With her friend Shannon, she watches a Chinese cartoon detailing the trial, a la the animation mocking Tiger Woods.
It's basically a payoff." The Florricks agree to pass on the bribe, with Alicia urging him to "run, if you have to Xerox pamphlets at Kinko's to do it."Īt Sloan's hearing, Alicia is mounting a clever if dishonest defense attributing Sloan's conduct to bulimia-"the prosecution can't tell if she is drunk or merely starving"-when Cary interrupts: "Sloan Burchfield, you're under arrest for murder Class X felony with a minimum sentence of six years." Apparently, there's a victim in the hospital with six broken ribs, thanks to her drunken accident.ĭrunk or throwing up, Sloan is the first of her mother's clients who piques Grace's interest. It pays $400,000 a year-a sum that, as Peter soon points out to Alicia, means "you wouldn't have to work" (ha! like she'll ever stay home again), "I'd barely have to work. If Peter stays in, he runs the danger of playing the Ralph Nader spoiler card if he agrees to drop out, he will receive the spoils of the Democratic Chairman job ("the Howard Dean route"). They don't want Wendy Scott-Carr because she's a "loose cannon," and the incumbent Childs is the stronger candidate. People here are less forgiving about underage drinking."Ī third plot thickens when the Illinois Democratic Committee asks Peter to drop out of the S.A. As Alicia warns, it's an election year, and "the State's Attorney is going to want a felony conviction and 25 days at Cooks County to use you as an example." Sloan, she adds, has "achieved the wrong kind of fame. Lee has recruited Alicia to take care of another family matter-Sloan's third DUI.