Damages is always a step ahead of you

Because just when you think Patti has made a mistake - in this case, episode 2 of season 2 - giving the purloined scientific reports to a scientist friend who, we shortly see, has ratted Patti out to the head of the evil corporation that's trying to kill William Hurt (don't even ask), we see that Patti (Glenn Close) gave out the documents because she knew he would rat her out and she wanted her opponent, some huge energy consortium, as it turns out, to come out into the open. Kinda cool to see Glenn Close and William Hurt acting together, as they did alomst their first work together in The Big Chill a million years ago. Oddly, I kept thinking I'd seen Glenn Close first in Secaucus 7, but she wasn't in that, it turns out. We continue, in episode 2, to jump around in time and to find multiple reasons to hold every single character in suspicion. Anyone could be lying or double-crossing, a set-up or a spy. It's now obvious, however, that the guy from the grief group who's interested in Ellen has some kind of ulterior motive - perhaps he, too, wants revenge against the Frobisher corp., which killed Ellen's fiance (apparently). But maybe that's not it at all. He keeps guns and news clips about Frobisher, and he certainly encourages Ellen to act out her revenge fantasy and kill Frobisher (which she doesn't do). But why? Also, it's more obvious that one of the two FBI guys working with Ellen (to get to Patti) is suspicious. Tom, Patti's assistant, has always been a weasel - one of the less credible aspects of the story is why Patti would have kept him on so long and how he rose so high in her firm (though she never lets him lead a case, understandably).