Clip of Annie Wersching in Boston Legal. Ellen Tanner accuses her sister Annette Shaw of trying to put her stamp on Ellen’s children. Alan Shore tells Shaw and her lawyer Juliette Monroe that they’ve got no legal standing to challenge custody of Tanner’s daughters. Monroe replies that the Tanners are extremists and hazardous to society, representing a national security risk.
(In a conference room at Crane, Poole, and Schmidt Alan Shore, The Tanner family, Juliette Monroe and Annette Shaw sit around the conference table.)
Annette Shaw: I was raised the same way they were. Our parents told us the same stories. About there being no holocaust, the blacks mongrelizing the pure white race, the whole deal. But I was able to come out from under it.
Ellen Tanner: And now you’re trying to put your stamp on our children.
Alan Shore: Ms. Shaw, Ms. Monroe, regardless of my personal feelings about this case. I can assure you of one thing, you have no legal standing to challenge custody here. The court wouldn’t dare take children away from their parents because of said parent’s political beliefs.
Juliette Monroe: Mr. and Mrs. Tanner are extremists, and they are hazardous to their own children’s welfare as well as society. And we are prepared to prove that this custody battle is not only a matter of child welfare, but of national security.
(Denny Crane and Alan Shore sitting in one the offices eating.)
Alan Shore: She actually cited national security as grounds for taking children away from their parents.
Denny Crane: White supremacists are hate cells. Hate cells are a breeding ground for terror. It’s a fact.
Alan Shore: If seeing Shirley in pink ears weren’t incentive enough, I think I actually might have to fight this one on principle. Alan slurping from his drink. So basically, we’ve both got mothers trying to hang on to their daughters. Maybe we should critique each other’s closings.