Hey! Mr. Pibb!

Patty works to clear Purcell of any wrongdoing in his wife's murder. She tracks down Christine's missing ruby ring, which leads to junkie Kevin Walker, whom Purcell IDs in a police line-up. Cue Purcell's exit from the slammer and Walker's arrival. But prison isn't the safest of places when UNR needs you to keep schtum and Walker's reward for being a stooge is a knife in the guts.

Ellen and Tom head to West Virginia in search of missing journalist Josh Reston, who surprises the roadtrippers when he turns up at their motel and swears he has the evidence to prove that water from the local UNR plants has not only caused the devastation of local livestock but also a huge increase in cases of leukaemia.

Patty's belief in Purcell grows to the point that she tells her son Michael the scientist is his biological father and the pair meet at Purcell's home. She also secures Purcell's pledge that he will testify against his firm in court and sets up a court motion to bring UNR to book. But Purcell betrays her at the last moment, handing Round One to Maddox. Surely he'll regret that...

And in flashback to the night of Christine's murder, Purcell has another of those night-time appointments in a creepy man's car – this time with Sutry's henchman, 'The Deacon' (American comedian Darrell Hammond), a ruby ring and the ill-fated Walker...