- Patty decides to take the child mortality case which, unbeknown to her, has been planted by the FBI. She passes the case to Tom Shayes who may be prepared to engage in unethical conduct to get the plaintiff to sign up with them. When his daughter is arrested for cocaine possession, Sam Arsenault decides his chances at a political career have been ruined and asks Patty if he can still invest in the foundation. She manipulates him into upping his donation. Daniel Purcell reveals to Patty that data produced by his company for a client has been doctored and that it involves a highly toxic substance. When Purcell is attacked in his home and his wife killed, Patty decides to represent him. Purcell hasn't been entirely truthful about his relationships, however.—garykmcd
- Down the spooky hallways of a hotel, Shining-style. Inside a room and back to Ellen, mid-chat, wrapping up with a pistol.
Six Months Earlier: Ellen answers her phone in the back of the FBI guy's car. Patty's freaking out at Daniel's house. She wants Ellen to meet her at the office. At the crime scene, Patty pulls herself together and talks to the cops. She sits with Daniel, who has a bump on his head and is telling the cops about circling the block after dropping his wife Christine off, then finding the door open. A man ran past him, slamming him against the door and running off. Daniel's never seen the man before. Short, blond, stringy hair. He can't think of anyone who would want to hurt him or his family he says (as he thinks of the man he met on the pier who might want to hurt him or his family). Patty watches him lie about being threatened, but says nothing. The cops wheel his wife's body by and Daniel starts to lose it. He's diabetic. Someone gets him some orange juice as Patty, who a moment ago said she wasn't his attorney, decides to advise him against answering more questions.
Tom, Ellen and Patty go into full swing, arranging to put Daniel up in a hotel. The lead plaintiff in the set-up infant mortality case is supposed to come by the next day, but Patty is too busy. She suggests Tom take lead chair, a first.
Patty visits Daniel, who needs to call his daughter. The paramedics gave him a sedative. Patty thinks they need to get some things straight. She asks why he lied to the police. She lays the scene out for him. There's no evidence anyone else was there: he's the main suspect. She asks him who's behind it. He says he can't talk any more. They take him to the hotel and the mystery man from the pier watches him check in.
Patty checks in with Ellen, who asks her if she thinks Daniel killed his wife. "I think anyone is capable of anything," Patty says. Ellen tries to cajole Patty into being lead on the set-up case, but she ducks it.
Ellen meets with the FBI dudes, who aren't thrilled Patty's not on the case anymore. They decide to target Tom instead. Ellen feels fine about possibly setting him up. He's a big boy.
At work the next day, there's an article on her desk about Frobisher leaving the hospital.
Ellen goes to group, waiting outside for Wes. She wants to talk. She tells him she had the chance to kill "him." She tells Wes she was alone with him in the hospital, but realized getting revenge is something her fiancé wouldn't have wanted her to do. It's too late. She can't go back, the guy's been released. He tells her if she really wants to find someone, there's always a way. She had to tell someone. And with that, she walks away.
Six Months Later: Ellen rolls off Wes in bed. Her phone rings. She gets a call, having to be somewhere in 10 minutes. She reminds him that there are things in her life she can't talk about. He asks who it was. She tells him not to be there when she gets back.
Six Months Ago: Patty meets with Daniel, with his research. His firm was hired to do toxicity studies on a chemical marketed as Aerocyte. It's extremely toxic, but he doesn't know what its used for, even though he's the VP of research. They have to keep that info blind from the researchers. Whoever commissioned the report pressured his firm to doctor the results. They caved, but kept his name on the report. Patty asks him if he thinks his firm killed his wife. They warned him to keep his mouth shut, but they're not big enough to be calling the shots, he says. He consults for the energy industry, companies that are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. That's why he can't go public, even if it's to stay out of prison. He has a daughter to protect. He doesn't care what Patty does with his research. "Burn it, shred it, I don't care." If it comes to light, he'll deny every word of it. She walks Daniel out and runs into her son Michael at the elevator. She introduces the two, warily.
Tom and Ellen meet with Monique, the lead plaintiff, in the conference room. Tom gives her the standard pep talk. She asks to talk to him privately. She says it would help to get something up front to pay her bills. Tom balks, telling her it's illegal. She says she's been approached by other attorneys who said they'd be able to help her out.
Cut to Ellen listening to the end of the conversation on tape with the fibbies. Tom agreed to pay $60,000.
Daniel and his daughter plant a tree at their country home. Patty pulls up. They talk. The police say there's still no evidence anyone was in his house that night. If he gets arrested, he'll need a defense attorney and it'll be out of her hands, Patty reminds him. She can't help him unless he tells her everything, starting with his private life. No financial issues, no drug issues. He recoils when she asks if he was having an affair and says no and neither was his wife. Patty keeps prodding until Daniel is fired up. The point is to remind him of the temper they both know he has. He says they're never going to find out who's actually behind it.
Patty meets with a man from the EPA. He wants to know how she got her hands on those documents. She can't answer that. He says it's definitely what Daniel says it is, but finding out what it's for is going to be really hard because the company that commissioned the study has spent millions to develop the chemical secretly. She tells Earl she needs him to be discreet.
Cut to Earl meeting with the man from the pier, coughing up everything Patty just told him. The man, Wayne, thanks Earl for his help. When Earl leaves, Wayne calls his secretary and asks for a meeting with Claire Maddox. It's urgent.
Patty and Tom, stone-faced, confront Ellen in Patty's office. It's a photograph. Patty says it turns out someone they know has been keeping a secret. It's a sonogram. Patty and Tom crack up, having faked out Ellen.
Ellen meets with the FBI guys. One gets a call from his wife, she's leaving him. The other tells her if she's having second thoughts about going after Tom, they can talk. She says as long as they use him to get to Patty, she'll be fine.
Wayne meets with Claire. They have a legal issue of containment. Mr. Kendrick doesn't know, or need to know. (Nor do we need to know who he is, apparently.)
Ellen and Wes have lunch. He says she's braver than he thought. He takes out the newspaper article about Frobisher. He put it together. Frobisher killed her fiancé. Wes tells her not to mess with a guy like this. He doesn't care what Frobisher did, she has to forget about it. He's too powerful.
Cut to Wes, alone, cutting out the Frobisher article. He opens a wardrobe. There are articles pinned up inside, all about Frobisher and one about David's death. That's just the doors of the wardrobe. Inside are enough guns and automatic weapons to take over a small Latin American country.
Six Months Later: Ellen's hotel room, she comes home, wondering if Wes is still there. He's not. She puts something in an electronic safe. Outside the hotel room, Wes lurks at the door, listening.
Six Months Earlier: Ellen stops in to talk to Tom, working her way around to his daughter and kids having a basic sense of justice. Tom thinks when you get older you realize the world is unfair and if you want justice you have to do whatever it takes to get it. Ellen laughs, telling him he's been working for Patty way too long.
One of Patty's security guys plays her a tape from the conference room she had bugged. It's Tom agreeing to pay off Monique. Patty says she wouldn't have expected that. She almost sounds impressed. She debates whether to let him go through with it. Security goon reminds her it could put her at risk.
Tom puts stacks of bills in an envelope and puts it in his briefcase.
The FBI guys wait for him to make the meeting in the park. He tells Monique he's happy to help. He opens his briefcase. He holds onto the envelope, debating. He gets a call. He looks at Monique. He closes his briefcase. It's Patty telling him not to take the case. She needs his help with Daniel. There's much more there than a murder there.
Claire brings a motion seeking to recover stolen documents to a judge. The judge says he'll need some time to look over the motion. Then he sees Patty's name and signs immediately.
Uniformed cops visit Patty with the motion. She sees the name Claire Maddox.
Tom returns to the office. Ellen stops him. He tells her Monique wanted money up front and Patty changed her mind anyway. Why? Because she's Patty, he says.
Patty visits Daniel at his country home again. He's incensed, saying that she screwed him by giving the info to Earl Jacoby. She stops him. She wanted Earl to leak it. It was the only way to find out who commissioned the report. She shows him the name Claire Maddox, the head counsel for the world's third largest energy company. He's heard of her, he says. Patty tells him: They commissioned the report. And they killed Christine.
Back at the office, Ellen stops in to talk to Patty. She tells Patty about the payoff. Patty remembers that Ellen brought in the case. She says someone in grief counseling referred her. Patty tells Ellen she has to be careful, everyone is looking to play an angle.
Cut to Daniel in a car, staring out the windshield. Someone knocks on the window. Claire Maddox gets in. They look at each other, figuring, for a long, delicious moment. Finally, Claire asks if he told anyone about them. No.
Flash to Daniel, digging a hole furiously and burning something.
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