The Practice (1997–2004): Season 8, Episode 4 - Blessed Are They - full transcript
BERLUTI: Previously
on The Practice.
I would like to explore
murder two.
That is a life sentence.
FRUTT: I don't know
what to tell you.
We are going to lose here.
We are dead.
EMMA: Daddy, let me tell.
Emma.
FRUTT: We need to know
the truth.
Did you poison your mother?
(sobs) She was ruining
everything.
WEST: The charges
against Bradley Stanfield
are dismissed.
I killed Molly.
As the case went south,
Emma and I devised
a backup plan,
getting you to think
that she did it.
FRUTT: How do I let
a 10-year-old girl
spend her life
in juvenile hall?
I know about the little plan,
and may I say I admire you?
But now, we have to get
our statements exactly right
to protect you both
against perjury.
CAMPBELL:
Did you trick this girl?
SHORE: I might have used
a little trickery.
This would be privileged.
Since Mr. Stanfield
accomplished his mistrial
through fraud,
double jeopardy does not attach.
WOMAN (over TV): Brad Stanfield
has been rearrested
for the murder of his wife
and unborn son.
I don't believe you had nothing
to do with this, Ellenor.
I'm in here now,
but I won't be for long.
We're in each other's lives,
Ellenor.
You're not being treated
by anybody?
CARLISLE: Why should I be,
because God speaks to me?
Did you hire her?
SHORE: I've got to keep
this woman close to me
until I can persuade her
to get back on her medication.
WILSON:
So, she works here?
She will not draw salary,
and most importantly,
we are not to give her clients,
ever.
WILSON: Massachusetts
is a no-fault state.
Your wife's infidelity
is a nonissue.
She didn't just cheat on me,
Ms. Wilson.
She did so
with my best friend.
I have two young kids.
I'll represent you, Roland.
Sheila.
And I don't think
we should just file claim
against her.
Sheila!
NANCY: Little news flash,
the kids aren't yours,
they're Richard's.
Nancy.
What?
NANCY: So drop this case,
or you'll never see them again.
I wanna hurt her now.
We're gonna try to get you
full custody.
Promise me that.
I promise, Roland.
(door bell dings)
Roland.
I think I need a lawyer.
(gasps)
Holy Mary, mother of God.
(music playing)
(indistinct chatter)
You found them like that?
What do you mean?
Certainly, you don't think
that I did it.
Ms. Wilson,
when you entered this room...
They were...
like that.
(camera shutter clicks)
Oh, gracious Lord,
we beseech you,
remember not against them
the sins of their youth
and of their ignorances.
Our Father,
who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
The police want
to talk to him,
which I haven't allowed.
He's in a bit of a daze, Eugene,
and so is Sheila,
for that matter.
I mean, I really don't know
what to do.
YOUNG: I'm almost there.
Do not let him speak to anybody.
Stay in the den till I arrive.
Well, I think we need
to get him to a doctor.
Well, actually,
maybe both of them.
YOUNG (over phone): Stay there.
Okay.
(phone beeps)
(sighs)
Roland,
look at me.
In a moment,
Eugene Young will be here,
and he is very good
at this sort of thing.
Blessed are those--
I don't wanna go to jail.
I can appreciate that.
This is wrong, Tara.
I called you here to help me,
and you called the police.
That's not
what I asked you to do.
WILSON: Roland,
you shot two people.
I don't wanna go to jail.
A little help?
Blessed are those
who are persecuted
for the sake
of righteousness,
for theirs
is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they who hunger.
I don't wanna go to jail.
Now I lay me down to sleep.
I don't wanna go to jail.
Jail, jail, jail, jail.
Excellent.
(music playing)
SHORE: Crazy how?
WILSON: Mumbling prayers.
She seemed totally
out of it, Alan.
Eugene wants us in.
Let's keep this
between us, okay?
Well, too late,
because Eugene witnessed
some of it
when he got there.
Splendid.
YOUNG: Okay, we got Roland
Huff's arraignment at 10:00.
I'll take that.
Tara, since you seem to have
some dialogue with the man,
maybe you should come with me.
In regard to Jeanette Martin,
what's that?
Mine.
My cousin.
She's a nun,
suing her parish
for wrongful termination.
I said I'd help.
Why'd they fire her?
She's pregnant.
It's a dog, I know.
YOUNG: Reminder,
decisions on whether
we take cases or not
are to be run through me.
I'll get rid of it.
You all right?
Fine.
Thank you for asking.
Client's blasted two people
last night.
Perhaps you heard?
Yes, we spoke after.
You really okay?
I'm fine.
In criminal law,
clients turn out
to be criminals on occasion.
Funny thing.
YOUNG: Alan,
maybe you and I need
to get together
after this and--
Boom!
Well, I mean, I wasn't there
when the shooting happened,
you know, but I imagine
it sounded something like that.
Boom! Right in the chest.
(music playing)
We can't let her practice.
Work is her best conduit
to sanity.
She's in there going "Boom."
She's committed no malpractice.
FRUTT: Alan,
we can't wait
for that to happen.
Don't give her cases,
but please,
don't take her job away,
especially since this--
She just left.
Who?
WILSON: Sheila,
to cover Roland's arraignment.
Oh, come on.
MARTIN: One tiny
little mistake.
Jimmy.
WILSON: Uh, could you
cover the phones
until I get back?
Can I cover the phones?
Do I look like an assistant?
That was hostile.
Ellenor.
Hey, Walter.
Got a minute?
FRUTT: Sure.
What's up?
I now represent
Brad Stanfield.
Excuse me?
He just retained me.
FRUTT: Wow.
I'm surprised
he could afford you.
PYNE: Well,
I asked for the case.
What Alan Shore did here
was unconscionable,
and I know
you share that view,
which is why I've come
to ask you to join me.
Join you in...
PYNE: I brought a motion
to suppress
Mr. Shore's statement,
as well as the ensuing statement
from Mr. Stanfield's daughter
on a poisoned-fruits theory.
Can I count on you?
(exhales sharply)
Look, this puts me
in a very difficult position.
PYNE: I realize that,
with Mr. Shore working here,
but at your core,
you're a defense attorney,
and this whole thing
has to shock your conscience,
as it does mine.
FRUTT: Walter,
I don't want Brad Stanfield
to get out.
I'm embarrassed
to admit this,
but...
I'm afraid of him.
Afraid of him?
FRUTT: Look, Alan Shore
had a technical right
to reveal what he did,
plus his conduct
wasn't state action.
How can you bring a motion
to suppress?
PYNE: I'm not here to argue
the merits with you.
I'm appealing to...
a fellow defense attorney,
a fellow civil libertarian,
and asking you...
to stand up
against what you know
was a constitutional atrocity.
I'm sorry,
but I don't want him out.
(indistinct chatter)
I'm his lawyer.
You're also
a potential witness.
I didn't see anything.
SHORE: Sheila.
I didn't even hear the boom.
This is a double-murder trial.
It's best to let Eugene
handle it.
Why?
Your experience
in criminal law is limited.
WOMAN: Commonwealth
versus Roland Huff,
double homicide.
YOUNG: Eugene Young
for the defendant.
Waive reading,
plead not guilty.
It's my first criminal, Alan.
Let Eugene do this.
It's not fair.
Sheila.
WALLACE: The defendant
is ordered held without bail.
Does defense want
a preliminary hearing?
Yes, Your Honor.
Uh, November 7th.
Next case, please.
WOMAN: Recall John Doe.
We're still waiting
for a public defender on that.
ROLAND: You need
to get me out.
We'll see you back
in custody.
Continue to say nothing
to anybody.
Come on.
Mr. Shore,
Mr. Antitrust lawyer,
I'm drafting you into the world
of pro bono law.
Excuse me?
Meet your new client, John Doe.
Your Honor, I'm here
on another matter.
Yeah, well, now you're here
on this one.
See Mr. Doe in lockup,
then let's talk.
Next case, please.
Great.
I can do it.
No.
Sheila, go back
to the office.
I'll see you there.
What have we got?
Indecent exposure.
He cleans toilets
at the transportation authority,
then gratifies himself.
I'm not making it up.
WOMAN: 3216,
Commonwealth
versus Mitchell Penner,
felony count
of mishandling a corpse.
Here's the file.
Uh, that's also mine,
Your Honor.
Did you say
"Mishandling a corpse"?
MORRIS: The defendant
is a taxidermist.
Police received a report
from one of his employees
that he was stuffing
a human head.
Now, in that this could develop
into a murder case,
we'd ask that Mr. Penner
be held without bail.
Are you represented, sir?
No.
I can't really afford a lawyer.
Sheila Carlisle, Your Honor.
I'll do it.
Dear God.
CARLISLE: If the Commonwealth
wishes to charge murder,
let them do so,
but to hold my client
without bail on--what is it--
felony head-stuffing?
Sheila.
One second.
I'm not sure a law's
even been broken here.
Sheila.
Shh.
MORRIS:
Massachusetts requires
all bodies and portions
thereof to be buried,
entombed, or cremated.
The law also allows
that citizens
may will their body parts
to family members
or learning institutes
for study.
I refer you to MGLA 113,
section 10.
You're talking about
organ donation.
No, you are.
The language is silent on that,
suggesting a conflict
of legislative intent
over whether or not
the living may determine
how their bodies
are used after death.
There's no conflict.
CARLISLE: I'd also call
Your Honor's attention
to a Pennsylvania case,
Commonwealth vs. Brown,
where a defendant invoked
the First Amendment,
claiming he was using
body remains as art.
Whose head was it,
Mr. Penner?
Don't answer that.
WALLACE: Counsel,
if he doesn't answer,
I'm not granting him bail.
CARLISLE: Surely, Your Honor,
doesn't mean to leverage bail
against my client's
Fifth Amendment rights.
He won't even tell us
where the head is,
Your Honor.
Mr. Penner stays in custody
until he reveals
whose head it is
and where it is.
(gavel bangs)
(indistinct chatter)
The police beat you up?
FOSTERLING: Yes.
Who are you, sir?
Never mind that.
You tell them
if they don't drop
the charges,
I'll file a brutality claim.
I'm not sure that's a winner.
You need to get me out.
SHORE: Mr. Doe,
I can probably get you released,
but not without your identity.
Well, they ran my prints.
They know I have no record.
Even so,
given your infraction...
FOSTERLING: Please,
get me out.
(sighs)
ROLAND: I started getting
very angry feelings
once she told me,
she told me my children
weren't really mine.
Then I started feeling funny.
I didn't like
how I was feeling at all.
YOUNG: Okay, first thing,
we're gonna have you meet
with some doctors.
The most logical--
ROLAND: I don't like it
when I feel like that.
Roland, listen to me here.
The likelihood is
that we'll plead insanity.
ROLAND: They were fornicating
in my bed again.
YOUNG: I understand,
but it's very important that you
don't talk to anybody but us
and the people we say
it's okay to talk to.
And we're in it
for the long haul here,
but we have good legal options.
Do not compromise them
by speaking to anybody,
not even fellow prisoners
who might seem sympathetic.
Are you clear?
I still love her, you know.
I shot her,
but I love her.
(music playing)
She took a case.
SHORE: She ran up
and got herself appointed,
Eugene.
I couldn't stop her.
What do you mean
you couldn't stop her?
Why?
The judge assigned me a case.
While I was dealing with that,
she dashed up
and got one of her own.
What kind of case?
Mishandling a corpse.
She was surprisingly
current on the law,
by the way, which she--
And what's your case?
Serial toilet cleaner.
Jamie,
are you free
to back Sheila?
STRINGER: Actually, no,
I have a settlement conference.
Jimmy?
Can't.
I have a 12:00 meeting
with a mother superior.
Tara?
Me?
YOUNG: Uh-huh.
How crazy is she?
Well, in the courtroom,
she's been nothing short
of brilliant,
but seeing dead bodies
can rattle a person,
especially if you feel
somewhat responsible.
And why would she feel
responsible?
Because Roland was dropping
little clues about his anger,
and it's possible...
that we should have
seen it coming.
It might have
pushed Sheila
over the edge...
a little.
And how are you dealing with it?
Me?
I'm fine.
(telephone ringing)
Uh, Young, Frutt,
and Berluti.
Please hold.
Jamie,
do you mind taking calls
if they're for you?
You know,
you and I are gonna need
to steal a little private time.
I'd love that.
The problem is...
that you've broken
three separate laws, Mitchell.
They can't prove
it was a human head.
It's the word of one
disgruntled employee.
Was it human?
You can tell me.
I'm your lawyer.
Mitchell,
are we dealing
with a human head here?
Yes.
Okay.
And can we rule out foul play?
She died of a coronary.
I have the death certificate.
It's my mother.
How'd you get
your mother's head?
I dug her up.
Why?
Because I don't think
it honors a person
to stick her head in dirt.
If I tell them it's my mother,
they'll find her
and take her away.
And where is she?
In my den.
She's mounted on the wall.
They're gonna get
a warrant, Mitchell.
It's only a matter of time
before they find her.
PENNER: Then you need
to help me.
Her head--
it's all I have left of her.
Please don't let them
take her away from me.
Please.
MORRIS: Look,
I'd love to help you,
but I can't let the guy go
if I don't even know
his identity.
What if he pays
court costs?
We need his name,
and you know that.
No.
Then they're gonna hold you.
Indefinitely?
Yes.
I have a family, kids.
They're gonna think I'm dead
or something.
Why don't you call them?
(sighs)
Look,
tell me your name.
That stays privileged.
I'll get probation
to run it under the pretext
I'm looking
for something else,
and if you don't have
a record--
I don't.
Maybe I can go to the DA
and vouch for you.
They'll take your word?
SHORE: Well,
that would be the challenge,
but it's certainly worth a try.
John,
or whatever your name is,
for me to help you,
you have to trust me.
My name
is Russell Fosterling.
I'm an investment banker,
one of considerable...
prestige.
Mr. Fosterling,
why do you like
to clean toilets?
I just...
like to clean.
(sighs)
Did the guards beat you up?
FOSTERLING: No.
I did it to myself.
I was so ashamed.
I wanted to make myself
unrecognizable at arraignment.
I'm begging you.
Mr. Shore,
please...
get me out before...
my life will be over
if this becomes public.
Please.
Walter Pyne
is representing him?
Yes.
STRINGER: Motion to suppress?
This isn't state action.
That's what I said.
You don't actually think
he could get out, do you?
STRINGER: Ellenor, even if--
he's not a danger to you.
There's something--
he said that he would be
walking away,
like he knew it,
that it was the beginning,
that we were
in each other's lives.
It just shot through me.
Ellenor, he's not getting out.
You think you're funny.
Well, I amuse myself to--
Don't amuse yourself
at my desk, Alan.
What's going on?
He downloaded
some sexually-deviant website
and left it there
for me to see.
SHORE: It's part of a file
and it's research.
Research?
SHORE: Yes, on a case.
I didn't mean
to leave it there
for you to see.
Well, then why couldn't
you do it at your own desk?
Because my desk
is across town
in a corner office
with a spectacular view.
And besides,
I like your desk.
It's research.
My office a second.
(door opens)
You seem wound
a little tight.
Before this,
you were going after Jamie.
Why? Is she off limits?
You saw two homicide victims
last night.
I'm fine.
YOUNG: Yeah,
I know you're fine.
I know all about being fine.
When I was
a private detective,
I saw a lot
of gruesome stuff,
and the only constant
was that I was fine.
It catches up to you, Tara.
Take my word on that.
Now, you have a support system
in this office.
I hope you know that.
Thank you.
I'd like to keep you
on Roland's case.
Do you think you're up to it?
So you can recuse me
as a witness?
No, because I can use you.
Do you think you're up to it?
Yes.
Thank you.
STRINGER:
What was that about?
It was about Tara.
You need something?
No.
(music playing)
What do you mean
you know her?
CARLISLE: I do.
I've known her
all my life.
What's more,
she just came
to me again
two nights ago.
Eugene?
What's wrong?
Oh, nothing.
Everything's wonderful.
The head stuffed
by Sheila's taxidermist client
is actually
the head of Saint...
Catherine.
WILSON: Saint Catherine,
a saint that has been
visiting Sheila
much of her life.
She recognized it.
You saw the head?
CARLISLE: Yes,
and we cannot let her fall
into the hands of the state.
She's in your office.
What do you mean
she's in my off--
the head is in my office?
Yeah.
I'm sorry,
but it was the environment
with the highest stature,
at least in this firm,
where I'd like
to maintain her.
She'll watch over us, Eugene.
She can watch
over all of us.
You would pay
full court costs,
plead guilty.
So it goes on my record.
SHORE: Yes,
but the DA has agreed
to make
a joint recommendation
that the conviction
be sealed.
The judge still
has to approve, but--
I have to give
the DA my name?
SHORE: Yes.
You committed a crime.
You have to have a record,
but it'll be sealed.
As long as you don't commit
another crime,
it'll stay sealed.
Mr. Fosterling,
it is your best out.
It's also
the very best I can do.
And my face--
what will I tell people?
That you were mugged
or in an accident
and hospitalized,
whatever you want
to tell them.
(cellular phone rings)
SHORE: Oh, I apologize.
Hello?
What?
Whose head?
PYNE: For double jeopardy
to be undone here
is ludicrous.
Attorney-client privilege
is the oldest
of all common law privileges.
Mr. Pyne is ignoring
rule 1.6(b)(1),
one which allows disclosure
of privileged information
to prevent the wrongful
incarceration of another.
In this case--
PYNE: I don't ignore it!
I say it doesn't apply.
Rule 1.6(b)(1)--
This man killed
his pregnant wife,
and then he--
PYNE: I object to that button
being pushed as if
it were a point of law.
And while we're talking
about fraud, Your Honor,
Mr. Stanfield may very well
have duped his lawyer
and all the players
in his trial,
but Alan Shore defrauded
our criminal justice system,
a much more
egregious transgress--
CAMPBELL: Mr. Stanfield
orchestrated a mistrial.
He played his attorneys
to approach the judge
as officers of the court.
He used them as conduits
to defraud the system
Mr. Pyne holds so dear.
Brad Stanfield walked free
as a double murderer
while his 10-year-old daughter
was put in jail.
Since Alan Shore
didn't like that, he said,
"To hell with the rules.
To hell with attorney-client
privilege."
If this court
says okay to that,
the Sixth Amendment right
to counsel is obliterated.
Mr. Stanfield, stand up.
I want to know exactly
what you said to Ms. Frutt.
Forgive me, Your Honor,
but privilege may not extend
to what I say to you
in open court.
You seem to be quite savvy
on the law, sir.
I certainly understand
the Sixth Amendment,
and I relied on it when talking
to Ellenor Frutt.
WILCOX: Did you rely
on Ms. Frutt to act
as an officer of the court
to help carry out your fraud?
I relied on her
to uphold the law
to her best ability,
as I rely on you
to do so now.
(indistinct chatter)
Where is she?
WILSON: Eugene's office
with her shrine.
Alan?
I'm on it.
Sheila.
Look at her, Alan.
Isn't she incredible?
I don't have the words.
When I was a very young girl,
she used to come
to me in visions.
She used to give me advice
and watch over me,
then she went away.
Three years ago,
she appeared to me again.
Oh, her name's Catherine.
She's a saint.
Sheila, it's a head.
She looks at home
in this room.
Doesn't she look at home?
(music playing)
Okay.
Visions and wanderings,
headless completely aside,
MGLA chapter 114,
section 43m
does not permit her
display here.
Plus, you have a client
in custody,
who I believe needs this
as evidence
to support his--
The complainant witness ID'd
my client's deceased mother.
The death certificate
confirmed natural causes.
My client was cleared
of homicide.
We paid the fine,
pled guilty,
accepted probation.
He's home,
happy his mother
is in a place of honor.
But you're committing
a crime now.
Technically,
I'm studying her,
pursuant to chapter 113,
section 10.
SHORE: You're not
a learning institution.
This is
a health-code violation,
and under chapter 272,
section 71--
You're making her angry!
Get out!
You're off on the law, Sheila.
Get out!
You're off on the law.
Get out!
I need you to be
a good lawyer here.
Catherine doesn't want
that right now.
(siren wailing)
I don't think
she likes being draped.
I draped her, Sheila,
because I need you
to look at me now.
Sheila, without
arguing the merits
of our separate realities,
I represented
to the people here
that yours
would not interfere
with their practice.
In fact, I went so far
as to say
once you entered
the arena of law,
your sensibilities
were beyond reproach.
I can no longer
say that, Sheila.
I no longer believe it.
You are incompetent
to practice.
Do I not win my cases,
all of them,
even this one?
I got a good result
for my client,
who is very pleased.
I spoke to your doctor--
On whose authority?
SHORE: And he thinks
your situation
has been exacerbated
by trauma.
He strongly believes
you need to be on medication.
That doesn't work for me.
Sheila.
That does not work for me.
Then you need to leave.
You can't work here.
I feel like
I just settled in.
You are a dear friend,
and I love you,
but unless
you get treatment...
Please, just give it a week.
You watch.
Catherine will bless
all of us.
I promise you.
You need to leave here.
Then I'll go.
Sheila.
I'm going, Alan.
BAILIFF: Be seated.
I have studied rule 1.6,
and it does indeed allow
for lawyers
to violate privilege
to prevent the wrongful
incarceration of another.
No lawyer has ever
done this before,
but the rule is there,
which I suspect
saved Mr. Shore
from disbarment.
To use a disclosed information
in a subsequent trial, however,
I agree with Mr. Pyne.
There's no authority for that.
I also agree
the Sixth Amendment
would be meaningless
if we let lawyers give evidence
against their clients.
Mr. Shore's statement
is quashed,
as is that
of Mr. Stanfield's daughter,
which constitutes
poisonous fruits.
The question becomes,
do we then just retry
Mr. Stanfield
with the old evidence?
That seems to make sense.
Problem is, overturning
double jeopardy here
would still rely on giving
Mr. Shore's disclosure
legal teeth.
And due process just won't
allow me to do that.
(indistinct chatter)
WILCOX: I'm holding
that double jeopardy
therefore attaches
to the first mistrial.
As a matter of law,
Mr. Stanfield
cannot be tried twice
for the same crimes.
He is therefore
free to go.
(indistinct chatter)
(gavel bangs)
(music playing)
Ellenor.
I'm not gonna make a scene.
You won.
Congratulations.
This is the final chapter, Brad.
Story over.
You and I are not
in each other's lives.
No hard feelings, Ellenor.
If you can't take
my hand, Ellenor,
how can I trust that
we've resolved our differences?
If I should be sued civilly,
I will, of course,
expect you
not to give
testimony against me.
That would open up
another chapter.
PYNE: All right, Brad.
MAN: Ms. Frutt--
(indistinct chatter)
REPORTER:
Why'd you kill your wife?
BRAD: Obviously,
I'm gratified
we have a judicial system
that values the constitution
as intended
by our founding fathers.
It's rewarding to see
the court prioritize
those principles
over the lawlessness
of one aberrant attorney.
(indistinct chatter)
(music playing)
I don't think I can
survive in this place.
YOUNG: We're gonna try
to get you
the fastest
trial date possible.
ROLAND: Before Christmas?
I need to be with my kids
for Christmas.
Can they get me bail
for Christmas
for my kids' sake?
They have no mother.
YOUNG: Well, that appeal
usually doesn't work
for the defendant
who killed the mother.
Am I ever gonna get out?
YOUNG: What we propose
is to argue insanity,
and we think we can make
a strong case there.
ROLAND: Tell me
you'll get me out.
I need to know I'll get out.
Roland...
We're going to get you out.
You promise?
(music playing)
We promise.
(sighs)
You understand
if you violate probation,
we can go back
and impose time.
Yes, sir.
WALLACE: You're getting
an enormous break here,
Mr. Fosterling.
For this matter to be sealed,
you're very fortunate.
This is a special favor.
I appreciate that,
Your Honor.
Why do you clean toilets
and then...
if I may ask?
I don't think that's relevant,
Your Honor.
It's relevant to me.
It was for...
personal reasons.
WALLACE: Personal reasons?
It's a bit different
from your antitrust clients,
huh, Mr. Shore?
(sighs)
Can you look at me, sir?
It won't get out.
(sighs)
I appreciate your help.
Certainly,
I expect to pay you
for your services.
Mr. Fosterling,
I have a book.
It's a case study,
"Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual
of Behavioral Anomalies"
and there's a case in here
that talks about a person
being sexually stimulated
by men's rooms.
It's included in the section
"Paraphilia
Not Otherwise Specified."
I offer you this...
because I detect a fair amount
of self-loathing.
And...
I don't think you're sick,
Mr. Fosterling.
I think you're peculiar,
but a lot of us
are quite peculiar.
And maybe
with a little help,
you could find a way
to continue
to enjoy yourself...
that doesn't make
you hate yourself.
Anyway, I give you the book...
and I wish you well.
(elevator dings)
Mr. Shore...
(sighs) Thank you.
Not just this jurisdiction
or first circuit.
I want to see
every insanity case
in the country
where jealousy
was the motivating factor.
Tara, I want you to focus
on the legal research.
Jamie, you start
lining up doctors.
I wanna move fast on this,
because I don't think Roland's
gonna hold up well in jail.
Jamie, for fun,
I want you to go through
the incident reports,
forensics.
Give me an opinion
as to whether
we got any shot
on the elements.
No sense in going insanity
if we don't have to.
We all clear?
Good.
I have a couple of sites
I can give you
to get you started.
Thanks.
Uh, Jamie?
Sorry, uh,
for, um...
it's been one of those weeks.
I get it.
Listen, if you need to talk...
try Ellenor.
They took it.
They just marched in here
and seized it.
Can you believe it?
Well, you don't
actually need
the head of Saint Catherine,
do you?
It's her spirit
that matters most.
You really think
I'm nuts, don't you?
You've had your moments.
Sometimes, I envy
the world you live in.
You're so sweet.
Sometimes, I think you and I
would make for great lovers.
(music playing)
SHORE: You're not getting out
of my life, now, Sheila,
only this office.
You and I will still...
I'm always here for you.
(music playing)
(sighs)
(music playing)
Well...
guess I better go.
Say goodbye to the group.
Yeah.
Don't everybody look so sad.
I'll be...
thank you so much.
You've all been incredibly
generous with me,
and, Tara,
I loved trying
our case together.
Eugene, you're a good boss.
Jimmy, hang in there
with your nun case, okay?
Though the church
can dismiss her
under canon law,
the fact is,
they often
don't dismiss priests
for having sex,
which means, in truth,
they're probably firing her
for being pregnant, which
is a direct violation of title 7
Klein vs. Catholic Diocese
of Toledo.
Thanks.
CARLISLE: Anyway,
you are all such kind
and charitable people.
And though
I haven't known you long,
I will miss you.
(music playing)
We'll stay in touch, right?
We shall.
(music playing)
(sighs)
(music playing)
(door opens)
(door closes)
(music playing)
(music playing)
WOMAN: You stinker!
(music playing)
on The Practice.
I would like to explore
murder two.
That is a life sentence.
FRUTT: I don't know
what to tell you.
We are going to lose here.
We are dead.
EMMA: Daddy, let me tell.
Emma.
FRUTT: We need to know
the truth.
Did you poison your mother?
(sobs) She was ruining
everything.
WEST: The charges
against Bradley Stanfield
are dismissed.
I killed Molly.
As the case went south,
Emma and I devised
a backup plan,
getting you to think
that she did it.
FRUTT: How do I let
a 10-year-old girl
spend her life
in juvenile hall?
I know about the little plan,
and may I say I admire you?
But now, we have to get
our statements exactly right
to protect you both
against perjury.
CAMPBELL:
Did you trick this girl?
SHORE: I might have used
a little trickery.
This would be privileged.
Since Mr. Stanfield
accomplished his mistrial
through fraud,
double jeopardy does not attach.
WOMAN (over TV): Brad Stanfield
has been rearrested
for the murder of his wife
and unborn son.
I don't believe you had nothing
to do with this, Ellenor.
I'm in here now,
but I won't be for long.
We're in each other's lives,
Ellenor.
You're not being treated
by anybody?
CARLISLE: Why should I be,
because God speaks to me?
Did you hire her?
SHORE: I've got to keep
this woman close to me
until I can persuade her
to get back on her medication.
WILSON:
So, she works here?
She will not draw salary,
and most importantly,
we are not to give her clients,
ever.
WILSON: Massachusetts
is a no-fault state.
Your wife's infidelity
is a nonissue.
She didn't just cheat on me,
Ms. Wilson.
She did so
with my best friend.
I have two young kids.
I'll represent you, Roland.
Sheila.
And I don't think
we should just file claim
against her.
Sheila!
NANCY: Little news flash,
the kids aren't yours,
they're Richard's.
Nancy.
What?
NANCY: So drop this case,
or you'll never see them again.
I wanna hurt her now.
We're gonna try to get you
full custody.
Promise me that.
I promise, Roland.
(door bell dings)
Roland.
I think I need a lawyer.
(gasps)
Holy Mary, mother of God.
(music playing)
(indistinct chatter)
You found them like that?
What do you mean?
Certainly, you don't think
that I did it.
Ms. Wilson,
when you entered this room...
They were...
like that.
(camera shutter clicks)
Oh, gracious Lord,
we beseech you,
remember not against them
the sins of their youth
and of their ignorances.
Our Father,
who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
The police want
to talk to him,
which I haven't allowed.
He's in a bit of a daze, Eugene,
and so is Sheila,
for that matter.
I mean, I really don't know
what to do.
YOUNG: I'm almost there.
Do not let him speak to anybody.
Stay in the den till I arrive.
Well, I think we need
to get him to a doctor.
Well, actually,
maybe both of them.
YOUNG (over phone): Stay there.
Okay.
(phone beeps)
(sighs)
Roland,
look at me.
In a moment,
Eugene Young will be here,
and he is very good
at this sort of thing.
Blessed are those--
I don't wanna go to jail.
I can appreciate that.
This is wrong, Tara.
I called you here to help me,
and you called the police.
That's not
what I asked you to do.
WILSON: Roland,
you shot two people.
I don't wanna go to jail.
A little help?
Blessed are those
who are persecuted
for the sake
of righteousness,
for theirs
is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they who hunger.
I don't wanna go to jail.
Now I lay me down to sleep.
I don't wanna go to jail.
Jail, jail, jail, jail.
Excellent.
(music playing)
SHORE: Crazy how?
WILSON: Mumbling prayers.
She seemed totally
out of it, Alan.
Eugene wants us in.
Let's keep this
between us, okay?
Well, too late,
because Eugene witnessed
some of it
when he got there.
Splendid.
YOUNG: Okay, we got Roland
Huff's arraignment at 10:00.
I'll take that.
Tara, since you seem to have
some dialogue with the man,
maybe you should come with me.
In regard to Jeanette Martin,
what's that?
Mine.
My cousin.
She's a nun,
suing her parish
for wrongful termination.
I said I'd help.
Why'd they fire her?
She's pregnant.
It's a dog, I know.
YOUNG: Reminder,
decisions on whether
we take cases or not
are to be run through me.
I'll get rid of it.
You all right?
Fine.
Thank you for asking.
Client's blasted two people
last night.
Perhaps you heard?
Yes, we spoke after.
You really okay?
I'm fine.
In criminal law,
clients turn out
to be criminals on occasion.
Funny thing.
YOUNG: Alan,
maybe you and I need
to get together
after this and--
Boom!
Well, I mean, I wasn't there
when the shooting happened,
you know, but I imagine
it sounded something like that.
Boom! Right in the chest.
(music playing)
We can't let her practice.
Work is her best conduit
to sanity.
She's in there going "Boom."
She's committed no malpractice.
FRUTT: Alan,
we can't wait
for that to happen.
Don't give her cases,
but please,
don't take her job away,
especially since this--
She just left.
Who?
WILSON: Sheila,
to cover Roland's arraignment.
Oh, come on.
MARTIN: One tiny
little mistake.
Jimmy.
WILSON: Uh, could you
cover the phones
until I get back?
Can I cover the phones?
Do I look like an assistant?
That was hostile.
Ellenor.
Hey, Walter.
Got a minute?
FRUTT: Sure.
What's up?
I now represent
Brad Stanfield.
Excuse me?
He just retained me.
FRUTT: Wow.
I'm surprised
he could afford you.
PYNE: Well,
I asked for the case.
What Alan Shore did here
was unconscionable,
and I know
you share that view,
which is why I've come
to ask you to join me.
Join you in...
PYNE: I brought a motion
to suppress
Mr. Shore's statement,
as well as the ensuing statement
from Mr. Stanfield's daughter
on a poisoned-fruits theory.
Can I count on you?
(exhales sharply)
Look, this puts me
in a very difficult position.
PYNE: I realize that,
with Mr. Shore working here,
but at your core,
you're a defense attorney,
and this whole thing
has to shock your conscience,
as it does mine.
FRUTT: Walter,
I don't want Brad Stanfield
to get out.
I'm embarrassed
to admit this,
but...
I'm afraid of him.
Afraid of him?
FRUTT: Look, Alan Shore
had a technical right
to reveal what he did,
plus his conduct
wasn't state action.
How can you bring a motion
to suppress?
PYNE: I'm not here to argue
the merits with you.
I'm appealing to...
a fellow defense attorney,
a fellow civil libertarian,
and asking you...
to stand up
against what you know
was a constitutional atrocity.
I'm sorry,
but I don't want him out.
(indistinct chatter)
I'm his lawyer.
You're also
a potential witness.
I didn't see anything.
SHORE: Sheila.
I didn't even hear the boom.
This is a double-murder trial.
It's best to let Eugene
handle it.
Why?
Your experience
in criminal law is limited.
WOMAN: Commonwealth
versus Roland Huff,
double homicide.
YOUNG: Eugene Young
for the defendant.
Waive reading,
plead not guilty.
It's my first criminal, Alan.
Let Eugene do this.
It's not fair.
Sheila.
WALLACE: The defendant
is ordered held without bail.
Does defense want
a preliminary hearing?
Yes, Your Honor.
Uh, November 7th.
Next case, please.
WOMAN: Recall John Doe.
We're still waiting
for a public defender on that.
ROLAND: You need
to get me out.
We'll see you back
in custody.
Continue to say nothing
to anybody.
Come on.
Mr. Shore,
Mr. Antitrust lawyer,
I'm drafting you into the world
of pro bono law.
Excuse me?
Meet your new client, John Doe.
Your Honor, I'm here
on another matter.
Yeah, well, now you're here
on this one.
See Mr. Doe in lockup,
then let's talk.
Next case, please.
Great.
I can do it.
No.
Sheila, go back
to the office.
I'll see you there.
What have we got?
Indecent exposure.
He cleans toilets
at the transportation authority,
then gratifies himself.
I'm not making it up.
WOMAN: 3216,
Commonwealth
versus Mitchell Penner,
felony count
of mishandling a corpse.
Here's the file.
Uh, that's also mine,
Your Honor.
Did you say
"Mishandling a corpse"?
MORRIS: The defendant
is a taxidermist.
Police received a report
from one of his employees
that he was stuffing
a human head.
Now, in that this could develop
into a murder case,
we'd ask that Mr. Penner
be held without bail.
Are you represented, sir?
No.
I can't really afford a lawyer.
Sheila Carlisle, Your Honor.
I'll do it.
Dear God.
CARLISLE: If the Commonwealth
wishes to charge murder,
let them do so,
but to hold my client
without bail on--what is it--
felony head-stuffing?
Sheila.
One second.
I'm not sure a law's
even been broken here.
Sheila.
Shh.
MORRIS:
Massachusetts requires
all bodies and portions
thereof to be buried,
entombed, or cremated.
The law also allows
that citizens
may will their body parts
to family members
or learning institutes
for study.
I refer you to MGLA 113,
section 10.
You're talking about
organ donation.
No, you are.
The language is silent on that,
suggesting a conflict
of legislative intent
over whether or not
the living may determine
how their bodies
are used after death.
There's no conflict.
CARLISLE: I'd also call
Your Honor's attention
to a Pennsylvania case,
Commonwealth vs. Brown,
where a defendant invoked
the First Amendment,
claiming he was using
body remains as art.
Whose head was it,
Mr. Penner?
Don't answer that.
WALLACE: Counsel,
if he doesn't answer,
I'm not granting him bail.
CARLISLE: Surely, Your Honor,
doesn't mean to leverage bail
against my client's
Fifth Amendment rights.
He won't even tell us
where the head is,
Your Honor.
Mr. Penner stays in custody
until he reveals
whose head it is
and where it is.
(gavel bangs)
(indistinct chatter)
The police beat you up?
FOSTERLING: Yes.
Who are you, sir?
Never mind that.
You tell them
if they don't drop
the charges,
I'll file a brutality claim.
I'm not sure that's a winner.
You need to get me out.
SHORE: Mr. Doe,
I can probably get you released,
but not without your identity.
Well, they ran my prints.
They know I have no record.
Even so,
given your infraction...
FOSTERLING: Please,
get me out.
(sighs)
ROLAND: I started getting
very angry feelings
once she told me,
she told me my children
weren't really mine.
Then I started feeling funny.
I didn't like
how I was feeling at all.
YOUNG: Okay, first thing,
we're gonna have you meet
with some doctors.
The most logical--
ROLAND: I don't like it
when I feel like that.
Roland, listen to me here.
The likelihood is
that we'll plead insanity.
ROLAND: They were fornicating
in my bed again.
YOUNG: I understand,
but it's very important that you
don't talk to anybody but us
and the people we say
it's okay to talk to.
And we're in it
for the long haul here,
but we have good legal options.
Do not compromise them
by speaking to anybody,
not even fellow prisoners
who might seem sympathetic.
Are you clear?
I still love her, you know.
I shot her,
but I love her.
(music playing)
She took a case.
SHORE: She ran up
and got herself appointed,
Eugene.
I couldn't stop her.
What do you mean
you couldn't stop her?
Why?
The judge assigned me a case.
While I was dealing with that,
she dashed up
and got one of her own.
What kind of case?
Mishandling a corpse.
She was surprisingly
current on the law,
by the way, which she--
And what's your case?
Serial toilet cleaner.
Jamie,
are you free
to back Sheila?
STRINGER: Actually, no,
I have a settlement conference.
Jimmy?
Can't.
I have a 12:00 meeting
with a mother superior.
Tara?
Me?
YOUNG: Uh-huh.
How crazy is she?
Well, in the courtroom,
she's been nothing short
of brilliant,
but seeing dead bodies
can rattle a person,
especially if you feel
somewhat responsible.
And why would she feel
responsible?
Because Roland was dropping
little clues about his anger,
and it's possible...
that we should have
seen it coming.
It might have
pushed Sheila
over the edge...
a little.
And how are you dealing with it?
Me?
I'm fine.
(telephone ringing)
Uh, Young, Frutt,
and Berluti.
Please hold.
Jamie,
do you mind taking calls
if they're for you?
You know,
you and I are gonna need
to steal a little private time.
I'd love that.
The problem is...
that you've broken
three separate laws, Mitchell.
They can't prove
it was a human head.
It's the word of one
disgruntled employee.
Was it human?
You can tell me.
I'm your lawyer.
Mitchell,
are we dealing
with a human head here?
Yes.
Okay.
And can we rule out foul play?
She died of a coronary.
I have the death certificate.
It's my mother.
How'd you get
your mother's head?
I dug her up.
Why?
Because I don't think
it honors a person
to stick her head in dirt.
If I tell them it's my mother,
they'll find her
and take her away.
And where is she?
In my den.
She's mounted on the wall.
They're gonna get
a warrant, Mitchell.
It's only a matter of time
before they find her.
PENNER: Then you need
to help me.
Her head--
it's all I have left of her.
Please don't let them
take her away from me.
Please.
MORRIS: Look,
I'd love to help you,
but I can't let the guy go
if I don't even know
his identity.
What if he pays
court costs?
We need his name,
and you know that.
No.
Then they're gonna hold you.
Indefinitely?
Yes.
I have a family, kids.
They're gonna think I'm dead
or something.
Why don't you call them?
(sighs)
Look,
tell me your name.
That stays privileged.
I'll get probation
to run it under the pretext
I'm looking
for something else,
and if you don't have
a record--
I don't.
Maybe I can go to the DA
and vouch for you.
They'll take your word?
SHORE: Well,
that would be the challenge,
but it's certainly worth a try.
John,
or whatever your name is,
for me to help you,
you have to trust me.
My name
is Russell Fosterling.
I'm an investment banker,
one of considerable...
prestige.
Mr. Fosterling,
why do you like
to clean toilets?
I just...
like to clean.
(sighs)
Did the guards beat you up?
FOSTERLING: No.
I did it to myself.
I was so ashamed.
I wanted to make myself
unrecognizable at arraignment.
I'm begging you.
Mr. Shore,
please...
get me out before...
my life will be over
if this becomes public.
Please.
Walter Pyne
is representing him?
Yes.
STRINGER: Motion to suppress?
This isn't state action.
That's what I said.
You don't actually think
he could get out, do you?
STRINGER: Ellenor, even if--
he's not a danger to you.
There's something--
he said that he would be
walking away,
like he knew it,
that it was the beginning,
that we were
in each other's lives.
It just shot through me.
Ellenor, he's not getting out.
You think you're funny.
Well, I amuse myself to--
Don't amuse yourself
at my desk, Alan.
What's going on?
He downloaded
some sexually-deviant website
and left it there
for me to see.
SHORE: It's part of a file
and it's research.
Research?
SHORE: Yes, on a case.
I didn't mean
to leave it there
for you to see.
Well, then why couldn't
you do it at your own desk?
Because my desk
is across town
in a corner office
with a spectacular view.
And besides,
I like your desk.
It's research.
My office a second.
(door opens)
You seem wound
a little tight.
Before this,
you were going after Jamie.
Why? Is she off limits?
You saw two homicide victims
last night.
I'm fine.
YOUNG: Yeah,
I know you're fine.
I know all about being fine.
When I was
a private detective,
I saw a lot
of gruesome stuff,
and the only constant
was that I was fine.
It catches up to you, Tara.
Take my word on that.
Now, you have a support system
in this office.
I hope you know that.
Thank you.
I'd like to keep you
on Roland's case.
Do you think you're up to it?
So you can recuse me
as a witness?
No, because I can use you.
Do you think you're up to it?
Yes.
Thank you.
STRINGER:
What was that about?
It was about Tara.
You need something?
No.
(music playing)
What do you mean
you know her?
CARLISLE: I do.
I've known her
all my life.
What's more,
she just came
to me again
two nights ago.
Eugene?
What's wrong?
Oh, nothing.
Everything's wonderful.
The head stuffed
by Sheila's taxidermist client
is actually
the head of Saint...
Catherine.
WILSON: Saint Catherine,
a saint that has been
visiting Sheila
much of her life.
She recognized it.
You saw the head?
CARLISLE: Yes,
and we cannot let her fall
into the hands of the state.
She's in your office.
What do you mean
she's in my off--
the head is in my office?
Yeah.
I'm sorry,
but it was the environment
with the highest stature,
at least in this firm,
where I'd like
to maintain her.
She'll watch over us, Eugene.
She can watch
over all of us.
You would pay
full court costs,
plead guilty.
So it goes on my record.
SHORE: Yes,
but the DA has agreed
to make
a joint recommendation
that the conviction
be sealed.
The judge still
has to approve, but--
I have to give
the DA my name?
SHORE: Yes.
You committed a crime.
You have to have a record,
but it'll be sealed.
As long as you don't commit
another crime,
it'll stay sealed.
Mr. Fosterling,
it is your best out.
It's also
the very best I can do.
And my face--
what will I tell people?
That you were mugged
or in an accident
and hospitalized,
whatever you want
to tell them.
(cellular phone rings)
SHORE: Oh, I apologize.
Hello?
What?
Whose head?
PYNE: For double jeopardy
to be undone here
is ludicrous.
Attorney-client privilege
is the oldest
of all common law privileges.
Mr. Pyne is ignoring
rule 1.6(b)(1),
one which allows disclosure
of privileged information
to prevent the wrongful
incarceration of another.
In this case--
PYNE: I don't ignore it!
I say it doesn't apply.
Rule 1.6(b)(1)--
This man killed
his pregnant wife,
and then he--
PYNE: I object to that button
being pushed as if
it were a point of law.
And while we're talking
about fraud, Your Honor,
Mr. Stanfield may very well
have duped his lawyer
and all the players
in his trial,
but Alan Shore defrauded
our criminal justice system,
a much more
egregious transgress--
CAMPBELL: Mr. Stanfield
orchestrated a mistrial.
He played his attorneys
to approach the judge
as officers of the court.
He used them as conduits
to defraud the system
Mr. Pyne holds so dear.
Brad Stanfield walked free
as a double murderer
while his 10-year-old daughter
was put in jail.
Since Alan Shore
didn't like that, he said,
"To hell with the rules.
To hell with attorney-client
privilege."
If this court
says okay to that,
the Sixth Amendment right
to counsel is obliterated.
Mr. Stanfield, stand up.
I want to know exactly
what you said to Ms. Frutt.
Forgive me, Your Honor,
but privilege may not extend
to what I say to you
in open court.
You seem to be quite savvy
on the law, sir.
I certainly understand
the Sixth Amendment,
and I relied on it when talking
to Ellenor Frutt.
WILCOX: Did you rely
on Ms. Frutt to act
as an officer of the court
to help carry out your fraud?
I relied on her
to uphold the law
to her best ability,
as I rely on you
to do so now.
(indistinct chatter)
Where is she?
WILSON: Eugene's office
with her shrine.
Alan?
I'm on it.
Sheila.
Look at her, Alan.
Isn't she incredible?
I don't have the words.
When I was a very young girl,
she used to come
to me in visions.
She used to give me advice
and watch over me,
then she went away.
Three years ago,
she appeared to me again.
Oh, her name's Catherine.
She's a saint.
Sheila, it's a head.
She looks at home
in this room.
Doesn't she look at home?
(music playing)
Okay.
Visions and wanderings,
headless completely aside,
MGLA chapter 114,
section 43m
does not permit her
display here.
Plus, you have a client
in custody,
who I believe needs this
as evidence
to support his--
The complainant witness ID'd
my client's deceased mother.
The death certificate
confirmed natural causes.
My client was cleared
of homicide.
We paid the fine,
pled guilty,
accepted probation.
He's home,
happy his mother
is in a place of honor.
But you're committing
a crime now.
Technically,
I'm studying her,
pursuant to chapter 113,
section 10.
SHORE: You're not
a learning institution.
This is
a health-code violation,
and under chapter 272,
section 71--
You're making her angry!
Get out!
You're off on the law, Sheila.
Get out!
You're off on the law.
Get out!
I need you to be
a good lawyer here.
Catherine doesn't want
that right now.
(siren wailing)
I don't think
she likes being draped.
I draped her, Sheila,
because I need you
to look at me now.
Sheila, without
arguing the merits
of our separate realities,
I represented
to the people here
that yours
would not interfere
with their practice.
In fact, I went so far
as to say
once you entered
the arena of law,
your sensibilities
were beyond reproach.
I can no longer
say that, Sheila.
I no longer believe it.
You are incompetent
to practice.
Do I not win my cases,
all of them,
even this one?
I got a good result
for my client,
who is very pleased.
I spoke to your doctor--
On whose authority?
SHORE: And he thinks
your situation
has been exacerbated
by trauma.
He strongly believes
you need to be on medication.
That doesn't work for me.
Sheila.
That does not work for me.
Then you need to leave.
You can't work here.
I feel like
I just settled in.
You are a dear friend,
and I love you,
but unless
you get treatment...
Please, just give it a week.
You watch.
Catherine will bless
all of us.
I promise you.
You need to leave here.
Then I'll go.
Sheila.
I'm going, Alan.
BAILIFF: Be seated.
I have studied rule 1.6,
and it does indeed allow
for lawyers
to violate privilege
to prevent the wrongful
incarceration of another.
No lawyer has ever
done this before,
but the rule is there,
which I suspect
saved Mr. Shore
from disbarment.
To use a disclosed information
in a subsequent trial, however,
I agree with Mr. Pyne.
There's no authority for that.
I also agree
the Sixth Amendment
would be meaningless
if we let lawyers give evidence
against their clients.
Mr. Shore's statement
is quashed,
as is that
of Mr. Stanfield's daughter,
which constitutes
poisonous fruits.
The question becomes,
do we then just retry
Mr. Stanfield
with the old evidence?
That seems to make sense.
Problem is, overturning
double jeopardy here
would still rely on giving
Mr. Shore's disclosure
legal teeth.
And due process just won't
allow me to do that.
(indistinct chatter)
WILCOX: I'm holding
that double jeopardy
therefore attaches
to the first mistrial.
As a matter of law,
Mr. Stanfield
cannot be tried twice
for the same crimes.
He is therefore
free to go.
(indistinct chatter)
(gavel bangs)
(music playing)
Ellenor.
I'm not gonna make a scene.
You won.
Congratulations.
This is the final chapter, Brad.
Story over.
You and I are not
in each other's lives.
No hard feelings, Ellenor.
If you can't take
my hand, Ellenor,
how can I trust that
we've resolved our differences?
If I should be sued civilly,
I will, of course,
expect you
not to give
testimony against me.
That would open up
another chapter.
PYNE: All right, Brad.
MAN: Ms. Frutt--
(indistinct chatter)
REPORTER:
Why'd you kill your wife?
BRAD: Obviously,
I'm gratified
we have a judicial system
that values the constitution
as intended
by our founding fathers.
It's rewarding to see
the court prioritize
those principles
over the lawlessness
of one aberrant attorney.
(indistinct chatter)
(music playing)
I don't think I can
survive in this place.
YOUNG: We're gonna try
to get you
the fastest
trial date possible.
ROLAND: Before Christmas?
I need to be with my kids
for Christmas.
Can they get me bail
for Christmas
for my kids' sake?
They have no mother.
YOUNG: Well, that appeal
usually doesn't work
for the defendant
who killed the mother.
Am I ever gonna get out?
YOUNG: What we propose
is to argue insanity,
and we think we can make
a strong case there.
ROLAND: Tell me
you'll get me out.
I need to know I'll get out.
Roland...
We're going to get you out.
You promise?
(music playing)
We promise.
(sighs)
You understand
if you violate probation,
we can go back
and impose time.
Yes, sir.
WALLACE: You're getting
an enormous break here,
Mr. Fosterling.
For this matter to be sealed,
you're very fortunate.
This is a special favor.
I appreciate that,
Your Honor.
Why do you clean toilets
and then...
if I may ask?
I don't think that's relevant,
Your Honor.
It's relevant to me.
It was for...
personal reasons.
WALLACE: Personal reasons?
It's a bit different
from your antitrust clients,
huh, Mr. Shore?
(sighs)
Can you look at me, sir?
It won't get out.
(sighs)
I appreciate your help.
Certainly,
I expect to pay you
for your services.
Mr. Fosterling,
I have a book.
It's a case study,
"Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual
of Behavioral Anomalies"
and there's a case in here
that talks about a person
being sexually stimulated
by men's rooms.
It's included in the section
"Paraphilia
Not Otherwise Specified."
I offer you this...
because I detect a fair amount
of self-loathing.
And...
I don't think you're sick,
Mr. Fosterling.
I think you're peculiar,
but a lot of us
are quite peculiar.
And maybe
with a little help,
you could find a way
to continue
to enjoy yourself...
that doesn't make
you hate yourself.
Anyway, I give you the book...
and I wish you well.
(elevator dings)
Mr. Shore...
(sighs) Thank you.
Not just this jurisdiction
or first circuit.
I want to see
every insanity case
in the country
where jealousy
was the motivating factor.
Tara, I want you to focus
on the legal research.
Jamie, you start
lining up doctors.
I wanna move fast on this,
because I don't think Roland's
gonna hold up well in jail.
Jamie, for fun,
I want you to go through
the incident reports,
forensics.
Give me an opinion
as to whether
we got any shot
on the elements.
No sense in going insanity
if we don't have to.
We all clear?
Good.
I have a couple of sites
I can give you
to get you started.
Thanks.
Uh, Jamie?
Sorry, uh,
for, um...
it's been one of those weeks.
I get it.
Listen, if you need to talk...
try Ellenor.
They took it.
They just marched in here
and seized it.
Can you believe it?
Well, you don't
actually need
the head of Saint Catherine,
do you?
It's her spirit
that matters most.
You really think
I'm nuts, don't you?
You've had your moments.
Sometimes, I envy
the world you live in.
You're so sweet.
Sometimes, I think you and I
would make for great lovers.
(music playing)
SHORE: You're not getting out
of my life, now, Sheila,
only this office.
You and I will still...
I'm always here for you.
(music playing)
(sighs)
(music playing)
Well...
guess I better go.
Say goodbye to the group.
Yeah.
Don't everybody look so sad.
I'll be...
thank you so much.
You've all been incredibly
generous with me,
and, Tara,
I loved trying
our case together.
Eugene, you're a good boss.
Jimmy, hang in there
with your nun case, okay?
Though the church
can dismiss her
under canon law,
the fact is,
they often
don't dismiss priests
for having sex,
which means, in truth,
they're probably firing her
for being pregnant, which
is a direct violation of title 7
Klein vs. Catholic Diocese
of Toledo.
Thanks.
CARLISLE: Anyway,
you are all such kind
and charitable people.
And though
I haven't known you long,
I will miss you.
(music playing)
We'll stay in touch, right?
We shall.
(music playing)
(sighs)
(music playing)
(door opens)
(door closes)
(music playing)
(music playing)
WOMAN: You stinker!
(music playing)