- Following the car accident that left Grayson in a coma, Jane finds herself struggling with her desire to reveal herself as Deb when he wakes up, despite warnings from Fred. Jane reluctantly takes on a case involving a hard partying celebrity on the hook for a hit and run of a 12-year-old girl and enlists Stacy to help her. Meanwhile, Parker and Kim face off in court representing opposing sides of a case involving exes which rings a little too close to home for them.—Lifetime
- "Drop Dead Diva" - "Hit and Run" - June 19, 2011
Season three picks up where season two left off as Jane is at the hospital by the comatose Grayson's side, wondering what it meant that he looked at her and called her "Deb" after the accident. She has several odd dreams-- including a musical sequence where she and the cast jam to the Thelma Houston disco classic "Don't Leave Me This Way"-- about Grayson.
After Parker arrives to give Jane her new case she reluctantly leaves Grayson under the watchful eye of Vanessa.
Later Jane rolls over in bed and finds Paula Abdul who is there to counsel her, dream sequence-style, to grow up and accept that she is nothing more than Grayson's good friend now. Fred is on her other side and advises the same. Jane insists that somehow Grayson knows she's Deb.
She goes to visit him and chats with the neurologist who encourages her to talk to him even though he's comatose. Jane wonders what to say, telling him the news: Kim left the firm, she's representing a movie star but she says she'd much rather tell him how much she misses him and them as a couple and how she wants him to be happy but watching him with Vanessa is killing her. She grabs his hand, saying it might make her the worst person in the world but she knows Vanessa isn't his soul mate, Jane is, because she's actually Deb. He opens his eyes and asks what happened. She explains he was in an accident but is okay now. He looks at her and asks who she is. Turns out he has retrograde amnesia which is common for coma patients but he should be okay. Both she and Vanessa are thrilled.
Back at the office Fred asks Jane what's up. She lashes out at him saying he's falling down on his job as guardian angel letting Grayson's accident happen. He says he begged her not to go the restaurant and that he can't see the future so it's not his fault. She kicks him out.
Grayson gets his memory back and asks to see Jane. She arrives and Fred is there in the hallway. She apologizes to him for saying the accident was his fault. She goes into Grayson's room and Vanessa is there. He tells her that he and Vanessa are getting married and he wants Jane to be his "best man." She agrees, of course. He then says they're moving the wedding up to one month from today because after his accident he's realized there's no reason to wait. She's devastated but puts up a good show. She walks by Fred in the hallway, tearful. He asks if she's okay, she says she will be.
There are two law cases tonight in addition to the Grayson drama.
Kim and Parker face off over a booty call between a divorced couple and Jane represents a wealthy bad boy actor on trial for a hit and run of a 12-year-old girl.
The bad boy actor in question is one Tim Klein who trashes hotel rooms, gets DUIs, and stars in movies with titles like "Bad Blood 3." He is managed by his protective older brother Mark. Jane is initially resistant to the case but celeb-loving Stacy urges her to take it when Parker offers it to her to get her out of the hospital and away from moping about Grayson. He even tells Stacy she can be Jane's "intern" since she knows every tabloid factoid about Tim Klein: his cars, his contentious divorce, his astrological sign.
Jane meets with him and isn't convinced he's innocent but when "Extra" shows up and Jane confronts them about trampling Tim's rights, Tim announces she's his lawyer. Jane seems to enjoy that moment in the spotlight and gets down to work trying to prove Tim's innocence. His alibi is that he was home all night and that someone stole his car and then dumped it off Mulholland to hide the evidence. When a cop on the stand says this is unlikely, Jane points out that it's not impossible though, that an absence of evidence doesn't mean the same thing as actual evidence.
The twists come when Jason's soon-to-be-ex-wife Lana shows up with a surprise alibi, she was there the night of the accident-- which in the course of the show has become a manslaughter case when the girl dies- and has a packing box to prove it. Something meant to be sent to her was sent to her old address by accident and she went to pick it up that night. When the prosecutor reveals that it seems very suspicious that Lana is now providing an alibi she could've provided a month ago, and that Tim agreed to give her the house in Aspen-- a sticking point in the divorce-- he accuses of her perjury, of being bribed for an alibi. She denies this but the damage is done. Later, Mark, Tim's older brother shows up and confesses. Jane is not so sure.
Thanks to Stacy's fresh eyes on the evidence they notice the driver's seat was pushed way up by the last person who drove Tim's Ferrari. Through this they deduce, correctly, that it was in fact Lana-- his vindictive soon to be ex-- that was driving the car. The DA drops all charges against Tim and Lana is cuffed on the spot.
In the Kim and Parker drama we learn that Kim is now operating out of a coffee shop after leaving the firm. She is approached by old friend Penny who confesses she had a booty call with her cheating ex-husband Kevin. He coaxed her into bed by saying he was going to therapy and was a changed man because of it. She's so mad she wants to sue and wants Kim to help. Kevin is good friends with Parker so he hires him as his attorney.
Parker sets up a meeting with Kim under the guise of settlement talks but he really just wanted to see her and to apologize and see if they could fix what he broke with his errant kiss. She says they cannot and she'll see him in court.
The judge dismisses the case as frivolous but when Kim wants to change the charges to "false advertising" he kicks it over to commercial arbitration where his sister is the presiding judge. After hearing from Kevin's doctor that he claimed he was a changed man but that the doctor didn't really believe him, the judge finds in favor of Penny and the punishment consists of Kevin buying a billboard on the Sunset Strip that basically says he's a toolbag who uses women. Penny and Kim are happy.
Parker goes to Kim's coffee shop office to try one more tme to apologize. She says she believes he feels remorse but it doesn't matter and asks him to leave. He does, but not before saying that he's not giving up.
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