Most people never get to see how brilliant they can be.

Of course that's your contention. You're a first-year grad student.

whereby a defendant can claim self-defense against an agent of the government...

I've been sitting here for ten minutes now lookin' over this rap sheet of yours.

In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran...

I've gone over it again and again and again in my head

Now, from the beginning...