The Practice (1997–2004): Season 7, Episode 16 - Special Deliveries - full transcript
GAMBLE:
Previously on The Practice.
I could actually
go away for life
simply because I happened
to look like somebody?
BERLUTI: Like somebody
who stabbed three women.
Could you tell us
what you found?
Jumper cables, tool kit.
We think that was his M.O.
for approaching women,
disabling their cars
and then coming to their rescue.
Get him to flash his rage.
Why?
Because you're the prototype
of the women he kills.
GAMBLE: A talented,
good-looking man
who still lives with his mother.
RUSSELL:
We're very compatible.
Ever had sex with her?
Objection!
Objection!
WALSH: "Those who falsely
accuse others
deserve punishment themselves."
YOUNG: This is
a thinly veiled threat
on a D. A.'s life, Russell.
Look, I don't know
what's going on.
Maybe the real killer's
playing head games,
but I didn't send that.
FOREMAN: We find the defendant,
Russell Bakey, not guilty.
(sighs)
One might think this verdict
takes you out of danger.
Let's hope.
Lindsay?
Mr. Deeks?
DEEKS: I have a situation.
What's the situation?
I had a relapse.
WYATT: Oh, my God.
DOLE: A client of mine
has admitted to me
that he took Cindy's life.
Privilege prevents me
from telling you anything more.
I am so sorry.
MANTLE: I won't
make them reveal
the identity of their client,
but I am ordering them
to tell us where the body is.
This is privileged information,
and I won't reveal it.
(door closes)
How long will they keep us?
Until we tell
(sighs)
or until it becomes
clear we won't.
DONNELL: Eugene thinks,
and I agree,
that I should argue.
This judge obviously
doesn't respond to reason.
Perhaps the emotion
of a husband
pleading
to free his wife--
WYATT: Well,
who's gonna argue for me?
I don't even have a boyfriend.
I'll argue for both of you.
How long can they hold us,
really?
DONNELL: Well,
once a contempt order
proves to be futile,
it's usually lifted,
but with this judge...
RUSSELL: Helen. Hi.
Fancy meeting you here.
What are you doing here?
Actually,
I'm delivering something,
from my mother.
A summons?
And complaint.
She's maintaining you
defamed her during my trial.
She's suing me?
RUSSELL: I tried to talk her
out of suing you, but...
she, of course,
thinks I'm biased towards you
due to my sexual attraction.
I told her,
"Nonsense...
One can have a crush
and still be objective."
Don't you agree?
I would agree
your conduct rises
to the level of an assault.
You will be arrested
within the hour, Mr. Bakey.
That's hostile.
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DONNELL: It's been a week,
Your Honor.
Clearly Ms. Dole and Ms. Wyatt
aren't going to reveal
the location of the body.
FIELD: A week is nothing
weighed against the stakes.
DONNELL: If we were talking
about a live hostage,
that would be one thing,
but Cindy Burns is dead.
Turn around and look at
Cindy Burns' parents
and tell them
it means nothing
to give their daughter
a decent burial.
DONNELL: My heart
goes out to the parents,
as does Lindsay Dole's,
as does Claire Wyatt's.
But lawyer-client privilege
is sacrosanct.
MANTLE: I don't wanna hear it,
counsel.
They can either tell us
where the body is or go back.
Well, then, at a minimum,
they deserve a hearing
on the contempt issue.
And pending that,
as a matter of law,
bail has to be set.
I'll schedule a hearing
for July the 1st.
Bail is set at $10 million,
each, cash, no bond.
(gavel bangs)
Clearly, a district attorney
enjoys immunity for statements
made during a trial.
Qualified immunity,
and there have
to be boundaries.
Ms. Gamble basically
accused my client
of having a sexual relationship
with her son.
Sylvia Bakey's reputation
has been seriously stained.
She has been discharged
from her place of employment.
The question was there.
Her ex-husband
alleged child abuse
during the divorce proceeding.
PEDERSON:
She had no good-faith basis
to accuse my client
of being a child molester.
ARNELLO: You don't know
what she knew, counsel, so--
KEMP: All right, hold on.
Look, I'm loath
to erode the immunity
of district attorneys
in criminal trials,
but I have to agree
with counsel.
We can't allow prosecutors
to simply launch baseless bombs
which can destroy reputations
without some good-faith basis.
I'm gonna allow the plaintiff
to take discovery.
Your Honor--
KEMP: Come back
with a motion
for summary judgment
if you think they come up empty,
but I won't summarily kick it.
I don't believe this.
KEMP: And, Ms. Gamble,
I'm extremely distressed
to learn you issued
an arrest warrant for Mr. Bakey.
As you know, using the threat
of criminal prosecution
to discourage a civil lawsuit
is grounds for disbarment.
That arrest warrant is quashed,
and I'll trust you to use
better judgment in the future.
That's all.
(gavel bangs)
I'll make this go away.
Don't worry.
Looks like we'll all be
spending some time together.
Listen to me, Russell--
Helen!
Ms. Gamble is represented,
Mr. Bakey.
You're to have
no communication with her.
What was that all about?
You're not
gonna believe it, mom.
She's in love with me.
What?
She just told me
she had feelings for me.
BERLUTI: Russell,
may I have a word
in private, please?
Yes, of course.
What are you doing?
My mother,
she's insisting
on suing her.
I tried to dissuade her.
I'm beginning to think
she's not well, Jimmy.
Did you make a remark
that you were sexually
attracted to Helen Gamble?
Is it a crime?
Tell me you've
never thought about her.
Listen to what
I'm saying, Russell.
Helen Gamble
is a friend of mine.
If you're implying
that I would hurt her,
I'm very much offended, Jimmy.
FIELD: Ms. Dole,
you're free to go.
The judge has
had a change of heart.
Have a lovely day.
What about Claire?
She stays.
What?
Why?
FIELD: We consider her
a bigger threat to society.
What?
They think they can crack you.
I'm staying right here.
You don't have that right.
DOLE: As her lawyer,
I can certainly--
Visiting hours are over.
Guard, will you please
escort Ms. Dole out?
I would like to have
a conversation with her before--
You've had plenty
of time to talk.
I won't be telling
you anything, you pig.
That's certainly your call.
As I said,
have a lovely day.
They obviously feel
they can wear her down
if I'm not with her.
Physically divide and conquer.
Will they wear her down?
I don't think so.
She's pretty tough.
Bobby, why weren't you
(sighs) never mind.
Why wasn't I what?
Well...
I thought the point of you
arguing this morning
was to get a little
added emotion on our side,
a husband fighting
to free his wife.
And?
DOLE: And you pretty much argued
like I was just another client.
(scoffs) You even
called me Ms. Dole.
What's with that?
A little feeling
would have been nice,
don't you think?
A little feeling?
You're accusing me
of not feeling?
What does that
supposed to mean?
May I help you?
Delivery for Lindsay Dole.
We'll talk later, okay?
What are you doing here?
I need to know
what's going on.
DOLE: Stanley, it's dangerous
for you to show up here.
That's why I'm disguised
as a messenger.
Where's Claire?
They're still holding her.
Evidently, they believe
they can appeal
to her conscience.
I didn't mean to cause you
these problems.
I owe you my life
and now I'm causing you
such problems.
Claire and I will be okay,
but you...
you're gonna get caught
by coming here.
Is it this judge?
He seems crazy.
What if...
he were to disappear?
What?
I could make a delivery to him.
If you're even suggesting
what I think
you're suggesting...
DEEKS: It's just that...
I owe you...
everything.
The thought of somebody
causing you pain...
DOLE: Stanley,
you will not be making
any deliveries to the judge
or involve yourself
in this in any way.
If you do, I will go
to the police myself
and turn you in.
Are we clear?
The idea of somebody
hurting you or Claire--
(knocks on door)
(door opens)
Ms. Dole,
may I speak with you?
I'm afraid I can't.
It'll only just
take a second.
DOLE: I believe I signed
for the package, sir.
You may leave.
I know that you have
your professional
responsibilities,
but I also know that...
that you're a mother.
And if I could just appeal--
DOLE: I'm sorry, Mrs. Burns,
but I can't have
this conversation,
and I must ask you to leave.
Please tell me
where my daughter is.
I really need you to leave.
(sighs)
(door closes)
(sighs)
You can't hold me like this.
And I have a Sixth Amendment
right to counsel.
You can't even legally
talk to me.
FIELD: Claire,
your constitutional rights
are only relevant
should you be put on trial.
We don't plan
to put you on trial.
Then why am I in jail?!
FIELD: Look, I know
you're agonizing over this,
but believe it or not,
the law allows you to tell us
the location of the body.
In fact, in not telling us,
you're possibly at risk
for concealing evidence.
Are you threatening me now?
FIELD: No.
I'm just saying,
you can legally
follow your conscience here.
Also...
maybe I'm talking
out of turn here,
but I'm gonna say it anyway.
For criminal attorneys
like Lindsay Dole
and Bobby Donnell
and so forth,
reputation doesn't matter.
The only thing that counts
is your win-loss record.
But for civil attorneys,
which I believe
is what you plan to be,
reputation is everything.
And what you're doing now
refusing to reveal
to grieving parents
where their
deceased daughter is,
your reputation
may never recover from it.
Help yourself.
I'm trying
to be your friend here.
Mr. Field,
you're trying to get me
to break privilege.
When it comes
to a lawyer's reputation,
nothing is more important
than honoring
attorney-client privilege.
It would disgrace me
to violate it.
So, don't pretend
to be my friend here.
I'm telling you nothing.
You can keep me
locked up here forever.
I'm telling you nothing.
(engine revving)
Need a jump?
I'm not a mechanic,
but I think
you flooded it a little.
(phone beeping)
(engine revving)
Come near me again,
I'll have you shot dead.
(tires screech)
Trying to help.
I talked to him once, Helen.
YOUNG: Maybe you should go
for a restraining order.
With what?
He certainly
had a right
to be in the building.
My car didn't start, so--
Was it tampered with?
How would I know?
Maybe I did flood it.
I didn't dust the hood
for his prints.
BERLUTI: Helen,
put the police on him.
You have more resources
than we do.
In which case I'm accused
of using the threat
of prosecution to discourage
a civil lawsuit.
Come on, I'll be hauled
before the bar.
But if you think
he's threatening you--
GAMBLE: Eugene,
I have no proof.
Without asking you to violate
your attorney-client privilege,
could he have--
what am I dealing with here?
Can you tell me that?
I'm in a lawsuit with them.
What exactly am I dealing with?
Look, if he does anything else,
I'd go for the
restraining order.
It's his mother's lawsuit.
He doesn't necessarily
have the right
to be in the room
all the time.
GAMBLE: I'd like to get
a restraining order now,
but I need more to get it.
Could you please
give me something?
Great.
Thanks.
(sighs)
FIELD: Claire,
these are Cindy's parents,
John and Marsha Burns.
Okay, that does it!
Get me my lawyer!
You don't automatically have--
I will scream
and continue to scream
until I meet with my attorney.
Do not think I am kidding.
I just want you to hear
what they have to say.
(screams)
DOLE: It's one thing
to incarcerate somebody.
It's another to subject her
to this kind
of blatant coercion.
The parents just wanted
to talk to her.
Right.
MANTLE: There's nothing illegal
about coercive interrogation,
counsel.
You just can't use
the fruits of it at trial.
DOLE: The Sixth Amendment says,
"All questions have to stop
once a suspect
asks for a lawyer."
That's not an evidentiary rule.
It's in the Bill of Rights.
MANTLE: Look,
short of physical torture,
they can
do anything they want.
If they wanna use it
as evidence,
that's a different story.
But so far, your only remedy
could be a civil lawsuit,
in which case I'd say
"Good luck."
This is an abuse
of their discretion,
Your Honor, and yours.
Tell somebody who cares.
If Claire Wyatt wants out,
she knows what to do.
We're adjourned.
(gavel bangs)
(sighs)
Any ideas?
Jamie's drafting
an interlocutory appeal
on abuse-of-discretion grounds.
I'm not sure we'll have
any luck, but--
DONNELL: Lindsay?
Are you listening?
What?
Yeah, that sounds good.
Let's file an appeal.
What are you looking at?
Nothing.
Did you tell my son
you'd have him shot dead?
Mrs. Bakey,
we're adversaries
in a lawsuit.
We both have lawyers.
If a person threatens my son,
I tend to be direct.
You're here taking issue
with me threatening your son?
SYLVIA: What, I'm supposed
to be okay with it?
Your son's a serial killer.
You couldn't prove it
to a jury, Ms. Gamble.
You will never prove it
to me, I assure you.
Well, I don't have
to prove it to you.
You're the one person who knows
he wasn't home alone
with you those nights.
I didn't come here to fight,
Ms. Gamble. Just--
Russell...
swears to me...
that you threatened
to have him shot dead.
Did you really say that?
I did, yes.
Did you also...
give him some indication
that you might love him?
What?
You gave him
no such indication?
I think not.
Mrs. Bakey, hold on.
So, you're not here
to confront me,
but rather to determine
whether Russell's
being honest with you?
Your son's been acquitted.
He can't be retried.
Double jeopardy
prevents that.
Was he home with you
those nights?
If you have reasonable doubt
then I guess you agree
with the jury's verdict.
I don't care
about the jury's verdict,
nor do I have any interest
in prosecuting you
for perjury.
It's understandable.
Any mother would want
to protect her son.
But it would not
be understandable to do so
at the expense
of others' lives.
Mrs. Bakey, what if
he should kill again?
He's not a killer.
GAMBLE: He's threatened me.
He approached me
in the parking lot
this afternoon
with jumper cables.
I beg your pardon?
GAMBLE:
Yes, my car wouldn't start,
and suddenly, here he comes
offering to help.
Mrs. Bakey,
I received this message
during his trial.
If you didn't send this,
he did.
Whose idea
was it really to sue me?
Yours...
or his?
What else did she say?
GAMBLE: It's what
she didn't say.
If I read her correctly,
I think it's now
dawning on her,
her son might actually
be a murderer.
What good it does us now,
I don't know,
since he's already
been acquitted.
What?
What are you thinking?
There may be a way.
Do you think this woman
would actually help us now?
I don't know.
She seemed pretty conflicted
when she left my office.
Set up a little settlement
conference on your lawsuit.
There may be a way.
(knocks on door)
Hey.
Hey.
DONNELL: Lindsay...
we seem to be in a stage
of not communicating again.
Oh, it's just a stage?
I'm sorry. I guess
I should
be relieved to know
that you at least
consider it a problem.
Look at that.
I come in to talk,
and you start attacking me.
DOLE: I'm not attacking you.
When's the last time
we talked about anything?
You know what?
Forget it.
Ah.
No, don't go "Ah."
I came in here to talk!
For the record,
you shut it down, not me.
And get this package
out of here.
It practically
blocks the hall.
What package?
Oh, no.
I think it's her!
What?
I think that package
is Cindy Burns,
the 14-year-old.
I--my client was upset
about Claire being held,
and he felt bad
for the parents, and--
He sent you the body?
DOLE: I don't know.
I don't know.
But it doesn't say what it is
or where it came from.
I just have a bad feeling.
MAN: Okay. Come on. Work.
Work.
MAN: All clear.
McGUIRE: Okay.
Let's open it up.
No note? Nothing?
No.
You didn't see
anybody drop it off?
No.
(music playing)
McGUIRE: Okay.
Get the coroner.
I need you
and I need you
for questioning.
I don't understand.
Why can't I be here?
ARNELLO: Because
it's a settlement conference.
Only the parties themselves
may be present.
Why is he here?
I'm here as counsel,
Mr. Serial killer.
SYLVIA:
It's okay, Russell.
It's okay.
They're planning
to terrorize you, mother.
I'll protect
your mother, Russell.
Go ahead.
GAMBLE: Mrs. Bakey,
I think we're all
on the same side here
feeling your son needs help.
What's going on here?
SYLVIA: Is that
what this is all about?
You said you had an offer.
GAMBLE: We do have an offer.
It would involve me retracting
my defamatory comments.
It would involve us agreeing
not to prosecute
Mrs. Bakey for perjury,
but it would also involve
Mrs. Bakey's full cooperation
in preventing other women
from being killed
and getting her son
the medical help
he so desperately needs.
We're not talking
about prison or jail.
We are talking
about Russell
being civilly committed.
Mrs. Bakey,
he will kill again.
I believe
you know that.
In a package?
We'll talk
about it later, Claire.
It was just delivered
to you?
Later.
Was it FedEx
or regular mail?
Later, Claire.
GAMBLE: The bottom line
is we can't do it
without you.
The standard is so high.
How long
would he go away for?
WALSH: Could be
as short as four days,
as long as six months.
And if it's determined
that he still
poses a danger,
he could be held longer.
ARNELLO: The main thing
is to get him treatment.
Nobody here
wants another death.
I still can't believe
he did...
those awful things.
The issue is whether
he might do it again.
WALSH: We know
you love your son, Mrs. Bakey,
but he needs you to step in now
and be a parent.
They're gonna section 12 him.
They're gonna what?
Section 12 him.
STRINGER: What's
a section 12?
BERLUTI:
Civil commitment.
YOUNG: Who called you?
Russell called,
confused
as to why he had
to suddenly go
to court.
I called
the clerk's office.
They're gonna
section 12 him.
How?
What have they got?
He's a wacko psycho,
that's what they've got.
He asked us
to represent him.
And you said no.
BERLUTI: Ellenor,
I don't like the guy,
but this isn't right.
What they're trying
to do here is--
You said no.
I'll tell him no.
DOLE: So, who will
represent him, then?
DONNELL: (sighs)
They'll appoint somebody.
I talked to Helen.
I mean she really
is freaked out by the guy.
How couldn't she be?
It's not like her to scare.
Okay.
8:00.
It's late enough
to go home.
What do you mean by that?
I mean by the time
we go home, eat,
get Bobby Jr. tucked in,
it'll be close to 9:30, 10:00,
we'll be officially
too tired to talk
and we can go to bed,
putting off communication
for yet another day.
You know why...
we put off
communication, Bobby?
Because we have a son.
It's important to him
that we be together,
that we be happy together,
that we feel happy
individually.
I mean how would we ever go on
pretending all that
if we actually address
what's going on between us?
Say what you have
to say, Lindsay.
Okay.
I've been trying
to get you to talk
for a year.
You're the one always
too tired,
too overwhelmed by work.
I've been trying
to get you to go to therapy.
You say
you don't believe in it.
Now because I fail to tell you
where some dead body is,
you're alarmed
over our communication
problems?
I mean how do you figure me
to understand that,
to not be angry over it?
Think back.
Try to remember
the last time you touched me.
Our sex life could be
symptomatic
of our communication
problem.
That doesn't occur to you?
Excellent answer.
Here's what occurs to me.
You're not in love with me.
And I may not be
a mind reader, but...
I can certainly tell when--
given your newfound
commitment to the truth,
let's just commit to it.
You're not in love with me.
(sighs)
(knocks on door)
(door opens)
Delivery
for Lindsay Dole.
Get in here.
Bobby,
give me a second
with the flower man,
would you?
Excuse me?
He's a client.
I need a minute.
It's private. Go.
Now, please?
All right,
now, you listen--
I was just--
You don't talk!
You're to walk out that door
and never come back.
You don't deliver
any packages.
Do I make myself clear?
Yes.
DOLE: You say
you wanna get help,
but you don't really want that.
What you really want
is to continue to live free.
Well, let me tell you,
if that's your goal, do not.
I repeat, do not have any direct
or indirect contact
with me ever again,
because the police
will be watching.
Now, go.
(music playing)
WALSH: This is a complete
end around double jeopardy.
If a person presents
the likelihood
of serious harm,
the court may order him confined
to a mental facility
for a period of--
Where's the evidence
that he poses
such a likelihood?
Three dead bodies.
And he's still
prowling parking lots
with jumper cables.
Mr. Walsh, he was acquitted
of those crimes.
On the basis of an alibi
which has now been recanted.
WATSON: I don't care.
As a matter of law,
he stands innocent
of those murders.
You certainly can't use those
as evidence of guilt
for the purpose
of a section 12 hearing.
Your Honor,
his own mother
stands before you
concerned
about his mental health.
Even she--
WATSON: If we started
locking up people on the say-so
of concerned mothers,
we'd all be in jail.
You have a copy
of a message
sent to Ms. Gamble,
which message clearly threatens.
Where's the evidence
that concludes he sent it?
Look, what are you trying
to pull?
You lose the criminal trial.
You're just trying
to take another whack at it
with the civil proceeding,
and what do you have?
A concerned mother?
WALSH: She lives with him.
She loves him.
But now she's tumbled
to the idea,
"My God, my son
is a killer.
He needs medical help.
He may kill again."
You're right.
We can't get him criminally.
Nor do we want to.
But nor do we wanna sit back
and wait for him
to take another life.
Your problem is a little thing
called the constitution.
We don't take
freedom away from a man
based on fear alone.
We require evidence.
We require proof
beyond all reasonable doubt,
whether it's a criminal trial
or a section 12.
I would submit
thousands of people
are locked up
on the grounds of fear.
Yes.
We call them Arab-Americans.
And if you're about to cite
this country's despicable
material-witness scheme
as support
for the government's right
to incarcerate at will,
I would submit
that you've severely misstepped.
This man, as a matter of law,
has been judged innocent
of three crimes.
You're actually in here
trying to use those crimes
as evidence against him
to have him locked up civilly.
That's outrageous.
I don't care how
well-intentioned you are
or how worried sick
his mother may be.
Your petition is denied.
We're adjourned.
(gavel bangs)
Thank you.
What you did was very brave.
Oh, that's brave?
You betrayed me, mother.
Oh, Russell.
You betrayed me.
POPE: All right. Russell.
And you...
Aren't you afraid
he might turn on you?
No.
He's devoted to me.
And you, for that matter.
I mean, he would never--
What?
Excuse me.
Lindsay, maybe we should...
call the police.
DOLE: Tell me why
I shouldn't report you
for stalking?
I will go away forever.
I just couldn't leave
on bad terms.
As I've said,
you saved my life.
I would do anything
to either repay you or--
and even though
you don't care to hear it,
it's important for me
to say it.
It's important to me
that you know
how much I value your loyalty.
I suppose
I would like to be friends.
But if you don't want that,
I will honor your wish.
DOLE: Stanley,
we're not friends.
You were a client.
My loyalty to you
derived from duty.
I don't want you
to be in my life.
And I don't say that
to hurt you.
See this woman?
She's my best friend,
my maid
of honor, my--
and this man
is on the loose,
a threat to her life.
And how did he come
into her life?
She's a D. A.,
and she was just doing her job.
You came into my life
because I'm a criminal defense
lawyer doing my job.
We wanna do our jobs
and then be left alone.
Can you understand that,
Stanley?
Yes.
I'm gonna say goodbye now.
Okay?
And you're going
to honor that.
I promise.
Okay.
Bye.
Bye.
I think we blew it
by going in too soon.
Now, even if we get more,
well, our credibility
is suspect.
WALSH: Only with that judge.
We'll shop around
for somebody better.
You want protective custody?
He hasn't directly
done anything to me
or said anything.
But you're afraid.
RUSSELL: Hmm,
talking about me, I hope.
What do you want?
I'd like to file
a missing persons report.
I'm sorry?
My mother, she...
seems to have vanished.
I looked everywhere.
What have you done
to her?
What have I done?
There you go,
jumping to conclusions again.
Where is she?
I don't know.
That's why I'm here.
Could you help?
She has to be missing
at least 24 hours.
What's the saying?
The eager beaver
catches the crook?
I'd love it if you could...
begin searching.
I'm worried sick.
(retreating footsteps)
He's killed his mother.
I'm happy to go to therapy
if you think that'll...
What do you think?
DONNELL: Lindsay,
please don't get Socratic.
Let's just have
a conversation.
And don't fire back at me
my track record
for conversation.
Let's just start clean.
All right?
Let's begin with the premise
that I've done
everything wrong
and "Where do we go
from here?"
How do I start
to get things right?
That was an incredibly
dishonest thing to say.
What? I'm just--
DOLE: Let's start
with the premise
you've done everything wrong?
You don't believe that,
not for a second.
Why start with a premise
you believe to be a lie?
(lightly chuckles)
Why are you so angry?
I'm angry...
(sighs)
at myself.
Why?
Oh, I'm humiliated
to even say it.
For pretending day after day
after day
that my husband's
in love with me
when I know he's not.
Lindsay, for God's sake.
Of course I love you.
DOLE: I know you love me.
But (sighs)
I miss being adored.
I miss--
look, the idea of splitting up
is unmentionable for both of us.
That's why
we don't mention it.
But, Bobby,
other than our son,
it is so dead in this home
and has been for a while.
DONNELL: Look,
passion,
that stuff,
it wanes in marriage,
especially when you have
young children.
Things...
ebb and flow.
And...
I'm very...
in love with you.
Do you--
do you always feel like
you're in love with me?
No.
Do you ever?
Not lately.
Bobby,
I don't think I was...
aware of it at the time,
but when I started
my own firm,
I think I was beginning
a process.
Process?
Of leaving you.
MARY: Wrote that great book
"Don't be embarrassed
about s-e-x."
(laughter)
But he backed out.
He decided at the last minute
he was uncomfortable
with women.
(laughs)
(door bell dings)
MARY (over TV):
Well, you know, I don't know.
Ted's not very good
at that sort of thing.
WOMAN (over TV): But, Mary,
it's just talking.
MARY (over TV): Yeah, well,
it's just talking
that Ted's not very good at.
WOMAN (over TV): Mary,
if I were in your position,
you know that I would do
anything I could
to help me.
Can I help you?
Special delivery
for Russell Bakey.
(music playing)
YOUNG: Next on The Practice.
Your best chance
at seeing freedom again
is insanity.
MAN: What she did
and what they can prove
are two very different things.
Your husband received money
as part of a family trust,
and upon his death,
that money will go to Kevin.
WOMAN: Yes.
WALSH: Would Nancy Healey
have known this?
Why didn't you cross her better?
You were mush.
If I go away,
who takes care of you?
(music playing)
WOMAN: You stinker!
(music playing)
Previously on The Practice.
I could actually
go away for life
simply because I happened
to look like somebody?
BERLUTI: Like somebody
who stabbed three women.
Could you tell us
what you found?
Jumper cables, tool kit.
We think that was his M.O.
for approaching women,
disabling their cars
and then coming to their rescue.
Get him to flash his rage.
Why?
Because you're the prototype
of the women he kills.
GAMBLE: A talented,
good-looking man
who still lives with his mother.
RUSSELL:
We're very compatible.
Ever had sex with her?
Objection!
Objection!
WALSH: "Those who falsely
accuse others
deserve punishment themselves."
YOUNG: This is
a thinly veiled threat
on a D. A.'s life, Russell.
Look, I don't know
what's going on.
Maybe the real killer's
playing head games,
but I didn't send that.
FOREMAN: We find the defendant,
Russell Bakey, not guilty.
(sighs)
One might think this verdict
takes you out of danger.
Let's hope.
Lindsay?
Mr. Deeks?
DEEKS: I have a situation.
What's the situation?
I had a relapse.
WYATT: Oh, my God.
DOLE: A client of mine
has admitted to me
that he took Cindy's life.
Privilege prevents me
from telling you anything more.
I am so sorry.
MANTLE: I won't
make them reveal
the identity of their client,
but I am ordering them
to tell us where the body is.
This is privileged information,
and I won't reveal it.
(door closes)
How long will they keep us?
Until we tell
(sighs)
or until it becomes
clear we won't.
DONNELL: Eugene thinks,
and I agree,
that I should argue.
This judge obviously
doesn't respond to reason.
Perhaps the emotion
of a husband
pleading
to free his wife--
WYATT: Well,
who's gonna argue for me?
I don't even have a boyfriend.
I'll argue for both of you.
How long can they hold us,
really?
DONNELL: Well,
once a contempt order
proves to be futile,
it's usually lifted,
but with this judge...
RUSSELL: Helen. Hi.
Fancy meeting you here.
What are you doing here?
Actually,
I'm delivering something,
from my mother.
A summons?
And complaint.
She's maintaining you
defamed her during my trial.
She's suing me?
RUSSELL: I tried to talk her
out of suing you, but...
she, of course,
thinks I'm biased towards you
due to my sexual attraction.
I told her,
"Nonsense...
One can have a crush
and still be objective."
Don't you agree?
I would agree
your conduct rises
to the level of an assault.
You will be arrested
within the hour, Mr. Bakey.
That's hostile.
(music playing)
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DONNELL: It's been a week,
Your Honor.
Clearly Ms. Dole and Ms. Wyatt
aren't going to reveal
the location of the body.
FIELD: A week is nothing
weighed against the stakes.
DONNELL: If we were talking
about a live hostage,
that would be one thing,
but Cindy Burns is dead.
Turn around and look at
Cindy Burns' parents
and tell them
it means nothing
to give their daughter
a decent burial.
DONNELL: My heart
goes out to the parents,
as does Lindsay Dole's,
as does Claire Wyatt's.
But lawyer-client privilege
is sacrosanct.
MANTLE: I don't wanna hear it,
counsel.
They can either tell us
where the body is or go back.
Well, then, at a minimum,
they deserve a hearing
on the contempt issue.
And pending that,
as a matter of law,
bail has to be set.
I'll schedule a hearing
for July the 1st.
Bail is set at $10 million,
each, cash, no bond.
(gavel bangs)
Clearly, a district attorney
enjoys immunity for statements
made during a trial.
Qualified immunity,
and there have
to be boundaries.
Ms. Gamble basically
accused my client
of having a sexual relationship
with her son.
Sylvia Bakey's reputation
has been seriously stained.
She has been discharged
from her place of employment.
The question was there.
Her ex-husband
alleged child abuse
during the divorce proceeding.
PEDERSON:
She had no good-faith basis
to accuse my client
of being a child molester.
ARNELLO: You don't know
what she knew, counsel, so--
KEMP: All right, hold on.
Look, I'm loath
to erode the immunity
of district attorneys
in criminal trials,
but I have to agree
with counsel.
We can't allow prosecutors
to simply launch baseless bombs
which can destroy reputations
without some good-faith basis.
I'm gonna allow the plaintiff
to take discovery.
Your Honor--
KEMP: Come back
with a motion
for summary judgment
if you think they come up empty,
but I won't summarily kick it.
I don't believe this.
KEMP: And, Ms. Gamble,
I'm extremely distressed
to learn you issued
an arrest warrant for Mr. Bakey.
As you know, using the threat
of criminal prosecution
to discourage a civil lawsuit
is grounds for disbarment.
That arrest warrant is quashed,
and I'll trust you to use
better judgment in the future.
That's all.
(gavel bangs)
I'll make this go away.
Don't worry.
Looks like we'll all be
spending some time together.
Listen to me, Russell--
Helen!
Ms. Gamble is represented,
Mr. Bakey.
You're to have
no communication with her.
What was that all about?
You're not
gonna believe it, mom.
She's in love with me.
What?
She just told me
she had feelings for me.
BERLUTI: Russell,
may I have a word
in private, please?
Yes, of course.
What are you doing?
My mother,
she's insisting
on suing her.
I tried to dissuade her.
I'm beginning to think
she's not well, Jimmy.
Did you make a remark
that you were sexually
attracted to Helen Gamble?
Is it a crime?
Tell me you've
never thought about her.
Listen to what
I'm saying, Russell.
Helen Gamble
is a friend of mine.
If you're implying
that I would hurt her,
I'm very much offended, Jimmy.
FIELD: Ms. Dole,
you're free to go.
The judge has
had a change of heart.
Have a lovely day.
What about Claire?
She stays.
What?
Why?
FIELD: We consider her
a bigger threat to society.
What?
They think they can crack you.
I'm staying right here.
You don't have that right.
DOLE: As her lawyer,
I can certainly--
Visiting hours are over.
Guard, will you please
escort Ms. Dole out?
I would like to have
a conversation with her before--
You've had plenty
of time to talk.
I won't be telling
you anything, you pig.
That's certainly your call.
As I said,
have a lovely day.
They obviously feel
they can wear her down
if I'm not with her.
Physically divide and conquer.
Will they wear her down?
I don't think so.
She's pretty tough.
Bobby, why weren't you
(sighs) never mind.
Why wasn't I what?
Well...
I thought the point of you
arguing this morning
was to get a little
added emotion on our side,
a husband fighting
to free his wife.
And?
DOLE: And you pretty much argued
like I was just another client.
(scoffs) You even
called me Ms. Dole.
What's with that?
A little feeling
would have been nice,
don't you think?
A little feeling?
You're accusing me
of not feeling?
What does that
supposed to mean?
May I help you?
Delivery for Lindsay Dole.
We'll talk later, okay?
What are you doing here?
I need to know
what's going on.
DOLE: Stanley, it's dangerous
for you to show up here.
That's why I'm disguised
as a messenger.
Where's Claire?
They're still holding her.
Evidently, they believe
they can appeal
to her conscience.
I didn't mean to cause you
these problems.
I owe you my life
and now I'm causing you
such problems.
Claire and I will be okay,
but you...
you're gonna get caught
by coming here.
Is it this judge?
He seems crazy.
What if...
he were to disappear?
What?
I could make a delivery to him.
If you're even suggesting
what I think
you're suggesting...
DEEKS: It's just that...
I owe you...
everything.
The thought of somebody
causing you pain...
DOLE: Stanley,
you will not be making
any deliveries to the judge
or involve yourself
in this in any way.
If you do, I will go
to the police myself
and turn you in.
Are we clear?
The idea of somebody
hurting you or Claire--
(knocks on door)
(door opens)
Ms. Dole,
may I speak with you?
I'm afraid I can't.
It'll only just
take a second.
DOLE: I believe I signed
for the package, sir.
You may leave.
I know that you have
your professional
responsibilities,
but I also know that...
that you're a mother.
And if I could just appeal--
DOLE: I'm sorry, Mrs. Burns,
but I can't have
this conversation,
and I must ask you to leave.
Please tell me
where my daughter is.
I really need you to leave.
(sighs)
(door closes)
(sighs)
You can't hold me like this.
And I have a Sixth Amendment
right to counsel.
You can't even legally
talk to me.
FIELD: Claire,
your constitutional rights
are only relevant
should you be put on trial.
We don't plan
to put you on trial.
Then why am I in jail?!
FIELD: Look, I know
you're agonizing over this,
but believe it or not,
the law allows you to tell us
the location of the body.
In fact, in not telling us,
you're possibly at risk
for concealing evidence.
Are you threatening me now?
FIELD: No.
I'm just saying,
you can legally
follow your conscience here.
Also...
maybe I'm talking
out of turn here,
but I'm gonna say it anyway.
For criminal attorneys
like Lindsay Dole
and Bobby Donnell
and so forth,
reputation doesn't matter.
The only thing that counts
is your win-loss record.
But for civil attorneys,
which I believe
is what you plan to be,
reputation is everything.
And what you're doing now
refusing to reveal
to grieving parents
where their
deceased daughter is,
your reputation
may never recover from it.
Help yourself.
I'm trying
to be your friend here.
Mr. Field,
you're trying to get me
to break privilege.
When it comes
to a lawyer's reputation,
nothing is more important
than honoring
attorney-client privilege.
It would disgrace me
to violate it.
So, don't pretend
to be my friend here.
I'm telling you nothing.
You can keep me
locked up here forever.
I'm telling you nothing.
(engine revving)
Need a jump?
I'm not a mechanic,
but I think
you flooded it a little.
(phone beeping)
(engine revving)
Come near me again,
I'll have you shot dead.
(tires screech)
Trying to help.
I talked to him once, Helen.
YOUNG: Maybe you should go
for a restraining order.
With what?
He certainly
had a right
to be in the building.
My car didn't start, so--
Was it tampered with?
How would I know?
Maybe I did flood it.
I didn't dust the hood
for his prints.
BERLUTI: Helen,
put the police on him.
You have more resources
than we do.
In which case I'm accused
of using the threat
of prosecution to discourage
a civil lawsuit.
Come on, I'll be hauled
before the bar.
But if you think
he's threatening you--
GAMBLE: Eugene,
I have no proof.
Without asking you to violate
your attorney-client privilege,
could he have--
what am I dealing with here?
Can you tell me that?
I'm in a lawsuit with them.
What exactly am I dealing with?
Look, if he does anything else,
I'd go for the
restraining order.
It's his mother's lawsuit.
He doesn't necessarily
have the right
to be in the room
all the time.
GAMBLE: I'd like to get
a restraining order now,
but I need more to get it.
Could you please
give me something?
Great.
Thanks.
(sighs)
FIELD: Claire,
these are Cindy's parents,
John and Marsha Burns.
Okay, that does it!
Get me my lawyer!
You don't automatically have--
I will scream
and continue to scream
until I meet with my attorney.
Do not think I am kidding.
I just want you to hear
what they have to say.
(screams)
DOLE: It's one thing
to incarcerate somebody.
It's another to subject her
to this kind
of blatant coercion.
The parents just wanted
to talk to her.
Right.
MANTLE: There's nothing illegal
about coercive interrogation,
counsel.
You just can't use
the fruits of it at trial.
DOLE: The Sixth Amendment says,
"All questions have to stop
once a suspect
asks for a lawyer."
That's not an evidentiary rule.
It's in the Bill of Rights.
MANTLE: Look,
short of physical torture,
they can
do anything they want.
If they wanna use it
as evidence,
that's a different story.
But so far, your only remedy
could be a civil lawsuit,
in which case I'd say
"Good luck."
This is an abuse
of their discretion,
Your Honor, and yours.
Tell somebody who cares.
If Claire Wyatt wants out,
she knows what to do.
We're adjourned.
(gavel bangs)
(sighs)
Any ideas?
Jamie's drafting
an interlocutory appeal
on abuse-of-discretion grounds.
I'm not sure we'll have
any luck, but--
DONNELL: Lindsay?
Are you listening?
What?
Yeah, that sounds good.
Let's file an appeal.
What are you looking at?
Nothing.
Did you tell my son
you'd have him shot dead?
Mrs. Bakey,
we're adversaries
in a lawsuit.
We both have lawyers.
If a person threatens my son,
I tend to be direct.
You're here taking issue
with me threatening your son?
SYLVIA: What, I'm supposed
to be okay with it?
Your son's a serial killer.
You couldn't prove it
to a jury, Ms. Gamble.
You will never prove it
to me, I assure you.
Well, I don't have
to prove it to you.
You're the one person who knows
he wasn't home alone
with you those nights.
I didn't come here to fight,
Ms. Gamble. Just--
Russell...
swears to me...
that you threatened
to have him shot dead.
Did you really say that?
I did, yes.
Did you also...
give him some indication
that you might love him?
What?
You gave him
no such indication?
I think not.
Mrs. Bakey, hold on.
So, you're not here
to confront me,
but rather to determine
whether Russell's
being honest with you?
Your son's been acquitted.
He can't be retried.
Double jeopardy
prevents that.
Was he home with you
those nights?
If you have reasonable doubt
then I guess you agree
with the jury's verdict.
I don't care
about the jury's verdict,
nor do I have any interest
in prosecuting you
for perjury.
It's understandable.
Any mother would want
to protect her son.
But it would not
be understandable to do so
at the expense
of others' lives.
Mrs. Bakey, what if
he should kill again?
He's not a killer.
GAMBLE: He's threatened me.
He approached me
in the parking lot
this afternoon
with jumper cables.
I beg your pardon?
GAMBLE:
Yes, my car wouldn't start,
and suddenly, here he comes
offering to help.
Mrs. Bakey,
I received this message
during his trial.
If you didn't send this,
he did.
Whose idea
was it really to sue me?
Yours...
or his?
What else did she say?
GAMBLE: It's what
she didn't say.
If I read her correctly,
I think it's now
dawning on her,
her son might actually
be a murderer.
What good it does us now,
I don't know,
since he's already
been acquitted.
What?
What are you thinking?
There may be a way.
Do you think this woman
would actually help us now?
I don't know.
She seemed pretty conflicted
when she left my office.
Set up a little settlement
conference on your lawsuit.
There may be a way.
(knocks on door)
Hey.
Hey.
DONNELL: Lindsay...
we seem to be in a stage
of not communicating again.
Oh, it's just a stage?
I'm sorry. I guess
I should
be relieved to know
that you at least
consider it a problem.
Look at that.
I come in to talk,
and you start attacking me.
DOLE: I'm not attacking you.
When's the last time
we talked about anything?
You know what?
Forget it.
Ah.
No, don't go "Ah."
I came in here to talk!
For the record,
you shut it down, not me.
And get this package
out of here.
It practically
blocks the hall.
What package?
Oh, no.
I think it's her!
What?
I think that package
is Cindy Burns,
the 14-year-old.
I--my client was upset
about Claire being held,
and he felt bad
for the parents, and--
He sent you the body?
DOLE: I don't know.
I don't know.
But it doesn't say what it is
or where it came from.
I just have a bad feeling.
MAN: Okay. Come on. Work.
Work.
MAN: All clear.
McGUIRE: Okay.
Let's open it up.
No note? Nothing?
No.
You didn't see
anybody drop it off?
No.
(music playing)
McGUIRE: Okay.
Get the coroner.
I need you
and I need you
for questioning.
I don't understand.
Why can't I be here?
ARNELLO: Because
it's a settlement conference.
Only the parties themselves
may be present.
Why is he here?
I'm here as counsel,
Mr. Serial killer.
SYLVIA:
It's okay, Russell.
It's okay.
They're planning
to terrorize you, mother.
I'll protect
your mother, Russell.
Go ahead.
GAMBLE: Mrs. Bakey,
I think we're all
on the same side here
feeling your son needs help.
What's going on here?
SYLVIA: Is that
what this is all about?
You said you had an offer.
GAMBLE: We do have an offer.
It would involve me retracting
my defamatory comments.
It would involve us agreeing
not to prosecute
Mrs. Bakey for perjury,
but it would also involve
Mrs. Bakey's full cooperation
in preventing other women
from being killed
and getting her son
the medical help
he so desperately needs.
We're not talking
about prison or jail.
We are talking
about Russell
being civilly committed.
Mrs. Bakey,
he will kill again.
I believe
you know that.
In a package?
We'll talk
about it later, Claire.
It was just delivered
to you?
Later.
Was it FedEx
or regular mail?
Later, Claire.
GAMBLE: The bottom line
is we can't do it
without you.
The standard is so high.
How long
would he go away for?
WALSH: Could be
as short as four days,
as long as six months.
And if it's determined
that he still
poses a danger,
he could be held longer.
ARNELLO: The main thing
is to get him treatment.
Nobody here
wants another death.
I still can't believe
he did...
those awful things.
The issue is whether
he might do it again.
WALSH: We know
you love your son, Mrs. Bakey,
but he needs you to step in now
and be a parent.
They're gonna section 12 him.
They're gonna what?
Section 12 him.
STRINGER: What's
a section 12?
BERLUTI:
Civil commitment.
YOUNG: Who called you?
Russell called,
confused
as to why he had
to suddenly go
to court.
I called
the clerk's office.
They're gonna
section 12 him.
How?
What have they got?
He's a wacko psycho,
that's what they've got.
He asked us
to represent him.
And you said no.
BERLUTI: Ellenor,
I don't like the guy,
but this isn't right.
What they're trying
to do here is--
You said no.
I'll tell him no.
DOLE: So, who will
represent him, then?
DONNELL: (sighs)
They'll appoint somebody.
I talked to Helen.
I mean she really
is freaked out by the guy.
How couldn't she be?
It's not like her to scare.
Okay.
8:00.
It's late enough
to go home.
What do you mean by that?
I mean by the time
we go home, eat,
get Bobby Jr. tucked in,
it'll be close to 9:30, 10:00,
we'll be officially
too tired to talk
and we can go to bed,
putting off communication
for yet another day.
You know why...
we put off
communication, Bobby?
Because we have a son.
It's important to him
that we be together,
that we be happy together,
that we feel happy
individually.
I mean how would we ever go on
pretending all that
if we actually address
what's going on between us?
Say what you have
to say, Lindsay.
Okay.
I've been trying
to get you to talk
for a year.
You're the one always
too tired,
too overwhelmed by work.
I've been trying
to get you to go to therapy.
You say
you don't believe in it.
Now because I fail to tell you
where some dead body is,
you're alarmed
over our communication
problems?
I mean how do you figure me
to understand that,
to not be angry over it?
Think back.
Try to remember
the last time you touched me.
Our sex life could be
symptomatic
of our communication
problem.
That doesn't occur to you?
Excellent answer.
Here's what occurs to me.
You're not in love with me.
And I may not be
a mind reader, but...
I can certainly tell when--
given your newfound
commitment to the truth,
let's just commit to it.
You're not in love with me.
(sighs)
(knocks on door)
(door opens)
Delivery
for Lindsay Dole.
Get in here.
Bobby,
give me a second
with the flower man,
would you?
Excuse me?
He's a client.
I need a minute.
It's private. Go.
Now, please?
All right,
now, you listen--
I was just--
You don't talk!
You're to walk out that door
and never come back.
You don't deliver
any packages.
Do I make myself clear?
Yes.
DOLE: You say
you wanna get help,
but you don't really want that.
What you really want
is to continue to live free.
Well, let me tell you,
if that's your goal, do not.
I repeat, do not have any direct
or indirect contact
with me ever again,
because the police
will be watching.
Now, go.
(music playing)
WALSH: This is a complete
end around double jeopardy.
If a person presents
the likelihood
of serious harm,
the court may order him confined
to a mental facility
for a period of--
Where's the evidence
that he poses
such a likelihood?
Three dead bodies.
And he's still
prowling parking lots
with jumper cables.
Mr. Walsh, he was acquitted
of those crimes.
On the basis of an alibi
which has now been recanted.
WATSON: I don't care.
As a matter of law,
he stands innocent
of those murders.
You certainly can't use those
as evidence of guilt
for the purpose
of a section 12 hearing.
Your Honor,
his own mother
stands before you
concerned
about his mental health.
Even she--
WATSON: If we started
locking up people on the say-so
of concerned mothers,
we'd all be in jail.
You have a copy
of a message
sent to Ms. Gamble,
which message clearly threatens.
Where's the evidence
that concludes he sent it?
Look, what are you trying
to pull?
You lose the criminal trial.
You're just trying
to take another whack at it
with the civil proceeding,
and what do you have?
A concerned mother?
WALSH: She lives with him.
She loves him.
But now she's tumbled
to the idea,
"My God, my son
is a killer.
He needs medical help.
He may kill again."
You're right.
We can't get him criminally.
Nor do we want to.
But nor do we wanna sit back
and wait for him
to take another life.
Your problem is a little thing
called the constitution.
We don't take
freedom away from a man
based on fear alone.
We require evidence.
We require proof
beyond all reasonable doubt,
whether it's a criminal trial
or a section 12.
I would submit
thousands of people
are locked up
on the grounds of fear.
Yes.
We call them Arab-Americans.
And if you're about to cite
this country's despicable
material-witness scheme
as support
for the government's right
to incarcerate at will,
I would submit
that you've severely misstepped.
This man, as a matter of law,
has been judged innocent
of three crimes.
You're actually in here
trying to use those crimes
as evidence against him
to have him locked up civilly.
That's outrageous.
I don't care how
well-intentioned you are
or how worried sick
his mother may be.
Your petition is denied.
We're adjourned.
(gavel bangs)
Thank you.
What you did was very brave.
Oh, that's brave?
You betrayed me, mother.
Oh, Russell.
You betrayed me.
POPE: All right. Russell.
And you...
Aren't you afraid
he might turn on you?
No.
He's devoted to me.
And you, for that matter.
I mean, he would never--
What?
Excuse me.
Lindsay, maybe we should...
call the police.
DOLE: Tell me why
I shouldn't report you
for stalking?
I will go away forever.
I just couldn't leave
on bad terms.
As I've said,
you saved my life.
I would do anything
to either repay you or--
and even though
you don't care to hear it,
it's important for me
to say it.
It's important to me
that you know
how much I value your loyalty.
I suppose
I would like to be friends.
But if you don't want that,
I will honor your wish.
DOLE: Stanley,
we're not friends.
You were a client.
My loyalty to you
derived from duty.
I don't want you
to be in my life.
And I don't say that
to hurt you.
See this woman?
She's my best friend,
my maid
of honor, my--
and this man
is on the loose,
a threat to her life.
And how did he come
into her life?
She's a D. A.,
and she was just doing her job.
You came into my life
because I'm a criminal defense
lawyer doing my job.
We wanna do our jobs
and then be left alone.
Can you understand that,
Stanley?
Yes.
I'm gonna say goodbye now.
Okay?
And you're going
to honor that.
I promise.
Okay.
Bye.
Bye.
I think we blew it
by going in too soon.
Now, even if we get more,
well, our credibility
is suspect.
WALSH: Only with that judge.
We'll shop around
for somebody better.
You want protective custody?
He hasn't directly
done anything to me
or said anything.
But you're afraid.
RUSSELL: Hmm,
talking about me, I hope.
What do you want?
I'd like to file
a missing persons report.
I'm sorry?
My mother, she...
seems to have vanished.
I looked everywhere.
What have you done
to her?
What have I done?
There you go,
jumping to conclusions again.
Where is she?
I don't know.
That's why I'm here.
Could you help?
She has to be missing
at least 24 hours.
What's the saying?
The eager beaver
catches the crook?
I'd love it if you could...
begin searching.
I'm worried sick.
(retreating footsteps)
He's killed his mother.
I'm happy to go to therapy
if you think that'll...
What do you think?
DONNELL: Lindsay,
please don't get Socratic.
Let's just have
a conversation.
And don't fire back at me
my track record
for conversation.
Let's just start clean.
All right?
Let's begin with the premise
that I've done
everything wrong
and "Where do we go
from here?"
How do I start
to get things right?
That was an incredibly
dishonest thing to say.
What? I'm just--
DOLE: Let's start
with the premise
you've done everything wrong?
You don't believe that,
not for a second.
Why start with a premise
you believe to be a lie?
(lightly chuckles)
Why are you so angry?
I'm angry...
(sighs)
at myself.
Why?
Oh, I'm humiliated
to even say it.
For pretending day after day
after day
that my husband's
in love with me
when I know he's not.
Lindsay, for God's sake.
Of course I love you.
DOLE: I know you love me.
But (sighs)
I miss being adored.
I miss--
look, the idea of splitting up
is unmentionable for both of us.
That's why
we don't mention it.
But, Bobby,
other than our son,
it is so dead in this home
and has been for a while.
DONNELL: Look,
passion,
that stuff,
it wanes in marriage,
especially when you have
young children.
Things...
ebb and flow.
And...
I'm very...
in love with you.
Do you--
do you always feel like
you're in love with me?
No.
Do you ever?
Not lately.
Bobby,
I don't think I was...
aware of it at the time,
but when I started
my own firm,
I think I was beginning
a process.
Process?
Of leaving you.
MARY: Wrote that great book
"Don't be embarrassed
about s-e-x."
(laughter)
But he backed out.
He decided at the last minute
he was uncomfortable
with women.
(laughs)
(door bell dings)
MARY (over TV):
Well, you know, I don't know.
Ted's not very good
at that sort of thing.
WOMAN (over TV): But, Mary,
it's just talking.
MARY (over TV): Yeah, well,
it's just talking
that Ted's not very good at.
WOMAN (over TV): Mary,
if I were in your position,
you know that I would do
anything I could
to help me.
Can I help you?
Special delivery
for Russell Bakey.
(music playing)
YOUNG: Next on The Practice.
Your best chance
at seeing freedom again
is insanity.
MAN: What she did
and what they can prove
are two very different things.
Your husband received money
as part of a family trust,
and upon his death,
that money will go to Kevin.
WOMAN: Yes.
WALSH: Would Nancy Healey
have known this?
Why didn't you cross her better?
You were mush.
If I go away,
who takes care of you?
(music playing)
WOMAN: You stinker!
(music playing)