Ellen looks up a connection between "Patricia Hewes" and "Daniel Purcell" on the internet. Eight years of law school and she learned how to Google?? Next she sleuths through some files. She pulls one labeled "IBC Global Summary 1999." She looks through the files in her office, and comes across a transcribed conversation between Patty and Purcell from a deposition in 1999.
Then the words jump off the page and onto your screen with a flashback, 10 YEARS EARLIER. Patty faces off with Purcell across a board table crammed with lawyers. Patty grills Purcell about an IBC Global contaminant. He says it was entirely safe, even at 100 parts per million. She asks if he was sure, then gets out "Exhibit 19." It's a letter from Purcell to his child's daycare, telling them to relocate. Apparently the "safe" toxin was on the day care's land and he thought it was unsafe at 30 parts per million. Busted.
Ellen gets a phone call. It's Katie. Our favorite neighborhood coke whore! And she's doing what she does best - getting wasted at a bar and picking up dudes. Katie asks when Ellen's coming out and Ellen says she forgot.
"OMG so I met this totally awesome guy, and I'm like 57 percent sure he's not involved in an international fraud conspiracy. You HAVE to meet him. His name's Buck. Also, he's my dealer."
Katie says she wants Ellen to come down and meet her new boyfriend. Ummmm, have you run a background check on him, sweetie? You don't have the best taste in men, if I recall. Ellen says she'll do her best.
Tommy comes in and asks Ellen who she's blowing off. She tells him it was David's sister. "Katie Connor?" Tommy asks. Ellen says she hasn't seen Katie since David's funeral. "I think she's in denial." Denial. Is that a new bar downtown? Then yes, Katie is most likely there.
Ellen asks Tommy about the IBC Global case. She tells him that Daniel Purcell was a key witness against Patty in that trial. "If there's anything we need to know, Patty will tell us," Tommy says. That's a good lap dog.
Middleman is jogging up some stairs in a snazzy tee shirt. I get all uncomfortable when this show creates evil villains and then starts to humanize them. Now not only does he potentially blackmail people and execute scientists' wives, but he jogs, too? My brain does not compute moral ambiguity. Busty comes up to Middleman, who I now have to call Middleman Wayne because apparently he has a first name. "Thanks for getting our materials back from Patty Hewes," Middleman Wayne says.
"Why didn't you tell me Daniel Purcell leaked them?" She asks. Middleman Wayne wants to know why she cares. "I didn't. Until his wife turned up dead." She's pissed that Middleman may have compromised their company. "Your insinuation stops here and now, you understand?" Middleman asks. He pins the murder on Purcell. "You ever meet Daniel Purcell?" Define 'meet.' Does 'meet' mean 'have illicit sex with?' Because, then, yes. "Once or twice," Busty lies. Oh, Busty.
"The police will find the killer and when they do, my money's on Purcell," Middleman calls out.
Middleman immediately calls Mr. Kendrick, a.k.a. Bad Grandpa, a.k.a. Dr. Evil. Kendrick says he'll take care of Busty. "Make sure Aracite can't come back to bite us in the ass," Kendrick says. Middleman assures him that it can't. They agree that Middleman should come down to West Virginia to talk about what comes next.
Ellen approaches Purcell in the law offices and offers to escort him to Patty. He turns to her, and I swear to God, delivers the following lines in complete monotone, like a robot: "Good morning. I am sorry. I know we have met..." He reaches out to take her hand. Ellen shakes his hand, completely unaware that he is a robot mimicking her human ways. Purcell mystery solved! I called it first.
"I don't believe a word you say," Patty says to Purcell in her office. Um, duh. "I'm telling the truth about Christine's ring," Purcell says. "I have told you everything I know." SHOT! Patty says he'll have to prove it.
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