All language subtitles for L.A. Law S06E04 Spleen It to Me, Lucy

Previously on L .A. Law. You have no
respect for my client, Your Honor. You

disapprove of sex, and you disapprove of
him because he sells it. You're in

contempt, Mr.

Kickridge. I move for a mistrial. So
noted. Now shut up!

We're supposed to concentrate on the
facts here and we can't. All we can hear

you two yelling at each other. Do you
know what you're saying?

We took an oath, Your Honor, to give you
a verdict based only on the evidence

and I am telling you that right now we
can't do it. Those fights were

deliberate. You used us.

I couldn't get the judge to bite.

But you were a dream come true.

You slimy son of a bitch. You had no
case.

My name goes on the door.

We issue a press release and agree to
talk closer ties in six months. A year.

And this will all have to be approved by
the partners. Small strokes, baby. We

got a done deal.

Frank Kittredge, my new associate. I
promise the hired gun I deliver.

The eminent Leland McKenzie. Pleased to
meet you.

Oh, damn!

This is Gwen Taylor.

We've met.

I am coming forward as an officer of the
court to prevent what I believe to be a

gross violation of the judicial process.

Jonathan Rollins is an innocent man.

Nobody's ever gone out on a limb for me
as much as you did today. It's him.

He makes me do crazy things.

That's why I had to leave him.

Where is your sense of adventure? Tommy,
please come out here.

I'm so sorry, Tommy.

We were going to tell you.

It's my fault.

Excuse me, guys.

In professional wrestling, there is no
one bigger than Beef Barstow.

He's a star of the first magnitude, and
he is an inspiration to millions of

kids. So it is with great pleasure that
I announce my representation of him and

the formation of his new company, All
Beef Productions.

Which, by the way, is already
negotiating for major film and

projects. Oh, give him a break, fellas.
What did I tell you?

Is it true that your ex -wife is going
to sue for back alimony? Darla's still

love with me. So how come she's taking
you to court? I don't think we're here

talk about that. Is it true Darla turned
you into the IRS?

Back off, man. Let's give someone else a
chance. Come on, stop hiding behind

your lawyer. Your fans have a right to
know. I asked you to wait your turn. To

get fifth your wife and Uncle Sam. I
said back off, man.

That's my business. No sense of decorum.
Yesterday, she came bursting right into

a... Out of my business!

What in the world?

It's my personal business.

I told you, you peddle -neck geek.

Come on.

Oh, in Ray yesterday's press conference,
Susan Bloom is replacing the door, and

she managed to persuade young Geraldo
not to file suit.

How'd she do that?

That's two out of three balls. Now,
that's not funny. We can't have the firm

disrupted like that, Douglas. And I
really hate to bring this up, but can we

something about her smoking in the
hallway? And what about monopolizing the

direct? She was crying about coffee
beans ten times a day.

Hey, come on, she's not that bad. We did
make the six o 'clock news last night.

Well, that kind of publicity is worse
than none at all.

Bloom was your idea, Douglas. Speak to
her. Right.

Scarrett versus Miles.

Trial starts today. We represent Mrs.
Scarrett. Dr.

Miles removed her spleen, then made
money from it without informing her of

real value. Excuse me, what value? Her
spleen cells were unique.

Miles cloned them into a drug he's now
marketing for big bucks. So, he's the

inventor. He has every right to profit.
From her spleen? Well, if she couldn't

sell it, that would be against the law.

You have no case for property rights.
We're going for failure to disclose. The

doctor gave her some information, but
not enough. This is one determined

Good for her.

We're adjourned.

Tom, I'd like to talk to you about this.
There's nothing to talk about.

Thank you.

Your Honor, David Lee murdered a mother
and her two children in cold blood.

Habeas corpus has been denied by the
Supreme Court. The governor won't step

to... He's insane, Miss Clemens. You
can't execute an insane man. He has been

medication for two years. He is lucid
and he meets the standards. He is being

forcibly medicated, Your Honor, against
his will. Let's stick to the facts.

Mr. Lee's execution is set for Saturday.

You are petitioning to stay it and to
stop him being medicated with

My client has been on death row for
eight years, Your Honor.

His schizophrenia was borderline when he
went in.

But now, his mental condition has
completely deteriorated. Three separate

hearings have found him legally sane.
Almost ten years ago.

The man is no longer competent to be
executed. You know your client doesn't

to be perfectly rational, Mr. Merrill.

He has to be aware of his execution and
the reason for it. He is, Your Honor,

when he's medicated. Then it is not in
his best interest to medicate him since

it leads directly to his death. Your
Honor, this is maneuvering. He's simply

trying to prevent David Lee's execution.

You're damn right I am. Mr. Merrill has
made his reputation on death row. He

comes in at the 11th hour so that he can
argue against the death penalty itself.

Your Honor.

If you don't stay David Lee's execution,
you'll be killing a man that does not

know the gas chamber from a city bus.
This sentence is the will of the people,

Your Honor.

And this case is not a referendum on
capital punishment.

Well, I'm not deciding this on the
papers alone.

I'll hear evidence tomorrow at 10 o
'clock.

Last week, she commandeered five
secretaries to get a contract out. She

in enough Chinese food to feed 60 people
and then left the trash all over the

file room. Benny was almost in tears.

She tips the building crew, Douglas,
which makes everybody else look cheap.

And then her cappuccino maker leaked all
over the bullpen.

Douglas,

somebody has got to do something.

You're absolutely right.

And you're going to. Me?

You are the office manager. This is an
office problem.

I don't manage the lawyers. You are the
managing partner.

Exactly. Since we'd like to maintain
friendly relations with Bloom, I should

the good cop, which makes you the bad
cop.

I don't make a good bad cop.

Because you're a woman?

I hope that's not what I'm hearing,
Roxanne.

Stand your ground. Don't let her
bulldoze you. If you can handle Arnold

you can handle Susan Bloom.

Just lay down the law.

Mrs. Garrett, what happened to your
spleen? It was stolen by that doctor

right there. Why don't you start at the
beginning?

About six years ago, our family doctor
told me that I had something called

cell leukemia, that it was very rare,
and that I should see Dr. Miles, a

specialist here in Los Angeles.

And he said that if I didn't have my
spleen removed, it would keep

these malignant blood cells.

I would die. Did you see Dr. Miles after
the surgery?

Almost every month for the next six
years. He had me drive in from Riverside

blood tests and urine tests and bone
marrow tests. Couldn't your family

have taken those samples?

Well, that's what I asked, but Dr.

Miles insisted that he do the tests.

He said they were to make sure that the
cancer didn't come back.

And when did you stop going to Dr.
Miles?

Well, after I found out from a news
story that he had cloned.

the cells of my spleen.

It turns out that there's something
about them that fights cancer.

And what else did you find out?

That he had sold the cell line that he
had developed to a pharmaceutical

for millions of dollars, and that
company stands to make maybe hundreds of

millions of dollars off of it. And he
even had the nerve to call it the Miles

cell line.

Did Dr. Miles at any time offer you
anything out of these proceeds?

Not a cent.

In fact, he wouldn't even take my phone
calls.

Thank you, Mrs. Skerritt. Nothing
further.

According to your medical records, Mrs.
Skerritt, before the surgery, you had

anemia, intense abdominal pain, and a
spleen swollen to 13 times its normal

size. You'd been given 10 months to live
if it weren't removed.

Is that correct?

Yes. And what is your condition
following the splenectomy?

I feel better. Better. In fact, it was a
complete success, wasn't it?

Your leukemia's in remission.

Dr. Miles saved your life.

I never said Dr. Miles didn't help me.
And the post -operative tests were all

paid for by your insurance company.

Yes. And Dr.

Miles did tell you that your diseased
spleen might be used for research

before he removed it, didn't he, Mrs.
Garrett?

Yes, but he didn't... He asked you to
sign a form consenting to this research

purpose, and you signed it, didn't you?
Yes, but he didn't say that he was going

to make money off of my spleen. Well,
I'm confused, Mrs. Garrett.

The DMV says that you have an organ
donor card on the back of your driver's

license. Is that right? Yes. A card that
specifies that you're willing to donate

any needed tissues or organs, such as a
spleen, to whomever might need them in

the event of your death. Isn't that so?
It's not the same thing.

No. Well, what's the difference between
giving, say, a kidney that might save a

single life?

And some cells from a diseased spleen
that might save thousands of lives.

Objection. Withdrawn.

Nothing further.

Except you.

You and Tommy love each other.

He'll be okay.

Just need some time.

I'm not great at waiting.

I've noticed.

Bethany, just tell me.

The supervising deputy called me today.

to congratulate me for making the death
squad.

They really call it that?

Kept saying how good it was for my
career.

If I'm the one who finally gets David
Lee into the gas chamber, there's no

telling how far I can go.

What'd you say?

Dr. Zeller, in your expert opinion, is
David Lee psychotic? Yes. He exhibits

symptoms of severe schizoaffective
disorder, including auditory

delusional thinking, and sudden rage
episodes.

So why isn't he exhibiting them now?
He's had his daily injection of

haloperidol, a psychotropic drug. It has
a powerful effect on the central

nervous system.

Doctor! Are there reasonable ways to
control David Lee's schizophrenia other

than forcibly medicating him with
haloperidol? Yes. There's confinement.

There's psychotherapy.

There are physical restraints.

Mind -altering drugs are not the only
alternative.

Mind -altering? What do you mean?

Haloperidol flattens the affect and
makes behavior more passive. The

disappear, but so can most of the
patient's personality.

So the David Lee we see on medication
isn't anything like the real David Lee?

No. Effectively, they're two different
people.

Dr. Haloperidol is the only way to make
David Lee understand that he's about to

be executed.

Should he be treated with Haloperidol?
Well, the Hippocratic Oath says, first,

do no harm.

The ethics code of the AMA specifically
prohibits a doctor from doing anything

to facilitate a patient's death.

So if medicating David Lee makes it
legal for the state to kill him, no

doctor should do it.

Thank you, Doctor.

You aren't Mr. Lee's psychiatrist, are
you, Doctor?

No, but I did an extensive evaluation...
So you've read his file. You know that

he hasn't always been on haloperidol.
And you also must have read why a

Court judge decided two years ago that
Mr. Lee should be forcibly medicated.

Why, Doctor?

He had been beating his head against his
cell wall and screaming about voices.

For how long?

Several days.

He also attacked a guard and tried to
mutilate himself. So we can assume that

David Lee was in physical as well as
psychological pain then.

Yes. And the haloperidol stopped it. It
also stopped the voices that told Mr.

Lee to kill people, didn't it?

Yes. But you don't think David Lee is
better off being given haloperidol? How

can he be better off?

It makes it possible for you to execute
him. And you don't believe that anyone

should be executed, do you, Doctor? No
matter how horrible the crime, the death

penalty is morally wrong. Objection. Dr.
Zeller's personal beliefs are

completely irrelevant.

She's clearly an advocate, Your Honor,
with the same views as Mr.

Merrill. Overruled. I'll allow it. Do
you believe in capital punishment,

No. I have nothing further.

I want to talk to you.

I thought the McDermott declarations
were being messenged over yesterday

so I could have them on my desk first
thing today.

They're not ready. Why aren't they
ready?

I don't know. I just took the message.
Why didn't you give it to me?

Because you've gone home and I was going
to tell you when you came in today.

I can call the messenger service. That's
useless.

I'll track down the declarations, but
you're going over there to pick them up

yourself. Look, just because you have a
problem does not give you the right to

take it out on the people that work for
you. We all feel bad enough when we

screw up without some petty martinet
beating us up for it.

Benny, let's call the investigator's
office and see if we can put a rush on

those declarations, okay?

Sure. That's all it would have taken.
Next time, don't shoot the messenger.

Dr. Miles, what was so special about
Mrs.

Garrett's spleen? It contained a high
number of T -lymphocyte cells. Her T

-lymphocyte cells overproduced a protein
that helps create white blood cells.

Once you discovered these cells, what
did you do? After five years using

recombinant DNA, I succeeded in cloning
them. So Mrs. Garrett's cells were

simply raw materials for the cell line.
Exactly. I discovered the cells.

But I invented the cell line.

And what are the practical applications
for mild cell line products?

Cancer patients will be able to
manufacture enough white blood cells to

the side effects of chemotherapy.

Indeed, enough to attack even the cancer
itself.

Did your research interest in any way
affect your medical judgment in Mrs.

Garrett's case? Absolutely not. I'm a
doctor.

Yes, biotech paid me a lot of money for
my invention, but I'm not in this for

the money. And I have never let my
interest as a researcher compromise my

responsibilities as a physician.

Thank you, Dr. Miles.

Dr. Miles, when exactly did you realize
Mrs. Skerritt's cells were unique?

Shortly after the surgery, when I'd
analyzed the results of the tissue tests

her spleen. And Mrs. Skerritt was
already undergoing post -operative tests

this time?

Blood samples, blood serum, bone marrow
aspirin? That's right.

It's all routine cancer follow -up. Most
of those tests were conducted at your

office in L .A., but...

A few samples were drawn by her family
doctor and shipped to you for analysis,

weren't they? Yes, I believe my schedule
was rather full, so I had Dr. Leonard

take some samples. But three months
after the surgery, you suddenly insisted

that all tests be done at your office on
a monthly basis.

Optimally, I like to see the patient
myself.

It couldn't be, could it, doctor, that
you were afraid of losing control over

her? Of losing your exclusive access to
her for your research?

That's ridiculous.

You say these were all normal post
-operative tests.

But her records show on several
occasions you took skin samples and high

of blood. Since when do you need skin
samples and whole units of blood to

monitor for internal cancers?

Obviously you don't.

I needed those samples for my T -cell
research.

But by that time, Mrs. Garrett was fully
recuperated and such tests posed no

risk at all to her health.

I see. So, after she was fully
recovered...

You continued to subject Mrs. Scarrett
to tests that you needed for your

research under the pretext of monitoring
her health. I informed her of all risks

and benefits.

How much did you license your invention
for, Doctor?

70 ,000 shares of biotech stock.

And how much is that worth?

I don't know. As of yesterday's close of
trading, $5 .1 million.

$5 million.

I'm surprised you waited till she was
under anesthesia to rip out her spleen.

Objection. That's enough. I'm done here,
Your Honor.

You know what I'm saying, Jerry?

Beef does not want to be another
Stallone.

Rambo's a cardboard character.

So this is Predator with a sensitive
sign?

Is he the lead?

Great. Send it over.

Fox is on two, and they're still holding
your table at Spago. I'm on my way.

Tell Fox I'll call back.

We have an appointment.

Jerry, I'll call you back.

What can I do for you? You have to
notify us when you call a press

You can't smoke in the halls. Don't tip
the building staff. And please remember

that the Xerox machine is for everybody.

Now, I know you're used to working
alone, but... Fair enough?

Honey, my life moves 100 miles an hour.

Now, that sometimes makes me
inconsiderate, but I'm not a monster.

Now, if I've been offensive, I'm sorry.

I appreciate you pointing it out.

You do? Yeah, I like your style, too.

You direct without being obnoxious?

I hear you came up through the ranks.

I used to work for Arnie Becker. What
kind of deal do you have now? Bump?

Cringes? Points? What are they putting
up to retain your talent?

I never thought of it as talent.

Oh, well, honey, you should.

A good office manager is scarcer than
hen's teeth.

Look, I'm late for lunch, but you and I
have to have a heart -to -heart soon.

It's been a pleasure.

Yeah. Help yourself to cappuccino.

You're very good at this.

It's hard to believe it's your first
time.

If you think that gives you an
advantage, fine.

Go ahead.

No.

Look, I've been watching you try and
turn off your compassion.

This is very hard for you, isn't it?

Arguing to murder a human wreck like
David Lee.

Is it kinder to take him off the
medication?

So that he can spend the next 50 years
of his life in a straitjacket beating

head against a wall?

You've never even met him, have you?

Let me introduce you to the man you're
trying to kill.

What is this supposed to prove?

Nothing.

I just want you to really look at him.

Miss Clemens, this is David Lee.

A responsible adult person remembers to
set her alarm.

I can't believe I forgot that. I wanted
to get there early.

Now the freeway is jammed, I'll barely
make it on time, and Meryl will be

standing there, calm and collected,
ready to shred me.

Shred you?

Not a chance.

You don't know him. He'll use anything.

You're taking this personally.

He's doing his job.

Same way I would do my job. Well, this
is my job. Maybe I don't like this part

of it. Maybe I don't want to be doing
it, but the state of California says

I have to. Then why don't you stop
blaming yourself?

I'm not blaming myself. I'm trying to
separate my emotions from what it is

I'm being asked to do. Well, maybe you
can't.

God, that's easy for you to say. You are
in private practice. You are in your

own separate little world, and if you
don't like a case, you don't have to

it. Well, I don't have that luxury,
Tommy, Jonathan.

I'm sorry.

It's no big deal.

I didn't mean... Hey, hey, hey.

It's no big deal.

I had to go.

Yeah.

See you tonight.

Leukemia, diabetes, osteoporosis,
hepatitis.

Emphysema. These are just a few of the
terrible diseases that we now have

treatments or tests for.

But these advancements are all dependent
on the research of human cells, just

like the ones found in Mrs. Garrett's
spleen. Ladies and gentlemen, you can

for Dr.

Miles and let him get back to what he
does best, curing disease.

Or you can find that Mrs. Skerritt is
entitled to profit from a spleen that

happily discarded five years ago.

That'll be nice for Mrs. Skerritt, but
devastating for medical research.

Remember Jonas Salk?

He invented a polio vaccine.

Thank God he didn't have Mrs. Skerritt
as a patient.

You come to your doctor to get well, not
to get rich.

Lucille Skerritt got everything she
bargained for. She got her life.

Don't believe that medical research will
come to a grinding halt if you find for

Mrs. Skerritt.

Ethical researchers won't be hurt, only
ones like Dr.

Miles. He may well have begun his
treatment of Lucille Skerritt with care

concern, but somewhere along the way he
began caring more for what she could

give to him than what he could give to
her.

He performed tests unnecessary to her
physical well -being, but very necessary

to his financial well -being.

And he never told her the real reason,
the $5 million reason why he was doing

them.

The tests may have been minor, but they
were not without risk and were an

assault on her right to privacy and on
her dignity.

Dr. Miles betrayed his patient's trust.

And that's why my client seeks
compensation, ladies and gentlemen, to

doctors like him know they have to
deserve our trust.

I have something to say to you.

I didn't appreciate being lectured in
front of Benny.

He didn't appreciate the way you were
treating him. We're talking about what

did. It was inappropriate.

You know what's inappropriate?

It's the little glass system you've got
in your head.

To you, the hired help aren't people, so
it's okay to bully them. No one counts

to you unless they're making over $100
,000 a year.

I don't understand the hostility that
comes out whenever you're around me.

Is it hormonal?

Hormonal? As in attraction you don't
know what to do with.

Hugh, egotistical, arrogant.

You can't understand what I'm saying, so
you boil it down to sex.

Well, let me go on the record right now.

Even the idea of sleeping with Hugh is
so repulsive, so totally nauseating,

I would rather be celibate for the rest
of my life.

Funny.

I don't recall asking.

David Lee has been your patient for how
long, Dr. Hayward? Eight years, ever

since he's been on death row. And what
was your psychiatric evaluation of him

when he first came there?

His delusions were intermittent, but he
had uncontrollable rages. He said he

heard the voices of demons.

These episodes became more frequent. He
stabbed himself twice and attacked a

guard. That was when you decided to
medicate him with haloperidol? Yes.

Mr. Lee has been taking haloperidol now
for two years. Has he changed?

He's much calmer.

The rage episodes have stopped.

So you believe David Lee is better off
being medicated?

I've been a prison psychiatrist for 25
years.

I have seen very few men as tortured as
David Lee was.

To be released from that, my God, he has
to be better off. Thank you, Doctor.

Dr. Hayward, how much time have you
actually spent in psychotherapy with Mr.

Lee? I...

See Mr. Lee six times a year. Six times
a year for a maximum of 15 minutes per

visit, primarily to monitor Mr. Lee's
medication.

The only sessions longer than that were
the two times you videotaped him. You

weren't interested in treating Mr. Lee,
Doctor. You simply wanted to control

him. You know how many inmates I have to
take care of.

Over a thousand. Do you know how many of
them come to me psychotic or brain

damaged or on drugs? We are talking
about one inmate, David Lee. I'm only a

doctor. I can't work miracles. So you
let Haloperidol do it for you, even

it caused Mr. Lee to have severe
involuntary spasms of his eyes, his

his throat. Those are normal side
effects and controlled with the same

Parkinson's. Ah, more drugs.

So each time you had a problem with Mr.
Lee... You shot him up with another

drug. Objection.

Argumentative. Sustained.

Doctor, did you consult with anyone
before you decided to medicate Mr. Lee?

I consulted with the executive medical
officer and I also discussed the case

with Warden Danforth. In other words,
you got permission from your bosses who

run a state prison, the same state that
employs you, the same state that wants

to execute David Lee.

Yes.

I have no more questions.

Mr. Foreman, has the jury reached its
verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

What say you? In the matter of Skerritt
v. Miles on the claim of breach of

fiduciary duty, we find for the
plaintiff and order the defendant to pay

compensatory damages in the amount of
$650 ,000.

Thank you.

We're adjourned.

That's ridiculous.

I want to appeal. Could we have a word
in private?

About what?

You won. Mrs. Garrett has a proposal
she'd like you to consider.

Notwithstanding the jury's verdict, my
client is prepared to reduce her award

exchange for other consideration.

Like what?

Renaming the cell line.

We'd call it the Garrett -Miles cell
line. Absolutely not. And you're willing

reduce the award by how much? $100 ,000.

Why? I work in the post office, Dr.
Miles.

I weigh packages and I stuff post office
boxes.

I know I didn't create the cell line,
but there's still a part of me in it,

every time somebody uses that medicine,
I'm there in a way, helping them to get

better. I just want them to know my
name.

All right.

The Miles -Scarrett cell line.

Draw up the papers.

Thank you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know we said the
office. But maybe we start the shot

you know?

Tracking through reception.

Come by here toward the elevator.

What's going on here? Who are you?

Rick Nash, Upside Films.

We're doing the location shoot for Boku
Jeans. This is Bloom and Associates,

isn't it? No.

This is McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney, and
Becker. Out.

Susan Bloom rent an office here.

Yeah, Susan Bloom.

She rented us this location until 6 a
.m.

We paid 8 ,000 bucks.

She signed off two weeks ago.

Get me Susan Bloom.

She's on a plane to Vancouver. She won't
be back till tomorrow.

Great. But our managing partner isn't
here right now either, and you'd have to

have his permission in order to do this.

Now, I'm sure Ms. Bloom would be more
than happy to refund your money. Oh,

We're talking a lot more than that.

These guys are all on the clock.

You want to pull the plug?

It's about $30 ,000 down the drain.

If you're talking about suing, we have
the best litigators in town.

Hey, isn't there some way we can work
something out?

If we damage or break something, we pay
for it.

All right.

But just to make sure, I want our
security people here the whole time.

Bill to you.

Agreed. Okay. No food, no drinks, no
tracking through reception.

Your contract is for Susan Bloom's
office. That's where you stay.

If any lawyers complain, we refer them
directly to you.

And if I even smell you here after 6 .01
tomorrow morning, we charge for another

day. Okay. We're all in agreement? Good.
Everyone to work, please. Not so fast.

It's 4 .57 p .m.

Your contract says you start at 6 p .m.

For the next 63 minutes...

Nobody moves.

Anyone else, Miss Clemens? No, Your
Honor.

Your Honor, I'd like to call one more
witness.

I thought you were done, Mr. Merrill. I
want the testimony of David Lee.

The people have no objection?

I want him taken off haloperidol first.
What?

Your Honor, he can't take him off
medication to determine if he should be

off medication.

Mr. Lee's testimony would be wholly
inappropriate.

David Lee is going to die on Saturday.

When he isn't forced to take drugs, he
can't understand that. He is

Then it violates the evidence code. The
testimony of the incompetent is

excluded. It's the only evidence that
counts here, Your Honor. Does the real

David Lee understand what's happening to
him and why? He's going to need time to

get him off the medication. This is a
blatant move to force a stay. How long

you need? His current dosage wears off
in about 24 hours. You know what will

happen then, Judge. Mr.

Merrill will manufacture yet another
delay. That's enough, Ms. Clemens. We're

talking about a man's life here.

We'll hear from Mr. Lee tomorrow
afternoon.

Court is adjourned.

Benny, we're almost out of message pads.
Do you think you could put that on the

list of supplies?

I want to talk to you. Honey, it's hard
to talk when you're having your pores

vacuumed. I don't care. I'm not leaving.

Why don't you go get a cup of herbal
tea?

You didn't hear a word I said the other
day.

You know, you and I need to have a talk
about your deal.

But we're having this one first.

You wanted to know when you were being
offensive.

Well, renting this firm out as a movie
set is offensive. I said they could

in my office.

You know, you give these producers an
inch, they take a mile. That's not the

point. You rented out our place of
business like it was a cheap motel room.

It was a favor for a friend. We set it
up days ago, and quite frankly, I

But I was going to give you a
percentage.

Is that what everything is to you, a
percentage?

Mackenzie Brackman has principles. We
stand for something.

We don't ambush each other, and we don't
sell ourselves out to the highest

bidder. Honey, we're talking about
lawyers here.

I didn't say we were perfect.

But we try to have respect.

Let me tell you about respect, baby.

I've had a sweat for it all my life.

My family was dirt poor.

I went to a piss -ant college in West
Virginia.

And about a hundred pounds ago, I worked
my way through law school as a

stripper. Now, I've taken a lot of crap
to get where I am. And one of the things

that I've learned is that play by the
rules generally means pardon us while we

screw you.

You changed the subject.

We were talking about how you treat the
people you work with.

Boy, you don't give up, do you?

All right. If I have to be a good little
girl, I can handle it. I hope so.

I can see why they promoted you. You are
one hell of an enforcer.

Hey, Benny.

Benny, you want some coffee?

Uh, no, thanks.

How about a bagel?

No. Benny.

I'm glad I caught you. I gotta go.

Benny?

What a friend we have in Jesus.

All our sins and griefs to bear.

Precious Savior, still our refuge.

So get to the Lord in prayer.

Precious Savior, still our refuge. Can
you tell me your name, sir?

All our sorrows we share.

Do you know you're in a court of law?

Take it.

Do you know what crime you were
convicted of?

Do you know that you are going to die in
the gas chamber on

Saturday?

I am the power and the glory. I am
Satan.

I serve the demons and the demons serve
me.

In the blood. I have no more. Are you
washed in the blood of the lamb?

There's a fountain flowing for the soul
is unclean. Are you washed in the blood

of the lamb?

You liked church, didn't you, David?

You felt safe there.

Do you remember a house across the
street from a church? Objection.

Overrated. Who lived in the house,
David?

The lambs lived there, didn't they?
Across from the church.

They had to.

They had to be close to God. Who were
the lambs? They were Anne and Carrie

Sternhagen. Anne was four years old.
Carrie was six.

They were asleep in a bedroom full of
dolls and stuffed animals when you broke

in and you strangled them. You took a
piece of wire, David, and you put it

around their necks and you pulled it
tight.

I am the power. I am the power!

You work for the demons, but you can't
touch me.

And then you killed their mother.

You killed their mother and you remember
what you did to her too, don't you? I

am Satan. You beat her. Demons obey me.
You raped her and then what?

What did you do, David? What did the
demons tell you to do?

I did what they said.

I cut her throat so she could be with
her babies.

They were the lambs at the foot of God.

And what did God say, David? What
happens to people who kill?

Objection! Overruled.

Thou shalt not kill David.

What's going to happen to you?

You know the demons, don't you? What's
going to happen?

You're going to kill me.

An eye for an eye.

I killed them. Now I have to die, but I
won't be there.

Before the president drops in, the
demons are taking me to heaven. If you

anyone, I have to kill you too.

Bailiff? No!

You can't touch me!

I am the power. Jesus knows.

Jesus told the demons I am the power.

Jesus knows. Jesus told the demons I am
the power.

I did what they said.

You got a minute?

Um, I'm pretty swamped here, Jonathan.

This won't take long.

I'm not going to apologize for being
with Zoe. I'll expect you to.

It's still new for us, Tom.

That's why we hadn't told anybody, but
you would have been... Look, A, um... I

read some signals wrong, and I ended up
where I didn't belong.

It's my mistake, not yours.

You're my friend.

I respect your work, and I don't want
this to affect the way we deal with each

other. Oh, it has to.

I'm... That's not saying that we'll
never get past it.

Zoe says you haven't returned her calls.
Well, yeah.

Then there used to be a phone in here
somewhere.

When you can, Tom.

She'd like to hear from you.

Sure.

When I can.

So, Benny, Frank Kittredge is looking
for you.

Benny.

What's the matter with you?

I've been trying to talk to you all day.

You didn't really shoot a messenger, did
you?

No, that was a figure of speech. I've
never shot a messenger.

A few witnesses, one judge, but never a
messenger.

That was a joke, right?

Right.

Did you get your papers?

Yes, I did. Thank you.

And I want to apologize for the way I
spoke to you.

I have a case going badly, and I was
taking it out on you. I'm sorry.

That's okay.

Good.

I find this case very troubling.

There are moral questions here that are
far beyond the scope of this proceeding.

But I can only rule on the two petitions
before me. The matter of removing Mr.

Lee's medication.

I find that he is a danger to himself
and to others, and that it's in his best

medical interest to be medicated with
haloperidol.

The fact of his impending execution has
no bearing on that.

I have listened to Mr. Lee's unmedicated
testimony, and he has, in my opinion,

shown that he understands his crime and
his punishment.

That's all the law demands.

I find, therefore, that David Mason Lee
has been proven legally competent to be

put... This is wrong, Judge.

Please don't do it. I have no choice,
Mr. Merrill.

Motion for a stay of execution is
denied.

David, if you tell us you want to take
haloperidol, we can stop the shots and

give you pills.

The shots hurt.

I get bruises all over.

They don't have to hold me down.

I don't want to hurt them.

But the medicine makes you feel better.

Come in.

Hi. Hi.

Um, I came to give you these.

I should have done it a long time ago. I
don't know why I held on to them so

long.

Tommy? I apologize for not returning
your calls.

That was rude.

Can we talk about it? No.

Jonathan's great.

I wish you the best.

That's all there is to say.

I love you. You know that.

What makes you feel better?

I can sleep.

I don't hear the voices.

I feel pretty clear now.

I don't want to do things to myself.

You're making good progress, David. We'd
like to keep you on the medication.

Yeah, it's good for me.

I wish I had it before.

Maybe things would have been different,
you know?

Maybe I wouldn't be here.