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
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David Lee, somehow, has connected the dots on Diane's upcoming appointment, and has decided to throw a massive fit about it. What nobody -- including Will and Alicia -- knows is what happened in Springfield just a minute ago, so while it looks Diane's being cagey in the onslaught, she's really just at a sensitive and vague moment in the process and honestly there's nothing to tell, or to say. Not that David Lee would be satisfied by anything, jealous little bitch that he is, and he immediately takes it to the nth level, saying she should step down as a managing partner and basically comparing her profit-sharing to highway robbery, considering she could be pulling up stakes in the next two weeks.
It's real ugly, and real sad, but it's also kind of true. And what makes this episode, in a string of excellent episodes, is that now Diane is a Young Turk story, with a whole new viewpoint: At the top of one mountain, ready to leap, she can see it all at once, spread out below. How hard she fought to keep L/G alive and get her second floor back, how the Supreme Court is just another obsolete system that exists to keep itself in existence, and how there is no escaping the cage: Just bigger and bigger cages. And once you realize that, the only rational thing to do is pick your particular cage, and decorate it how you want it.
David Lee: "Diane, you need to be stepping back right now. How are we supposed to know whether you're doing for what's good for the court or for us?"
Diane: "Beyond my long-term dedication to being awesome? Uh, you don't."
David Lee: "Then step the hell back!"
Will: "Oh, shut up."
Cary: "Could you guys stop yelling for a second? I need Alicia and Will out in the hallway. Now. The Selwin judge is going to be calling any second."
And this is because Anonymous -- with an earnest lack of humor that rings quite true -- has put together a video with a sort of muddle narrative that calls out Judge Parks just in case he's thinking of not doing what they want, but is all on the way to doxxing Todd Bratcher and Jess Martin, their homes and home addresses: Basically everything the tweet wanted to do, and Parks never wanted to happen. I don't see how this goes anywhere but a mistrial, right?
STACK AGAIN
Dylan: "It's not me! It's Anonymous."
Alicia: "You are Anonymous."
Dylan: "A decentralized anarchist collective without any personal identifiers at all, with no set cell structure and no central mandate. Calling me Anonymous is not only incorrect -- and correct -- but more than that, it belies your understanding of how this works. Anonymous is everywhere, because that's the point of Anonymous."
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