What I found fascinating in this episode is the way the new power structures of L/G and F/A are slowly clarifying.
At the L/G it certainly seems right now much more like a dictatorship, than two partners at the top. I don't think that Diane has questioned any of Will's decisions so far, so it would be interesting to…

Exactly. I wouldn't be that bothered by his overprotectiveness if he wasn't a politician. But he was granted this power by the electors in good faith that he would use it in their best interests, not to get petty revenge on Will Gardner for screwing (over) his wife.

Not to mention the way she just burst out laughing when she immediately assumed (rightly so) who bought out the tax lawyers.
I don't think I would enjoy this whole storyline so much, if Alicia and Will didn't get equal amount of satisfaction from their battle of wits. Cary and Diane enjoy the actual victories, but…

Not significantly, I think it was by two or three years at most.

It's all true in theory, but is there really fertile ground in this case? They already had a few tequila-centered conversations, and they got along civilly enough. Alicia seems to have forgiven Kalinda, but there is no going back to the closeness of their relationship without the taint of the Peter of it all.
Since…