Auld L'Anxiety

what happens

McKenzie overcomes his fear of aging, as well as a little vanity, in successfully representing a client in an age discrimination case; Van Owen is devastated when a witness she has forced to testify against a gang banger is slain, and the woman's young son murders the gang member who ordered his mother's execution; Rollins defies the direct orders of McKenzie and Brackman not to prolong a property settlement conference in a divorce case, but Becker is elated when Rollins's tactics yield a lucrative settlement for their client; Kelsey politely rebuffs Markowitz as he bears gifts and apologies about the prenup, until he finally wears her down and gets her to admit that controlling and manipulative behavior is another thing they have in common; Brackman's sanctimonious pontificating about the sanctity of marriage to litigants in the court room doesn't carry into his own behavior in his chambers with Vasek.

who made it

directed

Nell Cox

written

Steven Bochco, Terry Louise Fisher

guest cast

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

• Rosalind Cash as Nonnie Sweet
• Robert Phalen as Lemuel Collins
• LLynn Herring as Jessica Teicher
• Don Starr as William Claflin
• Diane Delano as Rhonda Vasek
• Jesse D. Goins as Milton Labine
• Terrence E. McNally as Dean Ackerson
• KKenneth Gray as Mitch Kilburn