April 22, 2004 Transcript
"I Look Forward to Beating You in Open Court"

Alexis is sitting at the counter at Kelly's when Faith approaches her.

Faith: I have been calling your office all week. See, I’m facing these money laundering charges, and I need a really good lawyer.

Alexis: I'll have my assistant give you a nice referral. Ah, there we go.

Faith: Uh -- no, no, no -- I want you to take the case.

Alexis: I'm not available. Thanks, Mike.

Mike: Enjoy.

Alexis: Thank you.

Faith: Check your schedule. I'm sure you'll manage to squeeze me in. See, I can be very persuasive when I want something and really no fun at all when somebody tries to turn me down.

Jeff: D.A. Lansing.

Ric: Mr. Murray.

Jeff: I need to talk to you.

Ric: Look, if this is about your falsifying the D.N.A. test, I told you, you're immune from prosecution.

Jeff: I'm not worried about going to jail; I’m worried about my life.

Ric: Oh, you're concerned that Mr. Corinthos might be upset that you falsified the D.N.A. test of his daughter and denying him his rights as a father?

Jeff: The mother didn't want him to know! Alexis Davis and Ned Ashton are to blame, not me!

Ric: The PCPD will do whatever it can to protect you.

Jeff: Yeah, well, that's not good enough!

Ric: Well, then I suggest you leave town. (Jeff grabs his arm) Excuse me.

Jeff: When are you going to tell Mr. Corinthos about his daughter?

Ric: Could be anytime now.

At Kelly's.

Alexis: The answer's no.

Faith: What about a girl's right to a fair trial? That whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing?

Alexis: Every citizen is guaranteed his or her rights under the constitution -- even someone as blatantly guilty as you. But the good thing is, is that I don't have to be the one to represent you.

Faith: Hmm.

Alexis turns to leave, passing Lorenzo on the way out of the diner.

At the police station, Ric is watching Alexis through the glass from inside the interrogation room.

Woman: I'll have a copy of the store clerk's statement on your desk this afternoon.

Ric: Thanks, Jamie.

Jamie: What's gotten Ms. Davis so worked up today?

Ric: Oh, that would be me.

Ric watched for a few more seconds, then enters the main room of the PCPD.

Alexis: (upset, speaking to an officer) This is a violation of my client's rights, and I fully intend to file a motion to dismiss this based on improper conduct by the district attorney's office. You know, Lansing is not in an all-you-can-eat banquet where he can just fill his plate with whatever prosecution that happens to suit him at the time. It is completely inappropriate.

Ric: Ahem.

Alexis: I'm not going to -- (to Ric) you took Feldman off the case?

Ric: Yes. I needed a more experienced prosecutor.

Alexis: And that would be you?

Ric: That's right. Eileen Sheridan held a man at gunpoint. I think you can forget about your client getting off with a simple slap on the wrist here.

Alexis: There were extenuating circumstances.

Ric: Well, save it for the judge, Ms. Davis. I'm looking forward to getting you in open court.

Alexis slaps a file into Ric's torso as he enters the room.

Alexis: My witness list.

Ric: Thank you. So you're basing your entire case on the fact that the defendant's husband abandoned her?

Alexis: Eileen Sheridan raised and supported five children all by herself, along with a deadbeat husband who emptied out her bank account and disappeared.

Ric: Yes, well, Ms. Sheridan's decision to marry a deadbeat does not entitle her to commit a felony.

Alexis: Well, maybe she was in love. It makes one do desperate things.

Ric: She pulled a gun and robbed a convenience store.

Alexis: The gun wasn't loaded.

Ric: I don't think the convenience store owner's life, who she threatened, knew that at the time.

Alexis: But the officers who used excessive force when they arrested her did.

Ric: Ok, you know what? I shouldn't do this, but I’m going to offer you a deal. If your client pleads guilty to the weapons charge, she gets five years, she's out in two.

Alexis: No way. She is not going to jail. She has children to support.

Ric: Whom she can send to her mother; who lives in Kansas.

Alexis: 5,000 hours of community service.

Ric: No. No, no. A year, out in six months. That's my final offer.

Alexis: Done.

Ric: You know, I'm not surprised that you pled her out. You'd never beat me in open court.

Faith: Ric, I need a postponement.

Ric: Forget it.

Faith: I don't even have an attorney yet.

Alexis steps up to the plate ...

Alexis: Actually, she does. I'll be representing Ms. Rosco, and I look forward to beating you in open court.

She gathers her briefcase and walks out.

Faith: Huh.