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Date Posted: 21:10:47 09/08/09 Tue
Author: Carla
Subject: Chatper 81 "In Sunlight or in Shadow"

Pamela and Jamie are there for Pat at Sylvie's funeral, although Pat has withdrawn into himself and is hanging on to his sanity by his fingernails. David also came to the funeral. Casey appears suddenly, his very presence pulling on Pamela, although he wore no hint of softness at seeing her.

Casey and Pamela talk, and he admits he's not ready to come home. She offers him the key to the house and says she'll move out if he needs a place to stay. The tears she held back at the graveside come now and she reaches out to touch Casey's cheek. He moves her hand away. She tells him to go be with his brother. The two men embrace and Pamela has to look away.

Chapter 82: "Requiem"

Casey has been staying with Pat, trying to help him. In the course of an emotional conversation it comes out that Casey has "taken care" of the men who killed Sylvie. In the exchange that follows Casey says he was cleaning up the mess Pat made in the first place. Pat blames himself for Sylvie's death. Casey appears as hard and cold-blooded in his responses to Pat, who admits to being frightened by Casey.

Casey offers money to Pat to leave Ireland, saying they're "on the outside" now after the killing of the IRA men. Pat reveals the plane tickets to California Jamie had given he and Sylvie as a wedding gift. Pat says he can't leave right now, he needs to be where Sylvie was. Pat asks about Robin and Casey says he's dead, with none left to mourn or bury him.

We know who and what Casey is, what he's capable of, and yet I cannot help but feel a slight shock when this side of him is so baldly revealed. Do you feel the same? Why or why not?

Is Pat right to stay in Belfast? Would he be better off getting away from the scenes of all his memories?

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