The BEST episodes written by Brad Simpson

The Right Road
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7.80
207 votes

#1 - The Right Road

Burden of Truth - Season 2 - Episode 8

As Luna's trial starts, Joanna and Billy defend against an avalanche of evidence. With things not looking good, Joanna risks everything by putting an unexpected witness on the stand.

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Cause in Fact
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7.77
321 votes

#2 - Cause in Fact

Burden of Truth - Season 1 - Episode 10

Using the law to her advantage, Joanna herself reinstated on a technicality and plays her trump card. When it isn’t enough to elicit a settlement offer, Joanna makes things personal. She blackmails her father with incriminating evidence and threatens to expose him if he refuses to negotiate. Once she strong-arms him into a settlement, she must choose whether to expose his dirty little secret or not, but doing so may cost her more than she’s prepared to pay.

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Shelter from the Storm
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7.75
147 votes

#3 - Shelter from the Storm

Burden of Truth - Season 3 - Episode 8

Joanna and Billy head to trial against ClearDawn labs while still desperately searching for a way to expose the fraudulent science used to wrongfully apprehend children.

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Witch Hunt
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7.73
407 votes

#4 - Witch Hunt

Burden of Truth - Season 1 - Episode 5

Anger over the claim against the mill pits the sick girls and their families against employees of the mill who worry that their jobs are on the line. When the local Pastor’s daughter becomes afflicted with the illness, he blames the girls themselves. Parents begin keeping their healthy kids home from school, so to quell the mounting hysteria, the High School Principal cracks down on the affected girls and prevents them from attending their prom. Joanna fires back at the school, but victory eludes her. When the kids decide to throw a prom of their own, Billy and Joanna are made honorary prom king and queen. However, the moment is over-shadowed by the mill’s answer to her claim – they’ve hired her father’s law firm to represent them and they plan to annihilate her.

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Ninety Degrees
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7.72
425 votes

#5 - Ninety Degrees

Rookie Blue - Season 6 - Episode 9

As the officers of 15 Division try to move on from the corruption scandal, a heat wave hits and Jarvis opens the division to the public as a cooling station. Andy heads out with a very-pregnant Marlo to find a volatile woman who’s gone missing after group therapy, but neither Andy nor Marlo are prepared when Marlo suddenly goes into labor.

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Standing by Peaceful Waters
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7.64
98 votes

#6 - Standing by Peaceful Waters

Burden of Truth - Season 4 - Episode 8

Joanna begins to chart a new path for the future. Billy gets some unexpected help in his pursuit of a new client. Dee's legal case is at a dead end. Luna is unsure where to turn.

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The Ties That Bind
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7.53
499 votes

#7 - The Ties That Bind

Burden of Truth - Season 1 - Episode 2

A fish out of water in a town that's as foreign as it is familiar, Joanna battles with questions over her family's hasty departure when she was a teenager and attempts to convince the locals that she has in fact switched sides.

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Pilot
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7.51
577 votes

#8 - Pilot

Burden of Truth - Season 1 - Episode 1

When it's suspected that her big-pharma client's vaccine has caused a mysterious illness affecting a handful of teenaged girls, high-powered attorney Joanna Hanley returns to her hometown to quickly and quietly settle the case.

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River City
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7.47
121 votes

#9 - River City

Burden of Truth - Season 4 - Episode 1

With Millwood divided over a proposed mining project, lawyer and new mother Joanna Chang takes on the case of a landowner whose farm is standing in the way of the mine.

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Salesman, Cheats and Liars
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7.44
242 votes

#10 - Salesman, Cheats and Liars

Burden of Truth - Season 2 - Episode 1

Joanna Chang is living a new life at a new firm with a new name when she's assigned a case of a brilliant young Internet privacy activist who will turn everything in her new life upside down. Meanwhile, back in Millwood, Billy Crawford is dealing with the aftermath of the Matheson Steel lawsuit.

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Crawford Chang
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7.40
170 votes

#11 - Crawford Chang

Burden of Truth - Season 3 - Episode 1

Joanna and Billy face a verdict in their first case in their new firm, but when they return to Millwood for a high school reunion, an old friend from Joanna's past suffers a devastating loss that forces Joanna to face long-buried demons from her past.

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