The Practice (1997–2004): Season 3, Episode 16 - End Games - full transcript

- Previously on
"The Practice"...

- I had what I would consider

to be an extremely
erotic dream,

and you were in it.

- What do you mean,
she hit on you?

- Well, she--

- While she's the judge
on your case?

- She was going
to recuse herself,

and then she thought
it would have no effect.

- Does this just happen?

Women come up to you



and tell you
that you're in their dreams?

- Lindsay makes
twice my salary?

- Well, Ellenor,
she brings in a lot of business.

Her percentage should be--
- Twice?

$242,000;
that's my problem.

- Since when did you take
such a strong interest

in math, Ellenor?

- Certain equations
fascinate me.

- Try adding two plus two.

You couldn't do that
with your asbestos clients.

- Is this what happens to women
when you insert your penis?

I'm just curious,
because they become...

- Hey!
- Greedy little--

- Lindsay!



- What's going on, Leonard?

- I'm not feeling too good.

I need to get a continuance.
- Oh, God.

I'm practically getting
a contact high off your breath.

- Why do you keep
defending this guy?

- Because I like him,

because he was
my first client ever,

and because he's innocent.

- On the count of possession

of a controlled substance,

we find the defendant
not guilty.

MAN: The jury is dismissed
with the thanks of the Court.

- You did it.
MAN: We're adjourned.

- It means nothing, Leonard,
if you don't get help.

- Why do you care so much?

I'm just--
- I like you, Leonard.

It's not every day
you get to meet good people.

- This I know.

- I had a really good time
last night.

- Me too.

So do you want to come
to the game tonight?

- Is that tonight?

- Yeah.
- Cool.

- So, I'll call you
this afternoon?

- Okay.

- Between now and then,

I'll be missing
my little buttercup.

- You are the sweetest boy.

Come here.

What?

- Ellenor.
- Leonard?

- I think I'm in trouble.

- Hold it! Freeze!
- Don't move.

- Let's see your hands!
- Don't move!

- Hold 'em right there.
- Hands up.

- What the hell is going on?
MAN: Hey, just stay back.

MAN: Hands up.
BOBBY: What is this?

MAN: Stay out of it.
BOBBY: What is this?

- Nothing.
- What's that?

- I don't know.

- How'd it get there?

- I don't know.
- This your desk?

This your desk, ma'am?
- Yes.

- You don't know
how it got there?

- No.

- Please place your hands
behind your back.

BOBBY: What for?
MAN: You have the right

to remain silent.
- Oh, come on.

- You're reading my rights?

MAN: You have the right
to an attorney.

- Yeah, I know my rights.
Is this a joke?

- How did these drugs
get here, ma'am?

- I don't know.
- Cuff 'em both.

- You, sir, have the right
to remain silent.

BOBBY: We'll meet you
at the arraignment.

Obviously don't say anything.

Leonard, that goes for you too.

Don't say a word.

MAN: All right, let's go.
- This is ridiculous.

MAN: Let's go, ma'am.

Just keep moving.

- That woman has hit
a bad patch.

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

BOBBY: Eugene, you take Ellenor.

Rebecca, Leonard, Jimmy,
jump in.

- Bobby, we might be witnesses.

We can't represent--
- What did you see?

- Well, I didn't
see anything, but--

- Lindsay? Becc?
Anybody see Leonard

drop the stuff
on Ellenor's desk?

Nobody?

- I think we were
all looking at the door.

- Leonard came running in first,

and the police
were right behind him.

- Hey, get your nose
out of there.

- Ma'am?
- Ma'am?

- You can't
search that desk.

- We've made an arrest.

- You can only search
the suspect's desk; that's it.

- Anything subject
to the suspect's control.

[all talking at once]

- Hey, hey, hey!
- John.

- Where did that come from?

- Bottom drawer
under some files.

Looks like there's
some dried blood on it.

- Let me see.
- Counsel.

Bag it.
- Yeah.

- God, Lindsay.

You been provoking her?

ALL: Lucy!

- Bobby?

- Your Honor.

- What's going on?

- One of our lawyers
just got arrested--

ALL: Lucy!

- Uh, could we talk
in private?

- Uh, sure.

Um, my office.

Uh, Lucy.

Okay, Eugene, Becc,
get going.

Take Lindsay.

- I'd rather take that case.
- Never mind.

- What--never mind?
- Lindsay.

Go with Eugene and get Helen.

Maybe she could help
with Ellenor.

- What's up?

- Well, you're not gonna
believe it when I tell you.

Actually, you might,
considering.

Um, yesterday afternoon,

I was served
with a complaint against me,

filed under seal
by one of my former law clerks.

He's claiming
sexual harassment.

- What a shock.

- Funny.

The claim is baseless.

Nevertheless, I have to
defend myself against it.

That's why I'm here,
to hire you.

- You want to hire me
to defend you

in a sexual harassment case?

Don't you think
that's a little strange?

- Why?

You're an excellent attorney.

- Who you've had
erotic dreams about.

- Oh, please.

If I had a dime
for every erotic dream

I'd ever had, forget it.

- Oh, is that what you'd say
at your deposition?

- Look, if you choose
not to represent me, it's fine,

but I don't think
you need be discourteous.

I'm sorry to have bothered you.

- Why would you want to hire me?

Sexual harassment
isn't my specialty,

though it would be a good way
to disqualify me

as a witness should I ever
be called to testify.

- And why would you be
called as a witness?

Nobody knows
what happened between us,

unless you told someone.

I certainly didn't.

- Nothing happened
between you and me.

- So then this hostility
just comes out

whenever anybody tries
to engage your services.

- Well, let's just say
I have a hard time

believing you're
totally innocent.

- Let's just say
I have a hard time

believing you only represent
the totally innocent.

- Let's assume,
for the sake of argument,

that I do.

- I am innocent.

I had an affair with the boy.

The truth is, I think
he still has a thing for me.

After he finished
as my law clerk,

he asked me to write him
a letter of recommendation.

I did.

It wasn't glowing enough
in his eyes.

He's retaliating.

- Okay.

Which brings me back
to why me?

- Look, if this goes public,

I--I get destroyed,

merits aside.

I want somebody vicious enough
to make this go away,

who's not afraid
to get ugly if he has to.

I asked around.

Word is, you're it.

EUGENE: She's up first.

Leonard's being called second.

- We have to get him
independent counsel.

- First, let's
get through arraignment.

Did you call him?
WOMAN: All rise.

- I left word.

Oh, no.

It's Judge Whack-a-doo.

EUGENE: Just what we need.
WOMAN: Be seated.

Case number 32111.

Commonwealth versus
Ellenor Frutt.

Possession of
controlled substance.

- Eugene Young
for the defendant.

Waive reading, Your Honor.

I move to dismiss
this right now.

- On what grounds?
- Ms. Frutt's a lawyer.

She represents a man
who charged into our office.

- Objection.

- What the hell?

- Your Honor,
I work with Mr. Young.

MAN: Hurry up.

- What are you doing?

- Technically,
we still represent Leonard.

You can't be serving up
facts that incriminate him,

even if they help Ellenor.

- Your Honor,
the police charged

into our office
chasing a man

they believed
had drugs in his possession.

This man ran
to Ms. Frutt's desk.

The police followed.

Suddenly, drugs were discovered
on Ms. Frutts's desk.

They asked her
how they got there.

She, of course,
refused to answer any questions,

and they arrested her for
having drugs in her possession,

and it's bogus.

- Is that what happened?

- From what I know,
that seems accurate.

- Out of line.

Out of line.

Arresting the lawyer?

- Your Honor,
Ms. Frutt was given opportunity

to explain how the drugs
came into her possession

- But if a client
dropped them there,

then she's not free
to say so, is she?

I want to know
who the officer is.

I want to know who said,
"Okay," to this.

This case is dismissed.

Dismissed.
Dismissed.

We don't go around
arresting lawyers.

Next case, next case, next case.

WOMAN: 32112.

Commonwealth versus
Leonard Sowers.

Possession of
controlled substance.

- Rebecca Washington

representing the defendant,
Your Honor.

Waive reading.

I, too, ask that you
dismiss all charges.

- Why?

- As the police report
stipulates,

they didn't find
any drugs on my client.

They were on
Ellenor Frutt's desk.

- Wait a second, second, second.

This is the guy
who went running in

so forth, so forth,
so forth, drugs?

- Well, there's
no evidence of that.

The heroin was only
found on the desk,

never in Mr. Sowers's
possession.

- What do I look like to you?

A big dope?

Am I a big dope to you?

He's got a record
as long as my intestine.

He's a drug addict.

Do I look like a dope?

- You do not look like a dope.

- You have got a God awful,

scum-sucking,
guilty client here.

We all know that.

Drug addict!
- Your Honor.

- Get yourself a jury.

I mean,
they're the dopes.

They'll probably let him go.

Not dismissed.
Bound over.

And no bail either,
because you got me angry.

Next case, next case, next case.

And give me something good.

- You sold me out.
- I did not sell you out.

- You said in open court
the drugs were in my possession.

- I said it for the purpose
of Leonard's case.

- In my possession?

- Your case was already
dismissed, Ellenor.

- Oh yes, Lindsay,
take her side.

I expect nothing less.
- Hey.

- This again?
- Why is she even here?

- To kick your ass
like I did before.

- Oh, please,
like you could even hurt me.

- What the hell
is wrong with you two?

- Isn't it obvious?
You said something

she didn't like,
and it's clearly my fault.

- Enough.
- Ellenor.

- I've been paging you.

- Yeah, well, some bad news.

- Ellenor Frutt,

please place your hands
behind your back.

- Excuse me?

- You have the right
to remain silent...

- Now what?

Enough with the Miranda.

What's going on now?

- The knife they found
in your drawer.

Did George Vogelman
give it to you?

- What?

- It's the weapon used
to cut off Susan Robin's head.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

EUGENE: They're holding her
and questioning her again.

- Hold on.
One at a time.

[all talking at once]

- Come on.
Eugene.

- She's gonna be booked
on concealing evidence,

probably obstruction of justice.

- Did she say how
the knife got in there?

- Well, we haven't had a chance
to talk to her yet.

- Okay, first,
we try to get it kicked.

In my opinion,
the search was illegal.

- Well, incident to an arrest.
- They were after Leonard, not--

- But they arrested her.
- Which got dismissed already.

Lindsay, bring the motion
at the arraignment.

Rebecca,
you handle Leonard.

Eugene,
go find George Vogelman.

- Bobby, you have that lawyer
coming in on Kittleson.

- What?
- Eh, she hired us.

She's being sued.
- And you took the case?

- Lindsay, never mind.
LINDSAY: Bobby, she--

- Lindsay, go see Ellenor.

Jimmy, I need you
to help me here.

Do they know it's
the murder weapon?

- It matches the blade.

They're testing
the blood scrapings.

- How the hell did it
get in her desk?

- I don't know.

It was the bottom left drawer?

- Under some old files.

Do you even remember the last
time you looked down there?

- No!

So somebody's framing me
or George.

- Did George Vogelman
ever have access?

Was he ever in the office alone?

- It isn't him, Lindsay.

- Can you really know that now?

- Yes.

- Okay.

Arraignment's at 2:00.

Division one.

I can't imagine
they'll set bail, but--

- I don't believe
this is really happening.

A guy comes in,
he throws heroin at me,

and I'm suddenly being held
for concealing a murder weapon?

- It's gonna go away, Ellenor.

Don't worry.

- Can I help you?

- I'm looking
for Dr. George Vogelman.

Does he work here?
- He does, or did.

You're about
ten minutes too late.

- Sorry?
- The police just arrested him.

Took him away.

- The same charge: concealment.

- And he's in custody?

- Eugene's on his way
to see him in lockup.

Lindsay talked to Helen.

She thinks the police
are determined

to get him all over again.

Is concealment
a lesser included?

- To murder?

No way.
He's free game.

- Bobby Donnell?

- Yeah.

- Milton Cables.
- Oh, hi.

Thanks for agreeing to come.

Uh, Jimmy Berluti.
- A pleasure.

- As I said on the phone,
Judge Kittleson

is very anxious
to dispose of this.

- As is Mr. Michaels.

He certainly doesn't want
to begin his law career

as a plaintiff
in a sexual harassment case.

That's why we filed under seal.

- Which I appreciate.

Listen, we've been hit
with a little emergency,

and unfortunately,
I have to run out.

If we could agree
to depose the two parties,

also under seal,
do it right here,

get some kind
of assessment on the case,

we can pick a number
and be done.

- Can she go first?

- Sure, 6:00 tonight?
- Tonight?

- You could always
depose her again if you want.

My feeling is, if we could
flush out some facts quick,

I think we could get rid of it.

The faster the better
for both sides.

- Okay, I'll see you
at 6:00 tonight.

- Great.
Jimmy.

Sorry to run out.

- I'm so sorry.
- Leonard?

- I never meant to hurt her.

- Leonard,
you need to stop crying

and listen to me.

- I love Ellenor.

- I know you do.

And for you to help her,
you see,

we may have to be
making statements

that go against your interests,
which means you might need

to get a new lawyer
for the time being.

- I want Ellenor.

- Well, Ellenor
isn't available right now.

- I love Ellenor.
- She is in jail, Leonard.

- She's always stuck by me.

I can't--

- Okay, well, what I am
trying to tell you is,

we won't be sticking by you.

- I love Ellenor.

- Son of a bitch.

- I have no idea.

Want me to say it again?

- Well, you better think,
George.

Think who could have
stuck that knife in that drawer.

Otherwise--
- I've heard that speech.

"You better think, George!

"Better think who could have
put that head

in your medical bag,
otherwise--"

- Now is not the time
to get snide.

This is Ellenor on the line now,
not just you.

- I know that.

Why would I ever
put a knife in her drawer?

Or if I did give it to her,
why would she even take it?

Somebody's doing something here.

- And you can't think of
who it could possibly be?

- No.

- George, I'll tell you this.

If I ever get wind--
- You'll what?

Beat me up?

Do it.

I've been out of work
for six months.

I finally got hired
two days ago.

Two days ago,
and what happens?

In come the police
to take me away again.

Go ahead, Eugene,
beat the hell out of me.

I need the money.

WOMAN: Case number 32632.

Commonwealth versus
Ellenor Frutt.

- Bobby Donnell
for the defense, Your Honor.

Waive reading.

I ask that this court
dismiss all charges

on the grounds--

- Dismiss, dismiss.

Everybody's getting up
and asking me

to dismiss charges.

What do I look like, hmm?

- Well, under
the circumstances, I--

- I've already dismissed charges

against this woman once today.

That's all she gets.

I don't just kick things here,

especially in murder cases.

Not dismissed.

No, no, no!

- What do you mean,
"murder case"?

- Yes, it's murder
your client is charged with,

first-degree murder.

If you didn't know that,

why the hell
did you waive reading?

- What's going on here?

What is going on?

MAN: Talk to me, Counselor.

Never mind, don't.

Now I'm mad, all right?

Next case.
Give me something good.

- What the hell is this?

- Why don't we
find a room to talk?

- There's enough there.

- For a murder charge?

- Well, I'm not saying
we're gonna make,

but we got to face
a few facts here.

She had a romantic relationship
with this Vogelman.

- That was two years ago.

- Well, love's been
known to smolder.

- Is this a joke?

- She's found
with the murder weapon,

and we all know
Ellenor has a temper.

- What do you want, Richard?

- Vogelman.

She testifies that
he gave her the knife,

well, maybe we can
make things go easy on her.

- First of all,
I have no knowledge

that he gave her the knife.

Second, you can't get Vogelman.

Double jeopardy.

- Oh, we can't
get him on murder,

but we can on concealment
and perjury.

- Third, this is
blatant blackmail.

- This is a settlement
negotiation.

- You're charging a lawyer
with murder to get her client?

This is way over the line.

- Bobby, you guys accused
a victim's brother of murder

just to get your client off,

and you want to debate
where the line is?

- We're defense attorneys.

It's different.

- Discuss the offer
with Ellenor

and then get back to me.

- I don't believe it.

- I've got
the motion to suppress

marked up for tomorrow.

- With that judge?
- No, thank God.

Judge West.

- How is George?
- Not good.

They denied bail.

- For concealing evidence?

- And perjury,
obstruction of justice.

They're on a mission, Bobby.

They're out for him,

and now they have
the perfect chance.

- So you don't deny the affair?

- No, I don't.

Nor did I regret it
until yesterday.

- Can you tell us
how your relationship

with Kevin Michaels began?

- Our professional
relationship began

when I hired him
out of law school

to clerk for me.

Our physical relationship
began about four months later.

It was a Friday night.

We were going over a draft

of a rather convoluted opinion
regarding stock fraud,

and uh, well,

I suppose one might say
I seduced him.

- Why might one say that?

- Because I did.

- Can you be more specific?

- Do I need to be?

The basis of this lawsuit

concerns what happened
after he left my employ.

We can all stipulate
to the sexual affair.

- We're on a fast course
to settle this.

I need to flesh out
some of the background

before advising my client.

- All right.

We were working side by side
going over this draft.

He reached across
for something--

I don't remember what--

and he inadvertently
brushed my breast.

He began to apologize profusely,

and perhaps to dissipate
his embarrassment,

I said,
"Don't be sorry.

I rather enjoyed it."

- What--what happened next?

- Well, he just
stared back at me.

I had obviously shocked him.

But he had an expression,

almost as if he were
titillated a little as well.

And, oh,
I don't know.

Maybe because the hour was late

and my senses were fried,

or--or it was
just the dare in me.

I said, "It's not
the worst thing in life

to be touched, you know?"

And I reached out my hand.

I touched him

and said,
"Not so bad, is it?"

- And then?

- And then, uh,

at the risk
of sounding immodest,

I gave him the best fellatio
known to mankind.

I am sorry to be so blunt,

but I think we all know
what can happen

if you don't come clean
at a deposition.

- No prints on the knife.

DNA was positive.

It's Susan Robin's blood.

- Great.

- I think Vogelman
needs independent counsel.

- For now--

- What if we need to argue

he put the knife in here?

My money says we will.

- Let's just see how

the suppression hearing
goes on Ellenor.

If we win there,
there won't be any conflict.

You all set?
- Yep.

- Do you need any help
on any research or--

- I'm fine.

- Lindsay,
it's a good case to take.

If a judge hires you,
that's a nice feather.

- It's under seal, Bobby.

There's no marquee value
in this case.

There was no reason to take it.

Or was there?

- Oh, please,
you can't be jealous.

- Bobby,
let me just concentrate

on Ellenor's case
right now, okay?

- Your Honor.
- Am I early?

- No, uh--no, we're set to go
in about 20 minutes,

and Bobby wanted
to go over some stuff.

- Do you perhaps have something
I could just nibble?

Oh, hello.

- Hello.

Could I get by?

- Oh, terribly sorry.

- I'll be down as soon as I can.

- I don't mean to add pressure,

but if we don't win this,
Ellenor faces a long haul.

- I know.

Do you have any idea
how that knife got there?

- It had to be George.

BOBBY: You never
showed him the letter?

- Not before I sent it out.

I suppose I should have.

This isn't about
that letter, Bobby.

You read it.

It may not have been
laced with superlatives,

but it certainly
wasn't critical.

- Well, he's suing you
for it, so--

- My bet is, he's suing
just for the privilege

of these depositions.

He gets to be in the same room
with me again.

I don't think he's over me,
to tell you the truth.

Is everything okay?

- Fine.

- They had no warrant
to search that desk.

- And nor is one required.

It was a search
incident to an arrest.

Warrantless searches--
- Hold on a second.

Are you saying the arrest
of Ms. Frutt was invalid?

- On the knife,
absolutely.

- Not on the knife.
On the drugs.

- That case was dismissed.

- I understand,
but are you saying

at the time the arrest was made,
it was legally invalid?

- Yes, they knew
those drugs weren't hers.

- The heroin
was on her desk, Counsel.

There was no probable cause
for an arrest?

- They came in chasing
somebody else for those drugs.

He ran right to this desk.

They see the drugs
on top of the desk.

They suddenly think
they belong to her.

Please, that insults
everybody's intelligence.

- Which is why the case
on the drugs

was ultimately dismissed.

But if the arrest was
technically valid at the time,

then so was the search
that turned up the knife.

- Even if you were
to uphold the search

as incident to a valid arrest,
the area to be searched

has to be within the control
of the suspect.

- Which this was.
It was her desk.

- She wasn't
even in the building

by the time you found the knife,

so the desk couldn't be
within her control.

- The search
began contemporaneously

with the arrest.

It continued after she left.

It did not begin after she left.

There's a difference,
Your Honor.

I can cite the cases.

- None of those cases

involved a pretext arrest,
which this was.

They knew the drugs
weren't hers.

They didn't have
a good-faith basis

to make that arrest.

Any search
incident to that arrest

is also lacking in good faith.

This is part of a master plan
to get George Vogelman,

and everybody
in this room knows it.

- Objection!
- Make your objection,

but I am putting this
on the record.

They charge her with murder,

and they offer
to drop everything

if she would flip
George Vogelman on concealment.

He's the one they're after.

The arrest of Ellenor Frutt
is not only unethical,

it is flat-out immoral.

- I completely reject that!

We never offered to drop this,

and any and all settlement
discussions are inadmissible.

She should be sanctioned

for attempting to raise this
in these proceedings.

- You're charging her with
homicide to coerce testimony!

- Not only to mention
that she misrepresented

everything I said in the context
of our prior discussion!

- All right!
All right!

I'll take all this
under advisement.

I'll rule tomorrow.

- Your Honor, I would ask
that you release Ms. Frutt

on her own recognizance
pending your decision.

- I can live with that.

O.R.

Adjourn till tomorrow.

- You can go.

Your case has been dismissed.

- Thank you, God.

- You're the only one to catch
a break this week, Leonard.

You know that heroin you bought?

Lab results show
it wasn't heroin.

It was some brown confectionery
or something.

That's how gone you are,
Leonard.

Even the deal is--
- I can go now?

- Right now.
- Good.

Not a second too soon.

I need a fix.

- You know,

I can't stop you
from going to get your fix,

but don't you ever
come into our office again

and bring that stuff.

Ellenor Frutt is in
a lot of trouble right now

because of you.

- By your own admission,
this affair was consensual.

- Yes, but I feel
that after it ended,

this letter was not
a ringing endorsement.

That was clear
to anybody who read it.

- Well, did it
say anything negative?

- No, but it wasn't glowing.

I think it's what she didn't say
that was conspicuous.

- Is it possible that you
weren't that great a clerk?

- It's possible, but...
- But what?

- Well, I don't think
she had the opportunity

to really know whether
I was a good clerk or not.

- And why is that?

- Well, once our personal
relationship began,

the only thing that transpired
in her chambers was sex.

Uh, over the last seven months,

we probably made love
two to three times a day,

sometimes four.

- Four times in one day?

- One day,
I think we hit 11.

She was insatiable.

- Are you claiming
that in any way

it was against your will?

- No, no, it was
the most amazing--

look, I didn't complain,

and if she tried
to seduce me again today,

I can't honestly say

that she wouldn't succeed,
knowing how--

Look, my point is,
is that what chance did I have

to excel at being a clerk,
when all we did was--

- Mr. Michaels,
why did you ask her

to write a recommendation
in the first place?

- It was probably a mistake.

I just figured--
I don't know.

I mean, if a woman
can't get enough of your penis,

chances are,
she'll write a decent letter.

- Um, can we go
off the record here a second?

Kevin,
I will write you

a superlative recommendation
right now.

Make a call or two,

I could get you a job
in a second.

How about I do that?

Can we call off this lawsuit?

- It's a little late.

- No, it isn't.

This isn't about
you getting a job, Kevin.

It's about getting me.

- Excuse me?

- You're obsessed with me.

Does your lawyer not know that?

- You're sad.

- Am I?

I could give you an erection
from across the room.

We both know that.

Go ahead.
Stand over there.

I'll prove it.

You're probably
getting aroused right now.

Stand up, Kevin.

- Hey.

Let's just go
back on the record.

WOMAN: All rise.

Be seated.

- A man gets chased
into an office.

Leads to a search.

Turns up a knife.

Somebody somewhere has an idea
as to what's going on here,

but it isn't me.

The search of
the desk drawer was valid.

As far as the murder charge,

possession of a weapon alone,

doesn't constitute
probable cause,

at least not to me
under these circumstances.

That count is dismissed.

As far as the charges

of concealing evidence
and obstruction of justice,

those counts stand.

The defendant is bound over
for trial personal recognizance.

We'll conference
Tuesday, 10:00.

Adjourned.

MAN: Ms. Frutt.
Ms. Frutt!

Did you help George Vogelman
get away with murder?

WOMAN: Do you know
who killed Susan Robin, ma'am?

BOBBY: Come on, let us through.

MAN: Where did
the knife come from?

Just answer a few questions.

WOMAN: Tell us something!

- We'll beat it, Ellenor.

Every one of us is on it.

If we have to drop
every other case

to fight this, it's done.

- As of right now,
George Vogelman is the enemy.

- Why?

- Because one
of the alternative defenses

will have to be
he planted that knife.

- Which is possible, by the way.
- No it isn't.

BOBBY: Ellenor, look at me.

Everyone in this room

stands ready
to go to war for you,

but you have to let us.

- Here's the deal, George.

The police seem determined
to put you on trial again

for killing Susan Robin.

- But how can they?

I was acquitted.

- Well, they're gonna
end-run double jeopardy

with concealment,
obstruction of justice, perjury.

And relevant
to proving the case,

the question as to whether

you committed murder
will be played out again.

And if you get convicted
on perjury and concealment,

the judge is going to take
everything into consideration

when he sentences you.

- What are you telling me?

- I'm telling you,

you could be
looking at 20 years.

- This--this isn't fair.

- No, it isn't,
and it doesn't get better.

You need to get
another attorney.

Our firm withdraws.

Your new lawyer can contact us,
and we'll release the files.

- Jimmy, in my office.

Everybody else
in the conference room.

Your Honor.

- Oh, hello.

I'm Roberta Kittleson.

- Lindsay Dole.
- Yes, I know.

You have quite a reputation
at the courthouse.

- So do you.

- You can go in.

- Excuse me.

- Pretty simple.

$10,000
and a better recommendation,

and we close it today.

- Why should I give him money?

- 'Cause he's looking
to save face,

and it goes away now.

Marriage aside,
this will look bad for you

if it goes public.

Let's keep it sealed
and be done.

Can I tell him yes?

- I suppose.
- Great.

I'll draft some papers,
have you sign them--

- Bobby.

Thank you.

- I'll be in touch.

- You know,
this is a really good result.

We put this out in a day.
Good result.

- Yes, and thank you too,
Jimmy.

- Listen,
maybe you want to get

a glass of champagne later?

Toast our victory?

- Oh, would you like
to do that?

- Well, only if you would.

- Sure.

- Good.

- There are two possibilities:

somebody's out to frame
George Vogelman,

or he's guilty.

- If George were guilty,
why would he

put the murder weapon
in my drawer?

What good does that do him?

- Well, if he's guilty,
Ellenor,

we can forget
what makes sense.

He cut off a head.

- Plus, this could be
some fixation thing with you.

- What?
- Loner.

Perhaps once in love with you.

You dumped him.

I mean, maybe
when he first cut off the head,

he brought it to you like a cat
showing off a dead mouse.

- Oh, come on!
- Ellenor.

If he's sick, he's sick.

- But why the knife
in the drawer?

- I don't know,
to keep things alive?

To keep a connection
with Ellenor maybe?

- That doesn't seem--

- Obsessed people
do crazy things, Bobby.

- Look, let's all admit
we don't know George Vogelman,

but he's exactly the profile.

Nice guy
delivering mail one day,

walks into McDonald's the next.

- That isn't George.
- Then who, Ellenor?

This doesn't make sense.

- Look, we figured
he was set up the first time.

If someone could put a head
in his medical bag,

maybe they're doing the same
thing again with the knife.

- If somebody wanted
to frame George with the knife,

it would have turned up
before he was acquitted.

Why hold the knife back?

How stupid would that be?

- Maybe they didn't have
the knife at first.

- Didn't have it?

If he was set up
with the head in the bag,

it would have had to have been
by the killer,

who would also have the knife.

- This just doesn't make sense.

- It's the police.

The knife turned up
after the trial,

and because of double jeopardy,
the only way

to make use of it
was to plant it here

and set up a perjury
obstruction of justice charge.

- That's a bit of a reach.

- This trial embarrassed them,

and just like Eugene
and Helen said,

there is a mission
to get George.

And I know how they did it.

- I don't--I don't know
what you're talking about.

- Yes you do, Leonard.

See, what didn't make sense,

nobody buying heroin,

especially someone
so experienced as you,

is gonna walk off
with sugar.

The reason it was sugar
is so the case against you

would eventually get dropped,

which you seemed
to see coming,

something that also
confused me a little

when I--when I
went to your cell

and said you could go.

You weren't surprised.

The police sent you running
in there to drop that bag

to allow them
to search Ellenor's desk,

where the knife
was planted then,

or some time before.

- Leonard?

Is that what happened?

The police sent you
running into my office?

- Leonard.

You're not gonna get arrested
or prosecuted on this

if you tell us the truth.

I guarantee it.

Police misconduct, coercion.

Trust me,
they can't touch you,

but if you don't
tell us the truth,

if you go along with the police
trying to frame Ellenor,

a person who has been
very good to you,

a person who has
been saving your ass

for the last ten years,

if you don't come clean
with what went down,

I will hurt you.

- They caught me
with some stuff again,

said if I do this,
they'd let me go.

I'm sorry, Ellenor.

I'm afraid of prison.

- So far it appears to be

limited to a select
group of officers.

We've arrested three uniforms

and two lieutenants
in forensics.

- Where was the knife found?

- It's unconfirmed,

but the weapon was evidently
found in an abandoned car.

We don't know by who
at this point.

- After the Vogelman trial?

- That's my understanding.

I would like to stress,
this does not represent

the Boston Police Department.

These officers
are a disgrace to the force.

Police Chief Sullivan
will be conducting

a press conference shortly
to address this further.

Thank you.

- I still can't believe it.

- How could they
be so brazen

to think they wouldn't
get caught?

- They almost didn't.

[piano music]

♪ ♪

- So this was all staged
to get a warrantless arrest?

- Figured they had a weak link
in our chain with Leonard.

- How many officers involved?

- Well, investigation
is just starting,

but so far,
they think five.

- Unbelievable.
- Yeah.

Anyway, at least
things ended well.

- Mm.

- Here's to your case.

- Yes.

Tell me, Jimmy.

Do you typically toast victory
with all your clients,

or did all that sex talk
make you curious?

I'm sorry.

You can be honest.

- Well, uh--

- Just between you and me,

which part of the testimony
was your favorite?

Do you remember?

- My mind's a little blank
at the moment.

- I'm sure it is.

WOMAN: George Vogelman
was released shortly after,

hoping, I'm sure, he's been
arrested for the last time.

Asked for comment,
he politely declined.

- Poor guy.

Of course,
he could still be guilty.

- Don't go there.

- Where's Bobby tonight?

- We're kind of
fighting a little.

- Mm, over his representing
Judge Kittleson?

Lindsay, she's 102 years old.

- She's 56.

- You think Bobby's
attracted to her?

[doorbell rings]

Oh, well, here he is.

Kissy-kissy make up time.

- Hey.

- Hey.

- Come on in.

- Hi.
- Hi.

Wow, some place.

- Yeah, well,
I make a lot of money.

- Listen, I never got a chance
to thank you for defending me.

- I lost the motion.

- Yeah.

- You okay?

What's wrong?

- Nothing, nothing.

It's, uh--

when I think about
why I practice law,

my mind always
goes to the little guy.

You know, the Leonards?

The people that I fight for?

And after ten years,
for him to just sell me out.

- Ellenor,
he's a drug addict.

- No, no, no,
let me finish.

I've been sitting home
for the last two hours

feeling sorry for myself,

thinking that nobody's loyal.

There's just no such thing as--

and then my mind went to

how all of you
stood up for me,

dropped everything.

I'm sorry for the way
I've treated you lately.

I think this whole partnership
thing has blinded me to--

I don't know,
to what it really means

to have true partners.

I know I have them.

I especially know
you're one of them.

- Thank you.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Well,
that's all I came to say.

See you at work.
- Okay.