"I'm terribly sorry." "I didn't see you there." "How may I help you?" "I'm looking for Carl Sack." " I'm Carl Sack." " You're Carl Sack?" "At your service." "Full service." "I've seen photographs of Mr. Sack, and..." "I look shorter in person and fatter, and..." "Hello, Denny." " I'm Carl Sack." " He's got mad cow." "It makes him..." " I'm Jenny Pratt." " Yes, let's go to my office." "Okay." "There were a dozen eyewitnesses, and they all tell the same story." "Dwayne Willis was brought in a little before 9 p. m." "They strapped him down on the table and hooked up the two IV's." "One in each arm." "The first drug is supposed to render the condemned man unconscious." "It didn't." "It was now 10 past 9." "The drugs had been going into him for nearly 10 minutes." "That's when Officer Holt started getting worried." "More time goes by." "Willis has been hooked up to the drip for 20 minutes now." "He's still conscious." "An argument breaks out." "The tech wants to pull the IV's out and try again." "Another guard says, "No, just increase the dosage. "" "Then Willis starts thrashing about." "Somebody do something." " His chest is heaving." "He's gasping, choking." "It's horrifying." "And Holt says, "Do something," but nobody knows what to do." "Willis has been hooked up for a half hour now." "He's not even unconscious." "He's gagging and thrashing, and that's when Holt just snapped." "He fired one round into Willis ' head." "Willis died instantly." "He's charged with murder two, but the DA is willing to knock it down to manslaughter, only Holt won't take the deal." " Miss Pratt..." " Jenny." "There must be many lawyers in Virginia who could do this." "I need an advocate who can speak against the death penalty." "Jenny, whatever one's feelings are on the death penalty..." " For it." " It's moot here." "Your client carried out a death sentence, albeit in a unique fashion." " But the legal issue is also unique." " Is it even possible to murder a man who's being executed?" " Double homicide." "Happens all the time." "A double homicide is when two people are killed." "What's your point?" "Listen, Jenny, I'm not..." "Carl, Virginia is a swing state." "I've always wanted to swing." " Denny." " Carl, we need to bond." "Hell, man, this is our last season." "If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's never ever say no to a road trip." "I just couldn't watch him suffer anymore." "If I had to do it over again, I'd do the same thing." "You only fired the one shot?" " Yes." "We could go with defense of others, but since you went into the room to participate in executing the man, I don't think..." "I didn't go in to torture him." "Another approach, reversion of diminished capacity." " You were overcome with compassion." " In Virginia?" "Moreover, your years of witnessing executions could've taken a mental toll." "I'm not arguing that." "How about simple temporary insanity?" " You saw a man suffering, you snapped." " No." "I knew exactly what I did while I was doing it." "I'd do it again." "We don't have a lot to go with here." "I won't say I was insane." "You want us to just cut him loose?" "You make it sound as if he's strung up." " Let's not get ahead of ourselves." " You're a stranger here." "I knew it." "They plan to play the stranger card." "Aren't we all brothers, my friend?" " This is a very serious matter." " Yes, it is." "So I thought perhaps we could be serious for a second." "You don't mean to tell a jury of your fellow Virginians that shooting a man the Commonwealth was in the process of killing was murder or manslaughter, or, in fact, any crime at all." "It was a crime according to the law." "Understood, but the DA has discretion whether to charge." " Do they?" " Good ones do." " Looks good." "Best I've seen." " Great." "Me too." "Look, I am not dismissing the charges." " He is going on trial for murder." " You're not my brother anymore." "Which, I believe, leaves me free to have sex with your sister." "We try to make our cases fun." "I can't thank you enough, Alan." "Please." "So I hear you've become quite the busy man these days, huh?" "Big lawyer." "A celebrity of sorts." " You look great." " Thank you." "Yeah, you know, I always figured you to age fat and bald." "Well, I was lucky enough to stave off the evil that so ages men." " Which is?" " Marriage." "What's up, Martha?" "Well, unfortunately, I was fired from my job." "Yeah." "A very good job, I might add." "I was district sales manager for a software company." "In line to become regional sales manager." "Now, I know this may be hard to prove but I think I got fired because I voted for John McCain." "My boss and I, we got into this big fight over the election." "And as soon as I told him who I voted for he just got this look of disgust on his face, as..." "Not entirely dissimilar to the expression on your face at the moment." "But, anyway..." "So he fired me." "Did he give you a reason?" "No." "No, they don't have to give a reason anymore." "They're advised by their labor lawyers not to." "But I know it was because I voted for McCain." "I can feel it in my bones, Alan." "And the prisoner started gasping for breath and moving around on the table." " Is that uncommon?" " It's happened before." "No two lethal injections ever seem to go exactly the same way." "There was a lot of screaming and yelling." "Officer Holt became very upset." "Then he suddenly pulled out his gun and shot the prisoner in the head." "Are you familiar with the case Emmett v. Johnson?" "I've heard of it." "Something like lethal injection is cruel and barbaric." "Something like." "According to briefs filed in that case, Virginia's method carries a greater risk of inflicting pain than the method used in Kentucky which the Supreme Court approved." "Our methods are substantially the same." "Brief includes evidence that members of the death team including, I assume, you, don't understand how the drugs work." "Don't know how to properly administer IV." "Don't know how to correctly observe the inmate during execution to determine if anything is going wrong." "That's an argument in a lawsuit." "There's another argument." " Why don't you read that?" " Sure there is." "Are you aware that a prominent medical society has found Virginia's method of execution unacceptable?" "I know doctors have an issue with the death penalty in general." "It wouldn't surprise me if some physicians said that." "Neither would I, except the group I'm referring to happens to be the American Veterinary Medical Association." "Some vets have banned your lethal injection protocol because the method Virginia uses on humans is considered too barbaric to be used on cats and dogs." "Objection." "The AVMA has said that their report was misinterpreted." "Sustained." "Mr. Sack, this case is not about the legitimacy of the death penalty." "If that's where you're coming from, tuck in your little tail and head on back to Massachusetts." "Your Honor, I'm proud of my state." "Home of the Red Sox, the Patriots, Mitt." "We take our laws here in Virginia very seriously, sir." "You take this case seriously?" "Show of hands." " Because, you know, it is a bit silly." " Objection." "There's a man on trial for trying to kill somebody the state was already killing." "If anything, my client accomplished the death penalty." " Mr. Sack." " The legitimacy I would never question." " Particularly in Virginia." " Mr. Sack." "Torture." "Are we for that?" " This man was tortured." " I'm warning you." " That's why my client pulled the trigger." " Objection." " To spare horrendous suffering." " Order, order, order." "Take control of the room, will you, judge?" "Bailiff." "That's a..." "Blanks." "What's his problem?" "How'd you even get the gun in the courtroom?" " Oh, please." " Denny, what are you doing?" "Would you relax?" "Like I said, firstly, it was blanks." "Secondly, this is Virginia." "My approval rating went up in that room." "I'm a hero to those people." "I couldn't be more popular if I got kids to smoke cigarettes." "Carl, don't leave me here." "I can't swing in here." "Alan's way more fun." "I appreciate you making the time to see me." "Sure." "Actually, my lawyer told me not to see you." "But I never listen to him anyway." "No, you certainly didn't bother to consult with him before firing Martha." "Nice try." "Why did you fire her, Mr. Feldcamp?" "It wasn't working out." " How so?" " Oh, hard to say." "As an employer, you get a feel for an employee." "And with Martha, hard worker, but she was never gonna make the next step." "And in this company, you either move up or you move out." "Martha's of the impression that you fired her because she voted for John McCain in the election." "She's mistaken." "Look, I voted for McCain, all right?" "Martha simply wasn't working out." "There must be a reason you didn't think she was working out." "If I have to depose you to force an answer, I can do so but you seem to be rather forthcoming." "Why not just tell me now?" "Okay." "She's stupid." "And as for evidence of her stupidity?" "God, I could cite many." " Cite one." " She voted for McCain." "You said you voted for him." "Yeah, I did, because I like his policies on nuclear energy." "Because I believed he'd make a better commander in chief in times of war, because I trusted his experience." "But Martha voted for McCain because she found Sarah Palin to be spunky." "So you admit you fired her because of who she voted for." "No, I fired her because she is stupid." "Look, I got a bad feeling about her." "You know, it's plain and simple." "I'm starting to get a bad feeling about you." "Well, then it's lucky for me that you're not my boss." "Look, are we done?" "No, I'm afraid we're not done." "Rather, it seems we're just beginning." "Mr. Shore, I fire people all the time, and some of them go on to sue me." "This is an at-will employment here." "It's my will." "So if you wanna file a lawsuit, just join the club." "Oh, I'm not a member of any club, I assure you." "I tend to stick out." "I don't mind." "It makes me more memorable." "You'll remember me, Mr. Feldcamp." "Yeah, don't let the door hit you on the way out." "First is sodium thiopental, which is a barbiturate." "Next comes pancuronium bromide." "A muscle relaxant that paralyzes the diaphragm and thus stops breathing." "Then potassium chloride is injected, and that stops the heart." "But that's not what happened here?" " Not exactly." " What did happen?" "The technician who started the IV on the prisoner missed the vein in one arm." "In the other arm, he stuck the needle through the prisoner's vein and into his muscle tissue." "Do you know of other botched executions using the lethal injection method?" " There have been too many to list." "This is something that should be done by doctors." "Doctors refuse to do it on ethical grounds." "But to be fair, in most instances where lethal injection is used the condemned man sort of drifts off to sleep without incident." "It's more likely the paralytic agent simply prevents prisoners from communicating." "They could be suffocating suffering excruciating pain during the procedure." "They're just unable to scream." "How many of these so-called botched executions occurred in Virginia?" " One." " And the Supreme Court has approved the method of lethal injection used in the Commonwealth of Virginia..." " We know they're such sticklers." " Mr. Sack, I will hold you in contempt." "And the Supreme Court has not approved prison guards shooting condemned prisoners in the head, have they?" "Has anybody asked them?" "Look, we all know things went wrong here." "That's not the point." "I will repeat, the question here is do we simply give prison guards the right to just whip out their guns and blast away?" "Well, thank you, Your Honor for framing the issue in such a neutral and impartial way." "Why do you need my help?" "Well, I don't probably." "It's just Denny is out of town and..." "Will you give up ever?" "I have no one to share private thoughts with tonight on the balcony." "Shirley, this man, Feldcamp, the unfettered smug arrogance." "He could almost make Rudy Giuliani seem humble." "Come on, it'll be fun." "He really fired her because of how she voted?" "Well, he's claiming it's stupidity, but, yes, I think he did." "And what exactly would my role be?" "Why do you say it with such distrust?" "Because I can smell a dog on the sniff." "Don't be ridiculous." "You're almost old enough to be my mother or one of my mother's friends." "The one who used to sunbathe naked by the pool." "So you want to march into court tomorrow the two of us side by side, and fight for a woman who..." "Who voted for John McCain." "He all but admitted to me, Your Honor that he fired her, because she voted for John McCain." "He made no such admission." "The basis was her stupidity." "Yes, and the evidence of that was her vote." "Look, they got into a big political debate three days before..." "During which, the plaintiff further displayed a complete lack of intellect..." "Because she didn't share your client's point of view." "My client voted for McCain." "Your Honor, my client is a Republican who is happy with Miss Headly's vote but nonetheless could not ignore that she was, well, dumb." " How dare you." " Miss Headly." " He just called me dumb and stupid." "Miss Headly." "Mr. Davidson, as I read the affidavit it does seem like she was fired for her political opinions." "Free speech is not a right in workplace." "People are hired for their opinions and intellect." "We have interviews to determine whether we like what comes out of their mouths." " Listen, the fact is this woman did get hired, and then she was discharged for exactly as you say, Your Honor, her political opinion." "All right." "I wanna hear Miss Headly on the stand." "And I wanna hear exactly how this went down." "Let's go." "It seemed like..." "I don't know, like..." "Like it had gone past the point of torture even." "I just couldn't watch him suffer anymore." "So I..." "I took him out." "Did you stop to think that you were breaking the law...?" "No, no, no, all I could see was a person suffering." "Just way beyond the point of..." "It was inhumane." "Somebody had to do something." "I yelled at the others, but they just stood there, so..." "It just wasn't right." "You decided all by yourself to take a human life?" "No, the man was dying anyway." "I made the decision to be humane about it." "I see." "I prosecuted two doctors who made the same decision." "They had terminal patients in agony, so they decided to hasten their deaths." "In fact, I believe your family faced a similar situation." "You had an aunt who was dying of ovarian cancer?" "Am I right?" " Yes." " And there were those in your family who wanted to put her on a morphine drip to speed things up because she was suffering so." " Is that true?" " Yes." "What was your position there?" "Do you remember?" "I was against it." "You thought it was murder, didn't you?" "You told your mother and the doctor, "Only God gets to make that call. "" "Do you now amend that to God and correctional officers?" "We got into this huge argument on nuclear energy." "I'm against it and he's for it." "Now, that argument somehow got replaced by some brouhaha on the war." "I'm against it and he's for it." "And that segued into taxes." "And he doesn't think he should have to pay any." " I said to him..." " So you had political differences?" "Yes, yes." "Well, then the very next day, after I did inform him that I voted for McCain, he called me a complete idiot." " Mr. Feldcamp called you an idiot?" " A complete one." "And then what happened?" "Well, not long after that, he walked into my office and he fired me." "Have you ever had any yearly reviews with respect to your employment with Mr. Feldcamp?" " Yes." " How'd they go?" "Okay." "He said I could perform better and he said sales could be higher." "But in this economy?" "Come on." "You know that." "It's bad everywhere." "It's like the number one problem in this country right now." "So you consider the economy to be the number one problem?" "Yes, I do." "If I may ask, how does John McCain's economic policy differ from Barack Obama's?" "Taxes." "And..." "Well, I'm not exactly sure what else, to be honest." "If you consider it to be the number one problem in the..." "Look, even despite how they all say they'll be different they all do the same thing once they get elected." "You know that." "You were an ardent Hillary Clinton supporter." "Yes, I was, proudly." "According to coworkers, you crossed over to McCain primarily because of Sarah Palin." " Yes." "Because her policies were consistent with Hillary's?" "Because I was impressed with her, and because she strikes me as a real American, which is what this country needs." " And you liked her spunk." " And the country needs spunk too, yes." "I don't have a good feeling on this one, Denny." "Virginia's not being nice to me." "A little constructive criticism?" " Okay." " You're not very good." "Thanks for keeping it constructive." "You're making this a referendum on the death penalty." "You gotta get it through that liberal Democrat skull Americans love the death penalty." " We do?" " Yeah." "Especially these parts." "Hillary and Obama?" "You know, those pinko heads couldn't really be pro-death penalty." "But they claim they are." "And, in fact, almost everyone who runs for president miraculously is for the death penalty." "Why?" "Because this is the U.S. Of A." "Death penalty rules." "Flip the switch, ready, aim, fire, turn up the gas." "It's who we are as a people." "Hell, you heard it at the Republican Convention." "Kill, baby, kill." "It's our mantra, Carl." "I thought Republicans were pro-life." "That's for babies." "Criminals, we kill them." "You're going about this ass backwards." "The argument you wanna make to the jury is this." "That Willis guy, he wasn't dying the way he was supposed to." "After receiving the injection, the bastard refused to choke out." "So our client finished him off." "Job done, game over:" "Preston Holt, American hero." "Kill, baby, kill." "You think Martha and Sarah and Joe the...?" " Is he an electrician?" " Plumber, unlicensed." "Are they the real Americans?" "Not necessarily, I think that's what this election just proved." "That real Americans aren't just rural and white." "The portrait of real Americans has been redrawn in this election." "Real Americans are of all ages, races, ethnicities." "They live in cities and apartments as well as farms." "We have a president-elect who fits into no category or demographic whatsoever other than he's an American." "I wept that night." "Did you?" "No, I just watched and watched, and didn't want the night to end." "I already miss Sarah Palin though." "She was fun while she lasted." "I hope they let her keep the wardrobe." "I still have to say though as heartened as I am by the election and by America..." " What?" " Martha's a little bit of an idiot." "Shirley, almost 47 percent of this country didn't vote for Obama." "Perhaps because they disagreed with him on the issues, which is fine." "But some, no doubt, because they thought he was Muslim with terrorists on his speed dial." "And others, because they were convinced he was not only socialist, but even worse, a bad bowler." "And others still, because they simply loved those cream colored jackets Sarah may have to give back." "But there's one thing all those idiots have in common." " What?" " They still get to vote." "What?" "Sorry." "Just looking at you under a gently-lit sky sharing the same oral fixation Denny and I..." "Is it a little game, Alan?" "Or are you really sexually attracted to me?" "I'm sexually attracted to you." "I'm in my 60s." "Well, first of all, you're beautiful." "And second, your intellect is dazzling." " Third, I've seen naked pictures of you." " Oh, right." "Let's not discuss the cheerleader outfit." "So if I...?" "If I wanted to go there, you'd go there?" "In a second." "Oh, if only Obama had picked you as vice president what a world we'd have then." "Look, I can see the defendant's point." "The man was dying anyway." "What's the big deal?" "Well, what about the doctor or the hospice worker who wants to speed the death of that cancer patient dying in agony?" "Or what about the nurses who opt to withhold treatment from those severely retarded infants who only face a lifetime of misery?" "We don't go down that path." "We don't start measuring the quality of people's lives to decide whether or not they live." "The defendant took the law into his own hands and murdered somebody." "Nobody gets the right to do that." "Whether the person is on death row, whether a person has a day left to live an hour, or even a minute, you don't get to shoot somebody." "That's the law." "That's the law." "Because of a presumed sanctity of human life?" "That sanctity was off the table here." "The life was being executed by the state." "Forgive me, but you know what I think is really going on is, this man doesn't like capital punishment and he's trying to bring scrutiny upon it." "It's the only possible explanation." "If he can get you to say:" ""This execution was wrong," well, that's one step from saying:" " "Gee, maybe executions are wrong. "" " That's ridiculous." "More ridiculous than accusing a man of murdering someone being executed?" "Let's not kid ourselves." "There are those trying to get rid of capital punishment." "And I would suspect they have to be tricky because they know we, the people, are overwhelmingly for it." "We, the people, know the death penalty is one of the things that makes America, well, America." "Not many countries have it, you know." "We're the only westernized country left." "And it's not easy being in the company of Iraq China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Sudan." "And I'll admit, the reasons for abolishing capital punishment are compelling." "Costs us hundreds of millions of dollars, six times more than life imprisonment." "It doesn't seem to deter crime." "Murder rates are actually lower in non-death penalty states." "It's well-known." "Canada's homicide rate fell 40 percent after they abolished the death penalty." "We botch executions a lot." "Medical evidence now shows that even when they go off without a hitch the executed suffer perhaps excruciating pain." "There are many reasons to do away with capital punishment, but we don't." "Because, let's face it, the death penalty, it's who we are as a people." "We're an-eye-for-an-eye kind of nation." "And we don't have to apologize for it." "Listen, if somebody killed my son..." "We believe in executing murderers." "It's justice." "The only thing my client did here was carry out the state's mission." "It makes no sense to be prosecuting him." "The only conceivable explanation is that this man is insidiously trying to bring scrutiny on the death penalty because he secretly is against it." "No, look, as I said to her lawyer over there, I like Martha Headly." "Nice lady, but, my God, sales is about selling." "It's about relating to people." " She doesn't even read the newspaper." " George Bush doesn't read the paper." "I'd never hire George Bush." "Would anybody?" " Yet you voted for John McCain, who..." " No, no, no, this is not about politics." "This is about being smart or not smart." "And she is the latter." "Mr. Feldcamp, to be fair, you're basing your conclusion on her political opinion." "What I'm saying is that whatever your opinion is, at least be able to defend it." "And failing that, articulate it." "Martha's never been the brightest bulb in the tanning booth." "When she talks politics, I cringe." "How can I have a person like that working for me?" "My company." "I don't have to." "Do you make all your employees defend their political beliefs?" "Not all my employees launch into them." "But had she defended hers better..." "For 16 months, she just went prancing around talking, Hillary, Hillary." "And then she railed against Obama's inexperience all throughout the primaries." "And then out comes some moose hunter from Alaska." "She knows nothing about Sarah Palin." "Or about John McCain." "What does that say about her?" " Sarah?" "Hillary?" " No." "Her." "What does it say about a person who can be so fickle?" "And this is about stuff she actually felt strongly about." "I'll tell you what it says." "She is an idiot." "Let somebody else hire her." "I don't think it'll be you." "How dare you let him go off on me like that in a courtroom?" " I didn't let him go off." " Yes, you did." "He was bellowing that I was an idiot and you just sat there." "And so did you, of all people." "Wait, what's that supposed to mean?" "It means that it was blatant sexism." "I expected more from a person of your caliber." "Now, hold on here." "Is that the kind of lawyer you are?" "Is that the kind of woman?" " Honey, the sexist in all this is you." " Me?" "Yeah." "You claim to be a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter." "You walked into that booth and voted against everything Hillary stands for." "And why?" "Because the Republicans added someone they referred to at the convention as the hot chick." "So you just sit quiet and let me get brutalized on the stand." "I sat there for two reasons." "First, there was no valid objection to be made." "And second?" "You are an idiot." "At-will employment means exactly that, Your Honor." "At the employer's will." "Certainly, we can't fire anybody for race or ethnicity." "But, well, intellect or a person's lack of it bosses fire people all the time for that." "Mr. Davidson, to fire someone for their political opinion is still..." "Your Honor, if I may, that's one way to look at this." "The other way, are we saying that stupidity can never be grounds for discharge when it's cloaked in political content?" "He's the boss." "It's his company." "So as long as he stays within the law, he gets to hire and fire who he wants." "The unassailable right to vote is the core principle of any democracy." "And people have the right to cast their ballot for whomever they want for good reasons, for bad reasons, or for no reason at all." "Let's face it, Your Honor we, as a nation, are horribly uninformed when it comes to politics." "Approximately one-third of the people in this country of voting age, couldn't tell you the name of our vice president." "Admittedly, some of us like to block it out, but even so only two in five adult Americans know we have three branches of government." "And Mr. Feldcamp expects his employees to actually know the political issues of the day?" "Well, today, our news programs consist solely of sensational headlines and sound bites." "People forego newspapers for the Internet." "Instead of relying on credentialed journalists they turn to these bloggers, sort of entry-level life forms that intellectually have yet to emerge from the primordial ooze." "This is how we've gotten the elected officials." "We've never really cared about issues." "We're more concerned with how Hillary looks in a pantsuit or whether Barack can bowl." "We don't always go for the best or the brightest." "We elect the guy we'd like to have a beer with, or the gal we'd like to feel up." "Now, I certainly wouldn't pick my airline pilot that way or my accountant or doctor." "But for my president, so often it's give me the blue collar, lunch bucket good boy who fits in best at breakfast." "The problem with Mr. Feldcamp..." "And forgive me, I hesitate to say this about anybody, but he's an elitist." " Objection." " That's worse than being called stupid." "Mr. Shore, let's stay on message." "The message is we vote for who we like." "It's as simple as that." "We don't need to have a reason." "It's simple." "The founding fathers did not form a meritocracy." "This is a democracy." "We can be as stupid as we choose." "We're Americans." "We're as simple as that." "All right, look, I don't like it." "But just as we don't get into why a person voted the way he or she did nor do we get into why a boss terminates somebody in an at-will." "It sounds like I'm losing." "Your motion for an injunctive relief is denied." "If she wants to sue for lost wages, I can't stop her." "But we're done here." "We are adjourned." "I'm sorry, Martha." "You didn't try hard enough." "That's what happened." "I'll be suing you next." "I never liked you." "She seemed much more fun in high school." "Oh, well." "Shirley, in anticipation of winning I booked a little celebration dinner at the Ritz." "The restaurant that comes equipped with private rooms should we have too much celebratory wine." "Shirley, one's life is a sum of his or her experiences." "Okay, Alan." "Oh." "With Denny's permission." " What?" "Why do you need...?" " Because I do." "Till then, I'll be waiting." "Has the jury reached a verdict?" "We have, Your Honor." "How say you?" "In the matter of the Commonwealth of Virginia v. Preston Holt in the charge of murder in the second degree we find the defendant not guilty." "The court thanks you for your service." "The defendant is free to go." "We are adjourned." " Thank you, Mr. Sack." " You're welcome." "I wasn't exactly sure of your strategy there, but..." "Not to worry, neither was I." " Thank you, Mr. Crane." " You're welcome, son." "You think it's odd when running for office having an Ivy League education is considered a liability?" " No." " You don't?" "No, a Harvard grad took us into Vietnam." "A Yale grad bought us Iraq." "We've learned our lesson." "Between you and me, we really think he made it through Yale?" "With a little help." "Denny, there's something a little well, delicate I've been meaning to discuss." "What?" "Well, they say as a man ages he eventually sits alone with nothing but his memories." "I'm concerned that..." "Well, with the mad cow you could possibly be robbed of your memories in the end." "And what a horrible thing, not being able to even recollect the things that brought you your most profound joy." "Making love to Shirley." "How sad if one day you weren't able to remember all the wonders of Shirley." "How she smelled." "How she tasted, how..." "I was thinking, if that day ever came and you no longer..." "It would be great if I could tell you about it to help you remember." "Maybe I should make love with Shirley once, just..." "You're pathetic." "Exploiting my mad cow just so you could get in the sack with Shirley?" "All right." "I can't believe you did that." "Waltzing me down Mad Cow Lane, where there's no memory lane, so..." "All right." "Here is where your logic failed, Alan." "First, I'll never be alone." "I got you." "Secondly, I could never forget what it was like to be with Shirley." "Because there was a magic there that no man could ever forget." "In fact, there's a chance that it'll be the last memory I'll have in the end." "It could be the only thing I'll talk about at the end." "All day long, every day, I'll tell you about it." "I'll tell you how we moved together as one one night on the beach in Nantucket." "How her breasts were as soft and as pure as a baby's behind." " You really are cruel." " Yes, I am." "Cruel enough to shoot you if you so much as look at Shirley." "I need a new woman to objectify." " What do you think of Sarah Palin?" " Oh." "Those pouty lips." "And those down-to-earth, slutty good looks." "I've got two things to say about Sarah Palin:" "Right here, right now." "Do you think we're sexist?" "Why do you ask that?" "Just wondering aloud." "What about Shirley and Sarah together?" "There's a ticket." "Who wouldn't vote for that?"