Judging Amy

Season 4 Episode 14

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Maxine and Sean battle a sleazy attorney with a penchant for blackmail when they attempt to remove a child from her negligent parents; Amy presides over the case of a deadbeat dad who is willing to go to extreme measures to avoid paying child support when he learns that his son's paternity may be at issue; Maxine is "filled with existential dread" at the prospect of the wedding ceremony Gillian is planning for her; Kyle experiences a sleepless night discovering why the parents of a handicapped man who appears to be healthy insist that he be hospitalized overnight.moreless

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  • very good episode.

    9.8
    By HaveSumFaith, Aug 08, 2007
    maxine removes a little girl from her hoome while her parents were having sex with a lot of people all around the house, even in her room. the lawyer for the parents, however blackmailed the judge so he made maxine return the girl. she went against the orders and took the girl which got dcf a lawsuit. maxine found a good judge to handle him and it worked. amy has a case with the worst divorced couple. they cant get along and fued over money and custody. they are pretty funny fighting. he finds out he is not the father, but after seeing how much his son loves him gives in. that was a great story, because he was going to give up on his "son" until he really knew how much he loved him. kyle is stuck in the hospital with a patient who his parents drop off so they can get a good nights sleep. he was really funny. he kept getting up and such. he did find a sleeping penny, though. this episode was soo great.moreless

  • In this episode, we see Amy preside over one of her most unsavory custody cases yet. Meanwhile, Maxine and Sean square off against a lawyer who's blackmailing judges, and Kyle learns that being a good doctor means bending the rules every so often.moreless

    9.5
    By captainthomas, Aug 15, 2005
    This episode is an example of the quintessential Maxine Gray. Despite being foiled in her attempts to remove a troubled little girl from her orgy-staging, drug-using parents by a sleazy lawyer who gets what he wants by threatening to pull the skeletons out of the judge's closet and suing DCF, as well as Sean and Maxine personally, she comes up with a unique solution (with a little clandestine help from Bruce). We also see her give up politeness and reveal her true feelings to Gillian about her plans for the wedding. At the same time, the normally placid Sean becomes uncharacteristically angry and violent, almost coming to blows with the aforementioned lawyer.

    Meanwhile, Amy must convince a father to continue to pay child support on his son, although it is revealed that he is not the biological father and is already reluctant to pay, since he believes that his money would only finance his ex-wife's new boyfriend. In the end, it takes bringing in the boy himself to solve the conflict.

    Amy's ultimate reliance on Bruce to make her job bearable is demonstrated in this episode, and this is accentuated later by the contrast Maxine provides when she comes to Amy for help and ends up asking Bruce for a favor. We also get an eyeful of the rarely-seen angry side of Sean, suggesting that it really strikes a chord with him on a deep level. Kyle, on the other hand, learns that his often cold, calculating boss has a soft spot from her policy concerning a retarded man. Gillian, however, remains the two-dimensional character she usually is when Maxine's wedding comes up again.

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Cast & Crew: STARS

Amy Brenneman

Amy Brenneman

Amy Madison Gray
Richard T. Jones

Richard T. Jones

Bruce Van Exel
Jessica Tuck

Jessica Tuck

Gillian Gray
Marcus Giamatti

Marcus Giamatti

Peter Gray
Karle Warren

Karle Warren

Lauren Cassidy
Tyne Daly

Tyne Daly

Maxine Gray
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Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

John Kapelos

John Kapelos

Zack Wiley

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Michael Fairman

Michael Fairman

Judge Bouten

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Olivia Lucero

Olivia Lucero

Katie Ordonez

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Timothy Omundson

Timothy Omundson

Sean Potter

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Sarah Danielle Madison

Sarah Danielle Madison

Heather Labonte

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