The Rainmaker Page #9

If you don't punish Great Benefit,

you could be their next victim.

That's it.

Don't be nervous.

- Has the jury reached a verdict?

- Yes, we have.

Is it written on paper, according to my

instructions? Please read the verdict.

We, the jury, find for the plaintiff

and award actual damages -

in the amount of $150,000.

And we, the jury, find for the plaintiff

and award punitive damages -

in the amount of $50 million.

All rise.

These people were trying to

hide things, and they got caught at it.

The lead attorney on the case,

Rudy Baylor, was trying his first case.

That's a staggering verdict...

Not bad for a yard boy.

It wasn't difficult. We had a great jury,

and the facts just fell into place.

$50 million?

How much do you get?

- You get right to the point.

- Stop it, that's not what I meant.

We get one third,

but the money's not in the bank yet.

- I'll see you later.

- You're gonna leave her all alone?

Not for long.

Rudy, I've decided

I'm gonna put your name in my will.

You are just too kind to me.

Hot off the news wire:

"Wilfred Keeley, CEO of Great Benefit,

was detained yesterday at JFK, -

- just after boarding a flight

bound for Heathrow. "

"He claimed he was sneaking away for

a holiday, but couldn't name a hotel... "

...at which he was expected. Today

Great Benefit filed for bankruptcy.

Great Benefit is under investigation.

A number of lawsuits have been filed.

Rudy, Leo Drummond here.

It appears

the company has been looted.

I'm sorry. I wanted you

to get every penny of that money.

Everybody loses on this one.

- I wanted you to know.

- Thank you, Mr Drummond.

Great Benefit's like a bad slot machine.

It never pays off.

We should have taken the $175,000.

What the hell were we thinking?

It just got all twisted,

this legal profession.

Every lawyer in America

was talking about me, -

- but it doesn't make me feel like

a member of the legal community.

I might be able to go on practising law

if I was working with my whole heart, -

- but I can't do that and cover Kelly.

And she's gonna need a lot of cover.

I love the law, but maybe I should be

teaching it instead of practising it.

- I need time to work it out.

- Great Benefit has gone belly-up.

Barring a miracle,

we won't get a dime.

You put them out of business.

One little woman from Memphis

bankrupted them sons of b*tches?

I'm gonna go to Donny Ray's grave

and tell him all about it.

I guess Kelly and I will be taking off

first thing in the morning.

We made history, Rudy.

Do you know that?

We can always brag.

I'm hot. In fact, I'm so hot, there's

no place for me to go but down.

Every client I ever have will expect

the same magic, nothing less.

And I could probably give it to them,

if it didn't matter how I did it.

And then I'd wake up one morning and

find that I'd become Leo Drummond.

Give me a call

when you pass the bar exam.

Yeah, piece of cake.

Every lawyer, in every case,

crosses a line he didn't mean to cross.

It just happens. And if you cross it

enough times, it disappears forever.

Then you're nothing but a lawyer joke.

Just another shark in the dirty water.

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