The worst episodes of Drop Dead Diva
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
David Beckham is Jane's new case. Then Deb's mother arrives, needing a lawyer for her divorce, so Jane wants to represent her. And it can only be done by utilizing the Chinese Wall.
- 02
Bobbi Dobkins enlists Jane's help when a dance school student sues her over an injury, while a high school classmate hires Grayson when the city of Lakewood refuses to pay her for a sculpture it considers obscene.
- 03
Jane takes on a wrongful termination case but soon becomes convinced there may be more to her client than meets the eye. Kim and Parker team up to represent Owen's sister in her divorce hearing while Grayson helps Stacy and Nikki with the legal matters to getting their business in order.
- 04
Jane and Grayson represent a woman who is suing for custody of her late fiancé's ashes. And just as Jane starts to accept his disappearance, Owen suddenly returns.
- 05
As she works to persuade a friend to have a fatal brain tumor removed, Jane must confront her unresolved feelings for Grayson. And after Stacy helps Kim defend a country singer who's accused of trying to murder her ex-boyfriend, Jane struggles with her mother's help as she prepares for her wedding day.
- 06
Jane and Grayson partner up on case involving a 16-year-old video game genius (Austin) determined to sue his father while Kim represents her own father (Ratzenberger) in an eviction case. The firm's new Angel investor Luke, finds a way to be more involved with Jane's personal life than she would like. Stacy and Nikki decide to go into business together, despite Jane's hesitation.
- 07
Jane and Kim take on a case suing the producer of a reality makeover show. Parker is shocked when his son Eric appears at the firm while he has his hands full serving as an arbitrator on a custody case involving a pet store rat. Teri agrees to help Stacy with the opening of her pakery in exchange for some stage time while Grayson and Owen get competitive in basketball and loves.
- 08
Jane creates havoc with the Bhutanese government when she decides to represent a young woman who wants to get out of an arranged marriage to the Prince of Bhutan. Meanwhile, Kim and Parker try to help Eric's teacher get his job back when his off campus X-rated past catches up with him. Teri signs on as Stacy's head of marketing and gets creative on twitter and the web to get customers into the pakery.
- 09
Following a long night at a bachelorette party, Jane ends up at the U.S./Mexico border to defend the bride's fiancé, whose bachelor party went south of the border. Jane must get the groom back into the U.S. in time for the wedding. Kim represents a housewife who claims that her online erotic novel has been plagiarized by a major publisher. Meanwhile, a mysterious man appears at the firm, yet his motives remain unclear to the lawyers of Harrison & Parker. Owen struggles with his new role as Stacy's sperm donor.
- 10
As a former client looks to Jane when she's marked for death by a ruthless drug dealer, Owen fights to save a teen actress' career by stopping the publication of a nude photo.
- 11
As Jane represents a professional cheerleader who says she's being bullied by her teammates, Owen counsels a family to secede to protect their home from being seized by the government. Meanwhile, Teri impersonates a lawyer to protect Paul from his creditors.
- 12
After Kim blackmailed Parker to promote her senior partner, he left her in charge while he chases his ex-girlfriend and the son he didn't know about. Finding the law firm financially near disaster, Kim bribes Jane with perks and a raise to return from Italian holiday with Owen and help by winning a murder case defense for a wealthy, adulterous law school friend Emily Horn, tried for murdering her boyfriend and blames her husband Anton. To get over disloyal Stacy, Fred found another girlfriend, Allie, but accepts Jane's advice to stick to his true love.
- 13
An unassuming housewife's arrest for treason pits Jane and Grayson against the government's top secret intelligence bureaucracy. Kim represents a family of foster children who are being kicked out by their new parents.
- 14
Grayson and Kim are puzzled that boss Parker, whom a client demands to plead his case personally against a disgruntled ex-employee who discredits his firm's chocolate snack, demands both of them to 'assist', in fact leaves the pleading them, so Grayson resorts to a daring pep-talk. Jane meets 'her' (not Deb's) self-invited mother Elaine Bingum and most learn to know her as it goes. Fred finds himself temporarily homeless as well as neglected by Stacey and takes Elaine's advice to try dating around, while Tony Nicastro dates Jane, who also pleads the case of the victims of a hospital baby swap in surprising chapters.
- 15
Though it forces her to take on a client of the firm, Jane agrees to help a frustrated parent stop a lead contaminated high school from opening. And when Teri lambasts a former high school classmate at a dating seminar, Kim defends her in a slander lawsuit.
- 16
Jane and Grayson team up for a case involving a faulty oil rig and the death of one of its engineers while Jane battles the uncertainly of Owen's whereabouts and what it means for their upcoming nuptials. Meanwhile, Parker enlists Kim's help in a custody hearing for his son Eric when his ex Elisa hires a high-profile, hard-ass attorney Kelly Stevens to fight for sole-custody of Eric.
- 17
Jane's mom Elaine enlists Jane's help in defending a girl she use to babysit who is accused of murdering another teen. Tired of Luke's antics, Parker asks Grayson to help woo Gina Blunt as a new potential investor in the firm despite Teri's protests about her. Teri and Stacy discover some news about Owen that leaves Jane devastated.
- 18
Teaming up with Grayson to supervise a law student's suit on behalf of a computer company employee puts Jane at odds with her former Stanford Law School mentor. Meanwhile, Kim begins to suspect that the firm's creditor Gina Blunt is up to no good.
- 19
As Jane's lawsuit on behalf of a teenager who collapsed at a rave prompts a death threat against Owen, Kim and Grayson represent a sperm donor seeking to retain his parental rights.
- 20
Jane struggles to keep her personal feelings aside while representing a jilted bride who's suing the former groom for damages. Kim and Grayson represent a surrogate mother looking for the missing parents of the child she is about to deliver. Stacy gets discouraged when she seeks advice from business mogul Barbara Corcoran about The Pakery. Jane and Stacy have a new houseguest when Paul crashes at their apartment. Kim announces the new partner at the firm, shocking Jane and Grayson.
- 21
In an attempt to be professional, Jane and Owen partner on a case of a teenage boy who has been accused of cheating on the SATs. Meanwhile, Kim and Grayson defend the owner of a dog that is accused of impregnating a prized pooch that lives next door. Jane enlists Paul to spy on Stacy when she begins acting strangely.
- 22
Jane tries to impress both Owen and the owners of major baseball team by representing their star player when he's accused of murder. Meanwhile, Kim helps a friend fight for her alimony. Owen's new assistant, Nicole, helps Grayson mend his broken heart and Teri advises Stacy on what to look for in a sperm donor.
- 23
Jane attempts to reconcile with Owen while they work together representing a professor who's been arrested for smuggling drugs. Kim goes up against Grayson's ex-fiancé Vanessa in a case where Kim represents a woman fighting for rights to a very successful video game she created with her recently deceased boyfriend. Stacy invites a handful of her exes to a "donor party" where she tries to assess who might be the best sperm donor.
- 24
Jane and Grayson represent pageant contestant, Donna, when she's stripped of her crown after claiming the Miss Universal Globe competition has been rigged. As Kim's due date approaches, she represents her formerly estranged father, Larry, when he loses his job coaching a little league team. Stacy continues her crusade to convince Jane that Owen would be her ideal sperm donor. Grayson and Nicole struggle to define their relationship.
- 25
As Owen and Grayson fight for a client's right to marry the woman he loves, Jane handles two divorces that resulted from unconventional marriage therapy.
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