Having Glenn Close playing the role of Patty is one of the best things in TV right now… and Damages is quite a show also.
Yesterday, an all new episode of Damages aired, this one the season finale of Damages.
Here, for all ya´spoilers fans…

Complete Recap and Spoilers of Damages 2×13 Season Finale

Back in that motel room with Ray Charles playing. Ellen talking to Patty, picking up the gun. “I lied, too.” Two shots. And then everything goes in reverse, back to Patty arriving at Ellen’s door.

Meeting with Judge Oliver, Walter Kendrick introduces Mr. Bettancourt, UNR’s new general counsel. He says Patty got the info from the SUV through criminal means. Patty, who did steal the car, says it’s ludicrous. The judge says he’ll read their briefs. He keeps Patty behind and says that based on what he’s heard so far, he’s inclined to side with the defense.

Patty gives something to Ellen to file with the judge. The GPS codes. Ellen says they’ll be inadmissable. She asks why Patty fired Tom. Ellen “guesses” that it was because he wouldn’t play ball. Ellen offers again to bribe the judge. Patty can’t because she’s being investigated. Patty says they have to believe in their case. But Judge Oliver doesn’t believe in the system, he believes in money. Ellen starts to leave. Patty stops her, telling her to find out what his terms are.

Wes meets with The Bearded Man in the park, after not having killed Ellen. He tells Beardy so. Beardy’s disappointed. He says Wes just made a big decision. But Wes doesn’t care what he does to him. He walks away.

Tom meets with Ellen at a restaurant. He’s not exactly happy with her. She says he’s better off this way. He thinks her ego is astonishing. Tom says all Ellen had to do was be loyal. Patty fights for people. He asks why Ellen is doing it to her. Ellen pauses and doesn’t answer. He gets up to leave. She warns him not to tip Patty off.

The Bearded Man sits outside Ellen’s hotel and watches her go in. He takes the elevator to her floor. He listens at her door. Then he opens it with a key. The shower is on and Ellen asks if that’s Wes, as the Bearded Man screws in his silencer. “Yea,” Wes answers as he puts a gun to the back of the Bearded Man’s head. “It’s me.” Wes takes Beardy’s gun and tells him the next time he sees him, there won’t be a conversation. Beardy tells him there’s a warrant out for his arrest. Ellen stays in the shower, unaware.

Patty visits Daniel Purcell in jail. “So,” she says, “you really did it?” “Yes.” She takes it in and changes the subject. She still needs him. He knows how UNR conducted their business, he was privy to their fraud. Even if he killed Christine, they helped him cover it up. He tells her to forget her work, pay attention to her life. It’s too late for him. But there will be no more betrayals, no more lies. There’s a difference between him and her, he says. He’s confessed. She gets up to leave. Daniel tells her to tell Michael, their son, that he doesn’t have to be like them.

Ellen meets with the judge, who says the “gift” would go directly to his re-election campaign. He tells Ellen to tell Patty she can contribute “the usual amount.” Ellen will let him know what she decides.

Ellen meets with Patty, asking if they should go ahead with it. Patty says there’s something about it, implying something bothers her. Ellen says they’re out of options, but Patty says there’s still one long shot.

Cut to Finn Garrity, sucking up snootfuls of coke. He answers Patty’s knock at his door. She mentions Dave Pell’s name and he lets her in. She wants him to corroborate how he used GPS coordinates and testify. When he asks why he’d want to do that, she tells him to ask around about her and decide whose side he wants to be on. But she’ll only give him once chance to take her up on it. He says he’ll take his chances.

Ellen walks in to work, where the Bearded Man is waiting for her at the front desk. He identifies himself as Detective Rick Messer and shows her his badge. He looks familiar. He tells her they met while he was investigating David’s murder (when he went back to pick up the flashlight that he and the cop he killed this season left there while killing David – got that?). He wants to talk to her. He shows her a photo of that same cop, who followed Katie on the street that day, the one that he himself shot when Katie spotted him and got his picture. He implies that cop, Eliot Tolkien, was involved with David’s murder. He says he’s there in an unofficial capacity because if he’s right, someone in his department might be trying to stall his investigation. He says there was a partial print on the murder weapon that killed David. He thinks it’s Tolkien’s. He asks her to keep it to herself.

Ellen has coffee with Katie and her PI. He says the detective that came to see her is legit, with a sterling reputation. He sounds like a stand-up guy. Ellen shows him Rick’s file on Tolkien. Katie’s sure that’s who followed her.

Frobisher raves on the phone to his ex-wife about his new green building, the headquarters of his company. He says the future’s looking bright again.

Patty talks to Michael about his college applications. She knows he didn’t apply (because she went through his room). When she asks why not, he says he did it for her. “Because you need a man in your life, and I’m the only one you’ve got,” says her 18-year-old son.

Dave tells Kendrick to relax, the judge will rule in their favor. Dave, who’s pulling the FBI’s strings, knows Patty’s going to bribe him. He tells Kendrick there’s an informant in Patty’s firm, working with the FBI. Kendrick is thrilled. Dave gets buzzed that Finn Garrity is there to see him.

He comes in and asks if Dave killed a woman and says Kendrick has been poisoning people. He tells them Patty came to him. He wants a piece of the company. He’s just crazy enough to talk, he says. They have 24 hours, or he cuts a deal with Patty.

Pete’s wife goes through her closet and finds plastic bags full of money and file folders labled “Boston,” “Arlington,” etc..

Patty goes through them in the office, but it looks like just old pictures. Ellen looks through them, old pictures of Pete. And then she comes to the one of Pete with xx, the man she stabbed that day in Patty’s apartment, the one she thinks she killed. Patty says she doesn’t know who he is.

In bed, Ellen tells Wes that Patty may bribe a judge and the feds might have her in custody, but it’s not enough. She’d only go to jail for a couple years. Ellen asks Wes for the number of the guy who can get her a gun, “for protection.” “Wes, do I look like a killer to you?”

Michael and his age-inappropriate girlfriend Jill come home. Patty says hi. She sips her bourbon calmly and in silence as Michael goes upstairs to change. Jill starts to make small talk, but then Michael curses loudly from upstairs and comes rushing down.

She cleared out his entire room. “You’re not interested in college, fine. But you don’t live here anymore.”

Jill starts to excuse herself, but Patty tells her stay. She wanted him, she’s got him. Patty sent all his stuff to Jill’s. “Isn’t that where you’ll be living?” Patty coos. “You don’t have any children, it’ll be nice to have a boy around the house.”

“When I want another man around the house, I’ll go out and find myself one,” Patty says to her son.

Patty wakes up in the middle of the night to raucous laughter. She walks downstairs and finds Phil, Michael and Tom sharing drinks with the very deceased Ray Fiske and Uncle Pete, and Walter Kendrick. “I thought we took care of this bitch,” Kendrick says. They all laugh at her.

Ellen calls to her from the kitchen. she says they won’t leave. People will always be there, waiting to put a knife in her back. “Remember, Patty,” dream Ellen says, “trust no one.”

Patty wakes up. She picks up the phone and calls Ellen. She comes over and they talk. Patty says the only one who was loyal to her was Uncle Pete, and Ellen. But Ellen hasn’t stuck by her out of loyalty, she believes in what Patty does, Ellen says. Ellen says she knows it’s risky bribing judge Oliver. Patty’s not sure she can trust anyone. Ellen thinks they should do it. Patty agrees. “This time tomorrow, we can both move on,” Ellen says.

Ellen meets with Agent Werner, telling him it’s on. He congratulates her.

Patty sits in a church. Dave Pell comes in. She knows he’s manipulating the energy market and needs Finn Garrity to keep his mouth shut, she says. And he knows she’s about to bribe a judge, he says. She guesses that he’s behind the FBI investigation. She asks if she has an informant in her firm and names Ellen. Dave confirms it. Patty seethes. Dave says Ellen needed very little convincing and they can help each other here.

Dave will call off the feds for good, but she has to forget everything she knows about the energy markets, the brown outs and the merger. She wants Kendrick and evidence UNR knew Aerocyte was toxic. He agrees. Patty wants one more thing: Ellen is going to bribe that judge. She’s acting on her own. She wants the FBI to disown her and arrest her for it. They have a deal.

Pete’s wife visits Ellen, giving her what she found in Pete’s closet. It’s a folder with photos, marked with post-its relating to the day she was attacked, describing how to kill Ellen. She says if Pete did anything bad, it was for Patty.

Ellen tells Wes the evidence won’t mean anything to the police, but she can use it to get Patty to confess to her. Detective (Bearded Man) Messer calls her, saying he has new information for her and wants to discuss it in private. Ellen won’t tell Wes who it was and says he can’t be around today.

Agent Werner answers Dave’s call. He tells him the new plan against Ellen. Copy that.

Ellen and Patty plan to meet, Patty stands over a suitcase of cash. Agent Werner briefs Ellen on how to get Patty on tape. Ellen says she knows the investigation is corrupt. She just wants leeway to try to get Patty to confess to trying to kill her. He says have at it.

In a scene from an earlier episode, Tom tries to get in to see Patty, but her security guard won’t let him in. He says to tell Patty he tried to warn her and he’s filing a suit for wrongful termination.

Ellen calls Wes, to ask about the gun he’s getting her. He says he won’t do it.

Ellen calls Tom, saying she can get the feds off his back.

Finn Garrity’s hooker answers her door. It’s Walter Kendrick, looking for Finn. He hits her, telling her to deliver a message for him.

Ellen calls Bearded Man, saying she’s at the location. In a repeat scene, he gets in his car and looks in his review mirror. He sees Wes sitting there. He swears. And then Wes blasts his face onto his windshield.

A man gives Patty info on Kendrick from Dave Pell.

Finn Garrity talks to his beat-up hooker, who tells him Kendrick did it to her and threatened to kill him. Garrity leaves with a head of steam.

In repeat scene, Wes goes to Ellen’s hotel room. She tells him he can’t be there, but he just needed to see her, (having just saved her life). He kisses her and she lets him in.

In bed, her phone rings, someone saying 10 minutes. She kicks him out (in a replay scene that ends with “don’t be here when I get back.”)

Tom gives Ellen a gun. He hopes she knows what she’s doing. She does.

Wes leaves Ellen’s room, making a phone reservation for the room directly across the hall.

Patty arrives to see Ellen. Ellen turns Ray Charles up loud and closes her shades as Patty takes the elevator. Finn Garrity gets on, looking his usual unstable, coked-up self. He followed her. He says he’ll testify. But she no longer wants his help. He had his shot.

Ellen opens the door for Patty, who is walking stiffly and holding her middle. She’s ashen. She tells Ellen they don’t have much time. Her clipped words and pale face suddenly don’t look like fear exactly. Ellen gets a drink and tells her she shouldn’t be scared. Oh no wait, she should.

Ellen takes out her gun and Patty looks sick. She barely moves in her seat. Werner listens in the van. Ellen hands Patty Pete’s file. She opens it and starts to cry. We see what’s inside: A note that says “the Feds are watching us.”

Patty’s look of shock now seems completely different given this information. Ellen says what always comes next: “It looks like you’re not going to tell me the truth after all.” In the van, Werner gets impatient.

“It’s OK,” Ellen says, “I lied, too.” She shoots — over Patty’s shoulder (those marksman lessons paid off). She kills the TV, the surveillance camera. Werner races to the room. She tells Patty she’s an informant for the feds. “Working for you this past year, I think I understand you,” Ellen says. “You’re corrupt, narcissistic, cruel – but so is the rest of the world.” Patty, looking really stricken now, agrees. (Remember, Patty leaves this apartment bloody.)

Ellen doesn’t want her in jail, she wants to hear the words. She walks her back through the Frobisher case, Patty saying Ray’s suicide pushed her to the edge.

Patty says she was afraid, Ellen knew too much about her. So she told Pete… (long crying pause)…”I told Pete to have you killed.”

“Thank you, Patty,” Ellen says. Then she picks up the gun. “Go ahead,” Patty says. “No, you’re just going to have to live with this,” Ellen says. “The feds are waiting for you to bribe the judge so, I guess we’re just going to have to find another way of winning the case.”

Patty realizes Ellen is letting her off the hook. The truth is actually setting her free? Patty tells Ellen to give the brief case to the judge. “You’ll have to trust me, Ellen,” Patty says.

Ellen takes the brief case and leaves. Wes follows, but misses the elevator.

Downstairs, Ellen goes out the side exit.

Patty walks haltingly out of Ellen’s room, smeared with blood and near collapse.

Flash back to Patty in the elevator with Finn, saying she doesn’t need his help, she’s made her decision. “Yes, you have,” he says, taking out a knife, “and you’re not going to send me to jail.” He stabs her several times. “Bad decision,” he says.

“Oh my god,” she says, more surprised than anything. Then she sees Ray Fiske. He tells her there are things far worse than death, like living with lies. “You know what you’ve done, now you have a chance to set things right,” he says.

He tells her not to worry about dying and to face her fears, and herself.

She walks to Ellen’s door and suddenly her stiff and sick appearance when Ellen greeted her makes total sense.

After, she walks into the elevator, bloody, and slides to the floor.

Werner races in the hotel from the van (how far away was he parked?) and finds Patty in the elevator. Wes races down the stairway. Werner calls Dave Pell, telling him his informant just shot Patty. Dave tells him to get to the courthouse. If Patty dies, it’s not their problem. Werner leaves.

Wes finds Patty.

Ellen goes to the courthouse.

On a stretcher, Patty asks Wes who he is.

Werner busts in on Ellen and the judge, cuffing them both. As he’s leading them away, US Marshals, including Tom’s sister, stop Werner. Tom watches as Werner is taken into custody.

Ellen looks at Tom, dumbfounded. She asks what’s going on.

In an interrogation room, Werner listens to a tape of Patty talking to Dave Pell in the church. Tom’s US Attorney sister asks how Werner knows Pell. He wants a deal.

Ellen and Tom watch. Patty set everything up. When she figured it out, she called Tom, who called his sister. Cut to Dave Pell and Walter Kendrick being arrested.

One Month Later.

Patty looks out on the water at her cabin. Tom drops by, asking how she’s feeling. The EPA has begun the clean-up in West Virginia. Still no word from Ellen. Her phone’s disconnected and Tom’s e-mails are bouncing back. She checked out of the hotel weeks ago.

Ellen talks to David’s grave. Things didn’t turn out the way she thought they would, but she got what she needed, for now.

Tom asks what Patty said in her hotel room.

Ellen tells David she met someone. She thinks David would like him.

Patty says she’s going to stay at the shore for a while, but to let her know when Ellen calls. Tom doesn’t think they’ll hear from her.

Ellen tells David she got a new job offer and she thinks she’s going to take it.

Ellen will be back, Patty tells Tom smiling. “Trust me.”

Patty strolls out along the dock and Ellen walks away from David’s grave, two women, unafraid.

Author: melanie809 for IMDB