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Boston Legal
1-7: Questionable Characters
Extracted scripts: Lori’s case
Topic: Robbery
All Actors: ①Police Officer, ②Lori Colson, ③ADA Mark Wills, ④Michael Shea, ⑤Dr. Randall, ⑥Paul Lewiston, ⑦Judge Christine Wilcox, ⑧Tara Wilson, ⑨Alan Shore
Middle of the night, outside a convenience store. An unidentified man puts a ski mask over his head, takes out a revolver, and enters the store. While the masked man is looking towards the door to see if anyone is coming, the clerk takes a gun out of the drawer, aims and shoots the robber, who falls backward, knocking over merchandise. He awkwardly gets up and stumbles out the door.
Inside the hospital emergency room, filled with medical personnel and some police officers, one of whom stops Lori Colson as she enters.
①Police Officer: Help you?
②Lori Colson: I need to see Michael Shea.
①Police Officer: You family?
②Lori Colson: I’m his attorney. I understand you’ve been questioning my client.
①Police Officer: Take it up with the A.D.A.
③ADA Mark Wills: Lori Colson. So it is true. You switched to the dark side.
②Lori Colson: Mark, where’s Michael Shea?
③ADA Mark Wills: Mr. Shea is indisposed at the moment. Genius got himself shot in the chest.
②Lori Colson: He called me less than 10 minutes ago. He asked for counsel.
③ADA Mark Wills: He didn’t ask me.
②Lori Colson: Are you charging him?
③ADA Mark Wills: Not yet. We’re still investigating.
②Lori Colson: Investigating what?
③ADA Mark Wills: I don’t need to tell you that.
②Lori Colson: If he’s not arrested, I can see him. I don’t need to tell you that.
③ADA Mark Wills: Your client’s on his way to surgery right now. You’re welcome to see him as soon as he’s out.
②Lori Colson: (loudly) Michael? Michael Shea? Can you hear me?
④④Michael Shea: Lori? That’s my lawyer right there. Hey, could you let her in please?
②Lori Colson: You heard him, Mark. These people are witnesses.
④Michael Shea: Lori.
②Lori Colson: (to doctor) Can you give us a minute?
⑤Dr. Randall: Yeah.
②Lori Colson: Michael, what is going on?
④Michael Shea: I didn’t do anything.
②Lori Colson: You got shot, Michael. The police are here.
④Michael Shea: Lori, I was walking home. A guy comes out of nowhere. I just—I didn’t want to give up my money. He shot me.
②Lori Colson: Michael, the police think that you’re a suspect, not a victim. If you did something—look at me! I need you to tell me the truth.
④Michael Shea: Lori, I didn’t do anything, okay? I swear.
Same day, inside the hospital emergency room, Lori is talking to ADA Mark Wills in front of three police officers.
②Lori Colson: He says he got jumped on the way home.
③ADA Mark Wills: You believe him?
②Lori Colson: I have no reason not to.
③ADA Mark Wills: Look, we had a robbery a few blocks away. A guy wearing a ski mask. Owner gets a shot off, hits the guy in the chest. Eleven minutes later, your guy shows up here.
②Lori Colson: So did two other gunshot victims within the same 20-minute timeframe. Both young males. I asked. Michael Shea doesn’t do stick-ups.
③ADA Mark Wills: You don’t know that. We ran his raps—prior assault, gun possession.
②Lori Colson: Can I talk to you for a minute?
③ADA Mark Wills: Yeah. Lori motions him away from the officers to talk in private.
②Lori Colson: Okay look, I know this guy. We flipped him on that receiving case.
③ADA Mark Wills: He was your informant?
②Lori Colson: Yes. For over a year. He was a big help to us, Mark. I don’t think he would do this.
③ADA Mark Wills: Well, we’re gonna know soon enough.
②Lori Colson: Meaning what?
③ADA Mark Wills: Hospital’s under court order. When that bullet comes out, it goes to our lab. If the slug matches the store owner’s gun, he’s guilty.
Same day, inside the emergency room, where Lori Colson is talking to her patient at his bedside.
④Michael Shea: They want the bullet?
②Lori Colson: Mm-hmm. That’s why they’re here—so they can match it against the store owner’s gun.
④Michael Shea: I don’t feel so good.
②Lori Colson: Will it match, Michael? What exactly am I dealing with here? They are suddenly joined by a doctor with an x-ray.
⑤Dr. Randall: You’re a lucky man, Mr. Shea. If that shot were six inches lower, I’d be talking to a corpse.
④Michael Shea: So I’m not dying?
⑤Dr. Randall: No, you’re stable. Once we remove the bullet, you’ll be fine.
④Michael Shea: What if you don’t?
⑤Dr. Randall: Don’t what?
④Michael Shea: If you don’t remove it? You just said I’m stable, right?
⑤Dr. Randall: Well, for now. But that bullet could puncture your heart wall, Mr. Shea.
④Michael Shea: Okay, well, I think I’ll risk it.
⑤Dr. Randall: What do you mean, you’ll risk it?
②Lori Colson: Uh, I need a moment with my client.
⑤Dr. Randall: We have to get him up to surgery.
②Lori Colson: One quick moment. Thank you. The doctor leaves.
④Michael Shea: Okay, I’m sorry. I screwed up. It’s big.
②Lori Colson: Michael—
④Michael Shea: Lori, you know my record. I’m on probation. They get me for this, I’m gonna go back. It’s gonna be 30 years.
The doctor rejoins them.
⑤Dr. Randall: We’re out of time. This removal isn’t optional.
②Lori Colson: For us it is. Step back, please. My client doesn’t consent to this procedure. And if you ignore his wishes, I’m afraid the consequences could be significant for this hospital, and you personally.
⑤Dr. Randall: You can’t be serious.
②Lori Colson: Try me. You can patch him up. But that bullet stays where it is.
Same day, Lori is talking to Paul, who is seated at his desk in his office.
②Lori Colson: I mean, it’s a balancing test, right? Legitimate state interest in recovering probative felony case evidence versus the right to refuse invasive and potentially deadly surgery. I can argue it. Maybe even win.
⑥Paul Lewiston: But?
②Lori Colson: But am I suppose to use all of my legal skills so Michael Shea can leave a bullet in his body and die from it?
⑥Paul Lewiston: Now, the doctor didn’t say he would necessarily die, right?
②Lori Colson: He said the bullet could puncture the heart wall. What are you saying? That it’s all right to walk around with a nine-millimeter slug in your chest?
⑥Paul Lewiston: Well, as you know, my policy is to always remove bullets immediately after I’m shot. Lori, is your client competent?
②Lori Colson: I suppose.
⑥Paul Lewiston: Is he being clear in communicating his wishes to you?
②Lori Colson: Yes.
⑥Paul Lewiston: Have you vigorously presented alternative courses to him?
②Lori Colson: Paul, I’ve done all of those things. Legally, I’m covered. Am I doing the right thing?
⑥Paul Lewiston: You’re doing what your client wants within the bounds of the law. End of inquiry.
Same day, inside Judge Christine Wilcox’s courtroom. Lori is sitting at a table with Tara, across from ADA Mark Wills.
③ADA Mark Wills: We need the bullet, Your Honor. We can’t prove our case without it. We’re entitled to retrieve it.
②Lori Colson: Retrieve it? Nice euphemism. Judge, they want to take a knife and slice open my client. This is a patently unreasonable search
③ADA Mark Wills: It is not unreasonable. Read the cases. The court has to apply a balancing test.
⑦Judge Christine Wilcox: What exactly am I balancing, Mr. Wills?
③ADA Mark Wills: The risk and intrusion to the defendant against society’s interest in solving this crime.
②Lori Colson: The risks, Your Honor, are significant. We’re talking about cutting the skin, extensive probing, retracting the tissue—
③ADA Mark Wills: Oh, come on. You have the doctor’s statement. In his words, this is a simple procedure.
⑦Judge Christine Wilcox: You must admit, Miss Colson, the law doesn’t protect defendants from all intrusions. The state can, for example, take blood from a drunk driving suspect.
②Lori Colson: Taking blood is a minor intrusion. This is a surgery under general anesthesia where there are tangible, foreseeable risks. Cardiac arrest, hypocapnea, hypotension—
③ADA Mark Wills: Yeah, all of which are hypothetical at best. Look at the statistics. He’s not in danger.
②Lori Colson: Your Honor, this is over the line. They want to drug my client until he is unconscious. Then they want to cut him open.
③ADA Mark Wills: It’s a small incision. Recovery is minimal.
②Lori Colson: If we can force people onto an operating table so the State can troll for evidence, the Fourth Amendment means nothing.
⑦Judge Christine Wilcox: Sit. Sit. Mr. Wills, other than this bullet, do you have anything at all to connect Mr. Shea to this crime?
③ADA Mark Wills: Uh, no, Your Honor. But this entire line of arg—
⑦Judge Christine Wilcox: Well, I suppose I could find probable cause based solely on the nature and timing of Mr. Shea’s wound, but that wouldn’t be enough.
③ADA Mark Wills: If I could just be heard—
⑦Judge Christine Wilcox: You were heard. The depth and location of the wound, the use of general anesthesia, the potential of nerve damage, cardiac arrest, however small, the risks are real. I find that kind of intrusion unreasonable.
Still same day, inside the hospital emergency room, Lori Colson is helping Michael Shea put on his shirt. Michael groans in pain.
②Lori Colson: Sorry.
④Michael Shea: So, uh, I’m not under arrest?
②Lori Colson: No. Without the bullet, the D.A. doesn’t have enough to charge you.
④Michael Shea: Thanks.
②Lori Colson: Listen, Michael—
④Michael Shea: Okay, wait. Don’t—don’t say it. You’re disappointed in me. Think I don’t get that?
②Lori Colson: I’m sure you do, but I don’t understand why—
④Michael Shea: Look, I tried. Okay, Lori? This might come as a shock to you but there’s no entry-level office training program for felons, okay? The only work out there for me is cleaning toilets. So if you’re gonna lecture me now—
②Lori Colson: I wasn’t about to do that. I just wanted to say that—
④Michael Shea: What?
②Lori Colson: I don’t want you to die. I’ve known you for a long time, and I like you. I don’t want you to die.
Same day inside Alan’s office, he’s putting papers into his briefcase when Tara walks in. She sits in a chair.
⑧Tara Wilson: What are you doing now?
⑨Alan Shore: Going to raise a ruckus. Care to join me? Alan is putting on his coat.
⑧Tara Wilson: No thanks.
⑨Alan Shore: Do you want something?
⑧Tara Wilson: Nothing.
⑨Alan Shore: Tara, clearly you want something.
⑧Tara Wilson: I just came to tell you that we won our motion, which is fabulous. Our client gets to keep a bullet in his chest, and he’s probably gonna die. But a victory is a victory, right?
⑨Alan Shore: You really think he’s going to die?
⑧Tara Wilson: The thing is in his chest. The doctor said if it isn’t removed—
Alan is opening a little black book and righting something on a post-it note.
⑨Alan Shore: Self-imposed death sentence in order to avoid a prison sentence. The irony is palpable.
⑧Tara Wilson: I agree. And yet he is stuck.
⑨Alan Shore: (handing her the post-it note) Or not.
⑧Tara Wilson: And this is?
⑨Alan Shore: A discretionary option.
Lori Colson sitting at her desk. Tara enters.
⑧Tara Wilson: Hey. I couldn’t find you last night. Everything all right?
②Lori Colson: Fine. I left the hospital and was too depressed to work so I went home and took an extraordinarily long bath.
⑧Tara Wilson: Well, you missed some excitement.
②Lori Colson: Oh?
Tara places a tiny plastic bag containing the bullet on Lori’s desk. Lori stares at it.
⑧Tara Wilson: You’re not interested as to how I came upon this?
②Lori Colson: I have a pretty good idea.
Alan is alone smoking a cigar on the balcony. Lori comes to the doorway.
⑨Alan Shore: Oh dear. Am I in trouble?
②Lori Colson: Let me guess. You send my client to a mob doctor working in the backroom of some underworld casino you frequent. Alan chuckles.
⑨Alan Shore: I’m sorry to say the reality is far less colorful, but I applaud your imagination.
②Lori Colson: You’re amazingly inconsiderate, you know that?
⑨Alan Shore: I do. How does it show?
②Lori Colson: I have known Michael Shea for five years, Alan, and as ridiculous as it sounds, he’s somebody I happen to care about. You don’t even know him.
⑨Alan Shore: We could all have lunch, if you’d like
②Lori Colson: You sent him off to commit yet another crime.
⑨Alan Shore: There’s no crime, Lori. Just a bullet. Turn it in if you want.
②Lori Colson: Of course I’m not gonna do that. But I shouldn’t even be in this position. And Tara shouldn’t either. Why would you corrupt her like that?
⑨Alan Shore: Tara’s a grown up, capable of making all sorts of grown-up decisions.
②Lori Colson: Don’t be glib with me. Tara adores you. Of course she’s gonna follow your lead until one day she slips up, somehow blows it, and her career is over.
⑨Alan Shore: And yet here I sit, years of evildoing under my belt, and still a happy camper.
②Lori Colson: I suppose you’re the exception. But to what end? I mean, you conspire to conceal evidence? You take on a judge to help out a slumlord. You know, sometimes you’re in the right, Alan. But other times it seems like you just can’t control yourself. I think you’re lost. She leaves.
1.Do you have any experience to be robbed at knife-point or gun? (Or similar experiences like pickpocket)
2.How do you think about placing criminals or offenders on probation? Tell us your position on it, For or against?
3.Have you ever been taken to the hospital emergency room by ambulance before? Tell us your experience with when, where and why? (Plus, do you know how to call ambulance or pay for it in Japan or other countries?)
S1E7_Questionable_Characters_Lori.doc
Worker’s performance improves with smartphone off
A study has found that workers are happier and improve their performance if they give up using their smartphones one evening a week, the Daily Mail reported on March 19.
The results come from a research team at Harvard Business School who monitored professionals being banned from monitoring their work after 6 p.m. once a week over three years.
The participants, 1,400 management consultants of the Boston Consulting Group, said it led to improvements in happiness and performance at work against expectations.
Professor Leslie Perlow, the lead researcher, said she was inspired to conduct the study after she found that 26 percent of professionals in the U.S. always have their smartphones near them, even beside their bed.
The experiment was carried out under conditions that it would be halted immediately if there was the slightest concern about the quality of work.
But workers said they found their work-life balance improved, and they became more productive.
Some 59 percent of them agreed with the statement “I am excited to start work in the morning” compared with 27 percent of those who weren’t.
Asked if they ‘feel satisfied’ with their jobs, 78 percent of those who had just one evening off a week said yes, compared with 49 percent of those who said no.
This was because those who turned their phones off spent more time with their families and started making future plans for their social lives.
“People who turn on smartphones all the time spent working plus all the additional time monitoring their work in case something came up. The less predictable their work, the more people were on,” Professor Perlow said.
“By being constantly connected to work, they seemed to be under more pressure.”
She said that by making one night a week free, it helped to break the cycle.
1. How long do you use your smart phone per day?
2. To compare with the time when you didn't have a smart phone, what is changed in your life?
3. Let's discuss about good point and bad point of smart phone.
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