Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 14 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Clean
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 22 | Aired on 04.28.2013
Nana Joe starts flaming out in a massive way, begging to go home and crying hysterically, and my favorite -- and the most horrendous -- line of the episode happens.
Nana Joe: "Can I please just go home?"
Will: "Do you even remember the address?"
When Patti objects, you can see Will -- or even Josh Charles -- giggle his way through that charming pretense-at-innocence thing he does, and it's so freakin' great.
Patti: "So Zach, you were just being a good citizen when you took pictures of the cop who pulled you over? And this cop was later fired? You were instrumental in getting a crooked cop off the streets?"
Zach: "I wouldn't put it that way, and I didn't even know that."
Patti: "I'm sure your mommy's very proud of you. Do you know the penalty for perjury?"
Abernathy: "I think we all know this kid is more knowledgeable of the law and his rights than anyone in this room, so take it down a notch."
Patti: "Fine. You still say they came in off the street, who am I to disagree? Thanks for being honest, Zach. Despite what I'm sure is enormous pressure on you otherwise."
Needless to say, Alicia's shade has been wonderful throughout -- and especially of course regarding Zach -- but this last one just about sends her into the deep end. She practically expresses an emotion, which is of course always suspenseful. Will takes him next, which Alicia's grateful for, but his skillful wordplay impresses (and relieves) Zach just as much.
Will: "So you were there for like ten minutes, did you see what happened before you got there or after you left? Or where the dudes came from, or their names or social security numbers?"
Zach: "Truly I do not know these things."
Will: "It's not lying to acknowledge the limits of your own testimony..."
Zach: (You can actually see him fall a little bit in love with Will when he says this.)
Will: "And you have no personal way of knowing the provenance of the ballots or how the seal got ripped."
Zach: "Whew. No, I do not. This by-the-book out-clause feeling, Mother, is this something you feel every day?"
Alicia: "Go get 'em, baby. It's not lying if you say it right!"
And then all of a sudden Abernathy suspends the whole thing, because there's a Federal Judge hearing a case that supersedes this one: An injunction on the ballot as a whole, requested by a third-party candidate we've never heard of.
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