Come Back Soon

what happens

Although Amy tries to make the best of it, she and Lauren are still miserable in their small apartment; unable to avoid running into Jared and his date at the diner while looking and feeling her worst, Maxine gives him the cold shoulder, but Jared remains undeterred in his affection for her and finally gets her to accept an engagement ring; Michael sues for full legal custody of Lauren; just as Amy is prepared to ask her mother if she can move back in, she discovers that Maxine has puts her house up for sale; Bruce pleads no contest on his assault charge and receives a suspended sentence; Amy hears a case of a woman who locked her children in the trunk of her car because she had no one to care for them while she was at work; Maxine ends her medical leave after her dentist asks her to investigate the possible abuse of a teenaged patient; Bruce is fired and the dreaded Ian Jankowski is promoted to C.S.O. and assigned to Amy's courtroom.

who made it

directed

Daniel Sackheim

written

Barbara Hall

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

• Timothy Omundson as Sean Potter
• Rachel Wilson as Colleen Wharton
• Michelle Clunie as Nancy
• Richard Crenna as Jared Duff
• Christopher Allport as Stan Wharton
• Amanda Wyss as Denise Wharton
• Spencer Garrett as AAG Franklin Dobbs
• George Murdock as Judge Norman Artel