"Sir, could you step out of the stall, please?" "Sir, can I see some identification, please?" "It's a courthouse." "Denny Crane." "I don't need to identify myself in a courthouse." "Please place your hands behind your back, sir." "Why?" "Sir, you are under arrest for solicitation." "What?" "–You have the right to remain silent." "–Solicit—" "–Anything you say can and will be used against you... in a court of law." "–Who the hell did I solicit?" "You have the right to an attorney." "Sir, please put your hands behind your back now." "–Alan." "–All right." "That's it." "–Get him down on the floor." "–Hey, w—ow!" "Alan!" "Alan!" "Pick up, will you?" "Alan!" "Pick up." "Alan!" "Alan!" "Boston Legal Season04 Episode08 Oral Contracts" "He did all the known signals for solicitation." "In fact, he was quite methodical about it." "–He's full of crap." "–Denny." "Well, so was I, but I was constipated." "What known signals?" "Well, first he came in, looked under the stall doors." "Then he entered a stall next to an occupied one." "He slid his briefcase to the front, making his feet visible to the adjacent occupant." "Oh, please." "I—" "He then moved his foot over." "Then he began to hum quietly." "Then he tapped his foot four times, up and down." "–Look, now first, we— –Denny." "Sir, look, there's really no point denying this." "Unless you consider innocence a point." "Would that be a point worth considering?" "These are well-known solicitation signals." "You didn't even go to the bathroom, by the way, did you?" "Because I was constipated." "Did we not go over this?" "My suggestion is that you make this go away quietly." "Bribe." "I knew it." "I'm not suggesting a bribe." "My recommendation's that you plead guilty to disorderly conduct." "He's not gonna plead guilty to anything." "You really want these charges to be made public?" "This sounds an awful lot like extortion, officer Whistler." "It's not extortion." "I'm just saying, your choice— disorderly conduct and a small fine or public trial for solicitation to have gay sex." "Trial." "–Wait." "Wait, wait, wait, wait." "–Denny." "Trial." "Why are you angry at me?" "Because I could've made this thing go away quietly." "You're making it into a cause." "I am not, Denny." "You're being Larry Craig-ed here, and it isn't fair." "But with a public trial?" "It's one thing for people to think I've got, uh, Alzheimer's or I've lost my mind." "But for them to think I'm gay?" "Denny, for God's sake, you cannot plead guilty." "It's a ridiculous charge." "The police had no bus—" "What's going on?" "Denny had a little misunderstanding this morning." "In an effort to relieve some mild... constipation, he unwittingly offered to be a whistle-blower for an undercover police officer." "It happens." "He's being arraigned this afternoon." "I'm moving for an immediate dismissal." "The battleship— as I live and breathe." "You get more and more beautiful." "Who's suing you now?" "I take it you haven't heard." "I got fired, Shirl." "What?" "As of now, you're looking at an unemployed shock jock." "What did you say?" "Oh, nothing too bad, but as far as the station's concerned—" "What did you say?" "Well, something like "old people should die"." "You said that on the air?" "Oh, come on." "It's the radio, for God's sakes." "If you can't be vulgar there... free speech!" "Look, seriously, Shirley, I'm—I'm not a young man." "If I lose this gig, I may not get another one." "I need to fight this." ""Old people should die."" "Free speech." "Rah." "Rah." "Why would Paul want to see us?" "Obviously Sack told him." "Maybe Paul's gay." "God, why can't I have that?" "Well, I see somebody has run to the principal's office." "Hello, Alan." "Denny, how are you?" "Not gay." "Yes." "Carl has shared with me the latest." "I'm told there's a chance of making this go away with a disorderly conduct plea." "That was rejected." "May I ask why?" "He's innocent, Paul." "Alan, you know and I know that the charges alone—" "Denny's been charged with crimes before." "This one leaves its own special tarnish." "Even an outright acquittal won't amount to exoneration." "We need to dispose of this as quietly as possible." "This is ridiculous." "He's being railroaded by some overzealous cop who's staking out a bathroom." "I don't know if it's more offensive or silly." "Denny, may I speak with you in private?" "Let's go, Al." "Let's give 'em some special time." "If you care to leave, Carl, please do so." "But, Paul, anything you have to say to Denny, you can say—" "With all due respect to your friendship, Denny and I go back almost 40 years." "Wow." "You really are old, Paul." "Go ahead, Alan." "Bond with Carl for a second." "No sleepovers." "Carl Sack has the job of worrying about the firm." "I was happy to pass that bâton." "I'm concerned about you." "Look, I see Alan all poised here to climb on his soap box." "But at whose expense?" "If I plead to disorderly, the papers will make straw out of that as well." "Denny, your grip on your position here as senior partner—" "I know you know— is a little tenuous." "This may be all the managing partners need to finally take your name off the door." "Which is why I need to be vindicated." "And should you lose?" "Paul... right or wrong, I-I need to go out as..." "Denny Crane." "I don't want my legacy to..." "It's worth risking my job... to save my reputation." "I'm afraid you may lose both." "Not if we win." "All or nothing... you and I used to say that all the time." "Remember?" "Uh, why a judge and not a jury?" "Juries can't give equitable relief, plus, they don't especially enjoy being summoned for something trivial like First Amendment." "Well, well, well." "–Bethany." "–Shirley." "You've let yourself go." "I find that refreshing." "It's so nice to see an elderly person who's not afraid to look her age." "Yes, well, vanity can be quite the beast, I suppose." "I see you're wearing heels." "Dwarf jokes." "Classy." "All rise." "In re:" "Binder vs WWEN Boston, judge Victoria Thomson presiding." "This court is in session." "Good morning, your honor." "Shirley Schmidt for the plaintiff." "I'm not interested." "Who's the station manager?" "Uh, I am, your honor." "And my name is Bethany Horowitz." "I represent WWEN." "And why are you staring?" "'Cause I almost bought that same outfit." "Sit your itty-bitty self down." "Mr Flanders, in the witness chair, now." "Move it." "–Wait a second." "They're the ones suing." "I know that." "I want to hear from him." "Now." "Denny Crane in a men's room." "Don't you just love that?" "Another "family values" advocate looking to use another man's private part as a sippy cup." "Time to go to church now, Denny, time to get in touch with God." "Off to rehab we go." "Doesn't it just make you want to snorkel in your mother's vomit?" "I can't take it." "The press is into it." "I'm gay fodder." "I can't take it." "Come on, Denny." "Let's just get to court." "That woman of all people knows I am straight." "She told me it was the best sex she ever had since her brother in ninth grade." "She told me." "You go for immediate dismissal." "None of this continuance crap." "Immediate." "Lorraine." "Alan." "Denny." "Would you be riding on the elevator with us?" "Think you can handle it, Denny?" "Well, maybe not." "I-I don't know whether you've heard about my, um, predicament." "I heard that you were humming in the men's room." "That predicament?" "Yeah, yeah." "Rumors are ugly things, Lorraine." "I'll bet there's some about you." "I wouldn't know." "Neither would I." "There are security cameras on these elevators." "If I were to have sex on one with a-a woman, that would dispel the horrible rumor that I, um, uh, you know, uh—" "Like to hum in men's rooms?" "Would you mind?" "Not at all, Denny." "But I am involved, so I can't." "Please." "It's an emergency." "Then perhaps you should call 9-9-9." "What's his name?" "I'm sorry?" "Uh, the boyfriend— what's his name?" "Were we meant to get on that?" "Hey, Lorraine." "Katie." "How are you liking working here so far, aside from the misogynistic bits and pieces?" "Oh, it's fine." "Personally, I enjoy being objectified." "It's a wonderful prophylactic if one doesn't care to be really known." "I suppose." "Um, somehow I feel I know you." "Have we met before Crane, Poole  Schmidt?" "I don't believe we have." "Odd." "Have you ever spent time in England?" "I haven't actually, though I've always wanted to go." "I just thought perhaps... when Denny said earlier he had an emergency, you said "call 9-9-9"?" "It's 9-1-1, actually." "Of course it is." "I said "9-9-9"?" "Yes, which, coincidentally is the number one calls for an emergency in England." "–I guess that is a coincidence." "–Yes." "Bye, Katie." "Hope the rest of your day goes well." "You, too." "Look, it's all about sales." "Here we're faced with advertiser pullout, a boycott by listeners." "But he's a shock jock." "This is what he does." "Yes, and if he makes money for us, fine." "If he doesn't... he goes." "It's nothing personal here." "He's been saying outrageous things for 25 years." "Yes, and a lot of people have been listening to him for 25 years." "So what's changed?" "Those listeners are old now." "I-if he wants to put down blacks or—or jews or episcopalians, fine." "But our demographic is baby boomers." "Insulting old people— it affects our bottom line." "It's a no-can-do." "So you admit that what he said was in the context of social commentary." "So what?" "So what?" "You're primarily a news station." "No, we're primarily a profit center, like every other news station." "You had Ann Coulter on the show last week as a guest." "This is a woman who referred to John Edwards using the homosexual "f" word." "No one takes Ann Coulter seriously." "I mean, she's a joke." "Since Bob is actually respected for his political commentary, his remarks are more dangerous." "You don't see a problem firing a political commentator for making a political comment?" "Not really." "Case number 6-6-2-6-6." "The commonwealth vs Denny Crane." "Alan Shore appearing for Mr Crane." "I would ask that this arraignment be quashed immediately." "You cannot quash an arraignment." "But you can, your honor, and you should here." "Because if you look at the facts, you'll see that even as alleged, they don't support the charges being filed." "No money ever changed hands—" "You don't have to go that far." "It's an inchoate crime." "He—" "Suppose he just hit on another man he found attractive?" "–Oh, my God." "–Are you saying it's a crime for one man to propose sex to another?" "In some States, it probably is." "But this is Massachusetts, the home of Mitt Romney, a man who was once okay with gay unions." "Though he's not okay with them now." "Let's all be clear on that." "I'll not have you attacking my governor." "Judge, you shouldn't even be on this case." "If you'll remember, I once defended you on a subject very near and dear to this one." "I can be impartial." "And I shall be." "And you cannot quash an arraignment." "If you want to try to kick it after charges are filed—" "A-and that's Mr Crane's choice?" "To plead out or face public ridicule?" "Have you noticed all the cameras, by the way?" "It's extortion." "This is a witch hunt." "The DA's office probably targeted Mr Crane because of all the bad blood between our—" "This is the United States of America." "Our system of justice does not dictate to district attorneys who should or should not be prosecuted." "Your points may be good ones, but... they are to be decided by the trier of fact, which in this case is the jury." "This case shall go to trial." "Adjourned." "Disorderly is still on the table." "Denny, maybe you should consider making a deal here." "If you get convicted—" "No." "We go to trial." "Are you sure?" "Don't do this because of me." "I'm doing it because of me." "We go to trial." "But... you have to win it." "Familiar?" "How?" "I just feel I've seen her before or— don't you think it's odd— she says she's never been to England, and she said "call 9-9-9"?" "Could be a coincidence." "I also detect an english accent." "You do?" "Really?" "Well, sometimes." "Barely noticeable." "Why don't we just google her?" "I did." "I didn't find anything." "I know this is horrible of me to say, but for some reason, I just have this feeling... she's a criminal." "I thought you liked everybody?" "Oh, I do, and I like her, I just—" "Think she's a criminal." "A lot of people were hugely offended by what you said." "But what I said was political commentary." "Moreover, it was important." "Important?" "Oh, this I gotta hear." "You sit your itty-bitty, little self down." "I want that on the record." "How was the content important, Bob?" "Our government, at least on a national level, is becoming little more than an income transfer mechanism from younger workers to the old retirees." "Social security, medicare and medicaid already take up over 40% of the federal budget." "And in the next 25 years, the number of people over 65 is expected to double." "Now does anybody get what that means?" "We could be heading for a day when the bulk of our federal budget goes to subsidizing retirees." "None of the politicians will even talk about it." "Why?" "Because who's primarily funding this next election?" "Baby boomers." "So your solution is for old people to die." "I was making a point in a provocative way." "An offensive, indecent, disgusting way." "I'm going to just wing it and say "argumentative."" "I didn't interrupt your questions." "What is this?" "They're called objections, Bethany." "They're allowed now." "I ask the court to sanction this rude, bitchy-do person." "Counsel, just ask your questions and try not to give in to your good nature." "You are aware, sir, that baby boomers make up a big part of your listening audience?" "I am." "The irony is—" "I'm not interested in irony." "I find nothing ironic about calling for the genocide of an entire class of people." "You sure like to come on strong, don't you?" "Better to be a cannon then get shot out of one." "I saw that." "I want this entire transcript expedited so that" "I can personally deliver it to the anti-defamation league, which at this moment, is probably listening to a recording of this man's jihad against the elderly." "All right, I've heard enough of your little self." "How about you and I both refrain from commenting on the other's size?" "Bring it on, judgie-do." "I'm not going anywhere." "What do you mean, there's something up with her?" "You don't think there's anything suspicious about her?" "Because she said "9-9-9"?" "You're right." "Hey, Clarence." "I got a friend at the IRS." "I had him do a little search on her tax records— dates back seven years and stops." "She never filed before that." "–Maybe she didndn't work before then." "–Ever?" "And it gets better." "You don't say "hey" back?" "She graduated law school from the university of Chicago in 1999." "In her résumé, it says she attended Georgetown before that." "Georgetown has no record of any Lorraine Weller." "I ran a social security record search." "No evidence of her prior to attending the university of Chicago." "I never trusted her." "So then the question becomes, if she's not Lorraine Weller..." "Who is she?" "Look, these are the signals." "I didn't make 'em up." "He looked under the stall, moved his foot to the side, then his bag, tapped his foot and hummed." "Come on." "At that point, you moved in." "We asked him to step out of the stall, and then we arrested him." "Why didn't you wait for him to do something more definitive?" "What he'd already done was definitive." "Okay, suppose somebody was just out looking for some action, not prostitution, but action." "They hear that there might be some in the bathroom and—" "I mean, is that a crime now, to hit on somebody?" "These were known signals for prostitution." "But you didn't wait for money to change hands." "We felt we had enough to go on." "Oh, come on." "So if someone has a bag in his hand, a tune in his head and needs to poop, he better watch out." "Commit the wrong ambiguous gesture, and he's looking at the slammer." "I guess they play a lot of footsie in there." "–Objection." "–Sustained." "Your honor, at this time I move for a directed finding of not guilty." "The prosecution has failed to meet its burden of proof— –Denied." "Okay, I move to remove you on the grounds of horrible judging." "There's a pattern of it, actually." "Denied." "Judge, I've seen you go in that men's room." "What do you mean, you might lose?" "Well, I should win." "They've got no transaction, but..." "But what?" "I have to put Denny on the stand." "Is there any way around that?" "I don't think so." "At this point, he's gotta tell his story, and in doing so, he would then become... our defense." "Dear God." "I had terrible, terrible gas." "I have it a lot." "So, what did you do?" "Well, I went into the bathroom hoping to relieve it with a, um, a bowel movement." "I have them a lot." "–Denny, please." "Upon entering the men's room, I, um, farted." "Uh, I do that— –Denny." "So I entered, uh, a vacant stall and I proceeded to, uh, do my business." "Only I-I was constipated, so I had difficulty." "Did you engage in all these signals they've been talking about?" "Well, I-I-I slid my briefcase out of the way and moved my foot to the side 'cause I like to give myself a wide berth when I'm impacted." "And I, uh, began to hum, uh, 'cause it's a— it's a relaxing technique." "And I started tapping my foot to give my hum a beat." "So you didn't go into the bathroom looking for sex?" "Oh, God, no." "Oh, I've—I've had sex in bathroom stalls before, and sometimes for money, but always, always with a woman." "I'm a heterosexual." "And I think being gay is a sin." "It's against God, it's against the president and it's bad for the troops." "How could the police officer have misinterpreted?" "'Cause he's an idiot." "And by the way, I have gay friends." "And they like to look at the merchandise just like anybody else." "They're not gonna just have sex with whoever in the next stall, sight unseen." "They may be sick, but they're not stupid." "It's just a total coincidence that you engaged in all these known signals to have sex?" "Well, not known to me." "You say you know." "You gay?" "I am, as a matter of fact." "D-does that make a difference?" "Well, a big one if I were looking to get laid." "You would never sleep with a man?" "Never." "Never have a sleepover with a male friend?" "Well, that's different." "In fact, you've had sleepovers with your lawyer— Alan Shore." "Isn't that right?" "–Objection." "We never had sex." "You sleep in the same bed as... buddies?" "Yeah." "And you two have special time every night together on your balcony, is that right?" "So what's wrong with that?" "You refer to each other as..." ""flamingos."" "–Did you tell him this?" "–I didn't." "What's the point?" "This is irrelevant." "It's called male bonding." "You never heard of that?" "Oh, I know all about male bonding." "Now let me see if I get this." "You're a man who sleeps with other men." "You just so happen to signal another man to have sex with you in a bathroom, but it's all just a big coincidence." "You sometimes refer to yourself as a flamingo." "But you're not gay." "You're damn right, I'm not." "I think I get the picture." "Nothing further." "Good heavens, you frightened me." "Just now, or do I frighten you in general, Katie?" "You've been quite a curious girl." "What's going on, Katie?" "What's going on is you're not who you say you are." "I know I've seen your face." "I don't know your real identity." "But I know you've only been Lorraine Weller since 1997, when you entered the university of Chicago law school." "So you know my secret." "No." "I only know part of it." "–I used to be somebody else." "–Who?" "I'm not gonna tell you that." "It could cost me my life." "I married a man from Pakistan 12 years ago." "I was unfaithful to him, which he discovered." "There have been several honor killings in muslim communities in London." "I am from London." "My co-adulterer was killed in an automobile accident." "I believed the next accident was going to happen to me, so I fled London, changed my name, began a new life here." "I'm told by my friends my husband's still looking for me." "Does Alan Shore know this?" "No, and I would beg you not to tell him." "It's a business, judge." "Talk shows, news shows— they're all in it for the same thing: money." "If he wants to insult people, fine." "But it better be good for sales." "Howard Stern is funny." "People like him." "He could say what he wants." "Don Imus— not so funny." "And "nappy hair" was bad for the bottom line." "It's the same thing here." "WWEN was faced with advertiser pullout because of what Bob Binder said." "And by the way, what's wrong with cleaning up the airwaves a little?" "I'm sick of these so-called journalists cloaking their hate mongering and bigotry in the american flag and calling it free speech." "Why can't a radio station fire an employee for spewing out despicably immoral crap?" "Maybe that's what Americans are really calling for here." "About time." "Was what my client said really so bad?" "It's interesting— she mentions Howard Stern." "My client was asked by his station to be more like Howard." "Howard Stern asked on the air, "so if you're half arab and half jewish," ""do you negotiate with the sheep before having sexual relations with them?"" "She also mentions Don Imus." "Viacom seems to have no problem with Imus referring to Arabs as "ragheads."" "In 2004, he referred to Simon  Schuster, the book publishers, as Jews who steal." "Then he apologized for the remark as being "redundant."" "Uh, Glenn Beck— he's on CNN—" ""the most trusted name in news."" "He's referred to the Katrina survivors as... a vulgarity I'm not allowed to repeat here." "He also said he didn't think it possible to hate any victims faster than the 9/11 victims." "These so-called journalists are everywhere." "And frankly, I wouldn't mind seeing most of them gone." "But it's one thing to curtail racist or hateful remarks." "It's quite another to censor political content." "What Bob Binder said may have been offensive, but it was also legitimate public debate." "Ironically one the public and the presidential candidates refuse to engage in." "If the older demographic has more economic power to affect the outcome of the presidential elections, and the government is spending most of its money on the older demographic... gee, shouldn't somebody be discussing this?" "A press— a free press— has always been vital to a democracy." "Not just when they serve the bottom line, but perhaps especially when it doesn't." "Your honor, reporters actually lost their jobs for criticizing the war." "35% of today's journalists say newsworthy stories are sometimes shunned if they'll hurt the financial interests of their news organizations." "In America?" "Our free press?" "This man got fired from a news talk show for expressing a political idea." "Are we really okay with that?" "Really?" "Look, we have a lot of this illicit, illegal and yes, immoral activity going on, not behind closed doors but in public areas." "Kids go in these bathrooms sometimes." "Are we gonna look the other way just because he is Denny Crane?" "I mean, come on." "He went in, looked under the stall, saw somebody, entered the adjacent stall, pushed his briefcase forward, slid his foot over, tapped his foot then the humming." "By coincidence?" "This is shameful, even more so if we excuse it just because he is a high-profile lawyer who thinks that he should be above the law." "Alan... don't save the world, just get me off." "Can you do that, please?" "Denny, when you hold my hand, it's just as thrilling as the very first time, but the jury could get the wrong idea." "I'm sorry." "I never heard much gay prostitution going on in men's rooms." "I mean, uh, maybe in a park or a club or— uh, but in a courthouse?" "There's certainly a lot more of the heterosexual kind going on elsewhere, most of which we turn a blind eye to." "There's even talk of legalizing it in Vegas." "So is there something especially offensive about gay prostitution?" "We know Washington certainly feels that way." "All those family values senators had nothing to say about David Vitter, the Louisiana senator who was, uh, caught in a prostitution ring." "I guess because he had the decency to visit only female hookers." "So, uh, let me see." "All right, we've got, uh, 29 current or recent members of congress a-accused of spousal abuse." "27 have been arrested for driving under the influence." "19 current or recent members accused of writing bad checks." "14 have drug related arrests." "Eight busted for shoplifting, seven for fraud, four for theft, three for assault, but Larry Craig's the one they simply must broom for tapping his foot in a men's room." "And why are we paying the police to tap back?" "With all this terror business and these security crises going on in airports, why are the police across the country manning bathroom stalls to play footsie?" "Mr Shore, I shall ask you to confine yourself to this case." "I'm talking about this case." "Homophobia has run amok, judge." "It's the reason we're all gathered here, and it's preposterous." "We're actually sitting in a courtroom wasting tax dollars because my client had gas." "He was constipated." "He went to remedy his problem in a bathroom— imagine that— where, lo and behold, three undercover police officers were lurking, waiting to interpret a tapping foot as a call for gay sex." "Now, uh, maybe Larry Craig deserved his fate." "He was thrown in front of the very bus he helped to build." "But Denny Crane doesn't deserve this." "All he was trying to do was take a crap." "And even if one were to go there looking for sex, there's no law against that." "The crime is soliciting for a fee." "This complaint doesn't even allege that any money was involved." "As my, uh, great aunt Gert used to say," ""this smells funny, and I'm not going to eat it."" "The First Amendment applies to state action only, not private companies." "If a government punishes Mr Binder for saying what he did, that's censorship." "When a private business does so, it's editorial control." "This isn't going well." "You say something, Ms Schmidt?" "If I did, I'm sure it wasn't important, your honor." "However..." "There's the magic word." "Corporations have become the biggest infringers of free expression." "It's been going on for years, starting with cigarette companies who pull their advertising dollars from any publication that runs an article on cancer." "Beyond that, corporations are using something called "SLAPP suits" to chill free speech." "So when it comes to truth in this country, the fix is in." "As for talk show hosts, the public gets the opinion the sponsors pay for." "Your honor, this is truly riveting, but can you just give us the ruling?" "Dwarves have limited life spans." "Judgment for the petitioner." "That work for ya?" "Are you on drugs?" "He was hired to be a provocateur." "He said inflammatory things before." "He was championed by the station for doing so." "I'm ruling in favor of the plaintiff on an "estoppel" theory." "Please don't take this personal, pip-squeak." "I want that on the record." "You know, that robe doesn't give you the authority or the right to demean me for my size, you barrage balloon." "Go ahead." "What are you gonna do?" "Bethany." "That cannon remark was really below the belt." "I'm sorry." "It wasn't my intent to... well, stoop to your level, and please don't take that the wrong way." "It's just... you seem to push my buttons for whatever reason." "Not many people can do that." "Is it because I was with Denny, and you still love him?" "It could be many things, but n-not that." "The-the truth is, I bet..." "I could like you." "Okay, not a chance." "But I do tip to my hat to you, Bethany." "You really are something." "Thank you." "Well... have a good night." "Until we meet again." "Yes, until." "A "fatwa?"" "Some pakistani put a hit on her?" "That's what she said." "I have heard of these honor killings." "–A fatwa?" "–Keep your voice down." "She asked me to keep her confidence." "–I'm not keeping it." "–Whitney!" "Suppose her ex-husband shows up here?" "I'm not going down in some fatwa." "Hello." "Hello." "How's it going?" "What's going on?" "Oh, nothing." "Just discussing the patriots and Red Sox and fatwas." "I'm disappointed." "You're disappointed?" "You put us all at risk, girl." "What if your ex-pakistani blows up the building, hmm?" "That would really disappoint me." "In fact, we'd all go to pieces." "I can't stop you revealing my secret if that's what you choose to do." "But you will jeopardize my life." "A fatwa?" "Can you imagine?" "Of all the times I've beaten the rap, to be convicted of public gayness..." "I'll be forced to unregister as a republican." "Republicans would have no problem with you being gay, Denny, so long as you continue to persecute homosexuals." "I hope you're right." "Madam foreperson, the jury's verdict is unanimous?" "Yes, your honor." "The defendant will please rise." "Madam foreperson, what say you?" "We find the defendant Denny Crane... not guilty." "Oh, thank God." "Congratulations, Denny." "Uh, could your honor find as a matter of law that I am not gay?" "Denied." "Adjourned." "You must be deeply relieved." "Oh, I could hug you, but I might get arrested." "Hug me anyway." "Not gay!" "Not guilty." "Tell me the truth." "Wouldn't you hate it if people thought you were gay?" "Well, I'd hate the idea of being perceived as deceitful or dishonest." "As for sexual orientation, I... women are much less guarded around gay men, Denny." "You could endear yourself as a bit of a trojan horse before surprising them with your... trojan." "I never thought of that." "This could be an advantage." "Thank you, Alan." "I'm not crazy about you lumping me with that closet democrat from Idaho but..." "Still, thank you." "Can you believe the DA tried to exploit us for being flamingos?" "Oh, ridiculous." "Thank God he didn't find out we like to dress up as the Lennon sisters." "He actually tried to shame us for our sleepovers." "Bigot." "Those homosexuals can't stand the thought of legitimate male bonding." "Where is the tolerance?" "Oh, did you hear?" "Shirley went up against Bethany." "No." "God, it's been so long since I've had sex with a dwarf." "Me, too." "Me, too." "It's the little things, Alan." "We gotta stop working so much." "Maybe if you could stop getting arrested." "I'm the problem?" "Well, you have been causing a fair amount of trouble lately." "You think I've lived an evil life?" "I womanize, I drink, I break the law, and now to be mistaken for a-a..." "Well, you get to be my age, you worry about the afterlife and where you're heading." "You ever think about those things?" "Sometimes." "Then I remember what Mark Twain said," ""you go to heaven for the climate but to hell for the company," so... no matter what, in the end..." "We'll be together." "Indeed." "Soulmates in hell." "I love it." "I bet they have dwarves in hell." "How could they not?" "Suddenly I'm less afraid of death." "There you go."