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There's still one thing that doesn't make sense to me.

The senator's suicide.

But the coroner's dad... I know damn well what the coroner said.

I broke into the morgue last night. I re-performed the autopsy myself.

You want to bet that this matches the gun the FBI found in your apartment?

If so, admit it.

What gave me away?

You just did.

That's right. I had nothing on you, Ivy Dexter, but a hunch.

And this bullet, it almost took my life in Macau.

She's all yours, guys.

What?

You're under arrest.

Damn you, Grinder!

Damn you!

So are reruns of The Grinder just on all the time now? In 170 countries. And in

none of those countries do they have a problem with characters that just

confess for no reason? I don't think you understood the plot.

Oh. Yeah, I probably didn't get it.

Yeah. So The Grinder had a real dilemma in this one, because he had to lie.

Those scenes really took it out on me. Oh, did they?

They took a lot out of you? How much did they take out of you?

A lot. A lot?

Those scenes took a lot out of you? I can't walk in my shoes. Oh, Dean.

I could see you struggling with it. Yeah, because he values justice, but he

also values honesty.

And he only lied to expose the truth.

Which is a good lie. Exactly. No!

Not exactly. It was not a good lie, Ethan. There's no such thing as good

lies. Can we please not use episodes of The Grinder to teach life lessons to my

kids? I'm sorry, would you rather him learn it on the streets?

I think there are more than those two options for him, but...

If you're making me choose now, I would say the streets. I would say the

streets. Streets by a mile.

Stu,

hope you don't mind. I borrowed your robe.

Oh, no, that's all right, Dad.

Just wish you hadn't taken it while I was still in the shower.

Oh, did you need it?

Yeah, that's why I hung it there. Well, just say that, Stu.

Okay, yeah, next time I'll just say it. Anyway, thanks for letting me crash

while they paint my house. You're always welcome, Dad.

But there is something we need to talk about.

Yeah, whatever you want.

Thank you. Oh, thanks. Yeah, appreciate that.

Last night, we tried to watch... Ray Donovan.

Okay. But we couldn't, because someone deleted it off the DVR. Wasn't me.

Wasn't me either.

I hate to be that guy, but maybe we look to Uncle Dean for this. Nice try, big

fella. But after what the DVR did to the traditional ratings model, I don't touch

the damn things. You heard him, Ethan. Time to fess up. But do not let her play

you like this. We are not even upset about Ray Donovan. We're a little upset

about Ray Donovan. We're a little upset about it, but what we're really upset

about is the fact that you guys are lying to us right now. Two siblings

locked in the stalemate of a lifetime.

Either one giving an inch. Nicotine?

Yes. Always appreciate your narration.

Oh, I'm happy to do it. You know what it reminds me of? When your dad broke his

bedroom window and tried to blame it on me.

Dad, you did that? No.

That is not at all what happened. That's how I remember it. No, your grandfather

just believes your uncle because he's a better actor.

I always thought you were a tremendous actor.

You just never gave yourself enough credit. Great, thank you. Your father's

just bitter because he got caught, and then I had to ground him, and then he

missed his prom or whatever. It was not my prom or whatever.

It was the sophomore overnight field trip, and you know what?

It doesn't matter. Just forget about it. It was a long time ago.

But I will tell you this.

If I did break the window and I had been lying about it this whole time, I

certainly would be big enough to admit it now.

And how do we know that that isn't a lie? All right, kids.

We are not letting you follow in the footsteps of your uncle, so until one of

you comes clean, you're both grounded.

What? Oh, come on. She did it. Two siblings pitted against each other in a

battle of consciences.

Who will prevail?

Please stop. A father at the end of his rope.

You broke the window.

Okay, last piece of business. There's been a little setback on the personal

injury case. Roz Landy's introduced some new evidence that we need to go through.

Sorry, which case is this? It's the one where the mom tripped on the broken step

in front of the school.

Roz Landy's trying to get out of paying our client's medical bills. They found

out she has a pre-existing ankle injury.

How? The client told us that in confidence.

You don't know, Todd. Sometimes these things just happen. Or do we know?

And these things don't just happen.

What are you thinking, Dino? Season 6, episode 13.

Fire in the mole. Fire in the mole.

Ivy Dexter was leaking secrets to the Santino crime family.

Everyone trusted her.

No one saw it coming.

Except me.

Except your character.

Hmm?

Nobody saw it coming except your character. You didn't do anything. You

just said the words they wrote down for you. No need to nitpick, Stu. We all

knew what he meant. This is a family law firm.

Roz Landy did not plant a mole to get an edge on a $900 injury case. Okay, nobody

in this room is working for the other side.

Mm-hmm.

I'm sorry. Dean, are you suggesting that it's me?

I'm a mole? Whoa, whoa, whoa. No one's suggesting anything.

But that said, wow.

A little defensive.

Okay. Well, I'm gonna go maybe circle back and look for some witnesses. Thank

you, Claire, for presenting an actual solution.

All right, I'm going to run over to the court. Everyone else have something to

do? Tons of stuff. Very valuable here. Well, hold down the fort.

Obviously, it's Claire, right? So what are we thinking? Fire her? Start beefing

up my role here? Let's not get ahead of ourselves, Todd.

You've got to remember, one step at a time.

One step at a time.

Yes, I'm sleeping.

What do you want?

Dean. Hi, Deb.

I need to talk to you.

Hallway, are you insane?

It's the middle of the night. Are you a crazy person? Two seconds.

Thanks for coming out in the hall. Do you not sleep? This is going to be very

hard for you to hear. Because I know how much you hate admitting that you're

wrong, the broken window thing. You broke the window. I did. You, Dean,

broke the window. I didn't bring you out in the hallway to argue with you.

I have something very important I want to tell you. Dean, clear.

is not a mole.

Okay, hear me out.

She's a new hire. She worked for the other side. She refuses to sleep with

me. Good night, Dean.

It adds up.

That's way up.

That bitch isn't fooling anyone.

Dean and I are onto her. She's a mole, Murphy. Okay.

Steve, what else happened at work that I can tell you about?

another free one. Thanks, dog.

You always hook me up.

You know, you come by here a lot, and you seem to be a pretty decent guy. I

appreciate that.

I gotta tell you something.

It hasn't been me buying you these drinks.

It's been them.

Oh! Hey!

Those lawyers sent over shots to get you drunk, and then they write

down what you say about your cases.

What?

Like the other day, when you were talking about those medical records.

Then a couple of weeks ago, you were talking about that client that got hit

by a car and how that case went against you.

And oh my goodness, the time you were talking about that divorce settlement,

they just kept eating drinks.

Dean,

I need to tell you something, and it's important.

Oh, Todd.

You can always tell me anything. Because we're friends.

I wouldn't get hung up on why.

Claire's clean.

She's not the mole.

What? How do you know? Because it was me. I was yapping my big dumb mouth at

the bar and Ross and Landy heard everything.

I am the leak. I am so embarrassed.

Do you know what this means?

Yes, that you hate me and you hate everything about me. No, it's worse.

I was wrong.

We both were wrong.

All right, you need to promise me something. Anything.

Stuart can never know.

So I think it's time we have a frank adult conversation.

I just need 20. Can you give me 20? Turn off the TV.

Isn't that the show that you two just got grounded for erasing? Yeah, it's on

demand. I don't know what they're so pissed about. They're pissed about the

lying. Ethan did it. Oh, my goodness. Lizzie did it. Ethan, you're being

ridiculous right now. No, I'm not being ridiculous. You guys are more stubborn

than your dad ever was.

Maybe it's because he's telling the truth and he didn't break that window?

Well, Dean didn't break it, so who the hell did?

I was so wrong that it made you wrong, too.

It's fine for you to be wrong. Everybody expects you to be wrong. Sure. It is not

a good look on me.

It's why the grinder was never wrong on the show, because I could never

believably play it.

That's my one flaw as an actor.

Great news.

There's been a breakthrough in the case.

A security camera caught the fall, and I got an X-ray of her ankle that supports

our timeline.

Open and shut. Wow!

That is great work, Claire. You've done something for us that directly affects

Roz Landy in a negative way. Yes, that was the idea.

Well, we should head over there and put an end to the whole thing. Yes.

Todd, could you give us a second?

It was good talking to you.

Anything you'd like to... Like to what?

Dean.

Come on, you could admit it. You were wrong about Claire.

Or. There was no or. She's playing a deeper game than we thought. She

absolutely is not. Dean, you don't have to double down on this. Just admit it.

You were not thorough enough.

It was not thorough enough. Thank you.

It's a great note.

And... Freeze.

The step was... broken.

Stuberto. Coming in with a last-minute case-closer, Grindr-style.

Look at you, bud.

Proud of you, big dog. Thank you, Pat.

It means so much. We'll come by with the settlement tomorrow. Make sure that

settlement includes all medical expenses plus fees.

Ooh, what a team.

It's got the video. She comes in with the legalese.

It's really working, huh?

Yeah, sorry we had to steal it away from you guys.

Well, they didn't exactly steal me. I wanted out desperately.

You two are terrible.

I hear you, and we're working on that, but we were a little chapped when you

left, so that's why we took advantage of your boy.

Uh, what do you mean? Who's my boy?

Todd, at the bar.

Not proud of it. No thinking back not our finest moment because dude we

respect you we do we just don't show it No hard feelings, right?

Roz and Landy say hi.

Oh Cool cool why tell him I said what's up Todd

I'm sorry, okay? I wanted to let you know, I swear, but Dean wouldn't let me.

Dean knew?

Dean knew it was you, but he couldn't admit it. Don't be mad at Dean. This is

all my fault. Listen, listen to me. Listen to me.

You have to promise me something. Anything.

You can't let Dean know that I know he knows.

I will not let Dean know that you know that I know. Don't let Dean know that I

know he knows. Got it. I'm not involved in that.

Dean, you.

Right. Okay.

Say it back to me. Don't let Dean knows that you know that I know. No, no.

Dean knows he doesn't know. You can't let Dean know that I know he knows. You

got that?

I promise. I promise. Are you sure?

Because you just let me know that Dean knows.

Oh, I see what you're saying. Right.

So you have to do the opposite and not let Dean know that I know he knows. Got

it. You got it? Got it. All right, good.

Good. I'm not going to repeat it back to you, but I got it.

I think I would feel better if you just said it once back to me that it was

clear. Okay, I'm going to be you and repeat it back to you. No, don't just

repeat my words. Say it in your own words so I know that you got the

message. But if I do it as me, then all the pronouns change. Again, to review,

you need to know not to let Dean know that I know.

You see?

Okay.

Wait, why?

Because I'm going to make the grinder admit he was wrong.

Thanks so much for your hospitality.

No, Dad, stay anytime.

We love having us. Oh, we really do.

Guys, if I could have your attention.

I have to get something off my chest, and it's been really tearing me up.

I think I may have deleted Ray Donovan.

Oh, Ethan, you did.

I don't specifically remember doing it, but I think I may have done it by

accident, and if there's one thing I know, Lizzie wouldn't do this to me.

Lie like this and let me go down for something I didn't do.

Because she's my sister.

Wait. What's going on?

I did it, okay? I deleted Ray Donovan by mistake.

Glitter! What? You were faking? I was acting. There's a difference, right,

Uncle Dean? There sure is.

Okay, well, you're both still in trouble for lying, so just, you know, take it

back upstairs and we'll talk about this later.

I don't believe this.

Ethan, you better watch your back. Wait, what just happened? It's quite a piece

of acting.

Thanks. When I was deep in it, I actually believed I was guilty.

Yeah, I saw flashes of that. But I also saw some false moments.

Okay, I'll work on that. Well, you'll have a lot of time in your room. Let's

go. Come on.

I'm very alarmed that Ethan can make himself cry so believably. Oh, I know.

That's new.

But it worked. Got Lizzie to confess.

God, I wish I would have thought of that back in high school.

You know, missing that sophomore field trip extended my virginity another 18

months. Oh, yeah? You've done that math a couple times?

Uh-huh.

So Ethan actually guilted Lizzie into confessing.

Oh, no.

I see where this is going, and I think you should stop. I can break him.

I got it. You think so? Yeah. Look at Ethan. Ethan got results.

Okay. Yeah. I can't cry like him, but I can break him, Deb. I got it.

Good luck.

What are you doing in here?

Oh, hi.

I'm just really distraught.

And sad.

What's going on?

I fired Claire tonight.

Really?

Yeah. She did not take it well.

Probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I'm sorry to hear that.

You did the right thing.

I had to do it.

And you were so sure about her.

You couldn't be wrong.

Right.

Yeah.

Probably also going to have to report her to the bar.

Oh, have to.

That means she won't be able to practice law anymore.

Her career will be ruined.

A fitting end.

Just want to make sure you're okay with that.

Yeah.

I'm going to go and sleep.

Like a baby.

Oh, come on. You talk to Todd.

Well, what exactly are you asking me, Stuart? Are you asking if Todd told me

that you know that I know? I knew that guy couldn't keep his mouth shut.

Brother,

Todd didn't tell me anything.

You just did.

Yeah, sure. Sorry. I was sleeping.

Why did you confess earlier?

I don't know. I felt bad Ethan was getting punished.

Yeah, but they didn't have anything on you.

I mean, you could have taken that to your grave. You could have just lied to

yourself until you believed it.

I hear that that works for people.

But then I would have been totally trapped.

Like you with the window. Like your dad with the window. Remember, he's the liar

there. Right. Sorry.

So our client will pay medical bills and attorney fees, and in return, you agree

that no one is at fault.

We can agree to that? Uh, sorry. Hold on.

Someone was at fault.

And when someone is at fault, they should be held responsible.

Stuart, that's not what we discussed. This world is filled with people like

your client who think they don't have to take responsibility for what they do.

When someone's wrong, they should admit that they're wrong.

I'm a tad confused.

Yeah. Shouldn't Grindr do the big speeches?

Don't mind if I do.

I have an announcement to make and it's going to shock a lot of people.

Stuart isn't talking about the case.

He's talking about me.

And the fact that I've been living a lie for most of my life.

The truth is, I...

You broke the window.

Oh, my God. He admitted after all these years.

I'm sorry I lied. I'm sorry that you had to miss that field trip.

You definitely didn't deserve to have your virginity dragged out. We don't

have to talk. I'm fine now. But mostly, I'm sorry that it took so long for me to

say I'm sorry.

It's okay, Dean.

Nice to hear you say it now.

Okay. I'm sorry, too, Stu.

I should have believed you.

It's kind of weird being here for this. Yeah, we're done here, right?

Yes, we are. We're done. No, we're not.

There's one more confession you need to hear.

It's also going to shock a lot of people, probably.

was the mole.

Todd, literally every person in this room knows that. Yeah, you told me to my

face. I think I got it in an email.

Yeah, we made you the mole. You were our mole. Did you know?

I did. I did know, Todd.

Okay, never mind.

Next time, I'll think of something.

I'm sorry. I just wasted everybody's time.

Tired of fixing things for people who don't deserve it.

All right, wait, hold on.

So, so Ray was telling the truth the whole time? Ugh.

I'm sorry. I'm completely lost.

Lizzie, this is what happens when you miss an episode. Okay, I already said I

was sorry. I'm not going to feel bad about it anymore.

I know exactly how you feel. Yes, you do, son, and I'm proud of you. Yes,

Dean, we're all very proud of you for admitting something you did 20 years

ago. You're really not mad at Dean for lying to you? Nah, he did what he had to

do to get out of trouble.

You can't fault him for that.

I would argue that you can fault him. He's your son. You faulted me for the

same thing. He lied to you for 20 years. Water under the bridge, Stu. You can't

say it's water under the bridge. I say it's water under the bridge. I'm the

wrong party.

Water under the bridge. Glad you're okay with it. I haven't felt this good in

years. This whole clean conscience thing, I could get used to it. Well,

Dean, I mean, your conscience is still a little dirty.

What do you mean? Well, your uncle was wrong about the whole Claire Mole

nonsense. We were both wrong. What was Dad wrong about?

Your dad said that there was no mole when, in fact, there was one.

Oh, right. There was no mole.

Wasn't Todd the mole?

I mean, yes. I guess, yeah, Todd was a kind of a mole. And that makes you.

I was wrong. And I was wrong about the mole's name.

So, yes, it's kind of a tie.

Is that what you need to tell yourself to move on from this? Yes.

Yes, it is.

Would you unpause that?

Sure.

It's gotta change. Who's that?

Ray Donovan!