- Patty Hewes grills Louis Tobin about his fraud, while Joe Tobin is faced with a decision that will determine his family's fate forever.
- Patty Hewes wants to know why Louis Tobin called Danielle Marchetti on that fateful Thanksgiving day he told his family about his Ponzi scheme. She is concerned that once Tobin is sentenced, he will have no interest or reason to cooperate with her as she tries to find any money he may have hidden. The DA agrees to a one day delay in the sentencing and he's brought in for furthering questioning. The DA asks Ellen to sit in on the interview. Louis Tobin is also concerned about reports that his son Joe is drinking again and tells the family lawyer, Leonard Winstone, to do something about it. He also also a plan for dealing with his planned sentencing. Patty Hewes has lunch with her son Michael, whom she's not seen for awhile. He seems to have adjusted to life as an adult but isn't entirely truthful with her. Ellen confronts her sister about what she found in her bag. In a flash forward 5 months into the future, the NYPD detectives tell Patty what they know about Tom Shayes.—garykmcd
- Danielle Marchetti lies in the hospital, hooked to machines.
At the office, Tom tells Patty that Danielle is recovering. The doctors say another 15 minutes and she would have been dead. But the police believe Joe's story that he was on the way to the hospital when he was stopped. Patty doesn't.
Patty wants to get Danielle on the record before Louis' sentencing. Tom makes a call to see if Gates will go for a delay.
5 Months Later
At the police station we learn Tom drowned, but wasn't in the water very long. Detective Victor Huntley thinks someone was targeting Patty and Tom both. His next move is to tell Patty that Tom is dead.
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Patty arrives at the DA's offices for her meeting with Gates. Ellen takes note.
Patty tells Gates she wants to delay sentencing. She tells him Louis Tobin called Marchetti Thanksgiving night, the night he confessed to the fraud. That little nugget is news to Gates and he agrees to a one-day delay to get Marchetti to talk.
Leonard the Tobin lawyer talks to Joe, telling him his dad wants to talk to him before his sentencing. Joe says no. Lenny regroups and asks Joe if he's been drinking. Joe instead asks about the money his dad hid. Lenny asks him if they need to get him back into a program.
He walks away.
Ellen has lunch with her sister, who thanks her for the money. Ellen tells her she put a stop-payment on the check. She found the drugs. Carrie denies they're hers and gets indignant when Ellen doesn't believe her. She walks out on Ellen.
Louis thanks Carl the doctor for looking after Danielle. After he leaves, Louis asks Lenny if Joe was drinking. Louis thinks Joe might self-destruct and regrets telling him about the money. Lenny thinks they had to tell him about the money to get him on board. But now that he's refusing to meet with his dad, Louis thinks they might have to consider "other options."
Lenny meets with the woman (Sarah Wynter) who was organizing Danielle's late night flight. He tells her about Joe's drinking. She promises Joe will never know they're there. She gives him an untraceable cell phone. "If he drinks again," Lenny says, "you know what to do."
Cut to Patty in a restaurant being joined by her now dapper son Michael. They haven't spoken in months but she wants him to know the divorce is going to be final. He already knows. He's been talking to Phil, who also helped him with his job search and taught him about finances. He has an entry level job, he says. Patty says she's proud of him. Patty asks about Michael's older woman, Jill. Michael says it's over. He takes the check and they continue their overly polite conversation.
5 Months Later
Detective Huntley breaks the news about Tom to Patty, who's stoic but shaken. She asks if it was a homicide. Huntley asks what they were working on. She mentions Tobin. The last time she spoke to him, something was wrong.
Lenny tells Louis about his delayed sentencing. Louis knows it's about Danielle. The idea of one more day of freedom is tempting to Louis, who hopes Joe might come talk to him. Lenny says it's a good idea. Louis agrees to talk to Patty.
Michael paints in a huge loft apartment in his bathrobe. Jill comes home, clearly not broken up. Michael wonders if maybe it's time for him to get a job. He asks about her doctor's appointment. She's several months pregnant.
Curtis Gates asks Ellen to sit in on the Tobin interview. He says it's because his second, Chris, screwed up not talking to Danielle, but Ellen guesses it's because he wants her input on Patty. She's in.
Up at Tobin's in-laws home, Joe tells his wife Rachel about his dad's affair and that it was with someone he dated years before he met her. Joe tells her there's a way out of the mess. He asks her not to give up on him.
Louis and his wife have a quiet dinner. He tells her Joe is drinking again. He thinks it's because Joe hates him. Marilyn says he's doing it because Louis never paid attention to him.
Joe plays with his son Kevin in a cornfield, then explains he has to go to the city to try to fix what his dad did. His son asks when he knew his dad was bad. Joe says he still loves his dad. He tries to explain why someone good would do something bad. A chicken struts by. Joe hands his son a rock. "Don't throw that at the chicken."
A man sits in a parked car on the edge of the cornfield and reports to Lenny that Joe hasn't been drinking.
Ellen and Curtis Gates arrive at the offices of Hewes & Shayes to talk to Louis and Lenny.
Patty asks about Thanksgiving. He calls Danielle "a pathetic old man's indiscretion." He says earlier that day he went to Danielle's to break it off but left something behind.
Flash to Thanksgiving Night: Joe has chest pains and realizes he left his pills at her house. He calls her, saying he doesn't care, just bring them. Joe's wife Marilyn grabs the phone and knows the name.
Back to the conference room, where Louis tells Patty he was trying to get Danielle out of the country to avoid further shaming his family.
Patty says she understands.
Then Patty goes for the jugular, asking Louis if he thinks he's really going to get away with it and if he's really going to trust it to Joe, a drunk.
He says there's no money.
She gives him one last chance.
They leave.
Ellen watches Patty feel pleased with herself.
Outside, Ellen explains to Curtis that Patty didn't expect an answer to the money question. It was an act to convince him and Lenny that she's got nothing else on Danielle.
Inside, Patty knows Curtis brought Ellen for insight into her.
Outside, Ellen tells Curtis that Patty will go after Danielle, the weak link in all of it. She advises Curtis to let Patty take the lead, because Patty will eventually find the money.
The guy Lenny hired watches Joe drink in his car back in the city. Lenny wants to make sure. He is. The man asks if Lenny wants him to act now. He tells him to watch. Lenny hangs up and we see Louis is in the room. Lenny tells him Joe's still drinking.
"Alright," Louis says, "I made my decision, Lenny."
"OK."
5 Months Later
Patty cries in the police station. She says she doesn't know what was wrong with Tom. We see Tom looking through the apartment he found earlier, with papers everywhere. There's a knock at the door and Tom hangs up on her.
She didn't hear from him again.
Back to that apartment and the knocking on the door. Tom puts a paper in his pocket and answers.
In the present, Patty gets a call from a very drunk Louis Tobin, wondering what his sentence is going to be. He tells her Joe won't see him. She asks again where the money is. He says he's not a good father. He asks her if her son trusts her. "I just want Joe to stop bashing his head against the wall," he says, and hangs up.
Joe walks down a NYC street and pauses outside a liquor store. He goes in.
Lenny walks down a street but stops in front of an electronic store's TVs. He contemplates his mask. The man shadowing Joe gets out of his car and follows Joe down the street as he opens his bottle.
The man reaches into his pocket.
Louis sits alone in the dark. Joe stops on the street and the man pauses. Joe sees newspaper headlines about his dad. He pours out his bottle of booze on the sidewalk.
Lenny gets a call from the man, telling him about Joe.
Louis gets a visit from the doctor. He tells him he's ready. The doctor hands him a vial.
Lenny tells the man to keep an eye on Joe.
Louis drops a liquid into his tea. He pulls out a manila envelope and sips the tea.
Patty hands Ellen a drink in her apartment. Patty asks idly about Ellen's family dinner. Ellen asks about Michael. Patty says he's well, doing fine without her.
"Well, that would make sense, you always said you were a terrible mother," Ellen jokes. Patty over-laughs.
Ellen asks why Patty is holding back on Danielle. Patty says she doesn't want to talk about work. Ellen doesn't believe her.
Cut to Louis Tobin, dead on his couch. Joe finds him and the manila folder, which is addressed to Patty.
5 Months Later
Patty tells Detective Huntley she'll help in anyway she can.
Cut to later, Patty screaming and crying into the phone saying she told someone not to go through with it. She doesn't understand, she told them to stop.
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