The Good Fight
Thursdays on Paramount+The Good Fight Quotes
Liz: Let’s ask for a continuance. We’ll be unopposed from the other side. They’re in no hurry to force this issue.
Wackner: A continuance until when?
Liz: Well, the judge has a busy calendar, so I don’t know, about 10 months.
Wackner: Holy fucking hell, that’s a problem. No one’s in a hurry. We delay, delay, delay. One day, look back on our lives, wondering where the fuck they went. People die while we wait.
Marissa: Hal, this allows you to keep your court open. It gives you the whole year to work out the kinks and get it on TV.
Wackner: What does it matter if people do not have to follow my judgments? I say $6 million, and they just go whining to big boy court. It’s appeal, appeal, appeal. It never fucking ends.
David Lee: Why the fuck aren’t you asking me? I make calls all the time.
Jay: What are you talking about?
David Lee: Well, think about it. I know everyone on the Harbor Hospital Board, did half of their divorces, went to college with the other half. I kept track of any of our troops that got sick.
Jay: You didn’t really? Did you?
David Lee: Of course, I did. It takes a call from someone like me. That’s how you get the best seat in the restaurant or a hospital room.
Jay: David, thank you.
David Lee: Jay, it was a business decision. Forget it. The moment has passed.
Jay: What I remember won’t be helpful.
Carmen: Why not?
Jay: Well, I remember Frederick Douglass and Karl Max sitting in the corner and talking to me.
Carmen: You had hallucinations?
Jay: Yes.
Carmen: So you’re not sure what’s real and what isn't?
Jay: Yes.
Liz: Where did you get that number?
Jay: I was at the hospital.
Liz: Yes, but where did you get that number?
Jay: A memory.
Carmen: Can we get any more of these memories?
Liz: I don’t know.
Carmen: What should I do? I don’t want to lose this.
Liz: Then you need to tell your client the upside and the downside. This can only be his decision.
Carmen: Thanks.
Liz: Yes?
Carmen: I want to learn from you. My attitude is knowing, but it’s just my attitude. It’s not who I am.
Liz: Carmen, when I was your age, I acted exactly the same way. I wanted to be perfect, so I acted like I was perfect because bluff is always a part of it. But just let me help you when I can. Ask questions.
Carmen: I will.
Liz: Tell Rivi it’s his decision whether to go forward or not, but if Racehorse does depose him, we’ll find a way to punish him.
Carmen: I like the sound of that.
Jay: Why are we here?
Douglas: Because we’re dying.
Jay: When did you last see a doctor?
Douglas: Yesterday, no, no, it was Thursday. What’s your name?
Jay: Jay.
Douglas: I’ve reached out my hand. Can you grab it.
Jay: I’m trying.
Douglas: Let’s do this. Let’s keep each other alive, OK.
Frederick Douglass: Here they come. They think you’re in a coma.
Jay: They don’t think we’re conscious, do they?
Frederick Douglass: No, you’re in a coma.
Diane: You need to come clean with the FBI.
Female gun enthusiast: What do you mean?
Diane: I mean you need to give the Feds all the names of the people in your group so Kurt doesn’t take the fall since he’s done nothing wrong to any of you.
Female gun enthusiast: I haven’t done anything wrong either.
Diane: I’m more ambitious for a reputation of personal courage. I recognized that phrase for a video you shot for the NRA. Straight out of Churchill, isn't it?
Female gun enthusiast: What do you want?
Diane: What I want is for you not to exist. What I’ll get is for you to go to the Feds and clear my husband of all these charges.
Female gun enthusiast: I’m not guilty. I didn’t do anything.
Diane: I don’t give a fuck. You wrote this manifesto. You’re hiding the names of your gun group, and my husband’s being fucked over in the process, so you tell the Feds he’s innocent.
Female gun enthusiast: I have to pick up my daughter.
Diane: Yes, I know. I checked you out online. I think it’s strange that a dedicated guns rights advocate would have any issues with being publicly tied to this manifesto, but I guess you’re worried what your Gymboree might think. You have until tomorrow. Then I’m telling the FBI it was you.
Julius: On a scale of 1 to 10, what is Kurt’s willingness to take a deal?
Diane: He’s not on that scale. That is not an option.
Julius: I am fairly certain I can get him less than one year.
Diane: Why are you even discussing deals? Kurt is innocent.
Julius: So was I, but we decided jail time was the best option. You know as well as I that sometimes it’s not about innocence.
Diane: You’re willfully withholding information. Anything you tell me is protected by the firm’s privilege and marital privilege.
Kurt: Then why’d you call the FBI?
Julius: Maybe I should go.
Diane: No, stay. It was the right thing to do. I never thought it would blow back on you.
Racehorse: As much as I don’t want to disparage the good doc, it seems her social media popularity was important?
Liz: Objection.
Racehorse: On what grounds.
Liz: General assholery.
Diane: I’m not Kurt’s lawyer anymore. This way.
Madeline: Well, I think you should see these.
Diane: I’m not Mr. McVeigh’s lawyer.
Madeline: Yes, but you are his wife. As you can see, these are the bullets taken from your apartment when we searched it. As you can see, when we opened the boxes of Kurt’s shotgun shells… hold on, hold on, we found initials drawn on each of the shells. Look, here’s a TM, BT, another TM. At first we were confused about the whole initials thing, but then Dylan Pike pointed out that they were the initials of legislators of the Illinois General Assembly.
Diane: Could you get security up here? This woman is harassing me.
Madeline: Harassing? Someone like me, a federal agent?
Diane: This federal agent is harassing me. Please ask security to meet me upstairs.
Madeline: So that’s right, Dylan Pike informed us that your husband has designs on a similar insurrection against the General Assembly. He also these zip ties and plans to kidnap five top Springfield legislators and put them on trial. Whoa.
Diane: You understand I’m a seasoned lawyer. This doesn’t work on me. I’m not gonna run crying to my husband, “How could you?” The very fact that you came to me and not Kurt’s lawyer shows how weak you think your evidence is, so here’s a piece of advice, Madeline, one wife to another. If you believe these photos, don’t bring them to me. Take them to Julius and tell him to make a deal.
