Suits season nine was full of nostalgia as the long-running legal series said goodbye to its major characters. The final episode was no different, featuring Patrick J Adams as a guest star, as well as a montage of some of the other characters. Creator Aaron Korsh also hid a massive reference to the pilot in the final ever episode of the show.

Did you spot this major reference to the series pilot?

Suits season nine, episode 10 aired on the USA Network on September 26 as the final goodbye to the series and its stars.

Seeing the gang reunite one last time to take down Faye (played by Denise Crosby), the episode saw the team pull off another con to oust her.

Alongside this, fans watched as both Harvey (Gabriel Macht) and Donna (Sarah Rafferty), as well as Sheila (Rachael Harris) and Louis (Rick Hoffman), got married in a moving scene.

One of the biggest reveals came at the end of the episode when Harvey told the firm that part of his deal to get rid of Faye involved him having to leave.

As a result, he and Donna were moving to work with Mike (Patrick J Adams) and Rachel (Meghan Markle) in Seattle.

This resulted in a major throwback to the series finale for fans of the show.

In the last few minutes of the episode, Mike turned up in Harvey’s office to interview him.

During the scene, Mike said to Harvey: “Let me tell you something, this isn’t elementary school, this is high pressure, long hours, I need a grown God damn man.”

Fans of the show will remember that this was the exact speech that Harvey gave Mike during their first meeting.

There was also another callback to that first interview when Mike found himself invited in for a conversation with Harvey.

In the Pilot episode, Mike tells Harvey to read something from the Barbri legal handbook to test him on it.

Mike then is able to recite this back to him from memory, which leads Harvey to give him the job and the pair to begin on their long-running con that Mike had been to law school.

The series finale calls back to this when Harvey tell him to test him on the Barbri legal handbook.

However, he quickly jokes that he won’t actually know a thing if he was tested on it.

Speaking about coming back again to references to the first episode, creator Aaron Korsh spoke to TV Line.

He said: “The show really did start as a two-hander, and over the years, I count my many blessings that it became an ensemble and that everybody had sort of equal screen time and equal character development.”

However, he added that it felt like a great continuity to be able to come back to Mike and Harvey together in the end.

Korsh said: “[With] Mike and Harvey, it was the Butch and Sundance. This duo, where it was almost like he lost his right arm, even though Donna is really his right arm.

“As far as judiciously, he really felt that Mike was his partner. So for Mike to come back, I think it was full circle.

“Again, as I said, it was a perfect bookend with Mike offering him the job and them having the conversation that both Harvey and Mike had 10 years ago.”

Suits season 9 is available to stream now on Netflix.

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