But I'll move on, sadly. Purcell continues to wash dishes happily and then looks outside his window and sees his wife Christine on swing set. Oh I get it...we're opening the show on the whole "it's all a dream" idea. I'm with you. Christine is laughing and asks Purcell to join her, but he's too busy washing imaginary dream dishes. "Almost finished!" He says. Christine keeps swinging and laughing, kind of creepily. Purcell picks up a dish with a stain and his face falls. Christine keeps beckoning to him, but he can't stop scrubbing at the one dish.

Suddenly, Purcell looks out and sees a hooded figure behind Christine, moving closer to her. She keeps swinging. She is innocently unaware of the stranger creeping towards her, and Purcell doesn't warn her. He scrubs harder and harder at the dish . "I can't get it out," he says, and the stranger moves closer and closer and Purcell scrubs harder and harder until he screams, and wakes up in a prison bed, freaked out but relieved. Dude, you know your dreams must be bad if it's a relief to wake up and find yourself in jail.

Patty is talking to Ellen in her office about the reporter Purcell tipped her off to in West Virginia - that would be our pig lovin', beaten-to-a-pulp hot boy reporter, Josh Restin. She hands Ellen a file on Josh and explains that he knows about how Ultima National Resources is poisoning people with Aracite. Unfortunately, Josh has been all MIA, which probably has something to do with how he got taken to task by two lumberjacks last episode.

Patty tells Ellen that she and Tom are going to head down to West Virginia to find Josh. Ellen, in an effort to continue her streak as dumbest junior lawyer/human being alive, tells Patty that she would rather stay in New York and work on the UNR case from there (and prolly hang out with her support group lovah).

Patty, awesomely, shuts her down pretty quickly. "We need Josh Restin," she says firmly. "You and Tom are going to find him. And Ellen? The next time I give you an assignment, just nod your head and get it done." Ha.

Ellen takes it like the pansy she is. But then we flash forward - 5 MONTHS LATER- to be exact, and we're back to balls-having Ellen in creepy hotel room 1910, fondling her gun and looking 10 shades of crazy.

"Mmmm...you smell like metal oxide and promises."

Ellen puts the gun into her bag on the bed. Someone knocks on the door and Ellen tells the mysterious guest to enter and have a seat. "Is that the money?" She asks, and we see a sleek black suitcase being set down on the floor. Then we jump ahead slightly in time and see Ellen, once again, fire two rounds. Any guesses on who the mystery person is?? Obvious money's on Olyphant or Purcell, Crazy but Interesting money's on Patty, but my money is on Uncle Pete, just because. Always expect the unexpected.

Still in the flashback, a nervous-looking Ellen leaves the hotel room with the suitcase of money as scary music plays.

Title credits. I don't see Ted Danson's name anymore...Frobisher!!! Why have you forsaken us?!?

Patty is in a meeting with Skeletor and Angry DA lawyer #2 (we will refer to him as #2 from here on out, mostly because I'm too lazy to imdb his real name right now). Patty is arguing again that Purcell did not kill his wife, although she had a restraining order out against him three years ago and one week before her death the neighbors heard Purcell shouting out "I'm going to kill you!" That looks...not good.

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