Suits Page #11

Season #1

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HARVEY:

They know you only have a week to find

whoever it is you’re looking for.

MIKE:

They’re fighting back.

HARVEY:

They’re trying to bury you in paperwork.

Mike looks at Harvey with confidence.

MIKE:

They picked the wrong guy.

HARVEY:

That’s what I like to hear. Now excuse

me, I have to go charm a new client.

INT. JOHN DOCKERY’S OFFICE - A LITTLE LATER

John Dockery, CEO of Dockery Chemical shakes Harvey’s hand.

DOCKERY:

Nice to finally meet you. Katherine says

you’re going to sweep me off my feet.

HARVEY:

I’ll do my best, Mr. Dockery.

Harvey hands him the manila folder from Vanessa, he opens it.

DOCKERY:

What the hell is this?

HARVEY:

Looks to me like it’s you having sex with

a woman who isn’t Mrs. Dockery.

DOCKERY:

Are you trying to blackmail me?!

HARVEY:

No, I’m not. You asked my firm to see

where you’re vulnerable to corporate takeover.

This is where you’re vulnerable.

DOCKERY:

What are you --

HARVEY:

Your wife owns fifteen percent of the

voting shares of your company. As far as

I can tell, you’ve been seeing this woman

and several others for quite some time.

How do you think your wife’s going to

vote her shares after she finds out?

A beat:

DOCKERY:

Who says she has to find out?

HARVEY:

Mr. Dockery, my investigator was able to

obtain these pictures in a week. What do

you think a motivated competitor of yours

will be able to dig up in a year?

This lands on Dockery. Harvey pours two glasses of water.

HARVEY (CONT’D)

I have a simple solution. Trade her your

preferred shares, which have no voting

rights for her common shares, which do.

DOCKERY:

The preferred shares are worth two

million dollars more.

HARVEY:

A fraction of what you’ll lose if you get

voted out of your company.

Harvey offers a glass to Dockery. A beat.

DOCKERY:

You looking down your nose at me?

HARVEY:

John, please, I don’t care if you sleep

with the entire Knick’s dancers. Just

give her the preferred shares.

Harvey smiles. Dockery takes the glass.

DOCKERY:

Katherine said you were going to charm me

to get my business.

HARVEY:

I’m not interested in getting your

business. I’m interested in keeping it.

Harvey and Dockery share a drink.

INT. HARVEY’S OFFICE - NEXT EVENING

Mike enters. He’s been up all night and all the next day.

MIKE:

I know where they don’t want us to look.

HARVEY:

You got through those files by yourself

in a day and a half?

MIKE:

I would have done it faster, but I

ordered a pizza. Have you tried that

Papa John’s crazy bread? It’s fantastic.

(off look, coming clean)

Rachel helped me. Half the files were

men. Another chunk were women over

sixty. I read the rest.

Harvey smiles at Mike trying to pull one over on him.

MIKE:

Come on, it’s still impressive!

HARVEY:

What did you find?

MIKE:

We pieced together from the records there

was a dismissal on March 12, 2002. But

the file containing the employee name is

missing. That’s our woman, I know it.

I’m moving to slap monetary sanctions on

their attorney, possible jail time...

this guy isn’t gonna know what hit him.

A beat. Harvey dials his phone. It rings on speaker.

HARVEY:

Phil, it’s Harvey Specter. Did you have

anything to do with the March 12th, 2002

files being left out of discovery?

PHIL (ON SPEAKER)

No.

HARVEY:

If the file is here by noon, I’ll believe

you, if not we’re filing for sanctions...

Harvey hangs up the phone and looks at Mike.

HARVEY:

Threat of sanctions is better than filing

for sanctions.

MIKE:

That’s what I meant. I was going to

threaten him. Not file. I meant that.

INT. DINER - LATER THAT DAY

Mike sits with Nancy again...

MIKE:

Nancy, did you know, or have you ever

heard of a woman named Joanna Webster?

NANCY:

No. Not that I can think of. Why?

MIKE:

The company tried to hide her existence

from us. Her records show she met with

personnel over “work related issues,” in

2002, then was let go two months later.

NANCY:

You think Hunt did the same thing to her

that he did to me?

MIKE:

Yes, I do.

NANCY:

Then get her to come forward and say so.

Mike knows that’s not going to be easy.

INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - LATER THAT EVENING

Mike knocks on the door of an apartment. A woman, JOANNA

WEBSTER answers, she looks surprisingly similar to Nancy.

JOANNA:

Can I help you?

MIKE:

Joanna Webster, my name is Mike Ross, I’m

a lawyer. I have some questions about

your time at Devlin McGreggor.

Joanna hesitates.

MIKE:

Please, just let me tell you a story

about my client, Nancy Johnson...

INT. JOANNA’S LIVING ROOM - A LITTLE LATER

Mike and Joanna sit, he’s clearly just told her about Nancy.

JOANNA:

That sounds about the same as what

happened to me. But --

MIKE:

Please, all I need you to do is tell your

story. If you corroborate Nancy’s --

JOANNA:

Mr. Ross, what happened to me, happened

seven years ago. It was violating and

horrible and there was a reason I didn’t

do anything about it. I know what they

do. They’ll put me on that stand and

attack me and I don’t want that.

MIKE:

Joanna, this man is a predator. He did

it to you, he did it to Nancy, and if you

don’t help stop him, he’ll do it again.

Mike takes her hand.

MIKE:

I’ll be with you every step of the way.

All you have to do is give a deposition

tomorrow, and then testify again on

Friday in front of the judge.

JOANNA:

I’m sorry, I can’t do it.

Mike’s face falls...

INT. HARVEY’S OFFICE - LATER THAT NIGHT

Harvey is working late at his desk. Mike enters and slumps

into a chair, completely dejected...

HARVEY:

What happened with the witness?

Mike becomes instantly excited:

MIKE:

I got her to testify! You should’ve seen

me. I threw everything at her. Told her

if she didn’t stop him he’d do it again,

I’d be with her every step of the way...

Mike holds out his arms to Harvey in amazement.

MIKE:

It didn’t work! I was done. I had

nothing. Then it hit me, I asked her

what if it was her daughter she was

testifying for... she melted. I used

empathy to get her to testify.

(starts singing)

Testify. Testify. She’s gonna testify.

A beat. Harvey looks at Mike:

HARVEY:

Well, I’m glad to see the fact that you

were up all night didn’t make you giddy.

(smiles, then)

Now go get some sleep. I don’t want you

singing during tomorrow’s deposition.

Mike leaves. Harvey smiles to himself as Katherine enters...

KATHERINE:

Harvey, how’s it going with the pro bono?

HARVEY:

I just talked a witness into testifying.

KATHERINE:

Really? What’s the witness’s name?

A moment. Harvey has no idea of the answer. He’s caught...

KATHERINE:

I’m not an idiot. Don’t treat me like

one. You pawned off the case.

HARVEY:

I’m sorry you feel that way, but --

KATHERINE:

Damn it Harvey, I told you this was a way

for you to show that you thought about

more than just yourself.

HARVEY:

I’ve got higher profile cases that --

KATHERINE:

Need I remind you when we met, you were a

28 year old screw up? I gave you a shot

at the mail room, led you up the ranks to

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