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Hey. Working late, huh?
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Oh, well ... I didn't bring an umbrella,so I was, you know, waiting for it.
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Uh, to let up. Waiting for the rain to let up.
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"Waiting for it."
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Well, I'm making progress, Billy.I'm not waiting for a "him" anymore.
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Just waiting for ...
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It.
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Whatever it is.
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How about you? Are you gaining on "it"?
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Me? I'm doing fine these days.
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Billy, look at you.
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Bleached head, walking around with the Billy Girls.
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I know you're smart enough to realizehow ridiculous you've become.
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Are you angry with her?
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Or is it some kind of protestagainst the way life turns out?
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I don't know. Maybe, if life's one giant pretense,
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why not just join in and partake?
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Mm ...
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You are headed for a breakdown.You do know that.
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You really think you're doing a lot better than me?
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You're standing there staring in the windowwaiting for something.
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You don't even know what it is,but you're waiting for it just the same.
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Because I know it's out there --whatever "it" is.
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Out there? Look in here. What do you see in here?
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Nothing. The place is empty.
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No, it's a roomful of people with livesat the end of the day.
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Lives which they all go home to. You and I?
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I think I work late because the emptiness herepales compared to the nothingness
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that waits for me in my apartment. And you --
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I think you're a little addicted to the "ding" of the elevator.
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Excuse me?
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You say you're not waiting for a "him."
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Maybe you are, maybe you are not,maybe it really is an "it."
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But every time that elevator goes "ding,"the doors open and something comes out,
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you're hoping maybe it'll be your Life.
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Oh. Well, now I'm convincedthat your breakdown is in progress
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because that is the most ridiculous thing ----
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I knew it was after hours,but something just told me to get in that elevator,
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somebody would be here.
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Can I help you?
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What's your name?
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Um ... uh, Ally McBeal. Um, well, my,my middle name is Marie. But, uh, I,I just go by Ally. What's yours?
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Pross ...
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Pross? Pross what?
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Process server.Can you accept a summons on behalf of your firm?
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Georgia!
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What do you mean -- Georgia?
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Well, she's suing the law firmfor breaking up the marriage!
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The firm. Uh, how can she sue us forbreaking up your marriage?
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D-did the firm kiss Robin Jones?
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D-did the firm soak its head in Clorox and, and,
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and pledge allegiance to schmuckhood ?Did the firm ----
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All right, Richard! Clearly,this is just a frustrated, angry, weak woman
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looking to exact a pound of flesh like typical angry,
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male-hating, frustrated, embittered,weak women like to do!
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Clearly!
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What is her cause of action, anyway?
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She is claiming this firm was a sexually charged arena,
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which interfered with marital relations.
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What?
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Oh, please. That's even too bogus for me!
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We have to be able to squash this!
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She's also got a claim for emotional distress.
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Excuse me. I, I know I skipped classes in law school,
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but how can she sue for this?Wh-what am I missing?
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She's blaming us for the new Billy.
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All right. We all go in on this.I want solidarity!
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Billy, you can draft a motion to dismiss on the way.
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It's boilerplate. Elaine can type and fax.
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This is one thing I hate about having money.
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People sue you.
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Do you think it's good to walk in with an army?
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It hardly makes us look like an underdog.
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It'll give a feel of consensus.
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One lone, angry expatriateagainst a consensus of reason.
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There she is.
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She's represented by Tiny Tim.
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Who?
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Tiny Tim Fallow.He's probably the best divorce lawyer in town.
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And he's mean. He is a mean little man.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ...
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Georgia, what are you doing?
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My client is represented by counsel.
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She's my wife!
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B-B-Billy!
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If you have anything to say to her,you address it to me.
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All right. You're an embittered, angry,little man-hating bitch.
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I think we should just go in.
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I have to admit, counsel,this seems a bit of a stretch.
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Your Honor, this firm is dominated by sex.
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Interoffice sex. The two senior partners bothsleep with associtates.
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The women there constantly throw the offer of sexin Billy Thomas' face.
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The two senior officers have never done a thingto alter this behavior.
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Ultimately,it has lead to the demise of my client's marriage.
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This is a no-fault state.
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She's not suing her husband;she's suing your firm.
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Yes. Because she's unable to sue her husband,
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she's looking to lash out at somebody.And we've become the easy target.
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Question of fact -- that's for a jury to decide.
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This action is the direct result of a marital breakdown.
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As a matter of public policy,we don't entertain lawsuits, ==
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Nor do we allow tortuous behavior to go unchecked!
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Simply because of some kind of bogus ----
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I, uh ... I have ... I have not finished yet!
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All right! Look. I want to hearexactly what we're talking about.
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A short evidentiary hearing.
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Two witnesses and I can establish an offer of proof.
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I think we'll adjourn till two o'clock.You can call whoever you want.
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This is crazy.
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If only I could get her alone.
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Could you help me distract the lawyer?
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How?
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I am represented by counsel.
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Yeah, yeah. What are you doing?
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You know, last night,
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I was standing in my office staring out the window,and ...
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actually it, uh, made me think:
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Uh, suppose somebody hatedthe way their life turned out,
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well, who would they sue?
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And then I thought, well, that's pretty silly --
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you can't file a lawsuit justbecause you hate your life.
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But that's exactly what you're doing,aren't you, Georgia?
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Ally, wh-what happened to Billy,
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it wasn't coincidental that he was working there.
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Th-the place is oversexed ----
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Oh, oh, come on!
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Look at you. Two years ago,we all called you Julie Andrews.
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Now, you can't even go to a car washwithout jumping somebody.
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Mm-mm ... hmm ... yeah.
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And, uh, two years ago,whatever your problems were with Billy,
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you weren't a person to turn on your friends.
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I do not cultivate a chauvinistic work environment.
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That's ridiculous. Move to strike that! Judge?
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Is it your opinion that women are sex objects?
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Yes.
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All women?
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Not the ugly ones.And fat -- that depends on individual taste.
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Objection.
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W-withdrawn.
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Mr. Fish, are you attracted to wattle?
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Yes.
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And touching it --that's a sexual act to you, isn't it?
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Very.
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Excuse me. What is wattle?
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It's the skin that hangs from the neck of older women --
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in some cases, older men. You've got a little ...
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uh, going, though i-it does nothing for me.
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Mr. Fish, you go around your officetouching women's necks, don't you?
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I try, yes I do.
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And you also touch women's knee-pitsto sexually arouse them, do you not?
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Uh, yes.
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In the office?
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Objection. These questions have no relevance!
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They go to the sexually charged arena,
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which contributed to the failure of my client's marriage.
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There is no proximate causebetween an office environment and ----
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I would appreciate being able to question this witness
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without these aggressive interruptions!
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Let's just get through this! Mr. Cage, sit down!
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-Mr. Fish, you have a unisex bathroom?-Yes.
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-And what is the point of that?-So we can all go together when we go.
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So we can all go together when we go?
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I was under oath.
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What happened?
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Richard buried us! That's what happened.
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We need to put John on the stand.
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John? Why?
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Well, eh, uh uh ...
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They just put Richard upas an example of our senior partner.
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We need to show the judge the other one.
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Do you have any idea?
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This morning, she had a ridiculous case.
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After your testimony, she suddenly doesn't!
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Wh-what did I say? What? I like wattle?
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A-an occasional knee-pit? A group tinkle?
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That makes me a chauvinist? What?Uh ... w-well ...
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The idea that we influenced Billy Thomas.
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He's a grown man,he makes his own decisions.
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Well, sir, he has gone through a change lately.
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But why is that our doing?
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Just because we have a unisex bathroom?
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Just because we have one lascivious senior partner?
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That's outrageous.
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One lascivious senior partner?Are you lascivious, sir?
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Uh ... I most certainly am not.
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Ever hire a call girl?
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Did you not hear the question?Did you ever hire a call girl?
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It was years ago, before I knew my character.
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And I will not sit here to be disparaged.
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Are you currently having a sexual relationshipwith an associate in your firm?
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She's my girlfriend.
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A partner can't have an associate for a girlfriend?
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Ever spank her?
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One time only, and that ----
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With her consent?
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It was a misunderstanding ----
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Big old hair brush?
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Medium-sized.
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That young blonde thing over there?
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She would be the one, yes. Her name is Nelle.
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Nelle! Young blonde Nelle! How fun!
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With a medium-sized brush!
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Georgia?
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[You] promised that you'd stay out of it, Renee.
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These people are all your friends.
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Really? Hmm. Richard was the one
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who told Billy not to apologize for being chauvinistic,
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that he was right to want me to be subordinate,
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to rub his feet, serve his sexual needsand cook him dinner.
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Nelle constantly flirts with him. Ally kissed him.
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Yet, John Cage never lifted a finger to curtail any of it.
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Who does that leave for friendship? Oh, Ling!
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I have to admit I'm enjoying it a little.
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-This trial?-Yes.
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To see friends tearing and clawing at each other --that would be fun for you?
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I just can't believeshe's actually making a case of it.
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Look, Billy.
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We need you to come off as sympathetic tomorrow.
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Y-you need to disguisewh-what you've become.
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John, are you doing direct?
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He's still not talking.
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I'm taking the direct.
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Billy, the main thing is to come off reasonable,like Richard said, sensitive to Georgia.
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Mm ... I'm ready, Nelle.Just ask me the questions. I'm ready.
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Why do I have a bad feeling?
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We had communication problems.I suppose we drifted apart.
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These communication problems --did the law firm of Cage and Fish play a part?
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Of course not.
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If I could have saved my marriageby working somewhere else,
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I would have absolutely done that.
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But the problems, they ran a little deeperthan a unisex bathroom.
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Not to air out the dirty laundry,
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but why do you think your marriage failed,Mr. Thomas?
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To be honest, I don't know.
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The last couple of years, we seemed tohave grown angry with each other.
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We don't laugh like we used to.
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And, rather than address it, we just let it slide.
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And, uh ... it slid too much.
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It slid too much,and you just couldn't stop it?
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I don't appreciate your sarcasm, Mr. Fallow.
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I apologize.You said you would have left the law firm
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for the good of the marriageif you thought it would help?
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Yes.
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You didn't see working side by sidewith a former girlfriend as a possible threat?
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you're referring to my relationshipwith Ms. McBeal, that relationship was over.
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You kissed Ms. McBeal last year, did you not?
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Yes, I don't defend it.
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It was probably symptomatic of thingsdeteriorating with Georgia.
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When you say, "There's a new man in town,"what do you mean by that?
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I think it refers to me finally recognizingsome of my deep-seated values.
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-Which are old-fashioned?-Perhaps.
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A woman's place is in the home.That one certainly ----
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I said a mother's place. I have no troublewith women working.
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I'd say when they become mothers,they should be home.
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And when did you first sharethis sentiment with your wife?
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A couple months ago.
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What about a wife's obligation tosatisfy her husband sexually?
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You said that too, right?
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A spousal relationship is sexual, Mr. Fallow.
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Tell me about the Billy Girls.
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They're women I hire to accompany me to meetings.
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-Six beautiful models?-It's a look.
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And they dangle off you like accessories?
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Success begets success, Mr. Fallow.
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You show up dripping with beautiful models,
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it makes a statement. That's all I was doing.
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Y-Y-Your Honor, I, I must object.He's ruining our case.
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Let's not apologize for it, Richard!That's what dooms marriages.
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What does?
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Men apologizing for who and what they are.
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Men bowing to this idea that they're failures.It's insidious.
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Women, they pick, pick, pick, pick.
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It's a day-by-day brainwashinguntil one day the man wakes up
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feeling he's not good enough.
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You want to know what happenedto my marriage, Mr. Fallow?
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She made me feel less than. And then,
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I decided to live up to that prophecy,and I got sick, sick, sick of the pick, pick, picking!
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And she still wants to pick,she still wants to attack.
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And because the law saysshe can't pick, pick, pick at me
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in a no-fault state,she's suing the firm.
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That's why we're here, Judge.
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That's why she's sitting there,
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why I'm sitting here,why you're up there.
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Women as a gender are vindictive.
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They live to belittle men,to make us feel small.
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And she hired you as her lawyer, Mr. Fallow,
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because you're the tiniest one she could find
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and it will save timewhen it comes time to belittle you!
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Is that your final answer?Or would you like to call a friend?
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-Well, I thought that was quite the performance.-Under oath, I had to tell the truth. Didn't I?
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I'm worried about you.You don't act like the Billy I know.
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And this -- well, i-it was cute for about half a second then ...
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it's not funny if you're cracking up.
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-Are we over the rainbow, Ally? Is this it?-Sorry?
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You remember when we were kids,
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we used to sing that song:"Somewhere over the rainbow"?
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-Oh, grow up, Billy.-We are grown-up.
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That's the problem.
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We've gone from being peoplewith bright futures to
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people who should be living their futures now.
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-Are you serious?-Yes. I think I get angry when I think I'm not.
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I get scared when I think I am.
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I'm an attorney with a failed marriageand a bleached head.
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All these things are your own doing,and all these things you can change.
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Ally.
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-Do you really think I'm cracking up?-Yeah.
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Maybe, maybe we should call Ling to the stand.She can verify women live to belittle men.
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What are your thoughts?You have to talk at some point, John.
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-Anything?-Not a word.
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My advice? I still don't think she has a case.
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But on the chance she beats our motion to dismiss,
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and after Billy's little performance --
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why not throw $10,000 at her,give her a sense of victory?
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Oh, come on!
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We don't have to admit liability.
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Or you want this to go to trial?$10,000 is cheap.
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What, what do you think, John? ...
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All right. Uh, Nelle ----
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-Nooo.-You're talking again.
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I want to put Georgia on the stand.I want to get her.
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-Let's just see if we can just -----No! She disparaged me. I want to get her!
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Yeah ...
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I've never seen him like this.He's not talking,he's got this nasty look on his face.
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Well, when he gets boned for trial sometimes ...
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I think Georgia made him angry.
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Oh my god. ... We're heading over.I take it you're ... ready?
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I certainly take responsibility for myself.I'm not denying that.
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All I'm saying is that Cage and Fishshould also take a little responsibility.
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But why? It's a place of work.
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Yes. Where female associatessuck senior partners' fingers.
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Where secretaries givemouth-to-mouth with their tongues.
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Where men are kissing women,women are kissing women.
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It's Club Med with ties.
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And, sexual arena that it is,it undermined my marriage.
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And if we truly are to take the institution of marriageas seriously we all pretend to,
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then I think this law firmought to take some responsibility
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when they help to destroy one.
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-Thank you, Ms. Thomas.-I think you said that very clearly.
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You say the arena of Cage and Fishjeopardized your marriage.
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Did you ever once ask your husbandto stop working there?
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No, because ----
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Your answer is "no." Thank you.
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You talk about sex, sex, sex in the workplace.
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Ever sign up for a sculpting classsolely because of the endowment of the male model?
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Yes or no, again -- limiting, of course,all your responses to the truth.
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Okay. I signed up because I was curious.
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Thank you.
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By the way, mention has beenmade of the unisex bathroom.
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Did you ever lodge a complaintwith either Richard Fish
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or myself about the lavatory's being unisex?
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Once again, if you could limit your answer to the truth.
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No, I never complained.
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Thank you. So, you never asked Billy to quit,
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you never complained about the Unisex,
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you certainly didn't complain about the male modelhaving the gigantic ----
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Objection!
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You made love in the Unisex once, didn't you?
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What?
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You and Billy in a stall, naked, you ----
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That happened once,when w-we were trying to rekindle ----
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Ever make love on the conference table?
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Ah. Who cares? Mind if I walk?
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You caught your husband kissing another woman,didn't you, Georgia?
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That's right.
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Two weeks after you were kissing another man?
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Yes, but ----
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The father of this woman right over there,isn't that correct?
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Yes.
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Who is this woman, Ms. Thomas?
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Ally.
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Ally? Well, does she have a last name,or do we just call her Ally?
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I guess we could just call her Ally, couldn't we?
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Because this isn't just a woman,this isn't just a fellow associate, is it, Georgia?
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This is Ally. Ask that she be markedand identified as "Exhibit A,"
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Your Honor.Exhibit A is a former girlfriend of Billy's, is she not?
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Yes.
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Exhibit A, uh, grew up with Billy.
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It was love at first sniff. And in fact, Georgia --reminding you you're under oath --
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Exhibit A is quite likely the true love of Billy's life,true or false?
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I don't know.
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00:25:37,954 --> 00:25:39,685
You don't know? You don't know.
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Well, have you ever confronted Billy,
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telling him you believed Exhibit Ato be the true love of his life?
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Yes.
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Ever express your belief duringyour employment at Cage and Fish
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that Billy was still in love with her?
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Yes.
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Did you make room for the possibility, Ms. Thomas,
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that your husband working side by sidewith the true love of his life
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00:25:54,778 --> 00:25:56,994
might be detrimental to the well-being of your marriage?
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00:25:56,994 --> 00:25:58,036
Of course, I did.
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00:25:58,036 --> 00:25:59,575
Well, yet you never once asked him to quit?
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00:25:59,575 --> 00:26:01,171
You never once said to him,"Work someplace else," did you?
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Only [because] ----
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-Yes or no!-No.
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00:26:04,406 --> 00:26:09,023
And you're here today begging the courtto take seriously the institution of marriage?
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How much regard did you show for your own?
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You watch as your husband workside by side with the woman
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00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,464
he might still be in love with,you watch without protest ----
400
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And I was stupid not to ----
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00:26:17,839 --> 00:26:20,418
Well, your complaint says nothing about youbeing stupid, Georgia.
402
00:26:20,418 --> 00:26:23,401
Your complaint says nothing about youkissing the father of Exhibit A.
403
00:26:23,401 --> 00:26:24,734
I didn't know he was her father.
404
00:26:24,734 --> 00:26:26,967
No, you thought you were kissing a stranger,didn't you, Georgia?
405
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-What was it? Some kind of sexual dare?-No! It was more about getting back at Billy!
406
00:26:30,548 --> 00:26:33,562
-Hmm. It's about your anger?-Yes.
407
00:26:33,562 --> 00:26:36,272
Yeah. That's what this is all about,isn't it -- your anger?
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00:26:36,272 --> 00:26:37,444
I'm angry. I don't deny ----
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Did you go to a marriage counselorafter you were caught kissing Exhibit A's father?
410
00:26:40,266 --> 00:26:41,982
No.
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00:26:41,982 --> 00:26:44,989
Did you seek out therapy after youdiscovered Billy kissing Robin Jones?
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No.
413
00:26:45,629 --> 00:26:47,657
Did you even bother to havea single discussion with your husband?
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It wouldn't [matter] ----
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Yes-or-no question, Georgia.
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After you saw your husband kissing Robin Jones,
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on the heels of your kissing the father of Exhibit A --
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00:26:54,342 --> 00:26:57,517
did you have a single conversation;or did you just pull your wedding ring off,
419
00:26:57,517 --> 00:26:59,630
plop it on the table and say,"I quit"? Which was it, Georgia?
420
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The latter.
421
00:27:01,365 --> 00:27:04,456
And subsequent to that,did Billy make attemps to reconcile?
422
00:27:04,456 --> 00:27:05,857
He made one feeble attempt.
423
00:27:05,857 --> 00:27:10,563
-Well, did you make any attempts to work it out?-No.
424
00:27:10,563 --> 00:27:13,585
And here you are today,exalting the institution of marriage,
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00:27:13,585 --> 00:27:16,823
suing a workplace forundermining your relationship with your husband
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00:27:16,823 --> 00:27:19,074
when you have done nothing to help it!
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00:27:19,074 --> 00:27:21,947
You watch without protestas he works side by side with Exhibit A.
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You kissed Exhibit A's father.
429
00:27:23,374 --> 00:27:25,760
You don't bother to get any counselingto save the relationship.
430
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,493
And you come into this court blaming us,
431
00:27:27,493 --> 00:27:30,260
blaming a law firm,asking us to take responsibility ----
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00:27:30,260 --> 00:27:31,469
All right, John. That's enough!
433
00:27:31,469 --> 00:27:33,460
You're not being sued here, Billy. I am.
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00:27:33,460 --> 00:27:48,832
I said that's enough!
435
00:27:48,832 --> 00:28:04,646
Well, I'd like the court to note:I had a big finish planned.
436
00:28:04,646 --> 00:28:07,074
Don't like being made an exhibit!
437
00:28:07,074 --> 00:28:09,106
My grand finish, you just cut me right off!
438
00:28:09,106 --> 00:28:10,768
-You'd done enough damage.-Oh, damage? She's the ...
439
00:28:10,768 --> 00:28:12,358
[You] didn't get to me! I'm the onewho's been most slandered!
440
00:28:12,358 --> 00:28:12,613
All right!
441
00:28:12,613 --> 00:28:13,974
You alienated the judge!
442
00:28:13,974 --> 00:28:15,585
Did you see the way the bailiff was looking at me?
443
00:28:15,585 --> 00:28:18,234
I'm the little blonde thing getting diddledby the senior partner!
444
00:28:18,234 --> 00:28:20,333
Thanks for coming to my defense, John!
445
00:28:20,333 --> 00:28:22,652
You didn't cross at all on that!
446
00:28:22,652 --> 00:28:23,344
That's ...
447
00:28:23,344 --> 00:28:26,141
It's my knee-pit! My chastity!
448
00:28:26,141 --> 00:28:33,058
Talking about her anger! ... my own side.What happened?John made me an exhibit ... ... my own side.Exhibit A, that's what I am!
449
00:28:39,822 --> 00:28:41,572
Were you displeased with my performance?
450
00:28:41,572 --> 00:28:44,869
No. John, you did great.Chewed her right up.
451
00:28:44,869 --> 00:28:49,200
You were a vicious little piranha in there.Well done.
452
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,904
What's the matter?
453
00:28:51,904 --> 00:28:54,374
Remember when I came to youwith the idea of starting a firm?
454
00:28:54,374 --> 00:28:56,009
I listed four reasons. Do you remember?
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00:28:56,009 --> 00:28:56,976
First?Money.
456
00:28:56,976 --> 00:28:57,986
Second?Money.
457
00:28:57,986 --> 00:28:59,087
Third?Fun.
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00:28:59,087 --> 00:29:01,588
Fourth?Money.
459
00:29:01,588 --> 00:29:07,697
What happened to Number Three?We have fun, Richard. I have fun.
460
00:29:07,697 --> 00:29:10,860
One member of this firm is suing us, John.It's about a marriage.
461
00:29:10,860 --> 00:29:11,752
It's about us.
462
00:29:11,752 --> 00:29:14,288
Her tiny little lawyer attacked youin that witness chair, and me!
463
00:29:14,288 --> 00:29:15,681
It comes from hurt. You can't ----
464
00:29:15,681 --> 00:29:18,446
And you attacked her.You just bullied her like, like their ----
465
00:29:18,446 --> 00:29:22,693
I ... I am, I am not a b-er-b-er-b-er-b-er-b-er... bully.
466
00:29:22,693 --> 00:29:24,038
I don't like that word! When I was little,
467
00:29:24,038 --> 00:29:27,331
I was picked on by b-er-b-er ...those people.
468
00:29:27,331 --> 00:29:30,269
I don't like that word, and I'm,I'm not that kind of person!
469
00:29:30,269 --> 00:29:35,226
-Well ... you went to town on her, that's all ...-Well, may I remind you this is about a war?
470
00:29:35,226 --> 00:29:41,922
Exactly! It's a war.Win or lose, we lose, John. ...
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00:29:41,922 --> 00:29:50,488
God, when I was little,I just hated the grown-ups.
472
00:29:50,488 --> 00:29:54,968
I would vow, I grew old, I,I didn't want to become an adult.
473
00:29:54,968 --> 00:29:56,512
I think you've succeeded there, Richard.
474
00:29:56,512 --> 00:30:00,710
You know what I mean. ...I harbored this fantasy!
475
00:30:00,710 --> 00:30:02,332
That we'd all get to be kids at this place,
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00:30:02,332 --> 00:30:07,466
we'd work together and play together -- fun!
477
00:30:07,466 --> 00:30:14,908
-Look how it's turning out. It's war.-Well ...
478
00:30:14,908 --> 00:30:18,948
What happened?
479
00:30:29,311 --> 00:30:31,154
Wh-what are you talking about -- Departments?
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Department. Litigation, Corporate, Real Estate.
481
00:30:33,159 --> 00:30:34,604
No, we don't have that kind of structure here.
482
00:30:34,604 --> 00:30:36,383
Then, we should. And I want youto be Administrative Partner ----
483
00:30:36,383 --> 00:30:37,754
I don't want to be Administrative ----
484
00:30:37,754 --> 00:30:40,676
We need to be more systematized.This informality is stupid.
485
00:30:40,676 --> 00:30:42,924
The a-a-associates don't know their place,they overstep ----
486
00:30:42,924 --> 00:30:43,765
Where is this coming from?
487
00:30:43,765 --> 00:30:45,881
We should run this place like a law firm for a change,
488
00:30:45,881 --> 00:30:47,475
instead of a warm-up act for happy hour!
489
00:30:47,475 --> 00:30:48,153
Oh, please!
490
00:30:48,153 --> 00:30:50,009
We need to be more disciplined and less social.
491
00:30:50,009 --> 00:30:52,032
Nobody here is really friends, anyway. It's all ----
492
00:30:52,032 --> 00:30:52,602
Balls ----
493
00:30:52,602 --> 00:30:54,719
John! Let's run this place like a damn law firm, okay?
494
00:30:54,719 --> 00:30:59,185
That way, nobody gets hurt,and we don't bust up any lousy marriages!
495
00:31:05,902 --> 00:31:06,549
Nothing?
496
00:31:06,549 --> 00:31:08,204
I called her, she wouldn't even pick up.
497
00:31:08,204 --> 00:31:09,764
I suppose after John's ambush ----
498
00:31:09,764 --> 00:31:10,540
Oh, bite me!
499
00:31:10,540 --> 00:31:11,273
All right.
500
00:31:11,273 --> 00:31:12,589
Now, what should I have done, Billy?
501
00:31:12,589 --> 00:31:13,241
All right!
502
00:31:13,241 --> 00:31:16,262
What happens now?
503
00:31:16,262 --> 00:31:19,892
Final statements, and the judge rules.Ally, would you mind if I came down?
504
00:31:19,892 --> 00:31:24,065
It all sounds so vicious,and it's just not fair for me to miss out.
505
00:31:24,065 --> 00:31:28,733
Sure, Elaine. Come on down with us.
506
00:31:35,846 --> 00:31:38,732
Certainly, in sexual harassment laws,
507
00:31:38,732 --> 00:31:40,692
the legislature has intended for companies
508
00:31:40,692 --> 00:31:44,470
to take responsibility for thingsthat happen in the workplace --
509
00:31:44,470 --> 00:31:48,028
especially when the behavior works a hardshipon an employee.
510
00:31:48,028 --> 00:31:50,483
It's the very same principle we're applying today.
511
00:31:50,483 --> 00:31:54,176
The environment at Cage and Fish has become vulgar.
512
00:31:54,176 --> 00:31:57,832
The vulgarity is fostered by the senior partners.
513
00:31:57,832 --> 00:32:02,366
Richard Fish, as he testified,believes women are sex objects.
514
00:32:02,366 --> 00:32:04,129
Did it all have an influence?
515
00:32:04,129 --> 00:32:07,057
Billy Thomas now walks aroundwith models flanking him,
516
00:32:07,057 --> 00:32:10,782
espousing his newfound philosophythat wives belong in the home,
517
00:32:10,782 --> 00:32:14,829
ready to rub the husbands' feetand poised to serve them sexually.
518
00:32:14,829 --> 00:32:19,021
Did it negatively impact my client's marriage?Look at them.
519
00:32:19,021 --> 00:32:22,153
None of these people at Cage and Fishare in relationships --
520
00:32:22,153 --> 00:32:24,581
unless we count the onebetween Mr. Cage and Ms. Porter,
521
00:32:24,581 --> 00:32:27,248
which evidently involvessome form of corporal punishment.
522
00:32:27,248 --> 00:32:30,272
The place has the integrity of a strip club.
523
00:32:30,272 --> 00:32:34,653
It is our contention that no employee'smarital union could survive working there.
524
00:32:34,653 --> 00:32:35,939
No union ever has.
525
00:32:35,939 --> 00:32:40,310
And sure, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas were free to quit,as Mr. Cage kept drumming.
526
00:32:40,310 --> 00:32:43,921
But the courts have rejected freedom to quitas a defense in sexual harassment cases.
527
00:32:43,921 --> 00:32:45,840
The court should also do so here.
528
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,042
Are we saying that Georgia Thomas bearsno responsibility?
529
00:32:49,042 --> 00:32:50,101
Of course, not.
530
00:32:50,101 --> 00:32:56,678
But is it unreasonable to saythat Cage and Fish bear a tiny bit of it?
531
00:32:56,678 --> 00:32:59,659
Of course, not.
532
00:33:12,471 --> 00:33:27,422
Mr. Cage?
533
00:33:27,422 --> 00:33:30,239
You know, when I was six or seven years old, uh,
534
00:33:30,239 --> 00:33:34,619
I remember watching my fathergetting dressed for a funeral.
535
00:33:34,619 --> 00:33:37,145
A man in his office had died.
536
00:33:37,145 --> 00:33:40,653
And I asked him, well, "Was he a nice man?"
537
00:33:40,653 --> 00:33:44,654
And my father said he really didn't have any idea.
538
00:33:44,654 --> 00:33:47,230
Said he'd really never gotten to know him.
539
00:33:47,230 --> 00:33:50,510
Well, they'd worked at the same firmfor seventeen years
540
00:33:50,510 --> 00:33:53,695
and hadn't really gotten to know one another.
541
00:33:53,695 --> 00:33:58,949
How sad is that? We all certainly know each other.
542
00:33:58,949 --> 00:34:04,645
I know about his neck wattle fetish.I know the reasons he bleached his head.
543
00:34:04,645 --> 00:34:07,923
This one here can get you a blimp in a pinch.
544
00:34:07,923 --> 00:34:10,943
This one invents face brasand will lick the cappuccino foam
545
00:34:10,943 --> 00:34:13,432
off my nose if I'm not careful.
546
00:34:13,432 --> 00:34:18,817
This one I love. And this one, I love too.
547
00:34:18,817 --> 00:34:25,269
Imagine that, in my own firm,Richard Fish and Exhibit A
548
00:34:25,269 --> 00:34:29,766
are my best friends in life,Nelle Porter's my lover.
549
00:34:29,766 --> 00:34:35,138
Imagine, I get to go to work each daywith people I care so deeply about.
550
00:34:35,138 --> 00:34:37,916
I'm tickled. Is there a point?
551
00:34:37,916 --> 00:34:45,440
Yeah. The point is that Richard Fish shouldn't apologizefor this place that he's built.
552
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,529
The place where my father was employed,
553
00:34:47,529 --> 00:34:50,001
where people work side by sidefor seventeen years
554
00:34:50,001 --> 00:34:51,213
without really getting to know each other --
555
00:34:51,213 --> 00:34:54,425
that's the place where there's,where there's something wrong.
556
00:34:54,425 --> 00:34:56,316
Here where people are in each other's lives.
557
00:34:56,316 --> 00:34:59,616
Richard Fish can be proud of that,I'm proud of that.
558
00:34:59,616 --> 00:35:02,735
And yes, there's some,some finger sucking on occasion,
559
00:35:02,735 --> 00:35:03,852
and a knee-pit, uh,
560
00:35:03,852 --> 00:35:07,274
it seems everybody has kissed everybody elseat one time or another.
561
00:35:07,274 --> 00:35:11,123
But we're kids. The partners are in their thirties,
562
00:35:11,123 --> 00:35:13,224
the associates in their twenties.
563
00:35:13,224 --> 00:35:22,812
Even if we're not still kids,I guess we all like to pretend we are.
564
00:35:22,812 --> 00:35:26,642
And today, you know, suddenly i-i-it's become very difficult
565
00:35:26,642 --> 00:35:31,617
to cling to that illusionbecause a very grownup thing is going on.
566
00:35:31,617 --> 00:35:35,173
A marriage is falling apart.
567
00:35:35,173 --> 00:35:38,468
Two people that we adore --their marriage is ending.
568
00:35:38,468 --> 00:35:42,227
And it hurts.
569
00:35:42,227 --> 00:35:47,906
Georgia is angry at Billy, and she's angry at the firm,
570
00:35:47,906 --> 00:35:50,351
maybe because she feels betrayed by it.
571
00:35:50,351 --> 00:35:54,108
You know, ugly things aren't supposed to happenat Cage and Fish.
572
00:35:54,108 --> 00:35:57,216
All of our bumps and bruises canusually be covered with,
573
00:35:57,216 --> 00:36:00,391
with a "bygones," but this one can't be.
574
00:36:00,391 --> 00:36:03,725
This one, their hurt runs deeper.
575
00:36:03,725 --> 00:36:08,846
Now, you had your lawyer grill me on the stand.
576
00:36:08,846 --> 00:36:09,988
I then turned on you,
577
00:36:09,988 --> 00:36:14,690
becoming the beu-eh-the-beu-eh-the- ...mean person.
578
00:36:14,690 --> 00:36:20,284
All the while, Georgia, we continued to adore you.
579
00:36:20,284 --> 00:36:23,475
I mean, you're one of us. Suing us.
580
00:36:23,475 --> 00:36:28,806
Now, if your goal here was to make us feelsome of the pain that you feel,
581
00:36:28,806 --> 00:36:31,008
you've already won.
582
00:36:31,008 --> 00:36:42,816
But, as for us breaking up her marriage,I think we all know better.
583
00:36:59,505 --> 00:37:01,473
Did he say how long he'd be out?
584
00:37:01,473 --> 00:37:15,157
He wanted us to stay close.So, he must be deciding quickly.
585
00:37:15,157 --> 00:37:26,715
I know this will sound stupid, but ...when I left, not even a cake.
586
00:37:26,715 --> 00:37:32,827
Two years, I worked with you, by you,going to the bar at night and ...
587
00:37:32,827 --> 00:37:39,362
when I left, you just padlocked my officeso I couldn't take files.
588
00:37:39,362 --> 00:37:43,551
All that time, I was just his wife.
589
00:37:43,551 --> 00:37:50,789
No, tha-that isn't true, Georgia.I-is that what this is about?
590
00:37:50,789 --> 00:38:08,994
None of you even called to say hi.Come on. Judge is back.
591
00:38:08,994 --> 00:38:13,109
All right. The court recognizes the expanding exposure
592
00:38:13,109 --> 00:38:17,174
and liability stemming from workplace environments.
593
00:38:17,174 --> 00:38:20,904
Be it civil rights, health or sexual harassments,
594
00:38:20,904 --> 00:38:26,218
we're only too happy to get in there and legislatewhen we don't like what's going on.
595
00:38:26,218 --> 00:38:31,873
But assessing blame when it comes to marriage,that is still a path we're loath to go down.
596
00:38:31,873 --> 00:38:38,900
I don't think this firm made it any easierfor Mr. and Mrs. Thomasto stay married.
597
00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:46,194
But this is a no-fault state, and in the end ...well, that's the end.
598
00:38:46,194 --> 00:38:50,296
The petitioner's lawsuit is dismissed without prejudice.
599
00:38:50,296 --> 00:38:55,368
But if I'm in the neighborhoodand I have the urge to pee,
600
00:38:55,368 --> 00:39:00,175
you can be sure I'll visit your Unisex.Adjourned.
601
00:39:00,175 --> 00:39:11,034
Well, that's a relief. Good job, Ally, John. Good job.
602
00:39:11,034 --> 00:39:17,006
Hey, hey. You really were suing the firm.
603
00:39:17,006 --> 00:39:21,191
Look, Georgia, y-you left so suddenly that ...
604
00:39:21,191 --> 00:39:24,553
And don't you think that we feel the voidnow that you're gone?
605
00:39:24,553 --> 00:39:29,264
No, I don't.
606
00:39:29,264 --> 00:39:32,802
Well, then we need to work on that.
607
00:39:32,802 --> 00:39:37,302
We can start with ...We're all going to dinner. Come with us.
608
00:39:37,302 --> 00:39:40,724
-Please.-That's okay.
609
00:39:40,724 --> 00:39:46,402
Georgia, you don't have to file a lawsuitto spend time with us.
610
00:39:46,402 --> 00:39:59,093
Come to dinner.Uh ... Okay.
611
00:39:59,093 --> 00:40:01,442
Uh, uh, listen, uh, J-uh, John.
612
00:40:01,442 --> 00:40:07,361
Your words, your, your closing.I js-just want you to know ...
613
00:40:07,361 --> 00:40:12,515
I thought it ran a little long.Yeah.
614
00:40:12,515 --> 00:40:14,950
We do have something here ... don't we?
615
00:40:14,950 --> 00:40:27,925
I mean, the people, th-th-the friends.We have built something special. Right?
616
00:40:27,925 --> 00:40:32,912
Indeed.
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