Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 4 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Here I Go Again
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.19.2012
Chalk it up to Alicia's intuition and see what happens, because it's not exactly a war on feminism to suggest that, having been recently told her successes were in part due to her own historical relationship with Will, and Caitlin's ever-helpful fluency with things like the Internet, and the Kalinda situation still smarting, the future might be lining up in kind of an ugly way. If you think of it as Cary 2.0 rather than as a girl thing, any tension would make a lot more sense. Just because Bond is gone and Eli's having entire storylines to himself doesn't mean there isn't plenty of L/G infighting to be done, and "Will's past quasi-girlfriend" is going to be trumped by "David Lee's niece" every time if you let that fight come down.
Alicia doesn't care for Viola, who tried to poach her last time even after -- or in the midst of -- grossing her out, but she's willing to help set everything up on this latest Neil Gross thing since they know Viola likes her. Will wants back in on this case, which he only relinquished because he thought he was going to jail, and although Diane tells him to take like one second to enjoy himself, she eventually lets him jump back in.
Privately, Alicia congratulates Will on his non-indictment, and she chuckles about how the last time they saw Viola Walsh she tried to poach and/or mindfuck her. Which? Well, let's just say when she greets Viola and Neil Gross -- Viola's self-righteous hoodie-wearing dreamboat tech client played by John Benjamin Hickey -- Viola pretends not to remember her in any way. So there's that.
Gross: "I am so much more creative and vital than attorneys!"
Alicia: "Check out how creative I am in calling you an asshole, though."
Viola: "Are you guys having a party or something?"
Diane: "No, just ignore that party and focus on being grody."
Viola/Gross: "Done!"
Okay, I had to look this up to make sure I was clear on it, but in the "Great Wall" episode it was this exact thing: A case against Neil Gross's ChumHum for selling information about Chinese dissidents to the government that resulted in torture and vanishings, which it turned out was secretly just about L/G protecting the interests of Patrick "Sleuth.com" Edelstein, a rival tech genius. Alicia complained that they were being hypocrites, but Will explained that even if they were doing it for money, it was still good they were doing... which held up until we learned that Edelstein was no more interested in protecting his users from draconian measures than Gross was. So everybody was basically an asshole, up to and including Alicia, and bajillions of dollars changed hands.