Lies

Season 1, Episode 4, Aired
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Joey Ice Cream meets his long-suffering prison counselor, Mr. Happy Harisson, who unlike his name suggests, is the world's biggest pessimist, getting more and more frustrated as Joey continues to tell lie after lie. When Tommy tries to cash out the rest of his tuition money, he is informed that someone has already canceled his tuition.moreless
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  • In order to pay off Nicky, Tommy makes a deal with Dokey

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    By diecaro, Mar 31, 2007 Report Abuse
    Tommy tries to be hard and cool telling Nicky he won't pay. And for a sec you believe him, but then everyone understands that he is so desperate to protect his family. That's really his only weekness. That - and Jenny... He's going through so much and leaving all his morals behind in order to protect them. He's being pulled into that gangster chaos deeper and deeper and there soon won't be a way out. I mean he's stealing from a woman he lately made a widow.
    He must be really tortured about it all...
    Did I mention the whole Joey Icecream storyline is confusing me? Is he telling it all and is it not true?? Or is his counselor just saying it's all lies and it's still the true story we're hearing??moreless

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  • Tommy must find a way to pay Nicky Catero the $2500 a week that he owes. What Tommy enters into is a tangled web of lies.

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    By ZDonnelly85, Mar 21, 2007 Report Abuse
    Admittedly, this episode is a little slow moving. But then again, drama is not synonomous with action. I liked this episode about as wel as the last one. Tommy continues to find himself faced with one problem after another. He seems to find a solution each time, but at the price of just another small piece of his soul. In this episode Dokie promises to make Tommy's problem with Nicky Catero go away if he will steal a box from Hughie's office. Tommy has to lie to Kate, Hughie's widow, in order to do this. Tommy is just diggning himself in deeper and deeper each week. It will be very interesting to see how things turn out as the final six episodes of this season unfold...and hopefully many more to come.moreless

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  • Tommy has to deal with his problem with Nicky, which forces him to weigh his own morality against his family's safety.

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    By RunYetiRun, Mar 20, 2007 Report Abuse
    I tagged this one "series classic", which on the surface seems kind of dumb; there's only been 4 episodes of this show. It makes sense, however, because this is my far the strongest and best episode yet. The characters are finally starting to even out, the writers are starting to find a groove, and the show's mythology is starting to take shape.

    Big kudos to the writers for getting Jimmy to a place where he is palatable. The past three weeks I've thought he was too much of a screw up and too destructive to be believable. This week, I thought he finally got to a place where he was a screw-up, but was still kind of likeable. And Joey grows on me week by week.

    Tommy keeps growing too. I liked his interaction with Jenny at the bar at the end of the episode. He showed a harder side of himself which I think works great for the character. I especially liked that Kate Mulgrew's role is expanding. She does a great job as a tough-as-nails single mother of 4 boys.

    The scene at the end was fantastic too. Tommy confronting Nicky, and Nicky realizing that maybe there's something to this kid after all. Up until this point I'd been watching Donnelly's almost with a sense that it was on probation, that I was waiting to see if I'd keep watching it. After this episode I'm definitely going to stick around.moreless

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  • A truly great episode.

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    By LostZuko, Mar 20, 2007 Report Abuse
    This installment of of Black Donnelys was great, showing how the lies that Jimmy told have affected his life and see as well Sean finally out of the hospital. It was sad to see the decision Tommy had to made to take the money so he could pay off Nicky cottero. That guy is a bad dude, but his character is awesome to see what he will do get the money back. The show last night was overall great, seemed to reveal that Tommy really would go to a good length to help his family, even lie to a woman then when a son finds out, he feels so much worse. It was a sad but godo episode.moreless

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  • Tommy finds himself in trouble as louis's men want the weekly payout as they threaten him at his home. Tommy finds ways to get this money to those men.

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    By kalsirsk, Mar 20, 2007 Report Abuse
    This episode was great, good way to get this story moving. Tommy has to make decisions that could ruin everything, just to get that money paid. This man is a solider. I believe this was one of the best episodes i have seen so far but then again i like this show so i have to say they are all great. I personnaly liked how he brushed off Jenny at the end because she had chose anothr man right before his eyes as she came back to apologize. Make her feel bad, she did wrong. All and all great episode.moreless

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    • Beginning with this episode, after the end credits, Joey can be seen and heard getting in one more last word. Edit

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    • International Airdates: - Denmark: December 18, 2007 on Kanal 5 Edit
    • Music: "Losing" by Tina Dico "40' " by Franz Ferdinand "Goodnight Moon" by Shivaree "Cobrastyle" by Teddybears featuring Mad Cobra "Shelter" by Ray LaMontagne "Hold You In My Arms" by Ray Lamontagne Edit

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    • (Helen gives a whole bowl of salad to Sean) Kevin: What about me? Helen: There's not enough for you. Have another piece of bread. Kevin: That's not fair. Helen: Should've thought about that when you let Tommy steal my casserole. Go out and eat. You haven't been out of my hair all day. Kevin: I don't wanna go out. Helen: Have some squash. Kevin: I don't like squash. I don't even like saying it. Edit
    • Tommy: Matthew's a good kid. Kate: I always feel bad because he's an only-child. Must be great having a lot of brothers. Tommy: I don't know about great. But it's a lot of headache. Edit
    • (About Nicky) Kevin: Tommy, let's rob someone and give him his money or let's kill him! Tommy: Kevin... relax. Edit

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    • Title "For a moment the lie becomes the truth" The title of the episode comes from this quote by Dostoevsky. Edit

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