Best Line: (To Patty) “(My father) never liked you. He always thought your cases had a stink to them.”
Darrell Hammond – You know how you can tell when a character is a total badass? When they don’t even have a real name. In Season Two, SNL impressionist Hammond played “The Deacon”. And The Deacon is as far as you can get from his Bill Clinton impression – this corporate fixer is dead-eyed and reptilian. He’s completely emotionless, whether he’s sitting in on a meeting or calmly ordering a prison hit. I can’t stress how different this role is from anything you’ve ever seen Darrell Hammond do before. I kept expecting him to bust out the Alex Trebek impression, but that doesn’t happen. He’s a great example of one of Damages’ best tricks – you want to like people who are famous for being funny on TV, and when they turn out to be completely corrupt or homicidal, it’s that much more upsetting. A really amazing and unexpected performance.
