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Season guide

L.A. Law: Season 2

20 episodes Premiered Oct 15, 1987
Previously on L.A. Law

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of L.A. Law Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (6): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (14): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

The Lung Goodbye

Oct 15, 1987

Kuzak takes a personal interest in representing a terminally ill smoker suing a tobacco company; Sifuentes's bad luck with women continues; Kelsey and Markowitz unsuccessfully seek

S2·E2 Core

The Wizard of Odds

Oct 22, 1987

Brackman begins to get carried away over his judicial appointment until an insulting parrot puts him in his place; Kelsey successfully represents a psychiatrist being sued in civil

S2·E3 Core

Cannon of Ethics

Oct 29, 1987

Kelsey seeks the advice of outside counsel, Kuzak's former mentor Wendell Gleason, in resolving her ethical dilemma about Dr. Warren's guilt, but is none too appreciative when Glea

S2·E4 Core

Brackman Vasektimized

Nov 5, 1987

Kelsey forces a client to clean up his act after she discovers that his company is knowingly dumping carcinogens into a local water supply; the jealousy bug takes a big bite out of

S2·E5 Mytharc

The Brothers Grimm

Nov 12, 1987

Sifuentes represents a traumatized woman suing a cop for not intervening as he witnessed her rape, and her boyfriend's murder, during an armed robbery in a bar; Markowitz's request

S2·E6 Core

Auld L'Anxiety

Nov 19, 1987

McKenzie overcomes his fear of aging, as well as a little vanity, in successfully representing a client in an age discrimination case; Van Owen is devastated when a witness she has

S2·E7 Core

Rohner vs. Gradinger

Dec 3, 1987

Rollins does an end run around Markowitz and McKenzie to retain a client, much to their displeasure; Sifuentes meets an attractive divorcee; Kelsey's misgivings about her mother's

S2·E8 Core

Goldilocks and the Three Barristers

Dec 10, 1987

Van Owen prosecutes three attorneys for the sexual molestation of a teenage stripper; after agonizing over the possibility that Vasek may have exposed him to AIDS, Brackman vows to

S2·E9 Mytharc

Divorce with Extreme Prejudice

Dec 17, 1987

Van Owen has mixed emotions about successfully prosecuting a teenager who murdered his abusive father; seeking to get out from under his brother's blackmail, Brackman confesses his

S2·E10 Core

Full Marital Jacket

Jan 7, 1988

In the aftermath of his anxiety attack, Brackman has a new perspective on life, and his wife has a new perspective on their relationship that involves talking to lawyers; Benny is

S2·E11 Core

Gorilla My Dreams

Jan 14, 1988

Sifuentes's plan to use the zoo as a teaching tool for giving Stulwicz some sex education has unexpected benefits for two of its residents; Melman's new boyfriend gets arrested for

S2·E12 Core

Hand Roll Express

Jan 21, 1988

McKenzie gets Brackman's arrest for solicitation vacated when he's able to prove that his colleague really was ordering off the menu at a sushi bar, and not negotiating a tryst wit

S2·E13 Core

Beauty and Obese

Feb 11, 1988

Kuzak represents an attorney suing the law firm that fired her for being overweight; Markowitz gets caught up in the middle of greedy heirs, their attorneys, Kelsey, and Brackman w

S2·E14 Core

Petticoat Injunction

Feb 18, 1988

Still traumatized by the mob hit, Van Owen resigns from the firm and decides to take some time off before job hunting; Kuzak shocks Becker into dropping a client who's illegally us

S2·E15 Core

The Bald Ones

Feb 25, 1988

Brackman loses a parent, but gains another sibling; Kuzak convinces Van Owen to come out of retirement to represent his client's co-defendant in a felony murder trial; Perkins and

S2·E16 Core

Fetus Completus

Mar 3, 1988

Feelings run high among the attorneys at the firm when Kelsey represents a doctor petitioning the court to allow him to deliver an endangered eight month old fetus by Caesarean sec

S2·E17 Mytharc

Belle of the Bald

Apr 14, 1988

Kuzak successfully represents a woman who murdered her rapist after he invoked his diplomatic immunity to avoid prosecution, but the case ends tragically when the rapist's brother

S2·E18 Core

Open Heart Perjury

Apr 21, 1988

Rollins goes after a businessman who bilked a widow out of her life's savings; Becker capitalizes on the pending divorce of a judge who's presiding over his case; Roxanne is bored

S2·E19 Mytharc

Leapin' Lizards!

Apr 28, 1988

A TV superhero fights to remain in the role of the Salamander; Becker celebrates his birthday with the new woman in his life; and Roxanne discovers she has a big tax problem.

S2·E20 Mytharc

Chariots of Meyer

May 5, 1988

Van Owen is stung when the defense attorney of the man she prosecutes for attempted murder levels charges of racism against both her and the witnesses in the case; McKenzie gains a

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