L.A. Law (TV Series)

Sidney, the Dead-Nosed Reindeer (1986)

Thomas Ryan: Sid Hershberg

Quotes 

• Sid Hershberg : You see, the prosecution would have you believe as they do, that this case should not be wasting your time. That the defendant is a common whore in the garden-variety solicitation case, and that she should just take her medicine, do her 30 days or her 6 months, then do her parole and be be done with it.

  [Looking at Kuzak. Kuzak nodded] 

  Sid Hershberg : One could argue what real difference does it make if she goes to prison or goes free? She isn't famous, nor is she rich. When she dies, she will not rate even one line innthe newspaper. There may well be no one there to grieve. She will live out her life, be it long or short, in the sort of... pervading anonymity permits us to dismiss her and dismiss her without asecond thought. I have to ask myself how many more of us are dismissed in the same manner on this rock-hard Earth? When the reaper's scythe is on the back swing, what distinguishes any one of us? What do any of us do with our lives that mark us as worthy of consideration? Quite honestly, I'm at a loss to say. Is it that once we had dreams? Or a birthday? Or maybe that we've been children. That we've known Christmas. What I always thought about Christmas was about is a kind of free pass. A time of saying, hey, you don't have to earn it. We' ll consider you, the least of you, and we'll do it strictly on faith. But Christmas goes, the audition continues... And each one of us is sent back to hammer on his own personal anvil with the idea that we will be hamming until our hearts stop and someone kindly lays us to rest. I hope you have listened to Lurline Connors, and I hope you will consider her. I thank you... for listening to me.