A Fatal Grace

Lemieux and Beauvoir go to the Morrows’ house to watch The Lion in Winter again.

Gamache questions Lyon about his financial problems. Lyon confesses that he had to sign away his pension to buy the Hadley house. Gamache reminds him that the insurance policy on CC will leave him well off, but he denies killing his wife.

Later, Gamache visits Myrna and asks about Crie who describes the girl as damaged: “We become our beliefs, and Crie believes something horrible about herself. Has heard it all her life, and now it haunts her, in her own mother’s voice” (286). Myrna also claims Lyon couldn’t have killed his wife because he was sitting next to her on the bleachers during the entire curling match.

Gamache pulls out the copy of Ruth’s book that was found on Elle. Myrna identifies it as the copy Ruth autographed for Clara. Clara claims to have lost it that same day. In this moment, Myrna withholds Clara’s story about having heard the voice of God in the beggar’s comment.

At the Morrow home, Clara replays a scene from The Lion in Winter for Gamache: In the shot, Eleanor of Aquitaine descends from a barge. All that’s visible is the bow of the boat, some trees, and gray water.