Meanwhile, Rachel and Donna butt heads over the associates.
Obviously, Louis is still concerned that Alex joining the firm will threaten his friendship with Harvey.
So, Louis fights against his nature and welcomes Alex to the office with a honeysuckle plant.
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Louis and Alex hit it off, so Louis invites him to lunch, and Alex agrees.
Louis witnesses them leaving the office together and laughing, and he assumes theyre laughing at him.
Louis immediately hops on the phone with his psychiatrist for help with the situation.
Thankfully, his therapist is able to talk him off a ledge.
Alexs client tries to bully them off the case, and sadly, Harvey gives in to the pressure.
Alex has been there a day and hes already causing trouble for the dynamic duo.
Maybe Mike shouldve been more worried about the new guy in town.
He also shuts down both Louis and Donna, who agrees with Louis.
Its a fraught exchange, the effects of which will definitely be felt in next weeks episode.
After turning to Donna for some advice, Rachel tries to be more authoritative with Stephanie.
Donnas interference leaves Rachel feeling embarrassed, and she confronts Donna about it later on.
Their argument gets out of hand, and each woman says the other wasnt ready for her new position.
So she hands control back over to Donna, and thus this whole subplot feels rather pointless.
Did Rachel really need to go through this?
Why couldnt the show have just thrust her into a case?
Hopefully, this will come back around soon.
And Donnas first order of business is to fire Stephanie.
Like thats going to happen).
They realize the other doesnt have bad intentions, and they part the conversation as friendly-ish colleagues.
(See the photo above.)
Im definitely interested in seeing how Mike handles Alex.
I find that immensely more interesting than going down the Louis-Just-Wants-to-Be-Harveys-Friend train again.
