"On "boston legal"." "I still run this place." "No,you don'T." "You just want to run around,drop your pants,shoot people,date a hooker." "This behavior will notbe tolerated much longer." "I will fire you." "My daughter was murdered." "I would like to kill this man and be found not guiltyby reason of temporary insanity." "Did you report that woman to the police?" "Would you?" "Probably not." "She already killed him." "Do you expectto get away with this?" "He had it coming." "You're not soundingvery insane." "I'm better now." "It was temporary insanity." "Sean harmon viciously killedher daughter,and he got exactlywhat he deserved." "Mr. Shore,any comment?" "won't temporary insanitybe tough to prove?" "Excuse us." "This might bea good opportunity for a sound bite." "The time for sound bitesis past." "it was a typical day in a typical office placein america." "But what would happen next,was anything but typical." "Uh,Ms. Winters,just tell us." "Try not to channelstone phillips." "Yes,your honor." "as I said,I saw that wan enter,and I knew who she was." "Let the record reflect that the witness has indicated the defendant." "I'd followed sean's trial." "The news had covered itextensively,and her face was prominent, being that she wasthe mother of the victim." "Oh,she was a cool womanon camera,with a soft gentilitythat belied a." "uh,Ms. Winters." "yes." "As I said,she entered,and she walked towards sean,who was in the officeright beside my desk." "She didn't seem to be upset." "In fact,she seemed calm,cool." "As she got to sean's office,sean said,"what are you doing?" "" And she said,"I've come to kill you,sean." "Is this a bad time?" "" Just like that. "is this a bad time?" "" And then I saw it." "there in her hand. a gun." "Stop." "Your honor,this is hearsay." "If the witnessis to be believed,this wasn't an excited utterancefrom our client." "It was a declarationagainst interest." "Hearsay." "our client already admittedshe shot him." "And she's claiming insanity." "Testimony of her demeanor and state of mindare relevant,your honor." "Objection overruled." "You may continue,Ms. Winters." "Gladly." "anyway,it was the most horrible thingI'd ever experienced." "There's sean lying on the floor,blood gushing from his head." "whoa,whoa,whoa." "You skipped ahead." "Back upto before he was shot." "Oh,I. I'm terribly sorry." "I-I get ahead of myselfwhen I get excited." "Anyway,where was I?" "Oh,yes." "She walked in,said what she said,then raised the gun." "And she pointed it calmly." "Her hand was not shaking." "And she said,"you have five seconds to live." ""I'd give you ten,but we really can't keep hell waiting." "" And then she just pulled the trigger,the bullet hit him right between the eyes,and he dropped." "It was a cold-blooded,vicious execution." "It was awful." "Just to think about it." "shall I tell it again?" "Boston Legal Season 4 Episode 6" "Oh,please come in." "Sure." "I'm thrilled,actually." "and a little stunned." "I think I've worked here six years." "I don't believe I've actually been in your office." "Actually,I'm afraid the circumstances of this meeting are not pleasant." "We're letting you go." "What?" "Why?" "Well,it's not that your performance hasn't bn good." "I'm you told you do fine,fine work." "But since partnership is not in your future, we prefer to let those associates go rather than mislead them." "It's only fair." "Would you mind telling me why partnership's not in my future?" "Not at all." "You're fat." "Excuse me?" "We can't have fat people working at crane,poole  schmidt." "that's all." "And,uh,s-seriously,thank you for your past work." "I mean that." "So I'm being fired because I'm fat?" "Yes." "Off you go now." "Uh,so if I was thin,I. I'd still have my job?" "Hell,if you were thin,I'd probably try and have sex with you." "You did try." "Really?" "Last week." "Did we have it?" "Doesn't matter." "Look,I can't let my personal feelings get in the way." "I have to think of the firm." "No tubsters at C.P.S." "Off you go now." "security,please." "It was a kind of dissociative state that we call automatism." "Automatism?" "Yes." "Basically Ms. Kelly went into a form of automatic pilot." "We see it with battered wives." "The abuse triggers this extreme,almost psychotic reaction inhe brain." "Here,the abuse was obviously the murder of her child, then seeing the killer set free." "She's fine now?" "Seems so,yes." "And was she on automatic pilot during all the planning stages of this crime?" "I can't really know." "I didn't examine her." "When you did examine her after the shooting,was she on automatic pilot then?" "No." "She had regained control." "And you know that she was on automatic pilot during the murder based on what information?" "What she felt and experienced at the time of the shooting." "Who told you what she felt and experienced?" "She did." "thank you." "Hello." "Hello." "My name is leigh swift." "L-e-I-g-H." "I only point this outbecause it is misspelled 67% of the time." "And I am here today in hopes of securinglegal counsel,preferably from." "jerry espenson." "How did you know?" "Shot in the dark." ",impeccable timing." "Hello." "Hello." "High fives all around." "No?" "Jerry,this is leigh." "I'll get you the correctspelling on that later." "Could you perhaps escort herout of the common area?" "Let's go to my office." "Hello,Mr. Sack." "I just wanted to comeand say good-bye." "Good-bye." "Who the hell are you?" "My name is nancy wilding." "I'm an associate." "I was fired." "Denny crane fired mebecause I'm fat." "He did what?" "Yes." "So it's good-bye." "Wait." "Whoa,whoa,whoa." "No." "No,you're not fired." "I'll talk to denny." "oh,if onlyit were that easy." "You see,I've been damaged." "And I've hit the lottery." "We'll see you all in court." "Y. are you out of your mind?" "Why does everybodyask me that?" "For god sakes,denny,you cannot fire somebody just because they're fat." "Never mindthe indecency of it." "Can't you see thatas a lawyer?" "And you know what?" "She's poisedto make noise over this." "And you personally,you will befilleted in the news." "Did you think about that?" "Well,let metell you something,sack." "It doesn't matterwhat people are saying as long as they talkabout you." "I've beento six other lawyers." "None of themwould take my case." "But all of them askedif I was related to you." "Perhaps you could tell mewhy you're here." "I've lost my lover." "His name is gebrauchskasten." "He was forcibly takenagainst his will. by force." "Have you fileda police report?" "Oh,the policehave been dismissive." "I suspectthey're discriminating against gebrauchskastenbased on his ethnicity." "I really doubt they'd ignorea kidnapping case." "here he is." "That's gebrauchskasten." "His name is germanfor "utility box." "" This box." "is my lover." "nobody here believesyou were actually crazy." "It was revenge." "I know it." "You know it." "The jury. knows it." "Our insanity defenseis simply a pretext to allow the juryto let you go." "But first they have towant you to go free." "For that to happen,they have to like you." "And for that to happen,the jury has to feelwhat you feel." "But I don't feel." "After my daughter was killed,I stopped feeling." "It's how I survive." "Well,it won't be howyou survive prison, which is where you're headedif the jury doesn't see a human being sitting in that chair." "I'll discuss it with god." "Look at me." "If this jury thinksfor a moment that you're pulling oneover on them,you're gE." "You need to be unaffectedlyemotionally forthright and sincere." "I honestly don't knowif I can do that." "After hannah was killed,all I hadto grab hold of." "was this questto see her killer convicted and sentenced." "Do you remember what you felt when you heard the verdictof "not guilty" read?" "I don't think I do,really." "I went numb." "At some point,I lost myself." "I started to pray because I often findconsolation in my fah,and,uh,one day." "I heard a voice." "A voice?" "Yes." "It wasn't my own." "And it said,"you must killsean harmon." "" You didn't recognizethis voice?" "No,but for whatever reason,I became convinced that it was god." "You thought god was telling youto kill sean harmon?" "I know how crazy it sounds." "But at the time,I wasreading a lot of the bible, and so many of the versesI would hear in this voice." "Leviticus." ""he that killeth a man,he shall be put to death." "" Exodus." ""he that smiteth a manso that he die,he surely shall beput to death." "" I kept hearing thisover and over." "and I became convincedthat my daughter's soul." "would restonly with vengeance." "Sean harmon had to die." "It was up to me to kill him." "I would have to be the oneto avenge my baby's death." "what do you." "rememberabout the day you." "shot sean harmon?" "I remember drivingto his place of work,approaching him." "I didn't feel scared." "I recall aiming the gun." "and shooting him." "And I'm ashamedto admit it." "but I rememberthat I felt joyous." "Joyous?" "Yes." "Between his livinga free man d his dying,it felt more moralfor him to be dead, and I felt like I was somehowcarrying out god's word." "And." "it was joyous." ""Objectophilia." ""a type of neo-sexualityindicative of a modern trend away fromhuman-to-human intimacy." "" It sounds likea coping mechanism,a way to compensatefor a lack of human affection." "I suppose we can all relate to that a bit." "But what do I do?" "She's in love with a box." "Well,what do youwant to do,jerry?" "she'S.a very nice lady." "I suppose I would liketo help her." "Do that,then." "She has no legal case." "This is ridiculous,even for this firm." "Maybe you could locateher lover." "you better hope my pimp doesn't catch you." "Try me." "There's nothing I won't do." "You know I'm worth it,baby." "Hello,denny." "Busy?" "Can't you tell?" "I'm in the middleof kidnapping a hooker." "May I speak with youa second?" "actually,I was on my way out." "Care to ride the elevatorwith me?" "You're just dying to get mein an elevator,aren't you?" "Crossed my mind." "Carl asked me to give you a handwith this nancy wilding matter." "Oh,that's why you're here,to give me a hand?" "Know what I'd liketo do,denny?" "I'd like to get nancy wildingand her lawyer in, officially offer herher job back coupled witha heartfelt apology." "Why should you apologize?" "You didn't do anything wrong." "I was thinkingit would come from you." "That's a no." "Denny." "I don't want to be bothered withthis case any more than you do." "Let's you and I make ltgo away together." "Can we do that,denny?" "You and I,together?" "Did you ever mention to anyonebefore killing sean harmon that you were gettingmessages from god?" "No." "You claim to bea religious person." "Did you discuss thiswith clergy?" "No." "You're getting messagesfrom god." "You don't talkto your own priest." "You just order a gun?" "Not the actionsof a sane person,I admit." "But you're sane now,right?" "In fact,when examinedby court-appointed psychiatrists to determine your competencyto stand trial, they found you sane." "this just 36 hours after her crime." "Objection." "It seems like such a small,convenient window of insanity." "Objection." "Objection sustained." "The jury will disregard that." "Uh,so." "as I understand it,you know now that godwas not speaking to you." "Yes." "I was probably projecting." "I wanted sean harmon dead." "It w me,but I didn't think I could reconcile murderwith my sense of morality." "So my subconscious somehow found a wayto make it god's word so that I could maintainmy moral esteem and still kill sean harmon." "it was one of those answers that could either win the dayor bury us." "Well,she seems to knowexactly what she's doing." "I'd give herthe benefit of the doubt." "Let's talk about you,denny." "You certainly knewwhat you were doing when you fired nancy wilding." "For being fat." "What's going on?" "Are you retaliating because sherejected your sexual advances?" "Hell,if I had a nickelfor every girl that turned me down,I'd." "actually,I do." "What is it,then?" "Is it just another way to bethe center of attention?" "I should be on that case." "I should be in that courtroomwith you and patrice kelly, not in my office,kidnapping hookers." "On the tv." "Denny." "don'T." "Just don'T." "You need to let lorrainemake this case go away." "I'll do." "what I want." "Fine." "You're representinga woman who's in lovewith a utility box." "Is that right, jerry?" "I'm sorry?" "yes, Mr. Sack." "It's right." "I'm representing a womanwho's in love with a utility box." "Something tells meyou're involved." "I'm not,actually,other than to encourage jerry." "I think it's brilliant." "Brilliant!" "I think the law that's noblestis used to protect the weakest and most vulnerable membersof our society." "The client hereis an objectophile,a fragile one at that." "Every other law firmsummarily rejected her." "How wonderful that this firmendeavors to prioritize compassion and humanityover profit." "It positively warmsthe cockles of my heart." "Jerry's off to meetwith the developer." "Perhaps you'd caretooin?" "I'm sure your own cocklescould use a jolly." "Well,I-I can't speak as to whether god spoketo this woman, but my view is he wouldcertainly forgive her for her actions." "For killing sean harmon?" "The lord'spowers of forgiveness are without limit." "And in this case,there's alsothe eye for an eye principle." "That justifies killing somebody?" "The phrase is to be foundin the old testament,and I believeit speaks for itself." "What about the new testament?" "Jesus says turnthe other cheek,does he not?" "Well,my reading of thatis jesus was voicing a very personal view on how a saintly individualshould act." "I don't interpret thatas condemning revenge." "So you,a man of the cloth,don't believe thatall human life is holy?" "I do." "I also believe,"whoever sheds the blood of man,by manshall his blood be shed." "" Genesis." "I've studiedjudeo-christian teachings for 33 years." "I consider myselfboth a biblical and a talmudic scholar." "And I foundfather maher's testimony to bestrikingly without merit." "Because?" "The eye for an eye versein the bible suggests a limitationon retribution." "It is forbiddeto taketwo eyes for one." "Or for that matter,to inflict any punishment that would exceedthe offense." "Yes,but the underlying offenseof sean harmon was murder." "Yeah,but even so,it w never meantto advocate revenge murder." "I mean,consider the wordsof jus." ""If anyone strikes youon the left cheek,offer him the otheras well." "" Jesus would never haveendorsed this revenge killing." "He was against vengeance." "Well,except when it cameto believing in him,right?" "Mark 16:16." ""he that believethand is baptized shall be saved,but he that believeth notshall be damned." "" And damnation." "if hell is everything it's cracked up to be. is a fate worse than the painful deaththat precedes it." "So according to this guy mark,jesus was okay with vengeance,wasn't he,professor?" "If I was a christian,I suppose I'd be very much offended by that." "But you're a jew,and certainly jews are okay with revenge." "You know something aboutjewish law I don't?" "I know that if you crossisrael's boarders without the proper invitation,the bombs,they go a-bursting." "I know when israel kidnappedeichmann and hanged him, jewish people the world over cheered and." "look,first of all,eichmann was responsiblefor mass murder." "So it's not whether judaismsupports revenge,but when?" "You are offensive." "Really?" "I was just going to saythe same about you." "Judaism has never beenpreoccupied with forgiveness." ""Justice,justice,you shall pursue." "" That's whatthe torah commands." "My clientwas pursuing justice when she avenged the deathof her only daughter." "What's truly offensive is you sitting highon your scholarly horse and suggesting that god." "anybody's god. would condemn her for it." "Objection." "Moreover," "I suspect ifyour child was murdered,had it been your child's murderer who went free." "objection!" "You wouldn't be -pontificatingabout forgiveness." "And when's the last time one of your kids." "Got bludgeoned to death?" "objection,your honor!" "Mr. Shore." "this is very difficultfor me to grasp." "it's very simple." "You relocated the box." "We would simply liketo get possession of it." "No,that much I got." "It was the part about herbeing in love with it." "of coursemy client's predilection must strike youas unconventional." "But I would neverthelessask you to respect, she has founda meaningful relationship that works for her." "With a box?" "I'm an objectophile." "We were hoping that perhaps the person involvedin the item's removal could help track it down." "Well,I'm sorry." "I believe the boxhas been destroyed." "When you say "destroyed"." "that's all of him?" "I'm told he's all there." "It's not the same." "Leigh." "have you thoughtof getting counseling?" "You must thinkI'm a rather sick person." "No,I don'T." "There are many people who find inanimate objectsdesirable." "I had." "a life-size doll." "At least your objecthad a face." "she had morethan a face." "I'd given her a personality,a sense of humor." "I'd even debate politicswith her on occasion." "most of it is aboutfear of intimacy and trust with a real person." "I read one expert. he says we've become such a socially isolatedsociety." "what,with computersand so forth." "With so manysocially isolated individuals, the rise of objectophiliais not altogether surprising." "Are you listening?" "What?" "Yes." "Sorry." "It's just thatyour clock radio reminded me of one ofmy exes for a second." "I think you can achieve an intimateand trusting relationship with a real person." "It's very terrifying." "I know." "But I think you should givereal people a try." "Jerry." "thank you for everything,for not laughing at me,for." "well,you'rea very compassionate man." "If there's anythingI can do for you." "well,you've been so kind." "It might be very hardfor me to be alone tonight." "Take it." "Are you sure?" "Please." "I'll bring it back." "Just something to hold." "we're officially offeringnancy her job back." "Rejected." "She's not coming backto a firm of fat bigots." "And we'll ofr $25,000to cover hurt feelings." "Also rejected." "Are you this hostile in bed?" "'Cause I like that." "Denny." "look,I really am sorryfor what I said." "But let's face it,we live in a very cosmetic worldthese days." "And perception so often seems tocount more than substance." "Beauty begets beauty." "And what I was really trying to say was you're fat." "Keep talking,Mr. Crane." "All I hear is "ca-ching,ca-ching,ca-ching." "" Nancy,a jury'snot gonna give you money." "Juries like winners." "Look around the room." "Wier." "Winner." "Loser." "Loser." "Let's review." "winner,winner,loser,loser." "Now I'd appreciate it if you'dleave my conference room before anyone sees you and confuses you with someoneI'd actually hire." "Off you go now." "The evidence is all in,folks." "It comes down to closing arguments." "We know what the prosecution is gonna say." "But let's talkbout the defense." "There is only one argument to make here." "We all know what it is." "The victim here killed this poor woman's daugh." "what do you want?" "Uh,could you please sit,denny?" "do you know the reason I came to the boston office?" "Shirley." "That would be one reason,yes." "The other was to." "well." "ring outsome of the madness." "And now we have you,firing an associatebecause she's fat." "I'd like to stayand chat,carl,but I've got a trialcoming up, and the client can't fire mebecause I'm the client." "Please sit." "may I share somethingwith you?" "Shirley?" "No,not shirley." "There's a reason your namecomes first on the door." "More than anything else,this place is you." "If I've come to realizeone thing more than anything since arriving, it's how much the people who workat crane,poole  schmidt so love doing so." "in large part for you." "What you do to yourself,in theory,is your own business." "But it really isn'T." "denny crane." "I don't thinkI need to persuade you that the evidenceclearly shows that patrice kellywas not insane." "In truth,her defensenever really argued that she was." "To the contrary,they introducedall kinds of evidence." "religious,moral and otherwise." "to convince you that what she didmade total sense." "Her daughter was murdered." "The killer was freed." "Of course." "of course she was outraged." "And many of youwould have been tempted to take the lawinto your own hands just like she did, but you wouldn't have." "As much as you'd wantto give in to anarchy and lawlessnessand vigilantism, you wouldn't have." "Because we have lawsagainst it." "We have consequenceslike prison to stop us from giving into our violent, primal,albeit sometimesatural urges." "Patrice kelly is sitting herebecause she said,"screw the law." "" And now she's hopingthat the 12 of you will do exactly the same thing." "screw the lawyou took an oath to uphold." "The role of the jurorin this country is most noble." "It. it's perhaps the highest formof public service, not because it's easy,but becauseit's oftentimes difficult." "Here you're being askedto convict a good woman, a woman you no doubt relate to,a woman who your heartsquite appropriately go out to." "It's difficult." "as the truth often is." "The truth here is that this wasan act of revenge." "Patrice kelly deliberately,methodically and reflectively killedsean harmon." "This case has been." "very unsettling." "I'm so againstthe death penalty." "A state-sanctioned." "dispassionate,ceremonial takingof a human life is." "I have been an eyewitnessto five executions." "And they were vile,debased and felt." "horrifyingly sadistic." "And yet,the thoughtof sean harmon being killed feels." "so good." "and just." "It turns out,you see,while the death penaltymight not be moral,revenge is." "Studies are now surfacingwhich show that vengeance, specificallythe self-help kind,is good,healthy even,like oat bran." "New findingsbased on brain scans show that we geta burst of activity in our prefrontal cortex from the very act of punishing those who break social norms." "And here's the best part." "uh,relying instead on the stateto avenge our harms doesn't cut it." "That,in fact,weakens our moral instincts." "According to recent findingsat arizona state university, morality requires people to respond to the qualityof another person's acts, letting the stateor somebody else do your bidding is,in fact,moral cowardice." "This explains why one can beopposed to the death penalty, and nevertheless delighted that patrice kellyshot sean harmon dead." "Vengeance is sometimes right,as it was here." "The reason we all wantpatrice to go free, the reason we get thatlittle shot of activity in our dorsal striatums when we think of patrice kellyin her temporarily insane state putting a bulletin sean harmon's head, is because it wasthe moral thing to do." "This man bludgeonedher daughter to death with a vodka bottle." "If it had been your childwho was killed, had your child's murdererwalked away free with no consequences,no remorse, you would have wanted to do exactly as she did." "Mr. Betts admonished youto consider the truth of what happenedin this case." "But in reality,he only wants you to consider the bare police report facts." "And as william faulkneronce said,"facts and truth,uh, really don't have muchto do with each other." "" The truth in this case is that in a momentof divine irrationality, a great wrong was set right,and justice." "justice." "was finally done." "The jury wants to know if they have the optionof manslaughter." "As it stands now,they don't,not unlesswe amend the charges." "So." "do we add manslaughter?" "Their question says to methat they don't want to find her guiltyof first or second degree, but nor do they wantto let her go." "So who's gonna blink?" "I'll agreeto add manslaughter." "Good." "Mr. Shore?" "no." "Don't you think you should check with your client?" "I will." "But she's gonna ask mewhat I think,and I'll tell hernot to agree." "My concern is,if you think revenge murder is a moral good, then maybe you're notseeing straight yourself." "What's up?" "Oh,just pretendingto be busy, waiting for alan to get backso I can smoke and drink and discuss my penis." "You know,denny." "for all our differences,we go way back." "Really?" "I don't remember." "The mad cow." "Mm,you joke aboutthe mad cow,but clearly,if you're slipping, do you really wantto be on display in a very public trial?" "I mean,why put yourselfthrough all of this,just because you're angry?" "You. you seemto forget,carl, that I had a perfectly good reasonto discharge nancy wilding." "She's fat." "Obesity is a disease." "I've got the gene." "I had to fire her." "I couldn't risk catching it." "Catching it?" "Obesity." "It's all right here,black-and-white." "Obesity." "it can spread fromperson to person like a virus." "I marked the page." "Is this for real?" "Fat people gotta go,carl." "They're contagious." "Leigh,you're back." "Yes,I am." "Listen,I've been thinkinga lot about what you said, taking a chance on trustingreal people again." "And it really resonatedwith me,jerry." "I would like somebodywho I could talk to,somebody who's capableof talking back." "I started wondering whetherI knew anyone who I could trust." "And I don'T." "And then I thought." "what about you?" "I don't knowyour situation,jerry." "But would you like to geta drink with me?" "Now?" "Never mind." "I'm very sorry." "Forget I said that." "No,that's." "I-I would loveto get a drink." "You don't have to say that." "No,I would." "No,no,no,no!" "I would!" "okay." "Okay." "shall we?" "Okay." "we could stillchange o mind." "We could just agreeto a plea of manslaughter." "The district attorneywould probably accept it." "I don't want to spendfive years in prison." "But. then the ideaof doing life." "I can't believe a jurywould want you to do life." "Even if some did,certainly not all." "I just can't see all 12." "the jury's back." "has the jury reacheda unanimous verdict?" "We have,your honor." "Will the defendantplease rise?" "Mr. Foreman,what say you?" ""On count one,"the charge of murdering the first degree," ""we find the defendantpatrice kelly." "not guilty." "" "On count two,"on the charge of murdering the second degree," ""we find the defendantpatrice kelly." "" not guilty." "Oh,my god." "Oh,boy." "thank youfor your service." "Uh,the defendantis free to go." "And we are adjourned." "Oh,my." "I can't denythis one scared me,denny." "As illegalas her actions were,I would've been devastatedhad she gone to jail." "And yet,as justifiedas you say she was,you're telling me you're still against the death penalty?" "Absolutely." "That doesn't make any sense." "It makes perfect sense." "It's okay for herto execute him,but if the government does it for her." "that would be wrong." "Leave it to you liberalsto come up with research that says it's okayto be for revenge and againstthe death penalty." "It's a lot like beingfor the death penalty and yet pro life." "You want to go there?" "I can go there." "You started it." "I didn't start it." "I'm just sayingthat you are a hypocrite." "no,I'm not." "Yes,you are." "You come upwith these studies." "and another thingabout you democrats." "You all believe in science." "You should rememberthat little gem for your testimony." "I will,don't you worry." "will you defend me?" "Since I'm a witness,I'll needa lawyer to defend me." "Will you defend me?" "I'll defend you,denny." "I'd like to knowwhy you did it." "Was it because sheturned you down for sex?" "Alan,when a man gets older,he beginsto suffer various." "indignities." "But to be turned downby a fat girl?" "Another little gem." "Well,you're out theretrying these murder cases, and I'm in my officetwiddling my thumbs,being rejected by fatties." "I am not over." "I'm sick of peoplethinking I'm over." "I know you're not over." "As far as I'm concerned,denny,you've never been more now." "Thank you." "I read another study." "Here we go." "It talked about how mensometimes seek younger female partners as a wayof staying younger themselves." "that surprises you?" "No,but it went on to say that sometimes they seek outyounger male friends for the same reason." "You're insecure." "no." "Yes,you are." "Well,sometimes I wonderif we'd be as close if I wasn'tsome young thing." "alan." "first of all,you're no spring chicken." "And second." "forget it." "What?" "No,I-I said forget it." "You were aboutto say something." "No,I wasn'T." "Denny." "I wasn't,damn it." "Well,then finishthe sentence." "Second. second what?" "Second." "I love you." "And it has nothing to dowith your youth." "Sleepover?" "That's why I saidforget it." "What's. what's wrong?" "What's the problem." "because it's artificial." "With my suggesting." "I feel like I have to saysomething soft,like I'm always asking for it." "Oh,now you're being ridiculous." "I am not being ridiculous." "It seems every time I suggest a sleepover." "every time you ask mefor a sleepover." "you get angry now." "I get the feeling you thinkI want it." "Why don't you just say that,denny?" "And it's not comingfrom a real place." "I know what it is,too." "And it makes me feellike it's charity." "You're embarrassed of yourhorrendous snoring."