1 00:00:02,784 --> 00:00:03,916 So this is what you do? 2 00:00:04,003 --> 00:00:05,526 I break up with you and you commit.. 3 00:00:05,613 --> 00:00:07,267 I don't even know what this is you're committing. 4 00:00:07,354 --> 00:00:08,399 I switched jobs. 5 00:00:08,486 --> 00:00:09,661 Go get your real job back 6 00:00:09,748 --> 00:00:10,662 before it's too late. 7 00:00:10,749 --> 00:00:12,229 This is my real job. 8 00:00:12,316 --> 00:00:13,708 I'm Tommy Jefferson, kid, I chew lawyers up 9 00:00:13,795 --> 00:00:15,232 and spit 'em out. 10 00:00:15,319 --> 00:00:17,060 He's gonna treat you like you don't exist. 11 00:00:17,147 --> 00:00:19,410 Your best bet is just interrupt him at every turn. 12 00:00:19,497 --> 00:00:21,499 He's got a temper and he's been known to completely blow. 13 00:00:21,586 --> 00:00:23,544 - You little snot! - Don't call me little! 14 00:00:23,631 --> 00:00:25,459 - You were rude to me. - You ridiculed me. 15 00:00:25,546 --> 00:00:28,245 Nobody does that. You're nothing, little bug. 16 00:00:28,332 --> 00:00:30,769 Will you represent me? I'm facing prison. 17 00:00:30,856 --> 00:00:32,640 I got arrested on a drug charge. 18 00:00:32,727 --> 00:00:36,470 Third offense, and, uh...I got a cocaine problem. 19 00:00:36,557 --> 00:00:38,255 Your old life was that of a drug addict. 20 00:00:38,342 --> 00:00:40,474 'You have to turn your back on that, all of it.' 21 00:00:40,561 --> 00:00:42,520 If you need to talk to us, we're all here. 22 00:00:42,607 --> 00:00:44,870 She's really working in that neighborhood? 23 00:00:44,957 --> 00:00:46,959 Police don't really respond 24 00:00:47,046 --> 00:00:48,569 to alarms in this neighborhood. 25 00:00:48,656 --> 00:00:51,006 The merchants tend to be burglarized 26 00:00:51,094 --> 00:00:53,008 and vandalized at an alarming rate. 27 00:00:53,096 --> 00:00:55,054 You protect me and my place 28 00:00:55,141 --> 00:00:56,969 my law firm will defend you for free. 29 00:00:59,798 --> 00:01:03,018 I think I became terminal in my late 40s. 30 00:01:03,106 --> 00:01:05,020 Nothing the doctors could find 31 00:01:05,108 --> 00:01:07,545 you couldn't see it on an X-ray. 32 00:01:07,632 --> 00:01:09,938 But I was dying. 33 00:01:10,025 --> 00:01:14,639 Being put to death quietly, systemically, by routine. 34 00:01:14,726 --> 00:01:16,597 I finally died last year. 35 00:01:19,252 --> 00:01:21,211 You need to close up shop for a couple days. 36 00:01:21,298 --> 00:01:22,864 What? Why? 37 00:01:22,951 --> 00:01:24,823 Couple of local gangs are beefin' with each other 38 00:01:24,910 --> 00:01:27,260 know what I'm saying? Might be some bullets flying.. 39 00:01:27,347 --> 00:01:29,436 'And it'd be better if y'all weren't around.' 40 00:01:29,523 --> 00:01:32,918 - Shooting? Like, at us? - What gangs? 41 00:01:33,005 --> 00:01:34,963 Linkwood Crew's one, and Boone Park's the other. 42 00:01:35,050 --> 00:01:36,661 Well, what is this beef about? 43 00:01:36,748 --> 00:01:38,097 What the hell is going on here? 44 00:01:38,184 --> 00:01:39,968 Told you all I know, sugar. 45 00:01:40,055 --> 00:01:42,710 Well, who told you? 46 00:01:42,797 --> 00:01:44,625 See, it's like this, see, Dewayne 47 00:01:44,712 --> 00:01:46,323 he runs with Linkwood crew. 48 00:01:46,410 --> 00:01:48,586 Got this girl named Shonda, they broke up. 49 00:01:48,673 --> 00:01:51,328 So Dewayne finds out that Shonda's hanging with C.K. 50 00:01:51,415 --> 00:01:53,852 - C.K., he runs with my boys. - That's Boone Park? 51 00:01:53,939 --> 00:01:56,246 Yeah, so Dewayne, he goes and get his boys 52 00:01:56,333 --> 00:01:58,161 and they go and torch C.K.'s ride. 53 00:01:58,248 --> 00:02:00,293 C.K. was, like, "Man, I'm gonna need 12 grand for that." 54 00:02:00,380 --> 00:02:01,599 'Dewayne be, like, "No."' 55 00:02:01,686 --> 00:02:04,210 So now Linkwood is beefing with us. 56 00:02:04,297 --> 00:02:05,516 It's gonna get bad. 57 00:02:05,603 --> 00:02:07,257 - Is Dewayne gonna hurt Shonda? - Naw. 58 00:02:07,344 --> 00:02:10,173 He-he don't give a.. Naw, he got a new girl. 59 00:02:10,260 --> 00:02:11,783 Ain't even about the girl no more. 60 00:02:11,870 --> 00:02:13,176 It's about respect. 61 00:02:17,180 --> 00:02:19,225 I gotta go. Thanks for the ice cream. 62 00:02:19,312 --> 00:02:21,271 It's true, you really got him into college? 63 00:02:21,358 --> 00:02:23,795 I did not. He got into college himself. 64 00:02:23,882 --> 00:02:25,405 Uh-huh. 65 00:02:27,668 --> 00:02:30,323 So two gangs have a ridiculous minor property dispute 66 00:02:30,410 --> 00:02:33,065 like this one, they start shooting? 67 00:02:33,152 --> 00:02:36,677 Not always. They got this thing here called street advocates. 68 00:02:36,764 --> 00:02:38,723 They try to fix situations like this. 69 00:02:38,810 --> 00:02:40,855 There was a street advocate assigned to this area 70 00:02:40,942 --> 00:02:43,597 but...he dead now. 71 00:02:43,684 --> 00:02:46,731 - Did they kill him? - Allergy. Man ate a bad peanut. 72 00:02:46,818 --> 00:02:48,515 But dead is dead, you know what I'm sayin'? 73 00:02:48,602 --> 00:02:51,779 So we, like, between mediators. 74 00:02:51,866 --> 00:02:56,088 Alright. As of right now, they have a new mediator...me. 75 00:02:56,175 --> 00:02:57,872 I don't think they gonna go for that. 76 00:02:57,959 --> 00:02:59,961 Well, you don't know till you ask them. 77 00:03:00,048 --> 00:03:03,138 Naw, see, some things you do know before you ask. 78 00:03:03,226 --> 00:03:04,749 Well, put it to them like this 79 00:03:04,836 --> 00:03:06,533 I'm gonna be sitting in front of my store window 80 00:03:06,620 --> 00:03:08,535 with my .44 in my lap. 81 00:03:08,622 --> 00:03:10,145 If someone starts shooting at anybody 82 00:03:10,233 --> 00:03:12,147 I'll consider it directed at me. 83 00:03:12,235 --> 00:03:13,845 I'm gonna shoot back. 84 00:03:13,932 --> 00:03:15,934 So these beefing gangsters are gonna get 85 00:03:16,021 --> 00:03:19,067 their asses shot up, or they're gonna murder an old white lady 86 00:03:19,154 --> 00:03:21,418 with lots of friends in the criminal justice system 87 00:03:21,505 --> 00:03:24,247 friends who will insist on the death penalty for the shooter 88 00:03:24,334 --> 00:03:27,598 and his accomplices because I am one adorable mother-- 89 00:03:27,685 --> 00:03:29,600 Harry! 90 00:03:33,386 --> 00:03:35,301 Wait. No. No! 91 00:03:37,216 --> 00:03:39,784 No, no, no, no, no, no. No! 92 00:03:54,364 --> 00:03:56,844 You wanted a number, I gave it to you. 93 00:03:56,931 --> 00:03:59,020 $626,000. 94 00:03:59,107 --> 00:04:01,109 That's my number. 95 00:04:01,196 --> 00:04:02,894 Saw that. Unacceptable. 96 00:04:02,981 --> 00:04:05,157 Do you mind telling me how you got to that figure? 97 00:04:05,244 --> 00:04:07,768 I got it due to lost wages, loss of future earnings 98 00:04:07,855 --> 00:04:11,163 pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of consortium. 99 00:04:11,250 --> 00:04:13,383 Many things go into a Tommy Jefferson number. 100 00:04:13,470 --> 00:04:15,863 - Loss of consortium? - He's depressed. 101 00:04:15,950 --> 00:04:17,909 - Affects his love life. - Look.. 102 00:04:17,996 --> 00:04:20,390 - No, you look. - I asked you to look first. 103 00:04:25,046 --> 00:04:26,744 Your client wrongfully terminated mine. 104 00:04:26,831 --> 00:04:30,008 That's a fact. That's a given. That's a reality. 105 00:04:30,095 --> 00:04:34,273 One which you're not gonna change by bringing in rude boy. 106 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,449 Think I don't know why you recruited him? 107 00:04:36,536 --> 00:04:38,582 I know why. You brought him in to push my button. 108 00:04:38,669 --> 00:04:40,932 Nobody pushes my button. 109 00:04:41,019 --> 00:04:45,197 I don't even have a button. $626,000. That's my number. 110 00:04:45,284 --> 00:04:49,244 Your client made $81,000 a year. He's 72 years old. 111 00:04:49,332 --> 00:04:51,290 There's no way that lost wages together with 112 00:04:51,377 --> 00:04:53,988 loss of future earnings will ever, ever reach 113 00:04:54,075 --> 00:04:55,947 present-day value of that number you're throwing out. 114 00:04:56,034 --> 00:04:58,993 Your client fired an old man for being old. 115 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,692 The jury will hate that. 116 00:05:01,779 --> 00:05:03,824 They will punish him, you know it 117 00:05:03,911 --> 00:05:05,173 I know it, so does the bug. 118 00:05:05,260 --> 00:05:07,480 There's no wand to wave, no button to push 119 00:05:07,567 --> 00:05:10,135 no card to play. 120 00:05:10,222 --> 00:05:12,529 You have a dog case. 121 00:05:12,616 --> 00:05:14,705 Your client's worst nightmare would be for a jury 122 00:05:14,792 --> 00:05:17,098 to get its hands on this. Ask the bug. 123 00:05:17,185 --> 00:05:19,405 - Tommy-- - Don't flirt with me. 124 00:05:19,492 --> 00:05:22,321 You want to flirt with me, do it in a bar. 125 00:05:22,408 --> 00:05:25,977 Do it in a hotel lounge. Do it on my boat. 126 00:05:26,064 --> 00:05:29,110 But not in a settlement conference. $627,000. 127 00:05:29,197 --> 00:05:30,764 Oh, it's 27 now. 128 00:05:30,851 --> 00:05:32,331 Surcharge for bringing in a bug. 129 00:05:32,418 --> 00:05:33,898 I tack on for bugs. 130 00:05:35,943 --> 00:05:37,684 I saw that. Unacceptable. 131 00:05:37,771 --> 00:05:41,209 $340,000. That's our final offer. 132 00:05:41,296 --> 00:05:44,387 Hmm. Let the nightmare begin. 133 00:05:46,214 --> 00:05:48,086 I think you're gonna have to eat this one, Adam. 134 00:05:48,173 --> 00:05:51,394 I'd cut your losses now and get out. You done for the day? 135 00:05:51,481 --> 00:05:54,222 No, trial starts this afternoon. 136 00:06:09,586 --> 00:06:12,415 - You the Jew? - What did you just say? 137 00:06:12,502 --> 00:06:14,721 Hey, "Jew" is a slang. It just means "lawyer." 138 00:06:14,808 --> 00:06:17,245 Oh. 139 00:06:17,332 --> 00:06:19,073 Yes, I would be the Jew. 140 00:06:40,965 --> 00:06:42,706 I'm the Jew. 141 00:06:50,888 --> 00:06:53,020 Alright, cool. 8 o'clock, here. 142 00:06:54,892 --> 00:06:57,024 Fine. 143 00:06:57,111 --> 00:06:59,200 By the way, no guns. 144 00:07:02,247 --> 00:07:04,467 Everyone will be frisked at the door. 145 00:07:11,778 --> 00:07:14,302 Hey, man, I think I sold that old lady some weed. 146 00:07:14,389 --> 00:07:15,869 What? 147 00:07:15,956 --> 00:07:19,394 See? They're getting along better already. 148 00:07:19,482 --> 00:07:23,573 Harry, the people that'll be here tonight 149 00:07:23,660 --> 00:07:25,923 a few of 'em, maybe all of 'em 150 00:07:26,010 --> 00:07:27,751 have killed people. 151 00:07:30,318 --> 00:07:33,234 Then I better do a good job. 152 00:07:33,321 --> 00:07:37,195 8 o'clock. Bangers in the house. 153 00:07:42,896 --> 00:07:45,072 I don't like that she brought in that bug. 154 00:07:45,159 --> 00:07:47,161 It's not that he threatens me it's that she would think 155 00:07:47,248 --> 00:07:50,382 I have a button that he would know how to push it. 156 00:07:50,469 --> 00:07:51,905 I don't like that. 157 00:07:51,992 --> 00:07:53,733 Tommy Jefferson has no Achilles' heel. 158 00:07:53,820 --> 00:07:55,126 Tommy, you're personalizing. 159 00:07:55,213 --> 00:07:57,171 You don't do well when you personalize, do you? 160 00:07:57,258 --> 00:07:59,783 Look at me. What did we say on the ride over? 161 00:07:59,870 --> 00:08:01,393 I would be Tommy Big-Boy today. 162 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,134 The facts of this case sit with us. 163 00:08:03,221 --> 00:08:05,005 So just keep your focus. 164 00:08:05,092 --> 00:08:06,572 Look, would you like me to try to rattle him? 165 00:08:06,659 --> 00:08:08,966 I don't care about him, he's a bug. 166 00:08:09,053 --> 00:08:10,533 Rattle her. 167 00:08:10,620 --> 00:08:13,448 - Tommy.. - I'm attracted to you. 168 00:08:13,536 --> 00:08:15,320 I just thought we should put that on the table. 169 00:08:15,407 --> 00:08:17,104 It'll have no bearing on the case, but in the spirit 170 00:08:17,191 --> 00:08:20,630 of full disclosure, certain types leave me damp, you're it. 171 00:08:23,937 --> 00:08:26,070 My-my client's willing to come up to $410,000. 172 00:08:26,157 --> 00:08:29,726 Wow. That's a little harder to say no to. 173 00:08:29,813 --> 00:08:31,292 No. 174 00:08:36,384 --> 00:08:39,562 Well, he was honest about it, I'll give him that. 175 00:08:39,649 --> 00:08:41,476 What exactly did he say? 176 00:08:41,564 --> 00:08:44,436 He said he was scaling down the operation 177 00:08:44,523 --> 00:08:46,743 he needed to let some people go. 178 00:08:46,830 --> 00:08:49,267 'He said, "Gerald, you've run your race.' 179 00:08:49,354 --> 00:08:52,139 You need to let the younger employees run theirs." 180 00:08:52,226 --> 00:08:54,185 Did he fault your job performance? 181 00:08:54,272 --> 00:08:57,580 No. Just the opposite. He said I was exemplary. 182 00:08:57,667 --> 00:09:00,626 That's what you said, Allan. Exemplary. 183 00:09:00,713 --> 00:09:04,282 'So basically, he fired you for no good reason.' 184 00:09:04,369 --> 00:09:06,937 Awful, must have been wrenching. 185 00:09:07,024 --> 00:09:08,982 You're damn right it was wrenching. 186 00:09:09,069 --> 00:09:11,376 '46 years I was there. It was my whole life.' 187 00:09:11,463 --> 00:09:13,944 And I get kicked to the curb 'cause I'm too old. 188 00:09:15,685 --> 00:09:17,600 - It's not right. - No, it isn't. 189 00:09:17,687 --> 00:09:19,602 It's horribly wrong. 190 00:09:21,908 --> 00:09:27,087 First of all, I am sorry. 191 00:09:27,174 --> 00:09:29,220 I remember when my grandfather lost his job. 192 00:09:29,307 --> 00:09:31,135 Perhaps you could write about it in your book. 193 00:09:31,222 --> 00:09:32,702 I was.. 194 00:09:34,312 --> 00:09:35,792 You're living on a fixed income. What do you have? 195 00:09:35,879 --> 00:09:37,968 - Social Security? - I get Social Security. 196 00:09:38,055 --> 00:09:39,926 - Yes. - A pension? 197 00:09:40,013 --> 00:09:42,233 That doesn't mean he can fire me for being too old. 198 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:43,843 'I understand that, sir, I'm just trying to get a' 199 00:09:43,930 --> 00:09:46,280 a sense of the hardship. Do you have a pension? 200 00:09:46,367 --> 00:09:48,021 Yes. 201 00:09:48,108 --> 00:09:49,283 How much do you get from your Social Security 202 00:09:49,370 --> 00:09:50,328 and your pension? 203 00:09:50,415 --> 00:09:51,808 I get about $2200 a month. 204 00:09:51,895 --> 00:09:53,331 Is that the extent of your income? 205 00:09:53,418 --> 00:09:55,376 This is not just about income, young lady. 206 00:09:55,463 --> 00:09:57,465 I understand. 207 00:09:57,552 --> 00:09:59,554 Do you have other income? 208 00:09:59,642 --> 00:10:01,774 I get some stock dividends. 209 00:10:01,861 --> 00:10:03,558 Worth about how much? 210 00:10:03,646 --> 00:10:07,258 Oh, it works out to about $8000 a year. 211 00:10:07,345 --> 00:10:09,129 Okay, so that's about $35,000 all in. 212 00:10:09,216 --> 00:10:13,220 And forgive my intrusion, but do you have a savings account? 213 00:10:13,307 --> 00:10:15,005 This isn't about money. 214 00:10:15,092 --> 00:10:17,137 You've sued for lost wages and future earnings 215 00:10:17,224 --> 00:10:19,139 and yet you testify this isn't about the money-- 216 00:10:19,226 --> 00:10:22,665 Objection. Of course this is partly about money, but.. 217 00:10:22,752 --> 00:10:24,101 I'm talking to him now, I'd be happy 218 00:10:24,188 --> 00:10:25,363 to get a drink with you later. 219 00:10:25,450 --> 00:10:26,799 - Good, can I come? - Yes. 220 00:10:26,886 --> 00:10:28,366 Let's all have a party after the trial 221 00:10:28,453 --> 00:10:30,977 but for now let's just get through this. 222 00:10:31,064 --> 00:10:32,457 May I be heard, Your Honor? 223 00:10:32,544 --> 00:10:34,764 Sir, when you're sitting in that witness chair 224 00:10:34,851 --> 00:10:36,722 it's all about you being heard. 225 00:10:38,593 --> 00:10:40,857 I have suffered economic loss. 226 00:10:40,944 --> 00:10:43,816 But more than the money, my life was about waking up 227 00:10:43,903 --> 00:10:46,427 and going to work. 228 00:10:46,514 --> 00:10:48,255 A man needs a purpose. 229 00:10:48,342 --> 00:10:51,041 - And by purpose do you-- - I'm not finished. 230 00:10:51,128 --> 00:10:55,741 I gave my life to this company. I worked hard for a fair wage. 231 00:10:55,828 --> 00:10:59,702 This job, it...it's all I had. 232 00:10:59,789 --> 00:11:03,444 I sit here now with nothing but time on my hands. 233 00:11:06,621 --> 00:11:08,493 What am I supposed to do? 234 00:11:13,106 --> 00:11:15,152 Where am I supposed to go? 235 00:12:18,868 --> 00:12:22,741 Are we good? Everyone in here is clean? Good. 236 00:12:24,308 --> 00:12:25,526 Harry. 237 00:12:25,613 --> 00:12:26,614 You didn't have to bring a gun. 238 00:12:28,399 --> 00:12:30,531 Come on, calm down. 239 00:12:32,707 --> 00:12:35,798 Thank you. Any more outbursts, you'll hear more of that. 240 00:12:38,104 --> 00:12:41,455 Alright, so...who's who? 241 00:12:41,542 --> 00:12:44,415 Boone Park is on that side. Li'l D will speak for them. 242 00:12:44,502 --> 00:12:47,200 Linkwood's on that side. Keshawn will speak for them. 243 00:12:47,287 --> 00:12:49,028 And the two guys who are having the dispute? 244 00:12:49,115 --> 00:12:51,074 It's Dewayne from Linkwood. Dewayne. 245 00:12:53,641 --> 00:12:56,035 - And C.K. with Boone Park. - 'Got it.' 246 00:12:56,122 --> 00:12:58,168 And it's C.K.'s car that was damaged? 247 00:12:58,255 --> 00:13:00,735 Damaged? You tripping. That ride was done. 248 00:13:00,823 --> 00:13:02,999 - Yo, watch your mouth, man. - He lucky he wasn't in it. 249 00:13:03,086 --> 00:13:05,523 - You feel me? - What you say, son? 250 00:13:05,610 --> 00:13:07,351 Guys, guys, come on, we here to talk. 251 00:13:07,438 --> 00:13:10,484 We didn't come here to fight. Calm down! 252 00:13:16,926 --> 00:13:18,841 'It broke my heart to fire Gerald.' 253 00:13:18,928 --> 00:13:21,844 He's been a valued, loyal employee. 254 00:13:21,931 --> 00:13:26,065 My father hired him. He began mowing grass, landscaping. 255 00:13:26,152 --> 00:13:28,807 Worked his way into accounting and sales. 256 00:13:28,894 --> 00:13:30,809 - 'And he was good.' - But? 257 00:13:30,896 --> 00:13:34,508 But I had to trim my workforce. I was hemorrhaging money. 258 00:13:34,595 --> 00:13:37,207 And the trimming you did involved your older employees? 259 00:13:37,294 --> 00:13:40,427 Yes, but what it really came down to was economic need. 260 00:13:40,514 --> 00:13:42,125 'The young guys and women had families.' 261 00:13:42,212 --> 00:13:44,431 Tuition to swing, mouths to feed. 262 00:13:44,518 --> 00:13:47,260 They were scraping just to avoid getting foreclosed on. 263 00:13:47,347 --> 00:13:49,436 'Gerald owns his home outright, he has a great pension' 264 00:13:49,523 --> 00:13:52,396 stock dividends, bottom line, he was better able to absorb 265 00:13:52,483 --> 00:13:54,572 being laid off, at least financially. 266 00:13:54,659 --> 00:13:56,182 Did you ever consider the difficulty 267 00:13:56,269 --> 00:13:59,229 for a 72-year-old to reenter the labor force? 268 00:13:59,316 --> 00:14:00,665 I did consider that. 269 00:14:00,752 --> 00:14:02,449 What about our State budget mess? 270 00:14:02,536 --> 00:14:04,451 Think we should start brooming the older judges? 271 00:14:04,538 --> 00:14:06,062 Oh, come on. 272 00:14:06,149 --> 00:14:07,628 Did you consider the psychological damage 273 00:14:07,715 --> 00:14:09,674 it might cause Mr. Essex to be put out of work? 274 00:14:09,761 --> 00:14:11,371 - I know it had to be tough. - You know how? 275 00:14:11,458 --> 00:14:14,026 You read about it? You consulted psychologists? 276 00:14:14,113 --> 00:14:15,680 I don't have to consult with anybody to know 277 00:14:15,767 --> 00:14:16,855 this was gonna be difficult. 278 00:14:16,942 --> 00:14:18,901 'Gerald has financial security' 279 00:14:18,988 --> 00:14:20,554 which most of my employees don't-- 280 00:14:20,641 --> 00:14:22,469 Not my question, what, if you don't like my question 281 00:14:22,556 --> 00:14:23,775 you're gonna answer one of your own? 282 00:14:23,862 --> 00:14:25,472 - Objection. - Mr. Jefferson. 283 00:14:25,559 --> 00:14:28,040 You say you considered need in deciding who to fire. 284 00:14:28,127 --> 00:14:30,434 Did you consider fairness? Basic fairness? 285 00:14:30,521 --> 00:14:33,132 Like if a man gives 46 years of his life 286 00:14:33,219 --> 00:14:36,701 if he's loyal, if he works hard every damn day 287 00:14:36,788 --> 00:14:38,964 that doesn't count? That doesn't count? 288 00:14:39,051 --> 00:14:40,748 Of course it counts. 289 00:14:40,835 --> 00:14:43,621 You had 11 employees who had worked for you under a year. 290 00:14:43,708 --> 00:14:46,929 You kept them, but this man you fired...because he's old. 291 00:14:47,016 --> 00:14:48,408 You think I want to be losing money? 292 00:14:48,495 --> 00:14:51,020 Do you think I want to be firing people? I had to. 293 00:14:51,107 --> 00:14:53,500 We all have to make sacrifices, for God's sake. 294 00:14:53,587 --> 00:14:55,589 And you decided to sacrifice the employee 295 00:14:55,676 --> 00:14:57,591 who had given you the most? 296 00:15:04,337 --> 00:15:06,557 Look, man, your boy's out of line, and you know it. 297 00:15:06,644 --> 00:15:08,646 He wasn't out of nothing. You don't even care about that girl. 298 00:15:08,733 --> 00:15:10,430 That don't matter if I was done with her or not. 299 00:15:10,517 --> 00:15:11,823 - Hold on, nobody talks unless-- - What I'm saying is-- 300 00:15:11,910 --> 00:15:13,564 - Quiet. - I'm making a point! 301 00:15:13,651 --> 00:15:15,566 I said shut your mouth. 302 00:15:18,873 --> 00:15:22,965 - Harry, take it down a notch. - This is the only notch I know. 303 00:15:23,052 --> 00:15:25,706 Let's continue, one person at a time. 304 00:15:25,793 --> 00:15:29,362 My point be this...if anybody be out of order it's this punk 305 00:15:29,449 --> 00:15:32,452 when he decided to torch C.K.'s car. 306 00:15:32,539 --> 00:15:34,237 - My turn? - Go. 307 00:15:34,324 --> 00:15:37,762 Here's what it is. It's about respect, you feel me? 308 00:15:37,849 --> 00:15:39,851 He knew he should have stuck to Shonda 309 00:15:39,938 --> 00:15:43,159 but he did it anyway. He hood rich. Peeling off stacks. 310 00:15:43,246 --> 00:15:45,378 - Trying to front-- - Time out. 311 00:15:45,465 --> 00:15:47,424 I know you all have your own jargon 312 00:15:47,511 --> 00:15:49,426 but I don't talk legal-ese to you 313 00:15:49,513 --> 00:15:51,732 so please don't speak gangster-ese to me. 314 00:15:51,819 --> 00:15:53,125 Harry, all he said was-- 315 00:15:53,212 --> 00:15:54,953 What he said he can say in plain English. 316 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:56,389 That is plain English. 317 00:15:56,476 --> 00:15:58,000 You don't understand what I'm saying.. 318 00:15:58,087 --> 00:15:59,697 That was plain enough. If you don't understand.. 319 00:16:01,612 --> 00:16:04,093 Hold up. You're going to bust an eardrum with that thing. 320 00:16:04,180 --> 00:16:06,008 Put it down. 321 00:16:06,095 --> 00:16:07,531 Give us a minute. 322 00:16:15,017 --> 00:16:16,148 You need to lighten up a little. 323 00:16:16,235 --> 00:16:17,410 No, I need to be able to understand 324 00:16:17,497 --> 00:16:18,498 what they're saying. 325 00:16:18,585 --> 00:16:19,586 Ask me and I'll tell you. 326 00:16:19,673 --> 00:16:20,848 Check this out. 327 00:16:20,935 --> 00:16:22,589 We come to an agreement on something. 328 00:16:24,287 --> 00:16:26,332 - This here's not gonna work. - What? 329 00:16:26,419 --> 00:16:28,465 At least not with you. You're out. 330 00:16:28,552 --> 00:16:29,770 What do you mean I'm out? 331 00:16:29,857 --> 00:16:31,381 You're a terrible mediator, lady. 332 00:16:31,468 --> 00:16:33,905 You're out. He's in. 333 00:16:33,992 --> 00:16:35,646 - What? - What? 334 00:16:35,733 --> 00:16:37,169 Look, you just don't get it, lady. 335 00:16:37,256 --> 00:16:38,649 We think maybe he does. 336 00:16:38,736 --> 00:16:40,564 - I'm the mediator. - No, you're not. 337 00:16:40,651 --> 00:16:43,045 We'll be back tomorrow 8:00 a.m. 338 00:16:43,132 --> 00:16:44,481 Be ready. 339 00:17:12,944 --> 00:17:15,599 Do not scream. You hear me? 340 00:17:15,686 --> 00:17:18,036 I'm not going to hurt you. I just need you to listen to me. 341 00:17:18,123 --> 00:17:21,735 Do not bite me. I don't like when people bite me either. 342 00:17:21,822 --> 00:17:24,564 I ain't gonna rob you or nothing, I promise. 343 00:17:24,651 --> 00:17:26,436 I just need to talk to you. 344 00:17:31,963 --> 00:17:35,488 That is not the way to initiate a conversation. 345 00:17:35,575 --> 00:17:38,448 Sorry. I heard you pack. 346 00:17:38,535 --> 00:17:40,667 I want to get out of Boone Park. 347 00:17:40,754 --> 00:17:42,713 I want to go to college like that Malcolm kid. 348 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,106 I told you, I didn't get him.. 349 00:17:44,193 --> 00:17:46,456 It's not about that. 350 00:17:46,543 --> 00:17:48,545 I just need you to help me get out. 351 00:17:48,632 --> 00:17:50,982 Well, what's the big deal? Just say you're out. 352 00:17:51,069 --> 00:17:52,636 In which case, they'll kill me. 353 00:17:52,723 --> 00:17:55,465 - Oh, come on. - You're the mediator. 354 00:17:55,552 --> 00:17:57,206 I just need you to help me get out. 355 00:17:57,293 --> 00:18:01,340 Actually, I'm no longer.. They'd really kill you? 356 00:18:01,427 --> 00:18:05,257 Lady, read my lips. They...will...kill...me. 357 00:18:22,492 --> 00:18:25,277 - No, no, no, no, no! No! - Calm down. 358 00:18:25,364 --> 00:18:27,366 Harry, you cannot do this. 359 00:18:27,453 --> 00:18:30,587 Getting someone out of a gang? That is way, way over your head. 360 00:18:30,674 --> 00:18:34,330 You cannot. First of all, they probably would kill him. 361 00:18:34,417 --> 00:18:36,462 - It's definitely a possibility. - I cannot believe-- 362 00:18:36,549 --> 00:18:38,377 Believe it. My brother was in a gang. 363 00:18:38,464 --> 00:18:40,336 He wanted to get out. He.. 364 00:18:48,518 --> 00:18:51,521 If you try to do this, then you can forget about us 365 00:18:51,608 --> 00:18:54,567 mediating the other thing 'cause our trust, our credibility-- 366 00:18:54,654 --> 00:18:57,396 Helping kids leave gangs is something mediators do. 367 00:18:57,483 --> 00:18:59,616 The ones with experience, maybe. 368 00:18:59,703 --> 00:19:02,358 And most of them, ex-gang members themselves. 369 00:19:02,445 --> 00:19:05,143 This is way beyond the expertise of a patent lawyer. 370 00:19:08,277 --> 00:19:11,671 Just handle the dispute we got on the table, please? 371 00:19:17,111 --> 00:19:19,592 Hello. Welcome, welcome. 372 00:19:19,679 --> 00:19:21,420 I took the liberty of making little name tags 373 00:19:21,507 --> 00:19:23,205 to make things a little easier. 374 00:19:23,292 --> 00:19:25,816 Little D. That's for you. 375 00:19:25,903 --> 00:19:27,992 You're not little. Funny. 376 00:19:28,079 --> 00:19:31,952 C.K. That's for you. 377 00:19:32,039 --> 00:19:35,434 Dewayne, here you.. No? Okay. 378 00:19:35,521 --> 00:19:37,436 Keshawn. 379 00:19:46,706 --> 00:19:48,230 Maybe we should bump up the offer. 380 00:19:48,317 --> 00:19:49,796 The client refuses. 381 00:19:49,883 --> 00:19:51,755 Rachel, we're getting a little thrashed here. 382 00:19:51,842 --> 00:19:55,062 Not to criticize, but you didn't exactly rattle Tommy much. 383 00:19:55,149 --> 00:19:58,544 - You're blaming me? - No. I just.. 384 00:19:58,631 --> 00:20:00,633 Look, it's not over. Our client is sympathetic. 385 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:02,722 - It's just the plaintiff is-- - Is way more so. 386 00:20:02,809 --> 00:20:04,768 If we close well, we are still in it. 387 00:20:08,293 --> 00:20:10,513 How's Chunhua doing? 388 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:12,471 Better. A lot better actually. 389 00:20:12,558 --> 00:20:14,038 Thanks for loaning out Thomas. 390 00:20:14,125 --> 00:20:16,040 Oh, it's the least I can do 391 00:20:16,127 --> 00:20:18,695 after you've helped so much with this case. 392 00:20:18,782 --> 00:20:20,958 I'm kidding. 393 00:20:21,045 --> 00:20:23,439 Seriously, do you have any ideas? 394 00:20:23,526 --> 00:20:26,659 Well, Tommy's done a good job of framing the question 395 00:20:26,746 --> 00:20:29,358 why him just because he's old. 396 00:20:29,445 --> 00:20:32,535 We need the question to be, why does he get tenure 397 00:20:32,622 --> 00:20:34,580 just because he's old. 398 00:20:42,284 --> 00:20:45,635 Okay, so I think I've got the basics of the situation. 399 00:20:45,722 --> 00:20:49,247 Dewayne, how long you and Shonda going out? 400 00:20:49,334 --> 00:20:52,468 I don't know, man...a few months, something like that. 401 00:20:52,555 --> 00:20:53,991 - When'd you break up? - Little, bro. 402 00:20:54,078 --> 00:20:56,123 I don't really know all these damn dates. 403 00:20:56,210 --> 00:20:59,953 It was a while ago. Besides, bottom line, he don't get her. 404 00:21:01,694 --> 00:21:03,653 No matter what, bro. 405 00:21:07,091 --> 00:21:09,441 So you set fire to his car. 406 00:21:09,528 --> 00:21:12,531 - Whatever. - Okay. C.K.. 407 00:21:12,618 --> 00:21:14,881 There's sort of an unwritten rule about dating ex-girlfriends 408 00:21:14,968 --> 00:21:18,320 from another gang, right? 409 00:21:18,407 --> 00:21:20,757 - Yeah. - $12,000 for your car? 410 00:21:20,844 --> 00:21:22,846 - How you get that number? - It's what I paid. 411 00:21:22,933 --> 00:21:24,935 That's because you were suckered. 412 00:21:25,022 --> 00:21:26,806 Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! 413 00:21:29,853 --> 00:21:31,550 - Put it down. - Not now, bro. 414 00:21:31,637 --> 00:21:33,422 - Harry, put yours down. - Not until-- 415 00:21:33,509 --> 00:21:35,380 Put it down now. 416 00:21:43,170 --> 00:21:46,043 Now you. Give it to me. 417 00:21:46,130 --> 00:21:47,871 Give it to me! 418 00:21:54,834 --> 00:21:56,445 Give it to me. 419 00:22:00,492 --> 00:22:02,842 - Come on, let's go! - What's up? 420 00:22:02,929 --> 00:22:04,888 - 'Anybody else got a gun?' - Do something! 421 00:22:04,975 --> 00:22:07,499 Has anybody else got a gun? 422 00:22:07,586 --> 00:22:09,632 Ten seconds immunity. 423 00:22:09,719 --> 00:22:13,113 'Cause if I find otherwise, you won't like my ruling. 424 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:14,811 Ten seconds. 425 00:22:22,384 --> 00:22:25,038 Alright. A one hour cooldown, then we continue. 426 00:22:25,125 --> 00:22:27,998 - We don't need an hour. - Maybe I do. 427 00:22:28,085 --> 00:22:30,217 Kid, you better make this work. 428 00:22:30,304 --> 00:22:31,958 'Cause if not, there's gonna be blood. 429 00:22:32,045 --> 00:22:34,439 And it's gonna be on your hands. You understand? 430 00:22:39,575 --> 00:22:41,577 I just came from the CIRV offices. 431 00:22:41,664 --> 00:22:43,448 You know CIRV, right? 432 00:22:43,535 --> 00:22:46,059 Yeah, yeah, Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce 433 00:22:46,146 --> 00:22:47,713 whatever. I heard of it. 434 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,323 Well, they pretty much echoed what Malcolm told me 435 00:22:49,411 --> 00:22:52,109 that this is way over my head. 436 00:22:52,196 --> 00:22:54,111 Lewis, they can provide protection. 437 00:22:54,198 --> 00:22:55,895 They have experienced people who can mentor.. 438 00:22:55,982 --> 00:22:57,810 I came to you. 439 00:22:57,897 --> 00:23:00,030 Got a feeling about you. 440 00:23:00,117 --> 00:23:03,033 Why does everybody get feelings about me? 441 00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:06,253 Look, Lewis, they have a lot of reformed gang members 442 00:23:06,340 --> 00:23:10,083 who can help the transition. They're good at this, I'm not. 443 00:23:10,170 --> 00:23:12,564 - I'm not going to CIRV. - Well, I can't help you. 444 00:23:12,651 --> 00:23:14,348 Do you want me to end up dead? 445 00:23:14,436 --> 00:23:16,786 Lewis, I cannot help you. 446 00:23:36,109 --> 00:23:39,852 C.K., how did you start going out with Shonda? 447 00:23:39,939 --> 00:23:43,943 - Why that matter to you? - 'Cause it does. 448 00:23:44,030 --> 00:23:46,250 From the beginning. 449 00:23:46,337 --> 00:23:48,208 Look, man, I don't really remember, I just.. 450 00:23:48,295 --> 00:23:50,515 Refresh your recollection, then. 451 00:23:55,738 --> 00:23:58,828 Well, I saw her one day coming out this store. 452 00:23:58,915 --> 00:24:02,484 And I thought, you know, she'd be cool to hang out with. 453 00:24:08,925 --> 00:24:11,318 So that's it, we started kicking it, no big deal. 454 00:24:13,712 --> 00:24:15,279 I mean, I ain't want no drama, so I told her 455 00:24:15,366 --> 00:24:16,846 how it is, you know. 456 00:24:16,933 --> 00:24:18,456 I told her where I was coming from. 457 00:24:22,373 --> 00:24:25,289 I told that girl exactly where she fit in, in my life. 458 00:24:28,379 --> 00:24:30,512 She was cool with it. 459 00:24:40,870 --> 00:24:43,960 That's it. I ain't mean no disrespect. 460 00:24:44,047 --> 00:24:46,702 So there was no call to go and torch that man's ride. 461 00:24:46,789 --> 00:24:48,355 Not your turn. 462 00:24:53,839 --> 00:24:55,406 Is that it? 463 00:24:56,668 --> 00:24:58,278 C.K.? 464 00:25:11,422 --> 00:25:13,337 We all know the story. 465 00:25:13,424 --> 00:25:16,645 Lifeboat starts to take on water. 466 00:25:16,732 --> 00:25:19,169 Someone has the idea, "Hey, let's throw out 467 00:25:19,256 --> 00:25:22,825 all the old people." That's exactly what happened here. 468 00:25:22,912 --> 00:25:25,088 'Never mind the years of service, loyalty.' 469 00:25:25,175 --> 00:25:26,916 "We want youth, you're out." 470 00:25:27,003 --> 00:25:30,354 It's disgusting how we treat our elderly. 471 00:25:30,441 --> 00:25:32,399 As far as the television networks go 472 00:25:32,486 --> 00:25:36,012 if you're over 49 years of age, you're dead. 473 00:25:36,099 --> 00:25:41,278 You don't exist. It's unfair, it's...indecent. 474 00:25:41,365 --> 00:25:46,239 And what's worse, ageism in this country is tolerated. 475 00:25:46,326 --> 00:25:49,634 Giggled at, even. Make fun of the old. 476 00:25:49,721 --> 00:25:53,420 Why not? Discriminate, go ahead. Who cares? 477 00:25:53,507 --> 00:25:55,901 'Imagine if we did that with racism' 478 00:25:55,988 --> 00:26:00,689 or sexism, or all the other "isms." 479 00:26:00,776 --> 00:26:03,517 'But ageism, knock yourself out.' 480 00:26:03,605 --> 00:26:06,433 Gerald Essex gave Meade Landscaping and Design 481 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,610 46 years of his life. 482 00:26:08,697 --> 00:26:11,613 He deserved better than to be fired because of his age. 483 00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:13,353 There was no suggestion here that he could no longer 484 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,705 do the job. Just the opposite. He was exemplary. 485 00:26:16,792 --> 00:26:20,317 But old. And we don't like old, do we? 486 00:26:20,404 --> 00:26:23,755 I asked the defendant, and he was stuck for an answer 487 00:26:23,842 --> 00:26:26,279 where does that fall on the fairness graph? 488 00:26:26,366 --> 00:26:30,109 I'll ask the same question of you. 489 00:26:30,196 --> 00:26:33,635 Might also throw in the two questions Gerald asked. 490 00:26:33,722 --> 00:26:35,637 What is he supposed to do? 491 00:26:37,551 --> 00:26:40,163 Where is he supposed to go? 492 00:26:53,219 --> 00:26:54,917 I actually like old. 493 00:26:55,004 --> 00:26:56,353 I'd tell you about my grandfather, but I've been 494 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,661 instructed by the court to put that in my book. 495 00:26:59,748 --> 00:27:02,054 That lifeboat analogy, if you remember the story 496 00:27:02,141 --> 00:27:04,187 the elderly were tossed overboard 497 00:27:04,274 --> 00:27:05,623 in order to save people. 498 00:27:05,710 --> 00:27:07,625 Mr. Jefferson left that part out. 499 00:27:07,712 --> 00:27:10,497 My client had a bunch of drowning employees 500 00:27:10,584 --> 00:27:13,762 who would have lost their homes if they were put out of work. 501 00:27:13,849 --> 00:27:16,329 Some wouldn't even be able to feed their families. 502 00:27:16,416 --> 00:27:19,376 So he chose to spare those workers and let go of 503 00:27:19,463 --> 00:27:21,944 the employees who were financially secure 504 00:27:22,031 --> 00:27:24,729 employees like Mr. Essex who had savings 505 00:27:24,816 --> 00:27:27,427 'who had Social Security, who had pensions' 506 00:27:27,514 --> 00:27:30,430 employees who owned their homes outright. 507 00:27:30,517 --> 00:27:33,607 Employees who, yes, happened to be older. 508 00:27:35,479 --> 00:27:38,525 Mr. Essex deserved better, of course he did. 509 00:27:38,612 --> 00:27:40,832 So do a lot of people in this economy. 510 00:27:42,747 --> 00:27:46,316 Let's not get carried away with this ageism nonsense. 511 00:27:46,403 --> 00:27:48,884 The over-50 demographic, they might be dead to the networks 512 00:27:48,971 --> 00:27:51,147 but otherwise they're not doing so bad. 513 00:27:51,234 --> 00:27:53,453 'They control over eight trillion in assets' 514 00:27:53,540 --> 00:27:55,847 more than 70% of discretionary income. 515 00:27:55,934 --> 00:28:00,634 They make up 82% of Congress, 100% of Supreme Court 516 00:28:00,722 --> 00:28:02,854 80% of CEOs. 517 00:28:02,941 --> 00:28:07,380 They basically control government, the economy. 518 00:28:07,467 --> 00:28:09,295 In short, old people rule. 519 00:28:09,382 --> 00:28:11,515 'If one group is getting especially slammed' 520 00:28:11,602 --> 00:28:13,212 'it is the young.' 521 00:28:13,299 --> 00:28:14,736 For kids coming out of college today 522 00:28:14,823 --> 00:28:17,434 it is a labor market depression. 523 00:28:17,521 --> 00:28:19,088 They have to go back to living with their parents 524 00:28:19,175 --> 00:28:21,568 because there are simply no jobs. 525 00:28:21,655 --> 00:28:24,615 So let's put Mr. Jefferson's outrage in perspective here. 526 00:28:28,967 --> 00:28:31,448 As for this fairness graph 527 00:28:31,535 --> 00:28:33,929 let's say you had to let go of one of two employees 528 00:28:34,016 --> 00:28:36,192 one wouldn't face any real financial hardship 529 00:28:36,279 --> 00:28:38,237 for the other, it would be catastrophic. 530 00:28:38,324 --> 00:28:40,196 'What would you do?' 531 00:28:40,283 --> 00:28:42,894 That was the choice facing Allan Meade. 532 00:28:42,981 --> 00:28:45,897 He chose to inflict less hardship. 533 00:28:45,984 --> 00:28:48,770 We should punish him for that? Really? 534 00:29:24,414 --> 00:29:26,764 Any idea what you're gonna do? 535 00:29:26,851 --> 00:29:30,072 I got an idea, but.. 536 00:29:30,159 --> 00:29:33,205 - My advice? - Nope. 537 00:29:33,292 --> 00:29:35,251 I can't believe you got me into this. 538 00:29:35,338 --> 00:29:36,948 You're gonna get me killed, I hope you're happy. 539 00:29:37,035 --> 00:29:38,689 I'm never happy. 540 00:29:44,695 --> 00:29:46,915 Was your brother killed trying to get out of a gang? 541 00:29:47,002 --> 00:29:49,874 No. He was shot three times. 542 00:29:49,961 --> 00:29:51,789 So he was meant to be killed. 543 00:29:51,876 --> 00:29:53,486 No, if they wanted to kill him, they would've killed him. 544 00:29:58,622 --> 00:30:00,842 Malcolm, look at me. 545 00:30:03,105 --> 00:30:06,325 My father, it should be said he was drunk at the time 546 00:30:06,412 --> 00:30:09,241 but still... he once said to me 547 00:30:09,328 --> 00:30:12,462 "there comes a time in every man's life when he stops 548 00:30:12,549 --> 00:30:16,466 letting life just happen to him, and he starts happening to it." 549 00:30:16,553 --> 00:30:18,424 I have no idea what that means. 550 00:30:18,511 --> 00:30:20,774 You just look them in the eye, every last single one of them 551 00:30:20,862 --> 00:30:22,864 and you tell them what your ruling is. 552 00:30:22,951 --> 00:30:25,257 Not everybody can be as brave as you, okay? 553 00:30:25,344 --> 00:30:26,955 You think I'm brave? 554 00:30:28,565 --> 00:30:32,656 Malcolm, I got thrown out on my ass by my law firm 555 00:30:32,743 --> 00:30:35,137 at the age of 61. 556 00:30:35,224 --> 00:30:39,402 I suddenly find myself old, fat 557 00:30:39,489 --> 00:30:42,448 alone, unemployed 558 00:30:42,535 --> 00:30:45,843 now practicing law in a shoe store. 559 00:30:45,930 --> 00:30:48,411 That isn't brave, it's desperate. 560 00:30:48,498 --> 00:30:50,630 Most people my age, they resign themselves 561 00:30:50,717 --> 00:30:54,721 to just projecting their hopes and dreams onto their kids. 562 00:30:54,808 --> 00:30:58,508 Well, I don't have any kids, so I can't even do that. 563 00:30:58,595 --> 00:31:01,772 No grandchildren to bounce on. 564 00:31:01,859 --> 00:31:03,905 I got a friggin' shoe store in a ghetto. 565 00:31:06,864 --> 00:31:10,085 But I'll tell you this. 566 00:31:10,172 --> 00:31:13,827 I do get to project a little hope and a few dreams. 567 00:31:13,915 --> 00:31:15,264 I do it with you. 568 00:31:17,005 --> 00:31:18,702 You'd be surprised at how much hope 569 00:31:18,789 --> 00:31:22,227 I project your way, Malcolm. 570 00:31:22,314 --> 00:31:24,926 You're an awesome kid. 571 00:31:25,013 --> 00:31:27,276 Now, I'm not your mother. 572 00:31:27,363 --> 00:31:29,104 But I'm nevertheless going to say something to you 573 00:31:29,191 --> 00:31:32,020 that every parent says to his or her child at some point. 574 00:31:34,587 --> 00:31:36,763 Don't let me down. 575 00:31:36,850 --> 00:31:38,896 Or else. 576 00:31:38,983 --> 00:31:41,246 'Cause they may kill me, too. 577 00:31:47,426 --> 00:31:48,950 I was bad. 578 00:31:49,037 --> 00:31:50,908 Tommy, you weren't bad. 579 00:31:50,995 --> 00:31:54,216 Yes, I was. I was bad, bad, bad. 580 00:31:54,303 --> 00:31:57,610 - You weren't. - But she was better. 581 00:31:57,697 --> 00:31:59,525 I don't like it when people are better. 582 00:31:59,612 --> 00:32:01,353 Nobody gets to be better than Tommy Jefferson. 583 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,312 You're not acting like Tommy Big-Boy now, are you? 584 00:32:03,399 --> 00:32:05,488 - You're pouting. - Because she was better. 585 00:32:05,575 --> 00:32:08,317 - You both were good. - That's not what I wanna hear. 586 00:32:08,404 --> 00:32:11,842 Everything was going so well. I don't understand. 587 00:32:11,929 --> 00:32:13,887 Look, she's a good lawyer. We knew that. 588 00:32:13,975 --> 00:32:16,281 - She must be a lesbian. - Excuse me? 589 00:32:16,368 --> 00:32:17,848 You bolstered her by flirting with her. 590 00:32:17,935 --> 00:32:20,285 That's what you did. Made her much better. 591 00:32:22,157 --> 00:32:24,115 I saw that. 592 00:32:24,202 --> 00:32:26,074 I don't do well against lesbians. 593 00:32:27,858 --> 00:32:29,164 You made her better. 594 00:32:31,427 --> 00:32:33,037 Okay. 595 00:32:33,124 --> 00:32:37,302 C.K. claims Dewayne owes him $12,000 for destroying his car. 596 00:32:37,389 --> 00:32:39,391 Dewayne says his actions were justified 597 00:32:39,478 --> 00:32:41,350 because C.K. broke the code by dating 598 00:32:41,437 --> 00:32:43,134 his ex-girlfriend Shonda. 599 00:32:44,831 --> 00:32:49,053 C.K., Blue Book value puts your car at 8000. 600 00:32:49,140 --> 00:32:51,186 - I tricked it out. - 'It don't matter.' 601 00:32:51,273 --> 00:32:52,839 The mediator finds in favor of Dewayne. 602 00:32:55,712 --> 00:32:57,061 Yeah, that's what I'm talking about! 603 00:32:57,148 --> 00:32:59,542 I ain't done, the mediator also finds 604 00:32:59,629 --> 00:33:03,415 that Dewayne has no claim whatsoever on Shonda. 605 00:33:03,502 --> 00:33:05,809 Dewayne, you and Shonda are done. 606 00:33:05,896 --> 00:33:09,247 She want to be with C.K., she gonna be with C.K., that's it. 607 00:33:09,334 --> 00:33:11,989 No, that's not it. Some codes don't get broken. 608 00:33:12,076 --> 00:33:14,209 Not by him and not by you, you understand? 609 00:33:14,296 --> 00:33:17,255 I think you need to understand, that's my ruling. 610 00:33:17,342 --> 00:33:20,171 It's either this or no ruling, and I'm done. 611 00:33:20,258 --> 00:33:21,825 There's any blood, it's on your hands. 612 00:33:21,912 --> 00:33:24,697 You got that? All you want is not to pay the money. 613 00:33:24,784 --> 00:33:27,831 You don't care about the girl, he does. This works. 614 00:33:33,924 --> 00:33:36,622 The mediator has made his ruling. 615 00:33:36,709 --> 00:33:37,971 We all cool? 616 00:33:52,638 --> 00:33:54,162 We cool. 617 00:33:57,687 --> 00:34:01,865 - Whatever, man. - Yeah. Cool. 618 00:34:01,952 --> 00:34:03,606 Then we're adjourned. 619 00:34:05,521 --> 00:34:06,870 One second. 620 00:34:09,351 --> 00:34:11,266 As you all made it so clear, I'm just 621 00:34:11,353 --> 00:34:12,789 the little old white lady who doesn't get it. 622 00:34:12,876 --> 00:34:15,400 Harry.. 623 00:34:15,487 --> 00:34:18,403 And I don't. I'll admit that. 624 00:34:18,490 --> 00:34:21,798 Why you choose the life of gangs. 625 00:34:21,885 --> 00:34:24,105 Perhaps it chooses you. 626 00:34:24,192 --> 00:34:26,063 Maybe there's no choice involved at all 627 00:34:26,150 --> 00:34:27,978 it's just a reality that.. 628 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,982 But here's another reality. 629 00:34:32,069 --> 00:34:35,725 Five, ten years down the road, you people 630 00:34:35,812 --> 00:34:40,295 every single one of you, will either be dead or in prison. 631 00:34:40,382 --> 00:34:42,732 Dead or in prison. 632 00:34:42,819 --> 00:34:47,215 You all cool with that? You can't be that stupid. 633 00:34:47,302 --> 00:34:49,826 I know getting out of a gang is difficult. 634 00:34:49,913 --> 00:34:51,654 'But if any of you should choose to do so' 635 00:34:51,741 --> 00:34:55,310 'I would hope the rest of you, as betrayed as you may feel' 636 00:34:55,397 --> 00:34:57,225 'would respect that decision.' 637 00:34:57,312 --> 00:35:00,141 'And if any of you want out, my door is open to help you.' 638 00:35:00,228 --> 00:35:02,926 That's a promise I'll make right now. 639 00:35:03,013 --> 00:35:05,102 And here's another one. 640 00:35:05,189 --> 00:35:10,412 If I hear that anybody tries to get out and ends up dead.. 641 00:35:10,499 --> 00:35:14,720 I will hunt the responsible person or persons down 642 00:35:14,807 --> 00:35:16,809 like a mad dog. 643 00:35:19,899 --> 00:35:21,945 Now we're adjourned. 644 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:00,026 You made an offer, I'm accepting. What's the big deal? 645 00:36:00,113 --> 00:36:04,117 - You rejected that offer. - I'm talking to her, bug. 646 00:36:04,205 --> 00:36:06,250 You never took it off the table. Bug. 647 00:36:06,337 --> 00:36:07,817 I'm officially accepting now. 648 00:36:07,904 --> 00:36:09,471 It's officially off the table. 649 00:36:09,558 --> 00:36:11,951 Now, if you want a hundred.. 650 00:36:12,038 --> 00:36:15,128 What? Bug. That's insulting, a hundred. 651 00:36:15,216 --> 00:36:17,392 Mr. Jefferson, you want to take your seat now? 652 00:36:17,479 --> 00:36:19,698 No, Your Honor. 300, as low as I'll go. 653 00:36:19,785 --> 00:36:21,918 Let me rephrase. Take your seat. 654 00:36:22,005 --> 00:36:24,007 - Final chance. - Pass. 655 00:36:27,445 --> 00:36:31,057 Mr. Foreman, has the jury reached a verdict? 656 00:36:31,144 --> 00:36:33,538 - We have, Your Honor. - What say you? 657 00:36:33,625 --> 00:36:36,585 "In the matter of Essex vs. Meade Landscaping and Design 658 00:36:36,672 --> 00:36:38,848 "on the question of liability 659 00:36:38,935 --> 00:36:40,719 we find in favor of the plaintiff." 660 00:36:40,806 --> 00:36:44,245 Of course you do. Tommy Jay, Tommy Jay. Nobody like me. 661 00:36:44,332 --> 00:36:47,291 And on the question of damages, we order the defendant 662 00:36:47,378 --> 00:36:49,467 to pay the plaintiff $75. 663 00:36:51,208 --> 00:36:52,905 What? 664 00:36:52,992 --> 00:36:56,039 - Did he say $75? - Tommy Big-Boy. 665 00:36:56,126 --> 00:36:57,954 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, thank.. 666 00:36:58,041 --> 00:36:59,608 - 75 bucks? That's it? - It's a victory. 667 00:36:59,695 --> 00:37:03,481 You're still undefeated. Big-Boy. Big-Big-Boy now. 668 00:37:03,568 --> 00:37:05,614 75 bucks? 669 00:37:05,701 --> 00:37:07,355 Essentially, the jury said it was wrong of you 670 00:37:07,442 --> 00:37:08,921 to fire him because of his age 671 00:37:09,008 --> 00:37:10,575 but they understood why you did it. 672 00:37:10,662 --> 00:37:12,795 Shall I pay him now? 'Cause I have $75 on me. 673 00:37:12,882 --> 00:37:14,710 - I'd wait on that. - Okay. 674 00:37:14,797 --> 00:37:16,581 - Listen, hey, thank you. - Mm-hmm. 675 00:37:16,668 --> 00:37:18,583 - Thank you both. - Our pleasure. 676 00:37:22,065 --> 00:37:23,893 - Thanks. - Oh, you won it, Rachel. 677 00:37:23,980 --> 00:37:25,851 Oh, I know, but still, you wanted to be useful 678 00:37:25,938 --> 00:37:28,376 it's the thought that counts. 679 00:37:28,463 --> 00:37:30,639 I called, you came. Thanks. 680 00:37:36,253 --> 00:37:38,037 - Not happy. - No. 681 00:37:38,124 --> 00:37:39,604 Seventy-five dollars? 682 00:37:39,691 --> 00:37:41,737 According to Adam, Tommy is furious. 683 00:37:41,824 --> 00:37:43,652 Adam is back to being a rude little bug. 684 00:37:43,739 --> 00:37:45,393 Of course he is. 685 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,177 This one was a paying client though, Harry. 686 00:37:47,264 --> 00:37:50,267 We actually get money for this. 687 00:37:50,354 --> 00:37:52,182 - Harry. - What? 688 00:37:55,838 --> 00:37:57,405 What? 689 00:38:31,526 --> 00:38:33,832 Lewis? 690 00:38:33,919 --> 00:38:35,573 Who is it? 691 00:38:35,660 --> 00:38:37,880 It's me. 692 00:38:37,967 --> 00:38:40,535 Harry Korn. 693 00:38:40,622 --> 00:38:42,493 Oh, thank you. 694 00:38:45,844 --> 00:38:50,109 I-I don't know how to... thank you. 695 00:38:50,196 --> 00:38:53,025 Are you being sarcastic? 696 00:38:53,112 --> 00:38:55,071 No. 697 00:38:55,158 --> 00:38:56,464 They just beat me. 698 00:38:58,466 --> 00:39:02,034 I got off light. They just beat me out, that's all. 699 00:39:04,036 --> 00:39:06,778 I'll be fine. 700 00:39:06,865 --> 00:39:08,476 Had to be 'cause of what you said. 701 00:39:10,826 --> 00:39:12,523 Lewis.. 702 00:39:14,743 --> 00:39:17,441 Because of me opening my mouth they.. 703 00:39:17,528 --> 00:39:19,008 ...they must have figured out. 704 00:39:19,095 --> 00:39:21,314 Yeah, I know. 705 00:39:21,402 --> 00:39:24,579 But they also heard you. 706 00:39:24,666 --> 00:39:27,103 'I'm alive, right?' 707 00:39:27,190 --> 00:39:28,844 I'm.. 708 00:39:31,063 --> 00:39:33,152 I'm gonna go to college, just like Malcolm. 709 00:39:36,721 --> 00:39:38,114 I don't know what else to say. 710 00:39:42,988 --> 00:39:44,860 Neither do I. 711 00:39:46,731 --> 00:39:49,734 Lewis, I am so very sorry. 712 00:39:49,821 --> 00:39:52,694 You really don't get it, do you? 713 00:39:52,781 --> 00:39:54,565 I probably owe you my life. 714 00:39:58,003 --> 00:40:00,919 No. 715 00:40:01,006 --> 00:40:03,531 I don't get it at all. 716 00:40:34,475 --> 00:40:37,129 The thing about routine 717 00:40:37,216 --> 00:40:40,437 when it kills you, it doesn't have to be forever. 718 00:40:42,178 --> 00:40:44,136 If you can just get rid of it 719 00:40:44,223 --> 00:40:48,010 and the hazy blur that goes with it 720 00:40:48,097 --> 00:40:50,578 life can come back. 721 00:40:50,665 --> 00:40:53,494 With all its glory, its pain. 722 00:40:57,802 --> 00:40:59,195 Oh, how it can come back.