A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove

The next day, after securing Harley’s promise to stay around the house, Carl heads to work. When he gets home, he finds Harley’s bike unchained outside. He thinks it’s a sign of progress, until he goes inside to find Harley, chained up like a dog in the middle of the living room. Harley barks. Then he says that Bruce and Beryl bound him—using the chain and a handcuff they’d borrowed from Kev Bally—that morning. Beryl left after he started barking and wouldn’t stop. She’s been gone—most likely at the bowls club—for hours and she has the only key with her.

Carl hurts himself trying to free Harley before he realizes he has to face Beryl to get the key. When he walks into the bowls club, she cooly hands it over as if her actions were normal. Taking it, Carl turns to leave. But then he stops. He’s sick and tired of Beryl treating them like animals. He turns and tells her so, says that she treated Harley worse than a dog. She says not to make a “big drama” out of it, and his anger boils over. He raises his voice loud enough that everyone can hear as he insists that she stop chaining his brother in the house. At first, Carl feels powerful and proud for standing up to Beryl. But as he leaves the bowls club and hurries back to the house, he starts worrying about how he and Harley will have to pay for his outburst.