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"Really, last night&amp;#39;s Good Wife and last week&amp;#39;s Good Wife were all one entity&amp;#8212;two sides of the same coin. Death and fallout.\nAnd even though Will Gardner&amp;#39;s not yet in the ground (we learned that definitively during Kalinda&amp;#39;s trip to the morgue), I found myself already sorting through the emotional rubble of &amp;quot;The Last Call&amp;quot; looking for clues to the future. Maybe it&amp;#39;s just a defense mechanism on my part&amp;#8212;but it seemed to me that Will&amp;#39;s absence is triggering lurching progress and potential new directions already. Here&amp;#39;s the stuff that kept my head spinning till bedtime.\nPinterestFacebookFirst: Is Alicia ending up with Peter even an option anymore? For these two, of course, drama is the norm; it&amp;#39;s not so much the pushing-away Alicia did last night that got me wrestling with this question. (I mean, it&amp;#39;s always awkward being comforted by your husband when the guy you really love dies, right?) No, it was the simple realization that when you take one arm out of a love triangle, the whole thing collapses. Even the fan contingent who might have been Team Peter (and I feel like it&amp;#39;s a team so small, it&amp;#39;s constantly forfeiting games) might not feel that way anymore. Nobody who makes or loves The Good Wife finds satisfaction in an easy win. They&amp;#39;d have to work really hard to make a final Alicia + Peter 4E outcome seem like it wasn&amp;#39;t just the default. And something tells me they&amp;#39;ll concentrate their efforts elsewhere.\nPinterestFacebookWhat&amp;#39;s next for Diane? Diane is done with the bulls&amp;#8212;t, guys! The lone triumphant moment in &amp;quot;The Last Call&amp;quot; found the Lockhart in LG cutting a cold-hearted client loose&amp;#8212;and blacklisting him all over town to boot. YES. After enduring season on season where she and Will ruled for the business on 99.9 percent of their difficult decisions, it was so cathartic to see her back her heart and gut on this one. Also, I loved when she sent that blubbering, overinvested intern home. The lady&amp;#39;s on a roll, but I wonder where it&amp;#39;s headed: Diane has hinted many times that she&amp;#39;s over the dynamics of corporate law. And don&amp;#39;t forget she&amp;#39;s still reeling from the miserable judgeship saga. It&amp;#39;s not that I think she&amp;#39;s about to exit LG this moment; it&amp;#39;s that I wonder what, if anything, can keep her in the game long-term now.\nPinterestFacebookIs Cary Will&amp;#39;s successor, character-wise? Cary is smart. Cary is handsome. Cary is shrewd. Cary&amp;#39;s flaw, up to this point, has been a lack of killer instinct. (Let&amp;#39;s be honest&amp;#8212;does anyone think Agos and Associates would be flourishing right now?) But last night, Cary turned a corner in the shark department, and I don&amp;#39;t think his client almost stripping naked right there in the deposition will be the last effect caused by this new &amp;#39;tude. It was bigger than grief.\nPinterestFacebookWhere does Kalinda belong? Over the past few seasons of the show, Kalinda has gone from everybody&amp;#39;s/nobody&amp;#39;s buddy to Alicia&amp;#39;s buddy to Alicia&amp;#39;s enemy to...Will&amp;#39;s buddy. Their bond was really ramped up during the last year. Outside of her friendship with Will&amp;#8212;and her complex relationship with Cary&amp;#8212;Kalinda has no one. She doesn&amp;#39;t have brunch friends. More important, perhaps, Will was the only one who catered to her ever-rising professional demands&amp;#8212;and she still told him, in their last encounter, that she needed a change. I have to agree. No matter how Will&amp;#39;s death factors in, we need to see Kalinda on a new path, even if it&amp;#39;s another lonely one.\nPinterestFacebookCan this show continue to support two law firms? Sure, everybody softened toward David Lee a little last night&amp;#8212;but the LG ranks, castwise, are simply dwindling. In fact, both LG and Florrick Agos are physically mostly composed of minor characters and extras. In a show that also focuses on state politics and plenty of personal story lines, does it make sense to continue cutting between two bloated companies? I say no. Closing LG outright would be perhaps the most painful twist of the Will-death knife; I think a merger getting Diane, Alicia, and Cary back together is more likely and exciting.\nPinterestFacebookWhat clues does the casting news hold? For a show that&amp;#39;s constantly booking awesome people, The Good Wife has announced few new stars over the past couple months. Now we know why. But the one guest-star contract they made sure to secure? Michael J. Fox&amp;#39;s, and it includes multiple episodes at the end of the season. The stakes are too high right now for Canning/Florick tete-a-tete fun; I have to think Fox&amp;#39;s manipulative alter ego will play into how the business end of the aftermath shakes out.\nPinterestFacebookLast but definitely not least: Is Matthew Goode&amp;#39;s prosecutor character Alicia&amp;#39;s next love interest? If I&amp;#39;m a betting girl: Yes. I know he&amp;#39;s got a wife and kid. Give it two or three episodes. Goode&amp;#39;s stint on the show was originally slated as a regular guest-star gig&amp;#8212;later, he was upped to series regular. That&amp;#39;s huge. Their encounter last night was fraught with pre-romance TV subtleties: the female assistant turning out to be an assistant, not his wife or girlfriend; their emotional first face-to-face; the halo head start Finn has. (By that, I mean: Sure, Alicia has to get to know him, but she already knows the most important thing about him&amp;#8212;he valiantly tried to save Will.) Bringing Finn and Alicia together would also suit the show&amp;#39;s taste for comeuppance nicely&amp;#8212;this time, Alicia would be the other woman.\nPhew! I am spent. Where do you guys land on these issues?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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