After learning of Mike's secret, Jessica wants him fired, but Harvey stalls and tries to find a way not to.

With Hardman back and knowing that it's a matter of time before he challenges Jessica for control, she decides to make sure she has enough support, so she asks Harvey to go out and get it. The problem is that he rubbed so many members of the firm the wrong way. He tries to get the head of the firm's bankruptcy department to side with Jessica when the time comes, but the man feels Jessica treats him like dirt. Harvey tries to get his support by getting man building a building that's over budget to declare bankruptcy, but the man doesn't want to do it, so Harvey and Mike try to get the bank to get an extension. When the head of the department learns what Harvey is doing, he warns him that this will not get him to support Jessica. Mike, after finally hearing Rachel's message, tells her he did.

Hardman tries to ingratiate himself by asking Jessica to let him handle a case wherein they're trying to keep some nurses from going on strike, but Jessica lies that she already gave it to Harvey to negotiate a contract. Hardman tries to horn in by getting Mike to give him some info. Meanwhile, Jessica tells Louis that Harvard considers not allowing them to recruit because the firm's approval rating is low, so he brings in someone from Harvard to check them out and gets told something he doesn't like.

With Harvey's career on the line in a lawsuit for fraud, he gives Mike to Louis.

While Mike takes on an emancipation case that pits a teenage tennis phenom against his father, Donna's handling of an overlooked memo becomes a hot potato that could burn her.

Harvey deals with a gambling addict who just lost his company, Louis and Rachel look into a ballet company's problem, and Jessica encounters a judge desiring payback for a past prank.

As the fallout continues to reverberate from the pending lawsuit against Pearson Hardman, Harvey turns to a former colleague, with whom he has a thorny past, for help in proving the firm's case.

With a critical company vote looming, Rewind takes a look back at how things were five years earlier.

Hardman promotes Louis, making him the swing vote in an approaching decision on who will head the company.

After the vote, Harvey commiserates with Mike after Louis makes the office less pleasant for both.

Mike gets too emotional when Harvey allows him to negotiate a hit-and-run settlement, and Louis runs into trouble as he tries to hire his first associate.

Another firm, led by a familiar face, makes an aggressive play to steal Pearson Hardman's associates and clients, and the fallout could affect Louis Litt's future at the firm.

Rachel's father becomes the defense attorney in a gender discrimination lawsuit being prosecuted by Pearson Hardman, and Louis wages war against the new associate hired by Harvey.

Daniel Hardman plays a dirty trick on his old firm when he takes over the defense in the gender discrimination case, and Rachel has second thoughts about applying to Harvard Law School.

Harvey joins forces with and old familiar face to take down Daniel Hardman, Mike and Katrina play a sneaky game of one-upmanship, and Rachel gets some bad news about her Harvard application.

Harvey puts his partnership on the line to prevent the merger from going through, Louis clashes against his counterpart from the other firm, and Rachel puts Mike in a no-win situation by asking for a recommendation to Harvard.