Just put the lunch meeting at 1:00.Sure.
Okay.[door opens]
Well, well, well, decided to jump ship after all?
I came because you said you had an emergency of sorts.
Oh, right, I lied about that, sorry.
I do have another case though.
A little over my head. Could use some back up.
[sighs] What kind of case?
WOMAN: Phoebe?
Is there a bathroom?
Yep, right straight through there.
Oh, this is Adam Branch, by the way.
He'’ll be joining us.
Oh, okay, hi.
Why does she look familiar?
Uh, she was on that reality show, It Takes Two,
the one that shoots here in Cincy.
She'’s the one whose husband took his life.
She'’s now being sued by the husband'’s family,
whose trial is about to start.
She hired you?
People do hire me.
No, I just meant, it'’s a pretty high profile case for a solo.
Well, she had another lawyer defending her
but now she suddenly lost faith.
Evidently, he wants her to settle.
I'’m meeting him after lunch.
Join me? If I take this over, I'’m going to need help.
Excuse me, excuse me!
I was wondering if you could help me.
No, I don'’t know anything about the shoes.
You talk to the skinny people.
No, actually, I may need a lawyer.
I think the police might be after me.
See, I sort of ran away.
From what?
The jury I was serving on.
We were sequestered for two months during the trial,
and we'’d been deliberating for over...
Oh, don'’t tell me anything about deliberations.
Oh, okay. Sorry.
Uh, but it got to the point where
I just couldn'’t take it anymore.
Oh, did you tell the judge?
Yeah, I sent a note out, but all the alternates
had been used up at that time,
so he said I had to stick it out.
But I couldn'’t. I just couldn'’t.
So, a few days ago...
A few days ago? Yes...
Hey, free for lunch later?
Uh, it'’s starting to be a busy day, Tommy.
Got it.
So, a few days ago, I snuck out of the hotel and I left.
Oy. Who'’s the judge?
Uh, Judge Lester Babcock.
Babcock. Never heard of him.
He'’s that guy when he gets upset, he stands and he paces.
Haven'’t they come looking for you?
I don'’t know. I'’ve been hiding
in my cousin'’s basement.
Brianna, I'’ll level with you, I'’ve never even heard
of anybody doing what you did,
but my gut tells me
you'’re in a lot of trouble.
Thought I recognized her.
This case is all over the news.
She'’s the Runaway Juror.
My advice would be
to turn yourself in immediately.
No. Uh-uh. I can'’t.
I can'’t go back there.
Brianna, you have to.
Alone?
You want me to go back there without a lawyer?
[groans]
[phone rings]
[ringing stops]
[phone ringing]
I got it.
Can we get rid of that thing?
I turned it off.
HARRY: Oh, no, you didn'’t.
Pick up your iPad, Cassie.
Pick up you iPad now,
and look at me!
Shh!
God, I love Skype.
Let me talk to Ollie.
Hey, Harry, how'’s it going?
New rule: All conjugal visits end by 8 a.m.
so you'’re in here by 9:00.
Cassie?
I need you to do some research for me
on criminal liability for skipping out on a jury.
Hey, Cassie.
I think they just threw me
in the corner. Hello?
Hello?
Were they naked?
MAN: You do not want a trial.
If the alternative is I plead guilty...
Tina, I never said that you should plead guilty.
Yes, you did.That'’s a criminal term.
You haven'’t been charged with a crime.
I keep telling you
wrongful death is a civil action.
What I said, simply,
is that you should settle.
Which means admit that it'’s my fault
that my husband killed himself.
If you go to trial you could
easily be slapped with a million dollar judgment.
You will lose everything you have.
Hold on a second. As far as assets,
what are we talking about? You own a house?
Yes. Me and Eliot had a house
and I have a little over a million dollars in the bank.
A million d... you have a million dollars?
Well, I get $70,000 an episode.
Eliot got 62-five, it'’s all community property.
So between you, you were making over $130,000
an episode on this stupid show?
Thanks for the compliment.
But, yeah.
BROUSSARD: Which is why I strongly maintain
you should settle.
You will not make for a sympathetic defender.
This...
is why I want to replace him.
Do you know what this case was about, Ms. Korn?
Yes, Your Honor, it was a murder trial and...
It was about more than just a murder!
I stand corrected.
It was about extra sheriff'’s deputies,
housing out of town expert witnesses.
It was about
the costs of sequestration.
Room, board, transportation.
Laundry!
It was about
six months of investigation.
Three months of pre-trial proceedings.
Two months of trial.
It was about $4 million.
And that'’s exclusive
of the personal costs.
You seem upset.
Oh, do I?
This trial was a wrenching ordeal!
We have testimony from victims
who were beaten,
raped...
their son was murdered.
It was enormously
stressful for those witnesses to come forward,
but they did.
The money, the time...
the huge emotional hardships
on everyone connected with this case,
and now we have to go through it all over again,
and it is all her fault!
HARRY: Judge...
I reviewed this file and it, um,
it looks like you were headed
for a hung jury.
That is not true!
It was ten to two to convict
when she took off.
Maybe in another day or two
she would'’ve come to her senses and we wouldn'’t have...
All you proved was that Lee Michaels was a bad guy.
You didn'’t prove...I don'’t want
to hear one word out of you!
Don'’t yell at our client!
If you don'’t feel like it.
Your client...
belongs in jail.
She'’s a criminal.
It is my intent to put her there.
She'’s in contempt.
Take her away.
Actually, Judge, if you'’re gonna hold
our client in contempt, she'’d like
her day in court.
What?
Due process.
She'’d like to be heard on the contempt charge.
She wants a contempt trial, is that what you'’re telling me?
Well, she certainly doesn'’t want to be locked up.
Fine.
You want a trial?
We'’ll give her a trial.
♪ ♪
We'’ll get killed.
No, we won'’t.
Phoebe, I wasn'’t up to speed before on this show,
I am now,
Tina makes that Snooki seem like a choir girl.
That'’s just how the show presents her.
But it'’s how the jury will perceive her.
Until we change that.
Do you realize how much media'’s gonna be in that room?
Which we'’re not afraid of, right?
Phoebe, we'’re pretty good, but we'’re kids.
Look, there are a few victims in this story.
Our job will be to make the jury see
that Tina is one of them.
Have you seen this file? It won'’t be easy.
Which is why I asked for back up.
Are you in or out?
In.
WOMAN: My brother would'’ve never, ever wanted
to go on that program,
or any reality show for that matter.
Well, why did he agree to do it then?
Because she influenced him to.
She made him do it because she has this
need to draw attention to herself.
A reality show was not his style.
Okay, but he did go on one.
Yes, he did, after which
he was the object of public ridicule,
often at her hand.
She belittled him
on national TV.
Humiliated him, emasculated him...
it was abusive.
Eliot is not what we would call a lover.
If I was looking
for a man to make all my fantasies come true,
Eliot...
[laughs]
I'’m sorry.
No, I shouldn'’t.
[laughs]
I'’m sorry. I'’m sorry. I'’m sorry.
You could play a hundred different versions
of that scene.
She was unrelenting.
Finally he just couldn'’t take it anymore.
PHOEBE : Why do you think Eliot married Tina?
Any idea?
Well...
I think that he was a bit spellbound,
to be honest.
Do you think he loved her?
Yeah, I think he did.
Which made his pain so much more.
To hear the things that she would say about him,
on television, no less.
Did your brother ever get psychological treatment?
Yes.
Do you know what for?
He had some esteem issues.
He was kind of a fragile guy.
Which was another reason
she shouldn'’t have abused him.
She knew about his psychological deficits.
Did you?
I imagine his family had some sense
of his psychological deficits.
Did you ever try
to stop him from going on the show.
I wish that we had.
How'’d you get this case?
I told you. It'’s Phoebe'’s.
Well, why would she call you instead of me?
I am a reality show.
Yeah, maybe you'’re too on the nose.
It figures to last two or three days, tops.
Adam, you sure you want to do this?
You could walking into a firestorm.
Give it to me, I'’m good with firestorms.
You'’re in trial with me, remember?
Yeah, I'’d rather have his.
Well, you don'’t get it.
What'’d you find out?
Not much.
Not a whole lot of precedents with runaway jurors.
End of the day, you'’re gonna be
at the mercy of the judge.
That'’s what worries me.
This judge'’s cup doesn'’t seem to runneth over with mercy.
You contact the shrink?
There'’s nothing wrong with me.
For our expert testimony?
Oh, yeah, we'’re all set there.
His case should have come to me.
Tommy.
TINA: I never should have married you!
You ruined my life!
[sobbing]
This is me stepping on you,
'’cause you'’re a bug, you'’re a [bleep] smashed bug
under my shoe, that'’s what you are.
You married
these.
This is what you married.
You said "I do" and "I do" to two [bleep]s,
and I am more than just two [bleep]s, Eliot!
All this gets admitted next
and then a lot more of the same.
You have to understand, they kept all the lowlights.
There were highlights, too--
not as many of them, but they made me look worse than I am.
Whenever Eliot and I were being nice to each other,
they would stop rolling.
Look, we have a defense,
but our first line is your testimony.
If the jury is to see you in a different light,
it starts with you on the stand,
which is why, over the next six hours,
the three of us are going to spend a little quality time.
You forget how much you take for granted--
all the little things-- being able to go outside,
make a phone call, watch TV, read the paper,
see other people. I couldn'’t see
my friends, my family, my boyfriend, nobody.
It was all just starting to wear on me, I guess.
And could you tell us about the events
leading up to your running away?
Okay.
From the start it was clear that there were
eight votes for guilty and four for not guilty.
I was one of the not guilty votes,
and then two
of the not guilties caved in, so then there were just two of us
left holding out.
So we'’d be in there and we'’d talk
and we'’d take a vote,
and then they would just start in on us.
So you ran?
Not yet,
but at one point
someone-- I don'’t know who-- said,
"No one is going to hurt you,"
and that really got to me,
you know, the fact that hurting me was even mentioned.
So you ran?
Not yet,
but my anxiety was getting worse
with all the pressure that they were...
Oh, God.
At one point I, I thought about suicide.
And then what happened?
A couple of hours later they came to get me
and they brought me to the courthouse to see him--
you-- in chambers...
and he--
well, you told me about all the time
and the money that had gone into the trial
and how there weren'’t any alternates left
and how it would be a shame to have come
this far and to go home without a verdict,
and I just started to feel sick because I could see
what was happening.
And I told him...
"I really think I'’m going to die if you don'’t let me go."
And you said...
to take some deep breaths and to relax.
And I could just see
he wasn'’t taking me seriously,
that they cared more about their trial than they did
about my life.
And then?
I ran.
And you can see how you caused
a great deal of hardship by running away.
I have never run away from anything.
I am a fighter,
but my life was falling apart, I had hit my breaking point.
I am... sorry, I am so sorry,
Your Honor, but...
...but I had to go.
Can'’t we all just wait to hear
what the lovely reality TV whore "Tina" has to say?
I'’m sure she'’ll play the victim,
all the while loving the attention--
the news trucks parked outside the courthouse,
the lights, the microphones, blah, blah, blah.
Press treating you okay?
What were you thinking, taking this dog?
That'’s a very good question.
If I were the Ohio prosecutor, I would file murder charges
and haul in...
I got to go.
I'’m late....those producers and charge
them with aiding and abetting.
Let'’s lock '’em all up
and let them rot.
I got to go.
Eliot never once expressed not wanting to do the show,
at least not initially.
Well, according to his sister, he told her that.
Look, we both discussed the pros and the cons.
The negative was being exploited.
The positive was the money.
We needed the money.
And, yes, the attention--
the idea of being TV stars-- was very attractive.
Did he want that as much as you?
Probably not.
But did I ever pressure or browbeat him?
No.
PHOEBE: Well, in those clips
you did seem quite aggressive.
They shoot hundreds and hundreds of hours.
They don'’t use most of it,
but when we would argue, obviously that makes it in.
They want the drama, plus...
Plus what?
Well... we all play it up a bit.
We know what they'’re looking for.
We know why they'’ve chosen us to be on the show.
Is it faked when we argue? No.
But do we embellish
and exaggerate our feelings? Yes.
If we don'’t make an impression, we get cut from the cast.
Tina, I'’m gonna be honest.
You did seem like a bit of a monster.
I realize that.
Did you have any sense that he might cause harm to himself?
Oh, God, no.
I admit, Eliot would keep things bottled up inside,
but there was, like, never any sign
that he would slit his wrists.
PHOEBE: And you said that initially
he didn'’t resist going on the show.
Did he resist at some point?
Yes, after the first season
he said we should think about leaving.
It was putting a lot of pressure on our marriage
and on us individually, but we both decided
that we'’d made it through the first season
with almost no money.
Why would we leave now, when we were just starting to get paid?
You convinced Eliot to stay, isn'’t that right?
We both agreed to stay on,
and they probably would have kept me anyway
'’cause I was the most popular character.
Because you were the bitch, the one everyone loved to hate.
That seemed to be true then
and it seems so now, Mr. Choi.
And being the bitch meant verbally abusing
your husband in front of a national audience?
Eliot and I could get into it on our own,
but, yes, as I said,
I would ratchet things up for the cameras.
And you had an affair with another man
on camera.
It was not an affair.
I kissed a man while I was inebriated.
[music playing over television]
Tina,
you'’re married.
Not tonight I'’m not. Oh.
Wow.
I was very drunk
in that situation.
I know that'’s not an excuse.
[music playing over television]
[cheering]
Were you drunk here, too?
Yes.
I'’m trailer trash.
I'’m not proud of it.
I drank too much
and I did things I regret.
One of the reasons why I drank a lot
is because the producers kept putting us
in situations with alcohol.
They want us
to drink a lot '’cause it makes for better TV.
So it'’s the producers'’ fault.
They made you kiss another man, they made you
dance naked on the bar.
I didn'’t say that.They made you call Eliot a smashed bug.
I didn'’t say that!
You didn'’t call your husband
a smashed bug?
I didn'’t say
that the producers made me do
all that.
No, they just gave you alcohol...
and that was enough.
The inner you came out.
At first I liked Brianna, I really did,
but when we started deliberating...
She claims you all were furious with her.
We were.
She held us up.
We all wanted to go home,
we all wanted to see our families, only we couldn'’t
because of her and the other holdout.
Well, maybe she didn'’t think that he was guilty.
Because she was out of her mind.
I'’m sorry,
I will not feel sorry for that woman.
She caused a lot of people a lot of stress.
Did you all pressure her?
Yes, to see reason,
but she wouldn'’t.
Truth be told, I think she wanted to punish us.
Why would she do that?We all thought
she complained too much and some of us told her,
so I think, to pay us back,
she decided to just be obstinate
and make everyone suffer,
and she got her wish because, in the end, we all hated
being there as much as she did.
Did the other jurors become hostile to her?
Maybe some, but she had it coming.
Look what she'’s done-- everybody loses.
Mrs. Flick, can we talk about some of the conditions
during your sequestration?
They were horrible, but they were horrible for all of us.
She was the only one who took off.
That didn'’t go well.
Hey, listen, you did all you could with her.
BRIANNA: So...
now what happens?
Well, uh, we'’ll put your doctor on the stand.
You ready with him?
Will be.
Is it really fair that this judge is the decider on this?
I mean, he'’s got an ax to grind.
Can he really be objective?
Probably not, but he'’s the judge we got, Brianna.
I'’m really looking at prison time, aren'’t I?
So are you saying we'’re beat?
ADAM: We still have some witnesses to call,
but, yes, I'’m smelling a big disaster here.
This jury could be thinking, "At last,
someone finally gets to give it to Tina."
If we can still get out for $500,000...
No. I was the best thing that ever happened to Eliot.
He told me so.
His life became exciting because of me,
and he was the best thing that ever happened to me!
[voice breaking]: I loved him, and he'’s...
I will not be blamed for his committing suicide.
It isn'’t fair.
You might lose your house.
I don'’t care.
I started with nothing, and I'’ll go back to that.
But I will not be labeled as the person who...
Let'’s just keep going.
[sniffles]
Come on, Ollie. You don'’t share with your old friend Tommy?
You and Cassie.
She'’s a dynamo, isn'’t she?
Yeah, she'’s got that look.
CASSIE: What look, Tommy?
Huh?
Oh, Ollie and I were just...
chewing the fat.
Right, Ollie? Yeah.
Tommy wants to know how you are in the sack.
Tommy.
You really need to ask?
You know I'’m good.
The question isn'’t whether it'’s good for Ollie.
The real issue is...
is it good for me?
Is it?
It'’s always very good for me, Tommy.
North, south, east, west.
It'’s always, always good for me.
Oh.
You coming, Tommy?
No!
Oh. Yes.
Careful.
Ooh.
Inquiring minds.
Got it.
Doctor, how well do you know Brianna Marsh?
Pretty well.
She'’s been my client for seven years.
Without giving up too much privileged information,
she suffers from anxiety.
She'’s prone to panic attacks, as well as bouts of depression.
Was she going through any of that here?
She was going though all of it.
And on top of that, she was suffering
from what some experts call
"sequestered juror syndrome."
What? What the hell is that?
Well, the symptoms include depression,
restlessness, anxiety, despair,
reduction of self-esteem, and actual cognitive impairment.
And what causes it?
Oh, it'’s complicated, but mainly
sense of isolation.
Some experts
have likened it to people who have lived
in Antarctica for extended periods,
and go into a mild fugue state
called the "Antarctic Stare."
[chuckling]: Oh, please.
You'’re comparing jury duty to Antarctica?
Jury duty could be worse, Judge.
Researchers living and working in Antarctica
undergo intense psychological pre-screening,
and they still crack.
Jurors undergo no such screening.
We just pluck '’em off the street.
And often, we pluck the weak ones,
because both sides are looking
for people who they can manipulate.
What a load of crap.
TOMMY: Doctor,
you saw my client
aftershe came out of sequestration?
Yes, and I can tell you, she was not herself.
She was often incoherent,
her reasoning skills were significantly eroded.
Her executive functioning was compromised.
She was a mess.
Why is it she was the only one in this jury
to suffer this jury sequestration syndrome?
She probably wasn'’t.
She was just the only one who ran.
Perhaps because, unlike the others, she was bullied.
Were you in the room? No.
I only know Brianna'’s account, which I believe.
You seem like a very capable doctor.
In the course of your practice,
have you ever had a patient
that had a loved one that was murdered?
Yes. One that was forced
to endure a trial of the accused?
Yes.
What'’s that like, from your medical perspective?
It'’s vile.
These people...
The suspect in this case broke into their home,
beat this man, raped this woman,
and then murdered their son.
They sat in this courtroom for two months.
Do we have
a syndrome to attribute to their experience, Doctor?
No.
And because of that woman,
they'’ll be to go through the whole thing all over again.
What do you say to them, Doctor?
"Buck up"?
"Stiff upper lip"?
I was a producer on the first season of It Takes Two,
and I left halfway through the second.
And, Mr. Hessly, to get an idea how these reality shows work,
first, how do you get the people you get to be in them?
Well, we have an open casting call,
and they come in droves.
And what are you looking for?
We'’re looking for colorful people.
Train wrecks.
Okay.
Tina and Eliot-- what did you see in them?
We saw in them a dynamic that, um...
Well, she was a little over the top.
Your casting note said, "loud and trashy."
He was repressed.
Opposites of sorts.
It makes for good conflict.
Tina mentioned that the producers would also
manufacture conflict if need be.
It may have happened.
Mind telling us how?
It'’s called "poking the bear."
We basically solicit
a provocative comment from one cast member,
play it for the other, and suddenly, we have a fight.
And those fights we see on TV-- they'’re real?
Real with the occasional use of frankenbiting.
Frankenbiting?
It'’s an editing technique. We take various pieces
of audio and visual, we build the scene we want to build.
Kind of like Frankenstein building his monster.
Eliot is not what we would call a lover.
Eliot is smart,
and he takes care of me.
Like, this one time at Halloween, I was dressed
as a nun, and Eliot...
[Tina laughs]
I'’m sorry.
[giggling]
No, I shouldn'’t.
[Tina clears her throat]
[laughing]
I'’m sorry. I'’m sorry. I'’m sorry.
[clears throat]
Okay, the point is, is that Eliot takes care of me.
And if I had it to do all over again,
if I was looking for a man
to make all my fantasies come true,
it'’s Eliot.
It'’s really Eliot.
Sound familiar?
We saw this clip earlier,
only it played like this.
Eliot is not what we would call a lover.
If I was looking for a man
to make all my fantasies come true, Elliot...
[laughs]
I'’m sorry.
[Tina laughs]
No, I shouldn'’t.
[clear throat]
[giggles]
I'’m sorry. I'’m sorry. I'’m sorry.
[clearing her throat]
And there you have frankenbiting.
CHOI: Do you create a character out of whole-cloth?
Absolutely not. We highlight.
Inventing a character wouldn'’t be sustainable.
It wouldn'’t last over the course of a season.
So, the Tina we saw on television...
That'’s essentially her with a nudge from us.
A nudge?For instance,
we have footage of Tina spanking a male stripper
in the rear with her bra.
That'’s not invented. That'’s who she is.
Now, look, it'’s my job to take a five scene,
turn it into ten.
I add some music, some reaction shots.
But essentially, what you see is who they are.
Just combine that with the fact they know
what we want, and they give it to us.
Now, the availability of alcohol.
Do you insist that the participants drink?
If they drink, it'’s because they want to.
We talked about Tina.
What about Eliot?
Eliot was a reluctant astronaut.
I'’m sorry?
He was only in it because Tina wanted him to be.
HARRY: We all hear the complaint.
I mean, how can juries seem so out of touch?
O.J., Casey Anthony.
Are they seeing the same case we'’re seeing?
Well, maybe they are, but
through a skewed prism.
These people are shut away
from their family and friends.
They'’re pressured and bullied
by each other in an extremely confined environment.
One of reasons that we don'’t trust confessions is because
people are cooped up and psychologically worn down
to the point where they'’ll say anything.
Well,
that'’s our jury system.
The scientists who have studied sequestration have said that
it breeds a kind of insanity.
Jury of our peers?
It'’s more like jury of our whacked-out peers.
People crack.
Brianna cracked.
She had emotional and
psychological deficits to begin with.
Anxiety, panic attacks.
She was prone to depression.
Then she'’s isolated from her family and her routines,
her support systems.
She'’s bullied and battered.
No wonder she went nuts.
And now, you want to punish her
and hold her in contempt,
and throw her in isolation
where she'’ll be subjected to rude treatment,
crappy food and no privileges.
She just went through two months of that.
That'’s why she cracked.
ODOM: So, when the going gets tough,
we should just let the jury get going?
Is that the answer?
What she did was unconscionable.
You said it yourself, Judge.
So many people
gave of themselves for so long,
to finally get justice in a murder trial,
And Brianna Marsh threw it all out the window.
The financial cost-- over four million.
The emotional cost--
immeasurable.
Because she
couldn'’t take the pressure. She was stressed.
Oh, come on. She was borderline suicidal, for God'’s sake.
You had your say!
Yeah, well, have yours, but please do not trivialize this,
and do not misconstrue what I'’ve said.
This was an extreme situation.
Yes, it was, especially for that family!
All right. HARRY: Your Honor,
do we even bother
to warn prospective jurors about the pressures that they face?
I mean, do they have the slightest idea
what they'’re getting themselves into?
She had two months to get out if she couldn'’t hack it!
All right.
I'’ve heard enough from each of you.
Thank you, Your Honor.
No.
I'’ll talk now. Everybody sit down.
Ms. Korn, you are no doubt correct
to question the validity of our jury system.
It seems that only when we get people
mentally compromised enough do we say, "What say you?"
They probably should be prescreened
or profiled to see if they'’re even up to the wear and tear
of prolonged sequestration-- but we don'’t have
the resources for that.
There is a lot wrong with the jury system,
but it is our system, like it or not.
And the answer can never be for a juror to flee.
Mr. Odom is right-- she could have got out;
we had alternates.
But once those alternates were all taken up
and we were in deliberations,
she had a civic duty to stick it out.
She didn'’t.
I find her decision
to run wasvoluntary, and she will be held
in contempt.
And... I shall ask the D.A.'’s office to file
obstruction of justice charges forthwith.
We are adjourned.
I think the best plan
would be to let the judge'’s wrath cool down.
You could be out from the contempt thing this week.
As for obstruction of justice, we again make the argument
that your actions weren'’t entirely voluntary.
We'’re not done.
Don'’t despair.
We'’re not done.
Probably done.
Tommy!
I-I'’m just saying.
CHOI: It was unrelenting.
And it was on national television.
Of course she had to have contributed
to Eliot Stanhope'’s suicide.
Who could stand up to that degree of...
humiliation?
When we get married, we take a vow.
Those vows may use varying language
and different phrases,
but at the core is always a promise to love, protect,
cherish, defend.
Tina Stanhope took those vows and did the opposite.
She used Eliot Stanhope.
She willfully manipulated him into a situation
rife with risk to his emotional state and reputation,
and exposed him to crushing ridicule,
all for her own vanity.
She may not have slit his wrists with that razor blade,
but she incited the tragedy just the same.
Her behavior simply shocks the conscience.
I certainly hope it shocked yours.
I have to admit,
from the footage I saw,
Tina didn'’t seem like a very nice person.
But I think we'’re all smart enough to appreciate
she was cast, filmed and edited to be the bitch
that America would love to hate.
She was part of a television show.
She played her role.
Eliot played his.
And just like she did, he signed up for all of it.
He signed a contract allowing the producers
to portray in the best interest of the series.
They did so.
For that, he was paid more than $60,000 an episode.
This is reality television, folks.
The one thing that all of them have in common
is they exploit the contestants for our entertainment pleasure.
And we are entertained, aren'’t we?
After all,
we watch, we devour it.
The greater the humiliation, the happier we are as viewers.
All the producers need find is a few sacrificial lambs
willing to make fools of themselves.
They found one in Tina.
They found one in Eliot.
This one... had a tragic ending.
But it isn'’t the first time, is it?
Julien Hug, The Bachelorette, suicide victim.
Joe Cerniglia, Kitchen Nightmares,
suicide victim.
Russell Armstrong, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,
suicide victim.
Najai Turpin, The Contender,
suicide victim.
Wesley Durden, Next Great Baker,
suicide victim.
James Scott Terrill, Supernanny,
suicide victim.
Nathan Clutter, Paradise Hotel 2,
suicide victim.
Rachel Brown, Hell'’s Kitchen,
suicide victim.
Eliot Stanhope, It Takes Two,
suicide victim.
The list goes on and on.
And will, because we watch.
We love it.
We want them to recruit psychological train wrecks
like Tina and Eliot.
They entertain us.
It makes us happy to watch them self-destruct.
It would be nice
to lay this all on Tina, wouldn'’t it?
Sure is more fun than taking responsibility ourselves.
Yeah, let'’s go with "Tina'’s fault."
Sounds good to me.
[sighs] They lost.
What do you mean?Harry and Tommy, they lost.
We should clear out of here before she gets back.
She'’s not a whole lot of fun when she loses.
Not much fun when she wins, for that matter.
What do you mean? Harry'’s fun.
[laughs] We talking about the same Harry?
What'’s wrong with your eyes?
How we doing, Cassie?
I hate Skype!
Sorry about that.
Okay, Madam Forewoman, you have reached
your verdict by a preponderance of the evidence?
We have, Your Honor.
[whispers]: Is that a good thing, "preponderance"?
JUDGE: What say you, then?
On the count of wrongful death,
we find in favor...
of the defendant.
On the count of intentional infliction of emotional distress,
we find in favor
of the defendant. On the count
of negligent infliction of emotional distress,
we find in favor of the plaintiff,
and we order the defendant to pay damages
in the amount of $120,000.
I lost?
No, you won on the main counts.
This is good, Tina, very good.
[gavel bangs]
[chuckles]
[reporters shouting questions]
♪ When they speak the same ♪
♪ Who'’s left there to show another way? ♪
♪ I'’m all alone ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Everything they ♪
♪ Said to me was just a lie ♪
♪ Every word ♪
♪ Is killing me ♪
♪ Another time ♪
♪ When they speak the same ♪
♪ Who'’s left there to show another way? ♪
♪ I'’m all alone ♪
[reporters shouting questions]
NANCY GRACE: What is up with Ohio?
SUE MOSS: I can tell you, the state is spelled "Hi,"
bookend by two big zeroes
representing the people who live there.
I would have fed that Tina
right into the wood chipper.
Tell you what, "Ohio"...
Why does she put everything in quotes?
[laughs]
Doesn'’t make any sense.
If they want to get high, get high on that.
People are not happy.
It seems not.
Thank, Adam.
That was an awesome closing.
Every think you should be doing
a little more of that, maybe less
organizing secretarial pools?
I'’m not leaving, Phoebe.
I like where I am.
Can'’t blame me for trying.
I got another idea.
You come work with us.
[laughs] I don'’t think so.
Why not?
You seem to like everybody there.
They all like you.
We get great cases.
I like doing my own thing.
Fine, come do it with us.
You need community
in your life.
I'’ll keep Ollie from trying to hump you from behind.
No promises on Lisa, but...
Come join us.
[sighs]
Think about it.
When you think about things, which, as you know,
I don'’t like to do.
We'’ve basically got a system that breaks down
the individual'’s powers of reasoning
for the purpose of reaching a reasonable verdict.
That'’s one way of looking at it.
What'’s the other?
Well, if you'’re trying to decide
whether somebody broke a given law,
you could ask a judge to decide,
somebody who'’s trained in the law,
or you could turn the matter over to 12 lunkheads
who never finished high school
and get their legal interpretation.
God, look at the two of them.
Ten bucks says he tries to kiss her.
You'’re on.
She'’s way too much for him.
Doesn'’t matter; give him enough time,
he'’ll try to kiss her.
I know my people.
[chuckles]
Speaking of which, Tommy,
isn'’t it time you become one of my people?
What are you talking about?
Well, we practice law together.
You visit our staff meetings.
We jump in on your cases, you jump in on ours.
I mean, I'’m saying if it looks like a duck
and quacks like a duck, should you become
one of my ducks?
Isn'’t it time our firms just merge?
Oh, hell.
All I ever really wanted...
really, to, uh,
be part of a family.
You know?
I need another drink.
To quack for a team.
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