Patty proves she’s in control of everyone – even the one who thinks he’s controlling her.
While Ellen awaits her lawyer’s arrival, we flash back 5 months to the day Patty received a gift wrapped grenade.
Patty’s son is wreaking havoc at school, Ellen has an engagement party coming up, Katie is sleeping with the man she claims she hasn’t seen since Florida, and Patty has a Frobisher brief due by week’s end.
When 6 lawyers take a personal day after the grenade scare at Hewes and Assoc. they find themselves out of work. With a threat to fire more if they aren’t careful, Patty easily controls the office.
Katie meets with Gregory Melina, while Tom follows them both. Melina is married, but is that all he’s hiding?
Ellen is assigned a brief, when it turns out to be excellent; Patty assigns her the task of delivering it into the hands of the judge.
Michael, Patty’s son, is causing trouble at school by hacking into their computers and files and passing out tests and teacher’s confidential information. Called in to meet with his therapist, Patty and Phil quickly wise up the therapist when they discover that the dream Michael is passing off as his own is actually Patty’s. Attacked and slashed 10 years earlier, Patty has a paralyzing fear of death that Michael is trying to steal from her.
After a brief and angry dinner with Patty where Michael explains that he’s smarter than her, and is controlling her, Michael is kidnapped. Seems Uncle Pete’s discovered that the grenade sent to Patty, and the one in Phil’s glove box were ordered and sent by Michael. The former secret service agent protecting Patty has hired people to keep Michael locked away for awhile to teach him who’s really in control. Turns out Patty’s a ‘tough love’ parent.
It’s Friday evening, the night of Ellen’s engagement party. After waiting more than 3 hours, Ellen is invited to a chat by the judge, making her miss her party and pissing off her family. All because Patty questions her priorities.
Patty tells Ellen to take her ‘hideous’ bookends…yes, those bookends…home.
Back in the police station Ellen explains to Nye that she didn’t kill David, and that same night, some one tried to kill her.
Flashback to a scene of two people struggling over a knife while Patty’s dog barks incessantly.
Then…Ellen covered in blood.
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While the Frobisher case is played down in this episode, the manipulation is cranked up.
Patty likes to make people comfortable just so she can pull the rug out from under them. If she’s willing to do it to her own son, is she willing to do it to anyone? She tells Ellen she’s glad that family is important to her, and then forces her to miss her own engagement party to deliver a brief.
She tells Michael that she wants to understand why he’s so angry with her, then hires kidnappers to teach him a lesson when she finds out just how angry he is.
We learn that Patty was slashed nearly to death 10 years earlier. Is that what keeps her up at night?
She seems disappointed to find out that Ellen can write a damn fine brief, though isn’t that why she was hired?
And who tried to kill Ellen? And why was Patty’s dog there? And why did Ellen and David break off their engagement just before he was killed?
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