1 00:00:05,570 --> 00:00:07,920 [elevator bell dings] 2 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:12,621 Did the world just turn into a sea of jerks, or...? 3 00:00:12,621 --> 00:00:14,057 Puck? 4 00:00:14,057 --> 00:00:15,580 Hey, Harry, how are you? 5 00:00:15,580 --> 00:00:17,408 Meet Paul and Marcie Vinson, and their daughter Sela. 6 00:00:17,408 --> 00:00:18,496 Hello. 7 00:00:18,496 --> 00:00:19,976 PEYTON: Uh, can we go 8 00:00:19,976 --> 00:00:22,500 into your office for a second? It'’s important. 9 00:00:23,893 --> 00:00:25,808 We really appreciate this. 10 00:00:25,808 --> 00:00:27,897 I'’m not quite sure what it is you'’re appreciating. 11 00:00:27,897 --> 00:00:30,204 We'’d like you to represent Sela. 12 00:00:30,204 --> 00:00:32,945 PAUL: She'’s being charged with... 13 00:00:32,945 --> 00:00:36,166 An acquaintance of hers at school recently took her life, 14 00:00:36,166 --> 00:00:39,387 and Sela'’s being held criminally liable for the girl'’s death. 15 00:00:39,387 --> 00:00:41,084 I wasn'’t trying to bully her. 16 00:00:41,084 --> 00:00:44,174 I have a blog that she read. 17 00:00:44,174 --> 00:00:46,611 PEYTON: It'’s an unfortunate situation. I have been representing her. 18 00:00:46,611 --> 00:00:49,049 The case and files are fully developed-- full developed. 19 00:00:49,049 --> 00:00:51,790 Another one of my cases also got called for trial. 20 00:00:51,790 --> 00:00:54,663 So I was wondering if perhaps you would take over this one? 21 00:00:56,839 --> 00:00:59,972 Please. Harry, I need you here. 22 00:00:59,972 --> 00:01:02,366 More importantly, so does Sela. 23 00:01:04,151 --> 00:01:07,980 Exactly what was on this blog? 24 00:01:07,980 --> 00:01:10,809 I just said... 25 00:01:12,072 --> 00:01:14,552 ...she was gay. 26 00:01:30,612 --> 00:01:32,570 I have a pretty low opinion of lawyers, 27 00:01:32,570 --> 00:01:35,834 so it'’s not as if I have high expectations. 28 00:01:35,834 --> 00:01:37,793 But you set a new low. 29 00:01:37,793 --> 00:01:40,100 You are unconscionable. 30 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:42,754 I would go so far as to say despicable. 31 00:01:42,754 --> 00:01:45,148 What'’s your point? My point? 32 00:01:45,148 --> 00:01:48,238 My son came to you desperate for help and you prey on him 33 00:01:48,238 --> 00:01:49,892 to get hold of his life insurance?! 34 00:01:49,892 --> 00:01:51,937 That'’s one way of looking at it. 35 00:01:51,937 --> 00:01:53,722 Here'’s another. 36 00:01:53,722 --> 00:01:56,290 Your son, dying of leukemia, comes to me, Tommy Jefferson, 37 00:01:56,290 --> 00:01:59,249 in search of a lawyer to help him get 38 00:01:59,249 --> 00:02:01,686 some experimental treatment that the pharmaceutical company refuses to provide. 39 00:02:01,686 --> 00:02:03,775 I take his case for free 40 00:02:03,775 --> 00:02:05,212 in exchange for an assignment of his policy. 41 00:02:05,212 --> 00:02:06,952 I fight valiantly for him in court. 42 00:02:06,952 --> 00:02:09,694 I do not prevail, but I am valiant just the same. 43 00:02:09,694 --> 00:02:12,262 I lose the battle in court, but I tried. 44 00:02:12,262 --> 00:02:14,525 And I charged him nothing. 45 00:02:14,525 --> 00:02:16,484 You are here crying, 46 00:02:16,484 --> 00:02:18,486 because you didn'’t get the proceeds to his policy. 47 00:02:18,486 --> 00:02:20,749 Well, sir, tell me, as he was dying, 48 00:02:20,749 --> 00:02:22,751 desperate as you say, what did you do? 49 00:02:22,751 --> 00:02:25,275 I, Tommy Jefferson, fought for him, you heard me say valiantly. 50 00:02:25,275 --> 00:02:27,234 That'’s what I did. What did you do? 51 00:02:31,063 --> 00:02:33,022 I'’m sorry. No, it'’s... 52 00:02:35,503 --> 00:02:37,113 Are you okay, sir? 53 00:02:38,419 --> 00:02:41,813 You work with that guy? 54 00:02:42,814 --> 00:02:44,512 Are you... 55 00:02:44,512 --> 00:02:46,427 ...kidding me? You took a dying man'’s life insurance? 56 00:02:46,427 --> 00:02:48,690 What good is it going to do him? He'’s dead. 57 00:02:48,690 --> 00:02:50,866 Tommy, I don'’t even know what to say. 58 00:02:50,866 --> 00:02:52,346 Say good-bye then. See ya. 59 00:02:52,346 --> 00:02:54,304 You'’re going to get sued for this. 60 00:02:54,304 --> 00:02:55,958 You do realize that?Yeah, right. 61 00:02:55,958 --> 00:02:58,047 Good luck to Daddy finding a lawyer to go after me. 62 00:02:58,047 --> 00:03:00,441 He did find one. 63 00:03:00,441 --> 00:03:02,138 Me. Very funny. 64 00:03:02,138 --> 00:03:04,053 I'’m serious. I took his case. I'’m representing him. 65 00:03:04,053 --> 00:03:06,447 We share the same office.But we'’re separate firms. 66 00:03:06,447 --> 00:03:08,753 You either sign over this life insurance policy 67 00:03:08,753 --> 00:03:11,452 to my client, or I'’ll get the court to order you to. 68 00:03:14,977 --> 00:03:16,283 Is Harry in her office? 69 00:03:16,283 --> 00:03:18,023 I think so. 70 00:03:18,023 --> 00:03:20,635 Hey, Cassie, how you doing? 71 00:03:22,593 --> 00:03:24,465 I'’m flattered. 72 00:03:24,465 --> 00:03:28,164 You'’re very kind, but no thanks.I just said how you doing. 73 00:03:28,164 --> 00:03:30,035 Okay. Doing fine, Ollie. 74 00:03:30,035 --> 00:03:32,560 Oh, you thought I was hitting on you, that'’s what you thought. 75 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,736 I wasn'’t hitting on you. 76 00:03:34,736 --> 00:03:37,347 Okay, lunch-- that'’s not hitting. Everybody eats. 77 00:03:37,347 --> 00:03:38,870 It'’s hardly hitting. 78 00:03:41,830 --> 00:03:44,572 Everybody eats lunch. 79 00:03:44,572 --> 00:03:47,139 What do you mean you'’re leaving?Harry, it'’s Christian Louboutin. 80 00:03:47,139 --> 00:03:49,272 I don'’t care who it is, why are you leaving? 81 00:03:49,272 --> 00:03:51,143 This is a huge opportunity for me. 82 00:03:51,143 --> 00:03:55,191 Christian Louboutin is like the holy grail of women'’s footwear. 83 00:03:55,191 --> 00:03:57,715 They make shoes.Well, they saw the Vogue-Online interview 84 00:03:57,715 --> 00:04:00,588 and they called and asked to interview me, which I did. 85 00:04:00,588 --> 00:04:03,199 Successfully.Jenna, we'’re just getting started here. 86 00:04:03,199 --> 00:04:05,810 Even Sarah Palin stuck it out two years before she quit. 87 00:04:05,810 --> 00:04:07,551 Don'’t make this difficult. 88 00:04:07,551 --> 00:04:08,987 I will make it difficult. 89 00:04:08,987 --> 00:04:10,554 I'’ll make it as difficult as all get-out. 90 00:04:10,554 --> 00:04:12,164 I need you here. No you don'’t. 91 00:04:12,164 --> 00:04:14,123 I hired a great girl downstairs, 92 00:04:14,123 --> 00:04:15,516 she'’s going to take care of the shoe store. 93 00:04:15,516 --> 00:04:18,867 And the law office is practically... Jenna. 94 00:04:18,867 --> 00:04:22,305 Look, this is a calling for me. 95 00:04:22,305 --> 00:04:24,525 And if you really care about me as much as you pretend to... 96 00:04:24,525 --> 00:04:26,570 Well, I don'’t care that much. I was pretending. 97 00:04:26,570 --> 00:04:29,704 I'’ll sue your ass if you leave me in the lurch like this. 98 00:04:35,275 --> 00:04:37,712 [sighs] 99 00:04:37,712 --> 00:04:38,800 You okay? 100 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:40,889 Why are you here, Ollie? 101 00:04:40,889 --> 00:04:42,325 Uh, well... 102 00:04:42,325 --> 00:04:44,066 Actually, I don'’t care, sit down. 103 00:04:44,066 --> 00:04:46,068 I helped bail you out last time, 104 00:04:46,068 --> 00:04:47,461 now you need to help me. 105 00:04:47,461 --> 00:04:49,767 I just took on a new client, Sela Vinson. 106 00:04:49,767 --> 00:04:52,683 [chuckles] That'’s funny. 107 00:04:52,683 --> 00:04:55,338 You'’re serious? The cyber-bully? 108 00:04:55,338 --> 00:04:56,731 I don'’t think she'’s really a bully. 109 00:04:56,731 --> 00:04:58,167 The trial is set to go, I could use your help. 110 00:04:58,167 --> 00:04:59,647 Listen, Harry, 111 00:04:59,647 --> 00:05:01,823 defending wife-killing murderers is one thing. 112 00:05:01,823 --> 00:05:03,477 But cyber-bullies who contribute to teen suicide... 113 00:05:03,477 --> 00:05:05,609 This is a public relations disaster. 114 00:05:05,609 --> 00:05:07,176 I'’m not looking for PR advice. 115 00:05:07,176 --> 00:05:08,395 I need a good second-chair, 116 00:05:08,395 --> 00:05:09,744 [knocking]and since you owe me... 117 00:05:09,744 --> 00:05:12,660 Ah, Sela, come in. 118 00:05:12,660 --> 00:05:14,879 Meet Ollie Richard, he'’s joining the case. 119 00:05:16,141 --> 00:05:18,230 Hi. Hi. 120 00:05:18,230 --> 00:05:20,363 Okay, look, uh... first order of business, 121 00:05:20,363 --> 00:05:21,930 I'’m going to meet with the DA, 122 00:05:21,930 --> 00:05:23,758 see if I can get the charges reduced. 123 00:05:23,758 --> 00:05:25,847 I don'’t figure to be successful, but it'’s worth the shot. 124 00:05:25,847 --> 00:05:27,457 Sit, honey. 125 00:05:27,457 --> 00:05:31,766 I wanted to talk to you alone, since... well, 126 00:05:31,766 --> 00:05:33,637 in that courtroom, your parents 127 00:05:33,637 --> 00:05:35,770 can'’t really be that much good to you. 128 00:05:35,770 --> 00:05:37,554 It'’s gonna be a rough go. 129 00:05:37,554 --> 00:05:39,730 You see how the way the media is making you out to be a monster, 130 00:05:39,730 --> 00:05:42,037 so will the prosecution. There'’s no avoiding that. 131 00:05:42,037 --> 00:05:43,299 Okay. 132 00:05:43,299 --> 00:05:44,953 You'’re going to need to testify. 133 00:05:44,953 --> 00:05:46,346 You up to that? 134 00:05:46,346 --> 00:05:48,609 I think. 135 00:05:52,308 --> 00:05:54,789 You all right? 136 00:05:54,789 --> 00:05:58,096 If we lose, I'’m... 137 00:05:58,096 --> 00:06:00,360 really in trouble, aren'’t I? 138 00:06:02,884 --> 00:06:06,366 Sela, you'’re being charged with a homicide. 139 00:06:08,759 --> 00:06:12,197 If we lose, you go to prison. 140 00:06:23,252 --> 00:06:24,558 They make me do everything. 141 00:06:24,558 --> 00:06:25,776 How you doing, Harry? 142 00:06:25,776 --> 00:06:27,343 I hear such nice things from Hosanna. 143 00:06:27,343 --> 00:06:28,997 I can imagine. 144 00:06:28,997 --> 00:06:30,825 I pulled the Sela Vinson case. 145 00:06:30,825 --> 00:06:32,827 So I'’m told-- tell Puck he'’s a coward. 146 00:06:32,827 --> 00:06:34,350 Are you sure you really want this one? 147 00:06:34,350 --> 00:06:35,960 God knows I don'’t. 148 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:37,397 Maybe we can make both our lives a little easier. 149 00:06:37,397 --> 00:06:39,007 Yeah, that'’s not gonna happen. 150 00:06:39,007 --> 00:06:40,530 Kim, negligent homicide? 151 00:06:40,530 --> 00:06:41,966 We'’ve got a bullying problem here in Ohio, 152 00:06:41,966 --> 00:06:43,577 did you know that? 153 00:06:43,577 --> 00:06:44,969 So you'’re going to make an example of Sela? 154 00:06:44,969 --> 00:06:47,581 Well, you said that, but okay. 155 00:06:47,581 --> 00:06:48,930 She'’s 17 years old. 156 00:06:48,930 --> 00:06:50,540 As was Hannah Wells, who is now dead. 157 00:06:50,540 --> 00:06:53,543 Look, Harry, the cyber-bullying is out of control, 158 00:06:53,543 --> 00:06:55,893 so is the gay-bashing, especially in this state. 159 00:06:55,893 --> 00:06:57,504 We have to sound an alarm, 160 00:06:57,504 --> 00:06:59,331 and a plea bargain is not going to do that. 161 00:06:59,331 --> 00:07:01,551 We'’d rather file homicide charges and lose 162 00:07:01,551 --> 00:07:03,031 than quietly resolve it, 163 00:07:03,031 --> 00:07:04,554 and unfortunately for your girl, 164 00:07:04,554 --> 00:07:06,513 that puts her in the crosshairs. 165 00:07:06,513 --> 00:07:08,210 She'’s a decent kid. 166 00:07:08,210 --> 00:07:11,735 Look, negligent homicide is the best I can do. 167 00:07:13,041 --> 00:07:15,304 CASSIE: There'’s nothing illegal 168 00:07:15,304 --> 00:07:17,132 about accepting a life insurance policy 169 00:07:17,132 --> 00:07:19,264 as consideration, it'’s just, you know... 170 00:07:19,264 --> 00:07:21,615 Beyond repugnant? Bug. 171 00:07:21,615 --> 00:07:24,618 Let'’s keep looking, there'’s gotta be some actual case law. 172 00:07:24,618 --> 00:07:26,141 Adam, can I talk to you? 173 00:07:26,141 --> 00:07:27,795 I may need a favor. 174 00:07:27,795 --> 00:07:29,361 Um, I'’ve decided to leave. 175 00:07:29,361 --> 00:07:30,885 I got this really incredible job 176 00:07:30,885 --> 00:07:33,322 and Harry is threatening to sue me, 177 00:07:33,322 --> 00:07:35,411 and I was just wondering if you could help me. 178 00:07:35,411 --> 00:07:37,326 I know that she'’s your boss and everything, but... 179 00:07:37,326 --> 00:07:38,675 What do you mean, you'’ve decided to leave? 180 00:07:38,675 --> 00:07:40,111 You can'’t leave. 181 00:07:40,111 --> 00:07:41,504 It'’s Christian Louboutin. 182 00:07:41,504 --> 00:07:42,723 They make shoes. 183 00:07:42,723 --> 00:07:44,246 [elevator bell dings] 184 00:07:44,246 --> 00:07:45,769 You can'’t just leave. 185 00:07:45,769 --> 00:07:47,249 Okay, folks, we'’re going to trial. 186 00:07:47,249 --> 00:07:48,729 I'’ll need everybody on standby. 187 00:07:48,729 --> 00:07:50,470 We'’re going to need the down and dirty 188 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:52,776 on all the laws regarding homicide and bullying liability. 189 00:07:52,776 --> 00:07:54,474 Start with State and go national. 190 00:07:54,474 --> 00:07:56,171 Politically speaking, it would be best for me 191 00:07:56,171 --> 00:07:57,955 to take that assignment from a partner in this firm, 192 00:07:57,955 --> 00:07:59,566 and not somebody else'’s. 193 00:07:59,566 --> 00:08:01,132 Take it from me, then, we need the research. 194 00:08:01,132 --> 00:08:03,308 Harry, Jenna just told me she'’s leaving. 195 00:08:03,308 --> 00:08:04,527 Is-is that true? 196 00:08:04,527 --> 00:08:07,269 Oh, she just thinks she is. 197 00:08:07,269 --> 00:08:08,836 She'’s probably just having her... 198 00:08:08,836 --> 00:08:10,925 God, it'’s been so long since I'’ve had one 199 00:08:10,925 --> 00:08:12,622 I can'’t even remember what they'’re called. 200 00:08:12,622 --> 00:08:15,320 Harry, I know that technically we'’re separate firms, 201 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,454 but the fact is we cohabit, we have a duty, you hear me, 202 00:08:18,454 --> 00:08:20,325 a duty, of good faith to each other. 203 00:08:20,325 --> 00:08:22,153 Is that how you got a man dying with leukemia 204 00:08:22,153 --> 00:08:25,156 to sign over his life insurance, you used good faith? 205 00:08:25,156 --> 00:08:26,593 He signed over the policy willingly. 206 00:08:26,593 --> 00:08:28,116 In fact you know what he said, Bug? 207 00:08:28,116 --> 00:08:29,378 Thank you. 208 00:08:29,378 --> 00:08:30,901 Thank you, Tommy Valiant Jefferson. 209 00:08:30,901 --> 00:08:32,424 He'’s suing me, you believe that? 210 00:08:32,424 --> 00:08:33,730 My client is. 211 00:08:33,730 --> 00:08:34,862 You took a man'’s life insurance? 212 00:08:34,862 --> 00:08:36,254 Dying man'’s. 213 00:08:36,254 --> 00:08:37,778 It'’s an acceptable form of compensation. 214 00:08:37,778 --> 00:08:39,127 Not to me it'’s not. 215 00:08:39,127 --> 00:08:40,650 It'’s disgusting. 216 00:08:40,650 --> 00:08:42,957 Well, I can see now 217 00:08:42,957 --> 00:08:44,393 I not only need a judge to tell me I'’m right, 218 00:08:44,393 --> 00:08:47,048 I need him to tell you, and you-- Bug, 219 00:08:47,048 --> 00:08:48,266 and mother-bug. 220 00:08:48,266 --> 00:08:49,833 Harry, check this out. 221 00:08:49,833 --> 00:08:54,229 And what exactly has 17-year-old Sela Vinson done now 222 00:08:54,229 --> 00:08:55,839 other than torture a classmate online 223 00:08:55,839 --> 00:08:57,537 until she kills herself? 224 00:08:57,537 --> 00:08:59,974 Vinson has lawyered up. 225 00:08:59,974 --> 00:09:02,019 That'’s right, hiring a high-profile defense attorney, 226 00:09:02,019 --> 00:09:03,281 Harry Korn. 227 00:09:03,281 --> 00:09:05,457 Korn just out of court... 228 00:09:05,457 --> 00:09:07,155 Is this is on nationally? 229 00:09:07,155 --> 00:09:08,765 I think you should take a shot with a restraining order 230 00:09:08,765 --> 00:09:10,071 before she poisons the entire jury pool. 231 00:09:10,071 --> 00:09:12,073 OLLIE: Good luck with that. 232 00:09:12,073 --> 00:09:13,683 There'’s such a thing as the First Amendment. You ever heard of it? 233 00:09:13,683 --> 00:09:15,424 I have, and it'’s not absolute. Did you think it was? 234 00:09:15,424 --> 00:09:17,034 It is with the news. 235 00:09:17,034 --> 00:09:18,166 CASSIE: This show is less news than it is infotainment. 236 00:09:18,166 --> 00:09:19,689 Give me a break. 237 00:09:19,689 --> 00:09:21,343 Here you go. Can you let me finish talking 238 00:09:21,343 --> 00:09:22,649 to the nice grown-up now? 239 00:09:22,649 --> 00:09:25,739 This woman is in the vengeance business... 240 00:09:25,739 --> 00:09:28,393 Even if you'’re right, you'’re just going to be 241 00:09:28,393 --> 00:09:30,265 giving her a soapbox to tee off even more on our client, 242 00:09:30,265 --> 00:09:32,267 and you, have you ever thought of that? 243 00:09:32,267 --> 00:09:34,704 Take it outside? 244 00:09:34,704 --> 00:09:36,184 Wait, are you two sleeping together? 245 00:09:36,184 --> 00:09:37,794 He'’d like to.No, I wouldn'’t. 246 00:09:37,794 --> 00:09:39,143 Yes, you would.No, I wouldn'’t. 247 00:09:39,143 --> 00:09:40,710 Yes, you would.I asked her out to lunch. 248 00:09:40,710 --> 00:09:41,972 Take it outside? 249 00:09:41,972 --> 00:09:44,409 Which offer is now revoked for life. 250 00:09:50,633 --> 00:09:54,594 WOMAN: She was, um, extremely private about her private life. 251 00:09:54,594 --> 00:09:57,161 Both to friends and family alike. 252 00:09:57,161 --> 00:10:00,164 Hannah was very... 253 00:10:00,164 --> 00:10:04,125 Did you ever discuss her sexual orientation? 254 00:10:04,125 --> 00:10:07,563 Not directly, um... 255 00:10:07,563 --> 00:10:10,174 She would sometimes refer to boys who she thought were cute 256 00:10:10,174 --> 00:10:13,917 at schools, so we just assumed she was heterosexual. 257 00:10:13,917 --> 00:10:18,443 But since her death... 258 00:10:18,443 --> 00:10:21,751 um, there were some writings in her diary 259 00:10:21,751 --> 00:10:24,536 which would indicate otherwise. 260 00:10:24,536 --> 00:10:26,887 Can you describe a bit 261 00:10:26,887 --> 00:10:28,671 the person Hannah was? 262 00:10:28,671 --> 00:10:31,805 As I said, she was very private. 263 00:10:31,805 --> 00:10:36,636 I would go so far as to say she was withdrawn somewhat. 264 00:10:36,636 --> 00:10:39,377 Sensitive. 265 00:10:40,901 --> 00:10:44,644 MENDELSOHN: The night she died... 266 00:10:44,644 --> 00:10:47,429 I went upstairs to check on her, 267 00:10:47,429 --> 00:10:50,693 to find out again if I c... 268 00:10:50,693 --> 00:10:53,174 Her door was open 269 00:10:53,174 --> 00:10:56,568 and the clothes were kinda strewn. 270 00:10:56,568 --> 00:10:58,919 I thought maybe that she'’d gone out to the garage 271 00:10:58,919 --> 00:11:01,661 to actually do her laundry for a change. 272 00:11:01,661 --> 00:11:04,098 So I went out there. 273 00:11:04,098 --> 00:11:06,274 And that'’s where I found her. 274 00:11:08,145 --> 00:11:11,975 I'’m so sorry, but could you tell us what you discovered? 275 00:11:11,975 --> 00:11:17,720 She was sitting in her car, her head back. 276 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,593 I first thought that she was listening to her music, 277 00:11:21,593 --> 00:11:23,117 but then the smell hit me. 278 00:11:23,117 --> 00:11:25,641 The, um, the gasoline. 279 00:11:25,641 --> 00:11:26,642 And I... 280 00:11:28,296 --> 00:11:30,385 ...I saw the hose attached. 281 00:11:32,648 --> 00:11:37,522 Next to her on the car seat were these printed-out copies 282 00:11:37,522 --> 00:11:39,394 of that blog. 283 00:11:39,394 --> 00:11:41,744 Things written about her that... 284 00:11:45,269 --> 00:11:48,708 Your Honor, that'’s all I have. 285 00:11:52,886 --> 00:11:53,887 Miss Korn? 286 00:11:58,979 --> 00:12:02,286 Mrs. Wells... 287 00:12:02,286 --> 00:12:06,029 I cannot begin to imagine the depth of your pain. 288 00:12:06,029 --> 00:12:09,946 And I'’m always horrified 289 00:12:09,946 --> 00:12:12,775 that grieving mothers would be subject 290 00:12:12,775 --> 00:12:15,647 to a cruel process such as this one. 291 00:12:19,913 --> 00:12:22,829 Regarding your daughter'’s sexual orientation, 292 00:12:22,829 --> 00:12:25,092 you said she never talked to you about it. 293 00:12:25,092 --> 00:12:27,007 She talk to anybody? 294 00:12:27,007 --> 00:12:28,225 Her friends? 295 00:12:28,225 --> 00:12:29,705 Not to my knowledge. 296 00:12:29,705 --> 00:12:31,489 How about a therapist? 297 00:12:31,489 --> 00:12:35,319 Clergy? I'’m told you'’re a pretty religious family. 298 00:12:35,319 --> 00:12:36,494 Anybody at church? 299 00:12:36,494 --> 00:12:38,279 We'’re Catholic. 300 00:12:38,279 --> 00:12:40,411 So... 301 00:12:40,411 --> 00:12:43,458 she was really alone with this. 302 00:12:44,938 --> 00:12:47,201 Could Hannah have been suffering from depression 303 00:12:47,201 --> 00:12:50,334 or something else that you just couldn'’t see? 304 00:12:50,334 --> 00:12:53,381 In hindsight, I-I-I guess depression. 305 00:12:53,381 --> 00:12:54,730 But being tormented by your classmates, 306 00:12:54,730 --> 00:12:56,471 I suppose, could do that. 307 00:12:56,471 --> 00:12:58,690 HARRY: Was there ever a cry for help from Hannah? 308 00:12:58,690 --> 00:13:00,214 Or any indication to you that 309 00:13:00,214 --> 00:13:02,216 she might need to get professional help? 310 00:13:04,392 --> 00:13:06,742 Again in hindsight... 311 00:13:09,876 --> 00:13:13,488 [sobs]: I just couldn'’t see it. 312 00:13:15,316 --> 00:13:17,100 I imagine if her own mother couldn'’t foresee 313 00:13:17,100 --> 00:13:19,189 something like this... 314 00:13:19,189 --> 00:13:21,017 nobody could have. 315 00:13:40,384 --> 00:13:43,083 First of all, talk about your conflict of interest, 316 00:13:43,083 --> 00:13:45,607 basically he gets paid if his client dies. 317 00:13:45,607 --> 00:13:47,130 How is that a conflict? 318 00:13:47,130 --> 00:13:48,479 Second, this completely shocks the conscience 319 00:13:48,479 --> 00:13:49,959 and sensibilities... 320 00:13:49,959 --> 00:13:52,179 Not mine. Look, Judge-- can I call you "Judge"?-- 321 00:13:52,179 --> 00:13:53,920 life insurance policies get assigned all the time. 322 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:55,791 It'’s done, sometimes 323 00:13:55,791 --> 00:13:57,793 a repayment of debt, sometimes as collateral 324 00:13:57,793 --> 00:14:00,143 for a loan, winnings in a poker game, it'’s done. 325 00:14:00,143 --> 00:14:02,102 Insurance policies are a transferable asset. 326 00:14:02,102 --> 00:14:04,713 Certainly when one party is dying of a terminal disease. 327 00:14:04,713 --> 00:14:06,106 There'’s been no suggestion of undue influence 328 00:14:06,106 --> 00:14:07,411 or mental incapacity. 329 00:14:07,411 --> 00:14:09,022 Can I finish, please? 330 00:14:09,022 --> 00:14:11,111 No. Time is money, in this case, mine. 331 00:14:11,111 --> 00:14:12,939 This is a waste of my money and the court'’s time. 332 00:14:12,939 --> 00:14:15,593 I'’d like to move for sanctions, move for costs, 333 00:14:15,593 --> 00:14:17,944 move for treble damages, move for abuse of process. 334 00:14:17,944 --> 00:14:19,946 All right, Mr. Jefferson, stop all your moving, 335 00:14:19,946 --> 00:14:21,948 would you, please? 336 00:14:21,948 --> 00:14:23,340 The fact is I do have a bit of a problem with this. 337 00:14:23,340 --> 00:14:24,776 Why? Why? 338 00:14:24,776 --> 00:14:25,995 Well, think about it. 339 00:14:25,995 --> 00:14:27,910 You'’ve been incentivized to lose. 340 00:14:27,910 --> 00:14:30,565 Should your client have received the experimental treatment, 341 00:14:30,565 --> 00:14:32,523 it might'’ve prolonged his life, delaying your compensation. 342 00:14:32,523 --> 00:14:35,962 You come into the money faster by his dying, 343 00:14:35,962 --> 00:14:38,355 which means you financially benefit by losing the case. 344 00:14:38,355 --> 00:14:40,662 There you go.There she goes where? 345 00:14:40,662 --> 00:14:43,447 Judge, almost every lawyer financially benefits by losing. 346 00:14:43,447 --> 00:14:45,580 Why? Because with losing come appeals, 347 00:14:45,580 --> 00:14:47,234 more litigation, more money. 348 00:14:47,234 --> 00:14:49,540 The attorneys I know smile in defeat because they know 349 00:14:49,540 --> 00:14:51,194 they just got richer.That wouldn'’t be true 350 00:14:51,194 --> 00:14:53,718 in contingency cases, which this is. 351 00:14:53,718 --> 00:14:55,329 Oh, really, his death was a contingency, was it? 352 00:14:55,329 --> 00:14:56,547 Not everybody dies? 353 00:14:56,547 --> 00:14:57,897 Not the ones with cancer? 354 00:14:57,897 --> 00:15:00,029 Move for costs, Judge, on grounds of stupid. 355 00:15:00,029 --> 00:15:02,031 Mr. Jefferson, look, these are 356 00:15:02,031 --> 00:15:03,293 the kinds of things that give 357 00:15:03,293 --> 00:15:04,729 lawyers a bad name. It feels sleazy, 358 00:15:04,729 --> 00:15:06,862 it smells bad, and I don'’t like it one bit. 359 00:15:06,862 --> 00:15:09,212 But, Mr. Branch, there'’s nothing illegal 360 00:15:09,212 --> 00:15:11,084 or legally unethical about this arrangement. 361 00:15:11,084 --> 00:15:13,564 We have a valid contract. 362 00:15:13,564 --> 00:15:14,826 Promise, consideration, performance. 363 00:15:14,826 --> 00:15:16,176 Your motion is denied. 364 00:15:16,176 --> 00:15:17,568 [gavel bangs] 365 00:15:21,181 --> 00:15:22,530 Hey, smile. 366 00:15:22,530 --> 00:15:25,141 Now you can appeal-- take more of his money. 367 00:15:38,328 --> 00:15:41,331 GIRL: She was just really beyond upset over the blog. 368 00:15:41,331 --> 00:15:42,985 And who wouldn'’t be? 369 00:15:42,985 --> 00:15:45,814 Comments like "dyke, box fairy." 370 00:15:45,814 --> 00:15:48,860 There were others which I don'’t want to repeat. 371 00:15:48,860 --> 00:15:50,384 It was beyond offensive. 372 00:15:50,384 --> 00:15:51,863 So these things were written 373 00:15:51,863 --> 00:15:53,691 about Hannah? Yes. 374 00:15:53,691 --> 00:15:55,563 By her. 375 00:15:56,868 --> 00:16:00,481 And then... And then... what? 376 00:16:00,481 --> 00:16:03,963 Well, in the Wednesday blog, three days before, 377 00:16:03,963 --> 00:16:08,184 she wrote that maybe Hannah just needed some help coming out. 378 00:16:08,184 --> 00:16:11,318 She suggested that people start giving Hannah a knowing nod, 379 00:16:11,318 --> 00:16:13,624 which basically, everybody started doing. 380 00:16:13,624 --> 00:16:15,975 That'’s what sent her over the edge. 381 00:16:15,975 --> 00:16:18,107 So the defendant 382 00:16:18,107 --> 00:16:21,806 basically solicited the student body to participate 383 00:16:21,806 --> 00:16:23,069 in this harassment? 384 00:16:23,069 --> 00:16:25,810 Yes. 385 00:16:25,810 --> 00:16:28,030 You testified you were Hannah'’s best friend? 386 00:16:28,030 --> 00:16:29,553 Yes. Jennie, 387 00:16:29,553 --> 00:16:31,512 did you know Hannah was gay? 388 00:16:31,512 --> 00:16:33,209 Well, I suspected. 389 00:16:33,209 --> 00:16:35,559 It'’s not something we ever really talked about. 390 00:16:35,559 --> 00:16:38,823 She was very deep in the closet, kind of. 391 00:16:38,823 --> 00:16:41,435 And as Hannah'’s best friend, did you ever confront Sela? 392 00:16:41,435 --> 00:16:42,784 I confronted Sela many times. 393 00:16:42,784 --> 00:16:45,134 She went after me last year after 394 00:16:45,134 --> 00:16:46,962 I made a poor decision on a prom dress. 395 00:16:46,962 --> 00:16:48,616 HARRY: As I understand it, 396 00:16:48,616 --> 00:16:51,097 she goes after everybody-- teachers, students, 397 00:16:51,097 --> 00:16:53,186 class presidents. 398 00:16:53,186 --> 00:16:56,015 Her blog is the only way she can get attention. 399 00:16:56,015 --> 00:16:58,147 So how we doing, Sela? Is this enough attention for you? 400 00:16:58,147 --> 00:16:59,670 HARRY: Your Honor, move to strike that. 401 00:16:59,670 --> 00:17:01,237 Ms. Dean! The jury will 402 00:17:01,237 --> 00:17:04,153 disregard those remarks. Ms. Dean, 403 00:17:04,153 --> 00:17:05,981 you are only to answer the questions 404 00:17:05,981 --> 00:17:08,027 asked of you, please. 405 00:17:19,864 --> 00:17:22,258 ADAM: First of all, congratulations in court. 406 00:17:22,258 --> 00:17:24,043 I thought you did a first-rate job. 407 00:17:24,043 --> 00:17:26,349 Clearly, you'’re a gifted attorney. 408 00:17:26,349 --> 00:17:28,873 Tommy, you own five cars. 409 00:17:28,873 --> 00:17:30,788 You have two swimming pools. 410 00:17:30,788 --> 00:17:34,183 You have sex with the most expensive girls in town. 411 00:17:34,183 --> 00:17:36,403 Though you'’re entitled to that insurance policy, 412 00:17:36,403 --> 00:17:38,361 the fact is, you don'’t really need it. 413 00:17:38,361 --> 00:17:40,537 And Jason Barrows does. 414 00:17:40,537 --> 00:17:43,888 I'’m going to ask you to give him the proceeds of the policy, 415 00:17:43,888 --> 00:17:45,890 not because you'’re legally obligated to, 416 00:17:45,890 --> 00:17:48,110 but because it'’s the right thing to do. 417 00:17:48,110 --> 00:17:52,723 And I think you know, there is great reward in charity, too, 418 00:17:52,723 --> 00:17:56,075 often something richer than you can get from a car or pool. 419 00:17:57,815 --> 00:18:00,514 Or hooker. 420 00:18:00,514 --> 00:18:02,472 Please. 421 00:18:02,472 --> 00:18:06,346 You have given me some inspiring words to chew on. 422 00:18:06,346 --> 00:18:08,391 Hmm. Hmm. 423 00:18:08,391 --> 00:18:11,829 I'’d like to reciprocate with some words of wisdom. 424 00:18:11,829 --> 00:18:14,832 The business of law can be summed up in three words. 425 00:18:14,832 --> 00:18:16,182 It'’s a business. 426 00:18:16,182 --> 00:18:17,705 Rule number one-- get your fee. 427 00:18:17,705 --> 00:18:19,620 Rule number two through ten-- get your fee. 428 00:18:19,620 --> 00:18:21,056 The second you start to waver on that, 429 00:18:21,056 --> 00:18:22,971 the minute you begin to engage in analysis-- 430 00:18:22,971 --> 00:18:24,842 "Well, do I do this one for free?" 431 00:18:24,842 --> 00:18:26,801 "Should I cut my price here?" "Have a heart there"-- 432 00:18:26,801 --> 00:18:29,064 the second you start to do that, you are done. 433 00:18:29,064 --> 00:18:31,588 What you have to offer are your skills, whether it be for 434 00:18:31,588 --> 00:18:33,590 Jason Barrows or a man fighting the death penalty, whoever. 435 00:18:33,590 --> 00:18:36,376 If you'’re not in the position to provide those skills, 436 00:18:36,376 --> 00:18:38,508 then all of your clients, every one of them, suffer. 437 00:18:38,508 --> 00:18:41,207 How do you lose the opportunity to provide those skills, Adam? 438 00:18:41,207 --> 00:18:44,210 By forgetting it'’s a business. 439 00:18:44,210 --> 00:18:46,081 Never, ever, everdo that. 440 00:18:46,081 --> 00:18:47,865 That is my advice to you[printer whirring] 441 00:18:47,865 --> 00:18:50,955 for which you will be billed. 442 00:18:56,135 --> 00:19:00,226 It began, uh, a little out of anger, 443 00:19:00,226 --> 00:19:02,706 a little out of jealousy, I guess. 444 00:19:02,706 --> 00:19:05,100 How so? 445 00:19:05,100 --> 00:19:07,276 Well... 446 00:19:07,276 --> 00:19:09,800 there were a lot of popular girls, 447 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:11,411 the pretty girls. 448 00:19:11,411 --> 00:19:13,761 A clique that... 449 00:19:13,761 --> 00:19:16,111 they would just make comments on my looks, 450 00:19:16,111 --> 00:19:18,200 or clothes, 451 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,246 my complexion during sophomore year. 452 00:19:20,246 --> 00:19:22,509 When I started blogging, 453 00:19:22,509 --> 00:19:25,599 it was mainly about sniping back at them a little. 454 00:19:25,599 --> 00:19:28,428 And people started reading it. 455 00:19:28,428 --> 00:19:31,300 Suddenly, I... 456 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:33,607 Well, I was being noticed. 457 00:19:33,607 --> 00:19:36,436 For the first time, I actually existed at school. 458 00:19:36,436 --> 00:19:39,221 And this all started when? 459 00:19:39,221 --> 00:19:41,092 The beginning of junior year. 460 00:19:41,092 --> 00:19:43,138 And as the blog got more popular, 461 00:19:43,138 --> 00:19:46,968 I expanded my target base, I guess. 462 00:19:46,968 --> 00:19:48,970 Everybody was fair game. 463 00:19:48,970 --> 00:19:51,233 And at some point, Hannah became fair game? 464 00:19:51,233 --> 00:19:52,713 Yes. 465 00:19:52,713 --> 00:19:55,629 You went after her for being gay. 466 00:19:55,629 --> 00:19:59,633 Well, I went after her for denying it. 467 00:19:59,633 --> 00:20:01,722 We have plenty of gay people at Winwood. 468 00:20:01,722 --> 00:20:03,637 Two of my friends are gay. 469 00:20:03,637 --> 00:20:05,378 I targeted Hannah because... 470 00:20:05,378 --> 00:20:08,119 Well, my reason, 471 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,339 flawed as it was, 472 00:20:10,339 --> 00:20:12,472 is that she wasn'’t promoting gay equality 473 00:20:12,472 --> 00:20:13,908 by living in the closet. 474 00:20:13,908 --> 00:20:15,344 Did you think for a second 475 00:20:15,344 --> 00:20:16,911 how your words might make Hannah feel? 476 00:20:19,609 --> 00:20:21,002 Not enough. 477 00:20:21,002 --> 00:20:25,528 I pride myself on being a journalist, but 478 00:20:25,528 --> 00:20:29,315 I wish I had been more of a human being. 479 00:20:29,315 --> 00:20:33,623 Did you know Hannah Wells personally? 480 00:20:33,623 --> 00:20:35,756 Some. 481 00:20:35,756 --> 00:20:40,064 Did she strike you as psychologically vulnerable? 482 00:20:40,064 --> 00:20:43,198 If anything, I thought she was thick-skinned. 483 00:20:43,198 --> 00:20:45,200 A few times, after some of the blogs, 484 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:46,680 she threatened to beat me up. 485 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,029 She threatened to beat you up? 486 00:20:48,029 --> 00:20:49,987 Which made me... 487 00:20:49,987 --> 00:20:53,382 If anything, I amped it up some to show... 488 00:20:53,382 --> 00:20:55,210 I don'’t know. 489 00:20:55,210 --> 00:20:58,474 I really thought she was tough. 490 00:20:58,474 --> 00:21:01,564 HARRY: But she wasn'’t that tough. 491 00:21:01,564 --> 00:21:05,220 [voice breaking]: No. 492 00:21:05,220 --> 00:21:07,788 [crying]: I am so sorry. 493 00:21:07,788 --> 00:21:12,009 If I could fix this, or 494 00:21:12,009 --> 00:21:14,055 take it all back, I... 495 00:21:14,055 --> 00:21:15,970 [crying] 496 00:21:15,970 --> 00:21:17,624 I'’m so, so sorry. 497 00:21:17,624 --> 00:21:19,452 [sniffling] 498 00:21:19,452 --> 00:21:23,760 Your Honor, perhaps we could take a short break? 499 00:21:25,109 --> 00:21:27,068 [sniffling] 500 00:21:30,201 --> 00:21:31,899 It was very popular, 501 00:21:31,899 --> 00:21:33,422 this particular blog about Hannah, wasn'’t it? 502 00:21:33,422 --> 00:21:36,512 Got some good traction, more and more hits. 503 00:21:36,512 --> 00:21:38,035 Gay bashing was good for business. 504 00:21:38,035 --> 00:21:39,472 SELA: I'’m not proud of that, 505 00:21:39,472 --> 00:21:43,084 but I wouldn'’t be the first journalist to... 506 00:21:43,084 --> 00:21:46,305 To what, pander to indecent levels of... 507 00:21:46,305 --> 00:21:47,871 Objection.JUDGE: Sustained. 508 00:21:47,871 --> 00:21:49,438 You'’re the snark queen. 509 00:21:49,438 --> 00:21:52,180 You became the It Girl by being mean to others, 510 00:21:52,180 --> 00:21:54,400 isn'’t that right, Sela?Yes. 511 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,140 And you refer to yourself as a journalist. 512 00:21:56,140 --> 00:21:57,881 Are you a big fan of journalism? 513 00:21:57,881 --> 00:21:59,883 Yes. 514 00:21:59,883 --> 00:22:02,364 You read newspapers, blogs, that sort of thing? Yes. 515 00:22:02,364 --> 00:22:04,148 And did you ever have an occasion to read 516 00:22:04,148 --> 00:22:06,586 any articles about the proliferation of teen suicides 517 00:22:06,586 --> 00:22:08,414 as a result of cyber-bullying? 518 00:22:08,414 --> 00:22:10,633 Yes. 519 00:22:10,633 --> 00:22:12,592 And did that give you any pause 520 00:22:12,592 --> 00:22:15,856 before calling Hannah Wells a box fairy? 521 00:22:15,856 --> 00:22:19,033 About soliciting the entire student body to torment her? 522 00:22:21,209 --> 00:22:26,649 Did the articles on teen suicide give you pause, Sela? 523 00:22:30,087 --> 00:22:31,088 Not enough. 524 00:22:31,088 --> 00:22:33,047 You stated... 525 00:22:33,047 --> 00:22:35,876 that Hannah once threatened 526 00:22:35,876 --> 00:22:38,052 to assault you, and then, after that, 527 00:22:38,052 --> 00:22:40,359 you amped up the cruelty, am I right? 528 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:41,360 A little, yes. 529 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,013 A little? 530 00:22:43,013 --> 00:22:45,842 You actually stopped calling her by her name altogether. 531 00:22:45,842 --> 00:22:47,322 Instead, you call... 532 00:22:47,322 --> 00:22:49,237 Well, why don'’t you tell us? 533 00:22:49,237 --> 00:22:51,370 What did you start calling Hannah in your blog? 534 00:22:53,459 --> 00:22:55,069 Twat Bandit. 535 00:22:55,069 --> 00:22:58,159 And on the Wednesday before she took her life, 536 00:22:58,159 --> 00:23:02,468 when you started calling on her classmates to help her come out, 537 00:23:02,468 --> 00:23:05,166 what was the title of that blog, do you remember? 538 00:23:05,166 --> 00:23:06,385 [sniffs] 539 00:23:07,647 --> 00:23:09,953 "Tuna Helpers." 540 00:23:09,953 --> 00:23:11,128 Yeah. 541 00:23:12,260 --> 00:23:14,610 Could you... 542 00:23:14,610 --> 00:23:16,395 please read the last two lines 543 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:18,658 of the Wednesday blog for us? 544 00:23:23,445 --> 00:23:25,926 "Let'’s all be Tuna Helpers. 545 00:23:25,926 --> 00:23:28,972 "Give Twat Bandit a nod as you pass her in the hall. 546 00:23:28,972 --> 00:23:31,279 Let her know we know." 547 00:23:31,279 --> 00:23:33,107 I guess she got the message. 548 00:23:33,107 --> 00:23:35,501 Objection.Sustained. 549 00:23:35,501 --> 00:23:37,111 [crying] 550 00:23:37,894 --> 00:23:39,461 I'’m sorry, Sela. 551 00:23:39,461 --> 00:23:42,856 I know this is a really tough day for you. 552 00:23:42,856 --> 00:23:45,336 Do you see the people sitting over there? 553 00:23:48,992 --> 00:23:50,777 Imagine the day they had. 554 00:23:50,777 --> 00:23:52,561 Objection! Sustained. 555 00:23:52,561 --> 00:23:54,389 [crying] 556 00:24:11,537 --> 00:24:13,364 She got pretty clobbered. 557 00:24:13,364 --> 00:24:16,367 Mendelsohn is like the quiet assassin. 558 00:24:16,367 --> 00:24:18,457 So, what, you have closing arguments left? 559 00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:20,284 Yeah. That'’s all. 560 00:24:20,284 --> 00:24:22,461 Harry, can I steal you away for a second? 561 00:24:24,027 --> 00:24:25,246 Jenna... 562 00:24:25,246 --> 00:24:26,595 if you really 563 00:24:26,595 --> 00:24:28,989 want to go, of course you can go. 564 00:24:28,989 --> 00:24:31,948 And if this shoe thing is what speaks to you, 565 00:24:31,948 --> 00:24:34,734 of course you should go. 566 00:24:34,734 --> 00:24:38,694 Really?I was just a little mad, that'’s all. 567 00:24:38,694 --> 00:24:40,000 I mean... 568 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,784 you bugged me for so long, 569 00:24:41,784 --> 00:24:46,963 now that I got attached to you-- really attached... 570 00:24:46,963 --> 00:24:49,183 Harry, that'’s... 571 00:24:49,183 --> 00:24:51,620 that'’s one of the nicest things that you'’ve ever said to me. 572 00:24:51,620 --> 00:24:53,317 When? 573 00:24:53,317 --> 00:24:54,493 Just now. 574 00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:55,842 You said it just now. 575 00:24:57,104 --> 00:24:58,627 When would you be leaving? 576 00:24:58,627 --> 00:25:01,543 Oh, um... soon. 577 00:25:01,543 --> 00:25:02,718 HARRY: Just do me a favor and say good-bye 578 00:25:02,718 --> 00:25:04,328 before you walk out the door, 579 00:25:04,328 --> 00:25:06,679 okay? Why wouldn'’t I? 580 00:25:06,679 --> 00:25:08,507 '’Cause it'’s what you do. You told me. 581 00:25:08,507 --> 00:25:09,551 You get all weepy with good-byes, 582 00:25:09,551 --> 00:25:10,857 and so you just avoid them. 583 00:25:10,857 --> 00:25:14,208 I just want my chance to... well... 584 00:25:14,208 --> 00:25:17,907 tell you what you'’ve meant to this place and... to me. 585 00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:22,521 That was even nicer than the last... 586 00:25:24,044 --> 00:25:25,741 See? 587 00:25:25,741 --> 00:25:28,004 First Malcolm going off to school, now Jenna... 588 00:25:28,004 --> 00:25:29,702 Too much change for me. 589 00:25:32,574 --> 00:25:36,535 Well, actually, there'’s a little more of it. 590 00:25:36,535 --> 00:25:37,797 What do you mean? 591 00:25:37,797 --> 00:25:39,581 I'’ve been talking to Ollie. 592 00:25:41,104 --> 00:25:42,671 He'’s going to be joining. 593 00:25:42,671 --> 00:25:44,586 Ollie Richard?!Oh, great. 594 00:25:44,586 --> 00:25:45,674 He won'’t try to sleep with you. 595 00:25:45,674 --> 00:25:47,023 He gave me his word. 596 00:25:47,023 --> 00:25:48,372 Ollie Richard is joining this firm? 597 00:25:48,372 --> 00:25:50,766 Take it outside? 598 00:25:52,942 --> 00:25:54,553 I'’ll talk to him. 599 00:25:56,859 --> 00:25:58,252 Thrilled? 600 00:25:58,252 --> 00:26:01,342 Beyond. 601 00:26:04,650 --> 00:26:07,087 Hey. 602 00:26:14,703 --> 00:26:16,096 You remember the big sell you gave me 603 00:26:16,096 --> 00:26:17,576 when you talked me into coming here? 604 00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:20,622 How this firm was gonna grow and expand? 605 00:26:20,622 --> 00:26:23,277 Oliver Richard gets us there a lot faster. 606 00:26:23,277 --> 00:26:26,149 He'’s a pretty big litigator and a serious rainmaker. 607 00:26:26,149 --> 00:26:29,675 This is probably a good thing. 608 00:26:29,675 --> 00:26:31,372 It'’s just... this place. 609 00:26:31,372 --> 00:26:34,288 Jenna and Malcolm leaving, now him coming... 610 00:26:36,943 --> 00:26:39,206 I'’m afraid we'’re gonna lose what... 611 00:26:43,210 --> 00:26:44,864 I really don'’t like him. 612 00:26:44,864 --> 00:26:46,822 I know you don'’t. 613 00:26:48,694 --> 00:26:51,044 Together we'’ll handle him. 614 00:27:12,282 --> 00:27:13,457 Oh! [laughs] 615 00:27:13,457 --> 00:27:14,633 My bad, sorry.No worries. 616 00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:16,069 Hey, Tommy... 617 00:27:17,548 --> 00:27:19,725 For what it'’s worth, 618 00:27:19,725 --> 00:27:21,161 you know that thing you said about us 619 00:27:21,161 --> 00:27:23,119 having a duty of good faith to each other? 620 00:27:24,860 --> 00:27:27,863 I think that'’s a noble principle. 621 00:27:27,863 --> 00:27:30,126 You do? Yeah. 622 00:27:30,126 --> 00:27:32,128 Probably includes an obligation 623 00:27:32,128 --> 00:27:34,174 to act in a way that doesn'’t reflect 624 00:27:34,174 --> 00:27:37,264 poorly or unethically on each other, right? 625 00:27:43,487 --> 00:27:45,446 MENDELSOHN: The question 626 00:27:45,446 --> 00:27:47,274 I keep asking myself is, 627 00:27:47,274 --> 00:27:50,973 how does a seemingly sweet kid from a good home, 628 00:27:50,973 --> 00:27:53,846 no disciplinary problem, a fine student, 629 00:27:53,846 --> 00:27:58,546 turn into the type of person who would write 630 00:27:58,546 --> 00:28:01,157 the vicious things that were said about Hannah? 631 00:28:01,157 --> 00:28:03,899 Is there something going on in the world today? 632 00:28:03,899 --> 00:28:05,901 Is there something in the water that teenagers are...? 633 00:28:05,901 --> 00:28:08,687 We are seeing 634 00:28:08,687 --> 00:28:11,037 such an increase in bullying, 635 00:28:11,037 --> 00:28:14,257 especially toward our gay and lesbian students. 636 00:28:14,257 --> 00:28:18,653 In Ohio, one in four sexual minority students 637 00:28:18,653 --> 00:28:21,874 reports being physically assaulted-- 638 00:28:21,874 --> 00:28:26,182 punched, kicked, attacked with a weapon. 639 00:28:26,182 --> 00:28:30,186 One in three is physically harassed. 640 00:28:30,186 --> 00:28:34,582 A full 70% is otherwise sexually harassed. 641 00:28:34,582 --> 00:28:37,019 And this is just the tip of the iceberg. 642 00:28:37,019 --> 00:28:39,630 Most incidents go unreported. 643 00:28:39,630 --> 00:28:42,068 The torment that Hannah Wells 644 00:28:42,068 --> 00:28:44,592 was subjected to either by 645 00:28:44,592 --> 00:28:47,247 or at the direction of the defendant 646 00:28:47,247 --> 00:28:50,554 was unrelentingly mean... 647 00:28:50,554 --> 00:28:54,733 and what I, I find especially disturbing... 648 00:28:54,733 --> 00:28:57,039 and frankly a little difficult to fathom 649 00:28:57,039 --> 00:28:59,172 is that the defendant knew-- 650 00:28:59,172 --> 00:29:01,435 she knew-- 651 00:29:01,435 --> 00:29:03,829 about the proliferation of teen suicide 652 00:29:03,829 --> 00:29:07,397 as a result of this very type of cyber-bullying. 653 00:29:07,397 --> 00:29:12,054 This tragedy was utterly foreseeable. 654 00:29:12,054 --> 00:29:14,491 The question becomes, 655 00:29:14,491 --> 00:29:17,451 how long do we, as a society, 656 00:29:17,451 --> 00:29:19,758 just let it go on? 657 00:29:22,586 --> 00:29:26,329 Well, you 12 people, 658 00:29:26,329 --> 00:29:28,941 you represent society today. 659 00:29:28,941 --> 00:29:31,595 It'’s your call. 660 00:29:31,595 --> 00:29:34,773 As a citizenry, you either react responsibly 661 00:29:34,773 --> 00:29:36,862 to this madness... 662 00:29:37,950 --> 00:29:40,082 ...or you don'’t. 663 00:29:41,997 --> 00:29:46,393 You either accept it... or you don'’t. 664 00:30:09,372 --> 00:30:11,984 I don'’t think anybody in this room, including Sela, 665 00:30:11,984 --> 00:30:15,030 would dispute that she was out of line 666 00:30:15,030 --> 00:30:19,948 and perhaps even bears some responsibility for this tragedy. 667 00:30:19,948 --> 00:30:22,385 But to charge her with a homicide? 668 00:30:24,518 --> 00:30:26,172 Ms. Mendelsohn asked the question, 669 00:30:26,172 --> 00:30:27,695 how does a decent kid like Sela 670 00:30:27,695 --> 00:30:29,436 become a vicious snark queen? 671 00:30:29,436 --> 00:30:31,960 It didn'’t happen in a vacuum, you can be sure of that. 672 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,877 Consider the world she'’s been raised in. 673 00:30:35,877 --> 00:30:39,576 Cruelty sells, and it sells big. 674 00:30:39,576 --> 00:30:43,363 The most successful blogs flaunt their snark badges. 675 00:30:43,363 --> 00:30:46,714 The Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Perez Hilton-- 676 00:30:46,714 --> 00:30:48,324 have you read these things? 677 00:30:48,324 --> 00:30:49,891 And newspapers, too. 678 00:30:49,891 --> 00:30:51,980 Page Six of the New York... whatever. 679 00:30:51,980 --> 00:30:53,677 And how about television? 680 00:30:53,677 --> 00:30:56,637 Cable news shows trade on mean. 681 00:30:56,637 --> 00:30:57,943 Some of these media darlings-- 682 00:30:57,943 --> 00:31:00,771 Ann Coulter called Al Gore a fag. 683 00:31:00,771 --> 00:31:03,513 Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, 684 00:31:03,513 --> 00:31:07,648 Rush Limbaugh-- they don'’t get sanctioned for being cruel, 685 00:31:07,648 --> 00:31:08,910 they get book deals. 686 00:31:08,910 --> 00:31:11,565 This is our media, folks. 687 00:31:11,565 --> 00:31:13,741 Sela didn'’t invent mean. 688 00:31:13,741 --> 00:31:17,397 As for insensitivity toward gays, 689 00:31:17,397 --> 00:31:20,835 again, consider the society Sela'’s grown up in-- 690 00:31:20,835 --> 00:31:22,532 "don'’t ask, don'’t tell" in the military-- 691 00:31:22,532 --> 00:31:24,839 what was that? 692 00:31:24,839 --> 00:31:26,406 Up until a few months ago, it was okay 693 00:31:26,406 --> 00:31:28,538 for a kid to fight and die for his country, 694 00:31:28,538 --> 00:31:30,279 perhaps even get his legs blown off 695 00:31:30,279 --> 00:31:33,021 by an IED, but God forbid 696 00:31:33,021 --> 00:31:36,503 he admit to anyone he was gay. 697 00:31:36,503 --> 00:31:40,289 Same-sex marriage-- Americans sure hate that one, don'’t we? 698 00:31:40,289 --> 00:31:42,074 Even the liberal Californians reared up 699 00:31:42,074 --> 00:31:44,337 and said, "Uh-uh, not in my backyard." 700 00:31:44,337 --> 00:31:46,121 Under federal law, 701 00:31:46,121 --> 00:31:47,949 it'’s still legal to discriminate 702 00:31:47,949 --> 00:31:49,908 against gays in the workplace. 703 00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:51,170 Did you know that? 704 00:31:51,170 --> 00:31:54,651 This is who and what we are as a nation, 705 00:31:54,651 --> 00:31:58,699 so, please, let'’s not lay all this on Sela'’s doorstep. 706 00:32:00,266 --> 00:32:03,225 Now let'’s turn to the real question. 707 00:32:04,792 --> 00:32:08,317 Did Sela cause Hannah'’s death? 708 00:32:08,317 --> 00:32:13,235 This was a suicide, not a homicide. 709 00:32:13,235 --> 00:32:15,846 Hannah committed suicide. 710 00:32:15,846 --> 00:32:19,938 As to why, well, one reason could be, 711 00:32:19,938 --> 00:32:24,725 she had to grow up keeping who she was a secret. 712 00:32:24,725 --> 00:32:27,728 Can you imagine the sense of shame? 713 00:32:27,728 --> 00:32:30,861 She didn'’t feel she could tell her own parents. 714 00:32:30,861 --> 00:32:34,561 For that matter, not even her best friend. 715 00:32:34,561 --> 00:32:37,216 Clergy? Forget it. 716 00:32:37,216 --> 00:32:40,828 Being raised Catholic, she'’d be damned for eternity. 717 00:32:42,612 --> 00:32:45,659 The deep-rooted biases, the slights, 718 00:32:45,659 --> 00:32:47,966 the looks of disgust. 719 00:32:49,619 --> 00:32:53,754 This was the world Hannah Wells grew up in. 720 00:32:55,147 --> 00:32:57,192 And she couldn'’t even take offense 721 00:32:57,192 --> 00:33:00,108 for fear of being revealed as gay. 722 00:33:00,108 --> 00:33:02,110 This was Hannah'’s life. 723 00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:07,246 And it wasn'’t Sela Vinson'’s doing. 724 00:33:07,246 --> 00:33:11,424 Ms. Mendelsohn asks you to react responsibly to this. 725 00:33:11,424 --> 00:33:13,904 I agree. 726 00:33:13,904 --> 00:33:18,692 But the least responsible thing you could possibly do, by far, 727 00:33:18,692 --> 00:33:22,783 would be to trivialize this deep-seated problem 728 00:33:22,783 --> 00:33:28,136 by blaming one high school kid with a snark blog. 729 00:33:56,034 --> 00:33:57,513 Adam. Hey. 730 00:33:57,513 --> 00:33:59,689 I'’m sure it'’s just an oversight, my friend, 731 00:33:59,689 --> 00:34:01,517 but I haven'’t received your check for services rendered. 732 00:34:01,517 --> 00:34:02,823 You know, when I advised you 733 00:34:02,823 --> 00:34:04,781 how to correctly practice law. 734 00:34:04,781 --> 00:34:06,305 I'’m not paying you, Tommy. 735 00:34:06,305 --> 00:34:07,697 That would make you a deadbeat. 736 00:34:07,697 --> 00:34:09,569 You don'’t want to get the rep of being 737 00:34:09,569 --> 00:34:11,614 both a loser and a deadbeat. You know what? 738 00:34:15,401 --> 00:34:16,619 [groans] 739 00:34:16,619 --> 00:34:18,099 I'’m okay. 740 00:34:18,099 --> 00:34:20,058 I was just having a little fun. 741 00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:22,190 Plus, to show good faith, 742 00:34:22,190 --> 00:34:25,280 I gave the policy proceeds to your guy. 743 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:26,542 You did? 744 00:34:26,542 --> 00:34:28,153 No, but nice try. 745 00:34:30,068 --> 00:34:31,330 HARRY: Adam. 746 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:36,944 What the hell was that about? 747 00:34:36,944 --> 00:34:38,598 He just aggravates me-- that'’s all. 748 00:34:38,598 --> 00:34:40,991 That'’s not all, and you know it. 749 00:34:42,036 --> 00:34:43,733 It'’s been a bad week. 750 00:34:43,733 --> 00:34:44,821 Tell me. 751 00:34:47,737 --> 00:34:51,089 It used to be you and me, essentially. 752 00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:53,091 I-I was part of the nucleus. 753 00:34:53,091 --> 00:34:55,093 You still are. No, I'’m not. 754 00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:57,138 Not even remotely. 755 00:34:57,138 --> 00:35:00,054 With Ollie Richard coming in, he'’ll... 756 00:35:01,969 --> 00:35:04,276 I feel marginalized, Harry. 757 00:35:04,276 --> 00:35:08,236 Plus, the reason I came, if you remember, was you. 758 00:35:08,236 --> 00:35:11,109 To work side by side, to... 759 00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:13,676 I feel I'’ve barely seen you since we moved in here. 760 00:35:15,374 --> 00:35:18,464 I'’m just an associate. That'’s all. 761 00:35:29,388 --> 00:35:31,694 The night before we moved in here, 762 00:35:31,694 --> 00:35:35,872 I got taken by ambulance to a hospital. 763 00:35:35,872 --> 00:35:38,266 I thought I was having a heart attack. 764 00:35:38,266 --> 00:35:40,660 Turned out to be angina 765 00:35:40,660 --> 00:35:43,358 caused by some kind of stress. 766 00:35:43,358 --> 00:35:47,797 And what I was stressing about is this place. 767 00:35:47,797 --> 00:35:49,625 I mean, it'’s a real law firm now. 768 00:35:49,625 --> 00:35:51,627 We got obligations and overhead. 769 00:35:51,627 --> 00:35:55,936 And, Adam, I am 62 years old. 770 00:35:55,936 --> 00:35:58,982 I'’m a little past my playing prime. 771 00:35:58,982 --> 00:36:01,289 I mean, what would happen to you and Jenna 772 00:36:01,289 --> 00:36:03,422 and Cassie if I... 773 00:36:03,422 --> 00:36:05,728 Well, I guess I don'’t have to worry about Jenna. 774 00:36:05,728 --> 00:36:06,947 Are you sick? 775 00:36:06,947 --> 00:36:09,123 No, but it'’s... 776 00:36:11,691 --> 00:36:14,302 Bringing Ollie in, 777 00:36:14,302 --> 00:36:17,305 this place will go on with or without me now. 778 00:36:17,305 --> 00:36:21,353 It brings me peace of mind... 779 00:36:21,353 --> 00:36:25,879 I think this will be a good thing for everybody. 780 00:36:29,012 --> 00:36:31,841 And he agreed to come here as an associate? 781 00:36:31,841 --> 00:36:35,628 Well... no. 782 00:36:37,020 --> 00:36:38,805 So he'’s a partner. 783 00:36:39,893 --> 00:36:42,156 [sighs] 784 00:36:42,156 --> 00:36:44,332 I want to be made a partner, too. 785 00:36:44,332 --> 00:36:45,855 No, you don'’t. Yes, I do. 786 00:36:45,855 --> 00:36:48,336 You don'’t, Adam, 787 00:36:48,336 --> 00:36:51,383 because you know as well as I do you'’re not there yet. 788 00:36:51,383 --> 00:36:53,341 It wouldn'’t feel earned. 789 00:36:53,341 --> 00:36:55,735 I have no doubt you will get there. 790 00:36:55,735 --> 00:36:57,519 You got a ton of talent. 791 00:36:57,519 --> 00:37:00,696 And when you do make partner, it will feel earned. 792 00:37:00,696 --> 00:37:02,350 [knock on door] 793 00:37:03,569 --> 00:37:04,961 Your jury'’s back. 794 00:37:10,053 --> 00:37:13,927 Listen, um... it turns out 795 00:37:13,927 --> 00:37:18,410 that Louboutin would like me sooner rather than later, so... 796 00:37:20,542 --> 00:37:22,501 You'’re just going to slip out, aren'’t you, 797 00:37:22,501 --> 00:37:24,416 leave a note on my desk? 798 00:37:25,504 --> 00:37:27,419 I promise I won'’t do that. 799 00:37:30,596 --> 00:37:32,032 Oh, for God'’s sake. 800 00:37:39,996 --> 00:37:41,389 Will the defendant please rise? 801 00:37:44,174 --> 00:37:47,047 Madam Foreperson, the jury has reached a unanimous verdict? 802 00:37:47,047 --> 00:37:49,049 We have, Your Honor. 803 00:37:49,049 --> 00:37:50,529 What say you? 804 00:37:50,529 --> 00:37:51,965 FOREPERSON: In the matter of 805 00:37:51,965 --> 00:37:53,575 the State of Ohio v. Sela Vinson, 806 00:37:53,575 --> 00:37:56,665 on the charge of third degree negligent homicide, 807 00:37:56,665 --> 00:38:00,800 we the jury find the defendant, Sela Vinson, not guilty. 808 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,715 [sighing, gallery murmuring] 809 00:38:03,890 --> 00:38:05,805 Good job, Harry. 810 00:38:05,805 --> 00:38:07,894 Is... is it over? 811 00:38:09,243 --> 00:38:10,679 You better get out of here. 812 00:38:10,679 --> 00:38:12,202 Does she need to be processed out or... 813 00:38:12,202 --> 00:38:13,421 No, we can go. 814 00:38:29,655 --> 00:38:31,004 [elevator bell dings] 815 00:38:31,004 --> 00:38:36,444 ♪ I'’ve got you under my skin ♪ 816 00:38:36,444 --> 00:38:38,838 Nice job, Harry. Again. 817 00:38:38,838 --> 00:38:40,187 What'’s with the music? 818 00:38:40,187 --> 00:38:41,754 We feel it goes well with that. 819 00:38:43,495 --> 00:38:45,018 It actually does go well with that. 820 00:38:45,018 --> 00:38:48,108 Yeah, well... let'’s not get too carried away. 821 00:38:48,108 --> 00:38:50,458 This case is nothing to celebrate. 822 00:38:50,458 --> 00:38:52,982 A girl is... 823 00:38:55,463 --> 00:38:56,899 [sighs] 824 00:38:56,899 --> 00:38:59,859 That little coward. 825 00:38:59,859 --> 00:39:03,689 ♪ I'’ve tried so not to give in... ♪ 826 00:39:03,689 --> 00:39:06,996 Could you turn off the music, please? 827 00:39:06,996 --> 00:39:08,215 [music stops] 828 00:39:15,831 --> 00:39:18,051 What are you looking at? 829 00:39:18,051 --> 00:39:20,401 Don'’t you have jobs to do? 830 00:39:20,401 --> 00:39:22,360 If not, I can start laying people off. 831 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:23,535 [elevator bell dings] 832 00:39:30,890 --> 00:39:33,022 [sighs] That was backup. 833 00:39:34,807 --> 00:39:37,853 I'’ve been to my therapist, cried myself out, 834 00:39:37,853 --> 00:39:40,856 so I'’m ready to... 835 00:39:43,990 --> 00:39:46,949 This is not good-bye. 836 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:49,909 I'’m-I'’m gonna be in New York, 837 00:39:49,909 --> 00:39:52,215 and it'’s a short flight. 838 00:39:52,215 --> 00:39:55,393 Cincinnati will always be... 839 00:39:57,438 --> 00:40:00,354 Um... Cassie, I... 840 00:40:00,354 --> 00:40:03,270 I know that I don'’t know you that well, but I can already 841 00:40:03,270 --> 00:40:05,490 sense that might be my biggest sacrifice, 842 00:40:05,490 --> 00:40:07,840 not getting to know you. 843 00:40:09,145 --> 00:40:12,758 Not getting to know you might be a plus. 844 00:40:12,758 --> 00:40:17,502 But you'’re obviously very talented, so... 845 00:40:17,502 --> 00:40:21,070 you look after these people around here, got it? 846 00:40:21,070 --> 00:40:22,811 I do. 847 00:40:22,811 --> 00:40:25,161 Good. 848 00:40:27,773 --> 00:40:32,125 Um, don'’t forget that I was the first one to know, 849 00:40:32,125 --> 00:40:35,476 and to say, that you are really sweet. 850 00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:38,523 And sentimental. 851 00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:44,398 Serious, serious therapy. 852 00:40:44,398 --> 00:40:46,313 Don'’t wait. 853 00:40:53,146 --> 00:40:56,062 And maybe you most of all, Scarecrow. 854 00:41:02,198 --> 00:41:04,157 [Jenna sniffles] 855 00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:13,427 Forget it. 856 00:41:13,427 --> 00:41:15,864 I don'’t do good-byes, either. 857 00:41:28,747 --> 00:41:32,141 Just take this... 858 00:41:32,141 --> 00:41:33,882 and beat it. 859 00:41:46,852 --> 00:41:51,378 You should have a memento... of what you built. 860 00:41:51,378 --> 00:41:53,772 [sniffles] 861 00:41:55,425 --> 00:41:57,079 Thank you. 862 00:42:00,822 --> 00:42:02,694 [sniffles] 863 00:42:14,662 --> 00:42:17,012 [elevator bell dings] 864 00:42:19,188 --> 00:42:21,408 [sniffles] 865 00:42:23,366 --> 00:42:26,587 Bye.Bye. 866 00:42:26,587 --> 00:42:28,981 Captioning sponsored by WARNER BROS. 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