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Patty is finally ready to go public with her relationship with Frobisher. She just has to convince Ellen not to put all her new target practice skills to use on her lead plaintiff. Maybe she can distract her with some new leads on Frobisher's secret security team. But that evildoing murder mastermind Frobisher is gone. The new Frobisher had a jailhouse conversion and is now very spiritually minded and full of peace, love and the desire to do a downward-facing dog. Or at least he wants to pretend he had a spiritual awakening, because it's a great way to meet chicks. Mr. Cheeseburger wants Frobisher to pull out of the UNR lawsuit and back him in his move against Ellen and/or Katie, but Frobisher can't be bothered to revisit his past deeds while on the path of enlightenment. Mr. Cheeseburger won't take no for an answer, so he puts Wes in the awkward position of an Ellen/Katie sandwich.
Meanwhile Tom is in hot pursuit of a hooker (it's for work, honey, I swear!) after Claire Maddox defended the lovely lady of the night in court (which seems pretty unlikely for general counsel of an energy concern). When Patty realizes someone's name was redacted from the court documents, she is determined to find out who in the what now. Thus, the hooker. Seems that despite the economic downturn and the slashing of Wall Street bonuses, there is at least one energy trader who has enough pocket change to afford all the cocaine in Colombia (is that what Lester was doing down there?) and the company of a pretty lady. The coked-up trader is doing a deal for Kendrick or Lester (a.k.a. Dave), but he makes the hooker turn away from the computer screen so there are no witnesses. Clever fellow! Is it all about insider trading, then? It might be because Kendrick tells Claire that he has lined up a significant line of capital. Once the capital is in the company, the stock will rebound, and the lawsuit will be history. If that's the case, then what is Darrell Hammond doing in that damn Cadillac Escalade? And what are those mysterious coordinates?
When Ellen sees Uncle Pete sneaking around an office at night, she starts to wonder who Uncle Pete really is. This sets off a chain of events that is, well, sad. The FBI has a few answers for her, namely that Uncle Pete is a lifelong crook who Patty represented and apparently reformed. Or reformed enough to use for her own extracurricular activities. The FBI follows Pete, catches him in some dirty deeds, and gets him to agree to flip on Patty. But he wants to see his dying-of-cancer wife one more time before betraying his boss-turned-life coach. After delivering a present to his wife, Uncle Pete makes a quick stop at the medicine cabinet and swallows enough pills to fell Andre the Giant. He collapses in the middle of the wild goose chase he is leading the FBI on. He is loyal to Patty to the end. Sniff sniff.
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