Goliath thwarts a jewelry store heist, but the culprits get away in the chaos that follows, leaving the clan to be pursued by the police. Goliath alone is apprehended when he is struck by a truck. He refuses to get out under his own power, desiring to use the courts to prove his innocence. He's assigned a public defender named Amy Schummer in this venture, and the rest of the clan seek out witnesses who can help the case, but the robbery gang uses the situation to their advantage.
This episode contains the following tropes:
- Army of Lawyers: Not seen, but Elisa mentions that Xanatos offered his considerable stable of lawyers to act as counsel for Goliath; Goliath is content to accept his court-appointed public defender.
- Artistic License – Law: Boy howdy. It might be easier to say that Goliath would be just as legally culpable if he had gone along with just escaping from jail altogether.
- Ascended Extra: Margot Yale appears here as the prosecutor of Goliath's case.
- Caught on Tape: Goliath engineers the gang leader's confession and records him saying it using Amy's tape recorder.
- Courtroom Episode: The plot is all about Goliath trying to help gargoyles be accepted by acceding to human law.
- Deadpan Snarker: The judge gets in a nice zinger, courtesy of Tress MacNeille.Judge: Since the defendant has escaped from custody...
Amy: Your Honor, I object to the word "escaped".
Judge: He isn't here, is he? - Fake Defector: To gain the thief's trust, Goliath entices him with the plan of going on a tremendous crime spree together.
- Good Lawyers, Good Clients: We already know Goliath is an upstanding Manhattan "citizen", and his public defender Amy doesn't agree with the anti-gargoyle sentiment running rampant around the city.
- Jury and Witness Tampering: The robbery gang threatens the witnesses Goliath was planning to call, coercing them not to testify. Amy averted the former by waiving a jury trial, as gargoyle bias was common.
- No Name Given: None of the robbery gang is named, just being "Gang Leader", "Driver", etc.
- Paperworkaholic: Amy is introduced carrying a huge stack of papers into Goliath's cell, complaining about how many other cases she's working on. As Last Week Tonight with John Oliver can tell you
, this is absolutely Truth in Television for public defenders. - Rabble Rouser: One of the gang leader's men stirs up crowds of anti-gargoyle sentiment during the trial. It's intentional to have an excuse to break into the prison and get their leader out.
- Willfully Weak: Goliath could very easily break out of his restraints or any prison cell Manhattan might hold; he even does when a mob tips the police van escorting him. The clan could do the same for him. He willfully chooses not to and tells Elisa to advise the others to do the same.
