Synopsis
Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.
Episodes
1E1Episode 1Pilot.
The show revolves around Alice De Raey, a young criminal lawyer thrown into a justice system bursting at the seams. She encounters an endless procession of characters-ranging from the truly desperate to the wonderfully bizarre. Alice, with a good-natured openness that cloaks a tenacious, committed spirit, finds herself on a journey that constantly tests her patience and compassion.2E2Episode 2Alice tries to convince the Crown to have compassion for a former drug addict.3E3Episode 3Alice defends a bipolar woman, a man caught in a battle between feuding lovers, an illiterate man, and a Jamaican man with one leg.4E4Episode 4A judge tries to save a mentally challenged man who has been charged with assault; Alice defends a man charged with sexual assault; Elliot is infatuated by a court interpreter.5E5Episode 5Alice tries to convince a couple that one of them must go to prison so that the other can stay home and raise their children.6E6Episode 6Elliot hires a private investigator to help with his case; Alice juggles two clients, one charged with assault and the other suspiciously eager to go to prison.7E7Episode 7A diagnosed schizophrenic women is charged with abducting a baby.8E8Episode 8A man is charged with assaulting the fathers of boys who bullied his daughter; a homeless intellectual defends himself.9E9Episode 9Alice's client is charged with abusing and neglecting his father, who has Alzheimer's disease; Elliot defends a high-profile artist.10E10Episode 10James helps a drug dealer prove he has been framed; Alice defends a street kid charged with aggressive panhandling.11E11Episode 11A woman is accused of stalking her ex-boyfriend and his girlfriend; an 18-year-old is pressured to cover for a drug dealer.12E12Episode 12Alice defends a man on trial for assaulting his son and an Eastern European immigrant who is being tormented by former acquaintances.13E13Episode 13Alice defends a man in for an altercation with the superintendent of his rooming house.
Cast
