Both moments signified a turning point for Alicia Florrick.
Only this time, we won’t get to see what comes next.
For one final time, let’s recap, shall we?
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But before the judge can enter Peter’s plea deal, the jury reveals that it has a question.
The jury requests to hear the audio from the victim’s 911 call in the Locke case.
In other words, someone else was in the room when the victim was shot.
We watch as she imagines three scenarios: The first, she comes home to Jason.
The second, she comes home to Peter.
She comes home to WILL.
Not surprisingly, out of the three, she continues kissing Will.
(Also not surprisingly, I’m now sitting in a puddle of my own tears.)
Where was I?"
(YOU WERE DEAD, WILL, AND I’M STILL NOT OVER IT.)
As he quotes her, “What did you say?
It was romantic because it didn’t happen.”
At court the next day, Jason asks for Alicia’s help talking to Cary.
Before they go in, Alicia informs Jason that Lucca thinks they should talk.
But as Jason sees it, Peter needs Alicia and Alicia needs to be needed.
Just before they head into the classroom, Alicia asks Jason to wait for her.
The answer, it seems, is simply that it would take too long.
And it turns out, there’s no point.
The judge stops her questioning before Diane can get anything useful out of it.
But Alicia is only interested in probation.
Talking to one of his fundraisers, Peter discovers that Eli is pointing all of his fundraising toward Alicia.
And when Alicia gets the divorce, she’ll no longer be tainted by Peter.
It really is a good setup, you know, IF Alicia wants that life.
(I’m going to go ahead and bet she doesn’t.)
NEXT: Alicia’s unhappy ending
But let’s get to the good stuff: Matan found the bullets!
Turns out they’d been accidentally misplaced in an evidence box and are being tested now.
Only when Kurt calls, the news isn’t good: The bullets definitively came from Locke’s gun.
He did it, which means Peter would have had reason to hide them.
And as Diane reminds Alicia when she stops caring about Peter’s guilt: He’s their client.
They have to care.
Back home, Alicia finds Peter in the kitchen.
“Just so you know, I didn’t do it,” he tells her.
But it doesn’t matter to her.
The prosecution then calls Kurt to the stand.
So when Diane leaves the room, Alicia asks Lucca for a favor.
Cut to court where Lucca cross-examines Kurt without Diane’s permission and completely discredits him.
Just like that, Alicia throws her friend and business partner under the bus to save her husband.
He reminds Alicia that Diane knows what it means to zealously represent a client.
They’re all adults here.
(In other words, he thinks you messed up, Alicia.)
All Peter has to do is resign from the governorship.
Taking the deal to Peter, Alicia informs him that she thinks he should take it.
He agrees, but because he’s the worst, he has one more favor to ask.
He asks Alicia to stand by his side when he announces the deal tomorrow.
Closing the door on Peter, Alicia turns around to see an empty apartment.
Wondering what she does now, Imaginary Will informs her, “Go to him.
You’re done with Peter.”
But as she explains, “Jason’s not you.”
“Very few people are me,” Will quips.
As Will explains, she can’t live here alone.
It will drive her crazy.
“Go to him.
It’s not too late,” he says.
His oh-so-Will response: “I’m okay with that.”
She tells him about Peter’s plea and about Grace going to school.
She asks him to call her back.
And then she hangs up.
Cut to a very full-circle moment as Alicia once again holds Peter’s hand as he walks on stage.
But the moment she thinks she sees Jason standing off-stage, she leaves Peter.
Only, when she chases Jason around the corner, he’s not there.
Did she imagine him?
We’ll never know.
Just like that,The Good Wifeis over.
The first time she started to get out of it, the love of her life was murdered.
