"Donna, Ruby is the finest, loveliest, tenderest and most beautiful person that I have ever known and even that is an understatement."
Donna looks back at him with acknowledgement. Charles quoted F Scott Fitzgerald from The Great Gatsby... fitting. She closes the door behind and heads back to the office knowing she is now basically playing an elaborate game of chicken. The thing about playing a game of chicken is knowing when to flinch.
She sits in the taxi thinking about what she has just done. She is doing this for Jules. She is doing this for Louis. She is doing this for Harvey and most of all, she is doing this for herself. We are all looking for redemption. This is her opportunity.
Charles takes a seat at his desk and thinks about his encounter with Donna. Jules has spoken of her so many times over the course of their relationship that he feels like he knows Donna. Donna just took a bold and very risky step in coming to see him. He knows it is out of loyalty to Jules. He is in a rare moment of self reflection. Business is business but business has crossed into personal side of his life in a very intimate way.
He thinks about what Donna said to him about finding out if Harvey Specter loves her more than he hates him. He thinks for a moment about Jules. He wants her back in his life for the rest of his life. He loves her more than he hates Harvey Specter. He wonders if Jules knows. If she has figured out that she is now in the middle of all of this. She unwittingly put Eric Woodall on his radar. His business instincts could not pass on a opportunity like that. He was in the perfect position to protect his empire. He knows the history with Sean and Jules. He has always known how close they were. Marcus is a dear friend to both of them.
The feds have been tailing him for days. He knows that after this weekend, they will likely follow Jules too. He knows they are not going to find anything on him but the money trail is going to lead straight to Jules and she doesn't even know. It wasn't supposed to play out this way. Damn Specter, to hit Goliath, David stumbled upon the right slingshot. Perhaps, he needs to prove to Jules that he loves her more... more than he loves the game. It is time to make a move of his own.
Jules decides to check on the patient that has been on her mind. The staff tells her more about the visit from the strangers and inquiry into Mary Ann. Jules takes a look at the security video and realizes who the visitors are. She is pissed. Harvey's endgame is becoming obvious to her in sudden and vivid flashes of clarity. The dominoes fall in order. She realizes who Harvey wanted access to. She is being played like a symphony.
She isn't sure to the degree that Harvey was using her since no one knew about Charles until this weekend. He would have known she had access to him through her practice. He did not know that she was involved with him. Harvey forgot just how small the world can be and he unwittingly managed to turn her world into Dante's Inferno. She has heard about the troubles at the SEC from Sean. She didn't realize that she was the crux to the whole situation. The irony is not lost on her.
She knows how much Harvey means to Donna. She knows that Donna cares about all of them. Jules realizes that this is a no win situation. Ok Kirk, when you can't win the game... you change the game.
She has always known how Charles conducted business. She just didn't know the specifics because she didn't want to know the specifics. She knows it was meant to be a catch 22. She helped Eric and Mary Ann because she was a friend from another side of her life. Her justification was that she was doing it for the right reasons. He used it as leverage.
She also realizes that she has likely tipped off Sean as to where the money came from for Mary Ann. She knows that they won't be able to trace the money to Charles or Eric. They are going to trace it back to her own Cayman accounts. She knows Harvey and Charles are at odds over something from long ago. It is time to figure out how to end this war of the roses.
She needs to find the money trail and to see how deep she is into this abyss.