This Is Wonderland — Season 1
Law and Order...Without the Order.
About this season
Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.
Episodes (13)
1. Episode 1
Aired 12 January 2004
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.
2. Episode 2
Aired 19 January 2004
Alice tries to convince the Crown to have compassion for a former drug addict.
3. Episode 3
Aired 26 January 2004
Alice defends a bipolar woman, a man caught in a battle between feuding lovers, an illiterate man, and a Jamaican man with one leg.
4. Episode 4
Aired 2 February 2004
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.
5. Episode 5
Aired 8 February 2004
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.
6. Episode 6
Aired 9 February 2004
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.
7. Episode 7
Aired 16 February 2004
A diagnosed schizophrenic women is charged with abducting a baby.
8. Episode 8
Aired 1 March 2004
A man is charged with assaulting the fathers of boys who bullied his daughter; a homeless intellectual defends himself.
9. Episode 9
Aired 8 March 2004
Alice's client is charged with abusing and neglecting his father, who has Alzheimer's disease; Elliot defends a high-profile artist.
10. Episode 10
Aired 15 March 2004
James helps a drug dealer prove he has been framed; Alice defends a street kid charged with aggressive panhandling.
11. Episode 11
Aired 22 March 2004
A woman is accused of stalking her ex-boyfriend and his girlfriend; an 18-year-old is pressured to cover for a drug dealer.
12. Episode 12
Aired 29 March 2004
Alice defends a man on trial for assaulting his son and an Eastern European immigrant who is being tormented by former acquaintances.
13. Episode 13
Aired 5 April 2004
Alice defends a man in for an altercation with the superintendent of his rooming house.