Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Sisters And Bothers
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.04.2012
Crozier: "If you wait until someone is on the ledge, how many lives do you actually save?"
DONNA BRAZILE
Donna Brazile: "Hey, support bred support and now your friends can't seem to stop calling me. So that's nice. Now, on a separate note, are you still living apart from your wife?"
Peter: "For the moment. But we're committed to making our marriage work."
Each individual word is a lie, but you put them all together, it's not really a lie. It's not the truth -- it's not even the half-truth he gave himself permission for in the earlier discussion with Eli -- but it's certainly not a lie. It's also not what she -- what any of all three of them, Eli and Peter included -- expected to hear. But it does the trick.
ANDERSONS AGAIN
Turns out Derek left one 37-minute phone call out of his testimony, right around the time Kara was wigging out on him, that Kalinda would now like to discuss. Not a fight -- he was just talking her through the fact that her parents were taking her out of school.
Alicia: "When did you inform your daughter that you would no longer be paying her college tuition?"
Crozier: "Objection, relevance."
Alicia: "Financial pressure is relevant to a lawsuit about her motivations for suicide."
Mr. Anderson: "Her grades dropped below our agreement, after Finals..."
Alicia: "What I asked was when you told her that you were no longer supporting her."
Mr. Anderson: "...Two days before she died."
Shortly thereafter, Nancy Crozier agrees to a disclaimer at the beginning of the movie, and donation of half the profits to a suicide awareness campaign. Which sounds like a win to me... Except for how it was Alicia Florrick just hounded a man, a father, who brought suit out of his own grief, into admitting that he probably killed his fucked-up daughter. Alicia Florrick, who found something unclean in patronage; who's starting a war in her own house in ways she hasn't even recognized yet. Who has gotten so good at shifting the blame she could have one leg over the rail before anybody even noticed.
GARDNER RESIDENCE
The Sisters bother Will so much -- about Kalinda, about his broken heart, about girlfriends and women and loneliness and pain and fear and aging and unemployment -- that he finds himself walking into Lockhart, Question Mark, in his civvies, feeling lighter all the time.
Diane: "Wow! You lasted a whole week. Thank God for your awful sisters."
Will: "Why's Caitlin carrying a box of her stuff around? Did we fire her?"
Diane: "No, we promoted her. It was awesome, total bloodbath. I can't wait to tell you about it."
Will: "And now we got Julius and Eli Gold standing outside your office hand-in-hand, staring at us like the twins in The Shining. Any news there?"