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Nick represents a teenage mom whose father is accused of murdering his terminally ill wife; the
death of a patient in the operating room exposes Lulu s husband s a long-kept secret.
When Frank Fortunato is arrested for shooting his terminally ill wife to death,
Nick is brought in to represent their teenage daughter, Betsy, and her baby. Yet, when Nick learns that the mother had Huntington
s Disease, and not ALS like Betsy had always been told, he insists that she be tested to find out if she or her child -- inherited
the genetic, and degenerative, brain disorder. Meanwhile, when a doctor at the hospital he represents is suspended following
the death of a patient during surgery, Nick agrees to stay on the case even though the surgeon in question is Lulu s husband,
Brian. And in order to help land some new business for the firm, Burton presses Nick to date the prospective client s daughter.
After she tests positive for Huntington s, Nick recommends that Betsy give up her baby for adoption. But when
he leaves it up to her to tell the new parents about the disease, Betsy remains silent so as not to jeopardize her daughter
s future. As things between Brian and Lulu come to a head once he learns that she has been secretly planning to move out,
Lulu insists on helping her husband clear his name. However, as a result of his investigation, Nick discovers that Brian has
epilepsy something that he never told Lulu or the hospital. Meanwhile, after Betsy tells the Manley s about her illness only
after the adoption is final, Nick begins to doubt her father s confession.
On his father s advice, Nick discloses
Brian s illness to the hospital, all the while claiming he doesn t want to damage his medical career. Yet, after the medical
review board clears him, Brian announces that he s headed back to Ohio without Lulu. After learning that the baby doesn t
have Huntington s, Nick persuades the Manley s to permit Betsy to say goodbye to her child. Confronted by Nick, Betsy admits
that she was the one who shot her mother and, over her dad s objections, finally tells the D.A. in order to spare Frank a
long prison sentence.
From ATV World
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