- Rachel Zane: Well, what are YOU so happy about?
- Mike Ross: I made bubble-wrap slippers this morning while you were in the shower.
- Rachel Zane: I specifically told you the bubble wrap is for the dishes.
- Mike Ross: I also made a hat.
- Rachel Zane: Okay, I'm moving in with a 10-year-old.
- Donna Paulsen: That bottle is the reason I buy my own present for Secretary's Day.
- Harvey Specter: There's a Secretary's Day?
- Harvey Specter: There is, and you're very generous.
- Rachel Zane: Mike, you can't just wait for the ax to fall.
- Mike Ross: I didn't just wait. I armed myself. I learned everything there is to know about Gerard and his class. Harvey is right. This guy is a prick. He makes everybody read his books and then doesn't even test on them.
- Rachel Zane: I am trying so hard to be brave, but what if Louis ends up finding out everything about Mike? What if he ends up exposing him and he actually gets arrested? What if he actually... God.
- Donna Paulsen: Rach, Mike found out that one of our partners ordered multiple murders. Harvey said he'd fix it. Two days later, that partner was in prison.
- Rachel Zane: Stephen was a criminal. This is an academic. He hasn't done anything wrong.
- Donna Paulsen: Well, what makes Harvey great at his job is he knows that everybody has done something wrong.
- Rachel Zane: Even the most esteemed ethics professor in the country?
- Donna Paulsen: The cleaner they look, the more dirt they've swept under the rug.
- Mike Ross: We're moving in together. I think it's time we stopped keeping it a secret.
- Rachel Zane: But keeping it a secret is sort of... fun.
- Mike Ross: Mm.
- Rachel Zane: And sexy.
- Mike Ross: And I am pro sexy. I mean, I did make those bubble-wrap slippers and hat after all, which is funny, 'cause... That's not sexy, it's just fun.
- Rachel Zane: It's something.
- Mike Ross: Something.
- Rachel Zane: Something.
- Mike Ross: I made you some too.
- Donna Paulsen: A bottle of scotch? You couldn't get her anything more personal?
- Harvey Specter: She likes scotch.
- Donna Paulsen: You like scotch.
- Harvey Specter: She likes me, therefore...
- Donna Paulsen: Why don't you just attach a card that says, "Welcome, generic senior partner?"
- Harvey Specter: This is a $12,000 bottle of scotch, and this is one of three left in the world. That doesn't say generic, that says...
- Donna Paulsen: "You're one of three very expensive things I recently purchased."
- [Mike attests thhat he went to Harvard and received the only A+ ever given by Prof. Gerard]
- Louis Litt: I don't believe you, and I don't want to call Gerard up and ask him 'cause I don't want the world laughing at my firm, but if he doesn't walk up to you on Friday and say, "Mike Ross, my beloved student, who I remember because he's the only one I ever gave an A-plus to," well, then I'm gonna know you're lying; and, if you still don't come clean, I'm gonna launch a formal investigation, whether it makes my firm look bad or not.
- Mike Ross: This is crazy. There is nothing to investigate.
- Louis Litt: Well, I'd rather risk looking crazy to root out an impostor than to risk letting that impostor poison everything that I stand for. It's over, Mike. I'm onto you, and I'm gonna expose you for the lying piece of filth that you are. Don't forget to rinse your mouth out after you're done throwing up.
- Mike Ross: We need to make it so that he doesn't come.
- Harvey Specter: It's not gonna happen. The man doesn't back out of commitments. His favorite quote is "For the law to work, there must be honor in one's word."
- Donna Paulsen: Who's he quoting?
- Harvey Specter: Himself. Pompous prick.
- Louis Litt: You're here late.
- Mike Ross: Life of an associate, right?
- Louis Litt: Ah, yeah, I remember. I used to live in this room - work piled all around me, surviving on coffee, delivery, and no sleep - and the whole time, wondering, "Man, is it ever gonna get any easier?"
- Mike Ross: Does it?
- Louis Litt: No.
- Mike Ross: But you still love it.
- Louis Litt: And so do you.
- [Harvey asks Louis to forget his issues and forgive Mike]
- Louis Litt: You said we're friends. A friend would not ask me to do this.
- Harvey Specter: No, Louis. A friend just won't hold it against you if you don't.
- Bailiff: Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God!
- Jessica Pearson: I do. But before we start, I would like to make a statement. I am here to tell the truth, but what I want you to understand is that the truth is subjective.
- Tim: The truth is the truth.
- Jessica Pearson: No, the law is the law. We can define where the legal line is. I'm talking about the truth. The truth is much more complicated. By the letter of the law, Quinton Sainz may or may not have been competent. I can't say what's true with 100% certainty. I just don't know. But what I can say with certainty is that Quinton knew what he was doing when he trusted me to look over his best interest.
- Tim: How do you know that?
- Jessica Pearson: Because I knew him. Just because someone can't check off everything on the list that is required to be competent doesn't mean they aren't better at whatever they do than the rest of us. And Quinton Sainz was an amazing man with an amazing mind. And if he were here right now, I'd still listen to him on any subject sooner than I'd listen to anybody else.
- Tim: That's all very touching, but we're not here to talk about the truth. We're here to deal with the letter of the law.
- Jessica Pearson: Have you never met someone who bought the letter of the law and shouldn't be able to do what they do? Who beats the odds?
- Tim: Your honor!
- [Raising his voice]
- Jessica Pearson: We are talking about a man's life. We're talking about his legacy. And I dispute that those things are less important than the letter of the law.
- Tim: Your honor, what has to happen is very clear, you have to undo this Injustice.
- Jessica Pearson: Yes. This is about Justice, but the issue is whether Quinton Sainz was competent when he made that mean executor, but rather, would it have been his intent to do so if we were. This man dedicated his life to one thing, and the circumstances surrounding how he decided to protect that thing it's not the question.
- Tim: It's a question of law, Miss Pearson.
- Jessica Pearson: No, it is a question of doing what is right.
- Judge: Motion to remove Jessica Pearson as a executor has been denied. Court adjourned.