The Good Wife (2009–2016): Season 2, Episode 16 - Great Firewall - full transcript
As the vote to determine the fate of the firm arrives, Lockhart, Gardner, and Bond make final maneuvers. Meanwhile, the firm takes a case involving the Internet and human rights, and Peter's campaign tries to take out Glenn Childs.
I had a nanny for five years.
I loved her. My kids loved her.
I failed to do my due diligence.
That's all.
I didn't know
she was an illegal immigrant.
I also didn't know
I would be running for this office.
Mr. Childs, 30 seconds.
With all due respect,
that just doesn't wash.
You want my job, a job that judges
whether others have broken the law.
You just spent the past five years
breaking the law.
- Yes.
- Look at the negatives.
Now, you can't just say,
"Oops, my bad."
- You broke the law.
- They don't like Wendy,
- but they don't like Childs' criticizing.
- Mr. Florrick, 30 seconds.
Come on, come on. Stick to the script.
The youth vote. The youth vote.
This is our last debate.
In six weeks,
you're going to be voting,
so I wanna address
the young people.
Listening to us lately,
you might think politics is
all about shouting and finger-pointing.
- Look.
You are the future.
- Come on, prison, prison.
- Your hopes, your dreams.
I know from my time in prison
that what we do up here matters.
I'm a mother first, an activist second.
What I did, I did for my daughters.
And I think it's hypocritical
for these two men to stand up here
and act as if
they know the struggles...
Alicia Florrick.
What are you worried about?
You're up by three votes.
That's what
I'm worried about. Three votes.
- This Friday?
- That's the plan.
Do you have the contracts?
Actually, I need Alicia
in my deposition.
It's all coming down.
Tensions are high.
- Over?
- Partners meeting. Friday.
Look, I know it's last-minute,
but I need you in these depositions.
- What is it?
- Internet suit dropped in our lap.
Suing the search engine Chumhum.
They don't wanna go to court,
so we scare them into settlement.
- Just look angry and intense.
- I can do that.
It was a Thursday.
I had just come home, uh,
from classes. Very late.
Now, Mr. Shen Yuan, when
you've discussed this in the past...
Excuse me.
Don't you wanna hear the rest
of his answer?
Oh, certainly. Please, continue.
Would you like?
Um, I teach at
the Beijing Hongwu University.
Uh, sorry. I taught... Taught at.
I was working on notes for a lecture.
It was 10 at night.
And the phone rang.
It was a voice I didn't know.
He said, "Are you home?"
Uh, I laughed.
I said, "Yes, of course."
And he hung up.
I thought it was a wrong number.
Then I was saying good night
to my wife.
And, um, I remember
I started to say,
"Do you think Tolstoy died happy?"
But before I finished,
the door broke open
and ten agents came in.
Guoanbu. Government agents.
They threw me on the floor,
bound my feet, hands,
and took me away
in my nightclothes.
This was in 2004.
I didn't see my wife again
until last year.
I was, uh, imprisoned
in Beijing Prison Number 9,
accused of inciting subversion.
You see, I had sent, uh, a blog entry.
I had sent it to a friend here
in Chicago.
And I had argued to him
that democracy would come to China.
And how did you know that
this was the reason for your arrest?
How...? How did I know?
Yes. There's no record of your trial
or your arrest warrant.
How do you know that it wasn't
someone just informing on you?
Because the security man
who tortured me
for the next three weeks told me so.
And why do you blame
Chumhum for this, sir?
Why not the Chinese authorities?
I do blame the Chinese authorities,
but I used your social media website.
I trusted my writings
to remain anonymous.
But Chumhum gave my IP address
to the police.
That's the only reason why
I was arrested,
imprisoned
and tortured for five years.
Twenty-eight million dollars.
And an agreement
to not turn over any more names
to the Chinese authorities.
- Hmm, no.
- Okay, then.
What else do we have to talk about,
your cookies?
Chumhum is a worldwide company
like Yahoo, Google, Facebook.
We do business in Canada, Mexico,
China, even Easter Island.
We have to follow the laws
of each individual country.
- That's your defense?
- That's part of our defense.
And, uh, human rights,
they don't matter?
What human rights?
One person's freedom fighter
is another person's terrorist.
Shen Yuan, as sympathetic as he is,
broke his country's laws.
We didn't make those laws. In fact, if
we hadn't handed over his IP address,
we would've been breaking
their laws.
Yeah. Ask Yahoo
how well that defense worked.
- Yahoo never went to court.
- Yep. They paid up instead.
Now we're talking. Lower your ask.
- No, I don't think so.
- All right, then consider this:
Chumhum could not have anticipated
the repercussions of our actions.
Yeah, that's it. The Chinese
just wanted his IP address
to throw him a little surprise party.
We'll be back.
Oh, I have a pen.
Do you want me to sign it?
- Excuse me.
- Your behind.
Do you want me to sign it?
They wanna argue
that they didn't know
handing over Shen's IP address
would result in his arrest and torture.
So you need to dig through
all of Chumhum's writings,
public statements,
anything that contradicts...
- Got it.
- Heading out for that divorce case
we were talking about.
Do you need help
with something else?
We're fine. Thanks.
We're like homeless lawyers.
So the vote is this Friday.
Bond is up by three votes.
One of them is supposedly me,
so really he's only up by one.
- By two.
- No, by one.
He loses your vote, that's one vote.
He's up by two.
No, I move to Diane's side,
so she gains one and he loses one.
- What are you talking about?
- Talking about...
We need more votes!
We need more votes
and we're running out of time.
Julius, where are we
on turning Fitzpatrick?
- Still talking to him. Nothing definite.
- What have you been doing?
What have l...? You know, in case
you haven't noticed, I have a job.
Yeah, excuse me.
This is not a smoking section.
This is a secret section.
Walk away. Walk away!
We have to talk about
how all this is gonna shake out.
Oh, here we go.
Yeah, here we go. I want assurances
about the minority-hiring program.
If he gets one more assurance,
I swear to God...
Okay, okay, we're all going to benefit
if we get Bond out,
so can we just hold it together
for one more week, please?
But no more meetings outside.
I walk away from this vent
smelling like spaghetti.
What do you think?
I think it's not exactly
the Continental Congress,
but all we need to do
is switch one vote.
Or add two.
Remember when our firms
were brought together under Stern?
You're not bringing Stern back,
are you? I'd rather...
No, no, his gang of three.
Remember?
- The alter kockers?
- Yes.
We needed to keep them on the rolls
per Stern's contract.
They didn't have to come in to work,
but we sent them the quarterly reports
and...
They're still equity partners.
They're dead, aren't they?
They have to be dead.
One of them is dead.
Two of them aren't.
Every statement made
by every board member of Chumhum,
and not a single one
mentions China.
- What's this?
- Change of address.
- For who?
- Me.
Uh, I don't think I even have
your old address.
Well, now you have my new one.
I feel like
we've grown closer together.
- Okay, give it back.
- Oh, no, no, no.
This is going in my copy
of Eat, Pray, Love.
- Ow.
- Sorry.
- Ow.
- Peter did well in his debate today.
Yeah, I know.
Do you want him to win?
Yes. I just don't wanna go back
to the way things were.
- Well, why would they?
- I don't know. Life.
Zach, I just got Dad's text.
- Everything good?
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna be another hour.
- Yeah, I'll tell him.
- I love you.
- All right, love you too.
- She's hurt, but she's not out.
- Oh, come on.
I don't wanna hear anything
discouraging. You slaughtered them.
- Okay, but...
- No buts.
- Give us a minute to feel good, huh?
- No. I wanna hear this. Go ahead.
Women sympathize with her.
With Wendy. Over Nannygate.
I thought so.
And she gave a good closing.
It's a very good closing.
I don't think we killed her.
- She stays in the race.
- Then let her. She's injured.
- She'll limp along.
- What about Childs?
Find out anything about his nanny?
Yeah, Swedish au pair.
All paid up, everything legal.
Hmm.
But, hey, we're back from the grave.
We have money coming in.
We'll start buying airtime.
- With six weeks left.
- Yeah.
I don't think so.
We needed to make this
a two-man race and we didn't.
- But it was a good day.
- It was.
And a good race. Gentlemen.
Thank you.
It was an honor serving with you.
Hi, Becca?
Yeah, I was just wondering,
do you still have those photos
from drama camp?
No, it's important.
Neil Gross. I'm CEO of Chumhum.
So you're the reason Shen Yuan
was imprisoned and tortured?
No, you'll have to subpoena
the Chinese authorities for that.
But you supplied the Chinese
authorities with Mr. Yuan's IP address.
Yes, which we were forced to do.
If the U.S. government forced us
to supply the IP addresses
of a child pornographer,
we would do the same.
Wait, so you're equating a Chinese
dissident with a child pornographer?
Hmm, no. I don't think any fair analysis
of our exchange would conclude that,
but nice try.
Isn't the motto of your company,
"First, do no wrong"?
- Yes, it is.
- Do you believe you did no wrong
when you turned Mr. Yuan's
information over to the Chinese?
I believe wrong is best avoided
by being open.
- "Information wants to be free."
- So to speak.
Information wants to be free,
but people wanna go to jail.
We had no foreknowledge
of what the Chinese would do
with the supplied IP addresses.
- How old are you?
- Me? Why?
Because I'm asking you a question
in a deposition.
Oh. I'm 50.
How old are you?
Don't you think it's a little old
to be wearing a hoodie?
Is there any point to this line
of questioning other than to offend?
Not really, actually.
It's okay, Vi. It's all good.
I think hoodies are practical.
I think they help brand a lifestyle.
And I think I make more in an hour
than you make in a year.
- That help you?
- Yes, it does, actually.
Uh, how many IP addresses
of dissidents
have you supplied
to the Chinese authorities?
I don't know. Not more than 50.
"Not more than 50."
I think that number
surprised someone
who was imprisoned and tortured
for five years.
Look, um,
I don't think you understand.
If the U.S. government thinks we
should not be doing business in China,
outlaw it like they do in Cuba.
- But they don't do that. Know why?
- I know what you'll argue.
Because American businesses
in China help open the door.
Just a little bit. We let the light in.
It also doesn't hurt that we owe them
$843 billion, does it?
Guess I'm less cynical than you,
because I think we're changing
the face of Chinese society.
Look what happened in Egypt.
Ugh. What?
You attended Stanford University.
Is that correct?
Yes, I did.
Oh, I wore a hoodie there too.
In your Comparative Religions class
in 1984,
did you write a paper about the arrest
and torture of Tibetan activists?
Are you all right?
The guard who took the most pleasure
in my water treatment...
It is simulated drowning.
- he had a cell phone in his pocket.
And it would ring
and he would stop.
It was the same ring.
I hear it everywhere.
Sorry.
Whenever I hear it, I think of that.
It's an odd way to walk through life.
My worry is they will offer money
and not stop this practice.
Eight hundred and sixty-five
thousand dollars.
Really? Your CEO makes more
in an hour than I make in a year
- and he wants to offer...?
- Direct damages, lost wages.
the wife's loss of companionship,
adjusted for inflation.
Our Legal Department looked into it.
- No reason for punitive.
- No pain and suffering?
Not that would warrant
more than $865,000.
What do you have?
What do you think I have?
So, what, lack of foreknowledge
didn't work for you,
- so you're gonna go after Shen Yuan?
- Why not Nelson Mandela?
- V?clav Havel?
- See you tomorrow.
A bluff or what?
- You're kidding.
- Ha, ha, I'm not.
Zach looks exactly like his dad.
Oh, Zach, there you are.
Jackie and I were just having
a little chat.
- Hi.
- Well, I'll let you two get to it.
I'm really glad we got to talk, Jackie.
What are you doing
with my grandmother?
Nothing. She was already here.
She's actually pretty cool.
Cool skips a generation.
- Didn't you know that?
- No, it doesn't.
So these are the pictures
of Glenn Junior at drama camp.
What are you looking for?
Well, my dad's trying to prove that
Glenn Childs never paid his nanny.
They said it was a Swedish au pair,
but I thought I saw in your pictures...
Wait, stop.
If that's his nanny,
she's not Swedish.
We think they'll try
to show Shen Yuan wasn't tortured.
Really? Any idea how?
Well, my guess is they'll get a Chinese
official on their witness list
to insist there was no torture.
So we need to line up dissidents
to refute it.
Well, okay. I'll be out of contact
for an hour or so. Keep me in touch.
- Sorry about that.
- Take your time.
- Yeah.
- We don't mind sitting here, waiting.
Ha. Well, as I was saying,
we want you back.
Back for the next equity partner
meeting.
What do we get?
Well, um, office space
and a seat at the table.
- And year-end bonuses?
- What, next-year bonuses?
No, no, no, this year.
I said ice cream, you stupid bitch.
How many times do I have to say it?
Um, wait.
You want year-end bonuses
for a year that you didn't work?
You're paying for our wisdom.
You want our votes, right?
- You want both our votes?
- Yes.
Then we have terms.
Cary, what are you doing here?
So a change-of-address notice,
huh?
Why is that seen
as such a revelation?
Hey, I'm just saying I have one.
I moved.
Good for you.
- Cary?
- What?
I like you. It's just...
- It's just...
- I'm not here for anything
other than to tell you something.
A grand jury is being empanelled,
looking into you.
Specifically into me?
Well, supposedly it's about corrupt
practices by defense investigators,
but, yeah, Childs is focusing in on you,
readying an indictment.
- When?
- It's next week.
We're lining up witnesses
and exhibits.
Can you tell me who?
No. I shouldn't be telling you
this much.
Cary?
Why did you send me
a change-of-address notice, anyway?
I don't know. It just felt normal.
You're trying to be normal?
Sure. I like normal.
Welcome back to normal.
Florrick for State's Attorney.
May I direct your call?
Well, look who we have here today.
Oh, hello, Mr. Gold.
I come in peace.
Mm-hm, like Yasser Arafat?
Are you maybe confusing my office
with the free clinic down the street?
Zach, look, I found him.
Eli, how you doing?
- We have something to show you.
- Zach has something to show you.
You said that Childs
paid the Swedish nanny in full.
If that's the case, then who's this?
She's not Swedish.
I mean, look at her. She's black.
And Becca saw her bring Childs'
son to drama camp.
Do you see?
I see. Thank you.
Then why are you not...?
I mean, this is good, right?
- You need to, like...
- I need to what?
I don't know. Look into it.
What's wrong?
What's wrong is that Eli
doesn't trust me.
No. This is interesting.
See? I'm interested.
Could you just give me
one moment?
- I'm gonna tell my dad.
- Is there any way you have
of finding out this nanny's name?
- Maybe.
- Then that would be helpful.
Great. We're on it.
Thanks.
I am the smartest person I know.
No, you can't have a corner office.
Because there are
no corner offices left.
- The alter kockers?
- They're killing me.
- Deposition.
- No, I gotta go.
Then get out your Rolodex.
See what other firm will hire you.
- What do we have?
- Amnesty International.
- And two dissidents.
- From the same prison?
- The exact same prison.
- Excuse me.
If you don't mind, I'd like to
add a new witness to the witness list.
To testify Shen Yuan
wasn't tortured?
Among other things.
- I'm sure you'll find it illuminating.
- I'm sure I will too.
And we'll spend the afternoon
subpoenaing
and cross-examining
duelling experts.
Jinghua.
Who is that?
My wife.
Okay, it's just the two of us.
No one's listening.
What should I be made aware of?
You think Will is on your side,
that he's gonna vote to get rid
of Diane, but he's playing you.
He's actually on Diane's side.
- I don't believe you.
- Then don't.
I just met with them all yesterday.
Will, Diane and David Lee.
They're gonna try to flip Fitzpatrick
to vote with them.
Why are you telling me this?
- What do you want?
- I'll vote with you.
David Lee out and head of litigation.
- Moss is doing a superior job.
- I'll do a better one.
She left me after I was out of prison.
It happens to some people
after things like this.
We came to America a year ago
and my wife left me.
That's why she's testifying against you,
saying you weren't tortured, because...
She wants to hurt me.
Okay, thanks.
Can you give us a minute?
I'm sorry.
It's okay.
Kalinda, get everything you can
on the wife.
We need you to show
her testimony was a lie.
Are you going home?
What?
Becca, how far do you think
I trust you?
Hmm. Not far.
What do you want?
You know what I want.
- Thought you're into this Florrick kid.
- Hey.
I like politician kids. What can I say?
I need one more
to complete my political education.
This is Glenn Childs. Speak.
GLENN JR:
Dad, it's me.
Hey.
- Hey, son, what's up?
- Something's weird here.
Uh, this girl I know from school,
uh, the one with Peter Florrick's kid.
- Yeah?
- She was asking about Rita.
From a few years ago.
Remember?
You know, Rita from that summer?
- Yeah, I remember. Rita.
- She wanted to know her name.
She said her parents wanted
to hire her.
- Did you give it to her?
- No. Never.
Good. Thanks.
Let me call someone.
I'll talk to you later.
We're negotiating. They're offering
too little and we're asking...
Uh... Uh, hold on.
- Mr. Lyman.
- I understand. And just a mi...
Can I call you back?
- Mr. Lyman. Good to see you.
- Ah.
- We need to talk.
- Of course, we do. Let's go.
- Yeah...
- Where we going?
Over here. There's a...
- Julius.
- What?
What is that about?
I don't know.
I'll find out.
It's freezing here.
Mr. Lyman, I thought
I said we would talk on the phone.
- You've got a problem. It's Merrick.
- I can't give any more.
We made a deal. You both agreed.
No, it's not me. It's Merrick.
He's dead.
He was very nervous.
He was going through his Rolodex.
The whole thing
was too much for him.
So here's the thing.
I'm still on board,
but I want everything
that you promised him.
Quite the humanitarian.
- Hey, I didn't kill him.
- So we're still down on votes.
No, we're tied.
With this,
Bond has exactly 22 equity partners.
We have exactly 22.
Either way,
I still get my corner office, right?
Yeah? Kalinda, yeah.
What's going on?
- What?
- We found out why
Shen Yuan's wife walked out on him.
He was cheating.
He joined a Free Tibet movement
when he moved to the States.
He met a young activist
a few months ago.
Oh, dear God.
His wife found out about it
and she walked out on him.
Doesn't matter where you go.
We still think you can use it
to undercut the wife's testimony.
It's irrelevant to pain and suffering.
Yeah, but we don't have
Nelson Mandela anymore.
Years of imprisonment and torture,
and he hops into the first young bed?
Maybe we can settle for cash.
A few million.
No. We need to get Chumhum
to stop these practices in China.
That was the original goal
of the suit.
Let me talk to him.
He could speak to his wife.
- Reunite with her?
- I don't know. Maybe.
I mean, she's lying about him
being tortured.
Maybe he can convince her
to recant.
- Okay. Good.
- Hmm.
It's nothing to do with this.
You want Chumhum to stop handing
over dissident names to China?
Your wife, you have to get her
to recant her testimony.
She's angry.
She's been hurt.
l... I'll talk to her.
You represented him, right?
Patric Edelstein?
Yeah. He was suing that movie.
I think I saw him today at work.
No, he's in Burlingame. See?
Oh, no, you're right, actually.
This is his log of public tweets.
It says he's in Chicago till Monday.
He's cool. He's, like,
the fifth richest guy in the world.
Does he have any business
in China?
His search engine, no.
I don't think so. He's trying though.
See? He just met
with the head of Hongzheren.
What's wrong?
Thank you.
This is about Patric Edelstein.
Patric Edelstein, the billionaire.
The one we represented in his case
against the movie about his life.
We're still representing him?
His Midwestern concerns, yes.
But this China suit.
We're doing it for Edelstein.
He wants Chumhum out of China
so he can move in and monopolise it.
I don't know.
But you do.
It's a good case, no matter what.
- Shen Yuan was tortured, imprisoned.
- Yes.
- But that's not why we're pursuing it.
- Alicia...
I just, for one minute, wanted to think
that we were doing the right thing.
- We are doing the right thing.
- But for the wrong reason.
Who do you know who's
doing something for the right reason?
I would love to meet them,
because my guess is
after five minutes of questioning,
we'll find the wrong reason.
You believe that?
I do believe that.
And if you thought about
all you've learned this last year,
you'd believe it too.
Edelstein moves into China.
What does he do?
What do you mean?
Does he turn over the names
of more dissidents?
It's the law.
What fresh hell today?
We thought having two more votes
would get us over the top,
so we approached
two of the senior citizens
who were still on the logs
as equity partners.
Okay, David. We get it, we get it.
No, I don't think you do.
You couldn't have scripted it better.
So, what happened?
Did one of them die?
Yesterday.
All you need are jugglers
and we'll have a Roman farce.
No smoking. Go away.
Anyway, I'm glad
Mr. Lee finds this so entertaining.
That just puts more pressure on you,
Julius, to turn Fitzpatrick.
- Can you do it?
- All I can do is try.
Oh, yes, please, do try.
- So they think they're tied?
- Yes.
With one of Stern's gang of three.
The other two died.
But your vote puts me over the top.
- Yes, if...
- I know.
Head of litigation.
Congratulations.
You're our new head of litigation.
Okay. Thank you, ma'am.
Ooh, that sounded good.
Childs had another nanny.
For his grown kids.
- A Jamaican nanny.
- I thought you said she was Swedish.
She was,
but she had to go back to Sweden
to, I don't know,
swim in a fjord or something.
- That's Norway.
- Thanks.
So, Childs needed another nanny
for three months over the summer,
and he hired
a Jamaican nanny illegally.
- I'll have to do polling.
- There's more.
I wanted to seal the deal this time,
so I had someone hint to Childs
that we were pursuing
the illegal nanny's identity.
And he took the bait
and led us right to her.
- Childs tried to cover it up.
- You're kidding.
No. He tried to pay for the
Jamaican nanny to leave the country.
- You have it all?
- Documented and certified.
- Do the polling.
- I'll do the polling.
Oh, this is turning into
tit-for-tat, isn't it?
Yup, and tat's up by one.
Ah, it was sweet of Shen Yuan
and his wife to reunite.
Yes, isn't it?
Maybe we should go into
couples therapy.
Well, I have one more name
that I'd like to add to our witness list.
Paul Houghton?
Of the Bush administration?
Yes. I wrote the memo
to President George W. Bush,
since referred to
as the Houghton Working Memo.
It expressed the legal position
that certain aggressive interrogation
techniques were not torture.
So, what are you saying?
That Shen Yuan was not tortured?
Well, I have no opinion on that.
I can tell you the opinion
of the Bush administration at the time.
Oh, well, let's hear about that.
Shen Yuan was forced to stand in
the stress position during his captivity.
- Is this torture?
- As long as there was no organ failure
or serious impairment
of body functions,
then in the opinion of the United States
at the time, it was not.
Shen Yuan claims he was
beaten and slapped. Is that torture?
Again, if there was no organ failure
or impairment of body function,
then in the opinion
of the United States, it was not.
The United States has since revoked
your legal opinions, Mr. Houghton.
Yes. January 2009.
Wow. Wow, that's too bad,
because Shen Yuan claims
that there was no such
aggressive questioning after 2008.
So it was the opinion
of the United States
that there was no torture
at the time in question.
So you up for it?
Convincing him to lie?
There just needs to be the possibility
of torture after January 2009.
- That's all.
- This is so bizarre.
We need him to be tortured
during the Obama administration
- or we hobble our case.
- And Edelstein's.
Do you want us
to put somebody else on?
No.
- What do you think?
- I think we're fine.
I always liked this office.
Oh, you know,
I used to have a dartboard over there.
Could hit the bull's-eye
from my chair.
I remember that.
In fact,
I kept a remnant of you.
What's the game here, Peter?
It's over. You're out of the race.
- Really? You have a gun?
- Almost as good.
You see, Wendy could survive
the nanny problem.
She's likable and she's a mother
and she didn't try to cover it up.
You did. People can forgive a lot,
but they can't forgive a cover-up.
What are you talking about?
You hired a nanny for a summer.
You paid her under the table.
And then when you heard
that we were on her trail,
- you tried to pay her to leave.
- So, what, are you recording this?
I don't have to record it.
We recorded the payoff.
Then you know it was three months.
Three months of a nanny taking care
of my kids, not Wendy's five years.
Yes, but I also seem to recall a
candidate at the last debate who said,
"You can't just say, 'Oops, my bad."'
How do you think
that sound bite's gonna play?
You're a son of a bitch.
- Yeah.
- Not just that. You...
You belong in the trophy case
of sons of bitches.
You think I'm in this job just
to beat you, Peter?
Just to exercise power?
I'm in this job to do good.
What do you think, you're the only
person who wants to do good?
Get out of here.
Get out of my office.
Good afternoon.
As you can imagine, the demands
of this job are all-encompassing.
And I've always said to myself,
"Family first, job second,
campaign third."
And for that reason,
I am withdrawing my candidacy
for this race.
Get the candidate.
They'll be calling for comment.
You gonna tell him
who discovered the nanny?
No. I don't know. I promised Alicia
not to bring the kids into the race.
You didn't. They jumped in.
He's on. He's on.
Sir, it's a two-way race.
I am leaving this race purely because
of the pressures on my family.
Yes.
Oh, my gosh.
You kids want some cornbread?
Oh, not now, Jackie. We're okay.
So he recovered his memory
about being waterboarded
in February of 2009.
Yes, all the pain and suffering kept him
from memorising fully until now.
Well, I guess our friend Shen Yuan
caught on to America pretty quickly.
You're a good teacher.
Thirty million dollars, and you stop
handing over dissident names.
God, I hate Chicago.
It's a mean place.
Unlike Silicon Valley?
Hmm, all this architecture.
You know,
we know the future at least.
We know boundaries
are disappearing.
China, North Korea,
they're all just concepts.
Concepts holding us back.
From what?
From a free flow
of power and information.
That is the future.
So you guys,
you're all just fighting over things.
You got a bag of pennies when
everyone else is using credit cards.
Things are dead.
Things are
uncool.
No money.
And we'll agree
to stop handing names to China.
Really? What happened?
Oh, you've showed us the error
of our ways.
You're getting out of China?
We're considering it.
It's too much of a hassle.
Too protectionist.
So are we agreed?
Good. Then we are out of here.
Here we go.
In ten minutes,
either Bond will run this firm or we will.
Good job.
Alicia.
You don't belong here.
- What do you mean?
- I think we should talk.
They're undervaluing you.
I won't.
I'm not interested.
I'm persistent.
Thank you, everyone.
Well, here we are again.
On behalf of the name partners,
I would like to thank everybody
for making the time.
And I would like to introduce
a new face, Mr. Howard Lyman,
one of the first partners
in this business.
He thought he would return to the fold,
and we welcome you with open arms.
Now, at this point,
I must express some bafflement
at the cause for this meeting.
I think you had some business,
Derrick?
Yes. Thank you.
Now, we've had some troubling
reports of you
trying to steal clients and partners,
Diane, and start your own firm.
Now, the thing we need to value more
than anything at this firm is cohesion.
- And that is the only reason...
- What crap. Just vote.
Thank you, David.
I'd like to call a vote
of all the equity partners
to censure and dismiss Diane Lockhart
as an equity partner.
Would you like me
to hand over the gavel for this vote?
No. Keep it.
- Do we have a second?
- Second.
- Any debate?
- Just call the question. Come on.
By a show of hands, who agrees
to censure and dismiss me?
Nineteen, 20. The motion falls short.
You had me fire my head of litigation
and put you in.
- Yeah.
- Why?
I don't like you.
Are there any other motions?
I move that we get rid of Bond
and I get his office
for my second secretary.
- Are there any seconds?
- Seconded.
By a show of hands,
all those in favor?
- Is this when I vote?
- Yes.
- Stupid son of a bitch.
- Yep.
Twenty-one, 22, 23.
The motion passes.
Derrick Bond has been removed
as name partner.
And I get his office.
- Good plan.
- Nice execution.
We're the perfect couple.
Yeah. Everything but the sex.
As you can imagine,
the demands of this job
are all-encompassing.
And I've always said to myself,
"Family first, job second,
campaign third."
- Zach.
- And for that reason...
Hey, Dad.
Come here.
- Is something wrong?
- No. Come here.
Thank you.
You did it.
But I want my supporters
to know that I am leaving this race
purely because of the pressures
on my family.
- Thank you.
- Mr. Childs.
Mr. Childs,
do you blame Peter Florrick for this?
One minute, please.
What are your plans now?
I loved her. My kids loved her.
I failed to do my due diligence.
That's all.
I didn't know
she was an illegal immigrant.
I also didn't know
I would be running for this office.
Mr. Childs, 30 seconds.
With all due respect,
that just doesn't wash.
You want my job, a job that judges
whether others have broken the law.
You just spent the past five years
breaking the law.
- Yes.
- Look at the negatives.
Now, you can't just say,
"Oops, my bad."
- You broke the law.
- They don't like Wendy,
- but they don't like Childs' criticizing.
- Mr. Florrick, 30 seconds.
Come on, come on. Stick to the script.
The youth vote. The youth vote.
This is our last debate.
In six weeks,
you're going to be voting,
so I wanna address
the young people.
Listening to us lately,
you might think politics is
all about shouting and finger-pointing.
- Look.
You are the future.
- Come on, prison, prison.
- Your hopes, your dreams.
I know from my time in prison
that what we do up here matters.
I'm a mother first, an activist second.
What I did, I did for my daughters.
And I think it's hypocritical
for these two men to stand up here
and act as if
they know the struggles...
Alicia Florrick.
What are you worried about?
You're up by three votes.
That's what
I'm worried about. Three votes.
- This Friday?
- That's the plan.
Do you have the contracts?
Actually, I need Alicia
in my deposition.
It's all coming down.
Tensions are high.
- Over?
- Partners meeting. Friday.
Look, I know it's last-minute,
but I need you in these depositions.
- What is it?
- Internet suit dropped in our lap.
Suing the search engine Chumhum.
They don't wanna go to court,
so we scare them into settlement.
- Just look angry and intense.
- I can do that.
It was a Thursday.
I had just come home, uh,
from classes. Very late.
Now, Mr. Shen Yuan, when
you've discussed this in the past...
Excuse me.
Don't you wanna hear the rest
of his answer?
Oh, certainly. Please, continue.
Would you like?
Um, I teach at
the Beijing Hongwu University.
Uh, sorry. I taught... Taught at.
I was working on notes for a lecture.
It was 10 at night.
And the phone rang.
It was a voice I didn't know.
He said, "Are you home?"
Uh, I laughed.
I said, "Yes, of course."
And he hung up.
I thought it was a wrong number.
Then I was saying good night
to my wife.
And, um, I remember
I started to say,
"Do you think Tolstoy died happy?"
But before I finished,
the door broke open
and ten agents came in.
Guoanbu. Government agents.
They threw me on the floor,
bound my feet, hands,
and took me away
in my nightclothes.
This was in 2004.
I didn't see my wife again
until last year.
I was, uh, imprisoned
in Beijing Prison Number 9,
accused of inciting subversion.
You see, I had sent, uh, a blog entry.
I had sent it to a friend here
in Chicago.
And I had argued to him
that democracy would come to China.
And how did you know that
this was the reason for your arrest?
How...? How did I know?
Yes. There's no record of your trial
or your arrest warrant.
How do you know that it wasn't
someone just informing on you?
Because the security man
who tortured me
for the next three weeks told me so.
And why do you blame
Chumhum for this, sir?
Why not the Chinese authorities?
I do blame the Chinese authorities,
but I used your social media website.
I trusted my writings
to remain anonymous.
But Chumhum gave my IP address
to the police.
That's the only reason why
I was arrested,
imprisoned
and tortured for five years.
Twenty-eight million dollars.
And an agreement
to not turn over any more names
to the Chinese authorities.
- Hmm, no.
- Okay, then.
What else do we have to talk about,
your cookies?
Chumhum is a worldwide company
like Yahoo, Google, Facebook.
We do business in Canada, Mexico,
China, even Easter Island.
We have to follow the laws
of each individual country.
- That's your defense?
- That's part of our defense.
And, uh, human rights,
they don't matter?
What human rights?
One person's freedom fighter
is another person's terrorist.
Shen Yuan, as sympathetic as he is,
broke his country's laws.
We didn't make those laws. In fact, if
we hadn't handed over his IP address,
we would've been breaking
their laws.
Yeah. Ask Yahoo
how well that defense worked.
- Yahoo never went to court.
- Yep. They paid up instead.
Now we're talking. Lower your ask.
- No, I don't think so.
- All right, then consider this:
Chumhum could not have anticipated
the repercussions of our actions.
Yeah, that's it. The Chinese
just wanted his IP address
to throw him a little surprise party.
We'll be back.
Oh, I have a pen.
Do you want me to sign it?
- Excuse me.
- Your behind.
Do you want me to sign it?
They wanna argue
that they didn't know
handing over Shen's IP address
would result in his arrest and torture.
So you need to dig through
all of Chumhum's writings,
public statements,
anything that contradicts...
- Got it.
- Heading out for that divorce case
we were talking about.
Do you need help
with something else?
We're fine. Thanks.
We're like homeless lawyers.
So the vote is this Friday.
Bond is up by three votes.
One of them is supposedly me,
so really he's only up by one.
- By two.
- No, by one.
He loses your vote, that's one vote.
He's up by two.
No, I move to Diane's side,
so she gains one and he loses one.
- What are you talking about?
- Talking about...
We need more votes!
We need more votes
and we're running out of time.
Julius, where are we
on turning Fitzpatrick?
- Still talking to him. Nothing definite.
- What have you been doing?
What have l...? You know, in case
you haven't noticed, I have a job.
Yeah, excuse me.
This is not a smoking section.
This is a secret section.
Walk away. Walk away!
We have to talk about
how all this is gonna shake out.
Oh, here we go.
Yeah, here we go. I want assurances
about the minority-hiring program.
If he gets one more assurance,
I swear to God...
Okay, okay, we're all going to benefit
if we get Bond out,
so can we just hold it together
for one more week, please?
But no more meetings outside.
I walk away from this vent
smelling like spaghetti.
What do you think?
I think it's not exactly
the Continental Congress,
but all we need to do
is switch one vote.
Or add two.
Remember when our firms
were brought together under Stern?
You're not bringing Stern back,
are you? I'd rather...
No, no, his gang of three.
Remember?
- The alter kockers?
- Yes.
We needed to keep them on the rolls
per Stern's contract.
They didn't have to come in to work,
but we sent them the quarterly reports
and...
They're still equity partners.
They're dead, aren't they?
They have to be dead.
One of them is dead.
Two of them aren't.
Every statement made
by every board member of Chumhum,
and not a single one
mentions China.
- What's this?
- Change of address.
- For who?
- Me.
Uh, I don't think I even have
your old address.
Well, now you have my new one.
I feel like
we've grown closer together.
- Okay, give it back.
- Oh, no, no, no.
This is going in my copy
of Eat, Pray, Love.
- Ow.
- Sorry.
- Ow.
- Peter did well in his debate today.
Yeah, I know.
Do you want him to win?
Yes. I just don't wanna go back
to the way things were.
- Well, why would they?
- I don't know. Life.
Zach, I just got Dad's text.
- Everything good?
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna be another hour.
- Yeah, I'll tell him.
- I love you.
- All right, love you too.
- She's hurt, but she's not out.
- Oh, come on.
I don't wanna hear anything
discouraging. You slaughtered them.
- Okay, but...
- No buts.
- Give us a minute to feel good, huh?
- No. I wanna hear this. Go ahead.
Women sympathize with her.
With Wendy. Over Nannygate.
I thought so.
And she gave a good closing.
It's a very good closing.
I don't think we killed her.
- She stays in the race.
- Then let her. She's injured.
- She'll limp along.
- What about Childs?
Find out anything about his nanny?
Yeah, Swedish au pair.
All paid up, everything legal.
Hmm.
But, hey, we're back from the grave.
We have money coming in.
We'll start buying airtime.
- With six weeks left.
- Yeah.
I don't think so.
We needed to make this
a two-man race and we didn't.
- But it was a good day.
- It was.
And a good race. Gentlemen.
Thank you.
It was an honor serving with you.
Hi, Becca?
Yeah, I was just wondering,
do you still have those photos
from drama camp?
No, it's important.
Neil Gross. I'm CEO of Chumhum.
So you're the reason Shen Yuan
was imprisoned and tortured?
No, you'll have to subpoena
the Chinese authorities for that.
But you supplied the Chinese
authorities with Mr. Yuan's IP address.
Yes, which we were forced to do.
If the U.S. government forced us
to supply the IP addresses
of a child pornographer,
we would do the same.
Wait, so you're equating a Chinese
dissident with a child pornographer?
Hmm, no. I don't think any fair analysis
of our exchange would conclude that,
but nice try.
Isn't the motto of your company,
"First, do no wrong"?
- Yes, it is.
- Do you believe you did no wrong
when you turned Mr. Yuan's
information over to the Chinese?
I believe wrong is best avoided
by being open.
- "Information wants to be free."
- So to speak.
Information wants to be free,
but people wanna go to jail.
We had no foreknowledge
of what the Chinese would do
with the supplied IP addresses.
- How old are you?
- Me? Why?
Because I'm asking you a question
in a deposition.
Oh. I'm 50.
How old are you?
Don't you think it's a little old
to be wearing a hoodie?
Is there any point to this line
of questioning other than to offend?
Not really, actually.
It's okay, Vi. It's all good.
I think hoodies are practical.
I think they help brand a lifestyle.
And I think I make more in an hour
than you make in a year.
- That help you?
- Yes, it does, actually.
Uh, how many IP addresses
of dissidents
have you supplied
to the Chinese authorities?
I don't know. Not more than 50.
"Not more than 50."
I think that number
surprised someone
who was imprisoned and tortured
for five years.
Look, um,
I don't think you understand.
If the U.S. government thinks we
should not be doing business in China,
outlaw it like they do in Cuba.
- But they don't do that. Know why?
- I know what you'll argue.
Because American businesses
in China help open the door.
Just a little bit. We let the light in.
It also doesn't hurt that we owe them
$843 billion, does it?
Guess I'm less cynical than you,
because I think we're changing
the face of Chinese society.
Look what happened in Egypt.
Ugh. What?
You attended Stanford University.
Is that correct?
Yes, I did.
Oh, I wore a hoodie there too.
In your Comparative Religions class
in 1984,
did you write a paper about the arrest
and torture of Tibetan activists?
Are you all right?
The guard who took the most pleasure
in my water treatment...
It is simulated drowning.
- he had a cell phone in his pocket.
And it would ring
and he would stop.
It was the same ring.
I hear it everywhere.
Sorry.
Whenever I hear it, I think of that.
It's an odd way to walk through life.
My worry is they will offer money
and not stop this practice.
Eight hundred and sixty-five
thousand dollars.
Really? Your CEO makes more
in an hour than I make in a year
- and he wants to offer...?
- Direct damages, lost wages.
the wife's loss of companionship,
adjusted for inflation.
Our Legal Department looked into it.
- No reason for punitive.
- No pain and suffering?
Not that would warrant
more than $865,000.
What do you have?
What do you think I have?
So, what, lack of foreknowledge
didn't work for you,
- so you're gonna go after Shen Yuan?
- Why not Nelson Mandela?
- V?clav Havel?
- See you tomorrow.
A bluff or what?
- You're kidding.
- Ha, ha, I'm not.
Zach looks exactly like his dad.
Oh, Zach, there you are.
Jackie and I were just having
a little chat.
- Hi.
- Well, I'll let you two get to it.
I'm really glad we got to talk, Jackie.
What are you doing
with my grandmother?
Nothing. She was already here.
She's actually pretty cool.
Cool skips a generation.
- Didn't you know that?
- No, it doesn't.
So these are the pictures
of Glenn Junior at drama camp.
What are you looking for?
Well, my dad's trying to prove that
Glenn Childs never paid his nanny.
They said it was a Swedish au pair,
but I thought I saw in your pictures...
Wait, stop.
If that's his nanny,
she's not Swedish.
We think they'll try
to show Shen Yuan wasn't tortured.
Really? Any idea how?
Well, my guess is they'll get a Chinese
official on their witness list
to insist there was no torture.
So we need to line up dissidents
to refute it.
Well, okay. I'll be out of contact
for an hour or so. Keep me in touch.
- Sorry about that.
- Take your time.
- Yeah.
- We don't mind sitting here, waiting.
Ha. Well, as I was saying,
we want you back.
Back for the next equity partner
meeting.
What do we get?
Well, um, office space
and a seat at the table.
- And year-end bonuses?
- What, next-year bonuses?
No, no, no, this year.
I said ice cream, you stupid bitch.
How many times do I have to say it?
Um, wait.
You want year-end bonuses
for a year that you didn't work?
You're paying for our wisdom.
You want our votes, right?
- You want both our votes?
- Yes.
Then we have terms.
Cary, what are you doing here?
So a change-of-address notice,
huh?
Why is that seen
as such a revelation?
Hey, I'm just saying I have one.
I moved.
Good for you.
- Cary?
- What?
I like you. It's just...
- It's just...
- I'm not here for anything
other than to tell you something.
A grand jury is being empanelled,
looking into you.
Specifically into me?
Well, supposedly it's about corrupt
practices by defense investigators,
but, yeah, Childs is focusing in on you,
readying an indictment.
- When?
- It's next week.
We're lining up witnesses
and exhibits.
Can you tell me who?
No. I shouldn't be telling you
this much.
Cary?
Why did you send me
a change-of-address notice, anyway?
I don't know. It just felt normal.
You're trying to be normal?
Sure. I like normal.
Welcome back to normal.
Florrick for State's Attorney.
May I direct your call?
Well, look who we have here today.
Oh, hello, Mr. Gold.
I come in peace.
Mm-hm, like Yasser Arafat?
Are you maybe confusing my office
with the free clinic down the street?
Zach, look, I found him.
Eli, how you doing?
- We have something to show you.
- Zach has something to show you.
You said that Childs
paid the Swedish nanny in full.
If that's the case, then who's this?
She's not Swedish.
I mean, look at her. She's black.
And Becca saw her bring Childs'
son to drama camp.
Do you see?
I see. Thank you.
Then why are you not...?
I mean, this is good, right?
- You need to, like...
- I need to what?
I don't know. Look into it.
What's wrong?
What's wrong is that Eli
doesn't trust me.
No. This is interesting.
See? I'm interested.
Could you just give me
one moment?
- I'm gonna tell my dad.
- Is there any way you have
of finding out this nanny's name?
- Maybe.
- Then that would be helpful.
Great. We're on it.
Thanks.
I am the smartest person I know.
No, you can't have a corner office.
Because there are
no corner offices left.
- The alter kockers?
- They're killing me.
- Deposition.
- No, I gotta go.
Then get out your Rolodex.
See what other firm will hire you.
- What do we have?
- Amnesty International.
- And two dissidents.
- From the same prison?
- The exact same prison.
- Excuse me.
If you don't mind, I'd like to
add a new witness to the witness list.
To testify Shen Yuan
wasn't tortured?
Among other things.
- I'm sure you'll find it illuminating.
- I'm sure I will too.
And we'll spend the afternoon
subpoenaing
and cross-examining
duelling experts.
Jinghua.
Who is that?
My wife.
Okay, it's just the two of us.
No one's listening.
What should I be made aware of?
You think Will is on your side,
that he's gonna vote to get rid
of Diane, but he's playing you.
He's actually on Diane's side.
- I don't believe you.
- Then don't.
I just met with them all yesterday.
Will, Diane and David Lee.
They're gonna try to flip Fitzpatrick
to vote with them.
Why are you telling me this?
- What do you want?
- I'll vote with you.
David Lee out and head of litigation.
- Moss is doing a superior job.
- I'll do a better one.
She left me after I was out of prison.
It happens to some people
after things like this.
We came to America a year ago
and my wife left me.
That's why she's testifying against you,
saying you weren't tortured, because...
She wants to hurt me.
Okay, thanks.
Can you give us a minute?
I'm sorry.
It's okay.
Kalinda, get everything you can
on the wife.
We need you to show
her testimony was a lie.
Are you going home?
What?
Becca, how far do you think
I trust you?
Hmm. Not far.
What do you want?
You know what I want.
- Thought you're into this Florrick kid.
- Hey.
I like politician kids. What can I say?
I need one more
to complete my political education.
This is Glenn Childs. Speak.
GLENN JR:
Dad, it's me.
Hey.
- Hey, son, what's up?
- Something's weird here.
Uh, this girl I know from school,
uh, the one with Peter Florrick's kid.
- Yeah?
- She was asking about Rita.
From a few years ago.
Remember?
You know, Rita from that summer?
- Yeah, I remember. Rita.
- She wanted to know her name.
She said her parents wanted
to hire her.
- Did you give it to her?
- No. Never.
Good. Thanks.
Let me call someone.
I'll talk to you later.
We're negotiating. They're offering
too little and we're asking...
Uh... Uh, hold on.
- Mr. Lyman.
- I understand. And just a mi...
Can I call you back?
- Mr. Lyman. Good to see you.
- Ah.
- We need to talk.
- Of course, we do. Let's go.
- Yeah...
- Where we going?
Over here. There's a...
- Julius.
- What?
What is that about?
I don't know.
I'll find out.
It's freezing here.
Mr. Lyman, I thought
I said we would talk on the phone.
- You've got a problem. It's Merrick.
- I can't give any more.
We made a deal. You both agreed.
No, it's not me. It's Merrick.
He's dead.
He was very nervous.
He was going through his Rolodex.
The whole thing
was too much for him.
So here's the thing.
I'm still on board,
but I want everything
that you promised him.
Quite the humanitarian.
- Hey, I didn't kill him.
- So we're still down on votes.
No, we're tied.
With this,
Bond has exactly 22 equity partners.
We have exactly 22.
Either way,
I still get my corner office, right?
Yeah? Kalinda, yeah.
What's going on?
- What?
- We found out why
Shen Yuan's wife walked out on him.
He was cheating.
He joined a Free Tibet movement
when he moved to the States.
He met a young activist
a few months ago.
Oh, dear God.
His wife found out about it
and she walked out on him.
Doesn't matter where you go.
We still think you can use it
to undercut the wife's testimony.
It's irrelevant to pain and suffering.
Yeah, but we don't have
Nelson Mandela anymore.
Years of imprisonment and torture,
and he hops into the first young bed?
Maybe we can settle for cash.
A few million.
No. We need to get Chumhum
to stop these practices in China.
That was the original goal
of the suit.
Let me talk to him.
He could speak to his wife.
- Reunite with her?
- I don't know. Maybe.
I mean, she's lying about him
being tortured.
Maybe he can convince her
to recant.
- Okay. Good.
- Hmm.
It's nothing to do with this.
You want Chumhum to stop handing
over dissident names to China?
Your wife, you have to get her
to recant her testimony.
She's angry.
She's been hurt.
l... I'll talk to her.
You represented him, right?
Patric Edelstein?
Yeah. He was suing that movie.
I think I saw him today at work.
No, he's in Burlingame. See?
Oh, no, you're right, actually.
This is his log of public tweets.
It says he's in Chicago till Monday.
He's cool. He's, like,
the fifth richest guy in the world.
Does he have any business
in China?
His search engine, no.
I don't think so. He's trying though.
See? He just met
with the head of Hongzheren.
What's wrong?
Thank you.
This is about Patric Edelstein.
Patric Edelstein, the billionaire.
The one we represented in his case
against the movie about his life.
We're still representing him?
His Midwestern concerns, yes.
But this China suit.
We're doing it for Edelstein.
He wants Chumhum out of China
so he can move in and monopolise it.
I don't know.
But you do.
It's a good case, no matter what.
- Shen Yuan was tortured, imprisoned.
- Yes.
- But that's not why we're pursuing it.
- Alicia...
I just, for one minute, wanted to think
that we were doing the right thing.
- We are doing the right thing.
- But for the wrong reason.
Who do you know who's
doing something for the right reason?
I would love to meet them,
because my guess is
after five minutes of questioning,
we'll find the wrong reason.
You believe that?
I do believe that.
And if you thought about
all you've learned this last year,
you'd believe it too.
Edelstein moves into China.
What does he do?
What do you mean?
Does he turn over the names
of more dissidents?
It's the law.
What fresh hell today?
We thought having two more votes
would get us over the top,
so we approached
two of the senior citizens
who were still on the logs
as equity partners.
Okay, David. We get it, we get it.
No, I don't think you do.
You couldn't have scripted it better.
So, what happened?
Did one of them die?
Yesterday.
All you need are jugglers
and we'll have a Roman farce.
No smoking. Go away.
Anyway, I'm glad
Mr. Lee finds this so entertaining.
That just puts more pressure on you,
Julius, to turn Fitzpatrick.
- Can you do it?
- All I can do is try.
Oh, yes, please, do try.
- So they think they're tied?
- Yes.
With one of Stern's gang of three.
The other two died.
But your vote puts me over the top.
- Yes, if...
- I know.
Head of litigation.
Congratulations.
You're our new head of litigation.
Okay. Thank you, ma'am.
Ooh, that sounded good.
Childs had another nanny.
For his grown kids.
- A Jamaican nanny.
- I thought you said she was Swedish.
She was,
but she had to go back to Sweden
to, I don't know,
swim in a fjord or something.
- That's Norway.
- Thanks.
So, Childs needed another nanny
for three months over the summer,
and he hired
a Jamaican nanny illegally.
- I'll have to do polling.
- There's more.
I wanted to seal the deal this time,
so I had someone hint to Childs
that we were pursuing
the illegal nanny's identity.
And he took the bait
and led us right to her.
- Childs tried to cover it up.
- You're kidding.
No. He tried to pay for the
Jamaican nanny to leave the country.
- You have it all?
- Documented and certified.
- Do the polling.
- I'll do the polling.
Oh, this is turning into
tit-for-tat, isn't it?
Yup, and tat's up by one.
Ah, it was sweet of Shen Yuan
and his wife to reunite.
Yes, isn't it?
Maybe we should go into
couples therapy.
Well, I have one more name
that I'd like to add to our witness list.
Paul Houghton?
Of the Bush administration?
Yes. I wrote the memo
to President George W. Bush,
since referred to
as the Houghton Working Memo.
It expressed the legal position
that certain aggressive interrogation
techniques were not torture.
So, what are you saying?
That Shen Yuan was not tortured?
Well, I have no opinion on that.
I can tell you the opinion
of the Bush administration at the time.
Oh, well, let's hear about that.
Shen Yuan was forced to stand in
the stress position during his captivity.
- Is this torture?
- As long as there was no organ failure
or serious impairment
of body functions,
then in the opinion of the United States
at the time, it was not.
Shen Yuan claims he was
beaten and slapped. Is that torture?
Again, if there was no organ failure
or impairment of body function,
then in the opinion
of the United States, it was not.
The United States has since revoked
your legal opinions, Mr. Houghton.
Yes. January 2009.
Wow. Wow, that's too bad,
because Shen Yuan claims
that there was no such
aggressive questioning after 2008.
So it was the opinion
of the United States
that there was no torture
at the time in question.
So you up for it?
Convincing him to lie?
There just needs to be the possibility
of torture after January 2009.
- That's all.
- This is so bizarre.
We need him to be tortured
during the Obama administration
- or we hobble our case.
- And Edelstein's.
Do you want us
to put somebody else on?
No.
- What do you think?
- I think we're fine.
I always liked this office.
Oh, you know,
I used to have a dartboard over there.
Could hit the bull's-eye
from my chair.
I remember that.
In fact,
I kept a remnant of you.
What's the game here, Peter?
It's over. You're out of the race.
- Really? You have a gun?
- Almost as good.
You see, Wendy could survive
the nanny problem.
She's likable and she's a mother
and she didn't try to cover it up.
You did. People can forgive a lot,
but they can't forgive a cover-up.
What are you talking about?
You hired a nanny for a summer.
You paid her under the table.
And then when you heard
that we were on her trail,
- you tried to pay her to leave.
- So, what, are you recording this?
I don't have to record it.
We recorded the payoff.
Then you know it was three months.
Three months of a nanny taking care
of my kids, not Wendy's five years.
Yes, but I also seem to recall a
candidate at the last debate who said,
"You can't just say, 'Oops, my bad."'
How do you think
that sound bite's gonna play?
You're a son of a bitch.
- Yeah.
- Not just that. You...
You belong in the trophy case
of sons of bitches.
You think I'm in this job just
to beat you, Peter?
Just to exercise power?
I'm in this job to do good.
What do you think, you're the only
person who wants to do good?
Get out of here.
Get out of my office.
Good afternoon.
As you can imagine, the demands
of this job are all-encompassing.
And I've always said to myself,
"Family first, job second,
campaign third."
And for that reason,
I am withdrawing my candidacy
for this race.
Get the candidate.
They'll be calling for comment.
You gonna tell him
who discovered the nanny?
No. I don't know. I promised Alicia
not to bring the kids into the race.
You didn't. They jumped in.
He's on. He's on.
Sir, it's a two-way race.
I am leaving this race purely because
of the pressures on my family.
Yes.
Oh, my gosh.
You kids want some cornbread?
Oh, not now, Jackie. We're okay.
So he recovered his memory
about being waterboarded
in February of 2009.
Yes, all the pain and suffering kept him
from memorising fully until now.
Well, I guess our friend Shen Yuan
caught on to America pretty quickly.
You're a good teacher.
Thirty million dollars, and you stop
handing over dissident names.
God, I hate Chicago.
It's a mean place.
Unlike Silicon Valley?
Hmm, all this architecture.
You know,
we know the future at least.
We know boundaries
are disappearing.
China, North Korea,
they're all just concepts.
Concepts holding us back.
From what?
From a free flow
of power and information.
That is the future.
So you guys,
you're all just fighting over things.
You got a bag of pennies when
everyone else is using credit cards.
Things are dead.
Things are
uncool.
No money.
And we'll agree
to stop handing names to China.
Really? What happened?
Oh, you've showed us the error
of our ways.
You're getting out of China?
We're considering it.
It's too much of a hassle.
Too protectionist.
So are we agreed?
Good. Then we are out of here.
Here we go.
In ten minutes,
either Bond will run this firm or we will.
Good job.
Alicia.
You don't belong here.
- What do you mean?
- I think we should talk.
They're undervaluing you.
I won't.
I'm not interested.
I'm persistent.
Thank you, everyone.
Well, here we are again.
On behalf of the name partners,
I would like to thank everybody
for making the time.
And I would like to introduce
a new face, Mr. Howard Lyman,
one of the first partners
in this business.
He thought he would return to the fold,
and we welcome you with open arms.
Now, at this point,
I must express some bafflement
at the cause for this meeting.
I think you had some business,
Derrick?
Yes. Thank you.
Now, we've had some troubling
reports of you
trying to steal clients and partners,
Diane, and start your own firm.
Now, the thing we need to value more
than anything at this firm is cohesion.
- And that is the only reason...
- What crap. Just vote.
Thank you, David.
I'd like to call a vote
of all the equity partners
to censure and dismiss Diane Lockhart
as an equity partner.
Would you like me
to hand over the gavel for this vote?
No. Keep it.
- Do we have a second?
- Second.
- Any debate?
- Just call the question. Come on.
By a show of hands, who agrees
to censure and dismiss me?
Nineteen, 20. The motion falls short.
You had me fire my head of litigation
and put you in.
- Yeah.
- Why?
I don't like you.
Are there any other motions?
I move that we get rid of Bond
and I get his office
for my second secretary.
- Are there any seconds?
- Seconded.
By a show of hands,
all those in favor?
- Is this when I vote?
- Yes.
- Stupid son of a bitch.
- Yep.
Twenty-one, 22, 23.
The motion passes.
Derrick Bond has been removed
as name partner.
And I get his office.
- Good plan.
- Nice execution.
We're the perfect couple.
Yeah. Everything but the sex.
As you can imagine,
the demands of this job
are all-encompassing.
And I've always said to myself,
"Family first, job second,
campaign third."
- Zach.
- And for that reason...
Hey, Dad.
Come here.
- Is something wrong?
- No. Come here.
Thank you.
You did it.
But I want my supporters
to know that I am leaving this race
purely because of the pressures
on my family.
- Thank you.
- Mr. Childs.
Mr. Childs,
do you blame Peter Florrick for this?
One minute, please.
What are your plans now?