Damages
Tell Me I'm Not Racist
TV Flash files “Tell Me I'm Not Racist” as hour 36 of 59 in the TV Flash guide — Damages (2007–2012) on FX/Audience, season 3, episode 10, aired 2010-03-29, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E10: listed hour 36 of 59 in the Damages guide, hour 10 of 13 in season 3. It aired 2010-03-29 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Drive It Through Hardcore” (S03E09). Next is “All That Crap About Your Family” (S03E11).
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With Patty's help, Ellen hires her investigator, Malcolm, to look into her sister's drug case. She also asks him to look into her own background and particularly her one time babysitter, Ann. Patty meanwhile is under threat of removal from the Tobin case when a group petitions the judge in the case to remove her. She explains the lead with Tessa Marchetti but he gives her one week to come up with something concrete or she's out. Tom wants to lean on Tessa but Patty flatly refuses. Under ever increasing financial pressure, Tom ignores Patty's orders and approaches Tessa pushing the young woman into the arms of the DA. Marilyn Tobin meanwhile is outraged that the charity she has supported for many years will not allow her to make the annual trip to Africa. She suggests to Ray Winstone that he get Stuart Zedeck to help her out.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Tell Me I'm Not Racist sit in the Damages guide?
S03E10 is listed hour 36 of 59 — hour 10 of 13 in season 3, season 3 episode 10.
When did Damages S03E10 air?
Tell Me I'm Not Racist aired 2010-03-29 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.
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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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