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Set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, corporate lawyer Nick Fallin is sentenced to 1500 hours of community service at the local children's services department, due to drug possession. Starring Simon Baker
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00:00Previously on The Guardian
00:30Do you want to make partner with this firm?
00:32Why were you 45 minutes late?
00:34And don't ever embarrass me like that again in front of a client.
00:38What'd you do? Something bad?
00:39Go to rest if you're drugs.
00:44Alvin Masterson called.
00:46I haven't heard him that worked up since McGovern had his ass handed to him on a platter by Nixon in 72.
00:52So, Mr. Fallon, how do you think your first week went?
00:56You know, you strike me as the kind of person who does your homework.
01:02My guess is that before you showed up for your first day of community service at Children's Legal Services,
01:08you probably did a pretty thorough review of state law regarding shelter hearings and placements.
01:13You read up on how CLS is run, its budget, its philosophy for handling its enormous caseload,
01:20and you don't like the fast food approach to representing these kids.
01:23Do you?
01:26Masterson wants you to go away.
01:29Then I'll go away.
01:30Fifteen hundred hours of picking up trash from the highway and the public parks seems like such a waste.
01:36I'm not too good to pick up trash.
01:38I'm going to give you a choice.
01:43One time only.
01:45You can finish your sentence at Children's Legal Services,
01:49or you can transfer over to the community development desk and work with low-income housing applicants.
01:56Think about it for a few days.
01:58Can I help you?
02:18Um, I was...
02:20Um, I was...
02:23What?
02:27I was raped.
02:33How old are you, honey?
02:35Fifteen.
02:37The doctors are going to examine the condition of the vaginal area,
02:40then take any samples of fluids for DNA testing.
02:43The police will want to talk to you after that.
02:45Yes.
02:45What's that guy doing?
02:50We have to take pictures.
02:53Please don't do that.
02:55If you want to press charges, the police need the evidence.
02:57Yes.
03:15I am sentencing you to 1,500 hours of community service,
03:27using your skills as a corporate attorney to work as a child advocate.
03:57Children's Legal Services, can you hold, please?
04:09Nick, I need you to take a new case.
04:13I don't think Masterson wants me to.
04:14She's 15, walked herself in the hospital this morning, said she was raped by her stepfather.
04:19Evidence?
04:20Abrasions, vaginal tearing, bruises from where she was held down at the wrist.
04:24And where's the stepfather?
04:25Arrested last night.
04:28Then why isn't she back in her home?
04:30Her mother bailed her mouth.
04:32She's at the County Hospital Rape Crisis Center.
04:43You're my lawyer?
04:44Yes.
04:47Thank you. That's nice to know.
04:50You want to tell me what happened?
04:52He started to come into my bedroom at night.
05:03He'd lay next to me on the bed and touch himself.
05:07Then one night, he put his hand, his fingers, he shoved them.
05:21He told me not to move and put his, put it in my mouth.
05:28I fought him, but he'd tell me he'd hurt my mom if I didn't.
05:35I saw what he could do to her, hit her in the face.
05:42So I just let him do what he wanted.
05:48And you're staying with your aunt now?
05:49Yeah, my mom's sister.
05:55Why did your mother bail your stepfather out of jail?
05:59Because he'd kill her if she didn't.
06:01Why didn't you report this to the police earlier?
06:06You don't get it, do you?
06:08What?
06:08My stepdad is a cop.
06:20Conference room, 15 minutes ago.
06:27You're killing me, man.
06:29You're killing me.
06:32John Clayton.
06:33Nicholas Fallon.
06:35Mr. Clayton.
06:38What can we do for you?
06:44This conversation is completely confidential.
06:50Clayton Steele is 15 million in debt.
06:55Bankruptcy?
06:56Yes.
06:58Okay, you have two options.
07:00You can go Chapter 11, reorganize.
07:03Or you can go Chapter 7, liquidate, cut your losses.
07:06I want to reorganize.
07:07It's easier to liquidate.
07:09I want to reorganize.
07:10You've got the resources?
07:13Okay.
07:14Well, it's a $25,000 retainer to start.
07:19Uh, Mr. Clayton.
07:21Mr. Clayton, I can't take that until my father approves.
07:23Mr. Clayton, I was just wondering how it felt to run the family business into the ground.
07:46Burton Fallon, John Clayton.
07:48How are you?
07:50Well, quite, uh, quite a history your family has.
07:56My great-grandfather was third-in-command at Homestead Works under Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick.
08:00He helped to revolutionize the way steel was manufactured.
08:04Right.
08:04So, what, uh, what can we do for you today?
08:08He wants our firm to file Chapter 11 papers for his company.
08:12Well, didn't your father and your grandfather, didn't they deal exclusively with McGee and Kirk?
08:18Yes.
08:19It's a good firm.
08:19Well, why are you leaving him now?
08:23I felt it was time for a change.
08:26Not because your creditors have a blanket lien on your corporation.
08:31Well.
08:32Didn't, uh, McGee and Kirk approach the bank with the request to reorganize?
08:37Yes.
08:37They already did that, right?
08:39Yes.
08:40Well, I'm assuming, uh, because you walked across the street that, uh, the bank told them your company is worth more to them liquidated than, uh, reorganized.
08:52Yes.
08:53So, so McGee and Kirk just washed their hands of you?
08:58They didn't see my account as profitable.
09:03Neither do I, Mr. Clayton.
09:04Um, but, um, good luck to you.
09:19Mr. Fallon, we're reorganizing our filing system, leaving our bar-based sexual abuse case.
09:24I could use some coffee.
09:26Be a dear, will you, and pour me a cup?
09:31Cream or sugar?
09:32Please.
09:34Any of these clothes cases that are over five years old should be put in the storage box.
09:40Now, I'm from the Mon Valley.
09:42I knew some Fallons who worked the plant with my dad.
09:45I think they were from Donora.
09:47Any relation?
09:48Yeah, uh, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins.
09:52Oh, so.
09:54You're one of those Fallons.
09:56Huh.
09:56You make it sound kind of ominous.
09:58No, I, uh, just didn't take you for a real person.
10:01Uh, can I help you?
10:05Nicholas Fallon?
10:06Yeah, uh, that's me.
10:08I'm, uh, Al Sandro.
10:09I'm April Sandro's stepfather.
10:13April's a problem.
10:14It's always been a problem.
10:15She sleeps around a lot.
10:16She parties.
10:18Why are you telling me this?
10:20You believe her?
10:21Come on, man.
10:22Well, the evidence suggests it.
10:23Evidence?
10:24What the hell do you know about evidence?
10:27This little slut is lying.
10:28Little slut.
10:30DNA's gonna prove me right.
10:32Then why is she accusing you?
10:36A few weeks ago, I came home early from work,
10:39and I caught April on the couch with some guy.
10:41He's an older guy.
10:42I threatened to arrest him for statutory rape,
10:44and he took off.
10:45I grounded April for a month.
10:47You're saying she's doing this as payback
10:49for getting grounded.
10:52Don't believe her lies.
10:53You just send April back home where she belongs.
10:56Okay, Mr. Fallon?
10:57Okay.
11:19How did it go with the stepdad?
11:23Oh, uh, he says she's lying.
11:27Well, a lot of these kids grow up around people
11:29who lie and cheat,
11:30and some of them pick those habits up themselves.
11:37Your mascara's...
11:38Oh, date night.
11:39Might as well send the babysitter home.
11:49Hey.
11:53I'm gonna go get some dinner.
11:58You wanna come?
12:12Don't get any big ideas, Hotshot.
12:13You're not getting lucky tonight.
12:15Hey.
12:32Nick?
12:32Jake, Amanda, this is, uh, Barbara Lutzinski.
12:49Hey, Barbara. Nice to meet you.
12:51Jake.
12:52Jake.
12:52Hi. Amanda, yeah.
12:55Um, do you want to...
12:57Oh, uh, thanks.
12:59Thanks.
13:04So, um, well, where did you two meet?
13:08Oh, personals. Nick was looking for a plus-size woman, and I was looking for a cocky sugar daddy.
13:14You think I'm kidding?
13:19No, no.
13:21This is actually our third date.
13:23I thought it was time to, you know, bring her around and meet the family.
13:29I'm the secretary over at Children's Legal Services.
13:34Oh! Oh. Right.
13:37We just met when Nick started.
13:39Right. How are you? Can I get you a drink?
13:42Uh, cranberry and grapefruit, please.
13:46What's with the face?
13:49Nothing.
13:49He's angry because Nick's dad won't represent the Clayton family.
13:52Clayton Steele?
13:53Yeah. Jake brought him in.
13:55Yeah. Well, everybody used to work there.
13:57Old man Clayton walked around to Nora like he was running for office, kissing babies and shaking hands,
14:03till he decided to off himself with a shotgun.
14:05Regular Richard Corey.
14:07King of the Mon Valley.
14:09What a crappy fiefdom.
14:11Richard Corey?
14:12Yeah. It's a poem about a rich guy who everybody thinks is real happy, who decides to shoot himself.
14:17Happy fiefdom.
14:18Whenever Richard Corey went downtown, we people on the pavement smiled at him.
14:21He was immaculately groomed from toe to crown, clean, favored, and imperially slim.
14:27So, uh, what do you guys want with the Clayton family?
14:31You know, it really doesn't matter now because Nick's father doesn't want his business.
14:36Because?
14:37My grandfather.
14:41Non-union immigrants still work at 16-hour shifts, dollar an hour, you know?
14:45I know this story too well.
14:58So, your family?
15:01No, my father's family.
15:07Call Clayton, uh, tell him we'll sort something out.
15:11My baby's gone, she don't know what she's missing.
15:18Oh, my baby's gone, she don't know what she's missing.
15:24No, she don't know what she's missing.
15:27Since she left that day, I've been getting a whole lot just planned.
15:36I work very hard all day.
15:37I work very hard all day.
15:37I work very hard all day.
15:39I work very hard all day.
15:41I work very hard all day.
15:43Yeah, I work very hard all day.
15:46Like, I know I should.
15:51But that day I came hard...
15:53Children's Legal Services.
15:56Okay, all right. Forbes and Murray.
15:57I got it.
16:01We've got to do three petition hearings with me this morning.
16:05I can do them alone.
16:06According to Alvin, you can't. Now, we've got a 10, 10, 30, and 11.
16:08Why is this locked?
16:10That's your office now?
16:11Why is it locked?
16:13It's the broom closet.
16:16Where are we going to keep the brooms?
16:21You're late.
16:22Where's my keys?
16:23Your keys?
16:23To my office.
16:25Your office?
16:25Yeah, I've got to have some place to work.
16:27That's for the cleaning supplies.
16:28You want me to be in here at 8, you want me to do three hearings a day,
16:31plus all the support work that goes with it,
16:32I've got to have a place to work.
16:34Fine. It's all yours.
16:41Mr. Felon?
16:43What are you doing here?
16:45Did my stepfather come to see you?
16:48Yeah, we talked.
16:49Did he tell you I was a slut?
17:01That's what he tells everyone.
17:03Why are you here?
17:09I'm afraid.
17:10For my mother.
17:11She can take care of herself.
17:13No, she can't.
17:16I mean, I can get out of there.
17:18I'll be safe.
17:20You'll make me safe.
17:21But my mom, all the things he does to me, he'll just do to her.
17:28There's nothing that I can do about that.
17:43Sometimes I think I should just go back there, live with him,
17:48just so she doesn't get hurt.
17:51No.
17:56You're not going back there, April, okay?
18:00Okay?
18:07Need a lift to the courthouse?
18:09No, um, my aunt's boyfriend, he's helping to look after me.
18:14He's waiting for me.
18:15Okay.
18:15Okay.
18:15Are you Mr. Fallon?
18:31Yes.
18:31I'm Jenny Sandro, April's mom.
18:33I'm afraid of what's going to happen to her.
18:35Look, April, she hasn't had it easy.
18:44Her father left when she was just a baby.
18:46Men have been in and out of our lives.
18:48I haven't always made the best choices.
18:51This is the number of a clinic.
18:53I'll tell you where there's a woman's shelter.
18:55April is lying.
18:56I would never do something like that, Mr. Fallon.
18:59We'll discuss this in court.
19:02Mr. Fallon, what are your client's wishes?
19:05My client would like to be placed under the care of her maternal aunt, Gail Bearhorst.
19:12Where is the maternal aunt?
19:14I'm here, Your Honor.
19:18Are you currently employed?
19:20Yes, sir.
19:21I waitress days.
19:22Can you provide care for April until the petition hearing?
19:25Yes, Your Honor.
19:26The child should be placed under the supervision of the Allegheny County Social Services with permission to be placed in the home of her maternal aunt, Gail Bearhorst.
19:36The stepfather is under a no-contact order.
19:40My daughter should be with me.
19:42You'll have your chance to tell your side of the story at the petition hearing.
19:45Gail just wants the money.
19:46I'm sure Ms. Bearhorst could find an easier way to make an extra $370 a month, Your Honor.
19:53You may have one supervised visit a week.
19:56File a dependency petition within 24 hours and schedule the petition hearing within the next 10 days.
20:04That's it?
20:06That's it.
20:06April, why are you doing this?
20:18He's lying to you, Mama.
20:19He's lying.
20:20You won't even see it.
20:21Please.
20:22You let him do this to me.
20:23In your own house, you let him.
20:24Please, April.
20:25I hate you.
20:26I'm never coming home.
20:27I hate you.
20:29You raped your own daughter and you still want her to be under the same roof with him.
20:32She's not your daughter.
20:34Maybe she should be.
20:35I went out to the Clayton plant.
20:52I think we should represent them.
20:55How do you see doing it?
20:58Liquidate.
21:00You know, Clayton wants to save the business.
21:03He's wrong.
21:04He should take a scorched-earth approach.
21:07What about the workers?
21:10Well, they won't see the money.
21:14It's bad business, Nicholas.
21:16The retainer's too small.
21:18We wouldn't see a penny by the time the banks got what they're owed.
21:21If I can save the trust, this will be worth millions in fees.
21:25Could also eat up thousands of billable hours for nothing.
21:28It's a pass.
21:31It's a pass.
21:46Hey!
21:47Oh, I'm late.
21:48I had a few questions for you about that brief I'm supposed to be filing.
21:50I thought maybe we could grab some lunch and...
21:52I gotta get back to the clinic.
21:53Can I tag along?
21:55No chance at hell.
22:00Thanks.
22:04Nick.
22:04The woman from the rape unit just faxed some lab test back from the hospital.
22:12April Sandro's pregnant.
22:13You knew you were pregnant?
22:29What do you want to do?
22:30If you're talking about an abortion, I'm Catholic.
22:33April, you were raped.
22:35My mother would never say I was, and she needs to sign the forms.
22:37I just have to explain to the court the circumstances of your pregnancy.
22:41The judge will grant you a judicial bypass without your mother's consent.
22:45I just want to be left alone now, okay?
22:47I'm good with Gail.
22:48See, I'm back in school, and people are leaving me alone.
22:50I can take care of myself from here.
22:56If you have a child now,
22:58it will either be taken away from you or...
23:01Let me alone, all right?
23:03You did your thing.
23:04Just let me alone.
23:04Can I help you?
23:32You know this guy?
23:34Hmm, Joel.
23:35He works, sir.
23:37Who are you?
23:38I'm a lawyer.
23:40I work for legal services.
23:41Well, he's not here.
23:44You got an address?
23:44You got an address?
24:04Sorry, sorry.
24:19You got an address?
24:19I got a address.
24:21I know.
24:22You got an address?
24:23You got an address?
24:24I know.
24:25I understand.
24:25You got an address?
24:27Well, you got can to be a place.
24:29You got an address?
24:30Well, you got to be a place.
24:31Well, I know.
24:31You got an answer?
24:32Yo, man, did stuff come in yet?
24:39We'll be at Dante's.
24:43Hey, it's me.
24:44The weekend's coming up.
24:45You got any?
24:46I'm dying here, man.
24:52Aunt Gail, it's April.
24:53Can you pick me up over at Tony's Pizza at 5?
24:55I miss the bus.
25:00April Sandro is pregnant.
25:02Uh-huh.
25:04The aunt I placed her with has a live-in boyfriend who is dealing.
25:08Are you sure?
25:09I heard the answering machine tape.
25:12How do you know that he was dealing?
25:15I know.
25:19So?
25:20So I placed the pregnant teenager in a dangerous environment.
25:24And what else were you going to do?
25:26Put her back with her stepdad?
25:27No.
25:29Tell me something.
25:30Who do you think the father of this baby is?
25:33I don't know.
25:38All right.
25:39Let's call social services and arrange for an emergency evacuation.
25:42Police, social services, open up.
25:55Police, social services.
25:56This is Bear Horse.
25:57We're here for April.
25:59What are you doing?
26:03This is Bear Horse.
26:05This is Bear Horse.
26:05How the hell is going on in here.
26:13Get the hell out of here.
26:33Second mortgage property value analysis report, now, what's, this is the, we can't take the
26:53account. When I spoke with Jake, I thought your father's firm had been around for generations.
26:59No. He started himself. I know that now. I was curious why he disliked me so much, so I had my secretary search our employment records. You know your dad used to work in our fabricating plant? That was my grandfather. Your grandfather and your father. Burton Fallon worked here from 1953 to 1955. Seems your dad had a hand in the United Steelworkers' attempt to unionize the plant. That was my grandfather. No, that
27:29was your father. So what are you, Mr. Fallon? You guys act like the country club set, but you do business like the Liberals.
27:49You always said don't let your feelings get in the way of business.
27:52Your father would have loved the fact that they're coming to you for help.
28:00Unfortunately, you don't really know what your grandfather would have loved.
28:06Is this, is this the kind of money you want to represent?
28:14Money is money.
28:15It's yours, then. You put in the hours, you take the risk.
28:38We got the go ahead.
28:40Your dad changes mine?
28:41Yeah.
28:41What'd you say to him?
28:42I mean, I still can't get over this. I mean, he worked for those guys. No wonder he hates him so much.
28:49He was had a pretty strong argument. They get him to change his...
28:50You're gonna have to move on due diligence.
28:52Well, where are you going?
28:53I got a meeting across town.
28:54Well, come on, Nick. I mean, I need a little help on this.
28:56I got my dad to take the client. You get the due diligence.
29:03I gotta hand it to you.
29:05You had me going with the school uniform and the sad story.
29:07April, you do not want to spend your life with a guy like that.
29:13Don't tell me what I want.
29:16You're 15.
29:17What's gonna happen to me?
29:20I'm gonna recommend that you go back home to your mother.
29:23You can't send me back there.
29:25April.
29:26My mother let him rape me.
29:28She knew it was happening, and she let him.
29:30April.
29:31She could hear me crying. I know she could.
29:34Some nights I tried to fight him off.
29:35She was just in the next room over.
29:37I'm sending you home.
29:41Why won't anybody listen to me?
29:43It happened.
29:46It happened.
29:47He rolled over, and he put his hand, his fingers, he shoved them.
30:04He told me not to move, and I mean, I mean, I fought him at first.
30:11But, after a while, I just quit, let him do what he wanted.
30:19He cried every time, and said he would never do it again.
30:22You think she's telling the truth?
30:24Then, I mean, then he would just come back a few nights later.
30:29I believe she was raped.
30:32But?
30:32I've never seen a perpetrator give a 15-year-old girl such advance warning.
30:37Crawling into bed, masturbating next to her,
30:39working his way slowly towards touching her.
30:41It just isn't typical behavior towards a girl of April's age.
30:45But you do see such behavior in rape cases.
30:47Yes, but typically in pedophiles who prey on much younger children.
30:59Find out if April Sandro has any previous history of sexual abuse.
31:03Hey, hey, come here.
31:06You may be used to having other people do your work for you over at your daddy's firm.
31:09But here we do it ourselves.
31:13Come here.
31:16Working here is costing you a lot of money, isn't it?
31:19$325,000 in billable hours.
31:21You realize that your yearly salary is as much as our entire operating budget?
31:24Yes, I do.
31:24Well, you may want to think about the fact that the people who work here
31:26have so much to do on so little money and time
31:28that your needs are the furthest thing from their minds.
31:32Can you run a check on a girl named April Sandro?
31:44See if she lived in another county or state.
31:48Hold on.
31:48I got something.
31:49Marriage record for an Al Sandro and Jennifer Evans.
31:52It looks like she changed the name in April's as well.
31:55Where are the close cases?
31:57Where are you?
31:58Oh.
32:02Oh, April Evans.
32:03This court held the initial detention hearing in this matter on January 11, 1995
32:17after the Bethel Park Police Department received a report
32:20that James Evans had sexually abused April, then 9.
32:23April reported that Mr. Evans, her new stepfather,
32:25had been getting into bed with her and touching himself
32:27and in that he had put his fingers inside of her
32:29and forced his penis into a mouth.
32:30This is exactly the same statement she made three days ago.
32:40We have to start again.
32:42I'm your lawyer.
32:45There's going to be a petition hearing
32:46regarding your custody day after tomorrow.
32:49My custody?
32:50You have three choices, as I see it.
32:54You can go to a group home for pregnant teenagers
32:56or, if the court sees fit to charge you, a detention center.
33:03You said three choices.
33:07You can still go back home.
33:20I know that you were raped.
33:27Six years ago.
33:30I know that your mother made you drop the charges.
33:40April.
33:43I was nine years old.
33:46Sending an innocent man to prison
33:48is not going to change that.
33:50I can't go home.
33:56I really wish you would.
33:59It would be a terrible mistake
34:00to send you to a group shelter.
34:02You still have a chance,
34:04a good chance, for a better life
34:05with your mother and your stepfather.
34:08Tell the police what really happened.
34:12Tell them that your stepfather
34:13never laid a hand on you.
34:20What happened to you?
34:26What happened to you?
34:31I'm sorry.
34:35It's not right.
34:40But we can't change it.
34:42Will you tell the police the truth?
34:50Will you tell the police the truth?
34:54If I did that?
35:00Yes.
35:05Will you talk to my mother for me?
35:07Right now.
35:08Thank you for helping me.
35:18Thank you for helping me.
35:18My husband isn't home, and he doesn't like
35:40when people are here with me alone.
35:43This won't take long.
35:49Well, I'd offer you something,
35:50but I haven't been to the store.
35:54Why did you leave your last husband?
35:58Just didn't work out.
35:59Because he raped your daughter.
36:08Mrs. Sandro,
36:11April wants to come home.
36:19What the hell is going on here?
36:21We picked April up last night.
36:23She's three months pregnant,
36:24and the father of the child is dealing drugs
36:26from your sister's house.
36:27What?
36:30Well, why can't you just bring her back here?
36:31Not until the charge is against your husband.
36:33I want her back here, Al.
36:34Shh.
36:35It's okay.
36:36I'll go stay at a motel.
36:38No.
36:38Yes, you go take care of your kid.
36:59All right, I'll take care of your kid.
37:09Bye, bye.
37:09Yeah, I'll be down.
37:13Yeah?
37:14Where's April?
37:16That one there?
37:17She ain't here.
37:18Do you know where she is?
37:19She left.
37:21When?
37:22I don't know.
37:22Some guy came and got her.
37:24All right, no, no, no, I understand that.
37:33Well, I have the file right here in front of me.
37:36Well, actually, hold on.
37:37Give me a second.
37:41Spoke with the police.
37:42April's boyfriend robbed a store where he was working,
37:44and he took off.
37:45The police are looking for them,
37:47but they think they left the state.
37:52Hello?
37:55She'll be back.
37:56If not through here for placement,
37:58then through the delinquency system for breaking the law.
38:01You know,
38:02most of these kids are going to stay in the system
38:04for the rest of their lives.
38:06It's just the way it goes.
38:09Why do it then?
38:10Because
38:10you never know when you're going to make a difference.
38:15Doesn't happen often, Mr. Fallon,
38:16but
38:17sometimes you do.
38:22You coming back tomorrow?
38:40Clayton's coming in soon.
38:42Tonight?
38:43Ticking clock.
38:44We've got a meeting with the creditors committee in the morning.
38:46We don't have to represent him.
38:58No, no.
39:00No, you were right.
39:03The past is the past.
39:06Well, the guy is a spoiled ass.
39:08There's no reason not to represent him.
39:11He's a grandfather.
39:13Yep.
39:14His grandfather.
39:16There was a tough, arrogant son of a bitch.
39:20He'd go to war over nothing.
39:23We were asking for 50 cents an hour more.
39:26Sunday's off.
39:27My father wanted to go to church with us.
39:30Wanted to have one meal a week with his family.
39:32But no way, says Clayton.
39:36What a bastard.
39:41I'll tell Dave to drop the case.
39:44No, no, no.
39:46Go ahead and liquidate it.
39:48Let it just disappear.
39:51Can't be out now anyway.
39:52We'll help him, uh, cut the cord.
39:57We're going to drop the entire corporation and focus on protecting your assets.
40:23What do we do?
40:24Well, first we attack the bank, cancel the lien.
40:26How?
40:28Claim that they interfered in the management of the company.
40:31While we're doing that, you should fly down to Florida and get yourself a driver's license and register to vote.
40:36Become a Florida resident.
40:37Buy yourself the biggest house you can down there, because the bank can't touch it.
40:42Can the workers come after me?
40:43They can't do anything.
40:46Look, instead of protecting your assets, why not take a real shot at reorganizing the company?
40:52First thing you do is exchange debt for equity.
40:59How?
41:00Make the employees part owners of the company.
41:03The workers?
41:04The workers.
41:05The workers.
41:05You okay?
41:28You okay?
41:32Yeah, I'm okay.
41:33How do you have some?
41:43I don't know.
41:44You, uh, you just, uh, seem to...
41:49A turn left up here next to the plants on the other side of that hill.
41:52You know, if this doesn't work out, you probably won't.
42:22I don't get paid.
42:24I know.
42:25I know.
42:35Necklace.
42:36See that door there?
42:38That's where your grandfather worked.
42:40Back down in there, the furnace rope.
42:43Plant was operating 4,000 men right here.
42:4612-hour shifts, seven days a week.
42:52Never got a raise.
42:54Never got any thanks.
42:59After Clayton fired my dad, he never worked again.
43:04Blackballed.
43:05She had a bar over there, across the street.
43:11Spent all those days in there drinking.
43:17Died the week I passed the bar exam.
43:18I always felt like I had a hand in his death.
43:34Well, they're gonna be owners, Nicholas.
43:39Isn't that something?
43:42Howdy.
43:42Gonna be an owners.
43:50So, Mr. Fallon, what's it going to be?
43:56I'll stay.
44:00I'll stay with the clinic.
44:01I'll stay with the clinic.
44:10Howdy.
44:22I'll stay with the clinic.
44:28I'll stay with the clinic.
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