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
Alicia: "Nothing! He's perfectly nice, as you said. I mean, apart from that whole thing of being personally involved in a conspiracy to hide child sexual abuse going back decades."
Eli: "Great. So Peter punched Kresteva in his stupid face. Bloody nose, the whole thing."
Alicia: "Oh my God that's awesome!"
Eli: "He is telling everybody Mike fell down drunk. Play along."
Alicia: "Eli, did you see it?"
Eli: "Girl, I wish. But based on Peter's face afterwards I think it was epic."
They hold hands and giggle and Eli smiles wider than he ever has in his life and Alicia is more wonderful with him than she's ever been. Just a great, great moment: Their man.
PRECINCT
Detective Doug: "Sure, just use my computer. That's cool."
Kalinda: "Okay see this video of the killing? Sticking out of that car is a Fetch-Far. You fling tennis balls so your dog can chase it. And one of the people our client sued was a dog lover..."
Doug: "Do you really think this is about a dog barking?"
Kalinda: "I get that you're not a lesbian, but you've surely at least met a dog lover? Those people do not play."
SHAMROCK
Alicia joins the kids on the stairs for some quick Stop Crying Grace time.
Alicia: "Where is your awful grandmother."
Grace: "Talking to some guy in a dress. Listen, about before..."
Alicia: "Sure, I was pregnant. It happens. I wasn't embarrassed about Zach, I was embarrassed about the timing, so I changed the date of the wedding. It's totally okay."
Grace: "And then there's me, the total accident."
Alicia: "No, girl. I don't know what she was thinking, but you should never know that."
Grace: "I've felt all along that we, I, were the thing keeping you tied down. Like you wanted to be with Will Gardner, but because of..."
Alicia: "-- This isn't about responsibility. This is about love. I loved you before you were born. And I loved Zach before he was born. And I love you even more now."
Grace: "And Dad?"
You're still reading half a love story. You think it's about responsibility, it's not. The ways it is, we don't need to talk about. You're not listening: I'm with your Dad. And I do love him. And I am with him, and I love him. The existence of one story doesn't rule out the others: Its' still half a story, but it's the half that matters right now.