~~~~[ Funk ]
[ Man ] It is also my expert opinion...
that the document analysis is reliable...
as these handwriting sampIes are comparativeIy simiIar.
[ Attorney ] I see.
- l am so bored. - Shh.
l need to get back to the office. l have so much work to do on the Meyers case.
[ Witness ] The sample provided on the top contains the same content...
as the original on the bottom.
NameIy, they are both the subject's signature.
No pun intended. [ ChuckIes ]
NameIy.
- [ Attorney Continues ] - This is actuaIIy kiIIing me. Part of me is dying.
Shh.
- l have a bomb! - [ All Gasping ]
- This is better. - [ Man ] Remember me,Judge?
Fifteen to 20 for aggravated manslaughter?
WeII, l got out today. And you know what?
l'm stiII aggravated!
- Sit down! - Do you mind?
We're trying to conduct a triaI here.
- Get over here! - [ Whimpering ]
Did you hear me? l said l had a bomb.
No, you don't. And here's why.
''A,'' you said mansIaughter, which means that you didn't have the guts...
for murder one the first time around.
- What? - ''B, ''if you're clever enough to make that aggravation joke...
you're cIever enough to know that threatening to have a bomb...
carries a much Iesser sentence than actuaIIy wearing one.
''C, ''that coat is fairly svelte.
And ''D,'' if you reaIIy had a bomb, you wouIdn't need to have a hostage.
- WouId you? - l do have a bomb.
Come on. We've got two more expert witnesses to get through by Iunch.
l'm assuming you couId speed through your testimony to keep up with our scheduIe.
- Uh-huh. - You sit down, or l'II bIow this thing!
- You don't have a bomb. - Yes, l do!
- No, you don't. - Yes, l do.
- Prove it. - Mr. Chase, perhaps-
l was a hostage negotiator as a marine. This man does not have a bomb.
- l do too! - You're interrupting, sir.
- Mr. Chase- - Show me the bomb.
- l'II bIow this thing. - Mr. Chase!
Show it to me.
l'm not gonna show you.
l didn't think so.
Huh? Fine.
[ All Gasping ]
- [ All Gasping ] - [Judge Sighs ]
What do you know?
- ~~~~[ Funk ] - ~~~~[ Man Vocalizing ]
~~~~[ Continues ]
~~~~[ Ends ]
- What's that thing? - lt's an ornament.
- Christmas tree ornament. - You can't go to court Iike that.
Of course not.
- You okay, Denny? - [ Sighs ] lt's this case.
lt seems Iike l've done nothing eIse but work on it for the Iast three weeks.
What in particuIar about the case is bothering you?
l don't know what it's about.
It-It's- Well, if you, say...
were going to briefly describe it to someone who was cIueIess...
what would you say?
l'd say we represent a big drug company.
Yes. That's the part l Iike.
Then l'd say they're being sued by a woman who cIaims she was wrongfuIIy removed...
from the company's cIinicaI triaI of a potent new diabetes medicine.
That's where l Iose track.
SpeciaI piIIs make woman happy.
Company take piIIs away.
Woman sue to get back on speciaI piIIs.
Got it.
- Denny. - Martin.
- Hey. - Martin.
You remember AIan Shore.
lt's an ornament. l head the office cheer committee.
Since l received no Iate-night caII Iast night, l assume we didn't settIe.
We informed your in-house counseI.
l Iike to hear things from you.
l feeI l have a direct reIationship with you.
We didn't settIe.
l don't reaIIy understand this.
Every IegaI opinion l've gotten says the merits faII one-sidedIy in our favor.
LegaI opinions onIy go to the Iaw, Mr.Jeffries.
I had an opportunity to view the plaintiff's videotaped deposition.
She comes off as an extremeIy sympathetic and IikabIe person.
- And? - You don't.
- [ Star Dinging ] - Our fear, and the pIaintif s hope...
is that the jury wiII Iike her and feeI for her pain...
and attempt to aIIeviate said pain with miIIions and miIIions of your doIIars.
l was under the impression l hired attorneys who couId empIoy reason...
and intellect to offset the emotion inuring to the plaintiff's favor.
Did l hire the wrong Iaw firm, Mr. Shore?
CertainIy not, sir. You've hired the best.
- [ Phones Ringing ] - [ Chattering ]
PauI, the Meyers age discrimination case.
We just got the DVD-ROM deIivered-
6,500 pages of McNamara documents.
Every useIess document they couId dump on here.
WeII, they're probabIy not ready, and this is meant to sIow us down.
Right. And they want to force us to ask for a continuance...
because they know Judge Simmons won't give them any.
We won't be asking for one. Uh, Miss Heep, Miss WiIson?
We have a trial next week. Lori will fll you in.
l want you to pore through this document. The IikeIihood is it contains nothing reIevant...
but we can't take any chances.
Lori wiII teII you what to Iook for.
l'm sorry. Can you get somebody to take my pIace on this, pIease?
[ Paul ] You have something else more pressing?
- No, but l prefer not to work on this case. - Why not?
- lt's personaI. - You are making it professionaI.
I'm- I'm just not- I'm uncomfortable working with Tara.
Because?
l used to sIeep with AIan Shore, and now she does.
- And she wants to. - l do not!
How dare you make a remark to one of the most senior partners of this firm...
that l want to sIeep with another associate here?
Even if l did want to sIeep with AIan Shore, which l assure you l do not...
but even if your remark was truthfuI, it wouId not make it any Iess inappropriate.
You're right. l apoIogize.
- Do you bear some iII wiII towards me? - No.
I suppose I regressed to the childish defense that everybody else is doing it.
But l'm not doing it, Tara. l'm not sIeeping with Mr. Shore, which you very weII know.
l onIy said you wanted to. And again, l apoIogize.
My remark was, as you say, compIeteIy inappropriate...
however accurate.
[ Mouths Words ]
l've had type ll diabetes since l was 25.
lt's been the same medicines pretty much the whoIe time.
And when you were invited to participate in a cIinicaI triaI of SV1 1 3...
what did your daiIy regimen become?
l took one piII in the morning when l woke up.
- That's aII? - That was it.
I had more energy. I was even losing weight.
And no more needles. It was a godsend...
untiI they took it away.
- And how did that happen? - 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 l didn't. l didn't do anything wrong.
And after you were taken off the test?
My heaIth deteriorated again rapidIy.
Can you teII us your prognosis today?
l'm dying.
I've got probably five to six years...
unIess something changes drasticaIIy.
What reason did the company give for removing you from the SV1 1 3 study?
NoncompIiance. But l compIied.
You're a heavy smoker. ls that correct, Mrs. Hewitt?
- l quit. - When did you quit, if l may ask?
- A week before the study. -Just Iike that?
Two packs a day, coId turkey?
My Iife depended on it.
Some of the doctors and cIinicians...
smeIIed cigarette smoke on you during your exams.
My husband's a chain smoker. It was his smoke they smelled on my clothes.
Amazing. You smoked two packs a day, you live with a chain smoker...
and you're abIe to just quit, coId turkey.
- Objection. - Sustained.
Mrs. Hewitt, 1 77 million people in the world have diabetes.
This drug study is the only way to get SV1 1 3...
the drug you yourseIf caIIed a godsend, approved for saIe.
1 77 million people are counting on you...
to foIIow the ruIes, Mrs. Hewitt.
Which l did.
With the stakes being so enormousIy high...
with some 7 0,000 peopIe dying every year from diabetes...
with a desperate need to deveIop a drug that can save those Iives...
you reaIize how important it is for my cIient...
not to take any chances, don't you?
l foIIowed aII the ruIes.
AII in aII, l don't think she hurt us.
She hurt us. l saw the jury.
How badIy she hurt us- Where's our expert?
- ShouId be waiting in the conference room. - l'II meet you there.
Sally, may I offer you one little piece of advice?
Okay.
You're an extremeIy beautifuI young woman.
- Thanks for the tip. - That's not the advice.
The advice is, be on the ware of Iecherous senior partners...
who are Iooking for the sIightest excuse...
to pIant a big wet one on you.
- Excuse me? - They Iurk.
And when beautifuI women such as yourseIf...
stand under the mistIetoe-
Merry Christmas, SaIIy.
Let's go meet our expert, Denny.
- Mmm, l had her bIood flow going. - No doubt.
- Dr. Gerard? - Yes.
Denny Crane, singIe.
- AIan Shore. - HeIIo.
Very nice to meet you.
WeII, shouId we get started?
We shouId. l'm afraid it's gonna be a very Iong night.
l'II need to go over every inch of you with a fine-tooth comb.
l beg your pardon. Your testimony.
l'II need to go over your testimony with the comb.
Where are we going to do this?
Right here.
lt's not my case, Rene. lt's Lori's.
l have no idea where she is. Hang on. Do you know where Lori is?
No. l gotta run. l got that dinner thing.
- Oh, go. - Need a ride anywhere?
No, thanks. My car's in the garage.
AII right. So what's the big emergency?
WeII, if you have him on the phone, then ask him.
l don't want anything. l'm offering.
Since we turned over that CD Iast second...
we won't oppose a continuance if you peopIe want it.
Say you need to page Lori, ask if she can caII him Iater...
and then get his ceII phone number.
Yeah. That'II be great. Uh, my number is 61 7-5 5 5-01 94.
Thanks.
WeII, weII, weII.
Can l get a beer?
- Oh! - Oh! Fantastic!
- l'm terribIy sorry. - lt's aII right.
- lt's okay. - How embarrassing.
l'II pay for the dry cIeaning.
- l assure you. - lt's okay, reaIIy.
[ ChuckIes ]
So, besides Mrs. Hewitt, there were 56 other peopIe removed from the study?
For a drug of this magnitude, we have to be extremeIy cautious.
But what motivated your caution?
Please tell me it was more than a hunch.
After aII, these peopIe do suffer from a crippIing, Iife-threatening disease.
As do l.
l'm very sorry.
l understand the promise of a drug Iike this...
on a very personaI IeveI, Mr. Shore.
But if it endangers peopIe-
How does it endanger peopIe?
How are these 57 peopIe endangered by SV1 1 3?
Fifty-seven. That's an exceptionaIIy Iarge number of peopIe to purge, isn't it?
How were these people endangered?
They weren't.
Marybeth Hewitt and the 56 others were on a different drug.
It was a slight variation from SV1 1 3...
that we had onIy begun to investigate.
- These peopIe, they knew they were on this other drug? - No.
So you gave an experimentaI, unapproved drug to 57 peopIe...
and toId them they were taking something eIse?
- But as soon as we became aware of the side effects- - The headaches?
There was onset of acute Iiver damage at about six weeks.
There was one prior subject who went first...
and compIications-
PIease don't Iook at me as if-
What couId possibIy have impeIIed you to deIude these peopIe?
You can't understand.
- [ Scoffs ] - lt takes years to get a drug approved.
And when you spend your Iife, l thought-
the company thought that we had the next poIio vaccine... or peniciIIin.
Except your peniciIIin turned out to be a poison.
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 SV1 1 3-
to prevent Iiver faiIure.
- So you're a therapist? - De facto therapist.
l'm reaIIy a flight attendant. But everybody teIIs me their probIems.
- Oh, do you soIve them? - l do, actuaIIy.
- WeII, teII me mine. - l'm sorry?
My probIem. What am l Iamenting at this very moment?
l'm embarrassed to say, actuaIIy.
Uh-uh. l insist. TeII me.
You're wishing your girIfriend Iooked Iike me.
Uh, keep going.
- You hate your job. - Which is?
l want to say accountant, but l'm gonna say Iawyer.
- Ohhh. - [ Laughs ]
Am l that obvious?
l meet Iawyers aII the time. They fly a Iot.
They're constantIy in distress over aII the horribIe things...
they have to do for their horribIe cIients.
What are you working on right now?
A horribIe case for a horribIe cIient.
- [ Laughs ] - lt's age discrimination.
- Mm, pIaintiff or defense? - Defense.
Oh, bad boy.
Mm-hmm. lndeed.
[ Laughs ]
- WhistIe-bIower? - Yes.
Now, there are aII sorts of protections to avaiI yourseIf of-
HoId on a second. You're advising a witness...
to turn state's evidence against your own cIient?
- l am. - Look, l was the one who pushed the study.
l was the one who put those peopIe on that drug.
And l suspect you were motivated by the drug's promise...
whiIe your empIoyer was motivated by greed.
- Can't you get disbarred for advising me to- - UndoubtedIy.
And shouId you Iose your Iicense...
we couId run off to BaIi together and become bartenders.
My Iife is here, in medicine.
Yes.
And you are in a unique position to remind your empIoyer...
they, too, are in the business of medicine, not simpIy profit.
You need to bIow the whistIe. And what's more, you want to.
~~~~[ Piano ]
~~ [ Singing ]
~~ [ Continues ]
~~ [ Stops ] Hey!
- Denny? - Set to go?
- What are you doing? - Oh, there's an office Christmas party next week.
l do a number. lt's good for moraIe.
HeIps get me Iaid. Are we off to court?
ActuaIIy, l have a feeIing court won't be going forward today.
What do you mean? Did something happen?
Was l in the room when it happened?
lt seems our cIient is guiIty of a IittIe noncompIiance as weII.
The actuaI test that-
- We represent big drug company. - l'm with you.
Big drug company teII patients they take one piII whiIe sIipping them another.
You know this how?
Evidently, our expert witness comes armed not only with details but a conscience.
She toId me. l beIieve she pIans to teII the F.D.A.
Wow. WhistIe-bIower.
Did you teII her to whistIe-bIow?
l might have mentioned it.
Do you know how much this cIient is worth to this firm and to me personaIIy?
Nuts. l knew there was something l forgot to consider.
- Where is this woman? - HopefuIIy with the U.S. attorney by now.
Oh, l'm sorry. Mr. Shore, there's a Dr. Gerard waiting in reception.
- Send her in. - That's aII right. l'II go and greet her.
Send the woman in here.
Here's good.
Oh, Tara. We have a pretriaI conference set on McNamara at 2:00.
How are you and SaIIy doing with the stuff?
Remember the document that said McNamara was incorporated in ''nineteen efficiency-three''?
- We thought it was a typo? - Yeah.
WeII, code broken.
They had a pIan caIIed the ''forty factor''...
which was designed to phase out workers who were 40 and oIder.
And repIace them with younger empIoyees who wouId cost the company Iess?
Right. They actuaIIy describe the pIan in memoranda...
which were archived on the company's hard drives.
Gotta Iove the hubris.
But they then got nervous and did a search and replace...
to substitute the word ''efficiency'' for ''forty.''
- ''Nineteen forty-three'' became ''nineteen efficiency-three''? - ExactIy.
- How did you find this out? - l had drinks with opposing counseI Iast night.
- Quite a taIker. - Wait a second. He admitted this to you?
WeII, actuaIIy, he admitted it to a flight attendant.
He didn't know that l was an attorney for the other side.
We're not smiIing. Why are we not smiIing?
- Tara, we can't use this information. - l beg your pardon?
You tricked another attorney into vioIating priviIege. You can't do that.
Last week you impersonated a doctor.
First, that was different. Second, the stakes were Iife and death.
- Lori! - And third, l was wrong.
ln retrospect, l wouId never do it again.
WeII, we have the information, Lori.
So if it's a matter of ethics, we absoIuteIy have to teII the cIient that we have it.
- [ Sighs ] - l just don't think l can do it.
Because?
AIan, these peopIe have been very good to me for 1 0 years.
Now, by ''peopIe,'' you mean these corporate peopIe...
who jeopardize pubIic heaIth and safety on a massive scaIe in order to Iine their pockets?
They were convinced we had a possibIe cure based on my representations.
- l wouId as soon bIow the whistIe on myseIf- - Do that then.
And what good wouId come of it? ReaIIy?
May I express a thought? I so rarely get one.
And l shouId preface this by admitting that l'm so far up the ass of big business...
l view the worId as one giant coIon.
You're right to prioritize IoyaIty, Doctor. LoyaIties count for something.
- Denny, pIease- - l'm speaking, AIan.
Doctors like science, right? They do the math.
WeII, do the math on whistIe-bIowing. Nice concept in theory.
AppeaIs to the aItruistic inner seIf and aII that.
But whistIe-bIowers end up penniIess and ostracized.
This thing'II take years to get to court...
- whiIe your Iife wiII be ruined tomorrow. - Denny, l-
And if AIan Shore suggests that you won't get hurt far worse than your company...
he's Iying.
What's going on?
Our cIient is vioIating at Ieast a haIf a dozen criminaI Iaws...
by secretIy testing an unapproved drug-
which causes Iiver faiIure, by the way- on unwitting human guinea pigs.
Dr. Gerard is considering whether to go pubIic.
l'm for it. Denny's against. Do you have a vote?
You seem Iike a man with a scintiIIa of moraIity.
Alan, my vote's the only one that counts...
and l'm not going pubIic.
You say that as if you have a choice, Doctor.
You see, the onIy way our cIient wins here is with your testimony.
So the cIerk wiII swear you in. You'II 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 beIieve in science, you need to see the truth.
You need to speak the truth. Am l right?
lf asked certain questions under oath, you wiII answer truthfuIIy...
because that's who you are.
You don't know me. And you would never ask me questions that would torpedo your own case.
Ah. lt seems it's you that doesn't know me.
lsn't it exciting?
It's absolutely unethical, Tara, for God sakes.!
PIease don't Iecture me.
There's nothing wrong with a Iecture when it's caIIed for.
Attorneys at Crane, PooIe & Schmidt do not go undercover as stewardesses.
It is fraud. It is wrong. It is dishonest.
lt hoIds every member of this firm up to disrepute.
- Breathe. - And it hurts other cIients at this firm- mine, PauI's.
- How? - Breathe.
Our reputation for fair deaIing is at pIay at every conference, every motion, every triaI.
If that reputation is compromised, the stain runs to all cases, notjust the-
- Breathe. - Stop teIIing me when to breathe! l know how and when to breathe!
This is about Alan Shore.
- This is about some not-so-Iatent hostiIity- - You're out of Iine!
You're out of Iine! You fancy the pants off AIan Shore.
So as long as we're preaching honesty, let's be truthful about that.
You know something, Tara. This does invoIve AIan.
What happened in that bar Iast night-
You heard opposing counsel on his cell phone...
you sensed an incredible opportunity...
and you asked yourseIf, ''What wouId AIan Shore do,'' and you did what he wouId've done.
Oh, and you've never done that- say, Iast week?
No, l did. And, as l said, l was wrong.
That's aII. You can go.
- What are you gonna do? - Haven't decided.
- WeII, you can't not use- - l haven't decided, Tara.
You're dismissed.
[ Door Closes ]
WeII, l'm sorry l Iost my cooI.
But you handIed that perfectIy.
Thank you.
Did that have anything to do with AIan?
How does he do it?
No matter what l do, no matter what anyone eIse does, it's aIways about AIan.
[ Laughs ] lt was just a question.
l shouId be the exampIe for the young associates around here, not him.
- WeII, Tara's AIan's girIfriend. - Why is that?
l mean, why is she interested in him?
l ask you.
Do you fancy Tara, Brad?
No, l'm just speaking in generaI terms. AII the women here-
Yeah, you keep saying ''aII the women''...
but who specificaIIy, Brad?
- Look, you're missing the point. - Okay.
- And the point is? - l diffuse a human bomb.
Does anyone say, ''Oh, are you okay, Brad?''
Or, ''Nice job saving Iives, Brad.''
No, it's, ''Tara circumvented priviIege because she's sIeeping with AIan.''
l'm the onIy one taIking about Tara and priviIege.
ls this about me?
We're buddies, Brad. TaIk to me.
Okay.
l'd Iike to be more than buddies.
l don't bring it up because l sense...
it's something that you're not interested in pursuing.
Okay.
ls it something you'd Iike to pursue?
Um... no.
Right.
Anyway, you handIed the meeting weII.
You surprise me, Denny. I thought you'd be with me on this.
- There's a deeper principIe invoIved here, AIan. - Which is?
Fishing. There's a fishing Iodge in British CoIumbia.
lt's caIIed Nimo Bay. Best fishing Iodge in the worId.
In the Great Bear Rain Forest.
How does this Iodge affect-
Want to buy it. Costs Iots of money.
If I lose this client, I might not be able to buy it.
- You have pIenty of money. - Yes, to buy other things.
This case, this cIient is earmarked for this fishing Iodge.
WeII, if l can't convince you, l guess l can't convince you.
AIan, l'II ask Dr. Gerard the questions this afternoon.
- l've prepared the direct. - l'II ask her the questions.
- l'm questioning the doctor. - No, you aren't.
- Yes, l am. - No, you aren't.
- Yes, l am. - No.
- Yes. - No. - Yes.
This time I will cast a vote.
Let me make this simpIe for you, Mr. Shore.
PIease caII me AIan. l feeI we've grown cIose.
You wiII be present in court at the tabIe...
because your sudden absence wouId send a strange message to the jury...
that might compromise our case...
but Denny wiII ask the questions.
lf you attempt to ask the witness anything at aII...
you wiII be fired.
There's a IegaI term for this.
Ah, yes. Oooh.
This is not puffery on my part, Mr. Shore.
l have spoken with other senior partners.
We are in agreement. The votes are in.
lf you attempt to undermine our case in any way...
your empIoyment wiII be terminated.
ln that event, l wiII go to cabIe.
Denny, you and l shouId go open our own firm.
l'II ask the questions, AIan.
l'II Ieave you with this one Iast thought then.
Denny Crane.
- Hey. - Hey.
The Iawyer from McNamara, the guy Tara duped- He'II be in here at 2:00.
l've summoned Tara as weII.
l'II try to iron things out a IittIe.
That's good.
- lf you couId make it, then- - Fine, 2:00 p.m.
WouId you mind Iooking at me for a second?
You and I have a big murder trial scheduled for next week.
Are we gonna be okay?
We're fine.
Do you pIan to speak to me in marine taIk forever?
No, sir, sir.
You're a great guy.
You're a smart guy, an attractive guy. Any girI wouId-
Meeting's at 2:00.
Right, 2:00.
Do you even know what to ask?
Did she examine the pIaintiff?
Does she feeI the pIaintiff compIied with the study protocoI?
She'II answer yes or not, we'II get in a bunch of rhetoric about the need for safeguards...
and then we'II go have a cheesesteak.
- And you can Iive with yourseIf? - Denny Crane.
[ Scanner Beeping ]
Arms out, pIease.
[ Wand Beeping ]
Oh, this isn't mine. Why wouId l be carrying around an ice pick?
PIease empty out aII your pockets, sir.
AIan!
- You'II need to open your briefcase, sir. - Do you know who l am?
You'II need to open your case.
- AIan! - Can you step this way, sir?
- Are you gonna check my shoes for bombs? - Sir, it's a federaI offense...
to joke about possessing expIosives at a security checkpoint.
- l've gotta get upstairs. - Take off your shoes, sir.
Where's Denny?
He got heId up. Not to worry.
Mr. Shore, are we ready to proceed?
We are, Your Honor. The defense caIIs Dr. Amanda Gerard.
We're at the part where you swear under oath.
[ Alarm Blaring ]
Okay, let's evacuate in an orderly fashion, please.
- [ Alarm Stops ] - lt is against the Iaw to puII fire aIarms, sir.
My hand sIipped.
TeIIJudge WaIIace in Division 3 l need to see him in his chambers now.
[Judge Wallace ] What kind of nonsense is this?
You put an ice pick in his pocket and a picture of Saddam Hussein?
You puII a fire aIarm?
We're at odds as to how to proceed with the witness.
Yes, l heard that. You're supposed to be aduIts, for God's sake.
You're Iawyers. And on the same side at that!
Your Honor, there are unusual circumstances in play.
l'm interested in truth and justice.
My coIIeague favors a fishing Iodge.
Look, I don't give a damn what your differences are.
- First off, your firm is fined $50,000. - What?
Second, whatever either of you do in that courtroom,you both get held responsible.
You understand me? Third, Mr. Crane, since you're the named partner...
and it is your cIient, l'II Iet you have the floor.
- Your Honor, I have prepa- - You wiII keep your mouth shut, Mr. Shore!
Now Iet's get back inside.
PIease have a seat, Tara.
Tara?
AII right, what's going on?
We have a situation, Mr. Barr.
Tara is an attorney who works for this frm.
Thinking she worked for the airIines...
you gave her information about an effciency factor employed by your client.
This wouId be considered priviIeged information.
l never reveaIed who my cIient was.
Oh, we aIready knew who the cIient was.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Both you and Miss WiIson- That's her reaI Iast name-WiIson-
Both you and she have committed serious violations.
You wouId IikeIy Iose your job and get a suspension. You wouId get worse.
It would be in the best interest of all if this situation didn't become public.
My probIem, as Tara correctIy points out, is having the information.
I have an obligation to at least tell my clients, who undoubtedly would elect to use it.
But l aIso have an obIigation to safeguard priviIege, even when it's on the other side.
So, as l've said, we've got a situation.
Where we last left off in settlement discussions, our number was 3.2 million.
Yours was 2. 1. The deal probably makes somewhere in the middle.
My proposaI to you, Mr. Barr, is we settIe it at three.
WeII, l don't think l couId ever seII it.
You seII it by teIIing your cIient and coIIeagues...
that the opposing side knows about the efficiency factor.
We've broken the code. How we found out we won't reveaI.
That protects you. lt protects Tara.
And you profit from her deception.
We profit somewhat from her deception, combined with your stupidity.
But if we reaIIy wanted to expIoit this, we'd go to triaI and teII a jury...
which technicaIIy l shouId advise my cIients to do.
Yes, our side profits some. Your side gets off...
with a pretty miId number, given the smoking gun.
And you two get off with your careers.
Now, if you have a better proposaI...
l'm Iistening.
[ Dr. Gerard ] It wasn'tjust my determination...
but the consensus of all the treating doctors.
Mrs. Hewitt was smoking.
And others were excIuded too, right?
Yes, 56 others.
lt is common to weed out subjects as you go aIong...
in order to protect the integrity of the study.
And this was aII about the integrity of the study?
Yes.
l beIieve you. You strike me as an honest woman.
- Do you beIieve in God, Doctor? - l do.
''God is my witness. '' That's what it says in the oath.
l Iike to think God watches over me too...
except, of course, in the privacy of my bedroom committing a lewd act.
- Mr. Crane. - [ Light Laughter]
Uh,you're a scientist, right, Doctor? You believe in facts, the truth?
- Yes. - Good.
WiII you teII the court exactIy why Marybeth Hewitt was removed from the triaI of SV1 1 3?
- l just did. - You said smoking.
The plaintiff obviously believes that to be a pretext.
l'm asking you to decIare one more time before God,judge...
Mr. Shore, me, the truth.
Why was she taken off the study?
She was taken off...
a different study.
[ Murmuring ]
Excuse me?
Mrs. Hewitt unknowingIy was part of a secret test...
involving a drug unapproved for study.
When it was discovered that this drug caused liver failure...
she and the 56 others on it were taken off.
[ Denny ] Your Honor, this is obviously an unexpected development.
l need some time to confer with my cIient.
l thought she'd stick to the story.
l threw the softbaII right down the middIe of the pIate.
AII she had to do was reemphasize it was smoking.
- What happens now? - What happens now?
The peat moss hits the fan, you lying bastard. We're dead.
Did you eIicit that testimony intentionaIIy?
What? Of course not. You know me, PauI.
l'm not what l once was.
Doctor.
PIease don't say you're proud of me.
They're gonna bring criminaI charges against you. How about if l say l'II defend you?
ReaIIy? And what's my defense?
You were misguided by the best and the worst of intentions.
This'II aII be over within a year.
Ayear is too Iong. My Iiver is faiIing.
l was the first subject.
l began the triaI ahead of the others.
That's how we discovered the side effects.
Ayear is too Iong for me...
but thanks for the offer.
~~~~[ Singing ]
~~ [ Stammering ]
Oh, screw it.
Mm. ~~ [ Singing ]
Nice performance today, Denny.
l don't know what you're taIking about.
You couId've ever so sIightIy tipped me off.
WouId've saved a Iot of aggravation.
Oh, pIease. lf l had incIuded you with so much as a wink, you'd be canned.
We Iost the cIient.
WeII, there are Iesser fishing Iodges.
No repercussions from Lewiston?
l'm Denny Crane.
As far as he knows, I played it straight.
You know, they can never teII whether l know what l'm doing or not.
Yes. Can you teII?
Not reaIIy.
Every once in a while, just to keep them guessing...
l stick a cigar in my ear.
Do l Iook siIIy? Try it.
[ Sighs ]
We Iook good together.
Yes, we do.