It might be the best SHIELD can do this season. If it maintains some consistency now and graduates to next season, the grading will probably get harder.

I think Taye Diggs should have been in this episode:

Perd's "And I will have…an empty glass" beats it for me.

A plane trip from southern Indiana to Chicago takes less than an hour, so theoretically Leslie could commute. Have office hours Tues-Thurs and be in Pawnee Fri-Mon. Of course, that real world solution has no place in a sitcom.

Alana didn't stand up to any bullies. She said mean things about people and got rewarded for it.

Sorkin actually used political issues from real life in The West Wing all the time - they were just usually from the Clinton era.

"Oh, like you did on The West Wing, Aaron."

I was actually surprised that Ward passed the test. He could just as easily have been found out and killed Koenig then, and the rest of the episode could have played out the same.

I wish they told us which episodes were missing. There's no message, and the episodes are numbered like they are all there, from 1-18 instead of 1-22 with some skipped numbers. I only noticed because they are missing the freaking pilot episode. Then I checked the rest of the seasons against Wikipedia and found…

They have all five seasons of Quantum Leap, but each season is missing 2-4 episodes. How the hell does that happen?

And why is it assumed that you have a high probability of encountering terrorists at mosques? Because there are Muslims there. It is still a racist assumption. The interrogator at the NSA never indicated that anyone who called the guy was actually a suspected terrorist.

I'll be a little sad if the NSA storyline is gone for good. I love those little scenes, especially once the guys started treating Alicia's life like the soap opera it is.

I was too busy laughing at Canning starting his "the movements you're seeing is because I have a condition" spiel and watching Diane's eyes almost roll out of her head to think about that.

The Good Wife gets a lot of great guest stars, and they all cost money. I just assume that characters I don't see are still around but The Good Wife can't pay for them to be on screen. I assume that Boatman is going to get a storyline for the next couple of episodes since he's back.

Gleeson was onscreen in a new scene, too. He was laying there with stones on his eyes while his father/uncle raped his mother.

Don't forget, after all her protestations, Jaime says "I don't care".

Aren't we at the point where we can just call it eroticism?

Hahaha no, I just think it's funny that you are upset about a plot twist that's happened three times out of hundreds of sitcoms, when this same episode has Andy trying to keep a secret, which is an actual TV trope:

Leslie is the queen of planning ahead, and the throne took a long time to make. I bet she paid for it before they went to Paris.

So you're mad because this a tired sitcom trope that is used roughly once every 25 years or so?