Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 56 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Don't Talk Too Loud
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.16.2014
Diane: "She's on the news 24/7. Every political blog is about her..."Will: "I mean it's not like she was the one sleeping with the hookers."
Diane: "Were you involved with this woman? You never push on associate hires."
Will: "Ugh. She was my friend. And between you and me, the smartest in our class."
Diane breathes, into trusting him, and tells him to get her something she can sell.
Will: "There's a lawyer I want, but I'm getting static. Put together a dossier on her."
Kalinda: "Great. Who?"
Will: "Alicia Florrick."
Kalinda: "...Fuck."
A year later, Kalinda will be Alicia's best friend, and Alicia will be Kalinda's favorite person on Earth. Diane will value nothing more than Alicia's fame, her once-toxic connections; how she turns notoriety into adoration. All these poisons will be transmuted.
KEYNOTE
Will lets himself smile at the applause, and the laughter. He is allowed, back in the back, to remember these things without hurting; he is allowed to smile if she can't see him.
"Of course, the advantage of being a woman opting back in is that no one ever questioned why you opted out in the first place. Women are cut little slack on this. Men, even less..."
Marthas and Caitlins, Carys and Careys. No contest. She can't say what she's saying, but you hear it ring like a bell.
Women are bad hires because their bodies can do things men's bodies can't do. The system in its current state puts men's bodies at the baseline: Women's bodies are really just men's bodies with a design flaw: They're capable of fucking up everything, for forty weeks at a time, without warning. Selfishly, lazily. A good Martha knows it's not about changing an archaic system to include actual people; a good Martha will tell you that your only chance to get ahead is to be the best man you can, knowing that you never will.
Kalinda: "On this Florrick woman. I did my due diligence -- and I might soft-pedal this, if I didn't have something of a vested interest in her working literally anywhere but my office -- but so okay. She won a couple dozen cases and brought in some small clients, before maternity. But the bad news is, they were about to fire her. They said she wasn't tough enough, she lacked a killer instinct. She never knew that was coming."
Will: "Cool story. Bury it."
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