Harvey adds a condition that Malik must publicly apologize to Jim Allen.
THE OFFICE SEASON 8 EPISODE 11 LICENSE
Louis comes up with the idea of threatening to sue Malik to compensate Jim Allen for his revenue losses while his license was suspended, unless he cuts poor Ricky a deal.
THE OFFICE SEASON 8 EPISODE 11 HOW TO
Harvey & Robert stay up all night in the office with Louis discussing how to get payback from Malick without throwing Ricky under the bus. Don’t box, kids, it’s not good for your mental and brain health! Don’t play football or hockey, either, actually. Ricky admits he did it, to make a few million dollars in bets placed by his friends, but here’s why: he needs cash to provide for his family because he’s been having memory problems, at age 35 (!), and is worried about his future earning potential and mental decline. The promoter and fighters insist no one took a dive, but Harvey the boxing aficionado (spare me the tedious discussions about various Rocky movies) figures out that Ricky did, by putting his hands down when he should have had them up, for defence. He meets the two fighters: Ricky the older guy, Alonzo the younger guy who beat him. Harvey convinces the boxing promoter, a guy named Jim Allen, to hire him. But Louis’s criticism leads Alex to a better solution, so yay team. Gretchen advises Louis to keep a sharper eye on Harvey and his boxing case/Malik vendetta, and to let Alex do his thing. Louis delegates the Kessler business crisis to Alex, then takes back the file when Alex suggests a solution Louis doesn’t like.
He asks her on a date, she says no, but only because she doesn’t date clients. And he likes being called stupid, apparently. Kessler is charmed by Donna’s cockiness, her headhunting skills, and her analysis of the suit he’s wearing (fancy but not too fancy). Donna tells Louis he must delegate, and offers to help Kessler quickly find a new general counsel so Louis doesn’t have to step in to do the job till one is found. Louis is torn between wanting to help one of his longtime clients – a tall guy named Kessler who is okay-attractive, but not as handsome as Harvey – with a business crisis, and doing managing partner type work. Also cue Harvey and Robert talking shit about Louis behind his back, and trying to avoid him and anything to do with managing the firm.
It’s Louis’s 1st day on the job as managing partner, and he is pumped! Cue aforementioned comic dancing/strutting to Feel It Still. And Donna won’t heat up his cold coffee, as she shouldn’t. What a great plan, for a corporate lawyer to undertake a criminal defence case. If the promoter is found not guilty, that means Malik loses/looks bad.
Harvey’s idea is to represent a boxing promoter Malik is prosecuting for fixing a fight. He was out of the office plotting his strategy to go after Andrew Malik, the DA who got Jessica disbarred. We open with Harvey coming in late to work and in need of coffee. In which there is a(nother) boring boxing story line, complete with boring boxing metaphors Donna gets a new love interest whom she addresses teasingly as “Stupid,” as if teasing is an appealing trait in a person Harvey fat-shames Robert, haha, isn’t he a charmer and Louis does a silly victory dance that I found mildly amusing, partly because I know a line dance to the catchy song he dances to, and partly because I’ll take a dancing scene over a boxing scene any day.
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