Damages
Your Secrets Are Safe
TV Flash files “Your Secrets Are Safe” as the first listed hour of season 3 — Damages (2007–2012) on FX/Audience, season 3, episode 1, aired 2010-01-25, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E01: listed hour 27 of 59 in the Damages guide, first listed hour of season 3. It aired 2010-01-25 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Trust Me” (S02E13). Next is “The Dog Is Happier Without Her” (S03E02).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Almost a year has passed since Ellen Parsons left Hewes and Associates. She is now working in the District Attorney's office and is dealing with a fairly important drug case, trying to get a dealer to reveal the identity of his supplier. Patty Hewes is now acting on behalf of a group of investors trying to recover money they had entrusted to Louis Tobin and who, it turns out, was running a Ponzi scheme. With billions of dollars unaccounted for, Patty is trying to find any funds that may have been hidden by the Tobin family. Patty and Ellen have had no contact since her departure but Patty has been reluctant to re-assign her office, convinced that Ellen will return. She even sends her an expensive handbag. Ellen wants nothing to do with her however and when she thinks Patty may be interfering with her drug case, tells her she doesn't need any help. She also tells her that any secrets she may have are perfectly safe. In a flash-forward 6 months into the future, Patty Hewes is in a serious accident when another car broadsides her vehicle in an intersection. The occupant of the other vehicle has fled but it is registered to someone she knows.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Your Secrets Are Safe sit in the Damages guide?
S03E01 is listed hour 27 of 59 — first listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 1.
When did Damages S03E01 air?
Your Secrets Are Safe aired 2010-01-25 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is Damages a procedural I can sample any week?
No. Nonlinear seasons keep the betrayal already in the room. The associate walks in anyway — psychological bloodsport, not a tidy verdict.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Glenn Close's Patty Hewes bills loyalty as a weapon and smiles like a closing argument. Damages shuffles time so the betrayal is already in the room, then sends Rose Byrne's associate walking in anyway. Legal television as psychological bloodsport, not a tidy verdict.
Flash: Glenn Close smiles like a closing argument and the timeline is already fractured. Patty Hewes takes a young associate under her wing as cases turn into moral bloodbaths — loyalty billed as a weapon, betrayal already in the room. Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelman's series (2007–2012) made Rose Byrne's Ellen walk in anyway. Tate Donovan, Željko Ivanek, William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden orbit a legal thriller that shuffles time so the knife is always twisting. Close won multiple Emmys for Patty.…
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- Zeljko Ivanek as Ray Fiske
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- William Hurt as Daniel Purcell
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- Marcia Gay Harden as Claire Maddox
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