Ally McBeal >

In a black room.

Ally dressed all in black (all you can see is her face and her hands). Her hand is reaching for a hand (we can barely see the face that goes with the other hand). Their fingertips touch.
Ally's room.
ALLY sits up in her bed, looks right, looks left, looks under the bed on both sides, gets up.
ALLY holding her head: What ? What ?
RENÉE RADICK enters her room: What ?
ALLY: Oh. Oh. Oh.. I..I..I..I had a dream. It was.. It was vivid. It felt... It felt like it was more than make-believe Renee.
RENÉE : Anything in diapers ?
ALLY: No.
RENÉE : Bald, little...
ALLY: No, this… this seemed real. It… it wasn't just a dream, it... It was more.
RENÉE sits on the bed: Here we go again...
ALLY: Oh God ! I hope not !

Credits.

Cage & Fish's office.

ELAINE VASSAL (talking to a woman): This is...
RICHARD FISH and BILLY THOMAS in a corner looking at both women.
BILLY: Is that her ?
RICHARD: Yeah. To me there's something extra sexy about a woman who breaks the law to have sex.
GEORGIA walks up to them from behind their backs.
BILLY: I Think that makes her a sexual predator. If women were predatory...
RICHARD: Umm. I bet she totally directs.
BILLY: You like to be directed in bed ?
RICHARD: Please. I had this thing for Cheryl Lewis growing up, that little puppeteer act.. (he turns around and sees GEORGIA, stops talking; BILLY turns around too)
RICHARD: I like puppets !
GEORGIA: Umm. You wanted to see me ?
RICHARD: Both of you, actually. Wrongful termination. New case. Lawyer ditched her right before summary judgement.
BILLY & GEORGIA: Richard !
RICHARD: I'd do it myself if I knew the law. Bygones. (He leaves)

John Cage's office.

LAURA JEWELL: I won't say that it's right for a woman my age to be with... Does it matter that I may have loved him ?
ALLY: Not when he's 16.
LAURA JEWELL: I have no defense is what you're saying.
JOHN: Well. Did you love him?
LAURA JEWELL: I may have. I don't know… I…
JOHN: Could you tell me exactly how you happened to (stutters...) Coney Island... love him ?
LAURA JEWELL: Well..
ALLY: John, the crime is statutory. If she did it, she did it.
JOHN: An element of the crime is intent, Ally.
ALLY: And what, we're gonna say it happened by accident, she went out for some fresh air, stretched a little and his penis fell in ? (JOHN and LAURA JEWELLlook stunned - ALLY is embarrassed) Sorry !
JOHN: A 39-year old woman with a 16-year old boy, one could suggest she'd have to be crazy. Wouldn't she ?

Court offices.

RENÉE and ALLY walking through corridors, ALLY barely keeping up.
RENÉE : Insanity ?
ALLY: We did assert this !
RENÉE : It is sexual battery..
ALLY: Misdemeanour !
RENÉE : Not a chance !
ALLY: Can you stop walking ? (Renee stops and turns around) You're doing this on purpose because you know I'm wearing new shoes and you think I'll just plead guilty to avoid a blister.
RENÉE : Felony battery, that's as good as it gets.
JASON TRESHAM (the guy in Ally's dream): Mrs Radick you want to talk to me ?
RENÉE : Yes, let's go find a room. This is the defendant's lawyer, Ally McBeal, Jason Treshaw
JASON TRESHAM: Hello (Ally is just looking at him, not reaching for the hand he presents her, not saying anything)
RENÉE : Ally ?
ALLY: Umm ? Oh.. oh.. oh.. (she shakes his hand) Nice to meet you.
JASON TRESHAM: She knows I don't want to do this right ?
ALLY: Excuse me ?
JASON TRESHAM: Laura. They sub-poenaed me.
ALLY: Oh, she knows.
RENÉE : Come on ! (they go and leave ALLY looking stunned).

Cage & Fish Office.

JOHN on a mobile phone: Yeah, I'm on my way down. (hangs up the mobile - to Richard) Well we can't settle. We go to trial.
RICHARD: Good one !
JOHN: Is everything OK with you ?
RICHARD: Me ? Fine, why ?
JOHN: You seem a little lugubrious.
RICHARD: Really ? I...
JOHN: What ?
RICHARD: I make a great living, good friends, my own.. firm by the age of 30, but LIFE ! I want more, John.
JOHN: More ?
RICHARD: Umm. Money. More money.
JOHN: Ah.
RICHARD: I know it's a weakness and I've been trying to think less about wealth and instead focus on things I can buy with it, but still...
JOHN: Everybody wants more money, Richard.
RICHARD: Does everybody.... Sometimes when I look at my stock portfolio, I.. I get aroused. Does everybody do that ?
JOHN: The percentage will be less there, yep.
RICHARD: Umm.
JOHN: Ever heard of Nelle Porter ?
RICHARD: Sub-zero Nelle ?
JOHN: She's looking to leave Goodman-Dale. She's got some serious portables..
RICHARD: Will she meet ?
JOHN: I'm told she’s asked about us.
RICHARD (grinning): Ah !

Inside the court room.

Jason is testifying.
JASON TRESHAM: She would let me use her sailboat and ... one time she decided to go with me. We kind of got to know each other then. I.. I guess we became friends.
RENÉE : At some point you became more than just friends, right ?
JASON TRESHAM: Yes.
RENÉE : You became lovers ?
JASON TRESHAM: Yes.
RENÉE : I know these questions are embarrassing but... before Miss Jewell, were you a virgin ?
JASON TRESHAM: Yes.
RENÉE : And you remember how long the affair with her lasted ?
JASON TRESHAM: I think about 2 weeks.
RENÉE : And how old were you when this was going on ?
JASON TRESHAM: 16.
RENÉE : 16.
(change of scene)
ALLY: Jason, when you first met Miss Jewell, you said that you were a waiter where she frequently had lunch ?
JASON TRESHAM: That's right.
ALLY: Other than taking food orders, or talking about the weather, maybe even the Red Sox, do you remember the first conversation you had with her that was at all more personal ?
JASON TRESHAM: Yes. I asked her why she always seemed so sad.
ALLY: How did she respond ?
JASON TRESHAM: She just smiled a little. Said she was fine.
ALLY: Did you know that she had recently split up with her husband ?
JASON TRESHAM: Not at the time.
ALLY: And did you interpret the sadness as.. as… loneliness ?
JASON TRESHAM: Well, umm, no. Actually it seemed a little worse.
ALLY (angry): What can be worse than being alone ? (calms down) I mean, how, how did it seem worse ?
JASON TRESHAM: I saw lots of lonely people. In some restaurants by the Cape the place would be full of them ! They always have a look...
ALLY: What ... What kind of look ?
JASON TRESHAM: Look that it could change any second. Maybe with the next person who enters the room. Lonely people... they have hope. She didn't seem to. She was just... sad. You know, like she knew too much.
ALLY: Knew too much ? What did she know ?
JASON TRESHAM: Some people find love permanent and some are just meant to be alone. She knew what she was. (ALLY lost in her thoughts)
Judge: Ms. McBeal ? Ms. McBeal ?
ALLY: Umm ? Oh, oh, nothing further. Nothing further.

Tracy's office.

ALLY: It's as if he was talking about me.
DR TRACY CLARK: Ally, with you everything is about you, but that's OK, narcissism is a wonderful thing.
ALLY: It is ?
TRACY: Yeah, for me. Nuts like you heat my pool.
ALLY: Tracy, but this boy, he could be 15 as well as 18, and I.. and I.. looked at him up at the stand and I had... un-pure... thoughts.
TRACY: Un-pure thoughts ?
ALLY: Un-pure... sexual thoughts.
TRACY: Oh, as opposed to philosophical un-purity. Gee, thanks for clearing that up. Honey do you think I'm in a Menudo groupie, because I like their music ?
ALLY: It's not against nature to... to.. (she makes a gesture with her hands)
TRACY: If it were against nature then they wouldn't have to pass laws would they ? Half the men in this world, while making love to their wives, are thinking about the baby-sitter. The guy who's stooping the sitter while thinking about his wife, he's got the nature problems !
ALLY: I'm not finding this helpful.
TRACY: Look. The most in-love time of your life was probably around the age of 18, with ... What's his name ?
ALLY: Billy !
TRACY: Whatever. This boy could be triggering old feelings or.. How are his gluts ? Did he have really amazing gluts, because that can do it.
ALLY: I shouldn't be looking at an 18-year old kid !
TRACY: Ally, I don't want to tell you how to spend your money, but for a woman to think about an 18-year old boy once in a while this is not something to get therapy for ! Maybe it IS Billy. You found the love of your life as a teenager. You've been waiting for another love like that to come along, you're now thinking that it might not, you'll never know love again. That's what's eating you. Don't beat yourself up for thinking these things, you could be 100% right !
ALLY: Thank you, Tracy (She leaves).

The unisex at Cage & Fish.

Ally and Georgia enter.
ALLY: She sort of has a point ! I mean 18 is legal.
GEORGIA: But he's a witness in your trial !
ALLY: I'm not talking about him specifically. I am talking in general. Now.. Now a woman my age and.. Have you ever fantasized about...
GEORGIA: A boy ?
ALLY: Yeah.
GEORGIA looks under the stalls and she sees shoes. She mouths "Billy" to Ally, who mouths back "Oh".
GEORGIA: Maybe a long time ago, before I met Billy but since him...
ALLY: Of course !
GEORGIA: I can't even imagine being with anybody else, In fact, between you and me...
ALLY: I promise !
GEORGIA: I can't even enjoy going to the movies anymore because the love scenes, the leading man (Ally puts a finger in her mouth like she wants to throw up) they don't do anything for me, I can't only think about Billy...
ALLY: Well now you know why it was so hard for me to get over him, because he's just so... you know !
GEORGIA: Big... Be honest (starting to laugh). Have you ever been with a man who could... like Billy ? Billy enters the unisex and comes up behind them
Ally: Oh God no, he's, he's the best !
GEORGIA: The best !
BILLY: Umm Umm (ALLY and GEORGIA turns around)
Both ALLY and GEORGIA: Oh ! (they turn around to look at the stall opening - JOHN gets out)
JOHN: That kind of frank dialogue troubles me (ALLY and GEORGIA laugh)
In the office, RICHARD and a blonde woman.
ALLY: Who is she ?
ELAINE: Nelle Porter. They call her Sub-zero Nelle.
ALLY: You know her ?
ELAINE: I know of her. She was profiled in Boston Magazine. Hot women lawyers. Richard's looking for a rainmaker.
ALLY: She looks like she makes sleep.
ELAINE: I hear that when she shakes hands, she won't stick hers out very far, because she wants the other person to meet her more than half-way.
ALLY: Excuse me ?
JOHN (arriving with Laura): All set ?
ALLY: John, are we hiring a new lawyer ?
ELAINE: Ssh, here they come (RICHARD and NELLE arrive towards them)
RICHARD: I'd like you to meet some people, Ally McBeal, Nelle Porter.
Both ALLY and ELAINE: Hi (they both stick their hands close, look at them, finally both reach and they shake hands half-way)
Both ALLY and ELAINE: Hello
RICHARD: And this is John Cage.
NELLE: I've heard a lot about you. The bunion, right ?
JOHN: Oh well... Biscuit.
NELLE: Oh biscuit. In my mind biscuit probably became bun, bun became bunion... I'm sorry.
JOHN: Quite all right.
RICHARD: I know you're off to trial. Nelle has expressed some interest in joining the firm.
ALLY: Oh !
RICHARD: We do fabulous cases. Laura here is a statutory rape client, slept with a 16-year old. It's rich, it's fresh, it's... delicious. Let me show you the unisex.
NELLE: Great !
RICHARD: Yeah.
They go. ALLY, JOHN and LAURA JEWELLare looking at them annoyed.

Court room

Laura is taking the stand.
LAURA JEWELL: The first time I surprised him at the boat house it wasn't a day we had planned to go sailing.
JOHN: When you say you surprised him..
LAURA JEWELL: I walked in, he had a sweater of mine, he was holding it up to his face (she gestures). I asked him where he got it and he told me he's taken it off my clothes line one day (flashback of the boat house with voice over) I just looked at him, and he remarkably volunteered the truth that I can only imagine must have been very difficult to volunteer.
JOHN: What did he say ? (end of flashback)
LAURA JEWELL: He told me that he would sometimes take the sweater to bed with him.
JOHN: Did he tell you why ?
LAURA JEWELL: He didn't have to.
JOHN: What happened then ?
LAURA JEWELL: I walked over to him. (flashback starts again, voice-over). He seemed a little scared and... exhilarated, and so as I. Maybe I was intoxicated at the thought of being a young man's fantasy (end of flashback), maybe I was just lonely. All I can say for sure... I needed to make love to him every bit as much as he wanted to make love to me.
JOHN: What hap (voices shrieks).. What happened then ?
LAURA JEWELL: I.. I.. I unbuttoned my shirt (flashback, voice-over), I reached behind his head and (end flashback)... (to the judge) How much detail is necessary for this ?
JOHN: You had relations ?
LAURA JEWELL: Yes
Judge: In the boathouse ?
LAURA JEWELL: Yes.
JOHN: And you made love again after that, correct ?
LAURA JEWELL: Yes.
JOHN: Miss Jewell, it's one thing to say it was something that just happened, but when it happens several times...
LAURA JEWELL(flashback type but it is Ally kissing Jason, voice-over) It'd sound silly if I tried to describe you how beautiful it was, how tender, but... (end of flashback)
ALLY makes a little noise, then clears her throat: I.. I apologize.

In Cage & Fish, RICHARD and NELLE walk.

NELLE: If I make a lot will I get equity ?
RICHARD: You can't make partner too soon, but you'll get there sooner here than any other firm. What about your clients ? Will they come with you ?
NELLE: You know I can't legally ask them until after I leave.
RICHARD: Of course, and...?
NELLE: They've all said they'll come.
RICHARD: Excellent. I told you salary, benefits, what else do you need to know ?
NELLE: You've said nothing about the firm's ideology.
RICHARD: Selfishism. Everyone's looking to get ahead, everybody gets ahead. I've tried to set the example here.
NELLE: What about the other lawyers ? How would they feel about me joining in ?
RICHARD: Nelle ? Do you care ? (she smiles)
GEORGIA and ELAINE looking at RICHARD and NELLE.
GEORGIA: Are they really gonna hire her ?
ELAINE: How could they possibly ? She's such a bitch !
GEORGIA: You've talked to her ?
ELAINE: No. Why ?
GEORGIA: Well, sometimes it makes it easier to backstab if you've had at least one conversation.
ELAINE: She's smart and she's pretty, Georgia, what else do I need to know ?
GEORGIA (whispering): she's coming !
NELLE: Georgia ?
GEORGIA: Yes ?
NELLE: I'm Nelle Porter. I'm actually thinking of coming here to work.
GEORGIA: That's great !
NELLE: I've talked to the men. I was hoping to pick the brain of one of the women.
GEORGIA: Oh.
ELAINE: If you don't mind my suggesting, you should speak to Ally McBeal.
NELLE: Really ?
ELAINE: It's no offence to you Georgia, because you are married to one of the men here in the office. But Ally, she'll give you the straight dirt, if you know what I mean.
ELAINE: OK. Thank you.
ELAINE (to Georgia): End of problem. She'll hate Ally.

Court room.

Laura testifying.
RENÉE : You make it sound so romantic.
LAURA JEWELL: It was.
RENÉE : Rational, even, yet you plead insanity ?
LAURA JEWELL: My lawyers plead insanity. They said the term has a legal distinction from medical insanity.
RENÉE : You had sex with a boy !
LAURA JEWELL: There was nothing retreatuous.
RENÉE : You had sex with a boy !
LAURA JEWELL: Again we're dealing with legal distinctions.
RENÉE : 16. He wasn't a boy to you ?
LAURA JEWELL: Yes he was.
RENÉE : And you had sex with him anyway.
LAURA JEWELL: To be honest, I probably made love to him in part because he was a boy...
JOHN: Objection ! Move to strike !
Judge: Overruled.
RENÉE : Because he was a boy ?
LAURA JEWELL: Don't misunderstand. Physically, sexually, he was a man. If I close my eyes, I can still feel his strenGeorgiah (ALLY closes her eyes) But as he moved himself, I also felt... Inside me I felt his willingness to just surrender, to me, to love, to the moment, and a young man's moment can last a while.
RENÉE : So you just prefer boys to men ?
LAURA JEWELL: In some ways maybe I do. Emotionally, I… I think things die in men as they get older. They lose the essence of the very thing a woman most wants.
RENÉE : Such as ?
LAURA JEWELL: Simple intimacy. He cried sometimes when we made love. Tears of joy. How many men do you know willing to do that, how many men who are able ? (Start of dream - voice-over : ALLY kisses JOHN) He made me feel as if I were flying and falling all at once. I was flying. There are things in him that (end of dream) I'm sure will go dead as he grows older. Perhaps I was celebrating the boy inside him. I was celebrating the boy inside me.
Ally's office. She's sitting on the floor, drinking a bottle of beer. Billy walks in.
BILLY: Must be serious.
ALLY: I think I'm meant for a boy. When this kid sat on the stand, well he said that some people are meant to be alone. It just ... shot to my center. And then she... she said that boys have this... this... this accessible side that men... (BILLY sits next to her) without before their shells get hard, they... Tracy thinks that might have something to do with me not being over you, but that isn't it. The truth is if I close my eyes and think of you I can't even rem... Umm.
BILLY : Glad to hear that.
ALLY: But whenever I think of you at 17, I... I still... Don't get me wrong, you're a great guy, maybe the best guy I know. But part of you, part of the you that I fell in love with is kind of atrophied over... A little.
BILLY: Ally ? We were kids. D'you think that kind of love lasts forever ?
ALLY: Maybe I'm meant for a boy. And that's why I'm, of course, meant to be alone.
BILLY: There's another possibility. Maybe you're meant for this boy.
ALLY: What ? Billy, he's 18, I mean, what, how... Ewh ! (ALLY punches BILLY in the arm) Come on !
BILLY: Well, it's been known to happen.

Courtroom, summary arguments.

JOHN : If Jason Tresham had picked up a gun and shot a few classmates, we'd have no trouble saying he was an adult. But to fall in love, to achieve an emotional intimacy with a 39-year old woman, he must be a child. To be able to see into her loneliness and offer companionship that could actually leave her more enlightened, he must be a child. To be able to reach out on a lazy afternoon and sexually gratify this woman over and over and over...
Judge: All right counsel !
JOHN: When I was 15 years old, I went to see this movie. It was called "Summer of 42". It was about a 15-year-old boy and a thirtyish woman played by Jennifer O'Neill. And this boy loved her. As did we all, Jennifer O'Neill ! I put a padlock on my bedroom door that summer... (The audience laughs)
Judge: Mr Cage !
JOHN: But for the whole movie, audiences throughout the country silently groaned, "Just go ! Go to her !". And we all willed her to go to him. And in the end she did. She took him into her bed. And it was.. It was beautiful ! And it was the ending we all wanted, wasn't it ? And we don't need to feel ashamed for wishing that result. The law aside, nature actually favors it. A man achieve his sexual prime as a teenager, a woman in her thirties. The District Attorney will no douBilly beat that drum "The law is the law is the law", that's what District Attorneys do. But when it comes to love, there really is no law is there ?
Jury: No.
Judge: Members of the jury, this is a closing argument. Now I'm gonna ask you not to talk back to the litigants.
JOHN: Laura Jewell fell victim to her love. Yes. She embraced it beyond the bounds of the law. But I tell you, as I went home from that movie that night, as I still go home after watching love stories today, I pray "Just once let me know this kind of passion. Let me know a love that deeply". Laura Jewell did. Caused her to commit an insane act. But if her feelings were even a fraction of what they've been described in this room, a fraction of what I felt and still do feel for Jennifer, insanity would have been ain’t she not going to him.

(Cut scene to RENÉE 's argument)

RENÉE : Give me a break. If this was an adult man and a 16-year-old girl you wouldn't even hesitate. With men it's sex, women it must be love. Well as a woman I thank you for the compliment, but who's kidding who ? We have sex drives. The young lifeguards ? Look good. We want it just like men want it, but 16 is 16. When a man cheats he's a bum, a woman ? She's just bridging hello to Madison County. It's not only crap, it's a form of gender discrimination. And 16 is 16.

Outside the courtroom.

ALLY, JOHN and LAURA JEWELLare sitting.
LAURA JEWELL: So... Now we wait ?
JOHN: Shouldn't take too long.
ALLY: How did it finally end... with you and Jason ? I mean, it's over, right, you and he...
LAURA JEWELL: It's over.
ALLY: Oh... I was just wondering...
NELLE: Ally, hi !
ALLY: Oh, hi Nelle (the 3 of them get up).
NELLE (to John): Paul.
JOHN: It's John.
NELLE: Oh, right. Listen Ally, I'm really considering joining up, but I would like to talk to a woman's one in first. Do you have any at your firm ? (silence...) I'm kidding, I would like to talk to you.
ALLY: Oh, sure, I'd be happy to.
NELLE: Great. Maybe we can get a drink at the end of the day. I'll call (she leaves)
ALLY: And maybe we couldn't ! She didn't wait for me to confirm, she just assumed that I'd make myself available.
JOHN (looking at NELLE leaving): I'm drawn to her. (ALLY punches him in the arm).

Courtroom building.

Ally gets into an elevator, reading papers, Jason is in the elevator.
JASON TRESHAM: Hi.
ALLY jumps of surprise: Oh ! Hi ! (silence) I bet you're glad. This is almost over.
JASON TRESHAM: Yeah. (Uncomfortable silence)
ALLY: Why are you staring at me ?
JASON TRESHAM: I'm sorry. I just had a strange dream last night. You were in it.
ALLY: Me ? Oh... well, what... Never mind !
JASON TRESHAM: It wasn't inappropriate, just.. strange, you know. We weren't talking, we were just... Our hands were like this (he holds his hands 20 cm apart), and our fingertips were touching (brings his hands together). That was all. (ALLY breaths louder)
In Tracy's office.
ALLY: What the hell do you call that ? He dreamed the same dream !
TRACY: Take a breath and...
ALLY: Oh no, no, no I didn't rush all the way over her to breathe.!
TRACY: Ally, do you realize that he average person uses about one tenth of their brain power, with you it could be less...
ALLY: What does brain power have to do with...?
TRACY: Mental telepathy, power of suggestion, which can penetrate...
ALLY: It isn't telepathy ! He dreamed the same dream !
TRACY: I charge by the hour regardless. The opinions don't come cheaper when they're yours ! (She motions for Ally to sit. She sits).
ALLY: All right. Give me your opinion.
TRACY: Fingertips only. That suggests the need to touch, but the recognition that it's forbidden. You are both reluctant to give in.
ALLY: Tracy ! How could he and I possibly work out, he's, he's, he's young enough to, to...
TRACY: If you want some advice here it is. It can't last forever, of course not. But who made up the rule that best loves do ?

Cage & Fish, Richard's office.

RICHARD: She's good, John. This woman reminds me of me.
JOHN: Where is she now ?
RICHARD: She's downstairs talking to Ally. Should we hire her ?
JOHN: It's hard for me to be objective, I'm drawn to her.
RICHARD: Well, you've got no chance, does that help ?
JOHN: You know that song ? Boom boom boom, boom boom boo doom ?
RICHARD: Sorry ?
JOHN: When I look at her, I hear Boom boom boom, boom boom boo doom.

Downstairs, bar, Vonda Shepard is singing "You can't hurry love" (Boom boom boom, boom boom boo doom !).

NELLE: My only concern... Well there's been some sexual harassment suits at your firm...
ALLY: Umm..
NELLE: Well I bet their argue were "you deserve it... wearing those skimpy little skirts !" Pigs !!
ALLY: I've never sued them, Nelle.
NELLE: You like it here ?
ALLY: I… I do. Even though it's a place that would never let a woman become partner.
NELLE: Why not ?
ALLY: They don't say that but between you and me, they hire women who want families.
NELLE: As in... children ?
ALLY: That way she'll end up going for maternity leave before she's up for partnership and they figure, you know, once women have children, they tend to prioritize the little limps. I want children, though, so this is a good firm for me.
ELAINE (holding a cell phone): Ally ! (to NELLE) Pardon me! (back to ALLY) Your verdict is in !
ALLY: What, now ?
ELAINE: John's outside waiting in a cab.
ALLY: Excuse me (she leaves)
NELLE: Sure.
ELAINE: The verdict is in.
NELLE: So I gather.

Courtroom.

LAURA JEWELL: What does this mean, they're coming back quickly ?
JOHN: They have week-end plans.
Judge: Members of the jury, you've reached your verdict ?
Foreman (standing up): We have, Your Honor.
Judge: What say you ?
Foreman: On the matter of 32664, sex with a minor, we find the defendant Laura Jewell, not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.
LAURA JEWELL(to ALLY and JOHN): Thank you.
JOHN: Never underestimate a jury.
ALLY: Really !
Judge: Members of the jury, thank you for your service. The defendant is free to go. We're adjourned.

Courtroom building.

Ally and Renee are in front of the elevator.
RENÉE : I've got to hand it to the Biscuit. On basics nullification was pretty good.
ALLY gets in the elevator: You're coming home ?
RENÉE : No, I've got paper work to finish first. I'll see you there.
ALLY: OK.
JASON TRESHAM runs and gets in the elevator as the door closes.
ALLY: Jason ! Hi !
JASON TRESHAM: Hi ! (silence) Congratulations.
ALLY: Thanks.
JASON TRESHAM: I'm so relieved, you know, I never wanted...
ALLY: I know. Well everything turned out.
JASON TRESHAM: Look (ALLY makes a shrieking noise then coughs)
ALLY: Tickle in my throat.
JASON TRESHAM: I know I'm gonna sound like a... This might seem ridiculous. But I feel you and I have some kind of strange connection.
ALLY: You do ?
JASON TRESHAM: You probably think that I… I… Older women and I, I don't, I just (elevator opens)... I'm sorry. I'd walk out of this elevator right now but I'm feeling unsteady and I... I'd fall down (the elevator closes again)
ALLY: Why ?
JASON TRESHAM: Because the reason I came in here was to ask you out. As I said, I feel this kind of... I'm sorry, I don't want to be inappropriate, if your answer’s no...
ALLY: It's yes.
JASON TRESHAM: It is ?
ALLY: Evidently !
JASON TRESHAM: Great ! Maybe tomorrow night ?
ALLY: Sure (Elevator opens - blank)
JASON TRESHAM: Won't you getting out ?
ALLY: I'm a little unsure of my feet as well.
JASON TRESHAM: Oh ! (elevator closes again, both are still in it).

Cage & Fish offices, Hall.

RICHARD and NELLE are going down the stairs.
RICHARD: Can I have your attention please ? Everybody ? Over here ! Attention ! Put your work down !
ALLY: Elaine what's going on ?
ELAINE: You don't want to know !
ALLY: Why is she up there ?
RICHARD: I really have splendid news, I would like to introduce to you all Nelle Porter. As up today she'll be joining us a new attorney.
GEORGIA (with ALLY and ELAINE - not believing it) : He hired her ?
RICHARD: She is going to be an outstanding addition and I trust you'll all help make her feel as welcome as I know she is. Nelle Porter. (Applause)
ELAINE (to GEORGIA and ALLY): Just so we're clear : we hate her, right ?
ALLY and GEORGIA : Umm umm.
NELLE : Thank you. Thank you. It's a tough decision to change jobs but.. I'm excited. I'm grateful to Richard and to (shows JOHN) Paul for the offer, and also Ally. My brief chat with her... well, I knew coming here, it would be fun.
Both ELAINE and GEORGIA to ALLY : What did you say ?
ALLY: Mmm N.. Mmm.
ALLY enters John's office
ALLY: I know why Richard hired her. But you ! Why wou ... What, was it because you're drawn to her ?
JOHN: In part.
ALLY: And what, you expect to get a date out of this ?
JOHN: Ally, I have no such illusions, trust me ! A woman like her...
ALLY: Then why ?
JOHN : She makes my heart go… boom.
ALLY: Well, won't that torture you if.. . John, John the last thing you want is to be in love with someone you can't have. That is something I know.
JOHN: What Laura Jewell said, about men, their insides going dead as they grow older ? True.
ALLY: It is ?
JOHN: If we're not careful. We can start to prioritize career, money, hair plugs. Now any person who can make you flex your romantic muscle, remind you of what it's like to feel, that's good company.
ALLY: Even if your muscle never gets to… compete ?
JOHN: Nelle may be the kind of girl I can only dream about, but there's something to be said for the dream itself... and she's a fine attorney.

Restaurant, Ally and Jason.

JASON TRESHAM: You know it's the journals that caused all the problems. My parents found it
ALLY: Oh too graphic !
JASON TRESHAM: No, it wasn't graphic, I just wrote down feelings. It was mainly because I wanted to read it 20 years later...I don't know.
ALLY: And wonder if you'll be capable of having those feelings again ?
JASON TRESHAM: It's still early ? Wanna go for a walk ?
ALLY: Well, you know the game is about to get out, and.. and traffic..
JASON TRESHAM: What... what game ?
ALLY: The Red Sox !
JASON TRESHAM: The Red Sox are away, Ally.
ALLY: No, no, the Red... I saw the lights !
JASON TRESHAM: The Red Sox are in Baltimore, they're just working on the lights. My uncle's the groundskeeper, that's how I know.
ALLY: The groundskeeper of Fenway Park ?
JASON TRESHAM: Yeah, why ?
ALLY: Have you been in Fenway Park, I mean actually on the field ?
JASON TRESHAM: Yes. Why, is this important ?
ALLY: Are you kidding ? My father and I used to listen to every game on the radio together every summer. I.. I would close my eyes and I would pretend that I was right out there, in the field.
JASON TRESHAM: Wanna go ?
ALLY: When ?
JASON TRESHAM: Now !
ALLY: Now ? Now ? Now ? Now ? Now, to Fenway Park ?
JASON TRESHAM: It's 2 blocks away. (she nodes yes !).

The unisex.

Nelle is wearing mules, jeans, and a bra...She's putting a sweater on while Billy enters.
BILLY: Oh, I'm sorry
NELLE: I keep forgetting these bathrooms are open to the public.
BILLY: Should I leave ?
GEORGIA enters.
GEORGIA: What's this ?
NELLE: Initiation. Kidding !
BILLY: I think... I'll let you finish
NELLE: Listen, I know my nickname is sub-zero, and... people find me.. well umm cold.
GEORGIA (feeling a bit guilty): Nelle, this can be a tough group, but we'll warm up..
NELLE: Thanks (she lets her hair down)
GEORGIA looks at her hair and leaves. JOHN enters.
JOHN: Evening
NELLE : Hi
JOHN hears the Boom boom boom, boom boom boo doom.

Fenway Park.

ALLY and Jason are playing make-believe base-ball, for a while.
At the end, they are replaying a famous home run (Carlton Fisk hitting the famous 12th inning homer that won game 6th of the 1975 World series for the Red Sox). Then they're walking in the street.
ALLY: Hey, I will never forget that night. Of course they went on to lose the 7th game, but still.. Do you remember when Carlton Fisk kicked that home run ?
JASON TRESHAM: I wasn't born yet.
ALLY: Right !
JASON TRESHAM: This is where I live. Do you want to come in or...
ALLY: No, no thanks. I had a really great time, a really great time.
JASON TRESHAM: I'd like to see you again.
ALLY: Jason, I think I'm gonna have to say no to that. Even though parts of me want... Can you understand ?
JASON TRESHAM: Yeah. I already knew.
ALLY: You did ?
JASON TRESHAM: Yeah, you were kind of having too much fun. Like it was some kind of reunion with fun you had before.
ALLY: I might be too young for you.
JASON TRESHAM: Got you to first base anyway.
ALLY: Yeah, now that you did.
JASON TRESHAM holds up his hand and Ally reaches his fingertips with hers. She comes closer, and they kiss. She leaves.

End credits.