In the season one finale the prosecutors have to deal with a couple of teenagers who have apparently killed a sexual predator that lured them to a motel room. The girl, a clean student with no prior record, the boy a bit on the geeky side, who obviously had a thing for her and came to her rescue when she got into trouble. The pervert someone posing as a younger person who just gets his kicks off of doing this sort of thing. But if you’ve watched this show at all, you know nothing is as it seems.
As the show unravels, it turns out that the innocent young lady passed out webcams to her friends, and then had them play strip poker and churn out web video like crazy, which she then sold to any and all takers, earning boatloads of money. The pervert, as it turns out, was a reporter doing a story on the seedy underbelly of pedophiliacs, not a sex-crazed older man looking to get it on with a young teen. And he wasn’t drunk either – that rum was placed in his mouth after he was dead. Whoops.
Defender extraordinaire Doug Hellman (Bruce Davison of X-Men) is hired to defend the young lady, and does a decent turn – though he has been better this season (Reasonable Doubts was my personal favorite episode – mostly because of his appearance).
Befitting a show with as many turns as this one, the girl only got a cut – it was the boy who was the brains behind the setup, and in the end they both got 20 years for their actions and there was a whole list (in a play on words, the Indy 500) of potential perverts obtained who may be prosecuted simply for viewing the content.
As to the surprise ending, Annabeth’s husband Jack was struck by a drunk driver at the end of the episode and appears to be dead or awfully close to it. A bit of a cop-out, really, since it was about 30 seconds near the end as they were getting ready to leave for a vacation. It would have been a whole lot more interesting if he walked out because he was mad that they didn’t spend time together, as was hinted earlier in the episode. But what can you do?
