Damages

In the final season of Damages, Patty and Ellen are pitted against one another in two separate cases. The first involves a wrongful-death suit brought against Channing McClaren, the founder of a whistleblowing web site, who's implicated in the death of a trader for an investment firm. In the other case, Ellen is called as a witness to testify against Patty in the custody battle with Patty's son, Michael.

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  E1You Want to End This Once and for All?

  Jul 11, 2012· 50m

  A whistle-blower case puts Patty and Ellen against each other.

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  E2Have You Met the Eel Yet?

  Jul 18, 2012· 50m

  A hacker claims to have pertinent information about the leak at Princefield; Patty's former colleague offers her services to Ellen.

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  E3Failure Is Failure

  Jul 25, 2012· 50m

  Ellen detects inconsistencies in McClaren's story. Later, Ellen's mother requests her help.

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  E4I Love You, Mommy

  Aug 1, 2012· 50m

  Patty and Ellen seek the source of the Princefield leak, while Patty takes on Ellen through the press.

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  E5There's Something Wrong with Me

  Aug 8, 2012· 50m

  Someone from McClaren's past turns up and sheds light on his personal life; Patty has a confrontation with an adversary.

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  E6I Need to Win

  Aug 15, 2012· 50m

  The attack Ellen suffered years ago comes back to haunt her.

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  E7The Storm's Moving In

  Aug 22, 2012· 50m

  A blizzard strands Patty and Ellen; McClaren uncovers a major player in the trading scandal.

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  E8I'm Afraid of What I'll Find

  Aug 29, 2012· 50m

  Ellen begins to uncover the truth about her attacker. Chris Sanchez approaches McClaren with information.

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  E9I Like Your Chair

  Sep 5, 2012· 50m

  McClaren's latest leak thrusts Ellen into the spotlight. Tensions between McClaren and Rutger Simon come to a head.

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  E10But You Don't Do That AnymoreFinale

  Sep 12, 2012· 50m

  Series Finale: While looking to use Michael Hewes' custody hearing to bring down Patty (Glenn Close), Ellen (Rose Byrne) is double-crossed by a key witness in the McClaren trial.

The fourth season takes place two years after the Tobin case. Ellen has moved on with her life. Now an attorney at her old mentor's firm, she's content with her cases and colleagues. Deep down, however, she wants a bigger challenge. When she discovers her friend has been through a traumatic experience while working for High Star, a private security firm hired by the U.S. government to carry out special missions in Afghanistan, she suspects foul play and asks Patty for help. Patty knows that trying a case against High Star can make Ellen's career. Or ruin it. It was inspired by recent events and controversies surrounding Blackwater Security Consulting.

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  E1There's Only One Way to Try a Case

  Jul 13, 2011· 50m

  Ellen investigates Howard Erickson's company despite warnings from her boss and from Patty; Patty takes on a big pharmaceutical firm; Erickson goes after defense contracts for his company.

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  E2I've Done Way Too Much for This Girl

  Jul 20, 2011· 50m

  Ellen takes the High Star case to the senior partners; Chris feels certain he is being targeted; Erickson and Boorman try to make the lawsuit go away.

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  E3I'd Prefer My Old Office

  Jul 27, 2011· 50m

  Ellen learns that Chris used to hunt down terror suspects; Patty rejects Erickson's settlement suggestion for the High Star case.

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  E4Next One's on Me, Blondie

  Aug 3, 2011· 50m

  Ellen meets the son of Chris' Afghan contact; Erickson decides to torture Chris for information about the possibility of an intelligence breach; Patty discovers that High Star extracts terror suspects for the CIA.

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  E5We'll Just Have to Find Another Way to Cut the Balls Off of This Thing

  Aug 10, 2011· 50m

  Ellen and Patty move Nasim to a safer place as they gather evidence against High Star; Boorman frames Nasim for an attempted bombing to prevent his deposition; Erickson struggles to maintain his CIA contact.

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  E6Add That Little Hopper to Your Stew

  Aug 17, 2011· 50m

  Now that Nasim is labeled as a terrorist, he loses his credibility as a witness. Erickson buys land to build a private army. Ellen enlists journalist Dean Gulickson to track down Chris in Afghanistan. Michael comes to see Patty and demands to meet Catherine.

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  E7I'm Worried About My Dog

  Aug 24, 2011· 50m

  Patty uses her drug-company case to gain information on High Star; and a journalist tries to embed with High Star mercenaries in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Michael Hewes seeks out his daughter, Catherine.

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  E8The War Will Go on Forever

  Aug 31, 2011· 50m

  While reporter Dean Gullickson (Griffin Dunne) heads to Afghanistan, Erickson orders his staff there to deal with Sanchez once and for all. He also confronts Boorman. Meanwhile, the judge in the High Star case allows Ellen to depose Erickson. "Just remember that we're in the middle of a game," Patty tells her. "We don't have to win it now. We just want to keep playing."

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  E9There's a Whole Slew of Ladies with Bad Things to Say About the Taliban

  Sep 7, 2011· 50m

  Boorman tries to align himself with Patty. Meanwhile, Chris' life remains in jeopardy and the case becomes personal for Erickson.

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  E10Failure Is LonelyFinale

  Sep 14, 2011· 50m

  Ellen is furious with Patty for violating their agreement about the High Star case. And tempers come to a head between Erickson and Boorman—with Chris' life hanging in the balance.

Set a year after season two, Patty's focus now rests on Louis Tobin, the patriarch of a wealthy family, who has just confessed to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history. The government has tasked Hewes and Shayes with finding the Tobins' hidden money and uncovering any evidence that other family members had knowledge of the fraud. Ellen Parsons has taken a job at the New York District Attorney's office, but she finds herself being pulled further and further back into Patty's orbit. Tom, who had invested with Tobin, has lost 70% of his net worth, as have numerous others he helped invest. He struggles to keep his involvement from interfering with the case and secret from Patty.

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  E1Your Secrets Are Safe

  Jan 25, 2010· 51m

  Patty Hewes has been appointed by the U.S. government to recover billions of dollars lost to the largest investment fraud in Wall Street history. The new case pits Patty against the powerful Tobin family, which includes Joe Tobin, Marilyn Tobin, and the family's trusted attorney Leonard Winstone. Meanwhile, Ellen Parsons adjusts to the challenges of her new job, and life, away from Patty Hewes.

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  E2The Dog Is Happier Without Her

  Feb 1, 2010· 50m

  Patty and Tom continue to dig into the Tobin family's sordid past, while Joe Tobin must decide between his family and his integrity. Ellen aids Tom in his investigation of the Tobin's, but in doing so receives some bad news of her own. While locked in the midst of a bitter divorce, Patty and Phil find one piece of common ground in the form of their beloved dog.

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  E3Flight's at 11:08

  Feb 8, 2010· 50m

  Patty is forced to race against the clock to prevent a key witness in the Tobin case from fleeing the country. Meanwhile, Ellen learns a dark and shocking family secret.

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  E4Don't Throw That at the Chicken

  Feb 15, 2010· 50m

  Patty drills Louis Tobin about his fraud while his son Joe makes a decision that will determine the fate of the Tobin family forever.

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  E5It's Not My Birthday

  Feb 22, 2010· 50m

  Patty Hewes squares off with the D.A. over access to a key witness. A job candidate at Hewes & Shayes asks Ellen for insight into Patty.

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  E6Don't Forget to Thank Mr. Zedeck

  Mar 1, 2010· 50m

  Patty is under tremendous pressure from the Attorney's Office to make progress in the Tobin case, and winds up striking a bargain with an unlikely source. Ellen discovers some new evidence in Louis Tobin's death and Tom's financial troubles begin to effect him in more obvious ways.

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  E7You Haven't Replaced Me

  Mar 8, 2010· 50m

  Patty sends Tom out of the country to follow the money trail of the Tobin fraud. Ellen must choose between her new boss and Patty. Leonard Winstone leaves the city under mysterious circumstances.

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  E8I Look Like Frankenstein

  Mar 15, 2010· 50m

  Carol Tobin suddenly disappears and it is up to Patty and Ellen to track her down. Arthur Frobisher returns to the fold to open his new foundation.

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  E9Drive It Through Hardcore

  Mar 22, 2010· 50m

  Patty finally manages to track down the missing Carol Tobin and forces her to give up the truth about the fateful Tobin Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, Ellen's home life is turned upside down and Frobisher begins to make his movie.

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  E10Tell Me I'm Not Racist

  Mar 29, 2010· 50m

  A professional disaster looms for Patty when her clients ask that she be thrown off the Tobin case. Tom makes a risky move that may cost Ellen her job at the D.A.'s office.

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  E11All That Crap About Your Family

  Apr 5, 2010· 50m

  Patty's star witness is arrested, forcing her to strike an unusual deal with the D.A.'s office. Frobisher reveals a little too much about his past.

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  E12You Were His Little Monkey

  Apr 12, 2010· 50m

  Patty and Ellen set out to tear the Tobin family apart. When Tom Shayes' job and marriage unravel, he strikes up a deadly alliance.

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  E13The Next One's Gonna Go in Your ThroatFinale

  Apr 19, 2010· 60m

  Ellen and Tom take matters into their own hands in an attempt to win the Tobin case; Patty Hewes is haunted by the price of her success.

The second season, like the first, follows two different timelines. The primary timeline follows Patty, Ellen, and Tom as the firm goes up against an energy company who have engaged in unethical practices. A former lover of Patty's, Daniel Purcell, brings the matter to her attention, but then inexplicably backs out, leaving Patty up against UNR CEO Walter Kendrick and his fierce lawyer Claire Maddox. Meanwhile, Ellen works with the FBI to bring down Patty, while also seeking revenge on Arthur Frobisher for his presumed role in her fiance's death. Ellen is unaware that Patty is suspicious of her, and that Frobisher's criminal connections appear to extend to her new friend Wes. A second timeline takes place six months later, when Ellen meets with an unknown person in a hotel room, and subsequently appears to shoot them.

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Most of the season follows two different timelines. The primary timeline begins with Ellen Parsons' recruitment by Patty Hewes to "Hewes & Associates" and follows proceedings of a class action lawsuit against Arthur Frobisher by his former employees, whom Patty represents. The initial episodes follow Patty's attempts to capture potential witness Gregory Malina through Katie Connor. The arc further details Malina's involvement with Frobisher's lawyer Ray Fiske and the pressure Patty brings to bear on Fiske on Malina's subsequent death. The narrative includes multiple flashforwards of the alternative timeline, set approximately six months after Ellen's appointment, until both timelines converge in the penultimate episode of the season. The alternative timeline details the attack on Ellen, her arrest for the murder of her fiancé David Connor, and the subsequent murder investigation.

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