TUESDAYS 10|9c
Season 2
PRIVATE PRACTICE - "Know When to Fold" - Charlotte's rival practice, Pacific Wellcare, opens its doors and the competition with Oceanside Wellness begins, as Sam and Pete steal one of their clients, a favorite patient of Addison's goes to a Pacific Wellcare doctor for a second opinion, and Dell proposes the creation of an in-house adoption program, on "Private Practice," WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/MICHAEL DESMOND)AMY BRENNEMAN, BRIAN BENBEN
Crime and Punishment
Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired 12/3/08

One of Violet’s patients shoots his wife and claims he did it for her own sake. Yeah right, if only it were that easy to get rid of an unwanted spouse....

Violet gets a little “elevator” therapy, Meg joins the Oceanside staff and to our surprise, Charlotte and Addison work together to help a patient. What?!

Violet receives a call from a frantic patient named Doug that interrupts her reality TV viewing time. Violet arrives at Doug’s place only to discover he has shot and killed his wife. Doug claims he shot his wife in the head to help her; she was suffering from Kidney failure. Although Violet believes his alibi about assisted suicide at first, she struggles to side with Doug. Addison recommends that she speak with Kevin about Doug. That was the best advice anybody could have given her. Kevin tells Violet that in all his years on the force, not once has he seen a woman kill herself or asked to be killed with a gun. In the meantime, while working through her Dr. Kevorkian case, Violet receives therapy of her own during a few elevator run-ins with a new therapist named Sheldon Wallis.