13. The Next One's Gonna Go in Your Throat

Complete story — includes the ending

Patty, Ellen, and Tom decided to make a deal with Leonard Winstone so they can win the Tobin case. But Patty tries to call the deal off when she gets cold feet and decides to accept losing the case. Tom, however, lies to Ellen and says that Patty let him go through with it. The deal goes awry when one of Zedeck's men finds Tom and stabs him three times when Tom won't give up Winstone's location. Winstone ultimately shows up and is attacked by Zedeck's man. Tom turns on Zedeck's man and bludgeons him to death. Tom then manages to make his way to home, where a drunk Joe Tobin is waiting for him. Joe fell off the wagon when Marilyn told him his father had committed the fraud to protect him when Joe promised unrealistic returns to clients. Joe drowns Tom in a toilet and throws his body in a dumpster. Marilyn, after being disowned by Joe for her lies, commits suicide by jumping off a bridge into the East River. Patty also has to deal with Jill, who didn't leave Michael despite the deal they had made. Patty has Jill arrested for statutory rape using the chromosomal reports Michael had given her. It is revealed it was Michael, infuriated with his mother, who rammed into her with Tom's car. Joe is arrested, and Patty gets him to confess to Tom's murder. Wes returns and tells Ellen about Rick Messer. Ellen says she has moved on, but Wes, feeling she deserves justice, goes after Frobisher and turns him in for David's murder, having to turn himself in during the process. Len, who survived the attack thanks to the homeless man finding and reviving him, is last seen at an airport, planning to flee the country. The episode ends at Patty's lake house, where Ellen asks Patty if everything she has done in her career was worth it, but Patty does not reply. Through Patty's flashbacks, we learn that the reason for Patty's recurring dreams of a horse is she petted one the day she decided to force the miscarriage of her still-born daughter Julia, so that she could go to New York and become an attorney.