Gerry Vichi

When Alicia and Dean represent a fired female CEO in a sex discrimination suit against her company, they face a tough defense team in familiar foes Elsbeth Tascioni and Rayna Hecht. Meanwhile, a hacker seizes control and threatens to delete all of Florrick/Agos/Lockhart's files, sending the firm into panic mode when he demands a ransom. Carrie Preston and Jill Hennessy guest star.

Cage and Renee find themselves in a rather romantic legal case; Ally teams up again with handsome young attorney Bobby Donnell.

When Laurel returns to Washington, D.C., to work for her brother, Sen. Luke Healy, she discovers that budgetary disagreements have halted the government, and mysterious bugs are consuming the brains of Congress members and Capitol Hill staffers.

Laurel and Gareth are drawn closer together as the bugs continue to take over Washington, D.C.; when the CDC has its funding cut, Luke tries to reach a compromise.