After its record-breaking resurgence on Netflix, Fits discovered a brand new viewers to understand the wealthy characters portrayed onscreen. The authorized drama aired on the USA Community earlier than making its mainstream streaming debut in 2023 with seasons one by means of 8 and Season 9 in 2024. Fits chronicles the highs and lows of a Manhattan legislation agency led by Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) after he hires an affiliate, Mike Ross (Patrick Adams), who by no means went to legislation faculty. The supporting forged contains Gina Torres as managing associate Jessica Pearson, senior associate Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman), authorized secretary Donna Paulsen (Sarah Rafferty), and paralegal Rachel Zane (Meghan Markle).

Every character finds their footing and distinctive tone within the dialogue, providing followers catchphrases, fast wit, monologues, thought-provoking arguments, and extra. The traces mark essential character arcs and expository revelations which can be delivered by the knowledgeable forged. From courtroom bite-backs to Donna-isms, the most effective quotes from Fits are equally entertaining as they’re thought-provoking.

10 “Typically I like to hang around with folks that are not that brilliant, you realize, simply to see how the opposite half lives.”

Mike Ross (Season 1, Episode 1)

And thus among the best bromances on tv started. When Mike is trying to make a drop for Trevor’s (Tom Lipinski) drug deal, he stumbles into Harvey’s Harvard Regulation affiliate interviews, spilling the briefcase filled with weed. The pair instantly hit it off, flexing their mind in a battle of legalese that, finally, Mike wins. When Harvey significantly considers hiring Mike with no legislation diploma (or any diploma), Mike solidifies Harvey’s alternative by saying, “Typically I like to hang around with folks that are not that brilliant, you realize, simply to see how the opposite half lives.”

At this second, we see the town’s best nearer get closed by a person with no Harvard Regulation diploma. Mike’s means to match wits and present his starvation to be a lawyer was like trying in a mirror for Harvey. This line, launched in the underrated pilot episode, was the domino impact for the entire sequence.

9 “However the fact is, all of us have skeletons in our closets. The distinction between you and me is that I do not care to make use of them.”

Rachel Zane (Season 6, Episode 3)

Whereas Rachel’s character deserved way more than the girlfriend function, there have been a number of moments the place she stood as a drive to be reckoned with. After Mike goes to jail, Rachel occupies her time with legislation faculty and faces her personal adversity throughout a debate in her sensible ethics class when her opponent, Naomi (Ashley Leggat) calls out Rachel’s engagement and Mike’s jail time for fraud. Rachel seeks Jessica’s opinion from one highly effective lady to an aspiring different. She returns to Naomi with a “skeleton” the viewers by no means sees, telling her how straightforward it was to go after her affiliation with Mike. In an indication of Rachel’s character, she says, “However the fact is, all of us have skeletons in our closets. The distinction between you and me is that I do not care to make use of them.” Naomi reads a Rachel-written apology earlier than forfeiting the loss to Rachel.

The key gamers at Pearson Specter Litt don’t have any disgrace in utilizing skeletons to bend their opponent’s will, however as a substitute of publicly calling out Naomi, Rachel does it privately. She took heed of Jessica’s recommendation to indicate the category and the world she wasn’t afraid of individuals like Naomi, reasonably they need to be afraid of Rachel.

8 “That is all of your fault. And what simply occurred to that lovely lady in there, that is on you! Not me!”

Louis Litt (Season 2, Episode 7)

Louis went from a bumbling supporting character to an ally, a villain, again to ally, and eventually to household all through the 9 seasons. Throughout the mock trial to organize for the Coastal Motors lawsuit, Louis needed to play villain to the one lady who he platonically cherished, Donna. His brutal cross-examination resulted in Donna storming out after he repeatedly requested if she liked Harvey. The heated second led to a confrontation between Harvey and Louis within the toilet, with Harvey questioning his ulterior private motives. Reminding Harvey that the lawsuit, the mock trial, and the whole lot else was all about saving his job, Louis reveals that he took no pleasure within the cross, screaming, “That is all of your fault. And what simply occurred to that lovely lady in there, that is on you! Not me!”

This scene revealed that Louis (for as soon as) hadn’t gotten misplaced in a second of rage, he was doing his job to organize Donna for the worst the episode’s enemy, Travis Tanner (Eric Shut), would do in a courtroom. Louis’s emotional outburst at Harvey demanded that Harvey take duty, whereas additionally exhibiting Louis wasn’t all the time the monster everybody made him out to be. This quote is likely one of the most eye-opening for Louis’s character within the early seasons of Fits.

7 “You woke the dragon, Charles. How do you want me now?”

Jessica Pearson (Season 3, Episode 15)

In one of many many cases the place Jessica went to bat for her agency, none was higher than when she informed off the person who employed her outdoors the courtroom. The previous named associate Charles Van Dyke (Jamey Sheridan) comes calling to audit the agency’s books, looking for extra money. When the 2 meet outdoors the courtroom, Jessica should stall till Louis arrives with their profitable answer. She tells Van Dyke the story of how she realized she was his range rent and the way sick she felt. Whereas it motivated her to work onerous to realize her standing, she would always remember how Van Dyke would all the time see her. Simply earlier than they enter the courtroom, she warns, “You woke the dragon, Charles. How do you want me now?”

That is one in all Jessica’s most defining quotes as a result of she by no means takes as a right her success in a male-dominated discipline. She is a robust TV character and that is one in all her strongest moments, and one which proved so candy when she drops the hammer on her former mentor. As she reminds Harvey and the viewers all through the sequence, that is her identify on the door.

6 “I am Donna. I do know the whole lot.”

Donna Paulsen (Season 2, Episode 8)

From episode one, audiences knew the executive and other people prowess Donna possessed. She holds irreplaceable worth to Harvey and the agency for greater than her fast wit. She’s an underrated TV character whose Donna-isms present much-needed comedic aid whereas additionally portraying sturdy confidence from a feminine character in a male-dominated business. “Rewind” is a flashback episode centered on how Harvey and Mike’s particular person selections led them to the place they’re now. Moreover, we see the primary alternate between Rachel and Donna, the place Donna stuns Rachel together with her insider information in regards to the agency and her. When requested how, she merely says, “I am Donna. I do know the whole lot.”

Two seasons in, it was clear Donna was the go-to supply for almost the whole lot and everybody, retaining a heartbeat of expository information for viewers and characters with out going into in depth depth. Her introduction might not have been monumental to the episode’s narrative, however her demonstration of intuitiveness and openness created the muse for the sturdy bond she and Rachel maintained for the sequence’ entirety.

5 “Life is that this. I like this.”

Harvey Specter (Season 1, Episode 10)

One of many mottos Harvey establishes early and known as again to all through Fits‘ 9 seasons appeared within the first season after Mike wins his first case. When a consumer’s accountant, Stan (John Billingsley) is fired for falsifying his credentials, Mike enlists Stan’s assist to dig into the financials of his former firm. The pair uncover numerous shelf firms the CEO makes use of to embezzle cash from her shoppers. Whereas the agency will get a win within the case, Mike struggles with Stan’s unemployment mirroring his personal place at Pearson Hardman. Harvey, when confronted by Mike, explains that individuals’s selections make them the lives they dwell, saying, “Life is that this,” holding his hand flat, “I like this,” and elevating his hand increased. This phrase comes again a number of occasions over the seasons.

Stan’s dismissal is one thing Mike persistently grapples with for worry of getting caught. Harvey’s high-life mentality is not one thing Mike understands or desires, however in breaking down Harvey’s phrases, he realizes that you are able to do the minimal and dwell life as it’s or you are able to do extra to realize what you need out of life. What Mike finally achieves by his sequence exit is way nearer to “I like this” than “Life is that this.”

4 “Do not play the case. Play the person.”

Harvey Specter (Season 1, Episode 7)

A negotiation tactic that arrange Harvey’s strategies for the remainder of the sequence, “Do not play the case. Play the person” was first uttered in Season 1 as recommendation to Mike. As Mike prepares for his second day of the mock trial, having made a idiot of himself the primary day, Harvey tells Mike that his technique is to concentrate on the opponent as a substitute of the information of the case. In later seasons, Harvey makes use of this saying when discussing his poker enjoying abilities, in studying the person throughout from him as a substitute of his playing cards.

Harvey’s closing abilities require him to learn folks earlier than creating the deal to get what he desires, and by affiliation, what his consumer desires. The tactic, whereas manipulative, helps each of them in future circumstances the place there’s extra a lot at stake than a mock trial. In educating Mike this ideology early on, Harvey additional cultivates his likeness in his genius protégé.

3 “Why do not you inform me, when the hell does this turn out to be your soiled little secret?”

Mike Ross (Season 4, Episode 11)

A turning level within the sequence and the agency’s trajectory, Louis blackmails his manner again to Pearson Specter as named associate after discovering Mike’s secret. Jessica goes to Mike to have him draft the partnership settlement as equal elements punishment for his secret and due to his abilities. In one in all Mike’s most emotional and highly effective scenes, he goes off on Jessica for her fixed digs about his secret being the bane of her existence. Mike factors out that Jessica might have fired him the second she discovered, however as a substitute used him to her benefit in a number of key moments for her profit. Exasperated, he ends his rant and the dialog with, “Why do not you inform me, when the hell does this turn out to be your soiled little secret?”

Mike’s secret weighs on the crew for almost all of the sequence, and, up till this level, the finger was persistently pointed at Mike with no culpability taken by any of the agency’s leaders. In later seasons throughout Mike’s trial and the ethics board conferences, Jessica finally takes the autumn and leaves. However, on this scene, Mike factors out the apparent that Jessica is refusing to confess.

2 “You are gonna get Litt up.”

Louis Litt (Season 3, Episode 13)

Whereas this is not the primary time the phrase was launched within the sequence, it was, maybe, the primary of many satisfying warnings from Louis. With Scottie (Abigail Spencer) becoming a member of the agency as a senior associate, her first case occurs to be for one in all Louis’s shoppers after he is over 10 minutes late to the companions’ assembly. It goes with out saying how Louis reacted, beginning their relationship off on the mistaken foot. His makes an attempt to make amends fail, resulting in a confrontation with Scottie the place he threatens his signature phrase, “You are gonna get Litt up.”

In an early episode, Katrina (Amanda Schull) had trademarked the phrase and gotten it printed on a mug. The saying grew to become synonymous with Louis’s abilities as an legal professional, as he wielded the ability behind it towards any particular person he got here into battle with, inner or exterior. Followers rewatching the sequence use it as a battle cry when watching Louis settle a case or win any of the agency’s many battles.

1 “You all the time have a alternative.”

Harvey Specter (Season 4, Episode 4)

A sentiment echoed all through the sequence, and one that’s all the time left hanging into heavy air, the idea of alternative and the high-stakes penalties is the driving drive of Fits. After Mike leaves the agency to go official and work in funding banking with Jonathan Sidwell (Brandon Firla), he clashes with Pearson Specter Litt over his hostile takeover of Gillis Industries. Determined to maintain his new job and save Walter Gillis’s (Michael Gross) firm, Mike turns to Charles Forstman (Eric Roberts) for the cash. Simply earlier than the episode’s conclusion, Harvey confronts Mike and tries to persuade him to again out of Forstman’s deal. When Mike refuses to budge, Harvey’s parting phrases are “you all the time have a alternative.”

In one of many many moments, Harvey sees himself in Mike, and this one hits deep as Mike begins to make the identical choice he made years in the past. A harmful Fits villain, Forstman pulls the strings behind dozens of conflicts the characters face, and Harvey does not need Mike so as to add one other. Harvey’s warning was a last-ditch try to alter Mike’s thoughts earlier than one other dangerous choice ruins his future.

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