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Monday, June 2, 2003 On Friday's show Katie and Mike found a body at the Old Mill while they were hanging up posters asking for information about Carly's disappearance. Fearing it's Carly, they call Jack and the OPD. The body is brought into the coroner, where Jack, Evelyn, Katie, Mike, and Margo observe while it's unwrapped. Unable to watch, Katie leaves just before the plastic shroud is opened. Jack and Margo recognize the body, not as Carly but as Simon's nemesis Bartleby Shears who was supposed to have left town months ago. Jack asks Margo what she's going to do, and she says before she does anything she's going to talk to someone who knows more about what happened. Having been released from jail when Craig made a deal with Barbara to drop the charges, Henry is brought back to the police station for questioning in this matter. Jack brings Henry into the interrogation room where Margo is waiting. "This will all be in my memoirs," he says sullenly. Jack tells them that they found the body of Bartleby Shears at the Old Mill, dead, buried, and wrapped in plastic. Faking surprise, Henry says, "Really? The poor man." Margo asks him if he has any idea how Bartleby might have died. "Me? No!" answers Henry. Jack tells him to save it, they know Bartleby was connected to Simon, and they think Henry knows just how connected. "Meaning what?" asks Henry. "Did Simon have anything to do with Bartleby's death?" Margo asks bluntly. "No, absolutely not," says Henry. "Simon and Bartleby were old buddies back in Australia, right? You don't shoot an old buddy, do you? It doesn't make any sense." Margo and Jack exchange a knowing glance. Jack notes that they never said he was shot. Henry tries to backtrack, "Did I say shoot? I meant kill, he didn't kill anybody. Simon didn't kill anybody, OK? Are we done here, because I have a date with a jeweler to put a new battery in my watch." He starts to stand up but Margo pushes him back in the chair, saying, "Henry, we need to know the truth, for Katie's sake. If something horrible has happened she deserves to know." "No she doesn't, Simon didn't want her to..." says Henry hastily. Realizing he gave it away, he thinks for a moment with his head down. "Yeah, OK, what's the point here... Yeah, he did it." "Oh my God," says Margo. "He didn't have a choice, Margo. It wasn't murder, he didn't have a choice," says Henry. Jack asks how it happened. Henry explains that Simon found Bartleby outside the cottage with a gun aimed at Katie's head through the window. "They struggled, Bartleby would have shot him in a heartbeat, somehow Simon got hold of the gun. It was self-defense!" Margo asks Henry if he was there. Henry says he wasn't, Simon told him about it later. He admits that he helped Simon get out of town, he must have buried the body before he left. Margo asks Henry why Simon didn't go to the police. Henry explains that Bartleby told Simon if he got the police involved, his associates would kill Katie. "That's why he got out of town the way he did, Simon would do anything to keep Katie from getting hurt." "So everything he said about not loving her anymore, that was all a lie," Margo says in disbelief. "That's not my place to say. All I do know is Simon did not leave town because he wanted to," says Henry. Margo says she has to tell Katie, but Henry says no. Margo says Katie deserves to know that Simon still loves her. Henry stands up and goes to Margo to plead, "Detective, Detective, please. If word gets out that Bartleby was killed here, his associates will be here in a second. They'll go after Katie first, and maybe other people too." "I'm sorry, this is far too important Henry, I can't sit on this," says Margo. "Please, Margo, please," begs Henry. "Katie... I haven't had a lot of friends in my life, OK, I haven't. But Katie comes as close as anyone. If you think it's been a joy to watch her get her heart shredded here, you are mistaken. I wanted to tell her a thousand times. The bottom line is, people, the bottom line is Simon is not coming back, not ever. And the best thing for Katie is that we leave things the way they are." Margo tells Henry she needs to think about this. She thanks him for coming down and talking to them, and tells him he can leave. He heads for the door and Jack tells him not to say a word about this to anyone. "Not a syllable, the issue is dead," he says, then realizes what he said. "That's a bad choice of words." Jack tells him to just keep his mouth shut. After Henry leaves Margo and Jack discuss what they should do about poor old Bartleby. Jack suggests they leave him as a John Doe and close the case, but Margo is still torn. Katie arrives at the station and asks about the body. Margo tells her he didn't have any ID and his fingers were too deteriorated for fingerprints. Thinking of Simon, Katie feels bad for the man and his family who will never know what happened to him. She wants to see the body to pay her respects, but Margo talks her out of it. Today’s episode was directed by Steven Williford and written by Judy Tate.
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