American Crime Story (TV Series)

The Dream Team (2016)

Chris Conner: Jeffrey Toobin

Quotes 

• [Journalist Jeffrey Toobin meets with Robert Shapiro] 

  Jeffrey Toobin : Thanks for taking the time to see me.

  Robert Shapiro : Now, you're "New York" magazine or "New Yorker"?

  Jeffrey Toobin : "New Yorker."

  Robert Shapiro : "New Yorker."

  Jeffrey Toobin : Yeah. Alan Dershowitz told me to look you up.

  Robert Shapiro : Ah.

  Jeffrey Toobin : I'm doing a piece on cash-for-trash stories, witnesses selling their testimony. The O.J. Simpson trial seemed like a perfect...

  Robert Shapiro : No, no, it's inconsequential. It's window dressing. It's not the best use of your time.

  Jeffrey Toobin : It's the story I'm out here to cover.

  Robert Shapiro : I know it is, but wouldn't you rather ask me why a man like me would take a case like this? You might be surprised.

  Jeffrey Toobin : I might be surprised if I'm surprised. OK, tell me.

  Robert Shapiro : [conspiratorially]  Because of its far-reaching complications. I've never seen anything like it. And I couldn't stand by and let it happen.

  [holds open the door to his office] 

  Robert Shapiro : Please.

  [they enter] 

  Jeffrey Toobin : Let what happen, exactly?

  Robert Shapiro : The systematic railroading of O.J. Simpson by a racist LAPD because he is a black man.

  Jeffrey Toobin : Wait, what?

  Robert Shapiro : The LAPD history is a shameful history. And everybody knows it; it's no secret. And this cop, Mark Fuhrman, who discovered everything; he's an admitted racist. Any evidence he touches is questionable.

  Jeffrey Toobin : So I want to be clear. You're saying this policeman set up O.J. Simpson.

  Robert Shapiro : Maybe. Maybe Mark Fuhrman. Maybe others, in a conspiracy.

  Jeffrey Toobin : Wait. OK, wait. So all the blood evidence... somehow these cops, a cabal of racist police officers, planted it? From the murder scene to the Bronco to Rockingham?

  Robert Shapiro : Who else could have? Take a step back. I mean, doesn't it seem odd that this glove just happened to be at Rockingham at the same time Detective Fuhrman just happened to find it?

  Jeffrey Toobin : It isn't odd if Simpson dropped it after he climbed the wall to avoid being seen by the limo driver.

  Jeffrey Toobin : Jeff, you look like a smart kid; don't rush to judgment. We will show that it is impossible for a black man to get a fair shake with the LAPD. We will prove this.

  Jeffrey Toobin : So you're gonna say this case is all about race?

  Robert Shapiro : Yes, because it is. I'm just simply shedding a light on it.