Suits faced a "hello scene" challenge in bringing back Patrick J. Adams

Entertainment Weekly

“The big challenge of it was wanting to have more fun and needing to have some drama," creator Aaron Korsh says of the return of Adams' Mike Ross on Wednesday's episode. "It was picking and choosing how many kinds of fun, banter-y scenes we could have before we go, ‘Hey, these people are not on the same side.' (With) Mike coming back, you would be tempted to have a hello scene with Louis, and a hello with Donna, and a hello scene with Harvey, and a hello scene with Katrina. Every one of them would be good, but then the episode would be over and you had 10 hello scenes, or something like that.” Instead of multiple reunion scenes, Korsh opted for a dramatic return for Mike Ross.