- [ Chattering ] - ~~~~[ Rock ]
When a man turns 40, he begins to take measure of himseIf.
l must admit, l don't Iike what l see.
You're turning 43.
lf you don't mind, l'm trying to appear vuInerabIe...
to faciIitate my snorkeIing up your thighbone Iater.
AIan, you boyfriend, me girIfriend.
You have a season's pass.
You're ruining the conquest part, which is aII it's reaIIy about for me.
ReaIIy? WeII, how about a IittIe pIayacting then?
OnIy if this time l get to be the sheep.
l'm gonna sit over there and pretend to be aIone.
You're gonna approach me, being the stranger that you are, and conquest me.
- Oh, don't be siIIy. - No. l'd Iike to see how you operate, Mr. Shore.
Mmm.
How you doing?
- Fine, thank you. - l'm Joe.
- l'm with somebody. - Who?
HeIIo. l'm a compIete stranger, and l'm here to pick you up.
Oh, l see. There's two of us. l'II be evens, you be odds.
You got a probIem?
No, actuaIIy. l just saw this fair maiden here taIking to a tree trunk.
And since l'm an arborist, l thought l couId heIp transIate.
Here's a heaIth tip-waIk away.
- Why wouId l do that? - AII right. Guys-
- Beat it. - Don't be deceived by my cushy appearance.
[ CIears Throat ] Excuse me. l actuaIIy am with him.
l don't care. WaIk away or l Iay you out.
I don't mean to be a stickler, but isn't the object to lay her out?
- Hey! - Oh, gee. l'm sorry. l was reaching for my waIIet.
l see.
AIIow me to reach for mine.
- Are you aII right? - Fine.
HeIIo, big peopIe.
Sorry to intrude, but you seem rather strapping.
Here's $300. WouId you be so kind as to go hit that man down there?
- ReaIIy? - AIan!
There's an extra hundred if he goes down.
Dude, you're on.
- Make it a good one. - Oh, for God's sakes.
[ Cheering ]
Ooh!
- Nice! - You go! You go!
Here's a hundred. Go heIp your friend.
- Gee, it seems Joe has buddies. One for you. - AII right!
- One for you. - CooI. Thanks, man.
I got plenty of'em.
Hit 'em hard now. For you and for you.
- ~~~~[ Funk ] - ~~~~[ Man Vocalizing ]
[ Man ] ~~ Uh-huh ~~
~~All right ~~
~~ Come on ~~
~~ Come on All right ~~
~~ Well,yeah ~~
~~ Outlaw ~~~~
You don't think the evening was sIightIy symptomatic of something?
You take me to a coIIege frat bar and you start a fight.
- l did not start it. - You certainIy did start it.
AIan, wonderfuI news. The Kerwin deposition has been canceIed.
You don't have to go. Your morning is now free.
Which works out because it seems these two poIice officers are here to arrest you.
- Are you AIan Shore? - My, aren't you clever.!
l bet you make detective one day.
Was my caIIing him ''AIan'' a cIue?
- PIease pIace your hands behind your back. - Why?
Sir, pIease, you're under arrest for conspiracy to commit assauIt and battery.
You have the right to remain silent.
You have it aII memorized! Aren't you the spiffy jiffy?
- And a sharp dresser. - You have the right to an attorney.
lf you cannot afford an attorney, one wiII be appointed to you without charge.
Not to worry, dear! l'II canceI the rest of your day.
[ Man On TV] And in an unprecedented, if not bizarre move...
the selectmen of Summers Port, Massachusetts, a small south shore town...
population 1 8,000...
voted six to two yesterday to ban red meat.
As of midnight, it is now iIIegaI to serve or seII beef within the township...
Mayor George Bostwick caIIing the Iaw a heaIth and safety reguIation.
God! HeaIth and safety.
Did they not caII a town meeting to discuss this?
WeII, they did. And nobody reaIIy took it that seriousIy.
But the mayor controIs the seIectmen, and this is exactIy the pubIicity...
he's hoping to buy.
ln the meantime, my steakhouse is out of business.
How can you ban red meat?
They got a whoIe campaign. They're gonna go with it.
They pIan to promote Summers Port as the seafood capitaI of the worId.
We're carnivores.
When the PiIgrims Ianded, first thing they did was eat a few lndians.
ls there anything we can do?
- We'II get an immediate T.R.O. - I'll argue it myself.
Ban red meat! That cannot pass constitutionaI mustard.
The word is ''muster,'' Denny. But you're right- the Iaw Iacks condiments.
Let's mark up a motion and get going, and Iet's do it in SuffoIk.
We shouId contact the owners of the other affected restaurants and have them join us.
3 27 44...
CommonweaIth versus AIan Shore...
conspiracy to commit battery.
Tara WiIson for the defendant, Your Honor. We'II waive reading.
- l shouIdn't think there'II be any question of baiI. - What have we got here?
He paid some guys in a bar to assauIt another guy.
The guy insuIted my honor. l was required by the canons of barroom conduct to respond.
This being America, I simply enlisted unsuspecting warriors...
who had no idea what l was getting them into.
Was anybody hurt?
Cuts and bruises. There was some damage to the bar.
My suggestion is we admit to sufficient facts.
You continue it without a finding, my cIient makes fuII restitution to the bar.
- That's not gonna fly. - lt was seIf-defense. Mr. Shore was hit.
The fact that he hired others to do the hitting back doesn't precIude-
lf you want a not guiIty, counseI, you need a triaI.
- We can do it today. - You're ready to proceed now?
l'II stipuIate to aII the facts in the poIice report...
though l must take issue with some of the speIIing.
lf he stips to the facts, l couId be ready tomorrow.
Jury triaI, of course. l can provide the court with a Iist of my cIosest peers.
l Ieave for Aspen on Wednesday...
so we will complete this in one day.
1 0:00 tomorrow. The defendant is released on personal recognizance.
Mr. Shore?
lt wouId be a big mistake to come in here thinking this is funny.
You mean it's not funny?
You cannot just ban red meat.
Any municipaIity can pass reasonabIe heaIth reguIations.
Ah, yes. Let's just pause on that word ''reasonabIe.''
Many towns are dry, forbidding the saIe of aIcohoI.
There is an enormous difference between the saIe-
HoId on one second, Miss Schmidt.
ln my courtroom, we aIIow counseI to finish their thoughts. We do not-
lf l couId interrupt.
The author of this particular and preposterous legislation...
happens to be both politically ambitious and a glutton for publicity...
which this new law- funny thing- happens to be generating.
Red meat poses Iegitimate heaIth concerns.
So do overzeaIous eIected officiaIs. We don't just ban them.
- lf onIy we couId. - Now, l shaII do the interrupting.
If nothing else, I pride myself on being a conscientious fact fnder.
Oh, brother.
Mr. Crane, did you say something?
lt's a stupid Iaw. Overturn it. Be a man.
Mr. Crane was trying to be heIpfuI. ApparentIy he did not succeed.
What is the reason specificaIIy for your cIient banning the saIe of red meat?
Bovine spongiform encephaIopathy.
- Mad cow disease. - We are fearfuI of an outbreak.
- ln Summers Port? - Everywhere.
- That's ridicuIous. - Very weII. We shaII hoId an evidentiary hearing.
First person l shaII hear from is the mayor.
Then, Miss Schmidt, if you so desire, l shaII Iisten to your cIient.
- UntiI then, we are adjourned. - Put on a dress.
- 2:00! - [ Gavel Raps ]
What are you doing?
l know this judge. l know where his buttons are.
Research shows, Denny, it's not wise to antagonize the peopIe...
whose favor you're trying to court.
Oh, come on, ShirIey.
You stiII antagonize me, and we both know what's reaIIy going on, don't we?
You sweet man.
lt's been a Iong time since you hit my button.
l doubt you'd even know where to find it.
Just a matter of time, ShirIey. Just a matter of time.
This doesn't invoIve you, man. lt's sexuaI.
l thought you said the judge wouId strike the Iaw down.
lt just got a IittIe tougher, Dominick. They pIayed the mad cow card.
Sometimes a mayor has to do what's right, even if it isn't popular.
Red meat presents risks, which l, as the guardian of my constituency...
am unwiIIing to assume.
LegisIation is capricious on its face.
That'II be our onIy comment at this time.
Pop goes the weaseI. How are you? Denny Crane.
StiII cuckoo for Cuckoo Puffs.
Who's your daddy? Denny Crane. Pop goes the weaseI.
SimpIy put, l don't think we can guarantee the safety of beef.
- Why not? - For starters, we just Iifted the ban on Canadian cattIe...
where mad cow disease was just found again.
The percentage of mad cow in Canada is statisticaIIy-
But why take chances? Consider this disease.
lt's incurabIe. lt rots the brain.
lt's invariabIy fataI, and it's a painfuI death.
But our government has assured us there's absoIuteIy no danger in this.
Our government is pro beef. Are you kidding?
ln the Iast five years, the agricuIture business...
has donated $ 1 40 million...
to congressional and presidential candidates.
Fast food chains, the CattIemen's Beef Association.
You name it, they've aII given big bucks.
- But the Department of AgricuIture says that- - Oh, please.
The U.S.D.A.'s in the meat industry's back pocket.
- What evidence do you have of that? - You want evidence?
How 'bout the Iast secretary of agricuIture appointed meat industry advocates...
to topjobs at the U.S.D.A.?
How 'bout the secretary's former chief of staff used to be...
the chieflobbyist for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association?
The U.S.D.A. has been bought.
Pretty strong words, Mr. Bostwick.
- Oprah got sued for saying Iess. - What does that teII you?
The meat industry gets to sue a taIk show host for putting down a hamburger?
Free speech doesn't appIy when it comes to beef?
WeII, certainIy the U.S.D.A. has an interest in making meat safe.
But they have a doubIe mandate, Your Honor.
And whiIe one may be to keep beef safe...
the other- the bigger one- is to promote the saIe of American meat.
You think there's a reaI interest in this country in rooting out mad cow disease?
- lt's don't ask, don't teII. - Objection.
This past ApriI, a cow stumbIed and feII in Texas.
The vets suspected a centraI nervous system disorder.
That animaI shouId've been tested. lt wasn't.
lt was quickIy sIaughtered and put into pig feed. Why?
Because God forbid we discover mad cow disease.
It'd cost billions and billions of dollars. Well, I'm not gonna wait.
And if that gets me sued, so be it.
How many peopIe in this country have been afflicted...
with the human strain of mad cow disease?
- l don't pIan to- - To wait, yes. How many?
- We don't know. - There have been no confrmed cases.
According to some scientists, many people we think have Alzheimer's...
couId, in fact, be sick from mad cow.
-Are you a scientist, sir? - No.
- Before you became mayor, what was your occupation? - l owned auto deaIerships.
You were a car saIesman.
Given that three million people are killed or injured on our roads every year...
do you aIso pIan to ban automobiIes?
- No. - What about saImoneIIa? Any pIans to criminaIize chickens?
- People don't die from chickens or- - What about mercury in fish?
lt's a concern. But again, l made a judgment as mayor.
And the selectmen concurred that the dangers ofbeef-
Have you any personaI poIiticaI ambitions beyond that of being mayor of Summers Port?
l'm not trying to get headIines, if that's what you're saying.
l didn't say that, but funny you did.
You got anything?
You wouId agree, Mr. Mayor...
that, by and Iarge, vegetarians are communists?
- [ ChuckIing ] l certainIy wouId not. - We're at war, Mr. Bostwick.
Think we can win that war if we suddenly say to our soldiers, ''No more meat''?
Think a nation of fsh eaters can protect the world,you wimp?
- Objection? - Withdrawn. Nothing further.
- Wimp? - What the heII are you doing?
Don't bother with the merits, ShirIey.
This case- it's aII about the judge.
You asked to see us?
Sit.
Not to worry. This is standard. He purposeIy doesn't Iook up.
lt's a technique taught in the '40s for estabIishing dominion.
You were involved in a bar altercation last night.
AItercation? l think not. lt was a brawI.
And you were arrested.
l was. TriaI starts tomorrow actuaIIy.
Can l count on you as a character witness?
Who's defending you?
l'm representing myseIf, with Tara's assistance.
There's no opportunity to plead this out?
OnIy if l pIead guiIty, which is, of course, unacceptabIe.
l have to worry about a three strikes Iaw...
since l pIan to commit future crimes.
l don't know what kind of career death wish you have, Mr. Shore...
but if you're convicted, if you get time, your employment will be terminated.
That may be of IittIe consequence to you-
lf l had a nickeI for every time you've threatened to fire me, PauI, l couId simpIy retire.
AIan, cut it out.
lt is not my habit to Iecture.
[ Scoffs ]
But what you did Iast night was seIfish.
- We have a reputation here at Crane, Poole and Schmidt. - [ Mouthing Words ]
The attorneys here take great pride in that reputation.
lt undermines everyone at Crane, PooIe and Schmidt...
when a lawyer here is criminally prosecuted.
Your actions hurt peopIe.
All of us must now tender explanations...
to our friends, our coIIeagues...
to safeguard and repair the reputation...
of Crane, PooIe and Schmidt-
Stop it!
[ Sighs ] l've had it.
Do you hear me? l have had it.
Get out, both of you.
- PersonaIIy, l wouId never eat meat. - Why, Doctor?
We don't have the means to keep track of what cattIe are being fed...
nor are we adequateIy testing them, in my opinion.
Your Honor, l object to paranoia being offered as evidence.
I'm sorry, but it's absolutely reckless...
for a government to be teIIing us we're safe...
when the scientific community can't necessariIy detect aII the ways...
this disease can be contracted or transmitted.
But Iet's Iook at statistics.
Nobody in this country seems to be getting sick from mad cows.
Judge, we just can't know that.
The disease may have an incubation period of up to 40 years.
You may be infected right now.
My point is, nobody now seems to be demonstrating symptoms.
We don't know that for sure either.
The human strain of the mad cow disease is caIIed CreutzfeIdt-Jakob.
We caII it C.J.D.
But you can also get CJ.D. sporadically, with no link to infected meat.
And some of the peopIe we've diagnosed with AIzheimer's...
might, in fact, have C.J.D.
We don't know how many cases there really are.
You cannot teII me the government has aII this figured out.
- The government covers this up? - lt's probabIy not so much a cover-up.
lt's just we're not terribIy motivated to discover the probIem.
- The economic consequences would be too severe. -Economic consequences.
The beef industry wouId risk an outbreak of mad cow disease.
That wouIdn't bankrupt them overnight?
The beef industry can't aIways teII when a cow is sick.
And they are desperate to believe that isolated cases are isolated cases.
And the Department of Agriculture just plays along?
The month after that sick cow was found in Washington State...
mad cow testing dropped aImost 50%.
- That's outrageous. - lt eventuaIIy went up.
Look, they tried to track the herd where that Washington cow came from.
They couIdn't find 53 of the 80 cows.
They've since admitted their cattle track-back system isn't up and running.
And it would have to be done on a voluntary basis.
VoIuntary. PIease!
What meat packing pIant wants the distinction of having a mad cow?
Which is why l order the fish.
- Denny? - Hmm?
- l'm getting my ass kicked here. - l can see that.
Any suggestions?
- How oId are you, sir? - Forty-six.
l'm 72. l couId mop the floor with you. You know why? l eat meat.
Makes me strong, builds my immune system...
fights off a whoIe bunch of other diseases l might've had if l weren't so strong.
Red meat saves Iives, baby. You ever think about that?
l'm sorry, but there's no reaI evidence to support that opinion.
Oh, sorry.
Any hard evidence to support yours?
Hard evidence? No.
But l don't think we reaIIy want to wait for that evidence to come rushing in.
l had him there, right to the end.
He basicaIIy offered us a hundred doIIars to fight.
- You took the money? - Yes.
- And you fought? - Yes.
Thank you, sir.
lnteresting. We agree to stipuIate to the facts.
- The prosecution sees fit to distort them just the same. - Objection!
- l didn't say, ''Here's a hundred doIIars. Go fight,'' did l? - WeII-
Did l not first ask your friend Mike to avenge an assauIt committed against me?
- Yes. - And then when Mike was attacked...
- l enIisted you and others to go to his aid, did l not? - Yes.
The man who first assauIted me had many coIIeagues who joined the fray, did he not?
- Yes. -Joe's friends first turned it into a brawI, wouIdn't you say?
- Yes. - And as a friend of Mike's...
is it your testimony...
you wouId not have gone to his aid had l not offered you money?
No. l wouId've probabIy jumped in anyway at that point.
Given your forthright testimony which has shed bIinding Iight on what happened at the bar...
wouId you now consider yourseIf a witness more for the prosecution or the defense?
Um, l guess defense.
Thank you, Mr. Edwards. You deserve another hundred.
- [ Chattering ] - [ Woman ] Oh, all right.
We're going to Iose?
lt hasn't gone weII. SureIy you've noticed.
My grandfather started this steakhouse. How can-
l just can't beIieve it.
Look, it isn't over yet. We stiII have summations. But-
l'm gonna teII you this one more time. PIay the judge.
The man Iives with his mother. He wears Iifts.
The buzzword is ''nansy-pansy.''
- l beg your pardon. - Nansy-pansy!
He doesn't want to faII on that side of the fence.
lt's even worse than ''namby-pamby.''
What are you taIking about?
Trust me, ShirIey.
For once, can you do that?
Nansy-pansy.
- l was thinking perhaps l shouId cIose. - Don't be ridicuIous.
- l'm sorry? - No offense, Tara.
But since l handIed the witness, the jury wiII be expecting-
Did you see the faces on the jury?
They weren't impressed. They found you smug.
You were perhaps too seIf-satisfied to notice.
Are we at a certain point in our cycIe, Tara?
l apoIogize.
Do you?
That's a first.
Say what you must.
l was hugeIy embarrassed by what happened at the bar...
not to mention terrified.
l couId have been injured. Did that ever occur to you?
lt wouId've been one thing had you had a neanderthaI reaction and swung back.
But your response was considered.
You reflectiveIy, caImIy orchestrated your vioIence.
PeopIe couId've been hurt. I couId've been hurt.
But you've not once considered that.
Because, contrary to the rumor that you are the center of the universe...
cIearIy you are the universe.
And l, for one, am getting sick of it.
AIan Shore's a good Iawyer, PauI.
If we fre him, it does leave a hole.
l am certainIy mindfuI of that. But how far do we Iet him push us?
He has done this at every firm he has worked for.
He defes them to the point- His last frm sued him.
Yes. And he went on. They didn't.
Schmidt. CaIIed?
CheIina, l caIIed you three hours ago. Where have you been?
- Patriots parade. - The Patriots parade was Iast week.
Three Super BowIs, four years.
l'm stiII on parade.
You worked on that Yenetti Meat Packing case last year, didn't you?
Yes.
What do you know about that cow in Washington State?
l am about to suffer an embarrassing defeat in court.
l need to show that what happened in Washington was an isoIated-What?
Don't go near the Washington case.
It's possible it wasn't even a downer cow.
What do you mean, ''downer cow?''
BasicaIIy, it means the cow feII down.
We're told that mad cows are easy to spot because they stumble and fall.
We were toId that this cow feII.
But eyewitnesses in Washington say the cow was waIking and was tested onIy as a fluke.
Which means-
WhiIe we're being toId that the sick cows show easiIy detectabIe symptoms-
They sometimes don't and therefore go undetected.
Stay away from the Washington case.
Thank you, CheIina.
Mm-hmm.
Pardon the expression, but l'm dead meat.
You reaIIy think you're going to Iose?
l'm tempted to empIoy Denny's strategy.
Which is?
Nansy-pansy.
All I know is, he instigated the brawl.
The charge is conspiracy to commit aggravated assauIt.
TaIking about me, Brad?
Yeah. We're just trying to imagine you as an instigator.
What's that supposed to mean?
Sorry. Forget it.
No. Let's not forget it. How about you say what you have to say?
Or is that too monumentaI an effort, compIeting whoIe sentences?
- Come on, AIan. - You want to taIk about me, Lori?
Perhaps you shouId reposition yourseIf behind my back.
- lsn't that ruIe of the game? - l don't taIk about you behind your back.
You're not that interesting.
l'm tired of this. Got that?
l don't know what's going on with you, sport...
but you're certainIy smart enough to reaIize...
that l couId probabIy dismember you in about the time-
- Then do it. - Cut it out!
- What the heII is going on? - CarefuI, Tara.
l wouIdn't want you to get hurt. Listen to me.
Talking to others as if I weren't the only one in the universe. When will I learn?
[ Tara ] No. When will we learn?
That you are aIways right.
That it makes sense to start a barroom brawI.
That it's perfectIy reasonabIe to get into a shoving match at the office.
Nothing couId be going on with you.
When wiII we Iearn?
Get heIp.
We had an expression in this country years ago caIIed, ''Where's the beef?''
TransIation: ''Where's the substance?''
Your Honor, do you know anybody who's been victimized by mad cow disease?
Know anybody who knows anybody?
Know anybody who knows anybody who knows anybody?
There's simpIy not a shred of evidence...
to suggest that a single person in this country...
has ever become ill from a mad cow.
But why wait? That's the mayor's jingIe.
Why wait?
Because this man and others Iike him...
have sacrifced their lives and their livelihoods...
building their restaurants.
Maybe, as a courtesy...
we couId wait for a scintiIIa of evidence...
before arbitrariIy destroying their businesses.
The fact is, the U.S.D.A. has done an exemplaryjob conducting tests...
establishing safeguards to prevent the outbreak of mad cow disease...
which is probabIy why it hasn't broken out.
Well, we could give in to our fear and panic-
baseless panic.
But that wouId make us...
a nation of nansy-pansies.
I don't know about you, but...
l don't want to be a nansy-pansy.
Towns make ruIes aII the time. Lots of them.
Zone fast food restaurants out ofbusiness.
Through permits, they can controI how you buiId your house.
Some towns ban alcohol, cigarettes.
Others have curfews.
We do aII kinds of things.
The onIy IegaI requirement is that the Iaws are reasonabIe.
lt is not unreasonabIe to fear an outbreak of mad cow disease.
We've had a case in Washington State, another Iast month in Canada.
We've just Iifted the ban on Canadian beef.
The incubation period for this disease could be decades.
We have no guarantee that we're not aIready infected.
lt is simpIy reckIess for the government to be injecting certainty...
when the scientific community cannot.
And forget mad cow.
We aIready know that eating beef can cause high choIesteroI, heart disease.
It increases the risk of colon cancer.
There's listeria and E. coli, which has already killed people.
Dioxin...
the poison that almost killed the Ukranian president-
that stuff is on our grazing grass.
Scientists say the average American has about 1 0 units of dioxin in their bIood fat...
simpIy from eating animaI fat.
There are all kinds...
of reasonablejustifcations...
for a mayor to try to reduce red meat from the diet of his citizenry.
And Iet me remind you...
there is nothing-
nothing in the Constitution...
that guarantees anybody the right to seII a hamburger.
[ Mouths Words ] Nansy-pansy.
This wasn't self-defense.
Mr. Shore was not under any physical threat...
when he paid the first man to fight.
This was vengeance for hire.
And once that vioIence began, he started paying others to escaIate it.
These facts are not in dispute.
The onIy reaI question for you here is...
is Mr. Shore above the Iaw or not?
l've been accused of reflectiveIy...
perhaps even gIibIy...
orchestrating a IittIe revenge.
Well, I guess that's how I wanted it to look.
A man punched me in the face in front of my girIfriend.
And...
while my instinct was to hit him back...
the truth is, l was afraid.
l was fearfuI that if l retaIiated...
he wouId...
beat me up.
So I got somebody else to do my fighting.
Then things got out of hand.
And, weII...
l had to send more and more troops...
to a war that shouId've ended quickIy.
But make no mistake...
my reaction that night...
was not so much reflective...
as it was...
primaI.
A man hit me.
And whiIe we Iike to think of ourseIves...
as being evoIved-
Maybe l shouId've just hit him.
There's a warrior that Iies within the beIIy of every man.
A warrior who, in my case, has aIways gone unsatisfied.
I tried to satisfy it, but without pain.
That's what the craven do sometimes.
They stand out of the fray...
thump their egos aIong with their chests...
and Iet others do the fighting.
WeII, thank you aII for staying Iate.
l did some research of my own.
As you may know, l pride myseIf on being a conscientious fact finder.
Here we go. [ Mouthing Words ]
Mad cow disease is here.
And for all the guarantees supplied by the government...
the scientific community doesn't back them up.
We aII have a right to be concerned.
The governmental agencies in place to protect us...
seem to be controIIed by the industries we need protection from.
This mad cow disease started out in Europe, and it worked its way over here.
And it is true the scientists are at odds with our government.
But as a trier of fact...
a judge must rely on facts...
and there is no evidence of an epidemic.
If a judge were to allow himself to be governed by fear alone...
weII, then it is true, and l agree-
it wouId make him a-
a nansy-pansy.
This judge is anything but.
l find the Iaw banning the saIe of red meat to be premature, if not capricious...
and it is hereby overturned.
Way to go,Judge.
- [ Gavel Raps ] - Case adjourned.
- Anybody up for a burger? - Thank you.
Thank you. Thank God.
WeII, Denny, l admit l had my doubts, but you won this case.
Thank you.
Does this mean we're having sex tonight?
AIIow me the dream a IittIe Ionger.
l won the day.
l deserve to be rewarded.
l'II give you this.
[ Whispering ] Denny. Denny.
Denny... Crane.
[ Moans ]
- l must be acquitted. She's not smiIing. - Shh.
Madam foreperson, you've reached a unanimous verdict?
- We have, Your Honor. - What say you?
Commonwealth versus Alan Shore on the count of conspiracy to commit aggravated assauIt...
we find the defendant, AIan Shore, not guiIty.
We appeaI,Judge.
Members of the jury, this compIetes your service. You can go.
Mr. Shore.
This probably doesn't have to be good-bye...
so much as... untiI we meet again.
Yes, Your Honor.
- She's attracted to me. - No doubt.
Tara. l am sorry.
l never meant to put you in any danger.
l know.
When you- [ Sighs ]
Iaunched into that diatribe about me being the-
The universe.
You said you were sick of it.
Are you sick of me?
Are you sick of me, Tara?
No.
As much as l...
Ioathe sentiment together with its expression...
l cherish you.
You shouId just know...
you reaIIy, reaIIy smeII good.
You smeII good too.
How did you do?
Jury was out 1 5 minutes. Not guiIty.
l think they took pity on me.
CongratuIations.
- l hear you won. - Mmm.
Everything okay?
l don't have AIzheimer's.
l have mad cow disease.
WeII, it's nice to finaIIy know.
Ever beat up anybody with your bare hands?
Many times.
Why?
Just asking.
Have you?
No.
WeII...
makes you a better man than l, l guess.
Guess so.