- Ellen's hopes of a resolution to her fiancé David's murder are dashed when the policeman Katie Connor recognized is found dead. She's also shocked to learn that Arthur Frobisher is their new client in the shareholder lawsuit against UNR. Working late one night, she sees Uncle Pete coming out of her office. The FBI is also interested in his activities. Pete is Patty's real uncle and has a lengthy criminal record for petty offenses, though nothing since he started working for Patty 20 years ago. The FBI nab him in a sting operation and give him a choice: provide information they can use against Patty or go to jail leaving his dying wife to cope alone. Pete is genuinely torn at the prospect of betraying Patty and pretends to go along with FBI - but in fact has his own way of extricating himself from the situation he finds himself in.—garykmcd
- Late at night at Hewes & Associates. Ellen, who has bad luck with seemingly empty buildings, walks down the stairs to see Uncle Pete coming out of an office. It's her office. She checks it out. Her computer is on.
Ellen meets with her FBI guys. Uncle Pete has a criminal record that goes back 52 years, including running numbers and bribing a city official. Patty got him off on an early charge. They think if Pete knows where the bodies are buried, they'll find them.
Patty meets with Frobisher. She's scheduled a press conference announcing him as her lead plaintiff. He's prepared some words for her to say about him. He wants his reputation back. He's been meeting with a spiritual adviser. He can admit his mistakes. He's no Walt Kendrick.
Patty wants to vet his financials. He says OK. There's a knock on the door. Ellen walks in. She stops when she sees the man she believes killed her fiance. This is how Patty chooses to tell Ellen he's their lead plaintiff.
A couple do large snootfuls of coke in a car. There's a knock at the window. A cop puts their badge to the window.
Kendrick's at the zoo with his grandkids. Kendrick gets a call and runs his grandkid off.
Dave meets with him and tells Kendrick that a man got busted. Kendrick wants to find someone else, but Dave says the guy was in a unique position to help with the trade. Dave had his name taken off the police report, but they need a lawyer for the girl.
Frobisher tries to meditate. He's worried about his motives for getting involved with Patty. He wants to fix things.
Ellen freaks out to Patty. "Rage without focus isn't a strategy," Patty responds. She says if they keep him close they might be able to prove his guilt. Ellen says Patty should have asked her first. "I didn't," Patty shrugs.
Uncle Pete putters at home, doting on his wife, who is hooked up to oxygen. Two men show up to "kick up" to Pete. He kisses his wife and meets them, saying he'll have another shipment for them next week. The FBI guys watch down the alley. They know the two dudes have rap sheets. They give Pete an envelope. The FBI dudes think they have their "in."
Wes evaluates Ellen's target shooting, which shows improvement. She asks why he knows so much about guns. His dad was a "violent dude," a Marine.
Wes brings up Frobisher, but she'd rather hear anything about him. He pauses, then asks what they're up to. He suggests dinner. She's not ready. He's cool with it.
Katie reads the paper with Ellen and sees that the cop she filed a complaint about is missing. Katie apologizes for not listing to Ellen. Ellen says the guy used to work for a firm called Protective Services.
At the meditative retreat, the cop who killed David, "the Bearded Man," walks up on Frobisher and tells him to pull out of the lawsuit against Kendrick and cut off contact with Patty. He reminds him that Frobisher made the decision to start killing people. But Frobisher thinks he can move on.
The woman snorting in the car faces a judge with Claire Maddox representing her. She's an escort. Tom Shays walks into the gallery, intrigued. The woman gets probation.
Claire meets with Kendrick and asks what she was doing in that courtroom. She says the john's name was blacked out on the police report. Kendrick says he won't put her in that spot again. Claire wants to talk about Frobisher's press conference. She tells Kendrick he needs to get the stock prices up, which he's working on. He has investors lined up. Once they get the capital, the stock will rebound and the lawsuit will go away, Kendrick promises.
Kendrick pulls up to Darrell Hammond, "The Deacon," and gives him a new address. They have to try again.
Tom tells Patty about Claire's drug defense case. Tom looked into police report and finds that the man's name was redacted. They connect the dots and figure she was taking the fall for someone.
The Deacon waits in the car, punching in the coordinates Kendrick gave him.
Later, the john gets into the car and finds the coordinates. He writes them down.
Patty and Frobisher give their press conference. As she says he's "an inspiring man" and other syrupy superlatives, he mouths the words behind her. "His passion is to create, not destroy. I am pleased that we have set aside our differences and I can count Arthur Frobisher my friend and partner in this great cause," Patty manages to say without choking.
Frobisher takes the mike and talks about Kendrick's greed. He says it's his "duty" to hold Kendrick accountable.
In the office, Tom surfs escort services and finds Susie. But he meets with a brunette in a hotel room instead. He just wants to talk. He says he was hoping to see Susie. Tom asks about Susie's regulars, including the one she was busted with. He gives the brunette more cash. His name's Finn Garrity. He's a creep. Tom finishes his drink and starts to leave. The escort he just paid for unbuttons her shirt.
Patty asks Ellen to look at the discovery in the UNR case. Uncle Pete brings in Polish pastry his wife made. Ellen asks Patty about him. She says he's her mother's brother, and the most loyal man she'll ever know.
The two guys Pete was meeting with the alley pass off their bootleg DVDs to two other guys, doing some business. And then they get arrested.
The FBI guys watch as one of the dudes that just got busted gives money to Pete. They get out of their car and stop him. They had the guy bugged and take Pete in. They're charging him with racketeering.
They offer him 10 years in prison or...he can stay free to watch his wife die of lung disease if he gives them Patty.
He says he has nothing for them and he'd be a bum on the street if it wasn't for her. They ask how many months his wife has. They want him to ask Patty for money to bribe the cops and get it on tape. But he says he can't look her in the eye if he's going to do this. He has evidence in a storage locker that'll put her away. He just has to go home and get the key.
Patty walks to Tom's office, asking if he had fun with his hooker. He says he was home by 10 p.m. Finn Garrity holds a doctorate from MIT, but works on Wall Street. He's a commodities trader. He trades exclusively in the energy market.
Cut to Garrity doing even more coke and prepping to do something at a computer. Susie watches.
Dave calls Kendrick reporting that the trade went through.
Patty tells Ellen they didn't find any links to David's murder in Frobisher's financials. But he's had a high end security firm on the take for the past 10 years. The same one the missing police man worked for. They have a lead. Because they took Frobisher on as a client, Ellen says. She thanks Patty.
Wes meets with the Bearded Man, who gives him the files of the FBI guys Ellen is meeting with. The Bearded Man is upset Wes can't get her to talk about the cops. Wes thinks if he steps back, she'll come to him. The Bearded Man says if Ellen isn't talking they'll have to try Katie Connor.
Ellen and Katie get a drink and, surprise, surprise, Wes is across the room. He joins them. Ellen gets a call.
The FBI guys call Ellen and tell her Pete won't be in the office tomorrow. By the end of the night they should have what they need on Patty. Ellen watches Wes flirting up Katie.
Pete swings home to get the key to the storage unit. He has to go to the bathroom. Then his brings his wife her meds. He kisses his wife good-bye.
They go to the storage unit.
At home, his wife, hooked to oxygen, watches TV and starts coughing. She reaches for her inhaler, but it doesn't work. She goes to look for another.
The FBI guys go into the locker as Pete waits outside.
In the bathroom, Pete's wife sees the message he left taped to the mirror.
The FBI guys open the trunk...and find nothing.
His wife finds all her pill bottles empty and stars sobbing.
The note says: "I'm sorry. -Pete."
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