The Couple Next Door

The next morning, Wednesday, Anne and Marco try to have a normal breakfast. Marco sees a newspaper article about a brutal murder in a cabin in the Catskills nearby. Marco is stunned—he recognizes the photo of the murdered man, identified as Derek Honig. Marco knows him as Bruce Neeland. Marco is uncertain what it means—did Neeland let someone else in on the kidnapping? Why did Bruce not use his real name? Where is Cora now? He decides to pretend that the photo triggered a memory, that he thinks he saw that man hanging around the house the day Cora went missing. He goes to the police with the story, and Rasbach reluctantly agrees to head to the Catskills to check out the cabin. Once there, Rasbach discovers from local detectives that Honig was hit from behind with a shovel. He finds no evidence that a baby had ever been there. Honig’s car, however, fits the description the neighbor gave of the car that drove past the Conti house the night of the kidnapping.

Marco tells Anne he needs to check in at his office. Left alone, Anne is restless, nervous. She sorts through the growing evidence that her husband and Cynthia were involved in Cora’s disappearance.