Endtown by Aaron Neathery for October 18, 2017

hmmm…A rather damning comment on truth, justice and lawyers.

Looks like Walt will step up to protect her.

Defense lawyers are the most unethical people in the world.

He’s done his job & he’s on his merry way…hope he can outrun a mob of angry, mutant wolves.

Yes, he IS a real lawyer!

A Fairweather friend, indeed.

His sole purpose was to keep her out of jail so the wolves could have the pleasure of “disappearing” her.

I can see Walt, Portia and Heather following Wally out into the wastelands.

Oge: I agree. And at this point, I think many of us would rather follow that trail – and tale – as well.

Sounds as if pig lawyer and wolf lawyer were in agreement: Heather was guilty of murder one – neither was interested in her mental state, or any other possible scenario of what went on that night.

Fairweather wanted to avoid the lynching of wolves if Heather was convicted of murder. There was nothing in there about protecting her if he got her off scot-free. I’m guessing Walt is going to have another guest in his rooms now.

Well, Fairweather should probably think about his own safety, now that the wolves probably see him as a traitor for coming to Heather’s defense… and especially winning.

Walt could probably make a killing renting rooms for those who need protection.

“Well, I’ll be dog gone” like the Indian said after his pet fell over the edge of the Grand Canyon. We shall see what happens is they run out of easily available pig mutants.

(What’s for dinner? “Mutton, Honey.”)

Heather needs a gun with lots of magazines…and get off on self defense. Either that or a one way ticket out. With that weapon, ammo, food and water.

No prison to protect Heather……Walt needs to start drinking again…..so he won’t notice ripping a few more throats…….wolves are tough fighters. But look at it this way. It was a short trialxD

Right … he is still a wolf. Problem about that last line is she didn´t kill someone in cold blood.

Fairweather’s job is done, but what was his job, really?

No one hired him. No one assigned him. He just showed up and started defending her, pro bono. He wasn’t concerned about her fate after the trial, so why was he there?

The motive appears to be exactly how it turned out, to turn the wolves against Heather in outrage for her “escaping justice”. If she were found guilty, she would be jailed and protected. Now she has no protection. To ensure she would go free, it appears the entire court was colluding. Someone choreographed this dance, and Aaron might have hinted at it by holding the trial in a dance hall.

If Heather were jailed, the wolves would have been satisfied and the matter would have settled down. The choreographer wants things unsettled and powderkegged. S/he wants Endtowners to divide so s/he can conquer, I think. At some point this person’s going to come out of the shadows and offer to lead Endtown out of its dark times, and it’s not going to be Jacob. Jacob will be the one to defy the choreographer, however, for the greater good, along with Cooper, Foxworthy, and others he never thought he’d be aligned with.

Wait a minute, if she would have “thought twice,” she would have been the one who was dead. Or did I miss something somewhere?

Morgankhat: If I recall, the one particular wolf that she killed, regardless of his checkered past, brought out at the trial, that one wolf just happened to be the only one who was not threatening her at the time.

Walt brought up the very point I was thinking of when the “not guilty” verdict was read: what is Heather going to do now? She’s still likely in a fragile state of mind quite apart from the fact that her business is destroyed and she is still in danger. The mob mentality that appears to be forming outside the courthouse/dance hall doesn’t bode well for Heather, nor for Endtown.

We haven’t heard anything more of the wolf found dead in her store. Something or somebody killed him but he seems to have been forgotten.

I think the people raging at Fairweather are forgetting (willfully or otherwise) what he said before. Heather had a very weak case for the trial – she was seen uninjured, repeatedly bashing a mans head with a brick, after showing open anti-wolf bias to multiple people. When he chose to defend her, Fairweather openly stated he was trying to keep the peace as much as possible, and wanted to defend Heather as the human being he identifies as to help stop it turning into the wolves vs everyone else debacle that it now is. He didn’t actually expect for her to win, as he made clear.

What changed was the discovery of the pig corpses in the river, something that utterly shocked and horrified Fairweather. He correctly deduced that no matter what the evidence, Heather would be found not guilty. And he was absolutely right – the Jury were repeatedly shown not paying attention, not respecting the court, and one guy even yelled out Not Guilty too early and got scolded for not sticking to the script.

Fairweather is now in a position where he believes he was a prop that unwittingly helped a murderer get off scot-free, which he knows will only further inflame the racial tensions that were already bad enough. And whatever’s going on, he’s pretty clearly not a plant, either – he was shown drunk and traumatized after the pig corpses were found. After that development, no matter what happened during the ‘trial’ it would’ve had the same result – he knows damn well that all he’s done is get himself involved, which will probably turn out as well for him as it did for the panda in the milk trial.

The wolf found burned is the one who set the place on fire and he didn’t get out fast enough.

@Coyoty Exactly. There was no murder. This was all a series of terrible events. Never expected justice either.

To think all of the crap Heather went through may have been avoided had she not smacked that female wolf in the back of the head in her launderette, thus starting the retaliation against her. Was she right for doing so? Would there have been a different outcome had she not allowed herself to respond emotionally to the ignorant she-wolf? Maybe given her friends death it was inevitable. But still, a sad case for her.