Damages

In the wake of the successful, but deadly, lawsuit against Arthur Frobisher, Ellen Parsons is in therapy to deal with her fiancé’s murder and is cooperating with a federal investigation of Patty Hewes. Opting to take a break from her legal practice, Patty has turned her attention to a mammoth charitable foundation she is starting with billionaire businessman Samuel Arsenault. After learning...

As the FBI debriefs Ellen, Patty runs interference with the police following the murder of Daniel’s wife. Aware that Daniel will be considered a suspect, Patty enlists Tom and Ellen to help with her strategy as she drops out of the infant mortality case to focus on his defense. So, as Patty learns that Daniel failed to report the previous threats on him and his family, Tom and Ellen meet with...

As Daniel tells Claire that they must end their affair, Tom provides Patty with proof that Ultima National Resources, the company that hired Purcell to analyze the new chemical, is adept at fighting off lawsuits aimed at their pollution-related crimes. And though Tom presses her about Daniel, Patty balks at telling him about the two cases in which Daniel testified as an expert witness. Then,...

With Patty in New York preparing to defend Daniel Purcell against a murder charge, Ellen and Tom are in West Virginia looking for Josh Reston, the newspaper reporter who has uncovered evidence linking Ultima National Resources to the dumping of toxic chemicals. Told of the water sample Josh collected outside of a UNR plant, CEO Walter Kendrick presses his lieutenant to find it before any...

Despite the setback she sustained after Daniel failed to back up her claims that UNR was dumping toxic waste in West Virginia, Patty redoubles her efforts to go after the powerful company. Knowing that UNR is seeking approval from the government for an upcoming merger, Patty turns over her files on the company in confidence to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission deputy director Douglas...

With Uncle Pete holding fast to his suspicions about Ellen, and Walter Kendrick looking to bury any evidence that his company is responsible for polluting the waters in West Virginia, Patty uses a television interview to accuse URN’s CEO of being behind the murder of Daniel Purcell’s wife. Using Patty’s attack on her boss as reason to end her affair with Purcell, URN lawyer Claire Maddox...

As a Kendrick henchman is arrested with a prostitute, Patty tells Ellen that their plaintiff in the URN lawsuit is Arthur Frobisher. After explaining that Frobisher’s desire to rehabilitate his image following the dramatic loss to his company’s bankrupted employees makes him the perfect foil for Kendrick, Patty also tells Ellen that having him allied with them may help shed some light on...

Upon learning of Uncle Pete’s suicide attempt, Patty heads to the hospital after sending Tom to question Lonnie Samble, the prostitute who was arrested with energy trader Finn Garrety. While comforting Pete’s wife, Stefania, Patty is told that two men called on Pete shortly before he tried to take his own life, and sees a note that reveals how the attempted suicide was his reaction to the...

Though Patty suspects a government conspiracy aimed at undermining her lawsuit against URN, her efforts to prove it fail to uncover any evidence.

As Wes works to complete his assignment and kill Ellen, Harrison confronts S.A.C. Don McGraff about the apparent lack of a case file for the FBI’s investigation of Patty. Though Harrison is told that the case is classified, his partner is using his divorce negotiations as a cover to stay in touch with Dave Pell, who is paying to be kept abreast of the case. As Patty and Tom speculate on how...

On the heels of having her investigation into Arthur Frobisher cut short, Ellen learns that one of her FBI handlers, Randall Harrison, has died of an apparent drug overdose. Despite the official story that his death was accidental and that there was no foul play, Ellen isn’t convinced and, suspecting Patty, hires her own private investigator. While the Bearded Man at the center of the...

As Daniel Purcell struggles to conceal his involvement in his wife’s murder, Ellen and the FBI set out to catch Patty bribing a judge in the URN lawsuit.

As the jailed Daniel Purcell refuses to continue helping with the URN lawsuit, Ellen calls on the trial judge to arrange a bribe that she intends to use to get Patty arrested. What Ellen fails to realize, however, is that the various players in this complicated case are all working behind the scenes to save themselves and see that she alone takes the fall. Unaware that he’s been ordered to...