Marissa has bought a pack of cards from an Alt-Right website, which is called the Kill All The Lawyers Deck, featuring Chicago lawyers who are expected to be killed.
Adrian, Liz and Diane are all on them. Meanwhile, Maia is allured by Ruth's assistant Carrine, and cheats on Amy. They sneak back to the office to have sex, and are unwittingly caught on tape by the DNC's cameras.
The firm sues the Chicago Police Department for the shooting of a black undercover cop by his white colleague. Kurt's ballistics evidence paints an open-and-shut case, but the defence uses dirty tactics — including micro-targeting jurors with fake news about the plaintiff and his legal team via Facebook — to avoid a payout. Diane's marriage to Kurt is also tested as the defense exploits Kurt's affair and subsequent lies to Diane to undermine both Diane and the firm's evidence.
While investigating a separate case for Jay's friend Craig, Maia and Lucca determine that Diane's client and his shooter wortked together as crooked cops, planting guns to frame at least 30 suspects, including Jay's friend. The firm is offered a significant payout from the Chicago PD to stop the reopening of these cases, but amid the celebrations, Jay quits as lead investigator after the firm chooses the Chicago PD settlement over justice for Craig.
The firm is contacted by Dominika, a student who fears she is being deported to Russia because she is one of the prostitutes from the golden shower tape mentioned in the Steele dossier, and her existence would prove that Vladimir Putin has compromising material on President Trump. Maia and Lucca bend ethical rules to support Craig's lawyer, but even with coaching he proves too inept to get the job done. When a white supremacist becomes the Republican Congressional candidate for Illinois's 1st congressional district, greater attention falls on Colin's campaign to become the Democratic candidate.
The Democrats are concerned that Colin's prosecutorial history appears racially biased. Lucca suggests he use an investigation into police corruption to overturn several black convictions and change his statistics, and as a result Craig's sentence is vacated. Boseman is shot by an unseen assailant from the office elevator, prompting Liz to illegally hand over the firm's client list to her husband, CPD Captain Lawrence, who immediately goes after two of Diane's longstanding clients: Chicago drug lord Lemond Bishop, and wealthy killer Colin Sweeney.
She vows to make her corner of the world sane again, throws away her psychedelics and begins to retake control. She takes the fight to Solomon, winning back her clients and taking one of his; the Cook County Democrats.
Jay returns to the fold when he learns of Boseman's injury. He and Marissa to create a short list of angry ex-clients who might be responsible for the attack. Colin is selected as the Democratic candidate for congressman in Illinois's 1st district. The firm challenges a gossip website that shames men accused of non-criminal sexual impropriety, stirring debate within the office. Jay is formally rehired by Diane but struggles to reconcile their evidence about Boseman's shooter with the police's suspect profile; he determines that the shooter was Whitehead, the crooked cop who helped frame his friend Craig, and he is arrested.
With firms in DC anticipating Colin's election, Lucca receives offers of employment, including an invitation to work for the Obamas. Diane learns her finances have made a full recovery, in part due to Trump's tax reliefs for the already-wealthy. Diane studies aikido in an attempt to calm herself. She asks Kurt whether or not he wants a divorce, and he says that they have never tried properly being married.
Diane accepts enthusiastically, and they kiss, just as Adrian returns to the office. Jay is arrested for driving while black and immigration officers descend on his bail hearing to deport him to Nigeria.
To shield him from federal powers under states' rights Illinois is a sanctuary state , his sympathetic bail judge agrees to hold Jay in state court while the firm investigates. They learn that Jay's U. Citing Jay's artwork as grounds for an 'Einstein' visa, as well as the fact that First LadyMelania Trump was granted one for her nude modelling, the firm helps him avoid deportation.
Meanwhile, one of Julius' Republican connections offers to make Jay's problem go away in exchange for taking Diane's blue chip tech giant client ChumHum to a Republican-backed firm, hoping ChumHum can help them hurt the Democrats. He is rebuffed, leading him to threaten Julius with open war against his firm on behalf of the Republicans and federal government. Diane is hounded by FBI officials over her connections to Tully — a radical left-wing activist she had been sleeping with — and her previous filmed remarks about President Trump on the DNC audition tapes.
Diane thinks she is being bugged, after the prosecutor plays a tape of her and Tully talking in her bedroom. Proving his love and loyalty to Diane, he orders them out of his house, but not before Patrick Baseheart tells him Diane will be indicted. It becomes clear the federal government are set on prosecuting her to make an example of the firm. Meanwhile, Lucca gives birth to a healthy baby boy, who she names Joseph Quinn-Morrello, but her mother sows seeds of doubt in her mind about Colin.
While interviewing law firm employees for a documentary on the deceased Carl Reddick, previous acts of sexual assault against the secretarial staff by Reddick are revealed.
The firm is able to settle on both counts. Diane, having reconciled with Kurt, finds her happiness threatened when she begins to suspect Kurt of cheating again, but it turns out he is working for the Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr..
Diane resumes investigating the extra-marital affairs of Donald Trump in hopes of finding something with which to impeach him. However, Tara, a porn star who claims to have had an affair with Trump, refuses to come forward out of fear of reprisals, so Diane reveals her story to a reporter.
Maia begins acting out after she is photoshopped out of a picture of female employees for the website. The firm is forced to acknowledge their role in shutting down a feminist blog that names and shames men accused of sexual harassment.
Maia clashes with a new character, lawyer Roland Blum. When he threatens to frame Maia for possession of narcotics, she argues for a separate trial for her client from Blum and his client.
However, the judge refuses to allow this. Meanwhile, the firm struggles to find someone to run the divorce and family law department, with Liz asking Lucca to take the position. Lucca agrees, after much soul searching about the fact that it will require her to spend less time with her newborn child and after using dirt on the other candidate from Jay, to force her hiring.
Diane takes up hatchet throwing. Tara, the porn star who claimed Trump paid her to have an abortion, confronts Diane for leaking the story of her abortion after being told she would not come forward. Diane lies to Tara and the story goes public. Diane joins an 'anti-Trump resistance' meeting, being recruited by Valerie Peyser into a cabal of like-minded wealthy professional women.
Diane reveals her desire to shut down the Chicago based troll farm. Creating a fake news website of their own, the group claims the location of the troll farm is the headquarters of a pedophile ring, leading to a riot when Trump supporters storm the building.
However, Valerie soon disappears and it is revealed that Valerie was a con artist preying on wealthy anti-Trump women. Shocked and horrified, Diane opts to hide this information from the other women in her group. Liz's divorce goes to trial, with Lucca as her lawyer. To prevent the firm's cover-up of sexual assaults from becoming public, Liz is forced to settle.
Maia is bullied by Blum into demanding her own office so he can work in private. When Blum fails to show up at court, Maia cuts a deal with the DA to sell out Blum's client via a plea bargain. When an angry Blum confronts Maia, she refuses to back down and orders him out of the office. Julius prepares to run for a state judgeship, recruiting Marissa to help him select a campaign manager.
However, unsatisfied with the available candidates, he offers Marissa the job. Maia is arrested when the police find Blum's drugs in her car. Lucca is stalked and harassed by a white woman in the park, who accuses her of having kidnapped her own child.
The incident is filmed and goes viral. While discussing the incident, Jay reveals to Lucca that the firm has been paying its recently hired white employees more than its black employees.
After unsuccessfully confronting Adrian, Jay sends a company-wide email revealing the pay discrepancy, creating chaos. The partners are pressured into firing Maia over her drugs charge, to achieve the appearance of racial equality. Meanwhile, Julius is interviewed by a right wing think tank who may support his campaign to become a state judge.
However, the think tank refuses to endorse unless Julius fires Marissa and Julius declines their endorsement. Liz is brought into Diane's resistance group as the group demands Diane get one of the firm's clients, an apolitical country singer, to denounce Trump and the Alt-right.
Diane's group ultimately forces their target to come out against the Alt-right by outing her brother as transgender, then sending death threats to her while pretending to be members of the Alt-right. Diane and Liz are shocked, as the group took this move without informing them of their intentions. Lucca and Jay are sent to a rural town in Illinois to serve as Democratic monitors for a local election, which has been subject to accusations of voter intimidation.
Lucca and Jay immediately clash with their Republican counterparts, until they encounter a third group of 'monitors' in the form of a group called 'The Red Jackets.
Ultimately the Democrats and Republicans work together against the Red Jackets. The settlement involves letting Blum work at their offices.
Of course, leave it to this money-minded lawyers to find a silver lining in Chicago's stay-at-home order. After the meeting with the associates, Diane and Adrian regroup with Liz Audra McDonald and reluctantly discuss how this would be a great opportunity for layoffs because, in case you forgot, the firm's owner, STR Laurie, ordered them to cut 20 percent of the staff right before season 4's abrupt and phallic ending.
How will that go? We'll have to wait and see. But they two aren't the only characters exiting the series: Joe Biden's victory last fall means the 45th president will be absent as well. Co-creator Robert King adds: "It's kind of amazing how much the country has gone through [during] this last administration, and a lot of that has stayed with us, I think, because of the aftereffects of Jan 6, which I think is going to be an event that echoes throughout American history for a long time.
In many ways, it was fun to not have the words 'Donald' or 'Trump' mentioned at all for many of these episodes, and yet there's still this sense that the world has changed. On top of the Jan 6 insurrection, the effects of the pandemic and last summer's Black Lives Matters protests will also loom large over the fifth season, beginning with how Adrian leaves the series. Alicia thinks she's discovered evidence of jury tampering in the firm's class action law suit against a pharmaceutical company.
Alicia and Will have only 72 hours to prove that a freight train crash was caused by the train company and not the engineers. Alicia agrees to a conjugal visit with Peter in order to get information from him about her new client, a death row inmate.
Alicia, representing a daughter of one of the partners in the firm, finds herself very attracted to her co-counsel. While Alicia is preparing for a case defending a scientist accused of arson, she is suddenly asked to testify on Peter's behalf. When the firm's senior partner, Jonas Stern, is arrested for a DUI, Alicia is asked to represent him, but office politics and Stern's ego interfere.
When Alicia believes a judge acted with racial bias in sending a child to a detention facility, she looks deeper into the issue, discovering a trend. Alicia learns more about Peter's fall from office when she represents Glenn Childs's wife, Carla Browning, in her divorce appeal.
Alicia has to represent the doctor who prescribed medication to a high school quarterback who appeared to die from a painkiller overdose. Peter's appeal begins while Alicia has to defend a client who doesn't seem that innocent, even after he's found not guilty of murdering his wife. Alicia defends a man accused of killing his children's baby sitter.
Meanwhile, Peter's appeal seems to be going well. While Peter settles at home and continues working in his comeback strategy, Alicia and Diane fight with the spousal privilege laws in a murder case.
Alicia and Will defend a lawyer arrested for murder, while Peter strategizes with his team on how to handle his retrial and his public rehabilitation. An emergency courtroom is set up in a hospital, where Alicia battles an insurance company that refuses to pay the client for a lifesaving surgery. Alicia and Will try to defend a college student who was accused of killing her sorority sister while on a sleeping aid.
Alicia must face her former boss, Jonas Stern, in court, and debates incorporating personal information into her case. Peter finds himself in danger of going back to jail after he chases Alicia out of the apartment, thereby breaking his house arrest. Alicia is forced to defend a man who claims he killed a woman to whom he was handcuffed in self-defense. An undercover cop's immunity deal morphs into a multimillion-dollar wrongful death suit filed by his widow.
Alicia and Cary square off in the trial of an Army reservist accused of murder. Meanwhile, Childs uses dirty tricks to short-circuit Peter's campaign. A multimillion-dollar suit leads to a confrontation between Alicia and Glenn Childs.
Meanwhile, Peter is in a tough spot thanks to Alicia's brother. Alicia gets involved in an ethical scandal, risking disbarment. Meanwhile, a third candidate is announced in the race for state attorney. Alicia and the team are on the fence about taking the case of a massage therapist who's accusing a Nobel Peace Prize winner of sexual assault. A brilliant disabled attorney catches Alicia, Diane and Will off guard. Meanwhile, Kalinda confronts a former friend about spilling secrets to Blake.
Alicia defends a teen pop star against charges of attempted murder. Meanwhile, the Democratic Committee asks Peter to drop out of the race. When the government accuses an alderman of taking a campaign bribe from a Muslim extremist group, the firm has to review hours of wiretap evidence. After Alicia gets a cryptic phone call from a court clerk, the whole firm works overtime to save a death-row inmate scheduled to die in nine hours.
Diane asks Alicia to make a tough choice regarding the company's split. Meanwhile, Diane informs Will about her decision. In the case of a client accused of murdering his father, the firm hires a jury consultant after discovering that the judge has a bias against Will.
Alicia defends a prisoner who -- under duress -- confessed to stabbing a fellow inmate to death with a shiv. While battling shrewd attorney Louis Canning for control of a huge class-action lawsuit, the team discovers that there's a mole in the firm.
Will and Diane take on the defamation case of a young Internet billionaire, who's suing a film studio for allegedly depicting him in a negative light. Diane is forced to defend Kurt when he's sued over his testimony in a murder trial. Meanwhile, Eli learns that Wendy has an illegal nanny.
The law firm sues a social-networking site on behalf of a Chinese dissident. Meanwhile, Will and Diane hope to wrestle the firm away from Derrick. When Childs subpoenas Kalinda to appear before the grand jury, she recruits Alicia to defend her. Meanwhile, Blake discovers Kalinda's biggest secret.
The firm takes on a case involving a convicted killer who's being sued for profiting from his crime by writing a song about it. Alicia and the firm represent the families of workers who committed suicide because of miserable working conditions. A South American dictator creates legal problems between two companies.
Meanwhile, Alicia finds out about Peter and Kalinda. In the season-ender, U. Attorney Wilbur Dincon Adam Heller hired Liz Audra McDonald and the firm to investigate the financier's death and determine what actually happened Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges last August; however, there are some who believe it wasn't suicide.
This led Marissa to realize that the firm got so caught up chasing a whoddunit that it forgot to think about the many victims of Epstein's crimes As Marissa and Jay left the island, the camera dove deep into the island's temple and revealed that Epstein's penis and brain were frozen and preserved there.
Meanwhile, Julius Cain Michael Boatman gave a statement about Memo to the Inspector General, which led to him being arrested for judicial bribery as a form of retribution. Below, EW chats with The Good Fight co- creators Michelle and Robert King about this unplanned finale, how the Epstein story related to season 4's Memo conspiracy, and whether or not they want to tackle the pandemic on Good Fight or Evil.
We went through the episode 8 footage, seeing what would create more definition around the main thread of the year, which was this Memo Those were three scenes taken from episode 8. Which we just lived with because we thought it was more resonant for what the season was with that.
In moving those scenes over, did you end up cutting something else out of to make those fit? ROBERT: I think our shortest episode this year was 41 minutes or 40 minutes, and our longest was 57 or 55 or something.
Was there any pushback?
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