Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 319 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Since The Night Matthew Ashbaugh Died
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.27.2013
Diane: "It's a formality, it's a partner thing. Look. I am ashamed to be here. I'm ashamed to want anything this bad. I am ashamed to... Is this going to impact my shit or not, Eli?"Eli: "Diane, we are not in the business of letting personal concerns affect our professional decisions. We're fine. Don't worry."
He pats her on the shoulder as he goes, and somewhere inside herself she knows: She knows better than he does, what will happen next.
JUDGE JAMES CHASE PRESIDING
Alicia: "Sup, fuckers?"
David Lee: "I could just kill them, right now. Just eat their literal flesh."
Judge: "So there's a restraining order..."
F/A starts talking all at once, all three of them against all three of us, and David Lee laughs at them, throwing them off even more.
Alicia: "Motion to suppress. There's been no tortious interference of trade here, the court can't take sides in a legally proper split of firm assets..."
Will: "Don't let her spin this like that. It would be if they'd done this right, but they didn't. We're talking about improper avowals to the..."
Cary: "Fuck off and sit down."
Everybody: Screaming.
Judge: "Shut up. Plaintiffs, you got a witness or anything?"
Will: "We do, Your Honor."
Diane: "We don't, actually."
She acts like it's about being classy; like she changed her mind because it's too much to stifle these baby birds. Like she's only there as a formality, only there because it's the house she built, and this isn't being done correctly. But she knows -- I don't even think Alicia gets it, she's so used to seeing Diane as the face of God -- why she's really there. And it is not about being classy. When Eli talks, behind those crinkly elf eyes, he's always saying sixteen things at once. And one of those things was to sit this one out.
Luckily, L/G has a surprise witness. Ginger Beth, formerly of Florrick/Agos.
Will: "So you were going to jump, right?"
Beth: "Yeah, but their avowals to prospective clients were..."
Alicia: "Come the fuck on, Beth, you can't even freestyle here? You're gonna use the exact language they told you to..."
Will: "They lied? Like how?"
Beth: "They said that the partners didn't have their best interests at heart. They pursued the clients for months before they left, saying that only they could offer continuity of service on their cases. Which I know because I was also doing that."
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