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
Every word shored up against these ruins, every wishful-thinking agreement and conspiracy, every reassurance of their ethical rectitude, was about this ugly afternoon. About how nice it would be, if things went smoothly. They wanted the Rapture, they wanted the partners to show up next week and see only clean desks, missing files, transparency across the board. Lipstick kisses on glass walls, XOXO scrawled lovingly across computer screens:
Thanks for everything, we're taking flight.
Alicia breaks. She is in the result.
LOCKHART/GARDNER
By the time Kalinda comes to work today, the lobby is a superfund site of decimated survivors and jack-booted security guards. A well-meaning, blue-collar explosion twenty floors up has left scattered Armani bodies everywhere, waiting for their phones and car keys. Staring into a future that is so bright they can't make out shapes; shadows burnt into glass walls.
Upstairs it's worse, as David Lee takes the burliest and most intimidating guards on a tour of every office, kicking over desks to reveal huddled fourth-years crammed in, two and three to a bolthole, clutching burner phones and granola bars to their chests. She steers herself between disasters, seeking Will.
Will: "So she didn't do anything?"
Robyn: "Sat quietly, waiting for you."
Will: "She didn't call any associates?"
Robyn: "No, she did not do that."
Will: "Don't go anywhere today, okay?"
Will: "Kalinda, where have you been?"
Kalinda: "At home, thinking about what my life would be like if I had furniture."
Will: "So we fired Cary and Alicia. And Carey. They were planning to steal top clients."
Kalinda: "Crazy."
Will: "Sharma, level. Are you going with her?"
Kalinda: "Whom?"
Will: "If you are, you need to leave right now. Not because I will sic David Lee on you, but because you could stay clean. I know who you are. You're the one person who couldn't be blamed. You tried to tell me about this months ago before it even started happening and I fought you on it and called you a bitch about it..."
Kalinda: "Never a real possibility."
Will: "David Lee named you first, weeks ago, when we didn't believe him."
Kalinda: "David Lee talks a neverending deluge of bullshit."
Will: "Valid."
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