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- No, I just thought you and
I got off on the wrong foot

the other day, Mr. Shale.

I'd like to see if we
can't rectify that.

OK.

- Your guys made the
arrest because it's

their job to make the arrest.

I fully understand that.

- Mm-hmm.

Barry is a fugitive.

You saw the opportunity to bring
him in, you brought him in.

- I'm glad you've come
to see it that way.

- What I'd like to
address now is, how

can we dispose of this thing?

- How would you suggest
we dispose of it?

- I think he should plead
guilty to a lesser charge,

and then you and I work out
some sort of combination of jail

time and community service.

- Uh-huh.

And I should do this why?

- Well, mainly because
I think it's fair.

You think it's fair?

Yes, I do.

I also think that since
some 25 years have passed,

this is gonna be a pretty
hard case to prove.

OK.

As far as what's
fair is concerned,

a correctional
officer was killed

as an indirect but
proximate result

of your client's actions.

What's fair is that
he serve the next 20

years of his life in prison.

Now, as far as this case
being hard to prove,

let me worry about that.

- If you don't mind my asking,
Mr. Shale, why all the venom?

This is an old case.

- Let me tell you a little bit
about myself, Mr. Markowitz.

I got this job through Richard
Kleindienst, who I count

as one of my dearest friends.

I served proudly in the
justice departments of John

Mitchell and Edwin Meese.

I'm sure that you,
like most liberals,

gleefully welcomed the fall
from grace of those men.

I take a somewhat
different view.

- And what does that have
to do with this case?

- It has everything
to do with this case.

Your client was devoted
to armed insurrection.

He was a willing
combatant in an effort

to undermine our way of life.

Now, I view him and
his comrades in arms

and the so-called '60s the same
way now as I viewed them then.

The only thing that's different
is that now I've got him.

- And this is the position
of the Justice Department?

Or is this some sort of
personal vendetta of yours?

- Until Janet Reno
has me removed

from this case, Mr. Markowitz,
I am the Justice Department.

[theme music]

- Can someone tell
me who Gordon Hyke is

and why we've paid
him over $10,000?

- He's a security
consultant, Douglas.

And?

- And he's been
hired to evaluate

our situation here and
recommend various things

to improve our security.

- What is it you're
worried about?

- What is it that
I'm worried about?

I'm worried about being killed.

- Driving around in
that Bentley wouldn't

have heightened your sense
of vulnerability, would it?

Lawyers get killed, Leland.

They get harassed.

They get ambushed.

They get killed.

You remember what happened
up in San Francisco.

It could also happen here.

- So what are you gonna do,
live in fear all the time?

- No, what you do is
you take precautions.

Arnie is absolutely right.

And it's not just
physical violence

you have to worry about.

It's your phones, the mail,
the security of your files.

- It also makes
sense that if we're

gonna do anything about it, we
do it before the renovation

is complete.

- Well, I'm not so sure
it makes sense at all.

Before we spend another dime, I
want to talk to this gentleman.

Security consultant.

US Versus Ellison.

- I met with--

- The bail hearing
is set for this--

I'm sorry.

You go ahead.

- Bail hearing is
set for this morning.

- Is there a deal
to be made here?

- Not unless we get a
different prosecutor

assigned to the case.

If it remains John Shale,
we're headed for trial.

Let us know what happens.

Wheaton Versus Value Square.

- Carl Bulllen, the founder
and CEO of Value Square, fired

his attorneys on
the eve of trial,

and thanks to a formidable
bit of rainmaking on the part

of Leland McKenzie, hired us.

The company is being sued by
an ex-employee for violation

of privacy and
emotional distress

related to their having
had her under surveillance.

Surveillance for what?

She was having an affair.

- And you're representing
the company, Ann?

- We are representing
the company, Arnie.

I see it as
exercising legitimate

managerial prerogative.

And with 1,200 stores
all across the country,

this is a client that
could stand to make us

a hell of a lot of money.

Am I right, Leland?

Right you are.

- Ann Kelsey, you're beautiful
when you're mercenary.

Hear, hear.

- I'm gonna need some
help on this one.

How about Jane?

OK.

- United States of America
Versus Jay Ellison.

- Mr. Rollins, I trust
that you and Mr. Markowitz

have decided who's
handling this case.

We have, Your Honor.

Good, proceed.

- We ask that bail be set
for Jay Ellison at $100,000.

- The United States strenuously
objects to that, Your Honor.

- Jay Ellison has been a stable
member of the same community

for more than 15
years, Your Honor.

He's a successful
garment manufacturer,

and he's got two young children.

And he was preparing
to turn himself in.

That's what he says now.

The truth is he had 25
years to turn himself in.

- We know he was
about to turn himself

in because discussions
had already been initiated

by my colleague, Mr. Markowitz.

You ordered that Mr. Markowitz
be followed for the purpose

of making an arrest.

- You think he's a flight
risk, is that right, Mr. Shale?

Yes, I do.

If he's convicted
of these charges,

he stands to lose his
family, his business,

and go to prison for 20 years.

That, I believe, represents a
sufficient motivation for him

to run.

- I could be wrong about this,
but I have to believe that Mr.

Ellison is tired of running.

Bail is set at $1 million.

Thank you, Your Honor.

Put the house up.

We'll have you out
of here in an hour.

Good.

- --Versus Herschel Adams.

- The whole truth, and nothing
but the truth, so help you God?

I do.

- Mrs. Wheaton, what was your
position on February 12, 1993,

the day you resigned your job?

- I manage the Value Square
department store in Valencia.

- Prior to your
resignation, had the company

given you any indication
that they were

dissatisfied with your work?

- No, I had received
good to excellent

job evaluations
throughout my 15-year

tenure with Value Square.

- Mrs. Wheaton, would you
please describe the events

that led to your resignation?

- The district
supervisor asked to meet

with me and my assistant
manager, Donald Farris.

During that meeting,
he confronted us

with a 200-page report
compiled by company security.

- And what was contained
in this report?

- Transcripts of personal
conversations Mr. Farris

and I conducted on
our office telephones,

a very personal email
letter I had written,

and a surveillance
record of our movements

during the previous six months.

There were photographs as well.

- And what was the import of
these transcripts, surveillance

reports, and photographs?

- They documented a romantic
relationship involving

Mr. Farris and myself.

- Mrs. Wheaton, were you
married to another man

during your relationship
with Mr. Farris?

Yes.

I'm now in the process
of getting a divorce.

- What, if anything, were
you told during this meeting?

- We were told that
Value Square prohibited

relationships between employees
and urged to end the affair.

And how did you respond?

I resigned.

Why?

- I felt as though
I had been violated.

I have nothing further.

- Mrs. Wheaton, at the time
that you and Mr. Farris

were having your
affair, you knew

that company policy forbade
such relationships, did you not?

Yes.

And because of that,
Mr. Farris and I

took great care to
maintain a strict business

relationship while on the job.

- So you concealed the
nature of your relationship?

Scrupulously.

It never disrupted
our job performances,

and I am certain
Mr. Bullen never

would have known
about it had he not

been tapping our office phones.

- You were also
aware, were you not,

that the company had a
stated policy of monitoring

all business communications?

- These were not
business communications.

These were private and personal.

- Except that they
were conducted

on the telephone and computer
in your office, weren't they?

Yes.

- And you were on actual notice
that they weren't private.

They told you you
might be listened to.

- I wasn't told that
men with cameras

would be following me to
restaurants and hotels.

- Isn't it a fact
that the places

where you were followed
and photographed

were all public places?

My life is not public.

What I do on my own
time is my own business.

- Except for the fact that what
you were doing on your own time

was violative of an express
company policy, wasn't it?

- I gave him eight and a half
hours a day, six days a week.

I did not give him the
right to spy on me.

I have nothing further.

Or persecute me or judge me.

Thank you, Mrs. Wheaton.

You may step down.

I'm confused, Ms. Kelsey.

What about?

- I am very much
aware that we have

some damaging personal
information on Mrs. Wheaton.

You neglected to use it.

Why?

- The strength of our
case lies in defending

your legitimate
business interests,

not in tearing
down the plaintiff.

- This woman is attacking
the way I do business.

I mean, I think we should fight
back as vigorously as we can.

- If it doesn't pertain to her
employment, it's inadmissible.

- Unless we argue that Ms.
Wheaton's personal conduct

is inconsistent with
Value Square's image.

- Hell, that's what
we should be arguing.

Look, I promoted
my stores as places

where traditional American
values are respected.

Value Square, square values.

Values, values, values.

I built a business on values,
and I want that out there.

And that, my dear ladies, is
why I'm sitting in the

courtroom personally.

- Mr. Bullen, I've got 15
years litigation experience,

and I'm telling you
that if I go in there

and start braying about
values, we will lose.

I think as long as you are
sitting in the courtroom,

you'd rather that we won.

- Now, in response
to your inquiry,

Mr. Brackman, what I
did was as follows.

I conducted background checks
on all of your employees.

Then I begun a process of
screening all of the building's

maintenance and
janitorial staff which

have access to these offices.

- You screened the
cleaning people?

- I screen everyone who
comes through that door.

I love this.

- I've designed a record
retention and refuse

disposal system, which I believe
is appropriate for the firm.

Color coding
indicates trash which

is particularly sensitive.

This is shredded and disposed
of at alternate sites.

I've swept the office
and phone system

for any listening devices.

I've removed any list of home
phone numbers and addresses

from non-secure office files.

In addition, I've begun
installation of a safe room.

What is a safe room?

Very simply put, it is a room.

It could be a bathroom.

It could be a closet.

It could be an office.

This is the room
your employees go

to when they are under attack.

Attack?

What kind of attack?

- Well, it could be from
a variety of sources.

It could be a
disgruntled ex-employee.

It could be an individual who is
aggrieved about a legal matter

you're involved with.

- An embittered
spouse, a psychotic

adversary, an obsessed admirer.

Not to mention the usual
random acts of violence devoid

of motive.

- What makes this room safe in
the event of such an attack?

Primarily the door.

We use an oversized
steel pocket door.

This is held closed by
an electromagnet, which

is designed to resist
any level of force

which may be applied against
it, including explosives.

My god.

You think those sorts of
precautions are necessary?

This is a law firm,
not the Pentagon.

Hey, Leland.

My philosophy on the
issue of security,

let's err on the
side of caution.

Let's be too safe.

I'd sure as hell rather that
than in the interests of not

seeming foolish
or fearful finding

out that we're not safe enough.

You were right, Leland.

It was the Bentley.

Tell them about the Bentley.

- Arnold spoke to me about
feeling that this was

a more overt and extreme
expression of affluence

than his Porsche had been.

He's fearful of
becoming a target

for any predatory individual who
may seek to rob or kidnap him.

He enjoys owning the vehicle
and does not desire to drive

anything less conspicuous.

So I advised him that
for a fairly reasonable

amount of money, we could
equip it with bulletproof glass

and doors.

Did you do that?

It's secured at NATO level 3.

You've gone mad, Arnold.

Gordon doesn't think so.

- Gentlemen, I don't
know about you,

but the way I look at the
world, the state of readiness

is nothing more than a prudent
response to circumstances.

- I think you should plead
guilty to aiding and abetting

and not guilty to conspiracy.

Is that possible?

Sure, it's possible.

- You recognize the
error of your ways.

We attribute it to your
youth, to the times,

then we line up a whole
series of character witnesses

who will harp on the fact that
you've been a solid citizen

for over 20 years.

Faith, what do you think?

You know what I think.

- Would you like to tell Stuart
and Mr. Rollins what you think?

- What I think is that
Barry did nothing wrong.

The United States government,
and in particular,

the prison authorities,
were engaged

in a campaign of
systematic extermination

of the Black Panther Party.

He acted to save a man's life.

OK, can we prove that?

Well, we can try, Stuart.

And I think that if
we harp on that, maybe

there's a chance he'll
get off altogether.

A very little chance.

- And he won't have to
apologize for what he did.

- Faith, let's not predicate
our entire defense on whether he

has to apologize or not.

Why not?

- Because we have to
do what we have to do.

If apologizing means he's gonna
get a more lenient sentence,

we'll apologize.

- Stuart, it's not
just an apology.

It's a denial of the legitimacy
of everything I believe in.

- Jonathan, would you explain
to them the pitfalls of turning

this into a political trial?

- Well, we risk alienating
the jury, angering the judge.

And if we lose, we risk
a much stiffer sentence.

On the other hand, if we can
prove that Horus Washington's

life was in jeopardy because
he was a Black Panther,

we can also claim that there
was a legal justification

for aiding and abetting
his escape attempt.

- Yeah, except we can't prove
that his life was in jeopardy.

How do you know?

Oh, excuse me, you're right.

I don't know.

But my judgment tells me
that it's highly unlikely.

My judgment tells me that this
is an extremely stupid risk

to take.

And I am dumbfounded
that as an attorney,

you would be willing
to even consider it.

- If there is a way
that he can walk

out of this free and clear,
my inclination is to take it.

Barry, hear me.

I think this is utterly insane.

The prison guard was killed.

- Mr. Rollins, since,
as I understand it,

you'll be the one
trying this case,

I would like to know if
you are willing to defend

my husband in the manner in
which he wants to be defended.

- Well, Stuart's absolutely
right that this is a long shot.

As long as you understand
that, I'm willing to see

where the evidence leads.

If we can build a credible
case that Horus Washington's

life was in danger, then
yeah, I'm willing to go

to court with that.

- Mr. Collins, let's
redo the office

and telephone system sweeps.

We may want to double
glaze these panels.

Let's check the
electrical conduit.

- Hey.
- New computer.

Hey, what's going on?

- Mr. McKenzie, I
spoke to you yesterday

about the need to scrutinize
your janitorial personnel.

This is the reason why.

What's the reason why?

Who are these people?

- This individual, for
the price of a uniform,

gained access to your offices.

He was found in your file room.

And point of fact,
he's not a janitor.

He's a private investigator
hired by Carl Bullen

to obtain background
information on your firm.

- How did you manage
to find that out?

- We obtained a list of
all janitorial personnel.

When my operative asked
him to identify himself,

he provided a name that
was not on this list.

Once he did that, we
investigated further.

- I don't know
about you, Leland,

but I rather like having this
gentleman working for us.

- Mr. Bullen, why do you
conduct investigations

on your employees?

- Because it makes
good business sense.

Since we've been doing it, we've
reduced employee theft by 65%.

On-the-job drug and alcohol
abuse has been reduced by half.

- Why the policy of prohibiting
coworkers from becoming

romantically involved?

- These relationships
frequently deteriorate

into quote, unquote, "sexual
harassment type situations."

- How did you learn that Mrs.
Wheaton was having an affair

with her assistant manager?

- Through routine monitoring
of office communications,

both on the phone
and on the computer.

A practice, which I may
say, we make no secret of.

- Why did you have
your investigators

conduct surveillance on Mrs.
Wheaton's behavior off the job?

- First of all, the
surveillance was conducted

in an entirely legal manner.

The reason we had to do
it was that Mrs. Wheaton's

personal behavior suggested that
she could pose a serious threat

to the company.

How so?

- She deceived us, and
she deceived her husband.

Now, this indicates to me that
Mrs. Wheaton is fundamentally

dishonest, not necessarily
the kind of person

you would want overseeing
millions of dollars

worth of merchandise.

In addition, every
Value Square employee

is expected to reflect company
values, traditional family

values, a love of country.

Thank you, Mr. Bullen.

I have nothing further.

I'm not through.

Ms. Kelsey?

Nothing further.

- Mr. Bullen, do you
believe adultery is immoral?

Objection.

- I'd like to answer
that, if I may.

You may not, sir.

Objection sustained.

- Mr. Bullen, am I correct in
understanding that you think

the fact that you gave Mrs.
Wheaton a paycheck entitled you

to monitor whom she
associated with,

ate with, and slept
with on her own time?

You're the lawyer, sir.

But I think legally
I have the right

to monitor employee activities
which affect business,

whether those activities are
conducted on the job or off.

- Do you have any evidence
whatsoever that Mrs. Wheaton's

personal relationship
with Mr. Ferris in any way

affected her job performance?

No, but it could have.

- Mr. Bullen, you mentioned that
you believe your employees are

obligated to reflect
company values,

traditional family values.

Is that right?

That's right.

- Do you monitor your
employee's behavior as a means

of enforcing your moral vision?

Objection.

Overruled.

- I do what I can to
maintain the highest

standards of honesty and
integrity among my employees.

And I'm not ashamed to say that.

- And that's why you conducted
this invasive surveillance

into Mrs. Wheaton's
personal life, isn't it?

It was not because you thought
she was a threat to business.

It was because you thought
she was a loose woman who

needed to be yanked into line.

It was both.

Thank you, Mr. Bullen.

I have no further questions.

Sorry to keep you waiting.

No problem.

- Barry Glassman,
formerly Jay Ellison.

My attorney, Jonathan Rollins.

This is Franklin Hovey.

Very pleased to meet you.

- I understand you wanted
to talk about the old days.

The old days are upon me.

So it seems.

- We thought your perspective
would be very valuable to us.

- My perspective
or my testimony?

Both.

- You know, I saw you speak
at a rally in Oakland once.

You were truly incredible.

I'm glad you liked it.

- We were also hoping that you
could provide us with the names

of other potential witnesses.

- Why did you think to call me?
- Why?

Yeah, why?

You don't know me.

You know some things
about me, but we

have no personal
knowledge of one another.

Why did you think you could
call on me for anything?

- I was involved in the same
struggle you were involved in.

And now-- now I need your help.

- We also felt that
since we're planning

on making this into
a political trial,

you might want to participate.

I don't.

- Now, see, we'd be putting
the policies of the United

States government on trial.

COINTELPRO, the assassinations
of Fred Hampton, Mark Clark.

Potentially all of
this would be relevant.

- We don't know how much
the judge will let in,

but our intention is
to mount a defense

based on the lives of Black
Panthers being in danger.

- And I wish you the best of
luck, but as I said before,

I have no interest
in participating.

- If you don't mind
me asking, what is

it that you're worried about?

- I'm worried about being
identified as a Black Panther.

I'm worried about
the effect that it

will have on my employer.

I'm worried about people
coming back into my life

who I would rather not
come back into my life.

Are you gonna tell
me I shouldn't

be worried about those things?

Are you gonna tell me that
I owe it to your client

because we were involved
in the same struggle?

All right, look, you asked
if I was willing to testify.

I said I wasn't.

There really is nothing
more to say on that subject.

- Only that if you're not
willing to testify voluntarily,

you should expect
to be subpoenaed.

I put in my time, gentlemen.

I served nine and one half
years in a federal penitentiary.

Whatever your problem
is, it's your problem.

I'm telling you I don't
want to be dragged into it.

I can't help that.

Get out of my office.

[tense music]

- You want me to sit second
chair to Jane Halliday?

This isn't personal, Ann.

Carl simply feels that Jane has
a better grasp of the issues.

Then Carl is an idiot.

And if you let Jane
take over this case,

you're a bigger idiot.

- I know this is
difficult for you.

It's only natural that you'd
want to protect your turf.

- This isn't about
turf, Douglas.

This is about losing the case.

We're not gonna keep this guy
as a client if we don't win.

- As managing partner,
I have a responsibility

to protect the client's wishes,
and the client wants Jane.

- The client wants someone
he can control so that he

can use this trial
to promote his

Neanderthal social philosophy.

What he needs is someone to
protect him from himself.

- Are you sure
you're not letting

your personal feelings cloud
your professional judgment?

What does that mean?

- You've had a jaundiced
view of Jane from the start.

You wouldn't be suffering
from QBS, would you?

QBS?

Queen Bee Syndrome.

Hmm?

Carl.

Leland.

- Can we expect any more
clandestine attempts

to infiltrate our
cleaning staff?

- I'll have you know
that you guys are

the only ones who
have ever intercepted

one of my covert operatives.

I'm very impressed.

- But you haven't
answered my question.

- You sound a bit
testy for a man

who is defending my right to
conduct these investigations.

- How you manage your
business is your business.

But when you start
snooping around mine,

that's a different story.

And I won't tolerate it.

- I appreciate your
candor, Leland.

Now I'll be candid with you.

Based on our
background check, we

are very secure
in doing business

with McKenzie-Brackman, although
some of your colleagues are,

shall we say, a bit too
colorful for my taste.

- I take that to mean
that you're done.

You have my word on it.

- Tell us, Ms. Wheaton,
during your interview

for store manager, were you
told that Value Square had

an interest in maintaining
high moral standards

among its executives?

Yes, I was.

- And when asked about
your own moral character,

how did you respond?

- I said I considered
myself a moral person.

- Were you having an
extramarital affair

at that time?

Objection.

Overruled.

Witness may answer.

No, I was not.

- You did, however,
have an affair while you

were working at Value Square?

Yes.

- At the time that you
were conducting the affair,

were you living at
home with your husband?

- Yes, we were trying
to work things out.

- Tell us, Ms. Wheaton,
in December of 1992,

did you go to the
Women's Health Clinic

for the purpose of aborting
an unwanted pregnancy?

- What?
- Objection.

That is totally irrelevant.

- I believe I'm entitled
to explore the plaintiff's

character, Your Honor.

- Only insofar as it affects
her work, Ms. Halliday.

Objection sustained.

- Did it affect your work to
find that you were pregnant,

- Ms. Wheaton?
- Objection.

- Overruled.
- I wasn't pregnant very long.

- Did having an
abortion as a means

of getting rid of an
inconvenient pregnancy

affect your work?

Objection.

Sustained.

I agonized over that decision.

I was 39 years old.

I desperately wanted
to have a baby.

- You stated that you
were a moral person.

Ms. Halliday.

- Adultery, promiscuity,
aborting a baby

- conceived while sleeping around.
- Objection.

- Are these examples of what
it means to you to be moral?

Your Honor.

- Ms. Halliday, one more word,
and I'll hold you in contempt.

Ms. Wheaton, you may step down.

I'm instructing the
jury to disregard

defense counsel's questions.

They are, in no way,
relevant to this case.

I don't know what you're trying
to accomplish, Counselor.

But let me tell you, I find
your conduct in this courtroom

to be highly
unprofessional as well

as personally reprehensible.

If I have to declare a
mistrial, believe me,

I will hold you in contempt.

In the interest of
trying to avoid that,

I suggest strongly that
you change your approach.

Yes, Your Honor.

Court's in recess.

[tense music]

- I need for you to
do the summation.

Why?

Were you unhappy
with some aspect

of your performance yesterday?

- I think that both
the judge and the jury

perceive me in a fairly
unsympathetic light.

Consequently, I think I'm
probably no longer effective.

- You weren't effective
to begin with.

Maybe not.

- The truth is you don't
know enough to know

when you're being effective.

You told a client
what he wanted to hear

and then you patted
yourself on the back

because he agreed with you.

Look, I made a mistake.

I was humiliated for
it in open court.

I am asking you
to try and contain

the damage that's been done.

If you have to take your pound
of flesh, go ahead and take it.

- I don't want a
pound of flesh, Jane.

I just want to win this case.

Toward that end, you bet your
ass I'll do the summation.

- Sliding pocket door,
electromagnetic locking system.

Cellular phone, we'll stash
in there, and your toilet.

In the event of an attack, you
retreat in here, call for help

and wait.

- Is it all right to use
the space for other things

when we're not under attack?

Absolutely.

- Mm-hmm.

- Has the world really
changed this much?

What do you mean?

- I mean we've been in business
here for over 40 years.

No one's ever thought of
installing a safe room,

or doing background checks
on the cleaning people,

or any of this.

Did we need to do it before?

Probably not.

- So why do we
need to do it now?

- Because the world
has changed that much,

and our capability of
neutralizing those who would

do us harm must change with it.

This door will be fully
operational by the end

of business Friday.

I would not advise
using it before then.

- Let's just hope we
don't find ourselves

under attack before then.

- I assume you're
being sardonic.

Yeah.

- If you're genuinely concerned,
there are some alternatives

we can consider.

That really is not necessary.

- For 15 years, Leslie Wheaton
was a conscientious employee

of Value Square Stores.

She was loyal to her employer.

She trusted her employer.

Now, Leslie Wheaton has
done absolutely nothing

against the law.

She has never once
let her private life

interfere with her
professional responsibilities.

Yet her phones were tapped,
her email monitored,

a private investigator sent
to follow her every move.

And Value Square says
that because they

told her this was company
policy, that makes it all OK.

Well, ladies and gentlemen,
that does not make it all OK.

By their intrusive
surveillance techniques,

Value Square has clearly
violated Leslie Wheaton's

privacy and in so
doing have caused

her enormous emotional distress.

Now most of us, we spend the
majority of our time at work,

and our employer is entitled
to our full commitment

during work hours.

But they are not
entitled to invade

the privacy of the few
hours that we have left.

They are not entitled to
decide whom we sleep with,

how we spend our free time,
and most importantly, how

we choose to live our lives.

- Nobody likes the idea
of someone spying on them.

If a stranger listened in
on our phone conversations,

we'd be outraged,
and rightfully so.

The difference here is that
Value Square wasn't a stranger.

Value Square was Leslie
Wheaton's employer.

And that makes all the
difference in the world.

It is a well-settled
point of law

that employers have the right
to monitor their employees

at work, whether that
means telephone calls,

email, or physical observation.

What Value Square did was legal.

Now, you might well
ask, was it necessary?

I'd like you to
imagine for a moment

that you are Value Square.

You employ over 20,000 people.

Legally and financially,
you are responsible for what

each and every one
of them does while he

or she is working for you.

Carl Bullen did
what anyone who runs

a company that size has to do.

He set up a code of conduct.

He told his employees
what it was.

He told them what he
would do to enforce it,

and he told them
that he expected

everyone to abide by it.

Now, if Leslie Wheaton found
any part of that objectionable,

she had a very simple and a
very effective alternative.

She could have worked
for someone else.

She chose to work
for Carl Bullen.

She is not entitled to
be compensated because he

did what he's entitled to do.

- So in the event of an
attack, this is where you go.

What kind of an attack?

Any kind of an attack.

At the first sign of
engagement, you come in here.

You slide the door shut.

Throw the switch, which
activates the electromagnet.

We are now secure.

- I thought the first sign of
engagement is usually a shot.

Not necessarily.

From what Gordon says, there are
any number of incidents where

somebody shows up
and waits quite

a while before turning violent.

- Well, I guess
you'll have to have

the receptionist stall
them while all the lawyers

tiptoe to hide in here, huh?

- You go ahead and
laugh, but the truth

is attorneys are on the
front lines of potentially

violent conflicts every day.

Clients hire us
to be gunslingers.

Their enemies
become our enemies.

- Look, Arnold, you've convinced
me, but I got to go home,

so can you open the door?

- I just want to
say one more thing.

What?

- These measures aren't just
to protect the attorneys.

They're to protect
everyone who works here.

I'm just as concerned for your
safety as I am about my own.

Well, I love you for it.

Now, open the door.

I want to go, OK?

All right.

What's wrong?

The door appears to be stuck.

What do you mean, it's stuck?

I can't get it open.

- Maybe somebody can
open it from the outside.

Ah.

Hello?

Hello?

- Hello?
Open the door!

Hello?

- What about the
cleaning people?

There are no cleaning people.

- What do you mean, there
are no cleaning people?

- Gordon didn't
want any cleaning

people coming in until he could
do background checks on them.

Oh, well, that's just great.

Is there a phone here?

That's right.

There's supposed to be a
cellular phone somewhere.

Which they apparently
have not put in yet!

- Great.
So what are you telling me?

We have to stay here
till tomorrow morning?

I guess so.

You'll have to admit
that this is an occasion

not without opportunity.

- Mm-hmm, yeah.

[knocking on door]

Let me call you back.

You here with a subpoena?

- No, no, my client doesn't want
to serve you with a subpoena.

He wants to respect your wishes.

- And you weren't able
to talk him out of that?

As a matter of fact, I wasn't.

- You're gonna get your name
in the papers on this one,

aren't you?

I might.

Ain't no might about it.

Do you think that's important?

You think it's important.

You know that you've really
got yourself a hot case.

The Black Panther Party is
about due for a revival now,

don't you think?

It must be the 20th or 25th
anniversary of something.

We'll see black leather jackets
and berets in the stores.

And you'll be cashing
in on all of it.

- You know, Mr. Hovey,
I understand your desire

to stay out of this.

What I would ask
you to understand

is that I'm
representing my client

the same way I'm sure you wanted
your lawyer to represent you.

I also think since my name is
going to be in the newspapers,

it might as well be there
for doing something useful.

- I always get frightened
when I'm up at this hour.

- What's there to
be frightened of?

We're in a safe room.

- A safe room protects
you from other people.

It doesn't protect
you from yourself.

- Why don't we just get as
comfortable as we possibly can?

You can lie over there, and
I'm gonna lie over here.

And maybe we can get some sleep.

And then in the
morning, somebody

will come and let us out.

Denise?

Hmm?

- Do you mind
talking for a while?

Just-- just for a little while.

Sure.

- It's the only way I have
of bridging the abyss,

so to speak.

To swaddle myself
in human contact

to stave off the realization
of one's own mortality,

one's insignificance,
the difficulty

of establishing intimacy,
the impossibility

of maintaining it.

Ugh.

- Look, I don't know about
mortality and insignificance,

but I thought as far as
intimacy was concerned,

you did OK in that department.

I used to think I did.

I used to validate
my very existence by

the endless conquest of women.

Beautiful women, models,
Playboy playmates, movie star.

I'm not gonna say who it
is, but I once went to bed

with a very famous movie star.

She was nominated
for an Academy Award.

Mm.

- She was on the cover of a
different magazine every month.

She was a very, very
famous movie star.

OK, OK, Arnold, I get it.

The point is it didn't matter.

I'm alone.

And I'm desperately unhappy.

Are you?

Yes, I am.

You are alone, aren't you?

- You were always so
shocked to hear me say that.

- You're alone,
and you're scared.

And the truth is at 3 o'clock
in the morning, all the things

that you own, the clothes,
the house, the Bentley,

they don't even matter.

No, they don't.

- Being a big-shot lawyer,
that doesn't matter.

No.

- And all the women you slept
with, they don't

matter, either.

What does matter?

- What matters is having someone
to hold you and talk to you

and lull you back to sleep.

What matters is
loving and trusting

a person enough to survive
3 o'clock in the morning.

- You see right
through me, don't you?

Yeah, I do.

- I have to tell you
something, Denise.

What?

- I think you could
be that person for me.

You could talk to me and hold
me and lull me back to sleep.

I could love and trust you.

Stand clear.

Clear, clear, clear.

I believe I told you this
door was not yet functional.

Oh, thank god.

- How did you know
that we were in here?

- No doubt you're unaware of
it, but there's a microphone

and a transmitter
in here in the event

that persons inside
are incapacitated

or the cellular
phone is inoperable.

Wait, wait, wait.

Wait a second.

You just heard everything
that we said in here?

I myself did not.

The members of my staff
who monitor the frequency,

they would have.

If you'll excuse me, I have
to get to rearming this door.

Thank god he showed up, huh?

Denise?

What?

What about what I just said?

What?

What I said about
you being the one.

Me?

Forget about it.

- Members of the jury,
have you reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

What say you?

- In the matter of Wheaton
Versus Value Square

on the issue of the
intentional infliction

of emotional distress, we
find for the defendant.

On the issue of
invasion of privacy,

we find for the plaintiff
and award the sum of $1.

And my thanks to the jury.

We're adjourned.

- Ms. Kelsey, I
want to thank you.

You're very welcome.

I'm glad it worked out.

No thanks to me, right?

- Lawyers and clients don't
always see eye-to-eye.

- Well, I hope you'll accept
my apology and my business.

I'd like to put
McKenzie-Brackman

on a permanent retainer.

Great.

- Ms. Halliday, could I
speak to you for a moment?

- I'll see you
back at the office.

I also owe you an apology.

It's not necessary.

- Well, I believe
it is necessary.

My going to Douglas Brackman
put you in an awkward position

with your firm.

I wasn't thinking about you.

I should have been
thinking about you.

Thank you for saying that.

- You're an excellent
attorney, Ms. Halliday.

I hope it's possible that
we can work together again.

- Given that you've retained our
firm, I'm sure it is possible.

- I know this is
out of the blue,

but I'm doing business
in Dallas this weekend

and I was hoping you
might accompany me.

This weekend?

- Yes, we could take the
company jet and stay in my condo

at Turtle Creek.

You know what?

I can't this weekend, but maybe
one of our other attorneys

is available.

Let me find out.

- Jane, it's your particular
point of view I need.

It's you I want.

- Mr. Bullen, you're a married
man, and I am your attorney.

That means taking
care of legal matters,

so I'm going to forget that
we ever had this conversation.

I sincerely hope that
you will do the same.

I think you misunderstood me.

I understood you perfectly.

Now if you'll excuse me, I
have to get back to work.

[knocking on door]

Yeah, come in.

Mr. Hovey.

- Can I talk with
you for a minute?

Sure, sure.

- [sighs] You can't imagine what
the world outside looks like

after you've been to prison.

The simplest things-- driving
a car, going to the store,

playing with your kid,
they're what I used to dream

about when I was in prison.

I'm not very political.

Pretty human, though.

- How much do you know
about Horus Washington?

Just what I've read.

- He started out being
just another hoodlum

and transformed himself
into one of the smartest,

bravest men I've ever known.

- Do you believe his
life was in danger?

- If you were a member of
the Black Panther Party,

your life was in danger.

That's a given.

- Did prison
authorities do anything

to make that danger imminent?

Did they threaten
him in any way?

- The prison authorities
murdered him, OK?

They wiped him out.

However they made it
look about him escaping,

whatever they may have said
about him carrying a gun,

they murdered him.

Will you help me prove that?

- You were right about me
treating you disrespectfully.

You have a just cause.

As far as I know,
you're an honorable man.

If nothing else, you should
be treated with respect.

I apologize.

Your apology is accepted.

- I've been very careful
since I got out of prison.

I go to work in the morning,
and I come home at night.

I don't make any noise.

I don't associate with
anyone I used to know.

It's like I made
this deal in my mind

that as long as I didn't
make anyone mad at me,

they'd leave me alone.

I'd be allowed to hold on to
whatever it is that I have.

You want me to
testify, Mr. Rollins?

Yes, I do.

- Because no one ever
got hurt for standing up

and speaking the truth, right?

You tell me where and when
you want me to show up.

I'll be there.

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[knocking on door]

Do you have a minute?

Come in.

- After you left in
the court hallway,

Carl Bullen propositioned me.

Did he?

- Said he was looking forward
to our working together

and asked me to go to Dallas
with him for the weekend.

- I guess old Carl is not as
much of a believer in family

values as he says he is.

You'll understand if I don't
appear to be all that shocked.

I never saw it coming.

- There's no reason
you should have.

- I'm sure I've confirmed
your worst suspicions about me

and Christian women in general.

We've all misjudged people.

I don't want you to think that I
don't know what it's like being

a young attorney starting a
career, what it's like being

a young woman attorney.

I don't want you to think
you're all alone here

because you're not.

- We don't have to be
enemies, do we, Ann?

No, we don't.

I'm glad.

You're gifted.

What do you mean?

- Well, I mean you trifled with
me, and you did it brilliantly.

- I don't know what
you're referring to.

You led me on.

You invited me to reveal
more and more of myself.

You said all the right things.

And then you crushed
me like a bug.

Gee, I'm so sorry.

Oh, no, it's quite all right.

You inspired me.

I learned from the experience.

Someday I'm gonna do the
same thing to someone else.

[sighs]

How are the kids holding up?

They're OK.

- I think Josh is
actually pretty

impressed his old man tried
to bust somebody out of jail.

- How long have
you known about it?

I've known a long time.

I'm one of the people he
hid out with in Paris.

- How did he come to
hide out with you?

There's an underground.

I was part of it.

People we knew contacted us,
told us he would be coming.

Though the first time
I saw him, I thought he

was just an American tourist.

- She fell in love the
minute she laid eyes on me.

I don't think so.

- So Frank Hovey is willing
to testify, you know?

Yes, I know.

I think that's great.

I hope so.

You sound dubious.

- Well, you know how I
feel about it, Faith.

I think it's risky
to make this trial be

about the Black Panther Party.

- That's not what
we're doing, Stuart.

Hovey was in the same cell
block as Horus Washington.

He's in a position to
testify that Washington's

life was in danger.

Yeah, OK.

But if we start getting
into a lot of rhetoric,

it's gonna hurt us.

- You know, I got to
ask you guys something.

Are you worried that being
involved in this case

is going to hurt business?

What?

- I mean, we've been
friends a long time, Ann.

Let's be honest with each other.

Wait a minute, Faith.

What makes you think that
we're concerned about that?

- When I hear that Ann
is representing people

like Carl Bullen, it makes
me wonder about the politics

of your firm.

- My representation
of Carl Bullen

has nothing to do with politics.

Come on, Ann.

He contributes to every
right-wing cause on the map.

- Yeah, but she's not
representing him in any

of his right-wing causes.

She's representing him
in an employment dispute.

- Stuart, I think
it's safe to say

that Carl Bullen wouldn't
be crazy about the idea

of you representing me.

And what if he did?

What if he did?

I'd tell him what I'll tell you.

It's not your concern.

- You're getting a little
defensive, aren't you?

Am I?

Maybe I don't like having our
commitment to you questioned.

Maybe I don't like
having to submit

to a political consciousness
test because of the clients

I represent.

- Well, forgive me,
Ann, but I can't

be all that concerned about
your delicate sensibilities.

Your firm is
representing my husband.

I have to be concerned
about your commitment.

If I were a lawyer, I know what
the degree of my commitment

would be.

But then again, if
I were a lawyer,

I wouldn't be
representing Carl Bullen.

- Well, you're not
a lawyer, Faith,

and you weren't asked
to represent him.

- I think we should
steer clear of politics

as a topic of conversation.

Yeah, right.

The prosecutor
thinks I'm radical.

They don't think that
we're radical enough.

Yeah, I think we
should definitely

steer clear of politics.

How is everything?

Everything's fine.

Thanks.

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