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
You're awful, and you don't even know how awful you are.
Cary: "The SA was hell. I put more hours into this place than any of us, I did my best work for you..."
Diane: "And we fired you for Alicia. Which you seem to have forgiven."
Cary: "I need to start something on my own. Same way you and Will needed to..."
Diane: "Gross. And even if, do it without our clients!"
Cary: "They are not your clients. You are name partners, you get everything and we do the work. When was the last time you opened a file? When was the last time you could cough up numbers or case details on ChumHum, when it's..."
Diane: "So ChumHum specifically?"
Cary: "How do you keep doing that?"
Diane: "I have to go take down Alicia real quick. Make a list of every associate leaving with you, or I will fire every single fourth-year."
Cary: "This is so stupid. You're off to the State Supreme Court, Madam Justice. Why do you even care?"
Diane: "I don't like betrayal, and I like the house I built. Write down those names and get the fuck out. Because you are fired, sir."
Cary: "Again."
Diane: "Here's hoping this one sticks, you little shit."
He tents himself over the desk for a moment, looking through the walls at Alicia with hooded eyes. They practiced for this, they knew it would be bad, they have their arguments locked and loaded. A thousand pre-rehearsed conversations, sober and over wine, every time they felt guilty they would look each other in the eyes -- just like they're doing now -- and tell each other the story of their intentions: We're the new Will and Diane, we're just doing what they taught us to do, we dotted every I and crossed every T, because one day we're going to be deposed. And on that day, we can't hate ourselves.
That was the intention. But intentions are bullshit, and the proof is this: If those conversations, the ones they're finally having now in real life, were all the burden they had to carry, they wouldn't feel so sick now.
He understands why she is still. It's not because she's cold and it's not because she has nothing to say; it's because she has a million things to say, and none of them will help.
Will: "The Executive Committee called this emergency -- shut the fuck up -- emergency meeting of the full partnership with one cause of action. A partner's actively trying to steal our top clients..."
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