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The Good Fight turns out another engrossing and highly entertaining episode this week in which all of the show’s female stars get to shine, each getting their own bit of story.
Lucca & Liz
These two actually shared a story as Liz decided the best person to take her impending divorce to is the head of the firm’s new marital law division, Lucca. It seems a fairly cut and dry case with Liz wanting full custody of her child, but everyone got a surprise when the lawyer Liz’s husband hired just happened to be the same guy who got passed over for the job Lucca got. Meaning the guy obviously has an ax to grind, and that’s why Ian Lawrence hired him. Lucca assumed it was still a cut and dry case until Geoffrey Payton dumped a charge of adultery on Liz with Adrian because, it turns out, Lawrence hired someone to follow her. Lucca was not happy, but both Adrian and Liz had corroborating stories — she was helping care for him after he returned home from the hospital after being shot in return for how he once took care of her. Again, a slam dunk case but … more evidence: Liz went to a drug store to buy a Plan B pill after leaving Adrian, which some would assume meant they had indeed engaged in sexual activity. No, Liz just didn’t want to have another child with her husband. Great, case clos … well, what about the tens of thousands of dollars from the firm paid to Liz? That’s when it gets dicey and Lucca has about had it. The payments were the payouts to Karl Reddick’s sexual assault victims. That can not be aired in open court, so Lucca is forced to make a deal with Payton to void Liz’s prenup in exchange for full custody of the child. Not the outcome anyone wanted but the only reasonable one to keep the firm out of the spotlight.
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Diane
Diane attends a meeting of like-minded folks who want to make sure the president does not get re-elected in 2020. But the meeting devolves into a shouting match when a video fails to address everyone’s specific points to defeat the president. A woman, Valerie Peyser, tells Diane to follow her and then gives her a card with an address and the words ‘Do Something’ written on it. Diane decides to go to the address and finds a small group of women determined to do something to turn the political tide. The ideas seem rather simplistic and obvious until Diane has an encounter with Roland Blum, who tells her that liberals are too afraid to get as dirty as the right which battles their opponents by turning the opposition’s tactics upon themselves. Why thank you, Mr. Blum.
Diane calls Valerie and tells her about this new plan, not knowing that someone (or rather some entity) has been listening in on her calls. She happened to say a few trigger words — words that the administration may consider threatening to its survival — of interest and the name Valerie Peyser is sent ‘upstairs’, flagged as a person of interest. But at the meeting, they come up with a plan to fight fire with fire by concocting a fake news story (similar to ‘Pizzagate’) about a location that is known as a ‘troll farm’ for the administration (complete with another animated short explaining what a troll farm is), pumping out its own brand of fake news to attack the president’s enemies. And the counter-attack works with a far left attack on the facility that shuts it down. But after that success, Valerie suddenly disappears. Diane texts the firm’s security guy Jay to do some digging, and he discovers the name is fake and the woman in question is in prison. Diane then reads a ttext from Valerie to the group, but she’s making it all up, not wanting to make the rest of the group feel like they’ve been had. What Diane doesn’t know is that her text to Jay also got his name flagged because ‘it sounds foreign.’
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Marissa
Marissa sees resumés on a table in Julius’ office and knows that he’s running for a federal judgeship. He’s about to interview people to run his campaign but Marissa warns him that one guy will want to run op eds and may have too many clients, while another guy drinks. The final option is an African-American woman whom Marissa says is probably the best choice. Something in her voice though doesn’t seem like she believes that. After what Marissa has said bears out to be true for the two men on the list, Julius seems satisfied with the woman … until she says she’ll only charge him half for the hour she spent being interviewed. Yes, she was charging for being interviewed. Julius finally asked Marissa to run his campaign, and she seemed surprised but accepted. However, the look on her face after he walked away told a completely different story.
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Maia
Maia’s ‘partnership’ with Roland continued down its rocky path as he made a huge deal out of Maia not having her own office. The embarrassment of working with him in the open spurred her to ask for an office, and while Julius thought this was just a tactic to get an office, the others agreed it would be in her best interest to keep Roland out of public earshot. Still working on the case in which Roland’s client is accused oa paying Maia’s client for a hit, they are visited by the new attorney working for the prosecution, Spencer Zschau, who happens to be the son of a lawyer Gold once screwed over … so someone with another ax to grind. And he takes full advantage of his position by delivering a box of discovery … that turns out to be a box of take-out menus. Touché.
When Roland fails to appear for the next court date, Maia is forced to ask for a recess, suggesting a dental appointment made Roland late. She knew better and went to his house to find him stoned, drunk and unconscious. Seeing a call from Spencer come in, Maia pretends to be Gold’s assistant and calls him back. Spencer meets Maia at her new office and they cut a deal: six months for her client to testify against Gold’s client, guaranteeing Spencer a conviction. Deal. Which enrages Roland, who storms into the office, yelling and screaming at Maia, hurling a laptop through her new office window. But Maia did not back down, yelling back and hurling another laptop through another window, effectively shutting Gold down, causing him to run away with his tail tucked between his legs. And she didn’t even have to wear her sassy sunglasses. Perhaps it was the ‘welcome note’ she got from the office’s former occupant that simply said, ‘Fuck you.’
The episode ended with a hilarious music video featuring Roland singing ‘I’ll Be There’ as Maia made her way to the garage where she was confronted by detectives responding to a call about a woman who had a box of stolen narcotics from a local hospice facility … the same box Roland had given her last week. Unfortunately she never realized that was just his own little insurance policy in case she ever screwed him over. Maia learned the hard way that you can’t play a player.
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