Writer:	David E. Kelley
Director:	Barnet Kellman
Star:	Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal),  Courtney Thorne-Smith (Georgia Thomas),  Greg Germann (Richard Fish),  Lisa Nicole Carson (Renée Raddick),  Jane Krakowski (Elaine Vassal),  Vonda Shepard (Herself),  Portia de Rossi (Nelle Porter),  Lucy Liu (Ling Woo),  Peter MacNicol (John Cage),  Gil Bellows (Billy Thomas)
Recurring Role:	James LeGros (Mark Albert)
Guest Star:	Shea Farrell (Attending Hospital Physician),  Gloria Gaynor (Herself),  Loretta Devine (Nora Mills),  Amanda Donohoe (Marianne Holt),  Valerie Mahaffey (Sally Muggins),  Gibby Brand (Judge William McGough),  Cheyanne Wilbur (Foreman),  Rena Heinrich (Stacey)

Featured Music:
"Neighborhood" by Vonda Shepard
"I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor
"Never Can Say Goodbye" by Loretta Devine
"We Will Rock You" by Queen
"Goodbye My Friend" by Vonda Shepard (edit) Shea Farrell, an Associate Producer of the show, appears for the third time in a different role. (edit) Lisa Nicole Carson (Renée Raddick), Peter MacNicol (John Cage) and Courtney Thorne-Smith (Georgia Thomas) do not appear in this episode, although they are featured in the opening credits. (edit) First appearance of James LeGros as Mark Albert, a recurring character, and a regular in the following season. (edit)

Mark: Law and Order. Law and Order is a television show, hope for it a good one. The nucleus of Nora Fields, believe it or not, was her love for her husband. Now you heard the therapist testify, the power of this love was also in Nora's mind immortal. Now there's a thing about great loves. We think they're...
Billy voiceover: ...immortal. It can live forever. Even if the people involved don't...
Mark: When Nora walked into that room and saw what she saw, it was as if her own center had been destroyed and nothing else mattered. The psychiatrist said, she was lost. Those were her words. She was lost. And she remains lost. The love that she had for her husband turned out to be false or at least finite and now she feels...
Billy voiceover: ...like she's not even entitled to cling to it after he's gone. And she sits there. Empty.
Mark: ...A love that she cherished more than life itself was taken from her. Suddenly gone. And in part...
Billy voiceover:...she felt gone.
Mark: ...And she snapped. (edit) Billy (ghost): You hate him, you hate God - anybody else?
Ally: Yeah. You. For dying. (pause) You know? I can't even wear black, you know? Because you weren't mine! And maybe, maybe that's why I feel so alone.
And nobody realy understands how much I... and, and what I...
Billy (ghost): I know.
Ally: Everybody, everybody says life has to go on and it just feels like such a big insult to you if life just goes on.
Billy (ghost): Just remember me every now and again. That'll be enough. (edit)

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Title: I Will Survive.

This is a reference to the song I Will Survive by Gloria Gayner, who performs the song in this episode. (edit)