The Practice (1997–2004): Season 8, Episode 21 - New Hoods on the Block - full transcript
SHORE: Previously
on The Practice...
I'd love to submit your name
to the governor's counsel.
To be a superior court judge?
Oh, you're acting like
I don't have the right to leave,
like I owe you--
I never said--
I have the right.
I've always wanted
to hang my own shingle.
When would you do this?
It needs to be now.
I talked to my friend
at the bureau.
Your ass wasn't bugged.
What did you expect
that they were gonna--
I think it's possible
she flipped you, Manny.
Gigi?
BERLUTI: I know you love Manny.
But you got to tell me
how you were coerced.
PAPONI: This is Lenny Pescatore.
How can I help you?
I'm a neighborhood lawyer, too.
Only problem...
I'm the neighborhood lawyer.
SHORE: I thought
you were absolutely...
sensational up
on that bar.
Well, that was surprising.
I kissed you.
It was totally inappropriate.
I have this way
of making women feel...
wonderful, but...
less than, in the end.
Maybe you haven't met
the right girl.
Perhaps.
I think you like me.
Shh.
HEEP: Alan, hold up. Yo.
Did you just say, "Yo"?
I'm very upset.
I thought we had a kind of,
you know, thing going.
A thing?
Yes, a thing--we kissed.
that's a--
You kissed.
And you received,
and we danced.
You grabbed my ass.
You saluted my quest
to be myself--
that, at least, adds up
to a potential thing
that needs to be dealt with.
SHORE:
Sally, when I told you
I was attracted
to professional women,
I truly meant...
professional women.
I'm not accepting that.
You're not accepting it.
You like me.
I can always tell
when a man has feelings for me.
I don't care how much you try
to kid yourself.
You're not fooling me.
CRANE: Tara...
Denny Crane.
I am ahead of you there.
Wonderful news,
I had breakfast this morning.
You must be
beside yourself.
Oh, no, that's not the news.
Had breakfast this morning
with general counsel
of perhaps one of the leading
car manufacturers
of this country,
know who that is?
America?
We're taking over
their SUV cases,
which is beyond huge.
I want Hannah, Alan,
you, of course,
in my office at 1400 hours.
Aye, aye.
Denny Crane.
(music playing)
I'm not gonna tell you
your business, Jimmy,
because I know
that's not my place,
but you got to stand up
to this guy.
I did.
No, you didn't.
Manny did.
You didn't do anything.
And what should I
have done, Suzy?
PAPONI: Again, not my place,
but this is the street.
It's not some fancy
Beacon Hill Office.
I asked around.
That fat slob
has bullied every lawyer
that's tried to come in here,
and he intimidates clients, too.
I talked to my mother.
She says he's a coward.
COLEY: Excuse me, Jimmy?
Excuse me.
Look, I've been playing
this interrogation thing
over and over
in my head, Jimmy,
and, well...
I think maybe
the police did coerce me.
I mean, what I said
wasn't totally voluntary.
Okay.
How so?
Well...
they attached these tiny,
little electrode thingies
to my privates,
and they would zap me
if they didn't like
my answers.
It made me react
all involuntary.
I...
What?
Manny told you to say this.
COLEY: He said they torture,
that they're doing
this kind of thing
in the Guatemala bay area.
Guantanamo Bay.
Gigi...
I am not going to lie.
If the day comes
I decide to lie,
it won't be with one of Manny's
ridiculous concoctions.
I love him, Jimmy,
and, well,
he won't take me back,
and if you can get this thing
to go away,
well, then, maybe I can get him
to forgive me.
STADLER: I just think
you should have counsel.
YOUNG: The commission wants
to hear from me,
not my attorney.
Plus, you can advise me
if I need help.
No, I cannot.
I'm on the nominating committee.
It would be total--
YOUNG: Uh...
advise me now, then.
All right.
It could get very political.
The main thing for you
is to impress them
with the idea
that you will uphold the law.
As a defense attorney,
you could be viewed as being
potentially soft on crime.
You do not want
to be viewed that way.
I could come with you.
STADLER: I think
that would be very wise.
Also...
the death penalty...
What about it?
STADLER: If it comes up--
and it may,
you'll have to finesse this.
Romney is looking
to impose it.
And what?
I'm required
to agree with that?
STADLER: No.
You simply say
that you're bound
to uphold the law,
that, as a judge,
you will uphold the law,
and get out.
This is critical, Eugene.
Is finesse
in your arsenal?
CRANE: The first thing
we need to do
is develop a strategy.
These vehicles still roll.
It's a growth industry,
and I want to capture it.
We need a strategy.
Hannah...
I'd like you to come up
with an overall--
what's the word?
Strategy?
Exactly.
Alan, turns out...
our first case comes up
for trial in June.
your former colleague
is handling it,
that big-boned woman
from your old firm,
the one that scares me.
Ellenor Frutt.
CRANE: Mmm.
Our client...
will no doubt be evaluating us
in this first case.
I'd like you to take it,
since--
SHORE: I'm afraid I can't.
Why not?
Ellenor's a friend.
I'm not trying cases
against her.
CRANE: Son...
success is never so sweet
as when we can crush a friend
in the process.
Just the same.
Hannah...
you don't have friends,
do you?
None.
Excellent.
Tara, see that Hannah gets
what she needs.
I believe that covers it.
Anything else?
Your name.
Oh, yes.
Denny Crane.
Dismissed.
BERLUTI: Manny...
QUINN: I can't go flipping
Charlie Andretti, Jimmy.
I mean, we need to come up
with a solution
that allows me
to go on living.
I will not be saying
the Feds attached electrodes
to your girlfriend's genitalia.
Now, stop being an idiot!
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean that.
You know I got labeling issues.
I'm sorry.
She wants you back,
you know, Gigi.
Ohh.
Manny, sometimes,
the toughest thing in the world
to do is forgive.
And sometimes,
the more you love somebody,
the harder it is.
What are you? "Dear Abby" now?
BERLUTI: Spinny...
what happened to your head?
Ten guesses.
The fish?
SPINNY: Not personally,
but his name did come up
between kicks.
I got to fire you, Jimmy.
Spinny, I will talk to him.
He's got me by the cogliones.
I'm in to him (indistinct)
for $2,500 plus juice.
He's juicing you?
A point and a half.
Does he do this with everybody?
Hey, if I borrowed
from a loan shark,
I'd be paying
five points a week,
that's, of course,
if I was to pay him.
Suzy...
cancel this afternoon's
appointments.
What appointments?
People just walk in here.
WARTON: Do you see yourself
bringing any particular
judicial philosophy
to the bench?
YOUNG: I would like
to see the courts
and specifically, judges,
show respect for the law.
Do you think
that's currently a problem?
YOUNG: A big one.
We've got overcrowded dockets,
and more and more judges
are becoming slaves
to expediency.
More and more,
the constitution
is being molded
and manipulated
to fit a judge's political
or moral point of view.
It has to stop.
HALBERRY: I can see
your firm has handled
several capital cases
out of state,
each time taking a position
against the death penalty.
We're a defense firm.
Our clients tend
to disfavor being executed.
Fair enough,
but as a judge, would you impose
the death penalty,
should it ever become law
in this state?
No.
HALBERRY: Why not?
YOUNG:
One, I consider human life
to be intrinsically sacred,
and I do not believe
the state should engage
in the systemized
taking of human life.
Two...
our judicial system
is flawed.
We wrongly convict
over 10,000 people a year,
some of whom
are sentenced to die.
Now, you can always release
an exonerated man from prison,
but bringing him back from death
has proven to be trickier.
DNA has already cleared 100 men,
many on death row.
Clearly, something
isn't working.
WARTON: And what would you say,
Mr. Young,
to the mother
whose five-year-old daughter
has been raped and murdered?
I would say,
if it were my daughter,
I'd like to kill
whoever did it myself.
And if I ever came
face-to-face with the guy,
I couldn't guarantee
any of you
that I wouldn't kill him.
But if I did...
it would be wrong,
and for the state
to kill reflectively,
absent emotion, on ceremony
it is not right.
And if I might add
one of the biggest problems
we have today
our children are being raised
in a culture
that not only condones revenge,
but, perhaps, even celebrates it
as a societal good.
It's wrong.
I don't understand, Eugene.
Do you not want
to be confirmed?
I want to be confirmed
for who I am,
not who they want me to be.
FRUTT: Come on.
You can't possibly be
so pigheaded that you--
What did you say?
Eugene...
can we please have
an honest conversation here?
Do you want
this judgeship or not?
(sighs)
I want it desperately.
Then why behave--
I truly don't get it.
My brother went to jail
for a crime he didn't do
you know this.
He died in prison.
And...
Well, and, since that day,
I made a vow...
the best way
to fix the justice system
is up there, on the bench,
and...
I think the reason
I want it so bad, Ellenor,
is because it's the same thing
that makes me so angry,
when I think of what happened
to my brother, and--
FRUTT: Then get there, Eugene.
Get there for your brother.
(knocks on door)
ROSE: Hello.
Uh, I'm looking
for Ellenor Frutt.
I'm Ellenor Frutt.
Hi.
I'm Hannah Rose.
We just took over
the Lansing Motors case.
We now represent
the defendant.
Oh.
I'm from Crane,
Pool, & Schmidt,
where Alan Shore works.
And, well, I know
things ended badly
between Alan and this firm,
and I thought
to avoid getting off
on an acrimonious foot,
I'd just come by
and introduce myself.
Actually,
Alan and I remain friends.
Oh, well,
that's a relief to know.
I am not a huge fan
of contention.
And you chose a career
in litigation.
I look at it more
as dispute resolution.
Anyway, toward that end,
I was reviewing your motion
to compel production
of documents.
I believe prior counsel
was a little withholding,
as you suspected,
and I intend to have
all documents delivered
by the close of business.
Thank you.
Anyway,
it was nice to meet you.
(door opens)
She seemed nice.
Alan...
yo, again.
Tonight's lousy for me.
Hannah assigned me some research
on the SUV case,
so we'll have to make it
tomorrow night.
Make what tomorrow night?
Our dinner.
Didn't I tell you
we were having dinner?
No, Sally,
you forgot to mention that.
Well, now you know.
Wait a second.
Yo!
I swear,
I had nothing to do with that.
WILSON: Go to dinner
with her, Alan.
Uh, I thought you wanted me
to ask you to dinner.
Perhaps I do,
but I'm speaking
in your interests now,
and your interests
seem to lie with her.
Don't be ridiculous.
She's a child.
It would be a violation
of my parole
to have dinner with her.
You see,
here's what you need to know
is that you like her
and you don't like yourself.
With her,
you get to remake yourself...
at least somewhat.
I thought you wanted me
to ask you to dinner.
EILEEN: All right,
I'll give him the message.
Is he in there?
He's with a client.
BERLUTI: Tell him Jimmy Berluti
is out here,
and he's very angry.
I know who you are.
PESCATORE: Go on.
I'll call you
if I hear anything.
MAN: Thanks, Len.
You got an appointment?
I just saw Spinny.
Good for you.
Who's next?
Mr. Terranova.
BERLUTI: He's got seven stitches
above his eye.
Some people
shouldn't drink and walk.
Come on in, Mr. Terranova.
BERLUTI: What kind
of a lawyer are you?
You're supposed
to be helping people, not--
Look...
I'd like to hear you
pontificate,
but, as you can see,
I've got clients
to take care of.
Do they know
that you charge interest
on what they can't pay up front?
Here.
Whatever he's charging you,
I'll do it for half.
Rocco!
BERLUTI: No juice.
PESCATORE: Okay, everybody out.
Come back in an hour.
WOMAN: Why?
Vermin infestation.
Come on, let's go, andiamo.
What about my appointment?
We plead no contest.
You pay the fine and me,
it all goes away.
What are you doing?
Eileen, wait in the office.
Lenny...
Now!
And close the door.
BERLUTI: Raise a finger,
and I'll have you
before the BBO
before you can light
your next cigar.
We'll see
how much speech you got
when your jaw is wired.
BERLUTI:
Wait, just wait a second.
I want to be perfectly clear
as to what's
about to happen here.
You haven't been away
from the neighborhood
that long, Jimmy.
You know
what's about to happen.
Get him.
Ohh!
PESCATORE:
You're a dead man, Jimmy!
You're dead!
You don't know
who messed with!
RICHMOND:
Now, where I'm troubled
in your own firm,
if I'm to believe statements
made by you under oath,
you had an attorney who engaged
in egregiously unethical,
if not criminal, conduct.
I assume you're referring
to Alan Shore.
Concealing evidence,
blackmail, extortion,
assuming false identities,
suborning perjury.
We certainly
did not authorize Mr. Shore
to commit these infractions.
But you let it go on?
YOUNG: No.
No.
We fired him.
After several months
of this behavior,
after profiting
from this conduct,
profit in the amount
of $9 million.
Now, that's dirty money,
Mr. Young.
We attempted to sanction
Mr. Shore's behavior
many times, and--
But you let it go on,
and only after you got rich
from this unethical behavior,
only then did you attempt
to shut it down.
That is totally false!
And maybe this would be
a good time to point out
that, if I were
to become a judge,
my style would be
to hear evidence
before I started
making conclusions,
especially the unfounded kind.
You seem to have a temper.
It's over, Ellenor.
FRUTT: Not necessarily,
especially with that
positive attitude.
YOUNG: The idea that
they want me for a judge
with everything
that's going on at our firm.
Your personal reputation has--
Look, don't handle me, please.
If this is about your brother
and vindicating
an injustice done to him,
then rise up with your best
in that room.
You haven't done that yet.
Whatever I say is self-serving.
Let's forget it.
What in God's name...
(thumping)
Document production
on the SUV case,
and this isn't all.
Storage is full, too.
BERLUTI:
What was I supposed to do?
There was two of them,
one of me.
Plus, they were bigger.
It's just pepper spray.
I mean, it's kind
of feminine, Jimmy.
Hey,
I got news for you,
I got to be alive to keep
your fat ass out of prison.
You think about that?
What now?
Well, I know it's fat.
You don't got to say it.
You don't got to label it.
For God's sakes, I can't--
Oh, no!
My car!
ROCCO: Shame.
Bet you could use
a good lawyer.
Oh, right,
you are a lawyer.
BERLUTI: Did you do this?!
I didn't do nothing.
I was just walking
with my marshmallows,
seen the fire, thought there
was a roast going on.
(laughing)
But, you know,
if I was gonna do something,
it would be because
somebody had something coming.
What goes around,
comes around.
That's, like,
an old Latin saying, isn't it?
I bet you know Latin.
"Res ipsa"
that's lawyer lingo.
Ugh! ohh!
"Vinny, Viddi, Vickie"
that's serious Latin.
Manny!
It was an accident.
WILSON: Ellenor, hey.
Do you know where
I can find Hannah Rose?
Yeah, her office
is just over...
there.
"How are you doing, Tara?
You look just smashing
in your uniform, Tara."
(sighs)
You sent me about 400,000 pages
of documents.
Oh.
I thought it better to give you
too much than too little.
Did you, now?
The trial starts in June.
It would take me 6 months
with a staff of 20
to go through all those boxes.
I believe the request went
to any and all documents
pertaining to design,
as well as documents
discovered in previous lawsuits.
My client has been sued
tens of thousands of times,
Ellenor.
We produce millions
of documents.
I know all
about your client's tactics,
tactics judges in prior trials
have labeled "Reprehensible,"
"Disgusting."
Yes, and I'm trying
to turn over a new leaf
that's why
I'm giving you everything.
You're hiding evidence
in a mountain of papers,
knowing full well
it would be next to impossible
for me to find what I need.
I'm shocked you could make
such an accusation.
This is a blatant abuse
of the discovery process,
and I'm going to the judge.
I certainly hope
you don't do that, Ellenor,
but if you do,
I might be forced to share
a concern of mine.
Which is...
Your firm is understaffed
and ill-equipped
to handle major product
liability litigation.
The fact that
our document production
has so crippled you
is a testament
to your limitations.
I think you should refer
your client
to a larger firm,
and my conscience
might compel me
to share my concern
with the judge.
I suppose,
if we were to settle this now,
we could avoid
all this unpleasantness.
We'll offer you $210,000 today
no admission of liability.
$210,000.
Three people died.
I bet you could use
that money, Ellenor...
money you might not see
if the client
is properly advised
to retain other counsel.
This is disgusting.
That's harsh.
My firm is quite capable
of prosecuting this case.
Excellent.
You will be sure to pass on
my concern to your client,
just the same?
Right on the head?!
He regained consciousness.
He'll be fine.
Jimmy, things are getting
out of control here.
You got to do something
not that it's my place
to tell you that.
(door opens)
Suzy...
First...
whatever our differences,
for somebody
from my neighborhood,
your neighborhood,
to use pepper spray
I would sooner
you whack me, Jimmy,
than to shame
our people that way.
Second, you knocked unconscious
a man very dear to me,
best man at my wedding.
He set my car on fire.
You're talking about property.
Rocco is a human being.
Now I got to bash your head.
BERLUTI: Lenny, you and I
grew up on the same block.
I've seen you
on the baseball field.
You swing a bat like my mother.
Oh, is that what you think?
PAPONI: I think you two
need to have a sit-down...
with Raymond.
Raymond Freschetti?
PAPONI: His neighborhood,
he settles the beefs.
I think that's a good idea.
Wonder what Raymond's
gonna think
of you juicing clients.
Jimmy...
I come in here seeking peace.
Yeah...
I see the olive branch
in your hand.
Let's you and I have a sit-down,
private...
see if we can work it out.
Tomorrow...
here.
2:00.
You handled that very well.
RICHMOND: The background checks
more than once
referred to a strategy of yours
known as plan "B."
What is plan "B," Mr. Young?
It's an offensive strategy
where we try to implicate
another suspect in a crime.
A suspect you have
a good-faith belief
committed the crime?
No.
So, it's a strategy designed
purposely to mislead the jury,
to steer them away
from the truth?
It's an adversarial process,
Mr. Richmond.
The state must prove guilt
beyond all reasonable doubt.
The defense attorney tries
to create reasonable doubt,
doing so zealously
within the bounds of the law.
Plan "B"
is within the bounds.
RICHMOND: Barely.
Anything more than barely
would be less than zealous.
You've tried to convince juries
that somebody else did it.
Somebody you know
to be innocent?
It may strike you
as morally unethical,
and I might agree,
but legal ethics
require that we--
HALBERRY: That's a distinction
without a difference.
YOUNG: No, it's a distinction
with a big difference,
and if you don't get that--
To knowingly accuse
innocent people
even prosecutors don't do that.
You have to understand
how this commission
could have questions
about your character.
DONNELL: Excuse me.
May I be heard?
My name is Bobby Donnell,
and I used to work
with this man.
RICHMOND:
Well, thank you, sir,
but we're not taking
testimony today.
Testimony?
You make it sound
like a trial.
Is somebody on trial here?
Actually, I just thought
we could all use a good laugh.
Talking about
Eugene Young's character--
it's actually a little funny.
You find it funny?
We got a president lying
to us about weapons
so he could start a war.
The president before that
lied under oath
about sex he was having
in the oval office.
We have a supreme court justice
going duck hunting
with the vice president
while presiding over a case
involving the vice president.
Our biggest pop star
is an alleged pedophile.
Some of our athletes
are up on murder
and rape charges,
while the author
of "The Book of Virtues"
gambles millions of dollars
in Vegas.
And you're making character
an issue?
I hate to shock you,
Mr. Donnell,
but it still counts.
Well, if so, you sure as hell
picked the wrong man
to make an example of.
This is a man
who could go to a big firm
and command a salary
upwards of a million dollars.
He works for a fraction
of that. Why?
Because he sees the erosion
of civil rights,
and he fights to stop it.
He sees high courts
forsaking the constitution,
and he rails against it.
He sees an attorney general
rounding up suspects
like poker chips.
HALBERRY: We do not need
a speech about--
DONNELL: You need the speech.
The reason the justice system
is so unfair in this country
Is because the benches
are stacked
with former prosecutors.
We need to see
your character here.
How about you confirm a man
who cares more
about civil liberties
than throwing bodies in prison?
Eugene Young hasn't forgotten
why he went to law school.
Eugene Young
clings to the ideology
that a defendant,
every defendant,
is entitled to a fair trial.
Now, you want to cast him off
because you don't like
his politics
or his views
on the death penalty, fine.
But don't you dare
cite as a pretext...
his character.
(music playing)
Denny Crane.
Sally Heep.
How's it hanging?
How's what hanging?
It's just an expression.
Sally Heep.
Sally...
Make up your mind
about tonight?
Sally, you look like a hooker.
Now, if you were a hooker,
we might have a future,
but...
you're intelligent.
you have self-respect.
You're even sweet.
Those are deal-breakers.
HEEP: Yeah.
Okay, fine.
But while you continue
to mull it over,
just keep in mind
that 25-year-olds
don't just snap back physically.
Emotionally,
we recover fast, too,
which means,
by this time tomorrow,
I'll have moved on.
You got a window, Al.
Just because girls
in your age bracket wait around,
don't be thinking I will.
First, you got to apologize.
I got to apologize?
Yes. Manny Quinn was acting
under the scope
of you and him being friends
when he whacked Rocco
unconscious with the shovel.
You torched my car.
You pepper-sprayed me!
After you mugged Spinny!
Which is what
I'm gonna do to you!
PAPONI: Hey, hey, hey, hey!
We got clients out here.
You guys either work it out
or take it outside.
Or to Raymond.
(exhales slowly)
You can't be juicing
your clients.
That's how you'll get
whacked for real.
Raymond finds out
you're loan-sharking
that's their business, Lenny.
You should know better.
I'm under a lot of pressure.
My wife wants a house
in Florida.
Business has been tight.
To be losing some of it to you
can't you go someplace else?
This has always been my dream...
to come back here.
This isn't an arbitrary thing
for me, Lenny.
This is where I grew up.
(sighs)
Maybe we should form
kind of a partnership.
Me and you?
Yeah, I got connections.
I could help you.
You could help me,
get me some more
of the high-end stuff,
instead of competing
with each other.
Lenny...
I'm an honest lawyer.
Totally?
Can't you just be honest
most of the time?
Me and you...
as partners...
come on.
I represent Charlie Andretti,
Manny's supplier.
I can sort of slip the Feds
some information they could use
to put him away
in exchange
for dropping the case
against Manny.
You'd turn in your own client?
I only do it when I can be sure
it don't get found out.
Look...
I'm certainly not gonna go
into a business
with a corrupt attorney.
Suppose I change.
My wife wants me
to improve myself.
I was hoping
maybe you could be, uh,
a good influence.
I can get Manny off.
Come on, Jimmy.
I got street creds.
You got integrity.
How about, you know,
a trial basis?
DONNELL: You want to go
to court, Milton, fine,
but don't be waving
that flag
like it's some big threat.
I'm in court every day.
You're not.
I like court.
You don't.
I'm comfortable in court.
You are not.
So I want you
to hang up the phone,
call me again,
and be honest.
Tell me you want to settle,
because you don't want
to go to court.
Goodbye, Milt.
Hope to hear from you.
You look like
you're having fun.
Hey.
Hey, how did you
even know about--
DONNELL:
Ellenor called me.
I figured I'd save your ass
like old times.
Now, I remember
a lot of ass-saving,
but I think you might have
things mixed up a bit.
Any word?
Not yet, you know.
I don't have my hopes up.
That isn't true, Eugene.
Your hopes have been up
on this for many years.
Yeah.
Look, I've been meaning
to call you about, uh,
when you gave me the firm,
I know you expected--
being a judge is something
I've always wanted.
Eugene, I know that.
I feel like...
if I ever get this...
I'd be walking out
on something
you left in my charge.
DONNELL: Now it's you
mixing things up.
I walked...
remember?
I just wish
I'd done a better job
running the firm.
DONNELL: Don't even go there.
You led that firm
the same way
you've always served it,
with honor.
(cellphone rings)
One second.
Eugene Young.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay. Thank you.
I got it.
Got what?
The judge thing--they--
the council confirmed me.
I got it.
Eugene, that's--
Look, look, look, look, it's--
it's no big deal.
It's...
I got it!
(laughing)
(music playing)
Denny Crane.
Good for you.
That woman scares me.
It's titillating.
For the record,
your offer is rejected.
I'm disappointed.
I'll bet.
Rather than steer my client
toward accepting
an unsatisfying offer,
I steered her toward
the firm Fine and Ambrogne,
which specializes
in design defect
product liability.
I've also filed
with the judge and the bar
a complaint concerning
your client's dishonest
stonewalling tactics.
And on a personal level,
it's one thing for a corporation
to engage
in systemic discovery abuse,
but for an attorney...
these are real people.
This is real suffering,
injured by your client's
vehicles,
and for you...
never mind.
I've already filed
my notice of withdrawal.
And as I said...
the offer it's rejected.
Ellenor...
I know you've
defended criminals,
people you have no sympathy for.
in civil cases,
defendants are entitled
to representation, as well.
It's not the same,
and you know it.
Yeah, I suppose I do...
which is why
I'm feeling particularly bad
about myself.
I think I need to go shopping,
and not just
for something little--
I am so ashamed,
I'm gonna buy a car,
something really, really...
redemptive.
Would you like to come with me?
Because I'd like that
watching you...
watch me buy a $100,000 car.
Can you excuse me a second?
(sighs)
Hmm.
Oh, gee.
Now I need to shop.
Oh. What happened
to your date?
There isn't going
to be a date,
and I'd appreciate you
not counseling me
towards statutory crimes.
Alan, do you want to end up
an old--
Why are you
so invested in this?
Tell me that.
Well, I suppose
that when I see you alone,
I worry about the company
you're keeping.
Let me tell you something
the most lonely I've ever been
has been in a relationship.
I'm happiest alone.
The conversation's better--
certainly, the sex
is, albeit, heavy-handed.
Oh, that's a funny bit...
an entertaining one, too.
But as bits go,
it's a bit.
Tara...
I have indulged
your pop psychoanalysis
with good humor
for some time now,
but to set
the record straight,
you do not know me--
not even...
as bits go...
a bit.
I know that you're afraid
to let yourself
feel for people.
SHORE: I'm quite capable
of letting myself feel...
WILSON:
I know that you're afraid
to look at yourself
through other people's eyes--
SHORE:
Especially disenchantment
that one comes up easily.
And there you go,
turning it into a word game.
It's you playing games,
telling me I can't feel
that's quite an indictment--
WILSON: Then prove me wrong
with evidence
the last time you felt
for a woman in any relationship.
I feel for you!
That doesn't mean I'd...
ever...
I have feelings for you.
(music playing)
(exhales sharply)
Now, I'd appreciate it.
Contrary to the rumors,
I do practice law here,
and I have a lot
of work to do.
Would you excuse me, Tara?
Alan...
Would you excuse me, Tara?
(music playing)
(sighs)
(gavel bangs)
(music playing)
(music playing)
WOMAN: Stinker!
(music playing)
on The Practice...
I'd love to submit your name
to the governor's counsel.
To be a superior court judge?
Oh, you're acting like
I don't have the right to leave,
like I owe you--
I never said--
I have the right.
I've always wanted
to hang my own shingle.
When would you do this?
It needs to be now.
I talked to my friend
at the bureau.
Your ass wasn't bugged.
What did you expect
that they were gonna--
I think it's possible
she flipped you, Manny.
Gigi?
BERLUTI: I know you love Manny.
But you got to tell me
how you were coerced.
PAPONI: This is Lenny Pescatore.
How can I help you?
I'm a neighborhood lawyer, too.
Only problem...
I'm the neighborhood lawyer.
SHORE: I thought
you were absolutely...
sensational up
on that bar.
Well, that was surprising.
I kissed you.
It was totally inappropriate.
I have this way
of making women feel...
wonderful, but...
less than, in the end.
Maybe you haven't met
the right girl.
Perhaps.
I think you like me.
Shh.
HEEP: Alan, hold up. Yo.
Did you just say, "Yo"?
I'm very upset.
I thought we had a kind of,
you know, thing going.
A thing?
Yes, a thing--we kissed.
that's a--
You kissed.
And you received,
and we danced.
You grabbed my ass.
You saluted my quest
to be myself--
that, at least, adds up
to a potential thing
that needs to be dealt with.
SHORE:
Sally, when I told you
I was attracted
to professional women,
I truly meant...
professional women.
I'm not accepting that.
You're not accepting it.
You like me.
I can always tell
when a man has feelings for me.
I don't care how much you try
to kid yourself.
You're not fooling me.
CRANE: Tara...
Denny Crane.
I am ahead of you there.
Wonderful news,
I had breakfast this morning.
You must be
beside yourself.
Oh, no, that's not the news.
Had breakfast this morning
with general counsel
of perhaps one of the leading
car manufacturers
of this country,
know who that is?
America?
We're taking over
their SUV cases,
which is beyond huge.
I want Hannah, Alan,
you, of course,
in my office at 1400 hours.
Aye, aye.
Denny Crane.
(music playing)
I'm not gonna tell you
your business, Jimmy,
because I know
that's not my place,
but you got to stand up
to this guy.
I did.
No, you didn't.
Manny did.
You didn't do anything.
And what should I
have done, Suzy?
PAPONI: Again, not my place,
but this is the street.
It's not some fancy
Beacon Hill Office.
I asked around.
That fat slob
has bullied every lawyer
that's tried to come in here,
and he intimidates clients, too.
I talked to my mother.
She says he's a coward.
COLEY: Excuse me, Jimmy?
Excuse me.
Look, I've been playing
this interrogation thing
over and over
in my head, Jimmy,
and, well...
I think maybe
the police did coerce me.
I mean, what I said
wasn't totally voluntary.
Okay.
How so?
Well...
they attached these tiny,
little electrode thingies
to my privates,
and they would zap me
if they didn't like
my answers.
It made me react
all involuntary.
I...
What?
Manny told you to say this.
COLEY: He said they torture,
that they're doing
this kind of thing
in the Guatemala bay area.
Guantanamo Bay.
Gigi...
I am not going to lie.
If the day comes
I decide to lie,
it won't be with one of Manny's
ridiculous concoctions.
I love him, Jimmy,
and, well,
he won't take me back,
and if you can get this thing
to go away,
well, then, maybe I can get him
to forgive me.
STADLER: I just think
you should have counsel.
YOUNG: The commission wants
to hear from me,
not my attorney.
Plus, you can advise me
if I need help.
No, I cannot.
I'm on the nominating committee.
It would be total--
YOUNG: Uh...
advise me now, then.
All right.
It could get very political.
The main thing for you
is to impress them
with the idea
that you will uphold the law.
As a defense attorney,
you could be viewed as being
potentially soft on crime.
You do not want
to be viewed that way.
I could come with you.
STADLER: I think
that would be very wise.
Also...
the death penalty...
What about it?
STADLER: If it comes up--
and it may,
you'll have to finesse this.
Romney is looking
to impose it.
And what?
I'm required
to agree with that?
STADLER: No.
You simply say
that you're bound
to uphold the law,
that, as a judge,
you will uphold the law,
and get out.
This is critical, Eugene.
Is finesse
in your arsenal?
CRANE: The first thing
we need to do
is develop a strategy.
These vehicles still roll.
It's a growth industry,
and I want to capture it.
We need a strategy.
Hannah...
I'd like you to come up
with an overall--
what's the word?
Strategy?
Exactly.
Alan, turns out...
our first case comes up
for trial in June.
your former colleague
is handling it,
that big-boned woman
from your old firm,
the one that scares me.
Ellenor Frutt.
CRANE: Mmm.
Our client...
will no doubt be evaluating us
in this first case.
I'd like you to take it,
since--
SHORE: I'm afraid I can't.
Why not?
Ellenor's a friend.
I'm not trying cases
against her.
CRANE: Son...
success is never so sweet
as when we can crush a friend
in the process.
Just the same.
Hannah...
you don't have friends,
do you?
None.
Excellent.
Tara, see that Hannah gets
what she needs.
I believe that covers it.
Anything else?
Your name.
Oh, yes.
Denny Crane.
Dismissed.
BERLUTI: Manny...
QUINN: I can't go flipping
Charlie Andretti, Jimmy.
I mean, we need to come up
with a solution
that allows me
to go on living.
I will not be saying
the Feds attached electrodes
to your girlfriend's genitalia.
Now, stop being an idiot!
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean that.
You know I got labeling issues.
I'm sorry.
She wants you back,
you know, Gigi.
Ohh.
Manny, sometimes,
the toughest thing in the world
to do is forgive.
And sometimes,
the more you love somebody,
the harder it is.
What are you? "Dear Abby" now?
BERLUTI: Spinny...
what happened to your head?
Ten guesses.
The fish?
SPINNY: Not personally,
but his name did come up
between kicks.
I got to fire you, Jimmy.
Spinny, I will talk to him.
He's got me by the cogliones.
I'm in to him (indistinct)
for $2,500 plus juice.
He's juicing you?
A point and a half.
Does he do this with everybody?
Hey, if I borrowed
from a loan shark,
I'd be paying
five points a week,
that's, of course,
if I was to pay him.
Suzy...
cancel this afternoon's
appointments.
What appointments?
People just walk in here.
WARTON: Do you see yourself
bringing any particular
judicial philosophy
to the bench?
YOUNG: I would like
to see the courts
and specifically, judges,
show respect for the law.
Do you think
that's currently a problem?
YOUNG: A big one.
We've got overcrowded dockets,
and more and more judges
are becoming slaves
to expediency.
More and more,
the constitution
is being molded
and manipulated
to fit a judge's political
or moral point of view.
It has to stop.
HALBERRY: I can see
your firm has handled
several capital cases
out of state,
each time taking a position
against the death penalty.
We're a defense firm.
Our clients tend
to disfavor being executed.
Fair enough,
but as a judge, would you impose
the death penalty,
should it ever become law
in this state?
No.
HALBERRY: Why not?
YOUNG:
One, I consider human life
to be intrinsically sacred,
and I do not believe
the state should engage
in the systemized
taking of human life.
Two...
our judicial system
is flawed.
We wrongly convict
over 10,000 people a year,
some of whom
are sentenced to die.
Now, you can always release
an exonerated man from prison,
but bringing him back from death
has proven to be trickier.
DNA has already cleared 100 men,
many on death row.
Clearly, something
isn't working.
WARTON: And what would you say,
Mr. Young,
to the mother
whose five-year-old daughter
has been raped and murdered?
I would say,
if it were my daughter,
I'd like to kill
whoever did it myself.
And if I ever came
face-to-face with the guy,
I couldn't guarantee
any of you
that I wouldn't kill him.
But if I did...
it would be wrong,
and for the state
to kill reflectively,
absent emotion, on ceremony
it is not right.
And if I might add
one of the biggest problems
we have today
our children are being raised
in a culture
that not only condones revenge,
but, perhaps, even celebrates it
as a societal good.
It's wrong.
I don't understand, Eugene.
Do you not want
to be confirmed?
I want to be confirmed
for who I am,
not who they want me to be.
FRUTT: Come on.
You can't possibly be
so pigheaded that you--
What did you say?
Eugene...
can we please have
an honest conversation here?
Do you want
this judgeship or not?
(sighs)
I want it desperately.
Then why behave--
I truly don't get it.
My brother went to jail
for a crime he didn't do
you know this.
He died in prison.
And...
Well, and, since that day,
I made a vow...
the best way
to fix the justice system
is up there, on the bench,
and...
I think the reason
I want it so bad, Ellenor,
is because it's the same thing
that makes me so angry,
when I think of what happened
to my brother, and--
FRUTT: Then get there, Eugene.
Get there for your brother.
(knocks on door)
ROSE: Hello.
Uh, I'm looking
for Ellenor Frutt.
I'm Ellenor Frutt.
Hi.
I'm Hannah Rose.
We just took over
the Lansing Motors case.
We now represent
the defendant.
Oh.
I'm from Crane,
Pool, & Schmidt,
where Alan Shore works.
And, well, I know
things ended badly
between Alan and this firm,
and I thought
to avoid getting off
on an acrimonious foot,
I'd just come by
and introduce myself.
Actually,
Alan and I remain friends.
Oh, well,
that's a relief to know.
I am not a huge fan
of contention.
And you chose a career
in litigation.
I look at it more
as dispute resolution.
Anyway, toward that end,
I was reviewing your motion
to compel production
of documents.
I believe prior counsel
was a little withholding,
as you suspected,
and I intend to have
all documents delivered
by the close of business.
Thank you.
Anyway,
it was nice to meet you.
(door opens)
She seemed nice.
Alan...
yo, again.
Tonight's lousy for me.
Hannah assigned me some research
on the SUV case,
so we'll have to make it
tomorrow night.
Make what tomorrow night?
Our dinner.
Didn't I tell you
we were having dinner?
No, Sally,
you forgot to mention that.
Well, now you know.
Wait a second.
Yo!
I swear,
I had nothing to do with that.
WILSON: Go to dinner
with her, Alan.
Uh, I thought you wanted me
to ask you to dinner.
Perhaps I do,
but I'm speaking
in your interests now,
and your interests
seem to lie with her.
Don't be ridiculous.
She's a child.
It would be a violation
of my parole
to have dinner with her.
You see,
here's what you need to know
is that you like her
and you don't like yourself.
With her,
you get to remake yourself...
at least somewhat.
I thought you wanted me
to ask you to dinner.
EILEEN: All right,
I'll give him the message.
Is he in there?
He's with a client.
BERLUTI: Tell him Jimmy Berluti
is out here,
and he's very angry.
I know who you are.
PESCATORE: Go on.
I'll call you
if I hear anything.
MAN: Thanks, Len.
You got an appointment?
I just saw Spinny.
Good for you.
Who's next?
Mr. Terranova.
BERLUTI: He's got seven stitches
above his eye.
Some people
shouldn't drink and walk.
Come on in, Mr. Terranova.
BERLUTI: What kind
of a lawyer are you?
You're supposed
to be helping people, not--
Look...
I'd like to hear you
pontificate,
but, as you can see,
I've got clients
to take care of.
Do they know
that you charge interest
on what they can't pay up front?
Here.
Whatever he's charging you,
I'll do it for half.
Rocco!
BERLUTI: No juice.
PESCATORE: Okay, everybody out.
Come back in an hour.
WOMAN: Why?
Vermin infestation.
Come on, let's go, andiamo.
What about my appointment?
We plead no contest.
You pay the fine and me,
it all goes away.
What are you doing?
Eileen, wait in the office.
Lenny...
Now!
And close the door.
BERLUTI: Raise a finger,
and I'll have you
before the BBO
before you can light
your next cigar.
We'll see
how much speech you got
when your jaw is wired.
BERLUTI:
Wait, just wait a second.
I want to be perfectly clear
as to what's
about to happen here.
You haven't been away
from the neighborhood
that long, Jimmy.
You know
what's about to happen.
Get him.
Ohh!
PESCATORE:
You're a dead man, Jimmy!
You're dead!
You don't know
who messed with!
RICHMOND:
Now, where I'm troubled
in your own firm,
if I'm to believe statements
made by you under oath,
you had an attorney who engaged
in egregiously unethical,
if not criminal, conduct.
I assume you're referring
to Alan Shore.
Concealing evidence,
blackmail, extortion,
assuming false identities,
suborning perjury.
We certainly
did not authorize Mr. Shore
to commit these infractions.
But you let it go on?
YOUNG: No.
No.
We fired him.
After several months
of this behavior,
after profiting
from this conduct,
profit in the amount
of $9 million.
Now, that's dirty money,
Mr. Young.
We attempted to sanction
Mr. Shore's behavior
many times, and--
But you let it go on,
and only after you got rich
from this unethical behavior,
only then did you attempt
to shut it down.
That is totally false!
And maybe this would be
a good time to point out
that, if I were
to become a judge,
my style would be
to hear evidence
before I started
making conclusions,
especially the unfounded kind.
You seem to have a temper.
It's over, Ellenor.
FRUTT: Not necessarily,
especially with that
positive attitude.
YOUNG: The idea that
they want me for a judge
with everything
that's going on at our firm.
Your personal reputation has--
Look, don't handle me, please.
If this is about your brother
and vindicating
an injustice done to him,
then rise up with your best
in that room.
You haven't done that yet.
Whatever I say is self-serving.
Let's forget it.
What in God's name...
(thumping)
Document production
on the SUV case,
and this isn't all.
Storage is full, too.
BERLUTI:
What was I supposed to do?
There was two of them,
one of me.
Plus, they were bigger.
It's just pepper spray.
I mean, it's kind
of feminine, Jimmy.
Hey,
I got news for you,
I got to be alive to keep
your fat ass out of prison.
You think about that?
What now?
Well, I know it's fat.
You don't got to say it.
You don't got to label it.
For God's sakes, I can't--
Oh, no!
My car!
ROCCO: Shame.
Bet you could use
a good lawyer.
Oh, right,
you are a lawyer.
BERLUTI: Did you do this?!
I didn't do nothing.
I was just walking
with my marshmallows,
seen the fire, thought there
was a roast going on.
(laughing)
But, you know,
if I was gonna do something,
it would be because
somebody had something coming.
What goes around,
comes around.
That's, like,
an old Latin saying, isn't it?
I bet you know Latin.
"Res ipsa"
that's lawyer lingo.
Ugh! ohh!
"Vinny, Viddi, Vickie"
that's serious Latin.
Manny!
It was an accident.
WILSON: Ellenor, hey.
Do you know where
I can find Hannah Rose?
Yeah, her office
is just over...
there.
"How are you doing, Tara?
You look just smashing
in your uniform, Tara."
(sighs)
You sent me about 400,000 pages
of documents.
Oh.
I thought it better to give you
too much than too little.
Did you, now?
The trial starts in June.
It would take me 6 months
with a staff of 20
to go through all those boxes.
I believe the request went
to any and all documents
pertaining to design,
as well as documents
discovered in previous lawsuits.
My client has been sued
tens of thousands of times,
Ellenor.
We produce millions
of documents.
I know all
about your client's tactics,
tactics judges in prior trials
have labeled "Reprehensible,"
"Disgusting."
Yes, and I'm trying
to turn over a new leaf
that's why
I'm giving you everything.
You're hiding evidence
in a mountain of papers,
knowing full well
it would be next to impossible
for me to find what I need.
I'm shocked you could make
such an accusation.
This is a blatant abuse
of the discovery process,
and I'm going to the judge.
I certainly hope
you don't do that, Ellenor,
but if you do,
I might be forced to share
a concern of mine.
Which is...
Your firm is understaffed
and ill-equipped
to handle major product
liability litigation.
The fact that
our document production
has so crippled you
is a testament
to your limitations.
I think you should refer
your client
to a larger firm,
and my conscience
might compel me
to share my concern
with the judge.
I suppose,
if we were to settle this now,
we could avoid
all this unpleasantness.
We'll offer you $210,000 today
no admission of liability.
$210,000.
Three people died.
I bet you could use
that money, Ellenor...
money you might not see
if the client
is properly advised
to retain other counsel.
This is disgusting.
That's harsh.
My firm is quite capable
of prosecuting this case.
Excellent.
You will be sure to pass on
my concern to your client,
just the same?
Right on the head?!
He regained consciousness.
He'll be fine.
Jimmy, things are getting
out of control here.
You got to do something
not that it's my place
to tell you that.
(door opens)
Suzy...
First...
whatever our differences,
for somebody
from my neighborhood,
your neighborhood,
to use pepper spray
I would sooner
you whack me, Jimmy,
than to shame
our people that way.
Second, you knocked unconscious
a man very dear to me,
best man at my wedding.
He set my car on fire.
You're talking about property.
Rocco is a human being.
Now I got to bash your head.
BERLUTI: Lenny, you and I
grew up on the same block.
I've seen you
on the baseball field.
You swing a bat like my mother.
Oh, is that what you think?
PAPONI: I think you two
need to have a sit-down...
with Raymond.
Raymond Freschetti?
PAPONI: His neighborhood,
he settles the beefs.
I think that's a good idea.
Wonder what Raymond's
gonna think
of you juicing clients.
Jimmy...
I come in here seeking peace.
Yeah...
I see the olive branch
in your hand.
Let's you and I have a sit-down,
private...
see if we can work it out.
Tomorrow...
here.
2:00.
You handled that very well.
RICHMOND: The background checks
more than once
referred to a strategy of yours
known as plan "B."
What is plan "B," Mr. Young?
It's an offensive strategy
where we try to implicate
another suspect in a crime.
A suspect you have
a good-faith belief
committed the crime?
No.
So, it's a strategy designed
purposely to mislead the jury,
to steer them away
from the truth?
It's an adversarial process,
Mr. Richmond.
The state must prove guilt
beyond all reasonable doubt.
The defense attorney tries
to create reasonable doubt,
doing so zealously
within the bounds of the law.
Plan "B"
is within the bounds.
RICHMOND: Barely.
Anything more than barely
would be less than zealous.
You've tried to convince juries
that somebody else did it.
Somebody you know
to be innocent?
It may strike you
as morally unethical,
and I might agree,
but legal ethics
require that we--
HALBERRY: That's a distinction
without a difference.
YOUNG: No, it's a distinction
with a big difference,
and if you don't get that--
To knowingly accuse
innocent people
even prosecutors don't do that.
You have to understand
how this commission
could have questions
about your character.
DONNELL: Excuse me.
May I be heard?
My name is Bobby Donnell,
and I used to work
with this man.
RICHMOND:
Well, thank you, sir,
but we're not taking
testimony today.
Testimony?
You make it sound
like a trial.
Is somebody on trial here?
Actually, I just thought
we could all use a good laugh.
Talking about
Eugene Young's character--
it's actually a little funny.
You find it funny?
We got a president lying
to us about weapons
so he could start a war.
The president before that
lied under oath
about sex he was having
in the oval office.
We have a supreme court justice
going duck hunting
with the vice president
while presiding over a case
involving the vice president.
Our biggest pop star
is an alleged pedophile.
Some of our athletes
are up on murder
and rape charges,
while the author
of "The Book of Virtues"
gambles millions of dollars
in Vegas.
And you're making character
an issue?
I hate to shock you,
Mr. Donnell,
but it still counts.
Well, if so, you sure as hell
picked the wrong man
to make an example of.
This is a man
who could go to a big firm
and command a salary
upwards of a million dollars.
He works for a fraction
of that. Why?
Because he sees the erosion
of civil rights,
and he fights to stop it.
He sees high courts
forsaking the constitution,
and he rails against it.
He sees an attorney general
rounding up suspects
like poker chips.
HALBERRY: We do not need
a speech about--
DONNELL: You need the speech.
The reason the justice system
is so unfair in this country
Is because the benches
are stacked
with former prosecutors.
We need to see
your character here.
How about you confirm a man
who cares more
about civil liberties
than throwing bodies in prison?
Eugene Young hasn't forgotten
why he went to law school.
Eugene Young
clings to the ideology
that a defendant,
every defendant,
is entitled to a fair trial.
Now, you want to cast him off
because you don't like
his politics
or his views
on the death penalty, fine.
But don't you dare
cite as a pretext...
his character.
(music playing)
Denny Crane.
Sally Heep.
How's it hanging?
How's what hanging?
It's just an expression.
Sally Heep.
Sally...
Make up your mind
about tonight?
Sally, you look like a hooker.
Now, if you were a hooker,
we might have a future,
but...
you're intelligent.
you have self-respect.
You're even sweet.
Those are deal-breakers.
HEEP: Yeah.
Okay, fine.
But while you continue
to mull it over,
just keep in mind
that 25-year-olds
don't just snap back physically.
Emotionally,
we recover fast, too,
which means,
by this time tomorrow,
I'll have moved on.
You got a window, Al.
Just because girls
in your age bracket wait around,
don't be thinking I will.
First, you got to apologize.
I got to apologize?
Yes. Manny Quinn was acting
under the scope
of you and him being friends
when he whacked Rocco
unconscious with the shovel.
You torched my car.
You pepper-sprayed me!
After you mugged Spinny!
Which is what
I'm gonna do to you!
PAPONI: Hey, hey, hey, hey!
We got clients out here.
You guys either work it out
or take it outside.
Or to Raymond.
(exhales slowly)
You can't be juicing
your clients.
That's how you'll get
whacked for real.
Raymond finds out
you're loan-sharking
that's their business, Lenny.
You should know better.
I'm under a lot of pressure.
My wife wants a house
in Florida.
Business has been tight.
To be losing some of it to you
can't you go someplace else?
This has always been my dream...
to come back here.
This isn't an arbitrary thing
for me, Lenny.
This is where I grew up.
(sighs)
Maybe we should form
kind of a partnership.
Me and you?
Yeah, I got connections.
I could help you.
You could help me,
get me some more
of the high-end stuff,
instead of competing
with each other.
Lenny...
I'm an honest lawyer.
Totally?
Can't you just be honest
most of the time?
Me and you...
as partners...
come on.
I represent Charlie Andretti,
Manny's supplier.
I can sort of slip the Feds
some information they could use
to put him away
in exchange
for dropping the case
against Manny.
You'd turn in your own client?
I only do it when I can be sure
it don't get found out.
Look...
I'm certainly not gonna go
into a business
with a corrupt attorney.
Suppose I change.
My wife wants me
to improve myself.
I was hoping
maybe you could be, uh,
a good influence.
I can get Manny off.
Come on, Jimmy.
I got street creds.
You got integrity.
How about, you know,
a trial basis?
DONNELL: You want to go
to court, Milton, fine,
but don't be waving
that flag
like it's some big threat.
I'm in court every day.
You're not.
I like court.
You don't.
I'm comfortable in court.
You are not.
So I want you
to hang up the phone,
call me again,
and be honest.
Tell me you want to settle,
because you don't want
to go to court.
Goodbye, Milt.
Hope to hear from you.
You look like
you're having fun.
Hey.
Hey, how did you
even know about--
DONNELL:
Ellenor called me.
I figured I'd save your ass
like old times.
Now, I remember
a lot of ass-saving,
but I think you might have
things mixed up a bit.
Any word?
Not yet, you know.
I don't have my hopes up.
That isn't true, Eugene.
Your hopes have been up
on this for many years.
Yeah.
Look, I've been meaning
to call you about, uh,
when you gave me the firm,
I know you expected--
being a judge is something
I've always wanted.
Eugene, I know that.
I feel like...
if I ever get this...
I'd be walking out
on something
you left in my charge.
DONNELL: Now it's you
mixing things up.
I walked...
remember?
I just wish
I'd done a better job
running the firm.
DONNELL: Don't even go there.
You led that firm
the same way
you've always served it,
with honor.
(cellphone rings)
One second.
Eugene Young.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay. Thank you.
I got it.
Got what?
The judge thing--they--
the council confirmed me.
I got it.
Eugene, that's--
Look, look, look, look, it's--
it's no big deal.
It's...
I got it!
(laughing)
(music playing)
Denny Crane.
Good for you.
That woman scares me.
It's titillating.
For the record,
your offer is rejected.
I'm disappointed.
I'll bet.
Rather than steer my client
toward accepting
an unsatisfying offer,
I steered her toward
the firm Fine and Ambrogne,
which specializes
in design defect
product liability.
I've also filed
with the judge and the bar
a complaint concerning
your client's dishonest
stonewalling tactics.
And on a personal level,
it's one thing for a corporation
to engage
in systemic discovery abuse,
but for an attorney...
these are real people.
This is real suffering,
injured by your client's
vehicles,
and for you...
never mind.
I've already filed
my notice of withdrawal.
And as I said...
the offer it's rejected.
Ellenor...
I know you've
defended criminals,
people you have no sympathy for.
in civil cases,
defendants are entitled
to representation, as well.
It's not the same,
and you know it.
Yeah, I suppose I do...
which is why
I'm feeling particularly bad
about myself.
I think I need to go shopping,
and not just
for something little--
I am so ashamed,
I'm gonna buy a car,
something really, really...
redemptive.
Would you like to come with me?
Because I'd like that
watching you...
watch me buy a $100,000 car.
Can you excuse me a second?
(sighs)
Hmm.
Oh, gee.
Now I need to shop.
Oh. What happened
to your date?
There isn't going
to be a date,
and I'd appreciate you
not counseling me
towards statutory crimes.
Alan, do you want to end up
an old--
Why are you
so invested in this?
Tell me that.
Well, I suppose
that when I see you alone,
I worry about the company
you're keeping.
Let me tell you something
the most lonely I've ever been
has been in a relationship.
I'm happiest alone.
The conversation's better--
certainly, the sex
is, albeit, heavy-handed.
Oh, that's a funny bit...
an entertaining one, too.
But as bits go,
it's a bit.
Tara...
I have indulged
your pop psychoanalysis
with good humor
for some time now,
but to set
the record straight,
you do not know me--
not even...
as bits go...
a bit.
I know that you're afraid
to let yourself
feel for people.
SHORE: I'm quite capable
of letting myself feel...
WILSON:
I know that you're afraid
to look at yourself
through other people's eyes--
SHORE:
Especially disenchantment
that one comes up easily.
And there you go,
turning it into a word game.
It's you playing games,
telling me I can't feel
that's quite an indictment--
WILSON: Then prove me wrong
with evidence
the last time you felt
for a woman in any relationship.
I feel for you!
That doesn't mean I'd...
ever...
I have feelings for you.
(music playing)
(exhales sharply)
Now, I'd appreciate it.
Contrary to the rumors,
I do practice law here,
and I have a lot
of work to do.
Would you excuse me, Tara?
Alan...
Would you excuse me, Tara?
(music playing)
(sighs)
(gavel bangs)
(music playing)
(music playing)
WOMAN: Stinker!
(music playing)