:35:01
We can do better than that.
:35:03
It's hard to get a conviction on a rape.
It's a dead-end for someone ambitious.
:35:07
So you get the worst attorneys
trying the hardest cases?
:35:12
Listen to this. We got another idealist
in the office.
:35:24
He's five years old.
:35:26
The doctors found 23 healed fractures
from old wounds.
:35:32
Victim of his own beloved mother.
:35:35
I need your help.
:35:37
Your wife called.
:35:42
Why don't you fire her?
:35:45
Civil service. They're here forever.
:35:47
Why don't you give this to Nancy.
You haven't had experience with kids.
:35:51
Nancy's not available.
:35:53
And, besides,
I'd like to try this case myself.
:35:58
With your help.
:36:00
Outline it for me.
:36:02
About a month ago...
:36:04
...the mother brought him
into the West End Pavilion Hospital.
:36:07
The boy was unconscious
from severe head injuries.
:36:10
She said he fell.
:36:12
The doctor says...
:36:13
...the head wounds were too symmetrical
to be the result of a fall.
:36:17
He told me...
:36:19
...he was treating a child whose mother
had crushed his head in a vise.
:36:25
We have any proof it was the mother?
You got the vise?
:36:27
Just the testimony of the child.
:36:30
When he sees the mother in
the courtroom, he'll recant. An iffy case.
:36:35
I've examined him several times and...
:36:38
...l think he's begun to trust me.
:36:39
Look, how many child abuse cases
does this office handle in a year?
:36:43
Over a thousand.
:36:45
Every one of them terrible.
:36:47
Every one of them heartbreaking.
:36:49
But I can't stop everything else
to take care of one case.
:36:52
You're going to have to get somebody else
to help you.
:36:56
You don't like me, do you?
:36:59
I think you've turned out to be
a damn good prosecutor.