8.6/105 votes#1 - Family Pictures
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 12/1/2019
Ray gets closer with Molly Sullivan when he realizes their family connection. Claudette comes to New York and discovers that Daryll is on Detective Perry’s radar. Bunchy tries to leverage his heroism for a pay raise. Bridget gets closer with her music producer boss, and Terry goes on a trip with his new spiritual guide.
Director: Nick Gomez
Writer: David Hollander
8.4/105 votes#2 - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 9/24/2017
For Bunchy's sake, Ray is forced to step in and save Mickey from himself. Terry returns to LA with a devastating confession. Daryll and Mickey butt heads over the direction of their movie. Bunchy helps out a fellow inmate - on the condition that he'll help retrieve the settlement money. And one Donovan goes to extreme measures to protect the family.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: David Hollander
8.1/1011 votes#3 - Sunny
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 8/31/2014
Lee reneges on Ray's deal with Cookie. Kate reopens her investigation.
Director: John Dahl
Writer: David Hollander
8.1/1011 votes#4 - Come and Knock on Our Door
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 7/26/2015
Ray and Mickey make a desperate attempt to get Terry released from prison.
Director: Daniel Attias
Writer: David Hollander
8.0/101 votes#5 - Indian Summer
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/2001
Nick is duped into representing a young woman who lied to him after they spent the night together. After Nick picks up a young woman named Dina at The Incline, they go back to his place for the night. The woman then reveals herself to be an orphaned, underaged girl whose younger sister is about to be placed in a new home where Dina is not wanted. She gives Nick an ultimatum that he must help her get placed in the same family as her sister or risk her going to the police about his underage encounter. He must uncover her true motives or risk the consequences of their ill-fated night together. Meanwhile, Alvin goes to extreme measures, including soliciting a donation from a wealthy socialite, in an effort to raise money after CLS loses its grant and the money runs out.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: David Hollander
- 8.0/101 votes
#6 - Heart
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2001
Nick Fallin finds himself the advocate for a 12-year-old girl, Lesley, who needs to be adopted by foster parents immediately in order to receive a heart transplant. Laurie Solt, a social worker for Legal Services (LS), is having trouble placing her due to the many demands of caring for a child with congenital heart disease. Inspired by Lesley's strength after she learns her current foster parents are unable to adopt her, Nick takes the search on as a personal campaign to save Lesley's life. As hope of finding suitable foster care fades, Nick decides that the only way to save Lesley's life is to become her legal guardian. Nick's supervisor at LS, Alvin Masterson questions Nick's ability to care for Lesley. Eventually, the judge does grant Nick legal guardianship. Meanwhile, one of Burton Fallin's old friends, Harry Josephs is dying of cancer and tells Burton he is challenging the employment contract of Hopeson, Inc., which terminates employment if an employee is unable to work for 90 consecutive days. Hopeson Inc. is a long time client of Fallin & Assoc. and Burton helped finalize the original employment contracts. Burton struggles with the responsibility of fighting for his clients and opportunity to stand by his friend.
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Writer: David Hollander
7.8/105 votes#7 - Time Takes a Cigarette
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 10/29/2017
Ray goes to New York to arrange an illicit surgery that will hopefully save Smitty. Sam agrees to help - but only on the condition that Ray commit a brutal act. Meanwhile, Daryll struggles with his loyalties as Mickey tries to get himself out of jail by turning the tables on Ray. Season finale.
Director: David Hollander
Writer: David Hollander
7.6/1017 votes#8 - New Birthday
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/11/2013
Ray forbids Bridget from seeing Marvin, but she visits him anyway. Meanwhile, Ray flies to Boston to search for Sully; Abby and Deb commiserate over drinks and get themselves into trouble; and Mickey manipulates Sean into working with him on a movie project.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: David Hollander
7.4/109 votes#9 - Little Bill Primm's Big Green Horseshoe
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 7/10/2016
An intruder breaks into the Donovan household, forcing the family closer together as Bridget struggles to maintain her independence. In Primm, Mickey schemes to rob a casino with the help of a lounge singer and a man named Ed. Meanwhile, with a baby due at any minute, Bunchy and Teresa navigate their marital woes under lockdown, and Ray visits Belikov in prison to strike a deal.
Director: Michael Apted
Writer: David Hollander
7.4/1011 votes#10 - Uber Ray
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/20/2014
Ray forces Mickey to return to LA. A reporter investigates Sully's death.
Director: Michael Uppendahl
Writer: David Hollander
7.4/1012 votes#11 - S U C K
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 8/3/2014
Kate's investigation zeroes in on Mickey. Meanwhile, Tiny, a former member of Sully's gang, jeopardizes Cochran's career, and Ray tries to get Tiny safely out of the country. Mickey begins working at a Mexican restaurant; Abby meets a new friend at a gun range; and Bunchy encounters a potential new love interest.
Director: Tucker Gates
Writer: David Hollander
7.3/1017 votes#12 - Black Cadillac
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/21/2013
Ray, Abby and the kids visit Bel Air Academy, hoping Bridget will get into the prestigious school, but the day is interrupted when Ray has to take care of a case at a Beverly Hills hotel. Mickey, Bunchy and Daryll drive out to Palm Springs to visit Mickey's ex-girlfriend, Claudette.
Director: John Dahl
Writer: David Hollander
6.3/1012 votes#13 - Girl With Guitar
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 6/26/2016
Ray is in recovery mode in the aftermath of the shootout. Meanwhile, Bunchy and Teresa face impending parenthood as Abby receives a diagnosis that threatens to upend her family. In hiding, Mickey plots a heist.
Director: Liev Schreiber
Writer: David Hollander
6.0/101 votes#14 - Reunion
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2001
Nick brings a lawsuit again the pharmaceutical company, Bendaprine, on behalf of Hunter Reed and his mother's estate for 10 million dollars. But, when Alvin Masterson gets wind of it he insists that Nick drop the case, being that it is a conflict of interest. Nick is quick to point out that Alvin took him off of Hunter's case and therefore he is acting within his rights as a lawyer for Fallin & Assoc. Meanwhile, James gets handed a case involving a 12-year-old boy who has been living with his older brother after their mother has been arrested for drugs. Marcus, Andre's older brother, is arrested for selling crack and James tries desperately to find a relative for the boy to act as guardian so the youth won't end up in juvenile detention like his brother. But, Andre doesn't want to be separated from Marcus and even when James succeeds in finding a relative, Andre makes it very clear he will stay with Marcus at all cost � even if he needs to get himself arrested to make it happen.
Director: Michael Pressman
Writer: David Hollander
6.0/101 votes#15 - Lolita?
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/2001
Nick is taken off of the Hunter Reed case and assigned a case about a fifteen-year-old girl, April Santos, who claims to have been raped by her stepfather, a cop. Nick arranges for her maternal aunt to have guardianship, but Nick soon finds out that all is not what it appears to be and he must go to CLS and admit that he may have placed April in an even more dangerous environment than her home. And at Fallin & Assoc., John Clayton seeks the firm to reorganize his assets at his steel plant. Burton refuses, claiming that there is no money to be made, but Simon discovers that his father has a personal reason for refusing the business � Clayton Steel is the same plant that he worked at as a teenager alongside his father.
Director: Charles Haid
Writer: David Hollander
5.8/106 votes#16 - Shabbos Goy
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 9/10/2017
Ray's therapy is at odds with the high-stakes power struggle between Sam and her opponents. Mickey - at Frank's behest - seeks out an old friend of the Donovan's. Meanwhile, Terry takes Damon to New York to train for a fight; Bunchy is confronted by sins from the Donovan past; and Bridget tries to reconcile with Smitty - until a major crisis forces them together.
Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Writer: David Hollander
5.8/105 votes#17 - Pretty Baby
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/2022
Julian's attempts to break free and start a new life of honest means are sabotaged when his old madam delivers a cryptic message about a young girl's suicide. Meanwhile, Michelle circumvents her husband to find their runaway son.
Director: David Hollander
Writer: David Hollander
5.4/105 votes#18 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/2022
After 15 years in prison, former gigolo Julian Kaye is suddenly exonerated from a wrongful murder conviction and released with no interest in the life he had, no chance at the life he wanted – and no idea who framed him.
Director: David Hollander
Writer: David Hollander
5.0/101 votes#19 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2001
Nick Fallin, a high-powered, high-priced attorney living the good life is brought down to earth when he has to pay the price for his indulgent lifestyle. Busted for drugs, he must now perform 1,500 hours of community service and so Nick juggles his white-collar world of litigation with the not-for-profit world of child advocacy working with Children's Legal Services. Under the supervision of Alvin Masterson, Nick is thrust into the life of Hunter Reed, a young boy who has witnessed the murder of his mother by his father's hand. Back at Fallin & Associates, owned by Nick's father, Burton Fallin, he is dealing with company presidents who are looking to bring their business to Pittsburgh and spoiled dot com kids who want to get rich quick.
Director: Michael Pressman
Writer: David Hollander
5.0/104 votes#20 - Rapture
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/2022
Julian tries to interpret a dead woman's message as Colin finds himself on the run from his father's violent associates. Meanwhile, Michelle realizes her son is in more danger than she thought – and so is Julian.
Director: Tucker Gates
Writer: David Hollander
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"Family Pictures" is the best rated episode written by David Hollander. It scored 8.6/10 based on 5 votes. It was directed by Nick Gomez. It aired on 12/1/2019 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "If I Should Fall from Grace with God".