Would Peter Florrick, embattled governor of Illinois, get a guilty verdict and face prison
Did his dutiful wife, Alicia, continue to stand by him — or finalise their pending divorce and stick with her current squeeze, private investigator Jason Crouse
“Who do you want to come home to, every night ” Alicia’s law-firm colleague, Lucca, asked her. “Who do you want to see when you open your door ”
These were among the gnawing questions waiting to be answered when CBS’ The Good Wife concluded its seven-season run Sunday night. Read no further if you’re not ready to find out.
The end of last week’s Good Wife found governor Florrick, despite professing he is innocent of corruption charges from his stint as state’s attorney, opting to take a deal: two year’s imprisonment instead of risking 10 years if found guilty. “There’s no good answer, is there ” he told Alicia.
In the suspenseful finale he changed his mind. New evidence surfaced even as the jury deliberated Peter’s guilt. A breakneck effort was launched to have the jury consider it. Then it turned out the evidence would work against Peter.
An about-face effort was mounted to keep the evidence away from the jury. By the end of the hour, Peter had accepted what appeared to be the best possible deal: a year’s probation and his resignation as governor. Alicia stood beside him as he made the announcement that he was stepping down, his political career in ruins, but with Alicia (knowing nothing of it) already being teed up as a possible future candidate for governor. Then, after having chosen to commit herself to Jason — the man she wanted to come home to every night — Alicia found he had flown the coop. The series ended with nothing conclusive about her divorcing Peter or about the future of her career. In the final moments she was pointedly alone, yet painfully independent in a way she has never been before.
