he's got a big case he's making  he's arguing he's making an argument

i think my father would have enjoyed  seeing me graduate from law school

i think he would have liked that an awful lot

i ever tell you i wrote a paper about your father  in college yeah one of the best trial lawyers ever  

yes he was and if i were dawson and downing  i had a choice between you and your father to  

represent me in this case i'd choose you  any day of the week and twice on sunday  

you should have seen yourself  thunder away kendrick

did you put jessup on the stand  

nope you think my father would have that's  the evidence we got not in a million years  

but here's the thing and there's  really no way getting around this  

neither lionel caffeine or sam weinberg our  lead counselor for the defense in the matter  

of u.s versus dawson endowment so there's  really only one question what would you do

john johann go get the car joanne  please get in the car look joanne  

go in joe i apologize i was angry i'm sorry about  what i said i'm gonna put jessup on the stand

all right what do you suggest we do i say we hit  jess up with the phony transfer order that's a  

transfer order without a witness we have a witness  a dead witness and in the hands of lester attorney  

that'd be a problem oh look at this last night  he's swimming in jack daniels and now he can  

lead to all buildings in a single bound i'm  getting my second wing sit down both you good  

jesus told kendrick to order the code red kendrick  did and our clients followed the order the  

cover-up isn't our case to win jessup needs to  tell the court members that he ordered the code  

red and now you think you can get him to just say  it i think he wants to say it i think he's pissed  

off that he's got to hide from us i think he wants  to say that he made a command decision and that's  

the end of it he eats breakfast 300 yards away  from 4 000 cubans that are trained to kill him  

and no one's gonna tell him how to run his  unit least of all the harvard mouth and his  

[ __ ] white uniform i need to shake him put  him on the defensive and lead him right where  

he's dying to go that's it that's the plan that's  the plan how are you gonna do it i have no idea i  

need my bat your what i need my bad i think better  with my bat where's my back i put it in the closet  

you put in the closet i was tripping on  it don't ever put that bad in the closet

stay here i'm going to the office for a while

he does think better with that bad

hello sam i need you to do something for me

what's going on gotta go out to andrews

where's sam he's on his way  did he get the guys yeah  

listen uh can i talk to you for a second yeah sure

how you feeling well i think jessup's  gonna have his hands full today

listen danny

when you're out there today if you  feel like it's not gonna happen  

you feel like he's not gonna say it  don't go for it you could get in trouble  

i'm special counsel for internal affairs and i'm  telling you you could get in a lot of trouble  

my lieutenant commander galloway you're not  suggesting that i back off a material witness

if you think you can't get him yeah

all rise

where's sam he's on his way

call your first witness where is he he'll be  here don't worry lieutenant call your witness

defense calls colonel nathan jessup

colonel jessup would you raise  your right hand please sir  

do you solemnly swear that the testimony you will  give in this general court martial will be the  

truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth  so help you god yes i do you have a seat please  

sir would you state your name rank and current  billet for the record please sir colonel nathan  

r jessop commanding officer marine ground forces  guantanamo bay cuba thank you sir he's not here

colonel when you learned of santiago's letter  to the nis you had a meeting with your two  

senior officers is that right yes the platoon  commander lieutenant jonathan kendrick and the  

executive officer lieutenant colonel matthew  markinson yes and at present colonel markinson  

is dead is that right objection i'd like to  know just what the defense counsel is implying