Sheriff Patterson questions Victoria, Carolyn, and arrested Roger about the fountain pen and the night Malloy was killed. Roger, no surprise, annoyingly, frustratingly, pleads innocence and no responsibility for either Malloy's death or the two events that frightened Victoria (someone trying to get into her bedroom and the attempt to run her down with a car late at night). Roger says he was elsewhere when Victoria was nearly hit by the car, miles away at a gas station. Carolyn is a wreck, completely in grief that Roger would be considered capable of any sort of violent or criminal act. Vicky simply tells the truth and/or answers Patterson's questions to the best of her knowledge, particularly adamant that the potential bedroom intruder was not some dream or a figment of her imagination. Roger lies about why he wanted to meet Malloy, but admits hiding the pen and knowledge of the death at Lookout Point because he was afraid Patterson would implicate him as a murderer. He is passionate in declaration of his innocence and finds pertinent, pointed, and unavoidable(damning to him if he answered accurately) questions about the purpose of the 11:00 night meeting and the real reason why Roger wanted to meet Malloy at Lookout Point (Roger feeds him a bunch of bull about addressing poor management over the fishing fleet as the purpose, which Patterson doesn't swallow). This episode is just to have Patterson get sides to a prolonging story that seems to last to infinity--who killed Malloy, and who wants Vicky out of the way. Key moment has Vicky mentioning when asked why Sam wanted to talk about Malloy, (pondering why he would be so interested in anything pertaining to Malloy, Vicky does start to think about it, also giving Patterson a reason to interrogate Sam in the future if need-be.). The family lawyer sits in the interrogations of Patterson, often butting in during Vicky's questioning. Vicky's knee deep in this whole mess and her relationship with her employers will only become more awkward and uncomfortable going forward.
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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