Close on you?

No.

Out of compulsive curiosity, I always
befriend my most colorful ex-girlfriends.

Beautiful woman, Glenn Close.

Always meant to have sex with her.

Well, I went with the rabbit.

Of what variety?

I told an urban-legend story
for my closing. Involved a rabbit.

- Got the jury right here.
- And?

They came back in 32 minutes.
Not guilty.

- You're kidding?
- I thought we could celebrate.

Like rabbits.

- Your hutch or mine?
- Nine o'clock, my hutch, be there.

Sally Heep.

Well, it seems we're all winners
today. In court, in love...

You didn't win in court today.

- Remember? Your side lost.
- Oh, that's right.

He was really something.
You should've seen him.

May I ask, how does a man
not see his son in 15 years?

Don't start with me.

I'm being curious, not judgmental.

Is that who Denny Crane is?

[SIGHS]

He's not my son.

What do you mean,
he's not your son?

His mother slapped me
with a paternity suit. I settled.

She came back about 10 years later
with a guilty conscience...

...and admitted that I wasn't the father.
Just deep pockets.

But I liked the kid.

So I kept paying for his education
and so forth.

Obviously he doesn't know.

His mother said
it would break his heart.

He so liked being the son
of Denny Crane.

Who wouldn't?

DONNY:
You're not my father?

I'm not your son?

I'm not your son.

Not by blood.

Then how? You didn't raise me.

Who's my father?

You'll have to discuss that
with your mother.

- It's all been a lie.
- Hey.

What wasn't a lie
was your performance in that courtroom.

You're a hell of a lawyer.

You did channel me.

I gotta go.

Sir...

...is it okay if I keep the name?

Of course.

Donny Crane.

NARRATOR:
Next on Boston Legal:

I shot a cop.
Ain't no doubt I'm going to prison.

I don't ever like to make predictions,
but I think we can get you off.

- I'd like to discharge counsel.
- Denied.

If you're unhappy with me...

The judge isn't gonna let me hire
anybody else. You're all I got, lady.

- Do you care about me, Alan?
- I care a great deal for you.

You are such a liar.

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