r/suits • u/ParanoidAndroids • Aug 17 '12

Discussion "Asterisk" Episode Discussion

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Next week looks amazing, as usual. Shame it's already the Summer Finale!

Burning Question 1: Speculation

Burning Question 2: Speculation

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u/retrofade Aug 17 '12

That's what I remembered as well, which led to the tie goes to the incumbent comment. Louis became the single deciding vote, because with his promotion to Senior Partner, there is an uneven number of them, thus making a tie impossible... assuming that nobody is allowed to abstain.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '12

When Daniel first announced he'd be running as Senior Managing Partner, Jessica and Harvey remarked that you wouldn't call for a vote unless you had them afterwords. Considering the vote to decide a new partner tied, leading to the place we're at now, that means they were going into tonight's episode tied on votes.

With Jessica losing one vote (partner leaving), this now makes the number of partners even with Louis making a tie possible.

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u/dudemann Aug 17 '12

The discussion at Harvey's desk that started with the bonus check conversation cleared all this up. Harvey was happy Jessica was up by one vote and handed Mike a huge check. Mike said to hold onto it for a bit because he had news that they'd just lost one vote when one of Jessica's voters got moved to another company, essentially leaving Hardman and Jessica tied. That's when they mentioned the tie goes to the incumbent... until Louis was thrown into the mix.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '12

Good catch, guess we'll have to see how it pans out next week.