During a sleepover at Alan’s, the guys are awakened by Phoebe Prentice: a beautiful ex-flame from Alan’s past. Her husband, noted cardiologist Dr. Robert Brooks, was arrested for the murder of one of his nurses, Isabelle Ghoulet. Phoebe tells them that Robert had an affair with the woman in the past, but it was over. He is accused of injecting her with a poison that only a doctor would know about. While she talks, Alan keeps hearing the sound of a rooster crowing. He finally learns that Denny’s doctor hooked his manhood up to a monitor that detects blood flow. Denny added one of his own ring tones, so now whenever he gets aroused, the rooster crows. Denny agrees to put it on silent vibrate. Phoebe explains that her husband’s DNA was found at the victim’s house. She says this is because he was there days before the murder on business. His alibi is that he was home with Phoebe on the night in question. Although Alan doesn’t completely believe her, she says it’s true. Even with this shaky alibi, and against Denny’s better judgment, Alan agrees to take the case because he is still very attracted to Phoebe. As Denny ogles Phoebe, his pants start humming.

The trial begins in Judge Judy Beacon’s courtroom. She’s fifty, sexy, and hard as nails. Prosecuting is ADA Stewart Betts. Alan flirts with the judge but she quickly shoots him down, and bail is denied. When Alan meets with Brooks, he is cold, but confirms everything Phoebe said. There is real tension between the two. Denny thinks Alan wants to lose the case on purpose so he can get back with Phoebe, his one true love. Denny thinks Alan should drop the case, but Alan can’t. He says it’s more important to him to win. When Alan and Denny view the naked dead body of the nurse, Denny’s ring tone keeps going off. It’s clear that the needle mark on her thigh where the drug was injected had to have been done by someone who had medical expertise.

With the evidence stacking up against him, Alan suggests Robert plead guilty to manslaughter. Phoebe won’t consider it. Phoebe knows that Alan still loves her, as she does him, but promises him that after the trial she will be going home with her husband to her family: her family is her life. On the stand Phyllis Ghoulet, mother of the victim, gives damning testimony against Robert. Denny cross-examines her, and presents some damaging evidence to the court about Phyllis. As more incriminating evidence piles up against Robert, Alan tells him he’s not likeable, and shouldn’t testify. Robert accuses Alan of being in love with his wife. Alan makes it clear to Phoebe that since he won’t put Robert on the stand, their entire defense depends on her testimony. On the stand Phoebe tells the jury that Robert was home with her the night of the murder. When Alan asks if Robert left the house at all that night, she suddenly can’t answer. When the judge tells her to answer, Phoebe says he did leave, throwing Alan totally off guard. During a break, Phoebe apologies to Alan and Denny for not telling them sooner. She swears she wants her husband’s freedom, and to preserve her family; but she couldn’t commit perjury, and risk being jailed. She also remains angry that he started up the affair again.

Back on the stand Alan asks Phoebe if she wanted her husband to go to jail. She says no. When Alan asks if she is a violent person, she is forced to admit that she once lost her temper with her daughter, and threatened her with a knife. Alan theorizes that the night of the murder, Phoebe knocked Robert out with sleeping pills, drove to the victim’s house, and injected her with the poison, knowing the police would suspect Robert. He also gets her to admit that she is diabetic, and gives herself injections, proving that she’s skilled with needles. On the final day of the trial, Phoebe is nowhere to be found. In his closing ADA Betts stresses that this is just Alan Shore trying to manipulate the jury. It is clear that the only way to get his client off is to cause reasonable doubt in their minds, but the doctor murdered the nurse. Alan admits that this is all unreal to him. He didn’t think Phoebe could commit murder this until he saw her on the stand. It was obvious to everyone in the courtroom that Phoebe killed the woman her husband was sleeping with, and framed her cheating husband in the process. Murder and revenge in one fell swoop: the perfect crime... almost. Alan’s closing works, and the jury finds Robert not guilty. In his office with Robert, Alan asks if he really didn’t know Phoebe left the house on the night of the murder. Suddenly Phoebe walks in, and answers that she never left the house. When Alan told her the case depended on her testimony, which wasn’t persuasive, she changed her plan. She decided to incriminate her husband in a way that made her look guilty. If they arrest her Robert can admit that he killed her, because he can’t be tried for the same crime twice. She never lied in court, or to Alan. She just let him make the assumptions any good lawyer would make.

On the balcony Alan says that this time he was lucky to be unlucky in love. Denny thinks we each have only one true love, and for Alan... it’s Denny. Denny also admits that he knew Robert did it all along, and that Phoebe was using Alan. When Alan wonders why he didn’t tell him, Denny says Alan had to learn for himself... like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. Denny mentions that he has dreamed of “doing” Dorothy and the Lullaby League girls, adding that dwarves love group sex… which reminds him: he should give Bethany a call. With that, Denny’s pants start humming