By LillyKat
PTR Staff Writer
It’s not easy getting out of Patty Hewes’ tangled Web.
Even if you’re offered a $950,000 base salary, a spectacular signing bonus and named full partner of a rival firm.
Poor Tom Shayes.
He just is always going to be the Number 2, isn’t he?
Not to mention he just likes Patty way too much.
This week was all about Tom – his irritation at being Patty’s slave, his annoyance at not having been made a partner after 10 years of servitude, and just his all around I’m-a-lawyer-not-a-private-investigator vibe we’ve be getting over the last couple of episodes.
When Patty doesn’t put up a fight to keep him, Tom starts to second guess … well, everything. (Don’t we know by now, Tom, that she’s too smart to do the obvious? Not going after you was her whole plan to keep you. Wink. Wink.)
But, Tom isn’t the only unhappy duckling over at Hewes and Associates this week.
The former employees of Arthur Frobisher are pretty irked as well.
Why?
He has pulled the $100 million settlement offer off the table – much to the dismay of his lawyer Fiske, who would prefer him to “[j]ust think of it as a small deductible on a $2 billion insurance policy.”
Only a small deductible, eh?
Oh, but Frobie wants more than that: “This is my legacy. I want my name back. I want redemption.”
Good luck with that.
Fed up with Patty’s refusal to accept the offer, and thus, now having lost it completely, the clients decide to hire Tom (even in his limbo I-still-work-for-Patty-but-am-leaving-maybe-sort-of state of mind). He even goes so far as to debate about whether he can step out on his own with the Frobie case, or just simply take the case with him to rival Martin Cutler and one-up Patty for all time.
Decisions, decisions.
But got to hand it to Tom.
Even in limbo, and as the “new” attorney on the case, he meets with Fiske – who thinks he can dumb down Tom and get him to take even less of a settlement for the clients than what Frobie just pulled of the table.
PTR Staff Writer
It’s not easy getting out of Patty Hewes’ tangled Web.
Even if you’re offered a $950,000 base salary, a spectacular signing bonus and named full partner of a rival firm.
Poor Tom Shayes.
He just is always going to be the Number 2, isn’t he?
Not to mention he just likes Patty way too much.
This week was all about Tom – his irritation at being Patty’s slave, his annoyance at not having been made a partner after 10 years of servitude, and just his all around I’m-a-lawyer-not-a-private-investigator vibe we’ve be getting over the last couple of episodes.
When Patty doesn’t put up a fight to keep him, Tom starts to second guess … well, everything. (Don’t we know by now, Tom, that she’s too smart to do the obvious? Not going after you was her whole plan to keep you. Wink. Wink.)
But, Tom isn’t the only unhappy duckling over at Hewes and Associates this week.
The former employees of Arthur Frobisher are pretty irked as well.
Why?
He has pulled the $100 million settlement offer off the table – much to the dismay of his lawyer Fiske, who would prefer him to “[j]ust think of it as a small deductible on a $2 billion insurance policy.”
Only a small deductible, eh?
Oh, but Frobie wants more than that: “This is my legacy. I want my name back. I want redemption.”
Good luck with that.
Fed up with Patty’s refusal to accept the offer, and thus, now having lost it completely, the clients decide to hire Tom (even in his limbo I-still-work-for-Patty-but-am-leaving-maybe-sort-of state of mind). He even goes so far as to debate about whether he can step out on his own with the Frobie case, or just simply take the case with him to rival Martin Cutler and one-up Patty for all time.
Decisions, decisions.
But got to hand it to Tom.
Even in limbo, and as the “new” attorney on the case, he meets with Fiske – who thinks he can dumb down Tom and get him to take even less of a settlement for the clients than what Frobie just pulled of the table.
Tom: “I’m no Patty Hewes. But I did spend 10 years with her. There’s no [settlement] number … I want to put your multi-billion dollar poster boy for corporate corruption before a jury and watch you try to explain to them he’s not a crook.”
Score one for Tom!
On the Ellen front this week, seems she and fiancé doc David are in the middle of their first fight – still brewing over Katie blowing it big time at the deposition (screwing up the case for Ellen), then ditching town because she was so distraught (annoying bro’ David that sis’ Katie was put through the ringer in the first place).
David pays Katie a visit at their parent’s home and comes back to Ellen with “new info” that the case now hinges on Katie’s one-night-Florida-fling Greg (which, of course, Patty already knows). Seems Greg really did dump his own stock on the same day as Frobie. Bummer.
Mafia-esque guys are still keeping tabs on ol' Greg. Still don't know what the heck they are - or are not. Paying him some big bucks to keep him quiet, though.
Can we say new key witness for Patty's case? (Er, Tom's. Er, Patty and Tom's.)
Perhaps what proved most intriguing about the ep this week were the present day “flashback” sequences, whereby Ellen is in the police station, bloodied and bruised, claiming someone had tried to kill her. Instead, she confesses she ended up killing them.
In Patty Hewes’ apartment.
Ooooh.
Except there's no body.
Double ooooh.
Stay tuned.
New episodes air Tuesdays at 10 p.m. on FX. You can also have fun visiting the Hewes and Associates Official Web Site.
**Special Programming Note: The show is off next week, but will return with its next new episode on September 4th. If you have missed any of the series thus far, you can catch up on Monday, September 3rd as FX will be airing a Damages marathon beginning at 3 p.m. EDT. Check your local listings to be sure of the time in your area.
1 comment:
This show has me on my toes at all times. I'm constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop with Patty at every turn. I'm wondering if the Ellen murder mystery will be solved before the show goes on hiatus though.I'm thinking maybe not. That will drive me crazy!!
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