All language subtitles for Law & Order s17e13 Talking Points.eg

NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system

the People are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,

the police
who investigate crime

and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

CROWD: One, two, three, four!
Barlow is a great, big bore!

One, two, three, four!
Barlow is a great, big bore!

One, two, three, four!
Barlow is a great, big bore!

One, two, three, four!

H' you're asking me about
the swing voters,

who, by the way, I prefer to
call them the "cretin block."

(PEOPLE LAUGHING)

I think anyone who has managed to live
18 years without forming an opinion

has, by definition,

waived his right to have a voice
in the management of the country.

(PEOPLE APPLAUDING)

So you're suggesting all citizens
shouldn't have the right to vote?

I'm saying that for the process
to have any legitimate meaning,

a modicum of intelligence in
the electorate is necessary.

In other words, some people
are more equal than others.

MAN: True that!

When Mr. Sperm says hello to
Miss Egg, everybodys equal.

After that, things change.
People become less equal,

mostly due to the choices
that they make.

Sounds like a hypocrite's
justification for racism.

(PEOPLE CHEERING)

Hypocrisy is fighting to keep
religion out of politics,

except when the Reverend Sharp
ton is running for office.

Hypocrisy is treating those
who believe in a higher being

as being mentally deficient.

Except when Bill Maher is kissing
the Reverend Jesse Jackson's butt

on national television.

Hypocrisy is the utter
moral indignation displayed

at the taking of human life while
dismissing it as irrelevant.

WOMAN: You're irrelevant!

When it comes to
partial birth abortions,

and embryonic
stem cell research.

Bitch!
(CROWD CHEERING)

Which brings us to
the feminist problem.

You're the problem!

You know you're just
making my point...

(ALL CLAMORING)

We have a feminist problem.

People, please!

(CROWD SHOUTING)

(GUNSHOT)

(SCREAMING)

Well, your guy had good aim,
or the victim had bad luck.

One shot, boom,
punctured the heart.

Looks like
a large caliber.

What was he, like, 19?

JIM: Next month.

His name's Jason Miles.

He just started
his sophomore year.

Jimmy Morgan.

So, how's life
out of the bag?

It's all right.

You know, I've been meaning to
call you at your new precinct.

Oh, well, maybe I'll answer.

What do you know?

It was a mob scene.

Everybody ran when
they heard the shot.

Is that who
I think it is?

Judith Barlow?

Up close, personal, and a lot
hotter than on the tube.

And them?

Barlow's bodyguards.

Their weapons have been checked,
both magazines are fully loaded.

No signs of recent discharge.

Voucher them for me and get 'em
over to ballistics, will ya?

And by the way...

I have a cell phone too,
you know.

Your lecture tour takes you
to other venues like this?

Colleges, the last bastion
of free speech and thought,

as long as you say
and think the party line.

You know, I think they threw a tea
party for Hugo Ch?wez here last month.

And a parade
for Cindy Sheehan.

It's funny how those preaching tolerance
turn out to be the least tolerant of all.

Right. Can you tell us
what happened?

I've got a 10-year-old niece who can't
even tell you who the vice president is.

But she sure as hell can put a condom
on a banana in two seconds flat.

Yeah, the whole world's going to hell.
It's a damn shame.

You know what else
is a damn shame?

There's a dead kid 10 feet
away from you and you're...

Well, that wouldn't have happened
if Rudy still ran the city.

Officer, take those two in.

Take her too.

No wonder they call her the
most hated bitch in America.

You mean woman, right?
No, I mean bitch.

I mean, give a liberal a gun,
he'll shoot himself. (LAUGHS)

There's a reason
for gun control.

Oh, boy, lthought I'd
at least get a Cheneyjoke.

Call me crazy, but if
someone tried to kill me,

I think I'd take it
a bit more seriously.

Look, I'm sure you're very
good at what you do,

but I really don't think this
had anything to do with me.

The Left's been castrated by
the church of Phil Donahue,

they don't carry weapons. Hell, they won't
even play dodge ball, for God's sakes.

So, why the bodyguards?

To protect my clothes.

Ever since the Harvard
scholars decided

to conduct political debate
with their dessert.

I've got drinks
with Rush.

Detective, I...

I wanted to apologize if
I came off rude before.

That's my cell.

Looks like someone's
a little sweet on Eddie.

I would rather have
root canal.

What do we have on the body?

Crime Scene is still searching the auditorium
and the surrounding grounds for a gun.

The bullet was a .45.

Both bodyguards
carry .38s.

Well, that leaves us with 500
or so members of the audience.

You know, maybe we're
looking at this wrong.

Maybe the shooter was
after Jason Miles

and he was using the mob
scene as a distraction.

I've got news for you, Ed.

You agree with Judith Barlow
more than you think.

Why don't we see if
Jason Miles had any enemies?

I met Jason on the
first day of freshman week.

And we were together
ever since.

(SOBS) I can't believe
this is happening.

What about you?

Jason never mentioned
any problems with anyone.

CASSADY: No offense, but

you seem a little old to be
hanging out with sophomores.

What's your story?

I'm Malcolm Yates.
I'm a PhD candidate.

Jason used to volunteer
in the bio lab where I work.

He thought it would help
with med school.

Mal was like
his mentor.

Did Jason have words with
anybody at the Barlow talk?

Well, we weren't there.

None of this would have happened if
he didn't take that damn course.

That professor's a fraud.

What professor?

Uh, Kevin Gray.

He teaches
Modern Political Thought.

He gets the kids
all riled up.

Jason became obsessed with how the
Right Wing is screwing up the country.

And that's why he went
to see Barlow?

Well, yeah.
Gray organized the protest.

I mean, the whole class
was expected to go.

He swore he'd meet us up at
Mal's apartment afterwards,

for pizza and
the Knicks game.

"Panopticon."

Sorry, I don't
speak French.

It's from the Greek.

A prison where a single guard
can see all the prisoners

all the time
from a single spot.

And that's what we've become.

This entire country
is one big prison.

Only the guards are using wiretaps,
warrantless searches and torture.

That's really
interesting but...

Big Brother is watching, man.

And his name is George.

So, what does the porcine
patrol want from me?

That I understand.

You just became a real
pain in the ass.

And proud of it.

But this is America,

where even a pain in the ass has the
unfettered right to speak his mind,

Frau Barlow and
the Reich notwithstanding.

Okay. What do you know
about the shooting?

I know the wrong
person died.

Meaning Judith Barlow.

Tokyo Rose in
a designer dress.

Her bosses preach war and hate
and she sells it with a smile

and a little cleavage.

I'll make this
very simple for you,

my students are morally
opposed to violence.

Let me make this
simple for you.

We need a list of the students
that were at the lecture.

No problem. I'll have my
secretary get that for you.

If there's nothing else...

Listen, Professor, any
other groups on campus

that may not agree with
your little point of view?

You mean you think someone was
deliberately aiming at Jason?

Well, we're porcine,
remember?

We have to sniff
all around the pen.

Well,

there was some trouble at our
pro-Palestinian march last month.

Things got a little
out of hand.

Pro-Palestinian, my ass!

It was an anti-Israel march!

You wanna know the worst?

That Professor was
born Kevin Gray Lefkowitz.

Well, he actually struck me as more
of a blame America kind of guy.

The only reason that
they blame America

is because they think it's run by
a cabal of Jewish capitalists,

whose only loyalty is to
the vast Zionist conspiracy.

Here, let me
show you something.

(CROWD YELLING ON COMPUTER)

NATHAN: Some of the Jewish kids took
exception to Gray's little demonstration.

Wait, stop. Go back.

(REWINDING)

That's Jason Miles
beating on that kid.

NATHAN: His name's
Danny O'Toole.

Maybe the shooting
was payback.

O'Toole's not
a Jewish name.

Danny's an Evangelical
Christian.

The funny thing is, they
actually care more about Israel

than most of the
Jews on this campus.

Go figure.

God gave Israel to
the Jewish people

and Christians have a
Biblical duty to protect it.

Even if you get your ass
kicked in the process.

A small price to pay.

The prophets predict that enemy
armies will invade the Holy Land.

And at the
final confrontation...

CASSADY: At Armageddon.

Very good.

Six years of Sunday School.

Then you know the final battle will
precipitate the second coming of Christ.

Wait, hold on a second.

That's like a fancy way
of saying your personal battle

started with
Professor Gray's march

and ended Friday night
at the Barlow talk

with a bullet in
Jason Miles' back.

Vengeance belongeth to me
saith the Lord.

That sounds great
on paper but...

I wasn't at Barlow's
speech, Detective.

I was with Pastor Stevens.
Working the soup kitchen.

That's right,
Danny was with me.

No offense, Pastor, but if
you're covering for him,

I know it's not a sin,
but it's definitely a crime.

We're just
a little curious.

Jason Miles beats the
hell out of Danny O'Toole

and a month later Jason ends
up with a bullet in his back.

You might not be able
to comprehend this

but we actually believe
in turning the other cheek.

Does that include not pressing
charges for the attack?

Danny and I debated whether
to go to the police,

but we decided
against it.

I don't think my cheek
would turn that far.

Well, mine didn't either,

until Jason's girlfriend Kirsten
convinced me otherwise.

She said a criminal record would ruin his
chances of getting into medical school.

Nothing like forgiveness.

The deal was Jason had to work
every Tuesday and Friday night,

8:00 to 12:00 at our soup kitchen
for the rest of the semester.

The Barlow talk was
on Friday night.

That's right. Kirsten showed
up at the kitchen alone.

She said Jason
wasn't feeling well.

Kirsten told us that she was
with that grad student Yates,

watching the Knicks, eating pizza
and waiting for Jason to show up.

Yeah, why would she lie about
being at a soup kitchen?

To protect Yates.

We've re-interviewed Kirsten,
she's sticking to her story.

There ain't no chance in France
she's telling the truth.

We figure it's a love triangle
and Yates got tired of sharing.

What did he say?

We're hoping a little leverage
will loosen his lips.

As in a warrant?

Well, if we can get into his apartment,
we might be able to find something.

She lied and you want
to search his place?

It's a shame.
What is?

That we have
a damn Constitution.

(PHONE RINGING)

I'll tell you what, Jimmy.
I'll call you, okay?

Let's hope Yates is as
aggressive as your boy, there.

He's not my boy. Yet.

Look, when you get lucky,

your buddies usually hear all the
dark and dirties, am I right?

Oh, please!

All I'm saying is, even a science
geek has gotta have a couple of buds.

(sums)

ED: So you two
are pretty close?

If you mean drinking the
same rotten coffee at 2 a.m.

out of the same
unwashed pot, yeah.

We're peas in a pod.

Thing is, I'm Neurology,
Mal's Cytology

and never the twain
shall meet.

He ever talk to you
about Kirsten?

Who?
Kirsten, his girlfriend.

Cute blond,
about this tall,

she probably came
around a lot.

I might be a science geek
but that I would have noticed.

What about phone calls? You ever
take a message from a girl?

Yeah, his mom called once. Something
about grandma's birthday.

Look, I don't know who's been
giving you your information

but Malcolm Yates is not what
you would call a ladies' man.

I mean, first off,
he couldn't afford it.

He had to borrow
rent money.

Second, the meeting of boy and girl he
ever thinks about occurs in a Petri dish.

Like cloning?

He's not trying to duplicate his dead Dalmatian
Dolly, if that's what you're thinking.

He's creating human embryos

to harvest their stem cells,

to change the world.

I've heard Barlow rail
against stem cells.

That would give Yates a
reason to be at the scene.

It's all a little spooky
if you ask me.

We're not exactly talking
about Boys From Brazil here.

Yeah, I know. I'm just saying I can see
how reasonable people might disagree.

Reasonable morons.

I really wish you'd learn
to speak your mind, Ed.

Well you try explaining
to your dad every Sunday

that you're not the neighbor's
kid Frankie the accountant,

then you can
talk to me.

Your dad has Alzheimer's?

Yeah. Listen, Friday,
before we got the call,

I was watching
the Knicks game.

How'd they do?

How do you think? My point is it
was only on cable sports package.

Now how does a starving
college student

who has to beg
for rent money afford that?

Thank you very much.

Ed!

Hey, you want a hot cup
of black disappointment?

I don't think so.
That was the cable company.

They just confirmed they shut
off Yates' cable two months ago

after he missed three
months of payments.

Two friends of the deceased
lying to us?

That ought to convince Judge
"I'll sign anything" Barsky.

I guess the maid forgot
to come this week.

He's in what, like
the 17th grade?

I figure he knows enough
to toss the weapon.

I can't get in.

Well, let's just take it.
We've got our own geeks.

Detectives.
Look at this.

In the medicine chest, right
behind the bottle of Scope.

Oh!

.45s.

Just like the one
that killed Jason.

Looks like they hold off on ammo
tossing till the 18th grade.

Why would I kill Jason?

CASSADY: One girl. Two guys.

It must have been a real
pain in the ass,

sneaking around behind
Jason's back all the time.

You wanted her
all to yourself.

You think Kirsten and me...

No way.

Jason was my friend.
What about Kirsten?

She was Jason's friend.

Then Why'd she lie
about being with you?

It's the truth. Oh, so it's Pastor
Stevens who's the big liar.

Wow, we're going to
be here for awhile.

Can I get you something?
A soda? A cup of coffee?

So what happens next,

Detective Panty Line gives him
a mani-pedi and a massage?

What's your problem with
female police officers?

Nothing personal but last
year, down in Atlanta

that animal wrestles a
firearm from a female guard

and shoots both her
and the judge.

I doubt that would have happened if the
guard shaved every morning before work

and I don't mean
under his pits.

Do you talk like this
in public?

Ilike you.

This is me being polite.

Let's go.

I don't want to talk to her.

VAN BUREN: Oh, but she
wants to talk to you.

Go ahead, Miss Barlow. Tell Mr. Yates your
feelings on embryonic stem cell research.

You mean how if it had
any validity whatsoever,

the corporate world would be all
over it quicker than pigs on crap?

Or how when rats are treated with embryonic
stem cells they end up with brain cancer.

That's a lie.

Your work's just a con job to
extort money from the public,

exceeded in its mendacity only
by the three-card monte game

played by the
global warming crowd.

ED: Hey! Hey!

Once again, words have failed
the intellectual Left.

Should have been you
and not Jason.

Arrest him.

CASSADY: Get down!

"Docket number 0674561

�People v. Yates, Malcolm P.

"Charge is murder
in the second degree."

Thank you.

Bernie Adler for
the defense, Your Honor.

JUDGE: Yes, I know
who you are.

A sawbuck says there's
no need to ask for a plea.

Not guilty.

I should get on a bus
to Atlantic City.

Your Honor.
Oh, lighten up, Counselor.

People request bail in the
amount of one million dollars.

Mr. Yates is a student who
can barely afford his rent.

Let's cut that in half.

That's fine by me,
Your Honor.

So, what do you say,
Mr. Adler?

Deal or no deal?

(LAUGHING) I'm sorry,
I just can't resist.

Do I have a choice?

Not really.

I'd think you'd be too busy
closing down the Boy Scouts

to find time for anything as prosaic
as a garden-variety murder.

When the intended victim is Judith
Barlow, it don't grow in my garden.

O kay, Jack,

new that we've both got
the Hem�; Y oungman

or should I say Sean
Hannity, out of our systems,

you called, we came.

You came because
you know our case.

I thought there'd at least be
some Danish and coffee.

It appears your client can
afford to buy you breakfast.

If you're talking about bail,
my mom mortgaged her house.

The bullets found in
Mr. Yates' apartment

were the same type, caliber and make
as those used to kill Jason Miles.

And his prints
were on the box.

I had no reason
to shoot Jason.

I agree. You intended to
shoot Judith Barlow...

Oh, God bless you.

JACK: ...but missed.

And as Mr. Adler
will tell you,

in criminal law,
intent follows the bullet.

I was framed.

Really? Then why
did you lie to the cops?

Because they were cops.

I was scared.

Like this wouldn't
be the first time

the government created a
perpetrator out of whole cloth.

Are you suggesting the cops
planted the bullets?

Can you think of a better way to quell
future incidents of civil disobedience?

Unfortunately, Mr. Adler, Judith
Barlow is a private individual.

Who happens to be a shill for an illegal
government's unconstitutional policies.

And you can
call me Bernie.

I guess dealing down to man
one is out of the question.

No Danish, no deal.

You think they're gonna
come back with an offer?

Bernie Adler? Not a chance.
The man tilts at windmills.

I'd feel better if we had
more motive evidence.

Did you ever hear
Barlow speak?

Well, it's murder two.

I don't think that "I hate her
politics" is gonna cut it.

Now I know you've
never heard her speak.

You've got to admit,
Barlow's a hoot.

I heard her say once that Mexico's
lucky we let them be our neighbor.

How obnoxious is that?

Yeah, but it's funny,
in a sick sort of way.

Sorry, it doesn't look like Yates
has sent her any hate-mail.

Most recently, all his e-mails have
been to someone named Fogarty.

CONNIE: Go ahead
and open that up.

Dr. Keith Fogarty, Head of
Research at Russell Laboratories.

Looks like Yates is
looking for some new work.

Yeah, we hate
to lose Malcolm.

'Cause when you're talking PGD,
Malcolm Yates is your go to guy.

PG D?

Preimplantation
Genetic Diagnosis.

It's a method of deriving stem
cells from human blastocysts.

Wow! Sounds like somebody
you'd want to keep around?

I'd want to clone him,
excuse the pun.

But this is a university and
what's fair isn't always right.

So, you're letting
Malcolm Yates go?

Outside funding is
our lifeblood.

The Marbury Foundation has decided
that our yearly transfusion

is going elsewhere next year.

So someone's gotta go.

Malcolm, unfortunately, is the
junior member of our team.

Last in, first out, as they say
in the economics department.

We simply decided to go
in a different direction.

One far from
public controversy.

Such as embryonic
stem cell research.

Look, for the Far Right,

embryonic stem cell
research labs

are the abortion clinics
of the 21st century.

Now, sure, we can live with religious Zealots
carrying signs out in our parking lot.

But wild-eyed pundits vilifying us to
millions on cable TV and talk radio,

well, that does damage
that we can't readily heal.

Pundits like Judith Barlow.

She makes Ann Coulter
look like Mary Poppins.

The final straw was when
she went on Bill O'Reilly

and she listed our
Board of Directors by name,

calling each one of them
a murderer and a baby killer.

The last thing that we need
is for the public to think

the Marbury Foundation can be
bullied by ideologues.

And the last thing I want is for this
to turn into another Scopes Trial.

This case is about nothing
more than Malcolm Yates

blaming Judith Barlow
for the loss of his job.

Because of
her position on...

Put the guy from the
charity on the stand

to say that he cut off the funding
because of Barlow's big mouth.

And how are we supposed to keep that big
mouth from spouting off to the jury?

You don't let her anywhere
near the stand, that's how.

She's the intended victim.

She's also one of the most
polarizing people on the planet.

I mean, 10 minutes
of her bloviating

and the jury will forget why they're
there and convict the S.O.B. of bad aim.

So that's it? Politics has infected
every aspect of our culture

to the point where I can't prosecute a
murder the way it should be prosecuted

without worrying about
offending someone.

Welcome to the world.

You do politics, Arthur.
Not me. I do the law.

Well, three cheers for you.
Buy yourself a drink.

You can curse the
politicians all you want.

But the fact is, that the country has
managed to choose up sides all by itself.

That's good.
Pass the buck to the people.

They're the ones who step
into the voting booth.

I'm sorry, but the problem is not the
people and it's not the politicians.

It's the pundits from
both sides of the aisle

who lie every evening
on the cable news.

That's not politics. That's chickens
chattering in a churchyard.

You go ahead and prove your point.
Put Barlow on the stand.

No, you're right, Arthur.

I may not be political. But
I'm not an idealist either.

Good. For a while I was afraid
you chose the wrong profession.

Adler is moving to exclude

all representatives of the Marbury
Foundation from testifying.

ADLER: My point is simple,
Your Honor.

Unless the State can prove
that my client had knowledge

that Barlow was responsible for his
anticipated loss of employment,

it would be highly prejudicial to
allow such testimony into evidence.

The head of grants
for the Foundation

told me Barlow was the only
reason for its decision.

Oh, I'm sure he did.

But did he tell Mr. Yates?

Do you have any evidence of the
defendant's prior knowledge?

It's obvious
from his actions.

Not to me it isn't.

I'm going to grant Mr.
Adler's motion to exclude.

You're going to prevent me from presenting
any motive evidence, in other words.

No. Those would be
the exact words,

unless you come up with something
a bit less speculative.

Please, please!

Challenge anyone to show me
where in the Constitution

it says we can tum
a living human

into an organic
chop shop. This...

This so-called research is merely
one step removed from abortion.

Some would argue a woman's right to
determine what happens to her own body...

JUDITH: You mean the unfettered
right to hop into the sack

with men they don't consider
Daddy material, don't you?

Nobody has the right to do what
he wants with his own body.

Can you sell a kidney?

Not unless you want to spend
10 years in prison, you can't.

h' you wanted to
sell your eyeballs...

You've got to admit she's smart.
I do?

Alright,
provocative then.

She's a huckster.

Her books are flying off
the shelves as we speak.

Anyway, I spoke with everyone
who works at Yates' lab.

No one has ever even heard
him mention Barlow's name.

So I went back
to his laptop

hoping I would find some political
meetings in his calendar.

Tell me you found the annual
"I hate Barlow" convention.

Sorry. But I did notice a monthly
appointment with a Dr. Rooker.

His shrink?
His neurologist.

Specializes in
Parkinson's disease.

Yates has Parkinson's?

It certainly would give
him strong motive

to shoot the woman
leading the charge

against the only thing
that might offer him a cure.

Imagine if you
felt your life

accelerating into
utter misery

due to
a debilitating disease.

And then imagine

that a potential
cure is in sight

but...

Someone, in this case,
Judith Barlow,

is doing everything
that she can

to prevent that cure
from becoming a reality.

What would you do?

Your Honor...

Mr. Yates has
Parkinson's disease.

That's tragic.

But when he fired a
gun at Judith Barlow,

and mistakenly
killed Jason Miles,

he committed murder
in the second degree.

Can we talk in chambers?

He's mocking
the proceedings.

Nothing like State
sanctioned sympathy, Jack.

YourHonon believe me,
my client is sick.

There is nothing he would like
better than to stop shaking.

Too bad that's not an option.

Funny how he managed to
sit still in my office.

That was my client on drugs.
This is my client au naturel.

It's a distraction meant to pull
at the jury's heartstrings.

I want a mistrial and a retrial with
the defendant on his medication.

Nothing I can do,
Mr. McCoy.

The right to confront witnesses doesn't
come with a prescription. I can't...

Force him to
self-medicate.

Your motion
is denied.

Judge, I know this
is a bit unusual,

but if it's okay with you, I would
prefer to reserve my opening statement

until the end of
the State's case-in-chief.

Sure, why not?

Thank you.

I'd been treating Malcolm
Yates for nearly two years.

Although Parkinson's typically
affects people over 50,

there are a few reported cases
of much younger sufferers,

most notably the actor Michael J.
Fox.

Can you please describe the
symptoms briefly, Dr. Rooker?

Basically PD is a
motor system disorder

resulting from the loss of
dopamine producing brain cells.

The primary symptoms are
tremors, or trembling,

in the arms, legs,
jaw and face.

Is there any cure?

No. But surgery or
avariety of medications,

levodopa combined with
carbidopa, for instance,

can provide
dramatic relief.

JACK: But ultimately
offer no cure?

Unfortunately,
that's true.

JACK: But there is a chance
that a cure may be found

using embryonic stem cells,
isn't that right?

Yes. You see, the usefulness
of embryonic stem cells

is their ability to develop into
any kind of cell in the body.

And researchers are currently
attempting to use them

to develop
dopamine-producing cells.

Which would more or less put
an end to Parkinson's disease.

That would be correct.

So, it seems perfectly reasonable that
a Parkinson's sufferer like Mr. Yates

would do
whatever it took

to muzzle opponents
of such research.

ADLER: Objection!
Sustained.

As far as you know,

is there any tangible evidence
that embryonic stem cell research

will lead to a cure for
Parkinson's disease?

At this time? No.

Is the possibility
of a cure even close?

Not really. So it's
all very speculative?

I suppose.

So, it's
a distinct possibility

that Mr. Yates would not
see a cure in his lifetime

if there is one
to be found at all?

Yes.

Now, being
a scientist himself,

would you expect Mr. Yates
to be aware of that?

I'm sure he is.

So, practically speaking,

muzzling an outspoken critic
of stem cell research

really wouldn't benefit

Mr. Yates at all,
would it? Withdrawn.

Can't get good help
these days, can you, Arthur?

And you'd be referring to?

Your Mr. McCoy.

A week's worth of witnesses and the
intended victim hasn't even testified yet.

For the record,
that was my idea, Judith.

Giving you the opportunity to display
your wit and wisdom to the jury

would put us on the express
train to an acquittal.

Oh, come on, Arthur.
People love me.

I'm sure some people
love spiders too.

They eat flies, don't they?

And we know what flies eat.

Very good.
I just love the old joust.

And I just came here to enjoy my
scotch and newspaper... Alone.

Oh, Arthur, let's not pretend we're not on
the same side of the ideological fence.

Ideology's one thing.
Hyperbole is another.

Please. All I do is make boring
conservative talking points entertaining,

so hopefully someone
actually listens to them.

No, all you do is make people madder
than a hound dog with a head cold

so that along the way they
miss the message completely.

I've got four number one
bestsellers, Arthur.

How many does
Antonio Scalia have?

And you also look better
in a cocktail dress.

I'd better go.

I wouldn't want your voting public
to actually think we're friends.

Okay!

Show of hands.
Are there any kikes here?

How about spics?

Objection!

ADLER: Okay...

Now I know there are a couple of coons.
YourHonofl

JUDGE: Enough, Mr. Adler.

Pisses you off, doesn't it?
Mr. Adler!

Actually I'll bet
it pisses you off so bad

you just threw your
reason out the window

and all you're thinking about
is smacking me upside the head.

Objection!
Counselor!

Now, I tell you, if I were black and
some honkie called me a coon...

JUDGE: Mr. Adler! I'd actually think
about killing the son a bitch.

In my chambers. Now!

What the hell do you think you're
doing in there, Counselor?

I was just trying...
I'm not done!

This is a murder trial,
Counselor.

And playing the race card is not
only irrelevant, it's unethical!

I'm the one
talking now, Mr. McCoy.

Okay, Mr. Adler,
you've got two seconds.

And it better be good or
you're looking at a mistrial.

Not to mention a slew
of contempt citations.

With all due respect, Judge, this case
is essentially about hate speech.

Oh, give me a break.

That night when Barlow spoke
about disabled Americans,

she used language just as disgusting
as the racial pejoratives

I just tossed at the jury.

I was simply demonstrating
the effect of such speech.

To what end?

Such extreme emotional distress negates
the intent required for charge of murder.

Even if that's true, we have
made a case for manslaughter.

ADLER: Only nobody's charged
him with that.

I can call a couple
of hundred people

to testify to Miss Barlow's
odious comments.

They're not on defense counsel's
witness list, YourHonoL

I can't be expected to pose a few hundred
witnesses in the middle of a trial.

Fine. Then I'll just
call one, Judith Barlow.

She's not on your witness
list either.

Right. That's why
I move to amend.

You can't claim you
haven't talked to her.

Let's not pretend we don't
know what's going on.

Counsel plans to attack
the victim.

That's right.
With her own words.

This I've gotta see.
Motion granted.

She's been in the gallery
throughout the trial, YourHonoL

She's heard all testimony.

I'll instruct the jury to consider
that when weighing her credibility.

In that case, I insist you add
all lesser included offenses

when you charge the jury.

Specifically manslaughter.

You insist? You know that's
premature, Counselor.

I'll decide on the jury charge
when all evidence is presented.

Actually, it's the latest team
sport on college campuses.

Physically attacking me,
I mean...

Why do you suppose that is?

Um... When one is frustrated
intellectually, one resorts to violence.

And you think today's college students
are intellectually frustrated?

Yes. I don't really blame
them, I mean

they've come to realize viscerally that
everything they've been taught is wrong.

Communism kills more people
than Capitalism.

Affirmative action
infantilizes minorities.

Welfare destroys ambition
and self reliance.

What about science?

No, no, they're okay
with science

as long as its purpose is to
destroy human embryos, that is.

Oh, I think you'd better
explain that, Miss Barlow.

I'm okay with "Miss."

It's really very simple...

The abortion crusaders have always
struggled to find a moral justification

for the willful taking
of unborn life.

So what they do is...

They parade out sympathetic faces like
Christopher Reeve and Ronald Reagan

to rationalize the destruction of
a human embryo in a test tube.

I mean, please. To help people like that.
Who is going to argue?

But then, with a stroke of sophistry
that would make even John Kerry blush,

they extrapolate one cell, in a
dish in a lab, in the one hand.

A fetus in the belly of a lady on the
table of a doctor's office in the other.

If okay to take
the life of the former,

there shouldn't be
any problem with the latter.

It's a bogus conflation.
A bait and switch.

Murder is murder!

Whether it involves tweezers
poking around a test tube

or forceps piercing the brain
of an 8-month-old fetus,

euphemistically called
a late-term abortion.

If it's okay to murder one little guy,
why not whack one just a smidge bigger?

So even if stem cell research
could save millions of people.

I've got nothing against
using adult stem cells.

It's cloning embryos to kill
them that strains morality.

And you're appointed the judge of
what is and what is not moral?

Hey, God... Or if you prefer
Darwin, gave me a conscience.

I figure at least one of
them expects me to use it.

And artificially creating.

Let's not play word games,
Counselor. It's cloning.

And considering where that
might lead, yes, it's immoral.

Oh, I see, the old,
slippery slope argument?

Why is it when we're discussing
the NSA wiretapping terrorists,

the Left thinks the old, slippery slope
argument trumps all others, but...

When the talk turns to intentionally
destroying human life,

that same slope
suddenly isn't so slippery?

Is it true
that in your lecture,

you referred to a commercial,
starring the actor Michael J. Fox,

as "A ploy by the liberals, trotting
out another spaz to spew their lies"?

Hmm. I was trying to make...
Yes or no.

Did you say it?

Yes.

Why did you use the word
"spaz," Miss Barlow?

I was trying
to make the point

that the Left promotes its lies
by using un-attackable victims.

Please, who is going to argue with
a tragically ill Alex P. Keaton?

You pity him.
You don't contradict him.

Of course I don't like what
she stands for.

I'm a scientist. But I certainly
didn't go there to kill her.

But you brought a gun.

I started carrying it
for protection

when I had to walk home from
the lab late at night.

That night, I just got
caught up in the excitement.

When people started
rushing the stage,

I just followed the crowd.

That doesn't explain why the gun
was in your hands, Mr. Yates.

I wasn't going
to shoot her.

I just...
I wanted to scare her

like she scares the public with
her vicious and hateful lies.

The gun must have fired because
of the way my hand was twitching.

Twitching uncontrollably
because of the Parkinson's?

That's right. I would never
intentionally hurt anyone.

Thank you, Mr. Yates.

You knew that
Miss Barlow would...

Strike that.

When exactly did...

Don't you think it was risky
to hold a loaded gun

in a hand that shakes
uncontrollably?

Yes, I do.

But my attorney tells me
that's still not murder.

JACK: I see.

Did you work in the lab the
day of the murder, Mr. Yates?

Yes.

Must be difficult working
with microscopic cells

when you're shaking
like that.

Oh, that's right! You took
your medication that day!

The medication
that stops the shaking.

So, there shouldn't
have been any twitching,

uncontrollable or otherwise, in the
auditorium that night. Isn't that right?

Of course it is.

You went there,
you drew your weapon,

you intentionally pulled the trigger
trying to kill Judith Barlow.

Isn't that true?

She said

that the lives of the embryos
we use to harvest stem cells

were just as valuable as the
lives of people like me.

I am better than cells
in a Petri dish!

So was your
dead friend Jason.

And so, like it or not,
is Miss Barlow.

Have you reached a verdict?

On the sole count of the indictment,
murder in the second degree,

we find the defendant,
Malcolm Yates,

guilty.

(GAVEL BANGING)

I thought we were DOA when the Judge
refused to instruct on manslaughter.

I guess the jury didn't find Barlow
as despicable as we figured.

Or Yates as sympathetic.

What's that say about
12 ordinary citizens?

You know, you never did say which side
of the stem cell fence you come down on.

I don't
talk politics, Connie.

You are crazy if you think I'm
gonna let you get off that easy.

You'll keep pushing?

Yeah, I'm famous for it.
Fine.

I think if God created
Man in his image...

Maybe

we've all just degenerated from whatever
is floating around in that Petri dish.

Come on,
I'll buy you a drink.

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