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bironicOh, Alan. Such a gentleman. Tonight he represented his young, blonde former office assistant when she was arrested for federal income tax evasion, and admitted to Denny that he was nursing a small crush on her, with which he had no intention of following through. It was a respectable thing to say, considering his track record as a casual womanizer. He lost the case (!) but earned her a spectacularly light sentence. Later, in his office, she brought him a flower in gratitude, had a brief conversation with him, then walked behind his desk and leaned in.
"That's about as far as you should go," he told her.
She stayed put for a moment, then leaned the rest of the way in and kissed him. He kissed her back, gently, his eyes mostly open, with the look of someone who knows he shouldn't be doing what he's doing and that this will be his only taste of a physical relationship with the other person, and then just looked at her in his Alan Shore pragmatic way. They smiled at each other, and she walked (well, sashayed, with David E. Kelley signature slow-mo) out of the office.
It's so lovely to see the older man/younger woman thing handled like that, where there is admitted attraction but the elder person is responsible enough not to act on his feelings. This scene goes up there with Leon's murmured, "Mathilda, no," in (the uncut version of) "The Professional" when she tries to seduce him in that ridiculous pink dress.
Sigh.
"That's about as far as you should go," he told her.
She stayed put for a moment, then leaned the rest of the way in and kissed him. He kissed her back, gently, his eyes mostly open, with the look of someone who knows he shouldn't be doing what he's doing and that this will be his only taste of a physical relationship with the other person, and then just looked at her in his Alan Shore pragmatic way. They smiled at each other, and she walked (well, sashayed, with David E. Kelley signature slow-mo) out of the office.
It's so lovely to see the older man/younger woman thing handled like that, where there is admitted attraction but the elder person is responsible enough not to act on his feelings. This scene goes up there with Leon's murmured, "Mathilda, no," in (the uncut version of) "The Professional" when she tries to seduce him in that ridiculous pink dress.
Sigh.
