[TV chatter]
[door closes]
- Hi.
- I can't believe it.
Second game of the series and it's not on television.
- What? Murray: Baseball.
World Series, how could they not put it on?
- What the hell is that?
- That's our Christmas tree.
What are you, nuts, you can't buy
a Christmas tree in October, it won't last.
[sighs]
It's not October. It's December.
Christmas is next Tuesday.
You're having your Alzheimer's again.
Shut up. I don't want that in here.
- Uh
-da
-da, it's Christmas
-
-
- Don't you talk back to me!
You see any Christmas in here?
Christmas is rooms full of people
and eggnog, and relatives spending the night.
You see any eggnog?
- You see people?
- We're here.
I don't want that tree in here!
But don't yell at me! Come on!
You're having your Alzheimer's again.
- I can't even smell it!
- Don't do that, please!
Now stop it, you're gonna hurt the tree!
- Let me go!
- No!
[theme music]
[music continues]
[music continues]
[instrumental music]
Let's get going, we've got a full docket.
First up, a reminder of the annual Christmas party,
commencing at o'clock, Friday. Thank you.
Against my better judgment, we've put Ms. Lamb in charge.
It could even be a party.
Douglas: Let us note once again,
she's skipped out on the staff meeting.
Let us further note, Abby Perkins
has decided to follow suit.
- Alright, Douglas.
- Moving on.
The early morning draw for the dreaded role of Santa Claus
took place this morning and the lucky winner is...
[imitates drum roll]
Grace Van Owen.
- Oh, no! Jonathan: Can I be your elf?
Alright! I like that very much!
Douglas: Alright, let's turn to business.
Jonathan and I are ready to go forward again
with the Noah Cowan proposal.
Isn't he the guy with Tourette's Syndrome
Douglas: Yes, we found another group of investors
for his computer software program.
We have a ten o'clock meeting with the client today,
then a multi
-million
-dollar private offering
set for tomorrow, and this time I think we'll pull it off.
Moving on. Kohler vs. Westbrook Medical.
Well, our last settlement offer was rejected,
so the trial starts today.
Douglas: Best of luck. Ann...
I'm still waiting on your opinion letter
to send to the Quebec Nordiques.
I can't do it without the tax projection
from Stuart which I still haven't gotten.
I didn't realize it was a rush, why didn't you tell me?
- I sent you a memo.
- A memo?
Well, let's get on it ASAP, please?
Now, on a truly exhilarating note,
I'm pleased to announce, yesterday afternoon,
Rosalind Shays was arrested for S&L fraud.
- What?
- You're kidding.
- Indicted? Grace: Wait, shh, shh.
She's one of the directors at a savings and loan,
the whole board was brought up on charges,
she could actually be going to jail.
- Yes! Stuart: Oh, isn't that a shame.
Leland: Alright! Alright, now that's enough.
I'm surprised at all of you, wishing that on somebody.
Now if any of you are questioned on this by the media,
I expect you to behave with a lot more dignity
than you have here. Move along, Douglas.
Douglas: I believe that's it. Remember...
Clients are invited to the party.
Cabs and designated drivers are being arranged.
Noah: Oh, boy! Whoop!
Douglas: Jonathan, that would be our ten o'clock.
- Yeah. Douglas: We're adjourned.
Grace, a minute in my office, please.
[indistinct chatter]
You want me to represent Rosalind Shays?
Well, from what I understand, she's innocent, and
-
-
I doubt it.
But even if she is, why should we help her?
- $,, that's why.
- Meaning what?
Leland: If we can get this case dismissed, she'll kick back
grand from the judgment we paid her.
And that's an enormous payoff for one afternoon's work.
Why me? You have a list of so many
-
-
Because you have the relationship with Bruce Rogoff,
and the entire DA's office.
Rosalind feels if she could just get their ear,
she knows they'll drop it.
Leland, I'm sorry, but I cannot
-
-
Don't make me pull rank, Grace.
If she's guilty, we'll tell her to forget it.
If she's innocent, we can't afford not to do this.
They're ready to put up all the capital?
They loved the proposal and they specifically asked us
not to take it to anybody else.
I think they're ready to bankroll your entire company.
[chuckles] Gee, that sounds too good to be true.
The question we're asking ourselves, Noah,
is whether you should attend the meeting.
Why shouldn't I? á#*á#á#* Whoop!
'Cause the last two offerings have gone south
the second investors met you.
Listen, Noah, you know I think
you should be open about the Tourette's.
But it's obviously scaring people off.
They'll find out about it anyway, won't they?
I
-
- I mean, won't we be having quarterly
or annual meetings where I
-
- I have to report?
Absolutely, but our thinking is once the company
is running smoothly and making money,
they won't care.
And
-
- and that isn't a kind of fraud?
Concealing this? Oh, boy, bald, whoop!
[Douglas sighs]
It
-
- it's okay to do this?
Noah, it's only securities fraud
if you withhold material information.
Since Tourette's isn't psychological or mental,
and doesn't impair your ability to run a company,
we don't consider it material. [file thuds]
Just the same, better if they don't know.
Noah, we both know how hard you've worked on this.
We
-
- we just don't want it to all be for nothing.
[smacks lips] Okay.
Let me know how it goes.
We will for sure.
Whoop!
- Hi.
- Hi, Benny.
I got you chicken with mayonnaise and mustard.
Roxanne wanted me to bring you this soup.
She said to make sure you eat it.
[chuckles] She's a sweetheart.
I called Aurora and Crystal, I told 'em
we couldn't come out tonight 'cause you gotta rest.
Benny, look, I wired the Christmas lights
through the plug in back of the TV set.
Look.
[switch clicks] Huh?
[switch clicking]
[laughing] Isn't that beautiful?
Yeah.
Benny, look under the tree.
I, uh, I got you a present. I wrapped it up myself.
I used all that phony newspaper with December written on it.
[dog barking in distance]
You're a good friend, Benny.
A lot of people do a zillion things with their lives,
[cover rustling] make a lot of money.
But sometimes, the hardest thing to do is be a good friend.
I'm glad we're spending Christmas together.
Me too, Benny. Me too.
[Murray chuckling]
And, Dr. Kohler, you were born with this disease?
Paul: Yes, I was diagnosed in , I was years old.
Could you tell the court exactly what neurofibromatosis is.
It's a genetic disorder.
The symptoms vary but in my case,
it's caused some skin discoloration
and some neurofibroma tumors.
Susan: This is what is commonly known
as Elephant Man's disease?
That's correct.
Could you describe the progression
of it in your case, sir?
Paul: For most of my life it was totally latent.
Then, during my third year of medical school,
I developed several small tumors on my back and upper arms.
And, Dr. Kohler, did you have these tumors
when you were hired as a general practitioner
by the defendant's medical group?
Yes, and I informed them. They told me it wasn't an issue.
Susan: But things changed, didn't they, doctor?
Yes, about a year and a half ago,
the disease radicalized. I experienced
rapid growth and spread of the tumors.
Susan: They spread to your face?
- They spread to my face.
And what did the defendant do then?
- He fired me. Susan: He tell you why?
Paul: He said the patients didn't want to be treated by me,
he said... Um...
[man in audience coughs]
That he couldn't afford to have a doctor
who looked the way I look.
Sir, do you believe you can be
an effective physician despite your condition?
One of the reasons I chose to become a doctor
is because I know what it's like on the other end
of the stethoscope.
I know what it's like to have something.
I... Yes, I believe I have been an effective physician
and I believe I could continue to be.
Thank you, sir. I have nothing further.
Doctor, the day before you were terminated,
a patient by the name of Cindy Knoll
came in for a consult, would that be correct?
Please describe for the court what transpired
during this examination, sir?
The patient became ill.
The patient was caused to vomit.
- Yes. Victor: Do you know why?
She said she wasrepulsed by my appearance.
Isn't it true, doctor, that many such patients
have had this reaction to your disfigurement?
I wouldn't say many. There have been others, yes.
Victor: In fact, since the tumors have begun
to spread to your hands and face,
over half of your clients have left, isn't that true?
The ignorance of my patients does not excuse my employers.
He's a doctor, he knows that this disease
has nothing to do with my ability
-
-
Sir, he hired you to cultivate a practice.
And you could no longer do that, true or false?
I still have a practice.
[clears throat] Doctor, how do you expect people
to come to you to be cured
when you yourself appear to be so ill?
I think people should be open
-minded
to things they don't understand.
Do you expect them to be comfortable
being touched by you?
Let's forget about in time, doctor,
I'm talking about right now.
I'm talking about when they first walk in and see you.
When they first come in the door and look at you
and see the tumors on your hands and on your face.
Do you really expect them to be anything other than horrified?
- That doesn't make them right.
- No, it doesn't.
And I am sure that in a perfect world
this wouldn't happen.
But this isn't a perfect world, is it, Dr. Kohler?
No, Mr. Sifuentes, it certainly is not.
Nothing further.
[murmuring]
Grace: You were on their board for almost
three years, Rosalind, it'll be difficult
to show that you didn't know
about the sweetheart loans or the bad real estate deals?
If you look at the minutes, you'll see that I wasn't even
present at the meetings, I had nothing to do
with the running of the company,
or making any of their decisions.
Then why did they indict you?
They indicted the whole board,
including Chandler Jeffries,
who's been in a nursing home for the past four years.
Look, you may be innocent for all I know,
but the idea of representing you is repugnant to me.
- Grace. Rosalind: No, that's fair.
You're honest, I appreciate that.
Now, let me be frank.
I am not looking to mend any fences here,
and I am certainly not chasing after your affection.
Now you can help me avoid the stain of an investigation.
I'm willing to pay you $,
to do it, it's a simple business deal.
Rogoff isn't going to kick you if he thinks you're guilty.
All I want is for you to get him to look at the facts closely,
before he starts calling press conferences.
We'll talk to him.
Thank you.
And so you knew of his condition at the time you hired him?
Absolutely, so we can't be accused
of discriminating against his handicap.
But in effect, you did fire him because of the disease.
I discharged him because he couldn't fulfill
the function for which he was hired.
- Which was? George: To build a practice.
To make money for the company, his caseload just dropped
after the tumors spread to his face.
Patients were afraid of him.
Well, did you take any steps
to uh, mitigate the situation?
Yes, at first we would forewarn and educate the patients,
in the hopes they wouldn't be so... Well, shocked.
That didn't work, then we tried to adjust
his responsibilities, so he was doing
mostly consults with other doctors.
But the fact is, there just wasn't
enough consulting work to keep him busy.
So you terminated his employment.
George: I had no choice, I'm certainly sorry
that people discriminate against him,
but there is nothing I can do about that.
Thank you, Dr. Westbrook.
[smacks lips] I have nothing further.
So you agree patients were discriminating against this man?
And your response is to accommodate this prejudice
by discharging the victim of the discrimination.
Well, I don't look at it like that.
You don't, well, you fired him
because people couldn't stomach his handicap.
How does that do anything but legitimize their bigotry?
I have a business, Ms. Hauber,
if patients won't go to him, what else can I do?
So if they refused to be seen by a doctor in a wheelchair,
you'd fire that doctor, too.
Some of your white patients don't want to be examined
by a black, bye
-bye to the black physician.
- Objection!
- Overruled.
I would never support that kind of posit
-
-
So you do support their position on this one?
- I didn't say that.
- That's exactly what you said.
The discrimination against this handicap is permissible.
He's a doctor, he's supposed to reassure people.
- They see his condition
-
-
- Move to strike, Your Honor.
George: How much confidence do you think that instills?
Susan: There's a law saying you can't fire
a person because of his handicap!
We never knew it could get that bad!
...'cause he wasn't commensurate with your aesthetic image!
Look at him, for God's sake! Just look at him!
[scattered coughs]
["Holly Jolly Christmas" by Michael Bublé on TV]
[door closes] I'm home.
I brought microwave hamburgers today.
With cheese.
The tree looks great. Murray?
♪ But have a cup of cheer
♪ Have a holly jolly Christmas
Murray?
♪ And when you walk down the street ♪
Murray?
[bag thuds]
Murray?
Wake up!! Murray!!!
[chair creaking]
[stretcher clattering]
[indistinct chatter]
- Are you okay, Benny?
- Yeah, I guess.
Looks like it was a stroke. I think he went pretty quickly.
- Where do you take him now?
- The morgue, then funeral home.
Alright, that's Rosen's Funeral Parloron Sunset.
- I wanna see him.
- Excuse me?
Well, when he gets to the mortuary, you can
-
-
No! I wanna see him
before they do anything to him.
[indistinct chatter]
[cover rustling]
Look what you've done now, daddy.
Look what you've gone and done.
Go to sleep now.
I wouldn't produce that box, it's all work product.
Yeah, but on the other hand, if we give 'em all boxes
over the holidays, they're bound to forget
about lookin' at any of 'em.
Ann? Here.
I'll have the tax projections for you by the end of the day.
Great, thanks.
And I think, in the future,
you might find a more direct channel than a memo.
You seem to be the one with communication problems, Stuart.
[quietly] Twirp.
You know, this is none of my business,
but I remember my father,
he had to get a colostomy and it like
threatened his manhood and everything
and finally, he just, well, he just,
had to get some space from my mother,
so he just took off, you know?
- Did he ever come back?
- No, he...
It was a bad example, actually.
But he was nothing like Stuart.
This box is all ledgers, they can have that. [sighs]
Right, you know, at the staff meetings,
when you're not aware, he's always lookin' at ya.
We have a lot of stuff to go through here, Tommy.
[smacks lips] Right.
How does he look at me?
All cute, you know?
Like a little pinched up hamster.
A % interest is not out of line,
he invented the software, he developed the program.
But he isn't putting up anything.
Look, the by
-laws provide for a $,
-salary
the first year, whether this flies or not.
- It'll fly.
- We think so, too.
The point is, Mr. Cowan is totally protected and we're not.
How about until we recoup?
After that, we'll give him the extra five.
- I think we can live with that.
- Fantastic.
Jimmy, you hack out the language with 'em.
Only thing left, I guess, is to meet Mr. Cowan.
- Why?
- "Why?"
Because we're about to start a three
-million
-dollar
corporation, we think it would be a nice idea
to say hi to the CEO. Is there a problem with that?
No. No, it's just that we don't know his schedule this week
and, well, I'd hate to hold up the deal.
We're about to convert an ex
-market analyst
into a very rich entrepreneur.
Something tells me he'll be able to adjust his schedule.
Okay. No problem. No problem at all.
This is a huge problem.
Whoop! Uh... L
-
- let me try the hypnosis.
- Does it really work?
- It has... sometimes.
It... Oh, boy. Uh, it
-
- it can at least help.
What exactly happens with this hypnosis?
It's basically just a relaxing technique.
It calms me... á#*á#á#*
Noah: It calms me down.
And if I concentrate, I can control it.
But not for... Oh, boy.
- Uh, not for long.
- It's worth a try.
Call your therapist and arrange the session
for tomorrow morning.
All we can do is pray that it works.
Well, we'll make it work.
Okay. I'll see you tomorrow.
- Okay.
- :.
This isn't right.
- This is b
- fraud.
- It isn't fraud.
We're withholding information from investors.
What do you wanna do, Jonathan?
If he comes in whooping and spitting,
you know as well as I do, Noah will go home alone,
unemployed, with nothing to show for the last year of his life.
You want that?
[door opens]
[indistinct chatter]
May I?
I believe this would be an ex
-parte communication.
Yeah... Well, I'll risk it.
[laughs]
[Victor sighs]
[sighs]
[cover rustling]
I, uh, I wanted you to know that...
When I try a case, I play to win.
You know? And, uh...
Well, sometimes I say things
that I don't personally believe in.
Which would you be referring to, Mr. Sifuentes?
The part about me being repulsive?
The part about my face making people vomit?
I
-
- I'm a lawyer trying a case.
Oh, that you are, an excellent lawyer
who knows full well the prohibition
against introducing false evidence.
A lawyer who would only offer up facts
he knows or thinks to be true.
- W
-
- what I wanted to say
-
-
- Is that you feel sorry for me.
[chuckles] Imagine my joy at being pitied by the guy
who was hired to get me.
- I don't pity you.
- Oh, Mr. Sifuentes.
We're talking about a symptom I'm quite expert at diagnosing.
Y
-
- you talk about being repulsed,
let me tell you what repulses me.
The idea that people feel sorry for me.
The idea that people who don't even know me,
can with one glance know enough
to feel sorry for me, I don't want...
[indistinct chatter]
When these things grew on my face,
I didn't give in to them. I had them cut off.
When they grew back again, I cut them off again.
No matter what I do, they keep growing back.
I can be just as resilient as these bumps!
I fight back, too! [spoon clanks]
[thuds]
The irony is the only way I can win this trial
is by getting strangers in a jury box...
to feel sorry for me.
[chuckles]
[theme music]
Okay.
Just start breathing for me, Noah.
[door closes]
Slow and deep,
and we'll start in a minute.
Does this have any chance of working?
We usually can shut down the muscle tics for a short period.
It's never gonna be a %, but...
If he stays focused, there is a shot.
- You ready, Noah? Noah: Ready.
[breathing deeply]
Now you understand even if he gets through the meeting,
he's likely to have a massive tic break, right after.
- What do you mean, tic break?
- Basically, lets it all out.
Swearing, spitting.
The more successful he is at containment,
the bigger the tic break will likely be.
Let's just do it.
You guys, stand away.
Okay, Noah...
close you eyes.
Be relaxed now.
Breath it out. [exhales]
Now I want you to go from ninety
-nine to zero...
staying relaxed.
Ninety
-nine.
Ninety
-eight.
Ninety
-seven.
Excellent. Breathing it right out.
Noah: Ninety
-six.
Wexler: Focused. Noah: Ninety
-five.
Ninety
-four.
Whoop! Oh, boy!
[Noah spitting]
[traffic bustling]
Your Honor, Dr. Kohler has requested
that he give his own closing argument.
Proceed.
What I have, you know, is not all that uncommon.
Over a million and a half people
are afflicted with neurofibromatosis.
Not all as bad as me, but one out of three thousand people
are born with it.
The, um, reason you don't know this
is that we are driven into dark closets of secrecy.
[chuckles] We stay hidden, so as not to offend.
If you could get used to these lumps...
on my face
you m
-
- might see me as a human being,
who laughs like you do,
cries like you do. [chuckles]
Who dreams of a world, as I'm sure all of you do, where
discrimination of any kind is totally eliminated.
But, in, uh, my case, that's going to take some doing.
Because the prejudice against me is so seemingly reasonable.
I look the way I look, how could anyone not be...
Affected.
Nevertheless, to forgive... bigotry,
and that's what they're asking you to do here...
is to foster it. To excuse it is to give it life.
To conquer it...
Well...
somewhere, somebody who's either tired enough
or hurt enough, or maybe just desperate enough
has to finally rise up and say "Stop!"
Stop.
Please...
Stop.
[woman clears throat]
[man coughs]
You know, um...
as you listen to this man
I think it's hard not to be overwhelmed by his... eloquence
and his, uh...
dignity.
And I have no doubt that to know Dr. Paul Kohler,
is to know an integrity and a spirit...
that could almost blind you to his handicap.
But...
that doesn't change the fact
that when you first look at this man
what you see is a freak.
A horribly
-d*sfigured freak.
And I can't but wonder, if any of you
were to walk into an examination room
and saw this man as your doctor,
what would you think?
Hmm.
That's why they discharged him, ladies and gentlemen.
Because people don't want to see disease
in the face of their doctor.
And with this particular doctor it is difficult
to see anything else.
[man coughs]
[traffic bustling]
[siren wailing]
The distribution contract with AmFab
is tentatively set for five years.
Since the lifespan of the software,
even your best software, is three to four years,
AmFab shouldn't be your concern.
Your bigger worry should be when does
this package go from being state...
[clears throat] State of the art to obsolete.
And it's on that front that our software is superior.
[sneezes]
- Bless you. Noah: Thank you.
Obviously, we're very interested
in your projection for expansion.
Oh, I think it would be a big mistake
to emphasize expansion early on.
The best thing you can do to promote this product,
is to develop it's reputation.
And, um, for that,
you have to exalt quality control
over your blitzing marketing techniques.
When would you anticipate an increase in production?
[squeakily] Oh, uh...
- Sixteen months.
- Not sooner?
Oh, definitely not sooner. Maybe later.
Demand will have to proceed supply.
Well, you've certainly developed an outstanding program.
[relief sighs] Thank you very much.
- Oh, boy
-
-
- Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy!
- This is gonna be great.
- Lawyers, go ahead and draft.
Let's close this thing tomorrow.
Well, Douglas and Jonathan have my power of attorney,
I
-
- I assume they can execute.
Douglas: Absolutely.
- It's been a genuine pleasure.
Oh, we'll be in touch.
[coughs] Okay, Noah.
You actually got her off?
Rogoff is going to dismiss the charges.
- Because he
-
-
- I'm sorry, this is despicable!
- Why? Ann: Why?
Because we are total whores to do anything
for Rosalind Shays, after what she's done to us!
A paying client is a paying client.
That's crap, Leland, and you know it.
We turned down Anderson Industries, a million
-dollar
client, because we didn't like what they stood for.
We're in a different situation now.
You could all be looking at no partnership bonus this year, a
-
-
- I don't care, Leland!
- So what?
You damn well do care,
you'd be the first one to cry about it.
You know, I can't believe that you went along with this.
She's innocent, they had no case.
- Oh, I bet.
- She's not innocent!
Douglas: Hey, come on, this benefits all of us.
There's nothing to be ashamed about.
Well, then why wasn't this out in the open, Leland?
I wasn't hiding it, I just decided
not to publicize it, I knew there'd be opposition.
- You knew how wrong it was.
- There's no excuse for that.
Alright, that's enough!
Now, I made a decision as senior partner.
I made a decision I felt was in the best interest of the firm,
and that decision stands!
And I don't want to hear another damn word
about it from anybody!
Noah: Whoop! Oh, boy!
á#*á#á#*! Slut!
Bitch! Bitch! Slut!
Whore! Dago! Whoop!
[crickets chirping]
[instrumental music]
[chair creaking]
[clicks]
[paper rustling]
[music continues]
[sighs] I've gotten some strange requests
from jurors over the years
and I suppose this one...
Well...
If it will help you reach a verdict, then...
Ms. Hauber, the jury would like to inspect
the hands of your client.
As I understand their intent,
in determining whether it is reasonable
for patients to reject being examined by this man
they'd like to see his hands.
Your Honor, the state of mind of the patients
is not at issue here. This case deals with discrimination.
I understand that, counsel, but the defendant's conduct
was based on the foreseeable reactions of patients.
Dr. Kohler, I am sorry about this,
but I'd like you to walk in front of the jury box,
and hold your hands out for inspection.
Uh, Your Honor, we have no objection
to the jurors touching the hands, if they so desire.
Proceed, Dr. Kohler.
[dramatic music]
You've got our red
-lined copies.
The only thing we refused to delete
was the financing contingency,
but that appears to be pretty moot.
The way banks are busting out today,
I just don't like taking any chances.
That's not a problem. The contingency's good for days?
Markos: Exactly.
- That's fine.
[door opens] Whoop!
Mr. Cowan, good to see you again.
Noah: Oh, thank you.
Listen, there's something...
Oh, boy!
Uh, that you don't know about me
and I think you should before signing those papers.
No, no, no. Please.
I, uh...
[smacks lips]
I suffer from Tourette's Syndrome.
Oh, boy... Whoop!
Uh, my lawyers didn't want you to know
because they were afraid, ppffitt...
That, that you'd back out of the deal,
but I want you to know.
I want you to know... Oh, boy!
[sighs] ...exactly what you're getting.
Tourette's Syndrome is a neurological disorder.
It causes muscle tics and an inability
to control impulses to make certain sounds.
But he didn't do this yesterday.
Yesterday I was under hypnosis.
This is me. I have Tourette's Syndrome.
But it didn't stop me from inventing this software
a
-
- and it won't stop me from running this company.
I
-
- I'm not a nut and I'm not crazy.
I have this thing that, um, that makes me different.
Whoop! [sighs]
Well, I'll be honest, I do want to get
some more information on this Tourette's thing.
But I can say that nothing I've seen here tonight
causes me to change my mind.
[sighs] Good.
Andriosi: In fact, Mr. Cowan, I'm probably
even more impressed with you.
It seems in addition to brains,
we're getting some integrity here.
Well, thank you.
Douche bag.
[sighs]
As for you two,
I'm reporting you to the State Bar.
I'm also drafting a declaration
stating my belief that you both committed willful violation
of the Securities Exchange Act,
and it will be filed with the SEC
by the end of business, today.
[man coughs]
I want to thank you all for coming.
But mostly... I wanna thank you
for the way you treated my father.
We weren't very close.
Our main form of dialogue was argument.
But, no matter what we were fighting about
my father always let me know
that he never stopped loving me.
That's the thing about daddy...
You could hit him right between the eyes
and the only thing to swell up would be his heart.
I know you're up there with God, daddy.
Please don't tell him how to run things.
I love you.
I love you forever.
Excuse me.
Um, Murray wrote this before
and he asked me to read it
after he, after he died.
And, uh, he wanted me to do it with music.
[clicks]
[instrumental music]
"By now, I, Murray Melman, have croaked."
"I wanna say goodbye to my family and to my country."
"Roxanne,
uh, tell your mother I wish her
a long life, so I can get
some quality time in heaven
before she gets there."
"Tell her that when her time has come,
I only regret it couldn't be me
driving the bus that runs her down
and, and then..."
Hmm.
[music continues]
"Backs up over her again."
Benny: Yeah.
"Goodbye to my friends."
"I salute life."
"I salute you all."
"Now salute me back."
[music continues]
♪ I can stand up
♪ Stand up and face the world
♪ Girl, you know, your love
♪ Keeps on liftin' me
♪ Higher
♪ I'm getting higher
♪ High, ooh, love, love
♪ Lift it higher! Higher!
♪ We'll grow higher and higher ♪
♪ Higher
♪ Your love keeps lifting me ♪ Keeps on
[man vocalizing]
♪ Higher and higher! Higher!
♪ Your love is liftin' me higher ♪
♪ Come on, baby
♪ Lifting me higher! ♪
Hey, I don't think the SEC will do anything.
Why not, it was material disclosure.
You hear that? You're gonna roll on me, Jonathan?
I
-I
-I just danced with Vanna...
Whoop... Vanna, whoop.
- Vanna White.
- He was great, too.
Ann Kelsey, Jonathan Rollins, Vanna White.
- Hi. Jonathan: How're you doing?
- Love your show.
- Thank you.
- C'mon, Douglas, let's go! Douglas: I'm ready.
Nice to meet you.
Noah, thanks for the dance.
It was my pleasure. Slut. Oh, boy!
No, really. You shouldn't have.
Ah, come on, it's no big deal.
I just wanted to say Merry Christmas and...
- And thank you.
- For what?
For being a friend when I needed one.
Oh, that was my pleasure.
Merry Christmas.
Uh... excuse me.
[clears throat] Excuse me.
- Stuart?
- Ah, the clerk's office called.
- Your jury's back.
- Thanks.
- Um, the jury's
-
-
- I heard.
Thanks.
[all cheering]
[sighs]
Madam Foreperson, has the jury reached a verdict?
- We have, Your Honor. Judge: What say you?
In the matter of Kohler vs. Westbrook Medical Group,
we find in favor of the plaintiff,
and order the defendant to pay damages
in the amount of $,.
Judge: Members of the jury, thank you for your service.
Have a happy holiday, we are adjourned.
[indistinct chatter]
Dr. Westbrook, my client has an offer
he'd like you to consider. Paul?
[sighs]
Pay me the three seventy
-five over three years.
As salary.
You let me have my job back,
you let me try to build a practice.
If I fail, you only end up paying the judgment.
If I sustain any kind of practice,
you see some return and end up paying less.
Who knows, you may make money.
It's not just that you failed to make money for us, Paul.
You lose money, the patients of the other doctors,
they see you in the halls... i
-
- i
-
- it's just
not fair to the other physicians.
The jury just told you you're wrong, didn't you hear them?
They told you I deserve a chance.
That jury was just playing Santa Clause to an orphan, Paul.
They felt badly for you. Just as I feel badly for you.
But I have to safeguard the welfare of the company.
You'd rather just pay me to walk away?
- Yes.
- Yeah.
[chuckles]
Okay. Well...
Hey! Now I promised if we won,
we'd celebrate. So let's celebrate.
[chuckling] Come on.
I'm sorry, Paul.
Well, you lost here, not me, George.
I just got a big judgment. I'm rich.
[indistinct singing]
♪ I've got to go, I've got to go, I've got to go! ♪
What?
I want to come home.
- Why?
- I'd like us to be together.
I want to spend Christmas with my son and my wife.
And without the holidays factoring into the equation,
would you still want to be coming home?
You want to come over Christmas Day, Stuart,
you're absolutely welcome.
But don't you dare
tell me that you are ready to come home
until you can say that you are ready to come back to me.
Ann, I know that I love you.
Yeah. Well, I'm getting a lawyer, Stuart.
I am not gonna sit around and wait until...
I'm getting a lawyer, Stuart.
♪ Baby, I need your lovin'
♪ Got to have all your lovin'
♪ Baby, I need your lovin'
♪ Got to have all your lovin'
♪ Baby, I need... ♪
God, it was nice to see everybody
having fun together again.
It's been so damn long since the people in this firm
really enjoyed one another.
I suppose that's my fault?
Well, actually, nobody's helped
bring us closer together than you, my friend.
[chuckles]
Hey. No jail for you this year.
[laughing]
Thank you, Leland.
I don't know how I could ever repay you.
Oh, yes, you do.
$,.
Is everything always about money?
[chuckling]
Merry Christmas, Ros.
Merry Christmas.
[clicks]
[both laughing]
[theme music]
05x08 - God Rest Ye Murray Gentleman
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High-powered law firm of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak handles both criminal and civil cases, but the office politics and romance often distract them from the courtroom.
High-powered law firm of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak handles both criminal and civil cases, but the office politics and romance often distract them from the courtroom.