Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 63 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT What Was in the Box
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.12.2014
AGOS APT
Kalinda: "Well played!"
Cary: "I know, right? When did you find out she was his granddaughter?"
Kalinda: "Ugh, right after we accused her of solicitation. You paid the bartender to...?"
Cary: "Yeah, but like I just thought of it right before you showed up so I wasn't sure it would work. But it totally did. Pretty fun stuff."
Kalinda: "So are we even now?"
Cary: "Sure."
Kalinda: "Wanna get a drink?"
Cary: "So you can screw me back over?"
Kalinda: "No, because I want a drink. And friends. And actually find you romantically viable now in a workable way."
Cary: "None of those things are a good idea."
And yet. He swings the door closed in her face, it hangs for a beat, and then he comes back out with a jacket. Who on Earth knows what happens now? Except that it's a bad idea, but also a good one since there is never enough of either of them this season.
COURT
Matan: "Ryan Belfair, head of security for the Cinque Terre Resort, can you tell us what this video is?"
Belfair: "Sixth floor camera. That's them both, and then Howard's handing Cazorla an envelope."
Matan: "But he wasn't staying there, so how did he get up to the sixth floor?"
Belfair: "Somebody had to give him a key."
Will reminds everybody that we don't know what was in the envelope, but Robyn's noticed Cazorla's HONEY BAR t-shirt in the video, and immediately connects it to the hat and other Facebook pictures where Flight Attendant Christine's wearing Honey Bar swag.
Robyn: "So doesn't that appear circumstantially that they know each other?"
Alicia: "Good job! She's not on trial, so we're not even really screwing her over!"
Cary: "Would it be worth it to burn Will and Diane on this?"
Alicia: "That's assuming they would burn us with it. Can't we both win?"
Cary: "He made you look like a lying bitch in front of Victor Garber, though."
Alicia: "That's true. Hmm."
In court, they go after this lady -- all four of them, happily but also grossly -- about her past addictions, her four-month stint in rehab, her 45 grand in credit card debts... It's ugly and painful for her, possibly dangerous if the government follows up, but means both of the people might get off. So is that the higher good? By the time Alicia's wound herself up into an operatic (and not at all admissible) attack on the woman's credibility from every direction, the Judge has had enough and throws out the entire cross. Not that they'll listen. Which Alicia also knows, because she's been feeling those eyes on her since the second Marilyn called: It's not the crime, it's the cover-up.