Maggie happily pushes the settlement offer to Powell, and Eli lets us know that it's five million. Powell's suspicious, given that the trial is going well for Eli, but Eli simply tells him that Maggie prevailed on Zyer to do the right thing. "She can be very persistent." Powell basically offers her a job on the spot, but Maggie turns him down OH MY GOD WHY. Goofy smiles and handshakes all around, and then Maggie picks some lint off Eli's suit. I don't like that direction, I have to tell you, even though Eli's bound to get a lot of stuff on his clothes with all the random swooning he does. There's some nonsense about muffins...

...and then Martin's at Eli's door, placidly accusing Patti of being responsible for the Zyer fiasco. She asks what he's talking about, so he closes the door: "Do not insult my considerable intelligence, Patricia." Hee. Loretta Devine puts just a little apprehension behind her character's normal sassiness, a touch I really liked. This week's script is bringing people's games up, I tell you what. Speaking of, Martin reveals what's going on as he asks if Patti hasn't punished him enough. His voice breaks (!) the tiniest bit as he goes on that she's barely acknowledged his existence -- in five years. Patti, however, has regrets of her own -- she knew what Martin did with Lime was wrong, but she was falling for him, so she looked the other way. Then, apparently, she couldn't live with herself, so she ended things with him. This is all news to Martin, and he steps forward and asks, now that it's behind them, if there's a chance to give this..."One more try?" Patti finishes. I am a sucker for well-constructed parallels. Patti wistfully says she's sorry, but no. Martin smiles though his heart is breaking, and when he's gone, Patti exhales raggedly. Good scene.

The judge announces her verdict -- while the letter of the law is clear that the waiver is binding, she's going to go with the spirit of the law, which is that "the party's true intentions be honored." I'm not sure how ridiculous this is, which is good enough for me to let it pass without further comment. Anyway, joint custody is awarded, and she also enjoins Donna from leaving the Bay Area. The happy moment doesn't last, though, as Donna comes over and says that she, her family, and her minister discussed this eventuality, and...she pauses here, and for a horrible moment I thought she was going to say she was going to abort the child, even though once I thought about it, I realized that she probably couldn't legally do that in light of the ruling here, not to mention the fact that she looks like she's in her third trimester and is probably pro-life now anyway. But what she is going to do is go home to Ohio after the baby is born and relinquish full custody of the baby (it's a boy, by the way) to Jess. Jess crumbles as it hits her that Donna's really leaving her for good, and they both stifle sobs as Donna disappears.