The Paper Chase - Season 1 Episode 20
The Tables Down at Ernie's

This episode further develops Kingsfields character and fleshes-out his past. It begins with the news that Ernies bar, a favorite campus hangout for generations, will be closed along with the other small businesses on the block. All the buildings will then be razed for parking for a new gym the college is building. Kingsfield has been retained by the school to represent the schools interest in the project. Meanwhile, Hart has taken on the cause to save Ernies (where he works) and he confronts Kingsfield in his office. After some difficulty finding a lawyer who will take the case, Hart appeals to Kingsfields nostalgic side by telling him he knows that he frequented that establishment back in his law school days in the 1930s because there is a table with his initials carved in it. This sparks some distant memory in Kingsfields mind and he pays a visit to Ernies. It so happens that the original Ernie, Sr. is there at the same time and they recognize each other and reminisce