I love the way Damages uses those little flash-forwards to keep giving us more and more clues as to the final episode. As tvjunkie said in the comments a couple weeks ago, nothing in this show is what it seems, and now there’s even more mystery surrounding the scene where Patty is sitting across the table from Ellen and her gun -– which she says isn’t loaded.
So who’s the shooter? And who gets shot? After this week’s episode, we still don’t know, but I’m dying to find out. The episode was going along fairly mundanely until we got to the final scene. That’s when I wrote “Holy Crap” in my notes.
The “Holy Crap!” pertains to Patty stumbling out of the room all shaken up and smearing blood on her face, into the elevator at which point it looks like she might pass out. Some questions:
Who’s the shooter? All clues point to Ellen, because she’s the one with the gun. Then again, she SAYS it isn’t loaded, but she also says, “I lied, too,” so maybe the gun really IS loaded and she shoots Patty. The “I lied, too” might pertain to her dealings with the FBI. Remember, nothing is as it seems in this show.
Who gets shot? Again, the clues point to Patty. She does, after all, stumble out of the room in a bloody daze. So she’s either been shot and is trying to get away from the scene before she passes out. OR … Patty is the one who shot Ellen, and it’s Ellen’s blood on her face and she’s just freaked out over the whole thing, hence the elevator scene.
What’s the motive? Ellen is the one who’s got the goods on Patty with the FBI, so it makes sense for Patty to take Ellen out so she could walk free. On the other hand, Ellen’s got plenty of reasons to shoot Patty: she believes Patty tried to have her killed. Ellen’s got the FBI listening in outside in a van, and maybe she just snapped while trying to get Patty to say something. We’ve got the FBI guy hearing the shots and racing into the building. I wonder if he meets up with Patty in the elevator.
What are your thoughts on this episode? Who do you think gets shot in that final scene?
Clacked by Jane Boursaw 
on Mar 14, 2009 @ 11:00 EST5EDT
I think bearded cop is involved in some way, but he had a silencer. Also before the shot of bloody Glenn Close I thought she just shot the camera or mic or whatever the FBI guy was listening with. But the blood makes me suspect a 3rd party because there still is another season of Patty/Ellen to forward to and Ellen shooting Patty would kill any chance of that.