Scandal. Voter fraud. The gubernatorial election. Those are the main points of this weeks installment of The Good Wife. If you have yet to watch the episode and do not want to be spoiled, please turn around and back away from the computer.
It all starts with Zach witnessing possible voter fraud while voting a day early for the Illinois gubernatorial election. The ballot he saw is for Peter Florrick's rival, Christiva, so of course he goes along to tell his mother about it. There is an emergency trial with Alicia and co. arguing for voter fraud. Of course, it cannot be this simple and, when the ballot box in question is found, it turns out that a startling majority of the votes are for Florrick himself. Cue the lawyers of the case to abruptly switch sides and argue against voter fraud.
Elsewhere in the Lockhart/Gardner universe, the fourth years are in the midst of finding office space to move into when they leave the firm. What they are looking for is a little bit above what it costs to bring along Kalinda so everyone, sans Carey, are arguing to leave her at her current position in addition to accusing Carey of bias. That's when Collin Sweeney shows up, figuring out the move by Carey and co. and suggesting jumping ship with them. Sweeney then talks to Alicia about all this and then Alicia gets angry at Carey. All anger, all around at this point.
Back to the election. A third party complaint of voter fraud comes in from Peter's old campaign manager Jordan, guest star T.R. Knight, in that his client's name was spelled wrong. Turns out the name wasn't his real name anyway, so the case is thrown out. And that brings out the next biggest unanswered question of the episode: Will vs. Peter.
There's a steamy scene between Alicia and Will in his car between the voter fraud case. Alicia brings up that the kiss between them a few episodes ago opened up something between the two again. They kiss, Diane sees, and it's back to court with Alicia's choice still completely up in the air.
Back in the courtroom, Jordan shows up again, that sly dog, to claim voter fraud in this area. The judge makes his ruling, and he rules against Alicia, Will and Diane. So 30,000+ votes are thrown out on the night prior to a nail bitingly close election. Who is with me in thinking that this whole thing was just a scene by Jordan in order to get his revenge on Peter for firing him and sticking with Eli instead?
And now it's election day. Eli is watching Hostel 3, which is probably some foreshadowing for what is to occur for the latter half of the finale. Even though the ruling came in, Alicia recalls Zach who contends that Jordan was lying under oath, bringing in a revised ruling. During the judges deliberation, however, Will and Kalinda come across a video of one of Florrick's campaign people doing the very fraud that they are up against. Will tells Peter, the two are sassy at each other for a bit, and Peter tells Will to make the decision based on whether he wants Peter to win or not. Will ends up not submitting it and they win the case. And Will wins by way more than the votes up for grabs in court. Cue random cameo by Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
Now onto the juicy stuff, Kalinda tells Carey to go to hell because he asked the new investigator to move with him. The elder Mrs. Florrick tells off her son. And Alicia has a big decision to make. Actually two decisions. Well we don't see her decision on the Will and Peter front, but we do learn that she chose to go with Carey. Looks like next season we will see some good drama in the new firm of Florrick/Agos.
Who else is excited about the new firm in town? Who saw it coming from a mile away that Alicia was in fact talking to Carey instead of Will? And who else is super frustrated that we didn't see Alicia choose between Will and Peter?
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