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« Reply #60 on Feb 17, 2005, 4:46am » | |
Part 3 of 4 BL-14
Til We Meat Again
Dr. Raymond Young: Personally I would never eat meat.
Att: Why doctor?
Dr. Raymond Young: We don’t have the means to keep track of what cattle are being fed. Nor are we adequately testing them in my opinion.
Shirley Schmidt: Your honor. I object to paranoia being offered as evidence.
Dr. Raymond Young: I’m sorry, but it’s absolutely reckless for a government to be telling us we’re safe, when the scientific community can’t necessarily detect all the ways this disease can be contracted or transmitted.
Judge Clark Brown: But let’s look at statistic. Nobody in this country seems to be getting sick from Mad Cows.
Dr. Raymond Young: Judge, we just can’t know that. The disease may have an incubation period of up to 40 years. You may be infected right now.
Judge Clark Brown: My point is, nobody now seems to be demonstrating symptoms.
Dr. Raymond Young: We don’t know that for sure either. The human strain of the Mad Cow disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob. But we call it CJD. You can also get CJD sporadically, with no link to infected meat. And some of the people we’ve diagnosed with Alzheimer’s might in fact have CJD. We don’t know how many cases there really are. You cannot tell me the government has all this figured out.
Shirley Schmidt: And the government just covers this up?
Dr. Raymond Young: Well it’s probably not so much a cover-up. It’s just we’re not terribly motivated to discover the problem. The economic consequences would be too severe.
Shirley Schmidt: Economic consequences? The beef industry would risk an outbreak of Mad Cow disease? That wouldn’t bankrupt them overnight?
Dr. Raymond Young: The beef industry can’t always tell when a cow is sick. And they’re desperate to believe that isolated cases are isolated cases.
Shirley Schmidt: And the Department of Agriculture just plays along?
Dr. Raymond Young: The month after that sick cow was found in Washington state? Mad Cow disease testing dropped almost 50%. That’s outrageous.
Shirley Schmidt: It eventually went up?
Dr. Raymond Young: Look. They tried to track the herd where that Washington cow came from? They couldn’t find 53 of the 80 cows. They’ve since admitted their cattle track-back system isn’t up and running, and it would have to be done on a voluntary bases. Voluntary! Please! What meat-packing plant wants the distinction of having a mad cow. Which is why I order the fish.
Shirley Schmidt: Denny?
Denny Crane: Hmm?
Shirley Schmidt: I’m getting my ass kicked here.
Denny Crane: I can see that.
Shirley Schmidt: Any suggestions?
Denny Crane: How old are you sir?
Dr. Raymond Young: 46.
Denny Crane: I’m 74. I can mop the floor with you. You know why? I eat meat. Makes me strong. Builds up my immune system, fights off a whole bunch of other diseases I might have had if I weren’t so strong. Red meat saves lives, maybe. Ever think about that?
Dr. Raymond Young: I’m sorry but there’s no real evidence to support that opinion.
Denny Crane: Oh. Sorry. Any hard evidence to support yours?
Dr. Raymond Young: Hard evidence? No.
Dr. Raymond Young: But I don’t really think we wanna wait for that evidence to come rushing in.
Denny Crane: I had him there. Right till the end.
Edwards: He basically offered us a hundred dollars to fight.
D.A. Casey Mathias: You took the money?
Edwards: Yes.
D.A. Casey Mathias: And you fought?
Edwards: Yes.
D.A. Casey Mathias: Thank you sir.
Alan Shore: Interesting. We agreed to stipulate to the facts and the prosecution sees fit to distort them just the same.
D.A. Casey Mathias: Objection!
Alan Shore: Mr Edwards? I didn’t say, ‘Here’s a hundred dollars, go fight.’ Did I?
Edwards: Well…<br>Alan Shore: Did I not first ask your friend Mike to avenge an assault committed against me?
Edwards: Yes.
Alan Shore: And then when Mike was attacked, I enlisted you and others to go to his aid, did I not?
Edwards: Yes.
Alan Shore: And the man who first assaulted me had many colleagues who joined the fray? Did he not?
Edwards: Yes!
Alan Shore: In fact Joe’s friends first turned it into a brawl, wouldn’t you say?
Edwards: Yes.
Alan Shore: And as a friend of Mike’s, is it your testimony you would not have gone to his aid, had I not offered you the money?
Edwards: No. I would’a probably jumped in anyway at that point.
Alan Shore: Well! Given your honest and forthright testimony, which has shed blinding light on what happened at the bar that night, would you now consider yourself a witness more for the prosecution or the defence?
Edwards: Uh. I guess, defense.
Alan Shore: Thank you Mr Edwards. You deserve another hundred.
Dominick Ryan: We’re going to lose?
Shirley Schmidt: It hasn’t gone well. Surely you’ve noticed?
Dominick Ryan: My grandfather started this steakhouse. How can…? I just can’t believe it!
Shirley Schmidt: It isn’t over yet. We still have some summations, but...
Denny Crane: I’ll tell you this one more time. Play the judge! The man lives with his mother, he wears lifts. The buzz word is nansy pansy.
Shirley Schmidt: I beg your pardon?
Denny Crane: Nansy. Pansy. He doesn’t wanna fall on that side of the fence. It’s even worse than namby, pamby.
Shirley Schmidt: What are you talking about?
Denny Crane: Trust me Shirley. For once, can you do that?
Shirley Schmidt: Nansy. Pansy.
Tara Wilson: I was thinking perhaps I should close.
Alan Shore: Don’t be ridiculous.
Tara Wilson: I’m sorry?
Alan Shore: No offense Tara, but since I handled the witness, the jury will be expecting…<br>Tara Wilson: Did you see the faces on the jury? They weren’t impressed. They found you smug. You were perhaps too self-satisfied to notice.
Alan Shore: Are we at certain point in our cycle Tara? I apologize.
Tara Wilson: Do you? That’s a first.
Alan Shore: Say what you must.
Tara Wilson: I was hugely embarrassed by what happened at the bar. Not to mention terrified. I could have been injured. Did that ever occur to you? I mean it would have been one thing had you had any Neanderthal reaction and swung back! But your response was considered! You reflectively, calmly, orchestrated your violence. People could been hurt. I could have been hurt. But you’ve not once considered that because contrary to the rumor that you are the center of the universe, clearly you are the universe. And I for one, am getting sick of it.
Shirley Schmidt: Alan Shore’s a good lawyer Paul. If we fire him it does leave a hole.
Paul Lewiston: I am certainly mindful of that, but how far do we let him push us? He has done this at every firm he has worked for. He defies them to the point…, his last firm sued him.
Shirley Schmidt: Yes! And he went on, they didn’t.
Chelina Hall: Schmidt! Called?
Shirley Schmidt: Chelina? I called you three hours ago! Where have you been?
Chelina Hall: Patriots parade.
Shirley Schmidt: The Patriots parade was last week!
Chelina Hall: Three Super Bowls. Four years. I’m still on parade.
Shirley Schmidt: You worked on the Yenetty meat packing case last year. Didn’t you?
Chelina Hall: Yes.
Shirley Schmidt: What do you know about that cow in Washington state? I am about to suffer an embarrassing defeat in court. I need to show that what happened in Washington was an isolated… What?
Chelina Hall: Don’t go near the Washington case. It’s possible, it wasn’t even a downer cow.
Shirley Schmidt: What do you mean downer cow?
Chelina Hall: Basically it means that the cow fell down. We’re told that the mad cows are easy to spot because they stumble and fall. We were told that this cow fell. But eye witnesses in Washington say the cow was walking, and was tested only as a fluke.
Shirley Schmidt: Which means…<br>Chelina Hall: While we’re being told that the sick cows show easily detectable symptoms…<br>Shirley Schmidt: …they sometimes don’t and therefore go undetcted.
Chelina Hall: Stay away from the Washington case.
Shirley Schmidt: Thank you Chalena. Pardon the expression, but, I’m dead meat.
Paul Lewiston: You really think you’re going to lose?
Shirley Schmidt: I’m tempted to employ Denny’s strategy.
Paul Lewiston: Which? Is?
Shirley Schmidt: Nansy. Pansy.
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| | Re: BL 1.14 "Til We Meat Again" 2/13/05
« Reply #61 on Feb 17, 2005, 8:27am » | |
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« Reply #62 on Feb 17, 2005, 12:49pm » | |
Thanks for the fills ins teddy. I've made the corrrections.
Help, anyone else? Who knows the name of the attorney going against Denny and Shirley?
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| | Re: BL 1.14 "Til We Meat Again" 2/13/05
« Reply #64 on Feb 17, 2005, 5:15pm » | |
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1.14 Til We Meat Again
Unorthodoxy Works… Sometimes
I'll admit that I didn't catch the entire episode; I was watching the Grammys and forgot to switch over to ABC at 10 due to the fact that it's an Awards Show that doesn't end on the hour like normal programming. So I missed the first ten or so minutes of the show, but started watching after what I assume was the first commerical break because the credits were still showing up on screen as the episode went on.
Anyways, this episode continued the familiar trend on Boston Legal of presenting an outlandish case and presenting it in a serious manner - the characters, like Denny, can be portrayed to comical, unrealistic proportions and the same could be said of many of the court cases, but they always seem to link it back to the real world. Much like suing the United States government over the Sudanese genocide, a mayor attempting to shut down a steakhouse solely on the basis of the thread of mad cow disease is something that one would not perceive as 'normal', if there is such a thing.
Shirley, who was her own eccentricies, falls more on the 'regular' side of the line, with Lori, Brad, and Lewiston; Alan and Denny hold a monopoly on the crazy side, and Tara wavers back and forth between the two depending on what state her relationship with Alan is. Denny didn't become such a dominant and successful lawyer without some skill at his profession, however, and Shirley (as well as Paul) failed to notice this until just now. He may not employ the traditional tactics of winning a case, but he does what he thinks is necessary to get the favorable verdict, even if it means playing on the judge's weakness - a fear of coming off as small, or 'nancy pansy'. It may not be the thing most laywers do, but then again Denny is anything but most lawyers. And that's why we love him so much.
At the heart of the issue, however irregular and arbitrary it seemed, was something that's been viewed as a potential crisis in this country. Most, however, have dismissed it rather quickly, myself (and apparently, Denny) included. The bottom line is our government does not perceive an eminent threat from red meat, and while the scientific community may not agree with them, the political insitutions make the laws and enforce them. While there is no 'hard evidence' to support Denny's claim that beef makes him stronger than anyone else, his point wasn't to support that claim; it was to cast doubt on his opponents. For now, there really is no way to judge, with enough accuracy, the existence (or nonexistence, for that matter) of mad cow disease - the whole issue it surrounded by uncertainty, and in our court system things are based on facts and truths. Not on might bes, or might happens. And while I'm still somewhat angered that the legal staff at Crane, Poole and Schmidt never seems to lose a case, this one actually made sense. Judges are supposed to be impartial, but they're also human, and Denny played this one like a [game, musical instrument...anything else that can be played].
Lewiston still lacks an office or the authority to really control anyone who is supposed to be 'under' him (namely Alan) and the antagonistic dynamic that has been developing between him and anyone who opposes him is something interesting to watch for a character who started off as calm to the point of dullness. If he wants to be able to keep some semblance of order in the office, he'll have to do what Shirley did when she first step foot into the Boston office of the firm - fire somebody. Show your strength, back up your threats, and prove that you can and will do something. Otherwise, people like Alan will continuously rebel; it's just in his (and others') nature.
As much as Alan may play off the bar brawl as 'primal' and 'instinct', he can't igore, and Tara sure wasn't easy to forget, that his actions were calculated. He didn't strike back because he felt he threatened, or in the heat of the moment - that's not the way he works. He defeats brawn using brains - and to some, that's being 'craven', as he put it - but if he wins the fight, what does courage matter? Somehow, he proved his worth to Tara; whether his final monologue was truthful is something that'll see in the coming weeks but for now it was enough to satisfy her; and me. Most likely the last characteristic I'll ever share with Tara Wilson.
The Good
-Alan's ending monlogue was classic Shore; brilliantly penned by Kelley and delivered by Spader. He gets this subtlety in his voice when he's digging deep into an emotion and not being sarcastic, and those are some of the best lines he ever has.
-Tara actually stood up to ALan and it worked better than when Sally did it; but by the end of the night, he had reconciled the relationship. Not surprising.
-Alan defending himself is always a good thing; it's different when he has a truly personal stake in the case. It always seems to amplify the sarcasm, the wit, and the smugness. This time, he ended up on top; next time, he might not.
-Shirley's accetpance of Denny as a capable lawyer for the first time shifts their dynamic from playfully hateful to perhaps a level of mutual respect I didn't expect to see between the two of them.
The Bad
-I didn't like the way they made a connection between Denny's Alzheimers and mad cow disease. I appreciate the attempt, but it just didn't fit right, at least not as I viewed it.
-Once again, both cases featured ended up with a victory for the lawyers of Crane, Poole, and Schmidt - if any sense of realism wants to be maintained, I hope somebody loses a case sooner or later. There isn't any dramatic tension if you know the outcome before it comes to pass.
The Ugly
-I was going to go with Lewiston blowing up (yet again...) but then...
-Shirley utterly creeped me out when she muttered sweet nothings into Denny's ear. Orgasmic 'Denny...Denny...Denny Crane' is not something I want to hear. EVER. AGAIN.
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| | Re: BL 1.14 "Til We Meat Again" 2/13/05
« Reply #65 on Feb 17, 2005, 5:16pm » | |
2nd TvTome Review
A Job Well Done or a Job Medium Rare?
It's that time again, kiddies. Another tri-episodic dose of TeaCake's Boston Legal Review, and this week's episode deserves special attention. Since my last review (shortly after the arrival of SS and the dismissal of Sally) the relationships between main characters have gotten quite interesting. Shall we get started?
Tara
Say all you want about how good a couple Tara and Alan make. You could even go on for days about her ridiculously high hotness level. But dammit, this episode took Tara down a few pegs in my personal book. Let's begin with the opening sequence, Tara (not Alan) comes up with the idea of 'pretending' to be a bar-hopping single to get Alan to pick her up. That's mistake number one. She obviously attracts the attention of an inebriated horndog at the bar, and Alan steps in to drive him away from his girl. Fast forward to the drunk guy punching Alan. Now, you would think that Tara would be feeling a little guilty for being the direct cause of getting her boyfriend punched in the face. You might even think she'd understand his need to get retribution against the rude drunken idiot. Here's where mistake number two comes in. She's actually mad at him for putting her in danger! I know! I can't believe it either! So we get some long-winded rant about how Alan's always the center of the universe (or he's actually 'the universe' as she so non-subtley put it). Hello? Didn't we learn this about Alan when he single-handedly dismantled the firm in The Practice all by his lonesome? Alan being the center of his own universe should've been something Tara knew well before she got busy with him, it's neigh retarded to throw something like that in his faceat this point. The saving grace for Tara this week is the fact that her antagonism gives Alan a brilliant idea for his closing argument. But the friction between the 'Dynamic Duo' of Alan and Tara showed in this episode might be a hint of rocky roads to come in later episodes. The thing I'm mostly pissed about is that Tara seemed to be adopting Alan's 'bad boy' attitude. With her recent sexually-risque behavior, and her actions in a previous episode (she gets information from a souce by flirting with them in a bar), she's really coming off as a holier-than-thou hypocrite. Hope she wises up next episode.
Alan
I re-he-heally liked Alan's case this week. It wasn't too spectacular, and it wasn't really a case at all, but it was the perfect stage for Alan to show what he's all about. He isn't a physical man. He's not even a virtuous man. He's just a guy that's perhaps too smart for his own good. This all became crystal clear in the bar scene. He knows that he'll get his white-collar butt whipped if he retaliates against the horndog guy at the bar, so he proffers some 'big looking guys' to do the dirty work for him, at $300-$100 apiece. Now I ask you readers, is this such a bad idea? The guy who threw the first blow, and who totally ignored Tara's explanations that she's with someone was clearly in the wrong, not Alan. He didn't necessarily dirty his own hands by fighting back, but by offering money to outsiders, they took the responsibility of committing acts of violence for themselves. Personally, I don't even see why there was a trial, anything short of murder doesn't even need to be looked at in this case. The writers use this scenario as a way to show that Alan certainly controls his own destiny. In a situation where most of us guys would've easily regressed to a neanderthal psyche and resorted to violence, even despite the certain ass-kicking that would follow, Alan got his vengeance, AND escaped any pain. Tara calls this being the center of the universe. I call it being resourceful, and knowing how to handle any given situation with finesse.
In the courtroom, Alan defends himself brilliantly... too brilliantly. His smug demeanor and the refusal to admit that he might've been in the wrong is picked up by Tara, and it gives her some leeway with her insinuations. He realizes that to get the jury on his side, he'll have to show vulnerability, and get them to feel sorry for him. I believe his closing argument was very sincere, Alan is the kind of guy that is a victim to the same weaknesses as most men, but his higher-than-average intellect, and his ability to talk people into doing whatever he wants, gets him in a very sticky situation at the bar. Even though he came out unscathed, the bar brawl definitely affected him the most out of all parties involved. When he pushes Brad around and snaps at Lori in the office, it's clear that Alan feels a bit of the 'mamsy pansy' phenomena that's been going around Boston that day. Tara calling him 'the universe' might symbolize Alan's having a God-complex. The fact that he tries to dirty his own hands by picking a fight with his rival Brad, and with Paul Lewiston, signifies his attempts to deny this personality trait that seperates him from the normal (non-Godlike) person. It's indeed his 'God-complex' that makes him pay off the big guys to fight for him, yet it's also this same complex that makes him such a great character to watch each week. I just hope that Tara doesn't do anything else to screw it up...
Paul
Paul had a brief, yet important spot this week. In an office briefing (read: lecture) with Alan and Tara, he tells Alan that he'll be fired if Alan's case is returned with a verdict of 'guilty'. Lewiston later gets irritated to the point of a violent verbal outburst when Alan continually mocks Lewiston's words. Paul is clearly the expert in having to clean up the messes made by Alan's 'God-complex', but unlike Tara, he wants Alan to continue on his path so that there'll be just cause to fire his ass when Alan inevitably steps over the line (like he did in The Practice, presumably). SS, of all people, defend Alan to Paul, saying that without Shore the firm would lose a big asset (and it would possibly be vulnerable to more losses, should Alan sue Crane, Poole, and Schmidt as he did with The Practice). I think Paul's just waiting to strike, like a lethal snake awaiting for the prime opening for a killing blow. The next time Alan screws up royally, expect Paul to make a federal case (perhaps literally) about it.
SS
I actually wasn't too impressed with Shirley this week, aside from the fact that she had to rely on Denny's plan to win the case. She didn't bring much to the table in court this week, and she seemed to give up all too easily. Of course, this might be due to her being a liberal, and the case in question (prohibiting the county-wide sale of red meat) might be something she wouldn't necessarily disagree with, but we all know from the evolution case that she's a businesswoman first, and a tree-hugging Bush-basher second. Her weak cross-examinations were only saved by Denny's wild questioning and his intuition, and while this is a pretty entertaining glimpse into the relationship that was SS and DC back in the day, it's sad to see that at the end of the day Denny still has to act as a second banana to SS. On the brighter side, SS is showing that she's not just a shark in female's clothing, as she sticks up for Alan while talking to Lewiston, and she even trusts Denny's judgment in the final hour. She might end up being a popular character yet!
Denny
This is the first time we see Denny and Shirley in court together alone on a case. The mere fact that Denny had this case pegged from the start, while SS resorted to giving up in the face of adversity makes me adore this one off the bat. Denny not only showed great wisdom/experience in his handling of the judge, but he also didn't let the repeated mutterings of 'Alzheimer's' distract him (this also sets up the great joke he shares with Alan, saying that he has 'Mad Cow Disease' and not 'Alzheimer's'). The important thing here was that SS and Denny were facing the Mayor of Boston, and while she buckles like a belt when the Mayor recites an impressive list of reasons why red meat should be banned, Denny simply shows why the Bostonian Everyman (the person the Mayor supposedly answers to) wants red meat: it's good food, it's what most people grew up eating, and it's never been proven to be dangerous in America to date. His seemingly-simple utterances about the merits of meat, and the fact that anyone who's worried about Mad Cow Disease is a 'mamsy pansy' reveals that his own struggles with old age (and SS) never gets him in a state of panic or paranoia. The fact that the Mayor and SS want to take the easy way out highlights Denny even more; he's a survivor and he'll always find a way in the end to get the job done. Kudos to William Shatner for the Golden Globe, by the way, he definitely deserves it.
Firm Dynamic
Not much new to report here. Lori and Brad didn't get much air time this week, but they, along with Lewiston and Tara, ended up rubbing the wrong side of Alan this week. It seems that only the senior partners of the firm are still on Shore-man's good side at the moment, it could spell trouble next week if Alan finds himself in need of a little help from his friends. Oh, and Betty White needs to create more drama between the co-workers, cause she's just so damn good at it, but this episode didn't really use her to my satisfaction.
Episode Grade-------------------------------------B
I enjoyed the look inside Alan's head, and the (hopefully first of many) triumph of Denny over SS in the courtroom. I would've enjoyed an exciting case even more, though.
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« Reply #66 on Feb 17, 2005, 7:07pm » | |
I was using the process of elimination to figure out the name of opposing counsel to Denny and Shirley. Since Jason Blicker isn’t listed in the opening credits and Pat Skipper is, I’m assuming the attorney’s name is Michael Roker.
Curiously, in the opening credits Kerry Washington is listed as a Special Guest Appearance. Wonder what happened there? Anybody know?
All I still need now are the missing opening lines of dialog between Alan and Tara. If anyone can add those we should have the complete transcript soon.
Teddy has offered to help with the transcripts so I'm hoping to post them later this evening or early early tomorrow morning.
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« Reply #67 on Feb 17, 2005, 8:35pm » | |
Imamess, here are your opening words:
Alan: When a man turns 40, he begins to take measure of himself. I must admit I don't like what I see.
Tara: You're turning 43.
Alan: If you don't mind, ...(you have the rest)
Also, look here and see if this helps you with your attorney.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402711/guests
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« Reply #68 on Feb 17, 2005, 11:29pm » | |
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Thanks for the missing dialog kitkat. The link should come in handy. I didn't know about it.
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« Reply #69 on Feb 18, 2005, 3:20am » | |
Part 1 of 4 BL-14
Til We Meat Again
Brad Chase: All I know is he instigated the brawl. The charge is to conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.
Alan Shore: Talking about me Brad?
Brad Chase:Yeah, we’re just trying to imagine you as the...instigator.
Alan Shore: What's that supposed to mean?
Brad Chase: Sorry. Forget it.
Alan Shore: No, let's not forget it. How about you say what you have to say, or is that too monumental an effort, completing whole sentences?
Lori Colson: Come on, Alan.
Alan Shore: You want to talk about me, Lori, perhaps you should reposition yourself behind my back. Isn't that the rule of the game?
Lori Colson: I don't talk about you behind your back, Alan.
Brad Chase: You're not that interesting.
Alan Shore: I'm tired of this. Get that?
Brad Chase: Uh. I dunno what's going on with you, sport, but you're certainly smart enough to realize that I could probably dismember you in about…<br>Alan Shore: Then do it.
Lori Colson: Cut it out!
Tara Wilson: What the hell is going on?
Alan Shore: Careful, Tara. I wouldn’t want you to get hurt. Listen to me? Talking to others as if I weren’t the only one in the universe. When will I learn?
Tara Wilson: No! When will we learn… that you are always right. That it makes sense to start a barroom brawl. That it’s perfectly reasonable to get into a shoving match at the office. Nothing could be going on with you. When will we learn? Get Help.
Shirley Schmidt: We had an expression in this country years ago called ‘Where’s the beef?’. Translation? Where’s the substance? Your honor, do you know anybody who’s been victimized by Mad Cow disease? Know anybody who knows anybody? Know anybody, who knows anybody, who knows anybody? There’s simply not a shred of evidence to suggest that a single person in this country has ever become ill from a mad cow. But… why wait? That’s the mayor’s shingle. Why? Wait? Because this man, and others like him, have sacrificed their lives and their livelihoods building their restaurants. Maybe as a courtesy, we could wait for scintilla of evidence before arbitrarily destroying their businesses. The fact is the USDA has done an exemplary job of conducting tests and establishing safeguards to prevent the outbreak of Mad Cow disease. Which is probably why, it hasn’t broken out. But we could give into our fear and panic, baseless panic, but that would make us… a nation of nansy, pansy’s. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be a nansy, pansy.
Attorney Michael Roker: Towns make rules all the time. Lots of em. Zone fast-food restaurants out of business. Through permits, they can control how you build your house! Some towns ban alcohol. Cigarettes. Others have curfews. We do all kinds of things. The only legal requirement is that the laws are reasonable. It is not unreasonable to fear an outbreak of Mad Cow disease. We’ve had a case in Washington state. Another, last month, in Canada, we just lifted the ban on Canadian beef! The incubation period for this disease could be decades. We have no guarantee that we’re already infected. It is simply reckless for the government to be injecting certainty, when the scientific community cannot. And forget Mad Cow, we already know that eating beef can cause high cholesterol, heart disease, it increases the risk of colon cancer, there’s listeria, ecoli, which has already killed people. Dioxin! The poison that almost killed the Ukrainian president, that stuff is on our grazing grass. Scientists say the average American has about 10 units of Dioxin in their blood, simply from eating animal fat. There are all kinds of reasonable justifications for a mayor to try to reduce red meat from diet of his citizenry. And let me remind you, there is nothing, nothing in the constitution that guarantees anybody the right to sell a hamburger.
Denny Crane: (mouthing ‘Nansy, pansy’ at the judge.)
D.A. Casey Mathias: This wasn’t self-defense. Mr Shore was not under any physical threat when he paid the first man to fight. This was vengeance for hire. And once that violence became he started hiring other to escalate it. These facts are not in dispute. The only real question for you here is, “Is Mr Shore above the law or not?”<br>Alan Shore: I’ve been accused of reflectively, perhaps even glibly, orchestrating a little revenge. Well, I guess that’s how I wanted it to look. A man punched me in the face, in front of my girlfriend, and while my instinct was to hit him back, the truth is, I was afraid. I was fearful, that if I retaliated he would beat me up. So I got somebody else to do my fighting, then things got out of hand, then… well… I had to send more and more troops to a war that should have ended quickly. But, make no mistake, my reaction that night was no so much reflective, as it was, primal. A man hit me, and while we like to think of ourselves as being evolved… maybe I should have just hit him. There’s a warrior that lies within the belly of every man, a warrior who, in my case, has always gone unsatisfied. I tried to satisfy it, but without pain. That’s what the craven do sometimes. They stand out of the fray, thump their egos along with their chests, and let others do the fighting.
Judge Clark Brown: Well thank you all for staying late. I did some research of my own. As you may know I pride myself on being a conscientious fact finder.
Denny Crane: There we go. (mouthing ‘No nansy, pansy’ at the judge.)
Judge Clark Brown: Mad Cow disease is here, and for all the guarantees supplied by the government, the scientific community doesn’t back em up. We all have a right to be concerned. The governmental agencies in place to protect us, seem to be controlled by the industries we need protection from! This Mad Cow disease started out in Europe and worked it’s way over here. And it is true, the scientists are at odds with our government. But as a tryer of fact, a judge must rely on facts and there is no evidence of an epidemic. If a judge were to allow himself to be governed by fear alone, then it is true and I agree it would make him a, a, nansy, pansy. This judge is anything but. I find the law banning sale of red meat to be premature if not capricious, and it is hereby overturned.
Denny Crane: Way to go judge.
Judge Clark Brown: Case adjourned!
Shirley Schmidt: Anybody up for a burger?
Dominick Ryan: Thank you. Thank you. Thank God.
Shirley Schmidt: Well Denny, I admit I had my doubts, but you won this case. Thank you.
Denny Crane: Does this mean we’re having sex tonight?
Shirley Schmidt: Allow me the dream a little longer.
Denny Crane: I won the day. I deserve to be rewarded.
Shirley Schmidt: I’ll give you this. Denny, Dennyyy, Dennyyy Crane!
Denny Crane: Woah.
Alan Shore: I must be acquitted. She’s not smiling.
Tara Wilson: Shh.
Judge Jamie Atkinson: Madam Foreperson, you’ve reached a unanimous verdict?
Foreperson: We have your honor.
Judge Jamie Atkinson: What say you?
Foreperson: Commonwealth versus Alan Shore on the count of conspiracy to committee aggravated assault, we find the defendant, Alan Shore, not guilty.
Alan Shore: We appeal Judge.
Judge Jamie Atkinson: Members of the jury, this completes your service, you can go. Mr Shore, this probably doesn’t have to be good bye, so much as ‘Until we meet again.’.
Alan Shore: Yes your honor. She’s attracted to me.
Tara Wilson: No doubt.
Alan Shore: Tara. I am sorry. I never meant to put you in any danger.
Tara Wilson: I know.
Alan Shore: When you… launched into that diatribe about me being the…<br>Tara Wilson: Universe.
Alan Shore: You said you were sick of it. Are you sick of me? Are you sick of me, Tara?
Tara Wilson: No.
Alan Shore: As much as I… loathe… sentiment, together with it’s expression… I cherish you. You should just know, you really, really smell good.
Tara Wilson: You smell good too.
Denny Crane: How’d you do?
Alan Shore: Jury was out 15 minutes. Not guilty. I think they took pity on me.
Denny Crane: Congratulations.
Alan Shore: I hear you won.
Denny Crane: Um.
Alan Shore: Everything okay?
Denny Crane: I don’t have Alzheimer’s. I have Mad Cow disease.
Alan Shore: Well it’s nice to finally know. Ever beat up anybody with your bare hands?
Denny Crane: Many times. Why?
Alan Shore: Just asking.
Denny Crane: Have you?
Alan Shore: No.
Denny Crane: Well! Makes you a better man than I, I guess.
Alan Shore: Guess so.
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« Reply #70 on Feb 18, 2005, 3:30am » | |
Just posted the parts 3 and 4 of BL-14.
Need help with one line.
Shirley Schmidt: It isn’t over yet. We still have some  .
teddy I hope your offer is still open for next week's episode.
I figured it out. Kerry Washington played Chalena. I'd forgotten about her. She must be a big-name actor to get Special Guest Appearance status for just one scene. Or will there me more to come later?
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Quote:
for missing text, how's this: shirley: ...we still have summations
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Thanks for the fill-in teddy. I look forward to your help next episode.
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Imamess you've done it again with your transcript! Thank you. You and teddy make a good team. Keep up the good work.
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I loved the episode of Boston Legal Sunday. I think that we saw a little of the old Alan come back in this episode. The vulnerablity, sadness, and inner despair and self-loathing feelings that Alan really feels for himself finally came to light. James was as usual excellent in his performance. Loved the storyline with Bergan And Shanter as well. I loved that Tara is becoming a stronger charcter- like before. I like the fact that even though she obviuously adores Alan and knows him for what he is, doesn't mean that she does not become frustrated and angry with him. I loved that they showed that. Hate that we did not see that much of Lori and Brad. Where was "SEXY 
