ALAN ALEX ANGELA BABY COLLINS DICKENS DONNA DRIVER EVANS FATHER_WALKER GORDON GOULD GUESTS HARVEY JESSICA JUDGE JUDGE_MERRICK KERI LILLIAN LOUIS MALONE MCGANN MIKE NATHAN NOVAK OLIVER PATRONS RACHEL YOUNG_JESSICA ZANE HARVEY Previously on “Suits”… JESSICA I came to see what you think about me coming with you to Chicago. NATHAN There’s a school in upstate New York. Ten years ago, Discharge Power started making batteries and those kids started getting lead poisoning. And they say it’s not from the plant, but it is. MIKE This is a list of children pulled from the school within the first six months of the plant opening. The parents are all executives at Discharge Power. COLLINS A hundred thousand a family. GORDON It’s a lawsuit on behalf of your former partners for damages incurred by the criminal actions of this firm. Give these guys their jobs back, this whole thing goes away. MIKE I got a job offer today. It’s in Seattle. RACHEL What if I told you I’d consider it? MIKE You told me they were going to offer me a job, you gave me a reason to take it, and then when I didn’t jump on it, you put people that I care about out of work. LOUIS Holy shit. Gordon doesn’t want to take over. He just wants to orchestrate a deal where his guys come back, they vote to merge with Zane, and we cease to exist. ZANE I just found out that my two partners are willing to stab me in the back. HARVEY I am sorry I had to be the one to break it to you, Robert. But you better get your house in order. Because now, I have to protect mine. JESSICA I went out there to make a difference. So, I decided to go toe to toe with the mayor’s office on a police brutality case. Two weeks after you put out that statement, they came after my license. HARVEY What exactly do you want me to do about it? JESSICA I want you to stand next to me on the last case I’ll ever have. HARVEY You can have your pick of the top guys out there. JESSICA I don’t need the top guy. I need the best partner I’ve ever had. LOUIS Robert. ZANE Oh, you have got to be shitting me. This is the worst possible time for you to be around here. LOUIS I don’t care. I need your help with Gordon. ZANE What the hell do you need help for? All you have to do to get out of this mess is not bring those partners back and just fight this thing on its merits. LOUIS Yeah, if we fight this thing on its own merits and lose, we won’t have a firm anymore. ZANE Well, that’s not my problem. And even if it was, what am I supposed to do about it? LOUIS You tell those partners that you aren’t going to waive their non-competes. And if they don’t drop the case, you’ll fire them. ZANE And if I do that, they fire me. LOUIS Bullshit. You have bylaws to protect you. ZANE Oh, listen to me, goddamn it. I’m going to tell you the same thing I told Harvey. I’m in this shit-storm because of my chummy relationship with your firm. I do that, bylaws or no, I’m out on my ass. LOUIS Robert, please. We are talking about your daughter’s home. ZANE Don’t you dare use my daughter as a bargaining chip. She’s a grown-ass woman. She can take care of herself. So, like Harvey said, you take care of your house. Because I’m going to take care of mine. HARVEY What the hell? DICKENS Hey, buddy, you just walked into me. HARVEY Are you kidding me? You just walked through me at sixty miles an hour. DICKENS Well, then, I would keep my head up if I were you. You’re not in Kansas anymore. HARVEY What did you say to me? DICKENS I said this is Chicago. And you’re not in Kansas anymore. HARVEY Well, it might as well be Kansas to me. Because I’m from New York. Now, get the hell out of my face. DICKENS Oh, I know where you’re from, Mr. Specter. And if you think you’re going to stop Pat McGann from doing what he does, you might as well turn around, check your little man-purse, and go back to wherever the hell you came from. ALAN Where are you going, young lady? YOUNG JESSICA To school. ALAN Not like that, you’re not. Your uniform’s supposed to be buttoned up all the way. YOUNG JESSICA I told you kids make fun of me. ALAN And I told you that’s exactly why you do it. You’re at war, and you don’t let the world see your weak spots. YOUNG JESSICA And who exactly am I at war with? ALAN With the world. Because if it was up to them, you’d be living in poverty your entire life like… YOUNG JESSICA Like who, Dad? And what does that have to do with how I dress? ALAN It has everything to do with it. Because if they see one imperfection, they’re going to pull on that string. And the next thing you know, you’re going to be laid bare. YOUNG JESSICA Dad, I’m just a girl. ALAN And if you think like that, Jessica Pearson, that’s all you’ll ever be. MALONE You getting ready for the hearing this morning? JESSICA You know I am. MALONE Let me handle this for you, Jessica. JESSICA I told you. I want Harvey on this. MALONE You did tell me that. But I’m still a little hazy as to why. JESSICA For one thing, you’re a partner in a law firm. MALONE And so is Harvey. JESSICA In New York, not Chicago. Which means anything I ask him to do won’t backfire onto you. MALONE Jessica, I’m not worried about me. JESSICA Jeff, we’ve talked about this. I can handle myself. MALONE And I’m sure that’s exactly what the original plaintiff thought right before he turned up dead. JESSICA Come on. Do you know how many people have been shot in that neighborhood over the past ten years? One has nothing to do with the other. MALONE All I’m saying is that you’ve been through something. And apart from the loss of a child, it’s… it’s the biggest thing that you could ever go through. JESSICA And I love that you’re looking out for me. But that thing is exactly why I’m taking on this fight. MALONE I know. I just want to make sure that when you march into battle, you’ve got your eyes open. JESSICA Jeff? I’m taking on the city of Chicago. Believe me, my eyes are wide goddamn open. MIKE Ladies and gentlemen… MIKE I appreciate you coming today. MIKE And I know your time is valuable, so I’ll just cut to the chase. MIKE School. It’s where our kids are taught… MIKE and nurtured. It’s supposed to be their safest place. MIKE But for the families of Treetop Elementary, Discharge Power… MIKE took that safety away when they built a battery plant… MIKE one thousand yards away from their playground. MIKE Now, they’re going to say they took the proper precautions. They didn’t. MIKE And now, hundreds of innocent children are suffering the devastating effects… MIKE of lead poisoning and they will never be the same. Now, one of the first things we all learned in school… MIKE was to treat others as we would be treated ourselves. MIKE Well, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you and I together are going to teach Discharge Power the lesson… MIKE they should have learned when they were five years old. DONNA How did it go with Zane? LOUIS I’ll tell you how it went. I got a big fat bowl… LOUIS of “you’re on your own”. DONNA You told him how serious this was? LOUIS Yes, and he already knew. DONNA What about appealing to the father in him? LOUIS I’m not an idiot, Donna. I tried that. And the second I did, he bit my head off. DONNA Okay. Well, we have to think of something. LOUIS I know that. And right now, the only thing I can think of is letting the partners come back. Because I cannot find a way to prove… LOUIS that they weren’t harmed by what we did. ALEX I might have a way. LOUIS I don’t have time for guessing games, Alex. What have you got? ALEX Think about it. What is Gordon offering these guys… ALEX if they come back? LOUIS They vote us out and they merge with Zane, which means he’s offering them… LOUIS better jobs and more money. ALEX And what if we got them all that somewhere else? We’d not only get rid of them… ALEX we’d prove they weren’t harmed by you, Harvey or anyone else. LOUIS Well, that’s a great idea, Alex. But where the hell are we going to find someone… LOUIS to give twenty-five partners raises and promotions… LOUIS at some other major law firm? ALEX I’ll tell you where we’re going to find them, Louis. Where I left them… ALEX right inside your mother-fucking dictaphone. HARVEY You look determined. JESSICA I am. You double check that power of attorney I sent you? HARVEY I did. JESSICA And how about your application… JESSICA to practice in Illinois? It needs to be airtight. HARVEY I’m good to practice here for a month. I had Donna file it… HARVEY herself. JESSICA Good. HARVEY Jessica. HARVEY What have we gotten ourselves into here? JESSICA What do you mean? HARVEY I mean, someone was waiting for me at the airport and… HARVEY it wasn’t a town car. JESSICA Harvey, I told you. JESSICA These people here are no joke. They’re trying to run me out of town. HARVEY Well, they’re not too happy about me being here either. JESSICA Then let’s get in there and get this damn thing done. RACHEL Hey. I was looking for you earlier. How did it go? MIKE As far as the opening statements went, it was good. But then, the judge got pulled away. Which means we lost momentum. And then, on top of that, I just found out that the soil samples that we were supposed to have last night got delayed. RACHEL You don’t think Discharge Power had anything to do with it, do you? MIKE I didn’t until you just said that. RACHEL I’m just saying. Look at what they already did. They offered you a fake job and then the same guy had your donors shut down the whole clinic. I mean, Mike, if they’re willing to do that… MIKE Shit. If we don’t get those samples, we are in trouble. RACHEL Maybe we don’t need them. If we can prove they did all that, it’s obstruction. MIKE We prove that, we don’t need any soil samples. RACHEL What can I do? MIKE You work on finding out the connection between Andy Forsyth and the donors. I’m going to figure out what to do if those samples do show up. HARVEY Your Honor, Harvey Specter. I’m representing the residents of The North Park Housing Project. JUDGE MERRICK Great. All we need is Ms. Allen and we can actually accomplish something. KERI Sorry I’m late, Your Honor. I had to put my contacts in to make sure I was actually seeing Jessica Pearson in your chambers. JESSICA And why wouldn’t I be here? KERI Because this is a lawyers only meeting and you’re not licensed to practice law in this state. JESSICA And the last time I checked, I don’t need a license to be the plaintiff. KERI No, but you do need to live in public housing. Which generally requires not wearing three thousand dollar shoes. HARVEY Power of Attorney signed by Lillian Cook to Jessica Pearson, Your Honor. She’s a plaintiff under the law. KERI Your Honor, I don’t care what that thing says. This project’s been in the works for three years, and they are just stepping in at the last minute to get publicity. HARVEY We’re stepping in because the wrecking ball is about to fly and you are not living up to your end of the bargain. KERI If you’re referring to the percentage of low-income housing, some minor adjustments were made because… JESSICA Minor? You stood in front of City Council and gave your word that thirty-five percent of this development would be reserved for public housing. The latest plans show only five percent are going there. And to hell with everyone else. KERI Where did you get that? That is not part of the public record. JESSICA No, neither is the fact that a shady developer is ripping off the poor to line his own pockets and you’re helping him. KERI Don’t you say that to me. I don’t represent Pat McGann. I represent the city I’ve lived in my whole life. And all you care about is making a name for yourself by using some poor woman. JESSICA I’m not using anyone. And you can… JUDGE MERRICK Okay, that’s enough. Ms. Pearson, if I deem you to be manipulating this Lillian Cook for your own purposes, I will shut this thing down myself. HARVEY Your Honor, how can my client prove to you what’s in her heart? JUDGE MERRICK I don’t care what’s in her heart. I want to hear from this woman. And I want to hear from her tomorrow. ALEX Eli. I’m glad I caught you. You got a minute? GOULD Actually, Alex, I’ve got a lunch. So, uh… ALEX That wasn’t a question. It was a statement. GOULD Let me guess. This is about that lawsuit Stanley Gordon filed on behalf of your ex-Partners. Well, you can just turn yourself right around, because my heart isn’t exactly bleeding for you. ALEX I don’t give a shit what your heart is doing, Eli. Because I’m not here for your sympathy. I’m here because you’re going to give every one of those bastards a job. GOULD You son of a bitch. ALEX Don’t give me that. Your partner set me up for murder and you didn’t bat an eye. GOULD So, I make offers to more than fifteen of those guys. They won’t take those jobs anyway. Because we don’t have that kind of money and everybody knows it. So, it’s either fifteen or put me away, because that’s the best you’re going to get. ALEX Fifteen. Raises and promotions for every goddamn one of them. JESSICA You know, the architecture here is stunning. If I worked here, I’d be in a much better mood than you seem to be. KERI I have nothing to say to you outside of court. JESSICA I’m trying to avoid court altogether. KERI What do you want, Ms. Pearson? JESSICA I want a sit-down with the Mayor. KERI Well, that’s not going to happen. JESSICA You’re his right hand. You can walk right into his office and make it happen. KERI I’m not his right hand. I’m the City Attorney. And I don’t have time to arrange courtesy meetings for people who go after our civil servants. JESSICA Look, I know there’s bad blood with the thirteenth precinct situation. I’m just looking for some sort of accommodation. KERI And what makes you think I have the power to do that? All I do is represent the city’s interest without passion or prejudice. JESSICA And which one was it without when you came for my license? KERI I have no idea what you’re talking about. JESSICA And what about the Mayor? Does he know? Or is that why you don’t want me talking to him? Because if I did, I’d tell him he’s up for reelection in six months and this project doesn’t look good for him. KERI Whatever it is you think you know… if there’s any understanding to be had on this project, you’re going to have to come to it with Pat McGann. Not me and not the Mayor. And let me give you a free piece of advice. This is Chicago. If you want to get something done, you’re going to need more than your Loubutins and your holier than thou attitude. MCGANN Eleven, okay? And don’t let them skimp on any of the materials. JESSICA Patrick McGann? MCGANN Give us a minute, will you? Well, you must be Jessica Pearson. JESSICA You know who I am. MCGANN Well, I’ve never seen your picture, but there aren’t a lot of women that match your description. Now, what can I do for you, Jessica? JESSICA You can hire me to find another location for your project that doesn’t throw people out of their homes. MCGANN As much as I’d like to spend time getting to know you, there’s no way you and I working together is in our future. JESSICA And what if I told you you’d regret making that decision? MCGANN Well, I’d say that you can stop trying to get to the Mayor, because he’s not taking a meeting with you. And you can take that to the bank. Because I’m the one that makes the decisions here. JESSICA Is that really something you want to be saying to me? MCGANN You think he doesn’t know how it works? JESSICA I think it’s not legal to trade money for influence. And you should be careful who you say that to. MCGANN Every nickel I’ve ever given Bobby Novak is above board. So, why don’t you just go put that woman on the stand tomorrow and be done with it? Because I guarantee you when this is over, my building’s going up. BABY HARVEY Lillian Cook? LILLIAN Could be. Who are you? HARVEY My name is Harvey Specter. I’m here to prepare you for court. LILLIAN What do you mean, court? HARVEY I mean, if you want to stay in your home, you’re going to have to testify. And it’s going to be tomorrow. LILLIAN No, uh-uh. Jessica Pearson’s handling that. HARVEY She sent me here to help. LILLIAN Well, you tell her I don’t need help from someone who doesn’t know me, and from the looks of him thinks this whole place is a piece of garbage. HARVEY What I think is you’ve lived here most of your life, and now you’re going to get kicked into the street because they didn’t live up to their end of the bargain. LILLIAN You a coffee man, or you one of them chai latte drinking pretty boys? HARVEY Both. I’m a coffee man through and through, but there’s no denying I’m pretty. LILLIAN Not as pretty as a young Denzel, but you’ll do. GORDON Where’s Harvey? LOUIS Uh, you don’t need to worry about where Harvey is, Stanley. I’m handling this negotiation. GORDON Oh, I get it. He didn’t have the balls to face me, so he dumped it on you. LOUIS He didn’t dump anything. I wanted to be here. GORDON Well, Sparky, unless you also want to be in court, you better have those job offers for my clients. LOUIS Your clients want jobs? Here they are. GORDON You’re telling me Eli Gould wants to hire them. LOUIS Yes, he does. Because your clients are not damaged goods, they are hot commodities. And these offers are the proof. GORDON Spare me the bullshit. LOUIS You don’t like bullshit? Then why don’t you admit the second we hire those partners, they vote us out, sell the firm to Rand Kaldor Zane, and you make a seven-figure finder’s fee? GORDON You’re right. That’s the plan. I’ve got to admit, I didn’t think you’d figure it out. LOUIS And you can take that plan and shove it up your asshole. Because there’s not going to be any settlement. GORDON Then you’ve got a problem. Because you may have found something on Eli. But turns out, I got more. LOUIS Bullshit. You’re bluffing. GORDON Pick up the phone. Ask Eli if those offers are still valid. They’re not. And not only that. We go to trial, he writes me an affidavit saying you extorted him to employ those partners after he told you there’s no way he’d ever hire a single lawyer that came from your firm. LOUIS What do you want? GORDON You know what I want. But I’ll tell you what. Since Harvey’s not here, you take my offer right now, I might even leave your name up on the new firm. LOUIS Get out of my sight, you smug piece of shit. GORDON It’s your funeral. See you in court, Sparky. MIKE Hey. What’s going on? I got your message. OLIVER We just blew a small fortune on jack shit. MIKE Don’t tell me. The soil reports still didn’t come in. OLIVER Worse. Those samples came back and they’re all negative. MIKE Negative? No, there’s no way. OLIVER It’s right here, Mike. MIKE Then they must not have tested deep enough to OLIVER They took samples down to ten feet. There isn’t enough lead in there to fill a pencil. MIKE Oh, my god. I don’t believe this. They fixed the results. OLIVER They did, but not how you think. Six months ago, the school got an anonymous donation to redo its grounds. They called it a beautification project. MIKE And let me guess. They beautified every inch of soil down to ten feet. OLIVER Yeah. And I didn’t think anything of it at the time, because the plans just said it was adding new trees. MIKE Oh, god. Those They They knew this was coming and then they got rid of the evidence. RACHEL Mike. MIKE Rachel, please tell me you found something. RACHEL I did, but it’s not good. MIKE What now? RACHEL I did some checking. Mike, Andy Forsyth’s been in Seattle for the past year opening his own firm. The job was real. He had nothing to do with cutting the funding for the clinic. MIKE Okay, we might not have a way to get them on that. But we know that they did this. We need to find the connection between this beautification project and Discharge Power, and we need to find it now. LILLIAN I went to every single meeting of the City Council. They promised to build new apartments before they tore this place down. I’ve got the contract right here. See? Memorandum of Agreement. HARVEY And how did you feel when you found out a Memorandum of Agreement isn’t legally enforceable? LILLIAN I felt like a fool, that’s what I felt like. That apartment is my home. I’ve paid rent on it for fifty-one years. I live there with my daughter and my grandchildren. This is our community. Our home. And we don’t deserve to be thrown out in the street like dogs. HARVEY No, Lillian. You don’t. But the developer’s saying there’s other housing available out there for you. LILLIAN Maybe. But he didn’t say none of that when he asked us to sign on that dotted line. And a man who would lie like that would sell his own mother to make a dollar. HARVEY Thank you. KERI I’m glad you brought up the question of character, Ms. Cook. Because I’d like to ask you about yours. LILLIAN I don’t have anything to hide. KERI Ms. Cook. Are you related to anyone in this courtroom? LILLIAN What? KERI It’s a simple question. Are you a relative of anyone in this room? And I’d like to point out, you lie under oath, the state penitentiary will be your next home. LILLIAN Jessica Pearson is my niece. KERI Well, isn’t that a small world. HARVEY Relevance. KERI The relevance is that Jessica Pearson is using her own aunt to make a name for herself. LILLIAN That’s not true. My niece cares about the people of my community. KERI And after a lifetime of no contact, did she call you to offer help or did you call her? LILLIAN She called me, but… KERI So, you’re telling the court she contacted you out of nowhere because she cares about the people of Chicago. HARVEY Your Honor, Ms. Cook can’t speak to that. KERI No, she can’t. But somehow, she has. And Your Honor, you said if you found Jessica Pearson to be using a straw man, you would remove her power of attorney. If this isn’t proof of that, then I don’t know what is. HARVEY Your Honor. JUDGE MERRICK I agree. Ms. Pearson, you’re no longer permitted in my courtroom on this matter. As for the “T.R.O.”, you’ll have my ruling within forty-eight hours. HARVEY What the hell? JESSICA What the hell what? HARVEY When were you going to tell me who this woman was? JESSICA I didn’t keep it from you, Harvey. HARVEY No, bullshit. I spent half the night with her last night and there is no way that doesn’t come up unless you hid it from me. JESSICA What difference does it make that I have a personal connection to this case? HARVEY The difference is, they just blind-sided me. JESSICA Harvey, I… HARVEY Look. I put my firm in jeopardy for you. You’re playing me and I’m done with it. JESSICA No, you can’t be done. I still need you. HARVEY I don’t give a shit what you need. I’m getting on the next plane and you can finish this thing yourself. JESSICA What do you want me to say, Harvey? That my father grew up here and he was poor and I didn’t live on Park Avenue for the first ten years of my life? Because I didn’t. HARVEY I didn’t know that. JESSICA Now, you do. HARVEY Well, what does all of that have to do with this? JESSICA My father died eight weeks ago. That woman is his sister. And he turned his back on her and everyone else here. And it ate away at him for his entire life. HARVEY So, you decided to do something about it. JESSICA Yes, I did. HARVEY Okay. JESSICA Okay what? HARVEY I know you have a plan. Tell me what you need. HARVEY I’m trying to figure out which costs more. The king of the jungle up there or putting the Mayor in office. MCGANN I put that thing down myself. You know, and I’m trying to figure out why you New Yorkers don’t know how to make an appointment. HARVEY What I know, Mr. McGann, is how to make a deal. MCGANN Yeah, well, after what happened in court this morning, I don’t think I need to. HARVEY If you think you’ve got this in the bag, you are dead wrong. But you are right about one thing. Jessica Pearson wants to make a name for herself. Starting with a seat on City Council. MCGANN And what does that have to do with me? HARVEY Because all you have to do to make this thing go away is give back enough units to make it look like she got a win. You guarantee her aunt a spot in the new building, then back her when she runs. MCGANN Anything else? You want a park or a bridge named after her? HARVEY Yeah, there is one more thing. You’re not just going to endorse her, you’re going to make a donation. Because without it, everybody’s going to know it’s bullshit. MCGANN You people. You think I’m going to give that woman a dime? HARVEY That’s the beauty of it, Pat. You don’t have to give her a penny. MCGANN A million dollars. HARVEY Cashier’s check. Untraceable. All you’re doing is giving her own money back. MCGANN Just so we’re clear… your client’s dealing her way into office. HARVEY That’s the Chicago Way, isn’t it? MCGANN So is when she gets there, she remembers who did this for her. HARVEY She wouldn’t have it any other way. LOUIS Well? ALEX It didn’t work. LOUIS What the hell do you mean, it didn’t work? ALEX I mean I went back to Gould and he told me he doesn’t care what we have on those tapes. He’s not helping us because Gordon’s got worse. LOUIS Well, then, what the hell do you suggest? We can’t go to court. The second we sign those partners back, we’re going to be signing our own death warrants. ALEX Not necessarily. LOUIS What do you mean, not necessarily? ALEX I mean if we make the deal sweet enough when they come back over, they’ll forget all about Rand and Kaldor’s promises. LOUIS And that would work, except for the fact that there are years of bad blood between me, Harvey and every one of those people. They don’t trust us. ALEX But maybe they’ll trust me. LOUIS What? ALEX I know this sounds crazy. But if we make me Managing Partner until we can… LOUIS I don’t believe this. Harvey leaves for two days and you want to throw his shit into the street? ALEX I’m not saying that. LOUIS Well, it sure as hell sounds like you are. ALEX Goddamn it, Louis, I’m trying the best I can. LOUIS Well, then, try something else. Because giving you the reins a half hour before we drive off a cliff isn’t going to do shit. JESSICA Hey. Uh, can I come in? ANGELA It’s late. Everyone’s sleeping. JESSICA Please. I’ll only be a minute. I’m sorry about what happened this morning. I know they used your mother to try to paint me as self-serving, but… ANGELA Look, that’s all well and good, Jessica. But right now, I’m wondering if it’s them using her or you. JESSICA Angela, I’m not using your mother. ANGELA Then why did they give us our choice of apartments if she sells out everyone around us? JESSICA Who’s they? ANGELA That’s all you have to say? Who’s they? JESSICA No, I didn’t mean it that way. ANGELA Look, they is the lady you say is using us. She told us all about the deal your handsome friend is making. JESSICA Angela, that woman is not your friend. She’s trying to… ANGELA I know what she’s trying to do. I want to know what you’re trying to do. JESSICA I’m trying to reconnect with my family. And make things better at the same time. ANGELA I remember when you first started coming around here. My mother was so happy, she just took you right in. Because that’s all she ever wanted. And don’t get me wrong, I got nothing against you. But your famous surgeon father, he turned his back on us. And from what I can tell, you’re no different. JESSICA The difference is, I’m trying to get to know you. ANGELA Well, if you knew us, you’d know that selling out the people around us ain’t going to make things better. Come here, baby. MIKE Wait a second. When did you say the beautification happened? OLIVER They redid the entire grounds six weeks after we filed suit. RACHEL That doesn’t make any sense. Six weeks is nothing. Something like this doesn’t happen without planning. MIKE Which means they didn’t just know they had liability after we brought the suit. They knew they had it long before that. OLIVER Of course they knew. The question is, how do we prove it? RACHEL No, I think what Mike’s saying is, they knew they had liability. So, they must have had liability insurance. OLIVER They always do. MIKE Yeah, but when they know they need it, they get more. I mean, think about it. Collins offered us a hundred thousand a family inside of fifteen seconds. OLIVER Okay, hold on. I’m getting confused by the math. MIKE Then how’s this for math? The settlement he offered is exactly five times what they’re normally insured for. RACHEL And if a bus driver takes out a policy for ten million dollars and his wife runs him over with a bus, that’s not a coincidence. DONNA Mike, I need to talk to you. MIKE Donna, what is it? DONNA It’s Louis. MIKE What about him? I just talked to him earlier. He was fine. DONNA He’s not fine. He needs your help and I’m here to make sure that he gets it. MIKE Donna, this… DONNA Mike. Harvey said something like this might happen. You gave him your word. MIKE Let’s go. RACHEL Mike, we got this. KERI How did you get in here? JESSICA What the hell is wrong with you? You had no goddamn business calling my aunt. KERI Sorry to disappoint you, but we’re not entering into an agreement without making sure all of the parties are on board. JESSICA And it’s up to me to deliver her. KERI Did you really think that we weren’t going to do our due diligence? I know you think Harvard is the only law school in the country, but we have a pretty good one here, too. And I was President of its Law Review. JESSICA I don’t give a shit if you’re the Sultan of Brunei. You’re going to set up that meeting between me and the Mayor. KERI And I don’t know how many times I have to tell you this. That’s not going to happen. And I know what you’re going to ask him and the answer’s no. He’s never going to cut me loose. JESSICA And why would I ask him that? KERI Because we both know you’re right. I was the one who went after your license. But if you think he’s going to get rid of me for that you don’t understand the way things work around here. JESSICA Oh, I understand how things work. And it’s been going on since the beginning of time. KERI He keeps me around because I do what it takes without having to be asked. I don’t complain about it and it never comes back on him. So, you get your aunt on board or don’t. But don’t ever come in here thinking the Mayor is going to be the answer to your problems again. JESSICA I don’t need the Mayor, Keri. Because I have the man you said was the real player here in the first place. So, if I were you, I’d start brushing up on my résumé. HARVEY How did it go? JESSICA Change of plans. You’re calling Pat McGann and telling him it’s me or her. HARVEY Jessica, they don’t know you. You can’t ask that much. JESSICA Yes, I can. HARVEY I’m telling you it’s a bad idea. JESSICA And I need you to do it anyway. DICKENS Need a lift? JESSICA I have a car coming. Thanks. DICKENS You sure? Beautiful woman downtown all alone, middle of the night. It isn’t safe. JESSICA And isn’t your usual route the airport? DICKENS My work takes me all kinds of places. JESSICA And what exactly is your work? DICKENS I make problems go away. And I love my job. JESSICA You think you can scare me with your threats? DICKENS Lady, if all I did was make threats, then I wouldn’t even have a job. Looks like your ride’s here after all. You have a safe night. JESSICA Where the hell were you? DRIVER The police came. They told me I couldn’t stay here. I had to drive around the block. JESSICA Next time, goddamn text me. DRIVER Ma’am, are you okay? JESSICA Just take me home. MIKE Louis. Are you working in here? LOUIS Sometimes I like to sit at my old desk after everyone is gone. What are you doing here? MIKE I, uh, thought maybe you could use some help on the Gordon lawsuit. LOUIS What about the clinic? You said you were in the middle of it. MIKE Ah, it’s okay. Rachel and Oliver are working on it. LOUIS Donna told you, didn’t she? MIKE Yeah. She did. LOUIS Goddamn it. MIKE She was just doing her job, Louis. LOUIS It’s not her job to get you to bail me out, Mike. MIKE Louis. It’s not your fault. LOUIS That statement was my idea. I went to Gordon with it in the first place. And we can pretend that that’s not what got us here, but it is. MIKE Well, right now, I’m less concerned with what got us here than what’s going to get us out. LOUIS You have an idea? MIKE I do. They want us to offer them partnerships here. So, what if we do that, but we also ask Zane to come over and to bring enough people so that we can outvote them? LOUIS Zane will never go for it. We’ve asked him a thousand times. MIKE Have we ever asked him right after Rand and Kaldor cut his legs out? LOUIS What about Harvey? He comes back to find out we’ve merged. MIKE He trusted us enough to take care of this. If this is what we have to do, then this is what we have to do. You make sure they get the offer in the morning. Leave the rest to me. ZANE First Louis. Then Rachel. My money was on Harvey being next. MIKE He’s in Chicago helping Jessica. ZANE He’s in Chicago? When his firm is in an all out war? MIKE We’re a family, Robert. We told him we’d have his back. ZANE Uh-huh. Then get to it. The world thinks my heart lies with you anyway, so you might as well tell me what you need. MIKE Alright. I don’t know how to say this, so I’m just going to say it. We need you to come over and join the firm. ZANE What? MIKE You come over, you bring twenty people who are loyal to you, and we will have enough votes to still keep control. ZANE Here, let me get this straight. You want me to sneak out of my own house in the middle of the night? You’re talking about a place I built with my own two hands. MIKE A place that we both know isn’t yours anymore. ZANE How is this even supposed to work? Whose name comes first? Who’s the Managing Partner? MIKE We can work it out later. ZANE No, we’re going to work this out goddamn now. MIKE Well, I can’t do that. ZANE Are you shitting me? Does Harvey even know you’re here? MIKE No. But he told us to do whatever it takes to save the firm. And as far as I can tell, this is the best way to save both our asses. ZANE Would you leave your home? Would Jessica? Would Harvey? Because I don’t think so. MIKE Maybe not. But like you said, the world thinks your heart lies with us anyway. Maybe it really does. MIKE Hey. How did it go with Oliver? RACHEL He got a lead on the policies, but he can’t get to them until the morning. MIKE Good. RACHEL Well? MIKE Well what? RACHEL Did you talk to my dad? Louis told me. MIKE He said he’d think about it. RACHEL So, basically, if my dad doesn’t come around by tomorrow, Specter Litt could cease to exist. MIKE Which ironically means the only way we still have jobs is if we’re both working for your dad. RACHEL Unless we aren’t. MIKE What are you talking about? RACHEL Mike, I went and saw Andy Forsyth today. That job still exists. MIKE Wait a second. You went to see him about us moving to Seattle? RACHEL I asked you what you would think if I said I’d consider it. MIKE Rachel… RACHEL Just hear me out. And if you don’t want to do it, we won’t do it. But Mike, we’re young. And we don’t have any kids yet. And if we’re ever going to do something like this in our lives now’s the time. MIKE If we do this, we’d have to leave within days. RACHEL I know. MIKE And what about the wedding? RACHEL What about it? MIKE We’re not going to fly back here in six weeks to have it. RACHEL We could delay it. MIKE I don’t want to delay it. RACHEL We could move it up. MIKE Then let’s move it up. I’m serious. We can make that happen. Whoever can make it, makes it. Whoever can’t, can’t. RACHEL Wait. Do you really want to take this job? MIKE I don’t know if I want to take this job or not. But what I do know is that I’ve wanted to marry you from the second I met you, and I am tired of waiting. So, tomorrow, Oliver’s going to find the answer or not. Either way, we should do this. RACHEL I can’t believe it. It’s so exciting. DONNA Oh, Jesus Christ, what is it now? RACHEL It’s nothing bad. But it is urgent. DONNA What’s going on? RACHEL I don’t want to get into why, but Mike and I decided to move up the wedding. And we need a miracle worker to make it happen. DONNA Holy shit. Are you sure? RACHEL I’m not just sure, I’m excited. DONNA Then I just have three questions for you. Band or D.J.? What kind of food? And rustic chic or glam all the way? RACHEL And if I thought you didn’t already have the answer to all those questions, I wouldn’t have come to you in the first place. DONNA I love you, Rachel. RACHEL I love you, too, Donna. RACHEL One more thing. You can’t tell Harvey or Jessica. DONNA Rachel. RACHEL Please. Mike and I don’t want the start of our new life to ruin theirs. DONNA Okay. PATRONS MCGANN Ms. Pearson. JESSICA Aren’t you a gentleman. MCGANN Well, I was taught to stand for a lady. JESSICA Well, whoever taught you taught you well. I’m glad you decided to call. What’s good here? MCGANN I don’t give a shit what’s good here. I just came to give you this. JESSICA I’m not used to being stuck with the check. MCGANN And I’m not used to being played by two assholes from out of town. JESSICA No one’s playing anybody, Pat. This is a simple business transaction. MCGANN Well, I don’t do business with people who force me to fire my friends. JESSICA Listen to me. This doesn’t have to… MCGANN Enjoy your meal. It’s on me. JESSICA Then I guess I’ll see you in court. MCGANN Maybe. But you’re going to have to have someone else handle your case for you. JESSICA What did you do? MCGANN I didn’t do anything. See, apparently, Mr. Slick didn’t follow all the procedures for filing out of state. Turns out Judge Merrick’s a real stickler about these things. But don’t worry. I’m sure your boy’s going to be able to reapply in another twelve months. LOUIS Goddamn it, Mike. Gordon’s about to get here and I have to make a decision. I have not heard from you and I have not heard from Zane. Please call me back as soon as you get this. GORDON Okay, Louis. I’m here. Court’s starting in ten minutes. So, what is it? We going to trial or are you going to take on these partners? What the hell’s going on? Are we doing this or not? LOUIS Alright, Stanley. You win. Give me the agreement. GORDON Signed and ready to go. ZANE Stanley. GORDON Robert, what the hell are you doing here? ZANE I just came to make sure that the paperwork was in order for your clients to come over and join our new firm. And before you can say your little army can block it, it already happened this morning, while you were in here. GORDON You son of a bitch. I always knew you had a thing for Jessica Pearson. ZANE You watch your mouth. LOUIS Robert, I got this. Stanley. Why don’t you move your fat face away from mine? Because I need to talk to my new partner. Sparky. GORDON This isn’t over. LOUIS Why the hell did you not tell me about all of this? ZANE Because if there’s one thing I know about my new partner if he would have known what we were up to, he would have found a way to shit it up. One other thing. When Harvey gets back, you tell him my name goes up there first. HARVEY What’s going on? Did the Judge make a ruling? JESSICA More like a statement. McGann had you kicked off the case. HARVEY What? Bullshit. He can’t get away with that. JESSICA He can. But it doesn’t matter anymore. I got this. HARVEY Jessica, these people aren’t messing around. They do this to me, you don’t know what else they’ll do. JESSICA And my record is as good on the road as it is at home. I’m sticking to the plan. HARVEY Then I’m riding shotgun with you. JESSICA The hell you are. You’re going home. HARVEY I’m not going anywhere. JESSICA Harvey. When were you going to tell me Mike and Rachel moved up their wedding? HARVEY When you were out of trouble, that’s when. I didn’t know myself until an hour ago. JESSICA Well, now, you know. You’re the closest thing that kid has to family. If you’re not there for him, you’re going to regret it for the rest of your life. HARVEY Jessica. JESSICA Harvey. This is my family here. I denied they existed for too long, and I’m going to take care of them. Now, you need to go. Take care of yours. HARVEY Be careful with these people. JESSICA I will. MIKE Before I ask you my question, I want to make sure you understand what the penalty for perjury is. EVANS I know what perjury is. MIKE And do you also know that twenty of your executives pulled their kids from Treetop Elementary School within the first six months of the plant opening? COLLINS Objection. Relevance. MIKE The relevance is that they knew what they were doing. That’s why they pulled their kids from school, pulled soil from the ground… COLLINS You have no proof of that. MIKE No. But I do have proof that your client increased the insurance policy on that plant to fifteen million dollars. The exact amount of the settlement you offered us. And five times the amount you have on any other plant. EVANS That was a very generous offer. MIKE No, it’s what you’ve been prepared to pay for almost a year. EVANS That’s not true. MIKE Which part isn’t true? The insurance policy? Because I have that right here. COLLINS Objection. Badgering. JUDGE Overruled. MIKE Mr. Evans, I am asking you under oath. Why is one plant insured for so much more than all the others? EVANS I’m not in charge of our insurance policies. MIKE Your name is on the policy. Isn’t that right? I remind you, Mr. Evans, you’re under oath. COLLINS I’d like a moment with my client. MIKE And I’d like him to answer the goddamn question. JUDGE The witness will answer the question. MIKE Why so much insurance? EVANS What do you want me to say? MIKE I want you to admit that you knew the plant was toxic and you covered it up. EVANS Alright, we knew. We took precautions, but they didn’t work. And the plant was already open, so we offered to make things right. What else do you want? MIKE What I want is for those kids to have never gotten sick in the first place. But that’s not going to happen now, thanks to you. You can’t make this right. But you sure as hell can do better than say each of these innocent children’s lives is only worth a hundred thousand dollars. COLLINS What’s it going to take? MIKE A million dollars a family. Right now, take it or leave it. COLLINS Done. JESSICA I know you prefer appointments, but you left something at the restaurant. MCGANN I didn’t leave anything. JESSICA You left your leverage. MCGANN What is this? JESSICA It’s a photo shoot. Starring you giving me a cashier’s check for one million dollars. Not ten minutes before removing my lawyer from the case and one day before I withdraw my suit to shut you down. MCGANN Which would mean I paid you off to drop this thing. JESSICA It sure does look that way, doesn’t it? MCGANN You’re willing to make it look like you’re that corrupt. JESSICA Your people did that when they took away my license. And now that I’m not an attorney anymore, it’s not illegal for me to drop this thing. But for you to pay me to drop it, that’s a crime. MCGANN I didn’t pay you. JESSICA Good luck convincing a jury of that. MCGANN I will. Because that was a cashier’s check. It didn’t come from me. JESSICA And all you’d have to do to prove that is to open up your bank account. I didn’t think so. And Pat, this is a Federal Housing Project. So, in case you’re thinking of trying anything funny the Judge, the Jury and the prosecution will not be from Chicago. Have a good night. DICKENS How’s your night going? JESSICA My night is just fine. And you can tell your boss if he’s still trying to intimidate me, he’s wasting his time. DICKENS Or you can tell him yourself. JESSICA I just did. DICKENS I’m not talking about Patrick McGann. I’m talking about Mayor Novak. JESSICA You work for the Mayor. DICKENS Yeah, I do. And he would like to see you right now. JESSICA And how do I know you’re not going to take me somewhere and drop me off the roof of a building? DICKENS Because that’s a city car, I’m on duty, and we both know the man who took your little photo shoot with Mr. McGann is camped out across the street. JESSICA Then let’s go. DICKENS One condition. The paparazzi stays here. JESSICA This is pretty far out of the way. I’m not even sure we’re in Chicago anymore. NOVAK I usually try to meet blackmailers outside the office. JESSICA Just for the record, I’m not the one who started this throw-down. NOVAK It doesn’t matter who started it. We’re here to finish it. JESSICA What did you have in mind? Guns or knives? NOVAK I was thinking more along the lines of an embrace. Here’s the thing, Ms. Pearson. Your little stunt could cost me the election, no doubt about it. But if you pull the pin on that grenade, I guarantee you the least that happens is your hand gets blown off, too. JESSICA I’m waiting for the embrace part. NOVAK Well, here it is. You’re a formidable woman. Instead of creating problems for me, you should be fixing them. JESSICA Are you offering me a job? NOVAK I’m offering you an opportunity. JESSICA What the hell does Pat McGann have on you? NOVAK We’re not talking about Pat. We’re talking about you. JESSICA Okay, let’s talk about me. Why the hell should I get into bed with a man like you? NOVAK Because you ran one of the best law firms in New York. You had money, you had power, you had influence… JESSICA And you’re going to have to do a hell of a lot better than that. Because I left it all behind to make a difference. NOVAK And how’s that going? You’re not even a lawyer anymore. You really want to make a difference? Take this job. Do things from the inside. JESSICA It sounds like you want me to clean up your messes, not make a difference. NOVAK I’m not a charity, I’m a politician. And you can’t have one without the other. JESSICA Well, tell me this, Mr. Mayor. How’s your current number two going to feel if I replace her? Because if I come work for you, it’s not going to be as number three. NOVAK That’s between you and her. The only thing I give a shit about is that you drop that lawsuit and never mention the North Park Housing Project again. JESSICA What? NOVAK Did you really think you were going to get something for nothing here? The lawsuit disappears. That is non-negotiable. JESSICA No way. NOVAK What choice do you have? Your sidekick’s gone. You’re off the case. JESSICA Bullshit. NOVAK It’s over anyway. JESSICA Nothing is over. I’ll find a way. NOVAK What the hell are you fighting for? JESSICA I made a promise to my family. NOVAK We’ll take care of your family. JESSICA They don’t want taking care of. They want their community taken care of. NOVAK So, figure out how to do it working for me. Because I don’t care what you think you have on Pat McGann. That project’s going up. And I need an answer by tomorrow. MIKE I can’t believe you actually pulled this off. DONNA Yeah, you can. MIKE You told him. DONNA Yeah, Mike. I did. Because Rachel trusted me to put this wedding together. And it wouldn’t have felt like a celebration without Harvey. MIKE Thanks, Donna. DONNA See you up there. MIKE Yeah. Just in time. I didn’t think you were going to be able to make it. HARVEY What can I say? I like to make an entrance. MIKE It’s going to be awkward when my real best man shows up. HARVEY Oh, I think it’s clear who the best man is. MIKE Mm. Okay, maybe. Good. Not the best. HARVEY Hey. You ready for this? MIKE Yeah, I am. HARVEY I think you are, too. MIKE From the first second I met you, I knew I wanted to be here with you someday. Walking down the aisle, arm-in-arm. RACHEL I know that I fought it at first. But now, Mike, I can’t imagine living alongside anyone else for the rest of my life. MIKE If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that we never know what the future holds. And that can be a scary thing. But I know that there is nothing that I can’t handle when I have you by my side. RACHEL You are the strongest man I have ever met. And you make me stronger. You’re the husband I’ve always wanted. And I can’t wait to begin our adventure together. FATHER WALKER Do you, Michael James Ross, take Rachel Elizabeth Zane to be your lawfully wedded wife? MIKE I do. FATHER WALKER And do you, Rachel, take Michael to be your lawfully wedded husband? RACHEL I do. FATHER WALKER Then I now pronounce you man and wife. GUESTS MIKE Cheers. HARVEY I’ve got to say, Mike. Those were some beautiful vows. Especially the part about family. MIKE Thanks, Harvey. And I didn’t get to say it before, but I’m really glad you made it. HARVEY Me, too. But I should be the one who’s saying thank you. You saved the firm. MIKE Harvey. HARVEY And before you say anything, let me just say I was wrong. You’re Senior Partner material. You are ready. And when you come back from your honeymoon… MIKE We’re not coming back, Harvey. Rachel and I were offered a chance to run a firm in Seattle. It’s a… It’s a place that only takes class action cases against Fortune Five Hundred companies. And… well, we’ve decided to go for it. HARVEY Mike. MIKE Harvey, when Donna came to me and told me the firm was in trouble, I did exactly what I told you I would. But I don’t ever want to have to make a choice like that again. HARVEY You don’t have to. If you want to do more pro bono cases… MIKE It’s not the point, Harvey, and you know it. This is who I am. It’s who I’ve always been. It’s time, Harvey. It’s time. MALONE Jessica, good. I’m glad you’re here. I need to talk to you. JESSICA I need to talk to you first. MALONE What is it? JESSICA Starting on Monday, I’m working for the Mayor. MALONE What? JESSICA Jeff. MALONE You sold out your family? JESSICA I didn’t sell them out. He’s giving me an opportunity to change things from the inside. And I’m taking it. MALONE Jessica, you’re making a mistake. JESSICA I told you I can take care of myself. MALONE And what if you can’t? JESSICA What is that supposed to mean? MALONE I talked to my friend over at Justice. They’re looking at your new friends for the murder of that original plaintiff. Which means if you get into bed with them, you either end up like that plaintiff, or you end up like them. JESSICA What makes you think I can’t handle a local politician and a shady real estate developer? MALONE So you’ve already made up your mind. JESSICA Yes. I have. MALONE Well. I just hope that you’re the first person in the world who can lie down with dogs and not come up with fleas. DONNA Hey. HARVEY What do you say? DONNA I don’t mind if I do.