Reggie helps a woman she meets at a battered women's shelter who is soon after accused of and confesses to killing her husband, a respected law professor. Foltrigg, an old buddy of the deceased, insists on holding the woman even when Reggie implores him to let her out on bail to be with her teenage son. While preparing her defense, Reggie comes to realize that the woman is covering for her son who killed his father and Reggie must convince him to testify about how he saved his mother and himself from further battering. Meanwhile, Jackson hires his sister to sue his boss, Michael, for ""wrongfully"" terminating him due to drinking. Reggie goes to Michael first to get his side of the story, but business turns to pleasure. Also, Momma Love takes a job at a community theatre, leading Reggie to witness another side of her mother.