Previously on Boston LegaI.
PuII a rabbit out of your hat.
That's the secret ofboth trial law and life.
- Rabbits? - Oh, yeah.
- Christine PauIey. - Ex-girIfriend. Tried to kiII me.
- She tried to kill you? - She did.
- And now she wants out? - She does.
- AIan. - She is stalking you. She tried to kill you.
She was institutionalized. Now she's out, and she's stalking you.
- Freedom is a privilege, Mr. Shore, not a right. - A priviIege?
Yes, and it's revocabIe, especiaIIy if you try to run someone over with an automobiIe.
l got my oId job back. lt's truIy fantastic news.
- lsn't it, AIan? - Yes.
- Why aren't you heIping me? - SaIIy, l have a triaI of my own beginning tomorrow.
- A rather big one. - But this is my very first triaI.
You've certainIy been to court before. l have no doubt you'II do weII.
Motion practice. This is with a jury.
l don't- l don't think l'm ready.
SaIIy, Iook at me.
- You trust me? - l do.
And because you trust me, you'II beIieve what l'm about to teII you?
- l wiII. - That's aII it is.
- AII what is? - TriaI Iaw.
Getting the jury to trust you so they'II beIieve what you teII them.
- ReaIIy? - Sincerity, SaIIy.
Once you Iearn to fake that, there'II be no stopping you.
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Denny, we've got-
- What's going on? - A little maintenance work, Paul.
WouIdn't hurt you, by the way. You Iook Iike a prune.
We have the Kaneb meeting in 1 5 minutes.
- ExceIIent. Why do l care? - You care because...
this is the construction project that the entire firm...
has been working on for 1 8 months.
You care because Byron Kaneb cares, and he expects you to be present.
Ow! Ooh! Damn it, man! What have you done?
Uh, the needIe broke. Not to worry.Just Iet me remove it.
- Don't you touch me. - HaIf the needIe's stiII in your forehead.
-Just Iet me remove it. - You're not touching me.
Get Dr. MichaeIs back down here. This is what happens...
when l Iet his kids cut their teeth on my head.
- lf l couId just remove the needIe- - Don't you touch me.
Denny, there's a needIe in your head.
- Let him at Ieast remove it. - Get me Dr. MichaeIs!
I really don't need a second chair for this.
- SexuaI harassment is a speciaIty of mine. - Mine too.
No doubt. But whiIe your experience tends to be more hands on...
- mine- - Tends to be more wishfuI thinking.
Not to mention, you ooze.
- l ooze. - Yes.
That certain something that subIiminaIIy champions misogyny. You need me.
Lori, as much as l may want you...
desire you even, l do not need you.
See that right there? Ooze.
Hmm.
- When can l dig my hoIe? - We're aImost there, Byron.
Don't tell me we're almost there, Paul.
We've been aImost there for six months. When wiII we be there?
City counciI agreed to the variance for the goIf course on Monday.
Today we're expecting an answer from the Redevelopment Commission for the outdoor mall.
And my sources say they're gonna ruIe in our favor.
- What about the damn E.P.A.? - The bIue-spotted saIamander...
just got downgraded from endangered to threatened Iast week.
- So the marina Iooks Iike a go, except for- - Except for what?
It seems there's a river where some salmon spawn.
Evidently there's some environmental lawyer who's making a stink.
- When you say ''stink''- - He got a T.R.O.
A fsh? My city's being held up by a fsh?
We are meeting the Iawyer today. We wiII make it go away.
Do you pIan to contribute, or are you simpIy assigned to mop up the ooze?
Alan.
- HeIIo. Christine PauIey. - Oh.
- Heard so much about you. - How are you?
Fine, thank you.
lf you'II excuse us, we're due in court.
Yes, l know. l'm opposing counseI.
- l beg your pardon? - What do you expect me to do?
l expect you to disquaIify her. This is tantamount to staIking.
She got herself assigned to this case because I'm on it.
Not to mention, as an officer of the court...
l question whether Miss PauIey even has the capacity to try a case.
She was released from a mental facility last week.
- CertainIy, counseI, if you want to conflict out- - l can't conflict out.
l'm the onIy one who knows the case here. Miss CoIson was simpIy put on-
Miss Pauley, what's going on? Of all the cases to start off with...
you pick one against an ex-boyfriend you tried to kiII?
ActuaIIy, Your Honor, l didn't pick it.
- My frm came to me. - PIease, Christine.
Because l used to date Mr. Shore, they thought l couId shed some Iight...
on some of his proceduraI eccentricities, which l did.
Since I also happen to have extensive experience in sexual harassment law...
the senior partners asked me if l wouId first chair.
- l agreed. - We start at 1 1:00 a.m.
- Your Honor- - Mr. Shore, if you want to conflict out, do so.
But I have no legal basis to disqualify Miss Pauley.
- May I speak with you alone, Alan? - No, you may not, Christine.
And if you choose to be on this case, pIease conduct yourseIf...
at arm's Iength and on the record.
lt's just coincidence to you. Your first case-
- l consider it a preposterous coincidence- - You have no business trying-
l know you better than your partners.
- How sad you can't be happy for me! - l'm not happy.
CIearIy.
WeII, that seemed perfectIy normaI.
The D.A. offered a three month suspended. l think we shouId take it.
- Does it go on my record? - WeII, yes, but-
- The answer's no. l didn't do it. - Ramone-
l didn't take that waIIet. And as a man of principIe, l won't pretend that l took it.
- They have an eyewitness. - Look here.
l might seem Iike some court-appointed charity case, but l'm an honest man.
l don't steaI. And l won't agree to any pIea that says otherwise.
Mr. Seymore. Hi. SaIIy Heep.
- l'm in Iitigation at the firm. - l know that.
- Are you in court today, or- - No. But you are.
l'm here to observe your work, Miss Heep.
Good Iuck.
Denny, the lawyer who got the T.R.O....
on the Kaneb construction project-
Ah, pay him off,Paul.
Give him a bottIe of scotch and some money to buy some more bus-bench ads.
He says he's your son.
lt's true. You're a Iawyer now.
Hey, Dad.
- You got a needIe in your head. - SmaII accident. Not to worry.
- Son. - Dad.
You're a Iawyer now. That's how you greet peopIe?
[ CIears Throat ] Donny Crane.
- Denny Crane. - Donny Crane.
l had a one-night stand with his mother.
l paid for his education and so forth.
l did everything l couId to be a good father.
When's the Iast time you saw him?
Oh, l don't know. When he was 1 2?
We've offered severaI decent compromises.
And?
He just keeps on saying his name.
Oh. l'II taIk to him.
- How's my boy? - They don't reaIIy need to bug you with this, Dad.
So, what's this aII about? Saving some fish?
WeII, see, your Iawyers...
who are cIearIy very taIented, persuaded a judge to eIiminate...
the distinction between farmed salmon and wild salmon.
The president of the United States proposed eIiminating that distinction.
Yes, I know. That's probably why thejudge granted your motion.
See, Dad, wiId saImon are an endangered species.
The administration figures if you eliminate the distinction...
between farmed and wiId and count them both as one...
the numbers wouId go up and you couId take 'em off the endangered Iist.
And that way, they can Iift the environmentaI protections in pIace to protect them...
which, of course, allows you to build more shopping malls.
WeII, son, Iook at the big picture.
lf buiIding this maII can save a species from becoming endangered...
Iet's by aII means do it.
[ Slaps Leg ]
I was vice president in charge of alternative investments.
And at the time of the affair, Mr. RaIston-
He was, and remains, president of the firm.
This romantic affair Iasted how Iong, Ms. Moore?
About nine months, at which point l broke it off.
- Because? - MainIy because l was a married woman...
and l wanted to work things out with my husband.
I see. And how did Mr. Ralston handle the breakup?
At frst, I think fne. But then he would continue to try to get back together.
He wouId scheduIe Iunches, meetings, ostensibIy about business...
only to pursue his romantic interests.
He started caIIing me after hours. Sometimes, he wouId send flowers.
Eventually, it got so bad, I simply had to leave.
[ Alan ] You went to another brokerage frm?
[ Moore ] At a lesser position for less money. There seemed to be a stigma about my departure.
l don't know. Maybe peopIe thought that l had secretIy been fired. l don't know.
What I do know is I was basically forced out of myjob...
by his reIentIess, unweIcome sexuaI advances.
Thank you, Miss Moore.
She Iooks demented.
[Judge ] Miss Pauley?
Leading up to your affair with my cIient...
he made weIcomed sexuaI advances?
WeII, not at first. l was a married woman-
But at some point, the advances became weIcomed?
- Yes. - A Iove affair then ensued?
- Yes. - So, I guess my client's strategy was...
if at frst you don't succeed, try, try again.
- A strategy you certainIy ratified. - WeII, l-
Since dogged perseverance was rewarded the first time...
I guess it would be only natural for him to adopt that strategy again.
l may have sent mixed signaIs the first time...
but l did no such thing this time.
Uh, when you Ieft, did you teII prospective empIoyers the reason?
- No. l- - Why not?
I suppose I feared that it wouldn't depict me in the best possible light.
- I was a married woman having an affair. - Got it.
So, this stigma you refer t0-
peopIe wondering whether you were fired or not-
That stigma was at least partly caused by your embarrassment...
over your own behavior- a married woman having an affair.
- l suppose that's true, but l- - Thank you, Miss Moore.
[ Woman ] I was reaching into my purse to get some change to feed the homeless.
That's when l saw him coming.
- Who? - Him.
- The guiIty defendant sitting right there. - Objection.
Jury wiII disregard the reference to the defendant's guiIt.
Then what happened?
He reached into my purse, grabbed my waIIet and started rifling through it.
- What did you do? - l stood there frozen.
l was shocked. He started running away as he was rifling through it.
And then he turns, and he's coming back.
- Then what happened? - I ran.
He started chasing me.
Thank God he was tackled by some people. I don't know what he might've done.
Miss White, are you absoIuteIy sure that it was the defendant?
- l can show you the pictures. - What pictures?
l have one of those IittIe phone camera thingies.
- I snapped his picture. - And you have them?
Look.
You can see he's got the wallet.
You just Iet the pictures be introduced...
without so much as an objection.
WeII, l thought, um, the prosecution didn't know about it either...
so l couIdn't cIaim unfair surprise.
You could've gotten time to prepare a cross-examination...
to research the photos for authenticity.
lnstead, you sat there quietIy.
There's eyewitness testimony from the victim...
positive l.D. and pictures.
How do you pIan to proceed now, SaIIy?
Um-
- My cIient wants to testify. - And say what?
Um, that he's innocent.
- lt's a fish, for God sakes! - It's notjust a fsh.
lt's a saImon, which the government is trying to wipe out.
Now, look, I like to fsh myself.
Catch and release, the whole shebang.
PuII 'em in by the Iip, throw 'em back out to prove you're humane.
You're mocking me. He's mocking me, Dad.
-You're a Crane. Get used to it. -We wiII go to court.
l Iove court. Donny Crane.
Look, Donny, you seem Iike a nice kid.
l have no doubt that you're a terrific attorney.
But you are not him.
You're Iike a son to him, aren't you?
Does he hug you much?
Look, if this is about some score between you and the oId man-
lt's not about any score. Hey, if you peopIe want to go to court-
Beat it, wiII you, Brad?
[ Door Closes ]
ls it a score? Was l not there enough?
Were you not there enough?
Dad, l haven't seen you in 1 5 years.
l may not have had the time to give that most dads had.
But l thought l was giving you something much more important.
Money.
You gave me something even more important than that, Dad.
You gave me the Crane Iegacy.
And I fully plan on living up to it.
So...
l'II see you and your team in court.
Donny Crane.
At first l saw it, but l didn't see it, if that makes any sense.
Uh, it took a few seconds to register.
- What took a few seconds? - My waIIet.
I lost it two days earlier, and then I see it right there in her bag.
- Your waIIet? - Yeah.
This funky orange color. It's not like there could be two of them.
And l Iost it on Washington, right where we were at, so l figured she stoIe it.
- That woman stole my wallet. - So-
So I walked right up and snatched it back. Selfhelp.
- You snatched back your own waIIet? - Yes, I did.
And l hustIed off'cause, truth be toId, the woman Iooked a IittIe vicious.
So what happened next?
WeII, l started to go through it to make sure it was mine.
And as I was going through the inside...
l saw, ''Oh, my God, it's not my waIIet!''
It looked exactly like mine, but it wasn't.
Truth is, l discovered Iater l'd Ieft it in my car.
It was all a big mistake.
So, I started to run back to return it...
and she just took off, and l started chasing, yeIIing...
''Lady, wait! l'm bringing it back! l'm bringing it back!''
Then l got tackIed, and here l am.
Your witness.
So the wallet that you ripped out of Miss White's purse...
the waIIet that you ran off with, you thought it was your own.
- Yes, ma'am. - Mm-hmm.
- Because it Iooked exactIy Iike yours? - Yes, ma'am. This one here.
[ Man ] When we broke up, it was because she felt committed...
to working things out with her family.
It wasn't that things were emotionally over between us.
- She said that? - Yes. And I suppose I felt...
you know, when- when two peopIe Iove each other...
you persevere through obstacIes.
My so-called sexual harassment...
it wasn't about sexuaI advances.
lt was about getting her to be true to her feeIings.
You were trying to show her that she feIt Iike having sex with you?
- PIease don't triviaIize this. - l assure you, sir, l take it very seriousIy.
You say it's okay to harass women in the workplace...
so Iong as you Iove them.
l beIieved, and stiII beIieve, she was in Iove with me.
I see. And she lacked the autonomy to make up her own mind.
- Objection. - She Iacked the mentaI capacity perhaps...
- to be truIy happy without you. - Objection!
Why is it some peopIe just refuse to accept that it's over?
Objection!
I truly apologize.
For a second, I thought you were personalizing it, Alan.
And l was out of Iine.
- l'm sorry. - lt's okay.
- You aII right? - Yes.
lt is ridicuIous- the stress of a triaI...
a week out of the rubber room, going up against you.
Why are you doing this?
lt was aIways safe inside work, you know?
- lt was a IittIe cocoon. - Can you continue?
Oh, yes. lt's just a IittIe-
Again, l apoIogize for the outburst.
Whatever you can do to keep it personaI.
l'm sorry?
She's kind of been kicking our ass, AIan.
That's the first crack l've seen in her armor.
l'm not going to expIoit her.
AIan, if you can't put your cIient's interest...
ahead of Christine's, then step aside.
- Let number two take over. - We now have to go to court?
No-We are confident we'II be abIe to handIe this.
l hire one of the biggest Iaw firms in Boston-
definiteIy one of the most expensive- and l'm being neutraIized...
by SaImon Man, who happens to be your son?
Let me teII you something, Byron.
Uh, Brad Chase is one of our fnest litigators.
He will handle this.
Your Honor, we've had meetings with the Environmental Protection Agency.
- They signed off on this aIready. - With aII due respect...
the E.P.A. gets steamroIIed by the administration aII the time.
No matter what anyone proposes these days, there's always...
somebody somewhere who jumps up and screams, ''Whoa, the environment.''
Now, there's a word, Your Honor, a very simpIe word...
that describes what my cIient is trying to do here.
PIease don't Iet the word be ''progress.''
- How about ''peopIe''? - PeopIe?
Yes. We are trying to invest in the future of peopIe.
Creating jobs at a time of unempIoyment.
We're taIking about over 1 ,000 jobs.
We're talking about benefiting people below the poverty line.
We are taIking about peopIe hoping to educate their chiIdren...
afford medical coverage, feed their families.
Basic human needs.
This man wants to put all that on hold because it inconveniences a fsh.
Mr. Crane?
WeII, first...
this whoIe thing kinda goes to the farmed saImon issue.
The government is trying to count these geneticaIIy raised saImon as wiId ones.
So they can take saImon off the endangered species Iist.
- l get that. So what? - ''So what?''
People,Judge.Jobs, insurance, school books, food.
- PeopIe. - Well, farmed salmon is terrible for people.
They're carcinogenic. They don't even Iook Iike reaI saImon.
By the way, they're fed these IittIe peIIets to turn their meat red.
- Otherwise it's this paIIid, white- - PeopIe,jobs, America first.
There's a rumor- l can't give evidence on this.
But there's a rumor the cattIe they have to kiII due to mad cow disease...
they grind 'em up and then feed the meat to the farmed salmon.
Objection, Your Honor. There is nothing in the record...
that even remoteIy substantiates that.
Counsel, the river in question only concerns...
wild salmon, so can we get off the farmed salmon?
We're taIking about Iifting the environmentaI protections on that river.
They're inflating the salmon count with the farmed numbers...
to get those protections Iifted.
PeopIe,jobs, food chain.
Oh, yes. PeopIe and jobs. WiId saImon...
is a biIIion-doIIar industry in this country aIone.
Once we destroy the wiId saImon popuIation, and that's what we're doing...
that's a biIIion-doIIar industry gone.
PeopIe,jobs, schooI books.
And we'll have to go back to eating meat.
PeopIe, cancer.
We'II just eat the farmed stuff.
There's nothing wrong with synthetic food, Your Honor.
We live in a synthetic country, for God's sake.
[ ChuckIes ] Whoa.
And on that note, l'II rest. Donny Crane.
You shouId've seen Seymore's face. l think l'm about to get fired.
- You won't be fired. - What am l gonna do?
What can l possibIy say in my cIosing? l've got nothing.
- Rabbit. - l'm sorry?
PuII a rabbit out from under your dress.
You know what Gerry Spence does in these hopeIess situations?
He just teIIs the jury a story.
- A story? - Any story, as Iong as it's interesting.
He just entertains the jury. He gets 'em right here.
And in that moment, when he has them right here...
he connects the story to his case.
Sometimes bareIy, sometimes ridicuIousIy.
And then he asks the jury to Iet his cIient go...
and for God knows what reason, they often do.
- A good story may be your rabbit. - AIan.
I'm sorry, Sally. This is a little important.
l need your number.
You have my number, Christine. l haven't changed it.
AIan, every Iawsuit eventuaIIy comes down to a number.
- What's your number? - 7 50,000.
[ Laughs ] And I'm the insane one. 250.
- Too Iow. - lt's more than fair. She got other empIoyment.
- At Iess pay. - The present-day vaIue of 200-
That offer is rejected, Christine.
l don't know if l'm up to cIosing.
l think l am, but l don't-
My cIient wiII onIy go up to 250.
PIease.
That number won't get it done, Christine.
[ Woman ] A man with felony priors for robbery and burglary.
But this time, he stoIe the waIIet by mistake.
Sure.
One day, l was in my kitchen-
l think l was about 1 5-
and in came Fred, my big chocoIate Lab...
and in his mouth was a dead rabbit.
The neighbor's pet rabbit.
And l thought, this is it for Fred.
If they fnd out he killed their adored pet...
animaI controI wouId be down and-
So, I took the rabbit...
washed him off in the sink, puIIed out the bIow-dryer...
got him aII white and fluffy-Iooking.
And l snuck over to my neighbor's backyard, and l put him back in the cage...
hoping they'd think he died of natural causes.
That night, my parents came into my room.
The neighbor's pet rabbit had died three days ago, they told me.
They buried him in the woods, and some wacko evidentIy...
dug him up, washed him off and put him back in the cage.
But I remember thinking to myself...
the truth is not onIy stranger than fiction...
but often Iess beIievabIe.
And that's what we have here, ladies and gentlemen.
The IogicaI version, l suppose...
is that my cIient stoIe that waIIet.
The less believable, but quite possibly true account...
is that he mistook it for his own.
Nobody, not one of us, can be sure...
it didn't happen exactIy the way Ramone VaIasquez said it did.
That's reasonable doubt.
PeopIe Iike to stare at their coffee a Iot here.
- AII set? - Yep.
You Iike being a Iawyer, AIan?
- l do, actuaIIy. You? - Yeah.
Except for the days when the job is ugIy.
When you have to go against your instincts to be kind or compassionate.
lt's important that she not cIose weII.
Some peopIe simpIy cannot Iet go.
You Iove a person so desperateIy...
you perhaps Iose sight of reason...
and you begin to act unreasonabIy, perhaps out of controI even.
lt's possibIe DanieI RaIston had no controI over his behavior.
Maybe he truIy couIdn't stop pursuing Wendy Moore.
Maybe he had to keep caIIing, had to scheduIe those Iunches...
had to seemingIy staIk her, if you wiII.
He was in Iove with her.
PeopIe in Iove Iose their grip.
But what's at issue here is her state of mind, her mentaI state.
Not Mr. Ralston's state of mind, but Wendy's.
Was she reasonably upset by this relentless pursuit?
She's a married woman with a famiIy...
trying to saIvage her marriage, and her boss keeps caIIing...
keeps coming, keeps coming, keeps propositioning her.
The fact that she once loved this man only makes it worse, more diffcult.
What choice did she reaIIy have but to Ieave?
Maybe that was his plan all the time. He knew he couldn't fre her.
Maybe that was his psychoIogicaI game.
Where the onIy thing that she couId reaIIy do in the end...
was get in her car...
and drive off.
He created a hostile working environment...
with repeated unweIcomed sexuaI advances, Iadies and gentIemen.
That is prima facie cIassic sexuaI harassment.
Love happens in the workpIace aII the time.
ln fact, it's where most affairs start...
most reIationships.
lt happens. So do breakups.
As a woman, l am offended by the onsIaught of these Iawsuits.
As neutraI as the Ianguage may be, sexuaI harassment Iaw is gender biased.
lt exists to protect women.
lt feeds into the perception that women are weaker than.
It goes all the way back to common law...
where women were denied the right to enter into contracts...
because we Iacked mentaI capacity.
Today's harassment law is designed to protect us...
from sexuaI banter in the workpIace because we just can't take it.
l can take it. Can you?
Can you? Do we reaIIy need to cIeanse the workpIace...
of aII sexuaI expression so it'II be safe for us?
These Iaws treat us as if we were either...
psychoIogicaIIy or emotionaIIy impaired, and l'm sick of it.
Are some cases Iegitimate? AbsoIuteIy.
But here, this woman is a grown-up.
She entered into an adult consensual relationship with her boss.
lt ended, perhaps bumpy.
He's hurt, he's still in love, so she sues.
She wasn't fired.
She is a college-educated vice president of a brokerage frm.
She's 34 years oId. She's a professionaI.
She's here today to teII you that she can't stick up for herseIf.
She is here today trying to take advantage of a Iaw...
that decIares women to be the weaker sex.
Not for me, ladies and gentlemen.
l wouIdn't have gotten in my car and driven off.
l'd have sooner driven over him.
- [ ChuckIes ] - Let's treat these peopIe-
both of them- as if they were grown-ups.
My own quick research reveaIs wiId saImon...
especiaIIy AtIantic saImon, are threatened with extinction.
They're an endangered species...
which means the environmental protections on that river have to stay in place.
Your Honor, they're not endangered if you count the farmed saImon.
l'm not counting the farmed saImon.
And the idea to count them is absurd.
That river stays protected. Your variance is offcially pulled.
Apermanent restraining order is now in effect.
I keep telling you you talk too fast. You talk too damn fast.
''America first. We're a synthetic country.''
- What's wrong with you? - The best man won in there.
You know, Dad...
l've never reaIIy had a big triaI to speak of.
This is the-
For the Iast 1 0 years or so, l've pretended to be you.
Through coIIege, Iaw schooI, and-
l aIways feIt Iike whenever l'd go into a courtroom...
l wouId kinda... channeI you or something.
But this is the first time l actuaIIy feIt it.
- l was Donny Crane. - Yes, you were.
Yes, you were.
[ Woman ] In the matter of Moore versus RaIston...
on the question ofliability, we fnd in favor of the plaintiff.
We further order the defendant to pay damages...
in the amount of $ 1 25,000.
Damn it.
[Judge ] Ladies and gentlemen of thejury, thank you for your time.
- You are discharged. - [ Gavel Pounds ]
- l'm sorry. - l got my verdict anyway.
- Thank you. - You're weIcome.
- Great. Thanks. - CongratuIations, Christine. You tried an exceIIent case.
Thank you. AIan?
l can and do accept that it's over.
The thing is, whiIe l was institutionaIized...
the onIy person who wrote to me, who came to visit me...
who caIIed me, was you.
My worId became quite two-dimensionaI.
There was the hospitaI and you.
And when l was suddenIy faced with having to waIk away...
from both the hospitaI and you...
it was more than l couId-
- But l am going to make it. - l have no doubt.
You tried an exceIIent case.
We shouId eat at that wonderfuI lndian pIace sometime.
l'd Iike that.
You don't think she'll go Glenn Close on you?
No. Out of compuIsive curiosity...
l aIways befriend my most coIorfuI ex-girIfriends.
BeautifuI woman, GIenn CIose.
AIways meant to have sex with her.
- Well, I went with the rabbit. - Of what variety?
l toId an urban Iegend story for my cIosing. lnvoIved a rabbit.
- Got the jury right here. - And?
They came back in 3 2 minutes. Not guiIty.
- You're kidding? - l thought we couId ceIebrate... Iike rabbits.
- Your hutch or mine? - 9:00, my hutch. Be there.
SaIIy Heep.
WeII, it seems we're aII winners today.
ln court, in Iove.
You didn't win in court today. Remember? Your side lost.
Ooh, that's right.
He was reaIIy something. You shouId've seen him.
May l ask, how does a man not see his son in 1 5 years?
Ah, don't start with me.
l'm being curious, not judgmentaI.
ls that who Denny Crane is?
[ Sighs ] He's not my son.
What do you mean, he's not your son?
His mother sIapped me with a paternity suit. l settIed.
She came back about 1 0 years Iater...
with a guiIty conscience and admitted that l wasn't the father...
just deep pockets.
But I liked the kid...
so l kept paying for his education and so forth.
ObviousIy, he doesn't know.
His mother said it wouId break his heart.
He so liked being...
the son of Denny Crane.
Hmm. Who wouIdn't?
[ Donny ] You're not my father?
l'm not your son?
l'm not your son.
- Not by bIood. - Then how?
You didn't raise me. Who's my father?
You'II have to discuss that with your mother.
-lt's aII been a Iie. -Hey, what wasn't a Iie was your performance in that courtroom.
You're a hell of a lawyer.
You did channeI me.
l- l gotta go.
Sir, is it okay if l keep the name?
Of course.
Donny Crane.