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Fetal Attraction

Episode Number: 18    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Thursday April 1, 1993    Prod Code: 9K17
Jill asks Dr. David Williams, her ex-fiancé, to perform a controversial fetal tissue transplant on a man suffering from Parkinson's Disease, in the hopes it can cure him. However, Brock wonders if Jill's interest is purely professional.

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Writer: David E. Kelley
Director: Martin Davidson
Star: Holly Marie Combs (Kimberly Brock),  Lauren Holly (Officer Maxine Stewart),  Adam Wylie (Zachary Brock),  Kathy Baker (Dr. Jill Brock),  Tom Skerritt (Sheriff Jimmy Brock),  Costas Mandylor (Officer Kenny Lacos),  Justin Shenkarow (Matthew Brock)
Recurring Role: Denis Arndt (Franklin Dell),  Ray Walston (Judge Henry Bone),  Caroline Cornell (Reporter #1),  Gary Carlos Cervantes (Reporter #2),  Fyvush Finkel (Douglas Wambaugh),  Zelda Rubinstein (Ginny Weedon)
Guest Star: George D. Wallace (Father Joe Lyons),  Robert Pine (Bill McGrath),  Linden Chiles (Dr Packard),  Rusty Schwimmer (Julia Boles),  Carl Strano (Bruce Christopher),  Rob Brownstein (ER Doctor),  Concetta Tomei (Ellen McGrath),  Jamey Sheridan (Dr David Williams),  Emily Chase (Reporter #3)

Notes

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This episode was up for Emmy consideration. (edit)
Guest star Jamey Sheridan would later go on to star as Dr John Sutton during the second season of David E. Kelley's Chicago Hope. (edit)

Quotes

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Judge Henry Bone: And Wambaugh, I am in no mood to entertain your rhetoric either.
Douglas Wambaugh: I won't say a word judge. (Wheels over Bill McGarth) All I ask you to do is to look into my clients eyes and tell him why. Tell him why politics matter more than a chance for him to talk again.
District Attorney: I object. How dare you make a mockery of this forum.
Douglas Wambaugh: It's who I am.
Judge Henry Bone: Quiet! (edit)
Judge Henry Bone: You're in Rome, Wisconsin now.
District Attorney: Meaning what?
Judge Henry Bone: Meaning, strange things happen. (edit)
Dr. David Williams: (To Jill) You traded in aspiration for contentedness. (edit)
Jimmy: We're grownups. We don't get, uh ... uh?
Kim: Jealous?
Jimmy: Yeah, jealous. I didn't even know the word.
Kim: Uh huh. (edit)

Trivia

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Jill: It is revealed she was third in her class at medical school and is board certified in general surgery. (edit)

Allusions

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Wilson Pickett: Kim comments that when Jimmy gets depressed, he plays saxophone and becomes Wilson Pickett. Wilson Pickett is an American R&B and soul singer. (edit)
Fatal Attraction is a 1987 film starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. (edit)
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Fetal Attraction
"Exactly why I watch this series"
An patient of Jill's has advanced Parkinson's disease, leaving him unable to walk and now to speak. In frustration, she decides to contact the leading neurosurgeon in the country. He also turns out to be an ex-fiance.
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