'The Good Wife' recap: Would the Real Mr. Bitcoin Please Stand Up

The Good Wife

Last night Lockhart/Gardner chose cash—and a sizable sum of this at that—over idealism whenever lawyer Dylan Stack waltzed to their offices. Mr. Bunch, a digital information lawyer located in NYC, sought the company's help because he feared 1 . 5 years of jail time were coming. Choosing to identify attorney-client privilege, Stack (performed by Jason Biggs) declined to reveal the name of 1 of his clients towards the Treasury Department. And therefore, the department had been pressuring him in order to submit to asking or spend these 18 months within jail. Thanks to Alicia's previous run-ins using the Treasury and Gordon Higgs (the actual returning Bob Balaban), Stack knew simply the lawyer for that case.
Now on for this mysterious client who'll henceforth be known as Mr. Bitcoin. Mr. Bitcoin invented an electronic currency, bitcoin, which may be traded and invested online. One bitcoin may be worth $3, and you are able to mine for this. Is it a currency or perhaps a commodity? No 1 knows! So such as the title of the actual episode suggests, I'm looking for Bitcoin for Idiot's. According to the actual FBI, any those who create private gold coin on currency systems have been in violation of the actual federal law. The actual Treasury Department had been never really following Mr. Stack. They just desired his information to consider down the actual Mr. Bitcoin.
The Treasury Division worried that bitcoin had been used in an electronic black market through money launderers, medication dealers, and child pornographers—all associated with whom could getaway using their wrongdoings because of the anonymity of bitcoin. Because the Treasury couldn't discover the real Mr. Bitcoin, they chose to up the stress and arrest Mr. Stack to be Mr. Bitcoin. (Critically, someone get me personally that book! )#) Rather than 18 months, Stack was now taking a look at 10 to thirty years behind pubs. In another blow for their case, the assess ruled that bitcoin had been, in fact, a currency and never a commodity such as Alicia was quarrelling. Even Mad Money's Rick Cramer couldn't assist them! (Tell me personally you didn't laugh only at that: "And do you utilize various beeps as well as honking sounds in your program and occasionally clinch a knife involving the teeth? ")
Lockhart/Gardner place Kalinda Sharma (Street. Mary's High) about the case, and off she went to obtain the real Mr. Bitcoin. The woman's entire investigation experienced me going back-and-forth upon who Mr. Bitcoin actually was. At first, We was convinced Mr. really was a Ms. whenever Kalinda found Elaine Middleton. After that, the blame had been shifted to Bao Shuwei. Last but not least, it appeared which Mr. Stack, themself, was actually at fault. This confusion wound up working in their own favor. They firm recognized they just needed to prove Higgs was still searching for Mr. Bitcoin and not believed Stack had been responsible. Thanks with a perfect Kalinda scheming, Alicia & Company. did just which. Mr. Stack was from the hook. In the actual twist, Kalinda revealed following the trial was more than that Mr. Bitcoin wasn't just one individual, but three. Mr. Stack created the idea. Elaine produced the manifesto. As well as Bao wrote the actual code. You may fool me, Mr. Bitcoin, but not at all Kalinda.