Suits (2011–…): Season 5, Episode 14 - Self Defense - full transcript

HARVEY: Previously on Suits...

What do you mean,
you can't take the case?

Jessica won't lay out the
money for the man hours.

One of the victims
was my uncle Keith.

Please, these people
need your help.

I didn't come forward,
they found me.

And I'm not pulling
any associate shit.

Then what do you call this pathetic
excuse of a candidates list?

I call it inevitable. Because
our students can read.

Our future is slipping away and
offering Jack name partner,

or praying to God that Harvey
just gets Mike off the hook



isn't going to stop
it from happening.

Then you get your
ass back up to Harvard,

and you make sure Sheila
doesn't show up to that trial.

It's a ticket
to Argentina.

I need you to go there
until the trial is over.

Court's not about bullshit like this.
It's about facts.

And the fact is, you're
not a goddamn lawyer.

Are you saying what
I think you're saying?

Because if you're thinking it,
you're a fool. You heard her.

She said the fact is, is that
I'm not a goddamn lawyer.

Well, the only way
to change that fact

is for a jury to see me
be a goddamn lawyer.

You try that, all they're gonna
see is someone going to prison.

It's my call
and I'm making it.



We have a problem.
They found Trevor.

BAILIFF: Please
raise your right hand.

Do you swear to
tell the truth,

the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth, so help you God?

I do.
You may be seated.

Mr. Evans, how long have
you known Mr. Ross?

Since we were kids.
Almost 20 years.

So, you were
close to him?

Yeah, he was
my best friend.

Are you still
close to him?

Well, I doubt we
will be after this.

After what?

After you ask me
about the series of events

that have led us
all to be here today.

Well, we'll get to
your history in a minute.

But first, I want to ask you a
question about current events.

Did Mike Ross approach
you three days ago

in an attempt to get you
not to testify against him?

Yes, he did.

GIBBS: How exactly did
that conversation go?

What are you
doing here?

You know exactly
what I'm doing here.

You said you
would not testify.

Yeah, well, that was before
Anita Gibbs dragged me in

and told me she was going to
put me away for 10 years.

I don't give a shit
what she told you.

You said you were
going to call a lawyer.

Yeah. Well, before I had
a chance to do that,

they showed me
what they had.

Which is names,
dates, witnesses,

and everything
else they need

to put me away for
as long as they want.

Wait, wait, wait.
How would they...

You think
I want to do this?

I don't.

But I cannot
risk prison for you.

And I am telling you
that whatever they have,

Harvey can get
you out of this.

And from what she told me,
Gibbs can get you out of this.

She offered you a deal that can
make this whole thing stop.

Now, instead of telling me
not to testify against you,

why don't you think about
testifying against Harvey?

Because unlike you, I would
never do that to a friend.

Yeah, well, unlike you,
when they put me away,

I'm not going to
a white-collar prison.

So, if I don't rip you to
shreds up there on the stand,

they are going to rip me
to shreds behind bars.

Harvey, it's late. I've had a long clay.
So, if you don't mind...

HARVEY: We have a problem.

What now?
My condo's on fire?

Mike wants to
represent himself.

Is he crazy?

He can't do that. That's
what I tried to tell him.

You don't try.
You just tell him.

Yeah. The only problem with that
is he knows it's his decision.

Not to mention, the only thing that's
stopping him from going to Gibbs

and pointing his finger at you
or me is his loyalty to us.

So, that's it. He's
representing himself.

I'm not saying that.

Then what exactly
are you saying?

I'm saying I have a plan, but
I need you to sign off on it.

Well, whatever
it is, I'm in.

Because if that kid
handles his own defense,

you and I are going to be
the next ones on trial.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

If you're here to find out if
Trevor's testifying, he is.

I can handle Trevor.

Harvey, we've
been over this.

And I said we're not
done being over it.

Listen to me. I know that
fool for a client bullshit,

but the thing I'm being accused
of is not being a lawyer.

So, if I represent myself,
every second I'm up there,

they're going to
see me as a lawyer.

And if she rattles you for one
of those goddamn seconds,

they're going to
see you as a fraud

and they're never going to
see you as anything else.

Okay.

I got it.
You said your piece.

It's my call. I'm done
talking about it.

Then we'll do a trial
run to get you ready.

Are you crazy?

You want to
waste my time,

not to mention air our dirty laundry
in front of the whole firm?

Mike, in a week
and a half,

our dirty laundry is gonna be aired
in front of the whole world.

And Gibbs is gonna
come at you in ways

you've never
even thought about.

Oh, so I get it, you don't want
a trial run to get me ready,

you want a trial run to show
me that I'm outmatched.

You are outmatched by me and Gibbs
and you're afraid to find out.

lam not afraid of Gibbs and
I am not afraid of you.

Then you won't mind
agreeing if I beat you,

you let me represent
you in court.

(LAUGHS)

Okay, Harvey, you want to go?
Let's go.

But you better
bring your A game.

Because you might be the
best closer in the city,

but I'm the one
fighting for my life.

See the money wanna stay
for your meal

Get another piece of pie
for your wife

Everybody wanna know
how it feel

Everybody wanna see
what it's like

I'll even eat a bean pie
I don't mind

Me and Missy is so early

Busy, busy making money

All right!

All step back
I'm 'bout to dance

The greenback boogie

Thank you.

There he is.

Harold.

What are you
doing here?

I know what's going on. Okay?

I know about the trial
coming up.

Then you know
I'm pretty busy right now.

Right. Which is why I
wanted to talk to you.

Listen, you're gonna
need someone

to testify that
you went to Harvard.

I want to be that guy.

Harold, that's
an amazing offer, but...

Mike. Come on, man.

We both know that you
didn't go to Harvard.

But honestly, if anyone would have
asked me up until this point,

I would have
sworn that you did.

I would have sworn
that I saw you at that...

That party with Gilcrest or those
pizza nights at Pinocchio's,

or pretty much any other
memory I have of that time.

Which means if they put me
up there on that stand,

I'd basically be
telling the truth.

I can't tell you how much that
means to me, Harold, but...

Mike, I wanna do this
for you. Please.

I know you do.

But I got myself
into this mess,

and I gotta get
myself out of it.

Okay. But listen,
if you change your mind,

you know where to find me.

HARVEY: Ladies and
gentlemen of the jury,

you're gonna be hearing a lot of
things over the next several days.

But the truth is, this case is about
nothing more than cold, hard...

Innuendo.

And the fact is,
I'm capable of reciting

every element of jurisprudence
in the State of New York.

And yet, despite that,
the prosecution is

gonna try to convince
you that I am a...

Fraud, who not only didn't pass
the bar or go to law school,

he didn't even
graduate college.

There isn't one
piece of hard evidence

proving that I didn't
go to Harvard Law.

There's no record of
tuition being paid,

no record of
a Boston address,

there isn't even a simple
picture in the yearbook.

Let's talk about the yearbook. As he
told you, I'm not in the yearbook.

Where is Mike Ross?

But what he didn't
tell you is that 25

other students are also
not in this yearbook.

Are those other students
being charged with fraud?

Of course not, because we
don't put people on trial

for being sick on picture day.
And no matter...

What he says, the fact is,
Mike Ross is not a lawyer.

He's a fraud,
and we will prove that

beyond a shadow of a doubt.

The defense would like to call
its first witness.

Right there.
He's such a non-lawyer,

he doesn't even know
the prosecution goes first.

And you obviously don't know Jarvis v.
the State of New York, 1937.

"When calling of the first witness
is of such special nature

"as to disrupt the flow of the
trial, once it's started."

What the hell special nature
are you talking about?

When the defense wants to call the
prosecutor as its first witness.

Harvey, unless you have
something to overturn this,

I'm gonna need
you to have a seat.

Mr. Specter, you said
there's no record of me

ever having
an apartment in Boston.

Can you explain
to the jury

why there's no record of you
ever having lived there?

I'm not the one
on trial here.

No, you're not. You're
the one in that chair,

so, why don't you
answer the question

or we can stop this
whole thing right now.

There's no record
of me living there

because I sublet up there when
I had my place down here.

So, it is possible that a person
not have a Boston address

without it meaning that
they didn't attend Harvard.

Great. Thank you so much.
This witness is excused.

What exactly is your reason for
not having an address up there?

Unless you're too afraid
to answer my questions.

No, I'm not afraid
of you at all.

My reason is that I chose to live with
my friend, Trevor, during that time.

The only problem
with that is

your friend, Trevor, has lived
in Brooklyn his entire life.

Exactly a three hour and 20
minute drive from Harvard.

So, you're saying you made
that drive every day?

No. I only went up for tests,
because that's all I had to do.

I guess you needed
some extra tutoring, huh?

You expect these people to
believe that you graduated

from the most competitive
law school in the world

without ever
going to class?

See, that's funny, because you actually
expect these people to believe

that I never went
to law school at all

and yet still somehow
managed to convince

the smartest
lawyers in the world

to make me their
youngest partner ever.

Whose story is looking
more far-fetched now?

Oh, no answer? Great.

No more questions,
Your Honor.

I don't know if you've noticed this
or not, but he's kicking your ass.

And I'm about
to kick back.

Are you two
discussing something

that defense should
be made aware of?

Just talking about
the Knicks.

Now, is the prosecution ready
to call their first witness?

The prosecution's first
witness is this affidavit

from every
single member

of the defendant's
supposed graduating class.

Objection, Your Honor.
I haven't seen that.

Well, then,
let me read it to you.

"We collectively
come forward to swear

"the following regarding
Michael James Ross.

"We never saw him. We never knew him.
We never heard of him.

"And it makes us
sick that he's taking

"the good name of
Harvard Law School

"and throwing it
down the toilet.

"Please find him
guilty on all counts."

Your Honor, I move to strike
that document right now.

On what grounds?

On the grounds that it's
completely fabricated.

Where's your proof?

Besides the fact that I
actually went to Harvard,

there's no way you
could have contacted

all of those people
since last night.

Then I suggest you call

every one of these people
and put 'em on the stand.

But when you do, every
single one of them

is gonna look you
in the eye and say,

"Who the hell are you?"

What? No snappy
comeback?

You can try to trick these
people all you want.

But the fact is, you didn't go
to Harvard and this proves it.

Objection,
he's testifying.

What I'm doing
is winning.

All right,
that's enough.

I think this is a good
time to take a break.

Louis Litt.

I'm Anita Gibbs.

Yeah, I know
who you are.

The question is,
what are you doing here?

And the answer is,
I don't give a shit.

I came here to compliment you
on getting rid of Sheila Sazs.

I have no idea what
you're talking about.

Really? You think I don't
know what's going on here?

You two were
in a relationship

and when you found out that it
was her that wrote that email,

you went up to Cambridge
and convinced her

to go to Argentina for the
duration of the trial.

Ha. You're out
of your mind.

Am I? You flew to Boston three
times in the last two weeks.

You took two cabs to
her house and another

to within 100 feet of
the admissions office.

You have no proof
of anything.

I don't need proof.

Because while she may
be in Argentina now,

she's not gonna
stay there forever.

Which means
when she gets back,

I get you for
witness tampering.

Do me a favor and
leave rne the hell alone.

I will. For now.

But if she's not back
by the start of trial,

I'm going to assume that you
wanna be brought up on charges.

You son of a bitch.
This isn't real.

I don't give a shit
whether it's real or not.

You think Gibbs isn't going
to do things like that?

She is not gonna enter false
evidence and you know it.

But she is going
to set up traps

for you to bungle
into like I just did.

This is such bullshit.
You were just pissed

because I was kicking your
ass, so now you're cheating.

Me? You're the one who testified
in your opening statement

and every chance
you get.

Because that's exactly what me
being my own lawyer gives us.

I don't care.

If I represent you and it turns
out that you need to testify,

we can call you
up to the stand.

And if we do that,

then Gibbs gets to cross-examine
me and make me look like a liar.

Well, I don't know
if you've noticed,

but you're looking
like a liar right now,

and I'm trying to keep you
from looking like a fool.

You know what?
I'm getting pretty tired

of you using
that word with me.

Too bad. Because for all
your bullshit up there,

you still can't
produce one person

who remembers
you from Harvard.

So, if you want to have a chance
at representing yourself,

get out of my face and
go work on your defense,

'cause I've got a lot more
where that came from.

What can I do for
you, Louis?

Gibbs knows what I did.

What? She knows I got
Sheila out of the country.

She was waiting
for me this morning,

and she threatened
to bring charges against me.

Did you admit that to her?
No.

Then she's not gonna
charge you with anything.

Did you hear what
I just said?

She knows I went
to Sheila's place

the same night she
went to Argentina.

And what does that prove?

It proves that I knowingly bought a
witness a ticket out of the country

in the middle of
an ongoing investigation.

All it proves is you
rewarded a Harvard employee

who's been steering lawyers towards
this firm for the last 10 years.

Okay, Jessica,
Gibbs can easily

go down to
Argentina and ask...

Louis, listen
to yourself.

She's not going
to do that.

And even if she did,

it's not witness tampering if
a subpoena was never issued.

And Gibbs is gonna say
that I had knowledge

of an impending subpoena,
therefore, it is tampering.

You know what, Louis? I don't
give a shit what Gibbs says.

Where are you going?

Give that woman a taste of
her own goddamn medicine.

Where the hell
are you going?

We've got Mike on the ropes.
We have to put him away.

Sorry, Harvey. Something
more pressing just came up.

What the hell could be
more pressing than this?

You worry about your shit,
and i'll worry about mine.

Well, I've got my
shit taken care of.

Well, maybe you do
and maybe you don't.

But what I've learned
from recent history

is if you really
were Anita Gibbs,

no matter what
you had planned,

you'd be planning
something else.

Donna, please, not right now.
I am so busy.

That's fine. I just
came by to let you know

that Jessica had to go out, so the
trial is done for the rest of the day.

And Harvey wasn't gonna tell
me because he's playing dirty.

He's not your
enemy, Mike.

He's just doing
what he thinks is best.

Then I'm gonna do
what I think is best.

And what
exactly is that?

Look, Donna, he may not be my enemy
and you may not be my enemy.

But as long as
we're in this trial run,

I'm not trusting
you with anything.

That's my boy.

Jessica Pearson. I wasn't aware
we had an appointment today.

We don't. I just stopped by to
give you this restraining order

preventing you from contacting Louis
Litt without his attorney present.

And let me guess,
his attorney is you.

Bingo.

So, unless you're
going to arrest him,

you so much as text
him without me present

and you're in violation
of a court order.

You're done driving a wedge
between me and my people.

We'll see how strong your
bond is with your "people"

when I parade every one of them on
the stand and ask them point-blank,

"Did you know Mike
Ross was a fraud?"

You think we're gonna have
different answers to that?

No, I think you're all
going to take the Fifth.

And you're gonna tell
yourselves it implies no guilt.

But in the eyes
of the jury,

you might as well all just stand
up there and say "he did it."

So, you tell your client
he's off the hook for now.

But the next time I talk to
him, it will be on the stand.

Hey.

I got your message.
So, here I am.

But let me tell
you something, Mike.

If you're here to ask what
I think you're gonna ask,

it's going to be
a short conversation.

I need you to say you
remember me from Harvard.

There's just one
small problem, Mike.

I don't remember you.

Because you didn't
go there. Did you?

Look me in the eye and
tell me that I'm wrong.

Goddamn you,
Mike. I knew it.

Jimmy, Jimmy!
When we first started,

you begged me to help
you save your career.

No, no, no, no, Mike.
This is not the same thing.

I could have
gotten you disbarred.

It could've gotten me sent
me to jail and you know it.

I don't care.

All right?
I need your help.

Mike, you are asking
me to perjure myself

and I don't even
know who you are.

Yes, you do. I am the
same guy you came to

when your aunt
needed help.

Wow.

So, I owe you
for that, too?

Yeah, you do.

And you and I both
know if I get convicted,

that settlement is
going to get re-opened.

Then why the hell did
you take it, Mike? Why?

Jimmy, I took
a shortcut, man.

Just like you
took a shortcut once.

Now, if I could take it all back, I would.
But I can't.

And just like
you begged me once,

lam coming to you
and begging you right now.

Please.
Please help me.

No one in their right mind would
do what you're asking me to.

That's not true.

Harold come to you?

Well, you know Harold
won't hold up

on the stand,
and I would. Right?

Jimmy. I need...
Michael.

Look, brother,
I'm sorry.

I really wish
I could help.

But I cannot risk
going to prison for you.

I can't.

(CELL PHONE VIBRATING)

Hello?
Louis, it's me.

Sheila, I explicitly
told you,

do not call me till
after the trial is over.

We can't take
any chances.

Someone approached
me, Louis.

What do you mean,
someone approached you?

At my hotel.

I was in the lobby.

A man came up to me
and started talking.

He said he was
from New York.

He wanted to know how long I'd
been planning a trip to Argentina.

Then he asked how long
I was planning on staying

and finally, did anyone pay for
my ticket to come down here.

What did you tell him?

That it was none
of his business.

Good. That was smart.

You didn't show them
that they got to you.

Louis, they did
get to me.

Listen to me.

They did not subpoena you.
So, you did nothing wrong.

You just took a trip.

Now, if Gibbs can prove anyone
did anything, it is me.

And I will do anything
to protect you. Okay?

I'm sorry, Louis.
I have to go.

I don't believe you.

You're calling Rachel
as your first witness?

I sure as hell am.

Gibbs can't call Rachel.
We took care of that.

We took care of her going out of
bounds to get Rachel to turn on you.

We didn't do anything
to stop her calling

Rachel to the stand
and you know it.

Fine. Then I'm
stipulating right now

Rachel's taking the Fifth
to any questions.

Oh, bullshit.
You know as well as I do,

she can't take the Fifth
to personal questions.

So, you're just gonna humiliate
her so you can rattle me.

You're damn right I am.

And Gibbs is going to do
the exact same thing.

She is not going to do that
to Rachel in front of a jury

because it will make
her look like shit.

She doesn't care
about that.

No, you're the one that
doesn't care about that.

'Cause this is no longer about
what's best for my case,

it's because you don't
want to lose to me.

I'm not going
to lose to you.

You know what, Harvey? I am...
DONNA: That's enough.

While you two have been
having your pissing contest,

I've been poring
over discovery

and I came across the class
rankings from Mike's first year.

Don't tell me,
he's not on it.

DONNA: No, he's not.

That doesn't make
any sense.

Yes, it does. Lola must not
have covered all the bases.

Then we need to get her
to cover all the bases.

Are you out of
your mind'?

You go to Lola, you lead
Gibbs right to her,

and this thing is over
before it even gets started.

Okay. Then, we get
Benjamin to do it.

We are not letting another
person in on your secret.

Well, then, what do you
suggest we do?

What we were going
to do with every other

piece of evidence that
makes us look like shit.

We find a way to
make it look like shit.

There is no way that
Harvard accidentally

forgets to put
a student on this list.

I say we go
to Benjamin.

And I say I'll
lock you in a room

until this trial starts
if you say that again.

I guess whoever
wins makes the call.

You go to Benjamin behind
my back before we're done,

and you going to prison is going
to be the least of your problems.

Mike, you look like you've
been through the wringer.

I have to ask you
a question

and I want you to
tell rne the truth.

Well, of course.

Do you really
think I should be

the one up there
fighting for my life

or do you think
Harvey should be?

I think that you're the best
person to make that call.

And that whatever you
decide, I'm with you 100%.

Well, then, I need to ask
Benjamin to do something for us,

and Harvey is really
not gonna like it.

Whatever it is, if you
think we need to do it,

I'm with you.

It's done?

Yes. It won't
hold up forever,

but it will
hold up for now.

Thank you,
Benjamin. I...

I didn't expect it
for a couple of hours.

I haven't had a chance
to get you any bacon.

Well, that's quite all right, Michael.
This one is on the house.

You know, you never asked if what
they're saying about me is true.

I didn't need to.

I knew it was true
the second I heard it.

I don't understand.

All these kids
who went to Harvard,

they never gave
me the time of day.

All they cared about
was letting me know

where they went to
school and I didn't.

You've never
done that to me.

Not one time.

(SIGHS) I don't
know what to say.

Say that when you're clone and
you've beaten this thing,

you won't start acting like some
asshole who went to Harvard.

I can't really promise
you that, Benjamin.

I'll have gone
to Harvard.

That's not funny,
Michael.

Is the prosecution ready
to call its next witness?

The prosecution calls Rachel Zane.
Objection.

Your Honor, the witness
cannot object to testifying

simply because she intends
to take the Fifth.

The witness doesn't have to
testify because she's my wife.

HARVEY: What?

I have a marriage certificate
here from the state of Nevada

showing that the witness and
I were married in Las Vegas,

six weeks after
we started dating.

Both of you,
up here, now.

Where the hell did you get that?
What do you mean?

You didn't marry her
and you know it.

Then, why do I have everything
I need proving I did?

Because you did some
bullshit to get out of this.

Oh, look who's
crying about it now.

Keep your voices down.

You think
this is a joke?

You try this in court, Gibbs is
gonna prove you're not married

and Rachel's going to
go to jail for perjury.

He's right. You better know
what the hell you're doing.

Who said that I was going to
use this in the real trial?

I get it. This is a
fake, just like you.

I said keep your
goddamn voices down.

This is as real as
that affidavit was, okay?

Now, you wanted to rattle me?
I've rattled you.

What are you
going to do about it?

Prosecution calls
Rachel Zane to the stand.

Objection.
We just went over this.

When spousal privilege is
invoked in the moment,

prosecution has the right to challenge
the validity of the marriage.

This is ridiculous.
Objection overruled.

Miss Zane,
take the stand.

We can skip swearing her in, since
she's just gonna lie about it, anyway.

Objection.

Miss Zane, if you got married six
weeks after dating the defendant,

why are you engaged
to him right now?

Because we did it
on a whim.

And we had planned
to have an annulment.

But once we fell
more in love,

we thought that it might be wonderful
to reveal it to our families

after we were
married again.

And how exactly did it go when
you got married the first time?

We were in Las Vegas.

Yeah, yeah, I don't give
a shit where you were.

What color
was your dress?

What color was the cake?
Objection.

Who was there? Were
there any witnesses?

MIKE: Your Honor,
he's badgering her. Come on.

Who were the witnesses?

And what goddamn time was it? MIKE:
Your Honor, get him off her!

JESSICA: Harvey...
HARVEY: Tell me right now.

Let the witness answer.

The dress was white,

and the cake was vanilla with
a butter cream frosting.

It was a small ceremony
at around 10:00 p.m.

And I remember the man who married
us like it was yesterday.

Because it was the most
special day of my life.

And when you came
up with this story,

did Mr. Ross at least
give you the courtesy

of letting you make
up your own memories

of your supposedly
sacred day?

Objection.

Since if he represents
himself at trial,

you won't have a real wedding
for at least two to five years.

Harvey. And I've got
one more question.

Did you vow to remain faithful to Mr.
Ross throughout your marriage?

Yes, I did.

Yeah. Then I guess when you cheated
on him with Logan Sanders,

it means you lied to him at
that non-existent ceremony,

just like you're lying
to all of us right now.

That's enough.

If you want to bring more
outside information

to dispute this
marriage, feel free.

But for right now,
this witness is excused.

(GAVEL BANGS)

Louis, whatever it is, it's
going to have to wait.

No, it's not gonna wait because you
said you'd take care of Gibbs.

I did take care of Gibbs.

Well then why the hell did
someone from her office

contact Sheila
in Argentina?

Louis, they're just
trying to scare you.

And even if she tells
them everything,

you did nothing
wrong with Sheila.

What about what
we did with Mike?

The only proof
they'll ever have

that we knew about
Mike is if we tell them.

And when they ask me,

I'm going to take the Fifth and you
are going to do the same thing.

That is not good enough. I
don't want to take the Fifth.

Excuse me?
You heard me.

You get called first,

you get up there, and you
look them straight in the eye

and you tell them
Mike went to Harvard.

It was your decision to hire
him and you stand by it 100%.

What's going on?

What's going on is that Jessica's
happy asking me to witness tamper,

but when it comes to her
getting on the stand...

Witness tamper? What
did you have him do?

She had me move
Sheila out of the country.

Are you crazy?

Look, I did
what I had to do.

Then why won't you do what
you have to do for me?

Because if I did that, it
would open me up to perjury.

If Mike gets convicted,
what does it matter

if you didn't
perjure yourself?

Both of you, be quiet.
Look who's coming.

Look who it is.
The Three Musketeers.

And we happen to be in
the middle of a meeting.

That's okay. I just dropped
by to let you know

it looks like the trial's
been moved up till tomorrow.

What the hell did
you do?

I went to
the judge and I said,

"Your Honor, I'd like to
start this thing before

"every single witness
I have disappears."

No way she granted
this without us present.

Well, you can
fight it if you want.

We'll wait for Ms. Sazs
to finish her trip.

Oh, Mr. Litt seems
upset about that.

Looks like
the wedge I'm driving

between you is
starting to work.

Your wedge hasn't
done shit.

And I'm gonna tell
you something else.

You put me on
that stand,

and I will look the jury
straight in the eye

and tell them
that Mike Ross

is the best goddamn Harvard-educated
attorney I have ever met.

I hired him.

It was my decision
and I stand by it 100%.

And everyone that comes after
me will say the same thing.

You think
she bought that?

I don't care if she bought it or not.
I wasn't bluffing.

And you and Mike
better figure out

what the hell
you're going to do,

because the trial
starts tomorrow.

What a coincidence running into
you here twice in one week.

You can skip trying
to cheer me up,

because it's not
gonna work.

Rachel.
I don't wanna hear it.

He humiliated me in
front of the entire firm.

DONNA: Yeah, he did.

But you weren't sure if Mike
could handle this or not.

And at least now,
if he can't,

you won't have to be
the one to tell him.

That is so easy
for you to say,

because you have no idea what it
felt like to go through that.

You're wrong. I know exactly
what it feels like.

What are you
talking about?

Try to imagine how he treated
me when I left him for Louis.

Maybe you do know.

Yeah, I do.

And

I also know

that like nobody else, Harvey has
this ability to just shut off, and...

Not see you as
a person anymore.

Well, that ability
makes me sick.

It's also probably
one of the things

that makes him
such a great lawyer.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

What are you doing here?
We got a problem.

You mean besides
what you did today?

Mike, listen to me.

No, you listen to me. That
was over the line and...

The trial starts tomorrow.
What?

No. Gibbs can't
do that.

Technically she can't. But trust me,
we don't have a leg to stand on.

Fine.

Then I'm filing the motion
to be my own attorney.

Mike.
No, I don't want to hear it.

You didn't beat
me. All right?

So, you can be second chair or
no chair, but I am first chair.

Goddamn it, Mike. You don't
know what you're doing.

Do you really think I'm
gonna let you protect me

after what you
did to Rachel today?

I did that to
Rachel for you,

and if you can't see that,
you can't win this trial.

I can and I will.

RACHEL: That's enough.

Rachel, it's fine.
I can handle this.

I don't care. I don't
want you to handle this.

What?

You said you were with me 100%.
Was that a lie?

No. But what Harvey had to
do to me today was brutal.

And whoever ends
up representing you

has to do the same
thing to Trevor.

MIKE: You don't think I can
do the same thing to Trevor?

I know you can.

But I hated Harvey while
he was doing it to me,

and they're going to hate you
while you're doing it to Trevor.

And, Mike, we can't have
the jury hating you.

But we can let
them hate Harvey.

Mr. Evans, is it true that you
were living with Mr. Ross

in and around the time he claims
to have attended Harvard?

Yes, we shared
an apartment

at 5307 Huntington
Boulevard in Brooklyn.

And how exactly
did he pay his rent?

He worked as
a bike messenger

and made money on the side
taking the LSATs for people.

GIBBS: Oh, wait,
I'm confused.

Why would he have
to resort to that

if he were
a college graduate?

Because he wasn't
a college graduate.

What?

You mean he never
graduated from college?

No, he was kicked out of college
for cheating on a test.

Well, isn't it
possible that

while he was
living with you,

he went back to school

and completed his degree?

Well, I don't see how, since
most of his spare time

was spent sitting around
smoking weed with me.

GIBBS: Well, let me
get this straight.

Before he was employed
at Pearson Specter,

to the best of your knowledge,

he worked as
a bike messenger

and a part-time
LSAT imposter?

TREVOR: Yes.

One last question,
Mr. Evans.

Is it at all
possible that Mike Ross

ever attended
Harvard Law School?

Not unless they had
a satellite campus

at 5307 Huntington
Boulevard in Brooklyn.

No more questions,
Your Honor.

Given that you smoked all
this pot, Mr. Evans,

isn't it possible
that if Mike Ross

commuted one day
a week to Harvard Law,

that you might
not remember that?

I'd remember.
Yeah, maybe you would.

But you'd lie
through your teeth

about it anyway,
wouldn't you?

Objection.

Mr. Evans, isn't it true that
you're a long time drug dealer

and your testimony
today is only happening

because you signed a deal with Ms.
Gibbs giving you immunity?

Doesn't mean I'm lying.

HARVEY: Because you wouldn't lie
just to get out of going to prison.

No, I would not.

Well, how about if
the other reason was

to get back at someone you've
been jealous of your entire life?

I've never been jealous of
Mike Ross in my entire life.

And I just
caught you in a lie.

Objection, Your Honor.

Mr. Evans, my next
move is gonna be

to call Jenny
Griffith to the stand.

And she's going to testify that you
lied to her for years about dealing.

And when she found out about it,
she left you for Mike Ross.

Objection, badgering.

She's also gonna say that you were
jealous of his mind your entire life,

and when you found out
that she left you for him,

you were as jealous
as a human being can be.

Now, is that true or not?
Your Honor.

HARVEY: Let me rephrase.

Is Miss Griffith going to be
perjuring herself or are you?

Yeah, I was
jealous of him.

And if he lied
about all of that,

what's to make us believe that he
wasn't lying about everything else?

No further questions,
Your Honor.

Your Honor,
the prosecution calls

Donna Paulsen
to the stand.

Don't worry, Donna.

She won't ask you point blank
if you knew Mike was a fraud.

What if she does?

If you lie,
they'll never know.

Miss Paulsen,
it's my understanding

that you arranged
Mr. Specter's interviews

for the position
currently filled

by Michael Ross.
ls that correct?

I assisted in
the process, yes.

Did you find it
suspicious that Mr. Ross

wasn't listed on the Harvard class
ranking from his first year?

No, I didn't.
GIBBS: And Why is that?

Because I've never been
on any class ranking

and I'm the best legal
secretary in the city.

GIBBS: Well, that's a quippy
response, Miss Paulsen.

But if you were so
good at your job,

how would you
allow someone

who wasn't even on
the interview list

to get in a room
alone with Harvey Specter?

I'm sure you'll
recognize this list.

After all,
you typed it up.

And it looks like his name
isn't on this one either.

No, he wasn't on the list, but he was
smart enough to talk his way in.

Which is what
a good lawyer does

and exactly what
I was looking for.

How exactly did
he talk his way in?

Answer the question,
Miss Paulsen.

He took someone
else's spot.

You mean he said
he was someone else.

You're under oath,
Miss Paulsen.

May I remind you that perjury carries
a sentence of up to five years?

Did he say he was
someone else?

He said
he was Rick Sorkin.

Huh. So, your
first introduction

to Mr. Ross was
as an imposter.

I didn't say that.

You said he lied
about what his name was.

That makes him
an imposter.

Are you going to
recant your testimony?

Don't look at him.

No, I am not
recanting.

All right.

So, now, we've established
that Mr. Ross is a liar.

And now, we're gonna find
out if you are a liar.

So, Miss Paulsen,

to the best of
your knowledge,

did Mike Ross go to Harvard
Law School or not?

I'd like to assert my
Fifth Amendment right.

(SPECTATORS MURMURING)

GIBBS: Don't feel bad,
Miss Paulsen.

I'm sure others will
do the same thing, too.

Because the defense

cannot produce
one person

who can place Mike
Ross at Harvard Law.

The witness could be
excused, Your Honor.

I think we've heard
all we need to hear.

Defense would like to call
Jimmy Kirkwood to the stand.

GIBBS: Objection. His name
was not on the witness list.

HARVEY: Rebuttal witness.

She just said we can't
produce someone

who places Mike at
Harvard and I say we can.

Your Honor...

Mr. Specter is
within his rights.

Mr. Kirkwood can
take the stand.

How did you know
he'd testify?

I didn't until
just now.

JIMMY: Well, when I first
met Mike, I thought,

"Who is this asshole who only
ever shows up for tests?“

Cockiest son of
a bitch I ever saw.

But then, I really
got to know Mike

when we were arguing over an ethics
question in Professor Gerard's class.

"Should a lawyer who has crossed a
line be given a second chance?"

I didn't think So,
but Mike did.

And that's when I realized
that Mike Ross

has more integrity and
compassion in his little finger

than any other
lawyer I've ever met.

And if I was on
trial for my life,

there's no one I'd
rather have on my side

than my fellow Harvard
alum, Mike Ross.

Just so we're
100% clear.

Was Mike Ross a student at
Harvard Law School with you?

Yes, he was.

No further questions,
Your Honor.

Now, we've
heard enough.

Miss Gibbs, I'll give you
24 hours to prepare for cross.

Well, I don’t need
24 hours, Your Honor.

Mr. Kirkwood, isn't it
true that two days ago,

Mr. Ross contacted you on the
street outside of your office

and the two of you got
into a heated argument?

I have the pictures. Would
you like to see them?

Yes, it's true.

And isn't it also
true that Mike Ross

got your aunt a large
settlement several months ago

and if he gets convicted,
it's likely that

that settlement
gets overturned?

Objection, calls
for speculation.

He's a Harvard lawyer. He's
qualified to speculate.

JUDGE: Overruled.
No, you're right.

It will probably
get overturned.

But if you think that's
why I said what I said,

then obviously
you don't know me.

So, Trevor Evans could lie
because he's jealous,

but you wouldn't
lie for your aunt?

I'm not lying
for my aunt.

But you are lying.

Because a person who's
telling the truth

wouldn't say
they're lying at all.

Objection,
testifying.

Your Honor, I've had
enough of this witness.

He's excused.

And the prosecution
rests.

Donna.

Come in.

What can I do
for you?

I'm actually here
to see Mike.

Mike's not here. He went
to go and see Harvey.

(SIGHS)

Look.
ls this about...

It is about
today.

Donna,I...

You know, I always talk
like nothing can get to me.

Well, it did today.

I crumbled up there
and I hurt Mike's case.

And I'm ashamed of myself and
I don't know what to do.

Okay.

Here's what you're
going to do. It's okay.

You are going to
sit down with me,

and have a glass
of wine and relax.

(SIGHS) Because
juries aren't stupid,

and they aren't allowed to infer
anything from what you said,

so they won't.

Harvey, I gotta tell
you, I think we got 'em.

Mike, sit down.

What's going on?
(SIGHS)

We had a good day,
but it wasn't enough.

What are you
talking about?

Jimmy came through.
Mike...

Look, I know she landed
a punch with him...

And I'm telling you,
he wasn't enough.

Harvey, all we need
is reasonable doubt.

And if I was on that
jury, I wouldn't have it

I'd find you guilty.

(EXHALES)

That's great. So, you
just called me over here

to make me wanna
kill myself?

I called you here because
this is not about doubt

We need to give them a
reason to wanna let you go.

And how exactly
are we gonna do that?

By doing what you wanted
to do in the first place.

No. Now?

Are you kidding me?

It's the only
way to get you

to testify without
taking the stand.

And you said if we had to,
we'd put me on the stand.

And you were right. She's
too good at crossing.

Well, it's a great idea, Harvey.
I wish I'd had it.

The only problem is,
they're not gonna let me

change my goddamn lawyer
in the middle of a trial.

And I'm telling you we need to
figure out a way to make them.

Because if we don't,

we're gonna lose.

You're not allowed
to talk to me.

That's true.

But if you don't tell anyone,
then no one's gonna know.

And I don't think you're
gonna wanna tell anyone.

Okay. What do you want?

I have to admit that until
you got rid of Sheila,

I honestly thought you weren't
part of this whole thing.

But then I did
a little checking.

And I think I can
pinpoint the exact day

you found out
about Mike Ross.

I'm calling Jessica.

They let you resign,

you found out about Mike, and you
used it to return as a name partner.

And you know what that
makes me think about you?

You're resourceful,
maybe a little sleazy,

but you didn't hire that
Kid in the first place.

I'm not turning
on my partners.

You had to blackmail them
to get what you deserve.

That's got to
stick in your craw.

I will go, Louis.

But you know what
else I found out

when I was
looking into you?

You like the ballet.

You like to go
mudding.

You enjoy the creature
comforts in life,

but they don't have comforts
like that in prison.

Look, they're going to lose this trial.
You know it,

I know it,
and they know it.

You have one last chance
to save yourself.

Think about it.

And call me
before it's too late.