The Good Wife (2009–2016): Season 2, Episode 15 - Silver Bullet - full transcript
Diane defends her erstwhile love interest, Kurt McVeigh, when he faces a law suit from a convicted criminal who has now been released when his lawyer shows the police and the crime lab ...
No.
Let me try that again. No.
You're so cute when you're being
emphatic. Your brow gets all...
- And the keyword here is "emphatic."
- Mom said yes.
Because Mom likes to make me
the mean divorced dad. I say no.
- Why?
- Why do I say no?
I do not want some Palestinian version
of yourself blowing you up.
Dad, it's a kibbutz.
Unless one of the tractors blows up,
I'm gonna be fine.
And do you know
how hypocritical this is?
You always pushed me
towards religion.
Of course, I know
how hypocritical this is.
I'm a parent. It's my prerogative.
And now I have to go
and save a campaign.
- We having dinner on Thursday night?
- Unless you back out.
You look happy.
Are you seeing someone?
Yes.
My pollster.
I'm the pollster.
I'm the daughter. Bye.
Uh, she's 18.
I didn't say anything.
Is it good?
It's a silver bullet.
Wendy Scott-Carr, the untouchable
candidate, just became touchable.
What's her name?
Natalie Flores.
A student at DePaul in economics.
- How long was she with Wendy?
- Five years.
Judge Adler
was doing her usual vetting,
and Wendy Scott-Carr
tried to hide everything about her.
Flores' address.
Well, I'll just go
and complete the vetting.
You, uh, might get
to the candidate's wife first.
This hits, the press will go right
to her for comment.
Alicia won't help.
As long as she doesn't hurt.
No. I don't want a debate on it.
Just fix it.
And don't look to Derrick.
BP is all our concern now.
Get me citings by 5.
Alicia, you sit with them.
You're doing a great job on Cowley.
Okay?
- Just got off with her. Got any more...
- We've got a problem.
She's on to us.
I'll call back.
She's on to us. Who's on to us?
The way she's dealing with
the equity partners.
The way she's isolating my people.
She's gearing up for a fight.
- Get the judge back on the phone.
- You think I'm wrong.
I think I am surrounded
by paranoid people.
I calmed the waters.
I stopped her defection.
Diane is behaving as any other
name partner would, as you should.
I think I made a mistake
firing one of my people.
I lost one of my votes.
I'm gonna hire him back.
You gotta do what you gotta do.
Look,
I don't give a damn who's wrong.
Kalinda, you sit with them.
- Where is Blake?
- Uh, I heard he's out sick.
Okay, you sit with them,
help them prepare questioning.
Because, honestly,
what I give a damn about is...
Is...
What I give a damn about...
Uh, it's just...
It's not... It's not just, uh...
It's just...
One minute.
- Hello.
- Hey.
Been a while.
Yes, quite a while.
Where have you been?
Here, there.
- You?
- Here.
I need your help.
Ms. Clinton seems to be doing
quite well for herself.
Yes. So is your girl, Palin.
- 2012, huh?
- That's the hope.
Ha. Dear God.
Couldn't be worse than your man,
Barack.
Really? I'm always astounded
when a man like you expresses
such unadulterated drivel.
Funny, I'm never astounded
when you do.
I'm being sued for $36 million.
- See if Will will take my 11:00.
- Thank you.
I'm just listening, that's all.
- Who's suing you?
- Jason Beltran.
- You know who that is?
- I do.
He just had his life sentence
overturned?
He did. A mistake was made
at the Cook County crime lab
and that's why he was freed.
He was freed because he was
innocent and the cops set him up.
He was freed because a crime lab tech
made a mistake.
- Manufactured evidence.
- Misrepresented facts.
Lied under oath.
Anyway, I didn't lie under oath
and I didn't manufacture evidence.
But my trial testimony
supported the lab tech's findings.
Now, Mr. Beltran shot and killed
a police officer
during the commission of
a bank robbery.
My ballistics testimony
helped convict him.
That's why he's coming after me.
Beltran says he was an innocent
bystander at the bank,
and the cops came after him
because he was black.
He's lying.
I have to think about it.
Now, Kurt,
our firm benefited from this
Cook County crime lab malfeasance.
We had two criminal cases
overturned.
So I need to think about it.
It's not a brush-off.
You should have called me.
When you got back from your case
in Florida.
You're right, I should've.
I'm sorry.
Hey. Bond thinks you're on to him,
so can you stop showing so much
intensity in the staff meetings please?
Diane?
What?
You look happy.
I am happy.
I've decided I'm good at my job.
You are good at your job.
I've always said it.
What is it?
We have a silver bullet.
Something that will destroy
Wendy Scott-Carr.
But when we fire it,
the press will come for you.
- And I will send them to you.
- No, it's not what you're thinking.
Later today, I'm meeting with a woman
named Natalie Flores
who worked for five years
as Wendy Scott-Carr's nanny.
- That's your silver bullet?
- Yes.
She had a nanny?
It's never the big things
that bring politicians down.
She is an illegal alien.
Wendy wants to be state's attorney,
and for five years, she broke the law.
And not just any law.
People do not like illegal aliens.
And why would the press come
to me?
You were a stay-at-home mom.
Isn't it great?
You were June Cleaver.
For 15 years, you raised the kids.
No nannies, no illegal aliens.
You're as American as apple pie.
I'm so glad those 15 years
weren't wasted.
Yeah. Don't say anything like that
to the press, okay?
You're the good mom.
My staff will send over
some brownie recipes.
Hey, Mom, pick up the phone.
Hey, Mom, pick up the phone.
Well, I have to go
and do some good mothering now.
Grace.
You need a what?
A T-shirt.
It's not my fault, Mom.
The school is fascist.
They won't let me go back to class
unless I change my T-shirt.
- Hello.
- Hmm.
Tommy. What a surprise.
- Would you like to sit down?
- No, no.
I'd like you to know
that Kurt McVeigh is the enemy.
So imagine my surprise when
I discovered who's representing him.
Your information is premature.
- I haven't decided yet.
- Good. Good.
Then let me help you out.
The cops set up Jason Beltran.
They got the crime lab
to fake the evidence
and got your ballistics expert
to change his testimony.
Why are you suing, Tommy?
He's free.
- Your client is free.
- To teach the authorities a lesson.
I get a big award from McVeigh,
that'll scare the state attorney
into settling.
We've worked
on a lot of cases together, Diane.
The grocers' union,
the Houston squatters.
This goes against everything
you stand for.
You don't know everything
I stand for.
They wanna use you, Diane,
a known and respected liberal.
They wanna put a pretty face on
a racist defense. Don't you see that?
You know what?
Thanks for helping me decide.
I'll see you in court.
You're gonna lose a lot of friends
over this one.
They weren't friends to begin with.
- I'll go after you hard.
- Looking forward to it.
Do your worst.
Goodbye.
- I'm sorry. It's what?
- The saying. It's not allowed.
- It's a Christian saying, right?
- It doesn't matter.
We've restricted all sayings
on shirts.
Uh, don't think you'll have a problem
with the First Amendment?
A month ago, some kids wore
pro-gay T-shirts to school.
Then other kids wore anti-gay shirts.
This is not about the First Amendment.
I understand
you have some issues here, ma'am,
but you don't just circumvent
those issues
by infringing on my daughter's rights.
You open yourself up to a lawsuit.
My firm is fighting a case like this
and...
I'm s... I'm sorry, I just can't... I just...
You have no idea how hard it is.
Everyone is threatening me.
Everyone is threatening to sue.
You should sue.
It's the First Amendment.
So are we Christians now?
No. They weren't letting Shannon
wear it, so I decided to wear it too.
Can you go to school
and get an education please?
- On my way.
- What if this were a different time
and they wouldn't let kids
wear Martin Luther King shirts?
I'll be right there.
What Martin Luther King shirts?
Grace, honey,
I know you want a cause,
- but this isn't your cause.
- Why not?
Because Christians are in no danger
of becoming a minority class.
We'll talk. I gotta go to work.
Go to school.
I need you to help Diane
with this lawsuit.
He just got dropped by his insurance
and he's pushing for a quick trial.
My only worry is that Diane
will lose her perspective on this one.
- And you want me to?
- Keep that perspective.
- Okay.
- How are you doing?
I...
- Never better.
- Good.
Clearly the most complicated
crime scene of the year.
Five hundred rounds fired,
over 55 weapons,
a shootout that lasted three minutes,
one police officer killed,
- four bank robbers...
- Five.
Four bank robbers were killed
at the crime scene,
and a suspected fifth, Jason Beltran,
was arrested.
I feel like I'm being handled here.
We intend to pursue the same strategy
as your insurance company.
- Which was?
- You made a mistake.
- What mistake?
- Strategically,
the only way we win the suit
is to admit to an honest mistake.
They need to prove
collusion between you and the lab.
They need to prove that you wanted
to get Beltran, and they can't.
What they can do
is play off your ego.
It's well-known you only take cases
you believe are true.
They'll try to show that you skew
the evidence to make the case true.
- Ms. Sharma, call for you.
- Who is it?
He wouldn't say.
He said you'd know what it's regarding.
Um, just take a number
and I'll call back.
I understand that you have to fight
the best case, not the truest case.
But why isn't my strongest defense
that there was no mistake?
Because the court has determined
that Beltran was wrongly convicted.
And we can't re-fight that.
That's why I need you
to swallow your pride so we can win.
I determined the direction
and the caliber
of the bullet that killed Officer Walter,
that's all.
I can't lie on the stand about a mistake
that doesn't exist.
It's just...
Thank you.
- Find his mistake.
- And if there isn't one?
He supported the lab tech.
There has to be one.
- Will wants you on this?
- Yeah.
Okay. Help Kalinda.
He didn't wanna leave a message.
He said he'd try later.
- Okay.
- Anything you wanna share?
No.
- You're the mustard seed?
- You have a problem with that?
- Ms. Flores?
- Is it time?
Is it...?
Oh, no. Uh, um, I'm Mr. Gold.
We talked on the phone.
- Victoria Adler referred me.
- Oh, yeah, uh, Vicki.
I just have to get this trade off.
- The stock market?
- Shenzhen Exchange. It just opened.
Oh, no, no, no, don't do that.
Come on, come on, come on. Yes.
My senior project.
I'm trying to prove that the next great
financial bubble is in pharmaceuticals.
Foreign money flooding into CDOs
based on FDA clearances
of drug studies.
Don't worry, I'm a nanny too.
But if you want,
I can manage your money.
Oh, I...
I'm joking.
And...
I just shorted MRG.
Okay, uh, Mr. Gold,
uh, what can I do for you?
Well, as I said on the phone,
I have two children.
- Ages?
- Six and eight.
- Names?
- Peter and Alicia.
And you want tutoring too?
l... No.
Yeah, I guess, if that's possible.
It would have to work
around my graduate degree.
Oh, I understand.
Can I ask you about
your most recent employment?
You can. I worked for the same family
for the last five years.
- Two daughters.
- Okay.
And, um...
Pfft. I hate to have to ask you this,
but, uh, you know...
Um, it's okay.
Vicki said that I could talk to you.
Um, I was born in Nayarit, Mexico.
My parents came here when I was 2.
But I am working with a lawyer
on my citizenship.
All I've ever known is America.
Could I have the lawyer's name?
Just to check details.
Sure, um...
He says it could be a year
before I get my citizenship,
but, um, I will let him know
that you're calling.
Give me a call, Mr. Gold.
I'm very good with kids.
Oh, I don't doubt that for a second,
Ms. Flores.
Oh, and good luck with your thesis.
I did mine on the savings and loan
meltdown,
- a long time a...
- 1986.
You were an economics major?
I was. Many a moon ago.
Do you miss it?
Uh, economics? No, no.
It was too messy for me.
So you went into?
Party planning.
I would think that party planning
could get pretty darn messy.
It depends on the party.
Uh, anyway, I gotta go.
- The center camera?
- Bank robbers shot it out,
so I synced up
the two outlying cameras.
So the front of the bank is here?
Oh, come on.
Will you two just bury the hatchet?
What hatchet? I was considering
Mrs. Florrick's fine question.
Look, Childs wants me
to show you guys everything
because Beltran's lawyers
are coming after us next.
So yes.
The bank was here, Mrs. Florrick.
It was well-organized.
They had assault weapons.
They tried to make off with $800,000.
Now, there's Beltran.
And there's Officer Walter.
Twelve-year veteran, father of five.
Here it comes.
The bullet went through his body.
McVeigh discovered the 9 mm bullet
fragment there, on the facing wall.
He determined from direction of fire
that only Beltran could have fired it.
So either you're looking
at an innocent man
or someone who just got away
with murder.
Think of ballistics
as both a science and an art.
See, that's what I say to a jury first.
They love it when I compare it
to something they know.
You see, an artist
works with paints and brushes.
A ballistics expert works
with direction and metal. Bullets.
You see, it's not so simple.
Over 500 rounds.
Most crime scenes,
they are two rounds, five rounds.
What have you. Not so hard.
You disagree.
- I just need to get some air.
- No, you think I'm unworthy of you.
I think you have a gimmick.
I think you play up the whole
ancient-Chinese-wisdom thing
- to deflect from your lack of ability.
- Okay, I don't think that...
My lack of ability
is willing to help you.
Do you not want my help?
We want your help.
Hey, Jimmy Patrick back with you.
With my main man, J. T.,
behind the camera.
We are the mustard seeds.
Deal with it.
Hey, time to get real here.
Because Jesus didn't come
to bring peace.
He came to bring a sword.
Jesus says, "For I came
to set a man against his father
and a daughter against her mother.
He who loves mother and father
more than me
- is not worthy."
- Amen!
Last week I told you that Jesus
is not a Republican or a Democrat.
He hates global warming.
He hates polluters.
Jesus doesn't want you
to stay off drugs or get an A.
He could give a crap.
He's the first rebel.
He wants you
to question your parents.
He wants you to get in the face
of authority.
He wants anarchy.
Okay, thank you. Bye.
Was that her lawyer?
- Natalie's lawyer, yes.
- And?
He's toying with her.
It's a citizenship mill.
- He's trying to make money out of her.
- But that's good.
I mean, it's better for the story
if she's not a citizen.
- She'll be deported.
- Right, back to Mexico. And?
You're right.
Do the polling. Get it ready.
They'll put you on the stand first
because they wanna play on your ego.
They want you
to defend your findings.
Just allow for doubt
in your investigations, that's all.
You don't have to say
you were wrong.
Just say there was an 80 percent
probability or something like that.
I know this is hard.
You wanna fire it?
I was a pretty good shot.
Fire it.
No.
Why is there this attraction to guns?
Hmm?
I don't understand it.
It's an Austrian bullpup
5.56-millimeter assault rifle.
Here, try it.
It's just so base.
Now brace it against your shoulder.
It's a two-stage trigger.
Half for semiautomatic,
full for automatic.
I can't sleep with you.
Okay.
I'm your lawyer. It's unethical.
What's that piece of paper?
- The retainer agreement.
- I haven't signed it. Not yet.
Ms. Lockhart.
- The retainer.
- Oh. Uh, did you sign it?
Not yet.
Have you ever met my client,
Mr. Jason Beltran?
No. I saw him in court,
but that's about it.
At his criminal trial
that's since been overturned.
To be accurate,
I believe the verdict was vacated
and the state's attorney declined
to re-prosecute.
You don't agree
with vacating that sentence?
No. I think that the legal process
was probably just.
Because of this woman?
If that's Rosalie Torrance, yes.
- Right.
- Then you've never met her?
The lab tech that falsified evidence
against my client?
No. I talked to her on the phone.
But you know she accidentally
destroyed forensic evidence
collected at the crime scene
and then later falsified it
- to frame my client?
- I know that.
And I do know that she's being
prosecuted for those falsifications.
And isn't it true
that when she called you
to tell you about her findings,
you changed your own findings?
- No.
- No?
- Why did you change your findings?
- Objection.
Huh?
- On what grounds?
- Argumentative.
Because Mr. McVeigh was asked
whether he changed his findings,
but that has not yet been determined
by the facts.
Uh-huh, I see. Sustained.
But you originally concluded
that my client did not fire the gun.
Isn't that correct, Mr. McVeigh?
No. I try to avoid early conclusions.
In all my investigations,
there is an element of doubt.
I'm only 80 percent sure of anything.
Mr. McVeigh,
are you a member of the Tea Party?
Objection.
Your Honor, it is our contention
that my client's prosecution was racist.
We believe that Mr. McVeigh's
membership in a racist organization...
Oh, come on. The Tea Party is racist?
Let Mrs. Lockhart argue
the opposite.
Ms. Lockhart.
- Yeah. What did I say?
- Missus.
My apologies. I was confused.
Your Honor?
I'm thinking.
Overruled. Proceed.
Is that a photo of you
at a Tea Party rally
in Milwaukee last January?
- Yes, it is.
- Would you read to us
the sign that man is holding
next to you?
Your Honor,
my client is not holding that sign,
and I would contest
that he is next to him.
I think, uh, the jury can see that,
Mrs. Lockhart.
- That sign?
- Mm-hm.
It appears to read,
"Go back to the jungle."
And that refers
to our current president?
I can't say that for certain.
I assume that's correct.
How many African-Americans have
you testified against, Mr. McVeigh?
- How many accused?
- Yeah.
I can't speak accurately to that.
Oh, well, I can.
Eighty-nine. Would you believe that?
I would believe that.
And how many white accused
have you testified against?
My guess is that it would be less.
It is less. Twenty-two.
An even 22.
So I would guess
that my client never had a chance.
Objection, Your Honor.
Your Honor?
I heard you.
Sustained.
- You need to talk to the nanny again.
- Why?
There's sympathy for Wendy needing
a nanny among women 18 to 49.
Then we can't use it.
No, we can use it,
but we need to find out
if Wendy fired the nanny
because of the campaign.
Voters lose sympathy
if she fired her for political reasons.
- See?
- Mm-hm.
That's the silver bullet.
It's always the same.
It's not the act, it's the cover-up.
You need to go back to the nanny
and find out why she was let go.
I'll go ask.
Mr. McVeigh,
- tell me about the Tea Party.
- It's a political movement
made up of conservatives
and libertarians
intending to apply pressure
to the government to reduce spending.
Is it racist?
- No.
- Are there racists
- and extremists within it?
- Yes.
Are there racists and extremists
within the Democratic Party?
- Objection. Relevance.
- I'm sorry. What?
The question
of whether there are racists
in the Democratic Party
is not relevant, Your Honor.
Sustained.
But I, uh...
Yeah, okay. Go ahead.
Why do you belong to the Tea Party?
I think the government
is encroaching too much into my life.
Isn't the Tea Party primarily
anti-Obama?
- No.
- Then why wasn't it formed
under George W. Bush?
There was hope that President Bush
would cut spending.
Really?
I would acknowledge that it
was a slim hope and a thwarted hope.
But the Tea Party
is not about Obama.
It's about putting pressure
on both parties to reduce.
Because we're being bankrupted?
- Yes.
- That's all, Your Honor.
Well, I think that worked.
I mean, it was painful, but it worked.
What's wrong?
Go away.
But she hasn't lost perspective?
No. She's fighting harder.
Unfortunately,
I need her to fight harder at work too.
Why do you hate Jesus?
I don't hate Jesus.
I think Jesus is someone
who lived 2,000 years ago
and has very little to do with me.
I think you either hate Jesus
or you love him.
I don't think there's an in-between.
And why do you need wine
to discuss this?
I don't need wine.
I like wine.
I like a glass of wine after work.
You talk to me all the time
about drugs.
Wine is a drug.
- Very adult.
- Yup. Over 21. That's me.
- You treat me like a kid.
- You are a kid.
- I'm not thinking like a kid.
- So you're a mustard seed?
I think Jesus is someone
I wanna know more about.
I think science isn't taking prayer
seriously enough.
I think global warming is real,
and I don't think believing in Jesus
means believing global warming
doesn't exist.
Just taking another hit
off the crack pipe.
- I liked it more when you didn't work.
- Okay, that's enough.
I'm not not going to work.
What is this about? Shannon?
Why does this have to be
about Shannon?
I'm a thinking person.
I'm thinking about Jesus, okay?
- So you're becoming a Christian?
- No.
I don't know.
I just don't like the way
that you smirk at it.
I don't think I do smirk at it.
I just can't figure out when one cause
begins with you and another ends.
Jesus is not a cause.
He's the source of causes.
Okay.
You're rebelling.
That's what this is about.
So when you can figure out
what it is you believe in,
let me know and we'll talk. Okay?
Well, Jesus was the first rebel.
Well, then maybe Jesus
can pay the rent every month.
Consider the lilies of the field.
They neither toil...
- Yeah?
- All right,
you're not gonna like this.
A month
before the bank robbery shootout,
there was this attempted
suicide by cop.
A bank customer took a shot at a cop
to try and get the cop to kill him.
Uh, hang on, Cary.
That man, he's calling again.
Tell him this:
If he leaves me a number,
I'll call him back.
And if he doesn't leave me a number,
then I won't call him back.
- Yeah.
- The cop didn't return fire.
That's why he didn't report it.
I only found out about it
when something seemed weird
about this 9-millimeter shell fragment.
McVeigh included this
9-mm shell fragment in his analysis.
Thought it was part of the bullet
that went through the officer.
- So he screwed up?
- Yeah.
Now, on the bright side,
it wasn't his screwup.
He was never told
of this attempted suicide by cop.
Thanks, but I don't think this is a guy
who can deal with the bright side.
See you.
His number.
Hey.
We found your mistake.
The 9-millimeter fragment
you found?
It was from an earlier crime.
So, what are we shorting today?
A new biomed IPO out of Boston.
I wanna talk to you.
And I have a few questions
for you too.
Natalie?
Is everything okay?
What are you really after?
- What am I?
- You don't want a nanny.
Why would you say that?
You called my lawyer
and you scared him.
He says now he's serious about
working on my citizenship.
I thought he was serious before.
He says now it's gonna take
two months, not a year.
I felt he was cheating you.
And I called him and I told him
that he should not cheat you.
And I told him
that he should not tell you I called.
Yes. Well, he doesn't seem
quite trustworthy.
So, what is it you want from me?
I don't know.
I have a boyfriend.
Or I had a boyfriend.
He joined a circus.
A Cirque du Soleil circus.
He's a contortionist.
Uh, he's a French-Canadian
contortionist.
He gets very angry when
I laugh at him.
But, um...
Thank you for helping me.
But l... You know,
I'm in a very precarious position.
- I can't...
- No, no. I don't...
Would you wait just one moment?
Hello?
Oh, yeah?
Yeah. Uh, no, no, don't worry.
Next time. Okay.
- You have to go?
- No, no, I...
Someone is canceling dinner plans.
Look, I get it, uh...
You have a boyfriend
and I am much older than you.
And I have a dinner reservation
that I really should cancel.
And I know I can't...
Sorry, that was me trying to do
a contortionist thing.
Yeah?
It's a downloaded file, right?
The DVD you made
for the Beltran case,
the DVD the cops gave to McVeigh.
It's from a digital file.
Uh, yeah, I guess. Why?
Can you get me the original analogue
surveillance footage?
It's late, Kalinda.
Why would I do that?
Because a compressed file
drops frames.
And I need to see every frame.
- Thank you for coming.
- Why wouldn't I?
You're young.
Ha, ha, yup.
The future.
I want to understand the young.
You talk like a newspaper.
That's the worst thing to be,
someone who talks like a newspaper?
- Well, it's not good.
- Hello there.
Well, hello, Marissa.
I thought you couldn't make it.
Change of plans, Dad.
How are you?
I'm Natalie.
- Hi, Natalie.
- Hi.
So you're the reason
my dad sounds so happy.
- Marissa.
- Yeah, I guess I am.
And how old are you?
I'm young. I'm, oh, so young.
And how old are you?
I'm so going to Israel.
Join us?
We could get another chair...
Oh, no. I'll let you two eat in peace.
Love you, Dad.
- Don't forget protection.
- Oh.
- Well, wasn't that fun?
- Yup.
So is that your 6-year-old?
- Sorry.
- No.
I Googled you after you left.
You work for Peter Florrick.
And my old boss
is Wendy Scott-Carr.
And your questions
about me being a nanny,
those are for this campaign,
not party planning.
Yes.
What I don't understand is
why would you pressure my lawyer
into helping me
if the whole point was to expose me?
Because I'm a hypocrite.
It would have been nice
if you were a party planner.
I really liked the idea of that.
You don't have to go.
All right, so that's the original.
What are you looking for?
What?
There.
- A ricochet.
- How did I miss it?
The police gave you a copy
of the surveillance tape
from a compressed file.
A truck was passing behind the
police officer and a ricochet is visible.
You had the right conclusion,
but the wrong bullet.
A ricochet to where?
I don't know.
I thought you could find out.
When this is over, let's go away.
Away? What? To where?
Costa Rica?
I like it.
No, I can't do that.
- You can.
- What...? No. I mean, not now.
I have a fight at work.
I can't give up on it.
If we don't do it now, we never will.
And, uh, what would we do?
Make a life. Put our lives first.
Well, is that a proposal?
I would like to go away for a while
with you.
If it sounds better as a proposal,
then it's a proposal.
That is a gunshot.
It distorts all sound around it.
Now imagine 500.
And then this is what is surprising:
Through all that...
Your Honor,
may I see the new evidence?
Of course. Uh, sheriff.
Through all that,
Mr. McVeigh could determine
the entry wound was 9 millimeters.
You're holding the bullet
that was just discovered yesterday?
DR. HUANG:
Yes, 9 millimeters.
It ricocheted off passing truck.
And where was it discovered?
In dry wall. Covered in new plaster.
And this bullet was determined to have
been fired from Mr. Beltran's position?
DR. HUANG
Yes.
Only direction it could be fired from.
Excuse my accent.
When I get passionate,
my accent comes out more.
No. You drop the case.
- That won't happen.
- It will happen.
Your client is lucky
he's not back in prison.
It's not luck, it's the Bill of Rights.
Double jeopardy.
So he should count himself lucky,
go home and watch TV,
because he pushes this trial,
he's not only gonna lose,
he's gonna have the police
making his life hell.
Wanna say that again
so I can get that on tape?
No, I wanna say it again
so you understand my words. You lost.
Beltran is guilty. And he's not gonna
make any money from this.
I will make it my life's work to keep him
from making money from this.
Do you understand me?
This is not the Diane I know.
You're right about that.
Nice to meet you.
It's out.
- I see that.
- It's even better.
She took a friend's Social Security
number to get into school.
Wendy might have helped her.
That is awesome.
It was the right thing to do, Eli.
I'll go crack open the champagne.
Nice.
Oh, yes.
A hobbled Wendy Scott-Carr
can clearly revive the lagging
campaign prospects of Peter Florrick.
The once-incorruptible image
of the populist saint
hell-bent on cleaning house
has given way...
What do you want?
What do you mean?
Religion.
What do you want from me?
Um, you and Dad
don't go to church.
I don't go to church.
Dad has Pastor Isaiah.
Yeah, but I wanna go to church.
Okay. Which one?
Um, I don't know.
I wanna help you here, Grace.
But this is a new area for me.
And I don't know
why it makes me uncomfortable,
but it makes me uncomfortable.
It's because of your generation.
Okay, maybe.
Do you want me to drive you
to church on Sunday?
Okay. Sure.
Okay. You pick a church
and I will take you.
And here.
I thought if you're gonna be serious
about it, you should read up.
I'm going to bed.
After I score some crack.
- Are you sure?
- Yes.
I can't leave here now.
- Then you'll never leave here.
- Maybe.
But I made that decision
a long time ago.
Come on.
Let's go.
Then I have to go.
Kurt.
Palin, 2012.
You're my hero.
We need all the equity partners there.
Everybody on the same page.
Mm-hm.
- Hello, Diane.
- Derrick.
We were talking about
the equity partners getting together.
Nothing important.
Just the usual housecleaning.
Good. I think that's a good idea.
Then next week?
- You're all right with next week?
- I am.
I'm here.
Good.
Then I'll send out notices.
We'll go over the financials,
new clients,
discuss the general direction
for the next quarter.
Let me try that again. No.
You're so cute when you're being
emphatic. Your brow gets all...
- And the keyword here is "emphatic."
- Mom said yes.
Because Mom likes to make me
the mean divorced dad. I say no.
- Why?
- Why do I say no?
I do not want some Palestinian version
of yourself blowing you up.
Dad, it's a kibbutz.
Unless one of the tractors blows up,
I'm gonna be fine.
And do you know
how hypocritical this is?
You always pushed me
towards religion.
Of course, I know
how hypocritical this is.
I'm a parent. It's my prerogative.
And now I have to go
and save a campaign.
- We having dinner on Thursday night?
- Unless you back out.
You look happy.
Are you seeing someone?
Yes.
My pollster.
I'm the pollster.
I'm the daughter. Bye.
Uh, she's 18.
I didn't say anything.
Is it good?
It's a silver bullet.
Wendy Scott-Carr, the untouchable
candidate, just became touchable.
What's her name?
Natalie Flores.
A student at DePaul in economics.
- How long was she with Wendy?
- Five years.
Judge Adler
was doing her usual vetting,
and Wendy Scott-Carr
tried to hide everything about her.
Flores' address.
Well, I'll just go
and complete the vetting.
You, uh, might get
to the candidate's wife first.
This hits, the press will go right
to her for comment.
Alicia won't help.
As long as she doesn't hurt.
No. I don't want a debate on it.
Just fix it.
And don't look to Derrick.
BP is all our concern now.
Get me citings by 5.
Alicia, you sit with them.
You're doing a great job on Cowley.
Okay?
- Just got off with her. Got any more...
- We've got a problem.
She's on to us.
I'll call back.
She's on to us. Who's on to us?
The way she's dealing with
the equity partners.
The way she's isolating my people.
She's gearing up for a fight.
- Get the judge back on the phone.
- You think I'm wrong.
I think I am surrounded
by paranoid people.
I calmed the waters.
I stopped her defection.
Diane is behaving as any other
name partner would, as you should.
I think I made a mistake
firing one of my people.
I lost one of my votes.
I'm gonna hire him back.
You gotta do what you gotta do.
Look,
I don't give a damn who's wrong.
Kalinda, you sit with them.
- Where is Blake?
- Uh, I heard he's out sick.
Okay, you sit with them,
help them prepare questioning.
Because, honestly,
what I give a damn about is...
Is...
What I give a damn about...
Uh, it's just...
It's not... It's not just, uh...
It's just...
One minute.
- Hello.
- Hey.
Been a while.
Yes, quite a while.
Where have you been?
Here, there.
- You?
- Here.
I need your help.
Ms. Clinton seems to be doing
quite well for herself.
Yes. So is your girl, Palin.
- 2012, huh?
- That's the hope.
Ha. Dear God.
Couldn't be worse than your man,
Barack.
Really? I'm always astounded
when a man like you expresses
such unadulterated drivel.
Funny, I'm never astounded
when you do.
I'm being sued for $36 million.
- See if Will will take my 11:00.
- Thank you.
I'm just listening, that's all.
- Who's suing you?
- Jason Beltran.
- You know who that is?
- I do.
He just had his life sentence
overturned?
He did. A mistake was made
at the Cook County crime lab
and that's why he was freed.
He was freed because he was
innocent and the cops set him up.
He was freed because a crime lab tech
made a mistake.
- Manufactured evidence.
- Misrepresented facts.
Lied under oath.
Anyway, I didn't lie under oath
and I didn't manufacture evidence.
But my trial testimony
supported the lab tech's findings.
Now, Mr. Beltran shot and killed
a police officer
during the commission of
a bank robbery.
My ballistics testimony
helped convict him.
That's why he's coming after me.
Beltran says he was an innocent
bystander at the bank,
and the cops came after him
because he was black.
He's lying.
I have to think about it.
Now, Kurt,
our firm benefited from this
Cook County crime lab malfeasance.
We had two criminal cases
overturned.
So I need to think about it.
It's not a brush-off.
You should have called me.
When you got back from your case
in Florida.
You're right, I should've.
I'm sorry.
Hey. Bond thinks you're on to him,
so can you stop showing so much
intensity in the staff meetings please?
Diane?
What?
You look happy.
I am happy.
I've decided I'm good at my job.
You are good at your job.
I've always said it.
What is it?
We have a silver bullet.
Something that will destroy
Wendy Scott-Carr.
But when we fire it,
the press will come for you.
- And I will send them to you.
- No, it's not what you're thinking.
Later today, I'm meeting with a woman
named Natalie Flores
who worked for five years
as Wendy Scott-Carr's nanny.
- That's your silver bullet?
- Yes.
She had a nanny?
It's never the big things
that bring politicians down.
She is an illegal alien.
Wendy wants to be state's attorney,
and for five years, she broke the law.
And not just any law.
People do not like illegal aliens.
And why would the press come
to me?
You were a stay-at-home mom.
Isn't it great?
You were June Cleaver.
For 15 years, you raised the kids.
No nannies, no illegal aliens.
You're as American as apple pie.
I'm so glad those 15 years
weren't wasted.
Yeah. Don't say anything like that
to the press, okay?
You're the good mom.
My staff will send over
some brownie recipes.
Hey, Mom, pick up the phone.
Hey, Mom, pick up the phone.
Well, I have to go
and do some good mothering now.
Grace.
You need a what?
A T-shirt.
It's not my fault, Mom.
The school is fascist.
They won't let me go back to class
unless I change my T-shirt.
- Hello.
- Hmm.
Tommy. What a surprise.
- Would you like to sit down?
- No, no.
I'd like you to know
that Kurt McVeigh is the enemy.
So imagine my surprise when
I discovered who's representing him.
Your information is premature.
- I haven't decided yet.
- Good. Good.
Then let me help you out.
The cops set up Jason Beltran.
They got the crime lab
to fake the evidence
and got your ballistics expert
to change his testimony.
Why are you suing, Tommy?
He's free.
- Your client is free.
- To teach the authorities a lesson.
I get a big award from McVeigh,
that'll scare the state attorney
into settling.
We've worked
on a lot of cases together, Diane.
The grocers' union,
the Houston squatters.
This goes against everything
you stand for.
You don't know everything
I stand for.
They wanna use you, Diane,
a known and respected liberal.
They wanna put a pretty face on
a racist defense. Don't you see that?
You know what?
Thanks for helping me decide.
I'll see you in court.
You're gonna lose a lot of friends
over this one.
They weren't friends to begin with.
- I'll go after you hard.
- Looking forward to it.
Do your worst.
Goodbye.
- I'm sorry. It's what?
- The saying. It's not allowed.
- It's a Christian saying, right?
- It doesn't matter.
We've restricted all sayings
on shirts.
Uh, don't think you'll have a problem
with the First Amendment?
A month ago, some kids wore
pro-gay T-shirts to school.
Then other kids wore anti-gay shirts.
This is not about the First Amendment.
I understand
you have some issues here, ma'am,
but you don't just circumvent
those issues
by infringing on my daughter's rights.
You open yourself up to a lawsuit.
My firm is fighting a case like this
and...
I'm s... I'm sorry, I just can't... I just...
You have no idea how hard it is.
Everyone is threatening me.
Everyone is threatening to sue.
You should sue.
It's the First Amendment.
So are we Christians now?
No. They weren't letting Shannon
wear it, so I decided to wear it too.
Can you go to school
and get an education please?
- On my way.
- What if this were a different time
and they wouldn't let kids
wear Martin Luther King shirts?
I'll be right there.
What Martin Luther King shirts?
Grace, honey,
I know you want a cause,
- but this isn't your cause.
- Why not?
Because Christians are in no danger
of becoming a minority class.
We'll talk. I gotta go to work.
Go to school.
I need you to help Diane
with this lawsuit.
He just got dropped by his insurance
and he's pushing for a quick trial.
My only worry is that Diane
will lose her perspective on this one.
- And you want me to?
- Keep that perspective.
- Okay.
- How are you doing?
I...
- Never better.
- Good.
Clearly the most complicated
crime scene of the year.
Five hundred rounds fired,
over 55 weapons,
a shootout that lasted three minutes,
one police officer killed,
- four bank robbers...
- Five.
Four bank robbers were killed
at the crime scene,
and a suspected fifth, Jason Beltran,
was arrested.
I feel like I'm being handled here.
We intend to pursue the same strategy
as your insurance company.
- Which was?
- You made a mistake.
- What mistake?
- Strategically,
the only way we win the suit
is to admit to an honest mistake.
They need to prove
collusion between you and the lab.
They need to prove that you wanted
to get Beltran, and they can't.
What they can do
is play off your ego.
It's well-known you only take cases
you believe are true.
They'll try to show that you skew
the evidence to make the case true.
- Ms. Sharma, call for you.
- Who is it?
He wouldn't say.
He said you'd know what it's regarding.
Um, just take a number
and I'll call back.
I understand that you have to fight
the best case, not the truest case.
But why isn't my strongest defense
that there was no mistake?
Because the court has determined
that Beltran was wrongly convicted.
And we can't re-fight that.
That's why I need you
to swallow your pride so we can win.
I determined the direction
and the caliber
of the bullet that killed Officer Walter,
that's all.
I can't lie on the stand about a mistake
that doesn't exist.
It's just...
Thank you.
- Find his mistake.
- And if there isn't one?
He supported the lab tech.
There has to be one.
- Will wants you on this?
- Yeah.
Okay. Help Kalinda.
He didn't wanna leave a message.
He said he'd try later.
- Okay.
- Anything you wanna share?
No.
- You're the mustard seed?
- You have a problem with that?
- Ms. Flores?
- Is it time?
Is it...?
Oh, no. Uh, um, I'm Mr. Gold.
We talked on the phone.
- Victoria Adler referred me.
- Oh, yeah, uh, Vicki.
I just have to get this trade off.
- The stock market?
- Shenzhen Exchange. It just opened.
Oh, no, no, no, don't do that.
Come on, come on, come on. Yes.
My senior project.
I'm trying to prove that the next great
financial bubble is in pharmaceuticals.
Foreign money flooding into CDOs
based on FDA clearances
of drug studies.
Don't worry, I'm a nanny too.
But if you want,
I can manage your money.
Oh, I...
I'm joking.
And...
I just shorted MRG.
Okay, uh, Mr. Gold,
uh, what can I do for you?
Well, as I said on the phone,
I have two children.
- Ages?
- Six and eight.
- Names?
- Peter and Alicia.
And you want tutoring too?
l... No.
Yeah, I guess, if that's possible.
It would have to work
around my graduate degree.
Oh, I understand.
Can I ask you about
your most recent employment?
You can. I worked for the same family
for the last five years.
- Two daughters.
- Okay.
And, um...
Pfft. I hate to have to ask you this,
but, uh, you know...
Um, it's okay.
Vicki said that I could talk to you.
Um, I was born in Nayarit, Mexico.
My parents came here when I was 2.
But I am working with a lawyer
on my citizenship.
All I've ever known is America.
Could I have the lawyer's name?
Just to check details.
Sure, um...
He says it could be a year
before I get my citizenship,
but, um, I will let him know
that you're calling.
Give me a call, Mr. Gold.
I'm very good with kids.
Oh, I don't doubt that for a second,
Ms. Flores.
Oh, and good luck with your thesis.
I did mine on the savings and loan
meltdown,
- a long time a...
- 1986.
You were an economics major?
I was. Many a moon ago.
Do you miss it?
Uh, economics? No, no.
It was too messy for me.
So you went into?
Party planning.
I would think that party planning
could get pretty darn messy.
It depends on the party.
Uh, anyway, I gotta go.
- The center camera?
- Bank robbers shot it out,
so I synced up
the two outlying cameras.
So the front of the bank is here?
Oh, come on.
Will you two just bury the hatchet?
What hatchet? I was considering
Mrs. Florrick's fine question.
Look, Childs wants me
to show you guys everything
because Beltran's lawyers
are coming after us next.
So yes.
The bank was here, Mrs. Florrick.
It was well-organized.
They had assault weapons.
They tried to make off with $800,000.
Now, there's Beltran.
And there's Officer Walter.
Twelve-year veteran, father of five.
Here it comes.
The bullet went through his body.
McVeigh discovered the 9 mm bullet
fragment there, on the facing wall.
He determined from direction of fire
that only Beltran could have fired it.
So either you're looking
at an innocent man
or someone who just got away
with murder.
Think of ballistics
as both a science and an art.
See, that's what I say to a jury first.
They love it when I compare it
to something they know.
You see, an artist
works with paints and brushes.
A ballistics expert works
with direction and metal. Bullets.
You see, it's not so simple.
Over 500 rounds.
Most crime scenes,
they are two rounds, five rounds.
What have you. Not so hard.
You disagree.
- I just need to get some air.
- No, you think I'm unworthy of you.
I think you have a gimmick.
I think you play up the whole
ancient-Chinese-wisdom thing
- to deflect from your lack of ability.
- Okay, I don't think that...
My lack of ability
is willing to help you.
Do you not want my help?
We want your help.
Hey, Jimmy Patrick back with you.
With my main man, J. T.,
behind the camera.
We are the mustard seeds.
Deal with it.
Hey, time to get real here.
Because Jesus didn't come
to bring peace.
He came to bring a sword.
Jesus says, "For I came
to set a man against his father
and a daughter against her mother.
He who loves mother and father
more than me
- is not worthy."
- Amen!
Last week I told you that Jesus
is not a Republican or a Democrat.
He hates global warming.
He hates polluters.
Jesus doesn't want you
to stay off drugs or get an A.
He could give a crap.
He's the first rebel.
He wants you
to question your parents.
He wants you to get in the face
of authority.
He wants anarchy.
Okay, thank you. Bye.
Was that her lawyer?
- Natalie's lawyer, yes.
- And?
He's toying with her.
It's a citizenship mill.
- He's trying to make money out of her.
- But that's good.
I mean, it's better for the story
if she's not a citizen.
- She'll be deported.
- Right, back to Mexico. And?
You're right.
Do the polling. Get it ready.
They'll put you on the stand first
because they wanna play on your ego.
They want you
to defend your findings.
Just allow for doubt
in your investigations, that's all.
You don't have to say
you were wrong.
Just say there was an 80 percent
probability or something like that.
I know this is hard.
You wanna fire it?
I was a pretty good shot.
Fire it.
No.
Why is there this attraction to guns?
Hmm?
I don't understand it.
It's an Austrian bullpup
5.56-millimeter assault rifle.
Here, try it.
It's just so base.
Now brace it against your shoulder.
It's a two-stage trigger.
Half for semiautomatic,
full for automatic.
I can't sleep with you.
Okay.
I'm your lawyer. It's unethical.
What's that piece of paper?
- The retainer agreement.
- I haven't signed it. Not yet.
Ms. Lockhart.
- The retainer.
- Oh. Uh, did you sign it?
Not yet.
Have you ever met my client,
Mr. Jason Beltran?
No. I saw him in court,
but that's about it.
At his criminal trial
that's since been overturned.
To be accurate,
I believe the verdict was vacated
and the state's attorney declined
to re-prosecute.
You don't agree
with vacating that sentence?
No. I think that the legal process
was probably just.
Because of this woman?
If that's Rosalie Torrance, yes.
- Right.
- Then you've never met her?
The lab tech that falsified evidence
against my client?
No. I talked to her on the phone.
But you know she accidentally
destroyed forensic evidence
collected at the crime scene
and then later falsified it
- to frame my client?
- I know that.
And I do know that she's being
prosecuted for those falsifications.
And isn't it true
that when she called you
to tell you about her findings,
you changed your own findings?
- No.
- No?
- Why did you change your findings?
- Objection.
Huh?
- On what grounds?
- Argumentative.
Because Mr. McVeigh was asked
whether he changed his findings,
but that has not yet been determined
by the facts.
Uh-huh, I see. Sustained.
But you originally concluded
that my client did not fire the gun.
Isn't that correct, Mr. McVeigh?
No. I try to avoid early conclusions.
In all my investigations,
there is an element of doubt.
I'm only 80 percent sure of anything.
Mr. McVeigh,
are you a member of the Tea Party?
Objection.
Your Honor, it is our contention
that my client's prosecution was racist.
We believe that Mr. McVeigh's
membership in a racist organization...
Oh, come on. The Tea Party is racist?
Let Mrs. Lockhart argue
the opposite.
Ms. Lockhart.
- Yeah. What did I say?
- Missus.
My apologies. I was confused.
Your Honor?
I'm thinking.
Overruled. Proceed.
Is that a photo of you
at a Tea Party rally
in Milwaukee last January?
- Yes, it is.
- Would you read to us
the sign that man is holding
next to you?
Your Honor,
my client is not holding that sign,
and I would contest
that he is next to him.
I think, uh, the jury can see that,
Mrs. Lockhart.
- That sign?
- Mm-hm.
It appears to read,
"Go back to the jungle."
And that refers
to our current president?
I can't say that for certain.
I assume that's correct.
How many African-Americans have
you testified against, Mr. McVeigh?
- How many accused?
- Yeah.
I can't speak accurately to that.
Oh, well, I can.
Eighty-nine. Would you believe that?
I would believe that.
And how many white accused
have you testified against?
My guess is that it would be less.
It is less. Twenty-two.
An even 22.
So I would guess
that my client never had a chance.
Objection, Your Honor.
Your Honor?
I heard you.
Sustained.
- You need to talk to the nanny again.
- Why?
There's sympathy for Wendy needing
a nanny among women 18 to 49.
Then we can't use it.
No, we can use it,
but we need to find out
if Wendy fired the nanny
because of the campaign.
Voters lose sympathy
if she fired her for political reasons.
- See?
- Mm-hm.
That's the silver bullet.
It's always the same.
It's not the act, it's the cover-up.
You need to go back to the nanny
and find out why she was let go.
I'll go ask.
Mr. McVeigh,
- tell me about the Tea Party.
- It's a political movement
made up of conservatives
and libertarians
intending to apply pressure
to the government to reduce spending.
Is it racist?
- No.
- Are there racists
- and extremists within it?
- Yes.
Are there racists and extremists
within the Democratic Party?
- Objection. Relevance.
- I'm sorry. What?
The question
of whether there are racists
in the Democratic Party
is not relevant, Your Honor.
Sustained.
But I, uh...
Yeah, okay. Go ahead.
Why do you belong to the Tea Party?
I think the government
is encroaching too much into my life.
Isn't the Tea Party primarily
anti-Obama?
- No.
- Then why wasn't it formed
under George W. Bush?
There was hope that President Bush
would cut spending.
Really?
I would acknowledge that it
was a slim hope and a thwarted hope.
But the Tea Party
is not about Obama.
It's about putting pressure
on both parties to reduce.
Because we're being bankrupted?
- Yes.
- That's all, Your Honor.
Well, I think that worked.
I mean, it was painful, but it worked.
What's wrong?
Go away.
But she hasn't lost perspective?
No. She's fighting harder.
Unfortunately,
I need her to fight harder at work too.
Why do you hate Jesus?
I don't hate Jesus.
I think Jesus is someone
who lived 2,000 years ago
and has very little to do with me.
I think you either hate Jesus
or you love him.
I don't think there's an in-between.
And why do you need wine
to discuss this?
I don't need wine.
I like wine.
I like a glass of wine after work.
You talk to me all the time
about drugs.
Wine is a drug.
- Very adult.
- Yup. Over 21. That's me.
- You treat me like a kid.
- You are a kid.
- I'm not thinking like a kid.
- So you're a mustard seed?
I think Jesus is someone
I wanna know more about.
I think science isn't taking prayer
seriously enough.
I think global warming is real,
and I don't think believing in Jesus
means believing global warming
doesn't exist.
Just taking another hit
off the crack pipe.
- I liked it more when you didn't work.
- Okay, that's enough.
I'm not not going to work.
What is this about? Shannon?
Why does this have to be
about Shannon?
I'm a thinking person.
I'm thinking about Jesus, okay?
- So you're becoming a Christian?
- No.
I don't know.
I just don't like the way
that you smirk at it.
I don't think I do smirk at it.
I just can't figure out when one cause
begins with you and another ends.
Jesus is not a cause.
He's the source of causes.
Okay.
You're rebelling.
That's what this is about.
So when you can figure out
what it is you believe in,
let me know and we'll talk. Okay?
Well, Jesus was the first rebel.
Well, then maybe Jesus
can pay the rent every month.
Consider the lilies of the field.
They neither toil...
- Yeah?
- All right,
you're not gonna like this.
A month
before the bank robbery shootout,
there was this attempted
suicide by cop.
A bank customer took a shot at a cop
to try and get the cop to kill him.
Uh, hang on, Cary.
That man, he's calling again.
Tell him this:
If he leaves me a number,
I'll call him back.
And if he doesn't leave me a number,
then I won't call him back.
- Yeah.
- The cop didn't return fire.
That's why he didn't report it.
I only found out about it
when something seemed weird
about this 9-millimeter shell fragment.
McVeigh included this
9-mm shell fragment in his analysis.
Thought it was part of the bullet
that went through the officer.
- So he screwed up?
- Yeah.
Now, on the bright side,
it wasn't his screwup.
He was never told
of this attempted suicide by cop.
Thanks, but I don't think this is a guy
who can deal with the bright side.
See you.
His number.
Hey.
We found your mistake.
The 9-millimeter fragment
you found?
It was from an earlier crime.
So, what are we shorting today?
A new biomed IPO out of Boston.
I wanna talk to you.
And I have a few questions
for you too.
Natalie?
Is everything okay?
What are you really after?
- What am I?
- You don't want a nanny.
Why would you say that?
You called my lawyer
and you scared him.
He says now he's serious about
working on my citizenship.
I thought he was serious before.
He says now it's gonna take
two months, not a year.
I felt he was cheating you.
And I called him and I told him
that he should not cheat you.
And I told him
that he should not tell you I called.
Yes. Well, he doesn't seem
quite trustworthy.
So, what is it you want from me?
I don't know.
I have a boyfriend.
Or I had a boyfriend.
He joined a circus.
A Cirque du Soleil circus.
He's a contortionist.
Uh, he's a French-Canadian
contortionist.
He gets very angry when
I laugh at him.
But, um...
Thank you for helping me.
But l... You know,
I'm in a very precarious position.
- I can't...
- No, no. I don't...
Would you wait just one moment?
Hello?
Oh, yeah?
Yeah. Uh, no, no, don't worry.
Next time. Okay.
- You have to go?
- No, no, I...
Someone is canceling dinner plans.
Look, I get it, uh...
You have a boyfriend
and I am much older than you.
And I have a dinner reservation
that I really should cancel.
And I know I can't...
Sorry, that was me trying to do
a contortionist thing.
Yeah?
It's a downloaded file, right?
The DVD you made
for the Beltran case,
the DVD the cops gave to McVeigh.
It's from a digital file.
Uh, yeah, I guess. Why?
Can you get me the original analogue
surveillance footage?
It's late, Kalinda.
Why would I do that?
Because a compressed file
drops frames.
And I need to see every frame.
- Thank you for coming.
- Why wouldn't I?
You're young.
Ha, ha, yup.
The future.
I want to understand the young.
You talk like a newspaper.
That's the worst thing to be,
someone who talks like a newspaper?
- Well, it's not good.
- Hello there.
Well, hello, Marissa.
I thought you couldn't make it.
Change of plans, Dad.
How are you?
I'm Natalie.
- Hi, Natalie.
- Hi.
So you're the reason
my dad sounds so happy.
- Marissa.
- Yeah, I guess I am.
And how old are you?
I'm young. I'm, oh, so young.
And how old are you?
I'm so going to Israel.
Join us?
We could get another chair...
Oh, no. I'll let you two eat in peace.
Love you, Dad.
- Don't forget protection.
- Oh.
- Well, wasn't that fun?
- Yup.
So is that your 6-year-old?
- Sorry.
- No.
I Googled you after you left.
You work for Peter Florrick.
And my old boss
is Wendy Scott-Carr.
And your questions
about me being a nanny,
those are for this campaign,
not party planning.
Yes.
What I don't understand is
why would you pressure my lawyer
into helping me
if the whole point was to expose me?
Because I'm a hypocrite.
It would have been nice
if you were a party planner.
I really liked the idea of that.
You don't have to go.
All right, so that's the original.
What are you looking for?
What?
There.
- A ricochet.
- How did I miss it?
The police gave you a copy
of the surveillance tape
from a compressed file.
A truck was passing behind the
police officer and a ricochet is visible.
You had the right conclusion,
but the wrong bullet.
A ricochet to where?
I don't know.
I thought you could find out.
When this is over, let's go away.
Away? What? To where?
Costa Rica?
I like it.
No, I can't do that.
- You can.
- What...? No. I mean, not now.
I have a fight at work.
I can't give up on it.
If we don't do it now, we never will.
And, uh, what would we do?
Make a life. Put our lives first.
Well, is that a proposal?
I would like to go away for a while
with you.
If it sounds better as a proposal,
then it's a proposal.
That is a gunshot.
It distorts all sound around it.
Now imagine 500.
And then this is what is surprising:
Through all that...
Your Honor,
may I see the new evidence?
Of course. Uh, sheriff.
Through all that,
Mr. McVeigh could determine
the entry wound was 9 millimeters.
You're holding the bullet
that was just discovered yesterday?
DR. HUANG:
Yes, 9 millimeters.
It ricocheted off passing truck.
And where was it discovered?
In dry wall. Covered in new plaster.
And this bullet was determined to have
been fired from Mr. Beltran's position?
DR. HUANG
Yes.
Only direction it could be fired from.
Excuse my accent.
When I get passionate,
my accent comes out more.
No. You drop the case.
- That won't happen.
- It will happen.
Your client is lucky
he's not back in prison.
It's not luck, it's the Bill of Rights.
Double jeopardy.
So he should count himself lucky,
go home and watch TV,
because he pushes this trial,
he's not only gonna lose,
he's gonna have the police
making his life hell.
Wanna say that again
so I can get that on tape?
No, I wanna say it again
so you understand my words. You lost.
Beltran is guilty. And he's not gonna
make any money from this.
I will make it my life's work to keep him
from making money from this.
Do you understand me?
This is not the Diane I know.
You're right about that.
Nice to meet you.
It's out.
- I see that.
- It's even better.
She took a friend's Social Security
number to get into school.
Wendy might have helped her.
That is awesome.
It was the right thing to do, Eli.
I'll go crack open the champagne.
Nice.
Oh, yes.
A hobbled Wendy Scott-Carr
can clearly revive the lagging
campaign prospects of Peter Florrick.
The once-incorruptible image
of the populist saint
hell-bent on cleaning house
has given way...
What do you want?
What do you mean?
Religion.
What do you want from me?
Um, you and Dad
don't go to church.
I don't go to church.
Dad has Pastor Isaiah.
Yeah, but I wanna go to church.
Okay. Which one?
Um, I don't know.
I wanna help you here, Grace.
But this is a new area for me.
And I don't know
why it makes me uncomfortable,
but it makes me uncomfortable.
It's because of your generation.
Okay, maybe.
Do you want me to drive you
to church on Sunday?
Okay. Sure.
Okay. You pick a church
and I will take you.
And here.
I thought if you're gonna be serious
about it, you should read up.
I'm going to bed.
After I score some crack.
- Are you sure?
- Yes.
I can't leave here now.
- Then you'll never leave here.
- Maybe.
But I made that decision
a long time ago.
Come on.
Let's go.
Then I have to go.
Kurt.
Palin, 2012.
You're my hero.
We need all the equity partners there.
Everybody on the same page.
Mm-hm.
- Hello, Diane.
- Derrick.
We were talking about
the equity partners getting together.
Nothing important.
Just the usual housecleaning.
Good. I think that's a good idea.
Then next week?
- You're all right with next week?
- I am.
I'm here.
Good.
Then I'll send out notices.
We'll go over the financials,
new clients,
discuss the general direction
for the next quarter.