Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 4 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Look Me In The Eye & Tell Me
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.14.2013
GARDNER
Diane's waiting in Will's office when he comes back, laughing about Grace's girly phone case, and then cuts to the chase: They need to drop the Dylan Stack class they "guardedly approved." She begs Will not to put too fine a point on it, or call it what it is, but she has no way of knowing how strongly he feels, this week, about this subject, so he draws her out and makes her explicitly acknowledge the lie, and then explicitly tell the lie, and it makes them both sick but this is how they have to do it: "Dylan Stack is not in keeping with our other clients, and we need to drop this case, because just as in previous cases we've changed our minds, it is in the firm's best interest to do so."
Which does two things: First of all, it makes Diane feel crappy which they both appreciate. Second of all, it reminds us that Will is feeling deserted by both of the women in his life, and that any Supreme Court connection is double hard for him because it means taking apart something he spent the better part of his life building. Turning it into some new shape. But it also sets up a later scene in which Will's hurt feelings are secondary to what Diane's actually being asked to do, which none of us know about yet. We still think this is a gentle breakup, that it'll be hard for Will and eventually he'll get over it and if you love something set it free. We are wrong.
HALLWAY FIGHT
Cary: "So you're talking to Alicia?"
Kalinda: "Not generally on this TV show, no."
Cary: "But she knows I'm leaving..."
Kalinda: "Dude I don't even know you're leaving, so no. New topic. The hell? You're leaving?"
Cary: "Don't talk to Alicia."
Kalinda: "Don't fucking tell me what to do, but how about this radical rewrite of your radical rewrite of reality. I believed you when you said you weren't leaving. So yeah, ironically, I didn't tell Alicia anything because there was nothing to tell. So you wanna rethink every fucking thing you just said to me?"
Moments later, Kalinda thinks about it for five seconds and realizes that obviously Robyn is investigating on Alicia's behalf, because Alicia is the only person in the correct position -- and with the correct character -- to try to fix this for everybody at once without ever getting her fingerprints on it. Anonymous.
SPEAKING OF
Dylan quietly interrupts Alicia during the testimony of the doctor that did Rainey's exam, to pass
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