Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

Wealth of Nations (2004)

Annie Potts: Lieutenant Lucy Preston

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• Will Girardi : I convinced Helen we have to counter-sue. I probably shouldn't celebrate, but after rolling over for so long...

  Lieutenant Lucy Preston : No explanation necessary. Listen, if you need any help, I...

  Will Girardi : Thanks. I think we're in good shape now.

  Lieutenant Lucy Preston : All right. Well, I'm just putting it out there because I have a friend in Chicago who found out some things.

  Will Girardi : Things?

  Lieutenant Lucy Preston : Andy's father, Tim Baker, owned a small company.

  Will Girardi : Baker and Burke. They make shipping containers.

  Lieutenant Lucy Preston : Yeah. Well, it's just Burke now. I talked to somebody at the Illinois State Securities Department.

  Will Girardi : About this?

  Lieutenant Lucy Preston : Well, he's an old friend. We were just catching up, you know, and I mentioned Baker's name. I really don't even remember how it came up. Anyway, it seems that there were some tax questions surrounding this company when it went public, and you can see that back here on these sheets that I got from the SEC.

  Will Girardi : You have a lot of friends.

  Lieutenant Lucy Preston : They suspect that Baker cooked the books trying to avoid taxes, and his partner threatened to report him. Why else would a man walk away from a business after twenty years? And I'll bet he might walk again if he knew you had this.

  Will Girardi : So, all of this just came up in a conversation with old buddies.

  Lieutenant Lucy Preston : Hey, I'm a cop. How many times do you get the chance to squash the bad guy before he hurts some good people?

  Will Girardi : Next time, you should talk to me first.

  Lieutenant Lucy Preston : Yeah. But you would have just said no.