美剧Boston Legal波士顿法律第1季第5集剧本(英文)

Boston LegalIt Girls and BeyondSeason 1, Episode 13Written by Jonathan Shapiro and David E. Kelley© 2005 David E. Kelley Productions. All Rights Reserved.Broadcast: January 23, 2005Transcribed by Imamess of JSMP for JSMP and At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, Lori Colson is in her office. Brad Chase is with her.Lori Colson: The trial starts tomorrow?Brad Chase: I can bring you up to speed on it. The facts are straight forward.Lori Colson: And why can’t Tara do it?Brad Chase: Well… Tara’s a junior associate. This trial’s gonna to be in the news, it’s hardly the kind of case that…Lori Colson: Brad! It isn’t the case so much as it is the client? Right? And it isn’t who she is, so much as what she is, right? What is she Brad? He doesn’t answer. Can’t you even say the word?Brad Chase: I can say it.Lori Colson: Well, what is she Brad?Brad Chase: She’s a… homosexual.Lori Colson: And what’s the word for a female homosexual?Brad Chase: Lesbian.Lori Colson: I couldn’t really hear that.Brad Chase: She’s a lesbian.Lori Colson: Hah! You don’t wanna do the case because your client’s a lesbian? Brad Chase: Lori, this is a high profile case. I’ve worked my entire life to associate with decency and what is good for America.Lori Colson: And lesbians are bad for America?Brad Chase: They have bad values. Reflects poorly on all of us.Lori Colson: As a nation? He sighs. Now would you like to tell me the real reason? Brad Chase: What do you mean?Lori Colson: I know for a fact you’ve represented gay clients before.Brad Chase: Not on television. Not in the news.Lori Colson: Brad, we’re friends. Level with me. What is it about this particular lesbian?Brad Chase: I’m attracted to her.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, at the morning staff meeting in the conference. Alan Shore: Why does Shirley get to skip the staff meetings?Paul Lewiston: She’s got a trial in New York later this week so she has a busy day. Brad Chase: Some of us have trials today, so if you don’t mind, I’d like to cut out. Lori Colson: What’s your case about, Brad?Alan Shore: What is it about?Brad Chase: It involves interference with contractual relations.Alan Shore: You mean… lesbians?Paul Lewiston: Where are you?Brad Chase: Today they’re calling Tracy to testify that her ex-lover was…Alan Shore: Lesbian, ex-lover.Brad Chase: ... to testify that Tracy was scamming her for money. Tracy was in fact not an actual bonified…Alan Shore: Lesbian?Brad Chase: You like saying it?Alan Shore: I do.Brad Chase: Say it again!Alan Shore: Lesbian.Brad Chase: Keep going.Alan Shore: Lesbian. Lesbian. Lesbian. All together now!All: Lesbian!Alan Shore: I also like to watch. How many people have…Paul Lewiston: All right, that’s enough, this is a staff meeting. I’ll ask you all to conduct yourselves appropriately and professionally.Catherine Piper: She comes in with a plate of cookies. Cookies everyone! Nourishment is most important in the morning.Paul Lewiston: Who is this woman?Catherine Piper: Take two Tara, you’re a rail.Paul Lewiston: Who is this woman?Catherine Piper: The ones on the left have a little bran. To help our older lawyers with their routine.Paul Lewiston: Who is this woman?Catherine Piper: I’m Catherine Piper. I’m Alan’s new assistant. My! Don’t you have an interesting face?Paul Lewiston: We are in the middle of a staff meeting.Catherine Piper: No need to be snippy, Dear. Especially since I come bearing treats. You never get a second chance to make a first impression. To Lori. You certainly make one. All that bleach.Paul Lewiston: Ma’m? You will have to leave.Catherine Piper: I’m beginning to not like you.Denny Crane: Well! If you’ll excuse me, I have a trial myself.Paul Lewiston: You have a trial?Denny Crane: Yes, tomorrow morning. I’ve gotta go meet with my client.Paul Lewiston: What kind of trial?Denny Crane: Criminal. It’s a doctor who did… something… against the law.Paul Lewiston: Who else is with you on this trial?Denny Crane: Nobody. I decided to fly solo. Think about that! Tell Shirley. Denny Crane without a co-pilot.Paul Lewiston: Dear God in heaven.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, in the men’s room. Alan comes out of a stall to find Shirley leaning against the counter, waiting for him.Alan Shore: Shirley?Shirley Schmidt: Alan?Alan Shore: You’re in the men’s room again.Shirley Schmidt: I need a favor.Alan Shore: Certainly. My stall or yours?Shirley Schmidt: Driving into work this morning, I heard of a trial involving this new wonder diet drug… the drug, and accordingly the trial, are making the news. And then I heard something very disturbing. The name of the lawyer handling the defense.Alan Shore: Denny Crane.Shirley Schmidt: Nobody wants this firm held up to ridicule. Nobody wants Denny exposed.Alan Shore: I’ve been in court with Denny. He knows what he’s doing, at least fifty percent of the time.Shirley Schmidt: I like him. You like him. I have to be in New York.Denny Crane: He comes in.If she tries to pee standing up come and get me. He goes into a stall. Lock and Load.At the courthouse, Brad, Tracy Green and Tara Wilson are walking down the corridor.Tara Wilson: Tracy, we can still make this go away.Tracy Green: How many times must you both say that?Brad Chase: Until you consider it. Are you sure you want your personal life probed, with details at 11:00?Tracy Green: I didn’t steal from her. And I won’t offer her anything to settle. I’d appreciate you being on my side.Brad Chase: Hey! I’m on your side.Tracy Green: Right.In Judge William Connolly’s courtroom Stephanie Rogers is in the witness chair.Stephanie Rogers: We met at an AIDs fundraiser about two years ago. We were both publicists so we had a lot in common.Attorney Morrison: And at some point, Ms Rogers, you and the defendant became lovers?Stephanie Rogers: Yes. She moved into my home, ultimately we became business partners and formed Rogers and Green, which became one of the top PR firms in Boston.Attorney Morrison: And what happened?Stephanie Rogers: Well, quite simply, after she gained access to my files and my clients she stole them.Brad Chase: Objection!Judge William Connolly: Sustained.Stephanie Rogers: I since learned that she’s not even gay, that she basically pretended to be so that she could gain access to my client roster.Attorney Morrison: Now Ms Rogers, when you allege that the defendant pretended to be gay…Stephanie Rogers: She had boyfriends before me and one after, perhaps that makes her bisexual, it doesn’t make any difference, because I specifically asked her that at the beginning of our relationship.Attorney Morrison: Whether she was bisexual?Stephanie Rogers: Yes. I’d been hurt before by heterosexual women experimenting, and I didn’t wanna go down that road again. She told me she was gay. That was a lie, one that cost me valuable clients.Brad Chase: Just let me understand this. The bases of your claim is that my client faked her sexual orientation for the sole purpose of getting you to fall in love with her so that she could move into your home… and business and steal your clients? Stephanie Rogers: Yes!Brad Chase: When in fact it wasn’t only your business. You built it up together over the two years.Stephanie Rogers: I founded the company, and most of the clients that she left with were mine.Brad Chase: Now Ms Rogers, as business partners, as a couple, you two were quite prominent. Isn’t that right? Your photos were constantly in the Globe or Boston magazine being called the new IT Girls. You two got more publicity than your clients.Stephanie Rogers: It works to the client’s benefit as well, so I don’t see your point. Brad Chase: My point is you two got a lot of publicity together, as a couple, business just went through the roof. Even if you were defrauded, it wasn’t exactly to your financial detriment.Stephanie Rogers: It was certainly to my detriment, when she left.Brad Chase: Well, but even so. You make more money now than you did before even meeting Tracy, so how could you have been hurt?Stephanie Rogers: How have I been hurt? She caused me to fall in love with her! That…Brad Chase: That’s what this really about. Isn’t it Ms Rogers? This isn’t a business dispute. This is a domestic one. Did she break your heart?Attorney Morrison: Objection!Judge William Connolly: I’ll allow it.Brad Chase: Did she break your heart?Stephanie Rogers: Yes.Brad Chase: You were in love with her? Now Ms Rogers, during the two years that you were together with my client, do you feel that she was in love with you? Stephanie Rogers: Yes.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, in Denny’s office. Denny is with a client, Dr Robert Mclean.Dr Robert Mclean: Obviously should I get a criminal conviction that will only make it easier for AMA to take a way my medical license.Brad Chase: Well, you’re gonna lose your license Bob, so I won’t worry about…Dr Robert McLean: Why? There are many doctors out there prescribing medication the FDA hasn’t approved for…Denny Crane: May I stop you? Don’t be self-righteous. It’s annoying.Alan Shore: He comes in.Sorry I’m late.Denny Crane: What are you doing here?Alan Shore: You asked me to second-chair, Denny. Remember? To Dr Mclean. Alan Shore.Dr Robert McLean: He shakes Alan’s hand.Bob McLean.Denny Crane: Alan? He waves Alan into another room. I never asked you to second-chair.Alan Shore: Sure you did, Denny! You said you were trying the case…Denny Crane: Solo! I said, “Solo!”Alan Shore: Well I thought you asked for backup, so I guess one of us is losing our mind.Denny Crane: What do you mean by that?Alan Shore: Denny, I’m here! As you know I’m starved for criminal work.Denny Crane: I want to do this alone.Alan Shore: Is this about proving something? You said, “Tell Shirley.” Is about proving to Shirley Schmidt you haven’t slipped?Denny Crane: Excuse me. I’m in a meeting.Alan Shore: Denny, I don’t have time to say this nicely. So! I’m just gonna say it with all the rough edges. This is a criminal proceeding; that man’s liberty could be at stake. I’m jumping in, second-chair, to cover his ass, and yes, possibly yours as well.In a bar, Brad and Tracy are having a drink.Brad Chase: Could it be possible she’s doing this for the publicity?Tracy Green: Suing me?Brad Chase: Well, call me a cynic, but for two years you’re the IT girls. You’re Boston’s top publicists. Business starts to wane. You leave. She’s suddenly not the flavor of the month. She sues you. Presto! Hot copy is the Split Girls all over again. For the cost of attorney and filing fee she’s featured on every newscast.Tracy Green: As much as she love’s the limelight, Stephanie’s honorable.Brad Chase: Yeah, I wonder.Tracy Green: Is there a reason you keep looking at me like that?Brad Chase: Like what?Tracy Green: I make you nervous. You need to get over that.Brad Chase: So how many men have you been with?Tracy Green: Why are you asking?At Crane, Poole and Schmidt in the kitchen. Lori and Brad are having a cup of coffee.Brad Chase: I asked her because she’s going to be asked on the stand why she has such a hard time giving me a straight answer. However…Lori Colson: Is because?Brad Chase: I have doubts that she really is one.Lori Colson: A homosexual?Brad Chase: Yes.Brad Chase: And are these doubts based on the plaintiff’s evidence? Or your own scientific compass?Lori Colson: Is she attracted to you, Brad?Brad Chase: She might be. Lori chuckles. What?Lori Colson: Why is it men…? I mean is it the idea of losing one to the other side, or is it since you have feeling for her you’re anxious to feel it’s mutual?Brad Chase: You see? You sucker me with this buddy talk; get me to reveal my feelings. But when I do… you punish me with them.Lori Colson: I thought you were attracted to me.Brad Chase: You don’t wanna go there.Lori Colson: Even so. To be forgotten so easily. And for a homosexual?Brad Chase: Is there something taped to my head that says, “Mock me.”? Catherine Piper: She comes in and goes to get a cup of coffee.Isn’t coffee a lovely drug? I love brain stimulants, don’t you? Uh, Catherine Piper!Brad Chase: Brad Chase.Catherine Piper: Brad Chase? You’re defending a lesbian!Brad doesn’t reply. He just leaves.Lori Colson: Hi! I’m Lori Colson, we haven’t officially met.Catherine Piper: Hello, Dear. Catherine Piper.Lori Colson: For the future. I don’t really appreciate comments about my hair. Catherine Piper: Oh! I’m sorry. I was just trying to make conversation. And I assumed you wouldn’t want me to go anywhere near your eyebrows.In Judge Paul Resnick’s courtroom, Mark Harrison is on the stand.Mark Harrison: I tried diets. All of them. I exercised. I’d gone on Phen Phen years ago, and that helped a little, but… mainly I just kept gettin bigger.A.D.A. Howard Zale: And at some point the defendant mentioned a new drug? Mark Harrison: Yes. I forgot how he said he had access to it, but, basically he said he had this new drug, not on the market yet, called Vermonaband, and studies showed, how, it could help people lose weight. And desperate as I was, I just said, “Yes.”A.D.A. Howard Zale: He sold you this drug? In his office?Mark Harrison: Yes. And he told me not to tell anyone, because he said it was illegal for him to be giving it to me.A.D.A. Howard Zale: Thank you, Mr Harrison.Denny Crane: Can’t help but notice, you’re really fat.Mark Harrison: Yes.Denny Crane: Been fatter?Mark Harrison: Much.Denny Crane: Drug worked?Mark Harrison: Huge! I mean I lost weight. My cholesterol went down. My HDL actually went up!Denny Crane: HmMark Harrison: I mean it was a godsend. Of course, till the… you know, police cut off my supplier.Alan Shore: Objection to the word ‘supplier’, Your Honor. It makes my client sound like a drug dealer.Denny Crane: Well he is a drug dealer, he sold him drugs.Alan Shore: Yes! But there’s a bias that goes with the word ‘dealer’. He simply prescribed a medicine to help him live.Denny Crane: He’s right.Alan Shore: This man almost died. Didn’t he?Denny Crane: Didn’t you?Mark Harrison: I had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes. I mean, I was at serious risk for a major heart attack or a stroke, probably still am.Denny Crane: Since you stopped taking the drug?Mark Harrison: I’m having problems again.Denny Crane: Did my client tell you that this drug is unapproved by the FDA?Mark Harrison: Yes.Denny Crane: Did he tell you that there could be side affects?Mark Harrison: Yes.Denny Crane: You were fully informed?Mark Harrison: I was.Denny Crane: You consented?Mark Harrison: I did.Denny Crane: Take it again?Mark Harrison: Absolutely!Denny Crane: Like the doctor?Mark Harrison: Love him.Denny Crane: How’s your memory.Mark Harrison: My memory’s fine.Denny Crane: What’s my name.Mark Harrison: Denny Crane.Denny Crane: Like you mean it.Mark Harrison: Denny Crane!Denny Crane: What’s my name?!!Mark Harrison: Denny Crane!!!Denny Crane: No further questions.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, in Brad office. He and Tracy are watching a newscast.Newsperson: Stephanie Rogers is essentially accusing Ms Green of being a heterosexual in sheep’s clothing. If successful the plaintiff could potentially receive a judgment in excess of seven figures. Which why perhaps this…Tracy Green: Wait, she wasn’t finished!Brad Chase: It doesn’t matter how it’s playing out in public Tracy. What matters is the twelve people in that box.Tracy Green: And?Brad Chase: I can’t tell. Well you’ve dated more men than women, so that puts you on the heterosexual side of the fence. You certainly could have been confused as they said, but... the problem is you’re coming off as anything but indecisive. You seem like a woman who knows exactly what you want.Tracy Green: What is that supposed to mean?Brad Chase: Nothing.Tracy Green: They stare at each other.You actually think that I’m attracted to you. Brad Chase: I just believe you should be straight with people. But you know what I mean. I smell some decent here.Tracy Green: I’m gay, Brad. Do you want me to take a lie detector?In Judge Paul Resnick’s courtroom, Dr Leonard Raskin is on the stand.Dr.Leonard Raskin: People lament the cost of health care, they cry over soaring litigation costs and scream about the eroding integrity of our medical profession. The conduct of this doctor and others like him are to blame.Denny Crane: Oh… Lighten up man.Judge Paul Resnick: Mr Crane! You’ll get your turn.Dr Leonard Raskin: We have rules. One is we do not go prescribing experimental drugs that the FDA hasn’t approved for market.A.D.A. Howard Zale: Even if the patient consents?Dr Leonard Raskin: The patient will always follow the lead of his doctor. For God’s sake look what people buy off infomercials. They’ll try anything, hair potions; pills that make you lose weight while you sleep. Desperate people will try anything. And when you have a licensed doctor saying, “Here. Take this.”? They will.Denny Crane: This isn’t a potion. This drug works.Dr Leonard Raskin: In preliminary studies. But there’s much, much, more testing to be done.Denny Crane: How long does it take the FDA to approve a drug?Dr Leonard Raskin: It isn’t quick, but…Denny Crane: How long?Dr Leonard Raskin: Nine years.Denny Crane: My client’s patient would be dead by then. But, hey! You got your rules.A.D.A. Howard Zale: Objection!Denny Crane: Oh be quiet.A.D.A. Howard Zale: Your Honor, he can’t tell me to be quiet.Judge Paul Resnick: Let him have his turn, Mr Zale.Denny Crane: You say that doctors shouldn’t prescribe non-FDA-approved drugs as a rule.Dr Leonard Raskin: Yes.Denny Crane: Doctors don’t prescribe medications for things that the FDA hasn’t approved them for?Dr Leonard Raskin: Off label prescriptions happen, but…Denny Crane: Doctor, have you ever prescribed a drug that wasn’t approved for the particular condition you were treating?Dr Leonard Raskin: Yes, but…Denny Crane: And doctor, if you were overweight, and at risk for an eminent stroke or heart attack. Is it your testimony that you would never consider taking Vermonaband?Dr Leonard Raskin: For myself, I might, but...Denny Crane: But, you wouldn’t give your patient the same opportunity, because you have rules.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, Lori is in her office, Brad is with her.Lori Colson: You’re going to be the first lawyer sued by his client for sexual harassment.Brad Chase: I’m a good lawyer because I got a nose for the truth, Lori.Lori Colson: You’re attracted to her, Brad. It’s clouding your nose. Are you falling in love with this woman?Brad Chase: What? Please.Lori Colson: Are you?Brad Chase: Of course not. I put a tail on her.Lori Colson: I beg your pardon?Brad Chase: I hired a PI, just to follow her around, see who she sees.Lori Colson: What she sees. You’re trying to out her as a heterosexual.Brad Chase: I don’t like surprises in court.Lori Colson: Okay. First? You could lose your bar ticket for putting a tail…Brad Chase: Why? It’s not that big of a deal.Lori Colson: Brad! She’s your client! Second, let the jury decide whether or not she’s being truthful. You just be her lawyer, and only… And third, stop hitting on her.Brad leaves and walks out. Out in the corridor he walks by a group of people standing around a table.Alan Shore: Hey Brad? All together now!All: Lesbian!Shirley comes up.Shirley Schmidt: Boy? How’s our trial going?Denny Crane: You think I’m just gonna wither up and die in there, don’t you? Shirley Schmidt: All these references to our sex life, Denny.Denny Crane: Tell her how I’m doing, Alan.Shirley Schmidt: Please. Since he can’t recall.Alan Shore: He’s been amazing! I’d say we have a better than even chance. Denny Crane: Ah. He and Alan leave.Shirley Schmidt: To Catherine Piper standing next to her.Hello?Catherine Piper: Hello.Shirley Schmidt: Is there a reason you’re snuggled up to me?Catherine Piper: Why yes! I understand you’re the boss, Dear. I’m sucking up. Shirley Schmidt: By standing next to me?Catherine Piper: Yes! With me by your side, Dear, you almost look young!Shirley Schmidt: I have no idea who you are. But I like you.Catherine Piper: He-he-he.Shirley Schmidt: To Alan walking by.Is he really doing okay?Alan Shore: The firm is safe from ridicule.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, Alan is in his office.Denny Crane: He comes in.What did she want? Make sure I’m competent?Alan Shore: Something like that. You were more that competent today Denny, you were good, very good.Denny Crane: I know.Alan Shore: We must be doing our crosswords these days.Denny Crane: Did she ask you to backstop me?Alan Shore: It was my idea.Denny Crane: Damn liar.Alan Shore: I like doing cases with you Denny. Can’t you just accept that? It’s fun. Denny Crane: Fun. Fine. I’ll go with that then.Alan Shore: You have seemed especially acute. Are we taking something?Denny Crane: I just rubbed on a little clear cream. It was just for muscle cramps. Alan Shore: Denny? Are you taking something?Denny Crane: What I’m taking is good care of myself. The old Denny Crane is coming back.In Judge William Connolly’s courtroom.Tracy Green: My business had reached sort of a plateau, and I felt I could do better solo. And truthfully, I thought that she might to.Brad Chase: Now before leaving, did you tell your clients?Tracy Green: Absolutely not! I left. I contacted them. They decided to come with me. In that order.Brad Chase: Now Tracy, we’ve heard the accusation that you pretended to love Stephanie for business reasons.Tracy Green: It’s absolutely false. I… I fell in love with her. I mean, the idea that I could feign love for two plus years… just… you know how much I loved you, Stephanie.Judge William Connolly: Ms Green, please do not address anyone but me or your council.Tracy Green: I never lied to her about my sexual orientation, and I’m offended by that.Attorney Morrison: How many women had you been with prior to your relationship with my client.Brad Chase: Objection!Judge William Connolly: Overruled. However salacious, it’s in issue.Attorney Morrison: How many women?Tracy Green: One.Attorney Morrison: One? And prior to your relationship with my client, how many men had you had sexual relationships with?Tracy Green: Several.Attorney Morrison: Several? More than five?Tracy Green: Yes.Attorney Morrison: More than ten?Tracy Green: I wanted to lead a heterosexual life, eventually I realized…Attorney Morrison: My client asked you if you were bisexual. You answered, “No.” Tracy Green: Because I’m not. I may have been with men in the past but ultimately I realized I preferred women.Attorney Morrison: How many relationships have you had since Stephanie?Tracy Green: One.Attorney Morrison: A man or a woman.Tracy Green: Well, the breakup with Stephanie was extremely painful…Attorney Morrison: Your subsequent relationship was with a man or a woman? Tracy Green: A man.Attorney Morrison: A man? Now you spoke earlier about the exact order of how things went down. Rewinding a little further back, you met Stephanie,.became her lover, eventually became her business partner, left with clients and files, began having an affair with a man. Did I get the order right?At the courthouse, Tracy and Brad go into a witness room.Tracy Green: I just got destroyed. Didn’t I?Brad Chase: You didn’t get destroyed. It was a tough cross but I thought you held up.Tracy Green: Really?Brad Chase: Really.Tracy Green: You know, to think that I’m straight is to believe that I’m a profoundly dishonest person, and I’m not dishonest, Brad.Brad Chase: Okay.Tracy Green: You know, I can take you doubting my sexual orientation, but my character, I uh…Brad Chase: I don’t doubt you.Brad and Tara are in an elevator.Brad Chase: She’s trying to admit something.Tara Wilson: What? That she’s not gay?Brad Chase: I don know. Maybe.Tara Wilson: You’re making a fool of yourself, Brad.Brad Chase: I know when I’m being deceived, Tara.Tara Wilson: The deception is self-inflicted. You’re infatuated with her and you want to believe it’s reciprocal. She’s probably more interested in me, than you. You’re making a fool of yourself.In Judge Paul Resnick’s courtroom.Dr Robert Mclean: I considered it life or death. He was at risk of cardiac arrest, diabetes.Denny Crane: And this drug was your only resort?Dr Robert Mclean: It was my last resort. Believe me, I’m not in the habit of prescribing non-approved drugs, but this…Denny Crane: Doctor, would you tell the jury, and me to, for that matter cause I’ve forgotten, how Veromanabin works?Dr Robert Mclean: I suppresses a protein in the brain that makes you want to eat. In fact this drug blocks nearly all cravings. It can be used to help people quit smoking, drinking, which is why it’s been called the wonder drug.A.D.A. Howard Zale: So! You just figured what the hell, why wait for proof?Dr Robert Mclean: My patient couldn’t wait Mr Zale. He was looking at an eminent physical demise. In medical terms we call it death.A.D.A. Howard Zale: Any published studies on this drug? To justify this wonder status you give it?Dr Robert Mclean: Not yet.A.D.A. Howard Zale: Has this drug been approved for sale?Dr Robert Mclean: Not yet.A.D.A. Howard Zale: How’d you get your hands on this drug doctor?Dr Robert Mclean: I had a connection at one of the clinics where it’s being tested. I won’t reveal more than that.A.D.A. Howard Zale: You’re a licensed doctor, prescribing a drug not approved by the FDA, to desperate patients.Dr Robert Mclean: With a full warning.A.D.A. Howard Zale: How can warn about a drug side affect you don’t know about? Dr Robert Mclean: The warning I gave Mr Harrison was exactly that! This drug may have side affects we don’t know about.A.D.A. Howard Zale: Possible fatal side effects?Dr Robert Mclean: There’s no evidence of that.A.D.A. Howard Zale: So you decide…Dr Robert Mclean: Balancing the benefits against the known risks of a coronary if he doesn’t take it, I favor taking the medication.A.D.A. Howard Zale: This is an experimental drug!Dr Robert Mclean: Which I have no financial in.A.D.A. Howard Zale: Which you boot leg!Dr Robert Mclean: My only concern was a patient’s health.A.D.A. Howard Zale: So! Doctor’s should feel free to ignore the FDA whenever they choose?Dr Robert Mclean: I never said that.A.D.A. Howard Zale: Oh, so you should feel free whenever you choose?Dr Robert Mclean: Sometimes desperate circumstances require desperate measures.A.D.A. Howard Zale: And desperate people will do anything, won’t they?At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, in the men’s room, Denny is standing in front of a urinal.Paul Lewiston: He comes in.Denny?Denny Crane: You’re checking on me in here too? Think I’ve forgotten how to piss? Paul Lewiston: I beg your pardon?Denny Crane: Tired of being followed around like some patient! I change my underwear every day. I know how to practice law! And if you’re the one who assigned Alan Shore to backstop me then you’d better stop…Paul Lewiston: You’d listen!Denny Crane: I’m still talking.Paul Lewiston: Now I’m talking. You arrogant old fart! You have a client facing prison time. You have no right to exalt your ego.Denny Crane: Don’t you talk to me in that…Paul Lewiston: Shut up! I am sick of you feeling sorry for yourself and only yourself. It was selfish of you to try this case solo. Do not start a war with me here. You may not win it!Denny Crane: That’s why you brought Shirley back? To build an alliance! Guess you’re the one who forgot how to piss.In Judge William Connolly’s courtroom, Attorney Morrison is giving his closing argument.Attorney Morrison: Does it smell right to you? She had a history of men before my client; she never hinted to her best friends that she was anything but heterosexual; she had an affair with a man after she left my client. Her only fling with homosexuality just happened to coincide with the biggest financial windfall of her life. Suddenly being gay got her money. Got her profiled about town, in magazines, on TV as an IT girl. New found fame, new found money, new found sexual orientation. Does it smell right to you?Brad Chase: In order to make a Cause Of Action for fraud, one must prove that he or she relied on the fraud to his or her own detriment. Now after partnering with my client, Ms Roger’s financial and professional fortunes soared. She benefited. In fact one might even say, considering the media coverage of this lawsuit that she’s actually benefiting from the breakup because as any PR professional knows, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. But if you’re determined to get hung-up on the issue, “Is Tracy Green gay or not?”, “Did she really love Stephanie or not?” consider Stephanie’s own testimony when I asked her, during the relationship, as she was living it, did she feel that Tracy loved her, and she answered was, “Yes.”。

Boston LegalA Greater GoodSeason 1, Episode 9Written by Peter Ocko© 2004 David E. Kelley Productions. All Rights ReservedAirdate: December 12, 2004Transcribed by Sheri for [version updated June 14, 2006]Courtroom #1Mr. Milner: It is also my expert opinion that the document analysis is reliable as these handwriting samples are comparatively similar.Attorney: I see. Ah well, would you go into more depth . . .Lori Colson: I am so bored.Brad Chase: Shhh.Lori Colson: I need to get back to the office. I have so much work to do on the Meyers case.Mr. Milner: The sample provided on the top contains the same content as the original on the bottom. Namely, they are both the subject’s signature. No pun intended. chuckles Namely.Attorney: So, Mr. Millner, can we . . .Lori Colson: This is actually killing me. Part of me is dying.Brad Chase: Shhh.Bomber: I have a bomb.A chorus of gasps.Lori Colson: This is better.Bomber: Remember me, Judge? Fifteen to twenty for aggravated manslaughter? Well, I got out today. And you know what? I’m still aggravated!Brad Chase arises, and approaches Bomber.Bomber: Sit down.Brad Chase: Do you mind? We’re trying to conduct a trial here.Bomber runs over to the witness chair, and grabs Mr. Milner by the jacket.Bomber: Get over here!Mr. Milner whimpers.Bomber: D—did you hear me? I said I had a bomb!Brad Chase: No, you don’t. And here’s why. A—You said manslaughter, which means that you didn’t have the guts for murder one the first time around.Bomber: What?Brad Chase: B—If you’re clever enough to make that aggravation joke, you’re clever enough to know that threatening to have a bomb carries a much lesser sentence than actually wearing one. C—That coat is fairly svelte. And D—If you really had a bomb, you wouldn’t need to have a hostage. Would you?Bomber: I do have a bomb.Brad Chase: Come on. We’ve got two more expert witnesses to get through by lunch. To Mr. Milner: I’m assuming you could speed through your testimony just to keep up with our schedule.Mr. Milner: Uh, huh.Bomber: You sit down, or I’ll blow this thing!Brad Chase: You don’t have a bomb.Bomber: Yes, I do!Brad Chase: No, you don’t.Bomber: Yes, I do!Brad Chase: Prove it.Judge Morgan Baker: Mr. Chase, perhaps . . .Brad Chase: I was a hostage negotiator as a Marine. This man does not have a bomb.Bomber: I—I do too!Brad Chase: You’re interrupting, sir.Judge Morgan Baker: Mr. Chase . . .Brad Chase: Show me the bomb.Bomber: I’ll blow this thing.Judge Morgan Baker: Mr. Chase.Brad Chase: Show it to me. starts to walk toward BomberBomber: I’m not gonna show you.Brad Chase:now right in front of Bomber I didn’t think so.Bomber: Huh? Fine.Bomber opens his trench coat and reaches in, as Brad Chase slugs him, knocking him out cold. Judge arises to watch Brad Chase open the trench coat to reveal a large, home-made bomb strapped to his chest and abdomen. A chorus of gasps, including Judge Morgan Baker, who collapses into his chair. Brad Chase: What do you know?[credits]Denny Crane’s OfficeDenny Crane: What’s that thing?Alan Shore:wearing a Christmas tree star topper with multiple flashing light modes on his head It’s an ornament. Christmas tree ornament.Denny Crane: Can’t go to court like that.Alan Shore: Of course not. worried smile You okay, Denny.Denny Crane:sighs It’s this case. It seems like I’ve done nothing else but work on it for the last three weeks. Alan Shore: What in particular about the case is bothering you?Denny Crane: I don’t know what it’s about. I—it’s . . . well . . . If you, say, were going to briefly describe it to someone who was clueless, what would you say?Alan Shore: I’d say we represent a big drug company.Denny Crane: Yes. That’s the part I like.Alan Shore: Then, I’d say they’re being sued by a woman who claims she was wrongfully removed from the company’s clinical trial of a potent new diabetes medicine.Denny Crane: That’s where I lose track.Alan Shore: Special pills make woman happy. Company take pills away. Woman sue to get back on special pills.Denny Crane: Got it.Martin Jeffries:entering Denny.Denny Crane: Martin. Hey. shaking his hand Martin. You remember Alan Shore.Martin Jeffries turns to Alan Shore just in time to see the Christmas star blinking.Alan Shore: It’s an ornament. I head the office cheer committee.Martin Jeffries: Since I received no late-night call last night, I assume we didn’t settle.Denny Crane: We informed your in-house counsel.Martin Jeffries: I like to hear things from you. I feel I have a direct relationship with you.Denny Crane: We didn’t settle.Martin Jeffries: I don’t really understand this. Every legal opinion I’ve gotten says the merits fall one-sidedly in our favor.Alan Shore: Legal opinions only go to the law, Mr. Jeffries. I had opportunity to view the plaintiff’s videotaped deposition. She comes off as an extremely sympathetic and likable person.Martin Jeffries: And?Alan Shore: You don’t. Our fear, and the plaintiff’s hope is that the jury will like her and feel for her pain, and attempt to alleviate said pain with millions and millions of your dollars.Martin Jeffries: I was under the impression I hired attorneys who could employ reason and intellect to offset the emotion inuring to the plaintiff’s favor. Did I hire the wrong law firm, Mr. Shore?Alan Shore: Certainly not, sir. You’ve hired the best.Hallway of Crane Poole & SchmidtLori Colson: Paul. showing him a DVD-ROM The Meyers age discrimination case—we just got the DVD-ROM delivered. Sixty five hundred pages of McNamara documents. Every useless document they could dump on here.Paul Lewiston: Well, they’re probably not ready and this is meant to slow us down.Lori Colson: Right. And they want to force us to ask for a continuance because they know Judge Simmons won’t give them any.Paul Lewiston: Well, we won’t be asking for one. Uh, Miss Heep? Uh, Miss Wilson? We have a trial next week. Lori will fill you in. I want you to pore through this document. The likelihood is it contains nothing relevant but we can’t take any chances. Lori will tell you what to look for.Sally Heep: I’m sorry. Um, can you get somebody to take my place on this, please?Paul Lewiston: You have something else more pressing?Sally Heep: No, but I prefer not to work on this case.Paul Lewiston: Why not?Sally Heep: It’s personal.Paul Lewiston: You are making it professional.Sally Heep: I’m—I’m—I’m just not—I—I—I’m uncomfortable working with Tara.Paul Lewiston: Because?Sally Heep: I used to sleep with Alan Shore, and now she does.Tara Wilson:pointing at Lori Colson And she wants to.Lori Colson: I do not!Lori Colson’s OfficeLori Colson opens the door and waves Tara Wilson in.Lori Colson: How dare you make a remark to one of the most senior partners of this firm that I want to sleep with another associate here? Even if I did want to sleep with Alan Shore, which I assure you I do not, but even if your remark was truthful, it would not make it any less inappropriate.Tara Wilson: You’re right. I apologize.Lori Colson: Do you bear some ill will towards me?Tara Wilson: No. I suppose I regressed to the childish defense that everybody else is doing it.Lori Colson: But I’m not doing it, Tara. I’m not sleeping with Mr. Shore, which you very well know.Tara Wilson: I only said you wanted to. And again, I apologize. My remark was, as you say, completely inappropriate, however accurate.Tara Wilson exits, Lori Colson mocking her last words as she leaves.Courtroom #2Marybeth Hewitt: I’ve had type II diabetes since I was 25. It’s been the same medicines pretty much the whole time.Atty. Greg Montero: And when you were invited to participate in a clinical trial of SV113, what did your daily regimen become?Marybeth Hewitt: I took one pill in the morning when I woke up.Atty. Greg Montero: That’s all?Marybeth Hewitt: That was it. I had more energy. I was even losing weight. And no more needles. It was a godsend, until they took it away.Atty. Greg Montero: And how did that happen?Marybeth Hewitt: My doctor told me that the company had kicked me off the test. He said that I had broken the rules of the trial, but I didn’t. I didn’t do anything wrong.Atty. Greg Montero: And after you were taken off the test?Marybeth Hewitt: My health deteriorated again rapidly.Atty. Greg Montero: Can you tell us your prognosis today?Marybeth Hewitt: I’m dying. I’ve got probably five to six years, unless something changes drastically.Alan Shore: What reason did the company give for removing you from the SV113 study?Marybeth Hewitt: Noncompliance. But I complied.Alan Shore: You’re a heavy smoker. Is that correct, Mrs. Hewitt?Marybeth Hewitt: I quit.Alan Shore: When did you quit, if I may ask?Marybeth Hewitt: A week before the study.Alan Shore: Just like that? Two packs a day, cold turkey?Marybeth Hewitt: My life depended on it.Alan Shore: Some of the doctors and clinicians, uh, smelled cigarette smoke on you during your exams. Marybeth Hewitt: My husband’s a chain smoker. It was his smoke they smelled on my clothes.Alan Shore: Amazing. You smoked two packs a day, you live with a chain smoker, and you’re able to just quit, cold turkey.Atty. Greg Montero: Objection.Judge Dale Wallace: Sustained.Alan Shore: Mrs. Hewitt, 177 million people in the world have diabetes. This drug study is the only way to get SV113—the drug you yourself called a godsend—approved for sale. 177 million people are counting on you to follow the rules, Mrs. Hewitt.Marybeth Hewitt: Which I did.Alan Shore: With the stakes being so enormously high, with some 70 thousand people dying every year from diabetes, with a desperate need to develop a drug that can save those lives, you realize how important it is for my client not to take any chances, don’t you?Marybeth Hewitt: I followed all the rules.Hallway of Crane Poole & SchmidtDenny Crane: All in all, I don’t think she hurt us.Alan Shore: She hurt us. I saw the jury. How badly she hurt us . . . Where’s our expert?Denny Crane: Should be waiting in the conference room.Alan Shore: I’ll meet you there.Denny Crane: Sally. May I offer you one little piece of advice?Sally Heep: Okay.Denny Crane: You’re an extremely beautiful young woman.Sally Heep: Thanks for the tip.Denny Crane: That’s not the advice. The advice is be on the ware of lecherous senior partners who are looking for the slightest excuse to plant a big wet one on you.Sally Heep: Excuse me?Denny Crane: They lurk. And when beautiful women such as yourself stand under the mistletoe . . .Sally Heep looks up at the mistletoe installed at the top of the doorway under which she is standing. Alan Shore:grabbing Denny Crane before he can make another move Let’s go meet our expert, Denny. Denny Crane: Mm, boy. I had the blood flow going.Alan Shore: No doubt.Conference Room at CP&SThere is a beautiful woman in high heels serving herself water while waiting.Denny Crane: Dr. Gerard?Dr. Amanda Gerard: Yes.Denny Crane: Denny Crane; single. Alan Shore.Dr. Amanda Gerard:holding out her hand to shake Alan Shore’s Hello.Alan Shore: Very nice to meet you.Alan Shore and Denny Crane nod at each other knowingly.Dr. Amanda Gerard: Well, should we get started?Alan Shore: We should. I’m afraid it’s gonna be a very long night. I’ll need to go over every inch of you with a fine-tooth comb. flustered I beg your pardon. Your testimony. I’ll need to go over your testimony with the comb.Dr. Amanda Gerard: Where are we going to do this?Denny Crane: Right here.And a little peacock fight breaks out, as the “boys” elbow each other behind their backs, until Dr. G looks at them. Then, they look rather well-behaved, and Alan Shore tucks his right hand into his jacket, the height of decorum, as usual, while Denny Crane smiles charmingly.The Buddha BarTara Wilson:talking on her cell phone It’s not my case, Renee. It’s Lori’s. I have no idea where she is. Hang on. To Brad Chase: Do you know where Lori is?Brad Chase: No. I gotta run. I got that dinner thing.Tara Wilson: Oh, go.Brad Chase: Need a ride anywhere?Tara Wilson: No, thanks. My car’s in the garage. All right, so what’s the big emergency? Well if you have him on the phone, then ask him.Atty. Barr:also talking on his cell phone I don’t want anything. I’m offering. Since we turned over that CD last second, we won’t oppose a continuance if you people want it.Tara Wilson: Say you need to page Lori, ask if she can call him later, and then get his cell phone number. Atty. Barr: Yeah, that’ll be great. My number’s (617) 555-0194. Thanks.Tara Wilson: Well, well, well.Atty. Barr: Can I get a beer?Tara Wilson takes her beer glass with her, walks toward AD Atty, and bumps into him, pouring the beer on him.Tara Wilson: Oh!Atty. Barr: Oh! Fantastic.Tara Wilson: Oh, I’m terribly sorry.Atty. Barr: It’s okay.Tara Wilson:helping him wipe the beer off his clothes How embarrassing. I’ll pay for the dry cleaning. I assure you.Atty. Barr: It’s okay, really.Tara Wilson smiles, laughing lightly.Conference Room at Crane Poole & SchmidtAlan Shore: So, besides Ms. Hewitt, there were 56 other people removed from the study?Dr. Amanda Gerard: For a drug of this magnitude, we have to be extremely cautious.Alan Shore: But what motivated your caution?Dr. Amanda Gerard looks evasive.Alan Shore: Please tell me it was more than a hunch. After all, these people do suffer from a crippling, life-threatening disease, Doctor.Dr. Amanda Gerard: As do I.Alan Shore: I’m very sorry.Dr. Amanda Gerard: I understand the promise of a drug like this on a very personal level, Mr. Shore. But if it endangers people . . .Alan Shore: How does it endanger people? How are these 57 people endangered by SV113? Fifty-seven—that’s an exceptionally large number of people to purge, isn’t it, Doctor? How were these people endangered? Dr. Amanda Gerard: They weren’t. Marybeth Hewitt and the 56 others were on a different drug. It was a slight variation from SV113 that we had only begun to investigate.Alan Shore: These people, they knew they were on this other drug?Dr. Amanda Gerard: No.Alan Shore: So you gave an experimental, unapproved drug to 57 people, and told them they were taking something else?Dr. Amanda Gerard: But as soon as we became aware of the side effects . . .Alan Shore: The headaches?Dr. Amanda Gerard:thinking before talking There was onset of acute liver damage at about 6 weeks. There was one prior subject who went first, and complications . . . Please don’t look at me as if . . .Alan Shore: What could possibly have impelled you to delude these people?Dr. Amanda Gerard: You can’t understand.Alan Shore scoffs.Dr. Amanda Gerard: It takes years to get a drug approved. And when you spend your life . . . I thought—the company thought that we had the next polio vaccine . . . or penicillin.Alan Shore: Except your penicillin turned out to be a poison.Dr. Amanda Gerard: But as soon as we discovered it, the company shut the study down. That’s why Mrs. Hewitt was taken off the drug she thinks was SV113—to prevent liver failure.Buddha BarAtty. Barr: So you’re a therapist?Tara Wilson:De facto therapist. I’m really a flight attendant. But everybody tells me their problems.Atty. Barr: Oh, do you solve them?Tara Wilson: I do, actually.Atty. Barr: Well, tell me mine.Tara Wilson: I’m sorry?Atty. Barr: My problem. What am I lamenting at this very moment?Tara Wilson: I’m embarrassed to say, actually.Atty. Barr: Uh, uh. I insist. Tell me.Tara Wilson: You’re wishing your girlfriend looked like me.Atty. Barr: Uh, keep going.Tara Wilson: You hate your job.Atty. Barr: Which is?Tara Wilson: I want to say accountant. But I’m gonna to say lawyer.Atty. Barr:rolling his eyes and laughing Oh.Tara Wilson laughs.Atty. Barr: Am—am I that obvious?Tara Wilson: I meet lawyers all the time. They fly a lot. They’re constantly in distress over all the horrible things they have to do for their horrible clients. What are you working on right now?Atty. Barr: A horrible case for a horrible client.Tara Wilson laughs.Atty. Barr: It’s, ah, age discrimination.Tara Wilson: Mm. Plaintiff or defense.Atty. Barr: Defense.Tara Wilson: Ooh, bad boy.Atty. Barr: Mm, hmm. Indeed.Tara Wilson laughs.Conference Room at Crane Poole & SchmidtDr. Amanda Gerard: Whistle-blower?Alan Shore: Yes. Now, there are all sorts of protections to avail yourself of, should you decide you . . .Dr. Amanda Gerard: Hold on a second. You’re advising a witness to turn state’s evidence against your own client?Alan Shore: I am.Dr. Amanda Gerard: Look. I was the one who pushed the study. I was the one who put those people on that drug.Alan Shore: And I suspect you were motivated by the drug’s promise, while your employer was motivated by greed.Dr. Amanda Gerard: Can’t you get disbarred for advising me to . . .Alan Shore: Undoubtedly. And should you lose your license, we could run off to Bali together and become bartenders.Dr. Amanda Gerard: My life is here, in medicine.Alan Shore: Yes. And you are in a unique position to remind your employer they, too, are in the business of medicine, not simply profit. You need to blow the whistle. And what’s more, you want to.Denny Crane’s OfficeDenny Crane is playing piano and singing “It’s a Holly Jolly Christmas.”Denny Crane: “It’s a holly jolly Christmas, best time of the year. I dunno if there’ll be snow, but have a cuppa cheer. It’s a holly jolly Christmas, and when you walk down the street, say hello to friends you know, and everyone you meet.” sees Alan entering Hey!Alan Shore: Denny?Denny Crane: Set to go?Alan Shore: What are you doing?Denny Crane: Oh, there’s an office Christmas party next week. I do a number. It’s good for morale. Helps get me laid. Are we off to court?Alan Shore: Actually, I have a feeling court won’t be going forward today.Denny Crane: What do you mean? Did something happen? Was I in the room when it happened?Alan Shore: It seems our client is guilty of a little noncompliance as well. The actual test that . . . We represent big drug company.Denny Crane: I’m with you.Alan Shore: Big drug company tell patients they take one pill while slipping them another.Denny Crane: You know this how?Alan Shore: Evidently, our expert witness comes armed not only with details but a conscience. She told me. I believe she plans to tell the F.D.A.Denny Crane: Ohh. Whistle-blower. comes around the piano to the couch on which Alan Shore is sitting Did you tell her to whistle-blow?Alan Shore: I might have mentioned it.Denny Crane: Do you know how much this client is worth to this firm and to me personally?Alan Shore: Nuts. I knew there was something I forgot to consider.Denny Crane: Where is this woman?Alan Shore: Hopefully with the U.S. Attorney by now.Assistant: Oh, I’m sorry, uh, Mr. Shore, there’s a Dr. Gerard waiting in reception.Denny Crane: Send her in.Alan Shore: That’s all right. I’ll go and greet her.Denny Crane: Send the woman in here.Alan Shore: Here’s good.Hallway of Crane Poole & SchmidtTara Wilson is exiting the elevator.Lori Colson: Oh, Tara. We have a pretrial conference set on McNamara at two. How are you and Sally doing with the stuff?Tara Wilson: Remember the document that said McNamara was incorporated in “nineteen efficiency-three”? We thought it was a typo?Lori Colson: Yeah.Tara Wilson: Well, code broken. They had a plan called the “Forty Factor,” which was designed to phase out workers who were 40 and older.Lori Colson: And replace them with younger employees who would cost the company less.Tara Wilson: Right. They actually described the plan in memoranda which were archived on the company’s hard drives.Lori Colson: Gotta love the hubris.Tara Wilson: But they then got nervous and did a search and replace to substitute the word “efficiency” for “forty.”Lori Colson: And “nineteen forty-three” became “nineteen efficiency-three.”Tara Wilson: Exactly.Lori Colson: How did you find this out?Tara Wilson: I had drinks with opposing counsel last night. Quite a talker.Lori Colson: Wait a second. He admitted this to you?Tara Wilson: Well, actually, he admitted it to a flight attendant. He didn’t know that I was an attorney for the other side.Lori Colson looks shocked.Tara Wilson: We’re not smiling. Why are we not smiling?Lori Colson: Tara, we can’t use this information.Tara Wilson: I beg your pardon?Lori Colson: You tricked another attorney into violating privilege. You can’t do that.Tara Wilson: Last week, you impersonated a doctor.Lori Colson: Uh! First, that was different. Second, the stakes were life and death.Tara Wilson: Lori!Lori Colson: And third, I was wrong. In retrospect, I would never do it again.Tara Wilson: Well, we have the information, Lori. So if it’s a matter of ethics, we absolutely have to tell the client that we have it.As Tara Wilson takes a bite out of her muffin and goes into her office, Lori Colson sighs, and walks away.Denny Crane’s OfficeDr. Amanda Gerard: I just don’t think I can do it.Alan Shore: Because?Dr. Amanda Gerard: Alan, these people have been very good to me for 10 years.Alan Shore: Now, by “people,” you mean these corporate people who jeopardize public health and safety on a massive scale in order to line their pockets?Dr. Amanda Gerard: They were convinced we had a possible cure based on my representations. I would as soon blow the whistle on myself rather than . . .Alan Shore: Do that then.Dr. Amanda Gerard: And what good would come of it? Really?Denny Crane: May I express a thought? I so rarely get one. And I should preface this by admitting that I’m so far up the ass of big business, I view the world as one giant colon. You’re right to prioritize loyalty, Doctor. Loyalties count for something.Alan Shore: Denny, please don’t . . .Denny Crane: I’m speaking, Alan. Doctors like science, right? They do the math. Well, do the math on whistle-blowing. Nice concept in theory. Appeals to the altruistic inner self and all that.Alan Shore starts to object.Denny Crane: But whistle-blowers end up penniless and ostracized. This thing’ll take years to get to court, while your life will be ruined tomorrow.Alan Shore: Denny, I . . .Denny Crane: And if Alan Shore suggests that you won’t get hurt far worse than your company, he’s lying. Paul Lewiston:opens the door, stepping in What’s going on?Alan Shore: Our client is violating at least a half a dozen criminal laws by secretly testing an unapproved drug—which causes liver failure, by the way—on unwitting human guinea pigs. Dr. Gerard is considering whether to go public. I’m for it, Denny’s against. Do you have a vote? You seem like a man with a scintilla of morality.Dr. Amanda Gerard: Alan, my vote’s the only one that counts, and I’m not going public.Alan Shore: You say that as if you have a choice, Doctor. You see, the only way our client wins here is with your testimony. So, the clerk will swear you in. You’ll take an oath to God, but as a scientist, you are bound to an even higher standard. To believe in God, all you need is faith. To believe in science, you need to see the truth. You need to speak the truth. Am I right? If asked certain questions under oath, you will answer truthfully, because that’s who you are.Dr. Amanda Gerard: You don’t know me. And you would never ask me questions that would torpedo your own case.Alan Shore: Ah. It seems it’s you that doesn’t know me.Dr. Amanda Gerard picks up her coat and purse and exits.Alan Shore: Isn’t it exciting?Lori Colson’s OfficeBrad Chase: It’s absolutely unethical, Tara, for God sakes!Tara Wilson: Please don’t lecture me.Brad Chase: Hey! There’s nothing wrong with a lecture when it’s called for. Attorneys at Crane, Poole & Schmidt do not go undercover as stewardesses to circumvent privilege. It is fraud. It is wrong. It is dishonest. It holds every member of this firm up to disrepute.Lori Colson: Breathe.Brad Chase: And what’s more, it hurts other clients at this firm—mine, Paul’s, Lori’s.Tara Wilson: How?Lori Colson: Breathe.Brad Chase: stage breath Our reputation for fair dealing is at play at every settlement conference, every motion, every trial. If that reputation is compromised, the stain runs to all cases, not just the . . .Lori Colson: Breathe.Brad Chase: Will you stop telling me to breathe! I know how and when to breathe!Tara Wilson: This is about Alan Shore. This is about some not-so-latent hostility . . .Lori Colson: You’re out of line!Tara Wilson: You’re out of line! You fancy the pants off Alan Shore, so as long as we’re preaching honesty, let’s be truthful about that.Lori Colson: You know something, Tara. This does involve Alan. What happened in that bar last night? You heard opposing counsel on his cell phone, you sensed an incredible opportunity, and you asked yourself, “What would Alan Shore do?” and you likely did what he would’ve done.Tara Wilson: Oh, and you’ve never done that—say, last week?Lori Colson: No, I did. And as I said, I was wrong. That’s all. You can go.Tara Wilson:arising What are you gonna do?Lori Colson: Haven’t decided.Tara Wilson: Well, you can’t not use the . . .Lori Colson: I haven’t decided, Tara. You’re dismissed.Tara Wilson exits.Brad Chase: loosening his tie Well, I’m sorry I lost my cool. But you handled that perfectly.Lori Colson: Thank you. Did that have anything to do with Alan?Brad Chase: How does he do it? No matter what I do, no matter what anyone else does, it’s always about Alan.Lori Colson:laughs It’s just a question.Brad Chase: I should be the example for the young associates around here, not him.Lori Colson: Well, Tara’s Alan’s girlfriend.Brad Chase: Why is that? I mean why is she interested in him? I ask you.Lori Colson: Do you fancy Tara, Brad?Brad Chase: No, I’m just speaking in general terms. All the women here . . .Lori Colson: Yeah, you keep saying, “all the women,” but, who specifically, Brad?Brad Chase: Look, you’re missing the point.Lori Colson: Okay. And the point is?Brad Chase: I diffuse a human bomb. Does anyone say, “Oh, are you okay, Brad?” Or “Nice job saving lives, Brad.” No. It’s “Tara circumvented privilege because she’s sleeping with Alan.”Lori Colson: I’m the only one talking about Tara and privilege. Is this about me? We’re buddies, Brad. Talk to me.Brad Chase: Okay. I’d like to be more than buddies. I don’t bring it up because I sense it’s something that you’re not interested in pursuing.Lori Colson: Okay.Brad Chase: Is it something you’d like to pursue?Lori Colson: Um. No.Brad Chase: Right. Anyway, you handled the meeting well.Denny Crane’s OfficeAlan Shore: You surprise me, Denny. I thought you’d be with me on this.Denny Crane: There’s a deeper principle involved here, Alan.Alan Shore: Which is?Denny Crane: Fishing. There’s a fishing lodge in British Columbia. It’s called Nimmo Bay. Best fishing lodge in the world. In the Great Bear Rain Forest.Alan Shore: How does this lodge affect . . .Denny Crane: Want to buy it. Costs lots of money. If I lose this client, I might not be able to buy it.Alan Shore: You have plenty of money.Denny Crane: Yes, to buy other things. This case, this client is earmarked for this fishing lodge.Alan Shore: Well, if I can’t convince you, I guess I can’t convince you.Denny Crane: Alan, I’ll ask Dr. Gerard the questions this afternoon.Alan Shore: I’ve prepared the direct.Denny Crane: I’ll ask her the questions.Alan Shore: I’m questioning the doctor.Denny Crane: No, you aren’t.Alan Shore: Yes, I am.Denny Crane: No, you aren’t.Alan Shore: Yes, I am.Denny Crane: No.Alan Shore: Yes.Denny Crane: No.Alan Shore: Yes.Paul Lewiston:entering This time I will cast a vote. Let me make this simple for you, Mr. Shore.Alan Shore: Please call me Alan. I feel we’ve grown close.。

Boston LegalFrom Whence We CameSeason 1, Episode 12Written by David E. Kelley© 2005 David E. Kelley Productions. All Rights Reserved.Broadcast: January 16, 2005Transcribed by Imamess of JSMP for JSMP and At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, Paul Lewiston and Shirley Schmidt are in the conference room.Shirley Schmidt: How bad is he?Paul Lewiston: He’s intermittently brilliant and nonsensically, often at the same time.Shirley Schmidt: Then he’s technically still in charge of litigation?Paul Lewiston: Which is the reason I called you back. He is an enormous rainmaker, Shirley. And yet…Denny Crane:He comes in and sits down. Lock and load. He looks around the table. Where is everybody? Paul Lewiston: This is an administrative meeting, Denny.Denny Crane: Oh! What the hell am I doing here? He gets up to leave.Shirley Schmidt: Remember the good ole days when you liked to know what was going on? When you could go from your office to the elevator without a roadmap?Denny Crane: Didn’t need a roadmap to find my way around your body, did I, Shirley?Shirley Schmidt: I wouldn’t know. I was usually asleep.Denny Crane: I once had her... and Streisand… at the same time. Remember that?Shirley Schmidt: Hahhh, I do Denny. Ha ha. And not to burst your bubble but that was a female impersonator. Perhaps the penis might have been your cue.Denny Crane: That wasn’t Barbara Streisand?Sally Heep: She comes in. You wanted to see me?Shirley Schmidt: Yes, Sally, bad news. We lost the summary judgment motion on Witchell. Have a seat.Sally Heep: We lost?Shirley Schmidt: The judge held that the magazine, while possibly negligent, wasn’t guilty of reckless disregard for the truth.Sally Heep: So, we could prevail under negligence.Shirley Schmidt: We could. If only we’d thought to plead negligence. She reads from a paper in front of her. Count one, intentional inflection of emotional distress. Count two, reckless disregard for the truth. She looks up. Ah, here’s where there should have been a third count alleging negligence. There is no third count alleging negligence.Sally Heep: In, in the supporting memoranda we have pages on negligence.Shirley Schmidt: But you didn’t plead it.Sally Heep: So we just file a motion to amend.Shirley Schmidt: That deadline lapsed.Sally Heep: Ah, this is… this is obviously an oversight. The defendant had constructive notice, we can appeal this. I’ll get right on it.Shirley Schmidt: I have taken the liberty of reviewing some of your other work, Sally. You’re a very good lawyer. But not, good enough we’re letting you go.Sally Heep: You’re firing me?Shirley Schmidt: I’m sorry.Sally Heep: I have done a lot of good work here.Shirley Schmidt: Yes, you have. And any number of law firms would be happy to have you. This one unfortunately just doesn’t happen to be one of them.Sally Heep:To Denny. Are you in on this?Denny Crane: Am, am, am I in on this?Shirley Schmidt: It was my decision. Paul and Denny still remain strong supporters. We’re streamlining a little and I have to make some tough calls. I’m sorry.Sally Heep: How can you come in here, and in one week, fire someone you don’t even know?Shirley Schmidt: I’m Schmidt.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, Nora Jacobs is walking down the corridor. She passes Alan Shore.Alan Shore: Nora, outstanding. I give it a three.Nora Jacobs: Thank you?Back in the conference room with Paul, Shirley and Denny.Nora Jacobs:She comes in. Mr Crane? A Mr Walter Fife is in your office. He says it’s quite important.Denny Crane: Oh, thank you. May I ask? Do I know you?Nora Jacobs: I’m Alan Shore’s assistant. Mr Fife came to our office when he couldn’t find you. I escorted him back to your office.Denny Crane: Excellent. I’ll be right there.Nora leaves. Denny beams smugly.Shirley Schmidt: You’re waiting for me to tell you where your office is, aren’t you?Denny Crane: No. I wanna to see the look on your face when you realize, they still come through that door looking for one man to solve their problems, they don’t come barging in looking for Paul, or you. Only one man. Shirley Schmidt: Allow me. She gets up and leans toward his ear and whispers. Denny Crane.Denny Crane:He gasps. She can still pump my chubby.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, Shirley is walking in the corridor. As she walks around a corner, Nora is waiting for her.Nora Jacobs: Mrs Schmidt.Shirley Schmidt: My mother is Mrs Schmidt, you can call me Schmidt.Nora Jacobs: I know you’re a very busy person, but if I could steal one minute of your busy time.Shirley Schmidt: Regarding?Nora Jacobs: It’s a little personal.Shirley Schmidt: Ten o’clock.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, in Denny’s office. Walter Fife is with Denny.Walter Fife: They didn’t just sue the School Board, they sued me personally, which I regard as punitive.Denny Crane: Walter, I can assure you their Cause of Action is totally baseless.Walter Fife: I haven’t even told you what it is yet.Denny Crane: I…Shirley Schmidt:She comes in. Hi! Shirley Schmidt.Denny Crane: This is Walter Fife. He’s superintendent of Middle Sect School District. He’s being sued. What’d you do? Little, touchy feely with a student?Walter Fife: What? God no! What, what kind of question is that?Denny Crane: Oh lighten up. Let’s all sit. Shirley here is a senior partner, so you’re in good hands, you got both Shirley and umh…Shirley Schmidt: You!Denny Crane: Me! Right. Good. Okay. Now. Look. I’m gonna ask you something. It’s gonna be a question. And I want a direct answer. No matter how difficult.Walter Fife: Okay.Denny Crane: Why… Walter… are you being sued?Walter looks at Shirley.Shirley Schmidt: You promised you’d answer.Walter Fife: The School Board voted to include Creationism along with Darwinism in the eighth grade Science curriculum. The teachers refused, I terminated their employment. They sued.Denny Crane: Massachusetts is a blue state. God has no place here.Walter Fife: I, I’m not sure you’re really the lawyer for this particular...Shirley Schmidt: We have many attorneys, well equipped to han...Denny Crane: Nonsense. I’ve been practicing law for 45 years. Never lost a single case.Walter Fife: You’ve never lost?Denny Crane: My record is six thousand and forty-three to O. You hear the one about the fellow who died, went to the Pearly Gates, St Peter let him in, sees a guy in suit making a closing arguments. Says, “Who’s that?” St Peter says, “Ohhh, that God. Thinks he’s Denny Crane.” Ha, ha, ha, ha! I’m your boy Walter. Never lost. Never will.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, Lori Colson, Brad Chase and Tara Wilson are in the lounge.Lori Colson: Did she give you a reason?Sally Heep: Just that my work didn’t cut it. I mean my reviews have all been good. Plus, I mean it’s not like they’ve given me very much to do. The Witchell case was really the first one they let me run with.Brad Chase: And... you forgot to plead negligence. Lori gives him a look. Sorry.Lori Colson: Let me talk to her. See if there’s another story.Sally Heep: : I mean, is this woman like some sort of psycho witch or something?Lori Colson: Actually no she’s extremely nice.Brad Chase: We all know she was sent to shake the tree. Looks like it’s already begun.Tara Wilson: I wonder who’s next?Shirley Schmidt: She comes in. Lori? Can I steal you for a second?Lori Colson: Sure. She leaves to follow Shirley.Tara Wilson: Dibs on her office.Lori Colson:She turns back to give Tara a look, then walks down the corridor with Shirley. I just heard about Sally. I think you’re making a mistake.Shirley Schmidt: I didn’t ask.Lori Colson: Which surprises me actually. You and I are friends. I’ve worked with Sally.Shirley Schmidt: And being loyal to her, you’d possibly be neither objective nor candid.Lori Colson. Even so…Shirley Schmidt: In either event I didn’t ask. Lori wants to say more, but doesn’t. We just got a new case. Big client. Middle Sect School District. Denny’s in charge. Which is fine, as long as he doesn’t speak. I need you to take over.Lori Colson: How do I just take over? He’ll completely...Shirley Schmidt: You’ll handle him Lori. The way only you can.Lori Colson: Ah, what’s the case?Shirley Schmidt: It’s a variation of the Scope’s trial. Three teachers were fired for refusing to teach Creationism. They’ve sue.Lori Colson: Sounds like a slam dunk. For them.Shirley Schmidt: Perhaps. It would take some pretty ingenious lawyering on our part from, not only a gifted attorney, but someone who’s an expert in the field.Lori Colson: Meaning?Shirley Schmidt: Lori, I know all the skeletons in your closet. Remember? Including that deeply guarded little one that you fear might ruin your intellectual reputation. You go to church.Nora Jacobs:She comes to the door and knocks. Uhm, Schmidt. Is this a good time?Shirley Schmidt: Yeah. To Lori. Conference room? Noon? Lori nods. Thank you.Lori leaves.Shirley Schmidt: How can I help?Nora Jacobs: Well. This is very awkward. I’m not even sure you’re the right person to come to. But… you’re a woman.Shirley Schmidt: That’s very kind.Nora Jacobs: I work for Alan Shore and in many many ways he’s an excellent boss. God knows he isn’t boring. But I feel that’s he’s been inappropriate with me.Shirley Schmidt: How so?Nora Jacobs: Well. He compliments my figure daily. And he just kind of does it in a lascivious way. He also ranks my sweaters.Shirley Schmidt: He ranks your sweaters?Nora Jacobs: Yes. Which ones he thinks I look best in. This is a three. He asked if he could take one home for the weekend. He told me he has dreams about me.Shirley Schmidt: What kind of dreams?Nora Jacobs: All kinds. Ah, once he dreamt that I was just a head. No body, just a head. Everywhere he went he would carry me along, wrapped in a muffler, to keep him company. And every so often I would whisper terrible, dirty things in his ear. Feels a little like harassment.Shirley Schmidt: You think? Would you like to work for another lawyer?Nora Jacobs: Well, I’d just like him to stop. I must admit, that, sometimes I’ve been guilty of playing along with his banter. But...Shirley Schmidt: I’ll take care of it.Nora Jacobs: Thank you.Shirley Schmidt: And Nora? Thank you for coming forward with this. I know it was difficult.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, in Tara’s office the TV is on, and Tara is watching the news.TV Announcer: We have very little information, other than the victim was in her fifties and that she was bludgeoned to death. It is the second death in a week that has rocked this idealic little street. Just last Friday the victim’s next door neighbor died as well, from a head trauma. You may recall the son was briefly held, and then released.Tara Wilson:She gasps as her chair is suddenly shoved back to the wall. What? Alan Shore comes up from under the desk and stares at the Television.TV Announcer: ... not indicated whether these two cases are connected.Alan Shore: It’s Bernie!Tara Wilson: Who?Alan Shore: That little skillet-wielding client from last week. He’s whacked another one! He promised me he wouldn’t? He leaves.Tara Wilson: Does that mean you’re... finished?In Bernard Ferrion’s home. There is a knocking on the door.Bernard Ferrion:He opens the door. Alan?Alan Shore: What have you done?Bernard Ferrion: There’s an awful lot of excitement.Alan Shore: I saw. Both live, and on the news. You’ve been flanging again with your frying pan, haven’t you, Bernard?Bernard Ferrion: I never meant for it to happen.Alan Shore: I am very disappointed! I gave you a terrific speech last week Bernie. Appealing to the kind, inner you. It was wonderful, poignant even, and now you’ve completely muted it by committing murder again! Bernard Ferrion: I never meant to kill her.Alan Shore: Oh, what? You went over there to make an omelet and things go out of hand?Bernard Ferrion: She knew! She heard an argument between me and mother. She was out there watering her stupid plants. In the winter, for God’s sakes. The woman is not right. Or wasn’t right. Alan sighs. Alan, she said she was gonna call the police. She said what she heard would not be hearsay. She looked it up, she said, because we were arguing, it would, it would qualify as an excited blutterance. Suddenly the skillet was in my hand, and I swung.Alan Shore: Blutterance isn’t even a real word. Much less a defense. You murdered somebody over a fake word!Bernard Ferrion: I was careful to not leave any evidence. I went over there stealth like... He moves the curtain aside to look out the window.Alan Shore:He pulls Bernie away from the window. Oh for God’s sake.Bernard Ferrion: ...I staged a break-in in the back. I dispatched of her, and then I returned. And Alan, I promise you, this will be the very very last one.Alan Shore: I’m not representing you this time.Bernard Ferrion: You must! If it comes to that!Alan Shore: I won’t! You’ve let me down terribly!Bernard Ferrion: Uh, but... But you said that you stood for the little man. Alan slams the door as he leaves the house. I’m little!At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, Walter, Lori, Denny and Shirley are in the conference room.Lori Colson: The best thing I feel would be to go for an immediate declaratory judgment. The last thing we want is a trial. This is a hot button issue. The ACLU will be jumping in and that’s only the beginning.Denny Crane:As Lori continues talking to Walter, Denny turns to Shirley. Why have I been taken off this case?Shirley Schmidt: You haven’t. You’ve been relieved of the grunt work because it’s beneath you.Denny Crane: Relieved is a soft word for discharge. I recognize a demotion when I see one. I am the master of the soft discharge.Shirley Schmidt: You refer again to when we were intimate. Now pay attention and pretend you have a clue. Lori Colson: We all set?Denny Crane: Lock and load.Shirley Schmidt: Let’s go.The get up to leave. Out in the corridor they pass Alan.Alan Shore: Lori.Lori Colson: Alan.Shirley Schmidt: Alan, a second. We have a ... little problem. Seems you’ve been sexually harassing Nora Jacobs.Alan Shore: She signed a waiver.Shirley Schmidt: I’m sorry?Alan Shore: I make all my female employees sign sexual harassment waivers. Especially the pretty ones.Shirley Schmidt: I don’t think that document would hold up in court. Alan Shore: Oh.Shirley Schmidt: But regardless, that kind of behavior isn’t tolerated at Crane, Poole and Schmidt.Alan Shore: Which... kind of... behavior? Specifically?Shirley Schmidt: I think you’re smart enough to sense where the line is, Counsel.Alan Shore: I’m never sure until I cross it.Shirley Schmidt: She is a subordinate. There is a disparity of power. You will refrain from any sexual advances, verbal or otherwise.Alan Shore: Shirley? He sighs. What about senior partners? There would be nothing wrong with me lusting say after you? Would there?Shirley Schmidt: Go subscribe to National Geographic. Make a list of the places you’ll never get to visit. Add to that list, Schmidt.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, Brad and Sally are walking down the corridor.Brad Chase: Sally, I’ll talk to her, but other than that...Sally Heep: You can pull some strings?Brad Chase: What about Alan Shore? He’s the one that pulls rabbits.Sally Heep: He’s not a partner. You are. Besides I slept with Alan Shore. How objective can he be?Brad Chase: You also slept with me. Did you ever think that might be part of the problem?Sally Heep:She is stunned. She raises her right hand to strike him, he grabs her hand in mid air. She raises her left hand, he grabs it. That was unfair. Kicking me while I’m down? I guess I should have expected it.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, in Alan’s office. Bernard is with Alan.Bernard Ferrion: The police want to question me.Alan Shore: That’s really a stunner, Bernie. They arrested you last week, for whacking your mother. You get off on a technicality. Now? The woman next door turns up dead from a blow to the head. What could possibly make them think of you?Bernard Ferrion: Should I talk to them?Alan Shore: I wouldn’t! Where you once were convincing? You now are anything but!Bernard Ferrion: I don’t like it when you speak to me in these hurtful tones. I am not an evil person.Alan Shore: Yes! You are Bernie! You’ve killed two people inside of a week. By definition that makes you evil. This last killing was premeditated, calculated. You went over there as you said, to dispatch a human being. You’re a little bug. And like a little bug, you will one day get stepped on. Now go away. I do not represent evil people. Bernard is stunned and doesn’t move. I asked you to leave.Bernard Ferrion: May I say one more thing? You cut me to the quick. I am a bug. My mother would often tell me, I am nothing more than an insignificant little... she used to call me a dung beetle! When I killed her, as she lay on the floor? For the first time I felt alive! I had actually done something! Perhaps a part of me sought to relive that power. But today I, I, I do, I feel evil. I need your help, Alan. The police want to interrogate me. I don’t know what to do.Tara Wilson:She comes in. Could I...? Oh! I’m so sorry.Alan Shore: That’s okay. Tara Wilson? Meet Bernard Ferrion. He kills people with cookware. Allegedly of course. Bernie?... Tara! She’s your new lawyer.Bernard Ferrion: No, I’d prefer you.Alan Shore: No, you can’t have me. One reason being. I know too much. If you want this firm to help you, Tara is your lawyer!Bernard Ferrion: She’s very fetching. But, is, she good?Alan Shore:He gives Bernard a look, then turns to Tara. The police wanna talk to him. There’s an excellent chance you can avoid the prison term he very much deserves. I must warn you, do not come to care for this man. He will let you down. That’s all.Tara Wilson: Let’s go, Mr Ferrion.Tara and Bernard leave.Alan Shore:He presses a button on the intercom. Nora? When you get a minute.A few minutes later Nora is sitting across from Alan.Alan Shore: Why did you feel compelled to speak to Shirley Schmidt? Why didn’t you just take it up with me? Nora Jacobs: I don’t know. I suppose... I guess I didn’t feel I could hold my own with you. Which I guess, is a part of the problem.Alan Shore: “Alan, I’m uncomfortable with the banter.” You could have said that. You did participate in the banter?Nora Jacobs: I participated. I of course, wanted to be liked by my boss. But then... it started to go too far.Alan Shore: And when it went too far? Why not tell me?Nora Jacobs: I don’t know. Because I’d let it go on. I felt maybe I gotten myself in... At the seminars you get the impression that the senior people here are good at dealing with these things. I wanted you to stop. But I still like you, and like working for you, and I was hoping they maybe they had a way to solve the problem without any hurt feelings. Alan doesn’t speak. So what happens now?In Judge William Howe’s courtroom. Walter is in the witness chair.Walter Fife: We actually call it Intelligent Design. Basically the idea is, life is so complex, a Greater Power has to be at play.Lori Colson: The Greater Power being God?Walter Fife: We’re by no means...Shirley Schmidt:She looks over at Denny. He’s sleeping. Denny?Denny wakes up.Walter Fife: … shutting down Darwinism or suggesting that evolution is inaccurate.Lori Colson: Do you believe in evolution, Mr Fife?Walter Fife: I happen to believe in both God and evolution. I don’t think the two have to be mutually exclusive. Lori Colson: So, why not simply offer the Intelligent Design theory in religion courses? Why Science?Walter Fife: Well, we thought long and hard about that. But the simple truth is, more and more scientists, scientists, not theologians have said that when you examine the intricacies of the human cell, the mathematical equations of DNA, you simply cannot conclude that it’s all explained by natural selection. Another Power has to be at work.Attorney Daniel Gellman: God?Walter Fife: Well again, we never mention Him by name.Attorney Daniel Gellman: You’re aware of the separation of Church and State?Walter Fife: I’m aware.Denny Crane:Under his breath, to Shirley. This is boring crap.Attorney Daniel Gellman: And you’re also aware that the Supreme Court has banned the teaching of Creationism.Walter Fife: Well. As I said, technically we’re not calling it Creationism.Attorney Daniel Gellman: But you admitted that’s what’s going on. And Creationism holds that God created the world about 6,000 years ago in 6 days?Walter Fife: That’s not my view.Attorney Daniel Gellman: But it’s a view you’re insisting your teachers explain in the Science class?Walter Fife: As a theory.Attorney Daniel Gellman: A theory with no Scientific bases other than to say… “Gee, evolution can’t account for it all.”At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, Tara is in her office. Bernard is with her. He is wearing helmet.Tara Wilson: Why the helmet?Bernard Ferrion: Well it wouldn’t be for here. It would be for at home. Well, the thinking being, if there’s someone in the neighborhood breaking into houses, whacking people, from behind, on the head, it would make sense for me to wear a helmet. I want to exude innocence, you see.Tara Wilson: Get rid of the helmet.Bernard Ferrion: But Ms Wilson, at, at my core, I’m a little man. It would make sense for me to want to protect myself. Right?Tara Wilson: Get rid of the helmet. You look ridiculous. Now listen to me. The police have asked for a DNA sample, and I’m gonna agree.Bernard Ferrion: What? Why on earth?Tara Wilson: Because they could get one with a court order. There’s no point in opposing.Bernard Ferrion: But what about my right to not incriminate myself?Tara Wilson: Cooperation goes a long way towards exuding innocence, Mr Ferrion. Much better than hockey head gear.Bernard Ferrion: You know, everyone is speaking to me in hurtful tones and I don’t appreciate it. I did kill people. You’d think I’d incur a little shock and awe, if not respect.Tara Wilson: Is that why you did this? To inspire awe? Alan Shore told me that your mother referred to you as a dung beetle.Bernard Ferrion: Please don’t mention that particular species to me. I don’t know what else Alan told you, but, I’m a kind man. I have admittedly committed two heinous acts, but the first was not voluntary, and the second was out of desperation. Not wanting to go to prison where bigger men will have their way with me. Ms Wilson, I need your help. Please be on my side.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt. Sally is in her office.Brad Chase:He comes in. I’m sorry. That remark was way outta line. Listen, Sally, it didn’t help that you were with me a year and a half ago, and then you were with Alan Shore. As gossip, it travels fast. But I have no doubt. None! That you are going to be an exceptional attorney. But… just not here. They’re never gonna give you the chance. You need to… remake yourself. Start fresh. You asked me for help, and I’m going to provide it to you in the form of advice. You need to go.In Judge William Howe’s courtroom. Roberta Turner is in the witness chair.Roberta Turner: At the beginning of the school year we got the word at our teacher’s assembly, that moral values would be one of our educational objectives. Which was fine. But to have Evolution bumped for Creationism.Attorney Daniel Gellman: Well! To be fair, Evolution isn’t being displaced. Creationism is just being included. Roberta Turner: Evolution is a tough subject matter. We cannot cut into what little class time we have to service a political agenda. To teach…Lori Colson: Objection! This is non-responsive.Judge William Howe: Please limit your answers to the questions, ma’m.Attorney Daniel Gellman: Why can’t you view Intelligent Design as a Science, Ms Turner?Roberta Turner: Because! There is simply no scientific data to support it. How are we to maintain any credibility as Science teachers if we say, “Gee! Despite all this data, there’s also another possibility.” Intelligent Design makes a mockery of Science. If you wanna teach it as religion course? Fine! But as a Science? It’s simply preposterous.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, in Tara’s office. Tara is talking with Dective Willet while a police technician is taking a tongue swab from Bernard.Detective Willet: I just don’t understand why you wouldn’t wanna talk. If there’s a serial killer loose in his neighborhood…?Tara Wilson: He’d love to talk. I’m not letting him.Bernard Ferrion: I’d tell you one thing…Tara Wilson: Bernard! You people wrongly arrested him last time with no evidence, after his mother recklessly accused him. Now it’s clear there is somebody in the neighborhood killing people. You haven’t so much as apologized to Mr Ferrion for ruining his good name. Why should we expect any fair treatment from you?Police Technician: I’m done.Detective Willet: Once again I’ll encourage your client not to leave the jurisdiction.Bernard Ferrion: Bully boy!Tara Wilson: Bernard!The two policemen leave.Bernard Ferrion: You handled that deftly. So what now?Tara Wilson: You can go home. If indeed you left no traces behind, and assuming they find no DNA, and with no smoking skillet,you’ll likely get away with it once again.Bernard Ferrion: You’re using a judgmental tone.Tara Wilson: Do you really expect us not to condemn you? You killed two people!Bernard Ferrion: I expect you to condemn my actions, but, I suppose not me!Tara Wilson: You can go.Bernard Ferrion:He moves to leave then turns back. How’s Alan?Tara Wilson: Honestly? I think he’s hurt. You hear all the time how clients are let down by their lawyers, sometimes it’s the attorney who’s let down by the client. As silly as it may sound the cynical, jaded Alan Shore gets a bit desperate sometimes to believe in the goodness of mankind. He found, I think, some hope in you. And you crushed it. Like a bug.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, in Alan’s office, Alan and Nora are sitting on couches.Nora Jacobs: You’re firing me?Alan Shore: Certainly not. I’d get sued. I’m reassigning you.Nora Jacobs: If I get put back into the pool that’s the same as a demotion.Alan Shore: Nora, I’m not going to change who I am. I can work on it, but leaps and bounds I’ll never make. When I look at women… most women… my mind wanders invariably to sexual fantasy of a board and curious nature, unfettered by moral restraint. I can’t help it. I realize this candor could come back to haunt me should you indeed file a claim, but when I look at you I often conger up the most intimate and explicit of distractions. That’s not going to change. You are a sexually attractive.... Shirley comes in and stands at the door. Beast! Could you excuse us, Shirley? I’m dictating a letter. Shirley leaves. I give you my word; you will not get a demotion. Shirley is right outside the door eavesdropping. I also offer you my gratitude for making me realize that sometimes women play along and yet never-the-less fell harassed. I suppose it’s the callous idiot who can’t appreciate that. I apologize for being that idiot. Nora gets up to leave. Nora? The next time that someone does something to you that you don’t like, be direct. I assure you, you’re up to it.Nora leaves.Shirley Schmidt: She comes back in. That was very eloquent. Thank you.Alan Shore: You need to get me another secretary, Shirley. Someone more willing to be harassed.Shirley Schmidt: I’ll see what I can do.In Judge William Howe’s courtroom Attorney Daniel Gellman is giving his closing.Attorney Daniel Gellman: These are bad times for Science your Honor. Especially at the hands of moral values. The government has systematically distorted or worse, suppressed findings by the FDA and EPA when it comes to contraception, stem cell research. AIDS, global warming, pollution…Judge William Howe: Let’s just stick to the case, Counsel, and leave politics out of it.Attorney Daniel Gellman: This case is all about politics. It’s about getting religion back into schools. Creationism is religious doctrine; it is not supported by scientific data. I’m a Christian. My wife is a Jew. We have wonderful debates. And this country, as a whole should be more theologically literate, but it’s not Science! What’s happening here today is an attack on evolution. It’s clever. Let’s call it Intelligent Design. Let’s not mention God. But, come on! The Supreme Court banned the teaching of Creationism in the public schools. They were right then, they remain right today, and my client’s discharge was unlawful, as well in violation of our time honored tradition of separating Church and State. Of course we have a legitimate Cause of Action.Shirley Schmidt: That was almost Evangelical. The Establishment Clause prohibits the endorsement of, or discrimination against any particular religion. But it was never meant to extinguish the notion of a Higher Power.I certainly believe in evolution. Who here among us, while watching the presidential debates could deny that we all come from monkeys. But, what’s so wrong with suggesting, as a possible theory, that a Higher Power might have also played a part? As for Church and State, we go to war over God-given rights to Democracy. Let’s face it. God is big here. We love God, and we as a nation have an overwhelming belief He had something to do with the creation of human-kind. But, teach that in a Science class? Perish the thought. Nobody here is trying to squash evolution, and I would agree with Mr Gellman, it isn’t good Science to suppress information. But, I would ask the court, who here today is trying to do the squashing?At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, in Tara’s office, Bernard is with Tara.Bernard Ferrion: I thought if I went to trial it would offer me a chance to clear my name.Tara Wilson: Clear your name! You… did it!Bernard Ferrion: But nobody knows that.Tara Wilson: Have you gone mad? They haven’t got any evidence. They can’t even arrest you. And you’re here asking to go to trial! What is the matter with you?Bernard Ferrion: The suspense of them building a case! It’s just too much to bare! He sighs. I’m lonely. All I ever had was my mother and I killed her. The only other person who ever, ever talked to me was my neighbor. Killed her too! How’s Alan? I miss him.Tara Wilson: Bernard? Unless something else happens here, your case is over. Now I can appreciate that you’re lonely, but you need to find a life for yourself now.Bernard Ferrion: But uhm… How do I do that?Tara Wilson: Bernard? Your case status at the moment, is over.Bernard Ferrion: Okay. Okay.At Crane, Poole and Schmidt, in Alan’s office, Alan sits down to read some papers.Catherine Piper:She comes in. Alan! Hello!Alan Shore: Mrs Piper?。

目录第5集 (2)第6集 (45)第7集 (84)第8集 (125)第5集嫌疑犯于晚上10:30 被发现Suspects were first observedat approximately 10:30 P.M.在警察局对面Across the street from the station house. "罗宾"和"猫女"负责放哨Robin and catwoman stood guard 而"蝙蝠侠"在擦洗一辆停着的警车as batman soaped an unoccupied police vehicle.是SUV 法官阁下那种耗油吓死人的车S.U.V., Y our honor,an egregious gas guzzler.-而且还很脏-继续警官- And filthy, by the way.- Continue, officer.Brody警官和我到达现场后与他们发生了激烈争执Officer Brody and I approached.An altercation ensued.我们以为他们只是穿着剧服的流氓We thought they were hooligans dressed in costume.或着是一群乡巴佬As the village people, perhaps.嫌犯拒捕These suspects then attemptedto evade apprehension并向我们扔了许多鸡蛋by discharging one ormore eggs in our direction.对他们的指控包括恶意破坏拒捕拉皮条The charges are vandalism,resisting arrest, and pandering.拉皮条?Pandering?我们所作所为完全出于应激反应Our only tricks werein conjunction with our treating,而且我哪像拉皮条的?and I do not look like a pimp.你像白痴Y ou look like an idiot.－法官大人这只"猫"是个有名的妓女－我反对The cat's a known prostitute,your honor. / I object to that!好了取下面具All right, masks off now.我知道你I know you.Alan ShoreAlan Shore.法官大人很高兴见到你Good to see you, judge.这是我的同事Tara WilsonMy colleague Tara Wilson.你好Hello.能告诉我为什么Would you care to explain to me两个律师和一个妓女搞在一起why two attorneys areoutcavorting with a prostitute?我们需要人扮演猫女We needed somebody to be catwoman.拿着皮鞭的那种Someone with a whip.Mr.Shore 你是一个有天赋的律师Mr. Shore, while you are a gifted attorney, 可你也让整个法律界蒙羞you bring embarrassment andshame to the legal community.谢谢你这么说阁下Y ou're very kind, sir.案件撤销Case dismissed.跟Markham协议怎么样了?What's this with the Markham settlement? 他拒绝签字He refuses to sign.不停在字眼里挑刺He keeps redlining us on language.估计因为税收问题他想拖到下一年We think that he's postponing it until after the new year for tax reasons.我会尽力施加压力I'll keep pushing him as best I can.说点私事我想提醒大家记得投票On a personal aside, I'd liketo remind everyone to vote.不管政见如何都是我们的公民义务It's our civic duty.Whatever our politics,哪怕是世界末日我们还是美国人at the end of the day,we're Americans.就算流血也要是蓝白红色的We bleed red, white, and blue. Morgan对Rayburn的案子Morgan vs. Rayburn.还在审理中Still in trial.这个客户的证词不可靠The client survived histestimony barely.Tara和我正想办法达成协议也说点私事Tara and I are pushing a settlement, and on a personal aside,-我觉得无聊-什么?- I'm bored.- I beg your pardon?你们老给我些无聊案子Y ou people keep assigning methese boring cases.要在从前我的委托人里有杀人的At my old firm, I got murderers.还有在公共洗手间自慰的I had clients who had touched themselves in public restrooms.这些人才是真正的客户These are people you could root for,说不定还能来段罗曼史not to mention relate to.Mr.Shore 莫非你想另某高就?Is there some other placeyou'd rather be, Mr. Shore?是的我想上电视Y es, I want to be on cable.最棒的案子都在那里That's where all the bestwork is being done.-Holcomb的案子谁在做?-呃Edwin Poole- Who's doing the Holcomb case?- Uh, that's Edwin Poole.-不是你...-我只是负责处理些小事- Aren't you...- I just handled the decert motion.不负责庭审的I didn't prep the trial.当然那Edwin把案子分配给谁了? Surely, Edwin assigned itto somebody?这个...Well, um...其实...actually...Denny?Denny?你在负责Holcomb药品案？Are you handling the Holcomb pharmaceuticals trial?是我I am.你准备好了?Are you prepared to try this case?我会的I will be.你会的...你知不知道明天就要开审了?Y ou will be. Are you awarethe trial begins tomorrow?Lori 我们有麻烦了We have a problem, Lori.你至少得给我看着点DennyY ou at least need to backstopDenny here.-我没..-可我不能I don't... / I can't.今天我就有案子要上庭I'm in trial myself today.什么案子?In trial on what?我..嗯..我几天前接了个法庭指派的案子I, um, was assigned a casea couple of days ago,至少我是接下来了..which I sort of took.什么样的?What kind of case?这个..只是个..Uh, just a...凶杀案homicide.什么?What?你怎么突然开始接受法庭指派了? Why are you suddenlytaking court appointments?我只是需要点改变I just need kind ofa change, that's all.现在所有人都不满意了这算什么?Now everyone here is dissatisfied? What is this?上周我处理的案子The case I did last week...它某种程度上让我想明白了一些事it kind of awakened me a little.我想要和人有更多的相处I'm feeling the needto connect with people.-是犯罪的人吧-请不要那么浅薄- Criminal people.- Please don't trivialize this.辩护与起诉相差很多Lori Criminal defense is a far cryfrom criminal prosecution, Lori.你不会喜欢的Y ou won't like it.你怎么会知道我还没...How can you possibly knowthat before I even...我了解你I know you.那么..So...我们可以开始了?Shall we?当然你有Morgan的地址吗?We shall. Do you haveMorgan's address?我有但其实我想说I do, but what I meant is,我们从昨晚中断的地方继续吧shall we continue wherewe left off last night?你在我房子前面朝着植物撒尿In front of my buildingwith you peeing in the planter.我差点就爆了你应该让我上楼的I was about to burst.Y ou should've let me come up.那些植物需要浇水了That plant needed watering.Tara 你应该让我上去的Y ou should've let me come up, Tara. 零晨四点我让你上来了It was 4:00 A.M.I let you up,接着能记得的就是我们在酒吧next thing we know,we're in the liquor cabinet.2分钟后后就什么也不知道了Two minutes after that,passed out.Robin四仰八叉缠在蝙蚨侠身上Robin sprawled across batman.在司法厅他们会怎么说What would they sayat the hall of justice?这就是你担心的？四仰八叉Was that what you wereafraid of, the sprawling?我叫你出来玩是想让你忘记SallyI invited you out toget your mind off Sally.你是做到了我又是那个你熟悉的荒唐的人了Y ou've succeeded. It's back toan old, familiar wanton place.Alan 我们说好了我们不可能Alan, we agreed thatyou and I couldn't work.是为什么来着? 我忘记了What was the reason again?I've forgotten.因为会惹麻烦It would be trouble.只是一晚我们就完全失控然后倒在酒吧后面One night out, we lose all control Which was utterly intoxicating, and end up behind bars.回味无穷不是吗? 一起疯狂was it not, losing control together?00:06:34,572 --> 00:06:35,573怎样TaraWhat about it, Tara?都这么久了我们或许应该开始脱光..After all this time,maybe we should undress.我们要迟到了We're late.很厚的文件Thick file.当然很厚Of course, it's a thick file.这是上千人共同起诉的案子It's a class action involvingthousands of plaintiffs,而且错综复杂Dennyand it's complicated, Denny.Thick file.你看我们唯一能做的就是请求法官的谅解Look, all we can do is throw ourselvesat the mercy of the judge.你跟我去见法官解释下Edwin的状况If you and I both go to see himand explained Edwin's situation,或许能争取到一些时间maybe he'll give us some time.厚啊...Thick file.7万美元$70,000.这是他们开的价It's their opening offer.Mr.Morgan 你是个好人Y ou seem like a verynice man, Mr. Morgan.可也像个忧郁症患者Y ou also seem like a hypochondriac.我是真的头疼These headaches are real.我相信I have no doubt.你曾经还抱怨过Y ou've also complainedon several occasions你感染了塔那痘病毒(Tanapox virus 痘病毒科)that you were sufferingfrom tanapox virus.我发现皮肤上有典型的泡疹Because I noticed thecharacteristic papular lesions.它们非常容易破掉They're very tender.直径大约2厘米Approximately 2 centimeters in diameter. 你要知道塔那痘病毒是非洲靠近赤道附近的地方病Y ou realize the tanapox virusis endemic to equatorial Africa.－你去了那么多次旅途愉快吗？Y es. / Have you enjoyed your many visits to equatorial Africa?我从来没去过I've never been there.呃这样的话Ah. Then perhaps...你应该可以看出我们的麻烦所在了吧Mr.Morgan you can see the outlineof our problem, Mr. Morgan.可这不是我的错Look, it's not my fault.我去图书馆I go to the library,查资料and I read books.我想知道怎样才能好起来And I try to understandhow I might get better,可有时侯书里的内容反而让我更害怕了but sometimes, the books,they scare me even more他们总是能描述出那些连我自己都不知道已经得了的病because they describe diseasesI didn't even know I had.大概我是有忧郁症Maybe I am a hypochondriac.你怎么想?What do you take for that?Colson小姐我之前从来没有打过架Miss Colson, I have never beenin a fight before.这样我们要找一两个证人Okay, we need to be ableto call a witness or two谁能来证明你并不暴力who can speak to yournonviolent character.我妈妈可以Well, I told you, my mother.母亲有偏袒嫌疑最好不要Mothers tend to come off as biased.应该还有其他人的There's gotta be somebody else.朋友同事一定还有Friends, coworkers.There's gotta be somebody.可我在家住在家工作我几乎不出门的Well, I live at home, I work at home,I hardly ever go out.我妈妈是唯一能...My mother's the only one...但我要提前警告你but I gotta warn you,她的形象不是很好she doesn't make the best impression.什么意思?What do you mean?她有一个玻璃假眼Well, she's got a glass eye.尺寸不太合适所以她一激动...And it doesn't fit so good,and when she gets upset...如果你让她出庭作证if you put her on the stand,不要惹她发怒don't get her upset.我去吧台拿些喝的I went up to the barto get a few drinks,我转过身就看到唔and when I turned around,that's when I saw, uh,Jared和他在吵架Jared and him exchanging words.我看得出他们言词不善And I could tell it wasn't friendly.他?By him?就是被告The defendant.我开始往回走那里非常拥挤So I started heading back,and the place was really packed.我被堵住了So I was kinda blocked.那时看到Jared在推他That's when I saw Jared push him,然后Jared挥了一拳然后...and then Jared took a swing, and...就这样了That was it.什么样了?What was "it"?告诉我们你所看到的Tell us what you saw.被告就朝Jared喉咙猛击了一下The defendant, he just threwa punch right at Jared's throat,Jared就瘫倒在地了and Jared collapsed to the ground.我赶到那时When I got there,他呼吸很困难而且...he was hardly breathing, and...他嘴里不断发出倒抽气的声音he was making, like, a sucking noise. 最后他停止了呼吸And then he just stopped breathing.我试过人工呼吸And I tried to do mouth-to-mouth,有个说会CPR的人也尝试了可他... (CPR 心肺复苏术)and so did another guy whosaid he knew CPR, but he...他只是躺在那里死了He just died right there on the floor.好的Okay.Quinlan先生这很关键Now, Mr. Quinlan, this is important.尽可能的详细描述那一个猛击Describe the punch as best you can.很短促直接的击打我可以It was a short, direct punch,and I could....我可以从他握拳的姿势and I could tell by the wayhe was holding his hand和他出拳样子知道他会武术and how he threw the punchthat he knew martial arts.那是致命的一击It was a kill punch.－反对!－反对有效Objection! / Sustained.根据你的说法为什么你会认为那是致命的一击Why, in your lay opinion, sir,did you regard it as a kill punch?－反对－反对驳回Objection. / Overruled.他可以回答He can answer.攻击对方的喉咙会导致喉部的衰竭By hitting the throat,you can make it collapse,受击打者就会窒息and then the person suffocates.就像已经发生的那样Which is exactly what happened.谢谢Okay.你并没有看到争吵的开始Y ou didn't actually seethe altercation begin.你只是转过身看到他们正在说话Y ou turned around, andthey were having words.-是的-你听不到他们在说什么- That's right.- Y ou couldn't hear what was said?-是的-Mr.Quinlan 警察在现场做笔录时No. / Mr. Quinlan, when the police arrived and questioned you,你有否说过我委托人的那一拳did you tell them that you recognized my client's punch是武术里的一种拳法as a form of martial arts?没有我不肯定...No, I was probably...你有否对警方描述了那一拳就像你刚才对陪审团说的那样Did you demonstrate to themthe fist you just made for the jury?我当时太震惊了I was too shook up.事实上你从未提到过武术二字In fact, you made no mentionof martial arts直到这两个字被印上了报纸until after it was publishedin the newspapers.当我读到的时候这两个字提醒了我And when I read it, it clicked.它很恰当就像我所看到的那样It all made perfect sense,because that's what I saw.所以当你面对警方详细询的时候Y ou just forgot to mention it你只是忘记提到了那一拳when the police specificallyasked you what you saw.请问那晚你喝了多少啤酒?How many beers had you hadthat night, sir?－3瓶－Jared Grant喝了多少?Three. / How many beers hadJared Grant had?－3瓶－所以你承认没有听到他们的争吵Three. / So you admittedly couldn't hear the exchange,也承认没看到争执的开始you admittedly didn't seethe altercation begin,而且你还喝了酒and you'd been drinking.没有人能预计Edwin Poole的病Certainly no one could anticipateEdwin Poole's illness.这个病几周前就发作了This unanticipated illnessoccurred weeks ago.你们在庭审前一天才来找我Y ou come to me the day before the trial? 实际上这是我们的工作疏忽The simple truth is,this one fell through the cracks.起诉方的证人有些是从城外赶来的The plaintiff has witnessesfrom out of town.我们非常乐意补偿这些损失We'd be willing to assume those costs. 天啊多么自大的一群人Gee, what a swell bunch of guys.－法官阁下－哦不不不我最讨厌这样的Y our honor.../ oh, no, no, no,I'm sick of this.你们在用拖延策略Y our firm has employed a strategy systemic heel-dragging.-这不符职业道德-Edwin poole是唯一一个知道...It is immoral. / Edwin pooleis the only one who know...这是谁的错?Whose fault is that?你们自己玩忽职守Y ou people should be suedfor malpractice.Brian 你和我有交情Brian, you and I have a relationship.我把你当朋友I think of you as a friend.不过交情排在原则的后面抱歉Well, that friendship has gotta takea back seat to principle, I'm sorry. Brian 你知道考虑到我们的关系Well, you know, Brian,given our relationship,我觉得当友谊陷入困境时我应该坦诚相待I feel entitled to be honest the wayfriends are during difficult times.我能对你坦诚吗BrianCan I be honest with you, Brian?－请说－DennyPlease. Denny...你是个混蛋还是个贪婪的混蛋Y ou're a bastard,and a greedy one at that.这是件共同起诉案This is a class action.合并审判一下解决这么多案子让你大受赞赏Y ou get credit for all the consolidatedcases in one fell swoop.你正在谋求首席法官的位置Y ou're looking to makepresiding judge.所以年终你更需要建功立业Y ou need that creditby calendar year's end.所以你急切的要案子进行来装饰你的诉讼记录That's why you're desperate to movethis thing forward, to pad your docket.这是野心不是道德你是个贪婪的流着鼻涕的小人This is about ambition, not morality,you greedy, sniveling little wop.延期申请不通过Motion for continuance denied.你知道我要怎么做吗BrianY ou know what I'm gonna do, Brian,为了证明我俩没伤到和气just to show you thereare no hard feelings?我要和你的妻子上床I'm gonna sleep with your wife.我们建议要么你解雇我们It is our recommendation thatyou discharge us as counsel.向法官请求时间找新律师Ask the judge for timeto find new attorneys.或者明天照常继续The only alternative isproceeding tomorrow,我估计没人这样希望which I don't think we want to do. Edwin Poole从来没有告诉我们审理的日期Edwin Poole never evengave us this trial date.他说还没确定He told us it was continued indefinitely.所以我们建议你解雇我们Which is why we're suggestingthat you discharge us.法官必须给你时间找新律师He has got to give you timeto find new counsel.- Sally 这次必须你来- 我?- Y ou have to handle this, Sally.- Me?瞧我对玻璃眼球有心理障碍Look, I have this thingabout glass eyes.我有个老师也这样I once had a teacherwith a glass eye,有时候他一激动起来and sometimes when he'd get mad,就拿出来往桌子上拍he'd take it out andwhack it on his desk.简直是恶梦It gave me nightmares.嗨Hi, there.嘿Hey.她怎么了?What was that?没什么Nothing.看上去有人急切的渴望Someone just seemsa little overeager和Alan Shore旧情复燃to rekindle the flame with Alan Shore. 我们坚持7万美元The offer was firm at $70,000.是的可如果不那么坚持你们多提高1/4 我们就接受了Y es, we thought if you'd un-firm itto one and a quater, we could be done. 而你的委托人明天就不用上庭Y our client wouldn't haveto testify tomorrow,当然他就能更多的误诊其他人了which, of course, would freehim up to misdiagnose others.看来你还没明白Mr. Shore.Y ou don't seem to get it, Mr. Shore.给7万美元我们只是要摆脱无赖纠缠We offered $70,000as nuisance change.是的我们只是觉得Mr. MorganY es. We just feel Mr. Morgan要比你说的更令人无赖is a much bigger nuisancethan you give him credit for.而我更是无比的无赖我们应该可以为此再多拿点And I'm an enormous nuisance.We should get something for that.－我想吐－你会没事的- I feel nauseous.- Y ou'll be fine.敲门Knock on it.－你来－Sally!Y ou knock on it. / Sally!如果是我负责与她对话至少你来敲门If I'm doing the talking,the least you could do is...律师？Y ou, his lawyers?－嗨－嗨Hi. / Hi.我是Sally Heep 这位是I'm Sally Heep. This is...-Lori Colson-你好Lori Colson. Hello.嗯我们想问几个问题Binder夫人如果可以的话Uh, we just wanted to ask you a few questions, Mrs. Binder, if we could. 进来Come on in.他是个心地善良的好男孩He's a wonderful boywith a gentle heart.是的我们的问题是Y es, our problem is,你似乎是唯一一个了解他的人you seem to be the only personto truly know him.他觉得因为这个假眼我不会是个好证人He think I'll make a bad witnesson account of the eye.它是玻璃的看到了吗?It's glass, you see.近些看Look close.是的Y es.嗯Y eah.事情是这样的The thing is,检控方宣称the prosecution is obviously claiming Jason的心地并不善良that Jason's heart is not gentle.他和人有过纠纷吗?Has he ever been in trouble?他曾经被拘捕过吗?Has he ever been arrested?他替其他人惹过麻烦吗?Has he ever caused anyproblems for anybody?没有他是个好人我也是这么教他的No, he is a nice young man,and it's the way I raised him.这就是我们希望你说的That's exactly whatwe'll need you to say.也许我可以带你去买点衣服做个头发I'm also maybe gonna take you shopping, get your hair done.－形象越好…－Jared Grant 他该死- The more presentable...- He deserved to die, Jared Grant.为什么这么说?Why do you say that?他打了我的Jason.He beat up my Jason.不过他没有打得很厉害Well, he didn't exactly beat him up.－只是发生了口角－他痛打了他- There was an altercation.- He beat him up.那个男的是恶魔他该死The man is evil, andhe deserved to die!- 冷静下来- 我告诉你了他该死!- Let's calm down.- He deserved it, I tell you!Rayburn医生Dr. Rayburn,Mr. Morgan 由你来负责超过6个月了over the six months thatMr. Morgan was in your care,他来过你这多少次?how many visits did he maketo your practice?38次38.算多吗?Is that a lot?比其他病人多出四倍Four times as manyas any other patient.我们玩笑说他是办公室的吉祥物We joked he was the office mascot. 你说的出病状他就坚信自己得了那些病Y ou name the condition Mr. Morgan was convinced he had it.伤风感冒支气管炎Cold, flu, bronchitis,带状疱疹成人发作性糖尿病shingles, adult onset diabetes.我从来没说过糖尿病I never complained ofadult onset diabetes.那个的症状应该是口渴That's characterizedby excessive thirst.你觉得我今天喝了很多水?Does it seem to you likeI've been drinking a lot today?我确定你很好BillI'm sure you're fine, Bill.Mr. Morgan 认为你的疏忽导致了他今天的状况Mr. Morgan contends your neglect drove him to this state.实际上我已经尽量的容忍他了The truth is, I bent over backwards to accommodate him.他总要求立刻见我He always needed tobe seen immediately,无论我有多忙and busy as my practice is,我总是挤出时间I always made the time.我为你感到骄傲先生为你不知疲倦的对待我的委托人I applaud you, sir, for yourtireless commitment to my client.多好的人!What a guy!－反对－反对有效Objection. / Sustained.所以这38次都算在诊所头上？G So these 38 visits, on the house?什么?I'm sorry?它们都是免费的？They were free visits?不是No.哦~!Oh!所以你是收了钱的这就合理了So you charged him.That makes sense.所以当他抱怨浑身无力So with all his complaining,his incapacitation,痛苦的脸皱成一团that pinched look on his face,其实一点毛病没有there's nothing wrong with him.临床上没有而问题出在他脑袋里了Nothing clinically, no.It's in his head.只是普通的偏头痛对吗? Traditional home forthe migraine, is it not?是心身失调It's psychosomatic.他是个典型的抑郁症患者He's a classic hypochondriac.我明白了I see.所以还是有个诊断的Well, there's a diagnosis.那么告诉我你开出了什么处方Tell me, what treatment did you prescribe 医治我委托人的典型的抑郁症for my client's classic hypochondria?我是全科医生不是精神病学医师I'm a general practitioner,not a psychiatrist.所以你建议他出去找...So you referred him out to...谁?whom?没有特定的谁No one in particular.我告诉了他他需要帮助I did tell him he needed help.我甚至给了他一个从业者的名单I believe I even gave hima list of practitioners.所以当他仍然来看病So he kept coming to you,你只是继续收钱却不治疗you kept taking his money,you did not treat him,而且还建议他去看...and you referred him to...一个不确定的医生no one in particular.我是全科医生I'm a G.P.我告诉他要进行精神治疗I told him to seek mental treatment.我只是建议我不能强迫他I advised it. I can't force it.所以我们再总结一次他不停的来你不停的收钱Once again, he kept coming,you kept taking the money,然后建议他去看一个...and you referred him to...不确定的医生no one in particular.那么你要解雇你的律师?So you now want to fire your lawyers?是的法官阁下Y es, your honor.我们不知道审理什么时候开始We had no idea trial was about to start.足以说明他们有多不合格That's how incompetentthese people are.我估计你也没意识到And I suppose you had no idea你的公司正欺诈着老年人your company was bilking senior citizens? 当然阁下你也一定是开明的因为.. Certainly your honor intends to keepan open mind with regard to the...就这么决定了Here's the deal.我可以给你一天找律师24个小时I give you one day to findnew counsel, 24 hours.这以后我会对你们的拖延罚以每天25万美元After that, I'm fining you $250,000a day for any further delay.这看上去像公报私仇It almost seemed personal.你们做过什么招惹这家伙没?Have you done anythingto upset this guy?我不记得有过Not that I can think of.看撇开准备这事不谈Well, look, aside frompreparation concerns,我们有更大的问题了we got a bigger problem.这个法官他有偏见This judge, he's biased.所以我想建议This is what I propose we do.－我们起草一份和谈申请要求...－那是25万美元一天File an interlocutory appeal and ask... / At $250,000 a day.要求和谈我们就有路可走了While we're filing that appeal,we'll go forward.如果赢了我们就能搁置审判Should we win,we can suspend the trial.输了也不会被罚款Should we lose,we won't incur the fine.你的人能搞定这个吗?But are you people readyto try this case?我来I can try it.Denny CraneDenny Crane.有几个谈判都被搁置了There were some settlement discussions that broke down.如果Denny开局不错他们应该会回到谈判桌前If Denny can open big, thatmight bring them back to the table,这也是目前唯一的办法which may be the best wayto go at this point.是四年前在Brighton的一个公园It was four years agoat a park in Brighton.你遇到了被告Y ou met the defendant.这个不能算是遇到Well, I didn't exactly meet him.那是什么?Well, what then?我海扁了他一顿I beat the crap out of him.抱歉Excuse me.我已经改过自新了I was a different person then.好的Mr. Stone 请详细告诉我们那时发生了什么Okay, Mr. Stone, we need to be very specific about what happened back then. 当时他想跟我们一起打篮球Well, he tried to getinto a game of pickup hoops.我和一个兄弟就骂了他几句Me and another guy in the game we started dissing him a little.他回了嘴He said something back,我们就狠揍了他一顿and we beat him up pretty good.当然我并不引以为傲I'm not proud of it.你确定那是Jason Binder?And you're sure it was Jason Binder. 是的Y eah,看到报纸上的照片我记得他的脸when I saw his picture on the news, I remembered his face.绝对是他It was definitely him.那另一个打他的人呢?And what about the other guywho beat him up?Jared Grant 就是他杀的那个Jared Grant, the guy he killed.你骗了我Y ou lied to me.在打架前你就...Not only were you in a fight before... 这不代表什么it doesn't prove anything.他们有你杀人的动机了Jason Now they have a motive, Jason.被害人四年前打了你然后你就开始练习跆拳道The victim beats you up four years ago, you take up Taekwondo,这么巧你又遇到了他you just so happen to encounter him, 于是就杀了他at which point you kill him?不是你说的那样It wasn't like that.这就是为什么你妈妈会说他该死因为That's why your mom saidhe deserved to die, because...不是那样的It wasn't like that.我还能去辩护什么?What am I supposed to argue now? 坦白讲Jason 是为了报仇你才去酒吧的吗?Let's have it, Jason.Did you go to that bar to get revenge? 我是去让自己面对他I went there to stand up to him.你无法想象我受着怎样的煎熬被他们...Y ou have no ideahow haunted I was by...四年前我连手都没敢举起来过I didn't even put upmy hands four years ago.不是挨打在折磨我It wasn't getting beat upthat stuck with me.是我根本没...It was that I didn't even...我只是任由自己挨打I just let myself get beat up.所以你开始练习武术So you took up martial arts.然后我去了那里找他And I went there to stand up to him. 我没有想要打架I didn't plan to fight.更没想过杀他I certainly didn't go there to kill him. 当他一拳挥来我只是...Then when he swung at me,I just...反击了I swung back.我没有想杀他I never meant to kill him.我们多收了谁的钱?Who are we overbilling?医疗保险还是那些老人们? medicare or senior citizens?都有但医疗保险没有起诉我们Both, but medicare isn't suing us."我们"是指制药公司?"Us." Meaning the drug company.－是的－但如果是医院在滥收费Correct. / But if the hospitalsare doing the overcharging,那帮老年人干吗要告制药公司?why are the seniors suingthe drug company?Denny 我们已经讨论这个问题了Denny, we've been over this before.制药公司也就是我们的委托人跟医院有私下协议The drug company, our client, hasthe sweetheart deals with the hospitals. 我们给医院回扣医院则虚高药的成本价We give them rebates so they disguise the real cost of the drugs.向医疗保险开出高于原价的帐单相当于滥计成本They then bill medicare for the higher, allegedly inflated costs.真的这我们要怎么辩Really. What's our defense to that?－7万5千美元－你们只提高了5千块$75,000.Y ou've upped your offer by $5,000.已经相当慷慨了We feel it's generous,尤其是你的委托人没有实质性的伤害particularly when your client's injuries aren't real.- 那些病是真的- 好了Bill- They're real.- All right, Bill.你要知道Mr. Morgan我不是那种挑拨离间的律师Y ou know, Mr. Morgan, I don't typically counsel opposing parties,但我建议你起诉你的律师失职but I might advise a legal malpractice claim against the attorney就是那个灌输你百万发财梦的律师who filled your headwith million-dollar windfalls.你那里好像有点什么Y ou seem to have a little something wedged第4 第5之间between numbers four and five.估计本来就长在你嘴里I guess it's just part of your mouth.最后说一次能接受的...One last proposal that'sentirely possible...当然算不算玩笑取决于你的反应I'm kidding, by the way, depending upon your reaction,30万成交$300,000, sealed.私下我们退还你5万We kick back $50,000to you under the table.Mr. Shore 我向你保证我不是那种律师Mr. Shore, I guarantee you,I am not that kind of attorney.真的Really.上帝我是Gosh, I am.我要直接向律师协会举报你I should report you directly to the bar, 或者是向检查官if not the district attorney.如果你这么想那我就是在开玩笑Well, if that's how you feel,then I was kidding.我要去法官那了I'm going to the judge now.太棒了一场诉讼Excellent. New trial.你委托人的花费一定要超过7万5了That'll certainly cost your client much more than $75,000.你的提议不被接受Y our offer is rejected.万一他去法官那...Suppose he does, go to the judge.拜托他可不想弄个无效审判他觉得稳操胜券了Oh, please, he doesn't wanta mistrial. He thinks he's won.再说他没法证明我不是开玩笑Plus, he can't proveI wasn't kidding.我有名的搞笑I'm known to be funny.这是个连蚊子都不杀的孩子This is a child whowouldn't slap a mosquito.他只是挥走它们He would shoo it away.他甚至不能容忍自己去伤害一只苍蝇或是任何动物He couldn't bring himselfto harm a fly or any animal,更何况是人certainly not a human being.四年心怀怨恨你不认为他会爆发? Four years harboring a grudgedoesn't suggest a rage to you?他总被人欺负Mr. MartinHe was bullied by manypeople, Mr. Martin,－不仅仅是Jared Grant.－但他杀了Jared Grant.- not just Jared Grant.- But he killed Jared Grant.他只是被迫去打架He got into a fight,而结果是个不幸的悲剧which had a tragic ending.他从没意图去谋杀他也不能He never intended to kill,。

Boston LegalHead CasesSeason 1, Episode 1Written by Scott Kaufer & Jeff Rake, and David E. Kelley© 2004 David E. Kelley Productions. All Rights ReservedAirdate: October 3, 2004Transcribed by Sheri for [version updated June 17, 2006]Conference Room at Crane Poole & SchmidtAlan Shore: sitting in the chair to Tara Wilson’s left, sliding some papers from that position on the table so they are in front of the chair to her right. Tara. SighBrad Chase: Hey, I’m Brad Chase from D.C.Alan Shore:Alan Shore.Brad Chase: Pleasure. I, ah, think that’s my seat.Alan Shore:Yes. I did see someone’s things here. I moved them to a less desirable location. Opens his newspaper to read. I’m sorry; we’re not territorial about that sort of thing around here, are we?Brad Chase walks over to the other chair to sit down.Denny Crane: Denny Crane. Shakes hands withPeter Stone: Yes, Denny, I know.Denny Crane: Ahh . . .Peter Stone: I run the New York office.Denny Crane: Oh . . .Peter Stone: Peter Stone?Denny Crane: Denny Crane.Chicago partner: I know. I’m . . . um . . . with Chicago.Denny Crane: My kind of town. Always had the best sex of my life in Chicago. What about you?Well, um . . .Denny Crane: Greetings, Tokyo, London.Nigel: Good morning.Tokyo partner: Morning, Denny.Denny Crane:Shaking hands. Brad Chase. There you are, soldier.Brad Chase: Hey.Denny Crane: Oh, everybody remembers Brad Chase, I’m sure. Hell, if I do—Good to see you, man. All right, everybody—lock and load. Item 1: Forget Item 1.Nigel: Well, actually, Denny, item 1 is a rather urgent matter that we must discuss.Denny Crane: Why don’t you brief us?Nigel: Gladly. If we . . . Denny Crane hits the mute button on his remote.Denny Crane: Item 2: Beckerman discovery? What the hell is that?Jerry Austin: Uh, well, opposing counsel was granted their motion to compel, which means we are now required to turn over all correspondence and scientific studies.Denny Crane: Hmm, what about the ones we burned before the judge’s orders?Sam Halpern: We didn’t burn any documents.Denny Crane: Well, sure we did. Do it today. All right, Nigel, keep going, we’re listening. Clicks remoteNigel: Uh, if we don’t . . .Denny Crane:hitting the mute button again Item 3.Sam Halpern: Damn it, Denny. This is not a way to conduct a staff meeting. Where the hell is Edwin?Edwin Poole: Sorry I’m late, good people. He walks around the table to reveal—to everyone—he is wearing no pants.Alan Shore:Is it Casual Monday?Denny Crane: Edwin, everything all right?Edwin Poole: Hunky dory.Quick cut toThe Hallway of Crane Poole & SchmidtEdwin Poole is strapped onto a gurney in preparation for a ride in an ambulance.Ambulance attendant: It’s all going to be fine, Mr. Poole.Sam Halpern: Unbelievable.Jerry Austin: Not really. Always figured him for a loon.Edwin Poole: Tara. Where’s Tara. I need Tara!Tara Wilson: I’m right here, Edwin.Edwin Poole: Oh, thank you. You have to contact Bill.Tara Wilson: I . . . I will, Edwin. I promise.Edwin Poole: Apologize for my delay. Then call my wife—tell her I’ve had a small breakdown. Not to worry.Tara Wilson: Of course.Edwin Poole: Oh, oh, my goodness. The Brant appeal. I have the Brant appeal!Denny Crane: Relax, Edwin, relax.Edwin Poole: Denny, guess what? I’m due in court with Tara.Denny Crane: We’re on it. Don’t you worry. You just get better.Edwin Poole: Okay.Denny Crane:to Tara Demagnetize his parking pass.Tara Wilson: I beg your pardon?Denny Crane: I know when a man has gone. Do you think you can handle this case? Without a co-pilot?Tara Wilson: Well, I . . .N . . . uh, n . . .Denny Crane: Who’s the judge?Tara Wilson: Resnick.Denny Crane: He’s s schmuck. Alan! Back Tara up. She’s before schmuck Resnick. See if you can get a damn continuance.Further up the HallwayAmbulance attendant: Coming through, please.Paul Lewiston: Brad, you got a few minutes?Brad Chase: Actually, no, I’ve got an early shuttle.Paul Lewiston: Get a later one. I need some face time.Brad Chase: What’s up?Paul Lewiston: Edwin Poole was the only one here able to rein in Denny Crane. Without him . . .Brad Chase: If you are about to go where I think you’re going . . .Paul Lewiston: We need you back in Boston more than in D.C., Brad. Stops Lori Colson, who is walking by Lori, Ernie Dell just came in. He’s upset about something. I sent him to your office.Lori Colson: My office?Paul Lewiston: Yeah. The alternative would be Denny’s office, and nobody here wants that.Beah Toomy: Excuse me. I need a lawyer. This is my daughter. She tried out for the national tour of Annie, and she was the best one. And she was passed over because she was black. It’s discrimination. It’s bigotry. It’s prejudice, and we want justice.[cut to credits]Alan Shore’s OfficeSally Heep: Please tell me that you’ve never seen anything like that before.Alan Shore:Baring your ass to 24 attorneys, including 2 overseas—that is an unprecedented triumph. I’m just distraught I didn’t think of it myself.Sally Heep: You know what I like about you?Alan Shore:No, I do not.Brad Chase: Excuse me. Sorry to interrupt. Brad Chase. Look, I’ve been asked to stay, which I’m considering. But I’m concerned that you and I may have gotten off on the wrong foot. I like to be straight up with people, and If there’s and issue or conflict, let’s address it head on, if you don’t mind.Alan Shore:I have trouble talking that fast. I don’t believe in being straight up, but I’m a big fan of your Aqua Velva commercials.Brad Chase: There’s a potential client in the conference room. I’d like you to meet with her. Oh, forgot to mention—I outrank you.Alan Shore:Do you? And I’m such a slut for authority.Sally Heep: All right. You think the two little boys could get off the playground now?Conference Room of Crane Poole & SchmidtBeah Toomy: “Kiss Today.”Sarah Toomy: I don’t wanna sing.Beah Toomy: You need to practice. You want to make Julliard? “Kiss Today.”Sarah Toomy:blows her breath out “Kiss today goodbye . . .”Alan Shore:Oh, my.Beah Toomy: Never mind, “Oh, my.” She sings like a sparrow. Here, look. I’ve got these producer notes, which I was able to get a hold of because of my own personal ingenuity. Says she has the most talent. You can read it for yourself.Alan Shore:I’m afraid there’s been a terrible mistake. I don’t do musical comedy.Beah Toomy:Annie’s a drama. It’s full of suspense on whether a little girl gets to live with the rich guy. It’s dramatic.Alan Shore’s facial expression says it all, and ends in a big smile.Reception Area of Crane Poole & SchmidtReceptionist hands a messenger an envelope as a very upset Dr. Sharon Brant enters.Receptionist: May I help you?Dr.Sharon Brant: Yes, I need to speak to Edwin Poole immediately.Receptionist: I’m afraid Mr. Poole is has stepped out . . .Dr.Sharon Brant: You don’t understand. This is an urgent matter. Where the hell is Edwin Poole?Sally Heep: Hi, is there anything I can do to help?Dr.Sharon Brant: Yes. My ex-husband is trying to take my children from me.Sally Heep: Okay.Dr.Sharon Brant: And Edwin Poole—he missed my hearing today. And I’ve been calling his cell phone, and—I mean, what the hell is going on around here?!Brad Chase: Excuse me. I’m Brad Chase. We’re going to take care of this for you. Now why don’t you just take a seat in the conference room. I’ll get you a glass of water.Dr.Sharon Brant: All right. Thank you.Sally Heep: Hey.Brad Chase: Yeah.Sally Heep: I was handling it.Brad Chase: I just thought I’d help out.Sally Heep: That’s very nice. But, again, I was handling it.Brad Chase: So, why does it bother you that I’m trying to help?Sally Heep: Well, maybe because you feel I can’t deal with a client on my own.Brad Chase: I don’t feel that way at all.Sally Heep: Well, then I guess I really have no idea what you feel.Brad Chase: I guess not.Sally Heep: And that’s supposed to be my fault?Alan Shore:Wait a minute. You two have had sex!Brad Chase: I’m sorry. We’re not territorial about that sort of thing around here, are we?Lori Colson’s OfficeLori Colson: If you’re not going to tell me—Ernie Dell: I would prefer to tell Denny. Where the hell is he?Lori Colson: Ernie, you and I have done business for a long time. And we’ve always been able to talk to each other. If I’m to help you here—Ernie Dell: My wife is cheating on me. Uh, and . . . she informed me that she has been cheating on me for our entire marriage. It’s been a fraud from Day 1.Lori Colson: Okay. First, you’ve only been married since August. Second, you’ve had five other marriages dissolve each—Ernie Dell: But this—this was the real thing.Lori Colson: What’s the goal? To get her back?Ernie Dell: Uh, I’d like to put a private investigator on her. Get some proof.Lori Colson: If she’s admitted . . .Ernie Dell: The goal being to get some compromising pictures to use as leverage.Lori Colson: In hopes of . . .Ernie Dell:sighs Negotiating an annulment.Alan Shore’s OfficeBeah Toomy: I know it sounds crazy. And I know I’m one of those obnoxious stage mothers. I get that. But Sarah worked hard. I’ve tried to teach her what you earn, people can’t take that away from you. She’s earned this, Mr. Shore.Alan Shore:I have no doubt. But you realize, producers do have discretion. And the art of casting strikes me as a very inexact science.Beah Toomy: If they knew they were gonna go white, why did they let her try out at all? Why’d they let her get her hopes up? I’ll tell you why. So they can pass themselves off as equal opportunity employers. So they can claim to be about diversity. They want it both ways, Mr. Shore. And my daughter got hurt.Sarah Toomy and Alan Shore exchange smiles.Conference Room of Crane Poole & SchmidtDr.Sharon Brant: That was our deal. I would work two jobs, put him through business school, then he would put me through medical school. A week after he graduated, he got a job running a mutual fund, and a week after that, he left me. Our kids were four then. Twins. Simon and Harry. Pulling a picture out of her purse They’re eight now. Handing picture to Sally HeepSally Heep:taking the picture Oh, they’re beautiful.Dr.Sharon Brant: Thanks. In their peewee league uniforms. You know, he’s never seen one of their games. Sally Heep: He pay your way through med school?Dr.Sharon Brant: Take a wild guess. I don’t care, though. I’ve graduated now. Got a residency waiting for me in New York City. But Matthew won’t let me take the boys out of state. Says he wants them close by—these boys he sees once a month. It’s nothing but spite.Brad Chase: Now, look, we’re going to reschedule a hearing. I’m sure everything is going to work out fine. You just have to be patient.Dr.Sharon Brant: If I’m not at Columbia Presbyterian 8:00 am Monday morning, they will give my spot away. That can’t happen. I have worked to hard to build a life for these boys.Denny Crane’s OfficeDenny Crane: We can’t tail the wife.Lori Colson: That’s what he wants, Denny.Denny Crane: Can’t do it. Not ethical. She’s a client, too.Lori Colson: What I would suggest is we send a letter of withdrawal to end-run the conflict. Get an opinion letter of outside counsel . . .Denny Crane: I don’t want to tail the wife.Lori Colson: Denny, I don’t need to tell you that Ernie Dell is one of our biggest clients. If he wants a private investigator, what’s the real harm?Denny Crane: The harm would be to me.Lori Colson: I’m sorry?Denny Crane: I’m the one sleeping with his wife.The File Room at Crane Poole & SchmidtPaul Lewiston: Denny is having an affair with the woman?Lori Colson: I’ve got a senior partner saying, “Don’t tail her.” I’ve got a client wanting snapshots. What do I do, Paul?Paul Lewiston: Convince Ernie that the private investigator idea is a bad one.Lori Colson: Oh, sure.Paul Lewiston: You have enormous persuasive skills, Lori.Lori Colson: You’re handling me.Paul Lewiston: I am. And I need you to handle Ernie. I will handle Denny.The Hallway of Crane Poole & SchmidtTara Wilson is walking; Lori Colson catches up to her.Lori Colson: Tara?Tara Wilson: Hi.Lori Colson: Don’t be offended by this. I know you’re a great lawyer with exceptional legal skills.Tara Wilson: And?Lori Colson: I need you to flirt with Ernie Dell.Tara Wilson: Excuse me?Lori Colson: The man is a profound skirt chaser.Tara Wilson: What’s wrong with your skirt?Lori Colson:sigh Okay, look. Men sometimes find me attractive. From time to time, they’ll even hit on me. It’s all deeply rewarding. But you—Tara Wilson: What me?Lori Colson: You’re hot. Yeah. Kind of . . . nasty hot. Men would leave their wives for you, and I need to make Ernie forget about his wife so . . .Tara Wilson: If you think that I . . .Lori Colson: Don’t make me pull rank. You can file your sexual harassment claim tomorrow, but today—now—you need to meet with Ernie.Conference Room of Crane Poole & SchmidtAlan Shore:It seems the client can’t pay, so the firm will have to eat the cost of prosecuting this matter. I’m sure the partners won’t object, when they hear that it was a case you assigned to me.Brad Chase: I’ll tell you what. I’ll pay the cost of prosecuting the case.Alan Shore:Mmm.Brad Chase: Of course, if you were a betting man . . . You win, I pay. You lose, you pay. Bit of a gamble, I realize . . .Alan Shore:I’ll pay double.Conference Room of Crane Poole & SchmidtDr.Sharon Brant: You got another hearing?Brad Chase: That’s the good news. The not-so-good news is we probably won’t win it.Sally Heep: But, it at least gives us leverage to get your ex-husband in a room.Dr.Sharon Brant: Woo-woo. What are you talking about?Brad Chase: We want to take a shot at a settlement. Now, if your ex cares anything about these kids, then . . . Dr.Sharon Brant: He doesn’t. This is all about getting me. Have I not been clear about that? He doesn’t even know the kids.Brad Chase: I’ve dealt with bad ex-husbands before.Dr.Sharon Brant: Mr. Chase, no offense, but you have never dealt with this one. Trust me.Courtroom #1Atty. Smith: This is Little Orphan Annie, for God’s sake! If she doesn’t look the part . . .Alan Shore:I didn’t realize we did racial profiling for our comic strips.Atty. Smith: These are private investors. There is no state action involved.Alan Shore:How would the story change if Annie were black?Atty. Smith: Your Honor, are you serious?Judge Rita Sharpley: Counsel, we are talking about adoption here. Daddy Warbucks isn’t the biological father. Exactly how would the story change?Atty. Smith: Little Orphan Annie is an iconic character based . . .Judge Rita Sharpley: I want to see her.Atty. Smith: Excuse me?Judge Rita Sharpley: The girl who got the role. I want to compare.Atty. Smith: Your Honor, is that really fair to the other little girl?Judge Rita Sharpley: Well, counsel, if she can sing eight times a week in front of 3000-plus people a night, she can sing in front of me. Get her in here.Lori Colson’s OfficeErnie Dell: I want the private investigator.Lori Colson:sighs The thing is, Ernie, the photographs will have no legal relevance. They can’t facilitate an annulment.Ernie Dell: I am the customer here, Lori.Lori Colson: Customer isn’t always right.Lori Colson and Tara Wilson exchange conspiratorial looks.Tara Wilson: May I . . . make an observation? I really don’t know you, Mr. Dell, but I suspect there’s a reason why all these younger women want to marry you.Ernie Dell: It’s called money.Tara Wilson: You’re wrong. It’s called power. And you derive a lot of that power not just from being handsome and sexy, but from being dignified. Hiring a private investigator is beneath you. There are many young, beautiful women out there, who would love to jump into your . . . wife’s place. I know this sounds crazy, but . . . you might want to look at this as an opportunity.The Hallway of Crane Poole & SchmidtThe camera follows an angry Paul Lewiston to an office door, which he opens, enteringDenny Crane’s OfficeDenny Crane: Paul.Paul Lewiston: You and I go back a long way, Denny. Completely mindful of the fact that you helped build this place, the partners here will not allow you to dismantle it with your buffoonery.Denny Crane: What did you say to me?Paul Lewiston: I don’t think you want to hear me say it again. To have an affair with the wife of one of our biggest clients—it disrespects both Ernie Dell and this firm.Denny Crane: We have other clients.Paul Lewiston: Not like Ernie. But your point is well taken. Everybody is fungible.Ernie Dell walks in as Paul Lewiston opens the door to leave.Ernie Dell: Lori Colson won’t tail my wife. I want you to do it.Paul Lewiston: Ernie.Ernie Dell: I’m not talking to you. Get it done, Denny.Ernie Dell and then Paul Lewiston leave the room.The Buddha BarAlan Shore:Denny, I’m having a bit of an identity crisis. I’ve always prided myself on being . . . well, nuts. But in this firm, I find myself falling into the sane category.Denny Crane:laughing You think I’m nuts, do you?Alan Shore:Are you scared?Denny Crane: Scared? What would I be scared of?Alan Shore:Edwin Poole is a friend. To see him just go off the high dive?Denny Crane: Edwin Poole’s problem is he doesn’t like being Edwin Poole. From time to time he’d look in the mirror and ask, “What’s the point?” I never do that. Questions like that’ll kill you.Alan Shore:Questions like, “What’s the point?”Denny Crane: Look--take you for example. Tomorrow, you’re gonna go into court and argue that some little fat black kid should be able to play a little skinny white one. What’s the point? Pause You don’t ask—that’s the point. You gonna win, by the way? The world wants to know.Alan Shore:I’m afraid not. There’s no state action. We’ve asked for a specific performance with no clear evidence of discrimination. I don’t like losing, especially when there’s a wager involved.Denny Crane: Well, don’t, soldier. Pull a rabbit out of your hat. Motions with his index finder for Alan Shore to lean closer. Then, conspiratorially That’s the secret of both trial law and life.Alan Shore:Rabbits?Denny Crane:nods Oh, yeah.Hallway at Crane Poole & SchmidtMatthew Calder gets out of the elevator, and walks to the reception area. Alan Shore and Tara Wilson are talking. Tara Wilson turns around.Matthew Calder: Excuse me, I’m looking for . . . you, actually. All my life. Matthew.Tara Wilson: Tara.Alan Shore:Alan.Mattthew Calder: I had a girl who looked like you looking at Tara Wilson once. Married her. Now she looks like you looks at Alan Shore. Where the hell is my lawyer?Conference Room of Crane Poole & SchmidtDr. Sharon Brant, Matthew Calder, Brad Chase, Sally Heep and Atty. Tompkins are in conference.Sally Heep: If you took summer, plus winter breaks, spring break, holiday weekends—you start to get pretty close to what you have now.Matthew Calder: Pass.Dr.Sharon Brant: That’s too much custody for Super Dad.Brad Chase: Is there any acceptable scenario that would allow for Sharon to enroll in her program without leaving the boys behind?Matthew Calder: We could each take one.Dr.Sharon Brant: Excuse me?Matthew Calder: You know, like that Nazi movie where the woman has to pick which kid to keep.Atty. Tompkins: Sophie’s Choice.Matthew Calder: Thank you.Atty. Tompkins: Uh, huh.Matthew Calder: Only this is Sharon’s choice. One goes with her to New York; I keep the other one. Done.Dr.Sharon Brant: That’s outrageous. The boys love each other. Th—they’re best friends.Matthew Calder: A little weird, don’t you think? Let’s see what happens when we split ‘em up.Dr.Sharon Brant: Stop doing this! You have already scarred your children enough to last a lifetime. Imagine how that feels to a little boy—knowing that their father could care less whether he sees them or not! And yet, if it means denying me something that I want, something that I deserve, something that this family needs . . . suddenly you’re . . . you’re a concerned father! Damn you!Matthew Calder: And what about my needs, huh? What freakish nightmare did I step into that turned my wife who was hot, who had sex with me, who liked to go out with me at night, into some earth-mother world-record setting breast feeder? And no, you want to leave your kids with some non-English-speaking nanny for a hundred hours a week so you can live out your ER fantasy life? Be my guest. But it’s not my problem that you’re not good enough to get hired anywhere in the entire state.Hallway of Crane Poole & SchmidtDenny Crane is walking with Lawyer #1, when Ernie Dell approaches.Ernie Dell: Denny, did you hire that P.I. yet? pause I asked you a question. Truth be told, my relationship with this firm hangs in the balance.Jerry Austin: Uh, Ernie, why don’t we step into my office . . .Ernie Dell: I’m talking to Denny.Denny Crane: All right, Ernie. Truth time. My office.Denny Crane’s OfficeDenny Crane: This is not gonna be easy for you to hear, but it needs to be said. I don’t give a damn who slept with your wife. Neither do you, really. You don’t love her. This is an ego thing. She’s a trophy girl. Something for your friends to admire. Maybe you should be flattered.Ernie Dell: I’m not . . .Denny Crane: I’m talking. Ego, Ernie. You acquire fast cars and young wives to try and stay young yourself in the hope of confusing youth with relevance. Well, here’s a flash for you. We’re all desperate to be relevant. You’re 76 years old! Want to feel you still mean something? Move to Florida, punch a chad, screw up an election. Don’t go looking for affirmation between the two artificial jugs of a woman who married you for—Gee, could it be your outstanding sense of humor?Ernie Dell raises his hand as if to punch Denny Crane.Denny Crane: Take a swing if you want to, if it makes you feel better.Instead, Ernie Dell turns to the door and walks out.Courtroom #2Brad Chase: The guardian ad litem acknowledged in her report in the last year, Mr. Calder took custody of the boys only one weekend a month.Atty. Tompkins: Mr. Calder’s been steeped in a major work crisis at his company.Brad Chase: I don’t care if he’s been dismantling a nuclear weapon. The fact is, he hasn’t been there. There’s no doubt that my client is, in practice, the primary custodian. Now this woman is struggling to make a life for her family . . .Judge Isabel Hernandez: What? She can’t make it in the Commonwealth?Brad Chase: She’d love to, but the offer comes from New York. And my client has made every sacrifice . . . Judge Isabel Hernandez: That’s what parents do, Mr. Chase. You have kids, you make sacrifices. They got married here, they had children here. Mr. Calder: As fathers go, I consider you a disgrace. Ms. Brant: There is a reason for this policy. We don’t like angry spouses yanking kids across state lines. It’s an undue burden on the family unit. Accordingly, your plan to relocate with your sons remains enjoined. Bangs gavel.Dr.Sharon Brant: What now?Brad Chase: I don’t know.Matthew Calder: sarcastically wiping a fake tear from his eye I, uh, I guess that didn’t go too well.Courtroom #1Sarah Toomy: “. . . when I’m stuck with a day that’s gray and lonely; I just stick out my chin and grin and say—tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow, you’re always a day away.”Judge Rita Sharpley: Thank you. That was . . .Sarah Toomy:continuing, with Alan Shore mouthing the words along with her “Tomorrow, tomorrow, I’ll love ya tomorrow. You’re always a day away.”Alan Shore claps, grinning as if HE is the stage motherAlan Shore:That was great!Judge Rita Sharpley: Sarah, that was magnificent. But the other little girl was quite good, too. And given the discretion that has to be allowed to producers in these situations . . .Alan Shore:Your Honor, we have something called the Equal Protection Clause, we have something called the 14th Amendment—I believe it’s actually required reading for judges. I could be wrong there.Reverend Al Sharpton (from behind Alan): Could I be heard, your Honor? I heard about this matter. I would like to address this court on what I consider . . .Judge Rita Sharpley: I’m sorry, Reverend, but you have no standing here.Reverend Al Sharpton: I have standing as an American citizen speaking up on a civil rights violation.Judge Rita Sharpley: Reverend Sharpton, I will ask you to step down . . .Reverend Al Sharpton: I have standing as Bobby Kennedy had standing, . . .Judge Rita Sharpley: You have no standing in this meeting.Reverend Al Sharpton: . . . on the steps of the courthouse in Alabama!Judge Rita Sharpley: No one is denying this little girl an education, sir. She just can’t play Annie.Reverend Al Sharpton: You may think this is a small matter. But this is no small matter. This child is being denied the right to play an American icon because she doesn’t match the description. Those descriptions were crafted 50 years ago! We’re supposed to be in a different day!Judge Rita Sharpley: Reverend . . .Reverend Al Sharpton: You talk about racial equality, how we’re making progress. The problem with that progress is it’s always a day away. Tomorrow, tomorrow—you love that!—because it’s always a day away. I’m here to stick out my chin today! Today! Give us an African-American Spider Man! Give us a black that can run faster than a speeding bullet and leap over tall buildings in a single bound! Not tomorrow—today! Today! The sun needs to come out today! Not tomorrow, your Honor! God Almighty! Give the American people a black Orphan Annie. It’s just not good enough to say she doesn’t look the part.Applause from the spectators’ galleryReverend Al Sharpton:to Alan Shore That’s what you call a rabbit, son. Denny Crane.Reverend Al Sharpton exits the courtroom to the tune of “Tomorrow”Hallway at Crane Poole & SchmidtSally Heep: What if we file a T.R.O. in federal court on behalf of the kids?Brad Chase: On what grounds?Sally Heep: I don’t know. They’ve been denied a right to interstate travel.Brad Chase: It’s dubious, but I like your thinking.Sally Heep: Come here for a second. pulling Brad Chase into the law library Look . . . I just . . . I just need to know.Brad Chase: Sally.Sally Heep is not getting an answer from him, becomes uncomfortable, and walks out, passing Alan Shore, who is entering from another doorway.Alan Shore: Brad.Brad Chase: Alan.The Buddha BarSally Heep: The deadbeat doesn’t even see his kids, doesn’t know them, and he’s using them as weapons to destroy his ex-wife and them.Alan Shore:And that’s why you were so upset? The case?Sally Heep: It’s a little hard, okay? I . . . I prefer him in D.C.Alan Shore:Mm, hm. Do you think I should start working out with weights? Maybe do some calisthenics?Sally Heep: I’m trying to, like, express my . . .Alan Shore:You still like him?Sally Heep: Well, what context are you asking as, Alan? I mean, are you asking as like a boyfriend, or . . .Alan Shore:I’m not allowed to ask questions?Sally Heep: Am I? About Tara?Alan Shore:What about Tara?Sally Heep:sigh Nothing. Anyway, he left. I got very depressed, drank a lot, hit on too many boys. sigh Until I met this one boy . . . man . . . distinguished.Alan Shore laughsSally Heep: And now I just . . . Okay. How small is the town of Boston?Alan Shore:What?Sally: The dirtbag is right over there.Alan Shore:Bradley? He turns around to look in Matthew Calder’s directionSally Heep: The ex-husband.Matthew Calder is flirting with beautiful women at the bar across the room.Sally Heep:sigh Really trying to strengthen that family unit.Alan Shore reaches for her personal electronic organizer.Sally Heep: What are you doing?Alan Shore: chuckling. I just need to use your thingie for a second.Sally Heep: Can we get outta here: I don’t—I don’t wanna look at that pig.Alan Shore:Okay.Sally Heep heads for the door.Alan Shore: drops some money on their table, types on the organizer a bit. We’re off. He follows Sally Heep out.Denny Crane’s BalconyDenny Crane: I told him we’re all desperate to be relevant.Lori Colson: Were you able to dissuade him?Denny Crane: I think so.Lori Colson: Denny, do you think you were talking about yourself a little? You feeling a little desperate to be relevant lately?Denny Crane: Don’t waste your time trying to get in my head. There’s nothing there.Lori Colson: They’re not going to take the firm from you. First, Paul Lewiston could never get the votes. Second, he wouldn’t want to. The man loves you.Denny Crane: I’m not worried, Lori. Do I look worried? Yeah. Look out there. My domain. My city. I’m Denny Crane.Matthew Calder’s OfficeAlan Shore has gotten past Matthew Calder’s secretary, and is looking for Matthew Calder, who is in a meeting.Secretary: Sir, if I could just get your name. I would be happy to buzz Mr. Calder.Alan Shore:You’re very kind, but look, I’m already here.Secretary: There’s a meeting in progress, though, and I’ve been instructed not to disturb him.Alan Shore: opening the door to a meeting room and walking in, interrupting Matthew Calder and associates. Hello, Matthew. Shame. Quite hoping I’d interrupt something tawdry. I’m Alan Shore. Your。

Boston LegalLoose LipsSeason 1, Episode 8Written by Jonathan Shapiro & David E. Kelley© 2004 David E. Kelley Productions. All Rights ReservedAirdate: November 28, 2004Transcribed by Sheri for [version updated June 17, 2006]Conference Room of Crane Poole & SchmidtAlan Shore sits at the staff meeting in full Santa regaliaPaul Lewiston: This is a staff meeting, Mr. Shore.Alan Shore: I realize that.Paul Lewiston: Why are you in a Santa suit?Alan Shore: It’s after Thanksgiving. Surely you’re not suggesting I still dress as a pilgrim.Paul Lewiston: And who is this? gesturing at a little woman dressed as an elfAlan Shore: She’s my elf. Sometimes, especially after Santa’s been drinking, he needs a little helper.Paul Lewiston: Have you been drinking today?Alan Shore: No. Today I just brought her for amusement. My doctors are concerned these staff meetings could cause me to lapse into a coma.Paul Lewiston: I see. Well, since privileged information is exchanged during these staff meetings, your helper will have to leave.Alan Shore:rolls his eyes, then addresses his elf quietly Would you wait in my office, dear?Elf: Sure.Alan Shore holds her chair for her as she gets off the chair and leavesBrad Chase: Actually, there’s that, uh, walk-in. He’s waiting in reception. Maybe Alan should take that.Paul Lewiston: Perhaps you’re right.Brad Chase: A wrongful termination. A guy was fired as a department store Santa.Alan Shore laughsBrad Chase: I mean, since you seem to have such a connection with the subject matter . . .Denny Crane: I’ll do it.Paul Lewiston stares at Denny CraneDenny Crane: I’ve always wanted a Santa case.Brad Chase: Oh, this is much more right for Alan.Denny Crane: I said, I’ll do it. Where is he?Brad Chase: Uh, in reception.Denny Crane arises, and walks into the:Reception Area of Crane Poole & SchmidtDenny Crane: Gil Furnald?A man and woman continue their conversation without looking up.Gil Furnald: a man wearing a dress, reading a newspaper That’s me.Denny Crane: No, it isn’t.Gil Furnald: Yes, it is.Denny Crane: No, it isn’t.Gil Furnald: sighing Ho, ho, ho! Deal with it.Hallway of Crane Poole & SchmidtTara Wilson: Alan.Alan Shore: Tara.Tara Wilson: What’s with the woman?Alan Shore: What woman?Tara Wilson: What woman?! The one you brought to the staff meeting.Alan Shore: She’s my elf, Tara. I thought I was quite clear on that.Tara Wilson: Yes. Very amusing. Why is she here?Alan Shore: Well, it seems I’ve put on a few pounds since last year, so she brought me my new suit. I do some work with the Salvation Army. We work as a team, actually. Is there a problem?Tara Wilson: Not at all.Alan Shore: But?Tara Wilson: Not that I’ve been doing background checks, but I have a friend who evidently knows an old friend of yours, and . . .Alan Shore: And?Tara Wilson: You once cohabited with a little person.Alan Shore: Two lovely years. I lived with her for three.Tara Wilson: Do you have a thing for little women?Alan Shore: I have a thing for women. You’ve never fallen for someone shorter than you?Tara Wilson: Well, I believe I’m involved with one now.Alan Shore:shifting his newspaper and posture to compare height to hers Either you’re mistaken, or I’m jealous. And he ambles away.[credits]Dr. Konigsberg’s OfficeLori Colson: It’s just very difficult to reconcile being drawn to a person I consider, well, repugnant.Dr. Konigsberg: Oh, you think you’re the first good girl to fall for a bad boy?Lori Colson: Is my problem annoying you?Dr. Konigsberg: No, I’m sorry. I—I just meant to convey it’s very common for women to be attracted to men they don’t admire. What could be at play here? There are qualities in yourself you don’t like or qualities about Alan Shore you wish you had.Lori Colson: That isn’t it. I like myself just fine.Dr. Konigsberg laughs, shaking his head.Lori Colson:chuckles I saw that.Dr. Konigsberg: Uh, look. This is not a great day for me. Perhaps we should reschedule?Lori Colson: Okay. They both arise. Is everything okay?Dr. Konigsberg: Yeah. pause as Lori Colson picks up her purse and jacket Could I speak to you as a lawyer?Lori Colson: Uh, sure. making a circular gesture with her hand But you’re gonna have to face the little clock towards me.Dr. Konigsberg: This is all privileged, right? Lawyer-client?Lori Colson: Of course.Dr. Konigsberg: Look, I—I have a patient who’s been with me for almost four years now. And he, um, he habitually speaks of fantasies, things he plans to do. They’re typically idle ruminations, I suppose—make him feel better. Lately he’s been talking about murdering his ex-wife. And at first I thought, harmless chatter again. But there seems to be such a resolve. Lori, I can’t be sure that it isn’t real this time. This man may very wellbe planning to kill his ex-wife, and I’m just not sure what to do.Denny Crane’s OfficeGil Furnald: sigh I just like wearing women’s clothes sometimes. It’s not a sexual turn-on. It . . well . . . it just feels right sometimes.Denny Crane: So, basically, you’re a sicko?Gil Furnald: I’m not sick.Denny Crane: Lighten up, man. So, what? You got caught in a skirt and that was it?Gil Furnald: My employer found out, and, yes, I got fired. They asked me a lot of questions, like whether I’m gay.Denny Crane: Are you? Ah, not that there’s anything wrong with it.Gil Furnald: Yes. But that does not make me an unfit Santa.Denny Crane: Criminal record?Gil Furnald: No. No, no, no, no, no. And there’s never been any incident. I have been a good Santa for eight years. A great Santa. I can show you the letters. There are kids and families who have specifically come back for me. And I thought, this is wrong. I should not lose my job because of how I like to dress.Dr. Konigsberg’s OfficeDr. Konigsberg is putting a videotape in a TV with a VHS player.Lori Colson: Does he know you taped him?Dr. Konigsberg: No. I’m just full of ethical violations. turns on the VHS playerBrian Stevens (TV): It’s important that I do it with my hands. I don’t know why. You could probably tell me why. But see, the thing is, I don’t want to shoot her or, uh, poison her or hit her with a car. No. It needs to be by strangulation.Dr. Konigsberg (TV): Do you have any guess as to why?Brian Stevens (TV): Well, for one, I actually want to feel the life going out of her. I mean, with my hands, I want to feel her body go limp. Also, I want her to experience it. I want her to know that she’s dying. And I want to see her eyes as I do it.Dr. Konigsberg turns off the tape with his remote.Lori Colson: And how do you know that this isn’t just talk?Dr. Konigsberg: I keep telling you, I don’t know. I—I mean, he’s often fantasized. L-last year he spoke of blowing up his boss. But his demeanor here—as I said, there’s a certain resolve that really concerns me.Lori Colson: Have you shown this to any other therapists or . . .Dr. Konigsberg: No, no, no. I’m the only one who can make that call.Lori Colson: And your call is it’s possible he’s going to do it?Dr. Konigsberg: Do I tell the ex-wife?Lori Colson: Well, I’m sure you know the law on this as well as I do. I mean, you have a duty to warn the victim if you’re reasonably certain she’s in physical danger.Dr. Konigsberg: But falling short of being certain?Lori Colson: You honor doctor-patient privilege.Dr. Konigsberg: This just seems crazy to me. I—I—I mean which side is better to err on?Denny Crane’s OfficeGil Furnald: A trial today?Denny Crane: Well, it’s not exactly a trial. It’s an evidentiary hearing.Gil Furnald: But I’d need to testify?Denny Crane: It’s the only way you can get a restraining order. We’ll lose the dress, by the way. Coat and tie. He sees Alan Shore walking down the hall. Alan! Excellent! gestures out the door Alan, Gil Furnald, Alan Shore. steps out the door, hand on Alan Shore’s shoulder Alan. Turns out that my Santa Claus is a sort of cross-dressing sicko. He’s more . . . you.Alan Shore: He is absolutely more me, Denny. But, unfortunately, my schedule . . .Denny Crane: Alan, I have trouble with this sort of subject matter.Alan Shore: You’re homophobic.Denny Crane: It’s not that.Alan Shore: What is it then?Denny Crane: It’s my father. Sometimes he wore dresses. He called it a kilt and sang all those Scottish songs, but we knew. Please, the hearing’s at 2 o’clock.Denny Crane walks away. Alan Shore goes into his office and shakes hands with Gil Furnald.Alan Shore: Hello.Gil Furnald: Hello.Hallway of Crane Poole & SchmidtAlan Shore: Sally. Could I trouble you to do a quick background check? I realize we haven’t spoken much since we stopped having sex and, frankly, I’m dismayed by that. But what I need to know is everything you can find out about my new client. handing her a blue sticky note Here’s his name, address, Social Security . . . Brad Chase: Is it true, you’re taking over the Santa case?Alan Shore: Yes, I am, Bradley. Is it of interest to you?Brad Chase: No. But it could be, if we, say, bet on it.Alan Shore: Another wager.Brad Chase: Why not?Alan Shore: And would you already have stakes in mind?Brad Chase: I keep thinking about your elf. How ‘bout if you win, I become your elf for the day, but if you lose, you become mine? Complete with a costume, of course.Alan Shore: And bells.Brad Chase: Oh, can’t leave out the bells.Lori Colson: Alan? Hey. Can I steal you for a second?Alan Shore: A second? A minute I could maybe do, but a second would be pushing it. Would you like me to push it?Lori Colson: You are so disgustingly vulgar. It’s important.Lori Colson’s OfficeDr. Konigsberg is waiting in her office; he arises when Lori Colson enters, Alan Shore close behind. Lori Colson: This is Dr. Konigsberg. Alan Shore.Alan Shore: Hello.Dr. Konigsberg: Ohh, Alan Shore. He looks meaningfully at Lori. Hunh.Lori Colson: Uh, Dr. Konigsberg has a patient who talks about killing his ex-wife and could be serious about it. Dr. Konigsberg: “Could” is the operative word. I can’t be sure.Lori Colson: Obviously there are some exposure problems. I mean, if the guy does do it, and it was learned Dr. Konigsberg knew of the risks beforehand . . .Alan Shore: The first thing I’d check is his malpractice policy. You don’t want to do anything to void coverage. Lori Colson: I have done that already.Alan Shore: What’s your specialty?Dr. Konigsberg: Couples counseling. I first saw the client and his wife together. Since the divorce, I’ve been working with him alone.Alan Shore: So they came to you to improve their relationship, and now one wants to kill the other. Not your best work, was it, Doctor? turns to Lori Colson And you’re seeing Dr. Konigsberg for what?Lori Colson: Uh, just to deal with the . . . as a lawyer. He hired me.Dr. Konigsberg:chuckling He’s a very mischievous man.Lori Colson: Look, can we stick to the case, folks?Alan Shore: Since the proposed victim was or is a patient, you’ve got real duty problems. If the threat is real, and you don’t tell her . . .Dr. Konigsberg: But I can’t be sure it’s real, which means my duty is to the patient.Alan Shore: Can you have another therapist meet with him, perhaps get an objective opinion?Dr. Konigsberg: I tried. No therapist will go near it for fear of potential liability.Alan Shore: Well, if it were me, I’d meet with him myself, pretending to be one of your colleagues.Lori Colson: That’s hardly an option.Alan Shore: Why? You need objectivity . . .Lori Colson: You can’t go there pretending to be a doctor.Alan Shore: Of course I can’t, because I’m in trial. But you can do it.Lori Colson: Oh, sure. And get disbarred?Dr. Konigsberg: I’d likely lose my license.Alan Shore: Oh, well. Silly me. I was thinking about the ex-wife. If it’s merely a bar card and a medical license you’re looking to preserve, you first opine to Lori that you’re not at all convinced the man intends to follow through on his threats. Then, you draft an opinion letter to the doctor telling him he need not disclose. Your respective asses will be covered, and everybody’s happy, assuming you like your asses covered. Personally, I love the feel of a stiff breeze against my rosy cheeks. In any event, pardon my misunderstanding.I thought it was potentially human life at stake.Alan Shore walks out, closes the door, leaving Lori Colson and Dr. Konigsberg with a decision to make.Court HallwayBrad Chase is talking to another attorney.Brad Chase: Oh, excuse me. Sylvia.Sylvia: What do you want now?Brad Chase: Why do you always think I want something? Why couldn’t it be that I just want to see the smiling face of the prettiest girl in the clerk’s office?Sylvia: What do you want, Brad?Brad Chase: I need a small favor—tiny.Sylvia: Mmm.Brad Chase: But first, please, can I see that smile?Sylvia:laughs and smiles God.Brad Chase: If I were 10 years younger.Sylvia: Or 10 years older. What’s the favor?Brad Chase: There’s a motion scheduled for this afternoon—Furnald vs Gordon’s Department Store. A lawyer named Alan Shore is seeking injunctive relief, unlawful discharge. I need this case to fall in Judge Hingham’s docket.Sylvia: Judge Hingham? Why would you want him?Brad Chase: Because he’s just right for this one.Sylvia: Exactly what kind of case is this?CourtroomJudge Harry Hingham: A ho-mo-sexual? That’s where we’re at now? Santa Clauses being played by ho-mo-sexuals?Alan Shore: I believe “homosexual” is one word, Judge. But to avoid confusion, let’s say, “gay.”Atty. Phillips: Let’s say, “transvetite,” because that was the stated reason . . .Alan Shore: Well, if dress code is the issue, my client promises to comply with . . .Judge Harry Hingham: A ho-mo-sexual transvestite?Brad Chase is sitting in the gallery, watching the proceedings.Judge Harry Hingham: You want me to allow children to sit in his lap?Atty. Phillips: Exactly.Alan Shore: Oh, boy.Atty. Phillips: Gordon’s Department Store certainly supports Mr. Furnald’s right to choose who or what he . . . Alan Shore: That’s a lie. You fired him as soon as he told you he was gay.Atty. Phillips: No, we fired him for cross-dressing, which is considered a fetish.Alan Shore: He’s played Santa for eight years without incident. In fact, he’s received glowing praise from both parents and employers.Judge Harry Hingham: Would you sit in his lap?Alan Shore: Sure. Why not? And he does. And he hasn’t gone homo erectus on me, if that was your fear. Judge Harry Hingham: You’re making entendres. Disgusting, sick, innuendo entendres.Alan Shore mouths the word, “Entendres” to ADA.Judge Harry Hingham: I’m not going to put an innocent child in the lap of an unnatural Santa Claus who dresses in female attire. There is a sanctity to the tradition of Christmas. It is perhaps the most sanctimonious holiday there is.Alan Shore: Then clearly, you should be its poster boy.Judge Harry Hingham: Motion for T.R.O. denied.Alan Shore: I’d at least like an evidentiary hearing so that I may present . . .Judge Harry Hingham: Denied. Denied, denied, denied. bangs gavelBrad Chase is clearly quite pleased with this decision; he waves at Alan ShoreGil Furnald: Why’d you do that? You antagonized him.Alan Shore: Actually, he antagonized me.Gil Furnald: This job means something to me, Mr. Shore.Alan Shore steps toward the bench, as Judge Hingham is headed out the door.Alan Shore: Your Honor . . .Judge Harry Hingham: I have made my ruling.Alan Shore: Yes, based on what you think my client is or what the defense has presented him to be. I ask you to at least hear from him before you take away his livelihood. Ten minutes as to why he’d make a good Santa. Please.Judge Harry Hingham: I’ll give you 10 minutes—5 for direct, 5 for cross.Dr Konigsberg’s OfficeBrian Stevens: I don’t understand why she’s here.Dr. Konigsberg: I explained it, Brian. When a patient makes a credible threat to commit violence, my colleague is here to observe because I may need counsel.Brian Stevens: Why? You should’ve told me this before.Dr. Konigsberg: Brian, would you tell Dr. Harper why you want to kill your ex-wife?Brian Stevens: I have no intention of killing her.Dr. Konigsberg: You don’t?Brian Stevens: Of course not. Murder is illegal in Massachusetts.Lori Colson: So when you were saying these things to Dr. Konigsberg . . .Brian Stevens: I never said them. Dr. Konigsberg is mistaken. I also have absolutely no intention of paying for two therapists. Good-bye. Takes his coat and walks out.Lori Colson: Clearly, he’s a little hostile.Dr. Konigsberg: Well, he’s angry over you being here, and I . . . I can’t say that I blame him.Lori Colson: Well, I don’t know if there’s enough to go to the police, but I think you should at least tell his ex-wife.Dr. Konigsberg: Will you go with me?Lori Colson: Me?Dr. Konigsberg: Lori, I’m about to break privilege, and I could very well be sued for it. This is treacherous ground, and I would like my lawyer present. So, please, do this with me.Buddha BarAlan Shore: I’m afraid my words are having little impact. Yours’ll have to.Gil Furnald: Okay.Alan Shore: You said this job means something to you, and you seemed rather impassioned.Gil Furnald: I am.Alan Shore: You have a college education, Mr. Furnald. You do well in your computer job. Why is this part-time employment so important?Gil Furnald: I don’t know.Alan Shore: Yes, you do.Gil Furnald: I suppose . . . As a kid—a gay kid who liked to wear dresses—that club is very small, by the way—most cross-dressers are heterosexual . . . Anyway, um, as a kid who felt like he didn’t belong anywhere, I would throw myself into all the make-believe that goes with Christmas. Hmm. As safe retreats go, I suppose it helped me survive . . . and it still does. Shall I say that tomorrow?Alan Shore: Say all of it.Lori Colson’s OfficeLori Colson: Would you tell?Brad Chase: I don’t know. I mean, if it’s a fantasy . . .Lori Colson: What if it’s not?Brad Chase: The benefit of the doubt has to go to privilege.Lori Colson: Even when the downside is death?Brad Chase: I’m not saying that it’s an easy call. gets out of his chair and walks over to the couch to sit next to Lori He got a hearing.Lori Colson: Sorry?Brad Chase: Shore. The cross-dressing Santa Claus. He actually got a hearing.Lori Colson: Don’t you think you’re taking this bet thing a little too far?Brad Chase: I’m not making a big deal about this. I’m just making conversation here.Lori Colson: Brad, you don’t like Alan, do you?Brad Chase: I don’t give the guy a thought one way or the other.Lori Colson: Can I say something to you as a friend?Brad Chase shrugs.Lori Colson: You’ve seemed kind of knotted up ever since he got here. It might help you if you just let your feelings out a little. Come on. It’s late at night. You’re having a beer with a buddy. Tell me how you feel about Alan Shore.Brad Chase: I don’t like him.Lori Colson: You can go deeper than that. What do you feel, Brad?Brad Chase: I hate him. He mocks me.Lori Colson: Deeper.Brad Chase: He mocks our Commander-in-Chief.Lori Colson: Deeper.Brad Chase: He’s got a putty ass and a flabby body and I can’t understand why women would rather sleep with him than me.Lori Colson: There. It’s out.Brad Chase: And that includes you, by the way.Lori Colson: First of all, I don’t sleep with colleagues.Brad Chase: You’re ducking the issue.Lori Colson: I am not. I have no interest in ducking either one of you. We’ve gone deep enough.Brad Chase: I really need to win this bet.The Break Room at Crane Poole & SchmidtAlan Shore: According to employees at Gordon’s, Gil Furnald gets nothing but raves as Santa.Denny Crane: Oh, come on. Would you sit in his lap?Alan Shore: Why does everybody keep asking me that?Brad Chase: Tough break drawing Judge Hingham. Who’d ever imagine that?Alan Shore: Brad? Did you have something to do with my drawing Judge Hingham?Brad Chase: That would be dirty pool.Mary Stevens’ HomeBrian Stevens (TV): I actually want to feel the life going out of her. I mean, with my hands. I want to feel her body go limp. Also, I want her to experience it. I want her to know that she’s dying. And I don’t want it to be instant. I want her to actually have the thought, “My God. He’s killing me.” And I want to see her eyes as I do it.Mary Stevens: What’s happened to him?Dr. Konigsberg: Let me reiterate. He’s talked like this before without ever going through with it, obviously. Many people fantasize.Mary Stevens: For him to even speak this way . . . This is not Brian. He is a docile person.Dr. Konigsberg: I realize that. This might also simply be talk. Safe talk that allows him to feel strong. Sometimes, the weaker the person’s constitution . . .Mary Stevens: Is he going to kill me?Dr. Konigsberg: Mary, I’m here because I don’t know. I really don’t think so. But you are the one person that knows him better than I do.Mary Stevens: I’ve never heard him talk like this, ever. Did you tell the police?Lori Colson: Uh, it’s tricky, Mrs. Stevens. This is doctor-patient privilege stuff. We shouldn’t even be telling you this.Mary Stevens: He plans to kill me, for God’s sake!Lori Colson: Which is why we are telling you, on the possibility that these threats are . . .Mary Stevens: I’m calling the police.Lori Colson: I’m not sure that they could do anything at this point. I mean, they certainly can’t arrest him for things he told a therapist in confidence. What I would suggest: Let Dr. Konigsberg continue to monitor he situation. He’s seeing your ex-husband every day. If things progress further, we will call the police. In the meantime, maybe you could stay with a friend.Mary Stevens: I have animals. I can’t do . . .Lori Colson: Or get a friend to stay with you.CourtroomGil Furnald: I’ve been sitting in that chair as Santa for eight years, and I’ve been an exemplary Santa. People will tell you, even if they don’t shop at Gordon’s, they come to see me.Alan Shore: For how many of those eight years have you been dressing as a woman?Gil Furnald: All of them.Alan Shore: And in all this time, had your cross-dressing ever been an issue at work?Gil Furnald: No. I was always in the Santa costume. People never even knew. It was always my intention to keep my worlds separate. So, it’s been my secret.Alan Shore: But your secret got out.Gil Furnald: Last week, I had a boy in my lap—eight years old. I asked him what he wanted for Christmas. He said, “Santa, please make me normal.” He was starting to cry as he said it.Alan Shore: He said, “Make me normal”?Gil Furnald: Yes. He said, um—He said he was sick. He said that he liked to wear girls’ clothes, and he was sure he’d go to hell. And I said, “Son, you’re not alone, and you’re not sick.” And I told him about me.Alan Shore: Thank you, sir.Atty. Phillips: So, while on the job, you told an eight-year-old boy that Santa is a cross-dresser?Gil Furnald: Yes.Hallway of Crane Poole & SchmidtTara Wilson: Did the judge rule?Alan Shore: No. Miraculously, I persuaded him to let me give a final statement, though I have no idea what to say. The fact that he told a child he’s a cross-dresser . . . I never should have put him on the stand. I’ve got to somehow make this a gay issue.Tara Wilson: Personally, I think you’ll look very sexy in the elf outfit.Alan Shore: I have no doubt. Yet, I don’t want to lose. I’ve grown attached to this Santa.Denny Crane: Brad seems pretty happy. Does he have reason?Alan Shore: Denny, you said if I ever had another Hail Mary emergency, you’d make the call.Denny Crane: Really. Are you sure?Alan Shore: I need you to make the call.Lori Colson: And what’s this about?Paul Lewiston: It’s extremely delicate. Though privilege typically extends to the whole firm, I have assured him that this would go no further than you and me.Lori Colson: Okay.Paul Lewiston’s OfficePaul Lewiston: Meet Brian Stevens. Brian, this is the attorney I . . .Brian Stevens and Lori Colson recognize each other.Paul Lewiston: What’s going on?Lori Colson: This is your client?Brian Stevens: You’re an attorney?Lori Colson: Um, yes.Brian Stevens: You said you were a doctor!Paul Lewiston: What the hell is going on?Lori Colson: Uh, Paul, we have a conflict. I represent the therapist who is treating Mr. Stevens.Brian Stevens: She’s the one who went to my ex-wife. She’s the one who told Mary I planned on killing her. She pretended to be a doctor.Reverend Al Sharpton’s Office Reception AreaAdministrative Assistant: He can see you for about five minutes. After that, his day is completely . . .Alan Shore: Five minutes is more than enough.Administrative Assistant: You can go in.Alan Shore: Thank you. enters Reverend Al Sharpton’s office Thank you so much for agreeing to see me. My name is Alan Shore, and . . .Reverend Al Sharpton:holds up an index finger, as he reads papers on his desk Go.Alan Shore: My name is Alan Shore. Perhaps you’ll remember . . .Reverend Al Sharpton:holds up an index finger again Everyone has a name, son. I’m not interested in yours. You have five minutes because you know him. gestures at pictures on the wall behind AlanAlan Shore:turns to look at a picture of Reverend Al Sharpton with Bill Clinton Bill Clinton?Reverend Al Sharpton gestures again at the wall. This time, Alan sees a picture of Reverend Al Sharpton with Denny CraneAlan Shore: Ah, well, you’ll remember at the behest of Mr. Crane, you made an appearance in one of my cases involving an African-American Little Orphan Annie. And you were extremely effective. “Give us a black Spiderman. Give us a black Superman who can leap tall buildings.” All the big icons. Now I have another case featuring a gay man who’s being discriminated against. And this one involves the biggest icon of them all—Santa Claus. My problem is the judge. His tiny brain has been calcified by intolerance. However, he’s certainly a slave to public opinion, as judges tend to be. But I can’t really move the public. You can. Do you understand what I’m asking?Reverend Al Sharpton: You want me to be your rabbit.Alan Shore: I want you to be Reverend Al Sharpton in all his massive glory. I want you to charge in there, say, “Give us a gay Santa Claus,” and button it with three “God Almighties!”Reverend Al Sharpton: Stop. I don’t do things big. I’m subtle.Alan Shore: Yes. Three “God Almighties.” Look, I’ve written it all out for you. Give that a look-see. I’ve seen you move mountains, Reverend. I need you to move this one tiny-brained judge. Please. Pretty please. Holds his right hand over his heart, as he gestures with the other hand at the picture of Reverend Al Sharpton with Denny Crane Denny Crane.Hallway at Crane Poole & SchmidtTara Wilson: You got to Sharpton?Alan Shore: I don’t know. He said he’d think about it.Tara Wilson: Does he just do this kind of thing now for lawyers?Alan Shore: He does it for Denny. Let’s hope he does it for me.Brad Chase: All set? You don’t want me to miss the ruling, do you? Got the costume. holds up a gym bag, bells jinglingPaul Lewiston’s OfficePaul Lewiston: My God. To impersonate a doctor.Lori Colson: I thought a human life was at stake, and I didn’t . . .Paul Lewiston: It doesn’t matter, Lori. You’re suddenly gonna start playing Solomon and break rules—sacred rules—whenever you see fit? I could be disbarred for this.Lori Colson: You? Why?Paul Lewiston: For not turning you in.Lori Colson:sigh I’m sorry, Paul. I just . . . I’m sorry.Paul Lewiston: I think it’s this Alan Shore character. Ever since he got here . . .Lori Colson: This has nothing to do with Alan Shore. I’m not influenced by him.Paul Lewiston: You used to be influenced by me.Lori Colson: Tell me what you want me to do. I’ll resign if you . . . Just tell me what you want.Paul Lewiston: First, I want you to apologize to Mr. Stevens.Lori Colson: I did that.Paul Lewiston: Well, you need to do it again. And hope to God he doesn’t sue us.Lori Colson: How long have you known this man, Paul?Paul Lewiston: Years. Only through work. But he doesn’t strike me as being capable of violence, if that’s what you’re asking. I’ll get him back in here. And on the chance that he could be violent, when you apologize, I will be in the room. And for the sake of humoring me, let’s stay completely away from Alan Shore. CourtroomBrad Chase: What’s all the media doing here?Tara Wilson: I have no idea.Bailiff: All rise.Alan Shore: Uh, oh.Gil Furnald: What?Alan Shore: We’re 10 minutes early. looks at the doorJudge Harry Hingham enters, noticing the mediaBailiff: Please be seated.Judge Harry Hingham: Mr. Phillips, have you got anything to say before I listen to him?Atty. Phillips: Mr. Furnald was fired mainly because my clients feared he’d share his secret proclivity with a child, which, by his own testimony, is exactly what he did.Alan Shore: I object to that summation; it was entirely too short.Judge Harry Hingham: What?Alan Shore: I’m only worried for you, your Honor. If you’re inclined to rule against us, he’s got to at least give you a good argument to hang your hat on, so it looks good to all this media. Did you notice the media here? Judge Harry Hingham: Are you on drugs? You’ve got 30 seconds.Alan Shore: That’s what I was afraid of. Your Honor, the child in question, whom my client shared his secret with—that child was in pain. Being a good Santa Claus, Gil Furnald sought to relieve that pain.Judge Harry Hingham: By telling him he was a ho-mo-sexual.Alan Shore: Those three little words again. checking the door again He did not tell the boy he was gay. He only said that he also liked to dress in female attire. And that, only after the child himself broached the subject.。

Boston LegalSeason One-1◆口语◆That would be dirty pool. 无非是旁门左道。

◆You are quite welcome. 你太客气了。

◆实用短语◆Cause sb to lapse into a coma 让某人崩溃昏迷◆Treacherous ground 是非之地◆法律用语◆Walk-in 没有预约◆Evidentiary hearing 听证会◆Five for direct, five for cross. 五分钟直接发问，五分钟交叉互问。

◆SpeechThe image of Santa Claus has been crafted for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. We are supposed to be in a different day. give the world a black Santa Claus. Let the people have an African American come down the chimney bearing joy and good will. (Gay, not black.) The prejudice against gay people must stop. We all say we’re for gay rights, we all say we accept homosexuality. But give a gay man a hug, sit in his lap. Let the bells of tolerance ring out this Christmas. Let people open their minds as they open their presents underneath the tree. We need your mind, judge, today. Let the gay man be my brother, be your brother, be the school teacher, be the construction worker. Give the world a gay Santa Claus, god almighty, god almighty, god almighty. Leave out the cookies and the milk this Christmas eve for a holly jolly homosexual, god almighty. (And cut.)圣诞老人的形象已经树立了有几百个年头。

Boston LegalHired GunsSeason 1, Episode 10Airdate: December 19, 2004Written by David E. Kelley© 2004 David E. Kelley Productions. All Rights ReservedTranscribed by Sheri for [version updated June 19, 2006]The Annual Crane Poole & Schmidt Christmas PartyCamera pans around the reception area to a man wearing a Santa hat picking up a drink from a bar set up in front of the signage; to Alan Shore, complete with a branch of mistletoe rigged to hang over his head, dancing with Tara Wilson; to Catherine Piper dancing with an older gentleman as:Denny Crane:singing with a 3-woman back-up group behind him “Bells will be ringing, their sad, sad blues. Oh, what a Christmas to have the blues! My baby’s gone. I have no friends, to wish me greetings once again. Choirs will be singing Silent Night. Christmas carols . . .” sees someone and leaves the group to finish without himTara Wilson: So, do I get my kiss or not?Alan Shore: Tara, the way mistletoe works is the one standing under it is the one to receive.Tara Wilson: Well, I prefer to meet in the middle.Alan Shore: Well, I do enjoy your middle tremendously, but a kiss really is more traditional. They both lean a bit toward each other Ah, the anticipation is pure . . . Sally.Sally Heep: Hi. The last thing I want to do is come between all that collagen, but, Alan, we have a little problem, and, like it or not, you’re probably the best man to fix it. Ah, this is Carmen Flores. She works in housekeeping here. Her ex-husband kidnapped her two children. This is the third Christmas he’s done so. He brings them to Peru, when it’s Carmen who has legal custody of them for the holidays.Tara Wilson: Can’t you just go to the judge?Sally Heep: She did that last year. And it cost her a fortune. The judge held him in contempt for a day. He said it’s worth it to spend Christmas with his kids in Peru. H—his flight leaves tomorrow night. I—I thought maybe you could think of something.Tara Wilson: Didn’t you used to be a lawyer, Sally? Oh, I apologize. There go my lips again. Must be all that collagen.Alan Shore: Ladies? Tips his head forward so the mistletoe hangs between them Perhaps you tow should kiss in the name of Christmas.Sally Heep:gasps as Lori Colson falls into herLori Colson: Oh, sorry, Sally. Incredible dress, by the way. Hate you. turns to Alan Shore Ah, Alan. Mistletoe. takes his face between both hands and kisses him hard. Mwah. smiles, then whispers Whatever.[credits]CourtroomCamera pans over rather graphic pictures of 2 gunshot murder victims—alive and dead.ADA John Shubert: She came home that evening at 9:30, catching an early flight to surprise her husband. But it was the defendant who was surprised. Susan May discovered her husband Ralph making love to a business associate, Marie Holcomb—and it was more than she could bear. The evidence will show that the defendant retrieved a handgun from the kitchen, returned to the bedroom and fired six shots—three into her husband, three into Marie Holcomb. This is the holiday season. You people should be home with your families right now. I apologize for that. Marie Holcomb’s mother and father fly here every December from the West Coast. This time, it’s to attend the trial of their daughter’s killer. Susan May destroyed a lot of happy plans with that gun.Brad Chase: Get in Christmas.Lori Colson: Sorry?Brad Chase: Christmas is ours and Susan’s. Don’t let him claim it.Lori Colson: I, too, would like to apologize for taking you away from your families during this holiday season. That’s Susan’s family seated over there. They would dearly love to be home with her. She would dearly love to be home with them. Imagine, if you can as you prepare for your Christmas, having a loved one murdered.Add to that the horror that the police can’t figure out who did it. And then, if you can possibly fathom, imagine they decide to arrest you. That’s your defendant, ladies and gentlemen. A law-abiding, loving, faithful advertising executive—an innocent woman whose whole life was just suddenly and wrongly destroyed. That’s your defendant, and that’s what the evidence will show.Alan Shore’s OfficeCarmen Flores: I—I did report police twice. They say domestic.Alan Shore: He returned the children both times after Christmas?Carmen Flores: Yes. This why police say it is for court to decide. No one involved.Suddenly, Denny Crane enters.Alan Shore: Ah, Denny. This is Carmen Flores. She works here in housekeeping.Denny Crane: Excellent. Why do I care?Alan Shore: Perhaps you don’t. First off, let me say how incredible you were last night. The whole office is stil . . . stunned.Denny Crane: Thank you.Alan Shore: Now, on a topic far removed from you, and therefore much less entertaining, though of some import to Carmen, her children have been snatched by her ex-husband. Who do you know at the Boston Police Department?Denny Crane: I know everybody.Alan Shore: You hear that, Carmen? The man knows everybody.Carmen Flores smiles rather dubiously.CourtroomDetective Wayne Farley: Her story didn’t check out. It’s as simple as that.ADA John Shubert: That story she gave you was?Detective Wayne Farley: She came home, found them dead in bed.ADA John Shubert: Was there evidence of anyone other than the victims or the defendant being in the house that night?Detective Wayne Farley: None.ADA John Shubert: And, Detective, describe for the jury if you can, the defendant’s demeanor when you arrived at the scene that night.Detective Wayne Farley: She seemed pretty shook up. There was blood all over her. She claimed she got the blood on her when she went to her husband’s side to see if she could revive him.ADA John Shubert: And you don’t believe that?Lori Colson: I’m sorry. It seems the detective is more than willing to give testimony against my client. You don’t really need to lead him.Judge Phillips Stevens: Sustained.ADA John Shubert: Did you believe the defendant’s claim?Detective Wayne Farley: No. It was determined that she was standing approximately 5 feet away when she fired the gun.Lori Colson: I’m sorry. I hate to be a nuisance. But did I miss the point where you said she fired the gun? Judge Phillip Stevens: Sustained.ADA John Shubert: Detective, what, if anything led you to believe that the defendant fired the gun?Detective Wayne Farley: We did a trace metal test, which revealed she held the gun and her fingerprints were on the gun.ADA John Shubert: Hm. Anything else?Detective Wayne Farley: We know her driver dropped her off at 9:30 pm. She called the police at 11:07. She told us she discovered the bodies soon after she entered the house. If so, why did she wait an hour and a half to call the police? As I said, her story just didn’t add up.Brad Chase: Seems from your tone, Detective, you consider this, ah, kind of a no-brainer.Detective Wayne Farley: We applied all our mental faculties just the same and concluded your client committed the crime.Brad Chase: Oh, you concluded pretty quickly, I might add. You placed her under arrest the next day. By the way, was the spatter analysis done in a day?Detective Wayne Farley: No. That came in later.Brad Chase: I see. So when you placed Susan May under arrest, you were going on . . .Detective Wayne Farley: Her fingerprints were on the gun, for starters.Brad Chase: It was her gun, was it not?Detective Wayne Farley: The fingerprints were fresh.Brad Chase: Got there, perhaps, when she picked the gun up after?Detective Wayne Farley: We also had motive, her evasive demeanor.Brad Chase: She called the police, did she not?Detective Wayne Farley: Yes, but she wasn’t truthful.Brad Chase: Wasn’t truthful when she said she didn’t shoot them?Detective Wayne Farley: That, and she obviously wasn’t truthful about calling the police immediately after finding the bodies.Brad Chase: You had her examined by a psychiatrist that night?Detective Wayne Farley: Yes.Brad Chase: The psychiatrist said she was in shock?Detective Wayne Farley: Yes.Brad Chase: Possible the shock of discovering her murdered husband caused the delay in calling the police? Detective Wayne Farley: I doubt that’s what happened.Brad Chase: This doubt is based on your psychiatric training.Detective Wayne Farley: It’s based on 30 years of experience as a homicide detective.Brad Chase: Thirty years as a homicide detective told you that the delay in calling the police could not have been caused by shock? picks up a large photograph mounted on a board Let’s turn back to the blood spatter evidence. This is the blouse my client was wearing that evening, is it not?Detective Wayne Farley: Yes.Brad Chase: Lot of blood. That’s all spattering?Detective Wayne Farley: Most of that blood came from handling the bodies.Brad Chase: So where’s the spatter you spoke of, Detective?Detective Wayne Farley: There are two elongated markings on the left shoulder.Brad Chase: Right here? These tiny marks here?Detective Wayne Farley: Yes.Brad Chase: She supposedly fired six shots. There’s only two tiny marks?Detective Wayne Farley: The other marks are likely covered up with the blood from when she handled the bodies.Brad Chase: Did you analyze these marks yourself, Detective?Detective Wayne Farley: I did.Brad Chase: Are you the person in the Boston Police Department who does this?Detective Wayne Farley: Well, there are others, obviously, but I started in the lab, so I’m trained as well. Brad Chase: Was there anyone else in the lab who analyzed this shirt?Detective Wayne Farley: Yes. We have a junior member . . .Brad Chase: Junior member? It’s a high-profile case. It went to a junior member?Detective Wayne Farley: As I said, I analyzed the clothes with my 30 years . . .Brad Chase: Thirty years in the lab?Detective Wayne Farley: No.Brad Chase: How many years in the lab?Detective Wayne Farley: Five.Brad Chase: How ‘bout the junior member? How many years did he have?Detective Wayne Farley: I’m not sureBrad Chase: More than five?Detective Wayne Farley: I believe so.Brad Chase: Just out of curiosity, what was his finding?Detective Wayne Farley: Inconclusive.Brad Chase: He could not determine that my client fired a gun?Detective Wayne Farley: Nor could he rule it out.Brad Chase: He could not determine that my client fired a gun.Detective Wayne Farley: Correct. But I determined she did.Brad Chase: You trace-metalled my client. Did you test for powder residue on her hand?Detective Wayne Farley: Yes. She tested negative.Brad Chase: Gee, how could that be?Detective Wayne Farley: We determined that she likely wore gloves when she fired the gun.Brad Chase: So she was careful to wear gloves when she shot them, then afterwards, she took the gloves off and handled the gun?Detective Wayne Farley: If she went into shock, as you say, she probably made a mistake. Murderers often do.Brad Chase: So for the purpose of explaining the delay in calling the police, you don’t buy shock. but to explain why she picked up the murder weapon barehanded after firing with gloves, you do buy shock; in fact, you seem to be selling it.ADA John Shubert: Objection.Brad Chase: Withdrawn. Did you find the gloves?Detective Wayne Farley: No.Brad Chase: You searched the entire house? I’m asking. I don’t want to presume.Detective Wayne Farley: We searched the house. We did not find the gloves.Brad Chase: Any evidence of her leaving the house after she came home that night?Detective Wayne Farley: No.Brad Chase: Any unsolved burglaries in this neighborhood in the last year?Detective Wayne Farley: A couple.Courthouse Conference RoomSusan May: That went well, right?Lori Colson: Mm, hmm. It went extremely well. The problem, Susan, as we’ve explained—the burden of proof is really on us.Susan May: I still don’t understand that, as much as you keep saying it.Lori Colson: When you have the scorned wife being the only one there, her fresh fingerprints on the gun . . . Brad Chase: Trust me. We’ll argue burglar. But with no sing of a break-in . . .Susan May: So my chances are the same.Lori Colson: No. We did very well with the witness today. Our chances just got a little bit better. But if we just . . . we stick to the plan. We’d like you to meet with Dr. Waylon one more time.Susan May: Why?Lori Colson: In case we need to call him, we want to be ready.Susan May: I’m not really comfortable being treated like some patient.Brad Chase: Susan, you put your life in our hands, did you not? You need to let us do what we do.Susan May: Can I ask you something? I’m not sure why I want to ask this now, but, do you believe me?Lori Colson: I don’t know. I certainly want to believe you, but when I look at the evidence . . .Susan May: I at least appreciate your candor.Lori Colson: The question the jury’s going to be asking: if not you, then who? And we’ve got no answer for that.CourtroomDr. Lee Chang: The fatal wounds for both victims were to the head. Death was instantaneous.ADA John Shubert: And, Doctor, were you able to determine the time of death?Dr. Lee Chang: Between 9:30 and 9:45 p.m.Lori Colson: Doctor, did you examine the stomach contents of the victims?Dr. Lee Chang: YesLori Colson: What did you find?Dr. Lee Chang: They were both relatively full.Lori Colson: After eating, how long does food stay in the stomach before emptying into the small intestine? Dr. Lee Chang: Generally, one to two hours.Lori Colson: So if the victims finished dining by 7:30 as reported those stomachs should have been empty. Unless they were killed before 9:30, correct?Dr. Lee Chang: Or unless they ate again after leaving the restaurant.Lori Colson: Were there any signs, to your knowledge, that they’d eaten at home? Dirty dishes? Recent garbage?Dr. Lee Chang: To my knowledge, there was no evidence of that.Lori Colson: Thank you.ADA John Shubert: But they could have stopped on their way home from the restaurant—had dessert or something?Dr. Lee Chang: Well, not a medical question, but yes, possible.Judge Phillip Stevens: You may step down, sir. Mr. Shubert?ADA John Shubert: The prosecution rests, your Honor.Judge Phillip Stevens: Miss Colson.Lori Colson:whispering to Brad Chase Let’s let them see some serious thinking going on. What’s your take on free agency?Brad Chase: It’s killing baseball.Lori Colson: Hockey?Brad Chase: No salary cap, no hockey.Lori Colson: SoccerBrad Chase: Nobody cares.Lori Colson:arises Your Honor, the defense calls Susan May.Conference Room at Crane Poole & SchmidtOfficer Davis: It’s just that we regard it more as a domestic custody dispute. Her recourse would be with probate.Alan Shore: Well, there’s where we’re wrong, Denny. I thought if you were to physically and unlawfully grab somebody and haul them off to a foreign country, it would be a crime.Denny Crane: Well, I’ll be damned.Alan Shore: So, we’re wrong then. By the way, does one need to be related to the victim to escape charges? There’s this Junior Mint I’ve had my eye on. I thought I might borrow her for a long weekend. Perhaps the Bahamas.Officer Michaels: As we understand it, the father always brings the kids back.Alan Shore: That’s what I’d do. Be a joyride.Denny Crane: We’re wasting time here, and you two look like good men. Department’s full of good men. That’s why Denny Crane and this firm invest so much money in your annual ball. So, you’ll arrest the husband because, A—Denny Crane wants you to, and B . . .Alan Shore: I play poker with some reporters, one in particular who’d be curious as to why ethnic child snatchings don’t get your attention. And, C . . .Denny Crane: The children were kidnapped. And D . . .Alan Shore: You’re officially on notice.Officers Davis and Michaels exit.Alan Shore: You’re good when you get testy.Denny Crane: Came easy today. My balls hurt.Alan Shore: Let’s have that be the one and only time you tell me that.CourtroomSusan May: I was hurrying home because, well, I had been away for about a week and I was excited to see him.Lori Colson: And when you got home?Susan May: I pulled into the garage, went into the kitchen, called out his name. His car was there, so I was sure he was home. It was only about 9:30. I couldn’t imagine him being in bed. But . . . he was.Lori Colson: And not alone.Susan May: No.Lori Colson: What happened, Susan?Susan May: I started upstairs. I called out his name again. Still no response. Then I went to the bedroom, looked in, a—and I saw it.Lori Colson: Saw what?Susan May: At first, just blood. And then I saw one body, and then another.Lori Colson: What did you do?Susan May: I first screamed. I—I looked at my husband and . . . his eyes were open, and there was a hole in his temple. And I—I went to him to see if he was still breathing.Lori Colson: Was he?Susan May: No.Lori Colson: What happened next?Susan May: I don’t know.Lori Colson: You don’t know?Susan May:sighs I remember talking to the police at some point. I remember—I—them taking Ralph away. But . . .Lori Colson: Do you remember calling the police?Susan May: No.Lori Colson: Do you remember touching the gun?Susan May: No.Lori Colson: Seeing the gun?Susan May: No.Lori Colson nods, returns to the defense table.ADA John Shubert: That’s a really convenient memory loss, don’t you think? You recall not doing it, finding the bodies dead. But as for your fingerprints on the murder weapon, why you gave the police false information after, delaying in calling the police . . . Gee . . . just can’t remember.Lori Colson: Objection.ADA John Shubert: What a perfect way to tell your story without really being subject to cross-examination. Was this amnesia your idea, or was it your attorneys’?Lori Colson & Brad Chase:arising; in unison Objection.Judge Phillip Stevens: Sustained.ADA John Shubert: Nothing further.Judge Phillip Stevens: The witness may step down.Brad: The defense calls Dr. Herbert Waylon.ADA John Shubert: Approach?Judge Phillip Stevens motions for all attorneys to approach the bench, which they do.ADA John Shubert: This witness is not on their list.Brad Chase: He’s on the rebuttal list.ADA John Shubert: What’s he being called to rebut?Brad Chase: You just accused my client of faking her memory loss.Judge Phillip Stevens: Short leash, counsel. Step back.Lori Colson: Dr. Herbert Waylon. quietly to Brad Chase Come here. Just get up and down.Brad Chase: Sorry?Lori Colson: You don’t need to ask the $64,000 Question.Brad Chase: Because?Lori Colson: He will; and then he can’t object to it.CourtroomDr. Herbert Waylon: It’s basically a form of post-traumatic amnesia. She saw her husband murdered, and it triggered a blackout.Brad Chase: She blacked out for an hour.Dr. Herbert Waylon: In terms of memory. She wasn’t unconscious. She could’ve been sitting in a catatonic state. She possibly even watched television.Brad Chase: The prosecution thinks that her memory loss was . . . convenient.Dr. Herbert Waylon: Well, I personally examined this woman the day after the murders. She was suffering from dissociative amnesia then, as I believe she is now.Brad Chase: Thank you, Doctor. He’s your witness. walks to the defense table as ADA John Shubert arises to question the witness I hope you’re right.ADA John Shubert: You can’t state to a medical certainty that the defendant suffered from post-traumatic amnesia, can you?Dr. Herbert Waylon: To a medical certainty, no.ADA John Shubert: And you can’t medically rule out the possibility that the defendant pulled the trigger that night, can you, Doctor?Lori Colson: Bingo.Dr. Herbert Waylon: No, I cannot rule it out. In fact, while I happen to believe her version of the events, I make room for a completely different scenario.ADA John Shubert: Which is?Dr. Herbert Waylon: Well, it’s possible she looked into this bedroom, saw her husband making love to another woman, and that threw her into a dissociative state. And in that state, she shot them.ADA John Shubert: I’m sorry, are . . . you’re now saying maybe she killed them?Dr. Herbert Waylon: Well, I believe she found them dead as she says. But it’s possible that she saw them making love, went into a dissociative state—something we refer to medically as automatism—and in that state, she may have killed them. Then her brain creates a false memory of something less horrifying to her.ADA John Shubert: I have nothing further.Brad Chase: Her brain created a false memory?Dr. Herbert Waylon: Yes. Sometimes, if a person’s actions are repugnant to them, they can actually create a false version that is more psychologically acceptable.Brad Chase: And they believe this as the truth?Dr. Herbert Waylon: Absolutely.Brad Chase: So it’s possible that she committed the murders?Dr. Herbert Waylon: No. Murder suggests an intent she would’ve been incapable of. If she did this—and I’m not saying that she did—she would’ve likely lost all conscious control. She would’ve acted outside herself. And as a defense, her brain would have manufactured this other memory, that she walked in and found them already dead.ADA John Shubert: Your Honor. Chambers.Judge Phillip Stevens’ ChambersADA John Shubert: They just . . . they just backdoored insanity. That’s an affirmative defense. They did not plead it.Brad Chase: We’re not arguing it.ADA John Shubert: The witness just testified she lost all conscious control.Brad Chase: That witness was simply called to rehabilitate. You’re the one who impeached my client’s truthfulness. You said she was feigning her memory loss.ADA John Shubert: You went beyond my cross. Your Honor, this is a ploy. They’re trying to sneak in alternative defenses. A—She didn’t do it. And B—if she did do it, she was insane.Judge Phillip Stevens:pointing to Brad Chase with a pencil Did you coach the witness to get in insanity? Brad Chase: I called a witness to rehabilitate, to support her claim of memory loss.Judge Phillip Stevens: Knowing full well he believed the possibility that she committed the murders while in a dissociative state.Brad Chase: I did not elicit that testimony; he did.Lori Colson: Your Honor, if we wanted to argue insanity, we simply could have pled it.Judge Phillip Stevens: Except you don’t want to argue it, counsel. You want to argue not guilty and have insanity as a fallback. Two defenses for the price of one.Lori Colson: I’m sure you’ll properly instruct against insanity.Judge Phillip Stevens: Yes. And I’m sure the jury will listen.ADA John Shubert: I move for an immediate mistrial.Judge Phillip Stevens: Mr. Shubert, you opened the door on all this with your cross.ADA John Shubert: Which was their plan.Judge Phillip Stevens: Maybe so. But you did the damage. I’ll give you time to call your own experts, but the case goes on. Mr. Chase, Miss Colson. I keep scorecards of all the lawyers who appear before me.Alan Shore’s OfficeTara Wilson: Now you’re being desperate.Alan Shore:standing under a very large swag of mistletoe hanging from the ceiling next to the desk Too much?Tara Wilson: Just a bit. I never figured you to place quite such a premium on a kiss.Alan Shore: A kiss is the promise of what’s to come, Tara. A kiss is . . . deep breath in . . . the Christmas Eve of sex.Tara Wilson:leaning close enough to tease but too far for the pay-off I actually favor the Christmas Eve . . . circling to stand behind him and whisper in his ear . . . Christmas Eve.Alan Shore: I’m sorry?Tara Wilson:continuing the circle back to face him It’s not the part where the lips actually touch; it’s the part just before that . . . when they’re so close. When you know it’s about to happen. You can almost feel it, taste it—I like that bit to last forever. Don’t you just love to make it last forever? her lips barely touch his Alan Shore: No. about ready to consummate this kiss when:Nora Jacobs: Mr. Shore? I’m sorry. There’s a man here. I’m sorry.She has significantly spoiled the mood for Alan Shore and Tara Wilson.Nora Jacobs: He says he’s delivering gifts for you and Mr. Crane. And he says it’s urgent. Mr. Crane is out of the office.Alan Shore: Gifts?Nora Jacobs: Mmm, hmm.Alan Shore escorts Nora Jacobs out the door and into:Reception Area of Crane Poole & SchmidtAlan Shore: May I help you?Julio Flores:carrying gifts Are you Alan Shore?Alan Shore: Not if you’re a process server.Julio Flores drops the presents and pulls out a gun, which he holds on Alan Shore. Everyone gasps. Julio Flores: Shut up! You shut up! Somebody shut down the elevators! If I hear them go ding, I’m gonna shoot this man in the head!Alan Shore: Sir, I must tell you the last time somebody pointed a gun at me, they shot me, and it hurt—terribly. Julio Flores: You think this is a joke? You got me arrested! You got my kids taken away! My kids are all I’ve got.Alan Shore: Well, it seems you have a gun. Perhaps if you trade the gun . . .Julio Flores shoots up at the ceiling, and everyone screams.Alan Shore: All right. This is between you and me. You have a hostage. raises his voice Everybody else, pick a door and get behind it now. Let’s clear the floor.Julio Flores: Kill the elevators! Kill the phones!Alan Shore: Everybody go into an office. Close the door. Now.Man: Let’s do what he says.Woman #1: Come on. Hurry.Tara Wilson lags, looks very concerned about leaving Alan Shore with Flores.Woman #2: Come on. Come on!Alan Shore: Okay, Mr. Flores, let’s talk.Same scene continued, after commercial break.Julio Flores: Christmas is family. I go to Peru to be with family. My kids are part of that.Alan Shore: I understand, sir. It’s not what the “No Child Left Behind Act” had in mind . . .Julio Flores: I’m going to kill you.Alan Shore: I’d prefer you didn’t.Denny Crane’s OfficeTara Wilson:talking on her cell phone His name is Julio. We believe his last name is Flores. pause Yes, he’s already fired a round, so the gun is clearly loaded.Sally Heep: talking on cell phone in background Fourteenth floor. That’s right. Thank you.Tara Wilson: Yes, you can call me. (617) 555-0197.Alan Shore: You’re here because of your children. So, I’ll ask you to think about your children. If you go to prison, they lose their father.Julio Flores: With an arrest, I’m going to lose all custody. They already lost their father.CourtroomBrad Chase: The first forensic specialist to analyze the blood spatter pattern, said they were inconclusive. This is a police expert, by the way. He said the spatters could not prove that she fired a gun.Street Outside of the Crane Poole & Schmidt BuildingA large Boston Police Dept. van pulls up to the curb, sirens wailing.Brad Chase (VO): He’s asking you to believe . . .Reception Area of Crane Poole & SchmidtClose-up of Julio Flores’ gunBrad Chase (VO): . . . that she wore gloves to commit the crime to explain the lack of powder residue on her hands.CourtroomBrad Chase: Then she took the gloves off to handle the murder weapon.Street Outside of the Crane Poole & Schmidt BuildingThe back door of the van slides up, and SWAT squad members file out of the van.Brad Chase (VO): Is it possible there was a burglar?CourtroomBrad Chase: The prosecution certainly can’t eliminate the idea. And, yes, it’s possible that Susan May, seeing her husband making love with another woman, went into a dissociative state, acted outside of her conscious control.Street Outside of the Crane Poole & Schmidt BuildingThe SWAT Team enters the building, guns at ready, and go up the stairs, ready to capture the gunman. Brad Chase (VO): But it doesn’t really matter whether she pulled that trigger or not . . .Reception Area of Crane Poole & SchmidtClose-up of Julio Flores’ gun, and the faces of Julio Flores and Alan Shore.Back Stairwell of the Crane Poole & Schmidt BuildingThe SWAT Team, guns at ready, continue up the stairs.Brad Chase (VO): Because she formed no legal mental intent to do so . . .CourtroomBrad Chase: . . . which is an element of the crime.Back Stairwell of the Crane Poole & Schmidt BuildingThe SWAT Team, guns at ready, continues up the stairs.Brad Chase (VO): Reasonable doubt as to whether or not she did it.Reception Area of Crane Poole & SchmidtAlan Shore is checking his watch, looking very anxious, with the gun trained on him.Brad Chase (VO): No evidence of intent, even if she did.CourtroomBrad Chase: All leads to the same verdict. Not guilty.Reception Area of Crane Poole & SchmidtAlan Shore: It’s been almost 30 minutes sirens wailing in the background You have to know the building is surrounded by now. The police are probably on every floor.Julio Flores: I don’t care. My life has ended anyway.CourtroomADA John Shubert: No evidence of anyone else being there but the defendant. Time of death: 9:45—fifteen minutes after she arrived home. And as to why the defendant waited a full hour and a half before calling the police . . . Oh, yes! The dissociative state. That’s handy.Reception Area of Crane Poole & SchmidtAlan Shore: However upset you may be, sir, you must realize that what you are doing is insane.。

Boston LegalHelping HandsSeason 2, Episode 12Written by David E. Kelly2005 David E. Kelley Productions. All Rights Reserved.Broadcast: January 17, 2006Transcribed by Imamess of JSMP for Paul Lewiston, Shirley Schmidt and Brad Chase are in Paul’s office at Crane, Poole and Schmidt.Paul Lewiston: Shirley. I am not going through this again!Brad Chase: Could someone catch me up here?Shirley Schmidt: Denny got engaged.Brad Chase: Mazeltov?Paul Lewiston: No Mazeltov.Brad Chase: Well, who is it this time?Paul Lewiston: Beverly Bridge.Shirley Schmidt: The women Denny ‘Craned’ in the coat room at that charity dinner last week.Paul Lewiston: If this Bev turns out to be another Angie. Oh god.Brad Chase: Angie?Paul Lewiston: Number four.Shirley Schmidt: Wife number five was no picnic either.Paul Lewiston: Clovis.Shirley Schmidt: She almost got him to retire, pull his equity out of the firm and move to Boca.Paul Lewiston: Clovis nearly sunk us.Shirley Schmidt: Half the staff quit.Paul Lewiston: And she was drunk the day President Ford stopped by. Alright, I’ll pull out Denny’s last prenup. See if I can water seal it. Shirley. You talk to the woman, get her story. Brad. Check the partnership agreement. We have to make sure there are no loopholes in the mandatory buyout in case of partner’s death or incapacity.Brad Chase: One thing.Shirley Schmidt: What?Brad Chase: Is there any remote possibility we could be over reacting here?In Denny office music starts playing. Denny and Bev each have a microphone in their hands. They start singing karaoke.Denny Crane and Beverly Bridges: I’ve had the time of my life. I’ve never felt this way before. Brad, Shirley and Paul peek around the corner. Yes, I swear, it’s the truth. And I owe it all the you ‘cause I had the time of my life.Brad Chase: I’ll get the partnership agreement.Denny Crane and Beverly Bridges: I’ve never felt this way before. And I owe it all to you. You, you, you, you, you.In Judge Judge Gordon Kolodny’s courtroom.Clerk: Docket number two four nine six three five. Commonwealth versus Jerald Epsenson. Attempted murder, assault, assault with a deadly weapon, battery, sexual battery, false imprisonment, torture, terrorist threats.Alan Shore: Alan Shore for the preposterously charged Mr Espenson.A.D.A Frank Gingsberg: Frank Ginsgerg for the Commonwealth.Judge Gordon Kolodny: How do you plead?Alan Shore: Not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.Judge Gordon Kolodny: As to bail?Alan Shore: We ask that Mr Espenson be released on his own recognizance.A.D.A Frank Gingsberg: Commonwealth opposes bail.Alan Shore: You can’t be serious! Your Honor! This incident was an aberration. Mr Espenson is an upstanding member of his community, is not a danger to society, and he has a family counting on him at home. Frank Ginsberg steps back to whisper to Shirley.Judge Gordon Kolodny: He has dependants?Alan Shore: Her name is Linda.A.D.A Frank Gingsberg: Your Honor. Let the record show that his dependent is a gecko Mr Espenson threatened to kill his boss in her place of business and has a history of violence. He could be a flight risk.Alan Shore: Flight risk? The man can’t even hail a cab! He turns to Jerry. Sorry.A.D.A Frank Gingsberg: It is incumbent on the Commonwealth to protect at large if, God forbid, he’s released and hurts someone else.Judge Gordon Kolodny: Bail is denied. Defendant shall be remanded into custody immediately.Jerry Espenson: Mealworms are in the fridge. I need to feed Linda. I need to get home.Alan Shore: Jerry, I’ll feed Linda.Alan and Shirley are walking in the corridor at Crane, Poole and Schmidt.Alan Shore: Sexual battery, torture, terrorist threats? That isn’t justice, disproportionate retribution. And good for you, you’ve enlisted the one prosecutor who’s running for D.A. next year. Tell me. How big was your campaign contribution? And is there a matching fund here at the firm we can all go in on?Shirley Schmidt: It was sizeable and speak to Kim in accounting.Alan Shore: Jerry Espenson never intended…Shirley Schmidt: Do not start defending him to me, Alan.Alan Shore: I agreed to defend him. That’s why he put down the knife.Shirley Schmidt: No you agree to represent him. No one here meant for you to defend him.Alan Shore: Shirley. No one is denying what this man has done to you. But he should at least get a fair trial.Shirley Schmidt: Oh by all means, let’s get a fair trial for the man who tried to slit my throat.Alan Shore: Lets!Shirley Schmidt: Understand that everyone at the firm is considered a witness. Don’t expect anyone to help you. Or speak to you.Alan Shore: And won’t that make for a refreshing change? He walks away.Paul Lewiston:He comes up. Shirley? Have you talked to Denny’s fiancé yet?Shirley Schmidt: I’ve been a little busy, Paul.Paul Lewiston: I’m working on the prenup. But we need you to find out her intensions.Shirley Schmidt: You’re the one with the kind eyes. I don’t do girl talk.Paul Lewiston: Do I have to remind you how serious this situation is? If Denny becomes incapacitated… or should I say I say further incapacitated, this woman could become his Nancy Regan. She’d have his power of attorney. She could bring down the firm.Shirley Schmidt: I’ll talk to her.Denise Bauer is in her office at Crane, Poole and Schmidt packing her briefcase. Daniel Post knocks on the door jamb.Denise Bauer: Daniel?Daniel Post: Came to take you to lunch.Denise Bauer: I can’t. I have a case.Daniel Post: What is it?Denise Bauer: A high school teacher is seeking a temporary restraining order against one of her student’s parents. They’re hounding the woman day and night about the daughter’s grades.Daniel Post: Helicopter parents.Denise Bauer: Helicopter parents?Daniel Post: Well, that’s what they call ‘em now. Yeah, parents who hover around their kids, trying to control every aspect of their lives.Denise Bauer: Oh, that would be the Gerings.Daniel Post: Oh. Cool. I’m in.Denise Bauer: What?Daniel Post: I wanna second chair. I mean, why not? I got my law degree. I keep up my MCLE’s.Denise Bauer: Have you ever actually tried a case?Daniel Post: No, but I’ve always wanted to. I mean think of it as the Make a Wish Foundation granting a dying kid his fantasy. Denise gives him a look. If that kid were a rich guy in his forties. Besides I could probably help you. I’m on the board of Lexington School. My kids used to go there. We deal with helicopter parents all the time.Denise Bauer: Well, that could be helpful. I would have to get the client’s approval though.Daniel Post: I can get that.Denise Bauer: I would have to get one of the partners to agree.Daniel Post: Looks like a partner right there. He walks up to Denny. Daniel Post.Denny Crane: Denny Crane.Daniel Post: I’m a client.Denny Crane: I’m a partner.Daniel Post: CEO Christberg and Phelem.Denny Crane: My name is on the door.Daniel Post: I love the offices.Denny Crane: Thank you. I love your hair.Daniel Post: I got a plane.Denny Crane: Indeed?Daniel Post: Could use a little more color though.Denny Crane: I’ll make a note. My fiancé sells office furniture.Daniel Post: Congratulations. I’d love to meet her.Denny Crane: My club. Thursday. They serve reubensDaniel Post: I’ll take you flying. Oh, by the way, I’d like to try a case with Ms Bauer over here?Denny Crane: Why not? See you Thursday.Daniel Post: Thursday. Denise is amazed. That’s what I do. I make connections. That’s how we met! Remember? Shirley walks down the corridor at Crane, Poole and Schmidt. She walks into Alan’s office. He’s there with Jerry. And Linda.Alan Shore: Shirley, I believe you know my client.Shirley Schmidt: Why isn’t this man in jail?Alan Shore: He has an excellent attorney. Who filed an emergency writ with Court of Appeals and the Judge agreed that denial of bail was an abuse of discretion. I’m surprised your lackey at the D.A.’s office didn’t keep you abreast of this. Perhaps you didn’t tip him enough.Shirley Schmidt: He’s not to be in this building. I’ll get a restraining order if I have to.She leaves.Jerry Espenson: She hates me.Alan Shore: Tempers seem frayed all around. That’s why I’m filing for a continuance. We’ll everyone cool down a bit then try again for a plea bargain.Jerry Espenson: No! Plea bargain’s out of the question. It’s not guilty or nothing.Alan Shore: But you are guilty Jerry. A whole office full of people saw you do it. One of the junior associates took a video of you on his cell phone. He’s thinking of entering it in a film festival.Jerry Espenson: No plea bargain!Alan Shore: Proving temporary insanity is a daunting task, you know that. A plea bargain is our best chance to keep you out of jail.Jerry Espenson: If I plea bargain I’ll be disbarred. Alan, my whole life is the law. It’s all I have. It’s what I love. You can’t let them take that away from me.Alan Shore: Then we go to trial.Garrett and Alan are in Alan’s office at Crane, Poole and Schmidt.Alan Shore: Look up any case law, any articles, new reports, anything that supports the theory that stress in the work place can lead to an individual losing control of themselves. Especially in the form of a voilent outburst.Garrett Wells: Got it. He starts to leave and meets Shirley coming in. He quickly hides the clipboard he’s holding.Shirley Schmidt: Hello, Garrett. You’re not helping Mr Shore on the Espenson case because you’re a witness. I’m sure you’re aware that would be a conflict of interest?Garrett Wells: I was just getting him coffee.Shirley Schmidt: Yeah. Well, you can’t do that either. I’ll take it decaf though. Thanks.Garrett Wells: Thank you. He leaves.Alan Shore: Shirley, I know we’re fighting, but there’s no reason to take it out on the children.Shirley Schmidt: Alan. This looks like it could be tough on you. Especially since you don’t have an assistant anymore. Shirley leaves and Melissa comes in carrying a box.Alan Shore: Shirley fired you?Melissa Hughes: Worse. I got transferred to human resources where all the people persons are.Alan Shore: She’s building a Chinese Wall.Melissa Hughes: What’s that?Alan Shore: It’s a legal concept. It keeps anyone in the firm who may be involved in this case from talking to me about it.Melissa Hughes: Well then you’ve got a big-ass wall around you.Alan Shore: Shirley’s just trying to rattle my cage. It’s only a temporary transfer.Melissa Hughes: So you won’t be mad if I ignore you in the hall and just look at your shoes. I need my job.Alan Shore: I’ll try to wear nice shoes.In Judge Peggy Zeder’s courtroom. Traci Carpenter is being questioned by Denise.Traci Carpenter: They call me at night, on the weekends they email, text message my cell phone, they drop by for parent-teacher conferences, they challenge every grade, every assignment. The last straw was when my sister was delivering her baby and I was her coach. They called on my cell phone and when I said that Cathy was starting to crown they asked when she’d be finished so we could discuss Rachel’s paper on The Red Pony. It used to be that teachers spent eighty percent of the time with the students and now we spent eighty percent of the time with the parents and it’s hurting the kids.Denise Bauer: Thank you. She walks back to the table.Daniel Post: Ahem, hem, hem, hem.Denise Bauer: Excuse me Your Honor, just one moment.Daniel Post:In a whisper to Denise. The Judge doesn’t like her.Denise Bauer: She doesn’t like me!Daniel Post: You know who women do find charming? Me.Judge Peggy Zeder: Ms Bauer?Daniel Post: Let me ask a question. Just see how it goes.Denise Bauer: I don’t know about that.Judge Peggy Zeder: Ms Bauer?!Daniel Post: Ms Carpenter. Ah, would you say it’s true that Rachel Gering is a good student?Attorney John Hoberg: Objection! Leading the witness.Daniel Post: Right. Sorry, I knew that. Sorry. Sorry. What kind of grades does Rachel get?Traci Carpenter: She has between a B-plus and an A-minus average.Daniel Post: And has the Gering’s attention done anything to change that grade?Traci Carpenter: Not at all.Daniel Post: One more question. Have the Gerings contacted any other teachers?Traci Carpenter: All the other teachers. The one they hounded the most was Mr Chihee, the math teacher.Daniel Post: How did he react?Traci Carpenter: He quit. He couldn’t take it anymore so he took early retirement. I’m still twenty years away from that.I was so excited to become a teacher. No one told me it would be this way.Daniel Post: Nothing further, Your Honor. Unless, ah, you can think of anything?Judge Peggy Zeder: Ha.Beverly and Shirley are having drinks in a bar.Beverly Bridge: I know what you want Shirley. And yes, Denny does still talk about you. He remembers his experiences with you so fondly. Did you know that he has a position called, ‘The Schmidt’?Shirley Schmidt: Would that be the one where I read a magazine while he lies passed out on the floor?Beverly Bridge: That’s not what I heard.Shirley Schmidt: Look Bev, I’m a busy woman so I’ll just get to the point. Who are you and what are you up to? Beverly Bridge: Oh. We’re going to have that conversation.Shirley Schmidt: We are.Beverly Bridge: So, you think I’m screwing Denny for his money and power?Shirley Schmidt: It had occurred to me.Beverly Bridge: Well, good news! I am. I find money and power just so appetizing. And why did you screw him? Shirley Schmidt: I lost a bet.Beverly Bridge: Shirley. You know, I, I thought you were enlightened. But it turns out that you’re the worst kind of female there is. Either you condemn a woman as a whore because she enjoys sex…Shirley Schmidt: I didn’t say...Beverly Bridge: … or you assume that she’s a manipulative gold-digger.Shirley Schmidt: Ha, ha. Oh, Bev. You know, I’ve completely misread you. Here I had you pegged as some kind of predatory shark. Ha. I came here today with the intension of telling you that if you ever do anything to hurt my friend, Denny, or this firm I will see to it that you are hunted down legally and literally until you are penniless and left to troll airport bars looking for alcoholic pilots nearing retirement age. But I can see I don’t need to do that.Beverly Bridge: You know it’s really hard to believe that you’re the one that came up with, ‘The Schmidt’. She leaves. Male patron:He moves next to Shirely. So, ah. What is ‘The Schmidt’?Denny is in his office at Crane, Poole and Schmidt dancing alone to fast-paced Latin music. Alan comes up and knocks on the door jamb.Alan Shore: May I cut in?Denny Crane: I’m practicing for my wedding. Come and join me.Alan Shore: Why not?Denny Crane: No, no. No, no. It’s not on the one. It's not a mambo. It's a feeling, like a heartbeat. Kachunk, kachunk, kachunk.Alan Shore: Shut up and dance, mister. Denny twirls Alan. This case Shirley is pursuing against Jerry.Denny Crane: I’m not allowed to talk about it. Vietnamese Wall.Alan Shore: Chinese Wall. She’s pressuring the D.A.’s office, she’s cut off all my resources here which is fine, it’s just getting a little crowded around the hotel room with the two paralegals I’ve hired from Harvard always underfoot.Denny Crane: I can’t hear you over the wall. Hey! You’re a natural.Alan Shore: Anything Denny Crane can do I can do backwards and wearing high heels.Denny Crane: The feeling I get around here is that people aren’t that high on Bev.Alan Shore: Haven’t noticed.Denny Crane: Well I don’t care if nobody else likes her. It’s important to me what you think of her.Alan Shore: I imagine I’ll like her.Denny Crane: No Alan, I need a guarantee. And I’m not talking about getting to know her and forming your own opinion. I need you to like her!Alan Shore: Denny? Just knowing you care for her makes me happy enough.Denny Crane:He toyes with Alan’s fingers. I’m feeling a tension. You can’t have a very strong case.Alan Shore: Jerry Espenson was determined to make partner. He didn’t and that’s what made him snap.Denny Crane: Well, what’s so special about that? All the associates wanna make partner. It’s the carrot we dangle in front of ‘em to keep them working.Alan Shore:He waltzes out of Denny’s arms. Excuse me, Denny. He picks up the phone. Melissa I need your help.I need access to some personal files.Denny Crane:He sticks his fingers in his ears. Vietnamese Wall!!In Judge Peggy Zeder’s courtroom. Attorney John Hoberg is questioning Gigi Gering.Attorney John Hoberg: Are you concerned about Rachel’s college prospects?Gigi Gering: Yes. Even the State schools have taken to admitting only the best of the best.Attorney John Hoberg: Are you saying Ms Carpenter isn’t qualified to prepare your daughter?Gigi Gering: No.But we would be remiss if we didn’t stay so involved. Our most important job is to prepare Rachel for her future.Attorney John Hoberg: Nothing further.Denise Bauer: Ms Gering? Are you saying that Ms Carpenter is a bad teacher?Gigi Gering: No. I didn’t say that.Denise Bauer: How would you rate her, B-minus? C-plus? What?Gigi Gering: I don’t think I could really…Denise Bauer: Because she has won a teaching award. So, maybe if you’re not giving her a good enough grade it’s your problem, not hers? Is that possible?Gigi Gering: I never said…Denise Bauer: We know that you’re involved with a lot of other teachers.Daniel Post: We just don’t want our teacher to get lost in the shuffle.Denise Bauer: And maybe you were having a bad day when you evaluated her.Attorney John Hoberg: Objection!Daniel Post: I don’t think you see her potential.Denise Bauer: We know that we don’t see how hard she works.Daniel Post: She works so hard. The other teachers are playing, Traci’s inside…Attorney John Hoberg: Your Honor?Judge Peggy Zeder: Ms Bauer!Attorney John Hoberg: Objection! They’re badgering the witness!Denise Bauer: Of course we’re badgering the witness!Daniel Post: Did you just figure that out?Judge Peggy Zeder: Objection sustained.Denise Bauer: Thank you, Your Honor for sustaining the objection to the badgering of this woman. That’s what this whole trial is about. Let’s stop the badgering.Daniel Post: Nobody should be able to do that sort of thing to anybody. Unless they themselves are actually a badger. In Judge Gordon Kolondy’s courtroom. A.D.A. Frank Ginsberg is questioning Shirley.A.D.A. Frank Ginsberg: In your opinion did Mr Espenson seem insane to you?Shirley Schmidt: No. He seemed to know exactly what he was doing. He even negotiated for the services of Mr Shore as his attorney. He only agreed to spare my life on that condition.A.D.A. Frank Ginsberg: Thank you. Nothing further.Alan Shore: Ugh. Ms Schmidt. He walks up to adjust her microphone. I’m sorry it’s just these damn microphones….I don’t if you were able to hear her clearly. I heard some of it and it sounded great. He taps the mic. Testing! One, two three. Testing! Maybe if you sit a little closer.Judge Gordon Kolondy: Mr Shore. We can all hear the witness just fine.Alan Shore: You can? Good. It’s just Ms Schmidt and I work together and around the office Shirley’s considered something of a low talker.Shirley Schmidt: Mr Shore. Do you have a question?Alan Shore: Yes, I do. I have here Jerry Espenson’s performance reviews for the past fifteen years. Would you please read one for us? He hands her a folder. Pick a year. Any year.Shirley Schmidt: For the record Mr Espenson’s work reviews are all excellent. Now Mr Shore, would you like me to read one aloud for dramatic effect?Alan Shore: Now that you’ve taken all the fun out of it? No. How about I do it? He takes the folder. Uhm. Ah! Yeah. “Jerry has displayed a vast knowledge of the law, delivered all assignments in a timely fashion, has consistently met with the firm’s minimum billables.”Shirley Schmidt: There’s no denying Mr Espenson’s exceptional work habits.Alan Shore: Yet! And I quote, “Jerry Espenson is not partnership material.” What exactly did that mean?Shirley Schmidt: We’re a private firm at Crane, Poole and Schmidt. We have every right to decide what criteria by which to make people partners.Alan Shore: Yes. But, clearly Jerry Espenson is not partnership material. I mean, look at him, he’s awkward, unsociable, keeps his hands on his thighs at all times.Shirley Schmidt: As I said, we have many criteria.Alan Shore: So you’ve been lying to Jerry? Is that it?Shirley Schmidt: I beg your pardon?Alan Shore: About his chances to make partner. You never told him that he wasn’t partnership material. Quite the contrary, you encouraged him again and again to aspire to that position. And yet there it was, “Not partnership material.” in his confidential file since 1990, fifteen years ago. You’ve been lying to Jerry Espenson for fifteen years. Haven’t you?Shirley Schmidt: As you know Mr Shore, not everyone makes partner at our firm or any other. Otherwise our letterhead would be twenty pages long.Alan Shore: But as an institutionalize practice you keep all associates believing they have a chance to make partner. Especially the exceptional ones, even if you never have any intension of doing so. Isn’t that right.Shirley Schmidt: We encourage all our attorney’s to do good work. It’s their job.Alan Shore: That incident in the conference room a week ago with the cake knife? That really rattled you, didn’t it? Shirley Schmidt: Excuse me?Alan Shore: A man held a knife to your throat. You perceived it as a grave threat. It rattled you?Shirley Schmidt: The experience was not a pleasant one.Alan Shore: No I’m sure it wasn’t. But let’s talk about what’s really going on here. Shall we? A gifted, eccentric and loyal employee who worked for fifteen years on a promise, momentarily lost control of his senses when his one dream was taken away. And yet the D.A.’s office has charged my client with everything short of the Lindberg kidnapping, because ultimately they’re just following orders from the great and powerful Schmidt. Aren’t they?A.D.A. Frank Ginsberg: Objection! Relevance!Judge Gordon Kolondy: Sustained. Mr Shore?Alan Shore: Could someone move for a mistrial? Cause I’m fine with that.Judge Gordon Kolondy: You will keep your questions relevant Mr Shore.Alan Shore: Nothing further.A.D.A. Frank Ginsberg: When Mr Epenson was denied partnership at the firm, was he fired?Shirley Schmidt: No he was offered a position of counsel and was free to stay.A.D.A. Frank Ginsberg: And what salary would Mr Espenson have made if he’d stayed at the firm?Shirley Schmidt: Approximately three hundred thousand dollars per year.A.D.A. Frank Ginsberg: Three hundred thousand dollars a year? Sounds like a real coal mine at Crane, Poole and Schmidt.Alan and Jerry are in Alan’s office at Crane, Poole and Schmidt.Jerry Espenson: It’s not going very well. Is it?Alan Shore: No it’s not. Jerry, it might be time to start thinking of who will take care of Linda if you’re away.Jerry Espenson: Oh God. Oh God.Alan Shore: Jerry, I’m going to make a case for temporary insanity that is as compelling as it can possibly be. But it’s thin, at best.And, I must be frank with you. I don’t know if it will be enough.Jerry Espenson: My dad is a mathematics professor at Cornell and he’s always saying, “May I have some toast?”Alan Shore: I don’t understand.Jerry Espenson: He says it over and over again. “May I have some toast? May I have some toast?” And eventually he says it enough and someone always gives him toast.Alan Shore: Your father?Jerry Espenson: He never gives up. That’s what I’m saying. It’s the toast. Bingo. We should never give up.Alan Shore: I won’t give up, Jerry.Denise and Daniel are having dinner in a restaurant.Daniel Post: I felt like a cross between Clarence Darrow and ah, Al Pacino in that movie where he shouts.Denise Bauer: Ha, hm. You are really good at trial law. You should uhm…Daniel Post: Maybe next life. Now enough about me. Let’s talk about you. Why are you getting involved with a dead guy?Denise Bauer: I, ah, try not to think about it. I do find myself being strangely forthcoming with you.Daniel Post: Oh! So you’re my Count Guido.Denise Bauer: Who?Daniel Post: Count Guido da Montefeltro. Ah, in Dante’s Inferno. Dante meets Guido in hell. Guido tells him that if he thought that his words would ever reach the real world he would never reveal his true feelings to anyone. But because he thinks Dante’s dead, he tells him everything.Denise Bauer: So you think I’m honest with you because you’re, uhm, a dead guy?Daniel Post: Something like that. So, Guido? Can I do the closing?Alan is in his office at Crane, Poole and Schmidt with Dr David Cannon.Dr David Cannon: It’s called Asperger’s Syndrome. And as you suspected it is hereditary.Alan Shore: Asperger’s Syndrome? It sounds like something you cure with an ointment.Dr David Cannon: It’s a form of Autism. From the behavior that you described, and from what I read in his personal file.Alan Shore: Oh dear. However did you get hold of that?Dr David Cannon: Jerry Espenson is a classic case. No eye contact, strange tick-like behaviors, passion for a single subject, in this case the law, sudden outbursts. Basically their brains can’t process ordinary non-verbal cues that most people use to communicate. I know it sounds strange.Alan Shore: I’m not one to judge. Do you think Jerry Espenson knows he has it?Dr David Cannon: I doubt it. Most adults don’t know. It wasn’t even considered a disorder until 1995.Paul walks into Denny’s office at Crane, Poole and Schmidt.Paul Lewiston:He hands Denny some papers. Denny?Denny Crane: What’s this?Paul Lewiston: It’s your prenup from your last marriage.Denny Crane:He pages through it and smiles. It’s hard to believe I was ever that young.Paul Lewiston: I took the liberty of drawing up a new one. With some addendums. He hands Denny some more papers.Denny Crane:He reads. “In the event that either party becomes physically or mentally incapacitated their assets…” This isn’t about protecting me. This is about protecting the firm.Paul Lewiston: You’ve been through wives before, Denny. Five of them? This firm is the constant. We’re the ones who are still here. And this does look after your best interests.Denny Crane: You mean the best interests of the firm?Paul Lewiston: Oh, for God’s sake, Denny! Someone has to worry about this firm and since you won’t, I have to! Denny Crane: Because you’re a senior partner. Yet your name isn’t on the door. Mine is. First name on the door.Paul Lewiston: I’m not interested in getting into an historical arguments with you.Denny Crane: Why? Because I built the firm from the ground up?Paul Lewiston: I care about what could happen to the firm now!Denny Crane: Let me tell you what would happen to this firm if Denny Crane left. It would dry up and blow away. And you with it! I’m the big gub on this boat. The captain! You’re nothing but a skinny, overpaid deckhand.Paul Lewiston: No! I am the deckhand who steers this ship because the captain isn’t up to it anymore.Denny Crane: Get out!Paul Lewiston: Look over the new document, sign it and get it back to me today.。

Boston LegalThe Object of My AffectionSeason 4, Episode 6Written by Corinne Brinkerhoff & David E. Kelley© 2007 David E. Kelley Productions. All Rights Reserved.Airdate: November 6, 2007Transcribed by ToxicAngel for .Transcribed from aired episode; this is not an official script. Images © 2007 ABCScene: Court CorridorAlan Shore and his client Patrice Kelley are getting off of the elevator. There is a swarm of reporters with cameras and microphones rushing at them with questions.Alan Shore: Excuse Us.Patrice Kelley: This might be a opportunity for a sound byte.Alan Shore: The time for sound bytes is past.Scene: Judge Byron Fudd’s CourtroomGretchen Winters is on the stand being questioned by ADA Stewart BettsGretchen Winters: It was a typical day, in a typical office place in America. But what would happen next was anything but typical.Judge Byron Fudd: Uh, Ms Winters, just tell us, try not to channel Stone Phillips.Gretchen Winters: Yes your honor. As I said, I saw that woman enter (pointing to Patrice Kelley) and I knew who she was.ADA Stewart Betts: Let the record reflect that the witness has indicated the defendant.Gretchen Winters: I followed Sean’s trial, the news had covered it extensively, her face was prominent being that she was the mother of the victim. Oh she was a cool woman on camera, with a soft gentility, the belide… Judge Byron Fudd: Uhm, Ms Winters.Gretchen Winters: Yes, as I said, she entered and she walked toward Sean who was in his office right beside my desk. While Gretchen is telling what happened, it flashes back to the scene of Patrice walking into the office. She didn’t seem to be upset. She seemed calm, cool. As she got to Sean’s office, Sean said, “What are you doing?” and she said, “I’vecome to kill you Sean. Is this a badtime?” Just like that. “Is this a badtime?” I saw it, there in her hand, agun. End of Flashback.Whitney Rome: Stop! Your Honor,this is hearsay, if the witness is tobelieved this wasn’t an exitedutterance from our client,…ADA Stewart Betts: It was adeclaration against interest,hearsay,…Whitney Rome: No, our clientalready admitted she shot him,…ADA Stewart Betts: And she’sclaiming insanity. Testimony of herdemeanor and state of mind arerelevant Your Honor.Judge Byron Fudd: Objection Overruled, you may continue Ms. Winters.Flashback to the office where Patrice shot Sean while Gretchen Winters tells the story.Gretchen Winters: Gladly, Anyway, it was the most horrible thing I’d ever experienced. There’s Sean, lying on the floor, blood gushing from his head.ADA Stewart Betts: Whoa whoa whoa whoa. You skipped ahead. Back up to before he was shot.Gretchen Winters: Oh, I’m terriblysorry, I get ahead of myself when I getexcited. Anyway, where was I…oh,yes. She walked in, said what shesaid, then raised the gun. And shepointed it. Calmly, her hand was notshaking. And she said, “you have fiveseconds to live. I’d give you ten but wereally can’t keep hell waiting.” Andthen… she just pulled the trigger. Thebullet his him right between the eyesand he dropped. End of flashback. Itwas a cold-blooded and viciousexecution. It was awful, just to thinkabout it… Shall I tell it again?Scene: Crane Poole and Schmidt – Denny Crane’s OfficeDenny Crane is sitting at his desk flipping through a file. Nancy Wilding approaches Denny’s office and knocks on the door.Denny Crane:Standing and motioning to the chair across from his desk. Oh, please come in.Nancy Wilding: Sure, I’m thrilled, actually and a little stunned. I’ve worked here for six years and I don’t believe I’ve actually been in your office.Denny Crane: Actually, I’m afraid the circumstances of this meeting are not pleasant.Nancy Wilding: Oh.Denny Crane: We’re letting you go.Nancy Wilding: What? Why?Denny Crane: It’s not that your performance hasn’t been good, I’m told you do fine fine work. But since partnership is not in your future… we prefer to let those associates go rather than mislead them, it’s only fair. Nancy Wilding: Would you mind telling me why partnership’s not in my future?Denny Crane: Not at all. You’re fat.Nancy Wilding: Excuse me.Denny Crane: We can’t have fat people working at Crane Poole and Schmidt. That’s all, and seriously, thank you for your past work, I mean that.Nancy Wilding: So, I’m being fired because I’m fat?Denny Crane: Yes, off you go now.Nancy Wilding:Standing to leave. So ifI was thin, I’d still have my job?Denny Crane: Hell, if you were thin, I’dprobably try and have sex with you.Nancy Wilding: You did try.Denny Crane: Really?Nancy Wilding: Last week.Denny Crane: Did we have it? It doesn’tmatter, look I can’t let my personalfeelings get in the way, I have to think ofthe firm. No tubsters at C.P. and S. Offyou go now.Nancy just stares back, incredulous.Denny Crane:(Into the speakerphone)Security please.Scene: Judge Fudd’s CourtroomWhitney Rome is questioning Dr. Marcini.Dr. Marcini: It was a kind of disassociative state that we call automatism.Dr. Marcini: Yes. Basically… Ms. Kelley went into a form of automatic pilot. We see it with battered wives. The abuse triggers this extreme, almost psychotic reaction in the brain… here, the abuse was obviously the murder of her child. Then seeing the killer set free.ADA Stewart Betts is up.ADA Stewart Betts: She’s fine now?Dr. Marcini: Seems so, yes.ADA Stewart Betts: And was she on automatic pilot during all the planning stages of this crime?Dr. Marcini: I can’t really know. I didn’t examine her.ADA Stewart Betts: When you did examine her after the shooting… was she on automatic pilot then?Dr. Marcini: No. She had regained control.ADA Stewart Betts: And you know she was on automatic pilot during the murder based on what information? Dr. Marcini: What she felt and experienced at the time of the shooting.ADA Stewart Betts: Who told you what she felt and experienced?Dr. Marcini: She did.Scene: Lobby of Crane Poole and SchmidtLeigh Swift is awkwardly walking throughthe lobby. She has her hands firmly gluedto her thighs. She approaches Carl Sack.Carl Sack: Hello.Leigh Swift: Hello, my name is Leigh Swift.L-E-I-G-H, I only point this out because it ismisspelled sixty-seven percent of the time,and I am her today in hopes of securing legalcounsel, preferably from-Carl Sack: Jerry Espenson.Leigh Swift: How did you know?Carl Sack: Shot in the dark?Jerry comes around the corner with hishands on his thighs.Carl Sack: Impeccable timing.Jerry Espenson: Hello.Leigh Swift: Hello.Carl Sack:Raising a hand. High fives all around. No? This is Leigh, Jerry. I’ll get you the correct spelling on that later, could you perhaps escort her out of the common area?Jerry Espenson: Let’s go to my office.Jerry and Leigh walk off toward his office, both of them with their hands on their thighs. Nancy Wilding walks up to Carl carrying a box.Nancy Wilding: Hello. Mr. Sack, I just wanted to come say goodbye.Carl Sack: “Goodbye”, who the hell are you?Nancy Wilding: My name is Nancy Wilding, I’m an associate, I was fired. Denny Crane fired me because I’m fat.Carl Sack: He did what?Nancy Wilding: Yes. So, it’s goodbye.Carl Sack: Wait. No, no. You’re not fired, I’ll talk to Denny.Nancy Wilding: Oh, if only it were that easy. See, I’ve been damaged. And, I’ve hit the lottery. We’ll see you all in court.Scene: Denny Crane’s OfficeDenny is drinking a glass of scotch. Carl is across the desk from him.Carl Sack: Are you out of your mind?Denny Crane: Why does everybody ask me that?Carl Sack: For God’s sakes Denny, you cannot fire somebody because their fat. Never mind the indecency of it, can’t you see that as a lawyer? And you know what, she’s poised to make noise over this. And youDenny Crane: No I won’t, let me tell you something Sack, it doesn’t matter what people are saying as long as they talk about you.Carl just looks at him like he can’t believe what he is hearing.Scene: Jerry Espenson’s OfficeJerry and Leigh enter the office.Leigh Swift: I’ve been to six other lawyers. None of them would take my case. But all of them asked if I was related to you.Jerry Espenson: Perhaps you could tell me why you’re here.Leigh Swift: I’ve lost my lover. His name was Gebrauchskasten, and he was forcibly taken, against his will, by force.Jerry Espenson: Have you filed a police report?Leigh Swift: Oh, the police have been dismissive. I suspect they’re discriminating against Gebrauchskasten based on his ethnicity.Jerry Espenson: I really doubt they’d ignore a kidnapping.Leigh Swift: Here he is. She hands Jerry a photograph of a utility box. Jerry looks confused. That’s Gebrauchskasten, his name is German for utility box.Jerry Espenson: This box…Leigh Swift: Is my lover.Scene: CourthouseAlan, Whitney and Patrice areentering an empty meeting room.Alan Shore: Nobody here believesyou are actually crazy. It wasrevenge, I know it, you know it, thejury knows it. Our insanity defense issimply a pretext to allow the jury to letyou go, but first they have to wantyou to go free. For that to happenthey have to like you, and for that tohappen, the jury has to feel what youfeel.Patrice Kelley: I don’t feel. After mydaughter was killed I stopped feeling.It’s how I survive.Whitney Rome: Well, it won’t behow you survive prison, which is where you’re headed if the jury doesn’t see a human being sitting in that chair. Patrice Kelley: I’ll discuss it with God.Alan Shore: Look at me. If this jury thinks for a moment that you’re pulling one over on them, you’re gone. You need to be uneffectively, emotionally forthright and sincere.Patrice Kelley: I honestly don’t know if I can do that.Scene: Judge Fudd’s CourtroomPatrice Kelley is on the stand.Patrice Kelley: After Hannah was killed, all I had to grab hold of was this quest to see her killer convicted and sentenced.Alan Shore: Do you remember what you felt when you heard the verdict of “Not Guilty” read?Patrice Kelley: I don’t think I do really. I went numb, at some point I lost myself, I started to pray because I often find consolation in my faith and one day I heard a voice.Alan Shore: A voice?Patrice Kelley: Yes, it wasn’t my own, and it said “You must kill Sean Harmon”.Alan Shore: You didn’t recognize this voice?Patrice Kelley: No, but for whatever reason, I became convinced that it was God.Patrice Kelley: I know how crazy it sounds, but at the time I was reading a lot of the Bible and so many of the verses I would hear in this voice, Leviticus – He that killeth a man, he shall be put to death. Exodus – He that smiteth a man so that he die, he surely shall be put to death. I kept hearing this over and over and I became convinced that my daughter’s sole (Now starting to cry) would rest only with vengeance. Harmon had to die, it was up to me to kill him. I would have to be the one to avenge my baby’s death.Alan Shore: What do you remember about the day you shot Sean Harmon.Patrice Kelley: I remember driving to his place of work, approaching him, I didn’t feel scared. I recall aiming the gun, shooting him, and I’m ashamed to admit it, but I remember I felt joyous.Alan Shore: Joyous?Patrice Kelley: Yes. Between his living a free man and his dying, it felt more moral for him to be dead, and I felt like I was somehow carrying out God’s word. It was joyous.Scene: Crane Poole and Schmidt, Jerry Espenson’s OfficeKatie Lloyd and Jerry Espenson are researching Leigh Swift’s case.Katie Lloyd: Objectophilia – A type of neo-sexuality indicative of a modern trend away from human to human intimacy. It sounds like a coping mechanism. A way to compensate for a lack of human affection, I supposed we can all relate to that.Jerry Espenson: So what do I do? She’s in love with a box.Katie Lloyd: Well, what do you want to do Jerry?Jerry Espenson: Well, she’s a very nice lady. I suppose I would like to help her.Katie Lloyd: Do that, then.Jerry Espenson: She has not legal case, it’s ridiculous even for this firm.Katie Lloyd: Maybe you could locate her lover.Scene: Crane Poole and Schmidt, Denny Crane’sOfficeDenny is sitting at his desk playing a computergame. Lorraine Weller knocks on his door.Lorraine Weller: Hello Denny, busy?Denny Crane: Can’t you tell, I’m in the middle ofkidnapping a hooker.Lorraine Weller: May I speak with you a second?Denny Crane: Actually, I was on my way out,care to ride the elevator with me?Lorraine Weller: You’re just dying to get me in anelevator aren’t you?Denny Crane: It crossed my mind.Lorraine Weller: Carl asked me to give you ahand with this Nancy Wilding matter.Denny Crane: Oh, that’s why you’re here, to giveme a hand.Lorraine Weller: You know what I would like todo Denny? I would like to get Nancy Wilding andher lawyer in, officially offer her her job back,coupled with a heart felt apology.Denny Crane: Why should you apologize? Youdidn’t do anything wrong.Lorraine Weller: I was thinking it would comefrom you.Denny Crane: No.Lorraine Weller: Denny. I don’t want to bebothered with this case any more than you do.Let’s you and I make it go away together. Can wedo that, Denny? You and I together.Denny is looking at her like she just proposed something much more interesting.Scene: Judge Fudd’s courtroomPatrice is being questioned byADA Stewart BettsADA Stewart Betts: Did you evermention to anyone before killingSean Harmon that you were gettingmessages from God?Patrice Kelley: No.ADA Stewart Betts: You claim tobe a religious person, did youdiscuss this with clergy?Patrice Kelley: No.ADA Stewart Betts: You’re gettingmessages from God. You don’t talkto your own priest, you just order agun?Patrice Kelley: Not the actions of asane person I admit.ADA Stewart Betts: You’re sanenow, right? In fact, when examinedby court appointed psychiatrists todetermine your competency to standtrial, they found you sane, this justthirty-six hours after her crime. Itseems like such a small convenientwindow of insanity.Alan Shore: Objection.Judge Byron Fudd: ObjectionSustained. The jury will disregardthat.ADA Stewart Betts: So, as Iunderstand it, you know now thatGod was not speaking to you?Patrice Kelley: Yes, I was probablyprojecting. I wanted Sean Harmondead, it was me, but I didn’t think Icould reconcile murder with my sense of morality so my subconscious somehow found a way to make it God’s word, so that I could maintain me moral esteem and still kill Sean Harmon.Scene: Crane Poole and Schmidt – Denny Crane’s officeDenny and Alan are visiting. Denny is pacing the floor, Alan is sitting on the sofa drinking scotch.Alan Shore: It is one of those answers that could either win the day or bury us.Denny Crane: She seems to know exactly what she’s doing, I’d give her the benefit of the doubt.Alan Shore: Let’s talk about you Denny. You certainly knew what you were doing when you fired Nancy Wilding for being fat. What’s going on? Were you retaliating because she rejected your sexual advances. Denny Crane: If I had a nickel for every girl that turned me down, actually I do.Alan Shore: What is it then? Is it another way to be the center of attention?Denny Crane: I should be on that case. I should be in that courtroom with you Ms Kelley not in my office kidnapping hookers (Alan gives him a look), on the tv.Alan Shore: Denny.Denny Crane: Don’t. Just don’t.Alan Shore: You need to let Lorraine make this case go away.Denny Crane: I’ll do what I want.Alan Shore: Fine.Scene: Crane Poole and Schmidt – Carl Sack’s officeJerry Espenson and Katie Lloyd are standing. Carl is pacing the floor behind them lecturing them. Carl Sack: You are representing a woman who is in love with a utility box. Is that right, Jerry?Jerry Espenson:mumblesCarl Sack: I’m sorry?Jerry Espenson: Yes, Mr. Sack. That’s right I’m representing a woman who’s in love with a utility box. Carl Sack:To Katie. Something tells meyou’re involved.Katie Lloyd: I’m not actually, except toencourage Jerry. I think it’s brilliant.Jerry Espenson:In a high pitched voice.Brilliant.Katie Lloyd: I think the law in it’s noblest isused to protect the weakest and mostvulnerable members of our society. Theclient here is an objectophile, a fragile one atthat. Every other law firm summarilyrejected her, how wonderful that this firmendeavors to prioritize compassion andhumanity over profit. It positively warms thecockles of my heart. Jerry is off to meet withthe developer perhaps you would care tojoin. I’m sure your own cockles could use ajolly.Scene: Judge Fudd’s CourtroomWhitney has Father Kevin Maher on the stand.Father Kevin Maher: Well, I can’t speak towhether God spoke to this woman, but… myview is He would certainly forgive her for heractions.Whitney Rome: For killing Sean Harmon?Father Kevin Maher: The Lord’s powers offorgiveness are without limit. And in thiscase there’s always the “an eye for an eye”principle.Whitney Rome: That justifies killingsomebody?Father Kevin Maher: The phrase is to befound in the Old Testament and I believe itspeaks for itself.Whitney Rome: What about the NewTestament, Jesus says turn the other cheek,does he not?Father Kevin Maher: Well, my reading ofthat is Jesus was voicing a very personal view of how a saintly individual should act. I don’t interpret that as condemning revenge.ADA Stewart Betts is now up.ADA Stewart Betts: So, you, a man of the cloth, don’t believe that all human life is holy?Father Kevin Maher: I do, I also believe “Whoever sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed.” Genesis.Professor Jeffery Benoit is now on the stand.Professor Jeffery Benoit: I have studied Judeo-Christian teachings for thirty-three years, I consider myself both a Biblical and a Talmudic scholar, and I found Father Maher’s testimony to be strikingly without merit.ADA Stewart Betts: Because?Professor Jeffery Benoit: The “eye for and eye” verse in the Bible suggests a limitation on retribution. It is forbidden to take two eyes for one, or, for that matter, to inflict any punishment that would exceed the offense. ADA Stewart Betts: Yes, but the underlying offense of Sean Harmon was murder.Professor Jeffery Benoit: Even so, it was never meant to advocate revenge murder. I mean consider the words of Jesus, “If anyone strikes you on the left cheek, offer him the other as well.” Jesus never would have endorsed this revenge killing. He was against vengeance.Alan Shore is now up.Alan Shore: Well, except forwhen it came to believing in himright? Mark 16:16, He thatbelieveth and is baptized shallbe saved, but he that believethnot shall be damned. Anddamnation, if hell is everythingit’s cracked up to be, is a fateworse than the painful death thatproceeds it. So, according to thisguy Mark, Jesus was okay withvengeance wasn’t he professor?Professor Jeffery Benoit: If Iwas a Christian I suppose Iwould be very much offended bythat.Alan Shore: But you’re a Jew. Certainly Jews are okay with revenge?Professor Jeffery Benoit: You know something about Jewish law I don’t?Alan Shore: I know if you cross Irael’s borders without a proper invitation, the bombs they go a-bursting, I know when Israel kidnapped Eichmann and hanged him, Jewish people the world over cheered.Professor Jeffery Benoit: First of all, Eichmann was responsible for mass murder.Alan Shore: So, it’s not whether Judaism supports revenge, but when.Professor Jeffery Benoit: You’re offensive.Alan Shore: Really? I was just going to say the same about you. Judaism has never been preoccupied with forgiveness, justice, justice you shall pursue, that’s what the Torah commands. My client was pursuing justice when she avenged the death of her only daughter. What’s truly offensive is you sitting high on your scholarly horse and suggesting that God, anybody’s God would condemn her for it. Moreover…ADA Stewart Betts: Objection!Alan Shore: I suspect if your child was murdered and it was your child’s murderer who went free, you wouldn’t be pontificating about forgiveness.ADA Stewart Betts: Objection, Your Honor!Alan Shore: And when’s the last time one of your kids got bludgeoned too death?Judge Byron Fudd: Mr. Shore.Scene – Construction SiteSteve Hughes: This is really difficult for me to grasp.Jerry Espenson: It’s very simple. You relocated the box. We would simply like to get possession of it.Steve Hughes: No, that much I got. It was the part about her being in love with it.Jerry Espenson: Of course my client’s predilection must strike you as unconventional. But I would nevertheless ask you to respect – she has found a meaningful relationship that works for her.Steve Hughes: With the boxLeigh Swift: I’m an objectophile.Jerry Espenson: We were hoping that perhaps the person involved in the item’s removal can help track itJerry Espenson: When you say destroyed…Cut Jerry’s Office. The compressed box hasbeen delivered to Jerry and he is opening thebox containing it to show Leigh.Leigh Swift: That’s all of him?Jerry Espenson: I’m told he’s all there.Leigh Swift: It’s not the same.Jerry Espenson: Leigh, have you thought ofgetting counseling?Leigh Swift: You must think I’m a rather sickperson.Jerry Espenson: No, I don’t. There are manypeople who find inanimate objects desirable. I hada life size doll.Leigh Swift: At least your object had a face.Jerry Espenson: Oh, she had more than a face.I’d given her a personality, sense of humor, I would even debate politics with her on occasion. Most of it is about fear of intimacy and trust with a real person. I read one expert, he says we’ve become such a socially isolated society what with computers and so forth with so many socially isolated individuals, objectophilia is not all together surprising. Leigh has started staring at a clock radio on Jerry’s table. Are you listening?Leigh Swift: What? Oh, yes, sorry. It’s just that your clock radio reminded me of one of my exes for a sec. Jerry Espenson: I think you can achieve an intimate and trusting relationship with a real person. It’s very terrifying I know. But I think you should give real people a try.Leigh Swift:Nods and walks to the door to leave. Jerry, thank you for everything. For not laughing at me. For, well, you’re a very compassionate man.Jerry Espenson: If there’s anything I can do for you.Leigh Swift: You’ve been so kind. It might be very hard for me to be alone tonight.Jerry Espenson: Oh, uh, well… Leigh looks from Jerry to his radio and he realizes she is not referring to him. He grabs the radio and hands it to Leigh. Take it.Leigh Swift: Are you sure?Jerry Espenson: Please.Leigh Swift: I’ll bring it back, just something to hold.Scene: Crane Poole and Schmidt – Conference RoomLorraine Weller, Denny Crane, Nancy Wilder and herlawyer Emma Path are all sitting around theconference table.Lorraine Weller: We are officially offering Nancy her jobback.Emma Path: Rejected. She’s not coming back to a firm offat bigots.Lorraine Weller: We’ll offer $25,000 to cover her feelings.Emma Path: Also rejected.Denny Crane: Are you this hostile in bed, because I likethat.Lorraine Weller: Denny.Denny Crane: Look, I really am sorry for what I said. Butlet’s face it, we live in a very cosmetic world these days.And perception so often seems to count more thansubstance. Beauty begets beauty. What I was really tryingto say was you’re fat.Nancy Wilding: Keep talking Mr. Crane. All I hear isKa’ching Ka’ching Ka’ching.Denny Crane: A jury is not going to give you money,jury’s like winners, look around the room, (pointing toLorraine) winner, (pointing to himself) winner, (pointingLet’s review, winner, winner, loser, loser. Now I wouldappreciate it if you would leave my conference roombefore anyone sees you and confuses you withsomeone I would actually hire. Off you go now. Takethe man eater with you, bye bye.Scene – Crane Poole and Schmidt – Carl Sack’s OfficeGracie Jane on television. Carl is watching, Dennycomes in.Gracie Jane: The evidence is all in folks. It’s down toclosing arguments. We know what the prosecution isgoing to say. Let’s talk about the defense. There is onlyone argument to make here, we all know what it is, the victim here killed this poor woman’s daughter. Carl turns off the tv.Denny Crane: What do you want?Carl Sack: Could you please sit Denny? Denny sits. Do you know the reason I came to the Boston Office? Denny Crane: Shirley.Carl Sack: That would be one reason. The other was to, well, ring out some of the madness. And now we have you, firing an associate because she’s fat.Denny Crane: I’d like to stay and chat Carl, but I’ve got a trial coming up, the client can’t fire me because I’m the client. Denny goes to get up.Carl Sack: Please sit. May I sharesomething with you?Denny Crane: Shirley?Carl Sack: No, not Shirley. There’s areason your name comes first on thedoor. More than anything else, thisplace is you. If I’ve come to realize onething more than anything since arriving,is how the people that work at CranePoole and Schmidt so love doing so, inlarge part for you. What you do toyourself in theory is your own business,but it really isn’t.Denny doesn’t know what to say. Hegets up to leave, turns lookingthoughtful, and farts.Denny Crane: Denny Crane.Scene: Judge Fudd’s CourtroomADA Stewart Betts is giving his closing argument.ADA Stewart Betts: I don’t think I need to persuade you that the evidence clearing shows that Patrice Kelley was not insane. In truth, her defense never really argued that she was. To the contrary, they introduced all kinds of evidence, religious, moral and otherwise to convince you that what she did made total sense. Her daughter was murdered her killer was free. Of course, of course she was outraged. And many of you would have been tempted to take the law into your own hands just like she did. But you wouldn’t have. As much as you’d want to give in to anarchy, and lawlessness and vigilantism, you wouldn’t have because we have laws against it. We have consequences like prison to stop us from giving in to our violent primal, all be it, sometimes natural urges. Patrice Kelley is sitting here because she said, “Screw the law”, and now she is hoping that the twelve of you will do exactly the same thing, screw the law you took an oath to uphold. The role of the juror in this country is most noble. It is perhaps the highest form of public service, not because it’s easy, but because it’s often times difficult. Here you are being asked to convict a good woman. A woman you no doubt relate to. A woman your hearts quite appropriately go out to. It’s difficult, as the truth often is. The truth here is that this was an act of revenge. Patrice Kelley deliberately, methodically, and reflectively killed Sean Harmon.。