Fifty Ways to Floss Your Lover

what happens

Becker is enthralled by the beautiful, but somewhat incompetent, secretary who's temping while Melman is on jury duty until he discovers that their relationship will never be anything but professional; Van Owen contemplates buying a gun after a gangbanger shoots her in the court house hallway in retaliation for her winning a death penalty case against a member of the shooter's gang; Melman stands up to a bully in the deliberation room and turns the tide of the verdict towards justice; Sifuentes hits it off with his new dentist and agrees to represent her in a malpractice suit, but their romance is doomed when she can't leave her work at the office; realizing that he can't survive professionally if Melman quits, Becker finally capitulates to her salary demands.

who made it

directed

Mimi Leder

written

David E. Kelley

guest cast

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

• Robert Picardo as John Dunphy
• Phil Reeves as Charles Bassett
• Bruce Kirby as D.A. Bruce Rogoff
• Jennifer Holmes as Jocelyn Pennebaker
• Wren T. Brown as Marshall
• Frederick Coffin as Bill Novicky
• John Hancock as Judge Richard Armand
• Felton Perry as Detective Lester Tuttle