Jessica Pearson, the managing partner of Pearson and Spector just entered Harvey Spector's office, she stood there and Harvey looked up; "What's up Jessica, other than looking amazing!"
"Don't give me that crap Harvey, why is Special Agent Peter Burke of the FBI on my calendar for this afternoon? Its Christmas week and I don't need any unforeseen problems popping up before the end of the year!"
I have no idea Jessica, did you ask Louis? I heard of Peter Burke, he heads up the New York White collar division; it may have something to do with Louis and taxes!
"Impossible Harvey, Louis may be a snake, but he's as honest as the day is long. It better not have anything to do with Mike Ross and his situation!"
"Situation, what situation Jessica?"
"Don't give me that shit Harv, I want you in the meeting with me just to cover my ass."
"Mmmmm I'd sure love to cover your ass Jessica, now get out and buzz me when this Burke character gets here!"
Jessica left the office and she could feel Harvey's eyes on her tight slender body as she walked to her office. She was dress elegantly as always. She looked professional, but could also be a runway model at one of New York's leading fashion houses.
A few hours later while Harvey was going over one of his briefs, his intercom came alive, it was Donna; "Harvey, Jessica's on the line, she needs you in her office now, that FBI guy is here."
"Tell her I'll be there in a minute, just need to finish this last page of my brief!" He finished the brief and headed towards Jessica's office and looking through the glass walls, he saw both Jessica and Burke laughing, she motioned for him to go away and he caught her action and turned and walked over to Louis Litt's office; "Hey shithead, any idea why that Burke guy from the FBI is here to see Jessica?"
"Louis had a frown on his brow; "Nice to see you too Dickhead! No I have no idea, she asked me earlier if I knew him, I told her I heard of him and his crack division, but didn't know him personally! Now get the fuck out of my office so I can really do some good for this firm, not you like!"
Harvey gave him the finger as he walked out grumbling as he left. Louis and Harvey had a love-hate relationship, they both knew they were good, but disliked the other, but would back them up to the end of the world if needed.
An hour later Jessica came into Harvey's office and took a seat; "I had Donna buzz Louis and told him to get in here, I want to give you the low-down of my meeting with Peter Burke. Now before Louis gets in here I have to tell you Burke knows about Mike not being a lawyer. It seems Louis' girlfriend that Sheila Sazs came to him seeing he's in charge of the fraud division. He doesn't want to prosecute Mike, but he has to go and take the boards and if he passes, we can get him a license."
Why are you involving Louis, he'll want to burn Mike, what were you thinking Jessica?"
"Here is my plan, do you have anything on Louis we can use against him to flip him to help us out?"
"Well yes and no, it involves Rachel Zane though."
"What is it Harvey?"
"Last year when Rachel was trying to get into Harvard, Louis tried to persuade this Sheila Sazs woman to push her through and allow her into Harvard. I got him fucking the shit out of her at his place and then try to use that to get Rachel into Harvard. She resisted and he backed down, but I still have him trying to blackmail her into doing it."
"So why did you say yes and no?"
"Well if we used it on Louis, he could push back and make Rachel really look bad."
"Yeah it wouldn't look good for her, but I think we could bluff Louis to the point where he would fold and help us."
"So tell me Jessica, how does this all come together why is Burke willing to help us and how can we get this Sheila to back down?"
"We'll have to tell Louis about Mike first of all, then we need him to go along with us to back his girlfriend into a corner and she'll have to back down. Last but not least, we'll need to help Burke's wife with a sticky legal case. You and Louis will have to team up and get her off, for once we have an innocent client; we just have to prove it."
Louis walked into Harvey's office and Jessica went on to tell him all about Mike, he was furious that he was kept in the dark about this and wanted nothing to do with it.
"Louis the entire firm is libel for covering up for Mike, if it comes out, the firm will fold and you too will be out in the cold."
"I'm still not comfortable about covering this up, but I'll back the two of you. What do we need to do?"
"Okay Louis, here is what we know and what we need to do. Peter Burke is willing to drop the fraud case concerning Mike Ross if we get you girlfriend Sheila Sazs to withdraw the complaint. We also have to represent Elizabeth Burke in a case where she is being set-up as the fall guy. She's completely innocent and with the evidence Peter Burke has, it will be a cake-walk, he just can't present it seeing it would look like tampering."
Louis was fuming; "I can't do that to Sheila and how are we supposed to get her to back down?"
First of all Peter Burke works closely with a con on his leash, a Neil Caffrey, he's an expert on fraud and B & E. Neil Caffrey will plant the evidence in Sheila's files and pull out all of the damning evidence concerning Mike Ross. What we need to do here is have things get really, really wild and have her on tape doing inappropriate things and use it against her back off on Mike. What do you think? Do you think we can make it work?"
"How long do I have? I need to speak with Ross and Rachel, seeing she was involved with me trying to get her onto Harvard. I'm sure she'll be on board seeing we'll be helping Mike. What kind of info will this Neil plant in her files?"
He's already working on making up fake transcripts where it will show Sheila allowed several students a pass into Harvard Law School who were no way qualified to be in Harvard in the first place. He also has the folder to add to Sheila's file showing Mike Ross attended Harvard along with his grades and in nearly every case with professors who are either retired or moved on to another university. "
"Wow now wait a minute Jessica, I don't want to ruin the reputation of students at Harvard!"
She shook her head; "No, not to worry Louis, we gave Mr. Caffrey the name and profiles only of the students who didn't pass the grade and failed or who dropped out due to unsatisfactory grades, doesn't that make it easier Louis?"
"Yes, that makes it easier and acceptable. Okay so that solves the problem about the files and Mr. Ross, but how are we going to keep Sheila quiet, especially knowing she is the reason you two are in this dilemma."
Jessica had a sly smile on her face; "Like I briefly told you about earlier, I'm planning a New Year's Eve party here. It will be an intimate party with Burke and his wife, he'll bring along Mr. Caffrey and his close associate. Peter will also bring along another agent, a Diane Barrigan, he said she could sort of a look-out to make sure Sheila doesn't notice Mr. Caffrey leaving the party. From here will be the three of us, Donna, Rachel and Mike and of course you'll have to bring Sheila."
"I'll make sure the champagne and liquor is flowing freely and we'll need you to get Sheila good and drunk. We'll make sure we record her in a very, very compromising position and maybe two or three of them!"
"I'll get her here, but it's up to someone else to get her in a compromising situation. Now that we have that problem solved, what is the legal problem Burke's wife is experiencing?"
"He told me his wife has just taken a job as a consultant at a consultant at a gallery in DC. The problem is that a rival who wanted the job has been setting up Mrs. Burke for tax fraud and embezzlement from her business, Burke Premiere Events. She has all of the proof that she's innocent, but with Mr. Burke being touted for a big job in DC., there can't be any sign of tampering by him or his office, that is why we were contacted and he knows we'll make it all go away without making waves."
"Sounds pretty cut and dry, should I contact her and get the ball rolling?"
"You may want to touch base with her, but don't start on the case until the Mike mess is put behind us. We don't want to solve her problem before he takes care of ours."