The Good Wife: Season 5, Episode 9 - Wack-a-Mole

Florrick/Agos is barely keeping the lights on, and Alicia and Cary are scrambling for new clients while Will at LG is playing offense. Enter Damien Boyle, a new Irish litigator who immediately makes everyone's life more chaotic in the best and worst ways. Meanwhile, Alicia takes on a case involving a professor named Saeed whose colleague's book on spiritual jihad lands him under FBI surveillance and eventually gets him fired, setting up a defamation suit worth fighting for. The episode earns its title when every problem Florrick Agos solves seems to spawn two more, from furniture theft to surprise courtroom opponents. Robin gets a genuine hero moment with her Excel skills, Diane and Will have a nostalgic reckoning in enemy territory, Jackie's backstory gets unexpectedly humanizing, and Judge Kluger leaves the episode on the most surprising note of all.

0:06 – Welcome to The Good Pod and Season 5, Episode 9 recap begins

5:03 – Episode breakdown starts: Florrick Agos needs clients and the FBI shows up at Saeed's door

15:08 – Meet Damien Boyle: Will's new Irish maverick lawyer makes a big courtroom entrance

28:13 – Damien's wildest move yet: the Florrick Agos office furniture heist

51:58 – Robin's Excel moment saves the day: the chubbysocks bot discovery

57:06 – The ending no one saw coming: Judge Kluger calls Alicia to ask her for coffee

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