The One Where Diane Joins the Resistance
Liz wants to divorce her husband Ian. He retaliates by accusing her of infidelity. Maia and Roland are up against a lawyer with a vendetta in the journalist murder case. Diane goes to a meeting of the resistance. Marissa helps Julius select a campaign manager.
Tropes
- Amicable Exes: Liz is divorcing her husband, but is unsure whether she's the only one who wants it to be amicable.
- Blatant Lies: Roland's tactic of making up stories that overshadow the facts with their outrageousness.
- Call-Back:
- The new prosecutor brings a box of take-out menus to discovery, since that's what Blum presented as evidence in the previous episode.
- Maia brings up how everyone has told her to be assertive enough to ask for what she wants.
- Liz went home with Adrian after he was released from the hospital after getting shot in season two.
- The NSA guys who enjoyed listening in on Alicia's calls in the original series are back, now listening in on Diane.
- Comically Missing the Point: Liz wonders whom Ian is accusing her of having cheated with, and Lucca nods in the direction of the other room. Liz initially thinks she means Diane, but she means the person Diane is talking to, Adrian.
- Flipping the Bird: Ms. Diamond makes this gesture at Maia after she is given her office. Maia makes wings with her hands in return.
- Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Blum claims that Diane's problem is that she doesn't understand Trump's motivations.
- Refuge in Audacity: Roland Blum says outrageous things so people will be too embarrassed to call him out. He also takes off his pants in the office. Any office.
- Shout-Out:
- Valerie Peyser mentions Machiavelli's "The Prince".
- Roland reads a poem in court that makes a pun on "Send in the Clowns" by Judy Collins.
- When she learns that Valerie was a conwoman all along, Diane's feelings of betrayal are represented by Roland Blum doing a cover of The Jackson 5's "I'll Be There".
- Title Drop: After Diane joins the resistance, her fake text from Valerie tells the group to "keep up the good fight".
- Too Much Information: Lucca feels this way about having to learn about what Adrian and Liz may or may not have done since their divorce.
