Well, Vicky and Carolyn's proclamation of a body found at the bottom of Widow's Hill is considered absurd by Elizabeth and Roger who pretty much write it off as a "trick of the eyes", perhaps a delusion caused by old folk tales present in their minds, an illusion that was actually a *clump of seaweed* instead. Liz has caretaker Matthew go down to look and he returns, acting strange, saying nothing was there. Liz goes to his cottage to address her concerns that he might be concealing something yet he continues to deny anything was there. He even takes her to the spot where the girls saw the body, nothing but seaweed (it even has her jump and sigh in fright). Roger never wavers in front of the women of the house about how silly the idea of a body at the bottom of the hill is, yet when he turns away (and they are not looking), a concern richly appears. What would he even have to be concerned about if he had nothing to worry about? This episode certainly casts doubt in Roger's direction, but an absent body prevents any further inquiries into any involvement in the disappearance of Malloy. Matthew, to me, is not in the slightest to be trusted. His heart's desire, from the very first scene the character appears, is that he doesn't want any harm to come to Elizabeth. If a body were at the bottom of Widow's Hill, there's not a doubt in my mind he wouldn't hesitate to hide it so no publicity or detrimental gossip would come his employer's way. This is reiterated in conversations had between Elizabeth and Matthew. He does not want any word of a body to spread to the town, knowing that news spreads fast in the town. But, (and this is a massively huge but) what if a conversation about this night, even a slip, were to happen to the wrong person--like, say, Burke Devlin--what would the consequences be? Everyone in the room when the body's discovery was mentioned, how can such an experience be kept under wraps?
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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