Close to Home/A Father's Story

A Father's Story
Season 2, Episode 10
Airdate	November 24, 2006
Written by	Elwood Reid
Directed by	Michael Rohl
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Close to Home — Season Two

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A Father's Story is the tenth episode of the second season of Close to Home, and the thirty-second episode overall.

Starring: Jennifer Finnigan (Annabeth Chase), Kimberly Elise (Maureen Scofield), Cress Williams (Det. Ed Williams), Jon Seda (Ray Blackwell)

and David James Elliott (ADA James Conlon)

Guest Starring: Lee Garlington (Hannah Turley), Muse Watson (Bob Peters), Jordan Belfi (Marinelli), Tom Wright (Judge Jenkins), Freda Foh Shen (Dr. Perrin), William Schallert (Harold Jensen), Joe O'Conner (), Joseph Lyle Taylor (), Deborah Strang ()

and Bruce Davison (Doug Hellman)

Co-Starring: Blane Wheatley (), Del Hunter-White (), Sharon Johnston (Judge Graves), Traber Burns (Judge Dauer), Loanne Bishop (), Jill Remez ()

Plot Overview

After his daughter's killer is acquitted, a grieving father shoots the two lawyers, one of them a law school friend of Annabeth's, the other her friend and frequent courtroom opponent Doug Hellman. The shooter's lawyer insists that the accused killer's acquittal is paramount to his defense and asks for the prosecution's work product, which exposes behind-the-scenes drama in that case, including the prosecutor's failure to call a witness whose testimony would have gotten the killer convicted, and also a romantic relationship between the prosecutor and Annabeth's friend, who died from her wounds. A subsequent investigation allows the team to arrest the acquitted killer for a different murder, and allows Annabeth to make a plea deal with her friend's killer.