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
KEYNOTE
"Very few lawyers can reach their prime after a decade as a mother in suburbia, but Alicia Florrick is... Special."
The hall is dark, with two spots either side of the stage, very dramatic. Theatric and realistic. Clarke and Cary climb up her ass with last-second advice, pointing out Rayna in the audience, begging her to smile, and she rolls her eyes lovingly at them both before heading out.
Will comes in the back, after a rather long glance at the giant portrait of her at the door. Maybe this is helping, maybe this is just him hurting himself some more. But it's fair, and right, for him to be here for this particular story. It's his story too.
His hand reached out to hold the elevator door. The moment when his life would change, and go on changing.
He remembers her smiling, delighted; he remembers her saying his name.
Elsbeth sits, quietly, and plays back the recording she just made, and he smiles hugely. She's not a rainmaker, exactly, but she's Elsbeth all the time. Possibly able to make actual rain.
"And then a firm finally agreed to meet with me. I prepared by looking in a mirror... It was the only interview I could still get. When you're sitting across the desk from someone who can hire you, you feel every one of those thirteen years. But luckily, I had a very good interviewer. He asked me if I was up to it, coming back to the workplace; he pointed out that I was arguing against myself: I should stop pointing out reasons why I shouldn't be hired.
"What did I learn from this? Use everything you have to get the job," -- that one cuts pretty deep -- "And don't feel entitled."
Remember how long it took Geneva to explain this? It's the hardest thing in the world, actually. She says it, Cary says it, like it's nothing, but really it's everything: Digging under this concept you have of the way the world works, that you deserve what you have because your life feels very hard, and it's the only life you have firsthand experience of. You don't know you're feeling entitled, until it's denied you for a second, because that's what entitlement is.
SL&G
Diane wore pearls, with her less-sleek but still cute hair; Kalinda wore cap sleeves.
Will: "Look, just hear me out..."
Diane: "Will, the committee already voted!"
Will: "We cannot penalize somebody for..."
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