A public figure wants to sue film producers who made a fictional movie that gets mistaken for a biopic about him. Dr. Booth woke up from his coma and Cary is pursuing the case. Alicia is in Oregon to visit her brother.
Tropes
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Owen makes loud suggestive comments when Will calls Alicia — on a conference call with the partners.
- Bland-Name Product: The Edelstein film itself is inspired by The Social Network, which likewise invented an ex-girlfriend named Erica whom the film's Mark Zuckerberg pines after. This is lampshaded when it gets mentioned in passing that the company that inked a Product Placement deal with the fictional film also made an offer to the studio that made The Social Network.
- Call-Back: The psychologist that Kalinda suspects Blake of beating up with her baseball bat has woken from his coma.
- Code Name: Alicia codenames Will as Mr. Georgetown in her diary.
- Historical Relationship Overhaul: An In-Universe example. Part of the reason Edelstein sues the producers and screenwriter of a biopic about him is because the script invented a dysfunctional relationship with a nonexistent girlfriend. This caused problems between the real Edelstein and his mother, who apparently thought the relationship had actually happened.
- Meaningful Name: Wealthy guy Mr. Edelstein. His surname is the German word for "gemstone".
- Product Placement: Exploited. An In-Universe car company got a product placement deal with the Edelstein movie, which the firm uses to prove that the studio profited off of defaming Edelstein.
- Pun: Alicia yells at Owen for smoking marijuana. Owen claims he has bad joints.
- Right Behind Me: Viola yells at Diane for doing her job too well and tells her she's fired. She turns around, and finds Mr. Edelstein standing there. He informs her she is fired.
- Shout-Out: The director calls Will Atticus Finch.
- Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The movie about Mr. Edelstein.
