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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Maia and Marissa decide to start a rumor that Maia's ex, a photographer, makes and distributes child pornography. This is technically true, as the nude photos of Maia that he gave his bot were taken when she was underage.



* PayEvilUntoEvil: Maia and Marissa decide to repay Maia's ex in kind, by posting false rumors about him online. They do take it up a notch from tweeting about canning fruit, but the bot did share nude photos of Maia with what it thought was a random stranger.

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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Maia and Marissa decide to repay Maia's ex in kind, by posting false rumors about him online. They do take it up a notch from tweeting about canning fruit, but the bot did share nude photos of Maia with what it thought was a random stranger.online.

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Strange comments in elevators make Maia suspicious. She and Marissa discover someone has made a fake Twitter profile for her. Diane handles a fertility case with a clinic that closed and donated 11 of 12 eggs for research. The 12th egg has been fertilized and is being prepped for implantation. Diane brings suit before that can happen.

Mike Kresteva, the head of a task force hoping to curb police brutality, meets with Adrian. Diane warns Adrian that Kresteva is not always straightforward. Maia and Marissa track down an old boyfriend of Maia's, who they think is responsible for the Twitter impersonation. Adrian, Diane and Lucca are served with subpoenas to testify before a grand jury being prosecuted by Kresteva.

At Lucca's request, Colin speaks with his boss about Kresteva. With Marissa's help, Maia finds a way to retaliate against her old boyfriend. The fertility case leads Diane and Barbara to bond for the first time, and Diane considers reaching out to Kurt. Kresteva is undeterred and pushes forward. The judge rules on the owner of the embryo.

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Strange comments in elevators make Maia suspicious. She Maia's ex boyfriend wrote a twitter bot that pretends to be her four years ago, and Marissa discover someone its obsession with canning fruit has made a fake Twitter started to take off, probably because of her recent high profile for her. Diane handles a fertility case with a clinic that closed and donated 11 of 12 eggs for research. The 12th egg has been fertilized and is being prepped for implantation. Diane brings suit before that can happen.

Mike Kresteva,
in the head of a task force hoping media due to curb police brutality, meets with Adrian. Diane warns Adrian that Kresteva is not always straightforward. her parents' ponzi scheme. Maia and Marissa track down an old boyfriend of Maia's, who they think is responsible for try to talk to him, but end up having to start a rumor that he makes child pornography to get him to take it down.

An egg donor has lost
the Twitter impersonation. Adrian, Diane function of her ovaries and Lucca are served with subpoenas wants to testify before a grand jury being prosecuted by Kresteva.

At Lucca's request, Colin speaks with his boss about Kresteva. With Marissa's help, Maia finds a way to retaliate against her old boyfriend. The fertility case leads Diane and Barbara to bond for the first time, and Diane considers reaching out to Kurt. Kresteva is undeterred and pushes forward. The judge rules on the owner
buy back one of the embryo.
eggs she donated to have a child. The only one left has been sold, but the couple who boughht it only want to mine it for genes to replace a genetic defect in the real mother's ova. However, it has already been fertilized, so it becomes a custody battle, which the couple loses.
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* MathematiciansAnswer: When asked by the opposing side's lawyer "how" they could get England involved in the case, Lucca replies that it was easy: they just dialled 44 and then the number.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Subverted. In the embryo ownership case, the opposing side starts using an analogy where the embryo is like a stolen car, and it comes back to bite them when the judge asks why they would rather destroy their illegally bought car than return it to the owner.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Maia and Marissa decide to repay Maia's ex in kind, by posting false rumors about him online. They do take it up a notch from tweeting about canning fruit, but the bot did share nude photos of Maia with what it thought was a random stranger.
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* BlatantLies: Mike Kresteva plays with this. He lies in court about what Diane has said to him, in front of Diane. He did not lie about his son's passing, but Diane had to check, and he milks it for all it's worth.
* CentralTheme: Who owns an embryo's genetic material?

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!!...Henceforth known as property

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!!...Henceforth known Known as property
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* BaitAndSwitch: Collin pretends to proposition Lucca in a thinly veiled way. When she responds sarcastically, he reveals that he meant that he wanted share a milkshake with her.
* StalkerWithACrush:
** Maia's ex boyfriend is still mad at her for realizing she was gay and breaking up with him, so he refuses to take down the twitter bot he set up to impersonate her when she broke up with him.
** Collin and Lucca argue back and forth about which of them is this to the other.
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!!...Henceforth known as property

Strange comments in elevators make Maia suspicious. She and Marissa discover someone has made a fake Twitter profile for her. Diane handles a fertility case with a clinic that closed and donated 11 of 12 eggs for research. The 12th egg has been fertilized and is being prepped for implantation. Diane brings suit before that can happen.

Mike Kresteva, the head of a task force hoping to curb police brutality, meets with Adrian. Diane warns Adrian that Kresteva is not always straightforward. Maia and Marissa track down an old boyfriend of Maia's, who they think is responsible for the Twitter impersonation. Adrian, Diane and Lucca are served with subpoenas to testify before a grand jury being prosecuted by Kresteva.

At Lucca's request, Colin speaks with his boss about Kresteva. With Marissa's help, Maia finds a way to retaliate against her old boyfriend. The fertility case leads Diane and Barbara to bond for the first time, and Diane considers reaching out to Kurt. Kresteva is undeterred and pushes forward. The judge rules on the owner of the embryo.

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* TitleDrop: The thing referred to as property is a batch of donated ova, and the title is dropped in the reading of the contract.
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