Blair Underwood: Jonathan Rollins

Quotes 

• Patrick Flanagan : Why don't we just give him another minute?

  Douglas Brackman, Jr. : I think not. Let's get started. Ruland vs. Wayside...

  Jonathan Rollins : Uh. uh, uh, uh, Douglas. There he is.

  [Eli has arrived by bus] 

  Leland McKenzie : OK.

  Eli Levinson : Sorry. Sorry.

  Leland McKenzie : Uh-huh.

  Eli Levinson : The buses were running late.

  Arnie Becker : You actually take a bus?

  Eli Levinson : Yes.

  Stuart Markowitz : Unbelievable, isn't it?

  Eli Levinson : It's really not that unbelievable.

  Douglas Brackman, Jr. : And you're doing it for some kind of ecological reason, Eli?

  Eli Levinson : I'm doing it because I don't have a driver's license. Denise is giving me lessons however, I'm inching on being ready to take the road test. And I'm about to buy a car

  Ann Kelsey : You can buy a car before you get your license?

  Eli Levinson : And to all partners just settle a case of mine is they send me a very large check. I thought I did something extravagant.

  Jonathan Rollins : What are you getting?

  Eli Levinson : I have no idea. Denise is set me up a car broker who presumably will get me through this is painlessly as possible.

  Arnie Becker : Ultimately when buying a car, keep one question uppermost in mind. How am I going to feel when I'm standing in front of a restaurant? The ballet brings me my car.

  Douglas Brackman, Jr. : Thank you, Arnold.

• Douglas Brackman, Jr. : Ruland vs. Wayside Hospital.

  Jonathan Rollins : Yeah, that's mine. A 16-year-old girl found to be incorrigible by her father, is being committed to a psychiatric facility by him. She soon to be released from the facility and we're representing the father at the facility.

  Jane Halliday : What did she do?

  Douglas Brackman, Jr. : Drugs, sex, alcohol. Well, her father feel that she's basically out of control.

  Arnie Becker : There but for the grace of God.

  Douglas Brackman, Jr. : Askoff vs. Askoff.

  Arnie Becker : Yes, we're representing Frank Askoff, his wife is suing for the divorce also looking to disembowel him financially. Her leverages Camilla Greer.

  Stuart Markowitz : What? He's in a book?

  Arnie Becker : Yes, he is. He also runs a publicly traded corporation. He wants very much for this not to get out?

  Jane Halliday : Whose Camilla Greer?

  Ann Kelsey : She's a madam.

  Douglas Brackman, Jr. : I'm rather well placed, madam.

  Stuart Markowitz : Yeah, I suspect there are a number people in that book who very much don't want to get out.

  Arnie Becker : Well, you frequent prostitutes, you run that risk.

  Stuart Markowitz : Yeah, I have never been the prostitute.

  Ann Kelsey : Ah, gee!

• Jonathan Rollins : To the question, have you ever deliberately hurt yourself? You answered no, isn't that right?

  Linda Ruland : Right.

  Jonathan Rollins : On February 6th of this year, you were taken to the county USC emergency room, were you not?

  Linda Ruland : Yes, I was.

  Jonathan Rollins : What was that?

  Linda Ruland : I took some pills, I shouldn't have taken.

  Jonathan Rollins : You combine said pills with a significant amount of alcohol, did you not?

  Linda Ruland : Yes.

  Jonathan Rollins : Would you call that a deliberate attempt to hurt yourself?

  Linda Ruland : No, I wouldn't. I would call it being a party and, in getting a little wild.

  Jonathan Rollins : I see. What's uh, 40, Mrs. Ruland?

  Linda Ruland : It's bottle malt liquor.

  Jonathan Rollins : It's a 40-ounce bottle malt liquors, isn't it?

  Linda Ruland : That's why they call it in Fort.

  Jonathan Rollins : How many of them do you drink an average day?

  Linda Ruland : I don't know.

  Jonathan Rollins : A ballpark figure more than one less than 10.

  Mr. Spera : Witness said she didn't know.

  Judge Mary Harcourt : Let's move on, Mr. Rollins.

• Jonathan Rollins : Have you ever known your boyfriend gonna carry a gun?

  Linda Ruland : I don't know whether he carries a gun or not.

  Jonathan Rollins : Did you not on more than one occasion warn your father that your boyfriend always carries the gun?

  Linda Ruland : If I said it, I said it to scare him.

  Jonathan Rollins : Have you been having sexual relations with you boyfriend?

  Linda Ruland : Yes.

  Jonathan Rollins : What if any precautions did you take against sexually transmitted diseases or possibility become pregnant?

  Linda Ruland : Either we used a condom or we did things you don't need a condom for.

  Jonathan Rollins : Did you tell your father that more than anything else you want to get pregnant James' baby?

  Linda Ruland : If I said that, I said that to scare him.

  Jonathan Rollins : It work. I have nothing further.