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Season 6

117. Accountability
With all three of her children living once again under the same roof with her, Maxine finally decides to let them be the grownups that they are (horseplay notwithstanding) and fix their own breakfasts; the ceiling in Amy's courtroom collapses, and she is sentenced to a stint in Accountability court, which she deems a punishment for her ruling in the Casey Ives matter; shortly after his return from New Mexico, David is devastated to discover that the man who holds the secret to his wife's murder has died; Ignacio asks Amy to plead his case with Maxine; Sean asks Maxine to track down the missing placement records on a little boy, and they discover that there's no trace of him anywhere; Heather visits Kyle to ask his forgiveness, announce that she's entering into a treatment program, and tell him about their son, but he doesn't believe any of it; Maxine relents her stance on Ignacio a little by allowing him to fix the broken sprinklers in the garden; Amy tries to figure out what's behind a formerly well-behaved teenager's sudden acting out; Donna passes the bar; Peter invites Gillian to family dinner; Maxine goes ballistic when she overhears Kyle refusing to have anything to do with his son.

118. Lullaby
Vincent's struggles with his latest novel leads him into blowing off his agent, who responds by dropping Vincent and demanding the return of the advance that Vincent's already spent; Maxine receives another award, and uses her acceptance speech to talk about the young boy lost in the system that she and Sean can't seem to locate; Amy's dealings with two troubled teenage girls and their mothers in Accountability court inspires her to change her focus when she returns to Juvenile Court; Maxine tries to avoid removing the children of a overburdened single mother working to overcome anger and abuse issues; David finally feels that he's put his wife's death behind him and can now pursue a relationship with Amy; Ignacio lets Maxine know that he's ready to do whatever it takes to have a future with her; Amy fires Donna to propel her into practicing law; Kyle decides to accompany Heather to Minnesota and take care of their son while she's in rehab.

119. Legacy
After Vincent asks his brother to lend him the money he needs to pay back the advance on his novel, Peter meets with his accountant to free up the funds and discovers that his business is headed toward insolvency; Maxine sets some strict boundaries for Ignacio, who soon realizes that it's time to divorce Francesca; Amy is back in juvenile court and immediately has a conflict with Bruce over the pace at which her docket is moving, but she persists in digging deeper into the case of a twelve year old boy who admitted to a felony murder; even though the publicity generates a lot of leads, Sean is upset when the Anthony Byrd case makes the paper, which recommends that they be fired for losing Anthony in the system; David buys a boat, but can't convince Amy to overcome her aversion to sailing; Maxine's teenage client mounts a publicity campaign to find an adoptive family before he graduates from high school; Donna resigns as Amy's clerk after accepting a position as a court-appointed minor counsel for the Hartford Youth Advocates, and moves into her new office right across the hall from Amy's chambers; Maxine struggles to overcome her resistance to helping Lauren with a school project that involves talking about her childhood and the difficulties she faced when she lost her mother at the age of eleven.

120. Consent
Amy has difficulty dealing with Lauren's need for privacy; blinded by Anthony Bird's loss, Maxine lies to Sean and makes all the wrong choices in dealing with a teenaged boy who's holed up in a hotel room after discovering that he was kidnapped by his mother as a child; Amy must determine if aggravated sexual assault occurred between two teenagers attending a sex party, but can't seem to leave the case in the courtroom when she encounters Lauren at home; Gillian takes the news of their financial difficulties well, and offers Peter her support; Vincent confesses to Gillian that he's no longer working on his book; Amy resists David's attempts to redefine their relationship.

121. Order and Chaos
Maxine teeters on the brink of collapse as she refuses to move out of Colton Gerard's hotel room, rages against Sean for his failure to run the department properly, and is suspended after being arrested for slapping a foster child who has abused and neglected her elderly and ailing foster mother; Vincent gets an eye-opening look at his life through the eyes of a teenager in foster care who was abused by his mother; Peter's praise of Gillian's mothering skills draws them closer together when they meet with their son's teacher, and they are shocked to discover that Ned is biting other children because his genius-level I.Q. leaves him bored with school; Donna is angry when an over-controlling Amy steamrollers right over her and the State's Attorney in a misguided attempt to help Donna win her first case as an attorney and ensure that her mentally ill teenaged client receives the help he desperately needs from the system; distressed about her mother's arrest and refusal to return home, Amy blows off a date with David to cry on Bruce's shoulder over a few beers, which doesn't go over well with David.

122. Catching It Early
Back at work from her suspension, Maxine is becoming unhinged as she desperately searches for Anthony Byrd; Amy spends a tense day awaiting the results of a breast biopsy; Donna's summation reveals how closely she identifies with the teenage client she represents in Amy's court; Peter and Gillian search for a school for Ned; Amy arrives home to find an unconscious Maxine on the kitchen floor.

123. Early Winter
Frantic with worry, the Gray siblings quarrel like two year olds, and Sean is wracked with guilt, as Maxine lies in an ICU bed recovering from a heart attack; Amy finally gets a new clerk, whose ability to speak Spanish is an invaluable aid in the sentencing hearing of a teenager charged with burglary and assault; Ignacio gives Vincent some wise insight into Maxine; reminiscing about the beginning of their relationship brings Gillian and Peter back together; after Maxine hallucinates about her mother's death in the same hospital, she checks herself out and returns home despite her doctor's recommendation that she undergo bypass surgery.

124. Conditional Surrender
Maxine resists Gillian's home grown cardiac rehabilitation program; Lauren tells Amy that she wants to live with Michael; when Vincent comes to Sean looking for work, Sean refers him to Crystal Turner, who runs a outreach program for homeless teenagers; David quits his job and takes off for the Caribbean on his sailboat; Amy must decide whether a depressed woman with multiple sclerosis is well enough to care for her ten year old son; Vincent offers to tutor a homeless teenager studying for his G.E.D., but when he tries to get the boy off the street and into a group home, the boy disappears.

125. Silent Era
High-school student Graciela Reyes is brought to Amy's courtroom for violating her parole, but it is soon uncovered that the reason for this is that her mother has moved to Gautamala along with her two brothers, leaving Graciela behind; Meanwhile, the Gray family rallies around Maxine after she is forced to have open-heart surgery after she suffers a second heart attack during a visit to the cardiologist; Sean locates Anthony Bird, who is living with a family who had recently adopted him.

126. The Long Run
Amy learns that she is pregnant with David's baby after taking a home pregnancy test, resulting in David returning from his sailing trip to discuss with Amy their future together and what they mean to each other; Maxine's first case back since her heart-attack involves a seventeen year old single father; Amy presides over a case involving a boy who stabs his teacher; Vincent and Crystal take a ten year old prostitute to the hospital after being beaten up by her pimp.

127. 10,000 Steps
When Amy tells Lauren about being pregnant, her reaction is not exactly what Amy would have liked; While working at the outreach office for teenage runaways, Vincent uses his flair for writing to encourage a teenage runaway to write a better essay about himself so that he will be accepted in a half-way house; Amy presides over a case involving parents who want to terminate their custody over their adopted child due to his short temper and destructive behavior; Maxine deals with a case involving a boy who uses his eight year old foster brother as a drug mule; Peter fears for his relationship with Gillian when all she wants to do is have sex; Amy and David become engaged.

128. You Don't Know Me
Unaware that he is hiding his true feelings and pretending to be happy for her, Amy is annoyed by Bruce's casual response to news of her engagement. Amy is also annoyed that her relationship with Bruce has evolved to the point where he knows all of her idiosyncrasies, including, he asserts, how she'll rule in the heartrending case of a teenage girl with epilepsy whose parents disagree about whether or not she should have risky brain surgery that may stop her seizures. Elsewhere, Maxine has issues with an affluent, mostly white prep school after a student there is severely beaten; a publisher takes an interest in Vincent's new book; and Lauren lashes out at Amy for being pregnant.

129. Dream a Little Dream
Amy oversees a case involving a 13-year-old boy with a history of violent behavior who shot and killed his grandfather who was suffering from terminal lung cancer. Meanwhile, Amy searches for the perfect house for her and David to start their life together; Maxine uncovers a human smuggling operation while following up on a report of a young boy eating out of a garbage dumpster; while Vincent witnesses the gunning down of a prostitute by her pimp.

130. Happy Birthday
Amy finds it rather difficult to follow her mom's advice and embrace her 40th birthday as a milestone; Meanwhile, Donna is in Amy's court representing a 13-year-old girl who accidentally kills her friend while they are out on a joyride but shows no remorse for her death; Maxine tries to determine whether two brothers are better off without the presence of their father, an ex-con, in their lives; and Amy receives bad news on her 40th birthday; When greiving lands Amy in a bar located on the beach, she meets a stranger who gives her the perspective she needs during a difficult time.

131. Hard To Get
Several weeks have passed since Amy's miscarriage, but things are not quite back to normal for her. She refuses to discuss the house with David and brushes off Bruce's admonition that she's becoming too close to Graciela. Maxine meets up with a high school friend at a wedding and discovers that her recent divorce has left her depressed. Maxine helps her reconnect with the world by getting her involved at the hospital - holding HIV positive babies to stimulate their growth. Crystal invites Vincent to come to her AA meeting marking 30 days of being sober and they begin a new phase in their relationship. When Graciela is arrested for being in the car during a drive-by shooting, Amy goes all-out to keep her from being tried as an adult. Bruce asks her not to get too invested because he doesn't want to see her "lose...again," which unfortunately, she does. David returns Amy's half of the deposit on their dream house and tells her that he thinks they should take a break.

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132. Paper War
Amy gets more than she bargained for when she makes a comment at a bench dinner, unaware that her comment will be used against her. Soon Amy finds that all the lawyers for the state want their cases transferred out of Amy's court. She refuses to be "papered" and fight's the 'war'. She also has to contend with someone who wants her to run for senate. She makes it clear that she doesn't want to run for senate, but the individual tries playing with Amy's emotions by relating it to the Graciella Reyes trial.
Maxine finds that the definition of a "room" doesn't have to be so 'black and white' afterall. With help from Sean, they devise a plan. A loft is created and a mother whose only wish is to have her children back gets it.

133. The New Normal
Amy over sees a case involving two teens who share the same 'background', but have gone down two completely different roads in life. One of the teens is accused of attacking the other one because of who he is. Both plead that the other can't possibly understand where the other is coming from.
Lauren is tight-lipped about her upcoming dance. Amy finds out about it through Bruce who has been dress shopping with his daughter Rebecca. Amy presses Bruce for details. In truth, Lauren isn't confiding in Amy because she's afraid that if Amy knew that David was one of the chaperon's she'd be crushed. Bruce agrees to take Lauren to the dance and bring her home.
Maxine doesn't seem all that impressed when Ignacio reveals that he's now divorced and all hers. At the same time Maxine tries to convince a teen that being promiscuous has consequences. The girl who is HIV positive is convinced that she won't live long and even if she were too that her life is basically already over with. Maxine has a 'success story' as she puts it talk to the girl after the girl attempts to take her own life.
Crystal is convinced that she's just using Vincent and decides to transfer him. This upsets Vincent who confronts her about it.

134. Sorry I Missed You
Amy testifies in Graciella's trial and then after is asked to not come to observe the court proceedings in Graciella's trial anymore. Amy asks Holbrook, who seems more than willing, to observe and report back all details and happenings in the Graciella trial. Amy also has a case of possible child abuse in her court. The person making the allegations, however, turns out to be the older half sister of the child in question. She's convinced that because her step-father, her younger half sister's father abused her when she was younger that he's doing the same to the younger girl as well. Amy listens to testimony from both sides and the older sister. She then talks to the little girl in her chambers. She decides that while the older sister was unfortunately abused as a child she doesn't see conclusive evidence that the younger sister is being abused. The mother of the two girls seems caught in the middle. She has been defending her husband and the older girl is resentful because of that.
Lauren's behavior has taken a turn for the 'colorful' side when she appears with pink hair. Amy of course isn't thrilled.
Maxine deals with a case in which a foster mother has to deal with the emotional toll of having to give up her foster son who continues to run away from his birth mother back to her. She pleads that Maxine fix things and she doesn't want the little boy coming to her home again. Maxine comes up with a compromise where both the mother and the foster mother can spend time with the boy and the boy then doesn't feel the need to run away.

135. Revolutions Per Minute
In court Amy deals with a case involving a teen who has attacked and locked his mother in the basement. His motive was to get back at her for beating his dog to death with a baseball bat. It's revealed that while growing up the mother would lock the boy in his room for hours at a time when she couldn't seem to deal with his behavior, setting the stage for a pattern of future abuse.
Lauren suddenly decides she's a vegetarian and refuses to eat meat. This really bothers Amy who is concerned about her health and continued hehavioral problems. Lauren flips out when Amy makes what she thinks is a nice dinner. When Lauren learns that there are shrimp in the ravolli she yells at Amy. Lauren is then suspended from school from participating in a food protest that involved hamburgers. Amy tries, without success to talk to Lauren right after she speaks to the assistant principal. Later on she finds that Lauren's run off to her Dad's. Amy's angry and frantic to get Lauren back, but Maxine convinces her to let Lauren stay at Michael's. Later on while picking up Lauren's belongings off the floor she comes across $300 and panics. Lauren comes in as she's holding the money in her hand and Lauren screams at Amy that she's invading her privacy. Amy tells Laruen that she's very concerned about her behavior lately and that she thinks it might be "too late". Lauren tells Amy that the money is for the food that was destroyed and is to be handed over to the assistant principal the next day.
Maxine helps a mother who is raising her special needs child by herself. The child isn't sleeping and it's because of a record and a former boyfriend of the mother that are no longer around. Maxine is able to convince the old boyfriend to let her borrow the record. However, the record alone turns out to not be enough. The three adults come up with at least a temporary solution to the problem.
Peter and Gillian talk and are able to work things out. They get back together. Peter quits his band which makes Gillian happy.

136. Too Little, Too Late
In court, Amy has a case that deals with a boy wrongly accused of dealing drugs. Some men dressed up as cops jump the teen and beat him up. When the real cops are called they don't believe him. Bruce gets upset when Amy believes the boy over the police offer who testifies.
Maxine deals with an obnixous man who is physically abusing his wife. He thinks that because he's well-known in the community that he can do whatever he wishes. Add to the problem is the wife who chooses not to press charges. Maxine is finally able to get through to the woman. Both the woman, one of whom is the man's ex-wife admit that they were abused by him and his wife files charges. In the middle is a little three year old girl who is the daughter of the wife and husband.
Maxine passes off her friend Patricia too Ignacio after she decides that she and Ignacio are getting too serious. She soon regrets her decision.

137. Getting Out
In court Amy deals with a case in which a boy now ten has been committing crimes since age seven. Amy is convinced that the boy, while wrong in his actions, shouldn't be "thrown" away. Amy and Bruce have an argument because Bruce thinks that Amy has gone soft when it comes to the kids in her courtroom. During deliberations the boy gets upset because he feels that Bruce is starring at him. Amy tells Bruce not to stare at the boy. She finally calls a recess and she and Bruce leave the courtroom and head to her chambers. She asks Bruce what his problem is and he accuses her of not acting like a judge. He tells her that she's not being objective. She tells him that he shouldn't just sit there. He should do something. He decides to quit and persue his goal of becoming a child psychologist. She tries to talk him out of it, but to no avail.
The girl who said Graciella was involved in the car shooting recants her story. This gives Amy hope. Amy goes and tells Graciella. They plan on having the girl testify in Graciella's defense, but never get the chance because Graciella is attacked and killed in prison. The attack had to do with a gang retaliation. Amy is so crushed at the news of Graciella's death, that she quits the bench.
A foster mother of eight special needs children enlists the help of Maxine. She's afraid that she'll lose her house because the bank wants to take it because of the mortgage payments being late. The woman cannot afford the payments. The bank doesn't cooperate until Maxine and Sean handle it in a unique way.
Vincent is threatened by one of the inmates he is teaching. The boy who only has a few days left in prison wants to "buy his way in" so that he can be in prison where his father is. Vincent is able to persuade the boy not to stab him with the pencil, which then would kill him.

138. My Name Is Amy Gray
Amy says goodbye to Graciella. She goes to what she thinks is the funeral of Graciella, but it turns out that they are simply burying her without a funeral.
In court, Amy hears the case of a boy accused of murder. However, the defense states that the medication that the boy was on caused him to react in a way he wouldn't have if the level of medication had been correct.
Maxine goes to see Ignacio. She tells him she wants to get back together, but Ignacio tells her that she seems to be using him and he doesn't agree to getting back together.
Donna is sad to learn that Amy is going to Washington DC and stepping down as juvenile judge. She brings in all the kids that Amy has helped over the years in the hopes that the kids will persuade Amy to stay, but it doesn't work.
The state isn't able to find a place for the boy who was charged with second degree assault and battery. Amy gets frustrated and tells them that she refuses to allow the last act on her bench to be to throw the boy away. She tells the state that DCF is to hold the boy indefinitely until DCF can find a place for him.
Maxine goes to the hospital after being called in, involving a young girl who was raped. She speaks to the mother and the girl. She goes to the home of the daughter and mother and determines that it's safe to allow the girl to go home.
Amy comes home after her last day in court. She tells Lauren about possibly going to Washington DC.
The Gray family has dinner. Lauren announces that Amy has been asked to speak in Washington DC. The reactions of the family are mixed. Peter and Maxine think it's a bad idea, while Lauren, Vincent and Gillian think it's a good idea. Amy and Maxine argue and Lauren stands up for Amy. Maxine gets up from the table and leaves the room.
While in her room Maxine gets a call from the little girl. She tells Maxine that she's scared. She tells her that there's a man at her home. Maxine tells her to stay in the bathroom and not to let anyone in and that she's on her way. Maxine calls the police and goes to the little girl. The police arrest the guy and the Mom who was willing to sell her daughter's dignity for money. Maxine decides to bring the girl home with her. Sean shows up at the Gray home with a lady who specializes in rape cases. They make Maxine turn over the child even though she doesn't want to.
In DC Amy calls Bruce, and she leaves him a message. She tells him she's sorry and wishes that he was there with her.
The family gets ready to watch Amy on tv. Maxine tells Gillian about bringing the little girl home when Ignacio arrives. He tells Maxine that he wants to get back together. He asks Maxine to marry him.
The family watches Amy on tv. In DC Marty talks to Amy about her speech. She goes and sits down. She looks behind her to find that Bruce is sitting in the front row. They exchange a few words. The episode ends with Amy introducing herself.