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Episode 1 - Get Me a Lawyer

After Patty (Glenn Close) handpicks Ellen (Rose Byrne) to be a first-year Associate at the high- profile law firm, Hewes & Associates, life will never be the same for either one of them. Ellen, newly-engaged to her boyfriend David Connor (Noah Bean), is thrilled to join the ranks and be trained under Patty and Patty's trusted Senior Associate, Tom Shayes (Tate Donovan). But Ellen soon realizes that the price of success may be much higher than what she's willing to pay. Currently, the focus of Hewes & Associates attention is a class action lawsuit targeting the allegedly corrupt Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson), one of the country's wealthiest CEOs. Patty, on behalf of her clients, is attempting to bankrupt and personally destroy Frobisher. As Patty battles with Frobisher and his attorney Ray Fiske (Zljko Ivanek) Ellen Parsons will be front and center witnessing just what it takes to win at all costs.

  

Episode 1 - Season 1, Episode 1: Get Me a Lawyer

An ambitious young lawyer joins a high-profile litigator to expose a billionaire's stock market manipulation and ends up as a suspect in a gruesome murder.

  

Episode 2 - Season 1, Episode 2: Jesus, Mary & Joe Cocker

After Katie is prepped to testify in the case against Frobisher, Patty suspects she's withholding key information that could undermine her credibility on the witness stand.

  

Episode 2 - Jesus, Mary & Joe Cocker

When Ellen (Rose Byrne) and David (Noah Bean) gather with family to celebrate their recent engagement, Katie (Anastasia Griffiths) reveals her paranoia surrounding her involvement in the Frobisher (Ted Danson) case and her safety. Trying to alleviate her fear, Ellen assures Katie that they can trust Patty (Glenn Close) to help them, but when she brings Katie to the office, things do not go the way she anticipated. Ellen confronts Patty about her meeting with Katie and begins to wonder how much she trusts her new boss. Meanwhile, Arthur Frobisher begins to weigh his options when he notices his family is being affected by his tattered image in the media.

  

Episode 3 - Season 1, Episode 3: And My Paralyzing Fear of Death

As a bomb threat puts Patty and her family on edge, Ellen's loyalty to the firm is tested when she must choose between delivering a brief to an important judge and attending her own engagement party.

  

Episode 3 - And My Paralyzing Fear of Death

When Patty (Glenn Close) and Ray Fiske (Ivanek Zeljko ) are called in by the Judge about the Frobisher case, Patty is asked to come up with a substantial reason to continue with their litigation by the end of the week. Looking for clues, Patty and Tom (Tate Donovan) learn about Katie's (Anastasia Griffiths) new friend. Meanwhile, Patty fears for the safety of her family when her life is threatened and she is forced to take a closer look at her son, and Ellen (Rose Byrne) is entrusted with a responsibility that may help her professionally but conflict with her personal life.

  

Episode 4 - Season 1, Episode 4: Tastes Like a Ho-Ho

Though sure that she's ready to help nail Frobisher, Katie sees that she's been used after the accuracy of her deposition is called into question.

  

Episode 4 - Tastes Like a Ho-Ho

While down in Florida for business, Katie (Anastasia Griffiths) partied the night away in one of Florida's hippest nightclubs and saw something she shouldn't have - Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson) with an unknown man in a parking lot. That one night, five years ago, has left her in a dire position - right in the center of the Frobisher class action lawsuit. If Katie correctly identifies the man with Frobisher, Patty (Glenn Close) will have sufficient reason to continue litigation. Bravely, Katie prepares herself for the ugly as she decides to testify and turn Patty's case around. Unwittingly, she relies on Gregory Malina (Peter Facinelli) - a married man who was with her that night- to tell her the name of the man with Frobisher. While giving her deposition, Frobisher's lawyer, Ray Fiske (Zeljko Ivanek), burns her on the spot; however, it isn't what Katie saw in the parking lot that is of importance but what she may have seen later that night. Meanwhile, Ellen (Rose Byrne) and David (Noah Bean), find it hard to make time for each other and get into an altercation over Katie's involvement in the Frobisher case. Written by: Mark Fish Directed by: Larry Trilling

  

Episode 5 - A Regular Earl Anthony

Frobisher (Ted Danson) pushes Ray Fiske (Zeljko Ivanek) to take a more aggressive approach with Patty (Glenn Close), who is on shaky ground with the clients. Tom (Tate Donovan) reckons with his own career options and seeks the advice of an outspoken friend (Donal Logue). Written by: Todd A. Kessler & Glenn Kessler & Daniel Zelman & Mark Fish Directed by: Jean DeSegonzac.

  

Episode 5 - Season 1, Episode 5: A Regular Earl Anthony

As Tom faces a decision between a lucrative partnership at a big firm and taking over the Frobisher lawsuit, Ellen and David's long hours at work jeopardize their relationship.

  

Episode 6 - She Spat At Me

Patty cautiously pursues Gregory eager to learn his secrets before it's too late. An emboldened Frobisher attempts to salvage his legacy with an unconventional strategy. Lila ominously reappears in David's life further testing his relationship with Ellen.

  

Episode 6 - Season 1, Episode 6: She Spat at Me

With the case pushing Ellen and David's relationship to a breaking point, Gregory Malina comes under increasing pressure to testify.

  

Episode 7 - Season 1, Episode 7: We Are Not Animals

As Fiske works to keep Gregory Malina from being deposed, Patty sows seeds of doubt between Tom and Ellen while working to get her son to come home from a reform academy.

  

Episode 7 - We Are Not Animals

The Frobisher case now hinges on Gregory Malina's deposition which has Patty committed to keeping him safe from the nefarious forces of the opposition. Ellen and Tom are keeping something from Patty who they fear might be manipulating them.

  

Episode 8 - Season 1, Episode 8: Blame the Victim

As Patty tries to contain the damage caused by Gregory Malina's sudden disappearance and an insider who's leaking privileged information to Frobisher, Ellen's attentions are diverted by her own father's pending legal troubles.

  

Episode 8 - Blame the Victim

With the key witness missing and Frobisher’s camp taking extra measures to keep the momentum, Patty must find a new strategy for the case. Ellen gets blindsided when her parents show up with troubling news.

  

Episode 9 - Do You Regret What We Did?

Both sides continue to fight for the upper hand as the mystery behind Gregory's disappearance deepens. With Frobisher's deposition nearing, he and his team bring on a secret weapon, while Ellen unearths information that could have serious impact on the case.

  

Episode 9 - Season 1, Episode 9: Do You Regret What We Did?

As the Executive looks to force a settlement by providing Patty's team some critical information, Gregory Malina emerges from hiding to apologize to Katie and testify against Frobisher.

  

Episode 10 - Season 1, Episode 10: Sort of Like a Family

As the deposition is getting underway, Patty suspects someone on her staff has been leaking confidential information to Frobisher's legal team.

  

Episode 10 - Sort of Like a Family

Titans collide as Patty and Frobisher square off in his deposition. Ellen has been relegated to the sidelines where she contemplates a few risky moves that might get her back in the action.

  

Episode 11 - Season 1, Episode 11: I Hate These People

Though she refuses Patty's offer to come back to work, Ellen does agree to return to press Moore for more information that could help nail Frobisher.

  

Episode 11 - I Hate These People

Pressure from the trial is talking its toll on Patty and Frobisher alike, as both sides intensify their tactics despite potentially dire ramifications. Ellen's secret information could be a huge help to Patty, but will the reward justify the risk?

  

Episode 12 - Season 1, Episode 12: There's No "We" Anymore

Ray Fiske's suicide prompts Frobisher to unleash everything he has in order to gain control of evidence that could undermine him in court.

  

Episode 12 - There's No "We" Anymore

The story of Ellen's incarceration for David's murder converges with the tumultuous events surrounding Patty's efforts to take down Frobisher Written By: Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelman Directed By: Mark Piznarski

  

Episode 13 - Because I Know Patty

The season comes to its shocking conclusion.

  

Episode 13 - Season 1, Episode 13: Because I Know Patty

As Ellen uses the Malina videotape to fight the charges that she killed her fiancé, Patty engineers a confrontation with Frobisher that brings the lawsuit to a dramatic conclusion.

  

Episode 14 - Season 2, Episode 1: I Lied, Too

As Ellen Parsons struggles to deal with her fiancé's murder, an old acquaintance reappears to seek Patty Hewes' help in protecting him from an employer's deadly revenge.

  

Episode 15 - Season 2, Episode 2: Burn It, Shred It, I Don't Care

With Patty going after those who killed Daniel Purcell’s wife, Ellen works with the FBI to lure Tom into making an illegal payment to a plaintiff in order to ultimately bring down their boss.

  

Episode 16 - Season 2, Episode 3: I Know Your Pig

Patty’s efforts to defend Daniel Purcell uncover their complicated history together and force an energy industry giant to take drastic measures to keep its malfeasance from being exposed.

  

Episode 17 - Season 2, Episode 4: Hey! Mr. Pibb!

As the arrest of a suspect clears Daniel Purcell in the murder of his wife, Tom and Ellen uncover evidence that could support Patty’s lawsuit against UNR.

  

Episode 18 - Season 2, Episode 5: I Agree, It Wasn't Funny

As Patty refuses to back off her efforts to punish UNR for dumping toxic waste, Ellen looks to keep the government’s case against her boss from being derailed.

  

Episode 19 - Season 2, Episode 6: A Pretty Girl in a Leotard

After using a television news interview to accuse CEO Walter Kendrick of murder, Patty tracks down an unlikely shareholder to be the plaintiff in a lawsuit against URN.

  

Episode 20 - Season 2, Episode 7: New York Sucks

As Frobisher prepares for his role as the plaintiff in the URN lawsuit, Ellen’s FBI handlers focus on Uncle Pete in order to get the information they need to nail Patty.

  

Episode 21 - Season 2, Episode 8: They Had to Tweeze That Out of My Kidney

In the wake of Uncle Pete’s suicide attempt, Patty continues to forge ahead with the URN lawsuit, even as her lead plaintiff, Arthur Frobisher, is being pressured to drop out.

  

Episode 22 - Season 2, Episode 9: You Got Your Prom Date Pregnant

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

  

Episode 23 - Season 2, Episode 10: Uh Oh. Out Come the Skeletons

As Patty refuses an offer to drop the lawsuit, Maddox begins to suspect Kendrick of an illegal market manipulation scheme that could place the company in jeopardy.

  

Episode 24 - Season 2, Episode 11: London. Of Course

In the wake of Agent Harrison’s death, Ellen hires her own investigator to connect Patty and Frobisher to David’s murder, and Claire Maddox looks to undermine Kendrick’s leadership at URN.

  

Episode 25 - Season 2, Episode 12: Look What He Dug Up This Time

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.

  

Episode 26 - Season 2, Episode 13: Trust Me

As she looks to finally have Patty jailed, Ellen’s plan unravels amid a series of complex double-crosses.

  

Episode 27 - Season 3, Episode 1: Your Secrets Are Safe

As Patty pursues a lawsuit against an investor responsible for a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, Ellen starts her life over prosecuting drug crimes in the Manhattan D.A.'s office.

  

Episode 28 - Season 3, Episode 2: The Dog Is Happier Without Her

As Joe Tobin learns of a fortune stashed away as a result of his father's Ponzi scheme, Patty and Tom pursue justice on behalf of the fraud's angry investors, while Ellen is drawn into the D.A.'s criminal investigation.

  

Episode 29 - Season 3, Episode 3: Flight's At 11:08

As Joe Tobin and his lawyer try to hide an incriminating witness, Patty seeks leverage with the D.A.'s investigation as Tom tells his in-laws that their investments in the Tobin Ponzi scheme have bankrupted them.

  

Episode 30 - Season 3, Episode 4: Don't Throw That at the Chicken

As Patty pressures him to reveal the location of the money he stashed following his multibillion-dollar fraud, Louis Tobin looks to keep his son Joe's drinking from jeopardizing the family once he has been sent to prison.

  

Episode 31 - Season 3, Episode 5: It's Not My Birthday

As details about Louis Tobin's affair emerge, Ellen is surprised by a reporter she worked with on the UNR case; Joe Tobin finds the one person who knows where his father stashed his ill-gotten gains.

  

Episode 32 - Season 3, Episode 6: Don't Forget to Thank Mr. Zedeck

As Patty and Tom work to help the investors bankrupted by the late Louis Tobin, Joe Tobin follows a circuitous series of clues to gain access to the money his father stashed away.

  

Episode 33 - Season 3, Episode 7: You Haven't Replaced Me

As the search for Tobin's ill-gotten gains leads Tom and Patty to Antigua, Ellen's criminal investigation sheds new light on the deaths of the convicted financier and his longtime girlfriend.

  

Episode 34 - Season 3, Episode 8: I Look Like Frankenstein

After coming up empty-handed in Antigua, Patty and Tom turn their attention to the missing Carol Tobin in their search for her late father's money.

  

Episode 35 - Season 3, Episode 9: Drive It Through Hardcore

As Patty and Tom zero in on Carol Tobin in their search for her father's hidden fortune, Ellen becomes a reluctant participant in an effort to help her jailed sister, Carrie.

  

Episode 36 - Season 3, Episode 10: Tell Me I'm Not Racist

As Patty and Tom face their removal from the Tobin case, Ellen pressures Tessa Marchetti to cooperate with the D.A.’s investigation.

  

Episode 37 - Season 3, Episode 11: All That Crap About Your Family

As Tessa Marchetti's arrest pushes Patty into making a deal with the D.A., and Ellen uncovers the truth about her parents, worries about having his family's hidden assets exposed lead Joe Tobin to take drastic action.

  

Episode 38 - Season 3, Episode 12: You Were His Little Monkey

As his personal involvement in the Tobin case forces him to resign, Tom looks to cut a deal that will help recoup his losses even as it exposes the shocking truth about Leonard Winstone's past.

  

Episode 39 - Season 3, Episode 13: The Next One's Gonna Go in Your Throat

Patty's relentless pursuit of the Tobin family's hidden fortune exposes interlocking webs of deceit that propel her and everyone in her orbit into a series of deadly confrontations.

  

Episode 40 - Season 4, Episode 1: There's Only One Way to Try a Case

As Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) prepares to sue a multinational drug maker, Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) asks high school classmate Chris Sanchez to help expose a private security firm’s illegal actions in Afghanistan. But as Chris hesitates while seeking help in dealing with his haunting memories, the company’s powerful CEO is working behind the scenes to make sure that the truth is never revealed.

  

Episode 41 - Season 4, Episode 2: I've Done Way Too Much for This Girl

After Chris Sanchez's agreement to testify convinces her bosses to pursue a lawsuit against High Star Security, Ellen (Rose Byrne) discovers that they caved under pressure and reneged on the deal. But as Chris finds himself the target of what he's led to believe are Islamic extremists bent on avenging the death of a fellow Afghani fighter, Ellen must consider turning to Patty (Glenn Close) for help.

  

Episode 42 - Season 4, Episode 3: I'd Prefer My Old Office

As Ellen (Rose Byrne) returns to the Hewes & Associates office to pursue her lawsuit against Howard Erickson (John Goodman), Patty's (Glenn Close) search for her missing son leads to Boston. To silence Chris Sanchez (Chris Messina), Erickson authorizes his henchmen to use whatever means necessary to make sure he won’t deliver any damaging testimony in the lawsuit.

  

Episode 43 - Season 4, Episode 4: Next One's on Me, Blondie

While being held hostage in Afghanistan, Chris (Chris Messina) sends a local operative to New York with a message for Ellen (Rose Byrne). As Patty (Glenn Close) enlists an old mentor to help with the case, news of a mysterious fifth member of the team that was on the disastrous High Star mission forces CEO Howard Erickson (John Goodman) to consider drastic measure to protect himself and his company.

  

Episode 44 - Season 4, Episode 5: We'll Just Have to Find Another Way to Cut the Balls Off This Thing

As CIA operative Jerry Boorman looks to stop Ellen's (Rose Byrne) depositions once and for all, High Star CEO Howard Erickson (John Goodman) turns to a Defense Department contact to stop the release of incriminating confidential files. Meanwhile, as she is working alongside Ellen, Patty (Glenn Close) worries about her granddaughter's unexplained illness.

  

Episode 45 - Season 4, Episode 6: Add That Little Hopper to Your Stew

As she fights to see the imprisoned Nasim Marwat, Ellen (Rose Byrne) closes in on a CIA cover up of an illegal intelligence mission in Afghanistan that could bring down High Star Security CEO Howard Erickson (John Goodman). And as she and Patty (Glenn Close) look to exonerate Nasim, Ellen offers a reporter the story of a lifetime in exchange for his help locating the missing Chris Sanchez (Chris Messina).

  

Episode 46 - Season 4, Episode 7: I'm Worried About My Dog

As Howard Erickson (John Goodman) looks to bury the truth about a botched mission in Afghanistan, Ellen (Rose Byrne) and Patty (Glenn Close) seek a source inside the CIA who could help in their lawsuit against him and his company. And as Patty uses her class action suit against a French pharmaceutical giant to get the information she and Ellen need, Erickson returns to Afghanistan to ensure that Chris Sanchez (Chris Messina) will never talk.

  

Episode 47 - Season 4, Episode 8: The War Will Go On Forever

As she sends a reporter to Afghanistan to find Chris, Ellen (Rose Byrne) teams up with Patty (Glenn Close) to depose Howard Erickson (John Goodman). Meanwhile, when his French girlfriend uncovers the truth about an intelligence asset he’s been hiding in New York, Jerry Boorman (Dylan Baker) takes drastic measures to protect himself and the CIA.

  

Episode 48 - Season 4, Episode 9: There's a Whole Slew of Ladies With Bad Things to Say About the Taliban

As Chris Sanchez’s life hangs in the balance, Jerry Boorman’s (Dylan Baker) offer to sell out Howard Erickson (John Goodman) in order to protect the Afghan boy he’s keeping in a CIA safe house leaves Ellen (Rose Byrne) and Patty (Glenn Close) facing an important decision about the future of their lawsuit against High Star.

  

Episode 49 - Season 4, Episode 10: Failure Is Lonely

As Ellen (Rose Byrne) moves to settle her lawsuit against High Star in exchange for Chris Sanchez's (Chris Messina) safe return, her plans are upended by Patty's (Glenn Close) surprise legal action against Howard Erickson (John Goodman). And while Ellen wants to put the suit behind her, rogue CIA agent Jerry Boorman (Dylan Baker) redoubles his efforts to destroy Erickson as he fights to hang on to his Afghan son.

  

Episode 50 - Season 5, Episode 1: You Want to End This Once and for All?

Already on opposite sides of Michael Hewes’s custody suit against his mother, Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) and Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) prepare to face off in court after a cyber-hacker’s revelations about insider trading expose damaging personal information that push an informant over the edge.

  

Episode 51 - Season 5, Episode 2: Have You Met the Eel Yet?

As they square off in a wrongful death lawsuit against cyber-hacker Channing McClaren, Ellen (Rose Byrne) worries that her mentor’s close relationship with the judge will give Patty (Glenn Close) an unfair advantage. But while she tries to level the playing field even as she begins to doubt McClaren’s honesty, Ellen is reminded of how manipulative Patty can be.

  

Episode 52 - Season 5, Episode 3: Failure Is Failure

Patty (Glenn Close) looks to prove that Rachel Walling’s late mother committed suicide after meeting with cyber-hacker Channing McClaren. And as Ellen (Rose Byrne) struggles to defend the shadowy McClaren, she’s surprised to learn of her mother’s problems at home.

  

Episode 53 - Season 5, Episode 4: I Love You, Mommy

Ellen (Rose Byrne) and Patty (Glenn Close) face off in a bidding war after a mysterious computer hacker offers them information pertaining to the McClaren wrongful death lawsuit. Meanwhile, family drama dogs Ellen after her mother leaves her husband.

  

Episode 54 - Season 5, Episode 5: There's Something Wrong With Me

As she and Ellen (Rose Byrne) look to exploit the documents offered by a computer hacker, Patty (Glenn Close) secretly pressures a government investigator to provide confidential information to help her case. Meanwhile, Channing McClaren’s shadowy past returns to haunt him.

  

Episode 55 - Season 5, Episode 6: I Need to Win

A surprise witness threatens to call into question Channing McClaren’s account of the night Naomi Walling committed suicide. Meanwhile, Ellen’s (Rose Byrne) assistant approaches Patty (Glenn Close) with an unwelcome development in a case they argued years ago.

  

Episode 56 - Season 5, Episode 7: The Storm's Moving in

As Channing McClaren learns that a murdered computer hacker was paid for information about the late Naomi Walling, Patty (Glenn Close) and Ellen (Rose Byrne) take a tense trip to Maine to interview an expert witness whom they hope can shed some light on insider trading practices at Princefield Investments. Meanwhile, Chris Sanchez (Chris Messina) discovers that the Army is redeploying mentally unstable soldiers to Afghanistan.

  

Episode 57 - Season 5, Episode 8: I'm Afraid of What I'll Find

As Patty (Glenn Close) threatens to expose the insider trading by Channing McClaren’s leading financier, Chris Sanchez (Chris Messina) uses McClarenTruth to release information charging the Army with redeploying mentally ill soldiers. Meanwhile, Ellen (Rose Byrne) gets closer to identifying the man she suspects Patty sent to kill her.

  

Episode 58 - Season 5, Episode 9: I Like Your Chair

As they prepare to face off in court, Ellen (Rose Byrne) seeks protection from the hit man she believes Patty (Glenn Close) sent to kill her. While Ellen is forced to intervene in the collapse of her parents’ troubled marriage, the case against Channing McClaren threatens to destroy both McClarenTruth and Princefield Investments.

  

Episode 59 - Season 5, Episode 10: But You Don't Do That Anymore

While looking to use Michael Hewes’ custody hearing to bring down Patty (Glenn Close), Ellen (Rose Byrne) is double-crossed by a key witness in the McClaren trial. Meanwhile, Chris (Chris Messina) tries to protect the source that exposed the military’s redeployment of mentally ill soldiers.

  



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