Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 319 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Since The Night Matthew Ashbaugh Died
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.27.2013
The idea that any of us could have ever been friends, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. That sad shadow burnt on the wall just behind you, of all the ways we could have loved each other, and how we never quite managed to get there.
CHUMHUM
Maybe it's okay that they're all laughing -- Lyman droning, ignored, about how the law is a "bitch of a mistress" -- when they come down the stairs. Maybe David Lee was just trying to rattle them on the way out, when he whispered: "For the future? Don't go second."
Neil Gross leads them literally in a circle, never ascending the stairs, as he waits for them to talk themselves out. It doesn't take long; they are directly in front of the doors, where they started, when he finally speaks.
F/A: "L/G's a firm without its worker bees now. We looked at the way you started Chumhum, you rewarded work over show. That's what we do, reward work. Billable hours, applied as partner hours only when you actually receive partner hours. Alll the stuff we hated, no longer involved..."
Neil: "And we're done. I'm not going anywhere."
Alicia: "Why not?"
Neil: "It's because of you. Peter's promised quote 'the most ethical administration in Illinois history,' and I can't be having my law firm jumping at shadows..."
Alicia: "First of all, you have to know that is bullshit. His Chief of Staff is fucking Eli Gold, for Chrissake. And any time Peter claims he's going to be ethical, that's when it goes nuts. Now, as far as jumping at shadows, I assure you that Florrick/Agos has no ethics to speak of. Why, have you met Carey Zepps? Or the dude that wouldn't stop about the bonuses? They are real pieces of crap, Neil Gross. You can count on us."
Neil: "Nevertheless, it's the way the world works. Politics leads, the law follows. But thanks."
Florrick/Agos: (Flops over dead.)
GARDNER BY NIGHT
Will: "Thanks for sitting there watching me drink, Kalinda. I offered her Diane's job."
Kalinda: "What are we talking about now? Alicia? You started in the middle of that sentence."
Will: "She could have been managing partner at one of the top firms in the city, and she pisses it all away?"
Kalinda: "She wanted to do something on her own."
Will: "With Cary? That's not on her own."
Kalinda: "That's not what that means, when we say it. Look Will, I get that you're hurting. But she's not the enemy here. Consider your imperative."
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