ROSENBERG: Any signs got my name on them?
GARY: Quite a few.
What do they say?
The usual.
"Death to Rosenberg."
"Retire Rosenberg."
"Cut off the oxygen."
That's my favorite.
Of course, you, Mr. Grantham...
...did pretty good by me your last time out.
"Rosenberg equals the government over business...
...the individual over government, the environment over everything...
...and the Indians, oh, give them whatever they want."
With all due respect, that wasn't my line, that was a quote.
From one of your unnamed Senior White House officials.
Senior White House bastard, you should have said.
Got in there by...
...stirring up these people, one against the other.
Never fails to amaze me...
...what a man will do to get an oval office.
SNELLER: Yes?
KHAMEL: Looking for Mr. Sneller. SNELLER: Mr. Sneller?
KHAMEL: Yes, Mr. Edwin F. Sneller.
KHAMEL: Hello. SNELLER: Everything is in place.
All the money must be there when I arrive in Zurich.
It will be there if the job is finished.
It will be finished.
OPERATOR: May I help you? KHAMEL: I'd like to order room service.
-What would you like? -Coffee...
...scrambled eggs, whole-wheat toast and orange juice, please.
OPERATOR: It'll be about 1 5 minutes. KHAMEL: Thank you.
CALLAHAN: When we substitute threat for an argument...
...violence for principle, we allow our passion...
...to overcome our capacity for reason.
Passion and self-interest are threats to liberty...
...which brings us to Bowers against Hardwick.
A police officer entered Mr. Hardwick's apartment to serve him a warrant...
...for an unpaid violation for drinking in public.
They caught him with an open beer.
When he entered Mr. Hardwick's bedroom...
...he found him in bed with a man.
The officer arrested Hardwick...
...for violating Georgia's statute which outlaws sodomy.
Even though Georgia dropped the case...
...Hardwick challenged the constitutionality of the statute.
Now, what was his claim?
-That it violates the right of privacy. CALLAHAN: Why?
STUDENT: He's got the right to do as he pleases in his home.
But what if he decided to sell drugs at his home or engage in child abuse?
Those actions don't fit within the right of privacy.
The court, beginning with Griswold...
...has limited the right of privacy to actions which are intimate...
...which are deeply personal, which allow us to control our lives...
...to define who we are.
But is that a constitutional claim? There's no...
...right to define oneself written into the Constitution.
It's not even in the Bill of Rights.
If the State of Georgia can regulate Hardwick's sexuality...
...engaged in private with consenting adults, Hardwick cannot be free.
The Constitution ensures limited government.
If there's no right of privacy and Georgia can enforce the statute...
...we sacrifice the liberty the framers thought they'd guaranteed us.
The Supreme Court disagreed with you.
They found that the statute did not violate the right of privacy.
CALLAHAN: Why?
They're wrong.
HOST: So all three of you girls find him irresistible. Why?
FEMALE CONTESTANT: Sexual attraction.
HOST: You mean he's just got it?
FEMALE CONTESTANT: Does he ever!
HOST: What you're saying...
...is that if you could clone three of him, you'd all be happy.
Okay, tell us, what is your secret?
MALE CONTESTANT: I'm not sure I can say on TV.
But what I can say is it's a big secret.
A very big secret.
[GUNSHOTS]
HOST: My goodness gracious! I can't believe my ears!
MALE CONTESTANT: Hope my mom's not watching.
HOST: She hopes so too!
MALE CONTESTANT: Ma, I was just kidding.
HOST: Ladies, have you changed your opinion about our stud?
You still like him?
FEMALE CONTESTANT: I like big guys!
HOST: I think your fan club has increased.
FEMALE CONTESTANT: Everything has increased!
COAL: They found Rosenberg around 1 A.M.
His nurse was also murdered.
Jensen was found two hours later in some queer club.
Voyles called me, wildly upset. It's hardly good for FBI's reputation.
COAL: He and Giminski are on the way. PRESIDENT: Giminski?
COAL: Yes. The CIA should be involved, at least for now.
You must wait two hours to address the nation if we want an audience.
A coat and tie may seem a bit rehearsed. How about a cardigan?
You want me to talk to the nation in a time of crisis wearing a sweater?
Mr. President...
...I've already told Justice to put together a list of nominees.
Restructuring the court will be your legacy.
VOYLES: Mr. President.
PRESIDENT: Mr. Voyles, does the FBI have any suspects?
It's too soon.
We'll have ballistics and autopsies later.
PRESIDENT: I would like to have a report on your security and where it broke down.
You're assuming it broke down.
We have two dead judges, both of whom were being protected by the FBI.
Bob, I'd like a straight answer.
Are these killings in any way linked to the CIA...
...or to any other agency of the United States government?
I'm shocked you'd think that.
Bob, just look into it, okay?
I suggest we meet back here at five.
Five, gentlemen. Thank you.
COAL: It's rally-around-the-leader time.
Your approval ratings will go through the roof.
ANNOUNCER: That's the weather in New Orleans. This is Tim Bellew.
We interrupt our program now for a special bulletin.
NEWS ANCHOR: In a special address, live from the White House...
...the president of the United States.
PRESIDENT: My fellow Americans...
...our country has suffered a grievous loss.
Last night...
...Supreme Court Justices Rosenberg and Jensen...
...were assassinated.
These assassinations may be an attempt to strike at the very fabric...
...of our government.
But I can assure each...
...and every American...
...that these dastardly acts will not go unpunished.
Everything...
...is being and will be done to bring the culprit...
...or culprits to justice.
For justice must...
...and shall prevail.
I wish you could have known him when I used to clerk for him.
Last time I saw him, only the mind was left.
That's why they killed him.
That mind was still a threat.
But why kill him now, when he had so little time left?
Maybe they couldn't take a chance he'd last till the elections.
So why Jensen? This president nominated him.
He and Rosenberg had almost nothing in common.
That's what they should look for.
Decisions on which they both agreed.
Boy, if there ever was a moment for a drink....
One day at a time, right?
PRESIDENT: We're talking a conspiracy, then who are the conspirators?
If we've let foreign terrorists in, there'll be hell to pay politically.
The intelligence community can't be blamed for a weakness in immigration.
PRESIDENT: Denton, who are your suspects?
This has to be kept very quiet.
Of course. This is the Oval Office.
At least 11 Underground Army members have been in the D.C. area...
...and we suspect them in at least 1 00 bombings of abortion clinics...
...porno houses, gay clubs all over the country.
COAL: The truth is, you don't have a suspect.
Correct?
Watch your claws.
NEWMAN: Gray Grantham covers the Supreme Court for the Washington Herald.
You actually interviewed Justice Rosenberg...
...before he was shot on, as it turned out, the day he died.
Did he say anything that might shed some light on these dreadful events?
Yes. He spoke about things...
...off the record, appropriately for a sitting justice.
But I think it would be appropriate to quote him now.
GRANTHAM: He said, "The campaign waged by the president was so ruthless...
...in its manipulation of the middle-class fears of minorities...
...had been so exploitive and divisive that it created a climate of distrust."
You know, that Grantham's a man after my own heart.
Everyone wants to know when you're starting classes again.
That includes me.
You know what they say: Drinking makes depression worse.
What do they recommend for anguish? Where've you been?
The library. I studied a printout of the Supreme Court docket.
I even made a list of possible suspects.
And then threw it away because they'd be obvious to everyone.
Then you looked for areas Jensen and Rosenberg had in common.
Exactly.
Jensen generally protected the rights of criminal defendants.
Some notable exceptions.
He wrote 3 majority opinions protective of the environment.
And almost always supported tax protestors.
So they might have been assassinated by an insatiable tax collector?
As yet, I rule no one out.
Everyone is assuming the motive is hatred or revenge.
Or an attempt to influence the social agenda of the court.
What if the issue involved old-fashioned material greed?
A case that involves a great deal of money?
-Can I help you? -I'd like to see this file, please.
Why?
It's public record, isn't it?
Semi-public.
Are you familiar with the Freedom of Information Act?
CLERK: This file has the pleading...
...and correspondence. The rest is discovery and the trial.
DARBY: When was the trial? CLERK: Last summer.
CLERK: Went on for 2 months. DARBY: Where's the appeal?
Not perfected yet. I think the deadline is August 1st.
CALLAHAN: So, who done it?
You have some obscure suspect unknown to the FBI and the CIA and...
...Secret Service and 1 0,000 police departments?
I had one...
...which I have now discarded.
You skipped class, ignored me for a week, just to throw it away?
Let me see it.
Don't laugh. It was ludicrous of me to think I could solve it.
Hubris of the young, huh?
Don't knock the hubris that I love.
CALLAHAN: I'm leaving tomorrow.
I'm going up to Rosenberg's memorial in Washington.
I went through Rosenberg's decisions the other night...
...and in the back of my mind there's an idea...
...to do a book on him.
No one could do it better.
I started making notes...
...about what he meant to me: surrogate father, mentor, you know.
I started to get very thirsty.
I deserted you this week.
Not the greatest timing.
You're here to study law, not keep me sober.
It's Alice.
Want to come out with me for a burger?
DARBY: No, thanks.
ALICE: It might do you good to get out.
DARBY: I'm fine, thanks.
ALICE: You sure? DARBY: Yes.
ALICE: Okay, bye.
GRAY: Hey, Sarge.
SARGE: Hey, son.
Dark coffee, three sugars.
So how's the president?
Which one?
Not Coal, the real one.
Cool and mellow.
Would you believe he's all tore up about Rosenberg?
And all fired up about...
...restructuring the court.
Thinks it'll make his place in history.
Sounds like Coal. What'd you get me?
There's a short list of nominees.
The original had 20 or so names, then they cut it to 8. I gave you 2.
What about the investigation?
I haven't heard much...
...but I'll keep my ears open.
-I know you will. Thanks. -I got that.
I'll see you later.
SARGE: Mellow, mellow, mellow.
VERHEEK: Martini, please.
Good day. Good to see you.
Another coffee, please.
You read the Grantham article.
It had me running around all day.
Coal blasted the director, saying the judges' names were leaked by the FBI.
The director said Coal had leaked them himself to test the waters.
Coal ran the most divisive campaign in 20 years...
...and the president did nothing.
I'd like to have seen your name on this list of judges.
We all voted you most likely to make the court.
These days, it's hard enough just to make my class.
How old is she, this time?
Twenty-four. But she's...
...extremely mature.
At 24, she's mature.
I don't know if I believe that. Do you have a photo?
No, I don't. She's not a puppy dog or a grandchild.
Thank God.
Who killed them, Gavin?
I'm just a lawyer with the Bureau, I'm not an agent.
But, as I recall, you have great ears.
To be honest, we don't have a clue.
My girlfriend wrote a very interesting essay...
...on who might have ordered the assassinations.
Your girlfriend has a theory?
Here, take a look at it. You'll get a kick out of the way her mind works.
MORGAN: Is this Gray Grantham? -Yes, it is.
Sorry to call at such a crazy hour. I'm at a pay phone on my way to work.
I can't call from home or the office.
What kind of office?
I'm an attorney.
Private or government?
I'd rather not say.
I may know something about Rosenberg and Jensen.
Are you recording this?
Can this call be traced?
I'm not recording it or tracing it. I promise you.
I may know who killed them.
What's your name?
Garcia.
That's not your real name.
I think I saw something at the office I wasn't supposed to see.
Do you have a copy?
I need to think about this.
-I understand. -I'm not thinking rationally.
Listen, I promise you...
...I will protect you as a confidential source.
[HANGS UP]
Hello.
[MACHINE BEEPS]
Got you.
Mr. Grantham's not here, but he left his car number for you.
MORGAN: It's Garcia. I still don't know what to do.
GRAY: Mr. Garcia...
...I've gone to jail rather than reveal a source.
GRAY: I know what kind of hell this must be for you.
You're clearly a decent human being, a good citizen.
But could you live with yourself if you don't reveal what you know?
MORGAN I'll get back to you.
GRAY: Taxi!
French authorities reviewed footage from the airport cameras in Paris...
...and think they recognized a face that might be Khamel's, the terrorist.
He may have arrived here on a flight 1 0 hours after we found Jensen's body.
Anything else?
Maybe a small new wrinkle.
What's the wrinkle?
It's a theory that surfaced in the last 24 hours.
Voyles is really intrigued by it.
He's afraid it might be damaging to the president.
How's that?
It's all there in the brief.
VOYLES: It's amateur stuff...
...but how often does something make Coal sweat and run for cover?
He didn't exactly sweat in front of us.
But his stone face showed he wasn't happy.
REPORTER: Did he have any symptoms?
COAL: As I told you, the president is here for his annual checkup.
I wish I was in as good shape.
REPORTER: Was this timed to counter the age issue in the next election?
COAL: Why didn't I think of that?
REPORTER: He hasn't decided whether to run again.
When will he decide?
COAL: Do you really expect me to answer that?
One rumor I can deny is that he checked in to get away from you.
Although could you blame him?
PRESIDENT: Thank you again.
Commander, go downstairs and tell them I have a date for golf this afternoon.
Yes, sir!
It's killing the press you're so healthy.
Good. Now, what's so important?
COAL: This is...
...a brief...
...written by an eager-beaver law student.
It's a theory about the assassinations.
And indirectly...
...it implicates the White House.
The premise is so far-fetched it's absurd.
But Director Voyles, for reasons both you and I can guess...
...is going after it.
Well, we....
We can't interfere with his investigation.
COAL: You should ask Giminski to have the CIA investigate.
When we confirm that this is garbage, you can ask Voyles to back off.
It's domestic.
The CIA can't go nosing around. It's illegal.
Yes, technically.
What about...
...your friend...
...Barr, and the Unit, I think you call it.
I've spoken to Barr.
They're very good for small specific missions...
...but they aren't the CIA.
How does it implicate the White House? What are there, names?
One name.
Someone we both know?
REPORTERS: Mr. President....
I've decided my agenda for the future.
I'll stay in bed...
...drink...
...make love...
...and forget the whole damn business.
CALLAHAN: You don't approve.
What about the book on Rosenberg?
You should write it.
-Let's go. -You should.
You have the youth, the energy, the certitude.
You'd be perfect.
Can I have the keys?
CALLAHAN: I'm perfectly capable of driving.
DARBY: You've drunk too much.
DARBY: Give me the keys.
CALLAHAN: Remember the Mashed Potato? DARBY: Give me the keys.
-You're too young. -I know it.
CALLAHAN: Do you remember the Fishback?
-The Slide? -No. Please.
-Please what? -Give me the keys.
Give me the keys. I'll drive or I'll walk.
CALLAHAN: You'll walk? DARBY: Yes.
Have a nice stroll.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
CALLAHAN: Miss Shaw!
You take my breath away!
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
Thomas!
Oh, my God!
[KNOCKING]
[SIRENS]
RUPERT: Watch the door.
I'm Sergeant Rupert, NOPD.
RUPERT: You'll be safe in my car.
BOOTS: Your name?
Darby Shaw.
RUPERT: Let's go.
Is this your car?
POLICEWOMAN: Come here.
OLSON: I'm Lieutenant Olsen, NOPD.
I'm taking you to the hospital.
Check the plates.
Did you know the man in the car?
Thomas Callahan.
It'll be a few minutes.
OLSON: Are you sure that the man who called himself Rupert said he was a cop?
We don't have a record of a cop named Rupert. The computer...
...has no record of the tag numbers of the car you were in. Must be fake.
I'll go move the car. I'll be back.
All right?
[PHONE RINGS]
DARBY: Gavin Verheek?
This is Darby Shaw. Do you know who I am?
VERHEEK: We have a mutual friend.
Thomas gave you a copy of my theory.
Yes, he did.
Where is it?
I read it and I showed it to some folks at the Bureau...
...who sent it to Director Voyles.
Has it been seen outside of the FBI?
I can't answer that.
Then I won't tell you what's happened to Thomas.
Okay, yes.
It's been seen outside the FBI, but by whom I don't know.
He's dead, Gavin.
He was murdered. Someone planted a car bomb for both of us.
I got lucky, but they're after me.
What's your phone number? Where are you?
Not so fast.
Come on! Thomas Callahan was my best friend.
I'll have agents pick you up. You can't stay on the street.
Thomas is dead because he talked to you. Tell that to Voyles.
VERHEEK'S WlFE: Turn up the TV, I can't hear Regis and Kathie Lee.
Down.
Mr. President.
PRESIDENT: Sit down. You must see this. We've been working on this all morning.
You have your first audience.
Over. Roll over.
Roll over.
How serious is this Pelican thing?
I've assigned 1 4 agents in New Orleans.
I doubt if there's anything to it, but we must check it out.
I don't have to tell you...
...how much trouble and pain this nonsense could cause...
...if the press gets wind of it.
Oh, well, you got half of it. Good boy.
I just wish...
...that you'd...
...back off the thing....
I mean...
...it's a goose chase.
Are you asking me to ignore a suspect, Mr. President?
If the press...
...gets wind of what you're after and starts digging, I'll be--
We'll be crucified.
So you're asking me to back off?
Back off and chase the real suspects.
lgnore it for a few weeks, that's all.
Your hatchet man did a real number on me with the press. They ate my lunch...
...over the security...
...we provided Jensen and Rosenberg.
Get that pit bull off my ass and I'll forget the Pelican theory a while.
[DARBY SCREAMS]
CLERK: May I have your card?
I'll pay with cash.
DARBY: Verheek. VERHEEK: Yes.
What did Voyles say?
Mr. Voyles has been unavailable.
But I will try to speak to him later this afternoon.
I expected more.
There's a memorial service tomorrow.
I'll be there tonight.
I think we should meet.
Darby, I can save your life.
You can't even talk to the director.
Where will you stay?
At the Westin, by the river.
Okay.
HOOTEN: She's watching TV.
GlMINSKl: They've been looking under rocks. She's using credit cards.
She'll be dead in 48 hours.
CIA AGENT: I'll give her 72.
GlMINSKl: We'll meet at 6 A.M.
CIA AGENT: All right, Bob.
Hooten, stay.
This means her little brief is right on point.
HOOTEN: Will you notify the president?
GlMINSKY: Notifying the president...
...means notifying Coal.
REPORTER: Gray Grantham's article in tomorrow's Washington Herald...
...maintains that, according to unnamed White House sources...
...the Mid-Eastern terrorist, Khamel...
...may be among those who assassinated Justices Rosenberg and Jensen.
Those sources say that a country known for sponsoring terrorist activity...
...may have hired Khamel.
[PHONE RINGS]
It's Garcia.
I'm on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and First.
Take down my license number; there's a lot of gray Volvos out there.
8-5-6...
...V-N-N.
[GARClA REPEATS]
Right.
GRAY: Ten minutes. GARClA: Yes.
My keys!
[PHONE RINGS]
GARClA: I can't do it.
Let's get together anyway.
You'll feel better if we meet and you don't have to reveal anything.
I have a wife and daughter.
There's a chance they know that I know.
The guys at the firm?
I didn't tell you I was in a firm.
You go to work too early to be a government lawyer.
You must work at a firm where they expect people...
...to work at least 1 00 hours a week.
[PHONE RINGS]
Garcia, we can work this thing out if you just get together with me.
DARBY: Garcia?
Who's this?
Is this Gray Grantham?
Yes. Who's this?
Have you heard of the Pelican Brief?
The what?
Pelican Brief.
No. Never heard of it.
It's an unlikely little theory about who killed Rosenberg and Jensen.
A friend of mine took it to Washington.
He gave it to a friend in the FBI and it was passed around.
My friend was killed in a car bomb.
Wait now.
Your friend took it to the FBI...
...and then he was killed? What's his name?
I can't tell you that.
How do you know all this?
I wrote the brief.
Are you a lawyer?
No.
Where are you calling from?
I'd rather you not ask me any more questions.
You called me.
What's your name?
-Alice. -You called me, Alice.
Can you get a list of the major presidential campaign contributors?
Yes. Sure. I can have it tomorrow.
You know who did these killings?
Yes.
Let's cut to the chase. Who did it?
Let's take it slow. I'll be in touch.
When?
[HANGS UP]
DARBY: Hi.
How are you?
ALICE: How are you?
Did you get into my apartment?
Your computer's gone.
So are your floppy disks.
And your red expandable files.
I need you to do me a favor.
Go to the memorial service tomorrow...
...and spread the word I called to say I'm staying with an aunt in Denver.
And I won't be back until fall.
What is going on?
Are you okay about money?
I have the money my father left me.
Who are you hiding from?
I think you better go now, Alice.
It would be better for me if you go now.
That's not fair.
The prettiest girl in the Quarter, the saddest girl in the Quarter.
I can't get you to give me a smile?
I saw that.
That's something.
MAN: Just one beer? DARBY: No.
I've found my mission in life.
To make you smile.
You must find another mission.
MAN: Wait!
MAN: Will you marry me, just for 5 minutes?
I know it's stupid, but I think we're fated for each other.
I must go now.
Please, you're not going to walk out on me, are you?
[SINGING] I'd walk a million miles
For one of your smiles
You beautiful
You wonderful girl
From the laundry
DARBY: You've got the wrong girl.
ONLOOKER: Go get her.
DARBY: Please, help me!
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
KHAMEL: Looking for Mr. Sneller.
Mr. Sneller?
KHAMEL: Yes, Mr. Edwin F. Sneller.
FRlEND: Have you heard from Darby?
ALICE: Yes, I did.
I got a note from her. She's staying with an aunt in Colorado.
But she's going to be back next semester.
ALICE: I'll see you later.
Gavin, it's Darby.
I'd just about given up on you.
Tell me where you want to meet and I'll come with 3 agents.
I thought the FBI was not involved.
It's not involved, not yet. I have friends.
We can get you out of the city tonight, in Washington tomorrow.
I promise you'll meet Voyles.
We'll go from there.
At noon tomorrow, take the trolley to Riverwalk.
Wait, Riverwalk?
Wear a long sleeve shirt and a red baseball cap.
Wait on the riverside at the bandstand...
...and I'll find you.
The riverside bandstand.
-How tall are you? -5'1 0".
Your weight?
About 1 80, but I'm planning on losing it.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Tomorrow.
[GUNSHOT]
DARBY [ON RECORDER]: Gavin, it's Darby.
GAVIN [ON RECORDER]: I'd just about given up on you.
Tell me where you want to meet and I'll come with 3 agents.
I thought the FBI was not involved.
It's not involved, not yet.
I have friends.
We'll get you out of the city tonight, in Washington tomorrow.
I promise you'll meet Voyles.
We'll go from there.
At noon tomorrow, take the trolley to Riverwalk.
Wear a long sleeve shirt and a red baseball cap.
Wait on the riverside at the bandstand and I'll find you.
The riverside bandstand?
-How tall are you? -5'1 0".
Your weight?
About 1 80, but I'm planning on losing it.
All right.
Tell me where you want to meet....
Tell me where you want to meet...
...and within an hour I'll come get you with 3 agents.
[GUNSHOT]
[WOMAN SCREAMS]
SECRETARY: Mr. Sneller on line 2.
SNELLER: Khamel is dead. We don't know who did it.
-And the girl? -She's running.
We lost her. We'll find her.
DARBY: There's been another murder.
You remember my friend gave the brief to a friend at the FBI?
The FBI friend was killed yesterday.
How do you know?
I was holding his hand. He was shot...
...in broad daylight in a crowd.
I'm very sorry.
I'm in New York now. When can you come?
You'll have to give me something I can confirm.
We get crank calls from people claiming to know who killed Rosenberg and Jensen.
Something you can confirm?
Please.
Such as?
The name of the friend that was murdered in the car explosion.
Take your time.
Callahan.
His first name?
Thomas.
Where did it happen?
In New Orleans. I think that should be enough.
All right.
What's the name of the friend that worked at the FBI?
Verheek.