Spade and Shatner

Last Wednesday night, Chief and I had watched “Boston Legal.” We really wanted to sleep early and there was nothing really good on TV until the opening credits of “Boston Legal.”

We only had watched a few episodes of this series back in Vioetnam, which had started as a spin-off from “The Practice."

What was important to learn in this episode was how Allan Shore (James Spade) chose friendship over his own principles. He valued his friendship with Denny Crane (William Shatner), who had been subject of a lawsuit from an indigent, named Kirk (after Shatner’s own character n Star Trek) he had shot with a paint-gun. Spade agreed to take on the case as a way to settle with the indigent for the amount of 75,000 dollars.

In a parallel story, Denise Bauer (Played by Julie Bowen who was born on March 3, 1970… and celebrates her birthday after Chief’s own birthday) and Brad Chase (Mark Valley), two other lawyers of the firm, Crane, Poole & Schmidt. pretend to be FBI agents to the extent of violating the law to rescue the son of her maid who had been kidnapped by a pedophile. This pedophile had been hiding and only maintains contact with the priest.

Chief was surprised at one scene, when Brad with an ax in hand, accidentally, cuts of three fingers of the priest, who had prevented the lawyers from entering his office.

At the end of the episode, Spade talks about the 27 million poor Americans who might one day decide to fight back against the rich like Denny Crane.

Meanwhile, the priest gets his missing finger back and points to the location where the pedophile is hiding. The boy is rescued.

But on the teaser for the next episode, Brad is on trial.

Guess, we will watch that episode nexr Wednesday night.

Photo courtesy of Boston Legal cast from www.tvguide.com (by Scott Garfield / ABC)