'Suits' Creator Talks Harvey's 'You Know I Love You,' Teases Season Finale

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Suits creator Aaron Korsh knows the ending of Season 4’s penultimate episode got fans talking. That’s why he tweeted a simple message afterward: “People see what they want to see.”

"I probably shouldn’t have done it," he says. "I think I spoiled some people’s weeks."

As the hour came to a close, Harvey (Gabriel Macht) and Donna (Sarah Rafferty) celebrated the end of her legal woes with wine in her apartment. He reassured her that she’d never have to feel that scared again because he meant it when he said he’d never let anything happen to her. She apologized for doubting him, and in a rare moment of vulnerability, he admitted if anyone else does that, it doesn’t matter — but with her it’s different.

In the silence that followed (accompanied by a cover of “Fade Into You” for viewers), Harvey realized he should leave. Donna wanted to know why he was going. “You know why,” he said. Long pause. “You know I love you, Donna.”

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Was that the moment “Darvey” shippers have been waiting for? “I have to say, in my head, Harvey was not making some declaration like, ‘I love you. I want to be with you,’” Korsh says. “As we discuss in the finale, he couldn’t take the fact that he was rejecting her [when she wanted him to stay] — he had to try to make her feel better by saying, ‘You know I love you.’ He could have just left and allowed her to feel her sadness, her discomfort, her pain. I think he thought he was trying to make it better, but he made it worse. He was kind of picking at a wound he had just inflicted.”

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The season finale, which airs this week, will have tongues wagging again. The promo promises that the firm will be forever changed. Korsh won’t risk teasing that, but here’s what he will say about the episode: It marks the return of Sean Cahill (Neal McDonough), Charles Forstman (Eric Roberts), and Eric Woodall (Željko Ivanek). “The present-day story is that Cahill is having trouble putting Forstman and Woodall away,” Korsh says, “and we end up telling the flashback of when Forstman put one over on Harvey — which happens to be around the same time that he met Donna. So we’re telling that in juxtaposition with the ending of [last week’s episode]. It’s the origin story of Harvey and Donna, basically, to some degree.”

The Suits season finale airs Wednesday, March 4 at 10 p.m. on USA.