fiancée of a client, whom Ally subsequently announces during their wedding day. Later, Billy discovered he has a brain tumor, and again grows closer to Ally. However, Billy dies in Ally's arms in court after giving a passionate closing describing his life - although in reality he is hallucinating and describing the life he wished he had shared with Ally. When Georgia later asks Ally if Billy had said anything before he died, the latter lies to her in order to spare Georgia's feelings. Ally starts dating again towards the end of that season, meeting a British lawyer named Brian Selig (played by Tim Dutton). The two have a six-month relationship. After six months, Brian asked Ally to move in with him, Ally realizes Brian was much too boring for her and then breaks off the relationship. Shortly after, Ally falls in love with another lawyer Larry Paul (played by Robert Downey Jr.). They initially met when she walked into his office and spent much time talking about her issues before she discovered he was a lawyer and a therapist. The two started a serious but rocky relationship. Although initially troubled by the fact that Larry had an ex-wife with whom he was still close and an ex-girlfriend (played by Famke Janssen) who was also the mother of his child, it was soon evident that Larry was her soulmate. The two agreed to take the relationship long-distance between Detroit and Boston when Larry's son attempted to sue his father, met Ally and told her he missed his dad. Ally then encouraged Larry to move back to Detroit to be in his son's life. Larry agreed and the two parted with the understanding that the relationship would remain and that each would visit the other until such a time that Ally was ready to move to Detroit. Being unable to say goodbye in person, he left a note pinned to a snowman outside Ally's door that said, "I will be back." Initially Ally was supposed to marry Larry at the end of the fourth season. But when Downey Jr was arrested on drug-related charges and sent to jail, the network fired Downey, canceling the marriage storyline. In the fifth and final season it was revealed that while in college, Ally, in need of money, donated an egg for research. However, the egg was fertilized and one day a little girl named