So, then, the first week culminates with Simpson deciding to make a run for it, while under your supervision…
Careful.
… Leaving behind a letter that sounds like an admission of guilt, that you guys, for some mistifying reason, read aloud on television…
Bob thought it was a good idea.
No, no, no, wait. Why did you say that? You don’t know what it was like that day. You weren’t there.
’Alan Dershowitz: Of course. And I’m here to help, not to judge.
Oh, you are here to judge. What was that? What was all that?
Bob, you have to move fast. Your client, his goodwill, all of his popularity and accomplishments, it’s a depreciating asset.
What do you mean?
Right now, he’s sort of like this handsome, gifted Greek God laid low. It’s a tragedy. But he’s still a Greek God. The longer he sits in that cell, the more the public see him in a jumpsuit and cuffs, the more mortal he becomes. That’s the clock we’re fighting.
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