律师本色(The Practice)第8季第18集台词本阅读、下载和单词统计

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[00:01]	BERLUTI: Previously on The Practice.
[00:02]	FRUTT: Are you trying to get disbarred?
[00:04]	As self-destructive as–
[00:05]	All right, all right, on that note.
[00:07]	We’ve decided to let you go.
[00:08]	Go where?
[00:09]	YOUNG: Here’s a check
[00:10]	representing two weeks’ severance pay.
[00:12]	I’ve generated fees in excess of $6 million.
[00:15]	You’ve handed me a check for $15,000.
[00:17]	YOUNG: Alan Shore seemed to know this was coming.
[00:19]	Did you tell him? Yes.
[00:20]	YOUNG: Your employment here is terminated.
[00:22]	Wherever you take your business,
[00:23]	I would urge you again not to take it to Alan Shore.
[00:26]	It is our belief that he is unstable.
[00:28]	FRUTT: I can’t bear the idea
[00:30]	of going back to work with you not being there.
[00:32]	SHORE: I need to be able to bring Tara back.
[00:34]	My presence is so powerful,
[00:36]	I don’t even have to talk.
[00:37]	Sometimes I’m better when I don’t talk.
[00:39]	This was my thinking.
[00:40]	I’m Denny Crane, damn it.
[00:42]	You hired him.
[00:43]	Why didn’t you stop me?
[00:44]	You need to argue this motion.
[00:46]	GLEASON: I’m scheduling an evidentiary hearing
[00:48]	for next week.
[00:49]	We’ll take off our gloves
[00:50]	and have at it.
[01:00]	(clears throat)
[01:05]	What’s up?
[01:07]	This is Noah Burke.
[01:08]	He’ll be representing us in our labor dispute.
[01:11]	FRUTT: Wow.
[01:12]	So, we are going outside.
[01:14]	Yes.
[01:16]	Just a thought, but shouldn’t I have been included
[01:18]	in that decision?
[01:19]	Well, that’s the very issue we need to talk about.
[01:22]	BURKE: Look, Ms. Frutt, I can walk you through the legals,
[01:23]	but cutting to the chase, this thing is close.
[01:25]	I mean, Mr. Shore’s estoppel claims are colorable.
[01:28]	I mean, we have an associate here
[01:29]	whose financial contributions grossly exceed
[01:31]	those of the partners.
[01:32]	He’s hired an extremely deep and talented firm.
[01:35]	I mean, we’re in–we’re in for a fight here,
[01:37]	a difficult fight. So, all this really
[01:38]	is to preface one question, which is,
[01:41]	“Where do you stand?”
[01:42]	Can I get you a cup of coffee?
[01:45]	Okay, look (clears throat)
[01:46]	the guts of our case
[01:47]	will be that Alan Shore is a bad guy.
[01:50]	Now, you will need to testify.
[01:52]	You will need to get in the witness chair
[01:53]	and not only support the idea that he’s a bad guy
[01:55]	but actually sell it. I mean, see,
[01:56]	this man has a personal animosity towards Mr. Shore.
[01:58]	I mean, his bias will be exposed and lanced
[02:00]	like a giant boil.
[02:02]	This man looks like he hates everybody,
[02:03]	and his emotions will make him anything but impartial.
[02:05]	The only objective and fair-minded voice we have–
[02:07]	if we’re to have one is you.
[02:09]	All right, once again,
[02:11]	it’s you.
[02:12]	So as I told Mr. Young and Mr. Berluti,
[02:15]	you will have to win this case for us.
[02:16]	You will have to take Alan Shore down.
[02:19]	So let me put to you
[02:20]	the great interrogatory once posed
[02:22]	by the leader of the free world–
[02:23]	are you with us,
[02:25]	or are you against us?
[02:29]	(music playing)
[03:09]	BILLINGS: Whether or not we go forward all depends.
[03:11]	Of course we’re going forward.
[03:12]	Not so fast.
[03:13]	Then slow down.
[03:15]	I canceled your 10:00.
[03:16]	I had to tell the beast, and she’s in a mood, so…
[03:18]	Tell her she looks beautiful
[03:20]	and the meeting will be rescheduled.
[03:21]	Well, she won’t believe she’s beautiful
[03:22]	unless you tell her. Then tell her I said so.
[03:24]	Goodbye.
[03:25]	Who’s the beast?
[03:27]	Sara Lipp,
[03:28]	wicked senior partner of the east.
[03:31]	Denny Crane.
[03:33]	Yes, I know you’re Denny Crane.
[03:34]	Why do you always tell me your name?
[03:36]	Is it so you won’t forget?
[03:38]	Well, let me tell you something, soldier.
[03:40]	I’ve learned from experience that people can’t believe
[03:42]	they’re actually in the room with Denny Crane.
[03:45]	They think it can’t be true,
[03:46]	so I let them know it is true.
[03:49]	I look them in the eye–
[03:51]	“Denny Crane.”
[03:52]	Gives them something to tell their grandkids.
[03:56]	Denny Crane.
[04:02]	You know, I wanted him because he knows the judge.
[04:05]	I’m having deep concerns now that the judge knows him.
[04:07]	Okay, first of all, he did win the motion last week.
[04:10]	Second, I’ll first-chair. He’ll be second.
[04:12]	But he talks aloud.
[04:14]	I’ll rein him in.
[04:16]	He’s an asset.
[04:16]	We want him at our table.
[04:19]	Trust me.
[04:22]	Denny Crane.
[04:28]	STRINGER: Tara, hey.
[04:32]	What’s new?
[04:35]	Don’t even ask.
[04:37]	You doing okay?
[04:38]	Yeah.
[04:40]	FRUTT: Tara, thanks for coming in.
[04:42]	Let’s go in my office.
[04:49]	Listen,
[04:50]	Eugene, Jimmy, and I, we realize
[04:53]	that we put you in an impossible situation,
[04:56]	asking you to protect a firm confidence
[04:59]	to the detriment of a friend.
[05:01]	And we appreciate that maybe,
[05:04]	we were unfair.
[05:07]	Anyway, we’re offering you your job back.
[05:09]	We consider you an extremely valued member
[05:12]	of this practice, and we hope
[05:14]	that you will consider rejoining us.
[05:18]	You’re offering me my job back?
[05:20]	Yes.
[05:26]	And you’re actually sorry
[05:27]	for putting me in a difficult situation?
[05:31]	Yes.
[05:33]	Is Eugene sorry?
[05:37]	Yes.
[05:40]	Well, could Eugene apologize in person?
[05:46]	That would help me decide.
[05:48]	He’s obviously under a lot of stress, Tara.
[05:50]	Let’s not make– WILSON: Ellenor,
[05:52]	I have a great respect for you.
[05:56]	And my hope is, at the conclusion
[05:57]	of all this ugliness,
[05:58]	there will be no erosion of that respect.
[06:02]	But this isn’t about you being sorry.
[06:06]	This isn’t about you valuing me as a member of your firm.
[06:10]	This is about you getting me on your side,
[06:15]	securing my testimony to favor you.
[06:19]	Look, Tara,
[06:21]	you know I care about him.
[06:24]	And, believe it or not, I also care about you.
[06:27]	You are a young law student
[06:29]	with your entire future ahead of you.
[06:33]	You need to consider carefully
[06:36]	which side you’d rather be associated with here.
[06:42]	I have considered that very carefully.
[06:48]	I’ll be testifying in support of Alan.
[07:01]	I can’t underline enough my reservations
[07:03]	about him being here.
[07:04]	And I can’t underline enough his presence has currency.
[07:08]	I don’t like it when people talk about me
[07:10]	like I’m not in the room.
[07:12]	Last time I checked, I was in the room.
[07:14]	SHORE: You know, I’m having a sudden burst of insecurity.
[07:17]	I could use some reassurance.
[07:19]	Could you just say those two little words
[07:22]	I so long to hear?
[07:28]	Denny Crane.
[07:30]	Thank you.
[07:31]	BURKE: Sorry we’re late. Let’s get started.
[07:33]	Um, I’d like to preface my remarks by saying–
[07:35]	CRANE: Hold on. Hold on just a minute.
[07:37]	You’re not late.
[07:39]	You derive some sort of power keeping everybody waiting.
[07:42]	We agreed to meet at 2:00.
[07:43]	No, you turn up at 10 past.
[07:46]	Our plan all along was to start the meeting at a quarter past,
[07:49]	so we’re just gonna stand around for five minutes,
[07:52]	you little gerbil. Why don’t you gnaw on a stick of celery?
[07:57]	Denny Crane.
[07:59]	Look, we are here to take one last stab at settling this.
[08:02]	We are not waiting five minutes.
[08:04]	We are not waiting two.
[08:06]	Let’s start over.
[08:07]	Please.
[08:13]	I think we can all assume, should this go to trial,
[08:16]	you’ll be vicious, we’ll be vicious,
[08:19]	it’ll get publicly nasty, and everybody will bleed.
[08:22]	The reason for this meeting is to avoid all the bloodshed.
[08:25]	Obviously, we have a number.
[08:27]	You have a number, I suspect.
[08:29]	Should I give you ours?
[08:30]	Please.
[08:31]	$750,000.
[08:33]	And before you reject it, that’s three times the salary
[08:35]	of the next-ranking associate,
[08:36]	and it’s probably $750,000 more than you’d get
[08:39]	if we proceed to court, given Mr. Shore’s conduct.
[08:41]	And what, if I were you, I’d be most concerned with–
[08:42]	You’re not me, Mr. Burke.
[08:44]	Let’s not ever make that mistake.
[08:47]	BURKE: If certain things in this trial become public,
[08:49]	Mr. Shore may be unemployable in perpetuity
[08:51]	and perhaps even disbarred.
[08:52]	Denny Crane.
[08:53]	Let me respond by just–
[08:54]	May I, Matthew?
[08:56]	Let’s not compare my salary
[08:59]	with that of the highest-ranking associate.
[09:01]	The whole point here is I don’t compare
[09:04]	with the rank associates at Young, Frutt, and Berluti.
[09:06]	I, in fact, out-earn and out-produce
[09:08]	the rank partners–
[09:10]	You’re being contentious.
[09:11]	Denny Crane.
[09:13]	(chuckles) Okay,
[09:15]	uh, why don’t you just tell us your number?
[09:18]	$1.9 million.
[09:20]	What? BILLINGS: Should Mr. Shore
[09:22]	be declared a de facto partner,
[09:23]	his share this year alone will be over a million.
[09:26]	And that doesn’t even account for the revenues
[09:28]	generated in the future by clients he brought in.
[09:31]	Which he then stole. Denny Crane.
[09:33]	BILLINGS: And what that really doesn’t account for–
[09:36]	you guys were close to going under.
[09:38]	Not true.
[09:39]	You know what? You can read the books
[09:40]	just like I can.
[09:41]	If the jury finds that Alan saved this firm
[09:43]	and we have to allow for the possibility
[09:45]	of that finding.
[09:46]	We could get five million,
[09:48]	maybe six.
[09:49]	Alan Shore was fired from his last firm for embezzling.
[09:53]	We hired him out of charity more than anything else.
[09:55]	SHORE: We seem to be moving further apart now.
[09:58]	May I finish, please? SHORE: You may,
[09:59]	but that last remark just pushed our demand up to 2.5.
[10:03]	Alan– You know what?
[10:04]	In the absence of any contract,
[10:06]	I think the only fair thing is to agree.
[10:09]	I have no right to work at your firm.
[10:11]	I should walk away, and I will.
[10:12]	I just want the money I brought in, $9 million.
[10:15]	Take out overhead, give me the rest.
[10:17]	$8.9 million, we can all shake hands.
[10:22]	I think we’re going to trial.
[10:39]	Let’s be fair, Mr. Shore.
[10:42]	You were fired from your previous firm
[10:43]	for embezzling.
[10:44]	And I deserved it.
[10:45]	I did not deserve to be fired from this firm.
[10:47]	Because?
[10:49]	Because I saved them from going bankrupt,
[10:51]	because I won my cases, because I look good doing it.
[10:53]	BILLINGS: Did you ever break any laws?
[10:55]	Break any laws?
[10:56]	Yes.
[10:57]	Did you extort lawyers?
[10:59]	Did you illegally download records?
[11:01]	Were you privy to deals, buying off witnesses?
[11:04]	Did you suborn perjury?
[11:06]	Ah, that.
[11:07]	Perhaps.
[11:08]	BILLINGS: Perhaps?
[11:10]	Look, they knew my character when they hired me.
[11:12]	I never did anything– hello, Judge.
[11:14]	I never did anything ever that wasn’t in my character.
[11:17]	BILLINGS: Well, Alan, come on.
[11:19]	You could have risked disbarment with all this.
[11:21]	That would run to the reputation of the firm.
[11:23]	I was called before the bar already.
[11:25]	Eugene Young stood up unsolicited,
[11:27]	called me a just and honorable man.
[11:29]	But when it was time to split up all the millions of dollars
[11:32]	I generated,
[11:35]	I was suddenly unworthy.
[11:38]	BILLINGS: Thank you, sir.
[11:51]	This feels dramatic.
[11:55]	You left out the part
[11:56]	where you impersonated an airline official
[11:58]	from the opposing side
[12:00]	and then settled a case
[12:01]	under that false identity.
[12:03]	Using money out of my own pocket
[12:04]	to spare the firm a malpractice suit.
[12:07]	You left out the part where you hired a lawyer
[12:09]	who believed God talked to her.
[12:12]	It was never established he didn’t.
[12:14]	YOUNG: You left out the part
[12:15]	that you constantly defied the partners.
[12:16]	Only when they were wrong,
[12:17]	which, granted, was most of the time.
[12:19]	Is it just me,
[12:20]	or are all his questions in statement form?
[12:23]	YOUNG: You left out the part
[12:24]	where you hid a murder weapon from the police.
[12:27]	SHORE: Oh, if I were to mention that,
[12:28]	the police would demand to know where I hid it.
[12:30]	YOUNG: You left out the part where you took a hooker
[12:32]	to a client’s wedding.
[12:33]	The invitation said, “Significant other.”
[12:35]	I thought it would last.
[12:37]	YOUNG: You left out the part
[12:38]	where you secretly installed video cameras
[12:40]	in a woman’s hotel room
[12:41]	and taped her having sex.
[12:43]	SHORE: For blackmail purposes only.
[12:46]	Okay, that was a lie.
[12:48]	I watch for my own pleasure.
[12:52]	This is all one big source of amusement for you,
[12:55]	isn’t it, Alan?
[12:56]	I’ll tell you this, Eugene.
[12:59]	If you take life too seriously,
[13:01]	it ceases to be funny.
[13:04]	I tried to impart that
[13:06]	and other little wisdoms to you,
[13:09]	which you never took,
[13:11]	but you always took the money.
[13:22]	BILLINGS: Alan, I don’t know what you’re doing.
[13:24]	You say you want to settle, but I don’t think
[13:26]	you know what you want.
[13:28]	Tara,
[13:29]	I plan to keep your testimony very simple.
[13:32]	Basically, I want you to establish
[13:33]	that he was open and notorious
[13:35]	with his antics from the beginning.
[13:36]	Okay.
[13:37]	I will not put you in the position
[13:38]	of attacking Eugene or Ellenor, and I don’t want you to.
[13:41]	Denny, this is Tara Wilson,
[13:43]	a law student I spoke of.
[13:45]	In need of employment?
[13:46]	Yes. She’s extremely talented.
[13:48]	I can personally vouch for her skills as a paralegal,
[13:51]	as well as– Stand up, please.
[13:56]	Turn around, please.
[14:08]	Lips real?
[14:09]	Yes.
[14:10]	Yours?
[14:12]	CRANE: Let me tell you something, Tara.
[14:13]	We hire only pretty people in this firm.
[14:16]	Pretty people get better results.
[14:18]	Pretty girls keep me aroused.
[14:20]	I think more clearly when I’m aroused.
[14:21]	Are you a pretty girl, soldier?
[14:28]	I am, sir.
[14:30]	Good girl.
[14:32]	At ease.
[14:37]	I’m always at ease,
[14:41]	sir.
[14:44]	I like her.
[14:49]	The truth is
[14:51]	it’s been a horrible year.
[14:54]	I haven’t liked going to work since he’s been there.
[14:57]	My cases…
[14:59]	seems he’s gotten all the good ones.
[15:03]	How’s your love life?
[15:06]	(scoffs)
[15:09]	Sounds like I hate my life, doesn’t it?
[15:13]	Very much so.
[15:16]	Why don’t you change it?
[15:20]	How?
[15:22]	Well, what do you want to do?
[15:27]	Jimmy,
[15:28]	you mean you haven’t even asked yourself the question?
[15:37]	WILSON: Dishonorable?
[15:38]	No.
[15:39]	Ethically challenged?
[15:42]	(sighs) Perhaps.
[15:44]	BILLINGS: What’s the difference?
[15:45]	WILSON: He was honest with how he dealt
[15:47]	with his friends and his fellow partners.
[15:51]	Where he was perhaps underhanded
[15:53]	was with opposing counsel.
[15:55]	Did the partners at the firm
[15:57]	know about his underhandedness?
[15:59]	(chuckles) Yes.
[16:02]	They would often protest and threaten him,
[16:05]	but as Alan correctly points out,
[16:07]	at the end of the day,
[16:08]	they would cash the checks.
[16:10]	BILLINGS: And Ms. Wilson, you had the opportunity
[16:12]	to see the financial records at Young, Frutt, and Berluti?
[16:15]	I did.
[16:16]	BILLINGS: And what kind of impact did Alan Shore
[16:18]	have on their business?
[16:19]	WILSON: In dollars?
[16:22]	He more than tripled it.
[16:27]	BURKE: Obviously, you’re friends with Alan Shore.
[16:29]	I consider him a friend, yes.
[16:31]	Forgive my indiscretion,
[16:33]	and admittedly, I’m speculating,
[16:35]	but have you had sex with him?
[16:38]	No.
[16:39]	SHORE: Objection.
[16:40]	She answered the question.
[16:41]	That’s what I’m objecting to.
[16:43]	I want to have sex with her. She keeps saying no.
[16:47]	BURKE: I believe you’ve witnessed Mr. Shore
[16:49]	committing acts of sexual harassment
[16:50]	in the workplace, have you not?
[16:52]	I have.
[16:53]	In fact, you once complained to Eugene Young
[16:55]	that he repulsed you, that you thought he was vulgar.
[16:59]	SHORE: I believe the witness said she had vulgar thoughts
[17:02]	that involved me.
[17:03]	There’s a difference there.
[17:04]	Please rephrase.
[17:07]	WILSON: As you can see, his behavior is quite
[17:09]	incorrigible but I–
[17:10]	BURKE: Incorrigible?
[17:12]	He lies, he steals, he conceals evidence,
[17:15]	he openly defies the partners, and that’s the word you use
[17:19]	“incorrigible”?
[17:20]	Well– BURKE: I’m just curious.
[17:21]	Is Mr. Shore helping you to find new employment?
[17:25]	Actually, he just helped me find a new job, yes.
[17:27]	BURKE: Oh, well, that’s interesting.
[17:29]	So, I mean, might you say you’re in his debt a little?
[17:31]	I would.
[17:33]	Thank you very much, Ms. Wilson.
[17:38]	Isn’t it true you really do want to sleep with…
[17:43]	Nothing further.
[17:49]	CRANE: I mean, Matthew,
[17:54]	the client confuses me.
[17:57]	Does he want to lose?
[17:58]	No, he, uh–he just–
[18:02]	he can’t contain himself sometimes.
[18:05]	He’s a complicated guy.
[18:06]	This is not good behavior.
[18:08]	This is not consistent with someone who wants to win.
[18:11]	I understand.
[18:12]	I’m concerned, Matthew.
[18:14]	The client confuses me.
[18:19]	He called me fat.
[18:21]	Mr. Shore did?
[18:22]	BERLUTI: Almost every day.
[18:24]	Usually in front of other people,
[18:26]	to humiliate me.
[18:29]	It was some remark about my body,
[18:33]	or he’d also call me stupid.
[18:35]	This is an associate directing insults at partners,
[18:40]	and he’s all shocked that we didn’t want him.
[18:43]	So that’s why you voted to discharge him,
[18:45]	because of all the insults?
[18:46]	No, that’s not the only reason.
[18:48]	He violated legal ethics.
[18:51]	He ignored privilege.
[18:58]	I voted to discharge him
[18:59]	because we’re not just a place of business.
[19:04]	We’re not simply a corporate entity
[19:06]	that exists to generate profits.
[19:11]	We’re a practice at law.
[19:14]	The people in our practice
[19:16]	have respect for the profession,
[19:19]	respect for each other as people.
[19:23]	He didn’t.
[19:25]	I voted to discharge him because it is not okay
[19:28]	to ignore the ethical rules of the practice.
[19:31]	I voted to discharge him because it is not okay
[19:34]	to be little people,
[19:37]	to treat them with cruelty or ridicule.
[19:41]	If he wants to build a firm
[19:42]	where that kind of behavior is okay,
[19:45]	let him build his own firm,
[19:47]	but he was an associate at ours,
[19:50]	and he dishonored it,
[19:52]	and us, daily.
[19:59]	Thank you, sir.
[20:29]	You spoke with a great deal of emotion, Jimmy.
[20:36]	You don’t like me, do you?
[20:40]	No, I don’t.
[20:44]	Is it possible for you to completely separate
[20:46]	your personal dislike of me
[20:48]	from your objective opinion of me
[20:49]	as an attorney,
[20:51]	honestly?
[20:55]	Probably not.
[20:59]	Thank you.
[21:05]	(music playing)
[21:42]	Are you testifying against me, Ellenor?
[21:45]	Alan, what do you want?
[21:48]	The jury can’t order us to rehire you.
[21:52]	You claim it’s not about the money.
[21:55]	So…
[21:57]	what is it that you want?
[22:01]	I don’t know.
[22:06]	Maybe just to be–
[22:15]	well, let’s leave it at that.
[22:18]	Just to be.
[22:24]	Are you trying to get the jury
[22:26]	to judge you negatively
[22:28]	to confirm some twisted–
[22:29]	SHORE: Aw, I got another psychoanalysis.
[22:32]	I don’t have time, Ellenor.
[22:34]	I’ve got a long day in court tomorrow.
[22:43]	Do you?
[23:02]	YOUNG: He had no contract.
[23:03]	It was employee at will,
[23:05]	and legally, we’re entitled
[23:07]	to terminate an associate
[23:08]	for personal reasons.
[23:10]	But it wasn’t just personal reasons.
[23:12]	We had to protect the integrity
[23:14]	of our practice.
[23:15]	BURKE: But, Eugene,
[23:16]	as it’s been said,
[23:18]	you did take the money.
[23:19]	Yes, he earned revenue in his capacity
[23:22]	as an associate,
[23:23]	but that didn’t give him tenure.
[23:25]	You heard all the things he did against the law,
[23:27]	against the canons of law,
[23:28]	against us.
[23:30]	How do we employ a person
[23:32]	we can’t even trust?
[23:33]	Fiduciary duty, that has to mean something
[23:36]	in a partnership–
[23:37]	is an implied obligation
[23:39]	to deal fairly with one another,
[23:41]	honestly.
[23:42]	That man never did.
[23:44]	As a result, he had to go.
[23:49]	He had to go.
[23:51]	BURKE: Thank you.
[24:05]	I want you to know I agree with everything you said,
[24:07]	and if what you said about my client is true,
[24:09]	I’d have fired his ass, too.
[24:11]	Good work, soldier.
[24:12]	Nothing further.
[24:20]	Uh…
[24:23]	I imagine this, uh,
[24:26]	business about fiduciary duty–
[24:27]	obligation to deal fairly, honestly–
[24:30]	goes both ways.
[24:31]	You would have a duty
[24:33]	to be fair
[24:36]	and aboveboard with Alan Shore.
[24:38]	I would, and I did.
[24:40]	Good man.
[24:49]	Uh, you had a meeting
[24:51]	with, uh, Samuel Gould,
[24:54]	a client of Al Shore’s,
[24:56]	last week, did you not?
[24:57]	I did.
[24:59]	CRANE: Longtime client of Al Shore’s, am I right?
[25:01]	Yes.
[25:06]	(over recorder) That must strongly caution you
[25:08]	against going with Alan Shore. GOULD (over recorder): Why?
[25:11]	YOUNG (over recorder): It is our belief
[25:12]	that he is unstable,
[25:13]	that he has self-destructive
[25:15]	personality tendencies,
[25:16]	that he’s also prone to committing unethical,
[25:19]	sometimes even criminal acts.
[25:21]	Wherever you take your business,
[25:23]	I would urge you again
[25:24]	not to take it to Alan Shore.
[25:27]	(click)
[25:28]	That was you
[25:29]	trying to steal Al Shore’s client.
[25:32]	Was that a fiduciary stab in Al’s back?
[25:35]	At the time of that discussion,
[25:37]	Samuel Gould was a client of the firm.
[25:39]	Your Honor, it’s illegal to secretly tape-record–
[25:41]	CRANE: There was nothing secret about it.
[25:42]	Mr. Gould taped all his meetings.
[25:44]	The firm knew it.
[25:47]	Did you forget?
[25:49]	(clicks)
[25:50]	YOUNG (over recorder): He is unstable,
[25:51]	that he has self-destructive
[25:53]	personality tendencies.
[25:54]	(clicks)
[25:56]	That’s slander, Mr. Young.
[25:58]	Truth is a complete defense
[26:00]	to slander.
[26:02]	I spoke the truth.
[26:10]	You know, son, I’m a senior partner
[26:12]	in my firm the way you are in yours.
[26:13]	And here’s the thing about good leadership–
[26:16]	and you tell me if you disagree.
[26:19]	It’s not enough to insist on fidelity
[26:21]	or honesty or fair dealing.
[26:25]	A good leader
[26:26]	has to practice it.
[26:32]	Denny Crane.
[26:42]	SHORE: Was it my imagination,
[26:43]	or was he actually quite effective?
[26:46]	I keep telling you,
[26:47]	once he’s in a courtroom,
[26:48]	all the plaque on his brain
[26:49]	just dissolves.
[26:51]	I don’t know what the hell it is,
[26:53]	but I think it was effective.
[26:54]	I don’t like it when people talk about me
[26:56]	like I’m not in the corridor.
[26:57]	Last time I checked,
[26:59]	I was in the corridor.
[27:02]	(music playing)
[27:16]	FRUTT: He said that he had been fired
[27:18]	by his firm
[27:19]	and that he needed a break.
[27:21]	Did he say why he was fired?
[27:23]	He embezzled.
[27:25]	He said it was a half-Robin Hood
[27:27]	kind of thing,
[27:28]	that he took from the rich
[27:29]	and kept it.
[27:30]	BURKE: And knowing this,
[27:32]	you hired Alan Shore?
[27:34]	Yes.
[27:36]	BURKE: Why?
[27:36]	He was a friend who–
[27:41]	well, like you said,
[27:42]	he needed a break.
[27:45]	And this testimony today…
[27:49]	this is difficult?
[27:51]	You have no idea.
[27:52]	BURKE: In fact, despite all the infractions
[27:55]	he’s committed since joining your firm,
[27:57]	you’ve continued to defend him.
[28:00]	Why, Ellenor?
[28:04]	I think Alan
[28:07]	is deeply troubled.
[28:09]	As talented as he is,
[28:11]	as terrific as he is,
[28:15]	I don’t think he likes himself.
[28:17]	And on some psychological level–
[28:20]	BILLINGS: Objection– foundation.
[28:22]	This will be a lay opinion
[28:23]	from a friend, Your Honor.
[28:25]	I’ll allow it.
[28:28]	BURKE: Please continue.
[28:30]	I think to service his own self-loathing,
[28:33]	he breeds contempt from others.
[28:36]	BURKE: We heard
[28:37]	Eugene Young use the words
[28:38]	“self-destructive.”
[28:39]	FRUTT: That would be fair.
[28:41]	I’ve said that to Alan
[28:42]	on more than one occasion.
[28:45]	I truly believe
[28:47]	he’s trying to destroy himself.
[28:51]	I don’t think it was ever
[28:53]	his intent
[28:56]	to damage the firm,
[28:59]	but that’s what he started to do.
[29:01]	So, you agree, then,
[29:03]	with the decision to discharge him?
[29:07]	I do.
[29:09]	BURKE: Thank you, Ellenor.
[29:18]	You really wanna do this one?
[29:22]	Alan?
[29:25]	SHORE: Yeah.
[29:39]	You think it’s best that I leave.
[29:48]	Did you not say last week,
[29:50]	“Let’s work this out”?
[29:52]	Did you not say you couldn’t bear the idea
[29:56]	of going to work
[29:57]	at a place without me?
[30:01]	I said that.
[30:04]	Did you mean it?
[30:05]	I meant it.
[30:10]	But, Alan,
[30:13]	I said that un-objectively,
[30:15]	as your friend,
[30:16]	as a person who continues
[30:18]	to care deeply for you,
[30:22]	but…
[30:23]	(breathes)
[30:27]	I don’t think you’re entirely well.
[30:30]	You are gonna self-destruct one day,
[30:34]	and I can’t prevent that.
[30:38]	But I can’t let you
[30:40]	destroy my partners in the process.
[30:43]	(sighs)
[30:46]	I’m sorry.
[30:53]	I see.
[30:58]	(music playing)
[31:18]	YOUNG: We live in a time
[31:20]	where breaking rules,
[31:21]	being a rebel,
[31:22]	flashing irreverence
[31:23]	for any kind of convention is cool,
[31:25]	is hip.
[31:26]	Alan Shore is a hip, cool guy.
[31:29]	He’s entertaining, too.
[31:31]	It can be fun
[31:32]	watching him do his thing,
[31:34]	but when he’s doing it to you
[31:35]	or people you love
[31:36]	or something you love–
[31:41]	you see these people here?
[31:44]	We don’t have husbands and wives.
[31:45]	Ellenor has a child,
[31:47]	I have a son,
[31:48]	but no one can accuse us
[31:49]	of living rounded, balanced lives.
[31:52]	Our lives are that law firm.
[31:54]	Our lives are each other,
[31:56]	and working together in a place–
[31:58]	together–
[32:00]	that’s something.
[32:08]	I might even call that “everything.”
[32:13]	This man
[32:15]	couldn’t get that.
[32:18]	He came in, from the very first day,
[32:20]	and behaved in a way that said,
[32:22]	“People here don’t have to be moral.
[32:24]	People here don’t have to conduct themselves
[32:26]	with integrity,
[32:27]	that people here don’t need
[32:29]	to be honest.”
[32:30]	You heard the list,
[32:32]	blackmail, extortion,
[32:33]	breaking privilege,
[32:34]	impersonating opposing parties,
[32:36]	concealing evidence,
[32:37]	It goes on and on.
[32:38]	He did this acting as an agent
[32:40]	of the place we built.
[32:43]	Alan Shore thinks he got fired
[32:44]	because we were afraid
[32:45]	he’d bring the firm down.
[32:47]	What he can’t seem to get
[32:49]	is that he’s already
[32:50]	brought us down.
[32:54]	Like I said,
[32:56]	I know scandal is hip these days.
[32:59]	For sure, it’s profitable.
[33:01]	But at Young, Frutt, and Berluti,
[33:04]	character still counts.
[33:06]	It must count.
[33:07]	Our dignity is not a fungible thing,
[33:11]	not to Ellenor,
[33:13]	not to Jimmy,
[33:16]	not to Jamie,
[33:21]	not to me.
[33:25]	Alan Shore…
[33:29]	just can’t get that.
[33:34]	(music playing)
[34:03]	When this firm hired me,
[34:07]	they knowingly engaged the services
[34:09]	of an embezzler.
[34:11]	They let me go about my evil,
[34:13]	sinister business,
[34:15]	and make them rich,
[34:18]	and then they tossed me.
[34:24]	I had an uncle.
[34:25]	He’d bring a delicious dessert
[34:29]	to every family get-together,
[34:31]	and everyone would fawn
[34:33]	and gush, saying,
[34:35]	“You’re so thoughtful, Charles.
[34:37]	You’re so generous.”
[34:40]	He admitted to me he wasn’t generous at all.
[34:42]	He was hungry.
[34:43]	And his logic was…
[34:45]	if he brought a pie,
[34:47]	he’d get a slice.
[34:51]	I brought the pie, ladies and gentlemen.
[34:53]	They didn’t give me my slice.
[34:56]	And as for all my despicable,
[34:59]	unethical, immoral,
[35:01]	treacherous, sleazy conduct,
[35:03]	they called me everything
[35:04]	but a terrorist, didn’t they?
[35:06]	This business
[35:08]	is not an ethical arena.
[35:12]	Our legal system is adversarial by nature,
[35:15]	where it is often the very function
[35:17]	of a lawyer’s job
[35:20]	to prevent the truth
[35:22]	from ever coming out.
[35:25]	We get paid to suppress
[35:29]	and squash
[35:30]	and conceal evidence.
[35:32]	Remember, this is the system
[35:34]	that freed O. J.
[35:36]	but also convicted Rubin “Hurricane” Carter.
[35:38]	Every first-year law student is taught,
[35:42]	“Don’t ever, ever equate legal ethics
[35:46]	with morality.
[35:47]	They’re almost always mutually exclusive.”
[35:50]	It’s an ugly world
[35:52]	where underhandedness is often celebrated.
[35:55]	I didn’t enter
[35:57]	Eugene Young’s church.
[35:59]	It was a law firm.
[36:01]	A criminal law firm.
[36:02]	The dirtiest kind,
[36:03]	where lawyers get up in court,
[36:05]	as Mr. Young has many times,
[36:07]	and knowingly falsely accuse innocent people
[36:11]	of murder.
[36:12]	Why?
[36:12]	For the noble cause
[36:13]	of getting the real killer off.
[36:15]	Eugene Young has put guilty people
[36:18]	back on the street to kill again.
[36:20]	He’s in the business of freeing serial rapists.
[36:23]	But, hey, I brought the firm down
[36:26]	by pretending to be an airline executive.
[36:28]	I’m sorry.
[36:29]	I guess I just don’t get it.
[36:34]	He goes behind my back,
[36:35]	tells my client I’m unstable
[36:38]	for the purpose of stealing that client.
[36:40]	This somehow falls within the bounds
[36:43]	of integrity.
[36:45]	I guess I just don’t get it.
[36:55]	There’s a couple of things
[36:56]	Eugene Young just can’t seem to get.
[36:59]	First, I’m just an unscrupulous guy
[37:02]	trying to get by in an unscrupulous profession.
[37:07]	And second,
[37:08]	I respect him profoundly.
[37:11]	There’s perhaps nobody I respect more.
[37:17]	In the eight or so months I’ve known you,
[37:21]	I’ve found you to be
[37:22]	utterly beyond reproach,
[37:32]	which is why I’m so surprised
[37:35]	he would take all that money
[37:38]	I brought in,
[37:39]	fire me,
[37:42]	then go through all this
[37:45]	just to avoid giving me my slice.
[38:03]	WILSON: Hey, how’d it go?
[38:04]	SHORE: They’re deliberating.
[38:05]	Can we talk about the outfit?
[38:06]	WILSON: (sighs)
[38:08]	All the assistants here wear uniforms.
[38:11]	I like it.
[38:12]	Do you?
[38:14]	Well, as soon as I pass the bar,
[38:15]	it’s coming off.
[38:15]	I can’t wait.
[38:16]	Let’s go to the bar now.
[38:19]	We conduct our sexual harassment
[38:20]	behind closed doors here, sailor.
[38:22]	SHORE: I shudder to think.
[38:23]	Excuse me. Oh.
[38:26]	CRANE: That was a hell of a closing.
[38:27]	I like what I see so far.
[38:29]	$9 million, portables,
[38:31]	a closing like that.
[38:32]	What do you say…
[38:34]	we take our relationship
[38:36]	to the next level?
[38:38]	Are you a homosexual, Denny?
[38:41]	I’m offering you a job, sailor.
[38:44]	BILLINGS: You can’t be serious.
[38:47]	They already have a verdict.
[38:48]	SHORE: What?
[38:49]	That means they never got
[38:50]	to damages.
[38:51]	You lost, pilgrim.
[38:52]	Come on.
[39:04]	It’s exciting.
[39:08]	GLEASON: All right.
[39:10]	Mr. Foreman,
[39:11]	the jury has reached a verdict?
[39:14]	We have, Your Honor.
[39:15]	What say you?
[39:17]	FOREMAN: On question one,
[39:19]	“Was the defendant’s termination
[39:20]	of the plaintiff wrongful?”
[39:22]	We find in the affirmative.
[39:24]	That means “Yes.”
[39:26]	Oh.
[39:27]	FOREMAN: On question two,
[39:27]	concerning damages,
[39:29]	we order the defendant
[39:30]	to pay the plaintiff
[39:31]	compensatory damages
[39:32]	in the amount of $2.3 million.
[39:35]	(music playing)
[39:46]	BILLINGS: Congratulations.
[39:47]	Thank you.
[40:09]	Lost.
[40:11]	$2.3 million.
[40:12]	Two?
[40:14]	We’ve appealed.
[40:15]	Let’s not– HATCHER: Well,
[40:16]	does this affect payroll?
[40:18]	I mean, can we still finance our cases?
[40:20]	Do you guys need me to open up a separate account?
[40:22]	YOUNG: Look, I’ll advise you
[40:24]	what to do, Lucy, okay?
[40:26]	Jimmy, Ellenor,
[40:27]	in the conference room, please.
[40:36]	(door closes)
[40:42]	I don’t want the money.
[40:44]	If the judgment holds up,
[40:45]	we’ll pay you the money.
[40:47]	I don’t want it.
[40:49]	Well, you’ll get it.
[40:49]	Do with it what you want,
[40:51]	but this firm always meets
[40:52]	its financial obligations.
[40:54]	Maybe we can donate it to a cause
[40:56]	that we mutually–
[40:57]	legalization of prostitution,
[40:59]	something that–
[41:04]	whatever.
[41:06]	Why are you here?
[41:08]	(chuckles)
[41:10]	I’m here because…
[41:15]	I’m a sucker for closure,
[41:16]	I guess.
[41:19]	Not to be confused
[41:20]	with sentimentality, but…
[41:24]	I wanted you all
[41:26]	to know two things.
[41:29]	First,
[41:33]	I’m sorry
[41:36]	for any embarrassment that–
[41:43]	well, any embarrassment.
[41:49]	And second,
[41:56]	I really loved working here.
[42:00]	I know my coming back
[42:02]	isn’t an option,
[42:04]	but…
[42:07]	people should know where people stand.
[42:09]	I’ve always believed that.
[42:12]	And…
[42:23]	I loved working here.
[42:26]	I wanted you to know.
[42:41]	(door closes)
[42:43]	(music playing)
[42:56]	(music playing)
[43:20]	BOY: Score, score.
[43:21]	WOMAN: You stinker.
[43:24]	(music playing)

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