‘Suits’ Season 5 Episode 10 Spoilers: Will Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams
There are still seemingly another six episodes to go this season, which will pick up the pieces from the finale and set up a very different emotional landscape.
Let’s start with the ending. Unfortunately, it was too little too late, as in the closing moments Mike Ross was arrested for fraud anyhow. It is everybody’s first question: who turned Mike in? The reason we wanted it to come out of the blue is, that’s how it’s gonna come out, right?
I don’t have at the top of my head the amount of people who know the secret so it could have been any one of them. Korsh: Exactly. Or Rachel’s father for all we know.
I, personally, get more invested in internal conflict, conflict of a character’s inner morality, than I do in heavy action sequences or high-budget special effects. That made us wonder: who else could pop up within the building? So we’ll ultimately answer how it happened, but it is not the end-all-be-all of the first few episodes back. [Laughs] I hope people like it. The story is going to take us where it goes. We’d been dancing around this thing forever. Was it Claire (Troian Bellisario), the spurned ex who despises Mike for making a mockery of her profession? She got caught after 10 years.
What will be the fate of Mike and Rachel in the summer finale? Is he going to be arrested since he hired him? “In other events, Mike and Harvey each face down past demons in order to make potentially life-altering decisions”. Everything that has happened up until this moment, once Mike gets arrested it’s like you’re circling the wagons and figuring out what’s the next order of business. We are working on that.
Tonight’s episode finds Mike trying to make a decision about his future because now he not only has to think about himself, but also Rachel, his fiancée. So we’re five years in. So the Father, who had known Mike his whole life, knew he had to confront Mike to get him to open up. He sent in a tape and he broke my heart. The more you’re invested in these characters, the more you care about something like this.
I was an anomaly, because it seems like when everybody found out that Mike was going to be discovered – writers, reporters, the editor of the episode – the first question is, “Who did it?” Mike just resigned. He may or may not question whether he should still do that in light of this thing. Grade the episode via the poll below, then hit the comments with your thoughts! It just says that it will return with new episodes this winter. “How am I gonna get out of this?” So that comes full circle in this. Bonnie did not know about it, but she’s a huge part of the show. That kinda came during the rewrite.
Summer shows have the tendency to heavily focus on bright, exciting, flashy things. Donna getting fired was not pre-planned. That was never in the works in Season 2. It happened during the middle of a rewrite. I thought it was a great idea, but that was not there in the beginning. “Are we allowed to do that?”
The other big development was Harvey stepping down to save Jessica. This is her firm at stake. Hardman threatens Jessica and goes after the firm’s clients. Here, Harvey asks if he can stay with her, and she says no. She doesn’t tell him that she’s got a husband. You never know. That’s the best I can say. Then to see how much this firm means to her – you can see what drives her and why she does some of the things she does. We’re strong enough in the ratings and they make money off us, and even if we had a decline, I thought they would give us that.