Ray Donovan Recap: A Girl Named Maria

Mickey and Bunchy picked up some cash, just not in the way they originally planned it, in “A Girl Named Maria” (12-2-18). Mayor Ferrati wasn’t kidding about playing hardball and it’s going to take more than Ray’s normal resourcefulness and skills to handle this situation.

I have orchestrated lots of break-ins but I have never had a break-in. ~ Sam Winslow

While Ray spent the night with mayoral candidate, Anita Novak, someone broke in Sam Winslow’s secure building and her apartment, woke her up and warned her and Anita to back out of the mayoral race. Sam bit the intruder and he pistol whipped her. Anita silently rose from Ray’s bed and left and Ray got a call from Sam while having a hair of the dog.

Ray got a hold of Lena and they went over to talk to Sam. An oddly dressed woman outside the Russian Tea Room signaled to them and Lena asked Ray what he thought. “I think she’s too old for you,” Ray quipped. Ray saw her again later, but didn’t try to find out what she had to say. He left Lena with Sam and went off to pay Mayor Ferrati a visit. A concussion did nothing to stop Sam from regaling Lena with her stories. Ray caught up with Mayor Ferrati at his health club and warned hizzoner to stay away from Sam under penalty of death, accompanied by a throat chop that left the mayor gasping for air.

Ray went to a surveillance shop where he knew the guy from L.A. After offering his condolences, Ron Kiltsman told Ray an anecdote about Abby that got the rarest of rarest reactions from Ray– a smile. Ron could not help right away because the building’s server was secure. It would take a couple of hours to get help via the NYPD. Ray thought he’d take a shortcut with Officer Mac McGrath’s help.

There was a name I heard when you were with Judge Scholl. It gave me goosebumps. ~ Emerson Lake

Mac had just come back from a meeting with Internal Affairs detective Emerson Lake who was not impressed with the info he’d been given so far. Lake noticed Judge Scholl mentioning Mayor Ferrati and wanted more info about the judge’s dealings with the mayor. Mac got physically sick after leaving the diner and threw up all over the parking lot. After agreeing to help Ray, he later lied and said the cameras weren’t working at all. Ray went back to tell Ron to forget about the assignment but Ron already had the footage. Not only was Ray shocked to learn that Mac lied, but the guy on the tape was another police officer he and Mac knew, Danny Bianchi. Ray confronted Mac who told Ray he was being watched and better walk away from Winslow and Novak and just get out of town.

We gotta go in there right now, and do this, okay? ~ Bunchy Donovan

Bunchy and Mickey were all set in their priestly garments to go ahead and rob the Hampton jitney. Mickey was collecting the goodies when a man in a camouflage jacket got up and drew a gun. Mickey was all set to shoot him but Bunchy threatened to kill Mickey if he did. It was “mission aborted” except Mickey grabbed the purse of a lady who gave him lip. At least there were two pairs of pantyhose so they could pull off robbing a check cashing joint that Bunchy spotted. That went a lot better. They felt like regular Robin Hoods and went by the gym to pick up Maria.

You did this. You did all this. ~ Teresa

Terry had left Maria with Bridget to go off on another fight for Big Easy. Bridget called Teresa, Bunchy’s ex-wife and Maria’s mother, and there she was when Bunchy got there. Teresa blamed Bunchy for the whole mess of things but Bunchy wasn’t having it. Things escalated to where he threw her mental illness up in her face and said he never should have broken her out of the mental hospital. Teresa slapped him in the face, took Maria and marched off. Bunchy was beside himself. He asked Bridget how she could do that to him. Her position was the baby belongs with her mother. We can probably save the debate over whether that was best. Neither Bunchy nor Teresa have ever been very stable people but Bunchy and Mickey were going to get arrested sooner or later if they stayed together and tried to leave the country, right? Bunchy told Mick it was over and he wasn’t going to Vietnam. Mickey said he didn’t want to go without him. They said “I love ya” to each other and parted ways.

Yo, Big Easy. You still need a fighter? ~ Terry Donovan

What Terry was doing to win his fight was ramping up his pacemaker. He really put the hurt on the second guy he fought and even broke the guy’s arm. Big Easy wanted him to take the guy’s place in The Eliminator– “Eight fighters, last man standing wins 50 Gs.” Terry declined at first, telling Big Easy about his Parkinson’s and the “small fact” that he could die if he keeps doing this. Big Easy told him to think it over. Terry did and signed on.

So, Feratti has the cops ~ Sam Winslow

Ray went to Sam as the episode wound down and told her that her late night visitor was NYPD and he might not be able to protect her. Sam was undaunted and told Ray that she would fight back harder. “That’s who I am,” she said, “That’s what I do.” Then she challenged him: “Who are you, Ray?” Ray said he would get some answers. He got a call from Bridget who wanted to mend her relationship with the only parent she had left. “I don’t wanna lose you,” she said, and Ray reassured her that she wouldn’t. After they hung up, he was pulled over by bad cops, Bianchi and Rad. Ray was ordered to get out of the car, knocked on the ground, cuffed and thrown in the police car.

It seems that his next step will be before Judge Scholl for an excessively high bail but we are confident that somehow, Ray will get out of this, perhaps as a result of the IAB investigation, which would also mean that Novak will win the mayoral race. We’re not so confident that things are going to end well for Bunchy, Mickey or Terry.