Petrocelli Season 1, Episode 11: Counterplay

1

The Golden Cage

A rich trophy wife gets accused of murder when she tries to leave her powerful controlling husband.

2

Music to Die By

A singer hires Petrocelli to defend him when his career is jeopardized by a homicide accusation.

3

By Reason of Madness

Petrocelli defends a wife accused of killing her husband. She knows she killed him but says she didn't know she was doing it. Petrocelli soon realizes she was mentally ill and has to prove her not guilty by reason of insanity.

4

Edge of Evil

The threatened revelation of damaging ecological information results in a murder that Petrocelli must solve.

5

A Life for a Life

Petrocelli's defense of a young transient accused of arson and murder is complicated when the only witness who could help the accused refuses to testify.

6

Death in High Places

Petrocelli defends a spoiled heiress accused of planting a grenade in her father's airplane to speed up her inheritance.

7

Double Negative

Petrocelli unravels a murder mystery rooted in blackmail.

8

Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall

Although witnesses swear they saw her leave a murder victim's apartment minutes after shots were fired, Petrocelli's client insists she was at home at the time of the crime.

9

An Act of Love

Petrocelli defends a man accused of killing a woman with whom he spent the night in her home, waking to find her dead.

10

A Very Lonely Lady

Petrocelli defends a hitchhiker accused of murdering a woman who had given him a ride and an amorous invitation.

11

Counterplay

Petrocelli's client, a cop, claims he didn't kill his wife's lover, even though he was found over the body with a service revolver.

12

A Covenant with Evil

Petrocelli defends a man accused of murder after he is found cradling the body of a woman who was raped and killed.

13

The Sleep of Reason

An argument over hypnosis theory leads to the murder of a professor and Petrocelli's client, a teaching assistant accused of the crime, can't recall the shooting.

14

A Fallen Idol

Petrocelli's high school idol, a boxer now over the hill, is accused of beating his new manager to death.

15

Once Upon a Victim

Petrocelli's client, a physician, is found with a scalpel in hand, standing over the body of the woman who founded his clinic.

16

The Kidnapping

Petrocelli defends a woman who kidnapped her son from her father-in-law.

17

A Lonely Victim

A romantic triangle comes to a violent end when Petrocelli's client, a divorcee, is found kneeling over the body of her married boss with a fireplace poker in her hand.

18

The Outsiders

Petrocelli defends a penniless young crop picker who was captured fleeing a drugstore where he inadvertently left his fingerprints on a pair of scissors used to stab the owner.

19

Vengeance in White

Petrocelli defends an evangelist's wife, who is accused of killing the mercenary manager who had been working her husband to the point of collapse.

20

Four the Hard Way

Three old codgers hire Petrocelli to defend the fourth member of their pinochle club, a man charged with killing his son-in-law.

21

Death in Small Doses

Petrocelli defends a pharmacist accused of deliberately poisoning a customer.

22

A Night of Terror

Petrocelli defends a woman who, after being knocked unconscious in a fight with her boyfriend, awakened to find him dead and the murder gun in her hand.