The Good Wife (2009–2016): Season 3, Episode 4 - Feeding the Rat - full transcript
Alicia takes on what may be the firm's final pro-bono case. Meanwhile, Diane and Will's attempts to foil Eli's power play take an unexpected turn when Will gets a job offer he may not be able to refuse.
[ATM BEEPING]
[SIGHS]
[DOOR BELLS JINGLE]
[MAN 1 SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
ON TV]
Yeah. Yeah.
[DOOR CLOSES]
- You got any toys?
- There.
CASHIER:
There at the...
MAN 1 [ON TV]: One night,
he's driving by a construction site.
[DOOR BELLS JINGLE]
MAN 2: Open it up.
Don't fool with me, man.
Don't fool with me. Hear me?
Open it up!
CASHIER: All right, all right.
MAN 2: Get out the money. Come on.
Stop stalling, man. Stop stalling.
Don't you fool with me.
It's okay. I got it, I got it.
I got the safe right here, man.
MAN 2: Don't you fool with me, man,
I'll blast your ass!
MAN 2: Get it. Give me the money.
- Okay.
MAN 1:
Half-inch sheets, exterior grade.
It just happened to fit the bill.
[CELL PHONE RINGING]
MAN 1: So he says,
"Who's gonna miss them?"
So he stops his car
and under cover of darkness,
he piles up half a dozen
of these sheets of plywood on his roof
and somebody's looking to buy them.
Shh!
MAN 1: So he says,
"If I drive really slowly..."
NINA [OVER PHONE]:
Oh, my God.
You were in a robbery?
Where are you?
At a police station.
I was the only one
who saw the robbery.
I didn't want you to worry.
Yeah, I'll call you back, hon.
Someone's here.
NINA: Yeah, please call me back.
- Yes. Bye.
- That's okay if you wanna finish.
- No, I did. It's the wife, you know.
Oh, yeah, I know. Hey, I'm Cary Agos
with the state's attorney's office.
I wanna thank you
for helping us out here.
- No problem.
OFFICER: Poor attendance.
Um, why don't we talk in private?
This is kind of a noisy room.
CARY: So we may need you
around for trial, Mr. Dolan.
Oh, you, uh, found a suspect.
No, no. But if we do,
we'll need you around for trial.
Oh, right, uh, Cabo.
[CHUCKLES]
- Pretty pricey.
- No, no, it's, uh... It's my in-laws.
Oh, in-laws.
So
you told the officer you didn't touch
anything in the store
and you're just looking for a squirt gun
for your son.
It's his birthday today. Why?
Um, well, it's just, uh...
The police, they dusted for prints
and they found yours
on this display here.
TRAVIS:
Ah, yes.
When I entered the store, I, um... I was
looking at some of the greeting cards.
- So you did touch something.
- The display, yes. Why?
Oh, just trying to figure out
what happened.
So you wanted to buy a greeting card,
not a toy.
No, I wanted to buy a toy.
So why did you touch the cards?
Is there something wrong, uh?
I don't think so. Is there?
I think I'd like to leave now.
CARY: Oh, I'm afraid I can't allow that,
Mr. Dolan.
- Why?
- Um, ugh...
We're holding you for investigation.
[HANDCUFF CLINK]
[CHATTERING]
Right down here.
Mr. Dolan, I'm Alicia Florrick.
- Are you the public defender?
- No.
I'm registered with City Bar's pro bono
program. They referred your case.
- But if you'd prefer a public defender...
TRAVIS: No.
- This is crazy.
ALICIA: I know.
I mean, I saw a robbery
and they think
because my fingerprints
were on the display
that was thrown down, that I did it.
Actually, Mr. Dolan,
the police have an eyewitness
who saw you struggle with the clerk
and shoot him.
That is not true. I don't...
Okay, listen.
Don't say a word to anyone, okay?
Will you call my wife?
Uh, they took my cell.
- Actually, don't call her. I'll call her.
- Okay.
So are you following me now?
Just going
where the pro bonos take me, Cary.
I don't suppose
you'd let me question him more.
I mean, he's innocent, right?
CARY:
Thank you, Mr. Boylan.
- Are you ready?
- I guess I am.
HARCOURT:
Okay, send the first one.
And take all the time you want.
Hello.
Hi.
- May I help you?
- No, I'm good.
HARCOURT:
Okay, there's gonna be five total.
All right, walk to the line.
Turn to your left.
Touch the wall.
And turn back.
MAN:
Yeah.
No, not him.
HARCOURT:
Send in number two.
Walk to the line.
You wearing those glasses
when you saw the murderer?
- Yeah.
HARCOURT: Turn to your left.
No, definitely not.
He was much thinner than that.
Okay, send in number three.
HARCOURT [OVER PA]:
Number three, step forward.
Stop on the line.
Look in the lens.
Don't move.
That's him.
Are you sure?
CARY: That's the man
you saw struggling with the cashier
- and firing two bullets into his head?
- Yes. Definitely.
HARCOURT: Okay, head back in,
number three. Thank you.
Travis Dolan, an unemployed
former Parks employee.
He's broke, about to be evicted.
He's Mr. Everyman,
except this Everyman walks
into a convenience store to rob it.
Doesn't count on the cashier
having a gun. Shoots him. Kills him.
Sees a passing patrol car
pulling up.
Puts his gun down,
hides in the back of the store,
pretending to be a witness.
- Prints on the gun?
- No usable prints,
- but a solid eyewitness.
- No cash taken?
[SIGHS]
He didn't have time.
Patrol car surprised him.
There was a struggle, right?
CARY:
During the commission of a robbery.
- You want second degree?
- Heh.
Offer second degree.
I'll take it to him.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
Once again, I look for my liaison,
but where is she?
And once again, I have a job
that sometimes takes me, oddly,
out of the office.
So, what,
I handle this meeting on my own?
- Is that it?
ALICIA [OVER PHONE]: You do.
You're a big boy, Eli,
and Will and Diane don't bite.
Yeah.
It's not them I'm worried about.
Okay, so here's my advice, Eli:
Don't bite them. Okay?
Always the level-headed one.
Okay,
I need you to work with me full-time.
- Really?
- Yes.
I need investigator time.
The law moves slow, I move fast.
I'm managing three campaign crises
right now.
And the cheese lobby
has just taken me on full-time.
Yes, the cheese lobby.
You're fast, you're a pro,
I need you full-time.
They won't let me be full-time.
That's why I'm telling them.
I don't like sharing.
And between you and me,
and whoever else you tell,
once I ask you,
I need someone as investigator
when I leave here
for opposition research.
That's not gonna happen.
It is gonna happen because I'm gonna
make it worth your while.
More money, more power,
more self-reliance.
DIANE:
Hello, Eli. How are you?
ELl:
Great. Good.
Will, how are you?
- I'm good, Eli. Always a pleasure.
- Julius Cain, head of Litigation.
Nice to meet you.
Um, so I've hit the ground running,
as you're well aware.
And now, I think it's time
to take a breath and reassess.
No, 10 minutes.
And I need both Alicia Florrick
and Kalinda...
- What's your last name again?
- Sharma.
- Sharma
dedicated to my department full-time.
Lobbying and crisis management
are a 24/7 business,
and I need 24/7 dedication.
No. Anything else?
Am I making you money?
Uh, you are.
Encouraging clients
to keep political business in-house?
- You are.
ELl: Then I can't be splitting
Alicia and Kalinda's time with legal.
Alicia is supposed to be
at this meeting. Where is she?
She's on a case,
a case that makes us money.
DIANE:
Uh, why don't we discuss this, Eli?
We take your concerns
very seriously.
He'll stay
because it's in his interest to stay.
It's only in his interest to stay
if we encourage cooperation.
- He doesn't want cooperation.
- Look at the numbers, Will.
The dairy people bring in
almost as much as we lost last year.
But at what cost?
Uh, if we dedicate Alicia to Eli,
what are we pulling her from?
How much are we losing?
Well, actually, at the moment,
Alicia is working on a pro bono.
Okay,
why are we still doing pro bonos?
Because we're still a member of...
And why am I the only one
who's worried about the economy?
We're heading
into a double-dip recession
without a bankruptcy department,
without tax lawyers.
And our lawyers,
some of our best lawyers,
are busy doing pro bono?
ELl:
I need to talk to you.
KALINDA:
About?
Things.
Players. Political crosscurrents.
[DIANA SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
KALINDA: Really? You seem smart
enough to figure that out.
I'm smart enough to know
I need your help figuring it out.
We've expanded, Will,
beyond our means.
Yes, we're one of the few
all-service firms left standing,
but we did it at a cost
and we can't continue this way.
- What way?
- We need Bankruptcy.
If there's one department
that will survive a double-dip recession,
it's Bankruptcy.
I mean, to build one
from the ground up would take time,
but luckily enough,
we can acquire one off the shelf.
- How?
- There is a firm breaking up.
Malpractice is going one way,
Acquisition another,
Bankruptcy, I just found out,
is going with Litigation.
- Oh, no.
- Yes. You need to talk to her.
- We already said no.
- When we thought it's just Litigation.
- If it's Litigation and Bankruptcy...
- Then you talk to her.
No. Everybody's gonna be vying
for her Bankruptcy department
and we need someone
who has a preexisting relationship.
I don't even know where she is.
The Midwest Bar Association.
Celeste Serrano is doing a seminar
in dispute resolution.
Get us Bankruptcy
and we won't have to dance
to the tune of Eli Gold.
Have you noticed
no matter how high we go,
we're still dancing
to someone's tune?
Welcome to leadership.
I don't wanna see any lawyers
pushing off their CLE hours.
Guess who's in town.
The Midwest Bar Association.
ALL:
Oh!
That's right. That's right.
Just get it over with.
I have one more item
I wanna talk about.
The Department of Justice
has identified certain
and I'll use their word, "biases,"
in how we plea-bargain.
So I've agreed
to the government's request
to detail an AUSA to this office,
not to monitor us,
but to work with us
and be as one of us.
So please welcome
Imani Stonehouse. Imani.
Hello.
You're all under arrest.
[ALL CHUCKLE]
PETER:
Okay, let's get going.
Imani,
I'd like you to meet Cary Agos.
He'll be showing you the ropes.
He already has.
Uh, maximum sentence
to a black drug dealer.
Discount to a white killer.
Okay.
I'm off to a great start.
The white defendant,
he had no priors.
And no crack.
Heh, oh, yeah, yeah,
you got me there.
Big bad white prosecutor
out to put down the black man.
And black woman.
[CHUCKLES]
WOMAN [OVER PA]: Ethics
in Law will begin in 10 minutes
in conference room A.
[CHATTERING]
WOMAN:
Please don't forget to sign in.
And remember
to pick up your name cards.
EDDIE:
Will Gardner.
What the hell are you doing here?
Hey, I've got 30 hours
of CLE like everyone else.
Well, come up to the 34th floor if you
wanna continue that legal education.
Strippers and Acquisitions.
Maybe later.
GENE:
It would be a trend.
MAN:
No, no, no.
GENE:
So, uh, uh, based on this,
uh, I believe, uh, um,
it's not just, uh...
I should've known you'd be here.
OSTERMAN: The, uh, buying...
- Heh, he's amazing, isn't he?
The criminal mind,
- the unique mind,
- Yeah.
You always hated him.
Nope.
Just thought he was a bad boss.
You were jealous.
Of?
OSTERMAN:
In Asia.
You did not.
After the staff meeting on 9/11.
Remember? He was in tears.
You slept with him?
We didn't do much sleeping.
Oh, ow, okay, you can stop now.
OSTERMAN: Educational privation
are, uh, pandemic.
You found out it wasn't only Litigation,
that Bankruptcy is coming with me.
So you're here to charm me?
To offer you a home.
Um, what about your lawyer friend,
Alicia Florrick?
Why isn't she here
to charm me too?
[ALL APPLAUDING]
WILL:
What are you looking for?
To come to Lockhart, Gardner.
- A three-year commitment to Litigation.
- Oh, come on.
And a 5 percent bump in salary
and a fifty-fifty split
on Hammett Aerospace.
The jetliner crash? Mm-hm.
Mr. Osterman.
- Remember me, Celeste?
- Oh, yes, heh.
- How are you?
- In Baltimore?
Oh, my goodness, yes, heh.
Excuse me.
Three-year commitment to Litigation,
a 5 percent bump in salary
and we'll call it a day.
We have other suitors.
I'll talk to Diane.
Until the economy improves,
we're calling a halt to pro bonos.
Plead out the ones you've got,
then we need everyone full-time
back in the office.
Cary's resisting a plea.
- What's on the table?
- Second degree, 20 years.
For murder with eyewitness?
Sounds like a worthy offer.
The client's resisting.
Okay. I'll help out there.
- You want me to talk to Legal Aid?
- No, I'll do it.
WOMAN: Miss Lockhart.
- I at least owe them an explanation.
Yeah, Will, where are we?
She wants 50 percent
on our jetliner class action.
She has the crew,
we've got the passengers.
- Thirty-five percent. Maybe.
- Okay, tell Celeste 35 percent.
The way you usually do, your charm.
Heh, I believe in you.
Bye.
She's playing hard to get.
Mr. Dolan, how are you?
I'm okay. Thank you. I just, uh...
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
I'm so sorry.
No.
We love you.
- Can I, uh...?
- No, not yet. No contact.
Jake, this is all just a big mistake,
all right?
I'll be home soon and we'll celebrate
your birthday, all right, kiddo?
Daddy loves you very much.
[SOBS]
Come on. No record.
Not even a parking ticket.
- That's why I offered second degree.
- Shave off another five years.
You haven't met my workmate,
have you?
Imani. Imani Stonehouse.
She's an AUSA to make sure
there's no racial imbalance
- in plea-bargaining.
JULIUS: Heh.
So that's what's going on here?
You're hard bargaining for what,
appearances?
I don't think it's just appearance.
I think it's another
state's attorney preoccupation,
forgotten in a month.
I think he liked you.
JULIUS:
What's the plan?
Turn the preliminary hearing
into a poor man's deposition.
Get the prosecution
to show their hand.
Judge isn't gonna let that happen.
BAILIFF:
All rise.
The Honorable Francis Flamm
presiding.
No, no. Everybody sit down, please.
- Justice Tie-Die?
- Mm-hm.
Oh, Evelyn made a great
zucchini bread if anybody wants.
[IN LOW VOICE]
Evelyn. Go ahead. Hand it around.
Go on.
Uh, offer her flextime,
the option to telecommute.
Tell her we'll find her a corner office.
We're out of corners.
- Where are you, a football game?
DIANE [OVER PHONE]: Oh, yes.
My midday treat to myself.
No, Legal Aid.
Come on, Diane,
you don't have to break up in person.
- Just make a call.
- Mr. Coyne, please.
Tell him it's Diane Lockhart.
Yeah, well, that was the plan,
but my guilt was getting to me.
Guilt is for the weak.
[CHUCKLES]
Go. Sweeten our offer.
The cashier pulled this gun
from a holster he had
under the counter,
then they just started firing.
And you were standing 20 feet
from the window.
And how far was the shooter
inside the store?
Your Honor, again, objection.
This is a preliminary hearing.
The defense is using this
as a poor man's deposition
to get a preview of our case.
Yup.
Heard it the first time, counselor.
Got it? Overruled.
ALICIA: And how far was the shooter
inside the store?
He's killing us.
- Get used to it.
- Ten feet. Probably.
So 30 feet in total?
JULIUS: Twenty feet to the window,
10 feet inside.
Was he on the sidewalk
or in the parking lot?
And so I'm curious, Mr. Boylan,
were you on the sidewalk in front
of the store or in the parking lot?
BOYLAN: On the sidewalk.
- On the sidewalk.
Yup. I can see into the store.
There's no reflection problem.
Where did he say the shooter went?
Where did this person go
after you saw him shoot?
- Back into the store to hide.
- So you saw him hide.
No. I'm just...
He went toward the rear.
ALICIA: So maybe the real robber
went out the back door.
CARY:
Heh, objection.
It's one exit. Punch-key lock.
You need to know the code to get out.
- Damn.
ALICIA: Detective, have you heard
- of cross-racial identification?
- Ah, I have.
- You don't give it credence.
- Do I think some whites
tend to misidentify black suspects
because they have trouble
distinguishing features? Yes.
But the eyewitness here was black
and the accused white.
And have you seen studies
that blacks often misidentify whites?
HARCOURT: I haven't,
but I'll take your word for it.
Didn't Mr. Boylan give a more
general description of a white suspect
before he saw my client
at your desk being questioned?
Are you talking
about the artist's sketch?
I wasn't.
But sure.
[CHUCKLES]
[FLAMM CLEARS THROAT]
Uh, continue, please.
And this artist's sketch was done
prior to Mr. Boylan seeing my client
in the police station?
Yes, but I wouldn't call
the description general.
Isn't it possible that Mr. Boylan
only fixated on my client as the shooter
because he saw him
being questioned by police?
And couldn't this sketch direct you
to the real killer?
No. We have the real killer.
Your Honor,
defense asks for access to this sketch.
Seems like a reasonable request.
Counselor,
any trouble getting it to them?
MITCH: Any more questions?
I gotta get back to work.
Uh, yeah. So you were here yesterday
during the shooting.
Yes. It was crazy.
The cops got here really fast.
People running around
and screaming.
Did you see anyone who looked
like this running around, screaming?
- I thought they caught the guy.
KALINDA: No.
I don't know.
This looks like a hundred people.
- Do you mind?
- Sure.
Yeah,
try and get the crime scene photos.
Cops aren't giving me access.
We also would suggest, Your Honor,
that it would be helpful
to have access
to the crime scene photos.
They do have access, Your Honor,
in discovery.
Which we always get
at the last minute.
Because we have to prepare them,
so it takes time.
- Well, who prepares it, counselor?
- Uh...
Give me their number.
Maybe they can expedite it.
Hey, Tim.
Listen, can you find out
who bought a lottery ticket
from its bar code?
[CHATTERING]
You do know
you're in the criminal law mixer?
I like criminal.
The men are so straight.
So we're fine with a 3-percent bump
and a two-year commitment
- to your litigators.
- Know what it means to feed the rat?
Do l...? No.
You can live
your sweet little domesticated life,
you can date
your cute little apple-cheeked lawyer...
WILL:
Heh, apple-cheeked.
- But eventually,
you have to feed the rat,
return to the wild.
Oh, that's fascinating.
We're not going above 3 percent.
You need to feed the rat, Will.
You are killing yourself
trying to be normal.
I am normal.
- Mr. Florrick, hi. Big fan.
PETER: Hello.
I came here
especially hoping to bump into you.
I think you know Will Gardner.
- Yes, I do. Hi, Will.
- Peter.
You two have so much in common,
don't you?
We do have a lot in common.
And how do you two
know each other?
Us? We...
Worked at the same firm together
a long time ago.
CELESTE:
We did a lot more than that.
The Baltimore firm.
Osterman, Lee, Canfield.
It was my first job out of college.
My first threesome was with Will.
[WILL CHUCKLES]
That's true.
- What was her name again?
- Ahem. Celeste, okay.
Well, you have to start somewhere.
[CHUCKLES]
Oh, so... Alicia Florrick, huh?
Well, she works with Will,
she's married to you.
That must be quite an arrangement.
Discuss.
It is quite an arrangement, yes.
Any awkward moments?
You mean, besides this one?
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
How many kids do you have, Peter?
Two. A boy and a girl.
I love boys and girls.
It's very domestic.
- What ages?
- Sixteen and 14.
CELESTE: Well, that's a very good
age. Isn't that a very good age, Will?
Me, I don't get kids.
I mean, I get why they're important,
but...
- You get them if you got them.
- Really? I don't know. I'm too selfish.
Have you ever met his kids?
- No, I haven't.
- Really?
Alicia never brought them to work?
I think I'll head out.
It's good to see you, Peter.
Yeah.
SILVESTRE: Who did you say
you were with again?
The Lottery Control Board.
A lottery ticket was paid out yesterday
for $5.
It should have been 500.
Well, that's my receipt,
heh, all right.
But I bought it as a gift for my son.
- Oh, where's your son?
- Oh, he moved back here, home, heh,
- a few months ago.
- Lovely.
Uh, Mrs. Silvestre,
may I use your bathroom?
SILVESTRE: Oh, hi, dear.
Did you have a nice day?
There's a young lady here for you.
- Who?
- She's from the Lottery Control Board.
Where is she?
Hello.
Hello.
ELl: I feel like you're cheating on me.
- Only for money.
Think that makes it better?
Between Will and Diane,
who holds more power?
It's equal.
It's never equal.
Yeah.
Diane has more power in Criminal
than Will in Civil.
But Diane controls the purse strings.
Only by default.
Will hates dealing with it.
But if Will says "no," is it real?
Often.
You're not helping much.
Darn.
And this Julius guy,
what about him?
Oh, he's head of Litigation.
He doesn't like me.
Why doesn't he like me?
You're the new and shiny thing.
Does it matter
that he doesn't like me?
No.
Anybody else with power?
- David Lee, Family Law.
- Heh.
And Alicia,
where does she stand in all of this?
Yes?
She's only a third-year associate,
but she matters.
- Because of her husband?
- Various reasons.
She can persuade people.
People as in Will?
- What are you looking for, Eli?
- The hierarchy.
Usually I can figure it out,
but this place
is like a mom-and-pop store.
It's all Will and Diane.
And if you wanna persuade Diane,
you persuade David Lee.
If you wanna persuade Will,
you persuade Alicia.
And here comes
your next customer.
Okay. Where are we?
Uh, according to the time-coded
register receipt here,
this lottery ticket was redeemed
seconds before the murder.
- Whose ticket?
- Mitch Silvestre.
He's a manager
from a fish market across the way.
As you can see,
there's a slight resemblance
between him and the artist sketch.
Can you get more on Silvestre?
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
- I'm on him.
- Good.
We need to delay in court.
- What are you doing?
- I'm working on a pro bono.
- What are you doing?
- I don't know. Whoring myself out.
WILL [OVER PHONE]:
I sort of miss you.
- I sort of miss you too.
- What can we do about that?
ALICIA:
I don't know. What do you wanna do?
- Hey, let me call you back.
ALICIA: I'll be here.
Okay. Love you.
- I said that...
- I know.
No, automatically, mechanically.
I didn't mean anything.
Will, don't worry about it.
- L... It's not that I don't care.
- Will, call me later.
Right. Goodbye.
I'm sorry, okay? Don't pout.
I'm fine.
But you're not accepting
my apology.
- What do I gotta do?
- Bring us Bankruptcy.
Okay, I'll come clean.
You're not chasing me, Will.
I'm chasing you.
- You're chasing me?
CELESTE: Yes.
- How are you doing that?
- Litigation and Bankruptcy
are, in fact, leaving the firm,
that is true.
So is Tax and Family Law.
And we're all regrouping.
As what, heh, a jazz combo?
No, as a new firm.
And we want you.
Celeste, I know you're a dreamer,
you like to live in your head,
but what in your wildest dreams would
make you think I would leave my firm,
one of the most prestigious in Chicago,
to come work
for what is basically a start-up?
Because I have the one thing
I know you want.
- What?
- You can't even guess?
WILL:
I can't even begin to guess.
I'm happy where I am.
Baseball commissioner.
It's the one thing George W. Bush
wanted more than the presidency.
- Don't play games with me.
CELESTE: I'm not.
The league's our biggest client.
The commissioner
is getting on in years.
He needs a successor.
The successor's gonna come
from our firm.
You know baseball.
You know the law.
- I don't believe you.
CELESTE: Call some friends, Will.
You know who to call. Look at me.
I'm not making this up.
When I go all in,
it's not with a stone-cold bluff.
I got my Dispute Resolution seminar
in 10 minutes.
If you wanna discuss
how this will work, stop by.
Not Judge Powers, Judge Romano.
- And tell her the brief is on its way.
WOMAN: Got it.
Sorry about that.
I've been in court all day.
- No problem, Mr. Coyne.
COYNE: Maggie, hold all calls.
- Give me about five minutes.
- You were a litigator
- at Portman and Michaels.
- Partner track.
Dropped out.
Couldn't stand all the meetings.
- Next door down, man.
- Thanks.
Thank you for picking up the slack
on the shooting.
I hear you have two lawyers
on the case.
- L... Really?
COYNE: It's good to see
considering all the firms
that are pulling back these days.
- The Handley deposition's over there.
- Uh, yes, well, actually,
I need to, uh,
talk to you about this, uh...
Guys, it's a go
on the Packer appeal.
See if you can pull up
some U of C intern time.
[INHALES]
Ties? Gentlemen, you go to court,
you wear a tie.
- Heh, sorry about that.
- Heh.
I'm sorry, um...
I know this, uh, might not be
a great time for this,
but we have to, um...
Ahem.
Our firm is bowing out
of our pro bono obligations.
Just till things pick up.
You know, the economy.
I get it. Don't worry about it.
Thank you for fighting for us,
anyway.
Well, I mean, we hope to return
when things improve.
That's okay. We're not sure
we'll be here. We lost our funding.
You... What, your state funding?
Yeah. Budget crunch.
So, what are you gonna do?
Don't know.
We still have a few options so...
Such as?
COYNE:
Such as knocking on a few doors,
yelling at a few rich people, heh.
I've learned
in the not-for-profit world
that eventually,
someone steps up.
Well, I should go.
Yes, thanks.
You know,
it's good to finally meet you in person.
And you.
I wish, uh...
I don't know what I wish.
The world were different.
Heh, that sounds good.
I'll be here waiting.
[MUFFLED HIP-HOP MUSIC
COMING FROM HOTEL ROOM]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
Will Gardner,
what the hell took you so long?
Hey. Uh, come on in.
You don't wanna miss the Q&A.
[ALL CHEERING]
WILL:
No, thanks.
I'm looking for, uh, Dispute Resolution:
Neutrality something or other.
EDDIE:
Next door on the right.
Phew!
MAN 1: Oh, kidding me?
MAN 2: Yeah.
[MAN SIGHS]
Hey, look who's here.
We saved you a seat.
MAN:
Gotta pay to play.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Do you need help?
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
KALINDA:
Yeah?
I'm on him now.
- Alcoholics Anonymous?
KALINDA: Yeah.
- Mitch goes to meetings twice a week.
- What about cash in the envelope?
Legit. And he was chapter treasurer.
He likes to bet at the track,
but it was all of his own money.
- Still doesn't mean he wasn't the killer.
- Yeah, but this does.
I checked the register at the
convenience store. It's an hour fast.
It could be an accident
or it was monkeyed with
to run a lottery scam.
It still puts him at the store
an hour before the murder.
We can still tell a story.
The guy worked a few doors down.
He knew the code to the locks.
A 30-year-old who likes to gamble.
Whose financial situation is bad
enough, it forces him to move home.
Uh, I appreciate that
we're trying to find a fall guy,
but putting this
on an innocent man?
Isn't that how our client
got into this mess?
We're defending our client.
BAILIFF:
All rise.
The Honorable Francis Flamm
presiding.
Well, good morning, everyone.
It's good to see you all here again.
Oh, and I see we've grown by one
at the defense table.
Yes, we have, Your Honor.
I've been so moved
by the plight of Mr. Dolan
that I have decided
to lend my assistance.
Well, it's great to have you,
Miss Lockhart.
And I understand your team would like
to argue a motion to dismiss.
ALICIA:
Yes, Your Honor.
The prosecutor has built this case
on one weak reed,
a single eyewitness.
An eyewitness
who was 30 feet from the crime,
and who only identified our client
after seeing the police
questioning him.
Mr. Dolan has no record.
He has a wife and a son
who are here in this court right now.
He is an innocent man, Your Honor,
and it would be unjust
not to dismiss these charges.
- Let me. Argue.
- Let you what?
Your Honor, injustice comes
in all shapes and sizes.
It's not just in the man held,
it's also in the man released.
My grandfather once said:
"A judging brain requires
a listening ear."
I think that was true then,
but it's doubly true now.
You need to hear our full case
before you can decide.
To dismiss before you hear
would be, heh, an injustice.
Your grandfather
is the Reverend Roy Stonehouse?
- He is, Your Honor.
- Well, heh, I'm honored.
- How is he?
- He's good. Uh, recovering, heh.
Well, please tell him
how greatly he's admired.
- My first thesis I wrote was on Selma.
- I'll tell him, heh.
And convey my respect as well.
We all owe men like your grandfather
a huge debt.
But let's not forget that this case
is about an innocent man.
Well, I think that still needs to
be determined, don't you, counselor?
- Yes. What I meant, Your Honor...
FLAMM: Yes, it's all right.
I know what you meant.
I just think that it would be unjust
to summarily dismiss this case,
uh, before offering a listening ear.
And so your motion is denied,
Miss Lockhart,
and the other two with you.
We will move directly to trial.
Oh, and, uh, Miss Stonehouse,
thank you.
I have chills.
[CHUCKLES]
I don't like to use that much.
- Does it get you into restaurants?
- Heh.
[MAN 1 SIGHS]
MAN 1: Okay.
MAN 2: Ugh.
[MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
- I'm out.
- Oh, come on.
- Not when you're up like that.
- Yup. When I'm up like that.
We'll be here tonight.
After the Civil mixer.
I'm fine, thanks.
- Take you to breakfast?
- No.
- Jeez, you sound so definitive.
- Yup.
So I'll hear from you
on the baseball commissioner job?
Celeste, no. I didn't like this life,
not even when I was living it.
I didn't like not knowing
when I was being conned or conning.
- You don't think there's a job.
- No, I checked.
In 10 or 15 years, there's a chance
I could vie for baseball commissioner.
What a sad thought that is.
Losing what I love now
to chase something in the future.
CELESTE:
What do you love?
You said, "Losing what I love now."
- My job.
- I don't believe you.
I don't believe you love it.
What you love is winning.
And you can't win big enough
at Lockhart Gardner.
This is your dream.
What happened
to pursuing your dream?
What happened to work?
Not everybody
can pursue their dreams.
Someone has to work.
Whoa, well, that is so sad.
No. Not really.
Take care.
KALINDA:
That's the cashier's bay.
And that's where the shooter was.
And the line of sight checks out.
I'm not seeing what's good.
The line of sight checks out
until the cashier reaches
under the counter for the gun.
JULIUS: The wall would have
hidden the cashier from view.
KALINDA: And Boylan told the police
the cashier pulled the gun
from a holster taped
under the counter.
But he couldn't have seen him reach
under the counter for his gun.
Unless he was in the store.
Boylan tried to escape,
saw the patrol car pull up
and pretended to be an eyewitness,
not a killer.
So let's go talk to Cary.
Only a few more minutes.
[DOOR OPENS]
I've always waited
for bad things to happen.
Every day.
Travis sees the good things.
And I'm always waiting for the bad.
Well, this is good.
I know, heh.
I don't wanna be that anymore.
The worst thing happened
and we're still here.
Will you thank
the other two lawyers?
Oh, I will,
but it was really the prosecutor.
He reversed himself.
[DOOR OPENS]
Hmm.
Oh, heh.
[SIGHS]
- Can l...?
- Yes.
BOY:
Daddy.
[CHUCKLES]
Hey, buddy.
How's it going?
BOY:
It's good.
Yes?
Oh, nothing.
I'm, uh, just looking.
An espresso machine
would be nice.
Oh, hey. The release went well?
It did. You should've been there.
No. I didn't do enough.
ALICIA: Hi.
- Hi.
How was whoring?
Unproductive.
Listen, about what I said yesterday...
Will, please, I'm on the phone
with my kids and say, "I love you."
And then I'm on the phone with my
mother-in-law and say, "I love you" too.
It's an accident.
Yes.
But do you think we should talk?
No, I don't, actually.
You don't?
No.
- Are you sure?
- I'm so sure.
I've never been so sure.
I'm not interested in anyone else.
Will,
you're talking about it, eek.
- No fuss, no muss.
- That's me.
Celeste Serrano
is forming her own firm.
Bankruptcy, Litigation,
Family Law.
I don't wanna be careful anymore.
I don't wanna count every penny
and worry more about failing
than doing what's right.
Okay.
Legal Aid is losing its office space.
Everybody's pulling back
because of the economy.
I wanna bring them in-house.
There's room next to Eli.
He won't like it,
but he'll have to live with it
until we find more room.
When our lawyers have free time,
they can offer it to Legal Aid.
You should've broken up
on the phone.
[CHUCKLES]
I wanna do this.
And I want your okay.
Okay.
[SIGHS]
[DOOR BELLS JINGLE]
[MAN 1 SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
ON TV]
Yeah. Yeah.
[DOOR CLOSES]
- You got any toys?
- There.
CASHIER:
There at the...
MAN 1 [ON TV]: One night,
he's driving by a construction site.
[DOOR BELLS JINGLE]
MAN 2: Open it up.
Don't fool with me, man.
Don't fool with me. Hear me?
Open it up!
CASHIER: All right, all right.
MAN 2: Get out the money. Come on.
Stop stalling, man. Stop stalling.
Don't you fool with me.
It's okay. I got it, I got it.
I got the safe right here, man.
MAN 2: Don't you fool with me, man,
I'll blast your ass!
MAN 2: Get it. Give me the money.
- Okay.
MAN 1:
Half-inch sheets, exterior grade.
It just happened to fit the bill.
[CELL PHONE RINGING]
MAN 1: So he says,
"Who's gonna miss them?"
So he stops his car
and under cover of darkness,
he piles up half a dozen
of these sheets of plywood on his roof
and somebody's looking to buy them.
Shh!
MAN 1: So he says,
"If I drive really slowly..."
NINA [OVER PHONE]:
Oh, my God.
You were in a robbery?
Where are you?
At a police station.
I was the only one
who saw the robbery.
I didn't want you to worry.
Yeah, I'll call you back, hon.
Someone's here.
NINA: Yeah, please call me back.
- Yes. Bye.
- That's okay if you wanna finish.
- No, I did. It's the wife, you know.
Oh, yeah, I know. Hey, I'm Cary Agos
with the state's attorney's office.
I wanna thank you
for helping us out here.
- No problem.
OFFICER: Poor attendance.
Um, why don't we talk in private?
This is kind of a noisy room.
CARY: So we may need you
around for trial, Mr. Dolan.
Oh, you, uh, found a suspect.
No, no. But if we do,
we'll need you around for trial.
Oh, right, uh, Cabo.
[CHUCKLES]
- Pretty pricey.
- No, no, it's, uh... It's my in-laws.
Oh, in-laws.
So
you told the officer you didn't touch
anything in the store
and you're just looking for a squirt gun
for your son.
It's his birthday today. Why?
Um, well, it's just, uh...
The police, they dusted for prints
and they found yours
on this display here.
TRAVIS:
Ah, yes.
When I entered the store, I, um... I was
looking at some of the greeting cards.
- So you did touch something.
- The display, yes. Why?
Oh, just trying to figure out
what happened.
So you wanted to buy a greeting card,
not a toy.
No, I wanted to buy a toy.
So why did you touch the cards?
Is there something wrong, uh?
I don't think so. Is there?
I think I'd like to leave now.
CARY: Oh, I'm afraid I can't allow that,
Mr. Dolan.
- Why?
- Um, ugh...
We're holding you for investigation.
[HANDCUFF CLINK]
[CHATTERING]
Right down here.
Mr. Dolan, I'm Alicia Florrick.
- Are you the public defender?
- No.
I'm registered with City Bar's pro bono
program. They referred your case.
- But if you'd prefer a public defender...
TRAVIS: No.
- This is crazy.
ALICIA: I know.
I mean, I saw a robbery
and they think
because my fingerprints
were on the display
that was thrown down, that I did it.
Actually, Mr. Dolan,
the police have an eyewitness
who saw you struggle with the clerk
and shoot him.
That is not true. I don't...
Okay, listen.
Don't say a word to anyone, okay?
Will you call my wife?
Uh, they took my cell.
- Actually, don't call her. I'll call her.
- Okay.
So are you following me now?
Just going
where the pro bonos take me, Cary.
I don't suppose
you'd let me question him more.
I mean, he's innocent, right?
CARY:
Thank you, Mr. Boylan.
- Are you ready?
- I guess I am.
HARCOURT:
Okay, send the first one.
And take all the time you want.
Hello.
Hi.
- May I help you?
- No, I'm good.
HARCOURT:
Okay, there's gonna be five total.
All right, walk to the line.
Turn to your left.
Touch the wall.
And turn back.
MAN:
Yeah.
No, not him.
HARCOURT:
Send in number two.
Walk to the line.
You wearing those glasses
when you saw the murderer?
- Yeah.
HARCOURT: Turn to your left.
No, definitely not.
He was much thinner than that.
Okay, send in number three.
HARCOURT [OVER PA]:
Number three, step forward.
Stop on the line.
Look in the lens.
Don't move.
That's him.
Are you sure?
CARY: That's the man
you saw struggling with the cashier
- and firing two bullets into his head?
- Yes. Definitely.
HARCOURT: Okay, head back in,
number three. Thank you.
Travis Dolan, an unemployed
former Parks employee.
He's broke, about to be evicted.
He's Mr. Everyman,
except this Everyman walks
into a convenience store to rob it.
Doesn't count on the cashier
having a gun. Shoots him. Kills him.
Sees a passing patrol car
pulling up.
Puts his gun down,
hides in the back of the store,
pretending to be a witness.
- Prints on the gun?
- No usable prints,
- but a solid eyewitness.
- No cash taken?
[SIGHS]
He didn't have time.
Patrol car surprised him.
There was a struggle, right?
CARY:
During the commission of a robbery.
- You want second degree?
- Heh.
Offer second degree.
I'll take it to him.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
Once again, I look for my liaison,
but where is she?
And once again, I have a job
that sometimes takes me, oddly,
out of the office.
So, what,
I handle this meeting on my own?
- Is that it?
ALICIA [OVER PHONE]: You do.
You're a big boy, Eli,
and Will and Diane don't bite.
Yeah.
It's not them I'm worried about.
Okay, so here's my advice, Eli:
Don't bite them. Okay?
Always the level-headed one.
Okay,
I need you to work with me full-time.
- Really?
- Yes.
I need investigator time.
The law moves slow, I move fast.
I'm managing three campaign crises
right now.
And the cheese lobby
has just taken me on full-time.
Yes, the cheese lobby.
You're fast, you're a pro,
I need you full-time.
They won't let me be full-time.
That's why I'm telling them.
I don't like sharing.
And between you and me,
and whoever else you tell,
once I ask you,
I need someone as investigator
when I leave here
for opposition research.
That's not gonna happen.
It is gonna happen because I'm gonna
make it worth your while.
More money, more power,
more self-reliance.
DIANE:
Hello, Eli. How are you?
ELl:
Great. Good.
Will, how are you?
- I'm good, Eli. Always a pleasure.
- Julius Cain, head of Litigation.
Nice to meet you.
Um, so I've hit the ground running,
as you're well aware.
And now, I think it's time
to take a breath and reassess.
No, 10 minutes.
And I need both Alicia Florrick
and Kalinda...
- What's your last name again?
- Sharma.
- Sharma
dedicated to my department full-time.
Lobbying and crisis management
are a 24/7 business,
and I need 24/7 dedication.
No. Anything else?
Am I making you money?
Uh, you are.
Encouraging clients
to keep political business in-house?
- You are.
ELl: Then I can't be splitting
Alicia and Kalinda's time with legal.
Alicia is supposed to be
at this meeting. Where is she?
She's on a case,
a case that makes us money.
DIANE:
Uh, why don't we discuss this, Eli?
We take your concerns
very seriously.
He'll stay
because it's in his interest to stay.
It's only in his interest to stay
if we encourage cooperation.
- He doesn't want cooperation.
- Look at the numbers, Will.
The dairy people bring in
almost as much as we lost last year.
But at what cost?
Uh, if we dedicate Alicia to Eli,
what are we pulling her from?
How much are we losing?
Well, actually, at the moment,
Alicia is working on a pro bono.
Okay,
why are we still doing pro bonos?
Because we're still a member of...
And why am I the only one
who's worried about the economy?
We're heading
into a double-dip recession
without a bankruptcy department,
without tax lawyers.
And our lawyers,
some of our best lawyers,
are busy doing pro bono?
ELl:
I need to talk to you.
KALINDA:
About?
Things.
Players. Political crosscurrents.
[DIANA SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
KALINDA: Really? You seem smart
enough to figure that out.
I'm smart enough to know
I need your help figuring it out.
We've expanded, Will,
beyond our means.
Yes, we're one of the few
all-service firms left standing,
but we did it at a cost
and we can't continue this way.
- What way?
- We need Bankruptcy.
If there's one department
that will survive a double-dip recession,
it's Bankruptcy.
I mean, to build one
from the ground up would take time,
but luckily enough,
we can acquire one off the shelf.
- How?
- There is a firm breaking up.
Malpractice is going one way,
Acquisition another,
Bankruptcy, I just found out,
is going with Litigation.
- Oh, no.
- Yes. You need to talk to her.
- We already said no.
- When we thought it's just Litigation.
- If it's Litigation and Bankruptcy...
- Then you talk to her.
No. Everybody's gonna be vying
for her Bankruptcy department
and we need someone
who has a preexisting relationship.
I don't even know where she is.
The Midwest Bar Association.
Celeste Serrano is doing a seminar
in dispute resolution.
Get us Bankruptcy
and we won't have to dance
to the tune of Eli Gold.
Have you noticed
no matter how high we go,
we're still dancing
to someone's tune?
Welcome to leadership.
I don't wanna see any lawyers
pushing off their CLE hours.
Guess who's in town.
The Midwest Bar Association.
ALL:
Oh!
That's right. That's right.
Just get it over with.
I have one more item
I wanna talk about.
The Department of Justice
has identified certain
and I'll use their word, "biases,"
in how we plea-bargain.
So I've agreed
to the government's request
to detail an AUSA to this office,
not to monitor us,
but to work with us
and be as one of us.
So please welcome
Imani Stonehouse. Imani.
Hello.
You're all under arrest.
[ALL CHUCKLE]
PETER:
Okay, let's get going.
Imani,
I'd like you to meet Cary Agos.
He'll be showing you the ropes.
He already has.
Uh, maximum sentence
to a black drug dealer.
Discount to a white killer.
Okay.
I'm off to a great start.
The white defendant,
he had no priors.
And no crack.
Heh, oh, yeah, yeah,
you got me there.
Big bad white prosecutor
out to put down the black man.
And black woman.
[CHUCKLES]
WOMAN [OVER PA]: Ethics
in Law will begin in 10 minutes
in conference room A.
[CHATTERING]
WOMAN:
Please don't forget to sign in.
And remember
to pick up your name cards.
EDDIE:
Will Gardner.
What the hell are you doing here?
Hey, I've got 30 hours
of CLE like everyone else.
Well, come up to the 34th floor if you
wanna continue that legal education.
Strippers and Acquisitions.
Maybe later.
GENE:
It would be a trend.
MAN:
No, no, no.
GENE:
So, uh, uh, based on this,
uh, I believe, uh, um,
it's not just, uh...
I should've known you'd be here.
OSTERMAN: The, uh, buying...
- Heh, he's amazing, isn't he?
The criminal mind,
- the unique mind,
- Yeah.
You always hated him.
Nope.
Just thought he was a bad boss.
You were jealous.
Of?
OSTERMAN:
In Asia.
You did not.
After the staff meeting on 9/11.
Remember? He was in tears.
You slept with him?
We didn't do much sleeping.
Oh, ow, okay, you can stop now.
OSTERMAN: Educational privation
are, uh, pandemic.
You found out it wasn't only Litigation,
that Bankruptcy is coming with me.
So you're here to charm me?
To offer you a home.
Um, what about your lawyer friend,
Alicia Florrick?
Why isn't she here
to charm me too?
[ALL APPLAUDING]
WILL:
What are you looking for?
To come to Lockhart, Gardner.
- A three-year commitment to Litigation.
- Oh, come on.
And a 5 percent bump in salary
and a fifty-fifty split
on Hammett Aerospace.
The jetliner crash? Mm-hm.
Mr. Osterman.
- Remember me, Celeste?
- Oh, yes, heh.
- How are you?
- In Baltimore?
Oh, my goodness, yes, heh.
Excuse me.
Three-year commitment to Litigation,
a 5 percent bump in salary
and we'll call it a day.
We have other suitors.
I'll talk to Diane.
Until the economy improves,
we're calling a halt to pro bonos.
Plead out the ones you've got,
then we need everyone full-time
back in the office.
Cary's resisting a plea.
- What's on the table?
- Second degree, 20 years.
For murder with eyewitness?
Sounds like a worthy offer.
The client's resisting.
Okay. I'll help out there.
- You want me to talk to Legal Aid?
- No, I'll do it.
WOMAN: Miss Lockhart.
- I at least owe them an explanation.
Yeah, Will, where are we?
She wants 50 percent
on our jetliner class action.
She has the crew,
we've got the passengers.
- Thirty-five percent. Maybe.
- Okay, tell Celeste 35 percent.
The way you usually do, your charm.
Heh, I believe in you.
Bye.
She's playing hard to get.
Mr. Dolan, how are you?
I'm okay. Thank you. I just, uh...
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
I'm so sorry.
No.
We love you.
- Can I, uh...?
- No, not yet. No contact.
Jake, this is all just a big mistake,
all right?
I'll be home soon and we'll celebrate
your birthday, all right, kiddo?
Daddy loves you very much.
[SOBS]
Come on. No record.
Not even a parking ticket.
- That's why I offered second degree.
- Shave off another five years.
You haven't met my workmate,
have you?
Imani. Imani Stonehouse.
She's an AUSA to make sure
there's no racial imbalance
- in plea-bargaining.
JULIUS: Heh.
So that's what's going on here?
You're hard bargaining for what,
appearances?
I don't think it's just appearance.
I think it's another
state's attorney preoccupation,
forgotten in a month.
I think he liked you.
JULIUS:
What's the plan?
Turn the preliminary hearing
into a poor man's deposition.
Get the prosecution
to show their hand.
Judge isn't gonna let that happen.
BAILIFF:
All rise.
The Honorable Francis Flamm
presiding.
No, no. Everybody sit down, please.
- Justice Tie-Die?
- Mm-hm.
Oh, Evelyn made a great
zucchini bread if anybody wants.
[IN LOW VOICE]
Evelyn. Go ahead. Hand it around.
Go on.
Uh, offer her flextime,
the option to telecommute.
Tell her we'll find her a corner office.
We're out of corners.
- Where are you, a football game?
DIANE [OVER PHONE]: Oh, yes.
My midday treat to myself.
No, Legal Aid.
Come on, Diane,
you don't have to break up in person.
- Just make a call.
- Mr. Coyne, please.
Tell him it's Diane Lockhart.
Yeah, well, that was the plan,
but my guilt was getting to me.
Guilt is for the weak.
[CHUCKLES]
Go. Sweeten our offer.
The cashier pulled this gun
from a holster he had
under the counter,
then they just started firing.
And you were standing 20 feet
from the window.
And how far was the shooter
inside the store?
Your Honor, again, objection.
This is a preliminary hearing.
The defense is using this
as a poor man's deposition
to get a preview of our case.
Yup.
Heard it the first time, counselor.
Got it? Overruled.
ALICIA: And how far was the shooter
inside the store?
He's killing us.
- Get used to it.
- Ten feet. Probably.
So 30 feet in total?
JULIUS: Twenty feet to the window,
10 feet inside.
Was he on the sidewalk
or in the parking lot?
And so I'm curious, Mr. Boylan,
were you on the sidewalk in front
of the store or in the parking lot?
BOYLAN: On the sidewalk.
- On the sidewalk.
Yup. I can see into the store.
There's no reflection problem.
Where did he say the shooter went?
Where did this person go
after you saw him shoot?
- Back into the store to hide.
- So you saw him hide.
No. I'm just...
He went toward the rear.
ALICIA: So maybe the real robber
went out the back door.
CARY:
Heh, objection.
It's one exit. Punch-key lock.
You need to know the code to get out.
- Damn.
ALICIA: Detective, have you heard
- of cross-racial identification?
- Ah, I have.
- You don't give it credence.
- Do I think some whites
tend to misidentify black suspects
because they have trouble
distinguishing features? Yes.
But the eyewitness here was black
and the accused white.
And have you seen studies
that blacks often misidentify whites?
HARCOURT: I haven't,
but I'll take your word for it.
Didn't Mr. Boylan give a more
general description of a white suspect
before he saw my client
at your desk being questioned?
Are you talking
about the artist's sketch?
I wasn't.
But sure.
[CHUCKLES]
[FLAMM CLEARS THROAT]
Uh, continue, please.
And this artist's sketch was done
prior to Mr. Boylan seeing my client
in the police station?
Yes, but I wouldn't call
the description general.
Isn't it possible that Mr. Boylan
only fixated on my client as the shooter
because he saw him
being questioned by police?
And couldn't this sketch direct you
to the real killer?
No. We have the real killer.
Your Honor,
defense asks for access to this sketch.
Seems like a reasonable request.
Counselor,
any trouble getting it to them?
MITCH: Any more questions?
I gotta get back to work.
Uh, yeah. So you were here yesterday
during the shooting.
Yes. It was crazy.
The cops got here really fast.
People running around
and screaming.
Did you see anyone who looked
like this running around, screaming?
- I thought they caught the guy.
KALINDA: No.
I don't know.
This looks like a hundred people.
- Do you mind?
- Sure.
Yeah,
try and get the crime scene photos.
Cops aren't giving me access.
We also would suggest, Your Honor,
that it would be helpful
to have access
to the crime scene photos.
They do have access, Your Honor,
in discovery.
Which we always get
at the last minute.
Because we have to prepare them,
so it takes time.
- Well, who prepares it, counselor?
- Uh...
Give me their number.
Maybe they can expedite it.
Hey, Tim.
Listen, can you find out
who bought a lottery ticket
from its bar code?
[CHATTERING]
You do know
you're in the criminal law mixer?
I like criminal.
The men are so straight.
So we're fine with a 3-percent bump
and a two-year commitment
- to your litigators.
- Know what it means to feed the rat?
Do l...? No.
You can live
your sweet little domesticated life,
you can date
your cute little apple-cheeked lawyer...
WILL:
Heh, apple-cheeked.
- But eventually,
you have to feed the rat,
return to the wild.
Oh, that's fascinating.
We're not going above 3 percent.
You need to feed the rat, Will.
You are killing yourself
trying to be normal.
I am normal.
- Mr. Florrick, hi. Big fan.
PETER: Hello.
I came here
especially hoping to bump into you.
I think you know Will Gardner.
- Yes, I do. Hi, Will.
- Peter.
You two have so much in common,
don't you?
We do have a lot in common.
And how do you two
know each other?
Us? We...
Worked at the same firm together
a long time ago.
CELESTE:
We did a lot more than that.
The Baltimore firm.
Osterman, Lee, Canfield.
It was my first job out of college.
My first threesome was with Will.
[WILL CHUCKLES]
That's true.
- What was her name again?
- Ahem. Celeste, okay.
Well, you have to start somewhere.
[CHUCKLES]
Oh, so... Alicia Florrick, huh?
Well, she works with Will,
she's married to you.
That must be quite an arrangement.
Discuss.
It is quite an arrangement, yes.
Any awkward moments?
You mean, besides this one?
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
How many kids do you have, Peter?
Two. A boy and a girl.
I love boys and girls.
It's very domestic.
- What ages?
- Sixteen and 14.
CELESTE: Well, that's a very good
age. Isn't that a very good age, Will?
Me, I don't get kids.
I mean, I get why they're important,
but...
- You get them if you got them.
- Really? I don't know. I'm too selfish.
Have you ever met his kids?
- No, I haven't.
- Really?
Alicia never brought them to work?
I think I'll head out.
It's good to see you, Peter.
Yeah.
SILVESTRE: Who did you say
you were with again?
The Lottery Control Board.
A lottery ticket was paid out yesterday
for $5.
It should have been 500.
Well, that's my receipt,
heh, all right.
But I bought it as a gift for my son.
- Oh, where's your son?
- Oh, he moved back here, home, heh,
- a few months ago.
- Lovely.
Uh, Mrs. Silvestre,
may I use your bathroom?
SILVESTRE: Oh, hi, dear.
Did you have a nice day?
There's a young lady here for you.
- Who?
- She's from the Lottery Control Board.
Where is she?
Hello.
Hello.
ELl: I feel like you're cheating on me.
- Only for money.
Think that makes it better?
Between Will and Diane,
who holds more power?
It's equal.
It's never equal.
Yeah.
Diane has more power in Criminal
than Will in Civil.
But Diane controls the purse strings.
Only by default.
Will hates dealing with it.
But if Will says "no," is it real?
Often.
You're not helping much.
Darn.
And this Julius guy,
what about him?
Oh, he's head of Litigation.
He doesn't like me.
Why doesn't he like me?
You're the new and shiny thing.
Does it matter
that he doesn't like me?
No.
Anybody else with power?
- David Lee, Family Law.
- Heh.
And Alicia,
where does she stand in all of this?
Yes?
She's only a third-year associate,
but she matters.
- Because of her husband?
- Various reasons.
She can persuade people.
People as in Will?
- What are you looking for, Eli?
- The hierarchy.
Usually I can figure it out,
but this place
is like a mom-and-pop store.
It's all Will and Diane.
And if you wanna persuade Diane,
you persuade David Lee.
If you wanna persuade Will,
you persuade Alicia.
And here comes
your next customer.
Okay. Where are we?
Uh, according to the time-coded
register receipt here,
this lottery ticket was redeemed
seconds before the murder.
- Whose ticket?
- Mitch Silvestre.
He's a manager
from a fish market across the way.
As you can see,
there's a slight resemblance
between him and the artist sketch.
Can you get more on Silvestre?
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
- I'm on him.
- Good.
We need to delay in court.
- What are you doing?
- I'm working on a pro bono.
- What are you doing?
- I don't know. Whoring myself out.
WILL [OVER PHONE]:
I sort of miss you.
- I sort of miss you too.
- What can we do about that?
ALICIA:
I don't know. What do you wanna do?
- Hey, let me call you back.
ALICIA: I'll be here.
Okay. Love you.
- I said that...
- I know.
No, automatically, mechanically.
I didn't mean anything.
Will, don't worry about it.
- L... It's not that I don't care.
- Will, call me later.
Right. Goodbye.
I'm sorry, okay? Don't pout.
I'm fine.
But you're not accepting
my apology.
- What do I gotta do?
- Bring us Bankruptcy.
Okay, I'll come clean.
You're not chasing me, Will.
I'm chasing you.
- You're chasing me?
CELESTE: Yes.
- How are you doing that?
- Litigation and Bankruptcy
are, in fact, leaving the firm,
that is true.
So is Tax and Family Law.
And we're all regrouping.
As what, heh, a jazz combo?
No, as a new firm.
And we want you.
Celeste, I know you're a dreamer,
you like to live in your head,
but what in your wildest dreams would
make you think I would leave my firm,
one of the most prestigious in Chicago,
to come work
for what is basically a start-up?
Because I have the one thing
I know you want.
- What?
- You can't even guess?
WILL:
I can't even begin to guess.
I'm happy where I am.
Baseball commissioner.
It's the one thing George W. Bush
wanted more than the presidency.
- Don't play games with me.
CELESTE: I'm not.
The league's our biggest client.
The commissioner
is getting on in years.
He needs a successor.
The successor's gonna come
from our firm.
You know baseball.
You know the law.
- I don't believe you.
CELESTE: Call some friends, Will.
You know who to call. Look at me.
I'm not making this up.
When I go all in,
it's not with a stone-cold bluff.
I got my Dispute Resolution seminar
in 10 minutes.
If you wanna discuss
how this will work, stop by.
Not Judge Powers, Judge Romano.
- And tell her the brief is on its way.
WOMAN: Got it.
Sorry about that.
I've been in court all day.
- No problem, Mr. Coyne.
COYNE: Maggie, hold all calls.
- Give me about five minutes.
- You were a litigator
- at Portman and Michaels.
- Partner track.
Dropped out.
Couldn't stand all the meetings.
- Next door down, man.
- Thanks.
Thank you for picking up the slack
on the shooting.
I hear you have two lawyers
on the case.
- L... Really?
COYNE: It's good to see
considering all the firms
that are pulling back these days.
- The Handley deposition's over there.
- Uh, yes, well, actually,
I need to, uh,
talk to you about this, uh...
Guys, it's a go
on the Packer appeal.
See if you can pull up
some U of C intern time.
[INHALES]
Ties? Gentlemen, you go to court,
you wear a tie.
- Heh, sorry about that.
- Heh.
I'm sorry, um...
I know this, uh, might not be
a great time for this,
but we have to, um...
Ahem.
Our firm is bowing out
of our pro bono obligations.
Just till things pick up.
You know, the economy.
I get it. Don't worry about it.
Thank you for fighting for us,
anyway.
Well, I mean, we hope to return
when things improve.
That's okay. We're not sure
we'll be here. We lost our funding.
You... What, your state funding?
Yeah. Budget crunch.
So, what are you gonna do?
Don't know.
We still have a few options so...
Such as?
COYNE:
Such as knocking on a few doors,
yelling at a few rich people, heh.
I've learned
in the not-for-profit world
that eventually,
someone steps up.
Well, I should go.
Yes, thanks.
You know,
it's good to finally meet you in person.
And you.
I wish, uh...
I don't know what I wish.
The world were different.
Heh, that sounds good.
I'll be here waiting.
[MUFFLED HIP-HOP MUSIC
COMING FROM HOTEL ROOM]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
Will Gardner,
what the hell took you so long?
Hey. Uh, come on in.
You don't wanna miss the Q&A.
[ALL CHEERING]
WILL:
No, thanks.
I'm looking for, uh, Dispute Resolution:
Neutrality something or other.
EDDIE:
Next door on the right.
Phew!
MAN 1: Oh, kidding me?
MAN 2: Yeah.
[MAN SIGHS]
Hey, look who's here.
We saved you a seat.
MAN:
Gotta pay to play.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Do you need help?
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
KALINDA:
Yeah?
I'm on him now.
- Alcoholics Anonymous?
KALINDA: Yeah.
- Mitch goes to meetings twice a week.
- What about cash in the envelope?
Legit. And he was chapter treasurer.
He likes to bet at the track,
but it was all of his own money.
- Still doesn't mean he wasn't the killer.
- Yeah, but this does.
I checked the register at the
convenience store. It's an hour fast.
It could be an accident
or it was monkeyed with
to run a lottery scam.
It still puts him at the store
an hour before the murder.
We can still tell a story.
The guy worked a few doors down.
He knew the code to the locks.
A 30-year-old who likes to gamble.
Whose financial situation is bad
enough, it forces him to move home.
Uh, I appreciate that
we're trying to find a fall guy,
but putting this
on an innocent man?
Isn't that how our client
got into this mess?
We're defending our client.
BAILIFF:
All rise.
The Honorable Francis Flamm
presiding.
Well, good morning, everyone.
It's good to see you all here again.
Oh, and I see we've grown by one
at the defense table.
Yes, we have, Your Honor.
I've been so moved
by the plight of Mr. Dolan
that I have decided
to lend my assistance.
Well, it's great to have you,
Miss Lockhart.
And I understand your team would like
to argue a motion to dismiss.
ALICIA:
Yes, Your Honor.
The prosecutor has built this case
on one weak reed,
a single eyewitness.
An eyewitness
who was 30 feet from the crime,
and who only identified our client
after seeing the police
questioning him.
Mr. Dolan has no record.
He has a wife and a son
who are here in this court right now.
He is an innocent man, Your Honor,
and it would be unjust
not to dismiss these charges.
- Let me. Argue.
- Let you what?
Your Honor, injustice comes
in all shapes and sizes.
It's not just in the man held,
it's also in the man released.
My grandfather once said:
"A judging brain requires
a listening ear."
I think that was true then,
but it's doubly true now.
You need to hear our full case
before you can decide.
To dismiss before you hear
would be, heh, an injustice.
Your grandfather
is the Reverend Roy Stonehouse?
- He is, Your Honor.
- Well, heh, I'm honored.
- How is he?
- He's good. Uh, recovering, heh.
Well, please tell him
how greatly he's admired.
- My first thesis I wrote was on Selma.
- I'll tell him, heh.
And convey my respect as well.
We all owe men like your grandfather
a huge debt.
But let's not forget that this case
is about an innocent man.
Well, I think that still needs to
be determined, don't you, counselor?
- Yes. What I meant, Your Honor...
FLAMM: Yes, it's all right.
I know what you meant.
I just think that it would be unjust
to summarily dismiss this case,
uh, before offering a listening ear.
And so your motion is denied,
Miss Lockhart,
and the other two with you.
We will move directly to trial.
Oh, and, uh, Miss Stonehouse,
thank you.
I have chills.
[CHUCKLES]
I don't like to use that much.
- Does it get you into restaurants?
- Heh.
[MAN 1 SIGHS]
MAN 1: Okay.
MAN 2: Ugh.
[MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
- I'm out.
- Oh, come on.
- Not when you're up like that.
- Yup. When I'm up like that.
We'll be here tonight.
After the Civil mixer.
I'm fine, thanks.
- Take you to breakfast?
- No.
- Jeez, you sound so definitive.
- Yup.
So I'll hear from you
on the baseball commissioner job?
Celeste, no. I didn't like this life,
not even when I was living it.
I didn't like not knowing
when I was being conned or conning.
- You don't think there's a job.
- No, I checked.
In 10 or 15 years, there's a chance
I could vie for baseball commissioner.
What a sad thought that is.
Losing what I love now
to chase something in the future.
CELESTE:
What do you love?
You said, "Losing what I love now."
- My job.
- I don't believe you.
I don't believe you love it.
What you love is winning.
And you can't win big enough
at Lockhart Gardner.
This is your dream.
What happened
to pursuing your dream?
What happened to work?
Not everybody
can pursue their dreams.
Someone has to work.
Whoa, well, that is so sad.
No. Not really.
Take care.
KALINDA:
That's the cashier's bay.
And that's where the shooter was.
And the line of sight checks out.
I'm not seeing what's good.
The line of sight checks out
until the cashier reaches
under the counter for the gun.
JULIUS: The wall would have
hidden the cashier from view.
KALINDA: And Boylan told the police
the cashier pulled the gun
from a holster taped
under the counter.
But he couldn't have seen him reach
under the counter for his gun.
Unless he was in the store.
Boylan tried to escape,
saw the patrol car pull up
and pretended to be an eyewitness,
not a killer.
So let's go talk to Cary.
Only a few more minutes.
[DOOR OPENS]
I've always waited
for bad things to happen.
Every day.
Travis sees the good things.
And I'm always waiting for the bad.
Well, this is good.
I know, heh.
I don't wanna be that anymore.
The worst thing happened
and we're still here.
Will you thank
the other two lawyers?
Oh, I will,
but it was really the prosecutor.
He reversed himself.
[DOOR OPENS]
Hmm.
Oh, heh.
[SIGHS]
- Can l...?
- Yes.
BOY:
Daddy.
[CHUCKLES]
Hey, buddy.
How's it going?
BOY:
It's good.
Yes?
Oh, nothing.
I'm, uh, just looking.
An espresso machine
would be nice.
Oh, hey. The release went well?
It did. You should've been there.
No. I didn't do enough.
ALICIA: Hi.
- Hi.
How was whoring?
Unproductive.
Listen, about what I said yesterday...
Will, please, I'm on the phone
with my kids and say, "I love you."
And then I'm on the phone with my
mother-in-law and say, "I love you" too.
It's an accident.
Yes.
But do you think we should talk?
No, I don't, actually.
You don't?
No.
- Are you sure?
- I'm so sure.
I've never been so sure.
I'm not interested in anyone else.
Will,
you're talking about it, eek.
- No fuss, no muss.
- That's me.
Celeste Serrano
is forming her own firm.
Bankruptcy, Litigation,
Family Law.
I don't wanna be careful anymore.
I don't wanna count every penny
and worry more about failing
than doing what's right.
Okay.
Legal Aid is losing its office space.
Everybody's pulling back
because of the economy.
I wanna bring them in-house.
There's room next to Eli.
He won't like it,
but he'll have to live with it
until we find more room.
When our lawyers have free time,
they can offer it to Legal Aid.
You should've broken up
on the phone.
[CHUCKLES]
I wanna do this.
And I want your okay.
Okay.