He was back two weeks later.
 

Turns out Dad's new Wife couldn't deal with Little Brother's nutjobbery and made several desperate calls to me to try and convince me that the best thing to do would be to send him back home to Mommy.  Desperate calls to ME.  Not Mom.  ME.  Like I was his Father.  And all this time, my Dad didn't speak to me, probably because he knew I'd call bullshit on him.  My Mother was angry and upset(apparently at least one conversation had occured with her, and she HAD called bullshit on Dad), and I was caught in the middle and was forced to make adult decisions for a bunch of distraught adults over THEIR crazypants son.  He was my Brother, but he was their child.  But eventually he came back home.
 

Two months later he violently attacked me and nearly killed me.  I defended myself and ended up being arrested as a result due to domestic dispute technicalities.  Even though I beat the charges, I was rather upset.  After all I had done for him, I was the one who was attacked.  And, more specifically, where the fuck was Dad?
 

Where was he when my Brother was sick?  Where was he when we needed a Father to help us through things?  Where was he when I was attacked?  Why did my Younger Brother feel that I was the male authority figure he could attack?  And why did my Mother feel that I was the person to call in the middle of the night worried about my brother?  Why did I end up having the parental talks about the psycho who tried to kill me? 
 

Truth is, I'm the one who had to raise my Brother, and I have to take responsibility for how he's turned out.  And while I wash my hands of it, because I came to my senses, I find myself thinking about my "son" a lot.  And in the meantime, I haven't heard from my Father in years.  The last time I called him, probably about eight months ago, we had a decent conversation that was very nice...and he never called me back.  So it can't be that he's worried I'm angry, because I didn't give him a reason to think I was.
 

But my Father abandoned us.  If we're so important that I MUST call him for my Grandmother and make sure everything is alright(apparently he wants to know I'm okay before he goes into surgery, because he's melodramatic), then why hasn't he called me about it?  If it's so important to him that our relationship be good before he goes into the hospital, why didn't he make the effort?  Why hasn't he made the effort over the past five years?
 

The truth is I don't want to call him.  I think he's made it clear that we're only of interest to him when he's feeling self-reflective.  And since I did his job for him, what do I need him for?  I've been getting along just fine without a Father.  And I'm sick of my Grandmother implying I'm a bad son just because I don't make the effort to repair my shattered relationship with my absentee Father.  Who has a new Family to worry about.  We're his failed experiment Family, and I'm better than that.  So, no, I'm not going to call him.  I don't care if that's petty, or what, but I don't need it.  Any of it.  He knows where to find me.  But it's his job to do it, not mine.  I have enough relationships to deal without worrying about the feelings of a person I barely know who happens to be my genetic donor. 
 

He wants to talk, he can come find me.  I'm not hard to find.
 

But he won't. 
 

He never will.

There would be a lot of fun to be had with romantic roles, actually....I like the idea of a male Werewolf completley intoxicated with the sensory overload of a Woman.  Her smell, her taste, her touch....perhaps it'd be enough to make them into harmless little house pets or to drive them into a leathal psychotic frenzy rendering them capable of doing anything- including harm.  You could play with sub/dom stuff, but maybe not as pretentiously as gothy Vampire types....but it does exsist. 
 

I'd had ideas of taking the Werewolf entirely into metephor and doing a story about savage men, but I think I really do dig the idea of a full-on "I turn into a massive half-man, half-wolf creature...or can also turn into a full Wolf" idea.  Big, huge, scary, fuck-off hairy monsters who can tear you apart.  Sounds like way more fun to me.
 

A story about a Werewolf, perhaps born a long time ago or recently made, who goes through life dealing with being connected to life, being socially capable and accepted amongst his own kind, and yet finding himself seperated from the life he feels so connected to.  He probably falls in love, maybe upsetting his Pack or maybe earning the enimity of a less-friendly pack, and finds himself torn between the man and the animal.  Could be fun.  Cliche, maybe(unless you did it really well and very carefully), but fun.  'Cause it's all about the metephor.  Animal or something more?  Which are we, really?
 

Yeah....I just wasted half an hour of my life on this.  But, respect the Werewolf.  'Cause Captain America was one.
 

Long live Capwolf, bitches.
 

I think it's "Too good to be true" Henry.  And an accomplice, that I think is his would-be sister-in-law Shay.  Or Trish herself.  And here's why. 
 

Henry grows up a poor kid living on Harper's Island where he romances Trish, the beautiful rich daddy's girl.  Trish's Dad hates Henry for his pauper lifestyle, and Henry ends up resenting him.  All his life, Henry has envied the Wellington's for their money and prestige, and never felt like he was good enough for Trish and resents the whole damned thing.  But things are working out with Trish, so hooray.  Now here's wherte my theory diverges into two sub theories.  Sub Theory A: Henry and Trish start to talk about their future.  They've been together for this side of forever, and see that continuing.  But Henry and Trish know that Daddy Wellington isn't keen on their relationship, and that they probably can forget about ever keeping their hands on that fortune he has.  He'd never really accept Henry as anything more than a brief distraction for Trish, accentuated by his constant attempts to break them up.  So Henry and Trish, being exceptionally smart people, come up with a plan to get their hands on that money- murder Daddy Wellington.  But they'd surely be caught- any first year Detective would put together their simple ruse to get rich quick if they just murdered him.  Plus, he has a Wife and another Daughter who also get their hands on that money, so they would need to be dealt with, too.  So how do we wipe out everyone ahead of us on the path?  Well, it just so happens that He's best friends with a Girl who saw her Mother murdered years before on psycho death island.  Hell, she already survived a horror movie.  So they plan a wedding on the Island, which honestly is also kind of in poor taste.  Even if they met there and all, it was still the site of a gruesome series of murders, including his best friend's Mom.  So why else would they do it there? So they could do a big massive misdirection for their murder plot.  You start killing your guests, and the whole time make it all seem like it's a psycho coming after Abby.  When the dust settles, they're still alive and get married and get their hands on the Wellington Empire, and they look like shellshocked survivors and not murderers.  Find a decent frame job(like Sheriff Daddy or Slightly Unhinged Young Brother JD) with all sorts of screwed up evidence that somebody just wanted to re-make the Wakefield massacre ending with Abby.  Basically create a horror movie to cover up your crime.
 

Now sub theory B, which I think I'm more into, is slightly similar but massively different.  In this sub theory Henry has an affair with Shay.  Once again, they can't really get their hands on the money AND be together- Richard Burgi hates him enough already, if he dumps his younger daughter for his older daughter, you might as well forget it.  Shay would also probably be excommunicated.  Shay also realises her Husband is sleeping with her step mom, and daughter Madison is going to need a good life in the end.  They hatch the same scheme as sub-theory A, except also needing to wipe out Trish.  Once again, they end up sole survivors and miraculously fall in love(nothing brings people together like a violent trauma, and wouldn't it be lovely for the story to have a happy ending?  A bunch of people died, but Henry, Shay and Madison become a happy rich family as a result.  Silver linings.), and once again everybody thinks it was a psycho playing a sick mindfuck game on Abby, unless you just frame her.  At the same time, Madison goes missing and actually sort of helps the killer.  The whole show she's been seen as having something of a crazy streak, and has mentioned "her friend" who has been telling her information.  Who could possibly take Madison without really frightening her?  Who could get Madison to call Abby and make the threat?  Her Mom, perhaps?  Shay just tells Madison to blame Sheriff Dad, because it's all a game. 
 

But every episode they seem to show me another reason why it needs to be Henry.  In episode nine he beats the shit out of island asshole Shane, with a fury we have yet to see.  He has all the background neccesary to pull it all off: He knows the island, Shay/Trish obviously have SOME money, and everybody loves him.  It'd be easy enough for him to manipulate events(we also have seen how smart this guy is.  I wouldn't be willing to throw the "I'm a psycho who is in love with Abby" motive at him, because Henry doesn't seem all that crazy, which I think makes it even scarier.  Really, he's just a smart, rational guy who is commiting a complicated crime to get his hands on the money, best friends be damned.  But he needs an accomplice, and the plan is worthless if he isn't married to a Wellington Woman....and if he's acting alone, it'd be pretty stupid to kill her Dad at the rehersal.  He needs to be married to Trish or Shay in order to get his hands on the money...but perhaps he could be working alone and plans to seduce Shay or later marry Trish and then kill them off later, but that seems way more unweildy.
 

The only real problem with this theory is that usually Henry, Trish and Shay tend to be accounted for most of the time, and don't often end up alone.  A third party(maybe their frame job, in the end...I wouldn't have been surprised if J.D. had been in on it, maybe they convinced him he'd look like a hero in the end and his outsider days could be put behind him, and manipulated him into commiting the murders...but J.D. was killed off, so it ain't him) could still be a possibility, someone they've convinced to kill everyone for them. 
 

Boyfriend Jimmy isn't beyond my suspicions either, either as a third party or an alternate killer.  It wouldn't shock me if he was in league with Wakefield or is even the son of Wakefield- they've made a big noise that Abby might be the kid, but perhaps it's Jimmy, pissed that he was denied a life he felt owed to him.  He did mention in the flashbacks that his parents didn't really give a fuck about him...maybe Wakefield was his Daddy.  Sure, it's unlikely that Abby would know Jimmy all her life and never meet his parents, but perhaps Jimmy didn't know yet.  Or maybe it's all a lie and Jimmy is just going to do the "I'm in love with Abby and want to kill everybody to prove it" thing, which is honestly in my mind the most likely due to the fact that it IS a basic cable TV show, and cliches are far more likely a scenario than an intelligent, well thought out concept.  But we'll see.
 

All the characters are getting interesting, and the show has kicked itself into a real horror movie feel.  I am really looking forward to seeing how it all plays out.  So congrats CBS, you beat me.  For now.  I like your stolen show.  Bastards.
 

Hmm.  Perhaps there is a little bit of that hate left to keep me warm...