'Suits' Season 5 Spoilers: Is It Mike or Harvey Who Lands in Prison on 'Suits' Season 5 Episode 16 Finale?
"It's done."
At least that is what Michael Ross (Patrick J. Adams) tells Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) as things go down on "Suits" season 5 finale episode 16, seen from the official trailer released by USA Network. And it looks like Mike will take the deal offered by Gibbs (Leslie Hope) by sacrificing himself by taking on jail time to save his friends.
But not if Harvey has anything to say about it. Which he does, as seen on the trailer.
"Nothing's done," Harvey tells Mike. And he adds, "Get it through your head, this is on me."
He tries to stop Mike from getting inside Gibbs' office but couldn't catch up. He believes options have not been exhausted. As Macht tells Yahoo TV in an interview, "Throughout the episode, Harvey is doing anything he can to keep his head above the water. It almost feels like he's drowning in guilt, and he's trying to figure out anything that he can do to make sure that either Mike is found not guilty or there's a mistrial. Mike and Harvey are feeling equally guilty — Harvey for giving Mike the job in the first place, and Mike for taking the job."
On the next episode of the series, the show's 16th, entitled "25th Hour," Mike faces his day of reckoning in court after he pleaded guilty to fraud for posing as a bona fide lawyer for some years now. And it seems like the end is near for Mike and his partnership with Harvey. But he wants to have his final say as he shakenly tells Harvey, "I am not letting you go to the prison for a crime that I committed."
According to actor Rick Hoffman who plays Louis Litt, "It was time for Mike's lie to come out — I think it was very smart." And he goes on to tell Digital Spy (DS), "I think it was scary to take a chance like that — but for me, when you take chances like that, that's the ship I want to go down on."
Will Litt go down then with the ship or is he going to try to save his own skin? Hoffman tells DS that, in this situation, it is every man for himself at Pearson.
He continues, "This is going to be a real test — to see who people really are."
And this is why Mike is going all the way to save everyone. Gibbs offered him two options: to take two years jail time and Gibbs won't go after anyone on Pearson Specter Litt, or cough out one name of a partner for Gibbs to run after instead.
As Mike makes his final play, who will end up in prison?
The trailer seems to lean toward Mike taking the first option. Fans will find out soon enough though, as the season 5 finale for "Suits" will air Monday, March 7, at 10 p.m. on Dave and tonight, March 2 10/9C, on USA Network.