American Crime Story (TV Series)

Manna from Heaven (2016)

Sarah Paulson: Marcia Clark

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• Marcia Clark : Your Honor, can we curtail this performance piece? The witness has already made clear that he will not answer any further questions.

  Johnnie Cochran : Actually, Your Honor, may I ask just one last question?

  [Ito nods as a yes] 

  Johnnie Cochran : Thank you... Oh. Detective Fuhrman... did you plant or manufacture any evidence in this case?

  Detective Mark Fuhrman : I assert my Fifth Amendment privilege.

  Johnnie Cochran : No further questions, Your Honor.

• Gil Garcetti : Has Ito ruled on the tapes?

  Marcia Clark : Not yet. And we're fighting to keep them out. But while we were reviewing them, we heard something... unexpected. You should sit. This is bad.

  Gil Garcetti : No, I know. He hates Mexicans, he uses the "N"-word, he's a sexist pig. He utters every racial slur known to man.

  Marcia Clark : Yes, all of that is true, but there's sort of an O. Henry twist. Somebody he hates that none of us saw coming.

  Gil Garcetti : Okay.

  Detective Mark Fuhrman : [on tape]  I hate this woman, you know the type... dyed blonde, one-inch roots, slumped shoulders, a pouch big enough to hide cats in. She's the only marsupial on the police force. Peggy barely worked in the field.

  Gil Garcetti : Wait, whoa. Peggy? Is he talking about Peggy York, Ito's WIFE?

  Detective Mark Fuhrman : [on tape]  It sickens me that she's a captain. I refuse to take orders from her. She's as far from a policeman as I've seen. Hell, she's as far from a woman as I've seen. She just sucked and f...

  Gil Garcetti : [slams stop on the tape player; in disbelief]  What did he just say?

  Christopher Darden : He says that she sucked...

  Gil Garcetti : Is he saying that -- that... Oh, I cannot believe this! Jesus! Our star witness insulting the judge's wife!

  Marcia Clark : Yes, not only does Fuhrman hate blacks, he hates Peggy York, the highest ranking woman in the LAPD.

  Gil Garcetti : Didn't she sign the affidavits?

  Marcia Clark : Sure, when Ito was assigned to the case, Peggy claimed she had no memory of any dealings with Fuhrman. Which seems hard to believe since we learned she reprimanded him for writing "KKK" on a Martin Luther King poster.

  Gil Garcetti : Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. So, which means that she can be called as a material witness, in which case Ito has to disqualify himself, which means we're looking at a mistrial! That's $6 million of taxpayers' money. One year of work. We're looking at a mistrial? Shit, the constituents will freak out! This screams gross incompetence.