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Episode 7: We Are Not Animals

This episode shows us a lot more about the relationship between Ellen and Tom Shayes. We see the veneer of trust between them and how little it stands for. A particularly apt scene in the recap shows Patty telling Ellen, “Trust No One” - that’s good advice for watching the whole show.

Episode seven starts with Ellen in police station, and we learn more about her version of events that led to her being arrested. She is talking to her attorney, Mr Nye, telling him what happened. She admits to a fight with David. So she stayed at Pattys apartment whilst Patty was away at the Summer House. An intruder came in and int he struggle, Ellen killed him. Ellen ran out and Went back home to find David dead. She tells him that he needs to find Patty Hewes. She goes onto to tell Mr Nye that Patty was the only person who knew Ellen was in the apartment.

Flipping back in time, we see Ray Fiske and Patty Hewes talking before a tv show appearance. She tries to ask him about Gregory Malina and he feigns ignorance.

Gregory leaves a hotel he is staying at and is walking around terrified, especially so after someone tried to kill him in episode six. He bumps into a woman, who has been sent to serve with him subpoena papers. Ray Fiske visits Greg in hotel room and wants to know if he ever told anyone about the sale of his Frobisher stocks - that fact heavily implicates Greg and Frobisher.

Patty visits the reform academy to see Michael. He is very cold with his mother. She wants him to come home but he says he wants to stay, telling her “getting away from you was the best that could have happened for me”.

Jumping back to Ellen at the police station, Mr Nye tells her he can’t get hold of Patty. The police offers interrupt them to arrest Ellen for the murder of David Connor. Later, Tom comes to see Ellen in jail and she says he is the one she can trust.

Returning to the pre-murder narrative, Patty watches Ellen and Tom laughing and seems unhappy about their closeness. She speaks to Ellen and asks her how committed she thinks Tom is, and if he ever tried to recruit Ellen when he was thinking of starting his own firm. Ellen lies and tells her that he didn’t. Patty asks her to keep an eye on Tom. Ellen tells Tom about the question and they are worried that Patty knows.

Fiske and Frobisher’s other man - as yet unidentified - meet up and argue over Gregory. Fiske wants purely legal avenues to be followed.

Meeting before the judge, Fiske fails to quash the Malina subpoena when Patty produces evidence of his stock sale. He also agrees a request to expedite Malina’s deposition.

Ellen talks to Tom, she wants them to tell Patty about him offering a job. He says it’s a bad idea and makes clear he doesn’t want her to tell Patty.

Patty is playing games, giving jobs to Ellen that would usually give to Tom. She seems to be driving a wedge between them.

Ray Fiske visits Gregory at the hotel and tells him to disappear. Gregory is annoyed at the situation. He says he doesn’t know why he expected Ray to help him when his whole life is a lie. Ray tells him he cannot protect him any more. Frobisher’s other men are planning to kill Gregory.

Patty Hewes comes to see Gregory. She says she is looking out for him and that all he needs to do is show up and tell the truth.

Patty visits Michael at the reform academy and offers him parental divorce papers. He ends up deciding he doesn’t want a parental divorce and comes home. Ellen knows about the divorce papers and won’t tell Tom where Ellen is - another example of the wedge between them. Tom late decides to tell Patty that he did offer Ellen a job, despite putting Ellen off telling Patty herself.

Greg is due to turn up for his deposition but managed to give his minder the slip and escapes. Patty is embarrassed when he doesn’t turn up to give his evidence, she goes into her office yells GODDAMMIT.

Back at the jail, Tom says he cant find Patty. She doesn’t want to be found and “Fiske really, really got to her”. He tells her he’ll do anything he can for her but doesn’t know where she is. After the he leaves, he immediately calls Patty and Ellen immediately calls Mr Nye to tell him Tom is full of shit, and to stay on him to find Patty.

Episode 6: She Spat At Me

After a few teasing shots of Ellen standing over David’s dead body in the bath, we go back a few months and find Gregory Malina sitting on a bench when Ellen comes to sit next to him. She wants him to come forward and give evidence against Frobisher and gives him an ultimatium. She reports back to Patty Hewes and Tom Shayes and they agree to subpoena Gregory in 24 hours.

The “other side” also want to speak to Gregory and someone associated with Frobisher - we don’t yet know his name - is giving him instructions on what to do. Gregory tell him he wants his life back but is told “This is your life”, and “Anytime you get the urge to think for yourself… Resist it”.

Frobisher meets up with his lawyer, Ray Fiske. He tells him he was at his son’s basketball game and a woman spat at him. He decides he wants to publish his memoirs to show his positive side and counter any negative reporting on him. Frobisher is concerned about his legacy and doesn’t want to be remembered as a monster. When asked what he had in mind, Frobisher suggests “maybe a chapter on my dyslexia”.

David comes home planning a romantic gesture but Ellen isn’t home from work. He fixes his own dinner but is clearly annoyed. He calls Ellen and she wants him to come to dinner with Patty and her husband. He doesn’t want to go but she makes it clear she wants him there.

Later, David is eating a sandwich outside when the flirty girl - Lila - from a previous episode comes to speak to him.  She tells him that her grandfather, who he treated, has died and she asks him to come around and look at medical equipment to see what it is and if they can sell it. A quick jump forward to the police investigating David’s death and they find that Lila called him 6 times the night before he died. When they go to talk to her, she tells them that they had been dating for 4 months and that Ellen couldn’t accept it. We flash back to when David goes to check her medical equipment and there seems to be a mutual attraction between them.

Ray Fiske is having a dream about a meeting with Frobisher where his tooth comes out and he has to retrieve it from his throat.David and Ellen go to dinner at Patty’s. David is clearly uncomfortable in Patty’s company with her dog staring at him. David doesn’t make much of an effort and is keen to leave early, especially when Patty tries to talk about David’s sister, Katie. After they leave. Ellen and David are arguing about his behaviour when she gets a call from Greg Malina - he is willing to come forward.

Frobisher meets with his new biographer, George. George wants to ask about the accounting irregularities that led to the trial but Frobisher suggests they concentrate who who he is, and his family life, asking him “are you familiar with dyslexia?”

Ellen meets up with Gregory. He begins to open up. She wants to know who Frobisher met on the crucial weekend in Florida. He tells her “Forget about the broker. It’s not about the broker. It’s more….” A menacing bald guy is watching them and Gregory is spooked so he leaves.Ellen reports his words to Patty and they decide they now have to subpoena him.

Frobisher turns up at his biographer’s apartment after midnight with his childhood memories. He wants to talk about when he was young, telling him he was a spelling bee.

George doesn’t want to discuss the biography at this time of night and with his girlfriend there. Frobisher asks him about the novel he’s writing and then tell hims “That sounds like a crap….Course you’re writing about my life cos you don’t have one.” After a bad tempered scuffle, Frobisher goes home and begins writing his own own autobiography. Police turn up. Bad publicity.

Patty gives Ellen some relationship advice, telling her she dumped her first boyfriend because his lack of ambition disgusted her. “A man should want to feel like he is charge. The trick is, making him feel like he actually is”.

David calls Lila to ask if he left his keys there. She said she’ll look for them, but it turns out she took them out of his coat pocket when he visited and she has them. We also discover that her grandfather isn’t dead at all, so she has been lying to David.Fiske continues to dream about his teeth falling out. His sleep therapist tells him this is common and signifies he is holding on to a secret.

The menacing bald guy from earlier is preparing a gun as Gregory drinks in a bar.  The guy has the gun in his holster and follows Gregory in the shadows as he leaves the bar. It seems as if he is about to shoot Gregory when he bumps into the blonde girl he met in the last episode. The guy following him draws his gun and shoots her. Gregory runs off but it transpires the girl had a gun and maybe the bald menacing guy was actually protecting Gregory after all and is working for Patty.

Gregory is scared so runs to Ray Fiske’s home. Ray doesn’t want to let him in but Greg is frantic and places his hand on Rays which hints at a closeness  between them which we didn’t know about and maybe gives us a clue as to the secret which is Ray Fiske is keeping, and causing his sleep problems.

David comes home to find the door open and someone in the bath. Will it be Lila? Will it be Ellen? It turns out to be Ellen but Lila is in fact lurking in the flat as David joins Ellen in the bath. We cut to the police talking to Lila and she shows them the keys she has and says David gave them to her and they were making plans for him to leave Ellen.

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This episode told us a lot more about Tom Shayes (Tate Donovan) - Patty Hewes’ right hand man. It starts with him working out with a friend, who is urging him to take the offer he has received from another law firm and get out from under Patty. Tom tells him he is “sick of her shit” and that he wants out.

Tensions are still apparent between David and Ellen. He blames her for the humilation that his sister Katie suffered. David leaves to go and visit his sister who is staying at the family home. Gregory Malina is trying to contact Katie too but she is ignoring his calls.

Following the humiliation of Katie as a witness, Frobisher wants to withdraw his settlement offer and “blitz the shit out of them”, which is the plan that Patty has in mind the whole time.

Tom reports back to Patty with evidence of Greg Malina’s stock dealings. She pleased and is about to give him a new task but he tells her of his new job offer and that he wants to take it. He obviously hurt when she doesn’t fight for him to stay and lets him go.

Frobisher meets up with Larry, a senior rep from Patty’s clients. He offers to sweeten any settlement especially for him, and gets him to stir up trouble within the employees and sack Patty. They do that, and needing a new lawyer, they approach Tom Shayes to represent them.

Tom is unsure whether to act alone or to take the clients to the firm that have offered him a job. He meets with Ray Fiske and when asked for a price to settle, says there is no price and that he wants to take the case to court.

Things have worked out well for Tom, and he goes out to celebrate with his wife and friends. In his drunken stupour, he collapses in the toilets and starts hallucinating about Patty - she is telling him, “You can be better than me”. He clearly is not yet free of her.

Meanwhile , Greg Malina is in a bar drowning his sorrows when a pretty girl talks to him. They leave together but he is set upon by Frobisher’s men who give him a kicking and a warning to stick to the plan.

Ellen meets up with Tom, and he offers her a job but she says she owes it to Patty to stay. Patty Hewes visits Tom to congratulate Tom on landing the client, and to offer help with strategy. Then she turns on him and tell him, “You’re a number two, Tom. That’s your talent. That’s your limit.”. In the conversation, they allude to a bullying relationship with her father and she says it made her who she is.

Tom is still undecided. His friend tell him what is obvious - he still wants to work for Patty. Tom goes to see her and they agree terms. He gets everything he wants except his name on the door of the firm.

Meanwhile, in the scenes that flash forward to the “current day”, Ellen is in the police station. She tells them someone tried to kill her , and in the struggle she killed them in Patty’s flat. The police goto look but there is no body.

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“When I am through you with, there won’t be anything left….”
Have you been wondering what the theme song is from Damages?

Well, the answer is that the song is called “Through With You” and it’s by a band called The Vla. Find out more and hear the song in its entirety at their MySpace page.