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Sep 22, 2009 · Pilot: Directed by Charles McDougall. With Julianna Margulies, Matt Czuchry, Archie Panjabi, Graham Phillips. Alicia Florrick returns to her job as a lawyer after her husband, a prominent state's attorney, is imprisoned.
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- Charles McDougall
- 2009-09-22
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Pilot is the first episode of the first season of The Good Wife. It premiered on CBS on September 22, 2009. It was written by Robert King and Michelle King, then has directed by Charles McDougall.
After having to return to work following her husband's corruption scandal and incarceration, Alicia Florrick is assigned her first case-a straightforward retrial of a woman accused of murdering her ex-husband. Since her firm successfully deadlocked the first jury, sticking to the same strategy should work again, but Alicia soon discovers that she h...
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Amidst dozens of camera flashes, Peter Florrick walks up to a podium and declares that an hour ago, he resigned as State's Attorney of Cook County. Although he insists on never having abused his office, he has to apologize to his wife, Alicia, and their two children. Alicia stands next to her husband, acting like the "good wife" while thinking about how Peter cheated on her and betrayed her trust. Once they leave, she stops in a hallway. When Peter asks if she is allright, she slaps him across the face and walks away. Not wanting to face the reporters outside, she is obviously lost in the seemingly helpless situation.
Six months later, Alicia is waiting in a conference room, but nobody else is around. A staffer tells her that she is wrong by one floor. She quickly collects her things and moves to the right conference room, where Will Gardner and Diane Lockhart, senior partners of the law firm Stern, Lockhart & Gardner, brief the staff about the workload of the day. Alicia is assigned a pro bono trial. After the conference, she tries to have a talk with Will, but he redirects her to Diane. The chief litigator of the firm assures her that women should help women, and offers to be her mentor. She then briefs her of the case in question: 26-year-old second grade teacher Jennifer Lewis stands accused of killing her ex-husband, and the jury came back dead-locked and now there will be a retrial. Alicia is surprised when she hears that the meeting is on the same day.
Back in the hall, Cary Agos, the other new associate the firm just hired, offers to carry Alicia's paper box and introduces himself. He leaves saying, "may the best man win", leaving Alicia even more baffled. She then meets Kalinda Sharma, the firm's lead investigator who used to work at the State's Attorney's office but was fired by Peter. Kalinda explains that there was gunpowder found on their client's hand, and that the prosecution argues that she killed her ex-husband in a fake carjacking in order to keep him from getting custody of their daughter. At the courthouse, Alicia gets a call from her daughter, Grace, who asks about her father's sex scandal, which her friends talk about at school. Alicia is a little shocked, but has to get off the phone.
Then, suddenly, after thirteen years as a housewife and mother, Alicia Florrick is back in the courtroom. The state attorney makes fun of her and tries to use her husband's bad relationship with the presiding judge against her, but Judge Richard Cuesta makes it very clear that that will not work. Mrs Lewis is granted pre-trial release; Alicia's first day at court is a success.
Some time later, Alicia and Kalinda interview Jennifer, who tells them about how she met with her ex-husband, Michael, and they had a good time. On the way back, they had a flat tire, and he got out to fix it when a red pickup stopped not far away. A man came up to them and shot Michael. However, Kalinda points out that a nearby surveillance camera did not show the car leaving. Alicia investigates further, and discovered that the jury was actually split eleven to one, with only one voting for innocent. The jury then voted six to six in order to get declared locked. The juror in question, Mrs. Duretsky, did not act out of logic, but mainly because she had "a feeling" and liked Diane Lockhart.
Starring
•Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick •Matt Czuchry as Cary Agos •Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma •Graham Phillips as Zach Florrick •Mackenzie Vega as Grace Florrick •with Josh Charles as Will Gardner •and Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart
Special Guest Star
•Chris Noth as Peter Florrick
Guest Starring
•Titus Welliver as Glenn Childs •Katie Walder as Jennifer Lewis •Chris Butler as Matan Brody •Gillian Jacobs as Sonia •with Mary Beth Peil as Jackie Florrick •and David Paymer as Judge Richard Cuesta
Production Broadcast
•This episode first aired in on September 22, 2009. •On its first airing this episode attracted 13.714 million viewers.
References
•Diane Lockhart has a picture of herself meeting Hillary Clinton in her Office. Hillary Clinton's husband (former president) Bill Clinton was involved in an infamous sex scandal, similar to Peter Florrick's.
Quotes
•Alicia: (to her client) You won't feel like it. But put on nice clothing. Force yourself, too. Not for public. For you. •Diane Lockhart: (to Alicia) When I was starting out I got one great piece of advice. Men can be lazy, women can't... and I think that goes double for you. Not only are you coming back to the workplace fairly late but you have some very prominent baggage. (Points to a picture of her and Hillary Clinton) But, hey, if she can do it so can you.
The Good Wife: Created by Michelle King, Robert King. With Julianna Margulies, Matt Czuchry, Christine Baranski, Archie Panjabi. Alicia Florrick has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney.
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The Good Wife (South Korea) The Good Wife (Japan) The Trial (India) The Good Wife is an American legal and political drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2009, to May 8, 2016. [1] It focuses on Alicia Florrick, the wife of the Cook County State's Attorney, who returns to her career in law after the events of a public sex ...
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Sep 22, 2009 · Available on Paramount+, Prime Video, iTunes, Amazon Freevee. S1 E1: Alicia is assigned her first case after having to return to work following her husband's corruption scandal and incarceration. She quickly discovers that the retrial of a woman accused of murdering her ex-husband is not as straightforward as it seems. Drama Sep 22, 2009 43 min.
Exclusives. Humiliated by her politician husband's scandal, Alicia Florrick musters her resilience and returns to work as a defense attorney, getting the case of a woman accused of murdering her ex-husband.
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