When Alicia and Cary represent a client who has left Lockhart/Gardner to go with Florrick/Agos, Will and Diane intentionally delay turning over the case files to the new firm. Also, Marilyn, Peter's ethics council, tries to give advice to Alicia, and Will's colleagues are surprised at the new intensity he displays in the wake of the upheaval at the firm.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 5 Episode 6 of The Good Wife was watched by 9,790,000 viewers, resulting in a 1.60 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Is The Good Wife Renewed or Cancelled for Season 6?

The Good Wife Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Everything is Ending
• s05e02 - The Bit Bucket
• s05e03 - A Precious Commodity
• s05e04 - Outside the Bubble
• s05e05 - Hitting the Fan
• s05e06 - The Next Day
• s05e07 - The Next Week
• s05e08 - The Next Month
• s05e09 - Whack-a-Mole
• s05e10 - The Decision Tree
• s05e11 - Goliath and David
• s05e12 - We, the Juries
• s05e13 - Parallel Construction, Bitches
• s05e14 - A Few Words
• s05e15 - Dramatics, Your Honor
• s05e16 - The Last Call
• s05e17 - A Material World
• s05e18 - All Tapped Out
• s05e19 - Tying the Knot
• s05e20 - The Deep Web
• s05e21 - What Love Means
• s05e22 - A Weird Year

The Good Wife Show Summary

The Good Wife is a drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother who must assume full responsibility for her family and re-enter the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. Pushing aside the betrayal and crushing public humiliation caused by her husband Peter, Alicia Florrick starts over by pursuing her original career as a defense attorney.

As a junior associate at a prestigious Chicago law firm, she joins her longtime friend, former law school classmate and firm partner Will Gardner, who is interested to see how Alicia will perform after 13 years out of the courtroom. Alicia is grateful the firm's top litigator, Diane Lockhart, offers to mentor her but discovers the offer has conditions and realizes she's going to need to succeed on her own merit. Alicia's main competition among the firm's 20-something new recruits is Cary, a recent Harvard grad who is affable on the surface, but will use any means to ensure that he, not Alicia, secures the one full-time associate position that's available.

Fortunately, Alicia finds an ally in Kalinda, the firm's tough in-house investigator. Gaining confidence every day, Alicia transforms herself from embarrassed politician's scorned wife to resilient career woman, especially for the sake of providing a stable home for her children, 14-year-old Zach and 13-year-old Grace. For the first time in years, Alicia trades in her identity as the "good wife" and takes charge of her own destiny.