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Motion to dismiss the wait for the final season of Damages: granted! Tonight the legal thriller returns to action (DirecTV, 9 p.m.), and all eyes will be on cunning litigator Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) and ambitious former protégé Ellen (Rose Byrne). This season, the two adversaries-at-law will match wits in the courtroom one way and another: While Ellen is eager to testify against Patty in the custody hearing for Patty’s granddaughter, they wind up on opposite sides in a case involving the mercurial founder of a whistle-blowing website (Ryan Phillippe) and an ambitious single mother (Jenna Elfman) who works at an investment bank that’s engaging in some shady business. Before you tune in, read what Close told EW about season 5. READ FULL STORY »
From the sounds of it, the teaser for Damages‘ final season may have been scored by Skrillex on a particularly dark day. After a title card reads, “The beginning of the end,” the grind of electrosynth punctuates a series of increasingly urgent flashes that land on Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne). But what does it all mean? Watch the teaser below. 
