For The People – A Choice Between Two Things

By: Dustin Bradley

We open the episode with Jay (Wesam Keesh) who is with his parents attempting to vote in this newest election. The only problem is there is some man that is there who are verbally attacking people of color most, significantly and Middle Eastern people. He is acting in way that is most definitely voter suppression, which is a federal crime. So, Jay calls in some favors in order to arrest this bigoted protester.

Well, it turns out his story is so much more interesting than we thought. The defendant discloses to Allison (Jasmin Savoy Brown) that he was supposed to be getting paid for his outburst at the polls. So, someone is paying him in order to commit a federal crime such as voter suppression. But who was it exactly?

That means we need Ted (Charles Michael Davis) to help Jay and the gang investigate all of the possible leads into paying these guys. From now on, in the investigation we find out there is someone who is using shell companies in order to commit these crimes.

At first Roger (Ben Shankmen) tells them to shut down the case because it will be an impossible one to win. It’s only after Jill (Hope Davis) breaks up with him, due to Sandra (Britt Robertson) discovering the truth and speaking to Jill about it and Jill ghosting him for a few days and then ultimately having a heartfelt conversation with Judge Byrne (Vonde Curtis Hall), that he decides to fully go for this case because if he gets fired then all the merrier. At least he gets to be with Jill. So, he sends the gang to trial.

During the trial our two teams work together because our defendant has hired a major law firm to try and defend him. That means that even though we have been led to believe that it’s better to be separate sometimes it pays off to be a unit. Leonard (Regé-Jean Page) and Kate (Susannah Flood) fight really hard in court in order to convince the jury that this defendant is guilty and in the end they win. But their win means a choice for Roger, does he now take a new job position as Attorney General of New York or does he quit in order to be with Jill? And, well, as we all guessed it turns out that he quits in order to be with Jill.

Before we get to where the results of this trial leads the gang we have to talk about our other storyline this week, which was Seth (Ben Rappaport).  He is on a map case and is trying to convince the people involved to testify all the while having to deal with a security guard who may or may not be questionable. We don’t really get much closure on this case because the majority of the screen time goes to our main storyline, but this was a fun and cute little distraction for us.

With our main case over, this leads to where we end with our characters. Roger and Jill get to end up together, happy and engaged. Sandra and Ted end up going on that date that they were teasing all season long. Roger’s replacement in the office turns out to be none other than Kate. And the rest of our lawyers have all learned to be better at their jobs and happy with where they are in their own personal lives. In the end, everyone involved with the show ends up exactly where they need to be – working for and serving the people.