In a recent interview, the creators of The Good Wife suggested that Alicia is still attracted to Will and that Will is finally having to confront his true feelings for her after she betrayed the firm.

Check out some of the images Enstars put together of the couple over the seasons, from them being intimate and struggling with their feelings for each other, to them being at loggerheads after Alicia's exit.

Showrunners Robert and Michelle King spoke to Vulture about the significant turns in season 5 so far and the major character arcs. The duo revealed their thoughts on how the recent developments in the plot will affect Alicia and Will's relationship.

Viewers will have to wait until January for the next episode, as the show is taking a hiatus of about a month.

While discussing Will's reaction to Alicia's quitting Lockhart/Gardner to start her own firm, there was the implication that he was more heartbroken than furious. Robert suggested that his first response was to go into "commando mode;" that he felt "revitalized" as he was always being pushed around by Alicia. Robert said that soon after, Will has to face the demons as his real feelings for Alicia take over.

"As with most things in life, there's that problem that's buried deep beneath, that you kind of push aside, something that you'd rather not face because to go there is the dark night of the soul time," he said. "That's what we were trying to explore, that dark night of the soul of a relationship that meant more than almost anything to him, that is now over."

Michelle seconded Robert's opinion, adding that Will needs to work out "how he can push that vulnerability into his work, and try to make it work for him."

When speaking of what Alicia was going through when it came to Will -- and if she was relatively less hurt about leaving him -- the showrunners suggested that she would always be attracted to Will.

"She's not more over it than he is. At the end of act one, when she looks over at him and sees what he's suggesting, that he wants to put her on the stand, it's like, 'Oh my God, your hatred really is appalling,' " Robert said. "You're seeing her disbelief that he's gonna go there, that he's going to use pillow talk in his cross examination."

"But when she remembers him rubbing her leg under the table, it's because she's still attracted to the idea of Will as sexual object. And obviously what comes with that is passion for love, or passion for another person," he added. "I don't think she's over it at all. Will just hasn't faced his heartbreak until this moment, and it's coming out in very ugly and depressing ways."

In the last episode, The Decision Tree, Will had a flashback of his and Alicia's steamy balcony sex session while he was practicing questioning her for a case.

Tell us how you think their relationship will unfold in this season.


Watch the famous elevator scene between Will and Alicia from season 2:

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The good wife, Season 5