Chapter 32
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It has been three days since Harvey, Mike, Donna and Katrina went back to Harvey's condo with food and alcohol, a night which ended with all four of them getting completely drunk which caused Donna and Katrina to sleep in Harvey's living room while Mike and Harvey took the bedroom, and the day that all four of them, and Jessica, has been dreading has finally come, the day where Daniel Hardman walks back into Pearson Hardman as lawyer for Folsom Foods.
In the conference room Harvey and Mike are sitting either side of Sloane Mosely, and across from Daniel Hardman, a position that they would both rather not being in.
"Please state your name for the record." Hardman requests.
"Sloane Moseley."
"And what is your position at Folsom Foods?" Hardman asks.
"This was all established during my client's first, and second deposition." Harvey informs Hardman, trying to keep the annoyance out of his voice, something which he does.
"I'm sorry. I'm just getting up to speed. I like to establish my own facts." Hardman comments.
"Or manufacture them." Mike mutters.
"Excuse me?" Hardman asks, looking at Mike.
"Let's show opposing council some respect." Harvey tells Mike and they both look at each other, and whisper, in perfect unison,
"Douchebag."
"Regional Vice President of Marketing and Research." Sloane answers.
"And how many female executives work alongside you?" Hardman asks.
"Three."
"Making a total of four in department of nine." Hardman states.
"Is there a question?" Harvey asks.
"Yes, what is the ration of men to woman senior partners at Pearson Hardman?" Hardman asks.
"She has no knowledge of that." Mike informs Hardman.
"Then I direct the question to you." Hardman says, looking right at Mike.
"And I have the answer, but it's not relevant to this case." Mike says, wondering what the hell Hardman is up to.
"What do you mean? Jessica Pearson's hiring and firing practices are directly relevant to the case." Hardman argues, pretending to be confused.
"If the next question isn't regarding Folsom Foods, this deposition's over." Harvey says.
"Folsom Foods? Ah." Hardman says with a laugh, "So sorry. As you know, I just took over forty-five different cases. I got confused. I thought we were deposing Pearson Hardman today." Hardman explains.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Harvey ask angrily.
"Oh, my god. Did…. Did I forget to give you the subpoena?" Hardman asks, "Pearson Hardman is being sued for wrongful termination in the amount of ten million dollars. You have been served." Hardman says, sliding copies of the subpoena to Mike and Harvey.
Right away Mike picks up his copy and begins to read, as soon as he does he realises that Hardman is using the exact law suit he draw up for Monica Eton.
"Wrongful termination? You're lucky you're not in jail." Harvey says angrily.
"It's not on his behalf. It's on Monica Eton's." Mike reveals.
"I actually got the idea from you." Hardman admits, looking at Mike.
"Excuse me?" Mike asks, shocked and angry.
"What this firm did to that woman was unconscionable." Hardman says.
"This deposition is over. Mike please escort Ms Mosley out." Harvey requests, knowing that giving Mike the chance to be alone with Hardman, after what he just pulled isn't a good idea, and so, without a word Mike gets up and escorts Sloane out of the room, and out of the firm.
"To Jessica I assume." Hardman says and Harvey just glare at him, though they do get up and leave, both heading to Jessica's office.
A couple of minutes later both Harvey and Hardman are in Jessica's office and Jessica has been caught up on everything that is going on.
"You piece of shit." Jessica says angrily, pacing the room as Harvey sits down, "Monic Eton deserved to get fired."
"Huh. The eight woman I'm gonna stack the jury with might disagree with that." Hardman comments.
"Not once they learn she was sleeping with you while you were embezzling from the firm." Harvey comments.
"And how, exactly, are they going to learn that?" Hardman asks.
"One of the three people in this room is gonna tell him." Harvey informs Hardman, "I'm guessing it won't be you."
"I'm afraid it won't be one of you either." Hardman informs Harvey and right away Jessica knows where Hardman is going with what he is saying.
"You gonna kill us?" Harvey asks.
"Oh, I won't need to." Hardman says, "You're bound by the confidentiality agreement Jessica signed the night I left, "All knowledge of any activity of Daniel Hardman…."" He says, walking over to Jessica.
"I know what it goddamn says." Jessica says angrily.
"You signed it so quickly I wasn't sure." Hardman says to her.
"Fine. I know a shakedown when I see one." Harvey says, standing up and walking over so that he is standing next to Jessica, "What do you want?"
"It's not what I want. It's what Monica wants." Harvey corrects.
"And what is that?" Jessica asks curious.
"Payback. You see, when Mike Pearson-Ross." Harvey says, stressing the Pearson, "Brought the trumped-up suit to her, she was very upset. It brought back the memory of what you did to her." Hardman says, looking at Jessica.
"I didn't do shit to her." Jessica argues.
"That wasn't how she saw it." Hardman reveals.
"Yet you didn't lift a finger to help her." Harvey says.
"I wanted to at the time, but I couldn't very well attack my own firm, now could I?" Hardman ask.
"Never stopped you before." Harvey says, looking at Hardman.
"Touché." Hardman admits, "But you can't mention that either."
"We're done. Harvey, will you escort this piece of filth out of the building, make sure he doesn't commit any crimes on his way out." Jessica requests and Harvey and Hardman leave his office, Harvey looking less than happy with Jessica.
For most of the way Harvey and Hardman are silent, until the way through the doors that lead to where the elevators are.
"Oh, by the way, Mike Pearson-Ross, virtuoso job drafting the complaint." Hardman reveals, "All I had to do was search and replace "Daniel Hardman" with "Anonymous"" Hardman reveals,
"Almost as virtuoso as the job he did convincing you Lawrence Kemp signed that affidavit." Harvey says, as he presses the button to the elevators.
"Must stick in your craw. Having to walk by my name day after day." Hardman comments.
"Oh, we'll get to it." Harvey reveals, "First we had to turn your old office into the new conference room."
"When Jessica and I engineered our coup, she had that sign down within minutes." Hardman reveals, "Schmidt, Gordon, Van Dyke." Hardman says, moving his hand as he stresses each name.
"Jessica wanted it down the second you were gone. I told her it was too soon." Harvey reveals, completely lying.
"No. you asked her to be named partner, and she said, "no" and you know why? Because deep in her heart, she doesn't trust you." Hardman says, and honestly there is a part of Harvey that believes him, and he also believes that if Jessica knows about him and Mike then what trust they have will disappear, though he isn't going to let Hardman see that.
"She trusted me to kick your ass. Twice." Harvey says as the elevator dings.
"Maybe. But I saw that look back there. She didn't tell you about the confidentiality agreement, did she?" Hardman ask as he walks into the elevator.
After leaving the conference room Mike goes straight to Katrina's office, his anger growing every second. Getting to Katrina's office Mike closes the door behind him and the second he does Katrina looks up.
"What the hell has Hardman done now?" Katrina asks.
"He's suing Mom, on behalf of Monica Eton." Mike reveals, pacing back and forth, "And he's using the lawsuit I wrote!" Mike says angrily, "I can't believe this! This is all my fault! He's hurting Mom, all because of me!" Mike says, "I did this!" Mike says, his voice full of guilt.
"Mike, no." Katrina says, getting up and walking over to him, "Hardman is doing this, it's not your fault."
"I wrote the lawsuit." Mike reminds Katrina.
"And if you hadn't he would have just written his own." Katrina tells him, "Don't let him get in your head like this, don't let him mess with you, Mike. Don't play into his hand, Mike, don't blame yourself."
"I need to do something; I need to make this right." Mike tells his best friend.
"Then figure out a way to beat him." Katrina tells him, "You said it yourself, you wrote it. No one is better qualified to find out a way to beat it." Katrina informs her best friend.
"Okay, I can do that." Mike says with a nod, "Thanks Katrina." He says, heading out of his best friends' office, only pausing to give her a kiss on the cheek, as he goes.
After leaving Hardman Harvey goes back to Jessica's office, which he walks into, full of anger, where he finds Jessica sitting at her desk.
"What the hell were you thinking?" Harvey asks angrily.
"I don't want to discuss this, Harvey." Jessica reveals, "He gave up his partnership, his money, and his voting rights. It was a good deal. I did it, and it's done." Jessica explains.
"And now it's come back to bite us in the ass." Harvey comments, "We have to settle."
"I am not settling." Jessica informs Harvey, there being no room for argument in his voice.
"Our backs are against the wall, and we're gonna drain our resources on a case that we can't just win because you boxed us in?" Harvey asks.
"It was a take-it-or-leave-it offer. I had one minute. I wanted to be done with the man, so I took it." Jessica explains.
"You told me never to make rash decisions, and then you do this." Harvey says angrily.
"I told you, I didn't have a choice." Jessica explains.
"Did you have a choice when you decided to keep it from me?" Harvey asks, not thinking about what he is keeping from Jessica as that is completely personal, while Jessica keeping this from him is professional.
"I didn't think it would ever come up again." Jessica says as she turns away.
"That is not a good enough reason." Harvey says angrily.
"What did he tell you?" Jessica asks, turning to look at Harvey.
"He told me you'd never put my name on the door." Harvey reveals.
"He told me you'd come after me someday, maybe threaten my family the same way you threatened his." Jessica informs Harvey.
"I would NEVER threaten Mike." Harvey says, his voice full of more anger than Jessica has heard, "And you should have never considered that I would." He tells her, the anger having been replaced by betrayal.
"I never did." Jessica assures him, a little surprised by Harvey's reaction, though she is pretty sure that it's not the time to discuss it, "Because I knew that he was just trying to get into my head, the same way he's trying to get into your head now." Jessica informs him.
"What's gonna happen when he deposes you, and you can't tell the full story?" Harvey asks.
"I don't know, Harvey, but I trusted you to beat him before, and I'm trusting you to beat him again now." Jessica says, clearly dismissing him and Harvey heads out of Jessica's office, being sure that things are just going to get worse before they get better.
Many hours later Mike is running to catch up with Harvey who is leaving the office,
"Harvey, where are you going? It's only ten thirty." Mike says as he catches up with Harvey.
"You gonna dock my pay?" Harvey asks, his tone of voice joking.
"I'm serious." Mike tells him, "I've got some really good stuff here." Mike says, referring to the pile of files he is holding, "First of all, Hardman's non-compete is still in effect. He can't even be practicing law."
"In New York." Harvey explains.
"Where the hell do you think we are?" Mike asks.
"He's working out of Jersey. He's got an office of one." Harvey explains.
"Bank account, car service, cell phone. I mean, all of them are based in New York." Mike explains to Harvey, "We can fight it." He says.
"That's exactly what he wants." Harvey informs Mike.
"What?" Mike asks.
"Articles of incorporation, office, landline, company car, all in Jersey." Harvey explains, "He's constructed it, so we'd be tempted to fight him, waste our time and resources then lose." Harvey says as they arrive at Harvey's car.
"Okay, fine. Then what we need to do next is dig into Monica Eton. I think…" Mike starts to say.
"Hold on. You're on Folsom Foods, not Monica Eton." Harvey reminds Mike, though he isn't too surprised that Mike is working on the case.
"Harvey, they're using the exact lawsuit I wrote, word for word, and using it to sue my Mom." Mike points out, stressing the word mom, "I know how to fight it."
"Did he tell you that?" Harvey asks in a kind voice, honestly not putting that past Hardman.
"No, he didn't need to. I read it. I mean, he didn't just get the idea from me, he got the whole execution from me." Mike explains.
"He's doing that because he's trying to get in your head." Harvey says, reaching to Mike and, putting his hand on Mike's shoulder, "This isn't your fault." Harvey assures his boyfriend, "'We did this together."
"Then let me help you fix it." Mike requests.
"I'm sorry, those papers can't help me, and neither can you." Harvey says before getting into the car, being pretty sure that having Mike on a case where his mother is getting sued isn't a good idea.
After watching Harvey drive way Mike heads back into the office, not planning on staying much longer as there is something he has to do.
A little while later Mike walks into his mother's house and he isn't at all surprised to find his mother sitting in the living room with a drink.
"Hey." Mike greats, walking in.
"Hi."
"I'm sorry, Mom. I wrote this lawsuit, it's all my fault." Mike tells his mother as he walks in and sits down next to her.
"No, Mike. It's not. It's Hardman's." Jessica informs her son, "Don't blame yourself."
"I can't not." Mike tells her.
"Well you have no reason to." Jessica says, putting her arm around her son, "And I don't want to talk about this anymore."
"Okay." Mike says and mother and son drift into silence as they sit side by side, Jessica handing her son her drink so that he can take a drink, and once he does he hands it back to his mother.
"You want to stay here tonight?" Jessica asks her son curious, after a while of them sitting in silence.
"Tempting, but I should get home." Mike realises, "I love you Mom." Mike says, leaning over and placing a kiss on his mother's cheek.
"Love you too." Jessica responds and Mike gets up and heads out of his mother's house and heads home, still feeling an incredible amount of guilt, despite his mother, Harvey's and Katrina's words.
At three pm the next day Harvey and Jessica are sitting in the conference room with Hardman, Jessica's deposition just beginning.
"Please stare your full name for the record." Hardman requests.
"Jessica Lourdes Pearson." Jessica answers.
"Monica Eton's reviews from '03 to '07, all excellent, agreed?" Hardman asks.
"Yes." Jessica answers.
"Then why was she let go?" Hardman asks.
"That was determined by a variety of factors." Jessica answers.
"Was one of the factors that she was having an affair with a partner?" Hardman asks curious.
"I'm so glad you brought that up, you little son of a bitch, because….." Jessica starts to say.
"Off the record." Harvey quickly says.
"Hmm, so soon." Hardman comments, and Harvey and Jessica move backwards and start to whisper.
"I told you this would happen. He's baiting you into breaching confidentiality." Harvey whispers to Jessica.
"And I'm ready to bite down and drag him in with me." Jessica whispers to Harvey.
"Don't. We can't afford it." Harvey tells her.
"No, the affair itself was not a factor." Jessica answers.
"With whom was she having this affair?" Hardman asks.
"I refuse to answer that." Jessica says.
"Why? Were you in love with him?" Hardman asks.
"In love with him?" Jessica asks disbelieving, "I thought she was bottom-feeding. I might have actually vomited when I heard." Jessica reveals.
"Okay, that's enough. We're not answering this line of questioning." Harvey says, "Move on." He instructs.
"You said my client's dismissal was due to a variety of factions, and then you said it wasn't the affair, and it wasn't job performances. So I ask you, what was it? Is it a personal dislike? Are you jealous of her? Or do you just hate other woman?" Hardman asks.
"Tread lightly, Daniel." Harvey instructs.
"Let's try some questions your client can answer. Were you in a relationship at the time of my client's dismissal?" Hardman asks.
"Excuse me?" Jessica asks, shocked.
"Jessica Pearson's personal life is not an issue here." Harvey informs Hardman.
"Well, I beg to differ, and since your client can't seem to find her words today, I for one, can testify that she was not in a relationship at the time." Hardman reveals, "She's always been married to her job, and she wants her female associates to be equally committed, so that as soon as they have anything else in their lives, in other words, sex, she cuts 'em lose."
"This is bullshit." Jessica says, pushing her chair back.
"Then tell me differently." Hardman comments.
"We're done here." Harvey says as Jessica stands up and heads to the door.
"The truth is, Monica was younger than you, prettier than you, sexually active, and of child-bearing age, all of the things you are not, and you fired her for it." Hardman says as Jessica and Harvey leave the room, Jessica feeling her anger grow as she leaves.
Having decided to give Jessica some time it's not until a couple of hours later that Harvey goes to talk to Jessica, resulting in the two of them meeting on the way to the elevators.
"We gonna talk about what happened?" Harvey asks as he and Jessica meet up.
"Not tonight." Jessica says.
"Jessica…" Harvey starts to say.
"Son of a bitch all but called me bitter and barren." Jessica says angrily.
"He did call you that, but it's only gonna get worse." Harvey reminds Jessica.
"And you should have jumped to my defence sooner than you did." Jessica informs Harvey.
"I'm your lawyer, not your husband." Harvey says, trying not to think about the fact that he can see himself, eventually, being a husband to a Pearson, but that Pearson wouldn't be Jessica, "And if I didn't jump in when I did, we'd be broke." Harvey explains, "Look, I told you before, we need to settle."
"And I told you before, we're not settling." Jessica argues.
"Don't' you see what he's doing? He's trying to make this case about gender." Harvey argues.
"It's not!" Jessica says angrily.
"It doesn't matter. Look, you can't be the name defendant of a gender discrimination case while we're suing Folsom Foods for the same thing." Harvey informs his boss and friend.
"I am not capitulating to that man." Jessica says angrily.
"Then you're gonna look like a fool." Harvey tells Jessica.
"That's enough." Jessica says angrily as the elevator dings, "You're not calling the shots, I am, and whether you think my call is wrong or not, it is still my name on that gooddamn wall." Jessica says angrily as she points to the sign
"You…." Harvey starts to say but the elevator doors close, after they do Harvey angrily starts to hit the H in Hardman's name.
Watching on Mike sees the fight between his mother and Harvey and as soon as he sees that Mike knows exactly what he has to do, and so he heads to Rachel's office.
"Hey, um, sorry, I don't want to bother you if you're busy." Mike says from the doorway to Rachel's office.
"It's okay. What do you need?" Rachel asks curious.
"I need to see a transcript of Mom's deposition." Mike says, walking over to Rachel's desk.
"That's confidential." Rachel informs Mike.
"That's why I need your help." Mike explains.
"Mike…" Rachel starts to say.
"Rachel, please, I need it." Mike says, "This is my mom we're talking about." Mike tells her, "You came to me once because I'd understand about you and your dad, so I'm coming to you now for the same reason." Mike explains, desperately wanting Rachel to agree.
"Okay." Rachel says and Mike heads over to her computer, "Are you looking for something in particular? Rachel asks curious as she gets the deposition up.
"No, not exactly." Mike answers.
"Oh-oh." Rachel says shocked.
"Oh, my god." Mike says, sounding completely furious.
"It just keeps going." Rachel realises.
"It's worse and worse." Mike realises.
"She had to sit through this." Rachel says angrily.
"Oh god." Mike says angrily, turning around furious, running his hand through his head, "This is all my fault." Mike says angrily, before running out of the room.
"WAIT, MIKE!" Rachel calls after him, but Mike just keeps running.
As she watches Mike run out of the room, Rachel just stands and debates what to do, as Mike was clearly furious, which may not mean something good, but she doesn't know where he's going or what he's going to do.
"What would I do?" Rachel asks, remembering what Mike said about the two of them understanding each other about things like this, "Oh crap." She realises, getting up and running out of the room, heading to a specific place.
A few minutes later, having walked as quickly as she could, Rachel arrives at Donna's cubical where her friend is still working.
"Donna." Rachel says, "Where's Harvey?"
"Why?" Donna asks, looking at her friend and being able to tell that something is wrong.
"I need to talk to him, something's happened that he needs to know." Rachel explains, "Where is he?"
"What's going on, Rachel?" Harvey asks, walking out from his office where he was having a drink on one of his couches.
"Mike just read Jessica's deposition and went running out of here, completely furious." Rachel explains, "I don't know for sure, but I think…."
"He's going after Hardman." Harvey finishes, looking worried, "Get Ray." He tells Donna before heading downstairs, hoping that he can get to Mike before he does something he's going to regret.
After leaving Rachel's office Mike ran downstairs where he got into a cab which he took to the Rand, Kaldor & Zane, where Hardman is working out off.
"Mr Pearson-Ross, this is a surprise." Hardman says when he sees Mike walk in, "What can I do for you?" he asks but Mike just walks over and punches him in the face, causing him to stumble a little, but be complete fine.
"Don't even think about saying things like that about my mom again." Mike says angrily before walking out of the room, Hardman watching him go, even though he could Hardman has no intention of suing Mike for his actions as it will likely just become too much of a complication for him.
Just as he walks out of the room where he left Hardman Mike runs into Harvey in the corridor.
"Harvey." Mike says, surprised to see his boyfriend.
"What did you do?" Harvey asks, looking his boyfriend up and down, trying to figure out what happened.
"Something he deserved." Mike answers, and Harvey just gives him a look, "I punched him in the face, told him not to say things like that about my mom again." Mike explains.
"You shouldn't have done that." Harvey tells him.
"I had to do that." Mike informs him, "After what he said about Mom, I had to." Mike explains.
"Let's get out of here, we'll talk about it at my place." Harvey tells his boyfriend, and Mike nods and the two of them head out of the building, and to Ray's waiting car.
The second that they are in the back of Ray's car Harvey pulls Mike in close to him, giving him a hug.
"My place, Ray." Harvey requests as he hugs Mike, something which lasts for a couple of minutes,
"What were you thinking?" Harvey asks, once he and Mike break apart.
"I wasn't, not really." Mike admits, "All I know is that I read what Hardman says and I had to do something." Mike explains.
"I get that." Harvey admits, "But it still wasn't a smart thing to do." Harvey informs him.
"I really don't care." Mike says, "And I don't care what Hardman does to me because of it."
"I won't let him do anything to you." Harvey promises, taking his boyfriends hand.
"Thanks Harvey." Mike responds and the two of them drift into silence.
Not long after Mike got in the car he and Harvey arrive back at Harvey's condo and Harvey heads straight over to the drinks carts and pours them both drinks, handing one glass to Mike once he does.
"This is part of the reason I didn't want you on this." Harvey says as he hands Mike his glass, "I knew that Hardman would do something like this, and the longer this whole thing goes on the worse things are going to get." Harvey explains, as he wanted to protect Mike from being subjected to Hardman and prevent him from doing something like what he just did.
"This is exactly why I have to help!" Mike reveals, "Hardman is coming after my mom, Harvey, all because I wrote that lawsuit! I can't just sit by and do nothing!" Mike explains.
"I told you yesterday, and I'm going to tell you again, this isn't your fault." Harvey informs him, "Hardman wants us all to pay. If he wasn't using the lawsuit he'd be using something else." He explains to Mike, "And I'm not telling you to do nothing, I'm telling you to stay on top of Folsom Foods so that we can kick his ass on that."
"Okay." Mike says, not overly sure whether he is going to be able to pull that off.
Having not managed to get much sleep, because of everything that is bothering him, Mike realises that he can't keep his word to Harvey and so he carefully gets out of bed, and writes a note for Harvey which he leaves on the pillow he was sleeping on. Once he does that Mike gets changed back into the clothes he was wearing the day before placing a gentle kiss on his boyfriends' cheek before leaving, being pretty sure that his boyfriend is going to be pretty pissed at him next time he sees him.
A couple of hours after Mike woke Harvey wakes, and as he does the first thing he notices is that he is alone in the bed, something which both surprises him, and which he doesn't like.
"Mike?" Harvey asks, though he doesn't hear any sign that Mike is in the bathroom or in the kitchen, and as he looks around he sees the note and picks it up.
Harvey,
I didn't want to wake you and I know that If I had then you would have just tried to stop me, but I have to fix this. I have to try and make things right. I'll see you at the office, where I'm sure you'll be pissed.
Love Mike.
"Damn it." Harvey says annoyed, getting up as he knows that he has to tell Jessica that Mike punched Hardman and that he is trying to fix thing, and honestly Harvey really isn't looking forward to that.
While Harvey is waking up to an empty bed Mike has tacked down Monica, having spent the last few hours typing up what he read the night before after stopping by his place to get changed and coming up with a plan.
"You can't talk to me." Monica says, the second she sees Mike.
"Actually, I can. I don't have any equity in the firm, and I'm not working on this case." Mike points out.
"You're an interested party, you drafted the original complaint, and your last name happens to be Pearson." Monica points out, "Any judge in the world sides with me."
"Listen, Monica. Monica! I'm not trying to set you up." Mike reveals, "I'm trying to take responsibility here." Mike explains.
"For what?" Monica asks.
"For doing exactly what you just said I did. For drafting the original complaint, starting this whole thing off. I'm sorry." Mike tells her, meaning that.
"No, no you're not. The only thing you're sorry about is that your little manoeuvre backfired." Monica comments.
"Yeah, but it didn't backfire on me. It backfired on my Mom." Mike reveals.
"That's too bad. That's exactly what I'm happy about." Monica reveals.
"What?" Mike asks shocked, "Mom didn't screw you, Hardman did."
"Hardman didn't show up in my office to fire me, without cause, notice, or a letter of recommendation." Monica explains.
"She had cause." Mike argues.
"Did she?" Monica asks, "When I told her I knew nothing about Daniel's embezzlement, do you know what she said? "I don't' care." And then five years later she sends you to turn me against him." Monica explains.
"That's just it, she didn't." Mike explains.
"Look at that. The attack dog defends its owner." Monica says, bitterly, not believing for a second that Jessica didn't send her son to her.
"Blame me, you can even blame Harvey, but Mom had nothing to do with it." Mike explains, desperately trying to help his mother.
"If you think I'm gonna buy for one second she wasn't behind you coming to me with that lawsuit, you are even more naïve than I was." Monica reveals.
"Please just look at what he did to her." Mike asks, trying to hand the file to Monica.
"I don't have to, because I don't care." Monica says before walking away.
"Plan B." Mike mutters as Monica walks away, knowing that he can't give up, that he can't give up any time soon as he has to keep trying to make things right.
