Class Action Page #19

Miss Ward!

- Your Honor...

- No further questions.

I'd like that last remark

struck from the record.

Strike the last answer.

- Miss Ward, I don't want to warn you again.

- Beautiful.

You may step down, Doctor.

Not good with numbers any more.

That's not a crime, is it?

I still remember the most important things.

Next witness, Mr Ward.

Your Honor, plaintiff calls Michael Grazier.

What?

Objection! This is unsupportable!

Your Honor,

I need him on the witness stand.

- It's outrageous!

- Hold on.

I want you all in my chambers now.

Recess.

I don't care.

I need him on the stand.

Come on, Jed. You listen to me!

Go and turn some other courtroom

into a circus with your half-ass stunts.

Come on, Fred.

If it's a stunt, if I'm ajoke, let me prove it.

The jury came out

on that one a long time ago.

- Wait a minute...

- Hold it!

Just sit down. Look, people.

Listening to you spit on each other

is entertaining as hell.

But I gotta move this thing along.

- Jed, what the hell are you doing?

- I have to have him on the stand.

It's critical to show Argo's state of mind

when they built that car.

- He can't do this without prior notice.

- He can. It's within your discretion, Judge.

He's trying to save face in front of his

clients, so they think he has something.

There's no offer of proof here.

You're asking for a leap of faith here, Jed.

Can you give me one reason why I should?

The worst thing that can happen

is that I am wrong.

If I am, you're gonna make it

very ugly for me.

I would think the thought of that

would be irresistible to you.

Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth

and nothing but the truth so help you God?

- I do.

- Be seated and state your name.

Michael McKinley Grazier.

Mr Grazier, I understand you are

in charge of legal affairs for Argo

in the firm of Quinn Califan and Lunt.

I'm the chief legal liaison

between Argo and my firm.

If somebody asks for a safety report on Argo,

someone like me, for instance,

you would get it and you would turn

it over to them. Right?

Right.

All of them. Every single one.

Mr Ward, you have all

the safety research in existence.

You mean there might be a report

that is no longer in existence?

There might be eight-legged mice on Venus.

That's another question I can't answer.

Very easy for you to make jokes.

You have both your arms and legs.

- Objection! Argumentative.

- Sustained.

Opposing counsel's not suggested anything

thatjustifies keeping Mr Grazier on the stand.

- Isn't it time to move on?

- I'm leaning in that direction.

Please get to the point.

Mr Grazier, do you know of

the existence, now or in the past,

of a report calling into question

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