Closing out another "Marathon Saturday", along with the discovery of the body in Episode 50, this episode certainly clocks us with another (not surprising to me) whopper...Matthew comes clean. Yep, he did find a body and it was Bill Malloy! This adds a new wrinkle in what was a possible clean getaway for Sam or Roger, but who would benefit more? Really, both men needed him silenced. Sam does seem generally worried about Bill's whereabouts, but Roger's "missing time" off away from home and work does raise suspicion. But is Roger just a red herring? This brings us back to Matthew. He also wouldn't want Malloy stirring trouble because it would return to the Collins' family, defaming Elizabeth who he holds an idol-like esteem for. It doesn't even take much to pull it from him, particularly when Liz mentions that he doesn't lie to her. I guess it was that simple to motivate the truth from him. Such a revelation, and Liz' calling the authorities immediately really will shake the foundation of many lives. Now, the big secret will be even harder to conceal because under the microscope will certainly be all those involved with Malloy over the last few days as he was setting the meeting, confronting the participants, and exerting his will so that Elizabeth would be spared any harm from Burke Devlin and his devious business dealings in paying for her debts as to gain property rights. Most of the episode has Victoria trying to persuade a disinterested David into focusing on Geography while he wants to chat about the dead body (he overheard a conversation between Vicky and a visiting Joe, who finds the watch dropped by Carolyn that led to them returning to Widow's Hill, contributing to the discovery) down below Widow's Hill. Roger and Sam's lives will not get any easier from this point further. Also reiterated is David's dislike, no, hate, for his father. Some aspects of the show pummel us over and over--Joe and Carolyn's threatened romance, Sam's unwillingness to give up the secret, Sam's whiskey gobbling, David's whining and "I hate you!" to Victoria and Roger--to the point that I almost cancel out, but then the show revives with a dead body or a book opening on its own, a windy wail engulfing Widow's Hill, and I realize why I'm hooked.
Burke interrupts what could have been a decent dinner between Maggie, her father, and Vicky, and he's sore, agenda-driven, and pointed in defending himself, while also demanding answers...answers Sam is willing to flee to protect. Sam's only link to Burke at all, besides Roger himself, is the letter he wrote to Maggie. He escapes out the back door while the others were in the living room and heads to Collins Port Inn where the letter is kept but the owner will not give it over to him. The letter is Maggie's and she will have to give permission before Sam can get his hands on it. Malloy's death looms large and will not go away--especially as long as Burke steamrolls throughout Collins Port, pissed off and unrestrained. He wants to know Sam's connection to the wrongful conviction and isn't about to just forget his presence at the meeting that night. Maggie just cannot believe that her father had anything at all to do with Malloy's death; Sam and Malloy were fr...
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