Staple Holes Recap: Rake

Hope you didn’t miss Rake because it moved to Friday nights, but if you did we have the recap and cast of Staple Holes (S1 E8 3/14/14) right here. Keegan joins Ben’s law firm in it and oh! the perks. He is thrown into the thick of a major case with unexpected results. There are two big shockers. One of them isn’t Mikki breaking David Potter’s wine glasses.

Leanne is over at Kee’s apartment cleaning his refrigerator while he gets acclimated at Ben’s firm. She is expecting him to get her hired as his assistant over there and Kee was going to do just that until he found out that he was assigned a sweet young thing named Cindy. Every time Leanne brings it up after that, he pretends he can’t hear her. Kee is given a new briefcase from Ben so he can dispense with the paper bag he usually carries files around in. There’s a bottle of scotch in it and that’s not all! He gets a signing bonus of $25,000! Surprisingly, he calls Leanne and says it will go a long way to catching up with Roy. (We expected him to head for the nearest casino).

The Mayor still wants Keegan to leave town. When an in-person reminder fails, he puts Chief Bernie Michaels on the case of making Kee’s life miserable. Bernie is in Kee’s apartment when he gets home and says he’s planted a kilo of coke somewhere in there and is going to send over some uniforms. He asks if Keegan wants to bet on who will find it first. By the time the uniforms arrive, Kee has torn the place apart. Turns out he’s been played. They say they’re just there to pick up a PBA donation.

When Roy picks up Kee’s payment from Leanne, she just got hung up on by her boyfriend, Bevan. Roy finds Leanne very appealing, unlike his usual opinion of British gals. Before you know it, they end up in bed. Shocking! Then Leanne finds out that Roy is married and his wife is with child. Do they feel guilty? No, they go at it again — in Keegan’s bed! We think he was even more shocked than we were to find that out.

Kee’s ex-wife Maddy is having a bit of trouble making Bruce understand that she broke up with him. She arrives home to find him cooking jambalaya in her kitchen and talking to Finn. She throws him out. Finn says he liked Bruce but Maddy says that is not the determining factor in her relationships. Bruce invents a new juice, names it the Maddy and leaves a gift basket on her doorstep.

Robert Ebell, that thorn in Ben’s side, suggests Ben put Keegan on first chair in the case they have been trying in court for 11 months and let Kee conduct the cross-examination. People are talking and that’s a way to prove that he hasn’t made a mistake in hiring his screw-up friend. Kee promises Ben he will look at the case overview and fully intends to do so. He gets sidetracked by Mikki, who brings over a bottle and some wine glasses she bought to replace the ones she broke at David’s place. She wants Kee to tell her which ones are the best. They start drinking the liquor she bought in them. The scene shifts to the next morning with Kee in bed but the woman with him is the Mayor’s wife, Gloria! Kee got very drunk when Mikki was there and Gloria took advantage of that to have her way with him. Gloria says she is leaving her husband and goes home to tell him.

When she gets home, classical music is playing and the Mayor is locked in the bathroom and won’t reply when she calls for him to open the door. She summons Bernie Michaels, who forces the door open and find Barzmann dead with some contraption around his neck. It’s not suicide. The Mayor wasn’t really cheating on Gloria. He was practicing auto-eroticism and killed himself accidentally. Gloria does not want that kind of scandal and instructs Michaels to fix it. She doesn’t care how he does it as long as he does it.

In court and hungover, Keegan tries to stall and cover up for his lack of knowledge of the case. Judge Siebert, who is sick of this case, isn’t having it. Keegan pulls a magic trick out of his hat by noticing there are staple holes marks in the photocopy of the original agreement the dispute is based upon. He forces the witness, Thomas Myers, to admit on the stand that there was more than one page to the agreement and wins the case for Ben’s firm. One little problem though. Robert Ebell says the firm’s budget was based on being able to bill hours on that case for at least 8 more months. Ben reminds Robert that it was his idea to put Ben on first chair, even though he thought it was a bad idea.

Everyone except Keegan is upset over the Mayor’s death. Scarlet was going to get Barzmann’s endorsement for District Attorney and was going to announce it at a dinner event that there was no time to cancel. After dancing at the dinner with Maddy and getting drunk, Kee makes a stop at Bernie Michael’s house to taunt him. Now that the Mayor is gone, Michaels is finished, Kee drunkenly gloats. Michaels makes a call to a guy named Tommy. He wants a meeting to discuss “a person of interest” in the Mayor’s murder. So that’s how he going to cover it up, by trying to frame Keegan for murdering the Mayor. Will Gloria go along with it?

Cast of Staple Holes:
Greg Kinnear – Keegan Deane
Miranda Otto – Maddy Deane
Ian Colletti – Finn Deane
John Ortiz – Ben Leon
Necar Zadegan – Scarlet Leon
Bojana Novakovic – Mikki
David Harbour – David Potter
Damon Gupton – Mayor Marcus Barzmann
Kim Hawthorne – Gloria Barzmann
Tara Summers – Leanne Zander
David Gautreaux – Robert Ebell
Omar J. Dorsey: Roy
Jeffrey Nordling: Bruce Mangan
Bill Smitrovich – Chief Bernie Michaels
Jonathan Craig Williams – Mayor’s Driver
Cindy – Kelly Frye
Ursula Burton – Linda Hirschberg
Marliss Amiea – Gina
John Eric Montana – Judge Siebert
Kovar McClure – Thomas Myers