When Alicia’s client confesses under duress to murdering a fellow prison inmate, Cary’s team seeks to challenge by uncovering an unlikely connection between the two inmates. Meanwhile, Wendy Scott-Carr threatens to e...
The Good Wife
Show summary:
"The Good Wife" is a female-driven drama about a politician's wife who pursues her own career as a defense attorney after her husband is sent to jail on charges of political corruption. Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) will not only have to deal with her career but also with keeping her family together by providing a stable home for her two children.
"The Good Wife" is a female-driven drama about a politician's wife who pursues her own career as a defense attorney after her husband is sent to jail on charges of political corruption. Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) will not only have to deal with her career but also with keeping her family together by providing a stable home for her two children.
Alicia defends a high-maintenance teen star accused of a DUI; the Democratic Committee tells Peter to drop out of the race.
Alicia, Will and Diane are caught off-guard when a brilliant disabled attorney (Michael J. Fox) uses his condition to sway a jury; Kalinda turns to a former friend for help.
The partners must decide whether to take the case of a massage therapist who is accusing a Nobel Prize winner of sexual assault; Peter and Eli try to figure out what Wendy's candidacy means for their campaign.
Summary: Alicia becomes involved in an ethics scandal, threatening her career; a third candidate for State Attorney arises.
Summary: An explosive confrontation between Alicia and Glenn results from a multimillion-dollar malicious prosecution lawsuit; Alicia's brother visits after his questionable comments about Peter go viral.
Summary: An Army reservist is accused of murdering his wife; Childs turns to dirty tricks in hopes of marring Peter's campaign.
Summary: Alicia has to choose between her marriage to Peter and pursuing a future with Will.
Summary: At Eli Gold's urging, Alicia must decide if she'll stand by her man during Peter's new political campaign, or if she'll pursue a relationship with Will instead.
Summary: Eli Gold works on getting Peter's charges dropped, and Alicia defends Colin Sweeney, a client and accused wife killer, who claims self defense after she finds him handcuffed to a dead woman.
Summary: The winner is announced in the competition between Alicia and Cary.
Summary: The police are quickly at the door when Peter's electronic monitor sounds after he chases Alicia out of the apartment. As a result, Grace and Zach scramble to figure out a way to keep him from being arrested.
Summary: Alicia debates whether or not to use personal information to her advantage when she takes on her former boss in the courtroom; Peter uses religion to work on his appeal.
Summary: Alicia and Will defend a college student accused of killing her sorority sister while under the influence of a sleep aid. At the same time, they also deal with their growing sexual tension and Diane and Kurt Mc...
Summary: In an emergency courtroom set up in a hospital, Alicia and Will battle Patti Nyholm and an insurance company that refuses to pay for life-saving in-utero surgery. Meanwhile, Alicia gives Peter a proper welcome ...
Summary: Peter strategizes on how to handle his retrial and the next steps in his public rehabilitation; Alicia and Will defend an attorney arrested for murder.
Summary: While Peter gets acclimated to life at home and works on a comeback strategy with his political team, including Eli Gold, Alicia and Diane wrestle with spousal privilege laws in a murder case that hinges on the...
Summary: Alicia defends a man accused of killing his child's babysitter. Meanwhile, Peter's appeal seems to be going well, and Alicia prepares for the idea of him returning to her life.
Summary: Tensions are high as Peter's appeal begins while Alicia has to defend a wealthy client who doesn't seem that innocent, even after he's found not guilty of murdering his wife. Meanwhile, Diane takes precautions ...
Summary: Alicia and the kids have to deal with some really bad news and then she has to give Peter some information that will make him furious. Meanwhile, Alicia has to represent the doctor who prescribed the medication...
Summary: Alicia learns more about Peter's fall from office when she represents Glenn Child's wife, Marie Browning, in her divorce appeal. Meanwhile, Will and Emily an opposing counsel, get cozy during a death suit again...
Summary: Alicia investigates a judge's questionable motives after he overturns a simple plea bargain she arranged, and she learns that the judge has a history of unusual sentences. Meanwhile, Diane gets a tempting offer...
Summary: Alicia deals with tricky office politics when she's asked to represent the firm's senior partner after he's arrested. Meanwhile, Peter's evidentiary hearing hits the skids, leading Alicia to suspect that he may...
Summary: While Alicia is preparing in a case defending a scientist accused of arson, she is suddenly asked to testify on Peter's behalf. Damages Peter Riegert guest stars as the judge in Peter's case and CBS' The Early ...
Summary: Alicia becomes attracted to her co-counsel and his unorthodox way to defending their client while representing one of her partner's daughter at the law firm.
Summary: As Alicia works with Will on the appeal of a death row inmate, she agrees to a conjugal visit with Peter in order to get information from him since her client was convicted under Peter's regime as state's attor...
Will and Alicia only have 72 hours to find the evidence that will prove the train company is responsible for the crash, and not the engineers. If they manage to prove it, the widows get their pensions back. Meanwhile, Ja...
Summary: Alicia thinks she's discovered evidence of jury tampering in the firm's class action law suit against a pharmaceutical company. Meanwhile, her husband's legal team gets closer to his appeal.
Summary: The son of Alicia's former friends is charged with felony murder, and Alicia decides to defend him, despite the fact that they ostracized her ever since the scandal.
Summary: A stripper claims she was raped at a prominent businessman's bachelor party, and Alicia represents her after the state's attorney refuses to pursue criminal charges.
In the series premiere, Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), a politician's wife, resumes her career as a defense attorney after her husband is jailed for corruption. Her first case is the retrial of a woman accused of ...
