This Is Wonderland

Pilot. The show revolves around Alice De Raey, a young criminal lawyer thrown into a justice system bursting at the seams. She encounters an endless procession of characters-ranging from the truly desperate to the wonderfully bizarre. Alice, with a good-natured openness that cloaks a tenacious, committed spirit, finds herself on a journey that constantly tests her patience and compassion.

Alice tries to convince the Crown to have compassion for a former drug addict.

Alice defends a bipolar woman, a man caught in a battle between feuding lovers, an illiterate man, and a Jamaican man with one leg.

A judge tries to save a mentally challenged man who has been charged with assault; Alice defends a man charged with sexual assault; Elliot is infatuated by a court interpreter.

Alice tries to convince a couple that one of them must go to prison so that the other can stay home and raise their children.

Elliot hires a private investigator to help with his case; Alice juggles two clients, one charged with assault and the other suspiciously eager to go to prison.

Alice gets in the middle of two disputing neighbors; Elliot and James represent a man who stole a woman's purse in a desperate attempt to meet her; Nancy represents a woman who assaulted her future father-in-law.

Alice defends a housekeeper who is working illegally and a man charged with harassing a girl who does not know that he exists.

Alice represents a PhD student suffering from a psychotic episode and a guard charged with using excessive force; James defends a mother charged with attacking her daughter's boyfriend.

Alice represents a crack addict and her sister; James defends a man who gave his younger brother heroin.

Elliot defends an exotic dancer charged with soliciting sex; Alice represents a woman accused of trying to push a passerby onto the subway tracks.

Alice defends a woman who stole money from her employer; Elliot tries helping a man who suffers from schizo-affective disorder.

A homeless man camps out in Rosedale park; a young couple steals their baby from the hospital; new lawyer join the firm.

A reverend deals drugs; a mother uses her kids as decoys to shoplift; a woman sets fire to her own home.

A man assaults two police officers while trying to protect his sisters; homeless man believes he has risen from the dead; a delusional man is convinced he is allergic to peanuts.

A couple abduct their child from foster care; man assaults an usher at a basketball game; woman has a psychotic episode.

A woman phones a bomb threat into Union Station; two men play the race card against each other; a man hates his daughter for being gay.

A man assaults shoppers; a stripper tries to frame another stripper; a mother encourages her sons to become thieves.