It's coming off what many (read: yours truly) consider to have been the best season finale of the spring.

So how will The Good Wife Season 5 pick up on Alicia agreeing to leave Lockhart/Gardner for a new firm headed by herself and Cary?

Very carefully, based on the official CBS synopsis, which teases one seriously busy new partner: Alicia will be juggling her current firm's effort to stop the execution of a killer… while plotting a departure to her new firm.

Look for some quiet before a major sh-t storm hits this fall and click through photos from the premiere ("How to Begin...") now:

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