Despite Peter's hearing, Alicia was working a case - one in which a baby sitter had been murdered, and the father of the children looked to be guilty. As always, the case gave us mystery. Who had killed the girl? Why? What could be proven? And even more interesting, the case brought up questions of ethics. Was there anything actually illegal about Alicia removing certain items from a studio that would likely soon be called a crime scene? After all, it wasn't a crime scene yet, so while morally ambiguous, the Law did not come into play.
But those aspects were not the most interesting of the episode.
Instead, a conversation between Alicia and Cary (Matt Czuchry) reminds us that these two are on probation, and at the end of that 6 months, one of them is going to go. We finally get to see the tender side of Cary, who despite wanting the job so badly, admits that he doesn't want Alicia to go. And she feels the same way. What will the writers to do keep Cary in the picture, while not making us, the audience, roll our eyes if it is contrived?
And then Peter had his trial. Was I the only person cheering when Kalinda (Archie Panjabi), who seemed to have sided with Glenn Childs (Titus Welliver), used her knowledge to alert the judge that if he allowed the evidence in, he would be on the list of clients? Client 12 was pissed off, and I have to think that he granted Peter a new trial not only because he did not want that evidence to be admissible, but because he refused to allow another man to be manipulated by someone or something that could manipulate him too.
And so, Peter comes home. What a brilliant end to the episode, with Peter at the door, home at long last.
So what happens now? How do Peter and Alicia, who still have so much love for each other, but still have so much scar tissue, move forward? Tune in tomorrow night and we can find out together.
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