'The Good Wife' Season 5 Episode 13 Spoilers: Will Kalinda and Cary Rekindle Their Relationship?
"The Good Wife" returned last Sunday with an episode that involved one trial and two juries.
In "We, the Juries," Lockhart/Gardner is forced to work with Cary (Matt Czuchry) and Alicia (Julianna Margulies) on a case that they started before Cary and Alicia formed Florrick/Agos. But when Cary and Alicia left, they took one of the two clients with them. Therefore, the two firms have to face one another in the courtroom.
Despite the law firms' petitions for two separate trials, the judge decides to combine the trials but use separate juries.
The clients are a middle aged professor and his young girlfriend who are charged with smuggling drugs into the country.
At first, the two law firms want nothing more than to take down the other. But they soon realize that teaming up is the best route to take in the situation.
They eventually learn that their clients were set up, but only Lockhart/Gardner's client is exonerated.
Meanwhile, Peter (Chris Noth) and Eli (Alan Cumming) are dealing with the surveillance video that was leaked that shows men bringing in a stuffed ballot box. Marilyn (Melissa George) is conducting an investigation to get to the bottom of it.
But when Peter refuses to waive attorney-client privilege out of fear of what Will (Josh Charles) will say, Marilyn's investigation comes to a halt, and she had to give her evidence to higher authorities.
The episode also involved Cary and Kalinda's (Archie Panjabi) reunion. Cary, who is still angry about the past, misleads Kalinda about a client, leaving a Lockhart/Gardner client for him to take.
But now that they're even, Kalinda wants to be friends again, so Cary gives in.
"The Good Wife" is now on another hiatus, and will not return until March.
Fans can look forward to Kalinda being a more integral part of the storyline again when the show returns.
"Kalinda was a little bit adrift in the first half of the year," executive producer Robert King acknowledged Wednesday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. "[But] she starts exploding in the second half of the year. Her story starts crystallizing in the back half of the year."
King also said that Cary and Kalinda's relationship is similar to Will and Alicia's.
"It's a version of the hate that Will and Alica have, especially because they're at [different] firms now. Can they pursue each other?" he said. "Can they sleep with each other and make that exist? Is there a Dangerous Liaisons aspect to it? What I liked about it is that Kalinda saw a Cary that had balls and was really attracted to that. So Cary's going to want to live up to that Kalinda idea of who he is. Cary as a character is sweet, too, but he needs to harden himself."
In addition, Michael J. Fox will most likely reprise his role as Louis Canning later on in the season.
"The Good Wife" returns on Sunday, March 9 at 8 p.m. on CBS.