- Almost a year has passed since Ellen Parsons left Hewes and Associates. She is now working in the District Attorney's office and is dealing with a fairly important drug case, trying to get a dealer to reveal the identity of his supplier. Patty Hewes is now acting on behalf of a group of investors trying to recover money they had entrusted to Louis Tobin and who, it turns out, was running a Ponzi scheme. With billions of dollars unaccounted for, Patty is trying to find any funds that may have been hidden by the Tobin family. Patty and Ellen have had no contact since her departure but Patty has been reluctant to re-assign her office, convinced that Ellen will return. She even sends her an expensive handbag. Ellen wants nothing to do with her however and when she thinks Patty may be interfering with her drug case, tells her she doesn't need any help. She also tells her that any secrets she may have are perfectly safe. In a flash-forward 6 months into the future, Patty Hewes is in a serious accident when another car broadsides her vehicle in an intersection. The occupant of the other vehicle has fled but it is registered to someone she knows.—garykmcd
- A well-behaved Patty Hewes shines at a dinner. On her way to the restroom she runs into a guy named Julian Decker (Keith Carradine), who introduces himself as sort of an architect. She doesn't know him, but he guesses she must get tired wearing her public mask. He invites her to hear him play at a club. She demurs.
Six Months Later
Patty drives and listens to guys bashing her on the radio. One guy calls her unprintable names and another calls her a hero. Patty's driving calmly down a neighborhood street when all of a sudden a car slams into hers violently.
(Roll credits)
Tom tells Patty that Louis Tobin just got sentenced to house arrest.
Cut to a news report where we learn Tobin pulled a Madoff. His family attorney Leonard Winstone (Martin Short) addresses reporters, saying that no one else in the family knew about the fraud.
We learn Patty Hewes is the court-appointed trustee charged with getting the investor's money back.
Ellen Parsons watches Patty give a statement in her new job in the DA's office. Ellen hasn't spoken to Patty in almost a year.
Patty meets with Tobin's victims, trying to convince them to stop talking to the press. She tells them they think the Tobins have hidden a lot of money.
Cut to Lenny on the street, telling a producer for Diane Sawyer that she can't ask certain questions of his son Joe. When she objects he cancels the interview and throws in a racial slur for good measure.
Lenny visits Joe and Rachel Tobin. Rachel wants Joe to talk on the record, to apologize to the victims. Lenny says they can't do anything unless they can control the interview.
That's not good enough for Rachel.
Lenny just wants him to wait until his father is sentenced.
Flash back to Patty's car getting hit. She gets out and is woozy, but Ok. She opens the other car's driver door but is stunned to see no one in it.
Patty meets with Detective Huntley. They don't know who hit her.
Six Months Earlier
Tom checks in with a guy named Roger, who tells him they've found $9.7 billion in losses and it's going to get worse.
Patty comes in to work and Tom asks if he can clear out Ellen's office and give it to Roger. Patty agrees.
Ellen sits in her car and watches as a guy parks his motorcycle and goes inside and apartment.
Inside he packs up several good sized baggies of drugs and opens the door to find cops waiting for him. Back at the office, Ellen tells her coworker Nick that she wants the guy's supplier. Nick thinks there's no way the dealer will flip, especially given his shark lawyer. They bet $100 she can't get the guy's supplier.
Ellen asks the guy but is shut down by his lawyer. She tells the guy he could be charged with more if he takes the fall for someone else and his lawyer should say so. The lawyer wants to chat outside, not happy. He tells her his clients are bad people, the kind who could do damage to a girl like her. They leave.
At the office, Petty checks out Ellen's old office, leafing through her news clippings about the death of her fiancé David and the shooting of Arthur Frobisher. She seems choked up for a minute but shakes it off when Tom comes by. She tells him she wants to hire a new associate.
Then, almost out of nowhere, she tells him it's time he was a named partner. And, like that, she moves on.
Patty interviews Maureen Tobin (Lily Tomlin), who says she doesn't think her son knew anything about the fraud. She says the last time they were all together was Thanksgiving. Flash back to Thanksgiving, happy times with family, Joe saying he loves them all. Maureen says her husband seemed fine until the pie.
Flash back to Louis moodily holding a piece of pie. Then he asks Rachel to take her son upstairs and starts to choke up.
Maureen tells Patty that's when he confessed to the Ponzi scheme. Their son Joe called the DA's office the next day.
Patty asks her if she stashed money, and Maureen responds by saying she lives on two cans of tuna a day.
Maureen knows about Patty's divorce and thinks that means she understands that men have their secrets. Yes, Patty says, but so do women, and she finds they're better at keeping them.
Six Months Later
Huntley asks Patty if she thinks someone would have hit her on purpose. Another detective tells Huntley he found who the car was registered to: Tom Shayes.
Flash back to Tom telling Patty that Joe wanted to talk to Diane Sawyer. They wonder if that means Joe might be willing to break from the family.
Ellen's boss brings her a box from Hewes and Associates and checks that she understands confidentiality.
A man walks up to Joe Tobin on the street and swears at him, saying his dad took all his money. When he puts his hands on him, Joe apologizes. Then the guy shoves him again and continues insulting him. Joe stays calm for a few more shoves, then when the guy jumps on him he fights back, punching him a couple times til he's on the ground.
Cut to that guy in Patty's office. Patty explains to Ellen's boss Curtis that her client refuses to press charges. Curtis is peeved and says they should be working together; he'll take the criminal side through the DA's office and she can recover the money. Patty says that's what she wants. After he leaves, Patty goes into her bloodied client and thanks him for letting Tobin do this to him.
The guy says no problem but asks why they're not pressing charges. She says she thinks Tobin is more useful to them out in the world.
Joe Tobin meets with his Mom. She wants him to meet with his dad. She's talking about family when he asks her to tell him everything she knows. He thinks he must have left them money, but she says she doesn't know of any.
Joe asks his mom who his dad called Thanksgiving night.
Flash back to Joe seeing his dad on the phone, sobbing, with his mom in the room. Maureen says it won't make a difference and asks him to leave it alone. He says if she doesn't tell him, she'll never see her grandson again.
She writes something on a piece of paper.
Six Months Later
Detective Huntley and the other cop walk into a low rent apartment with only a bed and lots of water bottles and papers on the floor. It's where the car was registered to Tom. There's blood on the wall. Huntley looks out the window and sees a homeless man lurking.
Flash back to Tom saying hi to Ellen. We learn she's working narcotics with the DA's office. She tells Tom she's been wanting to apologize about the FBI arresting him on the day his son was born. He says it's Ok, she had his back. They both have to be somewhere else, and he suggests they get dinner some time. As Ellen's leaving, Tom says there's always a place for her at the firm.
Joe Tobin visits Patty at her apartment. He says he spoke to his mom, who left out the part about his dad making a call Thanksgiving night. He gives her the number his mom gave him. He didn't call it because if it has anything to do with the fraud, he doesn't want to know about it.
He's shaken by the fact he assaulted a man. He wants her to tell the press he knew nothing about the fraud and is helping.
As he's leaving he tells her his dad left them with nothing.
Cut to the drug dealer who was arrested earlier parking his bike. Two guys pull up and bash it to pieces, then tell him to keep his mouth shut.
The next day Nick pays up $100 to Ellen, saying the dealer gave up his supplier because he was pissed about the bike. Then he pauses and wonders aloud if she had anything to do with it. She laughs.
The box from Patty is still sitting on her desk. A coworker pesters her about it so she gives it to him to open. He reads the card, which says she thought she might like it. It's what looks like a very expensive purse.
Six Months Later
Huntley and the cop look for the homeless man and find him hiding in tarps and boxes. They admire the things on his card, including Ellen's fancy purse, which has blood on it.
Cut to Joe Tobin running on the streets of NYC and Lenny pulling up beside him and telling him to get in the car.
At her office late at night Ellen contemplates her purse and calls Tom.
Cut to Patty working and drinking alone at the same restaurant. Julian joins her and buys her a drink after she refuses. He picks up the number she got from Joe and asks about it, then she plucks it from him and walks away.
Ellen finds her in the bathroom. Patty says she wasn't sure if she'd ever see her again. Ellen tells her about the dealer flipping, and says that she thinks Patty already knows about it.
Patty brushes it off, saying she's flattered by Ellen's paranoia. Ellen asks why Patty sent the purse, but Patty just says she thought Ellen would like it. It's a $3,000 Chanel, of course she does. Ellen tells Patty that she forgave her, her secrets are safe with her. And if she wants to talk in the future, don't play games, just pick up the phone.
The detectives continue searching the homeless man's tarp and nearby Dumpster. They find something.
Joe meets with his dad in Lenny's office. Louis tells his son he shouldn't talk to the press and asks him to take care of the family. He tells him they have money, "out there."
At home, Patty dials the phone number.
At work, Tom watches as they put his name on the door.
In her office, Ellen admires her new purse.
The homeless man picks up a ringing cell phone.
Six Months Later
Detective Huntley rejoins Patty and asks what she's not telling them. She doesn't seem to have any idea what he's talking about. He says they found a body.
We see a body bag. It's Tom Shayes.
Flash back to Tom directing as his name is finally hung on the door.
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