CHAPTER 13
VONDA: When you feel that you can make It all alone...
GEORGIA: I don't know what you could have done differently.
ALLY: Do you think? I don't know, maybe I have encouraged him to hold out for the illusion of marriage, and the reality is, is that now he could end up alone.
GEORGIA: Ally, if he doesn't love her...
ALLY: He loves her. She just doesn't make his heart bounce. And it should, shouldn't it? I mean, not all the time. But at, at least on your wedding day, his, his heart should do a little hop at the ceremony, shouldn't it?
GEORGIA: Yeah.
VONDA: Just ask the lonely. Lonely.
RENEE: Pretty quick verdict, actually. Hey, Johnny! Great closing yesterday. Passing out any questionnaires?
JOHN: That was uncalled for.
RENEE: Hm. See you in there.
JOHN: Ally, I know you've had some trouble with the defense we've put on.
ALLY: Uh, you, you're doing what you have to. Could you excuse me a second?
ALLY: Harry, what's going on? You wouldn't by any chance be quoting him off season rates, would you?
MS WINCHELL: Huh, I beg your pardon?
ALLY: Could you excuse us, please?
ALLY: What were you discussing with her? You call off your wedding and now you, you... I think you should marry Angela.
MR PIPPIN: Really?
ALLY: Companionship and trust. Those are real things, Harry.
MR PIPPIN: What about my heart?
ALLY: Yeah. I was thinking and... Sometimes the worst thing for somebody's heart could be loneliness. And listen, last night I was thinking about all of my friends who I thought might be right for you. And I'm ashamed to say this, but none of my friends would go out with you.
MR PIPPIN: Because of my heft?
ALLY: Yeah. Probably.
MR PIPPIN: So, you think I should settle for Angela?
ALLY: I don't think you should think of it as settling. Not if you want a family and, and partnership. Sometimes, Harry, we got to look at our choices and we just have to make the best one.
MR PIPPIN: And Angela, she's a good girl.
ALLY: Yeah. She is.
MR PIPPIN: And promises that we make ourselves when we're kids... Stupid anyway.
CHAPTER 14
JOHN: Da, da, da, da, da, da. Da, da, da, da, da, da... I apologize.
JUDGE: Has the jury reached its verdict?
JURY: We have, Your Honor.
JUDGE: What say you?
JURY: We find the defendant not guilty.
JUDGE: Members of the jury, thank you for your time and service. We're done. Adjourned.
MS WINCHELL: Thank you, so much. And thank you for sitting here in apparent support. I'm sure it helped.
ALLY: Hm. It was apparent, Sandra. Um, my, my outlook's just a little different from yours.
MS WINCHELL: I know. And I envy you. I really do.
BILLY: You lost?
JOHN: We won.
ALLY: What are you doing?
JOHN: After each case I, I like to gather thoughts.
ELAINE: I have great news. Harry and Angela are back on. Friday night service.
ALLY: Great.
ELAINE: Angela called. She said since you pulled a cupid she would like you there after all, as long as you don't wear white.
ALLY: Thank you, Elaine.
ELAINE: I resent this side of the door.
ALLY: Do you really want to know my thoughts, John? I think the world is in big, big trouble. We laugh at people for aspiring to romance. We, we celebrate hookers under the guise of feminine autonomy. Do, do you want me to put this in writing?
JOHN: Da, da, da, da, da...
ALLY: Why do you do that "da, da, da, da, da, da" thing?
JOHN: I stutter. I did as a child, anyway. I learned to control it with music. I'd sing the song, John Jacob Jingle Hymer Smith. "His name is my name, too." You know the song.
ALLY: Yeah.
JOHN: I sing to myself to control my stutter if I feel myself nervous. And sometimes a refrain just kinda pops out. Anyway, I didn't come to collect your thoughts. I came to give you mine. Criminal law requires that criminal lawyers play a certain game.
ALLY: I know. You don't have to apologize for the system or for your little performance. I get it.
JOHN: I did not come in here to apologize. I came... Da, da, da, da, da... The world is no longer a romantic place. Some of its people still are, however. And therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win, Ally McBeal. That's what I came in to say.
ELAINE: He's a strange Little Biscuit, isn't he?
CHAPTER 15
VONDA: I don't know what it is that makes me love you so. I only know I never want to let you go. 'Cause you started something, can't you see? That ever since we met you've had a hold on me. It happens to be true. I only want to be with you. It doesn't matter where you go or what you do. I want to spend each moment of the day with you. Look what has happened with just one kiss. I never knew that I could be in love like this. It's crazy, but It's true. I only want to be with you.