The Good Fight

So what's this all about?

I don't know. Top secret.

For how long? - I don't know.

The partners' schedules have been cleared for today.

Hmm.

Have you seen this Chicago lawyer playing cards.

What?

Most wanted playing cards.

Oh, my God.

They already have the four dead lawyers. Look.

Two of hearts, three of diamonds. - What website is this?

"Locked, Loaded and Literate," an alt-right website.

What are you doing looking at an alt-right website?

I look at everything. Are any of us in there?

The partners?

I don't know. I was gonna order a deck.

And give them money? - It's the only way to find out.

What is this?

Not sure. The ways of the partners are mysterious

to us mere mortals.

Want me to hold your calls, Diane?

Oh, yes, please.

For how long? - Um, actually, I don't know.

What's the meeting?

Please sign the nondisclosure agreements, and we can talk.

This is our new client.

No, it's our audition.

Thank you for your time. Uh, I'm Ruth Eastman.

Consultant to the Democratic National Committee.

I need to take a moment to ask you to place

all your cell phones and other devices on the table.

This will be an electronics-free meeting, even for me.

It will be murder for us.

Brian's coming around, uh, collecting them. Brian?

Yes, ma'am.

Brian told me to make my cell phone screens all gray

so I'm not tempted to keep looking at 'em. And why is that?

Humans are attracted to bright colors.

So attracted I can't bring myself to do it.

The lovely Carine is handing out pads and pencils.

Please only use these, not your own,

and only take notes for this meeting.

The notes will be destroyed afterwards.

Good. I think we're ready to begin.

We're in a very peculiar time.

No, that's right. We should laugh.

It's the only sane reaction these days.

We're living in a time of farce, not tragedy.

And the Democratic Party, for the first time,

has a plan to respond.

Uh, you can laugh at that, too.

Oh, no, I'm done.

Our hope is to win this November,

both the House and the Senate.

And if that's the case,

we want to be ready to impeach President Trump.

We're meeting with ten law firms,

you and nine others,

in New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta.

Our plan is to hire only one to prosecute our case for impeachment.

Wh-Who are the other nine?

I'd rather not say at this time,

but the same precautions are being taken

at these other firms.

Obviously, this is all highly confidential

because the DNC doesn't want to seem

as if they're planning for impeachment.

It will hurt our chances in November.

So...

Here's the one question being asked

in nine other boardrooms across the country right now.

New.

This is the question we want you to ponder and answer.

Well, shit!

I'll get more, Ruth. Thank you.

Why should President Trump be impeached?

If Mueller doesn't come in

with a definitive result,

what case should we prosecute and why?

Hi. Sorry to bother you. Do you have any black markers?

Sure. This way.

So are you doing a music video in there?

Yeah, come on in. We need backup singers.

I'll think about it.

You look familiar. How do I know you?

Uh, I don't know.

Where do you work? D.C.

I'm Carine. Maia.

Uh, so they are over here.

Uh, so... we only have pink and purple.

Thanks.

Seriously, I know you from somewhere. Where?

Okay, so you know how we just had a little exchange back there

and I made you smile, you made me smile? - Yes, I remember.

Well, remember that when I tell you who I am.

You're a serial killer.

Oh, close. Uh, Maia Rindell.

My dad is Henry... Oh. Oh.

The Rindells.

Yeah.

It was nice meeting you.

Yeah, what I would say about the production taxes is, um...

Would you excuse me?

You have to go to the bathroom No.

Lucca Quinn, please.

It's okay if you do.

My wife, four months pregnant,

had a bladder the size of a peanut.

No, it's just, uh, someone...

How does that work at trial?

I mean, if you have to keep going to the bathroom?

I don't have to go to the bathroom.

I'll be right back.

Hi, I'm Maia.

Hello. They told me Lucca Quinn was down here.

She is. Can I... Mrs. Lovatelli.

Lucca, there you are, sweetheart.

Oh, please don't call me that name.

I hate that name.

Okay. Is there anything I can help you with?

Yes, there is.

I have a present for you,

as a thank you for my recent encounter with the police.

Oh. Maia, could you take care of Mr. Lock for a minute?

And tell him I'm not going to the bathroom.

Okay.

Very nice meeting you.

I think your dad stole some of my husband's money.

Sorry. No, no.

That's a good thing. He's an asshole.

Okay.

Just so you know, I don't drink anymore.

Hmm. That was a bad situation.

Well, I have a glass of wine as a celebration,

but for Lent, I decided to give up red wine.

I didn't know you were Catholic. Oh, I'm not.

But I'm empathetic.

Isn't Pope Francis a great man, the way he does those things?

Oh, thanks.

Just what I've always wanted.

You silly.

Oh.

It's for my grandchild.

Colin told you?

He didn't have to.

The two of you, seeing you together, special lovers.

What is it that D.H. Lawrence said?

"When genuine passion moves you,

say what you got to say, and say it hot."

Is there any way to turn it off?

Yeah, I think it just goes off by itself.

Anyway, I'm...

in a meeting, so...

Lucca, can I be a meddling mother-in-law for just a minute?

We're not married, Francesca.

I know. I just like the sound of "meddling mother-in-law."

Francesca, we're not an anything.

You know, it was just a one-time thing.

But you're having his baby.

Yeah, but not as a plan. We're not serious.

It just... happened.

Lucca, can I confide in you?

A baby needs its father

and a loving, wonderfully unpredictable grandmother.

Thank you for the dog, Francesca,

but, I hope you don't mind me saying this,

you need to stay out of my business.

Well, I can't help it. I'm already in it.

No, you're not.

Colin loves you.

I've seen how he handles the other girls.

He can't stop talking about you.

Okay. I have to go. It was nice seeing you.

People understand emoluments.

They understand people selling their office...

They don't think Trump needs it. They understand this.

They think he's above it. This is ghastly. You know that.

Julius, your president is not a king.

I'm not saying he's a king.

I'm saying you're starting with the ends that you want

and then finding reasons to... Oh, come on.

Everybody knows it's obstruction.

What about collusion?

Clinton was impeached for obstruction, so was Nixon.

There's precedent there.

For impeachment, but not for removal for colluding.

That is not a crime.

He colluded with the Russians. What else do we need to say?

Andre, that gets us into the weeds, man.

It also happens to not be proven.

It's a complicated case with, frankly, too many Russian names.

Think of it as a trial. You want to simplify...

He fired James Comey.

He tried to fire Robert Mueller. That's simple.

He refused to put his company into a blind trust.

He fired the FBI director who was investigating him.

That is impeachable. He's not above the law!

Look, foreign investment in his hotels

and his resorts means he is gaining

from, what? Foreign emoluments.