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Shore and Brad represent a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her wealthy, elderly husband; Tara finds herself opposing an old flame when she defends a doctor accused of groping a mute cellist.

Crane, Shore, and Brad defend Kelly Nolan, who is accused of killing her rich husband; Denise insists on handling her own divorce; Catherine worries that Bernard Ferrion will kill again; Tara assists Malcolm in representing a singer.

When Tara dumps Shore, Crane decides to take him fishing as a distraction; Sara and Garrett blackmail opposing counsel in a senior associate's divorce case; Catherine confesses that she killed her friend Bernard Ferrion, so he wouldn't kill again.

A constituent sues his congressman for not honoring a campaign pledge to fight for gun control; Shore defends Catherine in her trial for killing Bernard Ferrion; Sara is blackmailed by a minister who wants her underwear.

Denise represents a man whose terminally ill wife was killed in a fire; Lori Colson sues Crane for sexual harassment; Catherine gets fired; Garrett gets caught having sex with a paralegal for opposing counsel. Guest Stars: Betty White, Ryan Michelle Bathe

The firm represents two feuding sets of parents, both of whom want to stop a school Halloween pageant; Shore takes on the case of a woman suing the government because her brother was killed in Iraq, doing a job he wasn't trained for.

The firm represents a man whose wife wants to end their marriage because he cheated on her...with a cow; Crane is ordered to defend a man accused of raping and killing a 13-year-old girl; Shore takes the case of a TV producer accused of firing a clown. Guest Star: Ryan Michelle Bathe

Schmidt defends a teen accused of running over an elderly man; Denise represents a plastic surgeon accused of injecting his own fat into patients; Shore experiences dangerous 'night terrors.'

Denise and Brad impersonate FBI officers to try to find a kidnapped 4-year-old boy; Crane shoots a homeless man with a paint gun, and Shore agrees to represent the man in a suit against Crane.

Brad goes to trial on charges of assaulting and falsely imprisoning a priest, but argues that he was forced to take drastic measures in order to force the priest to reveal information about a kidnapped child; Shore helps Melissa deal with her debt.

Crane falls for a woman he meets at a charity dinner; Denise begins dating a client who's dying of cancer; Shore tries to help a lawyer up for partnership at the firm.

Shore defends a former lawyer from the firm, who held a knife to Schmidt's throat when he didn't make partner; Denise continues her romance with a man dying of cancer; the prospect of Crane marrying for the sixth time worries his partners.

Shore and Denise represent a girl whose father killed her mother after learning the mother's whereabouts on an insurance company website; Catherine robs a convenience store; Brad tries to bribe Bev to leave Denny Crane. Guest Stars: Michael J. Fox, Betty White, Ryan Michelle Bathe

Shore represents a woman charged with a felony for participating in a political protest, while topless; the man Denise is dating copes with his terminal cancer by joking about it; Catherine takes over Garrett's office. Guest Stars: Michael J. Fox, Betty White, Ryan Michelle Bathe

Brad tries to help Crane's fiancee, Bev, keep her cat on life support, against the wishes of her ex-husband; Schmidt and Denise represent a woman impregnated by her rapist; Shore tries to get a little girl who can't smile admitted to a private school.

Shore and Crane defend a man charged with assisting his wife's suicide; Lewiston tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter; Schmidt's rakish ex-husband materializes, to ask Schmidt to be part of his upcoming wedding.

Crane cheats on his wife, Bev, at their wedding reception, and her divorce claim against him threatens to destroy the firm; Shore defends a woman fired for smoking.

Crane defends a man accused of attempting to murder an intruder via booby trap; Lewiston suspects that his daughter is using drugs, and asks Brad to investigate; Shore tries to help Schmidt regain possession of nude photos of her, taken years ago.

Shore defends Melissa, who is arrested for failing to pay her income taxes; after a bad date, Denise is pulled over by a cop, and spends the night with him; Lewiston forces his drug-abusing daughter into rehab.

Shore tries to get an elderly woman freed from an exploitive conservatorship; Lewiston takes a break from the firm; Schmidt and her ex-husband Ivan are opposing counsel in a divorce case where the clients are fighting over ownership of an erotica collection.

When Alan begins speaking gibberish in court, he looks to Denny for a cure to his embarrassing medical condition; Brad defends a college buddy's video-game company after a teenager dies from playing an addictive game; Denise tries to overturn the polygamy laws.

Alan helps Jerry defend his first attempted-murder case with disastrous results; Ivan works his way back into Shirley's bed, until she discovers that he's never told Missy their marriage is over.

Crane shoots his psychiatrist; Shore recruits Chelina to help defend a client in a racial profiling case; Denise shows Brad how to kiss.

Law partner Edwin Poole returns to work from the mental institution, but Shirley is concerned when he decides to sue a junk-food company; a district attorney with an axe to grind has Alan arrested, accusing him of advising a client to flee the country when a conviction was inevitable.

When Denny must defend the USA in a lawsuit, his partners are concerned and so is Denny when he realizes he could lose his first case to his fake son, Donny Crane; and a sexy new associate shakes things up at the firm, and goes after Denise's client.

Marlene "the squid" steals Denise's brilliant defense to impress Shirley; Brad's 15-year-old niece is charged with murder when her friend dies of a drug overdose; and Denny's trip to LA grabs headlines after a sexy celebrity he's pursuing guns down a paparazzo.

When a judge with an agenda wants Brad's niece jailed for murder, Brad asks Shirley to lower the boom; Alan tries to save a sexy celebrity from prison and the advances of Denny Crane; and then Daniel Post returns from the dead with a shocking proposal for Denise.