314.煙幕彈 (Smokescreen)

播出時間:3/1(三)23:10.2012(次日下午14:00重播)

頻道:GOOD TV (ch15)好消息電視台
感動指數★★★★★
情節指數★★★★★
思索指數★★★★★

角色:
Marcus Hamilton:馬可漢米爾頓
Vanessa:凡妮莎
Esther:艾瑟

大意:
一心一意追求名利與豐富物質生活的馬可漢米爾頓,返後擔任辛克萊家族的律師。馬可的父親曾是該家族司機,母親則為女傭。辛克萊家族經營香菸製造業,相當賞識馬可,也給付高薪,使他能購入大洋房,實現父母不曾擁有的富裕生活。見馬可如此沉迷物質享受,妻子凡妮莎憂心忡忡,夫婦感情出現裂痕。隨後馬可又發現母親因長期吸入辛克蒂家族的二手菸而感染肺癌。一波未平,一波又起,身處金錢與親情間,馬可該如何選擇?化身馬可家中酒保與女傭的安德烈與蒙妮卡,該如何幫助馬可明白錢非萬能,親情無價呢?


Written by: Christine Pettit & Rosanne Welch
Directed by: Victor Lobl
Produced by: Martha Williamson, Jon Andersen & R.J. Visciglia, Jr.

Guest Cast:
Marcus Hamilton Kadeem Hardison
Vanessa Hamilton Holly Robinson Peete
Esther Hamilton Ja'Net DuBois
J.D. Sinclair Tim Dekay

Tess represents a group of former employees in a class-action suit against family-owned Fairchild Tobacco. Her opposing counsel is Marc Hamilton, who has accepted this assignment to the dismay of his mother, Esther. When he was growing up, both she and his late father worked for Fairchild as a maid and a chauffeur. Young Marc vowed to one day sit in the back of a limousine rather than drive it. Now that he has arrived professionally, he is determined to live the luxurious life his parents couldn't afford. J. D. Sinclair, Fairchild's vice president and heir apparent, becomes impressed with Marc's legal prowess and doubles his hourly fee. He decides to buy the old Sinclair mansion. As they settle in, his wife, Vanessa delivers the news that she's pregnant. She is concerned by Marc's newfound materialism, especially his hiring of Andrew and Monica as a butler and maid. In court, Sinclair is taken aback when he recognizes Esther as his family's former maid. Tess, however, is delighted to meet her and finagles an invitation to Marc's lavish housewarming party. The attorney is chagrined when his mother helps play hostess at the affair. During the resulting discussion, Esther reveals she has lung cancer from exposure to second-hand smoke during her tenure at Fairchild. Marc is stunned by this turn of events and Vanessa's increasingly vocal opposition to their new lifestyle. He tries to resign as Fairchild's counsel but is persuaded to stay by a smooth-talking Sinclair, who later visits the Hamilton mansion and tacitly threatens Esther. Troubled, she returns home and retrieves a mysterious envelope. During a subsequent court session, Marc and J. D. are stunned when Tess calls Esther as a material witness. The judge grants Marc a recess, but he returns home to discover Vanessa has moved in with his mother. In court the next day, Esther reveals the contents of her envelope--letters proving Fairchild tried to bribe the government not to release its 1964 report linking cigarette smoking with cancer. The company also bribed Marc's father to be silent by buying the family a house. Unsure of what to do, Marc is given a revelation by Tess. She tells him to focus on the real prize, God's love, "the only thing worth winning." Upon return to the courtroom, he urges Esther to tell the truth, which prompts Sinclair to call for a settlement in the case.


 
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