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Friends and Lovers
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| Ally hires Jenny, an attorney just like her, to work as an associate at Cage and Fish. Jenny comes face to face with her old boyfriend when he is the other new associate at Cage and Fish. Cage misunderstands Ally when he overhears her say she loves him and sets out to win her heart.
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Judge Ling
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| Jenny, Ally and Glenn are assigned to chair the telemarketing case. Coretta convinces John that he must look good to make a good impression and John ends up dressing in a fake muscle suit to get rid of his weird-women magnetism. Ling and Nelle 'compliment' twin babies on the street. The mother of the babies is the wife of the Massachusetts governor, who offers Ling a judge position.
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Neutral Corners
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| Ally has a dream about Raymond and Glenn. Ally decides to make an infomercial using Ling's TV show crew and Claire Otoms as the announcer. Glenn tells Ally he is not interested in her, and Raymond asks Glenn if he should date Ally. John confesses his feelings for Ally and is disappointed when she says they will never be more than friends.
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Fear of Flirting
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| Ally and Glenn continue flirting, leading to a conscious avoidance of each other. John leaves Cage and Fish, worrying the ladies of the firm, especially Nelle. Richard takes over John’s abandoned hole off of the unisex. Raymond is sued by a former opposing lawyer for sexual harassment and asks Jenny to represent him.
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I Want Love
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| Jenny's mother is fired from her job for dating a 20-year-old. Jenny wants Ally to lose the case. Ally's closing makes Jenny change her mind and she accepts her soon-to-be stepfather. Ling looks for more exciting cases for her show and brings an entire orchestra to her court.
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Lost and Found
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| John makes a surprise return, and is shocked after hearing Richard threw a party in his "hole." Raymond gets Glenn and Ally to double date with him and Jenny, but Jenny and Glen get back together. Ling poses nude to boost her TV character. Coretta and Richard find themselves involved in a police investigation on a woman marries rich old men for the money.
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Nine One One
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| Ally helps a minister fired from his church for not believing in God. John takes a case opposite a mayor who canceled the Christmas parade due to a disaster in which people died. Jenny and Elaine confront each other about Elaine's performance with Glenn in the office's Christmas party.
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Playing with Matches
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| Jenny's mother's wedding is approaching. Ally and Jenny are shocked when the soon to be stepfather makes a moves on Ally. John and Coretta help Kimmie Bishop sue a matchmaker for saying she is "unmatchable."
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Blowin' in the Wind
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| Ally impulsively buys a house. Richard gets the others to help paint the house as a surprise for Ally, who hires handyman Victor to fix the house. Ally handles a case of a man who spent too much money buying gifts for his wife until they went bankrupt.
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One Hundred Tears
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| Ally defends a man who broke into his old house to jump out of his old bedroom window. Harvey Hall believes he can fly using wings he made. Harriet Pumple tries to find a match for Elaine, Coretta, Richard and John. She matches Elaine with Victor. When John refuses to let Harriet find a match for him, the entire office sings "We Gotta Get You A Woman" for him.
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A Kick in the Head
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| 10-year-old Maddie Harrington shows up on Ally's door saying she is her biological daughter, the result of a mix-up on the egg bank Ally deposited her eggs ten years ago. Maddie decides to stay in Boston with Ally on a trial basis until they resolve where she will stay. Richard takes the case of a man who killed his wife after kicking her in the head when he mistook her for a soccer ball.
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The New Day
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| Ally becomes too protective on Maddie, confronting her school principal, teacher and classmates. She decides to hire a nanny, but can not find one to fit her standards, so she hires Victor, who has developed a good bond with Maddie. Ally is also offered partnership on the firm since John left. Ally discovers the firm is losing money and has to fire an employee. Coretta and Raymond face each other in court on a case about a lawyer fired because she was dying from AIDS.
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Woman
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| Ally fires Jenny, causing Glenn to quit. They decide to start a new firm together and leave Cage, Fish & McBeal. Ally wants Nelle to be nicer and asks her to perform at the bar. Claire Otoms wants legal representation because she was fired for sexual harassment from her firm. Richard decides to hire her as an office assistant. Maddie starts asking questions about sex and insists Ally and Victor demonstrate a french kiss.
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Homecoming
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| Ally takes the DNA test after recurring dreams where Maddie's real parents show up. Maddie escapes to New York City to see her aunt. A demented woman shows at Ally's door looking for Vincent, the love of her life who owned the house before Ally. Ally offers Raymond a job at the firm, which he takes. Claire decides to help Richard reunite with his high school crush, but she had a sex change operation and is now a man.
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Heart and Soul
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| Richard and Raymond are hired to represent Serena Feldman, a 16-year-old girl who will die unless Judge Hall consents to a heart transplant from her convicted father, her only match. After Judge Hall denies the transplant, Serena's father escapes and kills himself. Maddie is caught smoking and reveals to Victor that she wanted to be suspended to avoid father-daughter day at school.
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Love is All Around (Part 1)
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| Ally is about to go on her 3rd date, a.k.a. the 'sex date', with Victor. Ally is interviewing for new hires, and meets with big shot attorney Todd Merrick. When Ally and Victor come home, they find Maddie's nanny dead in front of the TV, ruining the rest of the date. Richard assigns Nelle opposite court devil Liza "Lolita" a bitchy, young and feared attorney; so feared that Richard has to get John Cage for the case. Claire announces she is getting married, and Coretta suggests she sign a pre-nup.
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Love is All Around (Part 2)
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| The judge forbids the lawyers to interfere in Claire's engagement and her fiancée decides to call off the wedding. Ally is still shaken with the memory of Larry and is not sure of her feelings for Victor. John and Nelle try to settle upon their imminent loss in court but Liza has now lowered her offer. John is furious and decides to take her down.
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Tom Dooley
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| Ally is going to the Bermudas with Victor and welcomes Liza as the firm's newest attorney. Liza hires another lawyer, Wilson Jade, whom she was going to partner with on her own practice. Nelle and Wilson represent a woman who is suing her husband for sexual harassment, while John and Liza represent Nicole Naples, a woman legally married to two different men. Liza and John develop a great chemistry in court and save Nicole from going to jail. Claire is hot for Wilson, who makes an excellent settlement on the case with the help of Nelle.
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Another One Bites the Dust
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| Ally and Victor return from their Bermuda trip. Ally feels their relationship is in crisis because they were not able to connect without Maddie. Victor is being sued by his former girlfriend for breach of contract. Nelle and Wilson team up against a woman blackmailing their client to come public with a tape of their lovemaking. Richard obsesses over Liza and has Claire talk for him through a hearing device.
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What I'll Never Do for Love Again
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| Elaine auditions for A Chorus Line, but does not get a call back. She accidentally bumps into the casting director, they go out for dinner and end up having sex. Richard's father is being sued by his former secretary for sexual harassment. He fired her because he was falling in love with her, damaging his 40 year marriage.
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All of Me
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| The lawyers at Cage, Fish & McBeal split when dual personalities of the same woman hires them to represent each in court. One of her personalities is a strong, decided and bitchy woman that goes by Helena Green. She wants to divorce her husband, who years ago married sweet, warm-hearted Helen Green. Helena has Liza and Richard on her side, a couple struggling with the imminent commitment; while Helen hires Ally and John.
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Bygones
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| Ally discovers Maddie is suffering from a nervous reaction to all the changes in her life after she passes out. Ally decides the only way she can help her daughter is to move back to New York City. While spending her last hours in the city, Ally gets a visit from Renee, Georgia, and Billy as a ghost.
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