Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 112 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Already Gone
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.13.2013
Eli: "Fuck them! I'll salt the earth! No ethics will ever grow there again!"Peter: "That's what it looked like you did. Get her back. I'd hate to think we fired her just because I'm going to have sex with her in about one minute."
16TH
Why do we even have office space on this floor? Does it belong to somebody else? Is it here for when ChumHum deserts Florrick Agos, and they have to come crawling back, and Gardner & Assoc. buys them out, and they have to live on this floor without even electricity, because they are just baby jerks? Because imagine David Lee's boot, on your human throat, forever?
Will: "Shh. We are here to talk about the exit package."
David Lee: "I would like to give her a fat lip, not a..."
Alicia: "What are we even talking about? What is going on?"
Will: "It's Diane. She's in big trouble. An interview that exposed the firm to criticism. I am leaving out certain verbs and nouns."
The Quorum takes a vote on it, negotiating a package rather than cutting her off, and then Lyman and David Lee nominate each other to the negotiating committee -- it's great, both sort of unrehearsed in the moment but also the natural, practiced way of things -- and then Will nominates Alicia.
Alicia: "Fuck that! Thanks, I mean, but no."
Will: "We needed somebody who voted against it, so you're the balance."
Alicia: "I was voting to not not kick her out without a severance. Wait, what was it... You know what, fuck it. Fine."
FLORRICK AGOS
Cary, in his sexy civvies he never gets to wear, is momentarily distracted by Grownup Gracie, who also attracts her mother's mystified eye as she walks through the living room, where the fourth-years are being served snacks by Mommy and voting on important things like fonts. Not that fonts aren't important, but it's a pointed segue.
Carey: "It's so cool to have a font. Hey listen, is Diane getting fired? Because we could steal her clients..."
Alicia: "Why's everybody looking at me? Eat these snacks and ignore me. And my daughter, for the record."
Carey: "Oh man, this again. Confidentiality and fiduciary duty and shit."
Alicia: "Yes, quite literally that is the shit I am talking about. Don't mess with me about it, please."
Carey: "I have to, though! Just sit down before I count to ten."