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It's a reasonable settlement offer

1.5 million plus 500 hundred thousand severance

Plus you sign a confidentiality agreement

That might put a little crimp in my plant

To pen a Tell-All-Book?

With at least five chapters about how my Zire Motors expos� cost me my anchor desk

Well that's the thing

My company didn't fire him

I know because I have the email he wrote resigning

He quit, so why don't I just offer him 2 million dollars?

Because it's still less than what a trial wind up costing you

Sam Russell won't settle

Eli won't let him

How do you know?

I know Eli

Personally, I think you should reject this offer and go to trial

If for no other reason than I don't want to take all this stuff down

Hopefully among all that stuff there's a way to get around that email I sent

I'm not interested in getting around it

You didn't resign Sam, you simply formalized their defact of firing of you

It's called constructive termination

Basically they are arguing that demoting Sam was tantamount to firing him

Except I didn't demote him

My news director moved him to another time slot

Which is exactly what we need you to say on the sand

I don't have time to take the stand, I have a company to run

Find the time Mr. Buckley, look

No jury will find Baywest Media sympathetic if its own CEO can't be bothered to tell the story

You have a compelling story. You tried to tell the truth

To corporate power and you ended up getting exiled to 5 am

Went from covering neoracist to reporting about fender benders and the 101

You're angry Sam and you have every reason to be

But if the jury sees that anger

We're dead

Don't worry I won't come off angry

Because I'm not, I'm concerned

They banished me because of a story they thought was critical to their advertisers

You think I am the only anchor in the country with that problem?

I'm not doing this because I need the money

I'm doing it because my entire career has been about bringing the truth to light

They want to take away my anchor, that's fine

I'll do it from the witness box

Alright, big day tomorrow

Get a good night sleep

Is that what you'll be doing?

No I'll be writing Boudoir questions and an opening statement

And, drinking a lot of coffee

Eli

Will you excuse me for a moment?

I think I'm about to cameo in my own shorts and sandals movie

I heard you had your eccentricities but this isn't exactly making me swell of confidence

Don' worry. I won't bill you for the time

That reputation you got for eccentricity might be a little understated

Don't tell me. You want me to start looking into circus related workman cups claims

No! Just find out what gladiators or ancient Rome or

Latin maybe that have to do with the Russell case

Oh! Should that'll be cinch, a --- so you numb score

Do you want me to call Dr. Chen for you?

No

Why not?

You have the vision he inteprets it, isn't that how it works?

When we're speaking to each other, which we're not

Just tell me what this means to you?

Ancient Rome, two gladiators and more gore than in An Inconvenient Truth

It is and inconvenient truth I don't do vision voodoo

Chen is the one you take that stuff to, it's bad enough you make me do all the paper work

Fine

Any luck getting those documents Maggie hightailed out of Sonoma with?

And a good morning to you too

It would be a good morning if we had Baywest internal memos about our client

I mean it's not like we are going on trial today

No, wait, we are

I have a motion to compel locked and loaded, it should be a slam duck

Then why isn't Maggie playing by the rules?

I have no idea

Maggie is usually very big with the rules

So you don't know what's gotten into her?

Off the top of your head do you foresee gladiators having any significance to our case?

Don't you have an acupuncturist entertainer for this sort of thing?

I'm not speaking to him

What about your brother?

Nate neither

Well you should, if you don't want to talk to your acupuncturist fine

But you should always talk to family

Good morning Eli, Taylor

Good morning

I just uh... I just need a muffin

Uh... there are no muffins

Sir

Oh, well then... I'll just, uh...

It's fine, I was just leaving anyway

Everything OK?

Just a little family's fray, we'll be fine

OK

Well, I'm here should you feel a need to...

Much as I appreciate you offer to be my personal Dr. Feld, Eli

By now what you should be worrying about is your case

Yes of course

What happened to you have to talk to family?

I meant you and your family

My circumstances are different

Different how?

Hey sweetie! Ready for trial?

Ready for documents

Theft of evidence is a felony

And refusal to produce it to opposing counsel is an ethics violation

Right, cause you really want to lecture me on ethics here

What he's done to her to piss her off?

I have no idea but she's the one who offscounded with our documents

Well, technically they're my documents

Actually not even technically, they belong to my client

Which your client is required to let me see

Obviously it's no secret that you're sleeping with the enemy, huh?

No the secret is I made a baby with her

Mmm, you think?

Oh, right

Which reminds me to remind you that we've got a 3D ultrasound tomorrow, 2.30 sharp

You know on 3D I'm gonna be able to tell the gender

We agreed to wait!

And besides, whatever it has it's going to be about milimeter big

Not if it takes after its daddy

Leaving Sonoma without saying goodbye it was one thing

Not returning my calls that's another

And I get all that

I'm so very glad

Things are awkward between us, it's uncomfortable because of...

Is that american sign language for sleeping together?

My point is, freezing me out that's one thing but withholding evidence?

That's totally something else

There are other people involved here

Right, my clients

And they have an attorney willing to fight to protect their interests

Look, bottomline I'll show you those files over my dead body or when a judge orders me too

Whichever comes first

Then let's go see the judge and we'll table the dead thing for later

Let's!

This is ridiculous, the documents we've requested are totally relevant

But Ms. Dekker has refused to comply with three document requests and a motion to compel

That's true Your Honor

Then why haven't you produced the documents as requested, Ms. Dekker?

Oh, I'm sorry, I meant it's true I haven't complied with Mr. Stone's discovery request

But that's because there's nothing in them that requires me to give him the documents

Yes there is, it's called the rules of civil procedure

If we actually had produced the documents you'd have seen that Jennifer Cantino

West Media's inhouse counsel was copied on every single one of them

Which means they're privileged, which means we have no obligation to let Mr. Stone or anyone else see them

You can't retroactively make something privilege by CCing counsel after the fact

There's nothing retroactive about it

All the documents were dated before Sam Russell got moved to 5 AM

Which is the event Mr. Stone claims was tantamount to firing Mr. Russell

Your Honor

She's got you Mr. Stone

She doesn't have me

No kidding

And that the attorney client privilege is not a...

Mr. Stone, unless you can prove Ms. Cantino is not an attorney, not West Media's attorney

Or that the memos were written to her after Russell got fired or quit

She's got you

So, any other pre-trial motions?

I have one Your Honor

I move to disqualify Mr. Stone

You what?

On what grounds?

He thinks he's a prophet

Several months ago, Mr. Stone stood in your courtroom and told you he received messages from the Almighty

I believe my exact words were Higher Power, perhaps Divine

And last year he predicted the Silver Terrace earthquake to some public notoriety

Which actually supports the idea that I could be, you know, special

Which is an unfair advantage in a jury trial

What juror wouldn't be swayed by the fact that the plaintiff's counsel has God as one of his clients

She's right

She is?

In so far as the personal details of the trial attorneys, may prejudice the jury

Your Honor

So we should make sure that they don't find out that Ms. Dekker and I slept together last week

That is totally inapropriate

You dog! I knew it was just a matter of time

So if you think of it she's also sleeping with opposing counsel

That's irrelevant!

And now she's carrying his unborn child

And did I mentioned that Mrs. Wethersby and I used to be engaged?

So basically what you're saying is I'm the only person in this room who's not having sex with one of you?

And that Ms. Dekker's motion might be motivated more by personal issues than legal ones

You wish

Enough! Save it for your inevitable reality show

If Mr. Stone does work for God, I'm not gonna chance damnation by disqualifying him

But if I hear any of you utter one more word about prophets, prophecies or specially who's sleeping with whom

I will hold you in contempt, I swear... to Mr. Stone's boss

I've worked at KNIB for twelve years. Until recently we have a number one news show in San Francisco

We did about an 18 share

What about around the time you offered Mr. Russell the morning show

We were down to an 11.3

We were hemorraging viewers and rank third among the affiliates

So you fired him

No... I offered him the morning news

It's a less competitive time slot

Frankly, I thought Sam would be grateful

Thank you

You uh... offered Sam the morning news

The day after you killed one of his stories

An expose on unsafe working conditions at a local Zire Motors plant

I didn't kill anything

We'll get to that

What relationship, if any, does KNIB have with Zire Motors?

Zire's one of our advertisers

Nearly every major auto manufacturer is

But Zire is your station's third largest advertiser

How upset would you say Zire was with Mr. Russell's expose, scale it 1 to 10

I wouldn't know

But you pulled the piece anyway just in case

I didn't pull it. It got bumped by stories I deemed more important

What was the more important piece you had that night?

I don't recall

I had a feeling you wouldn't so I looked it up

Uh, you replaced the Zire Motors report with a public safety story

Bilingual bandit strikes the bay area

We felt it was the more compelling story

I've never been held up in two languages so I'll take your word for it

Why didn't you air the Zire Motors' report the next night?

Did the bilingual bandit strike again?

No, but news cycles are getting shorter and shorter We can't stay competitive with cable and internet

By airing yesterday's news

Oh I forgot, hazardous working conditions are so last year

Alright for Russell I think we should send in the Magster after what she did to Stone yesterday

I can't afford not to use a little pitbull

Plus the jury eats her innocent act right up

You know I'm sitting right here, don't you?

Sorry, I should take this

Hi sweetie

Yeah take all the time you want, it's not like we're in trial here or anything

Look, I can't find my keys, I'm gonna be late, alright?

Uh, and tell the nurse when you get there if she can sign us in

Listen, we uh... have a strategy meeting

Well so do I!

But I'm not going! I mean we only get to see our fetus in 3D once!

I thought you were excited about this!

I am, it's just a bad time, I don't think I should leave

Listen, I am really, really sorry

I just can't make it today

I'm one of two lawyers on our side

You've enough to feel the baseball team but somehow I can make it, you know, because it's important to me

It's important to me too. I have to triage, I can't move this meeting but you can get the nurse to burn me a DVD

Right, I forgot how babies can me time-shifted

The media has changed. The news division used to be a public service

Something to broadcast your deed in exchange for using the public airwaves

Now it's just another way to make a buck

Objection!

She's about to point out how that doesn't seem related to you leaving the station

It's related

Because news has become a profit center

And I threatened the station's profits

With the Zire Motors' piece?

I was demoted to 5 AM drive time time one day after they killed that story, so...

You tell me Mr. Stone

What's a cue score?

It's a way of measuring an on-air personality's familiarity and appeal

But it surprised you to learn that your cue score has been in decline for the past two years?

I'm assuming since you're probably not less familiar to people it was because you became less appealing

Objection!

Woah, I'll... I'll put it another way

What's more likely?

A conspiracy to keep Sam Russell away from an anchor desk...

Or a desire to replace him with someone who can pull in a larger audience?

You made my point for me, Ms. Dekker

In the days of Cronkite and Muro

Decisions were not made based on cue scores and sharepoints

You're right, Muro's show was cancelled because it lost its sponsor

It's like she went back to law school when I wasn't paying attention

Don't underestimate the ambition of a woman scorned

What does that mean?

Are you kidding?

Oh, you think she's out to get me because I...

Got her! Yeah you motivated her to beat you in ways that go way beyond the normal courtroom asswipping

So all last year, I was trying to figure out how to make her a better lawyer and the whole time I should've just slept with her

My loyal fit soldiers

How did it go today?

Just great - Not great

She's right, somewhere between great and not so much

Sam's testimony wasn't exactly the grand slam we were counting on

That's uh... unfortunate

You make unfortunate sound so much worse than unfortunate

It's nothing, something we can discuss after the trial

Sir, we're partners. I'm not sure keeping secrets is gonna do either one of us any good

I didn't want to say anything to either of you

We're already... operating under enough pressure

What's wrong?

I just got off the phone with our accountants

We were treading water before the financial crisis made getting a line of credit difficult

What are you saying?

That if we don't win the Russell case, and win big

We'll be joining Mr. Russell on the unemployment line

Matt!

Hi!

I might still be sleeping but I'm pretty sure you didn't stay here last night

I let my self in. Hope you don't mind, I wanted to surprise you

With bluberry pancakes?

Yeah

It's an incredibly good smelling apology

Tastes even better

I am sorry

I wanted to be there, I should've been there, I just felt weird bailing out of my team, you know?

In the middle of the world series I get it

They're the Yankees and I'm playing for the Red Sox

Well, not exactly because the Yankees and the Red Sox had never played each other in the World Series, but...

Anyway, it's just a trial

Yeah

You do know your client is not facing the death penalty here, right?

Not my client, my firm

You can't use this, OK?

This is boyfriend-girlfriend confidence, OK?

Two-people-who-made-a-baby-together privilege

I must have missed that class in lawschool

What's going on?

The new firm is sinking

We are in massive debt... we can't get credit

We need an infusion of cash and the only way we can do that is a huge win in the Russell case

AKA a miracle

Jeez!

Are you OK?

You mean aside from being pregnant and about to being unemployed?

Yeah

I'm so sorry

Look, I wasn't gonna mention this but since you're kind of opening the door here

P and K has an opening for family lawyer

When Wethersby Stone goes down

If it goes down

There are about a hundred other firms I could work at that

Don't employ the father of my baby

But they probably won't hire you in your current condition

Which would be sexist and detestable

Posner and Klein is just detestable

No, I'd rather be stay-at-home mom

Hey, I work for that detestable firm, remember?

Yeah, I know. I spend most days trying to forget that

It's an impossible situation

When the internet and 24/7 cable news started

The recession and credits anomies threatening to finish

Hard choices have to be made if evening news of any strive is gonna survive

Including pandering to advertisers?

Neither Baywest nor its affiliates have ever pandered to anyone

Including Zire Motors

Which paid Baywest Media 3 million dollars last year alone

In ad revenue

Which buys the right to advertise not editorialize

So Sam Russell's contemption that the evening news is driven by corporate interest

Is offensive

And completely unfounded

What about moving him to the 5 AM traffic and weather slot?

One of the hard choices I letted to earlier

But evening news ratings have gone up 5 points since, so it's not one I regret

It must have been difficult for you to find a worthy replacement

For three-time Dupont, two-time Peabody award winning journalist Sam Russell?

It's been a challenge but we have a great deal of confidence in Kimberly Chaves

I've seen a few of her segments, I can see why

Cardiff fainted from toxic chemicals during a sunless spray tan session because the spray guns tubes weren't properly cleaned

But Ashley didn't let that stop her from attending her son's and daughter's foundation benefit

At the San Francisco Zoo

Well, I know I'm gonna cancel my spray tan appointment this afternoon

All local affiliates fill their lineup with some fluff pieces. It's not that hard to find them

No, but what is becoming increasingly hard to find at your news station is any real news

What's considered real news is a matter of opinion

You're right. Let's use a clear standard

How many investigated reports has Kimberly Chaves done on your corporate sponsors since replacing Sam Russell?

Off the top of my head I... I don't remember

That's surprising since zero is a pretty easy number to remember

You also probably don't remember what the top story was on your competitors'

Programs the night Kimberly aired her hard-hitting spraytan expose

It was a story about how your parent company CEO was indicted for stock fraude

You were brilliant!

Thank you!

You totally supported the emerging theory that if I sleep with someone it endows them their superior courtroom skills

I think I'm beginning to understand the problem you have with women

Ciao, Bella!

Excuse me!

Is this uh... Am I in Rome?

Che si, Roma, Roma!

- Italian -

Maggie... hey!

Eli

What are you...?

So what was that about?

Another vision?

Rome again. Modern day this time... and Maggie was there and I couldn't get to her

Maybe because you already did back in Sonoma

Hmm... OK... Shouldn't have slept with her but , there was wine and I've been dealing with some stuff

And you love her

OK, maybe it's not love yet but it's something

Yeah, it's called platonic affection

What?

Eli, why are you the only person who doesn't seem to be aware that you feel something for Maggie?

OK, maybe it's not love but it's definitely not platonic affection

You two belong together

It's obvious to everybody else except you

OK... maybe... what if Maggie was just available

I've been feeling very alone lately

You know?

Like there's, there's no one for the guy with the divine calling

I think there is, Eli. I think she's been right in front of you the entire time, you just haven't seen it

It's like the aneurism woke up every part of you

Except your heart

So what do I do?

Talk to her

Can we talk?

All rise!

Apparently not!

Be seated

Alright

Next witness

The defense calls Jesse Bates

Uh, Your Honor, Jesse Bates is not on their witness list

I listed three former KNIB employees as John Doe witnesses

Ms. Bates was a producer at NIB for thirteen years

Your Honor

Overruled counsel

I'll give you more time to prepare if you want

You're here under supina, aren't you Ms. Bates?

Yes, I enjoyed the Sheriff's visit to my home very much, thank you

Seek to treat as hostile

Granted

Did you produce Sam Russell's piece on Zire Motors?

Yes

So you would be in a position to know whether that piece had any relationship

To the decision to move Mr. Russell to the morning show

I really don't know

Let's guess then

The news director Mr. Church moved Sam the next day

But didn't Mr. Church proposed to Sam a move to the morning show a full six months earlier?

Before the Zire piece was even investigated?

Is there a point here?

Well only that if Sam Russell really believed that being moved to 5 AM was the same as getting fired...

He would've stopped showing up for work six months earlier

But he didn't, did he?

You're not an attorney, so you probably don't know why this would be important

But you know what would've been helpful?

Knowing that the thing that we rested your entire case on

The idea that moving you to 5 AM was as good as firing you

Was discussed the good six months before you quit!!

Being discussed is a little different than being done

Semantics!

Lawyers and judges and apparently news anchors care about them

But you jurists don't

To them it looks like you quit!

Which is a little detrimental to our client that you got fired

Right, I forgot. A jury is just 12 people too stupid to get out of jury duty, incapable of parsing distinctions

Incapable of thinking for themselves. You know what you sound like Eli?

A trial attorney trying to win

Baywest Media: sorry Sam that story is just gonna go right over the public's head

Sorry Sam, but they're just not going to understand that, sorry Sam it's just too darn confusing Sam

I have a theory... you could say I'd bet my whole career on it

I think people are only as dumb as we treat them

I think people only act like morons if they're treated like morons

What do you think?

I think Taylor and I have a long night ahead of us

I'll let you get to it then

They could hear you on the first floor

I would tell you that berating clients is bad for business but that would imply we have any business

Sorry, we had a set back

Oh... maybe I can help brainstorm a solution

Perhaps, bring in a fresh perspective

We're fine - we're great

Right

Of course

Don't worry, we'll find a rabbit to pull here

Mmhh... a little more of that artic wind and the polar bears might have a home again

I don't want to talk about it, OK?

What could be so bad for you to treat him like that when his firm is about three inches from belly up?

How about chasing my mother out of town and lying to me about it for 20 years?

OK, that's bad enough

I'm so sorry, are you OK?

I fluctuate. Luckily I've got Matt to take it out on

I guess you're right to be angry

I recently found out that someone was responsible for my dad's death

It's been little hard to get over

Why do I sense a but coming on?

But, more than anyone I know, Jordan's been trying to change who he was

I'm afraid it's too little too late comes to mind

You know, if he'd just had told me all this years ago

When I still needed a mother, I would've been furious but at least there would've been time to fix things, you know?

And now...

My mother... lives a thousand miles away

It's been decades... I think the window of oportunity has closed

The window of oportunity

Care to run that by me again?

Happily Your Honor, the other day you ruled that we couldn't review the Baywest documents that we requested because

They were protected by attorney-client privilege

Because they are

Because you said that all the documents were dated before Sam Russell was moved to 5 AM

But yesterday Ms. Bates altered that timeline

Now it's obvious that the documents were written after the 5 AM move was proposed

We really should be thanking you actually

The documents were still copied to in-house counsel

After apparently the wheels were put in motion

Ms. Wethersby was right when she said you can't retroactively make something privilege

Make sure those documents are delivered to Wethersby Stone and Associates by end of business today

Now get out of here

This is huge!

Easy Taylor, we don't know if there's anything in there that's going to help us

If there wasn't Maggie would've just produced them if for no other reason than to waste our time reviewing them

Posner and Klein just delivered your documents

That was fast

I know... I thought it would take them forever just to unload the truck

Unload the truck?

How many documents could there be?

What was that you said about wasting our time?

I can't believe you would do this!

Let me guess! You got the boxes

The judge ordered you to produce those documents

Which we did

No, you hid them in a ton of crap!

Well that's one interpretation

And that's just more crap, you know?

Is this how your new firm does business Matt? Is this how you do business?

We're in trial Taylor, it's just tactics

Circumventing a court order to hide evidence isn't a tactic, it's illegal

And as morally ambiguous as you pretend to be there was a time you knew the difference

OK, that's fair. I'll own that

But?

But, and I wouldn't be floating this if I weren't safely eight cityblocks away,

This anger's a bit of an overreaction

Is it possible some of it's debt related?

Yes, it is debt related you know what? It's related to the kind of dad you're going to be

Which is related to the kind of person you are

That's not fair

I don't think you've got much credibility right now when it comes to fairness, Matt

What are we even looking for, Eli?

The box that says seek which smoking gun document in here?

It'd be nice if they were that obvious about it

We need some kind of system and some more manpower, perhaps hire some temps

I don't think that's gonna be necessary

This is the one

Do you recall writing an email to Ryan Church?

He's the news director of one of my affiliates. I recall writing hundreds of emails to him

How about this one?

If you could... read it aloud, please

Church, heard about Russell's autoplant story, needless to say Zire is not throwing him a parade

Take care of the problem, DB

I guess since Zire motors only purchased the right to advertise not editorialize

You just threw in the problem solving for free

Mr. Buckley, can you read the portion of this email where you specifically asked Mr. Church to fire Mr. Russell?

No, because I never did

So what was the problem with Zire Motors that you wanted Mr. Church to fix?

If it would help I could have the judge remind you what the penalties are for perjury

The problem was Sam

What about him? Specifically

Zire wanted assurance Sam wouldn't keep pushing his story

I guess Sam wouldn't have much of a reason to for the 5 AM traffic report, huh?

Eli, don't let your window close

What?

Do you think it's open now?

She can't be too happy with me after what I did back in there

Which is why you need to do this now before she's gotten too much scar tissue over her wounds

You know I slept with her, right? I didn't hit her with a baseball bat

Go!

Come on!

Hey!

Come here

Aooh! My wrist is fine thanks!

Sorry but... we have to talk

No, you want to talk, a slight distinction

Yeah, right! I want to talk

So, all you got to do is listen

OK?

Firstly, I'm... Look I'm sorry about Sonoma... I just...

What we did... it was... it was wonderful. It was great

And I'm glad we did it

On the next morning I just... I had to think about my feelings

Specially in light of your feelings which you told me... are substantial

Were... substantial

What?

I tried... every conceivable way to get over you

I got engaged... I left the firm

Never in a million years would I think that sleeping together would actually... help me get over you

So thank you

You gave me closure

So why have you been so um... why things have been so personal... with the case

No, it's not personal! I'm trying to win Eli

I can't beat you and be friends with you at the same time. I can't multitask like that

But after I beat you we can go for coffee

Catch up

Yeah... best friends

Yeah... exactly

In a minute, Baywest's lawyer is gonna stand here and she's going to remind you how Sam Russell quit his job

But the reality is you cannot quit a job that's already been taken away from you

Sam Russell was removed from his job anchoring the Bay area evening news

That's indisputable

It's uncontested

But the fact is that Sam lost his job much earlier than that

He's been loosing it bit by little bit for years

When the news division at Baywest Media became part of the entertainment division

When the wall between the boardroom and the newsroom grew so thin as to become nonexistent

And when television journalism became just something else to fill time between commercials

And yes, when his corporate bosses decided that if they couldn't shut him up then they would force him out

And they did

Sam Russell has been silenced

And now the only one who can tell Baywest Media that the media needs to start living up to its responsibilities is you

You know? He's absolutely right

The news media has lost its moral center

It's become dominated by corporate interest

Kitty Kirk went on record saying that she felt corporate pressure to cast the Iraq war in a positive light

Even President Bush's fore press secretary ironically refers to the liberal media because it's become so focused

On advancing Republican policies which benefit, guess who?

Corporations

The journalistic spirit that Andy McCarthyism at exposed Watergate has been co-opted into making the case for WMD's in Iraq

And ignoring calamity in New Orleans

And that's when he's not peoccupied by Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears

And when you consider how critical a free press is in a democracy like ours

It's particularly loadsome

But you want to know what's really loadsome?

Trying to convert your justifiable outrage into a personal financial windfall

If Sam Russell were really that concerned about the state of the media he wouldn't have quit

He would've stayed on and worked to change the system from the inside

Rather than running to you for a handout

It could go either way

Then it won't inconvenience them to go our way

Even if they rule for us, for Sam, there's little guarantee of the money judgement sufficient to keep our lights on

Thank you Mr. Optimist!

I'm just being truthful. Let alone those lines, you two made me very proud

I couldn't fathom two attorneys I'd rather practice with

So you'll be retiring then?

Hello? You want me to... why?

OK

Um... I'll be back in a moment

OK, I'm not gonna bother telling you how weird this is

I have a settlement offer

Which you felt the need to make in a closet?

Does the offer involves us making out cause, no ofense, but I just...

It's quite possible the rest of my team doesn't know about this offer, but my client does

And he's willing to pay Sam 5 million dollars

Does Sam have to make out with you?

This is serious

It's a public perception thing. Sam still got a few fans

5 million dollars buys an end to this settlement and a public statement saying he resigned

Sam's gonna have a problem with that

Not as big a problem as you've got

One third contingency on 5 million dollars is Wethersby Stone's life route

Ok? Don't go and tell like a minute after I'm out the door

Of course

Should I even consider this?

It's a lot of money

Enough to start over

Put all this behind you

But I want them to admit that what they did was wrong, not just wrong but disrespectful

Mercenary terpretude

Sorry Sam but... that kind of admission just doesn't happen in the real world

Certainly not in the world of corporate America

Yes, they might take a hit from the jury but they also might not

At least this way you're guarantedd something

And after they pay you 5 million dollars

Baywest is gonna think twice about trying to silence another reporter

I see your point

So you'll take it?

Do I have a choice?

Of course you have a choice

Sam, you were wronged. The station forced you out, we all know that and by allowing them to get away with it

We are allowing corporate greed to roll over journalistic ethics

To --- the first amendment, you need to stand up for what is right

But there is a cost to that

Yes, to your conscience

Sleepless nights and anxious mornings when the reality of your mistakes

Plague you the most when you realize that you've compromised your principles

That you've done the wrong thing

Believe me when I tell you living with regret is much harder than living with defeat

You've come this far, if you settle now I'm afraid you'll lose something far worse than a trial

He's right

I know it

No deal

I'll go tell Matt

Maggie!

Ciao mia bella ragazza

Ciao

We the jury in the matter of Samuel Russell vs. Baywest Media Incorporated

Find in favor of

The defendant

Congratulations! Not only is there a nice paycheck in it for us but we got to nail Wethersby Stone and Associates

Where really hurts: their wallets

And I would specially like to thank Maggie Dekker

For her sweet voice and placid demeanor bely her inner animal

She was a panther out there people

Alright, unless you can figure out a client to bill for eating cupcakes get back to work

Dowd... a word

Actually its uh, two words

Never again

You know what I'm referring to?

I'm pretty sure I've got an idea

You're lucky they turned down that offer

And you're lucky our client won

Now I don't see you getting lucky three times in a row

Do you?

You were bit over your word limit there

What are we gonna do?

Well, there's still some paintings I can sell

Some bills we can defer payment on

They would buy us six months... maybe a little less

You're not alone in this dad

Why are you smiling?

Just nice to hear you call me dad

Hey!

Matt

What are you doing here?

I heard Keith's got my old office

That's just an unacceptable situation

And so is Posner and Klein

At least that's what it's turned out to be

So you're...

Well you're always going on about how your dad says this place is about uh... making up for past mistakes

I though I'd give that a try

Not to rain on your parade but... has anyone actually offered you a job here?

How would you like to have a job here?

Not to sound ungrateful but we can't even afford to pay you minimum wage

Oh no, take Stone's name off the door and we'll call it even

Nice try

Um... you were right... I wanna show the little Dowd or...

Dowdette, what means to stand up for the things she care about

She's gonna be very lucky to have you as a dad

She?

I couldn't help it when I went to the doctor the other day

I just... I had to know

I hope you're not mad

No... I'm not mad!

I'm having a girl, are you kidding me?

Uh, yeah... if you just call up to her office, she'll let me in.

It's Maggie Dekker. Two k's

You're looking for Maggie?

You just missed her, she's probably outside

Thank you!

Maggie! Mag...

Here... I think um... I think my window closed

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