Tom Stinson: He is about 40ish. He is arguing with his lawyer outside the courthouse, blaming him and saying that the lawyer advised him to go on the stand and tell the truth and everything would be fine - but they are not fine. Obviously this is a big case, since Tom says that he and his wife Melinda have been through the media and their names dragged through the mud. Tom is furious that he told the truth and may still go to jail. Tom also asks the lawyer how he can live with himself, since Tom basically bankrupted himself to pay the lawyer and yet things went badly. Later Tom and Melinda are outside the courhouse and the cops come to arrest him. Tom asks his wife to tell them that she knows he couldn’t have done this, but she questions him herself and believes that he’s guilty.Melinda: Tom’s wife. She is holding their infant son. The lawyer asks Melinda to go on the stand and back up Tom’s testimony but she refuses since she knows the prosecution is right. Later on Melinda is outside the courthouse holding the baby and the cops approach her. She knows that she has to give the baby up and is heartbroken, but instead of handing him to the male officer she hands him to the lady officer. She tells the lady officer how to get the baby to sleep (read the newspaper) and asks her to take care of him since she no longer can. The lady officer promises to take care of him. Greg and Beth O’Brien (young couple in their 20’s) - An adoption agent tells them that they must give up their foster daughter, Emily, since the court has ruled she must go back to her birth parents. Beth is horrified that she must give “her daughter” back to those people, and Greg is angry since they were told that they could adopt the little girl. The agent tells them that there’s nothing they can do. Stevie (15 year old boy) - Stevie is in his high school talking with his teacher, who is concerned about him. Stevie tells the teacher that he is fine, but his mother isn’t. The teacher asks if its since his father left, but Stevie says that she wasn’t fine before when he was home and the parents were fighting. Teacher tells him that if he needs anything just to ask. Gloria (80 year-old grandmother) - She is in a meeting regarding her granddaughter Julie. The principal is concerned that Julie has missed so much school but Gloria defensively tells the principal that Julie still gets good grades and that she takes good care of her family. Gloria leaves. Later there is another meeting with Julie in attendance. The principal is very concerned that Gloria had Julie’s mother, Maria, arrested. Gloria defends herself, saying that if she didn’t have Maria arrested she would have killed herself by taking drugs. Gloria also reminds the principal that she stepped in to take care of her granddaughter, more than anyone else including the principal did, and yet they call what she did “neglect”. The Principal tells Gloria that he/she has to call Children’s Services, and Gloria tells him/her that they may as well arrest her if she cannot take care of her family. Ginger ( 20ish cocktail waitress) - She approaches a man (his name is “Ben” in the sides) and starts talking to him. He is looking sadly at a picture but when asked he says its not his wife, and he’s not heartbroken but “soul-broken” - the platonic form of heart-broken (can I take bets that this is Cooper?). The exchange is quite funny, and Ginger asks him to dance. Ben tells her that he’s not into call -girls and Ginger is horrified. Later, Ginger leaves the bar to find Ben waiting for her, and she tells him that she was fired. Ben offers to buy her a drink, and Ginger tells him that she’s not a friend type, since she only spoke to him because her manager made her because he seems so lonely. Nurse: Tells a doctor that a patient was released, and the doctor does not seem happy. She pages a Dr. Wade. Delivery Guy - brings a box to a woman’s house only to be informed that the box is not for her but for her ex-husband. As the wife rants, comically, about her divorce the poor delivery guy says he really wants to leave (this also seems funny).