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  1. I liked the episode, which surprised me. Some of the good things: Louis being the bulldog he was meant to be when the firm is on the line, and not some butthurt punchline, particularly with Bernard. No "I'm Donna!" attitude, but just sensible support of everyone. Jessica's general awesomeness. Some classic Harvey-Mike moments. Even Hardman and Forstman's involvement was reasonably well done. Dare I hope this is a prelude to rebooting the show? Like I would love for Harvey and Jessica and Louis to walk away from PSL, and then for Mike to be like, "Surprise! I am a fraud and my good buddy Jack who put me up for partnership knew," So now ATL has gone back to being a deliberate cats paw instead of a reluctant one? Does that make sense?
  2. Real world -- at least in my case -- you also are supposed to report where you have lived for the 10 years prior, your schools, and other info. You also have to get letters of recommendation to vouch for your character. All of this would trip Mike up, assuming anyone bothered to check. Records would show no sign of him graduating college or Harvard Law, and no signs of him living 2-3 years in Boston, while showing signs of living in New York. He would have no recs, because he never knew any law professors or lawyers.
  3. Part of the issue would be how much she knows about his previous lie and when she found out about it. For instance, let's say that their relationship and her finding out about him lying about going to Columbia took place in 2010. It would be extremely fishy for Mike to finish three years of law school (the norm), and to put in enough time at a firm like PSL to be a partner. (It typically takes at least 4 years to be considered for partner, is my understanding).
  4. From the episode thread on Mea Culpa: I get that it's part of the show's DNA, but the trouble is that the Powers that Be have at this point taken suspension of disbelief past its breaking point while simultaneously undermining pretty much all the lead characters. Even at the start, it is a tough pill to swallow that no one realized Mike was not a Harvard Law grad. How did Mike think he was going to pull it off? Why would Harvey suggest it knowing the ramifications if caught? But then as the show progressed we learned that Mike had previously lied about being a law student and got found out, and that he hasn't even graduated from college. Then we see all sorts of people coming to learn the secret. When those in the know were just Mike, Harvey and Donna, maybe you could think that you could get away with it. But now we're up to 10 or so people, including people who are definitely untrustworthy (Trevor, ethically challenged Harvard prof, Louis), it seems time to reconsider. Also, with every passing day, the stakes are higher. If it had come out after a week, a month, maybe even a year of Mike being a fraud, there would have been limited damage since Mike would have been just an associate and would not have a big role on any given case. But now, when the secret comes out, hundreds of clients at a minimum will be lining up to sue PSL if/when it gets out. Even if they got a good result, the fact that PSL billed him at say, $400/hour, when he was a non-lawyer is an issue. And for any cases he may have lost, it's textbook malpractice. Hundreds of opponents will probably be looking to revisit any deals that they reached where Mike had any involvement. People will be asking when did they know Mike was a fraud, and the answer won't be pretty. At least as portrayed, this could bring the firm to its knees if it got out. So we are effectively being asked to believe Mike is a sociopath who is willing to gamble with the professional and financial lives of Jessica, his best friend Harvey, his fiancee Rachel, and hundreds of other employees at PSL as well as clients. Harvey and Jessica are willing to let him risk everything they've built because he's that special. Rachel is willing to risk seeing the man she loves go to jail and deal with her family's disappointment at her foolish choice.\ The show is trying to have it both ways: our heroes are brilliant attorneys capable of achieving greatness who at the same time have the stupidest blind spot in allowing Mike Ross to continue as an employee when his presence contaminates everything they do.
  5. There would be just as big money in the deal if it were redone without Mike, which is easily done before the paperwork is signed. Indeed, all they really would have had to do is sub Harvey's name for Mike and if Claire noticed, just say "Name partner wanted to be the signatory. You know, politics." and have that be that. The trouble is that even if Mike were to do those things now, all the work he's done for the past four years (or whatever it has been) is still invalid, he still has (in the Suitsverse) committed a crime, and it doesn't really insulate him or the firm. Also, I'm unclear if Mike took the bar exam with the rest of the first-year associates or what the story is on that. It also seems weird that Claire would think "Maybe it's the same Mike Ross I dated for about three weeks years ago." Michael Ross is a pretty common name. In the real world, there appear to be 11 Rosses with the first name Michael and about another dozen with the middle name Michael who are licensed New York State attorneys.
  6. Other thoughts on the episode: I have long defended Rachel as a character but this was not a very good episode for her. She admits to jealousy over a brief relationship Mike had-- and relationship is too strong a word. IIRC, they dated for a pretty short time before Claire's boss called Mike out and Claire was aghast. Rachel, meanwhile, in the not-too-distant past kissed her ex-fiance. Rachel handles a legal matter practically solo when she is still in law school. (Someone who has not passed the bar should not be practicing law alone or holding herself out to be an "associate.") She tells a bunch of transparent lies to Claire and ultimately gets caught when she tries to be sneaky and change the paperwork. When caught, she has no contingency plan but blubbering "Please don't rat out Mike! I love him!" She then LIES to Mike about whether Claire caught on to him. How is it that these two characters can even contemplate getting married to each other? It's clear that neither really trusts the other. And it's clear that the Secret will explode in their face at some point. If they had an honest discussion about what that might mean for a life together, OK. But they aren't. With regard to Harvey, I'm mixed on whether his apology to Louis was honesty or manipulation. I assume he was honest with Jessica when he thought Louis had it coming. I think Louis could use some therapy for getting so heated up about Harvey shagging his sister and breaking his promise. The explanation he gave in passing was that there was a whole history of guys pretending to be his friend so they could try to hook up with Esther. But Harvey has long known Louis and long been his friend/frenemy. So I don't see why them hooking up would open that old wound. And like others have pointed out Esther and Harvey are consenting adults. ATL wasn't so much annoying or trouble-making this episode. I think I like him better in that mode, even if the reasons for him to be annoying and trouble-making were basically arbitrary. I'd much rather have him as an active and willing catspaw for Hardman (for whatever reason) than a blackmailed one. Because as another poster said, the rational choice when being blackmailed by Hardman would be to fess up to Jessica and co. and get everyone on the same page. This whole notion of "a bunch of us don't like you because everything comes so easy to you" doesn't seem to fit very well. Maybe it's because we have been watching closely what Harvey's been through for the last three years, but he obviously works hard and gets awesome results and he has been the target of some serious stuff.
  7. Previously, Mike had dated a law student/lawyer named Claire and pretended to be a law student to impress her but got found out. Despite all sanity, Jessica allowed Mike to become a junior partner, and his first case as junior partner has Claire as opposing counsel. So Rachel is forced to cover for Mike, because knowing how Mike lied originally would likely lead her to discover he did not go to Harvard. One thing leads to another, and the dealings eventually involve a background check of all who are involved. That leads Rachel to try to remove Mike's name from the paperwork, which leads to Claire catching on, which leads to Rachel begging Claire to not snitch Mike out. Rachel lies to Mike about how she handled it, and that leads Mike to talk to Claire about why she didn't rat him out. Claire tells him that eventually the Secret will come out and that if Mike really loved Rachel he wouldn't marry her because marrying her means she will have to deal with his BS when it finally does blow up.
  8. Obvious to us, but not necessarily to outward appearances. In terms of things he did that seemed over-the-top, calling Datak a haint and being a little paranoid was about the worst, and that's explainable by guilt/stress, and, of course, that Datak probably deserves to be called worse than a haint considering all the shady stuff he's done. Also, it is not like they have too many backups. Irisa was recently whackadoo and genocidal. Until recently, she had frozen to the point where she couldn't kill. Berlin has peaced out. It seems like everyone else who works for the lawkeeper is on strict redshirt status (like the poor guy Stahma killed about 2 episodes back).
  9. I would love it if they had Mike come clean as a fraud, taking the hit for all the various people who knew he in fact is a fraud. And then either moving forward to Magical Christmasland where he is forgiven by prosecutors and the bar for being a fraud and continues where we basically are, or he serves his time, gets out, graduates law school and becomes a real lawyer by hanging up his own shingle, perhaps with Harvey, perhaps with Rachel or whatever. Because let's face it: Mike doesn't believe in the work that PSL does. He's always wanting to fight the big corporations and for the underdog. Having Ross & Zane going up against Pearson Specter Litt all the time could be interesting. I think remaking the show by getting rid of the Secret, getting rid of the boring-ass firm drama and making Mike more rootable (and giving Rachel something substantive to do) would be a huge step forward.
  10. It seems like it's been a while since Harvey has actually done anything have to do with the law. Now for some observations about real-world law vs. Suitsverse law: It happens to be unethical for a lawyer to sleep with one of his clients, for reasons that should be obvious, especially when that client is going through a divorce and is emotionally vulnerable. So Harvey should be concerned about more than just Louis finding out that he f---ed Esther. Speaking of unethical, a lawyer generally has to respect a client's wishes. So if the client says she wants to settle a case, for a while you can stress that you might think settlement is a bad idea, etc. But eventually, you're bound by the client's wishes. So Louis totally should not file a countersuit without getting his client's permission. I'm pretty sure that if an attorney -- even in chambers -- referred to something another attorney said or did as "bullshit" in the presence of a judge, that judge would educate the attorney about proper decorum. It should be obvious that if a senior partner wants you to do something and you're just an associate, you just have to do it. with a smile on your face. You definitely don't get to openly spit in his face as Mike Ross did to Annoying Troublemaking Lawyer (ATL). The "I faked those 200 e-mails" resolution to the court case is ridiculous. Even putting aside the massive ethical breach of presenting forged evidence as real evidence and the difficulty of faking that many e-mails, there's the simple tactical issue of it not being a viable strategy. Whatevercorp would just go back and check their e-mails and learn that they were forged. Then there's the whole "we won't press criminal charges against you if you turn over your e-mails" deal. PSL is a civil firm. The only people basically who can press criminal charges are prosecutors -- district attorneys and U.S. attorneys. Wasn't the whole idea about taking Esther on as a client that there'd be lots of money in it? Why would Harvey not want to take Esther's actual case? Esther says she didn't realize that her brother was a damn good lawyer until he represented her. Hmm...wasn't the Harvard Law degree with honors, plus years at a top New York law firm, culminating in being a name partner there, enough of a clue that he might have something going on? Switching gears: I'm kind of tired of seeing Harvey hulk out and not have the slightest clue about handling his emotional baggage. The notion that a 40-something man would not have the basic emotional self-control to prevent himself from hitting first Tanner and now Louis when taunted about his childhood is pathetic. I also had a scary thought: Could ATL either be Harvey's half-brother or the child of some marriage that his whore of a mom broke up? By all that is holy, let it not come to pass!
  11. Harvey's mom was a cheat and Harvey found out as a child and was told to keep it from his dad. Then eventually she left him and Papa Harvey. This is where Harvey has gotten his "emotions make you weak" and "loyalty is all-important" philosophies, as well as his abandonment issues. On another front, am I being nostalgic for a time when the show had Harvey as someone who would bend, but never ever break, the rules (other than allowing Mike to be a fraudulent lawyer, anyway)? In this episode, he was attempting to suborn perjury from his therapist without blinking an eye about it. Over Donna. We're to believe that she found out some number of people who had weddings lined up for the Plaza, did enough research to find one that she could fool/blackmail into dropping the date, and is to be complimented for that? So Annoying Troublemaking Lawyer is such an annoying troublemaking lawyer because he's a catspaw for Hardman? Why would he want to be? More importantly, why would Jessica apparently know that he's a catspaw for Hardman and not purge him long before this?
  12. raven, I agree with just about everything that you said except for the part about the tunneling. As far as I can tell, there's really no defense that can be employed against it, other than extend the stasis net so deep underground that tunneling underneath is impractical. Even if you have to start three miles out of town and go 4 miles down to get under an extended stasis net, it seems to me that you can pop up somewhere in town, whether it's in the mines or under a building or what not. I guess one could get extra stasis net generators so that you could protect the entirety of the underneath of the town, but that seems like it would take a lot of power. Also, am I correct and the stasis field is more of a fence and less a dome? In other words, someone could hypothetically get in an airplane or a balloon or whatever and drop whatever they want on Defiance? And on an unrelated note, I wish the show had given some reason why the Earth Republic had not intervened, or for that matter, the Votanis Collective proper (as opposed to the rogue part that Rahm represents). Surely the notion of a VC group threatening to slaughter a town should move them. And even if the notion of hundreds/thousands of innocents killed doesn't move them, there's still the gulanite that they would want to protect. And on the flipside, the VC sent Rahm's wife as an envoy so they showed some concern. But one would think that they'd intervene more strongly when it was clear he'd gone completely off the reservation.
  13. As a point of order, Tex wiped out only about half the militia, although presumably the best half. Nolan had Amanda take the other half and surround the building in case Alpha Team (my term, not the show's) was killed, with orders not to let anyone through. I bet for the right p---y or pancakes, some people might betray their species. Especially if they don't think of there being consequences to that betrayal. Certainly, people have turned traitor for not much more.
  14. I think the swearing has been somewhat toned down from last season, actually. 2. That's unfortunately Louis. He simultaneously is supposed to be this brilliant, cutthroat and tireless attorney and at the same time just wants a hug and an occasional pat on the head. Thank goodness for Rick Hoffman's ability to sell the charater. 4. Seems to me that Sokoloff has been pretty much checkmated, at least for now. As Jessica told him, he can at any time be fired for his involvement in leaking Harvey's salary info. The only way he can go over the top of that is getting something to make himself unfireable, or at least to make for mutually assured destruction. So if they are going to continue with this plotline, presumably he will discover the Secret and use it as a weapon against Harvey and/or the rest of our heroes. Joy. The problem with the whole Sokoloff plotline is that there's nothing understandable that motivates him. With most of the foils for our heroes, we could readily understand. Hardman didn't like being pushed out of his own firm and wanted to take revenge/control. The SEC guys suspected wrongdoing by the firm and are overzealous. Harvey's old DA boss and Tanner have a personal grudge against Harvey. The Eric Roberts character is just a skeezy manipulator who enjoys screwing people over for fun and profit. Sokoloff's motive for going after Harvey in the hamfisted way he's doing just doesn't make any sense to me.
  15. It's easy to say with the benefit of knowing everything that Nolan should have been more suspicious of Tex. He knows that the Indogenes can pose as humans. He knows that, as of the bar hostage scene, that somehow VC people got into Defiance, etc. etc. However, Tex did save his life, and did appear to be the one who discovered how the VC got into Defiance. So he seemed to do things to earn trust. If anything, it's Tex who was stupid. He could have legitimately killed Amanda and Nolan (along with the rest of the bar hostages) and taken out both its political and military leadership in one swoop. I can "get" why he didn't -- by infiltrating longer, he could find out more about Defiance's defenses and put himself in a position to take them out. Which he mostly did. But he did so in a stupid way. He could have just been "The VC must have booby-trapped the tunnel" after blowing up most of the militia people. And then he could have taken out Nolan, Irisa and Alak at his leisure, returned to the town and been like "We got massacred! Nolan's dead! Irisa's dead! I barely got out alive. I guess I'll have to run the military resistance to my lord and mast...I mean, to that evil no-goodnik Rahm Tahk." He could have also just sniped Nolan and Irisa before even exiting the tunnel and not risk a fist-fight. I think that Nolan's plan actually was better. Sealing up the one tunnel doesn't stop the VC from using whatever cutting technology to open it up again, or from creating a new tunnel. Whereas it's possible with the element of surprise that they could have attacked whatever VC troops were at the end of the tunnel and maybe even the main encampment. Remember, with just Nolan and Irisa, they managed to blow up a major asset for the VC and really should have been able to kill their general. Given that, I think it was a reasonable risk to try to take the fight to the VC. In a normal non-traitor scenario, they could always fall back and implement Amanda's plan later. As for Rahm, in many ways, he was an overconfident buffoon. So I could see, as he said, the notion of Datak coming to him as a broken man would appeal to him. I could see if Defiance had literally sent out anyone else besides Stahma, Rahm would have just shot them dead and kept the blockade going. Historically, there have been at least Pilar and another McCawley who worked with the VC, and we had a mercenary sell them weapons. Not that I disagree about the overall point, but actual humans might stab Defiance in the back just as easily as Indogene spies. Even if he seemed suspicious, there's no real way to check his story of "just passing through to get some mercenary work in some other area." No one is going to know everyone who passes through Defiance, even with the stasis nets up most of the time. Amanda was there at the bar hostage taking and later at the discovery of the tunnel. So if anything about Tex was suspicious to her, she had ample opportunity to say so. Yewll seems to keep largely to herself (at least, I don't remember her socializing with anyone or being much of anywhere that was not her office, the Mayor's office, jail, or a place she was treating someone), so the main way she would know Tex would be if she treated him for something. As for people recognizing Tex as an Indogene, I was hoping that his reaction to Papa Omec would have given him away. I mean, to a normal human, it would be just like "What's the deal with that purple alien guy?" But with him, he seemed to be much more terrified than that, even though he tried to suppress it. At least, that's what I read into what Tex was doing. I was hoping that Nolan would catch that and nip the whole spy thing in the bud.
  16. IIRC, each of the basketballs has been signed by Michael Jordan, one of Harvey's clients, after each of the rings. Maybe Harvey is so cavalier about them because he knows he can always get Michael to sign another six. Or because he doesn't care so much about the money they are worth as the symbolism. Any times he wants he can stand up and look out his Manhattan window with more balls than anyone else. Which reminds me: Other than they can get Sir Charles to do a 30 second cameo, why would Harvey need to/want to go through him to get the Dream Team back together? Especially when, as previously established, he has MJ on speed dial?
  17. So Tanner showed up with representing a former employee of Harvey and Mike's client. This employee has invented a McGuffin while on the payroll of Harvey and Mike's client, and had signed a contract saying that anything she did while working for that client belonged to the client. So that would include the creation of the McGuffin. Tanner came with a settlement offer of giving Harvey's client 15 percent of his client's business to drop the lawsuit. (Which seems like a bs settlement offer, since if Harvey and Mike are right, their client owns 100 percent of the idea. So a fair compromise would be more like 50 percent.) Because of a combination of his need for dick-measuring contests, his desire to get his groove back, and his disdain for Tanner, Harvey isn't interested in settling. Tanner says that Harvey's secretary told him that Harvey wasn't going to go for a TRO (or temporary restraining order, which is basically asking a court to force someone to stop doing something. In this case, presumably to stop Tanner's client from running a business based on the McGuffin she created while working for Harvey's client) until after the meeting. (Which if it's true, Gretchen should be fired for betraying Harvey's confidence). Harvey says that instead, they bought all Tanner's client's debts, put a lien on her property and got the sheriff's to shutter her doors. (Which I know it's not real world, but it would be insane if literally in one day you could first buy all this debt up, get liens filed and get the authorities to shut a business down). When they go to court, Tanner reveals that his client was a minor when she signed the contract. Generally, a minor can't sign an enforceable contract because the law says that they are not mature enough to know what they are doing and shouldn't be taken advantage of. So that would make the "all your base belong to us" contract void, at least hypothetically. Harvey basically accuses Tanner of potentially forging the birth certificate revealing that Tanner's client is a minor. (A fairly big ethical no-no to accuse another lawyer of misconduct without any proof, and a tactically foolish step.) Tanner also somehow got money to pay his client's debts so the stick of padlocking her doors is also taken away from him. He also reveals that he has a countersuit ready to file that would accuse the CEO of Harvey's client of sexually harrassing Tanner's client. Tanner sends a copy of the draft lawsuit to the CEO of Harvey's client directly (which violates that ethical rule about having direct contact with the other side, btw, and also seems a tactically foolish move. Without making it personal, it's a fairly easy business decision to come to some number that makes sense for both sides.). CEO is furious about what the suit might do to his family and wants Harvey to destroy her. Rather than explain the other benefits of settling or pointing out the obvious fact that there's no need to spend time and resources waging a two-front war when he can win with a settlement, Harvey just wants to fight Tanner. Mike thinks that the solution to this is getting Tanner's client to drop him. Which Mike plans to do by unethically talking to Tanner's client by pretending to run into her by accident. (It isn't criminal for a lawyer to contact the opposing party personally, but it is unethical.) In looking into Tanner's client, Harvey (off-screen) learns that she provided the company with a fake ID to support that she was an adult who could sign the contract and attached a copy of her fake ID each year after. So he had her arrested for forgery. Since the threat of prosecution was so scary, the two sides end up settling after all after Tanner withdrew and Katrina took on the case.
  18. Anita disclosed that Laura had made a work-related appointment on that street, so any fears that she was going to be hooking up with someone should have been alleviated. A few people have commented on Toby's not hooking up with the real girl in favor of a fantasy with Anita as unrealistic. I'm of a different mindset. It's easy to idealize someone who is more of a challenge and seemingly unattainable. It's probably even easier when you factor in that Toby literally owes Anita his life. It happens a fair amount in fiction, and probably is not unheard of in real life, where someone goes gaga for a potential girlfriend who is neutral to the notion of a romance or has even shut it down as an idea, while ignoring that there's a perfectly willing and able potential girlfriend right in front of them. Pete has every reason to think his wife is banging her synth physical therapist. Said synth is an adonis, which has to contribute to his feeling inadequate. She has kicked him to the curb, presumably because of said synth physical therapist. And he has been stuck in a job portrayed as second-rate because no one really cares about crimes involving synths. And then finally when a real crime does happen with a synth, he's directed to bury it, because Big Synth doesn't want an investigation. I think he's got every right to feel salty. I think Joe doesn't give a fuck about Anita's feelings or lack thereof. Joe only cares about potentially being caught by Laura.
  19. An incomplete (and possibly inaccurate, for which I apologize in advance) history of The Secret: Mike pretended to be a law student at Columbia to impress a young law student/intern. She and her boss eventually find out that he lied about this. Mike gets expelled from undergrad. He has a druggie friend, Trevor. Mike begins smoking pot, taking tests for people who want great LSAT scores (and possibly, also takes the Bar). In the pilot, Harvey and Mike come up with the wacky idea to have Mike work as a new associate for him despite his lack of law degree. Donna soon finds out. Early on, Mike helps a hacker, and as a thank-you, she manages to get him into Harvard's database and get him a diploma he didn't earn. (Hopefully she hacked whatever university and got him a college degree too, as well as hacked him LSAT scores and such). It's sort of ambiguous how Mike passes the bar. I think the notion was that the hacker also helped make it look like he had done so. As part of the real-world bar, you generally have to pass a written test about the law, and a character/fitness test. The latter would have you say all sorts of stuff about where you lived for the previous 10 years, where you got your degree from, and any criminal background/drug use etc. you have. Lying on any of the form would be grounds for being found unfit. I can't help but think that Mike lied about where he went to school, about not graduating undergrad, etc etc. So the schtick is that then-Pearson Hardman only hires Harvard Law graduates. We see that the associate class Mike in has somewhere between 10-15 people. Presumably, somewhere close to that many people get hired each year. Obviously not a single person who graduated the year Mike claimed to graduate would have seen or known him, nor any of the two classes before or two classes after. Nobody seems suspicious of this. There is drama from Mike hiding the secret from Jessica and Louis, and Mike is unable to pursue a relationship with Rachel because of the secret. Trevor and his girlfriend Jenny know that Mike is not a real law school grad or attorney. So, presumably did Mike's sainted grandmother, but if she realized the implications of it, there was no mention. Soon enough, Trevor decides to rat Mike out to Jessica because Mike started dating Trevor's then-ex girlfriend. Jessica keeps Mike on because reasons. Trevor just sort of faded away, but he could always resurface. So could Jenny. Mike eventually tells Rachel, who responds to the news in the way only Hollywood people might -- by slapping him a couple times and then having sex. Eventually Mike leaves the firm because he's offered a chance to work with an investment banker he'd helped and he would no longer have to be a fraud. That was short-lived. Mike got involved with an EVIL investment banker named Charles Forstman who made Mike sign a deal backstabbing his boss. When the backstabbed boss found out, he fired Mike. Rather than get another investment banking job or do any of the millions of things that someone with total recall and smarts could do with his life, Mike sought to come back to the firm. And rather than thank their lucky stars that they'd cut off their exposure if Mike gets shown to be a fraud, the firm brings him back. Harvey and Louis had an ethics professor who was himself unethical. In the course of dealing with him, the ethics professor realizes that Mike wasn't a student of his, though he claimed to be, and takes a bribe to stay quiet. Louis also makes a deal with the evil investment banker, which leads to a chain of events including Louis quitting. When Mike sees but doesn't recognize a key from Phi Beta Kappa (a legal honor society) that Louis has, Louis reaches the conclusion that the only reason Mike didn't recognize it was because Mike never was Phi Beta Kappa, and by extension, Mike is a fraud. Louis uses that information to bully and blackmail his way into a name partnership.
  20. This season so far, they seemed to have toned down anything about the Secret. Four episodes in and there was just an allusion to being a fraud that took about a half-second. The problem is that there's almost certainly going to be a plot thread where Big Daddy Zane finds out about it or is a threat to find out about it. Also, realistically, with the impending marriage of Mike and Rachel, there should be some discussion of it and maybe even some cold feet. It's one thing to cover for the guy as someone you're dating or even living together with. It's another thing when it's your husband and the father of your future kids who could be going to jail (in Suitsverse) for practicing law without a degree, and where there's a piece of paper proving that you knew about Mike being a fraud for years.
  21. Does he? Jack was boasting that Louis had his back to Harvey IIRC. And although Harvey didn't directly witness Jack telling Louis that he'd better be on the same page with him or he would rat Louis out (which doesn't make sense because it's mutually assured destruction), Harvey knows from years and years of experience with Louis that he will stab people in the back, show horrific judgment, hold grudges and/or fold whenever.
  22. I'm just now binging on the show. But I had a tough time swallowing a) No one on the platform saw that Zoe went to the secluded area of the platform to talk to someone b) the video didn't show Frank going to the secluded area of the platform c) Neither going to the secluded area of the platform nor Frank wearing super-suspicious clothing, the equivalent of Dexter's kill shirt, set off any alarm bells for Zoe d) Neither the video nor people saw Frank departing from the secluded area of the platform post-crash
  23. Harold's plan was a failure in that Harold himself is in custody and Random Rebel #2 is not enjoying sunset at the Golden Gate Bridge as planned but rather is being digested by a half-dozen Abbies.
  24. I am sick of her the "I'm closing my eyes to access data from the ship" deal. But it is a sad thing that Android is more human than Lauren, the same actress's character on Lost Girl.
  25. I hate to be cynical, but there is a good chance that the folks on this and other boards have done more thinking about the possible structure, ramifications and meaning of Omec family/sexual bonds than the writers. It's probable that all this is just to set up potential conflicts and love/lust triangles (Daddy-Daughter-Stahma/Daddy-Stahma-Datak/Daddy-Daughter-Nolan etc.).
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