...and then we see him with the bag slung over his shoulder, because...he decided not to drive there? A car suspiciously pulls up near him and lingers for a bit, but when he gives it a look, the driver rolls off. Scaaary! Patrick then heads around to Stacy Keach's back entrance and starts to open up when Brennan's voice calls "Morning!" to him, and seriously, sometimes this show feels like a video game where characters appear according to dice rolls or other elements of chance. Like, there was as much chance of a fire-breathing dragon waiting on Stacy Keach's doorstep as Brennan. Brennan babbles on for a while about choices and family and whatever, but eventually gets to his point, saying that there are only two people that can connect him to the Councilman -- the dude who worked at the bakery, and Hess. Given Bakery Dude's convenient demise, Hess is the only one to worry about, "and he needs to stop talking." He gives Patrick a slip of paper with the address of a hotel on the Jersey Shore where Hess is apparently staying (under Federal protection, it is implied), and takes off. I don't know -- maybe Brennan is testing Patrick's loyalty, or maybe he gets a kick of out of puppeteering him like this, but he apparently commissioned the murder of that baker, so I find it hard to believe he's worried about solving the Hess problem directly. Why not have Gus pay Hess a visit instead of having your golden goose cash cow do it?

Later, we get an insert shot of the slip of paper, which reads "The Sandpiper Hotel, Room 209, Asbury Park." It'd be hilarious if Theresa happened by and accused him of having an affair, because then he'd have to be like, "No, honey, nothing like that, I just have to go murder someone!" But we see Patrick's actually by his locker at the gym, and after a quick glance to make sure Johnny's not watching, he sticks the slip of paper into the fake deodorant can and puts it inside. As he locks the thing up (doesn't seem like the safest place, but with the Feds sniffing around his house maybe it's for the best), he's surprised to see Gerry walk in like George Costanza did that time he pretended he didn't quit that job, but in this case, Gerry's being genuine, as he shows Patrick his pad with the gig at the gym still on it. Yeah, next time I guess you'll have to write "We fired you" on the poor guy's to-do list. Patrick understandably doesn't have the heart to go through all that again especially after the conversation with Margaret, so he asks Gerry to straighten up a bit around the gym, getting this response which MAY BE IMPORTANT LATER: "I'd do anything for you, champ." And maybe it's the fact that in fourth grade we put on a big production of Oliver, but I'm kind of disappointed that Patrick didn't sing in response, "Would you climb a hill?" Once Gerry's walked away, Johnny asks what the hell that was, but Stacy Keach at least is hip to the fact that Gerry doesn't remember the incident, and offers that he's further gone than he thought. Patrick, however, says that Gerry doesn't have anybody and needs their help, and while the other two don't look too happy, they don't put up a fight about it. Just then, however, the head Fed finds Patrick and asks him to step outside...