BAILIFF DONNA GERARD HARVEY JESSICA JUDGE LISA LOUIS LOUIS_AND_HARVEY MIKE RACHEL TIM RACHEL Well, what are you so happy about? MIKE I made bubble wrap slippers this morning while you were in the shower. RACHEL I specifically told you the bubble wrap is for the dishes. MIKE I also made a hat. RACHEL Okay, I’m moving in with a ten-year-old. MIKE And you love me. RACHEL I do. MIKE Hey, I was thinking. What are we going to do about our bed? RACHEL We already have two. MIKE I know we do. But don’t you think a new beginning deserves a new bed? RACHEL That… is incredibly sweet. MIKE Yeah. Not bad for a ten-year-old, huh? RACHEL What kind of bed were you thinking? MIKE Whichever one we pick after we test them tonight. RACHEL And did you have any particular test in mind? MIKE Well, now, I do. RACHEL See, I don’t think the store is going to let us run that kind of test. MIKE Yeah, no, you’re right. We should probably just test ours before we go out tonight. RACHEL Oh. MIKE What are you doing? RACHEL I think that Louis might have just seen us. MIKE Come on. What’s the difference? We’re moving in together. I think it’s time we stopped keeping it a secret. RACHEL But keeping it a secret is sort of fun. MIKE Mm. RACHEL And sexy. MIKE And I am pro sexy. I mean, I did make those bubble wrap slippers and hat, after all. Which is funny, because that’s not sexy. It’s just fun. RACHEL It’s something. MIKE Something. I made you some, too. DONNA Hey. Harvey, she won’t be back for another week. So, I don’t think you need to start drinking just yet. HARVEY You want to make fun, or you want to help me figure out where to put this? DONNA A bottle of scotch? You couldn’t get her anything more personal? HARVEY She likes scotch. DONNA You like scotch. HARVEY And she likes me. Therefore… DONNA Why don’t you just attach a card that says, “Welcome, generic senior partner”? HARVEY This is a twelve thousand dollar bottle of scotch. And this is one of three left in the world. That doesn’t say generic. That says… DONNA You’re one of three very expensive things I recently purchased. HARVEY We worked it out about the buy-in. DONNA And this is going to un-work it out. HARVEY You know it’s funny. First, it was too generic. Now, it’s special. DONNA What are you saying? HARVEY I don’t think you have a problem with my choice of gift. I think you have a problem with my choice of recipient. DONNA Do you think Scottie would even be here if it wasn’t for me? HARVEY No, I don’t. DONNA Harvey, I want this for you. I want it to work. And I’m just trying to… HARVEY Make sure I don’t screw it up. DONNA Well, we both know you’re going to screw it up. I’m just trying to delay that as long as possible. HARVEY You sure about this? DONNA That bottle is the reason I buy my own present for Secretary’s Day. HARVEY There’s a Secretary’s Day? DONNA There is, and you’re very generous. LOUIS Mike. Excited or what? MIKE Excited about what? LOUIS Didn’t you get my email? Oh, there it is. Why don’t you read it? Oh, actually, you know what? Never mind. I’ll just, uh, let you know what it says. (laughs) It’s so great. You’re going to love it. It says I invited Henry Gerard here to give a lecture. This Friday. MIKE That’s great. LOUIS You don’t even know who he is, do you? MIKE Professor Henry Gerard, author of the definitive text in Legal Ethics and Chair of the department for the last twenty years? Yeah, I know who he is. LOUIS And do you also remember what you got in his class? MIKE It’s pretty hard to forget an “a” plus. LOUIS It’s pretty hard to forget a grade that never happened. No one gets an “a” plus in Gerard’s class. MIKE Yeah, well, no one can recite an entire chapter of his book from memory, but I can and did. LOUIS Bullshit. You never got an “a” plus, because you never took his class. MIKE It’s a required class, Louis. Of course I took it. LOUIS Not if you never went to Harvard. MIKE Louis, that is insane. I have a transcript from Harvard. I have a degree from Harvard. That’s because I… LOUIS Wait. Let me guess. Because you went to Harvard. See, Mike, here’s the situation. I don’t believe you. And I don’t want to call Gerard up and ask him, because I don’t want the world laughing at my firm. But if he doesn’t walk up to you on Friday and say, “Mike Ross, my beloved student who I remember because he’s the only one I ever gave an ‘A’ plus to…” Well, then, I’m going to know you’re lying. And if you still don’t come clean, I’m going to launch a formal investigation whether it makes my firm look bad or not. MIKE This is crazy. There is nothing to investigate. LOUIS Well, I’d rather risk looking crazy to root out an imposter than to risk letting that imposter poison everything that I stand for. It’s over, Mike. I’m onto you. And I’m going to expose you for the lying piece of filth that you are. Don’t forget to rinse your mouth out after you’re done throwing up. MIKE Do you remember when you said if Louis knew, we’d know? He knows. HARVEY What did he do? MIKE He’s bringing in Henry Gerard to give a lecture. HARVEY So what? It will only be the first time you’ve had to suffer through it. MIKE He’s bringing him in because he saw I got an “A” plus in his class. HARVEY What? No one gets an “A” plus in Gerard’s class. MIKE Welcome to the problem. HARVEY Goddammit. Donna, get in here. MIKE Why are you calling Donna? HARVEY Because she’s the one who found out that Louis knows you don’t have…a file in the Harvard file room. MIKE How do you know that? DONNA Because Louis’ new girlfriend is the queen of that file room and she left him alone in there. MIKE You guys didn’t think to mention this. DONNA I thought I handled it. HARVEY She did handle it. She sent him to sniff out your transcript. Only she didn’t realize you gave yourself an “a” plus in Legal Ethics. MIKE I didn’t give it to myself. Lola Jensen did. HARVEY I don’t give a shit who gave it to you, unless it was Professor Gerard, which it wasn’t. DONNA How many people take the class? I mean, maybe Mike will just be another face in the crowd. MIKE Louis is bringing him here to see if he embraces his star student. The worst thing I can do is just be another face in the crowd. We need to make it so that he doesn’t come. HARVEY That’s not going to happen. The man doesn’t back out of commitments. His favorite quote is, “For the law to work, there must be honor in one’s word.” DONNA Who’s he quoting? HARVEY Himself. Pompous prick. Guy never practiced a day in his life, thinks he can write the book on real world ethics. MIKE Okay. I’m not panicking, but what are we going to do? HARVEY Right now, you’re going to sit tight. MIKE And what are you going to do? HARVEY I think it’s time to tell Jessica. We need to talk. JESSICA We do. HARVEY You know? JESSICA No. But whatever it is, it can wait. HARVEY This isn’t something that can wait. JESSICA Quentin died. HARVEY I’m sorry. JESSICA I knew “als.” wasn’t going to be a picnic. And I knew this was coming. But it doesn’t… HARVEY Look, if you need some time, I can manage things here. JESSICA The truth is, Harvey, I’d take it. But Lisa’s on her way in… to discuss Quentin’s will with us. HARVEY Us? JESSICA Quentin named you and I co-executors of his estate. HARVEY You’re her husband’s ex-wife. I doubt Lisa sees this as just business. JESSICA No, I can’t imagine she does. HARVEY Can you see this as just business? You don’t like her, you don’t trust her, and you have good reason for both. JESSICA Quentin asked me to do this. HARVEY Maybe he gave you a co-executor for a reason. JESSICA You’re saying he was giving me an out? HARVEY No. I’m just saying that I’m here and you don’t have to do this. JESSICA Harvey, he asked me. And I’m not going to let him down. RACHEL Mike, you can’t just wait for the axe to fall. MIKE I didn’t just wait. I armed myself. I learned everything there is to know about Gerard and his class. Harvey is right. This guy is a prick. He makes everybody read his books and then doesn’t even test on them. RACHEL Okay, but arming yourself isn’t enough. We need to actually do something. MIKE Harvey told me to sit tight. That’s exactly what I’m going to do. RACHEL Well, right. That’s because Harvey’s life isn’t on the line. Ours is. MIKE Ours? RACHEL Mike. I am not moving in with you because I need a new place to live. MIKE Okay. So, what do you think we should do? RACHEL What’s going to make him believe that you went to Harvard? MIKE Well, if my transcript, diploma, and the job you can only get by having attended Harvard aren’t enough, I’m not really sure what is. RACHEL Well, there’s got to be something you can say. MIKE Rachel, you know Louis. The more I try and deny it, the more he’s going to come after me. RACHEL I can’t believe this. He is not going to be happy until he has a signed full confession proving he was right. MIKE You’re right. And that’s exactly what I’m going to give him. Come on. JESSICA It’s all fairly straightforward. The company shouldn’t be affected. Tim can continue with the day-to-day while this works its way through probate. LISA Well, the day-to-day is going to change. JESSICA How so? LISA We have an offer from Pryzen. JESSICA You want to sell the company? LISA I want to accept an offer. JESSICA Well. That was fast. LISA Excuse me? HARVEY What Jessica is saying is Pryzen didn’t waste any time swooping in. JESSICA No, what I’m saying is before we authorize anything, we need to evaluate if this is even a good idea. LISA I don’t see why. Our general counsel thinks it’s a good idea, and I agree. And I’m the one who’s inheriting the majority of the company. So, it’s my decision. JESSICA Actually, it isn’t. LISA What are you talking about? JESSICA My job is to see that Quentin’s wishes are fulfilled. LISA Are you implying that you know his wishes better than I do? JESSICA I’m implying he’s not dead a week, and you want to strip his name off the door and into oblivion. LISA What I want to do is put the drug that he dedicated his life to in the hands of a company with the resources to finish it. JESSICA And I was there when he worked for companies like this. He hated them. Which is why he went out on his own. LISA You were there. Well, that’s, uh, not how I heard the story. HARVEY Alright. We’re not doing this. You want to sell your shares, no one’s saying you can’t. But we have a responsibility to evaluate it. Remember when you said you’d try to be conciliatory? JESSICA I never said that. HARVEY Well, you should have. Because you sure couldn’t keep the personal out of it. JESSICA I didn’t think they were going to come at me with all that stuff. HARVEY They weren’t coming at you. They were coming with a proposal. JESSICA Do you really think that offer came out of thin air? HARVEY I think it’s possible they waited to pounce. JESSICA It’s also possible that Lisa and Tim put this in motion while Quentin was lying in his hospital bed. HARVEY And what if they did? Is that really our business? Jessica, I understand how hard this is for you. But his legacy is this drug. It’s not about whose name is on the company that makes it. JESSICA You’re saying you agree with Lisa. HARVEY I’m saying to you now what I tried to tell you before. This is personal for you. It’s not personal for me. So, before we take another step, let me evaluate this offer. MIKE You’re right. I lied to you. I lied to everyone. I cheated to get here. And if you put me in front of Henry Gerard, he’s not going to remember me. LOUIS Because you never took his class. MIKE Because I never went to his class. LOUIS Because you never went to Harvard. MIKE That’s not true. LOUIS Bullshit. MIKE Louis, please. Look, I know you have every right to be angry with me. LOUIS I’m not angry. Angry is just a flash in the pan. My outrage is here to stay, and I will obliterate any infection threatening my firm. MIKE I’m not the infection you think I am. And the only thing that’s bullshit is that “a” plus. LOUIS What? MIKE Listen, I went to Harvard. But I just changed my grade. LOUIS You expect me to believe that? MIKE I have always been the smartest kid in every school that I went to. High school, college, the first two years of Harvard. I get “a’s” without studying. I’d ace every test without going to class. But that third year… LOUIS You had to take Gerard. MIKE I could memorize his books, but his tests weren’t about his books. LOUIS They’re about his lectures. The final exam. MIKE I failed it. I went to his office to beg for a second chance. LOUIS He doesn’t give second chances. MIKE I had to try. LOUIS He wouldn’t do it. MIKE He wasn’t there. I got to his office and it was empty. His computer was just sitting there, logged into the main system. He was about to submit his grades. I only had a few seconds before he came back, so… I decided to save myself. LOUIS No. You decided to give yourself an “A” plus. MIKE No. Louis, you might not be able to believe me about anything else ever again. But believe this. You have no idea how much I wish I could do it over again. Because this time, I would do it right. I would go to every class, I would attend every lecture, and I would feast on what that place has to offer like no one ever has. LOUIS But you didn’t do it right the first time. You cheated. And now, you’re looking at me to help you get away with it. MIKE No. Louis. LOUIS Get out of my sight. What a surprise. RACHEL Louis, please. I just want to… LOUIS I know what you want to do. You want to lobby me on behalf of someone who had the audacity… RACHEL I love him. LOUIS What? RACHEL We’re moving in together and we’re starting a life together. LOUIS Rachel. RACHEL And I’m telling you this because I know what he did. And I still love him. LOUIS Okay. Here’s the problem. I don’t. RACHEL Louis… LOUIS Rachel, I respect you. I care about you. But this isn’t about you. This is about Mike and what he did to me. RACHEL You know, he came to me the night that you asked him to be your associate. I told him to go with you. LOUIS Why? RACHEL Because he said he had a connection with you that he’s never had with Harvey. LOUIS He said that? RACHEL Yes. Your shared love of the law. LOUIS Yeah, I told him that. RACHEL I know. And I have the same connection with you. LOUIS Rachel, you’re asking me… RACHEL Louis, he didn’t do this to you. He did it so that he could practice the thing we all love. And if you don’t let it go, he’s never going to be able to practice it again. LISA Thank you for coming alone. HARVEY I’m happy to help. But Jessica and I are a team. Asking to see me alone doesn’t change that. I’m not going to cut her out of the process. LISA Isn’t that what she’s doing to me? She’s trying to kill the sale. HARVEY That’s not what this letter says. LISA I’m not a lawyer, but I’m not stupid. It says all communication goes through Pearson Specter. HARVEY This doesn’t kill the deal. LISA It tells them that they’ve been negotiating with people with no power at all. HARVEY No, it tells them they have to negotiate with two entities instead of just one. It gives us more firepower. What do you want, Lisa? LISA I want to know why your signature isn’t on that letter. HARVEY Because we came to a consensus and she signed it on both our behalves. LISA I don’t believe you. HARVEY I don’t care. And if you can’t handle us notifying the buyer that we’re evaluating this sale, then it makes me question whose judgment is really clouded. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m done meeting behind my partner’s back. What the hell happened to letting me evaluate this offer? JESSICA I am letting you evaluate the offer. HARVEY You sent this letter to kill the deal. JESSICA I sent that letter to buy you time. HARVEY Jessica, you put my name on a document you knew I wouldn’t support. JESSICA You are on Lisa’s side. You want to sell. HARVEY This isn’t about Lisa and I don’t give a shit whether this company is sold or not. This is about you and me and how we’re going to run this firm. JESSICA Didn’t we just have a conversation about that? HARVEY Yeah, we sure did. And when it had to do with Scottie, you gave me a big speech about trust. About how I had to trust you had rational reasons for what you were doing. JESSICA This is different. HARVEY Exactly. This time, it’s not personal for me. It’s personal for you. And you’re not playing by your own rules. JESSICA The deal is wrong, Harvey. And like it or not, I’m still the Managing Partner. HARVEY Not on this. On this, you’re a co-executor, and you’re not putting my name on any more letters. So, I suggest you get your head on straight and look at this deal rationally. And if you can’t do that, I suggest you step aside. Jessica, you loved him. I know you’re hurting. So is she. Whatever your history with her… so is she. LOUIS You’re here late. MIKE The life of an associate, right? LOUIS Ah. Yeah, I remember. I used to live in this room. Work piled all around me, surviving on coffee, delivery, and no sleep. And the whole time, wondering, “Man, is it ever going to get any easier?” MIKE Does it? LOUIS No. MIKE But you still love it. LOUIS And so do you. Or else you’d be home with the woman who loves you, not spending your night here. MIKE You know. LOUIS She came to see me. I didn’t think I could forgive you. But then, somehow, she… made me realize I could. MIKE Louis, um… I don’t know how to thank you. LOUIS No, no, no, no. Don’t thank me yet. I’m not the one you did this to. MIKE What are you saying? LOUIS I’m saying you did this to Henry Gerard. And it’s not my place to let it go for him. Which is why you’re going to have to come clean to him. MIKE You said it yourself. Gerard doesn’t give second chances. LOUIS What he does or doesn’t do is up to him. That’s his right, Mike, as the person that you wronged. MIKE Yeah, but he doesn’t have to know that I wronged him. LOUIS Listen to me. You said that if you had it to do over, you’d do it right. I’m giving you that chance. Take it. Or I’m going to have to take it for you. LISA What are you here to do now, take my house away from me? JESSICA I’m here to talk. LISA Well, the last time we talked, you pretty much said I don’t care about my husband enough to honor his wishes. JESSICA The last time we talked… I was an asshole. Pardon my French. LISA I don’t mind your French. JESSICA It’s come to my attention that I may have let our history affect how I’m handling this situation. LISA That’s funny. Harvey brought that same thing to my attention. JESSICA So. Tell me this. Why do you want to sell? LISA Do you know why I lied about those “als.” trials? Because I was desperate for the research to continue. But it didn’t matter. JESSICA Lisa. LISA He wasn’t supposed to die. JESSICA He wasn’t supposed to live as long as he did. LISA We weren’t trying to prolong his life. We were trying to find a cure. And we failed. I failed. JESSICA You never cared about the money. LISA The only money I cared about is the money to find the cure. And we don’t have those resources. Pryzen does. JESSICA But they already have an “als.” drug. LISA It’s not as good as ours. JESSICA In profit margin, it’s better. Which means there’s nothing to stop them from buying your company, burying your drug, and making a fortune. LISA What are you saying? JESSICA I’m saying you didn’t fail him, but I know how it feels to think you did. And I have a way to make sure that neither one of us feels that way again. HARVEY So, your great plan backfired. MIKE Harvey, I’m sorry. HARVEY I don’t need you to say I’m sorry. But the next time I tell you to sit tight, I need you to say you will. MIKE Okay. HARVEY Good, because the next time I tell you to sit tight is right now. MIKE Wait. What are you going to do? HARVEY I’m getting on a plane to Boston. MIKE And doing what? HARVEY I’ll let you know when I get back. JESSICA Why are you going to Boston? HARVEY I have to see Marcus. He’s in trouble. JESSICA Anything I can do? HARVEY No, I’ll handle it myself. JESSICA Well, since you’re leaving, I’m going to need you to draft some language for the Sainz Pharmaceutical sale. HARVEY So, you’re in favor of it now. JESSICA Not exactly, but I heard what you said and I went to see Lisa. She and I are on the same page. Do you have time to hear what the plan is? HARVEY I trust you. MIKE So, what do you need me to draft? JESSICA I need you to draft a provision that guarantees Pryzen will finish developing that drug. MIKE Consider it done. JESSICA He’s not seeing his brother, is he? MIKE No, he’s not. JESSICA Care to elaborate on that? MIKE Not particularly. JESSICA You’re saying I should trust him. MIKE I’m saying I do. DONNA I’d ask how you’re holding up, but I can see the answer. RACHEL Not well. DONNA I can only imagine what these last couple of days have been like for you. But I’m telling you it’s going to be okay. RACHEL You don’t know that. DONNA Yes, I do. RACHEL But what if it’s not? DONNA Well, then, we’re screwed. But that’s not going to happen. RACHEL Donna, I am trying so hard to be brave. But what if Louis ends up finding out everything about Mike? What if he ends up exposing him and he actually gets arrested? What if he actually… God. DONNA “Rach”, Mike found out that one of our partners ordered multiple murders. Harvey said he’d fix it. Two days later, that partner was in prison. RACHEL Stephen was a criminal. This is an academic. He hasn’t done anything wrong. DONNA Well, what makes Harvey great at his job is he knows that everybody has done something wrong. RACHEL Even the most esteemed Ethics professor in the country? DONNA The cleaner they look, the more dirt they’ve swept under the rug. I’m telling you, Harvey’s going to walk in there, he’s going to find the lump, and Henry Gerard is not going to know what hit him. HARVEY Wednesday nights, eight to ten, just like clockwork. GERARD Consistency is nothing to be feared. HARVEY I wasn’t afraid of it, I was counting on it. GERARD Mr. Specter. HARVEY Professor Gerard. Looks the same as the last time I was here. GERARD Can’t say you look the same as the last time you were here. HARVEY Yes, you can. GERARD Hmm. I see you’re as humble as ever. HARVEY We’ll see who’s humble in a few minutes. And for the record, you were wrong about how I’d turn out. GERARD I know how you turned out. More settlements than any other lawyer in New York. HARVEY More closings than any other lawyer in New York. And settling is what it takes to get the job done in the real world. GERARD I know what it takes for you to do what you do. And compromising your way through life is no way to go about the law. HARVEY I see you’re as pompous as ever. GERARD What did you come here for, Mr. Specter? HARVEY I came to ask for a favor. GERARD The answer is no. HARVEY You don’t even know what it is. GERARD I know you’re the one who’s asking. HARVEY I figured you’d say that. Which is why I brought this. GERARD I don’t consider blackmail a favor. HARVEY I doubt the Trustees will care about semantics when they see that. GERARD Well, I doubt the Trustees will see anything at all. Because that envelope is full of blank paper or your dry cleaning receipts. HARVEY You think I’m bluffing? GERARD I know you are. HARVEY If you think that envelope is meaningless, why don’t you go ahead and open it? GERARD Your poker face has gotten much better. I’ll give you that. HARVEY Lot of practice. You know, compromising my way through life. GERARD You know. HARVEY I know. And you talk a big game, but you’re just as human as everyone else, you smug son of a bitch. GERARD What’s your favor? HARVEY Find a reason to cancel your trip on Friday. And if Louis Litt ever tries to contact you after that, don’t take his call. GERARD Seems easy enough. HARVEY It is. Have a good night, Professor Gerard. GERARD Here’s the problem, Mr. Specter. I don’t only talk a big game. I walk it. And ethics is not about never doing anything wrong, it’s about making choices. And I’m not going to let you make my choice for me. So, go do whatever you’re going to do. But I’m not canceling my trip. MIKE You didn’t get it done. HARVEY How did you know? MIKE Because I know you would call to tell me it’s okay. And you didn’t call, so it’s not okay. HARVEY Then, why are you so calm? MIKE Because you taught me enough to know that it’s going to be okay. HARVEY It’s not. MIKE What? HARVEY It’s not going to be okay. I don’t see what we’re going to do. MIKE What do you mean, you don’t see what we’re going to do? You’re Harvey Specter. HARVEY Yeah, what’s that supposed to mean? MIKE It means there’s a gun pointed at our heads. There’s a hundred and forty-six things that we can do. We just have to put our heads together and figure it out. HARVEY What the hell do you think I’ve been doing all goddamn night? Louis has us. He’s not going to let it go, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. MIKE There has to be something. HARVEY There isn’t. MIKE Well, I refuse to believe that. HARVEY I… I don’t give a shit what you believe. Get it through your head. I’m not Superman. I failed and I don’t know what to do. DONNA Mike. JESSICA Tim. I thought I was meeting with Lisa. TIM And I thought you were above board. JESSICA I see you’ve read our amendment. TIM You drafted a provision that if they didn’t spend a hundred million dollars finishing that drug, they’d have to pay us an extra hundred million dollars. JESSICA I drafted a provision to see if they’d put their money where their mouth is. TIM What you did was what you always wanted to do. Tank this deal. JESSICA They pulled the offer? TIM They yanked the offer. JESSICA Then, the deal wasn’t worth anything to begin with. TIM What wasn’t worth anything was the document you had Quentin sign making you executor instead of me. JESSICA I didn’t have Quentin sign anything. TIM Well, you may not have had him sign it. But I know when he signed it, and it’s not going to hold up. JESSICA It will hold up just fine. TIM We’ll see. This is a subpoena. So, the next time we have this conversation, you’ll be under oath. LISA What exactly is he claiming? JESSICA He’s saying Quentin wasn’t competent when he made me executor. LISA So, let him say it. I don’t see where there’s a problem. JESSICA Yes, you do. LISA No, I don’t. You just get up on the stand and testify that Tim doesn’t know what he’s talking about. JESSICA But he does. LISA Quentin knew what he wanted. JESSICA They’re not going to ask that. They’re going to ask me about his condition. I saw him, Lisa. I know what he was like. LISA Quentin knew what he wanted. JESSICA He was also medicated, could barely speak, and he was in a lot of pain. LISA But you don’t have to say those things. JESSICA I’m going to have to swear to this under oath. LISA If making you executor wasn’t legally valid, then why didn’t you say so when he did it? JESSICA Because I didn’t think it would be challenged. And thinking something might not hold up and keeping that thought to myself is not the same as lying about it under oath. LISA Well, those are some fuzzy damn lines. JESSICA I didn’t make them. They came with the job. LISA You’re going to undo everything he’s ever worked for. JESSICA Maybe. But just because you and I want the same thing doesn’t mean that I’m willing to perjure myself to get it. LISA Please. You said you didn’t want to fail him again. MIKE You didn’t fail. HARVEY You don’t need to make me feel better. MIKE I’m not trying to make you feel better. I’m just telling you the truth. You didn’t fail. Because… we were always playing on borrowed time. HARVEY Mike. MIKE Harvey. I wouldn’t have any of this without you. I think it’s time I cut your exposure. HARVEY You don’t have to do that. MIKE It’s all going to come crashing down anyway. I’m going to go to Louis, I’m going to resign, and I’m going to beg him to let this whole thing go. HARVEY Then, I’m going with you. MIKE Harvey. When Trevor went to Jessica with my secret, I felt betrayed. I lost my closest friend in the world. And I know you don’t like to admit it, but we’re friends. And I’m not going to betray my friend. HARVEY I used to hate this kind of thing. LOUIS What kind of thing? HARVEY Guest lectures. Hardman used to make us sit through them. LOUIS Except he gave tests afterwards. HARVEY Yeah. And if you didn’t pass, you got stuck on doc review. LOUIS AND HARVEY Goddamn Hardman. HARVEY Do you remember the Robinson case? LOUIS Sure do. Eighty thousand documents. Two years of prep. Five months in court. HARVEY And the Friday before trial started, he assigned you and I to proof everything. LOUIS You blew it off. HARVEY And you covered for me. You did your half and mine and turned it in. LOUIS He would have fired you on the spot. HARVEY Exactly. I’m here because you didn’t sell out a friend then. But you’re about to now. LOUIS Mike. HARVEY Me. LOUIS Friend? HARVEY Louis, I may not ever say it. But that’s not because we aren’t. We are. You know it. I know it. I just don’t like to say it. LOUIS Last time I asked you, you said don’t push it. HARVEY You knew I meant yes. LOUIS I did. So, Mike told you. HARVEY He did. LOUIS What did you say? HARVEY Doesn’t matter. The bottom line is, I forgave him because I don’t care what some stupid piece of paper says. And I want you to forgive him, too. LOUIS Oh, Harvey, I did forgive him. I just can’t cover it up for him. HARVEY You covered it up with Hardman for me. LOUIS What you did that weekend is not the same as what he did to Professor Gerard. HARVEY What’s the same is, Hardman wouldn’t have let it go and Gerard won’t let it go. You make Mike confess, you might as well throw his life down the toilet. LOUIS Harvey, he didn’t just betray us. He betrayed the law. HARVEY He did. LOUIS That’s not right. HARVEY It isn’t. But forgiveness isn’t about right and wrong. Louis, I know you value the letter of the law. But what about its spirit? Because Mike embodies that spirit more than either one of us. LOUIS You said we’re friends. A friend would not ask me to do this. HARVEY No, Louis. A friend just won’t hold it against you if you don’t. BAILIFF Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? JESSICA I do. But before we start, I’d like to make a statement. I am here to tell the truth. But what I want you to understand is that truth is subjective. TIM The truth is the truth. JESSICA No, the law is the law. We can define where a legal line is. I’m talking about the truth. The truth is much more complicated. By the letter of the law, Quentin Sainz may or may not have been competent. I can’t say what’s true with one hundred percent certainty. I just don’t know. But what I can say with certainty… is that Quentin knew what he was doing when he trusted me to look after his best interests. TIM How do you know that? JESSICA Because I knew him. Just because someone can’t check off everything on the list that’s required to be competent, doesn’t mean they aren’t better at whatever they do than the rest of us. And Quentin Sainz was an amazing man with an amazing mind. And if he were here right now, I’d still listen to him on any subject sooner than I’d listen to anybody else. TIM That’s all very touching. But we’re not here to talk about truth. We’re here to deal with the letter of the law. JESSICA Have you never met someone who by the letter of the law shouldn’t be able to do what they do? Who beat the odds? TIM Your Honor. JESSICA We are talking about a man’s life. We are talking about his legacy. And I dispute that those things are less important than the letter of the law. TIM Your Honor, what has to happen today is very clear. You have to undo this injustice. JESSICA Yes, this is about justice. But the issue isn’t whether Quentin Sainz was competent when he made me executor. But rather… would it have been his intent to do so if he were. This man dedicated his life to one thing. And the circumstances surrounding how he decided to protect that thing is not the question. TIM It’s a question of law, Ms. Pearson. JESSICA No. It is a question of doing what is right. MIKE Louis. LOUIS What the hell are you doing here? MIKE Uh, I… LOUIS I told you I need the Carell filings by lunch. You didn’t get that done. So, now, you don’t get to listen to this lecture. You do not get to listen to this titan talk about Legal Ethics. You know something? You make me sick. So, do me a quick favor and tell him you’re sorry and get the hell out of here. MIKE I’m sorry. GERARD I accept your apology. But I’m not the aggrieved one here. Louis is. MIKE Louis. I’m sorry. LOUIS Yeah. It’s not my pony. Come on. JUDGE Motion to remove Jessica Pearson as executor denied. LISA Well, you were right. Quentin did know what he was doing. JESSICA I… I know how hard it must have been. At the end. I’m glad Quentin had you. LISA I’m glad he had you, too. MIKE He let it go. DONNA I heard it all worked out. HARVEY Never a doubt. DONNA I’ve got a present for you. Tiffany. HARVEY “djs” This is a present for Scottie. DONNA Which makes it a present for you. HARVEY Let’s put this in her office. DONNA Great. We can put it next to your overpriced bottle of scotch. HARVEY So, it was a great gift. DONNA Now, it is. HARVEY For the record, her middle name is Victoria. DONNA No, it isn’t. HARVEY What is it? Please, she never told me. Julie? DONNA Seriously? HARVEY Jessie? DONNA Oh, my god. HARVEY Joy. DONNA You’re pathetic. HARVEY Jenny? DONNA I’m not telling. RACHEL I don’t think this is a good idea. MIKE I don’t care. What are they going to do, fire us? RACHEL Mike, I haven’t left before five in the past six years. MIKE All the more reason to do it now. What do you want to do? See a movie? Grab dinner? Get a drink? RACHEL I just want to go home. MIKE Yeah. Let’s go home. HARVEY People seem to keep coming in here lately. JESSICA I needed to hear some music. HARVEY And drink some scotch. JESSICA How often do you really do one without the other? HARVEY Move over. JESSICA Did you take care of your Marcus problem? HARVEY For the time being. JESSICA Good. HARVEY It wasn’t really a Marcus problem. JESSICA I know. HARVEY You want to hear the truth? JESSICA Not tonight. HARVEY That’s why I didn’t tell you in the first place. JESSICA I know.