Louis points out to Joe all the wrong that he has done throughout his law career. He shows Joe that in his career he has helped those in the “wrong” as opposed to those who are in the “right.” The main case that Louis points out to him was the case where a soldier was discharged for being gay. Joe tells Louis: “It’s law not justice, it’s power, not the merits of its exercise, it’s not an expression of the ideal, it’s…” (242). Joe tries to say that the practice of law isn’t to bring about justice, but merely a way for powerful people to remain powerful and protected. This form of reasoning that Joe uses to describe law is very similar to Roy’s mindset. Roy made sure that Ethel Rosenberg was convicted even though there wasn’t enough evidence to prove that she was guilty. This shows a similarity between the seemingly different characters of Roy and Joe. However, Roy is on his deathbed, continually seeing the ghost of Ethel, a sign that his subconscious feels guilty for what he has done. In my opinion, I feel that Roy’s life is Joe’s future. Roy is dying: closeted, alone, unhappy, and hated for what he has done in his life. Meanwhile, Joe leaves Louis, someone who he claims to love and goes back to his wife. This shows that Joe is unhappy, alone because Harper leaves him, and denies his sexuality by leaving Louis based on Roy’s command. The mindset of Roy and Joe: “It’s law not justice,” in my opinion is very revealing of what this play is trying to say as a whole. It shows that society is in need of change. This play takes place during the AIDS crisis, a time where it was termed the disease of the “degenerate” and believed to affect the 4 H’s. AIDS had this large negative connotation, that it could only affect the lower class and not the upper class. The stigma that the upper class/important people get special treatment in the law and could not get AIDS gets challenged when Roy, an important lawyer gets diagnosed with the disease. The play shows that the disease can affect anyone in the population, a belief that was not widely accepted at the time of the crisis. The play challenges the “it’s law not justice” lens of view for society and shows that it is wrong.