Alicia represents a stripper seeking to sue the son of a powerful family for an alleged rape.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- Justice by Other Legal Means: Played straight, then inverted. Christy Barbosa is attempting a civil suit because the state's attorney's office declined to prosecute McKeon for raping her. The firm proves that the private crime lab that processed their client's rape kit cross-contaminated it, but this results in the judge calling the case a "he said, she said" and siding with the defense out of an abundance of caution. However, the case led to S.A. Childs deciding to have a second look at the evidence, and McKeon is arrested walking out of the courtroom because an uncontaminated sample was found.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Lampshaded by Will, who directly compares Christy's case to the 2006 Duke University lacrosse rape case
, likewise involving a sex worker who accused wealthy men of raping her during a paid performance. - Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Defied. McKeon's attorney offers to settle for $450,000 in exchange for Christy signing an NDA. She refuses the hush money, describing it as setting a price tag on rape.
