He’s so bad at being “O-kay,” Alicia replies, drawing out the word to make it clear she knows he’s being weird and isn’t going to ask, and leaves. It’s just the two of us, having a nice little chat,” Eli quavers. “Um, okay,” Alicia replies, not believing him but not caring enough to open up whatever the Pandora’s box of the day is, either. “Why aren’t we in the party, I have no idea.” Ah, he is just hilariously twitchy. “Why aren’t you in the party?” she wonders, and for once Eli has no snappy reply. And of course this is the moment that a cheerful Alicia pops in to say hello. “He doesn’t want to draw attention to himself.” Oh, well, at least he doesn’t want to do that, Eli sneers. “I can’t say.”Įli literally bangs his head against the wall. “Who is the father?” he snaps, but she’s too cagey. “I’m naming my baby after the … father,” she gulps. Not for a minute do I think this is Peter’s baby, but that’s fair. “No, a coincidence is when you bump into someone on the subway platform, not that you name your child after them!” Ha. “It’s a coincidence,” she insists, but he’s having none of it. “His name’s Peter, and you’re naming your baby Peter and it has nothing to do with the governor?” You know, of all the things Eli feared when he got Peter to give Marilyn a new job, I doubt this even entered his mind. Eli’s in high dungeon and way past caring about her dignity. “His name’s nothing to do with the governor!” she whispers, no doubt exasperated at being manhandled and misunderstood. “Are you insane?” Truly, for someone so concerned with appearances, this seems an unnecessarily silly trouble for her to cause. Wait,” he insists, hand up, until they’re safely in the corner. “What do I think?” he snaps, dragging her off to a secluded corner. “Can I have a word with you?” he splutters. We get to see Eli’s glorious spit-take again. It’s a boy – and Veronica does so love boys. At Florrick/Agos’s holiday party, Veronica once again makes small talk with Marilyn Garbanza about the little bean growing in her belly. We gently rewind “ Decision Tree” in order to begin the episode as usual, however, we see the old bits from a slightly different camera angle. And? I cannot stop singing that damned ridiculous song. Everything about this show continues to operate at an impossibly high level. What it all adds up to is this: season five is the bomb. Does it matter to my enjoyment of the show? Not even a little bit. Did I approve every choice a character made? Hell no. On the very idea of memory and change, the way we as individuals subvert other people’s concepts of us, the way we transform ourselves. There’s so much to feed on here, so many small details that come out big on the other side – the wording of the title, the varying plays on friendship, on romance, on names, on the whole concept of ownership of intellectual property. Really, everything about this episode came together for me – the continuing rivalry between the two firms, the evolving relationships between Will and Diane and Cary and Alicia, the plot twists for the future! And oh. So you can imagine, given that, how much I loved this week’s ripped- from-the-headlines case. E: Maybe this makes me the world’s biggest dork, but copyright law intrigues me.
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