Though I far prefer Will (Josh Charles) to Diane (Christine Baranski), the latter has been gaining my affections of late. She is not pleased with the idea of working for people whom they suspect strongly t0 be guilty, regardless of the fact that the guilty have equal right to representation. She wants to stay above board, whereas Will just wants to keep the firm afloat.
By the end of the episode, though, they are both in agreement that a better solution than having multiple drug-dealing clients would be to get a new third partner who would bring new clients into the firm, and therefore increase the revenue.
Diane's treatment of Alicia (Julianna Margulies) has also settled. And this at the same time as Will has become more skittish. He has no real idea of how to behave towards Alicia now that Peter (Chris Noth) has been released from prison, so thank God Diane is no longer against our heroine, or she'd be in real trouble.
And, if we weren't already well aware of the strain of Peter and Alicia's relationship, this episode highlighted it brilliantly. We don't really know why Alicia had condoms in her bedside table. Though we know that Zach (Graham Phillips) searched for them at the end of the episode, we don't know that he put them there in the first place. But Peter's reaction to the condoms was so full of jealous pain that we know he could not really blame Alicia if she was sleeping with someone else.
Alicia stayed with Peter when most women would have left, but that does not mean she has forgiven him, or that he has forgiven himself. He wants his wife back. He wants her to want him. But she is still to mad. And he can't trust her because he cannot blame her if she did want someone else, and he knows, as we all do, that Will would be more than willing to help her out there.
Alicia's reaction, though, was perfect. So angry and defiant! She let Peter know that she is not the one who has to earn his trust, and that she is going to do what she wants.
Finally, though, I want to again commend Alan Cumming's character, Eli Gold. When they discovered that Zach's horrid girlfriend, Becca (Dreama Walker) was spreading rumours on Twitter, he shut her down so fast! As he confronted her, she screamed to a passing police officer, but he did nothing as he recognized Gold. Whether Gold hired a police officer he knew to pass at that moment, or whether he knows so many of the police officers in the city is actually hard to guess, considering the type of man he is. But his comment to her was even better than any other part of his plan. "Have you seen Drag me to Hell? It will be just like that."
Mad Men may just have to look out; there's another drama that is hitting the mark every time.
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