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Previously on The Practice.

We stipulated to strangulation as the
cause of death. I'm not offering it. Can

finish? You don't need to finish. We
already know what you're going to say.

got a sick, depraved, murdering client,
like always.

And like always, the more truth you can
keep under wraps, the better. Napoleon

complex, Your Honor. Res ipsa pipsqueak.
All right.

You are a killer, you know that? An icy
killer.

Thank you, Richard.

It's a compliment, I take it? Of course
it was. Your style's the same as mine.

I'm in love with you.

I'm sorry, I should say infatuated. I
mean, you're smart, you're sexy, you got

that little Catholic girl thing, and I'd
totally go for it the whole package.

Richard, we're in the middle of a trial
here.

I speak my mind. Yes, well, I'm speaking
mine.

Let's stick to business.

Please, please!

Roberta! Judge Kittleson? Get out, all
of you!

I didn't know you and I were speaking
romantically, much less... I find it

difficult to tell a man I miss him.

For whatever reason, it's just easier to
show up in his apartment naked.

How long do you think?

Three, four days tops. There aren't many
witnesses.

Louise going to testify?

Well, she has to. It's her word against
her husband's if I don't put her up.

What, people don't greet people here
when they come through the door?

What do you want?

How's that?

Eleanor.

Our complaining witness isn't doing
well. He's at Mass General Status One

awaiting a donor heart.

Evidently, the doctors don't expect his
to hold out much longer. What I'd like

is to take his videotape depot there. We
can introduce it at trial.

I'm assuming you'll agree?

You got that wrong.

I beg your pardon?

If you can't get your witness to trial,
Richard, that's not our problem. The man

is on his deathbed.

For which I sympathize, but the man is
also the chief prosecutorial witness,

you can't expect us to make it easier
for him to put our client away. I'm

expecting you to have the decency to
accommodate... We're not that decent.

I'll go to court, get an order from the
judge.

Do that, but I'm not about to facilitate
an attempted murder conviction.

I'm only talking about a humane way of
getting the testimony. This does nothing

to my burden. We won't agree.

Get an order if you want, but like
Eleanor says, we aren't about to make

easy.

How stupid of me to expect you people to
be decent or humane. You think you're

heroes playing a part in the criminal
justice system, the crusaders against

oppression. Well, you might have started
out that way, but look at you now.

The day -to -day stench of your clients
is rubbed off.

You're every bit as vile and
contaminated as the murderers and

defend. You bring no dignity to law. You
proffer disgrace.

Where you might once have been noble,
you've sunk into a sinkhole of disrepute

where your only idealism is get the guy
off, even when it offends human nature,

where it insults morality.

You're so lost in the inferno of crime
and dishonor, you become sickening

animals, repugnant to everything that's
good about this country, everything this

nation... celebrates in the spirit of
humanity.

You are sick, awful vehicles of hate. If
there is a God, he will get you, you

sleazy, cancerous -infected, malignant,
grotesque snakes.

You're going to die an early death if
you don't calm down.

They get to me. They're defense
attorneys. They have a duty. The man is

deathbed, Helen. They can't agree to
take his testimony in a hospital?

They're disgusting, despicable, dirty
roaches. Richard. And they get to me.

Look, just go to court and get the
order.

Who's the judge?

Kittleson. I hate her, too. And why is
that?

Because Raymond Oz called me a midget at
sidebar. She could have held him in

contempt. He was the defendant.

She couldn't have... Then she half
called me a midget, too.

Kittleson.

It was a slip. She said Midge, then
caught herself.

I hate her, too.

Richard, you're about ready to start an
attempted murder trial. If you go in

there hating the defense attorneys,
hating the judge, you're going to end up

being defeated by your own anger.

Now, go to court, get the order to do
the video depot, and take it from there.

I really appreciate you taking the time,
Jimmy. No problem.

You look great, by the way.

Did I say that already?

Twice.

And, uh, your husband?

How's he?

Gone. We divorced three years ago.

Oh.

Sorry to hear that.

You said you were sorry to hear we were
getting married. Now you're sorry he's

gone? I was just talking as an old
boyfriend back then. I mean, if you're

sorry he's gone, then neither am I.

Okay.

So, what's up?

Well, this is a little embarrassing,
but... You can tell me.

Okay.

I sold my eggs to this man for $9 ,000.

What do you mean you sold your eggs?

My eggs, for reproduction.

I have a website, and I sell my eggs. I
have back orders. You wouldn't believe

how many men are looking to have
children, not wanting to wait for wives.

Wait a second.

You sell your eggs, and they like...

Fertilize them?

Yeah.

Men donate to sperm banks all the time.
It's the same thing.

But you do it for money.

Yes, and this one customer, I trusted
him. I usually demand payment in

but this one customer, I didn't, and he
hasn't paid.

So I sued.

But now, as we're about to go into
court, there's some motion to dismiss,

lawyer dropped me. He said for $9 ,000,
it wasn't worth it.

The hearing's at 11. I'm really in a
bind.

You sold your eggs.

If he's not ready for trial, I'll agree
to a continuance. Oh, how generous. In

which case, my witness will be dead and
I'll have no case.

Hey, why don't we continue for 10 years?
Would that be safe?

Mr. Bay, getting snide doesn't really
serve anything.

She wants continuance as installed,
Judge. Quiet.

What exactly is the problem with the
videotaped deposition?

It will prejudice our case.

How so?

Your Honor, if I have to cross -examine
a man in a hospital bed, I will come off

so unsympathetic. I will alienate the
jury. It will be irreparable.

I'll look like a monster.

You are a monster. Hey, look. Mr. Bay.

So what's the alternative? If we haul
him in here, he could die.

All I can say is that my client is
entitled to a fair trial, and she will

denied that if the chief prosecutorial
witness has to give testimony from a

hospital bed, leaving me hamstrung. I'm
going to grant the prosecution's

request. Your Honor. Save it, counsel.
Your client tried to run the man over.

That is partly the reason he's in that
hospital bed. Untrue. Pre -existing

condition. Brought on by stress, which
your client didn't help by charging him

with a sport utility vehicle.

Now, since the jury is already
impaneled, let's do this at noon. I will

Thank you, Your Honor.

It doesn't really delay the trial. It
just means the part of it will happen in

the hospital.

This can't wait till he's better?

Well, the likelihood is he's not going
to get better. Not unless a donor heart

comes in, and even then, because of some
other complications, he may not be

deemed a suitable candidate.

Gee, if I'd known he was that sick, I
never would have had to run him over.

It's a joke.

Yeah. Well, we should get to the
hospital. Assuming we finish, the trial

begin this afternoon.

Okay.

A contract? A contract. First of all,
there is an implied covenant that the

once fertilized, will become an embryo.
There is no such implied covenant.

Second, this contract is against public
policy. For a woman to be selling her

eggs, it is so unethical. Well, your
client bought them. I am not defending

that. But he took them.

entered into a contract to pay for them,
and now he's not paying. How ethical is

that? Your Honor, this is an
unenforceable contract.

Then make restitution.

My client would give back the eggs if he
could. He realizes now how immoral this

type of transaction is. To pay money in
consideration would only serve to ratify

the immorality. Who are you kidding,
Your Honor?

They made a deal. I understand that, Mr.
Belluti, but the court is not in the

habit of enforcing contracts that go
against public policy. Again,

You're not looking for restitution,
counsel. You're looking for

and that begs the question of
enforceability.

And frankly, I have problems upholding
this kind of deal.

Your Honor. I'll hear oral arguments at
2 o 'clock.

Although, since we're just talking about
$9 ,000, my suggestion is you people

work this out.

We'll give you $1 ,500.

We'll take six.

No way.

I didn't even get an embryo out of it.
That wasn't in the contract, Mr.

I'll offer $1 ,500 and no more. Anything
else, I just assume, come back to

court. Then we go back to court. Susan.
No, Jimmy, it's principal.

Come on, Howard.

Come on.

Can you represent me one more day,
Jimmy?

Susan.

How come you're doing this?

Selling your eggs?

It's hard making ends meet, Jimmy.

My life hasn't exactly worked out like I
planned.

Could you please stop judging me? I'm
not judging you. You are, like you used

do. I never... You did.

I don't need it now.

Can you help me or not?

We've been fighting a lot.

I told her I wanted a divorce.

What were you fighting about?

Oh, you name it.

We basically reached the point.

We didn't like each other. The marriage
was over.

There was nothing left but hate.

I'd like to turn to August 10th of this
year.

Do you remember that day?

Yes. That was the day she tried to kill
me.

Objection sustained.

What happened on that day, Mr. Morgan?

Well, we just got back from grocery
shopping, which, by the way, I was a

suspicious. She never asked me to go
shopping with her before, but on this

she needs me.

And when we got home, the garage door
opener, it wasn't working.

So she said she'd have to get out of the
car and open the door. You offered to

do it. Mrs. Morgan.

You don't speak here.

Continue, sir.

So I got out of the car, stepped in
front of it to open the garage door. I

opened the garage door, and at this
point, she just gunned the accelerator

ran me over.

It's a miracle I lived.

God didn't want you. That's the only
reason. Louise? Mrs. Morgan.

One second, Your Honor.

This one's played for the jury. They
will see and hear everything you say. So

quiet.

Did you see the vehicle come at you?
Yes.

And I saw her face.

Can you describe her face?

She had a look of determination.

It was willful.

I could see this was no stuck
accelerator. She knew what she was

How can you be sure?

I've known her for 35 years.

I can read her face.

She meant to run me over.

Your wife contends it was an accident.

It was no accident.

She tried to kill me.

I know it as well as she does.

How sick is this man?

Very. His heart is weak. His left
ventricle is... I'll kill him. All

Your Honor, every defendant is entitled
to confront his or her accuser. Gee, I

never knew that. You're such a gift.

My point is, if I cross -examine him
tough, which I'll have to do after that

testimony, I'll kill him. You're not
that good, Eleanor.

Would you get back? If I mistake you for
a gnat, I might swap.

All right. I want that on record.

Your Honor, you have to admit our hands
are a little tied.

The doctor thinks he's strong enough to
answer your question.

I am not going to lob softballs. This is
a murder trial. You can cross -examine

without being overly aggressive.

I shouldn't have to. My client has
rights. Oh, stop with the lecture. I

duty to go hard. Even if it induces a
coronary, I have to protect the

of my client.

Thick, grotesque. Look, I am not trying
to compromise this man's health, but I

won't compromise Louise Morgan's either.
That testimony was damaging. So what

are you going to do? Get away!

Don't you ever! Push me. Back off. I'm
not going to let you intimidate me with

everybody else. Knock it off now.

Hey.

Can this man withstand more questioning?

Perhaps, but I don't want him agitated.

You mean like him? Oh, funny. Eugene.

He needs to rest first.

Okay, we will resume back here at three
o 'clock.

am i gonna do you gotta cross from
eleanor his health can't be an issue

say we gotta protect louise great

look maybe i

should take over i'm fine look richard
if you pushed eugene that tells me you

have some judgment problems he'd squish
you like a bug i can handle myself why

are you personalizing this so much is it
because bobby called you a pipsqueak

They laughed at us when Raymond Oz went
free. No, they didn't. They did, Helen.

That old fart was a murderer and they
helped him get off.

Now they've got another one and they
know it. The woman mowed down her

Who's kidding who? They're defense
attorneys.

Most of their clients will be guilty.

There's a difference between giving
every defendant a zealous defense and

distorting the system. That's not what
the framers had in mind. If you start

quoting the founding fathers again, I'm
going to leave.

You know what I mean.

Eleanor, she'll cross -examine that guy
into having a heart attack if a coronary

will keep his testimony out. She won't
blink half an eye. She'll just do it.

They're not evil people.

Yes, they are.

Richard, for three years, I've been
telling you what would happen if you

personalize your trials.

What did I say?

I'd lose my hair.

You're a great DA, but you gotta keep an
even keel.

Helen, can I ask you something?

Sure. Will you have dinner with me
tonight?

Oh, God, no.

Night. Just forget I ever lived. Get
out.

I didn't mean... I just meant I don't
ever want to eat with any fellow DAs.

Never mind.

No, sure. Let's have dinner. Let's do
it.

Don't patronize me, Helen. I don't
like... Richard, I am saying yes. You've

a window here.

Federal and state law prohibit the sale
of any organs. We're not talking about

organs. An egg is not... The same
principle applies.

The law doesn't say that. But maybe it
should.

Just as we prohibit the sale of livers
and organs. We could do that, Judge. But

then you'd have to cut off the sale of
sperm.

That's going on. I would agree.

We should shut that down.

It's one thing to donate an egg or semen
out of charity or altruism, but it's

quite another to do so for profit.

He's in here arguing what the law should
be.

That's not a court's job.

The judge is supposed to rule on what
the law is.

He wants it changed, let him go to
Congress.

But what the law says today, it's okay
for a woman to sell her eggs.

And the distinction between altruism and
profit?

Forgive my language, that's just crap.

Profit saves lives.

The drug companies aren't out there
developing vaccines because of altruism.

It's about patents and profits. This
isn't about drug vaccines. It shouldn't

about hypocrisy either.

Everything that happens in business and
much of the stuff that goes on in

medicine, it's got to do with money.

So don't be coming down on my client
because she's looking for financial

She's acting inside the boundaries of
the law.

She made a contract with that man inside
the boundaries.

He breached it. And she's come to a
court of law.

For the remedy she's entitled to.

How long before he rules?

It shouldn't take too long.

I'm on beeper, so as soon as I hear.

Hey.

Thank you, Jimmy. I really appreciate
it.

Okay.

You don't approve, do you?

No.

I hope it didn't show in there, but...

I don't think women should be selling
off their reproductive eggs.

I think it goes against God.

Still religious, huh?

Not too.

But on some things... You seen anyone?

Well... Sort of.

Yeah.

Figures. Most of the good ones are.

Susan, you and I, we already crossed
that bridge.

You threw me over.

Well, I was what?

23?

Priorities change.

You gonna get married?

It ain't that serious.

Don't wait too long, Jimmy.

Yeah.

Listen, I'll call as soon as I hear.

Okay.

Thanks.

You said you were suspicious when your
wife asked you to go shopping. Had you

never shopped with her before?

Oh, a few times, but certainly not
enough. So you had then. When you said

that was a mistake.

More like an overstatement.

It was just not a usual thing for me to
shop with her. And when you got home,

you got out of the car to open up the
garage door? Yes.

And then you moved in front of the car?
Yes.

And how many feet in front of the car
were you standing?

Three feet, maybe. Three feet. And when
you opened up the garage door, the car

suddenly came at you? Yes. Fast or slow?
It just sprang at me. It lurched

forward and ran me over. How many
seconds did it take to run you over? A

maybe less.

It just exploded toward me. She floored
it. Knocked you down in less than a

second? Yes. In half a second?

Maybe. And in that half second, you saw
the car come at you? Yes. And in the

remainder of that half second, when you
weren't looking at the car, you saw your

wife's face?

I saw it good.

For less than a half a second. I didn't
time it, but I saw it good.

You said you wanted to divorce her,
right?

Yes. Didn't have any feelings for her
anymore besides hate. Wasn't that your

testimony? Pretty much.

And since you've developed this heart
condition, you've been gifting away as

much of your estate as possible. You've
even told friends that, right, Mr.

Morgan? Keep it away from Uncle Sam.

And your wife, didn't you tell some
friends you don't want her to get it?

In fact, the one thing you hated about
the prospect of divorce was that she'd

get half, right? Which she didn't
deserve. But if you could get her

attempted murder, that would surely
disqualify her, wouldn't it? This isn't

something I hatched up. It's exactly
that.

Objection! Sustained.

When the police and the paramedics first
arrived, you said nothing about her

trying to kill you, did you, Mr. Morgan?

I first didn't believe it. Didn't tell
the police anything about her face then,

did you? I was half dead.

And then it came to you like a million
-dollar brainstorm?

Objection. Disdain. This is a way of
getting even, isn't it, Mr. Morgan? Get

convicted of attempted murder.

Argumentative counsel.

Disqualifying her from everything.

Yes, I ran myself over. This was an
accident and ruled an accident until you

came up with the idea about the
expression on her face, which you

later, based on a... limps of less than
half a second. She's badgering the

witness. No, I'm cross -examining.

How is it that you didn't know she tried
to kill you right after the accident,

but that you came to know it later, sir?
What happened since the accident? I

figured it out. Well, what happened
since the accident that allowed you to

figure it out? I put two and two
together. Ah, so it wasn't the

her face. Yes, it was. Did hate color
your figuring, sir? Did money color it?

He's coding.

Oh, great.

Let's get out of their way. Let's talk
to the staff.

Mr. Morgan, this could be your last
chance. Get away. Did she try to kill

Yes. Squeeze the doctor's hand.

Will someone get this man out of here?
Mr. Morgan, get this man away from here.

Atrophy.

That was despicable even for you. What
the hell was that? The squeeze of the

hand last chance? What the hell was
that? Both of you. He's in a systole.

He's in your CPR. I'm giving him an
ample buy card.

How long is this the last chance?

Is he okay? Not really. He's dead.

Dead? His heart gave out. I'd offer
condolences if I thought any of you

You killed him?

Dead? That's what she said.

What happened? Eleanor cross -examined a
man to death. All right.

So what's going to happen with the
trial?

They don't know. They're conferencing in
Kittleton's chambers. If his testimony

is out, the trial is over.

He was the whole case.

I'm mindful every ethicist, as well as
the leaders of all our infertility

groups, then discussed at the prospect
of peddling eggs for cash.

But Mr. Belluti is right.

The law prohibits selling human organs.

But there's nothing illegal yet about
trafficking sperm and eggs.

I find the contract to be binding and
order the defendant to pay costs

plus interest.

Adjourned.

Thank you, Jimmy.

Congratulations, I guess.

Look, I know it's not much money, but
the principal... Susan, if you're

about this case, I tell people it was
about money.

Saying it's about principal, you're
selling your eggs.

Can I talk to you in private somewhere?

why we broke up, Jimmy?

It's coming back to me.

It's because you were always putting me
down.

You were always finding faults. Come on.
I didn't put you down, Susan. You were

always telling me what I was doing wrong
and never letting me talk.

You don't like the idea of a woman
selling her eggs. You don't like the

a woman having an abortion.

You've got a lot of likes or dislikes
that you're entitled to, but none of

render you more principled.

You want to know what principle is,
Jimmy? Yeah.

Why don't you tell me? It's recognizing
responsibility.

Principle is duty to your children,
making sure that they are fed and

with a decent home and you don't have
the slightest idea what that is. Tell

kids how you pay the rent. You're like a
prostitute, Susan.

When you go to work every day and you
come into this room with your clients,

Do you call them murderers to their
faces?

Thieves? Child molesters?

I doubt it.

You quite likely show them more respect
than that.

Me, you call a prostitute.

You tell me, Jimmy.

Why was it you were always so much
harder on me than the rest of the world?

I'd really like to know what it was that
made me the brunt of your anger. I

loved you.

That's why.

Do you still?

I don't know.

This other woman?

Thank you again for your services.

You obviously turned out to be quite a
good lawyer.

I'm sorry I disappoint you.

You saw it yourself. She all but
murdered him. What?

You're lucky I like you, Eleanor. I'm
lucky you like me?

Settle down.

I'm sick of these scream fests. One
could make the argument she deliberately

tried to induce a fatal heart attack to
eliminate a chief prosecutorial witness.

One could, but he'd be a tiny little
fool. Hey. All right. Now, I am warning

both of you. Your Honor, obviously Mr.

Morgan's testimony has to be excluded.

Why? Our client has to have full
opportunity for cross -examination. We

short. Bogus. I'm sorry? If ever a
witness were fully cross -examined, she

killed him. Mr. Bay, I knew they would
try this. I knew it. Oh, what? Do you

have crystal balls? If only you had
real... Ow! Oh, right.

He kicked me. Did you see that? He just
kicked me. That just cost you $500. The

next insult goes for $1 ,000.

Your Honor.

Yes?

Even if you find we were afforded full
opportunity for cross -examination, what

happened? The man had a heart attack.

The danger of Miss Frutt coming off
unsympathetic is too prejudicial.

I didn't say anything. I didn't kick
anybody.

With all due respect, he has clearly
lost his mind. With all due respect,

just cost you $1 ,000.

May I speak?

You may speak. Do not kick. Do not
stomp. Do not even move your legs.

Even if you were inclined to exclude Mr.

Morgan's testimony on the grounds their
cross was cut short...

a decision which would border on
judicial misconduct, we could

still introduce Mr.

Morgan's statement that his wife Louise
tried to kill him.

Why? How?

As Mr. Morgan was suffering his fatal
coronary, I asked him that question. He

answered yes, an answer which would
qualify as a dying declaration which

not be subject to cross -examination in
order to be admissible.

Is that why you did that?

Asked him to squeeze the doctor's hand,
and you're calling me despicable?

Counsel, these attacks are outrageous.
He's stroking out, and he asked a

question to qualify a dying declaration?

And it's the defense attorneys that are
called scum? Your Honor, scum should

cost her $2 ,000. Well, let me know when
it costs $20 ,000, you vile,

disgusting, repulsive little cockroach!
You are a desperate person, Eleanor.

You grab a dying man to go for the big
win, and then you question me about the

digital law, you vicious little peanut!

Why do you hate me, though?

Why do I hate you? Richard, you're the
one who starts it. I'm just standing up

for myself. All right.

I don't even know why I'm here.

You're here to keep them from killing
each other.

I am editing the videotape deposition
personally. I will admit those parts

I feel you have had ample cross.

We go to court tomorrow, and we will try
the rest of it.

Any of this nonsense goes on in my
courtroom, I will be sending you to the

with my recommendation for a 60 -day
suspension.

Let them out.

I have a date.

Did you love her?

I used to.

And some of those feelings came back?

I don't know.

It's like I realized I looked at her
like maybe she could have been the

mother of my children.

So I held her up to higher standards.

And it made me think, when I see
Roberta, I don't look at her that way.

As the mother of my kids or... She's got
no eggs left to sell. That ain't funny.

But there is some truth to it, Jimmy.

You want a family one day. Maybe you
don't see that with Roberta, but you can

see it with Susan.

Susan's not in the picture.

I'm not?

Am I really out of the picture?

You think?

You want to... I... He mumbles when he's
smitten.

Lucy.

How

about

I take you to dinner?

Well, before I do anything like that, I
got some ends I gotta clean up with

somebody else.

So I'm assuming they'll put their client
up and then we'll pretty much close. I

mean, it's a short trial.

Great.

Then we can get some counseling.

Helen, she did knowingly cross -examine
a man with a weak heart. I don't want to

hear about it anymore. You used up your
whole date talking about a case,

Richard.

Does that mean I'm not getting another
one?

Well, I can't say I had the greatest
time, considering all through dinner you

slammed my roommate.

Oh, you should have heard the way that
she went after this. You kicked her

twice.

You even took a run at Eugene.

Would you have some sort of a death
wish?

Maybe.

What? Tell me.

Part of me... I think I do want to get
into a fight.

A fist fight.

You ever bothered to ask yourself why?

I was captain of the debate team growing
up.

president of the chess club, three -time
state spelling bee champion.

But on the playground, I just got picked
on.

I would love to get into a fight.

Well, I think you should see somebody
about that.

But in the meantime, if you are going to
take runs...

Taking one at Eugene isn't smart, or
even Eleanor, for that matter.

Yeah.

Well, I'd better go work on my closing
argument.

Can we go out one more time? I promise
not to slam roommates.

Another chance?

I'd go for you.

The whole package.

Why wouldn't the garage clicker work?

I don't know.

Maybe the batteries were too low. It
often didn't work.

So your husband opened the garage door.

And I went to inch forward, and the car
lurched. I went for the brake.

and I hit the accelerator by mistake,
and I ran right over Ronald.

It was an accident.

Of course it was an accident.

Well, Mrs. Morgan, it has become known
to many people that you and your husband

have become very estranged.

Many husbands and wives become
estranged. That doesn't mean that they

kill each other.

The ones who do, we usually see them
charged with attempted murder.

Objection! Sustained.

Mrs. Morgan, you said you hit the
accelerator to inch forward when the car

suddenly lurched. Yes. Your husband was,
what, two, three feet in front of you?

Yes. Why was your foot hitting the
accelerator at all with a man standing

three feet in front of the car?

Because I was inching. Inching into a
lurch.

Objection. Sustained.

Do you ever have the car checked out?

Yes. Did they find any cause why it
would lurch?

No. Did you sue the automaker?

Did I sue the automaker?

Do you still drive this car?

Yes. After what happened?

Aren't you afraid it'll happen again?

The main error was human error. When I
hit the accelerator hard going for the

brake.

She hit the accelerator hard going for
the brake.

With a man she hated standing two feet
in front of the car.

He dies, she inherits everything.

They divorce, she gets half.

None of us were there.

Who are we to say it couldn't have been
an accident?

None of us has ever had a car lurch.

None of us has ever inadvertently hit
the accelerator while going for the

None of us has ever driven a car over
somebody we hated and inherited $2

million.

You listen to the testimony of the
victim.

He saw her face.

He read that face, a face that he had
been reading for over 30 years.

She was gunning for him. She was trying
to kill him.

A face he saw for a fraction of a
fraction of a second.

That's their case, ladies and gentlemen.
A look for a fraction of a fraction of

a second while a car is coming at you.

How reliable is that?

Are you going to tell me reasonable
doubt can be overcome by a fraction of a

fraction of a second?

Hey, what's this I hear about you
brokering eggs on the Internet?

Funny.

How's it going?

What's wrong?

Nothing's wrong. I just stopped by. Oh,
I can always tell when something's the

matter with you, Jimmy. Your forehead
beats up.

Okay.

I like a lot of things about our
relationship.

But there's some stuff I find wanting.

You find wanting?

What do you find wanting, Jimmy?

Well...

I want to have a family one day.

Soon. And I think I'm just kidding
myself, thinking that you

and I could go that way.

You

came

in here to end our relationship?

Well, yes.

I'm 37.

I got to take stock of what I am, where
I'm going, take control of my life's

direction.

You think you know yourself?

You don't know yourself.

I know you, Jimmy.

And trust me when I tell you, you'll be
coming back.

Might take two months, maybe three.

But you'll be back.

You want to know why?

No.

Yeah.

Because of your mother and father.

You were raised as a strict Catholic.
You grew up sexually repressed. And what

you're going to be looking for in a
woman more than anything else is a woman

liberates you sexually, who makes you
feel sexual.

Do you really think that you can be with
just anybody?

What you are with me?

Best sex you have ever had, will ever
have. You'll get it right here, nowhere

even close.

And whether you want to admit that to
yourself or not, it's important

to you.

Should I read it back?

Will the defendant please rise?

Has the jury reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

What say you?

Commonwealth v. Louise Morgan on the
charge of attempted murder.

We find the defendant, Louise Morgan,
not guilty.

The jury is dismissed with the thanks of
the court.

We're adjourned.

You know, I'm still having trouble with
my garage door. Maybe you can be there

to open it when I get home.

All right, Louise.

It's stacked against us sometimes.

Little old ladies.

I want to run every member of that jury
to the computer. If there's an

outstanding ticket, I'm going to impound
their cars.

Come on, I'll take you to lunch.

I mean it, Helen.

Let's go.

You know, this morning I was sorry I
kicked Eleanor. Now I'm not.

I'm glad I kicked her. Okay.

I mean it.

Susan.

Hey, am I early?

No. I... No.

Okay. I made a reservation at Tiger
Lilies. Have you ever been?

No.

Susan, uh... My unfinished business.

It's still unfinished.

Okay. Does that preclude lunch?

Well... The thing is... I don't think I
want to finish it.

I'm... I'm still involved.

Well.

You know how terrific I think you are.
Jimmy, don't insult me by putting a

ribbon.

I get it.

Better I get it now than after I went
down a path.

This is what I'm thinking.

I'll see you around.