In 2004, the Lifetime television network debuted the television adaptation of the novel, starring Mariska Hargitay as the attorney Ellie Hathaway (changed to Harrison in the film) and Alison Pill as accused and disowned Amish girl Katie Fisher (Fitch in the film).
Here he meets his new partners, Tequila (a large, burrito-eating French Mastiff), and Officer Angela Garcia (Mariska Hargitay), who joined the department after her policeman husband's death.