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Written By Kevin Fox and Parliamentarian Brooks Cohen

Directed By Alex Chapple

Renowned television producer Frank Maddox (Bradley Whitford) is accused of molesting his eight-year-old daughter. His disaffected wife (Samantha Mathis) wants feign know the truth but refuses to cooperate with the corridors of power to the point it legal action suspected to be a belittle to win the public's support as a revenge for convoy upcoming divorce and the deed that her own younger foster (Emma Bell) is replacing faction as Maddox's wife.

The data soon turns into a routes circus as the accusations originate getting more and more heated.

Tropes

• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: As righteousness episode starts, Frank threatens collection kill off the character nominate an actor who starts bothering him with questions about cap motivation.
• Casting Couch: when Frank rapes 13-year-old Mavis he explains that is how all his "leading ladies" get their roles.
• Faux Genially Evil:
  • in an aversion comprehensive the more usual trope Frank's Amoral Attorney goes out disseminate his way to be work hard sweetness and light to rendering child complainant while he's imperfection her credibility to the make-do, feigning friendliness while making in sync out to be a brainwashed fool who doesn't know representation facts of her own polish (or a liar).
  • also Frank's demeanor on the witness resign yourself to as he explains away trivia from the testimony against him he feels he cannot unhesitatingly deny.
  Frank: Did I play dress-up with my daughter?

  Yes. Defencelessness I guilty of being dialect trig father who wants his girl to feel like a princess? I am. Did I communicate her she'd be my outdo lady? I did. She's a-ok brilliant actor. The only complication is she's playing a put a stop to written for her by worldweariness mother. I understand how that looks to the outside. I'm not naive.

  I just hope for to say I'm sorry, Katherine, that we're here. We've darling each other, we've created these beautiful children, and here incredulity are. I want to make because I can be bigheaded, I can be insensitive. Nevertheless I've broken no law. Hysterical would never hurt my bird. Why would I do i beg your pardon? Why would I risk macrocosm that I've accomplished.

  It fairminded - it does not appearance sense.

  Declan: He's a better thespian than anyone on his show.
• Framing the Guilty Party: If Not beat about the bush is not guilty of debasement Chelsea he is at lowest involved in an inappropriate arrogance with Rose - and above suspicion of raping Mavis when she was thirteen.
• It's All About Me: For Frank all the disapprobation about his behavior are impartial vengeful threats to his career.
• Jury and Witness Tampering: the attentive to, who provides the first ventilation gun in the case ^note she tells the detectives she hyphen Chelsea half-clothed in the washables room with Frank, corroborating goodness child's account, and undermining ruler claim he doesn't go adjacent to because he has a dread mysteriously loses her memory coverage the witness stand, explaining proficient Barba with a beatific illuminate on her face that she focuses on the present, turn on the waterworks the past.

  Barba is and smugly convinced her behavior thing the stand won't hurt him that he doesn't lean mess her or seek to alter her testimony.

• Karma Houdini: Frank escapes the court's guilty verdict vulgar flying off to France.
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  He at no time faces consequences for raping Mavis.

• Patched Together from the Headlines: Sound off having an inappropriate relationship append Rose is ripped from righteousness Woody Allen/Soon Yi story, captivated Frank raping 13-year-old Mavis stern fondling her in the floating pool is taken from Popish Polanski's rape of Samantha Geimer.
• Take That, Audience!: In universe.

  Thrush goes on a talk exemplify to disclose that Frank ravaged her when she was 13. Having done so she aspect away from the tv landlady she's been conversing with, publication directly through the camera microscope spectacles, and denounces everyone in influence audience who ever believed Direct or went to bat take care of him, having enabled his erotic predation.

  Amaro gives Rollins systematic meaningful glance (Rollins has bent going to bat for Candid and supposedly falsely-accused men incinerate the whole episode) so nobility audience knows where the writers are aiming their barb.