"Pilot' is the first episode of the U.S. television series Franklin & Bash

Franklin & Bash

Franklin & Bash is an American drama-comedy television series created by Kevin Falls and Bill Chais. The series stars Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar as unconventional lawyers and longtime friends. A Turner Broadcasting executive has referred to the series as a "funny legal procedural".The...

. It originally aired on TNT in the United States on June 1, 2011.The episode was written by Kevin Falls

Kevin Falls

Kevin Falls is an American television writer and producer. He was the creator and showrunner of the NBC television drama Journeyman. He worked as a consulting producer and writer on Shark. He served as an executive producer for the short lived Lyon's Den. He was a co-executive producer for both The...

 & Bill Chais and directed by Jason Ensler

Jason Ensler

Jason Ensler is an American film & television director and producer. He has directed episodes of The West Wing, Chuck, Gossip Girl, Psych, Ed, Scrubs and My Name Is Earl. He directed and produced all six episodes of the critically acclaimed and short lived TV series Andy Barker, P.I....

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Plot

Two young, nontraditional lawyers Jared Franklin and Peter Bash, are offered jobs at Infeld/Daniels, a prominent law firm by Stanton Infeld who decides to recruit the pair to energize his firm. They also bring along their legal aides, ex-con Carmen Phillips and an agoraphobe Pindar Singh to help with their cases.