Summary

Rocky pulls the stack of the day's newspapers into his store and puts them on the counter. He takes one off the top and reads it. The main headline is about Tariq’s death. It shows protestors outside of the jail where Jack Franklin had been released. Tariq’s mother made a statement calling for justice, and the Reverend Sloan suggests, in the article, that there needs to be further investigation and that racial bias might be in play. Rocky thinks that he might be on to something there as he thinks back to the police officers who had questioned him a few days before, trying to get him to tell them that Tariq had stolen something from his store and that the boy had a gun.

Melody notes that the police presence in Underhill has tripled over the last three days. Melody...