The Good Wife is taking a page out of Dexter.

Jennifer Carpenter has booked a guest spot on the CBS legal drama, The Hollywood Reporter confirms, for an episode scheduled to air by the end of the calendar year.

Details are scarce on who Carpenter will be playing, who is best known for playing Dexter's profanity-loving sister Deb Morgan on the Showtime series. Dexter and The Good Wife air in the same time slot -- Sundays at 9 p.m. -- which would make for an interesting head-to-head matchup should the episodes air on the same night. (Both series belong under the same parent company.)

Since it launched, The Good Wife has racked up a rich slate of guest stars, including former House regular Lisa Edelstein, Denis O'Hare, Ana Gasteyer and Martha Plimpton, just to name a few.

E! Online first reported the news.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jennifer-carpenter-the-good-wife-253832

right ... they get a lot of talent.

First Look: Jennifer Carpenter on "The Good Wife"
Nov 15, 2011
by Ileane Rudolph


There are no guns in sight and nary a cuss word to be heard when Jennifer Carpenter — best known as Dexter's foulmouthed cop sister Debra — guest stars as a religious Republican professor on the December 4 episode of CBS' "The Good Wife".

The brief departure from her ordinary routine is "why I was so attracted to this role," she says. Her character, Pamela Riker, hires Lockhart/Gardner to fight what she considers her illegal firing for political reasons.

"It makes me realize how your politics can encourage a rush to judgment," Carpenter says. "It should be very surprising as it unfolds."





The episode also pits new hire Caitlin D'Arcy (Anna Camp), who's defending Riker, against Martha Reed (Grace Rex), the lawyer she beat out for her job at the firm.

"Riker can feel how green both of them are. It's scary to have your career in less-than-capable hands," says Carpenter.

As for her time with the more sea*soned counsel? "Julianna Margulies is not only an incredible power*house of talent, but very warm and welcoming."

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Jennifer-Carpenter-The-Good-Wife-1039721.aspx