Damages
But You Don't Do That Anymore
TV Flash files “But You Don't Do That Anymore” as a desk essential hour — Damages (2007–2012) on FX/Audience, season 5, episode 10, aired 2012-09-12, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E10: listed hour 59 of 59 in the Damages guide, last listed hour of season 5. It aired 2012-09-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “I Like Your Chair” (S05E09). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “But You Don't Do That Anymore”. But You Don't Do That Anymore is the series closer — legal TV as psychological blood sport, the smile finally billed as a last argument.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Patty and Ellen face off against each other in court, and the shocking results alter their lives forever.
Viewer FAQ
Where does But You Don't Do That Anymore sit in the Damages guide?
S05E10 is listed hour 59 of 59 — last listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 10.
When did Damages S05E10 air?
But You Don't Do That Anymore aired 2012-09-12 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.…
Filed against
- Glenn Close as Patty Hewes
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- 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…