Episode 13: Because I Know Patty - Finale
The series finale ends with identical scenes to how it started.
Ellen gets the voicemail fom David telling her about the tape that Gregory made. She’s in bed and a man enters Patty’s apartment. He puts the dog outside. Ellen runs past him and they struggle. She picks up a sharp knife and in the fight he falls on it. She runs out of the apartment, bloodied, as she did at the start of episode one. As she leaves, she passes the two men who killed David who are outside planning their move. The man she just killed was not one of the two sent by Frobisher.
She rushes home. She picks up the ornamental bookend and drops it in the bathroom as she discovers David’s dead body. There’s someone at the door so she escapes through the window and runs into the police on the street.
The police find Mr Nye’s card on Ellen so goto see him. He makes a call after they leave: “We have a problem. The police came to see me abotu ellen parsons”.
10 Days Later - Ellen is with her family. She can’t go to the funeral because of the conditions of her bail and she doesn’t know if David’s family want her there.
Patty is at home, seemingly still shocked and upset. Following a meeting with the clients, Patty returns to her office which Uncle Pete has made “as good as new”.
Patty, along with Hollis Nye, meets with the District Attorney and tells him she will expose him for ignoring key evidence unless he reopens the crime scene. Patty is keen to know where the tape is. Ellen assures her its safe.
Hollis is meeting two men in a car and telling them what happened in the meeting.
Ellen visits the murder scene with police to see if she can find any evidence. Frobisher’s men left a penlight in the flat which is on a table in the apartment. The killer, aware the penlight is in there, is outside the apartment and makes his way into the building as the search is underway. He walks right into the apartment and gets the light - it turns out he is a policeman. He tells Ellen he is very sorry for her loss.
Flashing back to 1972, a doctor tells Patty he is very sorry - implying she lost someone close to her.
Frobisher meets up with Larry and complains he hasn’t given him anything for weeks. He can’t work out why he won’t settle for $500million. He loses his temper with Larry and says he has given him shit, so that’s all he will get. Frobisher tells him he won’t be paying him a penny and drives off.
Frobisher is talking to Marshall - his new lawyer - and remembering what happened in Florida. George Moore had gone to the condo Malina had rented and the girl - Katie Connor - was staring right at him. Moore gave Frobisher the report prepared about him by the SEC. Moore and Frobisher had known each other for 40 years. Frobisher tells his lawyer that nothing at all happened in Florida.
Marshall wants to petition for summary judgement to flush out from Patty if she has the tape. She tells him she wants to go to full trial before a jury.
Ellen tells Patty to cut a deal with the DA to get her off.
Frobisher talks to his son on land he has bought about his plans for the future. He tells him he “trusted too many people” and made a big mistake.
Patty Hewes goes to the DA and tells him, “Let’s cut the bullsit and talk business”. She gets a deal and goes to tell Ellen: “You’re a free woman.”. She wants to the tape
“I dont have it” says Ellen. The tape is actually at the police station inside the murder weapon - the ornamental bookend which has has appeared through the series. Tom goes to the station to get it - it has a false bottom and is the hiding place that Ellen and David have referred to. He find the tape and their wedding rings in it.
Patty Hewes goes to see Frobisher with a copy of the tape. She is finally willing to settle at her price. He asks her, “Why do you hate me so much?”. She just walks out.
Frobisher talks to his lawyer. He is willing to give up everything he has apart from the new land that he bought. His lawyer is advising against giving so much but Frobisher is adamant. He tells him he is “done with this” and needs to move on. The lawyer, Marshall, visits Patty to tell her that Frobisher has a new settlement figure which she accepts.
Patty and the clients celebrates. She tells them, “your trust won this case” which is ironic because theme of trusting nobody has run right through the series.
She takes Larry aside. Despite him thinking he had made amends, they (the other client representatives) have all decided he should get nothing from the settlement.
Patty tells Ellen the job is there for her anytime she is ready. Ellen leaves the party and is met by Mr Nye who ushers her into a car. In the car are men from the FBI. Hollis has been working with the FBI to help being down Hewes. They know that Ellen was there the night of Fiske’s suicide.
They want her co-operation. She isn’t interested and gets out of the car.
Ellen goes to David’s funeral. She talks to Katie afterwards and they make up.
Patty goes to Judge Toomy and gives her the Malina videotape. she tells him to sit on in until the next election and then send Frobisher to jail.
Frobisher is on his land which eh wanted to keep when he is shot by Larry, who has been driven to desperation by the bad hand he got dealt. Larry walks off and leaves him bleeding on the ground in a field.
Tom is talking to Ellen. He wants to know how she and Patty won it, but she gives little away.
In flashbacks, we quickly learn that Patty had a daughter that died in childbirth in 1972 and it was her grave she visited whilst away.
Patty is at the beach house when Ellen visits. Patty tells Ellen that she does regret what they did and is ashamed. “I deeply regret it”. She wants her to come back and work for her. Ellen agrees to go back if she can use the firm’s resources to prove Frobisher had David killed. “It’s a deal”, says Patty.
As Ellen walks off, we get the final twist. It flashes back to the conversation with the FBI. She got back in the car and agreed to work for them. She wants to bring Patty down because it WAS Patty that tried to have Ellen killed. Because Ellen admitted to regretting what they did, Patty - sensing a weak link - arranged a murder attempt, aided by the ominous Uncle Pete and the building concierge. It was this which has caused Patty to shake hysterically as we saw earlier. The FBI want her to go back to work at Hewes, working for them undercover.
“See you on Monday”.