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As she explains to Chief Carter, Jess says she agreed to burn them to protect the memory of her best friend, while Dylan's motive was to prevent any secrets about DJ's parentage that Erin may have written down from leaking so that he and his parents would have a better chance of retaining custody.
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Why did Dylan and Jess burn Erin's journals?Īs we suspected, Dylan and Jess had different incentives to burn Erin's journals. That noise he heard was definitely Ryan Ross taking the gun from the shed, but why was he, a retired cop, not more concerned when he learned that it was missing? Why did he wait so long-months!-to check if the gun was back and report it to the authorities? Oof, that Glenn! As is often the case with a big, complicated mystery, some pieces fit together more elegantly than others. Glenn tells Mare that he'd retrieved the gun from the storage shed the morning his granddaughter saw the mysterious "ferret man" prowler, and that he'd gone to the shed to grab it again that night upon hearing noises, only to discover that it wasn't where it was supposed to be. Carroll obviously still grieving the loss of his wife, and thrilling-run, Mare! check that security footage! go to that school!-but the timeline surrounding the gun's absence and return is more than a little confusing. Now a lonely, addled widower, good old Glenn emerged in the last episode to facilitate the show's final twist, telling Mare that his Colt Detective Special, the gun that had been identified as the murder weapon through ballistics tests, had gone missing on the night of Erin's murder but he'd noticed that it had been returned at some point since then, and with two fewer bullets at that. Carroll had indeed installed the security camera that would later provide Mare with crucial evidence, he resurfaced in the pivotal Episode 5 to confess at his wife's wake (she died in a heart-attack-induced car-crash) that he'd had an affair with Mare's mother, Helen (Jean Smart), a goofy disclosure that was overshadowed by the shocking death of Colin Zabel (Evan Peters). After a follow-up house call established in a subsequent episode that Mr. Glenn Carroll (Patrick McDade), the man whose wife, Betty, called Mare way back in Episode 1 to complain about a peeper that looked like a ferret, was always lurking in the background of the show's plot. Esther Zuckermanĭoes Glenn Carroll's missing gun timeline actually make sense? What about the bawdy graffitiing neighbor boy? Reddit fave Richard? Or does Easttown have some random perv creeping around who has gone unapprehended? Who is the ferret man?! This will plague us forever. We know that it can't be Ryan, as he wasn't outside the Carroll home until the following night. We think it's ultimately that wandering old man with dementia who Mare tackles late one night. But we still don't know for certain who the actual ferret man is.
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A week or so later, the camera is operational when Mare returns after a neighbor kid vandalizes the Carrolls' property-and months later, it helps Mare break the case by revealing that Ryan Ross had stolen Glenn's gun, the weapon used to shoot Erin. Mare, frustrated because this task is below her pay grade, listens as Betty describes the prowler as a hoodie-wearing man who looked like a "ferret," which Mare can't corroborate because the granddaughter has already left town and Betty's absent-minded husband, Glenn, hasn't set up the security camera properly. Betty Carroll calls Mare early in the morning to report a creepy dude her granddaughter saw in the backyard. The show opens with an incident that initially seems like a way to indicate just how boring Mare's job can be and how tight the Easttown community is.