Episode 10: Sort Of Like A Family (aired March 17th, BBC One)
Episode starts with David and Ellen passionately making love at Patty’s beach house they are staying at. David looks up and it is now Patty Hewes straddling him, prompting him to quickly wake from his disturbing dream.
Tom Shayes is asking Patty how long she intends to keep Ellen on for, as she isn’t her kind of lawyer. “Ellen brought us Katie. Katie brought us as Gregory. So as long as Gregory is in play, so is Ellen. Simple as that”.
David gets a call from Katie to say that Gregory Malina is dead.
Reverting to Ellen in jail talking to Tom, he tells her that Patty was at the beach house but she was gone and left in a hurry. He tells her that he doesn’t know what to believe. Ellen says someone tried to kill her.
One month earlier, Patty and Tom tell their junior lawyers that Gregory was killed in a hit and run and now they must “move on” to Frobisher’s deposition and crack his facade by revealing the truth of Arlington, and his MO for obstructing justice.
Frobisher is leaving home to prepare for the case. His wife gives him his lucky golf club to take with him. Patty and Ray Fiske are trying to agree the terms for deposition. She agrees to 3 days rather than 7, and he concedes to her demand for it to be filmed.
She tells him that Gregory Malina is dead. Fiske feigns ignorance and Patty simply tells him, “shame on you”.
Patty tells Ellen she’s taking her off the deposiition and asks her to report to Felicia on another case.
Frobisher gives a press conference about the events in Arlington, aimed as a spoiler against Patty’s plan against him. He says he gave the family stock in his company because he loved their daughter.
Jumping forward a month, Tom is talking to Ellen in jail. Tells her he doesn’t know what to believe. She tells him to get her bail and she’ll do the rest. He goes to the apartment where she says someone tried to kill her.
Ellen wants to meet George Moore to see if he leaked to Frobisher about the Arlington angle. Patty says no, and then tells Tom do it.
Fiske meets with George Moore and they are starting to argue. Moore threatens to tell Frobisher that it was Fiske that gave Gregory stock in his company. Fiske warns him to be careful because he can take him down.
Frobisher and Fiske talk. Frobisher thanks him and says he may be the only one he can trust. Frobisher’s deposition begins - says he is the CEO, not the COO or the CFO. He compares himself to a “coach… sometimes even a cheerleader” and says his duty was to inspire his employees. After it ends, he calls his wife to tell her about it, who is at dinner with another man.
Ellen secretly arranges to meet George Moore. Angry that Frobisher knew that the Arlington issue would come up, he tells her that someone in the Hewes office is in Frobisher’s pocket. She tells him if there’s a connection between him and Frobisher, she’ll find it. Their meeting is seen and photographed by someone in a car nearby.
Ellen is independently investigating Moore. She finds an ex employee of Moore who says Moore never properly investigated Frobisher. She tells Ellen that George Moore was in florida the same weekend as Arthur Frobisher.
The deposition continues and Patty asks Frobisher about Katie Connor and Gregory Malina. He says he doesn’t know the man. He seems genuinely suprised at the revelations coming from Patty’s questioning: that Malina is dead, and that he was an owner of Frobisher stock and sold it on the same day as him.
Frobisher asks Fiske if he gave Malina stock but he denies it. Fiske goes on to implicate George Moore, telling Frobisher he thinks Moore leaked Arlington to Patty Hewes.
Ellen goes to Patty with what she has discovered about George Moore. Patty is furious - “Who told you to do that?”, “Who told you to think?”
Ellen tells her “I’m so sick of your bullshit.”, causing Tom to whince. Patty fires Ellen, who walks out but leaves her dossier with reception and tells them to give it to Patty.
Quickly jumping forward a month, Tom is looking around Patty’s apartment where Ellen says someone tried to kill her. An ominous looking concierge comes in and makes Tom jump. After he leaves, Tom finds an ornament with blood on it.
Back a month, Ellen returns home after being fired. She wants to go out with David and get junk.
Frobisher is about to go into next deposition session when Fiske gives papers to Frobisher saying Holly wants a divorce. During his questioning, Patty uses a family metaphor (we later learn that info was leaked to her about the divorce) - suggesting he was husband and father to his employees - and it gets to him, causing him to lose his temper and storm out.
After his wife leaves their home, Frobisher is broken and says he is sick of it and tells Fiske to make an offer. Ray offers Patty $500 million but she says “no deal”. She starts to read the dossier prepared by Ellen and calls her, but Ellen lets it goto voicemail.
Back in jail, Tom tells Ellen he found blood in Patty’s apartment. Ellen tells him Patty doesn’t want to come back because she knows things. She tells Tom to call Patty and tell her that Ellen knows she tried to kill her.