Consumed Innocent

what happens

A cocky talk show host who's sure he won't be convicted and is eager to use the publicity surrounding a trial to boost his ratings refuses Van Owen's plea offer of one year's probation for soliciting his audience members to commit an assault on a guest that proved fatal, and is stunned when he is found guilty and realizes that Van Owen's recommendation will send him to prison; Melman flirts with the idea of retirement after she receives her divorce settlement and Markowitz creates her financial plan; Gottlieb begs the assistance of a flu-stricken Sifuentes in containing the threats of multiple lawsuits after a pot-belled pig is eaten by a snake on the set of the already over-budget rock video she's shooting, and the snake also dies after one of her crew members tries to save the pig; worried that the relationship that's developing between Stulwicz and his daughter is moving too fast, Hackett unsuccessfully attempts to end it; Kelsey finds out that she's pregnant.

who made it

directed

Win Phelps

written

William M. Finkelstein, David E. Kelley

guest cast

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

• Don Keith Opper as Kevin Garwood
• Joyce Hyser as Allison Gottlieb
• Amanda Plummer as Alice Hackett
• J.T. Walsh as Pete Bostik
• Earl Boen as Judge Walter L. Swanson
• Armin Shimerman as Timothy Wiseboro
• RRobert Schuch as David Zifrin
• DDan Ziskie as Michael MacLeish