Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 54 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Call Me Mr. Feet
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.24.2013
But this Damian Boyle, watching him in the courtroom, is another level entirely: He pulls out all the tricks Will Gardner's famous for -- that scornful laugh, the dismissive bear-baiting, the one-liners and zingers just south of the belt -- and he does them without fear of consequence. He's weaponized, cocky; he lives in the place Will fears most. All that time, with the disbarment and the corruption and the old sins coming home to roost, he was afraid of looking like a Bad Guy. But Damian Boyle is on fire with being a Bad Guy, and the flames don't hurt him. You're only as dirty as your inner voice says you are.
And then too, Damian Boyle is a man without a home, and Will is a man whose home seems alien and horrible lately, the hearth's gone cold. She took it with her. So if he can bring Damian in, and warm him up, they'll both be safe. For at least a little while.
It's perfect: When we join Will in the courtroom, the AUSA in opposition is requesting Damian be barred from representing members of the Gerraghty crime family, because he himself is a member. Damian's rebuttal is that first, this is profiling based on the fact that he's also Irish, but mostly that the AUSA making the accusation has butt-hurt feelings based on Damian's three previous victories against him personally.
"Your Honor, I am a simple small-town lawyer who's come to the big city to defend an honest businessman, and I've beaten the AUSA three times, in three previous court hearings, and that's why he wants to bar me from representing an innocent man, but -- correct me if I'm wrong -- this is America, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let this man tread on my rights, your rights, or anyone's rights."
The balls-out nature of his utter bullshit appeals not only to Will, but even to the Judge, who thinks he's a hilarious cartoon of an Irish con-man. The AUSA threatens to produce Federal wiretaps of him in conversation with the syndicate, and then Damian cracks up -- just authentically enough that Will is dazzled -- because the taps themselves are sealed because of some RICO deal. The Judge tosses them all out, and Boyle fairly kicks his heels: "What have I done to this man, really, except beat him fair and square?"
And well. If the "simple small-town lawyer" bit didn't do it...
SHAHEED
Alicia: "Because it's racial profiling! You have him as a dark-skinned man, visiting Milwaukee..."
FBI: "No, as a man advocating jihad."
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