Love's Illusions

Season 2 - Episode 22: Love's Illusions
Overview
Ally is having weird dreams about moments from her childhood, some good, some painful. But each compels her to wrestle with the question of true love. Can it be real or must it inevitably be just an illusion? Ally's latest case is calling the issue into question as she and John Cage are representing a woman charged in Criminal Court with fraud. Barry Philbrick has testified that his wife, Kelly Philbrick married him solely for his money. He claims that at the time of their marriage, she wasn't in love with him, that her wedding vow was a lie and that she admitted it in a letter to a close friend that Barry found. Kelly readily admits to her lack of feelings for Barry: she loved him but she was never in love with him. On the stand Kelly admitted that she had been writing to an imaginary friend: the man of her dreams, who then became the standard by which every real man in her life had to measure up too.
Episode Information
TV Show
Ally McBeal
Season
Season 2
Episode Number
22
Air Date
May 17, 1999
Runtime
43 minutes
Rating
4.2/5
Guest Stars

Albert Hall
Seymore Walsh

Barbara Alyn Woods
Kelly Philbrick

Anne-Marie Johnson
District Attorney Foster

Paul Bartel
Doctor

Robert Picardo
Barry Philbrick

Judith Drake
Foreperson
Crew

Allan Arkush
Director

David E. Kelley
Writer