Ellen goes into Patty's office and asks (again) why they're defending Purcell. She's clearly digging around for information, and Patty calls her on it. "If you have questions, just ask." Ellen asks how they met. "Long before IBC Global I needed an expert witness in an asbestos case," Patty says. "There's some men you'll meet who just, I don't know, they may be exactly the wrong thing for you, but things start to happen and you can't help yourself." Dude, have I ever been there. His name was Marco, and we met at the hot dog stand, bonded over relish hatred ...aah, youth.
"That's what it was like for Daniel and me," Patty continues. Until the IBC case, that is. "In the transcripts, it didn't seem like much of a fight," Ellen says. "What are you implying, that I paid him to throw the case?" Patty responds, smiling in the way she does when she is mentally picturing impaling someone on a letter opener. Then she laughs.
"You amuse me, human. I will let you live...for now."
We flash back to Patty - ten years ago and sporting a Fierce haircut - handing Purcell an envelope shaped suspiciously like a bundle of money. "I threw the deposition because it was the right thing to do. You don't owe me anything," Purcell says. Patty hands him the envelope anyway. "I have given this serious thought and I want you to have it."
Ellen meets with Dee and Dum. They ask if she found evidence that Patty bribed Purcell in the IBC case. "No, but I think there's a deeper reason she's so obsessed with his wife's murder." Ellen says she was focused on the wrong case, and that she should have been focusing on the case Patty and Purcell were working on together 17 years ago. 17 years, you say....isn't that about the time....wait, I'm putting something together here....nope, lost it. Must be all the Jose. Continue.
"Michael Hewes is applying for college. He's about to turn 18. Roughly 9 months after Patty's testimony concluded, Michael was born." Holy shit, Michael is the son of Patty and Purcell!? No wonder he's the devil's spawn. I honestly didn't see that coming.
Flash back 10 years again, Purcell meets Patty on a park bench. He has the envelope with him. It's not full of money, but instead pictures of a then 7-year-old Michael. "I guess I should thank you for this," Purcell says. "I always wanted a son."
Purcell continues that Patty's timing struck him as odd. He accuses her of only telling him because he helped her on the case. Apparently, that's not the way he wanted to find out. They get into an argument and Purcell stalks away.
In the present tense, Patty is in her office sipping a latte when Tommy walks in. He says that Purcell was just arrested at JFK for trying to flee the country. I take back my "bonehead" comment.
Meanwhile, in a land far, far away (let's call it "West Virginia"), our hot intrepid reporter man breaks some laws by cutting through a fence with...let's call them "fence cutters." He runs to a rock formation that is leaking water and takes a sample.
Patty stares down Purcell in jail. "What were you thinking" She asks. "You practically forced them to arrest you." She says she believes he was set up. She will defend him if he tells her everything. He pauses and Patty gets up to go. "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait," Purcell says. Patty's inner voice is all "Bingo, bitch." Purcell agrees to take her on and tell her everything.
"There's a reporter that you need to meet," Purcell says.
We flash back to the very same reporter, climbing out of his new fence hole. He gets to his truck but finds the tire is flat. He throws the water sample in the front seat. As he's getting his spare tire from the trunk, two big, thug-looking dudes come up from behind him. Uh oh. Is West Virginia where Deliverance was shot?
West Virginians: not friendly
While Josh the Reporter/Pig Lover bleeds on the ground, the two flannel-clad thugs steal his recorder. The keen observer would note, however, that they leave the damning water bottle behind... "Let's get this back to Kendrick," they say, as they walk away. Why, Grandpa? Why??
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