Jack Scarlett's client is a former drug dealer who murdered a man in a crowded restaurant who say it was self-defense, however Kate Ward believes otherwise and prosecutes.
The lover of a Latin American activist is killed in a car bombing and Kate Ward suspects it is politically motivated., however evidence leads in another direction.
Maryann Plunkett plays a distraught woman who shoots and kills her husband and his mistress and Jack makes an emotional case for manslaughter while Kate argues for murder.
Jack Scarlett urges Kate Ward to assist him in unraveling a family plot in which one brother confesses to a murder for which his sibling is serving time.