The Good Wife Season 6 Episode 8, "Red Zone" — Cary Agos finally hears the CI tape that's been hanging over his head, and what he hears is a version of himself he can't explain away. Diane and Alicia run him through a mock trial with Viola Walsh playing prosecutor, and it goes about as well as you'd expect when a man is this angry at being wrongly accused. Meanwhile, Kalinda is caught between Lana's pillow talk and Lamond Bishop's demands, Cary makes a choice that lands him squarely on the multiple-stupid-things list, and Owen turns up with a campus case that pulls Alicia into a judiciary hearing with no rules she recognizes. Plus: a focus group that has thoughts about Alicia Florrick, and a photo op that goes very wrong.

00:00 – Welcome to The Good Pod, plus a focus group of our own
03:30 – The CI tape, four voices on the wire, and one of them is Kalinda
07:50 – Mock trial begins and Viola Walsh takes the cross
16:30 – Diane's talking-to and Cary's worst decision of the episode 22:45 – Bishop hands Kalinda a tracker and a deadline
25:10 – Owen's favor, Jodie's hearing, and a rule book Alicia doesn't have
32:50 – Louis Canning arrives with oxygen and an expedited timeline
41:00 – The focus group on Alicia, the soup kitchen, and a photo op gone wrong

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The Good Wife Season 6 Episode 7, "Message Discipline," splits clean down the middle: Cary's case and Alicia's campaign, with barely room for anything else. Finn goes hunting for what really happened during Cary Agos's time at the state's attorney's office and turns up two missing kilos, a case board, and a very pointed conversation with Geneva Pine. Diane fights a proof-of-other-crimes charge while Kalinda works a 30-foot leash and a lab tech with a suspicious bank balance. Meanwhile Alicia meets a Chicago broadcasting institution played by David Hyde Pierce, gets a brutal media-prep session from Elfman, and walks into an interview nobody prepared her for. Somebody quits. Somebody else announces. Jason and Marissa also settle the cheese curd question.

00:00 – Cold open: the missing Milwaukee cheese curds, and what a cheese curd actually is
03:45 – Finn asks for 60 more days, gets a yelly judge instead
07:32 – The case board, Geneva Pine, and the real story behind Cary's administrative leave
17:01 – Proof of other crimes: Diane goes after Geneva on the stand
24:57 – Kalinda, the lab tech, and a riverboat casino story that doesn't hold up
39:11 – Alicia asks Frank for an endorsement and reaches for the elder crime angle

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The Good Wife Season 6 Episode 6, "Old Spice," is an Elsbeth Tascioni showcase — and one of the weirdest, sweetest romances the show has ever attempted. Elsbeth and Alicia Florrick take on a federal case defending Camilla's software company against ASA Josh Perotti, who keeps escalating the charges from plagiarism to economic espionage while he and Elsbeth flirt across a courtroom via grate-jumping, pinky-grazing, and mutual sniffing. Meanwhile, it's religion week on the campaign: Alicia preps for an interview with Pastor Jeremiah, Grace gets pulled into it, and Marissa Gold arrives as Alicia's new body woman. Over at Florrick Agos, eviction notices and OSHA violations fly, and Cary Agos has a very bad night out that costs him.

00:00 – Sidewalk cracks, Milwaukee, and Elsbeth's acrobatic grate avoidance
00:04 – The case: JServ, plagiarized encryption software, and Josh Perotti's federal charges
00:15 – Courtroom flirting escalates: the pinky graze, the Old Spice, the Call Me Maybe of it all
00:34 – Religion week on the campaign, plus Marissa Gold joins as Alicia's body woman
00:45 – Eviction notices, OSHA violations, and Cary's night at the Ivy League mixer
01:04 – New bail restrictions and the office move nobody invited Cary to

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