Tonight Alan will be shown with two clients: a corpse thief (who apparently had good reason for it) and an apparently pushy therapist.
In the promos, I’m sure I saw Denny and someone else lobbing sticky spit balls at each other in court.
bump for the flamingos
I really need to watch this more often…the spitball scene was hilarious.
Very good episode. James Spader was at his best tonight. The interaction with Jerry was Emmy worthy.
Shatner provided the high camp as always.
It is weird, I have no problem with the Claire & Clarence storyline but I hate the Denise & Brad plot line.
Jim
I don’t like Denise and Brad either. Brad thinks that in her heart of hearts, Denise wants to be a stay-at-home mom? How would he know?
I’m still not buying Claire and Clarence. Claire treats him like a project.
Alan and Jerry were wonderful. Jerry was out-Alan-ing Alan for awhile there in court, wasn’t he?
Denise and Brad are both boring and annoying people. I agree on Claire & Clarence, I just find the character fun and interesting. I am sure it helps I find Claire very appealing.
Alan’s closing on the stolen father was pretty incredible too. He gave an uncharacteristically short closing and then leaped back up for one of his most impassioned speeches. Very excellent.
Jim
Any episode that is that Alan-heavy is, almost by default, going to be a Good Thing. This one didn’t disappoint. As soon as Jerry was doing so well, it was so obvious that Alan would have to undercut his effectiveness… and it was still so perfectly done and acted by both of them that it was a painfully great scene.
For all that the witty balcony scenes are great, I love the reflective ones too.
I found Alan’s closing to be weak. Sure he put passion into it–it is Alan after all–but I didn’t find it convincing. I would have voted to convict.
Otherwise a wondrous episode. Jerry was fabulous.
One of the best James Spader performances in this series. He really cut to the heart of the Alan Shore character when he brought Jerry down a notch or 20. It was tough to watch, but Alan, like he said, above all else is a lawyer, and he’s a very good one.
Jerry Espenson also was a hoot in this show and he did a fabulous job both with the over the top “new therapy” Jerry and the back-in-the-shell Jerry. Great scenes.
Hilarious when he called Alan “Al”!!!
The funniest part to me of the scenes in the temple was that William Shatner is Jewish. So it added an extra silliness when he was complaining about going to temple and claiming to be a Lutheran.
So tired of Brad and Denise. But Paul keeps lurking in the background…I wonder if he is going to “make an offer” to Denise?
I think Claire and Clarence are just so cute together!! Wait a minute…Claire and Clarence! Their names match, I just noticed that!! Where have I been…?
Brad & Denise are interesting only to the extent that Coho(e?) is around–he lent his interest to them by association. Now that he’s gone, they’re back to being the low point in the show. Not their fault–they’re relatively normal people in a firm full of characters.
What happened to the attorney from the New Orleans episode, the one with the yellow dress? There seemed to be some interesting sparks between her and Alan, but she’s disappeared.
It did seem bizarre, that a plea of “she thought she was doing the right thing when she stole the body from the museum” would carry any weight. You’d think the jury wouldn’t buy it: the guy who murders his wife for the insurance money thinks he’s “doing the right thing” too.
On the other hand, there’s no reason to ask for rationality in a show that rejoices in the bizarre…
“Holy crap, I shot the Rabbi!” 
The actor playing Jerry is just wonderful. Great, painful scenes between the two friends.
Can’t resist: I shot the rabbi/But I did not shoot the deputy…
In the end, he resorted to an extremely emotional appeal that boiled down to:
Would you want your Dad on display like this?
Jim