The Good Fight
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Visitor: Ah, the two thorns in my side.
Diane: My husband says hello.
Visitor: Here’s the thing about melodramatic moves like this: They never work. When I copy something I see in the movies, I just get hurt.
Julius: Is that a threat?
Visitor: I’ll be seeing you two.
David Lee: Where’s the money now?
Lucca: Where is it?
David Lee: Yes, bank account? Cashier’s check? It’s not in your freezer.
Lucca: No, I don’t exactly have it yet.
David Lee: You don’t have it yet?
Lucca: No, not yet. The other people in this game…
David Lee: They’re deadbeats.
Lucca: No, they’re rich. What?
David Lee: Lucca, I work with the rich. They promise everything and give you nothing.
Lucca: That’s not who these women are.
David Lee: Why because they’re rich and powerful. The rich and powerful think their God’s gift because everyone treats them like God’s gift. They get their hotel rooms comped. They get gift rooms where they can take anything. Their meals are bought by everyone else. You already got you million and a half in their smiles and their charms. That’s your winnings.
Judge Brickner: So you’re saying you’re using race because the politics work better for you?
Adrian: That is unfair.
Nia: But true.
Julius Play Counterpart: My god, look at yourself.
Julius: Go away. You don’t exist.
Julius Play Counterpart: You damn right. A conservative with principles. There don’t seem to be any of those around here.
Julius: Well, it’s very easy for you to stay true to your principles. You don’t live in the real world.
Julius Play Counterpart: Go ahead. Make excuses for what you’ve become.
Julius: What’s that?
Julius Play Counterpart: A bad judge. Someone slides a piece of paper with Memo 618 across your desk and you fold like origami.
Chauffeur: You need something?
Lucca: No, it’s just hard to get used to this: the limo, driving me up to a private jet.
Chauffeur: Do it enough times, you get used to it.
Lucca: What are enough times?
Chauffeur: Five.
Roisin: I know people think I’m crazy. I’ve been doing it for a while now. I’m up to 987,000.
Diane: Why?
Roisin: It’s calming. I used to take notes, verbatim notes on every deposition, every meeting, trial, negotiation, and then I would go home and make notes on those notes. And then I would review those notes and make even more notes, and I was an obsessive writer. As a kid, it was my diary, and then in college, my journal, and then five years ago, I lost my notebooks in a cab. And then my hair fell out because I was so worried. But you know what happened? Nothing. Everything I ever wrote it didn’t matter. Everything everybody wrote, pointless, and that’s when I started drawing dots. I felt like I accomplished something every time I finished a book, and I’m almost up to a million. So now when I watch the news, when I see what’s going on in the world, when I realize how little impact I have, I draw dots.
Liz: So why lawyering?
Caleb: I like this country. I’ve seen other places I don’t like, and I want it to stay the same. What are you thinking?
Liz: I was just thinking that I haven’t lived much of a life.
Caleb: No, no you have. I know enough to know you have.
Liz: This, this is how we got in trouble last time.
Caleb: I know, but I didn’t mind it.
Liz: Caleb, I am your…
Caleb: Superior?
Liz: Where should we go?
Julius: Is there something I can help you with sir?
Visitor: Oh no, you’re doing great already. Your instincts are right on the money, and you’re young enough to go the distance, so maybe I can help you.
Julius: With what?
Visitor: I move people up the ladder.
Julius: What are you talking about?
Visitor: You don’t become an appellate judge by seniority. You get there by listening. You just keep doing what you’re doing. I just wanted to say hello.
What Major Brigham wants you to forget is that there are limits to obedience, even in the Army. Apparently, he forgot his training, but I haven’t, and I’m sure you haven’t either. The chain of command doesn’t mean you do everything your CO tells you. Every grunt learns on the first day there are commands and commanders you must disobey.
Caleb
Hi, I’m… I’m sorry. I didn’t know we were coming, or I’d have worn pants.
Lucca
Marissa: If you feel guilty get her a gift, something a rich person needs.
Lucca: What does a rich person need?
Marissa: Love.
Diane: I think you and I should have lunch.
Julius: Why?
Diane: To trade information about Memo 618.
