How ‘Elsbeth’ Just Set up a Potential New Romance With a Twist

[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Elsbeth Season 3 Episode 5, “Poetic Justice.”]

Elsbeth has great timing. The same week New York City elected Zohran Mamdani as its next mayor, the NYC-set CBS procedural introduced its own charismatic mayoral candidate — one whom Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston) is now unwittingly connected to, thanks to a political scheme hatched by The Good Fight‘s Marissa Gold (Sarah Steele), who’s now following in her father, Eli Gold’s (Alan Cumming), footsteps with a career pivot into politics.