The Good Wife - Crash, S01E05

This was the first episode where Alicia (Julianna Margulies) had to make a personal decision in regards to the court case she was working.

The situation? After a train crash, the widows of the three operators who died in the crash are suing the company for compensation, but the company claims the husbands were the cause of the crash. Digging through the information, Alicia gets a tip that the engineer was already aware of the problem that caused the crash. The problem? The tip came from a woman who knew only because she was having an affair with the engineer, and she doesn't want to testify or her husband and family will find out. Alicia will have to put this woman and her family through the same hell that Peter (Christ Noth)'s case caused the Florricks.

And she does her job, puts the woman through hell, but gets justice for the widows. And her young daughter, Grace (Makenzie Vega), told her to do it.

Things also began to develop in Alicia's personal life as the tension between herself and her mother-in-law grows. Jackie (Mary Beth Peil) does not like Alicia much, and defied her by bringing the children to jail to visit Peter though Alicia told her not to. Peter is also aware of the issues, though his mother is also feeding him concerns. When Alicia went to visit him, he became concerned that her relationship with her boss, Will (Josh Charles), was becoming personal. He still loves Alicia and doesn't want her to give up on him. He is terribly jealous, which is almost typical from a man who cheated on her.

His comments on Will were that the man is not exactly as he seems. That may be so, and I can't wait to see where that goes. After all, a good looking, high powered lawyer must have some reason he's still single.

Finally, Diane (Christina Baranski) and Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) had an interesting side plot. Diane had Kalinda follow her boyfriend, under the pretext that he might soon join the firm as a partner. In reality, he was her boyfriend. Kalinda discovered that he was not faithful, and told Diane that, though keeping up the pretense. She also managed to get herself a raise, pointing out how useful she could be, and Diane accepted.

It was nice to see a softer side of Diane, since I'm so used to seeing her as a sort of enemy to Alicia and not as her own multidimensional character.

Can't wait for next week.