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(reporters clamoring)

(camera shutters
snapping rapidly)

Good morning.

An hour ago, I resigned as
State's Attorney of Cook County.

I did this with a heavy heart

and a deep commitment to fight
these scurrilous charges.

I want to be clear.

I have never abused my office.

I have never traded lighter
sentences for financial

or sexual favors.

At the same time, I need to
atone for my personal failings

with my wife, Alicia,
and our two children.

The money used in these
transactions was mine...

and mine alone.

No public funds
were ever utilized.

But I do admit to a failure of
judgment in my private dealings

with these women.

Alicia and I...

ask that the press
please respect our privacy.

Give us time to heal.

With the love of God, and
the forgiveness of my family,

I know I can
rebuild their trust.

I want to thank
the people of Chicago.

It has been an
honor to serve you.

And I pray that one day,

I may serve you
again. Thank you.

REPORTER:
Sir! Are you still involved
with prostitutes, sir?

How many were there, sir?

WOMAN:
Will you ever try
to hold public office again?

(reporters clamoring)

Sir! Answer the question!

We have interviews set up with
the Tribu and Channel Four.

Absolutely not. I'm not doing
any more interviews.

I want you to cancel
all of them.

That's it.
I'll tell Channel Two

we don't have a comment
at the present time,

but we emphatically question
the authenticity of this thing.

Hey.

You all right?

(reporters clamoring)

WOMAN:
Mrs. Florrick,
how long have you known

your husband
was having an affair?

MAN:
How are you going
to protect your children?

(reporters clamoring,
camera shutters snapping)

Oh, excuse me! Isn't
the staff meeting at 9:30?

You're in the wrong conference
room. It's up one floor.

Oh.

God...

MAN:
This is a major class action.

A case that could propel us
to the top rank

of full service firms, and I
don't think I need to remind you

what that will do
to your year-end bonuses.

Anyway, Sheffrin-Marks
fired their last firm

because they took
their eye off the ball.

So, until further notice,

your personal lives
have been cancelled.

WOMAN:
So, we'll need some of you

to help out with
the lower profile client work

to free up our top litigators.

Ed, you take the witness prep
on highway redistribution.

Don, you take
the Brighton criminal.

And Alicia will take
the pro bono.

(under breath):
Huh?

Everyone else, your task
is to show Sheffrin-Marks

our "A" game, okay?

Let's do this.

Will.

Alicia.

Hey.

I'm sorry I didn't
introduce you in there.

Everything's moving real fast
with this class action.

Well, I just wanted to say
thank you for the opportunity.

It's a real life saver.

No, glad you
could come aboard.

Hope you're all right
with this pro bono.

How'd it sound?

Interesting.
Good.

Don't be nervous. You worried
about the gunshot residue?

The, um... Oh, God.

(The Twilight Zone ringtone
playing)

Nice ringtone.
Who gets that?

Oh, my mother-in-law.
My daughter programmed it.

And what's yours?

I don't want to know.

So, um, the gun residue...

Diane, you're
briefing Alicia, right?

Good. You're in good hands.

So, let's catch up,
have dinner.

So, Will speaks highly of you.

He says you graduated top
of your class at Georgetown.

When was this?

15 years ago.
Uh-huh?

And you spent
two years at...

Crozier, Abrams & Abbott.

Good firm.

Will says you
clocked the highest

billable hours there.
Why did you leave?

Well, the kids
and Peter's career.

Hmm.

Brian! Can you get
Mrs. Florrick the files?

Mm-hmm. Sure.

I want you to think of me

as a mentor, Alicia.

It's the closest
thing we have

to an old boys'
network in this town.

Women helping women, okay?

Okay.

When I was starting out,
I got one great piece of advice.

Men can be lazy.
Women can't.

And I think that
goes double for you.

Not only are you

coming back to the
workplace fairly late,

but you have some
very prominent baggage.

But, hey, if she can do it,
so can you.

Thanks, Brian.

Like many law firms,
we donate five percent

of billable hours to pro bono.

Sadly, I'm long past
my quota on this one.

Jennifer Lewis.
26 years old.

Taught second grade.

Accused of killing
her ex-husband.

Prosecution thought
it was a slam dunk 45 years,

but the jury came back
last week deadlocked.

Six jurors voted to convict,
six not.

I'm not even sure
why the State Attorney

is re-trying except
he wants... Justice!

(whimpers)

He wants to prove himself.
So, stick with my strategy

from the first trial.
The police focused

on Jennifer so early
in the investigation,

they never even looked
for the carjacker.

Deadlock a jury
a second time,

they'll never
re-try a third. Okay?

Okay. Our investigator
can get you up to speed

for the bail
hearing at 3:00.

Cormac, I'm ready.

The hearing's today?

Well, we could delay,
but that would leave

Jennifer incarcerated
for another month.

Don't worry.
You'll be fine.

The ASA's not going to argue
against a recognizance release.

Let's go.
Meeting's at 10:30.

PETER:
But I do admit to a failure
of judgment

in my private dealings
with these women...

Sorry.

...mine and mine alone.

No public funds
were ever utilized.

The recent news...

(audio stops)

Oh, hey. Let me
help you with that.

No, I'm fine.

No, no, I'm heading
that way anyway.

I'm Cary, the other
new associate.

Oh, right. Alicia.

Yeah, look, I know we should
be at each other's throats,

but I just want to say I really
respect what you're doing here.

Raising a family and then
jumping right back into this.

My mom, she's thinking
of doing the same thing.

Great.
Yeah.

So, you're on the
pro bono, right?

Mm-hmm.
Yeah, that's great.

I interned last summer
at the Innocence Project.

My dad's best friend is Barry
Scheck and it was just amazing.

Helping people. Here, they
got me on the Sheffrin-Marks.

I'm sure it will be
challenging, but at

the end of the day,
what have you really done?

Saved a corporation a
few billion dollars?

You want to trade?

I would, but I guess they
have other plans, so...

I am almost done, Cary.
The latte's on your desk.

Thank you.
Hi, Mrs. Florrick.

Looks like we
share an assistant,

so tell me when
I'm hogging her, okay?

And let the best man win.

Excuse me?

Uh, let the...

Nothing.

It's nothing. I...

It's nothing.

Oops.

Don't worry.
It's yours.

Oh.

Kalinda Sharma.
I'm the in-house.

Oh, the investigator.

You're Peter Florrick's wife.

That's right.

I worked with him at
the State's Attorney's office

three years.

He fired me.

Okay.

So, what do you know?

The client is a second-
grade school teacher.

Jennifer...
Lewis.

She was arrested for killing
her ex-husband.

Making it look like
a botched carjacking.

Gunshot residue

was found on Jennifer's
face and hands.

That's why the cops started
to think it was a murder

disguised as a carjacking.

According to them,
Jennifer shot her ex-husband

and wiped down the gun.
And the motive?

He remarried and wanted
custody of the three-year-old.

Witnesses saw them arguing
a week before the murder.

GRACE (on ringtone):
Hey, Mom. Pick up the phone.
Hey, Mom. Pick up the phone.

Hey, Mom. Pick up...
Sorry. That's my daughter.

Hi, Grace.

Hey, Mom. I want
to ask you a question,

but I don't want you
to freak out, okay?

Uh-oh.

Forget it. I'll ask Zach.

No, no, no. What?
All right, well,

some girl said Dad slept with
a hooker my age. And I just...

What?
Ma'am, you'll have
to turn that off.

They were playing the tape
in the computer lab.

And some girl said

her dad's a cop and he said
one of the hookers

was a teenager.

Okay, first of all, they were
all over 20 and second,

where's the teacher?

It's no big deal, Mom.
Look, I've got homework.

I'll talk to you later.

(sighs)

What?

Last time I was in court
was 13 years ago.

Wow. I was 12.

Thanks.

MAN:
The judge reaches
into his pocket,

pulls out a check,
handing it to the plaintiff.

"I'm returning five grand
and we're going to decide this."

(chuckling)

That's Florrick's wife.

Alicia?
My God.

Matan, remember? From the
department Christmas party.

You're at Stern,
Lockhart & Gardner?

Yeah. First day.

Wow. Oh.

This is Sandra Pai.
She's new.

Since Peter.

How's he doing, by the way?

Peter? Fine.

Say hello for me, will you?

Look at all this.

You're going to bury us.

I don't know
how you do it, Alicia.

I'd be huddled up
in a ball somewhere.

(electrical buzzing)

Well, back to work.

Good luck.

Where's Diane?

Diane asked me to
step in for her.

Jennifer, I'm Alicia Florrick.

I'm one of the other
lawyers with the firm.

Step in? For how long?

For the retrial.

Oh, my God.
BAILIFF: All rise.

Ma'am.

The Criminal Court

of Cook County
is now in session,

the Honorable Judge
Richard Cuesta presiding.

(gavel bangs)
Be seated.

Okay, let's hear it.

Your Honor, I just...

Your Honor, just to
refresh your memory,

the accused was
deemed a flight risk

due to an earlier
custody hearing

when she threatened
to run off with her daughter.

And yet just last week
a jury deadlocked

on these murder charges
six to six, Mr. Brody.

Now I know our new
state's attorney

wants to look tough,
but why are you fighting this?

Your Honor,
I just wanted to...

BRODY:
The people are
prepared to re-try

this case right now, Your Honor.

If Mrs. Florrick

is so intent on
getting her client out,

why doesn't she agree
to a speedy trial?

CUESTA:
Mrs. Florrick?

Yes, Your Honor.

The wife of the esteemed
Peter Florrick?

Your husband and I never quite
saw eye to eye, ma'am.

Your Honor...

Mrs. Florrick, don't talk.

But if the prosecution thinks
that this will in some way

prejudice me
against your client,

he is sorely mistaken.

Nice try, Matan.

So Ms. Lewis is granted

pretrial release

with electronic monitoring.

She is restricted
to temporary housing,

attorney's offices,
and transit in between.

And given that this
is a rerun,

I'll set the trial date
for the 25th.

Now, are we all happy? Good.

Thank you.

Sure.

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JENNIFER:
We had a nice time.

Michael talked about
missing his daughter,

the life we had together.

We were driving home

and, uh...

...we got a flat.

He was getting out to fix it,

and I saw...

a red pickup truck.

(truck door opens)

A man came up to Michael.
(gun cocking)

I didn't see the gun

until...

(yelling):
Michael!

Michael!

And I saw Michael's face.

It was, um...

Do you need to take a break?

Uh, no.

Just-- if there was some water.

ALICIA:
Sure.

Sonia, we need
some water in here.

It's going to be
about five minutes,

but then I've got to do
his depo upstairs.

Okay, uh,
tell me when you're done.

You say this man ran to
a red pickup truck here,

and took off in this direction
across the parking lot.

There's a surveillance
camera here.

And the prosecution played it
to make you look like a liar.

I'm not lying.

But there's no truck
on the tape.

And that's why
you're facing a retrial now

and not an acquittal.

I think what Kalinda is
trying to say, Jennifer...

...is-is it possible
that you were mistaken

and that the car went this way--
not that way?

Is that your daughter?

They won't let me see her.

Michael's parents have custody.

What am I going to do?

You're going to take it
one day at a time.

We got you housing.

You're going
to go there,

take a shower, take a nap.

Don't turn on the TV.

You like reading?

I'm going to get you some books.
Fiction is best.

You won't feel like it,

but put on nice
clothes and makeup.

Force yourself to.

Not for court--

for you.

It's the superficial things
that matter most right now.

Does it ever get easier?

No.

But you do get better at it.

What?

If you identify with
too many clients, you burn out.

Why don't you tell me when
I do something right, okay?

Sure.

You go and interview
the jurors

and I'll try to figure out how

a surveillance
camera can lie.

That's right.
I was the jury foreman.

And you don't mind answering
a few questions for us, Doctor?

It'll help us refine
the case for the retrial.

No problem.

I don't think you'll
need much refining.

Your case was very
strong, very logical.

In fact, I'm not even sure why
the other side went to trial.

I voted for conviction
right from the start.

Good.

You-you mean, acquittal.

No, conviction.

But I'm with the defense.

Oh.

MAN: She was lying about
the pickup truck.

She had the gunshot
residue on her hands.

Can I ask you how many
voted for conviction

from the start, sir?

Eleven.
What?

There was only
one holdout.

Juror number nine.

We argued with her
for three days.

But the judge
polled the jury

and they deadlocked
six to six.

Yes, well, the judge would
only declare us deadlocked

if we were evenly split.

So some of us agreed
to change our vote

to not guilty just
to get out of there.

If it hadn't been
for juror number nine

we would have convicted.

She didn't convince us.
She exhausted us.

(teakettle whistling)

No tea for me, Mrs. Duretsky.

Suit yourself.

So the other jurors

said you were a holdout.
Is that correct?

Mm-hmm.

They all thought they were
so much smarter than me.

My vote counted
just as much as theirs.
Uh-huh.

(mumbling)

What exactly in the defense's
case convinced you?

Well, the whole thing, really.

I tend to look at a person
and size them up pretty quickly.

That lady,
I liked her.

The defendant, Jennifer?

No, that lawyer lady.

She never put on airs.

I like that.

Just so I'm clear:

the defense expert argued
that the gunshot residue

on Jennifer's hands
came from the struggle.

Oh, so sweet.
Is that why you held out?

Oh, I don't know
about that.

I just tend to get a feeling.

Don't I, Cyrus?

(The Twilight Zone ringtone
playing)

Hi, Jackie.

What's wrong?
Nothing's wrong.

I was going through the laundry

and I think
some of Grace's school clothes

you would find inappropriate.

We just moved away.

Grace has left all her friends.
I need you to go easier on her.

All I said was

I could take her shopping
and help her find pants

that would make her
look slimmer.

She's at
a perfectly healthy weight.

I don't want her to have
body image issues.

She'll only have
body image issues

if she keeps gaining weight.

(muffled growl)

Alicia.

Um, we'll talk about this
when I get home later, okay?

All right.
Bye.

You know the new
associate Cary?

The one in the Brioni?

What? I'm observant.

Yes, the one
in the Brioni.

He said to me, "May
the best man win."

What exactly does
he mean by that?

What he means
is something

I thought we weren't
making public.

What?

Look, we only have one
associate position open.

So we agreed to hire
two applicants,
and in six months

decide which one
to retain.

So this is a contest
between me and Cary?

It was either that
or a cage match.

I'm just happy
your pro bono's going well.

Visiting hours
are almost over.

They said a visitor.

I thought Mom.

I've been busy.

It's good to see you.

I need you to sign some things.

Okay.

We didn't get everything
we wanted on the house.

It's a bad market to sell.

I see that.

We used most of it
for your court costs.

The rent will come
out of my salary

and the kids are
going to have

to stay in
public school.
How are they?

Mother says that she's
helping out around the house.

They're good.

Grace argues over clothes
with your mother,

and Zach is using you
to make friends at school.

Which I don't know
if that's a healthy thing

or something worse.

Using me?

FunnyOrDie has a
skit about you.

It's cool, I guess.

Oh...

here.

Alicia, I know this
has been hard on you,

but you have to believe me.

I'm innocent...

of the abuse of office charges.

You think I give a damn
about that, Peter?

They were playing a tape
in Grace's computer lab

of you sucking the
toes of a hooker.

You think I care
about the small print

in your employment contract?

Come on, I was set up.
The state attorneys...

Oh, come on, Peter.
I don't want to talk...!

I'm not going to fight.

I didn't come
here to fight.

Mom says you're on a case.

Congratulations.

The fake carjacking, right?

Who's the judge?

Richard Cuesta.

You're kidding.

He hates me.

I know.

(P.A. buzzing)

MAN:
Visiting hours are now over.

Visiting hours
are now over.

You know there was
something weird about
that case, don't you?

The Lewis case?

There was a rumor going around

that something got
buried, pitted.

What?

Evidence

or testimony.

I should go.

Hey, listen,

thanks for playing
the breadwinner for a while.

It's not going to last forever.

The lawyers think
the appellate court

is going to hear my case.

If they overturn it,
everything goes back to normal.

GUARD:
It's time.

Peter,

it's never going back to normal.

ALICIA:
As soon as the cops found
gunshot residue

on Jennifer's hands,
they had their suspect.

So what if they pitted
everything else?

And what if they didn't?

Arguments are cheap.

What's that?

Page one of the
crime lab summary.

I was digging through discovery.
Look at the top corner.

KALINDA:
Looks like a staple.

It is a staple.

And that's odd because...?

There's no page two.

Why do they need
a staple

if there's no page two?

You think the cops kept
something out of the discovery

that pointed to
another suspect?

Well, I think either they did
or it would be helpful

in court to imply
that they did.

Two days away from trial

and you're thinking of
dropping the old strategy?

Diane barely convinced
a cat lady to acquit.

So, a pickup truck
is seen racing

through a well-lit,
empty parking lot.

How is a truck missed by
that surveillance camera?

(shutter clicks)

Mismarked surveillance tape.

Yeah.

What are you doing?

Working.

These are better
than subpoenas.

We just need to see how the
surveillance system works,

and we'll be out of your hair
in five minutes.

Five minutes?
Uh-huh.

Okay, it's down here.

Why did my
husband fire you?

He accused me
of working two jobs.

Were you?

Oh, yeah.

See, the computer automatically
records the surveillance.

Marks it with date and time.

Is that the night of the murder?
Yeah.

I mean, even if the computer
did mismark it,

I make an hourly tour
of the lot,

and I didn't see
no pickup truck.

Look, that's me.

11:03, just before
the murder.

Can we get copies of these?

Sure.

Laney! Laney!

What?

Give me some disks.

Alright.

Your machine spit out an extra
one.

Would you like it?

Oh.

Oh, what beautiful children.

Two kids, two grandkids.

Hey Laney, how about those
disks?

Is he always so charming?

Oh, he just a lazy mall cop.

He spends half the day surfing
porn

and with the night shift he

can't get his skinny ass out of
his chair.

I'm always waking him up in the
morning.

Oh. Men. (Laughing)

I talked to Peter.
He said you dropped by.

I did.

I'm glad.

He's hurting
in there.

He's very brave.

But he's hurting.

He needs you to forgive him,
Alicia.

Jackie,

I spent 15 years doing
his laundry,

cleaning his house,

never asking a
single question

because I didn't think I had to.

And he took everything
I thought we had

and he just put it out there
for everyone.

He didn't want that.

The press...

Oh, Jackie,

stop it, please!
Peter wasn't thinking of us.

It takes time, Alicia.

Give it time.

Any time I have right now
is for them.

(knocking on door)

I want her dead.

Me, too, just not quite yet.

So why can't Zach and I
just watch ourselves?

Honey, she's only here
a couple of hours a day.

A couple very damaging hours.

You'll heal.

And change her ringtone.

BRODY:
Please state your name.

CINDY:
Cindy Lewis.

And you were married
to the victim

for how long,
Mrs. Lewis?

Two years until... (sniffling)

Thank you.
And how would
you describe

your husband's relationship
with his first wife?

Well, most of the time
it was fine, friendly even,

but after the last
custody hearing,

Michael was pretty worried
about Jennifer...

Objection, Your Honor.

On what grounds?

Hearsay.

Nice try, Mrs. Florrick.
I'll allow it.

Go ahead, Mrs. Lewis.

Um, he was worried
Jennifer was intent

on getting sole custody.

Thank you, Mrs. Lewis.

Your witness.

Now, Mrs. Lewis, you stated
that Michael was worried

about Jennifer,
yet in the week following...

Objection, Your Honor.

Sustained.

In your testimony, Mrs. Lewis,
you claimed

that Jennifer wanted
sole custody,

but isn't it true...?

Objection.
Sustained.

Keep trying, Mrs. Florrick.
You'll hit on it.

Mrs. Lewis, whose idea was it
to have dinner,

Jennifer's or Michael's?

Michael's.

So wouldn't that suggest
that his attitude

had changed towards...?
Objection.

Sustained.

Thank you.

Now, Detective Briggs,
the defense has referred

to three unsolved
carjackings

in the neighborhood
at that time.

Are you aware of this?
I am.

So why didn't you consider
this incident

to be another in that series
of carjackings?

First of all, they were
all luxury cars:

one Lexus and two BMWs.

The victim in this crime
was driving a 2001 Honda,

and there was no clip
on the fuel line.

This is what the carjackers did
to force the luxury cars over.

That's right.

But in the case of the Honda,
the victim pulled over

because he had a flat.

Yes, ma'am, there
was a nail driven

into the front driver tire.

I see. Now, why is this
something

a carjacker would never do,
Detective?

It would defeat the purpose.

I mean, how do you steal a car
with a flat?

Your witness.

It's not going well, is it?

It's early.

CUESTA:
Mrs. Florrick?

Detective Briggs,
what is "the pit"?

Excuse me?

In police circles,
what is "the pit"?

Objection, Your Honor.

On what grounds?

On the grounds that...
relevance.

Well, let us see
how relevant this becomes,

shall we? Detective?

The pit...

the pit is police slang

for evidence thought irrelevant
at a crime scene.

So when an officer's referring
to dropping something

in "the pit," or "pitting it,"
he refers to what?

Excluding it from the crime
scene narrative.

But that only applies
to irrelevant details.

We wouldn't exclude
pertinent evidence.

Was anything pitted
from the Lewis crime...?

Your Honor, objection!

Evidence is logged in
all the time

that proves irrelevant
to the discovery.

It's not an intent
to deceive.

It's an attempt
to decipher facts.

We don't even know
if it is anything.

And to blame the prosecution for
not coming up with every

single possible detail?!
She's trying to build

a case on a staple...
Okay, okay, Mrs. Florrick!

None of this was in
the first trial.

Is it your intention
to pursue a new defense?

Yes, Your Honor.

Counsel's trying
to mislead the jury.

She's implying there
was police corruption.

Oh, shut up, Matan!

Is she right?
That's the question.

Did you bury something?

We all know what's
going on here.

Peter Florrick
was a corrupt

and convicted
state's attorney.

If evidence was buried,
he buried it.

And now she's benefiting
from his knowledge.

Which still leaves you

with some pages missing here!

I'll give you
till Monday

to produce them

along with any evidence
they reference.

Then I'll rule
on admissibility.

And you, Mrs. Florrick.

I'm not sure if you're being fed
this stuff or you're doing it

on your own,
but if it's the former,

you're walking a very narrow

ethical line here.
You understand that?

Yes, Your Honor.

The directive was simple.

Follow the strategy
of the first trial.

Instead, you're pushing
for evidence

that might not even
help your case.

I interviewed the first jury,
and they

voted 11 to one
to convict.

Excuse me. That's not true.
It was evenly split.

No. Half the jurors
switched their votes

when they couldn't get

a troubled juror
to deliberate.

So, I used my judgment
to change strategies.

And was it your judgment
not to update us?

She's a junior associate

who doesn't think
she's a junior associate.

Her husband was
the state's attorney.

She lived
in Highland Park.

It's not just teaching
an old dog new tricks.

It's teaching an entitled dog
new tricks..

Come on, Diane.
The problem is she's
catching evidence

that you overlooked.

I've seen you mentor these women

until they start
competing with you.

And then you...
What? Excuse me?

I say we reprimand Alicia
and put Cary in as first chair.

Thank you.

(Phone Ringing)

That's her, isn't it?

(Phone Ringing)

Sonia? Can you...

Alicia Florrick's Office.

One moment please.

Jennifer, pick up.

Hello? Hi, baby. I miss you so
much.

Alicia?

The pitted evidence.

I talked to a friend
at the crime lab.

Gave me a preview
of the evidence.

A preview?

It's dog hair found on
the victim's clothes.

Cops pitted it

because they found dog hair
at Michael's residence

and thought it
was the same.

But it's not?

It's from an Italian
greyhound.

Neither Michael
nor Jennifer had
greyhounds.

There's also a chemical
on the hair.

Alco Ectolin--

a lotion for muscle
and joint pain.

That's the chemical
number?

No, his cell number.

I agreed to drinks.

(chuckles)

So we're looking

for an arthritic
greyhound owner.

We? I hear you're being
bumped to second chair.

When?

End of tomorrow.

Cary's being transitioned in.

And he'll go back

to the first
trial strategy.

Wow.

REPORTER (on TV):
It's not a good year for him.

The all-star point guard
is currently suing

his ex-girlfriend for damages,

hoping the judge
can finally determine

whether this case was fact
or fantasy.

You know her simply as "Amber,"

the young woman who brought down

bad boy Chicago state's attorney
Peter Florrick.

Though she says she wants
to leave the scandal far behind,

celebrity call girl
Amber Madison

has decided to write a memoir
about her time with Florrick.

In this exclusive interview
with Inside Edition...

JACKIE:
Do you really have to work?

Yeah, ten more minutes.
Zach, I need your computer.

Mom, I just raised
my wanted level.

Yeah, I'm happy for you, honey.

When Peter's father was on
the Illinois court,

he never brought

a single case home,
not once.

He was a judge, Jackie.
I'm a junior associate. Zach?!

I need you to play

these two computer
disks side by side.

Can you set up my
computer next to yours?

Hey, how's your sister?

She still fighting with Grandma?

(chuckles)

What is it?

It's video

of the night
of the murder.

Like Faces of Death?

Mm.

Mom, I've seen worse.

You're adorable.

I'm not.

Yes, you are.

Zach, freeze it!

What? What is it?

(sighs)
It's proof.

This is at 11:03 the night
of the murder, Mr. North,

and... that's you

making your hourly circuit
of the lot, correct?

Yes, that's correct.

And you saw no pickup truck,
no carjacker racing past,

nothing the defendant

claims she saw.

That's correct.

Thank you.

Nothing further, Your Honor.

Mrs. Florrick.

Can we have
the monitors in, please?

Thank you.

(quietly):
State's attorney's here.

ALICIA:
Now, Mr. North...

They're worried
she's getting

the stuff from
her husband.

ALICIA:
Here are three images.

The middle is the image
of the surveillance

from the 15th,
the night of the murder,

and the one over there
on the left is the image

from the 14th, the night
before the murder, and the one

on the right is from the 16th,
the night after the murder.

Can you see
the dates on those?

Uh, yes, I can.

So, as you said before,
there you are

the night of the murder,
at 11:03,

making your circuit of the lot.

And... there you are
the night before the murder

and the night after,
doing the same thing.

It must get old.
Um, no, ma'am.

My job doesn't pay as much
as yours, but I still love it.

Okay. Good.

ALICIA:
Now, Mr. North,

let's fast-forward, shall we?

45 minutes--
the night of the murder.

And there.

What do you see?

Nothing.
No?

It's right there-- maybe you
need to move in a little closer.

Oh, it's a shopping bag,
it looks like a shopping bag.

Actually, it is.

It's a plastic shopping bag.

It was a very windy night that
night, and it blew across

the lot at 11:48.
Your Honor, objection.

What does this have
to do with anything?
CUESTA: Beats me.

But I'm interested,
aren't you, Mr. Brody?

Overruled.

ALICIA:
Okay, so let's fast-forward

the other two monitors--

the night before the murder
and the night after the murder--

to the same time code.

Here's the 14th...

and the 16th.

What do you see?

Um... I don't know.

I think you
do know, sir.

Either you have a plastic bag

that blows across your lot
every night at 11:48,

or these are duplicates
of the same tape.

No, it...

it's not wh-what it looks like.

I understand, sir.

You didn't willfully
mislead the police.

Yeah, that's correct.

No, it's just that it gets cold
out there, and sometimes

you don't make
the circuit of the lot.
Yes.

So on the nights
that you don't go out,

you don't record
the actual surveillance image,

you set your computer up

to duplicate
the night before,

just in case
your manager checks it,

is that correct?

Yes.

ALICIA:
Just so I'm clear,

there is no recording
the night of the murder,

and you were never there
to see or not see

the pickup truck
or the carjacker.

I'm sorry.

Uh, yes.

No further questions.

So, you're wondering
whether demolishing

the key prosecution witness

didn't just save your ass
as first chair--

nice work,
by the way--

Thanks.

...but was enough
for reasonable doubt.

You know what hurts you?

Nail in the tire.
Yep.

And the old Honda.

It just doesn't feel
like a carjacking.

It feels like a murder

made to look like a carjacking.

What if I don't fight it?

What, agree that
it was just a murder?

Then the jury needs a suspect.

(exhales)

It's late.

It's like old times, huh?

Evidentiary procedure.

(laughs)

The mock trial.

You remember that?

How could I forget?

Did we lose

that one?
Yeah!

(both laughing)

Hi. Hi.

Um, Mrs. Florrick,
I just want to say
congratulations.

I heard you did well in court.

Thanks, Sonia.

Sonia.

Heading out?

Yeah. I got a breakfast meeting
with clients.

What?

Something just
doesn't seem right.

Michael has dinner

with his first wife.

Right.
He tells Jennifer

he misses her, misses
their old life together.

Right.

What does Cindy think about it?

The second wife?

Cindy thinks
some unhappy thoughts.

Jury liked her.

Get them not to.

ALICIA:
What did you get
on Cindy's brother?

These are his
employment records.

Good. What about
the lab report?

Here. But they're gonna object
the whole way.

You'll need to just string
together some implications...
Mrs. Florrick.

You have a moment?

(quietly):
Okay.

I don't think
we've ever met before.

I'm Glenn Childs.

We've met.

You know he's using
you, don't you?

Peter blames me
for his downfall.

He's using you
to get to me.

How do you figure?

Mrs. Florrick, please.

He told you about
the pitted trace evidence.

Don't make yourself
collateral damage here,

for your own sake.

Mr. Childs,

the day you leaked
that sex tape to the press

and forced me
to shield my children

from every cable news station
that played it

in a 24-hour rotation,

that was the day
I became collateral damage.

(clears throat softly)

If you're worried
about my husband, Mr. Childs,

you've obviously
never made a woman

angry before.

But good luck in court.

Mrs. Lewis, did you
and the deceased

sign a prenuptial agreement?

Uh, yes,

for tax purposes.

So if the deceased were
to divorce you, let's say,

in order to reunite with

his first wife...
Objection.

Sustained.

If the deceased
were to divorce you,

you would be cut off
from his premarital savings,

is that correct?
Objection.

Relevance.
Sustained.

Move it along, Mrs. Florrick.

Mrs. Lewis,
you stated in your testimony

that you were in Miami

at the time of the shooting
visiting family,

so the police never
suspected or questioned you.

Of the murder?
No, of course not.

What about your brother?

Objection!
Your Honor, come on,

this whole line of questioning
is a smoke screen.

Mr. Brody, why
don't we wait

for a whiff of smoke before
we call it a screen, please.

I'll allow.

The police never questioned
your brother,

isn't that correct, Mrs. Lewis?

Well, they had no reason to.

Because he lived in Miami?

Because Danny had nothing
to do with this.

ALICIA:
Mrs. Lewis, the judge

has admitted into evidence
the buried...

Strike that.

...the previously unreleased
trace evidence.

He has also admitted
into evidence

the crime lab's finding

that these greyhound hairs
were covered

in a chemical compound
called Alco Ectolin.

Have you heard
of this?
Sorry, the chemical? No.

No, neither had I.

It is a lotion.

It is a lotion that is used
at dog racing tracks to ease...

Objection.
Not in evidence.
Sustained.

And you might want
to stay standing, Mr. Brody.

I have a feeling we're nearing
your smoke screen.

Mrs. Lewis, isn't it a fact

that a year ago
at the time of the murder,

your brother worked
at a dog track?

Objection!

Sustained.

No further questions.

You're not just
making this up?

Come on, it's
a Stern, Lockhart tradition:

your first jury trial--
shot of tequila.

Let's go.

Okay.

(grunts)
Yeah, I just made that up.

(laughs)

(both laugh)

Sounded good, though,

didn't it?

How long do you think
they'll stay out?

Oh, I stopped guessing
about juries a while ago.

How long were they out
with your husband?

Six hours.

Yeah?

You know what I don't get?

Why you stood by him.

I would've stuck

a knife in his heart.

I always thought
I would, too.

When I heard
about those other scandals,

the other wives...

I thought...

how can you allow yourself
to be used like that?

And then it happened,

and I was...

...unprepared.

(phone vibrating)

Hello?

Yes.

Thanks.

Jury's in?

Well, Mrs. Florrick,

Chicago Homicide
has decided

to reopen its investigation into
the murder of Michael Lewis.

Detective Briggs,

doing an admirable
amount of due diligence,

has confirmed that
Cindy Lewis's brother Danny

had access
to his employer's pickup truck

the week of the murder.

And the dog hairs

admitted into evidence

match those found
at his workplace.

So our state's attorney,

in his radiant wisdom,

has decided to withdraw
the charges against your client

and pursue a case
against Mrs. Lewis's brother.

Isn't that right,
Mr. Brody?

All I need is a yes or no.

Yes.

Good.

Then we're done here.

(both laugh)

Thank you.
Thank you so much.

(The Twilight Zone ringtone
playing)

Hi, Jackie.

No, it just went
a little late, that's all.

I made a pot roast,
and I was wondering

if you were coming home
for dinner.

(laughs)

What? What did I say?

Nothing. It's just that's what
I always used to say to Peter.

(phone beeps)

Are you there?

Yeah, yeah. I just need
to pick up a few things,

and I'll be home soon.

All right.
Jackie, I don't know
if I've said this,

but thank you...
for stepping up.

Of course I would.
Why wouldn't I?

I'll see you soon.

All right, then.

Bye.

Oh. Hey. Sorry.

I didn't know you were here.

Hi.
Just a little
office token.

You did great.

Thanks.

I did,

didn't I?
(laughs)

Oh, one more thing.

Yes, sir?

You've been made my second chair

in the civil case.

I'll see you tomorrow at 9:30,
staff meeting.

I'll be there.

(sighs)

(beep)

PETER:
Hey, it's me.

I'm sorry, you must be in bed,
but I just wanted to tell you,

the * court
agreed to hear my case.

I still can't believe it.

The lawyers think
we have a really good shot

at overturning this,
and they're gonna make

an official statement tomorrow.

But, uh, I just wanted
to tell you first.

I'll see you soon.

I love you.

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