The Good Fight (2017–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - Henceforth Known as Property - full transcript

Try a water bath canner.

I'm sorry?

For low acid foods. It's
better than a regular pot.

Trust me.

No, that's crazy.

Just reduce the sugar content.

Maia, we have a fertility case.

Family law. Important client.

Okay, good.

You okay?

Yeah. Just weird conversation
in the elevator.



Um, what do you need?
All precedences

on fertility clinic
reversion clauses.

Good. I'm on it.

And tell me if you're
getting some bad-mouthing.

If I'm getting...?
Well, people say things.

You know, sometimes
people don't know better.

What, is someone
saying something?

No. I mean, no more
than what you said.

What did I say?

Lucca.

It's not your
Twitter feed, is it?

What?

It's not your Twitter feed.

I feel like
I'm missing something here.



"It's hard to get
excited about work

when people call you lesbo
behind your back."

My God. What?

Yeah, it's your name.
See? Maia Rindell.

And you talk about your parents
and your dad going to jail...

But I...

That's not me.

Well, then I'd talk to someone,

because, I mean, look.

"I love canning peaches best.

Anyone know why they stick
to the side?"

What on earth? Yeah, you're
really into canning fruit.

I don't know why.

Who's doing this?

My God.

Yeah, you get pretty explicit.

"When I go down on my girlf..."

My God.

Yeah. You have a
lot of fans, too.

Who's doing this?

I don't know. Do you
have any enemies?

It's the scandal.

It's my parents' scandal.

What do I do?

Tweet back to her. What?

Yeah, see if she says anything.

Maybe you can find
out who she is.

Here, use my account.

"I'm gay and like canning, too.

We should meet up."

I want my eggs back.

Okay.

And who has them?

The Lake Drive Fertility Clinic.

Laura, this is
our newest partner,

Diane Lockhart.

Diane, this is Laura Salano,

one of our oldest clients.

"Oldest"? My God,
there's got to be

a better word than that.
First clients, sorry.

First and best.

Better.

So when I first moved here,

I needed money, remember?

And some Highland Park
couple gave me

$20,000 for my eggs.

We drew up that contract, right?
Yes.

And I remember you said
there was some boilerplate

in there about
a reversion clause.

If they didn't use the eggs
in a few years, um...

"If the intended parents'

"desire to gestate
the resulting embryos

"to term is not completed
within five years, then all ova,

henceforth known as 'property'
will revert back to donor."

Good, exactly.

So it's been eight years;
They're mine, right?

Yes, according to the contract.

We just need to notify them.

I'll get on it today.

Are you planning to implant?

I want a child.

After last March,
after this-this scare,

I... didn't think
I'd get to this moment.

And you're well now? Yes.

Um, ovarian cancer.

But I have a clean
bill of health,

and I just can't get pregnant.

So these eggs,
they're my only chance.

It's just weird how
your priorities change.

I'm sorry, I sound like
a tampon commercial right now.

Well, let me see what I can do.

Thanks, Diane.

So you're expanding?

Girl...

Explain.

Who was that?

That man?

I don't know.
Want me to find out?

Yes.

No, wait.

Don't go into
Mr. Boseman's office.

You all right?

Yeah, sorry.

All right.

Mike Kresteva.

You sure? I can go back.

No, no.

What is he doing here?

I don't know. I can ask.

No, Marissa, wait.

No... Okay.

Tell Adrian I need
to talk to him.

Can't seem to get him...

Diane needs a word with you.

Now?

Excuse me.

What's wrong?

Mike Kresteva.

What's he doing here?

I don't know. We hadn't
gotten that far yet.

You know him?

One of the partners at my firm,
Alicia Florrick, knew him.

He made her life hell.

Okay.

Is there some specific
reason you needed to

interrupt the meeting?
Be careful, Adrian.

Seriously. He's not
straight-forward.

Okay.

Thank you, thank you, Diane.

But... I can handle myself.

Want me to do something?

Yes, get Lake Drive
Fertility Clinic on the line.

So what can I do
for you, Mr. Kresteva?

Well, I was just made
Special Counsel in charge

of the Department of Justice
Police Accountability

in the 21st Century Task Force.

That's a mouthful.

Yeah, it is.

And I even left out
the word "Chicago."

have been asked
for recommendations

on how to curb
police brutality in Chicago.

Well, you could start by
putting brutal cops in jail.

Now, why didn't I think of that?

Nothing yet?

Not yet.

Should we write again?

No, we'll sound desperate.

We already suggested we meet.

Whoa.

What?

She tweeted back.

What?!

What are you gonna say?

I'll send a photo. What, of you?

No, I have a photo stream.

No one sends photos of themselves.

Here's one.

Ask her to send a photo back.

What's the investigator's name?

Jay DiPersia.
Want me to get him?

Yes, and Lucca, too.

What... Marissa?

You got something.

That was fast..

Wow, you sent an attachment too.

You're a saucy wench.

What?

That's me.

Really?
Do you know who took them?

Diane Lockhart.

Mike Kresteva.

Well, this feels like old times.

And what line
are you selling today, Mike?

Why is everybody
so suspicious of me?

I just walked into your office,
I haven't even said anything.

So say something.

Okay.

I'm on your side.

And what side is that?

The side hoping to curb

police brutality.

I've just been made
special counsel.

Good. Congratulations.

That was genuine.

Any advice?

No.

Diane, I think you'll learn
that I've changed.

I'm a new person.

How is your son doing, Mike?

Well, he... passed.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

About a year ago.

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Don't worry, he wasn't
in pain or anything.

And he got to
graduate high school,

which was his dream.

Got a diploma.

It was the proudest moment
of his life.

Mike, I...

I'm so sorry. I-I can't imagine.

All he wanted was to make
the world a better place.

That's why I took this job.

And if we can stop
police brutality cases,

then that's a pretty
good start, right?

Anyway...

let me know
if you change your mind.

A problem with

the fertility clinic...
They say they have no record

of a Laura Salano
ever donating there.

Diane Lockhart, please.

I'm, not sure how we can
help you, Ms. Lockhart.

At a certain age, fertility...

I'm not here for myself.

I'm here for a client.

You're an egg broker?

No, a lawyer. You used to be

the Lake Drive
Fertility Clinic, Doctor?

Yes, years ago.

Actually, two years ago.

Okay.

I would call that years ago.

Lake Drive had financial
troubles. We don't.

How may I help you again?

We called on behalf
our client, Laura Salano.

You have 12 eggs of hers
in storage.

Actually, that was Lake Drive
who had them in storage,

the fertility
clinic we replaced.

You mean the fertility clinic

in the same building, with
the same medical director... you?

Yes.

Is there anything else
you might need, ma'am?

The location of the eggs.

You see, this contract
was with Lake Drive.

It was voided the day
Lake Drive closed its doors.

No, sir. This contract required
that you contact our client

if ever you were
to close your doors.

Well, the eggs are gone.

We flushed out the system
when we reopened.

Then you can expect our filing.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wai...
We did nothing wrong here.

You're welcome to sue
Lake Drive, but not us.

No, we will be suing you,
personally, Doctor.

You are in charge of a clinic

with the same facilities
and same director?

My guess is you don't want
the secretary of state's office

looking closely
into a fraudulent transfer.

Okay, hold on.

Laura?

Salano.

Okay.

They were sent
to Chicago Poly-Tech

for humanitarian reasons.

You're saying the ovum
ended up here by mistake?

Yes, from Lake Drive. Pardon?

From Lake Drive Fertility.

It was donated accidentally.

And you want to
know where they are.

Well, let's see.

Yes, they were transferred to
our stem cell research lab.

Good. Where is that?

Where is that? You won't
find them still there.

No, they've already been
fertilized and D&Ded.

D&Ded?

Yeah, discarded and destroyed.

All 11 of them.

I'm sorry.

Wait, there were 12.

No, 11, there were 11...

No, there were 12 donated.

Where is the 12th egg?

It's marked "confidential."

What? What is?

The egg.

Can you understand
what I'm saying?

Sometimes I find it difficult
to hear myself.

No, I can hear you.

But you're a public
institution, Doctor;

Why is it marked confidential?

No, it doesn't look like rain.

So, one of my eggs still exists,
but we don't know where?

Yes, it was listed
as confidential.

But none of the others were? No.

Why would they keep
one egg hidden?

Patient confidentiality?

Do any of the Poly-Tech
researchers see patients?

I can't tell you.
It's listed as confidential.

Can you at least tell us

which teaching doctors
see patients?

What?

Can you tell us which
doctors see patients?

Thank you,

but it's not lunchtime yet.

Do you know we're
lawyers, Doctor?

Pardon?

Do you know that we're lawyers?

Never mind.
Thanks for your help.

October.

The ovum that you have,
Dr. Norwood,

it belongs to our client,
and she wants it back.

What's your evidence of that?

This contract.

This acknowledgement of
the transfer of 12 eggs

from Lake Drive.

The Genome labs acknowledgement

that they transferred
one egg to you.

And why do you want the ovum?

She needs her egg back
to fertilize it.

Regrettably,
here's the problem...

You've already destroyed it?

No, we've already fertilized it.

One more smile.

Okay.

One more smile.

Look at Mom.

Just one more smile.

Tell me if you need me
to say anything,

because I could just
stand here being intimidating,

you know, frowning like this.

Great. That's great.
Now, keep smiling.

Look at me. Just turn your head
a little bit to the left.

Just give me a second.
I'll be right back.

What do you want?

I want you to stop harassing me.

I'm not doing anything.

You came into my shop.
Stop pretending, Ted.

It has your photographs,

the photographs
I let you take of me.

You linked them to...
Okay, Maia,

I don't know what the hell
you're talking about,

but why don't you
make an appointment...

She wants to talk to you now.

So this is your new girlfriend?

No, but that shouldn't matter.

I mean, I'm not gay,
but I could be.

It's harassment, Ted.

I'm a lawyer, and I could sue
you for everything you have.

You mean all of this?

Wow.

It was four years ago.
Get over it.

I am over it; I met someone,

so whatever it is that
you think that I'm doing...

You're the only one
who had these photos, Ted.

It's a Twitterbot.

Jesus. I got it up and
running two years ago.

It's just getting attention now
because of the Ponzi scheme.

What's a Twitterbot?

It's a program that
imitates a Twitter feed.

That's why the interest
in canning fruit?

It's programed to
take on characteristics

of hobbyists sites.

Adds personality.

Okay, so turn it off.

If you invented this bot,
turn it off.

If I try to kill it,
it'll just duplicate itself.

It's pretending to be me.

So just ignore it.

You're an asshole.

Hey, you're the one
who broke up with me.

Tell your girlfriend to fix it.

It's very adult, Maia...
It's very adult!

Yeah, my girlfriend's
pretty tough.

Ms. Lockhart. Ms. Rindell.

Yes? Yes?

You've been served.

Somebody here for me?
Mr. Boseman.

Yeah?

You've been served.

Come on, you kidding me?

By who? Kresteva.

And can one of you
point me in the direction

of a Ms. Lucca Quinn?

Good luck with the grand jury.

How long do you want me to say?
20 minutes.

You got a backup.

Got it.

Here they come.

Eight-ouncer, Mike,
extra onions.

How long you got?

15. Judge is not happy.

It'll take 20. I got a backup.

Come on.

Hey, it's not justice,

it's burgers; They take time.

Extra onions, peppers?

Of course.

Forget it, Mike.

So, what, you've been waiting in
here all day for me to come in?

Yep, your charm is
that irresistible.

You want to know what I think?

Can't wait.

I think you couldn't
wait to see me again,

and that's why the burger's
already cut in half.

You got me.

This is a bad habit, isn't it?

You teasing me,

me grinning
and teasing you back?

It's easy.

As opposed to?

The truth?

This should be interesting. Go.

Last year, I went to
see a, therapist.

Dr. Gilbert.

My problem was that
my relationships never lasted

more than three weeks.

I wanted to know if
the problem was me or them.

It has to be them.

Well, Dr. Gilbert
said that the ease

of my life had made me
treat things superficially,

and that what I needed to do
was refrain

from the thing
that I loved the most

for a full year.

God, this is such shit.

No, every word I'm telling you
is the truth.

At 8:30 p.m., on March 14th,

the year will be up.

And you're looking for someone

to share this
deep experience with you?

Yeah.

Laugh if you will,

but I need a woman who is
able to enjoy what I have...

Someone to share your bed with,

someone to show you the
true meaning of love?

No, God, no.

No, I'm looking for someone
to share a milkshake

at Scooter's Frozen Custard.

No, been a very long, hard year.

God, they are good.

Sex is transient,
but a Boston Shake...

Okay, am I being invited?

Yeah.

Next Tuesday.

Afterwards we could have sex.

What's this?

It's a subpoena authorized by

the D.O.J. for me and my firm.

So is this why
you came in here today?

Yes.

As fascinating as
I find you, Colin,

I need to know what
Mike Kresteva's up to.

This is from Kresteva?

Yeah. Why?

Well, he was just given
the police brutality study.

Yes. So why is he after us?

I don't know.

I'll check it out.

Thanks for the burger.

You're welcome.

You sold me out, Mike.

Okay, I think I helped here.

With the Twitter account? Yeah.

Was that the first time
you ever slapped anyone?

Yeah, I guess it was.

Anyway, I contacted
Twitter and told them

it was a Twitterbot
imitating you,

and they froze it
until they review it.

That's great.

I didn't even realize
you could do that.

I didn't either.

The, problem, Laura, is...

the last remaining ova
has already been fertilized.

By who?

That's the question.

We don't know.

We located it at
Chicago Poly-Tech,

in the genetics lab,

and we're bringing
them to court.

There might be a good
case here, but...

Do you want to fight it?

Knowing that you won't be able
to choose the genetic father.

Your ova has already been
fertilized by someone.

Someone you may have to fight.

What a load of shit.

Ms. Hoff,
always good to see you.

She really doesn't care
who the father is?

Laura, this should be
between the lawyers.

My guess is you're
representing the family?

I'm representing the owners
of the fertilized embryo.

No, you're representing
the co-owner

of the fertilized embryo.

We are representing
the other co-owner.

She abandoned ownership
when she sold her eggs.

Contractually,
she retained ownership.

My clients knew nothing
of that contract.

That doesn't negate
that contract.

As far as my clients
are concerned, it does.

Your beef is with whoever
voided the contract...

Everything all right?

Yeah, yeah, I just want
to see who the dad is.

He'll be on the
other side, right?

I think so.

The next person
through those doors

will be the father of my child.

The next male
through those doors

will be the father of my child.

My client is willing to pay

for you to find another egg donor.
How gracious.

They are happy with this one.
Come on.

They have other opportunities.
She just has this one egg.

Your client can
fertilize a lot of eggs.

And we're willing
to offer $18,500

to pay for another egg donor.

This family has spent years
looking for a donor.

And we will pay

for them to find another.

Why does this one matter?

What do you think?

I think that's the father
to my baby.

Do you want to keep fighting?

There's a kid I plan to raise
and send to college.

18 years from now,
he or she will be mine.

I don't see anybody else
raising him.

Good. That's what
we need to hear.

All rise!

Let's all take our seats please.

I've read your briefs.

I know there's
a lot of passion...

Let me see your phone.

It's... it's not
my phone, Your Honor.

It's... it's this watch.

Let me see it.

Yeah, yeah.

It's just a... just a...

Sh... Your Honor?

The, plaintiff would like

an emergency injunction
against implantation?

Yes, Your Honor. There is some
question about the ownership.

The plaintiff
relinquished ownership

when she sold her ova
for $20,000.

No, she has contractual control

after five years.

My clients knew nothing

about that contract.

If the plaintiff had loaned
her car to a third party,

and that third party
sold the car to us,

the plaintiff's disagreement

is with the third party,
not with us.

It's not a car,

Your Honor, this is an embryo.

An embryo that is co-owned
by two parents.

Not two parents.
That personalizes...

My client's DNA...

Okay, okay, okay.

I will grant a temporary
injunction against implantation

merely to give both of you time
to present evidence.

Please return tomorrow ready to...
Your Honor,

my clients have a... trip
planned to England next week.

If this matters to them,
they'll stay.

Adjourned.

Excuse me. Your Honor,
can I have my watch back?

Hi.

Hi. It's Yesha.

Yeah, I just read an article.

Are you about to get fired?

What?!

There's an article
on AmericanNews insisting

that you are being fired
from your law firm.

What?! No! Wh-Why?

Okay, it says that your
accusations of anti-gay bias

have angered your bosses.

Wait. Hold on.

Yeah?

Am I being fired?

What?

Am I being fired?

I barely even know who you are.

So I'm not?

You're not.

Go.

Thank you.

It's a lie. I'm not being fired.

I just got a new Google alert.

It says that you just bought
$350,000 in jewelry.

- What?!
- What?!

It's my ex-boyfriend.
He's at it again.

Diane. Hi.

Hello. Thank you for appearing

in front of
our grand jury today.

No thanks are necessary.

I was subpoenaed.

I had no choice.

Well, thank you, anyway.

Did I visit
your office yesterday?

You did. Did I ask you about

police brutality cases
in Chicago?

You did.

And did I ask you
for suggestions

on how to address this issue?

Yes, you did.

And you chose not to answer.

I wasn't certain
of your motives.

My...

What could be wrong
with my motives?

I think you tend to lie.

Your firm makes a lot of money
on these police brutality cases.

Is that a question?

Yeah, it is.

Define "a lot of money."

30% of its annual income.

Well, I'm new to the firm.

I think it's best
that you ask Mr. Boseman.

When I asked you about
your firm's attitude

about police brutality,

did you not say
that the problem was

the people of Cook County
hated African-Americans?

Would you like me
to repeat the question?

No.

Yes.

When I asked you

if your firm's motives
were pure, did you not say

the problem is that Cook County
hated African-Americans

and treated
black lives carelessly?

No.

You did not say that?

No, I said nothing like it.

Are you saying that my notes
from our meeting are incorrect?

Your notes on our meeting
are bizarrely incorrect.

Well, would you be
kind enough to show me

where I was mistaken?

Well, you came into my office,

you explained the nature
of your task force,

we spoke about your son,
and that was it.

I don't know where
you got this quote,

but there's not
a single word of it

that is accurate.

Really?

And we spoke about my son?

Why would we speak about my son?

I asked you how he was.

My son who died?

You... asked me how he was?

Yes. I didn't know
that he had passed.

How long was I in your office?

Six minutes, approximately.

And you're saying that I spent
the majority of that time

talking about my son?

Yes.

Really?

Yes.

He's setting us up.

Why?

He wants to reduce the number
of police brutality cases,

but not by reducing
police brutality...

By reducing the number of cases.

He wants to reduce us?

But he can't, can he?

What does your AUSA say?

Yeah, he lies.

Does your boss know that?

Well, everyone lies.

But Kresteva is lying about us.

He's saying we said things
that we didn't.

All right, here's what I can do.

I could argue your case to
the assistant attorney general,

Wilbur Dincon.

He controls Kresteva's agenda.

You're serious?

Yeah. Why?

I don't know.

You're being nice.

Well, I'm drinking.

I'm nice when I drink.

Really?

I'm mean.

You want to go back to my place?

No. Why?

That would make this
seem like a quid pro quo,

and you don't want that.

Why don't I want that? Because,

for the first time,
you seem like a good guy.

Don't ruin it.

Anyway,

we have a date for a milkshake.

Fuck, I hate being a good guy.

You may continue.

Thank you, Your Honor.

Dr. Norwood,
let's turn to this embryo.

Um, excuse me, Your Honor.

Norwood is going
to England next week, too.

Just like the Haights.

Counselor,

do you have something
more for this witness?

Yes, I do.

Are you traveling to England

next week, Dr. Norwood?

Objection, Your Honor.

Are the doctor's
travel arrangements

really necessary?

I don't know. Are they?

They are, Your Honor. They are.

Are you going to
England to implant

this embryo into Mrs. Haight?

Yes. And why in England?

Why not in America?

Well, it's a procedure
that's approved of in England.

So this is a procedure
that is illegal in America?

I wouldn't put it that way.

What way would you put it?

It's not approved of in America.

Okay, well, why don't you
explain this procedure.

Mrs. Haight
has the genetic marker

for Leigh syndrome.

It's a severe neurological
disorder that results in

the death of the child.

The procedure considered
permissible in England

is called mitochondrial
DNA replacement.

What is that?

And, please, explain
it to me like

I'm an eight-year-old.

Ms. Salano's embryo has

no trace of Leigh's syndrome;
It's clean.

We take genes from that embryo

and place those genes
in a new fertilized egg...

The embryo belonging
to Mrs. Haight.

In that way,
Mrs. Haight has an embryo

without Leigh's syndrome.

What happens with
the first embryo?

That one, Ms. Salano's embryo,

is used for its genetic
contribution, that's all.

Then it's destroyed?

It's not destroyed.
It's no longer viable.

They don't want my baby.

They just want to use
some of my genes

- to make their baby whole?
- Please,

ma'am, let your lawyers
ask the questions.

Can you answer her question,
Doctor?

It's not a question
of this baby or that.

Everything is a potentiality
at this point.

The Haights' potential embryo
needs to be made whole

with the genetic material
from this other embryo.

So you would destroy
Laura's chance of creating life

by taking her embryo
and raiding it for its genes?

I don't like the word "raiding."

Okay, I get it.

We are in some very odd areas
of contract law now.

No, this is about life,
Your Honor.

Actually, no.

The existing embryo is property.

The only question is:

Who does it belong to?

Does Ms. Solano own it
or Mr. Haight?

You bring me evidence tomorrow,
and we'll decide.

God, I hate this.

Okay, so what?

The law firm
Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad

is feeling aggrieved.

They feel like the task force
is unfairly targeting them.

I guess that means me.

Yeah, I guess it does.

Are you targeting them, Mike?

No, I'm targeting
police brutality.

By targeting the law
firm suing the most?

That's right.
It'll show the greatest progress

for the stats.

I'm not sure what the problem
is here, Colin.

Mike's got a strategy.
He needs to pursue it.

I'm just worried that it's
an all African-American firm.

It's all black?

It's not all black.

Diane Lockhart is Causacian.

It just seems like it would be

a public relations disaster
to go after

an all African-American firm.

Especially to try to curb
police brutality suits.

We're not just after them
for police brutality.

Okay, what else?

I'm developing leads.

Well, develop them fast,

or drop it.

You have a lot juicer targets.

Yes, sir. Thank you.

It's fake news.

The articles about me? Yes.

It's click bait.
People are angry about

your parents' Ponzi scheme,
so there's an audience

for these kind of articles.

It's from my ex-boyfriend?

Probably from another bot.

It quotes your tweets
about being fired...

Not mine. The fake tweets.

Right. It repackages
those tweets

and quotes them in an article.

So, I mean, how do we stop this?

What is this?

A what?

A temporary restraining order.

By order of
the Cook County Circuit Court,

you must immediately cease
generating false news

about Maia Rindell
until a hearing can be held

on the merits of her case
against you.

You don't know much
about computers, do you?

I know enough.
Cook County Circuit Court

has jurisdiction
only in Illinois.

I bounce my encrypted software
through servers in 20 states,

Mexico and Japan.

Cook County Circuit Court
can't enforce this order.

No jurisdiction.

We've hit the limits
of the legal system.

You're telling me there's
really nothing we can do?

Not legally.
Wait, you trying to tell me

there's something
I can do illegally?

No.

Sounded like that to me.
Me, too.

Okay, look, I can't be a party
to whatever this is.

I have to go.

Do you have any ideas?

Sweetheart, hi.

Hey, just slow down.

Of course it's not real. Jesus!

How could you even ask me that?

"Hooker,"
"butt plug" and "BDSM."

Anything else?

How about "leash"?

Perfect.

You want to do the honors?

It's not true.

None of this stuff is true.

Son, you got to
take care of this.

It's right here.
That's fake news, Roger.

I don't care what it is;
It was on my Facebook page.

"$45,000 missing
from liquor store."

That doesn't even
make sense... I work here,

I don't work at a liquor store.

But it's your name and
your picture. Look.

Roger, any hacker could
do that; I could do that.

Please don't let me go.

You got to go talk
to the police, Ted.

It says that
they're looking for you.

Mr. Haight, when Dr. Norwood

found this matching embryo,
and you paid for the treatment,

how much did you pay?

All in, $9,000.

And when you paid that amount,

did you have any reason
to believe that that egg

didn't belong to
Chicago Poly-Tech?

No. Your Honor,

my clients are protected by the
"innocent purchasers" doctrine.

Even if that egg shouldn't have
arrived at Chicago Poly-Tech,

it was purchased legally
and fairly by my clients.

Ms. Lockhart,
how do you respond?

Your Honor,

if my client's car were stolen

and the Haights were asking
your permission...

Dear God.

Counselor, this is not
a stolen car.

At a certain point,
analogy fails us.

I'm disgusted that I have
to use property law

to decide issues of life.

But...

the "innocent purchaser"
doctrine holds.

The embryo belongs
to the Haights.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

You're ruining my life.

Get out of here, Ted.

I'll call the cops.

Yeah, just try it.
You are such a bitch, Maia.

Excuse me.

Is there something
you want to tell us?

This isn't about you.

Actually, if it's about Maia,
it's about me.

Anything else you want to say?

You drop your news articles,
and I'll drop mine.

Okay.

Okay.

Your business is done here.

Thank you, Mr. Boseman.

No problem.

At this firm, we stand up
for each other, Maia.

You all right?

She was pretty inconsolable.

I know.

It's tough.

Do you regret
not having children?

Sometimes.

Not often.

When are the sometimes?

With my husband.

I mean, it's too late
for us now, but...

I look at him
and I wonder what...

you know, what his son
would be like.

Or my daughter.

Yeah. It's interesting.

Most people think
I didn't want kids,

and that's why
I made my work my life.

What they don't realize, it's...
it's really just the opposite.

Yes.

Work.

It's what gives it all meaning.

The only difference is...

kids survive you.

That's not always a good thing.

You all right, Ms. Lockhart?

England.

The Human Fertilisation
& Embryology Authority?

Britain's fertility watchdog.

- And you called them?
- We did.

How?

We dialed 44 and
then the number.

I mean how in the hell
did you manage

to drag them into this?

Different country,
different rules apply.

British law says you can't
sell your eggs for more than

750 pounds.

Laura sold hers for $20,000.

So you just fucked us over.

Under British law, the sale
of these eggs is invalid.

What difference does
that make, Your Honor?

You've already ruled on
the ownership of the embryo.

For the express purpose
of taking it to England

for this procedure,
which they have now been

forbidden from doing.

Nicholas Haight,
Courtney Haight, I, take it

that your sojourn to England
is no longer happening?

That is correct, Your Honor.

And what do your clients
want to do with the embryo?

They would like to
have it destroyed.

Let-let me,

see if I can put this in a way
that you lawyers will like.

Your clients bought
a stolen car,

and now, rather than see it

driven by its rightful owner,

they want to bring it
to the dump and flatten it.

Mr. Haight fertilized the egg.

It's half his.
He doesn't want this child.

But I do,

Your Honor.

Right.

And there's the rub.

Your clients have no use
for this embryo, Ms. Hoff.

Ms. Salano's only chance

of conceiving a child
is with that same embryo.

So it's hers.

Thank you.

My God, thank you.

I did not think that
I was an emotional person,

but look at me.

It's an emotional thing.

Excuse me.

If I'm able to get pregnant,
I just want you to know

that it will be because of you.

This child is just
as much yours.

So, please, if you want to play
a role in my child's life,

I would do anything
to make that a reality.

This child needs to know love.

Fuck you.

Look, he's still
sending them out.

Look, there.

No, it's not him. Yes, it's him.

I mean, it's the same article.

He said he was gonna
stop, but he hasn't.

No, he has.

These aren't him. What
are you talking about?

I've been going on reddit.

They're picking up what
your ex-boyfriend dropped.

You and your family
are not liked there.

Dear God. Yeah.

Wait, so what do I do?

I mean, these articles
are out there.

They say disgusting things.

It's reddit; That's, like,
the teeming masses.

You don't do anything.
What, I can't sue?

I can't... Here's what you do:

You want to know?

You let it go.

No, I... No, seriously.

You have to let it go,
ignore it,

push it out of your mind.

The people who know you,
know you.

And they know
you wouldn't do this.

Come on, you have to trust that.

Our charge is clear.

It's not about police brutality

with Reddick/Boseman.

What have they done?

What have their lawyers done?

Here we go.

Here's a news article

about one of
the Reddick/Boseman lawyers now.

She just spent $350,000

on jewelry.

Where did that money come from?

Who gave it to her?

Now, come on, people, let's go.

Let's see what we can dig up!

Come on!