Suspect

Miss Quinn.

Justice Lowell.

I hope you haven't been waiting too long.

No, sir.

Please come in.

You have plans for the holidays?

I'm staying in the city.

Spending Christmas with some friends.

I never know what to get people.

My wife would buy our gifts.

She always seemed to get just the right thing.

I hope this is appropriate, use it well.

Thank you, Mr. Justice, I will.

Have a good Christmas.

And you too.

Would you like your car brought around, Justice Lowell?

Not just yet, Marie, I want to clear my desk.

You know, Abraham Lincoln used to hunt wild turkey

down our roads.

You can still bag one there for Christmas dinner.

Okay, polar bears, let's goJ.

Come on, Mike, it's not that cold.

Bill, we've got something here.

Hey up hereJ.

And now back to our main story.

Justice Lowell is said to have been despondent

over failing health.

The president, speaking this morning at a memorial service

at Washington Cathedral,

called the Justice one of our finest, most eloquent jurists.

A man dedicated to law and devoted to truth.

Funeral services will be held this afternoon

at Arlington Cemetery.

HeyJ.

Hey heyJ.

You pigsJ.

That was my mother'sJ.

What is she doing?

Out of the way, manJ.

From Your Honor's lockup list is number 15,

United States versus Daniel Adams.

Mr. Adams, you're being charged with the possession

of a prohibited weapon. - Hi, Jack.

Hi, Kath.

Did you get my message?

Yeah, are you okay?

Yes, I'm fine.

All right, see if he can get him to take a recess

for a couple of weeks,

we'll blow some smoke up his judicial ass.

Did I miss anything?

Your assault with intent skipped.

What a surprise, he promised me he wouldn't.

Yeah, well, I have a feeling we might see him in March

with a nice Florida tan.

Here's today's top 40. - Okay.

Busy night.

102 felony arrests.

Some kind of a record for Monday.

I don't know what it is, gotta be like something in the air.

The Christmas spirit.

Oh, yeah.

Get Carl Wayne Anderson.

Next on Your Honor's lockup list is number 17.

United States versus Carl Wayne Anderson.

Is Mr. Anderson's attorney present?

Your Honor, Mr. Anderson has refused

to speak with an attorney.

He's refused to speak with anyone at all.

You are being accused of first degree murder.

Do you understand that, Mr. Anderson?

Do you know where you are, Mr. Anderson?

As I am unable to determine

whether Mr. Anderson is competent,

I will postpone presentment pending psychiatric evaluation.

Does Mr. Anderson have means of support?

He's indigent, Your Honor.

The court, then, will appoint new counsel.

Let the record show that Ms. Riley

with the public defender's office

will represent Mr. Anderson.

Your Honor, I'm due for a vacation.

I haven't had a vacation in a year.

Miss Riley, please accompany Mr. Anderson

and interview him.

Yes, Your Honor.

We'll pass this case, what's next?

Mr. Anderson, I am Kathleen Riley

with the public defender's office.

I'd like to ask you a few questions.

You're being charged with murder.

Could you tell me where you were around midnight,

December the 18th?

Mr. Anderson, where were you at midnight,

December the 18th?

I'm your lawyer.

Anything you tell me is confidential.

Look, if you don't talk to me, I can't help you.

All right, I guess this is a waste of time.

Do you understand what's happening to you?

Jim, you wanna let me out of here?

Can't they read?

Don't you own a watch?

We're in trouble.

We're in deep shit.

Support's drying up quicker than an old whore.

Right now, it's too close to call.

Did Comisky declare yet?

She's still on the fence.

Eight or nine are waiting to see which way she falls.

- Did she go in? - Yeah.

Ah, here's Eddie.

Congressman Newton, good to see you.

Bye-bye.

What about the whip?

He said he'd keep his people in line.

He told me he'd never turn his back on the American farmer.

What else is new?

He got a sudden backache, he's sitting out the vote.

He told his side of the aisle to vote their conscience.

That'd be a first.

Well, what do you think, Grace?

I can't help you, Eddie.

I just wanted to see which way the wind was blowing.

That's it?

Yeah, that's about it, I respect you, Grace.

I'm not gonna insult you with some promise

out of left field, you gotta vote your conscience.

When you get humble, I get nervous.

I feel like I'm being set up.

Nothing up my sleeve.

Look, you did what you could.

I'm in a tight spot.

My district's blue-collar union,

I'm on their side, Grace.

I come from a farm family myself of dirty collars.

But everyone expects milk on their table,

and if the price isn't right

the dairy farmers are gonna dump it in the river.

Have you ever seen it?

It's a terrible waste.

Grace.

Grace.

When you were in trouble,

when you needed the crop states' support

on the car company bailout, I ran up the flag for you.

I pulled a lot of votes.

That's life, Eddie.

No, Grace, that's politics.

Life is what everybody else does, remember?

Right.

All right, look.

Your district has got a big inner-city lunch program, right?

Right.

Well, I don't see why we can't donate

a year's worth of free milk.

No point in it going down the river.

I don't believe that you're trying to bribe me

with milk for babies.

Grace, it's a good bill.

Just give me some time to shore up some support, all right?

Have the vote postponed until after the holidays.

Why did you wait so long to come to me?

It slipped my mind.

Nothing slips your mind.

Life is what everybody else does.

You're dangerous.

All right, I'll get it postponed,

but that squares us, Eddie.

Don't ask me for my vote, it's not for sale.

What happened?

He beat up one of the officers last night.

I'd like to put his eye out.

That's the third time that happened in two months.

Keep goin' like this he goin' to wake up

one morning and find hisself hung.

I'm gonna pretend like I didn't hear that, Becker.

Did a doctor see him?

Yeah, he came and went.

He wouldn't let him touch him.

All right, take the cuffs off.

Hey, chief told me not to, not around...

Look, just take the cuffs off, all right?

I'll be responsible.

All right, you wearin' the suit.

They put animals to sleep, you know?

Yeah, they miss some sometimes, don't they?

Are you trying to commit suicide?

I mean, just let me know if you are because if you are,

I've got better things to do with my time.

Oh, Jesus.

Get a doctor.

I couldn't read your writing in some places.

I think I got,

I think I got most of it

but I have to ask you some more questions.

Carl?

Carl?

CarlJ.

Have you told me everything?