Episode 12: Theres no ‘we’ anymore
David and Ellen discuss wedding rings. She wants him to hide the rings in their “hiding place”. She gets a phonecall. She tells David its her sister but its Patty. She goes to see her at the office where Fiske is still on the floor, dead.
Patty gives Ellen the blackmail evidence and tells her to hide it. Tells her that nobody can know, not even David. She asks if she can trust Ellen. “Yes”.
Jumping forward to Ellen in prison. She is joined by a rough “roommate” and they use their charges to establish who is more senior and getting lower bunk. Ellen trumps by saying “I killed my fiance”.
A week earlier, Ellen gets home to the apartment having just been to Patty. She’s hiding the blackmail evidence. David is leaving for work.
Police interviewing Patty and asking how she knows Fiske. She gives a slightly different version of the truth saying he came over to discuss a settlement offer and then killed himself.
Frobisher is at home when Fiske’s senior partner and the police turn up. They tell him he took his own life. Frobisher is upset but lies about the last thing Ray told him.
Tom Shayes meets Patty in the park. She tells him to shut down the office for a few days and handle Judge Toomy. She tells him she will be gone for a while.
We get a quick shot of Patty shaking hysterically at the beach house, as we have seen before during the last few episodes. Do we know now that it was Fiske’s suicide that caused her hysteria? Patty goes to a visit a grave.
Judge is talking to Tom and Marshall, the senior partner from Fiske’s firm. Marshall asks for a six month extension. Tom asks for only a one month deferrment which is granted.
Frobisher goes to Fiske’s office and reads a letter left for him by Fiske. It is the letter from Greg Malina. He reads it and screws it up.
Ellen comes home to find David sitting waiting for her. He knows she lied about the Patty/Sister thing the night before. They argue and she admits about the blackmail. He tells her to choose between the job and them. She can’t choose so he tells her “we’re done”.
He starts packing his things. Ellen takes off her ring and leaves. Lila calls him and he is shouts at her and throws his phone at the wall. The door knocks and its the ominous looking maintenance man.
Katie is waiting outside.
Frobisher is talking to his contacts that get rid of people. He tells them that there is a tape which could ruin his life. He is told that Malina went to Katie Connor. “Do anything you have to do but get me that tape”
Katie goes to see David and gives him the tape. She is being watched as she leaves. Ellen walking in the street after the argument She goes to the office and is resting and Tom is there. They chat and she collects her stuff.
Frobisher is taking cocaine when Fiske’s widow, Mallory turns up. He’s high and gets rid of her before some prostitutes turn up.
Ellen visits Patty at her apartment and they talk - jigsaw pieces start falling into place, with seemingly cryptic scenes shown before now being showing context.
Ellen: Maybe we went too far. Do you regret what we did?
Patty: ……
Ellen: Because I do.
Patty: You do?
Ellen: We crossed a line.
Patty suggests Ellen stays she’s at the apartment whilst Patty goes to the beach-house.
David watches the video left by Greg whilst Patty sets off to the beachhouse leaving Ellen at the apartment, telling her “everything’s going to be alright”. David called Ellen to tell her about the tape. He leaves a voicemail and says he has put the tape in their hiding place.
Ellen comes home from walking Patty’s dog. There’s a man in Patty’s apartment. Ellen comes downstairs and is in the kitchen when the man in the shadows reveals himself to be Michael, Patty’s son.
David is asleep when Lila lets herself in. She goes into the bedroom and wakes him. David throws her out of the apartment and starts to call the police. He turns round and two men are there. “You really should lock your door” they tell him before whacking him on the head with one of the ugly bookends we saw at the start of the series.
Jumping forward to Patty at the grave, she take Tom’s phonecall at last. She says she was visting family. He tells her that Ellen thinks she tried to kill her. Patty seems stunned and then says she is coming home.
Ellen gets bail, paid for my Patty Hewes, and walks out into the daylight to be met by Mr Nye. She goes home to the apartment. She looks around the place at the blood that is left.
We are shown what happened to David. The intruders hit David and then ransacked the place looking for the videotape. David tried to escape so they hit him again. They ask him again where the tape is but he won’t tell them so they kill him in the bathroom.
The killers leave with the blackmail file on Fiske and but dont get the tape. They goto Frobisher and tell him that they couldn’t find it so they went to Patty Hewes apartment and things got a “little fouled up”.
Whilst Ellen is looking through her ransacked apartment, the door knocks. Patty is there. “Where the hell have you been?”. Patty tells her she had nothing to do with this. Ellen says “I know” and says she said that just to get her back.
Ellen tells her that she has the tape and that if Patty helps exonerate her, she can have the tape. Ellen is hardened by it all and tells Patty “there’s no ‘we’ anymore”. She credits Patty with teaching her one valuable lesson…. “trust no one”.
Ellen walks off. Mr Nye - seemingly the most genuine character in the series - is talking on his mobile: “Ellen Parsons is out on bail. You know where to find her”. As Ellen turns a corner, two men appear to be following her.