[shows pictures of the baby] Your son.
EElla
I don't have a son.
Carried him 9 months. You didn't want him. You had legal options. You have a problem with abortion? That's your choice. I understand that. There's adoption. [Ella shakes her head] You chose to give birth!
EElla
You have the wrong person.
You chose to walk 6 blocks with him, right past a firehouse! A hospital where, under safe haven laws, you could've just left him anonymously!
EElla
Why are you yelling at me?
Because you tossed him in the trash like the garbage you are!! All those choices... How is that even an option?!
[during Ella's arraignment]
I'll hear the People on bail.
Well, a million has a nice ring to it.
The defendant is a flight risk.
To where? Jersey? She's a U.S. citizen.
Given the severity of her crimes, and the fact that she killed a baby once before...
My client was never charged with that crime. In fact, there was no crime. That fetus was stillborn.
Your honor, this poor girl lost a child. How dare the People twist that tragic incident to suit their own needs.
You have got to be kidding.
No! You are. My client doesn't have as much as a parking ticket!
I'm sure if she did, she'd just throw it in the trash along with her babies.
Oh, all right. That's enough out of both of you. As I believe the defendant is not a threat to anyone but her own offspring, the court is requesting that in exchange for a lower bail amount, she does not get pregnant again before trial.
I'm not ordering that she be sterilized, Mr. Berger. [to Ella] But if you do become pregnant again, young lady, you will be found in contempt of this court, and bail will be rescinded.
Your honor has no right to legislate procreation.
You think you could manage to comply with that order, Miss Christensen?
Bail is set at 2,000,000, cash or bond. 10-minute recess. [bangs gavel]
Are you familiar with Kendall's study of postpartum women, which showed: "Psychiatric hospital admissions increase 7 times in the first 3 postpartum months compared to pre-pregnancy, and represent the peak prevalence for psychiatric disorders for women."?
I'm aware of the biologically vulnerable state of women following childbirth.
So, their brain chemistry can be altered. Their hormones go crazy. Uh, sorry. I'm gonna anticipate an objection to that one. Lemme rephrase. [pauses] Their hormones... go kooky.
[Donnelly finds Novak in a restaurant having a drink]
I'd prefer shrimp cocktail for an appetizer.
[takes a seat next to her; to the waiter] Club soda, lime. [to Novak] That liquid lunch isn't going to change what happened.
Yeah, but it'll help me forget.
You played the hand you were dealt.
I had to look Jennifer Durning's parents in the eye and tell them that their daughter would never get justice, because I let Nick Pratt and Doug Waverly get away with murder.
Well, that wasn't your fault. But it will be if you let them get away with another one and don't try to stop it.
We haven't found Jennifer, so what makes you think Jason's gonna be any different?
Because whoever planted that bug in my office knows what happened to him. And you are going to find that person if you have to interrogate everyone who works in that courthouse. Trial's over, Casey. Put the gloves on for round 2.
