Close to Home Recap: Fall From Grace
The three-part season finale continues, picking up where Drink the Cup left off last week.
Annabeth continues to try and dig up some dirt on Veeder, but she's not gaining much ground. The investigation focuses on the girls who were staying at the home run by Veeder's wife and the wives of the other team members, and it looks like some more details are slowly emerging, but there's now another problem - it looks like Hailey is being threatened. So Annabeth needs to figure out if she should press on, and try and connect Veeder to this mess, or if she needs to back off and keep her family safe. Naturally, she'll probably take the first option - but she does seem to consider the second one. At least for a few minutes.
Annabeth's new beau continues to feed her information, and it seems like she's getting herself set up for a big fall, but we're surely going to have to wait until next week to see what happens there. And there's no way that they'll take her out, leaving her baby completely without parents. In the meantime, Annabeth continues to press the other girls from the group home, and while on the surface they defend the actions of Veeder's wife, in private, they admit that they were pawns for Veeder - offering up sexual favors to get people to fall in line when needed.
Veeder can't go back to court for the same crimes - he was already cleared on that front last week. But he can be brought up on new charges, so that's what they're after here, and Conlon himself takes point, because he doesn't want to put Annabeth any more in harm's way. Unfortunately, it puts a bit of a strain on his political aspirations, but it does show that he's interested in more than just getting himself elected - he's interested in getting to the bottom of this.
Things start getting interesting when Veeder decides that he'll give someone up after all - the enigma known as Pretty Boy. Unfortunately for everyone, he names Peter Durkin, who until now has been the head of Conlon's campaign. Annabeth doesn't want to believe the name, but it's something to go on, so she takes it and runs with it. They look at his boat, and Conlon confronts Pete, and sure enough it seems like there's something to it. Conlon ends up taking the heat. He doesn't step down, but he does lose - he loses his bid for election. For now, anyway. In turn, he vows to go after the corruption.
Annabeth vows to go after her new man.
Stay tuned for the finale next week: Eminent Domain.
