The Guardian

Nick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father's ultrasuccessful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of Nick.

Genre: Crime, Drama

Cast:Simon Baker , Alan Rosenberg , Raphael Sbarge , Dabney Coleman , Wendy Moniz , Charles Malik Whitfield , Denise Dowse , Kathleen Chalfant , Dorothea Harahan , AJ Michalka , Courtney Stevens , Erica Leerhsen , Angela Featherstone , Rod Britt , Rusty Schwimmer , Johnny Sneed , Courtney Gains , Vicellous Shannon

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Pilot

Tue, Sep 25, 2001

Corporate lawyer Nick Fallin is doing community service as a child advocate to satisfy part of his criminal sentence. He figures he'll do his time and get back to his life until his first case hits too close to home. He encounters a family torn apart and then his human side when he can't bring himself to just play the game and move on. But the distraction may derail his promising corporate career.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Reunion

Tue, Oct 2, 2001

To hold Hunter's lawsuit together against a recalcitrant pharmaceutical company Nick has to placate a plethora of competing interests. But in the end it all comes down to whether Hunter will testify that his father murdered his mother. Child advocate James Mooney has his hands full managing a 12 year old who wants nothing more than to be with his brother, even if that means going to prison.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Paternity

Tue, Oct 9, 2001

Nick Fallin takes the case of Lawrence Neal, a young boy who is normal except for a spinal condition that landed him in a wheelchair. When his mother is sentenced to jail for prostitution, Social Services advises locking him up in the Ryan institution which is filled with juvenile mental patients. Larry wants to stay with his stepfather, but he has a criminal record. Nick's last trump card is pressing the unsuspecting biological father, but that backfires. Nick's friends, industrialist Bart Shell and his kids, Nick's ambitious ex-lover Rachel and her traditionalist brother, are in a bitter fight of corporate control of the family business.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Lolita?

Tue, Oct 16, 2001

Nick wants to handle the case of a factory in trouble, which needs to reorganize or shut down. Burton Fallin refuses to accept the client, allegedly because there's no profit in it and risk of face loss, but Nick insists and finds the real reason is a family grudge. Nick is offered a way out of his 1500 hours community sentence, as his 'spoiled' MO hardly squares with the overworked public office. While he considers it, he handles the case of April Evans, who claims to be raped by her cop stepfather Al Sandro, who denies abusing her or her mother, who sides with him. Nick finds out the truth.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Men from the Boys

Tue, Oct 23, 2001

Nick is not amused to be maneuvered into taking risks with gay judge Smirnovitch for his charge Ethan Ritter (16). The cocky gay prostitute isn't wanted by his own family but the competent gay couple that even wants to adopt him was refused by a bigot judge. Nick goes the extra miles in every direction, for once helped by the social services dragon.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Indian Summer

Tue, Oct 30, 2001

Nick is assigned the case of teenage girl Dina Jameson, whose violent past means the couple interested in adopting her kid sister Lisa (also Nick's client) won't take her in the bargain. Dina deliberately seduces Nick, whom she made believe she was an adult, the previous night, to blackmail him, but some digging turns up the girls' relevant family secrets. Meanwhile Alvin Masterson fails to renew county grants for the law firm's exclusive service for minors, so he must find alternative private funding and/or accept adult clients under state subsidy terms.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Feeding Frenzy

Tue, Nov 6, 2001

Nick successfully pleads the case of gentle, mentally-challenged Malcolm Dempsy (25), whose overbearing mother demands custody because he was tricked into trading an expensive stereo system for a cellphone by his dodgy neighbor and "friend", drug pusher Freddie Paddock. He insists on defending the boy when seen leaving the dealer's apartment after the scum was murdered by gunshot, but no gun is found. Nick risks his parole to get help from his own slick former 'quality'-dealer Colin Bennett. Dad considers sacrificing Jake to avoid claims the firm can't survive after Jake's car fatally hits Furnari, another lawyer, while on his cell phone. Jake finds out the truth about victim, widow, lover and firm shark.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Heart

Tue, Nov 20, 2001

Burton Fallin asks in vain for Nick's help in the case of former CEO Harry Josephs with terminal cancer, whose business partners, the Hopeson brothers, ruthlessly invoke a contract clause allowing them to sell back his shares at a measly historical price. Nick gives priority to the case of incurably sick Lesley Walker, who needs a legal guardian to be eligible for a donor heart. Her former foster parents refuse to adopt her at their own children's expense, but Nick considers filing for custody himself. Burton's lover makes him promise to introduce her to Nick, who never forgave him being an absent father and husband, but is stood up.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ The Funnies

Tue, Nov 27, 2001

Nick reluctantly takes the case of penniless legal services secretary Barbara Ludzinski, whose teenage son Russ was arrested for possession of drugs found in his car. The knave stubbornly refuses a deal to protect his accomplices. Nick resorts to a trap after a neighborhood boy dies from some of the bad ecstasy batch. The Fallins represent a toy company which can't sell out to a Japanse firm without permission from its main character's creator, Fulton Trout, who can't handle children complaining to him about copyright-related restrictions, such as a school mural. As part of an flood of tenant eviction cases, James has to defend a blatant Neonazi against his Jewish landlord.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Loyalties

Tue, Dec 11, 2001

Nick is appalled when Louisa 'Lulu' Archer, a lawyer Burton was prepared to hire, opts for the job in free legal services, where Alvin immediately makes her his 'senior'. In every stage of their first common client, immigrant restaurant owner Ahmad Hassan being victim of assaults on the business and his daughter Salaam by schoolmate Perry Hudson, Nick proves himself far more competent. Meanwhile Burton's partner Larry Hines has defected to a bigger law firm and tries to lure most staff away with him, even Nick, as well as their accounts.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Home

Tue, Dec 18, 2001

Nick prepares to transfer to the other law firm next week, but first has an affair with Meghan Barstow, who will work under his supervision there. Nick pleads the case of Hunter Reed, who wants to live with his doting, devoted father, schizophrenic Dr. Thomas Reed, who successfully sued the manufacturer of pills which made him go lose control and kill Hunter's mother, rather then his well-meaning grandparents. Alvin grudgingly agrees to plead for his mythomaniac ex Meryl Dimetrio, who claims she was fired for reporting a manufacturing error in the brakes produced by a firm represented by Burton himself.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Causality

Tue, Jan 8, 2002

Nick starts his new job, but instantly hates it, being forced to do mergers. In a case against Burton's firm, representing a son against his father in a firm's transfer of control, his client-priority loses both firms their fat client. The stress gets Nick to accept a bit of drugs from his former dealer, and start a bar fight. The occasion is Alvin' birthday party, after a case in which he reluctantly represents the daughter of his first client, both unfit mothers, over the grandchild's custody. Burton witnessed the fight and quickly evacuates knocked-down Nick.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Privilege

Tue, Jan 22, 2002

Nick escapes parole problems, expresses his unease at Kik's and returns to Burton's firm. The Fallins plead in a bizarre last will contesting for father Frank Newburg and his sassy daughter, who claims, when discovered by Nick cutting herself, to be incestuously abused like her silent sister. A Burton employee who volunteers to take pro bono cases 'like Nick' finds no sympathy with Burton and resigns after whining over nepotism. Nick violates his lawyer's code by passing on confidential information from Frank anonymously and repeats that publicly when the judge refuses to consider any anonymous testimony.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Family

Tue, Feb 5, 2002

Burton's sister-in-law and former secret crush Liz is selling her advertising agency to benefit her son, a hostile, delinquent brat who was expelled from school and is in debt. A 10-year-old girl is forced to be a drug mule.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ In Loco Parentis

Tue, Feb 26, 2002

Teenage father Todd contests his baby being adopted, without even hearing him, albeit by perfectly fit Dr. Spanner and his wife. Allegedly rehabilitated crack-addict Melinda Tralins demands help to contest social services taking her baby away. Nick succeeds but finds out afterward she's a terrible mother for her older boys and proves she's still an addicted prostitute, with unforeseen bad consequences before the court can reconsider the case. Only Nick learns about Burton's eye surgery.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Solidarity

Tue, Mar 5, 2002

Nick takes the case of mother Maria, opposing self-supporting model student Dan Braczyk's emancipation request. He hands over the case when he learns of a conflict of interest, as she works in Gary Davey's electronics firm where Burton tries to negotiate an end to a strike, which Dan is breaking, leading to him being beaten up. Nick discovers trade union rep Barry is inflexible on account of political ambitions. Nick's college ex from New York gets him in bed, but he dumps her in favor of colleague Lulu, who just got a proposal from another.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ The Divide

Tue, Mar 12, 2002

Nick takes the case of genius schoolboy Matthew Damira, who opposes being adopted by former social worker Suzanne Diamond because she backed down on the promise to adopt his big, handicapped-but-inseparable brother Justin. After losing the first ruling, he challenges the parental waiver signed by their cognitively-challenged mother. Jake learns from his mother that father Ed Straka, whom she suspects of gambling on the tracks again, is in major debt, likely to get their house foreclosed upon. Having failed to bluff loan-shark Mike Fritas or get a pay advance from Burton, Jake resorts to passing on insider stock information, but the SCE finds out. Desperately out of place in addicts group therapy, Nick accepts Alvin as alternative sponsor.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Mothers of the Disappeared

Tue, Mar 26, 2002

Friendly gay judge Stanton, who once let Nick off with community service, is promoted to federal judge, but a heart attack soon kills him. Nick minds Stanton's dog, Burton remembers his advice there's more to a lawyer's life then lucrative clients, considering to opt for the judicial bench. Alvin defends adolescent Ted Popper, whose delusions since parental abuse make him unsuited for youth shelters, due to violent episodes. Fondly remembering his political campaigning past, Alvin starts a movement for suitable psychiatric care. Nick takes the case of Janine McGregor, who needs to cash in her missing daughter Grace's trust fund by having her declared legally dead to keep her other child home, but thus finds a girl who claims to be the Grace.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Lawyers, Guns and Money

Tue, Apr 9, 2002

Nick's parole officer Dale Petrocki blackmails him to make him help negotiate the acquisition of a night club from a dodgy owner with Petrocki's even dodgier girlfriend, a stripper. Nick's warnings that it smells like fraud are ignored. Burton enters the selection process to become a federal judge, but makes precious little concessions to the unwritten political criteria. Nick also represents ex-con Lenny Getkin, who wants the right to visit his daughter, whom her mother raised to be fearful of him.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Shelter

Tue, May 7, 2002

Nick and Lulu defend orphan Denny Collins (16) and his true love Jeanette Munday, homeless teenagers who just had a baby and want to keep it, even after they squat in the stylish old house, to Nick's taste, which Lulu's fiancé bought but scares her. Hoping to be nominated federal judge, Burton starts passing on major clients to Nick. The CEO they start with makes merger negotiations excruciating because of his selfish hidden agenda concerning a company jet. Jake proves his social skills can be valuable.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ The Chinese Wall

Tue, May 14, 2002

Former Pennsylvania state senator Nathan Caldwell is made senior partner by Burton, with his former chief of staff Mitchell Lichtman as associate. Nick is soon fed up having to deal with them over deals which cost him clients, but Burton won't reconsider. Only when Nick denounces Mitchell's willingness to abuse information obtained in legislative service, his position is terminated. Nick helps Lulu deal with the suspicion, only confirmed by another Alzheimer patient, that her grandmother is abused by the night orderly, obtaining custody instead of Lulu's uncaring mother.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ The Beginning

Tue, May 21, 2002

Nick decides to become Hunter's legal guardian after father Dr. Thomas Reed's death and enjoys bonding with the bright, shy boy over baseball, but the doc's suicide allows the grandfather to reclaim custody. Burton is nominated for federal judge and appoints ex-senator Nathan Caldwell managing partner. The politician immediately rehires his former chief of staff Mitchell Lichtman. Nick walks out and starts a new firm with his best colleagues, who bring their clients. Police detective Darger bugs Nick to help him find violent addict Mandy Gressler, who manipulates him with grave consequences.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Testimony

Tue, Sep 24, 2002

Nick is arrested and refused bail for parole violations after Mandy Gressler's ultimately fatal OD in his home. Unless the court is convinced the cocaine came with her, Nick's case looks hopeless. Burton hires reputable criminal attorney David Belden, but personally leads the case discretely, helped by ADA Finneran. When Mandy's mother Mary refuses to let her granddaughter Shannon (11) testify, Burton even takes the stand. Only Jake remains prepared to start a partnership with Nick.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Monster

Tue, Oct 1, 2002

Nick defends, without actual sympathy, confused Ronnie Wagner (13), who killed and later raped his adoptive mother and risks being tried as an adult, which may mean execution. Laurie Solt admits she ignored psychiatric therapy recommendations to speed up the adoption. A fender bender with Kim, who convinces him to let her brother Charlie McPherson repair the damage rather than inform the insurance company, leads to Nick becoming her lover before discovering she's a uniformed cop. Jake and James recruit private clients for the new firm, but Nick has doubts whether those aren't rather distractions for scoring the major corporate clients he's after.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Dead

Tue, Oct 8, 2002

Ex-senator Caldwell commits suicide in his firm office. Nick continues his hot affair with Kim in secret. Burton keeps advising people what to file, albeit through other lawyers. Nick's new firm defends the manager of a firm developing a city project requiring cemetery plots to be expropriated, Alvin takes on the cause of families opposing exhumations. The FBI suspects Caldwell's motive was exposure in a case of abuse of information from his legislative days. It implicates his right hand Mitchell Lichtman, who tries unsuccessfully to blackmail Burton, who ultimately decides not to go through with his impending appointment as federal judge.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The Next Life

Tue, Oct 15, 2002

Nick pleads the case of over-eager, unattractive pre-teen Josh Bennett, from Gill Mueller's orphanage, who wants to continue partaking in events to present kids to potential adopting couples. Nick gets permission but is ordered to chaperon Josh in person. The boy's usual tantrum after an event follows even though a couple finally shows interest, which is withdrawn as a result. Burton renamed the firm Fallin & Fallin and expects Nick to get involved in all aspects of management, even letting staff go when they don't bring enough business.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Assuming the Position

Tue, Oct 22, 2002

Nick decides to plead a damage claim for tenant Wilcox's small son Bryant's serious lead-poisoning, but soon realizes multiple foul play involving specialized lawyer Mark Hanson. Jake tries to help Barbara get an embarrassing photograph and ridiculing comment from a dating site, but painfully runs into law student Ignatius J. Reilly's legal argument as well as his mates' fists.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The Living

Tue, Oct 29, 2002

Nick must resume his dormant guardianship of Dale and Penny Fante, whose father is in jail and mother neglects them, because cancer-suffering Dale needs a bone marrow transplant. Penny is missing, but brave Dale helps Nick find her through their rogue former social worker. Penny is found with an adult lover and baby, which inspires the court to place her in a shelter. She refuses to save Dale, so Nick brings the parents in, unearthing dark family secrets. Meanwhile Nick is most uncomfortable negotiating with Burton's regular client, excessively weird, even suicidal tycoon Henry Thomas, a merger deal.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Innocent

Tue, Nov 12, 2002

Nick represents a girl who wants to have her father's parental rights terminated after her brother is killed while in his care.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Neighborhood

Tue, Nov 19, 2002

Nick reluctantly defends his former childhood neighborhood nemesis Hugh, now orphaned, who is obsessed by his dog Bessy but compromises his own home place by violent episode in defense of the dog. Nick does can't make the partners dinner, in fact Burton's first attempt to throw a birthday surprise party for Nick. Lulu meanwhile defends her friends Robert and Sarah Twain, who become prime suspects in the case of an adopted daughter's disappearance, homicide and possible sexual abuse, which wrecks their marriage after bringing out their SM fetish. Hugh's dog turns out to be involved.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ The Dark

Tue, Nov 26, 2002

Burton has his next laser eye operation, so Nick takes him in for recovery, but he proves to be a nightmare patient and keeps nagging about a merger deal complicated by environmental issues. James' nephew Levi (for whom he has guardianship) is expelled for refusing to identify the gang kids who beat him up, yet is murdered by the gang afterward. Alvin feels guilty and starts drinking again. Filling in for both, Nick drowns in court cases on three fronts.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Sacrifice

Tue, Dec 10, 2002

Nick defends the interests of the hospital which employs surgeon Brian Olson, whose patient died in a routine operation. He's married to Lulu, and wrecks the marriage completely. Nick discovers Brian failed to disclose his mild epileptic condition. Nick also represents the interests of Betsy Fortunato, whose father confesses the bloody killing of her mother, who has the incurable mental disease of Huntington's. Nick arranges for Steve and Cheryl Manley to adopt Betsy's baby Kris without saying she must be tested as Huntington's is inherited in half the cases, including Betsy. Nick discovers an even worse secret. Burton bugs Nick with a case as well as forcing a lawyer blind date upon him.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ No Good Deed

Tue, Dec 17, 2002

A custody case goes out of control. To prevent violence, Lulu breaks the attorney's honor code flagrantly. Nick defends her brilliantly, avoiding even a suspension. Realizing her marriage is completely wrecked, Lulu asks Nick if his glowing plea also reflects his personal feelings, but he dodges that question.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ You Belong to Me

Tue, Jan 7, 2003

Burton accepts the city as a bulk client and loses a corporate client Nick and Jake had been pursing for months, in part because he misses a critical meeting. Lulu feels stalked and finds shelter with Nick and Kim, but still turns back to Brian. Burton sympathizes with a widower whose hobby, an aviary, is contested by the neighbors as a serious nuisance, but still wins the case for the city. Gentle gay gentleman Gavin Putinski, who feared from the start that he would be discriminated against, ends up losing unfairly, due to a hostile judge and Nick being overburdened. Nick tries to make clear to young Kyle Plunkett he's entitled to live with his father Bill, but the boy's mother keeps poisoning his mind with terrible lies.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Ambition

Tue, Jan 21, 2003

A deal Nick and Jake worked on for months to land a major client is badly compromised when Burton blatantly fails to attend one crucial meeting. A teenage relative of James is offered a rap record contract. His guardian refuses, but the boy is reluctant to have his manager appointed instead. An adolescent refuses to be adopted by the WASP Martin couple out of inverse racism.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Understand Your Man

Tue, Feb 4, 2003

Nick takes the case of young Timothy Silber, who must choose whether he wants to remain living with his deceased father's cross-dressing partner, Sam Farrell, his trusted, loving "stepmother" or to go live with his unfamiliar, blood-uncle Hank Silver. Burton's platonic live-in, Mary Gessler, with whom Burton wants a relationship and who works at Fallin and Fallin, accepts a date with one of Burton's clients, Frank DeScala. Lulu's husband, Brian Olson, wants to leave to accept a good job in Columbus after cashing in a settlement from the Pittsburgh hospital that fired him and is represented by the Fallins. An auction prize-box mix-up convinces Brian that Lulu cares more for Nick than for Brian.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Where You Are

Tue, Feb 11, 2003

Nick's ethics are questioned when a corporate client asks him to test a product and he uses the kids at L.S.P. to do it.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ The Weight

Tue, Feb 18, 2003

Nick and Lulu's relationship heats up after he helps her with a difficult case.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ The Intersection

Tue, Feb 25, 2003

Lulu's life hangs in the balance after her car accident.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ My Aim Is True

Tue, Mar 18, 2003

Burton defends a cop who shoots and paralyzes Nick's former drug dealer.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Back in the Ring

Tue, Apr 1, 2003

Nick and Burton fight to help an ex-con regain custody of his son and resume his boxing career. Lulu teams up with Jake to sue a school bus company on behalf of a cheerleader coerced into an unsavory initiation ritual.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ What It Means to You

Tue, Apr 22, 2003

Nick and Lulu's relationship heats up just as they begin working opposing sides of a difficult case.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Burton & Ernie

Tue, Apr 29, 2003

Lulu tries to make her relationship with Nick official after Alvin catches them having sex at L.S.P.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Sensitive Jackals

Tue, May 6, 2003

James' world falls apart when an L.S.P. client appears to be the man thought to have killed his nephew.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ All the Rage

Tue, May 13, 2003

With the possibility of losing Lulu for good, Nick erupts in the courtroom and is sentenced to anger management sessions.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Carnival

Tue, Sep 23, 2003

When the carnival comes to town, Nick represents a young boy traveling with it who claims that he was molested by the Carnival's owner.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Big Coal

Tue, Sep 30, 2003

In order to land a new client, Nick puts the unsuspecting residents of a small town in jeopardy.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Line

Tue, Oct 7, 2003

Shake-ups at L.S.P. and some meddling by Alvin, force Lulu to reconsider her move to Berkeley.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ The Father-Daughter Dance

Tue, Oct 14, 2003

The Fallins represent a white married couple who want to sue their fertility clinic when their baby is born African-American.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Shame

Tue, Oct 21, 2003

The bank asks Fallin and Fallin to pay off their loan and now Nick must scramble to get his delinquent clients to pay up.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Let's Spend the Night Together

Tue, Oct 28, 2003

When Lulu's father comes to town, she and Nick make a serious decision about their relationship.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Hazel Park

Tue, Nov 4, 2003

As part of his community service, Nick is assigned to help clean up an inner-city park and becomes involved in the troubles of a former client.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Believe

Tue, Nov 11, 2003

Nick attempts to find a home for two young foster children who are HIV Positive.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Let God Sort 'Em Out

Tue, Nov 25, 2003

Nick represents a teenager who wants to stay with his homeless, dying grandfather rather than be placed with a foster family.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Swimming

Tue, Dec 16, 2003

With Burton's health in jeopardy, Nick attempts to close an important deal for his father.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Legacy

Tue, Jan 6, 2004

Ted's dad goes on a shooting spree, killing himself and co-workers, leaving Nick and Suzanne to tell Ted that his dad has committed murder.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Beautiful Blue Mystic

Tue, Jan 13, 2004

Nick returns to using drugs after Lulu leaves him.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Amends

Tue, Jan 27, 2004

Nick represents an African-American bus driver whose response to a racist passenger may have caused his bus to crash.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ All Is Mended

Tue, Feb 10, 2004

Nick learns that his unborn baby has down syndrome.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Without Consent

Tue, Feb 17, 2004

Nick attempts to help a teenage boy who beats up his mother after discovering her in bed with his best friend.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Sparkle

Tue, Feb 24, 2004

Shannon runs away after helping her biological father steal jewlery from Burton's house.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ The Watchers

Tue, Mar 2, 2004

Nick takes over the search for Shannon and uncovers a child pornography ring.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ The Bachelor Party

Tue, Mar 9, 2004

Nick and Alvin go to Los Angeles for a secret reason Alvin kept from Nick causing Nick to miss an important meeting with his Father at their firm.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Remember

Tue, Apr 6, 2004

Nick helps a young boy who claims he can't remember being abused.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ The Vote

Tue, Apr 20, 2004

Nick votes out Burton's opportunist date as prospective partner at Fallin and Fallin with dire results.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Blood In, Blood Out

Tue, Apr 27, 2004

Nick's last two cases at legal services of Pittsburgh take a violent turn.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Antarctica

Tue, May 4, 2004

After Burton's firm failure, Nick starts a new corporate lawyer career at McNeil's, but an absurd client adds to his general discomfort. Terminal cancer patient Alvin's last case is Taliek Allen, a killer on death row, who is diagnosed with brain damage but rages at Nick for urging he should prepare a pardon plea. Nick senses after the birth of their Down-affected baby Lulu won't marry him. The legal services foundation needs a new boss.