Harry's Law - Second Season

Previously on Harry's Law ... Your job is here, Malcolm.

It's just, he's giving me real law work to do, Harry.

- It would be a good experience. - You're a freshman in college,

not an attorney. You're not qualified to do real law work.

- Whatever I do won't interfere with my work here. - See that it doesn't.

Most people my age resign themselves to just

projecting their hopes and dreams onto their kids.

Well, I don't have any kids, but I'll tell you this,

I do get to project a little hope and a few dreams... with you.

I believe in Malcolm. I think he's going to make

for a fine lawyer one day.

What's going on?

Isaac Roberts, you are under arrest for the murder

of Officer Xavier Elroy.

You have the right to remain silent.

Represent a cop-killer, Harry, you can forget about

having a good relationship with the police.

I'm not saying I'll defend him in court,

just couldn't hang him out to dry.

- I'm sorry, but if you don't have an appointment... - Don't need one.

Yes, you do. Mrs. Korn is very busy. You can't just...

Get out the way, girl.

Can I help you, boys?

Uh, men, can I help you?

C.K.

You know these guys?

Why am I already getting a bad feeling?

It's probably best if we don't say too much.

About what?

It's like this, Dante here's a juvenile. He's 14.

And he's going to step up.

Okay.

And say it was him.

- It was me. - He's a Juvenile, like I'm saying,

no priors, he gets off easy. And the boy gets out of jail.

Look, Malcolm's doing some important stuff.

He can't be locked down now.

Fellas, um, I honestly don't know

what the hell you're talking about.

You don't know?

- For real? - For real.

Malcolm's in jail.

Harry's Law 2x20 - Class War Original air date May 6, 2012

Malcolm, what the hell?

- Look... - Burglary?

It's all just a big misunderstanding.

- It better be. - Harry, I was let into the building, all right?

The security guard will say so. I know him.

And what about the city councilman's office?

I sort of just ended up in there.

- I never took anything. - What are you doing in there?

I was investigating something.

For school?

No.

What the hell are you doing

investigating in a city councilman's office

- in the middle of the night? - Not in here.

And not just tea, mind you, tea kettles, tea cups,

tea cosies, tea diffusers, anything to do with tea...

it's a very substantial shop, you see.

I don't really... And I don't get tea.

And I'm definitely not getting why I'm here.

Which one of you is going to tell me?

I need your help. Tony's been arrested.

Tony, I'm guessing that's you?

Yes, I'm in thoroughly modern custody.

What's going on?

Well, a long, long, time ago, back in England,

I was an art collector of sorts, primarily of

pieces not belonging to me.

You're an art thief?

It's the more blunt way of putting it, yes.

Except I was a art thief. It's something I used to be

back in a life not currently my own.

I can tell he's a bit slow on the uptakes.

- Want to take it down a wee bit? - No, I think he follows.

Anyway, um, most of the pieces,

the cheap snatch and go sort of thing; yeah, I was 17.

I had neither a proper eye nor an automobile,

so it was a bit of a smash-and-grab practice, yeah.

Lots of storefront windows, that sort of thing.

Looking confused again, but I'll press forward.

But one of the pieces, um...

turns out was by a chap named Rembrandt...

highly overrated if you ask me...

but he caught on just the same.

- You stole a Rembrandt? - Unwittingly...

would be the operative word there.

I was 17. I didn't know it was a Rembrandt.

Anyway, like I said, it was a lifetime ago.

But three weeks ago, the painting was recovered,

an investigation ensued which has catastrophically

led back to... to me.

Now they want to extradite him on grand theft.

Phoebe tells me you can stop that?

Well, (chuckles) I'm not sure I can.

But Adam, you must.

I mean, certainly when you were in law school,

you must have one day dreamed of championing

the cause of the innocent man. Admittedly, I'm not that,

but I... I am a decent chap.

And, um...

if you could prevent this bloody extradition...

it would make my day.

And what could be more gratifying

than that, my good man,

than to make somebody's day. Hm?

You are damn lucky they let you out, Malcolm.

You realize that?

Okay, now tell me what the hell's going on here.

You remember Li'l D?

Of course I do.

Yeah, well, you know he was convicted, right?

- And that he got the death penalty? - Yeah, I heard that, too.

Well, I'm trying to help him get a new trial.

- He's innocent, Harry. - Malcolm...

they matched the bullet they took out of Li'l D's shoulder

with the gun from the dead cop.

He shot him in self-defense!

All right, and you might know that if you weren't here...

I'm sorry, if what?

You said you'd help him.

You said you'd defend him, and then you bailed.

I did not.

I got him set up with a more experienced

- criminal attorney, who... - Who just went through the motions

- Well, I can't do that. - You can't do that...

You're not a lawyer, Malcolm.

You haven't even been to law school.

The man's innocent, I can't just sit by and let him be executed.

So how does this end up with you snooping around

a city councilman's office at midnight?

Connect the dots. I'm getting bored here.

The cop was dirty.

He had some sort of real estate thing going on

with the councilman, and Li'l D was sort of involved, too.

- Sort of involved, how? - Well I think you should hear that from him.

It means you'd have to go to death row,

which is where he is now

So, dude hired me to torch this building.

It was a vacant, you know, so nobody was going to get hurt.

The pay was good, so I did it. It wasn't no thing..

By "dude," you mean who?

- The cop. - The cop you shot?

- Yeah. - And what, this was some kind of insurance scam?

Yeah.

Who was behind it?

Somebody who worked with the city.

A councilman or something. I don't know for sure.

- That's who... - Yeah, hold it.

Who did you deal with?

Only the cop.

Until you shot him.

Listen, he was working with this councilman.

Now, he didn't give me a name, but I heard him say

"Beacon" on the phone a couple times.

- George Beacon... - Hold on, Malcolm.

So, this cop, working for this councilman

hired you to torch this empty building

Yeah.

Now you.

Beacon. That's whose office I was in

the night I got picked up.

I figured if I could connect Beacon to the cop,

prove the cop was dirty...

- You burned down the building? - Yeah, but the next night,

I showed up where I'm supposed to, to get paid,

and that's when dude tried to light me up.

- What do you mean, light you up, he tried to kill you? - Yeah, so I shot him.

- Why would he want to kill you? - Look, I don't know.

I didn't get a chance to ask him, all right?

Maybe he thought I was a loose end of something.

All I know is, he needed to get shot and that's it.

So, I don't feel like I shot no cop.

I shot a criminal conspirator who was trying to kill me,

who would have killed me if he was a better shot.

Best I can tell, we have a shot.

- Brilliant. - Well, it's not a good one.

It's going to depend on the judge.

I shall be charming, then. I give you my word.

Shall I be handsome, too? I do that rather well.

Tony.

Hey, look, can I get some of that white stuff?

Rodrigo here, he's not feeling so good.

White stuff? What, is he dealing cocaine, too?

Are you mad? He's talking about a chai.

The white ayurvedic chai to be exact.

It's loaded with antioxidants. We should all drink it.

Tony,

I tried telling Rodrigo right here about the rhino,

he don't believe me.

Really?

What part didn't you believe, my good man?

The part about you killing it.

Well, it's true.

In fact, it's the only reason I stand before you today.

You see, I was on a perfectly delightful safari

when, suddenly, out of nowhere, the monster death-charged,

his head was bearing down in full gallop.

I was about to be gored, I promise you, lad.