The BEST episodes of The Good Wife season 1
Every episode of The Good Wife season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Good Wife season 1!
The Good Wife is a drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother who must assume full responsibility for her family and re-enter the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.
#1 - Unplugged
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/11/2010
The winner is announced in the competition between Alicia and Cary.
#2 - Running
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/25/2010
At Eli's urging, Alicia must decide if she'll stand by her man during Peter's new political campaign, or if she'll pursue a relationship with Will instead.
#3 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2009
Alicia returns to work as a defense attorney after her husband's corruption scandal and incarceration. She is assigned her first case – a retrial of a woman accused of murdering her ex-husband. Her firm successfully deadlocked the first jury, and they hope that sticking to that strategy will work again, but Alicia realizes that this trial will be more of a fight than anyone expected.
#4 - Hi
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/2010
Alicia defends a man accused of killing his child's babysitter. Peter's appeal seems to be going well. Alicia prepares for the idea of him returning to her life.
#5 - Hybristophilia
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/2010
Eli works on getting Peter's charges dropped. Alicia defends a client and accused wife killer, who claims self defense after she finds him handcuffed to a dead woman.
#6 - Threesome
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/2009
Alicia is asked to represent a partner in the firm on a DUI charge. Her attention is split when she is suddenly forced to face the Other Woman.
#7 - Unorthodox
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2009
Alicia, representing a daughter of one of the partner in the firm, finds herself very attracted to her co-counsel, mostly because of his unorthodox approach of defending their client.
#8 - Doubt
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/6/2010
Alicia and Will defend a college student accused of killing her sorority sister while under the influence of a sleep aid. Diane and Kurt continue their flirtation.
#9 - Boom
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/2010
When Alicia goes head-to-head in the courtroom with former boss Jonas Stern, she debates whether or not use personal information to her advantage. Peter uses religion to work on his appeal.
#10 - Unprepared
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2009
While Alicia is preparing in a case defending a scientist accused of arson, she is suddenly asked to testify on Peter's behalf.
#11 - Conjugal
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2009
As Alicia works with Will on the appeal of a death row inmate, she agrees to a conjugal visit with Peter in order to get information from him since her client was convicted under Peter's regime as state's attorney.
#12 - Heart
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/16/2010
In an emergency courtroom set up in a hospital, Alicia and Will battle Patti Nyholm and an insurance company that refuses to pay for life-saving in-utero surgery. Alicia gives Peter a proper welcome home.
#13 - Bang
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/2/2010
Peter gets accustomed to life at home and works on a comeback strategy with his political team, including Eli Gold. Alicia and Diane wrestle with spousal privilege laws in a murder case that hinges on their ability to get a wife to testify against her husband.
#14 - Lifeguard
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/2009
When a judge overturns a simple plea deal that Alicia arranged, she looks into his motivation. Diane is made an offer she can't refuse.
#15 - Mock
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/2010
The police are quickly at the door when Peter's electronic monitor sounds after he chases Alicia out of the apartment. As a result, Grace and Zach scramble to figure out a way to keep him from being arrested.
#16 - Infamy
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/2010
Alicia learns more about Peter's fall from grace and removal from office when she represents Glenn Child's wife in her divorce appeal. Will, Emily, and opposing counsel, get cozy during a death suit against a caustic TV commentator.
#17 - Fixed
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/2009
Alicia stumbles onto something that indicates possible jury tampering on her firm's class action law suit against a pharmaceutical company. Peter's legal team continues their work for his upcoming appeal, and Alicia keeps butting heads with Peter's attorney.
#18 - Fleas
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/9/2010
Peter strategizes on how to handle his retrial and the next steps in his public rehabilitation. Alicia and Will defend an attorney charged with murder.
#19 - Painkiller
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/2010
Alicia and the kids have to deal with some really bad news and then she has to give Peter some information that will make him furious. Alicia has to represent the doctor who prescribed the medication to a high school quarterback that appear to die from the painkiller overdose.
#20 - Home
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/2009
The son of Alicia's former friends is charged with felony murder, and Alicia decides to defend him, despite the fact that they ostracized her ever since the scandal.
#21 - Crash
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/2009
Alicia and Will have only 72 hours to find the smoking gun that proves the train company, and not the three engineers, is responsible for the crash, thus securing the widows their pensions the company is holding back. Jackie and Alicia clash over taking the children to visit their father in prison.
#22 - Bad
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/2010
Tensions are high as Peter's appeal begins while Alicia has to defend a wealthy client who doesn't seem that innocent, even after he's found not guilty of murdering his wife. Diane takes precautions when a prisoner she put in jail is to be released from prison.
#23 - Stripped
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2009
After the State's Attorney refuses to pursue criminal charges, Alicia becomes second chair on a civil suit involving the rape of a prostitute at a bachelor party who may have been hired and abused by her own husband.