THE "KATE BRASHER" EPISODE GUIDE

Regular Cast:
Kate Brasher: Mary Stuart Masterson; Abbie Schaeffer:
Rhea Perlman; Joe Almeida: Hector Elizondo; Daniel
Brasher: Gregory Smith; Elvis Brasher: Mason
Gamble.

1. PILOT EPISODE: February 24, 2001
Kate Brasher, a mother raising two teenage boys on her own after her
husband walks out, is holding down several jobs. One job, cleaning a
bowling alley, results in the cleaning crew being cheated out of $300
of the hourly wage promised by the owner. When Kate is turned down
for an advance on her pay at the diner, a police officer who
overhears while paying his diner check, gives her the card of
Brothers Keepers, a local legal aid and social action organization.
Kate helps an elderly mute woman, who has been seeking help at
Brothers Keepers, communicate her problem through a game of charades,
the attorneys decide to see if they can help and offer her a
job. Kate's two sons, Daniel and Elvis, try to help their mother make
up for the money withheld by the bowling alley manager. Elvis tracks
down the telephone number of his absent father, who weasels out again.
Daniel places a bet on a football game through a high school
classmate.

2. "SIMON": March 3, 2001
At Day Care Center of Brother's Keepers, Kate notices a grade school
boy named Simon, who displays artistic talent in painting a mural on
the playground fence. Kate decides to visit the parents, discovering
Simon's father is blind. Simon is not depressed because of problems
at home, but has been put on the drug Ritalin by the school
authorities for being hyperactive. Kate tries to convince the school
authorities to get Simon into a special school under a state program
and is concerned that the drug is in the same class as cocaine and
other dangerous drugs. On the homefront, Elvis, protests against
having to write a limerick in English class by using profane language
in the assignment. Kate's eldest son, Daniel, announces that he has
gotten a part-time job to help out with family finances.

3. "JEFF": March 10, 2001
A youth in the day care program at Brother's Keepers, shoots and
wounds Joe and Hannah. When Hannah dies from complications, Joe tries
to keep the youth from being tried as an adult. Kate tries to
convince the adopted father of a boy in the day care program to leave
his abusive gay partner and eventually succeeds. Daniel and Elvis
locate their wayward father in a local town and repossess his car for
some of the $108,000 in back child support he owes.

4. "JACKSON": March 24, 2001
Kate is assigned to help a man released from death row for a murder
he did not commit, the prosecutor intimidated a key witness who could
have supplied him with a verifiable alibi. Elvis has his head turned
by a senior girl with a bad reputation, despite the warnings of older
brother Daniel.

5. "TRACY": April 7, 2001
Tracy Delray, an aspiring professional singer, is trying to get Social
Services to return custody of her two young daughters to her. The
girls are in a foster home because Tracy was once addicted to crack.
Kate gets too personally involved with Tracy's problems. On the
homefront, Daniel is failing Algebra and finds the only tutor Kate can
afford is his younger brother, math-whiz Elvis.

6. "GEORGIA": April 14, 2001
Kate is assigned to go out into the mean streets of Los Angeles to
inform runaway teenagers about the free counseling service of
Brothers Keepers and a shelter for runaways called Grove House. On
her rounds, Kate encounters Georgia, who has run away from a town in
Ohio. Late at night, Georgia appears on Kate's front porch asking to
spend the night at Kate's house. Kate then gets Georgia permission to
attend classes at Daniel's and Elvis' high school. At school, she
persuades Daniel to blow off afternoon classes to go to the beach.
Daniel and Georgia stay into the evening, upsetting Kate, and even
kiss. Georgia confesses that she is pregnant and that her
stepfather is the father.