The Good Fight

So, this is global warming?

I think it's just Chicago.

We should move to San Diego. Mm.

Doesn't look good.

She'll be fine.

And what is the current disposition

of the drug charges?

- Under review. - Forgive me, Maia,

but as managing partner, I have to ask this.

Do you have a drug problem?

No. God, no.

The drugs were foisted upon me by Roland Blum.

And these were the drugs the police found in your car?

Yes. Foisted

but not planted?

So, if you weren't using yourself,

why'd you allow him to foist anything on you?

I don't know how much experience you've had with Roland Blum.

The, uh, the standard playbook

goes out the window.

Does that extend to throwing

a computer through a glass wall?

Admittedly,

we've all lost our temper on occasion.

I didn't lose my temper.

Blum thought that he could intimidate me,

and I had to let him know that I wasn't intimidated.

There may be better ways of doing that. There are.

And I apologize.

I've agreed to pay for both the computers

and for the glass, and I promise,

this will never happen again.

Okay.

- Thank you, Maia. - Thank you.

So, what do we think?

Fire her.

No, no. What?

- I agree. - We fired Alan North

last month for the identical drug charge.

Not identical. He was using.

That was never proved.

This is just holding, and Maia's never had

- any other issues. - Actually, that's not true.

She was arrested two years ago.

For her father's crimes.

But then she was found not guilty.

But don't we have to be consistent?

I argued against firing Alan North

for his drug arrest, but I was overruled

because we agreed there's zero tolerance.

Zero tolerance for using, not for...

I don't think we ever agreed on that distinction.

It's a huge distinction.

Wait. Wait.

Wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait. Wait.

We will review all the evidence against Maia

and then consider suspending her for a week.

So we're just gonna let this slide?

We're not gonna let it slide. We're not letting it slide.

I know how this works. Just saying due diligence.

We kick it down the road

so we can bury it. No.

We will come back in four days, and we will vote.

Everybody will be heard.

- Okay? - Okay.

So, you coming with me?

To tell Maia? No, to the noon meeting.

Oh, your leftie rebellion?

Mm, trust me, Liz, you'll be impressed.

I-I've had my fill of left-wing anger.

Yeah, well, this is different.

All right, let me think about it.

Should I close the door?

Am I fucked?

Wow, Maia. All grown up.

No, you are not fucked.

Boseman is doing the bare minimum to discard of this.

Drug test and a standard investigation.

A drug test? Yeah. Standard.

But you have the votes, so don't worry.

Uh, things will be back to normal in four days.

I'm so sorry about all of this, Diane.

No, no, no. You should've had some supervision with Blum.

That was my mistake.

Well, it was an education.

That's an odd couple.

I know. They've been spending a lot of time together.

I think Julius is helping her out with some legal issue.

No, don't walk back your pro-life argument.

That's why they want you for a federal judgeship.

You don't think it's too controversial?

It's controversial here because everybody's pro-choice,

but you're at the Historical Law Society.

They're like the Federalist Society Version Two.

They want true believers.

So I should just bring it up, abortion?

No, you bring up your biography.

The dog whistles. You have 12 kids.

Six. Whatever. And you're Catholic,

and you live that whole philosophy.

What's that mean?

Mass once a week and a disabled son.

Seriously? I should just bring that up?

Are you kidding me? They'll eat that up.

Julius, this is Stockholm syndrome here.

You've been here with liberals so long

you don't know what you should be humblebragging about.

Aren't you one of those liberals? Sure.

But my dad poisoned me. He made politics chess,

so it was more important to win than to make life better.

You're a funny bird.

Let's start again.

When they ask you about your family, what do you say?

Well, as the father of six children,

one of them with muscular dystrophy,

I'm well aware of the problems of family,

and that's one of the reasons I supported Donald Trump.

Trump is down in the suburbs,

but his evangelical, rural support is strong

and unlikely to decrease given his court appointments

and grip on the right-wing media.

If you turn to chart three,

you'll see that looking ahead to 2020,

we need to change our focus.

Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.

Trump won the 2016 election

because of these...

79,646 votes.

That's all it took to get him the 46 electoral votes

that put him in the White House.

He lost the popular vote by almost three million.

So shouldn't we, in fact, change Valerie's goal?

What do you mean? Well,

she challenged us to find a way

to shave nine points off of Trump's approval rating.

But isn't that too broad?

Shouldn't we just focus on these needed votes?

Should we check with Valerie first?

- Um, she left it to us. - So, let's do it.

Can I make a suggestion?

Go for it. Isabella Burns.

I'm working with social media innovators,

trying to follow tastes across the country.

And if you want to sway 79,000 votes

in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania,

you need to swiftboat a pop star.

Swiftboat?

As in Taylor Swift. She came out for a candidate,

and within 24 hours,

65,000 new young voters registered.

By Election Day, there were half a million new voters.

So we need an influencer who matters in these three states.

And who might that be?

We also need an influencer

we can influence.

Diane.

Sounds like you already have somebody in mind?

Well, yes.

One of your clients.

Uh-oh.

The country star,

Sabrina Wynne.

Her Q score is 56 or better in these three states.

Especially among 18 to 32-year-olds.

Oh. So you all discussed this before we got here?

We went through our client lists. You won.

It's my day off. This better be good.

Oh, I'm sorry. Do you have a moment?

I need some advice.

How did the disciplinary hearing go?

Good, I think.

I mean, they want to give me a drug test.

I've-I've never done one before.

Do I have to worry about a false positive?

You know, from, like, a-a lemon poppy seed muffin?

No. Poppy seeds are in such low quantities,

it won't matter. Everything should be fine.

Just don't get arrested again.

But for how long does a, uh,

drug test flag something like poppy seeds

- in your system? - Ah.

A week at the most.

You know, they found drugs in your car, Maia.

It's not like you did drugs.

I'm so relieved.

I feel like I want to get blackout drunk.

I need a drink, too.

We just came from a "mommy and me" class.

Oh, God. Yeah, we had to clap and sing

and shake tambourines.

I thought my day was bad.

No, wait, there's 12 verses.

Are you there?

Are you wishing

somebody would pay attention to you?

It's okay.

She's off the phone now.

It's cold outside.

You should put a scarf around him.

He doesn't like scarves.