Damages Episode 11: I Hate These People
Ellen telling Mr Nye what happened with Patty Hewes.She wants a job from him but he tells her to concentrate on wedding and take a break.
8 days later, Patty is filling her car with fuel when she sees blood on her shoe. She goes to the toilets and tries to clean it off.
Going back 8 days, Ellen is planning the wedding with David when Patty turns up at Ellen’s apartment. Patty tells Ellen to go back to George Moore and she can have her job back. Ellen says she doesnt want the job but will talk to him because she wants her to win the case.
Ray Fiske’s wife brings him lunch at his office. We then flashback to Ray in a restaurant in 2002. Greg Malina is a waiter serving him. They get chatting together after the place closes and discuss each others lives. Greg came to New York to get a new start, telling Ray, “I’ll try anything once I guess”.
David comes home to the apartment and find maintenance people in the apartment because Patty Hewes told them to take “extra special care” of them. He’s angry and wants them out.
Jumping forward, Patty is listening to her 57 pending voicemails and quickly skipping through them. She seems stunned to hear from Tom that Ellen is in jail. She drives off and the police are behind her. She nervously eyes them in the mirror but is relieved when they drive past her.
Ellen meets up with George Moore and challenges him about the weekend in Florida. He says he cant give them Frobisher but can give them somebody.
David comes home and is being watched by Lila. Ellen comes home and is chatting with David - making breakfast after his shift and before bed, he tells her he is living “live in reverse” which is kind of funny considering the series started with his dead body.
Tom wants to announce Ellen’s firing to the staff - she tells him to go announce it.
Ray is in a bar remembering a conversation with Greg Malina. He is furious with Gregory. Fiske has ordered him to rent an apartment and not be there so George Moore could use it, but because Greg took Katie there, FIske is furious that Moore could have been seen. Greg tells him that the girl didn’t see anything. He tells Greg to sell the stock in Frobisher’s company that he gave him. His memories are interrupted when Frobisher comes into the bar to meet him. He tells Frobisher that that Moore sold him out. He has photos of him meeting with Ellen. “It’s all him. He sold you out.”
Ellen meets with Patty at her home to discuss the case. She gives Ellen some money to hold her over - “everyone needs to eat”. Ellen doesn’t want the money and leaves it when she goes. Ellen’s son comes in and thinks Ellen is “kinda hot”.
Ellen goes to meet Moore but he has been shot in the head. She goes through his things looking for what he was going to bring her. The photos and documents he brought show that Fiske was involved with Malina. She gives the stuff to Patty and tells her to use it. “It’s blackmail, ellen”. “Just do what needs to be done”.
The senior partners in Fiske’s law firm have lost confidence in his abilities to try the case. He is told that he will shadowed from now on. Fiske is in the park with his dog when Patty shows up. She tells him she knows about him and Malina. She tells him she wants to come to an arrangement. She doesn’t want a settlement, she wants it to go to trial.
Fiske receives a letter sent by Gregory Malina before he died, informing him of the videotape confession he made.
Ellen receives sexy underwear from Lila with a message saying “I miss you David, Lila”. Ellen calls her and leaves a voicemail telling her to stay away from David.
Days later, David is packing to leave after argument with Ellen - shortly before he is killed - when Lila calls him. He tells her to stop calling him and throws the phone at the wall. As Ellen leaves the apartment, Katie is waiting outside with the videotape.
Jumping forward, Patty is by a lake and seems makes a decision, getting in a car and driving off.
Ray is in his office and has more flashbacks. He remembers trying to kiss Gregory but Greg pushes him away saying that’s not who he is.
Ray calls Arthur Frobisher and tells him “it’s over” and that he got a letter from Malina. He goes home and tells his wife she has to pack and they need to leave the country.
Ellen comes home and Lila is sitting in the dark in the apartment.
Ray visits Patty at her office. She tells him she became a lawyer because she “thought she could change the world”. She tells him she wants him to lose the case and offers to hire him later on. He agrees to her terms and then leaves. Then Ray comes back into the office and says he always wanted to work with her. “Not anymore”. He takes out a gun and shoots himself in the head with blood splattering everywhere, including her shoe.