Surprise: 9 episodes into Season 3 of Damages, and more questions keep arising

Nine episodes into the terrific if highly challenging Season 3 of "Damages," the plot is starting to clarify, as the two time layers - the present moving forward the gap narrowing between the present narrattive and the end of the story, with Tom dead, Patti in a car crash, Ellen being interrogated (as in the earlier seasons), which we have seen in pieces since the first episode. Patti/Glenn Close remains a force of nature, and I think Ellen/Rose Byrne has matured as an actor throughout the whole series. At end of episode 9, we at last understand how Tom came to find boots and a phone in the possession of a homeless man. We see a side of Patti we rarely see as she totally loses control, angered by her son's relation with an older woman - which seems to have some echo from Patti's earlier life (a weird reference the son makes to his father's being in prison is left unexplained, for now). As is so typical of Damages, questions still raised by late-season episodes - usually the late-season episodes resolve puzzles rather than add to them. What's the deal with Martin Short's estranged father, and why is it so important to him that nobody know that his parents lived in poverty upstate? What is Arthur Frobisher/Ted Danson, industrialist who now claims to see the light and supports the environmennt, introduced again as a major character, and why does Patti intentionally provoke his anger? What's with the strange Statue of Liberty icon, where some key evidence was hidden back in Season One, and now reappaears in the car that struck Patti? Is the interrogating cop as dumb as he seems, or is it his strategy? And why is that architect pushing Patti to tear down the walls of her apartment and remodel - what will she find behind the walls? What did her ex-husband leave there?