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“The Good Wife” recap (6.6): You Gotta Have Faith

Oh fun! This week’s Good Wife opens with politicians talking about religion with Pastor Jeremiah, something Alicia is loathe to do. Johnny Elfman wants Alicia to lie about her faith, because you know, she doesn’t have one. A stanch atheist, Johnny informs Alicia that she will lose the election if she doesn’t believe in God. During this discussion, the door bell rings and there stands Eli’s daughter, Marissa. She’s supposed to be Alicia’s “body woman” which is just another way to say personal assistant/spy. Marissa is upfront about that last part. Plus, the best kind of spy is the kind that doesn’t give a shit. Elsbeth calls Alicia wondering where she is, since they have a meeting with the FBI on the books. It was apparently rescheduled, which is news to Elsbeth, who assumes this is AUSA Kyle MacLachlan…er, Perotti’s way of getting her alone. She resents/is turned on by that thought. She busts into a meeting he is conducting to give him a piece of her mind. Turns out her secretary forgot to give her the message. (“Fantasia,” Elsbeth grumbles.) When she leaves, embarrassed, Perotti chases her down because he is sprung like spring for her. Like the perfect weirdos they are, they sniff each other. Baby lotion (Elsbeth) and Old Spice (Perotti) become nearly intoxicating to one another.

It’s business as usual at Lockhart Gardner Canning, until David Lee is presented with an eviction notice from Diane. LGC tries to strike back by slapping Diane with a bunch of OSHA fines. Kalinda is pretty sure she can find a loophole, and it’s a good thing, since Alicia and Cary can’t stop bickering about moving office space. Cary happens to be at a Harvard Law mixer, where his reputation makes him both a pariah and the most desirable guy in the room. He ends up leaving the event with an attractive, kind of drunk, lady lawyer.

Alicia and Elsbeth are in the “In My Opinion” judge’s courtroom, and thankfully Alicia knows how to roll with it. The AUSA’s witness, an app designer named Nils, reveals that he was contracted with the Dept. of Defense before working for J-Serve. The same code he used in Defense software, was also used in the app that J-Serve sold to a Chinese company. Alicia quickly puts it together that the AUSA is actually gunning for an Economic Espionage charge, which sounds exciting and exceedingly boring at the same time. AUSA Perotti admits that is the direction they are heading in, and if convicted, Ms. Vargas could face ten to fifteen years in jail.

Perotti is so smitten with Elsbeth’s scent, that he’s now sniffing random babies. When court is back in session, Alicia tells Ms. Vargas that in order to be guilty of espionage, one has to be aware that secrets were being traded. Elsbeth takes the lead, since she has a secret weapon to distract Perotti: Her pinky finger, which she gently presses against his, throwing off his game. It works in the same respect for Elsbeth, who has to defer to Alicia to take over. Since the witness is Mr. Fong, who the week earlier had refereed to Ms. Vargas as “bitchy” and actively tried to keep information from her, Alicia uses his piss poor attitude to give reasonable doubt as to how much Ms. Vargas was actually privy to.

Kalinda and Diane show up at Lockhart Gardner Canning to discuss the lease situation with David and Louis. Louis is waiting on a kidney transplant, and Diane does feel for him in some ways. Although, with Canning, you never know what he might be up to. Kalinda presents Louis with violations on his three properties, totaling over a million dollars in fines. Louis knows that they’ve got him beat this time, but he and David have something else up their sleeve. According to the lease amendment, the landlord (Diane) is required to be on premises. Since she hasn’t been for a month, Diane is in violation of the lease. Once again, Kalinda has an idea. Find someone who is still on staff, that they can woo over to Florrick Agos Lockhart. Cue good old Howard.

Since Alicia is backed into a corner about the religious meeting with Pastor Jeremiah, she turns to Grace for a crash course in faith. Alicia is still hesitant to say she believes, because she simply doesn’t. Grace kindly asks her mother, why she doesn’t believe and Alicia tells her, “I don’t feel it the way you do.” I have to admit, I’ve really loved these moments between Grace and Alicia. Defending Alicia’s atheism at the same as embracing Grace’s faith, just shows how in touch the Good Wife writers are with the real struggles we all go through but often feel uncomfortable talking about.

Cary stumbles home with the lawyer lady on his arm, and he runs smack dab into Joy, his Pretrial Services Officer. She’s there to do a random spot check, and it doesn’t help that Cary is pretty wasted. Joy requests to see Cary’s Uber receipt, and notices that he was a quarter of a mile outside the state line. She calls officers to arrest him for parole violation.

When Alicia finally sits down with Pastor Jeremiah, he brings up the atheist question. She refers to her “dogmatism decreasing”, and looks a little bit like she’s chewing broken glass as she lies about her turnabout in faith. The Pastor asks if her awakening has to do with Will’s shooting, and her face turns ashen. He then brings up Grace’s faith, a subject Alicia feels uncomfortable discussing, as she tries to keep her children’s private lives, private. She does tell him that Grace has had an impact on her faith. After the interview, Alicia and Marissa sit in the car together and talk about God. Marissa agrees that it’s a private matter. Alicia simply hates pretending to be someone she isn’t.

Diane and Finn Polmar stand before the judge to discuss Cary’s parole violation. Even though it was a minor infraction, the judge refuses to go easy on Cary simply because he’s a successful white dude. The judge gives Joy twenty-four hours to write up her recommendation as to how to deal with Cary.

Elsbeth is busy sniffing some Old Spice before her court session. Coffee also works, Elsbeth dear. Since her musical tastes run about two years behind, she has Call Me Maybe running through her head. That days witness is a analyst who works for the government. He testifies that he recently came across the same J-Serve code in being used by the Chinese equivalent to the CIA. This would make the US Defense easy pickings for hackers.

Diane and Kalinda bring Howard into the office in an attempt to woo him. Diane promises that she will let him argue in court, something that he hasn’t been doing for quite some time at LGC. Alicia calls Kalinda, and all of our hearts stop. Well, mine did. Kalinda asks about Cary, and has to break the news to Alicia that Cary was taken to jail again. Joy also shows up to talk to Kalinda about Cary. She asks if their relationship extends to that of a personal nature. Kalinda tells Joy that she and Cary are friends, and leaves out the boning part. Joy brings up Kalinda’s arrests for witness tampering and her relationship with Lemond Bishop. Kalinda assured Joy that Bishop is no longer a client, so that point it moot. In Kalinda’s opinion, Cary is most honest person she knows.

Elsbeth sits in her office. Sorry, scratch that, dances in her office to some Carly Rae when Perotti bursts through the door. Fantastia let him in. (Damnit, Fantastia!) He got so jealous when he found out that Elsbeth had once been married and that he wasn’t the first man to find her quirkiness attractive. They can’t contain themselves any longer and start kissing. She’s a little insecure about her body, but Perotti tells her that she’s “the most beautiful woman I’ve even met.” They then proceed to have bodice ripping sexy sex on Elsbeth’s desk. Buttons be flying.

At Alicia’s house, Grace is hosting a prayer group, and finds that she’s the center of attention. The group leader credits her with Alicia’s faithful turnaround. Now Alicia isn’t the only one who feels like a fraud.

Like the boss she is, Diane strolls into LGC and serves David and Louis an eviction notice. With Harold on their team, he serves as Diane’s proxy so bye-bye, David Lee. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

Alicia and a Elsbeth (who is mostly naked and lying on her desk) have a conference call with Kalinda who has figured out that the government has essentially done the same thing as J Serve, and sold code to the Chinese. Kalinda needs time to get the invoice but Elsbeth tells the women that she’s got it handled.

Cary comes in to the office, looking a little worse for wear. Alicia wants him to know that she and the firm are there for him. When he suggests that maybe he should take a break for the firm’s good, she refuses.

In Cary’s hearing, Joy advises new restrictions on his bail. While Cary can swallow the ankle bracelet and curfew, it’s the restriction of any contact with Kalinda that sets him off. Joy considers Kalinda dangerous and a bad influence on Cary’s walking the straight and narrow. The judge grants the new restrictions, and warns Cary to get it together or next time, he’ll be crashing in the pen instead of his warm bed.

Elsbeth shows up at Perotti’s office to return his buttons. They exchange smoldering looks, and then Elsbeth shows him the invoice from the CIA, and accuses him of selectively prosecuting. He promptly shreds the document, right before her eyes. “Work is work,” he says casually. Elsbeth may be into Perotti, but that doesn’t stop her from recording the whole conversation. Since Illinois struck down the consent law regarding recording people, she’s got him by the buttons.

In court, Perotti withdraws all charges and heads back to DC. He and Elsbeth exchange a handshake, like lovers do, and proceed to smell their hands once the other is looking away.

Alica and Diane head over to their new offices, which are actually their old offices. Anyway, the place is totally trashed. Phones are broken, furniture upturned, papers strewn. Alicia looks over at Will’s office, and Diane offers to take it to spare Alicia any painful memories. Alicia decides to take the office anyway, and slowly sits in Will’s old chair. She looks over at Diane and gives her a small smile. Now these two very powerful women are finally where they belong.

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