BENJAMIN BOARD_MEMBER DONNA GIBBS GRETCHEN HARVEY JERRY JESSICA JULIUS LABOVITZ LOUIS MIKE NATHAN OLIVER PALMER RACHEL SAMSON SEIDEL SNITZER STU TARA HARVEY Previously on “Suits”. Palmer figured out that we’re doing this with Seidel. And unless we drop the lawsuit, he’s going to come after us for collusion. MIKE If I pull out of that hearing, Palmer can’t touch us. OLIVER But I’m not doing anything until you tell Nathan exactly what’s going on. MIKE There’s nothing to tell. OLIVER You said you’re doing this case as a way to get into the Bar. MIKE And I just withdrew my application. LOUIS I knew mike was a fraud before he was arrested. I leveraged it to get my name on the wall. TARA I thought I knew what kind of man you were. LOUIS How dare you say that to me. The first time we slept together, you were with another man. RACHEL I don’t want to spend the rest of my life with a man who gave up on his dreams. And I know that you don’t want to be that man either. MIKE We have proof of over a dozen instances of you committing corporate espionage. PALMER What do you want? HARVEY You’re going to settle with those miners. You’re going to forget you ever heard of us. MIKE And you’re going to honor your original agreement with Craig Seidel. I don’t just want you to set that hearing. I want you to bulldoze anyone who stands in my way. MIKE What time is it? RACHEL Don’t worry, you’re not late for work. Here. MIKE Thanks. I could use this. I got in pretty late last night. RACHEL Does that have anything to do with the flowers I just found in the kitchen? MIKE Can’t a guy just buy you flowers because he loves you? RACHEL He can. But he didn’t. MIKE You’re right. I bought them to say thank you for doing whatever it took to make sure I got my shot at getting into the Bar. RACHEL Wait, does that mean that. MIKE Yeah. We did it. My hearing’s tomorrow. Seidel’s on our side. RACHEL I can’t believe it. This could really happen. MIKE I know. RACHEL What is it? MIKE I promised Oliver that I would tell Nathan about the whole thing. RACHEL mike, you can’t do that. MIKE I know I can’t. But I’ve got to get a couple of days off for the hearing. Which means I’ve got to tell him something. TARA louis. What are you doing here? LOUIS I hope you don’t mind I stopped by. I had to see you. I couldn’t sleep at all last night. TARA Neither could I. LOUIS Tara, please. I know we had a fight. But you told me you wanted to get to know me. And I swear, what I told you was the worst thing I've ever done. TARA Louis, the thing I'm having trouble dealing with has nothing to do with that person at your firm. It has to do with how you treated me last night. LOUIS Tara, please. TARA Let me finish. You shared something horrible with me, gave me no time to process it. And while I was taking it in, you not only attacked my integrity, you made me feel ashamed of myself. LOUIS You are right. I lashed out and I shouldn’t have. But I only did it because I was afraid of you rejecting me. And I will Tara, I will die if you reject me. TARA That’s the thing, Louis. You had a reason for reacting the way you did. But I’m not sure I want to be with a man who thinks there’s ever a reason to treat me that way. LOUIS Tara. TARA I'm sorry, Louis. They’re waiting for me in the conference room. I told you I’ll call, and I will call. MIKE Nathan. NATHAN Mike, what’s up? MIKE Nothing. I just want to give you this. NATHAN This is a check for fifty thousand dollars. MIKE I know. We settled. I gave the miners their checks last night. NATHAN MIKE, this is the most money we’ve ever made on a case. For once, we’re not going to have to worry about making rent. MIKE Yeah, right. NATHAN That’s not a joke. MIKE Wait, you’re telling me that fifty thousand dollars can really make that big a difference to the clinic? NATHAN I’m telling you that I know, in corporate law, money doesn’t matter unless it’s in the millions. But here, fifty thousand dollars makes all the difference in the world. MIKE Well, in that case, Nathan I’ve been working here seven days a week since I started and I’ve got some personal stuff that I need to take care of NATHAN Stop right there. Look. You just bought me thirty days’ rent. The least I can do is give you a few days back. MIKE Right. Thank you. NATHAN Thank you. HARVEY Okay, let’s hear it. MIKE Hear what? HARVEY The joke you spent all morning coming up with. MIKE What joke? I was just going to ask you where the law library was, but then I realized you’ve never set foot in there. HARVEY Shouldn’t you be at the clinic saving whales? MIKE First of all, that’s Greenpeace. And second of all, I took the day off so I could prepare for the character and fitness committee. HARVEY Oh. That means you’re taking whatever that hitch is going to be seriously. MIKE You know I am. HARVEY That’s what I like to hear, because I don’t want somebody working here who doesn’t listen to my advice. MIKE harvey, I still don’t think you understand. When this thing is over, I am not coming back here. HARVEY mike. MIKE I told you. I want to do good. HARVEY Then do good here. MIKE And I also told you that the only reason I agreed to this whole thing in the first place was because I couldn’t stand to watch someone like oliver fail and not be able to help him. and people like oliver don’t work in places like this, they work in places like that. GIBBS And people like you shouldn’t be working anywhere. HARVEY What are you doing here, Anita? GIBBS I’m here because the U.S. Attorney’s office requested that they be notified if mike Ross ever applied to the Bar. HARVEY What does the U.S. Attorney’s office have to do with Mike? GIBBS Nothing. Except I happen to work there. And as of one week ago, I’m also the newest member of the character and fitness committee. MIKE Bullshit. There’s a whole process to get on that committee. There’s no way you just happened to be in the pipeline. GIBBS You’re right. I wasn’t. But when a member takes leave, he has the right to appoint his replacement. And Walter Samson appointed me. HARVEY You think I’m not going to find out whatever bullshit you did to get this guy to drop out? GIBBS Be my guest. Because if mike is going before that hearing, that means you did something, too. MIKE What do you want? GIBBS I want to tell you, you might as well cancel this hearing and save us all a lot of time. Because the vote has to be unanimous. And you are never getting my vote. MIKE Rachel. Whatever you’re doing, you need to put it down and start looking for every single instance MIKE where a person was admitted to the Bar and the vote wasn’t unanimous. RACHEL Mike, what’s going on? MIKE Anita Gibbs got herself onto the board. RACHEL Then what we should be doing is finding a way to get her kicked off. MIKE Harvey’s working on it. But in the meantime MIKE I need to know the ins and outs of this committee. Because while she’s on it MIKE she’s going to use every dirty trick in the book to end this thing before it gets started. RACHEL Where are you going? MIKE I’m going to go hole myself up in the library and start preparing answers to every dirty question I can think of. DONNA Louis, are you okay? LOUIS I’m fine, Donna. What can I do for you? DONNA I know you know Benjamin and I have been working on a business. DONNA But I’m not sure that you know that we brought on Stu as an investor. LOUIS I didn’t. Donna, that’s great. DONNA It is. But there’s a problem and I need your help with it. LOUIS Anything. DONNA Benjamin applied for a patent and it turns out DONNA that our technology overlaps with someone else’s. LOUIS How much overlap? DONNA Thirty-two point five percent. LOUIS That’s over the threshold. LOUIS Unless Benjamin can get you below thirty DONNA He can’t. But Stu says we can negotiate with whoever holds the patent DONNA get them to give us an exclusion, and we’ll still be able to move forward with The Donna. LOUIS Donna, this is exactly what I need. DONNA What do you mean? LOUIS Tara and I got into a huge fight. She’s deciding right now LOUIS if we’re going to stay together. LOUIS This is exactly what I needed to take my mind off it. DONNA Louis, I don’t mean to sound insensitive. DONNA But this is incredibly important to me. DONNA I know you. DONNA And if this is going to make you go in there and blow this thing up, I can’t have that. LOUIS Donna, listen to me. LOUIS I may be losing the closest woman in my life. LOUIS But you are the second closest. I swear that I won’t do anything LOUIS to harm your company. DONNA Thank you. Knock ‘em dead. HARVEY When were you going to tell me? SEIDEL Tell you what? HARVEY That the prosecutor that put Mike HARVEY in prison just got herself put on that panel. SEIDEL What? HARVEY That’s right. HARVEY And I want to know why I heard about it from her and not you. SEIDEL I’ll tell you why. Because I didn’t know. But now that I do, this thing is done. HARVEY The hell it is. SEIDEL Are you crazy? Anita Gibbs is a goddamn Assistant U.S. Attorney. She gets one whiff of this and we are both disbarred. HARVEY Which is why we’re going to make sure that doesn’t happen by getting her kicked off that panel. SEIDEL And how exactly are we going to do that? HARVEY We’re going to start by you telling me everything there is to know about Walter Samson. SEIDEL Well, then, we might as well give up right now. Because Walter Samson is as clean as they come. HARVEY No one is that clean. SEIDEL Well, this guy is. And I didn’t sign on HARVEY Listen to me. You said you were in on this. And I’m telling you right now, you still are. Because we moved heaven and earth to get you out of hot water, and I got no problem putting you right back in. SEIDEL Fine. But you better be careful. Because if you’re looking at Gibbs, she’s going to be looking at us. And you coming to my lobby in the middle of the day is going to get us all caught. LOUIS Gentlemen, thank you for meeting with me on such short notice. LABOVITZ Our pleasure. LOUIS I assume you looked through the documents I sent over and found them to your liking. SNITZER On the contrary, we found them most disturbing. In particular, the fact that you used our fundamental principles and worked up from there. LOUIS What? We’ve never even seen your fundamental principles prior to applying for that patent. LABOVITZ Can you prove that? LOUIS Of course we can’t prove that. It’s not possible to prove a negative. SNITZER Words spoken by every hack who’s ever copied someone else’s technology and claimed it as their own. LOUIS What’s going on here? I came to you to negotiate an exclusion in good faith. And we’re prepared to offer you LABOVITZ We don’t care what you’re prepared to offer. And we didn’t bring you here to give you an exclusion, we brought you here to send a message. SNITZER This is a ninety million dollar lawsuit against your client if they go to market. LOUIS Gentlemen, please. I am not saying we got here first. But it’s a two point five percent overlap and we are open to a fifteen percent revenue sharing arrangement. SNITZER And we’re not open to shit. Because we were here first. LOUIS Listen to me. I am trying to keep my cool. LABOVITZ We don’t care if you keep your cool or not. Because we’ve got you and there’s nothing you can do about it. SNITZER So, you can take your offer and shove it in a drawer along with that sorry excuse for a digital secretary. Because neither one of them is ever going to see the light of day. MIKE Oliver. What are you doing OLIVER Is it still on? MIKE Is what still on? OLIVER Your deal. To get into the Bar. MIKE Oliver, listen to me. OLIVER Because when I asked Nathan where you were, he said you were taking a couple days for personal reasons. And all of a sudden, I got this pit in my stomach that wouldn’t go away. So, I decided to ask you if there’s a reason I got that pit or if I’m just an asshole for doubting you. MIKE You’re not an asshole, oliver. OLIVER Goddammit, Mike. You told me you didn’t have to tell Nathan because there was nothing to tell. MIKE And when I told you that, there wasn’t. But then, my deal got put back on the table OLIVER Which means you could have told him this morning. But you didn’t, so now, I have to. MIKE Oliver. Hey, wait. Please, hear me out. OLIVER I’m not going to hear you out, mike. I was sitting here for an hour, hoping I was wrong about you. MIKE You weren’t wrong about me. I care about people. I want to help the clinic, and the reason I didn’t tell Nathan what I did is because I’m just waiting until I can help him even more. OLIVER Help how? By being a shady lawyer? MIKE By being someone who wouldn’t have lost Sofia Price her home. OLIVER I cannot believe you just said that to me. MIKE I said it because it’s true. And you know it. Look, I am going to tell Nathan everything as soon as my hearing is over. You have my word. OLIVER Why should I believe the word of a liar? MIKE Because of what I did for those miners and the clinic. And if that’s not enough, how about what I did for you? OLIVER You didn’t do shit for me. But fine, I won’t tell Nathan. Just so long as when this thing’s over, you go back to your corrupt corporate world. Because I don’t care what you tell yourself. You’re never going to belong in mine. DONNA Harvey, what are you still doing here? The hearing’s across town in ten minutes. HARVEY I’m not going to the hearing, Donna, and neither are you. DONNA Why not? HARVEY Because if you and I can’t do what we need to, whatever Mike does at that hearing isn’t going to matter. DONNA Give it to me. HARVEY We need to figure out what Walter Samson’s weak spot is. DONNA Tell me how and I’m all in. HARVEY Start by contacting every person we know and asking them what they know about this asshole. Because Gibbs has something on him. And if I can’t find out what it is, then I can’t get her off that committee. DONNA Where are you going? HARVEY To see someone who doesn’t know Samson at all. SEIDEL Before we get started, I’d like to point out these interviews are normally for us to quickly approve standard applicants to the Bar. However, Mr. Ross is no standard applicant. Therefore, we will convene for as long as it takes before ruling on his application. Now. GIBBS Mr. Chairman, if I may. Last winter, Mr. Ross pled guilty to defrauding the citizens of New York. Therefore, I propose we reject his application right now. Because Mr. Ross is a felon and the New York Bar does not accept felons. MIKE Mr. Chairman, with all due respect to the new board member, you do. Not only does the Bar accept felons, but years ago, this very committee admitted Neal Wiesner, a man who spent years in prison for attempted murder. Now, Ms. Gibbs may think my crime is worse than attempted murder, but I don’t think it’s worth throwing away a hundred and forty years of precedent by not even allowing me to make my case. JERRY Come on, let’s go. Come on. Come on. Shit. HARVEY What the hell are you doing? JERRY What does it look like I’m doing? I’m watching my money go down the toilet. HARVEY Well, it looks to me like I paid you to do a job and you’re sitting here doing this. JERRY Okay, I’ll let you in on a little secret. It only takes fifteen minutes to hack someone. If you can’t find something in the next forty-five, it means there’s nothing to find. HARVEY Bullshit, there’s always something to find. JERRY I’m telling you, there isn’t. He doesn’t drink, smoke, gamble, cheat, nothing. HARVEY Listen to me. I paid you good money to do a job. And if you don’t put some more effort into this, I’m going to spread the word that you aren’t worth shit. And this time, it won’t be coming from LOUIS Litt. It will be coming from me. JERRY Then keep your damn money. When I tell you there’s nothing to find, there’s nothing to find. MIKE I guess what I’m saying is, not only do I admit what I did, but I regret it… with every fiber of my being. And I’d like to apologize to my clients, my former colleagues, and finally, to the fraternity of men and woman that I have wanted to be a member of since I was a child. GIBBS Well, that was a moving statement. I just have one question. If you regret what you did so much, why weren’t you willing to serve your full sentence? MIKE I wasn’t unwilling. I was offered a deal to help convict a known criminal and I took it. GIBBS You were offered a deal to get out early and you took it. MIKE I protected an innocent man and GIBBS What you did was insinuate yourself into your roommate’s life, gain his trust, and pretend to be his friend. True or false? MIKE You’re taking it out of context. GIBBS The context is you portrayed yourself as one thing when really, you were another. Which is what you did the entire time you pretended to be an attorney. And what I believe you are doing to this body right now. RACHEL Mr. Chairman, if she’s going to impugn his character while he’s speaking, then he’s entitled to let someone else speak for him. GIBBS This isn’t a trial. We don’t allow character witnesses here. RACHEL Actually, you do. Article four sixteen “A”. Applicants are allowed a witness as a rebuttal for an accusation leveled by a committee member. BOARD MEMBER That article hasn’t been cited in thirty years. MIKE Maybe that’s because no applicant has ever had to stand before the person who put them away. SEIDEL You make a point. We’ll pick this up first thing in the morning with your witness. Thank you. MIKE rachel, that was exactly what I needed. If you hadn’t done that RACHEL I know. But right now, I’m more concerned with the fact that she’s turning them against you. MIKE Which means even after Harvey kicks her off, Seidel’s job is going to be that much harder. And we only have one shot at having someone speak for me. RACHEL MIKE, come on. We’ve got to get back to the office and start going through everyone it could be. We’ll make a list of pros and cons and MIKE rachel. I know who it is. MIKE Julius. JULIUS MIKE. What are you doing here? MIKE I was hoping we could talk. JULIUS Oh. Look, I’m sorry, man. This is not a good time. I just put the baby down and the wife and I MIKE Please, it won’t take long. I’ve got this hearing tomorrow for the Character portion of the Bar. I wanted to ask if you’d speak for me. JULIUS You mind if I ask, why me? MIKE Because you’re the only one I know who’s qualified to tell the board that I was a different man when I got out than when I went in. JULIUS No offense, mike. But the truth is, I’m not sure you are. MIKE What do you mean? JULIUS I mean you said this hearing is tomorrow, but you’re just now coming to me. Which means something’s going on. MIKE What’s going on is the woman who put me away managed to get herself on the committee and now, she’s slamming the door in my face. JULIUS And why would she do that? MIKE Julius, I’m not JULIUS MIKE, how did you even get a hearing? MIKE What are you talking about? I applied like everyone else. JULIUS No. You’re not like everyone else. You didn’t go to law school. MIKE It doesn’t matter. There’s an exception called Reading the Law. JULIUS You see? Right there, Mike. That sounds like the bullshit artist I met in prison. So, you tell me right now. Did you pull some shit to make this happen? Damn, Mike. If you can’t be straight with me, this conversation ends right here. MIKE Yes. I did. JULIUS Ah. Finally, some truth in the night. MIKE Julius, I work at a law clinic, but not as a lawyer. An opportunity presented itself for me to become one and I turned it down. But then, I had to sit there and watch a woman get put on the street because I couldn’t help her. And I knew that I’d have to watch that happen over and over and over. So, when that opportunity presented itself for the second time, I took it. Because I knew it would never come along again. JULIUS You don’t know that, mike. MIKE I do know that. So, you can say no if you want to, but don’t say I haven’t changed. Because the Mike you met that night in prison never would have told you the truth just now. Julius, please. I need this. This is the address. It’s tomorrow at nine. I don’t have anyone else. HARVEY Mike, hey. MIKE Harvey, tell me you’ve got some good news. HARVEY I do. I took care of Seidel. He’s still going to back you. MIKE I’m not talking about Seidel. I’m talking about getting Gibbs off that committee. HARVEY It’s not that simple. MIKE What’s not that simple about it? HARVEY I haven’t found anything on him yet. MIKE Harvey, I am struggling to get someone on my side. And every second that she is on that committee, she is turning people against me. I need your help. HARVEY Mike.I told you I’d get it done. I’ll get it done. HARVEY Anything? DONNA No. It’s the same as when you called an hour ago. If he killed somebody and hid the body, nobody knows where it is. HARVEY Then why don’t you tell me who’s next on the list? DONNA HARVEY, I have been at this all day. And you said we don’t have much time. Why don’t you just bluff the guy into giving you whatever you need? HARVEY Because we’ve only got one shot at this. The more information I have, the better chance a bluff is going to work. DONNA Harvey, what’s going on? It isn’t like you to stay in and make phone calls instead of confronting someone face to face. HARVEY What if I can’t do it and Mike doesn’t get into the Bar? DONNA How can you say that? You are the best poker player I have ever seen. You can do it. HARVEY I don’t think you understand, Donna. A bluff only works if he’s dirty. What if the guy really is clean? DONNA Harvey. Gibbs got him off the committee. He’s not clean. Now, enough is enough. Go do what you do. GRETCHEN Louis, you mind telling me what this is? LOUIS Where did you get that? GRETCHEN That is a lawsuit against Donna’s new business. LOUIS I know what it is. GRETCHEN Well, why haven’t you told her about it yet? LOUIS Because she’s going to think that I blew it because I was upset about Tara. GRETCHEN Louis, did you go full blown you on some poor bastard and ruin Donna’s chance at success? LOUIS Gretchen, I went there in good faith to get a settlement and I was ambushed. I swear. GRETCHEN Then you need to fix it. LOUIS I can’t. GRETCHEN Why not? LOUIS Because I cannot stop thinking about Tara. We got into a huge fight. And I was such an asshole. So, I went to apologize. She said she wasn’t sure she could stay with me and I haven’t heard from her since. So, now, instead of not knowing how to fix things with one woman in my life, I don’t know how to fix things with the other. GRETCHEN Louis, I was married a long time. And I’ll tell you, Carl and I had some doozies. Tell you the truth, I wasn’t always sure we were going to pull through. But we always did, because we loved each other. LOUIS What if she doesn’t love me anymore? GRETCHEN It doesn’t turn off like that, Louis. And from where I’m standing, you’re worth loving. Now, do you think you can fix this thing or do you need me to get us some help? LOUIS I don’t need any help. I’m going to blow those guys out of the water. HARVEY Walter Samson? SAMSON Yes? HARVEY I saw you out there. First time playing? SAMSON Hmm. I’m sorry, do I know you? HARVEY The question is, how do you know Anita Gibbs? Because you gave her your seat on the character and fitness committee and the woman who prosecuted Mike Ross has no business being there. SAMSON And who is Mike Ross? HARVEY I get it. We’re going that way, huh? He’s the reason Gibbs strong-armed you into giving up that seat. SAMSON I gave up that seat because I wanted to spend more time with my family. HARVEY Bullshit. She found out whatever dirty little secret you’re hiding. If you don’t come clean with me, I’m going to find out what it is and I’m going to squeeze harder. SAMSON I don’t know who you are. But it must be nice living in a world where everyone has a weak spot and is unethical. But in this case, I took a leave of absence and I replaced myself with a worthy attorney. So, you can look for a pressure point all you want. But I’m sorry to inform you, you’re not going to find one. HARVEY You want to know who I am? My name is Harvey Specter. And you can say you never heard of Mike Ross, but I know you heard of me. So, maybe she didn’t blackmail you. Maybe she promised to do something for you. Either way, I’m going to find out what it is and you’re going to wish you told me right now. SAMSON You think you’re showing strength. But intimidation is only weakness. And for your information, I never met Anita Gibbs until the day I appointed her as my replacement. JULIUS When I first met Mike Ross, I thought he was like every other criminal I work with. An entitled fraud who spent his life cutting corners. But I’m here to tell you, he went into prison one man and he walked out another. And in my professional opinion, he has the integrity to serve his community as a lawyer. GIBBS While I don’t doubt your sincerity, Mr. Rowe, just because he was able to fool you doesn’t mean he’s going to be able to fool this board. JULIUS It’s Doctor Rowe. And I’m glad you were the one who responded to my statement. GIBBS And why is that? JULIUS Because you tried to paint a false picture of his release and I’m here to set the record straight. GIBBS The record is straight. And you’re not qualified to talk about the deal that he made. SEIDEL No. Uh, we’re going to hear this. JULIUS Thank you. It’s true Mr. Ross entered into an early release agreement. But it’s also true that he stayed in longer than he had to, to keep his cellmate safe. And while he was there, he risked his own life to prevent a violent man from falsely obtaining parole. GIBBS And for all we know, he did that for self-serving reasons. JULIUS And for all I know, that’s what you’re doing right now. GIBBS You’re out of line. I’m not the one under examination here. JULIUS Neither am I. I’m a prison psychologist. And in my experience, self-serving men do not risk their lives to help people. GIBBS I don’t call defrauding your fellow man helping people. And I certainly don’t call it having integrity. JULIUS With all due respect, ma’am, I’m done wasting my breath on you. Because the purpose of this hearing was to determine if mike Ross had reformed. But you don’t seem to be interested in that, because you’ve already made your mind up. GIBBS Maybe I have. JULIUS Then maybe you shouldn’t be on this committee. Because as I said, in my professional opinion, the world could use a lawyer like Mike Ross. And if you’re looking for my personal opinion, he has more integrity in his little finger than you have in your whole body. MIKE HARVEY, where have you been? HARVEY I’ve been trying to level the playing field. MIKE That’s the thing. We just did. You should have seen Julius up there. I mean, if those members vote no after hearing what he had to say HARVEY It doesn’t matter what he had to say. MIKE You haven’t found a way to get Gibbs off that committee. HARVEY No. MIKE HARVEY I’m sorry, Mike. MIKE You don’t have to be sorry, Harvey. She warned us that she’d never let me get into the Bar. We just didn’t listen. HARVEY Listen to me. This vote isn’t until tomorrow morning. There’s still time for us to think of something. MIKE Yeah, you keep trying, Harvey. I’ve got something else I need to take care of. DONNA What’s going on? Gretchen said you wanted to talk to me about the patent. What are you guys doing here? LOUIS I went back to them, Donna. And the reason I asked Stu and Benjamin to be here was so that you’d know that I didn’t shit the bed. DONNA Are you telling me you couldn’t get them to back off the lawsuit? STU He’s telling you we won’t be able to patent The Donna at all. DONNA What? LOUIS Donna, they weren’t authorized to let us partner with them. DONNA That’s what I sent you over there to take care of. LOUIS I know. And then, they said they would fight us to the ends of the earth. So, I pulled out every trick in the book and I got them to make you an offer. DONNA An offer sounds like a buy-out. STU That’s because it is a buy-out. BENJAMIN With a special provision that allows us to produce The Donna for in-house use. DONNA That’s not good enough. STU Donna, we’re talking about a lot of money. DONNA I don’t care about the money, Stu. I care that Louis didn’t fight for me. LOUIS I did fight for you, Donna. I swear. They’ve got us dead to rights. There’s nothing more I can do. DONNA Bullshit. LOUIS Litt does not roll over for anybody. STU He didn’t roll over, Donna. I went over it with Benjamin, and we can’t get the overlap under thirty percent. I also ran it by my own attorney and he was shocked at what Louis was able to get us. DONNA So, you’re telling me you want to take it. STU We do. BENJAMIN But The Donna wouldn’t even exist without you, and we’re partners. So, if you don’t want to, then we won’t. DONNA I’m going to need to think about it. GIBBS What’s that? HARVEY Liberty Rail. I tried to give it to you once before. You wouldn’t take it. You said it should come without strings. Well, here it is. No strings. GIBBS It’s still got strings and you know it. You want me to let Mike in the Bar. HARVEY I do. But I’m giving you this whether you do that or not. GIBBS And why would you do that? HARVEY Because I’m hoping if I showed you I could change, maybe you’d believe he could, too. GIBBS You for him. HARVEY What? GIBBS Tomorrow morning, I’m going to ask Mike if anyone knew he was a fraud while he was at Pearson Specter. He admits you knew, I’ll let him in the Bar. HARVEY I do that, they’ll kick me out. GIBBS That’s what you for him means. You said you’d do it for him once. This is your chance to put your money where your mouth is. HARVEY He won’t go for it. GIBBS He wants to be a lawyer so bad he can taste it. You can make him go for it. Just remember, you didn’t like being too late last time. You’re not too late this time. MIKE Good. You’re both here. Thanks for staying. NATHAN Of course we stayed. Your message said urgent. What’s going on? Is there a problem with the settlement? MIKE No. But I gave Oliver my word that I would tell you the truth, so I’m here to tell you the truth. NATHAN The truth about what? MIKE I made a deal. A quid pro quo that we would handle the miners’ case in exchange for the chance to be admitted into the Bar. NATHAN Are you goddamn kidding me? I asked you point blank if something was going on and you lied to my face? MIKE Nathan, I’m sorry. But I didn’t want to tell you until there was something to tell. NATHAN You weren’t going to tell me until you got away with it. MIKE No. I wasn’t. But as it turns out, I’m not going to get away with it. And I’m telling you anyway. NATHAN You’re fired. MIKE Nathan, please. NATHAN I don’t give a shit what’s about to come out of your mouth. Clean out your office and never show your face around here again. OLIVER Wait. Don’t do it. NATHAN Did you hear what he said? He lied. Not once, not twice OLIVER I don’t care. Because we need him. NATHAN We don’t need him. OLIVER Sophia needed him and she got me and look what happened. Yeah, Nathan, that was some shady shit he pulled. But you’ve got to be blind if you can’t see that he actually cares. And I don’t remember us beating down a place like Velocity Data before he got here. So, if it’s all the same to you, I’d like him to stay. NATHAN Well, it’s not all the same to me, Oliver. It’s up to me. Not to the person that kept it from me as much as Mike did. MIKE He didn’t keep it from you, Nathan. He said that if I didn’t tell you, he would. So, here I am. And I know that I don’t have a leg to stand on, but I’d like to stay. NATHAN Monday morning, you better start putting your money where your mouth is and find us another fifty thousand dollar case. HARVEY Louis, do you have a minute? LOUIS Sure, Harvey. HARVEY I don’t know how much you know about what’s going on with Mike’s hearing. LOUIS Enough to know that look on your face means it’s not going well. HARVEY It’s not. And I may have a way to change it, but I wanted to run it by my partner first. Because it may mean that I need a little time off. LOUIS What do you mean, a little time off? HARVEY I mean Gibbs offered me a deal. Mike goes on record admitting I knew he was a fraud, she’ll vote to let him in the Bar. LOUIS Are you insane? You do that, it won’t be a little time off. You’ll get disbarred. HARVEY And by then, he’ll be a lawyer. And we can argue that he said that just to appease Gibbs. LOUIS Bullshit. You do this, two out of three names on that wall will be gone, and I won’t be able to keep this firm going. HARVEY And if you can’t, we’ll have done it for mike. Zane will hire you. LOUIS I don’t want to go to Zane’s. I want to do what we said we were going to do and rebuild this place together. HARVEY Louis, I owe him. LOUIS Well, what about what you owe me? You said we were partners. HARVEY We are partners, which is why I came to you with this. LOUIS No. You didn’t come to ask my permission, you came to tell me that you were going to do this. HARVEY And what if I did? LOUIS Then you’re not just an asshole, you’re an idiot. Because there’s no way mike Ross ever agrees to trading you for him. HARVEY Well, I’ll make him agree. MIKE No, you won’t. HARVEY Mike. MIKE HARVEY, whatever deal she’s offering you, I’m not going to take it. HARVEY You don’t even know what it is. MIKE I don’t care what it is. I’m not getting into the Bar if it means getting you kicked out. HARVEY Mike, she wants me. She always has. MIKE No, Harvey. She wants both of us. And she’s not going to stop until she gets both of us. HARVEY You don’t know that. MIKE Yes, I do. And if you don’t get that, then she’s got you right where she wants you. HARVEY So, you’re just going to sit there tomorrow and let her take everything away from you? MIKE She’s not taking anything away. She’s keeping things exactly the way they are. HARVEY You mean working for that clinic. MIKE Harvey, I’m lucky to still have a job at that clinic. So, tomorrow morning, I’m going to go in there with my head held high. But what I’m not going to do is let her strip you of everything that you are. LOUIS Harvey, he’s right. Let it go. HARVEY Whatever it is, Donna DONNA HARVEY, I know you’re in a rough place right now. But whatever’s going to happen with Mike is going to happen. You’ve done everything you can. And I’m tired of putting my wants on hold. HARVEY What is it? DONNA You know about my product with Benjamin. HARVEY I do. DONNA Well, it turns out we have a thirty-two point five percent overlap on our software with another company’s. They refused to budge, and Louis said he pulled out every trick in the book to get us this. HARVEY Can you get it under thirty percent? DONNA No. HARVEY Then take the money. DONNA I don’t want the money. HARVEY donna. DONNA I want something more. And I’ve never said that out loud. But I can’t pretend that’s not true anymore. HARVEY What do you mean, more? DONNA I don’t know. I guess I’m going to have to figure that out. Goodnight, Harvey. I’ll see you tomorrow at the hearing. SEIDEL Mr. Ross, we are prepared to hear your final statement. GIBBS Before we do, I have one last question. Mr. Ross, you say you’re a changed man and you care about the truth. But I want to know if you’re capable of telling the truth. So, I’m going to ask you a question and I suggest that you consider your answer very carefully. Because as far as I’m concerned, your answer will determine whether or not you become a lawyer. During your time at Pearson Specter Litt, did anyone there have knowledge of the fact that you were a fraud? Mr. Ross. Did anyone else know? JESSICA I knew. And if you’re looking for a scalp, you can have mine. But I was under the impression that this hearing was not about my old firm, but whether or not Mr. Ross should be a lawyer. I say he should. GIBBS It doesn’t matter what you say. He’s already had someone testify for him. JESSICA I’m not here to talk about him. I’m here to talk about someone else. GIBBS Someone else has nothing to do with SEIDEL I’d like to hear this. JESSICA Fifteen years ago, a young woman was arrested for illegally obtaining prescription drugs. Turns out she had chronic pain and didn’t want to drop out of med school, possibly never to return. So, she stole a couple of prescription pads from the hospital where she was interning. A crime with a mandatory sentence of seven years. But instead of throwing the book at her, the prosecuting attorney showed mercy. Had the charges knocked down to a misdemeanor, recommended probation, and sealed the records. BOARD MEMBER That’s a touching story, but I don’t see what a random attorney has to do with these proceedings. GIBBS She’s not talking about a random attorney. She’s talking about me. But just because I showed compassion once doesn’t mean he deserves it now. JESSICA Maybe he doesn’t. But that young woman is now an E.R. doctor. She saves lives. And the world is a better place because you saved hers. SEIDEL Thank you, Ms. Pearson. Mr. Ross? MIKE I don’t think I can add anything to that. I’ve made my case. I leave the choice to you. SEIDEL Then this hearing has concluded. We will deliberate and let you know our decision by day’s end. Thank you. DONNA So, what do we do now? JESSICA They said they would let us know by the end of the day. So, we wait. LOUIS Well, it is the end of the day, which means HARVEY It doesn’t mean anything, Louis. Whatever is going on in there, Seidel’s going to fight like hell MIKE It’s not going to make a difference. She’s never going to change her mind. JESSICA I think she will. RACHEL What do you mean? JESSICA I mean that story wasn’t any old story and that woman wasn’t really a woman. It was a man named Joseph O’Neal. And it was Walter Samson’s godson. HARVEY So, she did call in a favor. JESSICA Yes, she did. HARVEY Then we need to get her kicked off that board. JESSICA No, Harvey. We don’t. Because I didn’t fly all the way down here to strong-arm that woman. And I know the story of the wind and the sun. LOUIS What the hell are you talking about? MIKE She’s talking about Aesop’s fable. Which basically says that if you want a man to take off his coat, you don’t blow it off. You make him feel warm and he’ll take it off on his own. LOUIS That’s not a strategy, it’s a prayer. Jessica Louis, I already admitted that I knew about Mike and I reminded her of her own compassion. That’s the best we’re going to do. HARVEY You know they could disbar you for that. JESSICA In New York, they might. In Chicago, nobody’s going to care. MIKE Thank you, Jessica. JESSICA Don’t thank me. Thank Harvey. He’s the one that called me. HARVEY It Seidel. Hello. I’ll tell him. Thanks for calling. You’re in. RACHEL MIKE Oh, my god. RACHEL Oh, my god. MIKE It happened. DONNA I’m going to go get us some champagne. MIKE Thank you so much. RACHEL HARVEY Thank you for flying in. JESSICA I wouldn’t miss this for the world. RACHEL Hey. You said you had to go to the bathroom a half hour ago. But you never came back for your champagne. LOUIS I know. RACHEL LOUIS, what’s wrong? LOUIS You never asked me how it went with tara. and telling her about mike. RACHEL I’m so sorry. I just got caught up with the hearing. LOUIS The thing is, I I told her. We got into a huge fight. And she said she needed to think about whether or not she could forgive me. RACHEL And? LOUIS She just called when harvey was giving us the news about mike. Left a fifteen second voicemail. I’m afraid to listen to it. RACHEL louis. LOUIS She’s either going to tell me that she never wants to see me again or she wants to make up. RACHEL Do you want me to listen for you? LOUIS No. But I’d like it if you stay with me while I do. RACHEL Of course. Okay. LOUIS MIKE What’s that? HARVEY I wanted to give you a present. Your first year’s salary in advance. Welcome back. MIKE Harvey, I’m running out of ways to tell you I don’t want to be a corporate lawyer. HARVEY Before you answer, you might want to take a look at this check. MIKE You trying to bribe me? HARVEY I’m trying to close you. MIKE I told you. HARVEY Yeah, I get it. You want to do good. Well, do you really want to do good? Donate half this to the clinic. You’ll fund the place for a year. MIKE Oh, so, that’s what you think I’m all about. Just giving money. HARVEY No, but I think you’re about more than just working at that place. And you know it. MIKE What are you talking about? HARVEY I’m offering you a deal. One for you, one for me. You can save the spotted owls, stop global warming, and help as many damsels in distress as you’d like. And the good news is, you’ll be doing it from here. MIKE What makes you think I’d take you up on that? HARVEY Because here’s the thing, Mike. You want to be here and you know it. MIKE That’s not true. HARVEY Uh-uh. I saw the look on your face when you strong-armed Palmer and you took on Seidel and every other talented attorney you’ve beaten over the years. And I’ve told you this once before. This is the major leagues. You don’t get this feeling anywhere else. And I’m offering you the best of both. Why are you giving me a peace sign? MIKE Double it. HARVEY What? MIKE I don’t want to just fund the clinic for a year. I want to fund it for two. And while we’re at it, I want some left over for a little something nice for me and the wife-to-be. HARVEY That’s all it’s going to take. MIKE Oh, not even close. HARVEY I wouldn’t have it any other way. MIKE Any case I want to bring the clinic onto, I can. HARVEY Done. MIKE Anyone I want to bring over from the clinic, I can. Louis doesn’t get a say, you don’t get a say, no Harvard rule. HARVEY Done. MIKE And there’s one more thing and you are not going to like it. HARVEY You are not getting my office. MIKE Oh, yes, I am. And I will tell you why. HARVEY Why? MIKE Because she’s gone, Harvey. And she’s not coming back. It’s time for you to take the reins.