No, I don't know why I bothered to watch the second episode. Perhaps I was curious to see if the show could top the Great Penis Swap of the last episode.
You can see LEX over at DramaFever.
Mario takes on the case of Lola Camps. She's a wife who had been in Paris on a shopping trip. She came home a few days early. When she went up to the bedroom she found the bed already occupied. While Lola couldn't see who the woman was, she could certainly see it was her husband on top. They're not aware they've been caught. Lola steps out into the hallway, her mind a-whirl. She tears down some curtains, takes the long curtain rod with her back into the bedroom and right in the middle of the husband making his motion in the ocean, Lola rams the curtain rod right up the wazoo. Mario decides to go for the temporary insanity defense.
Meanwhile Dani and Gonzalo are dealing with their own case. The parents of a teenage girl want to have her declared unfit. The girl, Miriam, had been traveling with her boyfriend when there was a terrible accident. She survived only to watch him die a slow and agonizing death. Now the fifteen-year-old is pregnant. Miriam wants to keeps the baby because its all she has left of the boyfriend. The parents want to have the legal ability to make her get an abortion.
This case strikes close to home for Dani as she discovers she's pregnant with Mario's child. She decides to have an abortion herself. Gonzalo, whose only job seems to be to smooth things over between Dani and Mario, tries to convince her to at least tell Mario about the baby. Dani refuses. (No spoiler here as the show telegraphs this from a mile away but obviously Gonzalo has been in love with Dani for years and has never said anything.)
Mario attempts to have Lola's sister, Tina, testify to her sister's craziness. Tina is a total flake and makes a horrible witness. In the end the judge rejects her from the case. (Again no spoiler here as the show again telegraphs this from a mile away but it was Tina who was doing the deed with her sister's husband during the Case of the Curtain Rod Rape.)
Miriam still insists on keeping her baby, forcing her parents to reveal she has a disease that is passed down from mother to child. It is the kind of disease (conveniently not named so I can't look it up to see if it is real) in which having a baby could potentially kill the mother. It is how her real mother, Dad's first wife, died. If Miriam doesn't have an abortion she could die.
Mario is hanging out at the local watering hole for lawyers. He has absolutely no problem picking up another skank to take home with him. (This is a real mystery to me because Mario is not that great looking a guy. Show, if you're going to have all these men sleeping around, at least make them good looking men.) Yet once he takes the skank home with him, Mario can't perform because he can't stop thinking of Dani.
Mario realizes what I just said earlier, that the husband is doing his sister-in-law. Mario comes up with a plan. He has the two sisters come to his office. He comes in with a large envelope claiming he just received information of who the other woman is the husband is having an affair with. Tina becomes muy nervous and tries to talk her sister out of not looking at the contents of the envelope. Lola insists and Mario pulls out a picture of the husband with the blond woman Mario used in the last episode to catch the lecher on video. (The husband just looks like he's giving directions to the blond.)
Thinking he's cheating on her, Tina confesses she's been having a relationship with the man. Lola realizes her sister has been acting dumb and ruined her appearance in court because Tina hopes her sister has to go to prison. Tina's reason for her actions: the husband was her boyfriend first before Lola came and stole him away. For the record, the husband is also not a good looking guy and not worth all this sturm und drang.
Blah blah blah Mario gives another long closing argument that wins his case and gets Lola freed blah blah blah.
There's not much closure to Miriam's story. We just see a brief shot of her in the hospital so I guess she changed her mind and went ahead with the abortion.
Dani decides to keep her baby.
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