Day 422
There is a ricin scare at the firm. Because the envelope with the white powder seems to come from a client, attorney-client privilege is in play, and they put Jay on the case. He finds it was an associate who wanted an extra day to read up on a case.
There is a case about sexual assault on the set of a reality show. The judge is pretty misogynist, but rules in Diane and the assault victim's favor.
After a lot of death in the past few weeks, Diane decides to stop caring that things are bleak and starts laughing.
Tropes
- Dissonant Serenity: The man responsible for the ricin scare was too unconcerned about the ricin and kept working. Jay got suspicious.
- Incompatible Orientation: Downplayed in that while Drew is initially more into Maia than Marissa when Maia invites him to have drinks with them, he changes focus quickly on learning that Maia is gay and Marissa is the one who's attracted to him.
- Mistaken for Gay: Zigzagged. Drew, the guy who comes in to collect the ricin, assumes Maia is straight and into him when she invites him to have drinks with her and Marissa (she's just being a wingwoman for Marissa), then at the bar when she tells him she's gay he assumes for a moment that she and Marissa are a couple until they clarify that only Maia is gay.
- Mistaken for Racist: Invoked. A showrunner feels she is being mistaken for racist on grounds of being against interracial relationships on her show.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Downplayed. Melanie seems more upset that the showrunners filmed her rape than that Blake raped her while she was unconscious. She reasons that the showrunners got her and Blake drunk then manipulated the situation.
- In the end, film footage shows a producer dragging her — naked and unconscious — towards the pool where Blake is. Assuming Blake was highly intoxicated, this would be Rape by Proxy.
- Shipper on Deck: The judge on the case is confused about why his favorite couple on the reality show didn't get together.
- Show Within a Show: A reality show called Chicago Penthouse where contestants are supposed to be looking for a suitable romantic companion.
- Slut-Shaming: Two gossipy Reddick-Boseman-Lockhart employees, one male and one female, engage in this at the beginning of the episode toward the reality show contestant Melanie, who was told by the producers to act flirty and sexual.
