Thanks for your comments, everyone.
Sorry you can't find anything to complain about, SJH.
Glad to see you enjoyed this part, DW.
Thanks, Artemis. I'm glad the balance of A and B plots seems to be working.
Angst, was this story angsty before, Amy?
Thanks, Iolan, but I used to be a lawyer, so it's more just memory as opposed to research.
I'm glad this section worked for you, Ann. Thanks!
Thanks, Michael. I tried to write as much of the mushy stuff as possible while keeping it PG-13, because I felt that in this case, it was important to the plot. As for the legal stuff, well, TV always does weird things with trials - in hardly any state would Lois's "shooting" of her source have been a death penalty case. Also, murder trials take years from arrest to penalty phase, not two weeks. I try to keep the legal stuff as close to realistic as possible without sucking the drama out of it.
More is on the way.
Rac
