Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 63 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT An Airbag Saved My Life
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.17.2013
Kalinda: "I mean this in the most supportive affectionate way, but you need to get the fuck up out of here. They cannot see you in LG and they cannot see you talking to me."
Robyn: "I am dying. Inside my heart, where the puppy that provides my body with energy runs on its ceaseless hamster wheel. I am on the outs at Sweet F/A."
Kalinda: "Yeah, but you can't... You can't even be here, much less work here."
Robyn: "Why not?"
Kalinda: "Because the only person that gets how special you are is me, and after the shit you pulled you'd have to be Elsbeth amounts of awesome to wipe your slate. You don't know what it's like here. Will is, like, annexing. He's letting David Lee run arena fights between third-years right over there in the conference room. You could leave here with a GSW, I'm not even exaggerating."
Robyn: "Then do the Kalinda thing and TELL ME WHAT TO DO."
Kalinda: "Fine. Do the Kalinda thing. Be indispensable. Be harder to leave behind than to hold onto. Listen, I got laid off at the SA's office five years ago, and it fucked me up, just like it's fucking you up. And that made me Kalinda. That girl Lela burned all up."
Robyn: "I am... Not you."
"No, I'm not talking about being me. I'm talking about being you. So hard and so bright that it hurts to look at you. Burn off everything that is not your willpower and what is left will be a knife, okay? Until it's safe again. And then maybe you turn back human, maybe you don't.
"Or maybe you think you never will, and then you finally meet somebody that makes sense to you and isn't afraid of you, and you think maybe they've been holding onto it for you -- onto your heart for you -- all this time. You might even get to think for a second that you don't have to burn alone anymore.
"But until that day -- and whatever happens next, no matter how hard it turns out -- you have to be lightning. You have to call down the storm, okay? What's the magic word?"
Fairly obvious, when you think about it.
DINNER
Eli: "I'm not taking my phone call at this dinner. Do you see me not answering my phone?"
Natalie: "It's cute."
Eli: "Literally anyone could be phoning me right now on my phone. Do I care? No. Only about you."
Natalie: "That's so sweet and unnecessary and all about you. Oh, my phone's ringing."