She often hears songs in her head and experiences hallucinations, mostly of a dancing baby, due to her biological clock ticking and of sexual endeavors with various men.

Billy, however, left Harvard halfway to attend University of Michigan Law School, thereby breaking Ally's heart.

The next thing revealed to the audience is that Ally lives with district attorney Renée Radick, and she is employed in an unnamed Boston law firm.

Ally starts dating again towards the end of that season, meeting a British lawyer named Brian Selig (played by Tim Dutton).

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.

Initially Ally was supposed to marry Larry at the end of the fourth season, but when Downey was arrested on drug-related charges and sent to jail, the network fired him, canceling the marriage storyline.

However, the egg was fertilized and one day a girl named Maddie (played by Hayden Panettiere) shows up on her doorstep, claiming to be her daughter, prompting Ally to faint.

Her most significant love interest in this final season was Victor Morrison (played by Jon Bon Jovi) but the relationship deteriorated quite quickly as it was evident that Ally had thoughts for Larry.

"[8] Patterson wrote that Ally is similar because she is also a child from a ruling class family, "pines hopelessly after an unavailable dreamboat", and has a "sassy black roommate" in place of a "mammy" to "comfort her".

[9][10] Perhaps the most notorious example of the debate sparked by the show was on June 25, 1998, cover story of Time magazine, which juxtaposed McBeal with three pioneering feminists (Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem) and asked "Is Feminism Dead?".