Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 73 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT One Hand Clapping
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 13 | Aired on 03.09.2014
Lester: "I know a lot of honest people, sure. But sometimes they talk too much."Alicia: "No you don't, and yes that's true, but..."
Case in point, Robyn going off on some guy in the foyer like a little squirrel monkey.
Alicia: "Robyn's a chatterbox, that doesn't mean she doesn't know not to talk about our fucking drug lord clients."
Lester nods and moves on to the next play, which is asking Alicia to be on-call at three tomorrow, in case a delivery goes south. She reflexively checks her watch, notices the time, and gets her move on with some shouted apologies.
KLUGER LUNCH
Kluger: "No problem that you're late. I figured some client or another had you tied up and gagged to keep you from talking to me."
Alicia: "I can't tell if that's like a saying, or you're making a very dark joke about how working with Lemond Bishop is going to end in my murder."
Kluger: "Anyway, I have to go. Lunch is canceled, it's an emergency, I have to leave right now and not talk to you maybe ever again, for reasons that aren't yet clear on the show but seem very high-profile and scary."
Alicia: "I just busted ass all the way across... Fine. Can we reschedule?"
Kluger: "No, but I'm gonna say sure. Bye!"
Alicia's like, "Well, fuck." Because she spent the last two days stressing about if she should even do this, and once she got there she had her game face on because she's playing with the big boys -- her favorite new thing -- and now all of a sudden he's just not that into you. Is this Alicia's fault? Is this politics happening behind her back? What is happening? Nobody knows. Just that it sucks.
A HONKYTONK
Cary and Kalinda do a funny, charming thing where they slug their drinks silently, like an ongoing challenge, but once the game goes on a second too long, kitty-cat gets bored and Kalinda's just like, "This is stupid, I'm leaving."
Kalinda: "What's going on, Cary? Is this some kind of punishment?"
Cary: "No! You asked me for drinks, I'm drinking."
Kalinda: "Ugh, whatever."
Cary: "Seriously? I thought I was being cute."
Kalinda: "Really? Because I thought you were pumping me for info about the case that has our firms in separate but interlaced leg-locks. My bad."
I kind of really love the way this episode seems to put their stuff -- their shared intimate chemistry, her psychic powers, his earnestness -- all into reversal: Suddenly she's not reading him that well, he's not working her that well, he's telling the truth and she thinks he's lying, and vice versa. I realize that part of it is that she really did fuck him over the day the shit hit the fan, and we're not done talking about that astoundingly uncool move, but I wonder too if this isn't a sign from the Gods that she's taking him seriously for the first time. Like once you descend Olympus and start banging the locals, maybe your powers don't work so well on them anymore.
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