Although Mike and Harvey tried to keep their fraud secret SuitsThere are some characters in the series who end up discovering the truth. The cast of Suits was led by Patrick J. Adams and Gabriel Macht, with Adams playing Mike, a genius who starts working at Pearson Hardman as an associate despite not being a lawyer. Mike’s secret is at the heart of the series, and the threat of its exposure is what makes it Suits One of the most entertaining legal dramas.
During his time at Pearson Hardman, Mike was constantly afraid of being exposed. Mike manages to hide from authorities the fact that he does not have a license to practice law for the first four seasons of Suits. However, his secret is finally revealed and he has to face the consequences of his lies. Still, before Mike was arrested, some characters discovered the truth about him.
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Donna Finds Out in Suits Season 1 Episode 1
Donna overheard Mike and Harvey’s conversation
Donna was Harvey’s secretary from the time he worked at the district attorney’s office. She had a habit of keeping Harvey’s office intercom line open to anticipate what he would need her to do. On Mike’s first day at Pearson Hardman, Donna was listening to Mike’s conversation with Harvey. She heard Harvey telling Mike that he needed to let him go because he didn’t want Jessica to find out that Mike didn’t go to Harvard.
Donna kept Mike’s secret because she understood how much he meant to Harvey.
Even though Donna discovered that Mike was not licensed to practice law and therefore knew nothing about being a lawyer, she did not make his job any easier. Mike often had to figure out how to fill out court forms and turned to Rachel for help. Donna kept Mike’s secret because she understood how much he meant to Harvey. Over time, Mike and Donna’s professional relationship improved and she became more inclined to help him.
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Jenny Finds Out in Suits Season 1 Episode 7
Jenny found out when she discovered Mike was working at Pearson Hardman
Jenny, Trevor’s ex-girlfriend, was Mike’s friend before they started dating. Given their friendship and her relationship with Trevor, she knew he didn’t have a law degree. Then, when she attended the mock trial, Jenny discovered that he was practicing law without a license.
After they started dating, Jenny advised Mike to tell Trevor about their relationship, but he was afraid he wouldn’t take it well. She was the one who told him that Trevor had told Jessica his secret. Jenny and Mike broke up after she found out he had kissed Rachel, which wasn’t surprising because she didn’t want to be with someone who was lying to her like Trevor.
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Lola Finds Out in Suits Season 1 Episode 8
Lola Hacked Harvard Law School’s Alumni Database
Lola was the first person outside of Mike’s inner circle who discovered his secret. Lola appeared in the eighth episode of Suits Season 1 as modern-day Robin Hood who uses his hacking skills to steal money from his father’s company. Mike was tasked with getting Lola to pay back the money, but she didn’t want to. In an attempt to find blackmail material and get Mike off her back, Lola investigated him and discovered that he was not attending Harvard Law.
After Mike helped Lola with her father, she hacked into Harvard Law School’s alumni database and put his name on the list as a way of showing her gratitude.. She also helped him earn a degree from Harvard Law School. Although Lola’s help eased some of Mike’s anxiety, he understood that putting his name in the Harvard Law School alumni database didn’t mean he wouldn’t get caught.
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Trevor Evans finds out in Suits season 1, episode 10
Trevor always knew Mike didn’t go to Harvard Law School
As one of Mike’s oldest friends, Trevor always knew that Mike didn’t go to law school because he was kicked out of law school when he was caught helping a girl cheat on her exams. When Trevor came back into Mike’s life after a fight, he discovered that Mike had a new job as a lawyer. Since he knew Mike wasn’t a real lawyer, he discovered he was working as an associate under false pretenses.
Trevor and Mike’s relationship has been rocky since he started working for Pearson Hardman. So when Trevor discovered that Mike was working at a prestigious law firm without a license and that he was dating his ex-girlfriend, Trevor got revenge by telling Jessica the truth. Trevor returns a Suits Season 5 after seeing the error of his ways and encourages Mike to quit his job.
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Jessica Finds Out in Suits Season 1 Episode 10
Trevor told Jessica Mike’s secret
All over Suits In the first season, Mike and Harvey’s goal was to prevent Jessica from finding out that the latter didn’t study law.. Unfortunately, their plan failed and Jessica discovered that Mike was a fraud. At the end of the season Suits In season one, Trevor told Jessica that Mike didn’t go to Harvard Law School and wasn’t a real lawyer.
After Trevor’s confession about Mike, Jessica tells Harvey to fire him because of the consequences the fraud would have for the company. However, Harvey didn’t want to let Mike go, so he resorted to blackmailing Jessica into letting him stay at Pearson Hardman. Eventually, she accepted and even promoted Mike to junior partner. In Suits Season 6, Jessica was expelled in New York for her part in Mike’s fraud.
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Clifford Finds Out in Suits Season 1 Episode 12
Mike told Clifford his secret
Clifford appears in Suits Season 1 finale, “Dog Fight.” During his days as a prosecutor, Harvey helped put Clifford behind bars. But he later discovered that Clifford was wrongfully imprisoned because Cameron Dennis had hidden crucial evidence during his trial. Harvey and Mike decided to free Clifford, and it was during one of their meetings that Mike revealed what Harvey had done for him, thus revealing his secret.
Mike and Harvey managed to trick Tanner and free Clifford. As a show of gratitude, Clifford did not divulge Mike’s secret. In Suits In season 5, Mike goes to Clifford’s house to ask him to testify at his trial, but discovers that he is dead.
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Rachel Finds Out in Suits Season 2 Episode 16
Mike told Rachel he didn’t go to Harvard Law School
At the end of Suits Season 2, Rachel discovers Mike’s secret. Since the first season, Mike and Rachel have had a “won’t they” relationship, which was made more complicated by the fact that Mike was hiding something from her. Feeling that the secret was one of the reasons they couldn’t be together, Rachel distanced herself from Mike. He finally told Rachel that he didn’t go to Harvard Law.
The season finale Suits season two is one of the most important episodes of the series because it was a turning point for Mike and Rachel’s relationship. However, the fact that Mike was a fraud was difficult for Rachel, not only because it was illegal, but also because of what it would mean for her career if it was revealed that she knew about his lie. She asked Mike to stop working at Pearson Hardman, but he accepted her promotion to junior partner, which caused tension in their relationship.
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Scottie Finds Out in Suits Season 3 Episode 16
Harvey told her that Mike isn’t a real lawyer
Scottie discovered the truth about Mike at Suits episode, “No Exit.” Scottie and Harvey have had an on-again, off-again relationship since their college years that failed to survive Harvey’s inability to be emotionally open. In a last-ditch effort to save their relationship, Harvey tells Scottie that Mike didn’t go to law school but decided to hire him despite knowing he was committing fraud.
When Scottie discovered that Harvey had lied to her about Mike, she decided to end the relationship because she felt he had chosen Mike over her. Later in the series, when Mike’s secret is exposed, Harvey suspects that it was Scottie who revealed his secret. Despite how she felt about Harvey, Scottie was willing to testify against Mike if asked.
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Louis Discovers in Suits Season 4 Episode 10
Mike Accidentally Revealed His Secret
Given that Mike worked at a law firm that only hired Harvard Law School graduates, it was only a matter of time before he made a mistake that exposed him.. At the end of Suits Season 4, Episode 10, Mike fails to recognize a key in Louis’ office that is given to students who graduate magna cam laude from Harvard Law School. That’s when everything clicked for Louis and he found out that Mike didn’t go to Harvard Law School.
Louis always felt like an outsider at Pearson Hardman, which made him use Mike’s secret to his advantage. He confronted Jessica and said he would expose her for her role in the fraud if she didn’t force him to name her partner. He got what he wanted and the company changed its name to Pearson Specter Litt.
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Professor Henry Gerard Season 4, Episode 12
Professor Gerard knew that Mike did not attend legal ethics classes at Harvard Law School
Professor Henry Gerard is one of Harvey’s clients and a professor of legal ethics at Harvard Law SchoolI. After Mike helped him with a complicated legal problem, Professor Gerard wondered why he couldn’t remember Mike attending class. So he decides to look up his records and discovers that he didn’t have any Mike Ross in his legal ethics class.
Before Mike was arrested in SuitsHarvey thought it was Professor Gerard who exposed him. Although Professor Gerard sympathized with Mike, he was not willing to lie to the US Attorney’s Office and risk going to prison for him.
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Claire Bowden Finds Out in Suits Season 4 Episode 13
Rachel admitted to Claire that Mike wasn’t a lawyer
Mike hadn’t met anyone from his past until Claire Bowden became opposing counsel on one of his cases. Claire and Mike knew each other from their days as a messenger. So when she saw his name in the case files, she wondered if it was the same Mike Ross she knew. Fearing exposure, Mike had Rachel work the case for him, but she made a mistake by removing his name. Claire realized this and confronted Rachel, who ended up admitting the truth.
Although Claire agreed to keep Mike’s secret for Rachel’s sake, she was not happy with the decision. While it may seem like she told Mike to leave Rachel out of jealousy, the advice she gave him was spot on. She understood that if Mike was exposed, Rachel would be one of the people most affected by his fraud.
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Father Walker Finds Out in Suits Season 5 Episode 10
Trevor Evans told Father Walker that Mike was a fraud
Mike’s fraud is something that has weighed on him since joining Pearson Hardman. To ease his conscience, he confessed to Father Walker, a priest who taught at the Catholic school Mike attended. However, Trevor had already told him that Mike was a fraud.
Father Walker didn’t try to make Mike feel better by validating what he was doing. Instead, he encouraged him to quit his job rather than continue lying. Mike was afraid that Rachel would abandon him, but the priest knew that keeping up the charade would end Mike and Rachel’s relationship.
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Sheila Finds Out in Suits Season 5 Episode 12
Sheila read an article about Mike’s promotion
As an admissions officer at Harvard Law School, Sheila had a good idea of who attended the prestigious law school. When she read an article about Mike’s promotion, she knew immediately that he didn’t attend Harvard Law School because she had no file on him. She wrote an email to the US Attorney’s Office exposing Mike’s secret.
However, she also ends up learning that Louis knew about Mike’s fraud and kept it a secret.
When Louis discovers that she was the one who reported Mike, he confronts her. However, she also ends up learning that Louis knew about Mike’s fraud and kept it a secret. Sheila didn’t expose Mike for malicious reasons. She simply did it because she believed it was the right thing to do.
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Anita Gibbs Finds Out in Suits Season 5 Episode 12
Anita received an anonymous email from Sheila
Assistant U.S. Attorney Anita Gibbs was the lead prosecutor in Mike’s fraud case. She discovered his secret when she received an anonymous email from Sheila informing her that he had not attended Harvard Law School. The email led her to launch an investigation and arrest Mike.
Anita knew that Mike was not a victim, but a criminal, and was tireless in her pursuit of justice. Mike may have had good intentions, but that didn’t excuse the fact that he committed a crime. Anita tried to get Mike to attack Harvey and Jessica later in Suits, but he chose to go to prison to save his friends.
Suits follows Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), who, despite never attending law school, manages to use his photographic memory to become a lawyer. The legal drama ran from 2011 to 2019 for a total of nine seasons and also starred Gabriel Macht, Meghan Markle, Sarah Rafferty, and Rick Hoffman.
- Cast
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Patrick J. Adams, Sarah Rafferty, Gabriel Macht, Meghan Markle, Rick Hoffman, Gina Torres, Amanda Schull, Dulé Hill, Katherine Heigl
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June 23, 2011
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9