The Good Wife (2009–2016): Season 2, Episode 19 - Wrongful Termination - full transcript

- This doesn't prove anything.
- Of course it doesn't prove anything,

and yet, show that to a jury,

and a million-dollar suit
turns into a 20-million one.

- And if I get it kicked as prejudicial?
- It's Judge Abernathy.

You're representing a deep-pocketed,
big bad internet company

who treated its employees so poorly,

three of them committed suicide in
a month. This one in his own cubicle.

What side do you think
Abernathy will be on?

- You've changed.
- I have.

What happened
to that cute little housewife

that I used to know?



- When did she grow to be so tall?
- Ha-ha-ha.

You know, they say, you always kill
the woman terrorists first.

The male ones, well, they hesitate.
They fear death. Not the women.

Then maybe
you should consider settling.

- I'll talk to my client.
- Good.

- Have you been well?
- I have.

Oh, I heard there was another
turnover at Lockhart/Gardner.

- Yes. It's a new day.
- A new, new day.

Sounds like you have
one of those things every few months.

Do they miss me?

Oh, terribly,
but then every time we end up

on the opposite side of a case
from you, it eases the pain.

Oh, and your husband.
Oh, I hear he's up by three points.

- He's doing well, thank you.
- Playing the race card.



Oh, the suburbs, how they love
their white politicians.

You are going to become
a very valuable commodity very soon.

- How's your daughter, Mr. Stern?
- Every firm in the city

is gonna come out of the woodwork
trying to get their hooks into you.

Wife of the state's attorney,
a practicing lawyer,

and not bad to look at, either.

Have a number to me by 6.

Do nothing. Say nothing.

We are three points up
with six days to go.

The only way Wendy Scott-Carr wins
is if we mess up.

If a reporter comes up to you,
what does everyone say?

That's right. Nothing.

Hello, Petra.

What a glorious day it is today.
How are you?

Eli, you are so counting
your chickens.

What do you mean? I'm sitting here,
chatting with my favorite reporter.

So, what do you think
of the DCC suit?

The DCC suit?
I don't know. What should I think?

Did you have anything to do with it?

I am the first one to call you,
aren't I?

No. What are we talking
about here?

The Democratic Committee has
brought suit against Scott-Carr,

charging her
with a lack of residency status.

Get the DCC now!

- So are you party to this suit?
- Are we party? No.

In fact,
we believe that any question

of our opposition's residency
is misguided.

That's a nice quote. Can you get
me another one from the candidate?

- What's your deadline?
- Well, online edition in 20 minutes.

I'll call you back.

What the hell were you thinking,
you stupid bastard?

Just let go.

- We're up by three points!
- And we're helping!

No! Where did you go to school,
you idiot?

You stupid son of a bitch.

- You novice.
- Wendy's husband's not a resident.

They spend more time
out of Illinois than in it.

You gave her an issue.
You gave her a reprieve.

- The court will invalidate her votes.
- No, they won't.

A lower court will.
It'll look like machine politics.

We finally positioned ourselves
as the enemy of the machine,

and in one fell swoop,
you make it clear that Wendy

is the enemy of the machine.

- Well, what's done is done.
- No, it is not,

because you're gonna drop
this suit and apologize.

Say it came from some underling
with an itchy trigger finger.

Too late. I already gave a quote.

You know,
I don't have many enemies in life.

I get along with Republicans,
Protestants, Catholics,

even a few reporters.

But the one thing I hate is amateurs.

Stern signed off on admitting
this video into evidence?

Yes, but I don't think
he thought we'd end up in court.

Well, it's now 6,
and he's not calling with a number,

so I think we're ending up in court.

It's probably not a bad thing.
If I were on this jury,

I'd wanna punish someone for that.

- Has she seen this?
- No, but she knows I have it.

Best way to get it into evidence
is through her testimony.

- Can you prep her?
- You mean show this to her?

- You all right with that?
- Yes.

So who else are we gonna use
from the rest of the class?

- Fired one with the kids.
- Emily Haas.

Yes. Thanks for holding
them together.

I'll be right back.

- Do you need some help, little girl?
- No, I'm good.

- Where'd you get these?
- My sister.

Do you remember Helena?

She's staying the weekend.

- She said to say hello.
- She did not.

Well, she said
some other things too.

- She doesn't still hold a grudge?
- No, no. The first decade she did.

She wasn't used to people
breaking up with her.

- She usually was the heartbreaker.
- Does she think it's weird we're?

- She thinks I'm competing with her.
- Well, then you've won.

We've been with each other
longer than her.

I got an offer to go to London.

That's why I'm here. They want me
to go to London for the Olympics.

- Next year?
- This year, to be their man

on the ground in the rev up.

- Are you going?
- I don't know.

Okay.

- I get it.
- Good.

What?

- What are we?
- No.

Should I go to London?

- It's a good opportunity.
- It's a promotion.

- And you wanna go.
- That's the subject under discussion.

I need some help.

I think I should go.

Okay, then I think
that's a smart plan.

- When would you leave?
- Two weeks.

- Wow, fast.
- Yup.

Okay.

See you.

Morning.

You have the Aubrey
client meeting at 9.

And the final contracts
on your desk for Thompson.

I'll give you ten more minutes

then I need you
on the phone with New York.

Yup.

Stern is dead.

Okay, who's doing it?
Just keep me in touch.

- When?
- I don't know.

Some time during the night.

His secretary just found him
this morning.

- Well, that's the end of an era.
- I kind of don't know what to think.

- I mean, he brought us together.
- Yeah.

Then he took half our clients

and he's been bludgeoning us
with them ever since.

- When's the funeral?
- Tomorrow. Just the family.

But they're sitting shiva
for the week.

Is it horrible of me?

Don't know, but I was thinking
the same thing.

- We can grab our clients back.
- Yup.

I already made a list.

- We can't call them now, can we?
- Well, that might seem opportunistic.

- What's the etiquette?
- Tomorrow.

If we don't, other firms will jump in.

Other firms without the same
sense of restraint?

We should call
on his wife and daughter.

Sitting shiva?

Sure.

You think his firm's in play?

- Could be.
- That would be bad.

Clients might stay put.

I'm sorry.

I know.

I mean, how awful.
He was dead the whole night.

Everyone thought it was just
another one of his all-nighters.

The life of a lawyer.

I don't wanna die like that.

Then don't.

Pamela Harriman.
Now, that was a death.

Doing laps in the Paris Ritz pool.

Doesn't matter, does it?
We all end up in the same place.

All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

Well, you're a bundle of joy.

Stay healthy.

Okay, not too opportunistic.

I am so sorry.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Solomon Harwell. LSG.

We had 11 million
of their business last year.

Yes.

And his son
just made it into Harvard.

- Solomon, how are you?
- Counselor, how are you?

We're a stronger firm these days.

Economy knocked out some
of our competitors, but we survived.

Oh, I know. I always liked you guys,

but I'm waiting to see
who's buying Stern's firm first.

- Who's buying? What do you mean?
- Stern was selling his firm.

He was retiring.

I didn't know that.

Who's he selling it to?

Mrs. Florrick?

Funny to see you here.

Yes, funny. Uh...

- You knew Mr. Stern?
- I did. Not for that long.

Just the last four months.

He was helping me become
adjusted to Chicago.

- It's a sad day.
- Yes.

Very sad.

But I didn't realize, Mr. Canning,
that you were still here.

- I thought you went back to New York.
- Oh, no. No.

I like it here. Oop.

In fact, I think we'll be seeing
each other in court again soon.

We will? Why?

Stern's last case.

- Uh, you're taking over?
- Well...

I bought his firm.

Every case, every client.

Looks like we'll be
facing off quite a bit now.

Wendy Scott-Carr
is an Illinois resident.

This is her summer
home in Forest Lake,

not in Michigan as the
Democratic Committee suggests.

And why isn't Wendy's team
showing me that?

Because they're three points down
and they want the DCC

to continue to shoot
themselves in the foot.

They seem to be
shooting you in the foot.

All the more reason to print it.

I got a background quote
that Florrick has bimbo issues.

Had bimbo issues.

No, I think I got the tense right.

- You're not gonna print it.
- Am I not?

- If it's untrue, you're not.
- And we know this how?

Because Peter is a reformed man.

This is pretty convincing stuff.

He slept with a coworker

and is actively trying
to hide it from his wife.

And I hear the state's attorney
has an investigator

named Andrew Wiley
snooping around.

There are some very real
human beings in this little drama.

Yes, and I know that is always
your first concern.

Get me a quote from the wife.

- No.
- I'll run what I have.

- You'll run a rumor.
- Half our newspaper's a rumor.

How do you think news
becomes news?

Get Mrs. Florrick
on the phone with me.

Maybe I'll run something else.

Give me 48 hours.

Twenty-four.

Thank you. Please.

I didn't know Jonas Stern

outside of our
few shared moments here,

but it's always worth a moment
to reflect on how fleeting life is.

How we really only hold
so much sand in our hands.

As they say.

Anyway,

I hear that negotiations
have broken down,

and we're ready to go.

Yes? Then let's call the jury.

And when would you say
things changed, Mr. Yellins?

Well, about six months ago,
after Kim Palmieri took over as CEO.

- Kim Palmieri, the defendant?
- Yes. It started with little things.

They closed the employee break room,
they cut our sick days.

They laid people off
so the rest of us were forced

to come in on the weekends
and take up the slack.

The air conditioning was off,
so the place was an oven.

Finally, I came in to my office one day,
and my desk was gone.

- Where did it go?
- They'd moved it to the copy room.

My supervisor, Kevin,
made me gather my things into a box

and walk over to the copy room
with everybody staring at me,

and that was the most humiliating...

Uh, so after that,
I couldn't go back there.

- I quit.
- No further questions.

So

they closed the break room?

Yes.

I see. I'm sorry.

And the air conditioner being
turned off, that was tough.

Well, it was the idea
of working on the weekends.

I understand.

And this moved desk,
how far was that?

Uh, I don't know.
The end of the building.

And everybody's eyes were on you?

- The whole firm's.
- That must've been humiliating,

with everyone watching you.

How far was it,
do you think, 50 feet?

- Um, I don't know.
- Well, let's try it.

Was it this far, your humiliating walk?
The one with everyone staring at you?

Uh, no, it was further.

Okay, was it a straight line
or was something in your way or?

I don't think you're getting the point.

The point is that
it was painful and humiliating.

I mean, that's why you're suing.

And I'm just trying to ascertain
the extent of your humiliation.

Was it this far, your walk
with everybody watching you?

We need to hit
the videotaped hanging harder.

- Kalinda, what do you have?
- Their financials.

The company claims
they cut employee perks

because of the economy,

but I found this buried
under a miscellaneous line item.

Two-point-seven million paid
to a company called Haver Associates.

A human resources consultant.

They tell you how to fire people.

This should've been
turned over in discovery.

- Looks like they were trying to hide it.
- Good. Stay on it.

And so your husband
took his own life?

Yes.

He called me and asked me
to hug our daughters,

to read them Goodnight Moon.

He loved reading them that.

And then he took an extension cord

and stood on his desk
and hung himself.

You've seen the surveillance
video of your husband's suic...

Objection.

- This is absurd. It's decided.
- No, it's not.

- This was already settled.
- With another lawyer.

- Your Honor.
- Over here.

I find lawyers less aggressive
when seated. Please.

Everybody, please take a seat.

And no leaning forward.

Everybody take a deep breath.

Good. Mr. Canning,
let's start with you.

It's prejudicial, Your Honor.

It's a surveillance video of Mr. Joyce
committing suicide by hanging himself.

It serves no probative value,
other than to inflame the jury.

Uh, Mr. Gardner, Mrs. Florrick.

It goes to pain and suffering.

Mrs. Joyce not only had
to suffer her husband's suicide,

- she had to see the surveillance video.
- Because you showed it to her.

Ah, ah, ah. Mr. Canning,
you'll have your chance.

Mr. Canning's predecessor counsel
already signed off on our evidence list.

- He had no objection to this video.
- That's true.

Why are we reopening
this particular can of worms?

- No, no. Don't lean forward.
- Just...

I just have to get something
from my case, Your Honor.

In going over our records
with our medical carrier,

I discovered several prescriptions
for Donepezil made out to Mr. Stern.

It's a drug commonly used for
treatment of Alzheimer's and dementia.

It's a scourge of the elderly,
as you know.

Yes. My nana suffered from it.

- She hardly knew me at the end.
- Oh, that's terrible.

It was the same with my mom
when I visited her at the care center.

Is there some reason for?

I believe Lockhart/Gardner
was aware of Mr. Stern's condition,

and took advantage of a disabled man
who didn't know what he was signing.

This is ridiculous. I had
no idea whatsoever, Your Honor.

- Mrs. Florrick?
- Mrs. Florrick?

Were you aware
of Mr. Stern's diminished condition?

Your Honor, I regret
I can't answer that question,

due to the bond
of attorney-client privilege.

Ah. Well, then, you leave me no choice
but to read between the lines here.

Uh, Mr. Stern's evidentiary agreement
no longer holds sway,

and Mr. Canning's objection
to the videotape is sustained.

- So, what, we're keeping secrets here?
- No, we're keeping privilege.

Okay. So hypothetically then.

You're an associate, and a partner
at your firm asks you to represent him.

- Yes.
- And during the course

of that representation,
you learn certain things,

and he instructs you
not to inform anyone.

Including the other partners.

Hypothetically in that situation, I would
be bound by that, even after his death.

Great. Stern's dead
and he's still screwing us.

- Here comes the monster.
- Ha-ha-ha!

Oh, I'm gonna get you. Rrr!

- Hey, thanks for dropping by.
- No problem, Wiley.

What are you investigating now?

Childs has me on a... Huh.

- Where did I put that?
- What's your wife working on?

A spaceship.

For Richard Branson. Virgin Galactic.
She's designing one of his rockets.

Okay, why did she
marry you anyway?

Because of my sense of humor.

Hey, I want clothes on,
teeth brushed in five minutes.

So Childs has me
on this last interview Blake gave.

- What do you mean?
- The investigation

into Kalinda Sharma.
He gave one last interview about her.

- To who?
- Matan.

I was supposed to collate
all these interview notes of his.

And this is what Matan sent me. Heh.

It's supposed to be five pages.
Two are missing.

Okay. Happens all the time.

He tell you anything
about the missing pages?

- Did Matan? No. Why?
- He said he did.

Trying to catch me in a lie,
good buddy?

You still protecting Kalinda,
good buddy?

The investigation was over.

The investigation's never over.

Mr. Childs, it's Andrew Wiley. Yeah,
hold on. Let me put you on speaker.

Okay, Mr. Childs, you're on.
I'm here with Cary.

Look, Cary,
the department is divided,

so I need you two to find out what's
going on with these missing notes.

I think Matan is playing politics here,

trying to pad his r?sum?
for whoever takes over.

You want us to interview Matan?

No, he'll say
it's just a mistake.

I want you to find out
what's in those missing notes.

- Cary?
- Uh, yeah?

Why did Matan say he talked to you
about these missing pages?

I have no idea.

Okay, find me these two pages
so we can wrap this up.

Lockhart/Gardner. Can you hold?

- Hello.
- Oh, hi.

- Did you see Will?
- No.

- Oh, do you want to?
- No, I...

My sister is staying with me.
I just needed to get out of the house.

- My sister used to date Will.
- Yes, I know.

She was talking about Will
breaking up with her,

and the reason he broke up with her,
and the person

he broke up with her for,
it's you, isn't it?

Yes.

Oh.

I'm married.

I've moved on, Will has moved on.
We were kids.

- We're not kids anymore.
- I don't know. Will still is.

No. Heh. He isn't. He thinks he is.

Sorry, I'm late.

I got it from Haver Associates.

- The HR consultants.
- Yep.

In addition to restructuring
20 percent of human resources...

Meaning firing
two out of every ten employees.

they said that Palmieri
could recognize significant savings

if a meaningful percentage of labor
could be induced to resign,

rather than being terminated.

Meaning make people
so miserable they'll quit,

and you'll save
a bundle in severance.

- They did it intentionally.
- That's the smoking gun.

They deliberately created
a hostile environment

to get people to quit.

Well, with this, we can get
the hanging video back in.

We can show that their conduct
was designed to make him depressed.

We can do more than that.

It's an intentional tort. That opens them
up to punitive damages.

They made three people
kill themselves.

So we'll make them pay for it.

Is there anybody here

who thinks Marty is good at his job?
Huh?

Anybody? Oh, come on,
there must be somebody. Madelyn?

That's quite a performance,
Ms. Palmieri.

I admit, I can be passionate,
but as CEO, I'm responsible.

Do you recognize this document?

Uh, yes, it's part of a consulting report
we commissioned.

Can you read that paragraph for us,
Ms. Palmieri?

"In addition to restructuring
20 percent of human resources,

significant savings could be realized
if a percentage of labor

could be induced to resign,
rather than terminated."

If you got people to quit

instead of firing them,
you'd save money.

No severance package, no benefits,
is that it?

It was one strategy that
was suggested by the consultancy.

- We didn't follow it.
- Did you know

that six hours
after your motivational meeting,

Martin Joyce committed suicide?

I did know that.

No further questions.

Ms. Palmieri, your management style,
it's a bit, uh, confrontational,

- I think is what you said.
- It can be, yes.

- In your experience, is that unusual?
- No.

Times are tough.

Employers face
severe financial restrictions.

So there's reason
for your being confrontational?

If we don't squeeze

every drop of productivity
from our employees,

we'll be forced
to ship their jobs overseas,

where labor costs
are considerably cheaper.

So you were trying
to keep jobs in America.

Yes, I was.

Can I help you?

You're being investigated.

- By?
- Andrew Wiley.

He noticed two pages of notes

were missing from your interview
with Blake.

Childs thinks
you're hiding something,

something Blake told you
about Kalinda.

- It's not criminal. It's personal.
- Okay.

Personal to who, to Kalinda?

Since when do you care
about protecting Kalinda?

I don't.
I care about protecting this office.

What does Kalinda
have to do with this?

Not the current inhabitant
of this office.

Kalinda and Peter Florrick?

It's got nothing to do with Childs.

But if he gets ahold of it,
it's scorched earth.

- They had an affair?
- A one-nighter.

Back when Kalinda worked here.

Blake had details, verifiable ones.

Florrick will do anything
to cover it up.

- He promised to keep me in this job.
- I need to tell Wiley it's not criminal,

but the problem is, is that
he may go to Childs with it anyway.

So, what do you suggest we do?

Mrs. Florrick? Excuse me.
Mrs. Florrick?

This is kind of awkward.

My driver went home sick, and I was
wondering if I could trouble...

See, this is what
I love about Chicago.

It's a real community.
People helping each other out.

Your driver isn't really sick,
is he, Mr. Canning?

Mrs. Florrick,
there's gotta be a word for people

who are always finding
hidden motives in things.

Right? Ha-ha-ha.

I want you to come and work for me.

My new law firm.

Fast-track to full partnership,

percentage of plaintiffs'
contingency fees.

- Why would you do that?
- You beat me in court last time.

No. Will and Diane beat you.

Ha-ha-ha. Well, you're cheaper.

Probably doesn't hurt my husband's
going to be state's attorney.

No, you're right, that doesn't hurt.

Mm-hm.

I don't think we're a good fit,
Mr. Canning, but thank you.

Do you know the sign
of an immature person?

When they can't distinguish between
morality at home and morality at work.

Oh, is that me now?

I do
what I need to do at work to win.

I go home, I cuddle with my wife,
I cuddle with my kids,

and I tell them pretty stories
about heroism and heaven.

- And what do I do?
- You go home and feel bad about it.

Oh, this is me. Thank you.

It's a good job offer.
Twice what you're making now.

Think about it.

- You look deep in thought.
- I was.

- You must be very happy.
- Yes.

Except for the DCC trying to kill us
because they're a bunch of idiots.

The residency suit, I saw.

Yes, well, in the waning days
of a campaign

the mudslinging can get pretty ugly.

Sounds like you're
preparing me for something.

Petra Moritz, the reporter,
has a rumor.

Okay.

It's completely bogus,
but she wants a quote from you.

And the rumor?

There was another woman
in Peter's past.

I wouldn't drag you into this,

but unless I can get you on the phone
with her, she's gonna run with it.

And I know I promised
never to ask you, but

Peter's so close.

And this kind of rumor,
it could ruin us.

- I'll think about it.
- I need to know soon.

I'll think about it.

Nothing further, Your Honor.

Mrs. Joyce,

first of all, let me just say
how sorry I am for your loss.

I mean, my wife means
everything to me. And I...

I can't imagine how you feel.

Unfortunately, this is a trial,

so I have to ask you
some tough questions.

Ask away.

Were you and your husband
having marital difficulties?

We'd had some issues, on and off,
but we were working through them.

In fact, you had an affair,
is that right?

No. I was unfaithful to
my husband once on a business trip.

- It was hardly an affair.
- But your husband, he knew?

Your Honor, I think
we've ascertained the facts here.

I'm inclined to agree. Mr. Canning.

I'm just trying to establish
that there could've been

alternative causes
for Martin Joyce's suicide.

My husband was depressed

because of how they treated him
at his job.

But he was depressed.
Did he seek treatment?

Yes. He saw our doctor
and a therapist.

And did those doctors prescribe
any medications?

He prescribed a number of drugs.

Escitalopram, uh, Bupropion.

None of them seemed to help.

What about Elvatyl?

Did he prescribe
a drug called Elvatyl?

Yes.

Are you aware of
the side effects of Elvatyl?

Objection, Your Honor.

Okay, deep breath.

This is a complete conflict
of interest, Your Honor.

Mr. Canning defended
the makers of Elvatyl just last year

in a lawsuit against us.

And now he intends
to pin Mr. Joyce's suicide

on the side effects
of his former client's product?

That company
no longer exists, Your Honor.

The rights to the name Elvatyl
were sold to a new company,

and I owe them no duty.

And what evidence
do you intend to present? Uh...

It's a video showing how Elvatyl results
in violent and suicidal behavior.

Now, as you'll see...

Your Honor, last year
we had exactly the same...

- We had this very...
- Okay, okay, one at a time.

This is our exhibit, Your Honor.

We used it last year in a lawsuit
against Mr. Canning's client.

They should have no objection to me
using it for the same purpose,

to show that Elvatyl causes
suicidal thoughts.

- This is outrageous, Your Honor.
- My goodness.

They're really going at it,
aren't they?

Mm.

Look, I got another hour here.
I just wanna talk, that's all.

So give me a call when you get this.

We still have the other two
employees who committed suicide

who weren't taking Elvatyl.

It's odd about Stern, isn't it?

- It was so sudden.
- Yeah.

I saw him the day before.

He seemed normal.

Tammy?

Yes.

She talked to me
the other day. Here.

Her sister told her I was the reason
you broke up with her.

I told Tammy
there was nothing anymore.

Whatever was between us
back then.

Thank you. It's complicated.

I know.

Everything is.

- Okay, who's Karen?
- Karen who?

Is there anybody here

who thinks Marty is good at his job?
Huh?

Anybody? Oh, come on,
there must be somebody.

Madelyn? Phil?

What about you, Karen?

The other names joined
our class action.

- Who's Karen?
- Karen Jennings.

She worked
in the Benefits Department

and she was a friend
of Martin Joyce's.

She didn't wanna join the class.

Why not?

Thank you.

- Five minutes.
- The key with Petra is to keep cool.

She'll try to get a rise out of you.

- Petra.
- Yes, Ms. Moritz, it's Alicia Florrick.

- Ah, right on time. I appreciate that.
- I'm here too. You have five minutes.

Oh, Eli. Like a guardian angel.

I better get started then.

So, Mrs. Florrick,
your husband cheated on you

with a prostitute
named Amber Madison.

Are you aware
of any other infidelities?

No.

Someone from his past.
Maybe someone that he worked with,

- or someone you both knew socially?
- No.

A source has approached me
with what are claimed to be

substantiated allegations
of sexual conduct.

Mr. Gold informed me of this.
I think the closer we get to an election,

the more the rumormongering
turns less into a sport

and more into a strategy.

Oh. Tell me what you mean by that.

Voters are often moved
by last-minute rumors

because there's
no adequate time to refute them,

and so that's why they become part
of a strategy to hurt your opponent.

So you believe that Wendy Scott-Carr
is behind these rumors?

No.

I think there are people
who want to hurt both candidates.

So your husband has sworn to you
that there was only the prostitute?

I won't discuss
personal conversations.

- Sounds like you're saying no.
- No.

That's saying that what my husband
and I discuss is not your business.

Because there's a private sphere
and a public sphere?

- Yes.
- And

if your husband abused his office
by sleeping with a co-worker,

and he lied to the people closest
to him, his wife and his children,

do you think the electorate
should trust him?

Mrs. Florrick?

So let me ask you one last question.

Did you have an AIDS test?

How dare you, Petra. Go to hell.

So keep my cool, huh?

Yeah, I don't always follow
my own advice.

Hey.

- What are you doing here?
- My job.

- You?
- I'm following you.

Look...

Wiley knows.

He knows something's missing

from Matan's interview with Blake,
and I know Andrew Wiley.

He's not gonna stop
until he finds out.

So I talked to Matan again.
He's sitting on it.

As long as Peter wins,
he'll keep quiet.

It's Wiley you have
to worry about.

Why did you just say that?

- What?
- "As long as Peter wins."

- You know.
- Why didn't you just tell Alicia?

If you would've been upfront
with her,

- none of this would matter.
- Cary.

Or is that why you became friends
with her in the first place?

So Martin was a friend of yours?

Work friends, you know.

Were you aware
that he was taking antidepressants?

Mm-hm.

You know,
the defense have suggested

that he might've had a reaction
to his last medication.

- You mean the Elvatyl?
- Yeah.

I don't see how. He never took it.

He... How do you know?

When he told me he was going on it,

I gave him articles on the side effects.
He got scared.

Ms. Jennings,
we're gonna need you to testify.

I don't wanna get involved.

Where do you work now?

- Where?
- Yeah.

Company fired you a year ago,
did you find a new job?

- That's none of your business.
- I was just wondering

how you afforded the new Mercedes
in your driveway.

They looted the pension fund.

The executives, 35 million. That's why
they were desperate to shed workers.

It wasn't to keep jobs
from being sent overseas.

They needed to cut expenses,
use their funds to cover the shortfall.

- How do you know this?
- Karen.

She uncovered the fraud when
she was working in Benefits.

She went to Kim Palmieri with it.

- And Palmieri bought her off?
- It's criminal fraud.

- Maybe even a RICO case.
- Yeah, but it doesn't help us.

Once it goes public, sure,
the executives will go to jail, but...

The feds seize
the company's assets.

- Yes.
- Well, that's perfect.

We're sitting on knowledge
of a massive fraud,

and we can't do anything about it

because we need the company
to stay viable.

Maybe we can do something with it.

All rise.

I've seem to have misplaced
my gavel. Uh...

I hope that doesn't undercut
my authority here.

Court is now in session.

Do you have any more witnesses,
Mr. Gardner?

Yes, Your Honor. The plaintiffs
call Karen Jennings to the stand.

Uh, Your Honor, this witness
was not on the plaintiffs' witness list.

Not by name, Your Honor,

but we specifically reserved the right
to call any former company employees,

and Your Honor does like to err
on the side of admitting evidence.

Uh, yes, I do.
I also like to be unpredictable.

And yet here I find myself
the height of predictability.

I will allow.

Your Honor, we'd like to ask
for a recess.

Oh, I think it can wait

until it's your turn
for a cross-examine.

Your Honor, ahem,

we'd like to ask for a recess
to confer with opposing counsel.

Looks like the rocket ship's
coming along. Hm?

Yeah. So, what's up?

Talked to Matan.

He stonewalled me, too,
but I think I know what he's after.

I'm just asking you
to show a little discretion.

- With?
- It's not what you think.

It's personal. It's not criminal.
But Childs will use it.

Why are you protecting her, Cary?

I'm not protecting her.

You went to see her
after you talked to Matan.

- What, are you following me?
- I'm doing my job.

Just wondering
why you're not doing yours.

The company executives
were looting the pension fund.

Well, if that's true, that's a problem.

But it's also a problem for you.
You can't go to the authorities with it,

not unless you want to kiss
your settlement goodbye.

- Oh, we're talking settlement now?
- Depends on the number.

Without admitting anything,

it's gonna be hard
for the company to afford

without running out of money
to pay back the fraud.

Yes. Which is why Kim Palmieri

is going to make up the difference,
Mr. Canning, personally.

- Why would she do that?
- Because Karen Jennings

kept a record of every executive
who took part in the fraud,

and Kim Palmieri's name
is on that list.

So either she ponies up or we'll see
how the U.S. Attorney reacts.

My guess is he'll start
by freezing the company assets

and then he'll move on to hers.

Double the salary.

You deserve it.

I'm happy, but thank you.

Get on. We'll talk about it
on the way down.

No, but again, thank you.

- I don't bite.
- Ha-ha-ha.

Actually, I think you do.

Look, this isn't about your husband.

I think you're a good lawyer.

You're this close
to being a great lawyer.

Lockhart/Gardner
is not gonna get you there.

They encourage weakness.

And yet, we've beaten you again.

Do I look beaten?

- You called?
- You forgot your glasses.

I won a case

and I realized

I didn't have anyone to call.

Who do you usually call
when you win a case?

No one.

Okay. Is this going somewhere?

A lawyer I know
died a few days ago,

and it was like he was never here.

Everyone just went back to normal.

Death.

I should sit down for death, right?

Don't go to London.

I know it's selfish of me to say,
but I don't want you to go to London.

- Maybe you should go to London.
- Shut up. Shut up.

It's your career.

So, what do we do now?

I don't know.

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