Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Nice Between Women
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.18.2012
TV'S FRANK MICHAEL THOMAS/THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF KURT MCVEIGH
This character always makes my head hurt because it's a real-life politician who is also an actor who, on the show, is a lawyer who is also an actor, and I think both real and not real FMT has been on the same shows, and it's just this whole meta thing, but he's a funny old bird so that's as far as I wish to think about it. Kalinda follows the neurologist who froze us out to meet with, she thinks, Canning, but it ends up being this third recurring lawyer. She immediately calls Diane, who is too busy having a thousand boyfriends to deal with it, and is told to just call Alicia and Will about it, and do her usual Kalinda stuff. Like, hilariously verbatim, Diane just goes, "Um, just take some pictures and... Uh, yeah, just do what you normally do."
Meanwhile, Jack the Australian is forty minutes late when he calls to break their date again, so Diane does the obvious thing and immediately calls Kurt McVeigh instead. She gets voicemail, but this is Diane Lockhart we're talking about: She's not dickin' around with voicemail. Not tonight.
She drives the forty miles out to Kurt's house, and there's a hot young thing there too -- all these men with their little girl ladies! -- and Diane, for once, seems a bit speechless. But of course, it's not as it seems, so Kurt and the young thing invite her in for what promises to be an awkward little teatime.
Since Will isn't practicing law right now, he immediately runs to Mr. Thomas to practice some law. A briefly weird conversation later, we have our next big twist: FMT is involving himself in this case and stealing neurologists not for Louis Canning, but because he's cooking up his own class action: Seven players with head injuries, altogether illustrating a pattern of the League's blithe mishandling of that stuff going back years. Will asks him to come along and turn this into one giant clusterfuck, but he can't do that because the reason Canning was so eager to involve himself in the Duvurney case is because it'll help him fight off the eventual class.
MCVEIGH
The young lady, when we rejoin this little threesome, turns out to be a barnburner of a conservative, caught mid-res in hammering out some silly-ass Fox News thing about Obamacare and socialist fascism. We discuss the 1% briefly, sidestep Citizen's United as usual, and then turn to whether or not the Supreme Court is a puppet of liberals or conservatives, whether or not Diane is a Highland Park champagne liberal, etc. It's succinct, is what it is.