1 00:00:00,050 --> 00:00:01,620 Previously on "Boston Legal"... 2 00:00:01,630 --> 00:00:03,610 Mr. And mrs. Ivan Tiggs. 3 00:00:03,620 --> 00:00:05,050 I think Ivan is cheating. 4 00:00:05,060 --> 00:00:07,340 Cheating... on you, his wife? 5 00:00:07,350 --> 00:00:11,390 The important part is that you did the brave, honorable, honest thing by telling me. 6 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,020 And I still want you to represent me. 7 00:00:13,030 --> 00:00:14,660 My name is Leigh Swift. 8 00:00:14,670 --> 00:00:16,350 - This box... - Is my lover. 9 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,300 Would you like to get a drink with me? 10 00:00:18,630 --> 00:00:21,320 if you don't want to date me anymore, please just be honest with me. 11 00:00:21,330 --> 00:00:24,040 I'm quite sympathetic to the condition of objectophilia, 12 00:00:24,050 --> 00:00:28,210 but if your girlfriend cheats on you with a clock radio and runs off with an iPhone, 13 00:00:28,220 --> 00:00:30,920 she's bonkers, and you'd best be done with her. 14 00:00:41,650 --> 00:00:43,310 Hallo! 15 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:45,110 Missy. 16 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,910 Bet you're surprised to see me. 17 00:00:48,980 --> 00:00:49,930 Well... 18 00:00:49,940 --> 00:00:54,850 I'm here under the most wonderful and tragic of circumstances. 19 00:00:57,430 --> 00:00:58,390 So... 20 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,740 First the good news-- I've been in therapy... 21 00:01:00,750 --> 00:01:03,870 after Ivan crushed me like a bug! 22 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:05,620 Therapy's going well, I see. 23 00:01:05,630 --> 00:01:06,790 Oh, it is. 24 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,380 Very innovative. 25 00:01:08,390 --> 00:01:10,960 Created by two geniuses at Emerson. 26 00:01:10,970 --> 00:01:12,000 Maybe you've heard of it. 27 00:01:12,010 --> 00:01:14,340 It's called "life is a song." 28 00:01:14,350 --> 00:01:17,720 Basically they teach you to look at the world as one big musical. 29 00:01:17,730 --> 00:01:19,380 I'm thriving under it. 30 00:01:19,390 --> 00:01:21,990 No matter how low things could get... 31 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:28,190 I get the idea. 32 00:01:28,850 --> 00:01:31,630 Anyway, I met someone. 33 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:35,730 And get this-- he's a beautiful african man. 34 00:01:36,050 --> 00:01:37,930 And he speaks perfect english. 35 00:01:37,940 --> 00:01:39,570 He was born and raised in the States. 36 00:01:39,580 --> 00:01:42,190 His great-grandparents moved here years ago. 37 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,480 So he's african-american then. 38 00:01:44,490 --> 00:01:45,900 Exactly. 39 00:01:45,910 --> 00:01:47,300 And it gets even better. 40 00:01:47,310 --> 00:01:49,220 It couldn't possibly. 41 00:01:49,230 --> 00:01:50,690 We're pregnant. 42 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:53,720 I'm having an african-american baby. 43 00:01:54,690 --> 00:01:56,600 Having his baby... 44 00:01:57,930 --> 00:02:01,210 What's the tragic part, beside the music? 45 00:02:01,220 --> 00:02:02,150 Oh, yes. 46 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,360 Well, he doesn't want to have it. 47 00:02:04,370 --> 00:02:06,220 Claims he never meant to get me pregnant. 48 00:02:06,230 --> 00:02:07,650 Haven't we all heard that? 49 00:02:07,660 --> 00:02:08,560 Well, did he? 50 00:02:08,570 --> 00:02:10,000 Actually, no. 51 00:02:10,570 --> 00:02:12,790 We only went out twice, actually, 52 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:17,140 but because I want to have a family and there's that biological clock to worry about, 53 00:02:17,150 --> 00:02:22,220 I made a teeny-weeny little deposit of his seed thingy in the sperm bank. 54 00:02:22,230 --> 00:02:24,480 Well, why did he give you his sperm if-- 55 00:02:24,490 --> 00:02:26,720 Well, he didn't exactly give it to me. 56 00:02:26,730 --> 00:02:30,170 I played a little unzippedy-do with his fly thingy, 57 00:02:30,180 --> 00:02:34,430 and I "persuaded him" with "oral arguments." 58 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:39,170 Then I put his african-american seed in a test tube, and I fertilized my egg. 59 00:02:39,180 --> 00:02:42,030 That's how you got Mr. Sperm? 60 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:45,970 And now he says he's going to sue me. 61 00:02:47,090 --> 00:02:48,780 Can you imagine? 62 00:02:48,790 --> 00:02:53,610 Set out my little honey trap, now I'm having an african-american baby. 63 00:03:30,820 --> 00:03:32,410 Hello, Jerry. 64 00:03:33,980 --> 00:03:35,410 Leigh. 65 00:03:36,010 --> 00:03:37,740 Hello, Leigh. 66 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:41,430 Jerry... 67 00:03:41,890 --> 00:03:44,800 I know we parted in an awkward way, 68 00:03:44,810 --> 00:03:49,280 for which I'm ashamed, but I'm not here about that. 69 00:03:49,790 --> 00:03:51,550 I'm afraid I need a lawyer. 70 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,570 I've been fired from my long-standing teaching position. 71 00:03:54,580 --> 00:03:57,360 What'd you do, give tongue to a locker? 72 00:03:57,370 --> 00:03:58,210 That was mean. 73 00:03:58,220 --> 00:04:00,890 Dumping me for a smartphone was mean. 74 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,320 Wh-why did they discharge you? 75 00:04:05,330 --> 00:04:07,620 Because I hugged a student. 76 00:04:07,630 --> 00:04:08,860 Not sexually. 77 00:04:08,870 --> 00:04:10,450 - Not like I would a-- - A clock radio. 78 00:04:10,460 --> 00:04:11,750 - Mean! - Meaner! 79 00:04:12,340 --> 00:04:13,770 You hugged a student? 80 00:04:13,780 --> 00:04:15,590 A student in distress. 81 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,040 I went to comfort her. 82 00:04:17,050 --> 00:04:19,600 My school has a policy-- no hugging. 83 00:04:19,610 --> 00:04:21,010 This child needed a hug. 84 00:04:21,020 --> 00:04:23,020 I gave it to her. 85 00:04:23,590 --> 00:04:24,810 I want to sue them. 86 00:04:24,820 --> 00:04:28,530 This political correctness crap has gone too far. 87 00:04:29,290 --> 00:04:31,410 Could you help me? 88 00:04:45,970 --> 00:04:48,520 Missy Tiggs is having your child? 89 00:04:48,830 --> 00:04:51,640 Look, the woman practically raped me. 90 00:04:51,650 --> 00:04:52,720 You know what I'm saying? 91 00:04:52,730 --> 00:04:53,900 I can't be with her. 92 00:04:53,910 --> 00:04:57,240 Well, Mr. Maxwell, you don't have to be with her. 93 00:04:57,250 --> 00:04:59,210 But that's the thing, man. 94 00:04:59,220 --> 00:05:01,190 That's the thing. 95 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:02,740 Yes. 96 00:05:04,710 --> 00:05:07,140 Would you mind telling me the thing? 97 00:05:07,150 --> 00:05:09,170 Look, I got causes in my life. 98 00:05:09,180 --> 00:05:10,160 You know what I'm saying? 99 00:05:10,170 --> 00:05:11,430 Pediatric AIDS. 100 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:13,920 I give some to your women with breast cancer. 101 00:05:13,930 --> 00:05:15,670 I'm a public-minded brother. 102 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:20,410 My biggest cause, my thing, is daddy-go-bye-bye. 103 00:05:20,420 --> 00:05:22,590 Absentee black fathers-- 104 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,590 it's a problem in the culture, in the country, and it's my biggest thing. 105 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,610 So I got two choices here-- 106 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:33,200 be an absentee father or live with Missy Tiggs. 107 00:05:33,210 --> 00:05:35,500 Well, I'm afraid those are your only two choices. 108 00:05:35,510 --> 00:05:37,380 Well, I want to stop it. 109 00:05:37,650 --> 00:05:39,790 - Stop it? - Yeah, it. 110 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,890 I want you to help me stop it. 111 00:05:44,450 --> 00:05:48,210 And again, for clarification, it is? 112 00:05:48,220 --> 00:05:49,830 Her having my baby. 113 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:51,090 Oh, well, I'm afraid you can't do that. 114 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:52,340 Why not? 115 00:05:52,590 --> 00:05:54,210 - Well-- - You can do it. 116 00:05:54,220 --> 00:05:55,390 I heard about you. 117 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,810 No, I know they hired Shirley Schmidt. 118 00:05:57,820 --> 00:06:01,350 And I know you represented that Ivan dude against them before. 119 00:06:01,750 --> 00:06:04,280 You need to help me... 120 00:06:04,290 --> 00:06:06,110 stop it. 121 00:06:12,220 --> 00:06:15,110 First of all, I should say I'm not a hugger. 122 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,180 I find it very difficult to hug, in fact. 123 00:06:18,190 --> 00:06:19,330 Why is that? 124 00:06:19,340 --> 00:06:23,170 Well, I'm very uncomfortable with my hands leaving my thighs-- 125 00:06:23,180 --> 00:06:27,610 But on the day of january 9th, you hugged Bonnie Taylor. 126 00:06:27,620 --> 00:06:28,800 Yes. 127 00:06:28,810 --> 00:06:32,780 She had just done poorly on an exam, and she was simply devastated. 128 00:06:32,790 --> 00:06:34,210 I was talking to her about it. 129 00:06:34,220 --> 00:06:37,540 She became inconsolable, and I hugged her. 130 00:06:37,550 --> 00:06:41,630 You were aware your school has a no-hug policy? 131 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:44,040 Yes, but this student was in distress. 132 00:06:44,050 --> 00:06:45,480 She needed comfort. 133 00:06:45,490 --> 00:06:50,390 And I felt I had to prioritize her needs over the school's policy in this instance. 134 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:54,970 You also made that exception last november when you hugged a different student. 135 00:06:54,980 --> 00:06:57,180 A boy, upset over social problems. 136 00:06:57,190 --> 00:06:59,300 And you were told by the principal not to do it again? 137 00:07:00,270 --> 00:07:01,150 Yes. 138 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:05,310 And you made yet another exception the second week of december, hugging yet another student. 139 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:11,280 Again you were told to stop, in fact warned that the next time could be grounds for discharge. 140 00:07:11,290 --> 00:07:12,760 This policy is not right. 141 00:07:12,770 --> 00:07:13,530 I see. 142 00:07:13,540 --> 00:07:16,140 So you made a decision to defy it. 143 00:07:16,150 --> 00:07:17,140 It's unfair. 144 00:07:17,150 --> 00:07:18,790 Unfair? 145 00:07:19,050 --> 00:07:23,650 Has the school had a history of treating you unfairly, Ms. Swift? 146 00:07:25,620 --> 00:07:27,470 What is objectophilia? 147 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:28,580 Objection. Irrelevant. 148 00:07:28,590 --> 00:07:30,060 This woman teaches our children. 149 00:07:30,070 --> 00:07:33,370 If she suffers from a sexual disorder, it's certainly relevant, 150 00:07:33,380 --> 00:07:37,960 especially when she was discharged for improper physical conduct with a student. 151 00:07:37,970 --> 00:07:42,420 It was not sexual in nature, and for you to imply so is out of line. 152 00:07:43,660 --> 00:07:47,160 What is objectophilia, Ms. Swift? 153 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:51,820 Please answer. 154 00:07:53,100 --> 00:07:57,530 It's a condition where one is sexually attracted to objects. 155 00:08:07,910 --> 00:08:09,960 I'm very nervous that he's coming in. 156 00:08:09,970 --> 00:08:11,200 Maybe I should-- 157 00:08:11,750 --> 00:08:13,420 He's very handsome, Shirley. 158 00:08:13,430 --> 00:08:16,070 Just looking at him can make my genitalia flutter. 159 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:17,170 Oh, please. Can I-- 160 00:08:17,180 --> 00:08:18,060 No! 161 00:08:18,070 --> 00:08:19,560 It calms me, Shirley. 162 00:08:19,570 --> 00:08:21,060 Plus, he responds to it. 163 00:08:21,070 --> 00:08:23,590 Yeah, so do I. No singing. 164 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:24,720 Okay. 165 00:08:24,730 --> 00:08:26,520 This here's... 166 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,340 my lawyer. 167 00:08:29,030 --> 00:08:30,630 What's going on here? 168 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,960 What's going on is your client stole my client's semen. 169 00:08:33,970 --> 00:08:34,930 Oh, right. 170 00:08:34,940 --> 00:08:36,960 You gave it quite willingly, Mr. Man. 171 00:08:36,970 --> 00:08:39,140 I didn't know what you were gonna do with it, woman. 172 00:08:39,150 --> 00:08:42,150 Ahh, I love it when he calls me "woman." 173 00:08:42,630 --> 00:08:45,450 What exactly are you asking for? 174 00:08:45,460 --> 00:08:47,450 An abortion. 175 00:08:50,670 --> 00:08:51,870 You are kidding. 176 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,820 No. If I were kidding, I'd stand like this. 177 00:08:55,630 --> 00:08:58,100 You-- you have read a little case called Roe V. Wade, 178 00:08:58,110 --> 00:08:59,410 which says a woman's body-- 179 00:08:59,420 --> 00:09:01,620 Read the case, saw the movie, got me to thinking, 180 00:09:01,630 --> 00:09:04,720 wouldn't the current supreme court just love an opportunity 181 00:09:04,730 --> 00:09:09,980 to overthrow Roe without being vilified as antiabortion? Well... 182 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:11,780 ta-da. 183 00:09:11,790 --> 00:09:12,690 What's this ta-da? 184 00:09:12,700 --> 00:09:16,310 Is that some legal thingy, like res ispa? 185 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:17,800 What's ta-da? 186 00:09:17,810 --> 00:09:21,710 Setting aside the absurd notion that you might actually argue this... 187 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:23,320 Yes, setting aside that. 188 00:09:23,330 --> 00:09:28,490 As a matter of law-- today's law-- once the sperm, blood or tissue leaves the body, 189 00:09:28,500 --> 00:09:31,170 a person no longer has any proprietary right. 190 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:37,420 And also under today's law, you have no right whatsoever to get a court-ordered abortion. 191 00:09:38,850 --> 00:09:40,830 Finish the sentence, Shirley. Go ahead. 192 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:41,570 I did. 193 00:09:41,580 --> 00:09:43,070 No. From your tone, 194 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:47,360 I could almost hear the tag, "and I'd like to see you try." 195 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,170 I should think we'd just be able to conflict Alan out. 196 00:09:57,180 --> 00:09:59,880 No. Missy already waived conflict when we represented Ivan, 197 00:09:59,890 --> 00:10:03,430 and Terrence is waiving it now because he wants Alan. 198 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:04,550 What can he come with? 199 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:08,360 Well, I think the strongest argument would be public policy. 200 00:10:08,370 --> 00:10:11,910 The state doesn't want fraud to be used to compel fatherhood against a man's will. 201 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,380 Well, we've got bigger public policy on our side. 202 00:10:14,390 --> 00:10:15,490 Ordering an abortion. 203 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:18,470 Yes, but Roe V. Wade doesn't convey a woman's right to have a baby. 204 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:20,250 It's premised on heright to control her body. 205 00:10:20,260 --> 00:10:23,600 Which would give her the right not to have a medical procedure against her will. 206 00:10:23,610 --> 00:10:27,140 One would hope, but we wouldn't necessarily be talking about a medical procedure here. 207 00:10:27,150 --> 00:10:28,870 Missy's only five weeks pregnant. 208 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,550 She could take the abortion pill, RU-486. 209 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:35,630 Taking a pill would arguably not constitute an invasive procedure. 210 00:10:36,070 --> 00:10:38,560 And how would we counter that? 211 00:10:38,670 --> 00:10:41,510 Well... vigorously? 212 00:10:44,970 --> 00:10:48,030 Personally, I hate the no-hugging policy. 213 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,630 But I dislike the insurance premiums more. 214 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,920 The fact is, some teachers have crossed the line. 215 00:10:53,930 --> 00:10:57,210 And it could do irreparable damage to the kid, the school 216 00:10:57,220 --> 00:11:03,800 and the easiest way to safeguard against inappropriate contact is just to say no contact. 217 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:08,090 So just shut down all human contact, is that the idea? 218 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:08,740 No. 219 00:11:08,750 --> 00:11:14,040 The idea is to shut down post-traumatic distress when teachers abuse their trust. 220 00:11:14,050 --> 00:11:16,880 The idea is to shut down lawsuits. 221 00:11:16,890 --> 00:11:18,680 It was my daughter she hugged. 222 00:11:18,690 --> 00:11:19,610 Did you object? 223 00:11:19,620 --> 00:11:20,710 Oh, god, no. 224 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:21,910 Bonnie was despondent. 225 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,900 Thank god there was a compassionate teacher who was there for her. 226 00:11:24,910 --> 00:11:27,820 Believe me, we've got too many of the other kind. 227 00:11:27,830 --> 00:11:31,910 Would you have been comfortable as a parent for a teacher with a known sexual disorder 228 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,830 to be physically touching your daughter? 229 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:36,870 Probably not, but I know this teacher. 230 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:42,250 Who should bear the burden of knowing all the teachers and deciding whether hugging is okay or not, 231 00:11:42,260 --> 00:11:45,330 the parents or the-- or the principal, do you think? 232 00:11:45,340 --> 00:11:46,690 Obviously the principal. 233 00:11:46,700 --> 00:11:52,760 In fact, you as a parent trust the principal to create a safe environment for the kids-- true? 234 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:56,840 Yes, that's true. 235 00:11:56,850 --> 00:11:58,440 That didn't go very well, did it? 236 00:11:58,450 --> 00:11:59,610 It could've been better. 237 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:01,580 I'm sorry I haven't been better. 238 00:12:01,590 --> 00:12:03,520 You've been great. 239 00:12:03,530 --> 00:12:04,470 So now what? 240 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,800 Well, we give our summations, and then the judge will rule. 241 00:12:07,810 --> 00:12:12,360 Jerry, I appreciate your efforts, especially after... 242 00:12:12,370 --> 00:12:14,540 I am sorry. 243 00:12:16,890 --> 00:12:18,350 It's okay. 244 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:19,460 Life goes on. 245 00:12:19,470 --> 00:12:22,080 Ob-la-di, c'est la vie, sacre bleu. 246 00:12:22,090 --> 00:12:24,420 Will you ever forgive me? 247 00:12:25,350 --> 00:12:26,690 Leigh... 248 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:30,490 right now I need to concentrate on the case. 249 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:31,610 Wait a second. 250 00:12:31,820 --> 00:12:34,250 You're actually asking me to order an abortion? 251 00:12:34,260 --> 00:12:35,110 I am, judge. 252 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:36,430 - Isn't it exciting? - No. 253 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:38,190 Well, then let's reframe the issue. 254 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:43,160 Let's just say we're here so that you may stop her from profiting from stealing this man's sperm. 255 00:12:43,170 --> 00:12:44,240 What do you mean, she stole it? 256 00:12:44,250 --> 00:12:45,810 I mean they did not have intercourse. 257 00:12:45,820 --> 00:12:48,540 It was never his intent to even have oral sex. 258 00:12:48,550 --> 00:12:52,110 So let me tell you exactly how she came into possession of his sperm. 259 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:53,670 I think I know. 260 00:12:53,680 --> 00:12:54,950 How did she get pregnant? 261 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,120 She put the ill-gotten proceeds in a test tube popped it in the fridge, 262 00:12:58,130 --> 00:13:01,520 a shower and gargle, and off to the fertility clinic she went. 263 00:13:02,390 --> 00:13:03,330 Okay. 264 00:13:03,340 --> 00:13:05,270 I want you in that chair. 265 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,960 Your honor, it doesn't matter how this pregnancy came to be. You can't-- 266 00:13:08,970 --> 00:13:10,450 It-- it matters to me. 267 00:13:10,460 --> 00:13:12,070 Hold on, sir. 268 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:17,120 You... in that chair, after lunch. 269 00:13:17,130 --> 00:13:19,020 We're adjourned. 270 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,020 Can you imagine? 271 00:13:27,030 --> 00:13:29,420 The judge is going to have a hearing. 272 00:13:31,010 --> 00:13:31,970 Well... 273 00:13:31,980 --> 00:13:33,740 Well, what? 274 00:13:33,750 --> 00:13:38,070 Well... well, Shirley, what if somebody stole your eggs? 275 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,010 How would you feel? 276 00:13:39,020 --> 00:13:41,150 My eggs are on display at the natural history museum. 277 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:42,450 Anybody can walk in and take them. 278 00:13:42,460 --> 00:13:43,620 No, I know. I'm serious. 279 00:13:43,630 --> 00:13:44,940 This man was violated. 280 00:13:44,950 --> 00:13:46,140 Even so. 281 00:13:46,150 --> 00:13:48,240 A court-ordered abortion? 282 00:13:48,250 --> 00:13:52,310 Courts have terminated pregnancies before, either for mentally handicapped women or-- 283 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:54,600 Missy is not retarded. 284 00:13:54,610 --> 00:13:56,410 You had her tested? 285 00:13:58,780 --> 00:14:00,910 Carl, I'm-- I'm surprised at you. 286 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:02,360 Well, you know what? I'm surprised at you, Shirley. 287 00:14:02,370 --> 00:14:04,060 Your fairness compass is always spot-on. 288 00:14:04,070 --> 00:14:06,040 It's fritzing out here. 289 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,480 We're now having a fight. 290 00:14:08,490 --> 00:14:11,260 Which you're losing, and that bothers you. 291 00:14:11,270 --> 00:14:16,670 You actually believe a judge should be able to order a woman to have an abortion? 292 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:21,070 I think they should be loathe to do so, but yes. 293 00:14:32,990 --> 00:14:34,260 Fine. 294 00:14:38,750 --> 00:14:40,460 You re looking for me? 295 00:14:40,470 --> 00:14:41,660 Yes. 296 00:14:43,230 --> 00:14:48,030 I was wondering if you could join me after lunch for about an hour. 297 00:14:48,300 --> 00:14:50,030 What have you got in mind? 298 00:14:51,890 --> 00:14:53,020 Heartburn. 299 00:14:53,030 --> 00:14:54,520 I have a case. 300 00:14:54,530 --> 00:14:59,490 I could use a woman at the table to preempt any charges of chauvinism since-- 301 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:00,220 No, thank you. 302 00:15:00,230 --> 00:15:02,630 I know about your case, Alan. It's repugnant. 303 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,240 And good luck trying to find any woman to sit at your table. 304 00:15:05,250 --> 00:15:06,750 Strict. 305 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:11,530 Lorraine, let's just put, uh, gender politics aside for the moment and focus-- 306 00:15:11,540 --> 00:15:15,110 That's cute. Like leaving bias out of prejudice. 307 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:17,500 I don't really think that can be done, Alan, not even by you. 308 00:15:17,510 --> 00:15:18,950 So sorry. 309 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:20,780 I hope you lose. 310 00:15:20,790 --> 00:15:22,030 Bye, Denny. 311 00:15:25,770 --> 00:15:27,800 I really don't get it. 312 00:15:28,350 --> 00:15:32,750 I agree it's a woman's body, and therefore her rights should take priority. 313 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:38,620 But what's the rationale that justifies excising the man completely from the equation? 314 00:15:38,630 --> 00:15:40,260 They got us on this one, Alan. 315 00:15:40,270 --> 00:15:45,010 Until the supreme court fixes the problem-- and they're handpicked to do so-- they got us. 316 00:15:45,020 --> 00:15:46,920 Their rights, their body, period. 317 00:15:46,930 --> 00:15:48,520 And they have those, too. 318 00:15:48,530 --> 00:15:51,440 So it all evens out. 319 00:15:51,450 --> 00:15:52,730 Denny Crane. 320 00:15:52,740 --> 00:15:54,730 You heard it here. 321 00:16:08,590 --> 00:16:10,330 I've always wanted to have a baby. 322 00:16:10,340 --> 00:16:12,210 Of course, with the right man. 323 00:16:12,220 --> 00:16:13,890 Terrence was right for me. 324 00:16:13,900 --> 00:16:15,820 We fell in love so quickly. 325 00:16:15,830 --> 00:16:17,240 At least, I did. 326 00:16:17,250 --> 00:16:18,750 After two dates? 327 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:20,680 Look at him. He's gorgeous! 328 00:16:20,690 --> 00:16:24,340 The thought of having beautiful, mocha-chocolata bambinos with him... 329 00:16:24,350 --> 00:16:26,110 ooh, it brings a flutter to my-- 330 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:27,630 Missy! 331 00:16:31,140 --> 00:16:32,640 What the hell was that? 332 00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:36,660 My-- my client's in a form of music therapy to combat stress. 333 00:16:36,860 --> 00:16:39,260 Just one note is more than enough. 334 00:16:39,270 --> 00:16:40,540 Music therapy? 335 00:16:40,550 --> 00:16:41,730 Yes, your honor. 336 00:16:41,740 --> 00:16:44,540 I like to look at life as a big musical. 337 00:16:44,550 --> 00:16:47,910 The night I met Terrence, it was a musical. 338 00:16:50,980 --> 00:16:53,520 Can you te us about the night that you conceived? 339 00:16:53,530 --> 00:16:56,160 Well, as I said, it was magical. 340 00:16:56,170 --> 00:16:57,830 We had gone to a club. 341 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,510 We danced. We snuggled. We giggled. 342 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,320 And after the club? 343 00:17:02,330 --> 00:17:08,120 We went back to my place, had some wine, and we got romantic, at least I did. 344 00:17:08,490 --> 00:17:10,790 He looked at me, I looked at him. 345 00:17:11,580 --> 00:17:15,160 And we both knew, at least I did. 346 00:17:15,170 --> 00:17:19,370 Have to believe we are magic... 347 00:17:22,340 --> 00:17:26,390 And you got pregnant at a fertility clinic with Terrence's sperm? 348 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:31,750 Yes, after our seminal moment together, I put the goods in a little test tubey, 349 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,520 took it the lab, and they put it in the oven. 350 00:17:34,530 --> 00:17:39,250 When it bakes, soon I'll have my little Obama baby. 351 00:17:39,690 --> 00:17:41,490 Thank you. 352 00:17:42,700 --> 00:17:44,210 She's all yours. 353 00:17:44,220 --> 00:17:46,490 I don't really want her. 354 00:17:46,750 --> 00:17:49,050 I suppose I'm obliged. 355 00:17:49,060 --> 00:17:50,720 - Missy. - Hello. 356 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:53,650 You wish you and Terrence were together, don't you? 357 00:17:53,660 --> 00:17:54,480 I do. 358 00:17:54,490 --> 00:17:55,820 But if you can't have him-- 359 00:17:55,830 --> 00:17:57,300 I'll have his baby. 360 00:18:02,020 --> 00:18:05,680 Have you thought for one second how this would affect Terrence? 361 00:18:05,690 --> 00:18:09,750 Well, I would hope he'd be happy, for me, for us. 362 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,050 - And if he's not? - Tough. 363 00:18:14,020 --> 00:18:17,290 This may be a rhetorical question, but let me ask it anyway. 364 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:19,970 Do you think you're fit to be anybody's mother? 365 00:18:19,980 --> 00:18:21,200 - Objection. - Sustained. 366 00:18:21,210 --> 00:18:24,100 No. I'd like to respond to that. 367 00:18:24,110 --> 00:18:27,780 Go ahead, without song. 368 00:18:31,140 --> 00:18:33,600 I will be a good mother. 369 00:18:33,900 --> 00:18:37,040 I'm sorry Mr. Man doesn't want this child. 370 00:18:37,050 --> 00:18:39,720 That's too bad for me, it's too bad for the baby. 371 00:18:39,730 --> 00:18:42,260 And let's not forget, there is a baby here. 372 00:18:42,270 --> 00:18:44,300 There's another life involved. 373 00:18:44,310 --> 00:18:47,290 If you want to vilify me, punish me, go ahead. 374 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:49,570 But do not punish this child. 375 00:18:49,580 --> 00:18:54,190 It is grossly unfair to do so with the death penalty. 376 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,130 I feel like the big monster now. 377 00:19:03,140 --> 00:19:05,700 You're not a monster, Mr. Maxwell. 378 00:19:05,990 --> 00:19:08,470 You're actually being quite heroic. 379 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:13,060 You're giving voice to a male outrage that's long overdue. 380 00:19:13,420 --> 00:19:15,080 For women to be able to just-- 381 00:19:15,100 --> 00:19:16,810 It's not just that. 382 00:19:16,820 --> 00:19:18,720 It's the idea of that woman. 383 00:19:18,730 --> 00:19:21,530 I mean, there's assimilation and there's assimilation. 384 00:19:21,540 --> 00:19:25,590 That woman should not be allowed to parent a black child or a half-black child. 385 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,390 There, I said it. 386 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,120 Should I say it in court? 387 00:19:30,390 --> 00:19:33,220 Terrence, there's no real advantage in you testifying, 388 00:19:33,230 --> 00:19:37,760 and I don't want to give them the opportunity to portray you as someone other than who you are. 389 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,200 So what now? 390 00:19:40,210 --> 00:19:43,080 You give one of those big, long speeches then? 391 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:45,550 Well, yes. 392 00:19:46,090 --> 00:19:47,920 I do that. 393 00:19:48,380 --> 00:19:50,580 I think the judge liked my singing. Don't you? 394 00:19:50,590 --> 00:19:51,990 - How could she not? - Shirley. 395 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,410 Ah, Carl, still alive. Well... 396 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,730 That's mature. 397 00:19:57,360 --> 00:20:01,140 Anything you say bounces off me and sticks to you. 398 00:20:04,890 --> 00:20:06,280 Fighting? 399 00:20:06,290 --> 00:20:07,590 We are. 400 00:20:20,220 --> 00:20:21,680 Problem? 401 00:20:21,690 --> 00:20:24,010 Working on my closing. 402 00:20:24,470 --> 00:20:26,600 I may have to use the cigarette. 403 00:20:26,610 --> 00:20:27,330 Why? 404 00:20:27,340 --> 00:20:29,460 Well, this issue... 405 00:20:29,470 --> 00:20:30,570 Hugging? 406 00:20:30,580 --> 00:20:32,900 I'm finding it very hard to get a rhythm. 407 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:37,970 Do you know... 408 00:20:37,980 --> 00:20:44,420 my mother hugged me a grand total of two times? 409 00:20:44,430 --> 00:20:45,680 One was by accident. 410 00:20:45,690 --> 00:20:49,440 She thought I was choking and performed the Heimlich maneuver. 411 00:20:49,450 --> 00:20:50,780 Did your father hug you? 412 00:20:50,790 --> 00:20:54,440 No. He believed in firm handshakes. 413 00:20:54,450 --> 00:20:59,510 Which was pretty much a bust since I could rarely convince my hand to leave my thigh. 414 00:21:00,770 --> 00:21:07,520 The first hug I ever got, truly, was a couple years ago, from Alan. 415 00:21:08,980 --> 00:21:10,560 Really? 416 00:21:14,260 --> 00:21:16,730 Have you got another one of those I cou use? 417 00:21:16,740 --> 00:21:18,830 I have to close against Alan shore. 418 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,310 He's really good, isn't he? 419 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:21,770 The best I've ever seen. 420 00:21:21,780 --> 00:21:22,860 Thank you for that. 421 00:21:22,870 --> 00:21:25,100 Katie, I've seen you in the courtroom. 422 00:21:25,110 --> 00:21:27,080 You don't need to be afraid of anybody. 423 00:21:27,090 --> 00:21:29,100 Even Alan Shore? 424 00:21:29,110 --> 00:21:31,610 Here's the thing with Alan... 425 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:38,950 he likes to get dominion of the room and keep opposing counsel off balance. 426 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,120 Just don't let him. 427 00:21:41,130 --> 00:21:44,220 Also, when his case wobbles-- and here it does-- 428 00:21:44,230 --> 00:21:48,920 he tries to reframe the issue into one that suits him. 429 00:21:48,930 --> 00:21:50,970 He's very clever that way. 430 00:21:50,980 --> 00:21:54,240 Don't let him. 431 00:21:55,130 --> 00:21:56,030 Listen to me. 432 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,590 I feel I'm being disloyal to him. 433 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:00,410 You're being very loyal to me. 434 00:22:00,420 --> 00:22:02,170 I appreciate it. 435 00:22:02,180 --> 00:22:05,600 Jerry, you are a dear, dear friend. 436 00:22:09,390 --> 00:22:10,690 Leigh! 437 00:22:11,230 --> 00:22:12,100 Hello. 438 00:22:12,110 --> 00:22:14,160 - Welcome. - Welcome. Hello. 439 00:22:17,660 --> 00:22:20,150 Are you two boyfriend and girlfriend? 440 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:24,060 No, we're w-work friends, colleagues. 441 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:27,890 Good-bye. 442 00:22:31,580 --> 00:22:34,620 Somebody still seems a little smitten, Jerry. 443 00:22:43,970 --> 00:22:46,440 This isn't the only school with a no-hug policy. 444 00:22:46,450 --> 00:22:48,700 Many, many others are doing the same thing. 445 00:22:48,710 --> 00:22:52,190 And it isn't just because they're litigation averse. 446 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:53,960 It's for the chiren. 447 00:22:53,970 --> 00:22:55,180 The statistics don't lie. 448 00:22:55,190 --> 00:23:00,370 Many of the worst and most far-reaching cases of abuse happen at the hands of trusted adults, 449 00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:05,350 be it a priest or a teacher or a relative. 450 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:06,730 Does this policy go too far? 451 00:23:06,740 --> 00:23:09,350 I'm sure some would say it does. 452 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,350 But on what side do we want to err here? 453 00:23:40,650 --> 00:23:43,350 It's not just happening at schools. 454 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:47,120 Many corporations and businesses now forbid physical contact. 455 00:23:47,130 --> 00:23:49,510 It cuts down on sexual harassment lawsuits. 456 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:54,700 Perhaps with the continued evolution of smartphones and mails and video conferencing, 457 00:23:54,710 --> 00:23:58,470 we'll find a way to keep people from ever being in the same room together. 458 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,870 Won't that be wonderful? 459 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:05,650 Years ago they did an experiment with an orphaned baby monkey. 460 00:24:05,930 --> 00:24:09,300 They gave it two choices for a surrogate-- 461 00:24:09,310 --> 00:24:13,400 one which could provide milk, the other a hug. 462 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,410 The monkey chose the hug. 463 00:24:24,190 --> 00:24:28,050 I'm sure we all saw this picture in the newspapers a few months ago. 464 00:24:28,060 --> 00:24:30,240 Yes, very sweet. 465 00:24:30,250 --> 00:24:35,700 But for my money, one case of child abuse trumps a cute monkey. 466 00:24:35,890 --> 00:24:37,850 Yes, your honor. 467 00:24:42,060 --> 00:24:44,650 I grew up... with... 468 00:24:45,020 --> 00:24:48,030 various social disabilities. 469 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:49,540 I had no friends. 470 00:24:49,550 --> 00:24:54,380 I got a job that only required I write memorandums. 471 00:24:54,390 --> 00:25:00,440 I lived, basically, a life with no real human contact. 472 00:25:00,450 --> 00:25:03,710 My client is an objectophile. 473 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:09,640 Both of us improved through the kindness, compassion and yes, 474 00:25:09,650 --> 00:25:12,500 physical affection of others. 475 00:25:12,510 --> 00:25:15,700 The human touch cannot be quantified. 476 00:25:15,710 --> 00:25:18,860 It cannot be analyzed with statistics. 477 00:25:18,870 --> 00:25:22,210 We can't place a number on it, but it is much, 478 00:25:22,220 --> 00:25:26,240 much more than a doorway to sexual molestation. 479 00:25:26,250 --> 00:25:28,800 It's the best, the most direct, 480 00:25:28,810 --> 00:25:33,680 the most lasting way of affirming another person's humanity. 481 00:25:33,690 --> 00:25:38,250 Leigh swift was trying to comfort a student who was suffering. 482 00:25:38,260 --> 00:25:42,060 What policy can possibly justify 483 00:25:42,070 --> 00:25:44,830 firing her for that? 484 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,030 Six years ago... 485 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,160 isolation had brought me to the point... 486 00:26:07,170 --> 00:26:10,240 I considered taking my life. 487 00:26:10,830 --> 00:26:15,570 I picked up the phone and punched out 4-1-1, 488 00:26:15,580 --> 00:26:20,770 so desperate was I to hear just the sound of another person's voice. 489 00:26:21,340 --> 00:26:27,410 I got some automated recording that said,"what city and state, please?" 490 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,660 And I wept. 491 00:26:30,670 --> 00:26:35,050 We are living in such an increasingly isolated world, your honor. 492 00:26:35,570 --> 00:26:37,780 We IM 493 00:26:37,790 --> 00:26:43,010 and text message and have virtual relationships online. 494 00:26:43,020 --> 00:26:45,670 It gets lonelier and lonelier 495 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,520 while teenage and adult depression continues to rise. 496 00:26:49,530 --> 00:26:53,590 There are perhaps many things we can do about it. 497 00:26:54,250 --> 00:26:57,070 Banning the hug... 498 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,970 can't be one of them. 499 00:27:13,350 --> 00:27:18,890 The thing about women, Carl, if you reject their opinions, their principles, 500 00:27:19,210 --> 00:27:21,530 they feel you're rejecting them, which is so wrong, 501 00:27:21,540 --> 00:27:24,450 since with most relationships, we're in it only for the sex. 502 00:27:24,460 --> 00:27:28,490 Uh, you won't be getting any, by the way, from Shirley, unless you agree with her. 503 00:27:30,460 --> 00:27:32,619 I don't know, Denny. Maybe... 504 00:27:32,654 --> 00:27:35,010 Shirley and I aren't right for each other. 505 00:27:35,290 --> 00:27:37,500 Don't go overreacting now. 506 00:27:37,510 --> 00:27:39,940 You ever wonder if all relationships are finite? 507 00:27:39,950 --> 00:27:40,760 Of course they are. 508 00:27:40,770 --> 00:27:44,390 That's why we have kids, marriage vows, onerous divorce laws-- 509 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,970 all to make it too impossible to leave once we know it's over. 510 00:27:46,980 --> 00:27:49,910 We're a pro-marriage nation. 511 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,240 That's very cynical, Denny. 512 00:27:52,910 --> 00:27:53,970 Would you marry Shirley? 513 00:27:53,980 --> 00:27:55,540 In a second. May I? 514 00:27:55,550 --> 00:27:57,320 I think she would want a say. 515 00:27:57,330 --> 00:27:59,390 Yes, therein lies the problem. 516 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,850 Marriage, abortion, you name it... 517 00:28:01,860 --> 00:28:05,680 we were much better off in the old days, before women got a say. 518 00:28:05,940 --> 00:28:07,780 Supreme court will get us back there. 519 00:28:07,790 --> 00:28:10,230 Just give 'em time. 520 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:19,640 All right, before we begin, Ms. Tiggs, no singing. 521 00:28:19,890 --> 00:28:25,430 If you so much as accidentally hit a note while clearing your throat, I will rule in his favor. 522 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,360 - You got that? - Yes, your honor. 523 00:28:27,370 --> 00:28:30,680 All right, now, Mr. Shore, you can't stand before me 524 00:28:30,690 --> 00:28:35,020 and tell me you expect this court or any court to order that a woman get an abortion. 525 00:28:35,030 --> 00:28:36,480 That's exactly what expect. 526 00:28:36,490 --> 00:28:40,520 The idea is appalling to you because next to the "N" word, only the "A" word is more controversial. 527 00:28:40,530 --> 00:28:44,980 Only the "A" word can stir up such deep-seated passion, not of love, 528 00:28:44,990 --> 00:28:49,590 which one might hope for when thinking of life and its conception, but rather of anger and rage. 529 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,530 In fact, there isn't any issue in this country as combustible. 530 00:28:52,540 --> 00:28:55,120 My advice here would be to not think of it as the "A" word at all. 531 00:28:55,130 --> 00:28:59,700 Let's just think of it as requiring this woman who flagrantly and deliberately defrauded my client, 532 00:28:59,710 --> 00:29:02,030 requiring her to simply take a pill, some medication. 533 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,120 We do it all the time. 534 00:29:03,130 --> 00:29:05,790 We force medicate in psychiatric hospitals, a place where, 535 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,650 ironically, this woman should certainly be stuck. 536 00:29:07,660 --> 00:29:09,720 Will you slow the hell down? 537 00:29:09,730 --> 00:29:12,340 Under the law, judge, there is no life here. 538 00:29:12,350 --> 00:29:13,400 She's five weeks pregnant. 539 00:29:13,410 --> 00:29:15,960 At five weeks, there is no life recognized by the law. 540 00:29:15,970 --> 00:29:17,000 Mr. Shore is incorrect. 541 00:29:17,010 --> 00:29:19,490 The relevant case law goes only to viability. 542 00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:22,180 It makes no determination as to when human life begins. 543 00:29:22,190 --> 00:29:25,650 And whatever one's opinion may be on abortion, we can't dispute that life, 544 00:29:25,660 --> 00:29:27,870 however embryonic, originates at conception. 545 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,970 But the only issue today is can the court invade the autonomy of her body. 546 00:29:31,980 --> 00:29:32,490 And I would say yes. 547 00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:35,030 We're not talking about an intrusive procedure. 548 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:39,280 We're asking that she take a pill, a little tablet, like an aspirin-- the RU-486. 549 00:29:39,290 --> 00:29:41,670 It's very effective, the side effects are rare, and it's safe. 550 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,210 I can't speak as to when Mr. Shore had his last abortion, 551 00:29:44,220 --> 00:29:47,430 but they are anything but a breeze, even with the RU-486. 552 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:51,440 It presents the same symptoms as a miscarriage, including cramping, bleeding. 553 00:29:51,450 --> 00:29:55,010 It could take days or even weeks, and that's not even accounting for the emotional aftereffects, 554 00:29:55,020 --> 00:29:56,310 which could last a lifetime. 555 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,010 - This woman hijacked my sperm. - Mr. Maxwell-- 556 00:29:59,020 --> 00:30:00,680 I love it when he calls me woman. 557 00:30:00,690 --> 00:30:02,620 I did not have intercourse with her that night. 558 00:30:02,630 --> 00:30:03,240 Why? 559 00:30:03,250 --> 00:30:05,980 Because I did not want to run the risk of getting her pregnant. 560 00:30:05,990 --> 00:30:08,520 I would submit that Mr. Maxwell has various legal remedies. 561 00:30:08,530 --> 00:30:11,790 He can sue her in a civil court for damages, though she's not asking for child support-- 562 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,650 Oh, and now who's not accounting for the emotional aftereffects? 563 00:30:14,660 --> 00:30:18,110 Where is it written that,"hey, if he doesn't have to contribute to the raising of the child, 564 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,506 then it's no harm, no foul"? 565 00:30:19,541 --> 00:30:19,680 Mr. Shore-- 566 00:30:19,690 --> 00:30:22,570 It's my flesh and blood. My child. 567 00:30:22,580 --> 00:30:23,520 And you want to kill it. 568 00:30:23,530 --> 00:30:25,270 All right. 569 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:26,500 Tempers are starting to flare-- 570 00:30:26,510 --> 00:30:27,590 Yes, they are, judge. 571 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,330 As I said, this is an angry topic. 572 00:30:29,340 --> 00:30:32,640 And one of the reasons we're also enraged is we never got a say. 573 00:30:32,650 --> 00:30:34,760 The american public never got a vote on abortion. 574 00:30:34,770 --> 00:30:37,650 It was decided by fiat-- nine men sitting on a court. 575 00:30:37,660 --> 00:30:40,680 Why we don't put the issue on a ballot completely escapes me. 576 00:30:40,690 --> 00:30:45,990 Especially since our judicial selection process has now become so corrupted by the politics of abortion, 577 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,550 as our presidential and congressional campaigns have. 578 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,580 But we the people, we don't get a vote. 579 00:30:50,590 --> 00:30:53,680 And it leaves us feeling frustrated and angry, powerless. 580 00:30:53,690 --> 00:30:54,920 Can you imagine? 581 00:30:54,930 --> 00:30:59,400 This issue that goes to the core of our human values, and we don't get to weigh in? 582 00:30:59,410 --> 00:31:03,330 We have to sit back and watch a president puppeteered by the religious right, 583 00:31:03,340 --> 00:31:04,900 stacking the deck, in the supreme court-- 584 00:31:04,910 --> 00:31:06,285 You're getting off point. 585 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,660 No, I'm very much on point. 586 00:31:07,670 --> 00:31:11,040 You take that sense of helplessness and rage that the public feels, 587 00:31:11,050 --> 00:31:14,910 multiply it times 1,000, and you get a sense of what my client feels. 588 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,980 Somebody would be having his baby, and he doesn't even get a say? 589 00:31:17,990 --> 00:31:19,960 He wasn't careless or cavalier. 590 00:31:19,970 --> 00:31:21,990 He was tricked, deceived, defrauded, 591 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,950 and he has no rights here at all? 592 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,980 He should be afforded all his rights under the law, and under the law today, 593 00:31:26,990 --> 00:31:32,200 the court cannot and should not order a woman to undergo an intrusive medical procedure. 594 00:31:32,210 --> 00:31:36,760 Can there be anything more medically, physically and emotionally intrusive than an abortion? 595 00:31:42,410 --> 00:31:46,270 I'm sorry, but at the risk of sounding very politically incorrect, 596 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:50,030 as much as we're all supportive of multicultural families-- 597 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:54,010 it's become so fashionable to adopt exotic babies from different lands and places-- 598 00:31:54,020 --> 00:31:57,940 but I'm sorry, that woman makes Julie Andrews seem like a black panther. 599 00:31:57,950 --> 00:32:00,130 She has no conception of black culture. 600 00:32:00,140 --> 00:32:01,530 This is wrong. 601 00:32:01,540 --> 00:32:03,780 There, I said it. Everyone can start writing their letters. 602 00:32:03,790 --> 00:32:07,100 Maybe the should be some kind of a test one has to pass. But that... 603 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,940 I've probably said enough. 604 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,820 Yes, you have. 605 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:30,770 Any word? 606 00:32:30,780 --> 00:32:35,190 No, but she promised to rule by the end of the day, so... 607 00:32:36,030 --> 00:32:38,230 Terrence... 608 00:32:39,190 --> 00:32:41,270 suppose we do win? 609 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,010 You can certainly expect a whole lot more of all this. 610 00:32:44,020 --> 00:32:47,630 The appeals court, the state supreme court, the supreme court-- 611 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,770 by that time, she'll have had the baby. 612 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,890 Are you prepared to push this all the way? 613 00:32:55,900 --> 00:32:57,600 Maybe not. 614 00:32:58,020 --> 00:33:01,670 Even if we win, I mean, I don't know if I can make her terminate. 615 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:02,520 Then why? 616 00:33:02,530 --> 00:33:04,910 I don't know. Maybe empowerment. 617 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,420 Maybe... 618 00:33:06,430 --> 00:33:09,320 I just want it to be my choice, too. 619 00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:13,460 That crazy? 620 00:33:14,030 --> 00:33:16,550 It isn't crazy at all. 621 00:33:21,540 --> 00:33:25,640 Nobody said "all rise", but... Okay. 622 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,470 I agree completely with Mr. Espenson. 623 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:36,740 To ban a simple hug seems way too far-reaching, if not draconian. 624 00:33:36,750 --> 00:33:40,710 I'm mindful, however, that we have thousands and thousands 625 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,420 of unlawful sexual touchings on school campuses every year, 626 00:33:44,430 --> 00:33:46,830 committed by both teachers and students. 627 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,770 It's a tough call. 628 00:33:48,780 --> 00:33:51,590 What tips it for me are the facts of this case. 629 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:57,500 The plaintiff suffers from objectophilia, a diagnosed sexual disorder. 630 00:33:57,510 --> 00:34:03,010 Add to that she had been warned on prior occasions not to touch the students. 631 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,620 Judgment for the defendant. 632 00:34:06,630 --> 00:34:09,350 Poop! Withdrawn. 633 00:34:10,450 --> 00:34:12,360 We're adjourned. 634 00:34:14,170 --> 00:34:15,700 I'm sorry, Leigh. 635 00:34:15,710 --> 00:34:17,200 Me, too. 636 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,950 Thank you so much for trying, Jerry. 637 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,050 You fought very valiantly. 638 00:34:24,060 --> 00:34:26,300 I'm sorry we didn't get a good result. 639 00:34:26,310 --> 00:34:28,160 Yes. 640 00:34:30,210 --> 00:34:32,070 Speaking of trying... 641 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,210 would you like to give us a try again? 642 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,380 I don't know. I... 643 00:34:43,390 --> 00:34:48,910 I don't think I can compete with an iPhone. I don't know that any man could. 644 00:34:50,260 --> 00:34:54,970 My therapist thinks I'm gravitating to things because they can't dump me. 645 00:34:54,980 --> 00:34:57,400 I got scared with you, Jerry. 646 00:34:57,410 --> 00:35:03,330 I suppose I want safety in a relationship, but I realize nobody gets that. 647 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:06,600 I don't know what to say. 648 00:35:06,610 --> 00:35:08,370 How about yes? 649 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:13,140 How about we just hug and see how it feels? 650 00:35:46,230 --> 00:35:52,180 If you ask me, we've seen a great evolution in fatherhood over the last 20, 30 years. 651 00:35:52,590 --> 00:35:56,840 We now have stay-at-home dads, fathers who are the primary caregivers. 652 00:35:56,850 --> 00:36:00,200 Pretty damn good progress from my perspective. 653 00:36:00,210 --> 00:36:05,440 When it comes to a father's legal rights, however, the law has stayed stagnant. 654 00:36:06,870 --> 00:36:09,260 Ms. Tiggs... 655 00:36:09,270 --> 00:36:12,820 your behavior here is disgusting. 656 00:36:12,830 --> 00:36:16,820 You knew this man did not want to father a child with you. 657 00:36:16,830 --> 00:36:21,490 You performed a sex act on him to come in possession of his sperm. 658 00:36:21,500 --> 00:36:24,770 You used that sperm to impregnate yourself. 659 00:36:24,780 --> 00:36:28,830 If the law permitted, I would have you thrown in jail. 660 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:34,520 But I end exactly where I began. 661 00:36:34,530 --> 00:36:39,000 No court, including this one, is going to order an abortion. 662 00:36:39,330 --> 00:36:45,670 Mr. Maxwell, your damages here, if any, would be legal, not equitable. 663 00:36:46,100 --> 00:36:49,430 Motion denied. We're adjourned. 664 00:36:51,220 --> 00:36:53,150 - Well, we tried. - Yeah. 665 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,040 Thanks, Mr. Shore. 666 00:36:55,500 --> 00:36:57,810 Thank you, Shirley, Katie. 667 00:36:59,020 --> 00:37:00,540 I'm going to be a mom. 668 00:37:00,550 --> 00:37:02,930 And I'll... bet a wonderful one at that. 669 00:37:02,940 --> 00:37:06,330 Well, best of luck, Missy. Let's get out of here. 670 00:37:10,790 --> 00:37:12,910 I gotta be involved. 671 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,890 If I'm gonna be a father, then I'm gonna be a father. 672 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:17,010 I'd like that. 673 00:37:17,020 --> 00:37:19,510 Not about you. 674 00:37:20,820 --> 00:37:22,900 Terrence. 675 00:37:24,170 --> 00:37:26,820 Maybe you and I could give it a go. 676 00:37:26,830 --> 00:37:28,800 I really, really like you. 677 00:37:28,810 --> 00:37:33,640 It's not every day I meet a truly noble person who makes my genitalia flutter. 678 00:37:35,460 --> 00:37:38,180 I can't be with you, Missy. 679 00:37:38,190 --> 00:37:42,170 We'll work out this parenting thing, but I can't be with you. 680 00:37:44,820 --> 00:37:46,510 Okay. 681 00:37:50,340 --> 00:37:56,350 A place where nobody dared to go 682 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,020 the love that we came to know... 683 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,220 Bye, Missy. 684 00:38:04,650 --> 00:38:08,820 They call it Xanadu 685 00:38:11,700 --> 00:38:17,610 and now open your eyes and see 686 00:38:19,310 --> 00:38:22,460 what we have made is real 687 00:38:23,590 --> 00:38:26,850 we call it Xanadu 688 00:38:32,540 --> 00:38:35,950 So Katie kicked your ass. 689 00:38:37,230 --> 00:38:39,210 Let me tell you something about this Katie Lloyd. 690 00:38:39,220 --> 00:38:41,240 She is going to be some lawyer. 691 00:38:41,250 --> 00:38:45,090 For her to be this good already, just out of law school, it's scary. 692 00:38:45,100 --> 00:38:47,650 How far women have come. 693 00:38:47,660 --> 00:38:50,160 They used to be objects we just wanted to have sex with. 694 00:38:50,170 --> 00:38:55,060 Now they're intelligent, autonomous, powerful things we just want to have sex with. 695 00:38:55,070 --> 00:38:57,380 We may even have a woman as president, Denny. 696 00:38:57,390 --> 00:39:01,410 I had a dream about her as president-- Hillary, you know. 697 00:39:01,420 --> 00:39:03,130 Tell me. 698 00:39:03,140 --> 00:39:05,460 She invited me into the oval office. 699 00:39:05,470 --> 00:39:07,810 We had tea, discussed politics, then... 700 00:39:07,820 --> 00:39:09,360 we got right down to it. 701 00:39:09,370 --> 00:39:11,920 She was fantastic. 702 00:39:11,930 --> 00:39:13,370 You had a Hillary sex dream? 703 00:39:13,380 --> 00:39:19,150 Oh, she is so hot, Alan, in a dominatrix-praying-mantis sort of way. 704 00:39:20,180 --> 00:39:23,590 I'd like to have one night alone with that tramp. 705 00:39:26,570 --> 00:39:28,130 What? 706 00:39:28,590 --> 00:39:31,350 You have been cranky this week. 707 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:32,440 Is everything okay? 708 00:39:32,450 --> 00:39:33,100 Fine. 709 00:39:33,110 --> 00:39:33,780 Something's wrong. 710 00:39:33,790 --> 00:39:35,980 Nothing's wrong. 711 00:39:35,990 --> 00:39:37,630 Fine. 712 00:39:43,210 --> 00:39:47,440 My sophomore year in college, I got my girlfriend pregnant. 713 00:39:47,450 --> 00:39:51,920 She came to me, told me, and then proceeded to say, 714 00:39:51,930 --> 00:39:54,770 "don't worry, I've alrea taken care of it." 715 00:39:54,780 --> 00:39:57,060 It was done. It had already been done. 716 00:39:57,070 --> 00:40:02,990 And I alized that she had probably been scared and... 717 00:40:03,910 --> 00:40:08,370 confused, but I felt completely invisible, 718 00:40:08,380 --> 00:40:11,260 as if I had no ability to express 719 00:40:11,270 --> 00:40:15,320 love, care, support. 720 00:40:15,330 --> 00:40:19,810 But for me to have no voice, as if I had no opinion... 721 00:40:21,270 --> 00:40:24,560 when it would have been my child, too... 722 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,610 Such prejudice against men. 723 00:40:27,620 --> 00:40:32,700 The issue is always about forcing us to take responsibility, never about our rights. 724 00:40:32,710 --> 00:40:36,370 There's a conversation men could have with women before having sex. 725 00:40:36,380 --> 00:40:38,390 Perhaps an understanding should be reached before-- 726 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,210 No, it's hard enough to get the condom on. 727 00:40:41,220 --> 00:40:43,610 Now you want to add conversation to the mix? 728 00:40:46,660 --> 00:40:51,630 How many times have you had that problem taken care of with women? 729 00:40:53,810 --> 00:40:55,080 I don't know. 730 00:40:55,090 --> 00:40:58,320 On the one hand, I want to perpetuate the species. 731 00:40:58,330 --> 00:41:00,270 I am, after all, Denny Crane. 732 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:05,270 On the other hand, imagine the world-- kids running around with mad calves disease. 733 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,220 I shudder. 734 00:41:08,460 --> 00:41:11,500 Don't you want to be a father someday, Alan? 735 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,320 I don't know. 736 00:41:15,140 --> 00:41:16,400 It'll happen. 737 00:41:16,410 --> 00:41:18,610 Can I be godfather? 738 00:41:18,620 --> 00:41:20,440 He'll need somebody to tell him about women. 739 00:41:20,450 --> 00:41:22,970 He can't have that discussion with dad. 740 00:41:22,980 --> 00:41:25,650 You still want that son, don't you? 741 00:41:27,210 --> 00:41:30,490 Take him fishing, teach him to drive a stick. 742 00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:34,540 When he gets older, he can introduce me to some of his girlfriends. It's all good. 743 00:41:36,420 --> 00:41:39,220 People say having a family... 744 00:41:39,530 --> 00:41:41,490 that it's everything. 745 00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:44,130 Are we missing out, Denny? 746 00:41:45,340 --> 00:41:48,760 Well, I feel I have a family of sorts here. 747 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,000 I don't think it's the same. 748 00:41:51,010 --> 00:41:52,880 I've got you. 749 00:41:53,180 --> 00:41:54,910 You've got me. 750 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,100 And I feel blessed. 751 00:41:59,410 --> 00:42:01,570 How many people have that? 752 00:42:01,580 --> 00:42:02,870 Not enough.