History Heartwarming / TheGoodWife

-->Alicia: (smiling) I know.

* In "Je Ne Sais What?", Elsbeth Tascioni has been arrested for harassment in order to keep her from handling a lawsuit. When she contacts Alicia for help, Diane and Will get involved too and drop whatever they had planned when they find out that it's about helping Elsbeth.

-->Diane [nodding]: Well, yes. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Except for sex.]]

* Will is being threatened with disbarment. When Diane finds out, she's so upset she tears up. She then goes absolutely flying out there, tells a BlatantLie to an ''ethics'' board to protect him, and pleads with him to ''fight it, Will, fight it!''

* Any time it's shown that the NSA guys eavesdropping on Alicia (allegedly for security reasons, but mostly for their own entertainment) actually do care about her, in a way. When they return in a later season, they're genuinely ''thrilled'' to have an excuse to listen to her again, since they've missed her.

* During the events of "Hitting the Fan," after Alicia has been fired by Will, Diane goes to Peter's office to see if this will have an effect on her nomination for the Supreme Court of Illinois. Eli assures her it won't, and appears to be entirely genuine about it, seeing it as nothing that would impact her. It underscores that even Diane and Eli have come to respect and even like one another. When Peter does ask him for other potential nominees for the position, he looks genuinely hurt for Diane.

* In 'Death of a Client', the second Cary finds out that Alicia and her family were in danger, he starts helping Kalinda figure it out, even though he absolutely should not be disclosing that information. It's just a really nice moment which foreshadows how close Cary and Alicia will become later.

* Alicia is nervous on [[spoiler: election day]], so what does Finn do? Give her a multiplayer video game, then find her online and team up with her to keep her company and chat to keep her mind off things all day.

* Most of the interactions between Finn and Alicia following their meeting under tragic circumstances. Whether you ship them or not, it's hard not to be charmed by how they look out for each other, or by their conversations over drinks that often read like "Hi, honey, how was your day?" Finn even [[spoiler: quits his job]] after realizing that Castro is pursuing a vendetta against Alicia.

* The Alicia/Cary hug at the end of "Trust Issues." As Cary points out, it's the first time they'd done that.

* Despite Alicia, Kalinda, and Diane all having reasons to resent and hold a grudge against Cary, they drop it all in order to help get him out of jail, having been picked up by the State's Attorney in an attempt to go after Lemond Bishop.

* In season 5, [[spoiler:Diane and Kurt finally]] get married. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Awww...]]

-->Diane [nodding]: Well, yes. [[CrowningMomentOfFunnny Except for sex.]]

** He's later as pleased as Diane is about firing a client who wouldn't reaffirm his ties to Lockhart-Gardner unless he had a meeting with them that day, despite all the business they'd lose. Apparently, [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Amorality Has Standards.]]

** In "Dramatics, Your Honor", Kalinda and Diane call Alicia to make sure that she knows about [[spoiler: Will's death]], despite all of the animosity that has existed between them throughout the season. Eli gets in on it too, as he drops his usual defensive persona when finding out about it and draws Alicia away in a quiet, sincere manner to tell alert her to the news.

* During a case against Will, who has been throwing Alicia off through the proceedings, Alicia and Cary step out of the courtroom. She's furious at Will's tactics, and Cary just takes a few moments to help her cool down. It's a little thing, but it's the kind of action that reminds you of how far both they as characters and their relationship with each other have come since the series started, plus reinforcing that they truly are PARTNERS now, depending, relying, and assisting each other.

** When they hang up, there's a brief look on both of their faces, as if to say 'did that just happen?' and you can see them remembering the good old days-and being more hurt by it.

-->Kalinda: The firm could do better.

** Another Eli moment! Peter insists on keeping Eli around, despite the bad PR. Eli wants to leave for Peter's sake and says Peter can't be sentimental. Peter asks "You think that's sentimental?" and hugs Eli.

** And ''every'' Eli scene in the following episode. He has to pry deeply into Alicia's personal life and he's so ashamed he looks positively queasy about it. Also, his seemingly sincere declaration that he's squashing an ugly rumor for Alicia's sake, not Peter's.

** Then in said interview, the journalist's invasive and rude question crosses the line, and Eli jumps to his feet with a startled ''"Hey!"''

** Then in said interview, the journalist's invasive and rude question crosses the line, and Eli jumps to his feet with a startled ''"Hey!''

* Alicia agreeing to do the "spouse interview" after she realized that Eli had actually taken her no as a "no" and not pulled strings to get her afternoon off. Their relationship really came a long way over season two.

-->Diane [nodding]: Well, yes. [[CrowningMomentOfFunnny Except for sex.]]

* In "Alienation of Affection," Cary is called to testify about Lockhart and Gardner a very gray situation. He could easily distort the facts against his old firm, which he resents for letting him go . . . but instead he calmly and icily informs the opposing lawyer that his former coworkers were good people, there was no reason to believe that they did anything wrong, offers an excuse for the fudged paperwork, and no, he has ''no'' intention of coming back.

* In "Alienation of Affection," Cary is called to testify about Lockhart and Gardner a very gray situation. He could easily distort the facts against the old firm that resents for letting him go . . . but instead he calmly and icily informs the opposing lawyer that his former coworkers were good people, there was no reason to believe that they did anything wrong, offers an excuse for the fudged paperwork, and no, he has ''no'' intention of coming back.

* Will is being threatened with disbarrment. When Diane finds out, she's so upset she tears up. She then goes absolutely flying out there, tells a BlatantLie to an ''ethics'' board to protect him, and pleads with him to ''fight it, Will, fight it!''

-->"You cannot construct that narrative. I will tell you that I have no reason to believe that thing's forged. I knew Mrs. Florrick and Mr. Lee to be outstandingly competent and ethical throughout my time at the firm."