The Good Fight
Thursdays on Paramount+The Good Fight Season 5 Quotes
Diane: Well that’s unfortunate. We’ve represented people far worse than Kurt, who by the way was found innocent.
Liz: I’m not saying that he wasn’t, but Jan. 6, we watched the Confederate flag make its way to the Capitol building. The people that Kurt didn’t want to turn over to the FBI, those people, they don’t even want us alive.
Diane: Well, not all of them. I’m sorry I didn’t mean that. I’m certainly not defending those people. They’re all despicable traitors.
Liz: And now that’s what people are saying about Julius.
Diane: And me?
Liz: Diane…
Diane: Am I being pushed out?
Liz: No, not pushed out. You’re a name partner. You can't be pushed out.
Diane: But…
Liz: The partners just think you should do the right thing.
Diane: And step aside?
Liz: Stay in the firm, stay as an equity partner. Just step back from your managerial role.
Diane: Liz, I pull in the big clients. I get the billable hours, but maybe you should step aside. Weren’t we going to form a firm led by women?
Liz: And I hope that it will be.
Diane: But Black women?
Liz: Diane, I am not voting against you. I promised you I wouldn’t but there is growing anger here. They want to address it at the next partners meeting, so you just think about it. You’re a good person.
Diane: No, I’m not.
Liz: Yes you are.
Julius: On a scale of 1 to 10, what is Kurt’s willingness to take a deal?
Diane: He’s not on that scale. That is not an option.
Julius: I am fairly certain I can get him less than one year.
Diane: Why are you even discussing deals? Kurt is innocent.
Julius: So was I, but we decided jail time was the best option. You know as well as I that sometimes it’s not about innocence.
Diane: You’re willfully withholding information. Anything you tell me is protected by the firm’s privilege and marital privilege.
Kurt: Then why’d you call the FBI?
Julius: Maybe I should go.
Diane: No, stay. It was the right thing to do. I never thought it would blow back on you.
Julius: You plan on being a part of every conversation I have with Kurt?
Diane: Maybe.
Julius: I’m a good lawyer, Diane, but I’m a lousy couple’s therapist. You could find one of those for a lot less.
Diane: Did I make you think I wanted a therapist?
Julius: I just need to know when I’m talking to my colleague and when I’m talking to Kurt’s wife.
Diane: OK, let me ask you as his wife. You still talking about taking a deal?
Julius: No, he’s done nothing wrong.
Diane: And if I ask you as a lawyer?
Julius: It’s not good. The Feds want a head.
Diane: You need to come clean with the FBI.
Female gun enthusiast: What do you mean?
Diane: I mean you need to give the Feds all the names of the people in your group so Kurt doesn’t take the fall since he’s done nothing wrong to any of you.
Female gun enthusiast: I haven’t done anything wrong either.
Diane: I’m more ambitious for a reputation of personal courage. I recognized that phrase for a video you shot for the NRA. Straight out of Churchill, isn't it?
Female gun enthusiast: What do you want?
Diane: What I want is for you not to exist. What I’ll get is for you to go to the Feds and clear my husband of all these charges.
Female gun enthusiast: I’m not guilty. I didn’t do anything.
Diane: I don’t give a fuck. You wrote this manifesto. You’re hiding the names of your gun group, and my husband’s being fucked over in the process, so you tell the Feds he’s innocent.
Female gun enthusiast: I have to pick up my daughter.
Diane: Yes, I know. I checked you out online. I think it’s strange that a dedicated guns rights advocate would have any issues with being publicly tied to this manifesto, but I guess you’re worried what your Gymboree might think. You have until tomorrow. Then I’m telling the FBI it was you.
David Lee: Why the fuck aren’t you asking me? I make calls all the time.
Jay: What are you talking about?
David Lee: Well, think about it. I know everyone on the Harbor Hospital Board, did half of their divorces, went to college with the other half. I kept track of any of our troops that got sick.
Jay: You didn’t really? Did you?
David Lee: Of course, I did. It takes a call from someone like me. That’s how you get the best seat in the restaurant or a hospital room.
Jay: David, thank you.
David Lee: Jay, it was a business decision. Forget it. The moment has passed.
Carmen: What should I do? I don’t want to lose this.
Liz: Then you need to tell your client the upside and the downside. This can only be his decision.
Carmen: Thanks.
Liz: Yes?
Carmen: I want to learn from you. My attitude is knowing, but it’s just my attitude. It’s not who I am.
Liz: Carmen, when I was your age, I acted exactly the same way. I wanted to be perfect, so I acted like I was perfect because bluff is always a part of it. But just let me help you when I can. Ask questions.
Carmen: I will.
Liz: Tell Rivi it’s his decision whether to go forward or not, but if Racehorse does depose him, we’ll find a way to punish him.
Carmen: I like the sound of that.
Frederick Douglass: Here they come. They think you’re in a coma.
Jay: They don’t think we’re conscious, do they?
Frederick Douglass: No, you’re in a coma.
Liz: Where did you get that number?
Jay: I was at the hospital.
Liz: Yes, but where did you get that number?
Jay: A memory.
Carmen: Can we get any more of these memories?
Liz: I don’t know.
Diane: It’s insane for you to stay silent. I know it’s your code, your stupid cowboy code.
Kurt: You keep saying that.
Diane: Because it’s true.
Kurt: No, because I don’t like how the authorities use lies like these to get me to turn on…
Diane: Dylan Pike is going to send you to prison because he knows you won’t respond to his lies. John Wayne doesn’t punch first, but he does punch back.
Carmen: Mr. Glaubman promised me a settlement offer.
Racehorse: Well, that’s not going to happen. I enjoy fighting too much, and you look like a fun opponent. I hope if you don’t mind if I depose one of your witnesses, a Dr. Debra Hammond, Dr. TikTok.
Carmen: Dr. Hammond is deceased.
Racehorse: Well, that ought to keep her answers brief. I seem to remember hearing there was an acute shortage of trained medical personnel due to the COVID pandemic. Is that what you remember as well, doctor?
Carmen: OK, are we done here?
Racehorse: Yet even in the midst of a nationwide shortage, you were let go. The way I see it, smells of incompetence.
Carmen: Or retaliation.
Racehorse: I wonder doctor if you wouldn’t agree there are a number of factors that go into the type of treatment a patient receives, and some have nothing to do with race or connections. For instance, the patient’s own wishes.
Carmen: Is Harbor Hospital prepared to make a settlement offer?
Racehorse: No, but they are prepared to respond to one. As of 9 a.m. this morning, a counterclaim for defamation was filed on Harbor Hospital’s behalf.
Carmen: Great negotiating tactic.
Racehorse: Here’s the thing, Ms. Moyo. Ask your drug kingpin client if he’s happy about being deposed. Remind him he has to answer every question I ask him on the record, then we’ll talk settlement.
Racehorse: As much as I don’t want to disparage the good doc, it seems her social media popularity was important?
Liz: Objection.
Racehorse: On what grounds.
Liz: General assholery.
