On the latest episode of "The Good Wife," a client's insensitive statements threatened to stop a huge merger, and Peter fell prey to a falsehood.

In "The One Percent," the Paisley Group is discussing a merger that will force many jobs to head overseas. The group is also mired in a lawsuit, which is making the company's stock value decline.

Someone is suing Mr. Paisley (Tom Skerritt) for wrongful termination, arguing that he was fired because he's gay. Alicia (Julianna Margulies) defends the company, claiming it's not true, with Louis Canning (Michael J. Fox) as the prosecutor against the company.

In the end, there is a $140,000 settlement with the fired employee. Everything seems fine until Paisley goes on a national news show and says that the protests over his company's merger -- and the protests against the country's 1 percent -- is like the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany. The comments naturally cause a firestorm of controversy with people condemning his ludicrous comments.

The settlement offer is then upped to $3 million in the wrongful termination suit.

Rayna Hecht (Jill Hennessey) also returns to meet with Diane (Christine Baranski) to discuss a class action lawsuit. Meanwhile, Canning is trying to bring the company that's being prosecuted in the suit on as a client.

Meanwhile, the state attorney is trying to take Finn (Matthew Goode) down by suggesting to Peter (Chris Noth) that Alicia and Finn are lovers. Peter believes it and tries to get back at her by flirting with a girl in his office.

Eli (Alan Cumming) tells Peter that Finn and Alicia are not sleeping together, but he doesn't believe him.

Meanwhile, Diane is waiting on Rayna to decide what to do about the class action lawsuit: take on the lawsuit, or support the company the lawsuit is against. Rayna doesn't show up for the vote, and Diane believes that Florrick Agos has stolen Rayna from her.

She then finds out that Louis Canning has been trying to "poison the well" at his own firm.

Later, while defending Paisley, Alicia accidentally appears racist on TV, and the joke is on Canning when the company he brings on ends up being terrible, so they cut their losses and settle.

In the end, the gay client who was fired settles for millions. 

On upcoming season finale, "A Weird Year," "Alicia and Cary learn about a threat to the firm when an open feed from a camera is left on following a teleconferenced deposition with Lockhart/Gardner. Meanwhile, Louis Canning vies for a larger role at LG; and Alicia entrusts plans for Zach's high-school graduation party to Jackie and Veronica."

Watch the promo below for the upcoming Season 5 finale, which airs Sunday, May 18, at 9 p.m. EDT on CBS.