Katz is called to testify as an expert witness in the trial of a boy named Roger who broke into an elderly couple's home, tied them up, then wrote with permanent markers all over their walls. The issue is whether he's mentally competent to stand trial, and it's up to Katz to determine that. Ben wants to know why Katz is doing this, instead of the "charlatans" they usually get ("They were busy," Katz says), but when he learns that it pays $400 an hour, he encourages this new pursuit of his dad's. Eventually, Katz finds Roger not competent to stand trial.

• Jake Johannsen: Fell in love with a woman ("Damn it, that's how it starts!"); needs a third base coach to tell him whether to go for home or not with women; married people think single people can have sex all the time, with whomever they want ("You, me, the closet, let's go"); going out with single guy friends is depressing ("We're getting laid, wear your good sweater!"); wonders what advice his dog could give him ("Have you tried lying in the sun until you're really hot, then lying in the shade?"); there's a salve that will supposedly keep a dog from licking its own butt, but if the dog's already doing that, "what could that salve possibly taste like" to make him stop? ("Worse than a** flavor?!"). NOTES: No one is credited as playing Roger, but it sounds like Ben to us.
• Bob Balaban: Spends most of his time trying to remember why he's in therapy; it might be the impending divorce, the suicide of his cousin, or his loss of a lot of money; finally, at the end, he remembers: brain tumor.

Review:

Not a very good episode to go out on. The main plot is interesting -- one of the more fascinating ideas the show ever experimented with -- but not all that funny. The one great scene is Katz with Roger: "Anything you say can be used against you in a court, in a deposition, in a folk tale.... Do you know the difference between right and wrong, and do you have a favorite one?" Also, Jake Johannsen has a number of great lines, as he usually does. Aside from those two bright spots, this one is decent, but not great.GRADE: C+

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