L.A. Law (TV Series)

Blood, Sweat and Fears (1990)

Harry Hamlin: Michael Kuzak

Quotes 

• Leland McKenzie : I want to thank you all for staying late.

  Michael Kuzak : So what's going on, Leland?

  Leland McKenzie : This. Effective as of this Friday. I am resigning as Senior Partner of this law firm.

  Douglas Brackman, Jr. : What?

  Ann Kelsey : Leland.

  Leland McKenzie : I'll stay on as of Counsel. But one of you will have to take over.

  Douglas Brackman, Jr. : Are you sick?

  Leland McKenzie : No, no. I'm not sick. My health has nothing to do with it.

  Ann Kelsey : Then what? What possible reason could you have for dropping this kind of bomb on us?

  Leland McKenzie : Because for some time now, I've hated to come into work, Ann. People keep threatening to quit. People tell me to go to hell. The place is splitting at the scenes and I can't be the one to hold it together very long.

  Arnie Becker : So what are we supposed to do?

  Leland McKenzie : You'll elect the new Senior Partner, that's what you'll do.

  Ann Kelsey : Who? Who here can do this job?

  Leland McKenzie : Anybody but me.

  Michael Kuzak : Well, you can't do this, Leland.

  Leland McKenzie : Oh, yes, I can. I'm old. I'm rich. I'm done.

  [Leland resign as Senior Partner and going for to nominate and electing the next Senior Partner for the upcoming Election Day. Leland heads and leave the Conference Room Meeting] 

• Douglas Brackman, Jr. : Proceeding along, Parral vs. Dayan. Victor?

  Victor Sifuentes : Yes. The hospital has settled out, leaving just the good doctor. We've offered 40,000, but they've rejected.

  Jonathan Rollins : Isn't 40,000 a little low for wrongful death?

  Victor Sifuentes : Well, the victim was terminal anyway, Jonathan, so the damage claims a little weak. Start today.

  Douglas Brackman, Jr. : Keep us surprised. People vs. Earl Williams. Uno más.

  Michael Kuzak : Motion to dismissed Wednesday.

  Leland McKenzie : Any chance of getting this kicked?

  Michael Kuzak : Slim, but Pinto has been seen in the PI's, I'm working with expect to find him.

  Leland McKenzie : And then?

  Michael Kuzak : I questioned him. Which reminds me, if I did find the guy, and I need somebody to be there with me when I talk to him. I may need an impeachment witness down the road.

  [Victor can't. He got his own case. Jonathan will help] 

  Jonathan Rollins : I can do it.

  Michael Kuzak : Good.

• Johnny Kayle : Found him this morning doing some business on Olympic.

  Michael Kuzak : He knows why you grabbed him?

  Johnny Kayle : Not yet. He's figured out it ain't no job interview.

  Michael Kuzak : You find out where he lives?

  Johnny Kayle : One room studio on Olympic. It was clean.

• Johnny Kayle : Ronnie, this is Mike Kuzak. He would like to know some things.

  Ronald 'Pinto' Sewell : What the hell is this?

  Michael Kuzak : I represent a man who is charged with killing Nina Corry. Does that mean anything to you?

  Ronald 'Pinto' Sewell : No.

  Michael Kuzak : Well, it should. You were seen leaving her apartment the night that it happened. That's what this is about.

  Ronald 'Pinto' Sewell : I don't know what you're talking about.

  Johnny Kayle : You're going talk to us, Ronnie. We are going to have a conversation here.

  Ronald 'Pinto' Sewell : I don't know nothing about what you're asking me.

  Michael Kuzak : You were seeing, Pinto. You were seen there. Now either you start telling us what we want or prepare yourself for a very long afternoon. You got that?

  [Pinto spitting on Kuzak's face. Johnny was having a fight with Pinto. But Rollins stop Johnny] 

  Jonathan Rollins : Hey! Hey! What the hell? Hey! What the hell are you guys doing?

  Michael Kuzak : Listen to me, you stupid son of a bitch! I don't give a damn about you or laws or rules or anything. All I care about is who killed Nina Corry. Now, you better start telling me some things very quickly, or you're going get hurt.

  Ronald 'Pinto' Sewell : I told the police, and I'm telling you: I was in the building that night but I didn't kill nobody.

  Michael Kuzak : What do you mean, you told the police?

  Ronald 'Pinto' Sewell : I told him everything! And the district attorney, too.

  Michael Kuzak : You told the district attorney that you were in that building that night?

  Ronald 'Pinto' Sewell : I told him everything. What hell is this?

  Michael Kuzak : What was the district attorney's name?

  Ronald 'Pinto' Sewell : Get your hands off me!

  Michael Kuzak : [Yelling]  I said what was the district attorney's name!

  Ronald 'Pinto' Sewell : Flanagan! Some chick named Flanagan.

  [Margaret Flanagan? Kuzak doesn't understand] 

• Leland McKenzie : Jonathan told me what happened this morning.

  [Kuzak is reading. Leland will grab a seat and talk] 

  Leland McKenzie : Needless to say, I was shocked. Terribly shocked.

  Michael Kuzak : Well, I guess we both been shocking each other these days.

  [Leland was patient] 

  Michael Kuzak : Earl's desperate. I don't know what's gonna happen if this thing goes on much longer.

  Leland McKenzie : What happened this morning makes me worry about you, Michael. I think you're too close to this thing. Maybe you should step back. But Victor's pay you a little...

  Michael Kuzak : Oh, Victor's in trial, he can't do it. No, I've got to do this, Leland, I'm the one of those about this case. And what happened today will not happen again, I promise you that.

• [Back in prison, they were talking before a new trial] 

  Jackie Williams : I love you.

  Earl Williams : I love you, too. I'll see you there.

  [Earl will be there and heads back to his cell accompanied by the Los Angeles prison guard] 

  Jackie Williams : He's been having these dreams.

  Michael Kuzak : What dreams?

  Jackie Williams : He keeps seeing a crowd of people surrounding him, screaming at him that he should die. He keeps having this other one that... he says it's like he's lying down and he can't wake up and he doesn't know if he's asleep or if that's his state of consciousness when he's dead. It's happening almost every night, Michael. He's afraid to close his eyes. Can you win this motion to dismiss?

  Michael Kuzak : I don't think so.

  Jackie Williams : Well, you've got to try. He's falling apart, and if we don't get him out of here pretty soon, I think he's going break.