Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 4 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT The Goldilocks Zone
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.27.2013
So if that means letting the dumbest person out there define your terms for you -- that concrete examples of faith must exist, or Creationism is real, or that God is a person you can call up on the phone -- that seems really lazy and sad to me. Preparing for a fight that's never actually going to happen, and then stridently searching for somebody to persecute you about it, is taking the long way from your ass to your elbow and helps exactly nobody. Which is why we've always known that Alicia was an atheist, even though she's only barely ever said it aloud: Atheists make the best Christians, and vice versa, because they're not there for coffee cake any more than they're there for a fight.
PRENUP
Everybody's fighting about the prenup stuff, which makes sense because David Lee invented it out of thin air, but nobody knows that, due to the power of his evil.
Neil: "This is insane! I'm not going to dilute your stock, or... It's just contractual precedent, baby! If I give on a contract, then the next contract will be..."
Dina: "You mean your next prenup! You just want me to spread my legs and give you heirs!"
Neil: "Ew! You're nasty, that's horrible. I'm out."
David Lee: "It would seem our plan has worked too well, young protégé."
Cary: "I'm on it."
Dina flops her hands around a lot, talking about how she didn't care about money until Neil started in on the money, and Cary applies his whole entire array of powers to the situation, dimpling and smiling and speaking of love: "You need to talk to him without lawyers present. Remember what's important. Et cetera." David Lee loves it. And yet, unlike every other conversation they've had about this, nobody comes off as particularly awful. I guess even fixing a problem you caused is still fixing a problem.
BANKRUPTCY
Canning brings up the West Nile case while we're still saying hello, so everybody on the L/G side nods angrily and we get to it.
Canning: "Was your advice to settle that case driven by your firm's need for capital?"
Alicia: "It was driven by our client's interests. Categorically, no."
Canning: "That's a big no."
Alicia: "By definition, the biggest."
Canning, marble-mouthed: "In the past five months do you think any of the firm's settlement decisions held reducing their debt as a consideration? Did you meet with your firm's name partners before this deposition? Are you aware of any schemes the partners have engaged in regarding the firm's debt?"