Oh boy, does Roger walk into a trap. Really stupid. Sheriff Patterson has Collins Port believe that Malloy's death is ruled as an accident, although technically the case is open. I think it's just smart on Patterson's part to allow the public to move on with their daily lives while he quietly seeks answers on behalf of Malloy. The main suspects, Sam and Roger, have behaved suspiciously and nervously, wanting Victoria to just back away. That fountain pen has become a thorn embedded in Roger's ass and its location has been hidden, but how long could Roger evade? Roger is good at escaping the noose, no doubt, but when Patterson and his arch nemesis Burke catch him digging up the notorious pen, caught with a key piece of potential evidence possibly linking him to Malloy's death, what explanation could he produce to get himself out this jam? Elizabeth questions Roger about the pen; this after Patterson listens to events that happened to Vicky (the night someone tried to force their way into her room; the person that attempted to hit her with their car) from a convincing Burke. Roger uses the vision of the ghost of Bill Malloy to poke at Victoria's credibility; it is really his only way to create doubt regarding other things that might have happened to her (we know that her concerns are legitimate, but Roger is desperate). To be honest, while it is a thrill to see Roger actually busted, he has been stuck in tough situations so many times and found ways out, the episode's ending doesn't really, based on the past of this show, promise he'll face any sort of punishment for his sins from long ago (or even more current by this point on the show).
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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