By LuluBates
As we close in on the season finale, the tantalizing loose ends are finally coming together. For example, remember way back when Daniel Purcell was burying something in his backyard? The dog digs it up this week and it turns out to be a remote control. For someone so rabid about the environment, Daniel Purcell has a weird idea about degradability. The resurfacing of the tell-tale remote (even old Edgar Poe deserves an update, eh?) and the continuing veiled threats by Walter Kendrick are the tipping point for his guilty conscience. Turns out that the flashbacks we've been seeing to the night of Christine Purcell's murder weren't the whole story. Shocking, I know. After Christine Purcell beaned Daniel with the buried remote, he strangled her. Yeesh. He decides to turn himself into the police. Unfortunately for Daniel, his flashbacks to that night aren't complete either. Seems that Christine was actually still alive when creepy Darrell Hammond came to clean up the mess. He went ahead and killed her on Kendrick's say so. I told you Kendrick was the devil.
Before Daniel Purcell's guilty conscience got the better of him, he was taking his rightful place as Patty Hewes' new star witness (again). When he tells her about the planned blackouts that Walter Kendrick was using to increase demand for energy and increase the size of his wallet to boot, Patty puts Purcell on the code they pulled from the GPS system. He cracks it faster than Nicholas Cage on Ritalin. Linking the Cadillac to the trader to Kendrick is good news for Patty, who could really use something positive in her life since her marriage is bye bye. She was okay with Phil's cheating, but the whole getting caught, getting set up by Lester, buying UNR stock, and accepting the Energy Secretary nomination from a guy she was fighting in court was just over the line. Phil's out, but vows to fight. Not sure how he thinks he'll win that one. Speaking of not winning, Kendrick plays fake nice with Patty over lunch, but it's all charade:FAIL when Patty lets loose with all the information she really has. Kendrick wants a price, but Patty wants justice.
Meanwhile, Ellen is now the deputy director of the FBI, well, at least on this investigation. Without Mario Van Peebles' reasonable and steady hand, Agent Glenn has given up all hope of running the case against Patty so he lets Ellen do it. She proposes getting Patty to bribe a judge, but then Ellen proposes setting up Tom for bribery charges over the failed bait case. When Tom is on his way to meet his laboring wife at the hospital, the FBI picks him up. When he hears the ludicrous charges he demands a lawyer and gets one. Ellen. She tells Tom what's what and for some reason he listens. When he tells Patty he won't bribe the judge and neither should she, Patty fires him. Right then and there. Guess he'll have more time to spend with his newborn.
Then, Ellen and Wes are finally taking a weekend away. They go for a walk in the woods and Wes pulls a gun. When Ellen catches him all cocked and ready to off her, he chickens out (or really lerves her) and suggests target practice. Ellen kills a perfectly defenseless tree. Back in the city Wes tells Mr. Cheeseburger the dirtiest cop ever that he needs more time before offing his girlfriend. Then Wes asks Ellen if he can move into her house for a few days. All the better to kill you with, m'dear.