[DMG] Uh Oh. Out Come The Skeletons.

TV Programme: Damages
Season: 2
Episode: 10
Date I watched this episode: 14/03/2009
Time since I last watched this programme: 7 days.

So...everyone is working for Dave Pell? This is a bit of a twist. I'm still not really sure who Dave Pell is. He seems to have an insane amount of power; I'm also still not quite sure what he means when he says "is it?" in response to Kendrick's "this is my company we're talking about." I also don't know what his endgame is in employing FBI agents separately and paying them for basically no reason. But this was a good twist, though it was revealed a bit too slowly this episode; you could hear that "Pam" was a man right from the start of the episode.

Meanwhile Rick Messer is being equally evil and manipulative. I mean, Wes has appeared to be trying to organise to kill Ellen (asking her for a quiet weekend away...) but in light of what he knows now, it is completely unreasonable to still have to do it. Wes must have done something really bad to be manipulated like this.

Claire Maddox and Patty faced off to good effect. I would like to see more of these two pitted against each other. The other Maddox storylines in this episode though - tensions with Kendrick, chats with Purcell (who has demonstrated that he is completely superfluous to this entire season), and especially the thing with her dad - were weak.

What is going on with Michael's girlfriend? He seems to be getting it on with that tatooed girl right in front of the lady who is supposedly his "actual" girlfriend. Patty detects that she is being manipulated but Michael is just too good at it. Her anger comes through spectacularly when she threatens to rip the lady's face off. There is more going on than meets the eye though and I'm sure this story will continue in future episodes.

Predictably the "I Lied, Too" scene was playing over and over in the episode with very little added until the very end. The question now is how Patty managed to escape? Did she kill Ellen? Or is this part of some wider plot that has yet to be revealed... Other strange things from this episode are: who is watching Claire and Danny on the monitor? And what was going on between Ellen and that guy in the bar - they looked like they were getting into each other and then he disappeared...?

Next episode is called "London. Of Course." Let's predict that this one is said by Phil Hewes when talking about the energy secretary position to Dave Pell. This episode was just pretty average but hopefully we will get some actual answers next time around.