American Crime reports that Amanda Bechtel, the wife of the CEO of Zinklink, Will Bechtel, has washed up on a beach. Her body was partially devoured by sharks. American Crime wonders if Will, the founder of a popular search engine, killed his wife and dumped her body in the ocean.

Ron and Luther walk through a swarm of media into the Zinklink offices. They’re greeted by Robert Jones, Will’s best friend and assistant. Robert called TNT&G and nervously explained that Will was upstairs talking to the police. This fact did not please Ron. The lawyers enter in time to see the police lead a handcuffed Will downstairs. When Ron learns that they don’t have a warrant and Will is turning himself in, he sternly demands that they take the handcuffs off their client.

Ron and Luther conduct their first interview with Will. Will explains that he, Robert and Amanda had been drinking before their yacht trip back from Catalina. Ron has Tom and Alden query Robert to see if their stories match up. Will says that when he woke up below deck, he realized they were sailing back to Los Angeles. He found Robert at the helm, but no sign of Amanda. He also admits that he fought with Amanda on the night she died. Ron orders Will to stop talking to the police. Determined to do his own thing, Will fires TNT&G. So Ron decides that they’ll defend Robert on Will’s dime.

TNT&G finds out that the prosecutor on this case is Andrew Reyes. This disheartens the firm as Reyes is a skilled lawyer who never leaks information and loves going after rich defendants. Tom wonders to Ron if the firm should bother defending both Robert and Will. Tom thinks Will is guilty based on Robert’s desire to defend him. Ron thinks that story is a bit of a joke. Besides, the best way to defend Robert is to defend both of them, which will prevent Will from pointing a finger at Robert. Luther announces that the police have arrested Will and issued a warrant for Robert. And sure enough, Will wants to rehire TNT&G.

Will is surprised that Ron wants to defend both men, but Ron assures him that it’s ethical as long as both suspects have the same defense. If they sign a waiver for the conflict of interest, the case can proceed. Will wonders if it would be smarter for each man to have his own lawyer. Ron says that’s fine, but TNT&G is sticking with Robert. Will relents and signs the waiver.

Reyes, knowing that this arrangement hurts his chances of turning one suspect against the other, pressures Ron to drop Will and save Robert. Ron just smiles. Later, after learning that Will told the police that Robert may have killed Amanda, Ron and Tom confront Will in his parking garage. Will admits he said that and explains that Reyes offered him a plea deal, but he didn’t take it. Ron is exasperated that Will continually defies his order to stop talking to the police. He tells Will that if he says one more word about the case to anyone, TNT&G is cutting him loose. And if Will leaves them, Tom explains, TNT&G will bury him.

The lawyers meet to formulate their defense strategy. Alden, having met with the medical examiner, shows Ron and Luther that the bruising along Amanda’s back reflects a beating. But there’s no evidence of a struggle on the boat. Ron smiles, knowing that the DA has nothing. Luther reminds him that they have a jury, which typically will side against a rich defendant. Ron turns his attention to sharks. Figuring that people love sharks, Ron orders Alden to find somebody to testify about the sharks that chewed up Amanda and somehow make it relevant to the case.

Tom reports to Ron that he found a motive for Will to have wanted to kill Amanda. Their estate planning – a complex web of hundreds of stocks, trust funds and bonds. And of the hundreds and hundreds of documents Tom reviewed, the one they didn’t find…was a pre-nup. Ron frowns and orders Tom to stop finding ways to prove Will’s guilt and start working for both clients.

In the marina, Alden meets with a defense expert who explains that both blue sharks and horn sharks took chunks out of Amanda. Blue sharks are found in deep water, while horn sharks are found closer to the shore. They’re also nocturnal hunters. And judging from the bite patterns, the horn sharks most likely got to Amanda first. Piecing this information together, Ron realizes they have a new defense angle. Amanda was killed on Catalina and thrown in the water.

Luther has a new piece of evidence for the lawyers himself. When the defendants were teens, Robert took the rap for a reckless driving charge. He sideswiped parked cars while driving Will’s new car with Will in the passenger seat. Will admits that he was drunk and hit the cars, and Robert admits that he switched seats with Will to prevent a DUI and the ruination of Will’s nascent search engine.

Acting on a tip from a reporter, Tom studies the past year’s itineraries for Will and Amanda. They both travel frequently, but to different cities and countries. Will always traveled for business, Amanda always for pleasure. Tom shows the partners a graphical representation of these trips. Curiously, Robert’s travels continually intersect with Amanda’s. He postulates that they were lovers. TNT&G hopes the prosecution doesn’t discover this fact.

A fight breaks out in the TNT&G lobby. Will and Robert are having a little punch up. It seems that Will caught wind of the affair. Ron and Luther come across the fight just as Ron is introducing the defendants to Miranda Lee, the jury consultant. In her professional opinion, Miranda thinks amateur boxing will hurt the jury’s opinion of the defendants. As Robert and Will argue, Will asks if Robert killed Amanda. Robert angrily responds that he wanted to radio the police the second they realized Amanda was missing, but Will told him to wait until they docked. Ron and Luther stop. Will told them that the radio was broken in their initial interview. Will explains they he didn’t want to tell the truth, that he figured Amanda had stayed back on the island. She had done it before and Will didn’t think she was in trouble.

The trial begins. Tom cross-examines the police detective and begins pointing to Kyle Brown. Brown works in a hotel on the island and has a murder conviction on his record. On Ron’s approval, Tom calls Kyle Brown to the stand. But Brown isn’t there. He’s fled. The lawyers adjourn to judge’s chambers, where Reyes angrily decries TNT&G’s stunt with Brown. Ron claims ignorance when Reyes accuses him of knowing that Brown would flee.

To pay TNT&G back, Reyes re-directs the witness and gets him to testify that Will pointed a finger at Robert in his first police interview. Tom objects and it’s upheld, but Will’s accusation has now been heard by the jury. During recess, the firm decides they need to put one of the defendants on the stand. Worried that Reyes could hammer Robert with the affair, the partners elect to put Will up there.

On the stand, Will explains that he didn’t radio right away because he was angry over the fight he and Amanda had in the restaurant. Reyes calls Will a liar and Will admits that he is. He lied about the radio not working and he lied about Robert’s possible involvement. But he didn’t lie about killing her. And neither he nor Robert did it. The jury returns a verdict of not guilty for both men. After, Tom asks Ron why he seems so glum about the verdict. Ron explains that if three people are on a yacht and one turns up dead, somebody on that boat killed her. Perhaps even both of them.

FLASHBACK TO THE DEATH OF AMANDA BECHTEL - With Will passed out drunk, Robert and Amanda step out to the bow of the yacht. Robert leans in for a kiss, but Amanda pulls away. They argue and Robert begins shoving Amanda against the railing. She tumbles over and hits her head on the side of the boat which knocks her unconscious. She floats in the water for a few moments, and then sinks under.