Harry's Law (2011–2012): Season 2, Episode 18 - Breaking Points - full transcript

Okay.

Well, well, well, decided
to jump ship after all?

I came because you said
you had an emergency of sorts.

Oh, right, I lied
about that, sorry.

I do have another case though.

A little over my head.
Could use some back up.

What kind of case?

Phoebe?

Is there a bathroom?

Yep, right straight
through there.

Oh, this is Adam Branch,
by the way.



He'll be joining us.

Oh, okay, hi.

Why does she look familiar?

Uh, she was on that
reality show, It Takes Two,

the one that shoots
here in Cincy.

She's the one whose
husband took his life.

She's now being sued
by the husband's family,

whose trial is about to start.

She hired you?

People do hire me.

No, I just meant, it's a pretty
high profile case for a solo.

Well, she had another
lawyer defending her

but now she
suddenly lost faith.

Evidently,
he wants her to settle.



I'm meeting him after lunch.

Join me? If I take this over,
I'm going to need help.

Excuse me, excuse me!

I was wondering if
you could help me.

No, I don't know
anything about the shoes.

You talk to the skinny people.

No, actually,
I may need a lawyer.

I think the police
might be after me.

See, I sort of ran away.

From what?

The jury I was serving on.

We were sequestered for two
months during the trial,

and we'd been
deliberating for over...

Oh, don't tell me anything
about deliberations.

Oh, okay.
Sorry.

Uh, but it got to
the point where

I just couldn't
take it anymore.

Oh, did you tell the judge?

Yeah, I sent a note out,
but all the alternates

had been used up at that time,

so he said I had
to stick it out.

But I couldn't.
I just couldn't.

So, a few days ago...

A few days ago?
Yes...

Hey, free for lunch later?

Uh, it's starting to be
a busy day, Tommy.

Got it.

So, a few days ago, I snuck out
of the hotel and I left.

Oy. Who's the judge?

Uh, Judge Lester Babcock.

Babcock.
Never heard of him.

He's that guy when he gets
upset, he stands and he paces.

Haven't they come
looking for you?

I don't know.
I've been hiding

in my cousin's basement.

Brianna, I'll level with you,
I've never even heard

of anybody doing what you did,

but my gut tells me

you're in a lot of trouble.

Thought I recognized her.

This case is all over the news.

She's the Runaway Juror.

My advice would be

to turn yourself in immediately.

No. Uh-uh.
I can't.

I can't go back there.

Brianna, you have to.

Alone?

You want me to go back there
without a lawyer?

I got it.

Can we get rid of that thing?

I turned it off.

Oh, no, you didn't.

Pick up your iPad, Cassie.

Pick up you iPad now,

and look at me!

Shh!

God, I love Skype.

Let me talk to Ollie.

Hey, Harry, how's it going?

New rule: All conjugal visits
end by 8 a.m.

so you're in here by 9:00.

Cassie?

I need you to do
some research for me

on criminal liability
for skipping out on a jury.

Hey, Cassie.

I think they just threw me

in the corner. Hello?

Hello?

Were they naked?

You do not want a trial.

If the alternative
is I plead guilty...

Tina, I never said that you
should plead guilty.

Yes, you did.
That's a criminal term.

You haven't been
charged with a crime.

I keep telling you

wrongful death
is a civil action.

What I said, simply,

is that you should settle.

Which means admit
that it's my fault

that my husband killed himself.

If you go to trial you could

easily be slapped
with a million dollar judgment.

You will lose
everything you have.

Hold on a second.
As far as assets,

what are we talking about?
You own a house?

Yes. Me and Eliot had a house

and I have a little over
a million dollars in the bank.

A million d...
you have a million dollars?

Well, I get $70,000 an episode.

Eliot got 62-five,
it's all community property.

So between you, you were
making over $130,000

an episode on this stupid show?

Thanks for the compliment.

But, yeah.

Which is why
I strongly maintain

you should settle.

You will not make for
a sympathetic defender.

This...

is why I want to replace him.

Do you know what this case
was about, Ms. Korn?

Yes, Your Honor,
it was a murder trial and...

It was about more
than just a murder!

I stand corrected.

It was about extra
sheriff's deputies,

housing out of town
expert witnesses.

It was about

the costs of sequestration.

Room, board, transportation.

Laundry!

It was about

six months of investigation.

Three months of
pre-trial proceedings.

Two months of trial.

It was about $4 million.

And that's exclusive

of the personal costs.

You seem upset.

Oh, do I?

This trial was
a wrenching ordeal!

We have testimony from victims

who were beaten,

raped...

their son was murdered.

It was enormously

stressful for those witnesses
to come forward,

but they did.

The money, the time...

the huge emotional hardships

on everyone connected
with this case,

and now we have to go through it
all over again,

and it is all her fault!

Judge...

I reviewed this file
and it, um,

it looks like you were headed

for a hung jury.

That is not true!

It was ten to two to convict

when she took off.

Maybe in another day or two

she would've come to her senses
and we wouldn't have...

All you proved was that
Lee Michaels was a bad guy.

You didn't prove...
I don't want

to hear one word out of you!

Don't yell at our client!

If you don't feel like it.

Your client...

belongs in jail.

She's a criminal.

It is my intent
to put her there.

She's in contempt.

Take her away.

Actually, Judge,
if you're gonna hold

our client in contempt,
she'd like

her day in court.

What?

Due process.

She'd like to be heard
on the contempt charge.

She wants a contempt trial,
is that what you're telling me?

Well, she certainly doesn't
want to be locked up.

Fine.

You want a trial?

We'll give her a trial.

We'll get killed.

No, we won't.

Phoebe, I wasn't up to speed
before on this show,

I am now,

Tina makes that Snooki
seem like a choir girl.

That's just how the show
presents her.

But it's how the jury
will perceive her.

Until we change that.

Do you realize how much
media's gonna be in that room?

Which we're not
afraid of, right?

Phoebe, we're pretty good,
but we're kids.

Look, there are a few victims
in this story.

Our job will be to make
the jury see

that Tina is one of them.

Have you seen this file?
It won't be easy.

Which is why
I asked for back up.

Are you in or out?

In.

My brother would've never,
ever wanted

to go on that program,

or any reality show
for that matter.

Well, why did he
agree to do it then?

Because she influenced him to.

She made him do it
because she has this

need to draw
attention to herself.

A reality show
was not his style.

Okay, but he did go on one.

Yes, he did, after which

he was the object
of public ridicule,

often at her hand.

She belittled him

on national TV.

Humiliated him,
emasculated him...

it was abusive.

Eliot is not what
we would call a lover.

If I was looking

for a man to make
all my fantasies come true,

Eliot...

I'm sorry.

No, I shouldn't.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.

You could play a hundred
different versions

of that scene.

She was unrelenting.

Finally he just couldn't
take it anymore.

Why do you think
Eliot married Tina?

Any idea?

Well...

I think that he was
a bit spellbound,

to be honest.

Do you think he loved her?

Yeah, I think he did.

Which made his pain
so much more.

To hear the things
that she would say about him,

on television, no less.

Did your brother ever get
psychological treatment?

Yes.

Do you know what for?

He had some esteem issues.

He was kind of a fragile guy.

Which was another reason

she shouldn't have abused him.

She knew about
his psychological deficits.

Did you?

I imagine his family
had some sense

of his psychological deficits.

Did you ever try

to stop him from going
on the show.

I wish that we had.

I wish that we had.

How'd you get this case?

I told you.
It's Phoebe's.

Well, why would she call you
instead of me?

I am a reality show.

Yeah, maybe you're
too on the nose.

It figures to last two
or three days, tops.

Adam, you sure you want
to do this?

You could walking
into a firestorm.

Give it to me,
I'm good with firestorms.

You're in trial with me,
remember?

Yeah, I'd rather have his.

Well, you don't get it.

What'd you find out?

Not much.

Not a whole lot of precedents
with runaway jurors.

End of the day, you're gonna be

at the mercy of the judge.

That's what worries me.

This judge's cup doesn't seem
to runneth over with mercy.

You contact the shrink?

There's nothing wrong with me.

For our expert testimony?

Oh, yeah, we're all set there.

His case should have come to me.

Tommy.

I never should have
married you!

You ruined my life!

This is me stepping on you,

'cause you're a bug, you're
a (bleep) smashed bug

under my shoe,
that's what you are.

You married

these.

This is what you married.

You said "I do" and "I
do" to two (bleep)s,

and I am more than just
two (bleep)s, Eliot!

All this gets admitted next

and then a lot more
of the same.

You have to understand,
they kept all the lowlights.

There were highlights, too...

not as many of them, but they
made me look worse than I am.

Whenever Eliot and I were
being nice to each other,

they would stop rolling.

Look, we have a defense,

but our first line
is your testimony.

If the jury is to see you
in a different light,

it starts with you
on the stand,

which is why,
over the next six hours,

the three of us are going to
spend a little quality time.

You forget how much
you take for granted...

all the little things...
being able to go outside,

make a phone call,
watch TV, read the paper,

see other people.
I couldn't see

my friends, my family,
my boyfriend, nobody.

It was all just starting
to wear on me, I guess.

And could you tell us
about the events

leading up to your running away?

Okay.

From the start it was clear
that there were

eight votes for guilty
and four for not guilty.

I was one
of the not guilty votes,

and then two

of the not guilties caved in, so
then there were just two of us

left holding out.

So we'd be in there
and we'd talk

and we'd take a vote,

and then they would
just start in on us.

So you ran?

Not yet,

but at one point

someone...
I don't know who... said,

"No one is going to hurt you,"

and that really got to me,

you know, the fact that
hurting me was even mentioned.

So you ran?

Not yet,

but my anxiety
was getting worse

with all the pressure
that they were...

Oh, God.

At one point I,
I thought about suicide.

And then what happened?

A couple of hours later
they came to get me

and they brought me
to the courthouse to see him...

you... in chambers...

and he...

well, you told me
about all the time

and the money
that had gone into the trial

and how there weren't
any alternates left

and how it would be
a shame to have come

this far and to go home
without a verdict,

and I just started to feel
sick because I could see

what was happening.

And I told him...

"I really think I'm going to die
if you don't let me go."

And you said...

to take some deep breaths
and to relax.

And I could just see

he wasn't taking me seriously,

that they cared more about
their trial than they did

about my life.

And then?

I ran.

And you can see how you caused

a great deal of hardship
by running away.

I have never run away
from anything.

I am a fighter,

but my life was falling apart,
I had hit my breaking point.

I am... sorry, I am so sorry,

Your Honor, but...

...but I had to go.

Can't we all just wait to hear

what the lovely reality TV whore
"Tina" has to say?

I'm sure she'll play the victim,

all the while loving
the attention...

the news trucks parked
outside the courthouse,

the lights, the microphones,
blah, blah, blah.

Press treating you okay?

What were you thinking,
taking this dog?

That's a very good question.

If I were the Ohio prosecutor,
I would file murder charges

and haul in...

I got to go.

I'm late.
...those producers and charge

them with aiding and abetting.

Let's lock 'em all up

and let them rot.

I got to go.

Eliot never once expressed
not wanting to do the show,

at least not initially.

Well, according to his sister,
he told her that.

Look, we both discussed
the pros and the cons.

The negative
was being exploited.

The positive was the money.

We needed the money.

And, yes, the attention...

the idea of being TV stars...
was very attractive.

Did he want that
as much as you?

Probably not.

But did I ever pressure
or browbeat him?

No.

Well, in those clips

you did seem quite aggressive.

They shoot hundreds
and hundreds of hours.

They don't use most of it,

but when we would argue,
obviously that makes it in.

They want the drama, plus...

Plus what?

Well... we all play it up a bit.

We know what
they're looking for.

We know why they've chosen us
to be on the show.

Is it faked when we argue?
No.

But do we embellish

and exaggerate
our feelings? Yes.

If we don't make an impression,
we get cut from the cast.

Tina, I'm gonna be honest.

You did seem like a bit
of a monster.

I realize that.

Did you have any sense that
he might cause harm to himself?

Oh, God, no.

I admit, Eliot would keep
things bottled up inside,

but there was,
like, never any sign

that he would slit his wrists.

And you said that initially

he didn't resist
going on the show.

Did he resist at some point?

Yes, after the first season

he said we should think
about leaving.

It was putting a lot of pressure
on our marriage

and on us individually,
but we both decided

that we'd made it
through the first season

with almost no money.

Why would we leave now, when we
were just starting to get paid?

You convinced Eliot to stay,
isn't that right?

We both agreed to stay on,

and they probably
would have kept me anyway

'cause I was
the most popular character.

Because you were the bitch,
the one everyone loved to hate.

That seemed to be true then

and it seems so now, Mr. Choi.

And being the bitch meant
verbally abusing

your husband in front
of a national audience?

Eliot and I could get
into it on our own,

but, yes, as I said,

I would ratchet things up
for the cameras.

And you had an affair
with another man

on camera.

It was not an affair.

I kissed a man
while I was inebriated.

Tina,

you're married.

Not tonight I'm not.
Oh.

Wow.

I was very drunk

in that situation.

I know that's not an excuse.

Were you drunk here, too?

Yes.

I'm trailer trash.

I'm not proud of it.

I drank too much

and I did things I regret.

One of the reasons
why I drank a lot

is because the producers
kept putting us

in situations with alcohol.

They want us

to drink a lot
'cause it makes for better TV.

So it's the producers' fault.

They made you kiss
another man, they made you

dance naked on the bar.

I didn't say that.
They made you call Eliot a smashed bug.

I didn't say that!

You didn't call your husband

a smashed bug?

I didn't say

that the producers made me do

all that.

No, they just gave you
alcohol...

and that was enough.

The inner you came out.

At first I liked Brianna,
I really did,

but when we started
deliberating...

She claims you all were
furious with her.

We were.

She held us up.

We all wanted to go home,

we all wanted to see
our families, only we couldn't

because of her
and the other holdout.

Well, maybe she didn't
think that he was guilty.

Because she was out of her mind.

I'm sorry,

I will not feel sorry
for that woman.

She caused a lot of people
a lot of stress.

Did you all pressure her?

Yes, to see reason,

but she wouldn't.

Truth be told, I think
she wanted to punish us.

Why would she do that?
We all thought

she complained too much
and some of us told her,

so I think, to pay us back,

she decided
to just be obstinate

and make everyone suffer,

and she got her wish because,
in the end, we all hated

being there as much as she did.

Did the other jurors
become hostile to her?

Maybe some,
but she had it coming.

Look what she's done...
everybody loses.

Mrs. Flick, can we talk
about some of the conditions

during your sequestration?

They were horrible, but they
were horrible for all of us.

She was the only one
who took off.

That didn't go well.

Hey, listen, you did
all you could with her.

So...

now what happens?

Well, uh, we'll put
your doctor on the stand.

You ready with him?

Will be.

Is it really fair that this
judge is the decider on this?

I mean, he's got
an ax to grind.

Can he really be objective?

Probably not, but he's
the judge we got, Brianna.

I'm really looking
at prison time, aren't I?

So are you saying we're beat?

We still have some
witnesses to call,

but, yes, I'm smelling
a big disaster here.

This jury could be
thinking, "At last,

someone finally gets
to give it to Tina."

If we can still get out
for $500,000...

No. I was the best thing
that ever happened to Eliot.

He told me so.

His life became
exciting because of me,

and he was the best thing
that ever happened to me!

I loved him, and he's...

I will not be blamed
for his committing suicide.

It isn't fair.

You might lose your house.

I don't care.

I started with nothing,
and I'll go back to that.

But I will not be labeled
as the person who...

Let's just keep going.

Come on, Ollie. You don't share
with your old friend Tommy?

You and Cassie.

She's a dynamo, isn't she?

Yeah, she's got that look.

What look, Tommy?

Huh?

Oh, Ollie and I were just...

chewing the fat.

Right, Ollie?
Yeah.

Tommy wants to know
how you are in the sack.

Tommy.

You really need to ask?

You know I'm good.

The question isn't whether
it's good for Ollie.

The real issue is...

is it good for me?

Is it?

It's always very good
for me, Tommy.

North, south, east, west.

It's always, always
good for me.

Oh.

You coming, Tommy?

No!

Oh. Yes.

Careful.

Ooh.

Inquiring minds.

Got it.

Doctor, how well do you know
Brianna Marsh?

Pretty well.

She's been my client
for seven years.

Without giving up too much
privileged information,

she suffers from anxiety.

She's prone to panic attacks,
as well as bouts of depression.

Was she going through
any of that here?

She was going though all of it.

And on top of that,
she was suffering

from what some experts call

"sequestered juror syndrome."

What? What the
hell is that?

Well, the symptoms
include depression,

restlessness, anxiety, despair,

reduction of self-esteem,
and actual cognitive impairment.

And what causes it?

Oh, it's complicated, but mainly

sense of isolation.

Some experts

have likened it
to people who have lived

in Antarctica
for extended periods,

and go into a mild fugue state

called the "Antarctic Stare."

Oh, please.

You're comparing jury
duty to Antarctica?

Jury duty could be worse, Judge.

Researchers living and working
in Antarctica

undergo intense
psychological pre-screening,

and they still crack.

Jurors undergo
no such screening.

We just pluck 'em
off the street.

And often,
we pluck the weak ones,

because both sides are looking

for people
who they can manipulate.

What a load of crap.

Doctor,

you saw my client

after she came out
of sequestration?

Yes, and I can tell you,
she was not herself.

She was often incoherent,

her reasoning skills were
significantly eroded.

Her executive functioning
was compromised.

She was a mess.

Why is it she was the only one
in this jury

to suffer this
jury sequestration syndrome?

She probably wasn't.

She was just the only one
who ran.

Perhaps because, unlike
the others, she was bullied.

Were you in the room?
No.

I only know Brianna's account,
which I believe.

You seem like a
very capable doctor.

In the course of your practice,

have you ever had a patient

that had a loved one
that was murdered?

Yes.
One that was forced

to endure a trial
of the accused?

Yes.

What's that like,
from your medical perspective?

It's vile.

These people...

The suspect in this case
broke into their home,

beat this man,
raped this woman,

and then murdered their son.

They sat in this
courtroom for two months.

Do we have

a syndrome to attribute to
their experience, Doctor?

No.

And because of that woman,

they'll be to go through the
whole thing all over again.

What do you say to them, Doctor?

"Buck up"?

"Stiff upper lip"?

I was a producer on the
first season of It Takes Two,

and I left halfway
through the second.

And, Mr. Hessly, to get an idea
how these reality shows work,

first, how do you get the people
you get to be in them?

Well, we have an open
casting call,

and they come in droves.

And what are you looking for?

We're looking for
colorful people.

Train wrecks.

Okay.

Tina and Eliot...
what did you see in them?

We saw in them
a dynamic that, um...

Well, she was a little
over the top.

Your casting note said,
"loud and trashy."

He was repressed.

Opposites of sorts.

It makes for good conflict.

Tina mentioned
that the producers would also

manufacture conflict if need be.

It may have happened.

Mind telling us how?

It's called
"poking the bear."

We basically solicit

a provocative comment
from one cast member,

play it for the other,
and suddenly, we have a fight.

And those fights we see on TV...
they're real?

Real with the occasional use
of frankenbiting.

Frankenbiting?

It's an editing technique.
We take various pieces

of audio and visual, we build
the scene we want to build.

Kind of like Frankenstein
building his monster.

Eliot is not
what we would call a lover.

Eliot is smart,

and he takes care of me.

Like, this one time
at Halloween, I was dressed

as a nun, and Eliot...

I'm sorry.

No, I shouldn't.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.

Okay, the point is,
is that Eliot takes care of me.

And if I had it to do
all over again,

if I was looking for a man

to make all my fantasies
come true,

it's Eliot.

It's really Eliot.

Sound familiar?

We saw this clip earlier,

only it played like this.

Eliot is not what
we would call a lover.

If I was looking for a man

to make all my fantasies
come true, Elliot...

I'm sorry.

No, I shouldn't.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

And there you have
frankenbiting.

Do you create a character
out of whole-cloth?

Absolutely not.
We highlight.

Inventing a character
wouldn't be sustainable.

It wouldn't last over
the course of a season.

So, the Tina
we saw on television...

That's essentially her
with a nudge from us.

A nudge?
For instance,

we have footage of Tina
spanking a male stripper

in the rear with her bra.

That's not invented.
That's who she is.

Now, look, it's my job
to take a five scene,

turn it into ten.

I add some music,
some reaction shots.

But essentially,
what you see is who they are.

Just combine that with
the fact they know

what we want,
and they give it to us.

Now, the availability
of alcohol.

Do you insist
that the participants drink?

If they drink,
it's because they want to.

We talked about Tina.

What about Eliot?

Eliot was a reluctant astronaut.

I'm sorry?

He was only in it
because Tina wanted him to be.

We all hear the complaint.

I mean, how can juries seem
so out of touch?

O.J., Casey Anthony.

Are they seeing the
same case we're seeing?

Well, maybe they are, but

through a skewed prism.

These people are shut away

from their family and friends.

They're pressured and bullied

by each other in an extremely
confined environment.

One of reasons that we don't
trust confessions is because

people are cooped up
and psychologically worn down

to the point
where they'll say anything.

Well,

that's our jury system.

The scientists who have studied
sequestration have said that

it breeds a kind of insanity.

Jury of our peers?

It's more like
jury of our whacked-out peers.

People crack.

Brianna cracked.

She had emotional and

psychological deficits
to begin with.

Anxiety, panic attacks.

She was prone to depression.

Then she's isolated from
her family and her routines,

her support systems.

She's bullied and battered.

No wonder she went nuts.

And now, you want to punish her

and hold her in contempt,

and throw her in isolation

where she'll be subjected
to rude treatment,

crappy food and no privileges.

She just went through
two months of that.

That's why she cracked.

So, when the going gets tough,

we should just let
the jury get going?

Is that the answer?

What she did was
unconscionable.

You said it yourself, Judge.

So many people

gave of themselves for so long,

to finally get justice
in a murder trial,

And Brianna Marsh threw
it all out the window.

The financial cost...
over four million.

The emotional cost...

immeasurable.

Because she

couldn't take the pressure.
She was stressed.

Oh, come on. She was borderline
suicidal, for God's sake.

You had your say!

Yeah, well, have yours, but
please do not trivialize this,

and do not misconstrue
what I've said.

This was an extreme situation.

Yes, it was, especially
for that family!

- All right.
- Your Honor,

do we even bother

to warn prospective jurors about
the pressures that they face?

I mean, do they have
the slightest idea

what they're getting themselves
into?

She had two months to get out
if she couldn't hack it!

All right.

I've heard enough
from each of you.

Thank you, Your Honor.

No.

I'll talk now.
Everybody sit down.

Ms. Korn,
you are no doubt correct

to question the validity
of our jury system.

It seems that only
when we get people

mentally compromised enough
do we say, "What say you?"

They probably
should be prescreened

or profiled to see if they're
even up to the wear and tear

of prolonged sequestration...
but we don't have

the resources for that.

There is a lot wrong
with the jury system,

but it is our system,
like it or not.

And the answer can never be
for a juror to flee.

Mr. Odom is right...
she could have got out;

we had alternates.

But once those alternates
were all taken up

and we were in deliberations,

she had a civic duty
to stick it out.

She didn't.

I find her decision

to run was voluntary,
and she will be held

in contempt.

And... I shall ask
the D.A.'s office to file

obstruction of justice
charges forthwith.

We are adjourned.

I think the best plan

would be to let the
judge's wrath cool down.

You could be out from the
contempt thing this week.

As for obstruction of justice,
we again make the argument

that your actions weren't
entirely voluntary.

We're not done.

Don't despair.

We're not done.

Probably done.

Tommy!

I-I'm just saying.

It was unrelenting.

And it was
on national television.

Of course she had
to have contributed

to Eliot Stanhope's suicide.

Who could stand up
to that degree of...

humiliation?

When we get married,
we take a vow.

Those vows may use
varying language

and different phrases,

but at the core is always
a promise to love, protect,

cherish, defend.

Tina Stanhope took those vows
and did the opposite.

She used Eliot Stanhope.

She willfully manipulated him
into a situation

rife with risk to his
emotional state and reputation,

and exposed him
to crushing ridicule,

all for her own vanity.

She may not have slit his wrists
with that razor blade,

but she incited the tragedy
just the same.

Her behavior simply
shocks the conscience.

I certainly hope
it shocked yours.

I have to admit,

from the footage I saw,

Tina didn't seem like
a very nice person.

But I think we're all
smart enough to appreciate

she was cast, filmed and edited
to be the bitch

that America would love to hate.

She was part
of a television show.

She played her role.

Eliot played his.

And just like she did,
he signed up for all of it.

He signed a contract
allowing the producers

to portray in the best
interest of the series.

They did so.

For that, he was paid
more than $60,000 an episode.

This is reality
television, folks.

The one thing that
all of them have in common

is they exploit the contestants
for our entertainment pleasure.

And we are entertained,
aren't we?

After all,

we watch, we devour it.

The greater the humiliation,
the happier we are as viewers.

All the producers need find
is a few sacrificial lambs

willing to make fools
of themselves.

They found one in Tina.

They found one in Eliot.

This one... had a tragic ending.

But it isn't
the first time, is it?

Julien Hug, The Bachelorette,
suicide victim.

Joe Cerniglia,
Kitchen Nightmares,

suicide victim.

Russell Armstrong, Real
Housewives of Beverly Hills,

suicide victim.

Najai Turpin, The Contender,

suicide victim.

Wesley Durden, Next Great Baker,

suicide victim.

James Scott Terrill,
Supernanny,

suicide victim.

Nathan Clutter,
Paradise Hotel 2,

suicide victim.

Rachel Brown, Hell's Kitchen,

suicide victim.

Eliot Stanhope, It Takes Two,

suicide victim.

The list goes on and on.

And will, because we watch.

We love it.

We want them to recruit
psychological train wrecks

like Tina and Eliot.

They entertain us.

It makes us happy
to watch them self-destruct.

It would be nice

to lay this all on Tina,
wouldn't it?

Sure is more fun than taking
responsibility ourselves.

Yeah, let's go
with "Tina's fault."

Sounds good to me.

They lost.

What do you mean?
Harry and Tommy, they lost.

We should clear out of here
before she gets back.

She's not a whole lot
of fun when she loses.

Not much fun when she wins,
for that matter.

What do you mean?
Harry's fun.

We talking about the same Harry?

What's wrong with your eyes?

How we doing, Cassie?

I hate Skype!

Sorry about that.

Okay, Madam Forewoman,
you have reached

your verdict by a preponderance
of the evidence?

We have, Your Honor.

Is that a good
thing, "preponderance"?

What say you, then?

On the count of wrongful death,

we find in favor...

of the defendant.

On the count of intentional
infliction of emotional distress,

we find in favor

of the defendant.
On the count

of negligent infliction
of emotional distress,

we find in favor
of the plaintiff,

and we order the defendant
to pay damages

in the amount of $120,000.

I lost?

No, you won on the main counts.

This is good, Tina, very good.

What is up with Ohio?

I can tell you,
the state is spelled "Hi,"

bookend by two big zeroes

representing the people
who live there.

I would have fed that Tina

right into the wood chipper.

Tell you what, "Ohio"...

Why does she put
everything in quotes?

Doesn't make any sense.

If they want to get high,
get high on that.

People are not happy.

It seems not.

Thank, Adam.

That was an awesome closing.

Every think you should be doing

a little more of
that, maybe less

organizing secretarial pools?

I'm not leaving, Phoebe.

I like where I am.

Can't blame me for trying.

I got another idea.

You come work with us.

I don't think so.

Why not?

You seem to like
everybody there.

They all like you.

We get great cases.

I like doing my own thing.

Fine, come do it with us.

You need community

in your life.

I'll keep Ollie from trying
to hump you from behind.

No promises on Lisa, but...

Come join us.

Think about it.

When you think about things,
which, as you know,

I don't like to do.

We've basically got a
system that breaks down

the individual's
powers of reasoning

for the purpose of reaching
a reasonable verdict.

That's one way of looking at it.

What's the other?

Well, if you're trying
to decide

whether somebody broke
a given law,

you could ask
a judge to decide,

somebody who's trained
in the law,

or you could turn
the matter over to 12 lunkheads

who never finished high school

and get their legal
interpretation.

God, look at the two of them.

Ten bucks says he
tries to kiss her.

You're on.

She's way too much for him.

Doesn't matter;
give him enough time,

he'll try to kiss her.

I know my people.

Speaking of which, Tommy,

isn't it time you become
one of my people?

What are you talking about?

Well, we practice law together.

You visit our staff meetings.

We jump in on your cases,
you jump in on ours.

I mean, I'm saying
if it looks like a duck

and quacks like a duck,
should you become

one of my ducks?

Isn't it time our firms
just merge?

Oh, hell.

All I ever really wanted...

really, to, uh,

be part of a family.

You know?

I need another drink.

To quack for a team.