Durham County 2: Ep. 4 - Daddy Hurt Mommy?
Season 2 - Episode 4
Jonathan’s “assault” on Pen encourages Mike to push further with the investigation. He wants to determine whether Jonathan harmed Bonnie, but to do that, Mike needs to exhume Bonnie’s body, something Pen absolutely does not want to happen. Mike tries to respect that, pursuing other avenues of investigation, but his commitment to Pen is shaken when he discovers a fact that seems to confirm Tom’s hypothesis that Bonnie was poisoned - not by Jonathan, but by her mother. When Mike and Tom question Pen about the circumstances surrounding Bonnie’s death, Pen provides a reasonable enough explanation, but their suspicion and particularly Mike’s doubts, bring her dangerously close to truths she’s buried deep, and precipitate a psychotic break. Pen murders the woman who could betray her, Bonnie’s former nanny, and Jonathan’s lover, the woman who destroyed her marriage. Meanwhile, Sadie has caught her father in an intimate moment with Pen, and her trust in her father is tested again. She confronts Mike and later, Pen, but they both deny their relationship. Sadie entreats Ray Jr. to go see Ray and ask him about her father. Ray Jr. finally agrees to go, but Ray, as manipulative as ever, exploits the breach between Ray Jr. and his mother so that when Ray Jr. leaves, he’s filled with compassion for good old dad. Pen, desperate, aware that she’s losing her mind, sends Mark away with Jonathan then lies to Mike, telling him Mark’s been kidnapped. Sadie reconnects with her father when he tells her that the boys who have been harassing her at school are the sons of the guys who alibied Ray. They’re trying to keep her off the stand at Ray’s trial. Sadie hypothesizes that Lissie’s disappearance is connected to this, and suggests that if they can prove that, they’ll be able to put Ray away as a dangerous offender. But then, when Pen bursts in with news of Mark’s kidnapping, and Mike hurries off with her, her suspicions about their relationship are rekindled. Then she finds a piece of evidence in Mike’s briefcase that confirms her suspicions that he may have been involved in Lissie’s disappearance.
