Worth

All I was doing is what I was trained to do.

That's how I think of it, so…

You realize how weak and fragile you are.

This was his first day going to that office.

- We had his picture posted. - He was happy.

I have pulmonary fibrosis…

When I saw the building come down, I just prayed, you know.

I don't know if we were just in denial.

- Thought he'd end up in the trash. - They're done digging.

- Don't know how it could get easy. - Have to come to terms with it.

- The rest of them, all gone. - I lost a son.

You want other information?

I'll say this.

I'm angry.

I'm angry with God,

I'm angry with our country, also, because they let this happen.

My beautiful boy…

…was burned alive

because of them.

We don't… We don't even have a body.

If someone took your child…

and blew them up…

He didn't even have a fingernail.

How do you go on from there?

How do you calculate that?

What is life worth?

Not a trick question, people.

Who's gonna give us a number? Uh…

Back row. Uh, you there, Mr. Barron.

Big boy voice here, counselor. Tell us, where are you from?

I was raised in Wichita.

Kansas. Farm boy.

Good, good, good. You were raised on one, a farm?

My girlfriend's father owned one. He grew sorghum.

Sorghum.

Girlfriend's father grew sorghum.

Miss Paula Tano.

Miss Paula Tano, you are now Mr. Barron's girlfriend's father.

Don't laugh, people, it's very sad.

Mr. Barron just died, tragically crushed by a combine harvester

in Miss Paula Tano's sorghum field.

Mr. Dickerson, you're now representing Mr. Barron.

And where's Miss Chen?

Miss Chen, you're representing Amalgamated Caterpillar,

manufacturer of said combine harvester,

which took poor young Mr. Barron's life,

in the Kansas state civil action

of Mr. Barron v. Mr. Barron's girlfriend's father's sorghum farm

and the Caterpillar company.

So, Miss Chen, how much do you offer Mr. Dickerson to settle this?

All right, let me rephrase.

How much is Mr. Barron's life worth?

Give us a number.

Two million?

Hey, I'm in law school.

I could be earning that before I'm 30.

If you aced the final, maybe, and if you weren't dead, but you are.

This is now Mr. Dickerson's decision, along with Mr… Your name?

- Patel. - Patel.

Mr. Patel is the poor bereaved mother of Mr. Barron.

Three million?

Two-point-seven.

Deal.

There you have it. There's the deal.

To be clear, you haven't stumbled into a philosophy course.

Where the law is concerned, this question actually has an answer.

And the answer is a number,

and that's the job.

No. Yes, 55 per victim.

Yeah, and both sides agreed to walk. That's right.

No one thinks it's fair, but fair is not the goal here.

It's finish and move on.

Yeah. Well, thank you, Senator.

Mr. Feinberg, you have a message from Judge Clinton.

Thank you, Vic.

Just remember me when POTUS calls about a vacancy on the Supreme Court.

I saw Rehnquist the other day. He's looking pale.

I said he's looking pale.

He... Hello?

I think I lost him.

- Probably a good thing. - It was a joke.

Usually the funny ones, you don't have to announce that after.

I just saved the taxpayers a year's worth of courtroom.

Do you think he really hung up?

I'm sure he's off commissioning a monument.

- I have a forum to run. - No way.

Mr. Darryl Barnes, Esq. I have an important question for you.

- Is this birthday cake? - Margo in Accounting.

Mmm.

- Is that the important question? - No.

Did she save any for you?

Gloria, where are we on that email?

"And so I would ask…"

And so I would insist…

Not "ask," "insist."

…that you be on time.

I have a very busy schedule that day,

so punctuality will be imperative.

Please promptly advise.

"Love, Dad"?

Huh? Yeah, yeah. Love, Dad.

- Okay. I'll type this up right now. - Thank you.

Remind me why we're building this

instead of buying that cute little place on Cape Charles?

- Fog. - You could still commute.

The numbers show Cape Charles is more than twice as likely

to be fogged in on any given day.

- That's not a real statistic. - Two-point-two is the statistic.

If you wanna retire to that.

Well, I have heard that people that base their future happiness on weather data

are 100% less likely to be fun.

Why does he only just looks at me? Do you mind?

You're not retiring anyway.

Good night, Kenny.

Because they want to put in another shoe store.

We need another one of those.

They wanna take out those beautiful arched windows.

You know, the ones that have the Corinthian carved cartouche-y things.

They wanna take them out and put in modern ones

so they can hawk more sneakers. It's just…

Not on your watch.

No. No. Now you're mocking me.

There's chicken piccata in the fridge.

I'm going to post this. Just wait.

Power to the people.

Yep.

Yeah, you can take it first.

- Who's that? - You can take it apart.

- Hey, love. - Morning.

You can snap that back in,

take it apart and… A shorter wing span. Just putting...

All right, come eat, please. Breakfast is ready.

- Quickly. - Yay, breakfast!

- Thank you. - Owen, slow down.

Oh, this way.

Gotta go. Love ya.

And here's, uh, exactly the one that I got.

- What are we doing after school? - All right.

Mom!

I can't see anything.

Right now, I don't see anything.

Are you sure?

…freaking out, hold on.

Yeah.

Yeah, how you doing? What's going on?

- Excuse me, sir, is there any... - Can't talk.

Excuse me?

- What's happening? - Did you find her somewhere?

Turn on the TV.

Oh my God.

Yes, we see it.

The shock from the attacks in New York and D.C.

reverberate across the entire nation.

Our correspondent, Tanya Riddle, has been told

that state officials are working to strengthen security all across…

Officials at Somerset County Airport

confirm the crash of a large plane north of that airport.

The army has been placed at Prescott, Delta.

Firefighters and police officers

are frantically trying to help

those people who have been hurt, who perhaps have not been rescued.

With tragedy so great,

tonight, a city comes together searching for safety and comfort.

…of a hundred waiting for their turn

to go into the World Trade Center area.

…the days to come, to the rescue those who may be alive.

So we have, at this point,

well over a thousand people confirmed dead.

The 300 that are missing that he talked about,

the 800 at the Pentagon,

266 who were on those airplanes today, passengers and crew.

Uh, we're now up to about 1300,

and it is expected to go much higher.

Twenty-four hundred people altogether were killed in Pearl Harbor.

They were military personnel for the most part.

It was a military attack on military installations.

We know who did it.

This is a different kind of a war in a new century.

…that involves so many people?

Well, I think all of that is going to have to be sifted out.

I think that in the midst of our outrage and anger,

uh, President Bush is right,

we have to show the world how we respond to this

uh, both with determination, uh…

- So, what did you tell Kennedy? - That I'd think about it.

That you're my partner, and I'd have to talk to you.

Hah. Hmm.

I mean, I know why he asked us.

We're one of five or six firms with this kind of experience.

If that. lf that.

- Yeah. Asbestos, Agent Orange. - Yeah.

Those were hot-button cases too.

Yeah. I'll let you know how the committee hearing goes.

Yeah.

Thanks for coming.

- I know Teddy appreciates it. - Sure.

We want our best trial lawyers.

We'll be needing your support on this thing.

- Yeah. - Your people okay?

- Kids, family? - Yeah. Yeah.