Damages"Finale"
Original Air Date: October 23, 2007
Tom R - TwoCents Staff Writer
Please wait until the ride has come to a complete stop…
OK, so the first question I’m left with is, “When does the DVD hit the shelves?” Bound to be tons of behind the scenes insights, interviews and more.
In case you haven’t read between the lines, the finale does not disappoint at all.
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Original Air Date: October 23, 2007
Tom R - TwoCents Staff Writer
Please wait until the ride has come to a complete stop…
OK, so the first question I’m left with is, “When does the DVD hit the shelves?” Bound to be tons of behind the scenes insights, interviews and more.
In case you haven’t read between the lines, the finale does not disappoint at all.
Kudos in particular to two key actors not singled out yet: Tom Aldredge as Uncle Pete, who plays him as such a caring guy, but you just know when he shows up that something ain’t right. And Victor Arnold as Frobisher mole Larry Popler, whose frustrations build to one of the episode’s climactic moments.
So…the tape was what everyone was willing to kill for, so where did David hide it? A secret compartment inside the murder weapon. Once Patty cuts a deal with the DA to free Ellen, Ellen sends Tom to get it from the evidence room. Opening the compartment, he finds the tape and the wedding rings that David and Ellen never got to use. Nice moment.
Once the tape is in her possession, Patty pressures Frobisher to settle on her terms (about 2 billion), which wipes out almost everything Frobisher owns, but keeps him a free man, and Patty agrees on a non-disclosure agreement, burying the video. At the celebration party, Patty calls Popler into another room, where several of the plaintiffs are waiting to ask him to surrender his portion of the claim, since he as in Frobisher’s pocket. As Frobisher stands on the one piece of land he will not lose, Popler pulls up and guns him down. Nice piece of irony, since the first scene between them involved Frobisher polishing his gun collection.
Flashbacks jump to 32 years ago, with a doctor breaking bad news to Patty. Several flashes to this and the scene we have already seen, with Patty at an unknown grave. The resolution? Patty lost a daughter in childbirth. Why is she at the grave? To paraphrase Ellen, she regrets what they did.
Hollis made phone calls to the Feds, who pick up Ellen to get her to work against Patty, since they know where she was just after Fiske’s suicide. Ellen agrees by the end of the episode, telling them:
“She tried to kill me.”
“How do you know?”
“Because I know Patty.”
When we see how everything else unfolds, we see the night Ellen was attacked, including Uncle Pete in the lobby sending the killers ahead. We then see Patty at the beach taking his call and shivering afterward, as the scene cuts between her and the cleanup of her apartment.
The last shot is Ellen on the dock of the beach house with Patty, walking away after agreeing to rejoin the firm…as an agent of the Feds.
Stunning, amazing work all around. Did I say that enough? How about “A shining moment on the TV landscape.” Does that sum it up well enough?
Damages was created, produced and chiefly written by Glenn Kessler, Todd A. Kessler and Daniel Zelman. Production Design by Edward Pisoni. Art Direction by Ellen Waggett. Thanks to IMDB for putting their names out there. They deserve serious credit.
Groundwork is in place for season two. Haven’t heard about renewal, but if Dirt is coming back, no-renewal would be…oh crap, I have to say it, don’t I?...Criminal!
are you out of your mind? This was not at all surprising or in any other way good writing....who didn't see that Patty wasn't behind all of it? The only surprise was the assassin being a police officer...other than that--NO BIG SURPRISES AS PROMISED.
ReplyDeleteI sure hope this worthless show does not come back