L.A. Law (TV Series)

Blood, Sweat and Fears (1990)

Jill Eikenberry: Ann Kelsey

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• Leland McKenzie : I want to thank you all for staying late.

  Michael Kuzak : So what's going on, Leland?

  Leland McKenzie : This. Effective as of this Friday. I am resigning as Senior Partner of this law firm.

  Douglas Brackman, Jr. : What?

  Ann Kelsey : Leland.

  Leland McKenzie : I'll stay on as of Counsel. But one of you will have to take over.

  Douglas Brackman, Jr. : Are you sick?

  Leland McKenzie : No, no. I'm not sick. My health has nothing to do with it.

  Ann Kelsey : Then what? What possible reason could you have for dropping this kind of bomb on us?

  Leland McKenzie : Because for some time now, I've hated to come into work, Ann. People keep threatening to quit. People tell me to go to hell. The place is splitting at the scenes and I can't be the one to hold it together very long.

  Arnie Becker : So what are we supposed to do?

  Leland McKenzie : You'll elect the new Senior Partner, that's what you'll do.

  Ann Kelsey : Who? Who here can do this job?

  Leland McKenzie : Anybody but me.

  Michael Kuzak : Well, you can't do this, Leland.

  Leland McKenzie : Oh, yes, I can. I'm old. I'm rich. I'm done.

  [Leland resign as Senior Partner and going for to nominate and electing the next Senior Partner for the upcoming Election Day. Leland heads and leave the Conference Room Meeting] 

• Ann Kelsey : Stuart, I didn't say you wouldn't make a good Senior Partner.

  Stuart Markowitz : No, you didn't say it. But you implied it, didn't you?

  Ann Kelsey : I simply ask why it is you want to run for it.

  Stuart Markowitz : Oh, which means, how could I possibly consider for a single second that I could actually run a law firm, right?

  Ann Kelsey : Oh, brother If that is what you infer from one simple little question, Stuart, I don't know what to say.

  Stuart Markowitz : Well, let's get down to it, Ann: are you going to vote for me?

  Ann Kelsey : Honey, of course I'm going to vote for you. You're my husband, how could I not support you in this?

  Stuart Markowitz : [laughing]  Ho, ho, ho. Oh, great, there it is. You are unbelievable. The absolute maestro with a back-handed compliment.

  Ann Kelsey : Oh, my God's sake.

  Stuart Markowitz : No, it's great, Ann. It's great. You'll vote for me out of spousal obligation, not because I'd be any good at the job.

  [Knocking on the door] 

  Stuart Markowitz : Not not because I'd be a good leader. Not because it would be good for the firm. No, But because it's a wife's duty to back her husband even though he may be tilting at windmills.

  [the nanny will take care of the baby Matthew] 

  Ann Kelsey : Stuart, what do you want for me? Do you want me to stand up and cheer, the firm is saved? Stuart Markowitz to the rescue? You have never been the head of a single department. You have never been the boss of anything. At least Douglas has been an administrator.

  Stuart Markowitz : That's all he is, Ann, is an administrator. He has no vision. He can't see beyond the paper clip inventory, and he has no business being vested with the direction of our lives.

  Ann Kelsey : Better him than Rosalind Shays.

  Stuart Markowitz : She can't win.

  Ann Kelsey : She can, Stuart, if you and Douglas split your vote! You can take just enough support away from each other to make that queen bitch the winner.

  Stuart Markowitz : Ann...

  Ann Kelsey : Stuart, I can live with Brackman. Not happily, but I can live. But if Rosalind Shays gets control of this firm...

  Stuart Markowitz : It's not going happen. You want to how this thing's going break down? Leland backs Douglas, Rosalind votes for herself, you and I vote for me. That leaves Becker and Kuzak as a swing votes.

  Ann Kelsey : You think they'll vote for you?

  Stuart Markowitz : Oh, yeah. Arnie was never happy about her joining the firm to begin with. And he's never taken Douglas seriously. I think I can nail him down. The trick is Kuzak. Go to figure out a way to bag Kuzak.

  [Ann is looking pretty weird] 

  Stuart Markowitz : What?