A Gentle Thief

In Episode 17, Maddie spends a night with Con and feels like they have a real connection, but when she catches him on the phone with a girl the next morning and she spends another day alone, she is blessed with the realization that he is not for her. She is free. But Con still shows up again, and doesn't take her realization well. Maddie's neighbor, Junior, stops by to talk about how sick of his girlfriend he is, and later breaks up with Beth. 

In Episode 16, Sophie Brownlie is waiting impatiently for any response from the three medical examiners. It's been nearly a month. The case feels stagnant, and she is reluctant to return Ike Johnson's call with nothing to tell him. She keeps thinking about what the psychic told her - that she would take a trip - and she wondered if she is supposed to go to Cedar City and attempt to interview Con Sullier herself.

In Episode 15, Con and Maddie go back to see the counselor. Con talks about his dreams of death involving him and Maddie, one where they were going to commit a double suicide. Maddie begins to shake and tells them something she's never told everyone - she killed a woman in a car accident. 

In Episode 14, Sophie Brownlie is working on sending letters of engagement to other medical examiners to ask them to review the file on Madeline Johnson, just as Dr. Verdad suggested she do. The phone rings, and it's an old college friend of Sophie's who recommends Sophie go see a psychic about the case. Reluctantly, she does.

In Episode 13, it's Christmas night 1983, and Maddie finally answers the phone that's been ringing all day. She speaks first with her mother and then father. Both had been calling for hours. Maddie was toying with her gun as she listens to them talk.

In Episode 12, Maddie attends the wedding of her father to Samantha. This is not a happy day for her. It's not that she doesn't like Samantha, exactly, it's just that it makes her mother even more angry and her father more far away.

Episode 11 of A Gentle Thief begins with Sophie and Rick on Valentine's Day when they have a negotiation with the US Attorney. The negotiation does not go well as the US Attorney sends an assistant in his place and Rick Day is not pleased.

In Episode 10 of A Gentle Thief, Maddie is about to head out the door to school when the phone rings. Con calls to to tell her he has an appointment for them that night with a counselor. Maddie isn't sure it's even worth the time, but after a day with her young student,  Eduardo, she meets Con at the counselor's office where Con talks about how ever since he met Maddie, he can't stop thinking about death. 

In Episode 9, Sophie Brownlie and Rick Day get their meeting with the Utah Medical Examiner to try to convince him to change Madeline Johnson's death certificate from suicide to homicide. Before they leave for Salt Lake, Rick tells Sophie she better know why the ME wouldn't change the manner of death determination every other time the Johnson family asked him to do so.

In Episode 8 of A Gentle Thief, Maddie confirms her fears about Con, but it does little good in protecting her. Her neighbor, Junior, helps her one night to catch him in a lie. After the drama, Junior and Maddie talk late into the night, but Maddie wakes to find Con in her driveway with a plan to keep them together.  

In this episode we watch Con and Maddie's relationship develop, and we feel the excruciating pain Maddie is in as she realizes what kind of a person Con is. She learns that he has a child he never sees and seems to care not at all about. We see Maddie at her lowest and begin to wonder - could she have killed herself? 

In Episode 6 of A Gentle Thief, we are back with Sophie at the law firm on the day her client, Ike Johnson, calls. They go over where they are on the case, what the strong arguments are, and how they are going to approach the Utah Medical Examiner.

In Episode 5 of A Gentle Thief, we meet the man who would become Maddie's undoing - Con Sullier. He is a disc jockey at the local rock station, aloof, trolling the green show at the Shakespeare Festival when they meet. Maddie is there to see the show, something she often enjoys. Her husband stayed home, as he usually does.

In Episode 4 of A Gentle Thief, we see Maddie Johnson as a young woman living in Cedar City in the house given to her by her father. She felt too young to be a homeowner, but was that AND a landlord to her neighbor, a nice guy named Junior Kemler. We learn how she came to Cedar City to be a student at Southern Utah University, and how she met her husband. He is a professor of Shakespeare. She was his star student. Their relationship was doomed to be tragedy. 

In Episode 3 of A Gentle Thief, attorney Sophie Brownlie studies the case of the dead girl with her husband, an experienced crime reporter with The Las Vegas Sun. Together they learn that the client is named Ike Johnson. He is trying to get the Utah coroner to change the manner of death determination on the death certificate of his daughter from suicide to homicide. That's it.