Dark Shadows Creative used this episode to keep Roger under suspicion as evident by how he might have tried to sneak into Victoria's room when she laid down to sleep. He knows she was out perhaps with Burke Devlin as he caught her in a lie saying she met with Maggie. Maggie, however, was in fact at the Blue Whale with Sam, the two discussing what Vickie might know about Malloy's death, how she just can't leave well enough alone. The letter Sam wrote for Maggie to open if something were to happen to him is brought up again, talked about at length, but what lies within it remains a mystery. Roger spends a portion of this episode nervous, but when he knows Vicky is hiding something from him, he takes the opportunity to let her know, in his own snide way, with her left in the bedroom contemplating what to do next.
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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