Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 114 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT As Cool As I Am
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.20.2013
Jackie: "You know I'm going to find a way to wreck your life for this, right?"Eli: "What I know is that I will have Peter call you. In exactly twenty minutes. And the call will last exactly four. And I know that not because I am clairvoyant but because I am in charge now, and I have decided it on a whim, and for no other reason. Let me show you out."
KALINDA
Elsbeth: "Chrissy Quinn, that paralegal."
Kalinda: "Yeah?"
Elsbeth: "Find her work history and sex stuff and where do you get your hair done?"
Kalinda: "I'm Kalinda. I get it cut at a secret salon for spies that has a password."
Elsbeth: "I make do with various kinds of flopping, but I wish it was like yours. Anyway, did you know her? What did you think of her?"
Kalinda: "She's young. Follows your lead. I don't think her accusations are true, exactly, but I think some situations are open to interpretation."
Elsbeth: "Things like sexual harassment? Meaning specifically abuse of power dynamics to create a coercive or abusive work environment?"
Kalinda: "No. Those things are not negotiable, and not true."
Elsbeth: "I have to go for a walk! My bracelet says so."
Kalinda: "What a darling person."
LOCKHART APT!
Strawmans: "Look at this picture of us all that Viola took!"
Diane: "Oh my God, just spit it out."
Strawmans: "We are here to do an intervention. Did you know he likes Sarah Palin?"
Diane: "That part, I think, is a joke. Although he won't admit it."
Strawmans: "Did you know he supports secession or something about guns?"
Diane: "Yeah, we've been through that too. It's part of why we're getting married."
Strawmans: "It's just that we can't manage to have grace or class about this! Because we live in a political bubble that caters only to ourselves."
Diane: "I hate a false equivalency as much as you guys, but the truth is our identities are not as simple as the labels we choose. Your politics are a small part of who you are."
Strawmans: "Your politics are everything!"
Diane: "Only if you're broken. The rest of us are adults, who are capable of relating in varied ways. Who don't define the world, or our capacity to love, purely by our own sense of superiority, or of victimhood. Outrage is the privilege of the peanut gallery, but I've been a participant for a while now. It changes things."