Boston Legal - Episode Guide

Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Head Cases
Original Air Date: 3 October 2004
Senior partner Edwin Poole has a nervous breakdown in front of everybody. Denny Crane has now to face the loss of a friend in the office. Meanwhile, Alan Shore finds a new enemy in Brad Chase, who is not only the ex of Sally, but also makes him work on a case of a little girl, who wants to play "Annie" in a musical production. Lori is taking care of Ernie Dell, who wants his marriage to be annulled, because he thinks his wife cheats on him. Sally and Brad work on a case concerning a divorced couple and their kids.


Season 1, Episode 2: Still Crazy After All These Years
Original Air Date: 10 October 2004
Alan tries to get his ex-girlfriend Christine, who once tried to kill him, out of a psychiatric installment, but he must find out that this wasn't the best idea he ever had. Especially Sally's behavior towards Christine doesn't make it easier for Alan and Sally to get closer. Denny meanwhile still has trouble with his partners,w ho want him out of the firm.


Season 1, Episode 3: Catch and Release
Original Air Date: 17 October 2004
After he helped her to get out of a psychiatric clinic, Alan now has to face his ex-girlfriend Christine as an opponent in court. Lori is appointed to help Alan. Sally has her first real case of which she has got to take care all by herself and it isn't going very good for her. Denny Crane's son Donny, whom he hasn't seen for 15 years, shows up in the office, but not just as a visitor but also a lawyer.


Season 1, Episode 4: Change of Course
Original Air Date: 24 October 2004
Edwin Poole manages to escape from the psychiatry returning to the law firm. He takes over a case without anyone recognizing it until Lori appoints herself as his assistant in court. Sally realizes that it is much harder to be in a relationship with Alan. Alan himself still has to fight with Brad over his position in the law firm.


Season 1, Episode 5: An Eye for an Eye
Original Air Date: 31 October 2004
Alan and Tara defend a hypochondriac who is suing his doctor for malpractice. Brad and Denny work on one of Edwin Poole's old cases where their client, Holcomb Pharmaceuticals, is being sued for bilking senior citizens out of millions of dollars. Sally and Lori defend a man who killed a guy who beat him up for years ago with a martial arts punch


Season 1, Episode 6: Truth Be Told
Original Air Date: 7 November 2004
Alan represents the husband, who is running for mayor, of his old crush Samantha, when a false rumor is publicized. Denny awaits the results of the test which will reveal whether he has the Alzheimer Disease or not, while Lori helps a lawyer convincing his wife to give him his suns frozen umbilical cord, which would save his life. Meanwhile Denny takes Sally's client who is suing a toaster company for his faulty product.


Season 1, Episode 7: Questionable Characters
Original Air Date: 21 November 2004
Lori helps a former informant, who was shot while robbing a convenience store, not to have the bullet removed which connects him to the crime. Meanwhile, Alan tries to help his client who is accused of being a slumlord and is forced to do despicable acts from an infuriating judge. Denny gets arrested for solicitation.


Season 1, Episode 8: Loose Lips
Original Air Date: 28 November 2004
Alan takes over a case Denny rejected for personal reasons. He has to defend a man who was fired from being Santa because he is a transvestite. Brad an Alan bet on the outcome of the case. Lori's therapist is worried that one of his patients may kill someone and asks for legal help.


Season 1, Episode 9: A Greater Good
Original Air Date: 12 December 2004
Alan and Denny defend a drug company who is sued by a woman for taking her off an experimental pill which could have healed her sickness. Tara gets new information which would probably help her an Lori to win their case, but the way she retrieved it could cost them their case and careers.


Season 1, Episode 10: Hired Guns
Original Air Date: 19 December 2004
Lori and Brad defend a woman who is accused of killing her husband and his mistress. Alan's life becomes in danger when he helps a woman whose ex-husband plans to kidnap their children.


Season 1, Episode 11: Schmidt Happens
Original Air Date: 9 January 2005
The named partner Shirley Schmidt arrives to bring order to the firm. While making herself known, she deals with Denny who does not want her there. Lori and Paul represent a Sudanese native who is suing the U.S. government for not taking action against the mayhem that is happening in his country. Alan defends Bernard who killed his mother.


Season 1, Episode 12: From Whence We Came
Original Air Date: 16 January 2005
Lori, Denny and Shirley defend a school superintendent who fired two science teachers because they refused to teach creationism. Alan learns his assistant has expressed concern about their work relationship, needs legal his help again. One member of the firm is fired.


Season 1, Episode 13: It Girls and Beyond
Original Air Date: 23 January 2005
Brad is attracted his lesbian client who is sued for having a relationship with her boss merely for financial purposes.Alan second chairs,while Denny tries to prove that he is a competent attorney by defending a doctor who describe a non FDA approved drug. Meanwhile, the rest of the firm tries to deal with Alans new assistant Catherine Piper.


Season 1, Episode 14: 'Til We Meat Again
Original Air Date: 13 February 2005
Denny and Shirley help a man whose steakhouse is put out of business, because the public wants to ban red meat for fear of Mad Cow disease. While Denny becomes convinced he has Mad Cow disease, Alan is arrested for conspiracy to commit assault and battery. He started a bar brawl while being out with Tara.


Season 1, Episode 15: Tortured Souls
Original Air Date: 20 February 2005
Shirley asks Alan to defend a policeman who tortured a man to retrieve information. Denny and Chelina represent a woman who is suing her former boyfriend for leaving her at the altar. Bernard is befriended by Catherine and Alan finds variance with that.


Season 1, Episode 16: Let Sales Ring
Original Air Date: 13 March 2005
Milton Bombay needs Denny and Shirley to help him being frozen so he can continue his legacy as a great lawyer in the future. Alan and Chelina help a high school student who accuses his teacher of censorship when he blocks out a news station on the school's television.


Season 1, Episode 17: Death Be Not Proud
Original Air Date: 20 March 2005
Alan assist Chelina in Texas, where a former client is getting executed while he is maybe innocent. Denny and Shirley represent an old friend of theirs when she is charged with having sexual encounters for a fee. Lori files a complaint about Denny.

Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: The Black Widow
Original Air Date: 27 September 2005
Alan Shore and Denny Crain defend a beautiful young woman accused of murdering her much-older husband.


Season 2, Episode 2: Schadenfreude
Original Air Date: 4 October 2005
While Kelly Nolan's trial continues, Sara and Garrett help Denise to settle on her divorce. Malcolm , Tara's former lover, convinces her to represent Edwin Starr's nephew , who cant sing "War" at a nightclub, because its owner says its unpatriotic.


Season 2, Episode 3: Finding Nimmo
Original Air Date: 11 October 2005
Denny takes Alan fishing to Nimmo Bay to help him get over his breakup with Tara. Sara and Garrett target the lawyer of Denise's husband, a priest, to settle the divorce. Catherine Piper confesses that she murdered Bernhard.


Season 2, Episode 4: A Whiff and a Prayer
Original Air Date: 18 October 2005
Denny helps defending a congressman, who didn't keep his campaign promises. Alan defends Catherine Piper for murdering Bernhard. Sara is given an ultimatum by the priest she and Garrett blackmailed.


Season 2, Episode 5: Men to Boys
Original Air Date: 25 October 2005
Denise has problems, when she has to try a case she neglected for three years, in which an auto-injury killed a woman, who only had a few more days to live. Garrett meets Cassie a young paralegal, who is hiding a painful past. Denny has to apologize to Lori or face a sexual harassment suit, while Alan takes Sara out on a date, where he behaves strangely.


Season 2, Episode 6: Witches of Mass Destruction
Original Air Date: 1 November 2005
Shirley help a Christian and a Wiccan couple, who want to stop the school's Halloween celebration. Alan represents Cassie suing the US military, because her brother died in the war. This of course is a hard test for Alan and Denny's friendship.


Season 2, Episode 7: Truly, Madly, Deeply
Original Air Date: 8 November 2005
Denny does not want to defend a man who raped and killed a 13-year-old girl. He finds a way to get out of its, but ends up in jail. Alan has to overcome his fear of clowns, when he helps suing one. Shirley assigns a weird bestiality to Denise.


Season 2, Episode 8: Ass Fat Jungle
Original Air Date: 15 November 2005
Denise defends the top Boston plastic surgeon, who is sued for injecting fat from his butt into his patients. Shirley has problems handling a case involving an Alzheimer's patient. Meanwhile Denny undergoes an MRI, while Alan has night terrors and asks his new secretary to guard him at night.


Season 2, Episode 9: Gone
Original Air Date: 6 December 2005
Denny's using of firearms again becomes an issue to the firm, when a homeless man threw a rock at him. Denise and Brad try to find a kidnapped boy who is close to her heart. They have to become rather extreme when some obstacles appear.


Season 2, Episode 10: Legal Deficits
Original Air Date: 13 December 2005
Brad is on trial for his an Denise's action while trying to find a kidnapped boy. Denny and Shirley team up defending him. Alan meets Jerry Espenson, who is an expert in financial law, but has problems interacting with other people, while helping his secretary solving her problems with her credit card company.


Season 2, Episode 11: The Cancer Man Can
Original Air Date: 10 January 2006
Alan takes up the cause of one of the associates, Denny meets a woman, and Denise helps defend a client accused of buying his way onto a drug trial.


Season 2, Episode 12: Helping Hands
Original Air Date: 17 January 2006
Daniel Post finagles his way onto one of Denise's cases, Alan takes up Jerry's cause with rather more enthusiasm than Shirley would like, and Denny gets serious about his new love.


Season 2, Episode 13: Too Much Information
Original Air Date: 24 January 2006
Denis and Alan represent a young girl, whose father killed her mother after finding her whereabouts on her HMO's website. Alan also has to defend Catherine Piper, who started robbing convenience stores. Beverly Bridge, Denny's fiancé, who he met at a charity event, is causing trouble in the firm, while Paul, Shirley and Brad try to manage the situation. Daniel Post goes in for chemotherapy, and attempts to shut out Denise.


Season 2, Episode 14: Breast in Show
Original Air Date: 7 February 2006
Alan dates Irma and later finds himself defending her, because she is charged with a sex crime for protesting topless. Daniel Post invites Denise to his funeral party, Garrett has problems to get Catherine out of his office and the rest of the firm is still dealing with Denny's fiancé.


Season 2, Episode 15: Smile
Original Air Date: 14 February 2006
Alan helps a little girl, who can't smile because her face muscles were damaged in an accident. She was refused because of this to go to a prestigious private school. Denny and Shirley are on a case, where a hospital refused to give a rape victim the morning after pill because of religious believes. Meanwhile Denny assigns Brad to help his fiancé keeping her ex-husband from shutting off the machines that keep her cat alive.


Season 2, Episode 16: Live Big
Original Air Date: 21 February 2006
While trying to woo her back, Shirley Schimdt's ex-husband asks her to be in his upcoming wedding. Alan and Denny defend a man who killed his wife at her request. Paul reaches out to his daughter.


Season 2, Episode 17: ...There's Fire!
Original Air Date: 28 February 2006
Denny is caught with another woman on his wedding day, putting the firm in jeopardy and Alan fights a wrongful termination.


Season 2, Episode 18: Shock and Oww!
Original Air Date: 7 March 2006
Denny is spurred from his depression over losing Bev by a self-defense case, Paul suspects his daughter may be using again, and Shirley asks Alan to intercede for her when an artist dies.


Season 2, Episode 19: Stick It
Original Air Date: 14 March 2006



Season 2, Episode 20: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Original Air Date: 21 March 2006



Season 2, Episode 21: Word Salad Days
Original Air Date: 28 March 2006



Season 2, Episode 22: Ivan the Incorrigible
Original Air Date: 18 April 2006



Season 2, Episode 23: Race Ipsa
Original Air Date: 25 April 2006



Season 2, Episode 24: Deep End of the Poole
Original Air Date: 2 May 2006
Partner Edwin Poole returns to the firm after a stint in a mental institution


Season 2, Episode 25: Squid Pro Quo
Original Air Date: 9 May 2006
Ambitious Marlene Stanger joins the firm. Denny faces his son in court.


Season 2, Episode 26: Spring Fever
Original Air Date: 16 May 2006



Season 2, Episode 27: BL: Los Angeles
Original Air Date: 16 May 2006

Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Can't We All Get a Lung?
Original Air Date: 19 September 2006
Alan hires a sexual surrogate to help Jerry Espenson overcome his fear of intimacy with women, which only gets Jerry in more legal trouble. And Shirley takes Daniel Post's case after Denise learns that her fiancé is planning to buy a lung from a terminally-ill man.


Season 3, Episode 2: New Kids on the Block
Original Air Date: 26 September 2006
A cocky new lawyer joins the firm from the New York office and defends a client who was having an adulterous affair with a murdered judge, and Denny gets in more hot water after a blind date with a "midget."


Season 3, Episode 3: Desperately Seeking Shirley
Original Air Date: 3 October 2006
Alan represents Shirley's ex-husband, who is looking for a hole in his new post-nup, which was written by Shirley. Meanwhile, the judge's murder trial continues, and Denny reaches a compromise after the little person sues him.


Season 3, Episode 4: Fine Young Cannibal
Original Air Date: 10 October 2006
Alan and Shirley take on a grandstanding District Attorney prosecuting a homeless man for cannibalism. The case gives Alan an opportunity to make his move on her, but he can't get together with her without Denny's approval.


Season 3, Episode 5: Whose God Is It Anyway?
Original Air Date: 17 October 2006
Jeffery, Claire and Denise's judge murder trial gets underway, and Alan defends Jerry Espenson after firing a lawyer in his new firm because he's a Scientologist.


Season 3, Episode 6: The Verdict
Original Air Date: 24 October 2006
Coho's defense weakens after his client's father testifies against him and Alan feels something is missing when he picks up his relationship with Sally.


Season 3, Episode 7: Trick or Treat
Original Air Date: 31 October 2006
Alan must defend Jerry Espenson again, this time for committing perjury to get on a jury. Meanwhile, Denise learns that her fiancé, Daniel Post, has died, but the doctors are having trouble locating his remains.


Season 3, Episode 8: Lincoln: Part 1
Original Air Date: 26 November 2006
Lincoln Meyer chooses Denny to represent him when he's suspected of killing the judge. Jerry enlists Alan's help in a first degree murder case. Brad has had it with Jeffrey, who wants to have Shirley, and Alan overhears Denise telling Shirley about her desires and takes advantage of it. Denny, meanwhile, can't seem to decide between Bethany or her mother, so he wants them both, which neither one will give in to.


Season 3, Episode 9: On the Ledge: Part 2
Original Air Date: 28 November 2006
Lincoln goes to extremes and kidnaps Shirley. The trial begins for Jerry's client, who shines as an attorney in the court room, and Denny feels threatened by him, as Jerry and Alan begin to bond as friends. Brad and Jeffrey take their office relationship to the "next level."


Season 3, Episode 10: The Nutcrackers
Original Air Date: 5 December 2006
Clarice applies for a job as Claire's new assistant, but she'll only hire him as Clarence. Alan's new case is involved in a friendly wager with Shirley. Brad and Jeffrey are assigned to work on a case, together, involving a woman who wants to sue God, even though they can't stand one another, which makes Denise feels more like a referee, than an attorney.


Season 3, Episode 11: Angel of Death
Original Air Date: 9 January 2007
Alan and Denny go to New Orleans to help defend a doctor on trial for euthanizing her patients during the flood after Hurricane Katrina, and Clarence sues a women's gym that revoked his membership after he revealed that he was a man.


Season 3, Episode 12: Nuts
Original Air Date: 16 January 2007
The firm defends a grade school teacher who is sued after one of her students dies from a peanut allergy, and Alan takes on the Office of Homeland Security after Denny is wrongly placed on the "no-fly list."


Season 3, Episode 13: Dumping Bella
Original Air Date: 30 January 2007
Denny takes Bella's case against an animal rights group opposed to her cosmetic testing procedures, and her daughter Bethany is opposing counsel. And at the same time, Denny wants to dump Bella because he's still in love with Bethany.


Season 3, Episode 14: Selling Sickness
Original Air Date: 6 February 2007
Alan defends a judge suing a company promising to cure him of "same sex attraction disorder," and Shirley defends a man keeping a teenage sexual assault victim from taking medication that will make her forget the experience.


Season 3, Episode 15: Fat Burner
Original Air Date: 13 February 2007
Denny is sued for operating a company that wants to turn human fat into fuel, Clarence gets his first case, and Jeffery submits his resignation after he finds out that he's not the father of Denise's child.


Season 3, Episode 16: The Good Lawyer
Original Air Date: 20 February 2007
Alan feels guilty after teaching Jerry Espenson a cruel lesson on being a good lawyer, Denny creates a scene at Bethany's temple, and Brad and Denise come to blows over whether she should give up her career to take care of their baby.


Season 3, Episode 17: The Bride Wore Blood
Original Air Date: 20 March 2007
Alan defends his ex-girlfriend Renata when she is accused of murdering her groom-to-be. And when the case starts going badly, she drops a personal bombshell in her defense that not even Alan knows about.


Season 3, Episode 18: Son of the Defender
Original Air Date: 3 April 2007
Denny is forced to recount a trial with his father from fifty years earlier when the victim's son--carrying a gun and wired to a bomb--returns demanding justice. Meanwhile, Alan is found in contempt of court again while defending his neighbor.


Season 3, Episode 19: Brotherly Love
Original Air Date: 10 April 2007
When Paul tries to force Brad to sign an agreement in order to keep the firm out of getting in between him and Denise, Brad forces the rest of the partners to reconsider their position. When Claire sees Clarence in a coffee shop with another woman, she reconsiders their position. Alan defends a man accused of helping his brother cover up a murder.


Season 3, Episode 20: Guise 'n Dolls
Original Air Date: 24 April 2007
Alan goes head to head with Jerry, but Alan doesn't like the arrogant, boorish persona Jerry has assumed for the case. And Denny gets the firm in hot water when he "compliments" an African-American job applicant.


Season 3, Episode 21: Tea and Sympathy
Original Air Date: 1 May 2007
Judge Weldon asks Alan to defend her in a case, which leads to a potential relationship. Meanwhile, Clarence has a client who wants to sue a college sorority for kicking her out, and Jerry Espenson is opposing counsel.


Season 3, Episode 22: Guantanamo by the Bay
Original Air Date: 8 May 2007
Jerry shows up at Shirley's office, wishing to return to the firm and clients include someone who was detained at the hands of the government, who felt he was involved in a terrorist plot of some kind. Gloria warns Alan that Judge Folger entertains more lawyers in her chambers than motions in her courtroom.


Season 3, Episode 23: Duck and Cover
Original Air Date: 15 May 2007
Alan defends a priest on trial for housing an illegal alien, and Brad and Denise hurry to get married before their baby is born. Meanwhile, Shirley gives Jerry a housing discrimination case involving a woman and her duck.


Season 3, Episode 24: Trial of the Century
Original Air Date: 29 May 2007
Alan and Denny resort to a dangerous strategy to create reasonable doubt and get two teenage brothers acquitted of murdering their father. And Shirley gets angry with Jerry and Clarence when they sue a casino.

Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1: Beauty and the Beast
Original Air Date: 25 September 2007
Carl Sack is brought in from the New York branch to act as office "enforcer." Shirley is sued by Stanford University after she backs out of a donation. And a new lawyer, fresh out of law school, is assigned an unwinnable murder case.

Season 4, Episode 2: The Innocent Man
Original Air Date: 2 October 2007
Against all odds, new lawyer Katie Loyd and Jerry win their unwinnable murder trial. Alan is impressed by their victory. Shirley invites Lorraine to join the firm as a new associate. Denny lusts after the new associate and immediately invites her to sleep with him! Alan warns Denny to stay away from Lorraine and then has sex with her in the office!! Alan declines Judge Gloria Weldon's offer to have a child with her and they break up. Denny speculates with Alan about the nature of the relationship between Shirley and new boss Carl Sack.

Season 4, Episode 3: The Chicken and the Leg
Original Air Date: 9 October 2007
Carl and Denny bet on the outcome of their cockfighting case, a teenager with AIDS sues her school for only teaching abstinence, and Jerry begins to have romantic feelings for his new colleague.

Season 4, Episode 4: Do Tell
Original Air Date: 16 October 2007
A general sues the military because he was fired after coming out. The firm's latest hire takes a custody case involving child bullfighting. Alan's "word salad" returns over Lorraine, and Denny finds out about Shirley and Carl.

Season 4, Episode 5: Hope and Gory
Original Air Date: 30 October 2007
A woman who intentionally and maliciously avenged her daughter's death asks Alan to provide her with a temporary insanity defense. Meanwhile, Katie and Jerry try to get a questionable sexual offense conviction vacated for a client.
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Season 4, Episode 6: The Object of My Affection
Original Air Date: 6 November 2007
Denny gets in hot water when he fires a lawyer who rejected his sexual advances because she is too fat. Meanwhile, Jerry defends a woman in a case involving "objectophilia"

Season 4, Episode 7: Attack of the Xenophobes
Original Air Date: 13 November 2007
Whitney takes a case involving a police officer charged with murder after shooting an unarmed African American youth eight times, Clarence sues YouTube for defamation, and Alan defends Denny against the overweight lawyer he fired.

Season 4, Episode 8: Oral Contracts
Original Air Date: 4 December 2007
Alan defends Denny after he is charged with soliciting gay sex in a bathroom stall. Shirley defends a shock jock in a First Amendment case, and Katie begins investigating Lorraine's background.

Season 4, Episode 9: No Brains Left Behind
Original Air Date: 11 December 2007
After Denny and Alan lose a lawsuit against the National Guard, they try to join the group and are rejected because of their age. Shirley defends her granddaughter after she is expelled for shredding a standardized test.

Season 4, Episode 10: Green Christmas
Original Air Date: 18 December 2007
The firm is sued by one of its environmental group clients because it isn't "green" enough. Alan tries to help Clarence, who cannot make his house payments because of skyrocketing adjustable mortgage rates.

Season 4, Episode 11: Mad About You
Original Air Date: 15 January 2008
Much to the chagrin of his firm, Denny takes on a first-degree murder case without anyone's help, while Jerry and Katie agree to seek compensation for a woman whose husband fell under the guise of a shady lawyer who convinced him to divorce her.

Season 4, Episode 12: Roe vs Wade: The Musical
Original Air Date: 23 January 2008
A man whose sperm was used without his knowledge to impregnate a woman tries to get the court to force her to have an abortion, and Alan and Shirley are opposing counsel. Jerry defends Leigh after she is fired for hugging a student.

Season 4, Episode 13: Glow in the Dark
Original Air Date: 12 February 2008
Denny and Alan unknowingly sleep with the same client, who is trying to block the building of a nuclear power plant. Opposing counsel is Shirley's old friend from law school, which makes Carl Sack very jealous.

Season 4, Episode 14: Rescue Me
Original Air Date: 19 February 2008
Sack becomes increasingly frustrated with the firm's lawyers constantly taking on cases that don't make any money, and finds a potential new love interest to replace Shirley. Meanwhile, Denny and Alan prepare for their Coast Guard test.

Season 4, Episode 15: Tabloid Nation
Original Air Date: 8 April 2008
Alan takes on an old hated nemesis in a case involving a shooting death after an ambush interview on a tabloid TV show. Shirley takes a case for an old friend, a troubled Vietnam veteran, who finds himself in dire straits.

Season 4, Episode 16: The Mighty Rogues
Original Air Date: 15 April 2008
Shirley pursues a court order to euthanize her father, who is in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's Disease. The residents of Nantucket petition for the right to have a nuclear weapon, and Jerry is sued by a sexy female companion.

Season 4, Episode 17: The Court Supreme
Original Air Date: 22 April 2008
Alan leaps at the opportunity to present an appeal to the Supreme Court in the case of a mentally challenged man sentenced to death for the sexual assault of a young girl.

Season 4, Episode 18: Indecent Proposals
Original Air Date: 30 April 2008
Denny Crane falls for a rancher client who hires him to sue the FDA over cloned meat. Shirley and Alan sue the Democratic Party over pledged convention delegates switching their votes to the other candidate.

Season 4, Episode 19: The Gods Must Be Crazy
Original Air Date: 14 May 2008
While the firm takes on legalization of prostitution and accepting female priests into the Catholic church, Denny Crane contemplates an offer to seek the Republican nomination for president.

Season 4, Episode 20: Patriot Acts
Original Air Date: 21 May 2008