The Obstacle Course

Season: 4

Episode: 18

Production Code: AM-418

First Air Date: April 16, 2001

Writer: David E. Kelley & Kayla Alpert

Director: Joanna Kerns

# of Times Richard said Bygones: 1

Guest Stars:

Robert Downey Jr. as Larry Paul
Taye Diggs as Jackson Duper
Bernadette Peters as Cassandra Lewis
Ann Cusack as Rebecca
Albert Hall as Judge Seymore Walsh
John Michael Higgins as Milter
Arturo Gil as Douglas McGrath
Meta Golding as Sylvie
David Batiste as Michael
Renee Goldberry as a singer
Vatrena King as a singer
Sy Smith as a singer
Gwendolyn T. Oliver as Foreperson

Synopsis:

It was choose your own adventure time as far as romances go.

Playful banter abounded when Ally and Larry became foes and before the zealots begin sending light-up noses in protest, they were only court enemies. Ally’s client Douglas McGrath is short of stature and was successfully sued by Larry’s client who moved her whole life to Boston apparently thinking that the Jude Law’s of the world date via the net.

Since the show is big on dream casting, whom would you cast as Nelle’s on-line love? Remember the quirky quotient is already full to brimming.

Meanwhile, John re-encountered someone whose expectations he felt were similarly bloated. Cassandra Lewis (of the California trip) flew three-thousand miles to have lunch with John, one suspects she is either too rich or insane, hmm, she is fascinated by John... Richard not wanting a good wattle to go to waste moved in on Cassandra and told her that The Biscuit had given him the go ahead. Once she slapped the memory of Mel out of John’s cheekbone, the two shared a lingering kiss goodbye.

Would you like to see Bernadette Peters on a continuing basis or should Anne Heche return?

John remains fence bound but a case prompted Jackson into action. Unless there’s a prettier bridesmaid, a bride’s day couldn’t be more ruined than when a former lover objects, it’s just messy, you know. Believing this to be the single greatest love scene since Romeo and Juliet at the balcony, Jackson spilled his ever-lovin’ guts to Ling. She told him that he’s basically as irresistible as stale bread and she tried to re-catch Richard’s eye, a no go for now.

Should Ling push her fears aside and be with Jackson?

And Renee? Perhaps Lisa Nicole Carson should take a class in mime it might be helpful since nobody wants to write her any dialogue; she could at least be the star of all the episode ending montages.