Whereas for Richard, his date completely plays into his severe homosexuality issues. Julie Stall: Mary Mara. Richard is morally conflicted over knowing the secret of Mark's girlfriend Cindy and goes to Ally for advice, but Ally is currently dating, not only Jonathan (who is her age), but also Michael, who is old enough to be her father. John is defending a female sexual predator but has a hard time separating their professional relationship from their personal one. Richard and Ally passionately defend a woman whose husband is seeking an annulment to their 9-year marriage. John thinks it's time to show Melanie something that is very special to him, but then ... But Ling shows up, and then the gang at Cage & Fish learn something pretty surprising about her. At the hotel pool, Richard then meets a hot, young actress but when flirting with her, they both get arrested. Ally is dating a father and son, and then gets herself sued by a puritanical classmate over fallacious snide remarks. With Larry gone, Ally is hallucinating.
Billy comes off as a chauvinistic pig as he defends a man in a sexual harassment case.
Meanwhile, John is trying to cheer Ally up when she's convinced that Larry is about to dump her, even though it's something completely different that he is planning. That trick just might lose him to Ling but win over Renee.
Meanwhile, Renee is struggling to follow common sense when she sees her old boyfriend, Matt, again. Meanwhile John is defending a woman who wants an annulment because she doesn't think her husband found her attractive.
But in court they are up against Larry. This time it's Barry Manilow and therapy has taught her to physically fight her hallucinations. Ally's puritanical classmate, Kimmy, is back, this time claiming she was fired for being a prude and she needs Ally and John to defend her. Richard has just hired a new lawyer, Jackson Duper, but he thinks it must be all a joke since his trial has a man wanting to dissolve his marriage to a nymphomaniac and then suing the priest who married them. The bigger surprise is that Larry represents his date. Ally is brought in to mediate because she can speak the language of loneliness, but it hits too close to home for her and she comes to a revelation about why Billy left her. Jackson has drafted a pre-nup for a man about to marry, and when Larry represents the man's fiancée, a war is created between Jackson and Larry at home and at the office where they are likely to tear apart the couple before they marry. On the day of the trial, Ally starts defending a little person who was sued for defrauding his date. Ally decides she's going to become a dating machine, but it causes a whole lot of awkwardness when Margaret Camaro shows up in the office, especially when Ling as lined up a parade of men for Ally to choose from.
The whole firm is angry at Richard for accepting another ridiculous lawsuit that Ling has come up with, but as usual, Richard has no problem telling it as he sees it. Stefan miraculously resurfaces but he's put on life support and John isn't privy to everything that happened to him. John and Ally think they must be magnets for crazy cases when they are defending a nun who had sex. It's Christmas time at Cage and Fish, and Elaine is preparing for the office party and John is trying to use the mistletoe to his advantage in trying to make a move on Nelle. John is continuously fraught over his relationship with Nelle, and things don't go well when he asks for advice or gets advice when he doesn't even ask for it. Richard's happy, but Ally just might find a way to undermine their own case. Meanwhile, Ling keeps seeing Jackson in slow motion, and fearing that she might be in love, she throws herself at Richard. He and Richard are exasperatedly trying to defend a volatile wife. But John is busy trying to figure out how to begin his relationship with Kimmy when she insists on bringing her mother along on their dates and she thinks that John is a rock and roll singer. Turns out that Ling knows how to tango, but being nice is much more difficult for her. John and Ling are in court together in a case against a Senator, and John trains Ling on his usual tricks. It's Ally's birthday and she's upset because she's alone. Ally and Larry are about to go on their third date, so Ally thinks she needs to be coached on how to kiss, and when the date doesn't go as planned she's ready to throw it all away.
Mark is having a hard time dating Cindy because of everyone's phobia over his girlfriend's genitalia. After seeing Ling use John as a kissing test dummy for Ally, Richard tries to find his own sexual persona. Richard hires Ling, and Billy, Ally and Georgia want to band together so they don't lose the firm to Ling, but Billy and Ally seem to be forming their own coalition as the lines of their friendship blur. But things get complicated for Ally when she realizes that her teacher's doctor is Greg Butters. John's idol, Nicholas Engblume, shows up and needs his help in court, and then Nicholas's wife shows up and needs his help in getting a divorce.