Scene 16: Wrapping things up
The Vickers's financial records clearly showed large, regular payments - the largest coming at the time of Lynn's faked death. The payments abruptly ceased two months before Lynn's body was found in the blown-up federal building. That alone was enough to get them a search warrant for the Vickers's home, but it wasn't actually needed.
The couple panicked and tried to flee to Mexico. They were caught at the border, and it was the work of a moment for Booth to get a confession out of them.
Yes, they helped Lynn Echolls fake her own death.
Yes, they then blackmailed her for years.
Yes, they killed her when she stopped paying them.
What she was doing in L.A. that weekend, they couldn't say, but they speculated that she was there to secure a new identity and disappear once again, from everyone, especially them. She'd said almost as much, just before they killed her.
Yes, they hid her body in a sarcophagus and used the cover of the exploding building to get rid of it.
It was a satisfying conclusion to a perplexing case, Booth finds. Bad guys in jail. Justice served.
Except he still can't help but wonder how a woman could leave her family, her children, at the mercy of a man like Aaron Echolls. He can't figure out that level of selfishness, can't understand why she would do the things she did.
He probably never will, and ultimately, it's probably best that way.
The couple panicked and tried to flee to Mexico. They were caught at the border, and it was the work of a moment for Booth to get a confession out of them.
Yes, they helped Lynn Echolls fake her own death.
Yes, they then blackmailed her for years.
Yes, they killed her when she stopped paying them.
What she was doing in L.A. that weekend, they couldn't say, but they speculated that she was there to secure a new identity and disappear once again, from everyone, especially them. She'd said almost as much, just before they killed her.
Yes, they hid her body in a sarcophagus and used the cover of the exploding building to get rid of it.
It was a satisfying conclusion to a perplexing case, Booth finds. Bad guys in jail. Justice served.
Except he still can't help but wonder how a woman could leave her family, her children, at the mercy of a man like Aaron Echolls. He can't figure out that level of selfishness, can't understand why she would do the things she did.
He probably never will, and ultimately, it's probably best that way.