Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 14 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Half A Love Story
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.24.2013
Eli: "Can I dance with you?"
Florricks: "No, baby. Go have fun."
HALF A LOVE STORY
Alicia: "You have got to settle one of these, Matthew. You're racking up so many enemies I wouldn't be able to enumerate them for the police if called upon to do so."
Matthew: "I made you a CD of that Bach Concerto. For later."
Alicia: "That's actually really sweet, thx. Let's settle, okay? It's just a dog barking. It's not like you need the money..."
Matthew: "Like it was ever about the money. I just enjoy the process."
Alicia: "The process?"
Matthew: "Being with you."
She sees him, for a second. Like red in a monochrome world. But he laughs. Just a joke, he says.
"Suing because I liked being with you? Wouldn't make sense."
And if it didn't make sense, it couldn't possibly be true, so she forgot until just now. But he went through with the lawsuit, didn't he? And it got him killed, didn't it?
Peter: "Are you okay?"
Alicia: "...Just a... Memory."
Peter: "Of what?"
Alicia: "Nothing."
Everything. Half of everything.
TONIGHT
Tonight two women looked Will Gardner in the eye and said they couldn't be together anymore. He couldn't have them anymore. The two central people in his entire, dark, broken life: They chose something better. It's just a joke though, right? It wouldn't make sense for him to take it that way. Nobody kills so casually.
Everybody does. All the time. It's just never the half of the story we can hear.
NEXT WEEK
As usual, Colin Sweeney's in last-minute trouble -- this time because of an impending Supreme Court ruling -- so Alicia and Will have to show up totally unprepared. Even more excitingly though than Colin Sweeney (and Morena Baccarin, of course) is the return of Kurt McVeigh! It really is just comin' up Lockhart these days, no?
JACOB CLIFTON is a freelance writer and critic based in Austin, Texas. He currently recaps The Good Wife, Bates Motel, and Defiance for TWoP. Jacob can be found online at jacobclifton.com, on Twitter, Facebook, and an upcoming biweekly column, "Geek Love," for Tor.com.