This week on FX's Damages, Ellen and Tom hit the road, Michael learned the truth, and Purcell had a big surprise for Patty. On with the (belated) recap!
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This week on FX's Damages, Patty forced Purcell's hand, while Ellen put two and two together. On with the recap!
Sledgehammer alert (in case last week's anvil only grazed you): The "previously on" promo includes the awkward Daniel-Michael meeting.
The action picks up with Purcell and Claire Maddox's clandestine meeting. "Did she find out about us?" Claire asks, referring to Christine. "No," Daniel insists — as he flashes back to a nondescript, heated gala-night argument with his wife. Upon learning that Daniel leaked ...
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This week on FX's Damages, Ellen's plan to sting Patty hit a snag, Tom dodged a bullet, and new light was shed on Daniel Purcell. On with the recap!
The episode opens with the same "present day" tease — Ellen punishing her prey for not telling the truth by squeezing off a couple of shots.
Six months earlier.... Patty interrupts Ellen's latest (and increasingly sloppy) FBI meet to say there's been an emergency, that being the suspicious death of Purcell's wife. Daniel tells the cops that a blonde guy rushed past him as he arrived home, but the fact remains that he is Suspect No. 1 (being the hubby and all). Asked if he has any enemies, Daniel lies ...
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In the Season 2 premiere of Damages, Ellen Parsons took significant steps in her missions of vengeance against boss Patty Hewes and fallen corporate titan Arthur Frobisher. Patty, meanwhile, ended her "sabbatical" to hear out a troubled old friend (William Hurt), ponder a huge new case, and put the screws to a waffling charity donor. Read on for the full recap!
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Ding.Ding.Ding.Ding.Ding.I thought I was proven wrong three times tonight, but it turns out I was off-base just once.I thought that Tom was going to leave the tape in the bookend — but he didn't. One "X" for Matt.I thought that this episode would end with a big twist, then grew to think that we'd only get complete closure. But the twist came.And speaking of that twist, I thought that when Ellen was solicited by Nye's FBI agents, she would comply with their request and go undercover at Hewes & Associates, and that would frame our Season 2. Though at first they made us think Ellen declined, she didn't. And thus we have the setup for next season (still officially pending, so cross your fingers).We got a lot of closure otherwise. Patty got the charges against Ellen dropped... by brokering Greg's tape, which at the end of the day emerged as moot. The Frobisher case was settled — and then some, thanks to Larry the snitch. Ellen and Patty arrived at some sort of truce. David ...
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Nooooooo. Nye is bad?! I know many of you called it, and I always left the door open for it, but... Nye is bad?!We were getting so much closure tonight, I literally double-checked the FX site to make sure this wasn't somehow the season finale. Partly that's because I always imagined the season was "over" once the flashbacks met up with the present day. But now the flashbacks are done, and Ellen is putting the screws to Patty to get her exonerated for David's murder.Just to recap:• Ellen snuck out to help Patty with dead Ray. • David caught Ellen in a lie; they have The Fight. • Katie sneaks up to apartment, hands off Greg's tape.• Lyla "My Last Name Is Red Herring" stops by, seemingly only to let in Fro's goons. • Goons pummel David, come up "empty," then go to Patty's, where they scuffle with houseguest Ellen. ("Things got a little fouled up," bearded guy tells Fro.) • Ellen comes home to dead David, is arrested. • Patty is cowering at beach house...
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Again, I lead off this recap with: Wow.I mean, wow.Yes, you had to see it coming. The usurping of his power at the firm, the blackmail, the guilt.... Any other outcome than Ray swallowing the barrel of a gun seemed impossible, a cheat. Then when they showed him in bed with his wife, I thought, "OK, maybe we're not going there." But suicide is a selfish act.It appears that our two stories, present day and the flashbacks, have now met, since Ray's spatter of cranium has soiled Patty's loafer. That's a question answered, a red herring dismissed. So, assuming that Patty flakes and flees because of Ray's suicide, she never sees Ellen again. Meaning that she already cleared Ellen to stay at her place....But Ellen and David haven't had the big fight yet, have they? Don't they have to have the fight over "a man being dead now," before Patty lets Ellen stay over? So Patty must see her again. And what of the "Did we go too far?" chat? Perhaps that came before Patty met with Ray in her offic...
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Wow.Knowing that Damages' episode titles come from lines of dialogue, do you ever keep an ear open for them? This week I waited, and waited... but boy, when it came, it came. Talk about picking at an open sore. I'm amazed that the deposition room didn't take more damage or that "bitch" was the worst Frobisher had to call Patty.There's so much ground to cover this week, I don't know where to begin. Maybe we should start at the very beginning with David's sex dream, which actually started off kinda hot... then brrrrrr! Shades of Michelle Pfeiffer morphing mid-straddle in that Harrison Ford thriller.We then go to Tom asking Patty about her "plan" for Ellen. "As long a Gregory is still in play, so is Ellen." Well, that certainly didn't bode well for Ms. Parsons. Good for Ellen for ultimately taking control of her destiny, telling the dragon lady, "I'm so sick of your bulls--t." Encore! Alas, it looks like the firing (which I suspected was "staged" in order to steer Ellen into "enemy ter...
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Just a quick note to say that I screened this week's Damages this morning on the ride in to work and will share these teases:• In one of the first scenes, Tom asks Patty about her plans for Ellen — who, he notes, isn't her type of lawyer. Noting that Ellen's hire gave them Katie, which in turn gave them Greg, Patty responds, "As long as Greg Malina is in play, so is Ellen." Um, you can pretty much infer what happens next as well as the theme for the episode.• Someone close to Frobisher isn't shooting at all straight with him. Enjoy, and see you back here at recap time!
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Does Patty regret what you did? I dunno, tell me what you did!I am really beginning to wonder what happened "six weeks later," which is where we are now at. Ellen had to perhaps kill a man in self-defense, came home to a bludgeoned David, got collared and, when she perhaps needs her most, cannot track down Patty — who, we now see, is hidden away at her Hamptons beach house literally quaking, sporting a look on her face along the lines of, "I'm a bad mamajama, yes, but even I cannot believe I did what I did." Hmmmm. And now, just as Tom goes to find her, Patty makes tracks out of New York State. Double-hmm.As I assumed, despite many a conspiracy theorist here, George Moore is in fact George Moore. No preposterous "switcheroo" there. George is fed up with this case dragging on and Patty putting together the pieces, so he has taken action, hand-delivering a chunk of evidence in the name of forcing Frobisher to settle this bad boy once and for all. Speaking of settlement offers, wh...
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