1 00:00:04,940 --> 00:00:07,200 Yeah. You wanted to see me? Yeah, I did. 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,700 I've just seen an internal memo that you've got criminal investigators 3 00:00:12,700 --> 00:00:14,220 to tail Arnold Becker. 4 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:16,520 Mm -hmm. It's in connection with a criminal investigation. 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:19,940 Are you aware that he's a former law partner of mine? 6 00:00:20,180 --> 00:00:24,660 Yeah. So were you planning on saying something to me at some point? No, I 7 00:00:24,660 --> 00:00:28,880 wasn't. Was I obliged to? I think you were. I think common courtesy would have 8 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,400 suggested that a word to a colleague would have been in order. When I conduct 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:33,400 investigations, 10 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:38,100 There are a few things more important to me than being courteous. I want to know 11 00:00:38,100 --> 00:00:40,480 what this is about, Belinda. It's about the Lambert case. 12 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,580 That one I believe you're familiar with. There's no basis for a criminal 13 00:00:43,580 --> 00:00:45,220 investigation in the Lambert case. 14 00:00:45,420 --> 00:00:48,520 I think there is. I think what Becker did was obstruction of justice. 15 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:52,020 Assume that's true. What he did is done. There's no ongoing crime being 16 00:00:52,020 --> 00:00:54,680 committed. There's no reason for having Becker under surveillance. 17 00:00:55,060 --> 00:00:59,140 Given that the case is on my desk, Tommy, I think that's a determination to 18 00:00:59,140 --> 00:01:00,140 made by me. 19 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:01,840 All right. 20 00:01:07,990 --> 00:01:14,670 Look, Belinda, I know that you and Arnold Becker were briefly involved with 21 00:01:14,670 --> 00:01:18,810 other. Assuming there is a case to be made here, it is not appropriate that it 22 00:01:18,810 --> 00:01:20,450 be on your desk. It's not appropriate? 23 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:25,740 You've been sleeping with a sitting judge for the past six months, and 24 00:01:25,740 --> 00:01:27,600 going to tell me what is and isn't appropriate? 25 00:01:27,980 --> 00:01:30,600 I don't conduct official business in that judge's courtroom. 26 00:01:30,820 --> 00:01:33,740 As far as I'm concerned, your dalliance with Carolyn Walker completely 27 00:01:33,740 --> 00:01:37,200 compromises the effectiveness of every prosecutor in this office. 28 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,440 First of all, it's not a dalliance. Second of all, I have yet to hear Judge 29 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,880 Walker accused of using the power of her office for some vindictive private 30 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:47,480 purpose of her own. Is that what you're suggesting I'm doing? 31 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:48,720 That's right. 32 00:01:51,390 --> 00:01:53,010 Well, Tommy, I'll tell you what. 33 00:01:53,510 --> 00:01:58,130 If you're so sure that neither Becker nor anyone in his office is guilty of 34 00:01:58,130 --> 00:02:02,250 obstruction of justice, I suggest you make that opinion known. If you think 35 00:02:02,250 --> 00:02:05,350 acting solely out of spite, I think you should bring me up on charges. 36 00:02:05,670 --> 00:02:09,590 And let me also say, should your former law partner become cognizant of the fact 37 00:02:09,590 --> 00:02:13,790 that he's under investigation, I will assume presumptively that he found out 38 00:02:13,790 --> 00:02:14,790 about it from you. 39 00:02:14,810 --> 00:02:17,470 Are you making threats, Belinda? I'm making assurances. 40 00:02:17,850 --> 00:02:20,330 You tell Arnold Becker that he's being investigated, 41 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:22,480 And I'll see to it that you're fired. 42 00:04:07,019 --> 00:04:09,920 Why don't we just give him another minute? I think not. Let's get started. 43 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,880 versus Wayside Hospital. Uh -huh, uh -huh, Douglas. There he is. Oh, here he 44 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:13,880 comes. Sorry. 45 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:16,660 Sorry. Uh -huh. The buses were running late. 46 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:18,459 You actually take a bus? 47 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,800 Yes. Unbelievable, isn't it? It's really not that unbelievable. 48 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,900 Are you doing it for some kind of ecological reason, Eli? I'm doing it 49 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:26,940 don't have a driver's license. 50 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:31,100 Denise is giving me lessons, however. I'm inching up on being ready to take 51 00:04:31,100 --> 00:04:34,420 road test. And I'm about to buy a car. You're going to buy a car before you get 52 00:04:34,420 --> 00:04:35,049 your license? 53 00:04:35,050 --> 00:04:37,850 My two old partners just settled a case of mine. They sent me a very large 54 00:04:37,850 --> 00:04:41,670 check. I thought I'd do something extravagant. What are you getting? I 55 00:04:41,670 --> 00:04:45,830 idea. Denise has set me up with a car broker who presumably will get me 56 00:04:45,830 --> 00:04:47,330 this as painlessly as possible. 57 00:04:47,670 --> 00:04:51,330 Ultimately, when buying a car, keep one question uppermost in mind. 58 00:04:51,690 --> 00:04:56,030 How am I going to feel when I'm standing in front of a restaurant and the valet 59 00:04:56,030 --> 00:04:57,410 brings me my car? 60 00:04:57,710 --> 00:04:58,710 Thank you, Arnold. 61 00:04:58,750 --> 00:05:00,330 Rulon versus Wayside Hospital. 62 00:05:00,570 --> 00:05:04,630 Yeah, that's mine. A 16 -year -old girl found to be incorrigible by her father. 63 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,040 is being committed to a psychiatric facility by him. She's suing to be 64 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,560 from the facility and we're representing the father and the facility. What did 65 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:13,459 she do? 66 00:05:13,460 --> 00:05:15,160 Drugs, sex, alcohol. 67 00:05:16,020 --> 00:05:18,280 Well, her father feels that she's basically out of control. 68 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:19,920 There but for the grace of God. 69 00:05:20,820 --> 00:05:26,000 Askoff versus Askoff. Yes, we're representing Frank Askoff. His wife is 70 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,840 him for divorce, also looking to disembowel him financially. 71 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:31,740 Her leverage is Camilla Greer. 72 00:05:31,980 --> 00:05:35,930 What? He's in her book? Yes, he is. He also runs a publicly traded corporation. 73 00:05:36,370 --> 00:05:38,570 He wants very much for this not to get out. 74 00:05:38,790 --> 00:05:40,010 Who's Camilla Greer? 75 00:05:41,150 --> 00:05:42,150 She's a madam. 76 00:05:42,210 --> 00:05:43,730 A rather well -placed madam. 77 00:05:44,030 --> 00:05:48,050 I suspect there are a number of people in that book who very much don't want it 78 00:05:48,050 --> 00:05:48,669 to get out. 79 00:05:48,670 --> 00:05:51,150 Well, you frequent prostitutes. You run that risk. 80 00:05:51,590 --> 00:05:53,130 Yeah, I have never been with a prostitute. 81 00:05:53,370 --> 00:05:54,370 Oh, gee. 82 00:05:55,090 --> 00:05:56,970 Eli, this is Lenny Pollack. 83 00:05:57,310 --> 00:05:58,149 How do you do? 84 00:05:58,150 --> 00:06:01,010 Hi, I've told you the manatee about cars. I am that man. 85 00:06:01,370 --> 00:06:03,970 Yeah, he told me he never owned a car before and that you only have a 86 00:06:03,970 --> 00:06:07,630 permit. Oh, you know, if you have any problems with that road test, let me 87 00:06:07,710 --> 00:06:11,670 Why? Well, let's just say I have relationships at the Department of Motor 88 00:06:11,670 --> 00:06:13,150 Vehicles. You're kidding. 89 00:06:13,430 --> 00:06:15,690 Look, you buy a car from me, I take care of you. That means plates, 90 00:06:15,770 --> 00:06:16,770 registration, insurance. 91 00:06:16,990 --> 00:06:19,630 Turn on the phone, soup the nuts. Plus, you can find him any car that he wants, 92 00:06:19,730 --> 00:06:20,950 right? Tell me what you want. 93 00:06:21,430 --> 00:06:23,050 If it's been made, I'll get it. 94 00:06:23,310 --> 00:06:24,310 Wow. 95 00:06:24,570 --> 00:06:25,770 So, uh, what are you looking to spend? 96 00:06:26,510 --> 00:06:28,170 I'm looking to spend some money, actually. 97 00:06:28,490 --> 00:06:29,490 You're single? 98 00:06:29,510 --> 00:06:34,530 Yeah. There's a white Carrera in Pasadena that I think we could do very 99 00:06:34,530 --> 00:06:35,530 You can have it this afternoon. 100 00:06:35,750 --> 00:06:37,670 A white Carrera. 101 00:06:39,030 --> 00:06:40,650 What is that? It's a Porsche. 102 00:06:41,270 --> 00:06:42,690 How about a Mercedes -Benz? 103 00:06:43,170 --> 00:06:46,010 Somehow I've always associated one of those with living in Los Angeles. 104 00:06:46,370 --> 00:06:47,370 You want an SL500? 105 00:06:47,450 --> 00:06:48,389 What is that? 106 00:06:48,390 --> 00:06:50,250 Two -speeder convertible. That I can get you by tomorrow. 107 00:06:50,510 --> 00:06:51,510 How much? 108 00:06:51,770 --> 00:06:54,790 A little over $100 ,000. It has to be in five figures. 109 00:06:55,230 --> 00:06:56,109 Go with the 320. 110 00:06:56,110 --> 00:06:57,250 Ah, how much is that? 111 00:06:57,610 --> 00:06:59,370 85. That I can live with. 112 00:06:59,990 --> 00:07:02,350 And what color are you interested in? 113 00:07:03,330 --> 00:07:04,330 Black. 114 00:07:04,690 --> 00:07:09,950 Black? You want the car phone, the CD player in the trunk, the basic big shot 115 00:07:09,950 --> 00:07:10,950 package, right? 116 00:07:11,130 --> 00:07:12,130 Why not? 117 00:07:13,050 --> 00:07:14,050 All right. 118 00:07:14,290 --> 00:07:17,090 Well, I'll call Denise with the amount. 119 00:07:17,490 --> 00:07:20,810 You have a cashier's check for me by the end of business today. You'll have a 120 00:07:20,810 --> 00:07:21,810 car by tomorrow. 121 00:07:22,330 --> 00:07:24,130 This, Denise, is the way to buy an automobile. 122 00:07:27,310 --> 00:07:31,770 Linda, I'd like you to describe the events that took place on the 1st of 123 00:07:31,850 --> 00:07:33,010 1994, please. 124 00:07:33,650 --> 00:07:36,270 My father woke me up at 6 o 'clock in the morning. 125 00:07:36,590 --> 00:07:40,650 He was standing next to my bed with a private detective, and he told me that 126 00:07:40,650 --> 00:07:42,790 was taking me down to the center for evaluation. 127 00:07:43,710 --> 00:07:45,090 Did they, in fact, do so? 128 00:07:45,410 --> 00:07:51,310 Yes. They took me by force to Wayside Psychiatric, and I've been there ever 129 00:07:51,310 --> 00:07:52,310 since. 130 00:07:53,619 --> 00:07:55,640 Linda, you ever attempted suicide? 131 00:07:56,420 --> 00:07:59,460 No. You ever deliberately try to hurt yourself in any way? 132 00:07:59,740 --> 00:08:02,280 No. You ever deliberately seek to hurt anyone else? 133 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:06,600 I've stood up for myself in a fight, but I never attacked anybody. 134 00:08:07,020 --> 00:08:07,919 Do you have a boyfriend? 135 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:08,920 Yes, I do. 136 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:10,500 Does your father get along with him? 137 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,720 No, he doesn't get along with him. In your opinion, why is that? 138 00:08:14,030 --> 00:08:16,050 He doesn't get along with him because he's black. 139 00:08:16,270 --> 00:08:19,930 No matter what he says, the truth is that he doesn't like me being with a 140 00:08:19,930 --> 00:08:24,410 guy. And that's why James wasn't welcome in his house. And that's why I'm in a 141 00:08:24,410 --> 00:08:25,410 mental hospital. 142 00:08:25,850 --> 00:08:27,370 Thank you. I have nothing further. 143 00:08:28,930 --> 00:08:32,690 To the question, have you ever deliberately hurt yourself, you answered 144 00:08:32,770 --> 00:08:33,770 Isn't that right? 145 00:08:33,830 --> 00:08:38,809 Right. On February 6th of this year, you were taken to the county USC emergency 146 00:08:38,809 --> 00:08:39,809 room, were you not? 147 00:08:40,090 --> 00:08:41,090 Yes, I was. 148 00:08:41,230 --> 00:08:42,230 Why was that? 149 00:08:42,409 --> 00:08:46,350 I took some pills I shouldn't have taken. You combined said pills with a 150 00:08:46,350 --> 00:08:48,010 significant amount of alcohol, did you not? 151 00:08:49,170 --> 00:08:51,690 Yes. Wouldn't you call that a deliberate attempt to hurt yourself? 152 00:08:51,950 --> 00:08:56,870 No, I wouldn't. I would call it being at a party and getting a little wild. I 153 00:08:56,870 --> 00:08:57,870 see. 154 00:08:58,850 --> 00:09:00,790 What's a 40, Ms. Rulon? 155 00:09:01,270 --> 00:09:02,510 It's a bottle of malt liquor. 156 00:09:02,750 --> 00:09:04,970 It's a 40 -ounce bottle of malt liquor, isn't it? 157 00:09:05,190 --> 00:09:06,470 That's why they call it a 40. 158 00:09:06,990 --> 00:09:08,850 How many of them do you drink in an average day? 159 00:09:09,450 --> 00:09:12,830 I don't know. A ballpark figure. More than one, less than ten. The witness 160 00:09:12,830 --> 00:09:13,609 she didn't know. 161 00:09:13,610 --> 00:09:17,210 Let's move on, Mr. Rollins. Have you ever known your boyfriend to carry a 162 00:09:17,210 --> 00:09:18,650 don't know whether he carries a gun or not. 163 00:09:18,850 --> 00:09:22,050 Did you not on more than one occasion warn your father that your boyfriend 164 00:09:22,050 --> 00:09:23,510 always carries a gun? 165 00:09:24,490 --> 00:09:28,530 If I said it, I said it to scare him. Had you been having sexual relations 166 00:09:28,530 --> 00:09:29,530 your boyfriend? 167 00:09:31,190 --> 00:09:35,270 Yes. What, if any, precautions did you take against sexually transmitted 168 00:09:35,270 --> 00:09:37,950 diseases or the possibility of becoming pregnant? 169 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:43,840 Either we used a condom or we did things you don't need a condom for. Did you 170 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:46,940 tell your father that more than anything else, you wanted to get pregnant with 171 00:09:46,940 --> 00:09:47,739 James's baby? 172 00:09:47,740 --> 00:09:50,380 If I said that, I said that to scare him. It worked. 173 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:51,640 I have nothing further. 174 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:56,460 Frank, I want to propose something. 175 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:59,880 Your wife is holding you up with the threat to make public you're going to 176 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:02,580 prostitutes. I'd like to take an aggressive position in response. 177 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:04,860 What do you mean? Number one, I deny it. 178 00:10:05,220 --> 00:10:06,580 I am in the book. 179 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:08,600 Maybe you are, maybe you're not. 180 00:10:09,460 --> 00:10:12,040 Meantime, we haven't seen the book. We don't know the book exists. 181 00:10:12,460 --> 00:10:15,720 Look, she had me tailed to Camilla's house, Arnie. She knows that I went 182 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,040 What she knows and what she can prove are not necessarily one and the same. 183 00:10:19,820 --> 00:10:24,460 Now, assume... Assume that she can prove it. 184 00:10:25,380 --> 00:10:26,400 What are the damages? 185 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:28,200 The damages are catastrophic. 186 00:10:28,620 --> 00:10:32,240 Are they? I answered to a board of directors made up of very conservative, 187 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:36,420 Midwestern men. Right, right. None of whom have ever once in their life paid 188 00:10:36,420 --> 00:10:38,600 it. I also answered to the shareholders. 189 00:10:39,300 --> 00:10:42,620 Frank, I'm not saying you want it to come out. I'm saying it's not the end of 190 00:10:42,620 --> 00:10:43,620 the world. 191 00:10:44,860 --> 00:10:45,860 I don't want it. 192 00:10:48,140 --> 00:10:53,980 I have been incapable of functioning sexually with my wife for over five 193 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,320 We went to therapists separately, together. 194 00:10:58,920 --> 00:10:59,920 Nothing helped. 195 00:11:01,540 --> 00:11:05,380 It became a source of almost indescribable pain to me. 196 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:09,480 I finally sought out prostitutes. 197 00:11:10,180 --> 00:11:12,140 You see, with prostitutes, I could function. 198 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:17,240 Arnie, I don't want people to know anything about that. 199 00:11:18,540 --> 00:11:22,720 It's a source of great embarrassment to me to even be sitting here and telling 200 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:24,260 you. You really needn't be. 201 00:11:26,460 --> 00:11:30,720 I would only ask that you do everything possible so that this does not become 202 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:31,720 public. 203 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:36,440 Ms. Ascoff. 204 00:11:36,860 --> 00:11:38,780 You initiated this divorce, did you not? 205 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,920 Yes. And before doing so, you emptied out both the safe deposit boxes held in 206 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:44,960 you and your husband's name. 207 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,260 You also emptied out all joint bank accounts. Is that right? 208 00:11:48,580 --> 00:11:51,360 Yes, it is. Were you aware in doing so that you were leaving your husband 209 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:53,660 without adequate funds to meet his monthly obligations? 210 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Not her problem. 211 00:11:55,260 --> 00:11:58,500 When we work out the finances, we'll pay over what we owe. That's assuming we 212 00:11:58,500 --> 00:11:59,500 owe anything. 213 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:03,580 Now, you're seeking to examine your husband's corporate records. Is that 214 00:12:03,780 --> 00:12:07,280 That's right. My husband was concealing marital assets in corporate accounts. 215 00:12:07,620 --> 00:12:10,940 I want to know just how much of those assets were being spent on prostitutes. 216 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,280 And what do you base your allegations that your husband frequented 217 00:12:14,340 --> 00:12:16,540 I based it on reports from private investigators. 218 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,920 Do you want to deny it? For the record, we categorically deny it. 219 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:27,040 However, for the sake of argument, let's assume that your husband did in fact... 220 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:31,360 Pay for the services of a prostitute. Is it possible that said services 221 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:36,260 represented a last -ditch therapeutic approach to a long -standing condition? 222 00:12:36,540 --> 00:12:41,240 What condition would that be, Mr. Becker? It would be impotence, Ms. 223 00:12:41,460 --> 00:12:46,160 Would it be impotence as in a physiological condition or just 224 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,980 was with me? I think the literature shows impotence to be a fairly complex 225 00:12:49,980 --> 00:12:54,020 condition. I wouldn't presume to ascribe it to one thing or the other. I don't 226 00:12:54,020 --> 00:12:55,400 think it's in the least bit complex. 227 00:12:56,940 --> 00:12:59,680 My husband wasn't physically attracted to me. 228 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:05,000 He clearly was to prostitutes. From the number of times he visited them, one can 229 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,320 safely assume that he was not impotent with them. Again, assuming that's true, 230 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,960 isn't it possible that you bear some of the responsibility? 231 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:13,400 No, it is not possible. 232 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:19,340 Was it not you who for the past five years subtly and continuously belittled 233 00:13:19,340 --> 00:13:24,300 berated your husband? I did not do that. I supported my husband. I encouraged 234 00:13:24,300 --> 00:13:26,620 him. To get a physical examination. 235 00:13:27,780 --> 00:13:30,220 I encouraged him to get psychological help. 236 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:35,640 We even went to therapy together, which, I might tell you, was not an easy thing 237 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:36,640 for me to do. 238 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:38,720 But I did it. 239 00:13:39,700 --> 00:13:40,840 I stood by him. 240 00:13:42,100 --> 00:13:44,780 I was faithful to him. I was desperate, Vivian. 241 00:13:45,180 --> 00:13:47,500 I was desperate and I didn't know what else to do. 242 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,160 Your desperation doesn't move me anymore, Frank. 243 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:52,440 May I ask a purely practical question? 244 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:54,560 What are you hoping to accomplish here? 245 00:13:55,530 --> 00:13:59,610 If you make these claims in your pleadings, if you argue them in court, 246 00:13:59,610 --> 00:14:02,990 it's true or not, it's going to get out that a big executive went to whores. 247 00:14:03,550 --> 00:14:07,410 Your husband's short term, possibly his long term financial picture worsens. 248 00:14:07,530 --> 00:14:09,670 You're on board for lifetime support, I assume. 249 00:14:10,610 --> 00:14:13,990 Why would you want to poison the well? Because, Arnie, we're not looking for 250 00:14:13,990 --> 00:14:14,990 support. 251 00:14:15,110 --> 00:14:16,430 We want the money up front. 252 00:14:16,670 --> 00:14:22,310 What you're asking for is unconscionable. Mr. Becker, I was 253 00:14:22,310 --> 00:14:23,310 man. 254 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:24,920 I was lied to. 255 00:14:25,460 --> 00:14:27,020 I was frozen out. 256 00:14:27,940 --> 00:14:30,640 I was exposed to a life -threatening disease. 257 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:37,740 Since all I can get from him now is money, I want to get all the money I 258 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,580 And I suggest that you don't appeal to my conscience. 259 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,380 My conscience is clear. 260 00:14:49,860 --> 00:14:51,160 $85 ,000. 261 00:14:52,060 --> 00:14:55,820 That's a lot of money. Yes, it is a lot of money. What kind of things do you say 262 00:14:55,820 --> 00:14:58,420 to get someone to overcome panic at this point? I don't say anything. 263 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:03,260 Crash worthiness, high resale value, comparisons with other luxury 264 00:15:03,260 --> 00:15:06,580 Eli, one buys a car like this much the way one buys a Steinway Piano. What 265 00:15:06,580 --> 00:15:08,860 you're paying for is the pleasure of knowing that you own it. 266 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:10,360 What's that worth? 267 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:13,420 You want to know who else owns this car? What do you mean? 268 00:15:14,460 --> 00:15:17,460 Would you like to know what celebrities drive the same automobile as their 269 00:15:17,460 --> 00:15:19,860 personal car? I don't think I want to know that. I do. Who? 270 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:24,380 Johnny Depp, James Caan, Lenny Pomich. 271 00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:26,500 No, 272 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,440 I have a different model, but it's the exact same body style. 273 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:31,080 What's the difference? 274 00:15:31,260 --> 00:15:32,300 Oh, mine's a 600. 275 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,920 It's a 12 -cylinder car, very hard to find. 276 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:36,120 How much? 277 00:15:36,140 --> 00:15:38,360 This one was $123 ,000 to me. 278 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,460 Eli, I think it's safe to say you can live with four fewer cylinders. 279 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:42,920 Six fewer cylinders. 280 00:15:43,060 --> 00:15:47,220 You said this one was six cylinders, right? It is a 3 .2 inline six, yes. 281 00:15:47,770 --> 00:15:51,590 In my opinion, an altogether terrific engine. But yours says 600 on it, where 282 00:15:51,590 --> 00:15:52,590 this one says 320. 283 00:15:52,750 --> 00:15:53,750 Yours says 600. 284 00:15:54,090 --> 00:15:55,110 You worried about that? 285 00:15:55,430 --> 00:15:57,150 No. Sit in it. 286 00:16:06,090 --> 00:16:09,170 Here's the key. Turn it on. Pull that red button. 287 00:16:14,670 --> 00:16:15,670 Wow. 288 00:16:16,050 --> 00:16:17,050 Denise. 289 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:18,320 That's beautiful. 290 00:16:21,660 --> 00:16:22,660 Wow. 291 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:26,740 This is going to be good for me. Owning this car is going to be good for me. 292 00:16:27,180 --> 00:16:31,500 Are you familiar with the petitioner, doctor? Yes, I'm currently treating her 293 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:35,020 Wayside Hospital, where I'm both a psychiatrist and an administrator. 294 00:16:35,500 --> 00:16:36,500 What's your evaluation? 295 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,020 I find her to possess what we call a borderline personality disorder. 296 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:44,900 Would you explain what that is? It manifests itself in a variety of ways. 297 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:46,440 Unstable relationships. 298 00:16:47,150 --> 00:16:52,830 Mood shift, temper tantrums, coupled with persistent identity disturbances. 299 00:16:53,170 --> 00:16:54,910 Couldn't that description fit a lot of teenagers? 300 00:16:55,230 --> 00:16:58,790 Perhaps it could. What it comes down to, however, is a matter of degree. 301 00:16:59,430 --> 00:17:00,670 Linda's behavior is extreme. 302 00:17:01,130 --> 00:17:04,190 She acts without reasonable regard for her own safety. 303 00:17:04,510 --> 00:17:06,790 Is it possible to treat Linda on an outpatient basis? 304 00:17:07,089 --> 00:17:11,609 It's only possible if she's willing. Prior to coming to Wayside, she refused 305 00:17:11,609 --> 00:17:12,650 attend outpatient therapy. 306 00:17:12,910 --> 00:17:15,730 How important is it that Linda Ruland stay at Wayside, Doctor? 307 00:17:16,300 --> 00:17:18,400 In my opinion, it's a matter of life and death. 308 00:17:19,300 --> 00:17:20,300 Nothing further. 309 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:25,960 A borderline personality disorder. This is something of a catch -all diagnosis, 310 00:17:26,180 --> 00:17:30,800 isn't it, Dr. White? It's generally used when no one dysfunctional trait is more 311 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:31,799 extreme than another. 312 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:35,980 In your opinion, when Linda Rulon ingested drugs and alcohol on February 313 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,800 1994, she did so with the intention of killing herself? 314 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:43,760 With a borderline personality. It's less an intentional act of self 315 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:44,760 -destruction. 316 00:17:45,110 --> 00:17:49,430 than an inability to realistically assess the consequences of her actions. 317 00:17:49,430 --> 00:17:53,710 was an accident? It was an incident in a pattern of highly self -destructive 318 00:17:53,710 --> 00:17:59,330 behavior. In the four weeks that Linda has been at Wayside, has she ever 319 00:17:59,330 --> 00:18:01,810 attempted to commit suicide or injure herself? 320 00:18:02,130 --> 00:18:04,030 She's constantly monitored at Wayside. 321 00:18:04,330 --> 00:18:05,330 Is that a no? 322 00:18:05,610 --> 00:18:07,950 Yes. Is Linda Rowland a drug addict? 323 00:18:08,510 --> 00:18:11,350 No. Is she violent toward other people? 324 00:18:12,150 --> 00:18:18,000 No. During your treatment, have you had counseling sessions with Linda and her 325 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,620 father? Many of them. Would you say that Larry Rulon is the sort of man that 326 00:18:21,620 --> 00:18:24,400 needs to be in control, doctor? 327 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,460 I'd say he's more comfortable when he's in control. Who isn't? But is it 328 00:18:28,460 --> 00:18:33,060 possible that Larry Rulon committed his daughter not because her condition 329 00:18:33,060 --> 00:18:37,180 warranted, but rather that he needed to reassert that control? 330 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,120 Regardless of Mr. Rulon's motivation, counselor, I would not have admitted 331 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:42,980 young woman, nor would I be sitting here. 332 00:18:43,290 --> 00:18:47,350 testifying today if I wasn't convinced that her condition warranted it. Doctor, 333 00:18:47,470 --> 00:18:50,870 would you be testifying today if Larry Ruland didn't have the funds to pay for 334 00:18:50,870 --> 00:18:56,050 it? Larry Ruland's financial situation and Linda Ruland's mental health are two 335 00:18:56,050 --> 00:18:56,969 separate issues. 336 00:18:56,970 --> 00:19:00,410 You're not answering the question, Doctor. Would you be here fighting to 337 00:19:00,410 --> 00:19:04,430 Linda Ruland in your hospital if her father couldn't pay the freight? 338 00:19:06,170 --> 00:19:08,370 Unfortunately, no. I probably would not be. 339 00:19:08,690 --> 00:19:09,690 Thank you. 340 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,420 Do you run a house of prostitution, Ms. Greer? I'm instructing my client not to 341 00:19:18,420 --> 00:19:19,399 answer that question. 342 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:20,520 What do you do for a living? 343 00:19:21,980 --> 00:19:22,980 I'm a writer. 344 00:19:23,360 --> 00:19:24,360 What do you write? 345 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,400 Currently, I'm writing a book. Do you have a publisher? 346 00:19:27,780 --> 00:19:28,679 Not yet. 347 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,900 What kind of book is it? Just an honest account of my life and the people I've 348 00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:35,000 met. Have you ever met Frank Ascoff? 349 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:36,439 Yes, I have. 350 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,940 Would you describe for us the circumstances under which you met him? 351 00:19:39,940 --> 00:19:41,640 instructing my client not to answer that question. 352 00:19:41,940 --> 00:19:42,879 All right. 353 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:46,300 Would you estimate for us the number of times you've had contact with Mr. 354 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:48,840 Ascoff? I really couldn't. More than once? 355 00:19:49,380 --> 00:19:51,320 Yes. More than ten times? 356 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:57,180 I saw or spoke on the phone with Mr. Ascoff an average of twice a week for 357 00:19:57,180 --> 00:19:58,180 than three years. 358 00:19:58,780 --> 00:20:01,480 Though I haven't seen him very much at all lately. 359 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,040 Did you ever receive money from Mr. Ascoff? I'm going to recommend that my 360 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:08,780 client not answer that question. Is it fair to assume, ma 'am, that if you had 361 00:20:08,780 --> 00:20:10,640 been receiving payments of money from Mr. 362 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,650 Ascoff... You would have kept a written record of that somewhere? 363 00:20:13,910 --> 00:20:19,170 Given that I'm a Virgo, and given that I'm a writer, I'd say it's fair to 364 00:20:19,170 --> 00:20:20,730 I keep records of everything. 365 00:20:21,450 --> 00:20:23,010 Thank you for your time, Miss Greer. 366 00:20:26,830 --> 00:20:28,090 Nice to see you, Arnie. 367 00:20:28,650 --> 00:20:29,650 You too. 368 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,400 Why did you have your daughter committed to Wayside Psychiatric Hospital, Mr. 369 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:49,480 Rowland? 370 00:20:49,780 --> 00:20:53,580 Over the past year, Linda's behavior had been getting progressively more self 371 00:20:53,580 --> 00:20:54,580 -destructive. 372 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,940 I felt that without drastic intervention, she'd end up killing 373 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:02,000 Would you tell us what type of destructive behavior you're referring 374 00:21:02,260 --> 00:21:03,440 She stopped going to school. 375 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:07,120 She would habitually lie about where she'd been and with whom. 376 00:21:08,340 --> 00:21:10,460 Sometimes she wouldn't come home for days on end. 377 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:12,880 And when she did... 378 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:16,300 More often than not, she'd be intoxicated. 379 00:21:16,540 --> 00:21:18,760 Had you tried to address these problems early on? 380 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:20,980 As best I know how. 381 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:22,200 What did you do? 382 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:25,680 My mother died when she was eight. 383 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,040 From that point on, it was clear that she required special attention. 384 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:31,120 I sent her to child psychiatrists. 385 00:21:31,460 --> 00:21:33,660 The two of us went to family counseling together. 386 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:38,800 When she'd reject one therapist, I'd find another one. When she'd reject one 387 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,480 school, I would enroll her somewhere else. Have you ever tried disciplining 388 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:43,480 daughter, Mr. Rulon? 389 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,100 Yeah. I'd set rules. 390 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,500 She'd break every one of them. I'd ground her. That didn't faze her. She'd 391 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:51,300 out, steal the car, steal money. 392 00:21:51,740 --> 00:21:56,720 At a certain point, I had to acknowledge that I had no control of her. 393 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:00,740 How did it make you feel, sir, to put your daughter in a mental hospital? 394 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,240 Horrible. 395 00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:08,860 I keep asking myself, how did this happen? 396 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:10,780 How could this... 397 00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:18,940 Little girl who used to wait by the window for me to come home from work, 398 00:22:18,940 --> 00:22:21,540 into someone who tells me to my face that she hates me. 399 00:22:22,060 --> 00:22:23,580 I didn't know what else to do. 400 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,040 I have no problem. 401 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,340 Are you familiar with James Truby, Mr. Rulon? 402 00:22:30,940 --> 00:22:35,280 Yes. Mr. Truby has been your daughter's boyfriend for nearly a year now, isn't 403 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,239 that right? 404 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:37,240 So I'm told. 405 00:22:37,860 --> 00:22:42,460 Shortly after Linda began dating Mr. Truby, you forbid her from seeing him, 406 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:46,040 didn't you? The first time he picked her up at the house, he sat in the car and 407 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:50,000 honked the horn. He didn't even bother to introduce himself to me. Then when he 408 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,520 brought her home at 3 o 'clock in the morning, her eyes were glassy and she 409 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:54,520 stunk from pot. 410 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:56,760 Mr. 411 00:22:57,260 --> 00:22:58,720 Truby is black, is he not? 412 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,000 Objection. Irrelevant. 413 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,300 I'd ask the court for an opportunity to demonstrate relevance. 414 00:23:02,620 --> 00:23:04,440 Objection overruled. Witness will answer. 415 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,780 Yes. Mr. Truby is black. 416 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,260 Does that have anything to do with your attitude toward him? 417 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:13,740 No, it does not. 418 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:19,500 Did you at one point tell your daughter that black men consider white girls to 419 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:20,500 be status symbols? 420 00:23:21,540 --> 00:23:24,100 I was talking about one individual. 421 00:23:24,860 --> 00:23:28,260 I wasn't making a sweeping generalization. Sir, isn't it true that 422 00:23:28,260 --> 00:23:30,580 sweeping generalizations all the time? Not true. 423 00:23:30,780 --> 00:23:34,280 You made them in therapy sessions. You made them raging around the house. This 424 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:35,500 isn't about race, Mr. Sparrow. 425 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:37,859 Objection sustained. 426 00:23:37,860 --> 00:23:39,720 Stop arguing, Mr. Sparrow. 427 00:23:39,980 --> 00:23:44,840 Sir, did you ever speak of a special agony at seeing your daughter go out 428 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:45,559 black man? 429 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:49,040 Again, I was referring to this black man. 430 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,780 So if it were another black man, then it wouldn't necessarily have the same 431 00:23:52,780 --> 00:23:55,960 effect. You know, my daughter's got bigger problems than who she goes out 432 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:59,660 Except that those bigger problems never led you to committing her, against her 433 00:23:59,660 --> 00:24:03,340 will, to a mental hospital, did they? And what am I supposed to do, Mrs. 434 00:24:03,940 --> 00:24:06,380 Am I supposed to shrug my shoulders? 435 00:24:06,820 --> 00:24:07,820 Do nothing? 436 00:24:08,620 --> 00:24:10,440 Wait for the phone call from the cops? 437 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:11,920 Or the hospital? 438 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,880 Or the morgue? Sir, did you give your daughter an ultimatum saying that unless 439 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,960 she stopped going out with black men, you would take drastic action against 440 00:24:20,060 --> 00:24:23,320 First of all... We're not talking about a black man. 441 00:24:23,620 --> 00:24:28,440 At least let's define our terms. We're talking about a teenager with a criminal 442 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,200 record who uses drugs. 443 00:24:30,420 --> 00:24:32,980 This isn't Sidney Poitier we're talking about. 444 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,060 Is that what it would take, Mr. Rulon? I'm supposed to say it doesn't matter, 445 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:40,700 right? I'm supposed to say race doesn't matter. 446 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:42,600 Well, it does matter. 447 00:24:43,540 --> 00:24:46,740 My daughter is a pelt to this guy. 448 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:53,100 She is a gold necklace or a tricked -out Mercedes or a new pair of sneakers. 449 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,900 That has nothing to do with the fact that he's black and she's white. 450 00:24:58,180 --> 00:25:00,240 It has everything to do with it. 451 00:25:00,940 --> 00:25:02,740 Thank you. I have no further questions. 452 00:25:04,380 --> 00:25:07,620 It's so frustrating not being able to jump in that car and drive it. 453 00:25:07,820 --> 00:25:11,540 I've only been trying to book you a road test for like two months now. I know. 454 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,400 Do you want to go out in it at lunchtime? 455 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,700 It's not the same having somebody take me. 456 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:18,400 Well, listen, the truth is you could drive it if you wanted to. 457 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,460 Only with a licensed driver present. 458 00:25:20,820 --> 00:25:22,800 Come on, Eli, you can drive it by yourself. 459 00:25:23,580 --> 00:25:24,580 What do you mean? 460 00:25:25,140 --> 00:25:26,520 I only have a learner's permit. 461 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:29,900 But I thought part of your intention in buying this car was to live a little 462 00:25:29,900 --> 00:25:31,760 dangerously, you know, to take a risk. 463 00:25:32,060 --> 00:25:33,720 To a limited extent, that's true. 464 00:25:34,340 --> 00:25:36,240 Well, consider this a limited risk. 465 00:25:37,420 --> 00:25:41,320 What if the cops stop me? Eli, the cops are not going to stop you. You're a 40 466 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:42,920 -year -old man driving a Mercedes. Come on. 467 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:34,680 Am I turning that off? 468 00:26:34,860 --> 00:26:35,860 Of course. 469 00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:37,780 I didn't turn the key all the way. 470 00:26:38,260 --> 00:26:39,780 I haven't had this car very long. 471 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,860 Have your license and registration, please. Right. 472 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:43,800 First, let me get you my registration. 473 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:47,960 There. 474 00:26:48,340 --> 00:26:49,340 That's the registration. 475 00:26:49,820 --> 00:26:50,820 You've got that. 476 00:26:51,340 --> 00:26:56,160 As for the license, let me show you what I have. 477 00:26:57,660 --> 00:27:01,340 Do you know how fast you were going? No, I don't know. I didn't feel as though I 478 00:27:01,340 --> 00:27:02,580 was going at an excess rate of speed. 479 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,040 You're doing 20. 480 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:05,240 Ah. 481 00:27:05,380 --> 00:27:06,540 This is a learner's permit. 482 00:27:06,980 --> 00:27:10,400 Yes. I'm going to see a licensed driver over the age of 21 present in the car. 483 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:11,740 There is not one present. 484 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,460 I'm going to have to give you a citation, Mr. Levinson. 485 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:15,760 I understand. 486 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,980 I'm also going to have to impound your vehicle. 487 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,840 Officer, I just got this car. 488 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,480 Would it be possible for you to follow me back to my office garage and let me 489 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,440 park it there? I give you my word that I will not take it out until such time as 490 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:30,800 there is a licensed driver with me. 491 00:27:31,310 --> 00:27:33,170 My partner's running your place. Let me check with him. 492 00:27:33,930 --> 00:27:36,090 Place both hands on the steering wheel, sir. 493 00:27:36,470 --> 00:27:38,010 Why? It's a 1037. 494 00:27:38,290 --> 00:27:39,069 What is that? 495 00:27:39,070 --> 00:27:40,110 Step out of the vehicle, sir. 496 00:27:43,470 --> 00:27:45,910 Would you mind explaining what's going on? Placing you under arrest. 497 00:27:47,050 --> 00:27:48,630 For driving with a learner's permit? 498 00:27:49,070 --> 00:27:51,310 Possession of a stolen vehicle. Put your hands behind your back. 499 00:27:52,810 --> 00:27:53,810 Oh, my God. 500 00:27:54,350 --> 00:27:57,610 Mr. Ashcroft, you have in front of you a copy of the financial statements your 501 00:27:57,610 --> 00:27:59,210 accountant has provided us? Yes. 502 00:27:59,950 --> 00:28:04,470 I draw your attention to page two, item 23, quote -unquote, entertainment 503 00:28:04,470 --> 00:28:05,470 expenses. 504 00:28:06,130 --> 00:28:07,130 Yes, I see it. 505 00:28:07,410 --> 00:28:10,970 That seems to me an unusually large sum of money. It's not unusual at all. 506 00:28:11,350 --> 00:28:14,670 Frank Ascoff runs a big company. People who do that spend a lot of money on 507 00:28:14,670 --> 00:28:15,670 dining and entertainment. 508 00:28:15,870 --> 00:28:17,110 Except that since neither Mr. 509 00:28:17,310 --> 00:28:21,010 Ascoff nor his company have thus far furnished us with expense account 510 00:28:21,010 --> 00:28:24,370 statements and check registers, we have no idea what dining and entertainment 511 00:28:24,370 --> 00:28:27,190 mean. We're not going to allow you to take a fishing expedition through the 512 00:28:27,190 --> 00:28:28,830 books of a Fortune 500 company. 513 00:28:29,260 --> 00:28:32,380 The company's accountants weren't satisfied that these were bona fide 514 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,680 They wouldn't have allowed them. Should I take it to mean that you remain 515 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,780 unwilling to comply with our subpoena? Yeah, you can take it to mean exactly 516 00:28:37,780 --> 00:28:40,360 that. We'll await a ruling from the court. Sure, fine. 517 00:28:41,340 --> 00:28:42,960 Mr. Ascoff? Yes. 518 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,240 In what connection do you know Camilla Greer? I'm going to instruct my client 519 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,400 not to answer that question. Frank, Frank, Frank, I want to answer. I don't 520 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:50,480 to play this game anymore, okay? 521 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:57,400 I know Camilla Greer because she supplied me with prostitutes. How often 522 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:58,660 supply you with prostitutes? 523 00:28:59,030 --> 00:29:01,770 Initially, it was quite infrequent, but I went. 524 00:29:02,730 --> 00:29:03,950 I was ashamed of myself. 525 00:29:04,650 --> 00:29:09,990 I didn't go back for six months, but gradually I found that I could live 526 00:29:09,990 --> 00:29:13,410 ashamed of myself easier than I could live without prostitutes. 527 00:29:14,350 --> 00:29:18,090 By the time you had me followed, I was going to Camilla three or four times a 528 00:29:18,090 --> 00:29:21,190 week. How did you pay for these visits, Mr. Ascoff? I had a private account. 529 00:29:21,430 --> 00:29:22,450 I paid for them out of that. 530 00:29:22,750 --> 00:29:26,070 How was this private account funded? Frank, I would not give them this. 531 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:28,760 It was funded out of my earnings. 532 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,800 Earnings made during the time you were married? 533 00:29:31,380 --> 00:29:34,820 Yes. Earnings that were therefore marital in nature? There isn't a jury 534 00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:36,220 Cicely. Who are you trying to impress? 535 00:29:36,580 --> 00:29:39,380 I'm not trying to impress anyone, Arnold. I'm trying to conduct a 536 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,060 How much are you paying Camilla? I don't know what you're talking about. Vivian, 537 00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:43,100 don't do this, please. 538 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,900 Talk to her. As soon as Mrs. Ascoff has paid what we're asking for, we have no 539 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:48,060 interest in exposing you. 540 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:49,560 Yeah. 541 00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:53,560 So for $11 million, give or take, the house in Beverly Hills, the apartment in 542 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,320 New York, and the condo in Palm Springs... 543 00:29:56,149 --> 00:29:57,510 You'll make like it never happened. 544 00:29:58,310 --> 00:29:59,310 Right. 545 00:29:59,990 --> 00:30:01,270 Here's my response to that. 546 00:30:02,130 --> 00:30:06,050 We'll agree to a 50 -50 split of all marital assets. We want Beverly Hills, 547 00:30:06,050 --> 00:30:08,670 York, and Palm Springs sold with all proceeds split. 548 00:30:08,910 --> 00:30:12,230 I take it that means you're willing to let it come out that he was spending six 549 00:30:12,230 --> 00:30:15,270 figures a year on prostitutes? I don't think that you can prove he spent 550 00:30:15,270 --> 00:30:17,370 anywhere near that. Oh, I'm sure we can. 551 00:30:17,570 --> 00:30:18,570 Then prove it. 552 00:30:18,990 --> 00:30:22,030 Meantime, we're putting the houses on the market. Tell your client to start 553 00:30:22,030 --> 00:30:23,030 ordering boxes. 554 00:30:31,610 --> 00:30:32,610 Jonathan. 555 00:30:34,930 --> 00:30:38,790 I feel like I need to say something about what happened on the witness 556 00:30:38,910 --> 00:30:42,850 You don't need to say anything. I feel like I do. Things came out that don't 557 00:30:42,850 --> 00:30:44,530 necessarily reflect the way that I feel. 558 00:30:44,750 --> 00:30:45,709 I understand. 559 00:30:45,710 --> 00:30:47,050 This is my daughter, you know. 560 00:30:47,390 --> 00:30:48,390 We should go in. 561 00:30:48,490 --> 00:30:49,510 You don't have kids. 562 00:30:50,310 --> 00:30:53,290 It's a whole different thing when you have kids. You don't have to say 563 00:30:53,290 --> 00:30:54,290 about it, Larry. 564 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,160 I need to clear the air here, Jonathan. I'm sensing that you're miffed about 565 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,820 what I said, and I need for you to understand where it comes from. Larry, I 566 00:31:01,820 --> 00:31:03,820 understand exactly where it comes from. 567 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,940 If it had been a younger version of me going out with your daughter, you would 568 00:31:07,940 --> 00:31:10,400 have felt a little differently about it, but not that differently. 569 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,320 Jonathan! I knew that long before I put you on the witness stand. 570 00:31:22,860 --> 00:31:26,620 It seems to me that psychiatric care should relate to a psychiatric 571 00:31:26,860 --> 00:31:31,340 It should not represent a disciplinary alternative for a frustrated parent. 572 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:36,920 I'm definitely not here to defend my client's drug use, her truancy, her 573 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,620 drinking, and certainly not her sexual behavior. 574 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:45,140 No doubt she is in need of guidance. No doubt she is in need of attention. 575 00:31:45,940 --> 00:31:49,180 What she is not in need of is institutionalization. 576 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:54,420 I submit to you that the basis for this is not her condition, but her father's. 577 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:59,160 It is being done to relieve him of the quote -unquote special agony at the 578 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,120 of seeing his daughter going out with somebody black. 579 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:07,620 Together with a private for -profit hospital, he's become her jailer. 580 00:32:08,060 --> 00:32:11,280 I submit to you that he has violated the civil rights of this young woman. 581 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:16,200 I submit to you that his actions are wholly unwarranted, and I appeal to this 582 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,340 court for her release. 583 00:32:19,470 --> 00:32:20,470 Mr. Rollins. 584 00:32:21,470 --> 00:32:26,230 I would argue that when a person engages in behavior that is demonstrably life 585 00:32:26,230 --> 00:32:28,770 -threatening, that person is in need of intervention by others. 586 00:32:28,970 --> 00:32:33,670 Now, whether you choose to call it a psychiatric condition or not, that 587 00:32:33,670 --> 00:32:36,450 life depends on someone doing something. 588 00:32:37,670 --> 00:32:41,270 One could well ask, is this the appropriate thing to do? 589 00:32:42,030 --> 00:32:45,190 By our own admission, this is a girl who drinks to excess. 590 00:32:46,010 --> 00:32:47,170 She uses drugs. 591 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,340 She refuses all attempts at voluntary treatment. 592 00:32:52,060 --> 00:32:56,040 She shows every indication of progressing toward actions with 593 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,020 consequences, be they pregnancy or be they crime. 594 00:33:00,380 --> 00:33:05,840 To those such as my adversary who claim that confinement is categorically 595 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,900 inappropriate, I would ask for an alternative. I would ask, is it 596 00:33:08,900 --> 00:33:13,020 that in the interest of this person's civil rights, we effectively abandon 597 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:22,540 is not about race your honor this is about trying to reach someone who needs 598 00:33:22,540 --> 00:33:29,460 be reached I believe this father has acted out 599 00:33:29,460 --> 00:33:35,580 of love for his daughter I really do I believe he's done the only thing he 600 00:33:35,580 --> 00:33:40,140 do thank you 601 00:33:47,050 --> 00:33:48,710 Appreciate you getting there as fast as you did. 602 00:33:49,010 --> 00:33:51,410 Calls from relatives in jail always assume the highest priority. 603 00:33:51,770 --> 00:33:53,010 I still can't believe I got arrested. 604 00:33:53,310 --> 00:33:55,730 Why don't you go to a dealer like a normal person? I know. 605 00:33:56,250 --> 00:33:59,210 So what are the prospects that you're getting the money back? Who knows? 606 00:33:59,430 --> 00:34:01,450 Eli, $85 ,000 is serious. 607 00:34:01,750 --> 00:34:04,010 How could he have done that? Well, that's easy. He's a criminal. 608 00:34:04,290 --> 00:34:07,410 I just don't understand how someone has the audacity to pass themselves off as 609 00:34:07,410 --> 00:34:11,010 legitimate, take $85 ,000 for a stolen car, and think they can actually get 610 00:34:11,010 --> 00:34:11,569 with it. 611 00:34:11,570 --> 00:34:13,929 Oh, Eli, Lenny Pollack called. He wants to know how you like the car. 612 00:34:18,250 --> 00:34:19,630 I haven't seen you in a while. 613 00:34:20,050 --> 00:34:21,429 Much too long a while. 614 00:34:22,330 --> 00:34:23,370 Camilla's out by the pool. 615 00:34:23,909 --> 00:34:25,090 Thanks, April. Sure. 616 00:34:35,929 --> 00:34:36,929 Hello, Arnie. 617 00:34:38,429 --> 00:34:39,429 Hi. 618 00:34:40,290 --> 00:34:41,469 Can I get you something? 619 00:34:42,429 --> 00:34:43,429 No. 620 00:34:43,630 --> 00:34:44,569 No, thanks. 621 00:34:44,570 --> 00:34:46,929 I kind of figured you'd be paying me a visit. 622 00:34:47,630 --> 00:34:49,449 Well, I have a very nervous client. 623 00:34:50,170 --> 00:34:51,210 I'll bet you do. 624 00:34:51,530 --> 00:34:52,530 Do you mind if I sit down? 625 00:34:52,889 --> 00:34:55,130 Please. Let me ask you something. 626 00:34:57,870 --> 00:35:02,290 How much is this wife paying you? What makes you think she's paying me 627 00:35:02,690 --> 00:35:05,930 You're not in this for your graduate school thesis, doll. Whatever you do, 628 00:35:05,930 --> 00:35:06,930 do for money. 629 00:35:07,310 --> 00:35:10,890 At present, I have no arrangement of any kind with Mrs. Ascoff. 630 00:35:11,130 --> 00:35:12,790 Does that mean you're open for business? 631 00:35:13,490 --> 00:35:14,790 That's exactly what it means. 632 00:35:15,290 --> 00:35:19,870 If Frank wants his name out of that book, it's going to cost him. I always 633 00:35:19,870 --> 00:35:21,530 thought you were a stand -up broad, Camilla. 634 00:35:21,790 --> 00:35:22,790 What happened? 635 00:35:23,990 --> 00:35:24,990 I adapted. 636 00:35:25,210 --> 00:35:27,750 What's going to happen to your business when it gets out that you blackmailed a 637 00:35:27,750 --> 00:35:28,750 steady customer? 638 00:35:28,930 --> 00:35:30,110 Look around, Arnie. 639 00:35:30,330 --> 00:35:31,730 I don't have any business. 640 00:35:31,990 --> 00:35:35,490 The DA's office is breathing down my neck. I can't so much as walk into a 641 00:35:35,490 --> 00:35:38,910 restaurant that it doesn't show up in variety the next day. My clients aren't 642 00:35:38,910 --> 00:35:40,790 coming near me. I'm done in this business. 643 00:35:41,070 --> 00:35:43,850 Frank Ascoff and a few others like him will give me... 644 00:35:45,100 --> 00:35:47,020 Let's call it a pension. 645 00:35:48,820 --> 00:35:49,900 How much? 646 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:51,260 A million five. 647 00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:55,320 Which buys me what? All records pertaining to Frank Ascoff are 648 00:35:55,720 --> 00:36:00,520 Neither myself nor my employees will reveal that Frank Ascoff was ever a 649 00:36:02,340 --> 00:36:03,360 I'll let him know. 650 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,180 Also tell him I have a standing offer from his wife. 651 00:36:16,180 --> 00:36:19,000 You're aggravated, you have every right to be aggravated. Are you on the lam, 652 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:20,120 Lenny? 653 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:21,940 Because I know the police are looking for you. 654 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:25,420 Excuse me, the police are not looking for me. I've already spoken to police. 655 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,680 The matter's been taken care of. What does that mean? 656 00:36:27,940 --> 00:36:31,720 It means that it was a mishap. A bill of lading went awry. An erroneous report 657 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:32,720 was made. 658 00:36:33,020 --> 00:36:35,840 Miscommunication, pilot error. Call it whatever you want. It wasn't supposed to 659 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:36,840 happen, but it happened. 660 00:36:36,940 --> 00:36:39,080 Listen, the cops said they found it stolen off the pier in Brooklyn. 661 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,320 My point is this. Whether or not it was stolen... 662 00:36:43,530 --> 00:36:47,190 You and I both stand in the position of good -faith third -party vendees if I 663 00:36:47,190 --> 00:36:50,810 remember my law school training. What about the $85 ,000? Yeah. Well, let's go 664 00:36:50,810 --> 00:36:53,310 after the $85 ,000. We'll sue the vendor together. 665 00:36:53,650 --> 00:36:57,550 Lenny, as far as I'm concerned, you're the vendor. 666 00:36:57,910 --> 00:37:01,890 Now, that would be, I think, a misreading of basic agency law. And even 667 00:37:01,890 --> 00:37:02,910 was the case, I have no assets. 668 00:37:03,230 --> 00:37:04,270 I live with my parents. 669 00:37:05,070 --> 00:37:08,970 I can be instrumental in going after the parties who I think are responsible, 670 00:37:09,150 --> 00:37:11,310 and I would like to get to work putting you in another car. 671 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:13,400 You want to put me in another car? 672 00:37:13,740 --> 00:37:14,740 Yes. 673 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:17,760 This time I think you should look into a cabriolet. 674 00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:21,760 You know the difference between a cabriolet and a roadster? No, Lenny, in 675 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:22,760 of fact, I do not. 676 00:37:23,220 --> 00:37:26,940 But the truth is, I already know what my next car is. 677 00:37:27,340 --> 00:37:28,178 Tell me. 678 00:37:28,180 --> 00:37:29,580 My next car is yours. 679 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,480 Again? That car you were driving the other day. 680 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,180 You're going to give that to me. Wait a minute, Eli. 681 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,780 You're going to give that to me because if you don't give that to me, I'm going 682 00:37:37,780 --> 00:37:38,780 to sue you. 683 00:37:39,130 --> 00:37:42,550 And if I remember my law school training, in all likelihood, I am going 684 00:37:42,810 --> 00:37:43,569 Don't agree. 685 00:37:43,570 --> 00:37:46,990 In the course of suing you, I will depose the entire chain of title to that 686 00:37:47,090 --> 00:37:48,610 starting with whoever stole it off the pier. 687 00:37:48,950 --> 00:37:52,290 By the end of that, we'll see how much of a good -faith third -party vendee you 688 00:37:52,290 --> 00:37:55,410 are. And you don't want to mess with Eli and Courtney. 689 00:37:55,690 --> 00:37:56,750 This is a shakedown. 690 00:37:57,130 --> 00:38:00,510 I also think that your entertainment industry clientele is going to fall off 691 00:38:00,510 --> 00:38:02,270 some when it comes out that you deal in hot cars. 692 00:38:02,770 --> 00:38:05,530 You're aware of the fact that your car was a 320 and mine is a 600? 693 00:38:06,170 --> 00:38:08,490 That's a disparity in price of over $40 ,000. 694 00:38:08,770 --> 00:38:11,630 Come on. Consider it the cost of continuing to do business. 695 00:38:12,990 --> 00:38:13,990 Up the key. 696 00:38:23,810 --> 00:38:25,950 I'll send somebody by for the pink slip in the morning. 697 00:38:27,230 --> 00:38:28,490 He can't even drive it. 698 00:38:29,310 --> 00:38:33,190 Until I get my license, she can drive it. 699 00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:35,920 I've reached a decision. 700 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:42,900 The issues in this case are far from clear, and reaching a decision was far 701 00:38:42,900 --> 00:38:43,900 easy. 702 00:38:44,220 --> 00:38:48,240 Raising children in violent times can be a terrifying ordeal. 703 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,940 Clearly, this young woman did nothing to make it easier. 704 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:57,100 That in and of itself does not justify her being held against her will. 705 00:38:58,020 --> 00:39:00,960 A teenager is not without civil rights. 706 00:39:01,420 --> 00:39:06,420 and any encroachment on those rights must be made only if that teenager 707 00:39:06,420 --> 00:39:11,560 a danger to herself and even then solely as a last resort. 708 00:39:12,740 --> 00:39:15,640 Sadly, I believe this to be the case here. 709 00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:20,800 Based on the evidence shown, I will not second -guess the opinion of the medical 710 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,760 profession or of that of her father. 711 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:27,540 I choose instead to err on the side I believe to be caution. 712 00:39:28,710 --> 00:39:34,710 I hereby remand Linda Rulon back to Wayside Psychiatric Hospital for further 713 00:39:34,710 --> 00:39:39,370 treatment until such time her doctor or her father feels she's ready to be 714 00:39:39,370 --> 00:39:41,350 released. This court is adjourned. 715 00:39:41,550 --> 00:39:42,550 Thank you. 716 00:39:49,730 --> 00:39:50,730 Linda? 717 00:39:52,510 --> 00:39:54,370 Can I bring you anything from home? 718 00:39:54,610 --> 00:39:56,090 I don't have a home. 719 00:39:56,940 --> 00:39:58,640 I live in a hospital, remember? 720 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,620 Linda, why do you insist on making everything so difficult? 721 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,040 If you cooperate, these people just might be able to help. 722 00:40:06,180 --> 00:40:07,240 Don't touch me! 723 00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,240 Linda, this is a temporary thing. You're going to get out of the hospital. 724 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:13,560 You bet I am. 725 00:40:14,140 --> 00:40:15,920 And when I do, you know what? 726 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,840 You will never see me again. 727 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,580 Larry, I think it's time to let her go back now. 728 00:40:23,820 --> 00:40:24,960 Come on, come on, let's go. 729 00:40:25,260 --> 00:40:26,500 The day they let me... 730 00:40:29,410 --> 00:40:34,430 state. Change my name. And just like that, you don't have a daughter anymore. 731 00:40:35,550 --> 00:40:36,950 Say goodbye to me, Daddy. 732 00:40:38,610 --> 00:40:39,610 This is it. 733 00:40:43,310 --> 00:40:44,310 Let her go. 734 00:40:46,850 --> 00:40:47,850 Larry, what are you doing? 735 00:40:50,610 --> 00:40:51,910 Give her what she wants. 736 00:40:53,310 --> 00:40:54,310 Let her go. 737 00:40:56,590 --> 00:40:57,870 I'll sign the release paper. 738 00:41:24,779 --> 00:41:26,360 No, thanks, Denise. I'm fine. 739 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,080 All right. See you. 740 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:35,920 Do you ride this bus often? 741 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:44,160 Oh, Frank, come on in. I'll be right with you. 742 00:41:48,020 --> 00:41:51,320 Arnie, I need you to go back to Camilla. 743 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:53,800 It's not going to do any good, Frank. 744 00:41:55,310 --> 00:41:59,530 I want you to tell her that I will give her $100 ,000 now. I will consider the 745 00:41:59,530 --> 00:42:04,250 balance alone, which I will repay with interest according to schedule. 746 00:42:04,550 --> 00:42:06,150 She's not interested in a payout. 747 00:42:06,830 --> 00:42:08,210 She wants the money up front. 748 00:42:08,670 --> 00:42:09,670 Uh -huh. 749 00:42:10,410 --> 00:42:13,210 Well, if plan A doesn't work, then we'll go to plan B. 750 00:42:13,670 --> 00:42:17,770 I inherited a house from my father in Montecito. I will sell it, and I will 751 00:42:17,770 --> 00:42:18,770 her out of the proceeds. 752 00:42:18,910 --> 00:42:21,030 Frank, I think you're crazy to be doing this. Arnie. 753 00:42:22,060 --> 00:42:24,660 I can't allow that information to become public. 754 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,180 Forgive me for being presumptuous, but I say that you can. 755 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,000 I say it'll do you infinitely less harm than you think it will. Moreover, paying 756 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,460 off Camilla is no guarantee of anything. 757 00:42:32,780 --> 00:42:34,960 She sells you one book, she'll keep another one for herself. 758 00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:36,240 I'll have to risk that. 759 00:42:37,060 --> 00:42:39,080 See, I think Camilla will honor an agreement. 760 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,580 I think she could be trusted. Frank, be serious. Am I sure of it? 761 00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,920 No, I'm not sure of it, but... I still want you to make the offer. 762 00:42:49,340 --> 00:42:51,320 Okay. Okay, Arnie. 763 00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,560 I would appreciate it if you could please do it today. 764 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,520 I'd like to talk to you. Yeah, now, who are you? 765 00:43:31,140 --> 00:43:32,400 He's my father's lawyer. 766 00:43:32,820 --> 00:43:34,080 So what do you want to talk to him about? 767 00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,360 I have some business to talk to her about. 768 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,560 I don't mean to disrespect you or anyone else. 769 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,520 I'm going to ask you if I can talk to him privately. 770 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:44,840 It's okay. 771 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,520 I don't want you to give it to me. 772 00:43:56,460 --> 00:43:59,740 They tell you to tell me what I'm not supposed to spend it on? 773 00:44:00,060 --> 00:44:01,940 Cash, limit, you can spend it on whatever you want. 774 00:44:03,420 --> 00:44:05,700 Okay. I also want to give you my card. 775 00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:10,160 What's that, in case I get arrested? 776 00:44:10,660 --> 00:44:13,280 It's in case you want to call me. Why would I want to do that? 777 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,420 For a variety of reasons. Maybe you want to communicate with your father without 778 00:44:17,420 --> 00:44:21,020 speaking to him directly. You might need help in going back to school. 779 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,700 You might have medical problems you can't afford treatment for. 780 00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:26,780 Oh, yeah, in case you get arrested. 781 00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:30,920 You doing this because my father's paying you to do it? 782 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:32,580 Or are you actually interested? 783 00:44:34,060 --> 00:44:35,820 Both. Yeah, both. 784 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:40,240 You were the one trying to keep me locked up. You're not exactly the first 785 00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:41,240 person I'd call. 786 00:44:41,380 --> 00:44:44,140 Whether I'm the first or the last, you might as well have the phone number. 787 00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:54,460 So, my father, thanks. 788 00:45:22,299 --> 00:45:25,040 Camilla? Camilla, where are you? 789 00:45:31,820 --> 00:45:33,500 Is anybody home? 790 00:45:33,860 --> 00:45:34,860 Hello? 791 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:38,840 Camilla?