The Chicken and the Leg

Episode aired Oct 9, 2007
TV-14
44m

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7.7/10

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Comedy Crime Drama

Carl and Denny bet on the outcome of their cockfighting case, a teenager who is HIV positive sues her school for only teaching abstinence, and Jerry begins to have romantic feelings for his ... Read allCarl and Denny bet on the outcome of their cockfighting case, a teenager who is HIV positive sues her school for only teaching abstinence, and Jerry begins to have romantic feelings for his new colleague.Carl and Denny bet on the outcome of their cockfighting case, a teenager who is HIV positive sues her school for only teaching abstinence, and Jerry begins to have romantic feelings for his new colleague.

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9liambretag

A terrific closing

I love the speech Spader delivers at the closing of this episode, in defence of the condom and attacking abstinence only programs.

Alan Shore is at his best in a lot of ways when he's fighting for the disenfranchised, for the weak against the powerful. He is a complicated and compex character who is capable - as he ably demonstrates at various times across the show's run and during the Practice - of darkness in pursuit of doing the right thing. He is ethically ambiguous, but ever now and then he is provided an opportunity to wax eloquent about a truly vital cause.

He nails this speech, as he does so many others.

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In his closing argument regarding sexual intercourse, Alan Shore quotes Cole Porter's song "Let's Do It": "...birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it".

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Alan Shore: Abby Holt has HIV, which in all likelihood will develop into AIDS. We've sort of forgotten about AIDS in this country. Treatments have improved dramatically. Drugs are keeping people alive for many years after they become infected. But the Grim Butcher's bill for this pandemic still keeps growing and growing. 65 million people worldwide have become infected. One time unprotected sex can kill you. A condom can save you. It is inconceivable, that every child in the world isn't taught that. We should be in criminal court this very moment, trying this obscenely duplicitous school for conspiracy to commit murder. But frankly, I have no stomach for that. I think of the horror that has been inflicted on this fifteen year old girl, and I'm just so profoundly sad. I can point out the evils of this corrupt system. I can tell you have effective condoms are, the lives they save and on and on and on and... but words seem to be these hollow, useless things rattling around in this courtroom. Because ultimately the lies this school told Abby Holt may... will probably kill her. They have certainly altered her life forever. And in the face of that, all I can think of is... why?