Earlier this week, Vulture asked readers to come up with questions for The Good Wife showrunners Robert and Michelle King. And you did! The Kings couldn’t answer every single one, but they did respond to more than a dozen frank inquiries. Needless to say, spoilers aplenty if you have not watched the season-four finale, but read on to find out about their original designs for Nick; the elevator plans for Florrick, Agos and Associates (hey, you asked!); and almost everything you could possibly want to know about the state of the Alicia-Will-Peter love triangle — and why in Alicia’s mind it’s over!

What exactly did Alicia mean when she said “it would be worse” in reference to being with Will again? —WONDERWALL
It “would be worse� for Alicia in purely an ethical and moral sense. It would be doing wrong.
Before, when she was with Will (the beginning of season three), it was on the heels of her separation from Peter. She could completely justify the affair with Will. But now Alicia and Peter are on the mend. She has agreed to recommit to him. She is taking Peter seriously again. To sleep with Will would be, to her mind, cheating. We’re not saying Alicia is right or wrong to think that, by the way. Obviously Alicia has been tainted by her mom’s blithely applied situational ethics. This has made her a bit stricter in her own sexual morality. She tends to hold herself to a higher standard. Anyway, that’s why it “would be worse.� It would be harder for her to think of it as not cheating.

Once and for all, will the voicemail of love [that Will left for Alicia at the end of season one] ever be addressed or should we give up on that forever? – KBMT1025
Well, forever is such a big word. Let’s just say “for the moment.� We felt we addressed the content of the “voice mail of love� in season two, episode eight. This is when Alicia hears a wiretap that catches Will mentioning the content of the message. We also felt the upshot of season two answered the dilemma of the voice mail: Alicia and Will started an affair.

The only thing that hasn’t been addressed, to our minds, is Eli’s duplicity in erasing the voice mail. We’re not saying we won’t return to this. It’s one of our open story lines. It could go the way of the frozen Russian in The Sopranos or come back like the … something that comes back.

Julianna Margulies said recently that we haven’t actually seen what ties Alicia to Will, besides their physical attraction. They have undeniable chemistry and the unrequited, forbidden love is romantic, but are you considering exploring how they fit? —CHRYSSI
We’ll probably explore more ways how Will and Alicia “fit,� but we tend to only like characterization when it is necessitated by action. Characterization in a vacuum, to us, is information, not entertainment. Luckily, the plot will be veering back toward Will and Alicia in a big way, but not as lovers — as enemies. But that’s just as good a way to explore characters. In fact, sometimes it’s better, and definitely it’s more interesting. Love only gets you so far dramatically. Hate is a great engine for carrying you the rest of the way.

Can we get some backstory as to what exactly Alicia and Will had at Georgetown and why she fell for Peter? —JUSTSOUTHOFBOSTON
Well … the backstory exists. The only way we can write characters is to know what happened to them. But the backstory is boring without some dramatic rationale for its regurgitation. It needs a pressing need within the plot. To use an example: There was a lot of what you might call backstory in the John Noble episode about his character, but what made it not play as backstory was that there was a pressing need for it: Alicia needed to review her time with John Noble to find out who the killer was. That’s a long way to explain [that] we’d rather not go into the backstory right now because it might matter for a future episode and then it will be baked into the story. Sorry.

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In last night’s season finale of The Good Wife, Alicia calls someone to suggest they talk in person at her apartment, leaves her husband’s party celebrating his electoral win, and when she opens the door, it’s not (as we might have assumed) her sometime lover/boss Will Gardner, with whom she’d had yet another steamy kiss earlier in the episode. This time, it’s Cary Agos on her threshold — and she tells him, “I’m in.” Meaning she’s leaving Lockhart Gardner and joining Agos in the firm he’s starting with the other defecting fourth-year associates. It’s actually a more meaningful change than choosing Peter or Will, although one of the incentives of being at a different firm means it’s less complicated (albeit less convenient) to sleep with the boss. Matt Czuchry, who plays Cary, chatted with Vulture about what Alicia’s decision means for the show and how it will shake up the dynamics and open up the sex lives of its characters.

I literally just finished watching the finale a few seconds ago, and I was so happy it was Cary at her door.
[Laughs.] That’s good to hear. That’s very good. Was it something that surprised you? Were you expecting it to be Will? Were you wondering if it would be Cary? It’s quite the cliffhanger. I think it really wraps up season four in a very risky, unique, and kind of beautiful way, and sets up season five. Now your mind can start turning.

Alicia and Cary can be the new Will and Diane, although less compromised, ethically.
Yeah, that’s absolutely right. We saw a little of that in the “Red Team/Blue Team” episode, and one thing I love is you have their entire history, from being direct competitors for the same job, to direct opposition when Cary was at the state attorney’s office, and now they’re in a place where they’re starting from the beginning all over again together, and against Will and Diane.

Do you think Robyn will join the firm? And what do you think the firm should be called? Florrick Agos? Agos Florrick?
I’m not sure how it’s all going to come together, how it’s all going to shake out, because it hasn’t been written yet, but I would say it certainly looks like Robyn might be joining, since Cary asked her and she seemed interested. And when Cary asked Alicia to come aboard, he suggested Florrick, Agos, and Associates. But that’s what’s interesting — what is this firm going to look like? What kind of cases will it take on?

It means Alicia is no longer working for Will, which changes one of the reasons not to be with Will.
It does. And Cary and Kalinda would be at separate places as well. It changes all the dynamics of all the characters.

Are you Team Will or Team Peter?
You can see reasons why she would be with both. Both are very different. For me, as an outside audience member, I can see her with both of them, and that’s why she’s torn. She sees things about both of them that are attractive to her. I e-mailed Chris [Noth] the other day about how I love that scene where he asks her to renew their vows, and I thought they were both great in that scene. They know each other so well. And yet in the finale, with Will in the car, there’s a different energy. Both make sense.

We had a solution for the Team Peter–Team Will dilemma: They should just have a threesome.
Ri-i-ght! [Laughs.] I don’t think that would work on that one, but I think that could work on the Cary-Kalinda one. That would make more sense, because of who Kalinda is. He knows she’s been with other women, so if he got in a relationship with her, he would know that could be a part of it, but a Will-Peter-Alicia threesome would be a disaster! [Laughs.] I don’t think that is going to happen or should happen, but maybe there’s potential there for Cary and Kalinda to have a threesome. I don’t think another man would be an option, but another woman would be very welcome.

Kalinda used to think Cary was kind of vanilla.
I think that was certainly the case in season one, but I think that’s changed as he’s matured and he’s grown. And Kalinda could certainly bring out an edge in Cary, and that would be fun. And Cary would bring out a softness to Kalinda. It would be fun to see how they could change each other. They wouldn’t have the same kind of relationship as Kalinda did with [her husband] Nick.

I think they could still be playfully violent with each other, because Kalinda does like BDSM.
You have to call the Kings [showrunners Robert and Michelle King] and tell them that! It’s obviously been intentional, not to show them having sex. They cut to black, and it’s the next morning. I would like to think that they’ve been doing that to maintain that intrigue so the audience can come up with things in their own heads and in their own imaginations.

Since it cut to black, how did that scene go down in your imagination?
In that particular bar scene, it went a little slightly further than what ended up onscreen, a little bit more before they cut to black. And we shot the scene that comes afterwards first, where they’re just saying hi and talking about the case, and I didn’t even realize that the intention was that they had just slept together. [Laughs.] I don’t think that relationship is done. But I don’t want to say how it went down, because hopefully before the show is finished, I hope it ends up on-camera. I think it’s a real possibility.

They don’t have to show it all. Remember the ice cream or the moments where Peter does things to Alicia just below the frame.
Absolutely. And Kalinda is that character who is so beloved because she pushes those boundaries. If Cary and Kalinda were in a relationship, you’d want to see her in a threesome, because that’s true and organic to the character, and the audience would appreciate that. Sometimes it is better what you can’t see. Not seeing this particular stuff lets your imagination run wild.

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Viewers weren’t the only ones caught off guard by the twist in the closing moments of Sunday’s Good Wife finale. The clever bait-and-switch — which found Alicia rendezvousing with new business partner Cary and not longtime crush Will — left the latter’s portrayer, Josh Charles, in a state of shock and awe, too.

“My first impression when I read [the script] was that I was surprised, in a really good way,� the actor tells TVLine. “I did not see that coming. I thought it was a brilliant stroke of writing and storytelling that sets the show up really nicely for next [season].�
Making the cliffhanger all the more satisfying was that it was “organic and authentic� as opposed to a stunt intended to “shake stuff up just to shake it up.� Alicia’s decision to launch a new firm with Cary “makes sense [because] these seeds have been planted a while ago and they’ve been building… So much of the show is about Alicia’s evolution personally and professionally and the moral tightrope she walks, and she’s seen a lot of things as partner that haven’t been very pleasant. So maybe she feels like this is an opportunity to explore running a business the way she wants.�

Furthermore, echoing what series cocreator Robert King told TVLine, Charles views Alicia’s decision to quit Lockhart Gardner as, at least partially, a way for her to separate herself from Will, although he acknowledges that it “doesn’t resolve� the triangle. If anything, Charles speculates, it could set the stage for Will and Alicia to be an official item at some point down the line.
“There are a lot of reasons why these two probably shouldn’t be together, and one of the big reasons is he’s her boss,� he points out. “And you take that element out of it and… while I don’t think it necessarily means they’re going to immediately end up together or anything, it takes out one obstacle. Alicia is not going to be working under Will.�
On the flipside, they’ll be professional rivals for the first time. “It’s going to be interesting to see them be competitors,� he says. “I think it’s going to bring out a lot of great conflict, both for the show and those two characters.�

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