The Good Wife’ Season 4, Episode 11 Recap

• CBS
• “I don’t care WHAT Rahm Emmanuel calls you, I will eat you alive!”

Quietly, “The Good Wife” returned last night, smothered per usual by more hyped shows on networks who care about them (in this case, “Downton Abbey” on PBS). But “Boom De Ya Da” (one of the laziest non-sequitur titles they’ve ever come up with) was a great way to pick up after the mid-season break and come back fresh, even if they did resurrect almost every character that has ever been on the show (guest stars!)

The Case of the Week, which has been a low point for this show this season, was really a sterling display in “Boom De Ya Da,” taking us out of the courtroom and into the lodge, with a reappearance by Michael J. Fox’s excellent Alicia-nemesis Louis Canning. The specifics of the COTW were even marginally interesting, focusing on the dilapidated foreclosure properties left to rot by banks who should care a little more about their investments.

Louis Canning was not the only surprise on opposing counsel, Martha was back as well (from the infamous “Marthas and Caitlins” episode). Clearly doing well for herself, the sharp Martha didn’t have a single misstep or falter in the deposition, and lost the case only because in a bizarre, “Law & Order”-esque turn, the client wanted to keep his own illness under wraps from investors. Still, despite the nepotism of the Caitlin hire, the firm would have been better off with Martha, who surely would have helped them with their debts more than the briefly employed Caitlin.

Speaking of the debt, what a squirrely issue. Was Hayden wrong to suggest Diane and Will be removed for botching the merger that would have paid off their creditors?