Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 56 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Don't Talk Too Loud
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.16.2014
When Rayna leaves, they think maybe there's still a chance. They don't understand they just lost the rainmaker, by a hair, and they won't ever know why. Because to explain why would take a thousand years, which is why we don't. All three of them, Alicia included, think it's somehow her -- that she didn't answer these oracular questions correctly. But she did great. The real answer is right there, invisible as ever.
PIANO
Later, Elsbeth is singing "High Hopes" -- the song about the ant trying to move the rubber tree -- to the accompaniment of none other than Clark Hayden. Truly a magical night. In his soft way he acknowledges her crappy singing voice, and they laugh.
Elsbeth: "I know! But this city, it inspires me. I find it makes me sweat! Time for more drinks, Mr. Hayden..."
Clarke: "I'm old-fashioned, Ms. Tascioni. I'll treat."
Elsbeth: "I'm having a great day. I just started a new firm!"
Clarke: "With whom, may I ask? And please don't say..."
Elsbeth: "This nice lady Rayna Hecht!"
She stumbles away to take a call, and Clarke sits back down heavily, playing discordance. Where's she's going is...
THAT OLD BLACK DUBECK VAN
Where Will immediately figures out the whole Jim Moody thing was a setup: He dragged him to a hallway where the cameras don't have sound, so all that exists is all that matters, which is the timestamped sight of the two of them talking.
Will: "Um, that's me telling him to fuck off."
Dubeck: "And yet to a grand jury, that's two witnesses conspiring to cover up election fraud. That's ten years in federal prison."
Elsbeth: "Ridiculous."
Dubeck: "Well, this is the raw footage and the chain of custody's intact, so is it?"
Will: "You turned Jim Moody. A good soldier."
Dubeck: "Yeah, just like this: I don't care about you. I want Florrick. You testify against him, that's it."
Elsbeth: "We're done talking for now."
Dubeck: "Cool, you have 48 hours."
NOW
Alicia's in the lobby, heading for her flight home in a lovely red jacket, when she's approached by the first lady from the episode, the long-ago interviewer Lorraine Joy, from Clements & Holloway. The rubbernecker. (Mel from thirtysomething, which makes me wonder if this isn't going to be a thing down the road, some horrible how.)
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