BAILIFF DEALER DONNA HARVEY JESSICA JONATHAN KATRINA LOUIS MIKE QUELLING RACHEL SCOTTIE VAN_DYKE LOUIS I understand. Can I just say something, please? I know you keep saying that I won’t feel this way forever. But why is it when the guy shows up with Chicken Vindaloo forty minutes late with no naan and no silverware… instead of throwing the chutney in his face, I’m thanking him and I’m tipping him twenty dollars? Do you want to tell me why that happens? I don’t care. I hate myself. I hate my life. The woman I love is gone. My heart is broken and I’ve really… to be honest with you, I just don’t have the will to live. Hold on. It’s my associate. Katrina? KATRINA Louis, it’s seven fifty-five. LOUIS Yeah. I have an eight am. Please cover it for me. In fact, cover everything. You know, unless the building is on fire and Sheila’s in it, I’m not coming in. KATRINA Louis, what happened? LOUIS You want to know what happened? I’ll tell you what happened. My heart’s been shattered into a thousand million pieces. And if I can’t put my heart into my work, I’m not going to do any work at all. So… KATRINA How long do you think you’ll be out? LOUIS I don’t know. Today. Tomorrow. The rest of the year. I… You know, just don’t call here again, because I’m not going to answer the number. Doc? Dr. Lipschitz. Hello? What, are you shitting me? That was not fifty minutes. SCOTTIE Waiting outside for me? Bold gesture. HARVEY I called you three times. I had to do something. SCOTTIE You must be feeling bad. HARVEY I am. SCOTTIE What for? You were just doing your job. HARVEY Scottie. I’m sorry. What happened with Louis, I didn’t like doing it. SCOTTIE Yeah, but you still did it. HARVEY And what I’m doing now is asking you to let it go. SCOTTIE Harvey, it’s not that you picked Louis over me. It’s that you wouldn’t tell me why. HARVEY I couldn’t tell you why. There’s a difference. And I’m asking you to trust me. SCOTTIE Okay. I can let it go. But keeping things from me just can’t keep happening. Okay? HARVEY I can’t tell you whether or not that’s okay. And I definitely can’t tell you why. Too soon? SCOTTIE So, what are you going to do to make it up to me? HARVEY Nothing right now. I’m taking Mike to the Marathon Footwear brunch. SCOTTIE You’re taking a date to an “ipo.” event? That’s so cute. HARVEY It’s not a date. He’s never going to put out. SCOTTIE Well, it’s too bad that you’re not taking me. Because I was thinking of letting you… QUELLING Mr. Specter. James Quelling. HARVEY I’m in a bit of a hurry, Mr. Quelling. QUELLING I want to do you a favor. HARVEY I don’t need any favors. QUELLING Yeah, you do. Unless you want Friday’s headline to read “Marathon Footwear builds playgrounds that kill children”. HARVEY My client builds playgrounds that help children. QUELLING And uses a synthetic full of toxins to do it. HARVEY Look. I don’t know who you are, but I know what you’re trying to do. And it isn’t going to work. QUELLING Look, I’m a reasonable man. This is a huge moment for your client. I won’t file this before Friday. HARVEY You think I’m going to let you extort my client? QUELLING No. I think you’re going to protect your client from a claim that could ruin them. In fact, I’m counting on it. Nice offices. Enjoy that brunch. MIKE I got a job offer. RACHEL Holy shit. From who? MIKE Last night. Jonathan Sidwell. RACHEL I… I thought Louis was his lawyer. MIKE Uh, he doesn’t want me to be his lawyer. He wants me to be a partner. RACHEL Investment banking? MIKE Yeah. RACHEL And? MIKE I don’t know. RACHEL What do you think? MIKE I don’t know. What do you think? RACHEL I think that I love you and what you want to do is what I want you to do. MIKE I don’t know what to do. RACHEL Okay. Um… Did you talk to Harvey? MIKE If I do that, all he’ll hear is, “Hey, Harvey, thanks for doing everything for me. I’m thinking about quitting.” RACHEL No, but you’ve said that you don’t think of him as just your boss. You consider him a friend. MIKE So? RACHEL So, if he can’t have an honest conversation with your best interests in mind, he’s not your friend and… and he shouldn’t be your boss. MIKE I have to talk to you about something. HARVEY Well, unless its value is in excess of five hundred and seventy-five million dollars, it can wait. MIKE Yeah. Yeah, it can wait. HARVEY Good, because our “ipo’s” in jeopardy unless we can deal with this. MIKE Endangering children? Wait, these things just opened. This is a bullshit claim. HARVEY Maybe, but a bullshit claim on the right day is better than a great claim on a bullshit day. MIKE Did you come up with that all by yourself? HARVEY My grandmother taught it to me. MIKE What do you want to do? HARVEY I need you to find everything there is to know about this Quelling guy. MIKE Harvey. Why don’t you just pay him off, protect the “IPO”? HARVEY I worked my ass off for this day. He’s trying to hijack it. I’m not going to be extorted by some piece of shit I’ve never heard of. MIKE Okay. DONNA Jessica. JESSICA Donna. What can I do for you? DONNA I was just walking by reception and I thought you might like to know, you know, because it’s your firm… JESSICA Donna, get to it. DONNA Charles Van Dyke is in the lobby. JESSICA Right now? DONNA Thirty seconds ago. JESSICA You were right to come to me. DONNA Would you like me to send him on his way? JESSICA I prefer to take care of Charles Van Dyke myself. DONNA Excellent. JESSICA You can stare at it all you want, Charles, but it’s not going to change. VAN DYKE I was just thinking I can’t believe you put the mailroom boy’s name on the wall. JESSICA I think what you mean is that you can’t believe yours was ever taken off. VAN DYKE I put that behind me years ago. JESSICA What are you doing here, Charles? VAN DYKE I suggest we go to your office and talk. JESSICA Right here is just fine. What do you want? VAN DYKE I want a thirty percent increase in my dividend check. JESSICA Goodbye, Charles. VAN DYKE I thought you’d say that. This is a formal notice of my demand to audit your books. You have until Friday to comply. JESSICA You gave up this right when we ran you out of town. VAN DYKE I think you’re forgetting I retained that right in the event of any material change in my dividend. JESSICA Your dividend went up. VAN DYKE Materially. JESSICA You think we’re hiding profits? VAN DYKE From what I know of you… you’re always hiding something. HARVEY I’m going to make it fast, Jim. QUELLING James. HARVEY That’s not what your ex-wife calls you. She calls you Jim. MIKE That’s one of the nicer names she uses. And she’s been calling you a lot these days. QUELLING Wow. You found out I’m divorced. Well, I withdraw the lawsuit. HARVEY It’s not the divorce, Jimbo. It’s the huge wall of mounting debt that’s closing in on you since you tanked the tobacco litigation. QUELLING I didn’t tank it. I lost. MIKE You didn’t just lose. You had an offer that would have set you up for life. But instead, you rolled the dice, went to verdict, and now, you’ve got nothing. HARVEY Which is why your wife left you and now you’re coming after us with a fabricated claim. QUELLING I didn’t fabricate anything. I have expert reports. MIKE You’ve got one report of possible toxins in the playground material. HARVEY And not one sick child. QUELLING And you have an “ipo” on Friday. And if this suit appears in the Journal that morning, what do you think the stock price is going to be when they ring that bell? HARVEY You got me. Give me your number. QUELLING A hundred thousand and we’re done. HARVEY Done. We’ll draw up the paperwork. QUELLING I’ve got it right here. MIKE But one thing. This precludes you from representing any other plaintiffs with the same action. QUELLING You got me. I have a hundred other plaintiffs waiting in the wings. That’s a ten million dollar hit you just avoided. I’ll tell you what. Give me a million and we’re really done. HARVEY James, this covers your debts and gets you out from under. QUELLING Well, do you think that means I’m going to take less than it’s worth? HARVEY It isn’t worth anything. QUELLING It is today. You know where to reach me. MIKE I thought you said you were willing to go as high as five hundred thousand. HARVEY Yeah, that was before I realized what we were dealing with. This guy doesn’t owe money because he got divorced. He got divorced because he owes money. MIKE What are you talking about? HARVEY He’s a gambler. MIKE And how does that help us? HARVEY He doesn’t know I’m one. JESSICA Where is Louis? KATRINA Jessica. JESSICA Where is he? He’s not answering his phone, he’s not answering his emails. KATRINA The thing is, I don’t know if he really… JESSICA Katrina. Your job as gatekeeper does not apply to me. So, I’m going to ask you one more time. Why isn’t Louis in the building? KATRINA He must still be in court. Is there something I can do? JESSICA What you can do is find Louis and have him come up with a way around this demand to look at our books. KATRINA When should I tell him you need it? JESSICA Yesterday. MIKE You were right. Quelling’s got a game. HARVEY What night? MIKE Every night. HARVEY Well, I hope you know where tonight’s game is, because… Great. MIKE Mm-hmm. HARVEY You and I are going. MIKE Um, I… HARVEY What? MIKE I got a job offer, Harvey. I’m supposed to go have drinks to talk about it tonight. Um, I can move it. It’s just, that’s… that’s why I hesitated. HARVEY When? MIKE When what? HARVEY When did you get the job offer? MIKE The other night. HARVEY And you didn’t mention it. MIKE Well, I didn’t know what I thought. HARVEY Now you do? MIKE No, it’s, uh… HARVEY Who? MIKE Jonathan Sidwell. HARVEY The spin-off idea. MIKE Yeah. HARVEY I should have known. He wants you to be his general counsel? MIKE No, he wants to make me an investment banker. HARVEY Well, if it were me, I’d take it. MIKE What? Why? HARVEY Because you can compete there like you do here with nothing hanging over your head. MIKE But what if I don’t want to stop being a lawyer? HARVEY Well, then, don’t take the job. What do you want from me? MIKE I want your advice. HARVEY I just gave you my advice. MIKE No. You told me what you would do. I want to know what you think I should do. HARVEY Mike, last week, you said you would do anything to stop being a fraud. So, my advice is take it. You’ll still be in the majors. It will just be a different sport. KATRINA Excuse me. Do you have a minute? Look, you and I have never… RACHEL No. We haven’t. KATRINA I need your help. RACHEL You must be scraping the bottom of the barrel if you’re coming to me. KATRINA It’s about Louis. He and Sheila are done. RACHEL That’s awful. KATRINA It’s worse than awful. Jessica needs him on a case right now. He won’t leave his apartment. He won’t even answer his phone. RACHEL Well, then, I’ll just go over there right now. KATRINA That won’t work. Even if it did, we don’t have time. RACHEL So, then, why are you here? KATRINA Rachel, you don’t trust me. I get that. But Louis asked me to cover for him and that is what I’m going to do. You’re the best paralegal here. And you’re his friend. So, will you help me or not? RACHEL I will. SCOTTIE So. I figured out what you can do to make it up to me tonight. HARVEY I thought we were good. SCOTTIE Yeah, I’m just… I’m feeling some residual anger. HARVEY Scottie, I’m kind of busy right now. And I have plans tonight. SCOTTIE Taking Mike on another “ipo” date? HARVEY What difference does it make? SCOTTIE Mm. Sounds mysterious. Bet you can’t tell me what it is. HARVEY I’m playing poker. SCOTTIE Poker? Can I come? HARVEY It’s a work thing. SCOTTIE You bring Mike to work things. HARVEY Scottie, I told you I’m busy. You can’t come. Can I go back to work now? SCOTTIE What got into you? HARVEY Nothing. Sometimes at the office I’m working. SCOTTIE Fair enough. Boss. DONNA Are you sure that’s how you want to play that? HARVEY Play what? The fact that I’m busy? DONNA The fact that you just snapped at her when we both know what you’re really angry about. HARVEY I’m not angry. I’m annoyed at the interruption. DONNA You’re angry that Mike wants to leave and you just took it out on her. HARVEY Okay, I’m not angry about that. DONNA No, you’re hurt. And the anger covers the hurt. But I knew you didn’t know that. HARVEY I was annoyed about the interruption just like I’m annoyed right now. DONNA Bullshit. You’re feeling exactly what I’m feeling. The idea of Mike leaving sucks. And the sooner you get your brain around that, the sooner you can maybe do something about it. HARVEY Can I get back to work now? DONNA You can get back to work whenever you want. But if all you’re going to do is stick your head in the sand, then you’re not going to have an associate or a girlfriend to get back to work from. RACHEL You give it to her? KATRINA I gave it to her. RACHEL She suspect anything? KATRINA I wouldn’t be standing here if she did. RACHEL And? KATRINA She thought it was awesome. RACHEL Well, she should. Louis didn’t just come up with a way to keep Charles Van Dyke out of our books. Louis came up with a way to blow him out of the water. KATRINA That Louis. He is one hell of an attorney. RACHEL Thank you, Louis. KATRINA Right back at you, Louis. JESSICA Don’t get used to it. VAN DYKE Don’t worry. I’m not looking to work here again. JESSICA Not here, but you are looking to work. I’ve always been able to see through your bullshit, Charles. Which is why I’m offering you these. Five cases. We’re co-counsel, split the profits fifty-fifty. It announces to the world that you are back in business, which is what you really want. VAN DYKE You came to me bearing gifts. I still have the card. “To the man who hired me, for all you’ve done.” Two days later, you shoved me out. JESSICA I take this to mean you’re passing on my offer. VAN DYKE I’m shitting on your offer. JESSICA Okay, Charles, you were right. Your dividend check did have the wrong amount. But from now on, it’s going to have the right amount. Zero. VAN DYKE I don’t think so. JESSICA Oh, the firm you had your exit agreement with no longer exists. We became Pearson Darby, then Pearson Specter, which means you’re not entitled to a thing. VAN DYKE That’s not in the spirit of our agreement. JESSICA And neither is your claim. VAN DYKE There’s only one problem. You should have dug deeper into the fine print. The entity referred to in our agreement is defined in your bylaws as any Partnership in which the name Partner is Jessica Pearson. You didn’t know. My number just tripled. Your call. Our hearing is Friday. HARVEY You guys playing cards? QUELLING You’re out of your league. This game is for real players. HARVEY Why don’t I give it a try? QUELLING Buy-in is twenty-five thousand. HARVEY What’s the limit? QUELLING There is no limit. HARVEY Maybe I am out of my league. Raise forty-five thousand. I’m putting you all in. QUELLING I’ve seen guys like you before. You think if you bully me with your big stack, I’m going to run and hide. HARVEY Here’s the difference between you and me, Jimbo. I lose, I pull out another twenty-five grand. And another twenty-five after that. You lose, you’ve got nothing. QUELLING You’re bluffing. HARVEY Then, call. Or get up and walk away. But I’ve sat across from you a thousand times before. You won’t walk. Tough beat. QUELLING Take your winnings. HARVEY What winnings? MIKE I thought maybe it was time we did a little negotiating. JONATHAN Well, you have my offer. MIKE And I have a counter. JONATHAN I’m all ears. MIKE I want a fifty percent increase in base salary. I want a guaranteed bonus not tied to our investment returns, a four week vacation, and I want a piece. JONATHAN A piece? MIKE A piece. JONATHAN No. MIKE No piece? JONATHAN No negotiating. Look, I know what you’re doing. You can’t make up your mind, so you want me to make it up for you. But I don’t want someone who’s with me for the money. I want someone who’s with me because they want to kick some ass. MIKE I do kick ass. JONATHAN And if you want to take this job right now, I will negotiate in good faith. But you don’t. MIKE I don’t yet. JONATHAN Starting tomorrow, I’ll be interviewing other people. And once I find the right person… the job is gone. QUELLING I’m not dropping my suit when you’re going public in two days. HARVEY James, you’ve read all about Hessington Oil. The odds were stacked against me. I won, anyway. Because I win. QUELLING You won because Edward Darby came forward. You got lucky. HARVEY Guys like you always think other people get lucky. I don’t get lucky. I make my own luck. And in this case, it’s bleeding you dry. Right there. You just gave me your tell. You have no other money. You’re done. There’s a hundred thousand dollars in that pot. That’s the exact amount of the deal we offered you. Sign it. We’ll fix the paperwork tomorrow. DEALER This is a thousand dollars. HARVEY Cash me out. He doesn’t play anymore the rest of the night. RACHEL You didn’t sleep well. MIKE Mm. I didn’t sleep at all. RACHEL It’s a big decision. MIKE You still haven’t told me what you think. RACHEL Mike, I can’t make the decision for you. MIKE I don’t want you to make it for me. I just want to know what you think. RACHEL And I already told you that I will support you with whatever you decide. MIKE And the way you can support me right now is by telling me how you feel. RACHEL It’s not my place. MIKE Not your place? Just admit it. You want me to take the job, but you’re too afraid to say it. RACHEL Okay, you want to know the truth? You already know what you want to do. And if I try to change your mind and it goes wrong, then I’m afraid you’re going to hold it against me. MIKE Would you just say it? RACHEL Yes. I want you to take the job. Look, I know that you love what you do. But every day, you go into work with the possibility of being caught. And it is eating away at you. If you stay there, that’s just not going to change. KATRINA Jessica, how did… JESSICA It go? I’ll tell you how it went. I got hung out to dry. KATRINA What? No, it was a good move. JESSICA Oh, it would have been if our own bylaws didn’t supercede it. KATRINA That… That’s impossible. JESSICA It was convoluted and buried in the fine print, and something Louis Litt never would have missed. Look me in the eye and tell me I’m wrong. KATRINA You’re not. He wouldn’t have missed it. JESSICA So, when you came into my office and told me Louis came up with that move, you were full of shit. KATRINA I’m sorry. I wanted to help. JESSICA Well, that kind of thing only happens once. You know how I know it’s not going to happen again? Pack up your shit. I don’t care what kind of deal you had with Harvey. You’re done. RACHEL Why wouldn’t you tell her? KATRINA I said I would cover. I didn’t say I would cover when it suited me. RACHEL Yeah, but he wouldn’t want you to get fired over this. KATRINA I should be fired. I let Jessica look stupid. RACHEL Katrina. KATRINA Thank you for your help, Rachel. I appreciate it. But if you don’t mind, I’d like to be alone. DONNA He’s not here. MIKE Where is he? DONNA To tell you the truth, I don’t know. All he said was he had a late night. MIKE Hmm. Well, I can come back. I was just… DONNA You’re taking the job, aren’t you? MIKE I don’t know. DONNA Yeah, you do. You just don’t want to admit it. MIKE Yeah. I’m taking the job. DONNA Goddamn it. Do you know what that man has done for you? Do you know what it took for him to start trusting someone? MIKE Donna. DONNA Don’t interrupt me. So, someone’s dangling some money in front of you. MIKE It’s not about that. DONNA I don’t care what it’s about. I’m going to say what he won’t. He needs you, you need this job, and if you can’t see that, then you might as well just leave right now. MIKE Donna, someone’s offering me a way out. DONNA So, you don’t care about him. MIKE Of course I do. But I also care about my life with Rachel. I don’t want to live my life like this anymore. DONNA Then, you better be the best goddamn investment banker this city has ever seen. HARVEY Scottie, I’m sorry. I was angry in your direction, but it was really about something else. SCOTTIE Let me guess. Donna explained your feelings to you and now you’re here to apologize. HARVEY Maybe. SCOTTIE What was the something else? HARVEY Mike got a job offer. SCOTTIE And you don’t want him to do it. HARVEY I don’t. SCOTTIE Well, if you want him to stay, you know what’s actually a nice tactic? Telling him you want him to stay. What? HARVEY Had I known “Tell me what’s going on with you” meant “I’m going to tell you what to do”, I might not have taken you up on it. SCOTTIE Oh, okay. Mm. HARVEY See you in there. SCOTTIE Okay. HARVEY You have that paperwork for me? QUELLING Well, I got something for you, but it’s not that. HARVEY Didn’t you learn your lesson last night? QUELLING I learned to listen when you taunt. You mentioned Hessington Oil, so I looked back into it. Turns out you don’t create your own luck. Your associate does. HARVEY What the hell are you talking about? QUELLING He conspired with Harold Gunderson to file a lawsuit against your own client so you could bribe witnesses not to testify. HARVEY We didn’t bribe anyone. That was a legal settlement. QUELLING Don’t try to tell me two rookie associates who went to law school together and started at the same firm made this happen without collusion. HARVEY I don’t need to tell you anything because there’s nothing to tell. QUELLING Well, you’re going to have to tell someone something. Because that suit was filed one day, settled the next, and those witnesses canceled their flights to New York. That is a bribe. And when I bring it to the attention of the Bar, you and your associate are going to be in deep shit. Now, who showed his tell? Here’s your money back. And either I go to the Bar, or you settle for two million dollars. You have until tomorrow. HARVEY Where’s Mike? DONNA He’s in there. Harvey? MIKE Harvey. HARVEY Not now. You need to call Lola Jensen. MIKE What? HARVEY You need to get her to hack into the Bar and put your name in. MIKE What the hell are you talking about? A week ago, you told me that the number one rule was not to move the goddamn body. HARVEY A week ago, people weren’t sniffing around you. MIKE Harvey, my job offer is not going to… HARVEY This isn’t about your offer. Quelling knows about your bullshit lawsuit with Harold Gunderson. MIKE He turned me in? HARVEY No. But he will if we don’t cave. MIKE He can’t prove anything. HARVEY He doesn’t have to. He hands you in to the Bar, they look you up, we’re done. MIKE Not if I’m not here. HARVEY Well, that’s why you’re in here. You’re taking the job. MIKE I am. HARVEY And you think an addicted gambler who lost his wife, his child, and his house is going to stop coming for you just because you’re not working here? MIKE You said it yourself. Hacking into the Bar is twice the crime I’ve been committing. HARVEY I am telling you, Quelling is on the trail. You don’t do this, we’re going to get caught. MIKE There has got to be another way. HARVEY There isn’t. MIKE I don’t believe that. HARVEY Then, you better figure something out fast, because tomorrow morning, we’re done. And you quitting isn’t going to change that. RACHEL You can’t fire Katrina Bennett. JESSICA I can fire whoever I want to. RACHEL She was covering for Louis. JESSICA What are you talking about? RACHEL Louis’ engagement is over and he’s losing it. He won’t come into work. He won’t pick up his phone. And he just didn’t want anyone to know. JESSICA Then, why are you telling me? RACHEL Because I helped her cover for him. JESSICA Are you saying I should fire you, too? RACHEL I am saying that we made a mistake. But that we were just looking out for Louis. And I know how much you value loyalty. So, I don’t think that should be the thing that costs Katrina her job. Or mine. LOUIS Jessica. JESSICA I need you. LOUIS No, listen, I just need a little time. JESSICA And had you asked for it, I would have said yes. But instead, you had Katrina cover for you. LOUIS Oh, that little traitor. What, did she rat me out? JESSICA No, she didn’t. She was so loyal to you that she tried to pass off her work for yours. Louis, Van Dyke wants to look at our books. LOUIS What? We can’t have that. JESSICA I know. This was her fix. LOUIS Oh, no. You used this on him? JESSICA I did. And then, I fired Katrina. LOUIS Jessica. JESSICA I know. I can’t fire her for being loyal. But I can’t afford you sitting here licking your wounds while I get my ass handed to me. LOUIS Please just listen to me, okay? I cannot see straight. I cannot think straight. And even if I wanted to come in and help you, I wouldn’t be any good to you. So… JESSICA Louis. I know you loved Sheila. But do you love your firm? LOUIS You know I do. JESSICA And when you love a woman, can you stand the thought of her being with another man? LOUIS No. JESSICA Well, Louis… Van Dyke is trying to get into Pearson Specter’s pants. What are you going to do about it? LOUIS I’m going to put on a goddamn chastity belt. JESSICA How? LOUIS Because Katrina actually was on the right track. Van Dyke’s claim is gone if the partnership is gone. JESSICA The bylaws say it’s not. LOUIS No, it is if we become an “llc” JESSICA We can’t do that by tomorrow. We’d have to rewrite every contract. LOUIS Oh, wow, Jessica, you sometimes really surprise me. You don’t think I know that? I have an army of associates that I’ve trained within an inch of their lives. My name is Louis goddamn Marlowe Litt, and my firm is under siege. So, don’t you tell me what I can and cannot do. SCOTTIE Hey. HARVEY Hey. SCOTTIE I don’t want to interrupt, but I was just wondering what happened with Mike. HARVEY He’s leaving. SCOTTIE I’m sorry. HARVEY It’s fine. SCOTTIE Can I ask you something? Did you tell him that you wanted him to stay? HARVEY I didn’t get around to it. SCOTTIE You… You didn’t get around to it? HARVEY I was going to tell him, and then he told me he was leaving, and then other shit came up. So… SCOTTIE So, you just dropped it? HARVEY I told you other shit came up. SCOTTIE What other shit? I mean, you had an emergency case filing, so you let your protégé walk out the door? HARVEY It’s complicated. SCOTTIE Okay. Well… then, share it with me. HARVEY Quelling came after us. The Hessington witnesses. SCOTTIE What? That’s bullshit. You may have blurred some lines, but you certainly didn’t cross any. Fight him. HARVEY No, I can’t. SCOTTIE Why? HARVEY Look, I don’t want to talk about it. SCOTTIE What… What is going on here? When somebody pisses you off, you get in the ring. HARVEY What are you saying? SCOTTIE What I’m saying is that you’re not taking on Quelling. But you’re letting Mike walk out the door without trying to stop him. I think one thing changed the other, and I want to know why. HARVEY Maybe what changed is his desire to be here. And maybe what I have to say doesn’t matter. SCOTTIE Of course it matters. Now, what is this really about? Because it’s sure as hell not about some stupid case. HARVEY You know what? Goddamn it. For once, can’t it just be about what I said it’s about? SCOTTIE You didn’t say what it was about. Harvey, I’m… I’m really sorry, uh, that the Mike thing turned out this way. I… I am. But I… I can’t say that I didn’t see it coming. HARVEY Scottie. SCOTTIE What? HARVEY It isn’t… SCOTTIE It isn’t what? It isn’t what… what it seems? Because I don’t know what it seems. All I know is that anytime I ask you about anything, all you say is, “I can’t talk about it.” I’m just going to stop asking. And then, we’ll just make up later and we can do it all over again tomorrow. MIKE Quelling can’t hurt us anymore. HARVEY You went to see Lola. MIKE I looked at his accounts. I wanted to find out where all that money came from to find all those clients. HARVEY He doesn’t have the money. MIKE And yet, his rent gets paid and they don’t turn off his electricity. HARVEY Holy shit. I guess you didn’t have to see Lola after all. MIKE You think I got access to that with a court order? HARVEY So, you did go see her. MIKE You put the idea in my head. I just came up with a different agenda. We got him. HARVEY No. You got him. MIKE What? HARVEY Your going away present. Be a lawyer one last time. Knock this guy out. QUELLING You have my settlement check? MIKE I don’t have a dime for you. QUELLING Then, I guess the Bar is going to be hearing from me first thing in the morning. MIKE Well, they’ll also be hearing from me. Disciplinary Rule “five-dash-one-oh-seven-A”. Accepting compensation… QUELLING I know what it says. MIKE Then, you also know the penalty is being disbarred. You took money from our client’s competitors to trump up your bullshit suit. QUELLING You didn’t come by that legally. MIKE And they’re not going to care. QUELLING I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I don’t have a hell of a lot to lose. So, sign my deal or get the hell out of my office. MIKE Well, here’s the thing, James. I don’t either. Because today is my last day as a lawyer, anyway. QUELLING Bullshit. MIKE Look at me. Good luck in front of the Bar. QUELLING I wasn’t always like this. I had tobacco in my sights. They offered me a lot of money. I could have made a fortune. But fifteen thousand dollars per client for people with cancer? I risked going to verdict because I wanted to get those people something that could make a difference. And I lost everything. My clients, my wife, my kids. MIKE You lost them because you gambled them away, James. QUELLING I know that. Please. Being a lawyer is what I am. It’s who I am. And if you take that away… MIKE It’s up to you, James. QUELLING I’ll drop the suit. I promise. JESSICA Louis, where the hell are you? You said you could get it done. I walk through those doors, our books fly open. Get here now. VAN DYKE Well. This should be fun. VAN DYKE We’ve never been across the aisle from each other. JESSICA Which is why you don’t realize that it won’t be fun. VAN DYKE We’ll see what we see. BAILIFF Case four-one-four-three-two. Van Dyke versus Pearson. VAN DYKE Look at that. Game time. Ladies first. JESSICA Ladies first. Son of a bitch. VAN DYKE For being polite? JESSICA Were you being polite when you hired me? VAN DYKE What does one have to do with the other? JESSICA “To the man who hired me. For all you’ve done.” Do you want to know what I meant when I wrote that card? The day you made me that offer, I asked you did it have anything to do with gender or race. You swore it didn’t. You lied to me. VAN DYKE It didn’t. JESSICA You’re lying now. Daniel Hardman may have used people, but he didn’t give a shit about their gender or their color. VAN DYKE He showed you the list. JESSICA Right next to my name, an asterisk. Not Law Review. Not second in my class. Diversity. VAN DYKE You were treated the same. JESSICA You tell yourself that. But we both know the truth. Which is why I sleep at night just fine. VAN DYKE Well, it doesn’t change the facts in this case, does it? JESSICA No. No, it doesn’t. But this will. Charles, you remember Louis Litt. LOUIS Sorry I couldn’t run. Doctor wants me to take it easy. Hey, Charles. Great to see you. VAN DYKE You told me that story to stall. JESSICA That was a stall. VAN DYKE Mm. JESSICA But this is for me. When I saw that asterisk next to my name, it made me sick to my stomach. Because in one second, I understood how you will always see me. So, that card was a thank you. Because if I hadn’t have felt sick, then I might not have worked as hard as I did to get where I am today. You woke the dragon, Charles. How do you like me now? HARVEY I know you’re there. DONNA You need anything? HARVEY No. The “ipo’s” wrapped up. We go public Monday morning. DONNA I wasn’t asking about the “ipo” I was talking about how you’re feeling about Mike. HARVEY I know. DONNA Okay. Goodnight, Harvey. HARVEY I’m going to tell Scottie. DONNA About Mike? Are you crazy? HARVEY You can’t have it both ways, Donna. You can’t tell me to open up and then keep my secrets. DONNA You spent more than a year covering it up. You tried to get him to commit another crime to cover it up. And now… HARVEY You said I should tell her what’s really bothering me. DONNA I meant your feelings. I didn’t mean confess to a felony. HARVEY These are my goddamn feelings. Donna, I did something when I hired him. It’s caused all of this. I can’t tell her and it’s driving me crazy. DONNA Okay. Look, Mike is gone, Harvey. I hate that he’s gone, but the jeopardy is gone, too. It’s done. And now, you want to turn around and tell someone who… HARVEY Someone who what? DONNA Nothing. HARVEY No. You better finish that sentence. DONNA Someone who’s pissed at you, Harvey. Someone who keeps finding a reason to be pissed at you. And it’s not the third time and it’s not the fifth time and it’s not the last time. HARVEY I thought you were trying to help my relationship, not shit on it. DONNA Okay. You want to yell at me, fine. Because I know you’re not mad at me. And I know you’re only telling me this stupid idea because you want me to tell you what you already know. You can’t, Harvey. It’s good that you want to. But you can’t. MIKE Can I have a minute? Congratulate me. I’m officially a member of the New York Bar. HARVEY You went to Lola? MIKE I made a mistake. I want to stay.