Wha? I missed an episode and the dog got killed? Yikes! I didn't see much of last season.

Way, way back at the very beginning. The very first or second episode of the first season. All I remember is that there was a witness who was planning to testify (she may or may not have been a relative of some sort of a young associate of Glenn Close's) and in order to intimidate her into shutting up and make her think that the bad guys would try to kill her if she testified Glenn Close gave the order to have her pet dog slaughtered. I remember the witness sitting on the floor sobbing, and I remember Glenn Close standing on the shore of a lake or the ocean or something holding the dog's collar and smiling. And that was the last time I watched the show. (And I realize my memories after all this time are probably fragmented enough so as to be no help at all to you. Sorry.)

Ah. I missed a few episodes along the way and I never saw that one. Patty will have anyone or anything killed. She's totally ruthless.

Someone was trying to convince me to watch Damages because of the strong female characters. But if that's what it involves, I don't want to see it.

Glenn Close's character is the do that character. She's been demonstrated to have feelings, which was a bit of a revelation, but not really to have limits to what she'll do to manipulate a situation to her advantage.

Rose Byrne's character we get to see grow up. It's more of a question how far she'll go, how much she's learnt under Patty's tutelage.

I'm a little depressed about the flashes of the future we've seen this episode.

Ah, Peter up in Neal's rooms, awesome.

They do this stuff on purpose, right?

Peter sweating on Neal's couch has got to be deliberate annoyance tactics.

Honestly, I'd have been okay with nothing much this episode, after all the fanservice of last week, but moving Peter in with Neal? The twinkle in his eye when he admitted to liking to torment Neal? Dear lord, people.