Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 56 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Don't Talk Too Loud
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.16.2014
Which is the other thing Jackie was trying to stop, a thing neither of them could actually hear yet, but would have been motivating them both in this moment. Because if Alicia could stand on her own then she wouldn't need Peter, and if Peter didn't have Alicia he would break, and then Jackie would have to go on a killing streak. But that's way down the rabbit hole. The first thing is this, it's something any version of Alicia already knows: Giving is taking.
HOTEL BAR
Clarke looks adorable in a pink tie with wide-strewn blue paisleys, finally having escaped whatever taxi-cab limbo and walked fifteen blocks out of pure pique.
Clarke: "Robyn has an intuition that Rayna's leaving not just because of the indictments, but because out of ten senior partners she was the only woman."
Cary: "Geneva Pine once explained to me why that is a problem and now I get it."
Clarke: "So just play up the... Frame your story as one of female empowerment."
Alicia: "Okay. But also fuck you generally, The World. If my story is one of empowerment, it's already one of female empowerment. They keep asking Joss Whedon why he's so addicted to writing Strong Female Characters and he always says, Because you're still fucking asking me that. I will do these tricks for you because it's what we're here to do, but just know that you are making Joss Whedon cry."
Cary: "Everything makes Joss Whedon cry. And anyway, who cares? If you're honest enough the distinction won't matter. You're already proving us right."
Alicia: "So just to review, of the three people at our firm that matter, two of you are white guys, and then there's me. And this week is about exploiting that harder than even Eli ever pimped me out. And that bitch can pimp."
AT HOME
Alicia rehearsed, but who knows really. This is an indecision tree, too. It's different from the Will episode because in that one, there were good choices and bad choices -- there was a Darkest Timeline -- and that was interesting. But this isn't that, it's a truth about the way we remember things that is even more even-handed than the flipped memories and color-changing suits and dresses we've been seeing all season since the Coup. All of these memories are true, and valid, even the ones she's not remembering. Even the ones that aren't, are.
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