Carl again talks to Shirley about the state of the litigation department when their current caseload includes a woman who wants to sue a company for losing her mother's ashes instead of turning those ashes into a diamond. A woman who wants to sue her pastor for a bad breakup and a mother suing her daughter's high school after the daughter dies in a car accident after she fell asleep at the wheel. Oh, and Denny and Alan start their testing to join the Coast Guard Reserves.

Shirley, Denny and Alan all comes to terms with end-of-life decisions when Shirley goes to court to force a hospital to put her father on a morphine drip. Carl helps the wealthy of Nantucket gain access to their own nuclear bomb. Jerry is sued by a woman who claims he drugged her.