She Spat at Me

Season 1, Episode 6, Aired
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Episode Recap

Ellen secretly confronts a bruised Gregory and urges him to reveal a name or else, she would have to subpoena him. Even with Ellen's offer of protection, Greg still fears for his life and doesn't give in. She then mentions her run-in with Greg to Tom and Patty, who plans on slapping a subpoena on Greg after 24 hours of non-response.

Greg, who is getting tired of being put in his awful position, approaches his "handler" to tell him that he wants his life back. Frobisher's man just dismisses his plea.

Meanwhile, Fiske is suffering from a bad case of insomnia. Arthur is with him in his office and talks to him about a woman who spat at him while he was watching a basketball game. Wanting to reclaim his good name, Frobisher proposes to Ray that they should have someone write a memoir detailing his financial struggles in the past and his battle with dyslexia. While Arthur wants it to be published immediately, Fiske advises that they postpone it until after the trial.

Ellen persuades David to come with her for a dinner with Patty and her husband. David initially resists but eventually agrees to go. Later at the park, David encounters Lila, the granddaughter of one of his patients who was previously hitting on him. This time, she asks him to come up her apartment to look at some medical equipment left there after her grandfather died. Later, after a fight between Ellen and David, he obliges and goes up to Lila's apartment to check on the equipment.

Ray consults with Frobisher about the ghostwriter he found to write his biography. The writer insists that he needs to include everything about Arthur including the shady deals made by his company.

During their dinner with Patty and Phil, David becomes uncomfortable with being there and not having much common ground with their hosts. He is unable to conceal his feelings and Ellen later apologizes to Patty for him in the kitchen. Patty just gives Ellen some discouraging remarks about David.

As they get home, Ellen and David get into another huge fight after he feels he was forced to sit and pretend in front of Patty. Ellen says that he should get used to being around Hewes and that dinners like the one they had is part of her job.

Ellen meets up with Greg, who is about to reveal more when he suddenly holds back and leaves Ellen after seeing a man watching them. Greg's handler then goes to Frobisher to discuss a new strategy on how to take care of the Greg problem.

Later, Arthur visits George, the hired ghostwriter, to discuss the book and show him things from his childhood, but their discussion escalates into a full-on argument. Frobisher, who gets insulted and is asked to leave, then assaults George with one of his school awards leaving George bleeding. Frobisher is charged with assault and makes the newspaper headlines.

In the meantime, David phones Lila to ask her if he left his keys at her place. She denies it and after ending the conversation, calls out to his, as it turns out, still-alive grandfather.

While Greg is on his way home, he encounters the blonde girl who earlier set him up to be beaten. And as the girl is about to reach into her purse "for her number", she is shot by the man who previously spooked Greg when he met with Ellen earlier. The shooter turns out to be a hired gun of Patty tasked to protect him. Terrified, Greg runs to Ray's apartment pleading for help.

Back at Ellen's place, David finds their front door open as he comes home. He picks up one of the Statue of Liberty bookends in case someone has broken into the apartment, but then sees Ellen in the bathtub relaxing. He joins her in the tub as Lila watches from the front door of their apartment.

In the flash forwards, Ellen is seen with a dead body in Patty's apartment. Hollis Nye talks to Patty in the police station after the investigators get back from the clean apartment. Also, the cops learn that during the night David is killed, he received six calls from a girl named Lila. When the cops question her, she claims to have been seeing David for about four months.
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