Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 14 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Half A Love Story
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.24.2013
Eli: "More like two and a half."
Diane: "[Such sounds.]"
Diane's had a tough year and I know this is going to stir up all the shit at once and make everybody miserable. But by the same token we haven't seen her happy in a long, long time. Occasional Bond-villain drink-clinking aside, I mean. And those were all about escaping death, taking a breath, pouring one out for the homies. There is a completely different flavor to the joy of recognition; it's a different emotion entirely.
Your life's work has been performed admirably, and you deserve to become even more than an officer of the court: You deserve to be its head. Your relationship with justice is stronger, more loving, more clear-headed, than anyone else I can think of. All those pieces you dropped -- walked on without, didn't need -- don't matter. This is your life wrenching straight: You deserve to represent the justice of the people. You are strong enough, and right enough, ethical and moral enough, to hold their lives in your hands.
It's why the Lifeguard thing still bothers me so much more than any other sleazy ratfuck scenario on this whole show: If the Constitution is your church, if the courtroom is your home, you have no higher honor. Take that brilliant, clear, puzzle-solving mind and stop it gnawing on bankruptcy puzzles, Maddie Hayward puzzles. Give it the greatest honor you can think of: Puzzles of humanity and justice and law and precedent and the very basic fabric of our world. No lawyer I know would ever want to be a judge, but I believe Diane Lockhart would, and does. And deserves it.
PRECINCT
Alicia: "So the SA wants to keep from falling back on privilege, and you're here to..."
Laura: "Be your friend and talk you out of that. I brought a whole brief on how you can't even use privilege anyway..."
Alicia: "I mean, I want to help with this murder -- which it's funny isn't it just how much the PD and SA want this to go away -- but my firm and I agree I need to be circumspect."
Laura: "Gotcha. Okay, I won't hammer you with it then. But can you tell me anything about a person named Edward Lomax, or Eddie Lomax? Just one lead among many."
Once Matthew was attacked by a cop -- whose name, because she is Alicia, Alicia remembers in a hilarious zoom to his flashback nametag -- named Nozowitz. (A name I myself would not have been able to recall in a million years, mostly because it's too close to Dan Nosowitz, who is like my biggest crush/favorite writer in the universe right now -- besides, of course, Caity Weaver -- but also because I am not magical.) He crushed Matthew up against the wall and shouted, "You bring up Lomax again, and I'll kill you! You hear me?"