Season 1 - Episode 1 - Pilot
Air Date: Sep 22, 2009
Description: When Alicia returns from work following her husband's very public corruption scandal and incarceration, she is assigned her first case -- a retrial of a woman who is accused of murdering her ex-husband.
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Season 1 - Episode 2 - Stripped
Air Date: Sep 29, 2009
Description: Alicia is hired to represent a stripper who claims she was raped at a bachelor party for a business man, but the States' Attorney's office has refused to press charges against the wealthy man.
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Season 1 - Episode 3 - Home
Air Date: Oct 6, 2009
Description: Alicia is hired by the teenage son of a former friend to defend him in a murder case, causing Alicia to have to face people from her old life.
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Season 1 - Episode 4 - Fixed
Air Date: Oct 13, 2009
Description: Alicia uncovers evidence that possibly proves that the jury is tampering with her firm's class action law suit that she has against a pharmaceutical company, while the legal team of her husband continues to mount the case for his appeal.
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Season 1 - Episode 5 - Crash
Air Date: Oct 20, 2009
Description: Will and Alicia have just 72 hours to collect evidence that could prove the train company is to blame for a crash, and not the engineers. By doing so, the widows will receive their pensions back. Meanwhile, Jackie and Alicia argue when they take the kids to visit their father, who is in prison.
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Season 1 - Episode 6 - Conjugal
Air Date: Nov 3, 2009
Description: Alicia and Will work an appeal together for an inmate who is on death row. Also, Alicia agrees to have a conjugal visit with Peter as a means of receiving information since her client was convicted during Peter's era as the state's attorney.
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Season 1 - Episode 7 - Unorthodox
Air Date: Nov 10, 2009
Description: Alicia becomes attracted to her co-counsel, especially after he uses a unique way to defend their client.
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Unprepared
Air Date: Nov 17, 2009
Description: While searching for a way to defend a scientist accused of arson, Alicia is distracted when Peter's attorney asks her to testify on Peter's behalf.
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Season 1 - Episode 9 - Threesome
Air Date: Nov 24, 2009
Description: When the firm's senior partner is arrested, Alicia is asked to represent him, but is forced to deal with the politics that come along with defending him. Meanwhile, Alicia begins to think that Peter is guilty of corruption.
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Season 1 - Episode 10 - Lifeguard
Air Date: Dec 15, 2009
Description: As Alicia investigates a judge's motivation for overturning a simple plea deal, Diane is given a proposition she cannot refuse.
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Season 1 - Episode 11 - Infamy
Air Date: Jan 5, 2010
Description: Alicia represents Glenn Childs' wife, Marie Browning, in their divorce, and ends up getting more information about Peter. Meanwhile, a wrongful death suit is filed against TV commentator Duke Rosco, which leads to Will getting cozy with his opposing counsel.
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Season 1 - Episode 12 - Painkiller
Air Date: Jan 12, 2010
Description: Alicia is asked to represent a doctor who prescribed medication to a star high school football quarterback that lead to his overdose and death. Meanwhile, Alicia tries to deal with bad news.
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Season 1 - Episode 13 - Bad
Air Date: Feb 2, 2010
Description: As Peter's appeal trial begins, Alicia is asked to defend a wealthy client, but doubts that he is innocent despite being found not guilty in criminal court. Meanwhile, Diane feels threatened when a felon she worked to put in prison is released.
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Season 1 - Episode 14 - Hi
Air Date: Feb 9, 2010
Description: Alicia defends a man accused of murdering his baby sitter. Meanwhile, the outcome of Peter's appeal and possible homecoming nears.
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Bang
Air Date: Mar 2, 2010
Description: While Peter gets acclimated to life at home and works on a comeback strategy with his political team, including Eli Gold, Alicia and Diane wrestle with spousal privilege laws in a murder case that hinges on their ability to get a wife to testify against her husband.
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Fleas
Air Date: Mar 9, 2010
Description: As Peter strategizes on how to handle his retrial and the next steps in his public rehabilitation, Alicia and Will defend an attorney arrested for murder.
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Heart
Air Date: Mar 16, 2010
Description: In an emergency courtroom set up in a hospital, Alicia and Will battle Patti Nyholm and an insurance company that refuses to pay for life-saving in-utero surgery. Meanwhile, Alicia gives Peter a proper welcome home.
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Doubt
Air Date: Apr 6, 2010
Description: Alicia and Will try to defend a college student who was accussed of killing her sorority sister while on sleeping aid. At the same time, they must deal with their growing sexual tension and Diane and Kurt McVeigh continue flirting with each other.
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Boom
Air Date: Apr 27, 2010
Description: Alicia must face her former boss, Jonas Stern, in court, and debates incorporating personal information into her case. Meanwhile, Peter continues to use religion in his attempt at a comeback.
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Mock
Air Date: May 4, 2010
Description: The police are quickly at the door when Peter's electronic monitor sounds after he chases Alicia out of the apartment. As a result, Grace and Zach scramble to figure out a way to keep him from being arrested.
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Hybristophilia
Air Date: May 18, 2010
Description: Eli Gold works on getting Peter's charges dropped, and Alicia defends Colin Sweeney, a client and accused wife killer, who claims self defense after she finds him handcuffed to a dead woman
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Running
Air Date: May 25, 2010
Description: At Eli Gold's urging, Alicia must decide if she'll stand by her man during Peter's new political campaign, or if she'll pursue a relationship with Will instead.