I was overjoyed at the last episode of the Good Wife. It was everything I could have wished for: interesting legal case, more political drama, in-house power plays (ah, Diane!), Kalinda finally back from wherever she was in the last three episodes (Kalinda + Nick doesn't work for me), and a nice flashback to season One (sharing an office) announcing more show-time for Cary. I especially loved the Eli/Alicia interactions. It seems screenwriters decided to throw us Eli/Alicia fan a bone, because if you read a little into a few of those interactions…
Well, they inspired me.
Don't hesitate to tell me what you think !
He is bristling with excitation as he walks out of the meeting with the journalists, smugly satisfied that his client's wife, and her wit, is as sharp as any knife.
'I could kiss you,' he said, and deep in his subconscious a part of him wonders what it would be like to kiss Alicia Florrick before it is shut down and locked away among forbidden thoughts.
'Well that would give them something to write about,' she replies with a smile, and he laughs in full appreciation of her joke, not realizing that he is, in fact, laughing at his own expense.
He is talking to Mandy, incredibly annoyed at the time he's wasted on her, when he hears the elevator's ping. He knows who it is the moment before she steps into view, and his eyes seek her out. He excuses himself with a distracted, I have to go, and like an electron invariably pulled towards its center, he walks towards Alicia Florrick. She is looking smart as usual, and he knows her smartness in appearance is reflected by the smartness of her mind, and he cannot help it; he walks over with a wish to be distracted from Mandy and her annoying allegations, from the campaign that isn't going as it's supposed to. Her wit is a soothing balm on his wounds all the time, and he finds he need a dose of it now.
She is smiling her long-suffering smile, the one she uses with Jackie, the one she used with Peter for a while, the one she used to wear whenever she saw him. He is relieved she smiles at him that way only occasionally now, as it always sent him on a guilt trip. He is, as always, amazed at her poise. He's seen cracks in her façade, but he has never seen her break down – and he wishes it will never come, because she lights up his life like a good laugh, and he finds he appreciates it. He doesn't know how deeply.
It is definitely unconscious, but Eli Gold is smitten with his client's wife.
And then he receives the phone call, It will be up in one hour, Jimmy V says. Eli Gold is smitten with his client's wife, and he is about to wreck her world.
And he is terrified, utterly terrified, that he might finally see her break.