Heart

what happens

Nick Fallin finds himself the advocate for a 12-year-old girl, Lesley, who needs to be adopted by foster parents immediately in order to receive a heart transplant. Laurie Solt, a social worker for Legal Services (LS), is having trouble placing her due to the many demands of caring for a child with congenital heart disease. Inspired by Lesley's strength after she learns her current foster parents are unable to adopt her, Nick takes the search on as a personal campaign to save Lesley's life. As hope of finding suitable foster care fades, Nick decides that the only way to save Lesley's life is to become her legal guardian. Nick's supervisor at LS, Alvin Masterson questions Nick's ability to care for Lesley. Eventually, the judge does grant Nick legal guardianship. Meanwhile, one of Burton Fallin's old friends, Harry Josephs is dying of cancer and tells Burton he is challenging the employment contract of Hopeson, Inc., which terminates employment if an employee is unable to work for 90 consecutive days. Hopeson Inc. is a long time client of Fallin & Assoc. and Burton helped finalize the original employment contracts. Burton struggles with the responsibility of fighting for his clients and opportunity to stand by his friend.

who made it

directed

Jeremy Kagan

written

David Hollander

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

• Lily Gibson as Lesley Walker
• JoBeth Williams as Sarah
• Denise Dowse as Rebecca Damsen
• Kathleen Chalfant as Laurie Solt
• Robert Loggia as Harry Josephs
• Erica Leerhsen as Amanda Bowles
• Cooper Thornton as Andrew Renton
• Holmes Osborne as Abe Hopeson