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"There's Only One Way to Try a Case" is the first episode of the fourth season of the DirecTV legal drama series ''Damages'' and the show's fortieth episode overall. It was written by creators and executive producers Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman and directed by Todd A. Kessler. It originally premiered in the United States on DirecTV's Audience Network on July 13, 2011, and was the first episode of the series to air on DirecTV after the series moved from the FX network. == Synopsis == It has been two and a half years since the death of Tom Shayes (Tate Donovan) and Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) is working at the prestigious law firm Nye, Everett & Polk and has been seeing one of the partners, Sean Everett (Bailey Chase). When Christopher Sanchez (Chris Messina), an Afghanistan War veteran and old high school boyfriend of Ellen's, gets in touch with her, Ellen begins to suspect that High Star, a billion dollar private security firm, is covering up the deaths of three of Sanchez's soldiers. She starts working on building a wrongful death suit against High Star and its founder and CEO, Howard T. Erickson (John Goodman). Meanwhile, Patty Hewes (Glenn Close), now the sole leader of Hewes & Associates, has taken a case against a French pharmaceutical manufacturing company whose clinical drug trials have caused the deaths of dozens of people while also trying to raise her granddaughter Catherine. She and Ellen occasionally meet to exchange legal strategy and Patty warns Ellen against trying a case against High Star, saying that it is a dangerous company to make an enemy of. Patty struggles to find a suitable nanny to help raise her granddaughter and, after firing the latest appointee, is urged by her ex-husband Phil (Michael Nouri) to track down her son and Catherine's father Michael, who disappeared almost three years earlier. Patty hires Detective Victor Huntley (Tom Noonan) to investigate Michael's whereabouts. The Senate refuses to renew High Star's contract with the U.S. Government and Erickson turns to his shadowy associate Jerry Boorman (Dylan Baker) in order to secure the contracts. Boorman has been keeping an eye on the increasingly unstable Sanchez and, after discovering that he has been talking to Ellen, has Ellen's phones tapped in order to keep tabs on what she and Sanchez discuss. Sanchez's old army friend Anthony Carter, who still works for High Star and routinely reports to Erickson about Sanchez's condition, recommends a psychiatrist for Sanchez to help with his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Sanchez begins to open up to this doctor about the illegal mission High Star sent his unit on, which resulted in his men's deaths, but that night the doctor's office is blown up, an event seemingly orchestrated by Boorman. A future timeline jumps three months ahead, where a young Afghan boy brings a prisoner bound to a chair with a hood over his head a sandwich. The unknown prisoner, wearing a medallion identical to the one Sanchez previously wore, is then approached by two masked men who threaten him with a machete. Later, Ellen stumbles upon the blood-soaked scene and breaks down in tears. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「There's Only One Way to Try a Case」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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