Good Fences

You're so slow. Come on.

Man, go away.

Mom, tell Stormy to stop.

Come on. Hurry up.

WBLS.

107.5 New York.

Slow-going on the Merrick Parkway

heading out of the city this afternoon.

But don't let that spoil the start of your weekend.

TGIF begins right now

with this new release from Johnny Nash.

You can't even ride one of these.

Come on, fall.

Fall, fall. Go bother somebody else.

This is so embarrassing.

It sure is. Come on.

Mom, just... Mmm.

What is she doing?

Whoa!

Yeah!

Oh, Mom, did you see what she just did?

Stormy, I need you to wipe that table off now.

Getting ready to eat.

And, mister, you need to put something on those knees, ashy as they look.

Wait till your father sees them.

Daddy's home!

Tom, what did you do?

What does it look like I did?

I bought us a new car.

Does this mean you got the promotion?

No.

This is how I'm gonna get it, sweetheart.

What do you mean, this is how you're gonna get it, honey?

Can't you see?

This car shouts,

"I am not the sort of automobile driven by a man

content to rot in the basement doing legal research."

I was law review, third in my class.

This sort of car reminds them of that.

Oh! Oh!

Tom!

Do all Italian cars do that?

Maybe it's trying to talk to us in smoke signals.

Now hop on in the car.

I'm taking the family to Sizzler.

Yeah!

That tickles.

You're the one read it in Cosmo.

I know, but I didn't know it was gonna tickle.

Here. Let me get the baby toe right here, baby.Okay.

Let me get the one. Let's see. Here. Get it.

I got it.

Whoo! Ooh.

You like that blowing, don't you? I do.

Hey, did you ever hear about that job from the Urban League?

Oh, the nincompoops gave it to some boojy moron from Harvard.

What? Yeah.

I'm sorry. Ah, don't be.

Something else came up that might

I don't wanna say anything about it right now,

but it just might change everything.

What you mean, you don't wanna say nothing about it now?

Come on now. You're being a spy.

Not a spy. You gonna be Tom the Spy?

What happened? No, no, baby girl.

Yesterday, Sullivan himself came down to my dungeon.

Yeah.

And he was hinting, you know?

It's not ideal,

but, baby, it may be

the crack in the wall we've been praying for.

Oh, Tom, that's wonderful.

Now... Now what?

Now you know what.

Now you know what. I just wanna... I'm not... It's

I know what you want. I know what you want. I want that toe

to kick up and hit that ceiling.

Well, you have to do the both of them.

I'll do one and then the other one. No, you have to do both.

You make it hard for a man. Well, that's the idea.

Get on down there and do the rest of my toes. All right.

Come on, baby. Blend for Mama.

Hurry, ladies. She's about to tell him.

Coming! Why the sudden formality?

Come on, come on, come on. Wait, wait, wait. Hurry up.

I'm coming, I'm coming. Oh. Oh.

That's exactly my point, Doctor.

I don't love you anymore.

I love Dr. Quartermain, and I'm keeping his baby.

I tell you, I didn't think she would do it.

I didn't think she would do it.

As fine as Dr. Q is, I would've told my trifling Ray

after the first kiss.

Oh, really? Yeah.

Hey, I'm home!

Hey... Hey, baby.

Hey, I'm on television.

I'm on television. I'm on television.

What do you mean, on television?

I'm at the courthouse. Me, Joe Klein,

of course Sullivan and the rest of the partners.

All right. Here it is. Our top story again tonight

is the Vickswell Avenue blaze.

Despite sworn statements from three eyewitnesses,

Thomas Spader, the attorney for the accused, had this to say.

My client acted in self-defense.

Just look at Joe Klein's face.

See it twist just because some son of a bitch

wants to hear from a black man.

Son of a bitch. Son of a bitch.

Stormy! Well, the accused arsonist,

Dr. Harold Silver, a successful periodontist

and owner of several low-income housing units,

has admitted to setting the blaze

that sent two black teens to the burn unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Doctors say those burns are so extensive

that the risk of infection is still very much a factor,

I'm starving. And the next 24 hours

will be critical. Who wants to eat?

I do. The mothers of the two boys

and several neighbors have set up a candlelight vigil.

Sweet Jesus, keep me near the cross.

May I please be excused?

Carol Burnett's about to start.Absolutely.

Me, too. May I please be excused, too? Yes. Yes.

Make sure you rinse your plates off.

Thanks, Mom.

That guy on TV knew my name.

He called me Attorney Spader.

How about that?

Mmm.

What?

Come on.

Come on.Stop. I'm too heavy.

You're light as a feather, baby.

I'm not. Come on over here.

The kids are here.

They're looking at Carol Burnett.

Come on.

Tom.

Tom, Tom.

You know, I just can't stop thinking about those boys.

Mmm. Why they got you doing this?

They ain't got me doing anything.

I've been rotting at that firm for nine years now,

watching all the Joe Kleins,

the Michael Ferraros, the Ernest O'Connors

pack up their desks and move upstairs.

Well, I'm goddamn good and tired of holding my breath.

This is my job.

This is what I've been trained to do.

Baby,

we've had to make hard decisions like this

all the time in law school.

This is just another one of those tests.

And putting my client in jail is not gonna help those boys heal.

This is the hand we were dealt.

And, little girl, I swear to you,

before my family,

I'm gonna win with it.

Tommy-Two, you can go over to Robbie's house if you want to,

but if Mrs. Sanchez starts asking you

any more questions about your father's trial,

you tell her you don't know.

Yes, Mom. A lot of nerve asking a child about this thing.

Come on, Stormy.

Mommy, why do the boys at school

call Steve O'Dell Little One Ball?

Is it 'cause he only has one testicle?

Sometimes I understand

why animals eat their young.

Ow, ow, ow! It stings, Mommy!

What stings, Stormy?

There's nothing but water in your hair.

You're just acting.

Mabel? Yeah.

He's on TV again.

Who is on TV again, Tina?

Tom.

Yesterday's peaceful demonstration

turned ugly as darkness fell

and looters began making off with thousands of dollars

worth of merchandise before setting a Caldor's on fire.

Attorney for the accused arsonist in this case

had this to say.

Hooligans are using the tragedylt's Daddy.

Of these misguided young men to take what's not theirs.

Now, their actions are just as childish as my children,

and like children, need an appropriate punishment.

Is it true you've even received death threats over this case?