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it would sway the deaf vote.

I got on the next plane

and we were married a month later.

I'm sure wherever Stelli is now, there are

12 guys better than me chasing her around.

But if you have a moment,

I just have this to say.

Remember please forever that I love you.

Don't be late for work.

You OK?

I've been better.

- How's it going in there?

- It's going OK.

- People have started to leave.

- Good.

You need something?

- A priest.

- Yeah.

Somebody I could confess to.

Somebody who'd tell me it wasn't my fault.

It wasn't your fault.

Maggie, she shot an embolism.

These things take years.

They build up...

No, but then I took this case.

You know, Nick, all my life,

whatever I wanted, she was always there.

She's always been there for us and

the one time she asked me to do something...

No, no, no. Come on.

You can't blame yourself for that.

That's not what she would have wanted.

OK?

Yeah.

- I gotta go home.

- No.

I think what you gotta do is stay here

and be here with your father.

He'll be fine, Nick.

He's got you.

He's got me, yeah, but he needs you.

He needs you, Maggie.

Nick!

Laura's looking for you.

Take your dish.

Thanks for coming.

See you.

I never knew she kept this.

My jelly-jar glass.

Do you remember when she boycotted grape

jelly in sympathy with the farm workers?

Yeah. And all I'd eat was peanut butter

and grape jelly sandwiches.

- I didn't know that.

- Yeah.

I solved the problem, though.

Or at least I thought I did.

I found a grape jelly without

any grapes in it. All chemicals.

- She'd never let you eat that.

- No. But it put her in a moral dilemma.

Should she satisfy a demanding child

with an affront to human rights

or cop out to toxic sludge?

- What did she do?

- She introduced me to marmalade.

Hey, Jed. Give a call.

OK. Thanks.

What a mess.

Your mom was always

in charge of organization.

She had a dental appointment today?

- How fast was that, Dr Getchell?

- 30mph.

That's amazing.

Just amazing.

Isn't that amazing, Maggie?

All that damage forjust going 30.

Yeah.

Well, there's gonna be damage till

we can figure out a way to make cars bounce.

- Do you test every model this way?

- Every model, every year.

Feds say we got to.

Course, this is only one test.

We do 77 others.

Don't want no surprises.

That's what gets my goat

about this damn lawsuit.

What you got here is just about

the safest damn car on the road.

- You'll say that on the stand?

- Hell, yes.

But don't stop with me.

- What's this?

- Meridian performance charts.

The '85 model exceeded

every federal standard that year.

- Plus...

- Plus?

- Plus Rowena.

- Who's Rowena?

Not who. What.

An independent research facility.

The car passed every test.

- I can't find my keys.

- You're late. I need you to chop ze onions.

- Aren't we going out for dinner?

- No, I'm making your mom's menudo.

You're cooking?

- How many tablespoons in a teaspoon?

- Do I look like a calculator?

- Maybe I should make something.

- Oh ho ho! No, thank you.

I prefer to die in ze bed.

Is this supposed to look like this?

- Jesus!

- What?

No, nothing.

So I just left everything the way it was.

- Have you finished?

- Yeah.

- Not bad for a couple of lawyers.

- Yeah, it wasn't your mother's but...

- It was great.

- I just wanted some of her smell around.

I got some of your mom's things packed up.

I figured you might like 'em.

- Yes. Yes.

- Wanna see 'em?

Oh, no. Oh my God!

Look at all your hair!

You had a beautiful mother, Magpie.

Look at that. My God.

Magpie?

You haven't called me that since...

I must have been 12.

Yeah.

- The prettiest, smartest...

- Yeah.

...mouthiest kid.

- Ah, the People's Park Festival.

- Oh, yeah.

- 1967, '68.

- Yeah.

They don't make marches like they used to.

Do you remember this?

No, only what I read in the paper.

You left Mom and me at home. Of course.

I'd just turned 13.

My first boyfriend had dumped me.

And I could have used you.

Young love was always

your mother's line, Margaret.

I was busy trying to keep

the planet in one piece.

Burning a few bras in the process.

I was more interested

in burning draft cards.

Really? I thought you were more

interested in the women's movement.

Relationships were more casual

in those days. It was just more open.

Oh, please!

I'm so tired of the '60s crap.

I was on the road for six,

nine months at a time.

None of this ever meant anything to me.

Not even Alice Worth?

So that's it? Case dismissed?

- You're out of order, counselor.

- And you are guilty as charged.

Alice Worth was my law partner.

Oh, please, Dad!

You think I didn't know?

- This is none of your business, goddamnit!

- Alice Worth was very much my business!

She wasn'tjust some nameless one-nighter.

Alice was a friend.

She was Mom's friend. Mine.

She was everything I wanted to be.

She was smart and beautiful and a lawyer.

I used to follow her around in here, to watch

how she'd cross her legs or hold her drink,

and then Mom finds her letters to you.

She never cried in front of me.

She wouldn't do that.

But when she thought I was asleep,

I could hear her.

Alone in her room,

sometimes three, four in the morning.

- I'm really tired of this ancient history.

- She was never the same after that!

Something in her eyes went dead.

Margaret, you have to know

that I was committed to your mother.

No. In one fell swoop,

you took away the woman I admired,

the mother I knew

and the father I believed in.

The conscience of America.

Defender of the huddled masses!

The only thing you cared

about the huddled masses

was how tall you could stand

on their shoulders!

- Wait a minute. There's more to this...

- I'm going.

- Wait. I spent my life trying to help people.

- Oh, yeah?

Got any thank-you notes

from Jack Tagallini recently?

Margaret! I had nothing to do with that.

Oh, yeah?

I think you're being a little modest.

Before you met Jack Tagallini,

he was just a nice guy,

pissed off at the cost

overruns at Zembella Air.

- It never occurred to him to go public.

- He didn't know how. I had to show him how.

You forced him! Or conned him! Or whatever

it is you do to get on the cover of Newsweek.

Oh, Jesus Christ!

I was on the cover of Newsweek

because I was right. Goddamnit!

Thatjury was out for two hours and 27

minutes. They gave us every single point.

But what about Jack Tagallini?

You turned him into a whistle-blower

without telling him what it would cost.

He lost his job, all of his friends,

his professional life.

That case changed the law! It affects

every single person who gets on an airplane.

- You stopped taking his calls.

- I helped him.

- No, you dumped him!

- The world keeps turning.

I had other people to help.

You dumped him!

I couldn't hold his f***ing hand, OK?

No, you didn't hold a hand unless

it was young, female and attractive!

You're a user, Dad.

You used Tagallini and all those women

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