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For eight seasons, America has been watching him grind.

Tonight, it all grinds to a halt.

Stay tuned for a very special episode, the Grindr series finale.

Why don't you say that again so that everyone can hear you? I wasn't on the

rooftop. She wasn't on the rooftop. You need to settle, Grindr. Don't settle,

ever. This is our house.

Stetson Grindr.

Was he a good man? No. But that doesn't make him a killer.

He's mouthing the freaking... I don't care what it takes. What is it that I'm

not seeing?

What if this is the one I can't win?

What if it's the one you have to?

Grinder rests.

One last time.

Wow, wow.

Whoa. That was so tight. I loved that. Marvelous stuff, son. Wow. Amazing.

Yeah, no, that was a good finale. Amazing.

No, it's so cool, like, watching you, like, watch the show and stuff.

And it seemed truthful to you guys as lawyers?

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's great.

It felt as real as all the other ones.

So what was your favorite part about it, little bro?

Well, it was a good case. A very satisfying way to...

To say goodbye to the show. Could you be more specific?

Sure. Um, I liked that, um... That he was a lone wolf, you know? Uh, the

grinder. And yet now he's decided to have a family.

That's one way to interpret it.

So, what are you gonna do now, Uncle Dean?

I don't know.

I mean, right now I'm just driving on the highway of... What the hell is my

life?

Looking for a off-ramp.

I think I just gotta pull the car over.

You know, just get out and see what life has to offer.

Makes total sense. I get it. Just take it all in. Change the oil, maybe? Take a

deep breath. Stretch your legs a little.

100%. Am I the only one who thinks this highway thing is stupid? That life is a

highway? He didn't just invent that, you know, tonight, here.

You are really upset about this highway metaphor.

I hate that you're bringing this out on me.

You know, I'm not that guy.

You're not that guy. I'm this guy.

Yeah, you are.

I'm cool.

You're so cool.

It's going to be fine, honey. He's leaving in like three days. Like his

show ending is an existential dilemma, you know? I know. It's ridiculous.

It is ridiculous. I don't think you realize how ridiculous it is. And

everyone's so worried about him. Hey, you know what?

The TV star is gonna be fine. If you look at me, I'm a mess.

It's all right, babe. You just get riled up every time he comes into town

because, you know, he's this big star, and it makes you feel like a side

character.

No, that's not it at all.

I don't feel like a side character. I know, right? Who would say something

like that?

You just said it two seconds ago.

Don't be... You think being cute's gonna make me forget the side character thing?

Is it a little bit? A little bit it is. It is... Yes, it's working surprisingly

well, actually. You're very good at this.

Mom, Dad, is it cool if Joel Zadak comes over tomorrow night?

The 10th grader? That's a football player, right?

He wants to... with you? Here?

I've been really coming into my own lately, and I think he's picking up on

that.

Oh. Okay.

Cool. Sure.

Awesome.

Pace.

Pace. Pace.

Coming into his own, kind of like a...

A douchebag, huh? Oh, my God.

Hey.

Couldn't sleep.

It's 8.30.

Man, I like what you got here.

Thank you, Dean. You got it all figured out. You know, you always have.

Kids are growing up so good.

Debbie, man.

Wow, I forgot how rad she is.

It's beautiful to see.

It's beautiful.

I have none of it.

Dean, you're being a little dramatic.

You have a lot. You did it. I mean, you made the right choices that lead to a

meaningful life, and I want that. And you make me think I can have it.

I make you think that. I love you, brother.

I love you so damn much.

You inspire me, man.

Okay.

We don't do this enough.

hug for a really long time like this?

What's with the note cards, Stu? Your kid brother still gets butterflies

before he goes to court. Hey, man.

Can I pitch something?

I can't imagine that'd be helpful.

Oh, yeah. What the hell, Dean? I need those cards.

You only think you need them. What's the precedent?

Kemper v. Mannheim, 1997.

Cameron Mannheim. See? You're like an encyclopedia for this crap.

You're perfect. Let's go.

Grinder! Hey, man, thanks for watching. Love ya.

Prelim hearing, Krantz v.

Ramirez. Counsel.

Your Honor, my client, Victor Ramirez, has resided at 887 Oak for nine years on

June 5th. Landlord Abel T. Krantz attempted to raise monthly rent to $750,

violating Section 2-9A of the Idaho General Statute.

Um,

I have a question.

Have you ever talked before?

Nice.

He claims that by missing the March payment, you violated the terms of the

lease, giving him cause to terminate and issue you a new lease at essentially

whatever rate he wants. We didn't miss payment. He just never cashed it.

Because he want us out to raise rent. We hear that and we empathize with it?

but frankly this missing check is just crushing us he's offering you a thousand

dollars to cover moving costs and we recommend you take it settle council do

you mind if i counter that seems wildly inappropriate

we don't move and we don't

pay one more cent in rent dean i like that plan are you grinding is he helping

with case no he is not helping he is not a lawyer right now this case is all

about Apartments.

No rent.

But what it should be about is character.

I say we turn this whole thing on its head and put Krantz on the defensive.

That sounded smart to me. Me too. Stu? No. This is a terrible idea. We should

definitely settle. We will 100% lose the case. I feel like I'm in a Grindr

episode right now. Season 4, episode 9. Settle to the metal. We learned

something very important in that episode.

The Grindr?

never settles. He never settles. Not in his nature.

I need to ask everyone here, is it in our nature to settle? I don't think so.

I'm tired of settling. I feel like all we do around here is settle. I can't

believe this is an actual conversation.

Victor, this is your call.

Do you want to pack your things or do you want to roll the dice?

Mr. Stewart, we roll the dice. Go to trial like the grinder said.

Yeah!

So exciting!

So clear to me now.

Dad was a great lawyer.

You're a great lawyer.

I became a character who was a great lawyer.

I need to be doing this.

For real.

So you're going to go to law school? Well, I don't think I need that with the

show and all.

Oh, sure. Well, acting on a TV show is the equivalent of going to law school,

so why would you need that?

How can I say this?

Let's say you're at a restaurant and Noah Wiley is two tables down. You go

into cardiac arrest.

You don't think Noah Wiley could step in and help? I like this analogy.

Yes, he could help by calling a doctor because he is an actor. So you would

rather go into cardiac arrest next to someone who didn't play a doctor on

television rather than Noah Wiley who did and probably picked stuff up along

the way? Not me. I'd take Wiley. Okay, fine.

I guess in this very specific hypothetical, I would rather have a

heart attack next to Noah Wiley. Absolutely.

Grind arrest.

And now we are going to trial on an eviction case for a $650 a month

apartment. I think it's sweet, actually.

You know, he's trying to impress you. He wants to be more like his brother, as

well he should.

And you know, Dean, he's probably already on to something else.

Hey, guys, is an adversary proceeding basically just a trial that takes place

within the context of a bankruptcy case?

Yeah, pretty much. Why?

I got my assistant hooking up the bar for later in the month. Oh, you're

taking the bar?

Here. So you're going to stay here longer?

Well, you can't take the Idaho bar in California.

Come on, man. Stick with me on this.

I guess you're right, Dean. You have to stay here to take the bar here.

Be good, you two.

You be good.

I mean, it actually sounds like he knows what he's talking about. That's the

thing, Deb. It's just words.

You know, yes, in eight years on a show, he knows a lot of legal words, but he

doesn't know what they mean. I know the words.

But I just can't say them right all the time. You say them really well, sweetie.

He's never going to leave.

He's going to stay here forever, and I'm going to be stuck talking up here in

this octave forever.

I hope not. I don't think he knows up here.

It's bad. I talk down here.

This is my normal voice.

No, that's too low. Well, that's a little low. But here's right. Here's

right. There you are. Right there. Uh-huh.

He thinks he's the grinder. He doesn't know about the grind. I know about the

grind. I grind.

I go to work every day for years and years. And what do I do there? Grind. I

grind. Because I am the grinder. Yeah. I grind hard.

Okay. All right. Well, I'm going to note card this.

And I'm going to address this to his face first thing in the morning. Good.

Okay? One.

You need to leave Wednesday as planned, Dean.

Great card. Thank you. Two.

Hey.

Where's your football player friend?

He's just in the bathroom.

Huh.

He's not coming back, is he? No.

He's with Lizzie.

Dad doesn't let her have boys over.

How's you, Uncle Dean?

I've been there.

It's fine.

Everyone at school knows he's here.

I'll get some mileage out of that.

It's a good thing, big picture.

No.

We are going to nail that kid to the wall.

Let's just lay all the cards out on the table.

Joel, Lizzie, we know what's going on. I don't know what you're talking about,

bro.

I'm fine with it, but I need to make sure that both sides are taken care of.

My man E has been wronged. He needs to get something out of this.

Make us an offer.

What are you guys thinking? What?

I've got us in a corner, babe.

Fine.

Tomorrow at school, I'll tell everybody how much fun I had here, and I'll even

say he's a solid hang.

That sounds pretty fair.

Now, we want pictures from your private online accounts posted, giving him a

piggyback ride.

Hashtag best friends.

Hashtag teen life.

Hashtag teen life? What part of hashtag teen life do you not understand?

Dean, we need to have a conversation, and I would like to know specific times

and dates of your departure.

Use the cards. Cards are your friends, not a crutch.

Hey, Dean, I really need to... Is that my suit? Oh, yeah, yeah. No, it's

wardrobe. It's part of the process. Tells me a lot about somebody. I love

watching a transformation.

Dean, can I just talk to you for a quick sec? No, we don't have time for quick

secs. Look, we've got to get the word out about how unsavory this Kranz

character is. I love it.

The Sanderson boy is riding again.

Right? I mean, lately I've been so, I don't know, lost, and these last few

days, being here, I realize what I've been missing, and it's this.

I'm sorry, you wanted to ask me something.

Take it away.

We are here with the grinder himself, Dean Sanderson. What brings you home to

Boise?

Well, I'm actually here to find myself.

And I also happen to be working on a case, one that's very personal to me,

Emily. There's a snake in the village.

a viper albert kranz i am calling you out sir this town is pushing back and we

the people will see you in court it's just a brother

yes it's just a brother oh

you scared me i gave a lecture at the law school today of course and

afterwards a student came up to me and it was the usual i love you i love the

show you inspire me but then She told me that she was a single mother, and she

had a daughter fighting for her life.

Cutaneous B-cell lymphoma.

That's awful.

Yeah, it is.

So she asked me to sign her daughter's hospital bracelet, said it would mean

the world to her, and I reached into my jacket pocket to get a pen.

There was no pen.

Just these.

Hurtful, hurtful words.

Needless to say, that little girl never got her autograph.

Dean, I'm sorry.

Why didn't you sign the bracelet?

Is this how you feel about me?

Just say it.

Do you know what your problem is?

You don't push back.

Ever. Krantz says move out, you say fine.

Well, you know what I do? I push back.

Joel Zadak. He wants to use Ethan to get with Lizzie, and Ethan's supposed to sit

back and take it? Wait, what? Oh, yeah, you didn't know about that? Don't worry.

I pushed back, and I got the kid a great deal. Now Zadak's gonna tell everybody

at school that Ethan's a great kid. It's a win-win for everybody. Wait a second.

Let me just... This kid was using Ethan to get with my daughter, and your

solution was to leverage her for his junior high school popularity.

The way you're saying that makes it sound worse than... I said it the exact

way you said it. I just repeated it back to you. You're hearing it for the first

time, and it sounds terrible.

Well, then I would maybe push back on that, too. All right, why don't you push

back, Dean?

This is me pushing back.

Off the cards.

We are done here. I don't want you talking to my clients. I don't want you

in my house. I don't want you meddling with my kids. I don't even know why

you're here, Dean.

Just... just... leave us alone.

Wow.

Turns out you didn't need the cards.

You were able to hurt me right to my face.

Congratulations, Counselor. I accept your deal.

I will leave.

Tomorrow.

At first light.

First light, you see, the morning.

Where's Grindr? I don't see Grindr. Stewart, you want to break it to your

clients why he's not here?

Where's our guy?

Your Honor, my brother and I got into a fight.

And maybe he's had some things that I probably shouldn't have.

At the time, I felt like I wanted to say them, but now I feel I've said too much

about it already.

Anyway, he's mad at me, and he's not coming.

Seriously? Come on!

Sadly, we still need to continue, even without the grinder.

Opening arguments.

Dean Sanderson, surprisingly a no-show.

I can't watch this anymore.

Check, please.

You're not gonna finish what you started?

My client's an upstanding citizen. She never once failed to pay the rent. All

the prosecution has proven is that the plaintiff... didn't deposit a rent check

10 days before it was due. But according to the plaintiff, there's no way to

prove that.

Or is there?

Finally.

The defense calls Mr. Albert Krantz.

Objection, Your Honor. Dean Sanderson is not an actual lawyer. No, please.

This is why we're here, Leonard. Seriously?

How you doing?

Nice to meet you. Uh, objection.

You can't touch the judge. Shut up. I'll allow it. I got this.

You got this. Mr. Krantz. Can we... Do you mind if I... Yeah, sure. Oh, wait.

We'd be backlit. Oh, you know what you're doing.

There you go. Thanks. Oh, that's great.

Thank you.

Mr. Krantz, is it your contention that you are not in receipt?

of a check for one month's rent from my client? Aren't I supposed to be sworn

in? And isn't it also true that you have a history of being a monumental

douchebag? Objection. Sustained. That's her thing.

I'll allow it. Uh... Therefore... That bar your glasses.

Mm-hmm.

Therefore, if the defense were able to produce this missing check and prove

that it had been in your possession, we could all go home.

I guess, but that's not gonna happen because there is no check.

I would like to enter into evidence Exhibit A.

Let the record show that I hold in my hand a rent check dated March 1st, 2015,

from Victor Ramirez to Albert Krantz.

What? I went into your dumpster right outside the apartment.

I was just sitting there, smiling at me.

Is this actually working?

Okay, this is absurd. I never threw away any check.

You know what? I believe you.

Because all this time, I've been thinking that you're some mastermind.

Someone who hides checks.

The truth is, this check just slipped by you.

Albert Krantz is not a menace to society.

He is a menace to intelligence.

Because the man's an idiot.

Oh, okay. Leonard, I would object to that.

Oh, would you? A check-losing idiot.

I have not lost a check in 15 years. You lost this check. That's not the check.

It is the check. It can't be the check. Why not?

Why can't it be the check?

Tell me why this can't be the check! Because I destroyed the check!

Open it.

What'd it say?

Yeah, what'd it say?

Grinder rests.

Great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've all seen the show.

It's great.

Thank you. Your Honor, this is insanity. I have 10 million objections rounding

down. Firstly, not a lawyer. We had talked about that all too briefly.

They're calling up witnesses during closing, bringing in new evidence. I'm

afraid that counsel is right. As thrilling as it was, none of it is

admissible.

Thank you.

Your Honor, if I may?

The defense is pushing back.

Kitzmiller v. Dover, 1984.

The defense introduces testimony in closing arguments.

Schachter v. Bloom, 1997.

New evidence during deliberation.

Gilpin v. Rehnquist, 2002.

All right, we get the idea. You know, he's right.

Sorry, Leonard. What? I'll allow it.

It sounds like the grinder has worked his magic again. The Ramirez's are going

to be able to stay in their apartment.

And so the hero makes his way out of town.

Why do you have to go, Uncle Dean?

I just do. I think it's a mistake, son. Me too.

I know.

Life's funny that way.

Sometimes you find exactly what it is you're looking for, and you're not

allowed to pursue it.

For literally no reason.

Anyway.

Look, I know you don't love having me here, but you're the only family I got.

And it's been great.

So, thanks.

Take care of each other.

Wait, I'm sorry. Did you say something?

Maybe you don't have to go.

Maybe this is your off-ramp.

So you feel it too?

I do. I do feel it. And you think we'd make a good team?

Mm-hmm. And I could wear your suits and give advice to the kids?

Getting out of the car. I'm going to give you the biggest hug.

Look at us.

Two lawyers. One lawyer. Came up differently. We grew up together.

But we meet in the middle.

For justice.

Say it.

For justice?

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