Back in the early 50s, I think, some wag added up all the elements in the human body, gave each their market value, and it came out to about two dollars. A human body, even a baby's, is worth considerably more than that to some people.
A young woman is found beaten and kicked in an alley outside the law office where she works. She miscarries. Serreta and Logan look into the case and it appears that she had been seduced by her boss and, when he found she was pregnant, decided to abort the child himself.
The woman and her husband are stricken with grief, but not so much that they are prevented from bringing a suit for a couple of million bucks against the lawyer who presumably impregnated her during their three-month affair.
But it's not so simple. Real life is usually more complicated than that, and these additional complications are what add zest to what might otherwise be just another cops and criminals TV series.
It develops that the young couple have turned the wife into a baby factory. The child had already been promised to a couple wanting to adopt it, and it had been already paid for, with non-refundable funds in case of accidental miscarriage.
Moreover, medical forensics casts doubt on the lawyer's being responsible for the pregnancy. The child is probably that of the husband, not the wife's boss. So the lawyer was deliberately set up for the million-dollar lawsuit.
The plot sort of lifts up a rock and reveals a horde of disgusting things scurrying around under it. The lawyer has been banging his secretary. (It costs him his family.) The wife has been using her uterus as an ATM. Her husband has been in cahoots and bilked a childless couple out of considerable expense money.
Amy Price is the duplicitous mother and she's perfect for the role. Her performance is good -- she goes from mourning the lost child to a grim determination to keep as many shekels as possible. But, equally important, she LOOKS right. She's not overly attractive by Hollywood standards but she's by no means ugly either. What she does have is a formidable jaw that suggests fortitude and a pair of keen and piercing blue eyes that see right to the heart of the matter, which is where the big bucks lie.
It's not even touched upon, but a viewer may be excused for asking what would have happened to the child if, after these revelations, it had been born. This is the very definition of an "unwanted child." What a pro-choice argument it makes.
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