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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:09:22 GMT -5
The Sacrifice
LSP
Lulu getting a cup of coffee. She picks up the paper, sits down, opens it to the apartment ads, and starts circling.
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:12:10 GMT -5
Hospital
Brian is performing surgery. There is a bleeder that he can’t find, and as they work to try to save the patient, the patient quickly bleeds to death.
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:14:33 GMT -5
A house, a nursery
A girl enters the room and picks up a crying baby. As the camera pans up, we see the girl is covered in blood. A man stumbles into the room, a gun hanging limply in his hand. He picks up a baby blanket and wipes at the blood on his hands. He sits down in a chair, picks up the phone, dials 911, and says “This is Frank Fortunato, and something’s happened. I’m at home with my daughter, and I just killed my wife.”<br>
Opening Credits
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:17:44 GMT -5
LSP
Laurie comes in to talk to Nick, who naturally gets a call on his cell phone at that moment. He tells the caller he’ll get back with them as soon as he can, and immediately turns to Laurie to see what she needs. She explains that she needs him to go to court. Betsy Fortunato has a baby and her father has shot her mother.
As they leave the offices, we pan over to Lulu. She picks up the phone, dials a number and says “Yes, I’m calling about the one bedroom apartment in Shadyside.”<br>
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:20:33 GMT -5
Courthouse hallway
Laurie is standing there with the young woman and baby. Nick approaches. Laurie introduces Betsy to Nick. Betsy then introduces her baby, Chris. Nick explains that he is her lawyer. When Betsy asks if she is in trouble, Nick tells her no, that this is a shelter hearing to see if she can stay at St. **’s with her baby for now.
Betsy explains to Nick that her mother had ALS and that her father shot her mother as a mercy killing.
As Laurie goes to check to see if they are ready for the hearing, Betsy asks Nick “Do you have a backyard?”<br>
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:22:05 GMT -5
Hospital
The head of the hospital (whose name starts with an S but I never quite catch), is explaining to Nick that it was just a routine gallbladder operation. He goes on to say that Dr. Olsen is an otherwise exemplary surgeon.
Nick is surprised to hear that the surgeon was Brian. When the administrator asks if he knows Brian, Nick explains that he works with Brian’s wife over at LSP. The administrator asks if Nick thinks this will be a conflict, but Nick assures him it will not.
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:25:37 GMT -5
LSP
Nick walks in to the main area. He sees Lulu, and asks if she’s talked to Brian. Lulu seems preoccupied, but says no, and asks why. Nick tells her she needs to call Brian as soon as possible.
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:27:26 GMT -5
LSP, conference room
Nick is with Betsy as she meets with a police detective about the shooting. (She had talked to the police a bit at the time, but they said to wait until later, and Nick had told her at the shelter hearing not to talk to them unless he is there.)
At one point, she seems reluctant to answer, and Nick prods her, telling her gently to answer the question. She turns on him angrily, snapping that she doesn’t like his tone. She immediately collects herself and answers the question.
Before they finish, the police want to know why she had so much blood on her at the time of the shooting. She says that she hugged her mother after her father shot her. When they ask why, she says because she wanted to hug her.
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:32:06 GMT -5
The Olsen house
Lulu comes in, finds Brian sitting in the living room looking at a picture of the two of them. She asks him what happened, and he gives her a brief explanation. She asks why he didn’t call her, and he says that because the way things have been lately, he wasn’t sure . . .
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:35:32 GMT -5
F&F
Nick is asking Burton how things are going with the Tidman deal. Burton explains that it is now between them, Kirk & McGee, and another firm, but as he and Bobby Tidman go way back, he thinks they have a good chance at it. He’s even taking Tidman to the Steelers’ game on Saturday.
Nonchalantly, Burton asks, “You still seeing that cop?” Nick’s cell phone rings at just that second, so he is saved from answering. “It serious or what?” Burton continues. Nick doesn’t answer, but heads out.
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:36:43 GMT -5
Hospital
Nick comes walking through the hallway, where he runs into Lulu and Brian. Lulu explains that Nick represents the hospital, and Brian immediately starts explaining how he is innocent. Lulu stops him, saying that he really shouldn’t be talking about this in front of Nick. Brian looks puzzled, and says “But he’s a friend . . .”<br>
Lulu interrupts, trying to explain “He’s not a friend . . .” (meaning Nick’s on the other side of this case)
Nick sharply cuts in, stating unequivocally “I’m NOT your friend.”<br>
As Brian walks away, Lulu holds back a moment, asking Nick if he doesn’t think this is a conflict of interest, and shouldn’t Nick hand this over to someone else in his firm? Nick assures her it is not a problem.
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:41:06 GMT -5
Courthouse, courtroom
It’s Frank Fortunato’s bail hearing. We see the two attorneys state their sides, then the judge rules that Fortunato is to be held without bail. As they go to leave, Nick stops Fortunato’s lawyer, who he knows. Nick explains that he is guardian for Betsy Fortunato. The attorney says that it's all a bad situation, what with the wife having Huntington’s disease and all. Nick stops him, and says that Betsy has told him it was ALS. The other attorney says no, it was Huntington’s, which is a bad neurological disease.
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:46:08 GMT -5
Hospital
Nick is questioning the anesthesiologist who was working with Brian during the surgery. The anesthesiologist has nothing but good to say about Brian’s work. Nick asks if he knows anything about any personal problems Brian might be having, and the anesthesiologist says that he did hear something about marital problems, but that’s not really that unusual in their line of work.
Out of the blue, Nick asks the doctor what he knows about Huntington’s disease. Gobsmacked, the anesthesiologist asks, “Are you saying Dr. Olsen has Huntington’s?” Nick assures him that Brian does not, that this is a personal interest. The anesthesiologist tells him it’s an incurable and untreatable neurological disease that is always terminal.
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:51:45 GMT -5
He also tells Nick that Huntington's can be hereditary, and there is a 50/50 chance any child of a parent with Huntington's will have it.
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Post by Ginne on Dec 10, 2002 22:54:11 GMT -5
A Shelter
Nick goes in to see Betsy. He enters her room, which has a number of twin beds and cribs in it. She isn’t in there, but her baby is in the crib. He hears a sound behind a door in the room, and opening it, finds Betsy and her boyfriend partially clothed in a clutch. He apologizes, shutting the door quickly.
The boyfriend comes out, leaves quickly. Betsy comes out, stand there in her jeans and bra. Nick hands her a blanket to wrap around herself. He then tells her that her mother didn’t have ALS, but Huntington’s. She says that her dad told her ALS, and why would he lie to her. Nick gently tells her that Huntington’s can be hereditary, and there is a 50/50 chance she might carry the gene. She is clearly upset by this, and asks if she does carry the gene, is it possible her baby also carries it?
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