Suits Page #12

Season #1

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paralegal, then paid for you to go to

Harvard Law. Where by the way you f***ed

off the whole time and I still hired you.

HARVEY:

And you’ve benefitted from that ever

since. I closed Dockery for you

yesterday and I can’t make time to --

KATHERINE:

You made a promise to me! You made a

promise, you broke it, and then you lied

to my face. So, let me be clear, this

isn’t professional, this is personal.

And I’ll tell you something else, you

made your bed, you better goddamn win.

Katherine leaves. Harvey realizes he let his mentor down...

INT. MIKE’S STUDIO APARTMENT - LATER THAT NIGHT

Mike enters his apartment, elated. It’s been ransacked.

END OF ACT FOUR:

ACT FIVE:

INT. MIKE’S STUDIO APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS

Mike surveys his ransacked apartment. A beat, he runs to the

oven, the briefcase is still there. He dials his cell...

MIKE:

What the hell is wrong with you?

TREVOR:

I need you to give me that briefcase

back.

MIKE:

So that’s what this has all been about.

You don’t care about our friendship. You

just wanted the briefcase back.

TREVOR:

That’s not true. You’re my oldest friend

and you know it. But you don’t seem to

care about that anymore, so, yes, I also

need the briefcase back.

MIKE:

That’s too bad, because I don’t have it.

TREVOR:

Who throws something like that away?

MIKE:

I do. And by the way, I thought I had

you give me my key back.

TREVOR:

You think I wouldn’t have made a backup?

Mike, come on, why are you playing games?

MIKE:

I told you. I don’t have it. I ditched

it while I was running away from the cops

you sent me into.

TREVOR:

I don’t believe you. You can’t --

Mike hangs up the phone.

INT. MIKE’S STUDIO APARTMENT - NEXT MORNING

Mike is dressed. He goes to the oven, opens it, takes out

the briefcase, and heads out to work with it...

INT. PEARSON, HARDMAN LAW FIRM - LAW FIRM

Mike exits the elevator. As he passes the receptionist...

LOUIS (O.S.)

Mike, hold it right there.

Mike freezes. He turns around to see Louis Litt.

LOUIS:

Where do you think you’re going?

A beat.

MIKE:

To my cubicle.

LOUIS:

No, you’re not. It’s pee in a cup time.

MIKE:

What?

LOUIS:

Drug test. Follow me.

MIKE:

No problem.

Mike hesitates. He looks down at his briefcase.

MIKE:

I’m just gonna put my things back at my --

LOUIS:

Now.

Louis starts walking. Mike isn’t sure what to do. A beat.

Mike follows Louis to the elevator.

INT. PEARSON, HARDMAN LAW FIRM - ELEVATOR - CONTINUOUS

Mike and Louis ride the elevator down in silence. Ding. The

door opens. They exit into a significantly less polished

floor of the firm.

INT. PEARSON, HARDMAN - HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS

Mike nervously follows Louis into the bowels of the firm.

Their feet click as they make their way down the hall.

LOUIS:

By the way, my cousin was your year at

Harvard. It’s funny. I asked if he

remembered you. He didn’t.

MIKE:

What’s his name?

LOUIS:

Mitch Samberg.

Another beat.

MIKE:

Didn’t know him... big school.

Louis looks at Mike, “not that big.” Then he stops, opens a

door and motions for Mike to go through.

LOUIS:

Time to face the music.

INT. DONNA’S DESK - SAME

Harvey approaches Donna. He’s a little anxious.

HARVEY:

Donna, they’re on the way for Mike’s

deposition. I’ve got to get to the

Kendrick filing. Where the hell is Mike?

DONNA:

I don’t know.

Harvey nervously paces back to his office.

INT. DRUG TESTING ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Mike and Louis enter. The room looks like the examination

room in a doctor’s office. There is a technician there, who

hands Mike a plastic cup and indicates a bathroom.

TECHNICIAN:

Leave the cup on the counter.

Mike leaves the room: The technician points at his briefcase.

TECHNICIAN:

You’ll have to leave that out here.

MIKE:

Why?

TECHNICIAN:

If you take it in there with you, I have

to check to make sure you don’t have

another urine sample in it.

Mike looks at Louis, sets the briefcase down and enters the

bathroom. Louis looks at the briefcase suspiciously...

INT. DRUG TESTING ROOM - MINUTES LATER

Mike exits the bathroom. He sees Louis is gone. He breathes

a sign of relief, picks up the briefcase and exits.

INT. MIKE’S CUBICLE - MINUTES LATER

Mike enters his cubicle, opens a desk drawer, puts the

briefcase in it, closes the drawer and locks it.

HARVEY (O.S.)

Where have you been?

Mike is startled again. He turns to see Harvey.

MIKE:

I was being drug tested. Why?

HARVEY:

The deposition’s this afternoon. I’m

going to handle it. I want you to dig

into this woman’s background and find

anything they’ll use against her. And

grill her. Make her tell you everything.

I want to be prepared. Now go...

Mike picks up his other briefcase and heads off.

INT. PEARSON, HARDMAN LAW FIRM - CONFERENCE ROOM - LATER

Harvey, Mike, the Defense Attorney, Joanna and a STENOGRAPHER

are all there. Joanna takes a deep breath.

JOANNA:

I’d been working for Mr. Hunt six months

when he started asking me to work late,

order dinner... One night, late, he...

tried to sleep with me. The next day, I

went to HR to request a change of

assignment. And two months later I was

fired for having a bad attitude.

Defense Counsel starts in...

DEFENSE COUNSEL:

Ms. Webster, after working for Devlin

McGreggor, you went on to waitress at

Hooters, did you not?

JOANNA:

Yes, I did.

DEFENSE COUNSEL:

A place that advertises the sexuality of

its waitresses to get business?

JOANNA:

You’ll have to ask them that.

DEFENSE COUNSEL:

I’m asking you.

HARVEY:

And she’s not answering. It has no

relevance. Let’s move on.

Mike looks at Joanna reassuringly.

DEFENSE COUNSEL:

Ms. Webster, are you a truthful person?

JOANNA:

Yes.

DEFENSE COUNSEL:

When you said earlier that you’d never

been arrested for a crime, were you

telling the truth then?

JOANNA:

Yes.

Defense counsel holds up a folder.

DEFENSE COUNSEL:

In 1999 you weren’t arrested for stealing

a thousand dollars worth of jewelry from

the Willow Grove mall in Pennsylvania?

Joanna’s face falls. Mike looks at Harvey, “Oh, sh*t.”

JOANNA:

I was seventeen. It was one mistake.

Those records were supposed to be sealed.

DEFENSE COUNSEL:

So, when you say those records were

sealed, what you mean is that you thought

you could get away with a lie?

JOANNA:

No, that’s not it. I knew you would

twist it around and make it seem

different that it is.

DEFENSE COUNSEL:

You’ve been arrested in your past. Then

you lied about it under oath. Is that

making it seem different than what it is?

Joanna looks at Mike and Harvey. They can’t help her.

DEFENSE COUNSEL:

No answer? Then I ask this, since you

lied here once, what’s to make us believe

you’re not lying about Mr. Hunt?

Joanna runs out of the room. Mike looks at Harvey.

HARVEY:

Fix it.

Mike runs out after Joanna.

EXT. STREET OUTSIDE OF PEARSON, HARDMAN - MINUTES LATER

Mike runs up to Joanna, who keeps walking...

MIKE:

Joanna, wait...

JOANNA:

This is why I didn’t want to testify.

They twist some thing from a hundred

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