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You disapprove of me.
You know, I'd stake out a little
distance from that Shore guy, Sally.
He tends to leave people's minds
a little worse off than he finds them.
Why are you counseling Sally
to distance herself from me?
There are happily ever after guys,
and there are those
who leave girls in a heap.
And I can tell the difference.
Sorry, I'm sorry, good people.
Edwin, everything all right?
Hunky dory.
Denny, guess what, I'm due
in court with Tara.
We're on it.
Don't you worry.
- You just get better.
- Okay.
Demagnetize his parking pass.
- I beg your pardon?
- I know when the man is gone.
Helen.
He's gone.
Denny, Edwin's gone.
I know. Shame.
No, I mean he's missing.
He left the hospital.
- Did he come here?
- Not that I'm aware of.
Anyone see Edwin Poole?
Your honor, at this time
I would like to discharge counsel.
Can you tell me
why you want new counsel?
On the grounds of intolerabilitude.
Not a real word, Mr. Litch.
It should be, your honor,
because it describes
my deteriorating relationship
with the man vested with the
responsibility of proving my innocence.
Sir, you confessed to the crime.
I changed my position on that.
Mr. Litch, this is the seventh attorney
you've sought to discharge
on the eve of trial.
Your honor, I am anxious
for my day in court.
I'm looking forward to seeing
because I don't see one
when you're sitting,
and I don't have one
sitting here with me.
Well, here's my problem, Mr. Litch.
I'm all out of public defenders.
Every available one, you fired.
I'll do it.
Attorney Edwin Poole, your honor,
of Crane, Poole & Schmidt.
I'll represent Mr. Litch.
You're the Edwin Poole?
Indeed.
From Crane, Poole & Schmidt?
Indeed.
And you're offering
to defend this man.
Yes.
Mr. Litch, I will give
you a new attorney.
What I will not give you
is additional time.
This trial will begin tomorrow
May I be heard on bail, judge?
No, you may not.
Defendant stays in custody.
We are adjourned.
Hello, Mr. Criminal.
We can talk back in custody.
Incidentally, what are
you charged with?
***.
You got yourself
a top-of-the-line criminal.
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ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON ABC: 2004/10/24
- He did what?
- He took a case.
Left the hospital, went into criminal
session, and took a case.
- We need you to get down there.
- Whoa.
No, never mind "Whoa."
- I do not do criminal law.
- I can't go. I'm in trial.
- We have lots of other lawyers.
- You used to be a D.A.
- You can do it.
- What about Alan Shore? He's
Lewiston needs him
for something else.
I need you to get down there, please.
He is sitting in a jail cell.
What do you mean he's
sitting in a jail cell?
He walked back into custody,
went into the cell.
There he sits with the client,
happily so.
Please get down there.
So what's it about?
I have no idea.
Well, if you need a second chair,
it would be nice for Paul Lewiston
to know that I exist.
Denny Crane. You got it.
What can I do for you?
Thank you. Please have a seat.
We represent a company, the CEO
of which is in need of
immediate legal assistance.
Lee Tyler, brilliant woman.
Kind woman.
Also a kleptomaniac.
She's about to go on trial tomorrow
for stealing a $200 scarf.
It's ordinarily a small matter.
Here's why it's not.
If she gets convicted of this crime,
she violates a morals clause
in her contract.
She's out as CEO,
and since she's the one who hired us,
we stand to lose our biggest client.
We have
exhausted all conventional
means to make this go away.
We have failed.
We now need an attorney
with experience in, perhaps
unconventional means.
I don't care.
You don't care?
He basically escaped
from a mental facility.
Objection.
You're talking as if I'm not even
in the room. It's inappropriate.
No offense, Edwin, but you
shouldn't be in the room.
You should still be in the hospital.
Look, Ms. Colson,
your firm took this case.
If Edwin Poole lacks capacity
to try it, then it falls to you.
Me? I don't practice criminal law.
Counsel, I have had it.
This case has been perversely delayed.
I've had a widow and her two children
show up for trial four times,
only to have it put off.
I won't delay it another day.
If he can't do it,
then you will.
Now, I suggest you get back
there and meet your client.
He pulls me over for
running this stop sign,
and I got this dime bag
of coke, you know, so
I stuff it under my seat
so he can't see it.
I also got my gun under there.
He's a drug dealer.
Continue.
So he comes to the window
and gives me this and that
about road safety and all that,
and then he tells me
to step out of the car,
and suddenly, I'm thinking,
damn, he's gonna search it,
and two priors for intent,
I'm a dead man.
That's strike three.
It's a life sentence.
So I panicked.
I reached under the seat,
I grabbed the gun,
and I shot him.
Boom!
So
Continue.
I panicked.
I don't even remember it.
I'm telling you the truth.
In one second, I'm thinking life sentence,
and the next thing, I'm
squeezing the trigger.
- And then what happened?
- Well, I drove off,
and I'm seeing on the news
how they had this big manhunt
and they had a partial license plate,
so I figured it was
only a matter of time.
One week later, my door's busted in.
I try to go out the window,
and that's when I got shot.
Finally, I just confessed
to it all in the hospital.
They don't have the gun.
No gun, no witnesses.
They ain't got nothing.
Except your confession.
Yeah.
Mr. Criminal, I don't ever like
to make predictions,
but I think we can get you off.
I asked her if I could look in her bag.
She said to me,
"what right do you have?"
I said, "well, ma'am, I'm
a security officer for the store."
And then what happened, sir?
She let me look in her bag,
and there was the scarf.
Did she say anything?
Said she had no idea how it got there.
Tell me, Mr. Lyne,
from what distance did you see
the accused put the scarf in her bag?
I didn't actually see it myself.
Oh, you didn't see it. / No.
A store clerk said she took it.
Ah, there we go.
Do you see the store clerk
here today, sir? / Yes, I do.
Miles Tibbet, sitting right over there.
This man. He told you
the defendant took the scarf.
Yes, he did.
How do you feel about
working undercover?
I'm sorry?
Their entire case is a store clerk.
I want to put a private
investigator on him, follow him.
We pick the opportunity for you
to meet him, lunch, perhaps.
- And then what?
- Denny Crane.
Then you order appetizers,
elicit some disparaging information,
allowing him to believe
you're anyone at all
other than the defendant's lawyer.
Is that fair?
I don't understand the question.
He says he grew up
watching "Perry Mason,"
and he promised himself he
would one day do a criminal trial.
Certainly you're not going to let him.
He seems to have his wits about him.
The truth is is he's probably
more equipped than me.
I think the best thing would be for me
to supervise and let him first chair.
Edwin.
Paul.
You really think you're up to this?
I did clinical work in law school.
The rules of evidence
are the same as civil.
There's no great mystery to it.
Also
he came to me in a dream last night,
and he told me to try this case.
God?
Perry.
I'll first chair.
Can I help you?
Whatever's on tap.
I got it.
How's it going?
Fine, thank you.
Sally.
You're
very beautiful, but I don't
do that sort of thing.
What sort of thing?
What, you, you think
I'm a ***?
Here you go.
Excuse me, can you throw that
in this man's face?
I'm sorry, but
but beautiful women don't
usually come up to me
and say hi unless
Well, excuse me for thinking
you look like a decent guy.
Do you know how hard it is
for a girl to just
go out for a quiet beer by herself
without being attacked by wolves?
I thought you looked safe and nice.
And you call me a ***.
Learn anything?
Only his whole life story,
and no one is bidding for
the movie rights, trust me.
He collects autographs,
has almost 1,200 of them,
including the entire cast
of "Mamma Mia!" national tour.
Oh, yes, and he's allergic
to shellfish. Want more?
Yes. This is very helpful.
Hello?
It's him.
Hi, Miles. How's it going?
We would like to be able
to offer you witnesses.
Unfortunately, there were only two.
One's dead, and the other's on trial.
The good news is he confessed,
though he now wants to recant.
You will hear from the officer
who listened to that confession,
and you will find it reliable.
You will find it consistent
with the truth,
the truth that on July 17th,
the defendant Warren Litch
shot dead officer Michael Deveraux.
Good morning.
My name is Lori Colson
Your honor, at this time,
I would like to discharge counsel.
Denied. / In that case,
it should be known
that this woman didn't even
bother to meet me until yesterday.
My own lawyer, She didn't
even know my name.
She is unprofessional,
she is unprepared,
and on top of that, she's fleshy.
I want me a thin, wiry attorney,
somebody hungry for justice.
Motion for new counsel denied.
May I have a moment
with my client, your honor?
Please.
What the hell was that?
I didn't like the look of the jury.
I was going for a mistrial.
Well, you didn't get one, did you?
All you did was alienate them
and undermine me in the process.
Do you want to go to prison?
Lady, I'm going to prison.
I shot a cop.
No doubt I'm going to prison.
The only real living I got left
is in this trial business,
and I'm happy to stretch it
out forever.
You think this is some game for you,
to have your last joyride?
I killed a man, miss Colson.
And I see his widow sitting
in there, and I see his kids.
I know this ain't no game.
Son
if I might ask
why did you call her fleshy?
I was just trying to humanize her.
Juries don't like beautiful women.
You think I'm fleshy?
Is there any deal to be
made here, a plea?
They don't need to deal, Warren.
You confessed.
Another curious strategic move.
I only confessed because
they tricked me.
What do you mean, they tricked you?
They got the doctor to tell
me I was about to die,
and then they sent
in this cop undercover
pretending to be the hospital chaplain,
and he laid it on thick
with the whole confess thy sins
or there's no heaven for me.
They told you you were dying
to get you to confess?
Yeah.
And then he pointed to me,
right in open court.
What'd you do?
I just tried to sit straight
and undaunted.
The chief witness for
the prosecution, you know.
Isn't it exciting?
It is.
I
I even invited a few of my friends to,
you know, come watch.
You did? / It's silly, I know, but this
is the first time
I've been at the center of,
of anything.
I'm sure you'll do fine.
Really? / Mm.
Yeah. I, I don't think
I'll get too nervous.
I take beta blockers for anxiety.
Retail must be very stressful.
Yes, but I love it.
Listen, um, you're probably
wondering why I asked you to lunch.
I just
I, I don't meet too many women.
It's not what you think, I swear.
I'm not about to ask you
out on a date or anything,
but I did want to tell you
how much last night meant to me.
What did it mean?
We drank beer.
Sally
for, for a beautiful woman
to talk to me
for three hours as if
I were an interesting person,
as if my life were interesting
That meant something to me.
That's really all I wanted to say. I,
I'm grateful.
Cheers.
Denny.
I need you at 12:30.
It'll take five minutes, tops.
I need to trade a little
on your prominence, your heft.
What do you want me to do?
I don't want you to do anything
or say anything.
I just want you to be.
Be all that you can be.
One of the few, the proud.
You don't want me to say anything?
Just those two little words
that tend to shock and awe.
Denny Crane.
Feel free to mock me all you want,
but don't you dare ridicule our troops.
Just so I'm clear,
I should feel free to mock you.
He basically said that he panicked.
His next conviction was strike three.
He'd be looking at a life sentence,
and he just panicked.
And by panicked, you mean
he reached under the seat,
retrieved the weapon,
and shot the officer.
He told you he shot officer Deveraux?
Yes, sir.
He asked me to forgive him,
and he asked god to forgive him.
Thank you, officer.
Your honor, at this time,
I would
Sit!
Just to remind the jury,
at the time my client said
all of this to you,
he thought he was dying.
Yes, ma'am.
And he thought you were
the hospital chaplain?
Yes, ma'am.
Thank you, officer.
That's it?
Two questions.
That was your cross?
I didn't have much
to cross him with, Warren.
Then what was the point of your questions?
Tell me that. / I was trying to establish
that you were coerced.
The judge doesn't shock easily,
but maybe the jury does.
Oh, I see.
You were going for shock value.
Well, maybe you could
have really gone for it
and asked three questions.
Hey, Warren, if you're
unhappy with me
Then what?
The judge isn't gonna let
me hire anybody else.
You're all I got, lady.
You're all I got.
Thank you so much for coming,
Alan Shore.
The D.A. said I didn't
have to talk to you.
Which only compounds my gratitude
for your choosing to do so.
Let's go to my office.
What's this about?
Well, believe it or not,
it's about your best interest, Miles.
Gosh, my office seems so far away.
Let's go to this one
over here instead.
Sally Heep, Miles Tibbet.
Perhaps you've met.
Sally gets around.
She works with me.
And certainly you've heard
of this gentleman.
- He needs no introdtion.
- Denny Crane.
Please have a seat.
Alan
Thank you, Sally,
I'll take it from here.
You've done more than your share.
Let's make this brief, Miles.
We represent a woman who is
charged with stealing a scarf
from the store where you work,
which is precisely what she did.
You saw the whole thing.
So we find ourselves between
a rock and a hard place, Miles.
The rock being our client,
CEO of a fortune 500 company
who has made it abundantly clear
the only acceptable verdict is not guilty.
And the hard place being you,
Miles, the eyewitness.
But maybe you aren't so hard
after all? Am I right?
I'm not sure what you want.
Sally has given me some
information which, regrettably,
I'm ethically required
to attack you with in court.
For example, since I know you
take beta blockers for your anxiety.
some possible side effects being
dizziness, confusion,
I am duty bound to raise it.
Also, the idea that you invited
a few friends down to the courthouse
to hear you testify
it would be malpractice for me
not to make a small snack of that.
Of course, I'll have to get
into your inferiority complex and
"She must be a ***" that sort of thing.
- But I never said
- I'm talking, Miles.
Alan / I'm talking, Sally.
You collect autographs, Miles.
That must be fun.
Standing around on cold,
drizzly nights
waiting for famous people
to give you a cursory glance,
a moment of their time, perhaps,
if they take pity on you.
Do people often take pity on you, Miles?
It wouldn't surprise me.
I'm seeing a pattern here.
Pity, anxiety, inferiority
all those "-ity" words.
- This isn't fair!
- You're right, it's not.
But you have a job to do
and so do I.
Yours is to sell socks and suspenders.
Mine is to cross-examine people
like you and crush them.
This man here would fire
me if I didn't.
Denny Crane.
He would fire me, Miles,
if I didn't explore every nuance
and shadow of your personality,
every secret place and
insufficiency in the hours
that you will spend in that
witness chair, Miles,
in front of all those friends you invited.
And when I'm finished with you,
even they will believe you are
a vindictive, pathetic little sycophant
who has falsely accused,
and probably framed a fine woman
for something she never did
and never would do
only so that you could get,
at long last, your moment of attention.
By the time I'm done,
I'll have you believing you
put that scarf in her handbag.
Lee Tyler can afford to hire
any attorney in the world.
She's chosen me.
Do you wonder if I'm any good, Miles?
Do you really wonder?
- May I speak with you a moment?
- I don't wanna speak with you, Alan.
- If I told you Miles was coming
- I do not want to speak with you.
Can you please walk away?
Sally, that was not
a pleasant meeting.
Typically, when associates
are unhappy, I give them a hug.
I don't want a hug, Mr. Crane.
Okay.
May I have one?
They told me that he was religious,
that maybe if he though
the was about to die,
his conscience would get
the better of him.
So you told Mr. Litch was dying.
Yeah. I'm not proud of it,
but I probably should have
and, doctor,
did you also hear Mr. Litch
confess to killing officer Deveraux?
Yes.
You're sure?
I'm very positive.
Thank you, doctor.
Okay, how long had he
treated you before
In fact, you told him he had
less than an hour to live.
Yes.
You lied to your own patient?
They told me that he had
murdered a police officer
As a result of this despicable conduct,
were you disciplined by the hospital?
My privileges were suspended
for three months.
And you're back in the E.R. now.
No, no.
I've started my residency
in the neurology department.
Your specialty is the brain.
Yes. / Doctor, as a neurologist,
how does trauma and extensive
blood loss affect the brain?
Uh, sometimes it can compromise
mental function.
Can it cause a person
to become delusional?
I don't believe he was
delusional that night.
Did he suffer trauma and
extensive blood loss? / Yes.
Yes, he, he did, but I
can you state to a medical certainty
that he was not delusional?
No.
One last question and this one I ask
you as a layperson, a human being.
Is it conceivable to you that if you
had a loved one who had panicked
and committed a horrible
crime, say, ***
if somebody you cared deeply for,
perhaps a brother, best friend,
maybe your son had done
thihorrible thing,
and you lay in a hospital bed dying,
Is it conceivable that
knowing you were dying,
you might take the blame
for something you didn't do
just to spare your loved one
a life sentence?
Objection! / Sustained.
Did it ever occur to you
that night, doctor?
Warren Litch said
he committed the crime
simply to protect somebody else?
No. No, it didn't.
I bet it never occurred
to the police, either.
Nothing further.
Mr. Preston?
The prosecution rests, your honor.
Ms. Colson?
The defense rests, your honor.
How do I not get in that chair?
Edwin did a good job.
If I don't say I didn't do it,
they're not
- I can't put you in that chair.
- Why?
Because you did do it,
and I can't put a witness
in the chair to lie.
I have a right to testify.
But it would have to be
in the narrative.
Best case scenario, you'll
trip all over yourself.
Worst case, one of the jurors will
know why it's in the narrative.
And why can't you ask me
questions that would allow
Because I can't.
We have rules, Warren.
One is I cannot put you up
there to knowingly lie.
Our best strategy here
would be to argue
the prosecution didn't
satisfy its burden.
This is my life on the line here,
and you keep talking about
a system of rules and regulations?
I'm in this for my life here.
And you're supposed to be
in this for my life, too.
Well, I'm not.
Don't get me wrong, I will give you
the very best defense I know how,
but I will not allow myself
to be in this for you.
I will play my part in a system
that I have an enormous allegiance to,
but I will never be in this for you.
Hey.
That was pretty awesome today, Edwin.
People forget I'm
a brilliant trial attorney.
I can be nuts and still brilliant.
How do you feel about closing?
If you can close like
you crossed, then
That was Perry's strength,
you know, the closing.
What do you think?
I told the man I'd get him a
"not guilty,"
I might as well see it through.
It's hard, isn't it?
What is?
Coming to care for a person
who committed such a heinous act.
It's hard to reconcile what
we do and who we are sometimes.
I don't care about him.
I'm just doing a job.
You know, in Perry's closings,
he would point to the real killer.
I don't suppose I should
do that, should I?
Tibbet's a good man,
Alan, decent.
He was just doing his job.
Yes, he was, and so were you,
and so was I.
And after ambushing him,
you can just shake it off?
I'm not shaking anything off.
Miles Tibbet had a very bad day.
I had a bad day, too, Alan.
I was taken advantage of.
Or don't you considersending me
to go hit on some guy
at a bartaking advantage?
It has nothing to with what I consider.
Whatever.
It's not the kind of thing you ask
of someone that you care about.
Do you care about me, Alan?
I care a great deal for you.
That's why I'm gonna give
you some very sound advice.
Run.
What? / This is a bad business.
It is an often filthy,
dehumanizing, mean-spirited job.
I assure you I take no pleasure in it.
It just comes easily to me.
But
you
are not that way.
So I suggest you think long and hard
about whether you really wanna
wake up every morning,
with all the promise that
morning conveys,
and come here.
Which I say to you
only because I care.
You are such a liar,
pretending that this stuff
doesn't affect you,
that you can just brush it off.
I'm afraid I can.
You heard from witness
Frank Simmons,
who saw an SUV speed by him
a mile from the scene
around the time of the ***
with a license plate
beginning with "3L6."
Mr. Litch's SUV has a license
plate beginning with "3L6."
And when the police entered
the defendant's apartment,
what did he do?
He didn't ask, "what's this about?"
He didn't say, "hey, what's going on?"
He knew exactly why they were there.
And he immediately
began his escape.
And then, in the hospital,
he confessed.
It wasn't a delusional confession.
He described a fact pattern which
was completely consistent with the crime.
The defendant admitted that he was
afraid of yet
another drug conviction
that would land him a life sentence.
He panicked, pulled out
a gun, and fired.
Now his lawyer suggests
he was perhaps delusional
when he confessed,
or that he simply lied to protect
the real killer, a friend or loved one.
Desperate suggestions
for a desperate client.
It's insulting to this court, to you,
and especially to that woman
and her two children.
Warren Litch murdered her husband.
Warren Litch killed their father.
He admitted to the police
that he did so.
Let's not waste any more time.
Edwin.
It's your turn.
I fell asleep last night
and forgot to prepare a closing.
I meant to tell you.
You don't have a closing?
No, do you?
Counsel?
Edwin, you've got nothing?
When I was a little boy,
my father said to me.
- I can still hear his voice.
- I believe he said,
"Ladies first."
I don't know about you,
but if I hear that somebody
confessed to a crime,
I just assume he's guilty.
But if I hear the confession
is coerced, then
for example,
you could have a man
bleeding out with a stomach wound,
put him in a room
with police and clergy
who keep insisting to him
that he did something,
and he might actually come
to believe it.
And gee, what if it was
a friend or a loved one
who was driving Warren's
car that night?
That would explain why Warren
was trying to flee, wouldn't it?
He likely knew the police were coming
to mistakenly arrest him.
Did the police investigate any of this?
My god, we all assume
Warren litch is guilty,
but what if he isn't?
Now let's turn to the other evidence.
Wait
There is no other evidence.
No gun, no witnesses,
no fibers, no forensics.
All they have is that coerced confession.
Now, you might think he did it.
And if you're determined, you can
even still assume it, I suppose.
But if you're to uphold the law and
demand proof beyond
all reasonable doubt,
and if we don't demand that,
do we really wanna send
a message to the police
"Hey, forget the evidence.
Just bring us that confession."
They really should give
you your own office.
Evidently, the store clerk has recanted.
He's suddenly not sure
he saw Lee Tyler take the scarf.
- The case might even be dropped.
- It's a great country.
The district attorney has lodged
a complaint against you
for witness tampering, intimidation,
obstruction of justice, extortion.
He should make up his mind.
This firm does not engage
in that kind of conduct, counsel.
We do not intimidate or blackmail.
The attorney sat Crane,
Poole & Schmidt
conduct themselves
with integrity always.
Do I make myself clear?
More than clear.
Transparent.
Go.
Mr. Shore,
thank you.
Madam Foreperson, the jury
has reached a unanimous verdict?
We have, your honor.
Mr. Litch, please rise.
Madam Foreperson, what say you?
We the jury,
in the matter of the commonwealth of
Massachusetts versus Warren Litch,
on the charge of first-degree ***,
we find the defendant
Warren Litch guilty.
Members of the jury, I would like to
thank you for your service in this matter.
You are hereby excused.
Please be sure to sign out
with the courtroom deputy
so you are credited for your time here.
The defendant is to be retained
in county until sentencing,
which shall be scheduled
within 60 days' time.
If that is all, then we are adjourned.
Listen, um,
I'll review any grounds for appeal.
The confession, I mean,
there are grounds.
Okay. Okay.
I'll be in touch.
I'll order up the transcript.
Listen, um,
I thought for somebody who
felt the way you felt,
it was honorable for you to
try your hardest.
And I know that you did.
Thank you.
Unprofessional for me not
to be prepared with my closing.
I think I'll perhaps go
back to the hospital,
get a little tune-up.
Surely you're feeling better about things.
I've plied you with alcohol.
I'm sorry.
It suddenly occurred to me, Alan,
you weren't using me at all.
You were using Miles.
How so?
I think
he was some sort of device for you
to look despicable in my eyes.
It's your pattern with women,
I think, to get them to
You know when you
psychoanalyze me,
I find you much less sexually attractive.
Yes, nice deflection, but
Don't try and get in my head, Sally.
You won't like the mess.
You weren't telling me to
run from the law the other night.
You were telling me to run from you.
Maybe you think it's my
relationship with you
that's ultimately dehumanizing.
So being an incredibly decent man,
which you are underneath
all your stuff,
you decided to warn me.
I'm not trying to push you away.
Are you trying to keep me?
We either go forward or
go in opposite direction,
because I don't like
where we are now.
What forward do you mean?
You know what?
I think I'll just move forward.
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