Fatal Attraction (2023) s01e01 Episode Script
Pilot
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[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
[SIGHS]
MAN: Good morning.
- Good morning.
- MOLINA: Good morning.
Good morning. Good morning.
For the record,
Daniel Michael Gallagher,
convicted of murder
in the second degree,
given a sentence of 15 years to life.
This is your first appearance
- before the board?
- Yes, ma'am.
BLAKE: You managed to keep
a clean disciplinary record.
You were involved in the
exoneration of David Rangel?
BLAKE: You seem to have made it a point
to provide that kind of assistance.
I agree with whoever it was that
said that the greatest threat
to our system of justice
is an innocent man.
And we understand you do have
a statement you've prepared.
Yes, ma'am.
I only wanted to say that
that I
[SIGHS]
That every day that I have been in here,
I have thought about Alexandra Forrest.
Because I need to make myself
understand what I did,
how she died
that I killed her
and why.
♪♪
My position,
my accomplishments,
everything that I had
and everything that I wanted
next to that, she meant nothing.
That she tried to jeopardize it,
in my mind
meant that I was justified
in whatever I chose to do.
And I chose rage.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
I chose to lose control.
♪♪
I chose to take her life.
And the man that I had always
believed myself to be
could not have done that.
But I did.
So I have tried to take every single day
that I have been in here
to come
to a better understanding
of who I really am
and to atone.
Um, that's all I have to say.
If you were to be paroled, what
plans do you have for yourself?
The first
The first thing that I would like to do
is to be reconnected with my family.
[SOFTLY] Do you have any more questions?
No.
[NORMAL VOICE] Thank you, Mr. Gallagher.
We'll take all of this under advisement
and notify you of our decision.
Thank you all very much.
♪♪
GUARD: Come on. Let's go.
♪♪
[DOOR BUZZES]
♪♪
[DOOR CLOSES]
[CLEARS THROAT]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
♪♪
Uh, that's not mine.
That's not my phone.
Name?
Ellen Gallagher.
♪♪
MAN: on vacation in
Switzerland, and, one morning,
his wife came back from a hike
and described climbing a hill
to find an old wooden house at the top,
with a beautiful handcarved door.
Did I not tell this story
in junior honors seminar?
No? Okay.
Well, so, after lunch,
she wanted him to see
the house with the door,
so they climbed the hill
and then all the surrounding hills,
but they never found it.
Carl Jung described his wife
as calm and rational,
logical, impossible to fool.
But so here was something
she swore had happened,
that he absolutely could not explain.
I mean, four other classes, yeah,
and then the reading, as well.
So it's it's a lot, but,
uh, I think I just find that,
with, like, listening
and even taking notes,
everything is just sort of gone
as soon as it's over.
So doing that transcription
just really helps,
like, set it in stone for me, I guess.
So it's worth all the extra time.
Plus, you'll have a hard copy of
every lecture to refer back to.
Yeah.
Still, though, why are other people
- just, like, so good at it?
- At what?
Remembering what they hear?
Yeah.
Trust me, they're not.
So, do you
My father might be, um
up for parole.
He's up for parole.
That must have been so hard
for you to be holding on to.
All this time, you've had to
carry his being in prison,
when you had told me he was dead.
Well, he's never e-mailed me before.
Ever.
And then he asked me
to come to his hearing,
and I didn't e-mail back,
but I went.
I'm sorry that I lied.
People tell me what
they're ready to tell me.
♪♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ECHOING]
Let me run something by you, okay?
Work-related?
Speaking of birthdays,
it was Marlena's birthday.
And she's been sending me
these screenshots
of some shit called a tennis bracelet.
Like I got that kind
of scratch laying around.
So I had to get creative.
Oh, boy.
- What?
- It's nothing.
I just don't want to have
anything in my mouth
when you tell me what you did.
So I thought to myself,
"How much jewelry have I got
Winnie over the years?"
And then I've never seen
most of it, like, ever again.
So I looked, and I found this one thing
that pretty much solved
my problem exactly.
So I repurposed it.
Oh. Marlena loves it.
She went fucking crazy.
I'm sure she did. You both
clearly have great taste.
Fuck you, dude. I need some advice here.
Why? You already did the thing
I would have told you not to do.
Because I could have sworn
that Winnie would not remember
this fuckin' thing
that she's never worn once,
but now she says that she can't find it
and that she thinks someone stole it.
And she wants me
to claim it on insurance.
- Which I have not done yet.
- Because that's fraud.
So I explained to her,
I was like, "Babe, look.
It doesn't make sense that
a thief would just sneak in here
and steal this one thing.
It probably just slipped
through the cracks
in the drawer or whatever."
Which, yeah, I think I might
just double down on that.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Or you could blame it
on one of the kids.
Frank, honestly, stop talking
to me, your direct supervisor,
about your criminal fucking enterprise.
And if you come to my party with
anybody other than your wife,
I will crap thunder on you.
Like Marlena would want to come
to a geezer's party. She's 23.
Oh, there it is, the face.
You know, no wonder
they're gonna make you judge.
♪♪
- Well, happy birthday, Danny.
- Thank you, Terry.
Also, tell me again on Thursday.
[CHUCKLES]
♪♪
Morning.
Good morning.
You see the hearing's been pushed?
I did, yes, thank you.
How are you today?
Okay.
I had a dream last night
this giant snake bit me on the face.
Well, that's disturbing.
Beatrice.
- Oh.
- Here for Koestner?
Yep, it's been a while
since I've been up against
one of Norman's juries.
You should be fine, so long as
you haven't missed anything.
You haven't missed anything, have you?
Shut up.
Ooh! Heard your 40th birthday's
coming up.
That's young for a judge.
Just not young for a person.
Damn! Beatrice, that hurts.
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS, DOORS OPEN]
♪♪
- Hey, hey, boss.
- Hey.
Hey. Can I get a sign-off?
Vehicular manslaughter.
I was thinking probation.
Defendant blew a 1.8.
That's pretty drunk, Phil.
Right, but it's a first offense.
Plus, the vic died of a heart attack.
No. No deal.
Save your empathy for somebody
who doesn't get behind
the wheel shit-faced.
Bad decisions lead to bad outcomes.
You play stupid games,
you win stupid prizes.
GABRIEL: How you doing, Your Honor?
Don't jinx me, Gabriel.
[HUMMING]
I'm home!
[KNIFE CHOPPING RAPIDLY]
[KNIFE SLIDES]
[KEYS DROP ON TABLE]
Those are pretty pictures.
- Nana got it for me.
- Oh, really?
BETH: At the Taschen store.
It was sealed in plastic,
so it might have been
the illustrated Scandinavian
Kama Sutra, for all she knew.
But she liked the cover, so here we are.
- But it's not, right?
- Right?
It's fairy tales.
Fairy tales. Okay. Fairy tales are good.
- We like fairy tales.
- Mm-hmm.
[KNIFE CHOPPING]
I'm sorry.
Go on.
I was a complete shithead.
And I'm sorry.
The best was how
you literally had just said
you didn't care what we watched.
It was extremely
[SOFTLY] bag-of-dicks.
[WINE POURING]
[INHALES SHARPLY]
You're right, I'm wrong, I'm sorry
and I think maybe
just all the moving stuff
was getting in my pocket.
Wait. That was about moving?
Do you not want to move?
Honey, I'm really just
trying to say I'm sorry.
'Cause, you know, we can just
still flip that house instead.
Just sayin'.
And while we're saying stuff,
you don't have to be a judge
either if you don't want.
"The hours are easier,
the schedule's more reliable,
it's such an honor"
that you can still refuse.
It'd be a baller move, right?
They offer it to me, and I'm
just like, "Tsk, eh, I'm good."
[BOTH LAUGH]
I bet you didn't know that
judges get to go to conferences.
In fancy places, no less.
What kind and where?
Mostly the law kind.
And how about Aruba?
Aruba means Milwaukee.
Milwaukee means San Bernardino.
- [LAUGHS]
- Hey, kiddo.
Where do the sun
and the moon come into it?
Well, the stepmother's castle
is east of the sun and west of the moon.
Ohh
Doesn't have to have a stepmother,
but when it does, man,
you know it's good, right?
[CHAIR SLIDES]
Hey, what's the problem
with Suarez's case?
He says you're not gonna charge it.
I asked him to get one of the four guys
to flip on the other ones.
It's not a problem for me.
Yeah, well, he's already got a witness,
who's a working man,
a father, community pillar.
Why does he need to negotiate
with a murderer?
Can you tell me where this perfect
witness is gonna be in six months?
Eating M&M's outside of Courtroom 12
while waiting to be called to the stand.
And can you absolutely promise
me you can find him and bring him in?
Can I? Yes. You gonna
charge the case or not?
I'm gonna prosecutorial-discretion it.
- Aw!
- Suarez has four guys.
I'm just asking for one.
Maybe youguys should
have gone to law school.
No, I wanted to work for a living.
And here we are.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
You still coming to my party?
I don't know. You gonna be there?
A full bar is gonna be there.
Plus, specialty cocktails with themes.
Ooh! At least that's fuckin' stupid.
♪♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
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- Excuse me, sir.
- Hmm.
There's no eating in the courtroom.
No, there's no youeating
in the courtroom. Just me.
You're not me.
Sad but true. Where's Conchita?
Double-booked, but she sent her.
- Alice.
- Okay.
Or Alex.
Well, which is it?
Hmm.
Someone should ask.
♪♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
♪♪
Conchita got stuck upstairs,
said she's really sorry.
I'm Alex Forrest.
Alex. That's alright. Dan Gallagher.
Yeah, she loves you. Conchita.
Yeah, she lowers my blood pressure.
[CHUCKLES]
So you up to speed on everything yet?
Yeah, Conchita's definitely
their point person,
but they know me, so we're good.
They're nervous.
Well, let's go talk to them.
♪♪
How you guys holding up?
Okay.
Big day.
All the times I had to remind you
to control your facial expressions,
hide your anger, hide your pain,
don't do anything to make
the jury feel bad,
feel sorry for the man
who killed Yalina.
But today this is
This is the sentencing phase.
This is for the judge.
He needs to know what you lost.
So show him.
If you feel angry, be angry.
If you feel like
you want to cry, you cry.
Today is the day for all the emotions.
And this is the place.
- Okay?
- Yeah.
- Okay?
- Yes.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
♪♪
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So, are you doing anything
for the big birthday?
Wife's throwing me a party.
Nice. My mom wanted to do that
for my dad's 40th,
but he didn't want her
to spend the money.
If I was a wiser man,
I'd probably be saying the same thing.
Yeah, but then he had
a stroke the next year,
so shouldn't have asked him;
should've just done it.
Hi-de-ho, degenerates.
Nice pocket square, E.B.
Oh, you like that?
Oh, what could possibly
go wrong with that?
[TIRES SQUEAL IN DISTANCE]
Victim services.
She works with Conchita.
Conchita, man. Conchita's the best.
What's her name?
Alice, I think?
- Hmm.
- Is Alice my big toe?
'Cause I want to bang her on
every piece of furniture I own.
[CHUCKLES]
- BETH: She wants full overlay now.
- MAN: Wait. What?
Yeah, her friend Sharon
just had wood inserts put on
all her appliances so they'll
blend with her cabinetry.
Well, speaking of new appliances,
she wants a cheese refrigerator now,
too.
No, no.
People are feeling a way
about cheese these days, Danny.
Is that way constipated?
[CHUCKLING] It will be.
- [CELLPHONE RINGING]
- Oh, hold.
Hi. No, not yet.
Uh, I'm I'm coming right now.
[CHUCKLING] Nope. I forgot. Sorry.
Here. You ask her. For you.
- Let me clean this shit up.
- Hey, pal.
Well, I have these boots
I'm trying to build an outfit around,
but now I'm thinking
I should just get over myself.
So you excited about going to that
white-truffle asshole place?
Why can I never remember the name of it?
I don't know. Is that
even happening anymore?
Send me a picture. Text it.
Okay. I will.
- She knows.
- I will.
Hey. Either you want me
to come home or you don't.
What? How do we have no bananas?
I'll see you tomorrow night, Dan.
Bye, Beth. Well, if I'm going
to the store,
do we need anything else?
Well, think, woman.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Isn't this thing starting at 6:00?
Are you getting ready or?
Uh, sorry. Dad pushed it to 7:30.
So you didn't need me to
come home early from work then?
No. I still wanted you home.
Oh, really? Why?
Make you do stuff for me.
Pick it up.
You goddamn
sexy lunatic.
[GROWLS] Aah!
[LAUGHING]
WARREN: I didn't ask for
anything to be substituted.
I simply asked, could they
not put it on the plate.
Kind of an expensive restaurant
to make such a mistake, Bethie.
So just don't eat it then.
It's not like they gave you
a grenade with the pin pulled.
I just think it's funny. That's all.
They've got a hundred people
running around
- in here
- Shh.
creating an unparalleled
dining experience.
I will go ask them to replate it.
No one has to do anything.
I just said it was funny.
I didn't want to substitute.
I didn't want it at all.
And not only do I get it anyway,
but it's cold.
[CHUCKLES] Ironic polenta.
Hm!
- [GLASS SHATTERS]
- Oh, boy.
♪♪
How we doing over here, Eleanor?
- Ellen.
- Lennon?
Ellen.
Ah. Lemon.
Ellen. Sluggo?
- Ellen.
- Gordon Shumway.
Hey, you want a slice of
my pork, Gordon Shumway?
I think I'm good.
You sure? It's really good.
- I love you.
- I love you, too.
[CELLPHONE RINGS]
- Yeah?
- CLERK #1: Sorry to bother you, boss.
Got a homicide in Lancaster.
No I.D. yet.
Okay. Call Frank,
tell him to go to the scene,
have him give me a call when
he figures out what's going on.
- Gotcha.
- Alright.
No rest for the wicked.
[CHUCKLES]
WARREN: So it'll be official soon, huh?
Do they get you the, uh the thing?
Or do you get your own?
- The robe.
- Huh.
You get your own.
Out of pocket, actually.
You don't even have to, funnily enough.
There's no rule that says
a judge has to wear one.
It's more of a tradition at this point,
a symbolic practice.
How much more are you going to
be pulling down a year?
20 K?
It won't pay for private school.
Symbolism. Tradition.
The fabric of society.
Seven years at Stanford
to empty your pockets
for a metal detector in the morning?
You're not doing that
for your family, Dan.
Or for your credit rating.
The end of the day, it's all just
a cool guy's cops-and-robbers game.
♪♪
But, still, people will
have to call you Judge.
I'm sure you'll hate that.
♪♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
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[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
Look who it is!
Hello. Thank you all for coming.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
- Hey!
- There she is!
Thanks, guys. Thank you.
Mikey!
Happy birthday ♪
♪♪
How are you, guys?
Thank you so much for coming.
[LAUGHTER]
I'm very good.
Enjoy.
Is the boss here? She said
she was gonna come.
If there were $400 bottles of wine,
Leyva would be here, but there's not.
But there are these.
Look. You're supposed to be impressed.
Like no one's ever put egg
whites in a damn drink before.
Oh, and this one. Wait for it.
It's a piña colada.
What do you want from me, Mike?
Attention!
Happy birthday.
Illusion never changed ♪
Into something real ♪
Wide awake and I can see
the perfect sky is torn ♪
You're a little late ♪
But I'm already torn ♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
[TELEPHONE RINGS]
Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry.
- What time's the thing for Dennis?
- 3:30.
Oh, shit. Well, there goes the day then.
12th floor called.
She's looking for you.
♪♪
[CLEARS THROAT]
♪♪
[DOOR OPENS]
Okay. Not fair to keep you
in any more suspense.
So, the appointment
it's not happening.
What? What are you talking about?
The governor's going with Gus Howlett.
Gus Howlett? Since when?
He's not even a fucking prosecutor.
Yeah, I know. And the whole
thing is pretty embarrassing.
Oh, I'm sure it is.
I thought this was your slot to fill.
"It's a lock." I'm pretty sure
that's what you said.
Okay. Howlett's father-in-law's
big money in the tech sector.
He's got a whole lot of king-shit weight
to throw around, and when
that whole thing happened
I get it. Your corrupt buddy
is gonna let this asshole
buy a fucking judgeship
for his son-in-law, Gus,
that he doesn't even want, right?!
Okay. Watch it.
Okay.
We'll go back in next round.
Four years will be gone
before you know it.
You're just gonna have to
have a little faith.
You know, your father
wasn't appointed
- Oh, fuck him.
- his first go-around, either.
- Okay.
- Okay.
[ELECTRICITY BUZZING]
[BREATHING SHARPLY]
[ELECTRICITY BUZZ INTENSIFYING]
[CLICK]
[SIGHS]
MIKE: This shit is just
how this shit is.
It's like getting mad
at the wind for blowing.
Look, they just rejected
whoever doesn't serve
whatever agenda it is
they're pushing this cycle.
- It's not you.
- I know, Mike.
You know what else
no one gives a shit about?
What age your dad got on the bench
and how you're not gonna
be younger than him.
- He would have.
- He would've what?
Given a shit.
Well, yeah, that's just 'cause
that's the kind of grinding,
petty needle dick he was.
[CHUCKLES] But he's dead.
So no one's even thinking
about that shit but you.
Yeah, 'cause you're doing a
great job shutting up about it.
You know, you should
maybe concentrate more
on how you're gonna handle all
the sympathy you're gonna get,
not to mention all the people
that want to see your balloon
get popped a little.
Look. What do you say we pack it in
and take this day to Andolini's?
I'm going at 3:30 for Dennis
Ortega's retirement thing.
How'd you get out of that, by the way?
I probably said it went to spam.
[CHUCKLES] Hey, maybe you should think
about skipping it, too, Dan, seriously.
Well, like you said,
got to start sometime.
So might as well be today.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
♪♪
Hey. Hey, guys. How's it goin'?
♪♪
Good to see you. How you guys doin'?
It's a compliment and an honor,
but honestly,
at the end of the day,
it's kind of a demotion.
And, anyway, everybody knows
the court officers
actually run the court,
not the judge. Who wants that?
I want to give three-hour summations,
not listen to them, right?
You sit there long enough, your
brain goes straight to your ass.
Why would I want you guys
telling me what to do?
When to show up, when to eat
lunch, when to take a shit.
I'm a D.A. I shit when I want.
[LAUGHTER]
♪♪
♪♪
So what's the play here?
What are you thinking?
Not sure yet. You?
I don't know what a lot of these are.
Well just take a bite
out of the mystery one,
and if you don't like it,
throw it on the floor.
Oh And they're cool
with that? The owners?
Oh. Yeah, yeah. They want you to do it.
- Yeah? Okay.
- [CHUCKLES]
Pecan fingers, rainbow cookies
which are actually cake for some reason,
amaretti and anise.
These are ciminos.
That's sesame and orange. Fig.
And last but not least,
Italian wedding butter cookies
with chocolate and pecan.
[CHUCKLING] Holy shit.
Yeah, a lot of the manytimes
that I have been here,
there have been cookies.
Sure, but, I mean, that's kind of a lot.
Is Conchita here with you?
She brought me with her,
actually, but she's
she's already gone back.
How has she never
brought you here before?
How can a person work
in the Criminal Courts building
and never come to Andolini's?
I just moved here last September, so
Why? Because you had to
explain the cookies?
Maybe I just I like having
desserts described to me.
September. That's eight months.
Let's say 240-ish days.
I'm here minimum three times a week.
Which means that since you moved,
I have been here 90 times.
Must be the place to be, I guess.
Or just the place I always am.
Are you okay?
I-I'm not asking for
any specifics. Obviously.
I mean, I'm aware that
I don't actually know you.
But
I don't know. You seem
something right now.
Yeah, I probably do.
Yeah, I probably do, too. [CHUCKLES]
Things are just a lot sometimes.
- Right?
- Hm.
And they just keep happening.
[CHUCKLES]
But don't worry. It'll be okay.
Or it won't.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
I'm gonna take these on the road.
I'm particularly excited
about the sesame.
Very nice talking to you.
Congratulations.
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[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
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[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
Did you just get back?
What? Me? No.
Are you lying?
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
I can smell it, you know.
You can smell lying?
No, I can smell the alcohol.
Oh. That. Well, anybody can do that.
Have you ever pushed that red button?
I think you pull it.
It says "pull." But no. You?
It's just one of those things.
You know, like every time I see
a ladder up against something,
I feel the need to climb it.
So what do you think would happen?
Well it says "stop,"
so I think we'd stop.
And then I think
a very loud bell would ring.
And then eventually
some court officer
in the basement would hear it,
and eventually they would call
the fire department, maybe.
But what if all the court
officers were at Andolini's?
- Like tonight, for instance.
- Hm.
Yes, that's a very good point.
And so what would happen, then?
Just nothing?
Or something?
Would anybody come?
♪♪
♪♪
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
GONZALES: [CHUCKLES] The numbskull.
- Oh-ho! Danny!
- Fellas.
You old bag of glue. What's up?
Not much. What are you still doing here?
GORIOT: Working overnights.
Want to grab a quick pop
or three at Andolini's?
No, I'm done. Just got back.
It's all elbows and knees
over there right now.
Ah, shit. Right. The racket for Dennis.
- Yeah.
- GONZALES: The racket.
That guy never worked a day in his life.
Excuse me.
ALEX: Good night.
Good night, ladies ♪
Mmm-mmm ♪
Good night, ladies ♪
Yeah, Brandy used to watch his eyes ♪
When he told his sailor stories ♪
She could feel the ocean
fall and rise ♪
She saw its ragin' glory ♪
But he had always
told the truth, Lord ♪
He was an honest man ♪
And Brandy tried her best
to underst-a-a-and ♪
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo,
doo, doo, doo ♪
At night, when the bars close down ♪
Brandy walks through a silent town ♪
- Oh, shit.
- [TIRES SCREECH]
[CRASH]
[HORN BLARING]
You're a fine girl,
you're a fine girl ♪
[DAN GROANING]
What a good wife you would be,
such a fine girl ♪
But my life, my lover, my lady ♪
Oh, shit.
Is the sea ♪
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo,
doo, doo, doo ♪
Brandy, you're a fine girl ♪
You're a fine girl ♪
What a good wife you would be ♪
Such a fine girl ♪
But my life, my lover,
my lady is the sea ♪
[KEYS JINGLE]
[GRUNTS]
[GROANS] Fuck.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
[LINE RINGING]
- MIKE: Yeah?
- I crashed the fucking car, Mike.
- What the fuck?
- Car, Mikey. I crashed the fucking car.
Where are you?
Uh, I'm under the 5 at Hollenbeck Park.
Are you hurt? Is anybody hurt?
No, no, it's just the car.
The car is fucked.
- Can you walk?
- Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. Okay. Just start walking north.
I will pick you up.
Do it now.
- Mike
- I'll see you in 15, 20 max.
And unless you want to get breathalyzed,
don't let anyone else see you.
Where were you? Your last text
was like 2 hours ago.
Sorry. I'm sorry.
- I got into an accident.
- What?
N-Nobody's hurt, but Mike
had to come and pick me up.
My God. What happened?
[SIGHS]
I had a few too many pops
with Dennis and the boys.
So you were drunk?
Yeah, yeah, I probably
technically still am,
but I feel pretty fucking sober
right now.
You like Dennis and the guys
that much that you'd be willing
to, like, risk killing
someone or yourself?
Because why?
I didn't get it.
[SIGHS]
The appointment.
It's not me.
The Wait. How do you know?
Marcella told me this morning.
Why didn't you just come home?
[CELLPHONE RINGS]
[GROANS]
- Yeah.
- CLERK #2: Sorry to bother you, boss.
Baker's asking or another
adjournment on the Carew case.
Says his mother-in-law's
in the hospital.
Really? He must have forgot
that he told us she died two years ago.
Fuck me. I'll let the judge know.
Oh, Christ.
So what happens now with your job?
♪♪
Nothing.
You crashed a company car drunk.
We know that. And Mike knows that.
But they don't know that.
And they won't if they
don't have a Breathalyzer.
So I'll just get lectured
for crashing a company car
that they searched and seized
and didn't pay for anyway.
♪♪
Are you hurt anywhere?
No. No, I'm okay.
♪♪
Fuck them.
For not knowing your value.
Fuck their whole asses.
Maybe when they come crawling
back in four years, you won't be around.
You could have an equity
partnership right now
if you wanted one,
and Marcella knows it.
I bet you some of those firms
would even get you a driver
if you asked.
♪♪
Want to watch something?
Just space out and laugh
at people trying to ice-fish?
Yeah, you do. Come on.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
- [KNOCK ON DOOR]
- MIKE: Yeah.
Good morning, sunshine!
Got my guy at traffic control
out of bed last night.
- We towed your car back here.
- What did he say?
Uh, fuck me for waking him up.
What's he supposed to say?
It's not his job to give a shit
about what you all get up to.
So that's it?
You don't want that to be it?
[SCOFFS]
Here's your new ride.
Well, new to you, at least.
I'm not totally sure it's not
a minivan, but fingers crossed!
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
Hey.
God damn it, Conchita.
You know Phillipe's is my favorite.
Why are you like this?
Would you like the other half?
What do you think?
I think you can't have it
because I'm having it later
is what I'm telling myself.
Hey, um, on the Badillo case,
the hearing's next week.
Can you have someone call
and just make sure
that the uncle stays in town?
I got a feeling I'm gonna
need him after all.
Uh, yeah. I'll talk to Drea
when she's back.
Great. And next time, buy me
a French dip, too, would ya?
- For the love of God.
- I will definitely
probably think about reminding
myself to remember to do that.
♪♪
A halfway house in Altadena.
Wow. That
- It seems fast.
- Yeah.
He said, um, like, once they grant it,
it can go fast because of overcrowding.
Like, the state being motivated
to reduce overcrowding.
So what happens now?
He wants to see me.
And he left it up to me when.
Or if.
Do you want me to see him?
But that shouldn't be why you don't.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOG WHIMPERS AND BARKS]
MAN: Hey, yeah, I see you.
I see you. Yes, yes.
You know what? Don't say anything yet.
I'll tell him later.
I just don't want him to hear it
and to have to figure out
how to be about it in front of you.
[DOG BARKING]
Hi!
Hi, Dad!
MAN: At one point,
Jung had a young woman
as a patient who believed
she lived on the moon.
To Jung, this story she kept telling
about where and how she lived
was the crux of her condition.
So he made it clear
he accepted it completely.
And after months of analysis,
one day, she handed him
a heavy little bag,
and inside, there was a loaded gun.
"What is this?"
Jung asked the young woman.
She told him she'd had it
with her every time they met,
and if he ever let her down
or said he didn't believe her,
she would have killed him with it.
♪♪
Hi.
Did the defendant understand the nature
and the quality of his act?
And at the time that he committed it,
could he distinguish
between right and wrong?
Mr. Symanchuk has claimed
that he couldn't, that he didn't.
He was delusional.
He was under the influence
of an irresistible impulse.
The legal definition of which
would mean that he was unable
to conform to the requirements
of the law.
[CELLPHONE RINGS]
Hey. I thought you were already here.
MIKE: I was, but I just left.
They found Sylvie Rubidoh's
Audi in Pacoima.
Holy shit. Okay. Fingers crossed.
Still have a drink, though.
I already told them to put it on my tab.
Remember, you're pretty fucking
good just the way you are.
Later, tater.
I'm a course assistant. It's like a T.A.
I bet you're really great at that.
Why?
You always had amazing focus.
♪♪
Um, what's it, uh
What's it like? The house.
Crowded.
But I got priority placement,
so I'm lucky.
I guess just given that
I didn't have a plan.
♪♪
That's not true.
I did have a plan.
I just couldn't act like it was
going to happen until it did.
So many years I've missed.
Which is what I asked for.
How I wanted it.
Now that I'm sitting here, I'm
I just wish I could have
all that time back.
Which I know is not reasonable.
And you should know it's okay to say no.
To what?
I don't know yet.
♪♪
But first I have to tell you something.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
Hey, Dan.
I thought you said you came here
a minimum three times a week.
I think I said "on average," didn't I?
I was supposed to be
meeting someone here,
but he had to take off before I arrived.
He's working on a case.
He's in Investigation Bureau.
So, this woman disappears
about a month ago,
hasn't used her phone, credit cards,
left her passport.
Her car was missing until today,
but we finally found it.
And I'm not saying I want her to be,
but I hope she's in the trunk.
Right, Scanlon?
I'm innocent.
Meatballs are good here.
Even if they were bad,
they'd still be pretty good.
That's how I feel about meatballs.
So, what if she's not? In the trunk?
Well, I've been waiting to find the
wife so I can charge the husband,
and I've been trying to find the
car so I could find the wife.
So you need her to be in there.
Right, because your worst fear
in a case without a body is that
there you are standing up
in court, middle of the trial,
and then the doors fly open
and your victim walks in.
Areyou worried about that?
Are you not sure about the husband?
Does some part of you think that
the wife is gonna walk in?
No. I know she isn't.
DAN: I need to say this to your face,
even if you don't believe me.
I did not kill that woman.
Alex Forrest. I
Yes, you did.
- No, Ellen. No.
- No, no, no. You
- You said that you did.
- What?
You lost control, in a rage,
and she didn't matter,
so then you took her life.
- You were there?
- You asked me to come.
[SIGHS] Ellen, I didn't
You should have tol
I didn't know that you
were going to be there.
So then what would you have said
if you knew that I was?
Because what I heard was that
you killed her. That's what I heard.
Ellen, I had to say that.
It's what they want to hear.
If you don't say that,
then nothing else matters.
Okay, so then you don't think about her.
I am never not thinking about her
unless I'm thinking about you.
And I know how all this must sound.
I did not kill her.
To be free,
I had to say that I did.
To be here.
But I am now.
And I'm going to prove it.
Irresistible impulses
do not lend themselves
to planning, over time, without urgency.
They are not defined by having
the opportunity to act
and then not doing so.
Irresistible impulses are irresistible.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
DAN: Irresistible impulses
do not lend themselves
to planning over time without urgency.
The thing that's most exciting
about this show is
it's in the title.
You know what happens.
They are not defined by having
the opportunity to act
and then not doing so.
So then there is the mystery
of the how it happens.
Irresistible impulses are irresistible.
- I'm home.
- JOSHUA: In Episode 1,
where we meet Dan Gallagher
at the beginning,
is a man who is ascending
through his life's plans.
He's got the wife, the baby, the career.
Everything's kind of going
smoothly at home and at work.
Go on.
AMANDA: We have very little
real estate to convey
that we are in what appears
to be a happy marriage.
Ooh, heard your
40th birthday's coming up.
That's young for a judge.
I think what we'd see
if we traveled inside
of Dan's mind is the dragon
that he's trying to slay
is the shadow of his father's success.
Okay, not fair to keep you
in any more suspense.
So the appointment,
- it's not happening.
- What?
He thinks that's what
the show is about to be about,
but it is not. [LAUGHS]
You know, your father wasn't appointed
- his first time running.
- Oh, fuck him.
Even though he's putting on
this shiny front,
he has a good veneer,
a good public face,
there's a massive driving
insecurity at the center of him.
There's almost two characters.
There's the man that we meet
in the beginning
before he has the affair,
and then there's the man
we meet in what is our present,
who has now come out of prison
and is reshaped by that experience.
If you were to be paroled,
what plans do you have for yourself?
The first thing that I would like to do
is to be reconnected with my family.
Ellen Gallagher is a psychology student.
When we pick up with her
in the beginning of Season 1,
this bomb has sort of
just gone off in her life,
and she has just found out
that her father, who she hasn’t
spoken to in 15 years,
is getting out of prison
and wants to reestablish
a relationship with her.
You want me to see him?
But that shouldn't be why you don't.
It's kind of just her journey
of having to confront
all of this trauma from her childhood
that her father brings up.
Hi.
I wanted to bring
a more current perspective
and the best way to do that
was to set part of it
in the present,
and part of it in the past.
And to add a murder mystery
element to it
gave us that sort of 15-year gap.
I did not kill her,
and I'm going to prove it.
There was a lot of attention
being paid to,
in prep, distinguishing
the two time periods.
In 2008, it's all very fluid
camera movement.
This was based on the philosopy
that Dan is entitled,
getting to glide without a lot
of checks and balances.
And then the color palette
is earth tones.
And then the present day, 2023,
are all very, very cool tones.
The camera work is extremely static.
It's sort of a boxed-in feelin,
and it's sort of a reflection
of the consequences
of the affair.
JOSHUA: We have this amazing makeup team
who accelerates the timeline on my face,
and then, physically,
he just carries himself
sort of diminished,
putting him out of
the center of the frame.
He is not the center
of his own story anymore.
So I think that really creates a strong
visual and emotional separation
between the two timelines.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
I'm Alex Forrest.
Alex.
We meet Alex Forrest
in the first episode
through Dan's eyes,
so the glimpses that we get of her
are fairly limited.
Audiences were sort of primed
to view Dan as the hero
and Alex as the villain.
I think if anything, it's an examination
of how we, as audiences,
have completely changed
over these past few decades.
It's interesting,
now that social mores have changed
over the course of
the last 30-something years,
it's really interesting
to do a deeper dive
into all of these specific characters
and a deeper dive
into what motivates
this kind of obsessive love.
We're all huge fans
of the original film,
but I think the biggest thing
is there's a lot more time
to explore these characters.
Every character has endless amounts
of justification for their actions.
Every character has a backstory.
But also being able
to see the shadow side
of why people do what they do
and hopefully come away
with more understanding.
JOSHUA: What we're trying
to do here is take all that
tension and friction that's
inside the original movie,
expand it a little bit
since we're telling it
in a serialized format,
but also modernize it
and bring it into 2023.
[MUSIC BUILDS]
[ELEVATOR DINGS] [MUSIC STOPS]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
[SIGHS]
MAN: Good morning.
- Good morning.
- MOLINA: Good morning.
Good morning. Good morning.
For the record,
Daniel Michael Gallagher,
convicted of murder
in the second degree,
given a sentence of 15 years to life.
This is your first appearance
- before the board?
- Yes, ma'am.
BLAKE: You managed to keep
a clean disciplinary record.
You were involved in the
exoneration of David Rangel?
BLAKE: You seem to have made it a point
to provide that kind of assistance.
I agree with whoever it was that
said that the greatest threat
to our system of justice
is an innocent man.
And we understand you do have
a statement you've prepared.
Yes, ma'am.
I only wanted to say that
that I
[SIGHS]
That every day that I have been in here,
I have thought about Alexandra Forrest.
Because I need to make myself
understand what I did,
how she died
that I killed her
and why.
♪♪
My position,
my accomplishments,
everything that I had
and everything that I wanted
next to that, she meant nothing.
That she tried to jeopardize it,
in my mind
meant that I was justified
in whatever I chose to do.
And I chose rage.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
I chose to lose control.
♪♪
I chose to take her life.
And the man that I had always
believed myself to be
could not have done that.
But I did.
So I have tried to take every single day
that I have been in here
to come
to a better understanding
of who I really am
and to atone.
Um, that's all I have to say.
If you were to be paroled, what
plans do you have for yourself?
The first
The first thing that I would like to do
is to be reconnected with my family.
[SOFTLY] Do you have any more questions?
No.
[NORMAL VOICE] Thank you, Mr. Gallagher.
We'll take all of this under advisement
and notify you of our decision.
Thank you all very much.
♪♪
GUARD: Come on. Let's go.
♪♪
[DOOR BUZZES]
♪♪
[DOOR CLOSES]
[CLEARS THROAT]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
♪♪
Uh, that's not mine.
That's not my phone.
Name?
Ellen Gallagher.
♪♪
MAN: on vacation in
Switzerland, and, one morning,
his wife came back from a hike
and described climbing a hill
to find an old wooden house at the top,
with a beautiful handcarved door.
Did I not tell this story
in junior honors seminar?
No? Okay.
Well, so, after lunch,
she wanted him to see
the house with the door,
so they climbed the hill
and then all the surrounding hills,
but they never found it.
Carl Jung described his wife
as calm and rational,
logical, impossible to fool.
But so here was something
she swore had happened,
that he absolutely could not explain.
I mean, four other classes, yeah,
and then the reading, as well.
So it's it's a lot, but,
uh, I think I just find that,
with, like, listening
and even taking notes,
everything is just sort of gone
as soon as it's over.
So doing that transcription
just really helps,
like, set it in stone for me, I guess.
So it's worth all the extra time.
Plus, you'll have a hard copy of
every lecture to refer back to.
Yeah.
Still, though, why are other people
- just, like, so good at it?
- At what?
Remembering what they hear?
Yeah.
Trust me, they're not.
So, do you
My father might be, um
up for parole.
He's up for parole.
That must have been so hard
for you to be holding on to.
All this time, you've had to
carry his being in prison,
when you had told me he was dead.
Well, he's never e-mailed me before.
Ever.
And then he asked me
to come to his hearing,
and I didn't e-mail back,
but I went.
I'm sorry that I lied.
People tell me what
they're ready to tell me.
♪♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ECHOING]
Let me run something by you, okay?
Work-related?
Speaking of birthdays,
it was Marlena's birthday.
And she's been sending me
these screenshots
of some shit called a tennis bracelet.
Like I got that kind
of scratch laying around.
So I had to get creative.
Oh, boy.
- What?
- It's nothing.
I just don't want to have
anything in my mouth
when you tell me what you did.
So I thought to myself,
"How much jewelry have I got
Winnie over the years?"
And then I've never seen
most of it, like, ever again.
So I looked, and I found this one thing
that pretty much solved
my problem exactly.
So I repurposed it.
Oh. Marlena loves it.
She went fucking crazy.
I'm sure she did. You both
clearly have great taste.
Fuck you, dude. I need some advice here.
Why? You already did the thing
I would have told you not to do.
Because I could have sworn
that Winnie would not remember
this fuckin' thing
that she's never worn once,
but now she says that she can't find it
and that she thinks someone stole it.
And she wants me
to claim it on insurance.
- Which I have not done yet.
- Because that's fraud.
So I explained to her,
I was like, "Babe, look.
It doesn't make sense that
a thief would just sneak in here
and steal this one thing.
It probably just slipped
through the cracks
in the drawer or whatever."
Which, yeah, I think I might
just double down on that.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Or you could blame it
on one of the kids.
Frank, honestly, stop talking
to me, your direct supervisor,
about your criminal fucking enterprise.
And if you come to my party with
anybody other than your wife,
I will crap thunder on you.
Like Marlena would want to come
to a geezer's party. She's 23.
Oh, there it is, the face.
You know, no wonder
they're gonna make you judge.
♪♪
- Well, happy birthday, Danny.
- Thank you, Terry.
Also, tell me again on Thursday.
[CHUCKLES]
♪♪
Morning.
Good morning.
You see the hearing's been pushed?
I did, yes, thank you.
How are you today?
Okay.
I had a dream last night
this giant snake bit me on the face.
Well, that's disturbing.
Beatrice.
- Oh.
- Here for Koestner?
Yep, it's been a while
since I've been up against
one of Norman's juries.
You should be fine, so long as
you haven't missed anything.
You haven't missed anything, have you?
Shut up.
Ooh! Heard your 40th birthday's
coming up.
That's young for a judge.
Just not young for a person.
Damn! Beatrice, that hurts.
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS, DOORS OPEN]
♪♪
- Hey, hey, boss.
- Hey.
Hey. Can I get a sign-off?
Vehicular manslaughter.
I was thinking probation.
Defendant blew a 1.8.
That's pretty drunk, Phil.
Right, but it's a first offense.
Plus, the vic died of a heart attack.
No. No deal.
Save your empathy for somebody
who doesn't get behind
the wheel shit-faced.
Bad decisions lead to bad outcomes.
You play stupid games,
you win stupid prizes.
GABRIEL: How you doing, Your Honor?
Don't jinx me, Gabriel.
[HUMMING]
I'm home!
[KNIFE CHOPPING RAPIDLY]
[KNIFE SLIDES]
[KEYS DROP ON TABLE]
Those are pretty pictures.
- Nana got it for me.
- Oh, really?
BETH: At the Taschen store.
It was sealed in plastic,
so it might have been
the illustrated Scandinavian
Kama Sutra, for all she knew.
But she liked the cover, so here we are.
- But it's not, right?
- Right?
It's fairy tales.
Fairy tales. Okay. Fairy tales are good.
- We like fairy tales.
- Mm-hmm.
[KNIFE CHOPPING]
I'm sorry.
Go on.
I was a complete shithead.
And I'm sorry.
The best was how
you literally had just said
you didn't care what we watched.
It was extremely
[SOFTLY] bag-of-dicks.
[WINE POURING]
[INHALES SHARPLY]
You're right, I'm wrong, I'm sorry
and I think maybe
just all the moving stuff
was getting in my pocket.
Wait. That was about moving?
Do you not want to move?
Honey, I'm really just
trying to say I'm sorry.
'Cause, you know, we can just
still flip that house instead.
Just sayin'.
And while we're saying stuff,
you don't have to be a judge
either if you don't want.
"The hours are easier,
the schedule's more reliable,
it's such an honor"
that you can still refuse.
It'd be a baller move, right?
They offer it to me, and I'm
just like, "Tsk, eh, I'm good."
[BOTH LAUGH]
I bet you didn't know that
judges get to go to conferences.
In fancy places, no less.
What kind and where?
Mostly the law kind.
And how about Aruba?
Aruba means Milwaukee.
Milwaukee means San Bernardino.
- [LAUGHS]
- Hey, kiddo.
Where do the sun
and the moon come into it?
Well, the stepmother's castle
is east of the sun and west of the moon.
Ohh
Doesn't have to have a stepmother,
but when it does, man,
you know it's good, right?
[CHAIR SLIDES]
Hey, what's the problem
with Suarez's case?
He says you're not gonna charge it.
I asked him to get one of the four guys
to flip on the other ones.
It's not a problem for me.
Yeah, well, he's already got a witness,
who's a working man,
a father, community pillar.
Why does he need to negotiate
with a murderer?
Can you tell me where this perfect
witness is gonna be in six months?
Eating M&M's outside of Courtroom 12
while waiting to be called to the stand.
And can you absolutely promise
me you can find him and bring him in?
Can I? Yes. You gonna
charge the case or not?
I'm gonna prosecutorial-discretion it.
- Aw!
- Suarez has four guys.
I'm just asking for one.
Maybe youguys should
have gone to law school.
No, I wanted to work for a living.
And here we are.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
You still coming to my party?
I don't know. You gonna be there?
A full bar is gonna be there.
Plus, specialty cocktails with themes.
Ooh! At least that's fuckin' stupid.
♪♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
♪♪
- Excuse me, sir.
- Hmm.
There's no eating in the courtroom.
No, there's no youeating
in the courtroom. Just me.
You're not me.
Sad but true. Where's Conchita?
Double-booked, but she sent her.
- Alice.
- Okay.
Or Alex.
Well, which is it?
Hmm.
Someone should ask.
♪♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
♪♪
Conchita got stuck upstairs,
said she's really sorry.
I'm Alex Forrest.
Alex. That's alright. Dan Gallagher.
Yeah, she loves you. Conchita.
Yeah, she lowers my blood pressure.
[CHUCKLES]
So you up to speed on everything yet?
Yeah, Conchita's definitely
their point person,
but they know me, so we're good.
They're nervous.
Well, let's go talk to them.
♪♪
How you guys holding up?
Okay.
Big day.
All the times I had to remind you
to control your facial expressions,
hide your anger, hide your pain,
don't do anything to make
the jury feel bad,
feel sorry for the man
who killed Yalina.
But today this is
This is the sentencing phase.
This is for the judge.
He needs to know what you lost.
So show him.
If you feel angry, be angry.
If you feel like
you want to cry, you cry.
Today is the day for all the emotions.
And this is the place.
- Okay?
- Yeah.
- Okay?
- Yes.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
♪♪
♪♪
So, are you doing anything
for the big birthday?
Wife's throwing me a party.
Nice. My mom wanted to do that
for my dad's 40th,
but he didn't want her
to spend the money.
If I was a wiser man,
I'd probably be saying the same thing.
Yeah, but then he had
a stroke the next year,
so shouldn't have asked him;
should've just done it.
Hi-de-ho, degenerates.
Nice pocket square, E.B.
Oh, you like that?
Oh, what could possibly
go wrong with that?
[TIRES SQUEAL IN DISTANCE]
Victim services.
She works with Conchita.
Conchita, man. Conchita's the best.
What's her name?
Alice, I think?
- Hmm.
- Is Alice my big toe?
'Cause I want to bang her on
every piece of furniture I own.
[CHUCKLES]
- BETH: She wants full overlay now.
- MAN: Wait. What?
Yeah, her friend Sharon
just had wood inserts put on
all her appliances so they'll
blend with her cabinetry.
Well, speaking of new appliances,
she wants a cheese refrigerator now,
too.
No, no.
People are feeling a way
about cheese these days, Danny.
Is that way constipated?
[CHUCKLING] It will be.
- [CELLPHONE RINGING]
- Oh, hold.
Hi. No, not yet.
Uh, I'm I'm coming right now.
[CHUCKLING] Nope. I forgot. Sorry.
Here. You ask her. For you.
- Let me clean this shit up.
- Hey, pal.
Well, I have these boots
I'm trying to build an outfit around,
but now I'm thinking
I should just get over myself.
So you excited about going to that
white-truffle asshole place?
Why can I never remember the name of it?
I don't know. Is that
even happening anymore?
Send me a picture. Text it.
Okay. I will.
- She knows.
- I will.
Hey. Either you want me
to come home or you don't.
What? How do we have no bananas?
I'll see you tomorrow night, Dan.
Bye, Beth. Well, if I'm going
to the store,
do we need anything else?
Well, think, woman.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Isn't this thing starting at 6:00?
Are you getting ready or?
Uh, sorry. Dad pushed it to 7:30.
So you didn't need me to
come home early from work then?
No. I still wanted you home.
Oh, really? Why?
Make you do stuff for me.
Pick it up.
You goddamn
sexy lunatic.
[GROWLS] Aah!
[LAUGHING]
WARREN: I didn't ask for
anything to be substituted.
I simply asked, could they
not put it on the plate.
Kind of an expensive restaurant
to make such a mistake, Bethie.
So just don't eat it then.
It's not like they gave you
a grenade with the pin pulled.
I just think it's funny. That's all.
They've got a hundred people
running around
- in here
- Shh.
creating an unparalleled
dining experience.
I will go ask them to replate it.
No one has to do anything.
I just said it was funny.
I didn't want to substitute.
I didn't want it at all.
And not only do I get it anyway,
but it's cold.
[CHUCKLES] Ironic polenta.
Hm!
- [GLASS SHATTERS]
- Oh, boy.
♪♪
How we doing over here, Eleanor?
- Ellen.
- Lennon?
Ellen.
Ah. Lemon.
Ellen. Sluggo?
- Ellen.
- Gordon Shumway.
Hey, you want a slice of
my pork, Gordon Shumway?
I think I'm good.
You sure? It's really good.
- I love you.
- I love you, too.
[CELLPHONE RINGS]
- Yeah?
- CLERK #1: Sorry to bother you, boss.
Got a homicide in Lancaster.
No I.D. yet.
Okay. Call Frank,
tell him to go to the scene,
have him give me a call when
he figures out what's going on.
- Gotcha.
- Alright.
No rest for the wicked.
[CHUCKLES]
WARREN: So it'll be official soon, huh?
Do they get you the, uh the thing?
Or do you get your own?
- The robe.
- Huh.
You get your own.
Out of pocket, actually.
You don't even have to, funnily enough.
There's no rule that says
a judge has to wear one.
It's more of a tradition at this point,
a symbolic practice.
How much more are you going to
be pulling down a year?
20 K?
It won't pay for private school.
Symbolism. Tradition.
The fabric of society.
Seven years at Stanford
to empty your pockets
for a metal detector in the morning?
You're not doing that
for your family, Dan.
Or for your credit rating.
The end of the day, it's all just
a cool guy's cops-and-robbers game.
♪♪
But, still, people will
have to call you Judge.
I'm sure you'll hate that.
♪♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
♪♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
Look who it is!
Hello. Thank you all for coming.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
- Hey!
- There she is!
Thanks, guys. Thank you.
Mikey!
Happy birthday ♪
♪♪
How are you, guys?
Thank you so much for coming.
[LAUGHTER]
I'm very good.
Enjoy.
Is the boss here? She said
she was gonna come.
If there were $400 bottles of wine,
Leyva would be here, but there's not.
But there are these.
Look. You're supposed to be impressed.
Like no one's ever put egg
whites in a damn drink before.
Oh, and this one. Wait for it.
It's a piña colada.
What do you want from me, Mike?
Attention!
Happy birthday.
Illusion never changed ♪
Into something real ♪
Wide awake and I can see
the perfect sky is torn ♪
You're a little late ♪
But I'm already torn ♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
[TELEPHONE RINGS]
Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry.
- What time's the thing for Dennis?
- 3:30.
Oh, shit. Well, there goes the day then.
12th floor called.
She's looking for you.
♪♪
[CLEARS THROAT]
♪♪
[DOOR OPENS]
Okay. Not fair to keep you
in any more suspense.
So, the appointment
it's not happening.
What? What are you talking about?
The governor's going with Gus Howlett.
Gus Howlett? Since when?
He's not even a fucking prosecutor.
Yeah, I know. And the whole
thing is pretty embarrassing.
Oh, I'm sure it is.
I thought this was your slot to fill.
"It's a lock." I'm pretty sure
that's what you said.
Okay. Howlett's father-in-law's
big money in the tech sector.
He's got a whole lot of king-shit weight
to throw around, and when
that whole thing happened
I get it. Your corrupt buddy
is gonna let this asshole
buy a fucking judgeship
for his son-in-law, Gus,
that he doesn't even want, right?!
Okay. Watch it.
Okay.
We'll go back in next round.
Four years will be gone
before you know it.
You're just gonna have to
have a little faith.
You know, your father
wasn't appointed
- Oh, fuck him.
- his first go-around, either.
- Okay.
- Okay.
[ELECTRICITY BUZZING]
[BREATHING SHARPLY]
[ELECTRICITY BUZZ INTENSIFYING]
[CLICK]
[SIGHS]
MIKE: This shit is just
how this shit is.
It's like getting mad
at the wind for blowing.
Look, they just rejected
whoever doesn't serve
whatever agenda it is
they're pushing this cycle.
- It's not you.
- I know, Mike.
You know what else
no one gives a shit about?
What age your dad got on the bench
and how you're not gonna
be younger than him.
- He would have.
- He would've what?
Given a shit.
Well, yeah, that's just 'cause
that's the kind of grinding,
petty needle dick he was.
[CHUCKLES] But he's dead.
So no one's even thinking
about that shit but you.
Yeah, 'cause you're doing a
great job shutting up about it.
You know, you should
maybe concentrate more
on how you're gonna handle all
the sympathy you're gonna get,
not to mention all the people
that want to see your balloon
get popped a little.
Look. What do you say we pack it in
and take this day to Andolini's?
I'm going at 3:30 for Dennis
Ortega's retirement thing.
How'd you get out of that, by the way?
I probably said it went to spam.
[CHUCKLES] Hey, maybe you should think
about skipping it, too, Dan, seriously.
Well, like you said,
got to start sometime.
So might as well be today.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
♪♪
Hey. Hey, guys. How's it goin'?
♪♪
Good to see you. How you guys doin'?
It's a compliment and an honor,
but honestly,
at the end of the day,
it's kind of a demotion.
And, anyway, everybody knows
the court officers
actually run the court,
not the judge. Who wants that?
I want to give three-hour summations,
not listen to them, right?
You sit there long enough, your
brain goes straight to your ass.
Why would I want you guys
telling me what to do?
When to show up, when to eat
lunch, when to take a shit.
I'm a D.A. I shit when I want.
[LAUGHTER]
♪♪
♪♪
So what's the play here?
What are you thinking?
Not sure yet. You?
I don't know what a lot of these are.
Well just take a bite
out of the mystery one,
and if you don't like it,
throw it on the floor.
Oh And they're cool
with that? The owners?
Oh. Yeah, yeah. They want you to do it.
- Yeah? Okay.
- [CHUCKLES]
Pecan fingers, rainbow cookies
which are actually cake for some reason,
amaretti and anise.
These are ciminos.
That's sesame and orange. Fig.
And last but not least,
Italian wedding butter cookies
with chocolate and pecan.
[CHUCKLING] Holy shit.
Yeah, a lot of the manytimes
that I have been here,
there have been cookies.
Sure, but, I mean, that's kind of a lot.
Is Conchita here with you?
She brought me with her,
actually, but she's
she's already gone back.
How has she never
brought you here before?
How can a person work
in the Criminal Courts building
and never come to Andolini's?
I just moved here last September, so
Why? Because you had to
explain the cookies?
Maybe I just I like having
desserts described to me.
September. That's eight months.
Let's say 240-ish days.
I'm here minimum three times a week.
Which means that since you moved,
I have been here 90 times.
Must be the place to be, I guess.
Or just the place I always am.
Are you okay?
I-I'm not asking for
any specifics. Obviously.
I mean, I'm aware that
I don't actually know you.
But
I don't know. You seem
something right now.
Yeah, I probably do.
Yeah, I probably do, too. [CHUCKLES]
Things are just a lot sometimes.
- Right?
- Hm.
And they just keep happening.
[CHUCKLES]
But don't worry. It'll be okay.
Or it won't.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
I'm gonna take these on the road.
I'm particularly excited
about the sesame.
Very nice talking to you.
Congratulations.
♪♪
♪♪
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
Did you just get back?
What? Me? No.
Are you lying?
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
I can smell it, you know.
You can smell lying?
No, I can smell the alcohol.
Oh. That. Well, anybody can do that.
Have you ever pushed that red button?
I think you pull it.
It says "pull." But no. You?
It's just one of those things.
You know, like every time I see
a ladder up against something,
I feel the need to climb it.
So what do you think would happen?
Well it says "stop,"
so I think we'd stop.
And then I think
a very loud bell would ring.
And then eventually
some court officer
in the basement would hear it,
and eventually they would call
the fire department, maybe.
But what if all the court
officers were at Andolini's?
- Like tonight, for instance.
- Hm.
Yes, that's a very good point.
And so what would happen, then?
Just nothing?
Or something?
Would anybody come?
♪♪
♪♪
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
GONZALES: [CHUCKLES] The numbskull.
- Oh-ho! Danny!
- Fellas.
You old bag of glue. What's up?
Not much. What are you still doing here?
GORIOT: Working overnights.
Want to grab a quick pop
or three at Andolini's?
No, I'm done. Just got back.
It's all elbows and knees
over there right now.
Ah, shit. Right. The racket for Dennis.
- Yeah.
- GONZALES: The racket.
That guy never worked a day in his life.
Excuse me.
ALEX: Good night.
Good night, ladies ♪
Mmm-mmm ♪
Good night, ladies ♪
Yeah, Brandy used to watch his eyes ♪
When he told his sailor stories ♪
She could feel the ocean
fall and rise ♪
She saw its ragin' glory ♪
But he had always
told the truth, Lord ♪
He was an honest man ♪
And Brandy tried her best
to underst-a-a-and ♪
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo,
doo, doo, doo ♪
At night, when the bars close down ♪
Brandy walks through a silent town ♪
- Oh, shit.
- [TIRES SCREECH]
[CRASH]
[HORN BLARING]
You're a fine girl,
you're a fine girl ♪
[DAN GROANING]
What a good wife you would be,
such a fine girl ♪
But my life, my lover, my lady ♪
Oh, shit.
Is the sea ♪
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo,
doo, doo, doo ♪
Brandy, you're a fine girl ♪
You're a fine girl ♪
What a good wife you would be ♪
Such a fine girl ♪
But my life, my lover,
my lady is the sea ♪
[KEYS JINGLE]
[GRUNTS]
[GROANS] Fuck.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
[LINE RINGING]
- MIKE: Yeah?
- I crashed the fucking car, Mike.
- What the fuck?
- Car, Mikey. I crashed the fucking car.
Where are you?
Uh, I'm under the 5 at Hollenbeck Park.
Are you hurt? Is anybody hurt?
No, no, it's just the car.
The car is fucked.
- Can you walk?
- Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. Okay. Just start walking north.
I will pick you up.
Do it now.
- Mike
- I'll see you in 15, 20 max.
And unless you want to get breathalyzed,
don't let anyone else see you.
Where were you? Your last text
was like 2 hours ago.
Sorry. I'm sorry.
- I got into an accident.
- What?
N-Nobody's hurt, but Mike
had to come and pick me up.
My God. What happened?
[SIGHS]
I had a few too many pops
with Dennis and the boys.
So you were drunk?
Yeah, yeah, I probably
technically still am,
but I feel pretty fucking sober
right now.
You like Dennis and the guys
that much that you'd be willing
to, like, risk killing
someone or yourself?
Because why?
I didn't get it.
[SIGHS]
The appointment.
It's not me.
The Wait. How do you know?
Marcella told me this morning.
Why didn't you just come home?
[CELLPHONE RINGS]
[GROANS]
- Yeah.
- CLERK #2: Sorry to bother you, boss.
Baker's asking or another
adjournment on the Carew case.
Says his mother-in-law's
in the hospital.
Really? He must have forgot
that he told us she died two years ago.
Fuck me. I'll let the judge know.
Oh, Christ.
So what happens now with your job?
♪♪
Nothing.
You crashed a company car drunk.
We know that. And Mike knows that.
But they don't know that.
And they won't if they
don't have a Breathalyzer.
So I'll just get lectured
for crashing a company car
that they searched and seized
and didn't pay for anyway.
♪♪
Are you hurt anywhere?
No. No, I'm okay.
♪♪
Fuck them.
For not knowing your value.
Fuck their whole asses.
Maybe when they come crawling
back in four years, you won't be around.
You could have an equity
partnership right now
if you wanted one,
and Marcella knows it.
I bet you some of those firms
would even get you a driver
if you asked.
♪♪
Want to watch something?
Just space out and laugh
at people trying to ice-fish?
Yeah, you do. Come on.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
- [KNOCK ON DOOR]
- MIKE: Yeah.
Good morning, sunshine!
Got my guy at traffic control
out of bed last night.
- We towed your car back here.
- What did he say?
Uh, fuck me for waking him up.
What's he supposed to say?
It's not his job to give a shit
about what you all get up to.
So that's it?
You don't want that to be it?
[SCOFFS]
Here's your new ride.
Well, new to you, at least.
I'm not totally sure it's not
a minivan, but fingers crossed!
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
Hey.
God damn it, Conchita.
You know Phillipe's is my favorite.
Why are you like this?
Would you like the other half?
What do you think?
I think you can't have it
because I'm having it later
is what I'm telling myself.
Hey, um, on the Badillo case,
the hearing's next week.
Can you have someone call
and just make sure
that the uncle stays in town?
I got a feeling I'm gonna
need him after all.
Uh, yeah. I'll talk to Drea
when she's back.
Great. And next time, buy me
a French dip, too, would ya?
- For the love of God.
- I will definitely
probably think about reminding
myself to remember to do that.
♪♪
A halfway house in Altadena.
Wow. That
- It seems fast.
- Yeah.
He said, um, like, once they grant it,
it can go fast because of overcrowding.
Like, the state being motivated
to reduce overcrowding.
So what happens now?
He wants to see me.
And he left it up to me when.
Or if.
Do you want me to see him?
But that shouldn't be why you don't.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOG WHIMPERS AND BARKS]
MAN: Hey, yeah, I see you.
I see you. Yes, yes.
You know what? Don't say anything yet.
I'll tell him later.
I just don't want him to hear it
and to have to figure out
how to be about it in front of you.
[DOG BARKING]
Hi!
Hi, Dad!
MAN: At one point,
Jung had a young woman
as a patient who believed
she lived on the moon.
To Jung, this story she kept telling
about where and how she lived
was the crux of her condition.
So he made it clear
he accepted it completely.
And after months of analysis,
one day, she handed him
a heavy little bag,
and inside, there was a loaded gun.
"What is this?"
Jung asked the young woman.
She told him she'd had it
with her every time they met,
and if he ever let her down
or said he didn't believe her,
she would have killed him with it.
♪♪
Hi.
Did the defendant understand the nature
and the quality of his act?
And at the time that he committed it,
could he distinguish
between right and wrong?
Mr. Symanchuk has claimed
that he couldn't, that he didn't.
He was delusional.
He was under the influence
of an irresistible impulse.
The legal definition of which
would mean that he was unable
to conform to the requirements
of the law.
[CELLPHONE RINGS]
Hey. I thought you were already here.
MIKE: I was, but I just left.
They found Sylvie Rubidoh's
Audi in Pacoima.
Holy shit. Okay. Fingers crossed.
Still have a drink, though.
I already told them to put it on my tab.
Remember, you're pretty fucking
good just the way you are.
Later, tater.
I'm a course assistant. It's like a T.A.
I bet you're really great at that.
Why?
You always had amazing focus.
♪♪
Um, what's it, uh
What's it like? The house.
Crowded.
But I got priority placement,
so I'm lucky.
I guess just given that
I didn't have a plan.
♪♪
That's not true.
I did have a plan.
I just couldn't act like it was
going to happen until it did.
So many years I've missed.
Which is what I asked for.
How I wanted it.
Now that I'm sitting here, I'm
I just wish I could have
all that time back.
Which I know is not reasonable.
And you should know it's okay to say no.
To what?
I don't know yet.
♪♪
But first I have to tell you something.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
Hey, Dan.
I thought you said you came here
a minimum three times a week.
I think I said "on average," didn't I?
I was supposed to be
meeting someone here,
but he had to take off before I arrived.
He's working on a case.
He's in Investigation Bureau.
So, this woman disappears
about a month ago,
hasn't used her phone, credit cards,
left her passport.
Her car was missing until today,
but we finally found it.
And I'm not saying I want her to be,
but I hope she's in the trunk.
Right, Scanlon?
I'm innocent.
Meatballs are good here.
Even if they were bad,
they'd still be pretty good.
That's how I feel about meatballs.
So, what if she's not? In the trunk?
Well, I've been waiting to find the
wife so I can charge the husband,
and I've been trying to find the
car so I could find the wife.
So you need her to be in there.
Right, because your worst fear
in a case without a body is that
there you are standing up
in court, middle of the trial,
and then the doors fly open
and your victim walks in.
Areyou worried about that?
Are you not sure about the husband?
Does some part of you think that
the wife is gonna walk in?
No. I know she isn't.
DAN: I need to say this to your face,
even if you don't believe me.
I did not kill that woman.
Alex Forrest. I
Yes, you did.
- No, Ellen. No.
- No, no, no. You
- You said that you did.
- What?
You lost control, in a rage,
and she didn't matter,
so then you took her life.
- You were there?
- You asked me to come.
[SIGHS] Ellen, I didn't
You should have tol
I didn't know that you
were going to be there.
So then what would you have said
if you knew that I was?
Because what I heard was that
you killed her. That's what I heard.
Ellen, I had to say that.
It's what they want to hear.
If you don't say that,
then nothing else matters.
Okay, so then you don't think about her.
I am never not thinking about her
unless I'm thinking about you.
And I know how all this must sound.
I did not kill her.
To be free,
I had to say that I did.
To be here.
But I am now.
And I'm going to prove it.
Irresistible impulses
do not lend themselves
to planning, over time, without urgency.
They are not defined by having
the opportunity to act
and then not doing so.
Irresistible impulses are irresistible.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
DAN: Irresistible impulses
do not lend themselves
to planning over time without urgency.
The thing that's most exciting
about this show is
it's in the title.
You know what happens.
They are not defined by having
the opportunity to act
and then not doing so.
So then there is the mystery
of the how it happens.
Irresistible impulses are irresistible.
- I'm home.
- JOSHUA: In Episode 1,
where we meet Dan Gallagher
at the beginning,
is a man who is ascending
through his life's plans.
He's got the wife, the baby, the career.
Everything's kind of going
smoothly at home and at work.
Go on.
AMANDA: We have very little
real estate to convey
that we are in what appears
to be a happy marriage.
Ooh, heard your
40th birthday's coming up.
That's young for a judge.
I think what we'd see
if we traveled inside
of Dan's mind is the dragon
that he's trying to slay
is the shadow of his father's success.
Okay, not fair to keep you
in any more suspense.
So the appointment,
- it's not happening.
- What?
He thinks that's what
the show is about to be about,
but it is not. [LAUGHS]
You know, your father wasn't appointed
- his first time running.
- Oh, fuck him.
Even though he's putting on
this shiny front,
he has a good veneer,
a good public face,
there's a massive driving
insecurity at the center of him.
There's almost two characters.
There's the man that we meet
in the beginning
before he has the affair,
and then there's the man
we meet in what is our present,
who has now come out of prison
and is reshaped by that experience.
If you were to be paroled,
what plans do you have for yourself?
The first thing that I would like to do
is to be reconnected with my family.
Ellen Gallagher is a psychology student.
When we pick up with her
in the beginning of Season 1,
this bomb has sort of
just gone off in her life,
and she has just found out
that her father, who she hasn’t
spoken to in 15 years,
is getting out of prison
and wants to reestablish
a relationship with her.
You want me to see him?
But that shouldn't be why you don't.
It's kind of just her journey
of having to confront
all of this trauma from her childhood
that her father brings up.
Hi.
I wanted to bring
a more current perspective
and the best way to do that
was to set part of it
in the present,
and part of it in the past.
And to add a murder mystery
element to it
gave us that sort of 15-year gap.
I did not kill her,
and I'm going to prove it.
There was a lot of attention
being paid to,
in prep, distinguishing
the two time periods.
In 2008, it's all very fluid
camera movement.
This was based on the philosopy
that Dan is entitled,
getting to glide without a lot
of checks and balances.
And then the color palette
is earth tones.
And then the present day, 2023,
are all very, very cool tones.
The camera work is extremely static.
It's sort of a boxed-in feelin,
and it's sort of a reflection
of the consequences
of the affair.
JOSHUA: We have this amazing makeup team
who accelerates the timeline on my face,
and then, physically,
he just carries himself
sort of diminished,
putting him out of
the center of the frame.
He is not the center
of his own story anymore.
So I think that really creates a strong
visual and emotional separation
between the two timelines.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
I'm Alex Forrest.
Alex.
We meet Alex Forrest
in the first episode
through Dan's eyes,
so the glimpses that we get of her
are fairly limited.
Audiences were sort of primed
to view Dan as the hero
and Alex as the villain.
I think if anything, it's an examination
of how we, as audiences,
have completely changed
over these past few decades.
It's interesting,
now that social mores have changed
over the course of
the last 30-something years,
it's really interesting
to do a deeper dive
into all of these specific characters
and a deeper dive
into what motivates
this kind of obsessive love.
We're all huge fans
of the original film,
but I think the biggest thing
is there's a lot more time
to explore these characters.
Every character has endless amounts
of justification for their actions.
Every character has a backstory.
But also being able
to see the shadow side
of why people do what they do
and hopefully come away
with more understanding.
JOSHUA: What we're trying
to do here is take all that
tension and friction that's
inside the original movie,
expand it a little bit
since we're telling it
in a serialized format,
but also modernize it
and bring it into 2023.
[MUSIC BUILDS]
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