Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 62 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT If Our World is Their Heaven
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.06.2013
Alicia: "This is the part where you cut the baby in half, right? You've got a face on like you're gonna cut the baby."VERONICA
David Lee: "A suite of offices."
Veronica: "Just had to have 'em! They are gorgeous!"
David Lee: "It has gotten to the point where I am not even sure what this is about. I want to force you to tell me that your daughter is leaving my firm, but I also really love money and you're the only person on earth that I don't hate, so that's part of it too."
Veronica: "I love that you want to advise me, and I will take your advice as often as I can. But sometimes a girl just wants some commercial real estate. I can be a real girl with money, you know what I mean?"
David Lee: "And yet I cannot stop pushing."
Veronica: "Then allow me to push back, and tell you that you are approaching an actual boundary at this point. You need to stop before we're not friends anymore."
David Lee: "Okay, sorry."
I mean, of course he does not actually say the word "sorry," but they're both playing on a chessboard you don't really see until she's like, "Too far, back off." And suddenly their whole sexy thing means something different: She's a jungle cat, too. Did you forget what show we're watching? Apparently I did.
NSA JUDGEMENT
Gag order stays, because of whatever SCIF reasons turned out to be legit, but the damages are for $14,000, and the AUSA will never know why that number, which is going to drive him crazy like a person in a Poe story. And, also, the third and greatest thing, which is that he's putting a gag order on the damages itself. Not even the AUSA figures that one out for a bit, and we cut to Neil Gross, giving a TED Talk about how he simply cannot discuss the value of the check he's holding, but suffice to say the NSA won't be fucking with Neil Gross again any time soon. It's hot because it's Neil Gross, and because it's douchey in a particular Mark Cuban way I am very susceptible to, but most of all because what a fabulous way to cut the baby. Judge Tambor, please come back soon. That was beautiful.
Most especially because the real real point is that -- like Twitter makes no money but is worth billions of dollars -- sometimes it doesn't matter what actually went down, because it's the narrative that matters: Everybody in that auditorium felt stronger, less up-against-the-Empire, than they did ten minutes ago. I'm not one to rage or rail against the machine, but I think that feeling is important. It's not necessarily important that you blow up the machine, it's that you know you could.