3. Failure Is Failure

Complete story — includes the ending

Ellen confronts Channing about the video in the hotel corridor where he allegedly meets Naomi. He confesses that he has met with Naomi twice. Once in Rome and the second time in the hotel room briefly before her suicide. He claims that they only discussed the arrangements of their agreement without anything happening between them. As a result Ellen deposes Rachel Walling who gives her a different story. Namely her mother had met Channing twice, but they had sex the first time while the second he tried to rape her. As a proof she has Channing's damaged cigarette box which he had thrown in the wall while threatening her mother. After days of seeming defeat, Ellen questions Rachel about the last phone call she had with her mother. Rachel says that her mother called and they talked briefly about their mutual love and they said their goodbyes. However, Ellen, through the phone records proving that the last phone call lasted only two seconds, proves that Rachel may be lying about everything she claims she knows about her mother. After successfully deposing Rachel, Ellen celebrates with Chris only to be interrupted by her grieving mother. At the end the new associate of Ellen's, Kate Franklin, appears at Patty's apartment telling Patty that "he" is dying and that Patty should finally contact him. Leaving the identity of the man or Kate's relationship with Patty unknown.