- Victor Sifuentes: No, I can't think about anything else but this case. So if there's a client that you can't put off for any reason, just turn it over to Mike.
- [Grace Van Owen has arrived]
- Grace Van Owen: What is this?
- [Victor didn't know Grace is here. Grace got the subpoena]
- Victor Sifuentes: We can finish up later, okay?
- [the woman leave and closed the door]
- Grace Van Owen: What are you doing, Victor?
- Victor Sifuentes: My parents are suing the man that killed Charlie, and I'm representing them.
- Grace Van Owen: Your father isn't well enough to leave his house. Your mother...
- Victor Sifuentes: Grace. They want this. And we need you as a witness.
- Grace Van Owen: And this is how you tell me, with a subpoena?
- Victor Sifuentes: Look, you didn't return my phone calls.
- Grace Van Owen: What exactly do you want me to testify to? I didn't see anything that's gonna...
- Victor Sifuentes: You saw the accident, you saw how drunk William Boyd was when he got out of his truck.
- Grace Van Owen: I can't prove that he was drunk. He could have been in shock from the accident, and that is the first thing his lawyer will say.
- Victor Sifuentes: You don't have to prove anything. So you say how he reeked of liquor and how he could hardly stand up.
- Grace Van Owen: You can't win this, Victor. They didn't charge Boyd with manslaughter because the D.A. didn't have enough evidence. He got 6 months because the D.A. wasn't even sure he could make felony DUI.
- Victor Sifuentes: Boyd got off easy. Okay, he was blind drunk and he was driving like a maniac when he killed Charlie and the law... the law let him get off with a slap on the wrist.
- Grace Van Owen: The juries isn't going to care.
- Victor Sifuentes: I want him to pay for what he did.
- Grace Van Owen: So this is about revenge?
- Victor Sifuentes: No, it's about justice.
- Grace Van Owen: You're the last person to be objective here, Victor.
- Victor Sifuentes: William Boyd is a killer. Now, he murdered Charlie just as if he'd picked up a gun and pointed it to his head. If I have to put you up on the stand, that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do whatever it takes. But I'll be damned... I'm not letting him get away with murder.
- [Grace is leaving]
- Victor Sifuentes: Grace...
- Victor Sifuentes: Sergeant Faraday, did you administer a breathalyzer test to William Boyd at Rampart division station on February 20th...
- Lawyer Felix Echeverria: Your Honor, I move to suppress this testimony.
- Victor Sifuentes: What? On what grounds?
- Lawyer Felix Echeverria: Test is invalid.
- Victor Sifuentes: That is ridiculous.
- Judge Walter Green: My chambers, counsel. Now.
- Douglas Brackman, Jr.: First, I'd like to welcome our new associate, Alex DePalma, who along with Tommy Mullaney put together the very lucrative Halifax chemical settlement.
- Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb: Bravo.
- Jonathan Rollins: Good, we could use the help.
- Alex DePalma: Now, I wasn't too sure about hooking up with a firm like this, but so far so good.
- Grace Van Owen: Thank you.
- Douglas Brackman, Jr.: Moving on, Keller vs. Sergio?
- Frank Kittredge: C.J. referred it to me so we're splitting the fee.
- Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb: And don't keep us in suspense, are we going to be able to buy illicit one of these days?
- Frank Kittredge: Not if my client gets an injunction.
- Tommy Mullaney: Okay, I'll bite, what's illicit?
- Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb: It's a new fragrance by Sergio.
- Stuart Markowitz: Sergio who?
- Ann Kelsey: Oh, you know the guy in all the ads.
- Cara Jean 'C.J.' Lamb: Uta Keller's bad boy designer.
- Frank Kittredge: That's the problem, he's trying to leave Keller's company. She's claiming he breached their contract and doesn't have permission to use his name and likeness. We slapped a restraining order on the thousand crates of illicit she was about to ship out.
- Douglas Brackman, Jr.: Is this serious business?
- Frank Kittredge: Sergio's men's cologne generated $20,000,000 in sales last year.
- Douglas Brackman, Jr.: [Whistling] Serious enough for me. On a personal note, you are testifying in Sifuentes vs. Boyd?
- Grace Van Owen: Yes. I'm not sure my testimony will help, but Victor wants it.
- Jonathan Rollins: Tell him we're pulling for him.
- Ann Kelsey: Give him our love.
- Tommy Mullaney: I hope he nails the guy's ass.
- Leland McKenzie: How does it look?
- Grace Van Owen: Well, it's hard to say. The driver is young, he is nice looking. He is sorry that he ever got behind a wheel after a few too many. And it will be hard to find a member of the jury who hasn't done the same.
- Douglas Brackman, Jr.: Well, I guess we're adjourned.
- Victor Sifuentes: So what are you trying to pull here, Felix?
- Lawyer Felix Echeverria: I want the breathalyzer results excluded.
- Victor Sifuentes: Opposed. His client blew a BAC of .19. That is over twice the legal limit.
- Lawyer Felix Echeverria: The records at Rampart show that 161 previous tests were performed on the machine used to test my client. Now state law requires that machines be checked and recalibrated after 150 tests.
- Victor Sifuentes: So what? That is a minor technicality. It goes to weight of evidence, not admissibility.
- Lawyer Felix Echeverria: I'm not finished. The machine at Rampart is a computerized breathalyzer. And computerized machines have not been approved by the Department of Transportation as accurate.
- Victor Sifuentes: So let him challenge with expert testimony, but the test result should not be excluded.
- Judge Walter Green: Mr. Sifuentes, can you prove that machine was accurate?
- Victor Sifuentes: Of course not, there's no way that I could prove that.
- Judge Walter Green: Then I have to agree with Mr. Echeverria.
- Victor Sifuentes: Wait a minute. Your Honor, you can't do this. You are excluding the proof that he was drunk.
- Judge Walter Green: Look, as far as I'm concerned, if that machine had never been approved or certified accurate, then it's not a minor point. Motion granted, the jury will hear no testimony concerning the defendant's blood alcohol content.
- Victor Sifuentes: Well, then I move for a stay to appeal.
- Judge Walter Green: Denied.
- Victor Sifuentes: Damn it, Judge! This cripples my case! You have to reconsider.
- Judge Walter Green: You get yourself under control, Mr. Sifuentes. I have made my ruling. This discussion is over.
- [Done. Mr. Sifuentes exits the chambers. Mr. Echeverria will approve it with Judge Green]
- Frank Kittredge: So you agree, Miss Keller, that Sergio designs virtually resurrected Uta Keller Incorporated.
- Uta Keller: He helped. That's why I agreed all the ads and labels should read Sergio for Uta of California. Now he's trying to sabotage our fragrance.
- Sergio: Our fragrance.
- Uta Keller: Yes, ours, Sergio.
- Frank Kittredge: Meaning Sergio developed and designed the fragrance and you were supposed to market it.
- Uta Keller: I'm aware he thinks my advertising budget for illicit is inadequate.
- Frank Kittredge: Didn't you also agree to manufacture a line of lingerie designed by Sergio?
- Uta Keller: That line is unacceptable. The Uta woman is bold but she is not provocative. The line was too extroverted. Uta Keller is for the woman confident in her sensuality who chooses the quieter garments.
- Sergio: In what she shows to the world. But lingerie is the secret life. Who's to guess what a woman's choice of lingerie might be?
- Frank Kittredge: Sergio, please.
- Sergio: This woman is a stranger to me. But I can only wonder what is under her clothes. Maybe it's not what we see on the outside at all.
- Uta Keller: I don't speak for just any woman. No offense, darling. I only address the Uta woman. And I require my designers do the same.
- Frank Kittredge: So you exert considerable control over your designers?
- Uta Keller: I would be a poor chief executive if I did not.
- Frank Kittredge: Does that control extend to your employee's personal lives?
- Lawyer Mr. Klein: I failed to see the relevance of this line of questioning.
- Frank Kittredge: Then let me bring you up to date. This morning we amended our complaint to include a charge of sexual harassment in the work place.
- Lawyer Mr. Klein: Now wait a minute, where did this come from? There is no proof of a sexual relationship here.
- Uta Keller: They don't need proof, dear. I admit it.
- Lawyer Mr. Klein: Uta, please!
- Uta Keller: The Uta woman does not apologize for her appetites.
- Lawyer Mr. Klein: Let's take a break, shall we?
- Frank Kittredge: As your employee, wasn't any client manipulated into accepting a certain arrangement?
- Lawyer Mr. Klein: Don't do that!
- Uta Keller: What? I manipulated him into 6 months of healthy abandon?
- Frank Kittredge: And when he ended it, didn't you refuse to accept or market his designs?
- Uta Keller: He ended it? I, I, I ended it when I realized his passion was nothing but pretense... to further his career.
- Lawyer Mr. Klein: We're terminating this right now.
- Sergio: My passion could not withstand your jealousy!
- Uta Keller: Jealousy! Oh, la, la, la, la.
- Sergio: You were threatened by illicit! You keep saying the bottle is too erect.
- Uta Keller: It is a fragrance for women!
- Sergio: The erection is a monument to women!
- Lawyer Mr. Klein: Yes, I'm sure it is. Thank you very much. Goodbye.
- Sergio: Avasda! Avasda!
- Gwen Taylor: Your standard textbook case?