- Marcia Trafficante: [Talking on the phone] 6 months I've busting ass prepping this case and at 2 seconds to midnight, Howie calls his old drinking buddy and makes me second chair. No, I'm serious. Worse, I have to share my office with this shmoe.
- [Marcia looked and arrived is Tommy as a guest at Palm Springs from Los Angeles]
- Marcia Trafficante: Viv, I'll call you back. Tommy Mullaney?
- Tommy Mullaney: Mm-hmm. But Shmoe's fine.
- [Shaking hands and meets each other]
- Marcia Trafficante: Marcia Trafficante.
- Tommy Mullaney: Gone over the files you've sent, I'm ready to go.
- Marcia Trafficante: Look, about the...
- [Tommy looks up his files from his briefcase]
- Marcia Trafficante: This is my first murder, I'm kind of attached to it.
- Tommy Mullaney: Hey, Howie says your his top gun but you've only been at this, 3 years?
- Marcia Trafficante: Almost.
- Tommy Mullaney: Took me 5 years before I did my first murder. Second chairing should be a good experience for you.
- Marcia Trafficante: First would be better.
- Tommy Mullaney: Not if you aren't ready.
- [Tommy was going to start smoking]
- Marcia Trafficante: Oh, you're not planning on doing that here?
- [Tommy is banned from smoking at the office]
- Tommy Mullaney: I guess not.
- [Tommy sits down in the chair]
- Don Butcher: They wouldn't budge?
- Stuart Markowitz: No, Customs Inspector Dodek isn't exactly flexible in this issue. Not only was he a Korean war veteran, but his uncle helped raise the flag on Iwo Jima.
- Don Butcher: Aw, this is a disaster. I'm 6 weeks behind on delivery and my entire stock, 5,000,000 Patriots are stuck in some government warehouse. If I don't move 'em soon, I'm out of business.
- Stuart Markowitz: Don, I'm confident we're going to with this thing. Now the hearing on the preliminary injunction' the day after tomorrow. You could be shipping the following day.
- Don Butcher: You'd think with all the problems in the world today, AIDS, teen pregnancy, they'd be more concerned with those than what's on a rubber. You want to hear something ironic?
- Stuart Markowitz: What's that?
- Don Butcher: It's the best damn sheath I ever made. And I'm not just talking visual impact. The stars, they're raised ever so slightly for the added stimulation of the female partner. The stripes, triple ribbed. Maximum pleasure.
- Stuart Markowitz: No kidding.
- Don Butcher: I guess this puts the kibosh on my Lady Liberty model. The torch forms a reservoir in the tip.
- Arnie Becker: Mrs. McConnell, you never approved of your mother's new husband, did you?
- Laura McConnell: If by that you mean I've never believed he was really in love with her, you're right.
- Marian McConnell: What do you know about love? You've been divorced 3 times.
- Arnie Becker: Marian, please, let me handle this.
- Roger Devries: Darling, maybe you shouldn't be here, it upsets you so.
- Marian McConnell: No, if she's going to make accusations, she makes them to my face.
- Arnie Becker: What exactly did Mr. Devries do to make you feel this way?
- Laura McConnell: For starters, he fired her business manager of 30 years and replace him with his, then they reinvested all her blue chip stock in unstable commodities.
- Arnie Becker: It's her money, isn't it?
- Laura McConnell: My father worked very hard for that money, Mr. Becker, and she's letting that gigolo throw it away.
- Marian McConnell: Don't you talk about my husband that way.
- Roger Devries: I love Marian. Why is it so hard for you to accept?
- Arnie Becker: Any money she loses is less money for you to inherit, isn't that what's really bothering you, Miss McConnell?
- Laura McConnell: No, it's not.
- Marian McConnell: She's not even in my will anymore. This is the only way she can get to my money.
- Lawyer Mr. Klein: Miss McConnell would have no claim to your money is conservator. She's simply trying to protect your own interests.
- Laura McConnell: For God's sake, Mother, can't you see through him? Are you so far gone you can't see what he is?
- Marian McConnell: I was so lonely after your father died. I heard from you and your brother once, twice a month. Roger is with me every morning when I wake up and at night when I go to bed.
- [Getting up]
- Marian McConnell: Maybe someday you'll understand how something so simple can mean so much.
- [Miss McConnell sitting while seeing her mother Marian leaving with her walking cane and escorted out by that gigolo Roger Devries while taking Marian's purse]
- [Benny getting busy with the files, but suddenly Douglas has arrived]
- Douglas Brackman, Jr.: Benny! I thought you were going to lunch.
- Benny Stulwicz: [Declines] I don't feel like it.
- Douglas Brackman, Jr.: But it's a beautiful day! Take advantage of it.
- [Benny don't feel in the mood]
- Douglas Brackman, Jr.: Did you go visit Sam this weekend?
- Benny Stulwicz: They got him in a house with a lot of other kids. He doesn't even have his own bedroom.
- Douglas Brackman, Jr.: I'm sure they're taking excellent care of him.
- [Benny felt bad of losing Sam Perry]
- Douglas Brackman, Jr.: I know it hurts, Benny. All I can tell you is someday, it'll hurt less.
- Benny Stulwicz: I don't want it to.
- Douglas Brackman, Jr.: Well, I'm afraid it does whether we want it to or not. You don't hurt now like you did when your mother died, do you?
- Benny Stulwicz: No.
- Douglas Brackman, Jr.: We all lose people, Benny. But if we're lucky, we find others. They're not replacements, just additions.
- Benny Stulwicz: I don't want to stop missing Sam.
- Douglas Brackman, Jr.: You won't. You'll just learn to live with it.
- [Douglas patting Benny's shoulder. And Benny is preparing the files]