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.