The One Where the Sun Comes Out
It rains a lot in Chicago. Roland Blum offers Maia a job, interrupting her call with a man who wants to sue over a puddle. Chumhum wants Reddick-Boseman to let Brenda DiCarlo teach the lawyers how to handle sexual impropriety in the workplace.
Diane's resistance group wants to SWAT, so Diane comes clean about Valerie being a conwoman. The group doesn't believe her.
Tropes
- Brutal Honesty: One of Blum's clients wonders why Blum doesn't answer his phone. Roland tells him honestly that it's because he's an asshole.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: Brenda thinks the fact that black associates sit with each other, and white associates with other white associates, means that they are segregated. Julius tries to explain that they choose where to sit.
- Did Not Think This Through: Blum accuses Reddick-Boseman of knowing that he suborned perjury, then acts all surprised when he gets disbarred for suborning perjury.
- Hypocrite: Everyone at Reddick-Boseman accuses everyone else of this.
- A black male associate thinks the firm is biased against men.
- A black female associate thinks Marissa is slowly replacing Jay, and that it's a race thing, not a gender thing as the man mentioned above thinks.
- The mail room workers, who are all black, feel unsupported by the associates, but that the black associates feel entitled to their support.
- Laughing Mad: Brenda has pseudobulbar affect.
- Sexy Secretary: Lili tells the attractive realtor who's selling her and Maia their new office space that she'd like to have him as a Gender-Flipped example.
- Spit Take: Brenda tells Julius that people think he's sleeping with Marissa Gold just when he's taking a sip of coffee, causing this trope to happen.
