Previously on Boston LegaI.
l hit her on the head with a skiIIet. What do l do?
Bernard Ferrion,you're under arrest for the murder of Della Ferrion.
They arrested you Iast week for whacking your mother. You got off on a technicaIity.
Now, the woman next door turns up dead from a bIow to the head.
What couId possibIy make them think of you? Now, go away.
l do not represent eviI peopIe.
The lawyer who got the T.R.O., he says he's your son.
- Donny Crane. - Denny Crane.
You gave me the Crane Iegacy, and l fuIIy pIan on Iiving up to it.
- He's not my son. - ObviousIy, he doesn't know.
You're not my father? l'm not your son?
l'm not your son.
[ Screaming, Shouting On TV]
- [ Man ] Where is he? - l don't know!
TeII me where he is! TeII me where he is, or l'm gonna break your arm!
- TeII me or l'm gonna break your arm! - [ Bone Cracking ]
[ Man Screaming ]
ABC's latest reality show?
- That was taken by one of the victim's famiIy members. - l see.
Why go to his aid when you can get the footage? Why am l here, ShirIey?
We represent the poIice union and, accordingIy, the officer.
- l need you to second chair me at the triaI. - Can't do it.
- You don't mean to say that. - You're right. The word is ''won't.''
You have more experience with criminaI defenses.
l Iike my cIients to have a modicum of humanity.
- Don't we aII? ln the meantime- - l'm not doing it, ShirIey.
That officer disgusts me. l won't contribute to his freedom.
l wasn't expecting you to do it for him.
ls that what you think, siIIy?
See, l expect you to do it because this firm pays you $37 5,000 a year.
That's a lot of money, Alan, and we expect you to work for it...
even when it requires doing things that don't quite agree with you.
I expect you do it because a senior partner is-
Oh, no. Check that. The senior partner is asking you to do it.
I expect you to do it because you so often refer to lawyers...
as unprincipIed, souIIess whores.
WeII, for the next few days, l need you to be my whore.
And if that so offends you...
l guess you couId aIways quit.
But I warn you, you will be missed...
for at Ieast aII of five minutes.
- ~~~~[ Funk ] - ~~~~[ Man Vocalizing ]
~~~~[ Continues ]
~~~~[ Ends ]
- Uh, where's Mr. Crane? - At 9:00 in the morning, he couId be many pIaces.
- Why? - WeII, wiII he be present for the settIement conference?
He shouId be. But first-
And if it doesn't settIe, wiII he be trying it?
- Frannie, Iet's taIk here. - Okay.
- We're going to settIe. - Mm-hmm.
lt must settIe. Suing a man for being Ieft at the aItar-
- ln front of 300 peo- - Ah!
Courts don't Iike to get invoIved in breakups.
Not to discount your pain, which l'm sure is reaI...
we are Iooking at the very reaI possibiIity of a directed verdict against us.
ln Iight of that, my recommendation is that you accept the offer.
Uh, for $1 7 5,000?
- Yes. - Oh, no.
Um, Denny Crane promised me more.
[ Chuckles ]
How much did he promise you, Frannie?
Five miIIion.
Maybe l shouId quit. This woman has no idea who or what l am.
- Lighten up, man. - First of all...
the idea of giving representation to that thug-
Alan, come on. We hate all our clients.
lt's good to hate. AIIows us to overcharge and stiII sIeep at night.
l thought her gamesmanship wouId at Ieast be more nuanced.
Alan, I'm sorry for becoming abrupt last night.
The simple fact is I need you. It's a diffcult case.
AIso, for what it's worth, l've been known...
to get contentious with men l unconsciousIy want to bed.
I can't possibly imagine wanting to have sex with you.
But then again, l did sIeep with Denny. Uh, we shouId go.
The triaI starts at 1 0:00.
l wiII do this case, sit by her side...
for no other reason than to soIve her.
Alan, I'm sorry. The midget is back.
- l beg your pardon? - The IittIe man. He's here.
- AIan! - Good gracious. Who have you kiIIed now?
- That question is extremeIy hurtfuI. - Why are you here, Bernard?
WeII, l just dropped by to say heIIo.
I was in the neighborhood. Um, how are you?
Bernie, l'm due in court. l don't have time to taIk to you now.
State your business, if you have any, with Catherine, and l'II caII you back.
Um, forgive me.
l'm uncomfortabIe around IittIe peopIe.
Let me ask you, Bernie.
Have you ever thought about finding God?
Can we taIk a second?
Lock and Ioad.
- Where's the cIient? - l sent her home.
- She doesn't need to be here for this. - lnsane.
Mr. Crane, did you tell the client we could get her five million dollars?
- l might've. So? - Case vaIues out in the Iow six figures.
That's assuming it doesn't get tossed out on pubIic poIicy grounds.
Listen,young lady, frst rule of thumb in practicing law-
AIways, aIways promise the cIient miIIions and miIIions of doIIars.
lt's good business.
And when it comes time to making good on such a ridicuIous cIaim?
Donny Crane.
You remember me.
We used to be father and son. Nice to see you.
- Where's MichaeI GendIer? - l'm appearing as the defendant's new counseI.
That 1 75 is off the table.
By the by, way too high.
We'll go to $50,000. Donny Crane.
- That's rejected. - Whoa! No counter?
- 3 50. - DoubIe whoa.
Well, guess that means a trial, huh?
CooI. More experience for me.
- Donny Crane. - Denny Crane.
- Donny Crane. - You got on this case specificaIIy 'cause l'm on it.
- l did. - You wanna get me.
- l do. - l Iove it.
- Denny Crane. - Donny Crane.
We had received a tip that the suspect, Damon Harris, was visiting his brother PauI.
So we went to the brother's house.
- And did you find the suspect? - Excuse me.
I'm new to this case, as is thejury, of course.
To help us track the facts, I was wondering...
if you couId refer to him as the kidnapping suspect?
So we're clear that we're talking about the man who snatched a six-year-old child...
the boy sitting right over here.
Was the kidnapping suspect there, Officer?
- No. - The brother was there?
- Yes. - CouId you teII us what happened?
WeII, we searched the premises, couIdn't find the kidnapping suspect.
We asked the brother ifhe knew his whereabouts.
- He cIaimed he did not. - And then what happened?
What happened is basicaIIy what you saw on the tape.
My partner began to interrogate the brother more coercively.
At any time, was the victim of this attack...
considered a suspect himseIf in the kidnapping?
- No. - You never considered him connected to the crime?
No.
As Mr. Shore noted, you were trying to fnd...
- the six-year-oId boy seated over here? - Yes.
He was kidnapped how long before this incident?
- The day before. - As time goes by...
what are the chances of finding a kidnapped chiId aIive?
After 48 hours, we consider it extremeIy remote.
In fact, the kidnapper we're talking about...
is suspected in the kidnapping of another boy, correct?
- Yes. - Did you ever fnd that boy?
We found his remains.
While my client was committing his coercive acts...
against the brother, what did you do?
- l stood back. - You never intervened?
- No. - Did you report it?
Uh, not at first. E-EventuaIIy.
By the way, as a result of my client's physical coercive acts...
did the brother teII you anything?
He gave us a Iist of pIaces his brother wouId frequent.
- And did you search those places? - Yes.
And?
We found the suspect... and the chiId.
Thank you.
All I'm saying is, if you killed two people...
and if you're as aIone as you say...
there couIdn't be a better time for you to turn toJesus Christ, your savior.
Under normaI circumstances, l'd agree.
- But? - l'm Jewish.
Bernie, there has never, ever been a Jewish seriaI kiIIer.
Son of Sam. David Berkowitz?
He was adopted. GeneticaIIy, he's one of ours.
WeII, what are you saying?
l am saying that if you're out there murdering peopIe...
on some IeveI you must want to be Christian.
WouId you Iet me take you to church?
God, l admire your guts. Take a piece of the oId man.
- There's a fire in the beIIy. - Yeah. You're an oId man.
-Just not mine, remember? - Yeah.
Thing is, l Iike you. ActuaIIy...
l Iove you.
It's a diffcult thing for Denny Crane to say...
unIess it's part of forepIay.
And l Iove you, Donny, and l'm concerned that...
you go up against me in a court of Iaw, you'II-
I might as well just come out and say it. I can't be beat.
ReaIIy?
- Never Iost, never wiII. - l beat you in the saImon case.
You beat Brad Chase. Me: undefeated.
l see. WeII, how do l put this?
l took this case mainIy to kick your fat, Iying ass.
I mean that in a good way. I will beat you.
- No, you won't. - Yes, l wiII.
- You won't. - l wiII.
- Won't. - WiII.
- Son- - Don't caII me that.
l'm gonna say this one more time with aII the humiIity l can summon up.
l'm the greatest triaI attorney that ever Iived.
You wiII not beat me.
l don't know how much you just heard.
My ass may Iie, but it's aII muscIe.
l knew he knew something, either where his brother was or where the chiId was.
- He knew something. - And you were prepared to beat it out of him?
l was prepared to punch him, to intimidate him.
l didn't actuaIIy mean to break his arm.
But, Mr. KirkIand, what we saw on that tape-
There are different ruIes in kidnappings.
[ Shirley ] What do you mean, ''different rules''?
WeII, the understanding is we're not supposed to break bones...
or cause any permanent injury, but physicaI discomfiture is permitted.
It's okay to, say, dislocate a shoulder, tear a muscle.
[ Shirley ] You're talking about torture.
This was an innocent man. He wasn't even the suspected kidnapper.
And l'm sorry l hurt him, but l feIt he knew where his brother was.
I considered this to be, like, self-defense, or defense of others.
I was gonna do whatever I could to save that boy.
AII l couId think about was my own son.
- The end justifies the means? - l guess l have to say yes to that.
Suppose the suspected kidnapper had confessed to a priest...
you'd feeI no compunction about beating up cIergy to get your information?
- l didn't say that. - WeII, is there a distinction?
An innocent man has information that wouId Iead to the recovery of a chiId.
l guess l feIt the victim here wasn't so innocent.
So you're out there pIaying judge too. PoIiceman,judge, executioner-
- Objection. - Sustained.
Who told you it was okay to tear muscles...
and dislocate shoulders in kidnapping situations?
There's no formaI directive. Just understood.
Understood by the poIice who arrested you after you did it?
l was arrested because the media got a hoId of this. That's the onIy reason l'm here.
How sad is that? You tortured an innocent man with no criminaI record...
whose onIy offense was that his fugitive brother stopped at his house...
and the only reason you're here...
is because the media got a hoId of it.
Do you, Frannie, take MichaeI...
to be your IawfuIIy wedded husband for here and ever after?
l do.
[ Priest ] And do you, Michael, take Frannie...
to be your lawfully wedded wife for here and ever after?
- MichaeI? - Uh-
[ Priest ] Do you, Michael, take Frannie...
to be your lawfully wedded wife for here and ever after?
Michael?
Um- l'm sorry. l can't.
- [ Crowd Murmuring ] - l just can't.
[ Frannie Sobbing On TV]
[ TVShuts Off]
l waited my whoIe Iife for this day.
My friends, my famiIy, they were aII gathered...
to ceIebrate the happiest event in my Iife.
And instead, they were witness to such a humiIiation.
I'm still reeling from it psychologically.
Did you require treatment?
Yes, for many, many months. My therapist thinks the trauma...
is even an inhibitor to my finding Iove again.
Had he given any indication at aII that he was wavering?
None. No. Everything was fine.
It was more than fne, actually.
It was perfect.
Until suddenly, um-
WeII, what you saw, you know.
ln the church with 300 peopIe gathered from aII over...
he just, um-
- WeII, you saw it. - [ Donny ] What are you saying?
lf he didn't feeI committed, he shouId've married you...
just the same 'cause the catering was paid for?
lf he didn't feeI committed, what were we doing up there?
I-I was standing in my gown, my wedding dress.
But this is Iove, Frannie.
lt takes funny, unexpected bounces.
- We're taIking about emotions of the heart. - Objection.
- Sounds Iike a girIie man. - Move to strike!
- That's better. - Mr. Crane.
[ Mouthing Words ]
Frannie, do you think my client planned for it to go down like this?
Do you have any idea what a jolt it was?
To be Ieft standing in the church on a day that you've been pIanning for a Iifetime?
You see that guy over there? Denny Crane?
He pretended to be my father for 25 years.
- l know a good joIt when l- - Objection!
You lost a fanc¨¦. I lost a foundation.
- Objection! - Mr. Crane!
EmotionaI waIIops are a part of Iife. You don't go running into court to address them.
- That's exactIy what you're doing now. - You shut up!
CounseI!
l'm sorry.
I apologize to the court.
Sometimes, pain can cause you to lash out.
WouId you agree with that, Frannie?
If the hurt was deep enough,you'd want to lash out at the person who caused it?
Is it possible you're doing just a little of that here?
Hmm?
That recovery was so smooth, it aImost Iooked pIanned.
- But it wasn't. l got ya. - You don't got me.
- l do. - No, you don't.
- Do! - Don't!
Sir, you're opposing counseI.
UnIess you wanna settIe the case-
lsn't the point to settIe a score?
You caused me to beIieve you were my father for my entire Iife.
You think that score can be evened up?
- Corina. - CheIina.
l've decided to take the defendant's cross.
Mr. Crane, l'm not sure that's a good idea.
- WeII, whose idea is it? - Yours.
Then it must be good.
Mr. Crane, do you even know what this case is about?
lt's about money. They're aIways about money.
l strongIy suggest you Iet me handIe this.
How about-
How-How about- How about those Patriots?
Never, ever, ever did we send the message...
directIy, indirectIy or otherwise that it is acceptabIe procedure...
to physicaIIy coerce suspects or witnesses.
Officer KirkIand says it was understood that...
with kidnapping cases, there's a different set of ruIes.
He's mistaken. Our department is to serve and protect the public...
and that incIudes honoring their civiI Iiberties.
So he was acting outside the scope ofhis authority as a police offcer in your opinion?
He was acting outside the scope of the Iaw.
He committed a vicious criminal assault. It was disgraceful.
I'm repulsed every time I see that footage.
lt's a funny thing that you mention footage, Captain...
because my client wasn't arrested until that video was aired on the news.
We were investigating prior to that broadcast.
Ah. You were investigating. Tell me, when did you frst hear about my client's conduct?
- l can't reaIIy recaII. - Maybe I can help out.
The, uh, victim made a compIaint...
and fiIed a written report the day that it happened.
His famiIy members verified it.
You had knowledge of my client's disgraceful acts from day one, didn't you, Captain?
And yet, when they recovered the child...
you held a press conference singing the praises of your offcers...
incIuding Mr. KirkIand.
Then, when the footage went out over the airways...
suddenIy my cIient's conduct became disgracefuI.
We have not ever and wiII not ever condone torture.
AIan Dershowitz recentIy said that if we had a suspect in custody...
who knew that a bomb was about to go off and kiII peopIe, torture wouId be used.
- Do you disagree with that? - We've never had such a ticking bomb case here.
- So l can't answer. - Let's say we're trying to crack a big terrorist case.
Say, the, uh, the Pan Am jet that went down in Lockerbie.
- Was torture used there? - You'd have to ask the F.B.l.
[ Shirley ] There were reports, I should say rumors...
about the Lockerbie case that eIectricaI devices...
were attached to the prisoner's genitaIia.
- Are you familiar- - Objection.
This court is not going to admit rumors, Miss Schmidt.
Let me ask you something, Captain. lf they were tortured...
do you care?
I was surprised by your last question.
The Iast question is our defense, AIan...
which is the reason l need you to cIose.
CIose? l stiII don't even know what l'm doing on this case, much Iess-
- You're on this case to cIose. - ShirIey-
l'II buy you a drink and expIain. Meet me in my office at 8:00.
What's going on?
l haven't the sIightest idea what's going on.
l'm on this case for no apparent reason.
- Catherine. - Oh, heIIo, dear.
l do not want you befriending Bernard Ferrion.
Gee, you say that aImost as if it's any of your business.
The man has murdered two people. It is unsafe for you to keep his company.
- l've managed to survive for 82 years- - He's dangerous, and he-
- My word wouId be desperate. - Catherine, Bernard Ferrion is eviI.
He wiII IikeIy murder again. And you...
if ever there was a person who deserved a whack on the head-
[ Muttering ]
What?
l absoIuteIy pIanned to marry her.
WeII, what happened, Mike?
l just- l panicked.
- At that particuIar moment? - Look.
l had a phobic kind of thing about Iosing controI of my Iife.
Frannie, she picked out the caterer...
the church, the minister, the reception hall, and itjust hit me.
That wedding was a microcosm of marriage with every decision to be made by her.
And l just panicked.
[ Donny ] Did you think of how embarrassing it would be for her?
For me too. l was standing up there Iooking Iike an idiot.
But we're at the ''speak now or forever hold your peace''part.
- What other choice did l have? - [ Donny ] Thank you.
l must say, we've aII just seen the best of Donny Crane.
- Objection. - Withdrawn. Withdrawn.
- Uh, Mitch- May l- May l caII you Mitch? - My name's MichaeI.
As l understand your testimony, you just weren't ready to get married.
- That's right. - lt's a huge decision. Affects your whoIe Iife.
- Yes. - Affects her life.
- Of course. - You seem Iike a considerate sort of guy.
- Are you? - l think so.
You must've sensed that...
when you Ieft her at the aItar Iike that, it wouId be a big number on her.
You weren't insensitive to that?
No. But, again, what eIse couId l have done?
Well,yes. Would it be unreasonable to say...
that the groom incurs a duty to perhaps sort out his feeIings...
before 30 minutes into the ceremony?
- WeII- - That's not unreasonabIe, is it?
For the groom to be sure before he waIks down the aisIe? ls that unreasonabIe?
Uh-
l guess not.
- Ever teII her you're sorry? - Of course l did.
Wanna teII her now?
Uh-
Frannie, l'm sorry.
- And, Mitch- - My name's MichaeI.
[ Scoffs ] What's your Iawyer's name?
- Donny Crane. - What's my name?
- Denny Crane. - Big difference, isn't there?
- Move to strike. - Mr. Crane!
You got it. Lock and Ioad.
l Iove the Iaw.
And what exactly is your defense?
Something Iike, ''Let him go even though he did it.''
-Jury nuIIification. - Best l can teII.
Though ShirIey hasn't reaIIy fiIIed me in.
- TaIking about me? - Yes, ShirIey.
lf you so enjoy keeping me in the dark, you reaIIy shouId give me a try...
- in the dark. - Thank you.
ActuaIIy, it's your Iove of the dark that got you on this case.
Are we stiII on for 8:00?
See? That evidentIy was supposed to mean something.
Excuse me. Bernie!
What are you doing here?
l'm, uh, picking up Catherine.
We're- We're grabbing a bite.
Bernie, l Iike Catherine Piper. l very much want her to go on Iiving...
the chances of which are lessened if she keeps your company.
- Go screw yourseIf. - What did you just say to me?
You heard me. lt's not Iike me to curse.
l've onIy said it once before in my entire Iife!
- UndoubtedIy, to Mother. - Go screw yourseIf, AIan!
- Now we're up to three times. - l wiII not be berated by you, put down.
Catherine, are you witnessing this?
Why don't you give him a chance, for God's sake?
How about we Ieave God out of this? l hired you to be a IegaI secretary...
not to bring God or anybody eIse into the office...
certainIy not seriaI kiIIers.
Note the Iook on his face, Catherine.
That's what's commonly known as your psychotic glare.
Don't anybody ask this man to whip up an omeIet.
You were my friend.
And l thought you were mine. And you know what you did to me after l got you out?
You killed again. You got blood on my hands that will never come out.
Friends don't do that, Bernie. Friends don't do that.
Oh, you-
Oh!
Your continued staring suggests a point of view, Tara.
lf you've got one, pIease share it.
This is every woman's, perhaps every man's greatest nightmare.
Being Ieft at the aItar in front of aII our famiIy...
our closest friends, our boss.
There is no greater humiliation. And it could happen to anybody.
lt couId happen to you...
your granddaughter...
your son, me.
We gotta send a message right now to every bride and every groom.
lf you wanna have a change of heart, fine.
But have the decency to have it before you waIk down the aisIe.
And there's only one way to really send that message, isn't there?
Money.
What wouId you have him do?
The ceremony somehow takes precedence over the institution itseIf?
The goal is to avoid embarrassment now? This is marriage.
For God's sake. ''TiII death do us part.''
''Let no man tear asunder.''
Now, my client did the honorable thing.
He refused to take vows he didn't feeI he couId Iive up to.
And does anybody here really feel he should have?
This is marriage.
It's simply insane for me to give the closing after you've handled all the witnesses.
The jury has no reIationship with me.
l can onIy guess that you must want one. ls that what this is aII about?
Your unconscious desire to bed me?
[ Boy Groaning ]
You have undoubtedIy seen this footage.
AIong with the rest of the worId.
lt happened in Los AngeIes. What's it got to do with us?
Two of the officers were discipIined, and they then sued.
They were just awarded 2.4 miIIion doIIars Iast month.
ls there a moraI?
This brings us to the dark.
The jury in that case somehow found it in their conscience...
to pay those officers miIIions of doIIars.
ObviousIy, there was some human nature in pIay.
We need to stand up in front of our jury...
and teII them what our cIient did was a good thing.
lt's not in me to seII that.
And you think it's in me?
l certainIy don't know aII of you, AIan...
perhaps not even much...
but you seem to have a capacity to see darkness in peopIe's hearts.
l need you to expIoit the ugIiness in human nature...
in a way that l cannot.
l think you're underestimating your own capacity to see darkness in hearts.
He doesn't get to be above the Iaw because he's a poIiceman.
He doesn't get to be exempt from the law...
because there was a fortuitous resuIt.
He beat up an innocent man...
fractured a cheekbone...
broke an arm, put him in the hospital.
This was an aggravated assault.
lt was torture.
Paul Harris didn't have specifc information...
as to the whereabouts of the suspect.
AII he had was a generaI idea of the pIaces he Iiked to frequent.
For that, you saw what happened to him.
The truth is, as Americans, we Iove torture.
We keep it to ourseIves, of course, but, come on.
When it comes to eviIdoers, torture's okay.
Hollywood certainly knows that.
Dirty Harry. Boom. CharIes Bronson in Death Wish.
Denzel Washington in Man on Fire.
Heroes torturing the bad guys.
ln theaters aII across the country, we cheered. We Iike torture.
Is there potential for abuse? Without question.
The events at Abu Ghraib prison were depIorabIe.
But do we reaIIy beIieve they just happened in a vacuum?
Alberto Gonzales, our attorney general...
wrote a memo to the administration saying torture's okay.
Our Supreme Court just recentIy heId that...
evidence gained from torture can be used in triaIs.
Alan Dershowitz, one of the leading civil rights activists in our country...
raised the idea of using torture warrants...
so as at least to be more open about it.
Torture warrants. Love that torture. Shh!
Mr. Preston taIks about the victim here being an innocent man.
Now, come on. He wasn't that innocent. He did harbor a fugitive...
one who kidnaps and kiIIs chiIdren.
He did have information that ultimately led to the rescue of the child here...
and he refused to give it up until he was...
coerced.
As for my cIient being above the Iaw, weII...
the Iaw in this country has aIways been subject...
to evoIving community standards of humanity.
So the 1 2 of you get to go back there as a community and ask yourseIves...
was this a good thing or not?
He's happy.
He's aIive. They're sure as heII happy.
My cIient saved a Iife, that IittIe boy's Iife.
lf it were your chiId, wouIdn't you want the poIice to do whatever was necessary?
This officer got the job done...
using a method that our government...
our military, our attorney general...
and, yes, even our Supreme Court has said is sometimes okay.
Sometimes, depending on the situation, torture's okay.
Just don't teII anybody.
[Judge ] Madam Foreperson, thejury has reached a verdict?
- We have, Your Honor. - What say you?
On the question ofliability, we fnd in favor of the plaintiff.
On the question of damages...
we order the defendant to pay the pIaintiff the amount of 1 .6 miIIion doIIars.
[ Gasps, Laughs ]
[Judge ] Thank you. Thejury is dismissed.
- [ Gavel Raps ] - [ Michael ] 1.6?
Oh, my God.
- l'm sorry. - You said we'd win.
[ Breathing HeaviIy ]
Your first mistake was Ietting me push your buttons in there.
Your second was not preparing your cIient for cross.
He admitted fauIt. He admitted the harm was foreseeabIe.
You Iet me frame the issue as the groom's duty to be sure before the ceremony.
Once we got that, we won.
Never, ever Iet the other side frame the issue, son.
l'm not your son.
CouId you pIease go?
Your third mistake-
definition of a father.
lt's a sIiding scaIe.
Some are great, some are terribIe, and most are in between.
l may not have been around much...
but l was aIways there when you needed me.
StiII am.
And l've aIways Ioved you.
StiII do.
WiII the defendant pIease rise?
Thejury has reached a unanimous verdict?
- We have, Your Honor. - PIease state your verdict.
In the matter of the CommonweaIth versus Wayne KirkIand...
re: the charge of aggravated assault...
we fnd the defendant, Wayne Kirkland, not guilty.
- [ ExhaIes DeepIy ] - CongratuIations.
Thank you very much. Thank you for everything.
You're most weIcome, sir.
- [Judge ] This court is adjourned. - [ Gavel Raps ]
Thank you, AIan. And l apoIogize if l offended you.
Nonsense. You paid great tribute to my Iawyering skiIIs, ShirIey.
What higher compIiment couId there be?
AIan? Listen, l-
Your capacity to see darkness, we aII have it, l suppose, incIuding me.
My point is...
it was simpIy a dirty job, and l chose to Iet you do it.
No. The point is, l was wiIIing to do it.
And you somehow saw that.
[ CIears Throat ]
Mmm.
Your secretary said you wanted to see me.
She toId you that?
ls there some reason why she shouIdn't have?
l said l wanted to see you naked.
l don't suppose there's much chance of that.
- l'II Iet you see me naked. - Now there's definiteIy no chance.
Mmm. WeII, now that you're here.
You tried a good case, soIdier. You're an exceIIent Iawyer.
Thank you. TeII a friend.
Drinking without me?
- l'm never without you. - Nice coat. New?
$3,500. lt's good to have money. Don't you Iove having money?
- lt means we're successfuI. - Happy.
- Fat. - lt's aII good.
- How'd your triaI go? - We won. You?
Victory.
Success.
Goes weII with having money.
We're winners. That's what we are.
Yep. Salud. Here's to the winners.