A Stranger in the House

As she walks, Karen thinks about all the times she had noticed things had been moved in her house when she was away, like when she came home to find someone had rummaged through her underwear drawer. She had grown so paranoid she began taking pictures of the house before she left so she would have proof things had been moved. A few days before the accident, she noticed that someone had gone through Tom’s day planner. She assumes it was Robert, the murdered man, who had been stalking her.

When she gets home, Tom tells her Brigid stopped by to check in on her. Karen is surprised. Then, she asks Tom if he will go with her to the scene of the crime to see if it will spark her memory. He agrees.

Tom and Karen drive to the abandoned restaurant. They go past the police tape to look at the interior. She is revolted by the smell of rotting corpse. Tom goes to check the nearby parking lot where the gloves were found. Finally, they drive home. As they go inside, Tom feels his “despair deepe[n].”

Bob returns home to find his wife, Brigid, still awake. She tells him that the detectives went to the Krupp residence to interview them again.