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- You produced a
pornographic movie?

Yes.

When?

You were shooting when?

February.

The middle of February.

Holly both directed
and starred in it.

- Really?
- Yes.

It's something I've wanted
to do for quite a long time.

Holly and I are engaged.

Oh.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

- This couldn't have
come at a worse time.

- How did the DA find
out about this movie?

- Someone from the lab that
processed the film told them.

- Is there anything in
there that's particularly

shocking or illegal?

Absolutely not.

No children, nobody dies?

- No, Mr. Becker,
there are no children.

- And nobody dies.
- Arnie?

- I'm sorry.
I have to ask you.

- You know, at the completion
of principal photography,

my boom man said
to me that if Billy

Wilder ever got
into porn, this was

the movie that he would make.

That is so true too.

- What exactly are you
being charged with?

- I'm being charged with
pandering for the purposes

of prostitution.

For some reason, that woman DA
wants to make an example of me.

- You know, I'm not a
criminal lawyer, Yale.

But I know you.

And I trust you.

I don't want to tell my
life story to some stranger.

- You never hid your interest
in pornography before.

- Only within the
confines of this office.

Or when he's with me.

- The truth is I'm very
guarded about it, otherwise.

I have recurring
nightmares in which

I'm standing on line somewhere
at a train station, an airport.

My attache case
inexplicably comes open.

A pornographic
magazine falls out.

Usually, it's the little
Danish pocket pals.

Everybody stops
what they're doing.

Everybody sees.

Everybody knows.

Trials are public, Yale.

- Then we can't
let it go to trial.

My parents cannot know
that I have done this.

They can never know about
my interest in pornography.

- Do they know that
you're engaged?

Of course, they do.

- Well, what do they think
Holly does for a living?

- They think that she's a
buyer for Bonwit Teller's.

And there's no reason why they
can't go on thinking that.

[sighs] OK.

I'll see what I can do.

We also want the film back.

Oh, yes.

You don't have a copy?

No.

The DA has the only copy.

It was confiscated from
the lab, and neither Yale

nor I have ever seen the film.

And we want to.

Yes, we do.

We want to see it very badly.

[theme music]

Hey, Stuart, you got a minute?

Hi, Julius.

Now, do you have a minute?

Sure.

No, come in.

- I was wondering if
one of your partners

had changed their mind
about representing me.

No.

- Mhm, is it strictly
a matter of money?

No, not at all.

What is it then?

- Well, we're--
we're a small firm

and our resources are limited.

Our litigators are
surfeited with work.

You know the case.

Why don't you represent me?

I do your taxes, Julius.

I'm not a trial lawyer.

- Um, yeah, trial
starts this afternoon.

Yeah, I know.

Well, wish me luck.

Good luck.

- OK, people let's get
started, Hardy versus Hardy.

That's mine.

We're representing the wife.

Depositions are
getting started today.

- What are you doing
handling a divorce?

I asked her to handle it.

I'm underwater.

- Matrimonial law
is not Ann's field.

- Actually, Leland, my first
job was with a firm that did

exclusively matrimonial law.

I have a fair amount
of experience in it.

- That notwithstanding,
in the future,

I want all realignment or
reallocation of firm resources

to be done with the
knowledge and consent

of either Douglas or myself.

OK.

Pierce versus Watson?

Pierce versus
Watson, whose is it?

- Technically,
it's not anybody's.

I'd just like to discuss it.

- Is this the guy
with the newsletter?

Yes, it is.

He's being sued for libel by
an esteemed nuclear physicist.

I think he has a case.

- Stuart?
- What?

- He's not a paying
client, Stuart.

- We have taken pro
bono cases before.

- All the more reason
not to take on this one.

- From everything you've
told me, this guy wants to go

to trial just to prove a point.

Assume that he does.

Does that rule out
our representing him?

- We have a finite
number of trial lawyers

at this firm, Stuart.

Currently, none of
them are available.

- I may be available
towards the end of the week.

I'm available now.

Maybe I can second chair.

- If the decision
has been made not

to represent this gentleman, I'd
just assume we left it at that.

People versus Tobias?

- Yale Tobias produced
a pornographic movie.

He finds himself being
prosecuted for pandering.

- I thought the courts
ruled that prostitution

laws couldn't be used to
prosecute pornographers.

Yeah.

They're distinguishing this case
based on the theory that Yale

Tobias made the movie for
his own sexual gratification,

that he was in
fact, the customer

rather than the producer.

That's a bit of a stretch, no?

It's a huge stretch.

On the other hand,
Yale is an, otherwise,

reputable businessman who lets
his obsession with all things

pornographic get
him involved in less

than respectable enterprises.

It's my guess that this caught
the attention of some hell bent

for leather feminist
in the DA's office.

- I assume this raises
serious free speech

issues in your mind, Arnie.

Yes, it does, Jane.

- Point of information, why
doesn't the same concern

extend to my client?

- Because your client
has no money, Stuart.

Ah.

Asked and answered.

- (SINGING) Fortune comes
a-crawling, Calliope woman.

Spinning that curious
sense of your own.

Can you answer?

Yes, I can.

But what would be the
answer to the answer man?

- Gentlemen, sorry
for the delay.

It's cool.

- You'll be deposing
Mrs. Hardy today, right?

Right.

I think we should get started.

Take it slow.

Let it grow.

- Mm-mm.

Whoo.

- Would you state your
name for the record?

Carolyn Hardy.

- And you are currently
married to Dale Hardy?

Yes, I am.

- And how long have
you been so married?

22 years.

- And over the course of those
22 years, you and your husband

have accumulated a
great many things.

One of us worked.

- There's a house, two
vehicles, several bank accounts.

In whose name were
all of these things?

They're in both of our names.

- Yet you saw fit
to lock your husband

out of the house, did you not?

- He was using our house as a
crash pad for other Grateful

Dead fanatics.

I asked him to stop
on numerous occasions.

He refused.

I changed the locks.

- And you're asking that most
of these personal possessions

that you've
accumulated, including

the Grateful Dead memorabilia
collection, be sold?

Right, again.

- This, despite the
fact that your husband

remains attached to it?

- My husband needs
to unattach himself.

Never.

- Or in the alternative, find
a way to support himself.

- One man gathers what
another man spills.

- Dale, did it ever
occur to you that not

everything that Jerry
Garcia ever said

was necessarily profound--

Carolyn?

- --and that not every
situation in life can be summed

up by Grateful Dead lyrics?

- Can I ask why the
animus toward the dead?

Not relevant.

- Could it be that you were
once a deadhead yourself?

Not relevant.

She is not being analyzed
here, Mr. Witzig.

- She's the one who
turned me on to the dead.

She was into the
dead before I was.

Yes.

And I was 18 years
old when I did that.

I'm 41 years old now.

Our kids are grown up
and out of the house.

And at this point in my life,
the most important thing to me

is not the Grateful Dead.

I do not want their
posters on my walls.

I do not want their
bumper stickers on my car.

What I want is to start
over and do my best

to try and forget
how much of my life

I spent being married to you.

- Dr. Pierce, would you tell
the court your occupation?

I teach physics at Caltech.

- Would you tell the court
what you did prior to that?

- I taught at Princeton
for some years.

Before that, I worked
for the government.

- And what did you do
for the government, sir?

I was a nuclear physicist.

I did research pertaining
to nuclear physics.

- Were you involved in a
particular project in which

nuclear devices were
detonated and pilots

were engaged to fly
through the mushroom cloud

at the test site?

Yes, I was.

- Would you tell us
the purpose of this?

- We were studying the effects
of radiation on human beings.

- Were you aware that
these pilots were

placing themselves at risk?

Yes, I was.

And we acted accordingly.

They wore leaded glass hoods.

They breathed pure oxygen
from self-contained systems.

To the best of our ability,
we tried to protect those men.

That some of them
got sick is a tragedy

for which I am deeply sorry.

- Would you tell us the
circumstances, Doctor,

under which you first
became aware of what Julius

Watson had written about you?

- One of my students is a
young man from South Korea,

very bright, very
new to this country.

He came to me one
day after class.

He showed me the article.

And he asked me if
it could be true.

He was the only one
of my students to ask.

- What effect, if any, did the
publication of this article

have on you?

- The student newspaper
reprinted the article.

It was widely
circulated among both

the students and the faculty.

The result is that I've
become something of a pariah.

Because I have tenure,
I can't be fired.

It's clear to me,
however, that everyone

wishes that I would go away.

I have nothing further.

[walking footsteps]

Mr. Watson?

[walking footsteps]

Do you ever conduct
tests into how

to poison a city's food supply?

No, I did not.

- You never experimented
with poisoning a food supply

using radioactive strontium?

Objection, asked and answered.

Sustained.

OK.

I'd like to refer
to an interview

with an attending
physician to a Major Ravel.

Objection, hearsay.

Sustained.

- Well, I can't refer
to an interview?

No, you may not, Mr. Watson.

OK.

OK.

Isn't it a fact--

I know that's how you're
supposed to start the question.

Um, isn't it a
fact that you were

told by a number of
military personnel

that the pilots felt as though
they were being lied to?

Objection, hearsay.

Sustained.

- What do I have to do to get
a point across here, Judge?

[beckons]

[walking footsteps]

- What you have
to do, Mr. Watson

is adhere to the
rules of evidence.

You'll have to forgive me.

I'm not altogether conversant
with the rules of evidence.

- Then maybe you shouldn't
be representing yourself.

- I'm sorry, Your Honor, I
used to have money for lawyers.

I don't anymore.

- I can't help that, sir.
- Your Honor, excuse me.

- Yes?
What?

My name is Stuart Markowitz.

I'm with the firm of
McKenzie, Brackman.

May I approach the bench?

Yes, you may, sir.

[door opens]

[walking footsteps]

- I, uh, represent Mr.
Watson in other matters.

With his consent, I'd like to
ask you for a day's continuance

so that I can represent
him in this matter.

Mr. Watson?

Absolutely, I consent.

This court's adjourned.

We'll reconvene tomorrow
morning at 10:00 AM.

Come on.

[sighs]

- My father was a fighter
pilot in World War II in Korea.

He retired in 1965 as a major.

- After the Korean War,
what was his assignment?

He was a test pilot.

- And what was he
testing between the years

1952 and 1954?

- Well, I was a little
girl at the time.

So no one actually told me.

But I knew that whatever
he was doing was important.

And I knew that it was secret.

Men would come to
the house and take

blood samples and specimens.

And my dad would
make us go outside.

- When you got older,
did he tell you what he

was doing during this period?

Objection, hearsay.

- Your honor, I think she
should be able to tell

us what her father was doing.

The objection is overruled.

I'll allow it.

- Whenever they tested bombs,
he was one of the pilots

that flew through the clouds.

- How would you describe
his health after he retired?

- There was strange
things at first.

His ears swelled for
no apparent reason.

Then he couldn't move his legs.

Then his thyroid
had to be removed.

And then his colon.

He suffered in pain
for five or six years.

And then he died.

[walking footsteps]

- Have you ever seen
Dr. Pierce before today?

[walking footsteps]

- I saw him the day
my father was buried.

- And what, if anything, did
he say to you on that day?

Objection, hearsay.

I'll allow it.

He said he was sorry.

He said that there were
certain things that my father

couldn't be told.

Objection, hearsay.

Sustained and stricken.

I have nothing further.

[walking footsteps]

- Did you ever hear your
father blame Dr. Pierce

- for what happened to him?
- No.

- Did you ever hear
him blame anyone?

- My father was a
patriotic man, Mr. Sumner.

He believed that what he was
doing was his patriotic duty.

He would never
have blamed anyone

for what happened to him.

- Your father was also a
soldier, was he not, ma'am?

Yes, he was.

- A very brave, highly
decorated soldier.

Is it possible that he
accepted the risks attendant

to the radiation
tests in the same way

that he accepted the risks
attendant to the many bombing

missions he flew?

- He was never told
what the risks were.

- Do you think he
needed to be told?

Objection, speculative.

Sustained.

No further questions.

No.

But my father wasn't
supposed to be a Guinea pig.

He wasn't supposed to be
sent up into those clouds

so that this man could study him
while-- while he wasted away.

His country owed him
better than that.

- What do you do for
a living, Mr. Hardy?

I do a variety of things.

Like what?

- Merchandising,
for the most part.

What do you merchandise?

- I run a clearing house for
Grateful Dead concert tapes.

I also go to the concerts
where I sell frisbees,

and beach balls, dog bandannas.

It's what I do.

- How much does what you
do produce an income?

Altogether or annually?

Annually.

About $12,000.

Plus this year, I traded
some concert tapes

for a 1961 Volvo station wagon.

- Mr. Hardy, you
made a practice,

have you not, of following
the Grateful Dead from city

to city in order to
attend their concerts?

Yes.

I have made it a practice.

- You traveled to Egypt for
a Grateful Dead concert.

Yes, I did.

- I still can't get over
that you went, and I didn't.

- Oh, man, "Dark Star" in
front of the pyramids--

Unbelievable.

- Oh, man, all other versions
just paled in comparison.

- Including the 69
Fillmore West concert.

- Including everything.
- Oh, man.

- Could we keep going
with this, please?

Would you acknowledge,
sir that it

was your wife who
provided the funds

for the purchase of your home?

- What difference does it
make who provided the funds?

If it was acquired in the
course of the marriage,

it's marital property.

- It's relevant to the
disposition of assets.

- It's in no way relevant to
the disposition of assets.

I'm instructing my
client not to answer.

- Would you acknowledge that
it was your wife who provided

the funds for you to go to
Egypt as well as for a six-week

stopover in Kathmandu?

- I'm going to
object to that, too.

- I thought it wasn't supposed
to matter who paid for what.

Please talk to me, Mr. Hardy.

You just answer me, yes or no.

Was I a good father to our kid?

- That is not the
issue, Mr. Hardy.

And you are not the one
asking the questions.

Answer me, was I or wasn't I?

You don't need to consult with
your attorney for an answer

to that, do you?

Yes, you were a good father.

- Well, and what the
hell are we sitting

here arguing about money for?

- Because we find
your demands regarding

money to be unreasonable.

I'm not a burnout, Carolyn.

I'm not some kind
of hustler either.

- Mr. Hardy, I am not
done with the deposition.

Well, I am.

I'm done with it.

I'm not going to sit here
like some kind of a criminal.

I didn't do anything wrong.

I like the Grateful Dead.

I like their music.

People all over the
world like their music.

There was Grateful Dead
lyrics spray painted

on the Berlin Wall, man.

So what?

So maybe they're not just
another rock and roll band.

Maybe they are on to something.

Maybe there's more to being a
deadhead than just the music.

Maybe it's a little
heavier than that.

As you know, I'm involved
in a community outreach

program that helps homeless
and developmentally

disabled deadheads.

We offer food and-- and
emergency counseling.

And we go and check on them,
see if they're still alive.

Oh, please.

- Mr. Witzig, if
your client refuses

to finish this deposition,
I will go into court.

And I will ask for sanction.

- Well, the last time
I looked, I was still

a free United States citizen.

And that means that right now,
I'm walking out that door.

Alan.

Far out.

[chatter]

[walking footsteps]

- You wrote the article in which
Dr. Pierce is characterized

as Dr. Death, is that right?

Right.

What was the basis for that?

- Well, the basis was
radiation experiments

the good doctor conducted
on unwitting human beings,

said experiments
resulting in their death.

- What evidence do you
have that said experiments

did anything of the kind?

- United States government
mortality and morbidity

reports, counselor,
significantly

elevated incidence
of cancer in subjects

of the Doctor's experiments.

- Are you trained as a
scientist, Mr. Watson?

No, I'm not.

- Did you consult anyone who was
prior to writing this article?

Yes, I did.

- Can you provide me with
their names and credentials?

No, I cannot.

Why can you not?

- Because they requested
that their names not be used.

- Do you employ a fact
checker at your magazine, sir?

Yeah, me.

An editor?

Also me.

- Is it fair to say then that
you can write and publish

pretty much whatever you want?

- It's the only
true compensation

for being an ongoing source of
disappointment to my parents.

I'll take that as a yes.

Have you ever been sued
for libel before, sir?

- Objection, irrelevant
and prejudicial.

Goes to pattern, your honor.

I'll allow it.

Mr. Watson?

- I've been sued
for libel before.

How many times.

- Actually sued three
times, of those, two I won,

settled out of court on one.

- Isn't it a fact that each
and every time you were sued,

it resulted in more
publicity for both

you and your publication than
you otherwise ever received?

- I wrote what I wrote
because this man, acting

with the government's
blessing and support,

victimized and ultimately
murdered innocent people.

When reports of his tests came
out in the mainstream press,

it was a one-day news story.

I picked up the ball.

I ran with it.

- Did the mainstream
press attribute

to the experiments of Dr. Aaron
Pierce either the victimization

- or murder of a single person?
- No, they didn't.

- Did they ever refer
to him as Dr. Death?

- Of course, not the mainstream
press, their respectable,

and polite, and mainstream.

I'm none of those things.

See, I'm the guy who sits
in the back of the class

shooting spitballs.

I also happen to be the guy
who's telling the truth.

So you say.

Your honor.

- I have no further
questions, your honor.

[walking footsteps]

[door knock]

Belinda Fox?

That's me.

Hi.

I'd like to talk to you
about the Tobias case.

Who are you?

Arnold Becker.

I'm Yale Tobias's attorney.

Sit down.

- As a rule, I don't get
involved in criminal cases.

So you'll have to forgive
me if I'm not up to date.

However, from my readings of
past appellate court decisions,

you don't have a case.

- You'll understand, Mr.
Becker, if I don't send

my ships to war based on your
reading of past appellate

court decisions.

I'm given a certain
amount of discretion here.

Sometimes that allows
me to get creative.

- And who do you think this
guy is that you're going after?

- I think he's a
rich businessman

who decided to get into porno.

I want to demonstrate
to him that there

might be unforeseen
consequences in that.

I want to demonstrate
it not just to him.

- Why go after
someone this small?

This guy is nothing.

- I've seen his tax
returns, dearest.

He's not nothing.

- You've looked at
his tax returns.

Are you aghast?

Have you ever met this guy?

No, I haven't.

- Would you permit me
to bring him in here

so that you could meet him?

Sure.

Thank you.

I'll schedule an appointment.

How do you want it?

Excuse me?

The door, open or closed.

Open.

Oh, good, OK.

I'm almost--

I got it.

What?

- The Department of Energy file
I requested under the Freedom

of Information Act.

- I didn't know you
were down there.

Oh.

I file an average of two
requests a month, Stuart.

What for?

- Anything and everything,
FBI surveillance records,

uh, Air Force data
on extraterrestrials,

CIA logs regarding
various assassinations.

I ask for it all.

Once in a while, I
actually get lucky.

Mongolian beef?

No, thanks.

Let's get to work.

- Your honor, I believe
I'm entitled to recall Dr.

Pierce to the stand for
purposes of cross-examination.

- Dr. Pierce has already
been cross-examined.

- Such cross-examination
as occurred was conducted

by my client appearing pro se.

- That was his
decision, Mr. Markowitz.

You don't get a second
bite at the apple

because you hire a lawyer.

- Additionally,
your honor, we have

only recently come
into the possession

of certain new evidence.

Proceed, Mr. Markowitz.

Thank you.

[walking footsteps]

On March 1, 1954, a
15-megaton nuclear device

was tested on the Bikini Atoll.

Are you familiar with
that test, Doctor?

Yes, I am.

- And are you aware of the
fact that radioactive fallout

blew over to the islands
of Rongelap and Utirik?

That was unforeseen.

- And are you aware of
the fact that Rongelap

and Utirik are inhabited?

- As I said, that
was unforeseen.

- Did you get the
consent of the people

who inhabited those islands?

- Your honor, counsel
is goading this witness.

Dr. Pierce has stated twice
that the result was unforeseen.

Clearly, no consent
would have been obtained.

Move on, Mr. Markowitz.

- Are you familiar with the
Tenzer School For Boys, Doctor?

No, I'm not.

- Are you aware of a
study that administered

radioactive isotopes of antimony
to the students of this school?

- Well, there were great many
such tests, Mr. Markowitz.

That particular one
doesn't ring a bell.

- Is it your
contention that consent

was obtained from
all the participants

in all these studies?

Oh, yes.

Informed consent?

- Yes, Mr. Markowitz,
informed consent.

- Would it surprise you
to learn that the students

at the Tenzer School For
Boys were mentally retarded?

- Your honor, I object to this
whole line of questioning.

Overruled.

- Would it shock you to learn
that the participants in this

experiment were told that they
were joining a science club

to segregate them from the
rest of the school and that

the radioactive isotopes were
introduced into their milk

during mid-morning snack?

- First of all,
I didn't do that.

Second of all, we didn't have
any idea what the effects

of radiation were at that time.

- I ask that this
Department of Energy study

be introduced into
evidence, Your Honor,

as defense exhibit A.

So ordered.

- Doctor--

[walking footsteps]

Is this your name?

This is totally misleading.

Is this your name, Doctor?

Yes.

- According to this study,
you and a panel of scientists

analyzed the data from
the Tenzer School.

So I'm going to ask you
one more time, Doctor.

Did you or did you not
know that human subjects

were being used who
were incapable of giving

informed consent?

- You and your client are so
sure of your moral superiority.

You take your freedom and
your comfort for granted.

The world was at war
when this was going on.

We were locked in
mortal combat, first

against Germany and Japan,
then against the Soviet Union.

We feared being
dominated by them.

Now, the fact that we no longer
fear them isn't an accident.

It didn't just happen.

Myself and men like me
spent our lives developing

the military strength
that would prevent

our enemies from defeating
and dominating us.

We tested potential
military use of nerve gas.

We tested the potential
military use of LSD.

We also tested the
potential military use

of radiological poison.

See, we didn't have the
luxury of forswearing

the use of any weapon,
particularly those

that our enemies were
developing to use against us.

Your freedom and your
comfort were provided

to you by us, by what we did.

- You still haven't given
me an answer, Doctor.

I knew everything.

I have no further questions.

[sombre melody]

[tapping]

- (SINGING) Cha cha
cha cha cha cha cha cha

cha cha cha cha cha cha cha--

Excuse me.

In the interest of
bringing this to a close,

my client is prepared to
make certain concessions.

Mhm, like what?

- We agree to let
Dale have the house,

one car, and 50% of all monies
held in their joint accounts.

- Scary movies, man, we
may be able to settle this.

I don't want the house.

What do you mean?

- I mean, I don't
want the house.

She paid for it.

It's hers.

- Dale, I'm willing
to let you have it.

What's the problem?

- I don't want to be the
object of charity, man.

- Correct me if I'm
wrong, Mr. Hardy.

But up until today, weren't you
in here asking for the house?

I changed my mind.

Why?

- Because I don't want to give
you the satisfaction of being

able to say to all
your friends with

their suits and ties
that your deadhead

ex-husband got the house.

- And that's why I'm doing it,
right, Dale, to talk about it.

- Carolyn, you
don't have to force

- him to give you the house.
- Yeah.

No, I should just leave
it empty and see how long

it takes him to move back in.

- Hey, I don't want to go back
there anymore than you do.

- I'm never going back.
- Oh.

Never say never, Dale.

You may need a dry place
to sleep one night.

- You know, I remember
being at Watkins Glen.

And the Grateful Dead
are up on the stage.

And you and me were right
down there in the front.

And Mickey Hart and Bill
Kreutzmann going to their dual

drum solos.

And the boys going
to "Not Fade Away,"

into "St. Stephen," into
"The Eleven," and into

"Turn On Your Love Light."

And I look over at you.

You got on this crochet top
and some pink sunglasses.

And I just think to myself,
in this whole universe,

everything is right
where it should be.

And I look at you now sitting
here with your lawyer,

and I wonder how the hell I
ever could have felt that way.

Just make sure you get all
my tapes back from her.

I'll sign anything you agree to.

[sighs]

- So you can arrange
something with him?

Yes.

- OK, just let me
know what it is.

- A small present before
we start negotiating?

Sure.

[snaps briefcase open]

- Workingman's Dead,
Live/Dead, Aoxomoxoa.

What are these for?

Consider it a gift.

Oh.

Well, thanks.

- The only reason
that Yale produced

this film is that his
fiance got it into her head

that she wanted to direct.

- You're not exactly a stranger
to the world of pornography

though, are you Mr. Tobias?

- As a collector and,
solely, as a collector.

I do not as a rule
produce films.

The truth is that between
magazines and films,

I greatly prefer magazines.

Is that right?

Magazines and playing cards.

- She doesn't have to
know all that, Yale.

- Ms. Fox, if there
is any way at all

that we can avoid
this becoming public,

I would do anything you ask.

I don't know that there is.

I will plead guilty.

I-- I will pay any
amount of money.

I will do community work.

Ms. Fox, I have living parents.

- In the event that that doesn't
strike a sympathetic chord,

let me factor into the equation
that the prints of this film

were obtained from
a lab technician

I believe acted only
after being coerced by you

or those acting on your behalf.

I think that constitutes an
illegal search and seizure.

Do you?

Yes, I do.

I think you're all wet.

That notwithstanding,
it's possible I was

mistaken about you Mr. Tobias.

Now if all this represents as a
one-time venture on your part,

I think I'd probably be
ill-advised in committing

the resources of this
office to a prosecution.

Plead guilty to lewd
and lascivious behavior,

pay a fine.
And we'll let it go at that.

- Fine.
- No way.

Arnie?

- I'll have the whole
thing thrown out of court.

I don't want to go to court.

- I'll have you
brought up on charges.

- Don't threaten me.
- Arnie.

Arnie.

- Make it disorderly
conduct and his records

expunged in six months.

Deal, please?

[tapping]

[sighs]

Deal.

Thank god.

[tapping]

- I'll have the papers drawn
up by the end of the day.

- What time should
I come by for them?

- I'll be ready to
leave work around 7:30.

Why don't you come around then?

I'll do that.

[chatter]

Excuse me, Carolyn.

Ann called to say she'd
be running a little late.

OK.

- She said to read
over all the papers.

I read them.

And to sign all three copies.

[sighs]

It's a lousy thing, isn't it?

Yeah.

- Can I get you anything,
tea, coffee, anything?

No.

I've been with this
guy since I was 18.

It's a long time.

Yeah.

I had my mind made up that when
the kids were out of the house,

that was it.

When Dylan started his
freshman year of college,

I served him the papers.

- Mhm, had you been thinking
about it a long time?

On and off for years.

So maybe this is good.

I mean, you did it,
and now it's done.

Oh.

I don't want it to be done.

I went through a
lot with that idiot.

This is hard.

I know it's hard.

I had an idiot like
that once myself.

- You were with somebody
for a long time?

- Yeah, the time I was
16 to the time I was 22.

We weren't married. but it
was like we were married.

It was worse than being married.

- [chuckles] Why did
the two of you break up?

- Uh, you know, we
went our separate ways.

I mean, to him the idea
of going beyond having

Avenue R in 86th Street was
like going to another planet.

Do you miss him?

Yeah.

I miss him.

[chuckles]

- Look, do you think that
Ann will be mad at me

if I take these
overnight to think

about things before I sign?

You're the client.

You sign when you're
ready to sign.

Dr. Death?

[chuckles]

A man devotes his
whole life to science,

works in the service
of his government,

conducts tests and experiments
that were both approved

by the President of
the United States,

and performed as part of a
stated policy of the United

States government.

Years later, he finds
himself vilified.

He finds his work viewed out of
context and utterly distorted.

He's no longer a scientist.

He's a killer.

He's Dr. Death.

Julius Watson, he puts
out a little newsletter

in which he expresses his views
about a variety of things.

He's entitled to his views.

He's entitled to muckrake, to
criticize, and to pontificate

to his heart's content.

What he is not entitled
to do is drag a man out

of the quiet life
that he is living

so that he can lie about him.

Make no mistake,
ladies and gentlemen,

lie is exactly what
Julius Watson did.

When he wrote that this man
personally exposed people

without their
knowledge and consent

to lethal amounts of
radiation, he was lying.

And you don't get to do that.

It's not called
freedom of the press.

It's called libel.

Julius Watson is guilty of it.

We ask you to judge
him guilty of it.

And we ask that you
award Aaron Pierce

the sum of 1/2 million dollars.

[walking footsteps]

- There can be no
question that there

were radiation tests
done in the 1950s

that resulted in people dying.

There can be no question
that many of those people

had this done to them
without their knowledge

or their approval.

Now, did the
plaintiff personally

administer these tests?

It scarcely matters.

He knew about them.

He utilized data drawn from
studies of retarded boys

who were tricked into
being laboratory animals.

On what possible basis can
you contend that the term

Dr. Death was libel?

It's not libel,
ladies and gentlemen.

It's the truth.

Julius Watson was
telling the truth.

And in our country, we don't
punish people for that.

[walking footsteps]

[upbeat music]

Where have you taken me?

Somewhere with a view.

Is this a ritual of yours?

What?

- Taking women parking
in your Bentley

on the top of Mulholland.

You're the first.

You're lying.

I'm not lying.

- Truth is I don't
want to be the first.

No?

No.

I want to be the last.

[upbeat music]

[kissing]

You know, I've noticed
you someplace before.

Yeah, when was that?

[kissing]

- It might have been in the
courthouse, might have been

at some Bar Association
dinner for some soon

to be appointed federal judge.

Hmm.

- Wherever and whenever it
was, I know I once noticed you.

- And what did you think
when you noticed me?

[laughs]

- I probably thought
you were doing

exactly what I'm about to do.

[snaps shirt open]

[upbeat music]

[phone ringing]

[chatter]

Oh.

Who are those for?

They're all for me, doll.

Who sent you roses?

- A very attractive
woman sent me roses.

Oh, really?

- And I say attractive
not only exclusively

to her physical
beauty either, she's

also attractive because
she takes the initiative.

- Is that what you
call the initiative?

She's coming after me.

That's the point.

She's making me the
object of desire.

She's sending me $150 worth
of roses, this off one date.

What does that
tell you about me?

- Hmm, that you date
very disturbed women.

OK.

[chatter]

- Has the jury
reached a verdict?

We have, your honor.

We find in favor of the
defendant, Julius Watson.

- Jury is dismissed with
the thanks of the court.

We stand adjourned.

[chatter]

What's with the suit?

Dressed for a funeral.

- Don't let's get
morbid, shall we?

And the mustache?

- You told me about a thousand
times to shave it off.

Think of it as a, kind
of, a going away present.

- Since you're
not moving back, I

went ahead and brought
some stuff that I thought

you might want back the most.

- You may want to
inventory the contents.

- Why don't we just get
the agreement signed first?

Oh, no, go ahead.

Inventory the contents.

- Um, I don't see
anything pre-1970.

Oh, yeah.
No, wait, I got it.

- Those are all
the A shelf tapes.

I didn't bring everything.

- Is the 1968 Matrix concert
there with Paul Butterfield?

Oh.

- No, Dale, I didn't
go through them.

I just don't see it.

- Well, I'm not
holding out on you

if that's what you're thinking.

- Avalon Ballroom 1967,
Winterland Strike Benefit

1968, Clark University 1969.

Oh, gee.

Man, I got to get those.

- Why don't you finish
the inventory, Mr. Hardy?

- Hey, counselor, man, this
is my life in this box.

It might take me a little
while to go through it.

I'll do it.

This is not your life, Dale.

This is a box of stuff.

These are your tapes.

These are your overalls.

This is your lucky hat.

Here's your ticket
stub collection.

This is the crochet top I wore
that impressed you so much.

These are the pink sunglasses.

- You kept that
stuff all this time?

Now you want to get rid of it?

- She's offering you
the items, Mr. Hardy.

Do you want them or not?

- I want her to
keep what's hers.

Fine.

I'll keep what's mine.

Excuse me.

I'm going to go to
the ladies room.

[walking footsteps]

- Do you have sparkling
water of any kind?

- I'll get you one.
- No.

It's cool.

I can get it.

Kitchen's right there.

- Have you listened
to those CDs yet?

No, not yet.

[chatter]

- Is there any sparkling
water of any kind?

Mhm, right here.

[chatter]

Can I get you a glass?

Not necessary.

You're Dale, right?

Right.

We took a little break.

Mhm.

My wife's upset.

- I talked to your
wife yesterday.

I know she's upset.

[chatter]

Why was she upset yesterday?

- Pretty much for the
same reason she is today.

[chatter]

Thanks for the drink.

Mhm.

[chatter]

You changed.

[chair squeaks]

So what does this mean?

- It means I don't feel like
signing these papers today.

I may feel like
signing them tomorrow.

But I definitely don't feel
like signing them today.

Then you shouldn't.

[lively music]

- Since the first time I
stepped onto a porno set and all

the films that I was
an actress, either as

an ingénue, secretary,
schoolteacher, housewife, I

always knew I wanted to direct.

And it took Yale for
me to make that happen.

- Hmm, how exactly
did you two meet?

- Holly was doing a
personal appearance

at an adult video trade show.

I stammered out in
appreciation of her work.

And then it was a
matter of a weekend,

we were unflinchingly,
unreasonably, aarf, in love.

- Mm-hmm.

Here's to trade shows.

Here's to you.

Yeah, really.

- I don't know if you're
interested in referrals

or not, Mr. Becker,
but there are

lots of people in
the porno business

that are looking
for a good lawyer.

And I'm talking about
people who could pay.

- Also we, Holly and I, may
have some upcoming ventures

to talk to you about.

Mhm.

- I mean, between CD-ROM, and
software delivery systems,

utilizing telephone lines, there
is a whole world of opportunity

in hardcore pornography.

- How long do you think it'll be
before the DA returns the film?

That may take a while.

Having made a major concession
in dropping the pandering

charge, DA's office is probably
going to drag their feet

in returning the evidence.

- There are images
in this film that I

worked very hard to achieve.

She really did.

- I mean, this isn't
just me getting pawed

tearing my clothes
off on my knees,

on my back, money
shot in and out.

No, this film has wit.

It has irony.

- If I may interrupt, what's
really wonderful about it is

that none of it
comes at the expense

of an almost overpowering
display of-- of sexual carnage.

[sighs] I could go on
for days, but I won't.

I'll stop myself.

[music playing]

[chatter]

Oh.

No, please, you give me so
much pleasure over the years.

I couldn't take
any money from you.

- Oh.
It's very sweet.

Thank you.

[chatter]

Honey, could you hold
these for me please?

Thanks.

[car door shuts]

Goodbye, Arnie.

[engine starts]

What are you doing here?

Get in, and I'll tell you.

[car door opens]

Love your car.

[car door shuts]

Thank you.

What are you doing here?

- I had a date tonight, a
date with a man whom I like,

whom I admire, but not
in whom at this moment

I'm particularly interested.

The entire time that I was here
with him, I had my eyes on you.

I suggest we drive
up to my house

and put Holly's film on the VCR.

Let's go.

[grateful dead "st. stephen"]

(SINGING) St.
Stephen with a rose.

In and out of the
garden, he goes.

Country garland in
the wind and the rain.

- Wherever he goes--
- What's that?

(SINGING) --the
people all complain.

Grateful Dead.

(SINGING) Stephen prospered--

Can you turn it down?

Sure.

- [sighs] Now you're listening
to the Grateful Dead?

- My adversary in the Hardy case
gave me some of their albums.

Truth is though, I used
to listen to them a lot.

Oh, I forgot.

You did have your
communal years.

Unlike you.

Not me.

I make no claims to having
participated in anything.

- Congratulations on
the trial, by the way.

- Yeah, it was, uh, less
than wholly gratifying.

Why was that?

- Well, we beat this guy
who did all these terrible

things in the '50s, right?

Well, if this were the '50s,
I might think he was right.

Then you'd both be wrong.

[kissing]

- You were never
wrong, were you?

[breathing in]

Yeah, plenty of times.

Yeah?

You mean among the
macrobiotic diets,

and the doctrinaire Marxism,
and the sexual promiscuity,

and the Grateful
Dead, you actually

made a mistake somewhere?

Yes, absolutely.

Good.

I'm going to go take a bath.

[grateful dead "st. stephen"]

(SINGING) Stephen
prospered in his time.

Well, he may and he may decline.

Did it matter?

Does it now?

Stephen would answer
is if only knew how.

[instrumental]

Whoo.

[instrumental]

[theme music]