TV season

Season 8

1993-10-08

Episodes

Episode 1

Strictly Business

1993-10-08 • 60 min

Chuck and Olivia are returning from their honeymoon to a crazily busy office. Leon was desperately trying to find Eva but wasn't succeeding. Laura expresses her frustration by confronting Olivia about her contribution to the firm. And Olivia takes their competition to a next level by proposing that whoever doesn't make $60,000 in three month has to leave the firm. Leon is in luck because Eva makes her way to Toronto and gives him hope to be reinstated to the bar.

Episode 2

Hasta La Vista

1993-10-15 • 60 min

Eva Paredes' testimony exonerates Leon, and his disbarment is revoked.

Episode 3

Truth Or Dare

1993-10-22 • 60 min

Olivia and Laura are hot in competition, each scrambling to beat the other's earnings.

Episode 4

But Not Forgotten

1993-10-29 • 60 min

Laura takes the case of a fifteen year old boy accused of murdering his abusive mother, as Alana presides. Rob's relationship with his client prove to be more difficult than he expected. Leon is approached by the Human Rights Commission to be adjudicator. Jack Driscoll questions Chuck about his professional ethics. Leon and Alana consider adopting an older child. Valerie Sanducci starts working in the office.

Episode 5

Black and White in Color

1993-11-05 • 60 min

Leon fights for Iona Davis, a nurse who claims she was passed up for promotion because of racism on the part of her supervisor.

Episode 6

Fit Punishment

1993-11-12 • 60 min

Laura takes the parole case of child molester Adam Ruskin. Malony, meanwhile, is working overtime to prevent Ruskin's release.

Episode 7

What's Love Got to Do With It?

1993-11-19 • 60 min

Malony's continued interference in the Adam Ruskin case leads to violence, and Laura is put in serious danger.

Episode 8

Truth, Lies and Consequences

1993-11-26 • 60 min

Chuck defends a stockbroker accused of being a pimp; Ben moves in with Leon and Alana; Malony visits Laura in the hospital. Rob's client, Pauline, is accused of stealing her former boss' clients; Olivia appears on a morning show and is offered a permanent spot.

Episode 9

Do the Right Thing

1993-12-03 • 60 min

Olivia loses her talk show job in a scuffle with the network when she represents a television journalist who refuses to name his source.

Episode 10

Feared by the Bad, Loved by the Good

1993-12-10 • 60 min

A cross-border cigarette smuggler accused of murder claims he's been set up by police. Chuck goes to his defense... for the right price.

Episode 11

The Cost of Love

1993-12-17 • 60 min

Leon takes the case of a woman terrorized by her husband; Rob handles a heated real-estate dispute. Laura comes back to work. Paul apologizes to Alana. Theo comes to Rob looking for business advice. The RCMP is asking questions about Jack Driscoll. Chuck gives Olivia an emerald he brought from Brazil for her wedding ring and tells her he's opened a $50,000 account in the Caymans with money Jack Driscoll gave him.

Episode 12

Fair Is Foul

1994-01-07 • 60 min

In a final act of desperation, abused wife Joan Millman kills her husband. Leon asks Chuck to defend her; Alana and Leon need professional help for Ben.

Episode 13

The Firm

1994-01-14 • 60 min

Olivia represents a woman journalist denied a news anchor position; Leon defends survivors of a mine disaster; Chuck's plans for the firm are rejected

Episode 14

Persons Living or Dead

1994-01-21 • 60 min

Leon becomes passionately involved in the Hellbrum mining case when he is convinced that management neglect caused the death of 14 miners. Laura defends Rob's cousin, an officer accused of assaulting a prostitute. Chuck worries about the firm. Olivia helps a jounalist get his stolen property back from the police.

Episode 15

Crossroads

1994-01-28 • 60 min

Olivia fights a lawyer who denied a woman partnership in his firm; Leon gains ground in the miners' case. BRT & Assosiates vote in favor of taking the Hellbrum case and Chuck resigns.

Episode 16

The Morning After

1994-02-04 • 60 min

Leon and Rob concentrate on the miners' case; Alana makes an unusual ruling in a child custody case.

Episode 17

No Holds Barred

1994-02-11 • 60 min

Chuck's and Leon's tempers flare in open court as the battle over the Hellbrum case heats up to the final verdict. Leon loses his star witness; Olivia meets an old enemy on an AIDS task force she may join; Alana makes a controversial speech.

Episode 18

The Long and Winding Road

1994-02-18 • 60 min

When Olivia discovers Arthur Locke has joined the AIDS Task Force only to further his political career, she vows to force him off the committee. Leon's win in the miners' case brings both stability and questions; Paul Desmond faces a sexual harassment charge. Chuck tries to get back with Olivia, but winds up heading for Vancouver.