However, by the time the team had crafted the preferred Good Wife ending, Jeffrey Dean Morgan was already contracted by and filming on The Walking Dead.
Instead, Alicia Florrick was supposed to get her happy ending, an ending that was supposed to come thanks to Jason Crouse, who just so happened to be played by Walking Dead actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Since The Walking Dead films in Atlanta and is a long process, he was unable to make it back to shoot a happy ending for the character.
At a Q&A in New York this week, showrunner Robert King revealed that originally The Good Wife was not supposed to end with Diane Lockheart slapping Alicia Florrick in the face.