With this show, I feel just as much as Professor Keating is prepping her students to be lawyers, she is setting us up to not be sure who is innocent, guilty, and who is walking that grey line like it is a tight rope. For as soon as you pin someone as the culprit in a murder, someone new pops up or there is new information given which throws you off. Making it so, ultimately, while the cast are learning to be a lawyer, you are trying to become a better detective.
Topic 1: Life Father, Like Daughter – Keating, Connor & Laurel
In this week's case, one Max Saint Vincent is accused of killing his wife with a hunter's knife. A murder which seems he may very likely have done for like Colin Sweeney, on The Good Wife, Max is off putting in ways he is a little too comfortable with. For example, he reenacts the would-be murder, at the murder scene, with Connor in front of Keating and her students with panache. Leading to the point of this case which is that Keating does not care if the client is guilty, she cares about doing her job and winning. Something Laurel and Connor significantly help her with due to Oliver (Conrad Ricamora), the IT guy, helping Keating discredit a few witnesses, and then Laurel helping to plant doubt by taking note of not only how the current wife was killed, but using the evidence against Max when it comes to killing his first wife to prove he didn't kill his second.
Leading to a real twist and turn case which really has me thinking Peter Nowalk, the writer of this episode, needs to be committed to more episodes. For with the final reveal being that Eloise, Max's daughter, murdered Max's wife in hopes of getting him a guilty verdict as payback for killing her mom, honestly I felt there was just enough drama to make me happy.
Topic 2: Your Lying, Cheating Heart – Keating & Sam
While, like many, I was quick to damn Keating for her affair with Nate, it seems she wasn't the one to stab her marriage and watch it bleed first. I say this because, like Frank, Sam seemingly has a thing for college students. Of which Lila was one of them, and while it seemed perhaps Keating could have killed her in the first episode, we are now led to believe that perhaps Sam was involved. However, just thinking about the Saint Vincent case makes me wonder if we are being setup. For as much as Keating has doubts due to going through Sam's phone, knowing he messed around with his students before, and him maybe not going to Yale on the night of the murder, she doesn't have unquestionable proof. Much less, though she seems like the victim in all this, it seems her specialty is handling murder cases. So, riddle me this, why wouldn't the woman who usually comes out on top for murder cases, not use what has gotten people off to kill her husband's mistress?
Topic 3: I Will Always Protect You – Wes & Rebecca
Leaving us with the murder of Sam in which most of the scenes are repeated, but we see things from Wes' point of view. Making you wonder if for most of the season that is what is going to happen? The same general scenes repeated over and over, but just from a different person's point of view.
Either way, as the news about Lila spreads around, the cops begin to work their magic and the first person taken down is Lila's boyfriend Griffin. Now, as for how Rebecca comes into this, well she begins to allow Wes to get close to her, or else become a good alibi, by possibly stashing a phone in his apartment, and using his shower and being naked, if just for a few moments, in front of him. Which I don't want to say is her seducing him, but certainly she is manipulating him in some way surely.
I could be wrong though for, like Keating, you can't be fully sure if she is well played by the actress or truly innocent. Especially in terms of the murder of Sam. For while Lila's murder is pointing fingers in many directions, it seems, for now, Rebecca may have killed Sam in self-defense. Though, again, be it the show and Nowalk's writing, or just me having bad detective skills, you can't say for sure who is innocent or guilty.
Topic 1: Life Father, Like Daughter – Keating, Connor & Laurel
In this week's case, one Max Saint Vincent is accused of killing his wife with a hunter's knife. A murder which seems he may very likely have done for like Colin Sweeney, on The Good Wife, Max is off putting in ways he is a little too comfortable with. For example, he reenacts the would-be murder, at the murder scene, with Connor in front of Keating and her students with panache. Leading to the point of this case which is that Keating does not care if the client is guilty, she cares about doing her job and winning. Something Laurel and Connor significantly help her with due to Oliver (Conrad Ricamora), the IT guy, helping Keating discredit a few witnesses, and then Laurel helping to plant doubt by taking note of not only how the current wife was killed, but using the evidence against Max when it comes to killing his first wife to prove he didn't kill his second.
Leading to a real twist and turn case which really has me thinking Peter Nowalk, the writer of this episode, needs to be committed to more episodes. For with the final reveal being that Eloise, Max's daughter, murdered Max's wife in hopes of getting him a guilty verdict as payback for killing her mom, honestly I felt there was just enough drama to make me happy.
Topic 2: Your Lying, Cheating Heart – Keating & Sam
While, like many, I was quick to damn Keating for her affair with Nate, it seems she wasn't the one to stab her marriage and watch it bleed first. I say this because, like Frank, Sam seemingly has a thing for college students. Of which Lila was one of them, and while it seemed perhaps Keating could have killed her in the first episode, we are now led to believe that perhaps Sam was involved. However, just thinking about the Saint Vincent case makes me wonder if we are being setup. For as much as Keating has doubts due to going through Sam's phone, knowing he messed around with his students before, and him maybe not going to Yale on the night of the murder, she doesn't have unquestionable proof. Much less, though she seems like the victim in all this, it seems her specialty is handling murder cases. So, riddle me this, why wouldn't the woman who usually comes out on top for murder cases, not use what has gotten people off to kill her husband's mistress?
Topic 3: I Will Always Protect You – Wes & Rebecca
Leaving us with the murder of Sam in which most of the scenes are repeated, but we see things from Wes' point of view. Making you wonder if for most of the season that is what is going to happen? The same general scenes repeated over and over, but just from a different person's point of view.
Either way, as the news about Lila spreads around, the cops begin to work their magic and the first person taken down is Lila's boyfriend Griffin. Now, as for how Rebecca comes into this, well she begins to allow Wes to get close to her, or else become a good alibi, by possibly stashing a phone in his apartment, and using his shower and being naked, if just for a few moments, in front of him. Which I don't want to say is her seducing him, but certainly she is manipulating him in some way surely.
I could be wrong though for, like Keating, you can't be fully sure if she is well played by the actress or truly innocent. Especially in terms of the murder of Sam. For while Lila's murder is pointing fingers in many directions, it seems, for now, Rebecca may have killed Sam in self-defense. Though, again, be it the show and Nowalk's writing, or just me having bad detective skills, you can't say for sure who is innocent or guilty.
