This week’s The Good Wife was incredibly good.

Alicia (Julianna Margulies) is asked to represent a woman in her first ever divorce case.  It turns out the woman she’s representing is the new State’s Attorney’s Glenn Childs (you know, that guy who put Peter in jail) wife, Carla, who is using the knowledge she has on Peter’s case to use Alicia as leverage in her divorce case.  Carla threatens her husband through his attorney to drop the pre-nuptual agreement and come to proceedings or she’ll tell Alicia everything.

Glenn, in retaliation, moves Peter from a special cell into the general population of the jail thinking it will make Alicia back off.  It doesn’t sway Alicia and the divorce goes through.  Right before Carla signs the papers which have a strict confidentiality clause, she tells Alicia that Glenn had her phones wire tapped for a year before they convicted Peter.

While Alicia’s dealing with her divorce case, Will and Diane are representing a distraught man who lost his little girl and wife.  A Nancy Grace-like commentator on television continually called a woman a baby killer after her daughter went missing.  The woman committed suicide and the husband decided to sue the commentator, Duke Roscoe.  Duke starts firing back on his show, offering $100,000 of his own money to anyone who could prove that the little girl was still alive as well as making false accusations about Will and Alicia (he shows a picture of them doing field work at the hotel in “Stripped“).

While the judge ruled for the defense to uphold the first amendment rights to free speech, Duke’s plan backfired on him when a call came in claiming they knew where the little girl was.  A childless couple had taken her out of desperation and the father was reunited with his daughter, proving his wife’s innocence.

The emotional roller coaster that usually takes place on The Good Wife was fun and entertaining while still maintaining it’s heart-wrenching goodness.  I can’t wait to see what turns will happen next week!