Most scenes together: Miles Massey & The Baron (14), Marylin Rexroth & The Baron (8), Miles Massey & Marylin Rexroth (7)
If you have a proposal to make, let's hear it.
Well, at this point, my client is still prepared to consider reconciliation.
My client's ruled that out.
My client is prepared to entertain an amicable dissolution to the marriage without prejudice.
That's a fart in a stiff wind.
My client proposes a 30-day cooling-off period.
My client feels sufficiently dispassionate.
My client asks that you not initiate proceedings pending his setting certain affairs in order.
Objection, Your Honor: strangling the witness.
I'm going to allow it.
...and those Rottweilers were a menace, man!
I told you she had dogs.
You didn't tell me they had a hard on for Anus Africanus!
You want tact, call a tactician! You want ass nailed, you call Gus Petch. Christ, you seem to be taking this pretty good. I have seen them come in here weeping like Baptists at a funeral, like they hired me to prove their husbands weren't fooling around.
Don't get me wrong Mr.....
Petch. Gus Petch.
Whilst I don't find this terribly entertaining, I'm delighted you found this material. This will be my passport to wealth, independence and freedom.
They bought Massey's argument. If I lied or cheated and was with Rex only for his money, then he shouldn't have to give me any.
Sarah Sorkin Well, that makes no sense. Why else would you put in all those years?
"Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery, for where a heart is hard, they make no battery..." Mrs. Rexroth, do you know those lines?
Objection, your honor.
Grounds?
Uh... poetry recitation.
I don't know... She has Rottweilers.
Not a good sign.
All right, so much for the ice-breakers. What are you after, Freddy? [takes a drink of water]
My client is prepared to settle for 50 percent of the marital assets. [Miles spits out some water]
Why only 50, Freddy? Why not a hundred? While we're dreaming, why not 150? Are you familiar with "Kershner"?
"Kershner" does not apply.
Bring this to trial, we'll see if "Kershner" applies.
What's "Kershner"?
Please, let me handle this.
"Kershner" was in Kentucky.
"Kershner" was in Kentucky?
"Kershner" was in Kentucky.
All right, Freddy, forget "Kershner". What's your bottom line?
Primary residence, 30 percent of remaining assets.
What, are you nuts? Have you forgotten "Kershner"?
Attila the Hun. Ivan the Terrible. Henry the Eighth. What do they have in common?
I guess, something inside of me died, when I realized that you'd hired a goon to kill me.
Wait a minute. You hired him to kill me.
No. Both of you wait a minute. Nobody hired anyone to kill anyone.
Hear, hear.
Apparently, from what I can gather, a burglar broke into your house.
Miles's house.
Whatever. A burglar broke in intending to loot the place, uh, repented, became despondent over his lifestyle and shot himself.
So you propose, that in spite demonstrable infidelity on your part, your unoffending wife should be tossed out on her ear.
Is it possible?
It's a challenge.
Mrs. Gutman Sometimes there would be a gizmo.
A gizmo?
Mrs. Gutman He had a device he called the Intruder. It was something he had the engineers at the factory design. And then he had a prototype built out of the parts from our vacuum cleaner.
I see.
Mrs. Gutman So the vacuum cleaner wasn't available to me for several months.
Several months without the appliance.
Mrs. Gutman Yes.
Have you sat before her before?
No. No, the judge sits first. Then we sit.
Well, have you sat after her before?
Sat after her before? You mean, have we argued before her before?
The judge sits in judgment. The counsel argues before the judge.
So, have you argued before her before?
Before her before, or before she sat before?
Before her before. I said, before her before.
No, you said before she sat before.
I did at first, but...
Look, don't argue.
I'm not. I'm...
No, you don't argue. We argue.
Counsel argues.
You appear.
The judge sits.
Then you sit.
Or you stand in contempt.
And then we argue.
The counsel argues.
Which you've done before.
Which we've done before.
Ah.
But not before her.
My wife has me between a rock and a hard place.
That's her job. You should respect that.
