ALL ASHFORD ASHLAND AUTOMATED_VOICE CHESTER CLAIRE COACH_REED DETECTIVE_WEBB DISPATCHER EVAN GILBERT JOANNA JONAH JUDGE_BATCHELLER LINDA LOU MILES MRS_BELLAMY NORAH PATRICK PHOEBE RAYMOND SARAH SCOTT TERRY WINNIE ZOEY TERRY Cut. Cut, cut. TERRY Try it again. You sound like your… TERRY …mouth is full of mashed potatoes. PHOEBE Uh... yeah, I'm sorry. TERRY Don't be sorry. TERRY Just sing it right! JONAH I thought it sounded beautiful. TERRY Yeah, you would. Bet you thought your wife sounded… TERRY …good, too, huh? There's a reason she's a… TERRY …backup singer. TERRY You're both off… TERRY …today. TERRY Okay, quit playing with the mic stand and do it again. Try to sing like you know what you're doing this time. TERRY Look, this isn't working. TERRY All right? This just isn't good enough. TERRY I won't let anything leave my studio… TERRY …sounding like that. TERRY Hey, you… TERRY …stop taking pictures, get out. TERRY Get out! TERRY Look, this is obviously not working, all right? TERRY Let's try it again tomorrow, all right? NORAH Don't listen to that creep. You… NORAH …were great. NORAH Have you thought about Evan? PHOEBE No, I need to... I need to tell Terry first. NORAH You know what'll happen if you tell him. NORAH He'll talk you out of it. NORAH He always does. TERRY What do I always do? PHOEBE Uh... Terry, we need… PHOEBE …to talk. TERRY We do, huh? PHOEBE Um... TERRY Well, kid, come on. I don't… TERRY …have all night. PHOEBE Um, I’ve been… PHOEBE Um, I've been talking to Evan Carlton. TERRY Evan Carlton? TERRY Oh... I bet he tells you he thinks you sound like Adele. PHOEBE No, he doesn't... TERRY You know he’s… TERRY …been trying to get at me for years. He hates me. PHOEBE This isn't about you, this is about me! PHOEBE I'm firing you as my producer… PHOEBE …and I'm going with Evan, okay? TERRY Um... okay. TERRY Okay. TERRY I just thought that you wanted to be a real singer. TERRY I didn't think this was just a vanity project. PHOEBE Just stop. Stop. TERRY You need me, Phoebe. PHOEBE Stop… TERRY You need me to push you! PHOEBE Your mind games are not going to work with me, okay? I’m… PHOEBE …leaving you, and Evan is producing my album. TERRY Whose album? I own that album… TERRY …and I will erase every track before I… TERRY …allow you to hand it over to Evan Carlton or anyone else. PHOEBE I… PHOEBE …swear, if you do that, you'll be sorry. TERRY Uh, it’s-- TERRY It's the wife. Do you mind? Yeah. TERRY Hello. I'm coming home soon, hon'. Yep. JOANNA Oh. JOANNA You can’t… JOANNA …meditate in your own room? CLAIRE It's called mindfulness. You should try it sometime. JOANNA Well, I… JOANNA …have my own form of mindfulness. It involves listening to Frank Sinatra and drinking a few... LOU I'm standing right here. JOANNA Oh, uh, drinking a… JOANNA …few... hot cocoas. Is that all right? LOU Do you want one? JOANNA No, I hate hot cocoa. CLAIRE Okay. CLAIRE It's time for our weekly family meeting. JOANNA Oh, darn. You know, I have to be some place. CLAIRE Where? JOANNA Anywhere but here. LOU Breakfast is ready. JOANNA Waffles. Oh, you so know my weakness. JOANNA Well, one of them. Okay, let's go. Let's just get it over with. CLAIRE How long have you been back here? A month? JOANNA Three weeks and one day. CLAIRE Okay, so... CLAIRE …you know the routine. Each… CLAIRE …week, we state... JOANNA We state our… JOANNA …plans, our goals... LOU And our aspirations. JOANNA Oh, you poor thing. You think this is normal. CLAIRE Okay, so, my plan is to get… CLAIRE …an acquittal on the Gordon trial. My goal is, I want to prep the Talbot case, and my aspiration... is to plant the parsley in the garden by the end of the week. JOANNA Fascinating. Would you pass me the syrup? LOU My plan is to get… LOU …straight "A"s in Physics. LOU My goal is to make the baseball team, get to pitch… LOU …at tryouts today... LOU …and my aspiration is to be the third female President. CLAIRE Third? LOU Yeah, well, you'll be first… LOU …and then… LOU …there'll be someone else, and then there'll be me. JOANNA That's good to know. Uh, but baseball? Isn't it about time that you… JOANNA …switched to softball? LOU Why? Because I'm a girl? JOANNA Um... yes? CLAIRE Lou doesn't like… CLAIRE …softball. LOU I mean, underhand pitching? LOU Why? LOU I mean, boys and girls play T-ball together. LOU Why can't they play baseball? CLAIRE They can. CLAIRE There is no rule that says girls cannot play baseball. LOU See? JOANNA Right… JOANNA …I stand corrected. CLAIRE Mm-hmm. JOANNA So how many girls are on… JOANNA …the baseball team? LOU None. JOANNA Why not? LOU Because of the glass ceiling. Right, Mom? CLAIRE It is right there, ready to be broken… CLAIRE …baby. JOANNA What, with a curve… JOANNA …ball? LOU And a two-- LOU …seam fastball. CLAIRE Mm-hmm. Your turn. JOANNA Well, I want what I always want-- CLAIRE Mm-hmm? JOANNA …a case of my own. CLAIRE You're a consultant. You consult. JOANNA How am I ever going to be a partner again if I don't get to handle my own case? CLAIRE One step at a time. CLAIRE You've only just rejoined the firm. JOANNA You see, your mother has just created a glass ceiling just for me. LOU That doesn't sound very fair, Mom. CLAIRE Meeting adjourned. JOANNA Oh, and my aspiration... is to have another waffle when I'm finished with this one. JOANNA You make me one? Okay? RAYMOND Ladies and gentlemen, another acquittal! JOANNA Brava. CLAIRE All right… CLAIRE …thank you, thank you, thank you. Let's get back to work. We have a lot of cases to worry about. RAYMOND Uh, what Ms…. RAYMOND …Darrow means is… RAYMOND …uh, thank… RAYMOND …you for your great showing of support, and she couldn't have done it without you. CLAIRE That goes without saying. RAYMOND Try saying it. RAYMOND Back to work, everyone. Let's go. MILES Hey. CLAIRE Hey! MILES Coffee, Counselor. JOANNA Well, well, well, if it isn't the defeated… JOANNA …District Attorney, come to pay homage. MILES Your homage, Counselor. CLAIRE Thank you. We have a bet. MILES Yeah, we have a bet. MILES Every time we face off in court, the loser has to buy the winner a cup of coffee. What’s… MILES …the tally now? Let's see, this is… MILES …two that I bought you, and... CLAIRE One that I bought you. MILES That… MILES …seems uneven. Why is that? CLAIRE I defend the innocent? MILES The unfair… MILES …innocence advantage. JOANNA May I comment? CLAIRE I can't stop you. MILES I can't wait. JOANNA And I can’t… JOANNA …help but notice that whenever the two of you are together, which I'm all… JOANNA …for, by the way, you never seem to talk about… JOANNA …anything but work. CLAIRE That's not true. MILES That's true. CLAIRE What? MILES Yeah! Remember our last date. MILES All we did was talk about Bodnar v. Murad. CLAIRE That was a fascinating conversation. MILES Yeah, absolutely… MILES …but... kind of work-oriented. CLAIRE Well… CLAIRE …it was law talk. MILES & CLAIRE And we're lawyers… MILES …but we're also well-rounded individuals. In… MILES …light of this development, I propose… MILES …an agreement… CLAIRE Mm-hmm. MILES …where we don't talk law for a month... for two weeks, all right? MILES No shop talk for... CLAIRE One week. MILES One week. The weekend? No, no, you're right. One week. MILES Starting right... MILES …now. JOANNA Wow, you guys are unbelievable. JOANNA You know, there are other things to talk about. CLAIRE I know! MILES Oh, there's plenty of things. Whole world of things to talk about. CLAIRE Baseball? MILES Baseball. MILES Yeah, go Cowboys. CLAIRE Yeah! Eh… MILES Oh! MILES We could go to a club downtown… MILES …tonight. CLAIRE A club? MILES Yeah, my sister-- my kid sister, she's a singer, right… CLAIRE Uh-huh. MILES …and she's playing at a club downtown tonight… CLAIRE Okay. MILES …so we go, we listen to music, we talk, but no shop talk. CLAIRE Okay. CLAIRE Yeah, it could just be life talk. MILES Life talk! MILES Yeah, you in? CLAIRE I'm totally in. JOANNA That sounds great... JOANNA …but I-I'm not going. MILES You're not going. You'll be missed... but you're not going. CLAIRE Winnie, your instincts with jury selection are spot on. How do you… CLAIRE …read people so well? WINNIE It's a blessing and a curse. CHESTER It makes dating her a challenge. WINNIE I always know what he's thinking. CHESTER Actually, it saves time. CHESTER Watch. Tonight… CHESTER …do you want to... WINNIE Go to a movie? Sure, but I pick. CHESTER See? JOANNA Well, whatever works for you, Chester. CHESTER Would this be a good time for us to have that talk? CLAIRE Uh, sure, Chester. CLAIRE What talk? RAYMOND That talk you've been avoiding for about a month. CHESTER As you are no doubt aware… CHESTER …this firm is in a state of crisis. CLAIRE We just won a case. CHESTER Exactly. We're coasting on past glories. CHESTER We have to recognize that it's a whole new world out there. CHESTER The status quo is the status no. RAYMOND Let me guess, you've been doing some of those… RAYMOND …business seminars. CHESTER I have. RAYMOND Yeah, that's what I thought. CHESTER And I learned… CHESTER …that the only way to succeed... is by failing. JOANNA I thought the only way to succeed… JOANNA …was by succeeding. CHESTER That's old thought. You have to come into the new Millennium. WINNIE Don't start with that. Please… WINNIE …Chester. SCOTT Stop him, please, before… SCOTT …he makes us do team-building exercises. CHESTER See, that's exactly the type… CHESTER …of thinking that's keeping us in the 21st Century. JOANNA But this is the 21st Century. CHESTER And it will stay that way unless you start to say yes. CLAIRE Okay, I'm going to think about that, Chester. RAYMOND You know what, Claire… RAYMOND …you're really-- you're kind of encouraging him, and I... CLAIRE I don't have the heart to tell him no. RAYMOND Well... JOANNA That's very post-Millennial of you. CLAIRE She's good, your sister. MILES Yeah. Isn't she? CLAIRE Yeah. MILES She's my half-sister, actually… MILES …from my dad's second marriage. He remarried after my mom died to a really sweet woman. MILES Along came Phoebe. I was grown by then, but just so happy she was in our family. I always wanted a sister. PHOEBE Miles! How are you? MILES You were amazing! That was tremendous. PHOEBE Thank you, thank you. I feel like… PHOEBE …I was a little bit off, but… MILES No, no, no, no, no… MILES …you were amazing. PHOEBE Thank you. Hey! You must be… PHOEBE …the famous Claire. CLAIRE Oh, I'm famous? PHOEBE I mean, according to Miles… PHOEBE …you are. He never stops talking about you. MILES Okay… CLAIRE He never stops talking about me? MILES Cut it out. PHOEBE Sorry, am I blowing your… PHOEBE …cover? MILES Kind of blowing my cover, yup. Ho… MILES …flower city! MILES You have a secret admirer. Who's E? PHOEBE Ugh, doesn't matter. MILES Is it the famous E? MILES See? Two can play at that game. PHOEBE Um, have you met my amazing engineer? PHOEBE This is Jonah LaRochelle. CLAIRE & MILES Hi! JONAH Used to be my assistant on the mixing boards… JONAH …and now look at you. PHOEBE Well… PHOEBE …you'll always be the master. JONAH Well... PHOEBE And this is Linda Yasbeck. LINDA & CLAIRE Hi. LINDA I'm the producer's wife, but don't hold that against me. JONAH Hey, where is Terry? I thought he was going to be here tonight. LINDA He's busy working on Phoebe's… LINDA …album. It's going to be great! JONAH Well, uh… JONAH …come on, Linda, let… JONAH …Phoebe get some rest. MILES Right. JONAH Your husband's expecting us in the studio in the morning, and if we're late... LINDA Oh, my husband just wants everyone to work as hard… LINDA …as he does. He is not as bad as people say. MILES Nice to meet you. PHOEBE Bye, guys. Thank you so much for coming. LINDA Of course. CLAIRE See you. PHOEBE Bye. Miles, I need your help. I don't know what to do. MILES What's wrong? PHOEBE Everything! Everything. PHOEBE Look... my career is just starting to take off. After… PHOEBE …struggling and scraping by… PHOEBE …I finally made something that was good, that was me... the album. MILES Right, the album. She said it was great. PHOEBE Yeah… PHOEBE …Linda said it was good-- Terry's wife… PHOEBE …Linda. Terry, though... PHOEBE …Terry is ruining everything! MILES How? PHOEBE He’s trying… PHOEBE …to steal my album. He's trying to destroy it. CLAIRE How? PHOEBE I was contacted by this other producer, Evan Carlton. He's a really good producer, and a really kind guy. He's the kind of producer I need… PHOEBE …to take my album further… PHOEBE …and so I told him that. MILES Told Terry that? PHOEBE Terry, yeah, but he said that… PHOEBE …we have a contract, and that he owns the album, and if I try to leave him, he'll destroy it. CLAIRE Can I see this contract? PHOEBE I don't have a copy. Terry has it in his office. MILES Can you help her? I mean... she is the best lawyer in the city. CLAIRE Well, yeah, I would love to help, but I need to see that contract. PHOEBE Okay, I mean, I can get it for you. CLAIRE Okay, bring it to my office tomorrow afternoon. PHOEBE Thank you, thank you. MILES We'll see you through this. PHOEBE Thank you. MILES I’m not going to let you down again. PHOEBE You never… PHOEBE …have. MILES You're sweet. CLAIRE Nice to meet you. PHOEBE Thank you so much. CLAIRE Of course. PHOEBE Nice to meet you. Thank you. MILES You were… MILES …great tonight. Oh, there you are! So... six hours. CLAIRE What? MILES Couldn't even go six hours without talking shop. CLAIRE We just can't stop, can we? MILES We can't. LINDA Hello? TERRY I'm coming home soon, hon. LINDA Okay, I... TERRY Hey, Phoebe? Phoebe, what are you-- LINDA Terry! Terry? AUTOMATED VOICE You have reached the voice mailbox of... LINDA Uh… DISPATCHER This is 911. What's your emergency? LINDA It's my husband! Something has happened to him. JOANNA Yeah? CLAIRE I don't want you to think that I was ignoring you. Um… CLAIRE …I've been thinking about what you said. JOANNA Well, you've ignored what I've said for years. You're going to have to narrow that down. CLAIRE About having a case of your own. JOANNA Oh, so, you finally came around. Well, I happen to have a number of cases that sound very interesting. CLAIRE Mom, slow down. CLAIRE I'd like to see… CLAIRE …if you understand the philosophy of Darrow & Darrow. JOANNA Excuse me... what is my name? I helped co-found this firm. CLAIRE Yes, but you've been away in New York, at that big, prominent firm. JOANNA Yes, yes, where we actually made money. Ooh, isn't that awful? CLAIRE You should see how you feel about the way we do things. CLAIRE Now, there's a woman in the conference room. CLAIRE It's a pro bono case. JOANNA Pro bono? CLAIRE Yes. JOANNA For nothing? CLAIRE For the public good. She wants to sue a client of ours… CLAIRE …and our client can't pay… CLAIRE …so... we could do it for free. What do you think? JOANNA Oh, I see what you're doing. JOANNA You don't think I'll do it. You want to be proven right… JOANNA …about me. CLAIRE I don't... JOANNA Well… JOANNA …I'll do it. What do you think about that? CLAIRE I'm pleased. JOANNA Yeah, you say you're pleased, but I know that inside, you are shocked. CLAIRE You can believe that, if you want to. JOANNA I am going to take… JOANNA …this pro bono case, and I'm going to slay it... yeah, and then how are you going to feel? CLAIRE Happy? JOANNA You're darn right. CLAIRE Okay. JOANNA Lead on. CLAIRE Great. MRS BELLAMY I think they manufacture it right in their house and sell on the front lawn, in front of everybody! MRS BELLAMY It's outrageous! JOANNA Mrs. Bellamy-- MRS BELLAMY I hate to think what kind of health codes they're violating… MRS BELLAMY …not to mention the zoning codes. JOANNA Mrs.-- MRS BELLAMY And he has his granddaughter… MRS BELLAMY …selling the stuff. What kind of monster would do that? JOANNA Mrs. Bellamy, you still haven't told me what my clients are allegedly selling. MRS BELLAMY Allegedly? I've got photographic evidence. JOANNA It's a lemonade stand. MRS BELLAMY You see? You can't believe it either, can you? JOANNA No, no, I can't. CLAIRE Okay, here you go. JOANNA Well, she's a real wing-nut, but the thing is, she's right. JOANNA Her neighborhood isn't zoned for retail, so technically, she has a case. CLAIRE So it'll take a really good lawyer to fight it, huh? JOANNA You really think that flattery will motivate me? CLAIRE Won't it? JOANNA Well, yes, of course, it will. I'm surprised it took you that long to figure it out. CLAIRE Huh. MILES Hey. Hey there. CLAIRE Hi! MILES How are you? PHOEBE Look what I got... the contract! CLAIRE Oh, good, you got the contract. MILES The contract. PHOEBE I picked it up from Terry's office last night. CLAIRE Awesome. Let's take a look. MILES All right. DETECTIVE WEBB Are you Phoebe Strasberg? PHOEBE Uh... yes? DETECTIVE WEBB Your roommate told us we might find you here. MILES Wait. Hold on. What's going on? DETECTIVE WEBB You're under arrest, Miss Strasberg. PHOEBE What are you talking about? CLAIRE What is she being charged with? DETECTIVE WEBB The murder of Terry Yasbeck. MILES Murder? What? PHOEBE Terry? MILES That's not possible. DETECTIVE WEBB You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have… DETECTIVE WEBB …the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be… DETECTIVE WEBB …provided for you. Do you understand these rights? MILES Don't worry, Phoebe, we've got this. CLAIRE Look, I don't think I'm the one you need. MILES You are. CLAIRE I have never defended a murder trial before. CLAIRE Isn't there someone more qualified than me? MILES You're the best trial lawyer I have ever seen. CLAIRE Well, thank you, but still-- MILES So here's what you're dealing with. MILES She was seen entering the Yasbecks' office at the time of the murder. They got a search warrant. They searched her car. They found the murder weapon. A Beretta M9. CLAIRE That's why they're so sure it's her? MILES That's why they're so sure. MILES They're testing her hands for gunshot residue right now. Look, Claire... I know my sister. MILES I know she's innocent. MILES You're good at defending the innocent, right? CLAIRE All right, I'll see her this afternoon. MILES Thank you. CLAIRE After I check on Lou. MILES Thank you. JOANNA So you think you're up for this case? CLAIRE Not really. JOANNA I do. CLAIRE Hope you're right. JOANNA Man… JOANNA …she is good. JOANNA I mean, she's really good. CLAIRE I know! Her dad taught her to hit like that. JOANNA Oh, now… JOANNA …I see. So baseball is Lou's way of staying connected to the memory of her father. CLAIRE Yeah. JOANNA That's nice. CLAIRE Yeah. When she was four… CLAIRE …she could name every baseball team and every city in the Major League. She collected the cards. She knew all the stats. JOANNA The stats? Are you kidding? CLAIRE Yeah. Yeah, that's how she got into math, which lead to engineering, which lead to all the A.P. classes. JOANNA Huh. CLAIRE We owe it all to baseball. JOANNA Well... I always thought it was just a bunch of guys standing around, waiting… JOANNA …for fly balls. CLAIRE There's a lot more to it than that. JOANNA Yeah, well, could've fooled me. COACH REED Lou. COACH REED She yours? CLAIRE Um... yes. COACH REED Not bad. JOANNA Not bad? She's the best player you've got. COACH REED Oh, yeah? CLAIRE Yeah. JOANNA Charming fellow. CLAIRE Bye. CLAIRE All right. I've got to go. CLAIRE Wish me luck. JOANNA All right. Go get 'em, tiger. CLAIRE Okay. PHOEBE Yes… PHOEBE …I fought with Terry during our last session… PHOEBE …and yeah, I had a different producer lined up. CLAIRE Did you threaten Terry Yasbeck? PHOEBE I don't know. I might have. PHOEBE I mean.... I was mad. PHOEBE Terry has a way of getting under your skin... or... had. CLAIRE Well, you were overheard… CLAIRE …threatening Terry if he destroyed your album. PHOEBE Yeah, I mean… PHOEBE …that sounds like something I'd say. I mean, suppose somebody threatened… PHOEBE …whatever you care about most? MILES Okay... the clerk at… MILES …the convenience store across the street said he saw you trying the door to Yasbecks' studio around 1:00 in the morning. Said he recognized you. PHOEBE Yeah, I mean, I... we always buy energy drinks from him. PHOEBE I waved at him… PHOEBE …and then the door was locked, so I went around back. CLAIRE You know, the security camera saw you drive up and go in the back door. PHOEBE I know. I… PHOEBE …told you. I went to go get the contract. CLAIRE All right… CLAIRE …so that door was unlocked? PHOEBE Yeah, so I thought somebody would be working there, but the whole place was just quiet. PHOEBE Terry wasn't there. I mean, at least, I didn't see him. PHOEBE So… PHOEBE …I went into his office, and I got the contract from his files. I even looked through his whole computer. MILES What for? PHOEBE For… PHOEBE …my album, for the tracks. MILES Ah, of course. PHOEBE I couldn't find anything. CLAIRE Did you hear a gunshot? PHOEBE No. MILES Phoebe... MILES …you were there at the exact time of the murder. MILES And Terry's wife said she heard him call your name on the phone. PHOEBE I mean, even if I was there, I wouldn't have heard the shot anyways. The whole studio's soundproofed. PHOEBE I swear, I just went home. PHOEBE What am I going to do? MILES You're innocent. You're innocent. They'll see that. PHOEBE It's funny, you know. PHOEBE Last night, that album was the most important thing in the world to… PHOEBE …me... and now, I mean... PHOEBE …I can always just re-make it... unless I'm in prison… PHOEBE …for the rest of my life. PHOEBE I mean, that's what I'm facing, right? MILES That's not going to happen. MILES Okay? MILES Ah. ASHLAND Are you ready to plead guilty? PHOEBE No, I didn't kill Terry. MILES She didn't kill Terry. District Attorney… MILES …Ashland, how are you? ASHLAND Not too happy to see you on this side of the fence, Miles. CLAIRE We're all on the same side. CLAIRE We all want to find the truth. ASHLAND Man, you weren't… ASHLAND …kidding about her, were… ASHLAND …you? CLAIRE What did you say… CLAIRE …about me? MILES I said nothing but good things. Plus, she's right. ASHLAND I don't know. DETECTIVE WEBB We have the results of the gunshot residue test on the… DETECTIVE WEBB …suspect's hands. DETECTIVE WEBB It came back positive. COACH REED That's it, fellas! COACH REED Come on, wake up! Wake up out there! JOANNA Why isn't he playing her? CLAIRE Look at her. She's so disappointed. COACH REED Hey… JOANNA Wait, wait a second. I think he's going to go talk to her. CLAIRE Okay. CLAIRE Oh, I'm so nervous. JOANNA He's talking to her. CLAIRE I'm so nervous. JOANNA It's okay. I mean, she's… JOANNA …good, right? CLAIRE Yeah, but this is a lot of pressure. JOANNA Oh, you mean like you with that case? CLAIRE You're not helping. JOANNA I’m sorry. COACH REED All right. You're good, you're good. CLAIRE Oh, come… JOANNA Oh, are you kidding me? CLAIRE Coach, put her in! COACH REED Come on, fellas! Hustle up, keep… COACH REED …alert. JOANNA Jerk. CLAIRE Have they been able to track the serial number on the gun? MILES They have. CLAIRE And? MILES It belongs to a Catherine Huddleston. She's an old-timer, lives out there on Quander Road. MILES Says she can't remember the last time she saw it. MILES But she has no connection to your sister? MILES Not that I know of. CLAIRE Well, that's something. SCOTT Hello? CLAIRE Scott? SCOTT Yes, Chief. CLAIRE Hey… CLAIRE …I need you to track a... MILES Catherine Huddleston. CLAIRE A Catherine Huddleston. Find out everything you can-- MILES Terry Yasbeck. CLAIRE --and see about her connection to Terry Yasbeck or anyone else involved in the case. SCOTT You got it. MILES Here's something else. CLAIRE Yeah? MILES So Phoebe's album, all right, the tracks, Phoebe's album... nowhere to be found at Terry Yasbeck's studio, and apparently, this guy kept everything, was a real control freak, right? He had back-ups on back-ups, and everything they did on the computers over there, he didn't let go of anything. CLAIRE So what happened to the album? MILES I don't know, I... Either Terry destroyed it, which makes no sense, or... CLAIRE Somebody stole it. MILES Or someone stole it. Very possibly the same person that killed Terry. CLAIRE But why would they do that? It doesn't... it's not worth anything to anybody but Terry. MILES And Phoebe. CLAIRE She says she didn't take it. MILES She also said she didn't kill Terry Yasbeck. MILES And, I know... I know she didn't, but... if I'm a D.A., which I am, and I'm thinking like a D.A., which I am, she looks guilty. CLAIRE Well, I'm thinking like a defense attorney, and I know she's not. MILES Thanks for saying that, and also, thank you for... CLAIRE You don't have to say anything. MILES All right. JOANNA Now, don't you fret. I'm going to take care of this, okay? SARAH Okay. JOANNA Okay. PATRICK Thank you, Mrs. Darrow. JOANNA Mm-hmm. JOANNA You know what… JOANNA …makes this lemonade case so hard? RAYMOND Having to watch a little girl sob her eyes out? JOANNA Well, yeah, that, and having to actually taste… JOANNA …the lemonade, and they sweeten it… JOANNA …with stevia. It's a terrible after-taste. RAYMOND You know what? I like stevia. JOANNA Huh. You probably like cilantro, too. RAYMOND Yes, I do. JOANNA Well, takes all kinds. JOANNA Hey, where's Claire? RAYMOND She’s with… RAYMOND …Miles, meeting with Phoebe's producer. JOANNA I... I thought Phoebe's producer was dead. I mean, isn't that the whole problem? RAYMOND There's a new producer. JOANNA Oh. She has a new producer? Well, lucky girl. RAYMOND Except for being charged with murder? JOANNA Well, yeah, except for that. CHESTER Chester Lime. I was wondering if today would be a good day to discuss our creative synergy exploration. JOANNA & RAYMOND No. CHESTER Oh. Okay. EVAN Terry Yasbeck was an abusive jerk. Ask anybody. Emotionally, physically... I mean, if Phoebe killed him, it was in self-defense, trust me. MILES She didn't kill him. CLAIRE Are you saying that that's what you think happened? EVAN No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying Terry was an… EVAN …angry, dangerous person. EVAN I mean, if I saw him coming at Phoebe, and I had a gun, I'd probably shoot him myself. CLAIRE & MILES Did you? EVAN No, of course not. CLAIRE You seem… CLAIRE …awfully protective of Phoebe. EVAN Look, I wouldn't say that. She's a very talented singer, and I… EVAN …want to produce her album. MILES Did you send her flowers? EVAN Yes… EVAN …I did, but just… EVAN …to thank her for signing with… EVAN …me. MILES But you do have a particular reason for… MILES …wanting to kill Terry Yasbeck, don't you? EVAN Yeah, okay. You're referring to Linda. Yeah, Terry was married to my ex-wife. MILES Right, so we could say you have many reasons to want to kill Terry Yasbeck, don't you? CLAIRE Well, it seems like Evan has more than a professional interest in your sister. MILES Why did you stop me? I had him on the ropes. CLAIRE We're not in court. We're not even taking depositions. We're just gathering facts. As a D.A., you know how to do that. MILES You're right, you're right. You know, when you're right, you're right. CLAIRE You've got to have blind faith. MILES Is that what you do, Claire? You just have blind faith? CLAIRE Actually, just faith, but you can call it blind justice. CLAIRE Besides, now we know Evan Carlton's in love with your sister. MILES About that... if he is, then why... didn't Phoebe tell us that? CLAIRE Maybe she doesn't know... or maybe she's protecting him. CLAIRE Hey, Scott, how are you coming along with Catherine Huddleston? SCOTT Still looking into it. CLAIRE Okay, well, I'm going to… CLAIRE …give you another job because you're the best investigator I have. SCOTT I won't deny that, but thanks for the validation. CLAIRE I want you to… CLAIRE …find out what can cause a false positive on a gunshot-residue test. SCOTT Right... I'm on it. MILES That's good. That's a good idea. CLAIRE I have them occasionally. MILES Yeah, do that. SCOTT I don't work for you. MILES Not yet. CLAIRE Please, guys, okay? CLAIRE So now we need to go talk to Phoebe's back-up singer and her engineer… CLAIRE …to find out more about that. MILES I'll bring the car round. CLAIRE Okay. CLAIRE Hey, Chester? You know your way around a computer, right? CHESTER We have a certain rapport. CLAIRE I want you to search Terry Yasbeck's computer system for the entire week leading up to the murder. CHESTER That'll take days, and the police have already been through it. CLAIRE Are you complaining? CHESTER No, just defining it. Actually, it sounds kind of fun. CLAIRE Great… CLAIRE …and, Chester, I want you to be my second on this. CHESTER I don't know what to say. I just... CLAIRE Ah... mm. WINNIE Scott! What… WINNIE …have I told you about leaving your law books… WINNIE …all over my desk? SCOTT What do you mean, your desk? We're supposed to share this desk. WINNIE This half is mine. SCOTT Well, then why do you leave your Danish on my half? WINNIE Stop being petty! SCOTT You're being petty! ZOEY They're like this 24-7. CLAIRE Maybe we do need team-building exercises. RAYMOND Journey of a thousand miles starts with a single Danish. JONAH No, I don't have any of Phoebe's tracks. Terry was very protective of them. JONAH He kept them all on his computer. CLAIRE They aren't on any of Terry's computers. MILES Or on the hard drive at the recording studio. CLAIRE Yeah. JONAH Oh, I don't understand that... you know, unless Terry was going to delete the whole album. NORAH Well, I wouldn't put it past him. NORAH He erased all the music I recorded with him. He was… NORAH …jealous of my talent. JONAH Ah, this is… JONAH …my wife, Norah. She's also the back-up singer on Phoebe's album. NORAH That's me, just a few feet from stardom, but it's really terrible what they're doing to… NORAH …Phoebe. MILES Yeah. JONAH Yeah, I hated to have to tell the cops… JONAH …what I'd heard, but I couldn't lie, could I? NORAH You could've lied. CLAIRE Uh, no, he couldn't. MILES Well... CLAIRE Yeah. JONAH But she's didn't… JONAH …mean it when she threatened him. That's just something… JONAH …that people say. MILES Right. NORAH I mean, look, if it hadn't been for Phoebe begging him, I wouldn’t… NORAH …even be her back-up singer. I'd be a waitress… NORAH …somewhere. JONAH Yeah. NORAH Phoebe… NORAH …even said she'd take me with her when she went to Evan Carlton. MILES Evan Carlton... did you suspect something more... MILES …personal... in Phoebe's relationship with Evan? JONAH I never thought so. NORAH She could do worse, but no… NORAH …I never heard anything. CLAIRE Well... MILES Yeah. CLAIRE Thank you for your time. MILES Yeah. NORAH You understand, Phoebe's a friend. NORAH I would do anything for her. MILES Well, thank you. Thank you. That's nice to hear. NORAH What I mean is… NORAH …if you wanted me to testify that Phoebe was with me… NORAH …that night, I'd be happy to. MILES Were you with her that… MILES …night? NORAH Well, no. CLAIRE Okay, well, we couldn't ask you to lie to protect Phoebe. MILES Because that would be perjury. CLAIRE Right. NORAH I see. Well, there's got to be something we can do to protect her. JONAH Yeah, what is your plan? CLAIRE Our plan is to find the truth. MILES Right. NORAH Okay... but you know that she killed him, right? You know that? MILES Well, that has yet… MILES …to be proven. MILES Well, thanks. If we have any other questions, we'll be in touch. CLAIRE Do you want some coffee? MILES Mm... I think if I have any more coffee, I'll be up for a week. Not that I can sleep anyway. CLAIRE Well, you have to drink something. You have to stay hydrated. MILES Okay, first off… MILES …coffee is a diuretic. Second, really, Claire? That's my problem? My problem-- my sister's on trial for murder, and I've got to stay hydrated? CLAIRE My dad used to say that you have to handle what you can, when you can, and right now, you can handle staying hydrated. MILES My dad always used to say… MILES …"Pick that up!" I don't want anything. CLAIRE That's good, 'cause we don't have anything but grape soda. MILES Give me a grape soda, please. CLAIRE What? MILES Oh, yeah, I'll have a grape soda. MILES I love grape soda. We have grape soda? No, I used to drink… MILES …tons of grape soda as a youth. MILES They used to call me "The Grape Soda Kid". Please. CLAIRE It's a wonder you survived. MILES You don't like grape soda? CLAIRE I... CLAIRE …never tried it. MILES Never... you've never tried... Are you kidding me? You're going to try a grape soda right now. CLAIRE No. MILES Right now, try a grape soda. CLAIRE No. MILES Try it for me. CLAIRE Okay... fine. MILES You don't think she's guilty, right? CLAIRE Not for a minute. MILES Okay. You're not just saying that 'cause of... me? CLAIRE No. No, I'd feel bad for you, but I would definitely tell you if I thought she was guilty. She's not. MILES Thanks. MILES Mm... CLAIRE That tastes nothing like grape. MILES I know. It's like no other flavor known to man. It's excellent. CLAIRE Why do they call it grape? MILES You've got to call it something. That's the legalese. CLAIRE Mm. I kind of like it. MILES I know, it's kind of amazing. It grows on you. MILES So... now would be a terrible time for a kiss... MILES …right? CLAIRE Totally. MILES Yeah. CLAIRE Oh… MILES Shall we… MILES …wait till...? CLAIRE Yeah. MILES Yeah. CLAIRE Till our heads are clear. MILES Yeah, till our heads are clear. Right. Yes. Okay. All right. Well... MILES Good night, Counselor. CLAIRE Good night. CLAIRE Yeah. CLAIRE I've got to get more of this stuff. CLAIRE "It is a far… CLAIRE …far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." CLAIRE The end. LOU So he went to the guillotine? CLAIRE Yeah, for a good cause. LOU Nice bedtime story, Mom. CLAIRE It's a classic. LOU I liked it. CLAIRE Tomorrow, we start on Oliver Twist. LOU Mom? CLAIRE Yeah? LOU I don't know if I want to play baseball anymore. CLAIRE What? Why not? CLAIRE Are the boys being mean to you? LOU No, no, they're nice. CLAIRE What, is the coach giving you trouble? LOU I don't think so. CLAIRE Then what is it? LOU They don't make me feel like I'm part of the team. You know, they... they treat me like I'm something special. CLAIRE Well, you are something special. LOU You know what I mean. LOU They treat me like I'm a girl. CLAIRE Oh, honey... you are a girl. LOU I know, but I just... I think it'd be better if I quit... you know, focus on debate team. CLAIRE Do you like baseball? LOU I love it. CLAIRE Then you should do what you love. LOU I guess so. I'll give it another shot. CLAIRE Just see how it goes. CLAIRE You were listening? JOANNA Well, it saves time. What do you think? CLAIRE I think she just wants to be a part of the team. JOANNA Well, I know how she feels. CLAIRE Oh, so this is about you, now? JOANNA It's about me, her, you. It's about all of us. CLAIRE I'm going to give that coach a piece of my mind. JOANNA All right, can I-- can I just say something? CLAIRE Can I stop you? JOANNA Remember when you were little, and I used to tell you that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar? CLAIRE Yeah, you know, I never understood that. Why would you want to attract flies? JOANNA All right, you know what I mean. Just... let me talk to him. JOANNA You know that I was voted "Most Likely to Get What She Wants" by my senior… JOANNA …class. CLAIRE Yeah, how did you win that, anyway? JOANNA I wanted it. JOANNA Easy. GILBERT Yeah, I took a lot of pictures of that last session. You know, for publicity and for the album cover. Here they are. CLAIRE Did anything… CLAIRE …strike you as odd about that last session? GILBERT You mean aside from Terry being a royal sleazebag? GILBERT He had her so upset that she fidgeted with her mic… GILBERT …stand all through the session. You can even… GILBERT …see that in this picture. GILBERT I swear… GILBERT …it's as if he liked to see her cry. MILES What did he say to make her cry? GILBERT Specifically? He… GILBERT …said that she had no talent… GILBERT …and that she was nothing without him. CLAIRE Okay, but... CLAIRE …can you think of anyone who would want to kill him? GILBERT Only everybody who ever met him. CLAIRE Right. MILES Well, that narrows it down. Thanks. MILES So… MILES …was there anything unusual about the last recording session? PHOEBE No. I've told you, no. PHOEBE Terry was abusive, but that was normal. CLAIRE Did you always have that much trouble with your mic stand? PHOEBE I don't know. PHOEBE Terry had me so rattled. I was-- I was having trouble with everything. CLAIRE Think. MILES Please. PHOEBE Um... I guess it was a little... I don't know, slippery. CLAIRE So why didn't you switch it out for another one? PHOEBE I know it's silly, but... that particular stand was kind of a good luck charm. I always used it, and everyone would kid me about it, but when I stood in front of that stand... I could really sing. CLAIRE Hmm. MILES It looks like an ordinary mic stand. CLAIRE I know, but look at the color picture. You see the thing on top that you use to tighten it? It's red. MILES The clip? CLAIRE Yeah, you knew that? MILES Yeah, I knew that. What, you didn't? Nah, I had to look it up. I'm way ahead of you. Why are we looking for this? CLAIRE I don't know. It is just a hunch. MILES Yeah, well... all right. Hunch is good. Hunch is all we have. Ah! CLAIRE What? MILES I just... I swore I wouldn't let her down again, and now, here we are. CLAIRE You said that earlier... and Phoebe swore that you never did let her down. MILES Well, she... she's being kind. She was... MILES …when my dad and his wife died, she was just a teenager, you know, and... that's a rough time to be an orphan… MILES …and I was… MILES …starting out as a lawyer, you know, hungry, got to succeed, so I wasn't really there for her, you know, at least not the way I should have been, and she got in trouble, lost her way. CLAIRE Mm, I'm sorry. MILES Yeah. MILES Then... you know... she discovered music. MILES You know, discovered this, and it... it saved her. MILES You know, she cleaned herself up, started over. I was starting to make money as a lawyer, so I could put her through a fine arts college. CLAIRE That was nice, you gave her... I mean, you helped her there, right? MILES Right, but that was… MILES …after the fact. You know, too little, too late. She saved herself, which is why I need to save her now. CLAIRE Mm. MILES I owe her. CLAIRE I remember when my father died. I swore I wouldn't let his firm go under. MILES And... you didn't. CLAIRE Yeah... and you... you won't let Phoebe down. MILES Thank you. JONAH Sorry, uh… JONAH …I didn't know you were, um... JONAH …what are you doing in here? CLAIRE Oh… MILES We’re, uh… CLAIRE We were looking… MILES Looking for something. Yeah. CLAIRE A mic stand. JONAH Oh, uh, we have… JONAH …lots of those. CLAIRE Yeah… MILES No, not... no ordinary mic stand. CLAIRE This one. MILES Yep. JONAH Uh... JONAH Wow, yeah. CLAIRE You recognize it? JONAH Uh, yep, that's Phoebe's favorite mic stand. Isn't it here? MILES Yeah! MILES Nope, can't find it. JONAH Well, that's weird. It's usually right here. MILES Well, it's not here now. JONAH Uh, careful, please. CLAIRE Oh, sorry. JONAH Thank you. Actually, if you... MILES Just go out that way? Yeah, okay, great. JONAH Yeah. That’d be terrific. CLAIRE I’ll just take these off. MILES We won't sit on that anymore. JONAH It’s delicate. CLAIRE Okay. MILES Okay. CLAIRE Thanks. MILES Thank you. MILES Uh-oh, you're making a face. What's that face? CLAIRE Um… MILES You have an idea? CLAIRE Maybe. MILES 'Cause when you make that face when I'm a D.A., I know I'm in trouble 'cause you're about to win the case. Are you about to win this case? CLAIRE Let's not get ahead of ourselves, but... let's say it's a step in the right direction. MILES I like that. CLAIRE Yeah… CLAIRE …me too. COACH REED Good job! COACH REED Vincent. You're okay, fellas. COACH REED Easy out, easy out. CLAIRE He's still not playing her. JOANNA All right. I'll go talk to him. CLAIRE He said she was one of his best players. JOANNA No, he said that she wasn't bad. CLAIRE His tone said she was one of his best. JOANNA Right… JOANNA …yeah, yeah, his tone was pretty positive. CLAIRE I'm going to go talk to him. JOANNA What did we decide about honey and vinegar? CLAIRE Yeah, I'm going to give him some vinegar. JOANNA All right… JOANNA …you know what? I looked up that saying, and you know who said it? CLAIRE Who? JOANNA Benjamin Franklin. Now, do you really want to mock Benjamin Franklin? CLAIRE Maybe. JOANNA Seriously? JOANNA No, you don't. JOANNA I'll be right back. COACH REED Okay, fellas, easy out, easy out. JOANNA Good game. COACH REED Kiminsky, warm up. COACH REED You know, I can't help but notice that you haven't played the whole team. COACH REED Most of them. JOANNA Most of them, yes. COACH REED Most of them. JOANNA But not all of them. COACH REED No, not all of them. JOANNA Not Lou. COACH REED No, not Lou... COACH REED Play the ball, play the ball! JOANNA Ah, why haven't you played Lou? COACH REED I'll get around to her. JOANNA Oh, you will? COACH REED Yep, don't you worry. JOANNA In what inning? COACH REED You mean, what game? JOANNA What, so... you're not going to… JOANNA …use her in this game? COACH REED Don't think so... come on… COACH REED …blue, that was inside! JOANNA Do you think that it would be possible for us to have a discussion about this? COACH REED A discussion? JOANNA Like coffee? COACH REED Okay. JOANNA Okay... this week? COACH REED Sure. COACH REED It's two-way, boys, two-way. CLAIRE Well? JOANNA Well, it's working. JOANNA I mean, it might take a little longer than we originally thought, but he'll come around. CLAIRE I give honey one week, no matter what Ben Franklin says. JOANNA Just trust… JOANNA …me. CHESTER Ms. Darrow wanted me to talk to you about what we are. So, my first question is... what are we? WINNIE A law firm. CHESTER Wrong. CHESTER We're a tribe. CHESTER A tribe is a group of people… CHESTER …connected to each other, connected to an idea, but I don't think we really know each other. CHESTER So the first thing we're going to do is go around and tell each other three little-known things about ourselves. CHESTER You first, Zoey. ZOEY Well... ZOEY …I was born in Washington, D.C. I used to be a Marine. ZOEY I served a tour… ZOEY …in Afghanistan. WINNIE Wow. CHESTER I did not know that. ZOEY You never asked. JOANNA Huh. CHESTER See? Your turn, Winnie. WINNIE Um... my first name is Godwin. WINNIE I know, weird. My mother was a hippie… WINNIE …and I'm an excellent bowler. CHESTER Good. CHESTER Jo, uh... CHESTER Ms. Darrow. JOANNA I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. CHESTER Really? JOANNA That is a Johnny Cash lyric. JOANNA I can't... don't you guys even know your classics? CHESTER Oh… We'll get back to you. Uh, who-- CHESTER Who's next? SCOTT You are. CHESTER No, I'm the moderator. SCOTT Come on. ZOEY Chester. CHESTER No, no. SCOTT Come on. SCOTT Tell us. JOANNA Fair is fair. WINNIE Come on, Chester. CHESTER Okay. Uh... I have a slight case of OCD. CHESTER It took me… CHESTER …four years to get through law school... CHESTER …but… CHESTER …I graduated top of my class. CHESTER And my father's still ashamed of me. WINNIE Oh… CLAIRE Hey, you guys ready to go to the pre-trial hearing? RAYMOND Everybody ready? JOANNA Give them a minute. JOANNA They're bonding. WINNIE It's okay. SCOTT I found out something interesting about the woman who owned the gun. CLAIRE Oh, Mrs. Huddleston, yeah. SCOTT Yeah, she used to be a nanny. Among the children that she cared for... Linda Rutherford. Used to be Linda Carlton. Now she's Linda Yasbeck. CLAIRE Terry's widow. SCOTT Exactly. SCOTT She goes to visit her every other month. CLAIRE So she could have stolen the gun? SCOTT Many times over. CLAIRE You did a good job, Scott. SCOTT Didn't I? CLAIRE Okay… CLAIRE …now, this is just the pre-trial hearing. You don't have to do anything. They're not going to ask you any questions. CLAIRE Just... be here. PHOEBE Right, and look innocent. CHESTER Which you are, right? PHOEBE Yes! CLAIRE Okay. MILES She's good. MILES Don't underestimate her. CLAIRE I never underestimate people. MILES Good. CLAIRE Why, is she better than I am? MILES Are you serious? No… MILES …of course not! Why… MILES …do you think I hired you, just 'cause you're cute? CLAIRE Thank you. MILES You're welcome. CLAIRE Wait, you think I'm cute? MILES Yeah. CLAIRE Really? MILES Everybody thinks you're cute. CLAIRE So, like-- MILES Hearing's this way. CLAIRE Okay. ASHFORD I object. There's already been a gunshot-residue test… ASHFORD …admitted as evidence. JUDGE BATCHELLER That is true, Ms. Darrow. CLAIRE I don’t mean… CLAIRE …to disparage the state's test. I only want to verify it and expand on it. ASHFORD Your Honor, I don't see the need for us to have… ASHFORD …to go over-- JUDGE BATCHELLER I don't see any harm. JUDGE BATCHELLER I'm going to allow it. CHESTER Judge Batcheller always says that at first. MILES I know, Chester. Pay attention. CLAIRE So, Dr. Armstrong… CLAIRE …is this the result of the… CLAIRE …new test you administered on Phoebe… CLAIRE …Strasberg's hands? DR. ARMSTRONG Yes. DR. ARMSTRONG The tests were done some days… DR. ARMSTRONG …after the event, so it was difficult to obtain any definite results. CLAIRE But you did? DR. ARMSTRONG I did. I'm an expert. CLAIRE Yes, I know… CLAIRE …we established that… CLAIRE …and what were the results you found? DR. ARMSTRONG The results came back positive. ASHFORD I object again. ASHFORD This merely confirms the state's evidence, and it's a waste… ASHFORD …of the court's time. CLAIRE I beg the court's indulgence, Your Honor. JUDGE BATCHELLER For a few more minutes, Ms. Darrow. CLAIRE Thank you. So, it came back positive for gunshot residue? DR. ARMSTRONG Yes. CLAIRE What else? ASHFORD Objection! JUDGE BATCHELLER Overruled. DR. ARMSTRONG Brake fluid. CLAIRE Brake fluid? CLAIRE Like, from a… CLAIRE …car? DR. ARMSTRONG Indeed. It could be either one. DR. ARMSTRONG Brake fluid can produce a false positive in a GSR test. CLAIRE No further questions, Your Honor. CHESTER Score one for Ms. Darrow. JUDGE BATCHELLER Although the defense has presented some serious… JUDGE BATCHELLER …questions as to the validity of the GSR test, the court feels… JUDGE BATCHELLER …that the state's case is strong enough… JUDGE BATCHELLER …to go to trial. Bail has been… JUDGE BATCHELLER …set for $500,000. MILES I'll find a way. JOANNA So, Coach Reed... I feel funny calling you Coach. What do your friends call you? COACH REED Coach. JOANNA Really? JOANNA You can call me Joanna. COACH REED Jo? JOANNA Why not? Let's talk about Lou. COACH REED What about her? JOANNA Do you think she's a good player? COACH REED Could be. JOANNA If she played more? COACH REED Could be. JOANNA So why don't you let her play more... or at all? COACH REED I don't know. Why don't you think I play her more? JOANNA Because she's a girl. COACH REED That'd be discrimination. JOANNA Yes, it would. COACH REED She's on the team. JOANNA True. COACH REED So I'm not discriminating against her. Next question? JOANNA I... girls have every bit as much right to play baseball as boys do. COACH REED Of course they do. JOANNA You know, they're… JOANNA …just as strong. COACH REED That's a matter of opinion, I guess. JOANNA So are you worried about her getting hurt? COACH REED I don't want any of my kids to get hurt, the boys or the girls. JOANNA Oh, so you're protecting her, and that's why you're not letting her play? COACH REED It's a boy's game, Jo. JOANNA All right, it's not "Jo", it's Joanna. No, it's Ms. Darrow… JOANNA …and who… JOANNA …says it's a boy's game? COACH REED Everybody. COACH REED I mean, for a girl to really be able to compete, she'd have to be exceptional. JOANNA Oh! Oh, so she'd have to be better than the rest just to get to play? COACH REED Yeah, I guess, but why get her hopes up anyway? Let her play softball, Jo. That's a girl's sport. JOANNA But she loves baseball. I mean, why shouldn't she be able to play the game she loves? I mean, especially if she's good at it, and she is good at it... JOANNA …and if you're good at one thing, just one thing… JOANNA …that can affect the rest of your life, and... it can make you believe that you can do anything. You really want to stand in the way of that? COACH REED Okay. I'll give her a shot. JOANNA Really? COACH REED Sure thing. COACH REED It's good coffee. COACH REED The next one's on me. JOANNA Oh… PHOEBE Thank you for bailing me out. MILES Of course. PHOEBE I honestly don't know how I'm going to pay you back. MILES I'll get the money back when you show up for trial... right? PHOEBE Right. Of course. Where else would I be? MILES Look, Pheebs… MILES …I know things don't look great right now, but Claire… MILES …is the best attorney in the state. CLAIRE I know, but... MILES Just got to have faith. MILES Okay? PHOEBE Okay. Okay. MILES Okay. WINNIE I'm sorry. SCOTT It's no problem. It's our space. RAYMOND Can you believe that? It actually worked. Huh. RAYMOND Claire? CLAIRE What? RAYMOND You were on another planet. You were in orbit there. Did you bring anything back? CLAIRE No. No. Did you talk to Mrs. Yasbeck? RAYMOND Yes, I did. CLAIRE Okay. RAYMOND She… RAYMOND …took the gun away from Mrs. Huddleston because she was afraid she was going to hurt herself with it because she's in early-stage dementia. CLAIRE So Mrs. Yasbeck… CLAIRE …says. RAYMOND She gave the gun to Terry, who kept it in his office. CLAIRE So anyone could have gotten their hands… CLAIRE …on it. RAYMOND Including Phoebe. CLAIRE Ugh, so we're back to square one. Do you think she's being framed? RAYMOND I think there's two possibilities. One, she's being framed... and I don't think you want… RAYMOND …to consider the second possibility... CLAIRE I consider all possibilities. RAYMOND That she killed Terry Yasbeck? CLAIRE She didn't kill him. RAYMOND Look, using Occam's Razor... CLAIRE Oh, Occam's Razor again, I hate Occam's Razor. RAYMOND Okay, there are two possibilities. RAYMOND The simplest one is the most likely. CLAIRE What does Occam know? I didn't even think there was an Occam. RAYMOND Well, there was. RAYMOND He was a Franciscan friar. CLAIRE Okay, well, now I feel bad, but he wasn't a lawyer. RAYMOND No, no, he wasn't a lawyer. CLAIRE You don't think she did it, do you? RAYMOND Judging by the facts, I think she did, yes. CLAIRE But what does your gut say? RAYMOND My gut tells me that you really want her to be innocent. CLAIRE That wasn't the question. RAYMOND I know. CLAIRE Chester? CLAIRE Have you learned… CLAIRE …anything from Yasbeck's computer system? CHESTER Just that I don't care for contemporary music. CLAIRE Keep looking. SCOTT Uh, I think I may have something here. CLAIRE What? SCOTT You wanted me to call Dr. Armstrong and have him… SCOTT …analyze the brake fluid. Well, he came back with something pretty interesting. SCOTT It's a brand of fluid that isn't used very much anymore, mostly on old muscle cars. RAYMOND Uh-huh... you're thinking Jonah's Mustang? CLAIRE I am. RAYMOND Okay... So you think that maybe deliberately, someone put brake-fluid oil on her hands to cause a false positive on the gunshot-residue test? CLAIRE That's exactly what I'm thinking. RAYMOND All right, well, let's track this through, then. Who would know that that would work? Uh... somebody with a background in, uh... science, chemistry, law enforcement? SCOTT Or he could have Googled it. That's what I did. RAYMOND I hate the Internet. CLAIRE I'll be right back. MILES Oh, wait… MILES …so... you're saying you think the brake fluid came from Jonah's car? CLAIRE No, I'm just saying, it's worth checking out. MILES All right. MILES Phoebe? PHOEBE Miles! Uh, I was just looking for Jonah. MILES Yeah, we… CLAIRE We are too. PHOEBE Well, there's a side door. CLAIRE Oh, my gosh. PHOEBE Jonah! Jonah! CLAIRE Oh, my gosh. CLAIRE Call 911. PHOEBE Hey, hey... wake up… PHOEBE How's Jonah? Is he going to be all right? Nobody will tell me anything. MILES He has a concussion. CLAIRE He's going to recover, but if we hadn't come in, he would have died from carbon-monoxide poisoning. PHOEBE So do you think somebody hit him on the head and then started the car to kill him? MILES Yes. CLAIRE Consensus… CLAIRE …of opinion seems to be that was you. PHOEBE I swear to God, I just got there when you did. MILES What were you doing there in the first place? PHOEBE I got a phone call. CLAIRE From who? PHOEBE I don’t… PHOEBE …know. The number was blocked. MILES So why'd you answer it? PHOEBE I just did. You know, sometimes, you just… PHOEBE …do. CLAIRE No, I don't. PHOEBE Well, I just did. MILES Okay. Anyway… MILES …who was it? PHOEBE I still didn't know. The voice was altered electronically. CLAIRE What did it say? PHOEBE That Jonah had my album. CLAIRE And you believed it? PHOEBE No, of course, I… PHOEBE …didn't believe it. I still had to go check it out and see, didn't I? CLAIRE I thought you didn't care about the album. PHOEBE It's still two… PHOEBE …years' worth of work, of sweat and tears. I at least had to go talk to Jonah… PHOEBE …just see if he had it… PHOEBE …and that's when I ran into you guys. CLAIRE So… CLAIRE …the only one who can corroborate this story is an unidentified voice on the telephone? PHOEBE Doesn't sound too good, does it? CLAIRE No, it doesn't. MILES Not so good, no. MILES But you know what? We'll go talk to Jonah... CLAIRE Yeah. MILES See if he has anything he can say about this. PHOEBE Well, tell him I say hello... and that I didn't try to kill him. MILES Yeah. MILES Look, Pheebs... this is all going to be okay. PHOEBE I know you're lying, but... thank you for saying that. MILES Hang tight. JONAH I was lucky. CLAIRE You call this lucky? JONAH Call me a "skull half-crushed" kind of guy. Another few minutes, and I'd have been dead. MILES I like that half-crushed analogy. Half-crushed is good, full-crushed is bad. Did you see who hit you on the head? JONAH I don't remember. It's all kind of jumbled. CLAIRE Did you see Phoebe in the garage? JONAH I don't remember. MILES Do you have Phoebe's album? JONAH No, of course not. Why would you ask that? MILES I ask you that because... Phoebe got a-- what would you call it, an anonymous call from an-- CLAIRE A robot... MILES Electronically-altered voice that said you… MILES …had her album. CLAIRE Mm-hmm. JONAH Well, I don't. Who would make a call like that? CLAIRE We don't know. JONAH Well, did anybody else hear the call? CLAIRE No. MILES No. JONAH Well, then how do you know... CLAIRE We don't. We... CLAIRE We don't know that Phoebe's… CLAIRE …telling the truth. MILES Do you have any idea… MILES …who has the album? JONAH Well, I couldn't say. MILES You couldn't say? JONAH Well, unless... JONAH Evan Carlton. CLAIRE How would he… CLAIRE …get it? JONAH I don’t… JONAH …know. I just know that he was trying to get it away from Terry. MILES How? JONAH I don't know. JONAH Maybe he went to see Terry the night he... CLAIRE The night he was killed? JONAH Yeah, it would have to have been. MILES Okay, well... Oh… MILES …um... Phoebe says to say hi... and that she didn't try to kill you. JONAH Okay. MILES Okay? JONAH Tell her I believe her. MILES I will. Rest up. CLAIRE Feel better. MILES No, Evan Carlton wanted to steal Phoebe away from Terry, because Terry stole Evan's wife away from him. He hated Terry. CLAIRE Right. CLAIRE So you think Evan Carlton killed Terry Yasbeck? MILES Try this one on for size. Evan goes to Terry and says, "Hey, I'm going to take Phoebe away from you, and not only that, I'm going to take Phoebe's album away from you." Terry refuses, of course. CLAIRE Right. MILES Things escalate, old tensions... MILES …boil over, boom, Evan pulls a gun on Terry. MILES Yeah, as a D.A., I wouldn't prosecute him. CLAIRE Let's go talk to him. Maybe he'll confess. MILES Should I be good cop or bad cop? CLAIRE Let's be lawyers. MILES That'll never work. MILES So, the last time we were here… MILES …we established that Terry Yasbeck stole your wife. That's fair to say? EVAN He couldn't steal her. I didn't own Linda, I was married… EVAN …to her, and yeah, she… EVAN …chose Terry over me, and I let her go, end of story. MILES And you didn't resent that at all? EVAN I've put that all behind me. CLAIRE You seem… CLAIRE …awfully forgiving toward Terry Yasbeck, I mean, compared to the other day… CLAIRE …when we were here. EVAN Yeah, you know, I feel bad about that. I shouldn't have spoken about him that way so soon after... MILES After you killed him? EVAN Look, I didn't kill Terry, okay? CLAIRE But you had a reason to, right? EVAN Right, look... I guess I shouldn't be surprised she told you, seeing as how you are her brother. MILES She is my sister, but we'd like to hear it coming from you. EVAN All right. I'm in love with your sister… EVAN …and when I found out how… EVAN …Terry was treating her… EVAN …after what he did to me, yeah… EVAN …I was angry, very angry. MILES So you went to see him that night. EVAN How did you know that? MILES I didn't... until just now. EVAN Yeah, yeah, okay, I went to see him, but it was just to get her out of the contract. I wanted to get her album back, and we got into… EVAN …an argument. MILES And? EVAN And that's it. He wouldn't do either. He just laughed at me, so I went home and... you know, I figured I'd let the lawyers… EVAN …handle it. MILES And that's it? EVAN That's it. CLAIRE I don't believe you, Mr. Carlton. EVAN What do you want, huh? Do you want to look at my computer, see if her album's there? CLAIRE Hm, we don't have a warrant. EVAN You don't need one. I'll look for you. EVAN Her album is called Journey to the Center of My Soul. MILES Well, well. MILES What's that, Mr. Carlton? EVAN I don't understand. It's her album. CLAIRE How did it get there? EVAN I don't… EVAN …know! MILES Terry give it to you? EVAN No. MILES Maybe you took it... the night you killed him. PHOEBE So… PHOEBE …Evan has my album? I mean, that's amazing. MILES Do you know Evan is in love with you? PHOEBE Uh, yes. MILES Yes. CLAIRE Are you in love with him? PHOEBE Yes. MILES Yes? MILES Why... why didn't you tell us that? PHOEBE I just, I didn't think it was important. CLAIRE Or was it because you were protecting him? CLAIRE Was it because you thought that gave him a motive? MILES Do you think… MILES …Evan Carlton killed Terry? PHOEBE I... I think he could have... for me. COACH REED Okay, fellas, that's two-way! Two-way, fellas! COACH REED Good job! CLAIRE He's still not playing her. JOANNA He's going to put her in. He's just waiting for the right time. He's actually a very reasonable guy. CLAIRE You liked him? JOANNA I didn't say that. I just said that he's a reasonable guy. CLAIRE You weren't talking about him that way before you guys had coffee. CLAIRE Wait a minute... CLAIRE …you like-like him. JOANNA I… JOANNA …don't like-like… JOANNA …him. CLAIRE Yes! JOANNA No, I just think that you and I maybe, um... you know, we just didn't give him the benefit of the doubt. CLAIRE Oh, boy, you really like him. JOANNA You know, I just... but I don't understand why he hasn't put her in yet. CLAIRE Well… CLAIRE …I don't care if you like-like him. If he doesn't put her in, I’m gonna-- JOANNA I know, you're going to give him a piece of your mind. CLAIRE Don't think I won't! JOANNA I'm sure you will. CLAIRE It's the bottom of the ninth. JOANNA I can't believe he hasn't put her in yet. JOANNA He promised me! COACH REED Good try, buddy! Good try, Huey! We got someone on third, boys. COACH REED We got someone on third. CLAIRE He's not going to play her. JOANNA To think that I liked this guy! COACH REED Okay. All right. CLAIRE What's he doing? COACH REED Lou! COACH REED You're up. CLAIRE He's asking her to pinch hit! JOANNA In the bottom of the ninth. That's kind of a big deal… JOANNA …right? CLAIRE Yeah. COACH REED Let's go. Come on. CLAIRE Come on, Lou. JOANNA Okay… I know, I'm nervous. JOANNA Not good? CLAIRE No. JOANNA Come on, baby. CLAIRE Come on, come on, come on, come on. COACH REED Boo-yah! COACH REED Whoo! CLAIRE Yes! CLAIRE Go, Lou! COACH REED Boo-yah! COACH REED Whoo! JOANNA Lou! CLAIRE Go, Lou! CLAIRE Whoo! CLAIRE Go, Lou! JOANNA Lou! Lou-Lou-Lou-Lou-Lou! That's my granddaughter. CLAIRE Yeah! JOANNA Whoo! CLAIRE See, Coach? CLAIRE Wow, you hit that ball… CLAIRE …right down the center, bam! JOANNA Lou, that was awesome. Where did you learn how to hit like that? LOU My dad and I used to practice together. CLAIRE I thought you guys just practiced pitching? LOU Well, yeah, but we worked… LOU …on everything. CLAIRE He would have been so proud of you. JOANNA Uh... excuse me, I'll be right back. JOANNA What do you think you were doing out there? COACH REED What? I let your granddaughter be the hero. JOANNA You were setting her up. You wanted to cut her from the team. COACH REED You could choose to believe that... or you could choose to believe that I gave her a chance to sink or swim, and she swam. JOANNA And what about next week? COACH REED I'll give her another chance. JOANNA What, you're going to let her pitch? COACH REED We'll see. JOANNA You don't treat any of the other kids like this. COACH REED No, I don't. JOANNA Because she's a girl. COACH REED Because she's special... unlike the other kids. JOANNA Oh, oh, so... because she's special, you treat her worse than everybody else? COACH REED That's right... COACH REED …'cause I want her to work for it. Resistance builds strength, you know. COACH REED So do you want… COACH REED …to get another coffee sometime? JOANNA Hmm... Ah, we'll see. Resistance builds strength, you know. COACH REED She's good. CLAIRE She's great. MILES Isn’t… MILES …she? CLAIRE Yeah. TERRY Hey, Phoebe? PHOEBE Yeah? TERRY Phoebe, what are you doing? TERRY Are you asleep? PHOEBE Uh, um, I'm sorry. TERRY Try it again! JOANNA Mr. Wylkes… JOANNA …and his granddaughter believe in obeying the letter of the law, and here is a license for the purveying of liquid refreshment, signed and notarized. JOANNA You'll find that it pertains to your neighborhood and its… JOANNA …environs. MRS BELLAMY It's dated today. JOANNA Yes, that's right. MRS BELLAMY What about last week when they were operating illegally? JOANNA Well, I think that we can forgive a few days of... MRS BELLAMY I don't. I don't forgive anybody. I'm still going to sue them… MRS BELLAMY …and prosecute them to the fullest… MRS BELLAMY …extent of the law. JOANNA Really? You're really going to… JOANNA …do this? MRS BELLAMY I really… MRS BELLAMY …am. JOANNA All right, Mrs…. JOANNA …Bellamy, um... what if we were to look into your building violations? MRS BELLAMY I don't have any. JOANNA Hmm, that apartment above your garage? It has a bathroom, doesn't it? JOANNA Is your neighborhood zoned for that? And what… JOANNA …about unlawful garage conversions? Hmm? PATRICK How did you know about all those zoning violations? JOANNA Oh, I didn't, but come on, everyone's got zoning violations, right? JOANNA See? Told you I was going to do it. TERRY Hey, Phoebe? PHOEBE Yeah? TERRY Phoebe, what are you doing? Are you asleep? PHOEBE Uh, um, I'm sorry. TERRY Try it again! CLAIRE Chester, go through the computer system again. Search everything… CLAIRE …from the night of the murder. CHESTER I've been through it. CLAIRE Go through it again. PHOEBE I swear… PHOEBE …if you do that... you'll be sorry. TERRY Oh, I'm trembling. TERRY Uh, it's the wife. Do you mind? TERRY Hello. I'm coming home soon, hon. MILES What are you looking for? CLAIRE I just heard something for the first time. Don't you hear it? MILES Hear what? CLAIRE Winnie, get me the transcript… CLAIRE …from Linda Yasbeck's testimony. WINNIE Just a sec. Here it is. CLAIRE Read the part where she talks about her husband's murder, the night of the call. MILES When he was shot? CLAIRE Yeah. MILES Um, okay. "I'm coming home soon, hon." TERRY I'm coming home soon, hon. LINDA Okay, I... TERRY Hey, Phoebe? Phoebe, what are you-- MILES "Hey, Phoebe?" "Phoebe, what are you..." and then she hears the gun shot. CLAIRE Everything he said was in this recording. MILES Somebody could have edited this and then placed the call. CLAIRE Which would mean Terry might have already been dead by 1:30. RAYMOND And if that's the case, then Phoebe would have been playing at the club. MILES She'd have an airtight alibi. RAYMOND You've got to prove it. RAYMOND Look, it's the truth, right? Don't kill me. I'm just the messenger. MILES You ever wonder why the messenger has so few friends? RAYMOND Ugh. CLAIRE Mrs. Yasbeck, I'm sorry to have to ask you to do this again, but… CLAIRE …do you remember the phone call you received from your husband on the night… CLAIRE …in question? LINDA Yes. LINDA I'll never forget it. CLAIRE Do you remember his exact… CLAIRE …words? ASHLAND Objection, Your Honor. I see no reason… ASHLAND …on earth to put Mrs. Yasbeck… ASHLAND …through this ordeal again. JUDGE BATCHELLER I'm inclined to agree. It does seem unnecessary. CLAIRE If the court would just indulge me for one more minute. ASHLAND I, for one… ASHLAND …am tired of indulging Ms. Darrow. CLAIRE Your Honor... JUDGE BATCHELLER Enough. What about you… JUDGE BATCHELLER …Mrs. Yasbeck? JUDGE BATCHELLER Do you object? LINDA No. LINDA I remember his exact words. CLAIRE Mm-hmm? LINDA He said, "I'll be coming home soon, hon." CLAIRE Those were his first words? LINDA Yes. CLAIRE He didn't say hello? LINDA No, he didn't. CLAIRE Did he usually say hello? LINDA I guess usually… LINDA …yes, he said hello. CLAIRE Okay. And then what did he say next? LINDA "Hey, Phoebe." CLAIRE Was it a question? LINDA Pardon? CLAIRE Was it like… CLAIRE "…Hey, Phoebe?" or was it like, "Hey, Phoebe." LINDA I don't know. CLAIRE Okay, what did he say next? LINDA He said, "Phoebe… LINDA …what are you--" CLAIRE Okay… CLAIRE …thank you. You don't have to continue. Did it sound something like this? Chester. TERRY I'm coming home soon, hon. TERRY Hey, Phoebe? TERRY Phoebe, what are you... LINDA Yes, yes. ASHLAND Objection, Your Honor! ASHLAND Non-disclosure. ASHLAND How did Ms. Darrow get a copy of that phone call? JUDGE BATCHELLER I was wondering the same… JUDGE BATCHELLER …thing, Ms. Darrow. CLAIRE I didn't. My associate, Chester… CLAIRE …Lime, pieced it together… CLAIRE …from bits of a conversation on a studio tape. JUDGE BATCHELLER So that wasn't… JUDGE BATCHELLER …the call that Mrs. Yasbeck heard? CLAIRE Actually, that is exactly… CLAIRE …what Mrs. Yasbeck heard… CLAIRE …because that is exactly what the killer did. ASHLAND I object again. ASHLAND Are we supposed to take Ms. Darrow's… ASHLAND …word for it that this magical audio trick is possible? CLAIRE Objection sustained! JUDGE BATCHELLER That's my job, Ms…. JUDGE BATCHELLER …Darrow. CLAIRE I'm sorry, I was just trying to save time, because… CLAIRE …I would like to call an expert on audio engineering. I would like to call Jonah LaRochelle. CLAIRE Mr. LaRochelle… CLAIRE …in your expert opinion, could the audio have been altered in… CLAIRE …the way described? JONAH I imagine it could. CLAIRE Could you have made this recording yourself? JONAH I think I could have. CLAIRE Did you make this recording? JONAH I… JONAH …no! That's ridiculous. CLAIRE Well, who was in a better position to make it? JONAH Phoebe. JONAH She used to be my assistant. She knows all about audio engineering… JONAH …and besides, she tried to kill me, remember? She hit me on the head… JONAH …and then tried to asphyxiate me with my own car. CLAIRE Oh, yes, the car. CLAIRE You were very lucky... or were you lucky? Maybe you were just... careful. ASHLAND Objection. JUDGE BATCHELLER I'm going to allow… JUDGE BATCHELLER …it. I want to see where this is going. CLAIRE Did you stage that assault… CLAIRE …on yourself, Mr. LaRochelle? JONAH Why on earth would I do that? CLAIRE To divert suspicion from yourself and make it look like Phoebe Strasberg… CLAIRE …tried to kill you. ASHLAND Objection! CLAIRE Withdrawn. Tell me, I want to see if you… CLAIRE …recognize this object we've labeled… CLAIRE …Exhibit C. JONAH Uh… JONAH …sure, it's a mic stand. CLAIRE Which mic stand? JONAH It's a mic stand. They all look alike. CLAIRE Oh, I don't think so. CLAIRE This mic stand was found in the… CLAIRE …dumpster of a Chinese restaurant… CLAIRE …three blocks from Terry Yasbeck's studio. CLAIRE Do you see the red clip? JONAH What? JONAH Oh… JONAH …yeah, it looks like Phoebe's mic stand… JONAH …the one that she always liked. CLAIRE You are correct. CLAIRE In fact, we are prepared to prove that that is Phoebe's mic stand, and we are also prepared to prove that the inside tube of that mic stand and the red clip are both coated… CLAIRE …with brake fluid-- brake fluid… CLAIRE …from a car... not unlike yours… CLAIRE …Mr. LaRochelle. ASHLAND Objection… ASHLAND …Your Honor. The connection between this brake fluid and the brake fluid in Mr. LaRochelle's… ASHLAND …car... CLAIRE Has not been proven. CLAIRE You know what? You are correct, Mrs. Ashland, and I don't think it can be proven... but it is interesting, don't you think? JONAH Not really. CLAIRE Because… CLAIRE …somebody knew that the State… CLAIRE …would give Phoebe Strasberg a gunshot-residue test after Terry Yasbeck was killed, and that person knew… CLAIRE …that brake fluid could cause… CLAIRE …a false positive on the test. I mean, you can find that out on the Internet... and that person did… CLAIRE …that because that person killed Terry Yasbeck and tried… CLAIRE …to frame Phoebe Strasberg for the crime. JONAH Well, it wasn't me. I was with Phoebe at the nightclub when Terry was killed. CLAIRE How do you know that? How do you know when Terry was killed? JONAH I don't. You're confusing me. Do I have to answer? JUDGE BATCHELLER You kind of do. JONAH Uh, could you repeat the question? CLAIRE Withdrawn. I'd like to play that tape for you again. ASHLAND Objection. CLAIRE Mr. LaRochelle is an... CLAIRE …expert. I would like his opinion on it. JUDGE BATCHELLER Overruled. Proceed, Ms. Darrow. CLAIRE Thank you, Your Honor. CLAIRE Chester? CHESTER Ready. TERRY I'm coming home soon, hon. TERRY Hey, Phoebe? Phoebe, what are you-- CLAIRE Well? JONAH Like she said, I've already heard it. CLAIRE Oh, but you haven't. CLAIRE That is a different recording. CLAIRE That is a recording that my associate, Chester Lime, who is very thorough, found on Terry Yasbeck's studio computer… CLAIRE …system. JONAH Well, that's impossible. CLAIRE It was really… CLAIRE …hard to find. He had to search through all these deleted files and reconstruct it. CHESTER I did. JUDGE BATCHELLER We believe you, Mr. Lime. CLAIRE But in the end, he found it… CLAIRE …because computers are like elephants... they remember everything... CLAIRE …and you know whose… CLAIRE …file it was deleted from? JONAH No. CLAIRE It was yours. CLAIRE Why'd you make that recording? JONAH It was a joke. CLAIRE Was it? I'm not laughing, Mr. LaRochelle. CLAIRE Your wife is Phoebe's backup… CLAIRE …singer, isn't that right? JONAH Yes. CLAIRE Are you aware… CLAIRE …that your wife sent Terry Yasbeck an email the week of the murder? JONAH An email? CLAIRE With an attachment. JONAH I-- I-- I... I seem to remember something. CLAIRE She sent him an e-mail of her singing. CLAIRE It was one of Phoebe's songs. CLAIRE And why would she do that? JONAH Well, I think he requested it. CLAIRE Hmm, well... her e-mail reads as follows... "I think I sing… CLAIRE “…this song much better than that no-talent… CLAIRE …Phoebe." JONAH She was-- she was joking. CLAIRE Was she? Here's Terry's reply. "Pathetic. CLAIRE Stick to being a back-up singer. CLAIRE You can just barely do that." JONAH He was joking. CLAIRE Hilarious. How did your wife react? JONAH She laughed… JONAH …you know. CLAIRE Tell me… CLAIRE …why wasn't your wife at the club… CLAIRE …the night Terry was murdered? JONAH She was at home. CLAIRE She wasn't. CLAIRE We have security… CLAIRE …footage from the gas station at… CLAIRE …your corner. It… CLAIRE …shows Norah LaRochelle getting gas at 12:10 a.m…. CLAIRE …that evening. Now, why… CLAIRE …would she do that unless she was coming home from somewhere else? CLAIRE Unless she went out just after midnight to fill the tank? JONAH That. She did that. CLAIRE Or was she coming back… CLAIRE …from Terry Yasbeck's studio? JONAH She wasn't. CLAIRE Your wife… CLAIRE …resented Phoebe's success, didn't she? CLAIRE She hated being a back-up singer… CLAIRE …just a few feet from stardom. CLAIRE She thought, with Phoebe out of the way, Evan Carlton… CLAIRE …would make her a big star. CLAIRE Didn't she? CLAIRE Isn’t that why she killed Terry Yasbeck? ASHLAND Objection! JONAH No, she didn't! JONAH I did. I shot him. NORAH It's a trick, you idiot! Shut up! JUDGE BATCHELLER Order! JONAH She knows! JONAH She knows everything! CLAIRE I know what, Jonah? CLAIRE That your wife killed Terry Yasbeck, and you helped her? JONAH Yes. No! I did it all by myself. NORAH No, he didn't. NORAH I did it. He didn't know anything about it until afterwards. CLAIRE Your Honor, can we talk? MILES Yay, Claire! ALL Cheers! CLAIRE Thank you. MILES Well, I didn't let you down. PHOEBE I knew you wouldn't. Thank you. MILES You're so welcome. MILES You're the best. CLAIRE So, using a recording to time-shift the murder, smearing the mic stand with brake fluid... what would Occam think of that? RAYMOND I'd say... he'd probably think it was pretty complicated, because he did live in the 14th century. RAYMOND You know, murder was simpler back then. CLAIRE Yeah. PHOEBE Claire? Thank you so much. PHOEBE Thank you. CLAIRE Oh, of course. EVAN You are a miracle worker. CLAIRE I'm not. EVAN I actually thought you suspected me for a minute. CLAIRE Yeah, I totally did, and you know, I… CLAIRE …still don't know how Jonah got Phoebe's album on your computer, but that was brilliant. RAYMOND What about the accident in the garage? CLAIRE Staged to deflect attention from Jonah. Norah hit him on the head and started the car. RAYMOND Oh, sweet couple. CLAIRE Aren't they? RAYMOND Yeah. CLAIRE Hey, where'd your brother go? PHOEBE Um, he's somewhere around here. CLAIRE Hm. PHOEBE I'm not sure. CLAIRE Okay. PHOEBE Thank you! CLAIRE Mom? CLAIRE Good job settling that lemonade case. JOANNA Yeah, I call it the “When Life Gives You Lemons Affair.” CLAIRE Yeah, okay, that sounds good. JOANNA Well, actually, maybe I'm still working on that. CLAIRE Okay... JOANNA Yeah. CLAIRE And you didn't even have to go to court. That's the best way to resolve things. CLAIRE I'm proud of you… CLAIRE …and... I've been thinking, and I know that we… CLAIRE …have our differences, and there are going to be challenges… CLAIRE …ahead, but I would really like to offer you-- JOANNA To offer me… JOANNA …more cases? CLAIRE Yeah, I'd like to offer you some more cases. JOANNA And you're going to make me a partner? CLAIRE Associate. Please. What is with the partner? JOANNA Okay, I can wait... but not too long. CLAIRE Hug. JOANNA Aw. CLAIRE Aw, thanks. JOANNA Okay. CLAIRE Oh, and... CLAIRE …good job, everybody, great. CLAIRE Great. Great work. MILES Whoo! MILES Ah! MILES Homage. To the victor goes the coffee. CLAIRE Thank you. Where's yours? MILES You're welcome. MILES Well... you have to buy me one… MILES …because you won, but I won, too. CLAIRE What? MILES We both won, didn't we? CLAIRE Yeah, we did. MILES Although I will say, you know... you had faith, and I didn't, not so much. CLAIRE You always believed she was innocent. MILES Yeah, no, I didn't think my sister was a murderer. CLAIRE So how could we lose? MILES You're... you're amazing. See, I'm a D.A. I don't think like that. CLAIRE Well, maybe you should start. Maybe that's your problem. MILES Maybe I should start. You're right. MILES So, dinner, Saturday night? CLAIRE Yeah, let's do it, but no shop talk, right? MILES No shop talk. CLAIRE Okay. MILES For ten minutes… MILES …and then maybe some shop talk. MILES Yeah. CLAIRE Too bad we don't have grape soda. CLAIRE You have grape soda. MILES I have grape soda. CLAIRE Well done… CLAIRE …Counselor. MILES Let's celebrate, Counselor. LOU You ready, Mom? CLAIRE Yes, just a sec. JOANNA Well, come on, let's go! Your daughter's about to pitch a perfect game. LOU Don't jinx me! LOU Coach says he's going… LOU …to let me pitch for a few innings, you know… LOU …just see how I do. CLAIRE That is great. You're going to get nothing but strike-outs. LOU Mom, don't you jinx me, too! CLAIRE Sorry, honey. What do you want us to say? LOU Just quiet confidence with no expectations. CLAIRE Okay. JOANNA Okay, how about... JOANNA …you are going to be perfectly adequate! LOU That's better. CLAIRE Go adequate! Hey, we never had our weekly meeting this week. JOANNA Oh, I knew there was something great about this week. LOU Me first! JOANNA Ugh. LOU My plan is to pitch well in today's game. My goal is to write a good paper… LOU …for my Social Studies class… LOU …and my aspiration... what do you think about me trying out for the varsity football team? CLAIRE You're kidding, right? LOU I'm kidding. CLAIRE She gets this from you. JOANNA I have never been more proud.