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The Good Wife aired its season finale amid a crowded Sunday lineup last night, and while a few fans appear interested in discussing the merits of its season-long arcs about political campaigns and the difficulties of providing legal representation to fancy drug kingpins, most of the Good Wife-watching world has spent the majority of the day speculating about how much cast members hate each other and shouting “FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE” at their freeze-framed televisions.

Quick backstory: Rumors have been flying around for a few years that Julianna Margulies (who plays the lead character, Alicia Florrick) and Archie Panjabi (who plays an investigator named Kalinda Sharma) do not like each other. Like, at all.

The Washington Post went way deep into the evidence of this feud earlier today, but the short version, for our purposes, is that (1) the two actresses had not physically appeared in a scene together for about two and a half seasons, and (2) everyone involved — Margulies, Panjabi, and showrunners Michelle and Robert King — have been giving weird, cryptic non-denials when asked about it, like Panjabi telling EW, “I think that’s a question you need to ask the producers.”

Cut to last night’s finale. (Spoilers a-comin’.) Panjabi announced she was leaving the show a few months ago, so a chunk of the last few episodes had been about her character’s reason for exiting the Good Wife universe. (Drug dealer, cooperation with the government, getting the hell out of Dodge, etc.) Despite all that, and despite the fact that the two characters interacted a handful of times over the phone and through intermediaries (neither of which required the two to be in the same room), they still had not shared a goodbye scene.

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According to Michael Ausiello -- who initially laughed off the conspiracy theory -- Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi "did not shoot that scene together, I have come to learn. Body doubles were employed for the single shots, and the two-shot was spliced together in post-production." He adds: "I felt like an idiot. I felt duped. More importantly, I was disappointed, as a fan of the show and of these two actresses for whom I have huge admiration, whose work I have championed." UPDATE: EW is also reporting the scene was faked.