Carl and Denny travel to Virginia to defend a prison guard accused of murdering a man dying of lethal injection. Alan and Shirley take a case of wrongful dismissal after a woman thinks she was fired for voting for John McCain.

Denny and Alan learn Denny's "Mad Cow" has progressed to the point of actual Alzheimers; Denny finds an experimental drug that could help and the two set out to get it. Jerry and Katie represent a young woman who was admitted and then rejected from Harvard University because she took Ritalin to focus on her SAT test. After dealing with a very bored Catherine, Carl helps her sue the television networks for not broadcasting material for those over age fifty.