Next thing, Purcell is hooked up to a lie detector. The operator asks "Are you a scientist?" Purcell answers yes. (Nerd!) He asks some more questions, and then "Ever think about killing your wife?" Purcell pauses, and the lie detector man, who is sporting a choice mustache of the walrus variety by the way, says that thinking about something isn't a crime. Purcell doesn't answer and they move on. "Did you kill your wife?" Purcell pauses, then "no." I'm taking another SHOT, just for the hell of it.
Then we're on a farm in Bloomsfield, West Virginia. The cows are lowing, the roosters are clucking and the pig is...not moving. Oh my God, they killed Wilbur. Bastards! A hot guy sporting a tattoo and clutching a reporter's pad walks up to check out the dead pig. He takes a moment of silence. It's...intense. Is there a back story between these two? I smell a truly forbidden love story in the works. Or maybe I just smell Wilbur.
"I don't know how to quit you!"
"Never let go, Jack. Never let go!"
A woman tells the reporter to get away from the pig. The reporter introduces himself as Josh Restin. "We haven't met, but I knew your pig." I'll say. He was some pig.
Josh asks how the pig died. The woman clams up. "Seems to me a lot of folks are losing livestock," Josh says. "You mind me asking where you get your water? Do you think it's contaminated from the coal plant?" The woman stares at him. "We're all alone here," she says, cryptically. "Don't fool yourself." She tells Josh to get off her property.
Ellen is talking to Old Man Nigh, her kindly lawyer friend. She says that 17 years ago, Patty used Purcell as an expert witness and he helped her win a case. But 10 years ago they went head to head on opposite sides of the IBC Global case. Nigh was defense council for IBC at the time. "I read the transcript of Purcell's deposition. Patty destroyed him. It was like he wasn't even prepared," Ellen says. "Oh, we prepared him," Nigh replies.
Nigh says that IBC was Patty's first case after she started her firm. She was determined to win. "Daniel Purcell is a brilliant man, but when he faced Patty, he collapsed. It never made sense to me." Ellen wonders if Patty paid off Purcell to burn the testimony. "If I could prove that, I would have done it a long time ago," Nigh says.
Back at her hotel, Ellen calls Dee. On his cell phone. From her cell phone. Why doesn't she just sign a confession reading "I'm spying on you," and put it under Patty's door? Honestly, woman. She leaves a voice mail, basically begging the FBI to pursue Purcell's case. "This is bullshit. I've left you five messages today." Yes, she's become That Girl. Put down the phone! He's Just Not Interested. Sigh. They never listen.
Back at Casa de Patty, Hewes is having dinner with her husband and Michael. Michael asks who Danny Purcell is. "If I were you I'd stay away from the guy. He totally killed her," Michael says. Word. Patty looks down. "You should have seen the look in his eye when I shook his hand. Guy's a creep," Michael says. Patty looks at him, sadly. And suspiciously...
Josh walks through the woods, talking on his cell. He's leaving a voicemail for Purcell. "I need you to call me back. Things are getting worse down here," Josh says.
Purcell ignores the call. He's waiting for Patty in a park. When she arrives he asks how he did on the polygraph. "The results were inconclusive," Patty says. Purcell laughs. Patty says she's trying to help. "No, for you this is just another big conspiracy to uncover," Purcell says. "But you were right all along. I was lying to you." Shocking.
He says he won't tell Patty everything he knows, because when he does she'll just cast him aside. "I understand everything about you, Patty." Do you understand that she will cut a bitch? "I'll call a good defense attorney for you," Patty says. "We're done."
Michael knocks on Ellen's door and asks her to look over his college application essay. "Tell me if it sucks. Be brutal with me, I can handle it." He says.
Purcell gets into a taxi where Busty is waiting. She tells him that she doesn't know who killed his wife, but he is going to be blamed for it. She tells him that he's not safe, that he should take his daughter and get out of the country. Wow. Even Purcell isn't that monumentally boneheaded.
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