'Good Wife' Watch: Alas, More Perils of Will Network schedules can be tricky things. "The Good Wife" was like a candy store in its Jan. 30 episode: Wendy Scott-Carr humiliated, Will Gardner vindicated, Alicia and Peter Florrick promising to lock horns. But after that sugar high came Super Bowl Sunday, followed by Grammy Awards Sunday, and "The Good Wife" had to take a two-week vacation. Your natural expectation in that situation is that the show will come back for the final third of the season with something new and exciting, perhaps a real dive back into the Florrick family circus. But "Live From Damascus" on Sunday had no Peter, no Jackie, no Zach and Grace. Instead, the show came out of its short hiatus with more Perils of Will, which felt like a letdown. There was a shocker, though, at least for those who avoid spoilers: faced with disbarment immediately after escaping indictment (he got the bad news at his you're-not-going-to-trial celebratory party), Will decided to take the high road and accept a six-month suspension. This odd fatalism came despite Diane's best back-channel efforts to save him. He came to his decision after a sit-down with Alicia, that moral bellwether. She told him to fight, but apparently her mere presence was enough to convince him that accepting punishment (for his long ago misappropriation of a client's money) was the right thing to do. Or maybe he just couldn't stand to be in the office with Alicia. Not that Josh Charles, who plays Will, is leaving the show, of course. In fact, Elizabeth Reaser is scheduled to make an appearance this spring as his sometime girlfriend Tammy. We'd love to hear your speculation about how the show will handle Will's suspension: a lightning reinstatement? Unexpected jealousy as Alicia becomes closer to Diane? A trip to spring training? In the case of the week, the show indulged its tastes for moralizing and melodrama by going after an American tech company whose surveillance software is being used by the Syrian government. Did anyone else feel that the extensive use of what was presented as footage from the continuing Syrian protests was a little exploitative and queasy-making in this context? It provided an opportunity for Will, as lead lawyer, to exercise his idealism in counterpoint to the decision he had to make about his own career. The writers made a pointless and distracting decision to put Denis O'Hare's Judge Abernathy in an emotional state over the Occupy protests going on nearby, and the ending - contrasting the rescue of an American protester with the disappearance of a Syrian fixer working for Lockhart Gardner - was pat and not quite up to the show's standards. It was one of the episodes in which Alicia was mostly in the background, but a major plot line that's coming up did click into place: out of nowhere - as far as I can remember, but correct me if I'm wrong - we found out that Will had been preparing to defend Kalinda in a mysterious case involving taxes, and that now Alicia will have to take it over. So sisterhood will be tested once again. Another to look forward to, perhaps: it was recently announced that Matthew Perry will join the cast next month. The best line of the episode had nothing to do with Will, Alicia, Kalinda or disbarment. It came in the comic-relief subplot involving the triangle of Eli Gold, his ex-wife and his frenemy Stacie Hall, when Amy Sedaris (Stacie) said to Alan Cumming (Eli): "Last night was amazing. I could still taste you this morning.