HARVEY Was that it? Are we done? JESSICA Harvey, you’ve signed three checks. HARVEY And? JESSICA Just go. Oh. By the way, how’s Mike Ross doing? HARVEY What are you talking about? He just came up with the huge Stemple solution. He’s doing great. JESSICA So, I guess he didn’t tell you about our little conversation. HARVEY What conversation? JESSICA The one where he ran into the fact that he has a glass ceiling. HARVEY Mike knows he has a glass ceiling. JESSICA He knows, but he didn’t know. JONATHAN We have a problem with William Beck. HARVEY Who’s William Beck? JONATHAN Division Head of Coastal Radiance Sunscreen. He’s trying to break his contract. HARVEY I assume he has a non-compete. GIANOPOLOUS No, Harvey, I was dumb enough to let him do whatever he wants. MIKE Why is he trying to leave? JONATHAN He has some ideas about the product line that we’re not implementing. HARVEY Does he have another offer? JONATHAN Neutrogena wants him. GIANOPOLOUS They can’t have him. He can go work at Starbucks, but he’s not touching this market. MIKE Excuse me, but maybe there’s a solution. Coastal Radiance is a division of Pure Moisture Skincare. Spin them off. Beck gets to run his own company, both stocks go up, everybody wins. GIANOPOLOUS If I had wanted the Junior Associate to come up with an idea, I’d have asked the Junior Associate to come up with an idea. HARVEY Tony, he’s not wrong. Coastal Radiance is undervalued and this fixes that. JONATHAN Beck has been with us for ten years. Maybe it’s worth running the numbers on the spin-off. GIANOPOLOUS I don’t want to run the numbers. I want him out. Now. So, have your boy work up the exit paperwork. Jonathan will sign off. HARVEY Your company, your call. You want to talk about what just happened in there? MIKE Not particularly. HARVEY Look, it was a good idea. He should have listened to it. MIKE I know it was a good idea. What I don’t know is why you didn’t push back. HARVEY Were you in there? I did push back. MIKE When you push back, you change people’s minds. Which means either you didn’t agree with me, or you don’t care enough to change his mind. HARVEY Look. I know when it’s time to change someone’s mind and when it isn’t. And all pushing harder in that meeting would have done was make him dig in. MIKE We had an ally. Jonathan agreed with me. HARVEY Yeah. And then, he agreed with his boss, which is what we’re going to do. Because it’s the way the world works. MIKE Come on, Harvey. HARVEY Mike. This man goes through lawyers like a hot knife through butter and I wasn’t about to get us fired to protect some guy I don’t even give a shit about. Now, are you on board with that? MIKE I’m on board. Can we move on? HARVEY I have nothing to move on to. DONNA I do. Have you called Scottie and apologized yet? MIKE Apologize for what? HARVEY What are you, the apology police? MIKE If you’re the one under investigation, I’ll sign up for that. HARVEY Jessica if you need me to sign any more checks, now would be a great time. JESSICA It’s Louis. HARVEY Let me guess. Even though he didn’t show to the meeting, he’s feeling left out and throwing a hissy fit. JESSICA He had a heart attack in court this morning. DONNA Oh, my god. JESSICA He’s okay. I made a call. He’s got the best cardiologists at Mount Sinai. And they say he’s going to be fine. HARVEY We should go see him. JESSICA He told Norma he didn’t want anybody to come. DONNA That means he’s embarrassed, but he wants me there. I’ll be back when I’m back. JESSICA We handle all his cases personally. Nothing with Louis’ name on it falls through the cracks. No client finds out this happened. HARVEY Done. MIKE Done. JESSICA I’ll send him flowers from all of us. HARVEY No. He’s allergic. MIKE To flowers? JESSICA All of them? MIKE How do you even know that? HARVEY I used to send them to his desk every day when we were associates. JESSICA HARVEY I know. I’m an asshole. MIKE Hey. He’s going to be okay, right? RACHEL Oh, my god. This is awful. MIKE Yeah, I know. RACHEL All morning, all I’ve been thinking about is how I don’t want to talk to him about the tuition. And now… MIKE Hey, Rachel… Rachel. Come on. Look at me. It’s going to be okay. He’ll be back, and you guys can have a lifetime of working together, going to the ballet, and having really awkward conversations. Rachel, I’m going to say the thing that I know you don’t want to hear. RACHEL I don’t care about that right now. MIKE It doesn’t have to be a big deal. We’ve all got Louis’ back right now, and Jessica handles this stuff anyway. Just talk to her. RACHEL You are never allowed to have a heart attack. Okay? MIKE Understood. DONNA Louis. LOUIS Is this heaven? DONNA I can understand why you would think that, but no. LOUIS I don’t know how this could happen. I… treat my body like a temple. DONNA And you’ve also been commuting every weekend. And you let the associates raise your blood pressure. LOUIS Because they’re stupid. DONNA Okay. Louis, relax. The doctors say you’re out of danger but you shouldn’t get worked up. LOUIS The doctors need to let me go. DONNA You had a heart attack. LOUIS It means if my blood supply had been cut off for a half second less, it would have been classified as a minor cardiac event. DONNA And what if it would have lasted half a second more? LOUIS It didn’t. And I need to get to work. DONNA Louis, I’m serious. You have to cut back. And if anything were to happen to you… Harvey would be a total mess. Okay? LOUIS I’ll cut back. DONNA Good. JONATHAN Excuse me. It’s Mike, right? MIKE Yeah. Did you still need something? Because I haven’t finished yet. JONATHAN I did. I’ve been trying to find Louis. He wasn’t at the meeting. MIKE Louis isn’t here. JONATHAN Where is he? MIKE What did you need to see him about? JONATHAN I want to talk about what happened. MIKE Yeah, uh… Look, I know that we both agreed that a spin-off was the better way to go, but… JONATHAN I don’t want to talk about that. I want to talk about me. I want out. MIKE You want to leave Gianopolous because of what happened this morning? JONATHAN What happened this morning happens every day. He keeps people down when they reach a certain point, and I’m pretty sure I’m at that point. MIKE Yeah, I get it, but… JONATHAN No, you don’t. You don’t. No. Place like this, your… your whole future is laid out for you. You’ll be running the place before forty. MIKE Jonathan, we work for Tony Gianopolous. And I know I don’t have to tell you, but you’re working under the same non-compete that William Beck is. JONATHAN But you work for me, too. Louis is my personal attorney. MIKE I know. But if there’s a conflict of interest, we’re going to choose him. JONATHAN I know that you have a conflict. I’m just asking. Is there any way that you can help me without helping me? MIKE I’m sorry. JONATHAN Then, where is Louis? MIKE Louis is away on business right now. So, he can’t help you either. JONATHAN Then, I’ll find someone who will. Let this serve as formal notice. I’m letting him go. MIKE Michigan Court of Appeals. JONATHAN What? MIKE There was a ruling a few years ago that established a weak link in the non-compete. RACHEL I’m sorry to interrupt. Do you have a minute? JESSICA What can I do for you? RACHEL The timing on this is terrible. And I… I apologize for that. JESSICA What is it? RACHEL I need the first check for my law school tuition. JESSICA Excuse me? RACHEL Maybe you don’t remember, but when I was wrongfully dismissed, one of the terms of my rehiring was that the firm pays for my law school. JESSICA I remember just fine. And the only term of your rehiring was a ten percent increase in salary. RACHEL What? No, I’m… I’m… I’m telling you. This was an agreed upon term. JESSICA And I’m telling you I know nothing about that. And if I had heard about it, I would have never approved it. RACHEL I was scapegoated by this firm. JESSICA And when you agreed to come back, you were given a ten percent raise. That’s standard. RACHEL My situation was not standard. JESSICA In what way? RACHEL Louis accused me of being disloyal. JESSICA And? RACHEL And he turned out to be wrong. JESSICA The problem, Rachel, is that you have no record of what you’re saying. RACHEL He agreed to it. He is your agent. You’re bound by this. JESSICA I don’t know that. And the man just had a heart attack. And I’m not going to call him and ask him. RACHEL I know that and I don’t want you to. JESSICA Then, this conversation is over. SHEILA What the hell are you doing? LOUIS Sheila, I’m so sorry. SHEILA You should be. LOUIS I don’t know why I had a heart attack, but I promise it won’t happen again. SHEILA You think I’m mad because you had a heart attack? LOUIS It’s a sign of weakness. You hate weakness. SHEILA No, I hate that you’re doing work. LOUIS Sheila. SHEILA No. Louis, do you know what I was thinking about the whole way down here? I was thinking that if you died, I would want to die, too. So, you had better start taking care of yourself, because I don’t want to have… LOUIS Sheila. SHEILA No. No more work. LOUIS Okay, but this isn’t what you think it is. SHEILA Don’t fight me on this. LOUIS No, I need that to… SHEILA Please, don’t fight me on this. “Sheila, as long as I’ve known you, I’ve had a… I’ve had a feeling of completeness.” “Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra.” You crossed out Jamie and Cersei Lannister. LOUIS I thought they were too controversial a couple. SHEILA Too controversial for what? LOUIS A proposal. SHEILA What? LOUIS Sheila, I could have died. And I don’t want my life to have ended without… SHEILA Louis, I don’t want you to ask me what you’re about to ask me because you’re afraid to die alone. LOUIS No. It’s not about that. It’s not about dying alone. It’s about living without the woman I love. Sheila Amanda Sazs, you are the love of what I hope will be my very, very long life. And I can’t spend one more second of it without you. Will you marry me? SHEILA Yes. Yes, I’ll marry you. HARVEY Tony, what can I do for you? GIANOPOLOUS You screwed me over. HARVEY By figuring out how to fire the guy you told us to fire? GIANOPOLOUS By telling my number two how to break his non-compete. HARVEY I did nothing of the kind. GIANOPOLOUS Then, it was Louis Litt. HARVEY No way. That did not happen. GIANOPOLOUS That’s bullshit, Harvey. We had our meeting. Jonathan stuck around for the paperwork, then, suddenly, he comes back with his resignation and some Michigan Appeals court precedent for breaking our deal. HARVEY Well, he couldn’t have met with Louis because Louis wasn’t even in the office. GIANOPOLOUS Then, it was someone else. HARVEY Tony, what exactly do you want? You want me to fire him like we’re firing Beck? GIANOPOLOUS I’ll tell you a little secret. I don’t give a shit whether Beck goes or not. But can you understand why I want him crushed? HARVEY Because you want people like Jonathan Sidwell to know what happens when they try to leave. GIANOPOLOUS Ah. Finally, my lawyer shows up. HARVEY Oh, I’ve been here the whole time. GIANOPOLOUS You see it how you want to see it. But if you can’t figure out a way to make Jonathan stay, you’ll be the one who’s gone. HARVEY Tony, I’m going to fix this. But let’s get one thing clear. I’m not like the other lawyers you’ve burned through. So, the next time you go stomping around like a four-year-old throwing tantrums with me, I’ll be the one getting rid of you. I guess you were never really on board after all. MIKE What? I did the paperwork for Beck. HARVEY I’m not talking about Beck. I’m talking about Jonathan Sidwell. Michigan Court of Appeals sound familiar? MIKE Harvey, he was going to fire Louis. HARVEY If that’s the advice he was looking for from Louis, he would have fired him anyway. MIKE And Jonathan would have found that loophole anyway. HARVEY But instead, he got it from you. MIKE What do you want from me? Louis had a heart attack. Jessica told us not to… HARVEY Don’t hide behind that shit. Let’s get into what this is really about. MIKE What the hell are you talking about? HARVEY I’m talking about your conversation with Jessica. MIKE So, that’s why you were telling me my idea was so good after our Gianopolous meeting. Yeah, we had that conversation. And yeah, it sucks. But this has nothing to do with that. HARVEY Then, prove it. MIKE Prove what? He’s unhappy with his situation, and when people are unhappy, they find a way out. HARVEY Which brings me back to my point. You weren’t really onboard. MIKE I told you, I took care of Beck. HARVEY Well, now, you’re going to do the same for Jonathan. MIKE The Michigan ruling clearly states that he has the right to… HARVEY Don’t quote precedent to me. You figured out how he could break the non-compete. Now, figure out how to enforce it. MIKE Harvey. HARVEY Enough. You’re a pretty good lawyer when you want to be. So, maybe try doing it for our side this time. RACHEL Bad night? MIKE Only if you call figuring out a way to crush someone’s hopes and dreams bad. What about you? You, uh, take care of that awkward conversation? RACHEL Yeah. It wasn’t awkward. It was… humiliating. Louis never actually told Jessica. MIKE What? That’s bullshit. He made a promise to you. He’s an agent of the firm. RACHEL You know, I never thought about that. Maybe I should just rush to Louis’ hospital bed and get him to admit that he screwed me over. How could he lie to me like that? MIKE Rachel, why he lied to you doesn’t matter. RACHEL It matters to me. MIKE Well, you said it yourself. Do you really want to upset him just to find out? RACHEL Of course not. MIKE Then, take the emotion out of it. RACHEL What are you talking about? MIKE It’s a contract problem. Figure out a way to enforce the contract. DONNA I have someone here to see you. HARVEY Donna, I don’t have time to see anyone right… Well, look who it is. Where the hell have you been? DONNA Harvey, don’t be a dick. He had a heart attack. HARVEY And you think having a heart attack gives you the right to take a day off? LOUIS I’m alive. HARVEY Help me. DONNA Hug him back. I’m going to let you two be alone. HARVEY Okay. Not that I’m not enjoying this, but… shouldn’t you be home? LOUIS No. The doctor cleared me to come back. Sheila’s allowing me half-days. The other half of the day… I’m at home, planning my wedding. HARVEY You’re engaged? LOUIS It’s the happiest moment of my life. HARVEY I’ll send my condolences to the bride-to-be. LOUIS That kind of sense of humor is exactly what I want in my best man. HARVEY Louis, are you asking me to be your best… LOUIS Now, Harvey, before you answer, I am sorry my fight with Scottie put you in a bad situation. And I know calling in my chit with you jeopardized our friendship. But… HARVEY Louis. LOUIS Let me just finish. You said I can’t have it both ways, but… HARVEY I’d be honored. LOUIS Thank you, Harvey. HARVEY You’re welcome, Louis. MIKE Mr. Kovacs. KOVACS Yes? MIKE Mike Ross, Pearson Specter. KOVACS Do we have business together? MIKE Jonathan Sidwell. I understand you made him an offer to run your investment division. KOVACS Yeah, Jonathan reached out to me with a proposal and I liked it. MIKE Did he happen to mention the fact that he’s under a non-compete? KOVACS Yes. He also mentioned that the Michigan Court of Appeals decision makes his contract breakable. I had my lawyers look into. He’s right. MIKE Did you also have your lawyers look into the theft of intellectual property? KOVACS What are talking about? MIKE I’m talking about the algorithm that Jonathan developed to identify companies ripe for takeover. KOVACS My employee, my algorithm. MIKE Wrong. Jonathan developed it while under contract with Tony Gianopolous, which makes it his property. KOVACS What do you want? MIKE I don’t want anything. I just came down here to let you know you can go ahead and do whatever you care to with Jonathan Sidwell. But if you use his algorithm, we’re going to sue you for every penny that comes from it. RACHEL Hi. LOUIS Hi. RACHEL I heard you were back. Are… Should you be doing that? LOUIS Prescribed. Light walking. Need to get the blood flowing. RACHEL Okay. Good. Look, Louis, I’m… I’m sorry about what happened. I really am. LOUIS Well, I’m going to be fine, Rachel. RACHEL Good. I actually wanted to talk to you about a contracts issue. LOUIS Shoot. RACHEL Okay. A friend of mine entered into a verbal agreement with an agent for a corporation and now he’s reneging on it. LOUIS Wait a second. Why verbal? RACHEL Why not? Verbal contracts are binding and she knows it. LOUIS Does she have it on tape? RACHEL No. LOUIS Well, then, he can lie about it or he can argue the wording. RACHEL No, he made a clear promise. LOUIS Well, maybe it was a promise to try, or maybe it was a suggestion. RACHEL No, it wasn’t. LOUIS What’s the contract? RACHEL Employment bonus. LOUIS Lump sum, or payable over time? RACHEL Three year term. LOUIS Well, then, verbal ain’t shit. If it’s paid over a year or more, it has to be written. RACHEL My friend made life decisions based on this promise. She could sue for promissory estoppel. LOUIS Well, she can sue the dick who made the deal, but she can’t sue the company. RACHEL She doesn’t want to do that. LOUIS Let me ask you this. Why wouldn’t she get it in writing if it was legit? RACHEL Because she trusted him. She doesn’t know why he would lie to her. LOUIS He did because he could. He wanted what he wanted when he wanted it, and it cost him nothing. You know? RACHEL Yeah. Maybe she should go after him. LOUIS She can try. But, I mean, realistically, she’ll lose. And she should. Because stupidity shouldn’t be rewarded. I’m so glad you came to me. You really got my juices going. Makes me feel glad to be back. SHEILA This is nice, fiancé. LOUIS It is nice, betrothed. SHEILA So, where should we do it? LOUIS I… Sheila, are you serious? I just had a heart attack. SHEILA I’m talking about the wedding. I say we do it here. LOUIS Get married in New York? SHEILA It’s where our relationship began. I think it’s only fitting that we tie the knot here. LOUIS I love you. SHEILA Good. Then, it’s decided. We’ll do it here, and then move straight to Boston. LOUIS What do you mean, move to Boston? I can’t move to Boston. SHEILA Well, you have to. You know what Harvard means to me. LOUIS You know what Pearson Specter means to me. SHEILA Okay. Louis, there are a dozen firms that would snap you up in a second there. LOUIS The same thing goes for law schools here. SHEILA Yeah, but they’re not Harvard. Which means they’re second tier. You seriously expected me to drop everything and move to New York? LOUIS Yeah, I did. SHEILA Okay, well, I think that’s a little presumptuous. LOUIS Me? What about you? You’re the one who has us buying a place on Bacon Hill. SHEILA Okay. It’s Beacon Hill, and I thought you liked it. LOUIS To visit. I mean, not to live. And what are you talking about, our law schools are second tier? Your city is second tier. SHEILA Well, maybe my city is second tier, but it’s also the home of the woman you supposedly love. LOUIS Oh. Sheila, come on. Please. I mean, everything I have is in New York. SHEILA Everything except me. DONNA It’s usually easier if you look at the screen. With your eyes. RACHEL Um… I’m sorry. It’s been one of those weeks. DONNA You know Louis is going to be okay, right? RACHEL Yeah. I know he’s going to be okay. But at the moment, I hate his guts. JESSICA I hear congratulations are in order. LOUIS Jessica. JESSICA Another eligible bachelor bites the dust. LOUIS Yeah. I mean, no. It’s… It’s… It’s amazing. JESSICA How are you feeling? LOUIS Better, thanks. JESSICA I wanted to get you a little welcome back something. It’s not much. You know, you gave me quite a scare this week. LOUIS I love it. The Pearson Hardman retreat five years ago. JESSICA And do you know what I remember most about that night? It’s what an amazing dancer you are. LOUIS Five years, Long Island School of Ballet. JESSICA You weren’t dancing ballet that night. LOUIS Well, they say ballet is the foundation for everything. JESSICA Well, sir, you have an amazing foundation. I… I just thought you could add that to your collection. Somewhere between you and Bruno. LOUIS It means so much to me that you… JESSICA Louis. Come on. After everything we’ve been through… you’re family. DONNA Holy shit. RACHEL I know. He betrayed me. DONNA Maybe. But Rachel, you didn’t even give him a chance to explain himself. RACHEL I didn’t want to upset him. DONNA Even if he was bullshitting you back then, the Louis I know is a man of his word. And if you went to him honestly… RACHEL It wouldn’t matter. He would just say he agreed to it and Jessica would still say no. DONNA He might offer to pay. RACHEL Absolutely not. I wouldn’t let him. And you know what? That’s not the problem. DONNA Then, what is the problem? RACHEL The problem is, he made me a chump. DONNA Rachel. RACHEL Donna, I went in there as a paralegal trying to negotiate with Louis Litt. And I left with the money to become a lawyer. And for the first time in my life, I felt like I could actually be one. And now, I realize that… … when I left that room, he was probably laughing about how he pulled one over on me. DONNA Maybe you’re right. But I’m telling you, the Louis of today would never do that. RACHEL Well, the Rachel of today certainly wouldn’t let him get away with it. DONNA And the Donna of today is a genius. Well, the genius of Donna is every day. RACHEL What are you saying? DONNA Just because you can’t go after Louis doesn’t mean you can’t still make your case. JONATHAN What the hell is wrong with you? You gave me a map to escape and told the guards where I’d be. MIKE Jonathan. JONATHAN Kovacs rescinded his offer. He said I’m not worth it without that algorithm. MIKE Listen, I’m sorry. JONATHAN Sorry? You gave me that advice in the first place. MIKE Because you threatened to leave Louis. JONATHAN Bullshit. You did it because you knew what I was up against and you were trying to help me. MIKE Whether that’s true or not, that advice was off the record. And it turns out that, on the record, it’s my job to stop you. JONATHAN Well, congratulations. You ripped away the thing I value the most. That algorithm? It took me ten years to develop it. It’s how I look at valuing companies. It’s how I look at the world. If I can’t take it with me, even if someone thinks I’m worth something, I’m not. MIKE Jonathan. JONATHAN Please. You did your job on the record. Now, off the record, what do I do? MIKE It was my job to make sure there’s nothing you could do. JONATHAN Then, check in with me in ten years. Because I promise you, I’ll be at the same desk, punching the same clock. I can’t move up, I can’t move out. That’s on you. MIKE You were right. This isn’t about William Beck or Jonathan Sidwell. It’s about me. HARVEY Mike. MIKE I want to go legit. HARVEY You can’t. MIKE Harvey. HARVEY Listen. Do I need to state the obvious? MIKE I can go to law school now. Alright? Get a real degree. HARVEY Even if it didn’t matter that you’ve already presented yourself as having gone to Harvard Law, you’d have to take the bar again. MIKE Okay. I passed it once. I’ll pass it again. HARVEY Not under your own name. And if you take it now, you’ll draw attention to yourself in a major way. MIKE Then, I get Lola Jensen to hack into the bar and just put me in there just like she did with Harvard. HARVEY Are you insane? Hacking into the bar is twice the crime you’ve been committing. And rule number one of not getting caught… you don’t move the goddamn body. MIKE You do if they’re about to find it. HARVEY They’re not about to find it. MIKE They’re always about to find it. HARVEY Mike. Committing another fraud to cover your fraud isn’t going legit, it’s just covering your ass. And it doesn’t undo the fact that you’ve already committed the crime. MIKE You think I haven’t thought about all of this? Harvey, I’m stuck. There’s no way up, there’s no way down. I can’t live my whole life like this. HARVEY Okay. You want to be legit? There’s only one way. You go to a small town in Iowa where nobody’s ever heard of Harvey Specter, Jessica Pearson, or anybody else. You go to law school, hang out your shingle, nobody will ever know. I guarantee you, you’ll be king of the hill. But you can never come back to the mountain. Hot here in New York or Chicago or L.A. Someone will know someone. And it will all be for nothing. MIKE I can’t do that and you know it. HARVEY I do know it. Mike, you’re in the major leagues, and you get to go toe to toe with the best there is. I can’t tell you if that’s enough for a lifetime. But if you want to stay, there’s nothing more you can do. My advice is hold on tight and enjoy the ride. JONATHAN What are you doing here? MIKE I’m here to help you. JONATHAN You said there was no way to stop what you did. MIKE This isn’t a legal solution, it’s a business solution. One where everybody wins. JONATHAN Everybody wins. That’s what you said about Beck. So, you want me to spin off my own company. I run it, he owns it? MIKE I never said that. JONATHAN Well, he didn’t go for it with Beck. Why would he go for it with me? MIKE Because he doesn’t give a shit about William Beck. JONATHAN What are you saying? MIKE You develop your algorithm every day. JONATHAN Of course. It’s useless if I don’t. MIKE Right. But that’s not why you do it. You do it because you love it. JONATHAN Well, he can force me to stay, but he can’t force me to love it. MIKE And that’s exactly where your leverage is. If you don’t love what you do, it costs him a fortune. And he knows it. JONATHAN This isn’t a sure thing. MIKE Which is why I’m trusting he won’t know it came from me if it doesn’t work. JONATHAN Why are you doing this? MIKE Let’s just say I love my job… but I know what it feels like to be trapped. HARVEY Donna said you wanted to see me about some more managerial bullshit. JESSICA What? Don’t you think I learned my lesson with the checks? HARVEY Then, why am I here? RACHEL You’re here to listen to me. I have a case to make. HARVEY Do you know what this is about? JESSICA Yes, and I already told you. RACHEL I am not here to ask you to honor Louis’ contract. I am here to ask you to make a new one with me. JESSICA Our contract with you is the promise of a job when you get out, not paying for you on your way in. RACHEL I have a list here of the signing bonuses of the top three associates who have come into the firm. Give me an advance on mine. JESSICA The last time we negotiated, you said never sign something without getting something in return. RACHEL What you’re getting in return is that I keep working here part time. The advance plus my salary will cover my tuition. JESSICA Paralegals don’t make that much. Those numbers don’t add up. RACHEL I’m not proposing being a paralegal. Summer associates work as lawyers. And I can do the same. JESSICA You came up with that pretty fast. It’s almost as if you wanted me to ask you what I get in return. RACHEL Do we have a deal? JESSICA One problem. You already asked me to break precedent once when I waived the Harvard rule. I’m not breaking it again to pay for law school. RACHEL I’m not asking you to break anything. You already established precedence. With him. When you paid for his law school. JESSICA That is not common knowledge. RACHEL No, it’s not. HARVEY That’s why she wanted me here. I’m exhibit “A”. RACHEL You made an investment in Harvey, and I think that turned out pretty well. JESSICA I could argue that point. HARVEY No, Rachel’s right. I’m pretty awesome. JESSICA I assume you have this in writing. RACHEL I wouldn’t be worth it if I didn’t. MIKE Let me guess. He went for it. JONATHAN He did. MIKE You want me to set up your new corporation? JONATHAN I want you to join my new corporation. That’s an offer letter. MIKE I don’t understand. JONATHAN You said you know what it’s like to feel trapped. I thought maybe you’d like a way out. MIKE I also said I love what I do. JONATHAN Maybe. But let me tell you what I once told Louis Litt. We’re not lawyers, we’re investment bankers. Our job blows yours out of the water. MIKE Wait a second. You’re not asking me to be your in-house counsel. JONATHAN Are you kidding me? Most people don’t even know what an algorithm is. You used it to strong-arm me and Tony Gianopolous. You have a mind for this. MIKE Jonathan. JONATHAN You don’t have to answer right now. Just think about this. You’re in the minor leagues here. I’m giving you a chance to play in the majors. LOUIS I’m glad you came. SHEILA I hope you don’t mind. I thought you might like it. LOUIS Sheila. SHEILA It was just a gesture. LOUIS It’s a beautiful gesture. You’re so… You’re everything. SHEILA Oh, no. Is this where you tell me that you’re not going to move to Boston? LOUIS Not everybody sees me the way you do. Most people take a very, very long time to figure me out. It’s taken me years and years to get the people here to see past my short temper and my… weird obsessions. SHEILA Your love of mudding is not weird. LOUIS Well, you see, I know that. You know who else knows that? Donna. And Jessica. Mike. Rachel. And Harvey. They appreciate me. They’re my family. I’m asking you. Please don’t make me leave my family. SHEILA I’ll move to New York. Yeah. LOUIS You won’t regret this. SHEILA I know I won’t. LOUIS I promise I’m going to give you the best life. We’re going to be a New York power couple. Law by day, love by night. And when we have kids, world, watch out. Sazs-Litts… They’re going to be ridiculous. SHEILA Wait, what? LOUIS I mean, let’s face it. Our kids? They hit the genetic lottery. SHEILA Louis, I don’t want kids. LOUIS What? SHEILA They don’t get me. LOUIS What? I mean, what… What are you talking about? SHEILA I don’t like kids. I like when they’re twenty-two and going to law school. But I just… LOUIS Those would be adults. SHEILA Exactly. LOUIS No, no, no. You may think that now. But when it actually happens… when… when they’re yours, it’s so… SHEILA Louis, I’m never going to think that ever. LOUIS How… How can you… SHEILA How can I what? It’s who I am. LOUIS Sheila, I’m going to be a father. SHEILA Louis, we’re so happy. We can be happy, just us. I was willing to give up Harvard for you. You can’t give up something for me? MIKE Well? DONNA Call her. Call her and apologize.