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Season: 5
Episode: 10
First Aired: 11/24/2008
Prod Code: 5F10
Shirley’s intimate Thanksgiving get-together with Carl turns into a dysfunctional family affair when she invites Alan, Denny, Jerry, and Katie — as well as emotionally unstable law partner Edwin Poole (Larry Miller) and his six-year-old foster son, who tried to mug her — to join them in the feast.
Director- Mike Listo
Screenwriter- David E. Kelley
Main Cast
- James Spader as Alan Shore
- John Larroquette
- Christian Clemenson
- Candice Bergen as Shirley Schmidt
- William Shatner as Denny Crane
- Gary Anthony Williams
- Tara Summers
- Saffron Burrows
- Taraji Henson
Season: 5
Episode: 9
First Aired: 11/17/2008
Prod Code: 5F09
Written by: Lawrence Broch & David E. Kelley
Directed by: Bob Yannetti
Denny Crane and Carl Sack head to Virginia to defend a corrections officer on murder charges for shooting a death row inmate out of mercy when the execution, via lethal injection, went awry.
Meanwhile, Alan Shore tries to heat things up with Shirley Schmidt while they work together to help Martha Headly, who claims she was fired for voting for John McCain for President.
Main Cast
- James Spader as Alan Shore
- John Larroquette
- Christian Clemenson
- Candice Bergen as Shirley Schmidt
- William Shatner as Denny Crane
- Gary Anthony Williams
- Tara Summers
- Saffron Burrows
- Taraji Henson
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Season: 5
Episode: 8
First Aired: 11/10/2008
Prod Code: 5F08
Come meet the newborn which is Season 5 Episode 8, which its parent has not yet named. For now it’s being called Roe, but when the title becomes official, we’ll update this thread.
There’s lots of fodder here – a couple of quick references that, by airtime, we’ll look back on as shoutouts to the summer of ’08; some slightly recycled storylines and even dialogue (I’m sure in the spirit of being green), but some good stuff nonetheless. When I saw that this was going to be another episode about abortion my heart kind of sank because….really….do we need to hash through that worn out topic again? (And pleased to find out even Denny agrees with me.) But after sifting through the intel, I think there’s some good stuff here, and the topic is handled a heckuva lot more thoughtfully than it was in Roe vs. Wade: The Musical (an ep I pretty much detested). So there’s that.
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Season: 5
Episode: 7
First Aired: 11/3/2008
Prod Code: 5F07
TV Info
Episode Premiere- October 27, 2008
Distributor- ABC
Genre- Drama, Comedy, Crime
Show Period- 2004 – now
Production Company- Fox TV, Dick Clark, David E. Kelley Prod.
Cast and Crew
Director- Mike Listo
Screenwriter- David E. Kelley, Corinne Brinkerhoff
Main Cast
- James Spader as Alan Shore
- John Larroquette
- Christian Clemenson
- Candice Bergen as Shirley Schmidt
- William Shatner
- Gary Anthony Williams
- Tara Summers
- Saffron Burrows
- Taraji Henson
Additional Cast
- Grainger Hines
Synopsis
Denny and Alan visit a Dude Ranch in Utah, but find themselves in trouble with their tour group and the local authorities, including Melvin Palmer. Back in Boston, Shirley defends Catherine Piper after she unintentionally blows up her doctor when she sets his office on fire in revenge for prescribing her drugs that gave her a heart attack.
Season: 5
Episode: 5
First Aired: 10/20/2008
Prod Code: 5F05
Cast and Crew
Main Cast
- James Spader as Alan Shore
- John Larroquette
- Christian Clemenson
- Candice Bergen as Shirley Schmidt
- William Shatner
- Gary Anthony Williams
- Tara Summers
- Saffron Burrows
- Taraji Henson
Synopsis
Alan and Shirley prepare for a fight with the military on behalf of a man whose brother died under suspicious circumstances. Meanwhile, Jerry helps his sister in her search for the identity of the father of her son.
“True Love” – Alan Shore is called upon by ex-flame Phoebe Prentice (Ally Walker, “Profiler,” “Tell Me You Love Me”) to prove her husband’s innocence in the murder of a nurse. But deep down, Alan’s unrequited love for Phoebe makes him hope that her husband is guilty so that they can rekindle their relationship. Brenda Strong (“Desperate Housewives”) guest stars as presiding Judge Judy Beacon, on “Boston Legal,” MONDAY, OCTOBER 13 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/VIVIAN ZINK)
The ep starts out with a bang—literally—when Denny and Jerry are mugged in the parking lot at night. They’re in the middle of a discussion where Jerry is asking Denny to support him for partner this year and Denny is explaining to Jerry that being partner isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. (So I guess Jerry was given a clean slate when he was rehired! Cool.) An African-American man steps out of the shadows and pulls a gun on our boys. Jerry starts to turn over his watch and wallet. Denny – as only Denny can – points out that it’s going to look really bad for a black man to shoot a white big shot just as we’re trying to get a African American elected president. Somehow the guy doesn’t find this argument convincing. So Denny reaches for his watch, reaches for his wallet and—do you see where I’m going with this?—reaches for a gun and shoots the guy in a knee and both feet.
The next day, as Shirley and Alan are asking him if he’s okay two policemen come to Denny’s office to arrest him because he was carrying a concealed weapon. Heh heh. In pure Denny style, he was actually carrying multiple concealed weapons. They removed 3 from him the night of the mugging and 5 the day of the arrest.
Sack defends Denny in the courtroom of the eternally shocked Judge Brown.
Alan is busy with his own case. It seems that his (and Jerry’s) former sex surrogate/counselor Joanna is being sued by her ex-husband for custody of their daughter (age of daughter isn’t clear, but appears to be a pre-teen). Evidently (ex) hubby is very uncomfortable with his daughter growing into some very impressionable years with a mother who sometimes has sex for a living. Ex hubby is represented by our cynical friend, Emma Path.
They put the daughter on the stand, and she’s a pretty cool kid. Judge Stern, who really lives up to her name, is pretty good at keeping Alan in his place and wiping the smirk off his wise-cracking face. I can’t wait to see this chick. Also, in a conversation between Alan and Joanne while they’re waiting to go into court, Joanna tells Alan that the contempt she heard earlier in his voice directed at Emma wasn’t just contempt for another lawyer. It was contempt for a woman. She believes a part of Alan actually hates women. Needless to say, Alan takes umbrage. I’m pretty sure we can expect this to come up on the balcony.
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: Guardians and Gatekeepers – A close call for Denny involving prescription drugs inspires Alan to go after a pharmaceutical company for its unscrupulous advertising tactics. Meanwhile, Carl defends Shirley’s 17-year-old granddaughter after she’s caught voting illegally, and Jerry and Katie help a girl who was sexually assaulted in a private detention facility. Monday 10:00 et/9:00 ct on ABC.
Katie and Jerry are helping a client, Jeffrey Addario, whose 15-yo daughter Lauren was arrested and convicted for cocaine possession after her mother died. They had the choice of a juvenile detention facility or a private Pennsylvania facility that offered drug counseling, and chose the latter. Jeffrey says that he doesn’t think she was an addict, but that cocaine possession at age 15 isn’t an encouraging sign. Well if that doesn’t scream upper-middle-class-parent-in-denial, I don’t know what does. But it’s sad nonetheless, so we’ll move on.
Jeffrey is meeting with Katie and Jerry because his daughter was allegedly raped by a guard at the facility. And for some reason that I can’t fathom, they seem to be trying to make a case on whether the guards are held up to the promise that they were trained in juvie justice or child psychology—as if that mattered one way or the other if she was raped. Eyeroll. whatEVer.
Jerry and Katie counsel Jeffrey on the odds of winning, and he agrees to consult with his daughter on whether they should settle (for a pittance, in legal terms) or go to trial. And I know you’ll be shocked to learn they decide to go to trial. (Because one or more scenes of Katie and Jerry negotiating a settlement in a CP&S boardroom holds so much drama!) Jerry maintains that the fight will be tough against this particular opposing counsel, but Katie presses on for the win.
Of course, there’s a catch: Opposing counsel is our good friend Melvin Palmer, and he brings to light during the trial that Lauren was having some nookie (i.e., kissing) with the guard in her cell—and while Lauren concedes that she never consented to be raped, she can’t deny that she had a relationship with this guard beyond the usual guard/prisoner thang.
BOSTON LEGAL – “Smoke Signals” – On the season premiere episode, “Smoke Signals,” Bethany Horowitz asks Alan Shore to help her out with a case against a large tobacco company. But when it turns out that the defense attorney is Phoebe Prentice (Ally Walker, “Profiler,” “Tell Me You Love Me”), an old flame of Alan’s, he finds himself distracted and fears that he won’t be able to perform in court. Meanwhile, Denny is distraught over his own personal lack of performance in the bedroom. Led by an Emmy Award-winning cast, “Boston Legal” returns for its fifth and final season to tell the professional and personal stories of a group of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/VIVIAN ZINK) JAMES SPADER, ALLY WALKER
