Episode
The Guardian: Sacrifice
Overview
Nick takes the case of a 16 year old mom who wants to put her baby up for adoption, after her father ends up being arrested for the murder of the 16 year old's very ill mom. Brian Olsen (LuLu's Husband) ends up being accused of negligence.
Details
- Series
- The Guardian
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2002-12-10
Episode context
Sacrifice is Episode 10 in Season 2 of The Guardian. It aired on 2002-12-10.
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Episode 8: The Neighborhood
LuLu represents an old friend after one of her adopted children is dead. Nick represents someone he knew as a kid.
Episode 12: You Belong to Me
Lulu's home is broken into forcing Nick to protect her. Nick takes Gavin Putinski a former child actor who claimes his parents want him to leave home.
Episode 7: The Innocent
Nick takes on the case of two children after their brother dies from their father's neglect.
Episode 13: Ambition
Lulu's mom comes to town to offer her daughter a job. Soon Nick learns of Mrs. Novack's bad business practices which causes a problem.
Episode 6: The Living
As the legal guardian of two siblings he represented the year before, Nick must find the missing sister so she can be a bone-marrow donor to save her dying brother.
Episode 14: Understand Your Man
Nick meets Sam at a gala in Burton's honor. Sam who is a transvestite tries to get custody of lover's son. Also Nick finds out Mary and Shannon have been living with his father.
Episode 5: Assuming the Position
Alvin head of Legal Service of Pittsburgh is arrested and LuLu takes over after seeing him on tv.
Episode 15: Where You Are
Rob a college roommate of Nick's wants to test a device for tracking kids. Will Nick agree to testing the tracking device on L.S.P. kids?
Episode 4: The Next Life
After deciding to work together, Nick and Burton Fallin return to the old offices of Fallin & Associates to create a new firm, Fallin & Fallin. Finally working on equal ground, Nick and Burton's first big client turns out to be Allegheny County Hospital, which is under scrutiny as one of the nurses is arrested and confesses to killing patients in the oncology department during his shifts. The hospital faces several potential lawsuits from the family members of the patients who died. To assemble a strong team of attorneys, Nick and Burton bring in James Mooney to help with the case but soon discover that his grandmother died in that very hospital just a few months earlier. James immediately removes himself from the case but he eventually gives into his desire to fight for the underdogs and tries to find representation for the family members. Meanwhile, Nick is also thrown into a case as a favor to Laurie Solt, where he must defend a child's right to attend an adoption party. This is a concept that Alvin Masterson finds reprehensible, as he believes it treats the children as though they are cattle to be sold at market.
Episode 16: The Weight
A tough case involving a sick baby brings Nick and Lulu closer together when Lulu gets attached to the mom.