1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:02,400 Previously on Boston Legal... 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:04,900 I have a 80% chance of getting Alzheimer's. 3 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:07,100 It's not like I'll remember it. Mad Cow! 4 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:08,900 I have Weak Stream Syndrome. 5 00:00:08,900 --> 00:00:11,300 DIrritable bowels. 6 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:12,400 Denny Crane. 7 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,400 - Grammy! - Marlena ... 8 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,600 I am in big trouble, Grammy. I need your help. 9 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,000 Melvin Palmer. How are you? 10 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,400 Attaboy. You're still a hoot, that's what you are. 11 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,400 Hell, I get paid, win or lose. 12 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:25,700 No reason this can't be a "win/win." 13 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:28,600 I just made more money... that's what I did. 14 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,900 15 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:36,600 16 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:38,700 How is it she ended up at a Pennsylvania prison? 17 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:40,000 Well, it's a private facility... 18 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,200 one that we signed off on because it provided drug counseling. 19 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:44,200 Was she an addict? 20 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:45,600 I don't think she's an addict, 21 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,500 but cocaine possession at 15... it's not an encouraging sign. 22 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:51,400 Anyway,the facility claimed that 23 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,400 all of their guards had degrees in juvenile justice, child psychology. 24 00:00:55,700 --> 00:00:58,500 The guard who raped her didn't even have a high school diploma! 25 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,000 - Okay. - I don't understand 26 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,400 why they're not anxious to settle. 27 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,600 I mean, what could their defense possibly be? 28 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,800 Well, prisons, private or otherwise, aren't held strictly liable. 29 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,300 We'd have to show negligence. 30 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:09,900 Which basically means we'd have to prove 31 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:13,900 they failed to exercise a reasonable standard of care, using industry standards. 32 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,000 My feeling is that they will settle, 33 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,100 but only after the necessary amount of posturing. 34 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:21,200 Sorry I'm late. I took Storrow instead of surface. 35 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:25,100 Jerry, my man! How are you, my friend? Big hug. Ooohhh! 36 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:28,700 I run on hugs... that's what I do.Melvin Palmer. Wow! 37 00:01:28,700 --> 00:01:30,900 You are a fetching young lass, that's what you are. 38 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:33,100 Am I right, Jerry? Two pops for yes. 39 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:35,300 Attaboy. So, what've we got? 40 00:01:35,300 --> 00:01:37,900 You must be the father of the girl.Tell ya what... 41 00:01:37,900 --> 00:01:41,300 let's fast-forward past the point where you tell me this is a terrible thing. 42 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:44,600 No need. See? Unlike the average GOP fundraiser, 43 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,600 I don't think there's anything fun about a rape. 44 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,100 Hey, how's my buddy, Al... that big hoot? 45 00:01:50,100 --> 00:01:54,100 What I'm gonna do is make you two offers. One's great; the other, better. 46 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,300 Here's the number; it'll make your eyes pop. 47 00:01:57,300 --> 00:01:59,600 Now, I've got another number here in my briefcase, 48 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,600 either bigger or smaller than that one. 49 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,100 You tell me what you wanna do. 50 00:02:03,100 --> 00:02:05,400 Ya like whatcha see here? Just say,"Deal." 51 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,900 If you don't like it, I open the briefcase, and you get the other number. 52 00:02:08,900 --> 00:02:10,400 So, what's it gonna be, Big Daddy? 53 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,500 My God! His daughter was raped! You've turned it into a game show! 54 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:15,800 Life is nothing but a sweepstakes... that's what I say. 55 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,200 I tell you. I'm gonna let you open the briefcase, 56 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,400 ®cause you're fetching... that's what you are. You just hold it up like so. 57 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,600 God, it's good to see you! One pop, for old time's sake. 58 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,200 Hey, I'll take a stomp instead. So, what's it gonna be, Dad? 59 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,600 Deal or no deal? 60 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:36,500 Boston Legal S05 ep02 61 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:08,100 Hi, Grammy! 62 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:10,500 Oh, God. What have you done now? 63 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:12,800 Nice. That's how you greet your granddaughter? 64 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:14,800 Sorry, sweetheart. How're you doing? 65 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:16,500 Oh, I got arrested. 66 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:18,900 Just tell me it's not a felony. 67 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:20,900 Oh, I committed the utmost act of patriotism. 68 00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:22,000 So, it is a felony. 69 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,700 It seems that, because I care about the future of our country, 70 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:28,300 because I care that the National Debt is 9.4 trillion, 71 00:03:28,300 --> 00:03:32,300 because I care that 47 million Americans are without health insurance... 72 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:34,400 Just tell me what you did. 73 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:36,500 I voted in the primary. 74 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:38,400 You're 17. 75 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,000 Oh. Yes. I'm 17; I shouldn't get a voice. 76 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,600 Meanwhile, Toothless-in-Podunk who can't even read a ballot 77 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,500 gets to decide a swing state... that makes total sense. 78 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:47,800 Oh, hey! It's the old guy! 79 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,500 Oh, Carl. Do you think you could help me with my granddaughter, Marlena? 80 00:03:50,500 --> 00:03:52,500 It seems she voted in the primary. 81 00:03:52,500 --> 00:03:55,700 Well, well, well, well, weeelllll. Yum. 82 00:03:55,700 --> 00:03:57,300 Okay. Serious ick. 83 00:03:57,300 --> 00:04:00,200 Denny, you remember my granddaughter, Marlena. 84 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,700 DOhhh. Clearly, you're as hot as granny... are you as nasty? 85 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,500 Very funny, Denny! 86 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:13,300 Okay, you can get up now. No, stay down. 87 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:14,800 Denny. 88 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,200 Oh, he's faking. 89 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,600 - Denny? - He's not breathing. 90 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:24,900 Denny? 91 00:04:26,700 --> 00:04:28,600 - He's not breathing. - Call 9-1-1! 92 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,800 Denny, if this is a joke... 93 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:33,700 Denny! 94 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:36,400 Denny! 95 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:45,300 I'm fine! 96 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:46,700 You're going to the hospital. 97 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:47,900 I just fainted; that's all. 98 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:50,800 Denny, you stopped breathing! We had to give you mouth-to-mouth. 99 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,600 Denny Crane: Who gave it to me? Shirley? 100 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:53,700 Me. 101 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:55,600 Oh, God! Take me to the hospital. 102 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:56,900 Let's go. 103 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,500 I'm coming with you. 104 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,200 Just don't kiss me. 105 00:05:06,100 --> 00:05:09,200 Two twenty-five seems a little low for a rape. 106 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,600 You know what? There is no amount of money that would be enough. 107 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,600 A fifteen-year-old girl? A million seems low... am I right, Jerry? 108 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,300 Gee, I'm not sure, Mel. Why dontcha offer a mil? I'll letcha know. 109 00:05:19,300 --> 00:05:22,100 You're a chip off the old hoot block... that's what you are. 110 00:05:22,100 --> 00:05:23,300 You see, Mr. Addario, 111 00:05:23,300 --> 00:05:27,700 I have to evaluate cases using your more objective jury verdict research. 112 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:30,100 Comes down to tables, statistics, numbers. 113 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:34,100 Ask me, it's offensive to quantify something like a rape with money values, 114 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,400 but that's the way the law works. 115 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,800 My computation values this case around 1.5. 116 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,100 Hell, you must have one of those plaintiff's calculators... 117 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:42,000 that's what you must have! 118 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,700 Maybe we should just... spin the wheel. 119 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:48,000 The thing is, when I factor in all the variables here... 120 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,700 which I would be required to do, you see,as defendant's counsel... 121 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:55,700 225 would be the number. All payable today, by the way. 122 00:05:55,700 --> 00:05:57,800 Exactly what variables do you mean? 123 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,100 Well, do I really need to say it? 124 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:01,600 Afraid you do. 125 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,700 Okay. Obviously, Ms. Addario was quite traumatized by all this. 126 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:06,800 Hell, I've never even met her, 127 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,000 but my suspicion is settlement conferences and the like 128 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,600 would bring back a trauma that she would just as soon forget... am I right? 129 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,600 Nobody here wants to put her through the ordeal of a trial. 130 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,200 You know the questions I would be obligated to ask. 131 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,400 How she found her assailant attractive. How she flirted with him. 132 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,400 How she perhaps stoked the passions that ultimately overtook his free will. 133 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:31,000 There is no way in hell 134 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,000 a loving father would ever subject her to all the ugliness that goes with a trial, 135 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,200 and, see, without her testimony, 136 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,700 you'd have a hard time getting any judgment... that's what I know. 137 00:06:42,700 --> 00:06:47,300 And, knowing that, the number is 225. 138 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,800 You're disgusting. 139 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,100 You know, Missy, 140 00:06:54,500 --> 00:06:56,400 I get that a lot. 141 00:06:57,900 --> 00:07:03,400 I'm actually okay with it, which is something you might consider. 142 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:06,000 I mean, who wants to subject that poor girl 143 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:10,100 to a disgusting lawyer who's willing to tear her up, 144 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:15,400 and do... perhaps... irreparable psychological damage. 145 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:20,900 I certainly don't want that. Do you? 146 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:27,900 What do you mean, she voted? 147 00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:31,900 She falsified her birth year,registered, and voted in the Democratic primary, 148 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:34,500 and if we hadn't caught her, she would be voting in the general election. 149 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:37,200 Why don't we prosecute the lazy asses who don't vote? 150 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,000 Maybe charge them with dereliction of civic duty? There's an idea. 151 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,200 Young lady! You will speak when spoken to. 152 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:44,600 Your Honor, could we just plea this out? 153 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,200 Give her a fine, slap her with some community service, and we can all go home. 154 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:49,800 What kind of lawyering is that? 155 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,200 It's not just that she voted, Judge. 156 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,800 She has a YouTube posting where she encourages other minors to vote, 157 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,500 and offers instructions on how to falsify registration forms. 158 00:07:58,500 --> 00:08:00,100 - One year in jail! - What? 159 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:04,100 Whoa! Now, I admittedly haven't read all of the... the Patriot Act, 160 00:08:04,700 --> 00:08:09,500 but I'm pretty sure that you can't find somebody guilty without a trial. 161 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:13,200 I could be wrong. 162 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:22,000 Toxic shock? 163 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,900 Your blood tests show a lot of drugs in your system. 164 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:25,400 How many medications are you on? 165 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:26,700 I dunno. Thirty, forty. 166 00:08:26,700 --> 00:08:27,900 - What? - Thirty or forty? 167 00:08:27,900 --> 00:08:30,000 - My God! - Is that a lot? 168 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,400 Why are you taking them? 169 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,300 I dunno. You name it, uh... 170 00:08:34,300 --> 00:08:36,900 acid reflux, weak stream, 171 00:08:36,900 --> 00:08:40,300 restless leg, hemorrhoids, irritable bowel, uh, 172 00:08:40,300 --> 00:08:42,700 memory, cholesterol, blood pressure. 173 00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:45,300 Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. These drugs can interact. 174 00:08:45,300 --> 00:08:47,800 No; I keep them in separate bottles. 175 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,200 Do they make one for common sense? 176 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,500 Where the hell are you getting your medical advice? 177 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:54,100 - Television. - Television. 178 00:08:54,100 --> 00:08:55,700 For God's sake, Denny! 179 00:08:55,700 --> 00:08:57,900 What? They wouldn't advertise it if it wasn't safe. 180 00:08:57,900 --> 00:09:01,200 Mr. Crane, you very nearly died. 181 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,200 You're lucky you didn't die. 182 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:08,300 Really? Whoops. 183 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,200 After my mother died, I started ... using. 184 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:32,300 I don't know if I was addicted, but... 185 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:35,500 You were arrested and convicted for possession of cocaine? 186 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:40,700 Yes. I was given two choices: Go to a juvenile detention facility 187 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:44,500 or choose the private route which promised treatment... which we opted for. 188 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:47,000 What happened at that facility? 189 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,700 I was raped by a guard. 190 00:09:51,700 --> 00:09:54,700 Lauren, I know this is difficult, and... 191 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:57,200 Have you ever been raped, Miss Lloyd? 192 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:57,800 No. 193 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,000 Then, please don't tell me you know. 194 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:04,400 Okay. Can you try to help me... 195 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:08,300 I should say, the jury... understand what happened that day? 196 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:17,600 A guard... who was not a trained professional, 197 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:20,200 but instead a "paid by the hour" employee... 198 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:24,300 came into my cell, 199 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:29,700 pinned me down by my neck, 200 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,400 pulled my pants down ... 201 00:10:37,100 --> 00:10:38,900 Was there anyone else around? 202 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:42,000 No. 203 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:45,800 The others were at recreation outside somewhere. 204 00:10:46,300 --> 00:10:49,100 I was held in for disciplinary infraction. 205 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:53,900 I won't pretend to know or even imagine the horror of... 206 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,400 May I ask: Did you know this guard? 207 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:00,700 I knew him. 208 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:04,700 In fact, you had a rather close friendship with him, didn't you? 209 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,900 Obviously I didn't see him as the monster that he was. 210 00:11:07,900 --> 00:11:10,000 I understand. 211 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,700 Had you ever kissed him before this incident? 212 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:16,100 Yes. 213 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:20,100 In fact, the day he came into your cell, you two kissed... 214 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:23,100 consensually. Am I right? 215 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:25,100 I never consented to be raped. 216 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:26,500 Of course not. 217 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:31,100 You said you were held inside for a disciplinary infraction. 218 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:33,500 What was that disciplinary infraction? 219 00:11:33,900 --> 00:11:36,000 I went into an area where I was not supposed to be. 220 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:40,300 You snuck off to rendezvous with this part-time guard. 221 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,700 One last question: During this attack, 222 00:11:48,100 --> 00:11:49,800 did you scream? 223 00:11:51,700 --> 00:11:54,300 He said if I made a sound, he'd kill me. 224 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:57,700 So you never cried out for help. 225 00:12:03,100 --> 00:12:04,600 Nothing further. 226 00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:12,100 Sue the drug company? 227 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:14,300 They almost killed me! You heard the doctor. 228 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:15,000 Even so. 229 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,900 How ¡®bout I sue the one that markets 16 of the 42 prescriptions I was taking? 230 00:12:19,900 --> 00:12:23,000 Denny, the question would be: How could they predict you'd eat them like jelly beans? 231 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,300 Alan, have you seen the television ads? 232 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:26,300 Alan Shore: Yes, I've seen them. 233 00:12:26,300 --> 00:12:29,200 They list out the side effects like they're reading the telephone book, 234 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,300 but the benefits get all the bells and whistles. 235 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:36,300 They nearly killed me. I wanna sue. 236 00:12:37,300 --> 00:12:38,800 Let's get ¡®em. 237 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,400 But you can't deny that you broke the law here. 238 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,200 Civil disobedience. Pure and simple. 239 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,900 It's what started this country and one might look at me as a hero. 240 00:12:50,900 --> 00:12:54,900 Or one might look at you as a person who committed a crime, 241 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,000 punishable by up to 5 years in jail. 242 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,100 Ohhh, so I can't vote, but for the purpose of locking me up, 243 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:04,000 suddenly I'm an adult. Isn't that conVENient? 244 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,200 How fair is it for me to be excluded from the democratic process 245 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,700 when we make no such exclusion for drug addicts, the mentally handicapped, 246 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:14,400 or senior Floridians who "accidentally" voted for Buchanan? 247 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,100 Do you think that you understand the complexities of, uh, 248 00:13:17,100 --> 00:13:20,400 immigration, the economic recession, the Middle East balance of power, that the... ? 249 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,400 Oh, I think I understand it some. Do you think most American voters do? 250 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:27,500 Aren't you sick of people not voting for a candidate because, hey, 251 00:13:27,500 --> 00:13:30,500 they don't think that they could have a beer with him, or he's a lousy bowler, 252 00:13:30,500 --> 00:13:32,300 or her pantsuits aren't flattering? 253 00:13:32,300 --> 00:13:35,300 - I am a lot more informed than... - Maybe you're an exception. 254 00:13:35,300 --> 00:13:37,900 - Most 17-year-olds are... - Are what? 255 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:40,800 How do you finish that sentence without some little nugget of ageism? 256 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,000 I mean, I'm old enough to be a parent. I'm old enough to get an abortion... 257 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,100 and that is a decision far more complicated and difficult 258 00:13:47,100 --> 00:13:49,400 than making a check on a ballot box based solely on 259 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:53,400 whether there's a D or an R next to a candidate's name, which is what most people do. 260 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,600 I mean, you wanna give me a test? 261 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,700 Make me take a class, make me earn my right to vote? Fine. 262 00:13:58,700 --> 00:13:59,800 I'll do it. 263 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,400 But don't just say No way" because I'm 17. 264 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:06,900 Joan of Arc led an army at 17, and I'm cuter. Way. 265 00:14:15,300 --> 00:14:17,600 Katie Lloyd: What's really nauseating is he's good. 266 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,100 The jury seem to be with him. 267 00:14:19,100 --> 00:14:20,900 He's very good, but we'll get him. 268 00:14:20,900 --> 00:14:23,700 Wait ¡®til I get that defendant on the stand. He's muffin. 269 00:14:24,100 --> 00:14:25,500 Jerry Espenson: I mean, toast. 270 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:27,900 You seem to be more confident lately. 271 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:31,000 You... you merely twiddle the wooden cigarette instead of sucking it; 272 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,700 and in court, your hands are in your pockets instead of on your thighs; and... 273 00:14:33,700 --> 00:14:36,800 and your clothes... you're dressing more ... upscale. 274 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,100 New therapist. New Jerry. 275 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,800 You're not gonna leave the old Jerry completely behind, are you? 276 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,100 No. 277 00:14:43,700 --> 00:14:45,600 You really think you can get the defendant ? 278 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,000 New Jerry in town. He's bagel. Toast. 279 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:06,500 We actually operate many private prisons, as well as our juvenile detention facilities. 280 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:11,800 Our safety and crime record is typically superior to the state facilities. 281 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:15,100 But just to be clear, you're in this for profit, right? 282 00:15:15,100 --> 00:15:17,900 Yes. We're for profit. We're a business. 283 00:15:17,900 --> 00:15:19,300 There's nothing wrong with capitalism. 284 00:15:19,300 --> 00:15:23,300 Just the opposite: public prisons are weighed down with bureaucracy. 285 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,600 They have archaic civil service rules that they have to go by. We don't. 286 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:30,100 We've streamlined the entire process, 287 00:15:30,100 --> 00:15:33,400 right from construction, all the way to human resources. 288 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,400 We've even eliminated all the red tape. 289 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:39,200 Simply put: We can build a better prison for less money, and we do. 290 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,400 Okay, but sir, how is it 291 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:45,400 that a 15-year-old inmate could get attacked by one of your guards? 292 00:15:46,300 --> 00:15:48,400 Well, this was a rogue guard. 293 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,600 Sorry to say, but every prison... public or private... has them. 294 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,800 But I can tell you that we do screen our employees. 295 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,800 He had no history of violent or sex crime, and there was no way to predict this. 296 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:04,000 I can also tell you that our screening process rivals or surpasses the ones 297 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,900 used by the state operated facilities. 298 00:16:06,900 --> 00:16:10,900 As for rogue guards, they're just a reality of prison life. 299 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:13,900 When we say, "for profit," how much profit are we talking about? 300 00:16:13,900 --> 00:16:15,200 Objection. Relevancy. 301 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,200 I think we'd like to explore whether these savings afforded them a better opportunity to, 302 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,200 say,prevent the 15-year-olds from getting raped... 303 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,000 Objection! That's inflammatory. 304 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,200 Rapes are an inflammatory thing, Mel, don't you agree? 305 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:27,300 Two pops for yes. 306 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:28,800 - Mr. Espenson. - Sorry, Judge; 307 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:32,800 I'm a chip off the old hoot. Exactly how much moolah do you make? 308 00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:36,100 We made about three hundred and fifty million dollars this past year. 309 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:38,500 That's kind of a lot. Don't you agree, Mel? 310 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:40,200 One pop; three if you love me. 311 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:42,300 You throw any of it toward training your guards? 312 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:44,400 Of course we do. Our guards are well-trained. 313 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,900 Well-trained?! As was this one... the one who attacked my client. 314 00:16:47,900 --> 00:16:49,700 Mr. Palmer likes to say,"Attacked." 315 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:52,700 Attack's a nice word... our troops attack, for example. 316 00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:55,400 Troops are good; attack's a good word. 317 00:16:55,400 --> 00:17:00,500 Much better than, say, rape, which is ugly. 318 00:17:00,500 --> 00:17:02,100 Which is what happened to my client. 319 00:17:02,100 --> 00:17:04,500 Did you train this guard not to rape,by the way? 320 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:07,300 All of our employees, including this one, are required to 321 00:17:07,300 --> 00:17:11,300 apply for correctional officer certification within 6 months of hire, 322 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:13,700 and they have another 6 months to get certified. 323 00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:17,700 So any employee can work for your company for an entire year without certification. 324 00:17:17,700 --> 00:17:21,000 After receiving 40 hours of annual in-service training. 325 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,900 Forty hours. That would cover your riots, beatings, shankings, escapes. 326 00:17:24,900 --> 00:17:28,500 Your employee turnover is two to three times that of public prisons. Am I right? 327 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:29,400 - Yes, but - And your staff, 328 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:30,900 like the staff of most private prisons, 329 00:17:30,900 --> 00:17:34,300 is 49% more likely to be assaulted by the inmates in their charge. 330 00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:37,000 Well, it's not Club Med. It is a prison. 331 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,400 Oh, I see; we call it "prison" now, 332 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,000 but for the purpose of getting parents to elect your "for profit alternative," 333 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,900 you're a "detention treatment facility." 334 00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:47,300 That's another lovely word. "Treatment." 335 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:49,800 It's almost as acceptable as "attack." 336 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,700 Doctors, for example, like to attack diseases with treatment. 337 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:56,700 Treatment, attack; attack, treatment. Doesn't matter which way. 338 00:17:56,700 --> 00:18:00,700 Still sounds better than "prison." Rape. 339 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:03,600 Prison, prison, prison; rape, rape, rape. 340 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:06,500 - Objection. - Here we have child rape. 341 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:09,800 - Objection! - Good that you made a profit. 342 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:12,000 I'm done. 343 00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:28,300 Straight probation; six months. And you take your instruction video off YouTube. 344 00:18:31,300 --> 00:18:32,400 No. 345 00:18:33,100 --> 00:18:35,100 W... wait a minute. Did you just say, "No"? 346 00:18:35,100 --> 00:18:37,100 They're willing to let you go, Marlena! 347 00:18:37,100 --> 00:18:39,900 This is more than just me, Grammy. 348 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:41,800 I am a movement. Millions of kids... 349 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:43,900 Oh, give me a break! 350 00:18:43,900 --> 00:18:45,800 I would think you of all people would understand, 351 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,400 being a former suffragette, that sometimes you have to stand up... 352 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,500 The law is black... 353 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:54,900 did you just call me a former suffragette? 354 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,400 Aren't you? 355 00:18:56,500 --> 00:18:59,400 How old do you think I am? 356 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,900 I don't know. Uh, eighty? 357 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:04,900 Please, leave now. And take the window... it's faster. 358 00:19:04,900 --> 00:19:07,900 And you! Can't you talk some sense into her? 359 00:19:07,900 --> 00:19:11,000 Actually, I think she's right. Uh, uh... 360 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,500 not about you being eighty, 361 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:14,300 but I think she should get to vote. 362 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:15,800 Excuse me? 363 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,400 We had 10 million people without high school diplomas vote in the last election. 364 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,400 Why shouldn't Marlena get to vote? 365 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:23,900 Carl... 366 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,900 That's her "I'm not happy with you" tone. 367 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:29,500 Yes, I know it well. 368 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:32,900 Surely you think she should settle this case. 369 00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:36,900 Surely I don't... Shirley. 370 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,000 Give me one reason why we shouldn't countersue for abuse of process, 371 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:48,000 filing a frivolous lawsuit, and, possibly, extortion. 372 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:55,400 W-well, my impression of the pharmaceutical industry is that it's always so nice. 373 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,500 He had a scare, but he's fine now. What are the damages? 374 00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:01,800 Well, emotional distress, for starters. 375 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:04,000 But how did we cause it? 376 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,200 What is it exactly you're claiming we did? 377 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,500 What you did? You brainwashed my client. 378 00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:12,200 The massive marketing strategy employed by your trade association 379 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,700 caused him to gulp down of 42 different drugs on a daily basis. 380 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:19,400 And it would be foreseeable in your mind that he'd do this just because? 381 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,800 Certainly foreseeable to you. You market to senior citizens 382 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,000 because your research shows they're easy targets, 383 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,900 susceptible to deceptive advertising... 384 00:20:26,900 --> 00:20:29,900 I'm sorry. You did go to law school, right? 385 00:20:29,900 --> 00:20:32,300 Actually, I bought my degree on the Internet. 386 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:33,600 Uh, what's your point? 387 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,900 What happened to him was the product of his own stupidity. 388 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:40,800 That he's able to enlist his firm and perhaps an equally intellectually-challenged attorney 389 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,800 to type a cause of action on a complaint does not give him one. 390 00:20:45,700 --> 00:20:49,100 I bet you didn't play well with others as a child, did you? 391 00:20:49,100 --> 00:20:50,100 I'm leaving. 392 00:20:50,100 --> 00:20:52,900 Sit your arrogant ass down, Mr. Mathis. 393 00:20:52,900 --> 00:20:54,800 Better you hear what I have to say now. 394 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,300 It'll be considerably cheaper than in court. 395 00:20:57,300 --> 00:20:59,800 You actually think you're going to intimidate us? 396 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,200 We're one of the biggest players in the pharmaceutical industry. 397 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:05,200 Do you have the slightest sense of how powerful we are? 398 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,100 I have a very acute sense. 399 00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:09,300 Last week, I took on the tobacco industry. 400 00:21:09,300 --> 00:21:13,300 Imagine my surprise to discover you two are so much alike. 401 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:17,400 You both deny the damaging health effects of your products, 402 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:21,400 you both promote so-called "independent research" which you actually finance, 403 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:23,800 you both market to children, 404 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,800 you both pour millions of dollars into lobbying efforts to buy Congress, 405 00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:31,200 you both suppress information that proves that your products kill people. 406 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:35,200 The only difference I can see is that while the FDA is hostile toward cigarettes, 407 00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:36,800 - you they roll over for. - Look... 408 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:42,000 I know exactly how big and powerful you are, Mr. Mathis. 409 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,100 It might do you some good to check me out. 410 00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:47,100 I'm the guy who just nicked Big Tobacco for 200 million. 411 00:21:47,100 --> 00:21:50,600 Now I just sit in my office all day, twiddling my thumbs, 412 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,300 asking myself, "Who's next?" 413 00:21:52,300 --> 00:21:55,000 Well, guess what? 414 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,400 It's you. 415 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,100 It's you. 416 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,400 The law is the law. She broke it. 417 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,800 Now, since they've attempted to put the law itself on trial here, let me defend it. 418 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,400 There is a reason for voting age minimums. 419 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:26,000 Most kids aren't as fully informed as Miss Hoffman is. 420 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,600 Most kids are... well... kids, 421 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,900 and they simply lack the judgment and maturity. 422 00:22:31,900 --> 00:22:35,900 A recent poll found that 20% of students at NYU 423 00:22:35,900 --> 00:22:39,900 would trade their vote in the upcoming Presidential election for an iPod Touch. 424 00:22:40,700 --> 00:22:43,300 Sixty-six percent would trade it for free tuition. 425 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:47,300 Kids are kids, which is why this state... indeed, most states... set boundaries. 426 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,800 We don't let them drink until they're 21, we don't let them have sex, 427 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,200 we don't allow them to enter into contracts. 428 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,900 Is it fair that Marlena Hoffman not be allowed to vote, 429 00:22:56,900 --> 00:22:59,900 given how politically aware she is? Maybe not. 430 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:03,300 But our system here has to be what's best for the masses; 431 00:23:03,300 --> 00:23:05,300 specifically, what's best for this country. 432 00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:08,900 Letting children vote doesn't serve that goal. 433 00:23:08,900 --> 00:23:12,900 I salute Marlena Hoffman and her civic commitment. I really do. 434 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:15,300 She just has to wait another year. 435 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:19,300 Now I know that to her, that probably seems like a lifetime. 436 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:23,200 After all, she's a kid. 437 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,900 What's the fear? That they'll screw things up? 438 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,700 We have a 9.4 trillion dollar debt, 439 00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:34,700 no national health care, unprecedented poverty, capped by a recession, 440 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:39,700 a war that could last a hundred years depending on who wins this election, 441 00:23:39,700 --> 00:23:41,100 an earth that is dying. 442 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:42,200 Oh, yes; please 443 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,700 let's not dare let the young people mess with our masterpiece! 444 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:49,700 Oh, come on, Mr. Suck. Don't you think this is ridiculous? 445 00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:53,400 Carl Sack: At first, I did. By the way? It's Sack. 446 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,900 But, the more I listen to Ms. Hoffman... 447 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,200 Children aren't just our future, Judge; they're our best hope. 448 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,700 We need them involved, on board, with an appreciation of the stakes. 449 00:24:05,700 --> 00:24:07,400 This young lady is. 450 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,300 Come on! You're talking about electing our Commander-in-Chief! 451 00:24:10,300 --> 00:24:12,200 Yes, I am. 452 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:13,900 You know what? Let's face it: 453 00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:17,500 These elections are typically decided by old coots like you and me. Why? 454 00:24:17,500 --> 00:24:22,400 Well, because not only do senior citizens historically swing elections with their votes, 455 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,000 we have the most money to stuff the campaign coffers. 456 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000 McCain and Obama certainly know that. 457 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,500 How else are you to explain their deafening silence on 458 00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:33,300 what may be our biggest fiscal nightmare... 459 00:24:33,300 --> 00:24:39,600 that more and more of the federal budget now goes to subsidizing old people? 460 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:44,700 Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security now take up 40%, 461 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:49,000 and spending on these programs is expected to double over the next ten years?! 462 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,100 As far as what the kidsget, well, let's see. 463 00:24:51,100 --> 00:24:54,300 Failing educational systems, a broken economy, 464 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:58,200 don't forget the backdoor draft to get them to fight our wars. 465 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,000 The kids are getting screwed. 466 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,800 There are millions of them on high school and college campuses 467 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,800 - who are informed, passionate - Oh, for God's sake! 468 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,900 You might also consider, Judge, that teenagers spend 469 00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:14,700 over one hundred and seventy-six billion dollars a year of their own money... 470 00:25:14,700 --> 00:25:16,900 over one hundred and seventy-six billion! 471 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:18,400 They earn it. 472 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,400 They file tax returns. 473 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,100 To tax them while not letting them vote?! 474 00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:26,000 That amounts to taxation without representation! 475 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,000 I think we started a Revolutionary War to right that wrong. 476 00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:33,900 Finally, Your Honor... 477 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:39,100 I hesitate to say this, 478 00:25:39,100 --> 00:25:42,500 but the resistance to letting young people vote 479 00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:47,900 may be more insidious and subtle than, "Gee, they lack the maturity." 480 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:53,800 We have an ugly legacy in this country of excluding certain segments of society. 481 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,200 There are women alive today who were once denied the right to vote. 482 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,300 Even after African-Americans were given the right, 483 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:02,500 many were subjected to literacy tests, 484 00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:06,500 like in Alabama, where blacks had to determine the number of bubbles in a bar of soap 485 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:10,000 before they could cast their ballot. 486 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,900 Today, states are passing voter ID laws, requiring proof of citizenship. 487 00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:16,100 Makes sense on one level, 488 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:20,100 but the net effect is that many US-born citizens will lose out 489 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,100 because they're too poor to afford the documentation. 490 00:26:24,100 --> 00:26:28,100 Millions of felons can't vote... also makes sense, 491 00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:30,600 except when you consider that 492 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:37,800 13% of the US black male population fall into that category... 493 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,200 the poor, the black, the young. 494 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,600 Now, a nutty Reverend may have been right 495 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:47,300 when he said that this country is ruled by the old, the white, and the rich. 496 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:50,600 So, you don't favor any age requirements? 497 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,100 Lower it to 17. 498 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:57,100 Nineteen US states are considering legislation to lower the voting age. 499 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,300 Why? 500 00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:00,100 Because it's time. 501 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,500 Our kids are educated. 502 00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:05,500 They can be passionate, socially aware. 503 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:09,500 I mean they have an idealism many of us have forgotten. 504 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:14,500 They have a voice; it's time we let it be heard. 505 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,600 Not just for their sakes, but for ours. 506 00:27:36,300 --> 00:27:37,400 We going into court? 507 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,100 Alan Shore: They filed a motion to dismiss. 508 00:27:39,100 --> 00:27:39,900 Can we beat it? 509 00:27:39,900 --> 00:27:43,200 Well, it's a pretty powerful industry, Denny. 510 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:45,900 Do I have to give you my big pep talk again? 511 00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:47,800 No. They almost killed you. 512 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,800 You can consider me sufficiently motivated. 513 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,800 Oh, Denny, please don't... hug me. 514 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,900 All right. Look, I'm kind of a simple guy, I admit. 515 00:28:05,900 --> 00:28:10,000 When I get a case, I just plop down with the complaint, a cheeseburger and a pop, 516 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:15,400 and I try to decipher what the thing is really about... that's what I do. 517 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,400 And I must tell you, I'm a little bit stumped here. 518 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,400 I mean, it can't be a straight negligence thing, can it? 519 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:26,700 First, it wasn't foreseeable that this guard would commit a sexual assault. 520 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:29,200 He sure as hell never did it before. 521 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:34,200 Second, the prison's operating procedures were consistent with industry standards. 522 00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:38,600 Third, the plaintiff herself would be deemed contributorily negligent 523 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,800 since she cultivated a sexual relationship with this man. 524 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,600 She broke prison rules to be with him. 525 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,800 Hell, she kissed him! 526 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:52,000 That's probably why they decided to make this a referendum on private prisons. 527 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,600 Better target ¡®cause "for profit" translates to "greed and avarice," 528 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:01,400 and we love taking the deep pockets down a notch, don't we? 529 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:06,000 But, folks, private prisons are a good thing. 530 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,600 Not only do they save taxpayers money, they make us safer. 531 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,300 Their recidivism rates are lower than the state-run facilities. 532 00:29:13,300 --> 00:29:16,100 They also create jobs and help the economy. 533 00:29:16,100 --> 00:29:20,500 I'm sorry, but you just can't make a goat of private prisons. 534 00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:23,200 If anything, we need more of ¡®em. 535 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:24,400 Now.. 536 00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:29,300 a horrible thing happened here.No question. 537 00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:33,300 And blame was assessed. The rogue guard was arrested and locked up. 538 00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:35,100 Justice was done. 539 00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:40,900 This is a civil trial, which is trying to find a correctional facility guilty 540 00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:46,400 when they did everything right, according to industry standards. 541 00:29:47,900 --> 00:29:51,900 That' s... just... the truth. 542 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,900 Have we all gone completely mad? 543 00:30:19,900 --> 00:30:24,500 One in a hundred people in this country are in prison or jail. 544 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:29,400 The United States has more people locked up than any other country in the world... 545 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,200 that includes China. 546 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,600 For a nation that bills itself as the Land of the Free, 547 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,300 America quite fancies its slammers. 548 00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:39,000 And with alarming recidivism rates, 549 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,600 do we really mean to turn this problem over to the for-profit corporations 550 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,200 whose very economic survival depends on people going to prison? 551 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,000 Are we really to believe that they'll rehabilitate their inmates 552 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,500 when they have a profit motive not to do so? 553 00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:54,400 If people don't commit crimes, they're out of business. 554 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,100 You have a cynical view of human nature... that's what you have, little lady. 555 00:30:58,100 --> 00:31:01,000 Mr. Palmer, with all due respect to the fact 556 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,300 that you are far simpler than any of us could aspire to be, 557 00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:07,300 I shall ask you to never... ever... call me "little lady" again. 558 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,400 As for human nature, we saw it in Iraq with Blackwater. 559 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,400 Private corporations hired to protect our troops chose not to use armored vehicles, 560 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,000 even though the contract expressly provided for them. 561 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,700 Soldiers died because some executive decided, 562 00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:25,000 "Better to save money than lives." 563 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,500 That's what you get with for-profit corporations. 564 00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:31,100 They never keep ledger sheets showing the human cost. 565 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:37,100 Our prison system releases six hundred and fifty thousand ex-convicts a year into society. 566 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,400 Two-thirds of those quickly commit crimes and return. 567 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,900 That's good for the for-profit prison business. 568 00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:46,000 Very bad for the welfare of our citizenry, 569 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,000 and if we go with this system that disincentivizes rehabilitation, then what? 570 00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:54,300 We've already got 2.2 million people in jail. 571 00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:56,500 In fact, many jails have to release criminals 572 00:31:56,500 --> 00:31:58,900 because there is simply no place to put them. 573 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,500 Corners get cut, costs get shaved, officer training is short-changed, 574 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:07,400 and suddenly we have children who are first-time offenders 575 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,200 being physically attacked by corrections officers. 576 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,600 Mr. Palmer claims his client observed industry standards, 577 00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:20,000 yet his client held himself up as being above those very standards. 578 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,400 The reason Lauren Addario elected to go to this facility 579 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,800 is because it promised a safer environment where she would get treatment. 580 00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:33,900 But whatever standard of care one seeks to hold a public or private prison up to, 581 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:41,000 it should be one that safeguards against its 15-year-old girls being raped by guards. 582 00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:13,800 All rise. 583 00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:18,700 All right. I did a little research of my own last night. 584 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,000 I learned that our brain size peaks at 14, 585 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,600 and our reasoning abilities peak at 12. 586 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,600 I also discovered that in pre-industrial society, 587 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,300 which didn't even have a word for adolescence, 588 00:33:30,300 --> 00:33:34,800 that post-pubescent teens are considered adults. 589 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,100 In fact, psychologists say that, 590 00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:39,100 by imposing all the restrictions that we do on teenagers, 591 00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:44,400 we are infantilizing them... part of our grand scheme to extend childhood. 592 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:48,400 Many others say that the only solution to teenage angst and irresponsibility 593 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:52,000 is to go in the opposite direction, and treat them as grown-ups. 594 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,800 Can't he just say that I won, and be done with it? 595 00:33:55,900 --> 00:33:59,900 I cannot give you the right to vote, 596 00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:03,700 but I am satisfied that your actions were... were noble, 597 00:34:03,700 --> 00:34:06,900 they were overt, they did not rise to the level of fraud, 598 00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:10,700 and therefore I am dismissing all criminal charges. 599 00:34:10,700 --> 00:34:12,600 We are adjourned. 600 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:17,500 Very good job, Mr. Old Guy. 601 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:20,600 I mean, I can almost see what Grammy finds attractive about you. 602 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,400 Marlena, you're not nearly as cute 603 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,500 or obnoxious as you think you are. 604 00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:31,100 What I will say is: Pretty cool kid. 605 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,200 You won't tell Grammy?I kinda like getting on her nerves. 606 00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:38,500 Secret's safe. 607 00:34:45,700 --> 00:34:49,000 He's failed to state a claim even suggesting liability. 608 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,200 How is it foreseeable to us that he would gobble multiple medications, 609 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,800 buying them off the Internet, without even consulting a doctor in person? 610 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,200 It's not just foreseeable, it's exactly what you count on! 611 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:02,200 Seducing the more vulnerable members of society to fall for your snake oil potions. 612 00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:03,500 Oh, that's just absurd! 613 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:07,500 Your Honor, hundreds of thousands of people die every year from prescription drugs. 614 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:11,300 Twentyseven thousand people were killed by Vioxx. 615 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:14,100 If you believe one FDA official, possibly 50,000. 616 00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:16,800 Yes. But you can't sue these people for Vioxx. 617 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,200 This isn't about Vioxx, which they don't even manufacture. 618 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,200 I'm talking about an industry-wide pattern. 619 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,600 We don't even know all the potential dangers of these drugs, 620 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,100 because the pharmaceutical industry systematically conceals them. 621 00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:31,700 They've been caught buying clinical trials, 622 00:35:31,700 --> 00:35:34,000 bribing doctors, distorting science. 623 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,000 Many of these so-called "peer-reviewed" a rticles we see in medical journals 624 00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:40,800 are actually ghost-written by the drug companies themselves, 625 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,500 and doctors take pay-offs and let their names appear as the authors. 626 00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:46,400 You have no evidence that any of that has happened here. 627 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:47,400 Because you hide it! 628 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,600 Your company previously buried evidence 629 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,100 which showed a link between antidepressants and suicidal thoughts in children. 630 00:35:53,100 --> 00:35:53,600 You did that. 631 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,900 Which we still deny. And this isn't that case. 632 00:35:55,900 --> 00:35:57,600 He doesn't have one single fact to support... 633 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,600 The fact is: The US pharmaceutical industry 634 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,600 spends almost twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development. 635 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:05,800 That's obscene! 636 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,300 American television viewers see as much as 16 hours 637 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:11,900 of prescription advertising each year. 638 00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:15,900 Sixteen hours! That's more time than most people spend at the movies. 639 00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:19,800 The fact is: They invent diseases, like social phobia, 640 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,600 generalized anxiety disorder to sell mind-altering drugs... 641 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,700 Anxiety is a clinical illness. 642 00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:28,300 To suggest otherwise is not only irresponsible, Your Honor... 643 00:36:28,300 --> 00:36:32,100 What's irresponsible is: We have scores of people being diagnosed 644 00:36:32,100 --> 00:36:35,500 with these vague mental disorders, millions of whom are children. 645 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:38,800 What's irresponsible is: We have 3-year-olds on antidepressants. 646 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,200 Why? Because the drug companies... just like Big Tobacco... know 647 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,100 that if you get these kids when they're young enough, you have a customer for life. 648 00:36:45,100 --> 00:36:47,200 I should sue you right now. You do not get a pass just 649 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:47,700 - because... - You want to sue me? 650 00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:52,100 Please do. Because truth is a complete defense, and I'm not the only one saying this. 651 00:36:52,100 --> 00:36:56,100 This industry invents chronic diseases, be it restless leg, dry eye syndrome, 652 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,800 or these unspecified sleep disorders that require nightly doses of habit-forming tranquilizers. 653 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,600 They first concoct the disorder, then the drug, 654 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,300 and then they blitz the public with commercials to convince ¡®em they're afflicted, 655 00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:11,400 and it's especially effective with senior citizens. 656 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,400 My client was popping pills like candy. He almost died! 657 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:15,400 He's out of control. 658 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,500 Your industry is out of control. 659 00:37:17,500 --> 00:37:21,500 You manufacture and sell disease at exorbitant cost. 660 00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:23,400 And the FDA refuses to regulate you. 661 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,100 The pharmaceutical lobby has a death grip on Congress. 662 00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:29,200 Mr. Shore, you need to settle down. 663 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:37,200 Your Honor, the FDA refuses to go after these people, so let it be me. 664 00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:40,500 They very nearly killed a man I dearly love. 665 00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:41,500 Let it be me. 666 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:45,500 But let me get started, because they stall. Of the 27,000 to 50,000 Vioxx deaths, 667 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,600 only 18 cases have reached juries so far... 18. 668 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,200 Most of the plaintiffs will in fact be dead before they're compensated in any way. 669 00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,400 Well, my client is 75. 670 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,200 So, please, let me get started on discovery, since clearly I'll need every second. 671 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,400 All right; all right. I will let this case stand. 672 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,300 What?! Are you crazy? 673 00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:06,700 Perhaps you could have a pill she could take. 674 00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:09,600 You're allowing him to go forward with no proximate cause? 675 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:10,800 That's preposterous. 676 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,600 What would be preposterous, sir, 677 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,400 is if I would extend the benefit of the doubt to your industry. 678 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:17,600 Do I look like an idiot? 679 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:18,700 They've got a pill for that, too. 680 00:38:18,700 --> 00:38:19,600 Will you shut up? 681 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,700 I have made my ruling. We are adjourned. 682 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:27,400 You've bitten off more than you can chew this time, my friend. 683 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,800 Oh, I don't swallow. I just chew up and spit out. 684 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:30,600 We'll see. 685 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,000 Zing. I can see you're good at this. 686 00:38:40,300 --> 00:38:44,200 Nervous, Jerry? Interesting cross of yours. 687 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:45,700 Little piece of advice, my friend: 688 00:38:45,700 --> 00:38:50,300 Never, ever, get up in court and try to "out-me" me. 689 00:38:50,300 --> 00:38:54,000 All right, Mr. Foreman; the jury has reached its verdict? 690 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,400 We have, Judge. 691 00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:56,700 What say you? 692 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,900 In the matter of Lauren Addario vs Superior Correctional Centers, 693 00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:03,500 we the jury find in favor of the plaintiff, 694 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:07,200 and order the defendant to pay damages in the amount of $1.7 million. 695 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:08,800 Defense appeals.Judge 696 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,300 So noted. Members of the jury: Thank you for your service. 697 00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:14,200 The judgment is entered. 698 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,200 This matter is adjourned. 699 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,000 You did it. 700 00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:19,600 Congratulations, Lauren. 701 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:20,800 Thank you. 702 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,200 Thank you. 703 00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:24,600 Jerry Espenson: Can't win ¡®em all, Mel. 704 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:28,400 Hey! Can you win any? Two pops for yes, bro. 705 00:39:31,900 --> 00:39:35,000 Jerry, in England, we're taught to be gracious in victory. 706 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,000 I couldn't help it. He's a big boob-head. 707 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,600 Well,congratulations. It seems your cross carried the day. 708 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:44,600 No; it was your closing. It was as persuasive as it was elegant. 709 00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:49,700 I guess we make quite a team, you and me..as... as colleagues. 710 00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:52,800 Of course. Absolutely. As colleagues. 711 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,000 Last week, Big Tobacco. This week, Big Pharmaceuticals. 712 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,600 Well, why not go out swinging, right? 713 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,700 Who says we're going out? 714 00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:15,900 I read somewhere you should live every year as if it's your last. 715 00:40:15,900 --> 00:40:19,300 Really? I can't imagine this is our last year. 716 00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:22,700 Aren't there still some time slots we haven't tried? 717 00:40:24,900 --> 00:40:27,900 Do you ever think about the end, Denny? 718 00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:29,700 Death? 719 00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:34,300 I feel somehow I'll just keep going on even after it's over... like Hillary. 720 00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:38,900 Reincarnation. You believe in that? 721 00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:41,600 I do, actually. What's the alternative? 722 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,700 Nothingness? I can't believe in that. 723 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,200 No. 724 00:40:47,700 --> 00:40:50,200 You believe in reincarnation? 725 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:51,200 I don't know. 726 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:55,400 I suppose if I ever did get to Heaven, God would almost certainly return me. 727 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:56,800 True. 728 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:01,300 What do you think you'll be in your next life? 729 00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:03,900 I hope a beautiful woman. I could touch myself. 730 00:41:03,900 --> 00:41:05,500 I might want to touch you. 731 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:08,400 You've already had your kiss. How was it for you? 732 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:09,500 I've had better. 733 00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:10,500 You didn't tongue me, did you? 734 00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:12,500 Oh, God, 735 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,700 I must say, 736 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:25,400 I feel ... great comfort, the way you're there for me. 737 00:41:26,100 --> 00:41:27,600 When the day does come, 738 00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:30,900 at least I won't be alone. 739 00:41:31,300 --> 00:41:33,300 You won't be alone. 740 00:41:35,900 --> 00:41:38,500 You know, if we are to think of it as our ast year, 741 00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:41,300 we need to think of how best to go out. 742 00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:42,200 Fishing, for sure. 743 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:42,800 For sure. 744 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,100 Supreme Court... gotta go back. 745 00:41:44,100 --> 00:41:45,600 Scalia misses me. 746 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:46,900 Shirley. 747 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,400 Once with Shirley before I go. 748 00:41:52,300 --> 00:41:55,100 I can't believe you actually got to suck face with me. 749 00:41:55,100 --> 00:41:56,800 And I brought you back to life. 750 00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,800 Like Snow White. 751 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,100 Like Snow White. 752 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,100 Of all the women I have loved, been loved by... 753 00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:10,100 whoever would have believed that Alan Shore would be my Prince Charming? 754 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:12,600 Let no man tear asunder. 755 00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,000 Till death do us part. 756 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:17,700 Amen.