Jury Duty (2023) s01e02 Episode Script

I'm stoked to the max.
I'm so happy to be here.
I'm gonna be upset if I don't
get on the jury, for sure.
I will be damned if my 38-year
career ends in a mockery.
Are there any other
reasons that you feel that
you would not be able
to be a good juror?
I'm racist.
You are now the jury in the
matter of Hilgrove versus Morris.
How y'all let them get
through the security?
Own backyard.
Do you think that him sitting
would be a distraction?
Not for me, no.
Okay.
I had never heard of "sequester" before.
That was a new word I learned yesterday.
I had to look it up.
But I don't know what
that's going to entail.
Full name Ronald Gladden.
All right, you're good to go.
Sit down there. Have a seat.
What's going on with you, man?
Just preparing for whatever
that's just gonna come, man.
It's gonna be a long day, bro.
Shit.
Um, well, I was
supposed to go on a trip,
and I'm really hoping that
maybe I could still leave, uh,
by Friday would be nice,
to just get out of here
so I don't miss Cancun.
Um, yeah, I just miss my girlfriend.
Hey, I don't wanna interrupt,
uh, but I just felt a
little compelled to
say sorry for what happened yesterday.
I did not anticipate paparazzi.
I'm sorry that we're having
to do this sequestrian thing.
Sorry as in I empathize with you,
not sorry 'cause it's my fault.
'Cause it wasn't my fault.
How could it have been?
What, did I call the paparazzi
myself, tell them to come down here?
That's nuts.
- Anyway, long story short
- What the hell is he even talking about?
I don't really know.
I couldn't even do that if I tried.
Uh, but I know that one of
you did, and that's not cool.
Um, if you needed the money, just ask.
Do you have any money that I could have?
No.
Um, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
Good morning.
Morning.
- Do we stand?
- Stay seated, folks.
I wanted to reintroduce
Nikki, my bailiff, and
- Hi, Nikki.
- I'm Judge Rosen.
Uh, first of all, I wanna
thank you for your patience.
A bit of business to go through.
By the end of the day,
I will choose one of you
to be the foreperson of the jury.
At home, my wife, Sonia, she calls
me the foreperson of the home.
It's because I'm making decisions.
I don't even have to think.
It's just intuitive.
I would really rather not be foreperson.
Definitely, I'm good with talking
to people one-on-one, but yeah,
if I have to talk in front of
a crowd, get a little jittery.
In my opinion, this is a
very important position.
The foreperson is essentially
the captain of the
Oh, Your Honor.
Uh, if it's okay with you,
I'd be more than happy
to take that position.
I've always wanted to
Alternates are not eligible.
Sorry.
Again, I ask for your patience.
Yeah, I'd say being an
alternate, I feel marginalized,
being an alternate.
I don't, um I mean, as a
celebrity, this is the first time
I've ever felt, uh,
like I've been treated
differently in a negative way.
Um, it doesn't really sit
right with me, to be honest.
I feel marginalization.
Lonnie, what about you?
I mean, as an alternate
juror, is this the first time
you ever felt like
treated less than or ?
Nope.
Nope.
Yes.
Uh, I am owner and manager
of two gumball machines
and a sticker machine.
I have some bad luck recently,
which makes it hard to take
some time away from work.
Yeah. It's so sour.
I don't mind not being
young. Seventies are fun.
You guys have a lot to look forward to.
There you go.
They used to call it the golden
years and I thought that was stupid.
But guess what? Things
don't change all that much.
I still like a good lay.
There you go. Right.
- Some things never change.
- I'm not gonna
- If it makes you feel any better
- Yeah?
I finally realize you play
one of my top-five
favorite roles of all time.
Which one?
Dude, you probably can't guess.
The judge is in it the whole time.
- I haven't done many courtroom dramas.
- Dude, it's so
Oh, it's not
- I haven't done
- It's not a real judge.
Sex Drive.
Dude, like, God.
Did you buy that one or
did you watch it on Hulu?
No, I bought it.
There we go.
I'm gonna read some
sequestration instructions.
Although you have been sequestered,
it's of the utmost importance
that you still not allow anything
that happens outside this courtroom
to affect your decision.
Do not investigate the case
or conduct any experiments.
Further, do not use any
electronic device or media.
Okay?
Great. Nikki.
Take your phones out and
write down any phone number
that you will need to contact,
because your phones are gonna
be taken away at this time.
Wait, no. What?
Shit. My stocks. What if
I need to sell a stock?
You will be able to make phone calls.
That's why you're writing down
important numbers you need to.
But they will be supervised.
It's less about me having to call them
and more about them having to reach me.
This is I'm losing a job
because of this, potentially.
If there's a number
that pops up in your head
after you submitted stuff,
just let the bailiff know.
This is a different
cat we're dealing with.
- This guy's, like, an auteur.
- Sir, sir, I asked for your cooperation.
He's trying so hard to
look, like, so important.
And I just I didn't
even know who he was.
I saw The Notebook.
I don't remember him.
Please put your phone
and hand over any tablets.
I have an iPad.
- That comes with us too.
- Uh-uh, what is that?
- Oh, I don't
- Is that an ear?
Oh, it's a, um
It's a wearable electronic device.
Right.
The wire connects it to this
handy and fashionable keyboard.
- No, that's coming in here too.
- Yeah, I know.
Todd had a prosthetic ear
that worked as his Bluetooth
that vibrated when his phone went off.
- I don't wanna touch that.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So do you have something to put that in?
No, it's just loose, but I could
I can, like, wrap it up.
He had to give it up
with his cell phone.
And so when the other
deputies opened up his bag
and they saw it, it freaked them out.
They thought it was a real ear, I guess.
Nobody having their phone
is definitely an opportunity
for us to bond and
get to know each other
within a matter of minutes of
everyone giving up their phones,
because nobody had anything to
do and we started socializing.
So it is kind of a nice break
to be away from the phone.
And it is nice being
able to talk to somebody
and they're not doing this,
just staring down at their phone
while you're trying to talk to 'em.
Marsden, we can't do that
while we're giving instructions.
- I'm trying to
- I know you
I didn't hear you were
giving instructions.
Did you turn this in?
The numbers out of my phone?
I'm sorry.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
I have the honor of representing
Ms. Jacqui Hilgrove in this matter.
She's beautiful and she's poised.
And as she sits here today, she
doesn't look particularly injured,
but she is.
She's very well put together.
She's composed, the way
she sits up straight.
Like, she carries a
confidence to her demeanor.
But then looking at her face,
she does always have this grim,
melancholy, just, like,
downward appearance to her face
like she's just constantly frowning.
Prior to this event, she enjoyed life.
She enjoyed what she was creating.
But since then, she's
been clinically depressed,
heavily medicated, and
barely able to get out of bed.
The direct result of
the defendant's conduct.
Ladies and gentlemen,
allow me to play this video.
This is what we will prove
to you during the trial.
The defendant left his home after
an altercation with his mother.
He showed up disruptive to work.
Clearly intoxicated.
It was evident to everyone
that the defendant both
used drugs at work and
encouraged others to do so.
As a result of his wildly out of
control drug and alcohol abuse,
the defendant mishandled
an important order
which overwhelmed the machines,
resulting in catastrophic damage.
And then after operating the
machine in a negligent manner,
he passed out under a pile of
T-shirts soaked in his own urine.
My client was left
with an irate customer,
3,000 unusable units of product,
and a downturn in business
from which it never recovered.
First appearance of the defendant,
um, I try not to judge a
book too much by its cover,
but I mean, he had the really long hair,
kind of the unkept shaven face.
You know, he's not, like,
presenting himself well.
Probably wasn't ironing his shirts.
I kind of did see him as somebody
who, you know, goes to work,
they do the bare minimum,
they collect their paycheck,
and then they go home.
Mr. Sanders.
Just need to get logged on here.
And I want to assure this court, um,
that we also have a video
presentation that is pretty phenomenal.
And I just need a moment, um
to pull that up.
And it is coming from
the cloud as we speak.
So if you will just give me a second.
Uh
- Can't get the
Wi-Fi. - Onto this?
In this building.
He is a dusty-ass attorney. I'd
be mad if that was my lawyer.
- I'd be pissed.
- I agree.
I'm joining the Wi-Fi
as we speak. Um
This is your opening.
I'm-I'm so sorry about this, Your Honor.
It's been a day. It's been a day.
We're going to break for the day.
You guys go back to your hotel.
And we'll get a fresh
start with Mr. Sanders.
You're gonna have a dynamite
presentation tomorrow?
- Dynamite, Your Honor, first thing in the morning.
- Great.
And I will pick that foreperson
when we reconvene tomorrow.
Thank you, folks, for
your understanding.
We're adjourned for the day.
- All rise.
- Thank you.
Damn it!
What do we got going on?
I dropped my pen.
It's a big pen.
Sorry about that.
We work very hard to try
to get all of you together,
but because this sequester
was a surprise to me,
we have to split you
all up into two hotels.
I like our hotel group.
The only thing I don't like about it is,
I would like an opportunity
to mingle with everybody.
What did we get done today? We heard
opening statement from one half.
They said he peed in a pile of T-shirts.
How do you get that drunk
where you piss yourself?
I don't
- But what are they saying?
- You're wasted, man.
Are they saying he just
pissed on a bunch of T-shirts?
That seems egregious.
It does seem a little bit egregious.
This place doesn't look
bad. This could be fun.
- Sorry, I don't
- Oh, yeah.
I can throw this in a
I think you got another
one too, don't you?
- Hey.
- Hey.
- What's your name?
- Officer Yates.
Officer Yates. What's up?
- Nice meeting you.
- Nice meeting you.
I'm gonna sit in the back, actually.
I get a little car sick in the front.
Thank you.
It'll just be a minute.
- Wait, where's he going?
- Gotta say bye real quick
- I don't know.
- to the kiddos.
Guys, this is
I'm bummed, man. I gotta leave you.
Uh, yeah, my lawyer set up this
whole private bailiff thing,
which is coming out of
my own pocket, not cheap,
but it allows me to stay at home.
But he's got to stay with
me, so that's kind of,
no offense, kind of a bummer.
Um, but you guys are
gonna have the best time.
My God, I'm so jealous.
Yeah, but you could stay. You
could just come into the hotel.
I'm cold, so
You guys don't have too much
fun without me, all right?
All right, I wanna hear
about all the good stuff.
- Thank you.
- You guys are gonna bond.
It's gonna be great. I'm so jealous!
You are sequestered. No outside
company, anything like that.
I can have my phone
back to do a video call?
No, it's locked up.
- So I have to use a regular phone call?
- You do not get your phone.
You won't get any phone, electronics
back until this trial has ended.
Okay. My girlfriend and I,
every night, we FaceTime.
You can talk to me tonight.
No, I understand, but what's going
on is that you're sequestered.
Right.
So follow me.
Yeah, let's take a tour of the
digs. Let's see what we got.
Okay.
- This is the common area?
- Yes.
And this is your area.
Oh, dude, if they got Mario Kart
- No way. Oh!
- Right there, bro.
You guys are
So 637.
Ronald, make sure that works.
There we go.
Sequester. Sequester. Two beds.
Wow. It's so nice. Oh, my God.
Oh, I just heard myself. Thank you.
- Hey, how's it going?
- How's it going, man?
I just didn't know if you saw
that we have the, um the door.
- Oh, is this shared?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Oh, nice.
- So yeah.
No, I didn't even see that.
- Oh, what's up, bud?
- Yeah, hey, what's up?
Nice.
So, you're good to go.
We'll have another officer
up here to check on you,
give you some nighttime
rules and everything.
He right behind you.
- I know, right there.
- Sorry.
- Connecting.
- Todd, you can come over here too.
- Uh, which way?
- So that I won't have to say this twice.
- Sure.
- I'm just letting y'all know,
I'm going to check in
the other two downstairs.
There'll be another officer
over here to make sure
that y'all are good for
food, things like that.
So
Sorry, I didn't know where
- Stop doing that shit.
- Sorry, yeah.
- I'm sorry.
- Don't. I don't like people behind me.
Yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry.
The two rooms that we have are next
to each other. They're adjoining.
So I slipped a note to
Ronald just to let him know
some rudimentary signs that
we might use to communicate.
One knock equals "I'm awake." Two
knocks equal "I'm going to bed."
Three knocks equal "I have
leftover food if you'd like any."
Yeah, that's exactly what he did.
And I could see his thought process
too, 'cause when we first got here,
we didn't know what we
could and couldn't do.
Ronald wrote back, "Works for me.
Just let me know if you need anything."
- Does this belt need to come off?
- No, you're fine.
- State your full name, please.
- Pat McCurdy.
- What is your bailiff arrangement like?
- Oh, man.
How does that work?
Dude, it's great and not great.
Like, he's in my house.
Wait, you're not staying at the hotel?
My lawyer said I could hire a private
bailiff to escort me from court,
- home, stay with me at home.
- Okay.
I tried to get him to stay in my casita.
He said, insisted, that he
has to stay inside the house.
What is a casita?
It's like a guest house.
You should've seen his
face when I was putting
my makeup on this morning.
You put you put you put makeup on?
It's not a weird thing in
my business to have a guy
It looks lighter today.
You did a good job.
He now has his own private bailiff,
which he has the money to pay for,
escorting him to and from his own house.
The only reason we're in this
situation is because of this guy,
and now he's not even here with us.
So I'm definitely not thrilled
about that by any means.
Every day before court, I like
to get y'all meal orders in.
This is a binder of menus
in the area around here.
You all have to collectively
decide what you're gonna eat.
I'll do it. I'll take the orders.
I wanna be foreperson.
And Nikki saw how I took
charge with the lunch ordering,
and I could tell she was impressed.
So my hope is, is that she gets
my recommendation to Judge Rosen.
Her endorsement is key.
You guys can look at it,
but I was just saying Mexican
'cause it's, like, a nice group pleaser.
- I know, but we had that.
- What do you guys think?
Leadership is listening and
getting the most out of your team.
Is there anything apart from Mexican?
Uh, we, we're doing
We're doing Mexican today.
But whatever you like
I'm going to the
bathroom to rub one out.
Yep, do it now while you got the time.
So you could just tell me what you like.
- That wouldn't work.
- Why?
Little chilly in here today,
but I'm about to warm it
up with the heat of justice.
So here we go with that.
The plaintiff is alleging property
damage and emotional distress
in the neighborhood of around $2500.
Now, $2500 is a lot of money
Counsel, it's $1.8 million.
You just said $2500.
I'm sorry to interrupt. I just
don't want the jury to be confused.
I'm sorry, Your Honor. I-I
have a lot going on. Um
I think I might be
looking at the wrong
I kind of feel bad for him, just
'cause he's, he's trying his best,
but things aren't working.
And this is, like, what, the second day?
We were supposed to have filed
it on Wednesday, and I'm just
I'm so I'm so sorry.
Yeah, and I'm-I'm literally
in court right now.
Counsel?
Yes, Your Honor?
Are you talking to me, Counsel?
- I'm sorry?
- Were you talking to me?
No. I'm so sorry, Your
Honor. That was a, um
I got another
As promised, I have an animation today
that is, uh, equally awesome, um
to the animation you all saw yesterday.
So let me just get this set up.
I assure you
that this will be
worth the time.
- Copy.
- Tech.
- Your Honor.
- Set up.
Yeah?
Your Honor, I just got in my ear
that the restaurant that they order from
is closed on Fridays.
So
I think we're gonna pause for a second.
Folks, whoever ordered lunch,
apparently the place was closed.
You know what? Wait.
It's-It's-It's ten minutes to 12:00.
Let's break for about 40 minutes.
Counsel, if we take a break,
we gonna be ready? Today?
Absolutely, Your Honor.
Oh, my God.
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Okay.
I made sure I took out the
menu that y'all had before,
so just pay attention, read it better.
We ordered food and we can't eat it.
- So we're ordering again.
- Mm-hmm.
- This is not the menu.
- No.
Do you have the second
Mexican restaurant menu?
- No.
- Where is that at?
It's gotta have the same stuff.
I don't know why this is so hard.
- I don't know either.
- Yeah.
It's like we're always eating
and then occasionally
interrupted by court.
Listen, we don't have to do Mexican.
We could do pizzas or we could do subs.
We had subs yesterday.
Can we pull you guys
for a quick interview?
- Me? Yeah.
- Yeah, you and Ronald.
- Right here.
- Okay, I didn't want that anymore.
Oh, gosh. Oh, boy.
Someone get some paper towels.
There's paper towels over here.
So
Whoa!
Tim! Tim! Tim! Tim! Tim! Tim! Tim! Tim!
- You good?
- Oh, yeah. Ow!
Holy shit.
Look at me. Just don't move. Look at me.
- What was he doing?
- Just don't move.
God damn it.
Just don't move. Just look
at me. Look at me. You good?
- Ow.
- Just breathe.
Yeah.
Do we know if Nikki or
guys, can somebody
- What happened?
- I don't know.
- Yo, don't touch him.
- All right.
- What's his name?
- Tim.
Tim, are you okay?
My back hurts.
Okay. All right. Breathe in, okay.
911. What's your emergency?
He's very injured.
Hey, relax. I need
you to keep breathing.
- You okay, bud?
- Yeah.
Where you hurting?
Oh, shit!
Ow, he stepped on my hand.
Hey, I'm gonna pick this up.
Yep.
We got a, uh, fall. I just saw
it out of the corner of my eye.
Everything I think
I'm just glad I was there to provide
life-saving assistance to Tim.
You know, be a leader.
Hang in there.
- What's his name?
- Tim.
- We love you, Tim.
- Tim.
Heavenly Father, we call on you
right now in the name of Jesus.
Tim was easy to talk to. Like,
Tim was really nice to me.
He was super open, not judgmental.
He made me laugh, and we were laughing
continuously, like, ten minutes.
He was really nice and supportive,
and so I just really appreciated that.
And I hope that he's okay.
It's so sad what happened.
Todd, I don't know if you
know this, but he told me that
you kind of reminded him
of a little brother he had
that actually passed away
- Aw.
- when he was 18.
So maybe that's what
resonated with you and him.
He actually took a year off
between his high school senior year
and his freshman year of
college, and he went to Nepal,
and he got to learn,
uh, how to raise goats.
What he does is he finds old bicycles
- I remember that.
- from the '70s.
- He likes
- A red bike.
old bikes and he refurbishes them.
That's right. That's right.
And he gives them to poor
kids in the inner city.
Yeah, the kids.
And that, to me, is just amazing
that he would do something like that.
Tim made this.
Look at that. It's so sweet.
It's like a lucky bird.
He actually made me a crane as well.
And actually, he called me crane head.
I have a good memory with him.
I really feel sad and scared.
Damn, dude. Everyone got those?
- Oh, I did bring it.
- Oh, all right.
Did he give you a crane, or ?
No, I'm not a part of the
crane crew, unfortunately.
Ronald, you said you had
a couple interactions.
- Anything you want to share?
- Me?
I mean, we
It was very brief.
We literally just said a few
words, kind of in passing.
go to the bathroom and rub one out.
Yep, do it now while you got the time.
Just a couple sentences,
yeah, just passing by.
"How you doing?" Just things like that.
I'm just gonna do
pizzas, if that's cool.
I'm fine with that.
This is, like, so freaking ridiculous.
So now we're not even doing this.
She's getting pizzas.
- You don't have a choice now. It's pizza.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Oh, all right.
- Right? That's what we got.
- Wow.
- Do we know what kind of pizza she ordered?
- No.
- No.
Probably just the default.
First of all, gentleman number seven,
he's out of the woods from a
life-threatening standpoint.
He's not out of the woods
from a pain standpoint.
He will not be able to
continue sitting on the jury.
I have to appoint one
of these two gentlemen
as a full-fledged juror now.
No, no. You're number 14, correct?
Yes, sir.
Please sit down. Number 13.
You're gonna be our
new full-fledged juror.
Please come up.
I was thinking I was gonna
jump up on the jury today.
As an alternate, you know,
you kind of feel like
an afterthought, to some degree.
But Lonnie's great, and I
think he's gonna do a great job.
And you know, who knows?
Maybe there'll be another opportunity.
Another Tim or
Not not not in that way.
But, uh, you know, you never know.
It actually worked out for the best
'cause I'm supposed to be getting
the Lone Pine script soon,
and that's gonna require my
full, undivided attention,
so I wouldn't even have the
bandwidth to deal with all of this.
Lone Pine is the name of the movie,
by the way, in case anyone's confused.
Lonnie, what about you?
How does it feel to
move up to full juror?
Oh, I don't know. You know, it's chill.
You know, new chair. It
swivels and everything.
Kind of miss my, uh, my old spot.
Had a wall where I could put
my stuff and everything, so
You made it, brother. Promised land.
- Right
- Mm-mm.
I got this video queued
up from the cloud.
I've not had an opportunity
to watch this yet.
Are we showing it on the screen?
No, no, I'm gonna do it
directly from, uh, this guy.
So, as you can see here,
my client showed up for work
on the day of the incident.
And
this is
Just a second.
Uh, I'm gonna have to
have a talk with my nephew.
Wait, whoa, whoa.
- You know what?
- I wanna see it.
- The video is not
- Show it to me.
It's not working, Your Honor.
I don't understand. Um
Is this what the jury just saw?
Uh, that's I'm gonna
That's the whole thing?
Unfortunately, yes.
That is not what the whole
thing was supposed to be.
Not only was the animation so poor,
but it glitched and just froze up.
So, again, we only saw, like,
five or six seconds worth of video.
But it was crazy. It
was absolutely crazy.
It's like the defendant
is getting hosed.
He's showing very clear frustration.
He's banging his hands on the table
when his attorney can't
present a simple video.
It's a hot mess, to say the least.
Before I let you go for lunch,
uh, I had indicated to you
that a foreperson would
be appointed today.
I spoke with Nikki
and she advised me that
as frantic as the scene was when
juror number seven injured himself,
one of you was poised
and kept calm throughout.
Uh, juror number six.
My understanding is
that you showed guts,
or what I would call chutzpah,
by stepping up during
this time of crisis
and getting that lunch order in.
I'm just gonna do
pizzas, if that's cool.
I'm fine with that.
I'm hoping that you are up for it.
You're the guy who's in charge.
- Mm.
- For what that's worth.
Why don't we recess for lunch.
I want it to be known
that I didn't order lunch.
She did.
El Capitan.
- Dude, I thought he was gonna say you.
- My Captain, My Captain
You're the one who showed
poise. I didn't do shit.
Dude, I don't like this 'cause
if it was up to vote, I was like,
if I got voted in, I could just
tell him I didn't want to do it.
- I was like, if the judge gives
- Oh, you don't want it?
No, I don't want to [BLEEP] do it.
I didn't even order the
food. Nikki ordered the food.
That wasn't even me.
Maybe this is the universe
trying to tell you something.
Oh, thank God.
Should we toast to your new position?
No, we shouldn't.
Listen, man, when God blesses
you, just take the blessing, bro.
You know what? Um, I'm
fine not being foreperson.
And Ronald and I have actually
just started discussing
the possibility of me being
his assistant, so it's good.
I just wanted to present
this to my foreperson.
- My memory, I mean.
- Oh, dude, you don't gotta do that.
- Present to him. Present to him.
- But that's your memory.
I mean, I appreciate it, but
you don't gotta do that, Ravi.
- Yeah.
- Thank you.
Yeah, that's really nice.
On the next episode of Jury Duty.
Todd is a very interesting individual.
Oh, my God.
Would you like to interview
me about this same subject?
How would you characterize
your reputation?
Beyond reproach.
Coffee or methamphetamine or cocaine?
As long as you don't fall asleep.
- Don't worry.
- Okay.
I mean, yeah, that's my
girlfriend, but who's that?
Oh, shit!
Jump scare.
You're the foreperson.
And it's your duty to
keep the jury in line.
Are you capable of doing that?