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Shark Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
Pilot
Thu, Sep 21, 200660 mins
Sebastian 'the Shark' Stark is L.A.'s hotshot criminal lawyer, who can save even the worst violent scum from conviction by a jury, for an obscene fortune. When wife-beater Gordie Brock he got off is arrested for murdering that same spouse Deena six days later, expecting the Shark to save his bacon again, he finds himself infected with some conscience and stops his profit-driven practice. Now mayor Manuel Delgado seizes his chance to convince Stark to join the underfunded prosecutor's office, which never stood a chance against him, and help justice rather then the rich. District Attorney Jessica 'Jess' Devlin, whom he knows to be far below his class talent-wise, becomes his new boss. He already knows from his private files all the inexperienced by-the-book lawyers he gets assigned as assistants, such as senator Woodland's son Casey, and starts teaching them how to use, even bend the system. Their first case in only 48 hours, is star singer Jenny Dennison, who murdered Terence 'Terry' Rourke but claims he tried to rape her. On the home front, his ex Claire tells Sebastian his alimony duty is over: she has a new fiancé and intends to move to New York with him and their teenage daughter Julie 'Jules', who is about to tell the court which parent she chooses as legal guardian... As the baby sharks fail to deliver the dodgy assignments Sebastian gave them, he offers Jenny a deal, but her expensive defense lawyer Anita Astin rather goes to trial. After a tape of sex between Jessica and Terry is found on the Internet, Stark invites his pupils at home to his mock court room, a collection of furniture from famous real ones, where he always uses the best equipment to drill the whole trial before he sets foot in the court house. Then they go to trial...
Episode 2
LAPD Blue
Thu, Sep 28, 200644 mins
A poker game with the mayor gets Shark's team better offices. Detective Joe Rodriguez, LAPD undercover narcotics, is shot; the police still sees Shark as the enemy: this is his chance to change that by getting the cop killer convicted; D.A. Devlin accepts to put Shark on the case in the hope he'll fail. The suspect is Scott Ransom, from a rich family, twice escaped conviction for drug dealing, about to be arrested again with narcotics. His girl-friend is his alibi, his defense lawyer is Shark's best disciple, Elliott Dasher, no loss in years. Rodriguez' partner Isaac Wright witnessed everything except the actual shooting. Martin Allende is too direct when approaching the grieving family about possible character assassination by the defense. Casey Woodland must get forensic data before it is destroyed, while the judge is a noted stickler for search procedures. Ransom is arrested after the find of a bag of speed with his blood on it. Wright carries a grudge because Sharke suggested eight years ago he beat a confession out of his abusive client Palmer, which got Wright transferred although it didn't stick in court. Scott's girlfriend Carrie Reed won't even talk to charming Casey; he finds a neighbor who notices Ransom's Ferrari leave and return, but that didn't leave him enough time to go hide the speed in his house- Shark accuses Wright of planting the bag himself but the LAPD stands by him. Devlin offers a 15 years plea, Dasher refuses. The trial will be a hard confrontation...
Episode 3
Dr. Feelbad
Thu, Oct 5, 200660 mins
Shark's team takes the case against Dr. Mitchell Sterling, a fine surgeon whose wife Yvonne Sterling went missing thirteen days ago, even though the corps isn't found. Casey gets a go as co-chair, as he will look best against the father, but this trial proves everything but a joyride. Their theory was based on Yvonne's blood on a carpet, phone records and Sterling's little boy Ethan's statement he heard his mother but didn't tell anyone because he wasn't supposed to be awake that late, but the kid retracts the statement. When the body is finally found, it doesn't quite match either, however the team does a good job as to establishing a motive, again with a disappointing twist. Shark perseveres, and decides to make the boy testify in court anyhow...
Episode 4
Russo
Thu, Oct 12, 200660 mins
A couple is found shot dead in the Malibu beach-house of P.I. Harry Russo, who often worked for Shark but has a dodgy reputation with the police- arresting him would assure D.A. Jessica Devlin's reelection. Waitress Tracy Powers, wife of roof-contractor Wayne Powers, died just after making a desperate cellphone call to the police. Tracy's colleague at the Cypress hotel, Lisa Gable, tells Casey her abusive husband tried to force her into porn. Russo swears to Shark he knows nothing, telling under pressure the house was rented out to film producer Taylor Garrett, who claims to have 'lost' a $6,000 gun of the murder's caliber .45 and is arrested on his yacht; since that is legally his home and there was no search-warrant, all evidence found there is thrown out. While they both attend her campaign dinner, Devlin asks indignant Casey to spy on Stark in the 'Russo case'. Shark's team goes to trial against Garret, with Russo in a multiple star role...
Episode 5
In the Grasp
Thu, Oct 19, 200660 mins
CU College Student Sydney Blair accuses 3 boys of raping her at a party on campus, all three are star Football players with huge endorsements lined up. Stark is certain of a conviction when the DNA of one of them, Josh Carpenter is found inside Sydney and she identifies him as the lead rapist. Josh' lawyer and the Dean of the College are trying to protect their meal-ticket while Stark is trying to prosecute them all for their involvement. Things start to unravel when Josh, on the stand, reveals that Sydney is his ex-girlfriend and they had sex not at the party, but that morning and he left her because she wanted a serious relationship. Furious that Sydney lied this whole time, and convinced that she was trying to get back at Josh by crying wolf, Stark decides to drop the case but Madeleine asks for 24 hours to prove that the other two did rape her. Meanwhile, Julie is suspended from school after she is accused of plagiarism on her English-Lit paper. If found guilty by a review board, she will be expelled, so Stark has a 'talk' with her principal.
Episode 6
Fashion Police
Thu, Nov 2, 200660 mins
The Latino Mayor Manuel 'Manny' Delgado orders Shark's team to handle the criminal negligence charge after an electric wiring failure caused a fire that made four fatal female Latino sweetshop victims. Shark orders Latino Martin Allende to handle it alone, being the one who leaked to journalist Laura Montez in intimate context and personally motivated. Accused is Benny Hong, who runs three such shops. When an inspector confirms a list of building code violations, Shark wants to accept five years rather then face a jury, Martin instead accepts immunity to go after Hong's client, worldwide popular teenage fashion label Pruitt, which hires Elliott Dasher, enough to get Shark personally involved, also because CEO Z Pruitt is personally linked to the Mayor, and clever as ever is soon linked with ordering installing the extra machines which caused the fatal overload. Their e-mail proof is thrown out, so the charge is changed to modern slavery, a precedent under a 1943 law written for US-Japanese internment, but the Reyes workers family, needed as surviving witnesses, are scared to disappear... Meanwhile Sebastian promises daughter Julie to stop the review board punishing her for plagiarism after she 'researched' a paper on the Internet, immorally in her own opinion.
Episode 7
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Thu, Nov 9, 200660 mins
The corpse of Emily Forrester (8) is found in Palisades park. Shark suspects, given identical MO and victim type, the work of the killer of Tanya Blake, 15 years earlier, for which his client Charlie Davis still serves a jail sentence. Charlie recognizes one of the ten present suspects, landscape architect Sam Bemis. Shark concentrates on him, linking both cases. Meanwhile Julie is approached by youngster Scott Natterson, whose late dad Tom, a lawyer, left letters indicating an affair with Julie's ma.
Episode 8
Love Triangle
Thu, Nov 16, 200660 mins
While doing yoga, Shark sees on TV a teenage girl was hit by a car near the house where his daughter Julie is at a party. Luckily, Julie is alive, but Erica Hartford isn't. Since Erica was a black girl in a white neighborhood, the case should be handled swift because of the press and people who want to know if her death was racial. Therefore, when Shark finds out the death wasn't racial, he has to prove this as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the suspect is a girl Julie knows and she can't believe this girl murdered Erica.
Episode 9
Dial M for Monica
Thu, Nov 23, 200660 mins
An assistant district attorney is found dead in a car, along with a call girl. The investigation leads to Monica Tanner, a madam with a lot of high placed clients. The dead call girl wanted to become a madam herself and used some of Monica's girls and it turns out the assistant district attorney was after the drug dealer that killed them. Monica knew this drug dealer well. Meanwhile, Julie considers going to the next step with Eddie.
Episode 10
Sins of the Mother
Thu, Dec 7, 200660 mins
Drug dealing habitual criminal Jeremy Clinton is shot twice at home with his own gun. Socialite Sara Metcalfe, in the Woodlands' top league, confesses, having just dumped him after a year-long affair. For lack of Mirandizing, her confession is dismissed. After ballistics finds Jeremy was shot with another, fatal gun without Sara's fingerprints, her trial is aborted. After her common Florida past with Clinton is discovered, Shark charges her again, but not alone. Forensics come up with more.
Episode 11
The Wrath of Khan
Thu, Jan 4, 200760 mins
The D.A.'s office is after billionaire Pakistani-U.S. arms dealer Amir Khan, who supplied local gangs, since six months but FBI agent Cade Berlinger will arrest him for the international trade with terrorists if they don't catch him in 24 hours, so frightened informant Emilio Perez, Khan's handyman who wanted out of his deal for theft, is forced in court to respect his probation terms, but is late for the hasty nightly sale setup and missing- Khan just send an innocent student as a diversion. Perez' wife Elena admits their daughter Flora was kidnapped. When Emilio is arrested, he claims LAPD detective Ray Harkin is the corrupt traitor and gives the address, so a SWAT team is send and finds both explosives production and Ray's corps- wired with a time-delayed bomb, then Emilio says Ray's partner Willy Tarver is the kidnapper in Khan's service. After wiring links a C4-deal with extreme racist Jake Foreman, Tarver asked a D.A.'s man to talk to the bomb squad, so he took Casey hostage too...
Episode 12
Wayne's World
Thu, Jan 18, 200760 mins
Janet Butler, a victim of a serial killer who targets young women, kidnapping them and cutting them, manages to escape. Starks's investigation leads them to Wayne Robert Callison, English teacher/writer and officially charge him with the murders. Unfortunately, Wayne is a highly manipulative legal genius who proves to be a very worthy adversary to Stark.
Episode 13
Teacher's Pet
Thu, Feb 1, 200760 mins
Serial killer Wayne Callison is still free, so Shark only lets daughter Julie go out, even to the mall, if accompanied by Isaac as trusted body-guard, later by 24 year-old stalking protection specialist Neal Donovan. Billionaire merchant real estate tycoon Brandon Crawford, often investigated but never convicted, is shot at his home, where his 16 year-old son Dylan, left by his mother a 5, still lives, a model student and runner. Dylan's step-mother Sonya, who moved out indefinitely and clearly enjoys spending Crawford money, watched TV alone: no alibi, but says she would have waited to kill him till her 5-year pre-nuptial ran out and get half his fortune. Dylan's art teacher and prep school mentor Ellie Davis says he gave up drawing (with charcoal, as Brandon had under his fingernails), despite talent and drive, because of dad's disdain for artists, a jock mate says Dylan 'joked' about wanting a gun to kill either himself or his eternally nagging dad. A home search allowed by the non-grieving, greedy widow finds blood on Dylan's sketch-book, which has three missing pages, and muddy $500 boots, which fit the tracks in Fryman Canyon, where the murder weapon was dropped, which was robbed from a liquor store and possibly sold to already wealthy Dylan. The shrink William Prosk finds firmly against trying the apparently grief-stricken boy as an adult. Shark now focuses on a possible accomplice, notably Ellie Davis, who also was his somewhat intimate e-mail pen pall. Now Dylan tells a whole other story, which makes Shark go to trial and order expensive electrostatic reconstruction against Devlin's objections, but faces nasty surprises...
Episode 14
Starlet Fever
Thu, Feb 8, 200760 mins
21-year old Hollywood starlet Taylor Mays is killed after a car chase. Sebastian tells his team not to say anything to the press, because one of them might be the killer. Meanwhile, the team finds out Taylor had a fight with another Hollywood socialite in a club the evening of the crash. Julie goes to a Hollywood party with Neal, without telling Sebastian.
Episode 15
Here Comes the Judge
Thu, Feb 15, 200760 mins
In the past, conservative judge Andrew Bennett and Sebastian have had several clashes. Bennett even tried to disbar Sebastian twice, to no avail. Now, Bennett's wife is murdered and Bennett is Sebastian's main suspect. Jessica warns him Bennett is a well-respected man with much friends in high places, but Sebastian doesn't care about this and soon finds out the marriage of the Bennett's wasn't as good as Bennett wants Sebastian to believe it was. Meanwhile, Julie prepares a fancy diner for Neal because he won't be her bodyguard anymore. Unfortunately, he has to work. He feels sorry for her and asks her to come to a party he's going to.
Episode 16
Blind Trust
Thu, Feb 22, 200760 mins
Stark loyalties are tested when he gets caught up as accessory after the fact to a murder involving his best friend, and just to make things interesting there's blackmail to deal with. Meanwhile, Julie goes to extreme lengths to keep her arrest from her father.
Episode 17
Backfire
Thu, Mar 29, 200760 mins
Julie Stark has been charged with drunk driving. The mayor wants the team to investigate police detectives Ray Tillman (black veteran) and Kenny Leary (white rookie), who shot and wounded two black young men in the poor neighborhood Angelino Heights--drug dealer Reshaun Ferris and his close 17-year-old cousin, model student Thomas Broussard, who dies in the hospital. A video confirms Ferris, who was already facing a third-strike life sentence, opened fire, which makes him legally homicidal. Then journalist Angela Corbin airs a surveillance recording showing the cops manipulating the murder gun, sound analysis shows Reshaun didn't shoot at all--the first bang was a car muffler--and was arrested in vain thrice by Tillman. Shark charges the trigger-happy cops.
Episode 18
Trial by Fire
Thu, Apr 5, 200760 mins
While Stark and Raina were pleading the death sentence for multiple murderer Paul Masters, they, the judge and audience are all taken hostage when a bailiff's gun is put at his own head by Stanley Davis, who claims to be unjustly convicted. Stark convinces Davis to exchange the youngest hostages for Davis' case files and food, the team will try to give him a revision of his latest store robbery with a gun death conviction, but the detective he blames for his conviction fights for his gun, causing the judge to get wounded badly. Casey and the others soon find the robbery investigation was a shambles, it may well have been two Latinos as Davis always maintained, a street gang. Masters tries everything possible to talk Davis out of following Stark's advice. When Stark must admit the ideal witness has just been killed, Davis looses confidence in him and lets Masters take a gun...
Episode 19
Porn Free
Thu, Apr 12, 200760 mins
Internet hard porn production firm Dirty Boy tycoon Tyson Shawn (35), formerly in cable porn, and involved in various crimes, is found shot dead in his Valley villa jacuzzi. Casey is designated most competent to study Shawn's saucy oeuvre and questions his ex-partner Maya Snider, now in soft porn, who reports repeated visits from Brent Gilroy, who runs a shelter for abused women and whose prints were found all over the murder scene. A search of the shelter finds his gun and master recordings of unedited Dirty Bo productions. Gilroy makes a full confession, claiming the dirt bag had to be stopped, obviously inspired by his hot-shot lawyer, Mitchell Latimer, who does a great job sanctifying his client, while Shark's team can't find any dirt, practically indispensable to sway a jury, till Casey finds Gilroy's shelter paid Shaw a lot, presumably as an investor who got duped. However public opinion is completely pro-Gilroy, probably including the jury, so Latimer maintains his far-stretched 'defence of third persons in danger' thesis. Then new facts come to light concerning Katie Paget, one of the porn stars, who came from the shelter, but the full truth is apparently too late...
Episode 20
Fall from Grace
Thu, Apr 19, 200760 mins
The office prosecutes two shady nightclub-owning brothers for the murder of a college professor who helped a gambler steal money from them. But for some reason, they can predict Stark's moves and strategies. Has the office been compromised?
Episode 21
Strange Bedfellows
Thu, Apr 26, 200760 mins
A boy who's been missing for four years is found alive and well and the man he's been living with all those years, Russell Wallace, stands on trial for kidnapping. Sebastian is convinced Wallace is guilty, but the boy insists Wallace never harmed him and keeps referring to Wallace as his dad. Wallace claims he took the boy in to protect him from his parents. Things get even foggier when the boy disappears while Wallace is in custody. Meanwhile, Sebastian finds an empty SAT score envelope and wonders which score Julie won't tell him.
Episode 22
Wayne's World 2: Revenge of the Shark
Thu, May 3, 200760 mins
Stark believes as soon as recently released schizophrenic Hannah Morton's naked corps is found, slashed and murdered his way, no forensic leads, it is the work of his daughter Julie's stalker, Wayne Callison, who is signing his book 'The Hunted Man' on how he beat Sebastian in court. Julie is tickled pink to be invited by her former headmaster to a prestigious summer school in Manhattan, near her ma, but pa has doubts as it leads to Porter Prep school there. Jessica Devlin leaves the L.A. prosecution office after fifteen years now Cutler defeated her. The forensic resemblance of Hannah's cuts with previous victims is inadmissible, but when Dan Tompko witnesses he saw a man in a car there, both fitting Wayne, Stark charges him; his publisher posts the fat bail. Sebastian has the team examine every possible detail of Wayne's past to sketch a killer's portrait to the jury. When Casey and Isaac find Hannah's fellow patient Jeffrey Wharton has a violent past and was obsessed with her, Sebastian forbids his team disclosure and burns the evidence, but Wayne finds out- Stark is barred from the case, Jessica Devlin takes over first chair. Wayne also manages to discredit Tompko as he was Janet Butler's half-brother, so only Callison's past can be used against him...