Kalinda is often the key to the firm's winning a case, usually at the 11th hour. She generally does not work well with others and although Kalinda doesn't let many people close to her, she becomes good friends with Alicia, with the aid of tequila shots; and she feels protective of Alicia.
After they have a falling out, Kalinda remains loyal to her best interests, encouraging Will to pursue Alicia in hopes of securing Alicia's happiness. Despite continuous job offers from various friends in law enforcement (Lana) and the private sector (Sophia), she remains a solid employee of the firm.
Once her plan is discovered, she is forced to surrender drug dealer Lemond Bishop to the state's attorney's office so that Diane Lockhart doesn't face any punishment. For her own safety, Kalinda leaves Chicago behind.
Having previously worked for Peter for three years, he fired her after (rightfully) accusing her of working two jobs. She is exceptionally good at her job, although her tactics are not always strictly legal. She was portrayed by Archie Panjabi . Kalinda is often the key to the firm's winning a case, usually at the 11th hour.
After reports of voter fraud surface, Landau reveals to Alicia that he rigged the voting machines in order to preserve the Democratic supermajority in the Illinois state legislature. However, in order to maintain the façade of a fair election, Landau forces Alicia to resign.
This episode felt minor, but its final beat revealed Kalinda betraying Will for a chance to save Alicia, just as Diane has re-stated her implicit trust in Will. And in that you have the arc, with assured heartbreak all around, that will carry us through to the end of the season.
Alicia, Diane, Cary, Kalinda and others return to Lockhart & Gardner, now called Florrick, Agos & Lockhart. In Season 6, Alicia also starts running for State's Attorney and develops a friendship with prosecutor Finn Polmar. She is successfully elected but has to step down due to false accusations.
Caitlin leaves the firm in "Long Way Home" when she find out she is pregnant. She intends to get married and raise her baby. Although Alicia and Diane both offer that she juggle both work and family, she chooses to leave anyway.
In the fourth season, it is revealed that Kalinda has an estranged abusive husband, Nick Saverese, played by Marc Warren.
“My time with you as your friend was the best I ever had and I'm sorry,” Kalinda told Alicia in a rare emotional moment for the normally stoic investigator.
Unlike her husband, Alicia is not getting slapped for sleeping with prostitutes. Rather, Diane slaps her because Alicia (during cross-examination at Peter's trial) undermined Diane's husband, making him look unreliable and not credible, in hopes of saving Peter from going to jail.
And that's not even the worst of it. Despite all those years together, all the scandals he weathered with his wife by his side, Alicia is done with Peter on The Good Wife . The Florrick divorce is on. After seven seasons of standing by her man, Alicia looks like she's ready to have a clean break from Peter.
He was the State's Attorney, however he was accused of hiring prostitutes with the State budget. His opposition, Glenn Childs leaked a sex tape of him and a prostitute named Amber Madison. Peter was forced to resign, his wife Alicia was humiliated and Peter had to spend 10 months in jail.
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Kalinda was the in- house private investigator at Lockhart-Gardner whom we first meet in the pilot episode.
By Seasons 3 and 4, their friendship is sort of repaired, but a bit fraught.
Emotions end up getting the best of Kalinda, who essentially leaves Chicago and the show because of Cary. In the sixth season, as Kalinda is trying to save Cary from a malicious drug-related prosecution, she fakes a Brady violation in order to have Cary's charges dropped.
That is, until Kalinda's final Season 6 episode in which she and Alicia get a drink together for old times' sake.
Of course, when asked to comment publicly on their off-screen feud, both Julianna and Archie adamantly denied it. "There's no animosity on my part," she said to The New Yorker. Then, referring to that final CGI scene, she added, "You also have to remember, she was doing a show called The Fall ."
Anyway, Kalinda and Peter only had a one-night stand, way before Alicia and she started working together. And Kalinda feels super bad once Alicia discovers their one-time affair. "I slept with him once," she says. "Now, I do that. It means nothing to me, but I do that. Look, Alicia, I didn't know you.".
As Diane scrambles to keep the firm's partners placated while they attempt to fill the power vacuum created by Will's suspension, she delegates one of her responsibilities – a seat on a blue ribbon panel that's investigating alleged police misconduct – to Alicia. The case involves a police officer who shot and killed a man on a subway platform. When Alicia begins to suspect that the other members of the panel are unwilling to get to the bottom of what actually happened, Alicia goes toe-to-toe with some of the most influential judges and politicians in Chicago in order to find the truth. Meanwhile, Kalinda's tax audit takes a turn for the personal as she learns the motivation behind the IRS investigation may be about more than money. When Alicia's offer on her old house is rejected, she re-lives both pleasant and painful memories of her old life with Peter in the process of writing a letter to the seller in the hopes of changing their mind.
After getting engaged, Caitlin decides to leave Lockhart/Gardner and give up her career in order to start a family. At the state's attorney's office, Cary is forced to investigate employee fraternization on Peter's behalf, putting him in an awkward position thanks to his own transgressions with Dana Lodge.
Alicia works a pro bono case, defending a man who stands accused of committing murder during a convenience store robbery gone wrong. Even though her client is innocent, a witness has identified him as the shooter. Matters are complicated further when Diane, trying to keep the firm afloat during hard economic times, tells her to plead it out – she wants all of her attorneys on paid cases only. When Diane discovers that Celeste's old firm has gone under and his former partner is looking for a new place to take her lucrative bankruptcy division, Will attempts to get her on board at Lockhart/Gardner. Celeste, however, has other plans: she wants Will to leave the firm and come work with her.
Lockhart/Gardner represents a client who suffered severe injuries and lost his wife when a snowmobile malfunctioned and struck a tree. With a sympathetic judge and video evidence, the case seems like a slam dunk. All of that changes, however, when the opposition argues that the client's ability to maneuver the snowmobile was impaired due to injuries sustained during a fight on the ice when he was a professional hockey player. In order to counter, Alicia and her legal team decide to add the hockey league to the lawsuit as well. Unfortunately the league is represented by Lockhart/Gardner nemesis Louis Canning, who never goes down without a good fight. Without enough money to make a down payment on her old house, Alicia begins to take Canning's job offer overtures much more seriously. Things heat up between Diane and process server Jack Copeland. When Will's old girlfriend Tammy comes back to cover the hockey trial, Alicia realizes that she wronged Tammy in the same way that Kalinda wronged her.
The Good Wife. (season 3) The third season of The Good Wife began airing on September 25, 2011, and concluded on April 29, 2012. The series changed timeslots beginning with the third season from Tuesdays at 10:00 p.m. to Sundays at 9:00 p.m., where it would stay for the remainder of its run.
Alicia and Lockhart/Gardner face off against the US Treasury Department once again, this time aiding Dylan Stack, a lawyer who represents the creator of Bitcoin – an online currency with mysterious origins. Alicia's client is being pressured to reveal the name of the anonymous Bitcoin creator so that the government can prosecute him for creating what they believe to be a currency in direct competition with the US Dollar. But when the judge rules that attorney/client privilege prevents Stack from having to reveal the name of his client, the Treasury Department changes tactics and decides to prosecute Stack himself as the creator of Bitcoin. Wendy Scott-Carr's investigation into Will continues. When Dana Lodge discovers some damning information that could send Alicia to prison, she approaches Kalinda with an ultimatum: help the SA's office prosecute Will, or they’ll go after Alicia.
Lockhart/Gardner represents the families of three Americans who were detained and killed by the Syrian government during the civil war. They claim that the tech company ChumHum knowingly sold infiltration and decryption software to Syria in violation of US law – software that allowed the government to track down and murder its enemies. But if ChumHum knowingly sold their software to Syria, proving it is another matter entirely. And when the defense produces a photograph that shows that one the missing dissidents may still be alive, Will, Diane, and Alicia must decide whether or not it's worth jeopardizing their case for the chance to bring her home. The mood at the firm is exuberant following the grand jury's decision not to indict Will. But as a parting shot, Wendy Scott-Carr tipped the Chicago Bar Association off about Will's indiscretions 15 years ago in Baltimore. And, Will learns, there is no statute of limitations on disbarment.