I had a feeling that there was more to Uncle Pete than meets the eye. Turns out he’s got a rap sheet a mile long: burglary, larceny, using neighborhood kids to run a numbers racket, you name it. But Patty’s been getting him off all these years. He’s her mother’s brother, and “the most loyal man I’ll ever know,” she says.
But in this week’s episode of Damages, the kindly old guy who brings pastries to the office and has been married for 60 years has to make a decision. Turn Patty Hewes over to the feds or go to prison and leave his dying wife alone.
He took the only way out he could figure: give the feds nothing and leave his dying wife alone anyway. Hey, at least from a prison cell, he could make sure she was cared for. Now she’ll die alone and sickly.
Would Patty have been as loyal as Pete? I’m with the feds when they tell Pete, “Do you really think Patty gives a shit about you?” There’s no way she wouldn’t have protected herself in similar circumstances. She’d be turning Pete in with little remorse. And maybe Pete figured if he turned her in, he wouldn’t have lived anyway.
And really, if Pete is any kind of criminal at all, there’s no way he’d be stockpiling evidence in a storage unit. The feds were definitely duped on this one. They should have seen right through him.
Note: Tom Aldredge played Hugh DeAngelis on The Sopranos, but I’m having trouble placing his character. Somebody fill me in?
Clacked by Jane Boursaw 
on Feb 22, 2009 @ 11:00 EST5EDT
I was expecting Pete to poison his wife. And then, maybe, shoot himself at the garage. Or even the FBI guys… Because he was leading them in the garage and staying behind. So I was surprised, but not pleasantly ;)
As soon as he kissed his wife goodbye I said, “Someone is about to die.” I thought it was going to be the wife, the FBI guys (like Christian said Pete was leading from behind, like he was about to pull a gun and wack em), or both. I was not expecting Pete to do harm to himself though.
Im noticing that the show is also continuing with the Sopranos as lawyers feel the show has been emiting the last few weeks.
Pete’s wife will hardly die alone. Patty will no doubt take her on and provide incredible care for her. After all, her husband just died to protect her. Patty doesn’t seem like one to let those loyal to her suffer needlessly.
Hugh DeAngelis was Carmela’s father.
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md – Ah! Carmela’s father – thank you! I’ve been thinking of watching the entire Sopranos series again, and now might be a good time. Love that show, even if I don’t remember all the characters who were on it.
ac – I know, right? I was really expecting Pete to pull a gun on the feds, or maybe have a bomb inside the chest in the storage unit. It actually seemed a little anticlimactic when Pete ended up writhing on the floor.