"I have an 80 percent chance of getting Alzheimer's?" "Not like I'll remember it." "Mad cow." "I got weak stream syndrome." "Irritable bowels." " Denny Crane." "Grammy?" " Marlena." " I am in big trouble." "I need your help." "Melvin Palmer, how are you?" "Attaboy." "You're still a hoot." "Hell, I get paid, win or lose." "No reason this can't be a win-win." "I just made more money, that's what I did." "How is it she ended up in a Pennsylvania prison?" "It's a private facility one we signed off on because it provided counseling." " Was she an addict?" " I don't think she is." "But cocaine possession at 15, it's not an encouraging sign." "Anyway, the facility claimed that all of their guards had degrees in juvenile justice and child psychology." "The guard who raped her didn't have a high-school diploma." " Okay." " I don't understand why they're not anxious to settle." "What could their defense be?" "Well, prisons, private or otherwise, aren't held strictly liable." "We'd have to show negligence." "We have to prove they failed to exercise a reasonable standard of care using industry standards." "My feeling is they will settle after the necessary amount of posturing." "Sorry I'm late." "I took Storrow instead of surface." "Jerry, my man." "How are you, my friend?" "Big hug." "I run on hugs, that's what I do." "Melvin Palmer." "Wow, you are a fetching lass, that's what you are." "Am I right, Jerry?" "Two pops for "yes. " Attaboy." "So, what have we got?" "You must be the father of the girl." "Tell you what." "Let's fast-forward past where you tell me this is terrible." "No need." "See, unlike your average GOP fundraiser I don't think there's anything fun about a rape." "Hey, how's my buddy Al, that big hoot?" "What I'm gonna do is make you two offers." "One's great, the other better." "Here's the number." "It'll make your eyes pop." "I've got another number in my briefcase, either bigger or smaller than that one." "You tell me what you wanna do." "You like what you see here, just say, "Deal. "" "If you don't like it, you get the other number." "So, what's it gonna be, Big Daddy?" "His daughter was raped." "You've turned it into a game show." "Life is nothing but a sweepstakes, I say." "I'll tell you what." "I'm gonna let you open the briefcase because you're fetching." "Just hold it up like so." "Golly, it's good to see you." "One pop for old times' sake." "Hey, I'll take a stomp instead." "So, what's it gonna be, Dad?" "Deal or no deal?" "Hi, Grammy." " Oh, God." "What have you done now?" "That's how you greet your granddaughter?" " Sorry, sweetheart." "How are you doing?" " Oh, I got arrested." "Just tell me it's not a felony." " The utmost act of patriotism." " So it is a felony." "Seems that because I care about the future of our country because I care that the national debt is 9.4 trillion because I care that 47 million Americans are without health insurance..." " Just tell me what you did." " I voted in the primary." " You're 17." " Oh, yes, I'm 17." "I shouldn't get a voice." "Meanwhile, Toothless, who can't read, gets to decide a swing state?" "That makes total sense." "Oh, hey, it's the old guy." "Do you think you could help me with my granddaughter?" "It seems she voted in the primary." " Well, well, well." "Yum." " Okay, serious ick." "Denny, you remember my granddaughter, Marlena." "Oh, clearly you're as hot as Granny." "Are you as nasty?" "Very funny, Denny." "Okay, you can get up now." " No, stay down." " Denny." "Oh, he's faking." " Denny?" " He's not breathing." "Denny." " He's not breathing." " Call 911." "Denny, if this is a joke..." "Denny." "Denny." " I'm fine." " Denny, you're going to the hospital." " I just fainted, that's all." "You stopped breathing." " We had to give you mouth-to-mouth." " Who gave it?" "Shirley?" "Me." " Oh, God." "Take me to the hospital." " Let's go." " I'm coming with you." " Just don't kiss me." "Two twenty-five seems a little low for a rape." "You know what?" "There is no amount of money that would be enough." "A 15-year-old girl?" "A million seems low." " Am I right, Jerry?" "I'm not sure." "Why don't you offer a mil?" "I'll let you know." "You're a chip off the old hoot block, that's what you are." "See, Mr. Addario, I have to evaluate cases using your more objective jury verdict research." "Comes down to tables, statistics, numbers." "Ask me, it's offensive to quantify something like a rape with money values, but that's the way the law works." "My computation values this case around 1.5." "You must have one of those plaintiffs' calculators, that's what." "Maybe we should just spin the wheel." "The thing is, when I factor in all the variables here which I would be required to do, you see, as defendant's counsel 225 would be the number, all payable today, by the way." " Exactly what variables do you mean?" " Well, do I really need to say it?" " Afraid you do." " Okay." "Obviously Ms. Addario was quite traumatized by all this." "I've never even met her but my suspicion is, settlement conferences and the like would bring back a trauma she would just as soon forget, right?" "Nobody here wants to put her through the ordeal of a trial." "You know the questions I would be obligated to ask." "How she found her assailant attractive." "How she flirted with him." "How she, perhaps, stoked the passions that ultimately overtook his free will." "There is no way in hell a loving father would ever subject her to all the ugliness that goes with a trial." "And see, without her testimony you'd have a hard time getting any judgment, that's what I know." "And knowing that, the number is 225." "You're disgusting." "You know, missy I get that a lot." "I'm actually okay with it, which is something you might consider." "I mean, who wants to subject that poor girl to a disgusting lawyer who's willing to tear her up and do, perhaps, irreparable psychological damage?" "I certainly don't want that." "Do you?" "What do you mean, she voted?" "She falsified her birth year, registered, and voted in the Democratic primary." "If we hadn't caught her, she'd be voting in the election." "Why don't we prosecute the lazy asses who don't vote?" "Maybe charge them with dereliction of civic duty." "Young lady, you will speak when spoken to." "Could we plead this out, give her a fine slap her with community service, and we could all go home?" " What kind of lawyering is that?" " It's not just that she voted." "She has a YouTube post where she encourages minors to vote and offers instructions on how to falsify registration forms." "One year in jail." " What?" " Judge." "Now, I admittedly haven't read all of the Patriot Act but I'm pretty sure that you can't find somebody guilty without a trial." "I could be wrong." " Toxic shock?" " Your blood tests show a lot of drugs." " How many medications are you on?" " Thirty, 40." " What?" " Thirty or 40?" " My God." " Is that a lot?" " Why are you taking them?" " I don't know." "You name it." "Acid reflux, weak stream, restless leg, hemorrhoids irritable bowel, memory, cholesterol, blood pressure..." " Whoa, whoa." "These drugs can interact." " No, I keep them in separate bottles." "Do they make one for common sense?" "Where are you getting your medical advice?" " Television." " Television?" " For God's sake, Denny." "What?" "They wouldn't advertise if it wasn't safe." "Mr. Crane, you very nearly died." "You're lucky you didn't die." "Really?" "Oops." "After my mother died, I started using." "I don't know if I was addicted, but..." "You were arrested and convicted for possession of cocaine?" "Yes." "I was given two choices:" "Go to a juvenile detention facility or choose the private route which promised treatment, which we opted for." "What happened at that facility?" "I was raped by a guard." "Lauren, I know this is difficult and..." " Have you ever been raped, Miss Lloyd?" " No." "Then please don't tell me you know." "Okay." "Can you try to help me..." "I should say the jury." "Understand what happened that day?" "A guard who was not a trained professional but instead a paid-by-the-hour employee came into my cell pinned me down by my neck, pulled my pants down..." "Was there anyone else around?" "No." "The others were at recreation outside somewhere." "I was held in for disciplinary infraction." "I won't pretend to know or even imagine the horror of..." "May I ask, did you know this guard?" "I knew him." "In fact, you had a rather close friendship with him, didn't you?" "Obviously I didn't see him as the monster that he was." "I understand." "Had you ever kissed him before this incident?" " Yes." " In fact the day he came into your cell, you two kissed." "Consensually." "Am I right?" " I never consented to be raped." " Of course not." "You said you were held inside for a disciplinary infraction." "What was that disciplinary infraction?" "I went to an area where I was not supposed to be." "You snuck off to rendezvous with this part-time guard?" "One last question." "During this attack did you scream?" " He said if I made a sound, he'd kill me." " So you never cried out for help?" "Nothing further." "Sue the drug company?" " They almost killed me." "You heard." " Even so." "How about I sue the one that markets 16 of the 42 prescriptions I was taking?" "Denny, how could they predict you'd eat them like jellybeans?" " Alan, have you seen the television ads?" " Yes, I've seen them." "They list side effects like the telephone book." "The benefits get all the bells and whistles." "They nearly killed me." "I wanna sue them." "Let's get them." "You can't deny that you broke the law here." "Civil disobedience, simple." "It's what started this country." "One might look at me as a hero." "Or one might look at you as a person who committed a crime punishable by up to five years in jail." "Oh, so I can't vote but for the purpose of locking me up, suddenly I'm an adult." "Isn't that convenient?" "How fair is it to be excluded from the democratic process when we make no exclusion for addicts, the mentally handicapped or senior Floridians who accidentally voted for Buchanan?" "Do you think you understand the complexities of immigration the economic recession, the Middle East balance of power..." "I think I understand it some." "You think most American voters do?" "Aren't you sick of people not voting for a candidate because, hey, they don't think they could have a beer with him or her pantsuits aren't flattering?" " I'm a lot more informed..." " Maybe you're an exception." " Most 17-year-olds are..." " Are what?" "How do you finish that without some nugget of ageism?" "I mean, I'm old enough to be a parent." "I'm old enough to get an abortion." "That is a decision far more complicated and difficult than making a check on a ballot based on whether there's a D or an R next to a candidate's name, which is what people do." "I mean, you wanna give me a test?" "Make me take a class?" "Make me earn my right to vote?" "Fine." "I'll do it." "But don't just say no way because I'm 17." "Joan of Arc led an army at 17." "And I'm cuter." "Way." "What's really nauseating is he's good." " The jury seemed to be with him." " He's very good." "But we'll get him." "Wait till I get that defendant on the stand." "He's muffin." " I mean toast." " You seem to be more confident lately." "You twiddle a wooden cigarette instead of sucking it." "Your hands are in your pockets, not on your thighs." "And your clothes." "You're dressing more upscale." "New therapist, new Jerry." "Not gonna leave the old Jerry completely, are you?" "No." "You really think you can get the defendant?" "New Jerry in town." "He's bagel." "Toast." "We actually operate many private prisons as well as our detention centers." "Our safety and crime record is typically superior to the state facilities." "But just to be clear, you're in this for profit, right?" "Yes." "We're for profit." "We're a business." "Nothing wrong with capitalism." "It's just the opposite." "Public prisons are weighed down with bureaucracy." "They have archaic civil-service rules that they have to go by." "We don't." "We've streamlined the entire process right from construction all the way to Human Resources." "We've even eliminated all the red tape." "Simply put, we can build a better prison for less money, and we do." "Okay, but, sir, how is it that a 15-year-old inmate could get attacked by one of your guards?" "Well, this was a rogue guard." "I'm sorry to say, but every prison, public or private, has them." "But I can tell you that we do screen our employees." "He had no history of violent or sex crime and there was no way to predict this." "I can also tell you that our screening process rivals or surpasses the ones used by the state-operated facilities." "As for rogue guards, they're just a reality of prison life." "When we say "for profit," how much profit are we talking about?" "Objection." "Relevance." "I'd like to explore whether the savings afforded them a better opportunity to, say, prevent the 15-year-olds from getting raped." "Objection." "That's inflammatory." "Rapes are inflammatory." "Don't you agree?" "Two pops for "yes. "" " Mr. Espenson." " Sorry, I'm a chip off the old hoot." "Exactly how much moola do you make?" "We made about $350 million this past year." "That's kind of a lot." "Don't you agree, Mel?" "One pop." "Three if you love me." "Do you throw any toward training guards?" " Of course." "Our guards are well trained." " Well trained?" "As was the one who attacked my client?" "Mr. Palmer likes to say "attacked. " "Attack's" a nice word." "Our troops attack, for example." "Troops are good." ""Attack's" a good word." "Much better than, say, "rape" which is ugly, which is what happened to my client." "Did you train this guard not to rape?" "All of our employees, including this one, are required to apply for correctional officer certification within six months of hire." "They have another six months to get certified." "So any employee can work for an entire year without certification?" "After receiving 40 hours of annual in-service training..." "Forty hours?" "That would cover riots, beatings, shankings, escapes?" "Your employee turnover is two to three times that of public prisons, right?" " Yes, but..." " And your staff is 49 percent more likely to be assaulted by the inmates." " Look, it's not Club Med." "It is a prison." " I see." "We call it a prison now." "For the purpose of getting parents to elect your for-profit alternative you're a detention treatment facility." "That's another lovely word, "treatment. " It's almost as acceptable as "attack. "" "Doctors, for example, like to attack diseases with treatment." ""Treatment attack," "attack treatment," doesn't matter." "It still sounds better than "prison rape. "" "Prison, prison, prison, rape, rape, rape." " Objection." " We have child rape." " Objection." " And good that you made a profit." "I'm done." "Straight probation, six months and you take your instruction video off YouTube." "No." "Wait a minute, did you just say no?" "They're willing to let you go, Marlena." "This is more than just me, Grammy." "I am a movement." "Millions of kids..." "Oh, give me a break." "I'd think you would understand being a former suffragette, that you have to stand..." "The law is black..." "Did you just call me "a former suffragette"?" " Aren't you?" " How old do you think I am?" "I don't know, 80?" "Please leave now." "And take the window, it's faster." "And you, can't you talk some sense into her?" "Actually, I think she's right." "Not about you being 80." " But she should get to vote." " Excuse me?" "We had 10 million people without diplomas vote in the last election." "Why shouldn't Marlena get to vote?" "Carl." "That's her "I'm not happy with you" tone." "Yes, I know it well." "Surely you think she should settle this case?" "Surely I don't." "Shirley." "Give me one reason why we shouldn't countersue for abuse of process, filing a frivolous lawsuit and possibly extortion?" "Well, my impression of the pharmaceutical industry is that it's always so nice." "He had a scare, but he's fine now." "What are the damages?" " Well, emotional distress, for starters." " But how did we cause it?" "What is it exactly you're claiming we did?" "What you did?" "You brainwashed my client." "The massive marketing strategy employed by your trade association caused him to gulp down 42 different drugs on a daily basis." "And it would be foreseeable in your mind that he'd do this just because...?" "Certainly foreseeable to you." "You market to senior citizens because research shows they're easy targets susceptible to deceptive advertising..." "I'm sorry." "You did go to law school, right?" "Actually, I bought my degree on the Internet." "What's your point?" "What happened to him was the product of his stupidity." "That he's able to enlist his firm and an intellectually challenged attorney to type a cause of action on a complaint does not give him one." "I bet you didn't play well with others as a child, did you?" " I'm leaving." " Sit your arrogant ass down, Mr. Mathis." "Better you hear what I have to say now." " It'll be cheaper than in court." " You think you're going to intimidate us?" "We're one of the biggest players in the industry." "Do you have the slightest sense of how powerful we are?" "I have a very acute sense." "Last week I took on the tobacco industry." "Imagine my surprise to discover you two are so much alike." "You both deny the damaging health effects of your products." "You both promote so-called independent research which you actually finance." "You both market to children." "You both pour millions of dollars into lobbying efforts to buy Congress." "You both suppress information that proves your products kill people." "The only difference I can see is that while the FDA is hostile to cigarettes you, they roll over for." " Look..." "I know exactly how big and powerful you are, Mr. Mathis." "It might do you some good to check me out." "I'm the guy who just nicked Big Tobacco for 200 million." "Now I just sit in my office all day twiddling my thumbs, asking myself, "Who's next?"" "Well, guess what." "It's you." "It's you." "The law is the law." "She broke it." "Since they've attempted to put the law on trial, let me defend it." "There is a reason for voting-age minimums." "Most kids aren't as fully informed as Ms. Hoffman is." "Most kids are, well, kids and they simply lack the judgment and maturity." "A recent poll found that 20 percent of students at NYU would trade their vote in the upcoming presidential election for an iPod Touch." "Sixty-six percent would trade it for free tuition." "Kids are kids." "Which is why this state, indeed, most states, set boundaries." "We don't let them drink until they're 21, we don't let them have sex enter into contracts." "Is it fair that Marlena Hoffman not be allowed to vote given how politically aware she is?" "Maybe not." "But our system here has to be what's best for the masses what's best for this country." "Letting children vote doesn't serve that goal." "I salute Marlena Hoffman and her civic commitment, I really do." "She just has to wait another year." "Now, I know that to her, that probably seems like a lifetime." "After all, she's a kid." "What's the fear?" "That they'll screw things up?" "We have a $9.4" " Trillion debt, no national health care unprecedented poverty capped by a recession a war that could last a hundred years depending on who wins this election an Earth that is dying." "Oh, yes, please let's not dare let the young people mess with our masterpiece." "Oh, come on, Mr. Suck, don't you think this is ridiculous?" "At first I did." "And by the way, it's "Sack. "" "But the more I listen to Ms. Hoffman..." "Children aren't just our future, they're our best hope." "We need them involved, onboard, with an appreciation of the stakes." "This young lady is." "We're talking about electing our commander in chief." "Yes, I am." "You know what?" "Let's face it." "These elections are decided by old coots like you and me." "Why?" "Well, because not only do senior citizens historically, swing elections with their votes we have the most money to stuff the campaign coffers." "McCain and Obama certainly know that." "How else would you explain their silence on what may be our biggest nightmare?" "That more and more of the federal budget now goes to subsidizing old people." "Medicare, Medicaid and social security now take up 40 percent." "And spending on these programs is expected to double over the next 10 years?" "As far as what the kids get, let's see." "Failing educational systems a broken economy." "Don't forget the backdoor draft to get them to fight our wars." "The kids are getting screwed." "There are millions of them on high-school and college campuses who are informed, passionate..." " Oh, for God's sake." "You might also consider, judge, that teenagers spend over $ 176 billion a year of their own money." "Over 176 billion." "They earn it." "They file tax returns." "To tax them while not letting them vote?" "That amounts to taxation without representation." "I think we started a revolutionary war to right that wrong." "Finally, Your Honor I hesitate to say this but the resistance to letting young people vote may be more insidious and subtle than, "Gee, they lack the maturity. "" "We have an ugly legacy in this country of excluding certain segments of society." "There are women alive today who were once denied the right to vote." "Even after African-Americans were given the right many were subjected to literacy tests." "Like in Alabama, where blacks had to determine the number of bubbles on a bar of soap before they could cast their ballot." "Today states are passing voter-ID laws requiring proof of citizenship." "It makes sense on one level, but the net effect is that many U.S. -born citizens will lose out because they're too poor to afford the documentation." "Millions of felons can't vote." "Also makes sense, except when you consider that 13 percent of the U.S. Black male population fall into that category." "The poor, the black, the young." "A nutty reverend may have been right when he said that this country is ruled by the old, the white and the rich." "So you don't favor any age requirements?" "Lower it to 17." "Nineteen U.S. States are considering legislation to lower the voting age." "Why?" "Because it's time." "Our kids are educated." "They can be passionate, socially aware." "I mean, they have an idealism many of us have forgotten." "They have a voice." "It's time we let it be heard." "Not just for their sakes, but for ours." " We going into court?" " They filed to dismiss." " Can we beat it?" " It's a pretty powerful industry, Denny." "Do I have to give you my big pep talk again?" "No." "They almost killed you." "You can consider me sufficiently motivated." "Oh, Denny, please don't hug me." "All right, look." "I'm kind of a simple guy, I admit." "When I get a case I just plop down with the complaint, a cheeseburger and a pop and I try to decipher what the thing is really about." "That's what I do." "And I must tell you, I'm a little bit stumped here." "I mean, it can't be a straight negligence thing, can it?" "First, it wasn't foreseeable that this guard would commit a sexual assault." "He sure as hell never did it before." "Second, the prison's operating procedures were consistent with industry standards." "Third, the plaintiff herself would be deemed contributorily negligent since she cultivated a sexual relationship with this man." "She broke prison rules to be with him." "Hell, she kissed him." "That's probably why they decided to make this a referendum on private prisons." "Better target, because "for profit" translates to greed and avarice." "And we love taking the deep pockets down a notch, don't we?" "But, folks, private prisons are a good thing." "Not only do they save taxpayers' money, they make us safer." "Their recidivism rates are lower than the state-run facilities." "They also create jobs and help the economy." "I'm sorry, but you just can't make a goat of private prisons." "If anything, we need more of them." "Now, a horrible thing happened here, no question and blame was assessed." "The rogue guard was arrested and locked up." "Justice was done." "This is a civil trial which is trying to find a correctional facility guilty when they did everything right, according to industry standards." "That's just the truth." "Have we all gone completely mad?" "One in a hundred people in this country are in prison or jail." "The United States has more people locked up than any other country in the world." "That includes China." "For a nation that bills itself as the land of the free America quite fancies its slammers." "And with alarming recidivism rates do we mean to turn this problem over to the for-profit corporations whose very economic survival depends on people going to prison?" "Are we to believe they'll rehabilitate their inmates when they have a profit motive not to do so?" "If people don't commit crimes, they're out of business." "You have a cynical view of human nature, that's what you have, little lady." "Mr. Palmer, with all due respect to fact that you are far simpler than any of us could aspire to be I shall ask you to never, ever call me "little lady" again." "As for human nature, we saw it in Iraq with Blackwater." "Private corporations hired to protect our troops chose not to use armored vehicles even though the contract expressly provided for them." "Soldiers died because some executive decided:" ""Better to save money than lives. "" "That's what you get with for-profit corporations." "They never keep ledger sheets showing the human cost." "Our prison system releases 650,000 ex-convicts a year into society." "Two-thirds of those quickly commit crimes and return." "That's good for the for-profit prison business." "Very bad for the welfare of our citizenry." "And if we go with a system that disincentivizes rehabilitation, then what?" "We've already got 2.2 million people in jail." "In fact, many jails have to release criminals because there is simply no place to put them." "Corners get cut, costs get shaved, officer training is shortchanged and suddenly, we have children who are first-time offenders being physically attacked by corrections officers." "Mr. Palmer claims his client observed industry standards." "Yet his client held himself up as being above those very standards." "The reason Lauren Addario elected to go to this facility is because it promised a safer environment where she would get treatment." "But whatever standard of care one seeks to hold a public or private prison up to it should be one that safeguards against its 15-year-old girls being raped by guards." "All rise." "All right, I did a little research of my own last night." "I learned that our brain size peaks at 14 and our reasoning abilities peak at 12." "I also discovered that in preindustrial society which didn't even have a word for adolescence that postpubescent teens are considered adults." "In fact, psychologists say that by imposing all the restrictions we do on teenagers we are infantilizing them." "Part of our grand scheme to extend childhood." "Many of us say that the only solution to teenage angst and irresponsibility is to go in the opposite direction and treat them as grownups." "Couldn't he just say that I won and be done with it?" "I cannot give you the right to vote." "But I am satisfied that your actions were noble." "They were overt." "They did not rise to the level of fraud." "And therefore, I am dismissing all criminal charges." "We are adjourned." "Very good job, Mr. Old Guy." "You know, I can almost see what Grammy finds attractive about you." "Well, you're not nearly as cute or obnoxious as you think you are." "What I will say is pretty cool kid." "You won't tell Grammy I kind of like getting on her nerves?" "Secret's safe." "He's failed to state a claim even suggesting liability." "How was it foreseeable that he would gobble multiple medications buying them off the Internet without consulting a doctor in person?" "It's not just foreseeable, it's what you count on:" "Seducing the vulnerable members of society to fall for your snake-oil potions." "Oh, that's just absurd." "Hundreds of thousands of people die every year from prescription drugs." "Twenty-seven thousand people were killed by Vioxx." "If you believe one FDA official, possibly 50,000." "Yes, but you can't sue these people for Vioxx." "This isn't about Vioxx, which they don't even manufacture." "I'm talking about an industry-wide pattern." "We don't even know all the potential dangers of these drugs." "The pharmaceutical industry systematically conceals them." "They've been caught buying clinical trials bribing doctors, distorting science." "Many of these so-called peer-review articles we see in medical journals are actually written by the companies themselves." "And doctors take payoffs and let their names appear as the authors." " You have no evidence that is happening." " Because you hide it." "Your company buried evidence which showed a link between antidepressants and suicidal thoughts in children." "Which we still deny." "And this isn't that case." "He doesn't have one single fact..." "The fact is, the U.S. Pharmaceutical industry spends twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development." "That's obscene." "American television viewers see as much as 16 hours of prescription-drug advertising each year." "Sixteen hours." "That's more time than most people spend at the movies." "The fact is, they invent diseases like social phobia generalized anxiety disorder, to sell mind-altering drugs..." "Anxiety is a clinical illness." "To suggest otherwise is not only irresponsible..." "What's irresponsible is we have scores of people being diagnosed with these vague mental disorders, millions children." "What's irresponsible is we have 3- year-olds on antidepressants." "Why?" "Because the drug companies, just like Big Tobacco know if you get kids young enough, you have a customer for life." " I should sue." "You do not get a pass..." " Wanna sue me?" "Please do." "Because truth is a complete defense." "And I'm not the only one saying this." "This industry invents chronic diseases be it restless leg, dry eye syndrome, or these unspecified sleep disorders that require taking nightly doses of habit-forming tranquilizers." "They concoct the disorder, next the drug then blitz the public with commercials to convince them they're afflicted." "Especially effective with senior citizens." "My client was popping pills like candy." "He almost died." " He's out of control." " Your industry's out of control." "You manufacture and sell disease at exorbitant cost and the FDA refuses to regulate you." "The pharmaceutical lobby has a death grip on Congress." "Mr. Shore, you need to settle down." "Your Honor, the FDA refuses to go after these people, so let it be me." "They very nearly killed a man I dearly love." "Let it be me." "But let me get started, because they stall." "Of the 27 to 50,000 Vioxx deaths only 18 cases have reached juries so far, 18." "Most of the plaintiffs will be dead before they're compensated in any way." "Well, my client is 75, so please, let me get started on discovery since clearly I'll need every second." "All right, all right." "I will let this case stand." " What?" "Are you crazy?" " Perhaps you have a pill she could take." "You're allowing him to go forward with no proximate cause." "That's preposterous." "What would be preposterous, sir is if I were to extend the benefit of the doubt to your industry." "Do I look like an idiot?" " They got a pill for that." " Shut up." "I have made my ruling." "We are adjourned." "You've bitten off more than you can chew." "I don't swallow, I just chew up and spit out." " We'll see." " I can see you're good at this." "Nervous, Jerry?" "Interesting cross of yours." "Little piece of advice, my friend:" "Never, ever get up in court and try to "out-me" me." "All right, Mr. Foreman, the jury has reached its verdict?" " We have, judge." "What say you?" "In the matter of Lauren Addario v. Superior Correctional Centers we, the jury, find in favor of the plaintiff and order the defendant to pay damages of $ 1.7 million." " Defense appeals, judge." " So noted." "Members of the jury, thank you for your service." "The judgment is entered." "This matter is adjourned." " You did it." " Congratulations, Lauren." " Thank you." "Thank you." "Can't win them all, Mel." "Hey, can you win any?" "Two pops for "yes," bro." "Jerry, in England we're taught to be gracious in victory." "Well, I couldn't help it." "He's a big boob-head." "Well, congratulations." "It seems your cross carried the day." "It was your closing." "It was as persuasive as it was elegant." "I guess we make quite a team, you and me." " As colleagues." " Of course, absolutely." "As colleagues." "Last week, Big Tobacco." "This week, big pharmaceuticals." " Well, why not go out swinging, right?" " Who says we're going out?" "I read somewhere you should live every year as if it's your last." "Really?" "I can't imagine this as our last year." "Aren't there still some time slots we haven't tried?" "Do you ever think about the end, Denny?" "Death?" "I feel somehow I'll just keep going on even after it's over." "Like Hillary." " Reincarnation." "You believe in that?" " I do, actually." "I mean, what's the alternative?" "Nothingness?" "I can't believe that." "No." " You believe in reincarnation?" " I don't know." "I suppose if I ever did get to heaven, God would almost certainly return me." "True." "What do you think you'll be in your next life?" "I hope a beautiful woman." "I could touch myself." " I might wanna touch you." " You've already had your kiss." " How was it for you?" " I've had better." " You didn't tongue me, did you?" " Oh, God." "I must say I feel great comfort the way you're there for me." "When the day does come at least I won't be alone." "You won't be alone." "You know, if we are thinking of it as our last year we need to think of how best to go out." " Fishing for sure." " For sure." " Supreme Court, gotta go back." " Scalia misses me." "Shirley." "Once with Shirley before I go." "Can't believe you actually got to suck face with me." " And it brought you back to life." " Like Snow White." ""Like Snow White. "" "Of all the women I have loved, been loved by who would have believed Alan Shore would be my Prince Charming?" " Let no man tear asunder." " Till death do us part." "Amen."