- While being manipulated by a scheming law partner (guest star Tricia Helfer), Franklin & Bash (Breckin Meter and Mark-Paul Gosselaar) must prove Infeld (Malcolm McDowell) is innocent of murdering his best friend during a mountain climbing expedition fifteen years ago. Hanna (Garcelle Beauvais) lends a hand when a younger challenger and a pair of greedy promoters threaten an aging professional wrestler's career.—Anonymous
- We open with the guys interviewing a luchadore (masked professional wrester) named Ultimo who is being forced by his league to remove his mask and surrender his character because they think he is too old. Franklin seems interested in Ultimo's daughter.
Infeld and an attractive woman enter the court room with him assuring her that everything will be okay. It turns out the woman is well-known attorney Brett Cayman and she is there defending Infeld for first-degree murder. He pleads not guilty and is not given bail.
Everybody from the firm is called into that office and informed by Cayman (who is from the firm's New York office) that Infeld is being charged with killing former best friend, Gibson Hawk. Hawk went missing 15 years ago when he and Infeld were climbing Mt. McKinley and his body was just found a few days ago. Cayman will be overseeing the case and handling the media. She places Franklin, Bash and Karp in charge of the trial. Karp doesn't seem to care for her.
Cayman takes Franklin and Bash to see Hawk's body. The medical examiner tells them Hawk was killed by a knife wound to the stomach. The weapon was a hiking knife with Infeld's name inscribed on the handle.
In prison Infeld admits to the team that he did, in fact, kill Hawk and lie to the police about what happened. He says the reason is that on the night in question his buddy seemed to lose it 200 feet from the summit when their guide told them they needed to head back down. Hawk tried to take the group's last remaining oxygen container which led to him viciously attacking Infeld and Infeld killing him. The plan is to pursue a self-defense line.
To explain Infeld's lie upon reaching the bottom of the mountain, the plan is to argue he was protecting the reputation of a friend and known philanthropist. Carmen has already found a private bank account in the Bahamas that was closed out just after Hawk died.
Cayman overhears Bash and Franklin talking about Hawk's account. Bash does not tell what they were talking about. Cayman tells Bash to remove Karp from the team, not listening to Bash when he says they need Karp.
Cayman corners Hanna in the firm parking lot and makes reference to her not be treated as well as the men there, basically referring to her not handling Infeld's case. She mentions that the New York office might be the place for her as a senior partner but Hanna isn't interested.
Hanna is now the primary on Ultimo's case. They meet with representatives of the league, along with his heir apparent, El Presidente. The league owners say that Ultimo signed a contract giving them control over his image. Ultimo and El Presidente go back and forth.
Karp complains to Cayman about not being on his uncle's case. She tells him that to smooth things over she's got his name moved up the list of judicial appointments.
Karp meets with Infeld, who thinks Cayman's decision to remove him might have been the right one. Infeld says part of him has been looking forward to the day he'd be judged for what he did.
In opening arguments Franklin admits to the jury that his client killed Hawk. He points out that Infeld's actions saved the lives of two other members of the climbing team.
At Ultimo's trial the judge says he has no choice but to honor the contract. Ultimo is ordered to appear the following day and surrender his mask.
A police officer testifies that Infeld and Hawk got in a fistfight days before the climb, with Infeld taking quite a beating. Infeld said at the time if Hawk didn't "pay up, he's a dead man."
Infeld tells the guys that he'd forgotten the fight, as back in his drinking days that kind of stuff happened all the time. In the parking lot the guys admit they are having doubts.
Ultimo's daughter drops by the guys' place, obviously upset. Franklin ends up consoling her and she talks about the importance of a folk hero like her father to the thousands of his fans. They end up fooling around and performing some flirty wrestling holds on each other. She mentions the word copyright and this gets Franklin thinking.
Franklin tells Bash his idea and learns via Pindar that days after Hawk's death his off-shore bank account was drained by Infeld.
Infeld says the account was a private one they used for gambling and the deal was if one of them died the other was to give the money to charity. Bash mentions pleading guilty, but Infeld says he'll represent himself if they don't want to fight. They promise to win the case for him.
Hanna files a countersuit the following day, alleging the league doesn't own the moves Ultimo developed. The judge rules he can keep the mask until the trial, probably four months away.
Infeld takes the stand and says he has no regrets about saving the team and defending his friend's honor. To the guys' shock the prosecutor mentions Infeld draining the offshore account. She tells the judge in a sidebar that she got the information from Infeld's firm.
Cayman tells the guys she sent the information to the prosecution to make sure they weren't cutting any corners. They say it was unnecessary since they weren't planning to enter the account as evidence. They tell Cayman they are no longer taking orders from her and bring Karp back on the trial team.
Hanna tells Karp about being offered the senior partnership. He thinks this is bad because Cayman "means every word of it."
Hanna brokers a deal between Ultimo and the league where he will wrestle El Presidente. The winner gets the mask and she points out that either way the league gets the gate. They agree.
After Infeld tells them "dead men tells no tales" Bash has an idea. In trial the next day he calls Hawk to the stand.
Karp and Hanna confront Cayman. They've figured out she was trying to move them out of the way so she could take over the firm if Infeld was convicted. They demand she step aside.
With the courtroom cleared Bash says he wants to take the jury to the morgue. The idea is to prove that Infeld didn't hate Hawk by letting the jury see his reaction to facing his friend. The judge ends up agreeing.
At the morgue the medical examiner says after being able to finish his autopsy he has determined Hawk was suffering from hypoxia. This could lead to rage and extreme violence, and the M.E. thinks a person in that state might have to be stabbed to be stopped.
The prosecutor offers probation for Infeld giving a false statement. He accepts and says good-bye to his friend's body, in the process knocking his head off.
The gang watches Ultimo win the fight.
Infeld tells Hanna that he wants her to succeed him as head of the firm when he eventually steps down.
The guys have a party and it seems Franklin and Ultimo's daughter are still into each other. Ultimo thanks Franklin and shows him his face out of respect.
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