Where the heck are they...
The tomatoes, the lox, that herb cream cheese i love?
This is the bargain plate. Deluxe is $18.75 extra.
Charge it to the company account. This is c.O.D., lady.
Mr. Stone said some woman named patti della-Something
Would be here to pay for it. Oh, i bet he did. Come on.
Is there a problem, mr. Stone?
It's just... i was just waiting for everyone to get here, so...
This is everyone, eli.
Right, okay.
So... client retention. Taylor, keith, any updates?
You've been pursuing latham.
Good news on latham, people. I'm happy to report
They're now part of the posner-Klein family. All right!
What's the score, woo?
Wethersby, stone & associates 5, posner-Klein... 86.
Yeah! This isn't a numbers game.
All we need to keep us afloat is one big fish.
I think jim cooper is that fish. Just got a call from jim cooper.
Rns out our donations to his m.S. Foundation
And the local arts council blew him away.
He'sveryinterested in making the move. It's not fair.
It's like they know what we're gonna do before we do it. He's right. They win every time.
Yeah. Posner-Klein is comprised of our former colleagues.
Some cross-Pollination in terms of strategy
Is bound to occur. Let's not overreact.
It is a little suspicious
How p&k keep beating us to the punch.
I pitched latham on tuesday.
An hour later, they signed with p&k... exact same terms.
Same thing happened after my meetings with fuller and valdez.
Let's not be paranoid. No one's trying to sabotage us. , because they're actually doing it.
As you pointed out, sir, some of our people
Are in contact with their people,
So some cross-Pollination is bound to occur. I'm not pollinating anything with matt.
I didn't say you were. I was just trying to imply
That you were pillow-Talking our business plan with him. I am not the leak, eli, and to prove it,
I'm gonna find out who is. Happy? Ecstatic.
Your management skills are as deft as ever.
Speaking of which, i'm not sure it's good for office morale
Or your own, for that matter,
To pin all our hopes on a single ient. He's the greatest humanitarian of his generation.
We land cooper, everyone's morale is gonna skyrocket.
Cooper is trying to grow his own marijuana
For a clinical trial which might cure his son's m.S.
I mean, it's signature wethersby-Stone. We're a new firm, eli. We don't yet have a signature,
Which is why i think we should aim
To diversify our client base. We win the cooper case, those other guys still on the fence
Are gonna be ling up outside our door. That's a very big "if."
Maybe so, but it's one of the few plays
We have left in our deck.
Oh. Oh, goodness.
What took you so long? Was the records room backed up? Iamthe records room.
Oh, where are you going? No, no. I need your help
To go through all these files. I gotta figure out a way
To get access to this jim cooper
Before posner & klein close in on him. You mean stalk.
Yes, and your brimming optimism is duly noted.
Well, optimism was maggie's department. Well, she's gone, so...
Look at this picture of him in the paper with his son.
What's it say? Well, apparently, last month jim jr. Set a new state record
For the 200 freestyle. I thought you said he had m.S.
It's in remission.
Find out where and when his next swim meet is
And then get jordan. Okay.
Whoa.
Whoa! What?
Oh!
You are just a vision,
'Cause things do not spontaneously burst into flames.
Okay, i am 99.9% sure that you are a vision.
But just in case...
What are you doing?
Just... just...
I'm sorry. I was just...
All right!
Yes! Way to go, j.! Whoo!
That's what i'm talkin' about! Whoo!
Mr. Cooper, i don't know if you rember me.
My name's eli stone.
Jordan. I didn't peg you for a swim junkie.
Jim, i know showing up like this is unorthodox, but, uh...
We think that we can help you with your clinical trial
If you'll just hear us out. Well, j.'S swimming his next event in ten minutes.
I'll give you three. Okay. Well, we know that you applied to the d.E.A
For a license to grow your own marijuana,
And we know that your application was rejected. So you know my case.
What i'm more interested in is a strategy for winning. Right.
Hey, kiddo, you looked great out there.
We caught your race on the way in. You got a real gift. Thanks.
Hoping i qualify for olympic pretrials if i can keep it up.
I know that we look like two suits
Trying to schmooze your dad, and to be fair, we are.
But we're also here to help him give you
The best shot at a cure. I better not monopolize your time then.
Just make sure he doesn't miss me smashing my best time
In the 100 free. Oh, are you kidding? I don't want to miss that.
He's a smart kid. "Monopolize" is a good s.A.T. Word.
It's also, ironically, our strategy.
The federal government controls the entire supply
Of medical marijuana used for f.D.A. Trials.
That's a de facto illegal monopoly.
We argue to the d.E.A. That denying you a license
To grow pot is anticapitalist, stifles competition
And isn't in the public interest.
Well, i'll be damned.
Yes!
Posner & klein can kiss my $100-Grand-A-Week retainedass!
Whoa! That's how we do things downtown! Sorry.
Quite all right. If i were more prone to outbursts of emotion,
I'd probably be doing a little jig.
That i would pay real money to see.
Uptown got its hustlers
Uptown's got its hustlers
The bowery got its bums
The bowery's got s bums
42nd street got big jim walker
He's a pool-Shootin' son of a gun
Ooh
Ooh, ooh
42nd street's got big jim walker
Big jim walker
Yeah, he's big and dumb as a man can come
But stronger than a country horse country horse
And when the bad folks all get together at night
You know they all call him big jim "boss"
Just because
They say you don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with jim
Ooh, h
Yeah
You don't tug on superman's cape
Tug on it you don't spit into the wind
Into the wind you don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with jim
Savor this moment, eli.
Catching your first big fish... nothing quite like it.
Where do you think you're going? Um, to my office.
Why not to the conference room?
Is there something going on in the conference room? I need your help. It's my daughter angela.
She got pulled over for a d.U.I. Two days ago.
What... what happened?
Nothing, really. She was at a bachelorette party.
She hadaglass of wine. That's it.
She didn't do anything wrong. Did they give her a breathalyzer?
What did she blow? How should i know? That's your job.
Is eli busy or somethin'? I thoughtyouwere the hotshot criminal defense lawyer.
Well, that's flattering, but i think it's best
If we go with someone outside the office with this.
So, uh, i'll give my old colleague danny meyer a call. And this danny character... where does he live?
I don't know. What's the matter? I need to know i can track him down
And kick him in the cojones if he messes this up. And that's why i'm not the guy to help you with this.
What's worse... you going to your grave knowing that
You let my daughter... a woman who's never gotten so much
As a parking ticket... lose her financial aid
And drop out of medical school for something that she
Didn't even do, or the threat of me knockin' your block off?
Which conference room was it again? Thank you.
How did my mom sucker you...
Massive guilt trip or outright threat?
Hmm. I'm gonna go with outright threat.
I - It was both, actually.
Jeez.
Well, you know if you help me out here,
It's only gonna get worse, right?
I think i can manage that.
Um...
So, uh...
Shall we get started?
Oh, my god. "Sugar substitutes and caffeine can cause
A variety of prenatal..." i am so screwed.
"Screwed."
As usual, the dowd's timing is impeccable.
You look so hot. I'm not kidding.
The girls are like...
Wow!
Cute.
Sorry. I just... you, lunch. This is great.
We see each other every night. No, i see you. You see piles of work.
I'm sorry, but you know how it is... starting a new firm,
Going to court, making sure your sleazy new firm
Doesn't steal all our clients. We're not stealing anyone.
These guys are c.E.O.S. They make up their own minds.
And how did you guys know the exact hour i was gonna meet
With latham's c.E.O.? If you want to play interrogator/detainee,
I am game, but we should probably close the blinds,
Don't you think? Look, someone on your team is stealing our plays.
I need you to find out for me who it is.
Well, i know i seem like the perfect guy for the job...
Young, hot, ethically challenged.
Thing is, i don't actually work here anymore. God, i ask you
To do one simple thing, and you can't handle that? Uh, i wouldn't call this simple.
Well, it's not like things are gonna get any easier from here.
From here? Where exactly are we going, taylor?
Nowhere.
I'm sorry. I-I just... forget i said anything, okay?
No, you know what? Uh, lunch was a bad idea.
Uh, i'll, uh, see you tonight.
Let's be honest here.
We all know the government has a monopoly
On the supply of marijuana for medical research. As long as it's classified
As a controlled substance, we're gonna insist on,
You know, controlling it. What for? Marijuana is legal in california for medicinal uses.
Actually, it's not. California can pass any law it wants,
But it's still illegal under federal law.
Now you so much as water a plant and i'll have you arrested.
We are more than are of the supremacy of federal law,
But we also think it's fairly obvious that mr. Cooper
Is not some illicit drug trafficker. He's just a father desperate to fight his son's disease.
Infer what you will about the public opinion
Fallout from that. I'm more concerned about the publicconsumption.
We start making exceptions, and it's a slippery slope.
Marijuana is a gateway to more dangerous drugs. Right, like ecstasy and l.S.D.,
Both of which scientists can easily obtain
From any number of private laboratories. So that's what's next...
L.S.D. For cancer? Ecstasy for parkinson's?
Hey, maybe i can get some crack for my eczema.
Look, you want to grasp at straws, be my guest.
Just stick to snake oils
That aren't federally regulated, okay?
We're not giving up.
And with your son still in an early stage of the disease...
Early is too late when it comes to m.S.
With every new attack, the damage is done,
And it's permanent... at least, it was with vanessa.
That's my mom.
So sorry. J. Was 3 when she got sick.
At first, her episodes were so few and far between,
We thought we could keep it at bay, but...
Look, i can't promise you that you'll be able to swim forever,
But i can promise you i'm gonna get
Your dad's hands on enough pot for the study. Oh, please don't say you know a guy who knows a guy.
Well, i do. His name is uncle sam. Oh, you're gonna sue the government for their dope?
Actually, when it's grown on tax dollars, it's your dope, too.
I like this guy. Listen, let me takj. To school.
We'll talk more over lunch.
Whoa.
Hey! Hey, you!
You gotta get out of there!
I'm s...
Watch your step here.
Come on.
The whole building was burning?
You'd think a vision about a pot case would be a little more fun.
Well, you'd think that with my brain aneurysm,
God would avoid sharp spikes to my blood pressure.
So you were surrounded by flames.
Well, there's the obvious associion...
Drop the case or burn in the all-Consuming fires of hell?
Just rember which of us said it first.
But fire can also represent the manifestation
Of the divine... like when god appeared before the israelites
At mount sinai in a cloud of smoke and fire.
Nah, i'm pretty sure it's the going-To-Hell one.
A few days ago, my files on cooper burst into flames.
You had another vision? I didn't think much of it at the time
Until the musical vision, in which jordan was singing... thirdvision?
"You don't mess around with jim."
That one ended with fire, too. You waited to come to me until after three visions
Warned you to drop this cooper case? Maybe they weren't warnings.
"You don't mess around with jim."
And here you are, messing around with jim. A vision has never told me to drop a case before.
And why cooper? I mean, this man is going to the ends
Of the earth for his son. My dad couldn't even make it
To parent/teacher conference. A devoted and protective father...
I can see why you're having trouble letting go of this case.
No, i'm just having trouble seeing how god's plan
Is "don't find a cure for a debilitating
And possibly fatal disease." He's god. Don't backseat deify.
I'm not. I'm front seat litigating.
Am i supposed to just blindly follow these visions?
I'm not just a messenger.
Be careful, eli. Going against the visions...
It's risky.
Yeah? Well, if god wanted a puppet for a prophet,
He should've chosen an accountant.
Mr. Smalls, who is usually granted access
To n.I.H. Cannabis stores?
Universities, health agencies, scientific institutions...
Very controlled environments.
What about the private individuals?
Do they ever receive n.I.H. - Sanctioned pot? Object to the term "pot" as prejudicial.
My client isn't asking for a doobie.
Sustained. Let's keep the slang to a minimum, people.
Plaintiff's lawyers claim that your decision
Not to grant him its marijuana constitutes a capricious
And arbitrary decision. It's a security issue.
Besides, two identical studies involving cannabis and m.S.
Were already approved and ongoing.
We didn't see the need for a third one.
So these other two studies,
They were designed to test the efficacy of nnabis
On juvenile onset m.S.?
No. Sorry, i-I thought that you just said
That they were identical to mr. Cooper's study.
Identical in that they both tested the effects
Of cannabis on m.S. But both those studies only accept subjects
Over the age of 18, right? The n.I.H...
Isn't gonna supply cannabis to any study involving minors.
So you would never supply cannabis to mr. Cooper's study.
Director smalls, are you aware that federal law prohibits
Unjustified discrimination based on age?
Yes. I'm also aware that the government shouldn't be
Helping a bunch of teens get baked on the taxpayers' dime.
The kids in mr. Cooper's study wouldn't be getting "baked."
They'd be getting relief from a horrible disease.
M.S. Doesn't discriminate based on age.
Why should the government?
It's not gonna happen.
I let you smooth-Talk your way out ofroner,
But i can't this time. It's her first offense, sam.
Not with a blood alcohol level of.085%.
You have to have some serious tolerance to drink and drive
With that much alcohol in your system. Trust me, this isn't a regular thing at all.
She's got zero priors. This is a 1-Time mistake.
Besides, you and i both know that a breathalyzer
Can be off by at least 10%. But the blood test won't be.
Doesn't change the fact that she didn't commit
A moving violation. She did, according to officer sawyer.
Oh, officer sawyer. Nowthere's a trustworthy urce.
In his sworn statement, he said that ms. Scott was,
"Weaving in and out of traffic and appeared disoriented."
He only said thataftershe turned him down for a date.
He mention that in his statement? I'm guessing not.
Because that's just an unsubstantiated allegation.
And six allegations in a row is a sexual harassment lawsuit.
Angela's the sixth woman
He's tried to pick up while on the job since november.
I'm thinking officer sawyer's definition
Of "to protect and serve" might need a little adjustment.
I think i like the smooth-Talk better.
Wow, impressive.
My mom was right. Youarea hotshot lawyer.
Some pretty mad skills back there.
Well, it helps when you're extra motivated.
So, uh, you doing anything special to celebrate?
I was gonna get loaded.
Kidding.
Wait. Were y just asking me out?
Trying to. I guess i don't have the same mad skills with women
That i do in the courtroom.
I kinda like that in a guy.
So is that a yes?
Yeah.
What happened? The cool kids ban you from their table?
Hmm. They all went to godzilla's.
Sushi freaks me out. You live in san francisco.
I'm fromohio,where we believe in cooking fish.
The midwest sounds awesome. Remind me never to go there.
Shut up. So what's your excuse?
Thought you were meeting taylor for lunch.
Uh, no, that would require her actually wanting to see me.
You guys got in a fight? It's a little hard to tell, actually.
She, um, she thinks someone at wethersby
Is leaking information to someone here
So we can steal all their clients.
You know who's doing it? I don't know.
Taylor wants me to find out, but, uh...
Mm. No wonder you're in the doghouse.
You'd think life would get less complicated
When we weren't working together.
She'll forgive you... maybe not right away, but she will.
You get caught spying on these guys over here,
I don't think they're gonna be as nice.
Hey. Hey.
Everything okay?
Yeah. I just... i thought i'd stop by,
See how the trial's going.
My dad says he's gonna win, but he always thinks that.
Oh, well, in this case, he has reason to be optimistic,
'Cause we're in great shape. Oh.
So, uh, having your dad go to court so that
You could get high... must be the coolest kid in school.
I'm a swimmer. I don't put alcohol or drugs in my body.
Absolutely. I was a mathlete.
We had a similar ethos.
If the league finds out, you know,
That i have pot in my system, even if it's for the study,
I'll be disqualified from competions,
And i won't be able to go out for olympic pretrials. I didn't reali that. I'm sorry.
Yeah.
You know, i know there's this thing eating away at my brain,
But it's like, right now i don't care.
All i care about is swimming.
It's the only part of my life that's still mine.
What do you mean?
My dad. He's...
Everything has to be his way.
He's been telling me what to do for so long,
Even when he's not around,
I can't get his voice out of my head...
Except when i'm swimming.
When i'm underwater, i don't think about stuff.
I'm just counting the tiles on the bottom, back and forth.
He can't get to me.
Do you evenwantto be in this clinical trial?
No
But this whole case...
Is about you.
I - I mean, i'm fighting for you,
And now you tell me that you don't even want this?
No, i don't.
Does your dad know?
Mm-Hmm.
Then why is he pushing so hard for thstudy?
He doesn't care what i want.
I've tried to talk to him. He never listens to me.
Maybe it's just that he knows what you're up against,
I mean, what happened with your mom.
I mean, he obviously loves you very much. I mean...
You have to believe that he wants what's best for you.
You wouldn't think that if you knew him.
Look, if you want to win this case for him, fine.
Beautiful morning, isn't it?
I hear the night is gonna be lovely, too...
Clear skies, stars out, very romantic.
Do you have any big plans? Patti, i - I was just about to...
When i asked for an attorney at law,
I wasn't asking for a son-In-Law!
I'm not marrying angela. It's just dinner.
Are you really threatening to shank me with a butter knife?
Come on. And just suppose i am. Now... do you really want
To take my sweet little angela on a date?
Well, i-I'll take good care her.
I promise.
You gonna be here after i'm gone
May 6, 2007...
I'll never forget it. I went into j.'S bedroom
To wake him up for school,
And he said he couldn't feel anything in his arms.
And that first attack lasted several weeks.
And then shortly after he was dgnosed,
I was driving him to a swim meet,
And he just turned to me, out of thelue
And asked why i couldn't work on a cure.
"You do everything else, dad," he said.
And that's when i decided i was gonna beat this thing.
Still, setting up your own clinical trial...
That is no small undertaking.
Why not simply donate money to existing studies on m.S.?
If i wait for nonprofit research to bring a drug to market,
It could be too late for j.
I lost my wife to this disease.
J.'S all i've got left.
If i could just get this study going...
I - I think we both need that hope.
I mean, the fact that my son is willing to give up swimming
Just to be able to take part in this clinical trial,
I think that says it all. Of course, you have never heard him say that in so many words.
I mean, just rember, everything you say here
Is on record, so let's avoid speculating
As to your son's state of mind. Moving on...
I - It's not speculation. He's told me this many ti...
Unfortuny, that's hearsay coming from you,
So i guess i have no... your honor, i have a few other questions.
Uh, but first i would like a recess
To speak with my client. That won't be necessary.
I think it is, if for no other reason
Than for you two to get on the same page.
It was a simple misunderstanding between my partner and me.
I'll take over from here and get you right back on track. You better. I was on a roll.
You were rolling right into prison for perjury. Are you out of your mind?
Eli, we don't generally accuse our clients of breaking the law. I'm sorry, but as your lawyer,
It's my responsibility to protect you. Everything i said on that stand was the truth.
The truth is that your son does not want to be
In this clinical trial.
He told me. He just wants to swim.
Wait outside for me.
You talked to my son without me?
You have to think about what's best for j.
Placing him in a clinical trial against his will... he's 16 years old!
He doesn't know what's good for him!
And he doesn't need you putting ideas in his head. He came to me, and he knows a lot more
Than you give him credit for. If you just listened to him... look, i'm not paying you for parenting advice.
I'm paying you to win this case for me.
You involve yourself with my family,
I'm gonna have to get myself involved with yours. What's that supposed to mean?
Your brother works at st. Vincent's,
Right, mr. Stone? Small world.
I'm the largest donor to that hospital.
Are there any other conversations
I should be privy to as your co-Counsel on this case?
I'm sorry. I just... i didn't think it was relevant.
I had no idea that cooper was gonna perjure himself.
I should've listened to you from the start. I just...
Cleay not the perfect client.
But we can still get out of this. That's not an option.
Well, neither is being in bed with this guy. I have been representing jim cooper since 1987,
When he first retained w.P.K. In all the years i've known him,
He's been nothing less than a brilliant businessman,
A munificent philanthropist and a world-Class ass. Apparently,i'mthe ass.
Here i was thinking that we had a new mission.
We do... it's to represent clients whose business practices
Do no harm, not clients who win the father of the year award.
If that were our criteria, there wouldn't be
Anyone left on our client roster,
Nor would i be running this firm, for that matter.
You're pulling out all the stops.
How do you know i like thai?
I didn't.
I just figured i'd be safer with chopsticks on the table.
I can't believe my mom pulled a butter knife on you.
I'm so mortified. Don't be.
So what's good here?
The pineapple duck curry.
Had it last week. It was out of this world.
You mean on another date? No, i was just out with some friends.
Uh-Huh.
Okay, if you think i'm some sort of player,
Trust me, um, i'm not.
Yeah, which is exactly what a player would say.
You probably got girls lined up all weekend.
Um...
Try me.
I don't feel no shame
Oh.
You call your mom...
A lot.
Okay, so that makes you a ma's boyanda player.
You're tough, like your mom. Well...
Dad, the law firm...
Me.
Unh-Unh-Unh.
And a call to terry.
Ooh, and another one and another one.
So she's your saturday night, huh?
Um,she'smy brother... terence.
Oh.
You guys are close, huh? Yeah, he's, uh, 17,
Thinking about dropping out of high school.
I'm lking him off the ledge.
Yeah, well, don't push him too hard, okay?
My mom's been pushing me since kindergarten, and...
You didn't turn out so bad.
Wow.
That meal was to die for.
Ugh. Can't believe i'm going to ruin it
By getting hospital commissary fro-Yo for dessert.
Yeah, well, uh,
I'm up for some bad fro-Yo if you want some company.
I would love to, but my shift starts in, like, 30 minutes.
Hey, maybe next time.
Hey. Come in. What...
What...
You want a... you want a coffee or something?
You want a soda, water? Uh, no, actually,
I- I just came by about some work-Related stuff.
Okay, so we'll skip coffee.
And now you can help me with my closing for the cooper case.
I'm just kidding. Or not.
I heard about the trial,
How your client almost perjured himself. How'd you hear about that?
And why are you passing me a piece of paper...
With the name of one of my employees on it?
It's the leak. Matt told me about it.
To be honest, i'm surprised you didn't ask for my help.
Well, you were gone, and...
I didn't think it was right.
Besides, you could lose your job for this.
Turns out it's kind of an advantage
To be the lone guppy in the shark tank.
Oh.
Since i do pro bono work,
Everyone thinks i'm noble and trustworthy...
Like the oprah of p&k.
I ask a few choice questions, people tell me everything.
So head of pro bono and the office shrink.
Sounds like you got promoted twice.
Yeah.
It's not at all what i thought it was gonna be like.
The work is... is good,
And the people are super friendly.
I love it.
I'm very happy for you.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Well, i-I guess i'd better let you get back.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Um, hey, it was...
It's... it's greato see you.
You, too.
I can't help but miss...
Things.
Yeah.
I miss things, too.
I could stand up here for hours and talk about
The humanitarianism of jim cooper.
But i'm not gonna do that.
See, i'm a lawyer, and as you know,
We lawyers love hypotheticals.
So... what if my client weren't the admirable philanthropist?
What if he was someone else entirely...
An egomaniacal jerk, for instance?
Let's even say... and remember,
This is just for the sake of argument...
That he does not have his son's best interests at heart.
Even if you assume all this, the law is still on his side.
Whatever jim cooper is or is not,
The fact is that his study will take place
In a controlled, high-Security facility.
The fact is that it would not violate
Any of the u.S. International treaties regarding marijuana.
And i'll tell you another fact.
200 years ago,
Another father injected his son with a live virus.
The experiment was considered risky and lacking in merit.
And that gave us the vaccine for smallpox.
Yeah, and can you make sure that gets to judge phelps by noon?
Thanks. Keith.
Oh. Look, look, i know what you're gonna say.
And... and you have every right to be protective of your daughter,
But the truth is, i really like her, all right?
And i think she might like me. So if you don't mind,
How about just giving us some space here, huh? I just came to tell you
She said she had a great time last night.
She say anything else?
Don't push your luck.
In ruling on jim cooper's study,
I have to balance drug use by minors
Against potential scientific benefits.
In light of the government's failure
To present compelling evidence that mr. Cooper's study
Would adversely affect drug enforcement
In this country, i find in favor of the petioner.
How about that, kiddo?
We won.
With all due respect, sir, youwon.
Trial's over, eli. Mr. Cooper no longer requires our advice,
Just our bill. Then i'll throw this one in for free.
Look, you've already had 16 years with him.
He's done everything you've told him to.
Maybe just this once you could let him make his own decision.
Tell him what you told me
About how you feel about the study. Eli, let's go.
Just... just tell him, right here, right now.
What do you want to tell me, j.?
Uh...
Go on. You can do it.
He needs to hear this from you.
It's... it's nothing.
Sorry. It's nothing.
Hey, what do you say we celebrate?
Any restaurant you want, huh?
How does that sound?
Thank you again for all your hard work.
I'll be in touch.
Keith bennett.
Hey, i'm sorry, but, uh, didn't we settle this two days ago?
We did, but then we got the results
Angela's blood test back,
And we found traces of b.E. And e.M.E.
Cocaine?
Are... are you... are you saying angela...
I mean... my client... was on cocaine?
You sure?
Look, we already dropped the charges,
But given your relationship with the client's mother,
I thought you should know.
Um...
Yeah.
Thank... thanks, sam.
And finally, we have had our first g victory this week.
Jim cooper's clinical trial will be going ahead
Using the government supply of marijuana.
As we anticipated, cooper's presence has given us
An opening with some other heavy hitters.
Thanks to mr. Stone's legal ingenuity,
Not only are our calls being returned...
We've also been able to upgrade to a better class of breakfast.
And i just spoke with the president
Of the u.C.S.F. Pension fund and the c.E.O.
Of the essen ware charitable foundation,
Both of which are now our clients.
So great work, everyone.
Rudy, uh, do you have a second?
I got a depo in ten. Can it wait?
No, but i'll... i'll make it quick.
Um...
Uh, we know that you have been feeding information
About our business strategies to posner & klein.
You jeopardized the future of this firm
And everyone who works here. Look, if you want to fire me, just get it over with.
Why did you stay here? I don't know. Shorter commute maybe.
Or maybe because you couldn't go to p&k?
They didn't even make you an offer.
Wethersby, stone & associates is only gonna be as good
As the people in it, and for that to work,
You have to want to be here. You have to believe
In our cases and in what we're doing.
Now if that's not what you want, you're free to go.
But if it is, you have to show me what you can do
And why you should be here.
I think i can do that.
I'm not sure i could've been that gracious.
You would have. You were with me.
Maybe i should have been more gracious with you this week.
You were just doing what you thought was best for the firm.
But this isourfirm. We're equals.
We need to make these decisions together,
And i need to respect that. Yes, sir.
It's jdan. People call you"sir" now, eli,
Not the other way around.
Hindsight being 20/20,
Do you wish you had followed the visions?
Don't you mean foresight being 20/20?
I was trying not to rub it in.
I wish i hadn't messed things up for cooper's son.
But maybe something good is gonna come of the study.
And with cooper as our client, our firm has a future.
You just keep telling yourself that.
Come on. I think things went pretty well
Considering this was the first time i stood up to the big guy.
Hmm? Our relationship is evolving.
We're having a dialogue. What you did this week... that's not a dialogue, eli.
You didn't change your relationship with god.
It's still one-Way. You just reversed the direction.
God tried to tell you something, and you ignored him. I did not ignore him.
Right, you defied him. Yeah. My bad.
Or maybe i convinced him i was right,
And he had nothing more to add. Hmm?
Did i mention i haven't had any more fiery visions? Night's still young.
Come on. You really think that...
Okay, so what exactly happens to someone who defies god?
Lots of things... i mean, none of them ever good.
Moses made one little mistake.
God told him to speak to a rock to get water for the israelites.
Instead, he hit it with a stick,
And bam, god forbids him from ever entering the promised land. For hitting a rock?
Yeah. Oh, and lucifer... man, this dude...
Okay, i get it. I get it. Wow. Lucifer.
Way to kill a conversation.
Hey. Hope it's okay i came by.
No, yeah, i'm glad you did.
You want a soda or something?
Sure. Water.
How'd you kn where i live?
My dad likes to keep a personal file
On everyone who works for him.
That's good to know.
So i guess i disappointed you yesterday.
No. Come on.
It's... it's hard to stand up to a parent,
Particularly your parent.
You did.
Everyone else is afraid of him. Not you.
I've never seen anyone stand up to him before.
Well, it helps that he's not my father.
I wish he weren't mine. No, you don't.
I'm serious. I want to be emancipated.
I don't want to be his son anymore. Look, you're upset about the clinical trial.
It's... it's not just that.
It's everything.
At least when my mom was around,
She'd try to protect me.
I know it's hard, okay, but you have to keep trying.
I'm done trying.
You showed me.
There's only one way to stand up to my father.
I gotta get him out of my life.
I want to take him to court, and i want you to represent me.
Oh, no. No, no, no. No.
Yes. Please. Please.
Mr. Stone, i don't want to live in the same house with him.
I don't even want to talk to him.
I don't want to have anything to do with him.
I can't take it anymore.
Will you help me, mr. Stone?