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
Peter: "Thanks for coming. I invited you mostly to start shit, but nominally to thank you for making Alicia an undeserved equity partner."
Will: "I came almost entirely to start shit."
Alicia: "Fair warning, I am going to go get drunk now."
THE BAR
Alicia: "Please serve me all the alcohol."
Mike Kresteva: "Alicia Florrick! How nice to slime all over you at this fun party. I thought I'd find you at the bar."
Alicia: "Firing blindly as usual, I see. Hey, how's your alcoholism going?"
Mike: "I dunno, let's talk about it all episode so it becomes a huge plotpoint."
Alicia: "What the fuck do you want."
Mike: "Just to be awful some more. You seem very sassy."
Alicia: "S4 Alicia doesn't give a fuck. I'm just honest now, all the time. Like the opposite of you."
Mike: "Cool! What is your husband's strategy?"
Alicia: "To use me. My beauty, my reputation, etc. Which I'm cool with, because fuck you."
Mike: "What about me are you most worried about?"
Alicia: "Your suckiness, your psychopathic ability to lie and pretend it's the truth..."
She compares him to Hitler, which is grody, and he points out how grody that was. Skip.
Alicia: "You know the problem with bad people is, they use the arguments of good people."
Mike: "The problem with good people is, they think of themselves as good people."
Truer words. You just summed up forty-something recaps in thirteen words.
Cops: "Alicia, can we talk to you about a dead murdered person?"
Alicia: "I wish that was you, Mike Kresteva. Choking on your own blood at this Shamrock Dinner."
Kresteva: "Your Eminence, did you know that Alicia Florrick's son is a convicted drug person?"
His Eminence: "That's not even very interesting."
THE STATION
This part was so neat. I compared it to the hallowed beginning of Up, and I stand by it. John Noble is so heartrending -- even talking like Michael Caine -- and of course, Alicia always nails it, but man. The downside is that the beauty of it is so much about the staging, the direction, the music, the editing, that I couldn't even get it across if I tried. Go find it on the same internet you are on as you are reading this, so you can see it. It is beautiful.