L.A. Law (TV Series)

Watts a Matter? (1990)

Jimmy Smits: Victor Sifuentes

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• Victor Sifuentes : [Back at the LA Law firm building in the evening, Victor went to see Rosalind at her office]  Cynthia Brown just fired Jimmy Hoffs, you know anything about that?

  Rosalind Shays : Yes. I advise her to discharge him. I also recommend...

  Victor Sifuentes : Where the hell do you get off going to her?

  Rosalind Shays : Don't you talk to me like that.

  Victor Sifuentes : Jimmy Hoffs build this case. He did all the leg work on this case.

  Rosalind Shays : Jimmy Hoffs was giving bad advise. And it's co counsel, it was my obligation to point that out to the client.

  Victor Sifuentes : Co counsel? You blindsided him! You blindsided me!

  Rosalind Shays : I came to you! You wouldn't listen!

  Victor Sifuentes : Oh, it's crap. Look I don't know what the hell your game is, lady, but I'm gonna tell something point-blank Senior Partner or not. I don't trust you.

  Rosalind Shays : I warned you once, don't talk to me like that!

  Victor Sifuentes : When the hell you gonna do? Fire me? Go ahead!

  Rosalind Shays : Don't think that I won't! You have something to say to me. You come into this office like a civilized human being and we will discuss it. But charge in here again, shouting at me, and I guarantee you all fire you!

  [Victor is leaving the firm without Rosalind and the rest of the team. Nobody is going to stop Victor except Rosalind] 

• Jimmy Hoffs : This is it? Your fancy office?

  Victor Sifuentes : Shut up.

  Jimmy Hoffs : Oh, I can see why you left the PD's office, look this a desk and a rug.

  Victor Sifuentes : So, come on. You really brought suit against this liquor company?

  Jimmy Hoffs : It's a good cause of action, Victor. 40-year-old dentist, moderate to occasional drinker, never to excess, cirrhosis of the liver, dead.

  Victor Sifuentes : And you can prove that it was the booze that killed him?

  Jimmy Hoffs : I've got to forensic pathologists who can prove it. And it gets better. 18 years the guy drank only one thing. Nolsten blended, which means I don't have to argue any market share theory, I can go after an individual manufacturer.

  Victor Sifuentes : Jimmy, you, you know that nobody has ever nailed a liquor company for this.

  Jimmy Hoffs : That's because all the previous cases involved chronic alcoholics. My guy was a moderate drinker. I've got enough character witnesses to fill Dodgers stadium. No pre-existing liver condition, no comparative negligence, no assumption of the risk, but we've got a widow with two children, this is a perfect test case.

  Victor Sifuentes : It's perfect. So why do you need me?

  Jimmy Hoffs : Because I'm a bomb, remember?

  Victor Sifuentes : Come on.

  Jimmy Hoffs : And because I'm a solo practitioner up against the giant law firm. I need your resources to fight them back. Come on, Victor, you and me a team again just like the old days, we'll knock him dead.

  Victor Sifuentes : I would have to run this by our executive committee, but, yeah. Yeah, I think I'm in.

  Jimmy Hoffs : Great! Settlement conference tomorrow. This is gonna be good, Victor. This is gonna be good.