EPISODE

1. Head Cases

It's a new day at Crane, Poole and Schmidt: Edwin Poole has a breakdown and shows up to a staff meeting sans trousers, Alan is defending a black girl's bid to play Little Orphan Annie, and Denny is caught cheating with a client's wife.

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When senior partner Edwin Poole ( Larry Miller ) is institutionalized, Paul Lewiston asks Brad Chase to return to the Boston office to help stabilize it; Alan Shore is assigned a case in which a mother wants to sue the producers of Annie after her daughter is refused the title role because she is black; Brad and Sally Heep file an emergency appeal when a client's ex-husband will not allow her to take her children to New York; Denny Crane tries to prevent his client from hiring a private investigator to find out who his wife's lover is, and Lewiston assigns Lori Colson to ensure that an investigator is not hired.

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