The Good Wife: 5x04 Outside the Bubble.
Diane spends her first week without L/G and the last few days of not being married to Kurt McVeigh shooting guns, alienating her liberal friends and meeting Kurt's surprisingly young and female mates, while the remaining /G part of the firm tries to deal with a paralegal who is accusing pretty much everyone (except Kalinda) of creating a hostile work environment. Alicia asked her about how she lost her virginity, Cary showed her how he jerks off, Diane pimped her out to a client, Lyman (who will outlive all of them) pantlessly attacked her, Will was having sex with underlings in the office. All of it contains a grain of the truth, so naturally it takes some Elsbeth Tascioni elven dust and Kalindering to get rid of most of the accusations - the whole thing is pretty tame and un-muddy, compared to the last few weeks - but it brings up some resilient memories and feelings of who exactly Will was having sex with (important distinction: not his office, the bathroom), further shows what an utter gross elderly man Lyman is, and how dumb some of Alicia's future colleagues at Florrick/Agos are (in this case, including Agos himself). In an odd last-second resolution, we find out that either the paralegal didn't accuse Kalinda because they've been having sex pretty much everywhere around the offices for the past few weeks (in which case the show has completely lost its grasp on Kalinda, because SHE WOULD NEVER, seriously), or that this just happens to be the kind of counter-attack you can do nothing against because it's Kalinda, either way, it doesn't make a lot of sense and only serves as a painful reminder of how little we've actually seen of Kalinda lately. For all we know, she could be off learning how to be a carpenter or whatever, making her own whiskey.
The more important and impacting part of the episode is when Will and Diane come to terms of sorts, even if the exit payment isn't settled yet - Diane gets to keep some of her clients if she tries and make sure the rest of them stay with L/G - and that just happens to coincide with the moment where Alicia gives in and jumps the newly reinstated firewall to steal all of Diane's clients for F/A. Recently married Diane catches her in the act (while gloriously walking through HER firm like it's still her palace, this whole scene is fantastic), and then follows her suspicions down the rabbit hole until she's sure enough that Alicia is jumping ship and, worse, betraying to her baby (because it'll never not be that) that she shoots her the most terrifying death glare in the history of any character in anything ever, and goes to Will to tell him what she knows, after considering her options through glass walls some more. "Alicia is leaving the firm with Cary and she's taking our top clients." Next week's going to be a bloodbath.
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