Shadowing Practice: Suits Harvey and Mike best scenes - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Who did this to you?
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I'm fine.
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You're not.
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And after I'm done kicking his ass, the guy who did it isn't gonna be either.
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Maybe it's time I started trusting somebody else.
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I can't leave Harvey.
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Screw Harvey.
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I mean, what's he done for me?
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He goes, I go.
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More than you know.
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Come on, I don't want to.
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Come on, I love you Harvey.
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I'd explain it to you, but then I'd have to care about you.
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It sounds like you actually care about me.
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You care about me.
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I saw you smile.
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You have to trust me.
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I trust you.
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It's me what I want.
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Well, he's not getting you.
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Yes.
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No, he is.
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I don't care what happens in that room.
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I'm not giving you up.
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Don't be a fool.
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Don't be an asshole.
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Listen to me.
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Sometimes you can.
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Bad things happen.
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You're gonna face the fact that life is gonna be this case, or this case, or this case.
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Jessica lost!
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You lost!
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I didn't think you would ever betray me.
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I'm sorry.
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You gave me your word.
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I'll make it right.
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You can't make it right!
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You used to trust me, and you need to trust me right now.
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Yeah!
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Thank you.
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Let me get this straight, you work for him.
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Work.
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The time of the conflict, I was his client.
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Now you're his client.
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No, I was his client.
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Okay.
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I risked everything for you.
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Then I did it again. And again.
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What do you mean?
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Mike.
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I'm sorry.
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Brilliant.
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Okay, just give it a minute.
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Hey, I got it.
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I have a friend of justice. Since when?
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Okay, I don't, but I thought it sounded cool.
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I always hated the word orphan.
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Never felt like one.
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You're I.
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Until now, get out.
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Harvey, I am sorry, alright, but I need you to listen to me now!
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Listen to you?
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I'm giving you permission.
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I don't give a shit what you're giving me!
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You know when I would have listened to you? That night.
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Jessica threatened me.
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I don't care.
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People don't leave me.
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I just...
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Enough!
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Anyone comes at you with any threat at all, you come to me.
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If it comes to it, you point the finger at me.
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You got that?
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You come to me, you tell me, you tell me everything!
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That's what goddamn loyalty is!
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I guess it's on.
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I guess it is.
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We're done.
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You're right.
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Dish, man.
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Come on, you know you want it.
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There it is.
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It was my idea to give you the best office.
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That's not as nice as the one I had, but...
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It's my old office.
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You're shitting me.
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Because sometimes brothers fight.
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I'm going with Mike.
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I'm not giving him you.
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I was going in.
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We're in the middle of the game!
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It's impressive, but you're sitting at a computer.
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Playing hearts.
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Mike got fired.
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What?
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I'm sorry.
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If you want to beat me, you're gonna have to do it as something else.
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It's good to have you back where you go.
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Pardon?
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Mike, just...
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Thank you.
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So you offered her a job to get her to do what you wanted.
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That's something for something else.
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You bribed her.
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You bet your ass I did.
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But what you're too stupid to understand is I did it
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to save you get it through your goddamn head You're not
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like other lawyers you break attorney-client privilege nothing different happens with Liam
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They sure shit gonna look into you and you
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and I both know what they're gonna find what difference Does
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it make what they find there such thing is right and wrong and we're wrong?
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You know what?
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I have had it up to here with you blaming me for every hard choice
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that comes with this job Harvey shut up Did you ever hear of a hangout?
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Oh my god, wow!
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I just got an image of you as a dad.
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Like a little Harvey Specter, you know, all hair gelled and like, pinstripe osh-kosh-bagosh.
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Dad, don't play the odds, play the man, it's a win-win.
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You being like, go to your goddamn room.
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Hey!
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Harvey, come on, we gotta save Gabby.
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Gaberlini!
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Oh, oh, you got a sweet place, dude.
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Don't ever call me dude.
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Do you think that maybe I could take it off your hands, like when you're going out of town, like a house-sitting type situation?
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Remind me to have Donna get your spare key.
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You have the trades?
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Ta-da.
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Good.
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Hey, when can we, uh...
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What is she doing here?
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She's my new associate.
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So that's why you made the video?
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You seem upset that she led you to believe
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that she was trying to befriend you when it turned out she was gonna betray you.
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Louis, you got a problem with that?
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No, no problem.
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Not as long as your daddy's here.
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Do I have to have another talk with you?
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You got a talk with you?
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Yes, but I didn't feel the need to run to you to protect me.
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Second choice never does.
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I can't believe it's up to me to be the adult in the room.
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Recently, we've been victim to terrible allegations that we've been discriminating against women.
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We're in places like Marysville, places where women want more than just jobs.
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They want homes, families, and we support that.
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And if they want advancement, we support that too.
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Gotta give it to him.
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His food might suck, but he makes a mean bullshit pie.
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Okay, please don't put that image in my mind I'm eating, thank you.
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What do you got there?
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Obama bagel?
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Feces pancakes?
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You know what?
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I know what we're gonna do.
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I'm gonna get the can opener can opener.
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Are you serious right now?
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You're not messing with me?
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You're finally gonna tell me what you do with that can opener?
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Do I look serious?
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You look stoned.
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I am, but I never joke about the can opener.
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Come on.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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Okay, go.
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Go, go, go.
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Alright, get it.
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What we do is...
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The whole bag?
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How do you even do that, man?
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I got like crazy cottonmouths right now.
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Harvey Specter doesn't get cotton mouth.
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Cotton mouth?
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I guess Harvey Specter does get cotton mouth.
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I can't help it.
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These pretzels are...
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You're making me thirsty!
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Here, drink this, Ricky.
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You've got to be kidding me.
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You've got girlfriend troubles, don't you?
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Okay, I'm just asking for an assignment, that's all.
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Don't tell me.
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Quarterback asked her to the prom?
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Okay, first of all, I specifically haven't bothered you with any of this.
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Until now.
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I was just asking for an assignment.
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Captain Pinstripe's the one who brought up the girlfriend.
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And second of all, people actually had girlfriends after high school, which you wouldn't know because emotionally you never graduated.
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Well, I guess you're the expert, because the only thing you graduated from is high school.
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Why you gotta go there, man?
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It's a can opener.
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What?
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Paying for your sins of last night?
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Oh.
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I wish you hadn't said that.
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Why not?
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Because I spent the night with my grandmother.
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Is she hot?
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What is wrong with you?
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You start.
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I most certainly did not.
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How's that detonation coming?
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Long fuse.
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Is that your way of telling me that it's never going off?
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Well, if it doesn't, you could always have James Bond take care of it for you.
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That reminds me, how are things going with Pussy Galore?
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Um, I believe at this point she's still flying missions for Goldfinger.
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No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.
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Hardman.
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Oh, what I wouldn't give to pissing that bastard's office.
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Pretty quick off the tongue.
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I've done it before. To Lewis.
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No way.
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Way.
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Wait a minute.
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If you've done that before, why not do it again?
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Messages, color coded by urgency...
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Is Donna called back?
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She would be red, so...
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No. Then those would all be the same shade if I don't give a shit.
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Color again. So?
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How was it?
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How was what?
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Punching Tanner!
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It was awesome, wasn't it?
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Tell me it was awesome.
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What are you, in middle school?
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I'm in the middle of a trial.
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A mock trial?
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Mock trials are for children.
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The adults are doing an in-house trial run.
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Okay, mock trial, trial run, potato, potato, not potato.
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What do you need me to do?
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What's your point?
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What if you get schooled by a hot nurse?
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What are you, 12?
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What, you can talk about my grandmother, but I can't make a nurse joke?
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Yep.
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Actually, I was 12 when I had my first caregiver fantasy.
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Let me guess, Nurse Ratched.
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Say what you will, she got a kind of stocky hotness.
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Listen, our goal is to reach a fair agreement between a hospital and its nurses.
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There are no winners.
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Did you have a stroke?
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There's always a winner.
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Of course there's a winner.
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Just need to make sure you're ready to stick it to the nurses.
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Don't say it.
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Good lawyer, bad lawyer, baby.
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Worked like a charm.
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Come on, you know you want it.
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There it is.
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Told you.
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If someone doesn't like you, you use it against them.
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Or in this case, four of them.
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I didn't do this for Dominic.
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I did it to get rid of Stensland.
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Wow.
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Have you ever considered writing for Hallmark?
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Many times.
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Yeah.
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Congrats.
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OK.
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What did she say?
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She told me to fire you.
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That's not calming me down.
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Very smart.
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Thank you.
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I meant them, not you.
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What?
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I found it.
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That makes me even smarter.
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Don't be cocky.
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It's unbecoming. On you.
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I can pull it off.
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You better be nice to me because I know where she lives. Where? Who lives?
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My high school sweetheart.
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We connected on Facebook.
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Bullshit, you're not that sentimental.
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She was his first.
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Deposition tomorrow. Be ready.
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First?
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I had to sell it.
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My merger?
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Your panic attack.
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Your compassion.
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And I didn't have a panic attack.
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I had a legitimate reason for concern.
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Really?
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Why would she ask you to dinner just to fire you?
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I don't know.
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A little movie called Goodfellas.
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Do you see it?
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Joe Pesci thought he was getting made.
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He got dead.
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That's your idea of a legitimate reason?
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Karen!
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Where's the money, Karen?
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Go back to your cubicle.
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Hey, wait a minute. Do you...
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Do you think that I might get an office out of this dinner?
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A second ago, you thought you were gonna get whacked.
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Now you want an office?
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I'm adapting to changing circumstances.
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Huh.
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Well, maybe you won't be the worst lawyer in the history of everything.
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That's right.
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We're not in Kansas anymore.
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Let's move, Dorothy.
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You didn't tell me you were bringing me here.
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And that's a problem?
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How?
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I'm sort of.. banned from here.
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For smoking weed?
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Counting cards.
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I mean, I was smoking weed, but they banned me from counting cards.
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My brain just does it.
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I can't help that it keeps track.
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And that's your defense?
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It was three years ago I was broke.
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Which is it?
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Your brain just does it or you were broke?
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What are you, some kind of lawyer?
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Get inside.
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You're wearing a tux.
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I'm not gonna know who you are.
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She knows.
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She can't.
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She does.
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What's holding on my Swinton merger?
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Are you kidding me?
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We've been over this, okay?
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If she knew, you'd know.
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You know.
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I do know.
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The woman barely knows my name, and she just summoned me for dinner.
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What is so funny?
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Watson, Clyman, Gallo, Goldberg, and Spectre.
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Why are you naming...
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The last five senior partners?
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Every one of us was taken to dinner by Jessica as a first year, and now she's taking you, which means...
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This is a good thing.
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Exactly.
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Oh, God.
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What now?
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What do I wear?
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What do I say?
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What do I wear?
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We can discuss the prom at recess.
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It's expired.
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Which means it's a shakedown.
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We gotta quash that shit.
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I do, and I will.
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Whoa.
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Come on.
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The Spinners?
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Really?
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For your information, the Spinners were one of the defining pop bands of their time.
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Oh.
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Oh, wow.
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Sorry.
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Yeah, that's cool.
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Like, uh, like the Jonas Brothers or Hanson or NSYNC or Selena Gomez.
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Yeah.
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Come here, lippy.
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I want to show you something.
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Yeah?
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What?
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You got Bieber feed?
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He's all yours.
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What?
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Why the sudden change of mind?
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Does it matter?
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You're punishing him, aren't you?
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Yes.
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So you're saying working for me is punishment?
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As far as I'm concerned, this whole conversation is punishment.
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Oh, here we go.
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Duration?
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One case.
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Jurisdiction?
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Exclusive.
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What can I do to him?
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What do you want to do to him?
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RV.
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Things.
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That is not a legitimate answer.
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On to the boundaries of labor law?
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I prefer the Geneva Convention.
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Then we have a deal.
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RV.
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Rachel.
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You look nice.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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So do I.
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Now I see what you're always talking about.
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What was that supposed to mean?
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What do you think it means?
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It means you're a dick.
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Fair point.
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Just didn't know that she knew that.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Suits Harvey and Mike best scenes”. This video has 403 sentences and 2224 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:01. The speaker talks at a natural 159 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 102 of its 403 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| mock verb | /mɑk/ | To mimic, to simulate. |
| potato noun | /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ | The edible starchy tuber of the plant species Solanum tuberosum. |
| betray verb | /bɪˈtɹeɪ/ | To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly. |
| prom noun | /pɹɑm/ | A promenade concert. |
| merger noun | /ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/ | The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit. |
| grandmother noun | /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/ | A mother of someone's parent. |
| assignment noun | /əˈsaɪn.mənt/ | The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. |
| befriend verb | /bəˈfɹɛnd/ | To become a friend of (someone), to make friends with (someone). |
| caregiver noun | /ˈkɛɹɡɪvɚ/ | A carer; a person who looks after another person. |
| cottonmouth noun | An oral dryness often associated with certain medicines and recreational drugs. | |
| cubicle noun | /ˈkjuːbɪkəl/ | A small separate part or one of the compartments of a room, especially in a work environment. |
| detonation noun | /dɛtəˈneɪʃən/ | An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances. Specifically, combustion that spreads… |
| hangout noun | A place for hanging out; an informal meeting-place. | |
| hardman noun | A rugby player | |
| hotness noun | The condition of being hot, heat. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| bring up verb | To mention. | |
| call back verb | To request someone's return; to bring back or restore; to recall. | |
| get out verb | To leave or escape. | |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| go off verb | To explode. | |
| shut up | /ʃʌt ʌp/ | Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk)… |
| turn out verb | To end up; to result. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I mean, what's he done for me?
- You're not messing with me?
- You've got girlfriend troubles, don't you?
- That's your idea of a legitimate reason?
- You're punishing him, aren't you?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | we've been · haven't bothered · I've done |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | guy who did · one who brought · you, which means |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 115 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/, thirsty /ˈθɝs.ti/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: detonation /dɛtəˈneɪʃən/, shakedown /ˈʃeɪkdaʊn/, allegation /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, deposition /ˌdɛp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/, punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: detonation /dɛtəˈneɪʃən/, unbecoming /ˌʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋ/, allegation /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, discriminate /dɪˈskɹɪm.əˌneɪt/, deposition /ˌdɛp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like mock, potato, betray.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.