The Defenders Episode 1.05 Nevada v. Senator Harper

Nick and Pete defend a senator accused of killing his mistress. When a well known senator is going through a divorce, Nick and Pete represent him. The case swiftly blows up into a scandalous tale of infidelity and possible kidnapping and murder. We soon find out that the senator had a young mistress - a la Gary Condon. The team struggles to see though the web of lies that the senator is telling them. In the mean time, evidence arises that the senator's wife was seen with the young intern right before she went missing - and soon the senator's wife is a person of interest. In order to save his wife and the mother of his children, the senator lies and confesses to killing the girl. Nick and Pete trace the girl via her face book page. She had an ex fiancé who has a cabin at Lake Mead. They track her down at the cabin where she is alive and well. She is hiding out, licking her wounds. The senator is acquitted. Pete takes on a case of a bar girl at a swanky hotel who is accused of harassment and larceny. She plays innocent with him, and he manages to get the charges dropped. He later finds out, (after sleeping with her), that she is a con artist. She goes form job to job around town ripping people off.