[s7e2] Innocents – Direct

is the second episode of the seventh season of the legal drama The Good Wife , which originally aired on October 11, 2015. The episode centers on Alicia Florrick's burgeoning independent legal practice and her first major collaboration with bond court attorney Lucca Quinn. Core Plotlines

: Alicia interviews several private investigators to replace Kalinda Sharma. She is immediately intrigued by Jason Crouse (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a man with a "gravelly voice and easy charisma". Despite an initial hesitation, Alicia hires him over another candidate after he provides a key lead in the museum case and chooses her small practice over a higher-paying offer from her former firm.

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: Alicia represents a young man, Eric Barsetto, who vandalized a museum exhibit featuring nude photographs of him taken by his mother when he was a child. Alicia and Lucca argue that Eric never gave consent for the photos to be sold or displayed, but they face off against the perpetually upbeat Nancy Crozier . After losing on the consent angle, Lucca secures a partial victory regarding the "right of publicity" to prevent the museum from profiting through gift shop sales.

: At Lockhart, Agos & Lee, Cary Agos attempts to modernize the firm by pushing out the aging and increasingly inappropriate partner Howard Lyman . This sparks a bitter rivalry, leading Howard to threaten Cary and eventually issue an ultimatum that backfires when the other partners find it an easy choice to let him go. is the second episode of the seventh season

: Eli Gold, seeking revenge against Peter Florrick's new strategist Ruth Eastman, continues to use Alicia as a pawn. He manipulates Alicia into taking a position on the election board to rehabilitate her image while simultaneously undermining Ruth's control over Peter's vice-presidential campaign. Episode Details Original Air Date : October 11, 2015

: Approximately 8.82 million viewers on its first airing. She is immediately intrigued by Jason Crouse (played

: Mamie Gummer as Nancy Crozier, Amy Irving as the photographer mother, and Margo Martindale as Ruth Eastman.