The Antagonists

Season

1991

USA

5.7

Jack Scarlett and Kate Ward are a pair of Los Angeles lawyers who regularly face each other in the courtroom: he as a defense attorney with a reputation for unconventional and even outrageous behavior; she as a prosecutor who does everything strictly by the book. Outside the courts, they have a close relationship, but it becomes increasingly strained with each legal battle they fight.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Episode #1.1

Belinda Bauer plays a woman arrested for drunken driving who Jack defends when police discover evidence to implicate her in a murder.

S1 • E2

Silent Beef

Jack Scarlett's client is a former drug dealer who murdered a man in a crowded restaurant who say it was self-defense, however Kate Ward believes otherwise and prosecutes.

S1 • E3

Full Disclosure

S1 • E4

Con Safos

Jack Scarlett is appointed legal advisor to a man defending himself when charged for his sister's murder.

S1 • E5

Variations on a Theme

Kate pursues a smooth con artist (Rene Auberjonois) who may have committed a murder.

S1 • E6

Lawyers, Guns and Money

Jack Scarlett's former mentor is arrested on drug charges.

S1 • E7

Unnatural Acts

The lover of a Latin American activist is killed in a car bombing and Kate Ward suspects it is politically motivated., however evidence leads in another direction.

S1 • E8

State of Mind

Maryann Plunkett plays a distraught woman who shoots and kills her husband and his mistress and Jack makes an emotional case for manslaughter while Kate argues for murder.

S1 • E9

Brother to Brother

Jack Scarlett urges Kate Ward to assist him in unraveling a family plot in which one brother confesses to a murder for which his sibling is serving time.