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Boston Legal第二季第五集里面，有一段我非常喜欢的台词。女律师Denise Bauer着手于一宗拖延了三年的案子——由于卡车的自燃引发了火灾，夺取了原告妻子的生命。卡车厂商同意赔偿，但无法在数额（$225,000）上达成一致。焦点在于原告的妻子罹患癌症，只能活大概六、七天了，而他们又试图证明原告的妻子是吸入过来浓烟而安静地去世的，没有任何痛苦。
被告方的律师整年面对的就是这类案件，因而也练就了一段惯用的精彩开场陈词，用以避免陪审团受原告的情感所影响。但通过录像，Denise Bauer制定了针对性的开场陈词，完全打乱了对方的计划。
对于原告妻子只剩余不到7天的生命，Denise Bauer诠释了人世间唯一剩余几天时光的珍贵，而丧失了这最后的时光所造成的巨大伤害（Well, you will hear from Jose Pitino, and what you will hear is that she had a day and another day coming after that and another one after that. She had, in fact, six or seven days to be at home with her family. She didn’t get those days. She never got that last opportunity to sit with her grandchildren. Jose was never able to hold his wife of 37 years in his arms. Hold her in his arms and, um… if any of you have spent the final days with a loved one dying of cancer or another disease, you know that those moments are the most precious. Jose and Elena Pitino had those days coming. They didn’t get them. ）。
另外，Denise Bauer特别注意去运用Shirley Schmidt提示给她的“感同身受”，将这一个灾难联系到每一个陪审员的身上（So you see, this is potentially your problem. How do you motivate a corporate conglomerate to fix a defect? You make it too expensive for them not to. At the conclusion of this trial, when it finally comes down to a dollar amount, I’ll be asking you to be legislators and come back with a number that says to the defendant and all car manufacturers, “Make your vehicles safe”. For your sake, for your daughters, for your grandsons. And I’ll ask you to be human beings, the conscience of a compassionate society, and return with a verdict that somehow reflects everything that was taken from Elena Pitino, her family and most of all… her high-school sweetheart.）。
最后，居然达成了$ 1.7 Million Dollars。
Denise Bauer在陪审团面前多次提到一个观念——为了让我们有安全的卡车，为了让厂商不敢不去大量投入成本去提高卡车的安全性，我们要让大厂商们懂得如果他们不这样做，就要付出巨大的代价（too expensive）！而在我们国内，大多数涉及人命案件的赔偿都并不高，甚至有同命不同价的问题（城乡差异）！而另一方面，很多生产事故、公共安全事故却越来越严重，关键就是“人命太便宜了”！
PS: 貌似Lori就是在这一集中那个性骚扰投诉后离开的，唉！

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