Damages
Drive It Through Hardcore
TV Flash files “Drive It Through Hardcore” as hour 35 of 59 in the TV Flash guide — Damages (2007–2012) on FX/Audience, season 3, episode 9, aired 2010-03-22, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E09: listed hour 35 of 59 in the Damages guide, hour 9 of 13 in season 3. It aired 2010-03-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “I Look Like Frankenstein” (S03E08). Next is “Tell Me I'm Not Racist” (S03E10).
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Patty and Tom focus on getting in touch with Carol Tobin to see if they can learn from her what may have happened on that fateful Thanksgiving day when her father Louis confessed to them that his financial empire was a Ponzi scheme. Her brother Joe and family lawyer Leonard Winstone have her tucked away in an apartment and have convinced her not to leave. A visit to her psychiatrist however gives them the opening to contact her. Her information reveals someone is lying. Ellen meanwhile has to deal with a family crisis when she learns that her sister Carrie has been arrested and charged with a serious drug offence. Her boss makes it quite clear that she is to remain clear of the case and avoid any hint of favoritism. In a flash forward two months into the future, Tom Shayes gives Patty his resignation.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Drive It Through Hardcore sit in the Damages guide?
S03E09 is listed hour 35 of 59 — hour 9 of 13 in season 3, season 3 episode 9.
When did Damages S03E09 air?
Drive It Through Hardcore aired 2010-03-22 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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- Glenn Close as Patty Hewes
Glenn Close's Patty Hewes billed loyalty as a weapon on Damages — a smile like a closing argument, time shuffled so the betrayal is already in the room, Rose Byrne's associate walking in anyway. Legal television as psychological…
- Rose Byrne as Ellen Parsons
Rose Byrne’s Ellen Parsons walked into Damages already betrayed — 2000s catalog legal bloodsport, Glenn Close’s smile as a closing argument, then Physical and Mrs. America turning the same nerve into aerobics empire and ERA combat. TV…
- Tate Donovan as Tom Shayes
Tate Donovan bled Damages as Tom Shayes — Glenn Close's Patty Hewes billing loyalty as a weapon, time shuffled so the betrayal is already in the room, legal television as psychological bloodsport. Not a tidy verdict. TV Flash files him as…
- Zeljko Ivanek as Ray Fiske
Zeljko Ivanek’s Ray Fiske bled Damages from inside the firm — Glenn Close’s Patty Hewes billing loyalty as a weapon, time shuffled so the betrayal is already in the room, Rose Byrne walking in anyway. Legal television as psychological…
- William Hurt as Daniel Purcell
William Hurt’s Daniel Purcell walked Damages as prestige guest weather — Glenn Close’s Patty Hewes billing loyalty as a weapon, time shuffled so the betrayal is already in the room, Rose Byrne’s associate walking in anyway. Legal…
- Marcia Gay Harden as Claire Maddox
Marcia Gay Harden billed loyalty as a weapon beside Glenn Close on Damages as Claire Maddox — legal television as psychological bloodsport, time shuffled so the betrayal is already in the room, Rose Byrne walking in anyway. A…