'Damages': Oh, Katie. Poor, stupid Katie.

You're Katie Connor. Your brother is a hotshot doctor, your future sister-in-law just got hired by big-time scary lawyer Patty Hewes. You may be the crucial witness in a gazillion-dollar lawsuit against Arthur Frobisher, a very, very rich and very, very sketchy man who is accused of defrauding thousands of his employees. There's nothing tenuous in your position at all. So what do you do?

Lie to everyone about everything, of course.

Let's tally Katie's lies, shall we? She lied to Ellen and Patty about her activities in Florida -- and ever shrewd Patty called her on it after discovering a speeding ticket in Katie's files. Instead of merely catering the Frobisher affair, Katie had a one-night stand with a guy named Greg; she wound up getting pregnant and had an abortion. She told Patty that she never saw Greg again, that she never even knew his last name.

Liar! As revealed in the closing minutes, Katie has a way to contact Greg -- although it's implied she never told him about the pregnancy. Patty's henchman, Tom, sees the whole encounter, however, so it's only a matter of time until she's busted.

On the Frobisher front, after being followed by the world's most useless assassin (to his credit, Frobisher decided to take a hit out on Katie only when he was coked up and in the backseat of a car with a prostitute, so he does have some kind of moral code), Katie is bullied into signing an agreement to keep her yap shut about what happened that critical weekend in Florida.

Liar! Yeah, she signed it, but she went running straight to Patty after doing so. That's quite the Trappist monk code of silence Katie was following there.

As for Patty, she continued her Santa/Satan ways, giving Big Liar Katie a dog to replace the one she whacked last week -- as well as arranging a lovely apartment for David and Ellen to move in to -- one, no doubt, filled with cameras and bugs besides the usual New York kind.

Oh, and speaking of soon-to-be-dead fiance David? He was brained by a bookend in the shape of the Statue of Liberty, which Katie had given him and Ellen as a gift. And, in flashback, Ellen was shown dropping the knicknack as she found his body -- or, perhaps, as she finished him off.

-- Ann Donahue