"Previously on boston legal..." "I have an 80% chance of getting alzheimer's?" "Have you been feeling other symptoms lately?" "Sometimes I feel a little foggy" "I don't seem to always get things we all know it we laugh it off" "We sayisn't the mad cow cute?" "At what point do we all admit the man needs help?" "The firm is going broke?" "We may have to shut our doors" "Did I know this and forget?" "You've been almost like a big sister to me" "If you knew this crazy catherine piper..." "Do you think they considered me sane?" "If only they could know you like I do" "Uh..." "Hello dear" "May I help you?" "Yeah I'm looking for a lawyer" "Oh yes I suspected as much" "You're in a law firm" "Uh what have you done dear?" "Who'd we do sweetheart?" "Then they rescinded my admission" "And now I would like to sue them" "(Laughs) of course you would" "Uh katie will help you dear" "Hello" "Who are you?" "Carl sack may I help you?" "May I ask" "And I think I may being uh a senior partner" "Just whwhat... what are you doing here?" "I work here dear" "You work here?" "Yes dear" "Who hired you?" "I think if shirley schmidt had hired you" "She would've told me" "Really?" "Does she tell you everything?" "And she left me a contact number..." "If you can imagine" "Well that's lovely" "Did she tell you her calls" "Were being forwarded to her younger sister?" "Hello who's calling please?" "Is it the pushy man?" "Boom" "Okay denny" "I want you to count backwards by sevens from a hundred" "Why?" "93" "Uh 86 81" "75 44 I meant to say" "4 uh 1984" "Like the orwell 74" "Who the hell wrote that?" "No no you were down to 74 not 84" "W-Whatever" "74" "Hell of a year'67 the sox won the pennant" "Jimmy lonborg pitched a 2 hitter second game" "And yaz plunked two out hell of a game" "Jose santiago against uh bob gibson" "Gibson pitched uh three timeswon the series" "Um..." "Don't tell me uh... uh... josh pecker" "Hell of a pitcher pecker (laughs)" "Who's the best hitter?" "Uh that's uh that black guy uh the um" "Ortiz david ortiz" "Barack obama" "He's half hawaiian half kenyan half black and half" "Uh halle berry" "(Man) it has progressed" "Last year we were at stage 3" "Which is basically mild cognitive decline" "Now it's more like stage 4 which is moderate" "Talk to me like I'm in the room would you?" "I am" "You remember yesterday very well" "But forming new memories is obviously more difficult" "Cut to the punch line" "You're in the early stages of alzheimer's" "We're not talking about precursor's anymore" "It's here" "Yeah you find a friend with a prescription" "For ritalin or adderall and you pop some pills" "To help study and stay focused the day of the s.A.T." "I got a perfect score" "And I was accepted to harvard... (Chuckles) which is fairly newsworthy" "And that sparked a whole debate in the comments section" "Is it ethical is it not" "And the boston papers picked it up" "And suddenly I'm in the middle of this controversy" "That harvard wants no part of" "So they rescind my offer of admission" "(Purrs and makes popping sound)" "Well I believe taking a controlled substance" "Without a prescription actually is illegal" "No it's a study aid" "Just one step above potent coffee" "Get me reinstated at harvard" "I didn't do anything to deserve this" "I mean they're singling me out" "And now no school will take me" "Where are your parents with all this?" "It was their dream to see their little girl go to harvard" "I have to fix this" "I screwed it up..." "And I have to fix this" "What are you doing at my desk?" "Oh oh ii was just straightening up" "You're not my assistant" "Yes I am dear" "No I have an as where is she?" "I fired her" "You" "Too pretty too young she's a distraction" "All right I'm calling security" "Look honey you sure you want to make trouble" "For shirley's sister?" "I mean after all" "Your name is catherine piper" "I also have cancer dear" "There it's out" "I am desperate for a distraction" "I'm sorry I didn't come here to indulge..." "You have cancer?" "Not really but I could get some if you'd like" "Oh 911" "Look if I could just work here on a temporary" "(Theme to 'the practice' ringtone plays)" "Oh sorry" "(Beep) 911" "What's the emergency?" "(Slams down receiver)" "Did you point out" "I didn't actually violate any policy or" "They're citing honestymoral character" "Uh everybody's doing it" "I realize that but" "But you went public margie" "We can take it to court" "But I wouldn't expect to be successful" "Oh wewe have to try" "I have geared my whole life toward going to harvard" "I just... (sighs)" "I need to try" "Please" "I don't know jerry" "Getting it without prescriptions" "Well that's not much of an argument" "Ah" "You could argue that rescinding her admission is arbitrary" "Oh alanum hey jerry" "Alan there's a drug" "It's called uh dimebolinsomething like that" "It's from russiait stems off alzheimer's" "Denny slow down" "I can't at the moment" "See?" "That's what margie takesthat and ritalin" "Ritalin I love ritalin" "I'll take what I wantand right now I want dimebolin" "And you've gotta help me get it" "You okay jerry?" "Academic doping..." "It has such a stigma to it" "What about emotional doping?" "What do you mean?" "I take my little helpers to..." "Do you think it reflects poorly" "On my moral character?" "No" "What's the difference?" "Mostly" "And second you have a specificdiagnosed condition jerry" "Three years ago you couldn't even make eye contact" "I take pills that affect my brain" "To help me perform better" "Jerryi'm the first one to say" "We have an overmedicated society" "We've got 3 year olds on antipsychotics" "People who don't even have high cholesterol take statins" "People take sleep aids when maybe they should just" "But that's not to say that many drugs don't do a lot of good" "They save lives" "Who might otherwise not" "You fall into that category" "Popping pills to..." "(scoffs)get better sat scores" "That's...something different" "You are not working here catherine" "That much has been decided" "Where you could sexually ravage me" "With no witnesses to say it didn't happen?" "We're here because I'm told you're a friend of alan's" "And as a courtesy to him and you" "I thought I would at least give you" "An opportunity to explain why you're doing this" "And I'm bored" "All my friends are dead" "Oror mountain climbing or..." "Honestly aassuming I were qualified to be your assistant" "Uh would you employ somebody my age?" "Probably not" "I got that on tape dear" "Now I can sue you for age discrimination" "Best you keep me onavoid the controversy" "Get out catherine" "I didn't cheati took medicine" "To help my brain function at its highest level" "You didn't have a prescription for the medication" "Admit to taking unprescribed adderall" "To improve their own academic performance" "But nobody's expelling them" "They're claiming it shows poor moral character" "And I reject that" "Take prescription stimulants to stay alert" "Take drugs for narcolepsy so that they can work all night" "So that they could do their work more effectively" "Certainly you're aware" "John f kennedy was a graduate" "As was the unabomber" "F.D.R." "Hitler's foreign press secretary" "Numerous literary figures emerson thoreau" "And the cardinal archbishop" "Who shielded child molesters from prosecution" "For faculty" "My point is... harvard's not perfect" "But neither am I" "But at every opportunityi endeavor to be" "The best possible version of myself" "The early trials have been encouraging" "It's in the stage 3 trials now" "I want it" "Because it's not f.D.A. Approved" "This drug is a long way" "I don't care" "Mr crane I'm not allowed to prescribe this medication" "And even if I were and didyou still couldn't get it" "Since it hasn't been" "How long before it's available to the public?" "My guess is at least two yearsprobably three" "The f.D.A. Hasn't even analyzed the data of the trials" "Ii'lli'll be dead in three years" "Where's the drug?" "Who's got it?" "Well pfizer just bought the rights" "But nobody can just say okayi'll give it to you" "Unless you get yourself enrolled in a clinical trial" "But I think it's fully booked" "Let's be fair" "It's not just the s.A.Tthat gets a person admitted" "Of course not" "Margie in fact is also a national merit finalist" "Captain of her swim teamclass valedictorian" "From thousands of national merit finalists" "Thousands of captains and thousands of valedictorians" "But this oneyou offered admission" "Yes until she admitted she had used brain enhancement drugs" "As do thousands of other students" "Do you have a way to weed all of them" "And there's actually no policy at harvard" "Explicitly forbidding what you term academic doping" "Is there?" "I think in future" "So you intend to enforce future rules against her" "Do you think that's fair?" "We consider her actions to be immoral" "To make our admissions decisions accordingly" "How sweet" "Listen th--That part" "About me being desperate for a distraction" "It isn't fair carl" "I have my health" "A--And my mind is as sharp as--As... (Stammers)" "Tototo keep us alive" "Even thrive" "And you don't know what to do with us" "I was thinking..." "if I were to come up" "With something I could sue for" "Something legitimate" "And it could make the firm money" "Uh..." "I suppose" "If you had a legitimate cause of action" "Then we would" "Drugs" "Uh okay they make them too expensive" "Inflation" "Uh our social security payments" "Don't keep pace" "No" "Oh look some jobs still have a mandatory retirement age" "No" "(Sighs) these are all legitimate" "It has to directly impact you" "Harm you" "Look how insensitive you're being" "Th--This is exactly the problem" "We're just shoved aside as a nuisance" "I can't even watch television shows for god sake" "Because the networks consider me irrelevant" "You'd think they don't program for anybody over 50" "Is it any wonder" "I'm out knocking over convenience stores?" "You actually may have something there" "They're supposed to serve the public" "Okay catherine..." "We'll take that case" "I'm over 50 myself..." "And I want something to watch" "How we doing?" "Ahh" "I got a hearing before judge peyton tomorrow" "We'll take our best shot" "Shirley's at the fat farm you hear?" "Why?" "She's not fat" "You know brides" "It's all about how they look in their dress" "Ah" "You know the best part of having uh... mad cow?" "Not often..." "Yeah well..." "What I'm not okay with is..." "We go before judge peyton in the morning" "Yeah you told me" "You gonna stay here all night jerry?" "It's not even clear" "Those drugs gave her all that much of an advantage" "She scored 99th percentile on the practice test" "Most kids get a bigger advantage" "By taking the s.A.T prep program" "They actually can boost scores by 150 points" "Those programs are legitimate" "And not affordable to kids like margie let's face it katie" "The rich have such a leg up in this college racket" "According to one chancellor in ivy league schools" "Poor applicants really only get a shot at 40% of the slots" "The rest are reserved for families of privilege" "But jerry you cannot be a fan of academic doping" "I'm just saying..." "Life isn't an even playing field" "Weaker than..." "Meaning you?" "Jerry you're not weaker than you have asperger's" "You have no idea how afraid I am" "To leave my apartment" "Every day..." "Every morning" "It seems you win that battle every day" "Yeah... on drugs" "You can't sue the networks" "The airwaves judge are a public trust at least as far" "As the broadcast networks are concerned" "I mean bungee jumping might be regulated" "Are you saying that those outfits" "Would have a duty to service the elderly?" "No that would be unreasonable" "But to require a broadcaster to program for everybody isn't" "Mr suck" "Sack" "When it made practical business sense to exclude the old" "But not today" "Americans over 50 make up the fastest growing market" "It's about money not how many" "Really?" "Gee I would've never guessed that" "The baby boomers now all over 50" "Earn $2 trillion in annual income" "Yes and people over 50 account for half of that too" "Choose your statistic go ahead I've got you" "We've got more money we spend more money" "We watch more television go to more movies" "And yet we're the focus of less than 10% of the advertising" "All the networks want to do is skew younger" "Kid shows for kids" "You know the only show" "Unafraid to have its stars over 50 is \cf0 "b"--\F1\fs24" "Gee I can't say it it would um break the wall" "Oh mr suck" "It's still sack" "I can't tell the networks what shows to make" "No but you can order them not to discriminate" "What they're doing intentionally excludes a class of society" "That's bigotry" "You know we should be able to turn on our damn televisions" "And see something" "Other than reality shows aimed at fourth graders" "Slightly smarter than fifth graders" "And scripted shows" "Running around in suits or doctor scrubs" "Old people the ones with intelligence" "Don't want to watch that crap we're fed up!" "You know the networks might think we're dead but we're not" "We're very much alive with working brains" "Denny?" "What's wrong?" "I was..." "Dreaming about shirley" "We were on a bench" "She asked me to marry her" "What a dream" "Were my eyes closed when you came in?" "Yeah" "You must have nodded off" "You ready?" "The supreme court in fact refused to rule on it" "I'm sure if one of their friends were dying" "We would've had a different result" "Oh come on" "Why can't mr crane take the drug and simply assume" "All the inherent risks if he so chooses?" "Because we don't let people take drugs" "While they're still in the investigative stage" "And with good reason" "Think of the potential for abuse" "Potential for abuse?" "Which could be worse" "And it's possible the disease could take years to progress" "He could have many healthy years while we" "There is still so much" "Yes and we'll assume all of the risks" "Do I ever get to speak?" "I'd prefer you didn't we're wasting precious time" "Mr shore I am a superior court judge" "I have to take my cues from the appellate court" "On this issue the law is clear" "A patienteven a dying patient" "Has no constitutional right to experimental treatment" "(Scoffs)" "So this is what I will do I'll certify it" "To the massachusetts supreme court" "To give you what you want" "We are adjourned" "So now what?" "We go to the state supreme court" "There's nine of them" "Let's hope that at least one has a relative" "Who has an incurable disease" "When was the last time a pretty lady sat next to you" "And sucked on your ear lobe?" "And don't count the number of times" "You had to pay for it" "I'm eating my lunch" "Oh come on sweetheart throw an old lady a bone" "You are..." "A shocking woman!" "Look judge I know this is ex parte" "Or some whatever uh uh" "I mean the airwaves are a public trust am I right?" "She's trying to suck on my ear" "That's what she's doing" "Outrageous!" "Catherine go inside the courthouse" "I'll meet you there now" "(Scoffs)" "Ahem I apologize judge" "You ask me" "Ah" "And that smutty mouth" "That what you watch?" "Silence!" "(Chuckles) uh well you know judge" "Well a lot of people are on it while they're watching" "They no longer give television their undivided attention" "Or we're texting or on the internet" "So the producersthey dumb down the plots" "Make it easier to keep up with while their viewers multitask" "Really?" "Kids nowadays" "Watch an average of three hours of television a day" "That's while being distracted" "People over 55 we watch 6 hours a day" "And we really watch" "So why aren't they programming for us?" "You know come on do these idiots a favor judge" "Send these network bozos a clue be a leader" "And we can't wait for congress after all" "Because well they're bozos too" "These are their minds they're messing with" "We don't even know the longterm damage" "Now obviously" "Short of requiring urinalysis at the s.A.T.S" "We can't monitor who is or isn't using" "But we can take a stand against the ones" "Who are brazen about it" "Who defend it as acceptable and fair" "Simply putwhat margie coggins did" "Was decidedly unfair" "Not in keeping with the ideals of harvard" "(Jerry) I got into harvard" "Harvard rejects over 90% of its applicants" "That's 90% of the best high school students" "The rest don't even bother applying" "The problem is" "Every parent wants their kid to go to harvard" "Parents push nudge some kick" "Look at the climate we've created" "And advanced placement students cheat" "Not once or twice but on a regular basis" "She didn't she didn't get the test answers ahead of time" "She didn't copy her neighbor's paper" "She used her own brainyes she used" "A prescription stimulant to stay focused and alert" "At least 30% of college students admit to doing the same thing" "Not only are there currently no laws against it" "There are currently no rules" "These kids grow up in a pervasive drug culture" "We've got medications not just to treat diseases" "But simply to help you do things better" "Be it sex urinating digesting" "We've got some to boost energy others to help you sleep" "Better life" "Is used off label by many to boost brain power" "Personally..." "I've tried medication to help with my asperger's" "Some worked" "They made me feel safer emotionally" "Should I not get that right?" "Or are drugs for emotions okay but cognition no?" "Or should the rule be for disorder yes" "But enhancement no?" "For the ones she took" "True but many kids do this she's no different" "Except she got caught" "She didn't get caught she was simply honest about it" "Honesty that's the infraction" "That's getting her bounced on moral character grounds" "Hypocrisy might be a better word" "Oh!" "(mendelssohn's "wedding march from" "'A midsummer night's dream'"playing)" "What are you doing?" "I'm giving the bride awayremember?" "(Chuckles) oh" "I'm practicing" "(Turns music off)" "I want to get it right" "And she's gonna make a magnificent bride..." "For the seventh time" "(Laughs) yeah" "Need something?" "Denny the massachusetts supreme court" "They said no" "(Normal voice) any appeal?" "Wellto the u.S. Supreme court" "But they've already refused to hear this very argument so..." "I'm not sure" "We can try to get you into the clinical trials" "We could go to russia" "We could" "So we could go to atlanta" "It's another georgia" "That the russians have gotten involved with" "Then we'll go to the real russia" "They got magnificent salmon streams" "And no fish farms" "What a road trip" "(Laughs) that would be something" "Go flyfishing with putin" "Right after the wedding" "Off to russia" "(Chuckles)" "All right" "With one ruling" "The plaintiff didn't have a prescription" "I am not ordering harvard to reinstate her" "We're adjourned" "(Margie gasps)" "Wh-What do I do now?" "(Makes popping noise)" "Hmm" "Well... this..." "Would be... a-A lecture I guess" "You said you geared your whole life" "Toward getting into harvard" "And now you think it's the end of the world" "That... (makes popping noise)" "It's this very" "Mr espensonyou did get into harvard" "And it changed nothing" "I was still ridiculedharvard didn't change it" "But I was so sure law school would" "So I studied studied made top of my class" "It changed nothing" "But I was positive making partner would" "Well... guess what (chuckles)" "None of it can give you self-Acceptance" "A different drug?" "Exactly and--No." "No!" "For self-Acceptanceyou need to go" "To a far deeperperhaps darker" "Harvard isn't going to give you what's most important in life" "Trust me" "At first I thought this case was like every other case" "Brought by this..." "ridiculous law firm" "Ridiculous and outrageous" "Ageism is one of the last socially condoned bigotries" "And it is rampant in this broadcast network business" "When we watch the most television" "And spend the most money?" "My godthere are 87 million of us" "And that number will grow by 31 million more by 2020" "Are you really telling me that it doesn't make sense" "To make television shows that we want to watch?" "F I am to assume" "That the industry is not run by a bunch of idiots" "Then I can only conclude that it's dominated by prejudice" "The case stands" "Adjourned" "(Gallery murmuring)" "(Chuckles) well well well" "Congratulations catherine" "So beautiful" "To me" "You are" "To me" "Denny" "Oh hey..." "Uh I was uh..." "Just practicing" "Listen I um..." "I appreciate you being such a..." "Well a great sport about this" "I know that on some level it" "(Alan) what?" "!" "Oh my jiminy christmas!" "Denny!" "Denny!" "We're goin' back!" "We're goin' back!" "The case!" "The case!" "The case!" "We're on our way!" "Rrussia?" "No washington!" "The massachusetts supreme court" "On their own initiative" "Petitioned the us supreme court" "Our case!" "What?" "!" "We're going back to the supreme court!" "When?" "Next week" "Next week!" "Oh!" "(Both) supreme court!" "Supreme court!" "Supreme court!" "(Alan) sorry carldon't mean to exclude you" "Oh!" "Supreme court!" "Supreme court!" "Supreme court!" "Supreme court!" "(Typing)" "Working late again?" "It's a myth the workload drops when you make partner" "Get out while you still can" "Jerrycan I say something?" "Mm" "Your comment about you being weaker than..." "I've been thinking about it and I disagree" "I quite think you might be" "The bravest person I've ever met" "Why?" "Just the way you take on your various challenges every day" "(Sighs) thanks" "How about we go for a drink?" "We had a good day" "We actually lostcome to think of it" "Jerrylet's go for a drink" "Do you think the supreme court" "When they agreed to take this case" "(Laughing) I don't know" "Maybe they want a rematch" "Ha!" "You'll kick their asses again" "(Laughs)" "They'll have to bring in more justices" "I think they're only allowed the nine" "(Laughs)" "Don't be ridiculous" "Well what better way to go out?" "My last case in front of the supreme court" "Now there's a finale alan" "They should put it on tv" "We'd get ratings" "If they promoted us" "Of course I think there's a law against promoting us" "Seems to be" "What would you do if you retired denny seriously?" "Fish" "Every day?" "Not every day I'd have sex some days" "Maybe I should invite ruth bader ginsburg" "To come to nimmo bay with me" "What about me?" "Oh won't they be so happy to see us again?" "The rematch" "(Laughs) the rematch" "Grand finale" "Ahh" "I made another decision today" "Which is?" "I'm not dying" "I like that idea" "I'm gonna get my hands on this drug one way or another" "Damn right" "And even if I fail" "They say if you keep getting excited about life" "The blood rushes to your brain better" "I'll love life alan" "Even if it kills me" "I'll fish I'll be with you" "I'll love life alan" "To be closer to you" "Here we come" "Distributed by john doe"