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Last week’s episode, Restraint, focused in on Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), but Discovery reminds us that Cary Agos (Matt Czuchry) has some moves. He’s definitely been placed on the back burner, after being heavily featured during season six and with Kalinda’s departure from the show. Over the past few episodes he’s fought with his older, white, predominately-male partners about the firm’s makeup. Now he finds himself working alongside an African-American female, who views his hiring practices as racist. The conference room scenes between these two were refreshing, because each made strong arguments for their stance on the matter. Really, this episode should have been called, Court Room Not Required, because all the squabbles took place mainly outside and amongst themselves. Meanwhile, inside the courtroom Monica and Cary continue to out-maneuver all of Florrick-Quinn’s attempts to bury the evidence. Not an easy task, especially with Canning pulling their strings, “Congratulations we’ve just been hit with the largest document dump in American history,” explains Cary to Diane; after Canning convinces the ladies to hand over everything… I mean basically every racist comment on the internet. They won… wrong, one of Cary’s associates looks at Chum-Hum’s algorithm and discovers a patch, “But rather than fix the underlying problem they simply patched it up to prevent one instance of the problem from occurring,” explains Diane as she presents to the Judge a photo of an African-American woman tagged as an animal by the Chum-Hum server. Definitely on the wrong side, as Florrick-Quinn are humiliated in court, with Canning nowhere to be found. Remember he’s just a driver in Alicia’s life… one of the many. Psst… totally called the Lucca/Cary hookup back in the first episode, Bond, this season… just saying.
Another great ingredient for a The Good Wife episode is to have the “case of the week” mirror Alicia’s struggle with being a public figure. Ruth Eastman (Margo Martindale) meets Jason Crouse (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), i.e. Ruth meets “patch,” because the Florrick marriage is very problematic. After witnessing Alicia interact with Jason, basically seeing their chemistry, she calls in Eli (Alan Cummings) to fix it, “Now we both know Peter’s campaign wouldn’t withstand the fallout of something like this and Alicia’s rehabilitation would certainly become a wasted effort.” That second part reels Eli in, because he has some major political plans in the works for Alicia; including running for Senate. He confronts Jason, bad move, but then over-corrects and demands that Alicia hears his pleas for her to not pursue this desire any further, “You’re telling me, when I sleep with Jason you’d rather I keep it private.” Really Eli? When has she ever listened to you about matters concerning her personal life? Or did you forget Will Garner? This sets in motion some awkwardness and miss-attempts for both Jason and Alicia to fess up their feelings for one another. “It’s okay. I just like things simple, home simple, work simple, life simple,” explains Jason after his encounter with Eli. The interesting thing is neither party admits to anything. Both realize the complications if they get involved, but neither closes the d