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We’re getting down to the end of the season with just two episodes left and this week’s The Good Fight was probably my least favorite of the season. It had some moments but the ‘ripped from the headlines’ main story felt like the writers really didn’t know where to go with it which resulted in pretty much everyone yelling over each other to make their opinion heard. Perhaps it was that way in the writers’ room too.
The main case was ‘inspired’ by the Aziz Ansari sexual assault claim by an anonymous woman who decided to tell her story to a website. Here, the woman allows her story to be posted on a website called Assholes to Avoid, where women can relate their tales of dates gone wrong. Of course this stirs up a lot of debate, mainly with Marissa leading the charge, and everyone voicing their opinion but not really listening to the other side. Marissa is particularly incensed when, during a deposition, it seems as if Maia is attempting to ‘blame the victim’ for what happened to her even though Marissa found some solid evidence that the woman seems to have a history of dating guys briefly and then shaming them online … which Marissa only wanted to see as silly rumors. For an investigator, I’m surprised that the writers made Marissa so steadfastly vocal on this issue. Unless there’s something in her past we don’t know about yet that triggered her.
Things got a little more complicated when Tom and Jerry, the consultants / financiers wanted in on the action, but turning it into a class action suit against the website for everyone who had lost their jobs because of the highly subjective information posted on the website. Diane and Liz brought the idea to Adrian, who was still recovering from the shooting, and they were all on board to forge ahead. But my ‘Spidey senses’ began to tingle and I felt Tom and Jerry’s interest in the case was suspicious. But Diane cut a deal with the clients that would result in the website being taken down and then the owner of the site basically called Diane a traitor to the female gender (she also early said Diane’s generation forged a path for hers, so she could rest now). Even though she was very condescending to Diane, the punchline to her tirade was that the site was in the process of posting information about Jerry, so my suspicions were confirmed.
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We also found out who the mysterious shooter was, and again my suspicions bore out correctly. Adrian insisted that the shooter was Caucasian, and Jay and Marissa had limited the suspects down to Felix Staples and the neo-Nazi guy from a few episodes back. Felix, however, had an iron clad alibi — a speaking engagement with video evidence — and so did the other guy (trip to Miami). The police, however, insisted that Adrian was wrong and that the shooter was Black. He claimed two people had witness the man running from the building and the police found a gun with a silencer, and the ballistics matched.
Jay and Marissa went back to the drawing board to see which of their Black clients may be holding a grudge and they came up with Paul Johnson who had accused a local pastor of sexually assaulting him (in Season 1’s ‘Reddick v Boseman’). Going to the police, Jay and Marissa ask that the captain who, remember, is Liz Reddick’s husband, show the photo of Paul to the witnesses. He agrees, reluctantly, and gives the picture to the detective working the case. But no one seems to have actually interviewed the witnesses yet and the cops are acting more fishy than they already have been, and that’s on top of misusing the law firm’s client list to further their own agenda of getting back at those the firm won cases for against the police.
It all clicked into place as Jay looked around the room at the other officers and who should be there? Bingo! Officer Whitehead, the cop known for planting guns on suspects. And this time he didn’t just plant the gun, he fired it, spurred on by the case against him a few episodes back () and the ‘Kill All Lawyers’ movement. It’s great that they finally caught the guy, but how much damage have the police done to the firm by using their client list … and what happens to Liz when everyone knows she’s the one who gave the list to her husband?
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Lucca is due any minute now and someone is sending people her was to woo her into moving to Washington with Colin when he gets elected to Congress. Colin claims he’s not the one putting her name out there so Lucca assumes it’s his mother. Meanwhile, Diane is taking up martial arts to free her mind, and she learns she’s solvent again. She got back all the money she lost due to Henry Rindell (and getting fired), and made it back quicker by working and … Trump’s big beautiful tax cuts which, her accountant reminds her, are not helping the poor but they are helping the people like Diane. The news tickled her but there was one more thing — her husband’s accountant called her accountant and suggested the couple divorce before the end of the year which would be better for them financially.
Diane contacted Kurt to talk about this but he was unaware that the suggestion had been made to her as he hadn’t actually voiced with certainty to his accountant that he wanted a divorce. But Kurt thought it over and gave Diane an answer — he’s taking a job in Chicago with the FBI so no traveling, Diane should sell her apartment so they can get a bigger place together, and move in together for the rest of their lives. Can these two crazy kids make this marriage work?
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