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
Will's neuro buddy at Northwestern suddenly won't talk to them, or even pick up the phone, and runs away from Kalinda, and everything. he's been paid off. Now, if Canning did that, it's fraud, so even as Kalinda is talking to Will -- who continues doing the pee-pee dance of "I'm not saying what I'm saying" -- she's following the doctor to check it out. "Not," Will hastens to say on the phone, "At my urging."
FLORRICK & CANNING
Alicia: "Did you really buy off my neurologist?"
Canning: "You're not happy at Lockhart, are you? Because I'm looking at this, and you're second chair to Julius even though you're doing all the work."
Alicia: "He's an equity partner."
Canning: "Why aren't you?"
Alicia: "Look. I wasn't fucking around when I told Caitlin not to get poached. We treat the lawyers we steal like crap. They never measure up, their loyalty is always in question, and every time Diane sells off stock to buy magic liberal beans, they're the first out the door."
Canning: "That's because Lockhart treats everybody like family, like loyalty is this absolute good even though they're always backstabbing each other."
Alicia: "I am all about absolute goods, first of all, and secondly I'm kind of defined by loyalty. So that's not really a diss."
Canning: "At home that's all fine, but at work it's talent and professionalism that matter. That's why I don't hold a grudge. You come and work for me, you'll be judged on the value of your work and only your work."
Alicia: "Whoa, that's like word for word what I said to Caitlin. And yet still, you can fuck off."
TEAM DOC TESTIMONY
Dr. Rubich: "Apart from being a pro hockey player, which is already questionable, I didn't see too much wrong about his concussion after that game. I gave him a fifteen-minute exam..."
Alicia: "And three days later he was in the hospital and never played again. And you didn't say anything in his file about his head injury?"
Rubich: "Um, it's hockey."
Apparently one thing they do, to make it easier to figure out if somebody's concussed or really damaged, is take a baseline exam before you hit the ice so they have a simple control to test you when it's time-sensitive. You can already see where this is heading, if you know anything about pro sports you know that these things were designed to be cheated, but Alicia's building the case.