Rob Steinberg

Tanya and Dr. Hanson try to save a wounded sergeant; Denise and Jackie visit the sergeant's family; Roxy gives encouragement to a withdrawn wife; Roland learns that Charlie is in a relationship.

Season Three premiere. Antoine Batiste flirts with martyrdom; Janette Desautel encounters her old nemesis, Enrico Brulard, and a new suitor; Delmond and Albert Lambreaux debut their Indian-jazz album; Toni Bernette meets L.P. Everett, a new ally in her investigation of post-Katrina killings; LaDonna Batiste-Williams finds living with in-laws is its own kind of hell; Sonny is in an in-law hell of his own, and he and Linh aren't even married; Nelson Hidalgo is barking up new money trees.

As Jane (Brooke Elliott) represents a professional cheerleader who says she’s being bullied by her teammates, Owen (Lex Medlin) counsels a family to secede to protect their home from being seized by the government. Meanwhile, Teri (Margaret Cho) impersonates a lawyer to protect Paul (Justin Deeley) from his creditors.

McAlary celebrates his 40th; Bernette gets a break in her case; Annie dumps her band; Lambreaux insists that Delmond carry on as Big Chief after he's gone; Everett returns to New Orleans.

Grayson’s (Jackson Hurst) childhood friend enlists him and Jane (Brooke Elliott) in a fight with his in-laws over where to bury his late wife. A twelve-year-old orphan asks Kim (Kate Levering) to adopt him.