Bending the Rules Page #2

Synopsis: A district attorney is determined to take down a corrupt New Orleans cop.
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Artie Mandelberg
Production: Independent Pictures
 
IMDB:
5.1
PG-13
Year:
2012
83 min
Website
71 Views


We want to go home."

- They've only been out a couple of hours.

- Mr. Gold, sit.

The jury is deadlocked.

I declare a mistrial.

Would you like to set the matter

for retrial?

Yes. Absolutely, yes.

Blades? I don't care what the jury did.

You're on leave until you deal

with Internal Affairs. Do you hear me?

Until I say so, you are not police.

Trust me, LT, when I'm through with IA,

they're gonna rush out...

...and get my name tattooed

across their butt cheeks.

- Give me five.

- Nice going.

- Hey, way to go.

- Good job.

- Congrats.

- Where's Gil Ott?

Was in Interview 4,

but Schaefer needed the room...

...so he took him over to the jail.

Want me to go get him?

No, I'll go.

Dinner to celebrate? I'm buying.

You're buying? Or is Gil buying?

Technically, yeah, Gil's buying.

He was carrying the paper the cash

when I popped him.

Then some ape in a wool ski mask

came at me with a piece.

- He wanted this.

- Gil's delivering newspapers now?

There's numbers and letters

circled all over it.

Can you get Forensics to look at it?

It's some kind of code.

I tried to decipher it

but Gold's closing was distracting.

Sure. Yeah, I'll check it out.

I'll go sit on Gil.

Blades strikes me

as a pretty unimpressive bad guy.

He's dirty.

So he skimmed a few bucks.

He got drunk and over did it in a bar.

Yes, exactly. We used to call that felony

larceny and assault with a deadly weapon.

I understand Internal Affairs

is going to water board him next week.

Trust cops to deal with cops?

- Just give it some thought.

- We're retrying it.

Wouldn't it be nice

if life was all blacks and whites?

Turns out, it's mostly grays.

- Is that supposed to mean something?

- I'm just trying to get you to see the forest.

Okay, I'm drowning in metaphors here.

Am I supposed to see the forest

or mostly grays?

Look, everything I know

comes from you.

A much younger and stupider me.

- Are you happy doing this?

- I'm extremely happy.

Good. Grant Stone's gonna get

the interim appointment as the DA.

You're kidding? Grant Stone?

- You're a great trial lawyer.

- I'm the senior deputy.

And everyone in the office thinks

you're an a**hole. So do the judges.

Most of the defense bar.

I should start caring about

defense lawyers?

Everybody in the system

gets chewed up, Theo.

Including the poor bastards

we send to prison.

Grant Stone cares about the bad guys.

That makes him more qualified than me--

Theo. Take some time off.

Go home. Look in the mirror.

I need Gil Ott for an interview.

- Not here.

- Where is he?

Check again. Detective Schaefer

brought him earlier.

- Come see for yourself.

- I had a hold on the guy.

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