The Paper Chase Page #7

it's clean and concise.

How about you, Kevin?

It's coming.

Can you tell us how far?

It'll be ready

in four weeks...

uh, before exams.

I don't think Kevin

has an outline.

I think the pimp

is holding out on us.

If you ever say "pimp"

in front of me again...

Pimp.

Jesus!

You want to know

about my outline?

It's 800 pages long,

and it's fantastic...

but you'll never

see it, Ford.

Hart is the only one

I'm gonna let see it.

He's the only one of you

who isn't a pimp!

I was gonna let you see it, Ford,

but I changed my mind.

And as far as

the robot pimp goes...

I was never gonna let

that pimp see it anyway!

Get out! You get out

of my study group!

It's a pleasure,

you pimp.

Quite amusing.

I wonder if our dropout rate

is paralleled in other groups.

Look,

what's gonna happen?

We don't have outlines

anymore in property...

or in civil procedure.

In another month,

by the end of the year...

when exams come...

we might not

have any at all.

I need the outlines.

I need them.

I need help.

Look, Kevin, nothing's

going to happen.

Take a rest, will you?

Go somewhere

and rest your mind.

We'll meet again next week

and figure something out.

Now, listen, I can't

wait that long, you see?

I've got a plan.

It's fine for you...

because you talk in class,

but I can't wait that long!

Kevin, we're all

in the same boat!

Well, gentlemen,

I'll see you next week.

Kevin, come with me.

We'll get somethin' to eat.

Screw O'Connor,

Bell, and Kevin.

Well, hello, Hart.

Hello.

Is... Is Kevin in?

Come on in.

I'll tell him

you're here.

Would you like

some coffee?

Yes, please.

Just black.

Hey, Hart.

What are you doing here?

Hey.

Quite a place.

Oh, yes.

Asheley's folks wouldn't

permit their daughter...

to live in anything that

wasn't quite a place.

How about a drink?

Sure.

You know, I was, uh,

just working on my outline.

I brought some notes.

Good.

Well, here we are.

Did you tell Hart

the good news?

Oh, uh, no. I was

just about to.

Asheley's pregnant.

Well, that's great.

Congratulations.

Yeah.

Calls for a little celebration.

Yeah. That's fine,

thanks.

Well...

I'll just leave you two

to talk your law school talk.

I brought these notes...

and I thought...

maybe I could help you

with the outline...

or anything that, uh...

No one can help.

Not even Moss.

You, uh, you should

have been there.

You should have seen the mess

I made out of Moss's hypothesis.

Yeah, I got

a photographic memory.

I'm a walking,

talking encyclopedia.

I got facts at my fingertips,

facts on the tip of my tongue...

but I just don't have the kind

of mind that can, uh...

Don't have the kind of mind

that can make the grade.

You're lucky, Hart.

You and Ford and Liberty Bell

and the robot pimp...

You're all gonna pass.

You'll all make

the Law Review. You...

You talk in class.

You're Kingsfield's favorite.

You'll get the grades.

They're just grades,

Kevin.

You know better

than that.

It's a number.

It's a letter...

but it determines

salaries and futures.

With my grades,

it's gonna be pretty rough...

just keeping us in pablum.

How about another drink?

You know, uh,

I can mix a Mai Tai...

a Margarita, an Alexander,

a Grasshopper.

Hmm. Anything you want.

I glanced at

a bartender's book once...

and memorized them all.

Instantly.

It's the only bar

I'm ever gonna pass.

Please, I don't want you

to see this. Don't...

Asheley!

Hart's got to go.

Thank him for coming.

I'm getting quickly indisposed.

I'll leave these notes here.

He's just so tired.

He works so hard.

Yeah.

Every night

till 3:
00 or 4:00.

The competition

is killing him.

He always talks

so much about you...

how nice and bright

you are.

Oh, I'm not very bright.

It comes hard for me, too.

Are you married?

No.

Got a girl?

No.

Listen, Tuesday

is Kevin's birthday...

and I wanna make him

a party.

A surprise

birthday party.

Well, the thing

of it is...

I don't know

any of his friends...

and he hates

all of mine.

So, uh, I thought you might

invite the study group.

It would mean a lot to him.

Sure.

You don't have to bring

any presents.

What time?

Oh, uh, 8:
00.

All right.

Okay.

Well, thanks

for droppin' by.

Sure.

Good night.

Sure.

Good night.

Good night.

Brooks vs. Scoville

illustrates the distinctions...

between the general demerit

and the special demerit.

That is, a general statement...

that a complaint

is insufficient...

and a demerit which argues

that the specific allegations...

of a plaintiff

are without foundation.

I think the concept

is rather clear.

We always seem to hear

from the same people.

Would anyone who has

not contributed lately...

care to speak?

Very well, I shall have

to ferret you out.

Mr. Brooks, we haven't heard

from you in a long time.

Give us the facts

of Tinn vs. Hoffman.

Some 13 letters and telegrams...

passing between a company

wishing to sell pig iron...

and a company

wishing to buy it.

Every time it looked

as if they had made a deal...

the company wishing to buy

always hedged back down.

Finally, the frustrated

seller gave up...

and sold the pig iron

elsewhere.

Now the company

that wishes to buy is suing...

saying that the seller

had promised him the iron.

Mr. Brooks, what is

the holding of this case?

How did the court

reach its decision?

in a letter of November 28th...

we find this phrase,

"Making you an offer."

The court seemed

to stress this phrase.

Oh, l... I guess that's not

the crucial passage.

Mr. Hart.

The correct rule...

and the one in which

this case was decided is:

"In an ambiguous

set of facts...

"the party who creates

the ambiguity...

"and tries to use it

to his own advantage...

shall have the ambiguity

resolved against him."

Now, if both parties

are equally blameless...

what rules then?

Who should bear the burden

of the financial loss?

Miss Farranti.

Where the parties

are both blameless...

the court should place

the burden of loss...

on the party who can

most easily bear it.

Normally, the party in

the best financial position.

Oh, God! Kevin's party!

Ford!

Oh, sh*t.

Ford!

Hey, 8:
00 tonight

was Kevin's birthday.

Want to go?

No. I wasn't invited.

Look, I'm inviting you.

Asheley asked me to invite the whole

study group, but I forgot.

Look, it's 9:
15.

The party's over.

Oh, sh*t!

So I've got possibilities

with a couple of New York firms...

and, uh... but I want to

spend the summer...

Hey, Anderson.

I'm sorry, Asheley, but, uh,

I forgot about the party.

There isn't any party.

Kevin tried

to kill himself.

I'm having a baby,

and he tried to kill himself.

Where is he?

He's upstairs.

Kevin!

Please...

take it out

of the house.

Please.

Take it and leave.

I'm sorry, Kevin.

Get out.

It is clear that

under such circumstances...

the defendant's promise

to pay Neilson's debt...

was without consideration.

Mr. Hart, what do you think

of Mr. O'Connor's argument?

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