Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 112 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Already Gone
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.13.2013
TARA
Tara's fetus won't be viable until the third trimester, which in true Good Wife fashion is in 48 hours. Alicia heads off into the craziness of the viability argument -- as technology develops, we won't need women's bodies at all, and therefore all fetuses are viable, and therefore all abortions are evil -- in (I'd assume) an attempt to position the Isenstadts as unfeeling robot-masters using Tara as technology, and therefore a wobbly area surrounding Roe's decision on the third-trimester viability line that will only get more wobbly and foreshortened as we progress, but David Lee takes over.
Tuft: "Except in this case, where that baby isn't hypothetical and wouldn't survive now."
David Lee: "If I can intrude on this line of questioning that isn't going anywhere, isn't this really about your bad first amnio that caused this in the..."
Judge: "I'm gonna head you off at the pass. What you've given me is a dilemma, two doctors telling two stories. Solomon would advise... Yeesh, not going there. So to keep the defense from turning this into a malpractice suit, I'm erring on the side of keeping it contractual and therefore we fall back on Roe. You have 40 hours."
Alicia: "But our witnesses!"
Judge: "I think this is the first time on this show somebody has meant that instead of using it as a delaying tactic, but I still insist that you bring them in this afternoon."
DIANE
Will: "What do you mean, No."
"What I mean is, your storied skill as a litigator rests entirely on your ability to turn your passion on and off. The fact that you are being so classy and rational about this tells me you've turned off your heart, which scares me to death. When I get scared, I double down. These are two of our defining traits, brought into strict alignment, and therefore I have to demand more money. If you'd stayed mad at me, at least I'd know we were okay."
Alicia: "I can feel myself stealing your clients! I hate this! Give her whatever she wants!"
Will: "I have a ludicrous idea where you become the new managing partner in her place."
Alicia: "Even for this show, that's pushing it."
Will: "Good thing I have lost my fucking mind over this."
Alicia: "If anything was going to keep me here, it would be that, because the whole reason we're leaving is because of mismanagement among the entrenched partners. Becoming one of them would solve almost all of my reasons for leaving. I could save the world, starting with L/G."