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‘So Help Me Todd’ Season 2 Episode 9 Preview: Photos, “The Broker” Cast and Plot

Inga Schlingmann as Susan, Marcia Gay Harden as Margaret Wright and Jeffrey Nordling as Gus Easton in ‘So Help Me Todd’ season 2 episode 9 (Photo: Colin Bentley © 2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.)

We’ve arrived at CBS’s So Help Me Todd‘s penultimate episode with season two episode nine. Unfortunately, the network chose not to renew the primetime drama, which means the upcoming 10th episode will serve as the series finale. Episode nine, “The Broker,” airs on Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 9pm. The finale will follow on May 16th.

Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden leads the cast as Margaret Wright and Skylar Astin stars as the titular Todd. Season two also features Madeline Wise as Allison, Tristen J. Winger as Lyle, Inga Schlingmann as Susan, and Rosa Arredondo as Francey.

“The Broker” Plot: While Margaret makes every employee at Crest, Folding & Wright work over the weekend on Gus’ fairness hearing for a class action settlement, Todd begins investigating a secret case with the FBI where everyone at the firm is a potential suspect. Nancy Hower directs from a script by Wendy Mericle.

Skylar Astin as Todd Wright and Heather Morris as Judy Maxon in season 2 episode 9 (Photo © 2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.)

So Help Me Todd Season 2 Description, Courtesy of CBS:

So Help Me Todd stars Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin as razor-sharp, meticulous attorney Margaret Wright and Todd, her talented but scruffy, aimless son whom she hires as her law firm’s in-house investigator. As the black sheep of the well-heeled Wright family, Todd is a laidback, quick-thinking, excellent former private detective who fell on hard times after his flexible interpretation of the law got his license revoked.

Margaret’s penchant for excellence and strict adherence to the law is at complete odds with Todd’s scrappy methods of finding his way through sticky situations: by the seat of his wrinkled pants. When Todd inadvertently teams with his mother on a case, she’s surprised to find herself duly impressed by – and proud of – his crafty ability to sleuth out information with his charm and his wide-ranging tech savvy. At last, Margaret sees a way to put her son on a “suitable” path to living an adult, financially solvent life she approves of, and she asks him to join her firm. Todd agrees, since it means getting his license back and once again doing the job he excels at and loves.

Mother and son working together is a big first step toward mending their fragile, dysfunctional relationship, and they may even come away with a better understanding of each other at this pivotal point in their lives. But whether Todd and Margaret will be able to accept each other for who they are is another case entirely.

Vinessa Antoine as Ariel and Skylar Astin as Todd Wright in season 2 episode 9 (Photo © 2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)
Madeline Wise as Allison Grant and Marcia Gay Harden as Margaret Wright in season 2 episode 9 (Photo: Colin Bentley © 2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)
Marcia Gay Harden in season 2 episode 9 (Photo: Colin Bentley © 2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

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Rebecca Murray: Journalist covering the entertainment industry for 23+ years, including 13 years as the first writer for About.com's Hollywood Movies site. Member of the Critics Choice Association (Film & TV Branches), Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and Past President of the San Diego Film Critics Society.
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