Alison Crowe

Alison Crowe is the criminal defense attorney the Khan family turns to after their son's arrest, a polished professional who arrives promising expertise and command of the media storm. She sizes up the case with brisk efficiency, quoting fees and strategy in the same breath, treating the family's panic as a problem to be managed rather than shared.

Glenne Headly plays her as competence without warmth, and the show uses that coldness to make a point: good representation is a transaction, and justice has a price tag. Crowe's brief appearance sets the whole series in motion by showing what the Khans can't afford, throwing John Stone's scrappier, humbler advocacy into sharp relief.