Summary

On the morning of May 6, 1905, Benjamin arrives at his father’s house and suffocated him with his bare hands. He then runs from the house, having finished his business there, and wonders if Lizzie Borden felt just as vindicated when her father died. Benjamin has been keeping up with Lizzie and her sister through the articles posted in newspapers detailing her trial for the murder of Andrew and Abby Borden and all of the testimonies from Lizzie and John and Bridget and Emma. In the end, Lizzie was acquitted because the jury did not believe a woman to be capable of the crimes.

Benjamin has kept the ax head and skull fragment he found the day of the murders all of these years. He takes a train to Fall River to try to blackmail the money he thinks he is owed from the Borden...