1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,532 Previously on 'Boston legal' 2 00:00:01,567 --> 00:00:05,083 Clarice. You're applying for the assistant position? 3 00:00:05,118 --> 00:00:06,665 I have skills. 4 00:00:06,700 --> 00:00:08,178 Are you okay? 5 00:00:08,213 --> 00:00:10,593 I walk down the street, anything I pass in pants, 6 00:00:10,628 --> 00:00:11,919 I want to have sex. 7 00:00:11,954 --> 00:00:13,211 How engaged are you? 8 00:00:13,246 --> 00:00:14,019 Very. 9 00:00:14,054 --> 00:00:15,430 It's called friends with benefits. 10 00:00:15,465 --> 00:00:18,238 I have never had that kind of friend before. 11 00:00:18,273 --> 00:00:19,621 Let me see your underwear, Denise. 12 00:00:19,656 --> 00:00:20,478 Get out. 13 00:00:20,513 --> 00:00:22,645 - I hear you're in heat. - It seems so. 14 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:23,894 I'm taking you to Nimmo bay. 15 00:00:23,929 --> 00:00:25,019 What are you doing in my bed? 16 00:00:25,054 --> 00:00:26,286 I'm gonna take you to my spa. 17 00:00:26,321 --> 00:00:27,601 Almost as good as fishing. 18 00:00:27,636 --> 00:00:28,881 - Who are we? - Denny Crane. 19 00:00:28,916 --> 00:00:30,103 Alan Shore. 20 00:00:46,909 --> 00:00:48,908 - Alan. - You sent for me, Shirley. 21 00:00:48,943 --> 00:00:50,768 - I did. - I'm not surprised. 22 00:00:50,803 --> 00:00:53,732 You've had that look about you all day, 23 00:00:53,767 --> 00:00:58,089 showing a few cracks and creases in your wall de resistance. 24 00:00:58,124 --> 00:00:59,268 Maybe I should botox. 25 00:00:59,303 --> 00:01:02,568 So you wait till after hours, then summon me, 26 00:01:02,603 --> 00:01:08,687 no doubt to go spelunking into your darkest, most loving place. 27 00:01:08,722 --> 00:01:11,145 Alan, this is Vanessa Walker. 28 00:01:11,816 --> 00:01:13,504 Interesting to meet you. 29 00:01:13,539 --> 00:01:14,952 She's from our New York office. 30 00:01:14,987 --> 00:01:16,973 She's handled cases all over the country, 31 00:01:17,008 --> 00:01:19,996 many of them high-profile, as is the one that starts Wednesday. 32 00:01:20,031 --> 00:01:23,666 Right, and what does this have to do with me and you? 33 00:01:23,701 --> 00:01:27,301 She's of the impression she can't win this trial. 34 00:01:27,336 --> 00:01:30,670 That's not completely accurate. I said it was a long shot. 35 00:01:30,705 --> 00:01:31,989 And she's come to me 36 00:01:32,024 --> 00:01:34,136 'cause, well, she's heard of you. 37 00:01:34,171 --> 00:01:37,445 I've heard you're a bit of a miracle worker with the underdog. 38 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,720 I need somebody to first establish my client as an underdog, 39 00:01:40,755 --> 00:01:42,624 not easy 'cause she's doctor, 40 00:01:42,659 --> 00:01:44,416 and then keep her out of prison. 41 00:01:44,451 --> 00:01:46,527 What did she do, your client? 42 00:01:46,562 --> 00:01:48,603 She euthanized five patients. 43 00:01:48,638 --> 00:01:50,470 - Allegedly. - I'm sure. 44 00:01:50,505 --> 00:01:52,851 And she's going on trial here in Boston? 45 00:01:52,886 --> 00:01:53,779 New Orleans. 46 00:01:53,814 --> 00:01:55,539 This would be a road trip. 47 00:01:55,798 --> 00:01:58,632 Her hospital lost all services after Katrina hit. 48 00:01:58,667 --> 00:02:01,467 She had five patients faced with very painful deaths 49 00:02:01,502 --> 00:02:02,904 if she didn't do something, so... 50 00:02:02,939 --> 00:02:04,922 The flight will get you in tomorrow at 4. 51 00:02:04,957 --> 00:02:07,337 You'll be using an office of local counsel while there. 52 00:02:07,372 --> 00:02:08,450 I just heard. 53 00:02:08,485 --> 00:02:09,493 New Orleans! 54 00:02:09,528 --> 00:02:11,983 My penis is already packed. 55 00:02:12,018 --> 00:02:14,413 Denny, I would love for you to join, 56 00:02:14,448 --> 00:02:17,534 but this particular excursion is a rather serious one. 57 00:02:17,569 --> 00:02:19,331 Maybe you and I could go another time. 58 00:02:19,366 --> 00:02:20,325 Are you nuts? 59 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,284 That damn tornado wiped out half the place. 60 00:02:22,319 --> 00:02:23,523 There's no time like the present. 61 00:02:23,558 --> 00:02:26,609 Alan, we must seize the hookers, uh, the day. 62 00:02:26,644 --> 00:02:28,310 You know, Denny, technically, 63 00:02:28,345 --> 00:02:31,357 it wasn't so much a tornado as a hurricane. 64 00:02:31,392 --> 00:02:33,278 And you're holding a kazoo. 65 00:02:33,313 --> 00:02:35,748 Not just any kazoo, a trombone kazoo. 66 00:02:35,783 --> 00:02:42,383 A go-to-New-Orleans-under-the-pretext-of-some-legal-case-to-play-with-a-Dixieland-band kazoo. 67 00:02:42,418 --> 00:02:44,055 I only have two plane tickets. 68 00:02:44,090 --> 00:02:46,059 Oh, gee, and I only have a Gulfstream. 69 00:02:46,094 --> 00:02:48,029 I think Denny wants to come, Vanessa. 70 00:02:48,064 --> 00:02:49,545 Denny Crane. 71 00:02:50,410 --> 00:02:52,403 Down on the bayou. 72 00:03:53,380 --> 00:03:57,027 The hospital was becoming toxic from human waste piling up, 73 00:03:57,062 --> 00:03:59,540 rotting corpses. 74 00:03:59,818 --> 00:04:01,807 What about the five patients who died? 75 00:04:01,842 --> 00:04:04,149 They were in very bad shape. 76 00:04:04,184 --> 00:04:07,971 I scrounged up some sedatives that the looters hadn't taken, 77 00:04:08,006 --> 00:04:11,395 and I gave them enough to induce sleep. 78 00:04:11,430 --> 00:04:14,785 I did what I could to manage their pain. 79 00:04:14,820 --> 00:04:18,455 Alan, is this gonna take long? 80 00:04:23,972 --> 00:04:25,868 Denny, this is the client. 81 00:04:25,903 --> 00:04:28,770 - The trial starts tomorrow. - I know. 82 00:04:30,107 --> 00:04:32,519 But I feel ready. Don't you? 83 00:04:33,864 --> 00:04:37,994 Tell you what, why don't you head over to Bourbon street, check us in, 84 00:04:38,029 --> 00:04:39,610 and I'll meet you there? 85 00:04:39,645 --> 00:04:40,960 All right. 86 00:04:40,995 --> 00:04:44,843 And if I'm not there, I'm, uh, out, uh, you know... 87 00:04:44,878 --> 00:04:47,210 - Seizing the day. - Right. Shh... 88 00:04:51,002 --> 00:04:53,620 Denny's going to get a jump on some... 89 00:04:53,655 --> 00:04:55,404 research. 90 00:04:56,965 --> 00:05:01,347 Dr. Follette, when doctors induce a patient's death, 91 00:05:01,382 --> 00:05:05,475 they tend to say they're managing pain. 92 00:05:05,510 --> 00:05:07,621 I understand that. 93 00:05:07,656 --> 00:05:09,732 No doubt a jury will. 94 00:05:09,767 --> 00:05:11,918 The problem here is, 95 00:05:11,953 --> 00:05:16,986 our whole case comes down to your moral integrity. 96 00:05:17,021 --> 00:05:22,406 It would therefore be my advice to just come clean with the jury 97 00:05:22,441 --> 00:05:27,180 and admit you euthanized some suffering patients. 98 00:05:27,890 --> 00:05:31,092 I managed their pain. 99 00:05:47,031 --> 00:05:49,159 My phone keeps making that ringing noise, 100 00:05:49,194 --> 00:05:51,287 and there's nobody there to pick it up. 101 00:05:51,322 --> 00:05:52,619 Sorry. 102 00:05:52,864 --> 00:05:54,580 Clarence, what are you doing? 103 00:05:54,615 --> 00:05:56,296 Just reading. I'll get back. 104 00:05:56,331 --> 00:05:59,518 You're reading up on title IX cases? 105 00:05:59,553 --> 00:06:03,110 You've been doing that all week. What is going on? 106 00:06:04,007 --> 00:06:08,297 I, uh... got kicked out of my gym. 107 00:06:09,093 --> 00:06:11,406 It's an all-girls gym. 108 00:06:11,441 --> 00:06:15,118 I started going, you know, as me instead of Clarice, 109 00:06:15,153 --> 00:06:16,666 and I got expelled. 110 00:06:16,701 --> 00:06:19,893 Well, if it's an all-girls gym... 111 00:06:19,894 --> 00:06:23,410 They knew Clarice was really... 112 00:06:23,822 --> 00:06:27,638 So I think I should have some kind of estoppel claim. 113 00:06:27,673 --> 00:06:30,222 All my friends... 114 00:06:32,766 --> 00:06:35,803 I'm lonely as Clarence. 115 00:06:36,136 --> 00:06:37,139 I want to sue. 116 00:06:37,174 --> 00:06:41,016 But it's an all-girls gym. 117 00:06:41,051 --> 00:06:42,822 I want to sue. 118 00:06:51,592 --> 00:06:54,484 So, Denise, any new year's resolutions? 119 00:06:54,519 --> 00:06:57,015 - None. You? - Three, actually. 120 00:06:57,050 --> 00:06:59,512 Eat right, exercise more, date you. 121 00:07:00,394 --> 00:07:01,667 I, I'm sorry. What was that last one? 122 00:07:01,702 --> 00:07:02,788 Date you. 123 00:07:02,823 --> 00:07:06,327 I think enough time has elapsed since Daniel Post's death. 124 00:07:06,590 --> 00:07:08,302 Thoughts? 125 00:07:09,943 --> 00:07:11,473 Uh, okay. 126 00:07:11,508 --> 00:07:13,990 - First, and don't take this the wrong way. - Okay. 127 00:07:14,025 --> 00:07:15,847 I don't like you. 128 00:07:18,167 --> 00:07:21,099 - Not at all? - Not really. 129 00:07:21,330 --> 00:07:24,357 Well, most of the women I date don't like me, actually, 130 00:07:24,392 --> 00:07:27,357 at least not at the beginning or the end, 131 00:07:27,392 --> 00:07:30,724 but there is a middle part when things are great. 132 00:07:30,759 --> 00:07:32,349 Think on it, sleep on it, 133 00:07:32,384 --> 00:07:33,618 pray on it. 134 00:07:33,653 --> 00:07:34,853 Let me know. 135 00:07:41,369 --> 00:07:43,935 It's an all-girls gym. 136 00:07:43,970 --> 00:07:48,276 Are you saying all these years you thought Clarice was really a woman? 137 00:07:48,311 --> 00:07:49,073 Yes. 138 00:07:49,108 --> 00:07:51,703 Maybe not biologically, but in every other way. 139 00:07:51,738 --> 00:07:53,026 So you've known all along 140 00:07:53,061 --> 00:07:55,365 that you've been dealing with a biological male? 141 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,017 Look, we all love Clarice, 142 00:07:58,052 --> 00:08:00,554 as long as the male thing wasn't waved in our faces. 143 00:08:00,589 --> 00:08:02,270 But when he shows up as a man... 144 00:08:02,305 --> 00:08:03,864 So what? What's changed? 145 00:08:03,899 --> 00:08:06,755 Well, what's changed is we'd have to let all men in. 146 00:08:06,790 --> 00:08:09,019 He has been a member of this club, 147 00:08:09,054 --> 00:08:11,213 a valued member for seven years. 148 00:08:11,248 --> 00:08:15,306 You can't expect him to forfeit that just 'cause he changed his appearance. 149 00:08:15,341 --> 00:08:16,548 Well, I'm sorry. 150 00:08:16,583 --> 00:08:19,294 Well, then, we're suing you. 151 00:08:19,329 --> 00:08:20,738 On what grounds? 152 00:08:20,773 --> 00:08:22,876 Gender discrimination. 153 00:08:44,483 --> 00:08:47,946 I should have known. Trombone section. 154 00:09:01,631 --> 00:09:05,197 So what's Louisiana's pulse on assisted suicide? 155 00:09:05,232 --> 00:09:06,303 Lousy. 156 00:09:06,338 --> 00:09:08,151 The state is overwhelmingly against it, 157 00:09:08,186 --> 00:09:11,457 and even if we tried to convince the jury on that issue, 158 00:09:11,492 --> 00:09:12,918 we have another problem. 159 00:09:12,953 --> 00:09:14,087 Me? 160 00:09:14,122 --> 00:09:16,261 Is everything always about you? 161 00:09:16,296 --> 00:09:19,127 Shirley didn't tell you that part? 162 00:09:19,162 --> 00:09:21,958 These patients didn't ask to die. 163 00:09:22,425 --> 00:09:23,550 What do you mean? 164 00:09:23,585 --> 00:09:24,895 They wanted to be rescued. 165 00:09:24,930 --> 00:09:27,921 They didn't ask to be pain-managed to another place. 166 00:09:27,956 --> 00:09:31,540 There was no request on anyone's part to be put out of one's misery? 167 00:09:31,575 --> 00:09:33,763 No, these patients were either in too much pain 168 00:09:33,798 --> 00:09:37,220 or too incoherent to make any request. 169 00:09:37,255 --> 00:09:39,077 You didn't tell me this. 170 00:09:39,112 --> 00:09:40,899 Well, I'm telling you now. 171 00:09:42,004 --> 00:09:43,873 Vanessa, you need to round up some doctors 172 00:09:43,908 --> 00:09:46,886 who will say they would have done exactly what Dr. Follette did. 173 00:09:46,921 --> 00:09:48,972 On what relevance can we admit them? 174 00:09:49,007 --> 00:09:50,802 Standard of care. 175 00:09:50,837 --> 00:09:52,946 You'll think of something. 176 00:09:53,453 --> 00:09:55,135 We could always call him, 177 00:09:55,170 --> 00:09:57,620 put him up there with his kazoo. 178 00:09:58,422 --> 00:10:01,511 Find me those doctors, or we may have to. 179 00:10:01,854 --> 00:10:03,060 Ready now! 180 00:10:13,154 --> 00:10:15,910 The cheapest and most efficient way to do this, 181 00:10:15,945 --> 00:10:19,180 if you're still serious, is to get injunctive relief. 182 00:10:19,215 --> 00:10:21,533 Assuming your goal isn't about the money, 183 00:10:21,568 --> 00:10:23,247 but to get back into the club. 184 00:10:23,282 --> 00:10:24,723 - Am I right? - Yes. 185 00:10:24,758 --> 00:10:25,887 Okay. 186 00:10:26,386 --> 00:10:28,437 We take Sandy's deposition. 187 00:10:28,472 --> 00:10:31,167 Then we go into court, and we try and get an order. 188 00:10:31,202 --> 00:10:33,315 But here's where it gets a little tricky. 189 00:10:33,350 --> 00:10:35,357 The club has no duty to Clarence. 190 00:10:35,392 --> 00:10:37,773 Clarice is the one who had the membership. 191 00:10:37,808 --> 00:10:39,239 What's the difference? 192 00:10:39,274 --> 00:10:40,671 A big one, actually. 193 00:10:40,706 --> 00:10:43,419 Bottom line, for the purpose of this lawsuit, 194 00:10:43,454 --> 00:10:46,261 you will have to be Clarice again. 195 00:10:46,296 --> 00:10:47,027 Okay. 196 00:10:47,062 --> 00:10:50,319 Do not be calling the defendant a "ho." 197 00:10:52,092 --> 00:10:53,793 May I ask, do you not like me 198 00:10:53,828 --> 00:10:57,017 'cause I come off as kind of a slick snake oil salesman? 199 00:10:57,052 --> 00:10:58,617 No, I've made my peace with that. 200 00:10:58,652 --> 00:11:01,784 Is it 'cause I sometimes get a dopey baby Huey expression on my face? 201 00:11:01,819 --> 00:11:03,121 That's actually kind of cute. 202 00:11:03,156 --> 00:11:04,511 So what is it then? 203 00:11:04,546 --> 00:11:05,893 What, that's it? You're giving up? 204 00:11:05,928 --> 00:11:06,868 The way I dress? 205 00:11:06,903 --> 00:11:07,442 No. 206 00:11:07,443 --> 00:11:08,854 - My hair? - Getting closer. 207 00:11:08,889 --> 00:11:10,157 The Elvis sideburns? 208 00:11:10,192 --> 00:11:11,062 Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. 209 00:11:11,063 --> 00:11:13,350 So that's it. You don't like me just 'cause of my sideburns. 210 00:11:13,385 --> 00:11:15,309 It's not just the sideburns. 211 00:11:15,344 --> 00:11:17,113 My nasal voice? 212 00:11:17,341 --> 00:11:19,472 What is it? I've covered all the biggies. 213 00:11:19,507 --> 00:11:21,604 Slick, cocky, dopey, narcissistic, nasally. 214 00:11:21,639 --> 00:11:23,279 Oh, a lummox? 215 00:11:23,314 --> 00:11:26,350 I think it's just the whole package. 216 00:11:27,971 --> 00:11:29,127 I'm good in bed. 217 00:11:29,162 --> 00:11:30,284 That's a nice line. 218 00:11:30,285 --> 00:11:32,602 No, seriously. I'm really good. 219 00:11:32,637 --> 00:11:34,296 I've had women loathe me, 220 00:11:34,331 --> 00:11:37,322 yet still be unable to give up the sex. 221 00:11:45,535 --> 00:11:47,720 The post-mortem evidence revealed 222 00:11:47,755 --> 00:11:52,558 that five of the victims had died from a combination of morphine and midazolam. 223 00:11:52,593 --> 00:11:54,665 Now these drugs are both pain killers, are they not, doc? 224 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:57,999 Yes, but administered together in high doses, 225 00:11:58,034 --> 00:11:58,893 they're lethal. 226 00:11:58,928 --> 00:12:00,912 They would most certainly result in death. 227 00:12:00,947 --> 00:12:03,102 So this didn't strike you as an accidental overdose? 228 00:12:03,137 --> 00:12:04,338 No. In my opinion, 229 00:12:04,373 --> 00:12:07,885 the administer of these drugs intended for those patients to die. 230 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:09,483 Well, now, doctor, to be fair, 231 00:12:09,484 --> 00:12:11,403 these were pretty dire circumstances. 232 00:12:11,438 --> 00:12:15,457 Which is when a patient most needs to count on his doctor to fight for him. 233 00:12:15,492 --> 00:12:21,672 There never comes a time when things get so tough, we just kill them. 234 00:12:22,145 --> 00:12:23,660 Doctor, you're aware of 235 00:12:23,695 --> 00:12:28,114 just how dire the circumstances were in that hospital after Katrina hit. 236 00:12:28,149 --> 00:12:28,856 Yes. 237 00:12:28,891 --> 00:12:31,421 No electricity, no water, 238 00:12:31,456 --> 00:12:34,072 100 degree heat, no ventilation. 239 00:12:34,107 --> 00:12:36,653 Can you state to a medical certainty 240 00:12:36,688 --> 00:12:41,631 that those five patients were not terminal under those horrid conditions? 241 00:12:41,666 --> 00:12:43,431 They could have survived. 242 00:12:43,466 --> 00:12:47,366 17 other patients, many of them far less sick, 243 00:12:47,401 --> 00:12:48,908 had already died of dehydration. 244 00:12:48,943 --> 00:12:50,450 - Do you know that? - I do. 245 00:12:50,451 --> 00:12:51,911 In excruciating pain. 246 00:12:51,946 --> 00:12:54,219 - I wasn't there. I can't know. - You can't know? 247 00:12:54,254 --> 00:12:55,905 Well, correct me if I'm wrong, 248 00:12:55,940 --> 00:12:58,583 but when a person dies of dehydration, 249 00:12:58,618 --> 00:13:00,717 the tongue swells and cracks, 250 00:13:00,752 --> 00:13:04,000 the urine becomes highly concentrated and burns out the bladder, 251 00:13:04,035 --> 00:13:07,249 while the stomach lining dries up, causing uncontrollable retching. 252 00:13:07,284 --> 00:13:09,493 Finally, the brain cells dry out, 253 00:13:09,528 --> 00:13:11,831 and the patient convulses until their heart seizes. 254 00:13:11,866 --> 00:13:13,204 - Is that about right? - Yes. 255 00:13:13,205 --> 00:13:15,086 And what if a patient starves to death? 256 00:13:15,121 --> 00:13:16,519 Would that be equally as gruesome? 257 00:13:16,554 --> 00:13:17,813 - Probably. - And sepsis? 258 00:13:17,848 --> 00:13:20,455 - It would also be painful. - Thank you. 259 00:13:20,490 --> 00:13:22,824 And, doctor, when my client says 260 00:13:22,859 --> 00:13:29,758 that those five patients were looking at that very type of excruciating death, 261 00:13:29,793 --> 00:13:32,974 do you have any medical evidence to contradict that? 262 00:13:33,009 --> 00:13:34,957 No, as I said, I wasn't there. 263 00:13:34,992 --> 00:13:36,879 In fact, many doctors were not there. 264 00:13:36,914 --> 00:13:38,767 In fact, most doctors were not there. 265 00:13:38,802 --> 00:13:39,929 Most got the hell out. 266 00:13:39,964 --> 00:13:41,708 Dr. Follette, on the other hand, 267 00:13:41,743 --> 00:13:44,767 decided to stay and do whatever she could. 268 00:13:44,802 --> 00:13:48,473 Which was, in this case, to give her patients lethal injections. 269 00:13:48,508 --> 00:13:52,756 Doctor, the drugs she injected are commonly used together as an anesthetic. 270 00:13:52,791 --> 00:13:54,202 You'll of course correct me if I'm wrong. 271 00:13:54,237 --> 00:13:56,297 At that dosage, they are lethal. 272 00:13:56,332 --> 00:13:57,597 - Always? - Almost always. 273 00:13:57,632 --> 00:13:58,998 "Almost"? 274 00:13:59,033 --> 00:14:02,278 We like to get it 'exactly' in a court of law, doctor. 275 00:14:02,313 --> 00:14:03,519 Objection. 276 00:14:03,554 --> 00:14:04,950 Nothing further. 277 00:14:25,164 --> 00:14:26,428 Are you ready? 278 00:14:26,463 --> 00:14:27,692 Ready for what? 279 00:14:27,693 --> 00:14:30,047 Pat O'Brien's. I got some reservations. 280 00:14:30,082 --> 00:14:32,401 Oh, my god, Denny, it's almost 10 o'clock. 281 00:14:32,436 --> 00:14:34,158 We're at trial in the morning. 282 00:14:34,193 --> 00:14:35,846 Hey, Alan, this is New Orleans, 283 00:14:35,881 --> 00:14:38,969 the city that laughs in the face of death. 284 00:14:39,194 --> 00:14:41,718 And right now they need a good laugh. 285 00:14:41,753 --> 00:14:42,999 Let's go to Pat's, 286 00:14:43,034 --> 00:14:45,012 and then we'll hit a few after-hours spots. 287 00:14:45,047 --> 00:14:46,325 Denny. 288 00:14:47,606 --> 00:14:53,456 I'm not gonna presume you were paying attention in court today, were you? 289 00:14:53,491 --> 00:14:55,179 In and out. 290 00:14:55,214 --> 00:14:56,500 You were hungover. 291 00:14:56,535 --> 00:14:58,206 It happens. 292 00:14:59,407 --> 00:15:03,602 From whatever you happened to notice, 293 00:15:03,816 --> 00:15:06,474 how do you think it went? 294 00:15:08,161 --> 00:15:10,227 I think... 295 00:15:10,737 --> 00:15:13,195 you're trying this case as if you were in Boston, 296 00:15:13,230 --> 00:15:15,112 and you're not. 297 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,239 What does that mean? 298 00:15:21,082 --> 00:15:24,171 Up is down here, Alan. 299 00:15:24,384 --> 00:15:26,254 Down is up. 300 00:15:26,510 --> 00:15:28,753 That's how you try this case. 301 00:15:38,346 --> 00:15:40,773 Penny for that thought. 302 00:15:41,313 --> 00:15:42,898 Hi, Shirley. 303 00:15:43,293 --> 00:15:44,274 You okay? 304 00:15:44,309 --> 00:15:46,804 Yeah. No. Uh... 305 00:15:47,518 --> 00:15:50,127 Jeffrey Coho asked me out. 306 00:15:50,162 --> 00:15:51,112 Excuse me? 307 00:15:51,147 --> 00:15:57,455 Yeah. In the last month, Alan Shore, Jeffrey Coho, Brad, still. 308 00:15:57,490 --> 00:16:00,400 I must be doing something right with my hair. 309 00:16:00,435 --> 00:16:03,311 Are you going to go out with him, Jeffrey? 310 00:16:03,346 --> 00:16:04,887 Mm, I don't think so. 311 00:16:04,922 --> 00:16:07,998 Honestly, I'm just not interested. 312 00:16:08,033 --> 00:16:11,432 Although there is this rumor, Jeffrey started it that, 313 00:16:11,467 --> 00:16:16,340 physically, a relationship with him could be... 314 00:16:16,375 --> 00:16:17,861 quite rewarding. 315 00:16:17,896 --> 00:16:21,529 Well, I'm sure you'll make the right decision. 316 00:16:33,479 --> 00:16:35,085 Oh, hey, Brad. 317 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,393 Um, listen, I'm, uh... 318 00:16:38,428 --> 00:16:41,972 I'm reluctant to ever involve myself in the personal lives of others, 319 00:16:42,007 --> 00:16:43,717 unless, you know, I'm the one involved. 320 00:16:43,752 --> 00:16:49,384 But I, I can't help but detect that you still harbor feelings for Denise, 321 00:16:49,419 --> 00:16:50,606 do you? 322 00:16:50,641 --> 00:16:52,773 Well, Shirley, that's a personal question. 323 00:16:52,808 --> 00:16:56,406 Oh, no, I know, I know that, but the reason I ask is that I'm hearing 324 00:16:56,441 --> 00:17:00,568 that Jeffrey Coho has set his little antennae on Denise. 325 00:17:00,603 --> 00:17:01,710 And I thought, 326 00:17:01,745 --> 00:17:04,418 if you were waiting for the appropriate amount of time to pass 327 00:17:04,453 --> 00:17:07,040 after Daniel post's death, 328 00:17:07,075 --> 00:17:10,183 just, just don't wait too long. 329 00:17:10,218 --> 00:17:11,618 Okay? 330 00:17:18,226 --> 00:17:19,447 Denny? 331 00:17:20,019 --> 00:17:21,674 Denny, are you... 332 00:17:23,409 --> 00:17:26,728 Well, I can see up is certainly down here. 333 00:17:26,763 --> 00:17:28,986 Denny, I'm meeting Vanessa downstairs. 334 00:17:29,021 --> 00:17:31,210 Will you be joining us in court today? 335 00:17:31,245 --> 00:17:32,000 What? 336 00:17:32,035 --> 00:17:34,092 I need to get to... 337 00:17:34,127 --> 00:17:35,063 court. 338 00:17:35,098 --> 00:17:37,274 They followed me home. 339 00:17:37,469 --> 00:17:38,652 Have a good breakfast. 340 00:17:38,687 --> 00:17:39,801 I'm coming, I'm coming! 341 00:17:39,836 --> 00:17:43,053 Vanessa, I was just on my way to meet you. 342 00:17:43,265 --> 00:17:44,783 I thought I'd come up. 343 00:17:44,818 --> 00:17:47,833 Well, as you can see, down is up. 344 00:17:49,694 --> 00:17:52,125 I found eight doctors willing to testify for Donna, 345 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,951 saying under similar conditions, they may have done the same thing. 346 00:17:54,986 --> 00:17:57,418 - Really? - I've got a motion to amend our witness list, 347 00:17:57,453 --> 00:18:01,245 and we're scheduled for chambers after this morning's session. 348 00:18:03,104 --> 00:18:05,564 Did she sleep in your room? 349 00:18:09,380 --> 00:18:11,428 You are not calling those witnesses. 350 00:18:11,463 --> 00:18:14,790 They go directly to the medical decision-making of my client, sir. 351 00:18:14,825 --> 00:18:18,049 - If we don't have... - Counsel, what your client did was against the law. 352 00:18:18,084 --> 00:18:19,719 The fact that you found eight other doctors 353 00:18:19,754 --> 00:18:21,340 who say that they, too, would have broken the law... 354 00:18:21,375 --> 00:18:26,422 I'm sorry. Isn't the jury supposed to decide if a law was broken here? 355 00:18:26,457 --> 00:18:28,899 We all know you plan to argue jury nullification, 356 00:18:28,934 --> 00:18:30,519 which is also illegal. 357 00:18:30,554 --> 00:18:34,162 I will not allow you to call witnesses in support of that unlawful endeavor. 358 00:18:34,197 --> 00:18:37,585 I see somebody's got his mind made up. 359 00:18:39,235 --> 00:18:42,878 Let me tell you something, Mr. Boston, Mr. New England, Mr. Out-of-towner, 360 00:18:42,913 --> 00:18:44,370 let me tell you something about New Orleans. 361 00:18:44,405 --> 00:18:45,142 Up is down? 362 00:18:45,177 --> 00:18:48,500 You all think we're a city full of victims and looters. 363 00:18:48,535 --> 00:18:50,808 We are neither, and as a person who grew up here, 364 00:18:50,843 --> 00:18:53,046 I'm offended that the premise of your defense is that 365 00:18:53,081 --> 00:18:56,787 these five victims needed to be put out of their misery by this outlaw. 366 00:18:56,822 --> 00:18:58,763 - Outlaw? - That's what you are, doctor. 367 00:18:58,798 --> 00:19:00,670 I sympathize with your plight that day. 368 00:19:00,705 --> 00:19:03,704 I will do everything I can to ensure you get a fair trial, 369 00:19:03,705 --> 00:19:06,885 but what you did was outside the law. 370 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,194 And I will not allow other doctors to testify 371 00:19:09,229 --> 00:19:11,944 that they, too, would have broken the law. It's irrelevant. 372 00:19:11,979 --> 00:19:14,660 But what if that were you lying in that hospital bed that day? 373 00:19:14,695 --> 00:19:18,506 Then I wouldn't be here right now, would I? 374 00:19:26,683 --> 00:19:29,601 Did any of the other members complain about Clarice? 375 00:19:29,636 --> 00:19:31,599 No, I told you. They all loved her. 376 00:19:31,634 --> 00:19:33,527 And we're still happy to have Clarice, 377 00:19:33,562 --> 00:19:35,951 but as an all-girls gym, we can't take Clarence, 378 00:19:35,986 --> 00:19:38,785 and I can't believe we're spending thousands of dollars to have this discussion. 379 00:19:38,820 --> 00:19:40,246 Please just answer the questions, Sandy. 380 00:19:40,281 --> 00:19:42,257 Oh, she's answering the questions, Mr. Peanut. 381 00:19:42,292 --> 00:19:44,198 - Clarice... - Excuse me. What did he just... 382 00:19:44,233 --> 00:19:48,782 'Cause the real answer here isn't so much in the facts but the feelings. 383 00:19:48,817 --> 00:19:51,366 You're emotional, child. We can hear it in your voice. 384 00:19:51,401 --> 00:19:53,916 - Clarice... - This is a fragile, emotional woman. 385 00:19:53,951 --> 00:19:55,281 I know it. 386 00:19:55,316 --> 00:19:56,496 You know I know it. 387 00:19:56,531 --> 00:19:59,000 - Clarice... - 'Cause I've been there. 388 00:19:59,035 --> 00:20:01,436 I was there when your marriage ended. 389 00:20:01,471 --> 00:20:03,838 Whose shoulder were you crying on, girl? 390 00:20:03,873 --> 00:20:05,484 - Yours. - Damn right. 391 00:20:05,519 --> 00:20:07,060 So you just throw me out? 392 00:20:07,095 --> 00:20:10,037 What, you got your life on track, so you just throw me out? 393 00:20:10,072 --> 00:20:10,907 You walked! 394 00:20:10,942 --> 00:20:12,118 I did not walk, ho! 395 00:20:12,153 --> 00:20:14,113 - I'm sitting right here! - Clarice! 396 00:20:14,148 --> 00:20:15,231 You might be sitting here now, 397 00:20:15,266 --> 00:20:18,034 but I don't know who the hell that man is. 398 00:20:18,069 --> 00:20:19,272 How do you think that feels, Clarice, 399 00:20:19,307 --> 00:20:22,053 when your best friend just goes poof and disappears? 400 00:20:22,088 --> 00:20:26,609 You just decide you want to be some guy who's so shy he doesn't even speak? 401 00:20:26,644 --> 00:20:29,360 You quit this friendship, not me. 402 00:20:29,395 --> 00:20:31,676 You quit this friendship. 403 00:20:35,931 --> 00:20:39,631 I last spoke to my husband the morning before Katrina hit. 404 00:20:39,666 --> 00:20:41,451 And he was in the defendant's hospital? 405 00:20:41,486 --> 00:20:42,241 Yes. 406 00:20:42,276 --> 00:20:46,453 He had undergone a procedure to amputate both his legs. 407 00:20:46,488 --> 00:20:50,631 He had advanced diabetes, and well, he was very overweight. 408 00:20:50,666 --> 00:20:52,989 And what did you two talk about on the phone? 409 00:20:53,024 --> 00:20:58,442 Oh, he was barking orders about how I should get ready for the storm. 410 00:20:58,477 --> 00:20:59,699 If you can imagine it, 411 00:20:59,734 --> 00:21:02,746 here the man has had both his legs cut off, 412 00:21:02,781 --> 00:21:05,758 and he's telling me how to fight a hurricane. 413 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,263 But that was Elliot. 414 00:21:09,298 --> 00:21:10,757 A fighter. 415 00:21:10,792 --> 00:21:15,517 And when was the next time you heard from Elliot, Mrs. Babineaux? 416 00:21:16,272 --> 00:21:19,342 I never heard from him again. 417 00:21:19,809 --> 00:21:25,037 I lost contact after the storm hit, and I couldn't get to the hospital. 418 00:21:25,865 --> 00:21:29,917 Ten days later, I found out he was dead. 419 00:21:31,162 --> 00:21:33,969 And did you learn how he died, ma'am? 420 00:21:34,004 --> 00:21:35,721 No. 421 00:21:36,820 --> 00:21:39,599 No, that was three weeks later 422 00:21:39,634 --> 00:21:43,050 when the police detective told me what she did. 423 00:21:43,085 --> 00:21:44,433 Mrs. Babineaux, 424 00:21:44,468 --> 00:21:47,529 the defendant claims that under the circumstances... 425 00:21:47,564 --> 00:21:50,591 My husband survived Vietnam and prostate cancer. 426 00:21:50,626 --> 00:21:52,713 He'd have battled this, too. 427 00:21:52,748 --> 00:21:54,800 He never would have given up, 428 00:21:55,444 --> 00:21:59,661 but she decided he didn't even deserve the chance. 429 00:22:00,178 --> 00:22:01,927 Ma'am, if you had been there, 430 00:22:01,962 --> 00:22:03,641 and the doctors convinced you 431 00:22:03,676 --> 00:22:06,068 that, in fact, your husband would die over the next two days... 432 00:22:06,103 --> 00:22:07,972 She couldn't convince me of anything. 433 00:22:08,007 --> 00:22:09,842 She wasn't even my husband's doctor. 434 00:22:09,877 --> 00:22:11,764 But suppose you were convinced, 435 00:22:11,799 --> 00:22:14,476 and the choice was between two days of suffering 436 00:22:14,511 --> 00:22:17,766 versus a more humane end to the pain, 437 00:22:17,801 --> 00:22:20,501 which would you choose? 438 00:22:21,701 --> 00:22:24,698 Of course, I would choose the latter, 439 00:22:24,733 --> 00:22:27,695 but I don't accept your hypothetical. 440 00:22:27,730 --> 00:22:28,911 I told you, 441 00:22:28,946 --> 00:22:31,302 my husband was a survivor, and it wasn't her call. 442 00:22:31,337 --> 00:22:34,192 She had never even met my husband. 443 00:22:34,227 --> 00:22:38,421 Where was your husband's treating physician? Do you know? 444 00:22:40,208 --> 00:22:42,053 He'd left. 445 00:22:42,088 --> 00:22:43,898 He got out. 446 00:22:44,246 --> 00:22:48,865 A lot of doctors fled, but Dr. Follette... 447 00:22:50,666 --> 00:22:53,520 she chose to stay. 448 00:22:54,163 --> 00:22:56,557 I wish she hadn't. 449 00:23:19,782 --> 00:23:21,456 Will she consider a plea? 450 00:23:21,491 --> 00:23:22,730 Never. 451 00:23:22,765 --> 00:23:26,158 And the fact that you ask, Alan, I don't think you really get it. 452 00:23:26,193 --> 00:23:28,243 Why does everybody say that? 453 00:23:28,619 --> 00:23:30,258 You know, I wish people, 454 00:23:30,293 --> 00:23:32,762 instead of watching 30 seconds of coverage, 455 00:23:32,797 --> 00:23:35,752 saying "isn't it awful?" and then changing the station, 456 00:23:35,787 --> 00:23:39,819 I wish they'd turn their televisions off, sit in the dark for a minute 457 00:23:39,854 --> 00:23:43,878 and truly try to imagine what it must have been like. 458 00:23:47,529 --> 00:23:49,710 For her testimony, you can't protect her. 459 00:23:49,745 --> 00:23:52,220 The district attorney will come hard. She's gotta fight back. 460 00:23:52,255 --> 00:23:53,591 We can't protect her. 461 00:23:53,626 --> 00:23:55,541 She's ready. 462 00:23:56,401 --> 00:23:58,473 Now let's address your closing. 463 00:23:58,508 --> 00:24:00,593 - Are you ready? - No. 464 00:24:00,628 --> 00:24:02,528 I don't know what to say, frankly. 465 00:24:02,563 --> 00:24:04,429 Well, you better figure that out. 466 00:24:11,589 --> 00:24:13,662 Why are you dressed like a nun? 467 00:24:13,697 --> 00:24:17,047 I was thinking about what Sandy said, 468 00:24:17,082 --> 00:24:18,339 and it's true. 469 00:24:18,374 --> 00:24:21,619 She is my best friend. 470 00:24:21,654 --> 00:24:23,902 I'm gonna drop the lawsuit and go back to the club. 471 00:24:23,937 --> 00:24:26,609 But many of those girls like girls. Know what I'm saying? 472 00:24:26,644 --> 00:24:29,226 They probably like me in that girlie way. 473 00:24:29,261 --> 00:24:32,681 I gotta send a message I'm there platonic, all celibate-like. 474 00:24:32,716 --> 00:24:34,944 That way no signals get mixed. 475 00:24:34,979 --> 00:24:35,948 I see. 476 00:24:35,983 --> 00:24:39,485 Were signals getting mixed before with Sandy? 477 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,694 Sandy's heterosexual. 478 00:24:41,729 --> 00:24:43,140 She likes men. 479 00:24:43,175 --> 00:24:45,913 She even liked her deadbeat bony-assed husband 480 00:24:45,948 --> 00:24:47,459 till she smartened up. 481 00:24:47,494 --> 00:24:50,188 It's all platonic between me and Sandy. 482 00:24:50,223 --> 00:24:52,354 And if that's all it is, then... 483 00:24:52,389 --> 00:24:53,586 - Then what? - Well. 484 00:24:53,621 --> 00:24:56,158 Are you interested in Sandy? 485 00:24:56,664 --> 00:24:58,101 Take off the habit, Clarice. 486 00:24:58,136 --> 00:25:00,689 This here's a contract between me and God, bitch. 487 00:25:00,724 --> 00:25:03,639 Yeah, take off the habit! 488 00:25:10,468 --> 00:25:15,036 Clarence, do you have feelings for Sandy? 489 00:25:16,071 --> 00:25:17,272 Look... 490 00:25:17,307 --> 00:25:19,655 you have nobody else to talk to, okay? 491 00:25:19,690 --> 00:25:22,200 You might as well fill me in. 492 00:25:22,752 --> 00:25:26,137 I tried to be me with her. 493 00:25:26,172 --> 00:25:28,269 She didn't want that. 494 00:25:28,522 --> 00:25:31,196 She just wants to be with Clarice. 495 00:25:31,231 --> 00:25:34,949 All Clarice is is Clarence. 496 00:25:34,984 --> 00:25:36,497 Not the alter ego, 497 00:25:36,532 --> 00:25:40,875 but the ego that's just too shy to come out. 498 00:25:41,481 --> 00:25:44,420 I think she would like Clarence, 499 00:25:44,455 --> 00:25:47,350 and I think you should ask her out. 500 00:25:47,385 --> 00:25:50,246 Oh, no, no. I, I could never do that. 501 00:25:50,281 --> 00:25:51,408 Yes, you can. 502 00:25:51,443 --> 00:25:52,978 That's where you were headed. 503 00:25:53,013 --> 00:25:55,688 That's the reason you went back to that club as Clarence, 504 00:25:55,723 --> 00:25:58,259 so Sandy could meet you, 505 00:25:58,294 --> 00:26:02,702 and maybe you two could go out. 506 00:26:03,154 --> 00:26:06,593 Don't lie to me in a nun suit, Clarence. 507 00:26:08,431 --> 00:26:11,249 I gave them the injections to relieve their suffering. 508 00:26:11,284 --> 00:26:14,067 Did I know that it could possibly hasten their death? 509 00:26:14,102 --> 00:26:16,360 Yes, but they were gonna die anyway. 510 00:26:16,395 --> 00:26:18,618 Do you make room for the possibility 511 00:26:18,653 --> 00:26:21,508 that any of those five patients could have survived? 512 00:26:21,543 --> 00:26:24,458 Well, I suppose anything's possible, but the reality was, 513 00:26:24,493 --> 00:26:27,679 they were looking at dehydration, sepsis, toxic shock. 514 00:26:27,714 --> 00:26:30,866 They were gonna die in almost unimaginably painful ways. 515 00:26:30,901 --> 00:26:33,572 I just couldn't let that happen. 516 00:26:34,736 --> 00:26:37,070 Can you tell us what those days were like? 517 00:26:37,105 --> 00:26:39,294 Well, we had no electricity. 518 00:26:39,329 --> 00:26:40,770 By Tuesday, when the levees broke, 519 00:26:40,805 --> 00:26:42,908 the water started to pour into the hospital. 520 00:26:42,943 --> 00:26:45,038 We were without generator power by then. 521 00:26:45,073 --> 00:26:46,401 And the heat, 522 00:26:46,436 --> 00:26:48,315 it was probably 110 degrees. 523 00:26:48,350 --> 00:26:50,195 We had no drinking water. 524 00:26:50,230 --> 00:26:53,080 The hospital was like a death camp. It smelled like it. 525 00:26:53,115 --> 00:26:55,940 Human waste, decomposing bodies. 526 00:26:55,975 --> 00:26:58,368 And the patients... 527 00:27:00,582 --> 00:27:02,006 they knew. 528 00:27:02,041 --> 00:27:04,124 They knew they were dying. 529 00:27:04,159 --> 00:27:06,172 And they were in agony. 530 00:27:06,207 --> 00:27:09,034 And there was nothing we could do. 531 00:27:09,576 --> 00:27:11,941 And what was the lowest point? 532 00:27:11,976 --> 00:27:15,339 The lowest point was when we realized nobody was coming. 533 00:27:15,374 --> 00:27:18,667 We were clinging to the idea that help was on its way, 534 00:27:18,702 --> 00:27:22,376 but we heard on the radio, which was our only source of information, 535 00:27:22,411 --> 00:27:25,136 we heard that nobody was coming. 536 00:27:25,171 --> 00:27:27,724 So those people who could get out, 537 00:27:27,759 --> 00:27:30,242 including medical personnel, did. 538 00:27:30,277 --> 00:27:35,561 The rest of us stayed to at least try to make the patients comfortable. 539 00:27:35,596 --> 00:27:37,882 These five patients, were they coherent? 540 00:27:37,917 --> 00:27:39,596 Two were, three weren't. 541 00:27:39,631 --> 00:27:43,888 And did you get consent before hastening their deaths? 542 00:27:43,923 --> 00:27:45,435 They consented to being medicated. 543 00:27:45,470 --> 00:27:46,908 In fact, they were begging for it. 544 00:27:46,943 --> 00:27:48,311 But did they consent to dying? 545 00:27:48,346 --> 00:27:50,367 They were dying no matter what, Mr. Mersel. 546 00:27:50,402 --> 00:27:52,865 So you decided to speed it up without telling them? 547 00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:55,020 Many doctors would have done exactly as I did. 548 00:27:55,055 --> 00:27:56,618 Many also condemn what you did. 549 00:27:56,653 --> 00:27:57,929 None that were there. 550 00:27:57,964 --> 00:28:00,859 You hear Ms. Georgina Babineaux talk about her husband's will to live? 551 00:28:00,894 --> 00:28:02,515 He was 320 pounds. 552 00:28:02,550 --> 00:28:04,921 There was no one to lift him, even if we could get him out. 553 00:28:04,956 --> 00:28:06,333 So you decided to play God. 554 00:28:06,368 --> 00:28:07,710 I decided to play doctor. 555 00:28:07,745 --> 00:28:08,754 By ending his life. 556 00:28:08,789 --> 00:28:10,247 By ending his suffering! 557 00:28:10,282 --> 00:28:13,935 All right, I think both sides have made their points. 558 00:28:25,722 --> 00:28:27,887 Jeffrey Coho, how are you? 559 00:28:27,922 --> 00:28:29,003 - Well... - I'm not interested. 560 00:28:29,038 --> 00:28:31,070 So you're asking Denise Bauer out, I hear. 561 00:28:31,105 --> 00:28:33,068 - Where did you hear that? - From Denise. 562 00:28:33,103 --> 00:28:35,103 The last time I checked, you were asking me out. 563 00:28:35,138 --> 00:28:36,724 Yeah, and you stiffed me. 564 00:28:36,759 --> 00:28:38,354 I was kidnapped. 565 00:28:38,389 --> 00:28:40,365 Don't tell me you take that personally. 566 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:45,118 Shirley, it took a lot of courage for me to put myself out there like that. 567 00:28:45,153 --> 00:28:46,890 Now I get enough rejection around here 568 00:28:46,925 --> 00:28:48,986 without signing up for more. 569 00:28:49,021 --> 00:28:51,049 I was kidnapped. 570 00:28:51,084 --> 00:28:53,625 So let's reschedule Denise? 571 00:28:53,660 --> 00:28:55,096 Dinner? 572 00:28:55,131 --> 00:28:58,223 Denise, listen, I, uh... 573 00:28:58,704 --> 00:29:01,451 Well, I'm just gonna say it, okay. 574 00:29:02,237 --> 00:29:05,430 I would like to start seeing you. 575 00:29:07,458 --> 00:29:10,689 I mean, I never stopped. I know you know... 576 00:29:10,724 --> 00:29:12,600 I just don't date engaged women. 577 00:29:12,635 --> 00:29:14,639 But now that you're not engaged anymore, 578 00:29:14,674 --> 00:29:16,644 and you and I were very compatible together. 579 00:29:16,679 --> 00:29:19,201 Brad, um, I'm not gonna date any man 580 00:29:19,236 --> 00:29:23,204 unless I think there's a chance for a serious relationship. 581 00:29:23,239 --> 00:29:26,379 And you see no such chance with me? 582 00:29:26,414 --> 00:29:28,018 None. 583 00:29:30,247 --> 00:29:32,573 Could I ask why? 584 00:29:33,209 --> 00:29:35,479 Our values. Our politics. 585 00:29:35,514 --> 00:29:40,744 Look, when we did actually go out to dinner, it's not like the conversation exactly flowed. 586 00:29:46,526 --> 00:29:51,050 Maybe we should just be the other then. 587 00:29:51,691 --> 00:29:54,046 Friends with benefits? 588 00:29:59,113 --> 00:30:01,303 Only if nobody finds out. 589 00:30:01,338 --> 00:30:03,493 If anybody does, it's over. 590 00:30:22,214 --> 00:30:24,009 What are you doing? 591 00:30:24,044 --> 00:30:25,804 We should be in court. 592 00:30:26,032 --> 00:30:28,219 Or with hookers. 593 00:30:28,438 --> 00:30:31,857 I'm just trying to imagine what it must have been like. 594 00:30:32,099 --> 00:30:35,066 In that hospital, in this city. 595 00:30:35,101 --> 00:30:38,666 Think of it, Denny. Water pouring down the streets. 596 00:30:38,701 --> 00:30:40,958 I bet the fishing was good. 597 00:30:40,993 --> 00:30:43,199 The truth is, I can't imagine it, not really. 598 00:30:43,234 --> 00:30:45,405 Of course you can't. That's the whole point. 599 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,982 You keep trying to apply norms here. 600 00:30:48,017 --> 00:30:52,235 You think you should be able to relate or get other people to relate. 601 00:30:53,968 --> 00:30:57,520 What happened here was off the radar, man. 602 00:30:58,665 --> 00:31:02,258 Yours, mine. 603 00:31:04,646 --> 00:31:06,503 Denny, I think you're absolutely right. 604 00:31:06,538 --> 00:31:08,416 Of course I'm right. 605 00:31:11,180 --> 00:31:13,693 Let's go get the hookers. 606 00:31:27,790 --> 00:31:29,933 This isn't a complicated case. 607 00:31:29,968 --> 00:31:34,777 The defendant lethally injected five people, 608 00:31:34,812 --> 00:31:36,580 causing their deaths. 609 00:31:36,615 --> 00:31:38,512 Might they have died anyway? 610 00:31:38,547 --> 00:31:39,971 Maybe. 611 00:31:40,006 --> 00:31:41,361 So what? 612 00:31:41,396 --> 00:31:44,412 That doesn't give this doctor the right to take the law, 613 00:31:44,447 --> 00:31:47,589 and more importantly, their lives into her hands. 614 00:31:47,624 --> 00:31:51,059 Physician-assisted suicide isn't even lawful in this state. 615 00:31:51,094 --> 00:31:55,073 To kill a patient without his consent, 616 00:31:55,290 --> 00:31:59,579 do I really need to stand here and argue the illegality of that? 617 00:31:59,614 --> 00:32:03,868 And even should you be inclined to engage in the moral debate 618 00:32:03,903 --> 00:32:05,860 defense counsel would like you to, 619 00:32:05,895 --> 00:32:11,319 you have to apply the law as it stands today. 620 00:32:11,354 --> 00:32:15,248 And as it stands today, when you knowingly, intentionally 621 00:32:15,283 --> 00:32:19,348 cause the death of another human being, 622 00:32:19,383 --> 00:32:21,237 that's murder. 623 00:32:21,272 --> 00:32:24,984 No matter how bad things get, this is still the United States of America, 624 00:32:25,019 --> 00:32:26,761 not some third-world nation, 625 00:32:26,796 --> 00:32:29,424 and we don't permit people to kill other people. 626 00:32:29,459 --> 00:32:32,044 If we forgive that kind of lawlessness, 627 00:32:32,079 --> 00:32:37,819 if we tolerate that kind of anarchy, we cease being... 628 00:32:38,086 --> 00:32:41,654 the United States of America. 629 00:32:59,917 --> 00:33:03,450 I read an article in the New York Times magazine not too long ago. 630 00:33:03,485 --> 00:33:07,386 It was about how the elephants in Africa are going mad. 631 00:33:07,421 --> 00:33:09,988 Raping rhinoceroses, killing people, 632 00:33:10,023 --> 00:33:12,677 attacking one another, stampeding without provocation. 633 00:33:12,712 --> 00:33:19,741 These intelligent, sensitive giants have become very, very disturbed. 634 00:33:19,776 --> 00:33:21,290 And the cause, they believe, 635 00:33:21,325 --> 00:33:24,500 is overwhelming, unrelenting trauma, stress. 636 00:33:24,535 --> 00:33:26,334 Be it poachers shooting at them 637 00:33:26,369 --> 00:33:30,859 and their families or land development squeezing and destroying their habitats, 638 00:33:30,894 --> 00:33:35,349 profound and irreversible changes to everything they know about their world, 639 00:33:35,384 --> 00:33:38,237 everything about what it means to be an elephant. 640 00:33:38,272 --> 00:33:39,636 And it's driving them mad. 641 00:33:39,671 --> 00:33:43,030 Elephants aren't being elephants anymore. 642 00:33:43,453 --> 00:33:46,747 Up is suddenly down. 643 00:33:46,782 --> 00:33:49,130 That's what New Orleans was like 644 00:33:49,165 --> 00:33:51,689 during and in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. 645 00:33:51,724 --> 00:33:54,844 Up suddenly became down. Down was up. 646 00:33:54,879 --> 00:33:57,262 This wasn't the United States of America that week. 647 00:33:57,297 --> 00:34:00,235 It wasn't the third world. It was utter chaos. 648 00:34:00,270 --> 00:34:04,360 The set of norms and logic that we apply to everyday life were gone 649 00:34:04,395 --> 00:34:06,811 and everything was wrong. 650 00:34:06,846 --> 00:34:09,050 A friend of mine told me that when he was finally able 651 00:34:09,085 --> 00:34:11,220 to get out of the city three days after the hurricane, 652 00:34:11,255 --> 00:34:14,495 he drove by a body lying on the sidewalk right up the road here, 653 00:34:14,530 --> 00:34:17,736 a body of a man partially clothed being eaten by an alligator, 654 00:34:17,771 --> 00:34:19,912 and my friend wasn't shocked. He wasn't even surprised. 655 00:34:19,947 --> 00:34:21,956 He was just fleeing. 656 00:34:21,991 --> 00:34:26,155 This was not the United States of America, nor anyplace else for that matter. 657 00:34:26,190 --> 00:34:27,545 During that horrendous week, 658 00:34:27,580 --> 00:34:31,272 the United States of America was nowhere to be found. 659 00:34:31,307 --> 00:34:36,116 My client, Dr. Follette, was to be found. 660 00:34:37,086 --> 00:34:39,268 She was there. 661 00:34:39,303 --> 00:34:41,451 When the storm hit 662 00:34:41,486 --> 00:34:45,574 and when the devastating effects started to become clear 663 00:34:45,609 --> 00:34:50,646 and then dire and then desperate, 664 00:34:50,681 --> 00:34:52,803 she stayed. 665 00:34:53,161 --> 00:34:56,013 Even when so many others around her were leaving, 666 00:34:56,048 --> 00:34:59,367 she stayed with those five patients, 667 00:34:59,402 --> 00:35:02,819 each facing an inevitable, imminent and excruciating death 668 00:35:02,854 --> 00:35:06,085 surrounded by pain and suffering and degradation 669 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,317 unfathomable to those of us who were not there. 670 00:35:09,352 --> 00:35:12,751 She stayed and helped and cared and watched 671 00:35:12,786 --> 00:35:19,281 as those five patients slipped quietly into the good night. 672 00:35:19,624 --> 00:35:25,389 In a setting that was punishing, 673 00:35:25,424 --> 00:35:29,769 cruel and unusual, 674 00:35:29,804 --> 00:35:33,782 her actions were humane. 675 00:35:39,402 --> 00:35:42,962 Like those elephants in Africa, 676 00:35:42,997 --> 00:35:49,162 so many people, during that terrible time of chaos and desperation, 677 00:35:49,197 --> 00:35:52,098 seemed to lose... 678 00:35:52,980 --> 00:35:54,747 themselves, 679 00:35:54,782 --> 00:36:01,625 seemed to lose their innate sense of humanity. 680 00:36:03,914 --> 00:36:07,413 Dr. Follette never did. 681 00:36:09,544 --> 00:36:11,837 She never did. 682 00:36:34,651 --> 00:36:38,315 So you're dropping the lawsuit just like that? 683 00:36:38,350 --> 00:36:39,696 Yes. 684 00:36:39,731 --> 00:36:41,043 No. 685 00:36:41,448 --> 00:36:43,327 On one condition. 686 00:36:43,362 --> 00:36:44,974 That, uh... 687 00:36:45,009 --> 00:36:46,877 You... 688 00:36:47,075 --> 00:36:51,217 You have dinner with me. 689 00:36:51,470 --> 00:36:53,667 Why? 690 00:36:55,430 --> 00:36:57,508 Because... 691 00:36:57,543 --> 00:37:02,707 Because I would like to ask you... 692 00:37:02,742 --> 00:37:04,688 Out. 693 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:11,122 "Out" like on a date? 694 00:37:13,556 --> 00:37:16,768 Clarice is me. 695 00:37:24,426 --> 00:37:26,361 Clarence. 696 00:37:28,803 --> 00:37:31,725 I'd love to have dinner with you. 697 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,482 Really? 698 00:37:33,763 --> 00:37:35,439 Really. 699 00:37:41,261 --> 00:37:43,352 Denise, tonight, 10 o'clock, my place? 700 00:37:43,387 --> 00:37:44,760 You're on. 701 00:37:46,402 --> 00:37:47,262 Denise. 702 00:37:47,297 --> 00:37:48,625 Jeffrey, I've been thinking, 703 00:37:48,660 --> 00:37:50,630 I don't want to have a relationship with you. 704 00:37:50,665 --> 00:37:53,237 You're just not what I'm looking for in a partner. 705 00:37:53,272 --> 00:37:57,884 But do you know what the term "friends with benefits" means? 706 00:37:57,919 --> 00:37:59,371 You slut. 707 00:37:59,406 --> 00:38:01,638 One condition, nobody finds out. 708 00:38:01,673 --> 00:38:04,735 If anybody does, it's over. 709 00:38:15,517 --> 00:38:19,168 Shirley, what is this "friends with benefits"? 710 00:38:19,203 --> 00:38:20,714 Have you heard of that? 711 00:38:20,749 --> 00:38:24,754 It's basically an arrangement for casual sex. Why? 712 00:38:24,789 --> 00:38:30,896 I, uh, just overheard Denise and Jeffrey Coho making such an arrangement. 713 00:38:30,931 --> 00:38:32,122 Really? 714 00:38:32,157 --> 00:38:33,793 Should we intervene? 715 00:38:33,828 --> 00:38:37,224 He's a partner. She's an associate. 716 00:38:37,997 --> 00:38:40,621 They're both also two consenting adults. 717 00:38:40,656 --> 00:38:42,803 We stay clear. 718 00:38:45,289 --> 00:38:48,492 "Friends with benefits." 719 00:38:48,527 --> 00:38:50,934 I can't keep up. 720 00:38:54,729 --> 00:38:59,216 Would you ever make such an arrangement? 721 00:38:59,251 --> 00:39:01,050 No! 722 00:39:01,085 --> 00:39:03,401 Would you? 723 00:39:03,605 --> 00:39:05,471 Of course not. 724 00:39:18,957 --> 00:39:20,384 Thank you. 725 00:39:21,481 --> 00:39:23,891 For believing what you said. 726 00:39:23,926 --> 00:39:27,879 Let's just hope it's what the 12 people in the jury room believe. 727 00:39:27,914 --> 00:39:29,234 Can I ask you a question? 728 00:39:29,269 --> 00:39:31,380 I want you to be honest with me. 729 00:39:31,415 --> 00:39:32,986 Okay. 730 00:39:33,021 --> 00:39:36,698 Can you and I get naked in a jacuzzi tonight? 731 00:39:37,903 --> 00:39:41,341 When Shirley made the offer, it came with two disclaimers, 732 00:39:41,376 --> 00:39:43,014 you and you. 733 00:39:43,049 --> 00:39:44,652 What offer? 734 00:39:44,687 --> 00:39:48,068 She invited me to join Crane, Poole & Schmidt Boston. 735 00:39:48,103 --> 00:39:49,326 And you accepted? 736 00:39:49,361 --> 00:39:51,004 Mm, I could still change my mind. 737 00:39:51,039 --> 00:39:53,359 It was my idea, that offer. 738 00:39:53,394 --> 00:39:55,679 I'm a big fan of diversity. 739 00:39:55,714 --> 00:39:58,017 I date midgets, you know? Ask him. 740 00:39:58,052 --> 00:40:00,086 And their mothers. 741 00:40:00,528 --> 00:40:02,427 Jury's back. 742 00:40:11,002 --> 00:40:13,160 Mr. Foreman, have you reached a verdict? 743 00:40:13,195 --> 00:40:14,245 We have, your honor. 744 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:15,834 What say you? 745 00:40:17,108 --> 00:40:19,790 "In the case of Orleans parish vs. Follette" 746 00:40:19,825 --> 00:40:22,473 "on the charges of murder in the first degree" 747 00:40:22,508 --> 00:40:25,386 "we find the defendant Donna Follette" 748 00:40:25,421 --> 00:40:27,410 "not guilty." 749 00:40:27,858 --> 00:40:30,285 Ladies and gentlemen and of the jury, thank you for your service. 750 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,974 You're dismissed, and this court is adjourned. 751 00:40:34,561 --> 00:40:35,795 I don't believe it. 752 00:40:35,830 --> 00:40:37,420 Neither do I. 753 00:40:38,022 --> 00:40:39,511 Thank you. 754 00:40:40,758 --> 00:40:42,354 Still undefeated. 755 00:40:48,836 --> 00:40:50,479 You won the day, Denny. 756 00:40:50,514 --> 00:40:51,802 Up is down. 757 00:40:51,837 --> 00:40:53,056 You won it. 758 00:40:53,091 --> 00:40:55,589 And you didn't want to bring me along. 759 00:40:55,624 --> 00:41:00,039 Using the hooker in the "up is down" demonstrative was a deft touch. 760 00:41:00,074 --> 00:41:02,252 It's all in the details. 761 00:41:03,685 --> 00:41:06,321 I tried closing my eyes again. 762 00:41:06,544 --> 00:41:08,297 To imagine. 763 00:41:08,332 --> 00:41:10,051 I couldn't. 764 00:41:10,424 --> 00:41:13,453 Nobody could, I suppose, unless they were there. 765 00:41:13,488 --> 00:41:15,248 I was there. 766 00:41:15,946 --> 00:41:19,392 Well, I flew over it in my Gulfstream. 767 00:41:19,427 --> 00:41:20,818 Doesn't that count? 768 00:41:20,853 --> 00:41:22,548 To some. 769 00:41:24,564 --> 00:41:26,372 Can we talk about something else? 770 00:41:26,407 --> 00:41:27,882 What? 771 00:41:28,304 --> 00:41:30,157 Vanessa. 772 00:41:30,418 --> 00:41:31,830 Oh, she's nasty, 773 00:41:31,865 --> 00:41:36,031 in a prudy, puritanical, judgmental way. 774 00:41:36,066 --> 00:41:39,134 On a scale of one to ten, what do you give my chances? 775 00:41:39,169 --> 00:41:41,020 A minus-two. 776 00:41:42,241 --> 00:41:46,782 Denny Crane! Loves a challenge! 777 00:41:48,073 --> 00:41:50,240 May old acquaintances be forgot. 778 00:41:50,275 --> 00:41:53,107 And replaced with new ones. 779 00:41:54,356 --> 00:41:56,338 Happy new year, my friend. 780 00:41:56,373 --> 00:41:58,286 Looking up. 781 00:41:58,321 --> 00:42:01,161 It's gonna be the best one you'll have.