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1、1 Boston Legal Witches of Mass Destruction Season 2, Episode 6 Written by David E. Kelly 2005 David E. Kelly Productions. All Rights Reserved. Broadcast: October 25, 2005 Transcribed by Imamess Shirley Schmidt, Denise Bauer and several other people in an office at Crane, Poole and Schmidt. Shirley S

2、chmidt: You wanna run that by me again?Denise Bauer: We have a group of complaining parents. Theyre suing their elementary school over the Halloween pageant. In particular? They dont like the witch. There are two groups of parents who are upset? One is Christian; the other group is uh wellShirley Sc

3、hmidt: Yes?Denise Bauer: Witches.Shirley Schmidt: Did you say witches?Denise Bauer: I said witches.Shirley Schmidt: Which group does the firm represent?Denise Bauer: Well, actually, both.Shirley Schmidt: Just as the two sets of parents walk in, Shirley grabs a decorative pumpkin centerpiece from the

4、 table and throws it across the room into a wastebasket. Candy corn?Shirley and Denise walking in a hallway at Crane, Poole and Schmidt. Denise Bauer: Its just though they are together for the purpose of this motion they are not so much together. And I think I need two lawyers in case thee are confl

5、ictsShirley Schmidt: Yes. And you think the senior partner of the firm should be doing this because?Denise Bauer: Itll be fun. Plus you promised Id get to try cases with you.Alan and Brad in an elevator. Brad Chase: Do you know your briefcase is smoking?Alan Shore: Tis the season Brad. Bubble bubble

6、, toil and so forth. They get off the elevator and walk in the hallway.Brad Chase: This is a law firm! Alan Shore: Thank you for that. Garrett Wells and Cassie Elliot walk up to Alan.Garrett Wells: Mr Shore? My name is Garrett Wells.Alan Shore: Sounds like an old western town, Garrett Wells.Garrett

7、Wells: I m an associate here.Alan Shore: Yes! You re the one who sleeps with paralegals.Garrett Wells: And this is ahCassie Elliott: The paralegal.Garrett Wells: Can we talk to you for second?Alan Shore: You are talking.Garrett Wells: In private please?Alan Shore:He lifts his smoking briefcase. Let

8、me put this out. In Alans office.Cassie Elliott: My little brother Jeffrey signed up for the National Guard. He fulfilled his service contract in Iraq. He was supposed to come home. The army kept him there under the Stop Loss program. There werent enough soldiers on the ground so they put him in a p

9、osition that he never trained for. It got him killed.Garrett Wells: I realize as matter of law that the army is immune from these suits. There is probably no way to win this. Thats why we came to you. You have a high success rate for unconventional trials.名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - -

10、 - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 1 页，共 11 页 - - - - - - - - - 2 Alan Shore: That s only because the conventional trials wont have me. What are you looking to gain from this?Cassie Elliott I m not sure. I go home and cry every night, until I start to scream. Maybe I just want someone to hear my sc

11、reams. Denise, the Mathiases, the Sawtelles, in Denises office.Grace Mathias: It promotes a specific religion. Shirley walks in.Denise Bauer: Ah! Shirley Schmidt. Grace and Bob Mathias. Theyre ah, uh Grace Mathias The Christians.Denise Bauer: And Evelyn and Sam Sawtelle.Shirley Schmidt: The witches?

12、Sam Sawtelle: Wiccans.Shirley Schmidt: Sorry. Ahem. As I understand it the four of you want to stop the schools celebration of Halloween.Grace Mathias: Its Satanic.Sam Sawtelle: Ah. Thats not the position were taking.Grace Mathias: I mean, were not allowed to have a Christmas Concert because of the

13、whole Church and State thing but every year Evelyn Sawtelle: At our childrens school.Bob Mathias: A public school.Sam Sawtelle: Paid for with our taxes.Grace Mathias: They have a Halloween PageantShirley Schmidt: Its a pageant is it?Grace Mathias: Where not only are images of witches prominently dis

14、played but the principal of the school Evelyn Sawtelle: Ms Berleth.Grace Mathias: dresses up like a witch!And she cackles.Shirley Schmidt: She cackles?Grace Mathias: Blood-curdling cackles.Evelyn Sawtelle: We find the whole thing horribly offensive.Shirley Schmidt: Because?Evelyn Sawtelle: Ms Schmid

15、t. As a Wiccan couple its hard enough raising our daughter in this culture without stereotypical images holding her up for ridicule. I mean I ask you, “Are we green? Do we have warts? ” Grace Mathias: And as a Christian couple we resent having our faith marginalize while Satan worshippers openlyEvel

16、yn Sawtelle: Witches dont worship Satan, Grace.Grace Mathias: Promote it. Specifically, its not fairEvelyn Sawtelle: Its defamatory.Denise Bauer: You can see while both couples are on the same side they have competing claims.Evelyn Sawtelle: But we re putting our differences aside.Grace Mathias: For

17、 the greater good. Grace smiles. Evelyn smiles. Sam smiles. Bob smiles. Shirley smiles. Shirley squeezes Denise s shoulder. Denise smiles.Alan, Garrett and Cassie are in Alans office. Garrett is holding two extremely thick duo tangs.Garrett Wells: How could they possibly file papers so thick, so fas

18、t?Alan Shore: Clearly the government was ready for this very case. And just as clearly they wanna shut it down fast.Garrett Wells: So what happens?Alan Shore: Well, instead of responding in kind I plan to ask the judge for an evidentiary hearing. My feeling is after listening to you Cassie hell be l

19、ess inclined to just summarily dismiss the claim.Cassie Elliot: Okay.名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 2 页，共 11 页 - - - - - - - - - 3 Alan Shore: It also might help if your parents could be there.Cassie Elliot: Well, my parents arent with me on this. The

20、y think Im dishonoring my brothers memory. And his sacrifice.Alan Shore: Okay. We filed in State court under the State torts claim act and miraculously a judge agreed to see us. The bad news is we drew a peculiar judge. In Judge Clark Browns courtroom. Judge Clark Brown: In twenty-six years on the b

21、ench I have never seen a case so ridiculous. It nauseates me.Alan Shore: Your honor is being a little dramatic.Judge Clark Brown: He was a soldier in a war. Whats more he enlisted.Alan Shore: Private Elliots tour of duty was over. He should not have been in Iraq. He enlisted in part because he was f

22、raudulently recruited. Moreover the Army then put him in a job for which he was not trained, and which resulted in his death.U.S. Attorney Chris Randolf: Move to dismiss. The United States Army is immune from this sortAlan Shore: Not to claims based on fraud which this is.Judge Clark Brown: What if

23、the families of every soldier killed in combat decided to sue?Alan Shore: Youd have a logistical nightmare. Fortunately were only dealing with one person suing here. And if youre predisposed to kick it so be it. But at least take an hour to hear from a couple of witnesses before doing so. You have a

24、 legacy of unfettered fairness your Honor. Please do not tarnish it.Judge Clark Brown: You pay the court costs. Two oclock.Sara and Garrett are in the lunch room. Sara Holt: He actually got a hearing?Garrett Wells: Dont ask me how.Sara Holt: Well what did he say? Brad walks in.Brad Chase: Dont you t

25、wo have anything else to do?Garrett Wells: Were discussing a case sir.Brad Chase: Its not a case! Its an abuse of the judicial process.Garrett Wells: Yes, we re discussing that.Brad Chase: Go shine your shoes.Garrett Wells: I beg your pardon?Brad Chase: You heard me. Shine your shoes. Now. Garrett l

26、eaves. And hows your grooming?Sara Holt: I think fine. Sir. Alan comes in.Brad Chase: Go to work.Alan Shore: Its fun to full rank. Isnt it?Brad Chase: What you are doing is an arrogant dismissal of that young soldiers ultimate sacrifice. And as somebody who served in the Gulf war. Proudly. When you

27、disrespect our soldiers you disrespect me. I dont like it. Alan is in his office. Denny comes in.Denny Crane: Is it true? Youre criticizing the war?Alan Shore: Constructive criticism.Denny walks up to Alan and seems at loss for words.Alan Shore: What?Denny Crane: Alan. Ive loved you like aAlan Shore

28、: Sister.Denny Crane: Were Americans. To be critical in time of war. Even the democrats are smart enough to keep their mouth shut on this. Edward R. Murrow said, “We should never confuse dissent with disloyalty.”Denny Crane: Edward R. Murrow is media. And hes dead! The dead dont count.名师资料总结 - - -精品

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30、heck that, Im directing you, drop it.Alan Shore: No.In Judge Paul Resnicks courtroom. Principal Maxine Berleth is dressed in a witchs costume. Her face is painted green and she has a wart on her nose.Her voice is menacing. I ll boil you whole and suck the skin from your bones. She cackles.Her voice

31、is normal. Or something like that.Shirley Schmidt: Mr Mathias, is this an accurate depiction of principal Berleths behavior during Halloween pageant?Bob Mathias: Yes. Except she does sort of a swoop?Shirley Schmidt: Could we see the swoop please? Principal Maxine Berleth:She sighs. The starts to cac

32、kle while swooping around with her cap. She swoop toward Shirley who has to duck.Attorney Morrison: Your Honor. Ms Berleth continues to cackle as she runs around the defenses table, all the while waving her cape. Your Honor. Your Honor, the defense stipulates, “Shes scary as all get out.”Judge Paul

33、Resnick: Mrs Burleth, you may be seated. The court thanks you for the riveting demonstration. Ms Berleth sighs and goes to sit down.Shirley Schmidt: Why is Mrs Burleths performance so harmful to your children? I mean its just Halloween.Bob Mathias: And thats what we hear daily. Its just a movie. Its

34、 just a video game. Its just the Super Bowl halftime show. Shirley Schmidt: But shes not just a witch to you, is she?Bod Mathias: No, and I should be able to protect my children from things I deem harmful. Trying to raise my kids to have strong Christian values in todays world is hard enough without

35、 the head of the school dressing up like a servant of Satan. Its bad enough my seven-year-old knows all about bitches, pimps and hoes from Grand Theft Auto. Michael Jackson and his child molestation are now words in his vernacular. My six-grade daughter has classmates, excuse me, who will perform or

36、al sex for a dollar. Now all of this is learned at school. This is why were so livid. This is why so many of us are home-schooling. But I dont wanna have to do that. Public school is just that, its our school too. And Satan shouldnt be there.In Judge Clark Browns courtroom. Cassie on the witness cha

37、ir. Cassie Elliot: The National Guard said theyd pay his tuition for college. He was also told that hed be safe.Alan Shore: Safe?Cassie Elliot: He was gonna be cannon-loader. Not one of the guys on the streets. They promised. Then he was reassigned doing the job of an MP, guarding a convoy truck. He

38、 made a joke that he should have just joined the Boston PD if he was gonna travel halfway around the world to become a cop.Alan Shore: Cassie, what happened on September second of this year?Cassie Elliot: Jeffs convoy was pulling through a town called Iscondaria, they nearly ran over an IED. It s an

39、 improvised explosive device.Alan Shore: A bomb.Cassie Elliot: They had to disarm it before the convoy could go on. Jeff didnt have any training in disarming homemade bombs. But it had to be done, and no one else had a clue! He was always like that. You know if you Always the one you could count on.

40、 He just never should have been there!Alan Shore: Okay, but Cassie, he did enlist. You sign up for the military you have to assume the risk of going to war.名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 4 页，共 11 页 - - - - - - - - - 5 Cassie Elliot: His tour of duty w

41、as up. Plus he died doing something he was never trained for! He didn t assume that risk!Alan Shore: Nothing further.Judge Clark Brown: Mr Randolf.U.S. Attorney Chris Randolf: I have nothing for Ms Elliot except to thank her family for the sacrifice that theyve made during this difficult struggle fo

42、r freedom.Denise is in her office. The Sawtelles walk in. Denise Bauer: Hi! Did we have a meeting scheduled?Evelyn Sawtelle: Denise. We have some concerns about our case.Denise Bauer: Okay. Well, please. She motions for them to sit. They sit.Sam Sawtelle: We don t wanna make trouble but the Christia

43、ns keep bringing up Satanism which completely misrepresents what our religion is about.Evelyn Sawtelle: Were worried that the Wiccan side isnt being represented fairly. I mean were a recognized religion with hundreds of thousands of followers.Sam Sawtelle: Were just looking for balance.Denise Bauer:

44、 Well, your side is up next and youll be able to state your position fully. I promise.Evelyn Sawtelle: Well, thank you. Thats all we ask. Sam Sawtelle: Yeah. The Sawtelles get up to leave. Sam whispers to his wife. Ah. Should we say something?Denise Bauer: What?Evelyn Sawtelle: Uhm. Denise.Sam Sawte

45、lle: Ah, we dont know you very well.Evelyn Sawtelle: Ah. Wicans care about spreading goodwill and restoring the natural balance of the worldSam Sawtelle: And from you, well, were feeling a quiet screaming disharmony.Denise Bauer: Come again.Evelyn Sawtelle: Maybe it has to do with the fact that your

46、e recently divorced. She takes Denises hand.Denise Bauer: How did you know that? Evelyn Sawtelle: You have a tan line from your ring. We can help. Its what we do. Denise Bauer: I appreciate your concern, but, Im completely harmonic. Evelyn Sawtelle: Okay. Garrett and Cassie are walking up to the fro

47、nt doors of her apartment building. Garrett Wells: This case is going great. You did excellent today.Cassie Elliot: Ah. Now whatever that means. So Im just gonna. I dont want to have sex with you anymore.Garrett Wells: Yeah. Well, as it turns out, as my client. Im not supposed to have sex with you a

48、nyway.Cassie Elliot: So there we are.Garrett Wells: There we are.Cassie moves in to give him a kiss.Denny is in his office mixing himself a drink. Alan comes in. Hes wearing a flamingo costume without the headgear. Denny looks at him silently. Alan Shore: I m trying on my Halloween costume. What are

49、 your thoughts?Denny Crane: I prefer to be alone. Please leave.Alan Shore: Why?Denny Crane: No reason.Alan Shore: If you were to guess at a reason?Denny Crane: If I were to guess, Id say, maybe I dont wanna socialize with a pinko, liberal, democrat, commie.Alan Shore: Ah!名师资料总结 - - -精品资料欢迎下载 - - - -

50、 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 名师精心整理 - - - - - - - 第 5 页，共 11 页 - - - - - - - - - 6 Denny Crane: You may think its patriotic to decent. Maybe it is sometimes. But to sue the army at a time of war is not patriotic it borders on treason, and Im disgusted with you. And just so you know, most of the demo