Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 7 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Giving Is Taking
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 21 | Aired on 04.21.2013
And even though it's just about the most Wendy Scott-Carr thing anybody's done in a while, something about the way she phrased it really got my sympathy. She sees this as a battle for her daughter's spirit, her future, and the window is closing. She knows that giving is taking, and that this oath will be the last one Alicia ever takes. It's not because she thinks Alicia's dumb, or weak, or anything: It's because she knows exactly how strong Alicia is. That's the part that scares her.
BLOWTORCH
It takes him awhile to get to the point, but the vote passes. Everybody cheers, and Judge Rod turns to negotiating the contracts, now with the union bargaining. Which is when Nancy smiles, and takes her leave: Blowtorch has just been sold. And guess who bought 'em. I forgot this part about Nancy, I was blindsided by this shell game, but it is beautiful:
"ChumHum really wanted Blowtorch for the intellectual property and not the employees, so... It's a good thing they got it so cheap!"
L/G
Alicia storms Diane's office, doesn't wait for them to stop talking, doesn't wait for shit. Just starts yelling. The partners laugh nervously -- was it not Alicia that brought the bedeviled case to the firm to begin with? -- but she isn't buying.
Alicia: "So it's just a coincidence that ChumHum bought it? After all that?"
L/G: "I don't know what it is, but we didn't do anything wrong. Business just does what business does, Alicia."
And then they take her along to the partner's meeting, for the next worst thing. The Clerical Rebellion of 2013, as David Lee calls it, has been quashed. Alicia tries, again, to speak up, but Will shuts her down: It's not necessary to protect them anymore. The ringleaders have been bought off with a title and pay bump, along with three days a week telecommuting. Everything they wanted. And the other guys, they'll get what they want eventually.
Alicia, frankly, gets a little foolish at this time. I mean, it's like the second time she's ever expressed an emotion so you can understand how it gets out from under her, but yes, she does start screaming about how they bought them off, after just having screamed in another room of this floor about how they used her to get more ChumHum business. Maybe she'll just keep screaming from now on.
But first, she climbs onto the bus, where she learns her Charlie Rose bump carried him across the board. And then, because she can't trust anybody else and because Will Gardner can go fuck himself, but mostly because she wants to, she says yes.
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