Lies He Told Me

Kyle visits Oliver Grafton, a retired FBI agent who was working on the Cagnina case when the witnesses were killed. Grafton describes Silas as “one of the most cold-blooded, ruthless killers ever born” (152). He recalls that Blair, the lead agent on the case, suggested Silas may have faked his own death. Kyle wonders if David could be Silas.

Fifteen years earlier, Marcie told Howard she realized that she had misheard Silas. Their client had suggested he would “pull a Herrin,” not a “heron.” Liam Herrin escaped prison by killing a prison guard, changing clothes with him, and setting fire to the body. The discovery led Marcie to believe that Silas had similarly faked his own death. Defying Howard, Marcie refused to sign the motion to dismiss the case. She resigned and returned to Hemingway Grove to care for her dying mother. A year later, she met David.

Camille receives a visit from Kyle but refuses to let him in. Kyle asks why her car was outside the Bowers’s home in the early hours of the morning.

Kyle asks Camille why she relocated to Hemingway Grove from Chicago and if she knows Silas. Covering her agitation, Camille asks him to leave.

Becky tells Agent Blair that DCB Enterprises (owned by David Bowers) is an offshore corporation. David files his own tax returns, purchased his current home with cash, and his pub’s takings are unusually healthy. Becky adds that if she planned to launder money, she would do so through a bar or restaurant. Blair reminds Becky that they always believed Cagnina had concealed $20 million before he was convicted. He suggests that David is Cagnina’s money launderer.

During his previous break-in to the Bowers’s family home, Tommy installed a device to record the alarm code. Using the code to turn off the house’s alarm system, he writes a message on the foyer wall in red spray paint. After resetting the alarm, he leaves the door open when he exits.

Kyle is greeted by Officer Ginny Risely when he arrives at the Bowers’s home. Responding to the alarm, Ginny was first on the scene and discovered the back door open. David arrived shortly afterward and was upset to see officers inside his home. He asked them to leave before they could search the property and did not want to report the incident. The intruder left a message on the foyer wall.

Listening in to the police scanner, Tommy hears an officer state that David does not wish to file a break-in report. This information confirms Tommy’s theory that David did not want the police to see the message on his wall. Tommy calls his “boss” to say he has “found him.”

Kyle discovers that David is paying the lease on Camille’s apartment. He calls Ollie Grafton, asking if Silas had a girlfriend.

After an appointment with her obstetrician, Camille discovers Kyle waiting for her in the parking lot.

Kyle confronts Camille with his theory that David is Silas and that she is his girlfriend. Noting that Camille worked in technical support for the Chicago U.S. Marshals Service, he suggests she used her insider knowledge to leak the witnesses to Cagnina. She then helped Silas relocate. Kyle hypothesizes that Silas married Marcie for cover, but his identity was exposed when he saved a man from drowning.

Camille does not respond when Kyle asks why Silas is hiding from Cagnina.

Agent Blair receives a call from Ollie, who reveals that a police officer has been asking questions about Silas.

Kyle pulls Marcie over, claiming she was speeding. He angrily demands to know David’s real name, suggesting that David’s story of being orphaned is “convenient.”

Camille tells David how Kyle suggested he was Silas. She insists he must tell Marcie everything. David says the truth will “kill her.”

Marcie laughs when Kyle suggests that David is Silas Renfrow. However, she also recalls that she never saw Silas’s face. Marcie is confused when Kyle refers to the message left on their foyer wall. Kyle shows her a photo of the spray-painted message that reads, “I know who you are” (199).

Marcie returns home and checks the foyer wall. There is no message, and she realizes David has freshly painted over it.

Marcie conceals her distress from the children. In the attic, she goes through a box marked as old tax records. She finds photographs of a mother, father, and son. The son, who is college-aged in one of the pictures, resembles David. She also finds five keys to safe deposit boxes at Prinell Bank. Nevertheless, she remains convinced that David cannot be Silas.

Marcie discovers that Prinell Bank is in Champaign. She waits at home to confront David.

Armed and wearing a ski mask, Tommy confronts David in the pub’s parking lot, declaring, “Michael Cagnina says hi” (210). David head-butts Tommy, and in the subsequent tussle, the gun goes off. David collapses in a pool of blood.

Kyle calls Marcie to say David has been shot.

Marcie speaks to David at the hospital before he is taken for emergency surgery. Telling him that she knows who he is, she whispers a name. David blinks to communicate that she is correct but denies their marriage was a lie. Marcie tells David she loves him and will take care of everything.