Perry Mason
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Is real justice possible, or is it just an illusion?
Its the question Perry Mason poses to the jury in his closing statement this week.
And its the question the show has been asking us all season.
We all know these systems tilt the scales of justice to favor the rich and powerful.
And now its time to end the case in the finale.
Fuck, Della finally says with a crack in her voice.
She knows Camilla cant be played with.
Meet the new boss, the same as (but smarter than) the old boss.
So she tells Perry and Paul that old Hams been blackmailed, and they figure out the rest.
But I have reconsidered.
The trial will continue with the gun admitted into evidence, no mention of how it was obtained.
Phipps isnt having that, so he breaks down quickly in front of our crew.
Perry asks Phipps where his loyalty to Camilla has gotten him.
Time to switch sides and work with this ragtag team of defense lawyers and gumshoes.
Guests in our country, he calls them, too lazy to bootstrap their way to the top.
Despite the oath to be impartial, every jury member has inevitably come into the trial with predetermined views.
Thats not an indictment, just a fact.
Is real justice possible, or is it an illusion?
All Mason asks is that the jury bears thatin mind when reaching a decision.
Okay, now its out to the court of the city for therealfinal showdown.
Its the last one of those hell take.
So Mason & Co. bring the new deal to the Gallardo family.
Burger has agreed to drop the charges for one brother.
The one who pulled the trigger, presumably, would plead guilty with a 30-year sentence.
Ooof, that last part hurts bad.
Still, Rafas willing to take the fall for him to secure his young familys future together.
Does he wish things had been different for him?
More food to eat, a real home.
But none of those things can compare to the feeling one gets from the love and loyalty of family.
But the real scales of justice, if they exist, have yet to be balanced.
The true murderer, buffered by wealth and influence, continues unabated.
Are you upset about losing?
a reporter asks Mason.
And the star of the trial she was.
Straightaway, the press is asking our girl stupid questions about her love life.
Not ideal but pretty damn sweet, considering the times.
As for Paul Drake, he will be just fine with some new employment while Perrys locked up.
Did Mason mean what he said in court about justice being an illusion?
Look what we had to do.
Does any of it add up to real justice?
Its not justice thats the illusion.
To quote Hasan-i Sabbah, the Old Man of the Mountain, Nothing is true all is permitted.
The system is the great obfuscator, but its obfuscations are what we make of them.
So what do we do with that?
We fight, Mason says.
In the meantime, Perry Masons got a date with the slammer.
I have a gun, Phipps says when the gang shows up at his place.
So do I, right here, says Mason, pulling his pistol from his jacket pocket.
Funny how often American West frontier justice still runs the show around here.
(She did that recently inBabylonas the new wife of Brad Pitts Jack Conrad.)
Theres something about the way she conveys interiority.
It bleeds through every frame with a command I cant quite ascribe to any other actor.
They ripple and ripple until it catches up with you, and youre drowning.
More money, more problems, more collateral damage.
Of course, not everyone was served the measure of justice they should have had in this conclusion.
Something tells me Lydells on the fast track to an on-the-lam retirement.
