Conviction: Savasana
Once again, lots of things happen. Christina (Julianne
Nicholson) is heartbroken over an emotional case involving a dead baby, Billy (J. August Richards) is trying to keep
his perfect record in the courtroom, Cabot (Stephanie March) and Steele (Anson Mount) get it on, Potter (Jordan
Bridges) grows some balls, and Peluso (Eric Balfour) hounds the beautiful but icey girl in the office. By the way, did
anybody catch why the title of this episode is 'Savasana'? I don't get it.Well, Billy is a jerk. In his personal life and his work life. He sleeps with a girl who turns out to be a clerk and then totally shrugs her off when he sees her in the courthouse. But, even worse than that was his attempt to get a woman to drop her 1974 rape case because it wasn't a slam dunk for him. He tells the rape victim, "I don't want to put you through any unnecessary pain." Grrrr.
Billy does step up when the rape victim tells him to continue with the case. Even though he can't get the guy on
rape, he pursues a burglary charge and then gets another rape victim to testify in the sentencing hearing. I was
totally confused about what he was doing. Then, it turns out the rapist went to jail for 7-12 years for stealing a
cheap necklace. We learn that Billy did it all for himself, not the victim, as he tells the law clerk when they go out
to a victory dinner. He's undefeated in the courtroom. What a jerk.
And I still totally adore Christina
Finn. She gets beeped while in yoga class to go to a hospital where a baby appears to be the victim of shaken baby
syndrome. On the fly, a hospital judge in a termination hearing unfairly asks Finn whether The People recommend
termination of the baby's life and Finn is forced to agree with the objective medical experts. The father is charged in
the murder and Finn has to talk the mother, who is pregnant with child #2, into testifying against him.
Eventually, the father admits his guilt to Finn and Steele and pleads to a reduced charge (I think- it all got
confusing to me in the end). Finn gets into trouble, though, for making an abortion appointment for the teen-age
mother. She goes looking for emotional support from Peluso, who can't drown in her sorrows because he finally landed a
date with the hot ice queen in the office. Then, as she's arriving home alone with Chinese food, Peluso is on her
steps. Turns out he got ditched by the ice queen (or did he?) and he takes Christina out to dinner. I hope these two
never sleep together. The sexual tension here is sublime.
In a very small and insignificant sub-plot, ADA
Nick Potter is getting a bit cocky, isn't he? He's pursuing a bar fight and, against Peluso's wishes, he refuses to
plead it out and gets a judge to allow a previous fight as evidence in the case. He wins.
Oh, and we learn
the obvious truth. Alexandra Cabot and Jim Steele used to sleep together. And when things get heated, they do it on
Cabot's desk. Jim thinks they're back on, but Alexandra gets engaged to her boyfriend instead. These are some seriously
messed up people in this Bureau. Good thing they don't hold anybody's lives in their hands. Oh, wait...

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