This Is Wonderland (2004)
"Law and Order...Without the Order."
Synopsis
Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.
Creator
Michael Prupas, Dani Romain, George F. Walker
Network
CBC Television
Episodes
Episode 1
Pilot. The show revolves around Alice De Raey, a young criminal lawyer thrown into a justice system bursting at the seams. She encounters an endless procession of characters-ranging from the truly desperate to the wonderfully bizarre. Alice, with a good-natured openness that cloaks a tenacious, committed spirit, finds herself on a journey that constantly tests her patience and compassion.
Episode 2
Alice tries to convince the Crown to have compassion for a former drug addict.
Episode 3
Alice defends a bipolar woman, a man caught in a battle between feuding lovers, an illiterate man, and a Jamaican man with one leg.
Episode 4
A judge tries to save a mentally challenged man who has been charged with assault; Alice defends a man charged with sexual assault; Elliot is infatuated by a court interpreter.
Episode 5
Alice tries to convince a couple that one of them must go to prison so that the other can stay home and raise their children.
Episode 6
Elliot hires a private investigator to help with his case; Alice juggles two clients, one charged with assault and the other suspiciously eager to go to prison.
Episode 7
A diagnosed schizophrenic women is charged with abducting a baby.
Episode 8
A man is charged with assaulting the fathers of boys who bullied his daughter; a homeless intellectual defends himself.
Episode 9
Alice's client is charged with abusing and neglecting his father, who has Alzheimer's disease; Elliot defends a high-profile artist.
Episode 10
James helps a drug dealer prove he has been framed; Alice defends a street kid charged with aggressive panhandling.
Episode 11
A woman is accused of stalking her ex-boyfriend and his girlfriend; an 18-year-old is pressured to cover for a drug dealer.
Episode 12
Alice defends a man on trial for assaulting his son and an Eastern European immigrant who is being tormented by former acquaintances.
Episode 13
Alice defends a man in for an altercation with the superintendent of his rooming house.
Cast
Details
Original Title
This Is Wonderland
Status
Ended
Seasons
3
Episodes
39
