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
Back in her destroyed office, Alicia hurriedly calls home, where Zach is running late because he can't find his Lincoln essay. She spits out a garbled mess of jargon, "clouds" and computer words, knowing he'll understand her gibberish. He grins, not really twigging to the urgency, because it's such a bizarre occurrence to be happening, at any time. You could look a person in the eye and say, "Alicia Florrick is being detained and forcibly ejected from the law firm where she's a partner, and they took away her phone, and she's being watched," and their brain would glitch. They would say, "...What?"
Cary's on his way in when Carey and his escorts hit the lobby. Cary keeps moving, smoothly, as Carey raises his voice -- "I know you started firing people before I could download all the files, but I'm staying here!" and Cary taps the elevator buttons, again and again, those haunted L/G elevators doing what they do best. He could punch a hole in the wall, by the time they finally close.
"They don't know I'm with you," Beth whispers from his desk, as David Lee rampages, screaming, and Alicia sits unmoving in the center of a disaster with Robyn, but by the time Cary gets to his desk his laptop is gone. Diane's standing in the corner like a ghost, not immediately apparent, holding it tightly to her chest, in the shadows.
"You know what offends me most?"
He squares his shoulders, shoves his hands in his pockets and waits for it. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
Diane: "The fact that I stood up for you. I got you hired."
Cary: "That offends you most? Not the fact that you screwed us on partnerships, first by giving them to all of us and then only to your little scapegoat? Not the fact that you alienated all the fourth-years by playing us off your own financial mismanagement?"
Diane: "So it is with the fourth-years. Specifically."
Cary: "Oops. No, I'm just saying it's a thing that is offensive."
Diane: "I was your mentor, you could have come to me. I have always been here for..."
Cary: "Well, that is straight bullshit. A mentor teaches, you never wanted to teach. You sent me away, and you brought me back, because it was expedient. You played us off each other in that horrific bake-off, you dumped us all. This isn't fucking summer camp. Don't disrespect it by dismissing it like that."
Diane: "It's amazing, how you've misinterpreted every single thing..."
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