The Guardian

A 911 operator takes a frantic phone call from Nick: Mandy is on the floor, and not breathing.

After his adoptive father disowns him, Nick becomes the guardian to a true monster: Ronnie Wagner, a thirteen year old boy who killed then raped his adoptive mother.

Controversy brews around Burton and the future of his judgeship after Caldwell commits suicide at work before the FBI can question him.

Nick and Burton form the new Fallin & Fallin, and represent the hospital in which a male nurse who worked the oncology ward confessed to killing 19 terminal patients while on duty.

Nick becomes the medical guardian of Bryant, a young boy whose mother is in jail and an aunt who no longer can handle him.

Nick represents Dale, a young boy undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia, who's only chance for survival is a bone marrow transplant.