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This post will be published to coincide with Damages Season Two Episode One, and it will be edited to be an episode recap. Whilst I’m writing the recap, please feel free to post your comments on the episode below.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

A recap of Episode 9 of Damages, which aired March 3rd on BBC One.

Episode 9: Do You Regret What We Did?

Ellen is in prison remembering happier times with David. She is talking to Patty, and asks her “Maybe we went too far. Do you regret what we did?”. The music playing over these scenes is You’re Gonna Get It by Sharon JOnes and the Dap Kings - see bottom for details.

Kate is at her parents house making popcorn when Gregory Malina turns up - alive and well. She tells him to get out before she calls the police.

George Moore it talking to Ellen and Tom over lunch. He tells them that there’s simply no proof that Frobisher did anything wrong but offers to be on hand to talk strategy. They ask him if he has heard of Gregory Malina - he lies and says it doesn’t ring a bell.

David bumps into Lila. She wants to take him to dinner as a thank you for his previous help. He tells her again that he isn’t interested and isn’t available. She later gets copies of his keys cut (she stole them in an earlier episode).

Moore talks to Fiske and is angry to find out that Malina has Frobisher stock, asking him “is there anything you didn’t do for that kid?” and accuses him of having a “pathetic schoolgirl crush”. Moore says he is going to put an end to this thing.

Patty, Tom and Ellen are talking, trying to work out where Greg would have gone.

Fiske meets with Frobisher and Nancy, an expert on witness preparation.

Ellen tries to call Katie but she hangs up on her.
Mr Moore is waiting for Ellen in the street. He tells her he has information and won’t go public. He tells her to start by looking into “Arlington”.

Ellen finds David’s keys in the flat - Lila must have been in.

Ellen talks to Tom and Patty and tells them George Moore came to see her. Patty is aware of the Arlington case. A girl died in Frobishers car. He got off all charges but the family has become Arlingtons biggest land owners. Ellen wants to meet Moore asgain. Tom wants to come but Patty calls it the wrong move.

Lila comes to Hewes Associates and says she wants to talk to Ellen in private. She tells Ellen that David doesn’t love her any more and that she has been sleeping with him.

Greg talks to Katie. She agrees to listen to him. He says that Fiske gave him Frobisher stock in exchange for going to Florida and renting a condo in his name. says that Frobisher was meeting someone from the government and they thought Katie saw who, which is why they tried to keep her quiet by investing in her restaurant.

Tom visits Ellen in prison. He wants to know happened between her and Patty. Flashback to Ellen asking Patty if she regrets what they did. Patty leaves Ellen at the apartment and goes to the beachhouse. She tells Ellen “everything’s going to be alright”.

Ellen and David argue over Lila. She tells him to stay away from her.

Moore tells Fiske that Patty knows about Arlington. He wants Frobisher to be pressured into settling.

Frobisher is practising his deposition. She tells him to stop acting. Tells him he has to be “heartfelt without sounding like a pussy”.

Ellen talking to George More. She wants to know why hs is helping. He says he wants justice. She tells him “Patty Hewes doesn’t like surprises or hidden agendas. I better not find out you have one”.

Katie and Gregory are talking. He says he is sorry, she says he ruined her life. Whilst she sleeps, he calls Fiske. He says he was wrong back then. Fiske says, hopefully, “you were?”. Greg explains he was wrong to let Fiske expect more from him. He says “I know you want to do the right thing”.

Ellen is talking to Tom about a holiday. Tom suggests Ellen use Patty’s beach house. Patty says “be my guest” and tells her to get the keys from Uncle Pete.

Flashing back to Ellen in prison. She tells Tom to goto the beach house to find Patty. He is calling her, desperate to speak to her. He is at the office and he finds Uncle Pete in her office acting suspiciously. Patty is at the beach house shaking hysterically.

Back at Katie’s, Greg picks up her video recorder and makes a video statement so his story gets out. He says he met Ray Fiske in 2002 and was sent to Florida. He says Frobisher was meeting George Moore from the SEC.

Ellen is talking to David. She checked Lila’s story and confirms she is nuts with a history of stalking.

Gregory takes Katie’s dog for a walk and gets run over. The dog isn’t on a lead and Gregory is suprisingly relaxed about the dog considering he just met it the day before. The dog runs off and Gregory tries to catch is but is run over. The driver drives off and leaves him for dead. Gregory has been killed by Fiske and Moore.

Katie wakes up and find her that Greg left her a cheque for $128,000.

Moore and Fiske are in a car. Moore comes off the phone and says “it’s done”. Fiske gave the information which was needed to find and kill him, and looks guilty at what he has done.

Frobisher meets with Fiske and Moore. They tell him Arlington will be brought up and want him to settle. He is defiant and says it has nothing to do with this trial.

Patty is giving a speech at a charity event. Frobisher is there too and joins her for a dance on the dance floor. He asks her what she wants. She says “I want you disgraced. I want history to erase your every achievement. I want you to feel the the disgust in your children’s eyes when they look on you in shame.”. She starts talking about the Arlington girl dying in his car. He offers $300 million to settle. She continues. The offer rises to $450million. $850million is his final offer. Frobisher wakes up. He is in the office asleep - the scene with Patty was a dream. He is still with his deposition expert. She asks if he wants to call it a night. He says he still wants her to play Patty Hewes and next thing is aggressively making love to her over the desk.

Tom arrives at the beach house to look for Patty. The place is empty with broken glass on the floor and a half empty bottle of alcohol. She is in her car, leaving New York.

Music in this episode…

The cool song in the opening scenes is called You’re Gonna Get It by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.

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A belated recap of Episode 8 of Damages, which aired February 25th on BBC One.

Episode 8: Blame The Victim

Ellen’s having breakfast and trying to choose wedding cakes before a flashback to her finding David dead.
At the police station, Mr Nye asks ellen what happened last time she saw him. She was arguing with David and he forced her to choose between “them” and the job. She couldn’t decide and he tells her “we’re done”.

At Patty’s, Michael is cooking breakfast in a scene of apparent domestic bliss. It’s the first family breakfast in over a year.

Larry, the head of the employee group which is making the claim against Frobiser, is cleaning cars for a living. Larry is pulled aside by the boss and fired.

Tom tells Patty that he can’t find Gregory Malina. Peter Hasset - one of the client reps - turns up to see Patty.

Ellen has a new assistant. She is asked to look for inconsistencies in some of the case documentation. Patty tells Ellen she doesn’t like her new assistant. Ellen’s parents come to visit her at work and bring muffins. They tell her that her dad has hit a crossing guard in a car accident car and is facing litigation. They want to go and visit the victim in hospital and take muffins, but Ellen is anxious for them not too.

Larry goes to see Frobisher. Frobisher is disinterested, but Larry wants some money. Frobisher tells him he will see what he can do. Larry goes to see Patty and wants to know the figure that she would settle for. She tells him she might have to accept $175million.

switching to Ellen in jail, she gets a visit from Mr Nye ad she prepares to make her plea. He tells her they can’t find Patty but they are watching Tom Shayes.

Frobisher visits Fiske and they are talking about the case. Fiske wants to bring in a deposition specialist to prepare Frobisher. Frobisher tells him he has it on good authority to settle for $175million. Frobisher wants to set up account and pay his contact on the inside, but Fiske says no way and tell him to “shut this down”.

Fiske approaches Patty in the park. He offers her a settlement figure - the same figure she told Larry that she would accept. She realises that he is leaking information to Frobisher, confirming the suspicious of Peter Hasset, also from the client.

At a client meeting, Patty tells them that they can’t find Greg Malina and they are worried he may have been killed.

Larry has been trying to get in touch with Frobisher but he is ignoring him. He ends up confronting him on the street, asking if he killed Malina. He wants money but Frobisher says he can’t give him any, else he will be committing a crime.

Ellen is talking to her dad, telling him he can’t apologise to the victim and can’t take her muffins because it’s an admission of guilt. Patty later tells Ellen to advise her dad to blame the victim: “at all costs, it was her fault. Period”.

Frobisher meets up with his associate, who had acted as an intermediary with Gregory. He Wants to know what happened to Gregory Malina.

Patty goes to see Larry at his home. She tells him she knows he has been talking to the other side. Says she will be waiting and watching and will come down on him the day anyone frmo his family tries to spend the blood money.

Back before the judge, Ellen pleads not guilty to her murder charge. Her bail is set at $150,000m

Ellen is annoyed by her assistant, Theo, and she fires him, eventually coming to the same judgement that Patty came to immediately.

Tom and Ellen go to meet Geoffrey Moore - a commissioner at the SEC that tried to take down Frobisher. When his face is revealed, we realise it is in fact the man who has been working for Frobisher throughout.

Frobisher calls Larry and tells him he knows for certain that Malina is alive and safe. When he comes off the phone, Larry is with Patty. He has switched sides.

Episode ends with some flashbacks to David’s death. We see him arguing with Ellen. She takes off her engagement ring and leaves the apartment. David regrets the argument and calls her, before opening the door to someone.

Episode 7: We Are Not Animals

This episode shows us a lot more about the relationship between Ellen and Tom Shayes. We see the veneer of trust between them and how little it stands for. A particularly apt scene in the recap shows Patty telling Ellen, “Trust No One” - that’s good advice for watching the whole show.

Episode seven starts with Ellen in police station, and we learn more about her version of events that led to her being arrested. She is talking to her attorney, Mr Nye, telling him what happened. She admits to a fight with David. So she stayed at Pattys apartment whilst Patty was away at the Summer House. An intruder came in and int he struggle, Ellen killed him. Ellen ran out and Went back home to find David dead. She tells him that he needs to find Patty Hewes. She goes onto to tell Mr Nye that Patty was the only person who knew Ellen was in the apartment.

Flipping back in time, we see Ray Fiske and Patty Hewes talking before a tv show appearance. She tries to ask him about Gregory Malina and he feigns ignorance.

Gregory leaves a hotel he is staying at and is walking around terrified, especially so after someone tried to kill him in episode six. He bumps into a woman, who has been sent to serve with him subpoena papers. Ray Fiske visits Greg in hotel room and wants to know if he ever told anyone about the sale of his Frobisher stocks - that fact heavily implicates Greg and Frobisher.

Patty visits the reform academy to see Michael. He is very cold with his mother. She wants him to come home but he says he wants to stay, telling her “getting away from you was the best that could have happened for me”.

Jumping back to Ellen at the police station, Mr Nye tells her he can’t get hold of Patty. The police offers interrupt them to arrest Ellen for the murder of David Connor. Later, Tom comes to see Ellen in jail and she says he is the one she can trust.

Returning to the pre-murder narrative, Patty watches Ellen and Tom laughing and seems unhappy about their closeness. She speaks to Ellen and asks her how committed she thinks Tom is, and if he ever tried to recruit Ellen when he was thinking of starting his own firm. Ellen lies and tells her that he didn’t. Patty asks her to keep an eye on Tom. Ellen tells Tom about the question and they are worried that Patty knows.

Fiske and Frobisher’s other man - as yet unidentified - meet up and argue over Gregory. Fiske wants purely legal avenues to be followed.

Meeting before the judge, Fiske fails to quash the Malina subpoena when Patty produces evidence of his stock sale. He also agrees a request to expedite Malina’s deposition.

Ellen talks to Tom, she wants them to tell Patty about him offering a job. He says it’s a bad idea and makes clear he doesn’t want her to tell Patty.

Patty is playing games, giving jobs to Ellen that would usually give to Tom. She seems to be driving a wedge between them.

Ray Fiske visits Gregory at the hotel and tells him to disappear. Gregory is annoyed at the situation. He says he doesn’t know why he expected Ray to help him when his whole life is a lie. Ray tells him he cannot protect him any more. Frobisher’s other men are planning to kill Gregory.

Patty Hewes comes to see Gregory. She says she is looking out for him and that all he needs to do is show up and tell the truth.

Patty visits Michael at the reform academy and offers him parental divorce papers. He ends up deciding he doesn’t want a parental divorce and comes home. Ellen knows about the divorce papers and won’t tell Tom where Ellen is - another example of the wedge between them. Tom late decides to tell Patty that he did offer Ellen a job, despite putting Ellen off telling Patty herself.

Greg is due to turn up for his deposition but managed to give his minder the slip and escapes. Patty is embarrassed when he doesn’t turn up to give his evidence, she goes into her office yells GODDAMMIT.

Back at the jail, Tom says he cant find Patty. She doesn’t want to be found and “Fiske really, really got to her”. He tells her he’ll do anything he can for her but doesn’t know where she is. After the he leaves, he immediately calls Patty and Ellen immediately calls Mr Nye to tell him Tom is full of shit, and to stay on him to find Patty.

Episode 6: She Spat At Me

After a few teasing shots of Ellen standing over David’s dead body in the bath, we go back a few months and find Gregory Malina sitting on a bench when Ellen comes to sit next to him. She wants him to come forward and give evidence against Frobisher and gives him an ultimatium. She reports back to Patty Hewes and Tom Shayes and they agree to subpoena Gregory in 24 hours.

The “other side” also want to speak to Gregory and someone associated with Frobisher - we don’t yet know his name - is giving him instructions on what to do. Gregory tell him he wants his life back but is told “This is your life”, and “Anytime you get the urge to think for yourself… Resist it”.

Frobisher meets up with his lawyer, Ray Fiske. He tells him he was at his son’s basketball game and a woman spat at him. He decides he wants to publish his memoirs to show his positive side and counter any negative reporting on him. Frobisher is concerned about his legacy and doesn’t want to be remembered as a monster. When asked what he had in mind, Frobisher suggests “maybe a chapter on my dyslexia”.

David comes home planning a romantic gesture but Ellen isn’t home from work. He fixes his own dinner but is clearly annoyed. He calls Ellen and she wants him to come to dinner with Patty and her husband. He doesn’t want to go but she makes it clear she wants him there.

Later, David is eating a sandwich outside when the flirty girl - Lila - from a previous episode comes to speak to him.  She tells him that her grandfather, who he treated, has died and she asks him to come around and look at medical equipment to see what it is and if they can sell it. A quick jump forward to the police investigating David’s death and they find that Lila called him 6 times the night before he died. When they go to talk to her, she tells them that they had been dating for 4 months and that Ellen couldn’t accept it. We flash back to when David goes to check her medical equipment and there seems to be a mutual attraction between them.

Ray Fiske is having a dream about a meeting with Frobisher where his tooth comes out and he has to retrieve it from his throat.David and Ellen go to dinner at Patty’s. David is clearly uncomfortable in Patty’s company with her dog staring at him. David doesn’t make much of an effort and is keen to leave early, especially when Patty tries to talk about David’s sister, Katie. After they leave. Ellen and David are arguing about his behaviour when she gets a call from Greg Malina - he is willing to come forward.

Frobisher meets with his new biographer, George. George wants to ask about the accounting irregularities that led to the trial but Frobisher suggests they concentrate who who he is, and his family life, asking him “are you familiar with dyslexia?”

Ellen meets up with Gregory. He begins to open up. She wants to know who Frobisher met on the crucial weekend in Florida. He tells her “Forget about the broker. It’s not about the broker. It’s more….” A menacing bald guy is watching them and Gregory is spooked so he leaves.Ellen reports his words to Patty and they decide they now have to subpoena him.

Frobisher turns up at his biographer’s apartment after midnight with his childhood memories. He wants to talk about when he was young, telling him he was a spelling bee.

George doesn’t want to discuss the biography at this time of night and with his girlfriend there. Frobisher asks him about the novel he’s writing and then tell hims “That sounds like a crap….Course you’re writing about my life cos you don’t have one.” After a bad tempered scuffle, Frobisher goes home and begins writing his own own autobiography. Police turn up. Bad publicity.

Patty gives Ellen some relationship advice, telling her she dumped her first boyfriend because his lack of ambition disgusted her. “A man should want to feel like he is charge. The trick is, making him feel like he actually is”.

David calls Lila to ask if he left his keys there. She said she’ll look for them, but it turns out she took them out of his coat pocket when he visited and she has them. We also discover that her grandfather isn’t dead at all, so she has been lying to David.Fiske continues to dream about his teeth falling out. His sleep therapist tells him this is common and signifies he is holding on to a secret.

The menacing bald guy from earlier is preparing a gun as Gregory drinks in a bar.  The guy has the gun in his holster and follows Gregory in the shadows as he leaves the bar. It seems as if he is about to shoot Gregory when he bumps into the blonde girl he met in the last episode. The guy following him draws his gun and shoots her. Gregory runs off but it transpires the girl had a gun and maybe the bald menacing guy was actually protecting Gregory after all and is working for Patty.

Gregory is scared so runs to Ray Fiske’s home. Ray doesn’t want to let him in but Greg is frantic and places his hand on Rays which hints at a closeness  between them which we didn’t know about and maybe gives us a clue as to the secret which is Ray Fiske is keeping, and causing his sleep problems.

David comes home to find the door open and someone in the bath. Will it be Lila? Will it be Ellen? It turns out to be Ellen but Lila is in fact lurking in the flat as David joins Ellen in the bath. We cut to the police talking to Lila and she shows them the keys she has and says David gave them to her and they were making plans for him to leave Ellen.

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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.