Sid fires Richard as his attorney and Karen helps clear his name. Abby decides to stay in Knots Landing and moves into a house on Seaview Circle.Sid fires Richard as his attorney and Karen helps clear his name. Abby decides to stay in Knots Landing and moves into a house on Seaview Circle.Sid fires Richard as his attorney and Karen helps clear his name. Abby decides to stay in Knots Landing and moves into a house on Seaview Circle.
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Sid Fairgate: So, what were you saying, Richard?
Richard Avery: I... I was just saying I wish Karen would let me handle this case. Look, I... I have an investigator on her.
Karen Fairgate: You don't need an investigator to dig up her dirt. She's been broadcasting it all over town. "I'm no good, all right, but that doesn't mean I can be raped."
Richard Avery: It's a neat gimmick, and it won't work.
Karen Fairgate: It's working already. She's a media hero. She gives a great interview, "I'm trash, but I wanna be trash." And everybody says "What an honest girl." And honest Sid Fairgate is going right down the drain!
[as Diana comes down the stairs:]
Karen Fairgate: Oh, Richard. Look... can't you get a criminal lawyer to work with you? Maybe... somebody in your firm?
Richard Avery: Well, I guess it's time to play my ace in the hole.
Karen Fairgate: What?
Richard Avery: I spoke to the prosecutor. He's willing to deal.
Karen Fairgate: To deal?
Richard Avery: Mm-hmm. We take a fall on harassment and simple assault, and he'll throw out assault with intent to rape. And he'll out contributing to delinquency.
Karen Fairgate: [annoyed tone] You want Sid to plea-bargain?
Richard Avery: It's done all the time.
Karen Fairgate: [to Sid] He wants you to plea-bargain.
Richard Avery: Karen! Karen! Look, law is not an exact science. It's a discipline of the possible. I mean,
[to Sid:]
Richard Avery: the DA doesn't wanna throw the book at you. But... you gotta give him something.
Karen Fairgate: I don't believe this!
Sid Fairgate: [tries to pacify] Karen...
Karen Fairgate: If you'd done your job to begin with!
Richard Avery: I did it.
Sid Fairgate: Now wait a minute... Wait just a second. Look... the fact is this. I gave that girl a lift for her own protection. Now she's trying to blackmail me. If we let her succeed in any way,
[shakes his head]
Sid Fairgate: she's gonna try this again on somebody else.
Richard Avery: Somebody else is not your problem.
[packs up to leave]
Richard Avery: Sleep on it. I'll talk to you in the morning.
Sid Fairgate: I don't have to sleep on it, Richard. I'm gonna fight *every* charge all the way.
Richard Avery: Okay. You wanna be Don Quixote, I guess I'll just have to be your Pancho Sanchez.
[heads for door]
Karen Fairgate: [to Sid, without conviction:] I'm sure Richard will handle it. It'll be okay.
[as Richard closes the door behind him:]
Karen Fairgate: Sancho Panza.
Diana Fairgate: [from the stairs] Why don't you do what Mr. Avery says, Daddy?
Sid Fairgate: I can't.
Diana Fairgate: *Why* can't you?
Sid Fairgate: You heard the reasons.
Diana Fairgate: I've also heard what that girl's been saying. I mean... it's all over town!
Sid Fairgate: That's just why we have to fight this, to prove that what she says is not true.
Diana Fairgate: But...
[gives up and turns back towards her room]
- ConnectionsReferenced in Knots Landing: Scapegoats (1981)
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