Moving Day
- Episode aired Mar 11, 2019
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Lilly searches for her friend's parents. Mina is haunted by the death of a client. Olivia and Hal battle over the case.Lilly searches for her friend's parents. Mina is haunted by the death of a client. Olivia and Hal battle over the case.Lilly searches for her friend's parents. Mina is haunted by the death of a client. Olivia and Hal battle over the case.
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The Posse That Rides With The Fastest Gun
Young Toronto lawyer Lilly Rue (Cara Ricketts) is discernibly unsettled by checking on friends of hers that have disappeared from their breakfast table as if in to the thin air. But it is not science fiction it is the Canadian judicial system. Presented like that is a brilliant way of characterizing the manner in which adult human beings can be seized as "Wards of the Crown" i.e. be taken custody of by a lawyer.
Mina Lee (Yvonne Chapman), partner with Rue in RDL Legal, is dropped by one of her clients because RDL Legal has a case going against big pharma and that client has conflicts. Big business in Canada is compromised of a pretty sparse number of people considering our population. When one relationship has conflicts with another the more powerful one wins out usually. So there is this kind of domino effect of businesses distancing themselves that threatens to destroy RDL before they've really started.
Adam Darling (Steve Lund), partner with Lee and Rue in RDL Legal, has an issue with Olivia Novak (Cynthia Dale) regarding their case vs big pharma. It becomes apparent that the RDL partners were not entirely ready for what teaming up with Novak would mean in real working terms. With her genius legal mind, work ethic and pathological instinct to see everything the way a lawyer would, she climbed to the top of her profession. While she asserts leadership she also elevates partners.
But Novak's mean streak and vindictiveness aren't necessarily yet known by the younger lawyers. They evidently haven't heard the stories about her yet. Older lawyers would know, if not been witness to her bludgeoning of a construction worker with her brief case in broad daylight on the streets of Toronto.
There is an almost adolescent tone in the way Novak expresses disdain and asserts her superiority. She allows it of herself because she is that good and that assertive. It might be a concern for her vis a vis how others perceive her, but not enough of one for her to stop doing it the way she does.
A lingering effect is one felt between her and her former law firm partner Hal Lloyd (John Ralston). They meet again in a dispute over boxes of documents she took off with at their former firm. The documents relate to the big pharma case and he gets an injunction. When Novak asks "What did I ever do to you?" and his answer is a matter-of-fact "Enough" the viewer can read the subtext. What the viewer can't know is how far he'll go with it. When he gets his other ex-partner Gerry Czernik (Michael Murphy) to join the dispute it indicates he might go pretty far.
Meanwhile, Olivia's mysterious private investigator Derrick Leiber (Patrick Labbe), a disbarred lawyer, tries to bond with office manager Sam (Joanne Vannicola) as well as with Rue and is considerably more successful with Rue than Sam.
The first episode began in a crack-house where a son discovers his mother shooting up. Adam Darling's mum Rosemary Dunsmore will always be an issue because of her addiction. Maybe he'll get around to actual lawyering something at some point. Every arc goes where it is supposed to except for the Adam Darling character. Therein lies the weakness of this episode.
What we do see depicted in this episode though is revealing. There is a coming together and the establishment of a working dynamic. With Novak, who knows if it will continue beyond the big pharma case. But we know she is all in on that. Rue and Lee each show the moxie of the kind of lawyer Novak might want to stand with. Darling (Yes Dear?) does not which might well mean the character will be called upon to do more in future episodes.
Mina Lee (Yvonne Chapman), partner with Rue in RDL Legal, is dropped by one of her clients because RDL Legal has a case going against big pharma and that client has conflicts. Big business in Canada is compromised of a pretty sparse number of people considering our population. When one relationship has conflicts with another the more powerful one wins out usually. So there is this kind of domino effect of businesses distancing themselves that threatens to destroy RDL before they've really started.
Adam Darling (Steve Lund), partner with Lee and Rue in RDL Legal, has an issue with Olivia Novak (Cynthia Dale) regarding their case vs big pharma. It becomes apparent that the RDL partners were not entirely ready for what teaming up with Novak would mean in real working terms. With her genius legal mind, work ethic and pathological instinct to see everything the way a lawyer would, she climbed to the top of her profession. While she asserts leadership she also elevates partners.
But Novak's mean streak and vindictiveness aren't necessarily yet known by the younger lawyers. They evidently haven't heard the stories about her yet. Older lawyers would know, if not been witness to her bludgeoning of a construction worker with her brief case in broad daylight on the streets of Toronto.
There is an almost adolescent tone in the way Novak expresses disdain and asserts her superiority. She allows it of herself because she is that good and that assertive. It might be a concern for her vis a vis how others perceive her, but not enough of one for her to stop doing it the way she does.
A lingering effect is one felt between her and her former law firm partner Hal Lloyd (John Ralston). They meet again in a dispute over boxes of documents she took off with at their former firm. The documents relate to the big pharma case and he gets an injunction. When Novak asks "What did I ever do to you?" and his answer is a matter-of-fact "Enough" the viewer can read the subtext. What the viewer can't know is how far he'll go with it. When he gets his other ex-partner Gerry Czernik (Michael Murphy) to join the dispute it indicates he might go pretty far.
Meanwhile, Olivia's mysterious private investigator Derrick Leiber (Patrick Labbe), a disbarred lawyer, tries to bond with office manager Sam (Joanne Vannicola) as well as with Rue and is considerably more successful with Rue than Sam.
The first episode began in a crack-house where a son discovers his mother shooting up. Adam Darling's mum Rosemary Dunsmore will always be an issue because of her addiction. Maybe he'll get around to actual lawyering something at some point. Every arc goes where it is supposed to except for the Adam Darling character. Therein lies the weakness of this episode.
What we do see depicted in this episode though is revealing. There is a coming together and the establishment of a working dynamic. With Novak, who knows if it will continue beyond the big pharma case. But we know she is all in on that. Rue and Lee each show the moxie of the kind of lawyer Novak might want to stand with. Darling (Yes Dear?) does not which might well mean the character will be called upon to do more in future episodes.
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