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All was well, as long as he didn't know Shayne had indirectly caused her death... |
Dinah went to Bosnia to retrieve a music box of Lara's, which she knew Shayne would treasure. While there she visited an orphanage in which Lara had taken an interest - and she, like Lara, was moved by the plight of the orphans. She mentioned it to her ex-husband and still friend, Springfield police detective A.C. Cama... |
Too late, Dinah learned the baby wasn't really Bosnian. He was Lara's child, and Shayne - who hadn't known she was pregnant - was his father. Lara had been killed while on her way to tell Shayne they had a son. |
Before Shayne could learn this, he made the foolish mistake of telling Edmund his role in causing Lara's death. |
Edmund went ballistic. He didn't know about baby Henry (named for a deceased uncle of Marina's). But Reva and Jeffrey were married by then, and Reva had recently given birth to Colin. So he tried to take revenge on Shayne's kin by kidnapping Colin. Reva succeeded in stopping him. He got away, but killed a man while doi... |
Not long afterward, a crisis involving Henry's blood - and Shayne's having the same rare blood type - led to everyone's learning the truth about Henry's parentage. Unfortunately, one of the people who learned about it was Edmund. He didn't learn about Henry's medical problem, and the possibility he might continue to ne... |
No one had thought Edmund would dare show his face in Springfield again. But a dead body found in the river was visually identified as his. Possibly due to a mix-up, it was quickly cremated, the ashes scattered in the lake. But the police had already determined how the man had died: from a blow to the head. It was defi... |
And in light of Edmund's previous attempt to kidnap Colin, it was a safe guess that this time, he'd been planning to kidnap and raise his grandson Henry. |
Virtually everyone who'd known Edmund, or had reason to care about Henry, had to be considered a suspect in the killing. Jonathan hadn't returned to Springfield at that time. But Shayne, Josh, Reva, Jeffrey, Marina, Mallet, and Dinah were all in the mix, as were Phillip Spaulding and his ex-wife Beth (Lizzie's parents,... |
Mallet discovered the handle of Henry's stroller was broken...and Marina claimed she didn't know how or exactly when it had been broken. He couldn't help thinking she'd interrupted a kidnap attempt, bashed Edmund over the head with the stroller, and dumped his body in the river. He was willing to assist in a cover-up. ... |
And why, he wondered, would she have panicked and dumped the body? If she'd explained that she'd been foiling a kidnap attempt, protecting her baby, she almost certainly wouldn't have been charged with a crime. Everyone knew Edmund's character; he was infamous. |
But then the police found compelling evidence against someone else. Edmund's DNA was on file, and a tire iron with his blood on it was found...in Reva's car! On top of that, a reluctant witness reported that she'd overheard snatches of conversation in a park, near the river, shortly before the time Edmund was thought t... |
Reva had indeed been lying to the police - and to a now-furious Jeffrey - when she said she hadn't known Edmund was in the area. Now she admitted she'd seen and argued with him. She'd promised that if he left, she wouldn't get him in any more trouble by revealing he'd been in Springfield. (She'd been thinking, in parti... |
If she was innocent, she'd seemingly had no good reason for not admitting after the body was found that she'd seen Edmund. Apparently, she'd just thought that if she and the killer were the only two people who'd known he was in town, and she was the only one who admitted it, the police would focus on her. |
In truth, having felt fairly confident that Jeffrey hadn't known Edmund was nearby, she'd suspected Shayne of the killing. And she'd feared that if suspicion fell on her, he'd confess. But now it seemed she really was going to take the fall! |
At least her marriage hadn't suffered any permanent damage. When she was arrested, Jeffrey arranged for her release on bail, and quickly forgave her for having lied about her knowledge of Edmund's whereabouts. He was still deeply, passionately, in love with her. And he believed her claim that she hadn't killed Edmund. |
Unknown to Reva, two separate stories were unfolding... |
#1: Jeffrey had come up with a theory - which he shared, confidentially, with Josh. Perhaps that body wasn't Edmund's! Shayne, who'd identified it, could have been mistaken; it had been in the water for some time. But there was another possibility. What if Edmund had a surgically-created double? Jeffrey himself was liv... |
If the body wasn't Edmund's...regardless of whether he or someone else had killed "John Doe," Edmund had planted the fake "murder weapon," with his blood on it, in Reva's car. |
Jeffrey decided that to test his theory, he'd have to go in search of Edmund. But he couldn't leave Reva at risk of being prosecuted for murder while he was gone. So with the assistance of a reluctant Josh, he planted "evidence" that would make him appear to be the killer. By the time the police followed up on a tip an... |
(Yes, Jeffrey knew - beyond a shadow of a doubt - that Josh could be trusted to do that! Good-guy Josh had even offered to undertake the search himself, because Jeffrey had a wife and baby who needed him. Jeffrey convinced him that only he possessed the skills and experience that would be required to find and deal with... |
#2. Dinah, who still had a soft spot in her heart for ex-husband Mallet, was distressed by the problems this situation had created for his marriage. On the day of her own wedding to Shayne - at the reception - she broke down and confessed to Mallet that she'd killed Edmund. She told him in private, but said she underst... |
She and Marina had been together for a while that day. They'd been in the park, and she'd agreed to watch Henry while Marina went off to do something else. Whatever it was, Marina's entire day had doubtless been so normal, so uneventful, that it was understandable she hadn't remembered - after a lapse of time - that sh... |
Edmund had snatched Henry out of the stroller, and Dinah had clobbered him with the stroller. She'd dumped his body in the river before Marina returned. And on their way back to Marina's house, she'd volunteered to push the stroller, so Marina wouldn't immediately notice the broken handle. |
The killing itself had happened exactly as Mallet had guessed. But Dinah had a good reason for covering it up: she was a convicted felon! She was probably the only person who'd be sent to prison - sent back to prison - for killing Edmund under the circumstances she'd described. |
She claimed she hadn't planted false evidence to frame Reva. She knew nothing about that. But she wouldn't have come forward solely to clear Reva, either. They'd never been friends. And she'd assumed, in any case, that Jeffrey's influence in high places would prevent his wife's ever standing trial. |
Dinah, of course, knew nothing of Jeffrey's theory. But her memory of events wouldn't have ruled it out: far from it! If she was telling the whole truth, who'd tried to frame Reva? She could have killed Edmund's double; she'd undoubtedly spoken with the real Edmund at some point, but it could have been earlier in the d... |
Mallet was grateful for Dinah's confession. But he had a soft spot for her, too. So he "allowed her a little time to get her affairs in order before turning herself in." Privately, he encouraged her to flee. Meanwhile, other officers were finding the evidence that seemed to incriminate Jeffrey, and preparing to go afte... |
Dinah and Jeffrey, both "fleeing," met at the heliport and wound up leaving together. Jeffrey had thought of a plan in which Dinah could take part. (It can probably be assumed that after Mallet reported Dinah's confession and flight, Josh and Reva quickly told the police what Jeffrey was doing. And just in case he was ... |
Jeffrey and Dinah went to Bosnia, where they staged an elaborate ruse to make it seem Edmund's daughter Lara had been a government agent, and her "death" had been faked. A disguised Dinah, seen from a distance, could pass for Lara. As they expected, Edmund got word of her seemingly being alive. He fell for the ruse, tr... |
They followed Edmund's trail to South America, then back to the U.S. Jeffrey, knowing the chase was becoming extremely dangerous, insisted Dinah go no farther with him. He rented a plane to fly from Key West to North Carolina. But a henchman of Edmund's had sabotaged the plane. When the controls failed, Jeffrey had jus... |
Reva was screaming, "You're not going to die!" She refused to believe he could die. |
In fact, he survived and made it to shore - an isolated stretch of the North Carolina coast. But he was injured, dazed, his phone either lost or unusable. Reva had reported the plane crash immediately, but she hadn't known the location. It took a while for the FAA to figure out where Jeffrey had been; and by the time s... |
He was lost in the woods for weeks, subsisting on whatever edible plants he could find. Within sight of a shack, he finally passed out. When he came to, he found he'd been taken inside by the occupant of the shack - Reva's son Jonathan! |
Jonathan explained why he was hiding out, with Sarah, in such a remote place. Edmund had located him, communicated with him, and brazenly announced his intention of kidnapping and raising Sarah. Jeffrey then made the fateful decision to patch up his own minor injuries, and take advantage of his enemy's thinking he was ... |
He soon contacted Jeffrey and Jonathan again, via a tape recording. He vowed to keep trying till he succeeded in killing Jeffrey...knowing full well that Jeffrey would also be trying to find and kill him. |
But Edmund had a network of agents. If any of them came to believe Reva had learned Jeffrey was alive - if a "bug" caught her speaking too freely, or her actions, demeanor, or even an unguarded facial expression somehow gave it away - those agents would kidnap Colin, Sarah, and Henry, and he would raise them. |
As if that threat wasn't bad enough, he followed it up with a worse one. In a note delivered to Jeffrey, he said he'd changed his mind. He wouldn't attempt to kidnap and raise the three children. He'd have them killed outright. |
Yes, even his own grandson! |
Jeffrey had of course intended to surface quickly - not keep anyone believing he was dead, once he'd lost the advantage of surprise with Edmund. Now he saw that he couldn't risk doing that. And he really would have to keep Reva in the dark; the alternative would put an intolerable burden on her. But he asked Jonathan t... |
Once there, Jonathan concluded it would now be safe for him to live there permanently with Sarah. So Reva had two more loved ones near her...and Jeffrey had at least one confidant in Springfield with whom he could stay in touch. |
Dinah had gone back, briefly, to report what she and Jeffrey had learned. But few people believed her. There was still no proof Edmund was alive, no proof Jeffrey hadn't died in an accident while following false leads. (The Coast Guard had concluded that his plane couldn't be brought up from the ocean floor without ris... |
Marina had forgiven Mallet for having suspected she'd killed Edmund, and doubted her denial. But he became convinced that their family situation - with him and Shayne, Marina's first love, both trying to be "fathers" to Henry - was untenable. So he made the sacrifice of leaving...sure that if he did, Marina and Shayne ... |
He was right. But he wasn't alone for long; he went to Europe, and was happily reunited with Dinah. |
Reflections: Might not Jonathan's returning to Springfield at that point have been dangerous in itself - risked fueling Edmund's suspicions? In my opinion, yes! Edmund could have thought Jonathan would take Reva to an out-of-the-way spot where there was zero chance of "bugs," cameras, or human observers, and share the ... |
I didn't invent this storyline; fans of the show are stuck with it. In an essay I posted online, I made the grumpy complaint that based on the writers' subsequent use of Jeffrey, it seemed their only purpose in having him survive the plane crash had been to create a plot device - an awkward plot device - for bringing J... |
But in 2012, I finally learned the truth about that "plane crash," and the subsequent lack of story for Jeffrey. |
Some fans have been led to believe that after the cancellation was announced, Bradley Cole, who played Jeffrey, asked to be released from his contract early. That was said to be the explanation of the plane crash. It was claimed he then pre-taped what little material the producers would still want from him, to air late... |
Evidently, that was either a lie or someone's guess, which had been picked up and repeated as fact. I've learned what I believe is the real story. |
Cole's contract had been up for renewal in the spring of 2009; and while it was uncertain whether he'd re-sign, the plane crash storyline was written as a way of possibly leaving his character "presumed dead." Whether Jeffrey would be known to have survived was always meant to be dependent on whether Cole re-signed; an... |
When a soap opera character's survival has been dependent on the actor's re-signing, the character is often left without much story for a while - because the writers haven't had enough lead time, knowing the actor would be available, to write for him. This situation was further complicated by the cancellation, and the ... |
All things considered, they did it pretty well. It was a producer, not the writers, who muffed the ending by cutting a key scene. (I suspect that producer "muffed the ending" - in my opinion - because he or she saw as clearly as I do that in any realistic imagining of what would happen if Jeffrey returned at that point... |
I've explained why Josh - recognizing that Reva needed more time to mourn her dead husband - went away for a year. Now that year has passed, and she has a hard decision to make... |
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Monday, July 29, 2013 |
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Detroit Mirrors America’s Decline |
Answering O'Reilly |
We know that the Federal Reserve is bailing out foreign banks. So, for some, the American people and the economy are being harmed by international interests. The Federal Reserve policy benefits big foreign banks. The Federal Reserve has also intentionally locked up bank money so that it is not loaned out to Main Street... |
We know that the Syrian rebels and beheading Christians and using child soldiers. These re evil, abhorrent actions. These rebels are unfortunately funded by the White House. Al-Qaeda affiliated rebels are ironically aided by the Western governments. They are beheading innocent Christians still and using 14 year old chi... |
One Saudi Prince defects from the Saudi Royal Family. Prince Khalid Bin Al-Saud has announced his defection form the Al-Saud royal family. He outlined his defection via his statement. He called on other princes to break their silence and reveal the truth for sake of God. The Saudi prince referred to his "sufferings" un... |
We know about illegal orders in the military. There were the details of My Lai. My Lai was a Vietnamese village. It was destroyed by the U.S. soldiers. Men, women, and children were killed by Western military forces. The military selected the fall guy for the massacre named Lt. Calley. In the armed forces, folks were s... |
Bill O'Reilly made recently disrespectful, racist, and ignorant views on the black community and our issues. You know me. I will respond to his lies. Bill O'Reilly made the lie that African American culture today is all about degeneracy, violence, and other fragrant evils. In other words, the black community is respons... |
By Timothy |
Sunday, July 28, 2013 |
Detroit: The Bell Tolls for All of Us |
George Zimmerman Juror B29 = Racism/White Supremacy Refinement |
My Response to a scapegoater of black human beings. |
Well Al Sharpton isn't Jesus and he's far from being any kind of Christian. He's a wolf in sheeps clothing if anything. Truthseeker, you have a lot to learn about Al Sharpton. Just because he has a "REV." in front of his name, doesn't mean he follows that righteous path. He's incited a nation full of hate and racism. B... |
Sharpton's demanded they arrested Zimmerman, so Florida did. Sharpton demanded a trial and he got one. Sharpton didn't like the verdict so his comment was this is "an atrocity." After the verdict, Sharpton didn't like the jury, even though the prosecution and defense both picked them and approved of them. Sharpton now ... |
The true atrocity was the incredible blatant and sickening anti-White - pro-Black bias exhibited by the media controlled by the person yelling the loudest or for ratings. The media blew this case out of all proportion for what really should have only been a news item of interest to a local audience. Sharpton ensured it... |
Sharpton was wrong about Tawana Brawley, Duke LaCrosse Players, and now he's wrong about Zimmerman. |
Sharpton, in 1987, there was the Tawana Brawley case and at the same time of the Crown Heights Riots. Sharpton's role were vile words that incited the anti-Semitic rioters, which made an already volatile violent situation much worse. Sharpton constantly screamed to the rioters, "No justice, no peace!" |
Sharpton has blood on his hands because he is partially responsible for the continued violence during that riot and for the stabbing death of a jewish scholar visiting from Australia. Not to mention the 100's of other people that were injured or killed. Looting and burning buildings, rapes, murders and he fueled that f... |
You all hang on to every word Sharpton says like he's Jesus. That's sick, disgusting, and ignorant. Your mob mentality brain isn't capable of logic hence the HIGH rate of black on black crime. It's a fact and there's your truth, Truthseeker. |
My Response: |
You listed so many errors, false statements, stereotypes, etc. that is shocking even for me. Now, like many of what you people do, you take things out of context, you put words in folks’ mouth, and you change the subject. The subject at hand in this article is about the lives of black males mattering. That is the point... |
You stalk us all of the time including here in social media when we want to independently express our ideals. You say nothing here to rebut the white racist trolls here, but want to target my sincere, non offensive words on the issue of the value of black life. How ironic. I reject the offers from many whites who want ... |
Folks are talking about how poverty, discrimination, oppression, recessionary economic realities, and socioeconomic factors contribute to criminal actions including the bad conditions in poor areas including other areas. That is reality not excuses. Zimmerman has a known history of assaulting a woman, he was accused of... |
My brain is highly cognitive. There has been a decrease in overall crime in the span of three decades inside of the USA. We have issues in our black community, but we are not mostly criminals you bigot. We can defeat racism with the destruction of the system of white supremacy. You try to ignore some of your faults as ... |
By Timothy (Me) |
To Courtney from Me: |
Thank you Sister from my heart. You hold it down as well. At first, I did not want to respond to the guy. Then, I read the rest of his words and then I felt a thought in my mind to wanting to respond. Also, you are blessed with your wisdom too. Yes, the enemy focuses on our issues as a means to push psychological butto... |
-By Timothy (Me) |
Encouragement from the Sweet Sister Courtney: |
courtneyrR \ |
Standing Ovation!!! Racist really should worry about the 86 percent of YT on YT crime, that happens in their communities that rarely gets told by the media . The focus seems to be a bit one sided. Excellent post. :) |
You are very very welcomed and , I would totally understand if you didn't respond back. It's exhausting trying to explain common decency to people who have none. Or doesn't feel it important enough to at least attempt to have some.At the same time, nothing but good came out of your response to his lies. The fact that y... |
No problem. I absolutely want the best for everyone and not just to experience that for myself. The time that we are given, is simply not long enough but we are blessed to have what we have. I wish more people saw that.Encouragement, goes along way and you never know who is listening. I never could understand how peopl... |
Saturday, July 27, 2013 |
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Ted Nugent Exposed |
Refuting Bill O'Reilly's Garbage |
Neither the Right or Left have love for Blacks because in America Blacks are hated to the core by the original oppressor and other groups that have been taught to hate Black |
people by that oppressor. |
I'm an Independent and from what I can see: One party is overtly racist while the other is covertly racist. The Huffington Post is a very liberal site and when I look at some of the user names such as "Never Going Right" say that the "killer of Trayvon was defending himself against a thug", that tells me that so called... |
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