"Previously on "Suits"... will you marry me?" "I'll marry you." " I don't care how much money you make or how many you women you sleep with." "You have issues in your life that are going to keep you from having real relationships." " Benjamin and I have an overlap on our software with another company." "Louis pulled out every trick in the book to get us this." " Take the money." " I don't want the money." " Donna..." " I want something more." " What do you mean more?" " I made a deal that we would handle the miners' case in exchange for the chance to be admitted to the Bar." " Are you goddamn kidding me?" "You're fired." "not twice..." " I don't care because we need him." "you better start putting your money 000 case." " Tara left a 15-second voicemail." "She's either gonna tell me that she never wants to see me again or she wants to make up." "What's that?" " Your first year's salary in advance." "I'm running out of ways to tell you I don't want to be a corporate lawyer." "one for me." " I don't wanna just fund the clinic for a year." "and any case I want" "I can." " Done." " And there's one more thing." " You are not getting my office." "and I will tell you why." "Harvey." "It's time for you to take the reins." "♪" " Harvey." "What are you doing here?" "I was just driving this baby around and remembered how much street parking you had." " Is that supposed to impress me?" "I hope so." "Sure as hell impresses me." "but if you wanted you should have called." " I'm not here for an appointment." "I'm here to ask you out." " You're serious." "and... let me finish." "Things have changed since the last time I saw you." "I'm not the same man that I was." "I made peace with my family;" "I thought of you. because it's completely unethical for a doctor to engage in a relationship with her patient. enough time has passed." " You did your homework." " Sure did." "So the only question is:" "Thursday at 8:00 or Saturday at 9:00?" "and if this chemistry you no hard feelings. no foul." " Thursday." "I can always have Ray drive." " I like the car." " What did you say?" "I couldn't hear you." " I like the car." "♪" " Good." "You're here early." "I need you to take point on a consumer fraud hearing" "I need to talk to you." " Okay. so if you're wondering if I'm still upset at you..." " I'm not." "And this is to make sure you're still not upset with me after you hear what I'm about to say." "000? and I gave you my word that I wouldn't leave you high and dry. and now Harvey Specter is buying you back?" "you wouldn't be getting a penny." "I insisted on this." "Just like I insisted on every other case I take from now on being pro bono." " It sounds like you insisted on that to make yourself feel better." "I did that I'd even like the idea of us partnering on a case every now and then." " But what if I say I'm not okay with any of this?" " I know that you were the one that gave me another chance but don't punish the clinic." "you could replace me and help a lot of people for a long time." "♪ it's for me." "You're later than usually this morning." "about the other night." "but before you say anything..." " I want to be a partner." " Partner? and I want to be a partner at this firm. but you're not even a lawyer." "because my being a partner isn't about the law. which I've been doing for as long as I can remember." "but it doesn't mean that I can get you... and I've done it all from your desk." "All I'm asking is for a seat at the table." " I'll have to ask Louis about it." " Does that mean that you're on board? I've decided to tell Louis that I'm taking full control as managing partner." "but which is it?" "Louis?" "Mike?" "Big ask." Because I'd hate to think it's out of your mind." " I give you my word." "I will not forget about it." " Okay." "♪" "wanna stay for your meal ♪" "♪ Get another piece of pie for your wife ♪" "♪ Everybody wanna know how it feel ♪" "♪ Everybody wanna see what it's like ♪" "I don't mind ♪ busy making money ♪" "♪ All right" "I'm 'bout to dance ♪" " Did you sleep in here?" " Just getting a feel for my new office." "You think a bike rack would fit on this wall? you'll be representing yourself after I shove it up your ass." " Wow." "That sounds uncomfortable. when are you gonna get your old man records out of here so I can settle in and get to work?" " I'll get out of here once we take of Neil Stillman." " Neil Stillman?" "Detour Industries?" "Jedi counsel." "I was asking because then one for you? we do the cases that pay the bills first?" "I haven't even told you the best part yet." " You only got two weeks to live? I'm giving you Neil Stillman. why don't you give him to me now?" "I can handle it myself." " I know that." " Then what's going on?" "It doesn't make sense for us to be working together on this." "you want the truth? she and I never really got to do cases together anymore." " You used to work on cases together?" " Yeah." "She was me and I was you." "We kicked ass." " Right." "And what exactly did you contribute to the equation?" "but that's not the point." "The point is we had a great time doing it." "I'm serious." "our relationship changed. you would have wanted one last case together." " Exactly." "So what do you say?" "We go out and have some fun and kick some ass?" "Or do you want to stay here measuring for your bike rack?" " It's not gonna measure itself." "fine." "Kick ass." "I want on that Jedi counsel." "whole deal." "you're here." "what are you doing here?" " I'm here to give you these." " What are those?" " Brochures from the top nine mud resorts though I don't know why a person would do that in the first place." "It's like sitting in a bathtub of your own poop." " What the hell are you talking about?" "you need to take yourself some time off." "When's the last time you even had a vacation?" " Nine years ago July." "Goddamn travel agent sold me a package hard pass." " What kind of person goes to a sex club in Bangladesh?" " It's not like that. and I was trying to find Freida Pinto." " I believe she considers London her place of habitat." "I'm not talking about the real Freida Pinto." "I'm talking about my Freida Pinto." "okay?" "So just..." "I'm not an idiot." "Leave me alone. this breakup's gonna get the best of you. but I'm not just gonna sit around." "I'm gonna be pouring my heartbreak into those new associates." " Are you sure that's the best idea?" " Look..." "I didn't just lose Tara." "I lost a chance at being a father." "And those associates have always been my children to me." "My children." "I've been neglecting them but that ends this morning." "Louis." "Gretchen." "you called an hour ago." "that means you should have been here in 30 minutes." "I got news for you:" "I'm not Dominos." "because slinging pizzas might be the only job you can get if you don't stop shitting the bed." " Shitting the bed?" "How's that?" " I've been trying to get you on the phone for two weeks." "I start falling through the cracks?" " You're not falling and I brought the best junior partner in the firm." " I don't give a shit if he's the best junior towel boy." "and I want it done yesterday." "you want to sell your vodka business." " How the hell could you know that?" " Because you don't clean up the balance sheet of your third largest division six months after you restructure if you're not looking to put it on the market." "you brought the right guy." "what took so long?" " And my question is what's the rush?" "'Cause you also don't ram a transaction through if you don't have to." " I have an opportunity and I don't wanna let it slip away." " What company? and they make a little product called none of your goddamn business." "what's with the secrecy?" "We're your lawyers." "We need to know what you're looking to do." " The secrecy is in case you're not my lawyers two weeks from now." "I don't want you knowing who I'm going after." " Is that a threat?" " It's just my way of making sure" "I don't keep falling through the cracks." "Now let's talk terms." "Gretchen." "Have you seen Louis?" "I'm worried about how he's doing after last night." " My guess is he's in the bullpen with his hatchlings." " His hatchlings? so I tried to get him to take a vacation." "He said he'd rather focus on raising those associates." " Focus on them or take it out on them? but the man turned down a trip so I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt." " Then I will too." "♪ boys and girls." "Who's ready to tear Watson Industries a new asshole? I've made each of you a copy of my initial brief. we are not leaving this room." "No one will be shitting." "No one will be pissing." "ask him." " Ask me what?" "but..." " But what?" "son." "I am not the same Louis I used to be. so what do you need?" " Two days off." " No problem." "Feel free to take Saturday and Sunday off." " He meant in addition to the weekend." "is this true?" " Yes." " Then..." "Monday and Sunday you shall have." "fine." "Monday and Tuesday it is." "just call me Louis." "Mind if I ask what the occasion is?" " I'm gonna be a father." " What?" " We're gonna have a baby boy." "Something everybody here knows is never gonna happen to you." "Gonna be a father for the rest of his life. which means we have to go in there..." " You self-centered piece of shit." "Do you think I care about the graphic details?" " I just thought..." " Thought what?" "That you don't give a shit about your job?" "you work here." "You don't think about home and families and babies." "So the next time you want to put your personal life you better goddamn come to me a year in advance." " That's not fair." "He couldn't have known he was gonna have a baby a year..." "Stephanie: and just because no one ever wants to try with you doesn't give you the right to tell me how to run my associates." "You got that?" " Got it." " You thinking what I'm thinking?" " Depends." "What are you thinking?" " I'm thinking we've got a vodka company to sell." " You already said you wanted to have some fun. what have we got?" "Both:" "Party." " See?" "We're already on the same page. and I'll get the models." " Models?" "I like models." "Why can't I get the models?" " You make a good point." "It's a two-man job." "We'll both get the models." "why do we even have to have models at this party? and you've got to give the people what they want. any dipshit who shows up and hits on the models all night isn't a serious bidder for the company." "you really are ready for my office." "when exactly is that gonna happen." " I can't talk about that right now. what you said before I appreciate it." "It means a lot to me." " Me too." "Both:" "Pussy." "♪" "do you have a minute?" "I need your help." " Of course." "What's going on?" " Louis is out of control. or when Harvey made senior partner out of control?" " Worse." " Shit." "What did he do?" " He just went off on the associates." "He was abusive and cruel and ugly." "I have never seen Louis like this before. there's always a reason..." " Tara broke up with him last night." "my God." " I was there when it happened." "This is not something that he's going to get over quickly." " So what are you saying?" " I'm saying that" "I think I should take over the associates until he's able to get his emotions under control." "taking the associates away isn't exactly gonna stabilize him." "That's the one thing he has. and he'll be lucky if it's just suing him." " Did you tell him that?" "and he bit my head off so..." "I'll talk to him." "But I'm gonna need you to tell me exactly what he did first." "♪" "Donna." "you had time to go off on the associates this morning." " Who told you that?" "That's bullshit." " Are you telling me you didn't go off on Brian Altman and then make a horrible comment about Stephanie Patel's sex life?" "Louis." "You're lucky that there isn't a lawsuit on your desk right now." "thank you for your counsel." "I am trying but I think Rachel should handle the associates for right now." "it's not." "then let me explain a little something to you called pecking order." "I am up here." "Rachel's down here." "And you don't give dominion over your associates and you're not in your right mind." " I don't want to hear that name again. but I did leave one name off the chart." "Me." "Rachel." "You." "So don't you tell me what to do." "God help those associates." "♪" "is this Dr. Feelgood?" "'Cause I'd like to schedule an appointment as soon as possible." " I'm sorry." "You've got the wrong number." "This is Dr. I Have Work to Do." "I'd like to schedule an appointment as soon as possible." "why exactly are you calling me?" "answer me this:" "How many times have you considered picking up the phone and telling me that you've reconsidered since you said yes?" " Four." "If you don't count right now." " Then let's just say I'm calling to tell you that I've been in a room full of models and all I can think of is you." "Still thinking of cancelling on me?" "Harvey." "I'm looking forward to our dinner as well." "♪" " Did you move up the date of our wedding and forget to tell me?" "I got to get dressed up for this thing that Harvey and I are going to for a client." " A thing for a client." "That's not very specific." "it's just kind of hard to explain." "does it involve three dozen models 000 bottles of vodka?" " I guess it's not that hard to explain." " Mm-hmm." "When were you gonna tell me?" "then definitely after... or never." "It's hard to tell." "I haven't really thought this through." "right?" " Yes." "You should come." " I can't. so we're gonna meet with a few of their top dancers to go over some paperwork." "Probably take all night." "it is." "you should come." "I think Harvey got a helicopter." "We should take a ride around the city." " I can't." "You go." "It's a long story." "I ju... I just want to be prepared." "but are you telling me that Louis is really ready to give that up?" " That's the long story." "But I'll tell you about it later tonight." "you should go... okay." "I love you." " I love you too." "can I talk to you for a second?" " What is it now?" "We're running low on coffee filters?" "Can't find the Sweet 'n Low?" "Or is Louis finally being sued for being an asshole? or you want to keep firing your pistol in the wrong direction?" "Gretchen." "I am just sick and tired of being everyone's go-to and not getting what I ask for. but you're a corporate secretary." "What exactly did you expect?" " You really want to know?" "I asked Harvey for a seat at the table." " What table?" " The partnership table." " No wonder he shot you down." " He didn't shoot me down. and I don't know now if I will." " One way to get his attention is to go in there and take that check you gave him and rip it the hell up." " What check?" " The check you gave him did you?" " No." "Red. you got to put some skin in the game." "♪" "♪ huh?" "Glad I thought of it." " Are we having fun?" " If you call talking geopolitics fat bowl of yes." "tiger." "The bartender's pouring doubles." " Mm." "And what are you getting at?" " I'm having another drink." "I said for you to be careful." "I can handle my liquor." " Okay." "huh?" "can you?" "Who can't handle my liquor now? I only ordered enough to give the appearance of having food." "you're just trying to get these guys hammered so you can drive up the bidding. the guys hitting on the models aren't serious." "Now I'm telling you..." " That the guys which means whoever's left are the bids that we have in our hands at the end of the night." "didn't you?" " Who do you think you're talking to?" " Good man." " There's just one small problem." "I happen to be one of the people that let himself get too drunk? what the hell are we doing here?" " Yes!" "Copy that." "Svetlana... ♪" "right?" " It's not packed because one of us has been at work for the last three hours." " The other one of us was sleeping off all the work he did last night." " You mean you're hung over from all the vodka you drank?" "that's what I just said." " I never should have hired you back." "it's too late to fire me now." " Is it? you'd ask how many bids we're sitting on." "because I've got this. and half of them came for the girls. and 60% of the rest of them woke up realizing they don't want to work in the liquor business. 47 off the top for good measure?" "Leaves us with three bids." "didn't she?" " Probably." " Did she bother telling you what we're doing now?" "'cause you're Harvey Specter. so let's go." "right? but just because you put on a different costume doesn't make it a different trick." "I liked you better when you were drunk." " I liked you better when I was drunk too. and I'm not gonna get played." "we're so sorry." "It's my first day." "I booked the conference room at the same time as Harvey." " Bullshit." "You think we don't know what's going on here?" "You double booked the room to scare us into overbidding." " You're right." "We should have known a couple of smart guys like you would never fall for the banana in the tailpipe." " We brought you down here just because you were you have to look each other in the eye while you go head-to-head." " So here's what's gonna happen:" "You got one chance to write down your best bid." "loser goes home. and we better see some more zeroes." "right here?" "Stick at 100 and you're shit out of luck?" "is exactly why you don't double book a conference room." " There's only one problem with that. we didn't say there wasn't someone who put down more." " Axelrod." " Bingo." "Second bid came in 20 minutes ago. but it better be for a hell of a lot more than 100 million." " How'd it go?" " That depends." "What was Axelrod's second bid?" " 200 million." "Neil Stillman's walking away with a boatload of cash." " Speaking of boatloads of cash..." " It's a check for half a million dollars." "and I am." "be honest." "You haven't given one thought to what we talked about yesterday." " I've been a little busy." " And you've also been you have to take me seriously." " I do take you seriously." " Then walk the hell down to Louis' office" "I can't just ram every decision down his throat." " Every decision?" "You haven't even told him that you're stepping into Jessica's shoes yet." " I'm waiting for the right time." "I would tell you that the right time was yesterday." " Donna..." "I'm not." "I am asking for you to make official like you need to step but it is time that you recognize me for what I do." "♪" " My brother Thomas is the clever one." "summers off." "are you?" "you should be." "I've been told I'm actually quite delightful." " You are." "I'm just a little distracted." " Halfway through appetizers." "Doesn't bode very well for how you'll be feeling when our flambé arrives." " It's not that." "Jessica left the firm last month. and now I've got Donna telling me that if I don't step up..." "I thought you told me as of the other morning that you're now head of the firm. and Donna won't let it go." " I think this may have been a mistake." " What?" " You didn't come to me you came to me because you're in the middle of another crisis and you need me to walk you through it." " That's not true." " Of course you don't think it's true." "you would have called my office and made an appointment." " I don't need an appointment." "I'm sharing things about my life." "that's what people do on dates. they also try to make the other person feel special and listened to." " Paula..." " Do you know why it's unethical for a therapist" "Harvey?" "of course I do." " It's because it's natural for a client to transfer feelings of desire onto his therapist that aren't real." " I know that." " What you may not know is that it's not unnatural for a therapist to feel the same way." "You don't think I've had fantasies about you?" "That one day you'd show up at my office and you'd be there." "but... and... it would actually be the start of something special." "I'm here with you right now." " So what's the problem?" " The problem is those fantasies weren't of me being a therapist to a man much less take control of a firm that bears his name." "Harvey." "call my office. but I can give you a recommendation for someone who can." "♪ what can I do..." " Do for me? you'll take it up with me instead of going behind my back." " What?" " That's right." "You think I don't know the whole." "Rachel should be in charge of my associates bullshit came from you and not Donna?" " You're right." "It was from me." "and you bit my head off." "then let me tell you in a way because I clearly forgot what a delicate little flower you are. and the only way you're ever gonna get them dead hands." "♪" "unless it's an emergency..." " It is an emergency." "I need to know what you're doing about me." "right this second is not the time." "because if somebody doesn't this firm is gonna end up being sued by our own associates. and you don't even know what I'm talking about." "Donna." "You win." "You're a partner." " Harvey." "We got a problem." " What is it now?" " Take a look." " Where'd you get this?" " It doesn't matter where I got it." "It's out there." " You can't be sure Neil knew this." " What difference does that make? he's the goddamn CEO. and he kept it from the guys buying his company." "I do." "I also know you still have time to go stop this sale from going through." " Are you kidding?" "They signed the documents." "It's already gone through. so you still have time to stop it." "if you don't get over there and find out before..." " All right." "I'll handle it." " And where are you going?" " I need to talk to Louis. because if you don't get over there you are opening us up to a shitload of trouble." "♪ isn't it?" "I don't know." "I find it kind of peaceful. why'd you need the sale to go through so quickly?" "I have another opportunity." " And what if I said the real reason was you knew you vodka business was about to be sued for using another brand's recipe?" " I would say I did not know that." "now you do." " It doesn't change a thing." "Those two dipshits already signed the agreement." "this looks a hell of a lot like you're asking me to be a party to fraud." " I'm asking you to do your job." "and take me at my word. which I do..." " The only thing you have reason to believe is that I will fire you so this thing is gonna get done whether you do it or not." "The only thing that happens if you don't is that the world will know what people suspect already:" "That you can't fill Jessica's shoes." "How long do you think it's gonna take after that before every one of your clients starts to leave you? are you in or not?" "♪" "Mike?" "How's your new job?" " I'm sorry. right?" "it's not like that." "after everything you said." " Would you please just let me explain?" " I fought for your goddamn job. because..." " Better for who?" "Based on that extra cash that you had to throw at Nathan?" "I'd say it's better for you." " For everybody." "I can still have cases with the clinic." "You and I can still work together." "the only reason I went all right? with the resources of a big firm behind us." "really?" "What are you working on" "Mike?" " What?" " What's your first case back?" "Eminent domain? it's not that..." " Tell me your first case back and I'll shut my mouth right now." "Marissa was right." "All you were doing with us was biding your time." "♪" " What the fu... is going on?" " What do you mean?" "Case is over." "You said you'd move." "I'm just getting the ball rolling." "I can't work on my own cases if I don't have my own office." "Mike." " You let the goddamn sale go through." " You don't understand." " I understand that you said so I got to get my pro bono cases in before this place doesn't even exist anymore." "or do you have a minute to hear" "I don't care." "I have no proof he knew." "He's Jessica's client." "How's it gonna look if he tells the world that we can't handle his business anymore?" "I'll tell you how it looks right now." "It looks like you're afraid and you're not in charge. because I am doing the best I can." "you're not doing shit." "'cause you're afraid. and you won't admit it to yourself." " I don't have to listen to this. you cared enough about me and I'm just returning the favor." "♪" "Mike." "I'm not her." " You don't have to be her." "You just have to go back to being you. he would have gone in there and told Neil Stillman to go fu... himself." "So it's up to you. or you get out of it and start being Harvey goddamn Specter." " Do you find it peaceful here in the day too?" "then the answer's yes." " I'm here to tell you that we stopped the sale." " What did you just say?" " We're not taking part in your fraud so that you can dump your shitty company." "I don't remember giving you a choice. or you're fired."" " Then you're goddamn fired. we're putting out a press release saying" "Pearson Specter Litt no longer represents clients we feel are unethical in their divestiture practices." "that's attorney-client privilege." "because we're not gonna name you." "But you can bet your ass the whole world is gonna know who we're talking about." " What do you want from me?" " Are you asking me as my client?" "Because I don't give free legal advice." "okay." "You're still my attorney." "here's what's gonna happen:" "You're gonna go into business with the guys whose process you stole. and you're gonna have a very public feud over whose vodka tastes better." " And then we both profit from a war between two brands that have the exact same product." " Win-win." " Maybe you are as good as Jessica." " Maybe I am." "Maybe I'm not." "But the thing we have in common is we're never gonna be bullied by any of our clients." "♪ but I'm not gonna sit around and watch this anymore." "you're no longer in charge of the associates." " Says you and what army?" "I didn't catch that." "I'm a senior partner." " You're what?" " That's right." "I gave Harvey a check for half a million dollars. which means your whole not anymore." " Partner?" "You're not even a lawyer." " Neither are the Chief Operating Officers of four of the top nine firms in the world." " This is bullshit." "I didn't agree to any of this." " I don't care whether you agreed to it or not." "You're gonna live with it." " And I don't give a shit what your supposed title is." "I'm not giving up my associates." " And if you think you're gonna leave this bathroom without giving me the respect I deserve..." " I'm not giving up my associates." "what the hell" "Louis. this firm would be a pile of rubble within 15 minutes." " So then give her a raise." "You don't make her goddamn senior partner." "she'd tell you to do the same exact thing. but I am." "Harvey." " Don't thank me yet." "You asked for a vote." "You got it. and I say our first order of business is putting out word that Harvey Specter is the new managing partner." "you want to vote on that?" "Let's do it. we're gonna have a big problem." " No problem here." "Louis?" "You got a problem with me calling the shots?" "Harvey." "No problem." "You're managing partner." " Good." "Then I suggest the two of you I've got some things to take care of." "♪" "Louis..." " I want you to have the associates." "you were right." "just let me finish while I'm still able to get it out." "I know I can be rough on them... but it's only because I want to see them become the best lawyers they can be. they will not become great lawyers." "so... and I cannot think of a better person than you." "Louis." " You were right to. and that... just thinking about that makes me sick. and if I lose you too... but I think I know what you may need." " Please don't say vacation." "I swear to God..." " I was gonna say closure." " If you're telling me that I need to talk to Tara... you were gonna get married." "You were gonna be a father." "That can't all end over a voicemail." "♪" " Treat them well." " I knew it." " Knew what?" " You don't have the balls to fill Harvey's office. balls do not make the man." " That's not what Rachel says." " What does that even mean?" " I think we both know what that means." "my balls are within normal parameters. or was there maybe another reason?" " What other reason would I have?" " I can't think of a single one." " Then my work here is done." " Good." " Because I certainly didn't come down here to tell you and I never thought I'd see the day" "Mike." "You deserve it as your own." "Mike." " Are you sure you don't come with it?" "there is a desk right there that literally has your name on it. but I actually got a new office too." "I am officially the firm's newest senior partner." " Holy shit." "Are you serious? ma'am?" "pretty boy?" " My God." "hasn't he?" " You have no idea." " Donna... it's about time." "♪ but..." "I just really need to see you tonight if at all possible." "♪" " Guess you got some skin in the game after all." "Gretchen." "Sure did." "♪"