Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 154 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT When You're Weak
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.01.2013
COP CAR
Jenna: "I'm going to read a book in this parking lot with you arrested in my backseat until all the arrestees have already left for their bond hearings. That way, you'll be stuck in holding all night."
Kalinda: "Jenna, that sucks of you."
Jenna: "I owe Damian Doyle this one."
Kalinda: "Why does a cop owe favors to a..."
Jenna: "You could try charming me."
Kalinda: "What I do is not exactly what you would call charm. I bewitch, I bewilder, I hypnotize and mesmerize. But 'charm' makes it sound like there is something pleasant about it, and that's not really true either. Rollercoasters aren't pleasant, epinephrine shots directly into your heart are not pleasant..."
I really like the idea of Kalinda trying to think of whether she knows any jokes -- or what a joke even is -- and then being like, "...Got it."
Kalinda: "Whattaya call a boomerang that doesn't come back?"
Jenna: "What."
Kalinda: "A stick."
Jenna: "...And somehow you have already turned me gay just with that joke."
THE DECISION TREE
Will questions Alicia, again and again, mapping out her responses and seeing if he can get anywhere from them. The acting is marvelous because she's not Alicia, exactly: She's younger and dumber and more perfect and she worries about, but does not pity, him. She is afraid of being found out.
Q: "Did Ashbaugh ever threaten to fire you?"
A: "No."
He thinks it's about which will is which; he knows it's really about which Alicia is which, because he doesn't understand that she's both, all the time. And that he is, too. Which Will is which. The decision tree goes back twenty years; it branches and it curls around. Parts are sick, dying, ready to be cut off. But they all look the same from here.
Q: "Did Ashbaugh ever threaten to fire you?"
A: "No. Wait. Yes, kind of."
There was a thing two years ago, when they were at Matthew's apartment in New York. 9/23/11. They were in love, or in a kind of love, and Matthew could tell. They were both at once. Matthew knew her, because he loved her; Will doesn't know her, because he loves her. She plays the fox, he thinks.
She was wearing a low-cut red number, simple blowout, curled at the ends. Her hands were all over him, calming Will and drawing Matthew's eyes.
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