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- There are a lot of ways
I could go at this point.

I could become an
independent producer.

I could become an agent.

- I thought you were happy
being a studio executive, Arnie.

- Gwen, in show business,
a sense of complacency

is a very dangerous thing.

- I'm thinking of
opening a restaurant.

A restaurant?

- Yeah, these guys that started
the California Pizza Kitchen

were both lawyers.

- What kind of restaurant?
- I don't know yet.

What about fast food Jewish?

Fast food Jewish?

Yeah, absolutely.

I think it would be great to
be able to walk up to a counter

and get a little paper cone
filled with kasha varnishkes.

- Well, I know that's something
I've always wanted to do.

Well, shall we get started?

Falcone versus Falcone.

Yeah, another divorce.

I'm meeting with the woman
for the first time today.

I'll try to dispose of it
as painlessly as possible.

I'm really not up for a fight.

People versus Quinn.

That's my murder case.

The jury's picked.

We go to trial later today.

- Are you still holding with
a plea of temporary insanity?

- I don't believe in
it, but it's all I got.

- Samuels versus San
Fernando Psychiatric.

- Uh, all I know is this
is a negligence action

and Samuels knows some people
in the Clinton administration.

- Well, we knew some people
in the Clinton administration.

Mickey Kantor and
Warren Christopher

both came out of LA law firms.

They're tapping
all kinds of people

from here to do all
kinds of things.

What do we get?

Nothing.

- Are you done, Douglas?
- Yeah.

Good.

I have something I want to say.

I've sat by and watched
as this place has changed.

People have dissipated their
time and wasted their talent.

You have all, in
varying degrees,

pursued other
enterprises and neglected

the one that this place
was built on, the law.

This, ladies and
gentlemen, is a law office.

And while you're present here,
you will practice law, period.

- Leland--

I'm not done!

What you do on your own
time is your own business,

but the work week belongs to me.

So you're all going to have
to do a little soul searching.

I want to see all partners in
my office at 5 o'clock today.

I will expect either a
commitment or a resignation.

[theme music]

Arnold Becker.

That's me.

I'm Yvette Falcone.

Hi.

What can I do for you?

Please, have a seat.

I want a divorce.

- Most people who
come to see me do.

I've been married six years.

There are no children.

My husband was bringing
in about a million a year.

He's a prizefighter.

Your husband is Bobby Falcone.

Right.

I've seen him fight.

Not recently you haven't.

He hasn't had a fight
in more than a year.

What's the problem?

I'm the problem.

He knows that half of what he
earns while he's married to me

is mine.

Since he doesn't want to pay
me, he's stopped fighting.

- Let me get in touch
with his attorney.

- I did everything a fighter's
wife is supposed to do.

I took care of him when
he needed taking care of.

I left him alone
when he needed that.

When he'd fight, I'd sit at
ringside wearing a low cut

top, short skirt because
it was important for him

that the whole world
saw what he had.

Now, because I go
out on him one time,

he wants to send me
on my way with $50,000

and a pat on the ass?

No way.

I want you to fight
for me, Mr. Becker.

And I want you to
fight for me hard.

Call me, Arnie.

- Let me make some
introductions.

Gerard Samuels.

Leland McKenzie,
our senior partner.

Samuels.

Douglas Brackman.

Nice to meet you.

Please sit.

- How's everything
in Washington?

- Well, at this point,
everyone's still

getting used to everyone else.

- Are you spending most
of your time there?

I go back and forth.

One aspect of political
life is remaining in a state

of continual availability.

- In other words, when
your president needs you,

there are no excuses.

Right.

God, I love that.

[chuckles]

- What's your
background, Mr. Samuels?

How did you come to be a part
of the Clinton inner circle?

- Well, I was pretty
much of an academic.

I got my doctorate
in labor relations

and organizational
development at MIT.

I got to know Bob Reich
pretty much through

attending conferences.

I think I delivered
a paper he was

particularly interested
in at one point,

and we got to be friends.

Plus, when I moved out here,
I got to know Mickey Kantor.

- Through Bob Reich?
- No.

Actually, we were introduced by
a friend who worked at Manatt,

which was also Mickey's firm.

- I'm curious, how come you
didn't take this to Manatt?

- Well, it was our
feeling we wanted

this to be handled by a firm
without Washington connections.

And tragically, that's us.

- How can we help
you, Mr. Samuels?

- For a number of years now,
mental hospitals have been

releasing patients
into the community

without making any real adequate
provision for follow-up care.

As a result, two
things are happening,

people who are in
need of treatment

haven't been getting
it and our cities

have been inundated with
disoriented, sometimes

dangerous individuals
who constitute

a threat to themselves as
well as those around them.

I want to bring a test case by
suing San Fernando Psychiatric.

- Generally, you need a
relationship or a nexus

to the event you're suing over.

I'm a concerned citizen.

We believe that's nexus enough.

- And when you say we,
who are you referring to?

- I'm referring to
various individuals

at the highest levels of
the Clinton administration.

- I think you've
got a great case.

- Will you please
describe the events

that took place on the
morning of March 3, 1992?

- I was in the yard hanging
the wash on the line.

And all of a sudden,
I heard a gunshot.

Then I heard
another and another.

And what did you do?

- I ran into the house,
into my son's room.

And what did you find there?

- I found my son lying in
his bed in a pool of blood.

And I found him standing
there with a gun in his hand.

- Let the record indicate that
the witness has identified

the defendant Thomas Quinn.

What, if anything, did Mr.
Quinn say to you at that time?

- He said, let me
pass, and walked out.

He was as calm and collected
as though nothing had happened.

You'd never thought he just
murdered somebody in his sleep.

Objection.

Sustained.

The last part of the witness'
response is stricken.

The rest of it can stand.

I have nothing further.

- I know this is painful
for you, Ms. Hackett.

So I'm going to be
as brief as possible.

Was your son living at your
home at the time he died?

Yes.

- He had recently been
living elsewhere, had he not?

Yes, he was in prison.

- And what was it that he
was in prison for, ma'am?

He was in prison for rape.

Who was his victim, Ms. Hackett?

It was his daughter.

And I don't make any
excuses for that.

- You also don't stop
loving him, do you?

No.

- You don't stop
wanting to protect him.

He was my son.

I understand that.

Is it possible for you to
understand the way Thomas

Quinn felt about his child?

You don't have to answer that.

I have nothing further.

[siren wailing]

- I have never had real access
to power before, Stuart.

It's an incredible sensation.

- I'd be wary of
that if I were you.

Why?

- Because it's a seduction,
and I'm wary of that.

- When we are invited
to the White House,

then tell me how wary
you are of being seduced.

I mean, come on,
we're only human.

This is heady stuff.

I am representing
a friend of Bill's.

It's 5 o'clock.

We should go see Leland.

[door opens]

[chatter]

I'm in.

Whatever you need from
me, Leland, you got it.

That goes for me too.

That goes for both of us.

What about you, Arnold?

What about me?

My first reaction when
you made your ultimatum

was to say to hell with you.

I have a job at a studio.

I have a whole
other career going.

Why should I give that up?

Then I thought to myself, what
is it that I do at the studio?

I get handed scripts.

I read them.

I end up sitting there
pretending to have an opinion,

and I don't know what the
hell I'm talking about.

- Chances are neither do most
of the people you work with.

- Well, that may be, but--

but I don't like
feeling that way.

I don't like pretending.

I know what I'm talking
about when I'm in here.

When I'm being a lawyer, I
know exactly what I'm doing.

And that says something to me.

You've got me, Leland, 100%.

Good.

It's difficult for me
to imagine this place

without the four of you.

I'm grateful I don't have to.

We're grateful too.

- I believe that at the
time of the shooting,

Mr. Quinn was not in
control of his faculties.

He was incapable
of understanding

the nature of his act and unable
to distinguish between right

and wrong.

- You say this despite the
fact that the defendant

was in all other respects
highly functional.

Yes.

- What was it, Doctor,
that in your expert opinion

accounted for the defendant
going temporarily insane?

- Well, Mr. Quinn's
relationship with his daughter

is such that her
rape became an event

of overwhelming significance.

When he finally confronted
the man responsible,

he lost all capacity
to control himself

or to comprehend the moral
dimensions of his act.

Thank you, Doctor.

Nothing further.

- Let me understand
something, Doctor.

Thomas Quinn took a
.38 caliber revolver.

He loaded it with six bullets.

He put it in his
pocket, got in his car,

and drove to the home
of Kevin Hackett.

Up to this point, he hadn't seen
the man who raped his daughter,

had he?

- No, but the
effect of having Mr.

Hackett released from
prison and living nearby

was certainly felt.

- A simple yes or no was
all that I asked for.

Was Mr. Quinn insane
when he loaded his gun?

No.

- Was he insane when he
pried open a window to gain

entrance to the Hackett house?

No.

- Was he insane
following the moment

when he pulled the trigger?

No, it was a transitory state.

- In other words, it
lasted just long enough

to provide him with a defense.

Objection!

Withdrawn.

I have nothing further.

[chatter]

I'm sorry I'm late.

I'm in a conference call
for nearly an hour--

oh, thank you --with
my office in Washington

and our Secretary of
Health and Human Services.

Donna Shalala?

Yeah, you know her?

- No, but I get the
feeling she's very bright.

Incredibly bright.

You know what we were
talking about, don't you?

No.

This lawsuit.

There are a lot of
people in Washington

who are very interested
in what we're doing here.

- Well, we have a
preliminary conference

at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

The hospital was caught
rather off guard, I must say.

Great.

That's just where we want them.

- One of the things
I've done is to start

lining up patient histories.

I've got a private investigator
searching out mental patients

who've been released
from the hospital

so that we can begin taking
affidavits and building

a base of plaintiffs.

Great.

Well, Donna's going to be
of considerable assistance

in helping us locate people as
well as put together some kind

of statistical analysis.

I mean, anecdotal
information is fine.

To get people's
attention in Washington,

you've got to come in
strong with the numbers.

- Well, we can use all
the help we can get.

- This is a rather large
undertaking for a firm

of your size, isn't it?

- Yes, it is, but
we can handle it.

We have a very energetic
and very devoted

staff of attorneys here.

And I want you to know that this
case has become an extremely

high priority item.

- Did I ever tell you whose
idea this lawsuit was?

I assumed it was yours.

It was Hillary's.

Really?

- It was the night
after the election.

I was down in Little Rock.

A bunch of us were sitting
around this big kitchen table.

James Carville had just
made this incredible meal.

We finished eating
it, and James starts

doing these impersonations.

And somebody-- I can't
remember who it was-- says,

oh, you know, James,
with a little work,

you know, you could
be one of those street

people on the Upper
West Side of Manhattan.

Now, that got us talking
about that whole issue.

And Hillary, from
out of nowhere,

looks up from this Ben
& Jerry's container

and says, let's sue them.

Stephanopoulos goes, sue who?

She says, let's sue the
hospitals that discharged them.

And this is what you have
to understand about Hillary,

she had the whole
thing figured out.

She knew exactly where she
wanted to go with that.

She is-- she's a
remarkable woman.

She really is.

- She also seems
utterly human to me.

I almost have the
feeling that I know her.

- Yeah, well, you
should know her.

And she-- she should know you.

Yeah, well.

- She's going to be in
Los Angeles next month.

I'd like to have a
dinner party and see

to it that that happens.

You interested?

Sure, I'm interested.

Great.

So we should get back to work.

Right.

Right.

[clears throat]

- Would you state your name
for the record, please.

Bobby Falcone.

What's your occupation?

I'm a boxer.

- What was your
income for 1991, sir?

I really don't know.

- Well, I have here
your 1991 tax return.

- If you have his tax
returns, what do you have

to ask him what his income is?

- I'm not deposing a
tax return, Mr. Brunner.

I'm deposing him.

Would you agree that the figure
of 1.35 million is correct?

- That's what it
says, that's what it

is I don't mess with Uncle Sam.

- Would you please tell us
what your income for 1992 was?

- I didn't have
an income in 1992.

Why was that?

- Because I didn't
have any fights.

- Why was it that you
didn't have any fights?

Why?

I'll tell you why.

It was because my wife
betrayed me, all right?

She did what no man could do.

She destroyed me.

That night in Atlantic City
when I saw her coming out

of some other guy's hotel
room, it was like I got

hit by a truck.

My confidence was shot.

My nerves was shot.

I couldn't train.

I couldn't fight.

I couldn't do nothing.

- In other words,
you were suddenly

afraid to step in the ring?

That's right.

- You knew, did you not,
that by delaying your fights

until after the
divorce, you'd be

preventing the purses
from those fights

from becoming marital property?

- Is that why you
think I did it?

- Yeah, that's why
I think you did it.

Where do you think
he got it from?

- You had nothing to do
with it, right, Yvette?

Don't put that on me, Bobby.

I am putting it on you.

- You didn't fight those
fights because you didn't

want me to have the money.

According to my lawyer
here, you owe me

what my share would have been.

- When do we get to
ask her some questions?

Tomorrow morning.

Good.

Are you kidding?

- No, Mr. Pike,
we're not kidding.

- You're suing us for releasing
patients 25 years ago?

That's right.

- Mr. Samuels, what
is your legal standing

to be suing us at all?

I'm a concerned citizen.

That's it?

- Mr. Samuels is suing
for public nuisance

arising out of negligence.

We believe that being a
member of the community

gives him standing.

- This is an utterly
groundless suit.

- We clearly have a
difference of opinion.

Yes, we do.

And I'll tell you how
we're going to settle

this difference of opinion.

I'm going to take
this case to court

and have it dismissed with
prejudice and with costs.

Don't threaten me, Mr. Pike.

Bring your motion.

I'll oppose it.

And we'll see how
the court rules.

- And just so you know
who will be filing

amicus briefs on our behalf, the
Department of Health and Human

Services, the Justice
Department, the Children's

Defense Fund, the People
for the American Way,

and very possibly
Barbra Streisand.

Barbra Streisand?

- In case it hasn't dawned
on you yet, this is our time.

- Miss Quinn, would you
describe for us the events that

took place on August 19, 1985?

- I'd gone on a camping trip
to the Angeles National Forest

with a couple of my friends.

They were still
sleeping when I woke up,

so I decided I
would go for a walk.

I followed a trail
through the woods

till I got to this stream.

It was so pretty.

So I just sat down.

I took off my shoes.

I dangled my feet in the water.

I'd been there a few minutes
when I heard someone coming.

I thought it would
be one of my friends,

but when I looked up, I--

I saw it was this man
I'd never seen before.

- Tell us what
happened next, please.

He sat down next to me.

He asked me my name.

I told him.

He said that he'd been
watching me for a while

from behind these
trees and that I owed

it to him to go for a swim.

When I continued to
refuse, he started to--

put his hands on me.

- I'm going to have to ask
you to get specific here,

Miss Quinn.

- And I'm going
to have to object.

This isn't a rape trial.

The excruciating details of what
happened nearly eight years ago

are hardly relevant to
the issues of this case.

- Your Honor, the only
issue in this case

is the state of mind
of the defendant

at the time of the shooting.

Objection overruled.

The witness may answer.

- He put his hands on
my breasts, on my legs,

between my legs.

When I screamed, he
threw me in the creek

and he jumped in after me and
he held my head under the water.

And he just kept pushing
my head under the water

and holding it there
over and over again.

And then he finally
dragged me out of the water

and he threw me on the
ground and he raped me.

What happened next?

- When he got finished--

he left.

And I started back,
but I got lost.

I couldn't find the road.

I couldn't find my friends.

I-- after a while, I
couldn't walk anymore,

so I just curled
up under a tree.

- How long were you
lost in that forest?

Six days.

- That was almost
eight years ago.

Yeah.

How are you doing?

I'm OK.

Did you ever go to college?

No.

Do you have a job?

- Yeah, I work
part-time at a library.

Mm.

Where do you live?

I live with my father.

- Have you tried to put what
happened to you on that camping

trip behind you?

Yeah.

Have you managed to do that?

No.

Thank you, Miss Quinn.

I have no further questions.

- The prosecution has no
questions for this witness.

[music playing]

Chelsea is a great kid.

Is she?

She really is.

Everybody is so
concerned about her

with the public
scrutiny and the press,

but the truth is she's
going to be fine.

- What's your sense of their
policy toward the inner city?

- My sense is they're
committed to it.

I mean, listen, appointing
Henry Cisneros, as far as I'm

concerned, represents
a real departure

from the prevailing policy
of the Reagan-Bush years.

- Jonathan would be a
tremendous asset in that regard.

- Well, maybe I can put him
in touch with some people.

Yeah, that'd be.

All right, Jonathan.

- Another area we're looking
for input is the judiciary.

Bill wants his appointments
to the Supreme Court and the

federal bench to be informed.

Leland, I would bet you would
have a lot to say about that.

Yes, I would.

- Well, I think you should say
it to someone who's listening.

Here's what I would like to do.

One weekend when Bill
and Hillary were out here

at their house in Summerland.

I'll take a group
of you up there.

- Leland, we may have to set
up an office in Washington.

- [chuckles] Well, you
know, we may get that.

- You're making a joke,
but at some point,

that may become necessary.

- If it becomes
necessary, it's necessary.

I'm ready.

- We're talking about
politics of inclusion, folks.

Just like I'm a friend of
Bill's, I'd like to see

you all become friends of Bill.

Here you all are.

What's going on?

- We're Just having
a little chat.

- That's all.
- Uh-huh.

- Is there something
you need, Ann?

Is there something I need?

Yeah.

Gwen, I need your help
on Mr. Samuels' case.

Arnie, you've got
people in the conference

room waiting for you.

Douglas, Leland, I'd like
to talk to you out here

for a moment, if I might.

Suddenly, I'm not
in the meetings?

- Ann, it was an
informal get together.

Was it informal?

Nothing of a business
nature was discussed?

- Ann, you're not being
excluded if that's

what you're worried about.

- That is what I'm
worried about, Douglas.

And if I'm not in the room,
I am, perforce, excluded.

Now, let's get one
thing straight,

I am doing all the
spade work for this guy,

I am carrying 100%
of the workload,

and if anything
happens pertaining

to him or his connections,
I want to know about it.

- Are we in accord on that?
- Yes.

Yes, we are.

Good.

Gerard, we've got work to do.

- I have a feeling that
she and Hillary are

going to get along just fine.

- Is it true, Ms. Falcone,
that you have the following

collection of furs?

A full length lynx, a red
fox bombardier's jacket,

a leather cape trimmed
in sable, and a stole

constructed of white
mink teddy bears?

OK.

- I assume your husband
paid for all of those.

Who else?

- What's your point
here, Mr. Brunner?

Nobody's contesting
who earns the money.

- Well, this isn't
about who earns it.

This is about who spends it.

- Like he didn't want to see me
at ringside wearing those furs?

- Well, let's talk
about ringside

for a moment, Ms. Falcone.

You were at Caesars Palace
in Las Vegas the night

your husband fought Vinny
Pazienza, were you not?

- I was at all my
husband's fights.

- Well, right now,
I'd like to talk

about that one in particular.

Do you remember who
it was were talking

to at ringside that night?

No, I don't.

- Does the name Jack
Nicholson ring a bell?

So I was talking to Jack.

So what?

- Isn't it a fact, ma'am,
that your husband made it

a practice of trying
to make eye contact

- with you between rounds?
- Yeah.

- Well, isn't it also a
fact that during that fight

in Vegas, every time
he looked up you were

fawning over Mr. Nicholson?

I was not fawning over him.

I was talking to him.

- All right, Ms. Falcone,
enough about Jack Nicholson.

What was it you were doing
that night in Atlantic City?

- We're here to
discuss finances.

- Trump Plaza, another man's
room, another man's bed.

You knew full well
the effect that it

would have on your
husband, yet you

went ahead and did it anyway.

- Bobby, did you ever ask
yourself why I did it?

I don't care why you did it.

I care.

I care that I felt neglected.

I care that you
took me for granted.

I care that all anybody
ever worried about

was whether or not
you were happy.

Is Bobby all right?

How's Bobby feeling?

What does Bobby need?

What about me, huh?

What does Yvette need?

That's it.

He's done asking me questions.

You're done asking
her questions.

I spent enough money on this
broad to last three lifetimes.

You want anything else out
of me, you come to court.

Come on, let's get out of here.

That wasn't easy for me.

Bobby only surrounds
himself with people who tell

him he's right all the time.

Nobody stands up to him.

- We need to talk about
what we're going to do next.

You do.

What's that?

Stand up to him.

You're not the least bit afraid.

- This is what I do
for a living, Yvette.

- Well, I can't tell
you how grateful

I am to have you on my side.

Are you free for
lunch by any chance?

I guess you could just say I'm
an old-fashioned girl, Arnie.

I love watching men fight.

- Is that why you
married a boxer?

That's one reason, yeah.

Truth is there's all
kinds of fighting.

In some ways, I feel as though
I've grown out of the kind

my husband does.

Right now, you're still angry.

That's OK.

I'm not saying you don't
have a right to be angry.

I know you're not.

- It's just a matter
of getting past that.

- See, Arnie, I know you have
my best interests at heart.

I also know that for
many women, the advice

you're giving me is exactly
what they need to hear.

I'm not like them.

I don't need a shrink.

I don't need a father figure.

I don't need someone
to hold my hand.

What do you need?

- Someone who doesn't
flinch, someone

who won't act reasonable with
my husband, who won't back up,

who will take it to
him and take him out.

- You really think that's
what's called for here?

Oh, yeah.

Not only that, I think
that's who you really are.

I think underneath that
reasonable, sensitive exterior,

there's a killer and a
stud trying to break free.

- There may be
something to that.

Ah.

Do you have a hard and
fast policy against getting

sexually involved with clients?

- It's hard, just
not terribly fast.

I'm kidding.

Really?

I was hoping you were serious.

- Mr. Quinn, I'd
like you to tell us

why on the 3rd of
March 1992, you decided

to go and see Kevin Hackett.

- I wanted him to know what
he had done to my daughter.

I wanted him to hear it from me.

Why the gun, Mr. Quinn?

I wanted to frighten him.

I wanted him to experience a
small fraction of the terror

that he had put my
daughter through,

and I couldn't do
that with words alone.

- Would you describe for
the court what happened when

you got to the Hackett house?

- The first thing I did
was to knock on the door.

His car was out front,
so I knew he was there.

And when no one answered,
I went in through a window.

- What did you do
when you found him?

I woke him up.

- Tell me what you
said, Mr. Quinn.

- I said, my name
is Thomas Quinn

and I'm here to talk to
you about my daughter.

And how did he respond?

- He sat up in bed
and lit a cigarette,

asked me what she
looked like these days.

I said, what difference
does that make?

He proceeded to tell me what a
foxy 16-year-old she had been.

He described to me in great
detail what her body looked

like when it was soaking wet--

described what
she had felt like,

described how he had raped her
in words I will not repeat.

Well, I let him finish--

but I took out my
gun and I shot him.

- Mr, Quinn, what was in
your mind at that moment?

I heard my daughter's voice.

I saw the way she had looked
when she was a little girl--

the way she had looked when
her mother was still alive.

And I felt as though I could--

I could still protect
her from that man.

So I did.

I stopped him.

I have nothing further.

- You don't ordinarily
carry a gun, do you, sir?

No.

- But you carried one
this time, didn't you?

- Well, I said I
wanted to scare him.

Right.

And when you knocked on the
door and no one answered,

you went through a window
and crept through the house

until you found Kevin
Hackett sleeping in his bed?

That's right.

- Now, is it your testimony,
sir, that you were temporarily

insane during all that?

Yes.

- And you're saying that
the sight of this individual

coupled with his uttering
of your daughter's name

pushed you over the edge?

- He did more than
utter her name.

Let's say that he did.

The question I'm asking is
whether or not you were in fact

insane when you killed him?

Objection.

Sustained.

- Mr. Quinn, at the time you
shot and killed Kevin Hackett,

did you understand the
act you were performing?

- I wasn't really
thinking about it.

- I didn't ask you whether or
not you were thinking about it.

I asked you whether or not you
understood what you were doing.

I don't know.

- You had lost
touch with reality

to that extent, Mr. Quinn?

You didn't know you were
carrying a loaded gun?

You didn't know the difference
between right and wrong?

- Objection, Your Honor.
- Sustained.

One question at a
time, Ms. Schiff.

- Were you able to distinguish
between right and wrong

at the time of the shooting?

I'll ask you again, sir.

Were you able to distinguish
between right and wrong?

Of course, I was.

And of course, I understood
what it was that I did.

This beast destroyed
my little girl's life.

And for that, he served a
big seven years in prison.

I wasn't insane.

I set out to kill him
and that's what I did.

And I killed him because
he deserved to die.

[chatter]

Good morning, gentlemen.

Ms. Kelsey.

- I must say I'm rather
surprised that you

wanted to reconvene today.

Were you?

- Well, given the tenor
of yesterday's meeting,

I was under the impression
that you weren't

taking us all that seriously.

- Well, let me assure you,
we take you very seriously.

Good.

What I'm going to want
access to right off the bat

are the records of
patients who were

released from the hospital.

- Did you have any
particular patient in mind

when you initiated this
action, Mr. Samuels?

We discussed this yesterday.

- I was addressing my question
to your client, Ms. Kelsey.

- Given that I am my client's
legal representative,

I was assuming that
you were addressing

your question to both of us.

- I think it's
possible your client is

possessed of certain information
he has not yet shared with you.

- Look, are we here to discuss
moving forward with this

- or aren't we?
- We are.

Fine.

In that case, we
would like to know

if you are prepared to begin
furnishing us with records.

Why don't we start with this?

Oh!

Very tricky, guys.

Gerard, let me read it.

- It's not necessary
that you read this.

This is a diversionary tactic.

This has nothing whatsoever
to do with the issues at hand.

- That's the
hospital file on Mr.

Samuels' mother, Ms. Kelsey.

We believe that's what's
motivating this gentleman,

and we think it's best to be
honest about it, particularly

when it can be argued
that it is her family that

is responsible for
what happened to her.

Oh, really, Mr. Pike, huh?

And how do you figure that, huh?

How do you figure that?

How do you figure that a
salesman working two jobs

with a 10-year-old son could
take care of a woman who was

compulsively depressed, huh?

Who was-- who was delusional?

Who wouldn't eat,
wouldn't sleep,

would pace back
and forth all night

long because she was hearing
voices nobody else could hear.

How do you figure that?

Gerard, what's going on?

- My mother was a patient
in the hospital that these--

these gentlemen represent.

She was-- began as a mild
obsessive compulsive disorder

case and got gradually worse.

She was admitted in April 1966
and then released in June 1969

so that she could return home,
but the problem was she--

she needed to be cared for.

She needed to be protected!

One day, she just wandered
off and she never came back.

I don't know Mickey Kantor--

or Bob Reich-- or
Donna Shalala--

or Hillary Clinton.

I live with my father--

in Canoga Park.

I-- I th--

I think about my mother--

every-- every single day.

[sobbing]

- I don't know what
I'm supposed to do now.

Well, what exactly changed?

- What changed?
I told you.

He disavowed
everything we've been

claiming throughout the trial.

He told the jury
to find him guilty.

- Which doesn't mean
they're going to.

- Gwen, if they don't believe
he was temporarily insane,

they have no basis on
which to exonerate him.

- The basis is they don't
want to send him to jail.

The basis is they like him.

Do you think that's enough?

- You're the trial
lawyer, but I have

to believe that every
woman on that jury

wants to have a father like
him and every man on that jury

wants to be a father like him.

I think that's plenty.

I have to get to court.

- Vengeance is mine,
sayeth the Lord.

The only problem is it
wasn't the Lord talking.

It was Tom Quinn.

What happened to Laura
Quinn was horrible.

No one can deny that.

Kevin Hackett committed
a terrible crime,

a crime for which he
was tried, convicted,

and sentenced to prison.

He served that sentence.

And as is the case with
anyone else, he was released.

The length of his sentence
is not at issue here

nor is the nature of
Mr. Hackett's crime.

The only crime we're here
to consider is Mr. Quinn's.

And he went to see Kevin
Hackett carrying a loaded gun.

He broke into Mr.
Hackett's house,

confronted him while he lay in
his bed, and he executed him.

This was not an act
of self-defense.

By his own admission, he was not
temporarily insane at the time.

It was an act of murder.

And it must be seen for what
it is and it must be punished.

I ask that you find
Tom Quinn guilty.

[chatter]

- By his own admission, he
was not temporarily insane.

You heard Tom Quinn say it.

You heard the
prosecutor repeat it.

The fact is they're both wrong.

Mr. Quinn is no
more in a position

to authoritatively
testify to his own sanity

than he is to his own insanity.

It's you who are charged
with the responsibility

of determining that.

And all you can do is speculate.

What was Tom Quinn's
state of mind

when he faced the
man who had raped

and brutalized his daughter?

The man who had single-handedly
transformed her from a normally

happy and healthy teenager into
a frail and frightened woman,

a woman who has lost an
irretrievable part of her life

for no other reason than that
a depraved and vicious man

wanted to avail himself of her?

What must it have been like
for Tom Quinn to stand face

to face with that man, to
hear him boast of his conquest

and further defile the woman
he had already destroyed?

Was he insane when he
pulled the trigger?

Ask yourself, if it
had been your daughter

and you had been face
to face with the man who

did what this man did, how
sane would you have been?

Ask yourself if Tom
Quinn really deserves

to go to prison for doing
what each of us in our hearts

would have wanted
to do ourselves.

[chatter]

Something about Samuels, huh?

Yes, it is.

It's potentially a wonderful
opportunity for all of us.

You mean you haven't heard?

Heard what?

- Gerard Samuels doesn't
know a soul in Washington,

made the whole thing up.

What?

Yeah.

Ann said it all
came out yesterday.

Either he's delusional
or a very good liar.

Either way, he's no
friend of Bill's.

- When you say that he's
no friend of Bill's, do you

mean he's not a close friend?

He's not any kind of a friend.

He doesn't know Bill and
Bill doesn't know him.

- When you say that
he doesn't know Bill,

do you mean he
doesn't know Bill,

but that there are others within
the Washington establishment

that he does know?

For instance, does he
know Mickey Kantor?

Does he know Warren Christopher?

- Douglas, he
doesn't know anybody!

[sighs]

I feel like such an idiot.

- Well, there's no reason
for you to feel that way.

You did what anybody
would have done.

- But I wanted it
so badly, you know.

I mean, I wouldn't have
thought that being near power

would have been so
important to me.

It was.

It was all I could think about.

[knocking on door]

Gerard-- what are
you doing here?

I called him.

I asked him to come in.

I'm still a client, right?

- Yeah, Gerard, I guess
you're still a client.

- Except we all
know the only reason

you took my case is because I
said I knew all those people.

Is that why you said it?

- I said it so that I
wouldn't be who I was.

I do that.

I make things up.

I sit in my house and I
invent other people for myself

to become.

I was 10 years old when my
mom came back to live with us.

She would act so
crazy, you know.

So what I would do was
I'd stay in my room

and I'd pretend to
be someone else.

- Do you know when
you're pretending?

No.

Not always.

What happens to me now is that I
invent someone for myself to be

and then I become that person.

I'm them.

I'm them when I'm
around other people.

I'm them when I'm by myself.

I wish I could stop.

I wish-- I wish I
could control my mind--

but I can't.

I'm my mother's son--

you know.

- Yeah, and I'm sure that's
not an easy thing to be.

But what you have
to trust in now,

Gerard, is that we
don't need for you

to be anybody other than
who you are in order

for us to help you.

- But I--

I don't have a case.

- Maybe you don't, but
you came into our office

and we took you on as a client.

And that means we
owe you something.

Now, maybe you need a lawyer,
maybe you need a shrink,

maybe you just need
somebody to listen

to you when you don't want to
pretend you're somebody else.

But whatever it is, my
name is Stuart Markowitz,

this is my office, I'm here
to help you however I can.

OK?

OK.

- What we do
straight off the bat

is place notice on the
State Athletic Commission.

That way, we put them on
notice that there will

- be a claim on his earnings.
- Sounds great.

- Now, what I want to
do at the same time

as that is I want to subpoena
his manager, his trainer,

his accountant, and
every sparring partner

he's had over the
past two years.

He says he didn't want to
fight because he wasn't ready.

I want to hear what they say.

You're pumped up, aren't ya?

A little.

I want you pumped up a lot.

I shouldn't have
done that, right?

I don't know.

- It's just that you have
this effect on me, you know.

Seeing you fight for me
has this effect on me.

[knocking on door]

What is this I see?

Don't you knock?

I did knock.

You didn't hear it.

I guess you was
otherwise engaged.

I guess we were.

- Look, this is one
of those classically

embarrassing moments.

Oh, I'm not embarrassed, man.

I'm mad!

- Uh, you have every
right to be mad.

- I came here because
she told me to come.

I came here because she
said she wanted to talk.

I came here for that!

And I got to see this?

Look, I'm sorry.

Nobody planned for
this to happen.

Put up your hands.

- I'm not going to
put up my hands.

- Come on, I'll hit you with
jabs, just left-handed jabs.

Come on, big shot!

- Look, Bobby, you
hit me with a jab,

a combination, a hook
or anything else,

your career is over.

- I ain't thinking about
my career right now.

Well, maybe you should be.

You're a professional
prizefighter

licensed by the State
Athletic Commission.

Use your hands outside the ring,
you're committing a felony.

That means you
won't be permitted

to fight for a long time,
long enough so there

won't be any more big fights.

There won't be any
more big purses.

And what purses there are
will in all likelihood

go to me since I will
sue you and I will win.

- I ain't going to do
what I did the last time

you cheated on me.

I ain't going to
fall apart this time.

This time, I'm taking everything
that I'm feeling right now

and I'm going back
into the ring.

I'm going back into
the ring, and you

watch what I do in there.

And when you're finished
with this guy, call me.

You are incredible.

Get out of my office.

What?

I said get out of my office.

Find yourself another lawyer.

Why?

What did I do?

You set me up.

You set him up.

Why would I want to do that?

- So you could sit
back and watch.

I'll send over your file.

I'll return your check.

You can either give them both
to a lawyer who wants to sleep

with you more
desperately than I do,

or, since he's willing to
be your gladiator again,

you can go back to your husband.

[chatter]

How are you doing?

OK.

You feel like taking a walk?

No.

I'm all right.

Hi, Daddy.

Laura.

What are you doing here?

I wanted to be with you.

- You didn't have
to come down here.

I wanted to.

I wanted to be with you, daddy.

Jury's back.

Let's go.

- Has the jury
reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

What say you?

- We find the defendant
Thomas Quinn not

guilty by reason of insanity.

- By the power entrusted to
me by the California Penal

Code Section 1026,
I find the defendant

to be no longer insane.

Mr. Quinn, you're free to go.

We're adjourned.

[chuckles]

- I can't thank you enough.
- Don't worry about it, Tom.

It was a pleasure.

Um, I'd like to thank you too.

Well, you're welcome, Laura.

Good luck.

Come on, honey, let's go home.

- You weren't the least
bit mad at him, were you?

No.

Why is that?

Why should I be mad at him?

Because he's got problems?

Because he's mentally ill?

You think that's what it is?

- Well, I don't think
it's because he's evil.

You don't?

No.

I think it's because he had
a real rough time growing up.

Now he's trying to get
through life the best he can.

Come here.

Watching you with Gerard
in your office today

reminded me of how
much I love you.

- So, uh, how much
do you love me?

Very much.

Very, very much.

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