mr litt how would you describe mikado's well-being when she came under your care well makato's physical needs were taken care of but there's more to a cat than its physical condition they're highly emotional creatures and were her emotional needs tended to calls for speculation he's not the cat whisperer he can't testify to mercado's thoughts which you should have objected to sorry sir very well mr lit without speaking for mikado would you describe for the court her emotional condition when makato first entered my home she was aloof and standoffish she's a cat sorry i'll wait my turn she was listless you know like i would take her out to see a bird or a dog then there'd just be nothing you know what i think i think that she was the victim of neglect due to the absence of a consistent father figure because he's traveling all the time i object to what do you let him talk about my cat that way you changed the rules to get miss zane i'm changing the rules i'm going to represent myself you're dismissed getting hot in here nesbit mr litt i'll ask you not to address the defendant directly i'm not the defendant this isn't a criminal trial well it should be where were we you were describing the deplorable condition in which you found mr nesbitt's got oh yeah [Music] jessica you have portrayed yourself as the kind-hearted savior of this feline soul is that correct yeah i believe i brought out the best in her so you have a way with your charges uh velvet gloves so to speak i guess you could say i'm built that way so you're a good parent uh a role model no one could say otherwise so if one of your charges were to say you were hostile cruel prone to kicking the proverbial dog would that be a lie my treatment of felines is what's of issue here i thought it was your parenting skills your ability to mold and shape gently but that's not what this jury knows all about your parenting skills which involve berating belittling screaming sadism objection you can object all you like but as i said this jury knows that that man is not what he portrays himself to be and what about you you think bolding and shaping is accomplished by abandoning your charges and sending the occasional memo while you're off mudding in the yangtze i'd like to call my next witness oh really what witness you didn't declare a witness he's a hostile witness and i'm afraid he's hostile to you i call harold gunderson to the stand holy we're in trouble we need a 10 minute recess mr gunderson you are currently an associate at bratton gould at what firm did you previously work i worked here and who was your supervisor that man louis lit really harold let the record show that mr gunderson indicated mr lit tell me about mr litt's guidance lewis believes in teaching by fear your honor i just like to state for the record that the witness is speaking into an imaginary microphone you're speaking to imaginary microphone that's what i mean you know what i find i'm done for seed would you characterize him as a a screamer a tyrant petty and vindictive all of the above he didn't try to gently sculpt your future like blown glass he called me an idiot an imbecile and an embarrassment to the legal profession that sounds harsh my therapist says that i have scars on my psyche hearsay i could call said therapist oh that'd be lovely except it still has nothing to do with the cat bear with me i'm getting there uh tell me about bruno he was louis's cat i was made to take care of him he didn't do it himself no do you like cats harold no i'm allergic i don't even know what to do with them but he left this cat his cat in your care what happened hey you know what this would be a good time to object can't lose it's a valid line of question what happened mr gunderson he died a day later and what did he say to you prior to that day he said he might as well have left his cat with michael vick mr gunderson your tenure at this law firm wasn't very successful was it i worked very hard is it true that you once failed to deliver a motion to the court because you thought they were closed due to inclement weather someone told me that it was a snow day did you ever give opposing council a copy of our trial strategy i thought it was part of disclosure did you leave a zero off the hopkins settlement nearly costing the client nine hundred thousand dollars no one was supposed to know about that because louis covered for you he berated me no he kept it private and he allowed you to go back and fix it did he not he did which allowed you to learn from your mistakes did it not i guess you testified that you now work at bratton gould is that correct yes and when they hired you they know you'd been trained by lewis lit it came up so they knew that you were nurtured by lewis they hired you and now are you happy yes so with lewis's nurturance your mistakes recovered you landed another job and you're happy isn't that correct but he was mean to me no this isn't about how he treated you harold this is about how he treated his cat it isn't the truth that he loved that cat and cared for him with all of his heart [Music] harold you're under oath no i'm not harold yes he loved bruno with all of his heart i have no further questions [Music] [Music] you