Episode 1.12

The Police Department

Siobhan was sitting at her desk when Chief Becker came over, “Lane, I want you to interview Dan Adams again about the Brighton Simpson murder.”

Siobhan looked up. “I’m off that case though. And who’s Dan Adams?”

Becker looked at her. “You know who he is, you interview him all the time. And just do it, Cramer got called back to Jersey for a family emergency. We want to make sure his story is still the same. You know this kid shows up at least once a week in some crime report.”

”Fine, what’s his address?” she asked, as he handed her a piece of paper. “Thanks.”

”I hear Kevin’s back in town, is he all right?” Becker asked before letting her go.

”Well, he’s still really upset about Eddie, but he’s been flirting like crazy with my next door neighbor, Maggie. She might just be the thing to get him back into life.”

Dr. Harrison’s Office

Chad sat on the couch, looking at his therapist. She was about the same age as his mother, probably a couple years younger. “Well, Chad, I haven’t seen you in a while. What’s going on?”

He rubbed his clammy hands on his pants nervously. “Brighton’s dead, someone killed him in a fire.”

”Anything else going on?” she asked as she studied his body language.

Chad nodded and took a long deep breath, “I slept with his twin sister Bethany twice in the past week.”

”Why have you done that?” Carla Harrison asked.

”Besides the fact that it’s been the best sex of my life? I don’t know. I just can’t stay away from her. Though she is married, but she doesn’t love Conner anymore.” Chad said, trying to rationalize his affair.

”And you’re sure of this, Chad?”

”Yes, even when I told her we couldn’t do this again until she was divorced.”

Carla nodded, “And what did Bethany say?”

“Well,” Chad started before looking up at Carla. “She said that she believes I’ll wait for her to be divorced.”

”Will you?” Carla asked.

Chad released a heavy sigh, “I believe I will. But why am I willing to be walked over like this?”

Carla sat back in her seat, “What would your mother Adel, think of Bethany?”

Hallow Hills-The Library

Adel was still sitting behind the large oak desk when Doug stormed in. “Adel forget about business for just five minutes. We have a problem with our son. Did you know he was drunk last night?”

Adel looked up, “Yes I know Chad was drunk.”

Doug blinked, “Not him! Kip, you remember him, I believe you named him Kipland Mortimer. Seriously Adel, forget about all of this!” he yelled as he picked up some of her papers and threw them in the air. “Kip was so drunk Chad and I were taking care of him. Do you know why he was drunk?”

Adel shook her head. “That Pam girl break his heart? Don’t worry that won’t be a problem, she’s my new assistant starting next week.”

”Adel! You are the most difficult woman in the world. I wish I could remember the woman I fell in love with,” he said to her bitterly before storming out of the room.

Maggie’s Apartment

Maggie finished putting her earrings in when someone knocked on her door. As she pulled her blonde hair into a ponytail, she opened the door and saw Kevin. “You’re early,” she said, unable to hide her smile.

”Well, I just couldn’t wait any longer,” he said as he entered her apartment and studied it. The bright colorful walls, movie posters of old romance films. What he had planned for them was definitely going to be perfect.

”So what do you have planned for us Kevin?” she asked as she shut her door and saw him looking at her posters. She was positive he thought she was some sort of nut.

He smiled when he looked over at her. “Well, I thought that since it is really my first time in Pinõn Hallow in almost seven years, you wouldn’t mind if I took you to my favorite place in town.”

Maggie looked at him curiously. “And where would that be Mr. Lane?” she asked.

”You’ll find out soon,” he said as he stretched out his arm and hand for her.

Maggie took hold of his hand tightly before grabbing her purse and keys and leaving the apartment.

Pinõn Peaks

Siobhan stood in front of the door of a first floor apartment waiting for someone to answer after she knocked. After what felt like a million minutes the door opened and Siobhan found herself face to face with the blasted Delivery Boy.

She rubbed her forehead as though she were experiencing a headache, “Is Dan Adams here?”

Hallow Hills

Pam walked up the front path to the large house. She rang the bell as a sudden memory of the last time she was there flooded her mind. She took a long, staggered breath and tried to relax herself before a maid opened the door and let her in. She was then shown to the library where she was told Adel was waiting.

Knocking on the wood door, she waited until Adel replied to come in. Nervously, she walked into the room filled with volumes upon volumes of old books and journals. “Hello Mrs. Davis,” Pam said timidly.

Adel looked up, anger from her encounter with Doug still present. She softened when she saw Pam. “Hello Pam, how are you today? I really hope you’ll enjoy being my assistant.”

Pam was surprised was this really Adel Davis, the bitch behind the mall, as most of the managers called her. “Well, thank you so very much for the opportunity.”

”No problem at all. We’ll be working at the mall four days a week and then here at the house one day a week. You’ll also have an allowance for clothing, you know the proper business attire,” Adel said as she stood up and studied Pam for a moment. “Weren’t you here looking for Kip the other night?”

Pam suddenly felt uncomfortable. “Yeah I was.”

Doug knocked on Kip’s door and waited a moment before receiving no answer. He opened the door, afraid his son was passed out. However, Kip’s bed was made and the room fairly clean. Doug stepped in for further inspection, checking to make sure there was nothing that could hurt his son.

Everything looked pretty normal, all except for the bag of white pills sitting on the top of Kip’s dresser. Doug picked up the bag and studied them for a moment before taking them and leaving.

Conner’s Apartment

Conner and Lysa were sitting on pillows by the coffee table as they ate Chinese take out. The door opened and Bethany stormed in and threw her purse on the table by the door.

”Hello Bethany,” Conner said, trying to be civil with his wife for Lysa’s sake.

”Hi,” she said, her tone short and angry.

”Lysa, why don’t you go get your pajama’s on, okay?” Conner asked his young child, before she got up and went into her room. “What the hell is wrong with you? Do you want to scare our daughter?”

Bethany looked at him. “Sorry, it’s just been a long day. It’s kinda hard when you see your husband mooning over a stupid blonde that’s dating Kevin Lane.”

Conner shook his head and stood up. “Yeah right! Hello, I saw you leave with Chad Davis. Are you sleeping with him?”

Bethany gasped. “Me and Chad Davis? Are you insane?”

“I must’ve been to be married to you!” he stated as he tried to focus on cleaning up his and Lysa’s dinner.

”You only married me because I was pregnant. You never wanted her,” Bethany spit out.

Conner’s eyes filled with rage. “I love my daughter, you’re the one who ran out on her. You left her and you left me. Why not just divorce me already.”

”Because I won’t divorce you unless I can get custody of Lysa,” Bethany admitted in the heated anger.

”Well, then that’s not happening until I’m dead!” Conner declared before going into Lysa’s room.

Moonlight Bar

Kevin escorted Maggie into what was most definitely a country-western bar. The country music was vibrating throughout the room, as men and women in cowboy hats were dancing, drinking, playing pool, or flirting. The song, There is no Arizona, is playing as Maggie looks around at the familiar surroundings.

”Maggie!” cries out the bartender and several regulars turn around and greet her too.

Kevin looks at his date. “So I take it you’ve been here before huh?”

”Yeah, at least three nights a week,” she said as she takes him towards the bar. “What do you want to drink, Kevin?”

He thinks for a moment as all this sets in. “Just a Coors will be fine.”

”Got that, a Coors for Kevin here, and I’ll have a rum and coke,” she told the bartender before throwing the cash on the counter. A moment later she was handed a bottle of Coors and a rum and coke.

Kevin stood there looking at her. “Wow, I never would’ve guessed you for the sort to hang out at a bar.”

Maggie laughed. “Well, I love country music and this is the best place in town to hear it.”

”Oh really, what’s your favorite song?” Kevin asked her.

She smiled. “You’ve probably never heard it. It’s called My Sunset Girl. This guy sings it, I don’t even remember his name, and he’s not that famous. But that song is just amazing.”

Kevin nodded, hiding the smile his body so wanted to show. “It was dusk, on that Colorado summer night, the air was right, and the sky was bright. It was then, she came over the mountain, her hair whipping in the air, my sunset girl.”

Maggie’s mouth was dropped open in shock. “That’s it. How on earth do you know it?”

Kevin took a calming sip of his beer. “I wrote it.”

Maggie looked at him, finding it hard to believe him. “No way.”

”Yeah, that’s what I do. I write country songs. Ever hear Love Letter Stashed Away?”

Maggie nodded. “Yeah, it’s on the radio all the time,” she told him, just before that very song started to play in the bar.

”I wrote that to,” he said.

”Wow, I never thought I would met a real country song writer.”

”Well, sometimes, we get unexpected surprises,” he said as he watched her sip on her drink. “Care to dance?”

”I would love to.”

Pinõn Peaks

Siobhan looked around the apartment, as the delivery boy went to get the mysterious Dan Adams.

”Dan, it’s just Detective Lane. She wants to talk to you,” said the Delivery boy before both men came into the room.

Siobhan turned around and blinked several times. “There’s two of you?” she asked when she realized she was looking at identical twins.

”Yeah, I’m Dan Adams,” said one as he smiled.

“And I’m Sam Adams,” said the other as he stood back.

Siobhan rubbed her forehead. “This is way too much. How come you never mentioned you were twins?”

”It never came up,” they said simultaneously.

Dr. Harrison’s Office

”What would my mother think of Bethany? She’d probably say Bethany wasn’t good enough for me. But no one is good enough for me. My mother’s a Diva that way,” Chad explained.

”And how would you explain Bethany’s personality?” Carla asked him.

”Well-I guess she is bossy, bitchy, and controlling but she still has that hurt little kitten thing going on. She’s not jaded at all,” Chad said.

Carla nodded. “Chad, wouldn’t that be a bit Divaish?”

Chad shrugged. “Maybe, why?”

Carla took a deep breath. “Maybe Bethany is a younger version of your mother. One that you can be involved with romantically. A sort of Oedipus thing going on.”

Chad looked confused. “But he married his mother, not knowing she was his mother.”

”And I think you want Bethany because you want someone like your mother.”

Chad stood up. “That’s nuts Dr. Harrison.”

Pinõn Hallow Police Department

Siobhan stormed into the squad room and went straight for Becker’s office. She didn’t knock, she just barged in. “What the hell, how come you never told me that the stupid delivery boy was actually a set of identical twins?”

Becker looked up, a smile on his face as he tried not to laugh. “You mean, you didn’t know about Sam and Dan?”

”How was I supposed to know?” she asked, trying to keep herself from looking stupid.

Becker got up and walked over to her. He leaned against the front of his desk and rested his hands on her upper arms. “Siobhan, I didn’t send you their to humiliate you. I honestly thought you knew.” He suddenly felt to close to her and pulled back.

Siobhan’s thoughts of anger left as she noticed Becker’s sudden change. “Well, I talked to him. Everything checks out. Just don’t do that to me again,” she said as she watched him go back to his chair behind the desk. “I’m done for the day so I’m gonna go home. Night Becker.”

”Night Lane!” he said as he kept his eyes glued to the forms on his desk.

Siobhan walked into the squad room and silently wondered if her boss could have a crush on her.