American Crime Story (TV Series)

The Dream Team (2016)

Nathan Lane: F. Lee Bailey

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• F. Lee Bailey : [reading an article in the New Yorker]  I hear a sound. The sound... of metal orbs clanging against one another.

  Robert Shapiro : Come on, Lee.

  F. Lee Bailey : Oh, my God. It's coming from your pants, Bob.

  [Robert laughs] 

  F. Lee Bailey : Balls. Big, brass balls. God love you. We are back in this thing!

  Robert Shapiro : Ah, thank you, thank you. But, uh, how do I get rid of those 911 tapes?

  F. Lee Bailey : I know. Those tapes are today. In a week, they're flotsam over the stern. If they had to come out, I'm glad they were followed with this. What you've laid out here, this is an entire case strategy. Spectacular. This is masterful. Bob, you had a car that flew off a cliff. It's missing two tires, leaking oil, and flung into a ravine, yet somehow, you drove us back up the hill. We're highway-ready again and back in the race.

• F. Lee Bailey : I never thought I'd say this, but I like the nerd science guy.

  Robert Shapiro : Mm, but he's esoteric, and we also have to think about the things in the physical world, things we can see with our own eyeballs. What do you got, Pat?

  Pat McKenna : So far, nothing I can sink my teeth into. All I've seen is the LAPD acting like they were O.J.'s butler. "Would you like a police escort home? Could we get you some juice, Juice?" I do know one of the detectives a little. Worked with him once doing security for Johnny Carson. Mark Fuhrman. Total prick. Really unpleasant. Johnny never asked him back.

  Robert Shapiro : Really? Johnny never asked him back? That's interesting. What, Foreman?

  Pat McKenna : Mark Fuhrman.

  Robert Shapiro : Fuhrman. Yeah. Yeah, dig deep. Let me know what happens.

• Larry King : Alan Dershowitz, in all your years, have you ever seen a sensational, tragic case like this?

  Alan Dershowitz : In a short word, Larry, no. The evidence against Simpson is overwhelming.

  Larry King : All right, Alan, what about a plea deal? Could that be in the cards?

  Alan Dershowitz : Larry, settling is Robert Shapiro's specialty, much more than actually trying cases in a courtroom. But with a vicious double murder, then Simpson attempting escape, no. O.J. Simpson is gonna stand trial for two counts of murder one, maybe special circumstances.

  Robert Shapiro : [watching on TV]  Aw, go to hell, Dershowitz! Do you see what I'm up against here? They've got me down as the schmuck that'll walk O.J. to the gas chamber, and then the most famous lawyer in the whole country is gonna dictate and narrate it on "Larry King Live."

  F. Lee Bailey : You think Alan's the most famous lawyer in the country? Thank God he's so photogenic.

  Robert Shapiro : How do I shut him up? How do you shut Dershowitz up?

  F. Lee Bailey : I like Alan, but he's a smug son of a bitch. Every fifteenth word is "Harvard."