get up. get up.
what the hell do you think you're doing? what's going on here?
fuck you. i got a call today from sally doneghy.
you're 'sposed to be in court in ten days and she's telling me you haven't even met with them.
one lousy letter eighteen months ago.  i try to throw a fuckin' case your way.
i get these people to trust you -- they're coming here tomorrow by the way -- i get this expert doctor to talk to you. i'm doing all your fuckin' legwork -- and it's eighteen months. you're 'sposed to be in court. i bet you haven't even seen the file.
listen to me. listen to me.  listen to me, frank, 'cause i'm done fuckin' with you. i can't do it any more. look around you: you think that you're going to change? what's going to change it? you think it's going to be different next month? it's going to be the same. and i have to stop. this is it. i got you a good case, it's a moneymaker. you do it right and it will take care of you. but i'm through. i'm sorry, frank, this is the end. life is too short, and i'm too old.
what do you want?
don't touch anything.
are you out of your mind?
you need my help? you need a goddamn keeper.  are you telling me that you turned down two-hundred-ten grand? huh? are you nuts? eh? are you nuts. what are you going to do, bring her back to life?
to do what? to do what, for chrissake? to help her to do what? she's dead.
that's the point, you stupid fuck. let them buy it. we let them buy the case. that's what i took it for. you let this drop -- we'll go up to new hampshire, kill some fuckin' deer.
what?
i know what i said but not now. you won it. franky. you won it. when they give you the money, that means that you won. we don't want to go to court -- is this getting to you?
he's a good man? he's the prince of fuckin' darkness.  he'll have people in there testifying that the broad is well -- they saw her tuesday on a surfboard at hyannis.  don't fuck with this case.
frank, but not now. frank. you're trying to wipe out some old business. but not now. i understand. but you go call 'em back. you call the bishop back.
who have we got?
you got the admittance form says patient ate nine hours prior to admittance.
forget it. you can't prove it. sister's testimony is no good. jury knows we win she gets the cash.
gruber's not bad.
no.
right.
right.
you got a good memory, franky.
yeah? and what are you going to do tonight?
don't leave your best work in the sheets.
been a long time, huh?
mary rooney. she won't talk to me. i tried her at the hospital. i'm going to try her back at home. read this.
so what? the best is yet to come. check the tv guide. they got our dr. towler on a panel on gbh on friday: 'the healing hand. the experts speak.'
what i'm saying, they're getting some help.
john: gimme a cuesta-ray.
today is tuesday. what?
give 'em a box of macanudos.
sure. who is she?
oh, yeah. your broad from last night.
franky can't make it. he had an appointment he forgot, he's going to see you later. i'm mickey morrissey, we're supposed to get to know each other.
so far you're great. you got a cigarette?
stearns, harrington, you know who that is?
a huge law firm. okay? they put him in the firm, he's married, everything's superb. franky, he's starting to talk like he comes from dorsetshire, some fuckin' place, 'you must drop by with pat and me' okay?
and he's making a billion dollars every minute working for stearns, harrington, and he bought a dog, and everything is rosy. then mr. stearns, he tried to fix a case.
that frank was working on. yeah. he thought franky needed some help, so they bribed a juror. so franky finds out. he comes to me in tears. he thinks that anybody who knows what a 'spinnaker' is got to be a saint. i told him 'franky, wake up. these people are sharks. what do you think they got so rich from? doing good?' he can't be comforted. he tells the boys at stearns and harrington they've disappointed him, he's going to the judge to rat them out.
before he can get there here comes this federal marshal, and franky's indicted for jury tampering, they throw him in jail, he's gonna be disbarred, his life is over. jimmy, gimme another drink. how are you?
okay. now, so he's in jail. he, finally, he gets to see the light, he calls up harrington, he says he thinks he made a mistake. as if by magic, charges against him are dropped, he's released from jail. p.s. he's fired from the firm, his wife divorces him, he turns to drink and mopes around three and a half years. you like that story?
what happened?
what happened, joey?
d'you meet with dr. gruber?
yeah? how's our new witness?
she's workin' the late shift at the hospital. she's at home now, i'm going over there to talk to.
why is that?
that's what the sister said. the chart said she ate nine hours prior to.
is that what a good doctor would do? how old are you, please?
what qualifies you as an expert in anesthetics?
easthampton hospital for women. excuse me, what is that, a joke? let me tell you something, doctor, those men at catherine laboure. men who are known not only in this city, but the world, were trying to save a woman's life. they were there, and here you are, four years later, read some hospital report, and say.
she getting good care over there?
then what good would it do to ruin the reputation of two men, to help a girl whose life's not going to be changed in the least? you know what code blue means?
it's a common medical term.
how are you holding up?
and all we've got is a witch doctor!
look at it this way: it's refreshing every time a doctor takes the stand he's not a jew.
i'm going back to the office.
you use their witness.
i think we tried that. the case is over.
and how the fuck.  you broke the first law that they taught you in law school. you never ask a question you don't know the answer to. frankie, wake up. you got your own expert witness says there was no negligence. it's over. period. there'll be no other cases.
yeah. i'm awake.
the doctors.
read me what she said.
one of the other nurses?
all right. who wasn't in the o.r.?
what did she do?
the 'history'?
the broad has disappeared.
no records since she quit in '76. she quit two weeks after the incident.
yeah.  good.
hello, this is dr. dorchester in boston. this is an emergency. a nurse left my employ.
four years ago.
i need a cigarette! she left my office four years ago, we're looking for a chart.  i need a cigarette.
you got a cigarette?
you got any cigarettes?
we got to talk.
come on, we'll get a cup of coffee.
i talked to johnnie white at the bar association. the broad used to work for one of concannon's partners in new york awhile ago. she wanted to move to boston. how badly did she hurt us, joe?
we got a mistrial, you know. joe -- did you hear what i said?
he's not here. yeah. i don't know when. all right.
the jury might be out for awhile. you want to run across the street and get a drink?