The Toothpaste Commercial is a prosecutor in Cook County, but if she makes her investigation about Peter, then her authority will come from the Illinois Attorney General.

Indictments would not bring down Peter. He can paint it as an attempt by a sore loser to bring him down. Convictions will bring down Peter. And Wendy needs Will to do that. She needs to sow some goodwill with her witness lineup or she may get some surprises that will bite her. Also from a dramatic perspective, it…

He can't. It would be a conflict of interest. The only person that could get rid of her would be the Illinois Attorney General (in real life Lisa Madigan, but probably somebody else in the constellation of the show). Maybe Peter can pull a shady deal with the Attorney General to support the AG for higher office and…

I think the writers could go two ways with Peter. One- continue with the white knight who every so often enjoys the perks of his office (eg admission into private school for his kids). Or two- a slow descent into corruption. Of course, I'm not saying he'd be as corrupt as the end of his first term in the pilot, but he…