Within three hours of getting married, Denny Crane is caught with another woman and Bev Bridge (Joanna Cassidy) demands an annulment plus of her brand new husband's worth. While the attorneys from Crane, Poole & Schmidt frantically rally around their colleague to rescue him, Bev hires the slick, handsome divorce lawyer Eli Granger (Corbin Bernsen) to represent her. Meanwhile, Alan Shore defends Joan Zeder (Nicole Sullivan), who was fired from her job after being unable to adhere to the company's strict no-smoking policy.