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Your mama, she's a good lawyer.

- She'll defend you?

- Yeah, we're a family.

- You got trouble, I help. I got trouble...

- I help.

You help.

If somebody says something

about your grandpa...

...one of your friends, you say:

" F*** you! Jump in the lake."

I can say that?

- Good night, Mikey.

- Good night, Grandpa.

Papa?

- Papa, I'll represent you.

- Good.

"Good"? That's all?

- Very good.

- Oh, "very good."

I need to know everything about you,

everything that they might know.

I think you should stay here with me

and Mikey for a while.

No. I'll go to my own house.

But we can work better out

of here, Papa.

It's not gonna be easy.

Papa?

It'll be okay.

It'll be okay, Papa.

No, Annie, it's never

going to be okay again.

Hey, hey. Hey, nice boots.

You're looking good.

Good-looking butt too.

- Hi. How you doing?

- Hey, Karchy.

- Why don't you come inside.

- No, no, I forgot my tie.

Listen, I got a list of guys

from the mill who are gonna testify.

- Okay? I can get more if you want to.

- No, this will be enough, this is...

You're gonna get him out of this,

ain't you?

- Ain't you?

- Yes.

I mean, you better. Because if this

was a bar fight and he needed me...

...I'd slice some nuts. Pop, he busted

his guts 30 years in that f***ing mill.

- He did it all for us here, you know?

- I know that, Karchy.

- Well, what's going on?

- Well, I have to put the case together.

He ain't no f***ing case, he's Pop.

Now, you're gonna have

to slice some nuts here.

Karchy, why do you always

have to talk so crude?

What? You know another way of slicing

nuts without being crude?

I'm gonna have to get crude here.

Go to work.

I just don't want you losing clients

because I'm working out of this office.

I'll work out of my

ex-father-in-law's office.

- She returns to Harry Talbot.

- Just for the trial.

Here, these are Monday's hearings.

- These trials last for years, Ann.

- Oh, not this one, Mackie.

Harry was in the OSS during the war,

you know.

And the OSS becomes the CIA.

And the CIA sets up its first little

spy apparatus in Europe...

...by putting a bunch of Gestapo guys

on the payroll.

Word is Harry used to sip his bourbon

with Klaus Barbie.

Well, now, the word I heard was that

he sipped bourbon with senators.

He even sipped bourbon

in the White House a couple times.

I never heard anything

about Klaus Barbie.

Those are all next week.

Why don't you get somebody else

to represent your father?

Get that guy from Cleveland.

He handled that Dimuna...

That Demjena... That Dimjolt guy,

whatever his name was.

Take it easy.

He wants me to represent him.

What do you know about

40 years ago...

...in a part of the world

you've never been?

What do we know about our parents?

Oh, I know him, Mackie.

He raised me.

Have you ever thought about

his fantasies?

- How he makes love?

- Oh, Lord.

I don't understand why

you can't work out of here.

Maybe she's afraid you're gonna be

going through her drawers.

- God knows I tried.

- Very funny, Sandy.

This isn't funny, Annie.

This is Uncle Sam's big truck...

...coming down full-bore.

- Hi, Harry.

- So we finally got you back, did we?

After all these years of your

ethnic airs about working up here.

Mrs. Cooper will take care

of everything for you. Bourbon for me.

Dean likes yuppie drinks. Sometimes

the apple falls far from the tree.

We got our judge.

- Erwin Silver.

- Silver, you kidding?

I wish a jury could hear this.

A daughter defending her father

would strike them as heartrending.

It's not gonna strike Erwin Silver

as heartrending, I'll tell you.

- All I know about him is that he's fair.

- Sure he is.

I don't care that he's Jewish,

I care that he's fair.

I care that he's fair.

Ln this case, I also care

that he's Jewish.

Probably lean over backwards though.

He'll have to.

You think you could claim bias?

Have his verdict put aside?

Harry, I hadn't even thought of that.

You don't have a prayer,

you know that?

The Holocaust is the world's

sacred cow.

Holocaust survivors

are secular saints.

You'd be better off pissing on

the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...

...than trying to cross-examine him.

- How's my grandson?

- Fine.

That's all you ever say about him.

" He's fine."

He's fine.

When you've settled in, you can use my

secretaries, they're at your disposal.

By the way, Mischka didn't do it,

did he?

This is it.

- So I'll see you later then?

- Yeah.

Bring me a Scotch and a bottle

of whatever Mrs. Talbot's drinking.

I had a professor

in law school who'd say:

" Don't ever let a case beat you down.

Always trust what you feel inside."

But he wasn't a litigator.

He was dropping pearls of wisdom

on young, idealistic students.

You're trusting your heart.

And you're going to get it broken.

What are you trusting,

your ambitions?

Lt must be devastating to have to read

those things about someone you love.

I'm sorry.

I don't want your condescension.

Come on, have a drink.

You've got the wrong man.

I wish we did.

You know, it's a perfect camouflage.

Raise a couple of all-American kids...

...and you avoid even a shadow

of suspicion.

- You know, you're his perfect alibi.

- Yeah?

I'm sorry.

Oh, violence runs in the family.

F*** you.

Now, when I say go,

we both point to the right.

Go.

- Hey, porcupine. Come here.

- Hi.

- Dinner's ready.

- Point to the right, will you?

I'm not gonna eat.

How can you watch this?

What's the matter?

How would you feel, Papa,

if we had a Jewish judge?

You think it's a good idea?

A funny idea, that's for sure.

- He's a good judge.

- Okay. If you think so, it's okay.

Papa, why didn't we ever

have any Jewish friends?

How are we gonna meet?

Our friends, we see at church,

on the west side.

Jews live on the other side.

At mill, I have Jewish friends.

Why didn't you ever invite them

to the house?

They no invite me to come over.

At the university,

you dated a Jewish boy.

I told you not to date a Jewish boy.

Papa, tell me about

the Special Section.

Those...

...killers. Close to the SS.

Commando.

I don't know.

I've got nothing to do with them.

Papa...

...they have a Photostat

of a Special Section ID card...

...with your signature,

with your picture on it.

It's not possible.

Where did they get it?

The Hungarian government

turned it over to them.

I tell you, they...

They put my gendarme picture

on it.

My... My writing.

To fake. To fake the card.

They got witnesses.

Witnesses who identify you.

They're accusing you

of horrible things, Papa.

Annie, the Communists said to them:

" Better for you if you identify him."

Isn't there some record

somewhere, Papa?

Some record of your assignment

as a clerk?

They're going to tell you

they don't have it.

Lt was lost in the bombings.

The Americans drop bombs in the war.

That's funny.

Annie...

...are you upset at me?

Or at the case?

Lt makes me sick, Papa.

They took those people...

...women and children, and they

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