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Previously, on The Practice.

You know, Lindsay, about a month or so
ago, we exchanged a kiss and we never

even talked about it.

Should we talk about it?

Not right now, no.

Did you murder your sister in frame,
George Vogel? Watch it! Did you follow

to the bar, then go to the motel? That's
thick!

You asked us to trust you.

You just stole my son's innocence.

I represent Steve Robin and his dad.

Steve Robin?

Brother of the victim in your Vogelman
trial.

Eugene accused him of being the killer.
We're suing you.

My client's wealthy.

It's not about money.

He wants you guys out of business.

I want to fight. So do I.

Okay. Jimmy, you'll first chair. What?
What? Look, no offense, Jimmy, but

shouldn't you be doing it? I mean, he's
good. I mean, you're great. But we need

our... Best.

Jimmy will first chair.

I'll second.

authorized a Christmas party?

Oh, that'd be me. That would be you? And
are you paying for it? Funny.

Lucy. Oh, come on, Eleanor. You look
like a party girl.

Lindsay, Bobby, and Eugene act like
they've never been to one.

What? Did you know we were having an
office Christmas party? Oh, come on.

not like we have to invite any clients.
They're all in jail.

Can I turn in my partnership for her
job? It looks like more fun being the

Okay, we set?

Bags are packed.

Have you packed yours?

Okay, Eugene.

Eleanor, we went through this. I'll say
it one more time.

You don't defend what you did to the
brother. You just describe it as a

necessary evil.

Nobody's righteous.

Nobody's arrogant.

Nobody's looking like it's his big
inconvenience getting sued either.

We know what we did to the kid. Our
hearts go out. We all clear? Yep.

Nobody says that word qualified
immunity.

We're not relying on legal jingles.

One last thing.

I know none of you are crazy about me
being first chair.

But nobody ever.

ever whispers or makes faces or does
anything to make the jury think you

me. Like you all say, my credibility has
to count in the end.

Don't hurt it.

Okay?

Let's go.

That man is nervous big time.

What you got against parties? I don't
have anything against parties. I'd like

you to wear this.

Excuse me?

You look like a hitman. I am not wearing
this. Ready?

No. He's not telling me how to dress
right. Hey, Sky Blue. Hey. Sky Baby

He looks mean in that tie.

I look what?

Jimmy, I understand you're thinking on
this, but he looks okay.

Straight might be nice.

Crooked works for you.

It was a mistake I even let him in.

He's defending the man who killed my
daughter.

I invited him into my own kitchen.

Why'd you do that?

Because he impressed me as being honest.

So both me and my son talked to him.

Steve told him how Susan sometimes would
get on the Internet, and he asked Steve

if he'd say that in court.

And he agreed?

He struck us as a decent guy, trying to
do his job.

Steve figured he wouldn't be going
against the prosecution.

And what happened when your son took the
stand, Mr. Robin?

He accused my son of killing his sister.

He started screaming in court, you did
it, you did it.

Accused him of cutting off his own
sister's head.

Do you need a second?

I'm okay.

Actually, you're not okay, are you, Mr.
Robin?

You're dying.

I have liver cancer.

You tell Mr.

Young that?

Yes. In the kitchen, he was asking if...

Susan could have been depressed about
anything. I told him of my condition.

And how did Mr. Young make use of that?

He said that because I was dying,
leaving my estate to Susan and Steve,

had a motive to kill Susan quick before
the cancer got me.

How do you feel about that statement?

I don't think I have to tell you how I
feel about that statement.

I guess you don't.

First, please know how sorry I am about
your daughter.

Also about your illness.

When Mr. Young talked to you that day in
the kitchen, he believed somebody other

than George Vogelman killed Susan,
right?

I don't know what he thought.

Well, one of the reasons you agreed to
speak with him is because you could tell

he really did believe in Mr. Vogelman's
innocence.

Would that be fair?

It wouldn't be fair to say my take on
Mr. Young was accurate.

I have nothing else.

What Mr. Young did to your son in court,
I apologize for that.

I apologize for my firm.

That never should have happened.

Why don't you just cut the check?

The jury had to hear that. Not like that
they didn't. You could say I

sympathize, I feel for you, I
understand, but saying what I did was

Jimmy, that's the whole issue in case
you missed that. I didn't miss it. If

that's our defense, what are you
playing? I told you to go in. It is one

to turtle. It is another to confess.

I got to go before the bar. You think
about that?

It's not just money with me. My job is
on the line. You go on record announcing

I was wrong? I didn't do that. I said it
shouldn't have happened. What's the

difference in how you say it? Damn right
it's enough.

Enough to lose the case. Eugene.

Showing compassion is one thing. You
cannot admit liability.

I didn't do that.

I apologize for being bossy and
overstepping myself.

It wasn't totally easy coming in here to
such a tight group where everybody was

friends.

Not that I expected to be welcomed, but
that remark about me packing my bags,

I didn't deserve that.

You're right.

I'm sorry.

I know that the holidays are hard on
people who don't have anybody. I could

you up. I know some cool guys.

Did I do something wrong again? Go sit
down.

Suddenly, right there in court, he
starts accusing me, saying I killed her.

I felt just shock.

And what about after the trial?

It doesn't go away. First, he duped me.

I feel like I played a part.

in freeing the man who killed my sister.
Objection. Assuming facts not in

evidence, George Vogelman did not kill
Susan Roberts. Move to strike.

That remark assumes facts not in
evidence, much less existence. All the

to show that he did kill her. Objection.
Now who's accusing who? Was it your

charge to accuse this boy of killing his
sister?

The jury has already been informed of
Mr. Vogelman's acquittal as well as its

irrelevance to this proceeding.

Mr. Silva, continue.

You said, Steve, it doesn't go away.

People.

I can see in their eye.

Did he?

Could he have?

You know what that feels like? To walk
around with people thinking maybe you

decapitated your sister?

Please, don't address the defendant,
sir.

Always some truth behind every rumor,
huh? He can't disprove it, can he? He

no alibi.

It's never going to go away.

You feel violated.

I was violated.

We can only imagine, most of us, what it
must feel like to be accused of such a

gruesome murder.

Can you imagine what it must feel like
to be actually charged with a crime you

didn't commit?

I'm not sure it could be any worse, Mr.
Berluti.

Yeah, it can, Steve.

Because it's not just reputation on the
line.

It's your life.

Forget whispers from the public.

You go to a maximum security prison.

He should.

He killed my sister.

What if he didn't?

There he is, Steve.

Assuming he's innocent, can you think
what it must feel like to be threatened

with life imprisonment?

That's worse.

Don't you agree?

So he's doing well?

On the son, he did great. On the father,
he wobbled a little.

Who's next?

The detective, right after lunch.

Well, good luck.

To all of us.

Bobby, this Christmas party, we can
invite clients?

I guess.

What about dates? Are we supposed to
bring dates?

You know, you really should check with
Lucy. She knows more on what's going on.

Okay.

Do you have a date?

Well, no, I haven't.

Ask anyone. I was just wondering.

Are you bringing anyone?

No.

I'm up next with the detective, so I
should really... Oh, yeah.

Say, I'm not going kid gloves to
detective, remember? I got no problem

hard on witnesses. It's just a family.

I want you to get to detective.

Okay.

What? What? I see you two looking.

I wasn't looking at anything.

You were thinking.

All right, Jimmy.

Did any evidence even suggest that Steve
Robin could have been involved in his

sister's death?

No, sir.

Forensics? DNA?

Fingerprints? Everything pointed to
George Vogelman.

Nothing indicated Steve Robin. Now,
Detective, the defense has complained

you never even bothered to investigate
Steve Robin. We considered all family

members. There was nothing to
incriminate him, nor anybody but George

Steve Robin did have motive. Financial
problems.

He'd be the sole beneficiary. That is
motive, right, Detective?

Perhaps. And wasn't it established that
Steve Robin and his sister were

estranged at the time of her death? Yes.
And who established that, Detective?

The police or George Bogleman's lawyers?

You people did. And Steve Robin had no
real alibi at the time of his sister's

death? As far as I know, neither do you.

But without any evidence, we can't... I
was as much a suspect as an estranged

family member with a motive?

No, my point is we need some evidence to
trigger at least suspicion before we

investigate anybody.

There was none on the brother. Did you
want there to be? Might have hurt your

case against George.

Objection. Withdrawn.

You never even asked the question, did
you, detective? You never even said,

what about the brother?

Of course we did. We ruled him out.

Can you prove he didn't do it?

We can't prove it. Well, how do you rule
him out? Because all the evidence went

to your client.

All the evidence collected?

All the evidence, period.

The murder weapon?

The murder weapon, detective.

We never found the weapon. The bloody
clothing worn by the killer?

We didn't find any bloody clothing.
There likely was bloody clothing. You

didn't find it, right?

Right. What about the witnesses?

There weren't any witnesses.

To your knowledge, or can you prove
there were no witnesses?

To my knowledge.

All the evidence, period.

That means all the evidence you had,
right, detective?

Yes. Thank you.

Oh, at one point, you did say, what
about the brother?

Of course we did.

Did Tommy Silver sue you?

Objection. Withdrawn.

I'm going to lead with you, Eleanor.
Then Eugene.

Different tie tomorrow, right? Eleanor,
expect Silver to cross you personally.

What do you mean?

You dated George. He'll try to use that.
That's not relevant. Your judgment

during trial is relevant. He'll try to
show that you were clouded by your...

Let's bring a motion and eliminate.

Too late. You're on at four o 'clock.

Continue it till tomorrow.

We'll look worse trying to evade. Let's
just be upfront about everything.

You know, that's easy for you to say.
It's not your personal life.

Who's got a personal life? Lucy!

Hey!

Right off.

I quit.

See ya.

Look, I've tried to fit in.

And I realize it's probably my fault
that I don't. But let's just all admit

not working.

I won't admit that. I think you've been
doing great.

You're the only... one who's been nice.
And Jimmy, sometimes Rebecca and Eleanor

when she's not riled. Lucy, we all snipe
at each other. The fact that they dish

it out to you like everybody else,
that's just a sign of being accepted.

I think maybe we just assume you can
take it because you're so... I'm not

tough. I'm just pushy.

A little.

Why do you think that is?

I'm just used to taking care of people.

And you guys sometimes seem like you
need it a little.

We do.

You're working out, I promise.

It wasn't that we thought Steve Robin
killed his sister, so much as we

exclude the possibility.

Well, let's be honest. Steve Robin was a
bit of a red herring. Yes, which is

viable because the police didn't
investigate.

Detective McCrew claims they did.

George Vogelman did not kill Susan
Robin. George Vogelman passed a lie

test that we gave him. District Attorney
Helen Gamble... Objection. Hearsay. Not

office for the truth, but only as to
what the witness heard.

I'll allow it.

What did District Attorney Helen Gamble
tell you?

Basically that the police had a
disincentive to investigate.

The victim's head was found in George
Vogelman's medical bag.

He represented the only chance they had
at getting a conviction. They

desperately... Desperately needed to
satisfy public pressure, and any new

evidence would only serve to undermine
what they believed was an open and shut

case.

Leaving you with the idea?

They were more concerned with getting a
conviction than they were with finding

the real killer.

Helen Gamble told you this?

She suggested to me that could have been
why the police didn't reopen.

Told you this in confidence?

Pretty much.

And you sprung a little surprise,
calling her to the stand, making her say

under oath.

She didn't see that coming, did she?

No. You basically sandbagged her.
Objection. Withdrawn.

What's plan B?

It's sort of a slang code we have for,
well, shifting guilt to somebody other

than our client.

It's pointing the finger at someone else
in court saying he did it. Is that it?

Basically. And basically you decided to
plan B Steve Robin in the Vogelman

trial? Yes.

When you decided to plan B Steve
Robin...

Did you think he killed his sister?

We didn't know. Oh, I understand you
couldn't know if we're positively sure.

My question goes to what you thought.

Honest answer.

Did you really think he killed his
sister?

No.

You'll do anything to get the client
off, won't you?

Objection. Sustained.

You ever been suspended in connection
with jury tampering?

That was an innocuous exchange that
happened in an elevator between a

and a juror who tried to ask her out on
a date. You're required by law to report

these communications to the judge,
aren't you?

Objection. Relevance. Offered to show a
pattern of deceit, it also bears on the

witness's honesty, which she puts in
issue by testifying.

I'll allow it.

Want a cup of water, Miss Front?

I'm fine.

Thank you.

Did you persuade your colleague not to
report the jury tampering because it

might cost your client an acquittal?
Yes.

Client there was an alleged drug dealer?
Yes. A couple of months ago, you had

another client, a drunk driver.

He hit a pedestrian, called you from the
scene. You advise him to drink right

there on the spot?

Objection. Pattern.

Go ahead. You tell this client, let
yourself be seen drinking, so that when

fail the breathalyzer, you can say you
were drinking after the accident? Your

Honor, this is getting way off track.

I agree. Let's move on.

Is there anything you won't stoop to,
mister?

Objection. Sustained. You consider
yourself an honest person?

Objection. Sustained. You don't want her
to answer that?

You think that'd be kind of a slow ball?

Objection. Sustained.

Where the hell were you? I was up and
down like a jack -in -a -box. You came

late. Where were you? Eleanor, Jimmy's
right. If we duck those questions...

Those questions have nothing to do with
this case. If they had to do with you...

You hung me out. Silva hung you out with
your own history.

Jimmy did nothing wrong.

Should have settled it. Tell me about
it.

Lindsay, if they come back over the
policy, it's going to be Donald Young

shut. I know.

Aren't you scared?

Yes.

I've been thinking about leaving anyway,
a little.

Excuse me? A little. Maybe to a bigger
firm. I don't know.

You're in love with him.

What? Who?

What are you afraid of? Because you two
work together?

If it's right, it's not... It isn't
right, and I know where it would end. I

don't want to end up like... Like what?
He's a workaholic for one thing. What's

another thing? Are you waiting for him
to totally get over me because it just

doesn't happen?

Let's just decorate the tree.

Sure.

You're an idiot.

Decorate.

Look, obviously Silva has moles.

He heard about Plan B, Eleanor advising
a client to drink. The jury tampering

thing was on record, but what happened
with Helen Gamble, that wasn't.

The guy is tapped in. Tapped in or not,
this doesn't happen unless people in

this room are talking.

I didn't tell.

Nobody's saying you did.

No, not much. The point is, we can't
repeat stuff. Not the friends,

anybody, because Tommy Silva knows
everybody.

Everybody.

Eugene, you ready?

All set.

I don't plan to be protecting you, just
like with Eleanor.

Great. Come on, let's go.

Hold on.

You all got your tails between your
legs.

I think Silver is making a mistake here
to mortise outside stuff he puts in.

The jury tampering, the drunk client.

He's trying to win with evidence that's
got nothing to do with this case.

The jury can see that.

So let's not go in the room looking like
losers, okay?

The jury can see that, too.

When I persuaded Thief Robin to testify,
my intent was only to establish his

sister being on the Internet.

I never lied to him.

But let's be fair. When you changed your
strategy, you didn't call him up and

say, by the way, I plan to accuse you.

No. You wanted to spring him.

Yes. Why?

By surprising him, I had a better chance
of causing him to be outraged.

rage and outrage, they can look alike.

If I could get a jury to see rage in
him, then they could more easily believe

could have committed a homicide.

Do you believe he killed his sister?

I didn't know that he didn't, but I
really didn't think that he did either.

So, Mr. Young, you're basically
admitting you accused Steve Robin of

something you yourself didn't really
think he did. I do not admit that I am

guilty of any wrongdoing.

And why not?

Because as a defense lawyer, it is my
job to raise questions, to play devil's

advocate to what the government is
saying. Sometimes you might look like a

doing so.

Don't you feel bad?

Steve Robin, he's probably innocent.

Of course I feel bad.

But George Volberman is innocent.

He was framed, the police didn't
investigate, and I wasn't about to let

innocent man get a life sentence for
something he didn't do.

You're facing...

Possible discipline from the bar because
of this plan B tactic, aren't you? I

was reported to the bar.

I suspected your urging.

The bar is conducting an inquiry?

Yes. You sound, maybe it's me, you sound
almost proud of what you did.

Like I said, I didn't enjoy having to
attack Steve Robin.

But once the defense lawyer takes the
case, he has to use whatever legal means

possible to defend his client. That's
what I did.

In fact, plan B.

You guys use this strategy a lot, don't
you? We use it on occasion when we deem

it viable.

Last week, Bobby Donald had a case.
Objection.

Pattern, Your Honor.

Go ahead.

A baby was killed, and your firm
represented the convicted killer.

Bobby Donald stood up in court and
accused the baby's father, didn't he? I

wasn't there, but to my knowledge, the
facts supported the question.

And that, too, would be a lawyer's job,
right?

Yes. In fact, any grieving parent,
should his baby be murdered, should

be accused of killing his child because
that's our system.

It's not that simple. Well, you're sure
making it sound that simple, Mr. Young.

You're sitting in that chair and we're
talking about accusing family members of

murdering their loved ones as basic
defense strategy.

You sure make it sound easy.

That's all I got.

Mr. Berluti, redirect.

Mr. Berluti?

Yes, Your Honor.

Going after Steve Robin like that, you
weren't a little disgusted with

As I testified, I didn't enjoy doing it.
That wasn't my question. I asked,

weren't you disgusted with yourself?

Didn't you go back to the witness room
right after and say something to the

effect like, you were a monster for
doing that? Isn't that what you told

Fright? What are you doing?

Last year, your 10 -year -old son said,
my dad gets killers off.

You were disgusted with yourself when
you heard that, weren't you? You wanted

quit practicing law. What's going on?

I'm asking the witness some tough
questions. If he doesn't answer, I'd

treat him as hostile. This is just
another stunt, Your Honor. Why don't you

down until you know what you're talking
about?

All right.

I'll give you some latitude, Counsel.

You like putting killers back out there,
Eugene?

Two years ago, some pedophile you
defended, you put him back on the

sodomized and murdered two little boys,
didn't he?

You snapped in court and you beat up
your own client, didn't you? If they

pulled you off him, who knows what would
have happened. Right, Eugene?

This spiel.

Defense lawyers do what we must and we
don't apologize.

That's a bunch of crap, isn't it? You
get disgusted with yourself a lot.

And you got disgusted with yourself
after attacking Steve Robin, understand,

didn't you? Because you knew then, like
you know now, it was despicable.

Isn't that the truth?

We can take your silence as a yes.

Can't we, Eugene?

the hell was that all right you were up
there like a robot you couldn't have

been worse if we rested on that we lose
big you were terrible

I don't think it went well.

I'm not saying you're wrong. He was a
little cold, but... Exactly. How did you

make it better? I let the jury know I
had the same reaction to his testimony

that they had.

Bobby, he was more than cold.

I'll talk to him.

You ready with your closing?

No.

Everything okay?

Eugene's testimony went a little rough.

We're finished, aren't we?

Had we started up again?

This firm.

If we lose this case.

Oh. We haven't lost. And even if we do,
there's a lot to appeal.

We're not finished.

What?

That's all.

Is it that bad?

No, it's just... Tell me.

I kissed Lucy.

I should say she kissed me, and when she
did it, it felt wrong, like I was

betraying somebody.

Lindsay, somewhere in the back of my
brain, I feel like I'm in some kind of

relationship with her.

My head went right to her when Lucy
kissed me.

I was talking about the Robin case.

What? Oh, yeah, it didn't go very well.
It wasn't good.

You kissed Lucy.

She kissed me. Myth will tell, but,
well... You kissed Helen Gamble, you

Lindsay, there was that whiny thing in
the short skirt, and now you kissed

What's wrong with you? Rebecca.

You know we're about to face bankruptcy.
You're running around kissing

teenagers. What's wrong with you?
Rebecca, I tell you something that's

me and you swat me? You're damn right.
She's 18 years old. She kissed me. Why

didn't you tell the world?

Lucy. You know, it's bad enough that she
already hates me. I don't hate you.

What's going on here?

Has he kissed you too?

Rebecca. Let's all get back to work. Can
we do that?

Back to work.

I didn't plan to take that approach.

I felt it necessary since I found your
testimony unsympathetic.

Jimmy, close it on your way out.

I would think you'd understand.

I was doing whatever I could to save the
client.

And the client is you.

Put yourself in their position.

Our position.

Every defendant.

Did you stay here all night?

It's morning.

Oh, gosh.

Oh, Jimmy.

This does not look like a good colonial
day.

Hello?

George. Hi, Jimmy.

Lucy. He's got a bag.

What's up?

I was thinking.

I was the guy you fought for.

Maybe you should put me up there. Get
the jury to see it from my side.

I thought about that, but Silver would
cross you on the porno tapes. He'd get

how your friends pulled away, how you
still didn't get your job back.

You were an easy cross in a criminal
trial. He'd be even softer here in a

one. I just wish there was something I
could do to... Just be in the room.

That'd be great.

Sure.

What was Bobby thinking, giving it to
me?

From what I hear, you're doing great.

Who said?

Well, uh, nobody.

But I can feel you're doing great.

What?

He left his bag.

He's gone.

Think he got lucky last night?

Lucy, he just forgot it.

Are you out of your mind?

Open it. I'm not going to open it. It's
a man's private bag.

You open it.

I'm a girl.

There's nothing in it but medical
supplies.

Just look. Maybe there's a phone number
inside and we can call him.

Right. Right, well, pretend we don't
have his number in the Rolodex.

We shouldn't do this.

Hurry up.

Hello?

Jeez, George.

Hey.

I forgot my bag.

Oh, here it is.

Yeah, we were just checking it for
heads.

No, I'm kidding.

There's no honor in being a lawyer
today.

It used to be a dignified profession.

Now, but there's got to be a line.

Steve Robbins' sister was murdered.

And these people, the lawyers, defending
the guy charged with doing it, well,

they decided they'll blame Steve.

Fool him into taking the stand under
some duty.

to tell the truth, and then ambush him
with an accusation they pretty much knew

to be false.

It was indecent.

Unthinkable, really. And they do it all
the time.

Plan B.

They figure in a courtroom, they're
insulated from slander or defamation,

they think nothing of accusing brothers,
of killing sisters.

Fathers of killing their babies.
Anything to get the client off.

But there's got to be a line.

Where do we draw it? I really don't
know.

But when a lawyer knowingly sacrifices a
person's reputation with information he

knows isn't true. When you go after a
grieving brother and say that he chopped

off his own sister's head.

I'd say the line has been crossed.

Now everyone today is angry at how
despicable liars

have become.

Well, you have a chance right now to
send a message.

Put these people out of business.

It's an adversarial process.

And the rules, though not popular, are
pretty simple.

State tries to convict. The defense
lawyer does everything he legally can to

prevent that conviction.

Not almost everything he can.

Everything. It's not a choice.

And if in the mind of the lawyer,
pointing a finger at the brother of the

can secure an acquittal, truth is, he
has no right not to.

Unless he knows for a fact it's a lie,
which here they didn't.

The system doesn't work if the lawyer
says, hey, in this case, I'll do

I can. In that case, I won't. You do
whatever you can in every single case.

Defense lawyers cling to that rule.

It's the only way they can survive.

Sometimes they retreat so far inside
that principle they can seem almost

inhuman.

That's what you saw in Eugene Young. He
didn't even seem like he had much

compassion, did he?

I actually think he's in denial as to
what he does.

It's not surprising.

Because what he has to do a lot of the
time would make most people sick.

How do you go home at night and sleep
after getting a killer free?

How can your stomach not turn at the
idea of fighting for some rapist?

You saw in Eugene Young.

A man who's freed killers only to have
them kill again.

You saw in Eugene Young a man
desperately hanging on to his ideology

what he does for a living.

But believe it or not, that is where the
truest and deepest honor of this

profession lies. Doing an ugly job that
serves a higher purpose.

The state...

The defense lawyer works every day to
check that balance so innocent people

don't get caught up in it.

And you know what? An innocent man got
caught up in it here. The polygraph that

he passed was inadmissible, so the jury
there couldn't know about it.

The circumstantial evidence was so
overwhelming and dramatic, he was faced

a sure conviction.

The only thing he had was a couple of
lawyers willing to do everything they

could. As hard as this may be to
compute, Eugene Young was dignified in

after Steve Robin, not because Steve
Robin probably did it, but because he

likely didn't. And that made the duty
ugly, dirty.

Many attorneys would have found a way
not to do it, and the innocent man might

have gone to jail.

Over there, since somebody who got hurt.

And our compassion has to go out to him.

It has to. But it also must be tempered
with the reality that the worst result

would have been a man serving a life
sentence in prison for something he

do.

What this case really is, is a
referendum

on criminal defense attorneys and our
system.

You want to pass judgment on that, I
suppose I can't stop you.

But I know those people at that table.

I work side by side with them every day.

There's honor in that job.

Just let me enjoy it.

This is the soup.

My lucky soup.

Problem is, it don't fit me. I had to
diet all week.

I've been dreaming of this hot dog since
Tuesday.

And now I've dropped it.

How's that for an omen?

Thank you for letting me do it.

It was a self -serving decision.

Nothing to help you.

I know.

That's what... Spent my whole life

thinking I'm not good enough.

Sometimes, if we lose, you'll at least
know your whole life.

You've been right.

Jury's coming back.

What? In an hour? It's Friday.

It's Christmas.

Let's go.

The jury has reached its verdict.

We have, Your Honor.

What say you?

In the matter of Robin v.

Donald Young, Dole and Frutt, on the
count of defamation of character, we

in favor of the defendant.

On the count of intentional infliction
of emotional distress, we find in favor

of the defendant.

On the count of negligent infliction of
emotional distress, we find in favor of

the defendant.

The jury is dismissed.

The court thanks.

You're adjourned.

Yeah, I'm a client, too. What was your
case?

Oh, it was just some boring litigation
stuff.

I like this place. People here are good.

Yeah.

Listen, we're okay, you and me.

Yeah, we're okay.

Jimmy.

Good closer.

So we're still in business.

Yeah. Still partners, unless you're
thinking of leaving.

What?

Helen said something.

I'm not going anywhere.

Yeah.

I should be honest about... I don't mean
to be cold.

It's not that I'm not interested.

I just know that it's not right, and for
once, I'm going with my head.

Oh, yeah, Lindsay. You and your heart.

You've been so out of control.

What's that supposed to mean?

Nothing.

It means you're right.

I'm going with your head, too.

Good.

Merry Christmas.

I, um...

You're

like student fluids with

that one.

Come on, Lucy.

You and I haven't really got to know
each other yet. Maybe we should just

this one. Hi.

Hi.

You know you're standing under the
mistletoe?

You know the saying, George.

Once you've seen a man holding a severed
head, it's hard to look at him again

sexually.

No more sorrow.

No grief and pain.

Cause I'll be happy.

Christmas once again. Once again.