12. You Were His Little Monkey

Complete story — includes the ending

For the sake of the case, Tom resigns from the firm after Judge Reilly uncovers his financial troubles. Tom is later seen purchasing the car that rams Patty off the road. Albert Wiggins is arrested, and Len bails him out. Josh Reston receives a tip from an informant on the police force and turns the information over to Ellen, who tells Patty the real Leonard Winstone died in a car accident decades before and Leonard is in fact Lester Wiggins, Albert's son. Ellen leaks the information to Joe Tobin, who confronts Leonard and disowns him. Tom's wife kicks him out and in his desperation, he turns to Leonard, who offers to restore Tom's finances and reputation in return for immunity from prosecution. Meanwhile, Jill accepts Patty's offer to walk out of Michael's life for the price half a million dollars, but instead she uses the money to buy an apartment and a Jaguar for Michael. Patty learns from Terry Brooke that Frobisher may have paid to have David Connor killed, and she and Ellen take the information to the D.A., Curtis Gates. Later, Ellen reveals to Patty that Tom leaked his finances to Judge Reilly to set up his own resignation, to free himself to make a deal with Leonard that would allow them to bring the Tobin family down.