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Previously on In Contempt.

Oh, Judge Thompson.

Guys, this is Bennett Thompson.

He is going to shadow Gwen's case.

Oh, my God.

Does anyone care about the law around here? Call it a performance review.

She'll do great. Not her.

You. Our case looks like a losing battle, which is unfortunate since our

client is innocent.

We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty.

Gwen, this is Allison, my fiancée. Hi.

I will pay you $5,000 to go back to bed.

How'd it go with Bennett?

Is Bennett the bag?

Are you the bag?

Last night was great.

I'm great. Bennett's great. His fiance's great.

You are making about as much sense as kids on a bull. What fiance?

Allison.

Beautiful and smart and perfect teeth.

So Allison's the bag.

Clearly I misread the situation.

He's not into me at all. Here's a thought. Go for him anyway.

It's wrong on so many levels, Trace. It's thirsty and it's sad.

Or it's bold and decisive.

He ain't married yet.

In my book, that's fair game. In your book, marriage is fair game.

Yeah, now you're learning.

We processed 238,482 cases.

We did 660 trials.

But there are still 12,934 pending cases.

And we have 174 cases that are over two years old. Now, I know y'all are killing

yourselves, but we've got to keep pushing them through.

Victor. Hey, I deliberate.

And we love you for it, but you've got to do it faster.

All right, any other business? I have a possible jury tampering.

Specifically? My last trial.

One juror told the other jurors she overheard the defendant's lawyer very

publicly say, I wouldn't admit evidence regarding an alibi witness or an

alternate suspect.

And the verdict was not guilty?

Mm-hmm. You want to refer her for investigation?

Your call.

Copping out is just making me guilty on my own word.

It's not your word, Mike.

It's evidence.

I got an undercover that makes you the seller.

Marked by money. Heroin in your pockets in matching bags.

Man, my mom needed her meds. She's got stage bull and foma and my grandma's in

a wheelchair. Uh-uh. Flag on the plate.

Your mom had cancer last time I repped you. And your grandma passed two years

ago. Okay, okay, okay.

What happens if I blow trial?

Fifteen, max.

This judge?

Maybe twelve?

I just turned thirty two weeks ago.

I'm tired, you know.

I want to walk out of here, and I want to make a change.

What about a drug program?

I'll ask again.

Well, if not that, I'm just going to fight it.

If anybody can get me that NG, it's you.

All right.

Well, hello, Your Honor.

Keep moving.

I can't be seen with you.

What were you thinking?

What are you talking about, honey? They think you tampered with the jury.

Till it gets resolved, you're quit tonight.

People versus Brenda McGinnis.

Step up.

Who is that?

You've been creeping her for like 20 minutes?

Alison Bontemps. She's been his fiance.

And it's engaged?

Yes, and not to me.

You like him?

She's gorgeous.

Has a strong face.

They're going to this restaurant tonight. I was thinking about showing

up. Is that stalkery? Sort of.

But also, why do that to yourself?

I don't know. I guess I just want to see what she has that I don't. Why you chose

her.

That and I could poison her. Who's the supermodel? Bennett's fiance.

Oh, my God. I'm sorry.

He made me nervous.

He's here to evaluate me, not you.

So now just listen.

Remember, it's all about your client.

He may look like a creep. He is a creep.

He's a subway rubber.

Doesn't matter. He's your client. So you need to drop the revulsion.

The courtroom is all about the unspoken. The jury's going to clock the way that

you talk about your client, the way that you look at him, the way that you touch

him. I can't touch him. You'll have to touch him. Just as soft like a touch on

the shoulder. Something to telegraph that you're not afraid, you know, that

he's human.

You can do this. Just go slow, be confident.

Doc, it ended 7-8-8. People versus Jordan Dunlow. Step up.

Thank you.

The defendant rubbed up against a woman on the subway, Your Honor, for the

twelfth time. He was on his way to the probation department to check in with

his P.O. because he's guess what?

On probation. For rubbing, I suppose.

The woman he rubbed up against happened to be another probation officer. Ooh,

that's some bad luck, huh?

It was a crowded subway.

Frank and beans or just a Frank?

What?

Oh, my God, I'm sorry.

Frank, nobody saw the pintos or the kielbasa, Your Honor.

Cute. Okay, so we got a 12-time loser with an in-the-pants subway rubbing. I'm

gonna give him 90 days.

90 days is a good deal, Jordan. Honestly, we don't have much of a

defense. They'll email live at Rikers.

I'll make bail.

So reject the offer.

My client respectfully declines the offer.

I don't know what you're thinking, Counsel, but it's time your client

realized this is the end of the line.

I'm going to mark the court papers for no less than 90 days and set the bail at

$10,000.

Jordan, this much space between you and everyone else from now on, you got it?

If you have any...

urges, call before you do anything stupid. Did you give him your number?

No, I gave him yours.

What?

Tell me that is Sam and Vinny's.

Oh, I love you.

Okay, so another round of 20 questions and the guest of Tracy's second game.

Okay, next question.

Dodson.

Where did that come from?

Because you butt-doubled me last night and the things I heard him doing to you,

you are nasty.

And let's just say appearing in front of him in court will never be the same.

More importantly, are you crazy? As a born to be, Georgia. Okay, A, I don't

know what that means, but B, you know they can disbar you, right? Honey, of

course I know.

That's the thrill.

Okay,

no pizza.

What's going on? We are going to come back to this, but I am saving my

appetite for my Bennett and Allison reconnaissance dinner.

Reconnaissance my eye. I saw her photo.

God, you could have him easy. I am not trying to steal her man.

Then what are you doing? I just want to see.

Why does she get bitten? I'm the one who's doing God's work here. Why am I

not blessed and highly favored enough to get the love of my life? Maybe you are.

Huh? Maybe he just wants to see how bad you are. Some cases for you ladies to

cover? Can you not knock? Yes, Mr. Trolley. Right away, Mr. Trolley. Hey,

hi. Sorry to interrupt.

Hey. Make yourself useful. Give this notice of actual engagement to Judge

Hernandez. Oh, wait. You are not trying the stash and cash, are you? It's what

my client wants.

Have you mentioned the little issue of the marked money? Or the match and drug

stash? Hon, that's not a winnable case.

So I'm supposed to plead a guy that wants a trial? Did you even bother

asking for a drug program? Deshae will never go for it. And I don't think my

guy will complete it. And I hate asking. It just makes him sound guilty.

Charlie, you have to get him a program. Talk to his mother. Get her to plead his

case. If Deshae says no, go to his bureau chief. You know it's insane to

roll the dice on a stash in cash.

Really? Sorry, I stopped listening. I called his mommy.

Okay. You think the sun comes up just to hear you crow, don't you?

I'll do it.

You want to see some real trial action? I got a big buy-in bus going. Uh-uh,

Rick. She's with me this week. I'm teaching her how to connect to those,

uh, wait, you know, uh, the, gosh, I forgot. Oh, clients.

Is that pizza gluten-free wet?

Oh, you know what? Forget it. I can look a little.

What's next?

Hookers and float?

All right, ladies, thank you for lunch, and thank you for being team Charm.

No, uh-uh, no, mom.

Hey Janice, I wanted to drop this off.

Notice of engagement for Mr. Riggs.

Their trial's a little late to find Jesus. Jesus walked with Kanye, he can't

walk with my client? Oh, you're panicking last minute.

Like the Navarro case.

Sorry I had to school you. Why do you go so hard on these drug cases?

You hit the pipe back in a day or something. Look at you, an amateur

shrink and an amateur attorney.

He'll plead if you approve the drug program.

For a three-time felon.

Recidivism suggests that an early sentence simply wasn't long enough.

Whip a dog hard enough. He'll learn I'm talking about 18 months of real

residential rehab and I'm talking about 11 years in prison Come on his record

the max is 15 can is not gonna give him more than 12. Well, then my offer saves

him a year And if you don't like it, then you can try the case But don't come

running to me when your little dopey needs the max You can't win this

So if I would you I'd smile Take your 11 years Say thank

you.

You ain't me.

And thank you wasn't what I had in mind.

This is how it's about to go down.

After I light your Ben Carson bow tie wearing ass up in front of that jury,

it's going to be me schooling you on what cases I can or can't win.

After the undercover officer radioed in the description of the cellar, what did

you do?

I ordered the backup team to move in. They spotted the defendant 20 feet from

where the buy went down.

And did he match the description provided by the undercover?

Stringy hair, black jeans, red baseball cap.

He also had the buy money and the stash on it. Can you explain that to the jury?

Undercovers use marked money. We write down the serial numbers so if we arrest

someone, we can see if they have the same bills.

The defendant had this marked money on him. Two fives and a ten.

Anything else?

Different sellers stamped their glassine heroin bags with different designs.

The heroin the undercover bought was labeled cop killer with two K's and two

P's. Mr. Pike had 12 bags of this cop killer on him when he was arrested.

Thank you.

Have fun.

That description, the one you say matched so perfectly.

That must have been recorded by the 911 Sprint system when the undercover

transmitted it. No, we use a secure channel when we're undercover.

So there's no recording of what that description really was? I wrote it down

as it came over the air.

How do we know that?

I just testified to it.

Okay.

You have a cell phone that takes pictures, right?

Ones with time and location stamps on them? What's your point, Counselor? Just

wondering exactly what time you took pictures of it by money.

We don't photograph it. Then how do we know you wrote down the serial numbers

before the arrest instead of after?

Well, again, Counselor, I just testified under oath that we did so. Right, but

I'm asking for some proof.

Are you accusing me? Sounds like you're calling me a liar. I'm asking because

how do we know you're not? Okay, let's move it along, guys.

Did you get my client's fingerprints from any of the heroin glass scenes? We

don't test for that. Right, because let me guess, instead of actual evidence,

your sworn testimony should be enough.

Hey, my team and I are out there every day fighting to save your communities.

Then on behalf of my community, let me say that we'd feel much better if you

showed up with some actual evidence.

I'm done with you.

So, tell me why you're the best choice to be a supervisor.

You gotta teach them the fundamentals.

Up their skills and then send them off to sink or swim.

A supervisor's supposed to nurture you, mentor you, patch you up when the system

gets you down. I think we should have a giant whiteboard in the office with

everyone's win-loss record.

A giant whiteboard. I know our clients and I would help everyone that I

supervise become the best lawyer they could be. I'm in your platinum category.

It's what I was called to do.

It's my dharma.

As a yogi would say.

More valuable, harder to obtain, worth having and worth keeping.

Come on, Tom, would I be here if I was in it for the money?

No offense, but... And seriously, you don't have anyone who could try a case

better than me. And no one, and I mean no one, tries a case better than me.

Smothered tofu steak.

$40. Yeah, I could smother my electric bill for the price of a meal here.

So, are you still having financial difficulties?

No, it's just jokes.

I'm paying my bills, taking care of business. I'm good.

So, David's getting out soon.

We need to talk about where he's going to live.

It's up to me to take care of my son.

Please allow me to do that.

Okay, it's just...

You haven't gone to see him, and I kind of know how he feels.

I mean, I keep asking you to come and see me in court, and you haven't. Look,

as I've said, Gwen, I'll be there when I can.

It'll be good.

Hey, Bennett.

My word.

Good to see you. What a surprise. Hello. Hi.

Gwen, you remember Allison?

Of course.

Good to see you.

You want to join us?

We'd love to. Sure. Yeah.

Why not?

Thank you.

What are you doing here?

I did hear something about me being a very bad girl.

We'll talk tomorrow.

Hernandez might refer you to the DA's office for jury tampering.

That does sound very serious.

What's the matter with you?

You could lose your law license. God, everybody keeps saying that.

Did you get any specifics?

I wasn't in a position to probe.

Is there anything you want to tell me?

Why don't you stop being all scaredy-pants and probe this?

This is very pretty for rapid food.

So are you a real vegan or a beacon?

A vegan who'd be eating anything that don't have a mother, like fries, pies.

A real one. And I'm gluten-free, soy-free, dairy-free, sugar-free. I

know, it sounds annoying.

Oh, my God.

Must drive you crazy, Mr. Burger and Fries.

Not anymore.

She converted me. You know, Allison, this spring roll's almost as good as

yours.

You make your own spring rolls?

I actually hand-make everything. When we travel, I take cooking lessons from the

locals. It's just a hobby.

Stop it.

Stop being modest.

Madison's about to publish a book on vegan gluten-free eating.

That is great.

So, Gwen, what do you do for fun?

She likes to box, so you need to be nice to her.

Okay.

It's really the best. It's my de-stressor, and it's a total body

workout. I mean, can we all say bodily kinesthetic intelligence?

My hand-eye coordination is crazy.

And with all the rotational movements, my muscles are tight.

Jordan,

no. Keep your junk in your pants.

Do not leave the house.

I don't know. Put an ice pack on it. Don't get on the subway. I'm not

kidding. I'm hanging up.

Sorry.

Wow, Bennett's been telling me about your cases, but they sound more eventful

than he says.

I have a serial subway robber.

A frauderist.

A what?

It's from the French for tour or to rob. The French psychiatrist Valentin Magnin

coined the term.

I didn't know that.

I spent a year studying French intellectual history at the Sorbonne.

That's very impressive.

Thank you.

So, did you ever get to the bottom of that rogue juror situation?

I interviewed the foreperson. She felt the verdict was tainted. Some of the

jurors were upset, too.

Not so upset they couldn't reach a unanimous verdict.

Good point.

Did Tracy Campbell ever appear before you?

All the time.

I have to say, I have trouble believing she did anything intentionally.

It's a big thing to open an investigation.

It's so time-consuming.

And I, for one, need to focus on reducing my caseload.

I'll drink to that.

But I got the snuggle bear.

That was the first time I knew she was going to be a lawyer. She was four.

Dessert sampler for Mr. Thompson and Ms. Vaughn Thompson. Oh, how nice.

I have the honor of catering their wedding. You're engaged.

How wonderful.

Thank you. We're very excited.

Thank you.

Well, we couldn't be more thrilled, right, Gwen?

It's Bennett and Allison.

Cheers.

I knew

you'd be back.

What kind of heroin did you buy?

It was called Cop Killer.

And do you see the man who sold you the heroin in the courtroom?

Right there, in the blue blazer.

Thank you.

Nothing further.

The marked money you supposedly handed over. Did hand over. You claim you

handed over. I did hand it over. Well, you have no independent proof. The

serial numbers were recorded beforehand.

Do you? Yes or no? Yes.

I have the testimony of Sergeant Guilford. Who never documented recording

the serial numbers. If we had, you'd say we didn't do it on video. If we did it

on video, you'd say we didn't have a clock in the video. No, we had a clock

in the video. I'm asking the question.

Objection. Let the man finish.

Officer, would you like to finish?

We don't use cameras because we're buying real drugs from dangerous people.

We use a secure line because if people find out what we're doing...

Good cops get killed. I didn't ask about the danger officer I asked if you had

any real evidence or if you're just saying trust me to this jury what I got

is this That's the guy who sold me the heroin Look, I get it.

No matter what I bring in you're gonna find some way to say it's not

trustworthy I understand that's your job But it don't mean that your man Ain't a

drug dealer

How'd it go last night?

Allison is such a bitch.

And by bitch, I mean smart and light with that body like, damn.

Honestly, I can't even be mad at Bennett. She's the truth.

Oh, my God.

You need a V-steam.

You talking about steaming this V?

Yes. Sit on, like, a throne thing, and there's this steaming pot of herbs that

goes underneath your lady parts.

It'll balance your hormones, it's an energetic release, and it'll help you

get over Bennett.

I read about it on Goop. Oh,

Lord, girl. See, you need to be reading Afrobella.

Are you kidding me?

Seriously, Jordan, you got picked up again? I thought I told you to put an

ice pack on it. I'm sorry, I'm not your client.

Please, you're one of the most distinctive dudes I have ever met.

I'm not Jordan. I'm his twin, Gordon.

You stay right here. You sit right there. Can I see the papers on Mr.

Dunlop, please?

Oh, man, is that Jordan or Gordon? Because I can never tell.

Excuse me.

You were talking to my client?

Can we step outside for a minute?

They're offering him a year. We tried to get our client to take 90 days.

They offered you 90 days? Damn, I would have taken that.

Oh my God, seriously?

I mean,

I just can't believe they're both grubbers. What are the chances that...

Let's join forces. I have an idea.

I think you're in my office.

It's kind of nice in here.

Comfortable. Good for her. Uh-uh. Not gonna happen.

That's not what she said last night. Why are you squatting in my secret happy

place? Just trying to get my head together.

You're always in here. I thought it might help.

Don't tell me Charlie the Great is nervous.

I might have messed up.

I got demolished by the undercover.

I should have listened to you and ran with the drug program.

Please, my body is a temple.

I let punk-ass Deshae get to me, and now I might have blown it.

I had a hooker client once.

She got hit with promoting prostitution.

I was so amped.

I just knew I could get the charges dropped because the cop who picked her

up had been getting blowjobs from her.

But it backfired.

She ended up getting two years.

You know what really sucks?

What?

We go home.

I go to prison.

You want my advice?

Why else am I in this damn closet?

Go to Duchenne.

Put aside your gigantic, enormous, humongous, big ol' ego.

Swallow your pride and ask... No, no way.

I lay down for Deshae now, he'll own me. I'll be his bitch forever.

That means no leverage for any future clients.

PD 101, you fight for every client as if they are your only client. Street 101, a

dude beats your ass, he always beats your ass. You are not on the street

anymore. You seriously thinking I should just bend over for Deshae? I think that

you are man enough.

Not to let your client suffer for your arrogance.

This might be a learning moment for you. And mostly, I think not everything

between you and Deshae has to have homoerotic overtones.

Taxi!

Excuse me, Ms. Sullivan.

James Motz, the parole officer who was assigned to your brother David.

Is something wrong?

Your father, he declined to serve as an approved residence for David. So David

suggested I contact you.

Um, apparently there's been some sort of miscommunication between my father and

me. Can we get back to you? You can't release your brother without an approved

residence.

I'll wait for your call.

Dad,

I just got ambushed by parole. Did you change your mind about David?

What's going on? Call me back.

It's Jay.

Oh, ready for another round of big time?

I came to talk some sense. All over so soon.

I may have let our prior history cloud my judgment.

Make me a reasonable offer, I'll take it to my client.

Only if you tell me how it feels to face your own pathetic inadequacies.

No?

All right, then.

Let's see.

The maximum is 15, and I offered you 11 before. So if you ask me really nicely,

I can give him 14.

Go ahead.

Ask me.

Really nicely.

Okay.

Please.

Really nicely.

I'm humbly asking for the sake of my client for you to kiss my ass.

Call your next witness.

Try to relax.

Open mind.

Relax body.

Center your vagina right over the steam.

Hey, hey, hey!

You have to just let it get up there.

The hot water has salvia, rosemary, oregano, mugwort, wormwood. Very

good for detoxification.

Of the uterus.

I'm sorry. Is she trying to say my coochie is toxic?

20 minutes.

How

come

Tracy doesn't like me?

Well, if I had to guess, and this is her, not me.

She thinks you're too soft.

Too entitled, too naive.

Oh, and your hair.

She said something about my hair? No, that was me. You got a black salon? Like

a real one in the hood? Is it supposed to itch? Because it hits the steam doing

its job. No, this really is itching. Excuse me, spotlighting!

Could you, there's a certain amount of itching, irritation happening here. Is

it possible you are allergic to the herbs?

I mean, you didn't say sage. Is there sage in here? Salvia is another name for

sage. No, no, no. I am allergic to that. You have to say that. You have to say

the English word for stuff.

I'm allergic to sage.

You can't do that. That is like, oh my God.

Dr. Hernandez.

Thank me for saving your ass. I didn't ask for a savior, just the occasional

hookup.

Jesus, Tracy.

You came this close to being referred to the DA's office for investigation. It

could have ended your career. It was all blown out of proportion.

You can't admit what you did, can you? Admit what exactly? I saw you.

I was there. You... Tampered with a jury. What you saw was me saving an

innocent man from getting an unjust conviction shoved up his ass.

It was unethical and illegal.

Said the man cheating on his wife.

That is not the same thing.

What I did, it might be illegal, but it's not immoral. Whereas you screwing

me, it might be technically legal, but it's immoral and wildly unethical. So

why don't you spare me the lecture?

I presume that the defense is stipulating to the chemist testimony?

Actually, no, your honor. Oh, come on. Mr. Riggs, are you seriously going to

force him to put the chemist on the stand? Because if you are, I have too

many cases for you to engage in fruitless exercises.

The law says prosecution has to prove every element of the offense charged.

They say this stuff is heroin. Let him put on the chemist to prove it.

This is gamesmanship.

The defense is intentionally trying to stall. Is there any real chance that the

substance in this case is not heroin?

I don't know. Not my burden.

You say you can prove your case? Prove it. Call a witness.

You've been a chemist for how long? Nine years.

So you're pretty good at recognizing heroin.

I'm very familiar with it, yes.

But even if I'm almost positive something is heroin, I still test it.

Right. Can you explain what you do to it?

Before I testify, I do a series of tests to prove a substance is actually a

prohibited narcotic.

You do tests?

To confirm your suspicion?

As I said.

Because as a scientist, you'd never expect anyone to take your word for

something if you hadn't shown your work.

Of course not.

How many tests do you do on a substance before declaring it to be heroin?

Five in total. Three reagent tests, one microcrystal test, and then a GCMS to

confirm. And you document each one?

Yes. We keep contemporaneous records.

How would we know?

Is there a way to verify your claim?

The computer timestamps everything. We dictate our notes as we go. We always

show our work. I mean, we do every test possible before we testify to something.

Because you would never just come into court and say, trust me, I'm a

scientist. You'd never expect a jury to take your word on something if you

hadn't shown your work, would you? No, I wouldn't.

Impressive.

Thank you for bringing us some real evidence.

What's wrong?

Nothing.

So what happened last night?

It was painful.

I swore off men and then I slept with Charlie.

Wait, you slept with Charlie?

I thought you liked Bennett.

Yeah, so did I.

Wait, why do I smell rosemary and oregano?

Because Vanessa took me to get a V-steam and broke my vajoinks.

Crest on a cracker. I'm so confused.

I took her to get a spa treatment for her cervix to cleanse her of Bennett

Juju.

And why wasn't I invited to the cooter cleaner? Trace, we were sitting on a box

with a hole in it with mugwort steam wafting up into our lady parts. I made

an executive decision that you and your cooter would not have fun.

Good decision.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

I don't understand the plan here.

Why are we working so hard for these rubbing twins?

Of course you don't. Shouldn't they do some jail time for rubbing up against

women on the subway? I don't know. Vanessa, should we lock up all the

alcoholics, too? Hey, Jordan, it's Gwen.

I need you to round up Gordon and call me back. We need to have a brutally

honest conversation about your sexual proclivities.

Oh, and I need you to do some shopping. Bye.

I need you to put on a pantsuit.

Hey.

Why do I smell the weeds that grew in the empty parking lot I played baseball

in as a kid?

I called you three times.

Come in.

Most daughters, when they see their father calling... Most fathers would

take their sons in after they've been incarcerated.

What happened, Daddy? You need to get you some groceries.

And for God's sakes, you need to leave that flame boat alone. That stuff will

kill you. Dad, did you come here to talk to me about groceries?

I thought that I could make peace with David's actions

and his circumstances. I cannot.

I've given the two of you the best of everything.

Clearly, it is not enough.

There is nothing else that I am willing to give your brother.

Well, how am I supposed to take him in? Gwendolyn, he is not your responsibility

either. You need to focus on yourself and make better choices.

I might be old, but I am not blind.

I saw that you have feelings for Bennett.

So did Allison.

You need to find your own man.

Dad, decent black men are hard to come by.

That's an excuse.

You spend all your time with your clients, helping without getting help.

That is no way to live.

That is no way for... That is no way for my daughter to live.

Quit job, abandon brother, find love. Got it. Thanks, Dad.

Terrific parental advice.

How old were you when you started getting the urge to rub on women?

Eleven. Eleven.

Do you have a preferred venue for your activity?

I prefer the subway.

The subway.

Do you like blondes, brunettes?

Brunettes. Dark brunettes. We both do.

Come on.

How about women in pantsuits?

Yeah, I got a thing for pantsuits.

Me too, and I like women with clear-haired voices.

Like mine?

Yeah. Your Honor, this is ridiculous.

Counselor, what's your point?

Would you both please stand up?

Your Honor, both of these men suffer from frauderism.

It is a recognized psychiatric disorder, and it has a genetic component. I mean,

look at them. They're twins, and they have the exact same proclivities, and

they're both activated by my colleague, Vanessa. This is ridiculous.

They're both serial sexual predators.

The condition is apparently very amenable to treatment.

There's actually a residential program that could help them. Yeah, it's called

the New York Prison System. You want me to sentence serial rubbers to a rubbing

program? Therapy is far more likely to prevent future offenses. And besides

locking them up for a genetic disorder, that's like punishing them for how they

were made.

Give them a chance to learn how to control their urges. Or send them to

Rikers. They'll get the message. Enough.

Sit down.

Counselors, men like these are one of the scourges of the subway.

But I am also conscious of the limits of our prison system.

Let's hope this program works, because if it doesn't, you're both going to

jail.

There was a time when a police officer could walk into a courtroom and deserved

credibility.

But in the days of Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, when people can live stream cops

gunning down children on Facebook, when the screams of I can't breathe can still

be heard echoing in the air.

Well, police just don't deserve that special treatment anymore.

Michael Brown, Freddie Gray.

and a thousand other names prove beyond any doubt that the word of a police

officer can no longer justify giving away a man's life to the criminal

justice system only the chemist showed up in this case with real evidence

everything else was just a bunch of cops saying because i said so

They had no proof. They wrote down the serial numbers before they found the

money. They had no proof. They ever even radioed a description.

Because I said so is not enough.

And if it's not enough, you cannot possibly find this man guilty.

Notice how he talks of Tamir Rice and Eric Garner as if their deaths have

anything to do with this man being a drug dealer.

His argument preys on your ignorance. It banks on your inability to tell the

difference between a bad shooting and good evidence.

In this case, the undercover bought drugs from Mike Pike.

He identified him.

And when they arrested him, Pike had to buy money and the drugs on him. It's

that simple.

You're angry about Eric Garner.

I am too, but you do not let a guilty drug dealer walk because some crafty

defense lawyer got you riled up about police brutality.

No.

You're smarter than that.

All right, all right.

He's doing the most.

Hey, that guy at the end of the bar there, the cute one with the bow tie.

Who?

No, no, no, no, no.

That is like Cribs and Bloods, girl. He is forbidden fruit.

Seriously, there's no super hot exception. Listen to me. He is the

enemy. Nessa.

How was your day of sexual deviancy? Well, never in my wildest dreams would I

imagine that I'd feel good about getting a rubber off.

Well, I got it. I mean, they obviously have a compulsion. They can't help

themselves. Well, the question is whether you can feel good walking a

client if you could help it.

Who wins the unwinnable case?

What's my name?

Oh, impressive.

So not to rain on your parade, Vanessa and I got the rubber twins.

Wait for it.

into a program.

You got a program for Hervey and Purvey? What's our name?

Okay. We're in honor of your minor accomplishment.

Drinks on me. Yeah, except you never carry your wallet.

And mess up the line of this suit, please. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Not this

time. You be a gentleman and you pony up. I'm going to get my wallet. Thank

you.

Step away from the vehicle.

I said, step away from the vehicle.

Since when is it against the law to admire a car? Put your hands in the air.

Do it. Hands in the air now.

You kidding me?

Come on, bro.

Look at him. He did it with me. Hey, just relax, man.

Learn to do what you're told.

I didn't do nothing, man. I didn't do anything.

Get off of me.

I didn't do anything.

That's what you get for talking back, homie.

Under arrest for obstructing a police officer.

Disordered conduct.

He's just a rest.

This is bullshit.

You can't do this. See, one is a little bit closer than the other. Watch your

head. That's why you can't sleep. You got to keep your eyes open.

I want to know what I did.

What code did I break?

Huh?

What code did I break right here? Other than looking at a damn car.

No, I'm not. Shut the hell up.

Next time on

In Contempt.

Press down.

Get it nice and black.

You can't do a strip search.

I'm a lawyer. And my son is a black boy in America born with two strikes against

him. The defense respectfully moves that you recuse yourself.

On what grounds?

Because you never lived in the hood and you don't know what it means. No, you

have no idea what I know or don't know, Glenn.

Post bail or plead guilty. I got cases to move here. No way, I'll lose my job.

Okay, I don't work for the money and I don't work for the man. I do my job

because don't nobody give a damn about black people.