"Previously on The Practice:" " Ellenor." " Yeah?" "Know anything about this?" ""Single white female, attorney..."" "Where'd you get this?" "Podiatrist, 40ish, loves movies and Maine." "Spoke to him on the phone last night." "I'm not gonna lie." "I was so nervous about meeting you." "You're rejecting him because of his looks." "You had no right to do that." "It just wasn't there, Rebecca." "The chemistry." "It's got nothing to do with rights." " You look fantastic." "You seeing anybody?" " Chris." "We've been there, and we had fun, but we don't wanna go back there, do we?" "I was only thinking about maybe sleeping together." "Andrea, have you been paying attention?" "We're losing." "It's still all circumstantial." "Two lovers last seen with a dead husband?" "I wanna ask this witness questions now, before she has time to think up answers." " Move to strike that!" " What the hell is going on?" " You're co-counsel." " Your client's story doesn't serve my client." "She's gonna think I betrayed her!" "Your only chance here was this!" "I had to turn against her." "Interesting move, ambushing your co-counsel like that in open court." "Douglas Forsythe, not guilty." "Mary Jane Wiggins, guilty." "You love her, you don't believe she could do this, but maybe she did." " Stop it!" " You can't know for sure." "How could she have carried the body?" "She would have had to drag it." "There would have been carpet fibers all over his clothes." "There was nothing introduced about carpet fibers." "Doug, did you go back to that house?" "All I'm telling you Mary Jane didn't." "Ellenor?" "George Vogelman, remember?" "Of course I remember." "How are you?" "I'm fine." "Yourself?" "I'm fine, I'm fine." "This is the place where you work, huh?" "Where you litigate?" "Yep, this is..." "This is it." "So, what brings you here, George?" "Actually, I'm going into litigation too." "I'm representing myself, so I'm a little nervous but..." "Well, you remember my ad." "I like to take chances." "Yeah." "I'm sorry, have you been sued?" "Heavens, no." "I'm the plaintiff, I'm doing the suing." "I'm actually getting excited about it." "Well, that's great." "That's really great." "Maybe I can come down, I'll catch you in action sometime." "I'm sure you will." "Here's the summons." "I'm suing you." " What?" "Me?" "What for?" " Fraud." "Intentional infliction of emotional distress." "It's all in there." "Be seeing you." " Bobby?" "How you doing?" " Hey, Joel." "Good." "Set up in the conference room, I'll be right in." "Okay." "Jimmy, I can go with you on this." "No, I'm ready." "Wind valve is just pinching off a little." "I don't need anybody's help." "I just don't want you going down if I can help." "I'll be fine." "If you calm down, Ellenor, I'll tell you why you should calm down." "This is ridiculous." "It has gotta be against public policy." "I mean, he can't sue me for not wanting to date him." "It's a straight Rule 12:" "Failure to state." " What's going on?" " She's getting sued by the podiatrist." " What's with him?" " Jury trial." "I wanna file a 12b6." "I wanna get it kicked now, Eugene." "We'll go in this morning." "You can't sue somebody for not wanting to go out with you." " No, you can't." " I mean, it's outrageous." "Yes, it is." " Maybe you should see a doctor." " Oh, I'm okay." "I think I'm just hung-over." "Hey, maybe I can't drink wine anymore." "Maybe I'm nauseous over..." "Oh, I promised myself I wouldn't get back involved with this guy and..." "And you got weak." "I don't know what came over me." "I mean, I didn't even use protection." "I didn't..." "Oh, maybe I'm pregnant." "Maybe this is morning sickness." "Lindsay, it doesn't work that fast." "I'm going to the doctor." " Did you put the Seconal in his wine?" " Yes." "Was Mr. Wiggins unconscious when you carried him to the bathtub?" "Yes." "Did you kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman?" "No." " Did you kill John Wiggins?" " Yes." " Did his wife help you?" " No." "Does Mary Jane Wiggins know that you killed her husband?" "No." "Are you in love with Mary Jane Wiggins?" "Yes." "I've been with the paper almost nine years." "Nine years." "And all this time as the film critic?" "Sometimes I'd even do copy work in a pinch." "There was nobody more loyal." "And when he fired you completely without cause, did your boss...?" " Objection." " What?" "Your question might have contained a legal conclusion, counsel." "Those conclusions are for them to draw." "Oh, forgive me, Your Honor." "And I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize to the jury if my question, in any way, usurped their authority." "The jury system is what makes the American system of justice the best on earth, and I would never give any..." "But let's just move forward." "Thank you." "Mr. Papp, did your boss, Mr. Holt, offer you any reason for terminating your employment after so many years of loyal service?" "He did." "What was his stated reason, sir?" " He said I looked like a monkey." " A monkey." "This is what he said." "And it's hard for me to relive it, here, in this courtroom, in front of relatives." "Did he criticize your job performance in any way?" "No, he did not." "He just said I had too much body hair." "And that I made him uncomfortable." "It was very painful for me." "A couple of colleagues started leaving bananas at my desk." " This caused you great emotional distress?" " Objection." " What?" " It's that legal-conclusion thing again." "What feelings, if any, did or do you have as a result of these previous events you just previously testified to?" "Like I said, it caused me pain." "So much so, it was hard for me to get other work because of what he said." "Hard for me to even go on interviews because every time I look in the mirror now, I see it." "See what, sir?" "A monkey." "A big monkey." "The law of deceit is intended to protect people from relying mistakenly on willful fraud, lies and misrepresentations." "Excuse me, counselor but deceit is a common law tort that applies only to commercial transactions." "Yes, but as I understand it, if I relied to my financial and emotional detriment on Miss Frutt's false advertisement, that..." "A personal listing in a newspaper is not an advertisement." "I assume you have a citation?" "My client's listing was a statement of her social availability." "It in no way constituted an offer for goods or services." "That's not true." "Here, this is from her ad." ""Attractive, 30s, lawyer, loves Maine and horseback riding."" "Here we go:" ""Not afraid to explore beyond looks and first impressions." "Eager to discover life beneath the surface."" "She was saying, "This is who I am."" " And it was a lie." " How do you know it was a lie?" "The moment she saw me, she turned green." "And 13 minutes later, our dinner date was canceled." " Oh, and she's never been horseback riding." " Not once?" "Your Honor, there is no known cause of action that compensates someone for social rejection." "I'm sure this court has more pressing issues..." "Not so fast." "I'm not sure whether Mr. Vogelman here has a cause of action or just a bruised ego." "On the other hand, the law recognizes many forms of tortious behavior and before I go dismissing anything, I wanna take a little discovery." " You can't be serious." " Oh, but I can." "Take your depositions." "I'll give you 24 hours." "We'll see what comes out." "It's open." "Again?" "People are going to think there's something going on between us." "Be good for my image." "Mine too." "What are you doing?" "Paper dolls." "I'm making them for my granddaughter." "So, what is it?" "It's bad." "I gotta do the big hypothetical wind-up." "Oh, no." "What if a defense attorney came to know..." "How he came to know he can't reveal." " That a person was about to go to jail for a crime she or he did not commit?" "What if he knew they absolutely have the wrong person but he can't implicate the right person for various reasons?" " Damn it, Bobby." " I didn't know till after." "This is what happens when you start pulling stunts like..." "Oh, God." "He's not making this up, is he, just to spring his girlfriend?" "He passed a lie detector." "What?" "Are you sure about this, Cindy?" "Could you fax me that result?" "Thanks." " What's up?" " Nothing." "Okay, Lindsay, what's the matter?" "The..." "My doctor did a blood test, put a rush on it because..." "But I don't believe this." " You're pregnant?" " No." " They found traces of GHB." " GH what?" "It's gammahydroxybutyrate." "It's also known as Liquid X." ""Liquid X"?" "The more popular name is Easy Lay." " What are you talking about?" " Liquid X, Rebecca." "It's that date-rape drug." "That's why I was so..." "Chris must have drugged me." "Well, he was an okay worker." "Not a great journalist by any means, but a good guy." " Why did you discharge him, Mr. Holt?" " He looked like a monkey." "There were other reasons than that, were there not, Mr. Holt?" "Oh, sure." "Like I said, he wasn't this great journalist." "And he was always complaining." "You gotta understand." "The Hub is a small paper." "We need morale." "Harry didn't have it." " You didn't, Harry." " Mr. Holt, don't address the plaintiff." " I've been addressing him for nine years." " Well, we don't do that in here." "Well, that strikes me as silly." "People should go face-to-face with problems." "I went straight to him and told him to shave his neck, didn't I?" " I won't ask you again, sir." " Sorry." "Look, like I was saying, we're a small paper and everybody's gotta pull loads for each other." "Even sell ad space." "In fact, that may be our biggest job." "We don't sell ad space, we don't get to sell papers." "And the plaintiff wasn't selling advertising space?" "Who would buy anything from him?" "Hair coming out of his collar, climbing up his neck like a vine?" " He looks like a monkey." " Did you leave bananas on his desk, sir?" "Of course not." "And I didn't encourage it." "And what he didn't tell this court is after he'd get all hurt by these bananas, he'd eat them." " Move to strike." "That isn't relevant." " He started turning into this negative person." "I can't keep hearing complaints from somebody with a hairy neck." " Objection." " Sustained." "Why don't we take our break." " You admit it?" " Lindsay, what's the big deal?" ""The big deal?" "The big deal?"" "You drugged me, you slipped a drug into my wine without telling me." "You then sleep with me while I'm under the influence." "The "big deal" is called rape." " First of all, it was such a minimal dosage." " You can't regulate it with any accurate..." "Second of all, I've always drugged you." "You've always known about it without wanting to know, so let's not pretend." " What are you talking about?" " You know what I'm talking about." "Have you known anyone more uptight about sex than you?" " That's not the point." " Point is you liked it when I slipped something in the brownies." "You're glad I didn't..." "You're talking about stuff in college." "It has nothing to do with this." "I'm talking about you being incapable of enjoying sex without taking away your inhibitions." "I'm talking about how we both know you loved it more the night of and felt less guilty the day after if you pretend you didn't know I was loosening you up." "Wine is one thing." "Last night, you slipped me an illegal drug." "Okay, the stuff might have been stronger." "If so, I apologize." "But I didn't do anything we didn't do before, and you know that." "When you described yourself in your ad as someone "eager to discover life beneath the surface," what did you mean?" "I think it's pretty obvious what that means." "So when we spoke on the phone of my first marriage, about my kids that was you trying to discover the life below the surface?" "I suppose." "Do you recall telling me you'd never felt so comfortable talking to a man as you felt with me?" "I may have said that." "And when we spoke on the phone, didn't we mutually share our respective hurt at being rejected on physical appearance alone?" " We talked about a lot of stuff, George..." " And didn't we talk about that?" "Yes." "And yet, as soon as you saw me, you became uninterested." "I just didn't think things would work out." " Why not?" " Because..." "I just didn't think so." "Why not?" "Asked and answered." "Was it because I'm losing my hair?" " Don't have the physique?" "Bad skin?" " It's not just physical appearance, George." "It was..." "I don't know." "It was demeanor as well." ""Demeanor." What was my demeanor?" "A demeanor that didn't attract me." "That's all I can say." "One of the things that attracted me to you was your incredible ability to articulate what you think and feel." "So, what was it about my demeanor?" "You struck me as..." "As kind of a loser." "A loser." "All that self-deprecating charm on the phone?" "In person, it just wasn't that charming." "It was immediately sad." "Even a little pathetic." "And you think...?" "And you think that you deserved better?" " I never said that." " Well, why don't you say it?" "Please." "Okay." "I wanted more." "I didn't wanna play the fat girl by the punch bowl who leaves with the nerd." "I wanted more than that." "I'm sorry." "It seems we have two options:" " Reopen the case..." " It won't help." "Look, we always knew she couldn't have done it alone." "We had two theories:" "Either he did it, or they did it together." "We were hoping if he had acted solo, she would have turned state's evidence." "I still think they did it together." " They didn't." " Can you prove that?" " We could stipulate to the polygraph." " Oh, right." "Keith, I got nothing vested here." " My guy's free." "She wasn't in on it." " The jury says she was." "Come on, what are we doing here?" "Okay." "Look, I'll consider." "And I mean consider here." "We can bring federal criminal claims, plus perjury." "He agrees to plead guilty to both no double-jeopardy challenges from you, 30 years." "He won't do that." "He's not going to jail." "Well, then we have nothing to talk about, Bobby." "I'm not letting them both go free." "This is a solved and closed case." "And I'm very happy to keep it that way." "Your Honor?" "I'm afraid I have to agree with the district attorney here." "Without new and conclusively exculpatory evidence there are no grounds to reopen." "Her conviction has to stand." " We do nothing, then." " We proceed to sentencing." "Mr. Holt, you think it's okay to fire somebody just because the way they look?" " I do." " Looks alone?" "Period." "I wouldn't fire somebody because of the color of their skin if that's what you're thinking." "But for looking like a monkey, absolutely." "One can't be a successful film critic if he's not attractive?" "What about Gene Shalit?" "I knew he'd say that." "Gene Shalit is an exception." "He's always saying insipid things." "What comes out of his mouth goes with looking like a monkey." "Isn't it true, sir, you fired another employee for being too fat?" " Sandra Boyd." " I don't have a problem with fat." "But with Sandra, she wore sleeveless dresses." "So whenever she would reach up or wave, this part would wiggle for a full minute." "I found it distracting." "And Wayne Keppler?" " Midget, I'm afraid of him." " You're scared of midgets?" "I'm not proud of it, but for whatever reason, I get nervous around them." "You also fired Kim Orent for having doughnut breath." "I try to diet." "She comes in smelling like crullers." "It's bad for my discipline." " I can't tell whether I'm winning or losing." " Look, there's a reason for all this." " What's that, sir?" " It's my paper." "One of the reasons I hustled up investors to start my own company is so it could be mine." "So I could choose the people I wanted to be around." "I could have gone to work someplace else and gone by other people's rules, but I didn't want that." "So I walked the plank and started my own business." "And now you're trying to tell me who I gotta hire and who I can't fire?" "No, I'm trying to say you can't discriminate against people on account of looks alone." "Oh, please." "That kind of discrimination goes on all the time." "The only difference here is I admit it." "Harry is a negative guy who looks like an ape." "And I don't want him working for my company." "There's a juror over there..." "I won't say which one." " Who looks like a possum." "I wouldn't hire him either." "I'm terribly sorry, but I really think it's time for another break." " So, what are you gonna do?" " What can I do?" "File charges?" " Does this drug knock you out?" " It could, but it didn't." "You won." "We both won." "Members of the jury, this concludes your service." "The court extends its thanks for your commitment." "And, Your Honor, I, too, would like to take this opportunity to thank the jury which, I feel, demonstrated considerable excellence in a forthwith manner." "Thank them in the hall." "We're done in here." " Lindsay, what's going on?" " I went to the police station to file charges." " What?" " Oh, I didn't do it." "I know you could never be convicted." "Also, a part of me didn't want your whole career ruined over one stupid mistake." "And it would be ruined, you know, possession of that drug alone." "But the thought of you getting away with it all smug, you know I couldn't live with that either." " Have you been drinking?" " No." "This is the way rape victims get, Chris." "And I'm sitting there in my car outside the police station, thinking:" ""He should at least limp over this." "Maybe he shouldn't lose his job, but you should at least limp."" "You know, that's why I came over to shoot you in the leg." "I'll say it went off by accident." " Are you...?" " Crazy?" "Yeah, and it feels good." "File charges, but the truth would come out." "You'd probably get in more trouble than me." "It would be in your best professional interests to agree with me that the gun went off by accident." " Lindsay..." " Don't!" "Truth is, I have been drinking." "I might vomit any second." "Better get this over with." "Would you prefer the right leg or the left?" " Lindsay..." " Or the head?" "This isn't you." "Sure it is." "I just needed to shed some of my inhibitions." "This is me." "Right leg or left, or should I choose?" " Lindsay, you will end up in jail!" " I'm counting to three!" " One..." " Lindsay!" "...two..." " My God." "...three." " The left!" "Just kidding." "Sue me." "Oh, by the way, you wet your pants." " Everybody okay in here?" " He loved it." " Did you guys see what happened?" " No." "Practical joke." "Everything's fine." "Just a joke." "It was gratifying that they came back quick, you know?" "My first victory with a jury." "If I had to wait, I think the sweating would have come back." "Congratulations, Jimmy." "And here's to you too, Ellenor." "I heard Dr. Bunion dropped his lawsuit." " Yep." " Hey, it was a good month for everybody." "Bobby got the big N.G." " And how was your week, Linds?" " Oh, same old." "Great, great." "Well, to happy times." "I tell you, I was nervous." "I think the defendant blew it when he called one of the jurors a possum." "You can't predict how things are gonna go but insinuating that one of the jurors is a member of the rodent family?" "It's not an accepted tactic." "I tell you, this is a high." "People don't think the practice of law is a high?" "They don't know." "They can't know." "Previously on The Practice:" "This case is completely circumstantial." "We have a good shot." "We have grounds for an appeal." "Let's not forget that." "Guys have nothing to worry about." "There's no way they're gonna convict." " Oh, you were in the courtroom?" " I'm on the jury." "I had a communication with a juror." "I gotta go to the judge." " But you didn't communicate with him." " But, even so, technically under the rules, we have a mistrial." "I don't see how it has any effect." "I say we don't tell." "On the matter of the Commonwealth v. Kenny Tripp, we find the defendant guilty." "Sentencing next Tuesday, 9:00." "Don't say anything, I'm coming right back to talk, okay?" "Just don't say anything." "I got a plan." "The guilty verdict stands." "As for the two of you I'll recommend immediate disbarment." "You risked your careers, you completely jeopardize the reputation of this entire firm." "You got a murderer off on the moral integrity of his cold-blooded execution." "What exactly do you think our reputation is here, Bobby?" " It wasn't suicide." " You can state that for a medical certainty?" "Mr. Wiggins had no suicidal tendencies, in my professional..." "You can state it to a medical certainty, it wasn't suicide?" "I'm a psychiatrist, not a medical examiner, but I..." "So you can't rule out suicide as a cause of death." "Correct, doctor?" " That would be correct." "But I..." " Thank you, doctor." "And, doctor, have you had other patients who did commit suicide?" " Yes." " How many?" " I'm not sure." " More than five?" " Probably." " More than 10?" "I'd say between five and 10." "I'd have to check my files." "And of those suicides, was there ever one you didn't see coming?" "For most of those occasions, I saw some symptomology..." "Was there ever an occasion where the suicide surprised you?" "Someone you didn't deem suicidal, took his or her life?" " Has that ever happened?" " Yes, but..." "Thank you." "So it does happen, doesn't it, doctor?" "A patient with no apparent suicidal tendencies takes his life." "It happens." "That's argumentative and badgering." "This is a cross-examination." "I'd submit the doctor as being argumentative." "Let's just have a nice civil murder trial, shall we?" "Doctor, according to your testimony Mr. Wiggins became upset to learn of the affair between his wife and Mr. Forsythe, didn't he?" "Upset, yes." "I didn't say despondent." "Well, is it possible he could have become despondent to learn his wife of 12 years was sleeping with another man?" "To me, he seemed more enraged than depressed." "Are you telling this court he wasn't depressed about it?" "I'm telling this court I don't think he committed suicide." "Of course you don't wanna think that." "You were his treating psychiatrist." "Suicide would represent your failure, wouldn't it, doctor?" "Hey, I prescribed medication." "He refused to take it." " He refused to take drugs." "Any drugs." " Move to strike." "Non-responsive." "There is no way he would willingly take Seconal." "Move to strike!" " You're way too aggressive." " Too aggressive?" "He was throwing dirt on the coffin." "Put the final nail in." "Andrea, have you been paying attention?" "We're losing." "It's still all circumstantial." "Two lovers, last seen with a dead husband?" "They found her drugs inside of him." "This is a nightmare." "They're innocent." "You know that as well as I do." "It doesn't matter what we know." "I'm telling you, I could see it in the eyes of the jury." "We're going down." "Come on, you know Ellenor Frutt." "She's an honest lawyer." "So is Lindsay Dole." "They communicated with a juror." "If you file this complaint, it will stain their careers forever." " That's the point." " You never made a mistake?" "Not the one you're asking me to make right now." " My decision stands." " It stands to be corrected." "Counsel, maybe I should direct the Board to investigate you?" " Damn it." " Didn't fly?" " Nope." " So we're still basically suspended?" "Basically." "This is a little awkward, Jimmy." "You said you had some kind of specialist on disability claims..." "Well, he is." "He used to be a PI." "This is his wheelhouse." "Yeah, well..." " All the same, I..." " Whoa, what's going on here, Mr. Rydell." "Is there a problem with my being bald?" "You're black." "Which is fine in most instances." "But..." "This instance..." "What's the problem, John?" "A black lawyer can't argue a bum knee?" "We ain't talking about a bum knee here, Jimmy." "The disability I'm claiming is racism." " What?" " I've been seeing a shrink." "I can document it official." "You're saying racism is a disease to qualify you for disability pay?" "Mr. Young, I've been working the beat for 18 years." "I ain't just talking job stress here." "I'm talking every time I see an African-American suspect my hand is automatically going for my gun." "Am I proud of that?" "No." "Is it the truth?" "Yeah." "And you expect to be awarded an early pension for this?" "I didn't expect to get fired." "When I told my superiors, they bounced me." "I should be suing to get my job back but I shouldn't get it back." "I got no business being out on the beat." "But I got a family." "A mortgage." "And I got fired for telling a truth that was pretty hard to fess up to." "I'll tell you something else." "These racist tendencies?" "I never used to have them." "This job has done this to me." "Listen, our gut reaction, plus the polls from our jury consultants it doesn't look good." "We might have to think about a deal." "A deal?" "A deal?" "We're innocent." "What kind of a deal?" "I don't think they'd offer anything better than manslaughter." " Do you think we did this?" " No." "Then how could you possibly suggest we agree to manslaughter?" "I'm not suggesting it, but let's face it." "You two were the only ones who can account for your whereabouts." "By your own admission, you were sleeping." "While you were alone at a movie." "Your husband was found dead in the bathtub with his blood full of your Seconal." "Two lovers, last seen with him, no alibi, plenty of motive." "We didn't do it." "Your husband's psychiatrist blew a hole through our suicide theory." "I didn't kill my husband." "And I certainly will not get up and say that I did." "Okay." "Okay." "It comes down to putting you on the stand." "Both of you." "That's..." "That's fine." "Now, look, Pratt is gonna come at you hard on the affair, the prenup, the motive." "It'll be ugly." "You'll be painted as greedy adulterers who killed a rich older man for his money." "That picture's already been painted, Mr. Donnell." "Do you read the papers?" "Mary Jane, the newspapers have done nothing to prepare you for what you're in for once you get in that witness chair." "Now, we'll start with you, Doug." "And then you'll follow, Mary Jane." "Let's meet after lunch and we'll go over what to expect." "All right?" "Listen, you'd better go out the back." "The corridors are crawling." "Remember when we were lying in bed worrying about our Con Law exams?" "Yeah." "We're talking about how great it'd be once we got out of school." "Maybe someday co-counseling a big case together." "And here we are." "This isn't fun." "Not a bit." "Are you actually going to take this guy's case?" "Think about it." "He got punished for admitting he was being racist." "What kind of message does that send to the force?" ""Keep it to yourself." "Don't come forward."" "To me, that keeps more racist cops on the street." "That's one way of looking at it." "Another way would be this guy is looking to get paid for being prejudiced." "Now, have you put that to your smell test?" "I got the whole file faxed over." "We could..." " Oh, hi." " Hi." "I wish you the best of luck in your disbarment proceeding." "How long have you and Mrs. Wiggins been lovers, sir?" " A little over two years." " And you met how?" "I was employed as a senior vice president at Wiggins Corrugated Steel Company." " You were sleeping with your boss's wife?" " Yes." " At some point, he found out about it?" " Yes." " What was his reaction?" " He terminated my employment." " Did you ever see him again?" " Yes, I saw him the day of his death." " Where?" " At his house." "What happened on the day you went to see him, Mr. Forsythe?" "I tried to express how bad I felt." "And I..." "I suppose I really wanted to get some kind of forgiveness." " Did you?" " No." "No, he accused me of being a liar." "Then he asked me to leave his house." " Did you leave alone?" " No, Mary Jane was with me." "She tried to stay and reason with him a little, but he screamed at her too." "And when you left the house, where did you go?" "To my house." "We were gonna go to a movie but I decided to just crash." "I took a nap and Mary Jane did go to the movie." "So you were deeply upset when you left Mr. Wiggins' house?" "Yes, sir." "So troubled that you laid down and took a nap." "Any difficulty sleeping?" "The sleeplessness from the last two weeks probably made it easier." "Can anyone verify that you were home, sleeping?" "No, sir." "Except for Mary Jane." "Who went to the movies, yes." "That's a funny thing." "You know, you both have busy lives, active schedules, lots of people to see." "But for the actual time Mr. Wiggins died neither of you have anybody to account for your whereabouts." "That's kind of a coincidence, don't you think?" " Would that be a coincidence, Mr. Forsythe?" " I suppose it would." "And by Mr. Wiggins dying instead of divorcing his wife you and your lover stand to be very wealthy people." " Objection!" " Overruled." " No worry about that prenup now, is there?" " Objection!" " Sustained." " Did you go back and poison Mr. Wiggins?" " No." " Objection!" " Did you drown him?" " Your Honor?" " Counsel?" " You murder him for his wife and money?" " Move to strike!" " Objection!" "Mr. Pratt, that is enough." "Don't you think if we were going to do this we would have made sure we had an alibi?" "Well, that's a good thought, Mr. Forsythe." "Did you think of that before or after you killed him?" " Mr. Pratt!" " I'm sorry." "That's all." "The witness may step down." " You held up well but..." " It still looks bad." "Doug, I gotta ask you a tough question." "Mary Jane said she went to the movies." "In your mind, is there any possibility that she...?" " No." " I know you love her." "But if there is the remotest chance..." "At this point, it's every man for himself." "I represent you, I don't represent her." "Hey, if either of us were to be singled out as more likely, it would probably be me." "I don't follow." "She still loved him." "In fact, a couple of days before he died she said she was thinking of going back with him." " The two of us were fighting." " Why didn't you tell me this before?" "Because it doesn't matter." "At the end of the argument, we were all settled and staying together." "The point I'm making is this:" "Though she couldn't live with John anymore she still loved him a lot." "She never would have considered hurting him." "She wasn't worried about the prenup?" "She didn't care about his money." "She didn't even want his money." "What about pointing the finger at somebody else?" "Two employees at Wiggins were in a big power struggle trying to squeeze him out." " So they kill him?" "First rule in Defense Law, don't offer a theory you can't prove, remember?" "Well, we gotta think of something, Andrea." "What about accident?" "Could go back to that." "No." "You heard the ME." "He said it was too much Seconal to be accidental." "He could be wrong." "All we need is doubt." "Realize we got two people who, because they committed adultery are to be convicted of a homicide." "The problem is that the Seconal was mixed with wine." "If the guy wanted to commit suicide, why wouldn't he just swallow the pills?" "Why grind it up and mix it with wine?" "That's the question." "Maybe he was hoping it would look like murder." "That'd be a great way to get even, wouldn't it?" "Yeah." "Another theory we can't prove." "Keep thinking." "That mind of yours is bound to come up with something." "Come on." " I lied." " What?" "When I said that this wasn't fun." "I mean, the case isn't, but working together..." "I love the way you grilled the psychiatrist." "Your little cheeks got all flushed." "I'd forgotten how your cheeks flush up." "Bobby?" "Sorry, I'll just..." "No, no." "No, I was just going." " I'll see you in court." " Yeah." " Nine o'clock." " Sharp." " Good night, Ellenor." " Good night." "I'm sorry." " You need me?" " Yeah." "Lindsay said that you were going to go to another judge for us." "Judge Hiller is the presiding superior court judge in Suffolk." "She's on my murder trial." "Gonna grab her during break, see if she'll pull rank over Judge Stevens." "I'm not optimistic, but it's worth a try." "She's the fairest judge going and we get along." " Okay." "Thanks." " Yeah." "Bobby, I wanted to apologize for..." "I never meant to jeopardize you." "You know that?" "I do." "Okay." "Thanks again." "Under Massachusetts law, Officer Rydell suffers a permanent partial disability which constrains him from working in his selected field." "Racism is not a recognized disability." "The law recognizes mental distress produced by prolonged work-related anxiety." "Mr. Rydell did not suffer this condition of irrational discrimination based on race prior to his employment by the department." "Mr. Rydell, you've been before this panel before, haven't you?" "Yes, sir." "That time, I was trying to stay on the force." "You took a bullet, if I recall correctly." "Nine years ago, a stray shattered my kneecap." "They offered me the pension then, said I wasn't fit." " I told them I wanted to stay on the street." " You recovered?" "Yes, Your Honor." "I have some pain, that's all." "You know the implications of the claim you bring?" " I do." " You're going on record that the Boston Police Department, your department our department, turned you into a bigot?" "The claim is that working this job has caused him to suffer racist tendencies." " Nobody's blaming the department." " The conclusion people will draw is obvious." "And frankly, Mr. Rydell, I'm a little sickened by this petition." "Let me tell you what sickens me, Mr. Crane." "Last summer, me and my partner were investigating a B  E call." "At the scene, I see a man I think has a gun." "A black man." "I open fire and killed him." "He didn't have a gun, Mr. Crane." "He had a lighter." "IAB determined it was an honest mistake and I was cleared." "This hearing addresses issues of law as they relate to your claim." " This is symptomatic of his condition and entirely relevant." " Let him finish." "IAB lets me off on perception of danger with some mandatory stress recovery." "During my sessions, the psychiatrist..." "It started to become clear." "If this man with the lighter was white, would I have fired on him?" "It keeps coming up." "He's black, so I see a gun." "This man had a wife, two daughters, runs a shoe shop." "He was the man who called in the B  E." "Now, as sure as I'm sitting here I know I was quick to pull the trigger because he was black." "I can't tell another judge what to do." " You could talk to her." " And say what?" "Your associates talked to a juror?" "They were wrong." " Judge Stevens was right." " Technically." "That's the way we do things here, Bobby." "Technically." "Seven years ago, I had a client who raped and killed three children." "The police coerced a confession out of him." "I stood before a certain judge and argued that the confession be tossed on constitutional grounds." "The judge went by the book, even though she knew he was guilty." "She released the defendant on technical grounds." "Two weeks later, he killed another child." "The lawyer cried for a week." "And I suspect the judge did too." "Are you comparing that case to this one?" "I'm suggesting, doing what's right by the book doesn't always work." "Let me suggest to you, judges and lawyers take an oath to this judicial process." "And that oath isn't waivable." "We both need to cling to that, don't we?" "That case isn't this case." "Both cases involve doing what's technically right resulting in a greater injustice." "Ellenor Frutt and Lindsay Dole were both wrong." "No dispute." "But to face disbarment, that's a much greater injustice." "Beck?" "We need a quick check on Dr. Wolfman, our testifying shrink." "We don't wanna get surprised by any skeletons." "This the psychiatrist that says racism is a handicap?" "Yeah." "He's got good credentials, but just to be safe." "Oh, I'm sure he's legit." " How's the hearing going?" " What?" "Oh, fine." "Things are proceeding well." "It's fine." "Excuse me." " What's going on?" " What?" "Nothing." "Why?" "Because every time my eyes happen to catch yours you give me this look like you killed my mother." " Well, I'm sure your mother's fine." " Jimmy." "It's private." "It's got nothing to do with you." "I mean, it does, but it's none of your business." "I'm not telling you, Lindsay." "If this has something to do with me, as you say, you owe me an explanation." " You don't wanna know this, trust me." " Tell me." " I'm not comfortable..." " Now." "Okay." "The other night..." "I kind of had this erotic dream." "We were both in it." "We were both naked." "Nude." "And you were very rigorous." "See?" "I knew you wouldn't wanna know." "Well, I don't think you have to feel guilty about a dream, Jimmy."