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A New Day
Original Air Date: Sep 25, 2011
Patricia Morris Buckley — Sr. Staff Writer
pmb@thetwocentscorp.com
When Alicia walks into Lockhart/Gardner with a huge smile on her face, we know what it really means: She’s getting some. And by some, I mean Will!
Perhaps the Good Wife isn’t that good anymore. But that joy only lasts so long as Alicia is assigned a case defending a Muslim student who has been accused of starting a campus riot during a peace rally. The DA (you remember him? Peter, Alicia’s estranged hubbie?) is prosecuting it as a hate crime. Pretty harsh. Especially when her client wasn’t even at the rally.
Then Cary passes Kalinda a photo of the student’s car racing through a red light with photo and time stamp. But it’s all a set up. When Alicia encourages her client to ID himself in the photo, Cary slaps the kid with a murder charge. Seem a Jewish student had been brutally murdered that night and her client’s car was spotted leaving the scene.
A lot of made of the whole Jewish-Muslim division here, but mostly it seems to be a way for Ari to blackmail the Jewish community into hiring him for PR purposes. I’m not really seeing him as a perfect fit at Lockhart/Gardner yet. Hmmmm…
But the real trouble is, as Peter points out to Cary, it that the new DA knows how she thinks. For instance, she tries to get the Jewish judge to recuse himself, knowing that a new judge would be selected the next day – a major Jewish holiday when most of the Jewish community won’t be at court. But Peter catches her at it and sets her up for a very embarrassing nosedive.
There’s a lot of sniffing around the client’s two roommates who had access to the car and those suspicions pay off. Only to find the motive was a lover’s quarrel — nothing to do with politics after all.
We were reintroduced to Sophia Rosseau – the PI that Kalinda dallied with last season who now works for Peter. So we know there will be a few conflicts there. We also met Grace’s new tutor, a bizarre student who can really dance – but in the weirdest places.
But really, what was this episode about than to see Alicia and Will continue their consummation tour? We get yet another elevator scene and the pretense of a boss-employee relationship at work. Wonder how long they can fool their fellow workers? Not very long, I’d guess.
How do you like a happier Alicia? Will Kalinda be tempted by Sophia or Will’s offer of a dog? What did Will mean when he said he didn’t feel emotion? Give us your TwoCents…
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