Harry's Law

Previously on Harry's Law...

So this is what you do?!

I break up with you and you commit...

I don't even know what this is you're committing.

I switched jobs.

Go get your real job back

before it's too late.

This is my real job.

I'm Tommy Jefferson, kid.

I chew lawyers up and spit 'em out.

He's gonna treat you like you don't exist.

Your best bet is just interrupt him at every turn.

He's got a temper and he's been known to completely blow.

You little snot!

Don't call me little!

You were rude to me.

You ridiculed me.

Nobody does that,

you're nothing little bug.

Will you represent me?

I'm facing prison. I got arrested on

a drug charge... third offense...

and, uh, I got a cocaine problem.

Your old life was that of a drug addict.

You have to turn your back on that, all of it.

If you need to talk to us, we're all here.

She's really working in that neighborhood?

Police don't really respond

to alarms in this neighborhood.

The merchants tend to be burglarized and vandalized

at an alarming rate.

You protect me and my place,

my law firm will defend you for free.

I think I became terminal in my late 40s.

Nothing the doctors could find,

you couldn't see it on an X-ray.

But I was dying.

Being put to death quietly, systemically,

by routine.

I finally died last year.

You need to close up shop for a couple days.

What? Why?

Couple of local gangs are beefin' with each other,

know what I'm saying?

Might be some bullets flying

and it'd be better if y'all weren't around.

Shooting? Like, at us?

What gangs?

Linkwood Crew's one, Boone Park's the other.

Well, what is this beef about?

What the hell is going on here?

Told you all I know, sugar.

Well, who told you?

See, it's like this.

See, Dewayne, he runs with Linkwood crew.

Got this girl named Shonda, they broke up.

So Dewayne finds out that Shonda's hanging with C.K.

C.K., he runs with my boys.

That's Boone Park? Yeah.

So Dewayne, he goes and get his boys

and they go and torch C.K.'s ride.

C.K. was, like, "Man, I'm gonna need 12 grand for that."

Dewayne be, like, "No."

So now Linkwood is beefing with us.

It's gonna get bad.

Is Dewayne going to hurt Shonda?

Naw, he don't give a... Naw, he got a new girl.

Ain't even about the girl no more.

It's about respect.

I gotta go. Thanks for the ice cream.

It's true, you really got him into college?

I did not.

He got into college himself.

Uh-huh.

So two gangs have a ridiculous

minor property dispute like this one,

they start shooting?

Not always.

They got this thing here called street advocates.

They try to fix situations like this.

There was a street advocate assigned

to this area, but he dead now.

Did they kill him?

Allergy. Man ate a bad peanut.

But dead is dead, you know what I'm sayin'?

So we, like, between mediators.

All right.

As of right now, they have a new mediator... me.

I don't think they gonna go for that.

Well, you don't know till you ask them.

Naw, see, some things you do know before you ask.

Well, put it to them like this:

I'm gonna be sitting in front of my store window

with my .44 in my lap.

If someone starts shooting at anybody,

I'll consider it directed at me.

I'm gonna shoot back.

So these beefing gangsters are gonna get

their asses shot up,

or they're gonna murder an old white lady

with lots of friends in the criminal justice system,

friends who will insist on the death penalty for the shooter

and his accomplices because I am one adorable mother...

Harry!

Wait. No.

No!

No, no, no, no, no, no. No!

You wanted a number, I gave it to you.

$626,000.

That's my number.

Saw that. Unacceptable.

Do you mind telling me how you got to that figure?

I got it due to lost wages,

loss of future earnings,

pain and suffering, emotional distress,

loss of consortium.

Many things go into a Tommy Jefferson number.

Loss of consortium?

He's depressed. Affects his love life.

Look... No, you look.

I asked you to look first.

Your client wrongfully terminated mine.

That's a fact. That's a given.

That's a reality.

One which you're not gonna change by bringing in rude boy.

Think I don't know why you recruited him?

I know why. You brought him in to push my button.

Nobody pushes my button.

I don't even have a button.

$626,000. That's my number.

Your client made $81,000 a year.

He's 72 years old.

There's no way that lost wages

together with loss of future earnings will ever, ever reach

the present-day value

of that number you're throwing out.

Your client fired an old man

for being old.

The jury will hate that.

They will punish him, you know it,

I know it, so does the bug.

There's no wand to wave,

no button to push, no card

to play.

You have a dog case.

Your client's worst nightmare would be for

a jury to get its hands on this. Ask the bug.

- Tommy... - Don't flirt with me.

You want to flirt with me, do it in a bar.

Do it in a hotel lounge.

Do it on my boat,

but not in a settlement conference.

$627,000.

Oh, it's 27 now.

Surcharge for bringing in a bug.

I tack on for bugs.

I saw that. Unacceptable.

$340,000. That's our final offer.

Hmm.

Let the nightmare begin.

I think you're gonna have

to eat this one, Adam.

I'd cut your losses now and get out.

You done for the day?

No, trial starts this afternoon.

You the Jew?

What did you just say?

Hey, "Jew" is a slang. It just means "lawyer."

Oh.

Yes, I would be the Jew.

I'm the Jew.

All right, cool.

8:00, here.

Fine.

By the way,

no guns.

Everyone will be frisked at the door.

I think I sold that old lady some weed.

What?

See? They're getting along better already.

Harry, the people that'll be here tonight,

a few of 'em, maybe all of 'em,

have killed people.

Then I better do a good job.

8:00.

Bangers in the house.

I don't like that she brought in that bug.

It's not that he threatens me,

it's that she would think I have a button,

that he would know how to push it.

I don't like that.

Tommy Jefferson has no Achilles' heel.

Tommy, you're personalizing.

You don't do well when you personalize, do you?

Look at me. What did we say

on the ride over?

I would be Tommy Big-Boy today.

The facts of this case sit with us.

Just keep your focus.

Look, would you like me to try to rattle him?