9. I Like Your Chair

Complete story — includes the ending

Rutger pleads ignorance to Channing about his knowledge of funding from Torben. Ellen assigns her PI to locate Patrick Scully. Patrick conducts his own espionage of Ellen's offices. He later breaks in with the intention of killing Ellen but is forced to leave due to complications. Patrick is eventually located by tricking him into confronting Ellen on the office rooftop. He is then blackmailed and forced at gunpoint into testifying against Patty in Michael's custody case, being forced to admit that Patty did try to kill Ellen five years ago. Patty conducts her depositions of Channing's team, but instead uses this time as a chance to confront Rutger about Torben and Rutger's involvement with Fund 23. Rutger once more pleads ignorance, though Channing becomes enraged at this and later fires Rutger. Torben and Herreshoff privately express a willingness to eliminate Rutger if need be. Ellen later meets with Torben and proposes an arrangement to protect their interests in order to win the case. Rutger offers his services to Patty in an attempt to destroy Channing and secure funding for his own future ventures. Ellen's father, blaming her for problems in his marriage, confronts Ellen but is warded away when Ellen pulls a gun on him. Flashbacks show Naomi engaging in an affair with Channing back in Rome, with Rutger furious about this. Rutger later colluded with Herreshoff to protect him from the worst parts of the Fund 23 fallout. In exchange, he demands money and promises to reveal Naomi's private information in order to discredit Channing. Ellen meets with Patty in her office. After attempting to mentally rattle Ellen, Patty states, "Oh, I just had a premonition. This is the last time you'll ever set foot in this office."