Two of the Eye network’s biggest shows premiered last night, with the Julianna Margulies drama returning for a sixth season and Tea Leoni’s new series getting underway.

As faithful viewers of The Good Wife might expect, the show returned with some startling revelations. Having killed off Josh Charles’ character Will Gardner in shocking fashion last season, the writers offered up another surprising twist last night, when Cary, played by Matt Czuchry, was arrested for his involvement in running illegal narcotics for a big-time Chicago drug dealer.

Fans of the show were completely caught off-guard, none more so than Czuchry himself.

“It was certainly an unexpected storyline,” explained the actor to The Hollywood Reporter. “When I went into wardrobe and saw it was a prison uniform that I needed to try on, I told my costume designers, ‘That’s not a suit'”

He also hinted that Cary’s prison stay would be no minor incident for this season. “It’s not a storyline that’s going to go away. We’re going to see how it affects Cary personally and professionally and how it affects everyone at the firm and on the show,” continued Czuchry. “What the state’s attorney’s office is doing in terms of the case is going to be a huge part of season 6. Whether that means Cary is going to be in jail or out of jail I can’t say, but I can say that that particular storyline is going to continue.”

Yet despite the major surprise, ratings for the show were down, with a 1.3 rating for the start of season six versus a 1.5 rating for last year’s premiere.

Tea Leoni also debuted in her new drama Madam Secretary, chronicling the story of Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA agent turned college professor living a quiet suburban life as a Mom, who is handpicked by the President of the United States to be the Secretary of State when the current one suddenly dies.

Despite mixed reviews calling it everything from “taut and well-structured” to “really, really dull”, the show garnered a 2.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic, resulting in about 14 million viewers.

Not a bad start for the freshman drama that Variety called a “slightly more simple-minded return to The West Wing.”

The Good Wife and Madam Secretary air Sunday nights on CBS.