Summary

Savannah attends the Harmons’ service. After the service, Savannah lingers to give her condolences to Lymp. Jo follows her out into the parking lot and begins grilling her with questions about the Harmons’ deaths. Savannah tries to evade the questions, but Jo startles her by bringing up her drug addiction and Marva’s role in enabling it. Savannah grows angry and tells Jo that Lymp hated his siblings enough to kill them.

Shaken, Savannah returns to work at Aiken’s Rx and More. Two of her coworkers, Miss Lynn and River, interrupt her lunch break by gossiping about Patty Hearst. Savannah recalls eloping to New York with her deceased husband, FitzAllen, a Black man, and returning to West Mills only after Fitz died. She had difficulty finding work because her children were Black, but Stewart Aiken took pity on her and gave her...