Plain Truth (2004 TV Movie)

Jonathan LaPaglia: Cooper

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• Cooper : How are you?

  Ellie Harrison : Good, thanks. How are you?

  Cooper : Good. Yeah, really good. Uh, is everything okay?

  Ellie Harrison : Uh, yeah, everything's fine.

  Cooper : Well, it's just that we haven't spoken in quite a while. I was thinking maybe you still hadn't gotten over me.

  Ellie Harrison : Oh, no, no, Coop, I got over you right about the time you got married. That was a joke, Coop.

• Ellie Harrison : Listen, Cooper, I'm worried about this girl. She... she denies that she even had the baby.

  Cooper : Well, that's not that abnormal.

  Ellie Harrison : And she claims to see ghosts.

  Cooper : What are we talking here, Casper? It was a joke, Ellie.

  Ellie Harrison : It's her dead sister, and she talks to her out loud.

  Cooper : I'll see you Monday.

• Cooper : You have another option?

  Ellie Harrison : Yeah, say that Katie did do it. Say that she was dissociative at the time, and she didn't realize what she was doing.

  Cooper : No, it's still a form of insanity.

  Ellie Harrison : Yeah, but I don't have a choice. It's hard to base a case on the testimony of one expert witness, and I think that I can make this insanity defense work.

  Cooper : Okay. So why is it bothering you so much?

  Ellie Harrison : What do you mean?

  Cooper : Come on, Ellie. Pleading insanity still means she did it, regardless of the state she was in at the time, and deep down... you believe she's innocent.

  Ellie Harrison : Am I that easy to read?

  Cooper : Only to me.

• Cooper : She's lying. She knows when the baby was conceived. That little date-rape story isn't it.

  Ellie Harrison : It's a Thanksgiving party. If this frat boy did what she says, then she would have gotten pregnant in November, had the baby in June, because it was two months early. She got pregnant in August. Why does this girl keep lying to me?

  Cooper : She knows you're unhappy with her. She's telling you what you want to hear.

  Ellie Harrison : What *I* want to hear?

  Cooper : Yeah, she wants your approval. She looks up to you.

  [she sighs] 

  Cooper : She's lucky to have you.

• Ellie Harrison : You're not gonna believe this, but I am staying at an Amish farm.

  Cooper : Is this some kind of religious transformation?

  Ellie Harrison : [amused laugh]  No, it's... no, my... my client is Amish, and she's been charged with murdering her newborn, and I have been appointed her guardian. I admit I'm out of my league here on this one, Cooper, which is... which is why I'm calling you. I-I need your help. I need you to evaluate her.

  Cooper : Well, why me? I'm just a regular shrink. I'm not a forensic psychiatrist.

  Ellie Harrison : Because this exam needs to be done on the QT, and I know this may sound unusual considering our past, but... I trust you.

• Ellie Harrison : I'm in over my head here, Cooper.

  Cooper : So, you can handle CEOs, but not an 18-year-old Amish girl?

  Ellie Harrison : I yelled at her today. I've never yelled at a client.

  Cooper : Well, it's becoming personal. What's wrong with that?

  Ellie Harrison : Everything. I'm not gonna be able to do my job.

  Cooper : Ellie, do you think I don't get involved with my patients on some level?

  Ellie Harrison : That's different.

  Cooper : No, it's not. It's human.

• Katie Fitch : What is this?

  Ellie Harrison : Oh, that's sculpture. Hey, I, uh... I left the TV on for you if you wanna watch it.

  Katie Fitch : You turned it on so I couldn't hear the two of you talk.

  Cooper : Smart girl.

  Ellie Harrison : Exactly, which is one reason why the insanity defense isn't gonna work.

  Cooper : Well, you always liked a challenge.