Shark Season One

Pilot
An arrogant big-shot defense attorney is guilt-ridden after the client he just helped get off commits another murder, so he decides to become a prosecutor. After a shocking outcome in one of his cases and a personal epiphany, Sebastian Stark decides to leave his job as a defense attorney. Now looking for a new job, he has been offered the position of director of the Los Angeles DA's high-profile crime unit, but with a twist - he will have to train a new team of inexperienced lawyers.
LAPD Blue
Stark prosecutes a drug dealer accused of killing an undercover police officer. However, the defense attorney in the case once worked for Stark's old law firm but was fired. Stark has a new case, the murder of an undercover narcotics detective by a drug dealer. He will have to deal with the murdered cop's partners, who are hesitant to trust or help him because he often used questionable means to win acquittals for his often-guilty clients when he was a defense attorney.
Dr. Feelbad
The office prosecutes a prominent doctor accused of killing his wife. However, the case rides on the testimony of his young son, who may be afraid to tell the truth and convict his dad. A heart surgeon is accused of murdering his missing wife. The fact that Stark doesn't have any proof, or even a body, doesn't stop him. He asks his team to find creative means to secure evidence from Dr. Mitchell Sterling's home and obtain testimony from his eight-year-old son, Ethan.

Russo
When the prosecutors' evidence in a murder trial is ruled inadmissible, they are forced to turn to the testimony of an unscrupulous private investigator--a man who has an uneasy past with Stark from his days as a defense attorney. A couple is shot to death in a Malibu beach house, which they rented from a private investigator who knows dirty secrets about almost everyone in Hollywood - including Stark. The PI is under investigation by a grand jury and Stark uses that threat to squeeze information from him. Back at home, Julie helps a guy on whom she has a crush research a term paper while she lets her own studies fall behind.
In the Grasp
A rape case against three star college football players is in jeopardy of falling apart when the victim admits that she had consensual sex with one of them on the same day as the incident. Stark prosecutes three college football players accused of raping a female student at a campus athletic house. One of the players is the team's starting quarterback and is considered a first-round pick in the upcoming NFL draft. The case takes a hit when Stark learns the victim was in a relationship with the quarterback. Back at home, Julie tells her dad she is being suspended from school because she's been accused of plagiarism.
Fashion Police
The office is told to go after a sweat shop owner after an electrical fire kills four people. But since Martin feels so strongly about the case, they instead go after the clothing manufacturer that hired him. Four Latino women are killed in a garment-factory fire and the police rule it an accident, but Martin leaks false information to the press to force the DA's office to investigate. Sebastian isn't happy about it and says the case can't be won, but he gets pumped up when he learns a rival is defending the fashion company his office is going after. The probe reveals the company supports sweatshops and may be liable for the fire. Also, Julie gets readmitted to school.
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Stark wants to try a suspect in a child murder for a similar murder from 15 years ago. He lost the original case as a defense attorney, and has always believed his original client was innocent. After an 8-year-old girl is kidnapped from a park and murdered, Stark believes this new case could be linked to a similar crime committed 15 years ago. In the former case, the main suspect had been defended by Stark himself and prosecuted by Jessica Devlin, and the man had been convicted of the murder. Meanwhile, a young man tells Julie he believes his late father and her mother had an affair while she was still married to Stark.

Love Triangle
The office prosecutes a white teenage girl for the hit-and-run death of an African American girl who was involved with her boyfriend. A 16-year-old black girl is run down by a car and killed just after she left a party. The school the victim went to is mostly attended by rich, white kids, including Stark's daughter, Julie. Stark fears a racial war could break out over the crime but when the investigation is completed, it reveals a totally different story.
Dial M for Monica
Stark prosecutes an expensive Hollywood madam for ordering a hit on one of her former prostitutes, and she responds by releasing a book of her clients which includes his name. An assistant district attorney is gunned down along with a high-priced hooker in the prostitute's car. The investigation reports the victim had wanted to prosecute narcotics cases and not domestic disputes, and she may have been working the call girl on targeting a drug dealer with whom she had a relationship. Meanwhile, Julie considers going to the next step with Eddie.
Sins of the Mother
An L.A. socialite goes on trial for killing an ex-con, and Stark's investigation reveals some shocking information about the woman's past and true identity. A married socialite, who is one of Jessica's best friends, fatally shoots her ex-con lover but claims it was in self-defense. Also, Sebastian gives Julie the silent treatment after she stays overnight with her boyfriend.
The Wrath of Khan
Stark and Devlin butt heads with the Feds over jurisdiction of an arms dealer's case, but with cops dead and hostages, Stark takes matters into his own hands. Stark goes after a millionaire arms broker who is supplying explosives to L.A. gangs that have caused three car bombings and nine fatalities over the past five months. Making things more difficult is the FBI, which wants to take over the case, but Stark won't allow it because Casey has been kidnapped and may be killed if the arms broker escapes the country.
Wayne's World
Shark goes up against a serial killer, but the conviction may not be as easy as he thinks and may put his daughter in danger. Sebastian's new case seems to be the easiest one he could get. He's prosecuting a suspected serial killer accused of murdering five women and seriously injuring a sixth who was lucky enough to escape from his house. But the victim is reluctant to testify when she learns that the killer will be interrogating her.

Teacher's Pet
Stark tries to get back on his feet after losing his first case as a prosecutor by going after a prep school art teacher who may have been having inappropriate relations with the son of a murder victim. Sebastian prosecutes the murder billionaire real estate developer who was making tabloid-headlines because of problems with his young second wife, Sonja. Both she and resentful 16-year-old son, Dylan, are the prime suspect of the case. Meanwhile, fearing for Julie's safety in the wake of his last case, Sebastian hires a bodyguard to shadow her whenever she leaves their home.
Starlet Fever
A teen actress is killed after another car runs hers off the road, and her agent/legal guardian becomes the prime murder suspect. When a popular 21-year-old actress is killed when her car is run off the road and crashes into a canyon below Mulholland Drive, an investigation reveals she and another Hollywood socialite had fought at a club before the crash. She also had ended a long-term and secret relationship with a man the same night. Meanwhile, Julie doesn't tell Sebastian about her attending a Hollywood party with Neal.
Here Comes the Judge
Stark takes on a Judge accused of murdering his wife, but he has an adversarial history with Stark and a secret to hide from the investigation. The wife of an ultraconservative judge known for giving harsh sentences, who had also tried to have Sebastian disbarred twice, is murdered in an apparent robbery attempt at LAX. The judge becomes Sebastian's prime suspect when he learns the judge's marriage had been in trouble and he had been anticipating confirmation to the Federal Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, Julie plans a fancy dinner to say goodbye to Neal when she discovers he will no longer be her bodyguard.
Blind Trust
Stark loyalties are tested when he gets caught up as accessory after the fact to a murder involving his best friend, and just to make things interesting there's blackmail to deal with. Meanwhile, Julie goes to extreme lengths to keep her arrest from her father. Sebastian discovers the body of a 25-year-old woman when he is called to a penthouse suite by a close friend. Sebastian hesitantly agrees when his friend asks him for help. He subsequently regrets assisting his friend when the woman's body is discovered in a ravine the next day. In the meantime, Julie tries to muster the courage to tell her father she has been arrested for drunk driving.
Backfire
The DA's office investigates a police shooting involving a drug dealer. The case could potentially set off a racial powder keg, and Stark suspects a cover-up when the police officers involved keep changing their stories. After two cops are implicated in a controversial shooting that kills an upstanding black teen and also hurts his drug-dealing cousin, Sebastian is put in charge of the case. To find the answers to his questions, he must use an accusatory approach toward the two officers, but it doesn't take long for Isaac to disapprove of Stark's way of doing things
Trial by Fire
When Stark and Raina are taken hostage in the midst of a death-penalty trial, even his smoothest moves are countered by a criminal who seems to have more influence over the kidnapper than he does. While Stark and Raina are prosecuting a cold-blooded killer, a convicted armed robber from another case enters the courtroom and takes everyone hostage and hopes to reverse his conviction.

Porn Free
Stark has to prosecute the owner of a women's shelter accused of killing a unscrupulous, despicable porn producer. Based on the evidence, Stark works on the theory that the two men may have been in business together. Stark must prosecute the murder of a predatory porn producer. The case is complicated by the fact the killer is the head of a women's shelter who is being regarded as a hero by the media and the population of the city.
Fall from Grace
Stark goes up against an old protégée when he prosecutes two mob-types for the murder of a university professor, and she seems to have the inside scoop when it comes to the goings-on in the DA's office. In his new case, Stark goes up against one of his former legal protégés. He must prosecute the murder of a young professor who was pushed from the balcony of his wife's boyfriend's apartment.
Strange Bedfellows
Stark goes after a single man who may have abducted a young boy who has been living with him for several years. But the boy doesn't want to be back with his parents, and there may be signs of abuse. With the discovery of an 11-year-old boy who went missing four years ago comes one of the most confusing case for Stark. During those four years, the young boy was living with his kidnapper and was identifying himself as his son. Sebastian must disprove the kidnapper's claim that he was in fact protecting the boy from abusive parents.
Wayne's World 2: Revenge of the Shark
Stark gets a second opportunity to prosecute Wayne Callison for murder, but his stubborn determination to get a conviction no matter what gets him forcibly removed from the case. An old friend of Stark is back. But this time, Stark gets a second chance at justice when he puts Wayne Callison on trial for another murder. Because of the exact same wounds as the previous victim, Callison is accused of murdering another young woman.

Shark Season Two

Gangster Movies
When Stark's witness is murdered by the bombing of the prison bus, Jessica Devlin agrees to help and recruits Deputy District Attorney Danny Reyes from the Organized Crime Unit to assist in the investigation. Jessica comes out of temporary retirement to help Stark prosecute a Russian mobster connected to an explosion that killed the prosecution's key witness in a double murder trial.
For Whom The Skel Rolls
Isaac's life goes under scrutiny after the closed case of his fiancée's murder is re-opened and Sebastian's team will be conducting the investigation for the DA's office. The relationship between Raina and Isaac gets more complicated because Raina cannot reveal she is working on this case. A criminal's admission forces the team to re-investigate a case involving the murder of Isaac's ex-fiancée. The new suspect is an actor who spent time in the rehab center where she worked.

Eye Of The Beholder
After the body of a 22-year-old surgically enhanced aspiring actress turns up, the team begins working on identifying and convicting the killer. But the investigation leads to the discovery of one of the worst kind of exploitation there is in this industry: Sebastian's team uncovers that the victim's plastic surgeon was exchanging sex for surgery with her. A professional photographer is charged with murdering a young model, but Reyes makes a mistake questioning a witness that could cost the prosecution greatly in the trial.
Dr. Laura
Jessica finds herself in trouble when her friend, Medical Examiner Laura Fields, is caught tampering with evidence in their murder case. When confronted in court, she accuses Jessica of having pressured her into giving false testimony and arranging the evidence to gain a conviction when Jessica was the D.A. Stark prosecutes a corrupt medical examiner who is accused of killing an investigative journalist. The defense responds by pointing the finger at former District Attorney Jessica Devlin.
Student Body
The search for the bomber on a school campus and the killer of a co-ed leads to a young chemical engineering student who has been sending incriminating letters about exacting revenge on his condescending peers. When the case is ready to go to trial, Danny is seduced by the student, who claims innocence, and he convinces Sebastian to let him search for another suspect. The office charges a wealthy businessman's son with murder, after he is accused of making a bomb that killed a student in a chemistry lab.

No Holds Barred
After a popular ultimate fighter commits suicide, an investigation reveals he had been the third fighter in the league to commit suicide and the league CEO had been pushing steroids on the players. Following the results of the investigation, Sebastian charges the CEO with murder. An ultimate fighting league champion is dead, and suspects in his death include one of his fellow fighters, and the commissioner of the league.
In Absentia
Sebastian and Danny travel to Mexico to attempt to retrieve a defendant who left the country to avoid being prosecuted for murdering his business partner/mistress. When a man charged with murder escapes to Mexico before his trial, Stark flies down to Mexico and gets the help of an old friend to bring him back.
In the Crosshairs
The mayor places undue pressure on Sebastian and his team to identify, locate, and convict a serial freeway sniper who is causing city-wide panic in Los Angeles. The prosecution of an accused freeway sniper hits a snag when another shooting takes place during the trial.

Burning Sensation
Sebastian's team learns the victim of a serial arsonist had been murdered and dumped at the site of a fire. Starks learns that a victim in a house fire was actually murdered before the fire. A Los Angeles firefighter is the prime suspect, but his fellow firefighters try to protect him from prosecution. Jessica feels responsible when a woman is killed shortly after the retrial of her stalker is lost.
Shaun of the Dead
Stark has difficulty investigating the murder of a groupie when the singer and his group not only peddle their stories to the tabloids, but actively work against finding the truth.

Trivia For Shark

• During the first meeting between Stark and Russo, there is a scene with a bus passing the D.A.'s office. On this bus is a sign that reads "Studio 60" and can be seen if it is freeze-framed
• The crash expert on the stand also shows his lack of credibility by saying "ninety-nine point thirty-seven" no engineer, physicist, or mathematician would say it that way. All decimals are spoken point by point so a true expert would say "point three seven".
• Text Message on PDA Phone at Beginning of Episode: Alert 6:33 pm. New Text Message from D.A. Office (M). Double homicide Mulholland overlook. Arrive ASAP.
• The watch Stark is wearing in the opening scene is a Chronoswiss Klassik Chronograph.
• When Stark dismissed the jury during the arrest of Judge Bennett, his pose with arms upright in the shape of a "V" was an homage to Richard Nixon.
• When Stark's team is explaining the oil residue, the right-top corner of the laptop screen says "Mute" in bright green letters, but strangely enough, the application makes sound.

• After Tim Matheson, Gary Cole is the second actor that played a Vice President in The West Wing to appear on Shark. Matheson played Vice President John Hoynes, Cole played Vice President Bob Russell. Curiously, they showed up in consecutive episodes (Tim Matheson guest-starred last week), they both played figures from Stark's past, and they were both implicated in a murder case.
• Right before Masters shoots the surveillance camera, he speaks directly to the authorities, saying, "If we're not on that copter in 29 minutes, everyone dies." There is even a reaction from Jessica Devlin as if she heard it. The camera is video-only and there is no open phone line in the courtroom. There is no way those words could have been heard.
• This episode reveals that Sam Page's character of Casey Woodland has left the DA's office to work on his father's political campaign.
• Stark's unit is supposed to handle high-profile cases only, and yet the crime in this episode was committed by what he called a "two-bit burglar." There was no explanation of why he was trying the case.
• It is revealed that Madeleine Poe has a brown belt in aikido.

• When Raina asks Stark to look at the Geneva Conventions for torture, she should have known that the Geneva Conventions only cover the treatment of non-combatants and prisoners of war during war times. Laws about torture in the United States are under the federal government's jurisdiction.
• Shark was in jeopardy of getting canceled before it even started, but James Woods gave the legal drama new life once he signed on to star in the pilot. Woods has spent most of his career focusing on feature films, not television.
• Shark is slightly inaccurate in implying that the Los Angeles County District Attorney is controlled by the City of Los Angeles. The District Attorney is actually an independently elected official of the county government. If anyone could pressure the D.A. to hire a former criminal defense attorney like Sebastian Stark, it would be the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, who control the county budget. The City of Los Angeles does have a City Attorney, but that official prosecutes only misdemeanors and files a variety of civil lawsuits against criminals, rather than the high-stakes felony prosecutions depicted in the show.
• Stark has three rules, which he refers to as his "Cutthroat Manifesto:" * "Trial is War. Second place is death." * "Truth is relative. Pick one that works." * "In a jury trial, there are only twelve opinions that matter and yours [speaking to his team] is not one of them."

Quotes Of Shark

Sebastian Stark: You look really hot in that suit.
Jessica Devlin: Dream on.
Sebastian Stark: I will.
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Sebastian Stark: The only time you can be with a man in a hotel room alone is if you're married or I'm dead or both.
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Client: Go to hell.
Sebastian Stark: I have a condo there.
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Raina Troy: When do these people sleep?
Sebastian Stark: During the day. They're vampires.
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Client: I'm going to make your life a living hell.
Sebastian Stark: No thanks. I've already been married.
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Casey Woodland: I didn't know that.
Sebastian Stark: You should have that put on a t-shirt.
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Sebastian Stark: When I want your opinion, I'll stop ice skating in hell and ask for it!

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Sebastian Stark: [a mock trial, Sebastian is proving to the team that a witness can lose composure on the stand] Ms. Troy, how old are you?
Raina Troy: Twenty-six.
Sebastian Stark: How many men have you had sex with?
Raina Troy: What?
Sebastian Stark: Your Honor?
Margaret: Witness will answer.
Raina Troy: I have no idea.
Sebastian Stark: Ten? Twenty? Am I getting warm?
Raina Troy: Maybe you keep a running tally, but I don't.
Sebastian Stark: Have you ever contracted a veneral disease?
Sebastian Stark: [pause] Have... you... ever... contracted... a... veneral... dis... EASE?
Raina Troy: ONCE! In college.
Sebastian Stark: So you ENJOY unprotected sex?
Raina Troy: I was twenty-one!
Sebastian Stark: Do you also enjoy bondages? S & M? Is that a crucifix around your neck?
Raina Troy: Don't go there.
Sebastian Stark: Do you practice the teachings of your church?
Raina Troy: YES!
Sebastian Stark: How do you reconcile those teachings with your WANTON PROMISCUITY?
Raina Troy: You don't know a THING about me! Now you may live in a fancy penthouse but you are still an ambulance chasing son of a bitch!
Sebastian Stark: [pause] No further questions, and you may step down.
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Sebastian Stark: [Casey has just told Sebastian that a suspect judge is... ] GAY?
[Casey nods]
Sebastian Stark: I could kiss you so hard on the mouth right now...
Casey Woodland: Rain... check.