The Good Wife

nt you making the same mistake

as the government, thinking that,

because of the color of my skin, I sell drugs.

Why shouldn't the courts be kept honest

about Bishop? Everybody deserves representation.

Does that stop suddenly when it comes to...

A criminal organization whose sole purpose is to sell drugs?

Blake Calamar.

In Baltimore, he was working two jobs.

When he wasn't protecting Bond & Associates interest,

he was out protecting

MS-13, Baltimore's biggest meth gang.

Bond played us against each other.

I don't like being played.

So I suggest we do the same to Bond.

Counselor?

Thank you, Your Honor.

Mr. Rubio, what is your job?

I'm a guard at the Northeast Illinois Correctional Center.

And what is this?

An outdoor cell on the yard.

We use it when an inmate acts up in the prison yard.

And did anyone act up on September 14th of last year?

Yes, sir.

Some inmates got in a fight,

so I placed one in the cage.

And was it this inmate?

Yes, sir.

Jay Winston.

Then I turned away to handle the others,

and when I came back, he was...

Winston was stabbed.

And this is how you found him?

Yes, sir. Dead.

With this weapon?

Yes, sir.

A shiv found inside the cage.

And who did this shiv belong to?

Him. You're referring

to Joey Church, inmate #321120?

Yes, sir.

Nothing further.

Mr. Rubio,

were you aware of any previous conflicts

between my client, Joey, and the victim?

No.

Winston had just been transferred in the week before.

And how long did my client have left on his 18 month sentence?

Two weeks.

Do you find many convicts with two weeks left

on their sentence performing acts like this one?

Objection.

Sustained.

To clarify, Mr. Rubio,

you didn't see the stabbing occur?

No. Unfortunately,

I did not. And how did you determine that this

shiv was my client's?

Well, they found his DNA on it.

But it was fashioned from his toothbrush, correct?

Yeah.

So that would explain the DNA.

Objection.

Outside Mr. Rubio's expertise.

I think it's just common sense, don't you?

The defendant's toothbrush would have his DNA on it.

Overruled.

Mr. Rubio, do inmates ever

steal personal items from one another?

All the time. So it's possible

that another inmate stole my client's toothbrush?

Sure, possible.

Nothing further.

Your Honor, at this time, we would like to be heard

on precluding the prosecution's next witness.

Your Honor, the defense had ample time

to argue during pretrial.

Yes, but new information has come to our attention.

Come on. I'm always amazed

at how convenient this new information is.

Counselors.

Shall we take this lovely little debating society

into my chambers?

They're coming after bought testimony.

No. They'd play that in court.

It's the lie detector.

They dinged us on lack of motive.

We need our eyewitness. I know.

Uh-oh.

Whenever I see that bitch, I know we're in trouble.

Their eyewitness denied seeing anything, Your Honor.

Yes, initially, because he didn't want

to be seen as a stool pigeon.

We offered no deal.

Mr. Ellis changed his mind of his own free will.

After the police conducted a lie detector test.

A lie detector test he willingly agreed to.

Which caused him to change his mind

and claim he saw this stabbing.

Right. Because he was caught lying by the lie detector.

Carob chips, anyone?

I'm good.

Um... The bottom line, Your Honor,

is we don't intend to reference the lie detector in court.

We only intend to use

Mr. Ellis' testimony.

Your Honor, this is a sworn affidavit from Iderdex.

It's a manufacturer

that services all Cook County lie detectors.

They claim, during the week in question,

the lie detector was out of service.

Clearly, this was a case of the police conducting

an X detector.

That is guesswork.

An X detector? Educate me.

It's when the police attach the suspect to a fake lie detector,

such as an Xbox or a Xerox machine,

making him think that he's been caught lying.

Your Honor, even if what Mrs. Florrick alleges is true,

I would cite People v. Lee.

The police have leeway to misrepresent

during an interrogation.

I know your boss thinks I'm pro-defense.

Excuse me?

Your boss-- Mr. Childs.

I know he thinks because I pal around

with Bill Ayers and the like that I'm pro-defense.

Well, I don't believe that, Your Honor. The only problem is

when I try to be pro-prosecution,

the police pull a stunt like this.

People v. Lee

is not absolute, Counselor.

This was an extrinsic misrepresentation

and therefore your eyewitness is excluded.

Thank the police, not me.

Good job.

I didn't see that one coming.

Ah, I have to keep you on your toes.

So, anything new on Blake?

You just got my only eyewitness kicked

and you want my help?

Yeah.

We're talking a ten percent cut across all departments.

It's not our choice.

If you haven't noticed, Cook County is going through a budget crisis.

So, everybody keep an eye on the O.T.

and unload any dead wood.

We've got a dispo dump at the end of the month.

So separate the chaff.

What about investigator time?

We just got beaten in court

because the defense was one step ahead of us.

We're all doing more with less.

Some of us aren't.

If you're referring to the Bishop investigation,

- drugs are drugs. - So we just let a case

from Lockhart/Gardner slip through the cracks?

If any case slips through the cracks,

the problem isn't the budget, the problem is the A.S.A.

Get creative.

Use what you know.

Okay, moving on.

Here's what I know.

No, we already questioned him.

He had nothing to offer.

He's got a parole hearing in a week.

Yep. He might be more open to questioning.

Getting creative.

Hmm.

Cary.

Don't say anything about the hair.

What's going on?

I hate to lose.

And I hate to lose to someone who's outspending me two to one.

You're on that prison knifing, aren't you?

That's just a pro bono for them.

They got Kalinda on it.

Oh.

Let me look into that.

Diane Lockhart approached me.

About?

A job.

And?

I don't want to go.

But you've got student loans.

Yes, I do.

I put you on these Lockhart/Gardner cases

because you know them.

So, show me you know them.

Go ahead, read it.

It says because I have a white husband, I'm not really Black.

It says my kids are half-breeds.

It says they should be embarrassed to go to school.

Look at it.

It's not us.

It's being distributed in African-American neighborhoods.

Church parking lots.

Makes no sense for me to go there.

Let me read it to you. "Is she really..""

Come on, Wendy.