Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Nothing Is Very Clean
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.13.2011
Alicia: "And it's all right to do that?"
Father Jim: "Nothing is very clean. The older I get the more I realize that."
Word. That is probably one of the biggest things I've ever learned in my life. You can't wait around for things to be perfect before you make your move, because they won't be. Ever. There will always be war, there will always be iniquity, there will always be gross policies mandated by a higher purpose that can't see another way. You need Coynes but the world can't operate on Coynes alone. Nothing is ever clean. Which means the time to get started is always right now.
Alicia: "What if... What if it meant releasing him?"
Father Jim: "Then you best believe we'd be having another conversation."
The circuit judges are "considering" the appeal, which even Packer knows is just jerking them all around for show, but that doesn't matter because they have a 24-hour extension and access now.
Let me say that again: They are jerking them around with this brief stay, but that doesn't matter. This man's life does not signify. Which, I know what you're thinking, that he's already chosen for his life to be meaningless, but on that one we will have to disagree. I'm not saying there aren't cases where murder is okay -- that's what war is; that's the simplest description of the burden that soldiers knowingly take on, which is what makes them heroes -- but the death penalty, 100% not okay. He doesn't get to make that choice and neither do we.
Diane: "Okay, now we need a pretty lady to go visit him. Alicia? Where's Alicia."
Alicia: "Ugh, right here."
EN ROUTE TO DEATH ROW
Alicia: "Grace, hit me."
Grace: "That awful tutor is coming over."
Alicia: "Even still, I am worried about your health. Don't get raped and murdered, okay?"
Grace: "Mom, you're being weird. Moms!"
Alicia: "This case has got me all turned around and mommish. I apologize."
It's pretty sweet. Alicia makes everybody awesomer: Eli, Grace, everybody.
GOLD & ASSOC.
Chris Matthews: "Eli Gold and Mickey Gunn, working together. I think that's the third sign of the Apocalypse! I don't believe in the Apocalypse, but I constantly surprise myself by saying accidentally racist things. I am Just Okay."
Eli & Mickey: "Here is a picture of Robert Mulvey sucking a pretend dick."
Chris Matthews: "It's funny because he went from Republican to Democrat, while I am a Democrat who is kind of a Republican. Can I have this for my wall?"
Eli & Mickey: "You can have it for your show if you interview Mickey about the trouble of managing a client who sucks Santa dicks."
Chris Matthews: "Ah, the old Eli Gold trick. Getting in front of it. How about you bring me the fellator himself? I promise to spin it awesome for you."
Eli & Mickey: "Chris Matthews, we feel like we can trust you."
Chris Matthews: "Ha! I know, it's adorable."