Did Ellen ever open her boyfriend's gift? I didn't see it if she did. What was it??

When will season 3 be on Hulu?

The papers strewn around the Tom's apartment could be part of tracking the Tobin hidden funds. My guess is that Tom was involved in hiding the money. The Thanksgiving call was to Tom and the phone was thrown in the dumpster, later to be retrieved by the homeless man. You can get a prepaid phone that can't be traced. Winstone would be too cagey to have the money connected to him.

Tom living in squalor seems to indicate that he lost his position with Hewes & Shays. To assume he was murdered might be premature. It could have been a suicide, though not likely. He could have been silenced for what he knew. But then we could be led to make false assumptions.

I'd assume that Ellen will get involved with the Tobin case after quickly rising up the ladder. The wrecking of the drug dealers Harley could be Ellen's work. Who else knew how much the bike meant to him? Make sure you get a tarp on it before it rains was his main concern. Turning him with that was info only known to Ellen. Patty wouldn't have been aware of that.

Ellen hasn't forgiven Patty and maybe setting her up again, with the ability to prosecute. That would reuse last year's plot where she worked with the rogue FBI.

Looks like we are off to a good start for season 3.

Did you notice that Keith Carradine's character actually looked at the phone number Patty had while in the bar? I'm willing to bet it was actually his phone number (or probably ONE of his phone numbers), and he ends up planting that phone on the homeless guy. I'm going to guess that Ellen may give the purse to Tom as a gift when he loses everything to the ponzi scheme, and subsequently his job due to the conflict of interest that would present. Tom ends up moving to that apartment, gets murdered, the purse gets splashed with blood, and his body/evidence disposed of in the dumpster, which is where the homeless guy finds the purse.

Two observations, first I don't think that is Toms apartment; it just an address to register the car that hit Patti. In the preview it looks like Tom might have lost everything in the ponzi scheme, but he still has his job which pays well. I assume his wife works, and even if he lost his job with Patti, and his wife is unemployed, he can at least get a job with some ambulance chasing lawfirm, and live in a 1 bedroom garden apartment in Jersey, not a mattress on the floor.

That brings me to observation number two; the cop asked Patti if there was something she wasn't telling him. Well if I was the cop and the man whose car hit Patti was dead, I would assume that someone killed him and stole his car; and then of course fled from the scene. I bet it is more complicated than that but on the surface that is what it looks like.

I think Keith Carradine is behind it (not surprising) but he said he is an "Architect of sorts" (or similar phrase) and I don't think he meant he designs buildings. I think he is the architect of murders and/or frame ups.

All that said, I think this will be another great season.

A solid premiere! I actually liked it better than last year's. Campbell Scott is already terrific.

My only nit is the Keith Carradine character. I have a hard time believing Patty would put up with him as much as she already has.

Can't wait for next week!

Ellen is definitely not a public defender, which is a different office from the DA--she's probably a deputy assistant district attorney or whatever New York's equivalent is called.

It seems very odd to me that the criminal prosecution of Tobin is being handled by the district attorney's office without him already having been tried by the US Attorney on federal charges--maybe we will learn that he has, and was acquitted.

It's probably unimportant to the plot, but last year Patty was driving a new Cadillac CTS. When she was hit by the other car, she was driving a Jaguar X-Type, a poor-selling model that hasn't been available in the US for several years. While I'm sure GM is probably cutting back on its product placement, it seems like the producers decided that if they were going to wreck a car, they'd wreck an old and relatively cheap used car. Otherwise, I can't see why Patty would have changed to downmarket wheels when she's been so successful--she probably got her husband's car in the divorce, but I assume he replaced his bombed Mercedes with a new one, and not a used clunker.