第 1 季，第 3 集: Helen meets with Eileen Popovitch (Annie Lee) who is demanding power of attorney over her mother, Daphne (Colette Mann) because she has dementia. Meanwhile, Helen's estranged husband, William G.H Ford (Bert La Bonte) is in town for the writer's festival and shows up at Gruber and Gruber to ask Helen for shared custody of their dog, Artie. The following day, Eileen brings her mother Daphne to Gruber and Gruber to convince Helen that Daphne is not compos mentis. While Helen is at work William shows up at May and Graham's to take Artie for a walk and never returns with him. Helen makes a late afternoon dash to the writer's festival to find Artie and makes a scene at William's serious writerly panel, run by iiterary interlocutor, Lindy Baxter-Smythe (Marg Downey).