Good Wife recaps - twopj

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s3e2
https://web.archive.org/web/20140709070313/http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/the-good-wife/the-death-zone-1
p1
Eli's brought in -- by way of secret stairway jiggery-pokery -- a fellow fixer, Mickey Gunn, played by awesome Michael Kelly imdb.com/name/nm0446672    who was one of the greatest parts of Generation Kill,    for some kind of very secret meeting.   
p10  /the-death-zone-1/10
Mickey: "Good work? But you caught me leaving Burke's office because I was turning him down."    Kalinda & Eli: "Total lie."
Mickey: "No, but anyway, there's always going to be a nanny or a hooker or something. Or a dude, if they're a Republican. Mickey out."   Eli, kinda desperate: "Wait, let me try again!"  //Mickey, at door, turns ~ shrug, okay ... and I notice huh he has a distinct southern drawl, I like that ---- so then it's neat to read jacob's cmmt here:
The more southern Mickey gets, the hotter he is.   Just putting it out there. Green socks or no.





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s3e4

/huh, this comment at imdb epsd page:  imdb.com/title/tt2063495/?
-We had a black female hot-shot attorney there making sure that there were no problems involving race regarding accepting //and offering - so: making// of [plea] deals. What egg she must have had on her face when the real killer was discovered. //hmm. this sounds racist.  real killer is black? (maybe it is the witness guy? if black then not the cop.) anyway it's no egg on her face if guilty person is black.  irrelevant to overseeing plea deals to ensure racially indiscriminate.//  Wasn't this a perfect example of stereotyping?  //yikes, again. sterotyping *against* the cute white guy?  no. he is not looking guilty bcs anyone is stereotyping, but bcs of circumstance. /


web.archive.org/web/20140709081115/http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/the-good-wife/feeding-the-rat-1/

s3e4

p2   [...-1/2/
cute young dad, Dolan: "Are you the public defender? Because you're dressed like you're going to the opera."
Alicia: "No, this is pro bono. Because you're so super poor."
Dolan: "That's actually why we're here. See, I couldn't get any '80s money /the old school  dot dot dot atm/ so then I looked at greeting cards and I was going to get a squirt gun for my kid, and then that was the last time my life made any sense."
...
Travis Dolan used to work for Parks. I don't know if that's a hedge fund or like Leslie Knope //haha parks & rec// or what, but either way he's adorable and we know he didn't do it. But now Cary Agos is saying that Dolan saw the cops coming and ditched his own gun and ran toward the back of the store -- which is going to end up being kind of true, but not about Dolan //the cop guy? robber was dressed like cop?? also, did the witness see the cop?//-- and Cary and Alicia agree to offer him second degree. Which is two degrees more than he should be going to jail for, because we know him and we know he didn't do it. But everybody else on this show doesn't know him as well as we do. Not quite yet.


p3   [...-1/3/
Eli: "Kalinda! You should be at my beck and call!"     Kalinda: "I am capable of like infinite work, it doesn't matter to me. Full-time, part-time, I am going to find the clue immediately before the third commercial break regardless."


p4
Will: "Oh, hell no. You said no, I said no. We agreed no. That lady is insane, no. No to that."
Diane: "I think probably we say yes to that, though.


p5
Peter: "Imani, I'd like you to meet Cary Agos. He is by the far the most irritatingly white person you've ever seen. He's like an Abercrombie & Fitch ad ..."  
Imani: "I have memorized your record, and you do show a marked bias in your pleas." 
Also, though, the drug laws in this country are institutionalized racism, gerrymandered around class lines and enforced haphazardly, for the purpose of putting black people in jail. So there's only so much of this conversation that you can actually have, on this show, before you come up against that.
They can throw around code words and coded comparisons, like "crack" vs. "cocaine," but that's really what we're talking about.


p6
Julius: "I'll talk to him or something. Hey, who's going to break up with Legal Aid?"
Diane: "I'll do it. I will go down there in person and just punch Conrad from Weeds ight in his stupid beautiful face.
p7
Will: "Come on, Diane, you don't have to break up in person. Just make a call."
Diane: "Yeah well, that was the plan, but my guilt was getting to me.  Also, you should get a look at the Legal Aid guy before you ask any more stupid questions. He is totally Conrad from Weeds."


..p7
Not only is Alicia confident about this "poor man's deposition" idea, she's so much so that she would also like to get about six other plates spinning at the same time, and Cary over there just bitching himself pink the entire time: Kalinda is at the crime scene, asking Julius questions on the phone, and then he runs those questions to Alicia, and she asks them on record at the hearing, and then Julius relays them back to Kalinda, and the whole time Fierstein's like, "Yeah, I know what she's doing, but I am a hippie and I believe in justice and zucchini bread and gay cinema and I need you to chill."

//actual dialogue fr springfieldspringfield//
Alicia: And how far was the shooter inside the store?
Cary: 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.
Judge: Yep.  Heard it the first time, Counselor.  Got it.  Overruled.
Alicia:  And how far was the shooter inside the store?
Imani:  He's killing us.
Cary:  Get used to it.  /? I guess bcs this judge./
Kalinda: Where did he say the shooter went?  [Julius hands post-it to Alicia]
Alicia: Where did this person go after you saw him shoot?
Witness: Back into the store to hide.
Alicia: So you saw him hide?
Witness: __ .   No, I'm just .   He went toward the rear of the store.


p9 re Will ~ being committed, not wild ~ twopj:
I also think that people do change. Never as much as they say they do, because life in part is a story that we're telling everybody else, but still. So the question is always, "Are you just being really enthusiastic, or was this a legitimate epiphany?


p13
LEGAL AID
Diane: "Hey, sorry to just drop by your ... what seems to be a daycare facility for bored legal interns and crazy people ... but I just wanted to say hi. And some other things."
Coyne: "No problem. Just let me clear a space off this table we got from the garbage so you can sit down and drink tea out of this chipped cup. I'm sorry I can't offer you snacks, but at Legal Aid we derive our nutrition from helping people." 
Diane: "How is that possible?"
Coyne: "It is not. But it's better than admitting that we are starving to death."
Diane: "How did things get to this point? You're like Big Edie over here."
Coyne: "I was just like you, man. A litigator at Portman & Michaels, on the partner track. But I just just couldn't take the meetings. I turned on, I tuned in, I dropped out. This is where it's really happening, man. On the streets."   ...
Diane: "Well, I'm sure that is hard, but I just wanted to say that we won't be doing any more pro bono work for you. We hate poor people, and do-gooders."
Coyne: "That's a stone bummer, man. Don't stress about it."
Diane: "I mean, seeing the abject nature of your fight against an uncaring and monolithic system has been eye-opening, but I'm really more interested in siphoning off as much money as possible from the bankrupting of America right now. Like a... Like a remora, or some other kind of parasite."
Coyne: "I get that, man. I really do. I grok that."
Diane: "Maybe when I get my shit together, I will extend our pro bono services to you again, but frankly that seems totally unlikely right now."
Coyne: "That's no problem, man. We probably won't be here when or if you do. We just lost our state funding, so, whatever."
Diane: "Wait, what? What the hell are you going to do? Your fight is a righteous one!"
Coyne: "You know, we can still knock on doors and yell at rich people. One thing I've learned in the not-for-profit world is that eventually, someone steps up."
Diane: "Do they?"
Coyne: "Yeah. I mean, apparently not you, but someone. At some point. Anyway, have a great afternoon! If you'll excuse me, I have to smush all the slivers of soap in the communal bathroom together, to make one soap. That's what my day looks like."
Diane: "Okay. It's good to finally meet you in person. I wish, uh... I don't know what I wish. I wish the world were different."  *
Coyne: "That sounds good! I'll be here waiting. And throwing the pages of my novel manuscript into this pot-bellied stove, one at a time, so the interns don't freeze to death in their fight for justice. It's my only copy, so..." 

*  p19     Wishing the world will change is, in the long run, a much bigger hassle than just changing it your own damn self.


p15
Julius: "I'm not on this show a whole lot so my understanding of the law may be rusty, but putting this on an innocent man? Isn't that how our client got into this mess?"
Diane: "Um. We're defending our client."
I mean, I guess I see your point, your stoner high school point //well I dunno if it is stonerish, it just is a very basic ~ isn't that unfair? ~ unsophisticated sort of qstn. so y v m seems silly for head of litigation to say.  (ppl say this show serious  but like th Elsbeth crazy mental imagery s6 epsd seemed like Bstn Legal eccentricity.  but was Bstn Legal ever this silly in hvg experienced lawyers act like strategy innocents? // 
but anyway that's a separate case. One which doesn't exist. So we can cast doubt all over the place -- I mean, this happens in like every episode //right bcs trial defense is always about showing reason for reasonable doubt//  -- and not feel bad about it, because it's not a frame job because there is no case //I do think there was a time I was bothered by this, watching trial scenes, d n fully get that charged wld still hv to be separately brought against anyone upon whom suspicion was cast. so this puts that well:// Fishmonger hasn't been arraigned, hasn't been accused, hasn't undergone anything harsher than a visit from the Boot Fairy [kalinda], and he doesn't even know about that. So I feel like that line was an awkward bone thrown to us -- because we are nitpickers who don't understand basic shit -- which we aren't, so it ended up just making things weird for everybody.







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s3e4

p~3
David Lee: "Also, don't put your kids in private school."
Alicia: "Don't tell me what to do with my kids, David Lee. My daughter is a trainwreck and I need to get her away from the Internet, before she does a dance."
David Lee: "That's cute that you think I give a shit about you. No, I'm saying don't put them into private school unless you make Peter pay for half of it. You have to create a fiction on paper that you can't afford it, or else he will make you pay him alimony."
Alicia: "I have forgotten how family law works, or how money works, and apparently believe that life is the Honor System today. Also, stop planning for a divorce that is obviously going to happen."
David Lee: "Okay, small words. Peter is going to be pissed when you divorce him, because you are key to his political success and because he will have jumped through about fifty billion hoops, including the Jesus hoop, in order to make sure you don't leave him. When it comes down to it, he is going to sue you for everything. Things you didn't even know were possible. Don't blame me, it's the goddamn feminists. He is going to sue you in the face. As your lawyer, it's my entire job to think about these things. It is your job as a client to do what I tell you. Cool?"


p5
Eli: "Adam Spellman. Do you know who that is?"
Kalinda: "I am Kalinda, of course I do. He is a businessman, and head of the Chicago Black Leadership Council. His address, social, and current weight are on this index card which -- what's this? -- you've had in your left ear the entire time. Now it has vanished! Or has it? Check your breast pocket."





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s3e5

p14
Peter: "You might hear about a plea bargain that I'm about to do. Kind of tarnishes my name and the name of the office, and will desperately need spinning, but it's for a good cause. Several, actually."
Eli: "How about you just delay it until you get the speech?"
Peter: "Can't. It's now or never, and ethically I have to do it."
Eli: "Whatever, try to keep it quiet but otherwise go for it and heeeeey, what's your deal with Kalinda Sharma and why won't she work for me on your behalf?"
Peter: "What? Who? Nothing. Who? When? Donkey balls. Space program. Who?"
Eli: "Mmkay."

Alicia: "Caitlin is fine. I don't overidentify with her in a self-aggrandizing way, but she's a cool customer. And David Lee is bugging me about it, so that makes me want to do something to piss him off. But there's just something about Martha that reflects so well on me, in my own estimation."
Will: "You know what they say. A students make great professors, B students make great judges, and C students make partner."
(Tiger Mother: "First prize is a set of steak knives. Second prize is, you're fired.")


p15
Alicia: "I still don't understand this concept of having friends and making art. Are you trying to learn a useful skill or trade? Because I can pay for dance lessons..."
Grace: "It is not about dance lessons! It is about how this girl is totally weird and I think that is awesome and she likes me which is also awesome and putting art on the Internet is a good way to express yourself without the risk of social reprisal because it's through a mediating technology and I'm really self-conscious which is why I like the Internet and I feel like you have these standards for my friends that are bogus and have nothing to do with me and then I feel like I'm displeasing or disappointing you just by liking what I like because it's always, 'Oh, she's a lesbian or a Christian or something,' or, 'Oh, stop joining a cult on the Internet,' or, 'Oh, she's too nerdy and she's a grown woman.'


p16
Cary: "Pike's ordered four witnesses murdered since he went inside."
Colin: "What a fantastic reason for me to be a witness against him."
Alicia: "Way too dangerous. No way."
Everybody:  That was interesting.
Cary: "Sweeney, it's up to you."
Alicia: "Do not do this."
Everybody, now just staring at her:  Again, what a super interesting response.
Celeste: "Alicia, it's his decision?"

p17-18
David Lee: "[Flips the hell out.]"
Alicia: "Your niece is good. Good lawyer on paper, good in an interview. She'll find a great job immediately."
David Lee: "[Flips out so bad.]"
Alicia: "I'm pretty sure that's actually the definition of nepotism..

David Lee and his infernal Bluetooth abruptly vanish back into the Hell portal and all that's left is like wisps of smoke and the smell of sulfur and thunder in the distance and Celeste is all, "What happens right now is that we are going to go get a drink right now," and Alicia's like, "You might have to carry me to where the liquor is, but oh yeah."

WHERE THE LIQUOR IS

Celeste: "Hire his niece, and then make her life hell."  Alicia: "That is actually a very good plan."  Celeste: "Like you would ever do that."  Alicia: "I would totally do that. I do complicated mean schemes all the time. I am not a good person."  Celeste: "Please. You obviously are. You're cool. I just don't like women, they're boring."  Alicia: "(Drunk pseudofeminist hackles raised, as though that sentiment carries any weight whatsoever beyond "Check out my transparent neurosis," which she immediately explains.)  Celeste: "I don't like women. They're all competing with me."  Alicia: "Don't men compete with you?"  Celeste: "Not really."
 // ~int?: //
Which, this recap is already pretty long, but: You are always going to be sexualized. //but I d n feel that?  do I make it not happen or jnot perceive it?  I think it's not simply not perceiving. maybe, feel & act like is not happening. so.  this is another way?  a personality. trivially, anyway, in hs or whtvr, wldn't some ppl be characterized as just not seeming sexual?//  That is not going away. And it's not even the problem, because it's true of every person without regard to gender or sexuality:
The problem is that men are on top, and have had several thousand years to develop a complex sociological system to ensure that they stay on top, which is where the inequality comes in, because your body becomes their weapon.
(My point of entry into all of this is that, as a gay man, your body and personhood are just as threatening to this system of power as a woman's, so you're subject to a lot of the same punishments and requirements as a woman, complicated by certain other privileges that you get for being a man, the same way other rights and privileges go exclusively to women. This particular part of the equation, however, is the same. I say this not to complain, but because when I talk about this stuff it comes off as talking about feminism -- which can often get, as a man writing for mainly women, dicey -- so I want to be clear that all I'm talking about is real, empirical life.)
So in a male-run industry, which is every industry because see above re: men, you have to have in your toolbox ways of dealing with this obvious, omnipresent thing. /hmm. / And they're broadly generational, but always specifically personal: You can be a Diane, with that firmly patrician indulgence of it that says, "Okay boys, now back to work," and that's fine. /okay maybe am closest to that. place self above (her) or outside (me) of the heirarchy, dynamic.//  You can be a Kalinda, who sees it as just another way to achieve what she was already doing, which is controlling your mind, and in my opinion that's the best way.  //th is most int here.  ie manipulate.  "use them right back."  wh is wh alicia said to the america ferrara character when she said she felt used, being offered help by firm by way of eli.//  You can be an Alicia, which most of us are to an extent, and involves staring through the person at objects on the other side of the person until they stop it, like with Colin.  /hmm.  just d n react to wh putting on you?//
Or, you can be the one that was missing before now: The Celeste.   Someone who is so blatantly oppositional and so used to sexualizing everyone, including herself, that it comes off as scary and jagged. /jaime ish or no.  just as in: angry.  calling ppl out.//
The Walking Hatefuck. So yeah, men aren't competing with her on any level that registers as competitive, because she ruins the curve by getting there first so they can't use it to dehumanize her. But opens her[self] up to conflict with women, because she is a traitor and a Bechdel heretic, but also because she's grossly forcing a question for which most of us spend the majority of the day finding workarounds. To stay level and safe, socially, part of it is making sure everybody gets out alive, and she's ... not interested in that.




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s3e6

p5
ALICIA'S OFFICE
Sample Dialogue: "The IT guy put on proprietary software, so he could charge your firm for every megabyte he stored. That's why it rejected the transferring of your files. It's really corrupt. You don't need to be paying to store files. In fact, it slows the system down."
Alicia: "You are a genius!"
Zach: "Thanks. Oh, your boss was in here. Will?"
Alicia:  (TILT.)
Zach: "...All right, I better go. Love you."
Alicia: "Whew, that was a close one. Good thing he suspects nothing!"
Zach: "...Oh, and Mom? I'd like a car."


HEARING
Team L/G: "Chen, we have the backing of the US State Department."
Team Cary: "Everybody, we also have the backing of the US State Department."
US State Department: "Actually Dana's uncle [Dan Golden /who was Peter Florick's lawyer, wh is mentioned, so good continuity ~ but, wldn't he also be on the side of the Floricks ie Alicia who is defense in this case? but I guess he d n know that, and she wld not think to go to him?  Diane went to Eli, not to Alicia, asking re contacts at state dept.] is more powerful than Eli's ex-wife. Taiwan's feelings be damned because we're more worried that China will be angry if we are nice to them, and I don't know if you know this but China is scary as shit."

/p1 recaplet
Diane gets Eli to call his ex-wife Vanessa (Parker Posey), who works for the State department. In return, she asks Eli to vet her for a state senatorship.  ... Mostly it's about how fun you find it to watch Alan Cumming and Parker Posey act at each other -- depending entirely on if you like them and/or it is still the mid-'90s, which I do, and I guess it still is -- so it worked.
I may hate Generation X but I reserve the right to absolutely love those two ladies, and I do.



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s3e7       11.6. 2011     Executive Order 13224     3-7 Recap      Look At All This Paper!  - Alicia takes on Bob Balaban single-handed while Will has hilarious showdowns with both Peter and Cary. Also: Dana's fate revealed

p~4
MARWAT CASE
Tveit objects to looking at the requisition list for this particular time because of the Classified Information Procedures Act, which is like his favorite Act and he should marry it.
Childs: "And can I also state for the viewers that 13224 also has broad application when a terrorist hires a lawyer, and Danny is kind of a terrorist, because we must have suspected him of being a terrorist, or else we would not have kidnapped and tortured him. Which we did not do."
p5
What's funny and is interesting is, this episode is about the AUSAs and Treasury feeling their way around L/G's privilege and us getting outraged about that, because the point is that Danny is a tortured American. But if this show were called The Good AUSA and we were focused on state interests, then this would be about a defense law firm feeling their way around clearance levels and checks and balances, and us getting outraged about that.










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s3e8    11.13.2011    Death Row Tip        3-8 Recap   Nothing Is Very Clean  -  A Death Row inmate, sex with Santa Claus, and post-traumatic hookups. 

p2

ELI GOLD & ASSOC.
Eli: "What's going on there?"
Alicia: "He killed his girlfriend or something. Why are you bugging me?"
Eli: "My computer's acting up again!"
Alicia: "That doesn't sound very important, except that we've been noticing our computers acting up again all season, so either this is just a narrative way of explaining Zach's continued presence in a law firm, or Skynet has us in its sights. We will see."
Eli: "I hope it has to do with Derrick Bond and Lemond Bishop. Anyway, really I was just dragging you out of your job that you are doing so that you can be human furniture again in a meeting with that adorable James Carville analogue."

Mickey Gunn: "Why am I here? Besides to be adorable."
Eli: "I have a problem with your candidate that used to be a Republican and whatever, that you used me to vet him and now want to continue to use me to Eli him.  ... It is mostly okay but I have this messed up picture."
Mickey: "This picture is awesome but I see what you mean."

p3
Mickey: "Hey, I heard you guys were under investigation. I won't put my candidate in the hands of some firm that's going under indictment."
[Right then a horde of cops, Stormtroopers, all manner of shit going on behind him.]
Alicia: Shudders and tries to think of how best to body-check him if he turns around right then.
Eli: "What? No way. We are growing! Blooming!"
Alicia: "Yes. A rumor is often a sign of jealous competitors. Or a looming indictment because of my husband's jealousy. Sometimes because of Glenn Childs or Lemond Bishop, but usually it's a Peter thing."


STATE'S ATTY
Kalinda is, of course, going through Cary's shit all alone in his office.
Dana: "Hey, have we met? It's my last day.//ha ha bcs this was wh she said when first appeared few eps back. her deal.//  I'm Dana Lodge."
Kalinda, twinkling: "I'm Kalinda Sharma, and you are hot."
Dana: "So, you're just trying to steal those Adrianne Iver crime scene photos, yes? Let's giggle and look at them together."
Kalinda, sparkling: "Done and done."
Dana: "Adrianne Iver, a 28-year-old flight attendant, quit her job after her boyfriend proposed... Oh wait, you totally represent her boyfriend Tom LaVere, don't you?"
Kalinda, incandescent: "You're gaming me! That's adorable. Let's keep flirting."
Dana: "What I think happened is, they fought and she tried to flee to Canada, so Tom shot her with his Walther P99 handgun."
Kalinda, adorable: "'Walther P99 handgun' is this episode's 'Chinese Wall.'"
Dana: "Yeah. So my scenario is that he buried the body here, and then coincidentally the Almighty Vice Lords picked the same pit to bury a 22nd Disciple. Hey, are you and Cary in love?"
Kalinda, doing sexy jazz-hands: "Not exactly."
Dana: "Are we in love?"


p4

AKA TRIAL WHICH JUST HAPPENS TO BE HAPPENING THIS SECOND
AKA's Prosecutor: "Try AKA as an adult for this crime!"
AKA's Defense: "AKA came forward because he wants to remake his life!"
Kalinda, at the back: "Yeah, as a stone killa. I'm so sure a 14-year-old lieutenant would confess to anything except being a giant bad-ass."


L/G
Kalinda: "They keep saying they have solved all the murders."
Diane: "That's so ASA. Listen, we got the French guy right here. I think a clue will happen right now out of the blue because it's almost time for commercials."
French Guy: "Oh, did I not mention this footage where he says he knows the identity of the Vice Lord that killed the dead guy?"
Diane: "No, you did not."
French Guy: "Sorry. I had to bring my assistant to Death Row because he likes pretty women."
Alicia: (Death glare that goes on way too long, even though it's setting up the rest of the episode; it's weird because this show and this episode are so all about amazing editing, but then just this one shot is just really bad. It's like she rolls her eyes all the way around her entire head.)
Diane: "Just to review, the guy who can help our client is being executed in 36 hours."
TV Audience: "Thanks for the assist."

p6

GOLD & ASSOC.
Eli, verbatim: "I have to be blunt, sir, because that's how TMZ is gonna report it, FOX is gonna repeat it, and Jon Stewart is gonna finish it. Here. Comes. Santa."
They sit there for awhile chewing on that one.
Eli: "Jokes are okay. But this is a joke about you fellating Santa. And Santa's expression [Which is O.O] does not help."
Eli's Strategy: Same as always, get out in front of it. His one trick.
[reaplet p1: Eli's story is probably the most mirthful this week, as that wonderful James Carville-like guy is back and we finally meet his fairly charming candidate, whose college years included a penchant for taking candid photographs where he's blowing statues. Eli wants to get the pictures out there, because I don't know if you've figured out Eli's million-dollar strategy yet, but it's called disclosure. Every time. ]
Eli: "You're the Facebook Generation, sir. Every candidate under forty has some dumb photo from some dumb college buddy. Krystal Ball and the reindeer nose?"
Everybody: (Tries to remember that, because it seems like forever ago, because we are the Facebook Generation. Except for Alicia, who can barely work her phone. Moms!)


PACKER APPEAL
So the bad news is that Ricky Packer picked up two 14-year-old girls from a shopping mall, raped them over three days, then slit their throats. Yeah.
Coyne: "All we need is mitigation."
Alicia: "It's just ... My daughter's their age..."
IT IS YOUR FUCKING JOB. HOW MANY EPISODES BEFORE YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THE LEGAL SYSTEM WORKS. MOMS!
[p1 recaplet: Alicia spends the whole time asking her dipshit questions like, "Is the death penalty really okay? What is its role in society?" and "How do appeals generally work?" and "What do defense attorneys do again? I keep forgetting, is it being really judgmental about their clients instead of doing their jobs?" and whatever else happens when she's busy being the audience insert for an audience so goddamn stupid they cannot possibly exist.]

Packer: "My mom, she's always talking about redemption. Right? But redemption from what? From being a man?"
Chills. All over. Ugh. I kind of feel like I'm on Alicia's side with this one, even though I always make fun. Especially because in this case it's not about getting him off Death Row, just messing with his head. But then you still have this thing of, What if it accidentally worked, what if some kind of Diane/Alicia/Kalinda magic accidentally happened and he got loose? That would be awful. But this -- that possibility, but moreso the ugliness of this situation -- is the price of democracy, and the death penalty is 100% not okay, so put your big-boy pants on and deal with the situation on the ground.


p7
SOME LESBIAN BAR OR SOMETHING
Dana: "What do you want? Why did you 'phone' me on my 'phone'?"
Kalinda: "First, to make out. Second, to get footage from a blue light camera."
(A what? Dana, phrase your answer for us here at home.)
Dana: "Now why would you want access to our anti-gang cameras? Also known as what you said before."
Kalinda: "For on this one drug corner about that murder you already solved."
Dana: "But we already solved it."
Kalinda: (Ties a cherry stem in a knot with her tongue.)
Dana: "Okay fine, but you have to give me something."

p12
ALICIA'S HOUSE
Jackie: "I have come once again on Chris Noth's behalf. Listen, is that a Jewess?"
Zach: "Oh, Grandma."
(Ding-dong.)
Jennifer: "It is I! The horrible tutor, dressed like an asshole with my face painted. Is Grace here? We might be lesbians together, we might have Aspergers together. You just never know. I can tell you one thing, though, and that is that we are going to film it."

WILL'S OFFICE
Will: "Aren't you playing around in the Legal Aid sandbox?"
Kalinda, verbatim: "I was. Now I'm here."
Will: "Oh shit. Kalinda Robot Talk. What's the problem?"
Kalinda, without pausing: "An ASA in Peter Florrick's office is asking about your relationship with Judge Baxter. Are you in trouble."
Will, verbatim: "I'm in something. I don't know what I'm in."
Kalinda: "The ASA is Dana Lodge."
Will: "Isn't it her last day?"   // :)
p13
Kalinda: "This is Peter, right? This is coming from him?"
Will, verbatim, good line: "I don't know. I don't know anything anymore. I used to be able to read the political tea leaves, now I can barely tell why people say hello to me in the morning."
Kalinda, same: "Then *use me.*"
..."What's the deal with Tom Baxter? You pay him off?"
Will: "I did not. But. That's a good idea, because I can see why they would think that. Because I gave him a shitload of money that Jacob can't remember why."
Kalinda, verbatim, again awesome: "Okay, then *ask for my help.*"

p17  ~

It can get to a place where the whole world seems turned against what you know in your heart: That just by feeling this way, sending this radiation out, you know you look crazy to the world... So then the problem is that it's Kalinda, because she is the ultimate absorber of radiation; she bounces nothing. But she can pretend. A person could go crazy.
And yet, there's the nuclear option, which is just to ask. Maybe she'll lie, maybe she won't know she's lying, but it's the only way to finish it, because you can't know, anymore, how much of this castle you just built inside your head. To level it is to ask.

[p1 recaplet:
Dana's like, "Don't worry, I'm not a lesbian" and Cary's like, "Neither was I, until I met Kalinda." Like wanting to make out with both Cary and Kalinda proves a goddamn thing. ...
After the guns die down, Cary and Kalinda go feel post-traumatic for a little while, and then sort of make out for a second, and then Cary realizes that she is maybe playing Jedi mind tricks on him, maybe she doesn't even know she's doing it, and just walks away in the middle of their makeout, and then I guess probably she wonders also if she is doing Jedi mind tricks even when she doesn't know she is doing it.]

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If you have ever had or overheard a conversation about the show lasting more than a few seconds, probably you made it to Kalinda. One of the most unique, sophisticated, beautifully drawn characters probably ever on television. Queer, silent, driven, empty, full, beautiful, ugly, and overqualified for any position whatsoever — from Pope to assassin — Kalinda’s faults lie so deep and are so infinitely terrifying that you end up with this weirdly paradoxical need to protect her.—  Jacob Clifton - The Good Wife, the first two seasons


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s3e10       12.04.2011      Parenting Made Easy       3-10 Recap       The God Of Small Things  - An emergency shuffles several key relationships, while Caitlin's first arbitration pits Alicia against Martha and Michael J. Fox.

Caitlin: "Why do you believe..."
Objection: Calls for speculation. Sustained.
Caitlin: "Um, why were you fired?"
Objection: Same deal. Come on, Caitlin.
Alicia: "Step by step. Just ask her what happened."
What Happened: Sexual harassment.Martha: "Gosh, what happened there? I'm so sorry you were harassed."
Deb [from Dexter]: "He tried to touch me and I pushed him away."
Martha: "In a bedroom? No? The staff lounge, with people around? How frightening."
Deb: "Everybody gets that shit from him."
Martha: "He's a massager of women, right? Known for that?"
Deb: "I guess so -- which is itself a problem -- but mostly it's the fact that I resisted him touching me, and then got fired the next day."The Provost is a creepster with a creepster beard that looks and talks like that Will Farrell character that was always in the hot tub with Rachel Dratch talking about "my lover" this and "my lover" that. Case closed, creepster.Provost: "This is ridiculous! I am just a tactile person! I am accustomed to invading other people's space and touching their bodies! I have tenure, you see."
Martha: "You are a toucher of all genders, yes?"
Provost: "I always stop when they tell me to. And then I fire them."
p4
Caitlin: "Why didn't you tell Deb that you were replacing her the next day?"
Provost: "I thought telling her we were downsizing was better than saying it was because her students hated her. Think of it as one last boundary-violating caress."







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s3e11     What Went Wrong
p8
Diane's asking her to make a choice, without promising to fulfill her end of the bargain:
Trade Will for me, shame for alliance, complications for power. Men for women.




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