"You said you went to visit family?" Ellen asks. Patty says that wasn't exactly true, and we flash back to Patty driving through the grave.
"Years ago, I had a child. I've never told anyone," Patty says. "The baby was um, unhealthy. The doctor said it was stillborn. It was a little girl. I named her Julia."
See, it's at this point that Ellen should be shitting her new Big Girl pants. She just happens to feed Patty a case about infant mortality, supposedly not knowing that Patty once had a stillborn daughter? Of course Patty should smell something awful cooking. She knoooooowwws. But Ellen, Dumbass-in-training, just nods in sympathy at the story.
"Sometimes I think, if she'd lived, I'd be another person," Patty says. Patty then explains that the attacker in her apartment who went after Ellen that morning was actually after her, Patty. "I wish to god it had been me," she says. Then, the kicker, "I want you to know, that if my daughter had survived, if Julie had lived, I'd want her to be just like you."
Ellen, understandably, looks freaked instead of touched by this announcement.
Ellen gets into the FBI car, while Patty sits in hers, looking stately and devilish as ever. Oh yeah, she totally knows. The phone rings and Patty answers it.
Ellen tells the FBI guys she was wrong, that she only got more lies. Dee and Dum tell her these things take time, and Ellen says she doesn't have time.
Patty gets out of her car with police lights flashing in the background. She walks up to the Purcell house and enters the kitchen. She stops in the doorway of the kitchen, bracing herself against the frame and looking down, shocked. I know it's going to be a body down there, but still hope for some other discover. A chest full of gold doubloons? But no, it's a body. It's Daniel Purcell's wife, strangled and lifeless on his kitchen floor.
Non-recurring character
Daniel stumbles into the kitchen, holding a head wound. "Now will you help me?" He asks. I don't trust him, which is shocking, I know.
Back in the FBI car, Dee and Dum tell Ellen it could take two or three years to bring Patty down, but I predict we'll have some sort of resolution in 13 episodes.
Card: 6 MONTHS LATER
Back to the closeup of bad-ass Ellen, talking again to the mysterious stranger off-camera. "So it's just the two of us," she says. "Face to face." She takes a sip of her drink and sets it down, then gives a slight smile.
"It seems like you're not going to tell me the truth after all. That's okay," she says, downing her drink, "I lied too." Then she picks up her vibrator, er, gun, and fires it twice in the direction of the mystery person.
Oh, about that whole 'forgiveness' thing? JK!!! Good one, right!?? I totally got you.
Phew. It's gonna be an intense season.
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Comments (3)
Hey Linds! WELcome! Great job, awesome recap, I love your style! I have never watched this show (okay, actually I DID see that weird scene with Frobisher in the field crawling and looking all shot and stuff, but when I realized that it was Ted Danson, I changed the channel 'cuz I thought it was some lame "Cheers" reunion thing). Still, it's a sign of a damn good writer when someone like me who has never before watched the show and knows nothing about it can pick up the storyline and follow (and now I'm totally going to IHOP for a Grand Slam) so kudos to you!
love, J-Mo :)
1 of 3 | Posted by J-Mo | Posted on January 10, 2009 9:49 AM
Hey, Linds - I've been reading recaps and comments at this site for a couple of years now and have never been compelled to comment - until now. Although I have read many entertaining and/or well written recaps over the years, I have to say, I think yours is one of the best - both entertaining (very funny, without straining or wearing out the jokes) and very well written. I missed most of this episode, but your recap was so clearly written I feel that I've seen it. Kudos to you! I look forward to reading more of your recaps.
2 of 3 | Posted by notme | Posted on January 10, 2009 12:17 PM
I love this show! I am so glad to see it's being recapped! Great job. I'd add a little more snark, though. You're gonna need a lot of sarcasm to keep up!
3 of 3 | Posted by Anonymous | Posted on January 12, 2009 4:56 PM