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"Mr. Beckett come in."
"It's good to see you again counseillor. Judge Tate? Kendal Construction?"
"Innocuous, hahaha, how are you? What happened to your face?"
"I have aids."
"Oh."
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"I misplaced an important complaint, that's their story. Want to hear mine?"
"How many laywers you go to before me?"
"Nine."
"Continue."
"The night before it was due I worked on the complaint in my office, I left a copy of it on my desk. The next day the complaint vanished. No hard copy. All traces of it misteriously gone from my computer. Miraculously, a copy of the complaint was located at the last minute and we got it to court on time. But the next day I was summoned to a meeting with the managing partners. They were waiting for me in the conference room."
"Oh, hello Andy come on in. Would you mind hitting the windows? Thanks yeah come on in, come on in."
"Robert, Charles, Walter, Lydia."
"Thanks for coming in."
"Oh of course."
"Now before we begin I'd just like to say that everyone in this room is your friend."
"I know that Charles."
"More than your friend..."
"Charles, I must appologise again for the highline mishap yesterday, that was some scary moment around here. Wow thank God the complaint was found and no damage was done."
"This time what about next time?"
"There won't be a next time, I guarantee it."
"It's just that something has come over you lately, Andy, I don't know, some kind of stupor, foggyness."
"Some people think you have an attitude problem Beckett."
"Really? Who thinks that?"
"I do."
"Excuse me, am I being fired?"
"Let me put it this way Andy. Your place in the future of this firm is no longer secure. We feel it isn't fair to keep you here when your prospects are limited."
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"Wouldn't you be more comfortable in a research room?"
"No, would it make you more comfortable?"
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"You don't bring your personal life into a law firm, your not supposed to have a personal life really. Anyway I did plan to tell Charles eventually but then this, oh something happened at the raquet club about three years ago. Somebody started telling some jokes."
"What do you call a woman who has PMS and ESP at the same time?"
"I don't know Roger what do call it?"
"A bitch who knows everything."
"Sounds like someone I know."
"Hey Walter. How does a faggot fake an orgasm?"
"He throws a quater of hot yoguhrt over your back."
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"Andrew Beckett was fired. You'll hear two explainations for why he was fired. Ours and theirs. It is up to you to sift through layer upon layer of truth until you determine for yourselves which version sounds the most true. There are certain points that I must prove to you. Point number one, Andrew Beckett was, is a brilliant laywer, great laywer. Point number two, Andrew Beckett, afflicted with a dibilitating disease made the understandable, the personal, the legal choice to keep the fact of his illness to himself. Point number three, his employers discovered his illness and ladies and gentlemen the illness I'm refering to is aids. Point number four, they paniced. And in their panic they did what most of us would like to do with aids, which is to get it and everybody who has it as far away from the rest of us as possible. Now the behaviour of Andrew Beckett's employers may seem understandable to you, does to me. Afterall aids is a deadly incurable disease but no matter how you come to judge Charles Wheeler and his partners in ethical, moral and inhuman terms the fact of the matter is when they fired Andrew Beckett because he had aids, they broke the law."
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"Congratulations counseillor."
"Congratulations?"
"You survived what I assume to be your first gay party intact."
"Let me tell you something Andrew when your brought up the way I am, the way most people are in this country there's not a whole lot of discussion about homosexuality or what do you call it, alternative lifestyles. As a kid your taught queers are funny, queers are weird, queers dress up like their mother, that they're afraid to fight that they're a danger to little kids and that all they want to do is get into your pants. And that pretty much sums up the general thinking out there if you want to know the truth about it."
"Thankyou for sharing that with me."
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"What do you call a thousand laywers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?"
"A good start."
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"The HIV virus can only be transmitted throught the exchange of bodily fluids. Namely blood, semen and valular secretions."
"Right, yeah, yeah, but isn't it true that they're finding out all kinds of new things about this disease every day? Alright now you tell me today there's no danger, I go home I pick up my baby girl and I find out six months from now on the news or something, oops made a mistake you can carry on your shirt or your clothes or..."
"What are you doing?"
"We're gonna draw blood."
"Why are we gonna do that?"
"Joe, little Joe, I've know you since you were a little kid and I don't care a whit about your private life."
"Thanks Doc but I don't need an aids test but thanks anyway."
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"Listen, Joe?"
"Yeah?"
"Would you like to have a drink with me I just finished a game and I use a beer you know."
"I don't pick up people in drug stores every day."
"What you think I'm gay or something?"
"Aren't you?"
"What is the matter with you? Do I look gay to you?"
"Do I look gay to you? Joe relax..."
"No what do you mean relax, I ought to kick your fagotty little ass."
"Take it as a compliment Jees!"
"You know that is exactly the kind of bullshit that makes people hate your little... fagotty asses."
"You want to try and kick my ass Joe? Asshole."
"No your the asshole."
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"Mr Wheeler you are magnificant, you are my hero, Andrew is right you are the greatest. Are you gay?"
"Objection?"
"How dare you!"
"Witness will kindly answer."
"No, I am not a homosexual."
"Isn't it true that when you realised when Andrew Beckett, your golden boy, your future senior partner, was gay and had aids it drove a stake of fear right through your heterosexual heart? Remembering all the hugs and the hand shakes, the intimate moments in the sauna, the friendly pats on the backside that you and Andrew exchanged, like guys exchange sometimes. It made you say my God what does this say about me?'"
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"You have a problem with gays Joe."
"Not especially."
"Yes you do. How many gays do you know?"
"How many do you know?"
"Lots."
"Like who?"
"Caren Burman, my aunt Terresa, cousin Tommy who lives in Rochester, Eddie Myers from the office, Stanley the guy who is putting in our kitchen cabinets."
"Aunt Terresa is gay? That beautiful, sensous, volumptuous woman is a lesbian?"
"Duh."
"Sice when?"
"Probably since she was born."
"Oh man. Well, hey I admit it, OK? I'm prejudice, I don't like homosexuals there you got it."
"Alright."
"I mean the way these guys do that thing. Don't they get confused? "No I don't know is that yours is that mine?" You know I don't want to be in a bed with anybody who's stronger than me or has more hair on their chest than I do, now you can call me old fashioned, you can call me conservative just call me a man. Besides I think have to be a man to understand how really disgusting that whole idea is anyway.
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"Din't you have an obligation to tell your employer you had this dreaded, deadly, infectious disease?"
"That's not the point. From the day they hired me to the day I was fired I served my clients consistently, thouroughly, with absolubte excellence. If they hadn't fired me that's what I'd be doing today."
"And they don't want to fire you for having aids so inspite of your brilliance they make you look incompetant thus the misterious lost file is that what your trying to tell me?"
"Correct, I was sabotaged."
"I don't buy it cousil."
"That's very disappointing."
"I don't see a case."
"I have a case. If you don't want it for personal reasons..."
"Thankyou that's correct I don't."
"Well thankyou for your time counsil."
"Mr Beckett, err I'm sorry about what happened to you it's a bitch you know."
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"Listen your not getting a little light in the sneakers are you pal?"
"Yeah I am Filco, I'm changing, I'm on the prowl and I'm looking for a hunk not just any hunk I mean a man, a real man like you. You can tell everybody about it. You know what we do, you wanna play sailor? You remember I'm Columbus, your the first mate..."
"Hey knock it off that's not funny."
"Let me tell you something these people make me sick Filco, but a laws been broken. You remember the law don't you?"
"At least we agree on one thing Joe."
"What's that Charlie?"
"Tutie Fruties make me sick too."
