There's a riot at one of end of a college, and a murder at the other end. The riot arises from an interfaith rally of Muslims and Jews; the murder involves a swastika drawn poorly in blood on a young Jewish student's forehead. One of Diane's friends, an Islamic politico, brings L/G what starts as a trumped hate-crime battery charge and ends up being about the murder instead. The same guy also brings Eli an anti-anti-Muslim bigotry campaign, which he works on just long enough to get business from/revenge on a Jewish charity that burned him in the past.

Alicia fucks up the battery case about sixteen different ways, including falling for a Cary trick where she gets the suspect to implicate himself in the hate-crime battery at the riot -- before the credits, she manages this -- which in turn serves as cause for his murder trial; later she asks the Jewish judge to recuse himself and be replaced... The day before Rosh Hashanah, assuring a non-Jewish judge will preside. (This last thing is so goddamn heinous of her that Peter's the only one gross enough to spot her agenda in time.)

Over at the SA's office, it's Peter's first day! He talks a good yarn about playing it clean this time -- going so far as to order that nobody allow any pleas for something like three months, I think. If by "clean" you mean "unbelievably slow-moving and annoying for everyone involved," then yes. On the other hand, he has a duty to recreate the image of the office, particularly with himself at the head, so big moves seem like a good idea.

He hires Sophia (Kalinda's married ex-fuckbuddy) as the SA's new investigator, setting up a bisexual love triangle among the three that's as scary as it is exciting to think about; and then spends the rest of the day trying to undermine his wife with spooky villain laughter. He's apparently not interested in thinking about governorship yet, but Eli's happy to do that for him -- and when he comes to Alicia's door to pick up the kids at the end of the episode, they're both polite, if not wholly friendly. Considering he wasn't even at his own election party I guess they've both had time to cool off.

Sophia eventually helps Kalinda nab the killer, but Alicia does a great job of helping her from the office. They're such good collaborators -- and so discreet about everything they do -- that only Diane manages to catch on to their hate vibe, and tells them to cut it out. Likewise, only Eli manages to figure out that Will and Alicia are pretending to be pissed at each other, but for whatever Eli reason he tells Peter there's nothing going on there. In fact, what is going on there is some outstanding secret sex.

It takes place in Will's living room, since Alicia can't handle going into the bedroom yet, and at the end of the episode we see even more of the toll it's taking on Alicia: Getting-pretty for a rendezvous with the kids of the house, she suddenly goes into a fugue state. Maybe she's just thinking about how cute her bangs look, but I doubt it.

Will cautions Kalinda to get more friends, or at least a dog, because even for Kalinda she's going pretty dark -- and finally admits he's as cold as we thought. They have a nice little talk about what it's like to be emotionless automatons, without even pets, that are pretending to be human. Then they both quietly wish this wasn't a total lie.

Anyway, the victim and murderer were actually just star-crossed gay lovers, and none of it was even remotely political. The swastika's even backwards, which just goes to show you about these kids today. And speaking of these kids today, Grace has made another excitingly weird friend, this time in the form of a tutor who's on the spectrum and loves nothing better than to film strangely aggressive dance videos in the middle of the subway like some kind of one-person flash mob. She gets that goofy face about this girl that she used to get about Black Jesus and I don't know, but it's possible Owen and Jackie were right about that girl after all.