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Last week in Picket Fences.
Don't move, don't make a sound. Where's the wallet?
It's in my briefcase. Get it.
Put down the knife or your head explodes.
You got me an attempted robbery, tops.
See, if I do time, I gotta come looking for the guy responsible.
You want me to indict the town mayor? It's vigilantism. Now, you're not
any diminished capacity or insanity when you pulled that trigger. It was
probably the most sane moment of my life. I went with straight self
It's a risk.
I hope I didn't screw up. We find the defendant.
Guilty as charged.
Oh, God.
I have not made love like that in my entire life.
You just keep going and going.
How do you do that?
I don't know. I practice.
I have to admit, Max, when we first met, I didn't think of you as being all that
overly passionate.
Boy, did I get that wrong.
Larry? Mm -hmm?
Could you do me a favor?
Does it require moving one single solitary muscle?
Sort of.
I'd like you to go home.
Excuse me?
I'm sorry.
I don't mean to be weird, but I just think that I need to be alone. What's
matter? Nothing.
Everything's fine.
I didn't please you, did I?
No, of course you did. I mean, it wasn't... That's why you seem so
You were great.
It was great sex.
She said I had this killer day tomorrow, and I just think that I sleep better
alone.
I understand.
I'm just a one -night conquest. I understand.
You're not a one -night stand.
I can't even stay till morning.
Larry. Just sex with you? That's all? Sport?
It wasn't just sex.
I care about you.
Well, tell me this. Are we gonna see each other again?
Oh, forget it.
You're all the same. I can't believe I could be so stupid. I knew it.
Pig.
You blew the guy off just because he didn't have an orgasm?
It wasn't that.
I could just tell he wasn't the right guy, that's all.
Uh -huh.
Tell me, Max.
The shrink you go to, you tell him about the sex problem.
It's not a sex problem.
It's just a little drought.
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It's been three months since my last
confession. Four?
All right, I thought it was three.
Mm -hmm.
The Lord is very forgiving.
How may I help you, my son?
I missed math four times.
I lied.
I committed a murder.
What was that last one?
Homicide.
He was an evil man who threatened my life.
So... I engaged in retribution.
You understand.
The consequences of this act. I have already been convicted in a court of law
and due back in court this morning to try to overturn the conviction, but I
don't know.
In your mind, it was murder?
Where is he?
Hey, you son of a bitch, where is he? Damn you!
You're right to have him!
Why don't you speak for God? You don't speak for God!
Damn you!
Damn you!
Take him, get him processed.
I'm going to need your statement downstairs.
Forgive me, I have to go to court first. I have a small matter. I'm trying to
save my life.
We'll get you stitched up. I'm going to need your statement, too.
You don't want to press charges.
I beg your pardon? What happens in the confessional booth is strictly a
competition. He tried to kill you.
This is a private matter between us. Now, wait a minute. Now, look, I've seen
his contrition.
I don't want to press charges.
Kitchen think time, Your Honor.
Desperation. May I finish my motion, please?
Why? According to your own motion, you're incompetent, so why bother? I
say I'm incompetent, you little snot.
All I said was the defense I gave Bill Pugin was inadequate.
Why? Why? He's asking me why.
I heard him ask. I'd like to hear your response.
Well, it was an error for me to stipulate to the prosecution's case.
I could have cross -examined Howard Buss and Carter Pike.
And what else?
It was a gross mistake for me not to go with temporary insanity.
He had inadequate counsel.
The verdict should be overturned and Bill Pugin should get a new trial.
And a new lawyer?
Well, since I learned from my mistakes, I'm sure I could continue.
I have no doubt you could.
You're very good.
In fact, clever enough to use the ineffective counsel defense when all
fails. It's not a tactic.
I screwed up. You went for self -defense because you wanted an all -out victory.
Something you couldn't get with diminished capacity.
Judge, I'm shocked.
I'm talking now, counsel.
You were fully aware of all legal strategies available.
You gambled and lost.
That does not constitute incompetence. But what about moving for a speedy
Stop wasting my time.
The verdict stands.
This matter is adjourned.
I just want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it.
You committed a crime, Joe. You acted like a man. I don't have to talk with
about it.
This has to do with your kid dying, doesn't it?
I didn't kill his son.
He had that disease.
Yes, hurlers, which we diagnosed in utero. That child should never have been
born, Gary.
Maybe it wouldn't have been. Look, I didn't go after them preaching anti
-abortion.
Patty and Joe, they came to me.
They wanted the position of the church.
I had to give it to them.
He was just three years old.
Don't get me wrong, Kenny. I love this little guy.
I...
But if you knew how he suffered, no child should be born just to suffer and
You can't blame the father.
Joe, we're Catholics.
We know he's got to come down against the worst.
I got by that. I did.
It's the stand on birth control.
Patty and me, we can't have sex.
Why?
Both Joe and Patty carry the gene for hurlers.
So if they had another child, it could be just the same.
Deformed, retarded, short life expectancy.
It would be irresponsible for them to get pregnant.
But according to the church, it's a sin for us to use birth control.
I thought they lightened up on that.
It's still against the laws of the church.
And you know, Patty, so we can't have kids. We can't have sex.
I'm losing my marriage, Kenny.
Sex doesn't make a relationship.
It helps.
I feel... I don't know, maybe I've been a cop for so long. Lots of women are
unable during intercourse. I've never been one of them. Until the last year or
so, I've always been able.
And you still can.
You're just refusing.
I'm refusing.
Unconsciously, yes.
It's about control, Max.
An orgasm is the ultimate in letting go.
And that's ridiculous.
You know, if Blue Cross weren't covering this, I'd walk.
Best defense is a good offense, right?
Come on, Max. You've been coming here for, what, nine weeks now?
Can't you come up with a new trick?
No. See, now you're playing the offense because you know I'm right.
Of course. You're always right. Just like you were right to go to bed with
insurance salesman on the fourth date.
What? Is it your professional opinion that I'm a slut?
Not my professional.
Opinion, no.
Danny. Max, you didn't really trust this guy.
Not having an orgasm is your way of withholding, your way of refusing to
somebody. I think when you're with somebody you trust, you truly trust,
won't be any fear of intimacy and no problems with climax.
I don't know.
I feel so desperate.
I don't care how desperate you are. This is ex parte.
You know better than to come in here.
Lock me up.
Go ahead.
Henry, everything you said is true.
I went with self -defense because I wanted the glory.
Bill Pugin shouldn't have to lose the rest of his life because I want... Are
telling me Bill wasn't part of the decision to plead self -defense?
I'm telling you he was subject to my influence.
Mm -hmm.
Every lawyer steers his client.
Please, give him a new trial.
We'll plead to a lesser charge.
He'll do time, but his life won't be over.
You know me well enough to know that I can't do that. I know you're a man of
compassion who likes to leave a situation better off than how he finds
You haven't made a case to overturn the verdict, but I tell you what.
I'll certify this for immediate review by the appellate court.
You can take your shot with them.
That's the best I can do.
Thank you, Henry.
Counsel.
If you go to the appeals court with the inadequate counsel theory, you better
come up with something different than today's examples.
They'll see through you as easily as I did.
Any suggestions?
I'll bet if you comb through this case, you'll discover that you really did make
a mistake.
Find it.
I've told you, James, I don't want to press charges. It's not up to you.
He committed assault, destroyed property. Your wants are not relevant.
I here?
Because I want to work this out.
Look, I think I can get the DA to kick this for restitution, but I'm not
releasing you if you're going to go out and commit mayhem. Fine.
Tell my wife it's okay for her to use birth control.
I've told you both I understand.
If you want to use contraception, then you have my understanding and my
compassion. Would it be a sin against the church?
Father?
Yes.
I won't sin.
What about if I got a vasectomy?
Why couldn't we do that? That's mutilation.
The church could never condone that. We are married. For God's sake, we're
supposed to have kind to go related. All right, what do you want to do?
Strangle me again? Yes! Sit.
Look, Father, if they conceive a child, it gets born to just suffer and die.
You can't stand here and say that's good for the church. No, I can't.
So?
How do they prevent it without birth control?
The rhythm method.
He says it with a straight face. The rhythm method?
You really say that? Look, I am not going to sit here and listen to an
indictment of Catholicism.
I gave you both the position of the church.
I have also extended to you my understanding.
Should you choose to ignore that position.
But you taught me never to ignore the church.
I know that.
Father, you've also taught me that if I live in mortal sin, I could be condemned
to hell.
To burn in a non -consuming fire.
Isn't that the law of the church?
That is correct.
I will not burn in hell.
Wait just a second.
You're telling this court that it was reversible error for you to instruct
client to tell you the truth?
Exactly what I'm saying.
Why? Why?
He's asking me why.
Yes, he is.
Up here in appeals court, we consider truth to be sort of a good thing.
A lot can be said for it, but the problem with truth is once a lawyer gets
He stuck with it. Meaning?
Meaning once Bill Pugin told me that he shot the guy with a clear mind, the only
strategy legally available to me was self -defense.
By law, I couldn't put him on the stand to say temporary insanity because I
can't advise a client to lie.
Now, if he hadn't told me the whole truth...
I wouldn't have known temporary insanity was a lie, and therefore I could have
let Bill Pugin claim it as a defense.
Are you joking? Think about it, Judge. The police are required by law to give
Miranda to instruct their suspects that whatever they say could be used against
them. The fact is, telling your own lawyer the complete truth can backfire,
It limits their defense options.
Clients have a right to know this.
Mr. Littleton?
What? Are you seriously considering what this man is saying? That's not a good
beginning. Your Honor, he is suggesting that lawyers endorse perjury.
No, he isn't. He's suggesting that since lawyers are ethically bound not to
proffer false evidence, their defense strategies can therefore be limited
sometimes by the truth.
Maybe the client should be apprised of that reality.
So what would the appropriate behavior have been in this situation?
How should Mr. Wambaugh have instructed Bill Pugin? Simply that whatever he
tells me, I'm stuck with. That I can't reinvent facts to support whatever
we pick.
I blew the temporary insanity defense the minute I asked Bill Pugin to tell me
the whole truth.
We all know it.
We'll take the matter under advisement. You can't be serious.
You crossed the line. I'm trying to break through a wall. I come in here to
about me, not my father. And I'm telling you it's all connected.
Inextricably. He's the reason you can't trust.
Why? Because all your life, he wouldn't accept you.
Your words, Maxine. Your very own words.
You said through his eyes you were always failing.
I'm not talking about him. Let me finish. Trust me, Danny.
The last pair of eyes I'd be looking at myself through while making love would
be my father's. We're close here. Don't fight me. Listen to me now.
You don't trust any man to receive your orgasm because you're afraid.
Afraid of what? Afraid of intimacy.
Afraid of bonding. I want intimacy and I want to bond.
No, you don't.
With intimacy...
comes the possibility of rejection.
Deep rejection.
The kind of fundamental rejection you got from your father.
He never rejected me.
He said you had no aptitude for college.
When you told him you wanted to join the police force, he laughed at you.
That's not rejecting me.
It's enough to batter your self -esteem.
It's enough to make you hate him. My father loves me.
He's always loved me. I've never doubted that.
He's hurt you.
And because of that hurt, you don't dare give any other man the chance to hurt
you again.
Because you believe ultimately, eventually, every man will.
It's okay.
You
want to convert
us to Protestants?
Don't get me wrong, Joe. I love the Catholics, but their point of view on
contraception is nuts.
If you really want to help, why don't you talk to Father Barrett? He couldn't
anything. This birth control thing goes to a larger conspiracy.
Which is?
The Vatican wants a population explosion. It would help them to achieve
dominion. This is the lowest of lows, Henry.
Gary!
I just asked him if he'd like to talk. Going behind my back to steal one of my
clients?
How unethical can you get?
This isn't anything about clients.
It's about religion.
Don't you bring ethics into this. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Well, look who's talking.
The rhythm method.
Oh, just because you hand out prophylactics with communion, it doesn't
say that we have to change, that we have to relax on our position. That it was a
Catholic that invented the... Hey, this isn't about what church is better.
For God's sake, do you know how hard this is?
The adoption agencies are scared to place a child with us because if we
ever give birth to another baby with hurlers, the emotional and medical
will be too much of a hardship on the family.
And on top of it all, you expect this marriage to survive when we can't even
what married people do.
Give us some guidance. I have tried.
I've given sympathy to Patty. I've repeatedly absolved both of you.
But artificial birth control remains immoral according to the church. I
change that, Joe.
I don't know what else I can say, Henry. You've got to get that stupid rule off
the books. Now, look, wait.
Don't you start on me, please.
Gary, Christianity is dying in this country. The Catholics who are leaving
church, and many of them because of birth control, they're not becoming
Protestants.
They're just forsaking religion in general.
And that hurts us all.
Unbelievable.
We got a real chance.
When are they going to roll?
Oh, could be tomorrow, could be a week.
Amazing they took it under advisement.
This was a very unorthodox argument I made.
I don't know if I could walk back into a courtroom again.
I felt like I was having a nervous breakdown in there.
Imagine. This would be new law.
Beware telling the truth to your own lawyer.
This could come down as a wombo rule. We could be making history.
What? You're enjoying this.
My life is hanging by a thread here, and you're getting goosebumps from a career
high. Well, I, uh... I'm just optimistic for both of us.
Tell me, Doug.
If you really believed what you said in court today, why didn't you warn me
about telling you the truth?
Well, uh... Like I said, I probably should have.
And after I spoke the truth, why didn't you tell me it limited your defense
strategy?
Why didn't you tell me it prevented you from arguing temporary insanity?
I'll tell you why.
Because if I knew, I would have dismissed you as my lawyer and found
attorney and withheld the truth.
But that wouldn't do, would it, Doug?
You weren't about to lose this juicy case.
Do me one favor.
As a matter of simple courtesy, try not to enjoy it too much.
What are you doing here? I thought you don't like to see patients outside of
therapy. I don't.
Look, um, you got a second?
Sure.
The fact is, the reason I'm here, I don't think I can be your doctor
Why not?
Look, I apologize. This is going to come totally out of the blue.
Even though it's not that uncommon a thing.
Do you know what transference is?
Yeah.
When a patient transfers emotional feelings onto the therapist.
Close enough, yeah.
There's also a phenomenon.
Called countertransference.
Yeah. It's been happening for the last few weeks, and, uh, I... You know, we've
become quite close, and I've become... attracted to you.
I don't think this is appropriate.
No. No, it's totally inappropriate. That's why I'm here.
Look, I thought I could handle it.
At least not let it invade our professional relationship.
I even thought I could deny it.
But, um... Today... When I held you...
Anyway, I can't deny it anymore.
I don't know how to respond to this.
You don't have to, Max.
I'm just here to say I can't be your doctor.
Look, I've prepared a list of other therapists that I can highly recommend.
If you want me to call any of them, make sure you get in. I'd be happy to.
So... I'm never going to see you again?
That wouldn't be right.
At least not professionally.
But if you want to have dinner sometime... I
don't know.
No, that was wrong.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't... Okay.
The doctor -patient relationship has to be completely severed. You understand
that? From this second on, I don't treat you.
I know.
Okay.
I'll call you.
Great.
Good night.
Hey, shouldn't we be ready in case we get called into court?
Mama said we don't need to be there for the ruling.
I'm going to jail, Marjorie.
One mistake and my life is ended.
They took it under advisement.
It's not over.
It's over.
And I don't think that he's coming back.
Why? What did he say?
He said that if we're not going to be husband and wife, then we're not going
be husband and wife.
Father, I don't know what to do. I don't want to lose him. Joe is all I have.
Tell me, Patty.
Do you want conjugal relations with your husband?
Yes, of course I do, but we can't risk having another child with that disease.
Please, just listen to me very carefully.
Very carefully.
Ninety percent.
of all Catholics use contraception.
The church is even considering allowing nuns to use birth control in Bosnia
because of the threat of rape. Now, I take that consideration to mean that
exceptions can be made.
The fact that both you and Joe have the genes of hurlers, I think our Lord
would be very forgiving of you.
Are you telling me to use artificial birth control?
As a priest, I would...
Face excommunication for saying that.
It's a person who cares about you very much.
Save your marriage, Patty.
It's against the church.
You are telling me to commit a sin.
What kind of priest are you? I'm your priest.
I'm not so sure.
I'm not so sure.
Are you out of your skull?
It's just a date.
It's against the law. Read the penal code.
It is illegal for a therapist to date his patient.
He wouldn't be my therapist anymore. The doctor -patient relationship is
terminated. Why? Because you say so?
Do you think you can just declare a therapeutic relationship as over?
This isn't something I do casually, Jill.
You know me better than that. I certainly do, Danny. I know you a lot
than to believe that you'd let yourself get emotionally involved with a patient.
I didn't let it happen. It just...
It happened.
You have a professional obligation to be sure that it doesn't. I know. You're
right.
Ever since Cindy died five years ago, Jesus, I haven't cared anything about
woman.
Now... Danny, it's not that I don't understand. I know how it can happen.
It's just that there are strict rules about this.
Why? How can anybody legislate emotions?
That's what he said.
I'm saying it.
I really do feel close to him, Kenny.
I trust him, and I'm attracted to him.
I can't stop thinking about her, Jill.
I know it's unprofessional, but you know what?
I'd be willing to wreck my career.
If this thing even lives up to half the stuff I feel going on inside, it'd be
worth it.
It would.
To suggest that a client be warned not to be truthful with his own lawyer, it's
ludicrous on its face.
But when we dig deeper, in fact, the people in this country systematically
believe the privilege between lawyer and client is all protecting.
That complete candor with a defense attorney is risk -free. That your own
attorney can better defend you if he knows the whole truth.
It's a nice premise, but for those of us who practice law, we know the fallacy.
Mr. Wambau is right.
Sometimes a lawyer can be more effective if he doesn't have all the facts.
He can be more creative with his defense when not burdened with the law against
proffering false evidence.
The judges know it.
The lawyers know it.
And I suppose the client should know it.
Your honors, with all due deference and respect... Sit down, counsel.
We will note your incredulity for the record.
We certainly don't want to encourage perjury nor chill candor between lawyer
client. But in that there might be a middle ground where some type of warning
may in fact be appropriate, we're taking the matter under further review.
In the meanwhile, the conviction against William Pugin is stayed.
And what do you expect me to do about it? Oh, nothing. I came for a little
advice. Oh.
Tell the Henleys it's not a sin to use birth control.
Well, I have practically given them my blessing.
But I cannot expressly say it's not a sin.
That would be against the church.
Then tell the church to go to hell.
No, Henry.
I'm sorry, Gary. You're not going to get any sympathy from me on this one.
You can't continue to oppose both abortion and birth control.
Not when the number one threat to this planet is overpopulation. Look, I didn't
come here to discuss the merits of the ban. Well, you better consider the
merits. Because if the church doesn't take action, sooner or later the courts
will. The courts?
Here's a hot flash for you.
More and more priests are being sued for malpractice these days.
And you are a prime candidate.
Me? I'm just a priest.
She would have to sue the whole Catholic Church.
The day is coming, Gary.
And believe me, the last thing anybody wants is for judges to start legislating
religion. But if the church stays rigid on some of these rules, that day is
coming.
Excuse me, I'm sorry. Father, there's been some kind of accident with Bill
Pugin. They sent for you.
I was shopping and he was picking it up. And then when I came home... Am
I too late?
I'm afraid so.
Can I see him?
I don't think I'd be a good idea. Look, I'd like to give the last rights.
You don't want to go in that room. Believe me.
It's impossible.
What happened? I don't know. Jimmy.
Please. Excuse me.
So you think you're... Yeah.
NID's gonna be tough.
Found one fragment of a tooth in about half of his right foot.
That doesn't make sense, Carter.
I mean, that's all that's burned. It just doesn't make sense. How do we know
that's Bill?
Check the tooth against dental records.
There's not even any skeleton.
Even the bones are burned. I don't know what to tell you.
I've never seen anything like it. I can't believe someone would commit
by setting themselves on fire. You think it was murder?
He wouldn't set fire to the house. He wouldn't risk burning it down. He
do that to Marjorie. Not even bones.
Just ashes.
Is that my client?
No, not now, please. I just came to give him some good news.
So we shouldn't have sex now?
I ran it by Jill because I wanted to get another doctor's take on it.
Oh.
I ran it by Kenny.
You get the same response I did?
They're probably right, Max.
It's just... I want so much to just give in to my feelings on this, you know?
Yeah.
Wise man once said, the heart wants what the heart wants.
Well... If we did have an affair... You know, it'd probably just be one of
those physical things.
You know, the passion would probably wane.
Probably.
It's right that we don't pursue it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, we should say goodbye then.
No, you can't break the confessional seal, but... When Bill Pugin came to see
you, did he seem... Did he strike you as suicidal?
Well, he seemed despondent.
Uh -huh. But no, no, he didn't strike me as being a threat to himself.
Patty.
Um... We split up. I can't ignore the law of the church.
I'll be leaving.
No, that's okay.
He wants a divorce.
Look, I'm going to talk with Joe. No, don't. Maybe I can make him see
It's for the best, I think.
You know, our religious convictions were becoming less compatible.
And I'm thinking that it's probably for the best.
But you two love each other very much.
Yeah.
He wants to have sex.
And more than that, he wants kids.
Apart, we can both have children. A hurler isn't a threat if only one parent
carries the gene, so... I think that our breaking up could be a blessing.
He'll remarry.
And he'll raise a family.
That's a blessing, don't you think?
What about you?
It isn't possible for me to remarry, is it?
Would the church allow that?
A lot of women live alone.
It would be good for Joe to have a family.
You know, I really think it's a blessing.
It is.
It really is a blessing.
Okay, what I'm about to say is astounding from a scientific standpoint,
want to specify... Never mind.
Just tell us, how did Bill Pugin die?
It wasn't murder.
It wasn't suicide.
Then what was it?
Spontaneous human combustion.
What? Friction, probably caused by colliding particles in the bloodstream,
touch off a highly localized conflagration, coupled with a buildup of
combustible gases.
Will you speak English?
Sometimes bodies just burst into flames all by themselves.
That's ridiculous.
It's not ridiculous. It's been documented.
And overweight, depressed people, believe it or not, are prime candidates.
A person can just burst into flames.
You've gone insane.
Actually, he hasn't.
It can happen.
What? This is very rare, but there have been cases where bodies reached certain
internal temperatures and they just caught fire.
Now, was he drinking? There was bourbon on the nightstand. Alcohol can sometimes
ignite them from within.
You're putting me on.
The man just exploded?
Yeah, there are about 300 reported cases.
This one actually fits the pattern. It often happens to desperate people.
The body's achieved complete cremation and nothing else even burns.
Although sometimes the limbs remain.
Spontaneous human combustion, that's what's in my report.
Why are you here, Danny?
The direct approach.
I thought that was my role.
You were the evasive one.
Look, don't do this.
Don't come by here and...
And we've made a decision.
Why are you here?
I guess I... I guess I'm hoping you're as miserable as I am
about... Max, could I ask you a question?
What? Do you make room for the possibility that we could fall in love?
You know what the irony is?
If we were together, you might not even need a therapist.
How do you figure?
We have such a bond, Mags.
Your sexual problems go back to trust.
Or lack of it.
With me, maybe I could get you by. Maybe... I know
I shouldn't say this, but... You having a relationship with me would probably be
therapeutic.
Do you really think that? I know, it sounds...
Bad to say, but I do.
I also think I'm... in love with you.
I should probably go.
Please, just think about what I said.
You shouldn't throw...
With our service, I would like to call upon the friends of Bill Puget, who
like to offer a few words on his behalf.
Get up there.
Me?
Somebody's got to say something. You go.
I'm not going.
As there appears to be, and nobody will turn to...
Our next hit.
Number... Father.
I hope you're happy.
You've got it going on. Shh.
I've known Bill Pugin for 18 years.
I never liked him.
When he burst into flames, part of me wanted to bring marshmallows.
My problem was with him as a mayor, really. I disliked his politics, but I
respected Bill Pugin. He cared for the people in this town. He relied on me to
save him.
I defended his case in a way to maximize my profile as a lawyer.
I lost.
He got depressed.
Maybe that's partly the reason he exploded.
Trust can be a very vicious thing.
A person puts himself into your hands and trusts you.
You have the power to hurt or to ruin a life, maybe.
Fiduciaries have a duty not to abuse your influence.
It is not an easy thing.
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.
This is what happens when you misplace your trust.
A little poem.
I had lived it.
I'm very good at my feet.
We're not here on this earth long, people.
We must learn to love better, to take care of each other better, and forget
about laws and rules and even sometimes religious convictions.
We have to be more human with one another.
Bill Pugin was a very good man.
Good man.
A loving father and husband.
In the end, that's all that matters.
That's all that matters.
Here we are again.
Are we really going to do this?
I don't know.
I guess there's time to call it off still.
You want to call it off, Max?
This is like a game.
So prohibitive, it seems.
Maybe it's like you said. It's just this primal thing we have to get out of our
systems.
You think?
Okay. That should be enough.
Kenny! Hands behind your back, please.
Put the video on the camera and the evidence back. The whole thing. What the
hell? Hands behind your back.
Max! You have the right to remain silent, Danny. You have the right to an
attorney. I know my rights. What the hell are you doing? I almost bought into
it, but when you said us having an affair would be therapeutic, you blew
Danny. What the hell are you doing? Let's go.
You were playing doctor while exploiting me. Hold it. Section 940 .22, a person
holding himself out as a therapist, intentionally having sexual contact with
patient, that's a Class D felony. Don't you see what you're doing, Max?
Maxine, this is about you trying to get control again. You're afraid.
Afraid you could have loved me. Get him out of here.
Afraid of intimacy, Max? Don't do this. You weren't quite smooth enough, Danny.
Smooth? Come on.
Maxine, this isn't over. You need help.
She's sick. This isn't over. This is far from over. You broke the law.
You broke the law.
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