Blue Moon takes both sides of a sexual harrassment case!
Robin Fuller was fired from her job for not sleeping with her boss, Neil Fass. In retaliation she takes a loaded handgun into the office and unloads it at her boss. But she's a lousy shot, and after six rounds, only manages to injure him by shooting him in the foot.
Maddie is outraged – that Robin Fuller should have to defend her right to a working environment free of sexual harrassment – and offers to work with Robin and her lawyer to buttress her defense. Meanwhile and simultaneously, Neal Fass comes to Blue Moon and hires David, who looks at this as easy money – after all, she fired a handgun at him! Sexual harrassment or not, he reasons, no one has the right to fire a handgun at another person, which makes this an open and shut case.
When David and Maddie learn that they have taken opposite sides of the same case, naturally they argue with each other, and finally decide to compete with each other. Almost immediately the office staff divides along gender lines, the men working with David on behalf of Neil Fass, and the women working with Maddie on behalf of Robin Fuller.
In the midst of what subsequently becomes a fiercely protective and territorial competition ("the shirts against the skins," David declares, "and I got shirts!"), Maddie fires David – or he quits, depending on whose side of the argument you believe. As he is clearing out his office late that night, Ann Pine, a former employee of Neal Fass, enters Blue Moon to speak with David, and explains that she will testify that she was also fired by Neal Fass for refusing to sleep with him. When faced with this news, Fass drops the charges, and Maddie has won her case.
But as the episode concludes, she has to get David not to leave Blue Moon. To do so, she offers to make him a full partner, and for the first time, Maddie is no longer the sole owner of Blue Moon Investigations.
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