Once There Was a Court...

"Once There Was a Court..." is the second episode of the fifth season of The Good Fight and the forty-second episode overall. It aired on July 1, 2021.

Summary[]

Reddick, Lockhart, and Associates welcomes a group of new hires. Diane and Marissa deal with an arbitration case in front of the quirky "Judge" Wackner, a Chicago copy shop owner who has created his own low-cost arbitration service in his warehouse, purporting to be a court. The firm's client, convicted murderer Oscar Rivi, takes a shine to new associate Carmen Moyo, whose willingness to skirt ethical boundaries concerns Liz.

Cast[]

Starring[]

Guest Starring[]

Gary Cole as Kurt McVeigh
Brenda Braxton as Madeline Gilford
Tyrone Mitchell Henderson as Barry Poe
Hugh Dancy as Caleb Garlin
Wallace Shawn as Charles Lester
Ben Vereen as Frederick Douglass
Geoffrey Owens as Daniel
Tony Plana as Oscar Rivi
Heather Burns as Toni Hedger
Danny Burstein as William Schultz

Co-Starring[]

Emily Dorsch as Nell Fulton
Christa Scott-Reed as Isabel Pressley
Zoe Mann as Phoebe
Mark Deklin as Judge Wick Stilton
Blake Morris as Bailiff Dean Rush
Ann Sanders as Jenny Klay
Luis Vega as Daniel Vanegas
David Rosenberg as Mitchell
Michael Thomas Holmes as Horace Carruthers
Stephanie Weeks as Tia Johnson
Jerry Kernion as Court Sheriff Gage
Brent Bateman as Criminal Sheriff
Davis Duffield as Lawyer Malcolm
Jeremy Cohen as Lawyer Teddy
Scott Robertson as Spectator Sam
Dan Rosales as Interpreter
Bartley Booz as Copy Shop Employee

Background Information[]

Production[]

Broadcast[]

This episode has aired streaming on July 1, 2021.

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Trivia[]

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References[]

v • e • d The Good Fight Episodes

Season 1
Inauguration • First Week • The Schtup List • Henceforth Known as Property • Stoppable: Requiem for an Airdate • Social Media and Its Discontents • Not So Grand Jury • Reddick v Boseman • Self Condemned • Chaos

Season 2
Day 408 • Day 415 • Day 422 • Day 429 • Day 436 • Day 443 • Day 450 • Day 457 • Day 464 • Day 471 • Day 478 • Day 485 • Day 492

Season 3
The One About the Recent Troubles • The One Inspired by Roy Cohn • The One Where Diane Joins the Resistance • The One with Lucca Becoming a Meme • The One Where a Nazi Gets Punched • The One with the Celebrity Divorce • The One Where Diane and Liz Topple Democracy • The One Where Kurt Saves Diane • The One Where the Sun Comes Out • The One About the End of the World

Season 4
The Gang Deals with Alternate Reality • The Gang Tries to Serve a Subpoena • The Gang Gets a Call from HR • The Gang Is Satirized and Doesn't Like It • The Gang Goes to War • The Gang Offends Everyone • The Gang Discovers Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein

Season 5
Previously On... • Once There Was a Court... • And the Court Had a Clerk... • And the Clerk Had a Firm... • And the Firm Had Two Partners... • And the Two Partners Had a Fight... • And the Fight Had a Détente... • And the Detente Had an End... • And the End Was Violent... • And the Violence Spread.

Season 6
The Beginning of the End • The End of the Yips • The End of Football • The End of Eli Gold • The End of Ginni • The End of a Saturday • The End of STR Laurie • The End of Playing Games • The End of Democracy • The End of Everything

See also: • The Good Fight Seasons •