- Having been told by his father that some money from investors has been hidden for the family's use, Joe Tobin struggles with whether he should tell Patty Hewes or conspire with his father. Tom Shayes tracks the telephone number given them by Joe Tobin to a cellphone now in possession of a homeless man who found it in a dumpster. He also finds a pair of expensive boots belonging to Louis Tobin and a trail of expenses suggesting the man had a mistress with the initials DMM. He turns to Ellen for help in identifying the her. Shayes also receives some devastating news about his own investment portfolio. Meanwhile, Patty Hewes and Phil Grey's divorce is not going well; he has an interesting proposition for her however. In a flash forward to six months into the future, it is revealed that one of the principal characters has died.—garykmcd
- We begin mid-scene. Louis Tobin tells his son Joe that, in fact, there's a lot of money out there, waiting. Arrangements have been made, he'll let him know.
Joe wonders why he shouldn't just go to Patty Hewes, turn his dad in. His dad says even if he goes to Patty, who's ever going to trust him? He has to pick between his family and Patty Hewes.
Patty calls a cell phone. It's answered by a homeless man in the street.
6 Months Later Detective Vic Huntley (Tom Noonan) comes into an interrogation room to speak to the homeless man. He shows him a photo of a dead man and asks if he knows him. It's Tom Shayes. (Tate Donovan) (Roll credits)
Patty Hewes and her soon-to-be ex-husband Phil Grey, with lawyers present, attempt to negotiate the terms of their divorce. Patty won't budge on the apartment. She flings the fact Phil has a girlfriend in his face and says she has nothing to hide.
Phil only wishes he could have asked Ray Fiske about that (Fiske killed himself in front of Patty in the first season). "You are not getting the apartment," she tells him. And that's it for the day.
Tom calls Patty to report he found their mystery phone call recipient -- the homeless guy.
Joe tells his family lawyer Lenny (Martin Short) about the money his dad hid. Lenny says he can't stop the fact that Joe's dad is going to prison so he'll go along with whatever he wants. Joe wants to tell Patty and get the money back to the investors, but worries what his mom will live on.
Joe gets a call telling him his apartment is being seized. The homeless man, Barry, takes Tom to where he found the phone -- a Dumpster that also had clothes, shoes and two suitcases in it. It's been emptied. Barry shows him some cowboy boots he found. Tom wants to buy them off him. The homeless guy demands Tom's watch in return.
We check in on Ellen Parsons, working on her fraud case in the D.A.'s office. She brushes off a coworker's advances.
Joe tries to console his wife (Reiko Aylesworth), who's upset about them losing their things. She tells him she's taking their son to live with her parents. She doesn't think things will ever blow over because of his family name.
6 Months Later Detective Huntley asks the homeless guy again if he knows the dead guy. The homeless guy remembers him as Tommy, a good guy who he helped. The homeless guy is wearing Tom's watch. Huntley accuses Barry of killing Tom.
Flash back. Tom brings his bounty back to Patty -- Louis Kenneth Tobin's custom made boots. He traced them to a shop where Tobin also spent thousands on women's clothes and wanted them embroidered with the initials DMM -- not his wife's. Tom thinks Tobin might have called this woman the night his life was falling apart.
In her apartment, Patty tries and fails, to get the dog to eat. He won't. She calls someone, saying she needs help. Phil comes over. The vet thinks the dog is fine, whatever's going on is emotional. She wants Phil to take the dog for a few days because she won't be home much. He agrees.
Joe stops by an AA meeting to talk to his sponsor about a decision he has to make. He can't give specifics, so he uses a life boat analogy, asking who you feed if you don't have enough food. The man says if family's most important to him, he should choose family.
Tom asks a dude named Roger to check his investor diary for the initials DMM. Roger lingers. He doesn't know how to say what he needs to. He hands Tom a file. We briefly see graphs with sharp drops. The color drains out of Tom's face and he only tells Roger not to tell Patty about it.
6 Months Later Another cop tells Huntley that the victim is Shayes, the same guy who owned the car that hit Patty.
Back in the present, Joe meets with Patty, upset that his home was seized. He asks if she'd help him if he gave her information. He wants his assets unfrozen. Patty says she's not there to make a deal and doesn't believe Joe knew nothing about his father's fraud. Patty says whether he clears his conscience or not is up to him.
Tom tells Patty that DMM doesn't show up connected to Tobin anywhere.
6 Months Later Huntley presents the homeless guy with a women's purse he found in his shopping cart. He wants to know about the ID that came in it. It belongs to Ellen Parsons. The homeless guy says she's the one they should be looking for. He says she and Tom had a thing going on.
Back to the present, Tom and Ellen meeting for coffee. He needs her help, from the DA's office. He gives her the initials. He makes a pitch that if the DA locks the Tobins up the victims will never get their money back. She says no. He says cryptically that he's not just asking as a friend.
Cut to Phil in the park with his girlfriend, playing fetch with the dog, who is pepped up and cheery. The girlfriend thinks Patty lending the dog is another manipulation and he should tell her he's keeping it.
Joe tells his dad that he wants the money. Louis is glad to hear it. Joe doesn't want to know any details about the fraud or where he's keeping it and they can't speak again, except through Lenny, the lawyer.
He tells his dad there's another issue. He gave the phone number his dad called on Thanksgiving to Patty. His dad says that's OK, it can't hurt them. He won't let his dad tell him who it was.
Ellen gets drinks with the guy in her office who was hitting on her earlier, trying to get the names she needs to find DMM. He agrees, after she says she owes Tom.
6 Months Later Huntley tells the homeless guy they haven't been able to get in touch with Ellen.
Cut to her office, still 6 months later, her coworker giving her the news about Tom.
Back in the present, Patty brings Tom an envelope from the DA's office. She guesses he went to Ellen. He looks at the file: Danielle Maria Marchetti, a hot younger woman.
They meet with Joe and ask about her. He says he doesn't know her. They tell him about the $14,000 in clothes his dad bought for her. They think she's who he called on Thanksgiving. She was the receptionist at his health club.
Ellen finds Tom on the street and asks if he's OK. He says he's still really shaken and doesn't want Patty to know because she'll think he's on a vendetta. He tells Ellen he has to go tell his wife they lost everything.
At home, his wife struggles to understand. They didn't invest with Tobin but they did invest with Leveritt, a feeder fund to Tobin. Tom didn't know. Both of their parents and Tom's whole family is invested with the fund.
6 Months Later Ellen visits Tom's wife, Deb, and gives her condolences, saying she knows it's a horrible time, but she really needs to know who else knew about her and Tom.
Back to the present, where Phil brings the dog home happy to Patty. She shows him a bottle of Scotch she found, which he reminds her he brought back from Mitterand in France. They were saving it for a special occasion. He says warmly that he doesn't want it because it would feel wrong to drink it with anyone else.
Joe confronts his father about Danielle. His dad apologizes lamely. Joe asks if Patty would be able to find Danielle. Louis says she's staying at Joe's sister's old place. Louis assures him she knows nothing. Joe leaves.
Lenny checks in with Louis. Lenny knew about Danielle. Louis wants Danielle out of the country so Patty can't subpoena her.
Patty and Phil share the bottle. Phil tells her to take the apartment. Then he says spending time with the dog made him think about something...he asks if she'd consider giving them another shot.
She laughs. Then coldly she says with Michael out of the house, she doesn't need him anymore, and she certainly doesn't want him. And that's the end of happy Scotch time.
Cut to recovering alcoholic Joe drinking from the bottle outside a house. Then he stumbles to the door and confronts Danielle, who he clearly knows. He wants to know how long it's been going on. He smashes a photo of her with his dad before he stumbles back to his car for more drinking.
Cut to Tom briefing Patty on the fact Danielle just got an expedited passport, which means Joe lied to them.
Back to Danielle's, where she's looking for her cat and sees it outside, behind Joe's car. He's got the music blaring when he guns it into reverse- just as Danielle races behind his car. He gets out and sees her lying there.
6 Months Later Huntley gets the ME's report. Tom had three wounds, two in the stomach, one on his leg. None of them were fatal.
Cut to Ellen on a bridge as Huntley hears how Tom died: He drowned.
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