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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:04 PM
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Boston Legal was something else tonight
I cannot even start to describe it.
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gulfcoastliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:05 PM
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1. Topic? Details? I missed it.EOM
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 12:03 AM
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14. OK, but for West Coasters - a spoiler
One story involved Denny Crane shooting a homeless man with a paint ball. The guy wants to sue him but no lawyer will go against this firm and finally Alan Shore takes the case because he is bothered by all the poor people around and gives the guy a personal check for $75K because Denny is his friend and he is not going after him.

Crane is going on the Larry King show, again, except that there is another woman filling in for him who uses the show to promote her book and who goes after him for "hijacking" the legal system. Denny is quite flustered and at the end gives Shore a check for $75K. He was not going to pay the homeless man, but does take care of his own. "How did you know?" Asks and amazed Alan. "I know" Denny responds, pointing at his head "a lot of things that others do not know I know" (or something like that)

But the main story - mentioned below that caught me gasping - was the one about Denise going shopping with her house keeper and the housekeeper's young son. As they are in the Dept. Store admiring a picture frame, the boy is gone. Security tapes reveal a known pedophile whose whereabout are unknown but whose previous victim was found dead.

Denise is besides herself. She and Brad are at the FBI - Brad's own network - and the FBI guy "suggests" that citizens can accomplish more than law enforcement people who have to play by the rules. And the FBI really "does not know" who they got hold of FBI fake badges from his desk. He gives them the address of the kidnaper's brother.

They burst into the brother who speaks only Italian, and Denise translates and they take him into custody. Back at the office, Schmitt is horrified, of course, and does not want to know anything about it, or for the firm to be involved. Hinting about their chances at becoming partners.

Brad finds out that the guy does speak English and threatens to torture him and he finally says that the kidnapper goes to a priest. There will be a problem of the confessional seal, of course but the FBI guy, again, gives them a fake warrant for the priest's office, where they may find notes.

The priest, of course, will not hear about it because, yes, he does have notes in his office and resolutely locks his office.

Denise is besides herself. She grabs the big ax from the fire wall and brad grabs it walking toward the door. The next thing, several fingers are rolling on the floor, the priest is screaming holding his bloody hand, while other nuns and every one else is screaming in horror.

And in the middle of this chaos, the priest's cat grabs one fingers and runs away...

Cut to commercial.

The ambulance is there, Schmitt is there and Denise shows her fake papacy papers that the priest has been printing in his office and selling for several thousands a piece. "We have him," says Denise.

"He just got his fingers in the way of the ax" - they both say. "How many fingers?" Schmitt asks. "Three." "And how many were recovered?" "two."

Then the FBI guy is there. I thought that he was going to admonish them, to pretend he's never seen them. Instead, he has the third finger in a bag of ice. He suggests that they can take the finger to the hospital and "offer" it to the priest for his information.

Brad is almost sick, but Denise is grabbing it.

In the hospital the priest is full of anger, promises to sue them. Denise is telling him about the faked papal papers, that he is finish. "Screw you" his replies.

Denise just pulls the finger from her purse - naked, as is - and then the priest reveals the place where the kidnapper lives under an assume name. Denise fishes back in her purse, finds the bag of ice, put the fingers back there and gives it to the priest.

Yes, happy ending. SWAT teams grab the guy and the kid, alive.

Perhaps others can correct and add comments.

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gulfcoastliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 01:13 AM
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16. Thanks for the synopsis
Last episode I saw was when James Spader was at loggerheads with William Shatner over representing the sister on a KIA soldier in Iraq that signed on based on lies his recruiter told him. He got stoplossed in order to do a job he was not trained for. Shatner seemed lke a real SOB ver the case, threatening to fire Spader over it. Even though Spader lost,the judge did say some good things against the war. Then at the end of the episode Shatner and Spader make up. I thought that was a great episode - I need to tune in more often. Spader got my attention in the movie "Secretary".

Thanks for the info!
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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 01:35 AM
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18. Secretary!
That was a really good movie and wasn't Spader just great in it?!
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gulfcoastliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 02:16 AM
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22. Absolutely!
Most Lionsgate films are really good. Secretary was a masterpiece and yes, Spader gave a fantastic performance. Glad you enjoyed it, too.
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:05 PM
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2. Dammit, dammit, dammit
I missed it tonight:argh:

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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:05 PM
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3. I always forget to watch! Darn!
:-(
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SW FL Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:07 PM
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4. I checked earlier for a thread on it
and was surprised there wasn't one. It was definitely something else.
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:07 PM
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5. That show never ceases to amaze me...
I was actually startled after the axe swing. The politics is nicely woven in also - I enjoyed it.
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:21 PM
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9. That startled me too
and the cat running off with the finger was priceless!
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 12:29 AM
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15. My mother saw a bit of it
and said it was pretty good. I like Law & Order: SVU better. They had a really good show tonight too. Anyone see that one?
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Bjornsdotter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:17 PM
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6. Keeps getting better and better
How about that Nancy Grace imitation? I thought it was excellent :evilgrin:

Cheers!
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Marlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:20 PM
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7. This Show
Is by far the best series on television. Shatner and Spader really
deserved the awards last year and hopefully they'll get them
again this year.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:38 PM
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11. I think this may be Shatner's greatest role
He is superb as the sleazy, oversexed shyster.
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Wordie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 01:23 AM
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17. I think so too. I am amazed they put that other hospital show on Sunday
nights instead. It messed up my Sunday nights completely. I still go to bed feeling something's missing.

At least they've got it back on Tuesdays.

You guys did spoil it for me (it's still on here, watching right now.) I couldn't help reading the thread.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:21 PM
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8. How they manage to get all the political bashing into one hour
It's like an orgasm.
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:34 PM
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10. Funny when you say orgasm
In the preview for next week, when the firm is being sued, "Denny Crane" says: I have an erection, ready for a trial.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:46 PM
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12. I didn't watch the previews. That is funny.
I must be sick-ic
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kansasblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 12:02 AM
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13. some good..........some bad..... some good stuff on poverty
Edited on Wed Dec-07-05 12:05 AM by kansasblue
37 million in poverty, lawyer helps out a homeless guy. Note that all the poor could rise up and we'd have anarchy.


But then a storyline where the FBI feels they are so restricted that they have to have the lawyers scare a witness and a priest to get info out of them.

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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 01:48 AM
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19. Did you notice the picture
of Ashcroft hanging in the "unused room in the basement"?

Perfect. Especially when the one lawyer, don't remember the character's name,
threatened to attach electrodes to the guy's genitals to get him to talk.

Easily the best show on TV. Perfect.
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 01:56 AM
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20. Yes I did.
which should have been a clue, I suppose, that the room was not an official FBI one..
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Sapphocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 02:07 AM
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21. Good show all around, but...
...what grabbed me tonight was the last ten minutes or so. Shatner deserves an Emmy.

Of course, it's going to fly right over the (pin)heads of the Rabid Wrong Wing that they're the ones being riffed on.

Which makes Shatner's Repukazoid characterization all the more delicious.
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