Saul first tries to get the tribunal to throw out the case because his client is not the real Breen, but a grub host body with the memories of Dr. Breen uploaded into it. But his motion is denied.
(Starts waving his hands around)
"Ladies and Gentlemen and non binnary citizens. What were you doing when the Combine invaded and Earth surrendered? I remember what I was doing.
Like many of you I was asleep because it took less than 7 Hours for the Combine Universal Union to annihilate all of the military forces on our planet.
Every night I sleep longer than that and have binged TV shows for longer.
Now the prosecution will throw around words to describe my client Wallace Breen as a traitor, murderer, and war criminal. But he is none of those things.
He is a scholar and scientist, a good man who saw two outcomes: extinction of the human race or an opportunity to survive and was put into the position to make the correct decision.
The prosecution would like us to believe that he was a dictator wielding an iron fist, sending the Overwatch to round up our families to turn into stalkers.
(Pounds fist)
But in truth he was appointed as a low level bureaucrat in the grand scheme of the multiverse and had no real say."