By LuluBates
Despite the fact that if you listen to the musical score (which may be the only trustworthy source on this show) William Hurt a.k.a. Daniel Purcell is loony tunes, Patty agrees to help him fight off the accusations that he throttled his wife. She puts him up in a top-secret location with a security detail, but he is still being followed. The police can’t find any evidence of an intruder, but Purcell claims that’s, like, totally expected. Besides, he told the cops that he doesn't know of anyone who would want to hurt him -- ummmm, right. Patty is skeptical of it all, and would totally cock an eyebrow if Botox injections would allow such a maneuver. She may or may not believe that Purcell did it, but she definitely knows he needs help. I guess she thinks she owes him something after all.
Ellen owes somebody something, too. She owes Frobisher a head-bashing, for starters, but she couldn’t do it last week. So this week she finds Timothy Olyphant to vent over that fact. Of course he has some (okay a lot) of handy, problem-solving guns and a whole file of Frobisher clippings, so if she changes her mind, he’s there to help. My boyfriend may be more than a little creepy, which does nothing to diminish my crush! Ellen also owes Patty a takedown, but unfortunately Purcell’s case may be getting in the way of that, since Patty has decided she doesn’t have time to take the bait-case the FBI sent her way. Ellen’s peeved, but the FBI isn’t too troubled. They decide to focus on entrapping Tom instead and then making him flip and dish all the dirt he undoubtedly has on Patty. How will they do this? No, not through a crafty legal case, but through legal ethics 101, e.g.: Do not pay your clients off. Tom considers having to retake the MPRE (that’s law school stuff, don’t worry your li'l head over it), but Patty wants him on the Purcell case.
You know who else is on the Purcell case? Marcia Gay Harden. She is a badass, hard-nosed corporate lawyer who is either out to get Purcell or sleeping with him or both. She is fixing to be tough competition for Patty and even plays a mean game of handball (which is a critical skill for corporate lawyers). She uses her athletic prowess to convince a judge to issue a warrant for the box of documents Purcell sent to Patty’s office. This is shaping up to be quite the showdown, although Marcia and Patty may both want to know what Purcell was torching in his backyard. Who has a backyard in New York City? Crazy people, that’s who.
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