Vickie has really put her head in the vice as she has aligned herself with Burke, believing it is possible that someone, perhaps Roger, tried to get in her room, later while walking home after a discussion with Sam Evans at the Blue Whale (he was attempting to persuade her to leave well enough alone regarding her crusade to find out what happened to Bill Malloy, the fountain pen a motivational tool that started it all), at night, a car with bright headlights nearly hits her! I think most people would have left Collins Port a long time ago, but not Vickie, no she has to dive headlong into the abyss in order to discover her identity. This pursuit of an identity is what brought her to the Blue Whale in the first place as Sam fibbed to her that he knew more about the Betty Hanscomb portrait. Sam wants her to just drop it, but with Burke's insistence, Vickie forwards on. Roger had snidely remarked to Elizabeth that it is all possibly imagined in Vickie's head; he thinks she should just pack up and leave Collins Port. She gets closer to the truth, those who need her to stop will try to persuade in her word, but what happened to Malloy could very well mark her for death.
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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