Things get personal, as both Seth and Jill take on cases that hit close to home.
Things are getting personal for Assistant District Attorney Seth Oliver.
is all set up and simply wonderful, Mrs. Oliver fills her son in on the local hot gossip.
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Seth brings the case to Roger.
Kappler-Hays is headquartered in Manhattan and violating a hella ton of E.P.A.
laws they can take this on.
The analogy is confusing for Seth who has only seenRocky IV, because, sure.
Leonard is such a good friend!
No, that wouldnt be good for anyone.
And Todd knows Seth will comply because Todd knows exactly what kind of lawyer Seth is.
The whole meeting puts nice, kind Seth in amood.
These two need to reconcile at some point, right?
There is too much chemistry to make this breakup final!
Anyway, Seth needs advice.
He shouldnt let them underestimate him, like Allison did.
He is filing criminal charges against the CEO, Jack Lewis.
Seth isnt messing around.
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Unfortunately, neither is Todd.
He meets with Seth, ostensibly to talk about a deal, but instead he really lays into Seth.
But he does it all with a smile on his face, which is definitely worse.
He lets Seth know that Roger didnt even want to hire Seth.
Todd, who worked in the federal prosecutors office, had to beg Roger to consider Seth.
Todd is actually impressed.
He looks like hes been run over by a truck.
The trial begins and things go downhill, fast.
Every witness Seth puts on the stand gets discredited by Todd.
She cannot stand to see Seth so sad; it, like, disrupts the force.
So she puts aside her no talking to colleagues rule and helps Seth.
Kate tells him that he cant just give up.
He needs to get angry and do something about it.
(Not for nothing, but Kate Littlejohn is the best character on this show, right?)
Jack Lewis loves two things in this world: violating the Clean Water Act and breakfast sandwiches.
The secretary is a slam dunk.
She proves that Jack Lewis knew everything and made the decision to not do anything about it.
Seth gets a very personal closing argument moment.
Which is to say, hes talking about himself, you guys.
He even gets teary-eyed!
Its actually very moving and nice to finally see Seth get a win.
Seth gets wins elsewhere, too.
Roger is impressed with this new Seth Oliver.
The confidence booster bleeds over into his personal life, as well.
He isnt being fair to either of them.
Allison knows, once again, just how much she underestimated Seth.
Hey, we all have our things.
The other big case belongs to Jill Carlan yes, the adults can play, too!
She is defending Chloe Daniels, who stabbed a mail carrier in the neck with a letter opener.
The guy might die.
She takes Chloe to get a psych evaluation, but the results are inconclusive.
File this away under tragic backstory tidbits.
It will come up later.)
Jill starts questioning Chloe, who has heard it all before.
No one believes her story, ever.
She get confused easily, she has periods of black outs.
Her marriage ended because of it.
Her son wants nothing to do with her.
She is used to people thinking she is a liar.
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Jill thinks Chloe has chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
It would explain all of Chloes behavior.
The only approved way of diagnosing CTE is at time of death, with an autopsy.
And Jill is right Chloe has CTE.
Itll be hard to make the experimental test admissible in court, but Jill certainly tries her hardest.
Like all Shondaland characters, Jill Carlan gives a good speech.
Mental illness is problematic.
Why should Chloe be unable to properly defend herself because we dont know enough about CTE?
The speech works and Chloe is granted a deferred prosecution.
In case you hadnt guessed, this case is very personal for Jill.
Jill helps Chloe get set up in her apartment and makes her promise to call if she needs anything.
Jill knows Chloe is all alone in this world and her disease is only going to get worse.
This whole thing hits home hard.
In non-case news, we get some excellent personal developments.
But this wheel is more than a wheel to Krissman.
She brings it to the man who made it and thankfully, he can fix it.
But Krissmans attachment isnt just because she likes well-crafted woodwork, it is deeper than that.
It became a part of their family traditions; her son even used it to pick a college.
The wheel always knows best.
They even used it once her husband got sick, up until he died.
So, there it is.
Krissmans grief and memories with her late husband are tied up in that wheel.
And you thought it had power before!
The biggest news to come out of this episode is that Kate Littlejohn isin love…with Leonard!
She even sends up a test balloon to see if he takes any interest in joining her for dinner.
HOWEVER, he definitely knows what shes doing.
What will Leonard do now that he realizes Kate is interested in him romantically?
Should these two hook up?
Is there someone out there who is a better match for Kate Littlejohn?
I have no answers to these questions, but I am very, very intrigued by this development.
