adept, high-profile lawyer, aware of his own power and willing to use it. He is the keeper of a gift Will once gave to Brenda, although he has not revealed the exact nature of this gift. Gavin Q. Baker (Mark Pellegrino) Brenda's flamboyant attorney in the Turrell Baylor lawsuit. A former City Attorney for Los Angeles, Gavin is astute, clever and brutally honest. Peter Goldman (Curtis Armstrong): Lawyer representing the Turrell Baylor family, who subsequently is on a mission to destroy Brenda's reputation. Subsequently appears in the five part episode Hindsight of the spinoff series Major Crimes. Ricardo Ramos (Stephen Martines): Reporter from the Los Angeles Times, who occasionally observes or assists with LAPD cases. Ramos wrote articles suggesting preference for wealthy white victims in the choice of cases pursued by the Priority Homicide Division, leading to the unit being renamed the Major Crimes Division (MCD) during season 4. Bill Croelick (Jason O'Mara): A sociopathic murder suspect with an obsession with fire, who first appears in season 1 when he is exonerated for murder. Prior to that, he had been on trial for a similar murder, but was found not guilty. He reappears in season 4 and assists Brenda with a case, after which he promises to leave her jurisdiction and never return. Phillip Stroh (Billy Burke): A criminal defense lawyer who specializes in defending accused sex offenders, he first appears as the attorney for a suspected rapist, and demands access to all of the LAPD's evidence against his client in exchange for the name of the man's partner. As it turns out, Stroh himself was the partner, and used this tactic to ascertain that there was no evidence connecting him to the crime. Brenda becomes obsessed with proving Stroh's guilt, and he is finally arrested in the series finale after he breaks into her home and attempts to murder her and a witness to one of his crimes, Rusty Beck (Graham Patrick Martin). Reappears in the spinoff Major Crimes where he attempts to have Rusty killed by Wade Weller, one of Stroh's former clients and a fellow serial killer. Failing at that, Stroh pretends to cooperate with authorities in exchange for a life sentence, murders a judge and escapes, fleeing the country. He eventually returns and begins murdering again after his step-brother inadvertently cuts off the bank account Stroh's mother set up for him overseas with millions of dollars