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thus, the osteoporotic stem of life.
    DEFENDANT: … the spine.
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Thus conducing …
    DEFENDANT: Yes …
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: … to peace. Christ's brilliance …”
    JUDGE: “Jesus” Christ?
    DEFENDANT: … I thought that we weren't going to put that in … ?
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: N O , we agreed.
    JUDGE:
“Jesus”
Christ… ?
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, yes. Yes. Your Honor? We have a petition …
    DEFENDANT: I thought you were going to take that out…
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: If Your Honor would consent, merely,
merely:
to release us, for—
{Checks his watch)
—the next half hour, we, Christian and Jew, have a method …
    JUDGE: “N O no no I will not let you go.” Who said that?
    Anybody
… ?
    PROSECUTOR: Pharaoh.
    BAILIFF: Your Honor …
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Your Honor:
    JUDGE: What… ?
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Christ's brilliance, Christ's brilliance, Your Honor, like that of Moses, like that of the Prophet…
    JUDGE: The Prophet.
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Mohammed.
    JUDGE: Mohammed. The Prophet of Islam.
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: That's right.
    JUDGE:
(NOW
STRIPPED DOWN TO HIS UNDERSHIRT) Whoa, whoa, whoa, then, let's be Very Careful what we say about them.
(Pause)
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Their Teachings …
    JUDGE: … hold on: Let's slow it
down:
the the the, the people we're
talking
about.
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Yes.
    JUDGE: With the “things” … around their head …
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Yes …
    JUDGE: Their “teachings” …
    PROSECUTOR: Ancient,
ancient
religion …
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Consist in a message of Peace.
(Pause)
    JUDGE: I don't think they can object to that, can they?
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Your Honor, no.
(Pause)
    JUDGE: Those, fine, fine people …
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Urn …
    JUDGE: Because I'd hate to tick them off.
    PROSECUTOR: I'm with you
there
, Your Honor.
    JUDGE: And I'm not just saying that because they have all the oil…
    PROSECUTOR: No.
    DEFENDANT: No.
    DEFENSEATTORNEY : No.
    PROSECUTOR: No indeed.
    JUDGE: Or, because they sometimes, uh, uh, uh, uh, they sometimes …
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: … Everybody needs to “blow off steam” …
    JUDGE: But because, uh, uh …
{Pause)
    PROSECUTOR: Because of their “contributions.”
    JUDGE: Boy you've got it there …
    DEFENDANT: That's for sure.
    BAILIFF: I love the integrity of their native textiles.
(Pause)
    (A murmur of general agreement))
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: And the teachings of these wonderful people …
    JUDGE: Uh huh …
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Consist, as I have said, in a message of Peace.
    JUDGE: You're goddamn right they do. But what does it mean, when little children have to go to sleep every night, in garments which are too tight, revealing the various curves of their body to anybody with the least little bit of curiosity?
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Your Honor …
    JUDGE: … would you address yourself to that?
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Your Honor, we can bring Peace to the Middle East.
(Pause)
    JUDGE: I S this a “test” ?
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: N O , Your Honor. It's true.
    JUDGE: H OW you gonna do it?
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: My client believes that the imbalance in their countries, as reflected in their leaders, can be rectified by a readjustment of…
    JUDGE: Y OU want to bring Peace to the Mddle East.
    DEFENDANT: Yes, Your Honor.
    JUDGE: Whoa. Whoa. That's a big one. And I would
hate
to be the guy who stood in your way. Those two, what, benighted Peoples, warring… the Curse of War brought upon them by … uh … How seldom is it given to us? To bind the wounds—not only of the widow, but the orphan, those little tykes …
(Weeps)
May I have a hanky?
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Your Honor.
    JUDGE: N O , no, okay! You wanna go lay your plan for Peace, at the feet of those warring powers—
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: N O , Your Honor, we want to manipulate their neck.
    JUDGE: Sounds good to
me.
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Your Honor, then yes, only, if you would release us …
    JUDGE: By Jove, I
will then.
    DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Bless you, Your …
    JUDGE: Watch
thisl (To
BAILIFF) Order a car. I want a