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
Will: "If Mrs. Florrick is accusing me of lying to the court, I assume she can corroborate that accusation?"
Alicia: "Oh, okay. My bad. I guess I didn't realize how thoroughly Mr. Gardner was willing to burn this shit to the ground. Never mind."
GARBANZA
Alicia: "Are you kidding me with this video? Holy shit!"
Marilyn: "But these are the votes you went to court about, right?"
Alicia: "No way to say, friend. Those are just ballot boxes. And just to remind you, I was in court to invalidate them."
Marilyn: "Cool. Do you know Jim Moody?"
Alicia: "I know of him, he worked on the campaign but..."
Marilyn: "You never talked to him?"
Alicia: "I'm not some Black Widow cartoon character, if that's what you mean. I am not the person of this. We both know who logically is. Can I please go back to fucking work now?"
In classic Alicia Florrick fashion, she gets almost out of the building altogether before turning around, releasing on us the heat of one million suns: Alicia has made up her mind.
Alicia: "Everybody out of my husband's office right now, please."
They: (Bounce, because she is being more intense than at any time ever before.)
Alicia: "I just came to see Marilyn Garbanza and she said the most fucked-up thing..."
Peter: "I was really hoping to clean that up before you got wind of it."
Alicia: "Talk faster, try harder."
Peter: "Why would I have called you in to contest them, if I was the guy on this?"
Alicia: "You didn't, Eli did."
Peter: "Because, against all reason, it turns out Eli didn't know either."
Alicia: "You remember why I got into it? Because Zach discovered it. He was being a good citizen and I was proud to be a part of that. He testified in court."
Peter: "Yeah, again, not helping my campaign. Just doing what's right."
Alicia: "What happens next is, our son testifies in front of the fucking Feds."
Peter: "Not if I can clean this up..."
Alicia: "No! My son will not get caught up in the middle of this hurricane. You need to fix this. Shut the hell up, and tell me you're gonna fix it."
It is not exactly in her nature to issue these instructions and let people exercise their creativity in fulfilling them: Too much control lost, too much chance for getting dirty. But bring Zach into it? You could fill a book with what she knows about what she doesn't know.