The Practice · Season 2
So when you said under oath, "there is no scientific or medical evidence to support the allegations made by the plaintiffs", would that be a lie, or a mistake?
It was a poor choice of words.
Poor choice amounting to a lie or a mistake?
A mistake.
You basically all shop at the same grocery market, don't you?
Pretty much, yes.
And that market might be called a common denominator.
I think it's called Belson's.
I've waited my whole life for this case.
It makes me look fat.
That was your stomach making you look fat.
The day I stop winning my cases, I'm gone.
Because of me.
Because of you.
[about Helen] You told her?
Bobby, she asked me flat out. I had to.
What was her reaction?
She's okay with it. Yeah, it happened before her. She's a big girl but stop sucking her elbows.
I've been thinking about your little accusation.
Ahh, I'm sorry about that.
I didn't tell her about us with any motive to break you up and I do think you make a great couple. But, I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss you.
We either accept manslaughter, or we go for it. What do you think?
[sighs] Flip?
Right. Heads, manslaughter. Tails, we go for it. [Ellenor flips the quarter in the air] Tails. It was an accident. We go for it.
This is why we get paid. To make these decisions.
Are you really ready to throw someone you love away for a case?
Yes. I got this case because somebody at a high-rise blue chip law firm recommended me. As the best. I've been practicing law in that rat hole for ten years, looking out the window, seeing those lawyers look down on me. And now one of them came into my office and said I'm the best. I like how I got this case, Lindsay. I like that I'm gonna try it in the media and that I'm gonna get paid a lot to do it and I'm gonna win it. [with glistening eyes] I'm gonna win it.
Well, I'm not going to force either one of you off. What I'm going to do is leave you alone in this office, in the hope that one of you might be occasion to see straight. Don't eat all of my candy.
Bobby, this doesn't have to affect you and me. It's a trial. But the only way it's not going to affect us is to admit right now and be clear about it. In this room we're enemies.
No she wasn't ranting. She was calm and collected and she very clearly said that it was that man who was threatening her.
So. She was calm and collected.
Yes.
[Lindsay stands to make a motion]
Your honor, at this time we now move to strike the hearsay testimony of the witness. The excited utterance exception no longer applies.
Sidebar.
I'm afraid not.
Do you ever stop and think about the business we're in?
Why would I ever want to do that?
One judge says no jail, then another judge say I gotta go on trial...again?
Let's not panic just yet, okay, Warren?
Ellenor, I used to scam banks back when. This is my reward for scaling down?
Okay, well, you see, that argument is not gonna fly.
We all laugh at the way Eugene does his reasonable doubt thing to get people off and make bets. It doesn't seem so funny right now.
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