Via TVGuide.com: 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."