Judging Amy · Season 1
I have to check my compassion at the door.
Says who?
I've got to think about the law, not the people.
Well, what do you think the law is for? When you uphold the law, you uphold the good of the people. Not just the people in your courtroom. All of them. Nobody loses.
Where's Vincent?
He said something about a freelance writing job.
It's the lady from the hardware store, he met her looking for screws.
Writing is writing. It's even better when you get paid for it.
Vincent (to Maxine): I just found this letter of acceptance for Dad. Why didn't he go to Yale Medical School?
The week your father was accepted, we found out I was pregnant with Peter.
So Dad quit his dreams and went into the insurance business?
No, he didn't quit his dreams, he traded them for a different one. Your father was a pragmatist, Vincent and he loved his family very much.
So he wanted a family more than medical school?
Yes. When we had Amy, I figured perfect one boy, one girl, now we have our family, but your father wanted one more. He finally talked me into it.
So you never wanted me?
Just in the abstract, dear.
No, if I sit still, I'll think terrible things. Like, how hard is it to hire a hitman? And, do they take credit cards?
And this is a very nice gay man, Justin, whom we just met. And this is my son, Vincent, who isn't gay. He's a writer.
I was just down in the basement...Hooking a rug.
After 40 years of cooking Thanksgiving dinner, even the word 'Thanksgiving' makes me mad.
Something smells good.
That would be Socrates' breath.
You could be a little more sympathetic.
I don't do sympathetic.
Of course not.
You know what I read the other day? That Denver, Colorado is moving closer to San Francisco, California by an inch every ten years.
Is this relevant?
An inch every ten years. That's the way the Rocky Mountains were formed, and that's the way the world changes. Not by stamping your foot to get your way. Not even by the bang of a gavel. It's by the choices that we make, you know, all the time. You do what you think is right, every time. Slowly, the world starts to change. That's how we leave our imprint on life -- an inch every ten years.
Where do you come up with this stuff?
I don't know; just pops into my head. It's a curse, really.
Please, don't let me break your concentration by living here.
Some people believe that before we’re born, when we’re still in spirit form, we make a deal with the universe... choose the families we’re born into. We have different reasons, based on the lessons we need to learn. I’m not sure what I was thinking when I chose mine. But, it’s obvious why Judge Gray chose hers. I’m just really glad I could be a part of it. God bless us... every one.
Amen
[about a naked baby picture] My father took that one. If I lose a few teeth and start drooling, I'll be right back there again.
Wearing a few more clothes, I hope.
I find it very self-aware that the parties object to being referred to as 'parents.'
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