The Thursday Murder Club

Joyce is excited because Joanna in town. She just broke up with her boyfriend after finding scandalous photographs on his phone, and she is visiting the area because she had a meeting nearby. Chapter 65 opens with Elizabeth meeting Bogdan at the cemetery. Bogdan begins digging and reveals the two skeletons that he found the other day to Elizabeth. She says that he did the right thing by coming to her and that they should not involve the police yet. Elizabeth also instructs him to fill it back in again for now. In Chapter 66, Ibrahim and Ron go over the list of names. Ron has created a scale out of ten, and they place the suspects on it by assigning them all a number.

Jason is growing anxious over the police suspecting him. He recalls a night when Tony fatally shot a young drug dealer. They took a cab to dump the body outside town; however, Tony also shot the cabbie to make sure there were no loose ends. After that murder, Jason was done with that group of people, and Bobby left soon after. Jason wants to find Bobby before the murderer finds him, and he knows that he needs to reach out to his Ron, his father, for help. In Chapter 68, Jason reaches out to Ron, promising his dad that he didn’t kill Tony. Ron believes him but asks if there is any way he can prove his innocence. Jason says that if they can find Bobby or Gianni then they could clear his name. Ron agrees to call Elizabeth for help.

Meanwhile, Chris and Donna interrogate Father Matthew in the interview room. After doing a background check on him, they discovered that he is not registered as a priest anywhere. The records only showed that he was a doctor in the past. Matthew does not offer much of a defense, only saying that he is not presently a priest and refusing to remove his collar. He says that he will only tell Chris more if he is under arrest, which he isn’t, so Matthew says leaves.

Jason, Ron, and Ibrahim wait for the rest of the Thursday Murder Club in a sauna; Jason is going to explain his side to them in the hopes that Elizabeth will help. He tells them the same story that he told his dad earlier. Jason elaborates that he called Tony three times was because he received the photograph in his mailbox earlier; however, when he went there and rang the doorbell, no one answered, so he left. Elizabeth tells Jason that they will find Bobby and Gianni.

The group visits the grave that Bogdan showed Elizabeth, except this time they bring Austin, a professor, to date the bones. The body on top of the coffin was placed there around 50 years ago, he says, and the other body is even older. Austin takes some of the bones with him to do some further analysis, and Elizabeth states that it is best to continue keeping the police out of it until they have more answers. Joyce opens Chapter 72 with her diary, taking about how Austin claims that the bones belong to a man, so it was not a nun that was buried there. Chris and Donna go over their leads for the case as they walk up to his office that night. Chris states that it looks like Jason is connected to Tony’s murder, and Matthew is connected to Ian’s murder.