Previously on Boston LegaI.
You disapprove of me.
You know, I'd stake out a little distance from that Shore guy, Sally.
He tends to leave people's minds a little worse off than he fnds them.
Why are you counseIing SaIIy to distance herseIf from me?
There are ''happiIy ever after'' guys, and there are those who Ieave girIs in a heap.
- And l can teII the difference. - Sorry l'm Iate, good peopIe.
Edwin, everything all right?
- Hunky-dory. - Denny, guess what?
l'm due in court with Tara.
We're on it. Don't you worry. You just get better.
- Okay. - Demagnetize his parking pass.
- l beg your pardon? - l know when a man is gone.
~~~~[ Man Singing ]
- HeIen. - He's gone.
- Denny, Edwin's gone! - l know. Shame.
No. l mean, he's missing. He Ieft the hospitaI. Did he come here?
Not that l'm aware of. Anyone see Edwin PooIe?
Your Honor, at this time, l wouId Iike to discharge counseI.
[Judge ] Can you tell me why you want new counsel?
On the grounds of ''intoIerabiIitude.''
Not a reaI word, Mr. Litch.
lt shouId be, Your Honor...
because it describes my deteriorating reIationship...
with the man vested with the responsibiIity of provin' my innocence.
- Sir, you confessed to the crime. - l changed my position on that.
Mr. Litch, this is the seventh attorney...
you've sought to discharge on the eve of triaI.
Your Honor, l am anxious for my day in court.
I'm lookin'forward to seein' 1 2 open minds in that box...
'cause l don't see one where you're sittin'...
and l don't have one sittin' here with me.
[Judge Harding ] Well, here's my problem, Mr. Litch.
l'm aII out of pubIic defenders. Every avaiIabIe one, you fired.
[ Edwin ] I'll do it.
Attorney Edwin Poole, Your Honor, of Crane, Poole & Schmidt.
- l'II represent Mr. Litch. - You're the Edwin PooIe?
- lndeed. - From Crane, PooIe & Schmidt?
- lndeed. - And you're offering to defend this man?
Yes.
Mr. Litch, I will give you a new attorney.
What I will not give you is additional time.
- This triaI wiII begin tomorrow- - May l be heard on baiI,Judge?
No, you may not. 1 0:00 tomorrow. Defendant stays in custody.
We are adjourned.
HeIIo, Mr. CriminaI. We can taIk back in custody.
- lncidentaIIy, what are you charged with? - Murder.
You got yourseIf a top-of-the-Iine criminaI.
- ~~~~[ Funk ] - ~~~~[ Man Vocalizing ]
~~~~[ Continues ]
~~~~[ Ends ]
- He did what? - He took a case.
Left the hospitaI, went into criminaI session and took a case.
- We need you to get down there. - Whoa.
- No, never mind ''whoa.'' - l do not do criminaI Iaw.
- l can't go. l'm in triaI. - We have Iots of other Iawyers.
- You used to be a D.A. You can do it. - What about AIan Shore?
Lewiston needs him for something eIse. l need you to get down there, pIease.
- He is sitting in a jaiI ceII. - What do you mean, he's sitting in a jaiI ceII?
He waIked back into custody, went into the ceII there.
He sits with the cIient, happiIy so.
PIease get down there.
- So what's it about? - l have no idea.
lf you need a second chair, it wouId be nice for PauI Lewiston to know that l exist.
- Denny Crane. - You got it.
What can l do for you?
Thank you. PIease have a seat.
We represent a company...
the C.E.O. of which is in need of immediate IegaI assistance.
Lee Tyler. Brilliant woman.
Kind woman. AIso, a kIeptomaniac.
She's about to go on triaI tomorrow for steaIing a $200 scarf.
lt's ordinariIy a smaII matter. Here's why it's not.
If she gets convicted of this crime...
she vioIates a moraIs cIause in her contract.
She's out as C.E.O.
And since she's the one who hired us, we stand to Iose our biggest cIient.
We have exhausted...
aII conventionaI means to make this go away.
We have faiIed.
We now need an attorney...
with experience in perhaps...
unconventionaI means.
- l don't care. - You don't care?
- He basicaIIy escaped from a mentaI faciIity. - Objection.
You're talking as if I'm not even in the room. It's inappropriate.
No offense, Edwin, but you shouldn't be in the room.
- You shouId stiII be in the hospitaI. - Look, Miss Colson.
Your firm took this case.
If Edwin Poole lacks capacity to try it, then it falls to you.
- Me? l don't practice criminaI Iaw. - CounseI, l have had it.
This case has been perversely delayed.
l've had a widow and her two chiIdren show up for triaI four times onIy to have it put off.
l won't deIay it another day. lf he can't do it, then you wiII.
Now, l suggest you get back there and meet your cIient.
He puIIs me over for running a stop sign.
l got this dime bag of coke, you know?
So I stuff it under my seat so he can't see it.
- I also got my gun under there. - He's a drug deaIer.
Continue.
So he comes to the window and gives me this and that about road safety and aII that.
And then he teIIs me to step out of the car.
And suddenIy, l'm thinkin', ''Damn! He's gonna search it!''
And two priors for intent, l'm a dead man.
That's strike three. lt's Iife sentence. So l panicked.
l reached under the seat, l grabbed the gun and shot him.
- Boom! - [ Gasps ]
Sorry. Continue.
WeII, l panicked. l don't even remember it. l'm teIIin' you the truth.
I mean, one second I'm thinkin'life sentence.
And the next thing, l'm squeezin' the trigger.
- And then what happened? - Well, I drove off.
And I'm seein'on the news how they had this big manhunt.
And they had a partiaI Iicense pIate, so l figured it was onIy a matter of time.
One week Iater, my door is busted in.
l try and go out the window. And that's when l got shot.
FinaIIy, l just confessed to it aII in the hospitaI.
- And they don't have the gun? - No gun. No witnesses. They ain't got nothin'.
- Except your confession. - WeII, yeah.
Mr. CriminaI, l don't ever Iike to make predictions.
But l think we can get you off.
[ Mouths Words ]
I asked her if I could look in her bag.
She said to me, ''What right do you have?''
l said, ''WeII, ma'am, l'm a security officer for the store.''
- [ Prosecutor ] And then what happened, sir? - She let me look in her bag.
- And there was the scarf. - Did she say anything?
Said she had no idea how it got there.
TeII me, Mr. Lyne, from what distance did you see the accused...
put the scarf in her bag?
- l didn't actuaIIy see it myseIf. - Oh, you didn't see it?
No. A store cIerk said she took it.
Ah. There we go. Do you see the store cIerk here today, sir?
Yes, l do. MiIes Tibbet, sitting right over there.
This man? He toId you the defendant took the scarf?
Yes, he did.
How do you feel about working undercover?
- l'm sorry? - Their entire case is a store cIerk.
l want to put a private investigator on him. FoIIow him.
We pick the opportunity for you to meet him. Lunch, perhaps.
- And then what? - Denny Crane.
Then you order appetizers, eIicit some disparaging information...
aIIowing him to beIieve you're anyone at aII other than the defendant's Iawyer.
- ls that fair? - l don't understand the question.
He says he grew up watching Perry Mason...
and he promised himseIf he wouId one day do a criminaI triaI.
CertainIy you are not going to Iet him.
He seems to have his wits about him.
The truth is is he's probabIy more equipped than me.
l think the best thing wouId be for me to supervise and Iet him first chair.
- Edwin. - PauI.
You reaIIy think you're up to this?
l did cIinicaI work in Iaw schooI.
The rules of evidence are the same as civil. There's no great mystery to it.
[ Whispering ] Also, he came to me in a dream last night...
and he toId me to try this case.
- God? - Perry.
l'II first chair.
~~~~[ Rock, Indistinct ]
[ Man ] Can I help you?
- Whatever's on tap. - You got it.
How's it goin'?
Fine, thank you.
SaIIy.
You're very beautifuI...
but l don't do that sort of thing.
What sort of thing?
- What? You think l'm a hooker? - [ ChuckIing ]
- Here you go. - Excuse me. Can you throw that in this man's face?
l'm sorry, but- but beautifuI women...
don't usuaIIy come up to me and say hi unIess-
WeII, excuse me for thinking you Iook Iike a decent guy.
Do you know how hard it is for a girI to just go out...
for a quiet beer by herseIf without being attacked by woIves?
l thought you Iooked safe and nice.
And you caIIed me a hooker.
[ Alan ] Learn anything?
OnIy his whoIe Iife story.
And no one is bidding for the movie rights. Trust me.
He coIIects autographs. Has aImost 1 ,200 of them...
incIuding the entire cast of Mamma Mia, nationaI tour.
Oh, yes, and he's aIIergic to sheIIfish.
- Want more? - Yes. This is very heIpfuI.
[ Cell Phone Ringing ]
HeIIo? lt's him.
Hi, MiIes. How's it going?
We would like to be able to offer you witnesses.
UnfortunateIy, there were onIy two.
One's dead. The other's on trial.
The good news is he confessed, though he now wants to recant.
You will hear from the offcer who listened to that confession...
and you wiII find it reIiabIe.
You wiII find it consistent with the truth...
the truth that on July 1 7...
the defendant, Warren Litch, shot dead Officer MichaeI Devereaux.
Good morning. My name is Lori CoIson, and-
Your Honor, at this time, l wouId Iike to discharge counseI.
- Denied. - ln that case, it shouId be known that this woman...
didn't even bother to meet me untiI yesterday.
My own Iawyer. l mean, she didn't even know my name.
She is unprofessionaI, she is unprepared, and, on top of that, she's fleshy.
I want me a thin, wiry attorney. Somebody hungry forjustice.!
Motion for new counsel denied.
May I have a moment with my client, Your Honor?
PIease.
What the hell was that?
l didn't Iike the Iook of the jury. l was goin' for a mistriaI.
You didn't get one, did you? AII you did was aIienate them and undermine me in the process.
Do you wanna go to prison?
Lady, l'm goin' to prison.
l shot a cop. Ain't no doubt l'm goin' to prison.
The only real livin'I got left is in this trial business...
and I'm happy to stretch it out forever.
You think this is some game for you to have your Iast joyride?
l kiIIed a man, Miss CoIson.
And l see his widow sittin' in there, and l see his kids.
l know this ain't no game.
Son, if I might ask...
why did you caII her fleshy?
I was just tryin'to humanize her.
Juries don't Iike beautifuI women.
You think l'm fleshy?
ls there any deaI to be made here? A pIea?
They don't need to deaI, Warren. You confessed.
Another curious strategic move.
l onIy confessed 'cause they tricked me.
What do you mean, they tricked you?
They got the doctor to teII me l was about to die.
And then they sent in this cop undercover pretendin' to be the hospitaI chapIain.
And he Iaid it on thick with the whoIe...
''confess thy sins,'' or there's no heaven for me.
They toId you you were dying to get you to confess?
Yeah.
- And then he pointed to me right in open court. - What'd you do?
l just tried to sit straight and undaunted.
- The chief witness for the prosecution, you know? - lsn't it exciting?
- lt is. - Mmm.
l- l even invited a few of my friends to, you know, come watch.
- You did? - lt's siIIy, l know.
But this is the first time l've been at the center of- of anything.
- l'm sure you'II do fine. - Really?
Yeah. And l don't think l'II get too nervous.
l take beta-bIockers for anxiety.
- RetaiI must be very stressfuI. - Yes.
But l Iove it.
Listen, um, you're probabIy wondering why l asked you to Iunch.
l just-
l don't meet too many women.
lt's not what you think. l swear.
l'm not about to ask you out on a date or anything.
But l did wanna teII you...
how much Iast night meant to me.
What did it mean? We drank beer.
SaIIy, for a beautifuI woman...
to taIk to me for three hours...
as if l were an interesting person...
as if my life were interesting...
that meant something to me.
That's really all I wanted to say. I-
I'm grateful.
Cheers.
Denny. l need you at 1 2:30.
lt'II take five minutes tops. l need to trade a IittIe on your prominence...
your heft.
- What do you want me to do? - l don't want you to do anything or say anything.
l just want you to be. Be aII that you can be.
One of the few, the proud.
You don't want me to say anything?
Just those two IittIe words that tend to shock and awe.
Denny Crane.
FeeI free to mock me aII you want, but don't you dare ridicuIe our troops.
Just so l'm cIear, l shouId feeI free to mock you.
He basically said that he panicked.
His next conviction was strike three.
He'd be Iooking at a Iife sentence, and he just panicked.
And by panicked, you mean-
He reached under the seat, retrieved the weapon, and shot the officer.
[ Prosecutor ] He told you he shot Offcer Devereaux?
Yes, sir. He asked me to forgive him, and he asked God to forgive him.
[ Prosecutor ] Thank you, Offcer.
- Your Honor, at this time, l wouId- - Sit!
Just to remind the jury, at the time my cIient said aII of this to you, he thought he was dying?
- Yes, ma'am. - And he thought you were the hospitaI chapIain?
Yes, ma'am.
Thank you, Officer.
That's it?
Two questions? That was your cross?
l didn't have much to cross him with, Warren.
Then what was the point of your questions? TeII me that.
l was trying to estabIish that you were coerced.
- The judge doesn't shock easiIy, but maybe the jury does. - Oh, l see.
You were goin' for shock vaIue.
Maybe you couId've reaIIy gone for it and asked three questions.
- Hey, Warren, if you're unhappy with me- - Then what?
The judge isn't gonna Iet me hire anybody eIse. You're aII l got, Iady.
You're aII l got.
MiIes. Thank you so much for coming. AIan Shore.
The D.A. said l didn't have to taIk to you.
Which onIy compounds my gratitude for your choosing to do so.
- Let's go to my office. - What's this about?
WeII, beIieve it or not, it's about your best interest, MiIes.
Gosh, my office seems so far away. Let's go to this one over here instead.
SaIIy Heep, MiIes Tibbet. Perhaps you've met. SaIIy gets around.
She works with me. And certainIy you've heard of this gentIeman.
- He needs no introduction. - Denny Crane.
- PIease, have a seat. - AIan-
Thank you, Sally. I'll take it from here. You've done more than your share.
Let's make this brief,Miles.
We represent a woman who is charged with stealing a scarffrom the store where you work...
which is preciseIy what she did.
You saw the whoIe thing. So we find ourseIves between a rock and a hard pIace, MiIes.
The rock being our cIient, C.E.O. of a Fortune 500 company...
who has made it abundantIy cIear the onIy acceptabIe verdict is not guiIty...
and the hard pIace being you, MiIes, the eyewitness.
But maybe you aren't so hard after aII. Am l right?
l'm not sure what you're-
SaIIy has given me some information which regrettabIy...
I'm ethically required to attack you with in court.
For exampIe, since l know you take beta-bIockers for your anxiety...
some possible side effects being dizziness, confusion...
l am duty-bound to raise it.
AIso, the idea that you invited a few friends down to the courthouse to hear you testify...
it would be malpractice for me not to make a small snack of that.
Of course, l'II have to get into your inferiority compIex...
stuff about if a girI smiIes at you, she must be a hooker.
- But l never said- - l'm taIking, MiIes. - AIan-
l'm taIking, SaIIy. You coIIect autographs, MiIes.
That must be fun. Standing around on coId, drizzIy nights...
waiting for famous peopIe to give you a cursory gIance...
a moment of their time, perhaps, if they take pity on you.
Do peopIe often take pity on you, MiIes? WouIdn't surprise me.
l'm seeing a pattern here. Pity, anxiety, inferiority.
- AII those ''ity'' words. - This isn't fair.
You're right. lt's not. But you have a job to do, and so do l.
Yours is to seII socks and suspenders.
Mine is to cross-examine peopIe Iike you and crush them.
- This man here wouId fire me if l didn't. - Denny Crane.
He wouId fire me, MiIes, if l didn't expIore...
every nuance and shadow of your personaIity.
Every secret place and insuffciency in the hours...
that you wiII spend in that witness chair, MiIes...
in front of aII those friends you invited.
And when l'm finished with you, even they wiII beIieve you are a vindictive...
pathetic IittIe sycophant who has faIseIy accused...
and probably framed a fne woman...
for something she never did and never wouId do...
onIy so that you couId get at Iong Iast your moment of attention.
By the time l'm done...
l'II have you beIieving you put that scarf in her handbag.
Lee TyIer can afford to hire any attorney in the worId.
She's chosen me. Do you wonder if l'm any good, MiIes?
Do you reaIIy wonder?
- May l speak with you a moment? - l don't wanna speak with you, AIan.
- lf l toId you MiIes was coming- - l do not want to speak with you.
Can you pIease waIk away?
SaIIy, that was not a pIeasant meeting.
TypicaIIy, when associates are unhappy, l give them a hug.
- l don't want a hug, Mr. Crane. - Okay. May l have one?
They toId me that he was reIigious.
That maybe if he thought he was about to die...
his conscience wouId get the better of him.
So you toId Mr. Litch he was dying?
Yeah. I'm not proud of it. But I probably should've-
And, Doctor, did you also hear...
Mr. Litch confess to kiIIing Officer Devereaux?
- Yes. - You're sure?
l'm very positive.
Thank you, Doctor.
Okay. How Iong had he treated you before you-
In fact,you told him he had less than an hour to live?
- Yes. - You Iied to your own patient?
They told me that he had murdered a police offcer, and-
As a resuIt of this despicabIe conduct, were you discipIined by the hospitaI?
[ Doctor ] My privileges were suspended for three months.
- And you're back in the E.R. now? - No. No.
l've started my residency in the neuroIogy department.
- Your speciaIty is the brain? - Yes.
Doctor, as a neurologist, how does trauma and extensive blood loss affect the brain?
Uh, sometimes it can compromise mentaI functioning.
Can it cause a person to become deIusionaI?
[ Doctor ] I don't believe he was delusional that night.
Did he suffer trauma and extensive blood loss?
Yes. Yes, he did. But-
Can you state to a medical certainty that he was not delusional?
[ Sighs ] No.
One last question, and this one I ask you as a layperson, a human being.
ls it conceivabIe to you that if you had a Ioved one...
who had panicked and committed a horribIe crime, say murder...
somebody you cared deeply for- perhaps a brother, a best friend...
maybe your son had done this horribIe thing-
and you Iay in a hospitaI bed dying...
is it conceivabIe that knowing you were dying, you might take the bIame...
for something you didn't do...
just to spare your Ioved one a Iife sentence?
- Objection. - Sustained.
Did it ever occur to you that night, Doctor, Warren Litch said he committed the crime...
simpIy to protect somebody eIse?
No. No, it didn't.
l bet it never occurred to the poIice either.
Nothing further.
[Judge Harding ] Mr. Preston?
The prosecution rests, Your Honor.
[Judge Harding ] Miss Colson?
The defense rests, Your Honor.
- How do l not get in that chair? - Edwin did a good job.
- lf l don't say l didn't do it, then- - l can't put you in that chair.
- Why? - Because you did do it...
and l cannot put a witness in the chair to Iie.
- l have a right to testify. - But it wouId have to be in the narrative.
Best case scenario, you'II trip aII over yourseIf.
Worst case, one of the jurors wiII know why it's in the narrative.
- Then why can't you ask me questions that wouId aIIow- - Because l can't.
We have ruIes, Warren.
One is l cannot put you up there to knowingIy Iie.
Our best strategy here wouId be to argue the prosecution didn't satisfy its burden.
This is my Iife on the Iine here.
And you keep taIking about a system of ruIes and reguIations?
l'm in this for my Iife here...
and you're supposed to be in this for my Iife too.
WeII, l'm not. Don't get me wrong.
l wiII give you the very best defense l know how...
but l wiII not aIIow myseIf to be in this for you.
l wiII pIay my part in a system that l have an enormous aIIegiance to...
but l wiII never be in this for you.
Hey.
That was pretty awesome today, Edwin.
PeopIe forget l'm a briIIiant triaI attorney.
l can be nuts and stiII briIIiant.
How do you feeI about cIosing?
lf you can cIose Iike you crossed, then-
That was Perry's strength, you know- the cIosing.
What do you think?
l toId the man l'd get him a ''not guiIty.'' l might as weII see it through.
lt's hard, isn't it?
What is?
Coming to care for a person who committed such a heinous act.
It's hard to reconcile what we do and who we are sometimes.
l don't care about him. l'm just doing a job.
You know, in Perry's closings, he would point to the real killer.
l don't suppose l shouId do that, shouId l?
Tibbet's a good man, AIan.
Decent. He was just doing his job.
Yes, he was. And so were you, and so was l.
And after ambushing him, you can just shake it off?
l'm not shaking anything off. MiIes Tibbet had a very bad day.
l had a bad day too, AIan.
l was taken advantage of. Or don't you consider...
sending me to go hit on some guy at a bar taking advantage?
lt has nothing to do with what l consider.
Whatever.
lt's not the kind of thing you ask of someone that you care about.
Do you care about me, AIan?
l care a great deaI for you.
That's why l'm gonna give you some very sound advice.
Run.
- What? - This is a bad business.
lt is an often fiIthy, dehumanizing, mean-spirited job.
l assure you, l take no pIeasure in it. lt just comes easiIy to me.
But... you...
are not that way.
So l suggest you think Iong and hard...
about whether you reaIIy wanna wake up every morning...
with aII the promise that morning conveys...
and come here.
Which l say to you onIy because l care.
You are such a Iiar...
pretending that this stuff doesn't affect you.
That you can just brush it off.
l'm afraid l can.
You heard from witness Frank Simmons...
who saw an S.U.V. speed by him a miIe from the scene around the time of the murder...
with a Iicense pIate beginning with 3-L-6.
Mr. Litch's S.U.V. has a Iicense pIate beginning with 3-L-6.
And when the police entered the defendant's apartment, what did he do?
He didn't ask, ''What's this about?''
He didn't say, ''Hey, what's going on?''
He knew exactIy why they were there, and he immediateIy began his escape.
And then in the hospitaI, he confessed.
lt wasn't a deIusionaI confession.
He described a fact pattern which was compIeteIy consistent with the crime.
The defendant admitted that he was afraid...
of yet another drug conviction that would land him a life sentence.
He panicked, puIIed out a gun and fired.
Now, his Iawyer suggests he was perhaps deIusionaI when he confessed...
or that he simply lied to protect the real killer, a friend or loved one.
Desperate suggestions for a desperate cIient.
lt's insuIting to this court, to you...
and especiaIIy to that woman and her two chiIdren.
Warren Litch murdered her husband. Warren Litch kiIIed their father.
He admitted to the police that he did so.
Let's not waste any more time.
Edwin?
lt's your turn.
l feII asIeep Iast night and forgot to prepare a cIosing.
- l meant to teII you. - You don't have a cIosing?
No. Do you?
- CounseI? - Edwin, you've got nothing?
When l was a IittIe boy, my father said to me-
I can still hear his voice-
l beIieve he said, ''Ladies first.''
l don't know about you, but if l hear...
that someone confessed to a crime, then l just assume he's guiIty.
But if l hear the confession is coerced, then-
For exampIe, you couId have a man bIeeding out with a stomach wound...
put him in a room with the poIice and cIergy...
who keep insisting to him that he did something...
and he might actuaIIy come to beIieve it.
And, gee, what if it was a friend or a loved one who was driving Warren's car that night?
That wouId expIain why Warren was trying to flee, wouIdn't it?
He likely knew the police were coming to mistakenly arrest him.
Did the police investigate any of this?
My God, we aII assume Warren Litch is guiIty. But what if he isn't?
Now, Iet's turn to the other evidence.
Wait. There is no other evidence.
No gun, no witnesses, no fbers, no forensics.
All they have is that coerced confession. Now,you might think he did it.
And if you're determined, you can even stiII assume it, l suppose.
But if you're to uphold the law and demand proofbeyond all reasonable doubt...
and if we don't demand that...
do we reaIIy want to send a message to the poIice?
''Hey, forget the evidence. Just bring us that confession.''
They reaIIy shouId give you your own office.
EvidentIy, the store cIerk has recanted.
He's suddenIy not sure he saw Lee TyIer take the scarf.
- The case might even be dropped. - lt's a great country.
The district attorney has Iodged a compIaint against you for witness tampering...
intimidation, obstruction ofjustice, extortion.
He shouId make up his mind.
This firm does not engage in that kind of conduct, counseI.
We do not intimidate or bIackmaiI.
The attorneys at Crane, PooIe & Schmidt...
conduct themseIves with integrity aIways.
Do l make myseIf cIear?
More than cIear. Transparent.
Go.
Mr. Shore.
Thank you.
Madame Foreperson, the jury has reached a unanimous verdict?
- We have, Your Honor. - Mr. Litch, pIease rise.
Madame Foreperson, what say you?
We thejury in the matter of the CommonweaIth of Massachusetts versus Warren Litch...
on the charge of first-degree murder...
we find the defendant, Warren Litch, guiIty.
Members of thejury, I would like to thank you for your service in this matter.
You are hereby excused. PIease be sure to sign out...
with the courtroom deputy so you are credited for your time here.
The defendant is to be retained in county until sentencing...
which shaII be scheduIed within 60 days time.
If that is all, then we are adjourned.
Listen. l'II review any grounds for appeaI.
The confession- There are grounds.
Okay. Okay.
- l'II be in touch. l'II order up the transcript- - Listen.
Um, l thought for somebody who feIt the way you feIt...
it was honorabIe for you to try your hardest.
And l know that you did.
Thank you.
Unprofessional for me not to be prepared with my closing.
l think l'II perhaps go back to the hospitaI, get a IittIe tune-up.
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SureIy you're feeIing better about things. l've pIied you with aIcohoI.
l'm sorry.
lt suddenIy occurred to me, AIan, you weren't using me at aII.
You were using MiIes.
How so?
l think he was some sort of device...
for you to Iook despicabIe in my eyes.
lt's your pattern with women, l think, to get them to-
You know, when you psychoanaIyze me...
l find you much Iess sexuaIIy attractive.
Yes. Nice deflection. But-
Don't try and get in my head, SaIIy. You won't Iike the mess.
You weren't teIIing me to run from the Iaw the other night.
You were teIIing me to run from you.
Maybe you think it's my reIationship with you that's uItimateIy dehumanizing.
So being an incredibIy decent man...
which you are underneath aII your stuff...
you decided to warn me.
- l'm not trying to push you away. - Are you trying to keep me?
We either go forward or go in opposite directions...
because l don't Iike where we are now.
By forward, you mean-
You know what?
l think l'II just move forward.