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An {{Expy}} of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden who runs a website called McClaren Truth. Becomes Ellen's client in Season 5
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*[[spoiler: NeverFoundTheBody: The viewer watches him die, but the main characters never find out.]]
*OlderSidekick: Rutger sees himself as more of a partner than a sidekick, but this is how most people see him.
*TheResenter: [[spoiler: His motive for betraying Channing and getting Naomi Walling killed.]]
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*[[TheDutifulSon The Dutiful Daughter]]: Zigzagged. Kate and her sister both see themselves this way, but each was dutiful toward a different parent.
*{{Foil}}: To Patty. [[spoiler: Appropriately enough, as they're sisters.]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: The fact that she took her husband's name is significant, [[spoiler: because it hides the fact that her maiden name is 'Hewes,' and it helps underscore the differences between her and Patty.]]
*{{Foil}}: To Patty. [[spoiler: Appropriately enough, as they're sisters.]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: The fact that she took her husband's name is significant, [[spoiler: because it hides the fact that her maiden name is 'Hewes,' and it helps underscore the differences between her and Patty.]]
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Much of Season 4's plot happens because Jerry doesn't grasp the concept of loyalty. [[spoiler: If he'd just left Chris alone, Chris would have probably kept his mouth shut out of respect for Erikson, and Ellen would have had no case.]]
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!!Channing McClaren
-->Played by Creator/RyanPhillippe
An {{Expy}} of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden who runs a website called McClaren Truth. Becomes Ellen's client in Season 5
*AmbiguousDisorder: Is bad with social cues and often offends people by accident, lives by a rigid personal code while caring little for other people's rules or notions of politeness, and is often hyper-focused on his work.
*BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Even though Ellen is his lawyer and required to keep all of his secrets, he can't stop deceiving her to save face, even when it hurts his case.
*ChickMagnet: Turns out a lot of ladies are drawn to a brooding rebel and global celebrity who looks like Creator/RyanPhillippe.
*MrFanservice: His bare chest and/or his butt makes into frame almost once an episode.
!!RutgerSimon
-->Played by Creator/JohnHannah
McLaren's NumberTwo, a former old-school print journalist who now helps run McClaren Truth.
!!Kate Franklin
-->Played by Creator/JanetMcTeer
A mysterious lawyer who joins Ellen's firm after years out of practice. Has a history with Patty.
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!!Channing McClaren
-->Played by Creator/RyanPhillippe
An {{Expy}} of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden who runs a website called McClaren Truth. Becomes Ellen's client in Season 5
*AmbiguousDisorder: Is bad with social cues and often offends people by accident, lives by a rigid personal code while caring little for other people's rules or notions of politeness, and is often hyper-focused on his work.
*BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Even though Ellen is his lawyer and required to keep all of his secrets, he can't stop deceiving her to save face, even when it hurts his case.
*ChickMagnet: Turns out a lot of ladies are drawn to a brooding rebel and global celebrity who looks like Creator/RyanPhillippe.
*MrFanservice: His bare chest and/or his butt makes into frame almost once an episode.
!!RutgerSimon
-->Played by Creator/JohnHannah
McLaren's NumberTwo, a former old-school print journalist who now helps run McClaren Truth.
!!Kate Franklin
-->Played by Creator/JanetMcTeer
A mysterious lawyer who joins Ellen's firm after years out of practice. Has a history with Patty.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Thanks Through a long and winding complex sequence of events, events spanning the whole series, Patty's decision to have Pete [[spoiler: send Patrick Scully to kill Ellen]] in Season 1 ultimately leads to [[spoiler: Patrick Scully killing Patty's son]] in the series finale.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Thanks a long and winding sequence of events, Patty's decision to have Pete [[spoiler: send Patrick Scully to kill Ellen]] in Season 1 ultimately leads to [[spoiler: Patrick Scully killing Patty's son]] in the series finale.
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* [[spoiler:GayngstInducedSuicide: Kills himself in Patty's office after she blackmails him about his sexual orientation.]]
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* TheHeavy: For the final season, in which the machinations of the actual BigBad take a backseat to Patty and Ellen squaring off against each other.
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* BlackmailBackfire: [[spoiler: What ultimately gets him killed.]]
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* ShootTheDog: Season 5 is partly about how comfortable Ellen has become with doing this. At one point she has to destroy a bereaved teenager's credibility by subjecting the girl to a relentlessly cruel line of questioning. Season 1 Ellen might have had qualms about it. Season 5 Ellen doesn't flinch.
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A private military contractor with lucrative US government contracts.
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A high school classmate of Ellen's who works for Highstar Security.
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* FamilyValuesVillain: Gets some genuine PetTheDog moments with his sons, whom he tries to raise properly.
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*IronLadyIronLady: One of the biggest themes in the show is of Patty's willingness to cut out everyone and everything in her life to win. Ellen never knows whether she wants to strive toward becoming her someday or run away at full speed.
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* WhyAreYouNotMySon: He invokes this in an arguement with Joe, saying that Louis trusted him far more than Joe with the secrets of the scheme and the business and he "was more his son than you ever were." Subverted as Joe laughs that his father called Louis "my little monkey" and didn't like him as anything more than an employee.
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A brilliant attorney who wins her high-stakes lawsuits by [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord any]] [[BadAss means]] [[PrettyLittleHeadshots necessary]]. Hewes is a tempered-steel IronLady, but still manages to frequently surprise with the depths she'll sink to to PayEvilUntoEvil. Her backstory and true motivations are slowly revealed as the series progresses. Could easily be the poster child for AmoralAttorney, and in any other show, would be the villain.
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A brilliant attorney who wins her high-stakes lawsuits by [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord any]] [[BadAss any means]] [[PrettyLittleHeadshots necessary]]. Hewes is a tempered-steel IronLady, but still manages to frequently surprise with the depths she'll sink to to PayEvilUntoEvil. Her backstory and true motivations are slowly revealed as the series progresses. Could easily be the poster child for AmoralAttorney, and in any other show, would be the villain.
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* AntiVillain: A lot of what he did, including [[spoiler: secretly keeping Danielle and Tessa Marchetti in his life]] and even [[spoiler: the Ponzi scheme]] began as attempts to [[spoiler: shield his son from the consequences of potentially life-destroying mistakes.]]
* ParentalNeglect: Zigzagged. Accused by his wife of making his son feel like "aghost."ghost," but also went to great lengths to protect Joe and clean up his messes.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appears in a handful of scenes outside of the episode in which he [[spoiler: kills himself]], but his fraud and his neglect of his son are the causes of most of the bad stuff that goes down during the third season.
* ParentalNeglect: Zigzagged. Accused by his wife of making his son feel like "a
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appears in a handful of scenes outside of the episode in which he [[spoiler: kills himself]], but his fraud and his neglect of his son are the causes of most of the bad stuff that goes down during the third season.
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* AmoralAttorney: She will cross ANY line to win a case.
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