Ally McBeal
Date: 2-27-00
Episode: "Odd Ball Parade"
Character Dixon
Steven plays an attorney defending a company that
fired several of their employees for looking and
being a bit “odd”. It is a funny and interesting
case that he has to defend in court. A man that
dresses as a woman, a man with an uncontrollable
compulsive disorder that makes him clap his hands,
are two of the plaintiffs that Dixon’s character
has to interview. Dixon alleges that the people
were fired because they were not doing their job
and because they negatively affected the company.
Date: 3-27-00
Episode: "Boy Next Door"
Character Dixon.
Steven comes back as attorney Dixon in one of Alley’s
saddest epidoses. This time, Dixon represents a husband
who wants an annulment after he finds out his wife has
breast implants and never told him about it. Dixon claims
his client is against an insincere, fake, superficial and
artificial world. The case continues as the other attorney,
Billy, (a regular of the show) argues that love and marriage
are not based on physical appearances.
A favorite line of Steven’s character takes place in court
when Dixon addresses the judge: "My client is a religious man,
he considers the body God's work. It's supposed to be a temple,
and she completely rebuilt her temple!"
Problem with this episode is that we never find out who wins
the case. When Billy is delivering his closing argument, eyes
glazed he stumbles backward, sitting down hard and collapsing
on the floor of the courtroom. He dies in the courtroom in
front of everyone. The last we see of Dixon is when he stands
stunned at the sight of at the man dying in the front in him.